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The
College
of
Staten
Island
Moy 1,2006
Patsfd Vetoes CUNY
Photographer Presents Vision ofAIDS... and Hope
Funding; Legislature
Fights Back
SC SHOCKER
Longtime Senator
Kevin Mamokas
Voted Out; Lugo In
Governor George Pataki vetoed a
large portion of the budget that was
Online Ballot a Success
proposed by the State Legislature.
After returning to Albany on April 24,
the Legislature overrode the gover
nor’s vetoes and restored the budget.
After the veto, the Secretary of
Dovid Moltz
the Board of Trustees and Vice
Chancellor for University Relations,
634 students voted in a hotly contested
Student Government election, which
Jay Hershenson said in a press
release that there was “good and bad
news from Albany on the 2006-2007
State Budget for CUNY.”
Governor Pataki did not originally
veto the funding to offset the pro
posed $300 tuition increase, addition
al money for operating aid in commu
nity colleges, and additional money
for the SEEK program.
Unfortunately,' he did veto added
funding to the operating budget for
full-time faculty in senior colleges,
additional funding for the Tuition
Assistance Program (TAP) to prevent
students who get it from being forced
to take the minimum of 15 credits
instead of the current 12, and $300
million in needed CUNY campus con
struction and renovation funds. The
$300 million would support projects
that are health and safety related.
After the vetoes, he and the leg
islature attempted to re-negotiate.
marked the first year of online voting
and the highest voter turnout in seven
years.
19 candidates ran for 9 junior/sen
Sunil Gupta explains that his photographs illustrate a “narrative not only within but between the frames.”
Photo: AnnMarie Costella
AnnMorie Costella
evoke pity but rather convey a message
of hope. “Many people have said that
arge vivid color portraits of children
the title of the exhibition makes them
and environmental scenes of
think that they are going to see some
everyday life adorn the walls of
thing that is extremely sad and disturb
CSI’s gallery. They could compose the ing, but their expectations quickly
contents of any family album. However,
change after looking at the photo
these children share a different kind of
graphs,” said Professor Siona Wilson.
common bond. They have a disease
“They challenge our preconceptions
that affects millions of people every
and force us to question the types of
year: AIDS.
images that we are used to seeing.”
The exhibit entitled “Imagining
Eight life-size portraits of clean,
L
Childhood: Living with HIV in Delhi,” will
run from April 5 through June 3.
Photographer Sunil Gupta challenges
HIV/AIDS stereotypes by providing an
optimistic look at children coping with
the disease.
These unique photos do not seek to
casually dressed, well-behaved children
photographed against a neutral back
ground form an imagined collective fam
ily album. They are all orphans and live
in the Naz Care Home in Delhi, a faciliContlnued on page 9
Continued on page 3
ior SG seats.
Dwight Dunkley, who served on
SG for the past 3 years, was defeated
in his bid for the At-Large seat. “I ran to
make the
election
competitive,”
Dunkley said. “I don’t need to be on SG
to be involved.”
Gabriel Lugo, who unexpectedly
won a junior/senior seat, was still in
shock over the victory. “I wasn’t expect
ing to win,” he said. “I just threw my
name into the hat.” Still, Lugo promises
to be an active member of SG “If I see
something I don’t like, you’ll hear about
it from me,” he said.
The 634 recorded votes were the
highest total since 1999, when 962
votes were cast. The lowest turnout
occurred the following year in 2000,
Continued on page 3
The Fight for Willowbrook Landmark Status
Run Forest Run
More Safety, Less Mage
Stefonie Plust
AnnMorie Costello
with a mentally challenged 23 year-old
daughter, believes the site of the
CSI’s lush, park-like landscape con
tributes to the overall beauty of the cam
Willowbrook State School should be consid
ered the civil rights movement for the developmentally disabled as Central High School
everyone up,” he said. “Atrocity takes a while
to digest.”
Henry Kennedy, a New Brighton resident
pus. However, at the beginning of the
Fall 2005 semester safety concerns
were at an all-time high. The presence
In the case of Willowbrook it took 25
years to digest. A reunion commemorating
the 1975 consent decree was held on CSI’s
campus in 2000. Gov. Hugh L. Carey initial
ly signed the decree that intended to estab
lish non-institutional housing for the developmentally disabled.
in Little Rock Arkansas was for the civil rights
movement for African- Americans.
of level 1 and level 2 sex offenders on
campus combined with poor lighting
made many students wonder if the
A Staten Island attorney, Kennedy
formed a committee last April with the inten
tions of gaining historical status for the
Willowbrook State School site. In 1983 state
dense wooded areas were hiding more
than the occasional raccoon.
officials determined that there was no histor
ical significance to the site, Kennedy hopes
In response to these concerns,
Vice President for Finance and
Administration, Angelo J. Aponte, imple
to change this. The site did not officially
close until 1987.
mented a plan to begin removing acres
“There are three levels of land mark
ing,” Kennedy said. “Federal, state, and city;
Continued on page 8
the committee is in the midst of drafting an
application to present to the State Registry
Much of CSI President Dr. Marlene
Springer’s decision to build dormitories else
where on campus was due to the leaders of
The plaque and original number on Building 3S serves as
a reminder of Willowbrook. Photo: Stefanie Plust
for Historic Places." This means that
Willowbrook could potentially be recognized
as an important place and any demolition or
new construction would be prohibited; a
future use for these buildings could then be
decided.
“The possible housing project woke
the Staten Island Developmental Disabilities
Council who opposed the plan from the
beginning.
If historical status is granted, possible
uses include: a library, a conference center,
a museum, or a place to house the
Willowbrook archives as Kennedy suggest
ed. ‘We need to take time, take a step back,
Continued on page 5
�The American Democracy Project
Big Oil Connections: Why Bush Won't Do
Anything About Gas Prices
yW-;:.
Matt Safford
called
s gas prices climb their way
back to the north side of $3 a
gallon, and Newton's Third Law
A
for
if
she expects
the average
American to
believe she's
any
of Motion drives the President's doing
thing
other
approval ratings to the freezing point
than blowing
and below, it's no wonder George
Bush and the White House are
attempting to at least look like they
are doing something about the dread
ed high prices at the pump. After all,
with most polls showing gas prices
upsetting Americans nearly as much
as the continued bungling in Iraq, it's
all too enticing for the Administration
to attempt some sort of turnaround by
focusing less on the oil war over
there, and more on the oil war at
home. But in this case, for our
Republicans leaders, that tactic is can
only lead them put of the frying pan
and into the fire.
House Minority
Leader
Nancy
Pelosi noted with emphasis recently
that "we have two oil men in the White
House," and attempted to draw a very
short line to America's purse-strings
by immediately continuing with "the
logical followup from that is $3 a gal
lon gasoline."
Pelosi isn't wrong to make the con
nection, but a little explanation is
-
e*on
became law."
So the next time you visit the
pump, or hear the president call for
investigations into the high price of
smoke.
Yes
both Bush and
are
oil
oil, remember who opened the doors
to those big oil executives and
allowed them to create the energy
policy which led us to our current
predicament. If President Bush really
men,
and
even
Secretary of
State
Condoleezza
wants to get to the truth, he only has
Rice was a
Chevron
Director until
to do one of two things: put the oil
company executives under oath and
2001 (she has
As gas prices continue to approach Katrina-era levels, the Bush administration pretends that they
an oil tanker might do something about it. Yet their connections to big oil make it highly unlikely that anyone.
named after Coutesy: AP
her). But the
gy policy for the presidential term to
links between the administration and
come. While the White House stolidly
our current oil issues are more sinister,
refused to say just who the members
and deeper below the surface. •
of
the task force included, oil company
Way back in the early days of
executives
continually professed their
2001 Vice President Cheney, by exec
alibis
for
the
day in question. Yet just
utive order, held a series of closedlast
November,
nearly five years after
door meetings at the White House with
a secret "task force" to mold the ener
Exxon Mobil Corp., Conoco (before
its merger with Phillips), Shell Oil Co.
and BP America Inc. met [in 2001] in
the White House complex with the
Cheney aides who were developing a
national energy policy, parts of which
partisan
Cheney
former
a document which, according to their
article, "shows that officials from
start asking questions, or ask his
veep what exactly was said and done
at those task force meetings. I'm sure
he knows the answers to those ques
tions, since he himself ordered the
creation of the task force, and has
been a friend of big oil since he start
ed his own doomed oil company in
1978. Bush knows the answers to the
questions, which is indeed why the
questions will never be asked.
Matthew Safford can be reached at
Matthew.Safford@cix.csi.cuny.edu
the fact, the Washington Post obtained
Internet Neutrality On The Line
Seamus Dolan
t has taken roughly ten years, but
I
finally, the Internet is close to
becoming a capitalist slave. Like the
Verezanno Bridge, you could be tolled
for every ride you take on the infor
mation super-highway.
Since its inception the internet
has served as a model for democratic
communications within a free country,
that is the internet has been every
thing this country recently hasn’t: a
hub for free speech, equal participa
tion (albeit poorer areas still are large
ly without service), and a land where
small businesses don’t face discrimi
nation by overly powerful companies.
On April 26th, the House Energy and
Commerce Committee voted down a
2
net services) that are trying to create
an internet that would—like everything
else in America—favor those with
money. Net neutrality is a term that is
similar to the first amendment of the
constitution; it guarantees that con
sumers have the freedom to control
their internet content and services, not
matter who owns the network. Whether
you are Yahoo.com, Tom’s Discount
Socks, or Whitehouse.org, you should
have equal access to each site. But
proposal to protect what is called
“Network Neutrality” from companies
like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast (the
Phone companies are ardently lobby
ing for a new bill, one that would aban
don the Internet's principle of Network
Neutrality and adopt a far more con
temporary one—pay as you go.
Internet sites willing to pay high fees
would be given faster load times for
users and, of course, those that don’t
pay would see their traffic slowed by
poorer-bandwidth distribution.
Leading internet companies like
largest suppliers of high-speed inter
Google, Amazon, and Ebay have actu
ally strongly opposed the two tiered
internet, one that will largely minimize
small business and non-profit organi
zations. “New innovation in the market
place increases our business," says
Google's Vint Cert, one of the
Internet's creators. If start-ups can't go
fast, he says, the Internet will be a
"zero-sum game." As the bill nears a
comes at a time when our internet is
expanding and already a joke com
pared to services offered in Japan,
which offers speeds up to 50 times
faster and at lower prices than our DSL
and Cable services. This also comes at
a time when AOL and Yahoo have
announced that they will now charge
companies about 1/4 cent to send
Full House vote, they hope to slow its
momentum with support of several
emails that will bypass spam filters.
Oh! and also where in April AOL
grass-roots
organizations
like
MoveOn.org Civic Action and Common
Cause, which sent a petition signed by
blocked all emails that mentioned
www.dearaol.com, a campaign that is
opposing the new taxes on email serv
250,000 people to the Energy and
ices. So why stand on a silent platform
if you have something to say? Bearing
in mind that W. might be spying on you,
Commerce Committee.
You think this just has contempo
rary implications? The American
household will soon have all its com
munications—TV, phone, internet, and
tell
god knows what else—through a sin
and Phpne companies to go fuck them
selves.
gle broadband connection. Do you
want AT&T deciding what applications
or channels are available to you? This
Senator
Charles
Schumer,
Representative Vito Fossella, and
Senator Hillary Clinton to tell big Cable
Seamus Dolan can be reached at
Seamus.Dolan@cix.csi.cuny.edu
�May 1,2006
SG Elections
voters at CSI, making each year’s
turnout incredibly low.
Krieger compares the low voter
Presidential elections. “The country
itself suffers from a lack of voting,” she
said. “So this is a microcosm of that.
David Maltz can be reached at
David.Maltz@cix.csi.cuny.edu
turnout at CSI to the low turnout for
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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SPRING 2006
STUDENT ELECTIONS
when just 54 votes were cast. In 2005,
289 votes were cast.
Student Government Coordinator
Elected
Ellen Krieger credits the introduction of
online voting with improving the voter
turnout. According to Krieger 369 votes
Arishna Ramphal
233
Joan A. Seguin
113
Snigdha Banerjee
198
Steven Mantovani
112
Robert Duru
191
Karim Aly
97
Vanessa Joseph
166
Ryan Richmond
97
Michael Raghunath
163
Konstantin Novodvorski 92
were cast from computers not located
at the two official polling places set up
by Student Government, indicating that
students embraces online voting. “It
makes it accessible to people in a way
it wasn’t before," she said. Krieger
added that she would like to see at
least 1,000 votes next year.
Despite the competitive junior/sen
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
DAVID MALTZ
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MANAOINO EDITOR
MELLISSA SEECHARAN
A. ’OTT
ior race, not enough people ran for the
freshman/sophomore seats, causing
Charlene-Jay Morgan 156
Tara Lapera
90
everyone who was nominated to win
automatically. A fill in election will be
held in October to fill the two remaining
Alexandra Porto
155
Sean Fisher
62
seats.
In addition to Student government,
Gabriel Lugo
122
David Kam
55
elections were held for
Association,
Auxiliary
Yanique Lingo
121
Norma Chia
53
Gary Belotzerkovski
50
the CSI
Services
Corporation, College Council, and the
Faculty
Student
Disciplinary
Committee. Many of these candidates
ran for Student Government as well.
Although voter turnout is rising,
there are approximately 13,000 eligible
ENRIQUE INOCENTE
Albany Come Through.,.Again
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MATTHEW SAFFORD
“I honestly believe the Legislature
is not going to spend too much time
continuing to talk (with Pataki),” said
Sen. John Bonacic, R-C-Mount Hope,
KHADIJAH RENTAS
to the Ottaway News Service. “I think
they are ready to act come Monday.”
It ends up that the state has not
had much luck negotiating with Pataki
in the past. According to John Milgrim
THOMAS BRADLEY
of the Ottaway News Service, “The
ANNMARIE COSTELLA
governor said the Legislature exceed
ed its constitutional authority on much
VANESSA LEIGH DEBELLO
ANNEMARIE DOOLING
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
JENNIFER MILLER
SHONA NUBYAHN SINGH
ANDREW RAFFERTY
ENRICO TURCHI
LAUREN TAYLOR
Defeated
of the budget and even veto overrides
won’t guarantee the programs get
restored.”
“The process is far from over,”
Vice Chancellor Hershenson said after
the governor’s vetoes. He also indicat
ed that members and friends of the
enhancements to the CUNY Budget
and TAP,” said Hershenson in a dif
ferent press release, “Providing full
support of the Chancellor’s Compact
for 2006-2007 and over $300 million
in new capital funding for CUNY cam
The Senate and Assembly joint
budget agreement for higher
education for 2006-2007 does the
following:
* Holds the line on tuition at CUNY and
puses.”
The battle is not over yet. “If the
SUNY.
Legislature goes ahead and over
rides, and the governor impounds the
* Restores the governor's TAP cuts.
funds, we’re in for a protracted legal
battle,” said Blair Horner of the New
York Public Interest Research Group.
This goes for the entire state budget.
Unfortunately, there is not much any
one except the judiciary can do about
* Enhances TAP to include funding for
eligible part-time students at CUNY,
SUNY, and independent colleges.
* Allows students whose family income
changes to adjust their TAP grants in
the outcome of that battle if it occurs.
The Board of Trustees of CUNY
the middle of the year.
now wants to use the momentum and
recent support to start a City Budget
* Provides an additional $167 million for
advocacy campaign. This includes
getting governmental support for
SUNY and CUNY operating aid.
community college operating aid and
* Increases funding for the state's com
CUNY Community need to help in
communicating their views again dur
various scholarships that will benefit
the college community. In the mean
time equivalent).
ing this critical period is needed.
The request for support had a
time, CUNY thanked their supporters
for assisting in the restoration of the
* Increases opportunity program fund
response of over 255,730 email mes
sages were sent to legislature and
proposed funding.
“Thank you for your diligence
ing by 10%.
LAUREN KOPSTEIN
executive since February 1, 2006
through supportcuny.com.
Vice
Chancellor
Hershenson
and commitment to a quality and
accessible public higher education,”
* Increases funding for full-time faculty
LUCIE LAURIA
DEBRA SANTULLI-BARONE
LAUREN DEMETRIO
SEAMUS DOLAN
JACALYN PALMIOTTO
STEFANIE PLUST
believes the Legislatures took these
emails into consideration when they
said Hershenson. “Please be sure to
thank legislators ad staff.”
restored
all
the
reductions
and
at SUNY and CUNY.
* Increases funding for independent
colleges through Bundy Aid (Direct
responded to the governors vetoes.
“The New York State Legislature
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
munity colleges by $175 per FTE (full
Institutional Aid).
Kevin Mamakas can be reached at
Kevin.Mamakas@cix.csi.cuny.edu
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�Today the nuclear family of the 1950’s,
which consisted of the father, mother
and children, is rare. Most families do
not look like this. Ever more prevalent
is the single-parent family. According to
Divorce Magazine, 12% of households
are single parent and of those, more
than 83% are run by mothers (2002
statistics).
The Banner met with two student
mothers, Laura Anne Psomas, 24 and
Davida Wilson, 27, to discuss some of
the challenges of single parenting and
how they have been able to address
these obstacles.
B: How many children do you have
and what are their names and ages?
the idea of being a single parent far dif
fers from the reality. I was devastated
that my child was not going to have a
directly said anything to me, I knew
how they felt. Since both sides of my
family grew up in very old-fashioned
father. Before he was gone for good,
my first reaction was "why me." I felt
alone and completely abandoned,
lifestyles (originating from Sicily and
Greece), I was considered the ultimate
outcast. Still, certain comments and
insults would be thrown my way but I
learned to ignore their ignorance.
DW: My family was very supportive. In
fact, they encouraged it. They came to
my apartment, which was in a different
especially since being a mother was so
much harder than I thought. I hated him
for leaving me all the responsibilities as
well as "stealing" my social life from
me, while he continued to have his
freedom. But as the months passed
and I grew closer with my son, my
focus started to shift from me to him.
DW: I felt that a lot of people have done
it and that I could do it too. My husband
wasn’t doing that much [for us] anyway.
Before our final break up, he had been
moving in and out. So I was happy
when it was finally over because we
and Maria Magdalina, 2
DW: I have 2 children also. Hezekiah,
needed stability. Like Laura mentioned,
your social life is over and his contin
ues. But no matter how mad we get at
our ex’s, it’s them who are losing out.
They’re missing out on the little
9 and Cheyenne, 5.
moments, the good stuff.
B: How long have you been a single
B: How did your friends and family
react? Were they supportive? if so,
how?
LP: 2 children. Andre Robert Angel, 6
parent?
LP: 6 yrs
DW: 2 yrs
B: When you first faced the prospect
of being a single parent, how did
you react or feel? and why?
LP: When I first found out I was preg
nant, I thought that I was going to give
my child the "perfect" family. Of course
LP: I have to admit that although my
mother was not happy with the way
things turned out for me, she was still
supportive. But hearing the "I told you
so's" really hurt. My father helped me
out financially once in a while, but that
was where it stopped. As far as my
extended family, although they never
state, packed all my stuff and moved
me to NY. Since then, I’ve been living
with them and that has been a great
part of the deal—my kids.
DW: I would say it would be trying to
take the place of their dad that isn’t
there. I try to keep them busy with
things they enjoy. My son likes video
games and my daughter likes to draw,
so I try to do those things with them.
But they still ask about their dad.
B: What advice do you have for
young people and/or other people in
similar situations?
LP: My advice would be to never give
help.
up. Although we were given certain
obstacles in life, we must overcome
them no matter how long it takes. If you
B: What has been your greatest
challenge as a single parent? and
what have you done to overcome it?
need to scream and cry—do it! But
don’t dwell on what is already gone.
Focus on the future and enjoy your kids
LP: There are so many challenges sin
at the same time. Having goals is good.
Don't miss out on the little things.
Remember that these obstacles made
gle parents face: financial hardships,
shelter, clothing, food, time, dedication,
working, attending school, ect. But I
believe my greatest challenge was to
overcome my selfish needs. Having
been a single mother, since I was a
teenager, left me feeling bitter and jeal
us who we are today, and I know that I
am proud of myself and I hope that all
you single parents feel the same pride I
ous of my friends and peers who, to
me, had complete freedom. When my
son was first born, I was unable to give
him the attention that he needed—doc
tors blamed this on post partum
dren yet, I would say wait. There’s no
rush. Get your education. Be patient.
depression. But as we both grew older,
my love grew stronger and I am now
able to put him first—way first. By the
time I had my second child (with anoth
er deadbeat dad), I wasn't as bitter or
angry because I knew I had the best
do. I know that I am proud of you.
DW: For people who don’t have chil
You’ll save yourself a lot of heartache.
And for those who are in a similar situ
ation, just take it one day at a time.
Stay focused and make sure you spend
time with your children. Also, be careful
not to take your frustrations out on your
kids.
Vanessa Leigh DeBello can be reached at
Vanessa.LeighDeBello@cix.csi.cuny.edu
GERMAN WRITER VISITS CSI: Jorn Becomes a Yawn
Debra SantuUi-Barone
On April 5, 2006, students inter
viewed German author Jorn J.
Rohwer who wrote Behind Fame. The
presentation was sponsored by
Professor Dr. Michael Shugrue, and
the CSI Foundation.
“I was looking forward to meeting
mother read to me.”
“Why
do
asked.
“To find a position in the world
ferent understanding of who deserves
to be famous. In America, Hollywood
people are considered the Royal fam
ily. We do not have superstars in
Germany. I do this for the intellectual
where I could use my talent for fanta
challenge.”
f o r
making
Shugrue. Shugrue was not only inter
esting, but he had a great sense of
humor.”
r i e s
from
question.
Students
from
Professor
Frederick Kaufman and Kate Mavin’s
classes found it difficult to get the
next question since many of Jorn’s
answers were never completely
answered.
“What inspired you to be a
writer?” a junior asked. “I started writ
ing as soon as I was able to hold a
pen,” Jorn replied. “I loved the
Brothers Grimm fairytales that my
write?”
Medugno
sy and
m
y
skills
the author,” said Emillio Medugno,
Media major and senior, “but the high
light was presenter Dr. Michael
Dr. Shugrue, a former professor
at CSI and supporter of Jorn, stated
that Jorn is the master of the second
you
Communications junior, John DePetro
jumped in with a
question
about
Jor/i’s brochure,
The
Art
of
Conversation.
up sto-
“What
did
you
mean about the
corrosion of char
t h e
great-
sense,”
said
Jorn.
Former CSI professor, Michael Shugrue (left), poses with Jorn Jacob
Rohwer, German author of Behind Fame,who spoke to Communications
and English students. Photo: Debra Santulli-Barone
Some
call this bullshitting.
“Do you see yourself as a celebri
ty?” Professor Kaufman asked.
“I am not a celebrity, I don’t
belong to any glossy, yellow press
magazines,” said Jorn. “It doesn’t
interest me. In Germany, there’s a dif
European.”
“I asked Jorn, why someone
should be famous,” said Shona
Singh, a junior English major, “but he
didn’t answer my question.”
“He made a reference to a col
lege in Berlin that allowed Jews. It
made me sick,’ said Plust.
Many agreed that Kaufman’s
questions baffled Jorn, such as, “Do
you know the difference between
Emilio
Nicole Ritchie and Singer Sontak?”
“Jorn vaguely answered the
question of corrosion of character,”
asked.
“In
a chat
room, we cannot
said Medugno. “He didn’t answer it in
his book either. He really didn’t say
much.”
acter?”
e s t
n o n -
Stephanie Plust, English major and
junior. “He came off as a pompous
see
said
or touch,”
Jorn, “we
have the impres
sion that we are the same. But face to
face, there’s nothing compared to the
real life of a meeting.”
The interviews went on for anhour and a half. When it was over,
this was the consensus:
“He said a lot of nothing,” said
The lesson came from Kaufman
who advised that you cannot be afraid
or intimidated just because someone
has a fancy way of speaking.
“Half the writers are like Jorn,”
said Kaufman.
Debra Santulli-Barone can be reached at
Debra.Santulli@cix.csi.cuny.edu
�May 1,2006
Senior ]azz Recital
Wows Crowd
Letters To The Editor
Re: A Voice Behind the Wall
It was fascinating to read an article that
expressed great elements our campus’s
history. As well as the emotional history
of an individual who at one time lived on
have lives of their own, such as jobs and
family, can be tough. I am glad the
Banner covered it as it helps make stu
dents aware of CSI issues and who the
can contact to improve things on cam
Just this week, I looked at the March 31
issue of The CSI Bulletin and noticed the
following change to next Fall’s academic
this college campus.
pus.
-Jacalyn Palmiotto
-Donald Vroone. Senior
calendar: ‘There is one minor change in
the Fall 2006 Academic Calendar from the
published version in the Schedule of
I can’t help to wonder how much reality is
in Vanessa De Bello’s article. To me it
sounds like fiction. What kind of a doctor
I didn’t know there was a Town hall meet
ing being held or what even is. It’s prob
Classes. The Thanksgiving holiday is
Thursday and Friday, November 23 and
24. There will be classes on Saturday and
Sunday November 25 and 26.”
Why does the college insist on having
would tell the parents, ‘There is no hope
for her. She is not going to progress any
further. I’m sorry... but your daughter will
not amount to anything. I’d be better to
From the Editor
classes Thanksgiving weekend? Most of
the weekend students are people who
work full-time and have families, and many
go away for the long weekend. In fact
many professors wouldn’t want to teach
that weekend either.
This is not the first time CSI has made
unusual scheduling decisions. This past
fall, CSI decided to start classes on a
Monday, which was no big deal, except at
the last minute CSI decided to only have
classes scheduled to end after 2 pm; this
created mass confusion amongst the stu
dents, to the point that several missed their
first classes. Classes were held on Labor
Day weekend (We had Labor Day itself
off). The following Monday, only classes
scheduled to end before 2 pm were held.
In October, the scheduling came out such
that classes were not held on Tuesday for
2 weeks in a row. This created a situation
where some people did not have classes
scheduled for once a week for 3 weeks.
Fall finals week is another bone of
put her away.” I don’t believe it. Maybe
the parents did not want the child and this
was their excuse.
-Lucie Lauria, Senior
Re: Gay and Lesbian International
students scared to go home
It’s surprising to hear that for some for
eign students Staten Island has become
a safe-haven for them to be openly
homosexual. The kinds of ridicule that
open homosexuals in this country are
subject to daily pales in comparison to
that of other countries. With all the dis
crimination.
-John DePetro, Junior
something to explain the meeting to stu
dents. I’m probably not the only one
who’s in the dark.
-Stefanie Plust
Re: Life’s a Drag
What I think is pathetic about Lee
Tamahori and other celebrities is the fact
that they just can’t be happy with their
new successful life. Don’t they have
enough money? I’m broke most of the
time, and yet, I don’t sell my wares on the
corner. All these pathetic stars that can’t
Re: Genital Modification
This article proves that we live in a man’s
world. Just the idea of surgery to become
a virgin again is ridiculous. A woman
15 days of it is a joke. I do that voluntari
ly in a year. Give me a break.
-Debra Santilli Barone, Senior
should also not have to be forced to
regret it for her religion and especially for
Christian students, who often can’t go on
vacation for Christmas because they have
finals right up until holidays.
In my four years at CSI, I have yet to
master the scheduling debacle that
of acting like they never happened.
-Frances Mitilis, Senior
and as the show continued through the
night, Ramkissoon and friends soulful
performance shook contenders mind and
body.
The first half of the show featured
Ramkissoon’s renditions of pieces by leg
endary musicians such as Charlie Parker
and Freddie Hubbard. Accompanying him
was Michael Morreale, trumpeter and
pianist; Kushiah Hooper on drums; and
John Lynch on guitar. The first song of the
night was “Billie’s Bounce/Now’s the
Time” by C. Parker. Izzi Ramkissoon
played a hefty stand-up bass, Morreale
on piano. Michael Morreale soon made a
transition onto trumpet; Ramkissoon and
Morreale harmonized effortlessly. Music
lover/trumpet player Steve Lounello
watched in awe. “Flawless,” Lounello
said, “I love it.”
Ramkissoon’s arrangement of John
Green’s “Body and Soul” and Victor
Young’s “Beautiful Love” held audience
members at the edge of their seats. The
entertainment peaked during Ramkisson
and gang’s performance of Freddie
Hubbard’s “Red Clay”. All musicians
stood standing for the spirited song. Each
had their spotlight, given mini solo’s
through out.
For the second portion of his recital
he performed an original electronic piece.
“Sub-ter-ain Frequencies” was a compila
tion of NYC subway sounds recorded on
a Sony Mini-disk player. The various
sounds were chopped up to create an
ever changing hip hop rhythm. Along with
should respect her body and be respon
sible for who she is having sex with. She
a man. Obviously, everyone has regrets
in their life but you should learn from
them to make yourself stronger instead
-David Maltz
ter. I don’t like that I’m unaware of the
behind the scenes” issues at CSI. Maybe
a letter could have been mailed out or
handle their fame status should be grate
ful. Why waste taxpayers’ money? In
fact, they should be hit with a bigger fine
and a hell of a lot more community time;
contention among the students. It is virtu
ally always held from December 16-23.
This places an unfair burden on CSI’s
ensues every year. Too bad I’m graduating
in June.
ably my ignorance relating to student
government issues and administration
but shouldn’t it have been publicized bet
Jazz bassist Izzi Ramkissoon had every
one’s feet tapping Wednesday night.
The small lab theater at CSI was packed,
Re: Relay for Life
The pictorial spread concerning students
involved in the fight against cancer
restores my trust and confidence to all
students who participated. One can tell
how tired yet proud these students must
the recordings, Izzi played electric bass,
and Professor David Keberle made an
appearance with bass clarinet. Kushiah
Hooper moved from bulky drum set, onto
the ground where he banged on buckets,
pots, and pans. Greg Pesochin added to
the ambient, psychedelic performance
scratching on turntables.
Re: CSI Town Hall Meeting
have felt to be involved in something so
important to all of us. If these students
are just a sampling of what the future
While I am certain the low turnout to the
town hall meeting can be attributed to
generations of our country is going to be
like, then I think America is on the right
several factors. I am sure students apa
thy was the main one. Making students
care at a commuter college where most
track. Please keep up the good work.
-Enrico Turchi, Junior
Cate Marvin, Bertram Ploog and Amy
Hannon. Students were given a chance to
understand and recognize the history of the
class-action suit in 1975, which became the
Willowbrook consent decree, a widespread
deinstitutionalization of the mentally dis
One of these doctors w%s Michael Wilkins,
alerted the relatives of residents to what was
happening to their family members and a
college, formerly Willowbrook State School
and prior to that, Halloran General Hospital
abled was the result. In the 1960’s and 70’s
the conditions at Willowbrook took a turn for
Catalyst for change was formed.
which treated veterans. According to Marvin
three out of five people interviewed in the
the worse due to lack of staff and a general
lack of understanding of their patients
needs.
Several violent deaths occurred, rape
Ramkisson’s final piece was “Round
Midnight” incorporated visuals from the
1986 movie.
“Izzi really sets the bar high,” said
Professor Sylvia Kahan, pianist.
-Lauren Kopstein
Willowbrook Landmark
-continued from page 1
and see what is appropriate,” said Kennedy.
CSI is not the only establishment
investing in the former Willowbrook grounds
as there are three other entities involved.
The Institute for Basic Research is located
near the Forest Hill Rd. entrance of CSI and
the Elizabeth Connelly Center, located
behind the library.
The Elizabeth Connelly Center is cur
rently a group home for the developmentally disabled and many former Willowbrook
residents now live there. ‘We won't do any
thing without everyone on board and no one
seems to be in objection,” said Kennedy.
Last semester, members of the FIRST
Program’s Block Seven dedicated their time
to intensively researching Willowbrook. The
professors involved in the project included
course of their study were directly involved
or new someone who was.
“My students and I knew nothing about
Willowbrook and entered into it with a fresh
perspective,” said Marvin. “I believe it is an
important gesture to the community to
remember Willowbrook and regard it prop
erly.” Kennedy has a similar perspective,
saying that, “the story of Willowbrook
encompasses all the disciplines that are at a
college.”
The history of Willowbrook is a painful
one, yet its repercussions are still in effect
today. After Willowbrook families won a
inflicted by residents as well as staff, and
filthy living conditions are just a few of the tri
als that those involved endured. Children
The CSI archives hold every article writ
ten by the Staten Island Advance on
Willowbrook since its opening in the 1940’s.
Willowbrook’s exposure and closing marked
the opening of organizations such as On
Your Mark, a service that helps to employ
those who are developmentally disabled,
and adults were also used in scientific
and the services of special education
schools.
experiments and as a result the hepatitis
vaccine was discovered.
The 1975 consent decree is responsi
ble for giving rights to those who cannot
Due to the efforts of Geraldo Rivera
and his famous 1972 expose, the Staten
defend themselves. The next step in advo
cacy is for those who are mentally ill,” said
Kennedy.
Island Advance’s commitment to following
the Willowbrook story, and some staff mem
bers of Willowbrook who spoke out against
the conditions and jeopardized their jobs.
I'
Stefanie Plust can be reached at
Stefanie,Plust@cix.icsi.cuhy,edit
�r The
crowded hot
spots and
(above) and
London
Bridge (left).
The city of Pompeii in Italy was destroyed in 79 AD ^
after Mount Vesuvius erupted and killed an estimated
12,000 people (above).
,
Hundreds
stood outside wait
ing for the changing
of the guards at
Buckingham Palace
in London (left). Big
Ben, one of the
most popular land
marks in London
near the Houses of
V^Parliament (right)y/
mr
The ruins of Pompeii are the second most visited archaeological site in
the world (far left). The largest fountain
in Rome, Fontana di Trevi (left).
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�May 1,2006
Student Pursuits at CSI
Photos and Interviews by Jacalyn Palmiotto
1
The Physical
Therapist
The Social
Worker
“l am going into
Physical Therapy. My
brother has Cerebral
Palsy and that motivated me to help him
and he a part of his
life”
“I’m a Sociology and
Anthropology major.
I chose it because I
would like to become
a social case worker.
I want to help pre
vent child abuse.
-Jeanae Stephenson
-Tizziana Dinoto
1
The Nurse
“My major is nursing.
I wanted to do something in the medicial
field.”
-Marlon Ramos
The
Mortagage
Broker
I would like to he a
Business major. I do
work in the field at
Integrity Title.”
-Jacqueline White
i
■
=
1
j
,
The
Physican’s
Assistant
“I was always interested in medicine. I
still have about two
and a half years in
the program.”
-Olga Pitel
The Doctor
I’m a Biochemistry
and Chemistry. I
knew that I would
pursue medicine for
a career and I was
deciding between
Chemistry and
Biology.. .Chemistry
was more challeng
ing.”
-Lana Rabinovich
i
7
�May 1,2006
Trees
Continued from Page 1'
Junkfood University
were overweight, they take the time to
bring something more beneficial to their
Lauren Demetrio
weak bones caffeine addiction. The best
choice is water which as we know is
calorie-free and the best choice a stu
dent can make through a school day.
“The only building that I have seen carry
hen students begin college, in
well being to eat while in school.
most cases, their diets often
“I was actually thinking of asking
deteriorate. There are many
someone of higher authority to find out
factors responsible for these changes.
about getting better food in the
College students tend to have cram
diets that are becoming more damaging
W
water is in 1P,” said Steve Muskovic,
student. “They also do not have any low
carb salad dressing in the cafeteria.”
There are several actions that stu
dents can take to eat healthier during
than they may realize. With rushing
between classes, students do not usual
ly have much time to sit down and eat a
their college years without jeopardizing
their health. Specialists advise students
not to skip meals because this causes
one to either eat over eat or eat the
wrongs things when they get the oppor
tunity. If one is not sure if they will be
able to east every meal, they should
well-balanced meal. Instead, they will
just run to the closest snack vending
machine, all of which contain different
types of potato chips, candy, and choco
late bars.
Inappropriate diets have many neg
ative effects, and are mostly harmful to
those who are guilty of it: college stu
dents. Without consuming the various
food groups, one will find himself to be
more tired than usual; it has been
proven that 48% of students feel that
they do not have enough energy on any
given day. They will also often experi
ence the obvious weight gain due to the
malnutrition of the food they have been
sneaking in as they venture from class
to class. While few are unaware of how
dangerous their eating habits are often
fail to follow healthy eating ways even
they understand the importance of prop
er nutrition. Perhaps, if they saw that
approximately 56% of college student
make sure to eat breakfast which is
proven to help concentration. Breakfast
also increases consumption of calcium,
folic and vitamin C; these nutrients are
found to be low in a college student’s
diet.
machines,” said student Elizabeth
Romeo. Studies show that 1/4 of stu
dents in the United States do not eat
fruits or vegetables daily. Fruits help
control our appetite and provide vita
mins, fiber, and mineral.
“I hate the fact that I really don’t
have a choice if I’m pressed for time,”
added Romeo. “I always feel so guilty
by eating such junk.”
There are rarely any vending
Most colleges and universities
have a variety of eateries each with a
different format, theme, and food
options. “Becoming more familiar with
the campus environment and the foods
that are a available is a start,’ said
Jackie Mauri, assistant supervisor of the
Cyber Cafe.
of brush and low hanging trees, in an
effort td increase visibility. “Key areas of
concentration are the wooded lot area
directly behind the Center for the Arts,
East Loop Road, and the North Quad
near building 3N,” said Director of
Communications and Marketing, Bob
Huber. ‘The main features of this cam
paign are to reduce the underbrush and
will be carried out over four growing
seasons.”
The landscaping done by Buildings
and Grounds workers will be completed
in Spring 2007. There are no plans to
add any botanical ornamentation such
as flowerbeds or bonsai trees. ‘This
program is progressing on schedule
and is designed to improve campus
security and to elevate the attractive
ness and beauty of our 204-acre site,”
said Aponte. “In achieving these goals
we have been able to contain costs by
incorporating them within our present
maintenance budget.”
Branches, vines, and other debris
can be found gathering in piles along
Loop Road while construction vehicles
toil to dispose of them.
“It is a work in progress and that
adds to the rugged incomplete look,”
indicated Huber.
machines that sell healthy drinks; a
majority of the machines sell soda.
Soda contributes to obesity, cavities
Lauren Demetrio can be reached at
Lauren.Demetrib@cix.csi.cuny.edu
AnnMarie Costella can be reached at
AnnMarie.Costella@cix.csi.cuny.edu
SCIENTISTS SEARCH FOR ANSWERS IN A WASTELAND
0
Shona Nubyahn Singh
Anyone in Staten Island who has been
around
Arthur
Kill
has
probably
noticed the animals there. In knowing
what the place has
been
used
toxic
estuarine food chains research, has
shrimp, but not from there. Consider
Bio student. “The bridge between us
been to determine the capabilities of
that shrimp taken from Great Kills are
and professors should be maintained
for the good of the students.” Some
Cadmium and Mercury storage in prey
relatively normal compared to the
due to industrial treatment facilities.
ones found in the landfill. Many lab
students
This effects the digestion in the pred-
demonstrations show that Arthur Kill
these ventures from first hand experi
for,
waste,
sewage treatment,
and other hazards,
it can be easy to
imagine what kind
of impact it would
have on those ani
mals. There’s also
an impact on us.
No,
there
haven’t been any
discoveries
three
eyed
radioactive .
of
fish,
spi
ed
birds
around. At least not according to CSI’s
Dr. William Wallace, “it’s very difficult
to really understand the impact of a
particular pollutant on the animal.
Normally they are exposed to various
pollutants. Nothing has been found as
obvious as mutations.”
Arthur Kill stands as part of the
NY/NJ Harbor Estuary. This runs from
the Hudson River and meets up with
the Atlantic Ocean. The purpose of
Wallace’s metal trophic transfer in
of
a t o r s
shrimp are
ence.
“It’s
a bit more
good
experi
them. In
sickly
other
slow. It may
A k i n t u d e
words,
be
Akinsefunmi
how will
thing in the
Bio-Chem stu
the met-
mud,
but
dent, “it’s given
a
the
team
me a different
I
s
and
ence,”
some
a
said
a
found in
doesn’t
there,
know
ulti
Wallace
cess
of
mately
works with
metal
storage
prespective.”
yet.
The
team
suc
the
affect
a
the food
made up of
will
chain,
CSI Biology
greater reputa
tion in the sci
repro-
undergrad
and
mobility
students. “I
“A lot of the things I do, I hope one
credit
flying
importance
who eat
duction,
ders, or two head
know the
grad
have to give
and population levels.
project at CSI,
build
a
ence communi
Mud from the Arthur Kill is analyzed by a student. Photos: Shona
Nubyahn Singh
ty. “In the long
run
the
papers
more
pub
day can be incorporated into various
where it’s due,’ said Wallace, as he
lished from us of the lab, and semi
nars we hold, the exposure of CSI will
legislative systems and guidelines as
spoke of the dedication and skillful
to how the metals are released into
ness of his students. They do a great
be
the environment where there is a high
share of the data compiling, and sam
Wallace, “If all we do is good, the
vulnerability,” said Wallace. In regards
ple collecting needed to make the
more attractive we are to Bio and envi
to the Human concerns, “When it’s all
project a success.
ronmental students.”
said and done, there is a main con
A huge part of understanding
cern about toxic metals in seafood,”
said Wallace.
what they’ve learned comes from
Almost everyone
likes to
eat
doing this kind of research. “I like
• Biology here,” said Sarah, a freshman
to
a
greater
audience,”
Shona Nubyahn Singh can be reached at
Shona.Nubyahn@cix.csi.cuny.edu
said
�HIV Art
-continued from page I
ty for women and children suffering with
HIV/AIDS. “Gupta lets us enjoy not only
the subject-matter but also the style of
depict common objects and scenes
associated with child care, such as a
laundry basket, a pink Mickey Mouse
high chair, and clothing hanging on an
told,” said Professor Wilson. “Gupta’s
refusal to show us the scene fully and
outdoor line to dry. The viewer no longer
sees India as an exotic, far away place,
but instead identifies it as an ordinary
expect to see.”
Gupta grew up in Delhi and was
diagnosed with HIV ten years ago.
Since then he has used the medium of
the photographs with their up-beat col
community that is similar to their own.
Gupta chooses to highlight partial
ors and enhanced textures,” said cura
tor Dr. Nannette Salomon. “I found it
really interesting to study the hands of
views insisting that what is revealed is
as important as what is hidden.
the children as they told a story that was
somewhat different from the story told
by their facial expressions.”
Eight large environmental photos
Furthermore, he implores viewers to
discover the story that lies between the
frames. ‘These photographs constantly
remind us that everything cannot be
directly, forces us to reflect upon what it
is that we desire to see or what we
photography to explore and cope with
his illness. ‘There is interesting art and
interesting questions being posed in the
Gupta’s images defy stereotypical
expectations because they do not empha
size poverty, filth, or victimization. “This
show is groundbreaking on several levels
and will travel to other art galleries in the
United States once it leaves the College of
Staten Island,” said Dr. Salomon. “We are
very privileged and proud to have helped
bring this show into existence by inviting
Sunil Gupta to exhibit in our Gallery.”
world outside of the West,” he said. ‘The
photos show how these children live
and are presented in the form of con
AnnMarie Costella can be reached at
AnnMarie.Costella@cix.csi.cuny.edu
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Arrest For Domestic Battery
AnnMarie Costella
Shortly thereafter, she locked herself
in the bathroom and called the police.
ew Age musician Yanni, 51,
When
was arrested on March 2 for
domestic battery after alleged
Barthes visibly shaken. Her lip was
N
they
arrived
they
found
bruised and bloody.
Silvia Yanni’s
attorney
Orlando
Barthes, in the face during a dispute.
Gonzales, speaking on his client’s
Authorities conducted a full investi
behalf, told a very different version of
gation and determined that there was
the evening’s events. He claims that
not enough evidence to proceed with
Barthes became enraged when Yanni
the case. Yanni maintained his inno
asked her to move out. She yelled
cence throughout the ordeal claiming
and screamed as she packed up her
that he acted in self-defense after
belongings. When the musician
ly
slapping
his
girlfriend,
Barthes kicked him in the groin.
The incident occurred when
Yanni attempted to evict Barthes from
his 7.7 million dollar home on South
attempted to calm her down, she
Ocean Blvd. in Palm Beach County,
Florida. The argument quickly esca
lated into a brawl. Barthes claims
Yanni yelled at her, pushed her onto
asserted that Barthes is a gold digger
who greatly exaggerated the story for
financial gain. “From the beginning
the bed, and while waving his arms
about accidentally hit her in the face.
Spring Break was fantastic. I prescribed
my brain some seriously needed bed
rest and settled in with a bag of Sour
Patch Kids, Diet Coke, and DVDs. I
opted to start off with a few giggles cour
tesy of Sex and the City. When my
Sidekick buzzed with a call at 1am, I
was knee deep into an episode featur
ing a love interest with a spanking fetish.
Call it ADD or overload of the multitask
ing age, but I couldn’t listen to her and
focus on the TV at the same time, thus
the conversation turned to fetishes.
What makes fetishes mainstream?
When is a fetish scary... and sexy?
A quick Google led me to a full list
of descriptions. It was fascinating how
many everyday activities people get off
to, and horrifying how many not-sopleasant tasks reach the same result.
While many sounded relatively exciting,
a few were clearly dangerous, or social
ly/morally unacceptable. That idea stuck
with me as I flipped through link after
link and found myself immersed in a
world where people risk their lives for
sexual satisfaction. Dorothy, we’re not in
Missionary, anymore.
A few days ago I dragged a boy to
the Angelika Film Center to see the
much discussed Hard Candy. I wasn’t
surprised with the “plot twist;” even
though the trailer wants you to believe
this teenage girl is the victim of an inter
net stalker, you can easily tell she’s
about as sane as Mariah Carey’s web
site letters to her fans. Sure enough,
half way through the film, this tart ties
the 30-something guy up, mentally tor
tures him, and eventually convinces him
to kill himself. Seriously, don’t stress
over that spoiler- five minutes into the
film and it’s no surprise. What was
shocking was how bad I felt for the guy.
He seemed nice, and cute, and intelli
gent. I felt pity for him, and had to
remind myself that she was avenging
his actions toward her and several other
under-aged conquests. Still, I couldn’t
hate him- a fact that disturbed me the
entire drive home, and into the night, till
a quick glance at my bookshelf put
everything into perspective. Feeling
sorry for the pedophile is nothing newask Vladimir Nabokov, who’s novel
“Lolita” is frequently read in high school
classrooms. While it raised some red
flags during it’s publishing in the 1950’s,
several movie versions, and books
based simply on reading it, have pushed
Nabokov’s story of a man’s love for his
very young stepdaughter into the realm
of the classics. The end result of
“Lolita?” You enjoy it, you might even be
one of the millions whom it turned on...
and you feel bad for the guy. However,
this is an admission no one ever makes
to anyone else, for fear of the fed’s
knocking down your door, searching
your Mozilla downloads and locking you
up. It is socially acceptable to discuss,
and very, very wrong to even consider.
Is this common to all fetishes?
Similar is Asphyxophilia. Thrown
attacked him. He raised his arms to
block her advances, and inadvertent
ly struck her. Gonzales further
this was about money and how
much,” he said. “It is probably the
worst shakedown that I have ever
ing 12 hours in jail. The Palm Beach
County State Attorney’s office con
cluded that it was a “he-said, shesaid” situation. “You had one person
alleging one set of facts and you had
one person alleging another set of
facts,”
said
spokesman
Mike
Edmondson. “There was no way to
prove anything either way.”
Yanni, whose full name is John
Yanni Christopher, was strongly
against reaching any kind of financial
settlement with his accuser and
planned to defend himself had the
matter gone to trial. He was embar
rassed by the arrest and fears that it
may have damaged his reputation.
“The allegations were always false
and completely without any merit,”
said Yanni. “I love the Florida com
munity in which I live and will contin
ue to have faith in our justice sys
tem.”
AnnMarie Costella can be reached at
AnnMarie.Costella@cix.csi.cuny.edu
rush of blood and loss of oxygen, this
assimilates a highly sexualized feeling.
Claire was sexually dependant on
Edge-Play, the use of objects and force
While, statistically, men enjoy the power
AEA hands those who otherwise have
none, women respond more to the
power that is taken away. Jasmine, a
self-proclaimed Asphyxiation lover from
the website DirtiestGirllnTheWorld.com,
associates this with love. ‘There is no
to
find
submissive
boundaries.
Broadcasting live, Claire and the disc
jockey’s engaged in knife play, teasing
action that more clearly displays the sur
render and trust I feel as a submissive,”
she informs her members.
The behaviors exhibited in AEA are
displayed in an endless amount of
with blunt objects, and punching. I soon
learned this practice was more about
the mind than the crotch, when life
began mimicking sexual life, and Claire
had difficulty sorting herself out. The
logic? When power is taken from you,
you can’t be blamed for screwing up, an
idea more common than we’d all like to
ways. A hundred times more horrifying
admit.
Since then I’ve noticed other main
than Asphyxiation is Erotophonophilia,
aka Lust Murder. Before the release of
stream fetishes. There’s an entire indus
try devoted to Depilation, Biastophilia
Quentin Tarantino’s Hostel, the produc
er confessed that he had run across a
European website advertising enjoy
occurs in marriage, and J.Lo and
Britney Spears have both engaged in
Adolescentilism on magazine covers.
ment killing. The clients of the movie’s
namesake pay large amounts of money
to turn helpless backpackers into leaky,
one-eyed corpses. At one point the pro
Feet and panties are no more risque’
than leaving the lights on. So, what’s
healthy? MM00rgy.com puts it best
tagonist hears a clients admission that
torturing victims provides a selfless
source of power and danger that gets
him off. Sex and disembodiment, mys
tery and gore, orgasms and blood...
ideas glamorized by Hollywood to the
Consider whether the fetish is some
thing you’re more comfortable pursuing
virtually- the anonymity is a great bufferor cannot be done—for lack of
tune of The Devil’s Rejects, American
Psycho, Natural Born Killers, The Texas
Chainsaw
Massacre,
A
Clockwork
into the spotlight by the death of INXS
singer Michael Hutchence, this fetish,
Orange, and so on.
Just as I felt light-years away from
aka AutoErotic Asphyxiation, is usually
cured only by death. Strangling one’s
self with a noose, or other device, the
masturbator creates control over an
fetish
orgasm that he possibly couldn’t
achieve with a partner. Coupled with the
seen.”
Yanni was released after spend
breaking fetishes into three categories;
Wouldn’t, Shouldn’t, and couldn’t.
resources- or something that shouldn’t
be done—as someone may get hurt,
or seriously impair their life. Doesn’t fit
into a category? Congratulations, you
may have found yourself a terrific new
research
hobby. With imagination, self-control,
and a willing partner when applicable,
brought me back home. During a brief
career in radio, my BFF went by the
you, too, can enjoy a slightly bizarre
practitioners,
my
alias “Crazy Claire.” An on-air homage
introduced me to her fetish of choice.
While usually quiet, behind closed doors
sexual life.
AnneMarie Dooling cun be reached at
AnneMarie.Dooling@cix.csi.cuny.edu
�[BOD MRJOyffi EDXGJtSS
Report by Gregory Tumbarello
Photos by Rina Sklar with assistance by Nicole Tumbarello
chib
ver 20,000 fans showed up
on Saturday, Feb. 25 at the
Jacob Javits Center
in
Manhattan for the first major New
York comic convention in
years. The term "unexpect
ed turnout" would be an
understatement considering
that the space booked for
the show had a maximum
capacity of only 10,000. But
with a guest list featuring
some of the most prominent
creators the comics industry
has ever produced, atten
dance numbers don't seem
too far off the mark after
all.
Notable writers and
artists included Frank Miller
(Sin City), Jim Lee (All Star Batman
A Robin), Todd McFarlane (Spawn),
Olivier Copiel (House of M), David
Finch (Moon Knight), Mike Oeming
(Powers),
Giuseppe
Camuncoli
(Captain Atom), Steve McNiven
(New Avengers), Phil Jimenez A
Andy tanning (Infinite Crisis), Kevin
Smith (Clerks) and Brad Meltzer
(Identity Crisis) just to name a few.
Unfortunately, most people who
waited in lines for hours to buy tick
O
mmssiaHT
ets found themselves waiting once
again, in some cases for up to two
hours, to get onto the floor where
most of the creator signings were
taking place. At any given moment,
Fire Marshals could be found moni
toring the event in an effort to
make sure safety standards were
met. This ignited rumors that the
show might suddenly be shut down
due to a possible fire hazard creat
ed by the amount of people on the
convention floor.
To remedy this situation, fans
that had not yet purchased tickets
(and even a few who had) were even
tually turned away by an apologetic
convention staff. To make up for
this disappointment, fans that, had
previously purchased tickets and
were unable to get in were given full
refunds and will be receiving free
admittance to next year's NYC con.
Despite the massive crowds and
lack of elbow room, this turned out
to be a very enjoyable convention
due to the amount of events and
tutorials that took place. One of
Saturday's biggest panel draws
included a colloquium on writing
comics,
featuring
bestselling
authors Brian Michael
Bendis
(Ultimate Spider-man), Denny
O'Neil
(Batman),
J.M.
DeMatteis (Justice League)
and others discussing the
inner working of writing for
the medium. The panel start
ed with a bang as creators
jokingly ribbed each other
over writing styles and
debated methods and ideas in
comics writing.
It was,
undoubtedly, a highlight of
the convention.
This convention, despite
having obvious troubles with
floor space and crowds, was
well received by fans overall, war
ranting a show next year. The New
York convention will be coming back
to the Javits Center in 2007 and
will be booked with more space to
properly accommodate another
large turnout.
Let's hope next
year's is even bigger.
Gregory Tumbarello can be reached at
Gregory.Tumbarello@cix.csi.cuny.edu
BANNER NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Lucky Number Stevin
Thomos Bradley
“Lucky Number Sievin’’ is a violently
intelligent film with an ensemble cast
playing up to their roles as actors and
not their bloated celebrity images.
Starrilfg Sir Ben Kingsley, Morgan
Freeman, and Bruce Willis along with
Josh Hartnett in the title role, “Sievin’’ is
a plot twisting thriller reminiscent of
“Usual Suspects.” The film begins with
Bruce Willis, playing a world-class
assassin known only as “Mr.^Goodkat”,
explaining the finer points of the
“Kansas City Shuffle” to an unshaven
young man seated in an airport waiting
area.
“When everybody else looks
right,” Goodkat cooly explains “you go
left.”
This genre-bending crime thriller
presented the film’s marketing squad
with a bit of a problem: How would you
describe a graphically violent film with
several plot twists, dark comedy, philo
sophical references and a love story to
someone passing a billboard or poster?
Needless to say ticket sales haven’t
been phenomenal but reviews are pos
itive and there’s sure to be a great
response to the DVD release in the
coming months.
Josh Hartnett
forgoes the pretty
boy role as best he
can by acting the
entire film with a
broken nose requi
site of his “new”
identity.
Identity
being
a
loaded
theme, Slevin is
mistaken
for
a
degenerate gam
bler who has racked
up serious debts
with the city’s two
largest crime boss
es. The Boss and
The Rabbi, played
by
Morgan
Freeman and Sir
Ben
Kingsley
respectively,
are
both comedic and
tragic as they mistake Slevin for the
derelict gambler who owes each of
them money. The catch is that the two
bosses once worked along side one
another until a string of events set the
two apart as mor
tal enemies, each
working toward
the
other’s
demise.
The film rais
es the question of
“who” one is and
how they might
set about proving
or disproving their
identity once it
has been put into
question. Slevin
is a perpetually
squinting,
grin
ning,
down-onhis- luck, shmuck
placed in extraor
dinary
circum
stances by forces
beyond his con
trol.
Constantly
questioning who
he is and what he is capable of, Slevin
grows rapidly more effective as he
begins to understand his limited control
over the situation.
Faced with killing or being killed,
Slevin accepts The Boss’ proposition to
murder The Rabbi’s son, saying “I had
no choice”, to which The Boss replies,
“Sometimes realizing you have no
options is the wisest decision.” It is here
that we find Slevin has accepted his sit
uation and is now capable of working to
make the best of his conditions. To rec
ognize a situation for what it truly is and
to then proceed based upon this knowl
edge is certainly not a novel idea but
nonetheless it is one not often
employed. YPt, Slevin’s luck seems to
be the bad kind, the kind that lets other
people know theirs is good, so following
his example may not be the best
advice. He does, however, end up in
bed with Lucy Liu, across the hall
neighbor Lindsey who becomes
wrapped up in Slevin’s “situation” after
coming over for some sugar. We won’t
say if she gets the sugar, only that she
being Slevin wasn’t so bad when
Lindsey is around.
Thomas Bradley can be reached at
Thomas.Bradley@cix.csi.cuny.edu
�The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
May 1,2006
CSI Hammers Vassar College 14-1
Khadijah Rentas
“I heard they weren’t that good,” said star player.
The pitcher’s pants flapped as the winds picked up.
Sunglasses under caps became unnecessary as the
sky turned gray and dark clouds eclipsed the sun.
When the heaviest of the rain fell onto the field in the
sixth inning, the Dolphins could not score, while oppo
nent Vassar College earned one run. But the Dolphins
had nine runs on the board already, and the one run
by Vassar would stand as their only run of the game.
Maybe the precipitation throughout the night hurt
Vassar. Maybe the 15-degree temperature drop from
the first inning to the ninth bothered Vassar’s pitching
line. Maybe the fierce wind tripped up Vassar’s out
field.
Or maybe Vassar’s batting rotation just could not
handle the Dolphin’s sophomore pitcher, John
Sullivan, who allowed only one run and four hits by
Vassar in the first seven innings. Sullivan is now 2-0.
Freshman Steven DiMassa and senior Pat Smith each
pitched one inning and faired well against Vassar’s
bats, allowing no hits. Down by 13 in the ninth, Vassar
had little chance of scoring on Smith. Smith struck out
two in a row while a third grounded out to quick acting
second baseman Mohammad Hamad. Vassar ended
the inning with one left on base and a total of only five
left on base the entire night.
The Dolphins proved to Vassar their superiority,
despite the Dolphins difficulty with teams outside of
the CUNY Conference.
CSI had a 12-4 CUNY record before the game
and a non-conference record of 5-9. In those nine
non-conference losses the Dolphins gave up 100
runs. But Vassar should not have been too much of a
challenge. Vassar lost the last four games they played
and placed last in their conference, the Liberty
League.
ranks 18th in the CUNY Conference with a batting
Anthony Piccirillo,
“but you never know
what might happen.”
average
of
.323.
Glennerster did not steal
The
Dolphins
probably did not pre
but managed six assists,
two hits, two RBIs and one
run.
Freshman
Anthony
any bases against Vassar,
dict a win by 13
runs. But whether
Piccirillo also received an
honor from the CUNY
Athletic
Conference
as
Baseball Rookie of the
Week. The center fielder
has a .383 batting average,
the Dolphins were
scoring or not, the
dugout stayed loud,
encouraging
and
overall, had a good
time. His first time at
Photo: CSI Athletic Department
bat in the second
ninth
in
the
CUNY
inning, designated
Conference. He has 46 hits
A batter prepares to enter the batter’s box at the Men’s Baseball game against Vassar
hitter Mike Liconti College on April 26.
and 37 runs for the season,
stood at the plate
more
than
any
other
with bat in hand and swiveled his hips. “Not the hoola
Dolphin. Against Vassar, Piccirillo hit three and scored
hoop, the shimmy,” yelled someone from the dugout.
three runs.
Liconti shimmied then hit a double down the left field.
After the overwhelming win against Vassar
Not easing on Vassar late in the game, the
Tuesday night, Piccirillo avoided the warranted ego
Dolphins continued to apply the pressure. In his sev
tism afforded star players. When asked about his suc
enth inning of play, pitcher John Sullivan allowed no
cess as a freshman, he responded with a bit of mod
hits and first baseman Joseph Guarneri did a split to
esty that he thinks he has done just OK.
catch a ball that took a Vassar player out.
“I think I should be doing a little better," said
Vassar did not score in the eighth or ninth innings,
but the DolpTiins scored four runs in the eighth.
Glennerster, Hamad, and left fielder Chris Orsini each
made RBIs. Right fielder Joel Pratts, Guarneri,
Hamad, and designated hitter P.J. Liconti each
Piccirillo. “But I think I proved to everyone I can play.”
With an improving conference record after their
latest win against Yeshiva University, 10-0, the possi
bility the Dolphins will rise from second position in the
conference to win the championships, seems more
likely, especially if they can beat top seeded John Jay,
scored.
Though Glennerster erred twice this game, more
than any other Dolphin, it did not keep him from
becoming CUNY Athletic Conference Baseball Player
of the Week. He ranks third of the Dolphins for hits
whom they could not beat all three meetings this sea
son. John Jay swept the Dolphins in a three game
series two weeks ago, 6-3, 11-1, and 8-7.
and stolen bases with 32 hits and 11 stolen bases. He
Khadijah Rentas can be reached at
Khadijah.Rentas@cix.csi.cuny.edu
Baruch Bearcats Crush CSI in Men's Tennis 9-0
Lucie Laurio
no.5 singles, Bearcat Gregory Leal and junior
Dolphin Kevin Williams fell to Baruch’s Evan Brown
In men’s tennis action last Friday afternoon at the
CSI complex, the top seeded Baruch Bearcats shut
out the Dolphins, 9-0. The Dolphins fell to 3-8 overall
and 2-4 in the CUNY Athletic Conference, while the
Bearcats improved to 9-1 overall and 7-0 in
CUNY.
Things started ominously for the Dolphins
at no.1 singles. Baruch’s Emanuel Seshadri
blasted CSI’s Soumitri Seshadri 6-2, 6-2.
Williams managed to win three games in the second
set, 6-0, 6-3.
Despite a valiant effort in the first set that went to
CSI’s loss helped Baruch clinch its third consecu
tive regular season CUNY Athletic Conference title.
Baruch’s Head Coach, Florin Giuglescu, sported a
wide smile, while CSI’s Head Coach, Chris Kim,
remarked: “they killed us today.”
“Baruch has a better team,” said Head Coach
a
tiebreaker,
freshman
Andrew Chang could not
convert and lost his hard
Chris Kim. “CSI players do not have the skills, espe
cially in doubles. They just have no clue about the dou
bles strategy.”
“The team still needs more expe-
fought battle to Baruch’s
rieticedplayers.”
Ramon Johnson 7-5, 6-0, in
The Dolphins have improved their reputation at
home on April 25.
-Chris Kim, Head Coach
_________________
n0-6 singles.
The
most
“He was much more consistent,” said
Seshadri after the match. “I choked and
defeated myself with my unenforced errors.”
Baruch’s player ultimately prevailed in straight
sets.
At number two singles, Dolphin Alex Simuni, fell
to Baruch Timmy Leon 6-2, 6-0.
“I don’t know what to say. He just killed me,” said
Simuni dejectedly. “I don’t know what’s wrong with
my serve today.”
Baruch’s Alex Sokol swept CSI’s Sandhun
Mendis in a straight setter 6-1, 6-1. At both no.4 and
12
and Jonathan Choi. Gregory Leal, the fourth-ranked
player in the conference, lost 6-1, 6-1, while Kevin
and Anton Vilinsky, 10-0.
crushing
defeat came in the doubles.
Baruch swept CSI in all three doubles matches. The
Dolphins managed to win only one game in the three
matches. At first doubles, Bearcats Emanuel Imperial
and Timmy Leon smashed Dolphins Soumitri
Seshadri and Alex Simuni, 10-0. CSI’s Sandhun
Mendis and Kevin Williams improved their score by
one game. They fell to Baruch’s Alex Sokol and
Jonathan Choi, 10-1. At no.3 doubles, Baruch’s Evan
Brown and Joseph Sulker downed Raymond Hicks
New York City College of Technology fell to CSI, 81. The Dolphins claimed all matches except for the
third singles. City Tech’s, Robert Lynch, defeated
Sandhun Mendis, 6-1, 6-4. The victory improves the
Dolphin’s overall record to 4-8 and to 3-4 in the CUNY
Athletic Conference.
“We’ve improved a little, compared to the last
season,” said Head Coach Chris Kim. “The team still
needs more experienced players.”
Lucie Lauria can be reached at
Lucie.Lauria@cix.csi.cuny.edu
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for Complainers
David Maitz
PRESIDENT SPRINGER
When Governor Pataki created his
budget for the next fiscal year, it called
WAS THERE
for a $300 per year tuition increase for
WHERE WERE YOU?
CUNY
Students.
With
help
from
A Look at Life Inside Wiiiowbrook
NYPIRG and Staten Island’s New York
State legislators, the tuition hike was
avoided, and CSI will receive an addi
tional $9 million next year, pending the
governor’s approval.
“CSI is one of the most valuable
resources we have on Staten Island,”
said Assemblyman John Lavelle in a
statement. “It provides a first-rate
learning
environment
right
in
our
backyard. I’m happy that this budget
realizes its worth to Staten Islanders.”
In previous years, the legislature
has allocated CUNY the money it
asked for, but the governor refused to
approve the funds, particularly when it
comes to capital funds, which are
used to build and maintain buildings.
The lack of adequate capital funds
forced CSI to divert money from per
sonnel funds in order to make urgent
repairs.
“This will be the first time in
CUNY History that we received every
thing we asked for in total funds,” said
Angelo Aponte, CSI Vice President for
Finance and Administration. “It’s his
torical and monumental.”
Faced with a need for money,
CUNY came up with a concept of
Continued on page 3
and therefore “if it is forgotten, it is the
hen I was a little girl, I asked my
best way to assure that Wiiiowbrook will
mother where she grew up.
happen again.”
“Wiiiowbrook State School,” she
said. That was the first time I heard its Wiiiowbrook was an amazing place,
none like it before and hopefully none like
name.
it again. Fortunately, voices from former
At the time my mother didn’t divulge
residents can still be heard. Voices, like
a lot of details. I sensed the sadness that
my mother’s, to tell us what it was like,
loomed over the mention of it. I wanted to
what it did right, and where it went wrong.
know something about her biological par
They remind us that everybody has value
ents and grandparents, and how she
and feelings, even if they can’t articulate
became an orphan.
words, read, spell their name, or have no
Built in the 1930’s, Wiiiowbrook did
parents to love them.
not open its doors to the mentally retard
The following is a creative non-fic
ed and developmentally disabled until the
tion piece based on numerous interviews
early 1950’s.
with my mother and my personal
For more than 40 years, Wiiiowbrook
research.
attempted to serve the disabled commu
This story takes place on a Sunday
nity. However, with its gross overcrowd
in 1964 in Building 21-30 years later, it
ing and lack of staff and proper funding, it
became Building 2S. At the time, my
has since been established that institu
mother was 11, and had been at
tional style care does not allow individu
Wiiiowbrook for almost 10 years.
als to flourish.
This is where my mom grew up.
As mentioned in an open letter to
The Banner, printed Jan. 30, 2006, by
staff and students, it is essential that the
truths about Wiiiowbrook be spoken of
et up,” the attendants shouted.
and remembered. In their letter, they pro
“Get out of bed.” They switched
posed that an adequate memorial be
on the lights awakening us from
established on CSTs campus.
In
sleep, from dreams. Our sweet
Professor Goode’s Feb. 06 interview with
dreams—our only chance to experi
The Banner, he stated that many of the
ence a different life from what we knew
issues
relevant
to
understanding
Wiiiowbrook are relevant to a range of
disciplines represented on our campus
Continued on page 4
W
G
Khadijah Rentas
MeUissa Seecharan
In the first Town Hall Meeting of 2006,
CSI President Marlene Springer and
her administration outnumbered stu
dents who attended the open event.
Dr. Springer opened the meeting
with remarks covering everything from
the $9 million CUNY budget cap to the
moving forward with dormitories to the
new CUNY system of budgeting which
will partly come from tuition and private
funding. "This is a new ball game," said
Dr. Springer. "Our goal is $10 million,
and it will take a lot of hard work. I
appreciate the support you can give."
Tthe importance of improving how
Continued on page 3
put the microphone to her lips and yelled,
A few minutes after 5 p.m. Baruch’s gym
“cancer doesn’t sleep and neither should
looked unpromising. 117 tightly fit rectan
you!”
gles taped onto the floor had not been filled
At 10 p.m. the lights went out. Green
by the 600 students expected. Less than a
glow sticks inside white paper bags lined
merica. The land of freedom,
100 students set up their team sites in the
the track. At first, not everyone understood
new experiences, and new
^opportunities. It can be new cul-
gym. Shivanie Latchman walked around
the gravity of the Luminaria Ceremony.
hectically. She expected more people by
People told to be quiet became silent as
turdt experience indeed, when it comes
to v^ords like gay, lesbian or bisexual so
now.
they read the names of loved ones on
In the next 60 minutes the gym trans
those paper bags. They walked solemnly
bpr^iion in the American vocabulary.
formed. From sprinkled with people to full of
on the track while they heard a montage of
eyebrows
anxious young college kids prepared to
afnonQ international students. They are
•curjous about something they are not
spend the night at school. Sleeping bags,
acobstomed to, and feel embarrassed to
fct^ally enjoy a same-sex relationship.
look like a giant bedroom warehouse.
SjHompsexuality
raises
air mattresses and pillows made the room
voices through the speakers explain why
During the 13-hour relay at Baruch to raise money for cancer
research, some tired students took a nap.
research through sponsorship and on-site
this event meant so much.
“I’m a cancer survivor and I relay for
life.”
Everyone had gathered in this place
sales and activities. The rules were simple.
! Nevertheless, they also feel fear.
on March 31 to run, walk, skip, hop and
Each of the 59 teams must have at least
Sha’ron Rudolph is lucky. A sopho
, Not only the fear of being rejected by
jump laps around the makeshift square
one person on the track for the next 13
more at City College, her doctor diagnosed
the|r. communities in the US but the reac-
track that surrounded the pillows. They
hours. The closing ceremony did not begin
her with jawbone cancer on Dec. 1, 2002.
gathered to Relay for Life. The goal - raise
until 7:30 am, but when it seemed people
As the survivor guest speaker, she had to
as much money as possible for cancer
might pass out at any moment, Latchman
Contlnued on page 8
Continued on page 5
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mu/ The American Democracy Project
Dubya's Second Term Blues: Out of Polital Capital,
With Two Years to Go
Until a stable government is formed
JoeTacopino
in Iraq our country will continue to
atergate,
W
Monica
Lewinsky,
and
Iran-
lose
embody the downfall of 3 consecu
Although the historians have
yet to unfurl the tenure of George
W. Bush's second term, it is pretty
safe to say that, on its current
course, the affair is doomed to join
the ranks of the aforementioned
There may
Bush's second term so far,
but
there have been a series of mis
steps which have led to dismal
approval ratings and have catapult
Other than the Iraq War the
term have probably been the inci
his base -- the one constituency
who has stuck with him religiously
throughout his tenure.
incidents
appoint
When George W. Bush narrow
ly won the presidential election of
2004 he ambitiously claimed that
he earned "political capital"
spend it.
he
and
planned
to
The Bush presidency
was a culmination of 3 decades
worth of work from pundits, policy
The
ultimate goal of this movement was
to create a small, efficient govern
ment.
Instead,
the
pinnacle
moment for the conservative move
ment has
pyrrhic
been somewhat of a
victory.
The
Bush
Administration has proven to be
anything
but
small
the
Harriet
These two
decision
Miers
to
to
the
Supreme Court and the defense of
the United Arab Emirates port deal.
Harriet Miers was W's first
choice
to
replace
Sandra
Day
O'Conner, the moderate jurist on
the
Supreme
Court.
O'Conner
position was coveted by the pro-life
views on women's rights and abor
tion. Also, she had been the decid
ing vote in many important 5 to 4
decisions,
government
(large deficits) or efficient (Katrina)
or even protectionist (lenient immi
sometimes writing the
majority
opinion.
When
she
announced her retirement the right
wing saw it as their opportunity to
re-take the courts.
The problem with Miers was
wonks, political action committees
and right wing think tanks.
were:
crowd because of her sympathetic
ed W. toward lame duck status.
how
deplete
roughest patches of W's second
not yet be one overall theme of
announced
and
dents where he seemed to anger
the past several decades.
presidential debacles.
soldiers
more resources.
Contra: these three terms
tive second term presidencies over
more
that she had no track record.
The
Right wanted an established con
servative jurist, a strict construc
tionist who would interpret the con
stitution as the Founders originally
intended it: like Justices Thomas or
Scalia.
Bush's base was outraged
by the Miers decision and he ulti
mately had to withdraw her name in
disgrace.
The spot is now filled by
Justice Samuel Alito.
black and white and good versus
The Dubai ports deal was a
gration policies) - to say nothing of
the scandals and corrupt practices
second hallmark moment for W's
which have taken place.
second term.
When a company
One cannot assess the Bush
owned by the United Arab Emirates
Presidency without addressing the
took over a British outfit which man
situation in Iraq. It has single-hand
ages US ports there was a huge
edly weighed down W's approval
outcry from politician and pundits
rating and his second term agenda.
from both sides of the aisle.
vamp social
security
had to be
scraped because of mounting con
cerns over Iraq and other matters.
Whether you call it civil war, sectar
ian violence or ethnic strife, it is
clear that Iraq has descended into
a
nightmare
for
Administration.
has
from
become
a
the
Bush
The occupation
huge
urgent domestic
distraction
concerns.
Switzerland -- a small country which
has found
a few niche markets,
mainly tourism and banking.
takeover was purely
a
The
business
deal and should not have caused
ire from anyone who knows a thing
or two about international econom
ics.
However, this was an instance
when W's simplistic rhetoric had
come back to haunt him.
decision
about national
For a
president who speaks in terms of
security
was steeped in ambiguity.
mise was made - (the details of
which are too complicated to get
into, but suffice to say everyone
was put to ease.)
The UAE happens to be one of
the countries which the 911 com
mission cited
as
recognizing the
Taliban and possibly even tunneled
moneys to terror groups.
The UAE is sort of like an Arab
Even his ambitious priority to re
evil, this was a case where a major
However,
this is not surprising considering
how they are a Mecca for banking in
the Arab world.
What
the
which
pointing second term.
The mid
term election will be a good indica
tion of how the country feels about
the current Republican majority.
It
will
if
be
interesting
to
port
really
exists
within
our
to defending the Bush doctrine or if
they will distance themselves from
his brutally flawed presidency.
country, particularly from the people
on the right.
see
Republican incumbents will adhere
UAE
embodied was the prevailing xeno
phobia
George W. Bush still has two
years to turn around his disap
The idea of an Arab
company having anything to do with
our internal affairs did not sit well
with a lot of people and a compro
Joe Tacapino can be reached at
Joe.Tacapino@cix.csi.cuny.edu
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April 10,2006
building to close. I have 19 plus safety
Town
Hall
Meeting
participating
in
the
question
and
concerns."
answer session, Dr. Springer along
with
Angelo
President
Administration,
Kress,
Aponte,
for
Vice
Vice
Finance
and
&
Michael
President
for
-continued from'page 1-
Technology Systems, answered
others perceive CSI was stressed, but
club hours to recycling on cam
with the few
pus.
questions ranging from extended
students in attendance
the President’s words were barely
heard.
"Your degree and the reputation of
h“
The future of resident halls,
which plan to house 500 students,
was also discussed when student
the college is worth the work you put
Dennis Gaffigan questioned the
into it," she said to the few caring stu
college's
rationale
buildings. "There
t
e
are
h
Green
Dolphin
"Word of
mouth
and mar-
The presence [of resident halls] will certainly
elevate campus life, international students
having difficulty finding housing won't, and we
want to attract students who might attend
SUNY or even those from around the country.
-CSI President Marlene Springer
k et i n g
a
r
e
extreme
MELLISSA SEECHARAN
Vice President for Technology Systems Michael Kress, and Angelo
Aponte, Vice PResident for Finance and Administration answer ques
tions at the town hall meeting. So few students showed up that the meet
ing ended in 30 minutes.Photo: Enrique Inocente
three
motives,"
responded
Springer.
Dr.
The issue of an outdated library
"The pres
information system was also touched
ence will certainly ele
upon. Dr. Springer acknowledged the
vate campus life, inter
out of date information found in the
national students hav
library, but noted that the library is also
ing
finding
under funded. "The country is in that
housing won't, and we
transition period from books to digital
want to
information," she stated.
difficulty
attract
stu
ly important. The word has to get out
dents who might attend SUNY or even
Michael Kress also added to the
and the only way is by your effort on
those from around the country." Dr.
library discussion. "The focus on digital
Springer hopes it will differentiate CSI
books are hard to keep up," he said
campus."
The President's opening remarks
were followed by a brief statement from
DAVID MALTZ
the
in
Lounge.
KlifTOR -ITV-CYl OEF
....................
behind
dents
from other colleges.
referring to the increasing prices of the
When asked about the possibility
material. “The best idea is to used the
Student Government President, Alex
of hosting the successful CUNY Relay
academic
Mufel.
Listing some of the group's
for Life which took place at Baruch on
library's
accomplishments, Mufel urged the stu
March 31st and raised over $74;000,
access to thousands of journals and
dents to vote after the meeting, stating
Dr. Springer expressed concern.
text. We're doing a lot better, but that
that it was the first time online voting
was part of SG elections.
"I appreciate all that was done,"
she said. "But I don't
search
website
engines
where
on
you
the
have
doesn't mean we can't do more."
know about an
Mellissa Seecharan can be reached at
Mellissa.Seecharan@cix.csi.cuny.edu
Despite the a handful of students
overnight event. Baruch only has one
Albany Comes Through
tal projects, and the college is still
posed hike different is that it called for
deciding how it will be spent, but at
automatic 4% tuition hikes every year,
ENRIQUE INOCENTE
million was allocated for various capi
-continude from page /-
SUNY. What made this year’s pro
a condition that NYPIRG found partic
MATTHEW SAFFORD
KHADIJAH RENTAS
ip m
small tuition increases with matching
ularly troubling.
funds to be raised through donations,
students are the financial future of
“SUNY and CUNY
and the extra money collected would
New
be managed by CUNY; previous tuition
Frenza, NYIRG Coordinator at CSI.
increases went directly into the state’s
“It’s just not fair and it’s unaccept
general budget and there was no way
able.”
York
State,”
said
Juliet
Di
to know how the money was spent.
She credits NYPIRG with suc
Governor Pataki and the state legisla
cessfully fighting the tuition hike. “It’s
ture were receptive of the idea, but
because we fought against it,” she
THOMAS BRADLEY
according to Aponte, the legislature
said. “NYPIRG is really effective.”
ANNMARIE COSTELLA
decided to make up for the needed
Sitting in her Spanish 213 class,
VANESSA LEIGH DEBELLO
money without raising tuition. The leg
Anna Freyman, expressed relief that
ANNEMARIE DOOLING
islature also killed Pataki’s planned
the tuition hike was killed. “I think it
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
restructuring of the Tuition Assistance
shouldn’t
JENNIFER MILLER
Program (TAP), which would have
“People should be able to afford to
SHONA NUBYAHN
required students to carry 15 credits a
ANDREW RAFFERTY
semester to be considered full time
“SUNY and CUNY students are
ENRICO TURCHI
students (the current threshold is 12
the financial future of New York
LAUREN TAYLOR
credits). In total, $768 million will be
State. It’s just not fair and it’s
provided to CUNY and SUNY for capi
unacceptable.,” said. Juliet Di
tal projects, with another $94 million in
Frenza, pictured above.
said.
The new budget will not be con
signs the budget into law, which is
expected some time this week. He
does have the power to veto the
money for CUNY, but the legislature
state legislators for additional money
has the power to override his veto if
least some of it will go towards
two-thirds of the legislators vote to do
so.
LUKE CRISALLI
needed for renovations and expansion.
repairs. “We have labs, classrooms,
RAPHAELLA MOUELI
“The legislators said we might not have
and leaky roofs that need to be fixed,”
asked for enough,” Aponte said.
Aponte said.
As a result, $9 million extra was
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
she
sidered final until Governor Pataki
The college asked Staten Island’s
“We have to thank Assemblyman
Lavelle and Cusick for the
renovating Building 2M to create addi
money,”
tional classroom space that Aponte
Communications, Bob Huber.
$4
said
The entire state government is up
for re-election this year, and Aponte
allocated; $5 million was allocated for
claims is “desperately needed.”
raised,”
come here and get an education.”
administrative aid
JOE TACOPINO
be
CSI
extra
Director
of
appears confident that the money will
be approved. “They don’t want to
come back to their constituents empty
handed,” he said.
Every year Governor Pataki pro
poses raising tuition for CUNY and
David Maitz can be reached at
Dayid.Maltz@cix.csi.cuny.edu
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�A Voice Behind The Wall
Then Ms. O’Reilley pushed her fat
hand against the back of Jennifer’s
head into the plate of mush.
The room was silent. Mary Thomas,
who sat next to Jennifer, wiped the slop
from Jennifer’s face with her dress.
Jennifer grabbed a handful of mush and
stuffed it in her mouth.
“Gotta eat,” she said softly.
After 15 minutes, O’Reilley blew
her whistle. “Time’s up,” she said.
Continued from page 1
Some hid leftover food in napkins,
others in pockets. We piled the empty
at the Institution.
trays on our way to the day room, where
An attendant stood over my bed
Ms. Jones was reading the newspaper.
wearing a white dress, white hospital
We didn’t have any toys, books,
shoes, and a white cloth hat. “Get up,”
paper and pencils to draw. To draw a
she shouted. Her keys dangled.
dog, my father’s house, my mother.
When attendants told me to get up,
Things I dreamt.
I got up. Sometimes they’d blow a whis
We did have a deck of cards. Some
tle in my face and flip my mattress if
started to play. I was bored.
they thought I wasn’t moving fast
We didn’t get to see boys often.
enough.
Once a month, we were escorted to
I rubbed the crust from my eyes
another building. Not everyone could
and got up. Most days I had nothing to
go. The attendants picked who was
look forward to, just another day, wak
allowed to attend. Only those who didn’t
ing to the same routine. Not today. One
rock, shake, bang their heads on walls
day a week, one chance, one opportu
and could talk in sentences.
nity for something different to happen.
Music was played, rock and roll.
I waited in line with the rest of the
Slow
songs
too.
girls from my ward all
Willowbrook’s
of us wearing long
American Bandstand.
white nightgowns. We
I looked forward to
each had one pair of
going. To wear a blue
clothes and shoes in
dress, to wear my hair
small cubbies in a dif
loose, to listen to
ferent room.
music, to be noticed. I
I
was
eleven
didn’t have a boyfriend,
years old and owned
although there were
nothing. I had no per
some boys that would
fume, dolls, toys or
ask me to dance.
self confidence. I did
Steven Jacobs asked
n’t have photos of my
me once. He was con
family, a favorite blan
sidered boyfriend wor
ket or a stick of
thy
because
he
deodorant.
combed his hair, but
I was three when
toned his shirt straight,
my parents left me at
and didn’t smell like he
Wiiiowbrook.
My
peed on himself. I
father later explained
hoped I would see him
that he and my mother
again
and that he
took me to a doctor
would remember me
because
I
wasn’t
and we’d dance again. I
developing normally. I
wanted to feel his warm
was two and could not
body and touch his
walk or talk.
black
hair,
as
we
“There’s no hope
danced
to
Elvis
for her,” the doctor
Presley.
said. “She is not going
Since
it
was
to progress any fur
Sunday, everyone was
ther. I’m sorry Mr. and
preoccupied
with
Mrs. Bernard but your
whether or not they
daughter
will
not
were going to get a vis
amount to anything, it
itor. Some girls had vis
would be better to put
itors
every
weekher away.” Then my
mothers,
fathers,
broth
parents moved back
to Oklahoma.
My A floor plan sketch of Building 21, now 2S. The building was divided into four wards: a dormitory, day room, closet, shower & bath room and an isolation room, used during illness ers, sisters, grandpar
ents bringing clothes or
mother’s bad heart. I es and for punishment. The dining area was a shared space by all wards. When constructing 2S, the dining area was knocked down, and is now the building’s entrance.
candy.
never saw my mother
“Hey Joanie. Think you’ll get a vis
my nightgown and held it over my bare
dants slowly paced. Rows of girls eating
again.
itor today?” Rita’s twin sister, Hilda,
chest. I grabbed my brown blouse and
fast. Some with spoons, others with
It was Sunday, visiting day, the one
asked. She had long hair, braided into
slid my arm through it, then the other.
their hands. Talking would only slow us
day Wiiiowbrook opened its doors to the
two parts, and wore a brown pair of
Two buttons were missing. I folded my
down.
public. Since there were no telephones
pants and a stained green blouse. Rita
nightgown and examined the stiff fab
“Quickly,” the attendant said. “Eat
for the residents to use, the only
shuffled the cards.
ric—the letters B-L-D-G 21, W-A-R-D B
quickly girls.”
advance notice of a visitor would be a
“Joan?” Lillian said. “Joan?” I
stamped
across
it.
The
nightgowns
all
Jennifer
Baker
sat
across
from
me.
promise from the previous visit, or per
looked at Lillian, looking nasty. Her
looked alike, couldn’t tell one from the
Her boney body rocking back and forth.
haps a letter by mail.
head cocked. “No one comes to visit
Her hands twitched as she fed herself
other and whether we got the same one
The last letter I received was from
her.”
back the following night, we’d never
with her fingers.
my
Grandmother
who
lived
in
“That’s not true.” I said. I wanted to
“Gotta eat,” she mumbled. “Gotta
know.
Oklahoma. An attendant read it to me
smack her. “My grandmother came a
Inside my sneaker was a pair of
eat...gotta eat...”
because I didn’t know how to read. Her
couple of times. And so did my father.”
white socks. After I put them on, I fold
Ms. O’Reilley paced the walkways,
letter didn’t say anything about a visit
“Really?” asked Rita. “What was he
ed each one down so they wouldn’t sag.
examining our plates. She nodded as
but that didn’t mean she wasn’t com
like?”
I stuffed my foot into the black lace-ups
she passed by. Ms. O’Reilley stood over
ing—she never did announce her visits.
“Handsome,” I said. He had come
that came above my ankles.
Jennifer and stopped.
She’d just send a letter, ask how I was
to New York just to see me.
Keys clacked in the hallway. An
“What’s this?” she said. “Why aren’t
doing, to let me know she hadn’t forgot
“When he visited, he took me to the
attendant stood in the doorway. Her fat
you eating?”
ten me. Along with the letter came a bag
commissary and bought me candy,” I
body and straight, pursed lips intimidat
“Gotta eat...gotta eat,” Jennifer
of M&M’s.
said. More candy than I could eat. And
ed me. Her name was Ms. O’Reilly.
said. Her body swayed harder. I shov
Candy was rare. Ms. Jones, the
soda.”
“Breakfast,” she said. “Line up.”
eled more mush in my mouth.
skinny morning attendant, would give
Rita leaned in closer, her eyes fol
Her voice echoed through the hall as
“Well, this won’t do,” Ms. O’Reilley
candy to some of the girls. It wasn’t
lowing my lips. Lillian stood back with
she rounded up the other girls. I tied my
whispered, stroking Jennifer’s head.
much, just some hard candy in shiny
her hand on her hip.
laces and tucked them in my shoes. We
“You’re going to have to learn to eat
gold, green or red wrappers. We’d beg
walked to the mess hall, a large rectan
faster.” I looked at Rita, her body stiff as
the other girls to share.
Continued on page 9
gular room, walls white and bare. Not a
her eyes looked down at her plate.
4
Lillian, the monitor at the front of
the line, looked for our names on one of
the cubbies.
“Name,” said Lillian.
“Joan Bernard,” I said.
Ms. Jones had made Lillian the
clothes monitor. She was considered a
smart kid because she didn’t rock, bang
her head, or drool. She spoke coherent
ly, wasn’t afraid to be pushy and had
matching outfits. Ms. Jones gave her
candy.
Lillian handed me my clothes.
“Next,” she said.
I went back to the dorm where 70 of
us slept. I walked down the long row of
metal framed beds, each touching the
other, counting them, until I found mine.
Number 27, near the window. I sat on
the bed carefully scanning the room to
make sure I wasn’t being watched as I
slipped into my brown plaids pants.
The room brimmed with naked and
half naked girls. Some fat with drooping
breasts, pudgy knees and curly pubic
hair. Blood stained maxi pads tossed on
the floor. Others had no fat, hair,
breasts or fear. I looked down. I was
somewhere in the middle. I pulled off
single picture or painting hung. We lined
up.
I could sit anywhere among the
rows of tables and backless benches.
There was an empty space between
Alice and Rita. Rita had kissed James
Gambarelli a few times. Rita said she
liked James because he didn’t have rot
ten teeth or bad breath and knew how to
kiss. He did something with his tongue.
Later, Rita got in a fight with Lillian
because Lillian claimed James kissed
her too. Rita slapped her. Lillian backed
down. Since it was Sunday, no one was
talking about boys.
As soon as each girl was seated,
the two attendants handed out the food
trays.
Sometimes we had toast for break
fast, which was the only thing that tast
ed good. Eggs, which we got occasion
ally, were watery. We never had pan
cakes or waffles.
“What’s this?” Alice asked.
I
swirled my spoon in the heap of brown
mush, bringing it to my mouth. I closed
my eyes as I felt the lumpy mush slide
down. I’ve had worse.
The room was quiet. The atten
�April 10,2006
From the Editor
Re: Dolphins Defeat Mitchell College in
Doubleheader
Cancer Society. Cancer is definitely a seri
FDNY arrived they evacuated the entire
ous problem and maybe this can help with a
center. The evacuees included children
'It was a pleasure reading about CSI’s win.
cure. I know my mom would love a cure and
from the ages of six months to five years of
age.
Starting their season at 1 and 2, I believed
so would my whole family. My mom has
the baseball team was heading towards a
lung cancer and I know what it’s like for fam
I am upset that everyone in the center
It’s finally here! Spring Break is fast
dismal year. Now that they broke the 500
ilies who are trying to deal with the sick
was exposed to some unknown odor for
approaching, a time for everyone to
mark hopefully things will work look up with
ness. I made a donation and I hope my fel
close to three hours, as well as the fact that
chill out before the ineveitable end of
the talent this team has, along with the con
low students are doing the same because
these adults were then told that they were
semester rush to complete all those
fidence of Coach Cali, the Dolphins may
every penny counts when it comes to help
being affected by the smell of burnt pan
final assignments.
once again look like champions and win it
ing with cancer. The more funding, the mor-
cakes. Pancakes that were cooked AFTER
Here at The Banner, we’re rolling out
all.
eresearch and maybe we will find a cure.
the smell was discovered, and pancakes
a few changes right before the break.
that were not burned or exposed to maple
-Enrico Turchi
From now on, you will see an e-mail
address at the end of each article, so
that you may contact the author with
Re: Children’s Center Provides LowCost Care
-Chris Bono
syrup in the kitchen. This was also the
was made to find out what these women
explanation given to the hospital when a call
It’s a necessity for the parents who are
Re: CSI Students & Professors Analyze
Nature
that you have.
attending CSI. They don’t pay an excessive
It
Dr.
must look into the actions of those in
All of these addresses will utilize
amount of money for their kids’ care. The
Burchsted’s ongoing research of Staten
charge, and find a better way to handle
something like this if it ever happens again.
any
comments/complaints/praise
was
interesting
to
read
about
CSI’s CIX e-mail system. For those
parents also get piece of mind of not being
Island’s wildlife. It is important to study the
who are unfamiliar with the CIX sys
too far from their children.
vastly decreasing habitats of these crea
tem, every CSI student has
an e-
purpose
of sending
-Raphaella Moueli
tect them.
you
-Jacalyn Palmiotto
important announcements, like grade
It’s a great idea to have daycare on campus
posting notifications and registration
for students attending CSI. It must be a
appointments.
large burden lifted off parents’ shoulders to
Island due to over building, I am glad that
You can log in from any computer by
not have to worry about finding an appropri
CSI is doing their part to research the
With the decrease in natural land on Staten
going to http://cix.csi.cuny.edu. Your
ate and inexpensive child-care program. By
effects this will have on wildlife. It is impor
login name is firstname.lastname
the sound of the atmosphere, children and
tant to remind students who are not native
and your password is your date of
parents seem to be comfortable and satis
to Staten Island how much this borough has
birth in the mmddyy format. But don’t
fied with such a friendly environment.
to offer and to lose.
worry you can send us messages
-Donald Vroome
from any e-mail address you want to
-Lauren Demetrio
use.
Have a great Spring Break, a Happy
Easter, and a Happy Passover!
-David Maitz
Colleges Against Cancer
-continude from page
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tell an emotional story of her battle with
and conquest of cancer. She stumbled a
Re: Emotional Cheating
Re: March 24th Evacuation of the
Children’s Center
I agree that once you have thoughts for
As a student and employee of CSI, as well
someone else your relationship is probably
as the mother of one of the workers who
going to be over or you will never be truly
went to the hospital, I am extremely upse-
happy if you stay in it. People grow closer
tupset at the wholeway this incident was
and grow apart. Emotional cheating is defi
handled. From start to finish, I believe it wss
nitely a lot worse because the person that is
handled poorly.
cheating on the two just gets more confused
According to my daughter and another
and in the end will be hurt regardless of who
worker, the odor was discovered at 9:30am.
they choose. Being honest to yourself and
It was described from the beginning as a
who you’re with is always the best outcome.
chemical smell, and it was discovered
before the staff started cooking pancakes.
bit in her speech, trying hard not to cry.
-Frances Mitilis
“You hear a lot about cancer every day,”
she said. “But you never think it’ll be you.”
The roaring applause that followed
showed the immense support the crowd
had for Rudolph. Her cancer has been in
remission for two years.
“I relay for my grandfather who
passed away before I ever got to
know him”
Joshua Lunior wants to be a coun
selor when he grows up. A first year grad
uate student at Hunter College, Planning
Committee member and friend, Long
Tran, recruited him. Lunior did his part. He
raised $50. He walked the track. He intro
duced himself to strangers and made new
friends. He balanced fun with his show of
endearment to his grandfather, who died
of cancer. “It’s one thing to support some
thing when there’s a good cause,” he
said. “It’s another thing to support some
thing that has personally touched you.”
“I relay because cancer affects us all”
Nick Romaczyks did not win the pie
eating contest. Even though the coordina
tors substituted pie with whipped cream,
he still could not eat it fast enough, he
-Susan Chapman
tures in order to discover new ways to pro
mail address issued by the college
for the
had been exposed to. I think this school
Buildings & Grounds was called to see if
they smelled anything, and that was the
Re: Colleges Against Cancer Comes to
CSI
extent of action taken until a father came to
It is good to hear that CSI is holding this
This father was a firefighter and knew
fundraiser
immediately to call 911. As soon as the
that
benefits
the
American
pick up his child sometime around noon.
FDNY, NYPD, and Hazmat team evacuated the Children’s
Center on March 5.
stood from the table and emerged from the
Relay for Life represented an event to
crowd with whipped cream on his mouth,
honor those that have suffered from cancer.
nose, cheeks and chin.
But the event coordinators wanted to create
Latchman, co-chair of Relay for Life from
relay comprised of the extra $15,000.
Another
20-year-old,
Shivanie
One student walked away from a lost
an entertaining evening, too. Romaczyk par
City College, complained about her hurt feet,
dodge ball match with a bloody nose. Some
ticipated in the relay last year, the first year
knees and head, with a smile on her face.
paid for henna on their hands and arms
hosted at Baruch. “I had a lot of fun,” said
She said she was surprised CUNY did so
while others sat for artists to sketch them. A
Romaczyk. “As a college student I don’t stay
well. “Nobody raises $15,000 in 15 hours,”
she said. “No one in their right mind would
pair of acquaintances played the couples
up late at night as much as I should and this
game and lost. For three dollars anyone
is a good reason to do so,” he added. “It
expect that.” She predicted once all dona
could play Call to Duty on any of the ten
makes me feel good, but I don’t know how
tions are completely tallied the number could
iBook G4’s in the comer. The small gym
walking around a track all night will cure can
reach $80,000.
across the hall hosted Mario Kart on a
cer.”
Latchman preached cancer education.
Nintendo 64 where even the security guard
She cited the dark statistics that cancer
took a break to play a round with the boys. At
“I relay because I can, I care, and I know”
could affect 1 in 3 women and 1 in 2 men but
Relay Idol, an American Idol spin-off, people
Sponsors donations help cure cancer.
that the money raised would make a signifi
sang a medley of tunes. Like the American
Prior to the event, students raised $59,000.
cant impact on cancer research. “It is impor
Idol auditions, it was hit and a lot of miss with
Google donated $15,000 and Deloitte
tant to me because I have family members
songs from Sisqo’s The Thong Song’ to
$8,000. Office Depot will match one team’s
that died and were diagnosed with cancer,”
Frank Sinatra’s ‘New York, New York’. The
amount. Kool Blue delivered free sandwich
bachelor and bachelorette auctions reeled in
es.
she said. “And it is a disease we can prevent
.if we educate ourselves.”
the dollars with the 20-year-old co-chair from
15 hours later and the relay complete,
Hunter College, Christine Curella, sold for
the total raised grew to $79,000. New regis
$100, more than anyone else.
trants, late donations and sales during the
Khadijah Rentas can be reached at
Khadijah.Rentas@cix,csi.cuny.edu
�Relay For Life
A Team Event to Fight Cancer
Photos by Khadijah Rentas
Students received free massages in the gym to
relax and stay up the entire night.
c
The Relay for Life planning committee offered dozens of activites to
keep everyone awake, including Mario Kart on Nintendo 64.
Entertainment from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. ranged from Indian
dancing to a lesson in Tai Chi.
�April 10,2006
2006 UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Photos by AnnMarie Costello
Mark A. Stroud believes that his study
of: “Cotton Agriculture as a Cause of
Desettlement in the Yazoo-Mississippi
Delta,” can be related to the present
day problem of outsourcing.
Christine Hoffman and Vivian Lo answered the
question “Should We Use Salt on the Sidewalk in
Snow Season?” by testing soil samples on cam
pus.
Acting
Assistant
Provost,
Jonathan
Stassi, enjoyed the
conference.
Stacey-Jo Cocozza beamed with pride
as she explained her research project:
“Implementing Strategies that Address
Classroom Diversity.”
�International
Students-
Undergraduate Research Conference 2006
Continued from Page 1
AnnMarie Costello
Students gathered in the Atrium of
Building 1P to proudly celebrate the
research they had conducted with the
help of their professors. 55 students (the
most ever) repre
senting 13 academic
departments
pre
sented
research
projects on a wide
variety of topics from
science
to
the
humanities.
The Atrium was
buzzing as partici
pants eagerly dis
cussed their work
with
interested
passersby.
They
posed for photos
with their professors
and nibbled on cook
ies
and
punch.
Acting
Assistant
Provost, Jonathan
Stassi was pleased
with the complexity and diversity of the
presentations. “I am really impressed
with the genuine excellence of what we
have here today,” he said. “It just demon
strates that students can get a great edu
cation at CSI.”
Student, Kushal Jain had always
been interested in astronomy. He began
his ongoing project “Gini Coefficient and
M20 of Galaxies and the Correlation
between the Two,” last summer, under
the supervision of Professor Charles Liu.
“Professor Liu was great, whenever I ran
into trouble he encouraged me to try all
the possible resources that I could,” said
Jain. “Even when I felt like I was at a dead
end, he would help me move forward.”
Education major, Christine Hoffman
along with partners Vivian Lo and
Michele Ferrara were inspired to create a
simple and practical way to teach gram
mar school children how to apply the
Scientific Method to solve everyday prob
lems. Their project: “Should We Use Salt
on the Sidewalk in Snow Season? ”
examines the effects that a high PH level
can have on soil. The group wanted to
find out why the grass on campus was
not growing near the walkways. They
considered several possible explana
tions such as poor planting and high traf
fic, but after testing the PH levels of
healthy versus poor soil samples, they
determined the lack of growth was due to
salt use. “We came up with some alter
natives that landscaping companies
could use like sand or salt substitute,”
explained Hoffman. “President Springer
was pretty impressed with the idea, so
we are going to send her our conclu
sions. Hopefully we can make the cam
pus better and nicer to look at.”
Stacey-Jo Cocozza, an Education
major, found the conference to be an
exciting and rewarding experience. Her
project entitled: “Implementing Strategies
that Address Classroom Diversity,”
explored the works of several scholars
such as James Banks.
“Multi cultural education
helps students under
stand their similarities and
differences,” she indicat
ed. ‘This research will be
very helpful to me and my
future students as I pur
sue a career in elemen
tary school teaching.”
Every student who
participated in the confer
ence received a certifi
cate, but the projects
were not judged nor will
winners be chosen as had
been done previously.
Several students who are
on the Undergraduate
Research
Conference
Committee decided to do
away with the practice because it made
the event seem like: “a high school
Science fair.”
Acting Assistant Provost Stassi, who
will be returning to the faculty as an
Associate Professor of History in the fall,
indicated that he will encourage his stu
dents to participate in future conferences.
“It’s a lot of hard work, but the benefits
are just tremendous,” he said. “You will
never learn your subject better than
when you are involved in doing research.
These projects are going to be ten times
more memorable than lecture or class
you take.”
tion they would about coming out in their
own countries. For some countries,
being homosexual is just a crime.
A survey conducted online shows
that the majority of gay international stu
dents in the US would reside here after
graduation. Their decisions to stay are
based on the feeling that their sexual
orientation would be more accepted
here than in their home countries.
A gay Egyptian student from the
CSI talked about her experiences. “I am
still trying to hide my sexual orientation
from community,” she said. “Coming
from a Muslim country, you do under
stand the pressure I am under.”
“I have a girlfriend but in my com
munity, but I present her as a friend,”
she continued. “I do feel that I am
betraying her because it’s like I am
ashamed of her and the feelings we
have for each other." Many gay interna
tional students live in fear to go back to
a less gay-friendly country. They feel
like they have betrayed their nations
and their parents by leading a double
life. “When I go back home I will have to
choose between being true to my les
bian identity or dumping it as soon as I
step in Egypt,” the CSI student contin
ued.
After college, many young men
start relationship with females. They
show the world they are entirely com
mitted to their heterosexual relationship
when deep down they are having affairs
with men.
“When
I
found
out
that
my
boyfriend was having a relationship with
a guy, I was crushed,” said a Nigerian
AnnMarie Costella can be reached at
Annmarie.Costella@cix.csi.cuny.edu
student at CSI. “He knew that this kind
of
relationship
was
not
viable
in
Nigeria.”
When the Nigerian student faced
Former Drug Dealing Street Thug Salvation
the situation, it made her doubt herself.
“I was trying to reason why my boyfriend
of four years was attracted to men,” she
Thomas Bradley
said. “Was that because of me? So
living his old lifestyle.
taking on more habits and becoming
“It’s not tangible but God let me know
On April 6th Chi Alpha, a Christian group
intensely confrontational. “My whole facial
he was real," said Sal. “All these things
on campus, invited guest speaker Sal V. to
expression has changed,” said the youth
had been distracting me in my life. I called
present his life story to a group of stu
ful, confident young man speaking in a
on God’s name and he saved me.” Sal
dents, some of whom actually knew him.
loud, convincing tone of his transforma
expressed a notion that he wasn’t trying to
The dynamic personality standing before
tion. “I know seeing me, and what I look
make his audience into avid churchgoers
those who attended the speech was a for
like, makes my story hard to believe but its
or engage them in religious chanting, as
mer drug dealing street thug who, upon
real.” This idea of what is actual real and
he knew the negative stigma these things
hitting rock bottom, turned to the teach
what is fleeting and false is one that
possess in our society. He simply wanted
ings of Jesus Christ for direction and pur
brought Sal to his moment of spiritual real
to extend the invitation to spirituality he felt
pose.
ization.
had been given him that day in front of the
“You might not share my story,” said
As he became more involved with the
using and selling of drugs, Sal ventured
40 students. “But I know our feelings of
into dangerous territory and was almost
enthralling, convincing his audience that
hurt, pain, loneliness, and depression are
lost in the wilderness of his own untamed
he was, in fact, real. Sal V., which bears a
the same. I was always trying to find
behavior. Long braids covered his head,
visual resemblance to “salvation”, was an
park.
His
story
was
heartfelt
and
meaning.” Sal went to St. Peter’s Boy’s
one outfit to his wardrobe, kicked out of his
excellent example of what Salvation and
High School and had admittedly loving
house and abandoned by his friends, Sal
Christianity can mean. Sal was delivered
parents present throughout his adolescent
stopped dead in his tracks one day. In
frorn a way of life that was fruitless and
life. Yet, Sal found himself living as most
front of Clove Lakes Park, Sal looked to
depraved. His following the teachings of
teens do, changing “who” he was from
the sky, palms turned upward and held
Christ, as a system of living, have led him
group to group, trying to blend in with
out,
to a mediated and positive frame of mind.
his face wearing an exhausted
those around him at any given moment.
expression, Sal asked, “are you real?”
His experience shows the power freely
With an addiction to cocaine by his fresh
Probing the heavens for a response amid
choosing one's moral code can have and
man year in high school, Sal was at the
the daily activities of Clove Road may
why thinking people everywhere should
whim of those forces that shape our lives
draw
consciously pursue their own, individual
some
negative
attention
from
and compel us to act in certain, some
passers by, but Sal had reached his tip
times self-destructive, ways.
ping point and was ready to accept help
from a faith he’d all but abandoned while
many questions, so little answers.”
“I was thinking by sticking by him
and loving him he would forget being
gay,” she continued. But you can’t forget
who you are.” The CSI student eventu
ally ended the relationship and her
boyfriend finally came out in his com
munity. Nonetheless, he refuses to go
back to Nigeria because he is afraid of
what will happen to him.
In the end, international students
are confronted by two main issues:
Sal as he addressed the group of about
The craziness of his lifestyle picked
8
up steam as he grew older and bolder,
quest for happiness.
Thomas Bradley can be reached at
Thomas.Bradley@cix.csi.cuny.edu
change and true identity. The change of
starting a new life somewhere seems
overwhelming.
The students are away from their
parents and have a chance to be true to
themselves. They enjoy new relation
ships, and feel like they belong in the
US where ^hey can be true to their real
identity.
In their countries, homosexuality is
still taboo. It makes you less than a man
or a woman. Gay or bisexual interna
tional students choose to stay in the US
in the hope to develop happy relation
ships.
Raphaella Moueli can be reached at
Raphaella.Moueli@cix.csi.cuny.edu
�A Voice
Behind the
Wail
-continude from page 4
“Joan’s making it up,” Lillian said.
“She don’t have no family.”
“Who you think sends me that
candy you beg for?”
An attendant I didn’t know entered
the day room. She was young, maybe
twenty-five. She walked over to Ms.
Jones and handed .her a piece of
paper. Ms. Jones stood and walked to
the center of the room. Everyone
looked.
“Veronica Potter, Mary Thomas,”
Ms. Jones said. We looked at Lillian.
Her face looked pale. “And Lillian
Smith.” Lillian smiled at the three of us
and walked away.
The girls went to the dormitory to
change their clothes. The other atten
dant came to escort them to another
building—one that didn’t reek with the
smell of feces and urine.
The next time I looked out the win
dow I saw Lillian, Veronica and Mary in
pink dresses and shiny black shoes.
Their sleeves had lace trim and bows
tied around their waists. They looked
so beautiful. They smiled. Their moth
ers had come to visit them.
My father visited me once. I was
nine and I hoped he would take me
home. I asked him about home, what it
was like.
“Darling,” he said, “It’s pretty
where I live. The sky is blue and there
are trees around the house. Like here.”
He took my hand and held it as we
walked on the lawn.
“I have a nice house,” he said. “It’s
yellow with a big porch.” I could see
myself there. Waking up to the sound
of my father’s voice. Eating cereal for
breakfast, like a normal kid. It was
where I belonged.
“Your Grandma and Grandpa don’t
live far either,” Dad told me. “When you
come live with me, you could visit them
and play with their dog.” I didn’t want
him to stop talking.
The room got silent. Ms. Jones
had stood up again. She was about to
call another name. I knew it was my
Dad. He was back. He was going to
take me home, I saw him standing in
the grass. He smiled at me.
“Jennifer Baker,” said Ms. Jones.
“Jennifer Baker, you have visitors.”
Everyone looked at Jennifer.
“Me?” she said, hand on her chest.
Her foot, tangled in the chair as she
stood up and she fell.
I went to the window and sat in one
of the bulky green chairs. I rested my
head on the sill. The wind blew as red,
orange and yellow leaves fell to the
ground and I wanted to touch them and
smell the dandelions and put them in
my hair.
“I’ll be back for you darling,” my
father said. “You just wait," he said. He
stroked my hair and kissed me good
bye.
I sat back in my chair and looked
at the other patients playing with their
mothers and fathers on the grass, eat
ing candy, drinking soda.
“Joan...Joanie,” said Hilda.
“Yeah,” 1 said.
“Wanna play cards?”
Vanessa DeBello can be reached at
Vanessa.Debello@cix.csi.cuny.edu
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demeanors.
able to loiter, congregate in alleys,
Tamahori
was
scheduled
to
appear in court on February 24,
or accept rides with the intent to
engage in prostitution.”
but did not attend the hearing.
Instead
~
H
a plea bargain deal. Tamahori
pleaded no contest to crimi-
F
Tamahori,
“Die
Lee
55, who directed
Another
Day,”
“XxX:
State of the Union,” and
dressed
as
make-up, a
a
woman,
wearing
black evening dress
and wig, when he approached an
“Onceundercover
police
officer
and
According to the New Zealand
Press Association, sources close
to Tamahori
say that
he enjoys
dressing in latex and often visits
fetish clubs, but has never indicat
ed a sexual attraction to men. “He
definitely likes the alternative side
of sex with black latex costumes,
all other charges against him.
uniforms and so,” said one friend.
In light of the fact that this was
“He is a really professional direc
the director’s first offense, a Los
tor and
Angeles criminal court judge sen
over into his work. He is very well
tenced him to three years proba
respected in Hollywood.”
tion and ordered him to attend an
AIDS education
course.
In addi
tion,
Tamahori
must perform
15
days
community service for the
Hollywood Beautification Project.
his fetishes
never spill
Tamahori is scheduled to
direct
an
upcoming
Science
Fiction film entitled “The Golden
Man,”
starring
Nicholas
Cage,
Jessica
and
Biel,
Julianne
Were Warriors,” was arrested on
offered to perform sex for money.
Santa
The LARD says the bust was part
"It
project where convicts
Moore. He has declined to com
with
of a prostitution sting they were
clean the streets in Hollywood and
ment about his arrest, but did tell
soliciting an act of prostitution
conducting in the area. Tamahori
paint out graffiti," explained Los
reporters: “My private life is my
loitering with the intent to
faced up to six months in jail and a
Angeles
own business.”
commit prostitution. Tamahori was
$1,000 fine if convicted of the mis-
Frank
January
and
Monica
8th
and
Boulevard
charged
on
is
a
Attorney
Mateljan.
spokesman,
“He will
not be
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clables in the compactor room of my building
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American. Ah, okay, there was the lesson,
and saw- standing on top piles of other
poor mother, knocked out from hours of
n't happen to guys as well, but with women,
smart book. Even while glancing at the
papers- a really good article in the Advance.
labor, making her vagina suitable for sex
birthing. The doctor quickly stitches up the
ifs very intimate. We are plastic surgery's
drawing I was ready to cast off the Muslim
Apparently the up-and-coming hot plastic
again. The name of this outpatient proce
greatest clients. Our bodies are constantly a
woman as a prisoner of her gender. After all,
surgery to get involves cutting your vagina
dure? The Husband Stitch. And in Japan,
center of attention. When we feel like pieces
the life is forced upon her, right? She has no
into shreds and putting it back together
Labioplasty is a fairly overdone procedure
of ourselves are just not good enough any
say in the decision to live that life? And the
again. The sole purpose of this, I don't know,
that many women have come to want to re
more, or when we feel like we need a
American woman is simply being herself,
but as one woman’s comments lead me to
correct. If you visit, and see Japanese
change, what are the first body parts to get
doing exactly what she wants to do, not act
believe, it has something to do with sex.
women walking a little off it's because the for
the knife? Breasts reduced or enlarged.
ing in any way because of anyone else,
The three different types of female gen
mer trend has not only reshaping, but shap
Tummy and hips, lipo, tucked, cut away.
right? Isn’t that what we are told to believe,
ital surgery, Hymenoplasty, Labiaplasty, and
ing into objects. The most popular labial
Thighs shaped and trimmed. Even with the
as Americans?
Vaginoplasty, all toted to make women feel
design? A "winged Butterfly," I'll let your
many facial surgery's people get, the largest
What woman reading this can honestly
more comfortable with themselves, sound
imagination do the talking for that. And the
amounts still occur in these areas, which are
say you began buying expensive lingerie
more like ordeals those three kids went
biggest misconception about hymen recon
key factors in attracting men. However,
just for yourself atone- no man ever had any
through in Hostel, and less like a way to be
structive surgery? Many dients feel it makes
many people who actually get plastic sur
thing to do with it- you just enjoy watching
pure again. And while I can see serious uses
you like new again, a virgin. This is espedal-
gery always claim ifs for them. "TTiis is for
The Simple Life in expensive lace and stock
for these procedures (ie- women with secre
ly problematic for those who go without reg
me to feel better," isn't that always what they
ings? And makeup? How does that Sephora
tion issues, possibly someone who has
ular STD testing. Boys, imagine being with
say?
credit card bill look this month to you, ‘cause
been rapped, maybe even replacing a
someone who you understood was a virgin,
One of my favorite books from a
Paula Dorf now has my grad school pay
hymen to protect yourself, religiously) I cant
then coming up with a sudden case of her
Human Sexuality class I took in High School
ments. And how many of us have fought
help but be afraid that this will be the hottest
pes.
has a great picture that I will never forget. In
with good friends over a guy? And how
trend in the search for guys. After all, the
And, I’m not the first in line at church
black and white pencil drawing there is one
many of us have moved, or changed our
adorableness of my vagina has never kept
every week, but there is a religious point to all
American looking woman. Her hair seems to
way of life because of a guy, even in the
me up at night, and any man who will sit,
of this that comes off completely sane, to me
be long, straight and light. She is tall and thin,
slightest way- maybe you stopped seeing
study, and critique your vagina will probably
at least As Reverend Carmen Ortiz men
but still shapely in all the "right' areas. She is
certain friends, or something similar. Did that
want to sleep with your brother, not you, but
tioned in the Advance article “Purity is some
dad in atight, tied up corset with bustier, and
drawing imply that this American woman
these are facts the surgical world wants us to
thing you are bom with. It cannot be substi
garter and stockings. Next to her is a Muslim
was sexually experimental because of all
forget. Remember? Bigger, better, thinner-
tuted or replaced with surgery.” Even though
woman. She is completely covered, and a
her sex gear or does it show that American
go!
Hijab is across her face. Neither woman
women are just as susceptible to becoming
wears an expression so ifs hard to ted exact
ly what they’re thinking. The text above them
reads:
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slaves of sex as anyone else out there?
membrane and assist the client in reassess
youVe already been down that road. Nothing
Maybe even more so?
ing her virginity, Labiaplasty to reshape the
can take you back to a time before your first
vaginal lips, or reduce excess skin, and
sexual encounter. No surgeon’s blade is pos
Forgive me for sounding like an ass for
Which Woman is the Sexual Prisoner?
a moment, but I don't usually read the Staten
Vaginoplasty to (ahem) correct stretched out
sessed with magic. Maybe after realizing this,
It goes on with multiple choices. A. The
Island Advance. While I think there is some
muscles in the vaginal canal, remove excess
we women can be more careful about what
Muslim woman... and before even reading
interesting news, and good writing, a tot of it
and tighten and Enhance the soft tissue sur
we do with our bodies, who we give them to,
the rest, I agreed. Oh yes, the Muslim
comes straight from the Associated Press,
rounding the canal. If Vaginoplasty seems
and how we treat them. We’re only prisoners
woman. Forced to wear her headscarf,
and I can just find that online for free, and
like a new, novel idea to you, you've dearty
if we allow ourselves to be. There is a whole
unable to express her sexuality in mini skirts
leave the cash for my Sephora payments.
never had a child.
world to be explored through freedom.
or tube tops. Then I read on. B. Both. Both?
However, last week I became a full-fledged
This procedure has been going on for
What kind of trick was this? Why would they
garbage picker when I dropped off my recy-
ages and ages in delivery rooms, after
AnneMarie Dooling can be reached at
AnneMarie.Dooling@cix.csi.cuny.edu
�WHAM! George Michael Arrested
LVSISTR
Review by
Kevi n S.P. Mamakos
I i
It turns out that The Center for
/ the Arts does have an occasion
al event that the student popu
lation could enjoy. On the first
Saturday
performance,
Lysistrata’s staff added extra
chairs to accommodate the
large audience and President
Springer.
The fake nudity, and the
massive amount of cursing, it is
definitely not a play that a child
should be brought to.
In her first lead at CSI,
Junior Dramatic Arts Major, Jill
Ward takes on the role of the
protagonist (maybe antagonist
to the Greek men) Lysistrata.
Her character figures out how to
stop the peloponnesian war in
Greece by convincing the
women of Greece,
The female characters of the
play identify feminism in that
era by not having Sex with the
men at war. After a while of
abstinence, all the men get
unmanageable erections. This
distracts the men from battle
and forces them to form
alliances and try to convince
the women to have sex with
them. The massive sex strike
may be a little hard to believe in
the modern era, but the Ancient
Greeks were sexaholics.
This play is a satirical come
dy
For a large part of the play,
the cast walks around nude.
Actually, they wear nude cos
tumes. The women have body
suits complete with pubic hair,
and most of the men’s body
suits were well equipped with at
least a 12” penis. I give condo
lences to the one character that
was well below average.
“There is nothing being
done on stage tonight that
would have even ruffled the
feathers of the Ancient Greeks,”
director Lee Papa states in the
playbill. “They were a phallocentric culture (meaning they
loved the penis), and so much
of their art celebrated the phal
lus.”
Unfortunately, there were
some parts of the play that
weren’t too funny. For instance,
it was ghastly when the lights
dimmed and the characters
took turns singing
lines of
Marvin
Gayes’
“Sexual
Healing.”
“The play is supposed to be
funny,” said actress Leticia
Nazario, who plays Lampito.
“We tried to make everyone
laugh.”
However, one of the most
hilarious parts of the play was
when the females take one of
the penises of a man who gets
on their nerves and start play
ing
jump
rope
with
it.
Meanwhile, to symbolize the
men’s desperation to have sex,
there were statues of blue balls.
The most disturbing part
had to be when the mother of a
character jumped on a charac
ter playing her son and started
French kissing him to get the
husband upset.
The ancient Greek comedy
Lysistrata by Aristophanes, is
being
performed
8:00pm
Thursday March 30 through
Saturday April 1 and Thursday
April 6 through Saturday April
8.“The cast and I decided early
on that the motto for this pro
duction was ‘War bad. Penises
funny’,” stated Papa. “We
believe we have honored that
dictum.”
Kevin Mamakus can be reached at
Kevin. MarnakasC'Vcix.esi.cuny.etki
op singer, George Michael, 42, was
arrested on February 27 for possession of
pot and liquid ecstasy. A bondage mask
and sex toys were also discovered in the trunk
of his car. Michael admitted that the drugs were
his and plans to take full responsibility for his
actions. He is scheduled to appear in court later
this month.
Police found Michael disorientated and
slumped over the steering wheel of his
Mercedes at 1:50am in Hyde Park near
London. “He was completely out of it. No one
could rouse him,” said a witness. “He was virtu
ally unconscious. When the police came he
could hardly speak.” Michael was taken to a
nearby police station for questioning and later
released on bail. “I was in possession of class
C drugs which is an offense,” he said. “I have
no complaints about the police who were pro
fessional throughout."
Many of Michael’s close friends are wor
ried about his mental and physical health.
“George is in a strange place," said singer Elton
John. “There appears to be deep-rooted
unhappiness in his life.” According to London
Daily Mail newspaper, Michael is becoming
increasingly depressed about his appearance
and has admitted to smoking as many as 25
joints per day. He detests the fact that he isn’t
the young, attractive, heartthrob that he used to
be. “Michael is relatively young and could look
good if he tried,” said reporter Natalie Clarke.
“But he prefers to slouch around his palatial
properties, stoned on cannabis, apathetic and
lazy.”
George Michael, born Georgious Kyriacos
Panayiotou, is no stranger to controversy. In
1998, he was arrested and charged with
engaging in a lewd act after he propositioned
an undercover police officer in a public rest
room in Los Angeles. "I have been through
enough in 24 years of dealing with the media to
know what I am in for from them this week," he
said. "Much of it will be inaccurate or simply
untrue. I can handle that, it is my own stupid
fault, as usual."
P
-AnnMarie Costella
Newest Spike Lee Joint Won't Disappoint
Thomas Bradley
“Inside Man”, Spike Lee’s newest film
about a bank heist in downtown
Manhattan, has opened to much praise
and little negative criticism. Set in
Manhattan’s financial district, the bank
heist is at first glance a solid tale pitting
above average thieves against surpris
ingly apt police as they square off
against one another to see who’ll come
out on top. However, upon more careful
examination and armed with the knowl
edge of Spike Lee’s past credentials
(the director has been lauded and lam
basted over the years for his cinematic
efforts usually involving difficult repre
sentations of race and class frictions)
the movie becomes a bit more complex
than we originally thought it to be.
Once the police have been alerted
to the situation at the bank, the stage is
quite literally set for the play to take
place. We are privy to NYPD “theaterbuilding" as the impromptu ballet of
action complete with orange tape, bull
horns, flashing lights, and a captive
audience come together for the show.
We watch the form of the theater take
place from an aerial shot nothing short
of artistic as Lee prepares us for the
battle of wit about to take place.
Denzel
Washington
plays
embroiled detective Keith Frazier, who
is trying to make first grade but having
some difficulty overcoming a case
involving 140k dollars that is missing
from a previous crime scene. Agile and
distinctly New York in his style of dress,
Willem Dafoe (left), and Denzel Washington play detectives in
Man."
walk and certainly speech, Washington
is a perfect counterbalance to the heist
leader inside the bank. Clive Owen’s
cooly arrogant, well-prepared voice
strikes from behind a white mask and
dark glasses as he orchestrates the
entire performance. Owen’s character,
Dalton Russell, notes to the audience
from the very onset of the film, “I
choose my words very carefully and I
never repeat myself." He is overedu
cated and invokes “the bard” as he rep
resents the completely capable being:
void of any misguided passion while
maintaining some semblance of his
humanity without being a machine.
This idea of
the over educat
ed
. individual
seeking personal
gain at most, if
not all, costs is
also found in the
two, high profile
New
Yorkers
bent on making
sure some things
in the bank are
left untouched.
One is a powerful
broker
named
Madeline White,
played by Jodie
Foster, who is in
the business of
everything
Spike Lee’s thriller, “Inside
upper class and
exorbitantly
expensive. The
other is the bank’s owner bnd founder,
Arthur Case. Played to the exceeding
depths of the rich-old-white-man cliche
by an aging Christopher Plummer,
Arthur Case enlists the aid of White
when he must protect something worth
more than the contents of his vault.
At one point we find Owen sitting
on stacks of money along with an eight
year old African-American boy who is
playing a video game not unlike Grand
Theft Auto series on his Sony PSP. The
robber sees the game’s violence and
asks the boy, “What’s the point of the
game?" To which the boy gives a rea
sonable response involving “respect”
and “getting his.” A poignant moment
comes when the boy invokes the motto
of rapper 50 Cent suggesting he will,
“Get rich or Die Tryin’.” Though men
tion of this ideal works on the obvious
level which decries the violence of
urban gangs and drug dealers, a line is
also being drawn from this supposed
street mantra to the boardrooms of the
Fortune 500.
Spike overtly sprinkles some
racially charged moments in the film
and one obvious instance comes when
an NYPD officer is describing an inci
dent in which he was shot by a twelve
year old boy and he drops the slur
“spick”. As the same officer nearly gets
out “n—", Det. Frazier asks him to “cut
the color commentary” which garners
another backhanded racist remark,
albeit honest, “I’ll watch what I say, ya
neva know who’s listenin’” from the offi
cer.
Consequently the film may have
some viewers acting a little sour but
they probably won’t be New Yorkers. It
rings genuine as the dialogue matches
Spike’s favorite backdrop to form an
authentic representation of the city and
its people. We love a good string of
curses and even though we have
hearts of gold, sometimes we can te as
rough as the steel and cement buildings
we cherish.
Thonuls Bradley can lie readied at
Thomas. Bradley ("K-ix.esi.euiiy.edii
11
�The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
Aprill 0,2006
Three Times a Charm: Dolphins Advance in the CUNY Conference 6-0
Khadijah Rentas
Mary College, he made three errors and Mt. St. Mary
shoulder taped in a diagonal from his shoulder to his
hit six and scored three in his 4.2 innings at the
waist and across his back.
ast weekend proved eventful for the men’s
mound. Coach Cali trusted Mojica could do well in
Lopez shut out Baruch in the seventh,
baseball team as three games in a row against
this start against Baruch. “He earned this start,” said
allowed a hit and two walks, one of which resulted
Baruch, the Dolphins ran to home plate a total of
Coach Cali. Mojica did not let Coach Cali or the team
L
33 times. Undefeated in the CUNY conference, thedown.
from Lopez hitting the batter with the pitch, and led to
two runs.
Dolphins beat the Baruch Bearcats 17-5 on
Lopez’s
Sunday afternoon.
Although
the
but
successor,
sophomore
Eric
Waldheim, closed the game. He made one
scoreboard
lighted
error and allowed two hits that resulted in a
Baruch’s runs on the Home line, playing as
run. Not enough for Baruch, though, to beat
the home team on the CSI field did not offer
the Dolphins.
an advantage. Baruch made five times as
Despite the previous two victories and 14-
many runs than the day before, but still
run lead in the eighth inning, shortstop Bob
could not stop CSI from making plays.
Glennerster and third baseman Matt Stefanski
The Bearcats’ pitchers faltered while the
refused to show arrogance. “We’ve learned in
Dolphins’ starter shined. After no hits in the
the past not to take anything lightly,” said
first and second innings, Baruch’s starting
Glennerster.
pitcher Jonathon Perozo threw a few high
team,” added Stefanski.
“Especially against
a
CUNY
balls and walked Matt Stefanski in the third.
Junior Glennerster struck out once, but
After, a yell from his dugout of “Are you
also scored two runs and three hits, including
alright?” elicited a headshake of no. Perozo
a triple in the ninth. Senior Stefanski struck out
bent over and looked like he could not con
twice and made two errors the most of his
tinue. A Bearcat pow-wow on the field fol
team. He scored one run and one hit. He also
lowed and Perozo was taken out of the game. Senior
Besides start Mojica, Coach Cali had another
Tristan Cetto relieved Perozo, but not successfully.
plan. “Strategy is score a lot of runs and win,” said
scoring, including an exciting play in the bottom of the
Cetto pitched only 1.2 innings and in that time he
Coach Cali with a laugh. “We try to stick as close to
third.
made an error, walked three and the Dolphins scored
that as possible.”
Madalone quickly threw to Stefanski on third base,
eight runs.
Although the Dolphins beat Baruch twice the day
For the Dolphins’, freshman Steve Mojica pitched
before, 6-1 and 10-1, Coach Cali refused to speculate
six innings. Baruch went scoreless for four innings
that Sunday’s win would be easy. “We never take
and scored one run each in the first and fourth
anyone lightly,” he said. “Every day is a new day.”
innings. He allowed three hits, walked two and the
Bearcats stole three bases.
Baruch did not play lightly against the Dolphins.
After the change in rotation in the sixth inning, play
Sunday’s game marked Mojica’s second start of
ers emerged from the Dolphin dugout with ice packs;
the season. Sick for about three weeks with the flu,
some on their shoulders, some on their calves.
Mojica could not play, said Head Coach Bill Cali. In
Freshman Anthony Lopez relieved Mojica in the sev
Mojica’s first start in an away game against Mt. St.
enth inning, who wore saran wrapped ice on his right
made four plays in the game to keep Baruch from
Mojica threw a ball and catcher Michael
taking out a player trying to steal.
“I think I did pretty good,” said Stefanski rating
his performance. “I made some hits.”
“I think we all played well,” Glennerster said. “It
was a team effort.”
“I think everyone did well,” Stefanski said. “1
through 9.”
Glennerster showed his sportsmanship: “There’s
no I in team.”
Khadijah Rentas can be reached at
Khadijah.Rentas@cix.csi.cuny.edu
Sports Psychologist Juggles in Dolphin Lounge
Jennifer Miller
SI athletes welcomed advice from a sports psy
C
chologist in a one-hour lecture at the Green
Dolphin Lounge. Student athletes from most of
tremendous power of concentration when they’re moti
After the lecture, Dr. Fish encouraged CSI athletes to
vated and know the task at hand,” he said. He illustrated
talk to him individually about concerns or clarification of
this by calling out numbers in the midst of his speech
anything he discussed. He took his time to speak one-on-
and challenged everyone in the room to remember the
one with approximately ten students who had comments
exact order of the numbers that he called. Because they
and questions.
knew the challenge and concentrated hard on what he
the eleven athletic teams attended the afternoon event.
said, almost every person in the crowd of seventy-five
Dr. Joel Fish, a psychologist from Philadelphia,
could repeat the seven numbers in order.
emphasized the mental components involved in playing
Dan, a freshman on the men’s swimming and diving
sports. He believes “SPIRIT’ - Self-confidence, Positive
team, volunteered to juggle. The three balls represented
attitude, Imagination, Resiliency, Initiative, and
“There are two parts to rehab, physical and emotion
al,” Dr. Fish said. “It’s very rare that they go hand in hand.”
The injury heals, but the athlete fears being re-injured so
Teamwork - play an integral role in sports and have a
family, athletics and academics. Within seconds, Dan
great affect on the success of an athlete and their team.
juggled and impressed both the audience and Dr. Fish.
“His advice made me really think about what I was
Dr. Fish stressed the importance of finishing the
A fourth ball, life’s curveball, complicated things for Dan
holding myself back from doing,” Narwick said. “Once I get
season strong, rather than just finishing. Students
learned that worrying, expectations, and pressure take a
toll on an athlete’s focus during a game. Relationships
with the coach, mother, father, teammates, etc.cause
tension because the player concentrates on what other
" their performance suffers.
but he managed to juggle for a short time. Dr. Fish then
my leg injury out of my head it’s easier to go out and play
gave Dan the task of catching the ball that represented
like there is nothing wrong.”
athletics as he tossed all four toward him. Dan succeed
Dr. Fish is the Director at The Center For Sport
ed, according to Dr. Fish, because he concentrated on
Psychology in Philadelphia. He has worked with athletes
the ball instead of the distractions that surrounded him.
of all ages and skill levels. Most notably he has worked
people think rather than the task at hand. "Know how to
Dr. Fish used a deck of cards to perform a few
handle emotions," Dr. Fish said. "Know what you are
tricks. During the second trick, the card expected to
Philadelphia Flyers, 76ers, Phillies, Charge, as well as the
feeling so you can control it."
appear did not. He used this as a lesson for what to do
USA Women’s National Soccer Team.
Dr. Fish demonstrated his theories by using card
tricks, memory games, and juggling.
“People have
with professional organizations and teams such as the
when an unplanned situation arises. “Hang in there,” he
advised. “Don’t let them see you sweat and trust your
self.”
12
Ashley Narwick, a soccer player, spoke to Dr. Fish
about the mental part of recovering from an injury.
Jennifer Miller can be reached at
Jennifer.Miller@cix.csi.cuny.edu
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The
College
of
Staten
Island
March 27,2006
Shono Nubyahn
Many have encountered Staten Island’s
wild animals. Lots of people are brave
enough to get close to a huge winged,
multi-legged, loud buzzing big-eyed
insect.
B u t
tists figure out what should be done.
Determining what species of what lives
where, and how our modern day imple
ments affect them, is a developing
aspect of Biology, Bio-Chemistry, Urban
planning
and
evolution
in
general.
D
r
Burchsted,
rarely
does the
average
person
catch it,
The Children’s Center Playground allows children to
engage in physical activity.
AnnMarie Costello
The Children’s Center (Building 2R) pro
vides convenient, quality, low-cost care and
early childhood education programs for chil
dren of students cqrrently attending CSI.
Their qualified, professional staff nurtures
each child as they learn to develop impor
tant communication and socialization skills.
The program proves to be an invaluable
resource for parents who struggle to raise a
family while they continue their education.
The Children’s Center began operating
in the late 1970s at CSI’s.Sunnyside cam
pus, but has been at its present location
since 1995. They are licensed by the New
York City Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene Bureau of Daycare and follow strict
guidelines for maintaining the physical,
take a bit
off, and
then let it
g
o
.
Chen and Dr.
Burbrink, help
students take a
closer look at
Some
may not
notice
the vari
ety
of
wildlife
or
Dr. B. as he is
also
called,
along with Dr.
the little piece of
turtle
muscle
and dragonfly
wing tips they
Dr Albert Burchstead researches turtles like this one.
here on
Staten Island; some may not care. But to
Dr. Albert Burchsted and other
Biologists, it is all fascinating. Since the
dawn of Darwinism, scientists have been
greatly concerned with the origin of all
species, their migration, and the genetic
variation that results from living in this
world run by humans.
With the changing face of the land
scape and the shrinking of natural habi
tats, the sight of displaced creatures is
common on Staten Island. Big corpora
tions like Con Edison are helping scien-
collected over
time at Eib’s
David Maltz
Less than five years after a referendum
separated the press from the govern
ment, the government tried to take over
the press. But March 24th marked a
resounding victory for the
First
Amendment at CSI.
Three weeks ago, student govern
ment senators thoughtlessly (and almost
unanimously) approved a referendum
Pond Park. Surveying DNA will allow for
the categorization of certain wildlife pop
that would have dissolved the funding
body for all student publications, placing
the purse strings firmly in their own
ulations living on the Island.
‘The dragonfly project will help iden
hands. Yet the proposal died silently on
March 24, after the 1,200 signatures
tify CSI as an important source of
genomic
information,”
said
Dr.
Burchsted. “My study will generate new
required to put the proposal on the ballot
were not submitted by the noon deadline.
SG Senator Shawn Fisher, who is
uses of DNA analysis that are meaning
also the business manager for the stu
ful for population studies as well as
obtaining phylogenetic information.”
The dragonfly project adjoins other
dent publication Third Rail, submitted the
proposal, asserting that CSI’s administra
tion wielded too much control over the
projects that use DNA to determine the
publications board.
safety, and health conditions of the site as
well as high educational standards. “We’ve
always had an excellent reputation in the
community,” said Director, Cynthia Murphy.
‘The Board of Education has used us as an
exemplary universal pre-k site.” Educational
Jennifer Miller
consultants from the Bureau of Daycare
periodically visit the Children’s Center to
review the teachers’ credentials and exam
ine the classrooms.
Parents pay a child care fee of $2.00
per hour, per child. The director and head
teachers are certified in Early Childhood or
Elementary education. All staff members
olleges Against Cancer sponsored
a fund raiser at CSI on March
C
8."Daffodil
Days"
pick-ups and more sales
will take place in 1C. The
American Cancer Society
are trained in First Aid and CPR. The Center
is open six days a week (Mon-Sat). Children
uses daffodils, the flower
of hope, to raise money to
at the center are divided into four groups:
Infant/Toddler (ages 6 to 24 months),
Universal Pre-kindergarten (four years old
help fight cancer.
The money raised
by December 31 of the calendar year),
Preschool (2-6 years old) and School Age
(5-9 years old). They learn through play in a
series of age appropriate activities. “The
children are well cared for,” said Murphy.’’
It’s an excellent varied program.”
The Children’s Center allows parents
Continued on page 3
pre-sales
occurred in 1L and 1C, and on March 22
for the ACS helps people
in many ways.
The
American Cancer Society, the largest
source of nonprofit, nongovernmental
website, www.cancer.org, or by calling
money devoted to research, we can help
their toll-free number. The Society also
fights for laws to increase federal research
funding, promotes early detection of can
save and shape our future."
In Staten Island, an average of 1,131
males per year between 1998 and 2002
cer, improves access to care, and sup
ports cancer patients. The ACS provides
services to cancer patients
had malignant tumors while an average of
1,106 women per year had malignant
and their relatives, such as
transportation to treat
tumors, according to the New York State
Cancer Registry. The most common types
ments, peer support group
for men included prostate and urinary
bladder and for women, breast, ovarian,
programs, and resources
for practical assistance.
and corpus uterus cancers all occurred
most frequently. Colon, colorectal, lung,
women,
non-Hodgkin lymphomas affected both
young or old, as well as
genders and these four types made up 40
percent of all cancer cases in Staten
Men
and
children, can be diag
nosed with the disease. "It's very impor
Island.
New York City females had a total of
17,757 average annual cases, while
cancer research funding in the United
tant for college students to donate money
and time to charities," said CSI student
States, invests $130 million every year.
Ashley Narwick. "Cancer affects a lot of
males had a total of 16,815 average
Thirty-eight
Nobel
Prize
winning
researchers have been funded by the
ACS. They offer Information about can
cer, available 24 hours a day, on their
people. Everyone knows someone who
has been directly affected, if they have not
been affected themselves.
With the
annual cases. Prostate cancer made up
29.7 percent of all cancer cases in NYC
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�The American Democracy Project
New Electronic Passport Tech Raises Concerns Over Personal Data Theft
Matt Safford
Some might think that encryption
would be enough to alleviate fears of
"chip" which can be accessed wireless
data theft, but recently a Dutch televi
For a technology with- these
sion show, with the
potential issues, it's no wonder that
er from a few inches
help of a private
side the country, a tin-foil-hat wear
to several meters
security firm, was
ing conspiracy theorist, or simply a
away, depending on
able to intercept
citizen concerned about identity
the type of reader
Dutch passport data
theft, the imminent use of potentially
and tag.
(which uses a similar
insecure technology to electronically
If you haven't
RFID system and
store personal data on new US pass
put two and two
the same encryp
ports should cause you to sit up and
together yet, that
tion) as it was being
take notice.
means that some
sent to a passport
As part of a plan hoped to
one could conceiv
reader. Once they
increase efficiency and security at
ably buy a wireless
had the data, they
borders, the U.S. Government —
RFID reader from
took it back to a PC
along with several other govern
ebay or elsewhere,
and decrypted the it
ments around the world— have
and steal the per
in less than two
planned a massive overhaul of the
sonal
information
hours, giving them
passport system, which includes dig
right off your pass
the person's picture,
itizing and storing personal data on
port without even
their fingerprint, and
the passports themselves, allowing
getting close to you.
all
the
personal
for quick electronic reading.
A few minutes in an
information a pass
Rollihg out now in passports
airport could
be New RFID E-passports the U.S. Government plans to roll port contains.
issued to a select group of diplomats,
out in October may put your personal information at risk.
enough to keep an
As if that weren't
and reportedly to be included in all
identity theft busy
cause enough for
U.S. passports by this October,
for months, and unsuspecting victims
alarm, researchers —again from the
Radio Frequency Identification tech
busy for years.
Netherlands—recently demonstrated
nology, or RFID, has in some form
The good news is that the data is
that computer viruses could be transmit
been around for decades, but has
at least encrypted, and the passport
ted via these new passports, and thus
recently become much more popular.
case deadens the signal enough so
introduced into the database systems.
If you have E-ZPass, or an American
that it can only be read through direct
As one reader of popular tech blog
Express Blue card, you've used RFID
contact. But if you ever want to take
engadget.com wrote recently, "What if
tags before.
your new passport out of it's case, you
you got an "I'm a terrorist" virus on your
Also used by large retailers like
may want to make sure you're relative
passport that alerted customs that you
Wal-mart to track inventory, the tech
ly alone.
the U.S. government has wavered
hether you're one of the
W
relatively few Americans
thinking of traveling out
nology
essentially
stores
were a terrorist? That would make
small
amounts of data on a tiny, paper-thin
ly by an RFID read
PASSPORT
United States
ofA m erica
for some interesting vacations."
over the past few years in their state
ments about whether they would use
RFID in new passports or not. A cou
ple of times they announced they
had dropped the idea altogether, and
at one point in 2005, they even
announced that they would not even
encrypt the data on passports at all.
Clearly they've had some problems
with the tech. Yet if alhgoes well in
this test run, expect the RFID EPassports to go into mass release by
October, and the first reports of
stolen data and cloned passports to
pop up in the news media a few
weeks later.
All hope for passport security
isn't lost however. A company called
DIFRWear has recently begun sell
ing a wallet and passport case which
they claim will block RFID tags with
in them from being successfully
scanned. If for some reason you
can't
get
your
passport
before
October, picking up one of these
might be a good idea, particularly if
you
already
have
an
American
Express Blue card which contains an
RFID chip. At $15, it's a cheap way
to know that you're safe, which when
it comes to potential identity theft, is
a whole lot better than being sorry.
America's Endangered Economy: From Bad to Worse
Seamus Dolan
parts were up 10 percent to 83 billion as
Japanese and Korean companies contin
oes anything feel different to
ue to control the market and with GM and
you about 2006? In the words
Ford fine pruning their production, more
of Bill Clinton, “it’s the economy
importation
of motor vehicles and parts
stupid,” oh wait that is not so different.
will persist.
The Commerce Department reported
Then there are always things like
a record $804.9 billion trade deficit
China and oil. The trade deficit with China
(imports over exports) totaled in 2005,
came in at $201.7 billion, up from $162.0
which was 20.5% greater than 2004’s
billion in 2004 (cough) Wal-Mart, Nike,
impressive figure of $668.1 billion.
D
Pardon my French, but that is fucking
incredible, that is equal to 6.4% of our
total economic output. This snowball,
or better yet vortex, can easily eclipse
the trillion dollar mark during this year.
The huge impetus for this is, of
course, an American appetite for
cheaper imported products and cars
from overseas. What’s that saying
Chevrolet has, oh yeah, “An American
Revolution?” Imports on motor vehicle
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sweatshops (cough). All those imported
cars do need gas to run on; hence the
deficit on petroleum products was $229.2
billion, up from $163.4 billion in 2004.
Remember when Bush said at the state of
the union “America is addicted to oil,” well
right on key walker, prices for imported
petroleum also rose about 36 percent
from 2004, and yet we ardently try to drill
in the country’s largest wildlife refuge
located in Alaska, weird.
The deficit also reflects the invest
ments coming into America or the money
America borrows from foreign nations. In
2004, America had a surplus of 30.4 bil
lion on investment income, but that
declined to 1.6 billion in 2005. With the
interest rates high, the payments on
these debts abroad are expensive and
will only continue to be costly as the rates
are expected to increase. Foreign
nations now own more American capital
than the reverse and what economists
call a “negative relationship,” I call good
bye America, hello Chinese investment
banks.
The problem: when we are in the
middle of a consumption orgasm and
“can’t rise to the occasion,” we borrow to
make up the difference from the lack of
export surplus, and foreign nations will
always invest in us to keep their factories
“banging” out orders on the American
tab. So who is going to blow their load
first? Barry Eichengreen of the
University of California, Berkeley, says
“the U.S. ultimately must choose
between painful deficit-shrinking meas
ures or selling foreigners more and
more U.S. assets.”
Compound all this with another
report that retail sales were down 1.3
percent in February, the regression in 6
months, and the economy for the
America of our generation is starting to
look bleak. With this deficit mildly
attracting congress, and the administra
tion neglecting to address it as a prob
lem, I wonder why the youth hasn’t
stumbled over this omen yet; America
is not going to be a fun place to live in
20 years kiddies. Any thoughts about
what to do?
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body, so that funding can’t be pulled for
political reasons” she said. ‘There have
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been several instances in the past where
SG tried to pull back money from
the students and to limit the hierarchy of
Publications because of what’s been
printed.”
CSI Director of Student Life, Carol
Brower raised similar concerns. “I think
Ramphal agrees that the way SG
handled their vote on the proposal could
have been better. The point of being a
student rep is to take their point of view
having a legislative body control funding
into consideration, which I think didn’t
happen,” he said. “However, Mr. Fisher’s
with faculty advisers, they still answer to
administrators,” he said. “I felt the admin
istration had too much control over publi
cations.”
But editors and writers for other stu
dent publications disagreed with Fisher.
“I’d like to say they were foolish,” said
Khadijah Rentas, editor of Always A
Woman. “They should have spent more
time thinking beforehand. I hope they
understand that as a governing body of
days after SG approved the motion. An
informal poll of publications found that
According to CSI Association
Director, Marianne McLaughlin, the col
members of 4 out of 6 publications were
not previously informed. Some members
lege would defend publications in the
event a lawsuit is brought against them,
of Publications, like Kevin Mamakas, a
member of Serpentine Magazine,
expressed their displeasure with the lack
of advance notification at the March 16
SG meeting. Several SG Senators
Government control would result in
Student Government potentially being
liable to defend lawsuits.
Fisher discounted that threat.
“Publications existed under SG for
MELLXSS/A SEECH/ARAN
decades and it wasn’t a problem,” he
said. “I don’t know if any suits were
brought against SG, but SG is still run
ning.”
McLaughlin raised several other
concerns, including the possibility that
freedom of the press, which is guaran
teed under the First Amendment of the
U.S. Constitution, could be violated.
ENRIQUE INOCENTE
‘There needs to be an arms length
between a government and the allocating
ANNEMARIE DOOLING
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
JENNIFER MILLER
SHONA NUBYAHN
ANDREW RAFFERTY
KHADIJAH RENTAS
ENRICO TURCHI
LAUREN TAYLOR
socialization. Many developmental delays
can be caught and addressed early so the
child can go on to kindergarten and elemen
tary school having received help.
The Children’s Center relies heavily on
state and federal funding to survive and
there has been no CUNY wide increase in 8
years. Worse still, Governor George Pataki
has proposed in his new budget that state
funding will be channeled differently than it
has been in the past. There is great concern
goes through, the Children’s Center may be
forced to reduce some of its programming.
JOE TACOPINO
Many different types of students utilize
the Center. Some are single parents, others
have multiple children, and a few are
guardians. “There is no average parent
here,” indicated Murphy. “The age, race, and
social status of the parents are as varied as
the population of the campus itself.”
Steven Mondella, a graduate student
majoring in education and a married father of
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
SG Senator Arishna Ramphal, who
also serves as the SG representative on
the Publications Board, explained that
SG had good intentions when voting to
approve the referendum, “SG over the
two, has been bringing his 4-year-old daugh
ter Stephanie to the Center for the past three
administration and faculty.”
ideas are valid and shouldn’t be disposed
of. His thoughts of putting more control in
students hands is what SG stands for."
Brower also felt that the situation
could have been handled differently. The
goal is to have students work together,”
Brower said. “If students feel they weren’t
told by other students, it doesn’t foster
the goal of students working together. It’s
helpful for people to have information
available beforehand.”
For the referendum to have been
successful, a number of steps needed to
occur. 10% of the student body needed
to sign a petition for the referendum to be
on the ballot for SG elections. That cor
responds to 1,200 signatures for the
2005-2006 fiscal year. On Election Day,
1,200 students would have needed to
cast ballots, and a majority have to ratify
it. If it is ratified by 10% of the student
body, or if less than 10% of eligible stu
dents vote, the proposal heads to
President Springer and the CUNY Board
of Trustees; both have the power to kill
the proposal. Voter turnout in SG elec
tions rarely approaches 5%; when the
referendum to form the Publications
Board was approved, only 2.8% of eligi
ble voters cast ballots.
years has become the ‘student thinkers
at the center has had a positive influence
on his daughter. “She comes home with lit
that the portion of funds allotted for
CUNY/SUNY will be reduced. If the plan
SEAMUS DOLAN
bit of a communications breakdown,” he
said. ‘That’s a problem with a commuter
college.”
to go forward with their education, so that
they can get better jobs and provide for their
families. The Center also gives children an
important early educational experience in
VANESSA LEIGH DEBELLO
Fisher said that he did speak to rep
resentatives from several publications,
but admitted that the notification could
have been better. ‘There definitely was a
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ANNMARIE COSTELLA
appeared shocked after Mamakas’ out
burst.
when she leaves pre-k and goes to kinder
garten because she’s going to miss this
place a lot.” Mondella feels the atmosphere
Children's Center
THOMAS BRADLEY
Board meeting in February. In addition, a
copy of the proposal and agenda for the
SG meeting were not placed in
Publications’ mailboxes until several
CSI they don’t have power beyond the
U.S. Constitution. Who do they think they
are?”
because the Publications Board is cur
rently majority faculty. A return to Student
D/WXD M/ALTZ
can be dangerous,” she said.
Fisher brought the proposal to
Student Government without raising his
concerns at the previous Publications
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. March 27,2006
group,”’ he said. ‘Their philosophy is to
take over responsibilities that belong to
Publications Proposal Fails
“No matter how well we get along
JC
tle paintings everyday,” he said. “She’ll run
up to me and say; ‘Daddy look what I made’
or ‘I drew little red riding hood.”’
Crystal Alexander, 22, a single parent,
says that her 15-month-old baby, Fanaya,
cried when she first brought her to the
Center, but has since adjusted to the envi
ronment and now enjoys playing with other
children her age. “It’s so convenient,
because it’s right on campus. I can just drop
her off and run to class,” she said. “The staff
is so friendly and the classrooms are beau
tiful.”
When parents enter the facility, they
are immediately greeted by a large multi
colored welcome quilt. Jean Attanasio, a
group leader for the after school program,
created the tapestry with the help of her stu
dents. “The children really enjoyed the proj
ect because it made them feel like they
were an important part of the Center,” she
explained. “Everyday when they arrived,
they would point to the quilt and say ‘I made
that.1”
The Center has a large outdoor
play area, which includes a jungle gym and
sand box, but the children are not just
restricted to the facility. They utilize the
years. “She absolutely loves it here,” he said.
entire campus and even attend children’s
shows once a month at the Center for the
“I’m worried about what’s going to happen
Arts. The children use the campus as their
community,” said Murphy. “They observe
the woods and the seasonal changes. The
babies love to watch the fountains and the
movement of the water going up and down.
It is very enriching.”
Vice President for Student Affairs,
Carol Jackson, believes the Children’s
Center is an important asset to the college.
“It provides an excellent educational pro
gram for the children of CSI's students.
Under the solid direction of Cynthia
Murphy, with wonderful teachers and
administrative staff, the Children's Center
can serve 200 students each week,” she
said. “The educational programming and
safe environment make CSI student/parents feel comfortable leaving their children
in good hands, allowing them to study hard
and do well at CSI.”
Director Murphy hopes that more stu
dent parents will use the facility and she
invites them to take a tour of the site. ‘Very
often you can go into the most beautiful
facility and the staff may not be whc^you
would want to leave your child with,” she
explained. “It is important for parents to
spend time getting to know the staff and
asking them questions.” Murphy feels con
fident that parents will be more than satis
fied with what the Children’s Center has to
offer. “We try to make it as much of a home
like atmosphere as possible,” she said.
“Child care and education is so much more
than sitting on hard chairs at hard desks.”
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hile pregnant, I contemplated
whether or not I would return
to work after giving birth and
if so, how soon?
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For months, I went back and forth
with the idea of becoming a stay-athome mom, while completing my final
year of school. My husband was all for
it. In fact, he encouraged it. He want
ed me to be with the baby as much as
possible.
Probably because that
meant he wouldn’t be left alone with
the baby while I was out, stuck with
dirty diapers and bottles. Whatever the
reason, I was glad for his support.
Though, I had several concerns.
Being with my son all day sounded
appealing but I also enjoyed going to
work. Since I was a part-timer, I knew
I wouldn’t be away long. Having a job
would allow me to get out of house sev
eral hours a week, socialize with other
adults and maintain my sanity.
I didn’t like the idea of having to
my savings.
I also knew a gap in
employment wouldn’t be viewed favor
ably by potential
employers.
My intentions
were to work up
until the
gave
However,
time I
birth.
at 35
I was thinking this was something I
could get use to.
By the time my son was born,
classes were finished.
It was just me and the
baby.
The first six
weeks I was busy trying
weeks my midwife
and I agreed that it
to keep up with feed
ings, changings, sleep
ing and finishing a
paper from an incom
plete.
Being a new
was time to stop.
The stress of work,
school and preg
mom consumed all my
time.
Even
after
six
nancy became too
much. High blood
pressure
could
weeks, I was still unsure
whether or not I was
going to return to work
cause complica
tions during the
final weeks and
delivery,
some
thing
we
both
wanted to avoid.
the
following
week,
since
my
maternity
More challenging than deciding whether or not to
leave would be up. The
return to work is executing the plan.
ultimate factor in the
decision making would
be finances. After my husband and I
For five weeks, I was home and
evaluated our financial situation, we
attended class. The extra time was
decided that it would be impossible for
useful. I enjoyed not having to drive,
me to stop working and still pay our
type manuscripts or be told what to do.
bills.
After twelve weeks of being home,
I returned to work. My first day back, I
sat at my desk and looked around. My
computer desk was still broken. Piles
of unorganized manuscripts were
stacked on the typewriter and floor and
it was silent. Absolutely silent. I felt
liked an independent woman again.
When one of my supervisors came
to see me, she asked how I was doing.
“I love it,” I said. “It’s nice to have a
break.” I couldn’t believe going to work
was considered a break, but it was.
Three days a week, I work at the
Institute for Basic Research and
although it is not a career, it makes me
feel like I am doing something for
myself.
I have days when I’d rather stay
home with my son or take him to the
park than be cooped up in a stuffy
office. Sometimes I want to quit, to be
home with him full-time but then I real
ize it is working that allows me to have
more to give back, hot just financially
but emotionally.
Exchange Program Entices International Students to Attend CSI
Khadijah Rentas
n the only Minorities and the Media
course offered by the college this
semester, there sit only five obvious
I
so-called racial minorities. Four black
students - two men and two women and one Asian woman, who stood out.
Her jet black hair reached the mid
length of her back from where she sat
attentive in the front row. Her outfit
looked unlike any others in the room.
Compared to the sweatpants, jeans, tshirts and sweaters everyone else
wore, she wore a royal purple velour
jacket with “Yankees” scripted across
the back in gold. She paired it with a cut
off denim mini skirt and black tights that
could not save her ankles from the
fierce chilling wind outside. Her
Japanese-accented English, distinctly
stood apart from the Staten Island
“fuhgeddaboudits,” were riddled with
the sometime emphasis on “ahh” and
mistaken use of present tense when
speaking of past events.
The Accent proves her recent
migration. Media Studies major and
Dance minor Yuka Yamaguchi, 24,
claims no relation to famed Olympic fig
ure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, though she
does claim a student visa as an inter
national student. She joins the 407
other international students and schol
ars participating in CSI- classes and
activities all over campus. The majority
of international students originate from
Japan. Yamaguchi is one of 44. Korea
contributes 28, Sri Lanka 20 and soon
China’s 10 will rise with the introduction
or CSI’s first exchange program which
is likely to begin in Fall 2006.
While international students from
Lebanon and India have studied at CSI,
and CSI students have studied art in
Florence, Italy and evolution in the
Galapagos, Ecuador, never has there
Kong is the only city in China where
they can learn about China and study in
English.”
existed a true exchange of one group
leaving their country to take the place of
another.
City University of Hong Kong
housed 171 exchange students from
Asia, Australia, Europe and North
President Marlene Springer signed
a faculty level agreement for the
exchange program with the City
University of Hong Kong after the com
pletion of the first study abroad program
to Hong Kong this winter. As a faculty
America in the 2004-2005 academic
year. CSI students would begin attend
ing in Spring 2007. Professor Leung
level agreement, students from CSI and
Hong Kong can only register for cours
es in the Humanities and Social
Sciences.
Statistically
though,
Computer and Information Sciences,
Business, and Liberal Arts ranks as the
three top studies pursued by interna
tional students. Students will be limited
in class choice, but representatives
from CSI’s Center for International
Service and City University of Hong
Kong insist students will not be limited
in experience.
Professor Joan Y. H. Leung, direc
tor of International Student Exchange of
the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences at City University of Hong
Kong, described Hong Kong as “Asia’s
World City; an energetic, connected,
and free society.” Free, despite Hong
Kong’s role as a Special Administrative
Region of communist China since the
Handover in 1997. A professor of Hong
Kong government and public adminis
tration, she explained that the
Handover did not have the effect some
had feared. Instead of politics, she
focused on why CSI students should
attend City University for one semester.
“Hong Kong is an international city,
it is cosmopolitan,” she said. “Hong
said they would pay CUNY tuition price,
receive financial aid if eligible from TAP
and Pell, and live in what she described
as fun City University dorms for less
than $700 USD per term. “They have a
party every week,” she said. “Every day
they gather in the common area.”
CSI students would also hear the
water fall over the rocks in the
makeshift pond set around stone, mar
ble and Chinese architecture in the
midst of a park-like garden behind the
university. They could eat freshly
cooked breakfast, lunch or dinner, from
dim sum to fried rice, at the school cafe
teria and pay for it with their Octopus
card, the Hong Kong version of the
MetroCard. They could buy groceries at
the supermarket Taste or a pair of jeans
at Levi’s in the shopping mall that also
rents space to banks, a movie theatre
and ice rink. Hong Kong has many
our students to have international stu
dents here,” said Joan Migliori,
Exchange Coordinator. “It may give
them some curiosity to maybe go over
seas.” Migliori will work as the Hong
Kong students’ advisor on campus.
Currently, she also has plans to begin
exchange programs in Nice and Paris,
France, and Japan that may encourage
CSI students to
abroad.
pursue education
The exchange program may entice
more international students to attend
CSI. Yamaguchi, began at CSI in
August 2002 after receiving information
about CSI at her college in Japan, the
Kanza Institute of Foreign Language. “I
had two choices: one is California
University or CSI,” she said. “But I had
a dream since I was eight that I wanted
to come to United States, especially
New York.”
Mariam Otiu, 26, traveled from
Kenya as did 12 other international stu
dents. She arrived at CSI in 2001 and
expects to graduate in May 2007. She
is studying to become a medical
researcher. “A friend of mine sent me
the form,” she said. “ I have a cousin
that lives in Jersey and I chose CSI
because it’s closer to her.”
commercial areas pushed into one
giant space. Therefore, it is no surprise
Barbara Clark, associate director at
the Center of International Service for
that the subway runs below the mall
five years, feels that besides the cultur
al exchange, students can acquire a
and that one cannot walk to school
without walking through the mall first
because the mall directly leads to the
university entrance. CSI students will
political stance. “It’s a well known fact
that for most students that study in the
U.S. it does affect their opinion of the
not miss the parade of Converse
U.S. in a positive way,” she said. “I think
sneakers or permed and dyed hair of
both the young men and women either,
while walking the halls or the streets.
that’s needed given our current cli
mate.”
“I think it’s even more beneficial for
�March 27,2006
Letters To The Editor
Re: Computer Lounge for Athletes
From the Editor
What a crazy two weeks it’s been.
First, the referendum proposal to
abolish the Publications Board that
we first told you about last issue was
killed because student signatures
were not returned to the Office of
Student Life by the deadline. We had
been against this proposal from the
beginning, so we are happy to see it
die.
I agree that CSI’s athletes deserve a place
close to their athletic environment, but the
money spent on this project might be better
served to increase the parking, or have
parking attendants at each lot to direct stu
dents. I’ve witnessed fights over parking
spots. Hopefully, these fights don’t turn into
a severe injury or death. Why not create a
solution before it’s too late?
- Enrico Turchi, Junior
In other news, our beloved for
Re: Health Center Ofers Many Services
to Student Community
mer Editor-in-Chief Jen Mosscrop is
moving to Florida in the beginning of
April. We wish her the best of luck
with whatever comes- her way.
Happy Birthday to our Managing
Editor, Mellissa Seecharan, who
I was aware of psychological counseling,
but not so informed of the many issues the
health center addressed. It is comforting to
turned 23 on Wednesday. We
enjoyed the delicious $10 birthday
cake from Waldbaums and its many
layers (We don’t have a birthday
budget at The Banner, and we don’t
get stipends, so we have to make
due with what little money we can
gather together.)
After 4 long years at CSI, I got
accepted to graduate school at
Emerson College in Boston, MA after
I graduate in June. This proves that
you can move on. from CSI and
know that these facilities are available to
students. It may even be more convenient
than making a visit to our physician.
- Lauren Demetrio, Junior
It is very important for students to have a
Health Center. It makes it a lot easier to get
information and advice when it is easily
accessible. Also, it is an added bonus that it
is also free. It is very comforting and gives
students an additional option. I think
Jacalyn did an excellent job of reminding
the students of what is available on campus.
achieve greatness, if you want to.
- Lori Krycun, Senior
-David Maltz
Re: Student’s NYPIRG fight Tuition Hikes
in Albany
Colleges Against Cancer
•continude from page /-
with breast cancer following with a total
of 28.8 percent.
The cause hits home for some stu
dents. Ricky Sim, a student at CUNY
Lehman, has both a mother and sister
fighting cancer. 'They both survived
from their high risk operations, but now
they are living in a period of enormous
stress and worry, because cancer does
n't just go away after the operation," he
said. 'They need to continuously go
through the painful chemotherapy, which
caused them to lose hair, energy,
appetite, and many other side effects."
Sim also had another relative battle can
cer. The side effects of the chemothera
py became overbearing and a few
weeks after stopping, she lost her fight.
On March 31, CUNY will host a
Relay For Life fund-raiser at the Athletics
and Recreation Complex at Baruch
College starting at 5 p.m. This overnight
activity will raise funds for research and
programs of the American Cancer
Society. It will also celebrate survivor
ship and those who have overcome can
cer can participate in the event.
Teams will keep one member walk
ing or running around the track all night.
This symbolizes that cancer never
sleeps and remains an ongoing prob
lem. "People always ask if they have to
It is great to see CSI students fight for what
most of the school wants. Once the Albany
executives see how far the student will go, it
may help them choose what is best for us.
Just seeing how under-funded CUNY
schools are, makes this matter more inter
esting to me. Next time I’m sure the group
will rise to a record number of students.
a degree in NY. Students are facing a lot of
trouble trying to come up with funds for
school. It is even harder for out of state stu
dents. They already pay more than the
average. These tuition hikes will have a
negative impact on students. Some may be
forced to take semesters off, or get a sec
ond job to be able to pay for their tuition and
that could affect their grades.
run on the track; if there is a winner," said
CUNY student Christine Curella, who has a
major role in the planning of the event.
'There is no end until we find a cure. We
haven't won yet."
A Luminaria ceremony will be held at
midnight to honor those who have lost their
battle with cancer. This 45 minute ceremo
ny will include guest speakers and cancer
survivors who will speak about their experi
ences. The gym lights will be dimmed to
honor the solemn nature of the event.
Head of the Luminaria Committee, Long
Tran, said the ceremony will open up with a
music testimonial about why people relay.
A goal of creating eighty teams, con
sisting of 5-15 members per team, has
been set. Each team will attempt jo raise
$1,000, so the entire event hopes to bring
in $80,000.
"Various teams have done
two b’s don’t mix, boys & books, it leads to
babies.
- Nakibar Loney
- Raphaella Moueli
Re: Casual Sex
Re: CSI’s Chef Jeff feeds SI on Campus
and Off
I thank Ms. AnneMarie “... but for Christ’s
sake, use protection.” Bravo Annemarie, I
was beginning to wonder if you would get
It’s nice that Jeff Bullard has his own restau
rant, but who would go there? Think of the
food at CSI there are not many places
around ta it. It’s ok to have casual sex, but
certainly, heed her warnings about diseases
where the food is worse. The meals on dis
play look unappetizing and taste bland. I eat
there solely out of desperation when I have
no time to eat off campus. I don’t even try
the adjoining restaurant because it’s per
sonal is extremely unfriendly to customers.
The other day I carried my food to the out
side patio and the waiters purposely locked
me out so I couldn’t enter the restaurant.
The eating conditions at CSI are unpleas
ant.
and pregnancy. There are too many people
screwing around without condoms. With the
AIDS virus epidemic getting worse, you
have to be a complete asshole if you’re rid
ing ‘bareback’.
- Debra Santulli - Barone, Senior
It conveyed many thoughts of how good it
can be and that it’s ok if you’re single. You
- Lucie Lauria
can independent and casual sex is not at all
crazy, unless you don’t use a condom. One
point this article doesn’t really go into is
I enjoyed reading Enrico Turchi’s article
about the skilled Chef Jeff Bullard chasing
after his dream of expanding into the realm
labeling. It still goes that the more girls a
guy sleeps with, the better his reputation. If
a girl sleeps with a certain number of guys
she’s labeled easy and slutty, even though
of restaurant business owner. It is important
to recognize the professional accomplish
ment of CUNY staff and employees.
-Jacalyn Palmiotto, Senior
Why is this important enough to be on the
front page? It is a boring article about a guy
who has a restaurant on SI and works at
CSI. Whoopedy Doo Da. It should have
been buried in the middle of the paper and
not the front page.
- Ronald Squarese
casual sex isn’t so much of a big deal any
more. Girls should be respected and our
reputations shouldn’t be decided by how
many guys we sleeps with. Casual sex can
be beautiful, but some of us should make
sure that we’re ready emotionally before
doing it. There’s no turning back.
- Karen Herrera
I do agree with the article on casual sex but
there is still a stigma that surrounds casual
sex. Even in our time of sexual freedom
Re: Mixing Babies and Books
some have the idea or view that casual sex
is taboo. I beg to differ. I, like the writer,
I strongly understand that making a decision
between school and parenting is very tough.
think the stigma should be broken. With
adults, sex is a wonderful thing if done
responsibly.
- Stasiu Tyburski
It seems that the more time you spend in
school the higher the tuition goes. It is
becoming more and more expensive to get
unpredictable although the doctor may give
a due date. Some professors are very
understanding but there are professors who
just don’t care regardless of the predica
ment. School and babies don’t mix. Now I
understand why my grandmother said the
Last semester a close friend got pregnant
and had to drop all her classes. Childbirth is
events from bake sales to poker tourna
ments to raffles," said Long Tran, Captain
of Team Brightside. "My team decided to
be original and sold origami and we're cur
rently looking forward to creating a Halo
tournament at the Hunter College cam
pus."
The event has currently raised a total
of $24,104. Christine Curella invites all CSI
students to participate and encourages
them to spread the word and bring their
family members, friends, and classmates
to the event or ask them for donations. "It's
a great way to unite a community," she
said.
You can participate in Relay For Life in
many different ways. As a Team Captain,
you recruit walkers/runners for your team,
or you could just join an existing team.
Each member raises money before the
- Emilio Medugno
event and helps their team to keep a mem
ber on the track all night long. Relay For
Life also needs volunteers before, during,
and after the event. Donors and sponsors
contribute greatly to the cause. The main
sponsors this year include Google,
Shecky's, Metropolitan Food Service, and
Deloitte.
Google has pledged to raise
$10,000 for the event. Google and Deloitte
also have created their own teams to par
ticipate.
"Every cancer patient and cancer sur
vivor needs society to not only contribute to
cancer research and medication, but they
also need us to support them emotionally,"
Sim said. "Relay For Life is one way to let
them understand we all will stand by their
sides. The Relay would give them the
hope that they need to go through all these
challenges optimistically."
�What We Would Change At CSI
We asked students and faculty
fop their opinions about what should be
changed on campus. This is what they had to say . . .
Suada Cecurijanin
“Having more buses come here from the 93. At least one
bus until classes are done.”
Frank Mota
“More organization and groups. More united as a campus.
More Internships.”
Earl Gatchalian
“There are not enough rape lights on campus. You can
walk 100 feet and be in complete darkness.”
Benga Okunoye
“Change the segregated social group. I would enforce
a workshop. A lot of people are not openly
integrated.”
Juliet Di Frenza
“I haven’t been here long enough to know. It would be
nice if we didn’t have the same people attending all the
events. I also like the idea of CLUE.”
Ashley Hurwitz
“I don’t know I haven’t been here long enough. I hate
CLUES.”
�March 27,2006
Mike Gualtieri
“The sheer apathy on this campus. I don’t care
what you care about, but care about something.”
Ra’chaun Rogers
“I would build dorms. Open more fun activi
ty clubs.”
Arishna AJ Ramphal
“There should be more inclusion in the student
body and the only way to do that by faculty and
staff helping.”
Andrew Fattorusso
Dorms.
Dwight Dunkley
“Create more parking for students so they don’t have
to walk so far to class.”
Ilya Geller
“More professors, more classes, and less apathy.
If it is possible, dormitories without the environ
mental repercussions.”
Ronnie Glenn
“In the gym, we have to update machinery (work out
system) at least one trained professional to assist
students. They don’t treat you like a customer. “
Photos: Kevin S.P. Mamakas
�The Playstation 3 Camoth
PlayStation 3 will be packaged with a
detachable 60GB HDD (Hard Disk
Drive) and that higher-capacity HDDs
ith the launch of Microsoft’s
Xbox 360 last November, the
will be available as premium add-ons.
next
generation
of
the
The format of the system has also
videogame system wars began. changed.
The
Unlike PS2, which uses DVD,
second contender in this war for the con
sumer dollar is Sony’s Playstation 3.
Information on the system and Sony’s
launch strategy had been shrouded in
mystery until recently. This March at its
PlayStation Business Briefing 2006 and
later at the 2006 Game Developers
Conference, Sony outlined its launch
plan and online distribution strategy,
In an ambitious move, Sony plans
to launch PS3 simultaneously in early
November in all major territories (North
America, Europe, Japan, and Australia). This is a change from past system
launches in which Japan was first fol
lowed six months later by a North
American and European release. After
all the games for PS3 will ship on BDits November 2006 launch, production of
the system will be running at 1 million
ROM discs (Blu-ray).
BD-ROM is
units per month.
Sony’s new disk format. The company
The PS3 will also be fully backhopes it will replace DVDs as an indus
wards-compatible with Playstation One
try standard, and is using the PS3 as a
and Playstation 2 games, and, unlike
Trojan horse to get the format into as
previous gaming systems, the PS3 will
many homes as possible. The compa
be region-free. Now importers will not
ny expects initial BD-ROM production to
have to illegally modify their systems to
reach 2.5 million in Japan and Europe
play foreign software. It is confirmed that
and 5 million in the US.
Enrique Ignacio Inocente
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Sony also hopes to tackle online
gaming better this coming generation.
PS2 was criticized by many for its lack
of online gaming services and haphaz
ard structure. The new service for PS3
will include video chat, voice chat,
friends lists, stores to sell content
online, micropayments, transactions,
subscriptions, and so on. While playing,
video chat windows will be able to over
lay in-game so players can send email
and requests from within the game. The
infrastructure is handled by Sony, but
third-party servers will be able to con
nect independently. It is said basic serv
ice will be free of charge, but what con
stitutes as “basic service” was not made
entirely clear.
The price of PS3 has not yet been
determined. Some industry analysts say
that it could very well be as much as
$400 or more. Considering stand alone
BD-ROM players run for a suggested
retail price of $800, it is a possibility that
the PS3 could turn out to be the most
expensive videogame console on the
market. However, Sony has stated the
price will be consumer friendly, and that
you will get what you pay for. Bearing in
mind how powerful the system is, and
all the features it contains, it seems con
sumers might be paying a lot.
Nintendo’s Next Console to Offer Comes From Former
Competitor
Matt Safford
ost of the next-gen console
hype has surrounded the XBOX
360 and Sony’s upcoming PS3.
But don’t count Nintendo out. Their
foray into the console wars, while still
heavily in development, seems to be
taking into account their strengths in
game development, while pushing into
new areas of controller design and retrogaming.
Tentatively dubbed The Revolution,
though rumors of a name change
abound, the console’s main selling
points thus far have been an innovative
motion-sensing 3d controller, and ongo
ing rumors that they system will allow
gamers to download and play old games
from earlier Nintendo systems with the
new hardware.
The real shocker though, is the
recent announcement, by Nintendo’s
President Satoru Iwata, that the new
console will allow customers to play
Sega'Genesis games as well, at least in
Japan. Considering Nintendo and Sega
were the primary adversaries in the con
sole wars of the 1980’s and early 1990’s,
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sole business for some time, having
failed to maintain considerable market
clout with its final two console systems:
The Saturn and The* Dreamcast. Since
the latter’s failure in 2001, Sega has rel
egated itself to game development. But
with dismal titles like Shadow the
Hedgehog, they’ve recently been stum
bling on that front as well. Perhaps a
successful partnership with their old rival
Nintendo could pump enough revenue
into the company to turn things around.
It’s doubtful however, that retrogaming alone will be enough to keep
Nintendo from slipping farther down the
market ladder. Their GameCube, while a
moderate success, has remained a dis
tant third in competition with Sony and
Microsoft. Yet while these systems sky
rocket in price, if Nintendo can kept the
price of their system down, while contin
uing to offer solid game development
with its core characters (Mario, Donkey
Kong, Zelda, etc.) along with fresh new
features like innovative controls and
retro-gaming, they have a strong chance
for success.
There are millions of us who are
always going to want to play the newest
Mario and Zelda games, and even more
who would love to relive some of the
best games in the past. If Nintendo can
offer this opportunity at less than half the
price of systems from Microsoft and
Sony, they’ll have a decent chance of
gaining on their competitors, or at the
very least, surviving until the next round
of the console wars.
Playstation 3 is Powered by the
Magic of the Cell processor
The Ceil processor was co
designed by IBM, Toshiba and
Sony. Configurations can differ, but
here’s what the PS3's Cell chip will
be like:
-PowerPC-based Core @ 3.2GHz
-7 SPEs @ 3.2GHz
-512KB L2 Cache
-7 x 256KB SRAM for SPEs
Basically, a single Cell processor is
designed to act like multiple proces
sors working together, or even inde
pendently. A Cell processor has a
single PowerPC Architecture Unit
(PAU) and multiple Synergistic
Processing Elements (SPEs). A
Cell's PAU dolls out instructions to
its various SPEs, which can then
instance, one SPU might be
enough to perform 218 GFLOPS
Mtzwe. Concept footage of what games could look like
on the Cell powered Pluystution 3.
�Nature on SI
-condnude from page 1-
evolutionary change in dragonfly groups
on the island due to long-term land
usage and habitat modification.
The well-being of the speci
mens are kept in mind. Collecting sam
ples can be difficult for the students,but
is harder for the animal. In past times,
the specimens were killed and brought
back to the lab for analysis, but compas
sion led to collecting pieces of the drag
onfly’s wing rather than destroying them
altogether. It also helps to keep the indi
viduals in their natural breeding pool.
New procedures are being put to use in
order to minimize injury to the dragon
flies when their wings are being clipped.
Another of Burchstead’s many proj
ects will entail the examination of DNA
taken from turtles at Eib’s Pond in the
summer of 2005. Skin samples from
almost 100 live turtles were taken there,
and from the Clifton/Fox Hills area. The
students will grind the tissues and use
new techniques to extract organic mole
cules. This study will determine the rela
tionships between the individuals living
in the same pond. This way it can be
known whether turtles are migrating from
neighboring ponds, or just being put
there by turtle owners who get tired of
their pets. This is important to the land,
because it will show some of the details
to which the turtle populations are estab
lished and preserved on Staten Island.
Dr. B’s seriousness and passion for
Biology, wrapped in eccentricity and
kindness, draws students to him. “I had a
couple projects available and they want
ed to work with me.” said Dr. Burchsted.
“It’s very interesting,” said Nick
Galeno, a senior Biology student work
ing on the dragonfly project. “It helps me
to understand the DNA and how genet
ics work.”
Burchstead. works in Dr. Burbrink’s
labs, but access to labs and conflicting
schedules have made this research a lit
tle more difficult. Some students can
only spare one day a week, usually
Fridays.
The research began in the summer
of 2000 when Burchstead. taught his
field Biology course at Eib’s Pond.
Students placed radio transmitters on
turtles and monitored them through the
woods in the Greenbelt and Blue Heron
Pond Park.
As for the turtle, it gets trapped.
Students pull it out and find that... it’s a
dangerous snapper! It’s tagged, a piece
of the tail or the shell is clipped, put in
Phenol, and the turtle is released.
Research
activities
have
increased this year since the budget
went from $4,000 to $24,000. Most of
Burchstead’s students agree that his
courses
are
enjoyable. As for
Burchstead,. he just wants everyone to
learn. “This allows them to make their
mark in the scientific community by
establishing their credentials as a mem
ber of an investigative team.”
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Is Cat Power's New Album The Greatest?
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or nearly a decade Cat Power's
Chann Marshall has been the
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most beloved of all indie rock
"respect her privacy."
Recorded in Memphis, Marshall
Rolling Stone's Satisfaction and Sea of
Love - the latter of which actually
is a sincere homage to her past aspira
tions, or so we are to believe. This
recruited some blues and soul legends
to perform on the new album, including
Al Green's guitarist and co-writer
spawned a background score for a Met
Life advertisement. The spot, featuring
seems like a clever rouse; a cute ploy
on Marshall's part. We have become
a sentimental scene of a young girl ice
skating, did not launch Cat Power into
super stardom, (as Volkswagen com
accustomed to sympathizing with
Marshall, as if we have some stake in
her plight as a musician. For all her irk
mercial had done for acoustic virtuoso
Nick Drake a few years prior.) Instead,
some qualities she has that unobtain
able appeal of the girl next door; the
one who is just within our grasp while
at the same time existing completely
songstresses.
Her sensual vocals,
Teenie Hodges. At some points the
rhythmic ballads and adolescent-like
record has more of a country feel to it
reluctance has fostered an almost
than low-fi indie rock vibe. It is probably
obsessive attraction from nearly every
the most polished of all the Cat Power
bookish, 20 something pseudo-hipster.
albums to date; although I'm not sure
Known just as much for her
which approach I like better. The raw
eccentric habits as for her musical
quality of her earlier efforts gave an
prowess, Marshall has been known to
unfettered glimpse into her true talents.
shy away from the spotlight - both the
2003's You Are
Free
featured
literal and proverbial. There have been
Marshall's signature voice floating
incidents where Marshall bolted from
above the reverb of a simple guitar riff
the stage during a performance possi
or a few choice chords on the piano.
bly due to overbearing anxiety or drug
The simplicity was stunning.
problems or maybe bad tuning. The
This stripped down approach was
mystery of Chan Marshall opened a
also employed in 2000's The Covers
new chapter recently when her US tour
Record. The appropriately titled cover
was canceled due to "health reasons."
album featured haunting and unique
Her record label, Matador, did not care
renditions of such classics as The
to elaborate only requesting we
the Met Life ad got little play, leaving
Marshall to wallow in obscurity.
The Greatest has its bright spots.
Lived in Bars, a bluesy little number,
conjures up images of late nights of
drinking and youthful idealism. The
out of our league.
Marshall's reluctant declaration is
more likely to evoke empathy than to
arouse suspicions of pretense on her
tempo of the song picks up toward the
end but the jazzy horn section leaves
one wondering, when will the real Chan
part. Did Marshall ever really aspire to
be the greatest? Probably not, and she
never will be. But this recent effort,
Marshall please stand up?
On the opening and title track
Marshall backs up her own lead vocals,
admittedly, is pretty damn good.
Grade:
c+
innocently crooning how she once
"wanted to be the greatest." The song
Anne Marie
Dooling
Emotional Cheating
y last relationship was beyond
M
most of the people I introduced him to
us actually wanted to be in a relation
ship. As the months went by we saw
each other less and less, and much
less. I was lucky enough to score this
fantastic internship at Stuff Magazine,
and began consuming myself with
work- sometimes from 7am till 7 at
night. He too found other ways to keep
his mind off the problems we were hav
ing. He began searching for other peo
ple, new groups of friends to attach
himself to, new lifestyles. He created a
new person for himself to be- someone
not attached to all of the shortcomings
he felt. And for some reason, we stayed
together.
Even during this staying together,
and not actually being together, I was
really lonely. I was achieving all of
these wonderful things- new jobs, new
places to live, things I was really proud
of, and I didn't have my best friend to
share them with. In fact, because of the
great rift in the relationship, he didn't
see these events as achievements. He
looked for every way he could to justify
why I wasn't good enough for him. The
jobs were materialistic, I made a joke
understatement.
After
that
DVD debt. So, I started calling up old
friends, one-time acquaintances, and
new classmates in an effort to create
new friendships and just get out of the
alone any other (ahem) body parts, my
heart belonged to this guy, while I was
officially someone else’s. I had emo
cheating.
And don’t be fooled, if you have to
make a choice between this new per
house and stop dictating my life on the
failings of the relationship. The plan
worked better than I had imagined.
tionally cheated.
Which would you rather? Finding
the person you love having sex with
son and the one you’ve been with, it
won’t be easy. The article in the Daily
One classmate introduced me to a boy
I knew years ago. We took to each
someone else, or walking in on that
person sharing his or her hopes and
other, again, right away. He was a great
friend when I needed one. We did noth
ing but laugh and joke around. I didn't
dreams and secrets with some other
person? The Daily News, in an article
by the renowned Dr. Judy, describes
Emotional Cheating as dealing out the
cry in days, and he thought everything
I was doing sounded "amazing!" I
developed an enormous crush. We
spoke every day; it didn't feel right not
to see him. Whenever something good
happened, I rushed to the phone and
let him know first. Our Friday night
plans were set in stone, I never had to
call to verify. And even though we were
very affectionate and cozy- kisses on
cheeks, holding hands, resting on each
her- it never escalated towards sex. It
was fine the way it was, never mind the
fact that I was still someone’s girlfriend,
and it never occurred to me that I could
be on the verge on hurting his feelings,
three big A’s. Giving someone your
attachment, attention, and having an
erotic attraction toward him or her.
Touching isn’t even necessary. When
you replace those heart-fluttering
thoughts of your significant other with
the thoughts of someone new, you’ve
already mentally checked out of the
relationship. You’ve already shown that
they are replaceable, and you’ve made
the first step in replacing them.
What separates a committed rela
tionship from just hooking up is that
News highlights the idea that many
people find emotional cheating worse
than physical. If you’ve decided to end
the new connection, come clean, and
work on the substantial one, it may not
turn out as you’d like it. The betrayal
may be too much heavy weight on a
fragile partnership. Once a heart has
left the situation, it may not want back
in. Through all the problems you’re
having in that relationship, any escape
would seem like a more obvious
choice, however, you’re kidding your
self if you believe that there aren’t
arguments in every couple. Remember
how much fun that problem-filled one
was at the beginning? What makes you
so sure this new one won’t turn out the
same way? However, if you’re eye is
straying, it very well might be for a
good reason. Not every relationship
stand them long enough afterwards to
have a conversation. You enjoy talking
over the issue, it may be a good idea to
be a party of one for a little while- just
to remember who you are and what
around the right goals in life. I was no
saint to him, either, but the more and
more we fought, the more and more I
comfortable, weeks later, I finally told
him that I had someone. He never
asked before, so I never lied, and did
n't begin that conversation myself
because I wanted just one person to
about your day, and get excited to
take my mind off the problem. Saying
he didn't take the news well would be a
ted yourself to one person. When those
commitments seem less severe and
When I felt us become a little too
them, than the one your with, is still
you’ve found someone you don’t just
like to have sex with. You can actually
too.
confide in any one of them. In fact,
more like “I have to’s” others around
you may begin to look more fun, more
glamorous, or just like less trouble.
However, becoming more attached to
out of everything, and my activities
weren't athletic enough or centered
needed someone to verify my life.
Since we had the same core group
of friends, it was next to impossible to
10
total
evening, he didn't take my calls,
answer my emails or texts, and I never
saw him again. Then I realized, even
though my lips never touched his- let
began hanging out with him more, sim
tumultuous. Between work and
ply
because he was out there, as I
school and my budding career
with the problem with a budding
and all, it was difficult to tell if eitherdealt
of
share secrets. You might often find
yourself daydreaming, or just planning
moments with this person. They call it
committed because you have commit
works out. And if you’re still plagued
you want. At our age, a clean slate is
the best medicine.
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Lately going to the
movies has become as
much preparation for debate
as entertainment. With films
like George Clooney’s Good
Night and Good Luck, Ang
Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, and
Steven Gaghan’s Syriana grac
ing the big screen, you’re hard
pressed to leave a theater in one
piece. On March 17th V for
Vendetta was released, garnering
as many supporters as detractors
in its short run.
A provocative action film set
in London during the not so dis
tant future, Vendetta follows the
anti hero “V” as he seeks to unite
the people of Britain against the
controlling tyrannical government.
“V’’ dons a Guy Fawkes mask,
recalling the revolutionary Brit
who sought to blow up Parliament
in 1605. and speaks in a dated
eloquence that is at once compli
cated, passionate, confusing, and
earnest. Played in excellent fash
ion by Hugo Weaving, otherwise
known as “Agent Smith" from The
Matrix trilogy, “V" communicates
so much emotion through his
speech that Weaving’s subtle
masked gestures eventually con
vey more than some actors can in
their best close up.
“V’s” revolutionary fanaticism
is tempered, if only momentarily,
by the disarmingly beautiful Evie.
Given a certain irresistible nature
by actress Natalie Portman, we
find Evie’s vulnerable exterior
deceptively hiding a dark but
intensely
courageous
spirit.
t
\ illuyo Wcavinu) prepare"- to kick fascist ass.
Having rescued her from some
government thugs known as “fingermen”, “V” slowly falls in love
with the woman he eventually
brings under his dramatic wing.
Though Evie acts in compliance
with the plan “V” has laid for the
revolution, we are never com
pletely convinced that Evie
believes “V’s” methods are justi
fied.
Written by Alan Moore and
published between 1982 and
1985, V for Vendetta was created
in response to the censorship of
the Thatcher regime in London at
the time. The story wasn’t adapt
ed into a screen version until the
mid 90's by The Matrix writers,
Andy and Larry Wachowski.
Originally a comic book series
published by Warrior Comics,
Vendetta has a loyal cult following
that the movie is bound to double.
As it stands V for Vendetta is
an action film. However, there is a
great deal of dialogue and plot
development between full screen
explosions making this action flick
a bit more cerebral, and finally a
better movie. The movie doesn’t
try to solve the issue of terrorism
or vilify those in office. What V for
Vendetta does is question how
we, not Americans but the general
international public, think about
violence as a means of problem
solving. It is not enough that we
should say violence is negative
but that the causes for violence:
ignorance, intolerance, and lack
of empathy should be examined.
Boy George's Bad Karma: 80's Singer Busted on
Drug Possession
AnnMarie Costello
ing sweatpants and an ill-fitting black
Misfits T-shirt that failed to cover his
large belly. His head was shaved and
oy George, 44, the flamboyant
covered in tattoos - a red flower and
gay icon and former lead singer
the Star of David. Long gone were his
of the Culture Club, was arrest
ed for falsely reporting a crime and kabuki
makepossession of cocaine. He faced up to
u
p
15 years in prison, if convicted of the
weardrug charge. George managed to
B
On Thursday, March 9, Boy
George was back in Manhattan
Criminal court. He pleaded guilty to
third-degree false reporting of an inci
dent. Judge Anthony Ferrara sentenced
him
to
dead within 3 months. He quit drugs
and wrote about the experience in his
autobiography entitled, “Take it Like a
Man.”
Boy
George,
Born
George
O’Dowd, enjoyed a successful musi
cal career throughout the 1980’s,
scoring hits like “Karma Chameleon”
days.
Many
s
i
x
months
probation.
In
addition,
George
must
enter
them by saying: “What’s up?” The
police found no evidence of a breakin; however they did discover cocaine
were
sur
rehab,
pay
a
prised
$1,000
near George’s computer and a gun
holster. According to NYPD officer,
Eric Crisafi, the singer was staggering
to see
h i s
fine, and
perform
messy
five days
ing line called B-Rude,
Fashion Week in Britain.
of comm u n i ty
Boy George plans to put the drug
incident behind him and move on. He
appearance. One police officer indi
cated: “I just thought, THIS is the
great Boy George? A Star? He was a
complete mess.” Another witness said
service. He plans to attend the
Clouds House rehabilitation facility in
England. George would like to put on
a concert to benefit Aids research in
remains optimistic about his future
and musical career. “I am relieved
that this case has been disposed of,
and would like to thank the judge, the
“He looked like a tramp - and one
order to fulfill his community service
requirement.
district attorney, and my attorney, Lou
George has encountered many
problems with drugs over the years.
it was dealt with,” he said. “I love New
York, and am looking forward to com
avoid jail time under a plea bargain
deal.
On Friday October 7, George
called the police at 3:15am to report a
burglary. When they arrived at his lux
ury apartment in SoHo, he greeted
around in a drug induced stupor. The
police returned to the apartment later
that evening with a search warrant
and found 5 grams of cocaine in 13
small packets.
They arrested George and he
was taken to the 5th precinct in
Chinatown for questioning. He spent
i n g
fashion
trend
setter
Boy George was arrested for possesion of Cocaine. He claims the drugs weren’t his.
and “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?”
He made a comeback in 1993 when
his song “The Crying Game” for the
soundtrack of the motion picture of
the same name went to number #1 on
the US charts. George moved to New
York in 2003. His Broadway musical
Taboo, was a flop, but he has enjoyed
success as a club DJ spinning house
music and as a record producer. In
February, he launched his new cloth
during
Freeman, for the fair and speedy way
criminal court judge ordered George
to return to court on December 19. He
who is desperately ill.”
George’s attorney Lou Freeman
claims that his client is innocent. “He
does not know where the drugs came
In 1986, his heroin addiction caused
ing back and working in the states
looked exhausted as he waited to
from. He’s a very social person. He
the break up of the Culture Club and
later this year."
hear the judge’s decision and could
barely manage to keep his eyes open.
has a lot of people in his apartment,”
Freeman indicated. “He called the
that same year he was arrested for
pot possession. He also battled an
addiction to pain killers. In 1987, the
20 hours in a jail cell. A Manhattan
When he left the courthouse he asked
passersby for a cigarette, then he sat
down on a bench and cried.
George looked disheveled wear
police believing there was a break in.
Why would he do that if he know he
had drugs in his apartment and could
get arrested?”
singer was forced into rehab by a
physician who told him that if he did
n’t stop using heroin he would be
11
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V
*
The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
March 27,2006
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Dolphins Defeat Mitchell College in Doubleheader
Khadijah Rentas
the fifth by pinch runner Jorge Almarante, the Pequots
could not capitalize. At the top of the sixth, Mitchell
The Dolphins easily defeated the Mitchell College
College made only one hit off senior pitcher Pat Smith.
At bat, Guarneri and Glennerster scored their second
Pequots in Game 1 last Saturday 13-6, but struggled in
Game 2 with a come from behind 13-12 win. The team
improved its CUNY conference record to 2-0 and their
and first runs of the game. The Pequots left the runs
Valerio. A double by Almarante and triple by Glennerster
equaled a run for Buonviaggio, Lee and Almarante.
The Pequots tried to match them but only scored
two more runs. The Dolphins answered with three runs
after the Pequot pitcher hit Madalone and walked
Liconti. In the seventh the Pequots scored one
overall record to 3-2.
Temperatures topped a blustery 38 degrees, with
run, but the Dolphins hustled and earned three
runs, pulling ahead of the Pequots by one and
wind hurting the Dolphin’s outfield defense. In the first
inning, an error by second baseman Mohammad
winning.
Despite the rough winds the Dolphins faced
at the top of Game 1, they turned both games
around. Coach Cali recognized that the cold
weather was not suitable for baseball and said
the last two teams he played had recently
returned from Florida and California. The team
usually heads south for preseasorr practice but
Hamad and two misses by right outfielder Paul
Buonviaggio, helped Mitchell College score three runs
and five hits off junior pitcher Jon Reyes.
The Dolphins seemed to make some movement at
bat. Freshman Anthony Piccirillo singled and the
Pequots walked sophomore Ray Valerio. All hopes to
score were lost when the Pequots caught junior Mike
this year cutbacks kept them home. “Basically it
costs x dollars and we didn’t have it because of
funding,” Coach Cali said.
No matter to outfielder Anthony Piccirillo. He
feels that despite the advantage the other teams
Liconti with the double play.
In the second inning, Reyes made it easy for the
Dolphin defense. He struck out the first three Pequots at
bat. From there, the Dolphins collected themselves and
pulled ahead of the Pequots. Both senior Matt Stefanski
and freshman catcher Michael Madalone scored
unearned runs because of errors by the short stop.
Shouts from the dugout like, “way to rip that” to
Buonviaggio after he made his first RBI pushed the
team. Buonviaggio went on to score, as did junior Bob
Glennerster after a walk on and second base steal.
‘The whole team came together, like that’s noth
ing,” said Liconti who scored two runs in Game 1. “We
never looked down and we were positive about the
whole game.”
The Pequots failed to score in the next two innings
thanks to plays by second baseman Hamad, shortstop
Glennerster and catcher Madalone. The Dolphins
earned two runs in the third and scored four more in the
fourth inning. Stefanski stole a base in each inning and
stole the most bases in the game with two.
The Pequots thought they had momentum in the
fifth. Down by six they managed three runs. They hit two
doubles and Mike Liconti stepped to the mound as a
relief pitcher for Reyes, who threw 55 strikes of 92 pitch
es. The Pequots hit two of Liconti’s and scored one.
Although CSI scored only one run at the bottom of
CSI Men’s Head Coach Bill Cali and Assistant Coach John Scrivani. “I think if the young
pitchers come through for us, we should be there at the end,” Calli said.
unchallenged in the seventh and fell to the Dolphins.
CSI has won the CUNY conference championship
the last three years. Coach of 14 years, Bill Cali,
believes his team can definitely take home the trophy
again. “I think if the young pitchers come through for us,”
he said, “we should be there at the end.”
However, he leaves room for possibilities when he
sites Baruch as a good opponent. “Baruch has been
improving over the last few years,” he said. “So it’s a
crap shot.”
Game 2 of the double header seemed like one of
those crap shots when the Dolphins had to face a six run
deficit in the fifth inning. Down 9-3 at the bottom of the
fifth, the Pequots made a critical mistake when they
walked senior Jamie Lee and allowed Buonviaggio and
Stefanski to advance to second and third base.
Stefanski scored after a sacrificed fly by pinch hitter
UPCOMING HOME GAMES
The men’s baseball team faces Centenary College on March 29 at home at 3:00 p.m.
They hit the road March 30 to take Mount St. Mary College at 4:30 p.m.
The men’s tennis team serves SUNY Purchase at home on March 28 at 3:30 p.m.
The team meets John Jay College on March 31 at 3:30 p.m.
The women’s softball team go for a win in a doubleheader at home against Ramapo
College at 3:30 p.m. They take on John Jay College in another doubleheader at home
may have, his team should always succeed in the
field. He agrees with Coach Cali that the Dolphins
have a strong offense and defense and believes
the Dolphins can be champions again.
The Dolphins did make it to Maryland Feb 25
and 26, although they did not play like champions.
Salisbury State University brutalized the Dolphins in two
games, 14-1 and 12-1. However, they picked up the
pieces and shut out Polytechnic University at home, 200, before winning again in last weekend’s doubleheader.
Buonviaggio, who transferred from Global Institute of
Technology to CSI because he “wanted to represent
Staten Island,” said that the losses in Maryland only
helped the team. He explained that the Salisbury defeat
showed the team where they stood and how to
approach the rest of the season.
Coming off three wins he has confidence in the
team’s ability. “We have a strong team, we can hit the
ball and make runs,” he said. He elaborated later. “We
are confident because we know the other teams in the
conference aren’t as talented.”
Women’s Softball
March 30th (DH) against Ramapo College at 3:30pm
April 1st against John Jay College at Noon
April 1st against NYC College of Technology at 3:30pm
at 12 p.m.
Men's Baseball
12
Men’s Tennis
March 29th against Centenary College at 3:00pm
March 28th against SUNY Purchase at 3:30pm
April 1st & 2nd (DH) against Baruch College at Noon
April 2nd against Mount St. Mary College at 1pm
April 9th against Lehman College at Noon
April 11th against York College 3:30pm
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Island
March 13,2006
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Gretchen Pariato, Alex Hampton, and Josh Mease per
form in the Green Dolphin Lounge.
Stefanie Plust
Pleasant vocals and soft jazz engulphed
the campus center last week when
satin-clad Gretchen Parlato’s trio turned
the Green Dolphin Lounge into a dim-lit
jazz club.
Accompanied by Alan Hampton
(acoustic bass) and Josh Mease (gui
tar), Pariato shook maracas, closed her
eyes, put a hand over her heart and
sang of love, lust and loss.
Parlato’s concert included songs
by Stevie Wonder, a rearrangement of a
Bill Evans tune, some originals, and two
numbers performed in Portuguese; one
in acappella. As a preface to the con
cert, Pariato discussed her work and
ideas at a workshopAnaster class, “A
Jazz Voice.” When she began to sing at
3:00, she transfixed the crowd with
haunting lyrics: "He’s waiting by the
shore but he’s sinking ... Calls out for
her over and over again,” she sang in
her first song.
After the show, many purchased
Parlato’s CD, which sold for fifteen dol
lars each. “She was delightful; very, very
engaging; interesting arrangement; very
deep,” said Nancy Yourke, who does not
attend CSI but heard about the concert
through a friend.
The performance was held as a
fund raiser for the Scholarship for Single
Mothers with Financial Need. “We are
looking forward to setting up more
events,” said Ellen Goldner, Coordinator
of The Women’s Center.
The Single Mothers fund is new
and Goldner hopes that a scholarship
will become available some time next
year.
Women’s Center volunteers sold
raffle tickets in support of the Fund and
a drawing was held after the show. The
prizes included gift certificates for din
ner, spa time, a Pariato CD and a selecContlnued on page 3
Steve Blecker, College Health Assistant sitting at his desk in the Health
Center Office in the Campus Center. Photo: Palmiotto
Many
programs administered by the Health
Center provide an education on numerous
health related topics. These programs are
created to educate and inform the students
so they can make better decisions regard
ing their personal health. The CSI health
center provides free services for CUNY
students. Health insurance is not needed
for any in office consultations, treatments
or counseling. The center is open Monday
through Thursday.
Terrianne Darragh, BSN, RN, said
“there are over 12,000 students on cam
although
students
must acquire them off-campus.
“For students who experience per
sonal problems, family issues and depres
sion, it is good to know they have some
one to reach out to in their academic com
munity to talk out their problems," said stu
dent Danielle Puglia,
The staff is fully equipped to andle
various health issues.
“We do a lot of teaching here, health
teachings, and preventative measures,”
said Darragh.
Students Meet Whh
Elected Officials
Kevin S.P. Mamokas
March 6 - Students from all over New
York gathered in Albany to discuss
higher education issues with City and
State Representatives for the annual
Higher Education Lobby Day.
CSI students were given the
opportunity - thanks to the organizing of
the central NYPIRG staff and the fund
ing of Student Government - to discuss
in a small group, higher education with
representatives. Throughout the day,
each group spoke to several represen
tatives depending on the area in New
York they live in. Some Staten Island
resident students talked to John
Marchi, Diane Savino, and John
Lavelle.
“New York State has been a world
wide leader in public higher education,”
said NYPIRG Board Representative
Candidate Dan Beyer. “I want to make
sure that it remains a leader."
Continued on page 3
CSI's Chef Jeff Feeds S.l. On Campus and Off
Enrico Turchi
ost chefs learn how to cook at a
young age from people they
grew up admiring, while many
of the recipes were handed down
through generations. CSI chef, Jeff
Bullard, remembers watching his aunt
and uncle spend countless hours cook
ing for friends and family. The love and
teamwork they had for cooking was evi
dent in the gourmet dishes they created.
He considers them his mentors.
Since his early childhood days, Bullard
JefT Bullard, is living his childhood dream of being a chef
dreamt of becoming a chef. While many
and owning a restaurant. Photo: Turchi
of his friends wanted to become police
men or firemen, Bullard enrolled in NY
as easy as it seemed. Hard work, long
Tech’s Culinary Arts Program-the first
hours, and a fast, stressful pace can
step on a long journey to his fulfilling his
make anyone think twice about working
childhood passion. Doing his internship
in culinary field. After graduation, Chef
at Windows of the World, at the top of
Jeff worked at a newly opened restau
the World Trade Center, Bullard realized
rant on Staten Island called l-Hop.
that being a professional chef was not
“The pay was good but there really
M
wasn’t much of a creative aspect
involved," said Bullard. “I wanted to cre
ate different dishes and learn the cater
ing part of the business."
When a position became available
at the CSI, Cheff Jeff thought it would be
the perfect opportunity to spotlight his
culinary skills. The pay was less, but the
experience of creating different gourmet
dishes and doing large catering events
became priceless.
A life long desire to carry on his
family traditions and try some of the
recipes he learned from his aunt and
uncle is what drove Jeff to open his own
place. After 9 years at CSI, Chef Jeff
chose to open a cozy southern style
menu restaurant. Hoppin John’s, is
located on Beach and Van Duzer streets
in Staten Island.
“I have done a lot of research and
Continued on page 5
�Hill Ethics Office Rejected: Ohio GOP Still Denying Major Problems
Matt Safford
Republican
corruption
meltdown.
Republican Governor Bob Taft pleaded no
he tempest surrounding the Jack
contest for failing to disclose golf outings
Abromoff lobbying scandal has abat
and other gifts from lobbyists. Republican
ed at least for the moment and, per
Bob Ney, representative of Ohio's 13th dis
haps not surprisingly, much of the talk of trict, is directly involved in the Abramoff
lobbying reform on Capital hill is proving to
scandal and has recently stepped down
be nothing more than empty rhetoric.
from his position as Chairman of the House
T
Despite
bipartisan
efforts
by
Chairman of the Senate Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs Susan Collins (R-Maine), and the
committee's ranking Democrat Joseph
Administration Committee, though he
claims the allegations against him are
false. Ohio coin dealer, prominent GOP
fundraiser and longtime Toledo resident
Tom Noe is the subject of two separate
investigations and was recently indicted on
Lieberman (Conn.) to create a new inde
pendent office of public integrity the com
mittee voted 11 to 5 May 2, to defeat the
53 felony counts.
Of course, Voinovich himself has little
to worry about. He has another four years
before he has to consider his reelection if,
then at age 74, he decides to run at all.
Yet another politician who should
know better is newly elected House
Majority Leader John Boehner. Also from
Ohio, Boehner campaigned on reform rhet
Boehner may not admit there's a
foundation of a problem, but come
November, Ohioans may decide the real
problems lie in the Republican founda
tions. Like any election, it falls to the peo
ple to hold the powerful to task for their
misdeeds and empty promises. While this
largely wasn't the case in 2004, where
oric recently, defeating Roy Blunt for the
Majority Leader position. And yet, as I
reported earlier, days after his election as
Head of the House Boehner told Fox News
Sunday thaftaking actions to ban this and
Ohio's narrow support of President Bush
tipped the scales in favor of his reelection
bid, many of the GOP scandals which
were quietly fomenting then, have now
seen the light of day.
Ohio Republicans can make as many
false promises as they want about reform,
but their constituents aren't stupid. They
ban that, when there's no appearance of a
problem, there's no foundation of a prob
lem, I think, in fact, does not serve the insti
tution well."
proposal.
Instead, some lawmakers are claim
ing that stricter enforcement of the alreadyexisting rules through the Senate Select
Committee on Ethics is all that is needed.
According to a March 3 Washington Post
article, the chairman of that Senate
Committee on Ethics, Senator George
Voinovich (R-Ohio) claims "the ethics panel
doesn't not need any help because it is
already doing a thorough job of enforcing
know which party is corrupt and which
party is failing to clean up the corruption.
In 2004, Ohio was both a microcosm
of and a tipping point for the politics of a
nation; the same is likely to be the case
this November. But Ohio is looking mighty
ugly for the Republicans this time around,
particularly when their leaders are refusing
to change their ways, or even admit their
problems.
The real question is whether
Democrats in the state and across the
the chamber's rules.
Yet if Voinovich's committee was
doing such a "heckuva job," then how did
we get here in the first place? If any law
maker should be open to the idea of further
oversight of congressional ethics practices,
it should be Voinovich. His own state, in the
nation will continue to play to the middle,
the "NASCAR pool" as Bill Maher called it,
or if they'll attempt real change and make
themselves a true party of alternatives.
The only thing certain is that Americans
are fed up with politics as usual.
Despite several high-level scandals in the state, Ohio's Republican Leaders, including Senator George Voinovich and
House Majority Leader John Boehner, den) major changes to Capitol Hill ethics rules are necessary.
past year, has become ground zero for the
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Higher Education Hally
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Students and their representatives
discussed how the State Assembly
released a pro-student higher educa
tion budget proposal which provides
$131 million more for CUNY and SUNY.
"In my opinion, it seems that CUNY
and SUNY are drastically under funded,”
said
NYPIRG
Board
Representative Candidate Ilya Geller.
“For example, there is a great lack of
professors in the philosophy depart
ment.”
Meanwhile, the proposal also
includes more money for part-time
Tuition Assistance Program (TAP),
Assembly's proposal, but there could
be more,” said Gellar. "For instance,
double funding for opportunity pro
grams. Also, mid year TAP adjust
ments, which could help students who
have drastic changes in finances in the
middle of the year adjust their financial
aid.”
“We can’t afford to pay
higher education in ’06-’07 and
we won’t swallow automatic
annual tuition hikes in the
future.”
and
SUNY,
while reject
ing the gover
nor’s
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already required 12.
After Geller couldn’t speak to his
first representative as a result of the
representative not showing up to speak
with his group, he moved on to the next
representative. "While talking to the
representatives, I addressed increased
increased community college funding,
increased opportunity program funding
by 10 percent,
and increased
funding
for
full-time facul
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enrolled students to take a minimum of
15 credits a semester instead of the
Other important topics discussed
concerned
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gover
nor’s
pro
posal for an
annual
tuition
increase
of
operating funds for CUNY and not put
ting the tuition on the backs of stu
dents."
According to a NYPIRG press
release, "budget negotiations between
the State, Assembly, and Governor are
underway right now and it’s up to [stu
dents] to make sure that they know
where student voters stand."
"Students still need to continue
lobbying efforts," said Beyer. "Not nec
essarily going to Albany, but sending
letters and making phone calls to rep
resentatives to make our voices heard."
“We can’t afford to pay higher edu
cation in '06-’07 and we won’t swallow
automatic annual tuition hikes in the
future,” states the NYPIRG press
release. "We're already paying more
4%
and
along with a
proposal that
TAP should
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NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN
FOR THE SPRING 2006
ADP EDITOR
STUDENT ELECTIONS
MATTHEW SAFFORD
Nominate yourself for a position
as an elected student leader for the
2006-2007 academic year
STAFF
MATTHEW BECK
THOMAS BRADLEY
ANNMARIE COSTELLA
VANESSA LEIGH DEBELLO
ANNEMARIE DOOLING
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
Students listen attentively to Gretchen Parlato’s Jazz
concert. Photo: Plust
JENNIFER MILLER
ANDREW RAFFERTY
tion of chocolate sweets.
LAUREN TAYLOR
According to Goldner, CSI student
Alex Payne came up with the idea for the
raffle last year. Since then, the CSI foun
CONTRIBUTORS
dation has made a commitment to set up
the fund permanently.
Gretchen Parlato is the winner of
KHADIJAH RENTAS
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the 2004 Thelonious Monk International
JACALYN PALMIOTTO
Jazz Vocals competition and has per
formed at several festivals including the
STEFANI PLUST
ENRICO TURCHI
FACULTY ADVISER
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
2001 Ojai Music Festival, the Taos Jazz
and Latin Festival, the Tri-C Jazz
Positions are available on
the Student Government,
CSI Association,
College Council,
Auxiliary Services Corporation,
and
Faculty Student Disciplinary
Committee
Nomination period is
January 30-March 24
Most of these seats have credit and
GPA requirements.
Check in the student
government office,
Room1C-207
for further information.
Festival, and the concert for UNESCO in
Paris, France.
The event was sponsored by The
Pluralism and Diversity program, The
The completed nomination packet must be returned
to the SC office (IC-207) by noon on March 24
Women's Center, The Music Program,
Students for Women’s Concerns, The
Come to the student government office to pick up
your nomination form today
Musicians' Society and student activity
fees.
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Spring semester, my son wasn’t
due until early June, two and a
P
her. Together we set a deadline for the
completion of the paper. This was the
key component that I needed. Having a
final date in mind kept me focused. I
knew that this paper wasn’t going to be
my best work but it would be adequate
Mixing Babies
and Books
Owning a laptop also allowed me the
flexibility to take it to my mother’s
Three weeks before the Fall 05
semester began, I finished my paper.
That didn’t leave me much time before
I had the new concerns of my up-com
ing courses. Honestly, it was a struggle
juggling my part-time class load, a part
house, where she could keep the baby
distracted while I worked on my papers.
Pin-pointing opportunities to get
school work done were major steps in
fulfilling my projects. Remedying sleep
deprivation wasn’t as easy. With all the
added responsibilities, sleep had
become a luxury, but a needed one.
My husband and I established
“sleep schedules," where we took turns
half weeks after my last final. The tim
ing couldn’t have been better, leaving
three full months until the start of class
es.
However, just like class selection,
not every pregnancy fits into a perfect
schedule and time off to recover from
child birth may be limited to a couple of
weeks. Even with three months until the
resting while the other one looked after
the baby. Although I wasn’t always able
to fall asleep, closing my eyes and lying
down gave me just enough energy to
start of the next semester, I still had an
incomplete in an African American
fulfill my tasks for that day.
At the end of the Fall semester I
had completed one of two courses and
took an incomplete in the other. Now in
Studies course that I needed to finish.
During the weeks following my son’s
birth my mind could not hold a single
academic thought.
For a while I
thought I’d never be able to finish
school, let alone a final paper.
Being a person that likes to finish
what I’ve started, my final paper
loomed over my head. At times it was
difficult to focus on my son without
thinking about my paper.
Likewise,
when I was writing my paper, I was
thinking about my son. Often the two
collided. Many nights I typed my paper
with one hand while the other cradled
the baby.
I continued to correspond with my
professor and shared my obstacles with
the Spring semester, also my last
before graduation, I am carrying 6 cred
its and finishing a final paper.
It’s not easy. Many times when I
to fulfill the course. I thought about it in
view of the long run and asked myself
some questions. Will this one paper
make a difference in my life? What's
more important to me—spending time
with my son while he's still a baby or
getting an A? Of course, my answer
was my son. These baby moments are
moments that we just can’t get back or
do-over once they have passed.
time job and an infant.
Any free
moments I had at work, I used to write
my assignments or rest my eyes.
would just like to sleep, I can't.
Especially now, there is no room for
procrastination. My family and friends
remind me that in just a few months I’ll
Getting schoolwork done at home was
nearly impossible.
I had recently purchased a laptop
computer just for this problem. Instead
be graduating with my BA degree. With
that thought in mind, I am able to stay
focused and push through my fatigue.
In the end, I know I will be proud of
of having to work only in the room with
the computer, I was able to write my
myself for staying in school and finish
ing and it will be something that my son
can be proud of too.
assignments wherever the baby was.
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE REPORTER COMES TO CSI
AnnMarie Costello
CSI journalism students were treated to
a special lecture when Maura Yates, 24,
a general assignment
reporter for the Staten
Island Advance, paid
their Com 277 class a
visit.
Yates appeared
nervous as she pre
pared to play the role
of teacher, but her
bright and bubbly per
sonality made it easy
for students to ask
her numerous ques
tions. “That was my
first time being the
She continued her education receiving
a Bachelor’s degree in English
Literature with a minor in Journalism
from Hunter
College.
“Journalism
gives you a
taste of what
life is like out
there,”
she
said.
“It
broadens
your perspec
tive.”
Yates told
the class of
the fun
excitement
she
experi
interviewee, so it was
certainly an interest
ing experience to
have
the
ences every
day and of the
many lessons
she
has
tables
turned," she said. “It
was nice to see that
the class was so alert
at 9 a m. and every
one
asked
really
and
Staten Island Advance Reporter Maura Yates visted
Intro to Journalism class and gave insight into the field.
Yates appreicated the students and their thoughtful
questions.
thoughtful questions."
Yates began an internship at the
Advance five years ago, when she
graduated from Curtis High School
learned. "It is
important to
be a people
person," she
said. "Be bold,
ask good questions, and most impor
tantly know when to shut up and just lis
ten." Yates described the enormous
sense of satisfaction she receives from
writing obituaries, a task that is usually
despised by most beginners. “They [the
families] send you thank-you notes.
said.
Sometimes they even cut out the article
out and frame it,” she recalled. “To
per ODB. Yates also described the
embarrassment she felt when she was
She recalled some unusual stories
she had covered like the funeral of rap
assigned to do an opinion survey to
Be bold, ask good
questions, and most
importantly know when to
shut up and just listen.
know that I have written something that
means so much to someone is a good
feeling."
Many students were curious to
learn exactly what their future occupa
determine what Staten Islanders
thought of John Gotti’s love child. "I
approached this very educated looking
man on the Staten Island Ferry and
posed this rather ridiculous question.
He replied: ‘I think there are more
important things going on in this world,
but good luck with your journalistic
career.' I felt so hurt.” However, she did
point out that while bad experiences will
inevitably occur, it should never deter
journalists from getting their story.
Soon after being promoted to copy
editor, Yates left the advance. “It was a
tion would entail. Yates was more than
happy to describe her average work
day. She begins at 4:00pm by logging
step up, but it wasn’t the direction I
wanted to go in." She began a brief
employment with the New York Sun, a
into
conservative paper with poor distribu
tion. "It vyasn’t lucrative, but it was worth
the Advance’s
computer
and
checking the budget of stories to find
out what assignment she has been
given. Then she spends much of her
time doing background research, trav
eling across the island, conducting
interviews, and editing and revising her
stories. “When you have to do it every
day, you know where you’re going,” she
its weight in experience." In May, Yates
returned to the Advance as full time
reporter. “Everyday is an adventure,"
she said. “You never know what’s going
to happen."
�MArch 13,2006
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From the Editor
SG Senator and Third Rail Editor Shawn
Rsher recently introduced a referendum
initiative to dissolve the Publications
Board at CSI and return control of
Publications’ funding to Student
Government. Student Government
approved the initiative on March 2.
Rsher claims that the Publications
Board is unfair because the majority of
the members are faculty. He has assert
ed that students should control how stu
dent money should be allocated. Rsher
articulates valid concerns, but they do
not warrant dismantling the Publications
Board, and certainly not returning con
trol of CSI Publications’ money Student
Government.
Fisher introduced the inititative
without presenting his idea to the
Publications Board he is trying to dis
mantle. By doing so, he has created a
situation where there may not be
enough time for the Publications Board
to work out a compromise solution.
Campus publications, including the
College Voice, the Third Rail, See Me,
The Banner, Serpentine, and Always A
Women, are now faced with a March
24th deadline.
Here’s what this editor believes:
Student Government should not control
Publications' money because budget
decisions would give them the power to
stop funding publications if members of
student government do not like the con
tent they see. A free press cannot be
funded by a government on which it
depends for its livelihood.
I hope that common sense will pre
vail and a compromise can be worked
out. Perhaps a budget committee,
majority students, should be formed
within the Publications Board.
I am sorry to see that Student
Government has approved Fisher’s ref
erendum proposal. I think if they had a
full understanding of the First
Amendment and freedom of the press,
they would not have made such a deci
sion.
Had I known that this initiative was
on the table, I would have spoken out
against it in an attempt to dissuade
Student Government from approving it.
To prevent something like this from hap
pening again, not only would I suggest
the student-majority funding committee
within the Publications Board, but I
would suggest that Student Government
propose their own initiative requiring that
senators not hold leadership positions in
any other club or activity while serving
on SG.
If the referendum to dissolve the
Publications Board goes through as
scheduled, I urge every student to vote
against it. I also urge the CUNY Board of
Trustees to defeat the proposal, should
it get that far.
-David Maltz
Re: Cleanliness of Campus Toilets
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First, I would like to say I am not related to
Vincent Bono. If I were, those cans would
be clean enough to eat off. Sometimes I go
through the agony of waiting till I go home
just to avoid hovering over the oval
cesspool we call, a CSI toilet. I believe 1P is
the cleanest and my last resort when there
is no turning back. Running home is getting
to be a problem, so please grab a sponge
and a snake and get these bathrooms
sparkling.
- Chris Bono, Senior
The more humans consume, the more they
need to release, whether through solid, liq
uid or gas. Psychologists believe that many
students consume a lot more food than
usual when they are under pressure. In
excessively consuming or starving the body,
gastro intestinal complication to arise
increasing the need for students to use the
facilities.
There are not enough toilet paper rolls
in the bathroom. In some restrooms, stu
dents wipe feces on the walls. The janitors
see this everyday and walk pass it blind
folded.
- Peter Y. Barnes, Senior
I feel that a majority of the students think
that the janitorial staff is not doing their jobs.
In reality, CSI has a large student population
and in order to keep the bathroom supplied
and the toilets clean, students must learn to
treat it as though they are at home. I am
sure you wouldn’t throw toilet paper on the
floor at home, why do it here? Students
should also take the initiative and report
problems to the maintenance department.
One pet peeve I have is the janitors should
make sure that there is plenty of paper tow
els and toilet paper on hand. This is a con
stant problem.
- Enrico Turchi, Junior
I agree that the cleanliness of the CSI rest
rooms is disgusting. But on top of every
thing stated you forgot to mention that at
times brown water comes out of the sinks.
This isn’t helping me wash my hands espe
cially after touching the filthy restroom. I
rather hold everything in.
- Frances Mitilis, Senior
I could not agree more on the article regard
ing the lack of cleanliness of the campus
bathrooms. I have witnessed students drop
ping paper towels on the floor or in the sink
perhaps because the garbage pail was full
or they were simply too lazy to make the
effort. Staff cannot be held responsible,
however, the stalls themselves are usually
neglected. I did not know a well-kept bath
room could be found on campus. Now I
know just where to find one—the adminis
trative buildings. Is it a coincidence that fac
ulty is neater? I think it may just be a case
of special treatment!
- Lauren Dementrio, Junior
CSI Students Snub Black History Month
It is not surprising to me that students at CSI
have had no interest in attending a discus
sion about diversity. A real shock would
have been if the event was jam-packed they
had to turn would-be attendees away. For
most students here, it seems that they are
most comfortable in familiar surroundings
and have no interest in those outside their
community. This lack of curiosity of others is
in direct contradiction to the ultimate goal of
attending college. Diversity is not something
you can force, but there is a natural pro
gression.
- John DePetro, Junior
I was struck by the directness of the quote
of Suleimon Olaiya. As conflicting as it can
be, .this student actually painted a fair por
trait of how different populations just refuse
to mix with others.
This is a problem I have lived with in my
fours years at this college. There’s just an
invisible wall among CSI students. Rare are
the students who you can see beyond this
cultural barrier.
- Raphaella Moreli
added Chinese to their program.
The CSI library has no foreign lan
guage books and the library's electronic
sources don't offer any multi-lingual elec
tronic dictionaries. It’s laughable to assume
that CSI students could get a job with a for
eign TV company or the United Nations
based on the catastrophic conditions of CSI
Modern Language Departement. I was
amused at the article.
- Lucie Lauria
CSI’s Willowbrook Expert Speaks Out
I am very glad to see that the Willowbrook
story is getting coverage. There are so
many aspects to write about, including the
recent recent decision declining the use of
old Willowbrook buildings for campus hous
ing. It is important, like any other atrocity, to
remember what we’d like to forget. It also
clears up some misunderstandings people
might have about the incident and its out
come.
- Stefanie Plust
David Lee Roth: Really Not That Funny
It is really inspiring to see musicians like
Grentchen Parlato perform to raise funds for
single mothers with a need for financial aid.
Many women who have children and have
to work and try to go to school for a better
life, struggle so much to balance all these
and they certainly can use extra financial
help. Being that the event is for free, I don’t
see a reason why people wouldn’t attend to
enjoy an afternoon of music while helping
make a difference in others lives.
There are only two parties to blame for the
Roth disaster and the lack of quality radio
hosts: The FCC and the broadcasting com
panies themselves. The FCC has decided it
is their job to decide for me what I should
and should not be watching and listening to.
They cave to the complaining special inter
est groups that are turning all entertainment
into commercialized garbage. Companies
like Infinity Broadcasting let the overrated
Stem leave to Satellite, while hiring inexpe
rienced names that only think they can host
a radio show.
Satellite Radio is the new thing, but XM
should have been mentioned in the article.
Not only is XM a better company than
Sirius, it has better talent.
- Tihane Tamri
- Ronald Savarese
Jazz concert to Raise Funds for Single
Mother’s Scholarship
Women’s Soccer to Extend Season Into
Spring
First, congratulations to the students on the
Soccer Team. It’s awesome that our soccer
team have made it this, with all the effort put
into training. A special thanks goes out to
Lauren Baydal for being persistent in joining
the team.
It’s motivating to see the CSI women's
soccer team went undefeated last fall. I
enjoy going to socce rgames, especially
when the team I’m rooting for wins. I hope
the change of captain improves the team. I
will continue rooting for the CSI soccer
team.
- Nakibar Loney
UN Rep Says Bonjour at Campus Career
Talk
I couldn't help but wonder how CSI students
could get a job at RAI or the UN if the level
of language studies at CSI is so poor. The
modern languages department does not
offer any advanced Italian, French or
Russian classes. However, they have
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there aren’t too many Southern restau
rants on the Island," said Jeff.
Chef Jeff is maintaining his posi
tion at CSI while trying to build up a
clientele for his new restaurant.
Many chefs believe that cus
tomers make it a point to complain
when they don't enjoy their meals, but
rarely compliment the chef and his
workers, when they are satisfied with
the food. Chef Jeff’s philosophy is that
in order to stay sane in this business, a
chef must enjoy what they are doing
and acknowledge that every dish they
create, they did it to their best ability.
"Being recognized as a person is
more vital than being recognized as a
good chef,” he said. “But a compliment
here and there by my customers is
always appreciated.”
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CSI students show their support for the New York Rangers by wearing
their jerseys.
The fans at Madison Square Garden yell in protest as
the referees miss a game-changing call.
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The Brilliance.com- The brain child of
Chuck Anderson, an artist, and Ben
Gott,
information
architect,
The
Brilliance is a day to day memo of what’s
popping in their daily lives. Inspirations
and peeves that reflect the ideals and
interests of the two creators are posted
in a loose form and conclude with a link
to "more information" concerning the
given thought topic.
White background and sparse
imagery place the postings in a gallery
like format that funnels the viewer’s
attention solely on the postings. Void of
overt advertisements, The Brilliance
delves into a mindful spectrum as deep
as it is broad, and yet avoids main
stream commercial subject matter with
out being too subversive. The site’s cre
ators interview various members of the
global creative community asking seri
ous questions but maintaining a nuance
of laughter throughout. All in all, it's a
great site for random, interesting, and
thought provoking information that can
break up the monotonous internet expe
rience.
BogartNYC.com- A young site that
seems to have a grip on the niche cul
ture it comments upon, Bogart NYC is a
daily visit with postings that range from
outrageous sneaker-heads to design
guru Josh Davis to the NY Times
Magazine. Run by young thinkers out
side the academy who comment on cul
ture from a smart, youthful, humorous
perspective, the site critiques the spe
cific object of a post with links to follow
up or background information. An even
handed delivery of images and text
make for a more exciting viewing for the
user while their links will have you on
mouse arrest for hours.
Superfuture.com- Started in 1998,
Superfuture.com has become an
absolute internet monster. Superfuture
is the culmination of an international
community that feeds the site informa
tion concerning all things cool and cre
ative on this planet. They have hotel
reviews for Sri Lanka and underground
music shops in Tibet. It doesn't matter if
you’ll never go to these places because
just the realization that they exist is awe
inspiring.
Perusing the site will brighten the
eyes of any weary-eyed West Shore
and Brooklyn/Queens Expressway trav
eler. Designed to not only alert the view
er to what is happening outside their
neck of the woods, or in future travel
destinations, but also what’s going on in
their part of the global village.
Superfuture is constantly growing as the
content comes from a mass of young
professionals combing the world,
searching for nooks yet to be blogged
and interesting people not yet on
MySpace.
HeronPreston.com- A design and
management student at Parsons, Heron
Preston is a kid way ahead of the game.
The site provides constant inspiration
because of the creator’s youth (he’s
22!) which he hasn’t allowed to slow him
down. As he travels the world exploring
and interviewing those creative types
who make it interesting to be around,
Preston takes a perspective applicable
to the lives of young student types look
ing to do more than ‘work to consume.’
With an impressive resume of con
nections on both the east and west
coasts, Preston moved his H.Q. to
Paris, France for a few months. Out
there he seems to be accomplishing the
same type of HP hustle, living up to his
motto, “Live Above Mediocrity." We
should all hope to internalize his mes
sage not only because he is one of us,
but because it represents the very idea
of what we do in college: aspire to reach
our potential.
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New York-based Blue Ideal Media
Network, Inc. launched their first web
site, TechOnline.org, on February 27.
The site, "Inspired by shared public
efforts such as Mozilla and Wikipedia,
aims to be an online technology-oriented
media hub with content written solely by
its readers. Taking what they call an
"open source publishing approach," the
company hopes to attract contributions
from technology consumers, right up to
CEOs, and at every level between.
All technology-based content is wel
come, from an end-user review of the
latest gadget, to large-scale analysis of
trends in microchip production. If you
have an opinion or a scoop in the infinite
world of technology, TechOnline.org
wants to hear it.
Far from expecting every geek-jour
nalist in the world to jump on board
sans-enticement, Blue Ideal has
arranged a myriad of interesting techtasty prizes at launch, and on-going
If you’re interested in reading or writng about technol
ogy, check out TechOnline.org. Send them a good arti
cle and you could win upt to $1775, or a number of
other tech prizes.
daily, monthly, half-yearly and yearly
prizes for the articles voted best by the
Tech Online team. As their PR depart
ment is fond of pointing out, each sub
mitted article has the chance to win its
author $1775 in prizes. They even claim
that they'll help you edit them.
Another interactive aspect of Tech
Online is the voting booth. Every reader
will have the chance to indicate which
specific product in a specific category
(think flat screen monitor or hybrid vehi
cle for instance) is best, with the option
to change their vote as new products
appear. The object is to create a dynam
ic "best of tech" list, totally constructed
with input from users.
Like any other citizen journalism
project, the success of Tech Online
depends largely on the level and fre
quency of submissions from its readers,
and whether the content creates a com
munity sufficiently enticing to constantly
draw in new readers. Blue Ideal Media,
at least preliminarily, seems to have
done a decent job of putting the right
pieces in place. Let the Tech-junky citi
zen journalism games begin!
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Diversity and Awareness Series
Forum
Tuesday March 21
Brokeback Mountain
Special Showing at 1:15 in 1C-21
Discussion at 3:30 in 10215
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CSI’s Hillel Held a Jewish Food Festival in 1C. Students were treated to various ethnically Jewish tood, including Matzah Balls,
Potato Kugel, Falafel.and Cholent. ‘The whole purpose of this is to open the students’ eyes up to the world,” said Evan Fogel.
Fogel and Jason Cohen planned the event.
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From March 6 through March 18
Attention CSI Students
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President Marlene Springer and the Student Government
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careers.homedepot.com
The Home Depot is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Bilingual candidates are encouraged to apply.
Available positions may vary by store.
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
2:30pm - 3:30pm
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Impressionism: Prints from a
Private Collection
Fatime Tahiraj, an art history major, and Gallery Director, Craig
Manister admire “The Benson Family Dog.” Photo: Costella
AnnMarie Costella
CSI’s gallery proudly celebrates
gifted artists with a new exhibit entitled
“New England Impressionism: Prints
from a Private Collection," that will run
from February 15 through March 22.
The show features 35 etchings and lith
ographs made from 1920-1940. Two
documentaries on etching will play con
tinuously throughout the duration of the
exhibit.
Frank Weston Benson, an artist
from Salem, Massachusetts, created
more than 16 of the works currently on
display. He was an avid hunter and
sportsman who used his love of nature
i
to capture many breathtaking scenes.
“Benson popularized the so-called
"Sporting Print," explained Gallery
Curator, Dr. Nannette Salomon. “He
made many sensitive renderings of
birds, all caught in flight or the act of
landing," The most unusual piece in the
collection, however, is a chromo litho
graph entitled: "Benson Family Dog."
This superb color portrait beautifully
captures the essence of the artist’s
beloved pet.
The gallery is located in building 1P,
an area heavily populated by students;
unfortunately few take the time to visit.
“At one time art was a form of entertain
ment for people, but today we have trou
ble getting students to even look at a
black and white film,” said Gallery
Director, Craig Manister. “If you come
and look at these images, you will real
ize how beautiful they are and what skill
it took to create them.”
The collection was loaned to CSI by
an anonymous couple, who placed the
prints in early 20th century style frames
in order to accurately represent the time
period when they were produced.
“These prints require careful and medi
tative viewing,” said Dr. Salomon. “Their
beauty and charm repays the viewer
with endless hours of pleasure."
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Casual Sex
No one is single anymore. It’s like
there’s something in the pizza here that
makes couples hook up, and hold on to
each other for dear life. But when
you’re not sure if you wanna do that,
sometimes it’s easier just to mess
around with people. After all, even if
you do run into someone else, on this
oh-so-tiny island who is single, it does
n’t mean they’re relationship material. It
seems the best thing to do is just have
fun for the night. You wouldn’t be alone.
There are plenty of single people out
there enjoying the benefits a healthy
sex life can bring you. So, what are
your options if you don’t have a regular
partner waiting for you at home?
Back in the poodle skirt days of
yesteryear, women who had premarital
sex were scandalous. However, in that
era, women who did almost anything
except cook, clean, and watch after
baby were socially taboo. The norm
was hand holding, and if you were real
ly neato-super lucky, Johnny would let
you wear his pin and walk you to the
football game. Occasionally he would
even park his Chevy over by the Belt
Parkway look out point and attempt a
feel up your blouse. That was the good
girls cue to get Johnny to take you
home. But, it was nothing out of the
ordinary. That sexual tug-of-war was
just about the entire courting experi
ence. It was excitement; it was some
thing to chat about with your girlfriends
on the phone that night after Ed
Sullivan. More than that, it was con
ducive to the standards of society dur
ing those years. Today, if you tried to
call your friend and let her know a boy
10
put his arm around you, she’d probably
tion between them. Turns out he was
tell you to shut up- because she’s try
even fantastic in bed. I believe she
ing to watch 24. And come to think of it,
quoted him as “the best I’ve ever had!”
she probably wouldn’t answer, and
When you have sex, your body goes
you’d end up texting, or e-mailing the
through many changes. Blood rushes
conversation to her anyway. You know
through your entire system, making
she’d be on the computer. Who really
some obvious body parts (and not so
uses landline phones anymore? I
obvious body parts- like lips) bigger.
guess we can blame the current situa
Endorphins are released through your
tion on the sexual revolution of the
body, causing that lighter than air Tm
60’s, or mini skirts, or Carrie Bradshaw,
in love’ feeling, but also doing so much
but we women have quite a bit of flexi
more.
bility today. And if that flexibility wants
The types of endorphins that are
you to have sex on
released following sex
the first date, you
are sedative. In other
And if that flexibility wants you
won’t be stoned in
words, they’re morphine
to
have
sex on the first date, you
the streets any
for your emotional sens
won’t be stoned in the streets any
more. In fact, in
es, and work as a type of
some
circum
more. In fact, in some circumstances, pain reliever. With a
stances, sex on the sex on the first date can actually be combination of good
first date can actu
spirits and healthy blood
helpful.
ally be helpful.
flow, regular sex can
A friend
of
even assist in combating
mine
recently
minor illness, like colds
began dating a very shy boy. When he
or flu. Your skin tone can also improve,
gained your trust he could yack your
and your general ability to learn or take
ear off, but in general, he didn’t have
in new information. Not to mention the
the moves to bed her. Still, she liked
simple act of sex can burn around 7000
him- he was attractive and very smart,
calories in one tryst alone. So, if just
and she knew that something had to be
having sex can hand off all these ben
done to get that tension out of him. So,
efits, why doesn’t everyone just go
she had sex with him on the first-and a
ahead and hook up?
half date. You know, the casual meet
Casual experiences can leave you
ing after the first date. Unplanned,
feeling great, but they can also leave
spontaneous, just a friendly "hey,
you feeling empty if they aren’t what
wanna run out for a coffee real quick..."
you want. A common misconception
And then she took him home, and had
between sex and dating is that many
sex with him. Since then he’s blos
women feel they need to have sex to
somed a good amount. Apparently he
make a man interested in them. The
was just nervous about pleasing her,
result is this poor girl, trying way too
and letting was it over-run the connec
hard. And even if she does get the guy
in bed, he isn’t there for the same rea
sons and probably won’t be sticking
around for the same reasons either.
The media of the sexual revolution has
failed you. I know Cosmo wants you to
think that super tiny mini skirt will get
that guy in Chem. class’ heart racing.
However, it won’t. It’ll get his penis rac
ing, and if you could care less about his
penis, you have a serious problem. If
you like someone, and you want more
than to be bed-buddies, this is some
thing that needs to be communicated.
Nobody wants to intentionally hurt
someone’s feelings- and if they do, it’s
not someone who deserves to be
between your legs, anyway. And on the
same page, if all you want from some
one is sex, that also needs to be com
municated. Boys like love, too. I know
it’s difficult to believe, but sometimes
they actually want to be with girls for
more than head or a break in the foot
ball game. Your confident one night
stand could be a potential heartbreak
for him.
And I know I don’t need to tell you
this, but for Christ’s sake, use protec
tion. You have enough problems, you
don’t need to worry about things grow
ing off your genitals, or missed periods.
All it takes is one time- even half of one
time- to turn that one night stand into a
person you need to start making seri
ous decisions with. So, use your head,
use your heart. Really concentrate on
what it is that you want. Don’t lie to
yourself. And ignore what the rest of
the world thinks. After all, you’re the
only person you need to answer to
when it comes to sex.
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Music Picks
Undiscovered Artists, Cover Tunes and Live Tracks. MySpace Has it All.
y Space, the latest internet
phenomenon with over 60 mil
lion members, reunites old
class mates; helps people make
friends, or even gain business con
tacts. However, it’s most overlooked
function is its contribution to the music
industry. Artists, who could never get
radio airplay, now have the chance to
find an audience. New generations can
discover forgotten performers. Fans
can hear exclusive live tracks and
obscure covers by their favorite bands.
M
Here are a few acts that are worth
checking out:
Key Track: “We Want Cunt”
HoffiSIIS®
Emilie Autumn
mixes the genres
of Goth, Industrial,
and Classical to
create the most
interesting brand
of music that has emerged in years.
Destined to be regarded as a pioneer,
Autumn brashly asks: “Are you ready
to suffer?” She sings with urgency and
emotion. Her penetrating voice gently
hovers over violin and piano chords.
Autumn hails from Chicago, Illinois
and describes her music as: “The best
cup of English Breakfast spiked with
cyanide and smashed on your antique
wallpaper.”
Her
debut
album
“Opheliac” is available on the inde
pendent label Traitor Records.
Key Track:
Company”
“Misery
Tom Bradley
Jeffree Star, a flam
boyant drag queen from
Hollywood, California,
lists his occupation as:
“voice, boyfriend thief,
and mannequin." His
unique deadpan style of singing explic
it homo-erotic lyrics over catchy disco
beats sets him apart from other gender
bending performers. Star compares his
music to “lipstick scraping against con
crete." He is not yet signed to a record
label, but with tunes like “Straight
Boys,” and “We Want Cunt," it won't be
long before he achieves mainstream
success.
new
Loves
Cabaret, formed by
duo Jaroslaw Pawlik
and Michal Bieniek, is
an exceptional new
electronic band from
Warszawa,
Poland.
They are heavily influ
enced by artists such
as Depeche Mode and
David Bowie. Cabaret
released two albums in
2005 “Electric Chair
Song" and “Homophobia” on the inde
pendent label Artoffact Records. Their
mix of bizarre poetry and eerie
macabre rhythms are the perfect
soundtrack for the masochist in all of
us.
Key Track: “Homophobia Nr 9”
Quest, among others, would make
poetic
state
ave Chappelle is probably one
ments
amid
of the most influential comics to
jazz-sampled
come along in a decade. So
beats and lyri
when I heard he’d made a movie it cal ability went
wasn’t anything to flinch over.
farther than the
However, when news came that it was
ability to push
a documentary about the secret “block
powder. But, I
party” Chappelle had held in Fort
digress,
Greene, Brooklyn last year, I was more
because Hipthan interested. Those familiar with his
Hop
must
“Chapelle Show" program on, or sort of
evolve even if
on, Comedy Central already knew of
the evolution
Dave’s musical tendencies. With skits
seems like a
spoofing R. Kelly and Rick James
decline.
along with musical guests doubling as
Dave
comedic actors like John Mayer and
Chappelle
?uestlove, Chappelle clearly enjoyed
hired out the
celebrating his musical influences.
keepers of the
It was upon reading a New York
early Hip-Hop
Times article last spring that I'd found
faith for his
Chappelle had concieved of and host
event.
ed the secret event. It was then I real
Rappers
like
ized what he was after. Chappelle's
Dead
Prez,
musical tendencies seem to stem from
Brooklyn natives Talib Kweli and Mos
early nineties’ Hip-Hop, before rap
Def, Kanye West, and the Roots are
lyrics became a vast, mumbling sea of
just a few of the performers enlisted by
felonies, jail-time, and rims. Groups
Dave to rock the party the way it used
like De la Soul and A Tribe Called
to be. The idea of having a secret block
D
John Foxx popu
larized the “retro-mod
ern" brand of electronica with his 1980
ground breaking album
“Metamatic," propelling
the single “Underpass” to #31 on the
UK charts. Foxx’s nasal drone, odd
appearance, and futuristic music
videos gained him success in Europe
however mainstream US appeal has
eluded him.
Key Track: “Underpass”
Gone but Not Forgotten
Fall®®
Falco,
born
Johann Holzel, in
Vienna, Austria was
a classically trained
musician
who
blended
dance
music with German lyrics. His suave
appearance, slicked back black hair,
and fashionable attire made him a
favorite among female fans. Falco’s
colorful and outrageous music videos
helped bolster his success. In 1982,
he had his first European hit with “Der
Kommissar.” The English cover version
of the song by After the Fire landed in
the US Top Five. In 1986, Falco
achieved international acclaim with his
ode to Mozart, “Rock Me Amadeus."
His follow up single “Vienna Calling"
was only a minor hit and he quickly
faded into obscurity. Tragically, Falco
party, void of outlandish ticket sales
and overpriced mer
chandise, with per
formers of the genre
who gave it the
artistic merit it clings
to so desperately
now, is in the same
lane as say, the
original Woodstock?
Yet before
anybody gets all too
revolutionary,
Chappelle picks up
a bullhorn and does
what he does by
wise cracking and
joking the whole
way through. It is his
gift for humor that
permits his auda
cious candor, allow
ing statements to be
made about race,
economics, and life
without the usual politicized junk that
follows such remarks. Dave even
found a way to use his hysterics as the
catalyst of a most unlikely reunion. The
Fugees, a seminal group that fused rap
died in a car accident on February 6,
1998. He was only 40 years old. Falco
will forever be remembered as a gifted
artist and an 80s icon.
Key Track: “Rock Me Amadeus”
Best Obscure Cover
“Two of Hearts” by
Kelly Osbourne
Punk princess,
Kelly Osbourne, has
done a superb job
reinterpreting
the1986 Stacy Q classic. Her lilting
voice adds an interesting twist to this
club favorite. The cover remains true to
the light bouncy quality of the original,
however, it has significantly stripped
down the saccharin soaked vocals.
The song appeared as a bonus track
on
the
Japanese
release
of
Osbourne’s 2005 album “Sleeping in
Nothing."
Best Exclusive Live Track
“Public Warning”
by Lady Sovereign
Lady Sovereign,
the
British grime
queen, shows off her
rapid rhyming skills on this live version
of “Public Warning". The song original
ly .appeared on her UK debut album of
the same name, which was a limited
release and is no longer available.
Fans who visit Sov’s My Space page
can legally download the track for free.
with trenchtown, Motown, and uptown
during those golden years before HipHop went platinum, came together for
the first time on stage since the group
disbanded in the late nineties. The
group put on a solid performance
recalling the days when their album
“The Score" became the most sold
Hip-Hop album of all time.
Overall the movie, directed by
Michel Gondry of “Eternal Sunshine"
fame, plays like a Chappelle Presents:
The Best Music of My Life! The acts
create a sense of the man who put it all
together as they delve deep into the
soul of Hip-Hop by being intelligent,
humorous, and socially progressive
entertainment. This is the essence of
both Chappelle and his concert, a ver
itable moment of glory for all fans of all
races and genders who appreciate the
art as much as Dave. Not necessarily
the “Half-Baked" comedy I’d originally
envisioned but certainly worth the
viewing. If you don’t check for it in the
theaters, this is a definite DVD buy as
it works overtime as both documentary
and soundtrack.
11
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Island
SPORTS
March 13„ 2006
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WOMEN LOSE FINALS, 73-46. BARUCH NABS CUNYAC TROPHY
Khadijoh Rentas
The Dolphins could not repeat last season’s trophy win
and lost to Baruch at home in the championship game
Feb 24. The women had trouble holding the Bearcats,
especially without last year’s MVP, guard Acasha
Gordon, who left the game with an injury nine minutes
"I thought that we'd win because they beat us during the season. I thought the
girls would come out ready to play/7 —Coach Badagliacco
missed Dolphin shots. The Dolphins earned a field goal
percentage in the first and second half of only 19.4 per
cent and 27.8 percent. “We are a team that lives and
Coach Gualtieri, clearly disappointed with the team’s result in the CUNYAC finals, attributed the loss to Acasha Gordon’s exit and the team’s inexperience. “Acasha is
a good money player,” said Coach Gualtieri. “I thought her going down did hurt us mentally. I expected Baruch to play the way they did, but I didn’t expect us to panic.”
into the first half. Baruch’s superior pressure defense
and shooting skill kept the Dolphins to only 17 and 29
points in the first and second half.
Women on both sides played aggressively, with
some rebound fights ending with opposing players
wrestling on the ground for the Wilson game ball.
Baruch, though, had the edge with 65 total rebounds.
CSI grabbed only 41. The Dolphins entered the cham
pionship battle with a six-game winning streak, but the
no. 1 seeded Bearcats managed to surprise some with
the upset win and unseat the defending champs.
“I expected them [Baruch] to play the way they did,"
Head Coach Marguerite Gualtieri said after the game.
“But I didn’t expect us to panic."
Coach Gualtieri, clearly disappointed, attributed the
loss to Gordon’s exit and the team’s youth. “Acasha is a
good money player," said Coach Gualtieri. “I thought her
going down did hurt us mentally."
Gordon was only one of four juniors and seniors in
the game. Three of the five starters, guards Melanie
D’Ambrosi, Nicole Estrada and Jessica Leardi are fresh
men. “They made us work for everything," Coach
Gualtieri said. “And our youth showed a little tonight.”
The top scorer for the Dolphins, senior starter Kim
Thompson, scored 18 total points and recovered eight
rebounds. She scored four more than the game MVP,
Chiresse Paradise, but Paradise recovered 18
rebounds and had three fewer turnovers. At the game’s
end, the Dolphins walked from the Baruch celebration
on the court to their bench. They slouched. They looked
tired. Thompson cried.
“I’m proud of her and I’m proud of coaching her for
four years," said Coach Gualtieri about Thompson. “She
has nothing to be embarrassed about.”
Baruch snatched 43 defensive rebounds from
dies by the jump shot and we are going to have nights
when we die by the jump shot," Coach Gualtieri said. “
We rushed and we didn’t shoot with confidence."
The win even surprised Baruch Head Coach Machli
Joseph who “didn’t expect to win so big." He critiqued
the Dolphins strategy as in adequate because he said
CSI’s starters played too long. The bearcats had a tenperson rotation whereas the Dolphins had eight. “They
just ran out of gas,” Coach Joseph said. “They just did
n’t have enough.”
“The girls have played a lot of minutes the whole
year,” Coach Gualtieri said. “It was more missing shots
and not playing with confidence.”
Assistant Coach Jackie Badagliacco felt confident
prior to the start. She became acting coach in time for
the last game of the season and the three tournament
games. With her leadership in the quarterfinals, the
Dolphins defeated Medgar Evers for the second time in
three meetings this season, 87-68. In a tighter game,
the women beat no. 3 seeded John Jay in the semifi
nals, 77-69.
“I thought that we’d win because they beat us dur
ing the season," Coach Badagliacco said. “I thought the
girls would come out ready to play.” The Dolphins did not
triumph in the Jan 18 game against Baruch, their first
meeting of the season. They lost by nine points after a
13-point deficit at the half. Not so lucky this time, they
were down by 14 points at the half and 27 at the last
buzzer. The Dolphins lost by over 15 points four out of
nine times this season.
Before the game, Coach Badagliacco spoke indi
vidually to the starters. She said they were focused then
but something changed as the game progressed. “I
think they buckled under the pressure," she said. She,
too, believed the team’s youth impeded the win.
“I think people just gave up after a while,” said
Nicole Estrada, who scored the second highest on her
team with 13 points. “We were down by so much."
“It’s hard when you’re in a game and you have to
play catch up,” commented Coach Badagliacco, across
the table from Estrada. “I think we put a lot of pressure
on ourselves.”
Senior forward Andrea Kleboe played the least with
only eight minutes, but explained after the game that
she did not expect to have the opportunity to play in the
championship round because the team lost four starters
last year. “I’m upset that we lost but at the same time
we weren't supposed to be here.” She expected the
shake-up would hurt the team more than it helped.
She also knew Baruch would present a tough
match. “We had to play near perfect to beat them,” she
said. “We just didn’t."
Computer Lounge for Athletes Coming to IR
Lucie Laurio
Instead of making a long trip from the sports building
to the Library, CSI’s student athletes might have a
chance to use eight wireless computers at the planned
cyber cafe in the Sports and Recreation Center.
The new Director of Athletes, Jason Fein, intends
to build a student athlete academic center which could
also offer tutoring and counseling service. “It depends
on getting the funding,” said Fein. “The new snack bar
has already been approved for the summer.”
According to the CSI Campus Planning Office, the
furniture would include “loveseats, sofas, and chairs
with rounded arm fronts and beautifully rolled seat
backs - a functional alternative that transitions
between work and leisure."
The plan includes eight computers, a printer, and
a study area with six coffee tables, six loveseats, and
a glass trophy case.
The computers for the lounge should get the
financing from the student technology fee. “The
request for funding will be on the table maybe late
March or April," said Michael Daniels, Associate Dean
for Student Affairs. “The budget for the new fiscal year
has to be approved. Nothing will happen till at least
July 1st.”
The snack bar, built in the woodwork and over
looking the gym, will open in the summer. However,
the furniture of the cyber cafe remains uncertain.
We don’t know if the request of the athletic
department will be approved," said Carol Jackson,
Vice President for Student Affairs. “We don’t know
what will happen.”
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Tom Bradley
Institutions built in the Depression era were
Willowbrook State School closed its doors
in September 1987 and reconstructed the
former human rights debacle into the beau
tiful CSI campus we attend today. However,
the scars have yet to heal from the deep
gashes Willowbrook left on its patients and
their families, and the healing has been
slow due in large part to the lack of aware
%
ness concerning the topic. Professor Goode
is the most knowledgeable CSI staff mem
ber regarding Willowbrook's past and pres
ent state. He was kind enough to sit down
with The Banner and discuss the institution
Naima Charafi, the UN’s Head French teacher, spoke to
CSI students about careers in modern languages.
Matt Safford
February 22—Dozens of students
gathered in 1 P's Recital Hall as repre
sentatives from the United Nations,
Italy's RAI TV and CSI's own faculty
that caused world-wide exasperation in
1972 as Geraldo Rivera, unannounced,
famously filmed building number 6 and
shocked the audience into action. It is
Goode’s contention that such a history is
meant to help serve us in the future by dis
allowing such conditions to occur again. Yet,
as Goode’s conversation with The Banner
often couched in a progressive rhetoric but
very few if any ever operated as places in
which high quality care and services were
provided. Interviews of early residents of
Willowbrook suggest that there was abuse,
although not covered in the press, occurring
at the institution even it its earliest years.
Abuse is endemic to all “total institutions” as
the sociologist Erving Goffman called them.
Willowbrook was filled with residents very
quickly and was already over capacity
(3000) in the 1950s. This was again due to
the State having a continual problem with
overcrowding. Because of both political
events and economic recessions in the
1960s, Willowbrook became a kind of
dumping ground, not only for people with
retardation, but also for other undesirables
for whom there was no other place (delin
quent and abandoned children for exam
ple). By the time Geraldo Rivera shot his
videotapes exposing
conditions at
Willowbrook (1971) the human rights situa
and staff spoke* in detail about the
importance of foreign languages in
today's global job market.
The event, organized by the
points out, the need to “never forget’ is
being forgotten and the wounds are still
open.
tion at Willowbrook had become critical.
Conditions were in some wards worse than
Modern Languages Media Center's
Valeria Belmonti, gathered together
figures from our own
Modern
Languages Department and staff from
Q: What was the turning point when
Willowbrook changed from a progressive
would have been allowed for animals (One
visitor remarked, “In Denmark we don't let
idea to a human rights atrocity?
the The Career Center and The
Center for International Service. The
Willowbrook existed because New York
State had a consistent, more than one hun
Keynote speakers however, were
Naima Charafi from the United
dred year record of overcrowded institutions
for people. It was built primarily to alleviate
our cattle live this way.”) Sometimes there
would be one staff person to take care of as
many as seventy residents. Dirt, disease,
violence and death were the norm. Another
aspect of human rights violation was the
Nations, Donatella Saroli from RAI
Italian Television, and Alberto Prieto
overcrowding in upstate institutions and to
sen/e families in the New York City area.
from Bilingual Resources.
After a few cursory remarks and
thanks from Dean Soto, Assistant
Spanish Professor and International
Studies Program Coordinator Jane
Markus-Delgado took the podium to
briefly talk about her employment
experience. "Every single job I've
ever gotten," she said, "has been
because I speak another language."
Minutes later, John Esposito
introduced
Charafi,
the
United
Nation's Head
French Teacher.
Focusing on the specific details one
goes through to get a job at the U.N.,
she described a number of tests. "We
have to assess your writing skills, lan
guage skills and production," she
said. According to Charafi, recruit
ment involves three stages: a person
al history profile, an international
competitive exam, and an interview.
Since, as she states, the "U.N. staff is
interested in upgrading their foreign
language skills," a second Language
Proficiency exam is required. For
those of us who aren't the best test
Continued on page 3
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use of children and adults in scientific exper
imentation.
Kevin Antoine expressed disappointment at students’
apparent disinterest in issues of diversity on campus.
Kevin S.P. Mamakas
Campus
| |
I
February
22-
showed up.
The Director of Compliance and
Diversity, Kevin Antoine, was to lead
the discussion. “The people that would
have benefited from this discussion
Continued on page 4
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Center,
Students were given the opportunity to
learn about diversity and how it relates
to Black History Month. But no one
Continued on page 3
I
1,500 Meals a Day. Who Knew?
Cafe are available to everyone. The
Park Cafe offers an a la carte menu
where a hungry student or teacher can
Enrico Turchi
While walking around campus and
enjoy a meal on a linen cloth covered
table for that special occasion, while
spending countless hours in classes, the
hunger pains that creep up on you can
ruin your day. Energy levels diminish,
the Campus Center’s cafeteria offers a
large and diverse menu with plenty of
concentrating is now a chore, and you
suddenly transform from Dr. Jekyll to Mr.
tables. The Cyber Cafe’s menu is
smaller but the addition of Starbucks
Hyde. Energy bars and candy restore
and the computers makes it a comfort
able meeting area with delicious
some of the depleted nutrition but eating
a good, healthy meal is the best way to
regain your strength and vitality.
desserts and coffees to choose from.
Merendino,
along with Dining
CSI’s Dining Services has been
feeding students and faculty for many
years. With a large multicultural stu
dent and faculty population, it can be a
difficult task for Dining Services to
please everyone, but serving an aver
CSI chefs explore different ways to make their cus
tomers’ dining experience pleasurable. Photo: Turchi
“We try to accommodate health con
age 1500 meals a day means that they
must be doing something right.
scious diners by switching to non-trans
fat oils and other low fat item on our
menu,” said Director of Dining
Diners can enjoy a nutritious meal
of their choosing from three locations,
each with it’s own character and menu.
Services, Jodi Merendino.
The Cyber Cafe, located in the
Library, and the Campus Center’s Park
Service Manager, Victoria Cicero, and
Chefs Jeff and Nestor are always
exploring different ways to make their
customers dining experience a pleasur
able one.
The biggest complaint from cus
tomers pertains to the cost of eating at the
campus dining spots. In reality, it can cost
Continued on page 5
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The American Democracy Project
Big Oil, Politicians Sell-Out the Future of Your Environment
Seamus Dolan
serving species. The new bill would require
the Department of Interior to respond within
The Endangered Species Act, passed in
1973, conserves ecosystems under federal
protection upon which threatened and
endangered species depend. Currently, we
are waiting on the Senate (it already has
passed in House 229 to 193), to vote on an
amendment to the Act which will alleviate the
harm felt by landowners and developers
from the loss of business on restricted land.
The new ‘business friendly” bill is being
sponsored by Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA),
who carries a reputation for being anti-conservational when it comes to America's nat
ural resources. Instead of the word “critical
habitat” recognizing that specific land is vital
for speceis conservation and thus federally
protected, it changes to identify the area as
important but not sufficient for Federal pro
tection. I thought that would have been the
reason it was created in the first place, but I
guess I was mistaken.
And if you’re a taxpayer, guess what, you
would now have to pay developers and
landowners to yield to the harsh goal of con
affect Heaven7’ It sure as shit is affecting the
earth and with amendments favoring the
dentally, has yet to even recognize global
warming, as most recently Lee Raymond,
almighty
dollar, the oil
Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, told the
June 2005 issue of the Wall Street Journal
that ‘It’s yet to be shown how much of this is
180 days
to
a
landown-
companies
are stacking
up
more
chips in their
favor for lay
e r ' s
request
to for a
developm e n t
plan, and
ing out their
royal flush of
the environ
if
the
deadline
isn’t met,
t h e
Federal
govern-
ment as we
know it. The
Arctic
ExxonMobil had a record breaking profit year in 2005: $36.1 billion, a 31 percent
National
Wildlife
Refuge, the
largest wildlife refuge in America located in
northeastern Alaska, home to vast amounts
change from the $25.9 billion it earned a year earlier.
m e n t
must pay the estimated loss. But that’s what
we do these days, pay people not to break
the law.
I bet your wondering how this could tie
into Global warming, since that’s all we hear
about these days. Well If I could ask
President Bush one question it would proba
bly be: “How do think Global warming will
of biodiversity and ethereal visuals, is cur
rently on the oil radar of Exxon Mobil. The
coastal plain of the Refuge was once hunted
by other major oil companies like BP,
Chevron Texaco, and ConocoPhillips but all
dropped efforts except for Exxon, who inci
n a move quickly garnering strong
bipartisan opposition in Congress,
Homeland Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff and the U.S. Committee on
I
Foreign Investments in the United States
have green-lighted a deal which would
put control of six major American ports in
the hands of a company based in the
United Arab Emirates.
The $6.8 billion
sale would place con
trol of ports in New
York,
New Jersey,
Baltimore,
Miami,
Philadelphia and New
Orleans,
previously
under the helm of
London-based compa
ny, in the hands of
Dubai Ports World, a company with
direct ties to the government of the small
Middle Eastern nation.
While the State Department claims
that the UAE is a strong partner in the
war on terror, the nation has a troubled
past with regards to terror. Two of the 19
September 11 hijackers were from UAE.
The country was one of three in the world
to recognize the Taliban as the legitimate
government of Afghanistan. They’ve also
been a vital transfer point for shipments
of illegal nuclear components to North
Korea, Iran and Lybia. Even after 9/11,
according to the Treasury Department,
the UAE failed to cooperate in tracking
administration point out that DP World
has a strong economic interest in
securely operating the ports and claim
the UAE as an important ally in the war
on terror. It has also been noted that the
company has no plans to oust the union
ized
American
employees.
“You’re
not going to have a
bunch of UAE citizens
working the docks,”
said one expert in a
February
12
Washington Post arti
cle.
Many lawmakers
however,
including
Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill
Frist, and several Democrats, including
New York Senator Chuck Schumer and
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, are
far from convinced. The bipartisan group
of lawmakers planned to delay or block
the deal by pushing legislation through
the House and Senate.
Bush, speaking to reporters on Air
Force One on Tuesday, February 21,
promised to veto the legislation.
According to the Washington Post, Bush
“warned that if the United States
derailed the deal, it would send ‘mixed
signals’ because no criticism was raised
when a British company was in charge.”
huh?
ExxonMobil had a record breaking profit in
2005: $36.1 billion, a 31 percent change
from the $25.9 billion it earned a year earli
er. Where is the renewable energy?
America is lagging way behind developed
countries in Europe in efforts to develop
renewable energy. Big business continues
to ride Bush with a fish pole holding money
out in front of him. With less than five per
cent of the world’s population we use about
a quarter of the world’s fossil resources and
emit 25 percent of the global warming pollu
tion. The times are a changing America your old road is rapidly aging please get out
of the new one if you can’t lend your hand.
Cheney Shooting and the
Latest Democratic Fumble
Outsourcing Port Security
down the bank accounts of Osama Bin
Laden.
Still, shipping experts and the
really related to the activities of man.” So
they will destroy the last great wilderness
area of America and in doing so gain more
oil to contribute to Gbbal warming -win win
Matt Safford
shied away from commenting on the
whole Cheney shooting incident for a
while, since I think most of what
could have been said about it has
I
been. There's a good chance he had
been drinking. If Whittington had died
on the spot, we probably never would
have known about it at all. It's also
important to note that had they been
hunting anything larger, they'd have
been using slugs, and Whittington
would likely be dead.
If anything, this is just another indi
cation of how secretive and unlawful
this administration is. They don't have
to abide by the FISA court, they don't
have to charge potential terrorists
they've had in custody for years,
Cheney doesn't have to get clearance
to allow Libby to release classified info
to the press. Now apparently, when the
VP shoots someone -surprise, sur
prise- he can skirt the law. Hell,
Cheney didn't even have his hunting
license properly taken care of.
Admittedly, the smaller GOP law
breakers are dropping like flies. In fact,
Tom Noe of Ohio was recently indicted
on 53 counts. If convicted on every
thing, he faces 150+ years in prison.
But the poster boys for corruption
are still free to shoot people and wiretap
citizens without warrants. We can't get
the big guys without getting control of a
house in Congress. Sadly, the Dems
are doing stupid things like forcing Iraq
veteran Paul Hackett out of the Ohio
Senate race, after they pushed him to
run in the first place.
Dems might get the House back,
but they probably won't get the Senate.
Frankly, I'm starting to feel that they
don't deserve it.
�February 27,2006
Bonjour to a Career
-continued from page I-
takers, Charafi also noted that certain
short-term contracts are available
without taking the exams. She point
ed interested parties to jobs.un.org
for more information and available
positions.
Next, Professor Lombardi intro
duced Donatella Saroli from Italy's
Rai Television. By pointing out the
lengthy credits at the end of an Italian
television program, she illustrated the
number of people necessary create
TV content, and thereby the many
positions potentially available at RAI
for college graduates with a working
knowledge of Italian. She also cited
her own personal experience in get
ting her first serious job, before she
had even completed her Doctorate.
"Thanks to the language skills" said
tance of an impeccable resume
geared to the needs of each employ
er, and noted that multilingual skills
can also be "a good way to move up
“Thanks to language skills I had
the bridge to two worlds:
the world of academia
and the corporate world,” said
Donatella Saroli, of Italy’s
RAI television network.”
in a company."
The final handful of speakers
stressed options available to current
could find a telephone number and an
address where they could mail appli
students who wish to improve their
chances in this global marketplace by
enrolling in the study abroad program,
through international internships, or
even simply visiting the campus'
Career Center. According to the
Center's Joanne Hollan, "the majority
cations.
Alberto Prieto spoke next about
his experiences founding and running
of jobs are gotten through network
ing." She also noted the importance
of a good resume. "Resumes are your
his own company for more than a
decade.
His
New
York-based
calling card" said Joanne, "and a
good resume isn't going to get you a
Saroli, "I had the bridge to two worlds:
the world of academia and the corpo
rate world." She pointed interested
parties to RAI's web site, where they
DAVID MALTZ
Bilingual Services provides personnel
to international companies in the
Metropolitan area. Among other
things, he emphasized the impor
job, but it will get you an interview."
She advised students to visit the
Career Center in 1A-105 for help in
creating or refining their resumes.
Minutes later, the speakers and
faculty guided students into the lobby
for refreshments and an informal
question and answer period. Mingling
with the speakers, many students
eagerly asked about specifics, and
handed speakers their resumes, hop
ing to take advantage of the personto-person opportunity.
The event was enough to make
this reporter wish he'd paid a little
more attention to his language class
es when he had the chance, or had
signed up for the study abroad pro
gram before he was about to gradu
ate.
As any one of the speakers from
this event would tell you, in today's
global economy, whether you hope to
work here in New York, or halfway
around the world, second and even
third language ability is likely to be a
major asset in obtaining a lucrative
job. So if you find yourself drifting off
during your language classes, fanta
sizing about that dream job, snap out
of it! Pay attention to what your pro
fessor is trying to teach you about
conjugating those irregular verbs and
you might land that dream job sooner
than you think.
MELLISSA SEECHARAN
pate. It becomes more difficult for older
Shunning Black History Month
ENRIQUE INOCENTE
AJOP EDITOR
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students and seniors to commit time to
these organizations, because they often
carry more responsibilities. All that there
is time for is to hang out with people
NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN
were absent,” said Antoine.
Staten Island is predominantly
between classes.
For some students, the lack of
STUDENT ELECTIONS
white. But even at CSI, which has more
diversity than Staten Island as a whole,
students of different racial backgrounds
are not socializing outside of the class
diversity in social groups has become
so common that they do not consider it
room.
“When something goes wrong it
becomes more serious,” Antoine said as
he was looking down from the second
said student Ruchell Heath. “I guess it is
important.”
Older students may have already
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floor of the Campus Center towards the
rotunda where a large groups of Black,
Hispanic, White, and Asian students sat
separated from each other. “This was a
preventive step and no one showed up.”
Students feel separated and it’s too
late for the college to improve on it for
most of the older students. “There is no
hate towards other groups,” said stu
dent Suleimon Olaiya. “The college
can’t improve on it because it’s more
comfortable for everyone to stay sepa
rated.”
One of the few ways a person can
discover diversity among social groups
is to join a club or organization. Student
Government,
The
Program
Development Committee, NYPIRG, and
student publications have more stu
dents from different races than students
from the same race. These organiza
tions demand a lot of time, which is
probably why there are a small amount
of students who are willing to partici
a problem. In fact, they do not consider
it at all. “I never really thought about it,”
made friends and networked, and
be difficult to persuade them to
new friends with people that are
cally or racially different than
it may
make
ethni
them
selves. Therefore the responsibility to
increase diversity falls on the younger
students and freshman.
“I don’t really know about other
people because everyone is on their
own planet, but I always hung out with
everyone,” said Heath. “I guess I am
like this because I went to an away
school and there was an event my first
semester before the campus opened
that naturally showed us that everyone
there can be friends. It gave us an
impression about other people that last
ed a long time. It’s harder for older stu
dents to start learning about diversity
because they have more commitments.”
“I feel like CSI has a mixed popula
tion but no diversity,” said student
Angelo Rivera. “The Campus Center for
instance has tables separated by Black,
Spanish, Asian, and Caucasian.”
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2006-2007 academic year
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the Student Government,
CSI Association,
College Council,
Auxiliary Services Corporation,
and
Faculty Student Disciplinary
Committee
Nomination period is
January 30-March 24
Most of these seats have credit and
GPA requirements.
Check in the student
government office.
Room 1C-207
for further information.
The completed nomination packet must be returned
to the SC office (1 C-207) by noon on March 24
Come to the student government office to pick up
your nomination form today
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�gets older. Men who are hands on are
less likely to abandon their child(ren).”
I
never visualized my husband changing
a diaper.
Neither did he.
Granted it
wasn’t on his list of things to do before
turning fifty but concessions had to be
made.
Diaper duty is not the only thing that
can make a grown man cringe. Bathing,
clipping toenails and traveling with an
infant can be intimidating, especially if
experience with children has been limit
ed. However, it is possible to cope with
these life changes and combat these
fears that are often culturally perpetrated,
before they become deep-rooted.
Like women, men experience an
array of emotions associated with their
new role as parents. “The changes a
man feels are dependent on how
involved he is with the pregnancy,” said
Judith Kuppersmith, psychology expert.
“Some men will experience physical
changes as well, such as sympathy
morning sickness and weight gain.”
I wouldn’t have known it from looking
at him now, but my husband’s best friend
confided that he too felt the discomforts
of pregnancy, between nausea and gain
ing over 70 lbs. A man’s active involve
ment is not necessarily a bad thing,
unless you’re fighting to get into the bath
room first, that is. “The more a father is
involved during gestation and birth, the
easier the transition will be into father
hood,” said Kuppersmith. “Early involve
ment is a pathway for more as the child
Willowbrook
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Unfortunately, in a changing society,
this is not the norm. The preconceptions
of masculinity
often remove
the father from
the
baby.
“Culture plays
craddle a baby.
In this process two
things occur; the baby is naturally
warmed from the parent’s body heat and
bonding is established. It is an excellent
also useful in gaining parenting tips and
helps to build confidence knowing that
way for fathers to get
involved and get com
fortable handling their
child.
children each, I felt enlightened on some
thing I had been seeing but never under
Once a man feels
confident in his ability
a large part in
gender roles,”
said
Kuppersmith.
to hold a child, giving
other types of care will
seem more realistic.
‘The biggest fear I had
was supporting my
“Generally,
don’t
think
daughter’s head,” said
Ralph Williams, a new
dad.
“It just rolled.
That scared me. But
after I got use to it and
she got bigger, I was
male involve
ment is a cul
tural
thing.
Most
men
think, ‘It’s her
deal. I’ll man
age
it—no
pain, no blood.’
But not all cul
tures are like
that.”
There’s
much to be learned from other societies
about good parenting techniques. The
basic concept is the devotion of time.
The more time spent interacting with your
children the more comfortable you will
A: The name Willowbrook is known
throughout the US and in many countries
around the world. It signifies simultaneously
a horrible history but also how society can
overcome and correct injustices. The story
of the Willowbrook Consent Decree (now
called the Willowbrook
Permanent
Injunction) and its implementation testifies
other neglected chore or engage in recre
ation. By dividing responsibilities, includ
ing chores outside the home, like grocery
shopping and going to the bank, the
not be as tired.
Talking to other experienced dads, is
to how those most unable to defend their
rights can have these rights protected under
law. The Willowbrook Consent Decree was
legal document governing the closure of
Willowbrook and the placement of its 6,000
residents into the community. Like
Willowbrook, the Consent Decree is sym
bolic of legal victory over injustice both here
and internationally. In my view it is important
to make a distinction between the symbolic
significance of Willowbrook and its actual,
empirical significance. In actuality, today exWillowbrook residents live much better than
they did at Willowbrook, mostly in group
homes and other small living arrangements.
At the same time they continue to experi
ence, to a high degree, chronic unemploy
ment and a lack of community involvement.
We continue to have institutions in New
York State and are even building new ones.
More generally, the idea that Willowbrook
signifies the end of the era of institutions in
the United States is simply wrong.
ly and collectively, to not want to be remind
ed of such a horrible memory. When one
understands the history of Willowbrook one
appreciates how a category of individuals
were dehumanized in a rational, medical
and legal fashion, in a democratic and civi
lized country like the United States. That is
very upsetting thought and I think accounts
for why when I have sponsored
Willowbrook lectures, advertised on cam
pus and by the SI Advance, or presented
about Willowbrook to faculty seminars,
often very, very few people show up. If one
was actually involved in Willowbrook the
lecture can only stir up deep and terrible
feelings, and that’s a powerful reason to not
want to attend. Another aspect of this prob
lem, that is why the College has not done
enough in this regard, is the ambivalence of
the administration when it comes to
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the return is well worth it,” said Daniel
Brink. “When that child acknowledges
you as their father with unadulterated
love, there is no better feeling in the
world. I’m glad I didn’t miss it.”
Jazz Concert to Raise Funds for
Single Mothers’ Scholarship
Depending on exactly how one defines “an
institution” many people with disabilities
A: I agree with the observation that CSI has
not done enough to acknowledge, reflect
upon, and appreciate the significance of the
history of our campus. One reason for this is
simply the natural tendency, both individual
lives belonged to someone else.”
Adults need stimulation too. Getting
out of the house and socializing with
transform himself into the adored, handson daddy. The key is jumping in and get
ting involved. “With all the adjustments
necessary to become ah involved father,
bare skin against one’s chest, can be
beneficial for the man just learning to
mean. Do you agree? Why?
ents. “In the first several weeks after the
baby is born, you feel like you’ll never be
able to leave the house,” said Joseph
Pino. “The first time my wife and I went
out without the baby was amazing. I
never knew what freedom was until our
er to do other activities, such as take a
nap, shower, eat or catch up on some
mother who tends to do more of the one
on one care, will have more time and will
translated into thoughtful observance of
what Willowbrook meant and continues to
really understand until you do it yourself.”
Finally, setting time out for recreation
with other adults is important for both par
other people can help preserve one’s
mental health. Even brief periods spent
doing activities enjoyed can renew one’s
spirit, supplying the needed physical and
mental strength to care for a child.
With time and effort, any man can
feel doing tasks that don’t come naturally.
Kangaroo care, which is the tech
nique of holding an infant bare skin to
Q: CSI is considered ground zero for many
involved in the civil rights movement con
cerning disabled persons. Yet our close
physical relationship with the site hasn't
stood,” said Albert Doughty, a new dad.
“I felt like I could finally relate.
Parenthood is an experience you don’t
able to handle other
things, like dressing
her.”
Active participa
tion in child care by the
father allows the moth
continue to live in institutions today.
Q: What did Willowbrook’s official closure in
1987 symbolize for human rights in the US
as well as internationally?
others have been where you are. “After
speaking with two fathers who had five
Vanessa Leigh DeBello
is new and has virtually nothing in it,
we’re not yet giving out scholarships,”
escribed as “a singer with a
said Ellen Goldner. “We hope to be able
deep, almost magical connection
to do that by next year around this time.”
to the music” by Herbie Hancock,
Raffle tickets will be sold prior to the
on Thursday, March 2nd, jazz singer concert for $2.00 per ticket; $8.00 for 5
Gretchen Parlato will be appearing with
tickets and $15.00 for ten tickets.
her trio for a workshop/master class
Donations were made by local busi
D
entitled “A Jazz Voice” and a perform
ance entitled “A Woman’s Voice” at CSI.
Winner of the 2004 Thelonious Monk
International Jazz Vocals Competition,
Parlato performed at the 2001 Ojai
Music Festival with legendary guitarist,
Oscar Castro. Representing women in
jazz at the Taos Jazz and Latin Festival,
she also performed at the Tri-C Jazz
Festival in 2003, as well as the 2003
concert for UNESCO in Paris, France.
She has worked with some of the top
musicians including Jeff “Tain” Watts,
Richard Bona, Cafe, Mino Cinelu, and
Mark Turner.
The concert on Thursday is a cele
bration of the Fund for Single Mothers
with financial need, for which the
Women’s Center will be selling raffle
tickets at the campus center prior to the
show.
The raffle was originated by
sophomore, Alex Payne, who was
inspired to raise money, as part of a
class assignment for a single mother,
working and financially struggling to
attend college.
“Since the Women’s Center’s fund
nesses for prizes.
The workshop beginning at 12:15
pm will take place in The Lab Theater in
the Center for Arts, followed by Parlato
and her trio’s performance in the Green
Dolphin Lounge in the Campus Center
(1C) at 1:30 pm.
This free event is produced under
the auspices of the Pluralism and
Diversity Program, The Women’s
Center and the Music Program. It is co
sponsored by Students for Women’s
Concerns and The Musicians’ Society
with the support of the PDC.
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Letters To The Editor
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From the Editor
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Re: Sex and the Island: Porn Not As
Boring As Sex
I wouldn’t mind seeing a pom movie,
but honestly, I’d like to see 2-3 men with a
It’s been a crazy 2 weeks. With all the
schedule craziness putting together The
Banner has been more challenging this
time then it had previously been all year.
The good news though is that the
things I wrote about in my previous letter
have been slightly resolved.
First, Vice President of Finance and
Administration Angelo Aponte paid a visit
to The Banner after I brought up the issue
of him not talking to The Banner. It turns
out that he wasn’t intentionally snuffing us,
as many people at The Banner feared.
Rather it was a mix-up with his secretaries.
He even went so far as to offer a chance
for us to meet with him. Stay tuned for that
in the next issue.
My second issue that was sort of
resolved regards purchase orders, those
wonderful forms we fill out every week at
The Banner to bring you free pizza during
club hours on Thursday (that’s right-free!),
among other essential items like comput
ers, office supplies, etc...
It turns out that in some cases, name
ly for pizza, we can fill out a batch of pur
chase orders at once and have them
approved and issued a purchase order
number every week. This will improve the
situation some.
We have a great Issue set up for you
this week, including coverage of an excit
ing event held by the Modem Languages
Department in which a speaker from the
woman. Watching two women go at it is old
news. In fact, I find it boring.
The problem comes when the signifi
cant other isn’t into watching 2-3 guys; he’d
rather watch 2-3 women getting it on.
I know some men are homophobic.
Recently I watched Brokeback Mountain. I
found it erotic. My spouse didn’t accompany
me to it. The movie was a turn-on without
the porn. It was an erotic love story; some
men can’t get turned on by that. They like
watching the ‘wham, bam, thank you mam
shit.’
I’d rather see a hot intense look in the
actor’s eyes. In Carlito’s Way, right before
the Pacino kicks in his girlfriend’s door, you
see the horniness in his eyes. You feel his
heat rushing to his loins, and that’s a turn
on.
-Debra Santulli-Barone, Senior
All that was said is true. Sex can seem
boring at times, and some wonder how cou
I have to agree that women do not
know how to relate to porn. Some are rather
-Emilio Medugno
Why do women think that after watch
ing porn men are attracted to one porn star
and that’s it? Honestly, after I met my girl
friend, I became less and less attracted to
porn stars and realized that they’re so fake
and plastic. Why settle for porn when you
can have the real thing? Plus, there’s got to
at other college eateries to compare
prices, believes in providing affordable,
healthy dining to the campus communi
Maybe when I’m 40 and married with chil
dren I’ll look into it.
paper products have gone up.”
I couldn’t agree more with most of what
Matt Safford says in his article, except for
one thing. Safford proposes that the U.S.
should do something about the nuclear
weapons spread all over the former Soviet
In Memoriam:
There are many countries who have
nuclear weapons. Who gave the U.S.
Government the right to decide what others
should not do?
I agree with Matt Safford on one thing
100%- this is a real Orwellian World.
-Lucie Laurie Valenhim, Junior
Re: Photo Spread in Banner
such as its Las Vegas style gambling mecca
and Portuguese style architecture.
-Enrico Turchi, Junior
ecurity guard Anthony Ameduri Jr.
S
worked at CSI for over 13 years
before retiring in September 2005.
On January 9, he passed away at the age of
86.
Most remember the Rosebank resident
as someone who opened doors for women
Re: CUNY Globe Trekkers Visit Pearl
River Delta
and welcomed everyone with smiles.
For those who knew Ameduri, or Tony,
as he preferred to be called, discovered that
I was interested to read about the expe
riences of CSI students in Hong Kong. I
he had served as a U.S. Army Air Corps
Flight Engineer in England during World
War II. He also owned two restaurants and
could only imagine the excitement and anx
iety that accompanies a long flight to anoth
er part of the world. Learning and experi
encing various cultures is an important part
of education and personal growth. It seems
that 21 days isn’t really enough time to
spend in a foreign country, but I’m sure the
experience will last a lifetime.
-Jacalyn Palmiotto
-Chris Bono
Re: Dorm Opposition Intensifies
Re: CSI Did Not Pay MTV for MTVU, OK?
I was a little put down to read that the
Before reading this article, I was
unaware that MTVU helps students find
internships. I have been looking for an
internship and have had no luck finding one.
-Lauren Demetrio, Junior
Union. Who do you think, Matt Safford, is
the one to decide to other nations whether
or not they need nuclear weapons for their
defense?
the reader a feeling of leaving the world
behind and traveling to a country that has
seen its share of poverty and wealth. There
is some tidbit of information about Macau
be other ways to spice things up but at my
age of 22 I really don’t think it’s necessary.
“We try to hold our prices and keep
them as low as possible, “ Merendino
said. “However, with the rising cost of
gas and oil, everything from food to
and handle account information over the
phone or in person.
-Karen Herrera
more to eat at McDonald’s or Burger
King. Merendino, who sometimes dines
ty. Merendino strongly feels that CSI
offers the best values.
Re: Pentagon Outlines Military’s Plan for
The Long War’
The picturesque mountains shown
through the window of a long jet ride gives
about doing it. I think this article can help a
relationship that has no real communication
when it comes to sex.
Food Services
sonal information, even on home comput
ers. I may avoid this altogether in the future,
have fun with porn and discover all new
tricks.
languages; RAI Italian TV was there as
well. We also have an article about a Black
History event held at CSI that no one even
bothered to attend, which is a shame.
-continued from page 1-
-John DePetro
ples get married and stay together all of
those years. Porn is probably one of the fac
tors in there. Couples try to spice up their
sex lives and porn does contribute. You can
United Nations came to CSI to speak
about the importance of learning foreign
-David Maltz
ers when in the wrong hands. It shows us
readers to be careful when submitting per
I enjoyed the photo spread on pages 67 of The Banner. The journey through the
Pearl River Delta showed the modern day
Hong Kong adjacent to the hard working
women performing arduous tasks at an
amusement park in Foshou.
receptive when their lover brings up the
idea. Most of my previous girlfriends always
wanted to watch porn but were nervous
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed your
President’s Day.
job in getting information about what’s avail
able to its students.
dorm proposition is no longer in action. I, for
one, would love to dorm since I’m sick of liv
ing at home, but too poor to rent an apart
bars: King’s Row and King’s Inn, which
were sold in 1982.
Some didn’t know that he had lost his
wife, Winifred in 2003, whom he missed
dearly, unless they took the time to speak
to him.
An avid baseball fan, Tony kept busy by
attending sports games of his 10 grandchil
dren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Supervisor, Lieutenant Maggie Galvin,
worked with him for 13 years. ‘This honor
able man never compromised his princi
ples,” she said. “And he had great work
ethic; his uniform was always in perfect con
dition.”
ment. If CSI doesn’t get dorms soon, a lot of
people will transfer out of CSI because they
Public Safety Officers Franco Ferrante
and Charles Carlino called him a gentleman
of gentleman.
crave the full college experience, being par
ent free.
“What a sweet old gentleman,” said
graduate student and box office assistant
-Lauren Kopstein
Eddie Fontana. “So easy-going and always
willing to help others.”
“Accidentally
Presently, Ameduri’s position has not
been replaced.
CSI’s dining experience has mor
phed from your typical cafeteria menu to
a restaurant style atmosphere where
special dietary needs, catering events,
This article was very informative and gives
me another option in seeking an internship.
coffee services, upscale events, and
even the worst hunger pains on campus
can be accommodated.
After reading this article, I must say that
this is the first time I even heard of CSI
showing MTVU broadcasts. In my eyes, the
‘The backbone for any successful
problem doesn’t lie with MTVU providing the
food enterrise is its chef, prep persons,
and all the other dedicated personnel
new televisions, it’s that students probably
don’t even know about the collaboration.
I found this article to be very disturbing.
Even by accident, it shows that vital infor
Lt. Galvin said. “He is irreplaceable and I
miss him dearly.”
involved,” Merendino stated.
This is just an example of CSI doing a poor
mation could be exposed through comput
-Debra Santulli-Barone
-Lori Krycun
Re: Computer
Hacked.
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scoffed at Ebook readers in the past,
-and if you’re a student, you should
be—then an emerging technology
called electronic ink may very soon
the addition of E Ink’s technology here
is what Sony hopes will be the kicker.
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destined to land dead in the water. But
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technology to download
newspaper headlines or a
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user’s command.” It might
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signed with the partners
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all books, newspapers and
magazines, while offering the
Top Tr»nsp*r«ttt
waters for just such a device
ebook device that takes
off, we’ll likely be seeing
electronic ink technolo
gy everywhere in the
near future. In a world
more and more con
cerned with the environ
read as paper, is just a half-inch thick,
and with a battery that facilitates some
7,500 page turns, “readers can devour
a dozen bestsellers plus War and
Peace without ever having to recharge.”
Sony claims the device will be able to
all incorporate E ink Corp.’s tech.
The Sony device is by far the most
interesting. The darling of January’s
display PDF documents, websites and
the popular RSS feeds used by blogs
Consumer Electronics Show, the Sony
and newspapers as well.
the pipeline.
The only real question is which
company will be the first out the door
with the device that makes us embrace
electronic paper like we’ve embraced
electronic music. One thing’s for certain:
when this technology does take off, the
trees will certainly be thankful.
�New Photography Instructor
1
Cleanliness of Campus Toilets Inconsistent
Nakibar Loney
Lauren Kopstein
rofessor Beatrix Reinhardt, artist
and Assistant
Professor
Photography at CSI
of
arrived on campus in fall of
2005.
"She's realistic; she relates to us on
our level,” Photography major Wanda
Calamia said. “She doesn't make things
feel completely academic. She gives fun
and unique assignments."
A few minutes later,
The new photography
instructor made a huge
impact on her students,
and the department during
the short time she’s been
teaching here.
Professor Reinhardt
was born in Germany, and
previously taught photog
raphy
at
a
Virginia
University. In addition she
was involved with running
the
gallery
on
the
role model and teacher.
A
the
student
revolve around the corners
in her apartment.
Reinhardt is extremely
unclean. Usually the
restroom facilities for
ment extended open lab
hours for longer amounts
of time. Students have
more opportunities to work on their proj
ects.
She currently has no photogra
phy exhibitions on display, but will in the
upcoming months. "My prime interest is
making somebody aware how much
images influence our lives,” she said.
buildings where
these services.
population
increases, so does the grime of
the bath at the
College
of
Staten
Island.
Academic
build
ings throughout the
campus
are
left
Professor Beatrix Reinhardt, a German
native, came to CSI this past Fall from
Virginia University.
University’s campus.
She’s given her students new found
confidence with their work. She doesn’t
make them feel like amateurs, just
because she’s the teacher and they’re
the student. Students feel just as much
like accomplished photographers as their
s
Wanda seeks Reinhardt’s
opinion on her pictures, all
of which focus in and
easy to approach, she
doesn’t intimidate her stu
dents and put strict rules
on when to discuss their
work with her. The deparrt-
problems are not common in adminis
trative buildings, only in academic
students have no toilet
paper in the stalls and
paper can always be
students paid for
Building
and
ground
manager
Vincent Bono said
"the population of the
college
increased and
*00'
has
stu
dents should take
more pride in the col
Photo: Nakibar Loney:
Toilet paper strewn over the tloor of building 3S.
found on the ground.
Students ponder
why the bathrooms are never clean.
Yendi Jordan , 21 said she uses nurs
ery rhymes "Innie Minnie Minie Mo to
find a clean bathroom stall in the 2N
building." The lavatories are in poor
condition and have a stale dampish
smell. There is at least one clogged
toilet, a broken bathroom door kept
closed by toilet paper, stained toilet
bowl seat, and the paper towel
machines are either empty or the
paper is left on the machine. These
lege they attend".
Mr. Bono also stated
these problems can
be resolved by mak
ing reports of dam
aged equipment and lack of toilet sup
plies to the secretary of the depart
ment, where a work request can be
submitted for the maintenance, which
takes two days for a response.
In the mean time students contin
ue to pay for maintenance, while the
administrative buildings get the bene
fits. "The bathroom smells filthy and
sometimes I cannot breathe when I
use the restroom,” Ms Jordan said.
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Wlllowbrook. While this is understandable I
believe we need to overcome the tendency
to want to avoid the unpleasantness of the
past. It has not helped with regard to such
ideas as a Wlllowbrook Memorial or a
Wlllowbrook Conference Center/Museum.
Until fairly recently actually very little was
done in terms of Wlllowbrook on our cam
pus. This has angered the disability com
munity on Staten Island.
Q: Most want to ask why the physical
preservation of such a horrible place is
important at all when it could be used for
educational purposes on the collegiate
scale. Would you argue for or against the
use of the property and why?
A: If you mean the use of the property that
was proposed by the administration for our
dormitories, I have no opinion about that
because I do not know enough about the
details of why that particular plan and land
was the best plan. From the perspective of
a scholar interested in the history of our
campus, wherever dorms are built they will
be on the old Wlllowbrook State School
campus. I believe it is important to preserve
the memory of Wlllowbrook in a concrete
and tangible way. In the short paper I sent to
you, Why Remember Wlllowbrook, I argued
several reasons this is important, from aca
demic ones to political and moral ones. The
fact is that if people do not understand what
happened at Wlllowbrook, if they forget
about it, this is the best way to assure that
Willowbrooks will happen again. Further,
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�February 27,2006
This past week I would say that I
procrastinated more than I have in
Louren
Taylor's
respect to my school work. I didn’t
benefit from any work that I did
accomplish because I felt sick for the
most part. I’ve had so much work to
do in my American Sign Language
and English classes, which I love, but
I lacked the motivation so I tossed the
assignments off to the side thinking I
could catch up LATER. That came too
soon.
When I started reading a few
chapters for subjects, I was distracted
by the beauty of the open shade of the
window in my living room.
Nature at
is coldest and the sun came through
the window calling me to come out
and breathe. So I contacted my
friends so that I can go out to meet
‘nature’ in person which will help me
sion, looking at my CD collection,
going on line, etc.
I’ve finished reading about 300
pages of The Body by Stephen King.
The story is compelling but I can’t get
focused.
I can barely see straight
while typing all this up. There are not
many distractions in my world but all
the small lettering from the books and
this software has gotten to my head.
My eyes are strained, even more so
from the glare my eyeglasses repro
duce as I type this scenario. I wish
that being a procrastinator wasn’t so
easy; I do get my work done, yes but,
who wants to do anything when the
weather is beckoned you to greet it. If
you don’t acknowledge the picture in
the window, you can end up with
cabin fever, which I was on the verge
of until I walked out the door. Gee, I
to forget about the subjects at hand. I
arrive back home with the anxiety of
can’t wait until its spring; allergy sea
son might keep me from leaving my
going into my room where the home
work is. I realize that i will do anything
studies!
to avoid it like putting on the televi
Ann e Mar i e
D o o
Internet Dating
Dating is tricky. We’ve come quite a
long way since Jim-Bob and Sally met
through their parents, at 15 years old,
and began to produce the new genera
tion. Today we have choices. What
kind of person do I want to be with?
What are my looks preferences? What
kind of job do I want my someone to
have? If you exchange bar stools for
club chairs and margarita’s for
resume's, we've basically turned dat
ing into one big job interview. Each of
us looking for a different candidate:
some short-term, or freelance, others
looking for someone to grow within the
company and stick it out beyond pen
sion. And just like we all sometimes do
during job interviews (admit it!), we
may run into a candidate who lies on
their dating resume.
"I'm not crazy," and "I really like
you for your mind," are popular ones,
but occasionally they can be more dan
gerous. How do you weed out the
unacceptable applicants? The same
way they do during job searches- a
credit check. The latest trend in dating
has everyone chipping in with detailed
profiles of their ex's. The outcome is a
searchable database that will help you
determine whether or not this person is
for you.
Tasha
Joseph,
creator
of
DontDateHimGiri.com, told last week's
New York Times Metro section that she
likens her website to the FBI’s most
wanted list. Women can log on and
search, by name, for the man of their
choice If an ex girlfriend has listed
him. a profile will pop up- most often
with photo- detailing his problems or
10
pluses. So far 170,000 women have
registered and created profiles on
3,000 men, including three Staten
Islanders. Each profile contains statis
tical information and a personally writ
ten blurb from the (mostly) anonymous
ex-girlfriends. For example, Nick from
Staten island's ex adds him in as 165
lbs and 5’ 11” tall. She then goes on to
tell future girlfriends " He is the biggest
cheater I've ever met. His motto is
"Deny, Deny, Deny," next to a photo of
the smiling Nick. DontDateHimGirl.com
also features an advice blog and love
& relationship articles, as well as an
online shop chock-full of Don’t Date
Him Girl! Merchandise.
If a more detailed explanation of
the past is what you’re looking for, try a
little website called Woman Savers.
Although
their official
URL
is
www.ManHaters.com, the website's
motto states, ‘We don't hate all men,
only the jerks. This is a website where
nice guys will finally finish first!" Similar
to DDHG, Woman Savers offers a
search feature under a Rate-a-Guy
system. Users log in, free of charge, to
the rating area and search by first, mid
dle, or last name, as well as birth date,
city or state. A search for Staten Island,
on the patented “Man-Scale Survey”
shows 12 entries with scores ranging
from 0 to 120, as well as conclusions:
Mr. Wrong, Mr. Right and everywhere
in between. One click of the profile link
shows a scale with categories from
Sex to Financial/Education to Abuse.
Each category details several ques
tions answered by each ex. The ques
tions contain multiple choice answers
of full range, giving women the chance
to tell the world that her man was “able
to orgasm and orgasm again... if you
want him to,” or “is a lying, cheating
scumbag, and you can’t believe a word
that comes out of his mouth.” Although
Man Haters profiles are more detailed,
they don’t offer a photo. They do, how
ever, give the chance to offer a rebut
tal on a boy who was misinterpreted.
If you’ve been hitting up the
Internet dating circuit, there is also a
website for you, TrueDater.com high
lights the Internet dating world by
explaining whether or not someone is a
“true dater,” meaning someone who's
MySpace
or
EHarmony
profile
declares him or her George Clooney
when they’re more like George Bush.
The main page of TrueDater.com (beta
version, as they are currently working
on the site) shows mock reviews and a
table where you can select a dating
site (American Singles, Black Singles,
EHarmony, Hot or Not, JDate,
Match.com, MySpace, PlanetOut,
Nerve.com or Yahoo Personals) and a
profile or user ID and check for that
persons review. If nothing shows up for
that user, the site then asks that you fill
out a quick review declaring their state,
gender, and whether or not they are a
true dater (by yes or no). If you feel like
it, you can spend a minute in the pro
vided box explaining your answer.
There is also a browse section where a
search of Men from New York explains
that Match.corn’s CrazyCat21 solicits
business from his profile, 2815969
(aka “BrookNam”) from MySpace is out
for your wallet, and 10156800 from
JDate is not a Patrick Dempsey lookalike, and oh, by the way, he’s married.
And in case you were wondering,
yes, men have complained about
these websites. An anonymous web
savvy entrepreneur has created
www.classaction-dontdatehimgirl.com
to encourage men to call legal action
against Ms. Josephs. The website
offers only email contact, and testimo
ny from what appears to be a few dif
ferent men stating comments like “My
kids are now tormented in school!” and
“There is no future in this city for me.
There is no future for me period!”
However, due to several misspellings
and no detailed information on the sup
posed class action lawsuit, Josephs
suspects this to be the prank of anoth
er cheater scorned. Of the other sites,
TrueDater.com offers the offended a
chance to re-review and defend them
selves, and Man Haters allows a $25
charge for the removal of a profile,
some of the proceeds going toward
abused women’s shelters.
If you feel the need to do a check
up on the person you are about to
date, these websites are the way to go.
It’s always good to protect yourself
against someone who may be harmful
to you in any way, especially physical
ly. However, keep in mind that many of
the rejected feel threatened, and often
may spread lies about their last fling, in
order to save face. Like in the actual
dating world, use your discretion wise
ly. What better place to take advantage
.of someone than the Internet?
�RetroView: The Quintessential Doors Album
Tom Bradley
while lines like, “Load your head/blow it
up/Feelin good baby” cover the use of
e begin to realize that Essential
controlled substances. His grunts are
never forced or thought up as cues to con
Rarities is the quintessential
Doors album as the dividing line
jure some false sexuality but are actual
renderings of the mysterious natural drive
between absurdity and the genuinely
metaphorical is more than blurred through
we all have at this age.
“First there were women and children
out the record. Immediately addressing the
obeying the moon/Da Da Da.” “Whiskey,
audience with “Hello to the Cities,” Jim
Mystics, and Men” is the apocalyptic carni
Morrison mockingly endears himself and
val theme song that almost scares the
the music to the listener. Heading straight
audience into listening as Morrison attacks
into what has become the representational
the methods of man, in all our simple, car
Doors classic “Break On Through,” the
nal loveliness. Thankfully though the fol
album’s momentum is already in full swing
lowing track, “I Will Never Be Untrue,” has
and it is only track two.
a
‘here’s how’ attitude as it eloquently
Morrison is one of contemporary
chides
the lushes and junkies into being
American music’s rare breed. Blessed with
“true" to their significant others. The ballad
poetic genius and sexual intensity, he
of a man who hasn't told the truth a day in
provocatively growls and screams until his
his life but his women listen anyway as Jim
words form more of a fiery sermon than a
promises, “Never stay out drinkin’/no later
rock lyric. Whether it be of the lowdown
than two/(pause) Two thirty.” Yet as The
“Roadhouse Blues” type, in which he
Doors climb through the physical nature of
“Woke up this mornin’/l Got myself a
youth culture, they begin toward the meta
beer/Future done set and The End is
physical, and the transcendental lyrics
always near.” Or on the following track,
“The Hyacinth House,” where sparse musi
take hold.
Track eight, “Moonlight Drive”, acts as
cal accompaniment goads Morrison’s
the metaphorical journey novel for the lis
hieroglyphic verses into “Why did you
tener as we “swim to the moon/climb
throw that Jack of Hearts away?/ It was the
through the tide/you reach a hand to hold
only card in the deck I had left to play/What
me/but I can’t be your guide.” They were
are they doing in the Hyacinth House?”
literally taking us somewhere with them,
As The Doors’ legend carries over
but they didn’t want credit for our epipha
time and space we find that their work, pro
nies. In that way The Doors were more
duced between three and four decades
than a band, they were spiritual sherpas
ago, is still relevant within contemporary
for the perpetually lost generation of
youth culture. We’ve not changed so much
America’s youth.
as to let go of our inclination toward drugs
However, The Doors weren’t all fire
and alcohol and sex, which is almost
and brimstone, demonstrating a brooding
exactly what track-five highlights. “If you
calm on “Queen of the Highway” and
warm it up right/l’m gonna love ya tonight
“Someday Soon.” Be careful though,
my love,” grazes the issue of sexuality
W
whenever The Doors take a tranquil tone
musically or lyrically they might be lulling
you into a vulnerable position. “American
boy/American giii/most beautiful people in
the world.” One never really knows if the
author of such a thought is expounding
some Roman nationalism or sarcastic
commentary. Its really up to the audience
receiving the information to decide what’s
what, especially when The Doors are the
“what” in question and when they are hum
ming, “You’re not getting young/But you’re
going to die” its never too easy to enjoy
them as mood setting background music.
Moving, as quickly and hastily as
ever, from syrup lyrics and piano keys to a
sexually explicit “Hello, I Love You” we are
shot to the mindful sexuality the doors
embodied. “Her arms are wicked and her
legs are longAA/hen she moves my brain
screams out this song,” glorifies the objec
tified female form, a problem The Doors
have had with some females who find their
lyrics dismissive of the woman as only
sexual in nature. With this sexuality also
came some blame as in “Woman Is A
Devil,” calling to mind the archetypal char
acter of Eve who, though earnest and
beautiful, is responsible for man’s exile
form paradise. Further evidence of
Morrison’s intense singular attraction to
women might be evident in the dramatic
ballad of love lost, with Jim spouting, “We
broke through the window and knocked on
the door/her phone would not answer and
she’s still home.” His voice is aloof in
some, frightened but unconcerned man
ner, maybe he didn’t care the woman
inside was dead. The track “Orange
County Suite” is permissibly the album’s
most blues orientated track, crackling low
but warm. Though soon the embers are
fanned and begin to grow into licking lyri
cal flames.
Jim belts out some Grade-A Doors
gospel on ten minutes of “The Soft
Parade.” Sending the listener into a trance
and then snapping the spell with screams
against prayerful petitioning. The track is
diverse in mood, tone, and content and is
epic in scope following multiple thoughts,
ever remaining true to witty jabs at our own
petty nature, “love your neighbor ‘til his
wife gets home.” It is here that we find the
lyrical ambiguity of The Doors most enter
taining and Morrison’s passion for it most
evident. Calling the audience to “Bring out
your dead!” on ‘The End” is when The
Doors, in all their thoughtful and physical
strength, come crashing toward the listen
er. One can only sit and watch the music
from afar, feeding off the bonfire of its
energy. “The killer awoke before
dawn/...,Tie took a face from the ancient
gallery/and he walked on down the hall
way baby!” The track climbs high into a
drum and guitar filled explosion nearly
eighteen minutes later.
The album is bar none a cross sec
tion of what The Doors could offer up to
their audience both musically and lyrically.
It is not a cold record filled with “classics”
that have been moping around emasculat
ed for decades. Essential Rarities makes
no apologies for itself and wishes for no
commercial adulation, it asks only that the
audience involve itself in the music. Art
that provokes activity and presents the
viewer with something compelling about
man is truly art - it is truly The Doors.
David Lee Roth: Really Not That Funny
AnnMarie Costella
It has been nearly two months since for
mer Van-Halen front man David Lee
Roth, 51, replaced Howard Stern as the
new morning DJ on 92.3 Free FM. His
arrival was heavily anticipated and
advertised. Many NYC buses displayed
a poster of Diamond Dave across them
with the slogan “Running with the Devil”
and Free FM lists the program on it’s
website with the caption: “Like a light
ning bolt in your cheerios.” As a rock
star Roth was able to captivate millions
of fans with his singing ability, gymnas
tic kicks, and spandex attire, but as a
DJ his high octane personality leaves
much to be desired.
Roth has had hardly any experi
ence in broadcasting. His brand of
morning antics which includes showing
off his knowledge of Spanish, singing
along to songs, and bragging about his
work as an EMT makes an odd stew to
say the very least. Roth has few celebri
ty guests and the show remains free of
the Stern brand of filth that so angered
the FCC. “I don’t think you can get
ready for a job like this,” he said. “It’s
not even a job. You either are like this or
you aren’t. Howard Stem spent the last
20 years basically in a small room with
no windows. I’ve spent the last 30 years
leading a life of crime and international
intrigue. At least that’s what I write on
my resume.”
According to the Daily News, insid
ers at the radio station say that Roth is
causing more trouble than he is worth.
Station
employees
describe him as “arro
gant and self-right
eous.” They claim he
is difficult to get along
with and that he fre
quently argues with
program director Mark
Chernoff and general
manager
Tom
Chiusano. “All the
execs
know they
made the two biggest errors in radio
history - letting Stern go to Sirius and
hiring this moron Roth,” said an
employee. “He never preps for a show.
He is out the door five minutes after the
show, unless he is forced to do a com
mercial or re-record ones he made
errors on.” Roth also decorated his stu
dio with expensive fake palm trees and
antique jazz posters, but quickly
removed them after a dispute with
Infinity.
Roth’s show does have some good
qualities. His insider look at the music
industry and detailed critiques of new
artists and albums can be fascinating.
Sometimes his jokes are actually funny
to someone other than himself and his
smooth 1970’s style of reading com
mercials is quite refreshing. However,
that may not be enough to keep listen
ers interested once
the rock star novelty
wears off. In fact, the
singer turned DJ for
mula often yields lack
luster results. Former
Monkee,
Mickey
Dolenz,
was
an
absolute disaster as
the morning man at
101.1 FM and quickly
found himself unem
ployed when the station changed for
mats. “We had a Philadelphia station
that had Dee Snider (of Twisted Sister)
doing nightsfor a while," said
Vice
President for
Greater Media, Don
Kelley. “He’s an interesting interview,
but he can’t do talk for four hours a
night.”
Overall Roth’s reviews have peen
poor. Julie E. Washington, a reporter for
Plain Dealer (the largest newspaper in
Ohio) called his performance “mostly
excruciating.” She went on to slam Roth
for his ignorance and incompetence.
“Roth’s first day behind the microphone
was filled with illogical ramblings anc
parental advice from a man who is nol
a parent,” she said. “It probably prompt
ed anyone who isn’t a die-hard Roth far
to dive for the channel buttons.”
According to a New York Newsdav
opinion survey, readers gave Rotf
marks that ranged from F to B+ (anc
that was from someone who dislikec
Stern). “I thought his commentary was
atrocious, with subject matter I couldn’i
relate to,” commented Newsday readei
Ralph Fornoles, “At least Stern was foi
the working man.” Many others
expressed similar sentiments. “If I want
ed to listen to someone recount his
glory days, I’d hangout with the men ir
suspenders playing bocce in the park,’
said Rainbow Kirby. “Mr. Roth the 80’s
are over. Please open a newspaper anc
see what’s going on in the real world.”
It’s too soon to tell whether Sterr
disciples will become so sick of Roth
that they will be willing to shell out the
$12.99 a month fee for Sirius. In the
mean time, Diamond Dave trudges or
without taking anything too seriously
He remarked: “The only reason why !
got this gig is because I look so much
better in ass-less leather chaps than A
Franken."
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�The
College
of
Staten
Island
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At Home. First Round. CSI Men Lose a Close One to John Jay
Khadijah Rentas
fouled him for a shoulder bump who downed a John Jay
player. As Luna began to yell at the
CSI’s men’s basketball team lost in the CUNY
tournament quarterfinals against John Jay, 58-
official, Coach Petosa and other
teammates calmed him and told
61.
him to focus on the last 30 seconds
The Dolphins, physically bigger and
stronger, played aggressively, however, they
of the game.
The Dolphins spent the last
played inconsistently, gaining and losing
momentum throughout the game. John Jay’s
black and blue jerseys hurt the Dolphins with
their speed and ability to capitalize on the
minute of the game forcing fouls to
keep time on the clock. With seven
seconds left, guard Jeremy Smalls
scored three, bringing the score to
58-60. John Jay scored a point
from the foul line. After a time out,
Dolphins mistakes.
Early in the game the Dolphins missed
shots and turned over the ball. One second
guard, Kelvin Luna, looked for an open pass
and the next second looked shocked that a
short and skinny John Jay Bloodhound
snatched the ball quickly from his hands.
Trouble loomed and the Dolphins experienced
a drought. They had not scored in over five minutes with
in the first 13 minutes of the game. His first year on the
team, forward Dennis Echols looked upset as he cursed
his frustration in the huddle during the first time out.
Two days before, when he received an award for
First Team All Star, Echols shied away from any certain
predictions of his team’s future in the tournament. “It
depends what team comes to play,” Echols said. “We’ve
had split personalities all year.”
Although the Dolphins earned the no. 2 seed in the
CUNY conference with a 9-4 record, they held only a 47 overall record at home. After the game, Head Coach of
16 years, Tony Petosa, expressed his disappointment. “I
wasn’t really happy about playing at home,” he said. “I’ve
said it all year.”
The Dolphins seemed to make use of the home
court advantage at the end of the first half. They pres
sured John Jay and began to catch up in the last seven
the Dolphins had one last chance
to tie the score and force overtime.
Guard Mike Comick returned from
half time with no signs his ankle still
hurt. He tried for a last three point
The Dolphins lost at home in thequarterfinals against John Jay College
er but missed.
Two days before, Comick sounded confident in his
minutes. With 4:46 left, Second Team All Star Mike
Comick fell and rolled beneath the basket grabbing his
left ankle. Assisted, he left hopping on one foot. Forward
Gari Blackett replaced him and scored the last two points
team. “I know we can take the win,” he said. “Change that
think to an I know.” Confidence transformed into disap
pointment as the men walked off the court with looks of
defeat on their faces.
of the half, pushing the Dolphins ahead of John Jay, 28-
Coach Petosa attributed the loss to John Jay’s skill
of not turning over the ball as much as CSI. “They played
very well,” he said. ‘They controlled the tempo of the
26.
The Dolphins continued to score in the second half,
but four minutes in, John Jay regained the lead and the
Dolphins trailed until the last buzzer.
The Dolphins grappled for each point and argued
with the referees too. After a successful three pointer, a
referee said the ball hit the shot clock and therefore void.
Coach Petosa yelled that the official’s call was “ridicu
lous” and after the game remarked “I truly believe that
three pointer did not hit the shot clock.”
Junior Luna ran across the court after a referee that
game.”
Center Sean Weismuller said his team made “silly
mistakes” and did not feel satisfied with his performance.
‘The whole game I don’t think I played to my full poten
tial,” he said. "I should have played 10 times better.”
Ultimately, Coach Petosa felt at fault for the loss. "I
think my kids played with heart,” he said. “I just don’t think
they played good basketball and I take 100 percent
responsibility.”
Women's Soccer to Extend Season Into Spring
Jennifer Miller
to three days per week, encouraging all team mem
bers to make every effort to attend. NCAA rules allow
only one day of games during the Spring, so they will
host a tournament where they will play two or three
After a successful season in the fall,
the CSI Women's Soccer Team will
play a spring season for the first time.
The team went undefeated in CUNY
play, capturing the CUNYAC champi
onship on October 28, 2005.
Key player Lauren Baydal, who
joined the team in the Fall of 2005
after transferring from Pace University,
will act as a captain for the Dolphins.
Senior Andrea Kleboe, who has
played for the Dolphins for two years,
will move to assistant coach. “I think
she will give me the same thing she
gave me as a player,” Head Coach
John Guagliardo said. “She will bring
insight to the new players on the team,
along with a strong work ethic."
On March 2, the team will begin Danielle Narwiek lights Jbr ilie ball during a 2004 game against Mitchell College. Players frequently become injured during
practicing. They will hold workouts two games during close contact plays like this. The Dolphins plan to expand into the spring season.
games.
One of the major problems that the
Dolphins faced during their Fall season
was injuries. Sprained ankles, strained
backs, pulled hamstrings and quadriceps
all plagued the Dolphins. Many players
had to miss games, which caused a
strain on the bench due to lack of substi
tutes.
The team hopes to expand their roster
to alleviate these problems. They will
recruit those they have grown-up playing
with or against, whether they have just
entered as freshmen or transferred from
another school.
“We upgraded our schedule for the
Fall, and we are playing tougher teams,”
Guagliardo said. “By holding more prac
tices and having a high work ethic we will
be able to win at this level.”
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The
College
of
Staten
Island
January 30,2006
RESIGNATIONS AND MORE RESIGNATIONS
TASTE THE RAINBOW: CSI'S NEW TRAFFIC SIGNS
Athletic Director, WSIA General Manager, and SG President Quit
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Ex-student government president, Taiwo Olasupo.
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AnnMarie Costello
Ex-WSIA General Manager, Scott Saloway.
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Aloha Olasupo
Saloway Sails Away
MeUisso Seechoran
David Maltz
over the winter recess. But will the new
signage decrease driving confusion or
In
September,
Vice
President
for
lower the campus accident rate?
Finance and Administration Angelo J.
Aponte indicated that he was working
Aponte, who had always been eas
ily accessible to campus publications,
on some new initiatives to deal with con
cerns regarding campus safety and
has become increasingly difficult to con
tact since he began re-directing all
building visibility. Among them was a
press
plan to replace the traditional green
Communications
parking lot signs with bright colored
Huber.
placards, in an effort to aid students
locate buildings more easily.
inquires
to
&
Director
Marketing,
of
Bob
Fortunately, the Banner was able to
obtain the following statement: “We’re
“We are taking a page out of Walt
delighted with the signs. They offer a
Disney and Disney World,” he indicated
rational approach to parking and aid
last semester. “You know how every
navigation for the many visitors to our
thing is color-coded when you come into
campus. Students and faculty are now
Disneyworld? We have developed a
just returning for the spring semester,
color scheme for the various lots that
but initial reaction has been very posi
will have the same color scheme as the
tive. I’ve received e-mails which have
buildings those lots serve.”
contained positive feedback about how
True to his word, the multi-colored
signs which cost $12,200 were installed
Jan. 26th—CSI’s Student Government
Less than one year after filling the long
began their first meeting of the semester
vacant General Manager position at
with the resignation of President Taiwo
WSIA, Scott Saloway resigned in late
Olasupo. Serving only one semester as
December, after accepting a position with
President, Olasupo announced his deci
CBS Radio as a news editor. His last day
sion to the disappointment of many.
at CSI was January 6.
As
he
continuously
thanked
Many
expressed
shock
over
Senators and those associated with
Saloway’s unexpected departure, but
Student Government including Carol
according to him the sudden move was
Brower, Director of Student Life, and Ellen
necessary. Despite his quick departure,
Krieger,
those who worked with Saloway praised
Coordinator
of
Student
Government, for being given the privilege
him for his efforts to help the station.
to serve as president, Olasupo stated that
“I was sad about it. I knew it was for
"with everyone's support, tremendous
a good reason, but it left me feeling
accomplishments were made.
defeated,”
"I feel that we left a mark in this
reflective and clearly visible the signs
James
Sorrenti,
IT
out a GM, and then we found one that
Continued on page 3
are at night."
said
Director at WSIA. “We spent years with
was amazing; and he gets whisked
away.”
“When he started the job, he hit the
An Open Letter: Remembering Those Who Survived Willowbrook
ground
running,”
said
WSIA
Chief
Engineer, John Ladley. “He had a good
grasp of the job here.”
The Banner welcomes letters from the
CSI community. The following was
received from FIRST’S Block 7, and is
printed in its entirety. The Banner
believes that the Willowbrook tragedy
provides a chance to reflect. We whole
heartedly support the proposal for a
more appropriate memorial.
To the Editor:
Most students, administrators and
special needs, this chapter in the histo
Willowbrook. And now, as the semester
ry of our campus is often neglected at
winds down, we look back on what we
the College of Staten Island.
learned, and we feel the need to share
During the fall semester of 2005,
our
belief that it is crucial for the
the Willowbrook State School was the
College of Staten Island to take a strong
central focus of our research and writ
stance in how it chooses to portray the
ing, as approached through the interdis
history of our campus.
ciplinary lens provided by the FIRST
term, we watched numerous films on
program.
the topic, including
FIRST?
(You’ve
Here’s
never
the
deal:
heard
of
entering
Throughout the
Geraldo Rivera’s
infamous expos§, which we believe
Freshman enrolled in this program are
contributed
faculty are aware that the College of
placed into “blocks” of three “linked”
Willowbrook into the stigma it has
Staten Island resides on the grounds of
classes that students attend together;
become. We also spent a good deal of
what used to be the Willowbrook State
an equally important aspect of this pro
time at
School, an institution established in the
gram is the faculty’s incentive to link
housed with Special Collections at our
mid 1940’s to house mentally disabled
their courses thematically; our linked
library, where we poured over decades
children, specifically those whose par
courses, for example, were
of reportage conducted by the Staten
ents were unable to provide them with
PHL 130, and PSY 100.) At the onset of
necessary care. Yet, despite the fact
our research, it was immediately appar
We then took our research to the
that Willowbrook played an important
ent that while most of us had grown up
field; our collective aim was to interview
ENG 111,
role in helping our society learn how to
in Staten Island, none of us knew any
better provide assistance for those with
thing concrete about what happened at
much
to
making
the Willowbrook Archives,
Island Advance.
Continued on page 5
Until Saloway arrived, the general
manager position at WSIA had been
vacant for nearly two and a half years,
while a search committee looked for a
replacement. The job description is being
filed with CUNY’s central office and a new
search committee is being formed with
the names of the members still to be
determined; the process will be similar to
the last search.
“I do feel good about waiting that
long for the ideal candidate,” said CSI
Director of Student Life, Carol Brower,
when asked if the last search carried on
too long. “I’m the last person in the world
who wants that repeated. I guess that’s
always a possibility,” said Brower refer
ring to the possibility that the length of the
previous search could happen again.
Brower
noted
that
the
position
remains open for a month while appliContlnued on page 3
�The American Democracy Project
Bush Recess Appointment Proves He Learned Nothing from Katrina
Matt Safford
managing a large bureaucracy.” She spent a
entire branches of government, public opin
year as assistant secretary for export
ion and common sense.
On January 5,while Congress was on vaca
enforcement at Commerce, where she over
Evading checks and balances is noth
tion, and the American mainstream press
saw just 170 empbyees and had a $25 mil
ing new for the current administration; nei
was falling over itself covering the dual
lion budget. Yet at ICE, she’ll have 20,000
ther is the appointment of unqualified
tragedies of the week in West Virginia and
empbyees and a budget of $4 billion.
cronies. Sadly, if Americans continue to fail to
Israel, an event which, given time, could
Myers’ nomination earlier this year was
prove equally as tragic took place at the
even enough to spur right-wing magazine
White House.
President Bush appointed Julie L.
Newsmax to admit that while ICE is "one of
Myers, a 36 year old lawyer, niece of former
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Richard B.
Myers, and wife of the chief of staff to
Homeland
Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff, to head the Immigration and
Customs Enforcement bureau at the self
same Department of Homeland Security.
Sixteen others were appointed by Bush to
government positions the same day.
hold them accountable, we can only expect
them to continue business as usual.
the nation's most critical security-related
Doubtless Ms Myers’ has great con
ter entirely. According to a 2005 Washington
Post article, Myers “held a variety of jobs
over the past four years at the White House
and at the departments of Commerce,
Gordon England, to be Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Benjamin A. Powell, to be General Counsel of the.e
Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Tracy A. Henke, to be Executive Director of the Office
of State and Local Government Coordination and
Preparedness at the Department of Homeland
Security.
Arthur F. Rosenfeld, of Virginia, to be Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Director at the Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Service.
agencies," Bush's nominee (now apointee)
has "obvbus resume problems."
In a time when cronyism has faded
Ellen R. Sauerbrey, of Maryland, to be Assistant
Secretary of State (Population, Refugees, and
Migration).
from the headlines in favor of Sharon, Alito
and mine safety, Myeris appointment may
Dorrance Smith, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary
of Defense (Public Affairs).
not stir up even the minor amount of contro
versy her nomination did last fall, when the
Steven T. Walther, of Nevada, to be a Member of the
Federal Election Commission.
public's shock over Michael D. Brown's han
dling of Katrina was at the forefront.
nections, her qualifications are another mat
Other 2006 Bush Recess Appointments:
Hans Von Spakovsky, of Georgia, to be a Member of
the Federal Election Commission.
But if we can learn anything from this
appointment -since obviously Bush hasntitis that the administration, despite all, is still
Peter N. Kirsanow, of Ohio, to be a Member of the
National Labor Relations Board.
brazenly-confident in their way of doing busi
ness. And despite the unfolding wiretap
scandal, they are still willing to circumvent
Justice and Treasury, though none involved
Stephen Goldsmith, of Indiana, to be a Member off the
Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and
Community Service.
Julie Myers has crony connections, but lacks the
experience to run th $4 billion, 20,000 employee
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau.
U.S. Attack On Pakistan Stirs More Anti-American Sentiment
nited States Predator drone air
So we are
craft January 13 fired as many
responsible for
Pakistanis
McCain quote was actually "We apolo
as ten missiles at Damadola, in
killing innocent
and we'll try
gize, but I can't tell you that we wouldn't
to
address
do the same thing again." That's nice.
con
Apparently President Bush isn't the only
U
Pakistan, a little over four miles from civilians
a
the
than it does here. Or maybe not; the full
the Afghan border. The attacks killed as
nation who has
their
few as 17 (according to officials) and as
been one of our
cerns."
many as 30 plus (according to villagers)
staunchest
people in three houses which were
allies
reportedly scattered across a hillside.
region, stirring
their
con
blame the victims sets in — after all,
in
American politician not willing to admit
Well
hell, I'd think
the
mistakes.
Before the knee-jerk reaction to
But that's Okay right? We were
up more anti-
cerns might
those Pakistanis did live close to Terror-
going on intelligence that Osama bin
American sen
have some
Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri was
stricken Afghanistan right? — ask your
timent
a
thing to do
self if the same thing would happen if
in the area.
nation already
with hopeful
What's that the U.S. says? We did
an al-Qaida leader was found to be in
dubbed by the
ly not getting
n't get him? And a senior Pakistani
London, or Israel, or your backyard.
Congressional
blown
intelligence official told the Associated
Think of that for a minute and you
Research
across a hill
press that "investigations conclude that
might understand some of the anger,
Service as the
side
just
[the CIA] acted on false information"?
and why Shah Zaman, who lost a
most
because you
Oh well, it's not as if the U.S. has a his
daughter and two sons in the attack
American
happen
inside Pakistan, is so upset that he and
nation
the
live near the
his fellow villagers "were in no position
world? And we
Afghan bor
to stop them. To tell them we are inno
cent."
tory of staging deadly attacks based on
false information or anything.
I'm sure we'll get him next time.
Besides, Pakistan is a stolid U.S. sup
porter, so I'm sure they won't mind.
What's that? Thousands took to the
streets in protest? They burned a USfunded
aid
office,
chanted
anti-
in
antiin
to
didn't even get
der and bad
the damn guy?
intelligence
Well, shit.
says
I'm sure at
least
that
Qaida might
ly felt safe, as did the rest of the vil
be
lagers affected by the attack. But they
in
your
must realize now what we all must
hood. Lets see if we can address those
own government- and had to be dis
accept: nowhere is safe in a world pop
n't mind saying so. What? Apparently
concerns.
persed with tear gas? Well at least the
from Liberia today, Secretary of State
But at least moderate Republican
ernments who will stop at nothing to
government
ulated by terrorists, and blundering gov
us
Condoleezza Rice "offered no apolo
Arizona Senator John McCain apolo
right? Oh, Information Minister Sheikh
eradicate them. The entire world is now
gies" according to the Washington
gized on CBS's Face the Nation. I hope
Rashid Ahmed called the attack "highly
acceptable collateral damage.
Post, and said "We'll continue to work
the show gets better ratings in Pakistan
condemnable?" Oops.
supports
is
Living inside the border of U.S. ally,
Pakistan, I'm sure Zaman and his fami
sorry about the whole thing, and would
Pakistani
government
Thousands of Pakiistanis protested recent CIA air attacks.
our
al-
neighbor
American slogans, condemned their
2
in
with
�January 30,2006
next 5 years, for the next 10 years to con
SALOWA Y SAILS AWAY
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/•
tinue to grow and become the next great
specifics until the upgrades have been
radio station in New York City,” he said,
completed. However, he offered a pre
when asked to appraise the current state
view. “It will consist of top notch apple
cants apply. After the closing date, the
of WSIA. "I think hopefully that being here
computers, with the best displays, and a
search committee starts their work by
played a small role in that. I can’t take
digital console,” he said, noting that he
reviewing the applicants, including mak
credit for that; the students did all the
expects the upgrades are completed
ing sure that all necessary compliance
work.”
soon. “Hopefully soon, so those heading
checks.
Until a replacement for Saloway is
out in their final spring semester have a
“Completely out of the blue they
found, John Ladley, who is one of only
chance to learn the newest technology
[CBS Radio] called me and said ‘would
two paid employees at the student-run
before joining the workforce.”
you like to come work for us?’ How soon
station (The General Manager is the
In addition to serving as GM to
can you start?’ ” recalled Saloway. “When
other) will handle most of the administra
WSIA, the General Manager is also
you’re presented with that kind of oppor
tive work that the GM normally performs.
responsible for coordinating meetings
tunity it’s very hard to say no. A chance to
“I’ll now have to handle all the administra
and purchasing with Publications, and
go work for a network in New York City,
tion, as well as the technical aspect,” he
also advises some aspects of Student
arguably the best radio news service in
said. “It’s much more time consuming.”
Government. In the meantime, Cynthia
Jennings
has
been
named
Acting
the country and they want me, it’s very
Still, Ladley does see an upside to
hard to say no. It’s the equivalent of being
the current situation. ‘This is an opportu
Associate Director of Student Life and will
asked to go work for the New York
nity for the students to administer the sta
take
Times.”
tion and be more autonomous,” he said.
Publications until a new GM is found.
over
the
coordination
with
Saloway adjusted his original career
Brower insisted that morale at the
Jennings replaces the former Associate
path after the phone call. However, he
station won’t be significantly affected.
Director of Student Life, Carl Stiles, who
also cited teaching COM 412, Broadcast
‘The students are ok with this,” she said.
resigned from CSI in the summer of 2005.
Journalism last semester as influencing
“I think they learned the last time that they
An ongoing search is still being conduct
ed for his permanent replacement.
his decision. “My trajectory was clearly
survive and they do ok, and sometimes
toward the management side of broad
change ends up being for the better. The
casting and that’s what I’d been doing for
next GM will be as good or better.
many years,” he said. “But my back
DAVID maltz:
their recording studio, but declined to give
WSIA broadcasts at 10 watts on
88.9FM and can be heard in Staten
“I think the worst case scenario is
Island, Brooklyn, parts of Manhattan, and
ground is also in news and it’s part of
that just might not continue to grow,” con
New Jersey. It is the only radio station on
what I love. Having spent a semester
tinued Brower. “But I don’t think it will fall
Staten Island.
teaching journalism reinforced that. It’s a
back. Any plan changes will be on hold.”
WSIA also has a fully functional
different world very different from what I’m
However, the station is in the midst of a
recording studio. WSIA changed to an all
doing now.
massive technology upgrade.
rock format in the fall just before WXRK
Sorenti noted that WSIA will upgrade
‘The station is really geared for the
switched to an all-talk format in the wake
of Howard Stern’s departure.
MELLISSA SEECHARAN
of a coin," she said. "Seeing him step
Aloha Olasupo
down is sad because knowing Taiwo has
-continued from page 1-
ENRIQUE INOCENTE
been nothing short of a pleasure. I'll miss
you knowing you capacity as a person
school's history," he said, reading from a
and a leader."
carefully written speech. Olasupo, who will
MATTHEW SAFFORD
be moving to Albany to pursue a success
ful job opportunity, did not feel it would be
fair to continue his presidency. 'Through
Student Government, I have gained expe
rience in my chosen career and life," he
read. "But now, for me, it is time to go."
Also expressing his faith in Student
MATTHEW BECK
Government's future, Olasupo noted that
THOMAS BRADLEY
"the task ahead is not doubting as I have
ANNMARIE COSTELLA
confidence in the Senators and a capable
VANESSA LEIGH DEBELLO
ANNEMARIE DOOLING
Vice President."
Those who worked with Olasupo,
Olasupo's resignation speech ended
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
KHADIJAH RENTAS
worked closely with him. "Everything start
LAUREN TAYLOR
ed from here," he said. "I'll always remem
ber CSI - Always CSI."
ities,"
acter.
JASON COHEN
JENNIFER MILLER
addressing
Olasupo
and
Student
ANDREW RAFFERTY
Government. 'Taiwo was one of the most
SCOTT ZELLER
dedicated student leaders I've worked
with, and under his leadership great things
happened. I'll miss him."
praise
continued,
Ramphal,
Student
"He put 100 percent into everything he
did, and even bridged the gap between
students and the administration. He's like
my mentor."
Megan Carley, NYPIRG's Project
Coordinator,
who
attends
Student
closely with Olasupo, also shared in the
positive sentiments. "From just obsen/ing
him at these meetings, Taiwo is very pro
fessional and a good listener," Carley
Current Vice President, Alex Mufel
will
take
over
as
acting
Student
Government President. "It will be a suc
Mufel, as he sat at the head of a long rec
tangular table. "Hopefully everything will
be fine."
Olasupo's resignation was not the
first for the new semester. Within the past
couple of months, CSI saw the resigna
as
Carol
Brower added on. However, Olasupo
briefly disappeared to which Brower joked,
"Make sure he gets a copy of the minutes
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
AJ
cessful year with continued goals," said
"I have mixed emotions," Krieger said
The
said
Government Publications Representative.
said. "He represented CSI very well."
sweet," brief admiration of Olasupo's char
so he can read this."
Upon his return, Brower echoed the
sentiments of those around her. "It's a flip
STUDENT ELECTIONS
and character. 'Taiwo gave us responsibil
Krieger presented Olasupo with a
large cake, as she joked, "Sweets for the
FOR THE SPRING 2006
spoke highly about his accomplishments
Government meetings but never worked
on a graceful, and sad note for those who
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and
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Nomination period is
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Most of these seats have credit and
GAP requirements.
Check in the student
government office.
Room1C-207
for further information.
tions of WSIA General Manager, Scott
Saloway, PDC Advisor Beth Allen, and
Harold Merritt, Athletics Director.
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“said Brower. “But we will be doing our
Come to the student government office to pick up
your nomination form today
best to make sure things get accom
plished.”
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�Childbirth: A Labor of Pain, A Labor of Love, A Labor of... Something!
Vanessa Leigh DeBello
Child birth is one of those experiences in
life that cannot be adequately understood
unless you go through it yourself. (Sorry
guys.
Being a spectator doesn’t count.)
Numerous friends tried to explain it to
me. “It’s like cramps,” my friend Georgia
told me. “But a thousands times worse,”
she added. I tried to imagine the pain, in
some sort of attempt to “practice” for it,
but l found out later it was of no use. As
the days drew closer to my due date, we
all wonder, when? My husband was so
set that it wouldn’t be until the 5th of
June, the estimated due date.
I, on the
other hand, felt that it was time for the
baby to come out.
I never thought I
would get to the point where I wanted him
out but after carrying more than 40 lbs of
extra weight, I was looking forward to
dropping at least 10 of it in one day.
My sixth sense told me this baby
was planning to stay in until the very end.
My fear— we were going to go into over
time. When the last week of May arrived,
and I still hadn’t given birth. I began to get
a little anxious and running around from
one store to the next for last minute items
wasn’t helping.
My midwife, Sakina, recommended
some rest and relaxation.
She knew I
would need it to get through the rigorous
physical ordeal of child birth. I wasn’t use
plaints and massaging my feet. She told
husband came in the room. “Is the baby
to being confined to my house for so
me to drink some tea and get rest, which
coming today?” he asked. “Or will it be a
long. I was getting bored. In the mean
I was all too glad to do, if I could only fall
few more days?” Days? I thought he had
time, I did everything from natural induc
asleep.
to be crazy. I*k6pt thinking, I’m not hold
tion with herbs to meditation to “encour
age" the process. I even pulled out some
Thursday morning I was jerked out
of my sleep by pains in my side.
As I
ing in this baby another 3 days just so it
can be born on your brother’s birthday.
yarn and crocheting needle from the back
noticed the pain coming and going fre
Sakina reassured him that it would that
of my closet to help pass the time.
quently, I called to my husband in the
day.
Since we were having a planned
other room to bring his watch so we could
One by one, visitors came. My mom
home birth, my husband and I made sure
start counting the minutes between con
stopped by briefly with my sister who
the house was somewhat in order and
tractions.
that the birthing pool was filled firm with
phoning Sakina too soon, afraid that I
I was a little hesitant about
stayed for the long-haul.
Later my dear
friend, Georgia, came to photograph the
air. I spent Monday and Tuesday getting
might be wrong about my condition. But
birth. After seven hours of labor, I finally
use to it, before my husband emptied and
as the pain persisted, I decided to call.
came downstairs to begin pushing in the
prepared it for the real thing.
The first time I dialed the phone, I hang
pool. This was no easy task. It took all my
The following day, I began feeling
up because the pain was too intense to
strength to push.
some contractions shortly after I woke
even mumble out a hello and who was
body is working, especially the legs to
Every muscle in the
up. I was sure this would be the day. I
calling. The second time I called, I was
support the body’s weight. I even had to
even made phone calls to family and
able to tell her what was happening,
tell myself to stop giving “lazy” pushes,
friends telling them that this could be it. I
before I handed the phone to my hus
otherwise I’d be at it all afternoon. After 40
called Sakina to let her know. “Sakina, I
band.
minutes, our baby popped out into the
“I’m feeling
By now it was after nine. I called my
something every 10 to 15 minutes.” But
sister and mom to tell them the news. I
held him in absolute awe as I washed his
being the expert that she is, she simply
assured my sister who would be there at
face and examined him.
knew better.
“You can
the birth that she had enough time to do
The most amazing truth is that after
still talk. If this was it, you would be in too
errands and to come in the afternoon.
all that hard pushing and the baby is final
think this is it,” I told her.
“No,” she said.
water.
Sakina handed him to me and I
much pain to talk.” And she was right. As
The truth is, the first several hours were a
ly out, the pain goes away immediately
the day progressed, my contractions
blur. It wasn’t until Sakina arrived around
and you’re focused on that incredible
stopped.
noon that things started to get moving.
humanbecoming that you helped pro
Later that evening, Sakina called to
My labor, or what I call the “birthing
check on me and then decided to take
dance,” alternated between the bath and
rately describe the pain, except to say it
the trip from NJ.
She comforted and
bedroom. As I sat in a tub of water with
something like I’ve never felt before and
reassured me by listening to my com
Sakina couching me through the pain, my
I’m happy it’s over.
duce. Even now, it’s hard for me to accu
Islanders in the Holy Land: CSI Students Do Israel
Scott Zeller
locals who would ask for any extra
parties at night. For some students
512 was off to the Sandal factory.
this was the first opportunity they
Students were stumped as to why
money for their synagogue, which is
actually attached to the Wall.
During the winter recess while most
were given to drink legally, because
they had to visit a sandal factory, but
CSI students go on exotic vacations
the legal drinking age is 18.
later found oat that the tour guide had
or choose to relax at home, for fifteen
During the first few days in Israel
CSI students this wasn’t the case.
the students stayed in a Camp site
There idea of a vacation was a trip to
in fact owned part of the company.
One
of
the
more
All
throughout
Israel
it
was
amazing to see how many different
interesting
types of bread that they had. On
located somewhere North in Israel. “It
nights took place in the middle of the
almost every corner you could see a
Israel. The trip in question is a free
was ok, for accommodations”, said
dessert in a bedewen tent. There stu
bread
trip to Israel sponsored by the Hillel
Jason Cohen, “For a Free trip what
dents slept in the pitch black night
amazing,” said a non CSI student
organization. The trip is called Taglit
else could you ask for.” The Camp
and freezing cold. With nothing sepa
Gleb, “they have come a long way
Birthright and is offered to Jewish
site had a local bar and club attached
rating themselves, but the lone sleep
from Matzoh.” Fruits were also very
students ages 18-26.
to it and seemed to draw a lot of
stand.
“The
breads
were
ing bags they were given. “When the
common throughout Israel, and they
different
attention from the students. At the
lights came on during the morning,”
were also much sweeter, and cheap
Universities for a total of 45 students
camp site the 45 students from BUS
said Igor Spector, “you could see like
er.
to make up BUS #512. These univer
512 were accompanied by some 200
twenty people all sleeping on top of
What would a trip be to Israel
sities were: Wagner, Johns Hopkins,
other college students from across
each other.” From there at sunrise at
without meeting any locals? The stu
Greater Baltimore,
the country. This would
dents from bus 512 were joined by 8
CSI
joined
six
Santa Monica,
make for
approximately 4:30 am students were
some crazy times. “I met some guy
woken up for the journey of a lifetime.
Israel Air Force soldiers, who knew
from
graduate
They would scale the mountain of
how
question
Andrew Katsoufis “I still have no clue,
Masada and watch the sunrise. After
Hebrew and definitely knew how to
regarding there trip to Israel was
about one thing he said to me.” The
Masada students would then head for
party.
George
Mason
University
and
Hofstra.
For
many
a
major
LSU,”
said
recent
to
speak
both
English
and
“The soldiers became very
safety. The Israeli government takes
parties were intense at the Camp
the dead sea. There students were
close to us,” said Junior Dimitri, “they
the safety of visitors very seriously,
site, but would students be prepared
given the chance to take off there
even invited us back to their Army
and appoints a former military soldier
to have an early wake up call after
clothes, throw on their suits and float
base.” After 7 long days spent with
to each group.
in the water. By the sea students
the soldiers, bus 512 twelve was in
An interesting fact that tour guide
from all over were also given globs of
for an experience of a lifetime. No
embark on this journey were given
Sphinkta brought up was that while
mud to throw on themselves and
other Birthright trip has ever actually
the opportunity of a lifetime, and took
traveling through Israel, it is possible
enjoy a mud bath. After there visit to
visited an active military base. The
nothing for granted. They woke up
to get from the north tip to the south
the Dead Sea bus 512 would return
trip to the base was quite amazing.
every morning at nearly 7:00 am
tip in nearly three hours.
to the Novatel hotel in Jerusalem for
Nothing was hidden from the stu
a short rest.
dents. This was not a planned visit,
The
pulling an all nighter.
students
who
chose
to
Israel time to see the sites of the holy
Of all the sites visited, the city of
land of Israel. “7:00 is pretty early in
Tsvat which is considered to be birth
“Not many could say that they
so everything was out in the open. “I
the
Senior Jason
place of the Kabala had a major
have been to the Great Wall in China,
was standing right next to a pile of
Cohen, “especially when your body
affect on many of the students. “It
and the Western Wall in Israel,” said
about
feels like its 12 o’clock at night.” It
was amazing to see a city so old
Andrew Katsoufis. At the Western
Cohen, “Who could say they stood
took nearly two days for students to
could still be around” said Andrew
Wall CSI studentss took advantage of
next to missiles that could one day be
adjust to the 7 hour ahead time dif
Katsoufis, “and the fact that is was in
this holy landmark and left notes
fired against an enemy.” At the base
CSI students took advantage of every
morning”,
said
ference, but this did not bother many.
good shape was pretty amazing."
inside the wall. Upon entering the
Students appreciated the beautiful
After a few hours in Tsvat, touring the
Western Wall and all throughout visit
sites during the day and enjoyed the
city and shopping in the market, bus
ing the wall, guests are greeted by
15
missiles.”
Said
Continued on page 6
Jason
�- January 30,2006
Remembering Those Who Survived Willowbrook
From the Editor
Banner is back.
Over the course of the break,
threemajor
resignations
have
occurred at CSI. First, WSIA General
Manager Scott Saloway resigned in
late December to take a job at CBS
Radio. At the time, I thought that this
earth-shattering news would be the
biggest story to take place over the
break. I was wrong.
On
Monday
January
23,
the
Staten Island Advance reported that
CSI Athletic Director Harold Merrit
was resigning from CSI, to move on to
the University of District Columbia.
And on January 26, SG President
Taiwo Olasupo announced his resig
nation to move on to a job in Albany.
All three resignations are major
shakeups, however, this trend began
in August when Associate Director of
Student Life Carl Stiles resigned. At
the time, I didn’t have the foresight to
see that this was a sign of things to
come. In addition to those resigna
tions, other employees have quit as
well, which raises serious questions
as to why all these resignations are
occurring.
All that aside, the administration
Banner, with the sole exception of
Director of Student Life, Carol Brower.
The situation became so poor that a
Banner reporter asking the VP for
Administration and Finance, Angelo
Aponte for comments about new road
signs that were installed on campus
resulted in almost endless runaround
for our staff (we finally did get a com
from
that
CSI
Director
of
Communications, Bob Huber, but only
after much persistence). Yet when the
Staten Island Advance wants a state
ment, VP Aponte and the rest of the
administration has no problem com
menting to them.
circulation that is roughly 50 times
greater than The Banner on a daily
basis. While we don’t know why the
administration avoids The Banner, it
does seem odd that the administration
appears reticent to comment to The
Banner yet has no problem comment
ing to the Advance. Whenever the
administration writes a letter to the
editor, we always publish it, usually on
the front page. Yet we never get treat
ed with anything close to the level of
respect we show them. The adminis
tration owes it to the students (our
readers) to comment on stories. We
have not yet asked VP Aponte for
comment on Merrit’s resignation, but
we hope that if we do, that we get
treated as fairly as the Advance was.
We’re not asking for much, and youour readers deserve better.
-David Maltz
College
of
Staten Island create a
who
memorial that’s more
would
each
bring a different per
prominent than the one
spective
we presently have (the
to
our
understanding
Willowbrook.
of
Willowbrook
Such
building
number and plaque on
individuals included:
the side of 1S).
former Willowbrook
could take many forms.
staff and
This
patients;
It could be something
family members who
as simple as including
had
information about the
placed
loved
ones in the facility;
history of Willowbrook
professors
at student orientation,
were
who
employed
the
at
or providing a class on
CSI,
Willowbrook for CLUE
Richmond
credit. We also like the
birth
when
of
College and Staten
idea of dedicating
Island
space on campus to the
Community
a
College merged on
memory of those who
this campus in 1994;
lived
Professor
James
Willowbrook:
Kaser, the
librarian
in
charge
of
acquistitions
for
the
Willowbrook archives; Director of Buildings
and Grounds, Vincent Bono, who provided
our class with the extensive details regard
ing the transformation of the campus on its
conversion into a CUNY school. On taking
became aware of the many rumors that sur
round the story of Willowbrook. In the end,
we were most surprised to learn that many
of our immediate and extended family
members already knew a good deal about
Willowbrook; several, in fact, had at one
point been employed by the facility. We
began to wonder: why hadn’t we already
been told Willowbrook? Why do people
seem so unwilling to talk about it? In short:
why the silence?
Often, when one of us approached an
individual to request an interview, the initial
response was defensive. Many of the peo
ple we contacted appeared
wary of our
motives, as if we had come to our research
with a prior agenda.
Ironically, none of us
knew much, if anything, about the political
The Staten Island Advance has a
the
a variety of people
our research outside the classroom, we also
recently became tight-lipped to The
ment
Third, we propose
-from page 7-
Afer a long, eventful winter break, The
climate
that
surrounds the
issue
of
Willowbrook. This frequently impeded the
progress of our research, which led (ironi
cally) to the project taking up the majority of
the semester, whereas we’d initially intend
ed to spend three or four weeks on the
topic. The most contentious issue, we have
come to learn, is how people within in the
community think Willowbrook should be
remembered.
Some think it should be for
gotten. As a class, we believe that the his
tory of Willowbrook can and should provide
an important learning tool for our students
and faculty. We believe this because,
through our own research, we have come to
learn so much about ourselves and our
community, as well as how our society
cares for its mentally disabled.
We believe the silence surrounding
Willowbrook is dangerous, as it gives rise to
rumor. The facts speak not only for them
selves: they speak for those who were neg
lected; for those who were victims of a failed
and
worked
in
at
this
institution; for those who suffered, staff and
space, we could place a
patients alike, due to a lack of state funding.
sculpture designed by the Art Department,
There was grpss overcrowding
at
or a large plaque inscribed with the names
Willowbrook: often, a single staff member
of those who resided on our campus. We
would be responsible for the care of fifty
also think it would be wonderfully instructive
patients. Many who entered the facility were
to have a small museum dedicated to the
also subject to experimentation, which
history of Willowbrook and its role in return
would eventually lead to the development of
ing rights and liberties to the mentally dis
the hepatitis vaccine. Yet, like all intellectu
abled.
ally challenging topics, Willowbrook was
Finally, we don’t believe Willowbrook
complex: it was not all bad, nor was it all
should be thought of as a stigma, either on
good. It was many things to many people.
the College or the community of Staten
In contrast to the facts, the rumors tend to
Island. Therefore, we encourage you to talk
be one-dimensional and, as such, they do a
about the history of the institution with your
disservice to those who lived and suffered
family, friends, fellow students, professors,
at Willowbrook. Why? Because they
and fellow employees. It’s important that we
only serve to cast the patients and staff of
all participate in a dialogue about how we
Willowbrook into the opposed roles of “vil
once accommodated the mentally disabled,
Such thinking is a dis
as opposed to “sweeping it under the rug.”
service to our community as it prolongs our
While what happened at Willowbrook is in
conception of the mentally disabled as “dif
the past, it played too important a role in
ferent.” Fact: if it weren’t for the failures of
shaping our present to be forgotten.
lain” and “victim.”
Willowbrook, we would not have pro
gressed to our present understanding that
Sincerely,
the mentally disabled are better served
FIRST program’s Block Seven:
when placed in groups homes and/or pro
Professor Cate Marvin, Department of
vided with assisted living.
The first and most important step CSI
can take is to furnish the main stacks of the
Library with all the relevant materials per
taining to Willowbrook'(presently, there are
none,
except
those
located
in
the
English, Speech and World Literature
Professor Bertram Ploog, Department
of Psychology
Professor Amy Hannon, Department of
archives—an area of the library students
Political
Science,
Economics
and
aren’t encouraged to explore). In addition,
Philosophy
the College should donate books on the
Liliya Belkina
Colleen Mulligan
subject of Willowbrook to the New York
Peter Ciaravino
Samantha Padula
Public Library, which, amazingly, does not
Jamila Collymore
Marissa Palmieri
hold a single volume on the subject.
Shaina Corchado
Kristin Rainero
Second, we believe the College could
do much to help close the gap between the
Karen David
Kathleen Richards
Nicole Defendis
Anthony Scharf
Deanna Simone
mentally disabled and our local and aca
Sara Fahey
demic communities by providing research
Jennifer Gialelia
Rachelle Sixon
incentives for students to interact with those
Michael Levinsky
Oliver Soemarsono
housed in the group homes that border our
Amanda Mastrantonio
Jennifer Troianiello
campus: Lifestyles, SIDDSO facilities (The
Alexis Medina
Dimah Udong
Staten Island Developmental Disabilities
Maylin Mejia
Fihreta Zengovska
Service Organization) and the IBR (Institute
Christina Mikhail
Jenny Zhu
for Basic Research) facilities.
�Continued from page 4
Photos From the Holy Land
picture
moment.
Student
Andrew
Photos: Jason Cohen
Katsoufis was able to capture a picture of
himself climbing the ladder of an F16 fight
er plane.
Jerusalem, was definitely a must see
while visiting Israel. It is amazing to see
how all of the buildings are made to look
exactly the same. “All of the building in
Jerusalem," said tour guide Sphinkta,”
must have an outside made of Jerusalem
Stone.” Jerusalem stone is said to be very
strong and is good for keeping insulated.
The students of Bus 512 were given the
opportunity to walk around Old Jerusalem,
and some chose not to even blink.
On the night before leaving for home,
bus 512 decided to end there trip to Israel
by throwing a toga party. Every single cor
ner of the hotel lobby was covered with
students wrapped in sheets. The hotel
workers couldn’t have been happy, but
when they were yelling it was in Hebrew
so nobody could understand. The party
lasted for hours and when the sun came
up, it was time to check out.
If you are interested in experiencing
Israel for yourself, log onto www.hillel.org.
The next trip is scheduled for the summer,
SO DON’T MISS OUT!
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Comp Science Club Introduces Tech Pspe. Tweaks CIX
Chris Mandel
Matt Ganz
and the rest of the dub
Logging into the computers on
does not change the password for CIX
moment, however you have to have
campus is always a joy and half to say
email, which has the same default
someone who already has an account
the least. Being here over the course of
login.
invite you. This sounds like a set back,
a couple of years, you realize the login
Once you are logged in, you will
though so many people have accounts
has changed so many times that even
want to check your email. Your new CSI
with Gmail that it is relatively easy to
elcome back to another rous
W
find an invite. Your next step after you
ing semester here at CSI.
have a new email set up is to visit your
This
CSI email account for the first and last
semester,
the
CSI
Computer Club in Association with The
time ever. Go to cix.csi.cuny.edu and
log in using the instructions for logging
Banner, have started a tech page to
quench your thirst for technological
into the computer, unless of course you
know-how! We know how it feels to
changed your password already. Next
stare blankly at a blue screen of death
find
on your Windows PC and would like to
account options and click on forward
share with you options other than bang
ing. Simply type your brand spanking
the
pull
down
menu
offering
ing your head against the monitor or
new Gmail account name into the box
breaking out the sledgehammer. Yes,
and click save and now all your school
we know how you feel and hate that
related mail will go directly to your nicer,
frustrating moment, and that is why we
shorter account name. Nobody really
have decided to share our secrets with
likes to deal with this email account so
you. This new column will supply you
it is just an easier way around it.
not only with tips but also with equip
Well, thanks for giving us y°ur five
ment and game reviews as well as
minutes of attention before your next
noteworthy web sites. One thing we
class and I hope you actually learned
would like to do is have reader partici
the veteran students have no clue what
email will have the format of first-
pation. So if you have any questions
to type. At the moment the login is
name.Iastname@cix.csi.cuny.edu. This
umn, where we will talk about stuff a lit
tle more fun and a little less school.
something. If not, check our next col
about anything tech related, just email
somewhat simple, the user name being
is of course way too long to use so now
us... and if you’re lucky, we will answer
your first name.last name. Yes, you
for a tip from us. A good idea would be
Don’t forget to write us and let us know
the question in the paper the following
type your whole first name, a period,
to set up another email account, Yahoo
what you think. We will definitely try to
issue.
and your whole last name without any
being a good place to go. Just go to
address some issues but you have to
ask the
answer them. If you are interested in
So
email
us
at
TechTalkCSI@gmail.com and we will
questions before we can
spaces. Its not rocket science, people.
WWW.YAHOO.COM and follow the
try to address all of your computing
No just kidding, it’s not that bad but
directions to set up your new email with
woes and heartaches.
there are always a few, even in the
whatever name you desire, as long as it
anything tech related, you might want to
Since this is the first issue of the
higher-level third or fourth year comput
isn’t already taken. They will give you
join us during Wednesday’s club hours
new semester, we will get the boring
er classes, who can’t even grasp the
access to email as well as many other
in 4N 205 where we are involved in
stuff out of the way that would be of use
concept. As for a password, the default
features, one of my favorites being the
everything from PC’s to Linux, to robot
to students that are just joining us here
is your birth date, in mmddyy format. To
various games at games.yahoo.com,
athletes and then some. So keep the
at our lovely campus. As we know, all
change the password once you have
which you need a Yahoo account to
questions coming and we will see you
too well, the computer access here can
completed the daunting task of logging
use. Another good place to get an email
next issue.
cause more headaches than a trip to
in, you simply press Ctrl, alt delete all at
account
the registrar’s office, so here are a few
the same time and choose the option to
WWW.Gmail.com. This is arguably one
tips to get you started.
change your password. Remember this
of the best email providers at the
is
from
Google,
at
Student Elections loin 21st Century
Kevin S.P. Mamakas
n April 3, CSI Elections will offi
O
cially join the Online Craze that
is now a part of everyday life for
most college students.
For the past two semesters, the
CSI Student Representative Elections
has been online in select locations on
campus. This was the beginning of a
process intended to increase student
positions they are running for, and to
with at least 61 credits and a 2.25 GPA,
er.
ask questions about the online voting.
four Auxiliary Service Corporation At-
Government
Large reps with at least a 2.25 GPA,
“Elexpert,” which will be accessible
Representative Vanessa Joseph was
seven College Council At-Large reps
through CSI’s homepage, students will
fixing her Myspace page - another
with a minimum GPA of 2.25, and six
be able to quickly create user names,
online craze - she said, “It is easier for
Faculty Student Disciplinary Committee
passwords, and then vote. “Right now
the students because they can vote at
reps.
everything is being done online,” says
there own time. It is very convenient.
Using the voting company site
As
Student
Brower, “We have to use what is best
Arishna AJ Rempha, who was also
received by the people we are trying to
on Myspace, added, “It will increase
reach.”
student turnout in the elections.”
There will be a poll that asks ques
tions that relate to college life, but they
are yet to be determined.
“We want students to get involved.
We want students to nominate them
“It’s great. It is going to be online
During these elections, students
because as of now there aren’t a lot of
will vote for nine Freshman/Sophomore
selves to be a representative and to
representatives for the new election
students participating in the elections,”
Student Government (SG) reps with at
vote,” says Brower. “Right now our
methods believe that this will soon
says
turnout in elections. Even though it did
n’t initially get more students to vote,
Commissioner
least six credits and a 2.25 GPA, nine
main
Snigdha Banerjee. “It’s easy access
Junior/Senior SG reps with a 2.25 GPA,
involved.”
From April 3 until April 8, “Students
voting on computers and the Election
an At-Large SG reps with at least six
Through the college website, infor
can vote anywhere there happened to
Commission has been and will continue
credits and a 2.25 GPA, a Graduate
mation and nomination forms for each
change.
be a computer,” according to Student
Life Director Carol Brower. Students will
now be able to vote for CSI Student
Representatives from home, work, or
8
any place they can access the comput
SG
Elections
focus
is
getting
students
student SG rep with at least a 3.0 GPA,
seat are available. The nomination peri
During the elections, there will be
three lower seat CSI Association reps
od for the Fall 2006 through Spring
on campus locations to vote, to find out
with up to 60.5 credits and a 2.25 GPA,
2007 elections is from January 30 thru
information about the candidates, the
two upper seat CSI Association reps
March 24.
to advertise for the Elections.”
�LATER
THAT
DAY
PUMPKIN
KNOW YOU'RE
UPSET ABOUT
THE CAR. I HAVE
FAILED YOU AS A
FATHER. TO
MAKE IT UP I
WAS THINKING
OF BUYING YOU A
HAWAIIAN
ISLAND AND...
the movie. The movie was definitely a
the favorite films among college stu
crowd pleasing adventure. The only set
dents.
back in the film was its length as the
film ran slightly over three hours.
5. Cinderella Man
2. Brokeback Mountain
this film was nothing short of Russell
Russell Crowe’s performance in
Crowe. This story inspired film is about
he movies of 2005 have come
This film, directed by Ang Lee has
and gone and hopefully these
helped put 2005 on the cinematic map.
1930’s boxer Jim Braddock who comes
ghastly films never dome again.
A love story about two men secretly
back from hardships to become heavy
T
weight champion. His quest is not for
To say this was a poor year for film
fame or fortune but to provide for his
making is a substantial understate
family. The fighting styles and bodies of
ment. Why? Maybe because in 2004
the boxers really made the film look and
the film industry gave us majestic
feel authentic.
pieces like Million Dollar Baby, Kill Bill
The movies of today use smoke
Vol. 2, The Incredibles, I Robot, and
Saw. Maybe the real reason is that this
past year had repulsive uninteresting
films! So instead of making a top 10 of
2005 I’ve decided to make a top 5.
been better written. It’s an overall solid
1. King Kong
film, but if this were any other year I
Peter Jackson’s latest creation
don’t know if it would have made the
again solidifies him as a top director.
desiring each other, this was a moving
The framing and visuals are at a premi
and compelling film. The fact that the
um as we should expect nothing less
movie involves two well known male
from this rugged but friendly looking
actors engaging in physical sexuality
director. All the actors including Naomi
activity created its buzz. After viewing
Watts’ performance was second tier.
the piece I thought it lived up to its
This film didn’t need
acting
expectations if not succeeded them. It
because it had a huge gorilla carrying
surprised me how well made the movie
good
top five.
and mirrors to entertain rather than
4. Wedding Crashers
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn
come together to
propel
Wedding
Crashers as the comedy of 2005. This
film isn’t Old School funny but in recent
times what is? This is definitely one of
ingredients that are proven. Having
great acting and creative story lines are
what make movies great. I’d rather
watch vintage movies like Back to the
Future or French Connection than terri
was. It’s a classic love story with a twist.
ble high budgeted films of today. Now
Five years from now this film will
only if we had more directors like
become a Lifetime channel classic.
Spielberg and Jackson who can incor
porate the idea of telling a story and
3. Crash
use special effects to enhance them.
This movie was not the best of all
Paying ten dollars to see movies like
time but it is a solid. It has persuasion,
House of Wax, Get Rich or Die Trying,
suspense and most of all shock value.
Dukes of Hazzard and countless other
While facing facing deep stereotypes
movies is a crime.
and making the viewer think, the movie
was slow in many parts and could have
9
�January 30,2006
Lauren Taylor's
elcome
W
back!
already
class—you guessed it, Psych 100—
future is at hand. I’m not too happy with
Island. My classmates feel the same
The past
landed me a failing grade. I will be retak
grades that I’ve received but the class
way but there is still some adjusting to
ing Psych during the summer.
schedules are hard to go by. I was late
the personal responsibility of college
It’s
spring semester!
man
months at The College of
Staten Island were a realization that I should be pushing forward and
none of the below a B nonsense. If I’m
high school was a stepping stone and a
being irrational I’m sure I’ll hear about it
big help, I might add. My first semester,
a couple of days and ended up taking
life. When I finally sat down to write this
night classes; never again.”
article, all I could think of was how I
as a college freshman, though complet
from my faithful readers. Speaking of
of mine who goes here. “This semester
studying. You would think that a month
ed, was a hurdle in many ways. I had to
my fellows, I asked a few freshmen their
wasn’t what I expected,” admitted the
off from school would be enough for me.
Think again, because I became spoiled
Concetta Muscat is another friend
dreaded going back to classes and
pass Psychology 100 (sadly, I didn’t)
opinions about the fall semester. Was it
brunette. “I will definitely try harder
and the death of a family member. In
what you expected? Do you think that
because I have to keep up with every
to a routine of sleeping late, going to
high school, other people always told
you will try harder knowing that it’s not
thing. But I am very happy with my
work in the afternoon, and hanging with
grades.”
me what to do. As a college student, no
high school anymore? Are you happy
one tells me what to do. Yet another
with the grades that you’ve received?
problem was I also had to quit my job
Did you fail Psych, too?
Another
my friends in the late evening. The gift of
Freshman,
Kayla
freedom from an academic schedule
Hernandez said, “fall semester wasn’t at
has been wonderful, both mentally and
Firat Parlak is a freshman from
all what I expected. I will be trying hard
financially, because I was able to work
Turkey who moved here on his own.
er in the classes I’ll be taking in the
more hours.
Fall semester was a test for me as
“This semester was hard for me,” said
spring, since my grades weren’t that
a College of Staten Island freshman. I
Firat. “I work in Manhattan, pay my own
wonderful.
got an A- in CORE, a B+ in English, and
rent, and pay for my tuition so I rarely
I must add that I have enjoyed and
a C+ in Visual Arts. But my fourth the
have time to study. I know I should
continue to enjoy every minute of my
change my habits and I will since my
experience at the College of Staten
as a cashier at MetFoods in order to be
here every day of the semester.
An n e M a r i e
Those paychecks will help relieve
the burden of the textbooks and spring
supplies. Maybe there will be some
money left to fill the gas tank.
But I doubt it.
D o o I I n g
DATING YOUR PROFESSOR
e are very fortunate, in our lit
tle branch of CUNY Since
CSI is a little far removed
from the rest of the system, CUNY
to almost request that new professors
start out here. While at first this may
seem like an insult, (How could it be?
Who wouldn't want to teach our lovely
students on our lovely campus?) it’s
actually great luck. What this means for
us CSI students is the chance to be
taught by some of the youngest, hottest
professors CUNY has to offer.
Sometimes it's difficult to even spot the
professors on this campus since many
of them are post-college aged, and
many students are nontraditional, and
returning. So, let's say you've recently
befriended a professor who fits this
description. Young, attractive, your
mental counterpart in almost every
way... may seem like a no-brainer. After
all, this kind of sexual relationship has
been going on practically since the
dawn of time.
In Ancient Greek and Roman
times, sex between students and their
teachers was expected. Students spent
long days at the homes of their men
tors, sharing and comparing, bonding...
sex just happened. Public bathhouses
were a hot bed of education. Ot course,
as time went on, and education
between more sought after and avail
able to other people,
This became frowned upon.
Suddenly teachers who engaged in
sexual, behavior were exploiting their
students. An interesting choice of words
considering exploitation comes from the
French and Latin roots meaning "to
W
10
make use of a good resource; or suc
ceed." During this period, homosexuali
ty also began acquiring its bad rep. So,
has
we get the point: Student/Teacher sex
is wrong... morally.
Since ancient times, there are
nearly no laws to govern the relation
ships between students and professors.
Many colleges barely warn their faculty
to the dangers of this sort of bonding.
Occasionally higher faculty might step
in and create a loose set of rules.
Currently, CSI's student handbook has
no such rules and even declares:
"The College of Staten Island
respects academic freedom for faculty
and students, as well as freedom in
their personal lives for all individuals in
the campus community."
Sounds like CUNY is giving you the
go-ahead to take out that Home
Owners Mortgage, and buy some baby
bonnets with your CORE professor. But
actually, I think there's a little more to it.
Dating between professors and stu
dents is a very difficult and delicate
matter. Lines are constantly blurred and
crossed, respect is damaged forever.
So why would anyone want to engage
in that sort of destructive behavior?
For many professors who pursue
relationships with students, it might
appear as if their whole motive is the
sex. Hot coeds. Who wouldn't dabble in
the class roster, right? Actually, studies
show it's lonely at the top. Professors,
especially ones who have been in their
position for quite some time, can begin
to feel stagnant. Their lectures repeat
ed over and over, sometimes they can
be made to feel like no one is listening.
Suddenly a young, attentive mind
crosses their path and showers them
with the devotion, open mind, and
attentiveness they imagined while in
Education Grad school, and it all
becomes very clear. It isn't too different
for the student. Especially on a small
community like Staten Island, it's so
easy to feel like you've already dated
everyone, or your friends have dated
everyone, or you just don't like anyone.
Professors are, most often, highly
educated, worldly, experienced—they
provide a source of excitement in the
young student's life. In some pairings,
the student may even take over the
mentor's previous position of being in
charge, being the one with the power.
After years and years of leading stu
dents, to some professors, it may
sound like a terrific idea to relinquish
power to someone else. Like in
Nabokov's epic novel, Lolita, the main
character, who has always had a
starchy control over his life, is more
than happy to become weak to this
young girl. Although that's a bit of an
extreme example, the situation exists
even in modern times, with not such
severe couples. Students, especially
younger ones, often relish in this new
power, and the idea of someone of high
stature suddenly conforming to THEIR
needs. Everyone gets what they want.
Sound like a perfect match?
There's more.
In a normal Professor/Student rela
tionship, there is a balance of power.
The professor is in charge; you do your
work- end of story. When we move into
sexual territory that line is blurred. The
student may feel, during class time, like
they are entitled to special behavior,
more time to do the work, or even no
work at all. If this fails to come through
for them, they may start to feel like the
relationship isn't exactly what they
thought it was. They may start to ques
tion 'Why doesn't this person love me
like I thought they did?' or 'What's
wrong with us?' In truth, there may be
nothing wrong at all.
The professor is just doing the job
the administration assigned with their
paycheck. The student must continue to
do the work. If this is not happening, it
may cause a strain on the side of the
professor. An equal strain, from both
sides, for different reasons- reasons
neither side would be able to fully
understand- can lead to massive trou
bles in the relationship.
Problems
leading
from
student/professor relationships can
include students leaving school or
telling administration after a bad
breakup, professors leaving the school
or talking to a students parents, other
students blackmailing, or becoming
involved in other ways, and a total loss
of trust on everyone's part.
Sex with your professor. Sounds
tempting, I know. But if this is some
thing your considering, even if the age
gap isn't expansively wide, or you have
some sort of friendship already, think it
over. Are the potential problems worth
your adventure? Is your education
worth it?
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ily we can predict the outcome of its plot
but the depth and breadth the actors can
bring to such cinematic predictability.
e get cut off and almost lose
Isn’t there something like ten plots ever
the front end of our car to one
in all the
used
of those hooked-up, Fugazzi
movies
made,
Fast and the Furious Honda Civics. I’m
ever, anywhere,
vocally expressing my displeasure with
of
all
time?
the Civic, its driver, and the driver’s
Okay,
eleven.
maternal relation when it dawns on me
Luke Wilson
that I wouldn’t even be in this situation
delivers
a ridicu
had I not been en route to see a verifi
lous if not flatable chick-flick. “This movie better have
out-funny per
nudity or something,” I boom to the per
formance
as the
son in my periphery. You see, its not that
documentarian
guys really have that much of a problem
from
Berkely
watching a movie void of gratuitous vio
who
smokes
the
lence or female nudity, we just pretend
amount
of
weed
we do in an effort to lower the probability
we’d all like to.
of watching them.
Tom Bradley
W
“The Family Stone”, which opened
two weeks ago and stars more than a
few A-listers including Diane Keaton,
Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson,
Rachel McAdams, and Craig T. Nelson
(yes the one and only COACH!), is actu
ally a good movie. Formulaic? Maybe.
Sappy? Sure, I guess it could be. But
the issue of a films’ merit is not how eas
Rachel
McAdams, of Wedding Crashers fame,
offered an annoyingly perfect depiction
of the younger, NPR-loving sister who
finds her older yet not so much wiser
brother, played by Everett Stone, mak
ing the mistake of his life by intending to
marry a yuppie. That yuppie is Carrie
Bradshaw herself, Sarah Jessica
Parker, who obviously comes across as
England's Newest Royal:
Lady Sovereign
AnnMarie Costella
Don’t call Lady Sovereign the
female version of Eminem. The pintsized Brit who stands at just over five
feet tall, resents any
such
comparisons
and fires back with
lyrics
like:
“Just
because I be a white
Caucasian, doesn’t
mean that me and
him are the same.
One,
I’m
not
American. Two, I’m
not a man. Three, I
come into it with a
different
kind
of
plan.”
Lady Sovereign
(whose real name is
Louise
Harman),
grew up in a ghetto in
North London. After deciding that high
school wasn’t for her, she dropped
out at age 16. Sov spent most of her
time listening to female MCs like Ms.
Dynamite and practicing her rhyming
skills in front of a mirror. She broad
casted her tunes via the web and
pirate radio. At age 18 she scored a
contract with Universal, worth an esti
mated three million pounds. Sov
appeared on the successful grime
compilation “Run the Road," and
released an EP called “Bitchin”’ fol
lowed by several successful singles.
On her UK hit “Hoodie," she
invites fans to: “Fling on an Adidas
hoodie, and just boogie, woogie with
me.” Hooded sweatshirts are a staple
in most US wardrobes, but in England
they are associated with gangs, con
sequently Prime Minister Tony Blair,
has considered banning them. Lady
Sovereign, who admits: “My dress
code doesn’t involve dresses. I got a
hoodie fetish," has started “Save the
Hoodie” a campaign to prevent the
ban of her favorite fashion accessory.
Now,
Lady
Sovereign is get
ting ready to con
quer America with
her first US release
titled:
“Vertically
Challenged.” The
EP is filled with
fresh, clever lyrics
and
thumping
beats. On the song
“A Little Bit of
Shhh,” she boasts:
“Who taught me?
Nobody. I did it all
by myself. You
can’t stop me." Sov
lampoons rappers
who wear excessive jewelry on “Ch
Ching.” She indicates: “I don’t have
50 rings, but I got 50 things to say in
a cheeky kind of way.” British MCs
Frost P and Shystie are featured on
“The Battle,” and Adrock (from the
Beastie Boys) even contributes a
remix. The album's only flaw is that it
doesn’t include many of Lady
Sovereign’s best UK tracks.
Lady Sovereign is brash and out
spoken. She makes no apologies for
her acid tongue, taking lyrical stabs at
everyone from J.Lo to Jentina (the
UK’s answer to Britney Spears).
Soy’s thick cockney accent, rapid
rhyming, and heavy use of British
slang can make her lyrics unintelligi
ble for some listeners; however she
does offer them this advice: “Deal
with it, yeah.”
her good ol’ uppity, anal-retentive self,
making for a viable villain the Stone fam
ily can comically harass.
The character of the deaf, homo
sexual brother
is played by
Tyrone
Giordano and
before
you
cast obvious
judgments,
hear me out.
To cast a char
acter that is
subject
to
such complex
levels of big
otry as a gay
deaf man (who
is
involved
with a black man to make matters about
as complicated as any matters get these
days) in a major motion picture should
not be seen only from a political stand
point. Although most viewers may not
have this particular situation in their
homes, that does not mean we do not
have complex or difficult familial issues
turning our dinner tables into scream-
filled war zones.
The warmest performance howev
er, comes from Diane Keaton who, in an
interview on the Today Show, admitted
to facing many personal demons
through her portrayal of a mother trying
to get her family in order before she is
forced to leave them behind unattended.
Its honestly awful and I don't recom
mend anyone to see the movie because
Ms. Keaton is too hysterically and tragi
cally lovable to stomach without replac
ing her face with the face of one’s own
aunt or mother.
In the end you get a real dose of
syrupy, Hollywood, romantic medicine,
but by then you almost welcome the
respite from what could be anyone’s
plight sitting in that theater with you. The
near crash on the way to the movies is
long forgotten as I start my car to leave
the packed parking lot. I run through the
scenes I can remember, searching for
the funnier ones to recite and lighten the
mood inside the car. The foggy windows
and the sound of my defroster fill our
minds instead, so I just drive.
Tribute to Punk Icon Sid Vicious
AnnMarie Costella
February 2 marks the 27 anniversary of
the death of Sex Pistols bass player Sid
Vicious. It seems strange that this violent,
unskilled, heroin addict should be so
greatly recognized and celebrated. After
all it is the band’s charis
matic front man Johnny
Rotten who wrote their
controversial
lyrics,
shaped
their
unique
appearance and captivat
ed audiences with his anti
star persona.
Sid didn't even know how
to play the bass, but closefriend Johnny Rotten was
confident that he could
learn and asked him to join
the band. Then a chance
encounter with hooker, groupie, and hero
in junkie Nancy Spungen, changed the
course of history forever. She became
Sid’s girlfriend and consistently plied him
with drugs. The other Sex Pistols
despised her. Johnny Rotten even nick
named her “Nauseating” Nancy. Sid
became debilitated by his ongoing drug
use. He gave up learning to play the bass
and most of the time he wasn’t even
plugged in when the Pistols played live.
The band rehired their original bassist
Glen Matlock to play on the “Never Mind
the Bollocks” album because Sid showed
up to the studio drunk. “Sid turned into the
worst rock n’ roll idiot you could ever hope
to have a nightmare about,” indicated
Rotten.
In one interview, Sid described “dope
sickness” the side effects he experienced
from drug use. “It’s the worse sickness
you could ever imagine. You can't get
comfortable. You’re boiling hot and you
pour with sweat and your nose dribbles.
Then all of a sudden you get cold and the
sweat turns to ice. It drives you insane.”
Johnny Rotten tried everything to get rid of
Nancy and break Sid of his drug habit. “I
could take on England, but I couldn’t take
on one heroin addict,” he confessed.
On October 11, 1978, Nancy Spungen
bled to death from a stab wound to the
stomach. Sid, the victim of a drug induced
stupor, was unable to recall the evening’s
events. He faced 15
years to life in prison for
her
murder.
Three
months later, while await
ing trial, Sid’s mother
found him dead of an
apparent heroin over
dose. He was 22-yearsold.
In 1986, Hollywood
cashed in on the destruc
tive duo with the biopic
“Sid & Nancy”, staring
Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb. While an
entertaining film, it fails to show the full
scope of the punk movement and the
close friendship between Johnny Rotten
and Sid. Anyone who wants to learn more
about the true Sex Pistols story should
check out ‘The Filth and the Fury,” a fasci
nating documentary that features rare
interviews and live footage.
Sid can never grow old or change, his
mythic image is forever frozen in time as
the symbol ot a decade that once was. As
punk’s first martyr, his face graces the cov
ers of books, posters, t-shirts, and any
thing related to the genre. In a 2000 inter
view, a tearful Johnny Rotten recalled:
“I’ve lost my friend. He died and they just
turned it into making money. I'll hate them
forever for doing that.”
Sid Vicious’ nihilistic lifestyle seemed to
capture the frustration and hopelessness
of an entire generation, but when asked
about his role in the Sex Pistols, Sid sim
ply replied: “All I did was cash in on the
fact that I’m good-looking and girls like
me.”
�The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
Mmmmmjmmmmmammmmmmam
January 30,2006
Cardio Room in Decay. What Happened to the $t 5,000?
Originally the cardio room was located downstairs
AnnMarie Costella
in the weight room, but safety concerns prompted the
change in location. “It didn’t take me very long to realize
he cardio room is among the most frequently
that having people lifting free-weights in the same room
T
occupied areas at CSI’s Sports and Recreational
as people jogging on treadmills was a health hazard,”
facility (1R), however students whose activity fees
explained Dr. Meritt. “So we moved the cardio equip
help fund the gym and community members who pay
ment upstairs to one of the classrooms, which wasn’t the
$450.00 per year to use the facility, are angry and frus
ideal location, but it was better than where it was.”
trated by the inadequate conditions they encounter
The recreational facility is open for more than 90
there.
hours a week and is home to twelve athletic teams. The
On September 30th, the athletics department pur
administration maintains that the majority of funds are
chased four additional treadmills at a cost of $14,697,
used to pay the staff, repair equipment, and maintain the
even though research indicated that the electrical supply
building, but the botched purchase of unused treadmills
could not support such a strain. “We were under the
leaves some wondering if the money is being spent
impression that wiring could be rerouted to have eight
wisely. “I think the funds are there, with the amount of
treadmills work,” said Director of Athletics, Dr. Harold
Rust and mold greet fitness-conscious students at CSI’s Cardio
Merritt. “However, it is a massive job that the college is
Room,
said graduate student Michael Petrosino, 29.. “It might
not ready to do right now.” As a result the excess equip
ment remains unused, occupying space in an already
just be a case of mismanagement.” Student Jill Simon
a sweat.”
Dr.
tiny room, since a storage area is not available.
publicity and renting out of the gymnasium that they do,”
also expressed dissatisfaction. “I
Merritt indicates that the
‘The room is definitely crowded,” said student Angel
administration is working hard on
Paradis, 22. “It’s difficult to get a treadmill because there
improving the current situation. First,
are only four that work.” CSI alumnus, Donna Gower,
they plan to remove either some or all
finds the ‘Temporarily out of Service,” signs on the tread
of the excess treadmills, making the
mills misleading, since they are not actually broken. “I
room less cramped and easier to
like to work out and I need to work out because I’m
clean. They may also expand the car
preparing for a triathlon, but when someone comes in
dio room by removing the wall that
and wants to use the treadmill I feel bad, so I get off it,”
separates it from an adjacent confer
she explained. “I don’t think that’s fair.”
ence room. ‘That’s in the initial discus
The sanitary condition of the cardio room is of great
sion faze,” said Merritt. “I don’t have a
concern to many members. Dust and dirt collects on the
timetable or a date.” Several steps are
floor. Handprints and lumps of spackle give the walls an
being taken to maintain a hygienic
unintended polka dot design. Grimy mirrors encircle the
environment.
room and the radiators are caked with rust. Furthermore
closed to prevent mold and mildew
patrons find it difficult to adhere to the posted rule of wip
that are commonly found in gymnasi
ing down the equipment after use since the antiseptic
ums. “We have just gotten a new com
spray, antibacterial wipes, and paper towels are not
pany to help with the sanity of the facil
refilled regularly. “I find it dusty, and dirty, and the sup
ity, “said Merritt. “We have wipes at
Windows
are
think they could improve the quality
and availability of the equipment,”
she said. “It seems like we’re paying
more, yet the equipment especially in
the weight room downstairs is old
and raggedy.”
Dr.
both ends of the room. If people don’t
‘The room is not well-ventilated and it’s hard to work up
use them, that’s their fault.”
who
appeared
issues regarding the cardio room was
keen to point out the success and
heavy use of the facility. He encour
ages students to take an active part
in improving their health through
kept
plies always run out,” said gym-member Judy Jackson.
Merrittt
uneasy when questioned about the
exercise. Dr. Merritt invites any and
all suggestions regarding the recre
ational facility. “Sometimes we need
to be checked out and that’s a good
thing, he said. “If something is
Left with the tools to clean up after themselves,
studens still cannot combat the filth.
wrong, then you need to tell us.”
Womens7 Basketball
Jennifer Miller
Acasha Gordon, who had been sidelined the entire
season after partially tearing her ACL in a pre-sea
hile most students used the January inter-
W
session to relax and get away from cam
pus, the CSI Women's basketball team
son practice. After just three games back, Gordon
injured her shoulder and will now miss the remain
really well as a team."
CUNYAC
games
The team went on to win
against
York
College,
NYC
College of Technology, City College and John Jay
College.
January brought the early return of key player
ly stepped up for the next game."
The
Dolphins
headed
off
to
Marymount
University in Marymount, Virginia on January 6, to
participate in the Marymount Holiday Classic. They
fell in the first game to SUNY Geneseo 80-75, but
bounced back the following day to defeat North
Carolina Wesleyan by a score of 67-54.
12
away as a team and to do things as a team for a few
days," Connelly said.
“We played
really good
teams and even though we lost the first game we
played well."
der of the season.
The Dolphins also saw an injury to their cap
spent the month hard at work. The Dolphins spent
tain, Kim Thompson, who went down with an ankle
their days on the basketball court, practicing two
injury after scoring 18 points and 6 assists, as well
and a half hours a day in preparation for their key
as grabbing 8 rebounds and 11 steals, in the game
games. Over the month, the Dolphins won six of
against Gordon College. Thompson was sidelined
the ten games they played. They currently sit in
for the next game against York College, but came
first place in the CUNY AC South Division, with a
back during*the tournament in Virginia. "It’s always
record of 6-3.
hard to see one of your players go down,” said sen
"We practiced and conditioned a lot during the
ior Andrea Kleboe, “but all of the other players real
break," said senior Shannon Connelly, "but I think
now we are just starting to come together and play
good experience, especially for the freshman, to go
"It was a
The road trip, paid for by the Dolphins fundrais
ing efforts over the past year, brought the team
closer together.
“It was a good time. We always
have fun together, even on the bus on the way to
games,” said Kleboe. “We watched the movie Glory
Road, which was good, the whole uplifting basket
ball movie motivation.”
The Dolphins will continue their season with
road games on January 27 at York College, January
30 at Ramapo College, and February 1 at Brooklyn
College. They can be seen at CSI on February 8 as
they face NYC College of Technology with a 5:30
p.m. start. The CUNYAC Playoffs will begin on
February 19 at CSI.
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President Springer Meets
Flea Market for
Hurricane Relief
with Secretaries to Discuss
Timesheets
$1,755 Raised
Change Not Welcome
Kevin S.P. Mamakas
MeUissa Seecharan
No one can stop natural disasters from
November 22nd - CSI President Dr.
Marlene Springer, along with members of
occurring. The response from each govern
mental level may be controllable, but it is
slow. Still, the number of people who want
to help the victims recover is always over
whelming.
This year CSI formed a committee to
help with Hurricane Katrina relief. The com-
Traflfic backs up at the CSI exit on the Staten Islad Expressway. Economic experts cite the traffic prob
lem as a factor that inhibits Staten Island’s economic growth.
Matthew Beck
for-profit sectors to “address issues vital
to the future of Staten Island, and to bet
December 2, 1P Recital Hall—The
recently formed Center for the Study of
Staten Island—a local policy think tank
housed at CSI—hosted its second annu
al Staten Island Project conference, enti
ter prepare the Borough for the chal
lenges ahead.” And there are challenges
ahead for Staten Island, according to the
array of reputable expert speakers lined
up.
Many union-friendly residents are
tled “The Staten Island Economy: Past,
Present, and Visioning the Future". The
conference allows residents and CSI fac
ulty and students to discuss the problems
Vendors display their goods at the Hurricane
Katrina flea market. More pictures can be found
on page 7.
<
mittee organized, and Student Government
sponsored, a Ree Market to help with this
project. They charged $65 to rent each table
Continued on page 3
facing Staten Island, and the solutions to
them.
“My hope is that this conference will
play a positive role in the deliberations of
those responsible for planning Staten
Island's future," said President Marlene
Springer in her welcoming letter. The con
ference assembled prominent people
from the business, government, and not-
opposed to the retail giant Wal-Mart com
ing in and; in their minds, ousting local
mom-and-pop business with more vari
ety and lower prices. Others, such as Jay
Anderson, Assistant Director for the
Staten Island Economic Development
Corporation, say Wal-Mart will boost the
local economy by keeping Staten Island
money in Staten Island. “The idea of if we
say 'no' to Wal-Mart being here doesn’t
mean they’re not going to put up shop
Continued on page 3
the administration
including
Carol
Jackson, VP of Student Affairs, Angelo
Aponte, VP of Finace and Administration,
and David Podell, Senior VP for Academic
Affairs, held a meeting with CSI's adminis
trative assistants to discuss concerns
about the implementation of the
Attendance Enterprise system throughout
the college.
President Springer thanked those
who came and began the meeting with a
brief anecdote about her early morning,
cross-country travels. Then, in the tense
room, Springer made known her stance
known on the new timesheets. "I was at
the CUNY meeting where the Chancellor
said we have to go to the electronic
timesheets," she said. "When it brought up
I was opposed.
Springer continued to discuss her
knowledge of the time keeping change
while reminding the staff of her "opposed
position", and praising the staff for putting
in "hours above and beyond the call of
duty."
Reiterating the use of the electronic
time sheets as opposed to clocks, groans
could be heard.
"We will not be using an electronic
lock for you all or [college] assistants.
Electronic timesheets will be used,"
Marissa Gessin
whether on the radio or through their
computer (www.wsia.fm), will hear the
Christmas program they created. Still
very year families across the
untitled, it will air every night of
United
States
celebrate
Christmas
week at 8PM. An original
Christmas. Marked by several
piece,
all
aspects
of the Christmas
days of cramped sleeping arrange
program
will
be
thought
up by stu
ments, sharing bathrooms with smelly
dents.
From
writing
the
script
and act
relatives or having to listen to another
E
one of Grandpa Joe’s old stories, the
holidays are sometimes bittersweet.
As an escape from these relatives one
can always secretly retreat to his or
her own room and watch some televi
sion (quietly of course). It is almost a
guarantee one can view March of the
Wooden Soldiers, Miracle on 34th
Street or A Christmas Story.
This holiday season, an old fash
ioned device called “the radio” should
come out of retirement. WSIA, CSI’s
own radio station hopes everyone,
(for authentic sound effects). This time
we can minimize how we make the
effects and what effects we actually
need.” Last year A Christmas Carol
was worked on up until the last minute,
Parnizari also said. She estimates that
the final CD burning happened only
minutes before the first airing.
ing, to production and editing, WSIA
staff is going to do it all. Help from
Chief Engineer John Ladley will
ensure the piece is made to the best of
the student’s ability.
The road to a different show for
this year has not been a simple one.
“We had like, an extra week to do
last year’s A Christmas Carol. We took
ideas. “The show was going to be
political and be a spoof of decisions
people in the government make. At the
bits from other scripts, and the movie,
and stayed true to the story. This year
we are working from scratch and can
make it as difficult or as easy as we
want,”
said
Laura
Parnizari,
Engineering Director. “Last year we
had to build platforms and buy chains
Springer said. "We are so far behind doing
this, we cant go to the government with
3x5 cards."
Despite President’s Springer’s words,
many of the secretaries are not happy
about the change. “Why are only certain
groups doing the timesheets?" said one
distraught secretary. “Everyone one is feel
ing upset because we dont want to tell stu
dents 'Sorry it’s 5 o’clock, we have to
leave.’ “
Production
Before explaining how and when the
Director, Vinnie Medugno and Ladley,
the two threw around many different
administrative assistants can expect the
Headed
by
Assistant
same time, it was going to have jokes,
a
Christmas feel
and
various
changes, President Springer made it
known that she also fills out a timesheet.
Starting January 15th, all college
assistants will be required to use the elec
tronic timesheets. The next group,
Christmas characters from programs
we all watched growing up,” said
Gittelson members (which includes all col
lege secretaries), will begin electronic
timesheets April 3rd, while the last group,
Continued on page 3
Continued on page 3
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Bush as Successful in Latin America as He's Been at Home
Glenda Marquez
At a time when Bush’s approval rating is at
an all time low domestically he decided to
go to Latin America and give some good old
American advice. His five-day trip to
Argentina, Brazil, and Panama centered on
free trade in the area.
Starting off in Argentina, he was greet
ed by more than 40,000 protestors who
held signs that read “Public Enemy #1He
argued that free trade would help South and
Central America and reduce poverty. Bush
generated massive protests in Argentina,
Brazil, and Panama as well, but deariy was
n’t fazed.
Bush warned against those who seek
to “roll back the democratic progress of the
past two decades by playing to fear, pitting
neighbor against neighbor and blaming oth
ers for their own failures to provide for their
people." Bush was not the only bully how
ever; Brazilian President Lula rebutted say
ing that the US agricultural subsidies were
“unjustified barriers.’’ President Lula firmly
held his ground and was certain Bush heard
his opposition to resuming FTAA talks.
FTAA, or the Free Trade Area of the
Americas plan —if passed— would elimi
nate tariffs against American goods and
services, which would allow American
exports into the region. Many critics, induding Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
argue this is and “annexation plan," which
ultimately wants to extend American political
domination of the region to further its eco
nomic power. Bush said the plan for the
region would ensure sodal justice through
open markets and called on the InterAmerican Development Bank to encourage
private investment and support small busi
ness. "The private sector is the engine of
growth and job creation in the region,” he
said. Bush then left for Panama City, where
he met with President Martin Tonijos.
While in Panama, Bush congratulated
the President for Panama’s strong economy
and acknowledged the 25,000 Americans
living in Panama. He strongly argued for the
modernization of the Panama Canal and
commented, “Things have changed since
people; the legislative branch has the obli
gation to protect the American people. And
the canal was first built and there needs to
be a continued appraisal of the canal to
make sure that it is—it’s used. It’s in our
nation's interest that this canal be modern
ized. And so I—we didn’t discuss the financ
ing mechanisms, but I’m confident that how
ever the widening is—the modernization is
financed, that the government and the—
those authorities over the canal recognize
that it is to be used by everybody, that the
canal is international, that there ought to be
we are aggressively doing that. We are find
ing terrorists and bringing them to justice.
We are gathering information about where
the terrorists may be hiding. We are trying
equal access.”
Although Bush considered his trip to
Latin America a success, he couldn't avoid
being asked by a reporter about the alleged
secret U.S. prisons in Europe and his stand
ing on Cheney’s argument over exempting
the CIA from legislation to ban torture. Bush
replied, “Our country is at war, and our gov
ernment has the obligation to protect the
American people. The executive branch
has the obligation to protect the American
to disrupt their plots and plans. Anything we
do to that effort, to that end, in this effort, any
activity we conduct, is within the law. We do
not torture.”
Bush’s visit to Latin America was
intended to improve relations with the region
which, after 9/11 and the war on terrorism,
have been neglected. However, it seems as
though Bush came out as the biggest loser.
Despite the fact that 24 of the 29 countries
represented agreed with Washington to
sign an agreement, popular Venezuelan
leaders President Chavez and the presi
dents of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and
Parauay refused to sign, which has put talks
to an abrupt end. Since Bush cant even win
over his own people over, what more can
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The transportation problems were
another hot topic: Heavily congested
roads and bridges, A poor road system,
and gaps in bus service. “This is the worst
across the river, and it doesn’t mean
some of our medium disposable income
is not going to go over there in on more
consistent basis."
According to Anderson, Staten
Island would flourish if only a half percent
commute in the country,” said Jonathan
Peters, CSI Assistant Professor of
Finance. According to him, 11 % of Staten
Islanders are what he calls ’super com
muters,’ having an average commute of
43 minutes by car, 68 by mass transit
—$257 million— of what
Staten
Islanders spend on retail outside of the
borough was spent inside. "If $257 million
came back into our economy, obviously
that’s job growth, and that spurring the
economy." He said he’d seen the corpo
rate debate before. “Going back 8 or 10
years ago with Price Club—which is now
Costco—we had the same argument,” he
said. “Yet it’s still there today and I think
“That is not a good story,” he said.
According
to
Peters,
Staten
Islanders generate more than $400 mil
lion in bridge tolls annually. Of these tolls,
the MTA and PA rake in $200 million more
than it costs to operate the bridge. A
two-thirds of the Island have run into that
store.”
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Christmas Carol
Time Sheets for Secretaries
from page 1-
from page 1-
Medugno. “Seeing as the College is
Higher Education Officials, will begin in
June. According to Springer, supervisors
will be trained to handle the new
diverse, it was going to also have other
religions and their traditions mixed in,
to show that diversity." Medugno and
Ladley had good ideas, but only a
bunch of ideas and no real story. After
several meeting of failed progress,
Parnizari was called in.
On the morning of November 15th,
with only about six weeks before
Christmas, Medugno, Ladley and
Parnizari held their first meeting togeth
er. Almost immediately the trio agreed
they wanted to do too much in too little
LISA LABRUZZO
GLENDA MARQUEZ
JOHN RATEL
Taking questions from the audience,
Jackson, Aponte, and Podell joined
Springer to answer the secretaries. "Is this
the same as what we're doing now?" asked
one woman.
who would flood Staten Island with mil
lions in trade revenue.
Furthermore, many Staten Islanders
have not accepted a proposed race track
deal with NASCAR whereby a whole
retail complex would built, which support
ers say would create millions of dollars in
jobs. Opponents, like Jonathan Peters,
say the traffic caused would only com
pound the already atrocious transporta
tion dilemma. "NASCAR is the straw that
breaks the camel’s back,” he said.
mation on the timesheets. "I do that in my
own office," Springer stated. "If you do it
two weeks, you better make sure it's right."
As questions and angst among the
crowd grew, Springer made her opposition
to the new timesheet system known again.
"I dont control personnel policy in
CUNY,” she said. "It would be different if I
did.
"Look at the TAP audit," she contin
ued. "We werent in compliance and we
had no idea. We'll try to be as clear as pos
sible but we cant be on paper anymore."
Flea Market
from page 1during the event. Staff, faculty, and com
munity members rented 27 tables, bringing
in $1,755.
we all felt the story wasn’t going any
where.” Ten minutes after deciding the
old idea wouldn’t work, a new one that
could work was decided. “I brought up
ically entered. 'This system began on a
minimal basis two to three years ago," he
stated. "It is exclusive to you and only you."
Springer followed Aponte and voiced the
need for CSI technology to move forward.
Student Government Coordinator
Ellen Krieger is the main organizer for the
event. It took time to "get the reservations
from the vendors, advertise for the event,
the Italian Christmas Witch. I knew
about it from school and my mom knew
the story,” said Parnizari. “Vinnie
looked at me wide-eyed, he couldn’t
believe that I knew the story. John was
really the only one who didn’t know.”
The group contemplated how they
could tell the story of the Christmas
Witch, or “La Bafana.” Although nothing
is finalized yet, it seems the group will
create an original story around the
been commercialized, that’s the
biggest thing for us," said Ladley. “It is
something that hasn’t been dragged
through pop culture."
With only a few weeks left before
Christmas, many things surrounding
WSIA’s Christmas program remain up
in the air. They still need to write a
script, work out sound effects, and
record parts; only after that will the edit
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
deductions for being a few minutes late and
not being able to work after 5 p.m. ’This is
not a radical change of the system."
Port Newark-as a major player in attract
ing overseas importers and exporters,
Angelo Aponte, explained that with the
new, “Attendance Enterprise" system, the
paper copies would be taken and automat
JENNIFER MILLER
ANDREW RAFFERTY
timesheets. "I thought we would have to go
through drastic change," Springer said try
ing to ease concerns of possible pay
tion."
Staten Island failed to attract compa
nies displaced by 9/11, most of whom
ended up moving to New Jersey and
Long Island, according to Anderson. Also,
Staten Island has failed to establish its
waterfront-a key asset with access to
time. “We unanimously decided to
scrap the old idea,” said Ladley. “After
looking at the material we generated
witch, and sprinkle her history through
out. “It’s a holiday tradition that has not
MARISSA GESSIN
chunk also goes to maintain the entire
New York/New Jersey transportation sys
tem. Staten Island ends up getting a very
small piece of the pie, he says. “To what
degree Staten Island has profited from
the reasonable reinvestment of revenues
collected on its soil is an interesting ques
ing and then re-recording begin. WSIA
has a great task at hand, and expects
to produce a piece not only original, but
entertaining and memorable as well.
"We have to join the 21st century and
paper wont do," she said.
Aponte attempted to reassure the
crowd that their union rules would still be
used correctly when inputing the informa
tion. 'The timekeeping system has several
rules and regulations," he said. "When you
log in, your rules will accordingly calculate
the hours worked."
and set everything up, but it is worth the
benefit,” she said while multi tasking
between student government duties and
the event.
The vendors’ tables include Home
Made Jewelry stands, “real” jewelry stands,
perfume stands, scented candle stands,
sunglasses, stocking stuffers, knick knacks,
pocketbooks, knitted items, and Prince
Umberto’s sauce.
over
Krieger is also one of the committee
suspicions that the system could double as
a monitoring device. Patrice Barnett,
members concerned with the Animal
Victims of Katrina. The Rea Market was the
ideal time to collect money to support these
victims. She set up a “5060 Raffle that will
The situation became heated
Director
of
Human
Resources
and
Gittelson representative, stepped in to clar
ify what changes were actually taking
place.
"You will do it every two weeks," she
put at least $500 to relieve the animals."
The drawing for the 5060 will occur before
the winter break.
explained. "Sometime in the pay period,
you'll log on and type in your information.
Last semester CSI had a “White
Elephant’ Rea Market to get money to help
Attendance Enterprise is an electronic sys
tem so it'll give you direction as to where to
put in the 9-5 info."
the victims of the Tsunami. There is an
Springer added that there will be no
clocking in by the minute, but filling out
forms on a monthly basis would not be an
option. However, it was made dear that
supervisors will be responsible for the infor
incredible out pouring of help,” said Krieger.
“We may try to do this every year if it’s suc
cessful." If necessary, the money will be
donated to different relief funds. The world
is not short of disasters, so events like this
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�When Fear Knocks: Examining Some New Parent Concerns
Vanessa Leigh DeBello
lthough pregnancy is an excit
A
understanding friend
or relative.
“At one
visit, my doctor took
my face in his hands,
and said 'Honey, you
filled with uncertainty and fear of thegot to stop worrying,’”
said Parquet.
“Well
unknown. Fear can range from the
that did it for me.
common concerns of new parents to
Hearing someone tell
irrational fears that debilitate.
me I have nothing to
It is not uncommon for expecting
worry about helped
moms and dads to have concerns
me to relax a little bit."
about the health of their unborn child.
Others may also find
“Every time I went for a prenatal visit, I
it helpful not to read
had a new fear to discuss with my doc
too much literature on
tor," said Jenny Parquet, mother of
pregnancy and devel
two. “I found myself worrying about
opmental illnesses,
diseases that I never even heard of
as it may create new
before.”
ing time of expectation and
new discoveries, it can also be
“Every time I read a new article in
one of those parenting magazines, I
found myself worrying about some
thing I had never considered before,"
said Eileen Park, another first time
mom. “It was getting ridiculous. Every
time I had come to terms with one fear,
I developed another."
Often it is reassuring to discuss
concerns with a health care provider or
be true, a sincere consci
women of all ages who are successful
entious effort and good
communication between
parents will aid in the
change
of
ingrained
habits. New parent dis
cussion groups off and
online can be a valuable
resource for advice and
ly balancing family life with school and
some also with jobs. “The key is know
ing yourself and what you can handle,"
said Sakina O’Uhuru, certified midwife
and mother of one. “At the time I was
pregnant, I was completing my mid
support for those going
through a similar experi
ence. "Since I’ve never
been around babies, I did
n’t know what to expect,"
said Albert Doughty, a first
time dad.
“But I found
several websites espe
cially for dads which
addressed many of the
sources of worry.
Pregnancy can be scary for the
same concerns I had. It
Another common
new parent.
was reassuring to read
concern of both men
sites created by fathers. I
and women is whether
didn’t feel alone.”
or not they will be good parents. “It's
easy in retrospect to see where your
Especially for women, there may
be the fear of not finishing school
own parents made mistakes," said
because of the added responsibility of
Elizabeth Wilson. “But you worry that
caring for a young child. However, on
you will end up making those same
campus, there are many examples of
mistakes anyway." Although this may
wifery courses but it was becoming too
much. I knew my health and the baby’s
had to come first. Although, I lost my
tuition money, it didn’t matter.
I
returned to school a few years later
when my son was a little older and did
n’t need me as much."
If completing your current courses
is looking questionable, talk to your
professors as soon as possible and
explain your situation. It may be possi
ble to take an incomplete and arrange a
schedule that accommodates your
needs. Whatever you decide, make
sure it is something you can live with.
Some fears come and go. Others
are gone after a certain event or time
period has passed. The important thing
is how you deal with it. "The best thing
you can do is face it,” said Doughty.
“Then walk right through it."
The Loop Bus and The Center For the Arts Continue to be on the Minds
CSI Students Speak Out
Andrew Rafferty
s winter approaches again, so
will the snow. Of course CSI will
be prepared in battling the pesky
white elements. The building
grounds staff will pave the streets and
shovel the cement. We as students can
all appreciate this hard work and dedica
A
tion to our school.
There is one place where students
can only cringe as they pass these ele
ments to get to class. This place is no
other then the woods that divide the 1P
building and the gravel parking lot. There
is no other place where students must
walk through mud and thick wet snow to
make there way to their car. If you've
been there before you'll see asphalt
paved grounds but these walkways will
lead students through a maze that never
even reaches the parking lot. One can
only speculate that the walkways were
placed for the tenant of this previous
campus. Windward strolls might have
been what the doctor suggested for his
patients many years ago but for students
now we would appreciate one little 2 foot
walkway that goes directly from the
parking lot to the fountains that sepa
rates the north of the campus to the
south on the campus. The rocks that are
in place instead of the asphalt gets the
job done during normal conditions but
that's as far as it goes.
Students dislike the fact that their
expensive hard earned shoes are ruined
because of some mud and snow. Then
these same students who just walked
through this juggernaut of a walkway
of CSI Students. The Articles here and on page 8 continue the discus
sion. These articles express the opinions of CSI Students, not the Banner
Marissa Gessin
then transfer the sloppy, filthy humus to
their expensive cars.,
I am not saying that this is most
important issue but i'm sure more stu
dents wouldn't mind parking on the grav
el knowing that the walk to the class
and
room will be a quite and clean one.
While on the topic, some better lighting
would go a long way, especially since
students can't see the ground that
they're walking on at night. At least some
light would give students confidence to
proceed through the woods and enjoy
the white wooden parches that highlight
the center of the woods. (Maybe not)
I don't know what it takes to get this
done but maybe some of the students
government could take part of their
stipends (annual income for being in
office) an use the money to make a nice
paved walkway. An easier way would be
to take some money from the huge
budget they get and use it to make three
feet wide walkway that would proceed
through the woods. The students of 1P
would appreciate the gesture so that
they don't once again have to tiptoe
across woods only to find that as they
lost the hard earned battle of not getting
unwanted debris on their shoes and
jeans. It's easy to say walk around the
woods and the problem will be fixed and
I say to all those people: Do you want
fifty more cars waiting in line to find that
prime parking spot that you have
because you'll then be the one com
plaining about something? How is their
not enough parking and how are there
just too many cars with parking passes?
campus community. Ideally, the CSI stu
dents will sell out the house, making it
not so much for the Staten Island com
munity.
At first, this seemed like a logical
thing to me, that the CFA didn’t want to
f all the events happening at The
Center For Performing Arts, I
can't wait to see Bobby Vinton!
When I was younger my mom and dad take a business risk, so they wanted
took me to see him at his own theater in
some help to test the waters. However
Branson, Missouri. It was the time of my
after much though it occurred to me, why
life, and I absolutely cannot wait to see
does an event like The Shangri-La
him again! As a white twenty one year
Chinese Acrobats, or Lavay Smith and
old female, the amount of shows at CFA
her Red Hot Skillet Lickers seem to the
that appeal to me is fantastic! Lame.
CFA that it wouldn’t be a risk, but a show
O
Totally Lame.
Back in the August 29th issue of The
Banner, AnneMarie Costella wrote a con
troversial article about the Center for the
Arts. In her piece she speaks with Lisa
Reiley, the Artistic Director at the CFA,
and also goes into detail about how acts
are picked and why. To quote the article,
Costella writes, "Reiley feels that the
CFA performances appeal to a general
audience that includes both students and
the Staten Island Community.” This arti
cle prompted the powers that be to form
a committee that would bring an act to
the CFA more fitting to what Costella
suggested.
I was personally asked to be on this
committee, and had to miss the first
meeting. At meeting two some of my
questions were answered, however new
angers rose. The CFA is more than
happy to have a band more appealing to
the 18-24 age bracket, however as stud
ies and statistics show, this type of pro
gramming is not much of a money
maker, so they want the PDC to help, in
case there is a total loss. Also, they want
the event to be something special for the
that the students have voiced that they
want to have, weather it is a huge turnout
or a small percentage, seem like its
going to put them to bankruptcy? Even if
CSI students are a small percentage to
this event, why are others from the com
munity welcomed to events like Bobby
Vinton, but not to a concert with a popu
lar (in 2005/2006) act?
Costella closes her story with anoth
er quote from Reiley,” "When the ques
tion is: “Do you go to the center for the
arts?" and they say: "No I don't.” It does
n’t necessarily prove that the Center for
the Arts is not serving that population,”
said Lisa. "It may be that that’s a popula
tion that does not wish to be served.”
Because the students that are younger
do not wish to see acrobats, “hot lickers",
or artists that our parents are fans of,
does not mean we do not want to be
served, it means that you are trying hard
er to reach the Staten Island Community,
not the community on campus that has
voiced its opinion and told you want it
wants.
�December 12,2005
I*c^tti6rs To The Editor
Re: SG Meets Loop Bus Services To
‘Rattle Trees’, ‘Fix Problems.’
Re: President Springer Responds To
Banner Article
I take the Loop Bus frequently and it’s
always a problem. It would make
sense for them to schedule the buses
It is refreshing to know that Marlene
so that they comply with the city buses
on Victory Boulevard. Also if they could
comply with class times, that would be
great too. This is a big issue in the
Winter and Summer; it could be
unbearable waiting for the loop bus, let
Springer actually takes time to read The
Banner and participate in it by sending a let
ter to the editor. Although it was defensive,
Muslims were killed during the Serbian War.
We put Saddam Hussein down for doing the
same. Yet America in this war has proved to
be another perpetuator of such genocide.
Why are millions of people in Iraq being
From the Editor
Whether or not Anne DeMarzo’s fact were
-Stephanie Palmieri, Senior
-Rabiya Shareef
wrong or not, the issue is that Student
Government gets stipends. No other groups
President Springer’s response is quite sur
prising. Until now I did not know the effect
Re: An Historic Field Trip
The Banner has on the administration here.
Clearly, the feelings and comments of writer
are taken into big consideration if a simple
misrepresentation of Springer’s words
shakes her up enough to write a three-para
Matthew Beck’s article informs students
about “the biggest event in US-China rela
tions in 100 years.” But most students have
not heard or know much about it. The trip
The end of a long semester is here.
On a positive note, The Banner
finally received some long promised
and desperately needed new comput
ers and upgraded software. We hope
that starting next semester we’ll be
able to create a more visually pleasing
Banner for all of you to see.
In the meantime, everyone
should be preparing for finals. As a
result, this will be the last issue of The
Banner for this semester and for
2005.
This past semester and the past
year have brought about many
changes at The Banner. The ADP
Page was totally redesigned, along
with the Freshman Diaries and the
Sex Column. Thank you Enrique
Inocente.
Many of The Banner staffers will
be graduating in June, which means
we need new people to fill the void.
Anyone who is interested should
come by the office on Thursdays start
ing on the first day of classes. We’ve
got free pizza, as many of you already
know (and have eaten).
2005 was a rollercoaster. We saw
terrorist bombings in London, a
record-breaking Hurricane season,
including the virtual destruction of
New Orleans, Southern Mississippi,
and other Gulf Coast towns by
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the
one year anniversary of the devastat
ing tsunami in the Western Pacific
only reminds us to celebrate life to the
fullest extent. Now as we say goodbye
to 2005, we prepare for whatever
challenges and joy 2006 may bring.
So as the year draws to a close,
The Banner wishes everyone a Merry
Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy
Kwanaza, Happy New Year, and any
other holiday I may have left out.
As for me, I’ll spending the holi
days losing an absurd amount of
money in Atlatic City.
We look forward to seeing all of
you next year!
-David Maltz
-Chris Bono, Senior
the editor handled the matter in a very pro
fessional way. Dr. Springer needs to brush
up on her journalistic skills.
graph response.
Finals are upon us and winter has
arrived nearly two weeks early.
goes on in those retail stores.
killed and tortured for no reason? We know
of Hitler and Hussein, but somehow we fail
to realize what our own leader is doing.
Thank you to the writer of the article for so
astutely pointing this out.
alone a city bus.
-Andrew Calise
like Target and Wal-Mart and I’d love to
show her this film so she can what really
-Ryan Dandrea, Junior
impacted students, and half of the CSI com
munity would not have been aware of that
before Beck’s article. CSI has organized
events to get students more involved with
Chinese culture because it is becoming a
Re: US Using Chemical Weapons in
Iraq?
big part of American universities.”
-Dianna Vassallo, Junior
Matt Safford’s piece on the effects of white
phosphorus and its use a defense mecha
nism was very informative. The Italian doc
umentary told about a new type of napalm
called Mark 77, which is supposed to be
less harmful. But the writer's opinion makes
it evident that this improved product is just
as bad as the original. He implies that our
ideals as Americans are nonsense, and that
if we open our eyes, we would see the true
Until I learned that my best friend is current
ly taking CSI’s first Mandarin class, I did not
even believe that something like it existed. It
just goes to show how fast CSI is continuing
to grow as a school. As the years go by, CSI
is changing for the better. It’s evolving into a
school that should be recognized for its
excellence. Mr. Beck wrote the article very
well. He covered every aspect of the trip.
It's good to see Banner reporters get some
hands-on experience.
America for what it is.
-Mary Foote, Senior
-Scott Zeller, Senior
Here in the United States, we usually only
learn about the things that the people in
Re: Outfoxed Director Takes On WalMart In New Film
Re: Letters To The Editor Re: Money For
Stipends increase Approved
that put in time and effort get them. All
groups serve the campus community
because they want to. Money is not an
incentive for them, nor do they protest for
money. SG does not need stipends. There
is no excuse. They look like jerks. I feel that
Anne did a great job reporting and there is
no need to accuse her of othenwise.
-Marissa Gessin, Junior
Re: CUNYAC ‘Curse’ Continues For
Men’s Soccer
The Men’s soccer team had a great season.
It's nice to see an article showcasing the
final game. Although they lost, they played
hard and should be recognized. Scoring two
and coming from behind to tie the game is
not an easy feat, especially after playing
much of the second half down a player.
-Jennifer Miller, Junior
Re: CSI Introduces Winter Session
I was very surprised learn about January
classes. After dropping a class this semes
ter, I asked a Counselor at the Registrar if it
would be possible to take the class in the
winter intersession. She told me that there
wouldn't be any classes because CSI does
n’t have winter session courses. It’s amaz
power want us to know. I haven’t heard any
thing about white phosphorus or the new
napalm from any of the media outlets. They
haven’t been reporting it’s effects on the
Iraqi people and American soldiers. I’m
reminded of Agent Orange, a powerful
chemical that the United States used in
no cure for cancer. People all over the world
are starving. And yet a huge company like
Wal-Mart pays millions of dollars to defend
itself against a low budget propaganda film.
Vietnam to destroy vegetation. The reper
cussions were cancer, dead fetuses,
deformed newborns, and other horrifying
Don’t these arrogant assholes realize that
just by doing so they make themselves look
even worse? Soon people will not only be
-Carinne Fassari, Junior
consequences that not only affected the
Vietnamese, but also Americans soldiers.
speaking about the film, but about how
much Wal-Mart spent to prove it's not true.
Registering during Winter break is a great
idea. It gives students the same opportuni
The United States is a wonderful country. It
And this, my rich friends at Wal-Mart, will
just make people think that it’s true.
ties that the summer sessions give. Being
able to take a class during Winter break
could help students pursue their degrees
-Frank Combro, Senior
faster. Annemarie Costella does a good job
at reporting news about a topic that most
-Ron Aguilera
It only a matter of time before someone
made an independent film about Wal-Mart. I
I found that the article accurately described
the current situation of America’s relation
ship to Iraq. America spends a lot of time
guess it’s kind of ironic that the only theater
on Staten Island that plays independent
films has recently closed down. Perhaps
students here at CSI don’t even know
exists.
-Mario Cardaci
pointing fingers at others and boasting
about itself as “the most powerful country in
that’s where they'll build the new Wal-Mart.
I hope I can see the bright blue neon sign
the world." The article clarifies that power
does not indicate America’s right to utilize it
in an illegal, inhumane fashion. In school,
from my window, just like you can see the
anti Wal-Mart billboards from the Ferry.
their website which sells exclusive pimped-
we learn about the Holocaust and what a
-John Ratel, Junior
out kicks. I wish them luck. There is a lot of
competition selling the hard-to-get sneak
huge threat to humanity that period posed.
Hitler participated in the genocide of count
less innocent Jews. It happened again in
I am glad Seamus Dolan wrote about Wal-
is sad to see how the government is com
mitting the terrifying actions that they are
supposedly trying to fight against.
Bosnia in the early 1990’s when countless
Innocent people are dying in Iraq. There is
Mart because now I am interested in seeing
the film. My girlfriend loves all those stores
ing how this woman failed to give me this
important upcoming information and I would
have still been left in the dark if not for The
Banner. Now it might be too late to register
for the class I need.
Re: CSI Sneaker Pimps On The Internet
I enjoyed Thomas Bradley's interview with
Paul Brudoley and Sash Boriskinare on
ers. I know I’m definitely getting my pair of
Bape’s from their website know that the
Banner informed about it.
-Levon Martinez, Senior
�Nigerian Village Night
Photos: Anne DeMarzo
Dance Club member Amilia
Molina (right) performed a num
ber for the crowd.
Omolara Obisanya (left) sang
the Nigerian national anthem to
the delight of many.
Turns Shykht, Onome Edemu,
Taiwo Olasupo (SG President),
Chukwunonso
Gibemudu,
Robert Duru (President of
Nigerian Club)
6
�December 12,2005
Hurricane Katrina Flea Market
Photos: Kevin S.P. Mamakas
Students, staff, and the rest of the Staten Island community helped sup
port CSI’s mission to provide relief for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The flea market offered jewelry, knitted items, assorted baskets, purses,
perfume, Scented candles, sauce from Prince Umberto’s, knick knacks,
toys, and sun glasses. There was also a table that supported the Animal
Victims of Katrina.
Assorted holiday baskets were available for the low, low (literally) price of $95. Other
baskets could be bought for a steep $500.
Former Banner Comics Editor, Chris Sorrentino, and
memeber of the skectch comedy group, A Dan Amonst
Dans, promotes the their knee slapping DVD. Pick one
or...ten up for the holidays!
A 50/50 Raffle will benefit animals dispalced and injured during
Hurrican Katrina. At least $500 is expected to be donated.
Jewelry stands were a popular spot for customers, whether
handmade or “real”.
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From dirty bathrooms on campus to taking pride in their college,
CSI Students Speak Out
Liso LaBruzzo
times I go in there and there isn't any
soap, it’s gross.” With such a huge
emphasis on health these days, you
would think that there would be some
communicable disease while
one in there 24/7 keeping the bath
sitting on a toilet seat please
rooms clean.
stand. It has come to the attention of
On one day in particular, I found
many CSI students that the conditions
that in a certain bathroom, two of the
of our bathrooms are, well, not up to
three soap dispensers did not have
par. On any given day, one can travel
soap, there were no towels in the towel
into one of the hundred or so bath
dispenser, not to mention the amount
rooms on campus and be taken aback
of toilet paper off the floor and the com
by certain “presents” left in the stalls
plete lack of consideration people have
by our fellow students, as well as over
for others (i.e. - not flushing the toilet
ll in favor of contracting a
A
With such a huge emphasis
on health these days, you would
think that there would be some
one in there 24/7 keeping the
bathrooms clean.
flowing garbage cans and broken sink
faucets. Don’t get me wrong, the
cleaning staff does a good job at
keeping the place spic and span, well,
spic at least.
CSI is a huge university, so it's
understandable that the cleaning staff
might miss a few things every once
and a while. But when every once in a
while becomes everyday...then we
have a problem. “They need to get
toilet seat covers," says Lena Alwari,
sophomore, “and they need to get
better sinks, like automatic ones,
because there are mad germs on the
knobs. Plus I don’t know how many
when your finished doing your busi
ness). It was later on in the day, which
meant that the bathroom had been suf
ficiently used by this time. But should
n't this mean that the people in charge
of cleaning should come and freshen it
up?
For those of you who think that
maybe it’s just the ladies room, here’s
something to consider: “When I first
came here, I thought the janitors were
on strike," says Vinny Ferrara, sopho
more. Of course, we can’t put all the
blame on the cleaning staff, there are
things we can do to make the bathroom
environment at CSI better. For exam
ple, there are garbage cans in the
bathroom for a reason - use them. This
also goes for toilet flushers and hand
towels, but for those of you who want
that extra seal of protection, a little
Cucumber Melon scented hand sanitiz
er from Bath and Body Works never
hurt anyone.
students rant and rave about all things CSI. The follwing articles are
opinions of CSI students, and not The Banner.
Anne Demarzo
I like to think of CSI as the mountain with the
old sage seated at the top.
Each day I show up and begin my
dimb by finding a parking space. There is lit
tle doubt I’ll have to walk a great distance to
reach my dassroom, so I continue on, trudg
ing past scores of exposed brimful bellies
belonging to incessantly cellphone-chatting
girls, cursing into their shiny bivalve, at their
For some, it’s the 80% less cost than other
Island colleges. For others it's a convenient
location. Prepared for the college level work
or not, many come because the job market
demands it. And then there’s the significant
group that it suits because of family obliga
tions. But who and why students come
here has nothing to do with what a person
can take away. CSI has 15% more full time
professors than either of the other Island
colleges. We have an accredited computer
mothers, or boyfriends. When I approach
sdence program that has been rated equal
the door of my destination building, I give my
backpack a little hoist and march past the
large bicepted males, uniformly dad, stand
ing in dusters like centurions on coffee
break. I charge through the billows of sec
to that of West Point’s. Our Business and
Nursing programs are highly regarded and
ondhand smoke and I’m nearly there.
Entering the dassroom, I shuffle through the
candy wrappers and half-empty plastic bot
tles that litter the floor, looking for a place to
sit. The desk with the pool of coffee filling the
But who and why students come here
has nothing to do with what aperson can
takeaway.
contoured seat is definitely out. The ventila
tion system, which I am unsure if it is sup
posed to be heating or cooling the room, is
blowing loudly —I avoid that area. The back
wall looks cozy, too cozy, with the desks
jammed so tightly I would have to saw off an
elbow, not to impose on my colleague’s
dass notes. Having arrived early, I take the
opportunity to move a few things and daim
just the right space.
More than 12,000 students attend CSI,
each with their own reason for choosing it.
along with our enriching international popu
lation, we have virtual dassrooms that can
place you in Turkey, China, or Africa. You
can compound your experience by partidpating in any of the worthwhile programs
like drama, or WSIA (a state of the art radio
station to be envied by small broadcasting
companies). You can gain valuable life
experience by getting involved in the com
munity through SG or NYPIRG. And if you
want all around exposure, join the college
newspaper.
No matter what the ascending path up
the mountain looks like, I’ve come to learn
that the old sage has been there for me
every day. I came without fail, asked ques
tions and went home to ponder. I’ve come
to love the old man and will find it sad to
leave. For sure, there will be other moun
tains, but not as safe. By far, my experience
at CSI has been fruitful so I say, the only
idiots here are the ones who carp without
doing there part to make it better. After all,
CSI will be the name in the largest print on
your degree.
aEURi-TSU.
8
�President Springer Vists Student Government
Anne Demarzo
n
I
response
to
an
invitation,
President Marlene Springer attend
ed the November 17th SG meeting
for an informal chat with student repre
sentatives, including three newly
inducted senators. For more than an
hour, President Springer reported on
the state of CSI, answered questions
and encouraged members to offer sug
gestions.
In an
unassuming entrance,
President Springer, accompanied by
Carol Jackson, VP for Student Affairs,
promptly requested the senators be
seated. Dr. Springer began the meet
ing by establishing a point of reference
with a few facts: the college has over
12,000 students; it is Staten Island’s
second largest employer with 1200
employees; there are plans for a new
Facilities Master Plan (the last one
was twenty years ago), that will look at
the college’s projected needs for five
years ahead, and a Strategic Plan is
also expected, which is intended to
attract and retain better prepared stu
dents, as well as strengthen athletic
programs.
“We are moving ahead to get the
residence halls a done deal," said Dr.
Springer, which would entail getting
approval from the State budget, cen
tral university and obtaining the land
from the state Office of Mental
Retardation
and
Developmental
Disabilities (OMRDD). It is envisioned
that CSI would become a residential
campus for 600 - 900 residents,
depending on the sale of bonds,
Dr. Springer made clear the facts
of life: As college president for 11
years, “I have always turned in a bal
anced budget," said Springer. “This is
the first year I am concerned." A three
percent budget cut from a $55 - 60
million budget is considerable. We are
$1.2 million in debt, halfway through
the year. To avoid layoffs, we must
look at every account to fill the gap,
including the Research Foundation,
Auxiliary Services, Recreation Center
and the Center for International
Service. “I asked for $64,000.00 from
the Student Association because they
have a reserve," Springer said. "The
money will be used for students and I
know it will be replenished next year."
Any benefit from a tuition hike won’t be
seen until next year and Central
Administration takes what they need
first. Although students pay $4,000.00
annually in tuition, it is only a part of
the $10,000.00 cost per student,
$40,000.00 per graduate student. “I
say all this to give some sense of how
complex and how big CSI is," Springer
explained.
Another concern is enrollment,
she told the group. It has leveled for
the first time in six years. Our goal is to
get enrollment up without cutting stan
dards. The 100 triple remedial stu
dents we lost are now able to attend
the Brooklyn Educational Opportunity
Center, at no cost. After getting their
grades up, they can come to CSI and
better use their financial aid for college
credit courses.
“What percentage of the drop in
enrollment is international students?”
asked Senator Arishna (AJ) Ramphal.
"A visa is difficult, to come to the
US, post 9/11," Springer noted.
“Australia is making a push to pick up
that slack. We are going to Bangalore,
India in January to recruit students."
Shawn Fisher, who was elected to
fill the senate upper-seat vacancy, just
moments before President Springer
arrived for the meeting, wasted no
time in demonstrating his familiarity
with issues concerning his constituen
cy. “Does CSI support the Light Rail?”
He asked, suggesting the proposed
rail line from Bayonne to Staten Island
has the potential to add to enrollment.
Dr. Springer responded affirmatively
and added that administration has also
worked with the MTA for the Brooklyn
bus and with Staten Island Borough
President, James Molinaro, to begin a
study on the Island’s traffic, hoping to
solve problems in getting students to
caught on some video recorder doing
something real stupid for a tee shirt or
beads. A.k.a. Mardi Gras or Girls
s another semester ends at
the College of Staten Island
students will have a chance to
focus on other things then school. In
A
this Month off, students will attend
Parties or bars. Students may catch
A New Trendfor Winter Break is
up with old friends or hang out with
new ones. That is quite fine but this
winter break, go away!
Going away in the winter time is
Hitting the Plastic Surgery Table
far less trendy then its spring counter
part yet the idea of getting away from
blistering cold and countless snow
storms sounds pretty good to any
body. So why do people stay home?
Maybe it’s because as students we
spent all of our money for the holi
days? Joe Fago a student at the
College said, "Money is tight after the
holidays, I spent so much money on
my family that I could even fathom
going away now." Unlike recent grad
uate Chris Kotula who went away last
winter break. “I went to Las Vegas
and it was incredible and the nightlife
was awesome."
Students should consider getting
away now instead of the springtime.
Why? A good reason could be the
possibility of getting arrested in a for
eign country like Mexico. Even better
the possibility, of hitching up with a
god or goddess who happens to also
have a S.T.D. Of course there’s the
mecca of embarrassment getting
gone wild (That goes for males and
females alike)
It’s always important to go away
to spring break at least once with your
friends but after that its time to grow
up a little. That’s why Winter Recess
could be the ticket to make a new tra
dition with your friends or even with
that special someone.
Going to a log cabin, snowboard
ing and skiing are one of the many
things you can do on winter break.
The prices couldn’t be too bad for a
weekend get away. If you want to get
extreme a road trip across America
Also a
Duru asked how CSI is developing
strong alumni by placing students in
promising employment positions.
"The Development Office is not
only seeking donations from firms, but
intern positions as well," Springer
responded. "That’s a program we
would like to expand."
Senator (AJ) Ramphal, who stat
ed earlier in the semester that he will
donate his entire stipend to create an
award to recognize other student vol
unteers, asked Dr. Springer how she
felt about stipends. “I'm not in favor of
them," she responded. "SG should be
an honor." I could line item them out of
the budget, but stipends are in the cul
ture of CUNY, so I haven’t done that.
“We have the best faculty and a
beautiful campus," Senator Fisher
declared. “We don't get the respect we
deserve." He suggested that perhaps
CSI changing its name, might rid itself
of its poor reputation. Springer
announced that a marketing director
has been hired to transform that
image. The college website will be
upgraded
and
our
logo
may
tutions,” she assured the group. “...But
not Staten Island."
new trend for winter
recess is hitting the plastic surgery
table. In this age of looking sexy there
is no better time to spend hard earned
money on your appearance then dur
ing winter recess. All different types of
procedures are being done during this
lay off. In a press release from Dr.
Stephen T. Greenberg's Premier
Center for Plastic Surgery he says
“that his office is booked up with high
school, college and graduate stu
dents for the holidays." This may be
the new thing to do for winter break
getting ready to look hot for spring
break. So when you get on that fifteen
minutes of drunken fame on that spe
cial video least you can say you
earned it. On a serious note winter
recess gives these procedures the
much needed recovery time to heal
the body and without the chance of
other students realizing.
As the semester comes to an end
here's a couple of endeavors that a
college student can achieve. Once
college is over the time to do these
adventures and exciting activities
will always be necessary.
Unfortunately, not all the tables did a
lot of business. CSI faculty member Carol
Perota’s family vendor table that had
assorted handmade knitted items only sold
two items. “It was good. If more people from
the community would have come it would
have been better," she said. Despite her
poor sale numbers Perota’s family still
found the good in the whole situation. “We
had a nice time. We spent time with mom.”
Chris Sorrentino, who was advertising
his sketch comedy DVD, felt the effects of
the weather and event timing. “We have
done better at comic book conventions.” It
should be mentioned that the characters in
the DVD are all alumni from CSI.
Sorrentino’s vendor neighbor Tom
Cerulli, who was selling various items, stat
ed “It is a good event but the timing was off.
We had a good rush of people until about
2:30.” The event was from 12-6 pm. “It
should have ended at 4:30 and started ear
lier," Cerulli stated.
Even though some vendors wanted
more community members involved, they
were happy to be a part of the event.
“It was pretty cool. There were a lot of
become a lot harder to obtain. For
selections," graduate student Annie
Varghese said while showing off here new
break whether they big or small. The
prices are also cheaper in hotter
this upcoming winter recess make it
necklace. “They had stuff from baby
industrious instead of lying in bed till
places because it's the off-season for
many vacation spots in fact you could
probably go to expedia.com or Price
three in the afternoon or watching
countless amounts of Family Guy.
Whatever you do enjoy your winter
sweaters to fake designer bags."
President Springer and Vice President
line.com and find a bargain. For win
ter spots expect to pay a little more
obviously because it’s in demand.
break.
could also be another option. Don’t
limit the things to do during the winter
be
changed.
“We are respected by other insti
Flea Market
from page 3
What to Do Over Winter Break
Andrew Rafferty
the college.
As in the past, Senator Robert
Jackson even made a trip to the tables
before rushing to meetings. The success
will more then likely encourage the college
to continue its support for the events that
benefit relief efforts around the world.
9
�December 12,2005
Lauren Taylor's
n November 24th, my family and
I celebrated Thanksgiving at my
Aunt Mary's and my Uncle
Larry’s home in Oakwood. The short
from South Beach, where I live, gave me
O
that middfe-of-December chill. The sky
was so clear; you thought the visible,
massive clouds were gathering as if they
were going to explode with snow.
Meanwhile, the day before was warm
enough to wear a hoodie and gloves. But
here I am, with the warmth of my family
removing the chill, at the traditional gath
ering place, (many years), for turkey and
all the trimmings.
At every Holiday gathering, every
one is assigned a dish to prepare, which
I realized when everyone walked in with
a pot or Pyrex dish of food that had to be
re-heated. All family members bring a
side dish or a dessert to heip out Aunt
Mary and Uncle Larry. It is a heavy load
to cook for all 36 people in my extended
family but on this day, half the family was
celebrating with their in-laws to insure
their presence with us on Christmas Day.
There were "only" 18 at the dining room
bmmM
table. As Uncle Larry carves the turkey in
place votive candles on a plate, one for
cally because there is so much for all us
the kitchen, we satisfy ourselves by pick
ing at it Believe you me we were not at
each person. We passed it around, and
as each person lit a candle, they were
all satisfied by the time my Uncle Larry
ride
finished carving that 20 pound turkey. The
taste was a tease, and when Aunt Mary
asked to say what they were thankful for.
Our thankfulness could be said to our
selves or out loud. I think it was a very
peaceful and heartwarming way to start
to clean. In the past, my cousin Margie
and I do this together but, she was with
her fiancee John and his family. I noticed
though, as I washed the dishes that there
weren't many to wash this year and there
were only two tables used. When I was
the wonderful meal. Although, each time
someone would light a candle and blow
the match out at least one or two of the
younger there were at least four tables
set up in the dining room and into Aunt
Mary's living room. You need a lot of
candles already lit would go out. We all
had a big laugh over it which made things
less uncomfortable. During this time, I
thought of my grandmother who passed
space to accommodate my large family,
but if you don't have it, it doesn't matter.
They still have a good time and make
their own space
away 2 years ago. I wanted to say some
thing about her, but didn't want to let my
feelings come out and upset anyone so I
lit my candle and said, "I'm thankful for
. I loved my Thanksgiving Holiday at
Aunt Mary and Uncle Larry's house,
though I miss the presence of all of us
together.
everyone's good health and hope to see it
continue". Many of my family members
decided to say what they wanted to them
selves which I respected.
But things must change because my
cousins, sister, brother and I have to grow
up and start our own traditions, ft just
shows that things do get bigger and bet
After dinner, my sister and I went in
the kitchen and began to wash and dry all
the dishes, glasses, pots, and serving
bowls. The rest of the family "eventually"
ter in certain ways, when you come from
a large extended family. Soon it will be our
and Uncle Larry said, "let's eat,’’ the fami
ly, including myself, could not put the food
on platters or in bowls fast enough and
place them on the table.
We all sat down at the beautiful
table. Each year, Aunt Mary uses her cre
ativity to come up with different ways of
putting our names at the respective place
setting. This year she used a variety of
snowmen ornaments and put our names
on little tags that hung from its neck.
When we first saw the table, we all knew
where my mother was sitting. She loves
Halloween and on her chair, Aunt Mary
and Uncle Larry placed a life-sized paper
skeleton and on her plate was this huge
spider with web included. It was funny
watching my mothers' reaction to her
Halloween surprise. Instead of one per
son saying Grace, Aunt Mary, again using
her ingenuity, came up with the idea to
A n n e M a r i e
Sometimes I'm amazed at how con
fusing sexuality can be. Somehow,
between balancing class schedules, find
ing jobs, dealing with families, and vari
ous other every day issues, we find time
to be sexual creatures. We look for those
we like, we date them, we take the time to
form partnerships with them. Sex has
become a part of who we are. In fact,
many times our sexuality precedes us.
you stick a group of sexually confused
people in the middle of CSI? They
engage in secretsame-sex behavior.
One student, who wished to remain
anonymous and will be called "Bob" for
the rest of this article, is guilty of this. He
However, as confusing as I find it to be a
single twenty two year old girl on.
finds himself frequently hooking up with
other male students. What's wrong with
this? Many of them are either hidden so
far back in the closet they can't find their
Prada Loafers, or they're straight and
confused.
Staten Island, I can't even begin to
imagine how difficult it must be to be a
"Bob" found that once he hooked up
with one boy, it was easy to spot the oth
gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender col
lege student on this, the isle of
Conservatism.
ers who wanted to experiment. Even
though "Bob" calls himself gay, he says
many of the boys who contact him claim
I can't even begin to fathom how it
would feel to finally begin to understand
your own sexuality, and then try to make
it fit in the ideals of the place you live,
especially when that place is notorious for
being closed minded. Being good friends
to be straight, and engage in every activ
ity possible to maintain that stereotype.
with many closeted and open homosexu
als who live here, though, I can see what
it does to someone to live in this type of
atmosphere. It is nothing less than total
confusion, on the part of the person in
question, but more often of the straight
Islanders who maybe, have never come
in contact with anyone who was different,
and possibly doesn't know how to handle
them But, oh that forbidden behavior
looks just as sweet as the apple that
tempted Eve... So, what happens when
i sir it s...
Many of the boys "Bob" dates are on
sports teams, are openly Catholic, and
even have girlfriends. To the outside
world they are the picture perfect Staten
Island college student, but even still,
"Bob" will get a late night drunken phone
call asking for a hookup. These boys liter
ally leave the locker room of whatever
sporting event they've just finished, they
lie to their girlfriends about where they're
going, and they go meet "Bob" at a
secluded location and, more often than
not, engage in sexual activities.
While "Bob" would agree that it's
them who initiate the behavior 99% of the
time, he also remember that they usually
came into to help us. I say that sarcasti-
turn (the cousins) to host the many family
holiday traditions. I can wait for that;
because I love the way my huge family
parties now.
D o o I i n g
share no conversation, hug, kiss on the
cheek or anything that would imply an
actual relationship, and they stick to strict
ly receiving oral sex. The fact that they
seem to completely disconnect emotion
ally from their homosexual actions shows
great confusion, and also great fear. Are
they just trying to get some easy head?
If they have girlfriends, what would
lead them to this behavior? Why couldn't
they call up their girlfriends? Possibly
because, these boys are too scared to
admit to the world around them, and
themselves, that they don't fit the cookie
cutter manly suburban mold or the strict
conservative lifestyle has finally caused
them to crumble by way of perversions.
A very close friend of mine, who we'll
call "Jane," should be celebrating her
marriage right about now, but she won't
be. The engagement between her and
her fiance' was called off when she,
snooping around for music files on
his computer, found an account on a pop
ular gay dating web site. His profile con
tained photos, graphic descriptions of
activities he enjoyed, and even mes
sages from men he had contact with.
Stunned, "Jane" confronted him, and he
collapsed emotionally. Today, he's in
counseling, she's not doing so well,
either.
His family, who is actively involved in
their south shore church knows there is
some problem, but isn't sure what. "Jane"
and her fiance' have chosen to keep this
secret between them, at least until they
have a secure diagnosis for what his
problem should be... or his solution is.
One ruined engagement, two broken
hearts and $12,000 later, it's pretty obvi
ous this could have been prevented.
While "Jane" and her man are so
busy trying to cover up appearances for
the outside world, they've both confided
in me that it's pretty much a lost cause.
This is a man who is just not attracted to
women. Is the route they've chosen to
take any better than if he had come out of
his closet years before? That's their deci
sion, but I'm sure the outside world
played a big part in the route that was
chosen.
As water-locked as our little pseudo
suburb is, it’s sometimes difficult for other
cultures and subcultures to reach us.
Because of this, it's often taken longer for
situations that may be considered per
fectly normal in larger cities to become
even acceptable here.
Homosexuality is one of those situa
tions. Even while religion and politics can
have a certain sway on how one views
same-sex relationships, put those two
determining factors together, and you've
got one big explosion of fear. Fear which
breeds ignorance... ignorance which
breeds hate.
Think your college is GLBT friendly?
Think again.
�Syriana Puts A Face on Greed
Thomas Bradley
ollywood has recently thrown its hat
into the political realm with films like
Jarhead and George Clooney’s
attack on the passive media in Good
and Good Luck. The most surprising aspect
of these films is the overall positive recep
tion by audiences who seem to be fed up
with the current American situation both at
home and overseas. Joining the group this
month is Syriana, a thriller set in the Middle
East, starring Matt Damon, George
Clooney, and Jeffrey Wright.
Syriana puts a face on the greed driv
ing gas prices up along with the body count
of the region. We've all been distraught
over the recent spike in prices at the pump,
but this film is jaw shattering in its ability to
give those seemingly benign numbers
some lethal history George Clooney’s char
acter, veteran CIA operative Bob Barnes,
was once a no questions asked assassin
but recently began to question the validity
and overall meaning behind his work.
Stating “I used to not need answers,"
Clooney’s character moves from a time
H
when Americans thought they could
defend their values justly, but as our hands
get dirtier and the filth gets under our nails
people are beginning
to ask why.
“We are living in
Night
complex,
difficult
times,” said Stephen
Gaghan,. writer of
Syrianna and Traffic.
"I wanted Syriana to
reflect this complexity
... to embrace it nar
ratively."
Gaghan
pens a visceral and
intense geopolitical
thriller with as many
plot twists as there
are
characters,
weaving the various
threads into one thick
noose.
There is an explosive quality to the
film that repeatedly leaves the viewer think
ing, “This is too wild. This can’t really hap
pen. Does it?" as his eyes dart along with
the plot from scene to scene. The confu
sion felt in the dark theater stays with the
audience on the car ride home and at the
coffee table the next morning It becomes
difficult
to
explain
to
those
who
haven’t seen,
and
that’s
when
it
becomes clear
to you. The
fuzziness of
your memory
your
and
inability
to
effect i vel y
answer
the
question,
"What's
it
about?” is pre
cisely
what
Syriana is about. There is an echoing
crack heard throughout the theater as Matt
Damon, playing analyst Bryan Woodman
for an energy trading company, bellows,
“This is a fight to the death.”
“Everything is connected." The
movie's slogan is a simple, loaded sen
tence. Everything in Syriana, and in effect
this world, is connected. The connections,
however, become difficult to find and even
more difficult to explain Yet the complexity
of the plot is not so much difficult to follow
as it is painful upon figuring out. The cor
ruption and overall greed that runs rampant
throughout the halls of state, through the
minds of our elected officials, is all at the
expense of the average man. It is the gen
eral public, internationally, that humps the
load just scraping to get by while these
money hungry John D Rockefeller wanna
be types get thick
The next time you go to the pump just
wonder where those numbers came from
Hear the bullets fired in Iraq, each shell
falling to the sandy deck sounding a hell of
a lot like a register draw popping open The
blood running from the heads of Iraqis and
Americans mixing with the dirt and filth,
leaving the bright red fluid slow and thick
and dark. It’s running out, and as you turn
the key you can hear the machine, rumbling
on toward the end. Who's going to win?
Harry Potter: No Longer for Kids
Kevin SPMamakas
one he learns a new talent that leads
him to discover his friend's sister is
being possessed. The third one he
thinks a mad man is trying to kill him
but it ends up being his godfather.
The Yule Ball scene was made by
looking at Ron in his dress and by
Hermione fighting with him because
he fourth movie of the Harry
he doesn't consider her until she
Potter series, Goblet of Fire,
accepts an invitation from the
was released for the 2005
Durmstrang Academy's Viktor
Holiday season and is yet another
Krum.
blockbuster.
The Second Task is
Even though Dan Radcliffe,
altered by there being no
Emma Watson, and ■ Rupert Grint
remain the main characters - Harry,
house elves, but Moaning
Myrtle trying to peak at Harry
Hermione, and Ron - a few things
as he is trying to solve the
have changed in the usual two and
half hours. This is the first Potter
clue for the second task while
in a bath.
movie to be rated PG-13. In that
The Third Task is not as
respect, the movie remained true to
the book. As Harry gets older in the
challenging as it needs to be
books, his level of maturity increases.
to show that Harry isn’t a
lucky dimwit Even though
Fourteen year olds naturally think dif
luck is a big reason why there
ferently than eleven, twelve, or thir
teen year olds. JK Rowling shows that
is going to be a book seven,
in her fourth book.
he learns more in the Goblet
of Fire than any other of the
The new Director, Mike Newell,
The fourth movie installment of Harry Potter
series.
allows more humor to be in this movie
grossed $587 million worldwide since opening on
It could be argued that the
to combat the more violent scenes.
November 18th.
task was cut short due to time
However, the comedy is also for a
issues, but the lack of knowl
slightly more mature audience. For
Voldermort
most
likely
would
try
to
edge
made
him look completely lucky
instance, Harry spits out his drink
kill
Harry
if
he
comes
back
during
any
after
the
third
task. Harry and Cedric
while looking at Cho Chang (played by
of these stories, but he doesn't plan it
Diggory, his fellow Hogwarts chal
Katie Leung), or Ron having to be car
that way. The scene when Professor
lenger, grabbed the cup at the same
ried away after asking the beautiful
Quirrel tried to possess Harry’s broom
time thinking they won the tournament
Beauxbaton
Academy’s
Fleur
in the first one is his own choice not
together. Yet they got transported to
Delacour to the first real dance that
Voldermort's.
see the reincarnation of Voldermort,
Hogwarts has seen in a long time. The
Newell also cut out a lot of the 734
played by Ralph Fiennes. (The most
younger audience who saw the past
pages. Before the third task, it worked
violent scene occurs when Diggory
Potter movies wouldn’t understand the
out well. There were no house elves in
humor because of its sexual nature
instantly met his death among arrival.)
sight (meaning no Dobby or Winky).
Even though there are dark
When Voldermort challenges
This changed a few scenes but in the
scenes in the first three books and
Harry to a duel, he made a fool of him.
sake of time it's understandable. The
movies, Goblet of Fire is the first one
Harry should have been immune to the
Dragon in the first task got loose to
where Harry is actually being
Imperious Curse (Unforgivable Curse
chase Harry, but that was for enter
attacked. The first one he finds clues
that makes the challenger do whatev
tainment.
of a crime and he stops it. The second
er the spell caster wants). This is
T
important
because
he
became
immune to it through out the year. It
shows he learned something and it
isn’t all luck.
After he managed to get away
(have to read the book or watch the
movie to see how he did it) Professor
Mad Eye Moody took him to his room
and the audience found out his real
identity and that he plots the whole
thing from the beginning, then
Professor Dumbledore came in and
saved Harry again.
Harry not doing much in the last
task and scenes besides getting lucky
is where a person who read the book
wants to throw popcorn at the screen
and where the people that didn't read
the book would be completely bored A
character can only get this lucky so
many times in a series
This movie proves the theory that
if there is a book that is made into a
movie, the book is usually better. The
books have more details between the
scenes that make the story so much
better. So if one hasn't done it already,
read the books to do justice to the
story.
As a result of the first two-thirds of
the movie being extraordinary, and the
creepiness of the reincarnation of
Voldermort, I give the movie four out of
five spells. It could be better, not by
taking anything out, but by adding a
few short scenes in As a result of the
books popularity and the last three
movies, people would sit through three
hours of a movie if it was action
packed until the end. The Lord of the
Rings series proved it.
�The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
December 12,2005
All Around Athlete Andrea Kleboe Knows Best
crowds.”
Off the field and off the court, Kleboe carries that emotion
to the Student Athletic Advisory Committee where she repre
Kodijah Rentas
teadfast in her white CSI Dolphins uniform, Andrea
Kleboe runs up and down, back and forth across the
soccer field. As a senior captain, she does what she
sents CSI athletes. A local CSI and CUNY-wide program, the
committee allows for athletes to voice any problems or con
cerns and helps get them involved in community service. A
representative for two years, Kleboe and other members
S
knows best. She speaks up, steps up and takes aim for the
goal.
have organized toy and clothing drives for a battered
woman’s shelter on the island. They also plan to host an
Olympics-type event for student athletes in the spring.
“Andrea is a prototypical student athlete," said Assistant
Associate Athletic Director of seven years, Jason Fein. “She’s
like a poster child for a CUNY student and CUNY athlete. She
A woman of many talents, Kleboe, 23, easily masters the
concept of time management. A student athlete, she leads the
championship women’s soccer team and plays full court for
the women’s basketball team. She attends school full-time, is
a representative on the Student Athletic Advisory Committee,
and holds a job. With some days more tiring than others, only
one thing keeps her on foot: dedication.
“Honestly, I’m very good on six hours of sleep,” said
Kleboe. Most medical reports require people sleep eight to
nine hours, but Kleboe does just fine with allocating those
extra two to three other hours each day, 365 days a year, to
more open-eyed activities.
Kleboe has played soccer since age four. “I’m an only
child," said Kleboe. "So my parents wanted to find something
to get me in.” As one of the team’s strong captains, she easi
ly fits the model as a very vocal and talented leader. During
tine women’s championship game she helped organize and
rally the team to a tough 3-2 win against the Medgar Ever
Cougars last month. The infant Dolphins soccer team is only
two years old and in these two years has won the CUNY
Championship with this year being the first official title award
ed. The Dolphins played the season undefeated in the CUNY
conference.
Defensive captain Bukurije Begai, 20, described the
starter as “cool." “She’s responsible, she's reliable, she plays
injured, she always offers a helping hand,” said Begai. A good
asset to the team, Kleboe also stands as a great physical
threat to opponents. “She's got the nastiest shot," said Begai.
“She can kick the ball from midfield and hit the net."
makes the most of going to a commuter school."
After high school, Kleboe waited two years to attend col
lege. In that time she worked at the same tanning salon she
works at now, but felt if she didn't take the time to sort her
Kleboe’s basketball teammates had similar comments
about her contribution to the team, both physically and for
morale. Red shirt freshmen, Nicole Estrada, 19, and Jolyn
Silva, 19, complimented Kleboe as “a step-up player.” “She’s
a very strong player," said Estrada. “She keeps the intensity
up."
A three-year veteran, Kleboe has played 61 games for
the Dolphins, a team ranked ninth in scoring offense in the
mitjop’s Division III. In 2003 and 2004 the team played unde
feated in the CUNY Conference. Last year Kleboe played with
an injury and the team lost only one game. Kleboe recalled
her freshman year on the team and the championship game
against Hunter. While the team placed first in the regular sea
son, fate had a different plan for the post season. "It was one
of those bank shots," Kleboe said. “One of those that aren't
supposed to go in." The Dolphins lost by two points.
When asked which sport she likes best, soccer or basketball, it was a toss up. “I like soccer because it’s outside,"
she said. “But I feel basketball is more emotional with the
future she may not have the success she has now. “I went
back with the mind set that that was what I wanted to do," she
said. “If I would have gone after high school, I wouldn't have
done it."
. A solid student, Kleboe holds a 3.7 GPA in her major of
communications with a concentration irl Corporate
Communications..
'
^ „. '• , Assistant Coach Jackie Badagliacco, 25, played with ^ :
Kleboe for two years as a student and joked about Kleboe’s^ /tr f:
job at the tanning salon. “Anybody that plays sports at this
school has a good tan because of her,” she said. She listed
'
Kleboe as a good player that knows the importance of com- " * •
munication on the court and remarked about Kleboe’s skills off
the court, as an individual she thinks will have much success
after college.
As if soccer, basketball, school, work, the advisory com
mittee, and spending time with friends and family were not
enough work for Kleboe, she also bowls. “Now I’m in a bowl
ing league because my boyfriend doesn't think I play enough
sports."
Dolphins Dive Into the /05-/06 Season
Andrea Kleboe
pushed the Dolphins past the Baruch Bearcats 100-91. In
Championship,” Jaoui said. “We have a lot of new girls, but
the match, she took first-place in both the 400 and 800
Freestyle and finished runner-up in the 100 Butterfly.
Head Coach Oleg Soloviev has been with CSI for the
Hunter College is always our rivals.” One of these fresh
men, Kaitlin Barr, received “Rookie of the Week" honors by
the CUNYAC during the week of November 7, 2005. Barr
past ten years. In total, he has more than 32 years of expe
Conference Championship, which will take place on
rience coaching swimmers. Coach Soloviev takes his
February 3rd and 4th at Lehman College in Bronx, New
matches one at a time. "All of them meet evenly," he said,
won three individual events for her team, induding the 50
Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, and 100 Breaststroke. In their
match against the Baruch Bearcats on November 16, Barr
earned points for her team by winning both the 50 Freestyle
he CSI Women's Swimming and Diving Team's
efforts will culminate at the CUNY Athletic
T
York.
The Dolphins season runs from the end of October
until mid- February. During this time, they will face York,
Lehman, Hunter, John Jay and Baruch Colleges in CUNY
play. In addition to CUNY teams, SUNY Maritime, Old
Westbury, and Queensborough Community College will
travel to Staten Island to compete, while the Dolphins will
head to Mt. St. Mary and College of St. Elizabeth in search
of some wins. The team has already picked up three wins
in their first four games of the season, beating NJIT, John
Jay and Baruch.
CSI last won the CUNY Championship in the 20002001 season. Since then, they have fallen short to Hunter
College for the past four seasons. This year looks bright for
the Dolphins as they see the return of senior Gina Troise,
and add new players to their already strong roster. The
CUNYAC named Troise "Athlete of the Week" (week of
11/24/04) last season for her outstanding performance that
"they are all the same... We will do our best."
The Dolphins practice everyday in order to stay in top
shape for their matches. If they cannot make the afternoon
practice, they can swim at 7 a.m. If neither of these times
fits into their schedule, they may opt to work-out and prac
tice on their own.
The team has dose friendships with one another. At
the start of the season, the team threw a party that was
mandatory for all to attend. The girls got to know each other
better and often go out together on days off. After all of the
home meets, the team sits down and eats pizza together.
Ahlam Jaoui, a senior, has been on the team ton three
years. She also competed on her high school team before
coming to CSI. “Everybody supports each other, the guys
as well as the girls,” Jaoui said. “We cheer each other on
during races. It’s motivating.”
“I think we have a chance to win the CUNY
and the 100 Breaststroke.
The Dolphins take pride in their sportsmanship. The
team always makes sure to shake hands with their oppo
nents at the end of the race and say “good swim,” whether
they win or lose.
"I'm really looking forward to this season," said Zaila
Herrera, a CSI student. "I have friends on the team, and I
hope to watch a few of the meets. The girls work hard to
achieve the best possible time they can get to help the
team."
The Dolphins will challenge rivals the Hunter College
Hawk’s on December 2, 2005, with home-field advantage
going to the Hawk’s. “I dont want to have any predictions
in advance," Coach Soloviev said. The match will not affect
CSI’s chances in the CUNY Championship, but a victory will
boost the confidence and morale of the team.
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The
College
of
Staten
Island
November 21,2005
CSI INTRODUCES
WINTER SESSION
For-Credtt Courses to be
Offered Dec thru Jan
Annmarie Costello
Anne Demarzo
November 3 — SG members met with
For the first time, CSI is offering a
representatives from COGNISA, CSI’s
session of for-credit classes during
bus-loop service provider and campus
Winter intersession that will run from
Operational
December 27th through January 18th.
Services
to
discuss
improvements concerning on-campus
The new program will offer primari
transportation.
ly general education courses (BUS 150,
Scott Conroy, Regional Manager
EDP 660, ENH 210, ENH 222, HST
for COGNISA, Mike Garber, another
244, PSY 100, Soc 100, WMS 222, and
company representative and Danny
DeSantis
from
CSI
Services, along with SG members,
discussed coordinating the loop-bus
timetable with the city bus schedule,
possibly getting the X93 bus stop
moved into parking lot #4 and other
loop-bus issues.
DeSantis expressed doubt that
the MTA would move the bus stop into
the campus, but Professor Jonathan
Peters of the Business Department,
who had been the guest speaker ear
lier in the meeting, informed the sena
tors that the front gate of CSI is the
third
busiest
Matthew Beck
the Consulate’s internal organs, meet
two sections of PED 190). The courses
Chinese diplomats, and practice con
will meet five days a week (Mon - Fri),
in
versing with native speakers. But the
four hours a day, for fifteen days.
to
overarching objective, according to
There will be space for approxi
Manhattan’s West Side for a monumen
Delgado, was to fortify alliances with
mately 30 students per class, but if
tal field trip: a tour of the Consulate of
the government through healthy con
demand is high for a particular course,
the People’s Republic of China. The
nections with academic institutions.
the Registrar will consider adding more
Operational
bus-stop
on
Staten
Island.
“Go to Community Board 3 and
speak as one,” he added. “If you come
November
Mandarin
10—CSI’s
first class
Studies
trekked
Arishna Ramphal, a class mem
sections. However, students can not
ber, Student Government senator, and
take more than one class during the
Ambassador—extended this offer exclu
son of a diplomat, hoped the event
winter semester.
sively to CSI. It was the first time in his
would be more than a public relations
Registrar Annamarie Bianco hopes
tory that anybody other than high-rank
stunt, but a chance for other CSI stu
that enrollment will be high. “It will help
Consulate’s Education Department—
with
special
blessing
from
the
ing international dignitaries-let alone
dents to see that learning Chinese will
students
students from a public college—was
help their futures in an accelerated
towards their degree,” she said. “A lot of
bestowed such an honor.
world order. “It was a grand opportunity
effort and work from many different divi
that will definitely have an impact on the
sions within the college went into having
China relations in 100 years,” said CSI
CSI
this program up and running in such a
International Studies Coordinator Jane
“People will want to get involved.”
“This is the biggest event in US-
Marcus Delgado. The visit’s practical
goal was to give a close inspection of
Continued on page 3
community,”
Ramphal
said.
Many Americans in business, poli-
Continued on page 3
accelerate
the
progress
short period of time.”
Bianco also indicates that the win
ter session will be a rigorous program
and advised students who are interest
ed to plan accordingly. “It is an intensive
three week module and students should
consider that in their decision making
process,” she explained. “I must say
that we have a lot of very good students
I have the deepest respect and admi
“penalties imposed by the Taylor Law in
Our student newspaper, The Banner, is an
ration for our faculty. Their commitment t
the event of a strike.” At the Town Hall
modules during the summer and are
important medium of communication for
CSI and dedication to students are sec
event, the President never mentioned
very successful at it.”
To the Editor:
here at the college who take four week
ond to none, and although I am not party
anything about the Taylor Law, therefore
Bianco is pleased by the enthusias
to labor negotiations between CUNY and
that particular aspect of the story was not
tic student response so far. “It’s amaz
stories can lapse from factual reportage
the union, I dearly hope that a strike can
included. We thank President Springer for
ing, the website link went up and within
into opinion. The newspaper’s coverage
be averted.
her interest in this publication and dose
an hour, we had already received 15
reading of it.
emails.”
CSI, and I look forward to each edition.
Like all news media, however, its news
of the October 26th town hall meeting
Dr. Marlene Springer
revealed such a lapse. In a paragraph
President, College of Staten Island
Classes were chosen based on stu
dent need and faculty availability. TAP is
dealing with the possibility of a faculty
strike, the reporter wrote: “The President
The Editors respond:
not applicable for the winter session,
had no kind words for the accused (facul
To clarify the issue, the reporter, Matthew
however, if students have enough Pell
ty members who might strike).”
Beck, never said in his article that
and student loans they can apply that to
President
the total tuition of the winter and spring
First,
I
never
used
the
word
Springer
used
the
word
“accused,” which bears a negative conno
“accused.” He simply reported that a stu
sessions. Matriculated students who are
tation. More to the point, however, my
dent had asked the President about a
taking both winter and spring classes
will only be charged fees once.
account of the penalties imposed by the
rumor of a faculty strike, and then used the
Taylor Law in the event of a strike was a
word “accused” in a sentence that led into
factual recitation of the law’s provisions
her
quote.
Upon
close
reading
Students can register for the winter
and spring session together. They will
of
which I, of course, must enforce. It was
President Springer’s quote, (which she
certainly not, as stated in the article,
does not deny), to our eyes it is evident
unkind “... words for the accused.”
that our reporter did not misrepresent the
receive one bill that will have the total
“I dearly hope that a strike can be averted,” Dr.
Marlene Springer wrote to The Banner.
Continued on page 3
�The American Democracy Project
Outfoxed Director Takes on Wal-Mart In New Film
Seamus Dolan
ignited liberal audiences last year with
Almost all of Wal-Mart’s rebuttals are
Walton once said “"High expectations
f after the recent elections, you have
out the support of a Hollywood distribu
based on the trailer on Greenwald's
are the key to everything.”
grown tired of political smear cam
tor, adequate studio resources, and
website and not the movie itself. It gets
If you’d like to decide for yourself,
I
paigns, gear up; David and Goliath
even stretched the already minuscule
better. The millions they probably spent
you can order the DVD for $12.95 from
will
“theater release guide to independent
hiring Edelman was truly transparent
www.walmartmovie.com, or catch a
films” with day viewings in 2 states.
when
intricate
showing at City Cinema’s Village East
International
at 181 2nd Avenue for a couple bucks
do
battle
once
again.
Robert
Greenwald’s "Wal-Mart: The High Cost
the
“WICA”
inconceivably
(Wal-Mart
of Low Price," a low-budget dbcumerF
Greenwald has already experi
tary, which condemns the practices of
enced success before the movie has
Conspiracy Agency) report was sent
less. Considering the company’s nearly
the worlds largest retailer, a real let-the-
even been released: a shit-scared
out to the press. This 8 page rap sheet
incessant push for a location in NYC
people-do-the talking flick, will reveal a
response by the corporation itself. Wal-
portrayed Robert as a total film mal
(possibly Staten Island), it might be
worth your while to figure out where you
company who still has yet to read the
Mart has hired the global powerhouse
adroit, reprinting nearly every negative
anti-lassie-faire economics piece “The
PR firm “Edelman” to conduct a bold
word ever written about Greenwald's
Tragedy Of The Commons” by Garrett
counterstrike to the film and hopes to
earlier work, going all the way back to
Hardin, a.k.a. Wal-mart.
improve its image which has been
1980. Relying on a 3 minute snippet of
declining in recent years. Edelman has
the movie posted on Greenwald's web
will be extremely limited theater screen
done PR work for the oh-so-benevolent
site
ings, only found by a keen eye in liber
tobacco and oil companies in the past.
launched its own attack video claiming
Similar to his previous films, there
walmartmovie.com,
Wal-mart
al pockets like New York or California.
Wal-Mart has taken a knee-deep step
3 factual errors in the trailer. This is how
The majority of the film’s distribution is
into the fox-trap by declaring war
the biggest retail company defends
being handled through over 6,000 DVD
against this film with all the guns a
itself; they smear shit like a blind man in
sceenings across the country in homes,
multi-billion dollar company can muster.
a porto potty. The video they contrived
clubs,
This has given this film tremendous
had a style that seemed similar to the
Outfoxed, the definition of an independ
coverage and allowed it to gain impetus
budget of the film they were scrutiniz
ent film was successful in its intent; it
for the reform it so desperately wants.
ing, but as the founder of Wal-Mart Sam
colleges
and
churches.
US Using Chemical Weapons in Iraq?
Matt Safford
midst a whirlwind of new and
A
improved investigations, spurred
on by a slumping administration
tinguished from Mark 77 in that the latter
"has significantly less of an impact on the
hard truth about the foundations and sor
photographs of bodies found in Fallujah
environment." Marine spokesman Col.
did history of our country in grade school.
have surfaced, flesh burned off, but
and a Democratic party which is just now
clothes still intact, which is apparently
rediscovering its status among the verte
consistent with the effects of the chemical
brates, the Iraq war may have come full
on humans.
circle. The refrain "Saddam had weapons
The Department of Defense and
of mass destruction" still rings in our ears
State Department have categorically
as the most oft-repeated, if not the most
denied the use of
cogent reason for our preemptive war.
white phosphorous
Yet strong evidence has now surfaced
as
an
offensive
that our own military, the purported sav
weapon.
Yet,
a
iors, may have used chemical weapons
March 2005 article
on the civilian populace of Fallujah in last
published by the US
year's uber-offensive on the Iraqi city.
Army, documenting
White phosphorous, or Willy Pete as
"The
Fight
for
it's known in military jargon, has long
Fallujah"
and
been used legally by the military to illumi
penned by a cap
nate battlefields at night. Yet according to
tain, a general and a
a recent documentary on Italian state TV,
sergeant may have
at least one US military eye-witness, and
inadvertently repudi
an article published through the US Army
ated that claim. According to the article,
itself, American troops dropped "massive
WP was "an effective and versatile muni
quantities" of the substance on the city in
tion. We used it.. .as a potent psycholog
"shake and bake" operations, killing
ical weapon . . .We fired "shake and
insurgents and civilians alike. Bodies
bake" missions at the insurgents, using
were found still in bed, with the flesh
WP to flush them out and HE (high explo
burned off their bones, or turned to a
sive) to take them out.
leather-like substance.
The Italian documentary also pro
According to former US soldier Jeff
vides evidence that the US used a new
Englehart, interviewed in the Italian docu
form of napalm called Mark 77, in the
mentary, "white phosphorus kills indis
same offensive on Fallujah. Napalm,
criminately... When it makes contact with
banned by a 1980 UN convention, is dis
2
of public education. We didn't learn every
skin, then it's absolutely irreversible dam
age, burning flesh to the bone." Several
Michael Daily also stated in an emailed
We learned instead, of revolutionaries
information sheet that "many folks (out of
who risked everything for freedom, a
habit) refer to the Mark 77 as 'napalm'
Washington who couldn't tell a lie, a
because its effect upon the target is
Lincoln who freed the slaves and a land
remarkably similar." To bastardize the
where all men are created equal. In short,
bard: that which we
we learned an ideal. That America isnl
call napalm by any
who we are and probably never was, but
other
would
it was who we wanted to be, who we
burn as deep. But as
hoped to be in the future. But today, we're
word
long as it's legal on a
perhaps further from that ideal than we
technicality, the US
ever were. We aren't the America that our
plans to keep using
history teachers told us existed 200 years
the
ago. We aren't even the America we were
eco-friendly
20 years ago. And we're still sliding in the
chemical of death.
Such strong evi
wrong
direction.
We
shouldn't
be
dence of the misuse
ashamed to call ourselves Americans,
of chemical weapons
but we should be ashamed the nation we
may be shocking to
are today has to call itself America.
some, but to those
Frankly, that name deserves better. It
who have been paying attention, it's par
deserves to be the epithet of an ideal we
for the course with this administration and
seem to have forgotten. Until we start
the military working under it. Torture and
remembering it again, we should call our
prisoner abuse allegations and investiga
selves something else. The America I
tions
learned about doesn't torture prisoners,
rage
from
Abu
Gharib
to
Guantanamo. $9 billion is "missing" from
start illegal wars, use banned weapons,
Iraqi reconstruction funds. Our military is
or leave its citizens stranded for days on
chemical
rooftops. These may be acts perpetrated
weapons, and our Vice President is lob
by the United States, but this nation
bying his own congress to allow the CIA
we've become has no right to call itself
to torture prisoners.
America.
using
banned
or renamed
Say what you will about the failings
�November 21,2005
Chinese Consulate
from page /
Mr. Kuang praised the government for
they could know something more about
recognizing the Chinese influx. ‘The
China.”
Since adopting market reforms in
U.S. government has allocated a lot of
money for Chinese learning programs,”
1978, China has become a global com
tics, and academics are seeing the ben
he said. ‘The Bush Administration has
mercial giant and the world's fastest
efits of learning Chinese. “The weather
actually encouraged people to pay more
growing economy, primarily by gaining a
attention to Chinese learning.”
foothold in American business. In 1986,
“The Chinese language is
becoming more integrated
into American universities. ”
Colleges are the place where peo
total trade between the two nations was
ple wanting careers in business and pol
$7.9 billion. By 2003, it was $170 billion,
itics can use the language as a wild card
making China the United States' third
to get lucrative jobs. ‘The Chinese lan
largest trading partner. U.S. exports to
guage is becoming more integrated into
China have grown 66% over the past
American universities,” said Mr. Kuang.
three years, as compared to a 10%
“We’re so glad, and we’re so happy.”
decline for the rest of the world. Senior
He was pleased at the initiative
officials
with
China’s
Ministry
of
taken by CSI in offering a Mandarin
Commerce are estimating trade will be
in China is getting hotter right now. So is
course, something that not even many
worth $200 billion by the end of this year
the Chinese language,” said Wei Lin
prestigious universities have managed
and will hit a whopping $300 billion by
Kuang, the acting Consulate General.
to do. ‘The College of Staten Island has
2010.
“More and more Americans are becom
a Chinese program, and I think that’s
ing
the
great,” said Mr. Kuang. “That’s why we
Chinese culture. I’m very impressed.”
decided we would welcome them so
increasingly
interested
in
remains
Winter Session
from page 1
SG Pays for Stipends
from page 1
optimistic
about
the
new
semester. “The Winter Session provides
an opportunity for our continuing CSI
students to take a course that they
with a well thought out argument, that
amount due for both sessions on it and
will help people change their mind.”
the payment deadline will be January
Student President Taiwo Olasupo
5th.
Some students feel that the winter
and Senator Arishna (AJ) Ramphal
dedicated two hours in early October
session will not be as successful.
“It has more cons than pros,” said
riding the bus loop, observing its oper
20-year old
ation and noting problems.
Olasupo
issues to a special meeting with those
can even call it that, is less than a month
in charge of the service hoping to get
long so by the time you get into the
the
in
swing of things, it’s over, plus it’s one of
ENRIQUE INOCENTE
motion. That and persistent invitations
your only two breaks during the year,
to meet with student representatives
gone.” While others expect lacking par
resulted the day’s serious discourse.
ticipation due to the cold weather and
of
list
problem-solving
“During the winter, even five stu
dents waiting
MATTHEW SAFFORD
major,
Daniel Colonna. ‘The semester, if you
process
took the
communications
of
MELLXSSA SEECHARAN
then
is a
problem,”
holiday celebrations . “I think it’s a good
said
idea because it will help students com
Senator Robert Duru. “Do you make
plete their education quicker,” said 18-
provisions to run buses more frequent
year-old business major, Mirela Cekec.
ly?"
“Unfortunately, I think a lot of them won’t
register because it is during the holiday
MATTHEW BECK
THOMAS BRADLEY
ANNMARIE COSTELLA
ANNEMARIE DOOLING
“Ifyou come with a well
thought out argument, that
will help people change their
mind”
ANNE DEMARZO
season.”
The
administration,
however,
might not have been able to take during
a regular semester, or accelerate their
progress toward graduation. We might
also attract students from other colleges
who are home for the semester break,”
said Vice President for Student Affairs,
Carol Jackson. “We hope it proves suc
cessful this year.”
The winter program will be consid
ered a second session of the spring,
although credits will not be counted
cumulatively.
CSI students can register for the
winter session online or in-person from
November
17th
through
December
22nd and visiting students can register
from December 8th through December
22nd.
Late registration is December
27th.
Winter session details and updates
are
available
by
going
to:
www.csi.cuny.edu/registrar/win.html
sible to install racks for information
about his experience serving SG at
pamphlets. DeSantis pointed out that
the old Sunnyside campus, Professor
With out stretched arms and palms
handouts result in litter problems, but
Peters spoke about the importance of
KHADIJAH RENTAS
up, DeSantis told the students it all
there are overhead advertising racks
developing good alumni.
LAUREN TAYLOR
comes down to money. “Rattle trees at
that can be used by various organiza
administration,” he suggested. If the
tions to publicize student interests.
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
“First thing we can not do is have
unhappy students,” he said.
“Get
money becomes available, “I’m here to
After DeSantis explained that the
involved in planning the future of the
get it done.”
Senator Keisha Waterton declared
local Victory Boulevard bus runs fre
college.” He showed a picture of a
quently but is too sporadic to effective
modern bus shelter built on Staten
it does not make sense for buses to
ly
loop-bus.
Island’s south shore by the NYS
wait by the gate at night, since most
Conroy explained that class dismissal
Department of Transportation and
coordinate
with
the
CARINNE FASSARI
students are leaving the campus. She
ANDREA KLEBOE
is so close to the city bus schedule
offered his philosophy on “OPM,” or
recommended a continuous run. “It will
VANESSA LEIGH DEBELLO
that the 20 minute loop around cam
other people’s money. Peters recom
be corrected today,” Conroy respond
pus makes it impossible to connect
mended to the members they go out
ed.
students to that bus. Senator Dunkley
and ask for resources. “A modern bus
SEAMUS DOLAN
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
Campus maps and a hotline num
moved to coordinate the loop-bus
shelter at the front gate is not an inap
ber will be posted on all buses and
schedule with the MTA express bus
propriate use of public funds,” he
shelters.
Senator Dwight Dunkley’s
schedule. “It would be more important
informed them. “Don’t forget to think
inquiry into what happens with com
to be hooked up with express bus
big.”
ments received on the hotline was told
schedules than class dismissal,” he
all issues will be brought to COGNISA
suggested. “Missing that bus means a
for serious consideration. Drivers will
long wait.” The motion was approved.
also wear name tags.
Senator Duru asked if it was pos-
Earlier in the meeting, offering
motivation to the group with a talk
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�Embarking on New Territory - Traveling While Pregnant
Vanessa Leigh DeBello
I had given my mother all the practical
of travel and losing my clothes. After some
needed to drink a lot of fluids. I spent most
advice she needed to have a smooth and
quick hellos, we stood on a line for anoth
of my second week in bed and at one point
ever have I given much thought to
successful trip and in just minutes of
er hour to report our missing baggage. We
was ready to go home early if my condition
eating different foods or traveling
speaking to the flight personal, it all
were assured that our luggage was safely
didn't improve.
alone in an unfamiliar land. To hop
seemed meaningless.
Somehow, I had
sitting in Houston and that it would be put
Eventually it did, and I remained for the
on a plane at a moments notice to exploreover looked the obvious. Although, Mexico
is one of the few countries that allow
a third world country was becoming a new
Americans to enter without a passport (and
pass time and that wasn’t about to change
on the next flight, which wouldn’t be until
rest of my scheduled trip. I honestly dont
N
the following evening.
know how they all put up with me. I was a
When we arrived at my sister’s apart
grump nearly the whole time. I never real
I recently heard that has changed), one still
ment, she gave us the rest of the good
ized what a disgruntle traveler I could be
At the time I was traveling to Mexico,
needs to have the proper identification, like
news. 'We don’t have any running water,”
until I was pregnant.
I was nearly five months pregnant. Having
a birth certificate, picture ID and marriage
she said. ‘The water main pipe broke and
When people asked about my trip to
been an avid traveler, I thought nothing of
license, if names differ, which was the case
we don’t know when it will get fixed.” This
Mexico and how was it to travel pregnant, I
taking another trip, especially to see my
with my mother. There we stood with no
started to sound like my last trip to the
simply looked at them.
sister, who I had not seen since I found out
marriage license. To make matters worse,
Dominican Republic.
again,” I said. “I learned my lesson.”
just because I was pregnant.
So the promise of
“I’ll never do it
I had a bun in the oven. She was excited
even if we drove home to get it, the name
having running water gave me little hope.
Even for the spunky, get-up and go
about seeing my rounded belly, and I was
on my mother’s marriage license was still
Fortunately, within a few days we had run
traveler, I would think twice about traveling
looking forward to meeting her new
different from the name on her birth certifi
ning water again; but whether it was hot or
while pregnant. I know I will the next time
boyfriend.
cate since my mother had been adopted
not was another story.
around.
It was apparent after the first 10 min
and changed her birth name. She would
My sister did most of the cooking for
utes in the airport that it was going to be an
need her adoption papers to link the two
my mother and I, sharing all the new
eventful trip, but in the past, I always
name changes, which she didn’t have.
In the event you will be traveling during
your pregnancy, consider the following:
Mexican recipes she had learned. I don't
-Always check with your doctor or midwife
enjoyed the occasional travel mishap, as it
My legs ached as I wondered if I
think there is one pregnant woman that
first before traveling.
somehow made the experience more
would have to leave my mother behind.
doesn’t appreciate having someone else
Pack a change of clothing and other neces
memorable. Maybe it was because it was
Fortunately, we were advised for only ten
cook for her, so I never second questioned
sities in your carry on.
shortly after the New Year, but the airport
dollars my mother could sign an affidavit
my sister about how she was washing the
comfort foods you enjoy, as they may not
was unusually crowded for January in my
attesting to her identity.
food. She had previously promised before
be readily available where you are travel
I arrived that all food would be washed with
ing.
-Be prepared with all the necessary docu
After two flights and nine hours, we
opinion. Finding the correct line was like a
Be sure to pack
maze that had us wondering in circles
finally arrived in Tampico, Mexico.
I was
bottle water. I suppose being in love brings
through out the tri-level terminal. At least,
beat and wanted to crawl my tired, preg
on absent-mindedness and my sister was
ments and identifications you may need
if nothing else, I was walking off some of
nant body into whatever bed was provided.
soon rinsing the food in tap water and
while traveling, including copies of medical
those extra pregnancy pounds. When we
All we had to do now was claim our lug
bleach (a common practice in many under
records and the telephone number of your
were finally directed to the right area, we
gage and we’d be on our way. Luggage?
developed countries).
doctor.
What luggage? There was nothing waiting
The following day I was sick to my
-Only drink bottled water, even when travel
After 6 years of traveling alone, I had
for us at the baggage claim. Three suit
stomach with cramps, calling my husband
ing in the United States. Strands of bacte
a travel partner, my mother. This trip hap
cases and not one of them made it to
collect to get in touch with my OB doctor. I
ria vary depending on its source. Your body
pened to be my mother’s first time on a
Mexico.
was a nervous wreck. I was so afraid that
is only immune to the types in your local
something would happen to the baby.
water, therefore your stomach can easily
were relieved to find it empty.
plane.
I broke all the rules of travel and didn’t
It was about time, since her two
I
daughters were seasoned travelers, even
pack any clothes in my carry on.
Five
was experiencing cramps every 20 min
get
living abroad. Prior, I had done everything
months pregnant, what was I suppose to
utes and they were excruciatingly painful.
enzymes.
I thought necessary to prepare my mother
wear.
The doctor reassured us that my stomach
-Go at your own pace. Remember to keep
for the trip, from how to pack efficiently, to
underwear.
cramps would not have any effect on the
a sense of humor and you’ll have a great
baby; I simply had a case of dysentery and
time.
I didn’t even have a change of
carrying money and ID in a safe place and
I hadn’t seen my sister in four months
of course how to stay relaxed on a plane.
and I was already grumpy from a long day
upset
by
the
newly
introduced
The Banner is happy to offer CSI students the opportunity to become better
acquainted with your Student Government reprsentatives.
Name: Arishna Ramphal
Title: Senator
Nickname: AJ
Favorite Sesame Street Character: Big Bird
3 • So what exactly do you do at SG?
3 • Describe your dream job.
A]
AJ • I want to become the President of
• I amPublications Board Representative and Deputy Finance Commissioner.
3 • Are you involved with any other clubs or organizations here at CSI?
Guyana
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3 • Boxers or briefs?
3 • How long have you been involved with SG?
A]* Both
AJ • Approximately
3 • If you could clear up one misconception about members of SG, what would it be?
1 year.
3 • If you could pick one way to improve the school, what would it be?
AJ • I want students to know that we are student representatives who dedicate our time
A] • I would lower tuition, and create more scholarships.
and effort to the student body. Also, we support all other clubs and organizations who
3 • Name one thing that SG has done for the student body?
want stipends.
A] • We helped approve the pass/fail initiative. We're working on better lighting and a
better loop bus.
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�.
From the Editor
Thanksgiving is here. There are just 2
short
weeks
before finals,
after
Thanksgiving
crunch
time
November 21,2005
Letters To The Editor
where
everyone has to work their asses off
to come out on top. After 3 months,
the grueling Fall semester is finally
coming to an abrupt end.
This issue we have an awesome
article by Matt Beck, who went along
with a group of CSI students to the
Chinese Consulate in Manhattan, the
first group of college students to be
granted such unprecedented access.
We also have a special letter to
the editor from President Springer.
The letter was hand delivered to us
by a messenger. I promptly decided
to put it on the front page to let
President Springer know that we
always value her input (I put our
response to her criticism in as well).
However, when we want a comment
from the President, we have to go
through a long convoluded chain of
officials. We only wish that having
access to the President was as easy
for us, as getting access to The
Banner is for her.
In other news, I finally turned 21
yesterday. The hangover has to wear
off soon, because there is still much
more work that has to be done.
There’s just one more issue of The
Re: Money for SG Stipend Increase
Approved
key
positions
at
The
Banner.
Longtime Comfcs Editor Enrique
Inocente has left The Banner for per
sonal reasons. Enrique served The
Banner in many capacities during his
3 and a half years here.
In addition to making us and
everyone else at CSI laugh from his
comics, he lightened up the mood in
The Banner office by' telling outragously funny jokes at the times we
needed it most.
He also was in
charge of layout, helping to ease the
pressure we all faced in getting The
Banner to you on time, and believe
me it’s a lot harder than many of you
think.
He will be dearly missed, howev
er, we need a replacement, or you
guys will be stuck without a decent
comics section, and we know you
guys don’t want that. We also need
photographers, writers, and people to
do layout for the issue (no experience
is necessary, you just have to be will
ing to learn).
And if this is your final semester
here at CSI, the next issue is your last
chance to have your work published
in The Banner. So take advantage of
this last opportunity to be in print.
Anybody who wants to help The
and it was clear we were misled into war,
but the war can and has written a draft of a
I was disappointed, but not surprised, by the
dents to get involved. Perhaps you have
constitution. Women have been elected to
Banner’s deceptive coverage of my SG
answered the question as to why SG mem
office. It may not be clear now, but who
meeting remarks in your November 7th
bers get paid stipends. You guys are in the
knows what this could mean for Iraq 40
issue. As the senate considered stipends on
hot seat.
years from now. It could mean something
worse, but I don’t think all hope is lost.
October 20, I stated clearly that I am a big
believer in stipends, despite not qualifying
Re: So You Want To Play Golf?
- Jennifer Carroll, Senior
to receive one. Ms. DeMarzo distorted my
It is obvious to me that golf is definitely a
remark by removing it’s context.
Also, she misstates the order of events
rapid growing sport, although it is not
concerning Voting Importance Awareness
always recognized as a very popular game.
people about our troops in the war in Iraq -
registration drive. The prize approved pend
This past spring, about 10 of my friends
and not just the war itself. Thomas Bradley
ing legality, but as I stated on October 20th,
went out and bought golf clubs. Andrew
is right: you won’t read about those lost
Rafferty shows his passion for the game in
troops in your children’s textbooks. You’ll
turned out to be illegal, which is why we
this very informative article. He points out
only read about the leaders who lead and
couldn’t hold an event.
the social benefits of playing golf as well
whether we won or not. This war is a waste
how playing the game can help you gain
and I think more and more people are start
Tragically, the Banner subscribes to an
antagonistic media culture of cynicism and
friends and respect in the business world.
ing
scandal-mongering. But it is a disservice to
to
realize that.
But guess
what?
Whatever has been done is too late. It’s a
shame for the many lives that have been
students to seek to rake muck where none
- Mike Smith, Junior
exists. What is truly scandalous is that even
though we students currently face proposed
taken and injured. Our only hope now is that
we learn from this mistake.
annual and automatic tuition hikes, the
Banner didn’t say one word about that.
Perhaps it would have gotten in the way of
Re: Money for SG Stipend Increase
Approved
- Dana Sveva, Junior
I feel because SG has received their
Re: Kick and screaming: Women’s
Soccer Clinches CUNY Championships
your cartoons and sex columns.
- Dwight Dunkley, Senior
approval for the stipend, they should use
the money wisely. They should think about
DeMarzo’s Response:
other clubs and organizations. They could
As a member of the women’s soccer team,
help Arishna Ramphal, a student senator.
I appreciate the paper’s acknowledgement
Reflected in the October 24 issue of The
As a student here, I hear from other various
of our win against Medger Evers for the
CUNY title. Players Miller, Kleboe, and
Banner, it was at the October 6 SG meeting
groups trying to think of ways to raise
that you stated for the record you were not
money. In my opinion, it’s not fair for SG to
myself found amusing the description of our
eligible for stipends in 2005, not the October
be granted stipends when every other group
coach, John Guagliardo, especially the
must struggle to make money to keep
quotes he used. In particular, the quote
20th meeting.
As I understood your October 6th pro
afloat, especially when ideas have been
about not being able to put the ball in the
posal for a Voting Importance Awareness
suggested and nothing has been done. Why
ocean! It was a fun and interesting season.
registration drive, it was not about giving
doesn’t SG help out?
away an iPod, but about the importance of
- Norina Gueller, Senior
teaming up with NYPIRG to get students
- Carinne Fassari, Junior
registered to vote. Although the incentive
prize was ruled illegal, was that reason to
This informative article is an interesting
abandon the objective? Perhaps it had
addition to the previous stipend article
more to do with the time constraint of an
because it shows the absurdity of the whole
Re: Letters To The Editor: Anti-War Film
Draws Small Crowd
register,
issue. At the same time, it shows how the
Columbus Day, Yom Kippur and two week
student government works. I look forward to
It is the job of the Banner writers/reporters
ends, leaving only 4 days to plan, imple
follow up articles on this matter.
to write things as they see them. In Harry
October
ment
17th
and
deadline
carryout
to
your
proposal.
Cason’s letter to the editor, he says that
Nevertheless, on October 20th, you offered
- Ryan Dandrea, Junior
an alternative and gained approval from
your
colleagues
to
organize
a
reporter Matt Beck missed the main points
of the anti-war film. Mr. Cason has every
NYC
right to respond to Beck’s article, but maybe
Re: 2000+ Soldiers Die in Iraq. What For?
its possible that people see things different
the candidates had unscheduled hours to
Thomas Bradley was correct in saying that
tect his event. Matt Beck saw the film as a
take a trip to Staten Island to participate in a
the war in Iraq is not some Spielberg film
whole, while Mr. Cason has only to protect
vague program so close to Election Day?
that will have a simple ending, whether
what little he saw that was good.
Candidate Forum at the CSI campus. That
too did not happen. Was it realistic to think
ly, or maybe Mr. Cason is just trying to pro
Regarding your third paragraph, you
happy or sad, presented in a nice package
call it cynicism, I will suggest wary. SG
with a bow. Victory in Iraq will not be clear or
decides on how more than $200,000 of stu
resolute, but that doesn’t mean it is com
dent money is spent and when it comes to
pletely meaningless. I am a liberal leaning
Banner just needs to stop by our
- Scott Zeller
Sponsored by PDC
office (1C-228) during club hours on
Thursdays (1:30-3:30).
This article was a good way of reminding
offering such a prize for voter registrants
we have to start looking at replace
for
and was against the war for the beginning
some of the controversy will prompt stu
Banner left this semester and already
ments
power and money, it is the job of the press
to hold people accountable. If we are lucky,
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�IRAQ: The War You Won't See on TV
Freelance photojournalist and senior editor for ^
Chronogram magazine Lorna Tychostup spoke to a small
group of students in the Green Dolphin Lounge on
November 17, against a backdrop of her photographs.
Visiting Iraq four times in the last three years, she’s
brought back a large collection of compelling images
and a unique first-hand perspective of the Iraqi people,
which she shared with students who attended.
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9
�November 21,2005
In her groundbreaking book on women's
ion sounds harsh, think of how many
and years?
sexuality Sex and the Single Girl, Helen
One entire chapter in "Sex and the
times you've uttered those words to a
Gurley Brown hands out several hints
Single Girl" plays with the idea of having
guy you knew was into you? "Sorry
on how to pick up a man. The originator
the complete and devoted attention of
Lance/Jake/Frances; I just want to be
and editor of Cosmopolitan magazine,
gentleman callers without so much as
friends." From what I hear from my male
Brown was at the forefront of the women
showing off a little garter belt. Gurley
buddies, it's the equivalent to having
and sexual equality movement.
Brown calls this
your heart not only ripped from your
She believed we could separate
sex and love, love and marriage, and
being "The Girl,"
and it's a lot mob
marriage and career. She not only gave
complicated than
advice, but reassured all women that
the years of sitting at home waiting for
you might first
guess. There arje
men was long over. It was time for
rules and bound
women to get what they wanted. It was
aries associated
time for men to finally feel the pain that
with being mind
goes along with dating and love.
fodder of the less
At the time it was not only shocking
fair sex. If your
but innovative. Women going out look
someone's "Girl,"
It's the equivalent to having
your heart not only ripped from
your body, but stamped on, spit
on and put on a fancy grill like
the one Ron Popeil uses on late
night infomercials .
body,
but
stamped
on,
spit on and put
on a fancy grill
like
Ron
one
Popeil
uses
on
night
infomer
late
cials. Your well
aware the guy
likes you , and
ing for sex? Women hunting for men? It
your the one they
by
was the 1960's and not getting married
think
only
of
the
when
remaining
friends,
right out of high school had just become
they wake up. You’re the one they're
you are free to see what else is but
an option for the ladies of this fair coun
reminded of when they watch a roman
there while receiving all of someone's
try, so imagine the shock of the double
tic movie. You’re the girl they pine over,
attention and devotion. Congratulations!
chromosomes crew when they first
but cant have. They might be married,
You've become "The Girl." Maybe that
spied ladies picking them up at the local
or in a serious relationship, or even sin
wasn't so hard after all!
pub. Brown was definitely on to some
gle. They can be old, young, or any
A few of the keys you need to
thing when she penned that first novel.
where in between. None of that matters.
remember to pull off being "The Girl" are
In fact, much of her ideas are relevant
What does matter is that they have a
as so: Always remain perfect in the eyes
and surprising even by today's stan
desperate longing for you, a longing you
of the boy, or boys, your targeting.
dards, or rather, especially by today's
only satisfy by being their friend, and
Never let them see you in an imperfect
standards. A lot of her ideas might bor
only their friend. No benefits, no drunk-
moment- except those specially crafted
der manipulation of men. But, hey, isn't
kissing, not so much as a slow dance on
to make them feel needed (see: pickle
manipulation a tool men have been
prom night. Now we're on familiar terri
jars, car trouble, other boys who have
using to get what they want for years
tory. After all, if you think Brown's opin
broken your heart). Never reveal your
true intentions; even if you may develop
some real feelings for them, hide it until
you are sure of what you want to do;
and to constantly remember that you
are friends. Just friends! This person
understands you just want to be friends
and he has to accept that! Good guysCover your ears and take warning!
Girls grow tired of being statues, and it
was only a matter of time before we
struck back. Step aside, and let it hap
pen, and you won't become a casualty
of the war Pat Benetar so begrudgingly
sung about.
If this all still seems harsh to you,
you just flash back to the last time a boy
disappointed you. Think about the last
time a guy pretended to enjoy your com
pany just to get in your pants. And how
about that guilt trip your boyfriend
always pulls off on you? The infuriating
half responses... the indecisiveness...
and let's not forget that time he conve
niently had to go finish up some home
work after finishing up in bed, and not
asking if you were done. For the many
years of playing the submissive to male
moodiness, is it time for a little pay
back? Who says they're the only ones
who can play mind games and get away
with it?
�Classical Superstars Wow Crowd...Without Fog Machines
Matthew Beck
hen
the
W
New
York
Quartet No. 1 in D Major, a brisk, toe
aria that moved seamlessly from an
tapping tune brought to life by the magic
energetic sea shanty, to a spirited high
deeply. The movements were an invigor
land ballad, to a mili
ating blend of silky arpeggios, lively
of
soloist
Robert
Langevin,
the
sighed blissfully, and the cellos moaned
Philharmonic, the vanguard of
Philharmonic’s
tary march, all rolled
legato tones, and nimble staccato stabs
classical music, hit the Center
Principal Flute.
into
executed without a stray note or lagging
for Performing Arts for a rare gig,
they Breslaw
Irene
one
tantalizing
classical confection.
tempo. At times, the ethereal melodies
weren’t greeted by eerie strobe lights,
accompanied
Mr. Langevin and
billowing fog machines, or screaming,
on viola, Sheryl
Ms. Breslow gracefully
in labor. Other times softly and sweetly
drunken groupies. Their music wasn’t
Staples on vio
gave
like a sleeping baby.
powered by chest-thumping amplification
lin, and Carter
Yulia Ziskel on violin
Sadly, few CSI students showed up
systems cranking out dangerous decibel
Brey on cello.
and Cynthia Phelps on
to witness a once-in-a-lifetime offering
levels. They didn’t cavort about the stage
(Mr. Brey has a
viola, and cellist Eileen
by some of the world’s most talented
in gaudy costumes. And they sure didn’t
list of honors as
Moon was added to
and renowned musicians. But who can
have a music video on VH1. Never the
long
the foursome.
blame them? Truth is, most enjoy listen
less, they received the rock star treat
Richards’
ment.
career,
performed with perfect
Humps” or Kanye West’s “Gold Digger”
although
as
Keith
their
The
seats to
musicians
breathed hard and heavy like a woman
ing to The
Black Eyed
Peas’ “My
he
pitch and timbre, their
on Hot 97 rather than Beethoven’s
upon introduction, which gave way to
rocked out on a
finely crafted wooden
“Symphony No. 4 in B Flat Minor” or
reverent silence when they took their
1754 Milanese
instruments reverber
Bach’s “Bradenburg Concerto No. 5 in B
places on the sparse platform. It was an
Guadagnini,
ating richly in the audi
Major” on WQXR. But those who had
amazing moment. On November 1st,
not
torium’s
ears to hear weren’t expecting saccharin
the
Fender
They were lavished with applause
superstars
of
the
New
York
Philharmonic were giving the College of
a
Four principle members of the NY Philharmonic
played an hour long set for a packed IP Concert
Hall.
1964
Telecaster.)
Staten Island a free show.
The second was Shubert’s String
The first set was Mozart’s Flute
Quintet in C Major, a delightful cut-time
sublime
acoustics. The sound
pop jingles or high-profile pop stars.
was clean, pure, and fresh. The hall was
They were expecting music and celebri
bathed in crystal-clear intonations as the
ties of another kind. And they got them.
violins
(No autographs, please).
wept
exquisitely,
the
violas
\
CSI's Sneaker Pimps on the Internet
Thomas Bradley
e’ve
W
got
some
turned out how we wanted it to.
salesmen
here. The two hustlers push
Describe the marketplace you're
in right now regarding the sneaker
game and internet cool hunting.
ing gear and kicks on the
internet corner heatforfeet.com happenThe sneaker market is blossoming
right now and we all know this. There
to be CSI students. Paul Brudoley and
are
so many parts that the sneaker
Sash Boriskinare are the brains behind
which is to bring the hard to find stuff
the industry is so large there are only a
for the best prices around.
few competitors to be intimidated by,
Will you be branding your site
as far as creating a clothing line or
opening an actual shop location?
stuff others cant.
but that's what pushes us to get the
Me and my partner Paul had been
affiliated with a store which we had left
What sites inspire or inform the
way you present and operate your
own site?
this new site, just don’t forget they
game has branched into that it is get
(keeping the name disclosed) and it
The site is home to
ting difficult for many to get the shoes
We are individuals and are doing
peddle product.
wasn't the environment we wanted our
things our own wayj so were hoping to
the exclusive Supreme, Bape, and
that they want. From celebrities up on
store to have. We want our store to
shoes to collectors to everyday kids
be the inspiration to the others.
Stussy clothing lines and the limited
have a meaning behind it because
edition, hard-to-cop kicks at a decent
trying to resell some shoes to make a
after all the shoe game has a very big
price. The students balance their note
buck it is getting very
history behind it. So we
books with their checkbooks because
difficult to get the exclu
are looking to open up
they are scheming to set up shop in
sive shoes that many of
in New York City, Soho
SoHo sometime in the not so distant
us want. The internet
area to be exact, and
has
this
I see the game going nowhere but
future. Check the interview with heat-
would like our store to
to the top. As that increases unfortu
forfeet.com’s Sash and Paul where
process and made it a
have an atmosphere of
hundred times
harder
nately so do the prices. Artists like
they talk with The Banner about the
history and what the
Futura, Statsh, Espo and other artists
marketplace and what the site offers
but also helpful as well.
shoe game really is.
customers.
With many sites letting
are impacting sneaker game hard and
But this is not a project
doing a lovely job doing it, they are
dents, with less than a few thousand to
people
that will come to soon
bringing art to the shoe and using it as
drop on a hoodie or sneakers should
coming out where can come in handy,
but like everything else all in good
greatly appreciate their work.
So hit
at other times it creates a frenzy that
canvas. This keeps bringing a new
time, just look out for us. As for a cloth
face to sneakers and that is good
the site to get your weight up in the
many of us in this game know as
ing line many people think they can
because there is more to choose from.
gear game without your ATM getting
"hype" and that just makes the item
just make a clothing line by getting
Those of us, usually stu
crazy slim.
just
taken
know what
is
being released a whole extra mission
some t-shirts some colors and writing
to get. With many websites selling
some logo on it. We think a clothing
Where do you see the sneaker
game going in the near future con
cerning prices, artist series, limited
editions, retros, etc.?
Who is behind the site?
shoes now every one is trying to get
line is something that should be well
My partner Paul and I are behind
their piece of the pie I may say but
planed out and h£ve a strong impact
competition isn't always a bacf thing.
Where do you see the site head
ed within the next few months/years
and what do you think will be your
greatest asset/obstacle?
on people as far as that our site is just
for shoes and clothing that people
becomes a good resource for someone
the website.
We
are
hoping
that
the
site
What was the process like from
the original idea to the actual con
struction of the site?
How do you intend to make your
mark in a crowded field?
have put their time into and if someday
looking for a hard to find shoe and
we see that we can do that maybe
This is a hard question to answer
wanting to get the fairest price at that.
there will be a clothing line but till then
because there are a lot of places in my
We plan on having a much larger vari
The idea was that we wanted to
that's all there is to say.
field who have made a big impact on
ety of shoes and clothing as time goes
have a nice clean site that was easy for
everyone to use and brought the cos
this sneaker revelation and I can't say
tumers what they wanted. Just like
that it hasn't been a well one. But with
anything our ideas were shaped by the
exclusive products comes expensive
Is it intimidating to be in such a
competitive area of the footwear
game?
website and we were lucky that it
prices and heatforfeet has a main goal
I cant say that its not but although
on. The obstacle will be getting these
limited shoes and clothing in full size
runs or quantity because no matter
who you know there are tons of people
ready to kill for these hot items!
�November 21,2005
Lauren Taylor's
n November 2nd, I registered
for my second term at The
College of Staten Island.
When I received the email indicating
my registration date and time, I was
pretty bummed because I was
assigned to go at 1:20 in the after
noon. Half of the classes I wanted
were thought to fill up quickly
because they are popular, but I got
lucky. Since I am enrolled In the
‘FIRST Program’, I got first dibs. I
should have realized the advantage I
had when I asked some of my friends
when they were scheduled to regis
ter. They are not in the ‘FIRST
Program’. They will have to wait to
register in the next coming weeks
because it goes in alphabetical order
and many of them are near the end.
There was a crowd of students
gathered at the registration site,
Building 1A, room 109.1 asked if they
were waiting to register and some
responded, "no, It’s not time yet". I
tried to find a computer, but they
were all taken not even being
touched. The time as 1:10. I thought
my watch was broken so I looked at
O
In her groundbreaking book on women's
sexuality Sex and the Single Girl, Helen
Gurley Brown hands out several hints
on how to pick up a man. The originator
and editor of Cosmopolitan magazine,
Brown was at the forefront of the women
and sexual equality movement.
She believed we could separate
sex and love, love and marriage, and
marriage and career. She not only gave
advice, but reassured all women that
the years of sitting at home waiting for
men was long over. It was time for
women to get what they wanted. It was
time for men to finally feel the pain that
goes along with dating and love.
At the time it was not only shocking
but innovative. Women going out look
ing for sex? Women hunting for men? It
was the 1960's and not getting married
right out of high school had just become
an option for the ladies of this fair coun
try, so imagine the shock of the double
chromosomes crew when they first
spied ladies picking them up at the local
pub. Brown was definitely on to some
thing when she penned that first novel.
In fact, much of her ideas are relevant
and surprising even by today's stan
dards, or rather, especially by today's
standards A lot of her ideas might bor
der manipulation of men. But, hey, isn't
manipulation a tool men have been
using to get what they want for years
WT€S
my cell phone to see if my eyes were
deceiving me. The time was right; I
made sure the list of classes along
with the section numbers were close
by. The time is now 1:18, and you can
understand how the stress was build
ing up In me. Finally a vacant com
puter became available so I logged on
to ESIMS.
I
pan
icked at
first
because
my pass
word was
not work
ing and
then I remembered I changed it. The
time is now 1:20, so I typed in the five
section numbers of the classes I
wanted and prayed to God they were
ail open. They were indeed all avail
able; all I could do is smile when I saw
the words "Currently Registered" on
the screen. I sighed and logged off.
To be honest, I didn't know what to
expect in the registration process at
CSI. When I registered for this past
man ‘Diaries...
select from and ft was easier. Now I
am officially enrolled in the College of
Staten Island for the upcoming
semester. I’m taking 17 credits and
God help me with that heavy load.
This is what I've decided to do and
hopefully my grades will not suffer for
it. I chose the classes to fit my own
time
schedule
and my
interests.
After
the registration
process,
I asked some students along the way
who are also in the FIRST program
about how their experience with the
process went. David Danlschewski of
Block 2 said, “registration Itself was a
piece of cake. It only took a minute or
two. Actually choosing my classes,
on the other hand, was a bit of a hassle. I kept having to reformulate my
schedule. At first it was kind of exciting, like, oh, cool, I get to pick my new
classes! I can't wait for next semes-
Finally, a vacant computer became
available, so I logged onto ESIMS.
I panicked at first because my
password was not working.
semester, there was a preset I could
and years?
One entire chapter in "Sex and the
Single Girl" plays with the idea of having
the complete and devoted attention of
gentleman callers without so much as
showing off a little garter belt. Gurley
Brown calls this
being "The Girl,"
and it's a lot more
complicated than
you might first
guess. There are
rules and bound
aries associated
with being mind
fodder of the less
fair sex. If your
someone's "Girl,"
your the one they
think of when
they wake up. You’re the one they're
reminded of when they watch a roman
tic movie. You’re the girl they pine over,
but can't have. They might be married,
or in a serious relationship, or even sin
gle. They can be old, young, or any
where in between. None of that matters.
What does matter is that they have a
desperate longing for you, a longing you
only satisfy by being their friend, and
only their friend. No benefits, no drunkkissing, not so much as a slow dance, on
prom night. Now we're on familiar terri
tory After all, if you think Brown's opin
ter! But then, after looking up so
many courses to see what would
accommodate my time preferences,
and realizing that it didn't fit the way I
wanted, it got pretty annoying”.
Jennifer West of Block 9 said “I found
it difficult that all the classes being
offered were mostly online. It was a
little crazy; we should have gotten the
booklets with the classes out a week
before, instead of having to go to 1A
to receive them. Otherwise reglstration was easy”. Stephanie Heuser of
Block 1 said "I didn't register the date
or time I was supposed to, I registered November 3rd online. I was kind
of worried but I didn't even look at the
section numbers or knew what days
the classes would be on until the last
minute. I'm pretty glad, I got all the
classes I wanted and registering
online was simple”. You can hear our
sigh of relief that all worked out and
we are happy to have the method of
registration over with. We are now
experienced, so next school year will
be true professionals at creating our
schedule of classes!
ion sounds harsh, think of how many
times you've uttered those words to a
guy you knew was into you? "Sorry
Lance/Jake/Frances; I just want to be
friends." From what I hear from my male
buddies, it's the equivalent to having
your heart not only ripped from your
body,
but
stamped
on,
spit on and put
on a fancy grill
like the one
Ron
Popeil
uses on late
night infomer
cials. Your well
aware the guy
likes you , and
by remaining
only
friends,
you are free to see what else is but
there while receiving all of someone's
attention and devotion. Congratulations!
You've become "The Girl." Maybe that
wasn't so hard after all!
A few of the keys you need to
remember to pull off being "The Girl" are
as so: Always remain perfect in the eyes
of the boy, or boys, your targeting.
Never let them see you in an imperfect
moment- except those specially crafted
to make them feel needed (see: pickle
jars, car trouble, other boys who have '
broken your heart). Never reveal your
It's the equivalent to having
your heart not only ripped from
your body, but stamped on, spit
on and put on a fancy grill like
the one Ron Popeil uses on late
night infomercials .
true intentions; even if you may develop
some real feelings for them, hide it until
you are sure of what you want to do;
and to constantly remember that you
are friends. Just friends! This person
understands you just want to be friends
and he has to accept that! Good guysCover your ears and take warning!
Girls grow tired of being statues, and it
was only a matter of time before we
struck back. Step aside, and let it hap
pen, and you won't become a casualty
of the war Pat Benetar so begrudgingly
sung about.
If this all still seems harsh to you,
you just flash back to the last time a boy
disappointed you. Think about the last
time a guy pretended to enjoy your com
pany just to get in your pants. And how
about that guilt trip your boyfriend
always pulls off on you? The infuriating
half responses... the indecisiveness...
and let's not forget that time he conve
niently had to go finish up some home
work after finishing up in bed, and not
asking if you were done. For the many
years of playing the submissive to male
moodiness, is it time for a little pay
back? Who says they're the only ones
who can play mind games and get away
with it?
�Classical Superstars Wow Crowd...Without Fog Machines
Matthew Beck
the
New
York
hen
Philharmonic, the vanguard of
classical music, hit the Center
for Performing Arts for a rare
weren’t greeted by eerie strobe lights,
billowing fog machines, or screaming,
drunken groupies. Their music wasn’t
powered by chest-thumping amplification
systems cranking out dangerous decibel
levels. They didn’t cavort about the stage
in gaudy costumes. And they sure didn’t
have a music video on VH1. Never the
less, they received the rock star treat
ment.
They were lavished with applause
upon introduction, which gave way to
reverent silence when they took their
places on the sparse platform. It was an
amazing moment. On November 1st,
the superstars of the New York
Philharmonic were giving the College of
Staten Island a free show.
The first set was Mozart’s Flute
W
Quartet No. 1 in D Major, a brisk, toe
tapping tune brought to life by the magic
of soloist Robert Langevin, the
Philharmonic’s
Principal Flute.
gig,
Irene
they Breslaw
accompanied
on viola, Sheryl
Staples on vio
lin, and Carter
Brey on cello.
(Mr. Brey has a
list of honors as
long as Keith
aria that moved seamlessly from an
energetic sea shanty, to a spirited high
land ballad, to a mili
tary march, all rolled
into one tantalizing
classical confection.
Mr. Langevin and
Ms. Breslow gracefully
gave their seats to
Yulia Ziskel on violin
and Cynthia Phelps on
viola, and cellist Eileen
Moon was added to
the foursome.
Richards’
The
musicians
career,
performed with perfect
although
he
pitch and timbre, their
rocked out on a
finely crafted wooden
1754 Milanese
instruments reverber
Four principle members of the NY Philhannonic
Guadagnini, played an hour long set for a packed 1P Concert
ating richly in the audi
not a 1964 Hall.
torium’s
sublime
F e n d e r
acoustics. The sound
Telecaster.)
was clean, pure, and fresh. The hall was
The second was Shubert’s String
bathed in crystal-clear intonations as the
Quintet in C Major, a delightful cut-time
violins wept exquisitely, the violas
sighed blissfully, and the cellos moaned
deeply. The movements were an invigor
ating blend of silky arpeggios, lively
legato tones, and nimble staccato stabs
executed without a stray note or lagging
tempo. At times, the ethereal melodies
breathed hard and heavy like a woman
in labor. Other times softly and sweetly
like a sleeping baby.
Sadly, few CSI students showed up
to witness a once-in-a-lifetime offering
by some of the world's most talented
and renowned musicians. But who can
blame them? Truth is, most enjoy listen
ing to The Black Eyed Peas’ “My
Humps” or Kanye West’s “Gold Digger”
on Hot 97 rather than Beethoven's
“Symphony No. 4 in B Flat Minor” or
Bach’s “Bradenburg Concerto No. 5 in B
Major” on WQXR. But those who had
ears to hear weren’t expecting saccharin
pop jingles or high-profile pop stars.
They were expecting music and celebri
ties Of another kind. And they got them.
(No autographs, please).
CSI's Sneaker Pimps on the Internet
Thomas Bradley
turned out how we wanted it to.
Describe the marketplace you're
e’ve got some salesmen
in
right
now regarding the sneaker
here. The two hustlers push
game
and
internet cool hunting.
ing gear and kicks on the
The
sneaker
market is blossoming
internet corner heatforfeet.com happen
right
now
and
we
all know this. There
to be CSI students. Paul Brudoley and
are
so
many
parts
that the sneaker
Sash Boriskinare are the brains behind
game
has
branched
into
that it is get
this new site, just don’t forget they
ting
difficult
for
many
to
get
the shoes
peddle product. The site is home to
that
they
want.
From
celebrities
up on
the exclusive Supreme, Bape, and
shoes
to
collectors
to
everyday
kids
Stussy clothing lines and the limited
trying
to
resell
some
shoes
to
make
a
edition, hard-to-cop kicks at a decent
buck
it
is
getting
very
price. The students balance their note
difficult to get the exclu
books with their checkbooks because
sive shoes that many of
they are scheming to set up shop in
us want. The internet
SoHo sometime in the not so distant
has just taken this
future. Check the interview with heat
process
and made it a
forfeet.corn’s Sash and Paul where
hundred times harder
they talk with The Banner about the
but also helpful as well.
marketplace and what the site offers
With
many sites letting
customers. Those of us, usually stu
people know what is
dents, with less than a few thousand to
coming out where can come in handy,
drop on a hoodie or sneakers should
at other times it creates a frenzy that
greatly appreciate their work. So hit
many of us in this game know as
the site to get your weight up in the
"hype" and that just makes the item
gear game without your ATM getting
being released a whole extra mission
crazy slim.
to get. With many websites selling
shoes now every one is trying to get
Who is behind the site?
their piece of the pie I may say but
My partner Paul and I are behind
competition isn't always a bad thing.
the website.
W
What was the process like from
the original idea to the actual con
struction of the site?
The idea was that we wanted to
have a nice clean site that was easy for
everyone to use and brought the cos
tumers what they wanted. Just like
anything our ideas were shaped by the
website and we were lucky that it
How do you intend to make your
mark in a crowded field?
This is a hard question to answer
because there are a lot of places in my
field who have made a big impact on
this sneaker revelation and I can't say
that it hasn't been a well one. But with
exclusive products comes expensive
prices and heatforfeet has a main goal
which is to bring the hard to find stuff
for the best prices around.
Will you be branding your site
as far as creating a clothing line or
opening an actual shop location?
Me and my partner Paul had been
affiliated with a store which we had left
(keeping the name disclosed) and it
wasn't the environment we wanted our
store to have. We want our store to
have a meaning behind it because
after all the shoe game has a very big
history behind it. So we
are looking to open up
in New York City, Soho
area to be exact, and
would like our store to
have an atmosphere of
history and what the
shoe game really is.
But this is not a project
that will come to soon
but like everything else all in good
time, just look out for us. As for a cloth
ing line many people think they can
just make a clothing line by getting
some t-shirts some colors and writing
some logo on it. We think a clothing
line is something that should be well
planed out and have a strong impact
on people as far as that our site is just
for shoes and clothing that people
have put their time into and if someday
we see that we can do that maybe
there will be a clothing line but till then
that's all there is to say.
Is it intimidating to be in such a
competitive area of the footwear
game?
I can't say that its not but although
the industry is so large there are only a
few competitors to be intimidated by,
but that's what pushes us to get the
stuff others cant.
What sites inspire or inform the
way you present and operate your
own site?
We are individuals and are doing
things our own way, so were hoping to
be the inspiration to the others.
Where do you see the sneaker
game going in the near future con
cerning prices, artist series, limited
editions, retros, etc.?
I see the game going nowhere but
to the top. As that increases unfortu
nately so do the prices. Artists like
Futura, Statsh, Espo and other artists
are impacting sneaker game hard and
doing a lovely job doing it, they are
bringing art to the shoe and using it as
canvas. This keeps bringing a new
face to sneakers and that is good
because there is more to choose from.
Where do you see the site head
ed within the next few months/years
and what do you think will be your
greatest asset/obstacle?
We are hoping that the site
becomes a good resource for someone
looking for a hard to find shoe and
wanting to get the fairest price at that.
We plan on having a much larger vari
ety of shoes and clothing as time goes
on. The obstacle will be getting these
limited shoes and clothing in full size
runs or quantity because no matter
who you know there are tons of people
ready to kill for these hot items!
�The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
November 21,2005
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CUNYAC 'CURSE' CONTINUES FOR MEN'S SOCCER
Carinne Fassari
The night before the CSI's men's final soccer game,
Joseph Fassari, the team's sweeper struggled to get a
few hours of sleep.
Numerous thoughts about the game, and his fear of
leaving the field defeated, circled endlessly through his
mind. After years of playing soccer with his high school
team and other travel teams he never won a champi
onship. Along with the other seven seniors, he felt deter
mined to break the curse of CSI not winning the CUNYAC
title in five years, and also put a championship trophy on
his dresser.
On November 5, the No. 2 seeded CSI lost in over
time to the undefeated No. 1 seeded CCNY with a score
of 3-2. After the first half the score was 0-0, but things
started to pick up in the second half when the Beavers
scored the first two goals against the Dolphins. However,
the Dolphins fought relentlessly to come back and tie
which led into sudden death overtime. Only five minutes
into overtime, the Beavers capitalized and scored for a
dramatic finish against the Dolphins.
One hundred and thirty three people attended the
game, which was the biggest turnout all year for themen's
soccer team. The winner of the game gained an automat
ic bid to the NCAA tournament. Fans from CCNY brought
drums, noise makers, whistles and cheerleaders to help
intimidate the CSI players and their fans. The parents
from CSI saw the hunger in their boys’ hearts to win this
game and kept chanting over the beat of the drum to keep
up hope for their players.
Some players and CSI fans felt that a controversial
call stole their chances of winning the game. In the 57th
minute the referee issued Asmir Dzemovski, CSI's senior
forward and the CUNY's conference leading scorer, a red
card, after the side line ref told him Dzemovski had
elbowed a CCNY player in the head. Dzemovski defiant
and tried to plea with him to reverse the call. “You cant
ly walked off the field leaving CSI with only 10 players.
make that call, the ref took control of the game,” Fassari
said after the match. “He should
Both
have given him a warning before
teams
played
he just threw him out.”
CSI’s
agg ressively
first
with
midfielders and for
wards began powering through the
the
half,
CCNY's defense but their ability to
CSI
finish fell short to CCNY’s talent. In
the 71st minute Juan Gomez (Jr.)
driving
seven
scored another goal with a shot to
shots at the
the right near post.
With twelve minutes remain
net
to
CCN Y’s
ing, Arganaraz put the Dolphins
six. To no
back in the game after taking a
one’s
ground shot from a pass by Wilkes
sur
the
that rolled
half ended
Scoreless.
Completely
*
Only a
few
min-
only 8 minutes later, Arganaraz
prise
ii
t
a
passed
the goalie.
energized,
the
Dolphins continued to press and
Before the soccer championship game against CCNY, the CSI men’s
scored another goal by heading
ctnrtprc hnHHIp around Cnanh Vito Veneruso to discuss the
the ball off a rebound from the
passed in
the start of the second half when Patricio Cuvi (So.)
crossed the ball to Emand Pellumbi, (Jr.) who wasted no
cross bar, making the game 2-2.
In overtime both teams were drained,
but CCNY
gathered enough energy to dominate. In the 5th minute
time and took a shot straight off the pass to put the
Gomez took a comer kick that landed on the head of Cuvi,
Beavers ahead one goal. “I was surprised that we allowed
who butted it right into the net. CCNY players immediate
a goal because we were defending well the whole game,”
ly threw their hands in the air and gathered together to cel
said Chidi Ugoji. (Sr.) “But I didn’t loose hope.” In fact
ebrate, while the CSI players took to off their shirts and
CSI’s defense cut down and stole the ball away from
some just fell to the floor with their heads down. These
CCNY players numerous times, and prevented them from
guys played with their hearts all year long,” said
scoring ten times by pulling the off side’s trap.
Veneruso. They have nothing to be ashamed of.”
With 33 minutes left in the game, chaos erupted
Although they lost the championship game, the
when Dzemovski’s ejection from the game set off
Dolphin’s earned a bid to the ECAC where they will play
Veneruso’s Italian temper and he began screaming in a
Stockton College on Wednesday. After this tournament
deep Italian accent at the referee. Upon seeing the ref pull
coach Veneruso will decide whether he is going to return
out a red card, Fassari ran over to the ref in astonishment
to coach the men’s team next year.
HEATING PADS, TAPED ANKLES, EXTRA STRETCHES: PRE-SEASON WORKOUTS
Andrea Kleboe
It is 3 o'clock in the Sports and Recreation Center
and the men's basketball team is about to begin prac
tice. The captains are leading the team in their pre
practice stretching. Head coach Tony Petosa, who led
the team to the CUNY finals last season, walks into
the gym and sees only two familiar faces from last
year. To say it is a rebuilding year for the Dolphins is
an understatement. How will they undergo such a
drastic transformation?
It all begins in the pre-season, where workouts
are led by captains and sole returnees Michael Jones
and Justin Martinuk. Jones saw a lot of playing time
last season and is known to be an excellent outside
shooter. Martinuk saw limited minutes last year but is
expected to have a larger role this season.
One part of the pre-season workouts is playing
pickup games in the gym. These games draw about
40-50 people. Everyday there are new people play
ing. These games are unstructured and resemble
pickup games that would be seen in any schoolyard in
the city.
The coaches are not allowed to attend pre-sea
son workouts; they still want other people to notice
There will be a few players cut every day from the
them and maybe create a buzz about themselves.
15th until Petosa finally has his team. Some of these
"Everybody comes out here and plays real hard," said
players will save Petosa the trouble of cutting them as
Michael Jones. "The competition is very tough."
they will be academically ineligible. Student athletes
There is a thin line between playing hard and hav
must keep a 2.0 GPA in order to participate in athlet
ing an attitude and some players frequently cross that
ics. Other players are medically ineligible. Before a
line. Some will yell at the other players while others
student can play on a team they need to be medically
show off relentlessly. These attitudes have driven
cleared by a physician. Some players had to sit out
away some hopefuls as they did not have a thick
the first few tryouts because they werenl able to see
enough skin to deal with it day in and day out.
a doctor before
the deadline. "It is frustrating to sit
Besides playing pickup games the players run on
here and watch," said Jeremy Smalls and transfer stu
the track two times a week. The dedicated players will
dent from Fulton Montgomery Community College and
benefit from this. They will jog a few laps slowly to
Curtis graduate. "I can't play because of a piece of
warm up and then stretch for about ten minutes. "Pre
season conditioning is extremely important," said
paper."
For the remainder of the practice the players will
trainer John Nostro. "It will help to prevent injuries
scrimmage against each other. Petosa is obviously
during the season."
On October 15 the season officially begins and
looking for talent. He is also looking for team chem
Petosa will start to make his cuts. On this day, the
sarily start," said Petosa. "The starting five will be the
training room is very busy. There are numerous play
five that play best together."
ers with heating pads on their backs, getting their
ankles taped and doing some extra stretching. The
players want to make sure they are one hundred per
cent physically prepared for tryouts.
istry. "The best five individual players will not neces
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October 20—The Finance Commission
of CSI’s student government received
approval to allocate $7,200 in additional
funds to cover higher stipend payments
approved at the October 6th meeting.
“The math doesn’t add up,” said
Commissioner of Finance Robert Duru,
referring to the fact that although the
stipend increase had been approved,
the money for the increase had not been
allocated. “If we go by what is approved,
we are $7,200 short.”
“We don’t need to discuss the mat
ter anymore,” responded Senator
Dwight Dunkley. “i’m surprised to see it
come back. It’s a political move. The
Student Government has spoken.”
Ellen Krieger, Coordinator of
Student Government, explained to
those in attendance that in addition to
voting on the stipend increase, mem
bers needed to provide additional funds
to the budget.
“I’m a big believer in stipends,” said
Dunkley. “I motion we allocate $7,200 to
SG stipends.”
The motion was unanimously
Continued on page 3
Khadijah Rentas
Amidst the proud applause, cheers of
relief and running feet on the green field to
hugs of victory, stood the gold champi
onship trophy, now the acclaimed proper
ty of CSI’s women’s soccer team.
Undefeated in the CUNY Athletic
Conference, the Dolphins went 5-0-1
against the Medgar Evers College
Cougars in last Friday’s game at home,
winning with a score of 3-2.
The cold autumn temperature did not
hinder the Dolphins, who ran fast against
Medgar Evers College in the first half,
attempting more shots into the net than
their opponents and dominating the field
In the second half, the Cougars tied the
score 2-2 as the Dolphins seemed to tire
and slow down. With an impending over
time possible, the Dolphins stepped up
with a game-winning goal. With over 13
Kevin Mamakas
President Marlene Springer (left) and Vice President Carol Jackson (right) presided over a Town Hall
style meeting on Wednesday, October 26th, at the Recital Hall in IP. They were joined by the Provost,
David Podell, and CSI Deans. Approximately 50 students attended, including eight SG Senators.
Matthew Beck
RECITAL HALL 1P, October 26- 65
people attended the semi-annual town
hall-style meeting, where students can
direct their concerns about perceived
problems on campus to a panel of eight
prominent school administrators, offici
ated by President Marlene Springer,
A giant CSI logo was projected on
the wall behind the platform. The air in
the rectangular room felt cool, but
smelled mildly musty. The lights imbed
ded in the side walls and ceiling were
dimmed a little too low in the audience
section, but were bright enough on the
stage for the blood-red table cloth to
throw a subtle crimson tinge on the
panel members. The room itself felt a lit
tle too narrow. Basically a softly lit, airconditioned, wood-paneled shoebox.
At the start of the meeting, the
atmosphere seemed tense. The wit
nesses were timid to approach the
bench. But slowly they stepped up to
the microphones placed on either side
of the room and made their case.
A white female student requested
that CSI recognize official sororities, to
which Springer replied: “I’ve answered
this question every year for ten years,
and my position has not changed. I
believe they are discriminating.” A few
minutes later, the same girl appealed,
begging Springer to reconsider her rul
ing. But the President would not have it,
retorting, “You’ve heard my position on
that. There’s no sense in me going over
it for the umpteenth time.”
A Student Government senator,
Michelle Peyton, said she heard rumors
that professors might go on strike, and
was worried about the effect on stu
dents.
“What’s gonna happen to us if the
teachers strike?” she asked Springer.
Continued on page 3
minutes left I
the 45-minute
second half, the
Cougars could
not upset the
Dolphins.
Second
year
head
coach,
John
Guagliardo,
dressed like an
athlete
pre
pared to run. In
his black track
suit and worn
white sneakers
The Dolphins win the first women’s soccer CUNYAC tournament.
he paced back
“I don’t expect not to win,” he said as
and forth in front of the chilled steei bench,
he
multitasked
answering questions and
sitting only a couple of time for no more
coaching
his
players
to “stretch good,
than a few minutes at a time. However
stretch
good.”
Coach
Guagliardo
has a
Guagliardo felt confident about his team’s
capabilities.
Continued on page 5
CUNY’s accounting office inadvertently
released the Fall 2005 Pell Grant money
to 350 CSI student’s bank accounts on
September 28. This would have been a
pleasant surprise to students who
received their money more than a week
early, except for the fact they got the
money before the College could deduct
funds for the semester’s tuition and
fees.
In a notice mailed to students on
October 3, Associate Director of Student
Financial Aid Philippe Marius explained
the error and asked students to pay their
balance by Oct 7. Since there were no
classes until that Thursday, some stu
dents had to make an unexpected trip to
CSI.
The grants were released early due
to a CUNY accounting office error.
Marius could not explain how the error
occurred. “Somehow the payment was
made before the money could be
deducted.”
Even though CSI mediates the
Direct Deposit transactions of Student
Financial Aid, CUNY is responsible for
deducting money from each students
financial aid and then dispensing the
rest of the money to there bank
accounts. Individual colleges don’t issue
checks either. CUNY issues the checks
to CUNY campuses then individual col
leges distribute the checks to students.
Even though Marius claimed at a
later date that “The Bursar would not
have put a Stop on students’ accounts
right away,” short notice that was given
to pay the bill. CUNY made the mistake
in not taking money out, but students
had to be the ones to go out of their way
to correct the error.
PELL Grants range from a small
amount of money, like 30 dollars, to a
substantial amount of money, like 2,000
dollars. This error could be a significant
problem for some of the 350 students
that were affected. Specifically, students
that received PELL could have easily
made a mistake in thinking that the
entire amount of money was to be spent
on immediate needs. Some of the stu
dents that receive the Financial Aid can’t
afford to correct errors like this.
Continued on page 3
�2,000+ Soldiers Die in Iraq. What For?
Thomas Bradley
troops rise to 2,000 plus since the
can’t, be right in this struggle. Any con
s you read this there are guns
beginning of the war in March 2003.
flict involving the need to “win the
its youth, the cries are heard far away
clapping and shrapnel flying in
Another distressing statistic is the num
hearts and minds of the people” should
from the battle, here at home. The pain
ber of U.S. Troops wounded in Iraq,
man from anywhere, USA has just
climbing above 15,300. We will eventu
slumped over. Top of his class in the
ally leave this war, much the same way
be seen as something so unclear that
is momentary in the field. The crack of
war should not have been the chosen
the shot, the explosion, the sound of
path. As each young life is suffocated,
dead weight plus its backpack, and the
boot camp runs, star halfback in high
we left the Vietnam war, with a win on
as each breath becomes a gurgle, so
helmet as it rolls away are heard in the
school, the man was tough. The bullet
paper and many, many points of debate
does the sense of purpose bleed from
mind of his mother.
had come from the roof across the
regarding our purpose there and what
this war.
brother, their father, the scene will
street. He’d known that there were res
we won exactly.
The Iraq war will not
It wasn’t the soldier’s intention to
become a memory loop playing hun
idents in that building but was instruct
have spoils or parades for the returning
be shot but some will drool cliches, say
dreds of thousands of times for the rest
ed to stay put while his unit laid cover
soldiers. We will not see soldiers kiss
ing, “he died defending his country” or
of their lives. “For what,” they will ask in
ing fire for another team searching for
ing women in the streets. Positive icon
“Freedom isn’t free”. They are the com
their beds staring at the ceiling. I have
ic images of war are for movies about
placent consenting, once silent but for
no idea. No one does.
WWII.
ever vindicated, majority which allowed
A
the faces of our troops, and a
insurgents.
You’ll never know his
name, his contribution to this war will
Tom
Hanks
and
Steven
not make it into your children’s history
Spielberg will not dirty their hands with
its youth to be gnashed and chewed by
class, and you will not be affected by
this conflict, because they know what
the fangs of the war machine.
his death at all.
Unless you multiply
the rest of us suspect and no one wants
much does freedom cost? Is 2000-plus
that man’s fate by 2,000, allow for vary
to admit: It was a waste, and we aren’t
young, intelligent, capable men and
ing methods of reaching that end of
the saviors, we are the marauders.
women not enough?
course, and the product might be an
open mouthed “Oh man.”
It stings to know that our brothers,
machine roams the Middle East eating
Her fiancee, his
How
Have the limbs
and emotions of the 15,000 others not
cousins, fathers, and mothers are in
satiated beast of greed and chauvinism
This past week the United States
pain because our leadership made a
that leads to war?
has seen the death toll for American
mistake. It hurts to know that we aren’t,
Apparently
not,
as
the
war
Ferrer vs. Bloomberg vs. the Other People
Kevin S.P. Mamakas
As the 2005 election approaches, the tel
evision
ads
grow
more
hostile.
On
November 1, Fernando Ferrer’s cam
paign released an ad entitled “Buddies.”
The
ad
shows
Bloomberg
handing
President Bush money and then getting
kissed on the cheek in exchange. The
cartoon runs for thirty seconds and is
filled with other sexually provocative
actions between the two Republican
politicians.
“Mike Bloomberg made the largest
donation in the history of the Republican
Party,” a narrator for the ad states.
“Seven million dollars.”
Meanwhile Bloomberg’s senior cam
paign strategist claims the ad is “factual
ly incorrect.” He claims that the Mayor
donated seven million dollars to a non
profit, nonpartisan group that was spon
soring last years Republican National
Convention in Madison Square Garden.
Even though “Buddies” is one of
Ferrer’s twenty-seven video ads, it draws
viewers away from important issues like
education, poverty, and health care. It
has been a part of politics to attack the
opposing politician instead of attacking
the issues. Instead of voting on the
issues come November 8th, the voters
are being encouraged to vote based on
the believability of attack ads.
Whether people like Bloomberg or
2
not, “Buddies,” is a low blow. Bloomberg
then they could have the biggest affect on
transportation
donated
an election.
while purchasing new buses and trains
his
own
money
to
the
Convention, not the hard-earned money
of taxpayers.
Media that concentrates on other
systems
and
facilities
for the City. If this doesn’t pass, it is like
topics besides the real issues could also
ly and possible that students will have to
Mainstream Media that covers the
draw voters’ attention away from knowing
pay more to travel to college because the
MTA will be forced to raise fairs and tolls.
elections primarily concentrate on the
about other elections that are also being
attacks. It is therefore overlooked that
held on November 8th. Democrat Betsy
The third proposal is to change the
there are five other candidates running
F. Gotbaum, Conservative Jay Golub,
City Charter for Ethics Code for City
for major. They include Conservative
Libertarian Jim Lesczynski, and Rebuild
Administrative Judges.
Thomas V. Ognibene; Education Party
Party Candidate Bernard Goetz are run
candidate
ning for Public Advocate.
Seth
Candidate,
Blum;
Party
The fourth proposal will also change
the Fiscal Stability of the City Charter.
Gronowicz;
Democrat William C. Thompson Jr.,
Libertarian Audrey Silk; The Rent is Too
Libertarian Ron Moore, Conservative
Preservation of the Financial Emergency
Damn
Act.
High
Anthony
Green
Jimmy
Herbert F. Ryan, and Socialist Workers
McMillian; Working Families Candidate
Party Candidate
Party Candidate Daniel B. Fein are run
Kevin A. Finnegan; and Socialist Workers
ning for Comptroller.
Party candidate Martin G. Koppel. These
The
election
The
proposal
would
allow
the
If anyone has a problem with an
issue that a candidate supports, there are
for
each
Borough
other options that are available. Nothing
candidates are often overlooked because
President is going on. CSI students that
will change if voters only pay attention to
the two primary parties tell the voters that
live on Staten Island will get to vote on
if you vote for the underdogs, it is a wast
the candidates James P. Molinaro and
the better attack methods of a candidate.
It’s the voters’ responsibility to vote for
ed vote.
John Luisi. CSI students will vote for their
who they think will do a better job with the
There is no such thing as a wasted
District City Council members as well.
issues like education, affordable housing,
vote. For instance, students on a whole
The elections are not the only things
don’t vote, yet there are still a large num
that have not been covered as much as a
Even though it becomes very hard to
ber of students who do vote. It does not
result of the attacks. There are four pro
do when personal attacks are put ahead
matter what party a student votes for. As
posals that will be voted on November 8.
of the issues, for all of the proposals and
long as students go in the voting booth
The first Proposal is a Budget Reform. If
seat fillers, voters have to make an edu
and pull the lever, they become a political
passed it will be an Amendment to
cated decision on who to vote for based
statistic. After all the votes are counted,
Articles IV and VII of the Constitution, in
on each candidate’s history in politics and
political analysts will then analyzing what
relation to the submission of the budget
plans for the future.
each age group voted for and were there
to the Legislature by the Governor.
enough of this group to effect the next
The
Second
Proposal
is
the
campaign. According to NYPIRG repre
Transportation Bond Act. This is a pro
sentatives, if students vote as a whole
posal to rebuild and renew New York
and health insurance.
�November 7,2005
spent.” Out of the one million, she said,
whip on the tribunal, David Podell,
Town Hall Meeting
the Association has given only $65,000
Senior Vice President of Academic
from page 1
to direct student services. “We are out
Affairs and Provost, also handled many
growing our buildings,” she said. ‘We
petitions. One embarrassed student
The President couldn’t affirm the rumor,
know we need to have more classroom
who couldn’t register for other classes
but had no kind words for the accused.
space.” CSI was designed in 1986 for
because he failed his math entrance
exam multiple times was upset at the
“I don’t know what the faculty will
CSI penal system.
do,” she responded. “But if they do
strike, for every day that they don’t work
they will be penalized a day’s pay, they
will lose seniority on the union, we will
no longer be required to deduct union
dues
from
their
paychecks,
and
adjuncts will have no job security what
“We are in the business
of helping 13,000 people
each semester plan their
lives.”
“How could you as a college take a
student out?” asked SG Senator Robert
Clarkin, his voice quavering. Podell
replied that CSI gives lawbreakers five
opportunities (two summer semesters,
the fall and spring semesters, and a
January session) to mend their ways,
soever.”
but was firm in explaining that the mercy
She exhibited a ready knowledge of
the financial aspect of CSI, throwing out
about 8,000 students. It now has almost
of the court would only go so far.
numbers and statistics freely. “The
13,000. The expense of expanding is
“If we were to say that you had an
Student Association has a one million-
enormous, she said, costing $750,00
unlimited amount of time, it would make
dollar income a year,” said Springer,
just to draw up the plans. “This will be a
it very difficult for you to take courses at
“which is why it’s important for students
huge project,” she concluded.
a higher level that require that level of
to get involved in how that money is
Although Springer was the main
Continued on page 5
edge about them. The biggest problem
Technical Error
from page 1
SG Pays for Stipends
from page I
is that CUNY doesn’t know how many
times they accidentally released stu
dent’s and staff member’s identity infor
approved.
Even though Marius can’t speak for
Later, student Senator Arishna
MELLISSA SEECHARAN
ENRIQUE INOCENTE
“This type of error doesn’t happen often,
gravity than
and it will not happen again.”
It
Yet earlier this year, CUNY had
But I believe volunteer services should
another significant error. The Banner
be commended for their efforts. PDC,
reported earlier this semester that CUNY
WSIA and Publications have put in as
accidentally posted the Social Security
much effort towards students as I did. I
numbers, Loan, and Bank information of
will donate my whole stipend to create
more
an award. I feel they should be reward
College employees and Queens College
ed.”
then
seven
hundred
Hunter
Law students on a the internet. The files
“Most clubs try to teach students
slipped were not marked as private on
and give them hands-on experience,”
the CUNY Internet Security Software
Donald
Vroome,
Director of
because of human errors. These files
Station Underwriting at WSIA. “There is
were known to be accessed 217 times
room for mistakes and you learn from
them.” SG members, however, remain
on the search engine Google.
It is only natural for errors to occur
the only student population to get paid
as a result of the large amount of people
for their learning experience.
that are involved in the university. Yet it is
“SG has more direct responsibili
LUKE CRISALLI
ties, but I wouldn’t say it’s a lot more than
invites students to call if they have any
questions about the Financial Aid errors
makes policies that affect all students.
added
MATTHEW SAFFORD
organizations.
The Student Financial Aid Office
other CUNY colleges, he believes that,
Ramphal noted, “SG does have more
other
mation due to a computer error.
unacceptable for there to be such signif
that occur on behalf of CUNY, but they
can’t help students that had their private
information put on one of the most used
search engines on the internet. That is
an error that can only be corrected by
an exhausting amount of time changing
private
information
and
suing
the
University for leaking private informa
tion.
Unless
the
issue
is
properly
addressed, the errors will continue and
could
conceivably
become
more
severe. Throughout CUNY, concern is
gowing. The new security measures and
testing procedures that CUNY recently
acquired to prevent future errors will
hopefully ease the tensions. These are
issues that CSI students do not have
icant errors.
other organizations,” commented Donald
Even though CUNY representatives
Vroome. “I’m not sure why they get
claim they have corrected the errors,
stipends. You stumped me.”
there is still an admitted lack of knowl-
time to deal with, yet we are given the
task of dealing with them anyway.
Moving down the agenda, the min
MATTHEW BECK
THOMAS BRADLEY
ANNMARIE COSTELLA
ANNEMARIE DOOLING
ANNE DEMARZO
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
KHADIJAH RENTAS
LAUREN TAYLOR
utes for the September 29th PDC meet
ing was distributed and within seconds a
four-page report was approved. No one
“Did anyone follow up?” Duru suggested
questioned the authorization of $100 for
the need to create an Implementation
meeting, and the anticipated incentive
postage on an $800 order for promotion
Committee, “so we are not wasting our
gift, valued at $200, was thus ruled ille
al pens.
time.” Subsequently, Duru moved to
gal.
form an Implementation Committee.
approval from his colleagues to invite
Tabled since August, SG goals for
2005 came up for discussion. There was
“SG members get lost in bureau
a motion to re-allocate money for the
cracy,” said Dunkley. “Talk is cheap.
purchase of two suggestion boxes, an
People show up with good ideas, but
idea that never materialized after being
they don’t do any work.”
approved last year.
CHRIS BONO
SEAMUS DOLAN
VANESSA LEIGH DELBELLO
ANDREW RAFFERTY
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
tion had passed by the time of the SG
Undaunted,
Dunkley
obtained
mayoral candidates to CSI and coordi
nate a NYC Candidate Forum.
“People will show up to ask ques
tions,” said Dunkley. “Even on short
“It’s the responsibility of the person
notice it will be well attended.”
”What do we do with what goes into
making the proposal,” advised Brower.
Senator Dunkley also moved to
the box?” asked Carol Brower, Director
“Ask for help when you come with a pro
rescind the one-hour presence policy to
of Student Life. “You have to have a
posal.”
be considered in attendance at meet
plan.”
NYPIRG
Project
Coordinator,
ings, but the motion was denied.
Senator Jackie Armani suggested
Megan Carley was one of two specta
The meeting moved ahead with a
the Commission Committee should con
tors at the open meeting. ”l attended to
senator’s observation that there are few
sider the contents every two weeks, and
get an update on the Voting Importance
left-handed desks in classrooms. After
her plan got the nod.
Awareness project,” she said, referring
some discussion, Ms. Brower suggest
“We discussed that being charged
to Dunkley’s plan for a CSI voter regis
ed a call to campus planning for an
50% to drop a summer class was too
tration drive, which never took place.
actual number, to which no senator
much,” recalled Senator Robert Duru.
Registration day for November’s elec-
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A CSI Parent Chooses a Health Care Provider for Baby's Delivery
Vanessa Leigh BeBello
consider using midwives, who are known
that does home births in the NYC area.
previous doctor, which was nothing.
for giving more personalized care. Since
We continued our prenatal visits at
After reading through her entire site, I knew
thought I was settled on who was going
my husband had already introduced me to
this office until I was about 32 weeks,
that she was going to be the woman to help
alternative health care prior
which all the while
deliver my child. I called her and arranged
having to actually push a baby out of my
to getting married, I was
I had been further
to meet with her the following week.
(to delivery my baby until the reality of
body set in. I already had a good doctor.
more eager to locate a mid
researching natu
Although, I was initially quite nervous about
He was very knowledgeable, experienced
wife than look for another
ral pregnancy and
arranging a home birth, I knew it was the
child birth.
best choice for me and was ready to com
and it didn’t hurt that he had a good sense
doctor.
of humor. At first, I was quite impressed by
local
the number of babies he had delivered.
years ago that a birthing cen
thoughts
about
For the final 2 months of my pregnan
But later it became apparent that he was
ter had been opened in the SI
having my baby in
cy, I had the opportunity to bond with my
over-worked and often rushed through our
University hospital and was
the
hospital,
new midwife when she visited me at home
prenatal visits.
run by local midwives,
especially after I
for my prenatal visits. Our visits were any
where from an hour to two hours in length.
My visits were becoming
Having read in the
newspaper
several
having
I
I was
second
mit whole-heartedly to the experience.
routine and predictable; get weighed, pee
began my search looking for
phoned the local
in a cup, get a sonogram and leave. He
these women. In our modem
hospital to find out
I was able to talk to her about anything,
never offered any additional information on
age of technology, locating
their policies and
from pregnancy concerns to my irrational
pregnancy, fitness or diet. The thought of
these women wasn’t very dif
procedures.
I
fears. Each visit she prepared me for the
having a doctor rush through my baby’s
ficult. A quick search on the
Deciding who should assist in the delivery
was
concerned
birth experience with advice, exercises and
delivery scared me. This was too impor
Internet gave me not only
about the preva
natural remedies for heart bum and induc
tant to have someone who might make a
their telephone number and
is one of the most important decisions an
expecting mother will make.
lence of cesare
tion.
mistake or use poor judgment because of
location but directed me to
ans and the over
Any woman near ready to deliver can
lack of sleep.
their website, which provides perspective
medicalization of the birthing process.
especially appreciate the value of a good
clients with information on birthing options,
When I hung up the phone, I knew I was
health care provider. In fact, studies have
alternative therapies and a background
not going to have my baby in the hospital.
been conducted showing a link between
That’s when I knew I had to find
someone else.
Not knowing who was
history of the four practicing midwives.
I didn’t necessarily want to have a
the outcome of delivery and a mother’s sat
pregnant was a thousand times more
I promptly called the office and made
home birth, but instead I was looking for a
isfaction or quality of relationship between
stressful than taking midterms or finals,
an appointment for a free consultation.
free-standing birthing center. In all of NYC,
herself and her health care provider.
which by the way was around the same
Two days later my husband and I visited
there are only two free-standing birthing
Although changing doctors/midwives last
minute may seem like a “risky” thing to do,
going to delivery my baby at 6- months
time. But I had a vision of what I wanted
the Richmond Avenue office for the first
centers, one in Brooklyn and the other in
my birthing experience to be like and I did
time. Even before we spoke with one of
the Bronx. My husband and I decided that
it may be vital for a happy and satisfying
n’t want to look back on it weeks, months
the midwives, we knew we were making
we didn’t want to travel that far when it was
experience. If in doubt about the quality of
or years later with regret or bad feelings.
care you are receiving during your prenatal
the right decision. After chatting for almost
time to have the baby, so we were consid
At this point I had several options. I
an hour, we received numerous maga
ering birthing centers in New Jersey. While
care, it’s best to listen to your intuition and
could look for another OB doctor, perhaps
zines, pamphlets and a DVD on infant
searching on the Internet, completely unin
consider your other options.
using a referral from a trusted friend, or
care, more than we ever received from our
tentionally, I found the website of a midwife
CSI Student's Life Transforms as Mother Struggles with Cancer
Chris Bono
lmost eight months ago my
A
mother, Kathleen Bono was
diagnosed with a brain tumor
and lung cancer. Since then my life
and my mother have gone from per
fection to nightmare. The tumor which
was located on the left side of the tem
poral lobe was removed without any
complications,
however,
the
side-
effects are so horrible that the real
threat of the cancer seems almost
less threatening than the disease. The
side effects include
minor,
changes in personality,
subtle
impatience
and grumpiness. Major
side
effects
include
aphasia
and
seizures, both of which have held my
mom captive in a wheelchair and left
her speechless.
Aphasia is a horrible outcome of
brain
surgery
that
can
usually
improve. It is when the patient knows
what they want to say, but cannot
transpose it into verbal discourse. My
mom was stricken with aphasia before
the surgery, in fact it was one of the
signs that something was mentally
wrong. After surgery the aphasia was
a bit more noticeable, but still tolera
ble and my mom was close to being
herself again.“The surgery took place
where her personality was located,
therefore a slight change in her mood
was evident. It was very upsetting
when
4v
my
mom wouldn't laugh
at
something you knew she would laugh
around the table, stuffing our faces
at before she got sick, or say some
and watching jeopardy. It hurts me to
Cancer has stolen parts of my life,
thing nice when you expected it. I was
think of those times, but at least I can
but it has awakened me in many
from this living coma
just glad to see my mom survived and
bring myself back to that place when
ways. I have become more sympa
as long as she was still in my life,
ever I want to, I don't know if she can
thetic towards people who have suf
that’s all that mattered. Unfortunately,
mentally even do that.
fered with cancer and people who
after hearing that she was neurologi-
My home-life has also undergone
have had to watch someone suffer
cally fine, and that the lung cancer
a drastic transformation. The every
with the disease. It’s like fighting a war
day routine that children sink into and
with someone we are comrades with. I
shrunk by 75%, she had a seizure.
Now on October 27, I am trying to
the niche they create was destroyed
was never cold or indifferent to people
write a paper for my journalism class,
once my mom succumbed to this hor
who were faced with cancer, but when
and the only thing I feel like writing
rible disease. When I wake up know
I went to bed at night I would always
about is my mom and how much I
ing my mother hasn't slept safely next
thank God it wasn't someone in my
miss her. The seizure has left her
to my father for the past two months, it
family. I think that's the way everyone
almostcompletely
and
is like waking up from surgery every
thinks. A person will never admit to it,
very weak on the right side of her
day! over and over. I am just moving
but this is reality.
body. Although she is still alive, it's as
along and this microcosm that was
I am trying hard to have faith and
if her soul andeverything I loved about
once my family is crashing down
to be in high spirits, but it is getting to
speechless
her is missing from her vacant eyes.I
around me. Cancer not only kills peo
be more of a trial everyday. I am not
truly feel like I have lost her spiritually
ple! it steals a part of their remaining
only watching the pain of someone
and personally.
family and smashes it to pieces.
die. I am experiencing doubt and curi-
The only communication we have
I am no longer the person I used
ousity of Catholicism. I am losing my
is a hug at the beginning of our visit
to be since cancer became a part of
faith and the only reason I still force
and a kiss at the end. It is terrible sight
my life. I no longer feel invincible, and
myself to believe is out of fear. A fear
to watch as everything that made a
at 22, it's a little too early to start think
that if there is a God, my doubt in him
person special, slowly dissipates and
ing about death, but I have become
or her will leave me susceptible to an
fades away with every passing day.
petrified of it. I am easily irritated don't
early death.
Staring into my mother's eyes is like
feel like doing a thing, and the stress
I know there comes a time in your
peering into a vaccuous void and
and fear that at any day my mother
life when you have to go through the
hearing what used to be the softest
will not be a part of my life at all, is
pain of losing someone, but you have
voice is now like pins and needles.
wearing me down. When I think of my
to be strong. I haven’t mastered it yet,
Tuesday used to be my favorite day of
life prior to all this bullshit, it is more
but I am learning more and more
the week and now I wish I could rip it
like a fuzzy memory that's buried deep
everyday. Matybe god does have a
from the calendar and from the rotat
in the recesses of my mind. It's a
plan for my mother. Maybe down the
ing globe that inevitably causes it to
memory I wish I could find in my
road, I will be rewarded for everything
arrive. It stirs up memories of how my
mom's mind that would somehow
I had to go through. Maybe I inherited
girlfriend Kathleen would come over
spark something and pull her out
the same gene my mother has and it
for dinner and how we would all sit
�November 7,2005
From the Editor
To The Editor
The start of November always signals
two things: 1. The end of the Fall
Semester is rapidly Approaching and
2. Election Day is here.
While both are very important to
us, many people overlook the impor
tance of Election Day. Election day is
our chance to make our voices heard.
While this year isn’t a presidential
election year, it is the year that all New
York City elected officials are up for reelection; that’s right, all of them, from
the Mayor, to the Borough President,
all the way down to your local City
Councilman.
This is probably the most impor
tant election for us, the average citi
zen, because these officials have the
most impact on our daily life. They also
take more of our input than the other
elected officials who represent us. Try
writing to President Bush about Staten
Island’s infamous traffic or overdevel
opment, and you won’t get a response.
Try writing to your City Councilman
and you will get a response, and he
might even move to take action on
your concerns.
The polls are open on November
8 from 6 a.m.- 9 p.m., so get out and
vote, because you can make a differ
ence.
If you haven’t registered to vote
yet, it’s too late to vote this year, but
register now, because next yearwe’re
voting on statewide offices, including
the next Governor.
»
-David Maltz
Cancer
from page 4
will only be a matter of time before I
Evolution Debate Rages In American
Courts
were having some problems. I thought it
In the September 26,2005 issue of the
Banner, Matthew Beck, a reporter for the
The intelligent design theory is at this point
date was actually really different from his
CSI based newspaper, wrote in his article,
strictly philosophical. Darwin’s theory of
womanizing father, which I’m sure gives a
Anti- War Film Draws Small Crowd, of his
evolution is a better fit to be taught because
lot of women out there hope that not all men
experience while attending a film series on
it is based on science. I never understood
are cheaters and liars.
the war in Iraq sponsored by the PSC facul
the problem that religion has with evolution.
ty union here at CSI. According to the arti
If God is an omnipotent being, why could or
cle, Mr. Beck apparently experienced an
why would he not have created a world in
I thought this article was particularly funny
'old-fashion revival and bible study group',
which evolution, exists? Evolution does not
because at home I hear my father say to my
and little else.
disprove God, but it might just give us an
brother all the time, “make sure you see
idea of how He works.
what the girl’s mother is like because that is
Anti-War Film Draws Small Crowd
As an organizer and attendee of the
- Cliff Weimer, Junior
film series, however, I saw and heard a
group of people express their concern for
was really interesting to see how Marisa’s
- Lisa LaBruzzo
how she will be in years to come.” And
whenever I hear him say this, I find truth in
human life and human rights, their dismay
Student Government Stipends Spike
it because I can see myself being just like
over how the war in Iraq came about, and
25%
my mothering years to come. However,
how hypocritical various U.S. administra
I feel that it is absolutely absurd to pay a
what is funny that neither my father nor my
tions have been over the years regarding
stipend to the board of student government.
mother ever said this to me about choosing
international injustices. If this is being 'reli
Yes, these people are putting time and effort
a boyfriend, which is why I never really
gious', then my faith in religion is being
into their positions, but it should be by vol
thought about it until reading this article. It’s
restored.
untary choice. They are gaining skills and
pretty funny when you think about it. I do
In any case, it is very interesting what
knowledge that they can use later in life
think you should take it into consideration
but I wouldn’t judge a person entirely on it.
Mr. Beck apparently did not see and there
after college - isn’t that incentive enough?
fore could not write about in his article. He
My opinion is that if they do not want to do
did not see how President Bush had busi
this job free, then they should just not run
- Dana Sveva, Junior
ness ties with the Bin- Laden family, and
for office at all. These are also people who
that Bin-Laden family members were quick
control more than $200,000 - of the col
First Time Mom Offers
Expecting Students
ly flown out of the country days after 9-1
lege’s budget, Do we really greedy people
When I was looking at The Banner I was
1,when no other planes were flying, and
(people who voted 11-1 to have their annu
extremely surprised to see this very inter
when FBI officials would have liked to speak
al stipends increased) deciding the fate of
esting article. The story of a pregnant
to these Bin-Laden relatives.
our own money?
woman taking college classes is one that
- Cristina Delisio, Senior
He did not see how U.S. administra
tions supported Saddam Hussein well after
Advice
to
you don’t see too often. I will have to think
twice the next time I gripe and complain
Saddam committed the crimes that past and
About
2
months
ago
the
college
present U.S. administrations are today so
approached most student clubs and asked
least, I don’t have to contend with “morning
concerned. He did not see how U.S. policy
them to donate money to the school.
sickness,” or “all-day sickness,” as Vanessa
about getting work done for my classes. At
supported Saddam Hussein's invasion of
Obviously, CSI is pressed for cash, and now
Leigh Debello explained. Thank you for the
Iran. He did not see how Bush used this war
“student leaders’’ are getting more money.
article.
in Iraq to put in place an agenda there, that
That is absurd.
was only tangentially connected to a con
Columbus Day, I’m the only one on campus,
cern on terrorism. Mr. Beck apparently did
me in WSIA and the security guard. I’m also
not see how terrorism has grown since this
a student leader and I don’t see a cent. I
It is not so much that I care about how CSI
war began.
guess its true what they say about politics
spends its money as long as it benefits stu
am in her shoes. No one can predict
In fact, Mr. Beck missed so much, that
the future. If I could I’d be a millionare.
we would like to offer him a special invitation
and my mom would be across the
to return to the film series, in the hope that
world getting the medical attention she
the importance of what is being done here
really needs. I guess what I am trying
does not miss him again.
I come to school on
- Jennifer Carroll
From the Editor
and its sad that its at CSI. With power
dents. But am I wrong to think the Student
comes greed.
Technology Fee belongs to the students? It
- Marissa Gessin, Junior
is outrageous to spend our money on facul
ty computer training. I would be interested
Sex and the Island
to see what kind of training they are receiv
to say is live everyday as if it's your
-Harry Cason
I really enjoyed this article because I found
ing.
last. That used to be a very cliche
Department of Political Science
I totally agreed with what Dooling was say
statement to me, but it no longer is.
ing. In some cases, our relationship pat
It means a lot to me because my
terns may stem from our parents, which is
mom had a good life 8 months ago.
good to know, especially if your parents
- Scott Zeller, Senior
She would come home from work,
spend time with her husband, her son,
and on Tuesday nights she would build
a friendship with her son’s girlfriend.
On weekends she would spend time
with her older son and daughter and
the taxpayers money,” she said sternly.
Town Hall Meeting
from page 3
reading, writing, and math,” he said.
her life. Since it happened her life has
“You can’t continue or complete your
n’t been the same and may never be
education without demonstrating your
the same again. I just hoped she lived
everyday as if it were her last, because
the way she’s been living these last 8
months is a tragedy.
competency in those areas.”
Springer also reprimanded Clarkin,
charging him with a solemn academic
duty. “It’s the responsibility of the stu
Miracles do happen and I hope
dent to be well enough prepared for the
one day soon she will be able to read
classes that they sign up for so that they
and understand what this writing is all
are capable of passing them,” she said.
about. Even if she never will, I know
“If you can’t, you’re in a very strained sit-
there is a memory of me hidden some
uation-and that’s not good.”
where in her mind, that no one can
She also reminded him of his
touch,and that is a memory of how
malfeasance against the public by not
much her son loves her.
of your college education. Your tuition
is not anywhere near a common col
her grandchildren. Suddenly, my mom
was faced with the greatest battle of
“They are paying for almost two-thirds
passing his exam. “You are taking up
lege education.”
solemnly on the curved dais like an
intent jury while Springer discoursed.
Out of the eight members, four never
said a word: Gail Simmons, Dean of
& Technology,
Francisco
Soto, Dean of Humanities & Social
Services,
Michael
Kress,
Vice
President of Technology Sen/ices, and
Richard Truitt,
At the end of hour-long hearing
before
they
semester,
adjourned
Carol
until
Jackson,
next
Vice
President of Student Affairs, softened
Most of the panel sat silently and
Services
drank Diet Coke.
Vice
President for
College Advancement. Each member,
even those who never spoke, was
given a 12-ounce bottle of Dasani
water for their parched throats. Podell
the tone of the whole thing. “We aren’t
some faceless
people who aren’t
accessible,” she said, and encouraged
students to drop in anytime.
“We are in the business of helping
13,000 people each semester plan
their lives” said Springer, referring to
the panel’s importance. “That’s no
small task.”
She left without even opening her
bottle of water.
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An influential Washington
power lobbyist, Abramoff
is important not so much
for who he is, but his
strong connections to
many
prominent
Republicans,
and the
staggering amount of scandals in which he is directly
involved. Under investigation by grand juries in
Florida, Washington and Guam, he has been indicted
for allegedly defrauding a company with a counterfeit
$23 million wire transfer and is a "person of interest"
in the murder of a former business partner in a case
involving a former Gambino crime family bookkeeper.
He's also accused of lobbying against his own clients,
in a move which netted him $85 million in fees from
Indian tribes and casinos. While former friends such
as Carl Rove may be shunning him now, Tom Delay
who went on a golf outing with and paid for by
Abramoff, has been quoted calling the lobbyist one of
his "closest and dearest friends."
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The great grandson of our
27th
president,
Ohio
Governor Bob Taft was
convicted in mid-August
on four criminal misde
meanor counts of failing
to report 52 gifts and golf
outings paid for by powerful lobbyists and fundraisers
such as Tom Noe (5 of Clubs). Taft could have been
sent to prison, but the judge instead fined him $4000
and forced him to apologize to the entire state. After
pleading no contest, Taft became the first Ohio gover
nor to be convicted of a crime while in office. Several
people, including many in his own party have called
for his resignation, and others have called for
impeachment, Taft has vowed to stay on for the
remainder of his term, which ends next year. Also
involved in Tom Noe and Bob Ney's "Coingate" scan
dal, Taft still has the future option of pardoning himself
and his friends, since he remains Ohio's Governor.
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For more, Google search: Jack Abramoff
Duke Cunningham
Newspaper and FBI inves
tigations revealed that this
congressman, a member of
the subcommittee in charge
of defense spending, sold
his California mansion to
defense contractor and
campaign
contributor
Mitchel Wade for $700,000
more than it was worth.
Wade resold the house for
a substantial loss, and let Cunningham stay on his
yacht "The Duke Stir" rent-free for a year. Thinking per
haps that this looked like a bribe, the FBI, IRS and
Defense Criminal Investigative Service executed
search warrants in the case. While charges have yet to
be filed, Cunningham claims he wont seek another
term. He told supporters "It pains me beyond words
that I have jeopardized your trust." In a move certain to
kill that trust, Cunningham is seeking permission from
the Federal Election Commission to divert donated
campaign funds for his own legal defense, while con
tributing $5000 to fellow embattled congressman Tom
Deley's legal defense fund.
For more, Google search: Duke Cunningham,
Washington Post
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Another politician with ties
to Jack Abramoff, Ney, the
chairman of the House
Administration Committee
used his position to help
Abramoff bilk the Texasbased Tigua Indian tribe
out of millions. After
secretly working (and get
ting paid by) another tribe in the area tb close the
Tigua's casino, Abramoff assured Tigua that Ney would
help them reopen their casino, so long as he and his
partners were paid. The lobbyist received $4.2 million,
and Ney received $30,000 in campaign donations. The
tribe also financed a $100,000 golf trip complete with
private jet for Ney, Abramoff and friends. While House
members are forbidden from accepting gifts and trips
fromlobbyists, Ney claims he was "duped" by Abramoff.
He's knee-deep in so many other Abramoff scandals
however, that it's likely the congressman is either lying,
or stupid. Considering his connections to so many
ongoing investigations, Ney is probably hoping people
believe the latter.
For more, Google search: Bob Ney, American
Prospect
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Once one of the most
powerful men in Ohio poli
tics and Bush "pioneer,"
Noe was indicted October
27th,
on
3
counts,
accused of recruiting 24
people to illegally funnel
$45, 400 to President Bush's 2004 re-election cam
paign. But that's just the beginning. Noe, an avid
coin collector, convinced the Ohio Bureau of
Workers' Compensation, to invested $50 million in
rare coins. As odd as that was, it has since been dis
closed that two coins worth $300,000 have been
"lost" in the mail, and his attorneys recently admitted
that they cannot account for up to $12 million.
Eleven agencies are investigating Noe, and FBI
agent Ted Wasky recently stated "you can get on the
train or stay on the tracks. Either way, the train is
coming down. This is just the tip of the iceberg for
Mr. Noe."
For more, Google search: Tom Noe, Toledo Blade
Safavian was the Bush
Administration's chief fed
eral procurement official
until the day before he was
arrested on September 20
of this year, for repeatedly
making false statements to
government officials inves
tigating Jack Abramoff
relating to a golf trip he Safavian made with Bob Ney
in 2002. The indictment also claims that he helped
Abramoff gain control of two federally managed prop
erties in Washington. Safavian's troubles started with
his connections to another Abramoff scandal involving
Indian tribes. Once federal officials began looking into
that, the found what the Washington Post called "a
trove of information about his aggressive efforts to
seek favors for clients from members of congress and
senior bureaucrats." Until the day before his arrest, he
was heavily involved in procurement for the federal
government's hurricane Katrina relief efforts, which
may at least partly explain why that went so well.
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Post
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Bill Frist
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Senate Majority Leader,
medical doctor and 2008
presidential hopeful, Frist
attracted the attention of
the media in March when
after watching video, he
(wrongly, as the autopsy
later showed) made a diagnosis of Terry Schiavo from
the Senate floor. While the Sciavo incident saturated
the media, Frist quietly sold all his stock in his family's
hospital company just one month before a disappoint
ing earnings report sent the plunging nearly 15%. The
Justice Department and Securities and Exchange
Commission have since launched an investigation into
whether Frist acted on illegal insider information (his
father and brother founded the company), or was just
incredibly lucky. The investigation has also revealed
that while Frist claimed to have his stocks in a blind
trust to avoid conflicts of interest, the senator accumu
lated stock outside that blind trust, knowingly earning
tens of thousands from his family's for-profit hospital
chain, while he formed our nation's health care poli
cies.
For more, Google search: Bill Frist, Insider TVading
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Tom Delay
Recently indicted twice on
charges of conspiring to
violate campaign finance
laws, and money launder
ing, House Majority leader
Delay faces a maximum of
life, plus 22 years in prison.
But you wouldn't know that
from his smiling mug shot.
He's accused of illegally funneling corporate money
into 2002 Republican Texas state election campaigns.
In that election, 17 members of Frist's party who
received the funds were elected, and Republicans
took control of the Texas House for the first time in 130
years. After gaining those seats, Republicans reorgan
ized the congressional districts to favor their party and
in 2004, and five more Texan Republicans were elect
ed. Despite Delay's claims that Ronnie Earle, the pros
ecutor who brought the charges, is a bitter,
"unabashed partisan zealot," out for revenge on the
Republican party, records show that Earle has prose
cuted 13 Democrats and only 3 Republicans in public
corruption cases.
For more, Googe search: Tom Delay, Indictments
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cordially invites you to attend our
A single starter deck, be it Batman
or Fantastic Four, includes two 26-card
ated with their sports related products.
Fall 2005
Graduate Studies Open House
But recently the company has diversi
decks that are already divided into
fied to produce trading card games
good/evil.
based on comic book icons from both
accessible and easy to learn, and
Marvel and DC comics, which are leav
there’s even a quick start guide to refer
ing both collectors and gamers very
to, making it that much faster to players
Saturday, November 12,2005
Registration: 11:00am
satisfied.
to jump into the game without any prior
Center for the Arts (IP)
What make these games special is
The rules are relatively
knowledge.
Learn about CSI’s Graduate Programs in:
The best part,
that both the Marvel
Vs. System and DC
however,
Comics Vs. System
from the fact that
• Business Management (MS)*
boast all the attrib
you can combine the
• Cinema and Media Studies (MA)
utes a popular game
Marvel and DC sys
• Computer Science (MS)
like
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tems and team-up or
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from different uni
• Leadership in Education
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verses. Finally play
Magic:
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have,
but taken
step further.
cards include artwork
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by
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comes
get to
create
own
battles,
• Biology (MS)
• Childhood (Elementary) Education (MS Ed)
• Adolescence (Secondary) Education (MS Ed)
(Post-Master’s Advanced Certificate)
• History (MA)
• Liberal Studies (MA)
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both game systems a
against Dr. Doom, or
collectable
aspect
The Fantastic Four
not seen since the
against the League
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comic
superhero
of Assassins.
trading
Specifically,
the
Marvel
The
possibilities are only limited by the
cards of the previous decade.
Vs.
imagination, and that’s what makes this
System: Fantastic Four starter deck
game so unique.
includes
Hitch,
interactive freedom to the players you
Brandon Peterson, Steve Rude, and
can’t find anywhere else using charac
Phil Noto, just to name a few. The DC
ters everyone knows.
artwork
by
Bryan
It gives a creative,
Comics Vs. System: Batman starter
deck features the illustrations of Jim
Lee & Scott Williams, Karl Kerschl,
Grade: A
(Boba
Fett),
and
Peter Mayhew
(Chewbacca).
Aside from top-notch talent, the con
vention floor was abuzz as several major
industry announcements were made.
Adam and Andy Kubert, two of Marvel
Comics' biggest stars, were named as
recently signing exclusive contracts with
DC Comics. For years the Kubert brothers
have been some of Marvel’s biggest artists
with several critically revered works
between the two, such as Wolverine:
Origin and Ultimate X-Men. Their move to
Marvel’s number one competitor left sever
al fans shocked to say the least. “Now
that’s a real bombshell,” exclaimed Jim
Sapia of Cherry Hill. New Jersey.
“I
thought those guys were gonna be buried
at Marvel.”
Coupled with a panel about (then
upcoming) feature film, Batman Begins,
DC came close to dominating the conven
tion. Although Marvel fought back hard at
their own panels by previewing art and giv
ing teasers on upcoming events connect
ed to the Ultimate Universe, and their com
pany wide, reality-altering crossover,
ith a record setting twenty-seven
House of M.
The most entertaining
thousand in attendance for
moment of the weekend being Marvel
Wizard’s latest Philadelphia con
Editor in Chief, Joe Quesada’s unforget
vention, which took place June 3-5, the
table performance as he hosted the slide
wait at the DMV suddenly doesn’t seem
show presentation at the House of M panel
quite as long. Although the long lines were
in character as X-men villain, Magneto.
not unwarranted as plenty of comic cre
Rounding out the convention were
ators showed up to sign autographs and
plenty of retailers, art dealers, and various
promote their latest works, including fancomic related/gaming companies, most
favorite artists David Finch (New
notably Upper Deck Entertainment. With
Avengers), Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Sean
three days full of panels, signings and
Chen (X-Men: The End), Mark McKenna
announcements, this year’s convention
(Exiles), J.G. Jones (Wanted) and Billy
has so far proved to be one of the most
Tucci (Shi). Notable movie/television stars
entertaining events of the year. The next
present were Tricia Heifer (Battlestar
Philadelphia convention hosted by Wizard
Galactica), Lou Ferrigno (Incredible Hulk),
Entertainment will take place June 2-4,
Seth Green (Buffy), and Star Wars guests
2006. See you there.
Kenny Baker (R2-D2), Jeremy Bulloch
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the fact that I was old enough to cause
There are few times in a girl’s life
when she can ignore how she's treating
people. For many of us, this is mostly a
matter of how we've been treated in the
past, and what's rubbed off on us. What
we've been through, and what we've
stored in the back of our minds. The sad
truth is that relationship habits can be
just as nasty a takeaway as mono, and
just as easy to catch, and ship off to
someone else. Having been through
more types of guys than I'd like to freely
admit, I have also gone through many
different types of relationship behavior,
so, fella's, excuse me, and most girls, if
we become bewildered. It's not our
faults, really. We know not all of youare
ning away from our issues. Since he
adorable. During this time, I became
could have been my first real relation
involved with a great friend of mine.
ship, every argument, every problem,
piece of the last boy with me. I've got
Ignoring the fact that it could get messy,
every little discussion sat in the back of
Zach's judgmental thoughts,
like I usually do, I went for it, and it was
my mind. I didn’t realize how visible all
emotional sabotage and JP's insecurity
messy at it's worst, and it was great at
those scars were until I started passing
and doubt. Whether they're battle scars
it's best. Dating your best friend is like
them on to other boys.
of things that have passed, or simply
I wasn't proud of how I was acting,
but how could I stop it? It was as if I was
However, I'm more aware of how I treat
It's almost like having a twin. Almost a
carrying with me the problems that had
others, especially when I treat them the
dream come true. However, it was dur
burdened me so hard during the past
way I didn't want to be treated.
ing the demise of this relationship, and
year, that they were now engraved in my
Even though I managed to become
my entrance back into the dating scene
brain as right, and no longer wrong. Is it
aware of my actions, I still feel the fear
possible to flee heavy relationships
inside of me that we all feel going
with more than just his baseball hat, I
without heavy baggage? More impor
through a break up, so am I any better
had picked up the mistakes he had
tantly, is there really any way to leave
off? Can we really grow from the prob
made. The behaviors he had displayed
the problems behind us? Can we just
lems we refuse to let go? When we con
that made me so mad, were now mine,
pack them up, with the stuff of an ex
tinue to pass them along, will they ever
love, and hide them in the back of the
leave? Maybe, when it comes to rela
closet, at least for a little while?
tionships, 'ignorance is bliss' is the best
myself become more distant, and even
Three years later I can look back at
flat out dump guys if the simplest prob
the situation with only a little bit more
lem arose, a characteristic my college
insight than I had then. Unfortunately,
way to go. You cant help what you'll
never understand.
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that I realized I had left my last coupling
When I began to date, I noticed
which I studied, partied, and reveled in
Matt's
having a built in soul mate. Someone
to make someone else mad.
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every breakup I go through, I still carry a
who already knows you inside and out.
despicable.
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n Tuesday, October 18th, over
500 fans gathered outside of
the Tower Records on West 4th
street and Broadway in Manhattan
meet synth-pop pioneers Depeche
Mode. At 9:00am, legions of punks,
goths, and other DM disciples filed in to
purchase the band’s twelfth studio
album entitled: “Playing the Angel,”
then with blankets, coffee, and CD in
hand, they settled in for a ten hour wait.
The fans sat behind barred police
barricades as passersby starred awk
wardly at them. They told favorite DM
stories, laughed, and took photos
together. In many ways these strangers
were like a family. They shared a com
mon bond. Most of them had been lis
tening to Depeche Mode since as far
back as they could remember. “I’ve
been a fan of Depeche Mode, since I
was thirteen years-old, said Karla
Wallach, age 33. “They are the only
band that has consistently put out
albums that I love.
Jeanne Berger, a NYU graduate
student, cut class and battled the dis
comfort of a broken foot, to be at the
signing. "There is a difference between
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music and performance,” she said.
“Dave's energy and showmanship
makes the crowd purely happy. I’ve
never been to any other concert in my
to
life where I’ve felt such joy.”
The crowd remained orderly as
they handed their CD insert to Dave
Gahan, who
after apply
ing his sig-
sound. They have mixed elements of
rock, pop, blues, and electronica, to
create a truly unique modern master
piece. During their infancy in the early
1980s songwriter/vocalist Martin Gore
boldly tackled topics like sex, suicide,
and sadomasochism. However, it is his
fascination with
religion
that
has remained a
nature,
staple in their
passed it to
music. Indeed,
Martin Gore,
his deep and
and finally to
profound lyrics
Andrew
about sin and
Fletcher.
redemption are
Many of the
entrancing.
fans
were
Singer
Dave
speechless
Gahan’s voice
in the pres
is stronger and
ence of their
more polished
idols
and (From left to right - Andrew etcher. Martin Gore. Dave
than ever. He
Gahan) After 25 years together . Depeche Mode is still creatim
could
only music for the masses.
effortlessly
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handshake, others trembled, and some
of both rock god and lost soul without
cried. It was an evening that none of
losing an ounce of credibility. Gahan
them would forget.
also makes his songwriting debut, con
“Playing the Angel,” marks the
tributing “Suffer Well.” “I Want it All,”
return of the classic Depeche Mode
and “Nothings’ Impossible,” to the new
album. Unfortunately his lack of experi
ence becomes quite apparent when
surrounded by the refined expertise of
Martin Gore.
The album’s first single, “Precious,”
is an apologetic request for forgiveness
from a divorced father to his children.
“Angels with silver wings shouldn’t
know suffering. I wish I could take the
pain for you,” sings Gahan with chilling
sadness. “John the Revelator" whose
title is a reference to an old blues tune
is the album’s rockiest track. “Lillian,” is
an archetypal love song, but crafted in
such a fun and energetic way that its
message of heartbreak and loss are
actually uplifting.
The 11/05 issue of Keyboard mag
azine proclaims: “Depeche Mode is the
most important synthesizer band on the
planet.” There is no doubt that their
unique style has been essential to their
longevity. In a 1993 interview, Martin
Gore stated: “For us to be just like
everybody else would ruin everything
for me. If we were the same as every
body else then we might as well give up
and let everybody else do it.”
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Thomas Bradley
keep up the good work!
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hair and
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he signals go up as you walk
December keep us thinking warm, and
around campus, past the style
for that the school owes you a great
hubs, recognizing the fashion of
debt. Once your moderately priced car
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particular student groups. CSI is stylis
is started and you are grinding out the
tically segregated, forming like-minded
gravel while cutting off the speeding
groups around similar modes of dress.
student from the right, or left, you pull
1P, the Center for the Arts, is where Doc
up next to the bus stop.
Martin’s and beat up Chuck Taylor’s live
The bus stop is the equalizer, the
and torn jeans are considered the
level playing field for all to recognize
norm. Not the distressed denim found
and remember who they are and where
on Abercrombie shelves, but jeans
they’re from. Jordans or Chuck Taylor’s,
The Bus stop is CSI’S fashion equalizer.
actually torn from use that the A&F
Evisu or Gap, Two-way or payphone,
jeans are imitating, in a much more
expensive and chic manner of course.
The hair is long and DEP gel, mega
hold level 8, cannot be found here save
the
few
around.
mo/faux-hawks
roaming
The emphasis is not on the
expense of the clothing but the history
ed by an overbearing presence of Nike
that really, really can’t be less than 60
and Ecko.
thousand, and this hurts you when you
The girls have a trim
Brooklyn-Staten look with good dye
find your car among them. The females
jobs and tight jeans. Hoop earrings and
jumping into the white Lexus or the sil
Seven Jeans are a staple, along with
ver Beemer are killing the game with
Prada shoes, kid size Jordans, and slim
Louis monogram bags, so they think.
women’s North Face jackets. The men
Attention! Ladies of the parking lot car
are rocking any variety of Nike kicks,
tel: Please avoid spending either too
jeans tied in the top lace allowing the
much money on a real Louis bag or a
shoes to break some necks. Skin fade
fifty spot on the Canal Street version,
must look airbrushed (no sloppy lines
we can’t tell the difference and the point
cafeteria the jeans lose some holes and
please), because keeping the haircut
of Louis is to set yourself apart from,
the hair tames and grows shorter.
correct like Anthony Mason
and above, us regular folk.
of it: Concert tees and bags with pins or
buttons proclaiming the vices of corpo
rate greed and one’s iPod play-list will
grant one entrance into the 1P crew.
Yet as you make your way toward the
is an
Buy a dif
The Campus Center is the bunker
absolute must for the cafeteria clique.
ferent bag, please.
for the newest retro Jordans or the illest
As the line gets shorter and you’ve
around
North Face Steep Techs. Slightly more
bought you’re food, you exit past the
leather seat as she slides on her Dior
difficult to generalize the look here
card checking guards and back out into
shades. Very big, very dark, perfect for
since everyone passes through to eat
the fashion landscape.
making the face look small and the lips
but the main floor is certainly dominat
The parking lot houses some rides
look big.
their waists
The Gucci belt
scratches
the
From a male perspective,
you’re all on the bus . . . together.
Some people still try to front and pre
tend that the bus isn’t the end of the act,
but it is. No matter how hard or hip you
think you are, you’re sitting next to
someone not from you’re hub and
there’s nothing you can do about it.
The traffic is annoying, the weather
abominable, and the ride is still awful
regardless of the fashion gang you rep
while back on campus. The bus teach
es us that it really is all costume and we
are all going through the same horrible
if not hysterical experience in life.
Maybe we can begin to recognize that
clothing, though its fun for some to play
dress up, is not really going to save us
in the end.
Rather, it is a question of
whether or not you are who you’re
dressing to be.
�November 1,2005
hman ©iarifs...
Lauren Taylor's
n Saturday, October 29, my
O
13 year old brother Michael
received the Sacrament of
Confirmation
from
Church.
those
are
the stress I was under throughout the
date of my grandmother who passed
bers and close family friends gathered
evening. Making sure all the food was
to honor Mikey's religious achieve-
out and that my family was in good
away almost 2 years ago. She would
ment. My mom had the house deco-
spirits.
have been 85 years old.
rated for Halloween in an animated
cleaning what and which family mem-
and crazy way.
ber was taking the left overs home,
This occa-
There are not many
Not worrying about whose
sion made the Confirmation ceremony
of
very bittersweet for me. "Mama" as we
decorations for Confirmation parties
Confirmation is when, in this case, an
called her, was a religious and a life-
available but she did find these red,
things I don't go crazy when it comes
eighth grader receives the Holy Spirit,
experiencing teacher for me. She was
shiny swirls that came down from the
to drinking I can wait until I'm twenty-
"rafters". My house, which is over 100
one. Can you? I've been to many par-
years old, was filled with people.
ties but I don't feel as if I have to drink
Food
to have a good time with friends. If I
the
who
Rosary
where approximately 55 family mem-
not
Catholic,
For
Holy
day before October 28th was the birth
Sacrament
which is the affirmation that you are a
Catholic adult.
Michael, who we call
only grandparent that I knew and I
also treasured.
Her passing was the
I don't like dwelling on the little
Mikey, took the name Vincent, after
most traumatic experience of my life. I
There was no room to move.
our grandfather, as his Confirmation
^ ber absence on this day, and
and alcohol were all around.
You
cant experience something new at a
name. He wore a red gown with a
almost everyday,
know, I could have celebrated with a
party without getting drunk then what
beer or a glass a wine. No one would
would be the point in trying. I'm a
white sash that had red, felt letters
1
watched
as
the
Bishop
that spelled out Vincent on the front.
blessed Mikey, as my sister Lea stood
have noticed, I dont think, but I didn’t.
happy go lucky person but, I have a
On the back of the sash he had an
behind him for support, my boyfriend
I did think about It though, because it
future of events where I can drink
anchor, dove and candle which have
Brian wondered why he did not follow
was a stressful day. But I didn't. At
more when I am legal.
He also
through with his Catholic upbringing. I
eighteen years old, I want to have a
good but I want to watch the celebra-
chose my older sister Lea as his
said to him that he didn't know what to
taste of what my parents enjoy so
tions of life and unfortunately, death,
exPect and he nodded in response,
much.
A Bud or a Coors Light, but I
as they pass me by. The celebration of
is no* a practicing Catholic so I
didn't. I don’t want to sound like a
my brother's confirmation has made
me realize that I'd rather wake up
strong religious meaning.
sponsor, whose job is to make sure
that Michael continues practicing the
Yes it tastes
was ao happy that he came to witness
princess but I don't think I could ever
During the ceremony, I thought
this important event in my brothers'
drink in front of my family. It would
remembering what I've done then
about how important having a religion
Me- I can't believe that Mikey has
have been too weird. Although once
dwelling on what I didn't do.
was to me a few years ago, but now I
made his Confirmation. Where did all
the evening was over I just had to
lost my faith in God because he took
those years go?
drink something. In order to relieve
Catholic faith.
my grandmother away from me. The
On to the celebration at my home
A n n e Mari e
D o o I l n g
J
There are few times in a girl’s life
when she can ignore how she's treating
people. For many of us, this is mostly a
matter of how we've been treated in the
past, and what's rubbed off on us. What
we've been through, and what we've
stored in the back of our minds. The sad
truth is that relationship habits can be
just as nasty a takeaway as mono, and
just as easy to catch, and ship off to
someone else. Having been through
more types of guys than I'd like to freely
admit, I have also gone through many
different types of relationship behavior,
so, fella's, excuse me, and most girls, if
we become bewildered. It's not our
faults, really. We know not all of youare
despicable.
I had maybe one and a half... pos
sibly two normal years of college, during
which I studied, partied, and reveled in
the fact that I was old enough to cause
a ruckus, and young enough for it to be
adorable. During this time, I became
involved with a great friend of mine.
Ignoring the fact that it could get messy,
like I usually do, I went for it, and it was
messy at it's worst, and it was great at
it's best. Dating your best friend is like
having a built in soul mate. Someone
who already knows you inside and out.
It's almost like having a twin. Almost a
dream come true. However, it was dur
ing the demise of this relationship, and
my entrance back into the dating scene
that I realized I had left my last coupling
with more than just his baseball hat, I
had picked up the mistakes he had
made. The behaviors he had displayed
that made me so mad, were now mine,
to make someone else mad.
When I began to date, I noticed
myself become more distant, and even
flat out dump guys if the simplest prob
lem arose, a characteristic my college
31
ex had displayed many times while run
ning away from our issues. Since he
could have been my first real relation
ship, every argument, every problem,
every little discussion sat in the back of
my mind. I didn't realize how visible all
those scars were until I started passing
them on to other boys.
I wasn't proud of how I was acting,
but how could I stop it? It was as if I was
carrying with me the problems that had
burdened me so hard during the past
year, that they were now engraved in my
brain as right, and no longer wrong. Is it
possible to flee heavy relationships
without heavy baggage? More impor
tantly, is there really any way to leave
the problems behind us? Can we just
pack them up, with the stuff of an ex
love, and hide them in the back of the
closet, at least for a little while?
Three years later I can look back at
the situation with only a little bit more
insight than I had then. Unfortunately,
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Join the fun or just hang out.
every breakup I go through, I still carry a
piece of the last boy with me. I've got
Zach's judgmental thoughts, Matt's
emotional sabotage and JP's insecurity
and doubt. Whether they're battle scars
of things that have passed, or simply
lessons to be learned, I have no idea.
However, I'm more aware of how I treat
others, especially when I treat them the
way I didn't want to be treated.
Even though I managed to become
aware of my actions, I still feel the fear
inside of me that we all feel going
through a break up, so am I any better
off? Can we really grow from the prob
lems we refuse to let go? When we con
tinue to pass them along, will they ever
leave? Maybe, when it comes to rela
tionships, 'ignorance is bliss' is the best
way to go. You cant help what you'll
never understand.
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Cliitty cxiitty Cana Bans
PDC Special Event
Featuring pool tables, foosball, air
hockey and basketball shool-out!
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30TU
5:00PM-11 ;00PM
(Bus will leave from Lot 4)
TICKETS ON SALK
Student tickets
Monday, November 7th
$20 00 with VALID CSUD
Guest tickets on sale starting
Monday, November 14th
$25.00 (must be IS or older)
One guest per student
Tickets on sale in the
Campus Center (1C),.
room 217 from
10:00am-4:00pm, for more
info call 718-982-2816
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n Tuesday, October 18th, over
music and performance,”
sound. They have mixed elements of
'ortpn
ilack of experi-
500 fans gathered outside of
“Dave’s
showmanship
rock, pop, blues, and electronica, to
ence become^
jiparent when
the Tower Records on West 4th
makes the crowd purely happy. I’ve
create a truly unique modern master
surrounded by the refined expertise of
never been to any other concert in my
street and Broadway in Manhattan to
piece. During their infancy in the early
Martin Gore.
O
meet synth-pop
pioneers
Depeche
energy
and
life where I’ve felt such joy."
1980s songwriter/vocalist Martin Gore
The album’s first single, “Precious,”
Mode. At 9:00am, legions of punks,
The crowd remained orderly as
boldly tackled topics like sex, suicide,
is an apologetic request for forgiveness
goths, and other DM disciples filed in to
they handed their CD insert to Dave
and sadomasochism. However, it is his
from a divorced father to his children.
purchase the band’s twelfth studio
Gahan, who
fascination with
“Angels with silver wings shouldn’t
album entitled: “Playing the Angel,”
after
religion
know suffering. I wish I could take the
then with blankets, coffee, and CD in
ing his sig-
has remained a
pain for you,” sings Gahan with chilling
hand, they settled in for a ten hour wait.
nature,
staple in their
sadness.
The fans sat behind barred police
passed it to
music. Indeed,
title is a reference to an old blues tune
barricades as passersby starred awk
wardly at them. They told favorite DM
Martin Gore,
his deep and
is the album’s rockiest track. “Lillian,” is
and finally to
profound lyrics
an archetypal love song, but crafted in
stories,
photos
Andrew
about sin and
such a fun and energetic way that its
together. In many ways these strangers
were like a family. They shared a com
Fletcher.
redemption are
message of heartbreak and loss are
Many of the
entrancing.
actually uplifting.
mon bond. Most of them had been lis
fans
Dave
The 11/05 issue of Keyboard mag
tening to Depeche Mode since as far
speechless
Gahan’s voice
azine proclaims: “Depeche Mode is the
back as they could remember. “I’ve
in the pres
is stronger and
most important synthesizer band on the
been a fan of Depeche Mode, since I
ence of their
more polished
planet.”
was thirteen years-old,
idols
and
than ever. He
unique style has been essential to their
Wallach, age 33. They are the only
could
only
manage
effortlessly
plays the role
longevity. In a 1993 interview, Martin
band that has consistently put out
albums that I love.
...
Jeanne Berger^lTTWO graduate
handshake, others trembled, and some
of both rock god and lost soul without
everybody else would ruin everything
cried, ft was an evening that none of
losing an ounce of credibility. Gahan
for me. If we were the same as every
student, cut class and battled the dis
them would forget.
body else then we might as well give up
laughed,
and took
said
Karla
apply
were
a
Singer
(From left to right - Andrew Fletcher. Martin Gore, Dave
Gahan) After 25 years together, Depeche Mode is still creating
music for the masses.
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that
comfort of a broken foot, to be at the
“Playing the Angel,” marks the
also makes his songwriting debut, con
tributing “Suffer Well,” “I Want it All,”
signing. “There is a difference between
return of the classic Depeche Mode
and “Nothings’ Impossible," to the new
“John the Revelator” whose
There is no doubt that their
Gore stated: “For us to be just like
and let everybody else do if.”
Who Are You Dressing To Be?
Thomas Bradley
keep up the good work!
blonde
T
hair
and
The bleach
cinnamon
tan
ir
he signals go up as you walk
December keep us thinking warm, anc
around campus, past the style
for that the school owes you a grea
hubs, recognizing the fashion of
debt. Once your moderately priced cai
particular student groups. CSI is stylis
is started and you are grinding out the
tically segregated, forming like-minded
gravel while cutting off the speedinc
groups around similar modes of dress.
student from the right, or left, you pul
1P, the Center for the Arts, is where Doc
up next to the bus stop.
Martin’s and beat up Chuck Taylor’s live
The bus stop is the equalizer, the
and torn jeans are considered the
level playing field for all to recognize
norm. Not the distressed denim found
and remember who they are and where
on Abercrombie shelves, but jeans
they’re from. Jordans or Chuck Taylor’s
The Bus stop is CSI’S fashion equalizer.
actually torn from use that the A&F
Evisu or Gap, Two-way or payphone
jeans are imitating, in a much more
expensive and chic manner of course.
The hair is long and DEP gel, mega
ed by an overbearing presence of Nike
that really, really can’t be less than 60
and Ecko.
thousand, and this hurts you when you
The girls have a trim
Brooklyn-Staten look with good dye
find your car among them. The females
jobs and tight jeans. Hoop earrings and
jumping into the white Lexus or the sil
Seven Jeans are a staple, along with
ver Beemer are killing the game with
expense of the clothing but the history
Prada shoes, kid size Jordans, and slim
Louis monogram bags, so they think.
of it: Concert tees and bags with pins or
women’s North Face jackets. The men
Attention! Ladies of the parking lot car
buttons proclaiming the vices of corpo
are rocking any variety of Nike kicks,
tel: Please avoid spending either too
jeans tied in the top lace allowing the
much money on a real Louis bag or a
shoes to break some necks. Skin fade
fifty spot on the Canal Street version,
must look airbrushed (no sloppy lines
we can’t tell the difference and the point
please), because keeping the haircut
of Louis is to set yourself apart from,
correct like Anthony
and above, us regular folk.
hold level 8, cannot be found here save
the
few
around.
mo/faux-hawks
roaming
The emphasis is not on the
rate greed and one’s iPod play-list will
grant one entrance into the 1P crew.
Yet as you make your way toward the
cafeteria the jeans lose some holes and
the hair tames and grows shorter.
Mason
is an
Buy a dif
The Campus Center is the bunker
absolute must for the cafeteria clique.
ferent bag, please.
for the newest retro Jordans or the illest
As the line gets shorter and you’ve
around
North Face Steep Techs. Slightly more
bought you’re food, you exit past the
leather seat as she slides on her Dior
difficult to generalize the look here
card checking guards and back out into
shades. Very big, very dark, perfect for
since everyone passes through to eat
the fashion landscape.
making the face look small and the lips
but the main floor is certainly dominat
The parking lot houses some rides
look big.
their
waists
The Gucci belt
scratches
the
From a male perspective,
you’re all on the bus . . . together.
Some people still try to front and pre
tend that the bus isn’t the end of the act,
but it is. No matter how hard or hip you
think you are, you’re sitting next to
someone not from you’re hub and
there’s nothing you can do about it.
The traffic is annoying, the weather
abominable, and the ride is still awful
regardless of the fashion gang you rep
while back on campus. The bus teach
es us that it really is all costume and we
are all going through the same horrible
if not hysterical experience in life.
Maybe we can begin to recognize that
clothing, though its fun for some to play
dress up, is not really going to save us
in the end.
Rather, it is a question of
whether or not you are who you’re
dressing to be.
�The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
November 7,2005
So You Want to Play Golf? Follow These Simple Rules . . .
Andrew Rafferty
up the corporate or social ladder. You learn a lot about the
and participated in learning how to play golf. They had a
people you're playing golf with just by the way they maneu
women's day in golf which had over 100 lady golfers partic
ver around the course.(Attitude) This game shows your true
ipating in the event. Also there are women's clubs at every
As winter approaches many metro area golfers call it a year
personality, harmless cheating can be one easiest ways to
public golf course in Staten Island. Ladies golf has explod
but some continue throughout the cold winter. They do this
lose respect from a boss or colleague. What will you do off
ed especially at the high school level. Ladies play two sea
because the game of golf is extremely addicting. How
the course if you cheat at a game?
sons fall and spring for their high school team as the men
only play in the spring.
addicting? Let's say some 25 million people in the United
Playing in business outings, tournaments, or just hav
States addicting. Yet you think this game is for old people.
ing fan with the guys can be some ways to enjoy the sport.
As you get better you will want to travel around to see
False, in fact 500,000 thousand kids pick up the game
This game is one that you can play until the day you die.
the different types of courses there are. The views of some
every year. This sport attracts many golfers who are young
That one statement is the main reason why golf will always
courses just absolutely breathe taking as well as the cours
and old alike. This year should be the year you should come
attract people. One type of personality especially become
es themselves. Many places across the United States have
out and try the game of golf. This mental and physical test
addicted to the game is professional athletes. Michael
different types of conditions like grass, length, and weather
can be the most enjoyable and frustrating game all in 18
Jordan the most recognizable retired basketball player calls
differences. These variants make the game impossible to
holes of Golf.
golf his "passion", and considers himself a fanatic of the
master but make great experiences and lasting memories.
If you think you might have an interest in golf all you
game: He even went onOprah and spoke about the game.
Hopefully this article will give you a chance to like the
have to do is go to one of the three local driving ranges on
He plays many days a year and still hasn't come close to
movie says, play "the world's greatest game." If you think
Staten Island. First you have to-rent a couple of clubs and
making any real success in amateur or professional events.
this game is easy I challenge you to try and shoot a 100 in
Mr. Jordan is probably better than 90 percent of golfers.
the first five times of playing. It will take time and dedication
buy a bucket of golf balls. After this you place the balls on
the container next to the mat and start hitting away. This
The difference between golf and let's say any team
simple experience will take less than an hour and cost you
sport. As you get in the workforce it's harder to get friends
about eight dollars. Keep in mind you should get some
to come out and play a team sport. As in golf you can almost
research about playing golf.
always get out and play somewhere. There are also many
Simple tips like holding a club and getting a little under-
other benefits to playing golf. Consider the social positives
standting of how to swing the golf club will be undoubtedly
as well; many golfers are both male and female. In fact
helpful. Some helpful web-sites to get started are www.gol-
women are currently taking up the sport at a much rapid
fonline.com, www.golfdigest.com, and www.pga.com. This
pace then their male counterparts.
humble beginning can bring endless opportunities A little
This is a good place to come and meet a fellow com
note to you, dont be embarrassed by your first fifteen per
petitor of the opposite or same sex. This social dwelling is
formances everyone started the same way you will.
to advance in this game.
invisible but the potential is real. Learning in a formal setting
Still not interested many years or in the near future you
where males and females are learning together can be an
might be askedtoplay with colleagues or maybe even your
easier and less confrontational way to find someone then at
boss. Having the ability to show class and respect along
a bar or club. In the NIKE golf learning camps held this sum
with a decent golf game could help you succeed in moving
mer at the LaTourette Golf Course many women came out
Dolphins Win CUNY Championship
continued from front page
propensity to repeat himself.
He coached women’s soccer at Notre Dame High
School for 14 years, earning three straight champi
onships. When the Dolphins women’s soccer team was
founded in 2003, he led the infant team to win the CUNYAC exhibition championship and repeated that win this
year. His coaching style includes words of encourage
ment and advisement. After the fifth missed goal in the
first half, Guagliardo shouted, “good hustle, good hustle,”
and supported the efforts of the women on the field with
the players on the bench. He called plays like “reverse
spin” and “one touch it over,” anxious to score and finish
the game. As the starters ran onto the field after the coin
toss, Guagliardo muttered, “get out there and get it over
with.”
Although confident and eager prior to the game’s
start, Coach Guagliardo refused to whisper the secret of
his strategy. “Wait until after the game,” he assured. “I
won’t tell you everything we’re going to do to them now.
You’ll see.” And the 30 plus spectators in the stands saw
as well. The Dolphins cornered their opponents and used
their speed in the first half to prevent the Cougars from
running the ball too often into scoring range. This strate
gy allowed the Dolphins 14 shots in the first half and 9
shots in the second half, while the Cougars only tried 3
shots total, excluding their two goals, in both halves.
Danielle Narwick put the ball in the ocean and Guagliardo’s
strategy began to come together.
Most Valuable Player, rookie forward Lauren Baydal,
kicked two balls into the net. She celebrated her first goal of
the game with an assist from mid-fielder Zeila Herrera, by
striking a strong-arm pose while Herrera pretended to shine
her shoe as an inside team joke.
The women share friendship and Baydal, also know to
her team as Little Bit and Shrimp, described her teammates
EDUCATION
she felt, “awesome, excited, surprised, wasn’t expecting it.”
Tuition costs shouldn’t stop you from reaching
Senior defensive captain Andrea Kleboe appreciated the
your goals in life. By joining the Army National
win because this year’s win stands as the official first year of
Guard, you’ll receive the money you need to
the women’s soccer CUNYAC. “IVe never been on a team
help pay for college as well as the skills and
like this,” she said happily. “Everyone gets along.”
training you need to get the career you want.
Connelly recruited Baydal, who has played soccer since age
She, along with fellow defensive captain, Bukurije
Begai, recalled their worry in the second half when the score
If you’re looking to get through college, with
the Army National Guard, you can!
tied. “I was scared,” Kleboe said. “No one wanted to go into
overtime. Because of all the injuries we don’t have the legs
for a shoot out.” Injuries like her lower back, where she wore
a clear bag full of ice strapped to her body. “We all looked at
each other,” Begai said. “And we just knew we had to keep
going and push harder.”
The women pushed harder and relished in victory with
their pretty trophy. Coach Guagliardo’s comments of why he
After the Dolphins eight missed shot, Guagliardo
liked coaching women captured an essence of the champi
shouted, “We can’t put the ball in the ocean. We can’t put
ons. “I like women because they play smart,” he said. “It’s
the ball in the freakin ocean.” But a few minutes later
PAYOFF YOUR
11, to play for CSI. As new champion and MVP, Baydal said
as “awesome girls.” Senior offensive player Shannon
not a brutal game, it’s a smart game.”
I-800-GO-GUARD
www. I -800-GO-GUARD.com
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The
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of
Staten
Island
October 24,2005
wrote nine field guides about. “You can’t
write one of those books- let alone
nine-without knowing what you’re
n a tiny, rusty old Cessna,
Alan
doing.”
Tennant chased a migrating peregrine
A slide show of photos Tennant
falcon thousands of miles from the
shot on his travels
Gulf Coast of Texas to
accompanied his
the Arctic with a crabby
presentation. “I did
old ex-military pilot
n’t consider that
leading the way.
photography,”
said
His
adventures
photographer
later evolved into the
Christian
New York Times best
Matuschek.
“He
selling bookOn The
was following a bird
Wing: To the Edge of
by plane, so I guess
the Earth with the
he did what he
Peregrine Falcon.
could. But he’s not
On October 6th,
a photographer.”
he visited CSI and
After
its
gave a presentation
September
2004
about On The Wing in
release, On The
the IP Recital Hall at
instantly
7:30 P.M to a mixed Alan Tennant, author of the New York Times Wing
best-selling book On The Wing, signs copies
gathering of faculty, for female fans after a lecture in IP on October secured a berth on
the
Washington
administrators, 6th.
Matthew Beck
I
MeUissa Seecharan
Names have been changed to protect
the identities of the certain individuals.
Starting in November CSI will imple
ment a new computerized time keeping
system, Attendance Enterprise, for all of
its employees. The electronic time sheet
will allow supervisors to track overtime
hours and to "accurately record compensatory time for their employees with
in a designated payroll period," as stat-.
ed in an email sent to college employ-,
ees on October 7th.
During a DC37 Union meeting on
September 27th, some employees were
told of the new time sheet by their union
representative.
"If you don't check in or clock out,
you'll get docked," said Mrs. Jones who
attended the meeting. "It's like they're
checking up on us." '
"They're claiming it's to track over
time," added employee Ms. Smith.
According to the secretaries, if an
employee is more than seven minutes
late, they will be docked for 15 minutes.
In addition, their overtime will be cut,
friends, and students.
Depending on the background of
the audience, each member had an
image of Tennant, be it thrilling intellec
tual, distinguished scientist, or amateur
shutterbug.
“I thought his style was very lyrical,”
said creative writing professor Cate
Marvin, author of two poetry books. “He
. was very poetic.”
“He’s one of the foremost herpetol
ogists in the country,” said herpetology
student Frank Fontanella. Herpetology
is the study of snakes, which Tennant
Continued on page 3
Continued on page 3
AnnMarie Costello
CSI’s gallery, located in Building 1P is
hosting “Heavenly Beauty,” a collection of
17 paintings by artist Baiyou Han as a part
of the fall 2005 semester of Modern
Chinese Studies. The exhibit began on
September 21 with a reception attended
by 150 people including Han’s wife, Alice,
and will run through December 7. The
paintings which are filled with vivid colors
and thick brush strokes depict Chinese
royal concubines dressed in floral gowns
and engaging in activities like playing
music, dancing, painting, and relaxing.
They are also shown socializing with
western women, an unusual feature and
not common in traditional Chinese art,
“I like the paintings,” said liberal arts
major, Marina Kaganova. ‘The colors are
so bright and vibrant. The artist has done
a wonderful job of capturing people in their
Post’s ‘100 Best
Books of 2004’, and stayed on the New
York Times’ National Best Seller list for
three weeks. It won the New York Public
Library Award, and was a finalist in the
Los Angeles Book Prize in Science and
Technology.
Tennant gained the spotlight on the
reigns of a tale where birds and nature
were the main backdrop, but he doesn’t
consider them to be his principal focus.
“On The Wing is not really about birds—
it’s fundamentally not really about
nature,” he said. “It’s about an obses-
unique environments. He has
displayed them in their most
natural form.” Most students
who visited the gallery indicat
ed that they enjoyed the paint
ings and their unique style. “It
is different from most Chinese
art because he is incorporating
western ideas,” said education
major, Cai Chen. “He does
|
Han represent a Chinese
artist working on Staten
Island during the last decade
of the twentieth century,"
explained Salomon. “His art
is a working through of the
engagement between tradi
tional Chinese culture and
the modernist impulses of
Western art.” Students who
The Dancer, Baiyou Han’s one
however use a lot of the tradi- olr-.u
n
.
a
,
are
interested in learning more
the 17 paintings on display
tional color, red.” Some students by life,
about this topic can attend a
even had a favorite painting.
discussion on Orientalism
Ladapo Osinfade was particularly
which is being hosted by the curators on
impressed by the one entitled “Double
November 2nd in Building 1P, room 120 at
Win.” ‘The people look so real, yet so ani
2:30 PM. “We hope that many students
mated,” he said. “I love the expressions on
will attend and ask questions,” s’aid
the ladies’ faces. They really seem to be
Salomon.
enjoying themselves.”
Artist Baiyou Han’s life was filled with
The “Heavenly Beauty” show is being
unique accomplishments.
Born in
curated by Dr. Nanette Salomon and Dr.
Lowery Sims. ‘The paintings of Baiyou
Continued on page 5
Anne DeMarzo
October 6th—CSI’s Student Govern
ment, composed of 20 student represen
tatives, approved a proposal to increase
their stipends, paid for by Student
Activity Fees.
Senator Dwight Dunkley, who is not
eligible for stipends in 2005, due to a
two-year maximum payout, proposed the
increase to offset higher costs for fulfill
ing member responsibilities. “The price
of gasoline has gone up,” he said. “You
show up on days you don’t have class,
you should get compensated.”
“Now is not the time,” countered
Senator Josh Center. “I say we reconsider
the amendment and stipends in general.”
But Senator Center’s motion was
denied and an 11-1 vote brought the
Student Body’s President’s compensa
tion up 25%, to $2,500 annually. The
Vice President and other senators each
gained $400, nearly a 67% increase for
senators who do not chair any of seven
SG standing commissions. This is well
below the $4,028 maximum allowed. It
must now go for approval by the CSI
Association Board and is likely to come
up in the November 2nd open meeting.
“In best of all worlds, I think sen/ing
in Student Government would be com
munity service,” said Carol Jackson, Vice
president for Student Affairs, in a phone
conversation. “I understand students feel
it necessary to provide stipends,
because some wouldn’t be able to con
tribute hours. Many Student Government
members of CUNY do get stipends.”
“I’m here 10 hours plus a week,”
said Lavinia Solano, Chairperson of
PDC. “If [SG members] want to do stu
dent work, they should be volunteers just
like every other student organization.”
“PDC
should
definitely
get
stipends,” said Glenn. “Any student put
ting in so much time should-get acknowl
edged.”
The CUNY Board of Trustees deter
mines the general purpose of Student
Activities (SA) Fees. As one of 11 groups
to receive a portion, SG is earmarked for
16% of fulltime student fees and 7.9% of
part-time fees. In fiscal year 04/05, that
amounted to $214,210.40. The allocat
ing body then decides how to spend their
Continued on page 3 .
�Iraqis, Americans in the Dark Over New Constitution
Matthew Safford
tol is without power or water, all on the
eve of this historic vote, things could
s 70% of Baghdad sits in a fearunquestionably be going better.
filled, insurgent-induced black
But after years of similar attacks
out just hours before Iraq’s citi
and utility outages, many people both in
zens will vote in a constitutional refer
the US and Iraq are likely hoping that
endum, the Bush administration and
this constitution will be passed, without
their staunch supporters are hoping a
much of a concern whether the actual
strong turnout and acceptance of the
content
of the document is worth the
constitution will bring them some muchpaper
that
it’s printed on, and that just
needed positive publicity.
doesn’t seem like the best way to start
If things go well in Iraq, the newly
a country.
accepted constitution could illuminate
Many concerns have surfaced
the end of the long, dark tunnel that has
about the major role Islam plays in the
become the US occupation, and signal
proposed constitution, and what that
a turnaround for an American adminis
means for women -likely greatlytration and GOP which is riding fairly
reduced inheritance, divorce and mar
low in the water under the weight of
riage rights. Considering the possible
several scandals.
danger of creating another large, theo
But when lately has anything gone
cratic state in a region already saturat
well in Iraq? Considering that insur
ed with religious fervor which often
gents bombed the home and office of a
turns to violence, and that’s if the coun
Sunni leader who recently dropped his
try doesn’t soon collapse into all-out
opposition to the draft constitution, and
civil war soon, constitution or no, it may
as of this writing, nearly of Iraq’s capi
A
Evolution Debate Rages In American Courts
Seamus Dolan
On September 26, in the small town of
Dover Pennsylvania, the first case against
the mandatory teaching of Intelligent
Design in science class got underway. The
previous year the school board had voted
to include Intelligent Design into the cur
riculum, which naturally prompted a subse
quent divide between Evolution and
Intelligent design; furthermore, between
Science and Religion. Intelligent Design
argues that the structure of life on Earth is
too complex to have evolved through natu
ral selection, exploiting the flaws or unan
swered questions of Darwin’s theory of
Evolution.
Alternatively, according to intelligent
design, life is probably the result of inter
vention by an intelligent agent. Although
supporters of Intelligent Design are very
careful not to mention the agent’s origin,
and claim it has no religious ties, it is
ardently
supported
by
Christians.
Ultimately, Intelligent Design’s place inside
school is contingent upon whether or not it
can be proven to be religious; in which
case, it would fall into contempt with the
constitutional decree forbidding an estab
lishing religion.
The case is being argued by a group
of ACLU lawyers from Pennsylvania
against the school board is quite paradoxi
cal. The prosecution insists that Intelligent
Design shouldn’t be taught because its
foundation is too religious or has no logical
evidence for teachers to discuss; con
about our origins, but intelligent design, for
the most part, is made up of practicing
versely,
the
corroboration
supporting
The case, whose result will be a
microcosm for how religion fairs within
the spectrum of the public conscious,
is chock full of nostalgia from the
Scopes Trial 80 years ago. So how far
Darwin's the
have we come? It is my consensus
ory can be
that religion is grounded in revelation
taught
and divine authority, so to me its advo
because it is
cates cannot use reason to justify it
protected
validity
in science. Science is ground
under
the
ed
in
human
reason, the scientific
First
method,
and
the
physical world, not
Amendment,
the
unnatural.
I
see
too many salient
but now the
religious roots for it to be included into
prosecution is
scientific teaching. If I were to propose
using
that
that the intelligent agent was of alien
same
first
descent, don’t you think I would get a
amendment
billion responses, unanimously from
as a ploy to
the Christian supporters, complaining
control what a
about the erroneous interpretation of
teacher can
intelligent design that I had. Religion
discuss about
is not of this world; it has one foot on
conflicting sci
earth and one in heaven. Intelligent
entific theory.
design seems to have one foot in sci
The defense
ence and one in religion, for it truly
claims that it
belongs in philosophy class, not sci
is
rationale Should Darwin’s Theory of Evolution be taught in schools? The debate continues nation
„
ence. It appears to be just a diluted
within science wide.
form of creationism that needs more
to
consider
evidence
and foundation instead of just a
Christians.
The
supporters
who
press
the possibility that an outside agent ener
for
its
teaching
in
science
can
present
no
general
answer
to question: where we
gized our intricate life structures. There are
also gaps in Darwin’s theory and Intelligent empirical facts that would constitute evi came from, if it wants to enter the realm of
Design just wants to provide a different dence of the natural world, for a clear con- science.
approach which will provide an answer
fliction with the scientific method.
�Alan Tennant
Continued from page!
sion.”
In appearance, Tennant, 62, strikes
a scholarly and folksy pose, an amalgam
of educated artisan and laid-back back
woodsman; sort of a literary Lone
Ranger. He’s medium in height, and
lanky in build. His clothes are a melange
of affluent author and nature-loving
nomad: navy blue sports jacket, a crisp,
powder blue and yellow striped dress
shirt, military style khaki cargo pants,
and dusty, well-worn hiking boots.
Tennant’s face is creased, leathery
and sun-beaten. His hair is thinning saltand-pepper and slightly matted, as if he
didn’t have the time or inclination to
immaculately groom it. His mouth is
broad, chin ovular, nose defined, eyes
15DITOR~IN~CHIEF
DAVID MALTZ
Continued from page /
forcing them to leave early which they
see as hurtful to the students and facul
ty. "Sometimes there are students wait
ing for us when we come in or the traffic
at the entrance is backed up," explained
portion, based on Board guidelines.
“CUNY fiscal guidelines allow for
MATTHEW SAFFORD
ANNMARIE COSTELLA
ANNEMARIE DOOLINS
ANNE DEMARZO
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
KHADIJAH RENTAS
LAUREN TAYLOR
truck commercial. “He’s not what I
expected,” said Fontanella. “Much more
down-to-earth.”
Continued from page 1
Ms. Smith. "Why are we being penalized
for helping a student or for things we
cant control ?"
MATTHEW BECK
tangy taste of his southern charm.
In private and public, his style of
speech drifts back and forth from an
anecdotal chit-chat to a semi-scientific
jargon, all smothered in a hearty helping
of homemade humor. He’s ranch-hand
rustic, using words like “haul” to describe
the simple task of carrying light objects,
like a cool cowboy from a Chevy pickup
SC Stipends
ENRIQUE INOCENTE
THOMAS BRADLEY
ing, whimsical visage.
In private conversation, he speaks
freely (sometimes slightly vulgarly) with
his Texas country fried drawl, and the
inflections churn and thicken like butter.
In public address, he’s more genteel and
polite. The accent gets clipped, but stays
spicy enough for the audience to get a
Timesheets
“It's a good feeling helping
them, but if we have to clock
out at 5 p.m., they're going to
lose out.”
LUKE CRISALLI
effen/escent. In the middle sits a not-so
thick mustache, the apex of an engag
Many of the secretaries, who work
after 5 p.m. and through their lunch
hour, worry about the effect this will
have on the students and faculty. "It's a
good feeling helping them, but if we
have to clock out at 5 p.m., they're going
to lose out," said a concerned Mrs.
Rubble.
The email stated that "employees
will automatically record their arrival and
departure times by logging into the pro
gram on their PC, a designated PC or
with a hand stamp." Classified staff in
Public Safety and Buildings and
Grounds already use the electronic time
sheet.
‘We’ve been using a hand recogni
tion system since February,” said Gene
Martinez, Director of Public Safety. “It’s
stipends for ‘student leaders,”’ Carol
Brower, Director of Student Life respond
ed in an email. “While ‘student leader’ is
vague, they give examples such as elect
ed officer of student government, or elect
ed editor of a student newspaper.” CSI’s
editor of The Banner does not receive
stipends.
“Stipends do help students out,” said
Donald Vroome, a student and Director of
Underwriting at WSIA, who received
stipends last year serving on Student
Government. “But it wasn’t necessary. I’m
a proponent for volunteering on campus.
It’s all about learning. We’re getting
knowledge for getting money in later
years. It’s the same with student govern
ment.”
“We have funds at CSI that are not
spent in the right place,” said Senator
Ronnie Glenn, citing broken gym equip
ment that fails to get repaired. “Why not
compensate students?”
“We need to know about that,” said
SG President, Taiwo Olasupo, breaking
off Glenn’s reasoning. “It’s up to [SG] to
speak-out about issues.”
In other business, SG senators
accepted appointments to serve on 21
College Committees. The Undergraduate
Concert Committee was added in
response to an August 29th Banner arti-
October 24,2005
Until On the Wing, Tennant was
regarded more as a writer of nature texts
and less as one of literature, and there
fore had been lauded more as a natural
ist, and less as an author. His awards
were localized and field-specific, not
gaining attention from pop-lit big guns.
His books weren’t off-the-wall narratives
of dazzling, daring feats of bravery or
outright craziness. They were about the
70 known snake species of Florida and
the Big Bend region of Texas. But when
he wrote about risking his life to chase a
bird across two continents, ears perked
up.
The casual onlooker of Tennant and
his works would think him a devoted
birder, herpetologist, and environmental
ist. But he’s got a secret. “I’m a writer,”
he emphasized. “Not really a nature guy
at all.”
Continued on page 5
cle that criticized the Center for the Arts
for booking out-of-date performers.
Senator Arishna (AJ) Ramphal’s propos
al for an International Students
Committee was approved. The commit
tee is intended to offer moral support and
direction to international students strug
gling with rising tuition costs. Senator
Dwight Dunkley’s proposal for a Voting
Importance Awareness Project was also
approved. Its objective is to promote
voter registration and inform students of
the relevance of NYC elections to their
college education.
On October 9th, at the Borough of
Manhattan Community College, CSI stu
dent senator Charlene Morgan was
elected USS Vice Chair for International
Students. USS is the official governance
organization made up of two delegates
from each of its 19 campuses. It allows
for student representation on all standing
committees of the CUNY Board of
Trustees. Morgan’s new executive posi
tion places her among 10 students on
the Steering Committee. She is entitled
to $350 each month in stipends, preclud
ing all other allowances.
SG goals for ‘05/’06 have been
tabled for the October, 20th open meet
ing. November meetings will be
Thursday the 3rd and 17th, held in 1C206 during club hours: 1:30 - 3:30p.m.
This semester’s Town Hall Meeting, with
President Marlene Springer occurred on
Wednesday, October 26th, 2:30 - 3:30 in
1P Recital Hall.
easy. You don’t need time cards, and it’s
keeping program, many feel the money
can be spent in other areas that would
benefit the school. "To do this it's costing
the school thousands of dollars," said
Mrs. Smith. "Look at the lighting situa
tion, yet they're more concerned with
tracking our arrival and leaving times."
The expanded use on Attendance
Enterprise will take effect on November
in the position of Assistant to HEO and
Higher Education Assistant. The next
wave of change will take place January
5, 2006. College Assistants such as
Information Systems Hourly and Nurse
Staff Hourly, Disability Accommodations
Specialist, and "employees in the
Information Systems titles series.” The
final phase will be implemented on April
13,2006 which will include CUNY Office
Assistants
and
Administrative
the "electronic time sheet will enable
the college to record more accurately
overtime worked" in order to meet "the
mandatory FLSA requirements", Mrs.
10th, beginning with Buildings and
Grounds, Public Safety and employees
Assistants.
Despite the email's insistence that
Standards Act (FLSA) and CUNY.
efficient.”
With the installation of the time
SEAMUS DOLAN
VANESSA LEIGH DELBELLO
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
Smith believes otherwise.
"To us, it's a question of morals,"
she said. "We're being treated like peo
ple who cant be trusted."
The widespread use of the elec
tronic time sheet comes in compliance
with changes in the Federal Fair Labor
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�First Time Mom Offers Advice to Expecting Students
Vanessa Leigh DeBello
semester there are several things you can
do.
First, don’t be too hard on yourself.
lthough I had vowed to myself that I
It’s very unlikely that you will be able to
would never take another morning
maintain the same pace as
class after making it through a
semester of Shakespeare, I found myselfyou did prior to pregnancy.
After having maintained a 3.9
sitting in a 10am African American History
GPA for the my first 2 years, I
course 3 days a week in order to fulfill my
had to come to terms with the
minor’s requirement. In spite of not being
fact that I might not be able to
a morning person, everything was going
maintain that same level of
well. In fact, I was even ahead in some of
academics and that I could
my class readings and writing assign
be okay with that. Although
ments. I knew it was going to be a great
that
was very difficult for me
semester.. .until midterms that was.
in
the
beginning, now that my
It wasn’t until after midterms that I dis
son
is
born and I only need
covered I was pregnant. Extreme fatigue,
14
credits
to graduate, I’ve
dizziness and of course nausea, are all
been
heard
saying, “I don’t
symptoms of both exam time and preg
care
what
a
grade I get, as
nancy. Who knew? Therefore, I was
as
I
pass.”
That leads
long
equally surprised by the positive results of
A
my home pregnancy test as I was by my
midterm exams, considering how awful I
had been feeling.
As most people have heard, the
symptoms associated with pregnancy usu
ally strike in the morning, thus the term
“morning” sickness was born. However,
as many first time moms have discovered,
it should be called “all-day” sickness, as a
wave of nausea can hit at any time and last
all day. So if getting up in the mornings
wasn't hard enough, waking out of sleep at
4am craving salad dressing to pacify the
nausea made it nearly unbearable.
So how does one cope with the
symptoms of pregnancy? If you are deter
mined to hang in there and complete the
into my second point.
Determine your priori
ties. First and foremost are
your health and the health of your baby,
even if that means declining on extra activ
ities or staying home on the weekend to
get some extra rest. If necessary, take an
incomplete in one or more of your classes
and complete them at a time that is better
for you. “I hated to do it, but I had to give
up movie night with my girlfriends” said Jen
Rosas, a mother of two. “I kept falling
asleep by the time previews ended. It was
obvious that I needed my rest.”
Get organized. Once you determine
the most important things you need to do,
decide in which order you need to accom
plish them. For example, you may be
more interested in your literature reading
assignment for the following week but you
have a history paper due in four days. By
all means, do assign
ments in the order in
which they are due, to
insure that they are all
completed on time.
Cease the oppor
tunity. Using your time
wisely is crucial to
completing any task,
especially schoolwork.
When you are feeling
good, or at least good
enough, take that time
to work on a project or
do some reading. The
closer you get to deliv
ery, chances are, the
less you will want or be
able to do, so do what
you can while you still can.
Get help. Three words, delegate, del
egate, delegate. Whatever you can get
someone else to do, let them do it, espe
cially if they offer. By the end of my preg
nancy, my mom and sister were doing my
grocery shopping every other week.
Communicate. Let others know what
you are going through and what your spe
cial needs are if you have any. This
includes your professors. At first I was sur
prised by how understanding some of my
professors were. But remember that many
are parents themselves and some even
grandparents, so they are likely to be sym
pathetic to your situation.
Do it from home. Consider taking an
independent study course with a professor
that you have developed a relationship with.
This will allow you to work at your own pace
in the comfort of your own home.
Discover nature. Most Americans are
quick to take over the counter or prescrip
tion medication at the first sign of some
physical discomfort. However, during preg
nancy, this is no longer an option. But for
tunately, you do not have to ride out the
symptoms of pregnancy alone.
Many
foods and herbs are known for their abilities
to alleviate common discomforts naturally.
“Morning sickness sometimes is alleviated
with chewable papaya tabs, peppermint
tea, eating smaller frequent meals” recom
mends Sakina O’Uhuru, a certified midwife
with 8 years experience and 21 years in
Maternal Child health. “Sea bands (accupressure bands) and a variety of
Homeopathic remedies i.e. Nux vomica,
and herbal teas such as Red Raspberry tea
are also helpful.” She also recommends
taking 2-3 power naps a day, as well as,
eating 6 small meals a day and drinking
plenty of fluids.
If you’d like to contact Sakina O’Uhuru,
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Turner Broadcasting Turns on the GameTap: Drip...Drip...Drip
V
Matt Safford
On October 3, Turner Broadcasting
quietly launched Gametap.com: a
broadband-only on demand gaming
website which promises “hundreds of
the greatest arcade, console and PC
games of all time” for a monthly $14.95
fee.
While the idea may be ahead of its
time and the interface nearly flawless,
the key element here is content and
sadly, that’s the sole area where the
service is lacking. While the front page
of the site promises games in the hun
dreds, after downloading and installing
(you can sign up for a 2 week trial, but
still need a credit card) you’ll likely
spend more time being repeatedly dis
appointed about the games that aren’t
here than delighted at those that are.
To be fair, the service did recently
update the program to 299 games
from a meager launch number of 212.
However, the collection still has more
holes than gems, and a long way to go
before it can begin to satisfy the seri
ous video game connoisseur.
But numbers aren’t everything. A
service which provided just a handful
of the best games from all the major
consoles of the past, along with a com
prehensive collection of arcade
games, topped off with some of the
best PC titles of the last 5 years would
be well worth the price.
Unfortunately again, this is largely
not the case, at least not yet. Most
importantly, there is not one Nintendo
game in this bunch, assumedly
because Nintendo is planning a similar
service next year with the launch of its
next-genera
tion game con
sole.
GameTap
attempts
to
make up for
this, by includ
ing roughly 70
games
from
the
various
Sega systems,
including sev
likely to hold most people’s attention
for very long.
Launching the GameTap inter
face, selecting the game and waiting
several seconds for it to load so that
you can play 5 minutes of Missile
Command quickly becomes a frustrat
ing exercise in absurdity.
The
PC
category offers
While the idea may be
ahead of its time and the
interface nearly flawless,
arguably
the
quickest way
for GameTap to
make a decent
bang for your
15 bucks. With
just couple of
today’s hottest
selling
titles,
Turner
could
pull many cus
tomers
from
the lines at the mall with its more con
venient subscription model.
But aside from a few solid titles
from the past such as Myst, Tomb
Raider Chronicles and Beyond Good
and Evil, the selection of 53 Windows
games looks more like the greatest
hits of the bargain bin than anything
which might catch a PC gamer’s eye
today. In fact, Tom Clancy’s Splinter
Cell sequel Pandora Tomorrow is
seemingly the only title with a release
the key element here
date as recent as March of 2004.
So while there might be a few
decent games here from the past that
you might have missed, or may be
worth revisiting, don’t expect to find
anything remotely recent, or even
many of the PC classics such as
Doom, Wolfenstein or Diablo. The lack
of online play would be another crush
ing omission, if there were any titles
here worth the effort.
Still, the service holds promise,
and with a recent addition of almost a,
hundred games in one week, the serv
ice might soon be getting somewhere.
Underneath all the holes in the con
tent, the delivery and execution are
is content and sadly,
excellent, with hardly a noticeable
problem whether running a game from
service is lacking.
1972, or one from 2002. If the games
keep coming, then so likely will the
subscribers. The promise is just too
enticing, and the delivery too polished.
If you can’t wait to relive the feel
ing of spending an afternoon at a
spoiled friend’s house in the early
1990’s, then point your browser to
Gametap.com and sign up for their two
week trial. If you can hold off on that
urge for a couple of months however,
Turner might just deliver a much more
satisfying experience, as Turner now
reportedly has over 1000 games under
license.
eral Sonic The
Hedgehog
titles, but again fails, due to a lack of
many of the best Sega Genesis games
such as Earthworm Jim, Jurassic Park,
or the Spider Man game Maximum
Carnage.
While the other games available
do nicely cover the early days of the
arcade, with titles like Joust, Pac Man,
Asteroids and Bubble Bobble, comple
mented with a few of the best Atari
2600 titles such as Var’s Revenge, and
Pitfall, these games sadly now are not
�October 24,2005
Letters To The Editor
From the Editor
Just when it seemed that we’d have this
issue of The Banner ready to go problemfree for the first time this year, disaster
struck: the computer file that contained
the layout for this issue went corrupt. In
other words, this entire issue of the ban
ner had to be reassembled from scratch
in 1/3 of the time we normally spend put
ting together The Banner. I’d like to give
some props to The Banner staff for kick
ing their asses into overdrive to get this
issue to you.
This problem may have been avoid
ed if The Banner had newer computers
and software to work on. At the beginning
of the semester, The Banner was prom
ised two new computers. Well 2 months
later, we have yet to see them, despite
reassurances from IT that they’re coming.
Meanwhile, at a recent meeting of
the CSI Student Technology Fee
Committee, it was revealed that CUNY
has decided to force CSI (and all the
other CUNYs) to spend part of its Student
Technology Fee on campus wide proj
ects, such as faculty computer training.
This is the Student Activity Fee and that
money can be put to better use, for the
students, not the faculty.
-David Maltz
Chinese Art
Continued from page 1
Re: CSI Brass & Teamsters Steward Duel
Over Campus Safety
“Should Peace Officers Carry Guns?” did an
excellent job portraying anti- and pro-gun
views. There appears to be no need for
lethal weapons, which, as the article stated,
would do more harm than good. Tazer guns
should be looked at as an alternative.
-Ryan Dandrea
I agree with Mr. Martinez and VP Aponte.
Carrying guns would only lead to larger
issues. I would feel significantly less safe if
officers were armed. An unauthorized per
son could somehow grab the gun, and stu
dents would be at risk of getting hit. Do we
really want stray bullets flying around our
them, so I didn’t get scammed. Other
Students weren’t so lucky. Carol Brower
said, “It’s been going on several years.”
Why? Don’t students have enough to worry
about without getting ripped off in class?
This article shows that it’s time for a change.
little lame. It feels like a useless rant. Find
something with more substance, Anne
Marie! I think “Sex and the Island” could be
fun to read, as long as it’s not just banter.
-Emily Carletto
Re: WSIA Prepares to Go Digital - But
Can Anyone Listen?
Finding out that ticket solicitors target CSI is
interesting. I’ve been here for two years and
have yet to encounter them. At Brooklyn
College, my previous school, they would
appear in classes almost on a monthly
basis. They were extremely disrupted. I
never understood why professors allowed
them to take up so much class time. I’m
glad to see that CSI has taken a proactive
stance against these nuisances.
campus?
-Jennifer Carroll
-Chrissy Deliso
Re: Students Fall Victim to Ticket Scam
I had no idea that the ticket salesmen
weren’t allowed on campuses. But I have
noticed a decrease in salespeople this year
so I’m assuming public safety is successful
ly enforcing the rules. I’m glad to know that
information.
Re: Over 10,000 Particiapate in NYC
Tunnel to Towers Run
Matthew Safford did an excellent job on
“Tunnel to Towers”. Any coverage of 9/11
related events should be covered and
reported to students,of campus. Good job
Matt!
-Mario Cardaci
-Dwight Millman
Re: Sex and the Island
Shanghai in 1936, he was surrounded by
art and culture at an early age. His grand
father was an art collector and scholar and
his mother was an English teacher. Han
studied art at the Hua Tung College of
Fine Art. After he graduated in 1956, he
began his career as a freelance artist.
During the Cultural Revolution (19661978) Han was forced to stop painting and
work in a factory. In a 1987 interview given
to China Daily newspaper, he stated:
“What pained me most was that they
robbed me of my right to artistic creation.”
After the revolution was over, Han
resumed his painting career. He and his
wife Alice immigrated to the United States
in 1990, and resided on Staten Island. In
1994, Han became a US citizen. While in
America, he created three different series
of oil paintings: “Historical Fictionism”
(which was recently displayed at the
Newhouse Gallery of Snug Harbor), “AurGur”, and “Heavenly Beauty.”
Vice President for Student Affairs,
Carol Jackson attended the exhibit’s
opening reception and has praised Han’s
work for its beauty and educational merit.
‘The colorful artwork is in turn serious and
humorous. It is certainly eye-catching and
provocative, she said. “Students interest
ed in art, interested in China, and just
interested in an exciting exhibit should
attend. I encourage them to read the cat
alog for the exhibit, written by Professor
Nanette Salomon of the PCA Department,
which will give students the historical
background for the work, will place it in an
artistic context, and will give biographical
information about the artist.”
Sadly, Baiyou Han died in 1998 but
his memory lives on through the Baiyou
Han Foundation, and his beautiful and
timeless art.
In 3 years at CSI, many of my classes havebeen interrupted by pairs of students selling
tickets to comedy clubs. I never bought
I give Anne Marie Dooling credit for writing a
sex column. However, “recycling men”, is a
AlanTennant
continued from page J
Even though he has a genuine
interest in nature (whitewater rafting on
the Rio Grande, whale-watching in Baja,
California, safaris to Africa and the
Amazon), he classifies himself as a
writer first and foremost. He’s never
taught in any of the fields he can speak
fluently about. He taught English,
Comparative Literature, and Film
Criticism at the Univ. of Texas. In fact, he
has no formal scientific training in her
petology or falcons, only what he has
learned through years of getting out
there and writing about them.
“There are two schools of thought in
writing,” Tennant said. “You can intricate
ly analyze your daily life, or what’s in
your garden, or in the world around youor you can go out and actually do stuff.”
Tennant only started writing about
scientific topics like herpetology when he
walked into the Univ. of Texas Press
office wanting to publish another book,
but the publisher would only consent if
he wrote about the snakes of Texas. He
he saw a meal ticket, not a calling. .
“I walked out of there with a book
deal without knowing a thing about
snakes,” laughed Tennant. “I wasn’t a
herpetologist.”
The truth is, Tennant can’t be
pinned down to one specific area of
expertise. He’s multi-faceted and multi
talented. Different people see him differ
ent ways, but at his core- even if he
does market himself as a birdman more
than a bookworm—he’s an adventurous
author. “I take the rules way beyond the
breaking point,” he said.
Alan Tennant is a writer who loves
nature, not a naturalist who loves writ
ing. He made a name for himself by
going on the front lines to score a story.
“If you put yourself in the middle of
things, then you’ve got a leg up because
you’ve got stuff to write about,” he said
knowingly. “That’s a different way of
doing it.”
Yes, he followed falcons across
Mexico, Belize, and the Yucatan
Peninsula. He flew death-defiantly with
two thin rubber hoses connected to a
couple of small gasoline containers
duct-taped to the fuel feed on the wings,
just in case the plane ran out of gas over
the vast Pacific Ocean. The Canadian
mounted police arrested him as a sus
pected trapper and the Mexican military
arrested him as a suspected smuggler.
He stole equipment from the U.S. Army
to accomplish his mission.
And he drove to CSI in a Dodge.
-Marissa Gessin
WSIA is the only Staten Island radio station.
I was aware of that. I was not aware that it
was the “most advanced college radio sta
tion in America”. I’m looking forward to sit
ting in on one of their meetings.
-Frank Arnone
Re: Freshman Diaries
At first glance, I assumed that the
“Freshman Diaries” column was trying to
be, oh, I don’t know, interesting?
Entertaining? Funny? Instead I found
myself shaking my head in disgust. Who is
this “Lauren Taylor”, and what the hell is
she talking about? All those “time”
metaphors and the “speed up the clock” ref
erences don’t make the article any better.
Freshman year should be a time of new
found freedom: sneaking into bars, staying
out until dawn, getting drunk on Tuesday
night and not having to get up for class the
next morning. It’s not about sitting around
staring at clocks.
-Lisa LaBruzzo
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�ROCKTOBERFEST AT CSI
By: Luke Crisalli
Presents
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continued on Thursday,
October 20th, as the
band "Oval Opus perfromed in the Green
Dolphin lounge.
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“Oval Opus” hails from
Cincinnati, right near the
Ohio River with their mix of
southern charm and northern
industrialism. The band,
fronted by singer Aaron
Patrick, Dan Edmondson on
bass and his brother Josh
Edmondson on drums.
Patrick Martin completes the
group with an upright bass.
The group formed in 1997 on
the campus of Miami
University.
The bands debut CD,
“Wagon Wheel” was
released in 1998, followed
by “Oxygen” in 2000, and
“Red Sky Recovery” in 2002.
The band’s set lasted an
hour and a half and drew a
crowd of about 80 people.
Rocktober fest is being
organized by PDC and the
Office of Student Life, and
will have events scheduled
in the campus for the whole
month, including a blood
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for the paper connected me with the
ere I am a freshman, writing for
editors of the college paper. It was
my college paper, The College
very flattering that they were interest
of Staten Island "Banner", and
ed in my views and experiences as a
what power I could have. My voice
freshman at the College of Staten
reaches out to many classmates and
Island. To have my words in print was
that ’center^tage' is truly un-nerving.
overwhelming and a wonderful way to
I have the ability to influence my
be connected with the college, even
readers yet, I’d rather share my con
before I had become a student there.
cerns and anxieties of the experi
Yes, my articles were printed while I
ences I face as a freshman at the
was still a High School student. What
College of Staten Island. My voice is
a way to make an entrance into
just developing as a writer looking for
College. Wow!
a reason to use the 'written' word. I
My familiarity with the 'writterY
am truly an introvert so it is easier to
word is hereditary. My mom, Mindy
express myself better on paper,
and her twin sister, my Aunt Alison
sometimes.
were editors and columnists for The
I began writing for the "Banner"
College of Staten Island student
when I was a senior at St. John Villa
newspaper called the "Student Voice"
Academy.
I met my friend Luke
from 1978 to 1980. In June of 1980
Crisalli, a columnist and photographer
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AnneMarle
Like
t's a long running joke that guys can
tell what the girl they date will look like
in twenty years by checking out their
moms. Movie after TV show cracks a
joke at the idea of a man walking his
girlfriend home and checking out her
less than attractive mom, then running
away. But then the idea of finding out
what your date will look like after a few
moons have passed can be researched
by an evening with the parents. And this
is especially true for the ladies who
would like to see what kind of material
their men will end up turning into.
I
A father is a boy’s primary example
of manhood. How the father acts around
the house, to his wife, and to the son will
provide valuable life lessons that this
boy will carry on through his lifetime.
Making note of the patterns you see
around the house may ultimately tell you
if this is the guy for you.
During my freshman year of college
I became involved with a boy of ques
tionable disposition. Always inconsistent
and never able to make a real decision,
I was about to throw in the towel on my
first love when he invited me to a dinner
party at his family's house. Dinner with
the parents is always super scary, but I
decided to go for it, and see if his athome life had any clues for me on what
was going on. Instead, I learned a lot
more about him than I even wanted to
know.
From my first moment in the house,
his father was very nice, but {here was
something generally gloomy: about the
Father
overall family disposition. When the din
ner was finally over, and after two argu
ments across the table and separate
doors slamming, I saw the problem. My
boy had a less than perfect model of a
relationship to base his knowledge on.
His father had been out of work for thir
teen years, obviously upset because of
that plus the fact that he had nearly dou
bled his weight in the past decade and
was loosing control of his teenage
daughter. My boys model of manhood
was questionable in itself, clearly his
view on how to work in a relationship
would be cloudy.
On the opposite end of the spec
trum, my fiend Marisa went out with a
boy whose father she worked for. She
had her doubts from the beginning
because her boss was a notorious wom
anizer and was blatantly sleeping with
three women in her office, although he
was "happily" married for over 25 years.
She reasoned that this boy had to be on
the cheating end of the relationship
spectrum, having grown up with it
paraded in front of him since he was a
toddler. She ended up loving her first
date with him, and they continued to
date for a few weeks until he moved to
California for graduate school. This boy
ended up surprising us by doing the
exact opposite of what he’d seen as a
child.
"He was so disgusted with contantly seeing his mother upset with his
father's actions that he actually hated
cheating, and cheaters, and general dis
they graduated with Bachelor of Arts
degrees, but their passion for writing
still exists in many respects.
The
experiences and connections they
campus. What I say to you, class
mates, is get involved in a club, group
or even the 'Banner'. You will feel like
you are part of the 'voice' of the
College of Staten island.
made as participants of the college
paper were incredible. They were
often overwhelmed by feedback con
cerning articles they wrote or had
license to print in the paper. I am not
brave yet, but maybe one day I will
use my 'voice' in the form of the ’whi
m
ten' word to express my views, in a
positivg|or even a negative way.
I am growing in many rggpects,
but especially in my ^usage of my
words in print. I am vejy proud to be
a part of a family tradition with the
common participation of the writing for
the College of Staten Island school
paper. I truly feel like I am
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honesty," Marisa explained to me over a
late lunch following their last date. In this
situation, the boy actually understood
the dialectics of the relationship model
he was given, and saw it as an example
of what he wouldn't want. "He said he
never wanted to see anyone in the
amount of pain his mother was in," she
added.
And what about us ladies? Does
the relationship we see in our parents
have a significant impact on the men we
choose? Personally, I grew up without a
strong father model in my life. The first
half of my life was spent in an enormous
extended family with aunts and uncles
and grandparents, and the second half
with just my mom and myself. And the
memories that made the most impact on
me were the personal, quiet ones
between my mom and I. Does this mean
that having no father figure will make my
search for the perfect man ever pres
ent? Will I never be happy in love
because of my mothers relationship
downfalls? My previously mentioned
friend, Marisa, grew up without a strong
man
in her life, as well. She moved to
New York on her fifth birthday, from Italy,
with her mother, older sister, and slight
ly older brother, who was assumed man
of the household until he finally married
and moved. The relationship between
Marisa and her brother' was always
shaky, so one would have to assume
her relationships with boys would be
too? That couldn't be further from the
truth. Marisa is one of those girls you
envy. She's that girl who always man
ages to scout of the best guys, the most
guys, the nicest dates, and the most
fantastic relationships; the one's you
don't know whether to throw up around,
or start creating wedding plans for.
Do our parents provide an example
of the path we may choose to take when
we decide to pursue relationships?
Sure. Are they our only example? Does
their relationship, or lack thereof set in
stone what will become of our love
lives? Absolutely not. It's easy to place
the blame of our own failures on others,
especially our gene pool. It's a way to
look at our bad judgment calls and
expect our families mistakes to be the
reason we don't correct it. By examining
ourselves and our own roles in our fam
ilies we can better see how we relate to
the outside world. What makes us
upset? What are we good at?
What are we really looking for in
people we surround ourselves with?
That favorite uncle might not just be cool
because he always cleans up on poker
night; it might be a sign that you enjoy
the company of men who are efficient in
math. Or what about when you take
notice of your mothers daily grooming
ritual, boys? You might be silently instill
ing a love of women who wear red lip
stick into your core. Our family's may
not be a crystal ball with fortunes and
futures spelled out to us, but they .can
be the best clues, especially when we're
the ones examining ourselves.
�V
reland's pride earned the title "best
band on the planet" after playing 5
sold out shows at Madison Square
Garden. U2 played a 22 song set that
was energized by the city, the night,
the Garden, and of course the drunk
fans.
I
As a crowd of 20,000 cheered
them on, U2 dominated the stage (an
eggshaped contraption whose inner pit
was dubbed the "bomb shelter") and
audience with seemingly the same
energy and excitement as they had
had as teenagers performing at their
high school dances or on Top of the
Pops in the early 80's.
Drenched in red lighting, U2
opened with the upbeat "City of
BlindingLights", a song appropriately
written for New York City. As drummer
Larry Mullen Jr. banged the opening
beats of "Vertigo", everyone's favorite
"hflte to love/love to adore" front man
and wforld crusader, Bono, poked fun
at the fuss made over his counting dis
cretion. "It's time for a Spanish les
son," he exclaimed to the crowd.
"Yeah right!".
s*
And so began a night of emotions
for the fans. Treating first timers and
those who were attending their 18th
show, U2 indulged in a two and a half
hour set consisting of songs from
Bono's mullet days on Boy to the polit
ically driven How to Dismantle an
Atomic Bomb. With the band truly
comfortable
in
their own skin, not
only did it make
the show fantastic
but the believers
and
heathens
were treated to
the
Gospel
according
to
Bono,
and
preaching never
looked so good.
not give up, while a video presentation
of the human rights laws fuddled the
crowd's reaction. Well, that could've
also stemmed from the ghastly inges
tion of beer. During the performance of
"Love and Peace", Bono donned a
white headband
with
the
word
"COEXIST"
spelled
out in reli
gious sym
bols - writ
ten across
it; he pro-
claimed
New
York
Incorporated
"the capital
into stage show
of
COEXwas a visual light
I S T " .
U2’s Bono and Adam Clayton performed at MSG on
display that told a
Although,
October 8th, while The Edge (background) plays on.
story of human
Bono's clev
suffering and hope. A map of Africa,
erness got the best of him. After blind
along with flags of the African nations
folding himself with the headband, he
scrolled across strings of light which
came only a few steps from falling off
created the backdrop screens. The
the raised stage as he walked towards
science inspired "Miracle Drug", dedi
the microphone, only to be saved by a
cated to 'a doctor at Columbia
stagehand. And they say good help is
University, gave the fans a reason to
hard find.
Mary J. Blige*surprised the crowd
with a duet on the classic song "One".
The two artists had previously per
formed together for "Shelter from the
Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast"
on September 9th. Almost one month
later, Blige joined the group onstage
which inevitably turned the Garden
into a celebration. Too bad Bono's
voice couldn't match Blige's soulful
high notes.
U2's happiness at returning
"home" to New York City might have
been tarnished by a patina of fury over
the (now false) subway threats, evi
dent from Bono's defiant attitude and
shout outs during certain songs like
Sunday Bloody Sunday's, "This is your
song now!" and "No-one gets out of
here unless they're alive," during
Vertigo. The whole show seemed ;ike
a gigantic fuck you to those who would
threaten the city, from both U2 and all
the fans who still turned up in spite of
it all -and the weather.
With most U2 shows, anger
seems to make the performances
stand out. As Bono said, "it's really
going off here in the Garden," and it
was.
Apple Bottom Girls! You Make
the Rockin’ World Go ‘Round!
Name: Kirsten Donahue
Job: Sales Rep at Old
Navy
Shoes: Puma
Jeans: Vigoss
Shirt: Epic Button Up
Belt: Rainbow
Barings: Claire s
Favorite Brands: Seven
Jeans, Jordans, Diesel,
Joyce Leslie, and Apple
Bottom
Most Hated Brands: Ugg
Boots, Dogs in Pocketbook,
Doo Rags, Too tight pants
on guys.
Wants But Can’t Afford:
New Seven jeans and
Prada Shoes.
Photo: Tom Bradley
Name: Sade Jeannot
Job: Formerly of Wendy’s |
Kicks: Jordan 13 Retro
Jeans: Lot 29
Jacket: Lot 29
Top: Epic White Tee
Barings: Joyce Leslie
Bag: kathy
Favorite brands: Level X,
Joyce Leslie, Charlotte
Russe, Apple Bottom pants.
Most Hated Brands: GUnit, Girbaud, Enyce, Ecko
Red
Wants But Can’t Have: A
Diamond studded “S” pen
dant and chain.
�The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
October 24,2005
Dolphins Swim Laps Around Stevens Tech
Khadijah Rentas
active and not lounged around the house. He continued
swimming through college and although CSI has won the
last four CUNY Championships, he too worries about
he chlorinated water dripped from their bodies
like sweat as they climbed from the CSI pool
after each race. The men’s swimming team
worked hard with each stroke and triumphed last
Wednesday night over Stevens Tech in their season
T
the 100-butterfly and 500-freestyle. Other first place scor
ers included Fedosseev in the 100-breaststroke and Nick
Levintov in the 100-backstroke. In total, CSI victoriously
tapped the end of the pool first in seven of nine indi
vidual races.
Cattonar represented the Dolphins as the lone
diver in both the low and high dive, or what one judge
quietly described as the “sky dive.” Although Stevens
opener 110 to 89.
The Dolphins competed in two four man relays,
nine individual events and two diving sets. The men
began with an uncomfortable start, losing the four
man relay and 1,000-freestyle.
In the relay, each man swam 50 yards. The first
swam backstroke, the second breaststroke, the third
butterfly and the fourth freestyle. CSI led after Bill
Gagliardi’s swift backstroke, but slowed during Keith
Cattonar’s ailing breaststroke. Eugene Glebov’s but
terfly and Borislav Kheyson’s freestyle could not
regain the lead.
Vadzim Zhegun and Igor Gugnishev swam the
second event of the meet, a tiring 40-lap 1,000freestyle. They placed second and fourth, respective
Tech had no diver and Cattonar’s dives were unoffi
cial for this meet, the two gray-haired judges still
scored him, but the points did not contribute to the
overall team score, explained new assistant coach
Cheryl Guizdaloski who swam for CSI from 20012004.
Cattonar’s dives were judged on a scale from 1 10 with 9-10 as exceptional dives. He scored his best
on the low dive with a 5.5 and 5.5 for his forward dive
tuck and his best for his high dive with a 5.5 and 6.0
for his inward dive tuck. His high dive struggled more
overall though, with jumps from the spring board that
Jhoto: Khaclii i Rmade larger splashes and had looser form.
Members of the swim team do their Victory pose after beating Stevens Tech 110- 89.
The Dolphins dominated the meet against a for
From top left to bottom right: Anthony Traveno, Igor Gugnishev, Keith Cattonar, Eros
Qama and Nick Levintov.
midable opponent described as the toughest team to
ly.
beat this season. But both teams behaved with the
The afternoon before, Coach Oleg Soloviev, ten
utmost
sportsmanship. At the end of the meet, Stevens
Stevens Tech. “I don’t know,” he said of CSI’s chances of
year aquatic director veteran, coach of the women’s and
Tech
huddled
together and shouted, “2,4,6,8 who do we
winning. “It’s a good team we’re swimming against.”
men’s swimming teams and former National Soviet
appreciate? C-S-l!” The Dolphins returned the call from
Captain Qama, who wore a tiny black speedo unlike
Union team swimmer, treaded finely in his predictions of
across the blue water, “2,4,6,8 who do we appreciate?
the maroon speedos or tight trunks known as jammers his
the meet against Stevens Tech. “We’ll see,” he said
Stevens Stevens yea Stevens!”
teammates strutted, agreed with Coach Soloviev and
about whether the Dolphins could win. “They are the
Within the CUNY Conference, Lehman College
Fedosseev. “We’re not sure,” he said. “It’s our first meet so
strongest team we will face the whole season.”
stands as the no.2 team, but that doesn’t change the
we still don’t know the full capability of the teams.”
Third year swimmers Vladimir Fedosseev and
Dolphins goals. The men already hold the record for the
Qama did not have to worry about his capabilities by
Captain Eros Qama had similar concerns about the
most consecutive championships for any CSI team and
the end of the meet. He remarked, “I swim because it’s the
strength and ability of the opposition.
aim to raise the bar. “We’re planning to hold this title as
only thing I know how to do - good,” and he proved his
Fedosseev, a 20-year-old junior, said he began
CUNY champions again for the fifth year,” said Coach
fish-like talent. After the first two event losses, Qama
swimming as a child because his parents wanted him
Soloviev.
swam the 200-freestyle and won. He then placed first in
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The
College
of
Staten
Island
October 10,2005
CHIEF LIBRARIAN MEETS GOALS, FACES CHALLENGES
CUNY Security
Breach
Clifford Weimer
CSI Brass SC Teamsters
Steward Duel Over
candidate from New York University.
Jones has been with the CSI library
Campus Safety
since September 1992. She has steadily
Students' Personal
W
Information At Risk
ilma Jones eye catches a yellow
climbed the ranks for the past thirteen
model Volkswagen Bus and
years. She was awarded the position of
Chief Librarian in January of last year after
car she ever drove, as a ten-year-old girl
in on an interim basis since July of
acting
Sierra Leone, South Africa.
2002.
On the lush
Kevin S.P. Mamakas
Should Peace Officers
grins because that was the first
was
Carry Guns?
She
chosen
AnnMarie Costello
campus of CSI
after a nation
it is impossible
wide
In an age of heightened awareness
to not notice its
because of her
CSI peace officers currently carry hand
about identity theft,
largest building.
immediate
cuffs, pepper spray, and nightsticks.
reported that more than seven-hundred
Three
mam
impact as the
However, CSI, like all CUNY schools
CUNY students, employees, and former
moth
stories
employees have had their social securi
high,
the CSI
Newsday
has
search
acting
Chief
Librarian.
(with the exception of Lehman College in
the Bronx) has chosen not to provide
ty numbers made public on a 32-page
library is home
“Most
EXCEL spreadsheet that
to a priceless
people in my
“We have probably the safest cam
accessed by a simple Google search.
collection
position would
pus in the CUNY system,” said Vice
More information inadvertantly made
resources and
have
public featured a 100-page file that
information
in
scared
the
of
show
initia
books, periodi
tive,”
Jones
said.
“I was
could
be
Continued on page 3
form
of
cals, computer
labs, archives,
and
films
“Helping people has led me to grow as a person in a different
way,” CSI’s Chief Librarian Wilma Jones said. “I want to share
my views on a life from another world
to
to
President
for
Administration,
Finance
Angelo
J.
and
Aponte.
“Overwhelmingly the types of incidents
active imme
diately.”
name a few. It is the college’s most impor
Jones was not content to keep things
tant building. To keep such an extraordi
running as they were; she wanted to make
nary facility running as flawlessly as it does
things better. In her short tenure as acting
takes an equally special person. That per
Chief Librarian she changed the home-
son is the Chief Librarian, Wilma Jones.
page, refurnished the entire first floor,
Jones exudes intelligence and enthu
After a security snafu, the Social Security num
bers of more than three-hundred Queens College
Law Students appeared on the internet. They
have since been removed.
been
officers with firearms.
recruited new people and created the dig
siasm. Nearly six feet tall, she has a smile
ital learning lab.
that seems almost as big as the building
been made permanent, she has done
she works in.
much more.
Her qualifications are
Since her position has
notable, earning two Masters degrees
The library is not without it’s prob
from Northern Illinois University; Library
lems. Laura Scott a junior at the college is
Vice-President Angelo J. Aponte asserted that
CSI remains one of the safest schools in the sys
tem, and no need exists for armed peace officers.
and Information studies in 1992 and
English in 1990. Jones is now a Doctorate
that we do have, involve students with
Continued on page 3
cars bumping into each other while going
in and out of parking lots, or arguments
over parking spots.”
Students Fall Victim to Ticket Scam
But on September 4, 2004, a dis
pute over a parking summons occurred
behind the Campus Center, and it quick
David Maltz
“People arenl really allowed to come
organization charged with enforcing the
ly escalated into a brawl. A group of men,
to the campus to solicit,” she said. “It’s
ban and removing the solicitors from cam
which included two former CSI students,
t’s a practice that’s been going on for
been going on several years.” Brower
pus. “Public Safety is aware,” Brower said.
attacked and injured four peace officers.
years. Salesman enter classrooms sell
noted that many times, what appears to
“Public Safety tells them they aren’t
It took eleven minutes for the NYPD to
ing discounted tickets to comedy clubs
be free entrance to a club or cruise comes
allowed on campus.”
arrive. In an interview given to the Staten
and cruises, and claim that they are rep
with strings attached, such as a $10 drink
I
resenting the Office of Student Life.
minimum, and that students arenl always
‘They can’t do it without Student
Government
Approval,”
Island Advance, CSI peace officer and
saidGene
union shop steward, Shawn Rutz stated:
There’s just one problem: They have no
adequately informed of these conditions
Martinez, Director of Public Safety. “Once
“We’re required to confront criminal sus
affiliation with the Office of Student Life at
when they purchase tickets. “Our students
they [public safety] are notified that some
pects without weapons. It’s ridiculous.
all.
are potentially being ripped off,” she said.
one entered the classroom, they escort
How do you do police work without police
‘The Office of Student Life would
However, an informal survey of sev
them off of the campus.” Despite that, the
equipment? We have police authority,
never go into classrooms,” said Carol
eral students by The Banner revealed that
college has no planned legal recourse
yet we have no weapons. It doesn’t
Brower, Director of Student Life. “We want
students were unaware that solicitation
against the solicitors and in the meantime
make any sense.” Although Rutz feels
to keep Student Life separate from aca
goes on and none wanted to directly com
they keep coming back for more.
confident expressing his opinion, numer
demic life.”
ment. However, according to Brower, the
The college has begun to notify stu
ous other Public Safety officers inter
According to Brower, individuals and
illicit activity is still going on. “WeVe gotten
dents of the scam by posting notices in
viewed for this article declined to com
corporations are banned from coming on
many students coming to the Office of
CLUE News and by sending out e-mails to
ment.
campus to solicit to students, yet despite
Student Life asking for the discount tick
students.
the ban, corporations continue to send
ets,” she said. “Only we weren’t offering
Brower encourages any students
cle was released, Officer Rutz received a
part time workers to CSI to do just that.
anything. That’s how we found out about
who encounter the salespeople to notify
warning from the administration to refrain
Many of these workers are apparently
it.”
Public Safety immediately.
unaware that what they’re doing is illegal.
The Office of Public Safety is the
After the Staten Island Advance arti
Continued on page 3
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Saying "I take responsibility" Is
Not Enough
Uninformed Attacks on Bush Carry No Weight
Matthew Bellino
of classes, papers, part time or full time
With the massive media coverage of
America’s affairs, what is subjective
truth, what is definitive, and what is your
actual opinion?
Throughout our nation’s lifetime,
we have been bombarded with various
sources telling us what the truth is. Now
that we are involved in yet another con
troversial war (as if war could ever not
be controversial) and we are being dev
astated
by
natural
disasters,
the
detailed
explanations of corruption
within our governmental leadership hits
us like the bombisings in Iraq.
Here at the college of Staten
Island, as an English major, I have
watched many of my writing and read
ing courses somehow be turned into
political science classes. With one
mention of politics, war, and specifically
the infamous George W. Bush, the
classroom erupts into an all out attack
on America. If you listen to too many
people on campus, you’ll hear that not
only were both of our past elections
stolen from us by the Republican Party,
but also that Bush is a complete ignora
mus. You’ll hear how it is actually his
fault for the war, and his fault for New
Orleans.
The consistent issue of the berat
jobs, and the pursuit of at least a little
Ron Aguilera
ing and belittlement of our 43rd presi
time of relaxation can seem to beat stu
dent, on a personal level gets under my
dents over the head like a Louisville
As appeared at SalsaMerengue.com
skin. It seems that every comedian,
slugger. I know personally how difficult
A few days ago, when glancing through one
actor, actress, show host, and profes
it is to manage time, but that shouldn’t
of the local newspapers, I read a response
sor wants to prove that Bush is some
be an excuse for us not to know what is
from President Bush to a reporter’s question
miserable idiot that can’t find his way
going on in our nation. This article is
about the government’s capacity to react to
out of a paper bag. There is no conclu
written as a call to back up one’s politi
a catastrophic situation, and his answer was
sive proof that both elections were ille
cal opinion. One professor here at CSI
a puzzling and petrifying reverberation of
gitimately won. In fact for every “cry
asked his class about the issue of war
the question. “I want to know how to better
baby proof” that the Democrats have,
in Iraq. Students were asked to respond
cooperate with state and local government,
the Republican Party has opposing
to articles and tell if they were “proud of
to be able to answer that very question that
“proof.” But what about George W.?
the war.” Sophomore Mark Hansen said
you asked: Are we capable of dealing with a
Does six years as Texas Governor (the
that he was when asked for his view,
severe attack or another severe storm? And
first in Texas history with consecutive 4-
but later thought deeper about the
that’s a very important question.”
year terms), a bachelor’s degree in his
question. “Am I really proud of for? No,
If Michael Brown, the director of the
tory from Yale University, a Master of
of course not. Am
I supportive of
Federal Emergency Management Agency,
Business Administration from Han/ard
America? Absolutely. Does anyone in
was slow to react, President Bush should
Business School, and service in the
that class really know enough to legiti
have reacted faster than him and anybody
mately talk about it? No.”
else. And even though it was said that the
Texas Air National Guard all amount to
president has the resting pulse of an athlete,
Being stupid simply because he can’t
Do you know enough? The next
a;ways speak as well as most politi
time someone writes an article on Iraq,
cians?
a
or you hear Chris Rock bash Bush, will
Many people, including Howard Dean
genious; what I am saying is that if peo
you know enough to come to a conclu
and rapper Kanye West, are accusing
ple are going to bas him, do it legiti
sive opinion of your own? We are the
President Bush of racism. Their accusations
mately, don’t just cop out and say how
next generation. We will be the next
wouldn’t have any foundations if it wasn’t for
dumb he is. If you have a problem with
Governors, Mayors and Presidents. We
the fact that New Orleans is a city com
our President, back it up with reasoning
as American citizens should be able to
posed of 67.25% of Blacks or African
that makes sense.
support more than our troops, we
Americans (U.S. Census 2000).
I’m
not saying
Bush
is
The same goes for the war we are
raging in Iraq right now. A full schedule
he also has the reflexes of a turtle.
“I don’t think it’s racism, I think it’s eco
should be able to support our own
nomic,” Colin Powell said. “But poverty dis
views.
proportionately affects African-American in
this country.” Well, Mr. Powell, so why does
it affect African-Americans so out of propor
tion?
Over 10,000 Participate in NYC Tunnel to Towers Run
Racism or not, the truth is that
President Bush failed to take opportune
action and this brought uncertainty to the
Matthew Safford
West Brighton native Stephen Siller could
not have known the impact his actions
would have when he strapped on his fire
fighting gear and ran into the Brooklyn
Battery Tunnel headed toward the World
Trade Center on September 11, 2001,
never to be seen again.
But four years later at the annual
’Tunnel to Towers Run," as 10,000 partici
pants, and thousands of volunteers and
supporters gathered to commemorate Siller
and the 342 other firefighters who died that
day, the impact of their sacrifice on the city
they served is clearly astounding.
Equal parts memorial, fund raiser, and
community healing event, the 5 kilometer
run is an opportunity for the people of New
York to come together and build something
positive from the wreckage of that dark day
four years ago.
At this year's run, amputees from the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with artificial
limbs, firefighters from London, and two
Banner staffers, Luke Crisalli and Tom
Bradley were among the thousands at the
Brooklyn starting line on the cool Sunday
morning.
Starting out on the Brooklyn-Queens
Expressway, the runners followed in the
footsteps of Siller and passed through the
Brooklyn
tribute band, the
Battery
packed crowd of
The War in Iraq and the fight for
Tunnel,
runners, press, vol
“democracy" has become his primary con
where
unteers and sup
cern. And the reality is, as Pulitzer Prize
343 fire
porters
mingled
winner Jimmy Breslin points out in his arti
fighters
and enjoyed food
cle, While Bush Fiddles, New Orleans Dies,
wearing
from sponsors who
that President Bush has Told Americans to
banners
set up booths along
send donations to the Red Cross and the
bearing
the end of Vesey
Salvation Army while his administration
t
Street.
sends billions and billions of tax money to
h
e
general public in the United States.
names
Prior to this
and like
year, the event had
Not surprisingly, according to the AP-
nesses
raised close to a
Ipsos poll President Bush’s popularity has
of all the
million dollars for
dropped below 40%. In contrast, the
firemen
various
who
The crowd listens as Former Mayor Rudolhp Guiliani addresses the
crowd.
his personal war in Iraq.”
charities,
Venezuelan firm Datanalisis divulged that
including The New
the results of the lasts poll were in favor of
died on
York
Firefighter’s
President Chavez, with 71.2 % saying that
9/11
Burn
Center
they like how the government is being run.
stood, cheering them on. After exiting the
Foundation, and this years event was big
So who is really doing the right thing for their
tunnel, the runners went to the comer of
ger and more successful than ever. As the
country?
Vesey and West Street, greeted by throngs
NYC community heals, they seem to have
President Bush was on vacation dur
of supporters who waited and cheered near
taken the familiar motto “never forget’ to
ing Hurricane Katrina, and some say that he
the finish line.
heart.
After the run, the banner-bearing fire
While holding on to their memories of
is putting into practice the art that he learned
from his father: how To vacation through an
Giuliani-
the loved ones lost, they have begun to
marched in a procession to the end of
accomplish something monumental. The
Hopefully, New Orleans and all the
Vesey Street. The former Mayor later spoke
terrorists may have succeeded in knocking
places that were destroyed by the hurricane
at the event alongside Fire Commissioner
down a few buildings, but through events
will be cleaned and rebuilt soon, so that
Nicholas Scoppetta and Siller’s brother
like the Tunnel to Towers run, out of the
everyone can go back to their homes. But
George, who presented one of the awards
ashes of a tragedy, the spirit of community
cleaning the image and reconstructing the
given out by his brother’s foundation.
which holds all New Yorkers together is
confidence in President Bush is going to be
growing ever-stronger.
Public Relation’s Mission Impossible.
fighters—led
by
Rudolph
After the speeches and songs by
Danny Rodriguez and a Bruce Springsteen
Apocalypse.”
�October 10,2005
Jones
Continued 1
Katherine Wilson, a senior who works in
ones that are harder for the average stu
the library has noticed the change.
dent to afford. ‘The bookstore is still mak
“The library especially the computer
ing a profit, Jones said.
rooms are busier than I have ever seen
As much of a treasure she is to the
them, Wilson said. “If your Professor gives
college, Jones’s community service spans
unhappy with the behavior of some of the
you notes on Blackboard, (The internet
the globe. She was recently awarded the
students. “Sometimes some of the other
posting site) you have to visit the library to
NAACP Humanitarian award for her work
people get too noisy, Scott said. “It can be
learn how to use it.”
hard to study in the day. You are also not
Jones
helping immigrants from Africa.
recognizes the
increasing
She is
active in a non-profit organization called
supposed to eat in the library but everyone
diversity as a value to be cherished. One
NAH WE YONE, which means, “It is our
does.”
imaginative program that Jones is espe
own.” The group is helping refugees from
the gulf coast recover after hurricane
Jones admits that she would like
cially proud of is the Virtual Classroom, a
more security in the building but she has
course that teaches students from CSI,
Katrina. Jones’s eagerness to help others
larger issues in her mind.
Turkey, South Africa, China and more.
comes from a dark time in her life.
“My biggest challenge is finding new
Jones is also proud of The Tuesday Film
ways to get students into the library,” Jones
Fest in the Library shows films from all over
through a civil war,” Jones said.
said. “We try hard to consistently come up
the world to students, who then write feed
here in America unable to do anything but
with new ideas for programs that will get
back to Jones.
students to come.”
“I was
rely on others to help my family. I will never
Jones convinced the Auxiliary servic
Jones is succeeding in her goal. Last
es to allow the library to discontinue text
year, Jones said that 400 more students
books that were in the eight to ten to fifteen
used that Library than the year before.
dollar range in favor of the more expensive
CO
“In the 1990s, my country was going
forget what others did for me; in return I will
always aid however needs it.”
campus. After completing their work, the
Security Breach
Peace Officers Armed?
officers have to place their weapon in a
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locked box. An area on campus would
need to be set aside strictly for the pur
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“It’s a human error,” said CUNY
press. Both Aponte and Director of
precautions would have to be taken to
spokesman Michael Arena. “Once we
Public Safety Gene Martinez deny that
prevent unauthorized persons from gain
became aware of it, we immediately
the administration wanted to downplay
ing access to the weapons.
identified that problem and protected
the parking lot brawl, and have claimed
Both Aponte and Martinez asserted
that Officer Rutz violated CUNY guide
that CSI’s peace officers would not be
that file.”
lines by divulging the names of the per
issued a firearm anytime in the near
ple affected telling them how to go about
petrators as well as other information
future. “The fact is we have taken steps
protecting there identities, and it blamed
contained on the incident report.
to address the weakest aspects of public
CUNY sent out a memo to the peo
the central CUNY computer for not
enabling a privacy setting on the files.
V
ENRIQUE INOCENTE
forgets that I am a union official,” coun
safety,
through
staffing,
physical
changes in the landscape, and capital
improvements in terms of lighting, and
CUNY student who decided one day in
even publicly on issues that affect the
the end result is where we are right now,”
mid September to Google their own
health, safety and general welfare of our
said Aponte.
name. Some people do it for entertain
officers. I made the moral decision to go
But Officer Rutz remains concerned
ment reasons, but now they will be doing
public with this information out of a gen
about the possibility of campus alterca
it to make sure that a human or machine
uine concern for the safety of the people
tions. “It is our position that any delay,
error did not release there information.
I represent. We strongly felt that the
whether it be 30 seconds or two minutes
administration’s policies did not address
in length in the response time to a violent
our genuine safety concerns. I could not
incident,
accessed 217 times between July and
stand by and wait for another officer to
firearm, is far too long,” said Officer Rutz.
September, before the files cache were
be hurt or possibly killed.”
The
details
official
that
the
CUNY
Hunter
explanation
files
were
especially one requiring
a
Gene Martinez believes that the
hand,
peace officers’ uniformed presence, and
claimed that Rutz may have had financial
frequent patrolling of the campus acts as
This error has caused a great deal
gain in mind at the time he spoke to the
a deterrent because most criminals do
of concern in CUNY. The thing that is
Advance. “Officer Rutz is a union shop
not want to enter a situation where they
most frightening is that there is currently
steward, and as a shop steward, he is
are outnumbered or can be positively
no way to know if this has ever hap
trying to get more money for his mem
identified. “It is my firm belief that a city
taken off Google the Friday after the
error was detected.
MATTHEW BECK
“The administration conveniently
tered Rutz. “I have the right to comment
The error was discovered by a
MATT SAFFORD
pose of storing weapons. Extra safety
included direct deposit bank information.
from discussing future incidents with the
Martinez,
on
the
other
THOMAS BRADLEY
pened before. Some staff members in
bers. If officers are armed, the appeal or
college, a college within the confines of a
ANNMARIE COSTELLA
other CUNY colleges like CSI have not
the process for getting them more money
major city, has no need for firearms at all.
ANNEMARIE DOOLING
even heard about the security slip in
is a lot easier than if they’re unarmed.”
ANNE DEMARZO
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
KHADIJAH RENTAS
LAUREN TAYLOR
Hunter of Queens College.
The security of the student and staff
In fact, I think there would be more of a
Officer Rutz maintained that he was
problem with accidentally discharging or
motivated solely out of genuine concern
unjustifiably discharging a firearm, at a
for the safety and well being of his offi
student or someone else than there is
become an unexpected and unreason
cers. “I am an unpaid volunteer union
with self-preservation of the officers."
able issue that involves all of CUNY.
official. I have no power to bargain for
“I wholeheartedly support the col
CUNY students and staff should not
contracts or financial compensation,”
lege’s position regarding our Public
have to worry about our security in a
said Mr. Rutz.
Safety officers and the decision that they
private
information
in
CUNY
has
place that is supposed to be our second
If the decision were made to arm the
not carry firearms,” said Vice President
home. The information is not believed to
for Student Affairs, Carol Jackson. “Our
FRANK ARNONE
peace officers, several new factors
be purposely leaked out, but it is almost
would need to be addressed. Weapons
Public Safety Officers have done a won
MATTHEW BELLINO
as bad as if it were stolen by an insider.
derful job keeping the community safe.”
MARISSA GESSIN
training would be expensive and time
The information was slipped past securi
consuming. The officers would need to
Some students like 23-year old
GREG TUMBARELLO
ty and that is what matters.
complete a ten-day, full time course, in
David Jaramillo agree that the introduc
The University has initiated new
order to qualify to carry a firearm and
tion of firearms would do more harm than
security measures and testing proce
attend an additional full day training
good. “I think it would be a bad idea to
dures to prevent future slips. There will
course twice a year. Armed peace offi
give
also be a person on the job monitoring
cers that work within the CUNY system
because what if someone takes their
the system soon.
are only allowed to carry a gun while on
weapon away and uses it on them. It will
RON AGUILERA
CLIFFORD WEIMER
PAMELA ZAMBRANO
the
peace
officers
weapons
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
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�WSIA Prepares To Go Digital—But Can Anyone Listen?
Marissa Gessin
ome people may be unaware of a
S
profitable and dynamic club on
campus. CSI owns the only radio
station in Staten Island, WSIA.
With the largest sign on campus, stu
dents still mistake WSIA for the bookstore.
After they realize that they have in fact not
entered the bookstore, students then turn
around and leave instead of inquiring
about one of the most advanced college
radio stations in America. Over the next
few years, WSIA will become even more
Ladley had the responsibility of overseeing
Most people may know what a CD
the move of the entire radio station. It was
player is, or an on-air board, but very few
Student Life. “It is also a tool for the college
through this experience that the students
people know what a cart is. Carts were
to promote itself. They won’t let it flounder,
realized Ladley was a necessity. “By the
important tools for radio, however they will
fall apart.” Through their new understanding
time the place
soon be obso
of the importance of WSIA, the college was
was put togeth
lete.
able to obtain a grant allowing for the
er,"
A student run organization, WSIA
does work hand in hand with the college
itself. ‘There are two types of college radio
stations,”
says
John
Ladley,
Chief
Engineer. ‘The first is the student run (into
the ground) radio station. The second is
the station that is run by the college. Many
times the stations are part of the curricu
lum. WSIA is so unique because we have
struck a balance between the two.”
As the story goes, some kids at the
old CSI campus began their own radio sta
tion in a broom closet. After a few years it
grew into something a little more then a
closet. When Ladley joined WSIA in the
winter of 1991, the station had only three
rooms, an on-air studio, a news studio
(secondary studio) and a production room.
In 1993-94 The College of Staten Island
moved to the Willowbrook campus and
As
a
dynamic medi
upgrade of the Production Studio. “It will be
Ladley, “I was
um,
completely digitalized. This process does
made
explains
radio
always
not effect the sound that a consumer
Engineer,
changes.
hears," Ladley explained, “but it does
never
WSIA
change the quality of the pieces made.”
Chief
really
must
wanted the job,
change
too.
Continuing the process of keeping up
just kind of got
Soon WSIA will
with the standards means digital transmis
it."
be
advanced. Evolving like other radio sta
tions, WSIA is going digital.
career'’ explained Carol Brower, Director of
Staten
sion. “I’m not convinced that consumers are
only
on board with this,” says Ladley. ‘They will
Island’s
The on-air
radio
have to go out and buy new digital radios for
The
their homes and cars.” In order to receive
over twice and
process will be
the digital transmission, consumers must
the production
a
studio
been
digital
has
station.
done
long
and
have digital receivers. The grant money
studio will see
John Ladley has been at WSIA for 14 years. He is helping
tedious
one,
does not cover making the transmitter digi
its
WSIA transition to digital broadcasting.
as the Chief
tal. WSIA will have to raise that money itself,
Engineer,
and it costs from $75,000-$100,000. That
shortly. Every time, students have been
Ladley will have to work with and teach
number does not include installing the new
heavily involved. Ladley, wearing Levi’s, a
students as they go. Although his technical
machinery.
black polo shirt, about 20 small silver
skills brought him to his current job, Ladley
While always a step ahead of what
hoops in his ears with his long brown mul
has a huge task ahead of him. He knows
other college stations are doing, WSIA con
tinues to flourish. Unlike stations where the
fifth
makeover
let gelled back, always teaches the stu
that installing everything will take days. “I
dents how the process works. “I learned
know what I’m up against,” he says with a
students lack any supervision, WSIA and
how to fix a board, CD players, and dual
smirk.
the administration of CSI work together.
monitors,” explains Laura Parnizari, the
In past years the relationship between
Also, unlike other college stations, the
student Engineering director at WSIA. “I
the college administration and WSIA had
administration doesn’t control what could
have taken apart carts, CD and tape play
been lacking. It was not until recently
be a fun, as well as a learning environment.
ers. Also, I helped install the new (on-air)
where the college realized the potential
The college and WSIA have mutual
board. It was agonizingly painful. All the
that WSIA has. ‘The college has come to
respect. “Other college stations run by the
wires had to be stripped and have little pins
realize what a great tool WSIA is for recruit
administrations don’t make leaders,” Ladley
attached. It was a lot to learn.”
ing people who are interested in radio as a
says. ‘They make sheep.”
Job Listings Available at Career Placement Center
Khodijoh Rentas
student that discovered an internship
resume referral service, the office alert
became career placement, scholarships
Hundreds of students pass it each
ed him through mail last semester of a
and awards,” said Joanne Hollan, assis
opportunity
semester on their path to renewing their
full-time job opening in his field. He
tant director of the newly named Career
through the center. She landed the job
parking decal for sorely overcrowded
called the contact at the company to
and Scholarship Center. “We really
and had a successful experience, said
lots. It is an office one can almost see
learn of the position and heard he need
wanted to be a resource for students.”
Hollan.
through if not for the dozens of small
ed to first graduate before he could
rectangular papers taped to the win
obtain that particular job. “You have that
experience
Hollan
munications and music major student
dows. A close read of those papers
piece of paper,” said Henriquez. “You
joined CSI in October 2000. She works
from Japan who asked Hollan to spend
advises students of the full-time jobs
have that degree you have a high
directly with students -as does Watkins-
more time with him on his interview
available in their field of study. The
chance of getting a job.”
Trained in psychotherapy and with
as a
counselor,
with
Goldman
Sachs
Others have reported, like a com
on resume development, interviewing
skills because he was self-conscious
in
The range of programs provided by
skills and application processes. Some
about his English. He scored a job with
1A105 stands as more than an office to
the Career and Scholarship Center
of the more popular scholarships and
Sony, said Hollan.
just look at from the outside. A few min
allow CSI graduates to remain competi
fellowships
utes inside can change a student’s life.
tive with other recent graduates in the
Women
K.
appear in the computer job database.
Through the glass and inside the
job market, said Caryl Watkins, director
Watson Fellowship, and the Soros
Available to students in the center.
Career and Scholarship Center sit staff
of the center for the last 11 years. The
Foundation
Scholarship
New
Watkins lists this as a complaint some
members ready to help any student
resume critique service has anywhere
Americans.
Deutch
Clear
students have. However, students that
interested in how to gain future employ
from 30 to 100 resumes in a week, said
Channel, and Oppenheimer rank as the
obtain jobs or internships outside of the
ment and valuable scholarship dollars.
Watkins. Most students use the service
more
center’s database do say they had help
Career
and
Scholarship
Center
include
Scholarship,
popular
100
Hispanic
Jeannette
for
Bank,
internships
students
The position with Sony did not
On a desk, brochures publicize the cen
in conjunction with job fairs like the SI
receive through leads from the Career
interviewing and taking advantage of
ter’s activities. Across from the desk and
Collegiate Job Fair organized by the
and Scholarship Center. However, the
the other services like the resume cri
against the window, a resume drop-off
center. “We’re trying to leave an impres
center has difficulty following the overall
tique.
box. Here students can deposit their
sion,” said Watkins. “And the best way
success of students.
resumes and return to a professionally
to do that is to go to the students.”
Hollan
insists the
Career
and
“Once they graduate and once they
Scholarship Center not be interpreted
The Career and Scholarship Center
get the job of their dreams rarely do they
as a job agency to students. Instead, it
offers 26 workshops in six categories
report back to us,” said Hollan. “And it’s
prepares students through workshops
Henriquez typed the advised edits
this semester including “What is an
not a problem just for CSI but nation
and events like the business etiquette
of his resume he received just minutes
Internship and How Do I get One” and
wide.”
before into one of the five computers
“Interviewing Techniques & Tips.”
edited
version.
Miguel
Henriquez
received on the spot attention.
luncheon and career expo to develop
Sometimes Hollan hears of suc
skills necessary to achieve the job of
available in the Career and Scholarship
Along with special events,, the
cess stories by chance when she unex
their choice. “You’re not born knowing
Center. A senior with a major in busi
Career and Scholarship Center also
pectedly sees a student she remem
how to interview. You’re not born know
ness and finance, Henriquez used the
advises students on scholarship and fel
bered obtained an internship or fellow
ing how to network,” said Watkins. “You
popular resume critique service provid
lowship opportunities. “When I came in
ship through the office.
need people to help.”
ed last semester, too. As part of the
we were just career placement and then
Such was the case with a female
�October 10,2005
Letters To The Editor
From the
Editor
Continued from page 3
Re: ‘The Student Behind The Mask
With Fall upon us, things will slowly
start to change. It will get colder (hard to
believe given how warm it’s been), the
days will get shorter, and leaves will fall
from their trees. The Banner is no
exception.
Enrique
Editor/Graphic
Innocente,
who
worked harder than just about everyone
else on this issue (not that the rest of us
of us slacked off; we all had to work our
asses off thanks to last week’s crazy
schedule).
But that’s not all. We have a fall
fashion section brought to you by Tom
Bradley.
Mellissa
Seecharan
and
Enrique Innocente teamed up to cover
Across the Narrows, spending an aston
ishing 13 hours there just to see Oasis
perform.
On a more somber note, the 4th
annual Tunnel to Towers run was held in
memory of Staten
Island firefighter
I really enjoyed reading this upbeat
postman. If people don’t read their snail
sense of how much he loves his job and
mail that’s one thing, but the CIX system
in the woods, waiting to get me when I go
the money involved. I would love to see
is useless to the vast majority of the
to my car?” said 22-year-old, Jaclyn
more feel good stories like this one in
students in the first place.
Alessi. “It’s very unsettling.” According to
The Banner. Scott Zeller did a great job
put together an awesome, compelling
photo spread.
So long for now* and keep reading
The Banner.
-David Maltz
SG Recap
meeting to discuss student concerns.
tion,” said SG senator Robert Duru. "It must
fessor and a CSI alumnus, who once
served as the President of the CSI Student
Government, stressed the importance of
voting in local and statewide elections. She
stated that perhaps Staten Island business
es could be asked to donate funds for
scholarships.
"What is being done to make sure CSI stu
“Success
Indeed, poor lighting, dense wood
great. Students who read it saw how
ed areas, minimal ID checks, level 1 and
2
hard
and
networking
is
offenders
on
campus,
and
wondering if the potential for violence
may be growing.
hear their coach, Vito, on the sidelines
who did not participate in extracurricular
screaming in Italian at the refs or the
activities.
and gets his players pumped up. This
team and the atmosphere at the game.
said
24-year-old
student,
Nakibar Loney. ‘They should at least be
-Jennifer Miller, Junior
article captures the spirit of the soccer
-They have a great chance of making the
“I think that the officers should be
armed,”
other coaches. He is awesome though
able to protect themselves. CSI is an
open school. Someone could claim that
“Re:
After
Katrina,
the
Cronyism
they are coming here for one reason,
Continues”
when they really intend to do something
together and strangely as they ate doing
The extent of the failure of the federal
these problems in the past, but the stu
now.
government in dealing with the disasters
dent population is increasing.”
NCAA tournament if they keep playing
-Carinne Fassari, Junior
Re:
“Seldom
Blamed
For
Used
CIX
Accounts
Failed
Sex
Offender
Notification”
else. We may not have had to deal with
of the past month may never be known.
The presence of level 1 and level 2
How the government amends these
sex offenders on campus has also raised
mistakes and asserts it’s willingness to
students’ safety concerns. Aponte indi
change will end up deciding the county’s
cated that numerous precautions were
future. Hard issues face politicians in
being taken as a result of their presence,
the
coming
years,
especially
including knowing where and when
Republicans. It’s time to pay more atten
these individuals are on campus, at all
I happen to agree that the failed use of
tion to the environment of the world and
times. “We are mindful of the fact that we
CIX accounts could’ve played a role in
the people of America. These are chal
have a level 1 and a level 2 sex offender
nobody knowing about a sex offender or
lenges that Republicans notoriously
on campus, and we have taken internal
anything else for that matter. I didn’t
avoid. If Republicans don’t change, the
steps to address that,” said Aponte.
even know what a CIX account was until
majority of the political affiliations of
That information is confidential and we
last semester, and I wouldn’t know how
those we elect will.
are not going to share that with you.”
CSI relies on the 122nd police
-Cliff Weimer, Junior
better informed on
them.
precinct to provide any additional aid that
they might need. Martinez feels confi
“Re: Remedy Performs at CSI”
dent that the expert training and quick
response time of the NYPD would be
-Mike Smith, Junior
Re:
“Seldom
Blamed
For
The
title
“Jewish
Rapper
Remedy
more than sufficient should any incident
Performs” is a little problematic. When I
requiring firearms present itself. The
Used
CIX
Accounts
first read it, I thought the article was
very nature of any law enforcement
Failed
Sex
Offender
going to be about him performing. But it
activity is dangerous. There is always an
Notification”
focused more on his Jewish background
element of what if I come up against
rather than the actual performance.
someone that is better armed than me or
This is my fourth year at CSI. I have
More people would have liked to hear
better trained than me,” he said. “No one
received numerous letters from the
about that. However, the article was
has ever asked a law enforcement officer
school about many things. From my
informative on his work in the Jewish
to be a hero. If an officer realizes that he
acceptance letters, to information about
community. Maybe you should have
is in a situation where he is overpow
about parking and invitations to partici
tried a title like “Remedy Raps for
ered, then he retreats and calls for assis
pate in leadership events. Every one of
Jewish Community.”
tance."
these items have come in the mail. I
Gene Martinez argued that there
-Mario Cardaci, Senior
ing something good will be there. The
College relies too heavily on the CIX
academic departments may exclude some
‘We have to look into doing more things like
“It was great to see an initiative that started
that,” said SG President, Taiwo Olasupo.
a while back go from one student govern
“It think it is great for students to have
ment to another and continue until it was
access to members of the Board of
resolved,” said Brower. “It shows that stu
Trustees,” Said Carol Brower, Director of
dents do have a voice, administrators listen
Student Life.
and changes are made.”
Affairs
Student Government meetings for October
Commission (ACA) announced that after a
are scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 6th and
four-year campaign, the Faculty Senate has
20th. Meetings are held in 1C-206 during
approved the Pass/Fail option. The resolu-
dub hours: 150 - 3:30 p.m.
regard to the jurisdiction they have to
enforce certain laws and make certain
After reading the Banner this week, an
tion generally applies to electives, and the
are differences between peace officers
and police officers; specifically with
“Re:Women’s Volleyball”
system. For those with Internet access,
courses.
Curricular
sex
have an extreme advantage over those
Business and Marketing dubs, cospon
and
the remaining woods.
The article on Marissa Gessin was
After college, people like Marissa will
sored the well-attended Business All Stars.
Academic
to
every player has is shown in the intensi
Last February, the Alumni office, along with
International
likely
ty of their game. It is also entertaining to
inspires students to give back.”
Accounting,
more
unarmed peace officers, leave many
always look through my “snail mail” hop
dents are being placed in significant places
are
extremely important in today’s world.
offer an affordable education.”
Trustee Resile, who is a CSI business pro
students
working
Fasano attended the September 22nd SG
PDC,
encounter a raccoon than a criminal in
Going to the CSI men’s soccer games is
Dr. Kay Resile, Kenneth Cook and Lauren
the
College Radio Station”
quite an experience. The dedication
tation, CUNY Board of Trustee members,
business?” Duru asked.
that
Re: “Men’s soccer shows heart in
shutout victory”
should’ve been
“CUNY must do more than offer an educa
brush and low hanging trees have
“Re: Student volunteers Her Time at
accounts are a good idea, but students
In response to a Student Government invi
in
-Marissa Gessin, Junior
to access it if I needed to. These
Anne DeMarzo
do I know there isn’t some psycho sitting
already been removed and he assures
-Andrew Rafferty
Luke Crisalli and Tom Bradley took part
and Matt Safford covered the event and
dents. There are all these woods. How
Vice President Aponte, four acres of
on this profile of a CSI Student.
Stephen Siller. Banner staff members
in the run, while Mellissa Seecharan
But the abundance of dense wood
ed areas on campus concerns many stu
story about Mr. Anthony Gallo. I get a
brand spanking new look to the Arts and
Entertainment section; that’s thanks to
only make things worse.”
Most of us would prefer they stay
out of our educational career. I’m sure
they receive bills as well as from the
You may notice that we have a
Designer
we already have e-mail accounts.
(And The Costume)”
It’s hard to believe it’s October already.
our resident Comics
Peace Officers Armed?
arrests. He insisted that they are not one
article stood out in the sports section.
and the same, nor should they be
The article was about the women's vol
thought of as such.
leyball team. Since coming to CSI, I
Rutz disagreed.
“Peace officers
havenl seen any sports games, nor
while on duty and especially while con
have I even really heard of a game com
ducting security operations in relation to
ing up. To actually read about sports
the campus possess the same statutory
and the team at CSI was interesting.
arrest powers and authority to use force
The article had good information about
to effect an arrest, or in the defense of
the previous games and the newcomers
another or themselves as a police officer.
to the team. In the future I would like to
This is how we were trained and it is sup
read more about sports and maybe
ported by the criminal procedure and
even see a schedule.
penal laws. We are sworn law enforce
ment officers.”
-Rafal Bogucki, Freshman
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On September 25th, more than 10,000 people took part in
the Tunnel to Towers Run. Racing in memory of Staten
Island Firefighter Stephen Siller, the 5k run retraced the
path Siller took as he ran in full gear through the Battery
Tunnel to the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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father of the comic collection of four Eisner
book medium wegfftKow graphic novels about the
today as the graphic residents of a Bronx
novel. He began his tenement building in the
career early in the 1930’s. The title comic.
1940’s with
weekly A Contract With Sod,
superhero series enti- portrays the life a rabbi
tied
The
Spirit. who made a contract
Realizing comics could with God, but when his
surrogate
daughter
dies, he blames £od for
her death and breaks
the contract. Other
depict the lives
street
singers,
and families
; City. Eisner caps the grit and realof his characters.
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in
Interview By: Greg^W mbarello
started publishing?
Tucci: Well, it was an “on the job
Billy Tucci began self-publishing
his own highly successful comic,
Shi, over ten years ago, which is
currently optioned as a major
motion picture. Shi is one of the
most notable female characters in
comic books, but let’s have Billy
give us the rundown in his own
words:
GT: What is Shi about and where
did you get the idea for the story?
Billy Tucgi: Actually, the story
came out of history. She’s a
descendant of the warrior monks
of medieval Japan, and I brought
that over to today’s society. It’s a
modern day samurai tale and
she’s literally a soldier in a war
that’s existed thousands of years
before she was ever born. It’s a
thriller and Shi is a very reactive
character.
GT: Did you do a lot of research
before writing the story?
Tucci: Oh yeah. I’m a research
fanatic. I just fell in love with the
Japanese culture and the more
research I did the better the char
acter got
GT: How did you get into comics
and how did you begin producing
Shi?
Tucci: In college my friends all
read combs and got me into it.
Upon getting out of college, I real
ly had the bug and wanted to draw
comic books, so I submitted my
artwork to all the major publishers
and
got
turned
by
down
everybody.
Then
I
decided,
“I’m going
to do this
on
my
own.”
I proceed
ed to get
turned
training” and I literally had to make
every mistake that you could
make. But this was all really
before the book hit. Once the
book came out it was great, but
we could never meet
demand, ever.
I still
have that problem. I
recently went to Dark
Horse with the new
series to lift that burden
from me. I want to be
an artist now. I think I’m
at that stage where I
want to be creative, and
spend time with my
family and have a better
quality of life. I spend
so much time doing
business stuff, and that
takes away from my art
and my time to draw.
down
by
everybody
else with
my charac
ter
[Shi]
and I guess
GT: Are there any
I believed
changes being made to
in the char
the story for the screen
acter
so
adaptation?
much that I
Tucci: They feel the
just
kept Billy Tucci’s Shi gears up for some original story is too sim
working at
serious ass kicking.
ilar to Kill Bill even
it. It took
though it came out
me about two years to get the first
almost ten years after my story.
issue where I wanted it and I
solicited it. Our numbers were
GT: What’s the story for the
good initially (37,000 copies).
movie?
Within three weeks of the book
Tucci: There is a girl who is total
shipping, we had reorders for over
ly detached from her Japanese
140,000 books and it just took off
past. She’s living in the United
from there.
States and inadvertently brings
the enemy here. She’s been hid
GT: What were the biggest probden here by her grandfather and
you faced when you first
his four old buddies, who are
these warrior masters, who
brought her here to get away from
it all. Through working for the
Brooklyn Museum of Art, she puts
on a display that tips off her
enemy, who are trying to find the
last of this sect that are now in
America.The film opens up like an
American film and ends literally
like an Asian film. As it goes on
she gets more in tune with her
Asian side, and the more she
does the stronger she gets. She
has to really return to her roots to
save her grandfather and her
friends.
GT: Out of everything you’ve
done in comics, what are you most
proud of?
Tucci: I’m appreciative that peo
ple respond to something that I
came up with. People ask for my
autograph and I’m stunned.
People pay me to do something I
love.
GT: Do you have any advice for
those artists and writers out there
trying to break into comics?
Taccl; Try and do it yourself. If
you’re an artist and you’re good
you will get work. It’s much more
difficult for writers and I think the
best thing to do is to do your own
book.
Billy Tucci will be making an
appearance to sign autographs
and chat with fans at the National
Convention
being held on
November 18-20 at the Penn
Plaza Pavilion in NYC.
9
�October 10.2005
Lauren Taylor's
T r e s ft m
Dt a r i e
month and change hasgone by since I began
quickly and I certainly do not
want to be OLDER! Older
my student life at the
College of Staten Island. I
can't believe how fast the
moments of time, of my time,
are flying by. I never experienced that myself, but my parents and older family members share with me that "time
will pass in a blink of an eye"
especially when you get older.
Am I older? That is a scary
thought. How old is 'older1?* 3I
don't want time to "pass" so
than what? Why does our age
increase the speed of the
clock?
That second hand looked
stj|| when I was sitting in a
boring class in - grammar
sch0ol and in high school,
That second hand is the same
0ne from my youth. It follows
m0 everywhere. Staring at
that clock in high school and
waiting for the change of class
bell, seemed like an eternity.
A
I
In those days, I wanted the
clocks' second had to move
and time to pass. I desperately wanted the clock to tell me
that my school day has ended
but now it is not that way at
all. I enjoy my College of
Staten Island classes and
therefore I very rarely look at
that legendary clock, the ball
and chain of my day.
The fact that I now possess a Drivers License
decreases the time it takes for
me to get to my destination in
comparison to walking or tak
ing the bus. I am usually
promptly waiting for a ride,
ready on time but waiting. I
am 9lad that I am now in contro'
my precious time, and
others now wait for me. I
believe that maturity has
taken over my spirit, not age. I
might be a little older, but yes,
1 am better. I feel that I now
appreciate my education
because I make the decisl0ns- 1 am now in contro1 and
the clock, with its 'broken' seconcl hand 01068 n°t dictate my
'(te anymore. My organizational skills do.
don't need to tell you how small
Just calling up an ex for sex can
it can be very difficult to
reason for recycling boys. Even if you
Staten Island is. And living on a
be tricky on it's own. If it's not well
relate. Maybe we need to concentrate
choose not to explain to him the rea
friends,
place the size of a thimble creates
received, now you've got someone
on school or a career. Maybe we're
son why he's suddenly listed in your
numerous social problems, especially
who thinks your sitting home pining
holding out for someone who gives us
cell phone again, you need to be clear
when it comes to dating. It can often
with yourself.
after them. But it's seemingly a much
butterflies. Maybe we're just not into
be difficult to bump into someone new,
easier
anyone around here.
and it's even harder to meet someone
someone new, especially since you
option
than
searching
for
Being single
If you try to force yourself into not
does happen. And as much as we'd
developing feelings for someone your
having sex with, and have secretly
new who you'd like to date. In a place
already know the guy and it's a much
like to believe times have changed for
where most of the couples have been
more casual conversation then you'd
us women, being alone in a world of
missed, your just fooling yourself, and
together since junior high, and every
have with Vito or Jimmy at the bar.
two's has not become any easier than
setting yourself up for disappointment.
one seems to be paired up, it's very
After calling the ex, if your successful,
it ever was. This is especially true in
In the same turn, if you know this ex
easy to get discouraged. And during
you've gotta find a time to meet them,
the Noah's Ark replica we live on.
might still think of you, and you think
these in-between periods even the
or run into them; you've gotta go
Sometimes the only option is to call
the whole 'just sex' thing can work
most tame individual is bound to start
through all the motions of preparing to
an old familiar number.
without a problem, your wrong again.
feeling lonely... sexually.
get laid during your sexual dry spell
The major problem with recycling
His feelings aren't being taken
(see: bikini waxes, ect...); and then
men, though, is that much of the time
into consideration, and this can cause
So what's a girl to do when she
needs to feel the weight of a man on
top of her... or beside her... or under
there's the sex itself.
If it's good, feelings may start to
it can actually make you lonelier than
enormous problems when it's time for
when you started. Sure, you’re getting
your to move on. Sex between two
her... or in front of her? Well, you
redevelop. If it's bad, your back at
laid, but it's awkward. Your feelings
people who used to love each other
could go out to one of the many (aka
square one and you just wasted an
come into play; you start to believe
will always reap consequences when
3 or 4) good bars on the island, dress
entire evening you could have been
you’re a couple again.
In women,
the parties aren't honest with each
like your going to the Copacabana
out making out with someone you did
who's feelings of love are chemically
other, or themselves. Many times it
and cross your fingers that an alien
n't already reject. The whole idea of
induced by intercourse, we can actu
can bring along problems, even if
ship landed in Miller's Field last night
recycling is a worst gamble than the
ally fool ourselves into feeling some
everyone is honest. If you find your
and dropped off a crop of new men,
2-4 Hold 'Em tables at Caesar's. But if
thing for this person we just had sex
self lonely on Friday night, and decide
or, you can recycle.
it's so tricky, why recycle?
with, even if we did dump him the first
calling up an ex or two for some fun,
In the dating world, recycling is
number of
time. There's also the desperation
just try to remember the relationship
when you go through a dry spell and
female students is nearly double the
At CSI
alone the
factor. Are women who return to a
first.
decide maybe that guy you dated a
amount of males, and this is a tiny
man they didn't really like, just for sex,
Did it end well? Why did it end?
few months ago wasn't that bad, or at
mimic of the Island,
where
actually just desperate for a man in
Was the sex good? Because if your
itself,
least not bad enough to stop you from
everyone is already a couple by age
general? Are we fooling ourselves
traveling down a road you previously
meeting him again, if only for sex. It's
twenty.
It can become very lonely
with the sex alibi and really just look
closed off, and probably for a
essentially sex with the ex, and it's got
being the third wheel time and time
ing for a familiar face and some com
reason, the sex damn well better be
advantages and problems.
again. Even if we love our coupled
pany? Any of these can be a viable
worth it.
good
�Fall Style
at CSI
11 *
Photo Review: Mellissa Seecharan and Enrique Inocente
s
#
Fans gathered on October 1st and 2nd at Coney
Island
Ballpark (Brooklyn)
and
Richmond
County Ballpark (Staten Island) to see Kasabian,
Doves, Beck, Gang of Four, New York Dolls, and
especially Oasis. The Brit rockers put on an
amazing show to thousands of exhausted fans
who endured hours in the heat and horrendous
opening acts.
■ ■
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�October 10,2005
man
y? y,
month and change hassince I began
imy student life at the
College of Staten Island. I
can't believe how fast the
moments of time, of my time,
are flying by. I never experi
enced that myself, but my par
ents and older family mem
bers share with me that "time
will pass in a blink of an eye"
especially when you get older.
Am I older? That is a scary
thought. How old is 'older1? I
don't want time to "pass" so
quickly and f certainly do not
want to be OLDER! Older
than what? Why does our age
increase the speed of the
clock?
That second hand looked
still when I was sitting in a
boring class in * grammar
school and in high school.
That second hand is the same
one from my youth. It follows
me everywhere. Staring at
that clock in high school and
waiting for the change of class
bell, seemed like an eternity.
In those days, I wanted the
clocks' second had to move
and time to pass. I desperate
ly wanted the clock to tell me
that my school day has ended
but now it is not that way at
all. I enjoy my College of
Staten Island classes and.
therefore I very rarely look at
that legendary clock, the ball
and chain of my day.
The fact that I now pos
sess a Drivers License
decreases the time it takes for
me to get to my destination in
comparison to walking or tak
ing the bus. I am usually
promptly waiting for a ride,
ready on time but waiting. I
am glad that I am now in con
trol of my precious time, and
others now wait for me. I
believe that maturity has
taken over my spirit, not age. I
might be a little older, but yes,
I am better. I feel that I now
appreciate my education
because I make the deci
sions. I am now in control and
the clock, with its 'broken' sec
ond hand does not dictate my
life anymore. My organiza
tional skills do.
don't need to tell you how small
Just calling up an ex for sex can
be very difficult to
reason for recycling boys. Even if you
Staten Island is. And living on a
be tricky on it's own. If it's not well
relate. Maybe we need to concentrate
choose not to explain to him the rea
place the size of a thimble creates
received, now you've got someone
on school or a career. Maybe we're
son why he's suddenly listed in your
numerous social problems, especially
who thinks your sitting home pining
holding out for someone who gives us
cell phone again, you need to be clear
with yourself.
■
when it comes to dating. It can often
friends,
it can
after them. But it's seemingly a much
butterflies. Maybe we're just not into
be difficult to bump into someone new,
easier
anyone around here.
and it's even harder to meet someone
option
than
searching
for
Being single
If you try to force yourself into not
someone new, especially since you
does happen. And as much as we'd
developing feelings for someone your
having sex with, and have secretly
new who you'd like to date. In a place
already know the guy and it's a much
like to believe times have changed for
where most of the couples have been
more casual conversation then you'd
us women, being alone in a world of
missed, your just fooling yourself, and
together since junior high, and every
have with Vito or Jimmy at the bar.
two's has not become any easier than
setting yourself up for disappointment.
one seems to be paired up, it's very
After calling the ex, if your successful,
it ever was. This is especially true in
In the same turn, if you know this ex
easy to get discouraged. And during
you've gotta find a time to meet them,
the Noah's Ark replica we live on.
might still think of you, and you think
these in-between periods even the
or run into them; you've gotta go
Sometimes the only option is to call
the whole 'just sex' thing can work
most tame individual is bound to start
through all the motions of preparing to
an old familiar number.
without a problem, your wrong again.
feeling lonely... sexually.
get laid during your sexual dry spell
The major problem with recycling
His feelings aren't being taken
(see: bikini waxes, ect...); and then
men, though, is that much of the time
into consideration, and this can cause
So what's a girl to do when she
needs to feel the weight of a man on
top of her... or beside her... or under
there's the sex itself.
If it's good, feelings may start to
it can actually make you lonelier than
enormous problems when it's time for
when you started. Sure, you’re getting
your to move on. Sex between two
her... or in front of her? Well, you
redevelop. If it's bad, your back at
laid, but it's awkward. Your feelings
people who used to love each other
could go out to one of the many (aka
square one and you just wasted an
come into play; you start to believe
will always reap consequences when
3 or 4) good bars on the island, dress
entire evening you could have been
you’re a couple again.
In women,
the parties aren't honest with each
like your going to the Copacabana
out making out with someone you did-
who's feelings of love are chemically
other, or themselves. Many times it
and cross your fingers that an alien
nl already reject. The whole idea of
induced by intercourse, we can actu
can bring along problems, even if
ship landed in Miller's Field last night
recycling is a worst gamble than the
ally fool ourselves into feeling some
everyone is honest. If you find your
and dropped off a crop of new men,
2-4 Hold 'Em tables at Caesar's. But if
thing for this person we just had sex
self lonely on Friday night, and decide
or, you can recycle.
it's so tricky, why recycle?
with, even if we did dump him the first
calling up an ex or two for some fun,
In the dating world, recycling is
number of
time. There's also the desperation
just try to remember the relationship
when you go through a dry spell and
female students is nearly double the
At
CSI
alone
the
factor. Are women who return to a
first.
decide maybe that guy you dated a
amount of males, and this is a tiny
man they didn't really like, just for sex,
Did it end well? Why did it end?
few months ago wasn't that bad, or at
mimic of the
itself, where
actually just desperate for a man in
Was the sex good? Because if your
Island,
least not bad enough to stop you from
everyone is already a couple by age
general? Are we fooling ourselves
traveling down a road you previously
meeting him again, if only for sex. It's
twenty.
It can become very lonely
with the sex alibi and really just look
closed off, and probably for a
essentially sex with the ex, and it's got
being the third wheel time and time
ing for a .familiar face and some com
reason, the sex damn well better be
advantages and problems.
again. Even if we love our coupled
pany? Any of these can be a viable
worth it.
good
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Name: Chip Watson
Job: Student
Glasses: Gazelle
Hoodie: Iceberg
Jeans: CalvinKlein
Kicks: Nike Vandals
Bag: Vans
Favorite Brands: PRPS,
Vivienne Westwood, Bape, G
Star, Member’s Only, Vans
Hated Brands: Seven Jeans,
Men’s Guess, Rocawear,
Prada (kicks), Jerseys
Wants but can’t afford:
Bape leather Bomber jacket
Fans gathered on October 1st and 2nd at Coney
c
Island
Ballpark (Brooklyn)
and
Richmond
County Ballpark (Staten Island) to See Kasabian,
Doves, Beck, Gang of Four, New York Dolls, and
e-
especially Oasis. The Brit rockers put on an
amazing show to thousands of exhausted fans
who endured hours in cthe heat and horrendous
opening acts.
■mm
Name: Pavel Valera
Job: Armani Exchange,
SoHo
Hat: Yankees New Era
Shirt: Hanes White Tee
Jeans: Buffalo
Kicks: White Air Ones
Bag: Iceberg Army Store
Sidekick 2
Favorite Brands: Bape,
Polo, Armani X, G Star, Levi
501
Hated Brands: Prada,
Chinese Slippers, Name
belts, Miskeen Shirts,
Anything Airbrushed
Wants but can’t afford:
Leather LV bag with LV
sweater.
�The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
October 10,2005
CSI Goalie Grew Up with Soccer
Frank Arnone
Susan Wagner High School. High school sports require
close with Elisa. Each year her team made the playoffs
more dedication and ability, but like in their early days of
and competed for the championship.
soccer they were ready for the challenge. They were fired
ennifer Miller played soccer ever since she was a
J
young girl, by either playing on the street with
friends of joining her very first team.
up to play for their new high school.
Despite the responsibilities that came with being a
soccer player, Jennifer was still able to balance her activi
“1 could remember the first day of tryouts,” said Miller.
ties and became an overachiever in the classroom. As a
‘They were so long and intense.” The final day of tryouts
straight A student, she earned a full scholarship to CSI.
“It all started in the fifth grade,” said Miller. “Me and
was tough for the girls; both Jennifer and Elisa really
Unfortunately, accepting the scholarship would mean no
my friend from down the street joined the soccer team
hoped they made the team. When the last and final tryout
soccer team and she and Elisa would be separated for the
together.” Jennifer and her friend Elisa Sciortino played
was over, both girls were overjoyed to find out that once
first time. But she couldn’t pass up such an opportunity.
soccer together since their first practice at Our lady
again they would be playing together. Jennifer continued
After attending CSI for a year something fantastic
Queen of Peace Catholic School in Staten Island. The
on Wagner for the next four years, where she experienced
happened. CSI started the first girl’s soccer team. She
sport not only brought the girls enjoyment, it gave them
many challenged head on, which ultimately caused her to
would get to play again. The team was assembled hastily
several memorable moments.
excel in her sport.
and lost the first four games, but won the CUNY champi
It was more than just a
sport for the two vivacious youths; it shaped their child
Soccer characterized Jennifer’s social life and high
onship, a heart-pounding overtime thriller.-“When the last
hood providing them with some good laughs while get
school career. It was not just a sport, but also a means for
second of the championship came to an end, it was the
ting down and dirty on the playing field—without a doubt
her to make strong bonds and friendships with the girls
best moment of my life,” said Miller. “We won!"
what being was all about. The two girls’ friendship grew
both on and off the field. At the same time, she remained
*
.... ...
COLLEGE SURVIVAL TIP
You’ll make it through college because
Jennifer Miller momentarily pauses on the soccer field. She has
played soccer since the 5th grade.
you’ve got dedication and brains.Thanks
to the Army National Guard, you’ll
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STUDENT
HEALTH
CENTER.
CARES ABOUT YOU LIKE
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also have a way to pay for it with the
stronger and so did their love for the game. Who would
have known such a young age that soccer would
Montgomery Gl Bill.Tuition Assistance
become Jennifer’s number one pastime?
and extra state benefits. Most Guard
In the beginning, naturally being so unfamiliar with
all the positions on the field, the coach let the girls try the
members serve one weekend a month
many different positions to figure out their niche. The
and two weeks a year, so you’ll still have
coach used his knowledge and expertise to teach them
time for your friends and family. Join the
the fundamentals of the game including the tricks and
tactics to be an extraordinary player. As Miller avidly pro
team that will help you get your college
gressed in the sport and began to learn the ins and the
degree. In the Army National Guard,
outs of the game, it would soon become obvious the
YOU CAN!
position that she would be perfect for. Her coach saw
vast improvements in her talents, specifically her quick-
From intramural ankle turns to a lingering souvenir from
your spring break in Thailand, the campus health centers your
ticket to the best medical care money can’t buy. It’s free.
It’s discreet. And it will only hurt for a second.
moving legs and feet and outstanding hand-eye coordi
nation, two very important traits that a goalie must pos
sesses. As a goalie “it’s exciting to stop the shots” said
Miller, “especially when the game is close.”
As Miller grew up she continued playing for Our
Lady Queen of Peace and positively improved her game.
New York
Consequently, the very thing that once consisted of just
niUTIONAI!-
some good laughs and getting a little bit dirty became
more competitive for her, every game presented a new
and exciting challenge.
[
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YOU CAN
Miller’s bond with soccer continued to grow, as did
her bond with Elisa. Together they embarked on a new
challenge; playing a more experienced, aggressive soc
cer in high school. The girls who were both eager and a
little bit nervous to start high school began their career at
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The
College
of
Staten
Island
September 26,2005
LIGHTING ON CAMPUS RAISES SAFETY CONCERNS
Jewish Rapper
Remedy Performs
Ann Marie Costello ‘
to commit crimes.”
Seldom Used CIX
The 1,000 lamp-
posts with their rusted bases and
Accounts Blamed for
cataract covered lenses do little to
Kevin S.P. Mamakas
D
taten Islander Ross Phillip has
S
been
writing
since
he
was
victim to being put in a room that was
dense wooded areas seem like the
when night falls it becomes a
perfect place for predators to hide.
very different place.
Jaclyn
are enough
lampposts
“In some parts of
on campus
the campus the
and
of
light
that
September 22nd - As news of the failed
we do have
notification regarding the presence of a
there
aren’t bright
level 2 sex offender on campus reached
are certain park
enough,”
CSI’s administration, a another problem
arose
me,
but
ing
aren’t
ones
lots
that
said
lit
well
year-old
advertised performance enjoyed it.
Even though the crowd was religious
ly diverse, one girl screamed out
before the event started, “I am Jewish,
student
use
of
CIX
E
i
Carol Jackson, Vice President of
Student Affairs, expressed her deep con
“They
cern over the issue. “I don’t understand
should defi
why they didn’t receive the email,” said
nitely
add
Jackson during a phone interview. “My
several precau
more
light
secretary was responsible for sending it
tions
ing
and
out and we have records that it was sent
many stu
to
The walkway to the library. Some feel uneasy due
to the poor lighting on campus
stay
safe.
I
e
n
have more visible security officers on
“If I’m at the campus with people
people that did attend the heavily
low
Xekarvakis.
dents she takes
permitted CSI students to attend. The
—
accounts.
enough and I’m
like
too big for a performance that only
22-
scared to walk
near them.” So
Jewish rapper Remedy performing in the
concert hall in iP
Mellissa Seecharan
the
bother
doesn’t
PSx.w.- InU t .n-
Notification
the campus at night. I don’t think there
Alessi.
lack
Failed Sex Offender
“I don’t feel safe walking around
said 22-year-old
formance at CSI was in the large
people at the event, but Remedy fell
make students feel secure and the
acres are bustling with life, but
“I try not to take night classes,”
seven years old. His recent per
Concert Hall. There were quite a few
uring the day CSI’s 204 sicenic
out in late August.”
patrol.”
The possibility of a computer glitch
who are parked in the same lot as me,
CSI’s crime rate is extremely low,
may be responsible for the email blunder,
I make sure that I walk to my car with
with only one robbery and one aggra
however numerous phone calls to the
those people,” she said. “If I’m by
vated assault being reported last year.
Office of Information Technology were
myself I keep my keys out, so that if
“It only takes one incident to create a
never
anyone came and tried to attack me, I
sense of panic and ill at ease,” said
Meanwhile, an employee of the IT
Vice
department
could get them with my keys.”
The office of public safety indi
President forFinance
and
Administration Angelo J. Aponte. This
returned
had
or
a
not
voice
connected.
message
announcing her departure. “I am no
cates on CSI’s website: “Most criminals
campus takes on a different personali
longer working for the college, so please
are opportunists. They take advantage
ty at night even though it’s not more
don’t leave any messages ...because no
of certain opportunities they encounter
one will be able to return them.”
Continued on page 3
Continued on page 3
In the meantime, student response
remained steady: "I never received an
email
about
a
sex
offender,"
said
Stephanie Medina, a student who often
checks her CIX account.
•
Thomas Bradley
a well-qualified staff and a progressive
' •.
" ■
.vV
According to Jackson, postcards
* and letters were sent out before and after
?%th^oreation of the accounts. The ques
dent designed international storybook.
curriculum the high school is pursuing
The freedom dfattending such a prp-
he CSI International H.S. has
their identity from all angles. The student
begun to pursue the goals it set
gressive school comes with a responsibit-
body is playing an active role in choosing
ity the students have taken to heart.
as she attempted to figure out a way for
the path their school will take by offering
prepare students for college and, ulti
original ideas and feedback to the faculty.
They are very active in class,” said Apap.
students to actively use their email
accounts.
Created with the intention of making
T
forth in its mission statement, “to
'
tion is what can we do?” asked Jackson
mately, success in an interconnected
This student-faculty relationship is fast
The students wdrtwn groups, which con
stantly change," T^ H^i^students are
world.” The school promises to incorpo
becoming the engine driving the new
being cultivated to think and behave with
information sharing easier between CSI
rate a multinational theme into all areas of
school toward its goals.
more freedom than average H.S. fresh
and students over a year ago, CIX
study. “Every class is taught from a glob
Students of the high school were
men. Disciplining the students for dress
(Campus
al perspective,” said administrative intern
originally shocked by the faculty request
code and cell phone violations have been
accounts have not been in high use.
Jackson approximates that between
Information
Exchange)
Nicholette Apap. “It could even be Math
for their input and opinions regarding their
or Science. Every teacher focuses on the
the only remnants of the normal public
school. “At first we would ask the kids for
10%-20% of students actually check their
international aspects of the subject.” This
school system the school has clung to.
feedback and get nothing,” said Apap.
The H.S. students have been using The
email.
international concentration on the global
They’d never been actually asked for
Green Dolphin Lounge as a cafeteria, in
For many students, CIX accounts
community reflects the attitude of the
their opinions before.” Eventually the kids
conjunction with the basement of 5N, the
are foreign territory. They either find it
school as a whole. The students have not
warmed up to the idea of having some
football field, basketball court, and hand
confusing, a waste of time, or arenl even
only been given the freedom to express
thing to say in a place where, for the bet
aware it exists. "I’ve never checked my
their feelings to the faculty, they are free
ball courts. The students were afraid the
ter part of their lives, they had never been
CIX account," said student Tanya Starr.
to roam the grounds of the college.
college kids would think the high school
consulted on anything.
The students
"Actually, I’ve never really heard about H."
The H.S. opened its doors two
had taken over their space,” said Apap.
have become avid contributors of ideas
“Some of the kids have relatives that
Information about the CIX account
weeks ago with an ambitious mission: To
including an elementary school reach-out
find and establish an identity unlike any
attend C.S.I. but for the most part they
can be found at: www.csi.cuny.edu/stu-
program in which the H.S. students cre
other public high school in the area. With
ate an activity for the kids based on a stu-
denthelpdesk
Continued on page 3
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Cljc iXrttt ijork SimcG e BANN ER
After Katrina, the Cronyism Continues
ANTI-WAR FILM DRAWS
SMALL CROWD
MattSofford
President
Bush
surprised
departments of Commerce, Justice and
Secretary Michael Chertoff’s Chief of
Staff.
millions
Treasury, though none involved manag
recently, when he claimed to take
ing a large bureaucracy,” is the adminis
So there’s little doubt that she’s well
responsibility “to the extent that the fed
tration’s latest crony nominee. If that
connected. But the best defense she
Campus
Professional Staff Congress hosted a
Matthew Beck
eral government didn’t fully do its job
weren't egregious enough, the agency
could muster is that she’s spent a year
right" regarding its disaster response to
she’s been nominated to head is U.S.
as
assistant
secretary
for
Center,
Sept.
20—The
export
screening of Fahrenheit 9/11, the docu-
Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
enforcement at Commerce, where she
drama by hard-left heavyweight Michael
With the press feeding on Brown’s
That’s right; our President has nom
oversaw 170 employees and had a $25
Moore, which was the second installment
lack of qualifications and the obvious
inated someone with no little or no expe
million budget. If she gets the job at ICE,
in a series of ant-war fRcks entitled The
embellishment of his credentials, one
rience in immigration or customs to
shell have 20,000 employees and a
U.S. And Globalization”, scheduled to am
budget of $4 billion.
this semester. The first, a documentary by
Katrina.
might assume that Bush had learned a
head the department charged with
hard lesson about appointing inexperi
keeping drug shipments and terrorists
enced friends to important positions.
from entering our borders.
Apparently Brown’s mismanage
BiN Moyers, was shown on September 13.
11
ment of FEMA and the hundreds who
people
attended
Moore’s
Yet, little more than a week after
But perhaps her previous jobs in
likely died as a consequence taught our
besmirching muckraker masterpiece in
Brown’s resignation, the administration
the White House weren’t the sole rea
administration nothing of the dangers of
the chiity Green Dolphin Lounge at 630 in
seems to be up to its old tricks.
son for her nomination. It turns out that
cronyism. It falls then to the Congress to
the evening. The audence was mostly
36 year old Julie Myers, a lawyer
her unde is none other than Air Force
either block these sorry nominees from
men, except for a couple ladies and a few
who according to the Washington Post
General Richard B. Myers, the depart
getting into office, or remain in lock-step
students who dropped
“held a variety of jobs over the past four
ing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
with a tanking Bush, and face the con
Moderating was political science profes
years at the White House and at the
and she just married Homeland Security
sequences during next years election.
sor Harry T. Cason. There’s a small group
in and out.
of people that controls this world," said
Cason. 'Y/e’re just puppets.”
Successful Inaugural Event for New CUNY Journalism School
During the film, the atmosphere bor
dered between an old-fashioned revival
meeting and a small-group Bible study,
MottSafford
only politics replaced religion, the screen
Floyd Abrams, Executive NY Times edi
national shield law for journalists. The
tor Bill Keller and Time Inc. Editor-in-
problem with that idea however, is as
September 13—Professional, amateur
Chief Norman Pearlstine, gathered for
Shepard put it, “how we define journal
and aspiring journalists from Barbara
the event.
ists?"
Walters to your humble Banner corre
Whitaker put the issue of anonymous
spondent, gathered on the Concourse
sources
level of the CUNY Graduate center for a
what the world would be like if anony
Newsweek editor Mark
into perspective.
“Imagine
“I would be inclined towards a pret
ty expansive definition” said Keller.
The other panelists seemed to
mous
said
agree. Citing early American pamphlet
over Confidential Sources.”
Whitaker. “The abuses of power of the
eers as an analogy for today’s citizen
Vietnam and Nixon eras, that would
journalists, Pearlstine said “I think the
Described as “the first formal activ
didn’t
exist,”
ity” of the new CUNY Graduate School
never have been uncovered. The whis
Bloggers are a whole lot closer to what
of Journalism by moderator, Stephen
tle would have never have been blown
the First Amendment was designed to
Shepard, the event featured key figures
on the tobacco industry, or the Enron
protect.”
in the ongoing case involving the outing
and WorldComs of the world.” After giv
Shepard and the panelists includ
of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame
ing an explanation of the events which
ed the audience in the discussion. After
in a 2003 newspaper column.
led to Miller's imprisonment, Dean
several minutes and a handful of ques
Shepard introduced the panelists, and
tions involving the role of bloggers, and
the discussion began in earnest.
Judith Miller’s possible bias, Shepard
Fallout from Plame led a federal
grand jury to request the identity of two
The group was lively as the pan
cut the session off, sticking closely to
appeared in the New York Times and
elists discussed the case at hand, and
the pre-determined timeframe of 90
Newsweek. While Newsweek eventual
hypothetical situations. Keller claimed
minutes.
ly coughed up the name Carl Rove,
he could imagine some cases in which
The solid showing and impressive
New York Times reporter Judith Miller
he would reveal a source, if the source
group of panelists not only made for an
has
to
reveal
her
source.
gave him permission, and Pearlstine
interesting evening, but portends a
claimed he would “if it came down to
bright
contempt, and has been in prison for
saving lives.”
Graduate School of Journalism, which
Shifting focus slightly, the panelists
Prominent First Amendment lawyer
discussed the merits and difficulties of a
Bush’s faults, and expressed their enjoy
ment of Moore’s deft manipulation of jaun
ty graphics, sardonic skits, and silly still
shots.
The mood fluctuated variably from
glorious exhilaration to deathly silence.
The air was punctuated with sneers of dis
gust, gasps of disbelief, and sighs of
sarcastic narration technique.
(In one
case, they were almost raptured in laugh
ter at a slick sequence that pasted Bush,
Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Condi Rice’s smil
ing faces over the horse-mounted figures
of the four Bonanza characters in the
opening title scene from that classic west
ern.)
Consequently, she was charged with
more than 75 days.
listening to Moore’s cinematic sermon.
incredulity, all milked by Moore’s smoothly
unnamed sources in two articles, which
yet
Satan. The congregation sat engrossed
They nodded assent as he glibly listed
panel discussion entitled “The battle
sources
replaced the pulpit, and Bush replaced
future
for
the
new
CUNY
is to take on its first 50 students next
fall.
A discussion followed the film, where
the audience could voice their opinions.
Professor Cason gave his reason for the
war. “I think we’re there for oil,” he said.
That’s what really drives me mad.” Mr.
Bernard Gamer, a forcefully forthright lib
eral, gave heartily into the offering plate of
dissent. “There isn’t any liberty here. They
brainwash us,” he said. ”We just havenl
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figured it out.”
One young soft-spoken student, who
identified himself only as ‘E’, candidly
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gave the testimony of his conversion
experience: The original reason we went
for a motivated student to join our programming'team.
Arc. you creative! Like to organize and plan events!
Want to impact campus programming!
Interested in making connections at CSI!
Enjoy comedy, lectures,films, and other entertainment!
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we want YOU!
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course, war in general was taboo. “War is
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Continued on page 5
�September26,2005
and will be repaired.
Public Safety
continued from page 1
Campus Center (1C). “What we are
a facelift. “We are taking a page out of
Walt Disney and Disney World,” said
see from building to building. So it’s a
to light those areas that are away from
Aponte. “You know how everything is
little creepy.”
the walkways because we believe that
color coated when you come into
Aponte feels that it’s a continuous
the walkways have sufficient light,”
Disney World; we have developed a
process of trial and error to come up
said Aponte. “The problem is when you
color scheme for the various lots that
with lighting additions and adjustments
look down this brightly lit walkway 10
will have the same color scheme as the
that will be successful. However he is
feet out along the side it’s completely
buildings
implementing
black. It’s scary.”
Hopefully this will aid students, espe
some
innovative
more easily during the day as well as at
ing with three different types of lighting
class changes. Students should be
night.
heads, that will produce more light and
able to see an officer or vehicle every
Vice President Aponte assures
200 feet. CSI also offers an escort
that numerous changes will be made.
without impacting light going up and
service. In every building next to the
“We are in the process of getting the
interfering with the observatory,” indi
campus phone, there is a sign posted
money and the certificate to proceed,”
cated Aponte.
with the phone number for the public
he said. “Once we receive that, we
“We are looking at
strategic areas where we might add
safety office. If students feel afraid,
have a contractor who is ready to
additional lampposts.” Also, most of the
they can call and a peace officer will
repair the existing lighting and add new
lampposts along loop road have a yel
escort them anywhere they need to go
lighting.” But for students who feel
low X spray painted on their base,
on the campus. “We will never deny a
afraid,
which indicates that they are rusted
person an escort,” said Corporal Bill
enough.
ple. This information made it clear what he
“There is not much we haven’t done
had to do. From that day on he dedicated
[concert styles]... but we are always
continued from page 1
his life to communicating to the rest of the
dealing with love not hate.” No matter
world the history of his people and the
what religion a person is, they listen.
importance of the knowledge.
“Any human is going to listen,” he
After
Brenowitz
talked
briefly
Israel,
Remedy rapped
Genuine Article,” and “Code Red.”
around the world and were kicked out
until they reached Israel, The History
of Judaism which was a timeline rap
about going from Egypt, to Moses, to
the
Ten
Commandments,
and
to
Israel, along with songs about educa
tion, the Holocaust, and 9/11.
.
In his elementary school days, the
man who would be Remedy started to
learn the public school version of the
Jewish heritage. He knew at this time
that he had to find put more about his
heritage.
for writing, thirst to learn about his
ANNE DEMARZO
heritage, and his ability to use Hip
Hop as an outlet would lead to a life
where he would be considered the
leading Jewish Rapper in America,
Remedy.
live in a traditional Jewish house. Both
of his parents divorced twice. He is
EMILY CARLETTO
not Orthodox or Hassidic and he still
ANNEMARIE DOOLING
doesn’t know if he will marry a Jewish
SCOTT ZELLER
knows about two
hundred words in Hebrew.
Yet as he started to learn the
story of his birthright from his elderly
family members, he came to the real
ization that his family was involved in
the Holocaust. He discovered that his
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
High School in Staten Island, he became
says, “Because I deal with humanity
and nationality is reality.”
friends with members with what would be
By the end he was rapping about
the future Wu Tang Clan. This is the time
things that were not related to being
when he started to perfbrm in earnest.
Jewish.
Remedy is now 32 years old and he has
friends and a few of the audience
been around the world,
members to get up and freestyle.
including the
He
actually
allowed
his
Europe,
Remedy and members of the Wu
and of course Israel. According to his best
Tang Klan now plan on going back to
United States,
South America,
friend and tour manager, Lukas Brenowitz,
Israel and they also are going to be
all types of people “around the world rec
doing a Hurricane Katrina Relief Rap
ognize Remedy.”
According
to
in Springville Virginia.
Brenowitz,
Remedy is
Remedy
expecting another album out in the
started singing in his unique way when Hip
next six months that would have him
Hop was still new. He believes, “Hip Hop
rapping in English while all the other
music has become bland because people
rappers will be rapping in Hebrew.
sing about the same thing.” When people
like Remedy come along and sing about
something completely different then the
norm, they tend to catch the eyes and ears
of groups that were believed to be sepa
one of his main messages of his and
Remedy’s tours is for people to recognize
that, “Israel is a living and breathing coun
CSI International High School
try. There are a lot of different people in
continued from page l
Israel.”
For the first time since he was doing
Open Mic performances, he has come
He quickly learned that he did not
girl. He also only
By the time he attended New Dorp
rate from the rest of the world. He believes
He had no idea that his passion
ANNMARIE COSTELLA
PAMELA ZAMBRANO
change cannot come soon
Remedy Performs at CSI
the Jewish people were traveling
ANDREA KLEBOE
cially freshman in locating buildings
throw more light down on the ground
being the World’s Travelers because
LAUREN TAYLOR
serve.”
Public safety officers and vehicles
These songs included rapping about
KHADIJAH RENTAS
lots
will be more visible during evening
songs that were from his albums, “The
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
those
very pleased with. “We are experiment
culture of
MATTHEW BECK
that
changes that he feels students will be
about some politics, society, and the
THOMAS BRADLEY
The parking lots and the traditional
green building signs will also be getting
trying to do now is to go to roof lighting
AAELLISSA SEECHARAN
LUKE CRISALLI
menting with adding roof lighting to
buildings like the gym (1R) and the
dangerous. In the evening because of
I am here to be a Jew.”
ENRIQUE INNOCENTE
someone over as soon as we can.”
the distances, you can’t necessarily
DAVID MALTZ
MATT SAFFORD
Mazzaro. “Call us and we will send
In addition, they are also experi
great Uncle was shot in the back
along with so many other Jewish peo
back to his home Staten Island to perform.
He credited Libby Mallin from the CSI
Hillel in the Multi Faith Center for convinc
ing him to come to CSI. Thanks to the
Program
Development Committee, his
performance was funded.
Israel Program on September 22 during
Club Hours. This program gives knowl
edge to people about his heritage through
Hip Hop. “Hip Hop is the form of commu
nication for the new generation,” is one of
the mottos for Remedy.
stresses
Whether or not there is a “one to
one” interaction the students of the
International H.S. have made their pres
ence felt in their own way. The school is
temporarily located on the first floor of
building 5N, displacing the physical thera
py department for the time being.
CSI became a part of the Remedy to
Remedy
don’t interact one to one.”
‘We
are definitely different,” said Apap. “The
student body is far from the typical group
of kids.” The high school is giving these
fourteen year olds a unique opportunity at
an education most don’t get until their late
teens. Whether or not they are ready for
it is up to them.
the
idea
that,
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�The CSI Student Behind the Mask (and the Costume)
Scott Zeller
nthony Gallo does not have your
A
typical job. In fact, his job is so
unique that aside from his boss,
this CSI student is the only employee.
‘The money is good and I don’t work
long hours,” said Gallo. “We get paid per
hour what some may make in five.” The
company that he works for is called Ally’s
Costume and Friends, and they deal with
the private party industry. Anthony’s job is
to play host whether that be in costume or
not.
Gallo never imagined that he would
actually play his favorite childhood charac
ters when he grew up. Gallo obtained the
job in a very unnatural way; it took place at
a previous job he had in the Staten Island
Mall. He was actually helping a customer
that would soon be his boss, his boss
believed that he was very outgoing and
that he had enough potential to be one of
his employees. At the time Gallo had no
idea what kind of job he was getting him
self into. His boss gave him a card and
said to call him tomorrow if he was inter
ested in making big money. “It was only an
instinct to call him back,” said Gallo. “I was
only making $6.50 at the time, so I was
curious to find out what he meant by big
money.” When Gallo made the call he was
unsure of what to think. His soon to be
boss explained the job as so. He told him
that he would be hired as a party host.
Meaning that he would entertain groups of
people
you
mostly chil
customer that
and that he would be going into territory
dren and be
just
isn’t
that he was not familiar with. When the
heavily com
happy,”
said
party date came, Gallo was informed that
pensated for
Gallo.
he would actually have to arrive at the party
doing it. He
“Unfortunately
in his costume. A normal party does not
was
I get one a little
require this of him, but the customer
informed
too
often.”
requested this so that they would not risk a
that his job
There
hap
chance of the birthday child seeing a
would
pens to be no
strange man coming into the house. When
require him
limits
to
Anthony “Spider-Man” Gallo arrived at the
to wear cos
where
Gallo
destination, he was greeted with loud rap
tumes
of
can travel to
music that he was not accustomed to. “A
children’s
host a party.
normal party I host usually has the Chicken
favorite
Sometimes
Dance followed by the Hokey Pokey," said
characters.
they
in
Gallo “not Big Pimpin (by: Jay Z) followed
was
halls and oth
by NTogether Now (by: Limp Bizkit and
of
ers they can be
Method Man).” The party was scheduled
in
for two hours and that is what frightened
then
Gallo
unsure
what to say,
get that
as
are
your
very
was going to be dressed as Spider-Man,
for he had
backyard.
him most. He did not know what to make of
never been
There
it.
is
no
the center of
neighborhood
The music is not what struck Gallo
attention
too poor and
most. It was when he stepped into the main
before. The
there isn’t one
room and to his right he saw Wu-Tang
only risk he
too rich. “It’s a
recording artist and Staten Island native
would
would
take
be
Anthony Gallo
upcoming party
public humil
business,” said
Method Man. So here he was Spider-Man
Gallo.
facing Method Man, man to man. “I was in
“Sometimes
shock,” said Gallo “and to be honest I was
I
iation. His boss made it clear that the
work in neighborhoods that I wouldn’t
a little embarrassed, but Meth was cool
money being offered to him was well
even go to.”
and just shook my hand.” The party went
worth the risk and so he took the position.
In one scenario Gallo was sent to
Gallo has worked for Ally’s Costume
host a party in the projects of Staten
style as if he were doing it for years. “When
and Friends for a little over three years
Island. He was informed that he would be
you go out there,” said Gallo, “host a party
and for the most part his parties run
working this party a week in advance, so
by yourself in a costume, you just have to
smoothly, but every once in a while some
he was unsure of what to think.
thing gets thrown in his way. “In every job
The only thing he knew was that he
on as so and Gallo danced the hip-hop
blank everyone out and just be the cos
tume.”
For This Student, Life Is All About Getting High
Emily Carletto
is eyes light up and his hands
H
flail excitedly as he recounts
what it was like to start going to
flight school.
When Ryan Dandrea told his par
ents that he was interested in learning
how to fly airplanes, at the age of
twelve,
it didn’t go well at first. “No
Mom and Dad!” he said. “I didn’t mean
the model types, I want to fly a real air
plane.” They looked at him in surprise,
his mother telling it’s too dangerous
while his father wondered if it was just a
passing phase but it wasn’t.
Ryan started going to Teterboro
Airport once a week on Sunday for flight
class. By using a virtual simulator he
was able to experience flight in a con
trolled environment. He also learned
about all the gauges, the alternator, and
all the other parts of the 1972 Cessna
that
he
was
learning
how to
fly.
Teterboro flight school cost his parents
$100 an hour plus the cost of the
instructor. Due to the current fuel short
age, the prices are higher now for flight
instruction.
At the age of 12, Ryan became the
me everything.” The 1972 Cessna that
destroyed on impact. Whenever Ryan
When it comes to flying “There is no
learned how to fly with came complica
flies he always has hid headset and his
other feeling like it in the world.” Ryan
tions. It was old already when Ryan
flight book with him. When he was pun
says. “It’s exhilarating to feel the free
started at the school because they don’t
ished for flying to close to the Statue of
dom of the wide open sky and no traffic
get brand new planes to practice with.
Liberty, his instructor John had Ryan be
jams to deal with.” Ryan wasn’t at
He had to carry around a screwdriver
Teterboro when a plane crashed in
with
him
June 2005, but the television show
whenever
“Real TV” was. Teterboro is one of the
he
smallest, busiest airports in the New
went
top fly the
York area and has had three crashes
plane
this year alone. Ryan is a safe and con
because
scientious pilot and has never been in
you
an accident but that didn’t matter when
had
to “Screw
he flew o close to a 727 plane and once
the plane
again received the same punishment
back
that he had gotten when he flew to
together
close to the Statue of Liberty. How do
as
the
you fly a Cessna fast? “Pull the throttle
screws
up as fast as you can to go really fast.”
came
He said. “That’s all there is to it.”
loose,” he
Ryan loves taking scenic photo
said. ‘The
graphs of the agricultural as well as res
rattling
idential landscapes. He has taken pic
was
so
loud
it
tures of huge pumpkin patches in New
Jersey, Fall foliage changing colors^
was hard
to
A Screen shot of the flight simulation program that Deandrea jlearned to fly
with
hear
a few. Ever since flight school, Ryan
anything else.” His instructor John told
required to call in his position every few
has set his sights higher in hopes of
Ryan “No worries, but if anything hap
minutes, and he had to call in whenev
one day joining the Air Force where
er he saw another plane. Ryan has
their slogan just so happens to be “Aim
pens, you’re most likely to die.”
youngest pilot at Teterboro Airport.
Ryan received his pilot’s license before
and the New York City Skyline to name
flown up the Hudson River, around the
High.” Ryan has yet to sign up. Having
The Cessna is a very small aircraft
Statue of Liberty as well as around
a hobby has kept Ryan out of trouble
he would be old enough to get his dri
and if you were to lose control of the
ver’s license. “John wa6 great,” Ryan
Manhattan. Ryan has never flown at
and away from drugs because he liter
aircraft, you wouldn’t survive a crash
said of his flight instructor. “He taught
night because it is extremely difficult.
ally gets high up in the sky.
because
everything
would
be
�September 26,2005
From the
Editor
Letters To The Editor
Re: “Students may be
unaware of a Sex Offender
on Campus.”
Rita will have made landfall somewhere
along the Texas coast by the time
you’ve picked up this issue. And unfor
tunately, as of press time, the Industrial
Canal
levee
in
New Orlenas was
breached again, sending water surging
back into the city. Luckily for us the
weather around here hasn’t been that
crazy. It’s finally Fall though, as hard as
that may be to believe given how nice
and warm it’s been thus far.
It seems like only yesterday the
semester was just starting, but now
tears came to my eyes. Good job Luke
Crisalli.
-Dana Sveva, Junior.
I am really glad a story like this was
Just when we thought we had seen the
worst with Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane
Re: The Casualties of
Cronyism
The presence of a known sex offender
published in our school’s paper. I am
is an alarming development on cam
also glad to be a New Yorker. This
pus.
females
place isn’t my favorite, but as a state,
should be aware of several security
we knew better than to vote for Bush.
Students,
especially
procedures CSI offers to provide safety
He is a child and is putting the lives of
I really liked the way this article was
after dark. Any classes ending after
every American citizen in the hands of
written because it showed how Kanye
dark
his friends and not those qualified.
often
have
security
officers
around the building. These officers will
really is. He’s an amazing artist and at
Although what happened in New
the same time, he’s an arrogant “every
day person.” The fact is, Kanye can be
meet you after class and escort you to
Orleans is a tremendous tragedy, it has
your car by request. It is probably not a
shed light on the disgusting way Bush
like this because no matter what any
good idea to wander the campus alone
has treated his job as president. This is
one says, “he’s just that good.”
after dark anyway, but with a known
not some Homeland Security video
Sex Offender attending classes here,
game. Now all of this blood is real, and
no precaution is to much.
on the hands of our incompetent presi
dent and his friends. Hopefully when
we’re all of the sudden 1/3 of the way
-Cliff Weimer, Junior
towards the end of the semester. Now
the people vote in three more years we
CSI made everything so confusing with
This issue is loaded with informa
tion that’s important to you. With impor
tant updates to stories you first read
about in the last issue, a chance to meet
lets students know what they are miss
It is great that the College of Staten
full time, to remain under my father’s
ing out on.
Island is getting involved with hurricane
health coverage. There have been
mail about a sex offender on campus.
were a few speed bumps, (ok, there
were more than a few, but who’s count
ing?) yet at the same time we’re still
striving to do better. However, we need
you- our readers -to give us submis
sions. From news to sports, to comics,
and
the
ever-important
American
Democracy Page, The Banner is always
the place for CSI Students to get their
work published. So take some time out
could just hear my mother’s voice right
now stressing the fact to stay in school
This article was very informative and
-Anthony Gallo
two pages of comics.
doesn’t look like it). Along the way there
something that should concern all stu
dents at the College of Staten Island. I
umn, a kicking arts page, and of course,
into this issue of The Banner (even if it
insurance is very important and it is
Re: CSI responds to
Hurricane Katrina
your classmates, a stimulating sex col
We’ve put a lot of time and effort
-Marissa Gessin, Junior
these CIX accounts and now we find
out that students never received an e-
yeah, running The Banner.
Re: Price of healthcare
making students ill.
I appreciate this article because health
faced with the daunting task of applying
applying to Graduate school, and oh
-Lisa LaBruzo, Sophomore
will have learned our lesson.
that October is almost upon us, I’m now
for an internship, studying for the GRE,
Re: Kanye’s new Workout
Plan
relief. The amount of devastation done
times I wanted to do a semester part
by Hurricane Katrina is unbelievable.
time, but I knew if I did so I wouldn’t be
Every little bit helps in a time like this. I
medically covered. I briefly knew about
hope every school within CUNY as well
Family Health Plus and Medicaid but I
e-mail
as the entire country does their part to
didn’t know who was eligible for it and
addresses. I think that for something as
make the burden on the devastated
how one could receive it. This article
area a little lighter.
was extremely informative because
Regarding the CIX accounts, nobody I
know
actually
serious
and
uses
these
dangerous
as
a
sex
offender on campus, there should be
now I know I have other options for
another way for us students to gain this
medical insurance if I am in school over
-Jennifer Miller, Junior.
twenty one, or if I decide to drop a
knowledge. I do believe in reform and
don’t believe that this person will nec
essarily strike again, but a lot of stu
Re: Blame Game is a
Shame
class. I also will use the information
given to help other friends or students
who might need health insurance.
dents leave the campus late at night,
and
for
people
who
commute
to
I think that Kevin Mamakas couldn’t
Brooklyn or anywhere, this is a scary
have said it any better in this article. To
thing. This needs to be known.
start blaming people isn’t the right thing
to do at this time. These people need to
of your busy schedule to produce some
-Cristal Brown, Senior
material for us and keep those submis
-Carinne Fassari, Junior
get their city back in order just like we
did here in NYC. It was a natural disas
sions coming.
Re: Women’s Volleyball
Gets Set to Compete
Beyond CUNY Conference
ter that occurred and there is no way
-David Maltz
In the article about students being
that you
can
predict the
level
of
This story gave me a chance to learn of
destruction that can occur. Save the
the women’s volleyball team. Although
I feel whoever was trying to make us
blaming for a later time, and start with
they only won one game last season, I
Anti-War Film
Draws Small Crowd
aware did a poor job. E-mailing student
the task at hand.
will attend at least a few times this sea
continued from page 2
students. Most of us wouldn’t even
unaware of a Sex Offender on campus,
son to see how they do this year. After
accounts is not a good source to reach
-Andrew Calise
reading Coach Fein and how he thinks
I agree with Mamakas’ comment on
games, makes it even more exciting to
see the outcome.
his girls will be ready to win more
know how to check them even if we
me anything you want,” said Mr. Charles
wanted to. Information like this should
Wisniewski, a retired NYPD photographer,
be clearly made public for everyone’s
placing the blame on the populace that
who was at 9/11, “but the fact of the mat
safety.
votes politicians into office. However,
ter is, I love my country, and just because
I disagree doesn't mean I’m any less
-Frank Arnone, Senior
how can we be best informed when we
-Mario Cardaci, Senior
American."
depend on media that operates for its
own interests (money)? This is nothing
All around a wariness of the Bush
Re: Comics
new and it will continue so long as the
Administration prevailed. “I don’t trust my
Although I have never checked my CIX
press focuses on scandals after the
I would just like to say that the comics
government,” said Cason, “because I
account from CSI account from CSI I
fact.
by Enrique Inocente do something to
know they are capable of wrongdoing.” So
think it is unfair that Sex Offenders are
did a questioning of the motives behind
blatantly put out there through an email
the war. “We’re not fighting for freedom,”
for all to see. I know this is a serious
said ‘E\ That was a secondary goal.”
As the gathering began to disperse,
a spirit of revelation seemed to lodge in the
matter but these people may have a
sickness and broadcasting it to
world is not the way to cure it.
into all the earth and share the good news
Re: The Spirit of New York
Keep up the great work Enrique I
think of anything good that happened
that day. While reading this article, I felt
of the gospel. “We are in the dark in this
as if I was reading a poem. It gave me
country,” said an anonymous friend of Mr.
an excellent outlook of what that tragic
Wisniewski clothed in a Hawaiian-print
day really did to us New Yorkers. It
coat of many colors. “But ifs better to light
made me smile and at the same time
a candle than curse the darkness.”
forward to his section every issue.
When thinking back to the days of
September 11,2001 one finds it hard to
-Stephanie Palmier!, Senior
me laugh out loud! His drawings are
great and the material is witty. I look
the
bosom of each partisan. They had seen
the light, and they were zealous to go forth
me that other comics don’t - the make
-Frantz Barosy
-Levon Martinez, Senior
�Feast
During the weekend of September 17th and 18th, The 78th
Annual Feast of San Genaro took ptace in the Little Italy
section of Manhattan. Italian foods of all kinds were offered,
from Zeppoles to Saussage and Peppers...from ItalianNought
to Pasta, if it was Italian, it was there. Religious processions,
church masses and a parade were also part of the festivites.
The finest in Italian culture was also available in the form of
CD’s featuring Italian musicans. All Photos: Luke Crisalli
6
Of San
Genaro
�September26,2005
The feast is an annual celebration of
the patron saint of Naples. The feast
began on Mulberry Street in 1926.Since
then, the feast has grown into a gala
celebration. Each year, at the end of the
celebration, donations are given to
orginizations throughout the five bor
oughs, and this year, to relief groups
that are helping with the Hurricane
Katrina relief fund.
7
�SNARF
TRUE CARTOON STORY
In 1985 a phenomena swept
American television sets. That
phenomena was ThunderCats.
Aside from the acclaimed TV
series, there were comic
books, toys, computer games,
and other forms of merchandise that exploited America’s love for
these feisty felines. Among the colorful cast of characters was the
lovable, cuddly, giant rodent type thingy named Snarf. But behind his
cutsey mannerisms and pratfalls was a dark, secretive world filled
with drug addiction, and sexual depravity.
Snarf grew up on the mean streets of
Brooklyn’s Marcy Projects, but his love
of dance and acting kept him off the
streets and in the theater. He attended
the High School for the Professional
Performing Arts where he played
Bruno Martelli in the school’s produc
tion of Fame.; Snarf garnered critical
acclaim for his role, and graduated in
1982 as the classmate most likely to
win an Academy Award.
J 'S- :
“It was the 80’s, man. Cocaine was
everywhere,” said Lion-O, Snarf’s
now lives in a trailer. “It was a crazy
decade. After every episode me and
Snarf would go to Cheetara’s dress
ing room and take turns snorting
coke off her ass.”
Snarf’s life eventually spi
raled into a world filled with
all-night binge drinking, and
drug-filled orgies. He was
known for partying with
Hollywood bad boy and reefer addict Slimer from Ghostbusters.
Snarf’s self-destructive lifestyle and copious amounts of doping inter
fered with his work. He’d show up late to the studio, and had trouble
remembering his lines. This lack of professionalism -coupled with the
fact most of the cast and crew were stoned during a majority of the
shooting- caused plenty of friction on the set.
^ThunderCats^
timers said Brite, who now lives with her life partner
Brittany Chipette on Fire Island. “After a week of dat
ing, I found him in bed with that fat, sleazy c**t Ms.
Piggy, She already f **ed half the east of the Muppet
My only solace from all this was that Snarf caught
the clap from that filthy pig!”
was cancelled
in 1987. With
the end of the
series, came
hardtimes for
Snarf.
Stay
tuned for the
conclusion of
Snarf:
True
Cartoon Story
after this brief
^message.
J
�NOT A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
an ENRIQUE I6NACIO INOCENTE joint
After the cancella
tion of ThunderCats,
It was difficult for
Snarf to get another
acting job. Typecast
as the comic relief in
a children’s show
made it impossible
for him to get a seri
ous role. He auditioned for a part in Pokemon, but
things went horribly wrong when Snarf mauled
Pikachu half to death after producers chose him for
the starring role instead of Snarf. After years with
out work and desperate for money, Snarf began
performing
in
hardcore, under
ground bondage
movies, and did
other sexually
explicit things to
make
ends
meet.
If you Hove to smoke.
/ please smoke marijuana
It's 1007o natural -for the
most part- and gives you a
better sense of wellbeing.
So roll up a big phattie and
smoke one up for this pimp
\ daddy. I guarantee it's
7 ^
crunktastic
IS A PRODUCTION OF
/
TRUE CARTOON STORY
�September26,2005
PARALLEL PARKING? DRIVING AND GOING TO CLASS AT CSI
Louren Taylor
ake a right turn and parallel
M
park... On Friday September
up and we don't know how to control it.
That insecurity seems to affect how I
In my case, the anxiety of a driving test
present myself, driving or in classroom
am at the wheel. I know they are only
was making me loose my self-confi
participation.
being helpful, but I dislike backseat driv
already know and hopefully doing as I
dence. Then again it could be the oppo
I am not an aggressive driver and
site, we could be too confident in our
in the morning. As a freshman in
selves and then fall on our face.
College, many would expect a person to
With this said, the same thing can
already have their license, but I wanted
be considered when I have to stand up
to save up money in order to do so. I
in front of one of our College of Staten
tried to control the nervousness but my
Island lectures
mind went blank as I entered the car
and speak. As a
with the examiner, and I must tell you
quiet and shy
that might be because I am a shy per
passed.
son, but I am a defensive driver. I'm too
in the car I have had for months.
nice, but then again I will be aware and
parents truly had faith in me passing the
avoid idiots trying to cut me off or drivers
driving test and they bought me a 1988
16th, I took my road test at 8:30
that I have been prepared for this
person,
moment weeks ago; actually, there were
tell
months of preparation to pass this test.
my driving instructor and father is one
thing but to be "graded" by a stranger
about how I drive in five minutes, is
it went on for an hour.
It's so weird how your mind and
nail it in one shot, no worries." But, why
is it that someone else would fail; am I
doing something wrong when I drive?
you
My
Pontiac Grand Am months ago. It is in
mint condition and I am so proud to
Driving
to
drive it and now call it my own.
school,
work,
My next goal is to overcome my
and home will be
shyness in the classroom. Preparation
shyness in the classroom.
beneficial com
and attentiveness will help me secure
pared to taking
the self-confidence at the College of
Staten Island as it did for me to pass my
ing in front of a
the bus or bum
ming a ride.
nervous. I'm not
basically
what
I
road test. I want to succeed in all areas
won't
of my life, but especially in my college
be under surveil
education. I'm trying to be positive when
comes over me when I actually raise my
lance by licensed divers because I
it comes to following the rules of the
hand but when that happens, you know
passed the driving test.
I
'
I feel comfortable with driving
me and my car.
My next goal is to overcome my
first
I can now say that because I
doing something stupid that will affect
crowd gets me
sure
totally different. Actually the test felt like
body gets the signal of nervousness and
can
hand that talk
To be watched, studied and criticized by
anxiety. Everyone i know said, "you'll
I
ers.
am
sure
of the
answer
to the
road. I've improved so much since the
Yes, I have in my possession a
first day I started Drivers Ed to the day I
Professors question. My confidence
temporary driver's license.
I passed I I
took my road test. I can now proudly say
comes from the knowledge of the sub
know the rules of the road. I was so
"You would like me to make a right and
ject we talking about.
In this case, my
nervous driving with people who already
parallel park? No problem.
aim is to present my answer clearly and
have their licenses. The guidance these
not embarrass myself by messing up.
experienced drivers offer is something I
Sometimes all our nervousness builds
Sex Column: The Double Standard of Masturbation
Annemorie Dooling
t a birthday party, a few weeks
A
ago, all of my friends chipped
enough to be that immensely sexual
the
else.
This is especially true in the brain
without knowing what to do with your
Women who masturbate learn what
of religious folk. So, it's almost easy to
own hands first. Besides the idea of
feels good to them, and teach men,
see why a female would be ashamed
getting to know your body,
I just
and many men find this expertise very
of masturbation. It's been beaten into
least
sexy. But is it possible to know what
our heads that it's just not something
you
nice girls do.
thought everyone
did
it—at
in to buy the birthday girl a
every unattached person. I mean, the
very special gift. We presented herfirst thing I did after breaking up with
with The Rabbit. Aptly named "the
man replacer," The Rabbit is a do-itall-to-yourself tool complete with rotat
ing jelly head, pearl infused body, and
vibrating bunny shaped clitoral stimu
lator in five remote controlled speeds.
And it's pink, too. Totally girl friendly.
The birthday girl was thrilled to
receive her gift, and soon the conver
sation
was
open
to
masturbation
talk—a subject that used to becompletely taboo but had, in recent years,
made a comeback.
I mean, everybody does it, right?
by far one of the most interesting and
attractive girls I know, was a little
turned off by our talk of getting your
self on. This was quite a surprise, as it
seemed to all of us that to be com
pletely in touch with yourself sexually,
you had to masturbate, or at least
know how to get yourself off if you
wanted to. The idea that the most
arousing girl we knew chose not to
masturbate had thrown everyone for a
Even the
birthday
to NiteCap and buy the Butterfly.
But I had to wonder, if the girl with
girl
was
shocked.
"You really don't do it?"
"No. If I need to get laid I call a
guy," Sam answered. I had trouble
wrapping myself around the idea that
you could know your body well
like
of
someone
sexually without
actually
doing it to yourself? Or if you can't
So what about the rest of us? Are
manage to touch yourself, should you
we, possibly, too in love with our
not be allowing others to do it? What
selves? Physically speaking, mastur
exactly is masturbation's role in our
bation is the safest form of sex.
the best sex life around here didn't
sex lives?
appreciate masturbation, what's really
Going
Eliminating
the
other
partner
back as far as Moses,
means you know what your working
behind all this? Is masturbation really
women had a role to play in social life.
with your own body. There are no awk
just a way to pleasure yourself, or are
We were the pure and chaste halves
ward questions regarding STD testing.
we hiding behind it? By exchanging
of our more heroic male counterparts,
There is no worry that the partner
man for machine are we really just try
at least as far as history books would
will fail to finish you. Emotionally
ing to remove the drama?
allow us to know.
Aside from sexual pleasure,
speaking, by deleting the plus one
I
That old stereotype is still alive
from your sexual routine, you can
a
today, an age when men remain play
escape a lot of the drama that comes
around
boys and bachelors and women are
with relationships. You get your climax
whenever you need it, it leaves when
often thought of as sluts and whores.
and your done. But what about every
you want it to, and you never have to
While male
is often
thing that comes before the climax?
worry about when a vibrator's going to
coined healthy and simply tension
The surprise of a lover's touch, or
call you, cheat on you, or forget your
relief, the same is not true for women.
feeling
birthday.
a
This may have something to do with
yours? Your first kiss with that person,
found
other
mechanical
Apparently not. My friend Sam, who is
loop.
my boyfriend of two years, was run out
bedroom
pluses
to
boyfriend.
Give
me
having
It's
the
Rabbit,
masturbation
someone's
body
against
Subway
the fact that the clitoris is the only
or even just a moment they made you
have completely
organ on the human body that science
laugh?
replaced a man. Masturbation is also
has found no use for, except pleasure.
By denying masturbation we can
sited as a great source of stress relief
Therefore, female masturbation,
choose to keep our sexual needs hid
and a simple way to let go of any
which in essence is basically using the
den from ourselves, but we can also
unnecessary tensions.
clitoris to bring oneself to climax, with
use it to keep hidden from others.
Degrassi
DVD
Sandwich,
and
and
I
a
However, the biggest plus would
no general purpose other than that cli
Sure, it can be a big deal if we let it.
have to be the boost it can give you in
max, is clearly a threat of power to
Anything can be dirty or inappropriate
the bedroom. If you don't use mastur
men who can't handle a woman's sex
with the right campaign... or, we can
bation as a race to climax, you can
uality. Along the way it's grown the
all be big, brave boys and girls and
experiment and find out what makes
your body tick. New positions, new
feelings, nothing is off limits. When
you're comfortable enough, you can
use all your new-found knowledge in
stigma of being known as dirty and
disgusting, while a guy jerking off is
seen, at it's very Hollywood worst,
as funny, maybe pathetic on the right
guy.
learn to touch ourselves, and learn to
reach out to others at the same time.
And, maybe, we can also learn that all
of that is perfectly okay.
�Andrea Kleboe
ave you ever met anyone who
H
loves his or her job? Before you
ous years she was one of the assistant
publication to those not involved in
moter Heavy Hitter. It was unpaid, but
directors. How did she get the job? “I
radio, CMJ is a highly respected publi
she did not receive any credits for it
went to the radio station," said Gessin,
cation. Each monthly magazine con
because she wants to get the most
“and inquired about it the first day of
tains new release information, inter
experience possible. She is leaving her
class.” Sounds easy right?
views with artists, an album reviews
options open.
say no, you may want to read
on.
Marissa Gessin and her friends
and her friends were at their usual
hangout, Perkins on Forest Ave, while
she was still in his school, when a job
offer came along. They were just sitting
in a usual comer booth, fooling around
and talking. “My friend took some bal
loons,” said Gessin, “and started teach
ing us how to make balloon animals.”
Before long one of the managers
there approached them with an offer to
work for a company named Tina’s
Costume Characters, where they would
dress up like Cookie Monster, Elmo,
and other favorite children’s characters
to entertain at parties. While that was
fun, it is not the job Gessin had fallen in
love with
and become
passionate
about.
Fast forward to 2005 and Gessin
Marissa puts in about ten hours a
among other things. All of these bands
CMJ hosts a yearly, four-day con
week at WSIA. Like the other clubs and
start out as virtually unknown, but some
vention in NYC that allows networking
organizations at CSI, it is completely
bands, such as Kill, Switch, Engage,
and giving Gessin an opportunity to put
voluntary. An all student board of direc
gain status through college radio. With
a face with a name. During the day
tors runs WSIA. It is licensed by the
help of Gessin and college music direc
there are music discussion panels and
FCC and reaches all of Staten Island,
tors across the country, the band has
at night there are performances. Gessin
as
Brooklyn,
gained notoriety among college stu
estimates that there are about 500
Manhattan, and New Jersey. WSIA’s
dents. This has led to heavier promo
artists that perform, all of them with
job is to introduce listeners tp new
tion from there own record label, in
their roots in college radio. These
musical acts and that is where Gessin
general. While she speaks about this,
shows are free with CMJ badge that
comes in.
Gessin in noticeably proud of the fact
Gessin has more than earned. There
"The record companies send me
that her volunteer work at a small col
are even movie previews. One of the
records by new acts,” said Gessin. “I
lege radio station has made an impact.
more notable ones includes a showing
decide what is generally airabie. From
Some people may wonder why
of “Team America: World Police." This
there, the DJ’s make their decisions on
Gessin puts in so much time and effort
screening
what they want to play during their par
to something that does not even pay.
answer time with creators Matt stone
ticular show.” Gessin gives the DJ’s
Though not monetary, the rewards are
and Trey Parker.
about 200 CD’s to choose from. After
plentiful. Gessin proudly displays a pic
Gessin expects to be graduating
their show, the DJ’s initial and rate what
ture on a grainy camera phone are one
from the College of Staten Island in
they played. This turns into top 30 and
of the perks that she has received for
January of 2007. She would like to be
topIO lists that get sent to the College
speaking with record labels and putting
working at the radio station until then.
Music Journal. WSIA, along with other
new acts on her station.
“Listening to music and talking to record
has been the music director at WSIA,
the radio station of the College of
Staten Island for two years. She is now
well
as
parts
of
college radio stations, pay to have their
Gessin also has an internship
lists in it.
While, it may seem like a minor
under her belt. Last year she took an
included
question
and
labels,” said Gessin, “beats Pressing up
like Cookie Monster any day."
unpaid internship with loud rock pro
the music director and for the two previ
Enrique Ignacio Inocente
aways, Kate (Evangeline Lilly) is the
questions like: what’s in hatch? What
reason for taking that ill-fated flight, and
sexy fugitive from justice, John Locke
happened to the guys on the raft after it
what motivated their actions on the
This past Wednesday saw the return of
(Terry O'Quinn)
blew up into fiery bits?
island. Now that each character has
last season’s breakout hit TV show,
is
supersti
Are the Others real peo
been establish, there’s a risk the flash
Lost. For those not in the know, Lost is
tious old man
ple or figments of crazy
backs will now become gratuitous and
an ABC show about, a group of people
who
Believes
French Lady’s imagina
not add to the developing plot on the
stranded on a deserted island...or is it
the island has
tion? Of all the mysteries,
island. Then there are the mysterious
deserted? Actually, it’s not deserted.
brought them all
I think the most relevant
happenings surrounding the history of
The island is populated with all sorts of
here for a rea
question is whether or not
the island. How long can the show
oddities like a man-eating polar bear, a
son,
that fat dude Hugo (Jorge
tease the audience with cliffhangers
crazy French lady, and black smoke
Charlie
Garcia) will get laid.
and no resolutions before people get
that sucks people into the earth. Then
(Dominic
there are the mysterious figures known
Monaghan/
a
as the Others that threaten the lives of
Hobbit)
a
son premiere, then you
tim to its own hype. Fans might expect
our heroes. Despite the absurdity and
heroine addict, and bass player for suc
were pleased for the most part. I’m
too much from the show and want to be
wild high jinx occurring on the island,
cessful UK band “Drive Shaft”. These
looking forward to the rest of this sea
blown away by spectacular revelations
what really holds the show together are
are just a handful of the talented
son of Lost, but I am concerned of the
only to be let done by a contrived plot
the well-rounded characters. Dr. Jack
ensemble cast.
show growing stale. I mean the show
device. Either way, I’ll be standing by.
Shephard (Matthew Fox) is the hand
Last season’s final episode ended
was unique in that it cleverly depicted
Personally, I’d like to find out where the
some, reluctant leader of the cast
with plenty of twists and unanswered
through flashbacks each character’s
hell that polar bear came from.
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�The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
September26,2005
bmmhhhhhhhbbbhhhsbhhhbmmhhi
Men's Soccer Shows Heart In Shutout Victory
.
Khadijah Rentas
players and four new faces, none of
whom are freshmen. Ugoji, who fin
game
ished high school in Nigeria, has com
against Mt. St. Vincent September 19,
mitted four years to the team. Abdul
Before
the
Dolphin’s
home
Chidi Ugoji’s predicted his team would
Kaid sweated three years. Captains
win, and they did.
Valon Osmani, goalie, and Francesco
The
team’s
defense
kept
Oddo, center defender, have dedicated
the
four and three years, respectively.
opposing team from scoring and the
Two years ago, the defense helped
offense certainly contributed with both
strikers,
Asmir
Dzemovski
Osmani
and
tie
the
CUNY conference
record of nine shutout games. That
Babatunde Ipaye, scoring one goal
season resulted in only two losses and
each.
three ties. Last year did not prove as
After half time, the opposing team
began
to
collapse.
Some
memorable, with the Dolphin’s record of
players
argued with each other shouting, “Shut
9-9-2.
up and play the game.” One player
against Mt. St. Vincent, maybe the
became so upset that he could not con
Dolphin’s can continue to win.
The
trol the ball that his arms fell to his side,
The Dolphins worked together and
for this team, there is more to the game
than just victory.
The men’s soccer team began their
semester a bit earlier than most CSI students.
2, the team has had little time to prac
The team returned to school August 15 for
tice together. “I think that if we didn’t
preseason practice. Since the season opener
have three games a week we’d have
against Rutgers
time to practice, “said center midfielder
September 7, which the Dolphins tied 2-
Abdul Kaid. “We’re not even prepared
to play yet.” But for such an unprepared
team, they have won three of their last
five games.
Women's Volleyball
Many variables
enter into the
Dolphin’s solid performance thus far.
Mix an experienced coach with veteran
Pamela Zambrano
On September 17 the women’s volleyball
team received their first victory of the sea
son
against
players and a whole lot of spirit, throw it
Delnnocentiis. “It’s not like in High School
on a field of artificial grass and watch it
where everyone gets out at the same
grow strong.
time.” The coaching staff is in agreement
Head Coach Vito Veneruso arrived
that although this is a young team, the
at CSI two years ago from New Jersey
girls in
colleges where he coached women’s
it
are
soccer. “The best thing was when I
York
College with a score
of 3-0. After a couple
of defeats this sea
son the team is now
1-1 in the CUNY con
ference play. During
the
game
Mariya
Korobkova made 3
kills, Acasha Gordon
made
Kellie
6
kills
and
Carnevale
made 4 kills.
“The team is in a
rebuilding process”,
said
head
coach
Rose Delnnocentiis.
CSI Womens volleyball coach Rose Delnnocentiis
during one of the teams practices.
"We are experiment
moti
switched from women’s to men’s,”
vated
Coach Veneruso said.
and
Italy where soccer is what you learn
learn
when
One of the things that is different this
year is all the new members. “We have 3
returning players”, said Delnnocentiis.
“There is a lot of change but there is no
you’re
“I come from
three-years-old
and
every
always
chance
Veneruso remembered how coaching
they
women sometimes left them in tears.
played
for
men.”
Coach
get.
It’s possible to imagine while sitting
They
on the player’s bench next to Coach
consid
Veneruso. In the first tri one of the yel
er this
low and black striped shirt referees rep
to
rimanded Coach Veneruso for challeng
be
one of
ing his authority and eyesight, not once
the best
but twice.
team
they
ing a lot this season.”
“Are we legally blind here?” Coach
Veneruso
screamed.
The
referee
had so far. "They are a very good group
warned Coach Veneruso not to chal
of girls”, said student assistant Steve
lenge his calls. “Last time I checked we
Spagnoli. "They don’t get discouraged.”
Delnnocentiis and assistant coach
still in United States,” said Coach
Veneruso, obviously irritated.
Jason Fein are working hard towards get
Sometimes Coach Veneruso would
ting the team to improve every year and
shout words in Italian, other times he’d
hope that they will have a lot of returning
sigh and grunt a bit, and not always
players next year. The goal of winning at
because of the referees. “If they don’t
ing the team this year is that although
least 10 games and competing in the
do the job they know I scream every
everyone does make it make to the
CUNY tournament in November is one
thing,” Coach Veneruso said about his
single player that hasn't had some sort of
volleyball experience.”
One of the chal
lenges that the coaching staff has in build
games, unfortunately not everyone can
that they see very doable and they will
show up to all the practices. “The sched
continue to work hard to make it happen.
ules of the players are insane”, said
goal:
to
with
win
the
the
shutout
CUNY
Conference and play at the NAACP
his eyes rolled and he stopped trying.
communicated well to earn the win. But
However,
players.
The soccer team has 14 returning
tournament. As a captain, Oddo relies
heavily on communication and organi
zation. He partners with other defend
ers, like Ugoji, to call plays and listens
to the advice of Osmani, who knows
saving balls as a goalie involves “way
more than protecting the net. Our job is
to organize the back," Oddo said.
“We’re the last line of defense.”
“We crush them mentally,” added
Coach Veneruso. The Dolphins intimi
date their opponents and when they
start to score, their opponents begin to
fail
under
the
pressure.
Coach
Veneruso said. “We are the ones that
played the best,” Coach Veneruso said.
“The ones that play the best will win.”
Technique alone did not win this
game. The Dolphins have what Oddo
and Coach Veneruso would describe as
heart.
The Dolphins receive no rewards
from CSI aside from early registration.
They must balance school, work and
family with no financial incentives.
“Some kids can’t always make it to
practice,” said Osmani. But they do
what they can and remain committed to
the team.
Oddo has played soccer since he
was six-years-old and loves the sport.
“My parents don’t want me to play on
the school team,” Oddo said. “They
don’t think I can get anything out of it.”
But a team’s worth of friends, an ador
ing coach and the chance to do what
you love sounds valuable.
Experience the spirit of the team,
go to their games and cheer for our
men’s soccer team. They will play their
toughest opponent, City College, at
home on October 8 at 2:00 p.m. Join in
on the huddle chant: “1,2,3, C-S-l!” and
hope they make it to the NAACP tour
nament.
�
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Students May Be
Unaware of Sex
Offender on Campus
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......._____-...................................
Mellisso Seecharan
As the school year kicks into high gear,
faculty, and staff find themselves more
cautious on campus as information con
cerning the “presence of a level 2 sex
offender”—a person of “moderate risk of
reoffense”—was released to them via email to their college addresses.
According to numerous reports, the email, sent out by the CSI's Office of
Public Safety on August 26th, somehow
never made it into students' online
accounts.
“I checked my CIX account and
never got anything about this,” said
Theresa Conliffe, echoing the experi
ences of many others.
According to the e-mail, obtained
by The Banner through Vice President
of Student Affairs, Carol Jackson's
office, "the law allows the administration
to make it known to the entire college
community the presence of the offender
on campus."
Under the Campus Sex Crimes
Prevention Act of October 28, 2002, sex
offenders must register with local law
enforcement officials who will in turn
notify the college of the individual's
enrollment or employment. That infor
mation is then forwarded to campus
police and made available to the college
community by request.
PRICE OF HEALTHCARE MAKING STUDENTS ILL
or low-cost healthcare for those who
need it with programs like Medicaid,
Family Health Plus, and Healthy NY.
f you are a college student on a
“The goal of this program is to provide
budget, health insurance is probably
for the next generation, said
not high on your list of priorities, but
Healthfirst marketing representative
it should be. The reality is that in most Anna Barac. “Everyone, regardless of
cases after you turn 21, you are no
income, has the right to be healthy.”
longer covered
Every
by your parents'
semester
health
insur
representa
ance.
Doctor
tives from
visits and pre
Healthfirst
scription drugs
and
GHI
are
costly.
(the official
Accidents
or
CUNY
medical emer
health care
gencies
can
provider)
occur unexpect
are
sta
edly and a short
tioned out
hospital
stay
side
the
may cost sever Healthfirst Marketing Representatives Mitch
Health
al thousand dol Pilnick and Valerie Vega help CSI students sign up
Center
in
lars. High med for health insurance.
Building 1C
ical bills are
on
desig
even forcing some students to put their
nated days to educate students about
education on hold. It has become such
health care and aid them in applying
a problem now that 65% of colleges
for coverage, although very few stop
have made it a mandatory requirement
by to inquire. “They are aware that it’s
that students have health care cover
important to have health insurance
age. Although CSI has not taken such
these days, because when they go to
drastic actions they are doing their part
the hospital, they get hit with a ridicu
to make students more aware of their
lous bill, and then they find themselves
options.
in debt”, said Healthfirst marketing
In recent years, New York State,
representative Valerie Vega. “So they
under Governor George Pataki have
are trying to do the responsible thing
been making it a priority to provide free
Continued on page 3
Ann Marie Costello
CSI
Responds to
I
Luke Crisalli
he devastating affects of Hurricane
Katrina on the gulf coast of the
United States will most likely be felt
for years, perhaps even decades to
come. The CSI community came togeth
er to work on ideas on just how to aid
those who aided New York during
September 11th.
On September 8th, 2005, Top CSI
administration members met in 1Ato put
together plans for the campuses
response to the Hurricane Katrina disas
ter. Among the many people present
were, V.P. for student affairs, Carol
Jackson, Director of Student Life Carol
Brower, Associate Dean of Student Affairs
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Thomas Bradley
September 8th—The College of Staten
Island High School for International
Studies opened its doors for the first time
this fall. Building 5N will be the temporary
home for the new Region 7. public high
School while its future home in building
2M is still under renovation. The student
body will consist of the inaugural fresh
man class and continuously add a grade
each following year.
Two by two, with nametags slapped
on their chests, the freshman hungrily
marched into the Campus Center for
lunch. They were unavailable for inter
views as their parents had not yet signed
a consent form allowing them to speak on
record.
These voiceless minors are attend
ing the school to, “prepare for college and
jobs in the global economy.” The school’s
homepage, www.csiinternationalhs.org,
asserts its progressive mission state
ment: ‘To
create
a
culturally
diverse,
rich, and
respectful
community
of lifelong
learners.”
The high
Aimee Horowitz, principal school’s
of CSI’s High Scnool for q;+q nworInternational Studies
S''e °V®r
shadows
the College of Staten Island’s own home
page by being both more user friendly
and visually pleasing. The high school
freshman used the site to learn the theme
of their summer reading: “Identity”, which
is an appropriate theme for a fledgling
institution looking to make a name for
itself.
However, “Identity” is something of a
difficult subject for most 13/14 year olds
and the new high school will be experi
encing its own growing pains as it seeks
to establish a name for itself in the higher
performing college preparatory schools
throughout New York City.
The principal, Ms. Aimee Horowitz,
was formerly an Assistant Principal at
Edward R. Murrow High School (desig
nated a School of Excellence by the U.S.
Dept, of Education) in Brooklyn. It was
there that Ms. Horowitz implemented a
Model United Nations Conference, We
The People Program, and a Law Institute,
making her no stranger to guiding institu
tions through the difficult stage of infancy.
With its focus on the “globally inter
dependent world”, The College of
Staten Island High School for
International Studies has set a high
standard of success for itself. However,
the standards shouldn’t be considered
too high, the high school is set on a col
lege campus with all the resources of a
CUNY college to call upon.
The City of New Orleans is submerged
under 20 feet of water in some places.
Mike Daniels, Associate Director of the
counseling center Mary Murphy, Clubs
coordinator Debbi Kee, Director of admis
sions Mary Beth Reilly and Director of
communications and marketing Bob
Huber.
Jackson took the lead in the half hour
meeting, in which she assigned various
people to head certain groups in a better
effort to respond to the disaster. Among
these groups are; Fundraising, Collection
of goods, Service learning opportunities,
and the web site which can be found at
http://www.csi.cuny.edu/admissions/hurricane.html
the campus is taking in Staten Island
students who had enrolled in colleges
affected by the hurricane. Currently, one
student, a geography major previously
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Blame Game is a Shame Game
help out, but the US government claims
they do not need help of this nature.
ens of thousands of lives may
And on top off all this, the Labor
have been lost in the after effects
Department reports that around 10,000
of Hurricane Katrina. The num
people filed for unemployment as a
bers are not certain because officials result of the storm, and the level will con
have not been able to search all the liv
tinue to rise. They predict that the num
ing areas yet. Everyone else in the area
ber would have been higher except that
have been forced into a greater point of
the storm forced unemployment offices
poverty.
to close and prevented more of the job
New Orleans is now going to be
less, homeless, and family-less from fill
shut down for at least nine months
ing out the paperwork.
because of the destruction and disease.
The Red Cross and other recovery
The people that survived one of the
groups have been blocked from helping
most horrific natural disasters the nation
the people as a result of both the mas
has ever seen have very few places to
sive flooding of the roads and the may
go.
hem caused by the confusion.
It was reported by numerous people
The big issue has become who to
that in the Superdome and Convention
blame for the tragedy. The politicians are
Center shelters there have been rapes,
blaming each other. The state is blaming
murder. Little girls are being raped and
the federal and vice versa. Actors and
killed. Soldiers and national guards have
musicians are blaming the actions, or
become confused and can not control
lack of actions, on racism.
the crowds. So they reportedly end up
The fact of the matter is that the fed
killing the so called refugees that are
eral government knew that New Orleans
suppose to be safe in the shelters. The
was in great danger before anything
people could not leave if they wanted to.
occurred and they should have done
The solders are unfairly out numbered
something. The state government had
because some believe there are too
two days to provide transportation meth
many people in places like Iraq.
ods. They had Greyhound and school
The amount of injured and sickly
buses but decided not to use them.
people is increasing and it would only be
It is becoming clear that race could
natural for more physicians to be needed
have something to do with the govern
to help tend to the wounded. Therefore
ment’s slow response to fixing the levees
Cuban physicians have volunteered to
that were not built for a Category 4 hurri
Kevin S.P. Mamakas
T
cane. The blame should be put on more
then one person, but now is not the time
to concentrate on the blame game.
After 9/11, New York proved the
entire nation wrong. Many outside of
New York thought of our sociological
community to be near extinction. When
we were under attack, we worked
together to get through the tragedy. We
still feel the effects today. But we must
now do the same that people across the
country did for us. The people of New
Orleans need our help and that should
be the only reason why we help. Not
because we want to fix someone’s mis
takes. We help because it is the humane
thing to do..
The way we change the status quo
is by working together, not blaming each
other. It will not be easy, but we have to
learn as a whole how to work as one.
There is nothing we can do to prevent
natural disasters, but we can fix how we
recover from them and how to save as
many people as possible. We can either
talk about what we are going to do to
help and blame people for having to do
it, or we can help and prevent it from
happening again.
People can blame politicians for
everything that went wrong, but remem
ber we vote them into office. We can
only work together and learn what not to
do again.
The Casualties of Cronyism
Matt Safford
ing in Wyoming did...well, whatever
one does while vacationing in
Bush’s Buddies at FEMA and
Wyoming.
Homeland Security Fail New Orleans,
And why not? Sure, thousands of
America
Americans too
As the water
poor to get out
of
Lake
of New Orleans
Pontchartrain
were drowning
invaded the city
or losing every
of New Orleans,
thing
they
pouring through
owned, but the
levee breaches
capable people
Ijke a downpour
at FEMA, who
through a storm
have steered us
drain, President
through
so
Bush
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many other dis
from his nearly
asters
with
5-week
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competence
tion-played gui
and experience,
tar
at
a
were on the job,
California Naval
and things were
base. Across the
being
taken
county in New
care of, right?
York, Secretary
Well...no. It
of
State
turns out that
Condeleeza FEMA Director Brown has been accused of
FEMA, once an
Rice
shopped botching the federal response to Hurricane
effectivelyfor
shoes, Katrina. Others question his qualifications for
autonomous
the job
played
some
arm of federal
tennis
and
disaster control and relief, now
laughed the night away at Spamalot.
answers directly to the Department of
Meanwhile, VP Dick Cheney, vacation
Homeland Security. FEMA’s current
front man Michael D. Brown has no
previous experience dealing with emer
gencies, and his mismanagement (of
horse shows) at his last private-sector
job got him fired. So just how did
Michael Brown get to where he is
today? Well, it turns out that he had the
fortune of being a former college room
mate and friend of FEMA’s previous
leader, Joe Allbaugh. Allbaugh himself
got the job after successfully managing
President Bush’s 2000 presidential
campaign.
That’s right; FEMA’s current leader
is the product of a second generation
of Cronyism. He is not a qualified,
experienced leader or a disaster spe
cialist, but simply, tragically, just the
friend, of a friend, of the President.
So when you see the horrible
videos of bodies rotting in sewagewater, or being eaten by rats in the
streets, when you hear the stories of
those who waited for days to be saved,
only to die days later, because no one
came to help them, when the 25,000
body bags recently brought to New
Orleans begin to fill up, you will know
just one of the reasons why.
The Spirit of
New York
Luke CrisalU
Mk t this time four years ago, our lives
changed forever, in one shocking,
J^Okjut wrenching moment. On a
clear, beautiful morning, we lost a part of
our city, a part of our skyline, we lost fam
ily. We lost friends. But we gained some
thing. We gained a spirit, strength and
resolve unlike any other city on the planet.
For what seemed like the first time in
ages, being a New Yorker gave you real
pride. Seeing an NYPD car didn’t send
you running the other way in fear. Grown
men became little kids, filled with pride
when seeing an FDNY fire truck race by.
Hearing Billy Joel sing "New York State Of
Mind" brought tears of joy to peoples’
eyes. And in what once seemed to be an
act of sacrilage, Red Sox fans actually
cheered for the Yankees, and in some
cases, Yankees fans even cheered for the
Mets.
The terrorists sought to beat us
down, and make us cower in fear, and
instead did something else. They united a
city that had been divided in many ways
for many years. Democrat or Republican,
Black or White, for once it truly didn't mat
ter. We were New Yorkers. This is the real
New York. The city that never sleeps, the
city with the best pizza, the best cheese
cake, and still the best damn skyline on
the planet.
If anything good can come out of
pure evil it is the spirit of millions. There’s
an old saying, "When a warrior is wound
ed, is when you should watch out most."
That saying was proven to be true in the
days following that September day. New
Yorkers prove to be a most resilient group
of warriors. For once, being a Staten
Islander made you proud.
Riding the "1" train downtown almost
seemed jovial. Coney Island had a new
magic about it. Traffic on the
Queensborough bridge didn't seem that
bad for a change. A certain Bronx cheer
rang a little...ok, a lot louder.
Tourists on the Staten Island Ferry
didn't seem as annoying, and for once,
New Yorkers didn’t mind showing them
the sites. Many people visited the Empire
State Building for the first time.
"Daily Show" host Jon Stewart came
back on the air following the attacks, and
while fighting back tears,remarked how
the view from his apartment was now the
Statue of Liberty. "You can't beat that," he
said.
New York had always had a certain
hidden charm to it, and for a few magical
months, New York’s true face shone
through in the darkness. And though it
seems once again hidden now, you will
still see signs of it on the faces of New
Yorkers.
As you reflect and remember those
lost, remember also, the unity and
strength of the greatest city on Earth.
�September12,2005
MELLISSA SEECHARAN
ENRIQUE INNOCENTE
LUKE CRISALLI
MATTHEW BECK
THOMAS BRADLEY
ANNMARIE COSTELLA
ANNE DEMARZO
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
LAUREN TAYLOR
ANNEMARIE DOOLING
GERARD FORTE
KHADIJAH RENTAS
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
Health Insurance
CSI Responds to Hurricane Katrina
continued from page 1
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by looking for an affordable health
insurance, but then again, they see the
high price quotes from plans like GHI
and they get freaked out.”
Medicaid and Family Health Plus
are free health care programs and
Healthy
NY
is
a
low
cost
program.Unlike regular insurance such
as GHI, you have to qualify for them
and qualification goes by monthly
income. The less money you earn the
lower the amount your healthcare will
cost. Medicaid, for example, is avail
able to people who have an exception
ally low income and limited financial
resources. In order to qualify for
Medicaid a single person must earn a
monthly income no greater than
$667.00 and may not have financial
resources exceeding $4,000. Family
Health Plus is available to those who
do not qualify for Medicaid and whose
income does not exceed $798.00 a
month. Healthy NY offers different
plans, that includes prescription cover
age (premium, $193.90 per month) and
one that does not ($170.63 per month).
To qualify for Healthy NY, a single per
son can have a monthly household
income of up to $1,984 and an annual
household income of $23,800.
There are several important fac
tors to consider when applying for
health insurance. First, ask your physi
cians (primary doctor, dentist, gynecol
ogist etc.) what insurance they accept.
If you have special needs aside from
general medical care like mental health
or substance abuse issues you need to
check if your prospective insurance
covers them - not all do. If you do not
qualify for free health care and have to
pay a premium find out if it’s a quarter
ly or monthly payment and plan
accordingly. Also inquire about whether
there is co-payment for prescription
drugs (this means even if the plan cov
ers prescription drugs they may require
you to pay a small amount). This goes
for doctor visits too. Also there maybe
a yearly drug maximum. After you have
done your research and you are ready
to fill out an application there are sev
eral things you need to bring with you:
identification (i.e. driver’s license, birth
certificate), proof of address that has
been dated within the last six months
(i.e. utility bill, or postmarked envelope,
postcard, or magazine label), and
proof of employment/income (i.e. 4
weeks worth of paycheck stubs, W2
form).
Students often equate youth with
good health, but cramming for exams,
drinking, partying, and even a poor diet
can make a person more susceptible
to becoming ill. “Do they experiment
and drink? Absolutely. Does it compro
mise their health? Absolutely it does,”
said CSI nurse Terianne Darragh. “To
keep a healthy immune system, you
need to eat right, get enough sleep,
and stay away from alcohol and drugs.
enrolled at the University of New Orleans.
Baruch is currently assisting 10 students.
Current reports state that more then 30
colleges and universities have / been
severely damaged by the hurricane, dis
placing an estimated 100,000 students.
Governor Pataki and Chancellor Matthew
Goldstein have announced that CUNY
will charge in-state tuition rates to the stu
dents for the fall semester.
The campus has started selling “CSI
Pride” wristbands, with all the proceeds
going to the Red Cross relief efforts. As of
September 8th, over $2,300 has been
collected. Jason Fein and the CSI Athletic
Department have collected $600 from the
sale of the wristbands so far. Staten
Island Bank and Trust will match the final
tally and also send the money to the Red
Cross.
David Jacobs, deputy CFO for all the
students to know; “Anyone who wants to
donate, should call the office for student
life for more information.” Jacobs also
said that any student who wants to
donate but has no checking account can
go to his office.
If you want to know more on how to
contribute,
simply
email
Katrina@mail.csi.cuny.edu
The CSI Emerging Leaders Program
(ELP) is also in talks with the Red Cross
to have their students take Disaster
Preparedness classes which include
basic first aid and CPR courses.
There is also an effort among stu
dents to start a food and clothing drive in
conjunction with the non profit group
“Project Hospitality.”
Another idea mentioned in the meet
ing was for students to potentially go
down to the storm ravaged areas for a 4
day weekend to maybe assist the building
group “Habitat for Humanity,” or other non
for profit groups down there.
There has also been talk of fundrais
ing concerts in the Center for the Arts with
the cash also going to the Red Cross.
There was also a warning to watch
out for counterfeit websites and organiza
tions collecting money. The New York
State Office of Cyber Security issued a
Even the stress of studying can cause
your body to be in a weakened state.
So you do catch more colds, viruses,
and flues.” Nobody likes to think
about being ill or that something bad is
going to happen to them, because it is
during those times that we feel most
vulnerable and afraid. “Students will
come to me and they’ll say: “Well, I
saw the representatives there, but I
didn’t think I needed coverage,’ and
then they get sick and they want to
kick themselves for not signing up,”
said Darragh. “Don’t kick yourself.
Start now and let’s get the process
going.”
bulletin informing web surfers on how to
give to the right organizations. They
advise that you should validate the relief
fund or charity through gt known reliable
entry. You can validate sites through the
Federal
Emergency
Management
Agencies (FEMA) Katrina relief site, locat
ed
at;
www.fema.gov/press/2005/resources_kat
rina.shtm
Arthur Chikofsky, Director of FeeBased Programs at the Office of
Hurricane Katrina Survivors wade
through the floodwaters of New Orleans
Continuing Education, brought in the idea
of sending used musical instruments to
musicians in New Orleans. “In New
Orleans, many musicians perform on the
street, collecting money in a hat. Some of
* the greatest music comes from there, and
now they have no money and may need
new instruments.” he added.
Linda Sharib, Assistant Director of
Instructional Support Sen/ices suggested
a “CUNY Cares for Kids” program, which
would involve buying backpacks and filling
them with school supplies. “I will personal
ly include $5 in cash inside the first 100
bags.” says Sharib. ‘These bags may help
restore some sense of normalcy, they will
give the children something of their own, a
place to put their things, and reintroduce
the importance of school and learning.”
The way Vice President Jackson
plans to initiate all of these plans is to
organize everyone into four specific
groups, Fundraising, Collection Of Goods,
Service Learning Opportunities, and Web
Sites. The Fundraising group will continue
to promote the “CSI Pride” wristbands,
while looking into even more ways to raise
funds. The Collection Of Goods group will
focus on the food drive, while the Service
Learning group will look into the possibility
of sending students down south. The
Website group will keep the CSI students
informed, via the web, of how they can
continue to help. The site can be reached
a
t
http://www.csi.cuny.edu/admissions/hurricane.html
To find out more on how you can
help, visit the Office of student life, located
in the Campus Center, room 201
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�A CSI Student Says Aloha from Hawaii
Gerard Forte
am currently an upper freshman
here at CSI, pursuing a degree in
Special Education. I am one of sev
enteen students who were fortunate to
experience a summer class in Hawaii
with Professor Ohan of the Geology
Department. The class was taught in
the field of Hawaii’s active volcanoes.
Each day was a new adventure. We
saw several volcano sites inside and
outside Hawaii’s Volcanoes National
Park. However, we did not see any
active eruptions, (though there were a
few) because state regulations do not
allow people to view them too closely.
We visited a Tsunami Museum and a
Tsunami devastation site. We went
swimming with sea turtles in a beauti
ful black-sand beach. We acquired
knowledge of Hawaii’s history, walked
through a historical Hawaiian village
and attended a Hawaiian cultural festi
val. One of our lectures was conduct
ed at a geothermal facility. There we
learned how geothermal energy oper
ates. On our one day off from lectures,
a group of students and myself rented
a convertible car and explored the big
Island of Hawaii from north to south.
This type of academic experience was
as good for my soul as it was good for
learning the history of Hawaii’s geolo
gy. It opened new doors for me, in that
it allowed me to see life from a differ
ent perspective.
Professor Ohan’s teachings were
well beyond the duties of any profes
sor’s. He was compassionate to each
individual and supported the entire
group with all their needs. He demon
I
strated a passion to teach the subject
matter with great confidence. By the
end of each day he disassembled
Hawaii’s geology into its simplest form.
He was a mentor for each person on
this trip because he exemplified
courage to accomplish his duty while
inspiring each soul to gain fundamen
tal understanding of our planet. As the
leader of this family-like group, he sup
ported anyone seeking to gain knowl
edge in one of the world’s most geo
logical hot spots. He was also a great
inspiration to everyone, especially
because of the environment in which
the lectures were taught, which was a
hot, humid, and rainy climate and most
of all very full of rough terrain.
Although it may have appeared to
be a spring break-like environment, it
definitely was not. Students were still
responsible for their notes and daily
lecture exercises as if we were in the
1P lecture hall on CSI’s campus. He
never once complained or expressed
any signs of discomfort. He encour
aged everyone to explore their curios
ity while using caution in an area filled
with geological hazards. He was cer
tainly a trooper.
Our journey began at 7:30 am on
the morning of July 6, .2005. We
departed from Newark airport and flew
to Chicago, where we transferred. An
hour after arriving in Chicago, we left
for Hawaii. Our first stop in Hawaii was
Maui. We laid over in Maui for about
an hour. Next was our final flying des
tination, Kona, on the big island of
Hawaii. We arrived in there safely, fol
lowing an 18-hour trip. After arriving
we still had a bus ride of 3 hours
before we could get to our temporary
domain. We arrived at the Naniloa
Hotel at 8:00 pm Hawaii’s time
(2:00am NY time). Most people in the
group were exhausted, so many peo
ple called it an early night. A group of
students and myself went to Ken’s a
famous local diner. Some people
made this diner their favorite eating
spot.
The next morning and the follow
ing mornings after that, we met at 8:00
am. We spent our average day in the
field learning about the geological haz
ards of the big island. In the Volcanoes
National Park, where we spent most of
our days, we learned about the history
of several volcano eruptions that date
back to more than 3,500 years. We
saw three types of magma eruptions.
We toured a community that was cov
ered in lava within the last 20 years.
Many lives were lost and it cost mil
lions of dollars in property damage.
While cruising through this mountain
ous island, we experienced a tropical
rain forest with many acres of green
grass, beautiful healthy plants and
flowers. All around this picturesque
environment, the lava flows had creat
ed lava trees. These lava trees had
shapes that carved the trees to look
like life forms. Some of the life forms
resembled a human standing in the
middle of a Forrest.
The community in which we
stayed is well known for tsunamis. In
fact, Hilo’s most recenr tsunami
occurred in the 1960’s. Over a hun
dred lives were lost including children.
People did not realize what was hap
pening when the water receded far
back from the shore, leaving fish all
over the seafloor. Natives Hawaiians
rushed to gather the fish. It is ironic
that it was on April Fools day, for these
people were horribly tricked into think
ing that it was safe to retrieve the fish.
Today Hilo has a landmark figure, a tall
clock that stands about six feet off the
ground and reminds citizens of the
exact time on that sad morning on April
1, in the 1960’s. While we were there,
two earthquakes occurred. One of
them I felt. It was around 5:50 in the
morning. I was asleep. Suddenly I felt
my bed shaking as if someone was
politely trying to wake me. I opened my
eyes and realized what had happened.
I did not hear any alarms, but my
instincts told me it was an earthquake.
When I met up with the group later that
morning, a few people had experi
enced what I had. I thought to myself
an experience like that and being here
in Hilo, Hawaii, could be most memo
rable.
Although the hikes were challeng
ing, the days were long and the course
work was intense, it is without any
doubt in my mind that this was one of
the most rewarding experiences I have
had, and if I had the opportunity to do
it again I would do it in a heartbeat,
most of all with Professor Ohan and
his assistant Professor Steven
Okulewicz. Everyone safely returned
to New York on the morning of July 20,
2005 after 13 hours of flying and a
short layover in San Francisco. Most
of us returned a few shades darker
with knowledge rich in Hawaii’s geolo
gy-
SG RECAP: Grade Appeals and Lunchtime on the Table
Anne Demarzo
n an extended August 10th meeting, and
again on September 1st, CSI’s Student
Government collaborated to servethe stu
dents by establishing protocols, reviewing
commission reports, and arranging meet
ings with relevant administrators to address
student needs.
Student Government President, Taiwo
Olasupo, began his presidency with a
reminder to senators of their obligation to
I
attend meetings and requested their input
on establishing assembly etiquette to insure
more efficient meetings. After brainstorming
for forty-five minutes, the senate voted on
ground rules that included: keeping
debates on topic and limiting side conver
sations to pertinent business, setting cell
phones on vibrate and leaving the room for
emergencies only, limiting the food break to
fifteen minutes and removing all food from
the meeting table before resuming busi
ness, and lastly, setting a time minimum in
the attendance policy for senators to be
counted as present at S.G. meetings.
With protocol established, June
through August Commission
and
Committee reports were reviewed and
approved. This included votes on SG finan
cial support for New Student Orientation,
Student Life Involvement Fair and scholar
ship awards.
Ellen Krieger, Coordinator of Student
Affairs, explained that according to the SG
Constitution, a Deputy Commission is
appointed to fulfill duties in the absence of
the commissioner and if quorum is not met
— attendance of at least half of the com
mittee members — for two consecutive
meetings, a new commissioner is appoint
ed.
Senator Joshua Center updated the
SG membership on Academic & Curricular
Affairs’ proposals for a non-major pass/fail
Continued on page 5
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Letters To The Editor
From the
Editor
CENTER FOR THE ARTS
If It’s Too Loud, You’re Too Old
This article was well-written and defi
nly two weeks ago we were
nitely hit a chord with students. The
starting classes. While every
lack of budget and school spirit would
one was still getting into the rou
doom a second or third tier performer.
tine of waking up in the morning to go
If it were possible to diversify the acts,
to class, we stopped to remember the
the CFA might attract more students. I
9/11, an event that happened 4 years
think Costella is correct in assessing
ago, but that feels like it was just yester
the situation, which is to bring new
day. But as we remembered one nation
blood on campus.
al tragedy, another one unfolded before
—Andrew Rafferty, Senior
our eyes.
Hurricane Katrina made landfall in
I’ve always wondered how CFA acts
Louisiana and Mississippi on CSI’s first
get booked. Costella’s story was a very
day of classes. However, the full extent
informative piece, and as a student
of the disaster wasn’t apparent until the
who has many classes in IP, it was
next day. Thankfully, the CSI community
highly relevant.
is helping to aid relief efforts.
Perhaps Lisa Reilly should cooper
We here at The Banner are doing
ate with WSIA, who plugs the local tal
our part to help Katrina victims. Head
ent its faithful listeners would love to
Photographer Luke Crisalli wrote an
see. I imagine they’d make more than
article highlighting CSI’s various relief
half a million dollars.
efforts. He is also serving on a food and
—Frantz Barosy, Junto
goods collection sub-committee. When
the collection of food and goods com
I’m happy somebody finally brought
mences, please donate. The victims of
this to the attention of students. The
Katrina need it, badly. As Matt Safford
performances at CSI don’t interest
reports, the government hasn’t done
them at
their job, so now it’s our turn to step up
all. It’s about time we get some more
and do it for them.
modern acts. Evenv showcasing local
CSI students weren’t the only ones
bands or comedians would be a great
going back to school. As Tom Bradley
idea. There should be acts that attracts
reports, we now have the CSI High
students, not their grandparents!
School of International Studies., which
—Mike Smith, Senior
began classes op the 8th. So now high
school, which we all sought to escape is
I agree with the “If It’s Too Loud, You’re
back at CSI. How ironic.
Too Old” article. I don’t think that CFA
We have a great Arts section for
takes into consideration what the stu
you as well, with a great movie and CD
dents want. Although they (CFA) can
review. We resurrected the sex column
not afford all of the acts we would like
with a new writer, Annemarie Dooling.
to see. Why not try and get some of
and there is also another installment of
those affordable performers? It’s just a
Freshman Diaries.
good way to incorporate campus func
Kadijah Renteras signs on with a
tions its students. I have been here for
Women’s Volleyball Preview. Comic
four years and my parents have gone
Editor Enrique Innocente, aka the
to more CFA functions than I have.
causal misogynist has a special action
Some of the performers are just too
packed Relationships and Firearms
outdated for the students here. Maybe
edition.
we need a young voice helping the
Now that Summer is unofficially
director of CFA so we can have per
over, it’s time to hunker down and focus
formances that will attract students.
on our class work. In the meantime ,
—Jacum Alessi,Senior
we’ll be here to keep you informed and
entertained.
This article definitely speaks for the
— David Maltz
majority of CSI students. We have the
CFA right here on campus and no one
O
SG Recap
continued from page 4
option and a grade appeal change.
Currently, the Committee on Grade Appeals
requires a unanimous vote to uphold stu
dents’ appeal. A vote is pending in hopes to
get that changed to a two-thirds committee
agreement. The Club Commission reported
nine clubs chartered this fall and the
Program Development Committee (PDC)
submitted this year’s events calendar along
with budget modifications. November 17th
was set as the date for the SG Town
Meeting with President Marlene Springer.
With the objective of increasing candi
date and student participation is SG elec
tions, the Elections Commission report
reflected a possible referendum that would
change the method of electing SG
President and Vice President. Currently,
senators elect these representatives, but
after polling other CUNY schools, Carol
Brower, Director of Student Life, found the
highest voter turnout was at schools
where the student body voted directly. A
referendum would allow students to con
sider this popular vote option.
Student Government meetings for
September are scheduled for Thursday,
Sept 8th and 22nd. Meetings are held in
Room 1C-206 during club hours: 1:30 3:30 p.m. Goals for the coming year and
stipends are expected to be discussed. All
are welcome to attend.
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r
ever goes to it because the acts are
terrible. No one has heard spending a
tot of money on Davy Jones, the direc
tor of the CFA should save the money
for artists that the students will actually
go and see. And as for “a population
that does not want to be served”, that’s
not true. We want to be served, but
maybe she just shouldn’t be the one
serving.
—Lisa LaBruzzo
I firstly want to commend Ann Marie
Costella on her fine job with the article.
As a student who does, from time to
time, look through the performance arts
calendar bt has yet to attend an event.
I can stay that time restraints on stu
dents is certainly a mahjor part of the
trouble for the Center of the Arts.
Though, there maybe students that
would make the time to see more main
stream acts. If during these shows the
center did their best to promote the
more ‘high art” events the students
might become more aware and ending
up attending. The mainstream acts
might be a benefit to the CSI radio sta
tion as well. Thank you for the article.
—Jennifer Carroll, Senior
CSI’S EMPTY STADIUM
If You Build It They Won’t Come
In my four years at CSI, I have yet to
see or receive any sports-related infor
mation. This article properly portrays
the lack of advertising interest by CSI
officials. The one or two times I did see
what appeared to be a game, I didn’t
know if it was a closed event, or even
how to get to the entrance.
—Ryan Dandrea
I agree that more people need to
attend sports games. Last year, many
teams—including women’s soccer,
basketball, softball, and Men’s base
ball-won CUNY championships. It
would be great if more people, both
students and community residents,
attended games at our school.
—Jennifer Miller, Junior
GRADUATION DISASTER
More Jong Aftermath
The graduation ceremony in question
lasted approximately three hours. Erica
Jong decided to take forty plus min
utes. I was actually working at the
event and feel that if there was any dis
respect, it was done on the part of
Erica Jong. Jong’s idea of a speech
was to use her time to talk about her
self and her own ideas. The uproar
began when students and parents alike
realized that her speech had no rele
vance to the Class of 2005. Prior to
Jong’s speech, Mayoral candidate
Anthony Weiner spoke. His speech
was very motivational and greeted pos
itively.
—Scott Zeller, Senior
When I attended my brother’s gradua
tion at Hofstra University two years
ago, there was a similar experience. A
speaker took it upon himself to give
his very republican viewpoint about
the war at a very sensitive time, to a
very democratic audience. People
booed, students and family members
alike, but I don’t believe people took
away negative feelings with them.
After all, it was a celebration for the
students. They worked very hard and
political viewpoints as opposed to
something personal and memorable
they can take with them to remember
their school by and start their careers
with. As a CSI student, I am not
embarrassed by their behavior, nor do
I care about what some blogger has to
say. I say to the CSI students,
Congratulations on your graduation
and good job for taking a stand on
what you believe in.
—Crystal Brown
It is really sad when group of 2,100
adults and their parents harass a guest
speaker, or completely disrespect
someone who has come to your child’s
graduation to honor them.
I think people on the Internet have
every right to say whatever they want.
My problem is, who is this woman and
why do we care? I’m sure most people
could have cared less and been a tot
more pleased to go to graduation if she
wasn’t there, however, that doesn’t
give anyone the right to act like a 12
year old, especially on the day they
enter the "real world".
—Marisa Gersin, Junior
I think saying that the entire CSI and
CUNY community image will be tar
nished for years to come is overreact
ing. In my opinion, a forty minute
speech—unless extremely interest
ing—would lose my focus. The gradu
ates nor the families should be to
blame. The college should review com
mencement speeches before they are
given to prevent situations like this
occurring in the future.
—Dana Sveva, Junior
GRADUATION PHOTO SPREAD
They Came, They Studied, They
Conquered...
I really enjoyed the photos from
June’s graduation. Every picture made
it seem as if I was there. They were
well taken, with good captions. I didn’t
even know Anthony Weiner spoke, but
now I do. Good job!
—Nicole DeLuccia, Senior
IS SCIENCE SAFE AT CSI?
Questions arise about lab safety fol
lowing Chemical Explosion
I found that Matthew Beck’s "Is
Science Safe at CSI?" articlehit dan
gerously close to home. I had an inci
dent like this happen to me in Junior
High School. I don’t remember thechemicals mixed, but I do recall the
Bunsen Burner leading to a test tube
exploded. No one was hurt so it was
neverreported. The lack of supervision
was the issue. The instructor didn’t
even realize it had happened.
—Stephanie Palmieri, Senior
�Photos And Story By Luke CrisalU
he dispatch tones ring throughout the house as the crew listens with eager anticipation for the command.
The pre recorded voice booms throughout the house, “Engine, Ladder.” And with that, the crews of Engine
Company 166 and Ladder Company 86 of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) quickly race to the
gear racks in the garage area, or apparatus bay of their firehouse, located on 1400 Richmond Ave., don their pro
tective bunker gear and helmets and board their rigs on the way to the job.
The standard FDNY engine, mainly manufactured by Seagrave has a 1000 GPM pump and a 500-gallon
water tank. Engines deploy hoselines and are also equipped with a tank to propel the water. The ladder crew is
in charge of entering the building, providing necessary ventilation to allow smoke to escape, and performing
search and rescue. They are also equipped with forcible entry equipment, such as sledge hammers, axes, and
saws. Ladder 86, also manufactured by Seagrave, in conjunction with Aerialscope, is a 75 foot tower ladder,
which has the ability to propel water from a higher height.
The company was formed April 15th, 1963 and has operated out of the same quarters since then. Located
across from the Staten Island Hotel, Engine 166 and Ladder 86 (Ladder companies are also commonly referred
to as a ‘Truck” company.) protects the area in and around the College Of Staten Island’s 204 acre Willowbrook
campus, and if need be, responds to larger calls on Staten Island. Recently, The Banner had the opportunity to
visit the company and its crew.
Firefighter Jim McChale told of how they recently pulled a construction worker from a trench, and assisted
in rescuing a passenger wedged under a truck in an accident on the Goethals bridge. There was a 2 alarm fire
(which usually brings at least 8 engines and 5 Trucks, among other units also responding.) on Victory Boulevard
in which 2 buildings were fully involved. The companies used a “surround and drown” technique in which the fire
is fought entirely from the outside to ensure firefighter safety. Hoselines are aimed at windows and other open
ings until the fire is completely extinguished.
As for responding to calls on campus, McChale, a firefighter since 1999 says, “We get a lot of medic runs to
the campus center.” FDNY Engine companies many times respond to medical emergencies and that brings them
to the Campus medical center in 1C. The FDNY has had engine companies respond to various medical emer
gencies since the FDNY/EMS merger in March of 1996.
Other then that, the companies respond to manual alarm pulls, science lab incidents and of course, fires. ‘There was one time,” McChale recalls. “A professor accidentally
T
As for navigating the campuses sometimes confusing layout, McChale,
who has also been seinor chauffer (driver) since 1999 says, “It’s not that bad.
Once you go a few times, you learn it, and Public Safety always meets us at
the gate, and they keep all the extinguishers and hoses up to date and in
working order.”
“When the campus first opened,” Lt. Fred Spall recalls, “we would get a
lot of calls for the heat sensors kicking up dust that messed with the sensors
a lot.” “We also do training drills once a week, extending hoselines, making
sure they work properly, raising the ladder, making sure the equipment works
right basically.” However, the training doesn’t stop there, in fact, in many
ways it never stops. “You always want more training, more knowledge.”
McChale says. “It’s a lot like football,” he adds, “you always keep adding
more to your playbook.” Lt. Spall echoes those thoughts. “You can never not
know enough. Tying knots, auto extrication, there’s always something new to
learn.”
Some of the tools that the company and FDNY are known for using
include the Hurst tool, also nicknamed ‘The Jaws of Life.” The Hurst is a hydraulic spreader used for everything from getting an injured passenger out of a car to freeing a child
stuck in a fence. Also in the FDNY’s repertoire are powerful airbags used to assist in lifting heavy objects, such as rocks or building materials.
The FDNY also employs the use of handheld Thermal Imaging Cameras. The cameras display images based on the heat of the objects in view. Hotter images glow white
against a darker background. This can help firefighters locate difficult to see hot spots, pockets of fire that can hide behind walls or other objects. This is especially helpful in the
often dark, smoky conditions firefighters often
face.
What about those who want to learn how
to be an FDNY Firefighter? There is a written
test, followed by a physical and a grueling few
weeks at the FDNY training academy on
Randall’s Island, aptly nicknamed “The Rock.”
There you will do everything from rope repels
to learning how to properly aim a fully charged
hose at a fire. Being in the best shape is para
mount to passing the physical. “You need to
get your cardio up and you gotta have
endurance.”, says Spall. “If you maintain your
self and keep your stamina up, that will help
you in a big way.”
Also operating out of the firehouse is
Brush Fire Unit 2, a 4 wheel drive unit which
responds to incidents in which normal rigs can’t get to, such as forest or swamp fires. “Its in service for about 90 days a year and has its own pumps on board,” says Lt. Spall.
And what about the cooking? A well known firehouse tradition, especially here in New York City, is the cooking, which adds to the family-type brotherhood. “The guys from
the engine cook one month, and the guys from the truck cook the other month,” says McChale. “If you don’t know how to at least cook chicken cutlets, you may be in trouble..”
he joked.
[This article could not have been done without the help of Seth Andrews and the FDNY Media Services office, and the crew of Engine company 166/Ladder 86, including
Capt. Melvin, Lt. Spall, and Firefighter Jim McChale.]
�September12,2005
Lt.Spall and Firefighter McChale Pose in front of Ladder 86.
�September12,2005
Welcome New Students: Make The Most Of Your Stay Here.
Lauren Taytor
I started classes on August 30th. The
first day of preparation was weird
because after 12 years of wearing a
Catholic School uniform, I could choose
what I was going to wear the next cou
ple of days. I now realized that even
though the uniform was a restriction, it
was easier to get ready for school, in
addition, homeroom time does not exist
anymore in college;, attendance was
taken and information was given but
now that is an individual responsibility. I
am in control of my existence in college.
I am given the opportunity to create my
destiny on my own, to succeed or to
fail.
When I first received my class
schedule and campus map, it seemed
overwhelming. The distance between
certain buildings seemed so far and I
thought it would take forever to get from
one class to another, but it didn’t.
Walking with friends helps the time
pass. In no time, I became familiar with,
and began to direct other students to
the buildings that they were looking for.
Campus maps and the Gazetteer help
greatly. I recommend them.
In addition, make sure you have
your student I.D with you all the time
because without an I.D., you do not
have access to many of the CSI build
ings like the Library and Campus
Center. Carrying the student ID will be
due and I’m scrambling to get work
like having another body part to be
done. It’s been a while since I’ve actual
aware of. It must be with you at all
ly had to worry about the element of
times.
time to get an assignment done.
Since I recently found part-time
Summer vacation made me lazy, but the
employment to make some money for
new school year will get me an organ
myself, my work schedule will be very
ized schedule, I hope. Yes, it might be
tight. It so happens that my first job
hard to organize,
coincides with
but that is why
my first year in
teachers’ give us
college. I didn’t
syllabus
in
think it would
After 12 years of wearing a
advance, so that
happen at the
Catholic School uniform, I
we can success
same time, but it
fully get assign
seems right to
could choose whatever I
ments done. I
experience new
wanted
to
wear.
also
like the idea
things all at once
of
the
syllabus in
(maybe).
St.
John
Villa
Hopefully,
the
High
School.
I
have
never
received
work
school work I will endure in the weeks
for a class that had a list of assignments
to come will fit with my employment.
due unless it was for Christmas break.
School will still be the number one pri
Syllabi makes me feel more organized
ority. If I could, I would work all of the
to know when things are to be handed in
time because money is necessary for
and what is expected of me in the future
my expenses, especially for gas. But, I
months. Maybe reading ahead and
know education is still my number one
doing extra work might payoff, although
responsibility and my primary goal.
it’s a hassle doing so.
Now that I have to juggle home
Even though I do not have my
work and to forget about delaying their
license yet, I would advise freshmen
attention, along with my required work
students to arrive early in odrer to find
ing hours, it might be difficult to be
a parking space. CSI is very empty
organized. I know that sometimes when
around seven in the morning for those
seeing the due dates for assignments, I
who have early classes. Yes, it is nice to
feel that I have time to complete the
park close to the building in which your
work and then it’s the day before it’s
class is held, if you’re lucky enough. If
you do find a parking spot close, take it;
although there are more parking spots
available somewhere else. I have seen
people fighting for those spaces. The
cursing that occurs over something so
small as a vacant parking space is
ridiculous. It’s not anyone else’s fault
but your own if you do not arrive early
enough to find a reasonable place to
park. There are those people who take
up two parking spots for their precious
cars. If you didn’t want someone to
park next to your precious car, then
please don’t drive your car to school.
Take public transportation such as the
62 bus, depending where you live. But
for anyone who is looking for parking,
your best choice is Parking Lot # 6 and
walk to class or take the Loop Bus.
Make sure you have your parking pass
sticker on your car window and make
sure it’s visible for security to check.
These are the best (college) years
your (my) life or so I’ve been told. I
really don’t know how and where I will
be when I graduate, but I can wish and
dream about how I envision my life at
my college graduation.
Sex Column: Laying the Smackdown in the Bedroom
Annemarie DooUng
many times she told her boy he could
friend of mine believes everyone
switch it up a little and dare to experiment,
should succumb to homosexuality.
he told her he wanted to make her happy...
"Men enjoy rough, wild sex, and
as if experimenting wouldn't do that.
women like gentle passion and to be However, her late night sessions with
caressed, so why not just get it from some
another bed buddy always resulted in
one who knows best?" This pearl of wis
nothing but mind blowing orgasms so
dom from a man who is happily and newly
intense the bed ended up in a different
married to a beautiful woman who gives
corner of the room from where it started.
him everything he needs. What concerned
After deciding she'd rather be with the
me most about his comment was how one
boy who screwed her without inhibition,
sided it was. Women just want gentle sex?
she dumped her love-maker and tried to
Have music videos and six seasons of
begin a relationship with Mr. Orgasm.
Sex and The City done nothing to change
Unfortunately, he had delegated her to a
the views of what women want in bed? Do
certain part of his life. He spoke to her
men still actually believe that we need to
online, and on the phone, and occasional
be cuddled and hugged for the sex to be
ly asked about her to common friends, but
tolerable? Haven’t men realized by now
she could barely finish her obligatory glass
that we, women, just like them, prefer dif
of water after the sex before she felt the
ferent types of sex at different times, and
awkwardness kick in and it was time to go
are even into <gasp> experimentation?
home. He specified her to certain hours of
Now, most men do understand not all
the day, certain events, and certain
of us women are porn stars in the making,
friends,and it was a mold she couldn’t
but, when they are enjoying biting and hair
break with him. Eventually he got back
pulling and sweaty screaming and
together with an ex-girlfriend, leaving Sam
yelling—who are they enjoying it with? Are
wondering if she was just his 'crazy sex
men delegating this type of sex to certain
girl,' and not someone he could actually
girls? And what type do you have to be to
ever be with.
have this experience open to you?
What's confusing about her experi
My best friend, who is affectionately
ence was the attentiveness of the boy who
known as Sam, experienced thisdilemma
wanted to date her and the unabashed
first hand a few weeks ago. No matter how
roughness of the boy who wanted to do
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her, and neither the 'tween shall meet.
Was her bed buddy saving the lovemaking
for a girl he really cared about—his ex? Is
anything other than missionary off limits
for girls he planned on bringing home to
mom, and Sam was simply his way to get
off?
According to experts, many men
actually seek out two types of relation
ships. Although there is no formal diagno
sis for it, psychology has labeled this the
"Madonna/Whore Complex." In this com
plex, men enjoy sex with women, but
eventually seek out a rather inexperienced
woman with whom to spend their life. This
woman would feed upon his intimacy
needs in an almost Freudian way, acting
like a nurturing mother. And really, what
man wants to think of his mother figure in
a sexual way? These woman can be any
one the man views as virginal, but are usu
ally slightly less educated, and have only
ambitions to start families. This feeds on
the man’s need to procreate and begin his
clan. However, this can, in fact, happen in
any relationship, and to any person. In this
situation, when the womanattempts to be
sexual, she brings on name calling and
verbal abuse,most often, "whore," "slut,"
or anything like minded. This is basically
the shock, on the part of the man, in see
ing someone he thinks of as pure in a
"dirty" way.
In her first relationship, Sam was vir
ginal and motherly in the eyes of her
boyfriend, while the man she was having
sex with thought of her in no more of a
capacity than just for sex. The first boy had
her over for dinner with his entire extend
ed family, while the second kept her away
from his house in daylight hours like she
had the plague. Which is the lesser of the
evils? Being the virgin or the whore?
In my opinion, any relationship that
can fit the label of a psychological com
plex, has problems from the get-go. If we
think of the person we are with as fitting a
certain part of our life, and taking care of
that specific need, isn't there still other
needs that have yet to be met? If we're
with someone who fulfills our need for love
and attention, but will only have us in the
dark where they cant ruin their image of
us, are they really making love to the per
son, or just the image? On the same hand,
if we're having sex with someone who
throws us out practically the minute they
orgasm, that doesn't feel right, either. Both
are a good indication of how you will be
treated should a full fledged relationship
begin. And ideally, don't we all want some
one who would think of us as both their
Madonna and their whore, or neither?
�Kevin S.P. Mamakas
saw the preview for “40 Year Old
Virgin” before settling into “Wedding
Crashers” - and immediately I knew
that I was going to see another comedy
dyring the summer season.
Steve Carrell stars as Andy, a 40year old loner who works in a radio out
let store and has been collecting action
figures since he was a child. He is dif
ferent then many other men his age in
more ways then one. In particular, he is
still a virgin, and the victim of various
hilarious mishaps while trying to solve
this problem. While one willing woman
was sucking his toes, Andy kicks her in
the face. While another partner is about
to go down on him, Andy lets loose with
a girlie scream so ridiculous and
unsexy that the screen went blank,
along with his chance. So he takes it
seriously when a girl tells him he should
never attempt to have sex again.
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When his coworkers invite him to a
card game, they all start telling stories
about there weirdest sexual experi
ences. When it is his turn to tell his
story, he didn’t want them
to know that he never had
sex. He makes up a
ridiculous
story that
involved “sandy breasts”
and the girl saying “Me so
horny.” He is immediately
exposed by his lack of
sexual knowledge. Once
his coworkers find out
that he never successfully
had sex, they become
determined to try and
help him find the right girl,
or should I say the right
now girl.
They convince him
that he needs to wax his
chest. Even though it has
been reported that he was not acting
when he got his hair waxed off, his
reactions were classic. It had to be one
of the best scenes in the movie.
There attempts to free him of his
suppressed ways only make matters
worse.
He
becomes
frightened by
the people they
make
him
meet,
who
range from a
woman
who
just got out of
jail who wants
to be straight
again to a sexfetish crazed
woman.
When he
meets
Trish,
played
by
Catherine
Keener, he is
terrified to call her. When he finally is
annoyed enough by his co-workers, he
builds up his nerve and asks her out.
They begin to date and soon attempt to
have sex. After Trishes daughter inter
rupts them, they decide that they will have
twenty dates before they attempted.
I will not ruin the ending for those
who did not see it, but I will say that
when the music started, I thought it
would ruin the whole movie. But after I
adjusted to the song, it was great.
Steve Carrell has broken out of his
former supporting actor role in the
“Anchorman” and the “Daily Show,” and
has starred in a hilarious movie of his
own. Even though he is funny in these
roles, I was a little weary about Carrell
as a lead actor because I have never
seen him in a role of this magnitude.
Now he has proven that he can make a
movie work by his humor.
The movie was great for anyone
who enjoys comedy. I wouldn’t bring
kids along to see the movie because of
the content. I give it four and a half out
of five condoms.
New Workout Plan
Thomas Bradley
“Late Registration”, the second album from everybody’s
favorite chauvinist, super-producer/rapper
Kanye West was delivered late August.
While Mr. West’s first album, “College
Dropout”, was a hit with critics and con
sumers alike, the second album was highly
anticipated by both his fans and detractors
alike. The mystique of the sophomore jinx
would weigh heavily on Kanye’s Gucci clad
shoulders since he first vocalized his frustra
tion with magazines giving his first album less
than perfect reviews. However, both of the
album’s first singles, “Diamonds (From Sierra
Leone)” and “Gold Digger” have had sub
stantial radio success and both videos have
entered standard MTV rotation.
Kanye’s recent cover of TIME magazine,
a milestone in any artist’s career, has fos
tered more negative feelings between Kanye
and journalists. “I’m not doing magazines no
more,” said Mr. West at a recent listening
party hosted by Hot 97. “Not unless I get
to sign off on the article and approve the
pictures.” Which, in case you weren’t
sure, will never happen. Kanye also
expressed his annoyance with Hot97 for
reporting on the TIME magazine article.
Kanye’s frustration may seem juvenile but
he defends his concerns by explaining,
“My words are so powerful and they
change people’s lives.” Hopefully Kanye
learns to pick his battles with the press or
his career in the spotlight will become a
very painful experience. “I’m just every
day people,” said Kanye. “I feel a way
about people who want me to fail.” Since
he is apparently writing off the media alto
gether one might have thought “Late
Registration” would receive less than
glowing reviews. Yet, “Late Registration”
has produced critical applause from The
New York Times to XXL magazine. Selling
860,000 copies in its first week of sales,
“Late Registration” will be #1 on next
week’s Billboard album charts.
A recent interview in Mass Appeal
magazine, Kanye once again vocalized his mistrust for
the media (yes, in a magazine article). “What they do
is,” said Kanye. “They
take my words and they’ll
flip it.” Ever conscious of
his image, Kanye is not
about to have his words,
the essence of his craft,
minced by some writer
who nobody cares about.
Using phrases like “frus
trating genius”, “quite pro
lific”, and “the Midas
touch”, Mass Appeal aptly
described how we all feel
about Kanye West: He
may be arrogant, selfimportant, and flashy, but
he’s just that good.
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September12,2005
Khodijah Rentas
In he year 2002, the famed pair Misty
May and Kerri Walsh won four FIVB
Beach Volleyball World Tour gold
medals and the U.S. women’s volley
ball team fought for the silver at the
Women’s
Volleyball
World
Championships, didn’t equate to the
same fame or glory for CSI's women's
volleyball team. The team won only
one game that year, but this season
forecast may suggest a much brighter
future.
CSI’s associate athletic director
and assistant coach of the women’s
volleyball team, Jason Fein, expects to
at least win enough games to earn a
position to compete at the CUNY
Conference November 1. Since 2002,
the team has strengthened its reputa
tion. “It’s a kind of rebuilding process,”
Assistant women’s volleyball coach Jason Fein
expects to win games this season.
io
marked Fein in reference to previous stats,
“we hope to win 10 this season.” Two
years ago, the team won three out of
20 games when Fein governed as
interim head coach. Last year, head
coach Rose Delnnocentiis stepped in.
The team won five games and
scooped a spot in the playoffs. Ten
may not sound like a great season
average for wins, but it’s enough to
play at the CUNY Conference and face
their toughest opponents.
CUNY Colleges have challenged
the Dolphins to some difficult games
the past few seasons. Outside of
CUNY, Mt. St. Mary College and
Farmingdale College have also been
tough to beat. “I don’t think we’ve beat
en any of. those teams, at least not in
the last few years, “ said Fein, “but we
should beat some teams this year that
we haven’t in a while.”
Team composition has affected
victory turnout in the past. Some play
ers adapted to life as a volleyball play
er after competing for other teams at
the college, such as the basketball
team.
Heavy
recruiting
by
Delnnocentiis has made a difference.
“Rose really cares about the team,”
said Fein.
The women sweat over scheduled
games, both home and away, about
three times a week, said Fein. The
team has never won a championship
and even with the overload of practice
and talent, Fein doesn’t expect to win
the gold. “We knew the last couple of
years we weren’t going to win the
championship,” said Fein. However,
Fein also doesn’t believe winning is
necessarily everything. ‘There’s not a
whole lot of glory in Division III,” said
Fein frankly, “you play because you
love to play.”
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The
College
of
Staten
Island
August 29,2005
Business Management. Olasupo’s goal
is to work as a forensic accountant,
which means, he will investigate
This past June 17th, Taiwo Olasupo was
accounting fraud, corruption and uneth
elected
CSI’s
President
of
Student
ical conduct.
he Center for the Arts has been
Government.
“Taiwo will do a fabulous job," said
booking an assortment of out of
Olasupo emigrated from Nigeria to
Carol Brower, Director of Student Life.
date performers which last
“He has already proven he is out to
semester included former Monkee Davy the United States in 1998 and although
make
the
he became a
college bet
U.S. citizen, he
ter and is
continually found
committed
himself grouped
with international
to get the
Student
students. “I got
involved
[with
Government
Student
to
work
Government]
together; to
accomplish
because I felt I
as much as
could be their
voice; as part of
possible.”
“Taiwo
the group that
makes
deci
is one of the
sions,” Olasupo
finest indi
said. ul wanted to
viduals I met
Taiwo Olasupo smiles for the camera. The
serve by making Nigerian immigrant was recently elected SG
in my 20 years
Lisa Reilly Artistic Director of the
life better for stu president at CM.
at CSI,” said
Center for the Arts believes that the
dents
at
CSI,
by
Ellen Krieger,
new fall schedule will attract more stu
addressing issues of concern for the
Coordinator of Student Affairs. “He is
dents.
entire student community.”
intelligent and caring. He has his eye
A non-traditional student and family
and ear on the pulse of the student
Jones, who has not had a hit song in
man, Olasupo dresses for business in a
body; most dedicated to serving his
almost 30 years and was at the height of
button-down collared shirt and dark
constituents.”
his fame in 1968, obscure acts like the
slacks. He has a B.S. in Accounting &
Olasupo enrolled at CSI in 2001. In
Celtic inspired Barra. MacNeils band,
Finance, a B.A. in Economics with a
2003, he was elected onto both the
who while popular in their hometown of
minor in international studies and is cur
College Council and the Senate of
Nova Scotia, Canada, are virtually
rently attending CSI’s first business
Student Government. The following
unknown in the United States, and a
graduate program for his M.S. in
Continued on page 3
Continued on page 4
Anne DeMorzo
T
college by snail mail, that has been cut
drastically. All students now receive
most CSI related announcements and
s you embark on the beginning
notification of grade postings at this eof your freshman year, The
mail address only. The format for the
Banner has compiled a list of the
top 10 things that you need to know: login name is first.last@cix.csi.cuny.edu
and the default password is mmddyyyy.
You can access the system by going to
1. This Isn’t High School Anymore. Do
http://cix.csi.cuny.edu. Check your eyour work on time and study. Many pro
mail; it’s important!
fessors won’t accept late papers or
homework; instead you will get a zero.
3. Use the library. CSI has a huge library
And be sure to study for exams, as they
that has tons of books, periodicals, and
are tougher than they were in high
reference material that you may need
school. In many cases, trying to pull an.
during your careers at CSI. Sadly many
all-nighter the night before an exam
students try to avoid the library at all
won’t work, especially if it’s a midterm or
costs. Your CSI ID is your library card as
final.
well. If you go to the circulation desk and
ask for a barcode, you even get access
2. Check your e-mail. Last year, all stu
to
all of CSI’s available online reference
dents were issued an e-mail address for
databases
from anywhere in the world.
CSI’s student web mail system, referred
to by the college as the Campus
4. Parking. Any CSI veteran will tell you
Information Exchange system (CIX).
that the parking situation at CSI is really
While in the past most students
bad. Despite having to pay $65/year for
received most communication from the
David Maltz
A
parking, a spot is not officially guaran
teed. To ensure that you will get a spot
and not be late for class, make sure to
arrive on campus early. In addition to the
small lots scattered throughout the cam
pus, there is a big lot by building 1R,
which CSI likes to refer to as “easy park
ing.” You will always be able to find a spot
there, and you can take CSI’s shuttle
loop bus to your destination.
Matthew Beck
In June, a chemical explosion and
ensuing fire in 6S injured undergradu
ate Prashant Sharma, who received
minor injuries on his face and hands
after the chemical contents of a glass
beaker he was handling exploded,
searing a wooden shelf nearby and
scorching a wall-mounted plastic folder
across the room.
“It was a very minor incident,” said
James Saccardo, the recently hired
Chemical Hygiene Officer, who over
sees the removal of chemical waste
accumulated in the labs. “He was just
preparing some hazardous material for
disposal, and it got wet."
Sharma used acetone as the liquid
base to deposit chunks of metal refuse
left over from experiments. Acetone is a
highly combustible liquid often used in
fireworks, and cannot contain water.
The
Office
of
Compliance
A CSI student was injured in a acetonefueled lab explosion over the summer.
5. Go to Class. You might be wondering
why we need to tell you this, but here’s
why. Unlike most colleges, CSI has a
mandatory attendance policy. The follow
ing comes from the CSI Undergraduate
Catalog:
“Attendance
Policies:
Instructors are required to keep an official
record of class attendance. Students are
expected to attend all sessions. A student
who is absent for more than 15 percent
of the class hours in the semester will be
assigned a grade of WU (withdrew unof-
Assistance and Pollution Prevention
warns that, “the greatest danger
regarding acetone is a serious fire haz
ard. Although an excellent solvent and
relatively non-toxic, it is extremely flam
mable. If handled improperly, acetone
poses a dangerous fire risk.”
By federal law, all flammable
chemicals must be labeled, but the
dingy glass container that Sharma used
was unlabeled. According to Saccardo,
the proper way to handle all chemicals
is under a protective glass shield, called
“the hood”, but Sharma worked out in
the open.
Valid questions arise about safety
and policy from this incident. Do profes
sors not educate their students enough
Contlnued on page 3
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Letter From the ADP Editor
MattSofford
’d like to welcome back our faithful
readers, and all new students to our
campus, our newspaper and this
page. While the rest of the Banner tries
to stick more or less to the local beat, or
matters directly concerning CSI stu
dents, here at ADP, we tend to veer off
that path. We look at matters on a city,
state, national and international level in
ways that hopefully are important and
enlightening to students interested (or
bored) enough to tackle a page with so
many words. On a personal level, I like
to spend time with stories, or angles of
stories that don’t seem to get a lot of
coverage in the oh-so-corporate-controlled press.
We tend to cover a lot of political
issues, and print a lot of opinion. Of
course, it doesn’t have to be that way.
This page is a direct reflection of its
contributors and over the last couple
semesters those contributors have con
sisted almost entirely of Luke Crisalli,
Kevin Mamakas and myself. If there
has been an absence of political diver
sity, it is due to a severe lack of sub
missions from anyone else.
We are constantly looking for con
tributors, from any part of the political
spectrum, but particularly from the right.
As some of you may have noticed,
when I run out of story ideas, I tend to
I
attack President Bush. If you have a
problem with that, or just want to hear
about something else, the burden is on
you to shut me up. All you have to do is
write for the page, so I don’t have to.
If you have something important to
say about the world we live in -hopeful
ly something of slightly more substance
than “man, parking here sure sucks”—
please email it to or drop it off in our
office on the second floor of the
Campus Center. You’ll be amazed at
how easy it is to get your thoughts and
your name in print, not to mention how
much it’ll do for your ego.
Just remember, every time this
semester that you find yourself bitching
and moaning about my seemingly-endless diatribe concerning our sorry
excuse for a president and his corruptas-can be cabinet, if you didn’t send in
a submission to this page sometime in
the preceding two weeks, then the
blame falls on you.
“They that can give up essential
liberty to obtain a little tempo
rary safety deserve neither lib
erty nor safety.” —Benjamin
Franklin
Are Bag Searches Going Overboard?
Luke Crisalli
London. July 7th 2005. Three subway
trains and a bus are blown up by suicide
bombers. Fifty two people killed and
countless injured. It is one of the worst
terror attacks since the September 11th
attacks in the United States that killed
2,986 people.
Following the London attacks, New
York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg had
the NYPD begin randomly searching the
bags of New York City commuters at
subway and ferry stations citywide.
Initially this caused an enormous
uproar, even prompting the New York
Civil Liberties Union to issue a lawsuit
against the city, claiming it violated a
person’s right to privacy.
Recently however, the tide appears
to have shifted. In a Quinnipiac poll, 72
% of those polled said they didn’t have a
problem with the searches. But what
about those who don't agree, with it? "To
be honest, I'm not comfortable with it.”,
said one CSI student. “I think it is a vio
lation of civil rights and my privacy."
Sadly, not many others seem to
agree with that statement anymore. One
commuter on the Staten Island rapid
transit railway
enthusiastically
approves of the idea. "I think its great,"
she exclaimed. "We live in a time of war.
If you have something to hide, that rais
es suspicions."
When the SIRR train pulls into the
station at the ferry terminal, you are
almost immediately greeted by a sol
dier in full gear, with a large rifle slung
over his shoulder. Behind him, you'll
find NYPD officers guarding the stairs.
"Would you rather have the public safe
and secure or sit back and do nothing?"
One officer said bluntly, while covering
his badge.
Despite this, none of them seemed
to be checking any bags. In fact, I have
been in many subway stations since
Does the Bloomberg
administration think a ter
rorist attack won't happen
at two in the afternoon on
some idle Tuesday?
the London attacks and have yet to find
a bag check. Does the Bloomberg
administration think a terrorist attack
wont happen at two in the afternoon on
some idle Tuesday?
The NYPD patrols the ferry, but
can two NYPD officers watch everyone
on a 4,440 passenger boat? More
needs to be done, but herein lies the
Continued on page 5
Summer Events Stir American Discontent: While We Were Out...
Matt Safford
In case you hadnt noticed, another sum
mer has more or less passed us by. And
what a summer it was. While most of us
were huddling in front of our air condition
ers hoping the mercury would fall to a level
somewhere just south of lethal, the world
continued to turn.
Here on Staten Island, Vice President
Dick Cheney came to New Dorp, to raise
money for local Congressman Vito
Fossella’s reelection and increase support
for the continued war on terror. Junior NY
Senator and rumored 2008 presidential
candidate Hilary Clinton also paid a visit to
our borough for a cross-party speaking
engagement about successful women in
business and politics.
In London, synchronized terrorist
explosions left over fifty dead and proved
that even London, with all its cameras and
decades of experience dealing with the ter
ror-tactics of the IRA, cannot protect itself
so long as people are willing to use their
own bodies as weapons. Two weeks later,
similar -though thankfully unsuccessful—
attacks drove the point home. Mass-transit
systems cannot be fully safeguarded from
terrorists.
Back here in NYC, the offered solu
tion for our own safety was -oddly
enough—similar to the tactics that have
obviously been failing across the pond.
Random bag checks and Bloomberg’s
insistence that the MTA install a plethora of
new cameras throughout the subway sys
tem will only make New Yorkers feel safer
while they quietly give up another small
portion of freedom. In reality, it seems high
ly unlikely that these measures would stop
a terrorist who can simply refuse the
search and walk away only to take anoth
er route, or wait for the next shift. We might
as well just go back to buying duct tape
and plastic, or hiding under our desks, as
those notions aren’t any less ludicrous.
While our Vice President told Larry
King at the end of May that the insurgents
over in Iraq were in their “last throes” our
Secretary of Defense told Fox News less
than a month later that the same insur
gency could “go on five, six, eight, 10, 12
years.” While Americans were trying to
decide which honest, upstanding member
of our government to believe, the first few
days of August sadly saw what CNN called
“the worst roadside bombing targeting
Americans since the war began.” Then just
a few days later, seven Marines were
killed. The answer is now obvious; Iraqi
insurgents are still very lethal, and aren't in
the last throes” of anything.
In the midst of all of this, our president
is taking a five week “working vacation” at
his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Confident
apparently, that things are going well, or at
least confident that he doesn’t have to face
reelection. George Bush has left things in
charge of the people really in charge, and
has decided cut some brush and ride his
bike.
Back in the real world, Americans
don't seem to be quite as content as the
Commander in Chief. Faced with every
thing from the Downing Street Memo to
mounting casualties in Iraq with no end in
sight, the continued terrorist attacks on our
allies and the steep, and steady increase
of gas prices, American’s don’t even want
to think as far ahead as to this winter, when
fuel oil prices are expected to be as inflat
ed as those at the pump.
It’s no wonder then that as we watch
our leader take a vacation instead of taking
charge, that the tide of American opinion
has begun to turn. According to a Gallup
poll taken at the end of July, Bush’s
approval rating is at an all-time low of 44
percent. And a more recent AP poll shows
approval of Bush’s handling of Iraq down
to 38 percent. The poll also implies that
fewer than half of us now believe that our
President is honest.
Along comes Cindy Sheehan, mother
of a son killed in Iraq, who has camped out
near Bush’s Crawford ranch in the hopes
of asking the President in person, just what
it is our soldiers are suffering and dying for,
and we may have what New Yorker writer
Malcolm Gladwell might call a “tipping
point.”
The mainstream press and -more
importantly—television media have cov
ered Ms Sheehan’s vigil, and the encamp
ment of like-minded people which has
grown up around her in ways that it has
never covered an anti-war movement
since Vietnam. Sheehan puts a human
face to the real American toll of the Iraq war
in a way that is not easily dismissed, and
her media-sawy has brought her and the
anti-war movement maximum exposure.
Time will tell if this summer really was
a tipping point for the Iraq war, the war on
terror, and the world at large. While Cindy
has temporarily left Crawford to attend to
her own sick mother, the people who came
to show their support remain, and the
news coverage has continued as well.
While it’s doubtful that President Bush will
come to speak with her, every moment that
he doesn't at least seriously address her
questions -which are quickly becoming
those of America itself—the tide is turning
a little bit more.
�August 29,2005
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ficially), subject to the discretion of the
instructor.”
Most instructors will issue you a WU if
you cut too often, so go to class.
6. Get Involved with Clubs. Besides The
Banner, there are plenty of clubs and
publications for students to get involved
with, such as CSI’s radio station, WSIA,
Accounting
Club,
Art
Club,
Communications Club, Computer Club,
Psychology Club, and many more.
7.
Talk
to
Your
Professors.
Communicating regularly with your pro
fessors is a sign that you’re interested in
the class and that you’re a responsible
student. Make sure to ask questions if
something is confusing to you. Also make
sure to tell them in advance if you need
to be absent. Professors are much more
reasonable if you don’t pull surprises on
them.
MELLISSA SEECHARAN
MATT SAFFORD
ENRIQUE INNOCENTE
MATTHEW BECK
8. Carry your ID. At this point, you
should’ve been issued an official CSI ID.
Carry it with you at all times, or you may
be denied entrance to certain facilities. It
is your responsibility to keep it valid. After
you pay your bill every semester, go to
the Public Safety Office in 2A-108 with
your bill that has a bursar stamp or has a
zero balance.
9. See Your Advisors Early. Every
semester, CSI puts a registration stop on
most students. You are required to see
an advisor every semester in order to get
the stop removed in order to register.
Don’t wait for notification from CSI that
you have a stop on your record. Register
for the CUNY Portal at www.cuny.edu.
Log onto CSI’s ESIMS through the
Portal. The welcome screen will tell you if
you have a stop. If you do, see an advi
sor early in order to avoid the long lines
as registration time grows closer.
10. Do Your CLUEs. Most incoming
freshman opt to take part in CSI’s CLUE
Program, which involves the completion
of four CLUE Certified Events (2 Co-cur-
KEVIN SP MAMAKAS
ANDREA BATISTA
ANNE DEMARZO
ANNMARIE COSTELLA
MICHAEL GUTIEREZ
ANDREA BASTESTA
LAUREN TAYLOR
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
Failure to complete all your
CLUEs by the time you finish 12
credits will result in a registra
tion stop being placed on your
record.
ricular (CC) and 2 Personal Growth
(PG). A list of these events can be found
in CLUE News, which is published every
week during the semester. Failure to
complete all your CLUEs by the time you
finish 12 credits will result in a registra
tion stop being placed on your record.
Freshman who are exempt from the
CLUE requirement include those who
have registered for SPD-101 and most
transfer students.
year he was elected Vice President and
his knowledge in finance gained him the
position of Finance Commissioner.
Olasupo believes his leadership quali
ties, his vision to create a true interna
tional exchange and his understanding
of student issues ultimately earned him
the Presidency.
“I look forward very much to work-
‘Tll bring my own ideas,
but it’s not about me. This is an
inclusive presidency that will be
a true advocate for the group.”
ing with Taiwo Olasupo, as well as with
our new Student Government,” Carol
Jackson, VP for Student Affairs said in
an email. “Taiwo did an excellent job last
year as the VP for Student Government.
In my experience with Mr. Olasupo, he
was committed to CSI students; with
Taiwo as President, I expect that stu
dents’ needs will come first.”
‘The goals for this year will be set in
the next meeting or two,” Olasupo said.
“I’ll bring my own ideas, but it’s not
about me. This is an inclusive presiden
cy that will be a true advocate for the
group.”
Olasupo expects the many accom
plishments of last year to gain momen
tum. ‘The official Student Government
logo will presumably make the organiza
tion’s effectiveness more evident to the
student body,” he said. He also intends
to follow through with some unfinished
business, such as improving service on
the loop bus, enabling non-cash pur
chases in the cafeteria, and possibly
getting areas set-aside in the library for
group study. Changes in the grade
appeal process and a pass/fail option
for non-major subjects are also being
discussed.
Another important objective is for
increased student participation. ‘This
college is a unity between students and
administration. There will always be
issues to discuss,” Olasupo said. The
administration’s door is always open
and they are consistently willing to come
to meetings to discuss our concerns.
We need students to bring us their con
cerns”
Student Government meetings are
held during club hours, 1:30 - 3:20, in
1C 206. September meetings are
scheduled for Thursday the 1st, 8th and
22nd. All are encouraged to attend.
Chemical
continued from page 1
about dangerous chemicals before giv
ing them free access?
Mr. Saccardo believes that profes
sors should supervise students more,
but shouldn’t have to train them in the
basics at that high level. “We teach
them how to handle chemicals safely in
the lower level classes,” he said. Mr.
Saccardo gives regular lectures about
lab safety to students. “It’s required; it’s
mandatory, but people don’t show up,”
he said in dismay. But when students do
attend, according to him, they are less
than enthusiastic."! see them yawning,”
he said sadly. They’re a very unreceptive audience.”
Are the students all to blame for not
paying attention to the instruction or not
using the safe methods of usage? “It
was the student’s fault: he didn’t follow
correct procedure,” said Dr. Shi Jin, a
longtime professor. “Not all the students
learn everything their instructor tells
them” He stated emphatically that such
an incident would not happen to a pro
fessor. “We know exactly what we are
doing,” he assured. “We know exactly
what chemicals we are dealing with.”
Mr. Saccardo knows professors are
more experienced, careful and aware
about chemicals, but believes they
should take a fair share of the blame
when their students are not. “We’re try
ing to get them to be more accountable,”
he said. Students use their labs and
they are responsible for what happens
in them.
Mr. Saccardo realizes that with the
attention so focused on research, some
times the little details and rules can be
neglected in each individual professors
lab. He gives the example of the chem
istry department policy specifically stat
ing that no food is allowed in the labs,
but cites the Domino’s delivery guys fre
quenting them anyway as embarrassing
evidence otherwise. Likewise, the emer
gency eye-wash stations, which are cru
cial in case of an accident, haven’t been
inspected since 1998, as seen by the
faded-pencil inspection tags. The official
department manual, which contains lab
safety policy, must be present in the lab
at all times, but one professor, Andrzej
Wieraszko, could not locate his manual
when prompted to find it by Mr.
Saccardo.
Whatever the exact reasons for
accidents, negligence or pure circum
stance, Dr. Dr. Jin brings it back to
basics: “You have to be very careful.
That’s the most important thing,” he
warns. “If you don’t take the safety pre
cautions seriously, you’ll have trouble.”
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�Yet Again Students Pay More for Higher Education
Kevin Momakas
At the end of the spring 2005 semester,
the state budget was passed on time for
the first time in more than twenty years.
CSI students along with the rest of
CUNY prevented a tuition increase and
the restructuring of financial aid pro
grams. This was accomplished as a
result of an unprecedented amount of
students making phone calls and send
ing post-cards to politicians while con
ducting press conferences with NYPIRG
and other college organizations.
The CUNY Board of Trustees decid
ed that it was necessary to modify some
tuition and fee charges. These modifica
tions mainly raised Full Time graduate
students tuition from $2,720 per semes
ter to $3,200 or from $230 per credit to
$270 per credit.
As of July 1, 2005, the beginning of
the CUNY fiscal year, senior colleges
face a significant budget deficit.
According to the Board of Trustees, “The
budget shortfall totals $36.2 million and
results from the combined effects of a
$22.2 million reduction in state operating
aid and $14 million in increased obliga
tions and needs with respect to full-time
faculty commitments, facility needs,
investments in graduate education, col
lege base budget needs, environmental
health and safety compliance, energy
cost increases, new building costs at
Medgar Evers College, and costs asso
ciated with the Admissions Processing
Center.”
Basically, the state took money
away from the CUNY operating budget
and refuses to pay for required funding.
As a result, the Board of Trustees has
been forced to do the dirty work and
take more money from the students. The
only reason why CUNY has managed to
maintain the operating budget is
because they have been withholding 2
percent of the allocations. The Trustees
believe that, “If this shortfall is not
addressed now, over half of the senior
colleges would be required to reduce
services immediately. The other col
leges would be in a similar position in
less then a year.”
The CSI Master of Physical
Therapy is one of the programs in CUNY
that are affected in a greater extent by
the shortfall. The increase for this pro
gram is more significant. It is going from
$2,970 per semester to $3,500 or from
$250 per credit to $290 per credit.
Luckily for the students of this program,
the Board of Trustees resolved that,
“Such differential tuition charges shall
benefit only the programs to which they
apply.”
The graduates’ tuition will only be
half of the new revenues. The Trustees
have agreed that they want to,
“Generate 36.2 million through a series
of actions that include theses increases
in graduate student tuition, revenues
through enrollment growth, expansion of
CUNY’s Productivity Initiative to partially
fund the investment program, increases
in selected fees, and college savings
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through reductions in discretionary
items.”
The increase in fees that the
Trustee’s are talking about is what
affects the Full Time Undergraduate
Students as well as the rest of the stu
dents. According to CSI Registrar’s
Annamarie Bianco, the increase in
change of program fees is probably the
most important thing that students
should be aware of. “Since students do
make changes after the first day of
classes,” she says. “They need to know
it’s going to cost more to do this in the
fall semester.”
The Program Changes Fee went
from $10 per change to $18 dollars per
change. The Transcript fee was
increased by $3 to $7 per transcript.
Special Examinations Fee for qualifying
exams for students wishing to receive
credit for courses that are not transfer
able to CUNY previously taken outside
of CUNY and the Late Payment Fee
increased by $10 to $25 each.
Consolidated Service Fees for the
expansion and establishment of critical
university-wide service for all students
also increased by $10 to $15 per semes
ter.
Non-Degree
Undergraduate
Resident students will also have to pay
$30 more per class making it $250 per
credit. Non-Resident students (non-New
Yorker’s) will have to pay almost twice
as much in all of the tuition increases
that apply.
Even though the necessary funding
is coming increasingly off of the stu
dents, the increase in the tuition and
fees will allow CUNY to dedicate a total
of $5 million on improving in Graduates
Education by providing a Senior College
Investment Program. “The program will
fund additional full-time faculty, enhance
student services, and provide for impor
tant investments in technology and labo
ratory upgrades,” according to the Board
of Trustees.
It is very important for students to
acknowledge that they actually won the
fight to keep the undergraduate tuition
the way it was last year. Every year it
has been proposed by the governor that
the tuition in CUNY should be raised. If
students in CSI and other colleges
around CUNY did not fight, there would
have been more damage done to the
students’ finances.
Recent CUNY history has shown
that, if there was a tuition increase, the
majority of the extra money would not go
to the colleges. The money would go to
relieve the state and city budget. This
would either force the Board of Trustees
to increase the fees and senior college
tuition anyway or allow the budget to
include the increases. CUNY is sup
posed to be an institution where stu
dents can get the best education possi
ble for the most affordable price. If peo
ple begin to pay more money every year
for what is suppose to be an affordable
higher education and get less help from
the state, then the purpose of CUNY will
be nonexistent.
“All of us can agree that an increase
in the budget,” said Annamarie Bianco,
“allocated to the University would help
prevent a tuition increase.”
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Letter From the Editor
Welcome Back .. . Now Get to Work!
ey everyone, welcome back!
H
We here at The Banner hope you all
had a great summer. It’s that time of
year again- Back to School. And that
means it’s time for another year of
The Banner. Our staff has toiled
countless hours throughout the
month of August to bring you our
annual back-to-school issue.
With the start of the school year
brings many changes at The Banner.
For one, last year’s Editor-in-Chief,
Jen Mosscrop, graduated in what
can only be described as an eventful
graduation ceremony (see the bot-tom of this page, as well as pages 45 for further clarification).
Two years ago, I entered The
Banner office as a student doing an
assignment for Intro to Journalism
class. Immediately I felt welcome
here and started coming in every
week to help out in any way I could
(and for free pizza). One thing led to
another and the next thing I knew, I
was named Managing Editor. Last
spring, I was elected Editor-in-Chief
for this coming school year. It is an
honor and I look forward to serving
all of you. It marks the first time in
over two years that a male has been
Editor-in-Chief of The Banner, but
don’t worry, replacing me as
Managing
Editor
is
Mellissa
Seecharan, so there is still some
estrogen to keep me in check.
Returning as Comics Editor is
Enrique Innocente, who has pre
pared an action packed two-page
comics spread for your enjoyment.
Investigative reporter Kevin
Mamakas digs up the dirt on the fee
increases and the graduate school
tuition hike.
In addition, Matt Safford is back
for another year as ADP Editor.
While this year Election Day may not
have quite the excitement that last
year’s presidential election held, we
have a mayoral race on our hands,
and you can be sure that Safford will
keep you informed of the issues sur
rounding that. On a more somber
note, since this is the last issue of
The Banner to be printed before the
fourth anniversary of the 9/11
tragedy, we have to pause for a
moment and remember that life and
freedom can’t be taken for granted.
You may notice that this issue of
The Banner has several long arti
cles. These articles are submissions
by your fellow students, the people
who keep The Banner in business,
and this is our way of rewarding their
efforts. The Banner exists to serve
you, and we rely on your submis
sions. Anyone can submit stories to
The Banner and we’re always here
to review and publish them. Anyone
can also become a staff writer here
at The Banner. If you have an inter
est in entering the field of journalism
or are just looking for a hobby, The
Banner is wide open for you. There
are no cliques or tribal factions here;
we’re just a diverse group of ordi
nary students devoted to serving the
CSI community. Stop by our office
(1C-228) during club hours on
Thursday if you’re interested in con
tributing to The Banner.
This year promises to be an
exciting one for The Banner. We’re
already busy working on our second
issue, which promises to be even
more
thrillingstay
tuned.
Remember, The Banner publishes
every two weeks.
Good luck everyone and have a
great year!
BAG SEARCHES
continued from page J
problem. Have we gone too far?
On August 23rd 2005, the MTA
announced it chose defense giant
Lockheed Martin to install a multi-million
dollar security system in the city's sub
ways. The system would include over
1000 cameras, and 3000 motion sen
sors.
It could be an example of over
reacting. Many people claim we have to
do this or, as the now cliched saying
goes, "the terrorists win." The idea
behind that saying is that we cant live in
fear and let them see us scared, other
wise they will think they beat us. Good
thought. However, we are letting them
see us scared. Bag checks, security
cameras, motion sensors, the Patriot act.
All of these are an attempt to veil our
fear. But no one can seem to find out
where to draw the line.
How soon will it be until Police offi
cers randomly start checking people’s
homes? Or tapping phone lines? What
once seemed like the ideas of a crazed
conspiracy theorist could soon be reality.
Whether or not these searches prove to
be effective remains to be seen, but one
thing is certain, our lives aren't our own
anymore.
Erica Jong Creates an Uproar at Graduation
Dovid Maltz
wondered how bad it would get.
graduating class.” Another commenter on
hat should have been a very
A group of students who worked
Smirkingchimp offered a different take on
special day for a record 2,100
graduation were chattering amongst
the situation. “Damn! Erica Jong!
CSI graduates was marred by
themselves about
Everyone of those CSI
an embarrassing show of disrespectthe
for
situation.
students should count
CSI’s Commencement Speaker, Erica
Thankfully a riot
themselves lucky,” she
Jong.
never materialized.
said.
Although Jong gave a speech on top
But it came close.
At least one com
ics that no one would ever expect to hear
Too close.
mentator
on
from a Commencement speaker, such as
In today’s inter
Smirkingchimp sympa
the relationship between Tom Cruise and
net era, word of the
thized with the crowd,
Katie Holmes, Viagra, and a scathing crit
incident
spread
suggesting that the
icism of our politicians, the obscene
quickly after an arti
length of the speech was
behavior shown by everyone in atten
cle describing the
inappropriate.
dance an incredibly disgusting display of
scene appeared on
“Graduation is about the
displeasure to be shown at a commence
the Staten Island
graduates,” he said. “In
ment address.
Advance’s website.
giving a 40 minute
It didn’t take long for the situation to
Bloggers
from
speech, Erica Jong
explode.
around the world Erica Jong ruffled feathers during her seemed to have forgotten
Less than 15 minutes into Jong’s
took advantage of conunencement speech at CSI
that the event was not
address, the crowd started making noise.
the article as an
about her, and that peo
Graduates themselves were walking
opportunity to bash CSI, CUNY, and
ple were there to honor the graduation of
around, talking to their friends, listening to
Staten Island as a whole.
friends and family, not to hear her speak.
their iPods, and tossing a beach ball to
One blogger at leatherpenguin.com,
Forty minutes for a commencement
their fellow graduates, as if this were a
whose slogan is “discussing rants, reposi
speech is just plain torture.”
time to amuse themselves.
tories, brilliance, and bs - you figure out
Freefrepublic.com, a right-wing news
As bad as that was, the families of the
which is which” joked that CUNY is noth
discussion site offered nothing but praise
graduates were even worse.
ing more than “New York City’s 13th
for the graduates’ reaction. “Looks like
Families soon started hollering
grade.” The headline of her blog read
those working class kids are actually
chants, such as “go home.” People start
“Local 13th grade Goes Global.”
learning something on Staten Island!”
ed waving white towels as surrender flags.
Others took advantage of the situa
That’s easy to say if you didn’t witness this
The crowd grew increasingly intolerant as
tion to make all of Staten Island appear
atrocity first-hand. But if you were at grad
the speech progressed and Ms. Jong
intolerant, making a point to emphasize
uation, whether you are a Democrat or
continued on, unfazed by the reaction to
that Staten Island is overwhelmingly
Republican, Liberal or Conservative, it
her words.
Republican.
was impossible to rationalize the behavior
The situation deteriorated so gravely
Smirkingchimp.com, a liberal blog
that was displayed.
that the audience began to crush forward.
ging site, took aim at the gradutes, refer
Whatever the reason for what hap
Those located in front of the stage looked
ring to them as a “pathetic excuse for a
pened, the crowd’s behavior was totally
toward the crowd of several thousand
W
unacceptable. To add to the embarrass
ment, CSI English Professor, Matthew
Greenfield is Jong’s son-in-law. In fact
even Jong herself taught Literature and
Writing at CUNY.
“Looks like those working
class kids are actually learn
ing something on Staten
Island!”
-Blogger at freerepublic.com
While no one is disputing the fact
Jong’s speech was probably not the most
appropriate for a commencement
address, the reaction showed by the audi
ence was beyond terrible.
And all because people felt that cre
ating chaos would somehow be a produc
tive action to speed Jong along and short
en her speech. It took less than 20 min
utes for grown adults to act like little chil
dren.
But Jong did not stop speaking. Her
speech went on for over 40 minutes, so
the people who attempted to start a riot
accomplished nothing, except making CSI
and CUNY look like a pack of idiots.
Not only was a former CUNY profes
sor alienated, the entire CSI and CUNY
community’s image will be tarnished for
years to come. And the graduates will
always remember their college graduation
day for the negative coverage it attracted.
�on 2005
T’dey Came, ‘T'dey StucCiecC, T'dey ConcftieretC...
Family, friends, and faculty members gathered on the Great Lawn, June 2nd to support the graduating class of 2005
On a hazy June day the dreams of students were realized as thousands gathered on the Great lawn to celebrate their graduation from CSI. The day was marked
by many events and speeches from the likes of Senator Chuck Schumer, Campus President Springer, and Erica Jong. The jubilation and excitement overflowed
and in some cases, tears did as well. It is a day not soon to be forgotten.
The graduates listen attentively to the speakers.
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Anthony Wiener speaks to the graduates while campaigning for
NYC Mayor.
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Students line up to meet their destiny.
�August 29,2005
War Will Not Stop Her
Kevin S.P. Momakas
n the past half decade, the United States has become aware through first hand experi
ence how war on our own turf is different from war overseas. Few worried about terror
ist attacks or even the possibility of one occurring on American soil. Yet for years, coun
tries around the world have been aware and dealing with these situations.
At the young age of 12, Sophia Tamezrian realized that it would cost a lot of money
and take a lot of sacrifices to stay alive. War broke out in her home country of Lebanon.
As one of six children raised by a widowed mother, she quickly realized the cost of living
was high. Through all the hardships that the war brought to her home, she had one goal
that she had to keep.
“I set aside one goal, to get my education,” she said. This eventually led her to the
United States.
Like many CSI students, she had to earn money. “I had to stop studying and start
working,” she said. Before she could become serious about her higher education, she was
recruited by the United Nations. “I believe in the missions of the U.N.,” she said, “and the
work they do that benefits people of the world, especially during time of humanitarian
emergencies.”
After fifteen years of working in the United Nations, Tamezrian yearned to do more.
Naturally, she wanted to press forward in her field, but the lack of a diploma prevented her
advancement. Her urge for advancement lead her to CSI. ‘The people working here are
very nice,” said two of her brothers who recommended CSI. “Like a second family.” She
received two scholarships from CSI and one outside to study here.
During the early parts of her studies in CSI, the terrorist attacks of September 11,
2001 occurred. This was a reminder of the time she spent as a child in her home country,
but this still did not distract her from maintaining a 4.0 Grade Point Average while major
ing in Accounting with m inors in Finance and Economics. This accomplishment earned
her the right to speak to the graduating class of 2005 as the Student Speaker.
‘Today, I can proudly say I made it,” she claims on a day when her family is proud. “I
did not make it alone. We can not forget... our families. Graduates families are the reason
I
Sophia Tamerizan fled her native Lebanon over 20 years ago. She graduated CSI with a
4.0 GPA
for our success.”
Now that she has graduated top of her class from a growing CSI, she plans on
returning to the United Nations with hope that her higher education will let her get more
out of her career. She hopes to one day get her masters degree, but for now she will
take her heart to the next level of her career.
“Where ever you go, go with all your heart,” she told the entire graduating class
not to long before she accepted her diploma.
Graduates saunter towards their seats, as friends and family look on.
Graduates rise in preparation for the Pledge of Allegiance.
A graduate thinks about her future.
Professor Parker reels from the
reaction to Erica Jong’s speech.
Media Culture Department graduates take the first
step of the rest of their lives.
fi-
Friends stavid together one last time on the (|reat Lawn.
Professor Currie keeps it real.
§oocC Luck cCass of 2005!
�August 29,2005
Welcome New Students: Make The Most Of Your Stay Here.
Louren Taylor
a Good Morning and Welcome to the
College of Staten Island!” Those few
words were spoken by Brian
Delong,
Director of New Student
Orientation/CLUE, were repeatedly said
to wake us up and it did.
On August 24th, I attended the
College of Staten Island Freshman
Orientation. Despite being somewhat
nervous, I was excited to meet some of
my fellow classmates. I arrived at Center
for the Arts at around 8:30 - way before
the chaos of the day was to begin. The
voices of freshmen began to echo
through the lobby as we gathered togeth
er in little circle; friends seeing friends
and greeting them as if they hadnl seen
each other in years. It was a comfort to
me knowing that my past relationships
were going to resume or continue
through college.
Our little friendship circles were
soon interrupted as we were directed by
sophomores to find the first inital of our
last name and group. As everyone scat
tered into different areas of the concert
hall, we received a blue folder with a list
of the day’s activities
“All the students in this FIRST pro
gram are for each other to laugh with,
cry, and shout at,” said David Podell,
Senior Vice President for Academic
Affairs and Provost. “No one wants to get
off on the wrong foot by slacking off with
school work. It could end up being a
messy situation.”
Many of the students moaned and
groaned at the use of the words “school”
and "work” in the same sentence, and I
was part of the majority. However, once
the first day of school is over, the auto
matic responsibility of schoolwork will set
in. The summer break made me lazy but
I’m up to the challenge of college work.
We were later informed by Delong
about the amount of Clue Credits we
would need in total throughout all four
years in college. We would need only
four: two Personal Growth and two CoCurricular. ‘This program is for those who
would most likely stay in college, get bet
ter grades, and finish with the most cred
its. This is, in plain English, for you to bet
ter yourself.”
Since a lot of us freshmen stayed
until the end of the Orientation for the
campus tour scavenger hunt, we all
received a Clue Credit.
“There are many resources on cam
pus to help you: tutors, peer tutors, even
your mentors will introduce you on your
fellow classmates in your block,” said
Delong.
The last speaker, Chris from
Monstertrak.com, spoke about his expe
rience at a college in San Diego,
California. “We should all apply our
selves to the best of our abilities," said
Chris. ‘It took me 5 years before I gradu
ated college.”
“Incoming freshmen all over the
world consist of 13 million. We all start
with a 4.0 GPA,” he added. Although first
few weeks of college were a blast, he did
n’t think of the college work. Chris thought
of the girls and where the best parties
were happening. It took a while for him to
recover from his lacking schoolwork, but
he learned from his mistakes and made
time for fun. His weekends consisted of
fun only when he knew his work was
completed. Chris also pointed out to us
that we should all get to know our profes
sors and try to get inside their heads.
They can’t flunk everyone. “They’re here
to help you. Office hours are not deten
tion hours. They do have egos. They’re
going to teach what they think is impor
tant, but most don’t teach out of the text
book. Even though it’s good to sometimes
read the text, go with what is told to you.
You’re better off.”
The speakers were all informative,
and used their sense of humor as they
explained their college experiences. After
the they were finished, we separated into
Blocks. My block number was nine and
Danielle became my mentor. She was
very friendly and offered us her time to
participate in study groups if we needed
some extra help. I got to know some of
my classmates, although I already knew
three of them.
During lunch, I asked some of the
other freshmen their reactions about ori
entation. “I was able to meet some of the
other incoming freshman who I would
have classes with along with some that I
wouldn't,” said Kayla Hernandez. The
hour with some of my classmates and
mentor was fun, and it gave me the
opportunity to ask questions and get the
answers I needed. Walking around cam
pus was interesting with the scavenger
hunt, but I got to know the campus bet
ter. I really didn’t like the fact that it was
so long. We really didn’t need the lunch
hour!”
“I found orientation better than I
would have expected. I made some new
friends and got to know my classmates
and even some of my teachers who were
lurking around,” commented Anthony
Ramano. “It might have been six hours
long but it was worth it because I would
n’t have found out as much as I did on
any other day.”
Also included in the orientation fold
er were some upcoming events like the
Student Involvement Fair which is
Wednesday, September 8th, 12 - 4pm,
FIRST Field Day, Saturday, September
17th 1PM, and the Juvenile Diabetes
Research Foundation Walk-a-thon,
Sunday, October 2nd at 10AM. The
Gazetteer, which is the College of Staten
Island’s Student Handbook, was also
included. This guide will truly be my best
friend as I use it to adjust to the student
body of The College of Staten Island.
Finally, after counting the months
away, I am now a freshman in college
and I must make everyday count. This is
a whole new ballgame and right now I’m
not even up at bat.
At Odds With The Odd Couple
Andrea Batista
n a long struggle between CSI direc
tors and the companies that lease the
rights for plays, a new developing
director has taken a recent fall at our
College. Student/actor Chris Russell,
was recently denied the right to direct
Neil Simon’s ‘The Odd Couple” due to
Broadway’s recent revival of the same
play staring Matthew Broderick as Felix
Ungar and Nathan Lane as Oscar
Madison. Although it is clear to us that
one performance would not, by any
possible means, interfere with the
other, Chris has been forced to cancel
his plans to direct for at least this com
ing semester.
“Since it's going to be on
Broadway , getting the rights to the play
in New York is just about impossible,
said Russell.” In contrast to the expen
sive Broadway tickets Russell added,
“I'm charging $5 a ticket in a theater
that only seats 75 people for 3 nights.
How much business could I have taken
from them?”
First staged right here in New York
City in 1965, the “Odd Couple” made
already well known playwright Neil
Simon a cultural phenomenon. This
successful comedy, after a long run on
i
Broadway, was turned into a film in
1968 and then into a television series
that ran from 1970 to 1975.
With two trademark characters,
Felix the “neat and almost suicidal” and
Oscar the “carefree and sloppy one”,
this play became an image that is still
used today to describe a pair of mis
matched friends.
There are many things that make
‘The Odd Couple” an entertaining and
successful play. However, what most
fans remember is the brilliant combina
tion of two men that have nothing in
common, and yet understand each
other better than most of us do. So
what in particular inspired Russell to
direct this play? “I figured that a profes
sor wouldn't do it, and I'd been itching to
direct” said Russell. “Also, in the dress
ing room during Faustus, I saw Jamie
Lee busting Chris Wegenaars chops,
and something clicked in my head. I
pictured Jamie in a Mets hat being laidback in dirty sweat-pants and Chris
wearing a business suit being neurotic”.
For those of you who don't know who
Jamie Lee and Chris Wegenaar are,
they were
recently
seen
as
Mephistohilis and Faustus in the Spring
2005 adaptation of Doctor Faustus at
the CSI Lab Theater, directed by
Professor Lee Papa. Both of them,
along with Russell have been seen at
our theater performances more than
once, and developed an obvious friend
ship that transgressed into the desire to
create something together as a group.
Although Chris’ frustration is palpa
ble, he should be given a lot of credit.
He never lost his hope to have a
chance at directing The Odd Couple,
while waiting for the Samuel French
Agency to release the rights. Most of us
would have waited to know for a fact
that we had the rights before doing any
thing, but for a familiar face at the Lab
Theater, that meant wasted time that
could’ve been used for rehearsal.
With the help of professors Lee
Papa, Maurya Wickstrom and Jennifer
Straniere, Russell booked three days
for shows, many hours for possible
rehearsals, had help for the construc
tion of sets and costumes, and was
lucky enough to have friends who vol
unteered much of their time. “I was sur
prised by how much support I got," said
Russell. "Everyone I knew wanted to
help in some way. It was really nice.”
Nevertheless, despite the personal
support, Russell didn't have College
funds for his show, so the money came
out of his pockets “ with some help from
my parents.” One can only hope that
the PCA department would have reim
bursed him somehow, if the show would
have gone on after all.
Since CSI can’t have an official
“Odd Couple” this time around, Russell
is populating his agenda for this coming
Fall semester with other things.
“I just got my headshots done so
I'm going to try and get some work out
side the school in my free-time,” he
said. Russell is also working on Prof.
Wickstrom’s upcoming play, which will
be performed during this semester in
the Center for the Arts. “I'm also trying
to write a One-Man show” Russell
adds.
Through all the frustration, Chris
puts a positive spin on the whole expe
rience. “If Broadway hadn't gotten their
hands on it, we would have put on a hell
of a show,” Russel commented.
So for the rest of us there is still
the chance to see Chris' acting, and the
hope that Broadway finds some fresh
material to produce, so that those of us
far off Broadway can have fun and per
haps even learn something from being
able to work with the classics.
�Center For The Arts
tribute to Frank Sinatra entitled “A Toast
show featuring the Coasters, Drifters,
to 01’ Blue Eyes,” featuring Adam James
and Platters. The least popular act was
and his 16 piece orchestra, so it comes
The
Nori Company Korean Traditional
as no great surprise to anyone, except
Drum
& Dance Ensemble.
perhaps the administration, that stu
On
a typical Saturday evening CSI
dents are not attending shows. What is
looks
pretty
desolate, aside from a few
surprising, however, is the lack of con
weekend
students
lingering behind on
cern or effort to correct this problem.
their
way
to
somewhere
else. Bryan
Lisa Reilly
McGuckin,
has been the
24, a cinema
artistic director
studies
at the CFA for
major is one
almost three
of the rare
years.
Fair
students who
skinned, con
attends CFA
servatively
performanc
dressed, confi
es regularly
dent, and pro
although he
fessional, she
feels
that the
tackles difficult
student’s
questions so
interests are
easily, that one
not
really
would think she The Center for The Arts at CSI has been suffering
being
taken
had prepared from a lack of student attendance at events
into consid
her answers in
eration
when
planning
events.
“I think
advance. Reilly feels that the CFA per
what
they
try
and
do
is
more
for the
formances appeal to a general audience
general
population
of
Staten
Island,”
that includes both students and the
said Bryan. “I think because this is a
Staten Island community. “While those
commuter college and there are no
acts are all much older than the 18-25
dorms, a lot of students are just not
demographic, I would be willing to bet
interested in what goes on on campus.”
that with the population of Italian stu
Students aren’t going to shows at
dents on this campus, that they all know
the
CFA
for several reasons. Some sim
who Frank Sinatra is and that there will
ply
don’t
have the time because they are
be a certain number of them who will be
preoccupied
with exams or other
interested in variety of music that may
responsibilities
like work or family.
not be of their age group,” said Lisa
Others
are
just
not
big fans of live per
Reilly.
formance.
But
the
major
overall reason
However, this is not always the
that they aren’t finding something on
is
case.
the CFA calendar that
While the April 2nd Davy Jones
interests them enough
concert was successful and attracted
to
be worth the time or
over 400 patrons of all ages, the April
effort
of attending. ‘They
15th Sinatra performance attracted a
don’t
have anything that
geriatric crowd of 280 people, whose
interests
me,” said 22ages ranged from 48-^8 years old. Most
year-old
early
childhood
of the patrons, including 75-year-old
education
major
John Brusco, weren’t surprised that stu
Jennifer
Berger.
“I’m
dents had failed to attend.
“The
really
busy
during
the
younger generation, they don’t go for
week
with
homework,
this kind of music," said Brusco. “This is
student teaching, and
mainly for the older folks.” In addition,
going to the gym. So on
the February 26th performance by the
the
weekend, when I do
Barra MacNeils band drew a small
have
free time, I want to
group of a little over 100 people, most of
go
see
something that I know I like. If
whom were families with young chil
the
CFA
had somebody good perform
dren, or middle aged couples.
ing,
I’d
find
the time to go.”
For the 2003-2004 season the CFA
The
CFA
uses two surveying meth
sold 34,344 tickets, generating an
ods
to
gauge
what artists students
income of $558,183.62. They have sev
would
be
interested
in seeing. The first
eral theatres which range in size from
method
is
an
audience
survey, but if stu
150 seats (The Recital Hall) to 893
dents
aren’t
already
in
the audience
seats (The Concert Hall). The most pop
then
their
opinions
are
not
being repre
ular acts were Tony Danza, and the
sented. The second method involves
continued from page /
reviewing the numerous surveys con
ducted by the Student Program
Development Committee (PDC). These
marketing techniques are poorly struc
tured since in both cases students are
asked to select either a genre of music
(which is broad and unspecific) or to
arbitrarily name an individual artist with
out prior knowledge of the feasible price
range. “A lot of the answers that we get
are not sensitive to what actual
resources are here, so we’ll get answers
like: We want to see the Dave Matthews
Band," said Lisa Reilly. “So I think we’ve
had a limited amount of success, and
not just with the students, but in general
with that kind of a survey.”
Judging from the artist fees of pre
vious performers, the CFA can only
afford to spend a maximum of $20,000$25,000. Green Day charges $150,000,
not including production costs and Blink
182’s artist fee is a whopping $200,000,
however there are plenty of mainstream
artists that do fall into the CFA’s price
range like: musicians Henry Rollins,
Kelly Osbourne, The Mighty Mighty
Bosstones, Alien Ant Farm, and Papa
Roach and comedians Artie Lange,
Andy Dick, and Jim Breuer. “I think that
students are on this campus to get an
education and part of being educated is
experiencing the world in a bigger,
broader way,” said Lisa Reilly. “I frankly
don’t think that going to see the Dave
Matthews Band, Kelly Osbourne, P.
Diddy, or the Black Eyed Peas consti
tutes seeing the world in a bigger,
broader way.”
There are two ways events are
booked at the CFA. The
first way involves the
CFA paying an artist to
do a performance.
Each year Lisa Reilly
attends several per
forming arts confer
ences and theatrical
shows. She constructs
a list of possible acts
and separates them
into genres like classi
cal, jazz, comedy,
drama, and dance.
After considering the
artist’s fee, estimated ticket prices, and
theatre size, she selects one act from
each group. An artist’s fee, along with
their production requirements which
includes everything from lighting and
sound equipment to special effects like
smoke machines or pyrotechnics are
negotiated several times before a con
tract is finally signed.
The second way events are booked
is called a “rental.” Sometimes local per
formers like the Staten Island Ballet will
pay the CFA a fee in order to rent a hall
and do a show. At other times, well
known artists like George Carlin will per
form because their agent has paid both
their fee and rented the hall. In both sit
uations, ticket prices are set by the
“renter” in order to recoup the money
they have laid out. After a contract is
signed, it is the job of production coordi
nator
If given unlimited resources, Lisa
Reilly would love to build a high profile
series of performances. “Wouldn’t it be
lovely if the Moscow Ballet could
come?” said Lisa. ‘Then we could get
people to come and see dance, who
might never have seen dance before.”
However not everyone agrees that high
culture is better than pop culture. “That’s
because that’s what she likes and that
may not necessarily be what I like or
what other people that come here like,”
said production coordinator Robert
Johnson. They hired her because of
her taste, so they made their bed. If this
is what they wanted, they’ve got it. If
anyone wants to change that then it’s up
to the high administration of this college
to determine that.”
The CFA offers discount ticket
prices to students and is conveniently
located in Building 1P, yet most students
don’t take advantage of this resource
that is so readily available to them.
With the 2005-2006 season now
upon us, the CFA is offering more aged
performers with bands like America,
singers Bobby Vinton, and Crystal
Gayle, and a performance entitled “Love
Letters” featuring Barbara Eden and
Tony Curtis. In addition, there is the
usual array of high culture acts such as:
The Bronx Opera, The Complete Works
of William Shakespeare (abridged), The
Harlem Gospel Choir, and the Georgia
Guitar Quartet, among others. It
remains to be seen if the more youthful
swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and
iconic comedian Father Guido Sarducci
will attract the CSI audience. If students
aren’t interested in what’s currently
being offered, then they should email
their opinions and suggestions to Lisa
Reilly. “When the question is: ‘Do you go
to the center for the arts?’ and they say:
‘No, I don’t.’ It doesn’t necessarily prove
that the Center for the Arts is not serving
that population,” said Lisa. “It may be
that that’s a population that does not
wish to be served.”
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Featuring: Enrique Ignacio Inocente
Salutations
students and/or faculty. Enrique here to
greet you to another fun filled and overpriced year at CSI.
I've been doing the comics section here for a number of years, and in
that time I’ve gotten plenty of critical letters on the content of my comics.
Actually, there's only been three letters and they're from the same person, but
I'm well aware this critical voice speaks for all of you. My comics are accused of
being juvenile, crude, insensitive, violent, unfunny, and just plain stupid. It's a valid
observation. Sometimes I'm asked where in my depraved mind I think up these
things I consider amusing. Well, let me tell you. It took years of childhood
trauma to get to where I am today. As a treat to my readers, I thought
I'd share some of my early comics so you can see the descent of
good taste, and pinpoint at exactly what age I
became a morbid human being.
First
up is one of my first comics from grade
school. It told the story of two P.S. 22 students
that get abducted by space aliens, and are forced to
fight in an interstellar war. Basically, I stole the story
from that movie The Last Starfighter. Enjoy
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huh?...Let's move on. I was a big Ninja Turtles fan, and a
lot of my early characters were Ninja Turtle rip-offs. Here
[we find Detective Spike Turtle in the midst of solving the crimej
of the century...who stole Lisa Turtle's $45.00. Hey, $45.00
was a lot of money to a nine-year-old in 1991. Anyway, let's
watch the master detective do his thing.
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I call gripping
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bad grammar.
Tiny Turtles: Private Eye (1991)
Spike
was my favorite character to
work with and I put him in all sorts of zany
adventures. One such adventure involved him
obtaining a super suit that gave him superhuman
powers and abilities. In the following excerpt, Spike
is on route to save his kidnapped girlfriend Lisa
Turtle (a Saved By The Bell reference if
you haven't caught on yet).
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more gratuitous violence!
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lown a notch
serious. On occasion,
my comics in The Banner have
been called misogynistic? I
find this allegation not only
offensive, but also egregious.
My comics are never meant to
be interpreted as such. The
fact is I love and respect
females and would never
intentionally depict them in
a degrading manner in my
comics. So with that in
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antics. I started drawing it in 1993, gave up
on it for a couple of years, and went back to
it in 1996 to add some more scenes. See
if you can spot the difference.
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seriously...was that really
so misogynistic? We’ll let the
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matic themes. The following is a scene taken from a
detective series I did back then. It followed the exploits of'
freelance detective Keith Bates. He was hired to find a serial rapist
who brutally murders his victims. I'll do you all a favor and not
show the graphic murder, and instead have Keith and his
partner discuss the case.
I could go forever with this crap, but the end
has thankfully come. I thought I’d give you a sneak peek at
my latest work. It's a wacky little tale about three children
with magical powers that are caught in the midst of a murder
plot. The following scene finds them in a juvenile cen
ter for the mentally disturbed.
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the most inappropriate thing at the most inopportune
time. That Keith is a real tooL.and he's loosely
based on me. Go figure.
�The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
August 29,
If You Build It They Will Come...Weil, Nobody Came
Michael Guitierrez
In 1999, CSI renovated the baseball field
in anticipation of the Staten Island
Yankees minor league baseball team.
Thousands upon thousands of fans
passed through the turnstiles in the three
years the team called CSI home.
After the 2002 season, the Yankees
moved to their new stadium, right next
door to the Staten Island Ferry, taking
with them, the crowds.The crowds that
went to watch those Yankee games must
have not known that another baseball
team called the CSI field home.
That team is the CSI Dolphins
Division III Mens Baseball Team. 2,465.
Close your eyes and think about this
number. Imagine standing on a pitchers
mound or in a batters box, and 2,465
people are cheering for you. special.
Now open your eyes and stand on that
pitchers mound. Look around and what
do you see? If you said nothing you are
correct. Thats what Adam Cotayo sees
when he is pitching to an opposing batter.
The CSI baseball field resembles a ghost
town on most days with the exception of
25 - 45 people in the stands, hardly a
crowd by sports standards.
So how is it playing in front of six
steel bleachers that outline the field?
"It's hard," said Jamie Lee, outfielder
for the team, "sometimes crowds could
get you pumped in certain game situa
tions, so it would be nice if we had a big
one from time to time."
Makes you wonder if they are includ
ing the players and coaches in that
count.
On April 6th, the Dolphins got their
first win of the season over Vasser
College, 4 -1. The stat people were
almost right with 44 fans, but attendence
hit its high point of 38 in the bottom of the
fifth inning. A doubleheader vs. New
Jersey City University had a total of
88 people, 55 for game one and 33 for
game two, and another doubleheader vs.
WomeiYs Soccer Dolphin Schedule
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Ramapo College
Mitchell College
Rutgers-Newark
Ferrum College
Away
Away
Home
Home
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3:30pm
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09/20/05 College of St. Elizabeth
09/22/05 Polytechnic University
Home
Away
4:00pm
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09/25/05 St. Joseph's College-L.l.
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09/29/05 Medgar Evers College
10/01/05 John Jay College
Away
3:30pm
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Away
Home
Home
Home
Home
Away
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9:00am
12:00pm
3:30pm
12:00pm
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3:30pm
4:00pm
4:00pm
2:00pm
2:00pm
12:00pm
1:00pm
3:00pm
3:00pm
11:00am
7:00pm
7:00pm
10/02/05 SUNY-Farmingdale
10/05/05 New Jersey City University
10/08/05
10/11/05
10/13/05
10/17/05
10/19/05
10/23/05
City College of New York
Medgar Evers College
John Jay College
Marymount College
SUNY-Purchase
College of Mt. St. Vincent
10/26/05 FDU-Florham Home
10/29/05 CUNY Championship CSI
10/30/05 Mount St. Mary College Home
11/01/05 HVWAC Quarterfinal TBA
11/03/05 HVWAC Semifinal TBA
11/05/05 HVWAC Championship CSI
09/06/05 College of St. Elizabeth
Home
Away
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John Jay College
had 99 people,
AGAIN 55 for
game one and 44
for the second
game.
All four
game totals were
off their mark.
The past few
years, the team
has had their ups
and downs.
From playing
in
CUNY
Championships
and for the old
Knickerbocker
Conference title,
this year’s team has struggled for wins in
the early part of the season, but has got
ten on the right track as of late. CSI stu
dent and the Staten Island community
need to know that this isn’t the pros
where fans are paying to see their
favorite team. The games here are free,
so that should be more of a reason to go
out for a game. In fact, every sport from
baseball to softball, basketball to tennis
at CSI is free. We even have two soccer
teams at the school and don’t forget
women’s volleyball. “Playing in front of a
crowd is great,” says Mike Jones, mem
ber of CSI men’s Basketball Team.
“Crowds could give a team life.”
In a survey done on the CSI campus
the morning/afternoon of a baseball
game, one hundred CSI students were
asked if they knew there was a later that
afternoon. Astonishingly, only seventeen
people answered. The same one hun
dred people were asked if they would b
attending that game and only eleven
people said they would. And there were
99 people for a doubleheader a couple of
weeks before? John Jay College must
have brought a couple of bus loads of
fans to the games.
So eighty -three people out of one
hundred had no clue there was a game
that day. By the looks of it no one is get
ting out to the CSI students and telling
them about the sporting events on cam
pus.
“I’ve never seen any postings
around campus about any baseball
games,” said Mike Falgello, a CSI stu
dent.
“I definitely don’t think the school the
school does enough advertising for our
games,’ said a female athlete who wished
to remain nameless. “And whatever little
advertising they do is mostly for the men’s
and not the women’s teams.”Well the
games are being played and all those
kids are giving it their all. Wouldn't it be
nice to watch a game where the players
are playing for the game and not the
money? There are players like this and
they're located right here at CSI. Come
on down, there's plenty of seats.
Women's Volleyball Dolphin Schedule
09/08/05 College of Mt. St. Vincent
09/10/05 Centenary College
09/14/05 St. Joseph's College-Bklyn
09/17/05 John Jay College
09/17/05 York College
09/20/05 Baruch College
09/22/05 SUNY-Old Westbury
09/24/05 Marymount College
09/27/05 NYC College of Technology
09/29/05 SUNY-Farmingdale
10/04/05 City College of New York
10/06/05 Pratt Institute of Tech.
10/08/05 SUNY-Purchase
10/08/05 Polytechnic University
10/10/05 Medgar Evers College
10/10/05 Brooklyn College
10/13/05 Cooper Union
10/15/05 Medgar Evers College
10/15/05 Sarah Lawrence College
10/18/05 Hunter College
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Tenure Tale
Takes a Turn
Annmarie Costello
David Maltz
t’s an increasingly common problem:
College students digging themselves
deep into credit card debt.
A 5-year-old project, run by the
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) called
Project Credit Smart seeks to change
that. In partnership with CUNY, the proj
ect is new to CSI. “Project Credit Smart
is the Federal Trade Commission’s effort
to reach students about financial literacy
and choosing and using credit properly,”
said Thomas Cohn, the FTC’s Senior
Assistant Regional Director for the
Northeast. “We have a lot of partners we
work with to get the message out, includ
ing CUNY.”
The problem of credit card debt is
serious. According to the FTC, 80% of
undergraduates h^ve more than 1 credit
card. 20% have four or more credit
cards. The average credit card balance
for college students is $2,327. 20% of
college students carry between $3,000$7,000 debt and 25% have $10,000+
credit card debt. “It’s more serious than
people think,” said Cohn. “54% of fresh
man have a credit card,” added Gloria
Garcia, SEEK Program Director. “When
they reach the sophomore year, 92%
have a credit card.”
The project aims to reach students
in a variety of ways, including lectures,
handouts, and extracurricular activities.
So far the project has had limited expo-
I
"That's a lot of work to be doing
for no credit," my father mut
tered as I stepped over papers
and glued photographs onto a
poster board, but like many stu
dents who participated in the
Undergraduate
Research
Conference, the ability to dis
cuss and share what I had
learned was worth more than
any prize.
Every year for the past four years
students have gathered in the atrium of
Building 1P to present the research they
have conducted with the help and guid
ance of their professors. This year's con
ference began at 12:15 pm with a short
speech by CSI President Dr. Marlene
Springer during which she congratulated
students on their fine work. That was fol
lowed by a 45 minute brunch for the par
ticipants and administration. Students
sat with their professors and feasted on
tiny sandwiches, fruit, cookies, soda, and
punch. From 1:00-4:00pm students
stood next to their projects and proudly
discussed their work to any interested
passerby.
There were a total of 51 participants,
(double the amount of 2004) represent
ing 13 academic departments. The proj
ects covered a wide variety of topics that
ranged
from
the
theatrical
(“Shakespeare on Stage and in Film
from 1970-2000”) to the complex (“A
Domain Decomposition Algorithm for
Solving Two Dimensional Partial
Continued on page 3 ■
Orume Agbeyegbe
In 2001, Belhassen Haouala, a native
speaker of Arabic and French, relocated
from Tunisia to the United States as a res
ident alien. ‘When I moved to the States I
did not speak any English at all,” said
Haouala. Later, in the spring of 2003, after
he gained admission to CSI, he sat for the
college’s assessment tests. Haouala
passed math, but failed English proficien
cy. This immediately led to his placement
in a remedial class (Eng 039, Reading for
Non-Native Speakers of English) which
would prepare Haouala and make him eli
gible to retake the reading test.
CUNY’s academic policies require
that all undergraduate students pass the
City University of New York Basic Skills
Tests (reading and writing) within one
Differential Equations in a Parallel
Computing Environment”). Conference
Committee Assistant Provost, Vijendra
Agarwal, was extremely pleased by the
increase in student interest. “We want to
celebrate the substance of our under
graduates. They work with their faculty
members and they have some accom
plishments that they can claim are theirs.
We want to give them motivation,” said
Agarwal. “They can put on their resume
that they have done research when they
apply for graduate school or for employ
ment opportunities. It's exciting having
the students here and learning from oth
ers. It's very inspirational.”
This was my 2nd consecutive year
presenting my research on serial killer
David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz. It began
as a short assignment for my criminology
class, but with the help and encourage
ment of Dr. Louis A. Foleno it quickly bal
looned into an independent studies proj
ect and a 20 page thesis. I believed that
an analysis of Berkowitz was extremely
Continued on page 3
Marcel Sandoungout
When I first enrolled in CSI in the fall of 2000, my
cousin Felicia Kabory took me to Dr. Ngolet and
introduced me to him. We hit it off right away, and
became friends. Dr. Ngolet wanted me to come take
his classes, because “as an African, you should
know about your continent.” I took all his courses
and I must admit that I learned a lot, on and off
classes. I would go to his office or we would walk
together after class and he would still talk about the
lesson. It was good in a way, because I was getting a lot of information for my personal cul
ture, but bad because during exams, he was expecting me to put everything on paper, and
to fill up two blue books! He was a hard worker, and he encouraged students to do the
same.
Dr. Francois Ngolet passed away on Monday April 11th, 2005 in St’s Vincent Hospital,
West Brighton. The news took everybody by surprise. On Thursday 14th and Friday 15th
April, the CSI community, along with the small Gabonese community paid tribute to Dr.
Ngolet at the Christian Pentecostal church on Richmond Road. Students, professors,
members of the College Administration, Gabon’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gabon’s
particular methodologies
that they use to pose and answer
questions which ultimately con
tribute to the academic dialogue
and the generation of knowledge ”
—President Springer
Kevin S.P Mamakas
hen Fahamisha Brown was put
on the tenure track in the fall
2000 semester, it looked like
the English Department was on the right
track to become more diversified. After
Onwuchekwa Jemie had been denied
tenure more then a decade ago, the
Department had lacked an African
American professor.
First, a little background about the
process: Professors that are on a tenure
track have to reapply for a position every
year for five years. On the fifth year it is
decided if a professor can have tenure.
Professors have been granted tenure
before the five years is up. Fahamisha
Brown reapplied for a position in the
English Department during the fall 2003
academic year with tenure, and President
Springer did grant Brown another year as
a professor, but without tenure.
When Prof. Brown reapplied for her
job with tenure during the Fall 2004
semester, she was denied tenure as a
result of the Promotions and Budget
(P&B) Committee’s recommendation to
President Springer. This committee con
sists of the 16 Academic Departments,
the chairperson of the Library, Wilma
Jones, and Vice President Carol
Jackson. Prof. Brown appealed. P&B’s
decision, and after her colleagues
showed their support of Prof. Brown get
ting tenure, the P&B ruling was reversed.
Despite the English faculty’s over
whelming support of Prof. Brown case for
tenure, and P&B’s decision to back her
bid, President Springer overturned the
P&B decision and denied Prof. Brown
tenure.
In the letter explaining her decision,
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Students Get Higher Book Prices
Mayor’s Emergency Management Plan Puts
New Yorkers at Risk
Luke Crisalli
Matt Safford
dents to tffe Clove Lakes Bookstore for
years. But since book vouchers take that
s CSI Senior Ben Vales scraped the
option away from some students, a com
burnt fat from the surface of the grill
promise has to be made. “I am always will
at his family’s Sub2Go sandwich shop, it
ing to let [students] order their books
was obvious he’d rather be somewhere
through the campus book store,” says
else. Frying bacon, slicing meat, and han
Battaglia “and have them do their work
dling unruly customers is not the greatest
later if that’s what it takes.” But those kinds
way to spend a Saturday afternoon. “But
of inconveniences are often too much for
hey,” says Vales “I gotta pay the bills.”
professors, who order books through the
While Vales has worked throughout his
campus store for the sake of convenience,
college career, he’s in a constant perilous
even if the prices are higher.
struggle with debt. He’s managing to keep
A few untenured professors are even
afloat, but like
afraid to openly
many students,
One linguistics textbook
suggest to stu
he needs every
dents that they
sold for$33 at the campus
break he can
go elsewhere for
bookstore, but was available direct
get.
their books, fear
In the past,
from the publisher for $19.95. That’s ing
possible
he's made the more than a 70% markup. And when the repercussions
most out of his
for doing so.
Clove Lake Bookstore closes, the
financial aid by
While Battaglia
Campus Bookstore will have no
searching tire
says that’s not
lessly for the
real competition in the
likely to be a seri
lowest
priced
Borough.They’ll raise
ous issue, contextbooks. His
s i d e r i n g
their prices even
previous quests
President
higher.
have sent him to
Springer’s recent
Ebay, Half.com,
tenure denial of Professor Fahamisha
Amazon, and various brick and mortar
Patricia Brown, one could understand why
stores around the city. Sometimes these
untenured professors are somewhat fear
quests become a little too epic -leaving
ful,
friends and family to wonder if maybe he
Not every campus compatriot howev
has a bit of an Ebay obsession- but
er, walks in fear of the shadow of the
they've usually resulted in substantial sav
almighty Springer. “Students shouldn't be
ings over the prices of our own campus
forced into lining the pockets of corporate
book store, which meant more cash in his
hotshots,” Student Senator Linda Appu
pocket, and less financial woes.
said recently. “I applaud professors who
All that changed however, when the
skip the campus bookstore and order
book voucher program was unveiled last
books through local establishments.” But
year. Where once, students received
those local establishments may be a
financial aid checks, they now get an ugly
dying breed. A couple of years ago there
green piece of card stock telling them they
were two textbook sellers in the CSI area.
have a book voucher, which can only be
Today there is only the Clove Lake Book
used at the campus book store, and only
Store. And with programs like the book
for textbooks. While whatever amount of
voucher program channeling more and
this credit they don't use gets sent back to
more money away from independent local
their financial aid coffers, and sent out
vendors and into the pockets of the cor
later in the semester, this program effec
porate-owned chains, one wonders how
tively takes money from the pockets of the
much longer any local non-corporate
students who need it most, by forcing
book stores can stay in business.
them to pay whatever price Barnes and
But then, it falls upon the local stores
Noble -the corporation which runs the
themselves to know the situation, and do
campus book store—deems appropriate.
what they can to stay in business. “I don’t
Exorbitant might be an apt epithet,
really know too much about it,” said Gay
considering one historical linguistics text
Runfola of the Clove Lake Store. “I
book selling this semester for $33 dollars
haven’t noticed a drop in business,
on campus, is available direct from the
because I never really had the business.”
publisher for $19.95. For all of you who
While she said she had taken some
haven't taken your requisite math class,
vouchers from other programs in the past,
that's more than a 70% mark up. While
she seemed to feel that the paperwork
the book store has a contract with the col
necessary for reimbursement is more
lege which regulates book prices, the con
trouble than the student business is
tract clearly wasn’t negotiated with the
worth. “I really don’t know all that much
best interests of students in mind.
about it,” she said again. “I’m sorry I
Some professors send students off
couldn’t be more helpful.”
campus to get their texts. English
When it falls to the reporter to explain
Professor Frank Battaglia has sent his stu
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n June 8th 2004, The New York City
Fire Department announced the
deployment
of
three
Hazardous
Materials or Hazmat Engine technician
companies. This meant that the duties of
the engine companies would be expand
ed to deal with Hazmat situations, such
as chemical spills, or biological attacks.
One of these companies, Engine
Company 165, is quartered right here on
Staten Island. This would add an addi
tional seventy hazmat trained workers to
the departments already impressive ros
ter of Hazmat trained firefighters.
The FDNY operates five Rescue
units citywide, one for each borough,
with an average of thirty firefighters per
company. All of these firefighters are
trained in Hazmat operations to compli
ment their firefighting skills, and are con
sidered to be the best firefighters world
wide.
The FDNY also operates seven
squad companies citywide, also with
roughly thirty firefighters per company.
All of these crews are drilled heavily in
hazmat operations and even operate a
second truck for the operations. One of
these companies, Squad 288 in Queens
is quartered with its own special hazmat
company that responds to major citywide
hazmat incidents. There are also numer
ous other hazmat operations that the
FDNY have been practicing for years.
With statistics as impressive as
those, one must wonder why mayor
Bloomberg decided to put the NYRD in
charge of Hazmat incidents when they
do not operate a single hazmat compa
ny. The NYRD does have some training
in the Hazmat field but it is no where
near the level of the FDNY. Under the
mayor’s disaster protocol, the NYRD
O
a major shift in the funding which makes
up an important part of a small busi
ness’s revenue, over a year after the
fact, all the blame can’t fall on the corpo
ration’s shoulders when places like this
go out of business. And sadly, it’s obvi
ous that students can’t rely on the Clove
Lake Bookstore to be around much
longer, if they can’t take any initiative to
improve their business opportunities.
When that happens, the Campus
Bookstore will have no real competition
in the Borough, and they’ll be able to
raise their prices even higher.
Of course, there are ways around
the book voucher program. If you have
credit cards, there’s always the option of
buying your books for the cheapest
prices you can find, then waiting for that
mid-semester financial aid check to pay
would have control over a disaster
scene until terrorism is ruled out.
However, life safety operations are top
priority and the FDNY commands all
rescue efforts.
As soon as he entered office it
appears that mayor Bloomberg has had
some sort of vendetta against the Fire
Department, be it closing firehouses,
ignoring the fact that the Fire depart
ment has been working without a con
tract, or reducing staffing on engine
companies. A grudge is one thing, but
mayor Bloomberg is playing Russian
roulette with the lives of New York City's
citizens.
Chief of Department Peter Hayden
testified before the city council on
Monday, May 9th to state his displeas
ure in the mayors decision. "This does
not make any sense," Hayden repeat
edly said at the meeting. "They [the
mayor and police commissioner Ray
Kelly] are very confused. There will be a
compromise of safety. This is a recipe
for disaster," he added. At an FDNY pro
motion ceremony on Randall's Island
the following day, Hayden was met with
a standing ovation for defending his
department.
Mayor Bloombprg sought to block
Chief Hayden's testimony, but in an
effort led by City Council speaker and
democratic mayoral hopeful Gifford
Miller, a staunch supporter of the FDNY,
Hayden was allowed to give his testimo
ny. At the council meeting, throngs of
uniformed firefighters cheered Miller.
New York City Council Minority
Leader James Oddo who is also council
member for District 50, which repre
sents mid-island, including CSI was
also a vocal supporter of the FDNY. He
addressed Kelly; "If you think this will go
smoothly, that is naive at best." he said.
off your plastic. But keep in mind that
you’re going to be paying interest on the
credit card until that check comes. So if
you’re only saving a few dollars by get
ting a book from somewhere else, it’s
probably not worth it. But in many cases,
the savings can be immense, and well
worth dipping into your credit.
Ben Vales sweeps up the dirt and
bits of food refuse before closing. “I’m
graduating soon,” he says. “If I go to
graduate school, it’ll probably be in
another state. So I won’t have to put up
with this crap.” But those students who
aren’t seniors, and those yet to come,
can expect to keep seeing those green
strips of paper. And they can expect to
keep paying whatever price Barnes and
Noble and CSI Administrators deem
appropriate.
�May 16,2005
Staff
FAHAMISHA BROWN'S TENURE SAGA CONTINUES
—continued from ptt^e l—
UNDERGRAD RESEARCH
CONFERENCE
—
continued from page I —
1
JENNIFER MOSSCROP
MANA<;iNC; EDITOR
DAVID MALTZ
CO,MIC S EDI IOR
ENRIQUE INOCENTE
ADI* I’AC.K EDI TOR
MATTHEW SAFFORD
ARTS & EM KR TAINMT.N T
MELLISSA SEECHARAN
SEX COEIMMST
JESSICA MENDEZ
HEAD 1*110 TCKiRATHER
LUKE CRISALLI
STAI I
MATTHEW BECK
DOMINIC FIDUCCIA
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
CONTRIBUTORS
TOMOKO ARAI
BUKURIJE BEGAI
NICOLE BELLIVEAU
ANNMARIE COSTELLA
CANDICE CRAWFORD
ADAM LAZATIN
DANIELLE RENO
MARCEL SANDOUNGOUT
DIMITRI THEODOSIO
MARISSA TORNETTI
FA CULT V A D VISOR
President Springer stated, “I have exam
ined each of these criteria and it is my
judgment that your candidacy does not
support a positive recommendation with
respect to scholarship.” The letter con
tinued to explain that Prof. Brown had
not published enough.
The Bylaws of the University state
that, “[The Board] reaffirms the
Commissions caution that judgments on
promotion be sufficiently flexible to allow
for a judicious balance among excel
lence in teaching, scholarship, and other
criteria.”
Professor Brown and her col
leagues believe that she is being denied
tenure because she has not published
enough since she has been at CSI.
Although Prof. Brown has been credited
with writing one of the most successful
books in her field, it was published less
then a year before she started the tenure
track at CSI, so it does not count as a
publication towards her tenure. Brown
has published one on-line article since
she has been on the tenure track, and
this is the main reason why she is being
denied tenure. She has helped to create
more then twelve literature classes.
Most importantly, she is known to her
colleagues as a scholar.
Professor
Sarah
Benesch,
Linguistics and ESL Coordinator in the
English Department, believes scholar
ship is more than just publishing articles.
“It requires being well read in your field
and being recognized as an important
figure by your peers.”
The Banner reported earlier this
semester that Prof. Brown has filed a
PSC-Union Grievance. This process is
the last chance for Prof. Brown to be
granted tenure. According to the CUNY
Portal, “The Professional Staff Congress
(PSC) is the union of the Faculty, Higher
Education Officers (HEOs), and College
Laboratory Technicians (CLTs) of
CUNY... The second function of the
PSC includes negotiating and adminis
tering the labor-management contract.
The contract is multidimensional and
includes... tenure, promotion, griev
ances... and the monitorng of State laws
concerning these issues.”
Roz Bologh, a Sociology Professor,
is the PSC Union representative for the
grievance process. Kathy Galvez is the
College Attorney and she will be repre
senting the college. They will help make
a decision regarding Brown’s grievance
and make a recommendation to
President Springer.
Prof. Brown has been waiting since
April 29 for the results of her grievance.
If everything is done correctly, Prof.
Brown will have a better chance to get
tenure as a result. She must be evaluat
ed by all of the credentials of her schol
arship,’ and not only her publications.
The contract between the University
and the Union, which supersedes all
other contracts and bylaws of the
University, states that “Evaluation of a
member of the teaching faculty shall be
based on total academic performance,
with especial attention to teaching effec
tiveness, including, but not limited to
such elements as: 1. Classroom instruc
tion
and
related
activities;
2.
Administrative
assignments;
3.
Research; 4. Scholarly writing; 5.
Departmental, college and university
assignments; 6. Student guidance; 7.
Course and curricula development; 8.
Creative works in individual discipline;
9. Public and professional activities in
field of study.”
“One of the hallmarks of colleges
and universities throughout history has
been the advancement of knowledge
within disciplines," stated President
Springer. “Disciplines have particular
methodologies that they use to pose and
answer questions which ultimately con
tribute to the academic dialogue and the
generation of knowledge.”
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
PROJECT CREDIT SMART HELPS KEEP CSI STUDENTS OUT OF DEBT —continuedfrom page I
sure—only 2 groups of incoming fresh
man have been exposed to the project.
During a recent planning meeting
with Cohn; Florence Hogan, Legal
Technician for the FTC; and Mary
Murphy, Associate Director of the
Counseling Center, Garcia discussed
plans for expanding the project. A team
of administrators, led by Carol Jackson,
Vice President for Student Affairs is
working on expanding outreach for the
project. “What Vice President Jackson
wants right now is a concerted effort,”
Garcia said. “We are working to make
sure that they will be present when stu
dents are present.”
Garcia added that a media cam
paign is in the planning stage. “We’re
going to have a web page online within
the next 2 months. We’ve talked about
using the radio station as well,” Garcia
said. “We’re going to look at every area
in the community and see how we can
put the message out there.”
“The bookstore will play a critical
role, because that’s where all the stu
dents go once a semester,” said Garcia.
“We want to-identify more places.”
“If the bookstore bags have credit
card offers, we would like an FTC
brochure there too,” joked Cohn. “You
will have it,” Garcia replied.
One CSI Junior who has four credit
cards and owes $3,000 in credit card
debt himself agrees. “Every building on
campus they have applications for credit
cards,” he said. ‘They shouldn’t allow
them to have them there.” He appeared
happy that a project to help combat cred
it card debt is progressing at CSI. “I think
it’s a great idea,” he said. “It’s crazy, you
see something you buy it. Someone
should be there to explain things like
interest.”
A CSI senior who came to CSI with
seven credit cards and $500 in debt has
seen that rise to $10,000 over the past
three years. In the beginning, part of the
debt accumulated by using credit cards
to help pay his tuition, among other
items. “Part of it was probably stupidity,”
he said. “But part of it was that there *
were things I just needed to buy. I had
the credit so I used it.”
important, for it is only when we under
stand the criminal himself, can we pre
vent future crimes by others like him. It
was a very rewarding process which
resulted in the construction of my own
theory as to why Berkowitz committed
multiple murders. I incorporated all of
my findings and constructed an eye
catching poster board, which took me
about 20 hours over the course of two
weeks to complete. I was not alone in
my dedication and pursuit of discovery,
Elpida Potouridis began her project
“Naming
Pictures—Semantic
and
Categorical Associations in Alzheimer’s
Disease” under the supervision of Dr.
Patricia Brooks, several months ago.
Her research was a part of a larger
study being conducted by Dr. Brooks.
Elpida performed an experiment using
CSI students. “We had pairs of words
appear on a screen and then the partic
ipants had to rate how similar they were,
according to the Likert Scale, from 1
(extremely similar) to 6 (extremely dif
ferent),” said Elpida. “We had some very
unusual responses. For example, hair
and fur were expected to receive a 1 for
extremely similar, but instead received a
5.3 indicating very different or extremely
different.” The results of her study will
be compared and contrasted to similar
studies that were conducted on
Alzheimer’s patients. It took her 12
hours over the course of 4 days to com
plete her poster board, but she felt it
was worth it. "I really enjoy doing this,"
said Elpida. “It's not something you get
to do everyday.”
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The 2005 CSI Undergraduate
Research Scholar Award Winners
ALEX EFROS
“Rhythm and Movement Learning
Assessment: A Pilot Study”
FADEKE OGUNBIYI
“Synthesis of Novel Ligand-containing
Polymer for Transition Metal
Catalysis”
JONATHAN BLAIZE &
MAUREEN DOWNEY
“Increased Phosphate levels Alter the
Effects of non-Genotoxic Xenobiotics
in Candida albicans”
MICHELLE BOSCO &
ANNA GUIRGUIS
‘The Impact of Cell Phone Usage on
‘Quality Time’: Interruption or
Insignificant?”
KRISTEN LINDTVED
“Fair-play in Juvenile Bonobo
Chimpanzee: Observations of Sexual
Differences”
AZMAT LATIF
“Identifying Quasar host Galaxies in
the COSMOS field”
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�Polymers: The New Age of Science, Business, and Commodity
firmly. “It’ll dissipate through everything in
tic interactions among New York State
industry, academic institutions, and gov
your daily life.”
Polymers have extremely practical,
ernment laboratories,” stated the
elieve it or not, we use synthetic
Director’s Welcoming Message from the
serviceable functions. The industrial uses
substances like polyethylene
are endless. Plastic containers are con
CePM inauguration.
terephthalate and polyacrylonitrile.
structed from moldable derivative.
Dr. Chwen-Yang Shew understands
And we do it every day. These substances
Valves, piping, and flooring are produced
that building a “conduit for the transfer of
are polymers. Whether in polyester cloth
from tough, rigid polymers. Lacquers,
technology” isn’t just talk, but a practical
ing, thermoplastic glasses, neoprene
game plan to fortify CSI academically and
coatings, and adhesives are cheaply
shoes, vinyl carpets, Teflon cookware, or
made from quick drying, water-soluble
New York economically. ‘This is a rare
foam mattresses, our lives are inundated
resins.They are even utilized in candles
opportunity for CSI,” he discloses. “Not
with polymers, and CSI plays an impor
only for research, but for helping compa
to increase the strength of the wax, refine
tant role in their protracted pilgrimage
the vibrancy of the colors, and improve
nies build specialties in their own area.”
from test tubes to mass society.
the opacity of the
“These structures are not possible to
flame.
Polymers
make without polymers,” explains Dr. Ralf
fueled the furious A million years ago, man carved an existence out of
Peetz, a co-director of the CSI Center for
tech inferno of the
the raw earth during the Stone Age. Today, society
Engineered
Polymeric
Materials.
1990’s with special
has reached the an Orwellian epoch
“Polymers are the enabling technology
electro-conductor
for the entire industry. There is no other
of man-made marvels.
processing chips.
available.”
Polymer research
A million years ago, man carved an
at CSI focuses on
existence out of the raw earth during the
The Center helps students secure berths
applied polymers, i.e., that are used com
Stone Age. In the Bronze, Iron, and Steel
in the workforce by arranging referrals
mercially. In 2003, CSI was bequeathed
Ages, mankind ripened and civilization
with $2.3 million for a research site that
when companies decide how many they
hurled towards industrialization. Science
would conform with Governor Pataki’s
want to hire. “Through the Center, stu
was birthed as ignorant superstition, but
dents will get positions they need to build
enterprise of statewide technology-based
slowly began to mature into an art form.
their careers,” he said with assurance.
applied research and economic expan
Society has now reached the Age of
sion. The result was the Center for
“We not only think of our own research,
Polymers, an Orwellian epoch of man
Engineered Polymeric Material. “The
but of ways we can boost the experience
made marvels. They are the foundation
Center’s charge is to conduct cuttingfor undergraduates.”
for the future. And a scientific sentry like
Olubodo Ogunlusi is a senior under
edge research in engineered poly
Dr. Ralf Peetz is completely conscious.
mers...and to provide a conduit for the
graduate who enjoys the experience
“I’ve seen it. It’s coming," he declares
transfer of technology involving synergis
heartily. “I love the research aspect,” he
Matthew Beck
B
says with an infectious amiable grin.
“What pushes me is the motivation—not
to impress ‘the boss’—but just because I
like what I’m doing." His zeal for science
is evident. “If you’re not patient, you can’t
do this kind of work,” he says. “It’s a lot of
repetition.” Ogunlusi initially wanted to be
a doctor, but decided that researching
medical technology was just as impor
tant. “Keep in mind that this is just
research-not the final application,” he
specifies. “It’s the industry that will refine
it and make it applicable, but we have to
do the basic research and steer it in a
certain direction.”
The industry acquires the research via
the Industry Liaison officer, a quietly cog
nizant, spectacled man named Dr.
Andrew A. Auerbach. “It’s very difficult to
get ideas from academia translated into
reality,” he says perceptively. “You must
have some sort of contact to make that
transition.” After 31 years of working and
establishing business connections in the
technology sector, he was hired to be a
shrewd seller-of-science specialist. “One
of our big mandates is to get close with
the companies in New York State,” says
Dr. Auerbach. “The problem with the
industry is that they tend to move around
a lot, so if you’re not as mobile as they
are you get left behind.” But he keeps
speed, and remains a crucial cog in the
collective wheel of polymers at CSI.
Students Battle CSI’s Ten Year Plan
Morissa Tornetti
“It’s been a long 4 years,” said CSI senior,
Lorraine Jacob. “Out of four of my friends,
I am the only one that is graduating on
time.”
In January 2001, Former Mayor
Giuliani called CUNY a failure and stated
that only 9% of students graduate in four
years. However, while very few CUNY stu
dents acquire a bachelors in four years,
after six years their graduation rate rises
from 9% to 32%. Graduating in four years
requires a lot of hard work, time and many
extra large cups of coffee,” said Jacob.
“Your mind really has to want it.
Jacob enrolled in CSI in Fall 2001
and took as many as 20 credits during the
regular school year and up to 16 credits
during the summer session. Unfortunately,
this immense credit load is not offered to
all CSI students; even some students who
believe they can handle the workload are
not permitted to take that many credits. “I
had to first raise my GPA over a 3.0 before
being permitted to take such a heavy work
load,” said Jacob. “You have to work real
ly hard before the college gives you per
mission to work even harder.”
Jacob looks back on her college
career and remembers waking up at 8 am,
attending class for a few hours, going
straight to work and then back to school
from 6:30pm until 10. “There were many
days when I went home and cried
because I was always left out of what my
friends were doing,” said Jacob. “Thinking
back, I realize how much those tears paid
off.”
“This is the first summer in four years
that I will be sitting on a beach instead of
a classroom,” said Jacob. “I am also going
to use my free time to send out my
resume and hopefully begin my career.”
“It’s not easy to work all day and then
go to school,” said Thomas Spiracelli. “I
need to work to pay for school so I don’t
have much of a choice. I don’t believe in
student loans.”
I don’t think there is a time limit for
receiving a degree,” said Spiracelli.
“College is for adults and adults have hec
tic lives. Everyone is different and there
fore it is only natural that everyone would
graduate at different times.”
In CUNY schools, approximately half
the students have household incomes
that are less than $22,000. So they must
work. While many people view receiving
a Bachelors in four years as something
that is expected, Data from the National
Center for Educational Statistics proved
that the majority of people take more than
four years to earn their Bachelors degree.
When comparing CUNY’s graduation
rate to the 56% six-year rate within SUNY,
many neglect to consider that while fewer
than 28 % of SUNY students come from
families making less than $22,000 a year,
72 % of CUNY students do. Nationwide,
30 % of college students come from fam
ilies making more than $50,000; only 4 %
of CUNY students do.
Each of these factors bears on how
quickly or slowly students proceed toward
a Bachelors. In fact, SUNY and CUNY
have very different populations; CUNY
students typically work more than SUNY
students do.
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�May 16,2005
Final Thoughts From the 2004-5 Editor-in-Chief
"Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride"
Hunter S. Thompson
I wanted to write something profound
in my last letter from the editor.
Instead, I stared blankly out the bus
window and at the white piece of
paper in front of me for a few days.
But during the whole time, Hunter
Thompson’s famous words of wis
dom kept creeping into my mind.
It’s a fitting slogan to use under
these circumstances. It is exactly
what I did when I joined The Banner
in 2001.1 started as a shy contributor.
Td sheepishly drop off music reviews
and slip out un-noticed—then cross
my fingers that the editors would
publish me. I would never have imag
ined that I’d be running this place by
senior year.
I also never thought that I would
meet such a great group of people at
The Banner. I’m lucky to have met
them. The paper brought people
together from different cultures and
backgrounds and we learned to work
with each other. Many of us became
good friends. I know I’ll miss them,
but the feeling won’t hit me until I’m at
a job with the most miserable people
ever. That’s when I’ll be wishing for
someone to hit me in the back of the
head with a beach ball or sing bad
Darkness songs in my ear while I’m
typing.
For the past 4 years our faculty
advisor, Professor Kaufman, has
taught me more things in the class
room and in the Banner office than
any other teacher I ever had; From
ethics in journalism to layout design
and First Amendment rights to how
many picas there are in an inch.
There’s no doubt that 5, even 10
years down the line, (when I’m a
famous music critic) I’ll still be asking
him for journalistic advice. Kaufman
deserves a long paid vacation.
I may even miss you wacky
Banner critics. Ah yes, your letters
kept me entertained and kept me on
my toes. I know in the "real world" of
newspapers, editors have to deal
with many more critics. At least I
have had a little glimpse.
Yea, I’ll miss everyone, but I can’t
wait to graduate and move on with
my life! No longer can I stand being
broke, and cursing at the computer
screen to "please send to the printers
with no trouble!" (Even though there
always is). I want to play my trumpet
again and get my nails done!
These past couple of weeks
have been extremely stessful. I've
struggled to complete this last issue
and at the same time, fought against
time to use the Mac lab in 1P to finish
a final project. Plus, I have to go to an
internship that doesn't pay and is not
that useful to me as far as experience
goes. The thing that is driving me—
aside from graduation is—Bonnaroo.
Bonnaroo is a huge, three-day,
uncommercialized, music festival
down in Manchester, Tennessee.
Taking an RV down south to see the
best musicians come together and
play as long as they like, all night into
the morning. Musicians are free to
spontaneaously jump onstage and
jam out with anyone they wish.
It's not rare to see a DJ scratch
ing to a fiddle band. Groups from var
ious genres perform here. From the
Allman Brothers and Neil Young to
Jurassic 5 and the Brazilian Girls,
from The Yonder Mountain String
Band and Les Claypool to Toots and
The Maytals. Ah yes, the musically
unimaginable can happen there. So
whenever I'm about to give up, I just
say to myself," three weeks left to
Bonnaroo!"
I guess my advice to all faithful
readers of the Banner would be to do
the same as I did—"buy the ticket,
take the ride." (And keep reading the
Banner!) Try new things, learn from
your experiences. You won’t know
until you try it and all that.
John Frusciante said it best in,
The Day Has Turned, "What you
least suspect is coming next." So
true.
allow her to be. On the contrary, it is
to share her experiences with an
open and understanding public, and
to inform her audience to her per
spective of sexual life, whether it be
completely straight-forward, or
slightly deviant.
By your hateful and childish
“insights” into The Banner’s sex col
umn and columnist, it seems you still
have a lot of growing up to do.
— Allon Scheyer
circulation comes and shelves the
books. I asked him why students get
lost, and he told me that the college
should mandate a library instruction
class.
-Jen tAosscrop
:
“Fire...!” and “Flay the Sex
Columnist!”
I have one question for all of you
who seem so intent on sending hate
mail to The Banner’s sex columnist,
Jessica Mendez: Why does it mean
so much to you? Why does one
measly little half-page column in a
college newspaper only published
bi-weekly hold so much weight in
your lives? Do you have nothing
better to do with your time than read
this column week after week in the
hopes of stirring up some controver
sy? One person even wrote in that
she shares the column with her
mother.
What possible point could you
be trying to make? One student’s
mother more than likely does not
attend CSI and therefore has no
concerns with what is going on in the
school’s newspaper. If you are wor
ried about the column warping your
precious daughter’s fragile little
mind, then instruct her not to read it.
As a college student she should be
able to make that decision by her
self, but it seems she keeps crawling
back week after week.
What could possibly be the rea
soning for this? Another writer
seems to be so keen on psychoana
lyzing the columnist, Jessica
Mendez, saying that, “She accom
plishes nothing but showing how low
her self-esteem really is, because a
woman who was confident and
mature about her body, sexuality,
and attractiveness wouldn’t have to
keep faithfully reminding people-who
don’t care-about it!” How about turn
ing that magnifying lens inward for a
moment? Could it be that you your
self have low self-esteem, and the
only reason you read her column is
to make you feel good about your
self, by saying, “Well, at least I don’t
sink that low”? Perhaps, in secret,
you wish you had the kind of sex-life
that would warrant writing a sex col
umn of your own.
Personally, I find Jessica’s
columns to be witty, insightful, and
well-written. Shouldn’t that be the
standard for all journalism, no matter
the content? As a male, I can take
her advice on what women want and
hate and put it to good use in my
own life. Her point in writing the col
umn is not to stir up controversy nor
is it to be as sleazy as her editors
More Library Instruction Needed?
Have you ever been to the library
and had trouble finding your book?
Does it seem like it’s not in order?
Misplaced? Do you feel like you’re in
a maze and you’re trying to find a
way out from the chaos? Well, as I
went to look for my book, it felt like
that and that’s why I went to the
library to look for Wilma Jones. To
my surprise, I was there too early.
Instead, I talked to Edward OwusuAnsah, and he was quite helpful. I
asked him how the books are
processed and shelved and he told
me that once the new books come
in, they go to the catalog and are
then assigned a call number. Then,
I asked Owusu-Ansah what each
floor represents, and he told me that
the first floor is for reference books
and special collections. The second
floor is where you can find periodi
cals, microforms, print indices, and
archives. The third floor is the circu
lating collection and for back issues
of periodicals, magazines, journals,
and newspapers.
Owusu-Ansah said that students
should look for their own books with
out any help. He said if you want a
book, you should first go to the cata
log, search for the book you want, get
the call number, then go to the
shelves and pick it up.
But why can’t books for commu
nications majors all be in one sec
tion? Owusu-Ansah said they were.
Each discipline gets its own code.
Although all my questions had been
answered, the library still seemed
hard to understand. I still think more
staff is needed for such a large maze.
—Philip Tam
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year of admission. ESL students have two
academic years to fulfill this requirement.
Belhassen Haoualas’ failure to pass the
tests within the time limit could result in his
dismissal from the College.
CSI, like most educational institu
tions, offers remediation courses to stu
dents who have not yet achieved the pro
ficiency necessary to perform collegelevel work. The Writing Center in 2S-216
provides students with additional help in
preparing for the reading and writing tests.
Occupying a glass paneled office,
visible and accessible to students, sur
rounded by English reading and writing
books, dictionaries, and thesauri, is
Professor Robert Brandt, the director of
the Writing Center. Professor Brandt
acted as the interim director for one year
before attaining full-time status as the
Center’s director, a position he has held
for the past year and a half. He said that
part of the Center’s mission includes pro
viding “a place where experienced stu
dents can help less experienced students
with their work, both in reading and writ
ing, by providing them with guidance and
insight as opposed to helping them to cor
rect things.”
The Writing Center serves the entire
college. Professor Sarah Benesh, an ESL
Coordinator in the English Department
since 1987, and an occasional tutor at the
Center, elaborated on one of the func
tions. “If we find students struggling with
their reading and writing, we will refer
them to the Writing Center. Sometimes
you get the feeling right away... but usual
ly, it might take a week or two when you
get a lot of the papers back.” Professor
Benesh continued, “Sometimes I worry
that they may feel stigmatized if I say that
I really recommend that they go to the
Writing Center, so I take them over there
myself... I try to explain that this [service]
is free.”
Remedial EPL and ESL students
who registered for Blocked Courses sacri
fice one hour a week of their time to
attend tutoring at the Writing Center.
Unlike the tutorial workshop, which is a
two-hour non-mandatory weekly session,
the freshman workshop, which Haouala
enrolled in, remains mandatory. According
to Professor Brandt, the tutorial workshop
“is available to those students who have
completed the entire sequence of devel
opmental courses.”
The Writing Center also offers con
versation group sessions designed for
ESL students who want to sharpen both
their English speaking and listening skills;
additionally, the Center renders individual
ized developmental instruction for stu
dents. ‘The ones that come voluntarily are
very motivated and they don’t need to be
told. They work hard,” said Professor
Benesch. “Native or non-native speakers,
I think anyone writing a paper needs feed
back, even myself. When I write books,
the chapters are sent out to readers to
give me feedback, and the feedback is
very useful.”
Two skills necessary to every disci
pline in college are reading and writing.
According to Professor Brandt, atten
dance at the Center is weighted more
towards writing. Semester enrollment
varies; this semester, regularly scheduled
50-minute weekly sessions are up 29%
from spring of 2003. 46.8% of the
Center’s registered students are in devel
opmental courses. Only a small percent
age of the wide range of students regis
tered in programs at the beginning of the
semester fall by the wayside. Professor
Brandt said ‘studies over the years have
shown a direct correlation between
attending the Writing Center and passing
the assessment test,” as well as, “improv
ing one’s overall GPA.”
Haouala did not discover the Writing
Center until his third attempt and failure at
the writing test. This 28-year-old cab driv
er said that he “learnt to speak English on
the job and in the street.” After taking Eng
039, he passed the reading test with a
score of 90. The last assessment test left
for Haouala to conquer was writing. “If I
don’t pass the writing test I’m probably
going to be kicked out of school, because
I already have a lot of credits.” Since he
had not completed his entire proficiency
test, Haouala had to register as an
Associates degree student in Business
instead of as a baccalaureate degree stu
dent in Economics and Finance, his
desired major. During a frustrating attempt
at registration last semester, an adviser
finally mentioned the option available to
him at the Writing Center. He met with
Professor Brandt who immediately regis-
CSI Offers Students a Place to Sleep
Nicole Beiliveou
When students on campus were asked,
"Where do you see most students sleep
ing on campus?", The answers that were
given are in the classrooms, in their cars,
the library or upstairs in 1P. Not one stu
dent mentioned the sleeping dolphin
room where students can reax, do work
or fall asleep. Why don't most students
on campus know about the sleeping dol
phin room?
“The sleeping dolphin room is
designed to be a quiet room in the cafe
teria where students can do work quietly
or take a nap,” said Student Government
President Dwight Dunkley. “There are
cots in the room in case students can't
fall asleep on the couches, but there are
no alarm clocks." Along with the sleeping
dolphin room, Dwight mentioned that
there is a quiet games room tha was also
designed for students to play quiet
games or relax.
Taking a walk upstairs in 1C, the
sleeping dolphin room is blue and white
room with red couches and a few cubi
cles where students can do work. On this
day, one student was out cold sleeping
on the couch, another student was at the
cubilce doing work on his laptop while
another was reading the newspaper. It
was nice and quiet in the room instead of
the loud sounds of downstairs.
One day a student who found the
rooom by accident was marketing stu
dent Annie Serena. She found the room
uring a three-hour break and decided to
see what was upstairs. Serena mentions,
"The Sleeping Dolphin is a pretty cool
room and it's nice to see that there is a
f
tered him in a workshop. Haouala whose
group consisted of three other students
said, “You get individual attention and get
to do a lot of work.”
Shortly before the end of the semes
ter, he sat for the writing test. “I was more
confident than before,” said Haouala.
‘The workshop did help me a lot. My prob
lem was grammar, and it was the way of
presenting my work.” When the results
came out two weeks later, Haouala said
he did not pass. He explained that he
could not develop his ideas and ended up
repeating himself because “the topics that
we wrote in the essay were really boring
and so simple.”
Haouala could not register for the
Winter Immersion remediation session
because his results were not immediately
available; however, he knew that he could
take the free workshop again, so this
semester, he has registered for another
session at the Writing Center. He current
ly works with another good tutor, a gradu
ate student from Hunter College, who
gives the students more freedom to write
on their own. “She knows a lot of gram
mar rules,” he said. He went on, “She usu
ally brings in a lot of New York Times and
Wall Street Journal articles,” which they
discuss and they write about their opin
ions.
Haouala recently found out that the
Center also offers drop-in tutoring. While
students are encouraged to drop in for
help with individual papers, in any subject,
without an appointment, Haouala com
mented that, “A lot of times, people don’t
get a lot of information about what is going
on in the college.”
Haouala said he has been getting
many letters from the school threatening
dismissal if he does not pass his entire
assessment test within the time allotted.
Haouala’s gesticulating hands illustrate
his frustrations at failing the writing test
and its many consequences. “All the
classes I am taking are toward econom
ics,” he said, yet “I cannot claim my
major.” The stocky, clean shaven student
with a boyish face hopes to pass this time
but says, “I am not as confident as before.
My mistake was that I was there just to
pass the exam because I am getting tired
of taking the exams, and I want to move
on with my studies and graduate.”
place on campus where students can
take a nap on long breaks. The only turn
off was it smelled like feet becasue a few
people had their shoes off." Annie isn't
one to really fall asleep on campus, but if
she has a class in one of the north build
ings, instead of going all the way to the
library, she goes to the sleeping dolphin
room to relax and do work.
Catherine Rudolph, a journalism
student has many of her classes in 1P
and calls the building a second home. "I
have no problem falling asleep upstairs
in 1P because there are many other stu
dents sleeping as well", says Rudolph. A
few weeks ago, Catherine tried falling
asleep in the lounge of 3N before her
next class in that building. She had a
hard time falling asleep becasue of peo
ple walking in and out. Catherine said. "If
I knew that there was a room in 1C called
the Sleeping Dolphin room, I would have
gone in there to take a nap before class
same roof, to honor this bright man, who
left too early, at the age of 43.
Frangois Ngolet was born in
Lambarene, Moyen Ogooue, and his
ethnic group was Akele. He started to
study History and Anthropology at the
Universite Omar Bongo (UOB), in
Gabon, and obtained his doctorate in
1994 from the Universite de Montpellier
1, Paul Valery, in France.
Dr. Frangois Ngolet was brilliant,
genuine and very kind-hearted. On cam
pus, he was always available to students
and his fellow professors. The sound of
NPR or Radio France International (RFI)
indicated that he was in his office. I
would knock on the door, and he would
invite me in. We would spend time talk
ing about everything, from his book and
his future projects to US foreign and
domestic policy.
This kind of treatment was not
reserved for me only, but it was the way
Dr. Ngolet treated his students. “I’m here
to help them as much as I can, and as
often as I can,” he would say. He had this
gift to make any individual feel special,
just by being himself. During his eulogy
for Dr. Ngolet at the mass on Friday
15th, Dr. Michael S. Foley, who spoke on
behalf of the History Department, remi
nisced the good memories and the good
time he had with his “best friend in the
department,” and how special Dr. Ngolet
would make anybody feel special.
“All of us in the department (and I’m
sure all of you here), will most remember
Francois as our friend and more as our
brother,” he said. “It was the way he
made each of us feel, that we not only a
best friend, but really a brother.”
During my last semester at CSI, fall
2004, I took Dr. Ngolet’s class on
Globalization, in which we had courses
with student from Kadir Has University in
Istanbul, Turkey. For the last day of
class, we had refreshments and cookies,
and we played music. One of the song
we sang was “Wish you were here” by
Pink Floyd. That how I feel right now, I
wish he was here not only for me or us
all, but also for himself, because he was
full of projects and I wish he could be
here to realize them.
since it's close to 3N."
Nursing student Gina Wrenn also
did not know about the Sleeping Dolphin
room. "I usually don't sleep on campus. I
go home on my breaks, if they are long
enough and take a nap in my own bed. If
I did know about the Sleeping Dolphin
room, I probably would have gone there
to take a nap instead of going home and
losing my parking spot," said Wrenn.
There are many rooms in the 1C that
students do not know about. There is a
game room with big video arcade
machines, a quiet games room to play
games like chess and checkers, a com
puter lab room, and during club hours on
Thursday's, you can watch a movie on
the big screen television in one of the
rooms. Is it a big secret? No, students
just have to go upstairs and go looking
for the rooms to realize that there are
things to do on campus if you do not want
to leave on break.
�TomokoArai
ave you ever felt that your profes
sors are teaching something differ
ent from what you expected? Thanks to
academic freedom, they can teach what
ever they want to in class as long as the
lecture is related to the main subject of
each course. Geology classes cannot be
criminology classes.
Now, many of English as Second
Language (ESL) students are complain
ing about some ENG classes of the ESL
section because of way they have been
taught. ENG classes are basically for
students to prepare to pass the
Academic College Test (ACT).
However, it seems that some teach
ers drift away from the subject that they
are supposed to teach. I interviewed a
chair of the English department,
Associate Professor Janet Dudley, and
she answered all my questions.
H
A:
Every teacher can teach ESL class
es but we try to ask the people, who
have experience to
teach ESL students.
Q: Is there any manu
al for ESL class ?
A: No. It is because of
the academic freedom.
They can teach what
ever they want to.
Therefore, we don’t
have the specific text
books and manuals.
They have to teach not
only about ACT but
how to follow the higher
English classes, such
as ENG 111 and 151.
was abused by her father and had chil
dren with him. I liked this book and this is
the famous novel, however, I do not think
that PUSH is the prop
er textbook for this
class since it is written
in the vernacular to an
uneducated; fearful
woman. Also, there
are graphic sexual
expressions in
it.
Since this is the ESL
class, there are stu
dents, who are from
countries with strict
sexual values. I am
quite understanding
about the academic
freedom but isn’t it
lacking some delica
cies? Don’t you think?
English Department Chair Janet Dudley
Q:
Are all the teachers of ESL classes
trained in the field?
Q:
In my class, my
professor used a book called PUSH,
which was the story of the woman who
A: Yes, it is provoca
tive. However, again, there is academic
freedom, nobody can stop them when
New Format for Communication Students
Dimitri Theodosio
Institutions, but Professor Miller said that
he is not sure yet. For Publication Design
students, there will be more 300 level
courses and the classes will be placed in
on more skill set areas.
When I was speaking with Ed Miller,
he told me that the curriculum that we
have now was done in the 1980's. He
and his fellow faculty members want to
organize it better, so that more choices
will be available to bring the course
selections into this century.
In the communications department
there are all new faculty members since
1998, and both Ed Miller and the rest of
the communications faculty now knows
what their students need. Professor
Miller told me that, “the communications
faculty had a series of meetings to show
the curriculum committee the new for
mat.” Professor Miller also said, “that he
surveyed a lot of graduate students to
get their input on some ideas for a new
format and wanted their opinions and
advice on what should change.” He
would also like to publicly announce the
department’s new ideas to current com
munications students to get more feed
back on these new changes.
I think this is a great idea for all com
munications students. I think this is going
to be a much easier way for students to
graduate on time and get all the classes
they need to graduate. When I was talk
ing with Ed Miller, I found a lot of the new
classes that might be being offered very
interesting and helpful for the area of
your major. I just wish this format would
have come out sooner so I could have
had the opportunity to take some of
these courses. If anyone has any ques
tions regarding this new format, you can
go and talk to Ed Miller, the head of the
Communications Department in building
1P, Room 226.
A: Of course it does affect the teacher’s
ability to continue. When they get bad
scores, they need to talk with their chair
and they are asked to improve their
classes. If those teachers do not
improve? They will be sacked, obviously.
Q: What is the best thing the students
can do to improve those classes?
A: First of all, you need to talk with your
own teachers and if they did not change
their attitude, visit me.
If you have a problem, visit Dr. Janet
Dudley in building 2S, room 214.
CSI Students Grade Professors Online
Danielle Reno
For all you communication students out
there, I’ve got sonje big news for you. It
was just brought to my attention that a
new format for all communications stu
dents may be out next fall. I spoke to Ed
Miller, the head of the communications
department and he said that he and his
fellow faculty members of the communi
cations department have been dis
cussing this topic for quite sometime.
Professor Ed Miller said, “It’s time to
upgrade and modernize the communica
tions format.” The main goal of the new
format is to ensure courses for all stu
dents to be offered within four years for
any students specialty area. One idea
was to add another course to the com
mon core area". Professor Miller said,
“that they were thinking about adding
more basic production courses, such as
a class called ‘Media Environment,’
which will be a two-credit course.”
Another new format will be that media
studies students will have to take film
and video production for their major.
One other change that I found very
interesting was that they were thinking
about removing journalism from the com
mon core section. The journalism class
may be for only journalism majors and
will not be required. This will support
journalism majors because it will help
them substitute classes. There may be
more 300 level classes such as a class
called “Media and Gender” and “Media
and Audiences.” Both of these classes
sound really interesting to me and I think
they would be very helpful for all com
munication students. I know if I had
been a student when these classes were
offered, I would definitely have wanted to
take either one.
For Corporate Communication
majors, the department is considering
replacing Accounting with Media
they are in the class. However, students
can complain about it.
Q: Do negative evaluations forms force
professors with bad reputations to
improve lectures? I know 90% of my
classmates in my one of ENG class gave
one professor, quite bad scores, but I still
see him working in this college.
ach semester, CSI students are
asked to fill out teacher evaluations,
only to watch the information disappear
into the abyss, never to be seen again.
Word of mouth was the only option stu
dents had to learn about professors.
Until now. At RateMyProfessors.com,
CSI students can now anonymously rate
professors on their helpfulness, clarity,
and difficulty of classes. Students can
also leave comments about professors
and the courses they teach.
The website was founded in 1999 by
John Swapceinski, who graduated that
year from San Jose State University. “I
got the idea for the site after taking a
class with a particularly immoral profes
sor who often left students in tears and
genuinely seemed to enjoy it,” he said.
Students who visit the site can
check professor’s ratings, or rate profes
sors on a one to five scale, five being
highest, in categories of helpfulness,
clarity, and easiness. Although some
expect the site to be a place to bash pro
fessors, almost 70% of the ratings are
positive, according to Swapceinski.
Currently, RateMyProfesors.com
has a total of 2323 ratings for 553 CSI
professors. CSI’s highest rated professor
is Professor Bill Bernhardt of the English
Department, with an overall rating of 5.0.
Of the six ratings for this professor, com
ments included, “Great professor, an
asset to CSI” and “Take his class, awe
some experience.”
“Teaching is an absorbing profes
sion,” Professor Bernhardt commented.
“One works not only with content and
skills, but also with people. The chal
lenge is to find a way to make what one
knows accessible to others.”
Although RateMyProfessors.com
was created with the student in mind, the
site is not without its critics. Some stu-
E
English Professor Bernhardt
Receives Perfect Score
dents question the validity of the ratings,
especially since students are not
required to log in to rate professors.
Even the site’s list of .frequently asked
questions admits, “Remember, we have
no way of knowing who is doing the rat
ing-students, the teacher, other teach
ers, parents, etc.”
Swapceinski stated he receives
threats of legal action from irate profes
sors every week. “It’s amazing,” he said,
“the number of professors with Ph.D.’s
that don’t get the concept of the First
Amendment.”
Remember, this isn’t a site to get
even with a professor that gave you a D.
Grade your professors in an honest
manner. Don’t abuse the site.
Project Credit Smart
—continued from page 3—
For a time, he had been using his
girlfriend’s father’s car, which meant he
did not have to pay for his own car insur
ance. After getting into a car accident,
he needed to buy a new car and insur
ance for himself, which is when things
snowballed for him. “I had no cash, so I
put my car on my credit card,” he said.
“It perpetuated from there. To make min
imum payments on the three credit
cards that I used, it was between $500$600 per month and car insurance on
top of that was $250... I’ve been jug
gling it for so long,” he said. “I feel at this
point I just need to keep juggling until I
get out of school. I’ll just pay it off when
I graduate.”
Although it is to late to help him, he
supports Project Credit Smart “The
more people know about it the better,”
he said. “The thing that makes debt dan
gerous is that it just creeps up on you.”
Project Credit Smart hopes to
change that.
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you ask? I thank him for giving us Jhonen Vasquez
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heard of Sir Jhonen Vasquez? Well, let me educate your
feeble mortal brain cells. He's the creative
genius/mutant freak behind such imaginative characters
like Squee, Happy Noodle Boy, and Johnny the Homicidal
Maniac. He also had a short-lived cartoon series on
Nickelodeon by the name of Invader Zim, which I sug
gest you go pick up on DVD because it's an excellent show
that wasn't given its proper respect.
So let me stop clamoring over Vasquez and get to
why I woke up at seven in the morning to get this review
done before The Banner goes to print later today. I Feel
Sick is a two issue miniseries by Vasquez starring Devi.
If you've read Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, you'll
remember her as the aspiring artist working at a book
store who was unlucky enough to go on a date with the
murderous Johnny.
In J Feel Sick, Devi has quit her job and become a
freelance artist working for NERVE publishing. Devi is
overwhelmed by the work given to her by NERVE and
starts to go crazy. A painting she did of a soulless doll
begins talking to her, and her friend Tenna is constantly
pestering Devi to hangout. The first half of the series
follows Devi as she recounts to Tenna all the bad dates
she's had with zombies, vampires, and perverts, oh my.
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evil doll painting comes to life using Devi's subconscious
as a medium to enter our world.
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couple of times because it was so damn funny and clever.
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A/o Fairytale conclusion, y’all.
Jessica Mendez
This isn't a happy ending, but it sure is shaping up to be one hell of a brilliant journey
Three weeks until the end of the semes
ter. I am on my bed, still in my pajamas,
passionately. Meanwhile, while Allie
balancing life as a single mother and
I wanted to know what it would be like to
surrounded by books, papers, and tons
moves on when she thinks Noah is a fig
breadwinner. I soon developed a love for
achieve heights of pleasure without the
of notes, most of those being on the
ure in her past, Noah never forgets the
pedicures and a yearning for feet that
heartbreak that accompanies such sex.
nature of feminism (for one of my final
memory of Allie and is haunted by their
weren’t so flat and would actually allow
My little epiphany pushed me to
papers). I have two major tests, two
love. She’s a war nurse, educated, and
me to wear those same heels.
explore a life of sex without love, a life
huge
proj
It wasn’t until sev
where my body was mine and mine
ects, and a
eral years later, as I
alone to use as I saw fit. Without the bro
paper
to
One of my earliest memories is watching my mom give herself
threw on some flip flops
ken heart, I would have never tested my
complete. a pedicure. The polish was the cheap Brucci brand, undoubtedly from and got ready to head
limits and boundaries, and without test
None of it is
to the nail salon for my
ing my limits and boundaries, my heart
Duane Reade. After the polish had dried, she would slip her feet
even
com
own pedicure that my
would have never begun to heal. Now,
into sky-high peep-toe stilettos, spray herself with some golden
puting in my
mom told me why she
because of this column, I am one step
brain, howev
perfume, kiss me on the cheek and glide out of the door.
loved pedicures.
closer to achieving the balance. I'm one
er. I’m too
“Your father gave
step closer to opening my heart.
busy watch
beautiful.
me my first pedicure,” she revealed,
Whether that accompanies my spread
ing The Notebook. Yes, the brainchild of
How is it that these male writers
smiling, almost to herself. It turns out
thighs remains to be seen. What I do
the Sultan of Schmaltz, Nicholas
manage to capture women so fully and
that the macho Puerto Rican jefe was
know is that appreciating men doesn’t
Sparks. As I watched the surprisingly
with some magnificence? Perhaps it is
the one to convince my mother that such
make me a traitor to my gender; it
entertaining drama (and the predictably
because the literary gender switch
an act of frivolity was an essential part of
makes me smart. It makes me human.
sexy Ryan Gosling—rrrroooowwwrrr), I
allows for a writer to explore their many
reclaiming her own beauty and power.
“Only by going insane on the page
succumbed to the heart-tugging, tear
sides. Hey, women do it just as much,
If there is one story that encom
can you find sanity and serenity in life,”
wringing notion that love is a universal
such as Nicole
says Erica Jong (who
emotion that we all long for and scorn in
Krauss, who
just happens to be
When two people are in love, the fronts, the seemingly endless
equal measure. We reject it while we
admits •
as
CSI’s Commencement
fight to claim it, conquer it and under
posturing and facades, all seem to melt away. That moment will
much in this
speaker, and one of my
stand it. I found myself thinking more
week’s “Time
idols). Damn straight.
live in its own space, with intimacy reaching beyond sex
and more about how interesting it is that
Out
New
Love and sex shape all
and turning into a sacred ritual.
a man wrote this romance. It made me
York.”
of us and make us who
think about the sexes, namely, my rela
All of my
we may dare to dream
tionship with men and how they have
musings started me thinking about the
passes everything about the nature of
of becoming. So relish them, let those
influenced my life more than I had ever
“war” between the sexes. The constant
love, beauty, and the power of the femi
blips in time create your story, not
thought. After all, my father named me
power trips and resentments perpetuat
nine in feminism, this is it. When two
destroy it. No matter how bad things
after his favorite journalist, Jessica
ed by age-old stereotypes really need to
people are in love, the fronts, the seem
seem, these are the living, breathing
Savitch. Now, if that wasn’t influential, I
cease and desist. Now. Hints of a
ingly endless posturing and facades, all
poems that make you think, “Hell, it
don’t know what is!
brighter, more harmonious world have
Oh, I know—such a radical notion
crept into my life as of late.
for such an ardent feminist. Or is it?
One night, walking home bleary- My little epiphany pushed me to explore a life of sex without love, a
Doesn’t the struggle for equality of the
eyed after a night of drinking games
life where my body was mine and mine alone to use as I saw fit.
sexes require acknowledging the gifts
and indie music at a mellow NYU cast
Without
the broken heart, I would have never tested my limits and
and influences of both sexes? The truth
party, my male friend Jonze counseled
is, artistically, I have admired the work of
boundaries, and without testing my limits and boundaries, my heart
his lovelorn friend Tarantino about get
men for ages. I wouldn’t even have
ting over his ex. I listened as Jonze and
would have never begun to heal.
thought of being a writer if it weren’t for
Tarantino discussed affairs of the heart
the works of brilliant men such as
with tenderness and passion, and my
seem to melt away. That moment will
could have been worse.”
Christopher Pike. His female protago
own cold little heart melted a bit. It was
live in its own space, with intimacy
And now I look ahead; I think of all
nists were the most fascinating, nervy
the first time I had ever heard men talk
reaching beyond sex and turning into a
the lessons I’ve learned from the most
women. They loved sex and played vic
about lost love in a straightforward, hon
sacred ritual.
experimental stage of my life thus far. I
tims and villains deliciously. From Josie,
est manner. Over the months, Jonze
I think of all of this now, as my time
think of the moments, indelible, forever
the frankly unapologetic heroine who
and I have had many seemingly endless
as The Banner’s agent provocateur
etched in my memory that continue to
embraces her sexual urges and the
conversations about how confusing love
comes to a close, because I realize that
accumulate, and I smile, knowing that,
powers of the Greek gods in The
is. Neither sex has the answers to what
my feminist stance has often made peo
with all of the pain and pleasure come
Immortal to sassy specter Shari Cooper
love is supposed to be, nor does one
ple assume that I don’t appreciate the
growth and wisdom. As John Legend
in the Remember Me trilogy, these were
possess superior smarts, strength, or
significance of men in my life and in the
says in his latest single, “This ain’t a
carnivorous, flawed, sexy bitches. It
heart.
world. The truth is, a strong, powerful,
movie, y’all/No fairy tale conclusion,
constantly amazed me that a man got
In fact, sometimes, men actually
amazing woman raised me. Seeing her
y’all.” Don’t expect this column wrapped
the complex nature of women better
understand beauty more than women
struggle to gain equal footing in this
up in a tidy bow. This is only part of the
than many modern female writers do,
do. One of my earliest memories is
world is what made me become so out
journey that is my life. Yes, it sure could
but hey, he allows women to think (all
watching my mom give herself a pedi
spoken about equality of the sexes.
have been worse, but it always has the
together now) like men! Pike’s women
cure. The polish was the cheap Brucci
Not long before I started writing this
capacity to get better. Now, where’s that
flaunt their masculine sides while mak
brand, undoubtedly from Duane Reade.
column, a royal metaphorical ass fuck
pedicure?
ing full use of their feminine wiles.
Frosty lilac. After the polish had dried,
ing known as a broken heart knocked
Then there’s the aforementioned
she would slip her feet into sky-high
me flat on my back. There I lay, tears
Sparks. Yes, his works are nothing short
peep-toe stilettos, spray herself with
pooling in my eyes, when something
of manipulative. And yet, he is adored
some golden perfume, kiss me on the
clicked. I wiped my eyes, and I figured,
for millions for his mastery of the bitter
cheek and glide out of the door.
might as well have some fun while my
sweet old-fashioned romance. In The
This beauty ritual fascinated me. It
back’s against the mattress!
Notebook, Allie is headstrong and will
struck me as both powerful and femi
As my positions in the bedroom
fight passionately with her beau, Noah.
nine, strong legs balancing precariously
changed, so did my life. Sex while you’re
She’ll also make up with Noah just as
on heels when she wasn’t precariously
in love is a rare thing, and I enjoy it. But
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�May 16,2005
THE ELITE TEN OF THE VIDEO GAME UNIVERSE
Dominic Fiduccia
Well this is it. After three years of giving
the CSI community video game cover
age as the gaming columnist for the
Banner, my time at the Banner has come
to an end. I will be graduating from CSI
this June. I’ll miss my time here at the
Banner and I believe that the only way to
end the gaming column is to feature my
picks of the The Top Ten Greatest Video
Games bf All-Time. If any of you don’t
like my picks or feel that this list is biased
all I have to say is sorry—it’s my list.
Enjoy.
1. Super Mario Bros. 3
1990, Nintendo,
NES
fo
W
-EL
.
So why is this the greatest video
game of all-time? There are too many
reasons, but here are a few besides the
point that it is the greatest Mario game
ever made. It features all of the elements
that made the first Super Mario Bros, so
great and makes everything 100 times
better. Having the most and best powerups to help Mario on his adventure (from
the Super Leaf to the Frog Suit and the
Warp Whistle, the list is endless) to the
return of Mario’s greatest enemy, Bowser
(Wart was the villain of IVJario 2). It fea
tured the best graphics for an 8-bit game
when the 8-bit era was already coming to
a close. Plus, even after you beat this
game there are so many secrets you
want to keep exploring them all.
2. Tetris
1989, Created by Alexey Pajitnov
This game is the granddaddy of puz
zle games and is the game that all puz
zle games are measured by. Still, Tetris
is still the best. It’s hard to explain but
there is just something very addictive
about playing a game that has seven
blocks. Stack them up so you can make
them go away as more blocks keep com
ing down. It’s about as simple as video
games can get but no matter what ver
sion you have played, Tetris is a game
that you can play for years and years
and still won’t get bored of it.
3. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
1998, Nintendo,
Nintendo 64
The greatest action-RPG game
makes the leap to the 3-D world and
does a beautiful job of it. This is the
game that modern video games are
meant to be, not only a great game with
great gameplay, but a game that has
beautiful graphics and a great story, too.
This game has succeeded in all three. It
shows that Zelda can be a great game
that doesn’t have the birds-eye view 2-D
style graphics. Very few games have
succeeded in the transfer from 2-D to 3D (famous examples Mega Man and
Method), but Zelda has proven that and
it can actually even be better.
4. Super Mario 64
1996, Nintendo,
Nintendo 64
After dealing with the train wreck
that is calle Zelda II, fans of the series
finally got the sequel they really wanted.
The game takes everything that made
the original game the classic it is into an
even better and improved version. The
graphics are among the best for a 2-D
game. The levels are huge. The environ
ments are more interactive than before
and how could you not love it when you
saw it raining in the game the first time
and be thinking how cool the Super NES
was.
6. Super Metroid
1994, Nintendo,
Super NES
9. Super Mario Bros.
1985, Nintendo,
NES
Remember, when I said how cool
the Super NES was? Well, after you
played Super Metroid you sure under
stood what I meant. Even with the pla
toon of new Metroid games since 2002,
this game remains to be the best Metroid
game. Why? Because this game takes
place exactly where the first Metroid left
off. It took everything that the original
was but turned it into a bigger and better
version that included tons of new levels,
weapons, and secrets to be explored.
7. Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!
1986, Nintendo,
NES
This game was one of the most
hyped and anticipated games ever and it
actually lived up to it. It proved to every
one that 3-D console games can be
great and who better to prove it then
Mario, who proved the standard of 2-D
console games nine years earlier with
Super Mario Bros, to be the standard for
3-D console games as well. This game
had everything that a Mario game is
known for. Exploring several different
levels, discovering secrets and shortcuts
and of course, saving Princess Toadstool
from the evil, Bowser. The only differ
ence was that it was in 3-D
5. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
1992, Nintendo,
Super NES
M
The first Super Smash Bros, was
fun but the second is better than the orig
inal in every way. It shows off how cool
the GCN’s graphics are. It gave fans tons
of unlockables from characters to stages
and so much more. Plus, with all of the
trophies to collect in the game from so
many of Nintendo’s past games, it shows
how cool Nintendo is and with its vast
history in gaming. Which is what this
game needed with the GCN going up
against the Microsoft’s Xbox.
I know what you are thinking a third
Mario game that made the list? Yes, but
let’s face it, it wouldn’t be right to not
have this game make the list since it is
the standard that all 2-D games have fol
lowed by featuring tons of levels,
secrets, and an actual ending. Plus, it is
the game that brought the console mar
ket back from the dead and started the
Super Mario Bros, franchise.
10. Pac-Man
1980, Namco
This game was historic for being the
first sports licensed game. Facing Mike
Tyson in the final match was what made
this game fun to play even though it was
difficult when you did get to fight him
since he uses his deadly Dynamite
Punches in the fight’s first 90 seconds
and without a well placed strategy you
were doomed to lose like so many of his
real-life opponents. Also you’ve got to
love the appeal of fighting Tyson when
he was actually undefeated and you
were able to beat him in a video game
(even though it was hard to do).
It would be a sin for this game to not
be on the list (or not be played by any
gamer). This game gave the video game
world its first big mega-star. It is also a
simple yet a very addictive game, not to
mention that 25 years later it still can be
played by almost anyone on almost any
system.
8. Super Smash Bros. Melee
2001, Nintendo
Nintendo GameCube
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�The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
May 16,2005
csrs CHAMPIONSHIP SEASONS
Adam Lazatin
Our school had 11 teams that competed
in this year’s CUNY Athletic Conference,
and as of now, we stand in the running
for the CUNY Comissioners Cup. Taking
a look back to see how we have finished
in CUNY competition, it goes like this:
•Men’s Basketball—made it to the
CUNY Championship Game but took
a loss to City Tech 76-66.
• Men’s Soccer - Made it to the CUNY
Semifinals.
• Men’s Swimming and Diving—First
Place CUNY Champs Swimming and
Diving.
• Baseball - CUNY Champs
• Men’s Tennis - In season
•Women’s Basketball—First place
CUNY Champs; Automatic NCAA
Tournament first round by; lost in the
second round.
•Women’s Swimming—Third place
finish in the CUNY Conference.
•Women’s Tennis—Lost in CUNY
Quarterfinals.
•Women’s Volleyball - did not make
playoffs.
• Women’s Softball - In season
All in all, our teams have done a
great job this year. The CUNY
Commissioners Cup is an award that
goes to the school that has done the best
in CUNY Athletic competition. Our
biggest rival in the Commisssioner’s Cup
is Hunter, and right now they are in the
lead while we stand in second. Although
we have done great on the playing field,
Hunter offers more Athletic Programs
than we do.
This year has produced some great
individual performances from many of
our athletes including awards such as
Player of the Week, Rookie of the
Week, Rookie of the Year, Player of
the Year, and many other specials
awards from MBWA Basketball, and
D3hoop.com. Our athletes work hard on
and off the court and deserve all the con
gratulations we can give.
Grueling Spring Training Created the Champs
Bukurije Begai
t is 9:00 a.m., and the newly construct
ed soccer field, made of artificial grass
and held together by billions of small,
round, black, rubber balls of recycled
Nike sneakers remains heated ten
degrees above the rest of the campus.
The only sound heard is the scuffling of
feet and deep gasps of breathes with an
occasional, “one more” from the coach.
It’s training season and despite the cool
gusts of wind and warm rays of sun, not
one soccer ball is rolling on the field. “All
we do the first few weeks,” said Captain
Andria Kleboe. “Is run and run, so when
the season starts hopefully we will be
faster than everyone else.”
Since winning the CUNY champi
onship in its inaugural season last Fall,
the preparations for the upcoming sea
son have already begun, and CSI’s
women’s soccer team is pulling out their
cleats for the highly dreaded training reg
imen before them. The goal of training is
to heighten a player’s skills and cut down
their weaknesses, so that they may
outdo their opponents, according to the
ashy-haired head coach. He sat behind
his desk and discussed the imminent
practices using grand hand gestures and
pointing to the figures on the dry-erase
board, John Guagliardo revealed his
secret, conditioning.
“We start with
endurance workouts,” he said, with intent
to “improve players by making them
stronger.” The training schedule begins
with an intense “four weeks of condition
ing.” Conditioning consists of various
running and stretching drills intended to
increase agility, stamina, speed and flex
ibility, followed by a few rigorous weeks
of "ball-skill practice, weight training and
gaming strategies” until finally, “scrim
mages are incorporated” thus complet
ing the program in time for the seasons
opening game at Ramapo College on
I
September 10th.
CSI athletic trainer John Nostro
agrees with these training methods:
They “lead to improvement in strength,
endurance and power to play the sport,”
he said. “As long as there is consistency
and progression in a program” improve
ment will be inevitable. Some of the
common drills include: Squats, jumps,
shuffling, high knees, hops, sprints,
quick feet, pushups, crunches, throwing,
calf raises and backward and forward
lunges.
As practices continue, the
amount of time for each stretch is
extended and other stretches are added.
However, the most important soccer
stretches in this trainers eyes, are the
lower-back and the hamstring stretches,
because they are the most affective
injury prevention workouts.
“I remember last seasons training,”
said Kleboe. “It’s usually the most difficult
part of the season, because people are
subject to minor injuries and are often
troubled by pain caused by specific
drills.” The drills that cause pain are usu
ally the ones that aren’t stretched prop
erly during the off-season and can lead
to serious injuries and pulls unless they
are conditioned through the lengthening
and contraction of the muscles.
Forward Ahlam Jaoui admits dislik
ing the push-up and crunch portions of
practice.
Another player, midfielder
Carrine Fassari stated that The worst
drill was the lunges, because you feel
pain in your muscles for the following few
days,” she said. “But after a few weeks,
your legs feel lighter and stronger."
Kleboe reminisced as she removed her
cleats and tossed her Nike shin guards
beside her, the most difficult part is the
running. “You feel like your running for an
eternity," she said. “Running and running
but you never go anywhere.” “The end is
always the beginning” she joked.
Stamina-wise, jogging and sprinting
may be the most efficient way of increas
ing physical endurance. Sprinting is the
hardest and most important, because it
gives your body an extra surge of ener
gy. A sprint is when the player runs at full
speed from one point to the next, training
methods stretch to both long (full or half
field) or short (small number of yards).
By the end of training, it is expected that
each player would be able to last an
entire half, forty-five minutes of running
without having to stop to take a drink or
need to take any type of break.
Although training strengthens the
body’s capability, it could also have the
negative affect, instead of increasing
potential it may reduce it through injury.
Players must be able to cope with pain
and deal with both minor and major cuts
and bruises, “its part of the game” said
Andria'Kleboe.
The most common injuries noted
both at CSI as well as through the NCAA
are sprains and strains, especially of the
ankle. Another finding is that woman’s
teams have a 4-fold higher risk of ACL
injury than men. This change has come
about because of the change in style of
play; women’s sports were once domi
nated by a slow, defensive style gameplay that has transformed into a faster,
aggressive and pressured style focused
on precision and power. The NCAA also
states that about 5% of injuries occur
during practices and 18% during actual
games and women are more likely to
obtain serious injuries than their malecounter parts in both contact and noncontact related injuries. Studies suggest
that these incidences stem from com
plex, interrelated factors, possibly includ
ing hamstring-quadriceps, strength
imbalances, joint laxity, and the use of
ankle braces. Today’s training attempts
to work out these imbalances so as to
reduce the risk to players.
Injuries usually sustained at practices
often occur towards the beginning of train
ing, Kleboe explained how The first week
is terrible, your entire body is painfully
sore, and all you want to do is sleep it off.”
However, “after the first few weeks, your
body becomes accustomed to if she said,
“and you feel great.” The endurance
training seems to be the hardest, because
“it is the most boring” yet The most
exhausting.” Trainer Nostro, who has
training experience with all the CSI athlet
ic team’s, also stated that “overuse"
injuries are common, when overworking
the muscles. That is why teams often
may have a rest day, where all they do is
nurse their muscles and allow them to
rest, creating a balance.
The intention is to train harder and
be more powerful than the opponent
both physically and mentally, being flexi
ble enough to change directions sharper,
move faster and communicate with the
teammates more efficiently. The world of
men’s soccer has slowly been transform
ing, and a revamped version of women’s
soccer is hitting the field, with more and
more colleges creating teams, competi
tion is becoming fiercer. Coach John
Guagliardo however seems to have his
own method, or ideology that seems to
have his team winning, it explains the
most important reason for his heavy
training, with grandeur gestures, his
belief is that the players “should play just
as strong in the first ten minutes” he said,
“as they should in the last ten minutes.”
According to the captain, the best
way to prepare for training season is to
train for it. As the women slowly strolled
off the field, blushed and exhausted they
discussed how much they looked for
ward to the next season and the chal
lenges that lay ahead. Now better pre
pared mentally and physically for the try
outs and the conditioning ahead, the
captains’ practice ends and the unit
divides and goes their separate ways.
As Kleobe starts her car to go home and
rest, she said jests, “I can’t wait for the
real training season to begin.”
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The
College
of
Staten
Island
May 2,2005
Vanessa Leigh DeBello
hey purchase big-ticket items, like
Matthew Beck
April 14, IP—The CSI Accounting Club,
under
the
direction
of
Student
Government
Vice
President and
Club
President
T a i w o
OI as u po ,
Faculty
Advisor
Christopher
Smith,
and
Dept.
of
Business Chair Dr. Laura Nowak, hosted
a speech by Mrs. Bernadine Coles Gines,
who in 1954 became the first female
African-American
Certified
Public
Accountant in New York State, and only
the 34th female CPA in the nation.
“I didn’t know it was going to be so
difficult when I started,” remembered Mrs.
Gines, a sweet, unassuming lady from
Charlottesville, Virginia. “It was almost
impossible to meet the experience
requirements in order to become certified
and find somebody who would give you a
job”. But she did. After earning a Bachelor
of Science in Business Administration
from Virginia State College (where she
ranked first in her graduating class), and
acquiring her MBA in accounting in 1947
from New York University, she was hired
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new televisions, stereos, and even
plane tickets to Australia. Meanwhile,
these individuals may also be seen rum
maging through trash, stealing mail or
pick pocketing. They could be your
neighbor, co-worker, or even relative. But
often, no one knows who they are and
what they do, and there are millions of
people just like them, people who
assume other people’s identity.
Kevin S.P. Mamakas
Identity theft is the number one
crime on Staten Island, according to the
Advance.
The
Federal
Trade
rofessor Roslyn Bologh is the Union
P
Commission (FTC) estimated in a 2003
survey that within a five-year period, 27.3
ing crime, you feel as if you’re the only
one going through it.”
million Americans were victims. A crime
that was once rarely heard of is becom
ing increasingly common across the
globe. People whose identities have
been stolen often spend months, some
A 2003 survey by Gartner, (a
Stamford, Connecticut research firm spe
times years, repairing the damage done
to their good name, their credit, and their
hard-earned money. The result of identi
ty theft is bad credit. This causes victims
to be refused loans, lose job opportuni
ties or even get arrested for crimes they
did no t commit.
Victims may not even realize they’ve
been victimized for weeks or months
cializing in information technology) found
that identity thieves have a slim chance
of being apprehended for their crime just 1 in 700 are caught. “I’m not sure
how it was stolen, but my instinct tells me
it’s from recycling,” said Watkins. “ If you
don’t shred properly you’re offering a
nice neat package of your life for anyone
to take.”
Sharon Aliseo, another Staten Island
victim agrees. “One day I threw out some
old pocketbooks and they must have had
some old credit card statements in them,”
because they did not have direct contact
with the perpetrator. “Often you don’t
even know you’ve been a victim,” said
she confessed. “Sometimes its poor
judgement or plain laziness on our part
Carol
that eventually catches up with us.”
Watkins,
Director
of
Career
Placement, Scholarships, and Awards
and identity theft survivor. “It’s an isolat
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Grievance Representative for English
Professor Fahamisha Brown, whose bid
for tenure has been recently denied.
Bologh is also a Sociology Professor at
CSI, who is trying to ensure that
Fahamisha Brown will ultimately receive
tenure. “My role as grievance counselor
is to present the case on behalf of the
candidate,” she says. “This is a formal
process and the candidate sits next to me
during
the
presentation.
[The process]
is
occurring
because the
President
denied
Professor
Brown’s appli
cation
for
reappointment
with tenure. It
is this deci
sion that we
are grieving.”
It
is
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Jennifer Mosscrop
tudents interested in an MS in
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Business will no longer have to trav
el to
Baruch,
Brooklyn or Queens
College. Starting this fall, CSI's business
department will hold its first graduate
classes in business management.
“It took five years to create the pro
gram,” said Dr. Susan Holak, one of the
faculty members who made the new pro
gram possible. “I had to see the vote to
believe it.”
The curriculum will focus on strate
gic management skills with courses in
Francois Ngolet
1961-2005
business/government relations, financial
management, international business
leadership, and strategic marketing.
Graduate students will get to choose
CSI’s Memorial service for History
Professor Frangois Ngolet will be held on
Wednesday, May 18th. The Banner
from the following electives: accounting,
financial planning, human resources,
sends condolences to the Ngolet family.
information systems, services marketing
and management, and taxation.
CSI’s Business Department Chair,
Dr. Laura Nowak, explained how incom
ing undergraduate accounting majors
Fahamisha Brown’s ground
breaking sudy. “From an aca
demic standpoint, it is a best
seller.,” said English Professor
Matthew Greenfield.
when the process will end because the
grievance case has already been pre
sented. Now the CSI community has to
wait for a response from President
Springer.
could benefit from the Master’s program
when the time comes to graduate. In the
“Fahamisha Brown’s situation is a lit
tle unusual because she came to the col
lege already with a distinguished record
year 2009, students will need 150 credits
to take the CPA exam instead of 120
credits.
of professional accomplishment, includ
ing having published a book that is high
Among others, professors Peters,
Garaventa, and Sandler will teach the
ly regarded in the field,” Prof. Bologh
said. “She was promoted to Associate
Professor soon after she was hired.”
The way the tenure track
10-course, 3-credit per-class curriculum.
Professor Sandler is also the director of
designed, just getting through the years
the program. It should take four semes
ters to complete program since it is part-
leading up to the President deciding to
grant or deny tenure should prove that a
is
time and the classes will primarily be in
professor deserves tenure. “Each year
the evening. “There has been a lot of
interest,” said Dr. Nowak. “And it hasn't
even been advertised much.”
for the first five years after a full time fac
ulty member is hired, she must apply for
Dr. Nowak says that they will be
looking for the students with the highest
reappointment for the following year. This
involves submitting an extensive form
GPAs and GMAT scores. Only 50 stu-
listing all of her professional activities,”
Bologh explained.
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�Matt Sofford
n Monday April 4, The New York
Times held an “Inside the Times”
symposium at their 43rd street building,
O
for editors of student newspapers that
participate in the “American Democracy
Project.”
from the students in the audience.
Highlights included Senior Editor
for Staffing/National Recruiting and for
mer Sports Editor Neil Amdur, who
spoke about his long career, and offered
to give advice to any student who
wished to send their writing to him via
email.
More than 200 student editors
came from as far away as Alaska, and
as close as Hunter College, to partici
pate in a nearly seven hour event which
In the afternoon, NY Times Training
Editor for Copy Editors Don Hecker led
a fast-paced and somewhat rigorous
interactive editing seminar which had
promised to “provide [students] with the
opportunity to engage editors, journal
ists, our advertising acceptability group,
and editorial.”
As students made their way off the
students editing stories and writing
headlines under strict deadlines.
Several students who completed the
elevators, they were greeted by staff
who handed each visitor a copy of the
day’s NY Times, and a plastic bag filled
with a program folder, a handbook on
introduction by Times College Marketing
Manager Felice Nudelman, NY Times
Managing Editor Michael Oreskes took
the podium, and the event began in
earnest. Besides the occasional break,
the day moved quickly and close to
schedule, as seven other speakers took
the stage, each speaking about their
particular role at the NY Times, while
giving advice and answering questions
Kevin SP Mamakas
|IJ| embers of the CSI chapter of the
New York Public Interest Research
■VI
Group (NYPIRG), Student Government,
and the American Littoral Society held
the third annual Bigger Better Bottle Bill
St. Patrick’s Day News Conference on
March 17, 2005. NYPIRG has been
working hard with members of its 21
other college chapters to urge the legis
lators and Governor Pataki to support
2
nspired by a March conference held at
Hunter College High School dealing
with militarism and war, CSI Assistant
important issues can only benefit , all of
us. The alternative of course, is to tune
the war out, to go on with our lives as if
these events aren’t happening. But with
I
English Professor Ashley Dawson is
organizing a teach-in for Thursday May
5th.
“I think it’s easy for people to forget
that we are occupying Iraq,” said
Dawson. “The war on terror was framed
to be something that could be going on in
perpetuity, keeping the American popula-
__________________
future,
that great opportunity filed still left the
auditorium with a great deal: An inside
look at the way the most prestigious
newspaper in the country runs from day
to day, advice from top professionals in
the journalism field, and large collection
of essays from student editors from
across the country with which to judge
their own writing against. That’s quite a
lot for any aspiring journalist to take
home from one day’s experience,
whether they flew in from across the
country, or took the bus across town.
the Bigger Better Bottle Bill.
New York’s current Bottle
Bill
requires a 5 cent refundable deposit on
beer and soda containers. More than 80
billion bottles and cans have been
returned and recycled through the bottle
bill since it was created in 1982; that is
more than five million tons of plastic,
glass, and metal. NYPIRG has put a lot
of effort in making the bottle bill the most
successful recycling and litter prevention
said Dawson. “The war on terror wasframed
to be something that could be going on in perpetuity,
keeping the American population locked-down,
scared, and obedient. ”
offered a 1.5% pay raise over 4 years.
We’re just getting slammed,” said
Dawson. “And obviously, this is going to
affect students.”
Professor Dawson felt this situation
was a symptom of a larger problem, what
with
Keller’s dis
cussion, and some eager Q & A, 4 stu
dents were chosen at random to attend
the New York Times Page One meeting
at 4:30. Those not lucky enough to win
“I think it’s easyforpeople to
forget that we are occupying Iraq, ”
Dawson said he also has selfish
reasons for the event. “We’re in contract
negotiations right now, and have been
shrinking
readership,
more competition, a distrusting public
and secretive
administra
tions.
After
thousands continuing to die on both
sides, the alternative is unconscionable.
who spoke of the difficulties journalism
and newspapers face today and in the
via email.
After a breakfast of soda, orange
juice, muffins and cookies, and a brief
tions. And that healthy discussion of
tasks correctly were rewarded with NY
Times t-shirts.
The day was capped with a speech
by Times Executive Editor Bill Keller,
ethical joumal__________________
ism, and a
Highlights included
pamphlet entiSenior
Editor
for Staffing/National
t
I
e
d
“Standards of Recruiting and former Sports Editor Neil Amdur,
Advertising
.who spoke about his long career, and offered
Acceptability.”
to give advice to any student who wished to
Also in the
send their writing to him
bag, was a NY
Times-branded
notepad
and pen, and a spiral-bound book con
taining student essays on “The Role of a
Newspaper in a Democracy,” which par
ticipants had been required to submit
weeks earlier.
Mott Sofford
he called the “corporatization of the uni
versity, and the rolling back of public
Ashley Dawson is organizing a teach-in against the
War in Iraq on May 5th.
tion locked-down, scared, and obedient.”
It’s obvious that Dawson has strong
feelings about these issues, and there
fore no wonder that he is doing what he
can to make a difference. While leaving
our campus for a position at the CUNY
Graduate Center next year, Dawson
wanted to do something for students at
CSI. “Ideally, I hope that it will engage
students, and speak to them,” said
Dawson. “I would love it if there was
more of an active, politicized student
population here.”
If the teach-in is a success, the
event will help to bring that about. Even
those students in favor of the war will be
forced to think about and articulate their
beliefs if they wish to defend their posi
program in New York.
“The Green of Saint Patrick’s Day
represents two different things to this
bill,” according to Barbara Toborg, the
Conservation Coordinator for the
American Littoral Society of Jamaica Bay
Guardian. ‘The first is the environment,
the second is money.”
NYPIRG now wants to update the
bottle bill to be bigger and better. Dan
Beyer, NYPIRG’s Environmental Project
Leader, believes that the legislators and
Governor Pataki should, “Expand New
York's bottle bill to include deposits on
education.” These are dangerous trends
both for students and society in general.
"As [public education] gets rolled back,”
said Dawson, “there are fewer and fewer
options for young people, other than the
military.”
Details about the event were still
sketchy and a bit up in the air at press
time, but Professor Dawson noted that
he had spoken to organizations such as
Goldstar Families For Peace, and the
Campus Activist Network, and various
other organizations which are involved in
counter-recruiting. “As far as I know,
there’s nothing like that on this campus,”
said Dawson, “Though I have seen
ROTC here, so this seems really impor
tant.”
While things were far from set in
stone as of press time, the plan is for the
event to take place right after club hours
at 3:30 on May 5. Students interested in
finding out more details can contact
Professor Ashley Dawson via email at
dawson@mail.csi.cuny.edu.
non-carbonated beverages such as bot
tled water, juice, and sports drinks.” He
later explained that if the bill required the
beverage industry to return all unclaimed
deposits, 179 million dollars could be put
into local recycling and environmental
cleanup programs.
Student
Government
Senator
Joshua Center wore a leprechaun cos
tume to show his support for the bigger
better bottle bill. It may sound funny, but
Center believes the bottle is no laughing
matter. The Bigger Better Bottle Bill will
allow the state to reclaim this pot of gold.
�May 2,2005
Staff and
Contributors
JENNIFER MOSSCFtOP
ENRIQUE INOCENTE
IDENTITY THEFT AT CSI
ACCOUNTING SPEAKER
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Regardless how personal information is
stolen, finding out about what happened to you
is never pleasant. “At first I didn’t realize how
big a problem I had,” said Watkins. “It wasn’t
until I got a call from Capital One Credit one
Saturday morning, and they were insisting on
payment for purchases I never made, did I
realize the scope of the situation. Apparently,
whoever opened this account had been able to
get access to my mother’s maiden name, pre
vious addresses and other very personal infor
mation. $30,000 worth of charges was made.
After payment had not been received for three
months, the credit card company began to
track me down at work and home. Later I found
out that a total of 12 credit card accounts had
been opened in my name, totaling $230,000
worth of debt.”
Aliseo found out in a similar way. It wasn’t
until she began receiving calls from creditors
did she learn of the theft. “Not only were credit
MATTHEW SAFFORO
card accounts opened in my name but this per
son was able to get access to my bank
accounts and drain them too,” she said. “Later
I found out that this woman was even seeing a
doctor as me. It really upset me.”
For Sharon Aliseo, it went beyond the
crime being committed without her knowledge.
Soon she began receiving strange phone calls,
which she believed to be from the thief seeking
to obtain more information. In a situation like
this, victims need to be aware of this possibili
ty and be cautious. Awake! Magazine advises
to be leery about giving out personal informa
tion over the phone, the internet, or by mail
unless you have initiated contact or are sure of
whom you are dealing with.
What should you do if you believe you’ve
been a victim of identity theft? Watkins advises
getting periodic copies of your credit report,
which enables you to review it for any discrep
ancies. After she learned of the first fraudulent
card opened in her name, Watkins investigated
the situation further and began contacting the
other creditors to explain the situation.
Although most didn’t believe her at first, con
sistency and persistency is essential. “ Often
creditors treat you like a criminal,” she said.
“They were condescending, talking to me like I
was stupid.”
After a year and a federal investigation,
Watkins was able to repair her credit. Her 350
credit score was brought up to almost its origi
nal standing at 750. “What I tell people is that it
is not the end of your financial world,” she said.
“Credit can be repaired rather quickly.”
JESSICA MENDEZ
GRIEVANCE OUTCOME AWAITED
MELLISSA SEECHARAN
LUKE CRISALLI
ORUME AGBEVEGBE
DOMINIC FIDUCCIA
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
If a professor does not complete the mini
mum criteria at the end of each academic year,
they would not be reappointed under this rule.
Prof. Brown has been doing an extraordinary
amount of work for the literature section of the
English department on top of her commitments
and responsibilities to her academic communi
ty.
“Her teaching must be observed and eval
uated by a member of the faculty as well as by
students in their student evaluation forms,”
Bologh said. “She also must have an annual
evaluation by the Chair of her department.”
Prof. Brown admitted that she expects a lot
from her students and she sometimes is dis
liked by them because of her high expectations.
Yet she is accepted as an asset to the CSI com
munity by many Professors.
When Professor Fahamisha Brown was
denied tenure at CSI by President Marlene
Springer earlier this year, the English depart
ment was shocked. Many of them are aware of
her academic excellence and they are troubled
that most of it does not count towards her
tenure.
Professor Matthew Greenfield believes
Professor Brown’s book “Is the second or third
most important book in her field. From an aca
demic standpoint it is a best seller.”
Professors all over the college know
Professor Brown not only as a fellow faculty
member; they recognized her as a very impor
tant scholar in her academic field.The Banner
previously
reported
that
the
English
Department Chair Janet Dudley believed it
would be hard to fulfill the position because of
her academic uniqueness and her success in
her field. Dudley said, “We will have to fulfill that
position, but we may not be able to.”
BUSINESS MASTERS PROGRAM
ANDREA BATISTA
VANESSA LEIGH DEBELLO
LEE PAPA
CHRISTIAN TUBITO
PAMELA ZAMBRANO
dents will be accepted the first time around and
applications are being accepted now. To
improve your chances of being accepted, stu
dents should apply as early as possible. You
can even submit the applications to the Office
of Graduate Admissions before taking the
GMAT.
Requirements include a baccalaureate in
business, accounting, (or a related field like
economics, or corporate communications) with
a 3.0 GPA or higher; two letters of recommen
dations from an employer and instructor; and
an adequate GMAT score.
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
The major draw, besides location, has got
to be the tuition, which will be $230 per credit
($6,900 all together). Compared to St. John's
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whopping $725 per credit for an MS in
Business, and Wagner's even steeper, $800
per credit, CSI business students will save
more than $10,000 by staying in CUNY.
From a business point of view, CSI's deci
sion to offer an the new MS is a smart move.
According to the U.S. Department of Education
and the National Center for Education
Statistics, 120,785 U.S students were honored
with an MS in business management in 20002001. This number continues to grow every
year.
“We 're looking forward to our first grad
students,” said Dr. Nowak.
For GMAT help, visit www.mba.com.
two years later by the New York law firm
of Goodman & Earlich. And a small
piece of history was made.
Mrs. Gines fought hard against the
odds to fulfill her dream, battling rampant
bigotry, the hard times of the
Depression, and post WWII upheaval. It
seems trailblazers run in her family. Her
sister Ruth was the first AfricanAmerican female CPA in the State of
Virginia. “I come from a long line of high
achievers,” she chuckled. But she
remains modest and humble, acknowl
edging her weaknesses. “I don’t really
consider myself to be a professional
public speaker,” she said, after admitting
to having pre-speech jitters.
Mrs. Gines expressed that she
would be personally gratified if her
speech and life could influence and
inspire somebody—even if it was only
one person—to realize their potential,
work hard at it, and not be discouraged
by obstacles. “I’ll be happy if that hap
pens,” she said with a smile. After being
warmly introduced by Professor Smith
and Mr. Olasupo, she spoke with grace
and simple charm, talking frankly about
her past, and genially answering ques
tions about her career in business. At the
conclusion, she was presented with an
award—more than fifty years later—rec
ognizing her unprecedented triumph for
her sex and race.
Her success and example has helped
to make the fields of accounting much
more accessible to African-Americans
and women. “In my Accounting class
there’s more men that women,” said stu
dent Christine Cowan, a senior who
intends to become a CPA after gradua
tion. Not to mention the fact that the
Accounting Club president, Taiwo
Olasupo, is Black, something that would
have been unheard of in a college fifty
years ago.
Professor Smith praised Olasupo
for his skilled support, crediting him with
“single-handedly
resurrecting
the
Accounting Club”, which he described as
“dead in the water.”
Although Mrs. Gines has not attained
the same level of recognition for her
achievements
as
other AfricanAmerican pioneers, such as Jackie
Robinson or Martin Luther King Jr., she
still paved the way for black women in a
time when the majority of her race or
gender couldn’t get good jobs in white
male dominated occupations such busi
ness and finance. But she notes that
there are other many unsung heroes
besides her in the fight for racial equal
ity. “I imagine there’s a lot of AfricanAmerican’s you’ve never heard of that
have accomplished something worth
while,” she said. “But that’s the thing
with history: it’s not told from our per
spective.” Yet in her own unpretentious,
quiet way, Mrs. Bernadine Coles Gines
has done her part to fill us all in.
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n Monday April 4, The New York
Times held an “Inside the Times”
symposium at their 43rd street building,
for editors of student newspapers that
participate in the “American Democracy
Project.”
More than 200 student editors
came from as far away as Alaska, and
as close as Hunter College, to partici
pate in a nearly seven hour event which
promised to “provide [students] with the
opportunity to engage editors, journal
ists, our advertising acceptability group,
and editorial.”
As students made their way off the
elevators, they were greeted by staff
who handed each visitor a copy of the
day’s NY Times, and a plastic bag filled
with a program folder, a handbook on
from the students in the audience.
Highlights included Senior Editor
for Staffing/National Recruiting and for
mer Sports Editor Neil Amdur, who
spoke about his long career, and offered
to give advice to any student who
wished to send their writing to him via
email.
In the afternoon, NY Times Training
Editor for Copy Editors Don Hecker led
a fast-paced and somewhat rigorous
interactive editing seminar which had
Matt Safford
tions. And that healthy discussion of
nspired by a March conference held at
Hunter College High School dealing
with militarism and war, CSI Assistant
important issues can only benefit all of
us. The alternative of course, is to tune
the war out, to go on with our lives as if
these events aren’t happening. But with
thousands continuing to die on both
I
English Professor Ashley Dawson is
organizing a teach-in for Thursday May
5th.
“I think it’s easy for people to forget
that we are occupying Iraq,” said
Dawson. “The war on terror was framed
to be something that could be going on in
perpetuity, keeping the American popula-
students editing stories and writing
headlines under strict deadlines.
Several students who completed the
tasks correctly were rewarded with NY
Times t-shirts.
The day was capped with a speech
by Times Executive Editor Bill Keller,
ed
notepad
and pen, and a spiral-bound book con
taining student essays on “The Role of a
Newspaper in a Democracy,” which par
ticipants had been required to submit
weeks earlier.
After a breakfast of soda, orange
juice, muffins and cookies, and a brief
introduction by Times College Marketing
Manager Felice Nudelman, NY Times
Managing Editor Michael Oreskes took
the podium, and the event began in
earnest. Besides the occasional break,
the day moved quickly and close to
schedule, as seven other speakers took
the stage, each speaking about their
particular role at the NY Times, while
giving advice and answering questions
Keller’s dis
cussion, and some eager Q & A, 4 stu
dents were chosen at random to attend
the New York Times Page One meeting
at 4:30. Those not lucky enough to win
that great opportunity filed still left the
auditorium with a great deal: An inside
look at the way the most prestigious
newspaper in the country runs from day
to day, advice from top professionals in
the journalism field, and large collection
of essays from student editors from
across the country with which to judge
their own writing against. That’s quite a
lot for any aspiring journalist to take
home from one day’s experience,
whether they flew in from across the
country, or took the bus across town.
embers of the CSI chapter of the
New York Public Interest Research
Group (NYPIRG), Student Government,
and the American Littoral Society held
the third annual Bigger Better Bottle Bill
St. Patrick’s Day News Conference on
March 17, 2005. NYPIRG has been
working hard with members of its 21
other college chapters to urge the legis
lators and Governor Pataki to support
M
2
the Bigger Better Bottle Bill.
New York’s current Bottle Bill
requires a 5 cent refundable deposit on
beer and soda containers. More than 80
billion bottles and cans have been
returned and recycled through the bottle
bill since it was created in 1982; that is
more than five million tons of plastic,
glass, and metal. NYPIRG has put a lot
of effort in making the bottle bill the most
successful recycling and litter prevention
keeping the American population locked-down,
scared, and obedient.”
offered a 1.5% pay raise over 4 years.
We’re just getting slammed,” said
Dawson. “And obviously, this is going to
affect students.”
Professor Dawson felt this situation
was a symptom of a larger problem, what
he called the “corporatization of the uni
versity, and the rolling back of public
Ashley Dawson is organizing a teach-in against the
War in Iraq on May 5th.
tion locked-down, scared, and obedient.”
It’s obvious that Dawson has strong
feelings about these issues, and there
fore no wonder that he is doing what he
can to make a difference. While leaving
our campus for a position at the CUNY
Graduate Center next year, Dawson
wanted to do something for students at
CSI. “Ideally, I hope that it will engage
students, and speak to them,” said
Dawson. “I would love it if there was
more of an active, politicized student
population here.”
If the teach-in is a success, the
event will help to bring that about. Even
those students in favor of the war will be
forced to think about and ^articulate their
beliefs if they wish to defend their posi
program in New York.
Kevin SP Mamakas
said Dawson. “The war on terror wasframed
to be something that could be going on in perpetuity,
sides, the alternative is unconscionable.
Dawson said he also has selfish
reasons for the event. “We’re in contract
negotiations right now, and have been
who spoke of the difficulties journalism
and newspapers face today and in the
.
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future,
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more compe
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trusting public
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“I think it’s easyforpeople to
forget that we are occupying Iraq,"
“The Green of Saint Patrick’s
represents two different things to
bill,” according to Barbara Toborg,
Conservation Coordinator for
Day
this
the
the
American Littoral Society of Jamaica Bay
Guardian. “The first is the environment,
the second is money.”
NYPIRG now wants to update the
bottle bill to be bigger and better. Dan
Beyer, NYPIRG’s Environmental Project
Leader, believes that the legislators and
Governor Pataki should, “Expand New
York's bottle bill to include deposits on
education.” These are dangerous trends
both for students and society in general.
“As [public education] gets rolled back,”
said Dawson, “there are fewer and fewer
options for young people, other than the
military.”
Details about the event were still
sketchy and a bit up in the air at press
time, but Professor Dawson noted that
he had spoken to organizations such as
Goldstar Families For Peace, and the
Campus Activist Network, and various
other organizations which are involved in
counter-recruiting. “As far as I know,
there’s nothing like that on this campus,”
said Dawson, “Though I have seen
ROTC here, so this seems really impor
tant.”
While things were far from set in
stone as of press time, the plan is for the
event to take place right after club hours
at 3:30 on May 5. Students interested in
finding out more details can contact
Professor Ashley Dawson via email at
dawson@mail.csi.cuny.edu.
non-carbonated beverages such as bot
tled water, juice, and sports drinks.” He
later explained that if the bill required the
beverage industry to return all unclaimed
deposits, 179 million dollars could be put
into local recycling and environmental
cleanup programs.
Student
Government
Senator
Joshua Center wore a leprechaun cos
tume to show his support for the bigger
better bottle bill. It may sound funny, but
Center believes the bottle is no laughing
matter. The Bigger Better Bottle Bill will
allow the state to reclaim this pot of gold.
�May 2, 2005
Staff and
Contributors
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IDENTITY THEFT AT CSI
ACCOUNTING SPEAKER
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Regardless how personal information is
stolen, finding out about what happened to you
is never pleasant. “At first I didn’t realize how
big a problem I had,” said Watkins. “It wasn’t
until I got a call from Capital One Credit one
Saturday morning, and they were insisting on
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payment for purchases I never made, did I
realize the scope of the situation. Apparently,
whoever opened this account had been able to
get access to my mother’s maiden name, pre
vious addresses and other very personal infor
mation. $30,000 worth of charges was made.
After payment had not been received for three
months, the credit card company began to
track me down at work and home. Later I found
out that a total of 12 credit card accounts had
been opened in my name, totaling $230,000
worth of debt.”
Aliseo found out in a similar way. It wasn’t
until she began receiving calls from creditors
did she learn of the theft. “Not only were credit
card accounts opened in my name but this per
son was able to get access to my bank
accounts and drain them too,” she said. “Later
I found out that this woman was even seeing a
doctor as me. It really upset me.”
MATTHEW SAFFORD
For Sharon Aliseo, it went beyond the
crime being committed without her knowledge.
Soon she began receiving strange phone calls,
which she believed to be from the thief seeking
to obtain more information. In a situation like
this, victims need to be aware of this possibili
ty and be cautious. Awake! Magazine advises
to be leery about giving out personal informa
tion over the phone, the internet, or by mail
unless you have initiated contact or are sure of
whom you are dealing with.
What should you do if you believe you’ve
been a victim of identity theft? Watkins advises
getting periodic copies of your credit report,
which enables you to review it for any discrep
ancies. After she learned of the first fraudulent
card opened in her name, Watkins investigated
the situation further and began contacting the
other creditors to explain the situation.
Although most didn’t believe her at first, con
sistency and persistency is essential. “ Often
creditors treat you like a criminal,” she said.
“They were condescending, talking to me like I
was stupid.”
After a year and a federal investigation,
Watkins was able to repair her credit. Her 350
credit score was brought up to almost its origi
nal standing at 750. “What I tell people is that it
is not the end of your financial world,” she said.
“Credit can be repaired rather quickly.”
JESSICA MENDEZ
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If a professor does not complete the mini
mum criteria at the end of each academic year,
they would not be reappointed under this rule.
Prof. Brown has been doing an extraordinary
amount of work for the literature section of the
English department on top of her commitments
and responsibilities to her academic community*
“Her teaching must be observed and eval
uated by a member of the faculty as well as by
students in their student evaluation forms,”
Bologh said. “She also must have an annual
evaluation by the Chair of her department.”
Prof. Brown admitted that she expects a lot
from her students and she sometimes is dis
liked by them because of her high expectations.
Yet she is accepted as an asset to the CSI com
munity by many Professors.
When Professor Fahamisha Brown was
denied tenure at CSI by President Marlene
Springer earlier this year, the English depart
ment was shocked. Many of them are aware of
her academic excellence and they are troubled
that most of it does not count towards her
tenure.
Professor Matthew Greenfield believes
Professor Brown’s book “Is the second or third
most important book in her field. From an aca
demic standpoint it is a best seller.”
Professors all over the college know
Professor Brown not only as a fellow faculty
member; they recognized her as a very impor
tant scholar in her academic field.The Banner
previously
reported
that
the
English
Department Chair Janet Dudley believed it
would be hard to fulfill the position because of
her academic uniqueness and her success in
her field. Dudley said, “We will have to fulfill that
position, but we may not be able to.”
MASTERS PROGRAM
ANDREA BATISTA
VANESSA LEIGH DEBELLO
LEE PAPA
CHRISTIAN TUBITO
PAMELA ZAMBRANO
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
dents will be accepted the first time around and
applications are being accepted now. To
improve your chances of being accepted, stu
dents should apply as early as possible. You
can even submit the applications to the Office
of Graduate Admissions before taking the
GMAT.
Requirements include a baccalaureate in
business, accounting, (or a related field like
economics, or corporate communications) with
a 3.0 GPA or higher; two letters of recommen
dations from an employer and instructor; and
an adequate GMAT score.
The major draw, besides location, has got
to be the tuition, which will be $230 per credit
($6,900 all together). Compared to St. John's
two years later by the New York law firm
of Goodman & Earlich. And a small
piece of history was made.
Mrs. Gines fought hard against the
odds to fulfill her dream, battling rampant
bigotry, the hard times of the
Depression, and post WWII upheaval. It
seems trailblazers run in her family. Her
sister Ruth was the first AfricanAmerican female CPA in the State of
Virginia. “I come from a long line of high
achievers,” she chuckled. But she
remains modest and humble, acknowl
edging her weaknesses. “I don’t really
consider myself to be a professional
public speaker,” she said, after admitting
to having pre-speech jitters.
Mrs. Gines expressed that she
would be personally gratified if her
speech and life could influence and
inspire somebody—even if it was only
one person—to realize their potential,
work hard at it, and not be discouraged
by obstacles. “I’ll be happy if that hap
pens,” she said with a smile. After being
warmly introduced by Professor Smith
and Mr. Olasupo, she spoke with grace
and simple charm, talking frankly about
her past, and genially answering ques
tions about her career in business. At the
conclusion, she was presented with an
award—more than fifty years later—rec
ognizing her unprecedented triumph for
her sex and race.
Her success and example has helped
to make the fields of accounting much
more accessible to African-Americans
and women. “In my Accounting class
there’s more men that women,” said stu
dent Christine Cowan, a senior who
intends to become a CPA after gradua
tion. Not to mention the fact that the
Accounting Club president, Taiwo
Olasupo, is Black, something that would
have been unheard of in a college fifty
years ago.
Professor Smith praised Olasupo
for his skilled support, crediting him with
“single-handedly
resurrecting
the
Accounting Club”, which he described as
“dead in the water.”
Although Mrs. Gines has not attained
the same level of recognition for her
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whopping $725 per credit for an MS in
Business, and Wagner's even steeper, $800
per credit, CSI business students will save
more than $10,000 by staying in CUNY.
From a business point of view, CSI’s deci
sion to offer an the new MS is a smart move.
According to the U.S. Department of Education
and the National Center for Education
Statistics, 120,785 U.S students were honored
with an MS in business management in 20002001. This number continues to grow every
year.
“We 're looking forward to our first grad
students,” said Dr. Nowak.
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achievements
as
other AfricanAmerican pioneers, such as Jackie
Robinson or Martin Luther King Jr., she
still paved the way for black women in a
time when the majority of her race or.
gender couldn’t get good jobs in white
male dominated occupations such busi
ness and finance. But she notes that
there are other many unsung heroes
besides her in the fight for racial equal
ity. “I imagine there’s a lot of AfricanAmerican’s you’ve never heard of that
have accomplished something worth
while,” she said. “But that’s the thing
with history: it’s not told from our per
spective.” Yet in her own unpretentious,
quiet way, Mrs. Bernadine Coles Gines
has done her part to fill us all in.
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Former Secretary of State, General Colin
Powell, a CUNY alumnus from City
College utilized a working knowledge of
Yiddish, and he also had a staff who
spoke the pertinent languages on the
international platform. CSI’s Director of
Modern Languages Media Center John
Mark Esposito, speaks four languages,
Italian, Spanish, German and English;
and he is learning a fifth one. It is
increasing apparent that today’s global
workplace looks favorably toward bilin
gualism. In addition to American Sign
Language, French, Italian, and Spanish,
CSI is offering students an opportunity to
learn another language—Chinese.
An adjunct at the Business
Department, Professor M. Frieband
applauded the decision. “I think it’s
great,” he said. “China is going to
become an economic powerhouse dur
ing the business life of students graduat
ing now and in the future.”.
Two weeks ago, the Department of
Modern Languages held an open house
to celebrate the addition of Chinese to
the departments’ 2005 Fall course offer
ing. Amongst those who attended the
event were President Springer, Dean
Francisco Soto of the Division of
Humanities and Social Sciences, mem
bers of the International Center, Student
Academic Advisement officers, as well
as staff and faculty of the college. Many
students (current and former), participat
ed in the four-hour event: they played
Chinese games, they drank authentic
Jasmine tea, and they ate Chinese food.
There was also a Chinese artist on the
scene who gave each student a souvenir
of Chinese calligraphy.
A few days after the open house,
Professor Kathryn Talarico, Chair of the
Modern
Languages
Department,
explained the origin of the Chinese pro
gram. “The whole idea goes back to the
thought and the establishment of the new
high school that is going to be on our cam
setting up the program is that you have
to do the preparation. You have to select
pus.” With both Chinese and Spanish
being taught at the high school, Professor
Talarico said that the school “is going to
have a focus on international studies.”
The idea is that “these students are then
going to want to continue at the College of
Staten Island.” With a program in place,
the college will “be able to offer them the
opportunity of studying Chinese." She
continued, “Given the extraordinary eco
said. “Everyone is so supportive. The
atmosphere, the department, the teach
ers, the language lab, the Dean - Dr.
nomic and political importance of China in
the world economy and in world politics, it
is very important for students to have a
background in the language.”
Before classes can start however,
the program had to be organized by an
experienced individual. Out of a list of
capable candidates from New York’s
Chinese
Teachers
Association,
Professor Joyce Wang was chosen to be
the coordinator of the new Chinese pro
Matt Safford
more than 5 lbs—and the horrible battery
life -usually just under a couple hours—
with the ever-present danger of getting
your laptop stolen, most students might
be better off looking for an alternative.
Luckily there are a few decent sub
stitutes which are substantially lighter on
your wallet. USB flash drive prices have
dropped steeply in the last year. A smart
shopper can get their hands on a 128
megabyte version for around $20, or a 1
gigabyte version -roughly the same stor
age capacity of 700 floppies—for less
than $100. Search around for one that
looks rugged and has a clip for your keychain—I like Lexar’s JumpDrive—and
you can carry all your files for the semes
ter in your pocket, and never have to
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the textbook; you have to prepare for the
placement tests; you have to set up the
website. In addition, Professor Wang has
had to organize activities like the open
house to promote the Chinese program.
It has been “a good collaboration,” she
Soto., the International Studies pro
gram... It is easy to work with such a
group.”
Professor Wang has been interview
ing students for placement in either of
the two classes for the fall. The section
for absolute beginners is CHN 113, a 4credit course while the intermediate level
is CHN 213. Professor Wang said stu
dents who have no prior knowledge of
the language are welcome. She said,
“Chinese language is a tonal language. It
is just like music. The grammar is very
easy. They only need to know 3,000
Chinese characters in order to read and
write the language.” Professors who are
native speakers of Chinese will teach the
classes. They will meet twice a week and
If you have a Gmail
account from Google,
there’s a great shell
extension available for
Two ways to always have access to your
files, without lugging your computer
around campus:
Laptop manufacturers like Michael
Dell would like you to believe that no col
lege student should be without a laptop.
They’ll use every marketing trick up their
sleeve. They even offer financing -Dell’s
is at a nosebleed inducing 20%—since
they know many students can’t afford to
plunk down several hundred dollar bills
at once. They want students and parents
jto believe that laptop computers are as
essential to a college education as ball
points and book bags. But combine the
cost, the weight -most laptops are still
gram.
Professor Wang, an adjunct profes
sor at Hunter College, which has a wellestablished foreign language depart
ment, began setting up CSI’s Chinese
program in February. “The main thing for
worry about leaving a paper home again.
If you forget to print something, just drop
by the library, plug your drive into a USB
port on the front of one thp computers
there, and print away. If you do all your
printing there, you could even save some
cash on ink and paper.
But if you are worried about losing
your flash drive, or somehow breaking
it-though this is unlikely as they have a
reputation of surviving trips through
washers and dryers —then online stor
age might be a better option. Upload
your files to a password-protected server
on the internet and you can go to any
computer connected to the web, and all
your files are accessible. While there are
countless companies which will allow
you to do this for a monthly fee, as any
college student knows, nothing is better
than free.
download which allows
you to drag files into
your Gmail account just
like it was a hard drive.
Then when you access
your Gmail account on
the web at another com
puter, your files are right
there for you. If you
don’t have a Gmail
account, have no fear.
It's easy to get one. All you have to do is
get someone who has one to invite you.
Ask your friends, or check out the link at
the end of this arti
cle. It’ll give you all
the information you
need,
including
where to get the
shell extension, and
how to set it up. It
isn’t
hard,
and
shouldn’t take you
more than ten min
utes. After that,
you’ve got all the
online
storage
space -two giga
bytes—you’ll ever
need for documents,
even if you’re plan
ning on getting a
students are encouraged to use the
media lab and hold Chinese conversa
tions in class. “As time goes on,” said
Professor Wang, “the program will
expand and we will be well established in
the future.”
The Modern Languages Media
Center Assistant Director, Valeria
Belmonti, describes the place as “a
friendly environment ... open to lan
guage students.” Students can listen to
speech tapes, watch foreign films,
peruse foreign magazines, and borrow
books from the mini library.
Belmonti, a master tutor in Italian,
who recently graduated from CSI said,
“My boss (John Esposito) and I are
studying Chinese, and so I know the dif
ficulty people go through when learning a
language. The secret is to do it with fun,
and don’t be scared of making errors."
One American born Chinese stu
dent, Chenting Chan, explained why he
registered for the program. “I speak
Cantonese. In China, the main dialect is
Mandarin.” The Cinemas Studies major
continued, “It will give me more opportu
nities. I think it’s helpful if I speak
Mandarin if I do go to China.” Professor
Talarico summed it up best, “For stu
dents who are interested in broadening
their horizons, studying any foreign lan
guage won’t hurt, but certainly studying
Chinese could be one of the most inter
esting experiences for them.”
PhD.
If you already have a laptop, but are
sick of lugging it around, one of these
options might be better for you as well.
Textbooks are enough to drag you down.
Students don’t need another heavy bur
den, or one more ounce of debt. Give
one of these options a try. Your back and
you bank account will thank you.
Check out this link for where to get
the shell extension file and how to set
itup:.
http://www.engadget.com/
entry/1234000640033887/
If you don’t already have a Gmail
account, check the reader comments at
the link above, or send me an email at
Matt.Safford@gmail.com. I have 50
invites looking for happy homes.
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May 2,2005
From the
Editor’s Desk
idn’t most colleges across the coun
try have their spring break at the end
of March? What’s up with that? When we
get back, we only have three weeks of
class left. That means we only have a
week to pack in wild hedonism, alco
D
holism, and criminal activities. Enjoy it!
The stereotype attached to Spring Break
is the drunken hook-up on a Cancun
beach with some random person, from a
state you’ll probably never visit.
I hear a lot of my friends say how
great single life is. But they are the same
ones who complain about the guy or girl
they hooked up with the night before,
how the girl/guy scummed them out or
how they canl find anyone normal, etc.
When I’m at a club or a bar, I always find
myself saying “God I’m glad I’m not sin
gle.” Take Wednesday night for example.
After work, I met my good friend Lou for
a few drinks at O’Reilly’s pub on W. 31st.
While Lou was giving out his phone
number to any girl that looked decent
through his beer-goggled eyes, a forty
something with bottle-cap glasses was
hitting on me - talking about his eyeglass
prescription or some other meaningless
drivel. I frantically scanned the bar for my
friend to bail me out, but I he was talking
to a girl from London and laughing at me
from afar. Even the good looking guys
who I talked to reeked of bad pick-up
lines.
Single-life has to be overrated. My
boyfriend and I have been together for
almost seven years and I’ve never been
happier. We’re best friends. When I go
out I don’t have to worry about impress
ing someone or acting like someone I’m
not. I can have a good time-with friends
and not worry about someone spiking my
cranberry and vodka. Remember this
wisdom on the week-long exile from CSI
-the one they’re passing off as “Spring
Break.”
By the way, have you taken a look at
to the right of this column? What do you
see? That’s right, Banner sex columnist
Jessica Mendez getting bashed—once
again—left and right. Of all the writers
and columnists who have published in
the Banner, no one receives as much of
this kind of mail as Jessica Mendez. Is
sex still such a controversial topic?
As editor, I should say that The
Banner truly appreciates your letters
(that’s why we publish them) and your
close reading (that’s why we publish).
But as a college student, as a female, as
a firm believer in First Amendment privi
leges, and as someone who does not
believe in condemning others for actions
that do not hurt other people, I have a
couple of questions. What is a better
place than a college newspaper to talk
about sexual mores? Why must a col
lege newspaper sound like your high
school sex education teacher? Haven’t
we heard enough lectures about contra
ception? Of course, we should all prac
tice safe sex. And might we not have the
right to discuss sex in the context of lin
gerie, dancing or whatever else floats
your boat? Hmm.....
-Jen Mojjcro*
FIRE THE SEX COLUMNIST!
How much can the smart readers at CSI
take before The Banner weeds out that
shamelessly sleazy, nauseatingly narcis
sistic pain-in-the-ass nymphomaniac
called Jessica Mendez? I don’t know
about the staff over there, but I, as well
as many other students are just plain
sick of her incessant babbling, meaning
less rants, and disgusting exhibitionism.
Why has she been allowed to stay at The
Banner for so long? She has nothing
even remotely interesting to say! If she
wants to air here menses-saturated laun
dry, let her do it to a feminist counselor,
or a feminist talk show, or better yet, a
glass of scotch. But don’t let her release
her putrid creative juices into a seeming
ly “respectable” publication that hormon
ally normal people read to be intellectu
ally (not clitorally) stimulated!
On one hand, it seems like The
Banner tries to put forth a creditable
image on their first few pages (which I
enjoy immensely), but pages 6 through 8
or 9 descend into totally juvenile (and
rather blas6) comics, and ridiculously
unoriginal, feminist copycat crap! Does
the honorable Ms. Mendez believe that
she is being “open-minded,” or “sexually
liberated?” She accomplishes nothing
but showing how low her self-esteem
really is, because a woman who was
confident and mature about her body,
sexuality, and attractiveness wouldn’t
have to keep faithfully reminding peo
ple—who don’t care—about it! If she
chooses to delude herself, let that
remain her twisted problem, but don’t
subject emotionally stable people to her
constant stream of written diarrhea.
I daresay that the majority, if not all,
of the campus community would grate
fully rather read informative, CSI-related
articles written by serious journalists
rather than the space-consuming, sexcrazed slop that “Leeza Sellabassee”
churns out of -her “Holy Canal” every
issue. Off with her head!
(P.S. I will be watching with great
interest to see if you publish this letter in
its entirety. Because it hits so close to
home, I have a feeling you will “edit” out
any little statements that might make for
bad PR. But that would be the whole let
ter. Catch my drift?)
—Briana Holmes-Stevenson
Dear Briana:
Your drift has been caught in its unedited
entirety. Thank you for your close read
ing of the Banner.
FLAY THE
SEX COLUMNIST!
There is a thin line between risqud and
down right raunchy, and the Life, Love,
and Sex column in the March 28th, 2005
issue of The Banner definitely crossed
that line.
I understand that as a member of
the MTV generation I am obligated to
oppose any and all censorship and
embrace all instances of free speech, or
free expression of thought, but at running
the risk of betraying my peers I have to
say that that was pretty much disgusting,
irrelevant, and inappropriate!
Reading “Necessary Roughness”
was like watching cheesy pornography,
or skimming a lusty paperback novel.
The last thing I would expect to find in an
academic newspaper is a story about a
night of rough sex. It is struggling so hard
(the story) to be mature, and modern (in
the image of shows like our dearly
departed “Sex & the City”) that it comes
off as totally immature. Perhaps if it
somehow fit into a larger story having
something, anything, to do with the lives
of the students on campus, or the dan
gers of one night stands, just maybe then
it would have been more appropriate.
It is irresponsible of the publication
as a whole to allow a story about an
enjoyable "roll in the hey" without even
mentioning ANY form of contraceptive
involved. Rough sex may be fun, but
there
are
probably
some
educators/activists who would argue that
things like herpes, gonorrhea, and
syphilis are just plain rough.
Beyond inappropriate, it was embar
rassing. Think of how many administra
tors were probably a little thrown off by
the content of the column. It’s one thing
to write about the rise in certain sexual
practices and behaviors, but to totally put
it all out there for everyone to see has to
be a little degrading. Sex is not some
thing that should be exploited as a dirty
little secret, but there are some things
that should be kept in the bedroom. With
STDs spreading like wildfire, and the
number of unplanned pregnancies at
large number among young girls, maybe
an academic paper should take up the
quest of educating its readers about how
sex affects life and love.
If the column is going to be about
dangerous sexual behaviors and vulgar
details, why not ask for general submis
sions of the most explicit sexual tales the
students at CSI have to offer, and
choose the raunchiest one every two
weeks? I’m sure at least male readership
would go up significantly.
All in all, I was grossed out (and so
was my mom)!
—Tara Mastrangelo
Jessica Mendez responds:
I notice that Tara Mastrangelo used the
term "roll in the hey" in her letter.
Actually, it should be "roll in the HAY," as
in the straw-like substance found in
barns and such. Perhaps Mastrangelo
should focus on understanding the
nature of the euphemism and improving
her own writing as opposed to wasting
everyone’s time criticizing mine. Only
then might I consider addressing any
thing she has to say. In the meantime,
she can continue reading the column
that incenses her (and her mom!) so
much. I was gratified to see how much
attention has been paid to it.
CSI REFURBISHES
STUDENT COMPUTORS
The student accessible computers need
ed upgrading, to say the least. The exist
ing machines were decrepit, outdated,
and cosmetically unsightly.
Recently, current systems possess
ing superior quality screens, modern
processors, and high-speed internet
were placed in the 1L Computer Labs
and in that stuffy little back room on the
second floor of 1C. Afterwards, the Labs
were mobbed, and there was an ardu
ously long wait to use one. Last semes
ter the whole semester was outfitted,
even down to most of building lounge
areas.
Plus, comfy office-style chairs were
installed with the brand-new computers
on the Library’s first floor. What an
improvement! To say nothing of the inno
vative new College Information Xchange
program, which makes networking with
professors or classmates and obtaining
notification of current events student-ori
ented. Strangely enough, the most per
sonally gratifying facet of the technology
renovation were the stickers that read
“Your student technology fees have
helped to make this equipment possible.”
It’s refreshing to know that those seem
ingly valueless fees levied on the bills
every semester get recycled in a useful
way. Keep it up, CSI!
—Matthew Beck
Did you know?
CSI has partnered up with The Princeton
Review to offer prep course for the GRE
standardized testing, as well as the
GMAT, LSAT, and SAT testing. For those
who have nevbr even heard of the GRE,
it is for students continuing on with their
education in graduate programs. The
College offers CSI students and alumni
who are interested in the prep courses a
$100.00 discount on core course regis
tration.
Of the 12, 422 students that are
enrolled in CSI, only 1,373 are enrolled
in the graduate program, and only 106
are studying fulltime. As I walked across
campus from 1Ato 2A, I began to feel a
little discouraged or disappointed with
the people who are supposed to be pro
viding me with information. The people in
career placement were really helpful in
helping me out as to where to go and
who I should ask to get the information
that I need, but it was like once I got
there it was as if I was an inconvenience
to them. I explained why I was there and
what I was looking for, and all I got out of
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Meta Madness! Where our intrepid sex columnist reflects on controversy ...
Jessica Mendez
things that are going on around me and
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Two columns left. Then, the Fates willing, I
will be taking the walk that all college stu
dents aspire to. I’m sure this will truly upset
those of you who spend your time writing
angry letters; what else will you do with your
time? You’ll actually have to find a hobby!
I’m sorry I have to move on and continue liv
ing this thing called life, but I’ll humor you all
and be meta for a moment.
I thought about leaving this reflection
until the final column, but when I began writ
ing what would have been this column, I
realized that I already knew what would hap
pen: Shock! Outrage! Anger! Fire the sex
columnist! Immoral! My editor asked me to
address the nature of these letters, and I
thought, why not? Besides, arts editor
Mellissa Seecharan has done a great job
probing the halls of the Museum of Sex.
That being said, I find the entire phe
nomenon fascinating. I honestly didn’t
think that I would ever inspire such strong
reactions in other people. I came back to
the Banner after a semester-long hiatus
ready to write anything, I was mad about
writing, hungry for it. When Professor
Kaufman asked me if I would be interest
ed in writing a sex column, I thought it was
a great idea. I had mentioned it in the
past, but I never thought it would come to.
fruition. I admit; I had my fears about writ
ing a column dealing with sex. Believe it
or not, I was actually rather shy about sex
in the past, but I thought it was about time
I faced my own preconceived notions and
challenged the things I had been told
about sex. I never expected for people to
respond so forcefully.
At first, the novelty of the sex column
alone was enough to generate a buzz.
Originally, the column was all about the
adventures of a single girl. In some way, it
still is; however, I wanted to do more than a
running story of my friends and me. I real
ized that I was learning a lot about sex and
relationships, and I wanted to share that
with others. I wanted to take my readers
along with me, to see the mistakes I’ve
made.
Some ask why I would be willing to be
so graphic and (dare I say?) pornographic. I
say, why not? We are in college; this is the
time to mess up, to learn, to share. Sex is a
part of that. Writing a cliched “how-to” col
I do believe that we should respect our
Once you've spent your last dollar on a
"how to get better sex by contorting your
body into positions that are not humanly
possible" book your only choice is to
venture on into an abyss of heavenly sin.
The temporary exhibit, “Vamps &
Virgins,” chronicles the evolution of the
pin-up from 1860-1960. On each brightly
colored wall hangs not only the evolution
of pin-up girls, but also of women. With
its start during the Civil War, pin-ups
have come a long way, and then some.
The photo timeline displays the poses of
the late 19th and early 20th centuries
The Museum of Sex holds nothing
back as it displays exhibits dealing with
sex, sex, and more sex. But fear not! As
raunchy and downright unappealing as
which, although graphic, portrayed
women as heavenly bodies. From
some of the displays may be, they're all
injected with educational eccentricity.
Opened in September 2002, the muse
10
to tell everyone all of the things I find most
sacred.
There were a few times I did divulge
Surprise, my columns actually deal with
C
posters are displayed for passerbys who
are either shocked or amused by the
share it with them. Only the narrow-minded
would ever think that I would be so stupid as
digress.) That’s not my style. Instead, I
observed what was going on around me.
avemen did it. The Greeks did it.
Your parents do it—don't lie, you
know they do. So how do you pay hom
age to the act that is guaranteed to sat
isfy and disgust, and be down right sala
cious and divine as it is continuously
considered the most taboo topic in histo
ry? Build a museum, of course.
act as teasers for what awaits inside.
Everything from faux fur covered (PETA
must be happy) handcuffs to books and
people are completely delusional and igno
rant. Oftentimes, the most intimate details of
my life have nothing to do with sex. Those
are the things I keep close to my heart, the
things that only the closest of friends and
family will ever know, if I even choose to
some of the deeper parts of my life; those
columns were not nearly so controversial.
That, my friends, is the point! Why is sex
seen as the most sacred act, while we tend
to discard the simple things, the smallest
gestures, the sweet hand-holding, the in
jokes that make lovers more than fuck bud
dies? Sex isn’t shameful, which is why I
speak so candidly (though not, as you may
think, exhaustively) about my own sexual
adventures. I want people to reevaluate
what really means something in their lives.
umn would have been too easy. I wanted to
challenge people’s conceptions of sex, their
ideas about the human body and the stig
mas associated with sex.
Sure, I could have gone all Savage
Love and answered readers' questions and
concerns. (This is not to say I don’t admire
Dan Savage; the man is a genius and I
admire, respect, and adore his writing. But I
Mellissa Seecharan
um has kept New Yorkers and tourists tit
illated for nearly 3 years, and doesn't
appear to be slowing down.
MoSex's building resembles one of
its northern, and more upscale neighbors
on Fifth Avenue. It's tiny square windows
(gasp!) other people!
Honestly, this column is not the defini
tive bible of my life. Sex is important to me,
but it’s not what makes me who I am.
There’s a lot more to life than sex, but the
philosophy and practices of sex are so com
plex that it provides me with more than
enough material. Most people think that they
know me because of my column. Those
Betty Page: The grand dame of pin-up vixens.
sights. Luckily for them, the gift shop is
the first room you enter before getting to
the really good stuff. The dimly lit store
mainly offers visitors a wide array of
books like You're Not That Into Him
Either, volumes on Japanese sex cul
ture, and pop-up Kama Sutra materials.
Games, postcards, and a fairly g-rated
selection of sex toys can also be bought.
bodies; I have struggled with mine, some
thing I have discussed in my column. Sex
has actually taught me to appreciate my
body. Sex, when used in the right way, can
absolutely teach us about what our bodies
are capable of. That doesn’t translate to “GO
HAVE SEX WITH EVERYONE!”
One of my close friends recently told
me, “Jess, I used to hate you before I met
you! I read your column and I thought, ‘Who
the hell is she?'” That, I responded, is a very
common reaction. She then said, “But then I
got to know you, and I realized that people
are just jealous because you’re so open
about sex.” She now reads my column regu
larly. Maybe she’s right; maybe riot.
Jealousy, “morals,” snobbery—who the hell
can dissect a person based simply on a let
ter? I don’t know who these people are that
write these letters. What I do know is, that
no matter what they say, I won’t stop writing
what I want and learning from my own expe
riences and the experiences of others. My
readers have always been invited to do the
same. If I upset you, you can turn the page.
A novel concept, but an effective one.
Phew! Only one more sex column to go.
Time for me to slip into saucy sex columnist
mode for the last time. What will I write about
for the column’s climax? You’ll have to wait
with baited breath and, I’m sure, raised
pens.
-Jessica Mendez
“Stags, Smokers, & Blue Movies” exhibit
gets to the bottom of the origins of
American porn films.
The dark gray room, scarcely lit by
eight projectors all running numerous
early films, feels more like a classy porn
store if one were to ever exist. Raised
video platforms on the floor are used as
movie screens where patrons can watch
5-10 minute silent porn movies, many of
which make some of today's porn flicks
seem tame. The oldest known surviving
American stag film "A Free Ride," from
1915, depicts a threesome, and hides
not a single thing. I saw things I thought
images depicting a man and woman in
four different positions aptly called
"Untitled Hardcore Maid and Master," to
I’d never see in those movies. Talk about
acrobatics . . . Almost every kind of sex
can be seen during these films, but some
acts may just leave you gagging or gig
incredibly short films which show the
sensuality of women during each
decade, these photos are nothing less
than art compared to today's gals with
their gratuitous "beaver" shots and failed
"ooh" expressions—two poses that have
been redefined to the -enth degree.
gling like a third grader. And rightfully so.
The Museum of Sex teaches us one
thing—sex has played a huge part in
shaping society, which means you
should embrace it. So, whether you like it
passionate, dirty, illegal or you’re just a
With sexy pin-ups on the walls and
a crowd of men (and women) who yearn
for evermore sexual erudition, MoSex's
virgin trying to get by in a sexed up
world, MoSex is for you. All you need to.
bring is a friend or two, and an open
mind.
�May2,2005
Andrea Batista
In a time when most us would probably
want to sell our soul to the devil to gain
the power to simply pass our last week of
exams, it is useful to look at others that
have done so. The Lab Theater in 1P
recently offered up some excellent
advice on this matter in the form of a
modern adaptation of a popular
Renaissance-era play.
Director and CSI English Professor
Lee Papa staged an inspired adaptation
of “The Tragical History of Doctor
Faustus”. What set this performance
apart from others was its combination of
theatrics and technology. With a larger
budget and more resources than most
Lab Theater productions, the play
exceeded expectations.
The set was impressive; several
large stacks of books were lit eerily with
a purple hue, and a large desk on the left
side competed for attention with a large
projection screen at the center of the
stage.
“What you’re seeing here is a great
ly cut version of the script: characters,
scenes, entire subplots have been edited
out, but all the words the actors speak
are Marlowe’s.” wrote Lee Papa about
his directorial choices. This allowed for
big changes that both enriched and mod
Enrique Inocente
Ichi the Killer takes place in the gritty
underbelly of Shinjuku, a Japanese met
ropolitan area. It tells the tale of Kakihara
(Tadanobu Asano), a sadistic yakuza
killer, and Ichi (Nao Omori), an emotion
ally
unhinged
killing
machine.
Determined to find those .responsible for
murdering his boss,
Kakihara tears apart
and
tortures
rival
gangs for information.
Some of his favorite
methods include shov
ing spikes into faces,
tearing off cheeks, slic
ing nipples, and hang
ing people on hooks by
the flesh of their back.
This is all shown in
unflinching,
graphic
detail!
As it turns out, ex
cop
Jijii
(Shinya
Tsukamoto) is master
minding everything in
an attempt to turn the
gangsters of Japan against each other.
His weapon in this battle is Ichi. Jijii uses
hypnosis to implant false memories into
Ichi to make him think he is killing kids
that raped a girl he knew in high school.
Sadomasochism plays a huge role
in this film as a majority of the characters
either get off on giving pain, receiving it,
or both. One scene in particular has
Ichi’s love interest Karen (Alien Sun)
telling him how sexually aroused she
gets thinking about being slowly dis
isms seduced Faustus into the
dark arts in ways quite sensual
and intriguing despite the detrac
tions of his cos
tume and make
up which made
him seem like a
generic modern
goth kid.
The most
celebrated
change was the
integration
of
ernized the play, but also drew more
attention to the things that did not work in
the performance. Some of the new big
ideas were the casting of Lauren
D’Aversa as Wagner and Michelle
Philippin as two scholars in one. One
Michelle spoke through a DVD player
Michelle’s other character carried in her
hands, creating an interesting split per
sonality. The real Michelle was deadpan
and the digital Michelle’s recorded deliv
ery was animated. The director also cut
most of Fausts’ friends from the play,
leaving only Valdes, played by Chris
Russell, whose androgynous manner
membered. She is unpleasantly sur
prised when Ichi takes her seriously, and
regrets ever confining in him. I don’t want
to give away what happens, but let’s just
say this scene doesn’t end well for
Karen.
Ichi the Killer is based upon a popu
lar and ultra violent manga (Japanese
comic book), and director Takashi Miike
stays true to the stylish
violence depicted in
manga. The violence
in the movie is so out
rageous
that
it’s
almost like watching a
living comic book.
People are cut in half
and peeled apart like a
banana, limbs fly apart
with reckless aban
don, and blood spurts
out of arteries like a
wild hose. This is by
far the most violent
movie ever made in
the history of cinema,
and if it did have an
MPPA Rating, it would
probably X. Hell, the
beginning title of the movie materializes
in a splatter of semen.
Takashi Miike is a director noted for
breaking taboos, and this film is just
another example. Ichi the Killer is defi
nitely not for everyone. I recommend this
movie only to genre specialists, cult
movie fanatics, and those with a strong
stomach. Personally, I loved the movie,
but that’s because I’m a sick individual. I
give this movie my highest rating: four
out of four dismembered corpses.
film into the
play, to recreate the short pas
sages in which Faustus displayed
his newly acquired powers in
ridiculous ways. Some of these
scenes were creative, while others were
just silly.
Despite all the production value and
the carefully selected music, the per
formance itself lacked strength in the
most essential ingredient, acting. While
Director Lee Papa purposefully wished
to portray a younger title character,
Christopher Wegenaar’s portrayal of
Faustus captured neither the image nor
the appropriate attitude for the role of a
doctor. Jamie Lee’s barefoot interpreta
tion of Mephistophilis seemed too over
powering and controlling of Faustus, who
is supposed to be in control. However,
Wegenaar’s almost skeletal appearance
did resemble a man who had neglected
his body for knowledge.
The staging of
the scene in which
the seven deadly
sins
appear to
entice
Faustus,
was a far greater
problem. Following
nearly incompre
hensible recorded
introductions
by
the actor playing
Lucifer, the dance sequences seemed to
be too long and not at all thought out. If
anything, these sins served as an unre
lated independent dance performance
rather than an enticement for Faustus.
They came off as an indulgence of the
director, who perhaps had more
resources than he knew what to do with.
The aspects that worked however,
far outshined those which didn’t, and
the show was a success both in terms
of staging and ticket sales. Leaving the
performance, the few of us that wanted
some kind of advisement to decide if
we should bargain our soul, ended up
with more worries than when we start
ed. But as most of us know, that’s
exactly how advisement sessions at
CSI usually work.
GOSPEL FEST
Monday, May 9th
8:00pm-10:00pm
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stranger to gospel music. He has
become an anchor for gospel
choirs across the country. His
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contemporary gospel music.
Minister Bruce Emory of the Praise Tabernacle Church
will be the MX'..
Additional attractions include:
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SPORTS
May 2,2005
Baseball's Slow Start Due to Significant Lineup Changes
Christian Tubito
The CSI Dolphins kicked off the 2005 sea
son with very little success, winning only
1 game in their first 12. This path is simi
lar to the 2004 season, when the team
started out by winning only 1 of their first
8 games. Despite their rocky start, the
team finished with a respectable record
of 14-15, won the CUNYAC against John
Jay and was rewarded with five players
being chosen for the CUNYAC (City
University of New York All Conference)
Baseball All -Stars. Since the 2004 sea
son, Coach Cali (who has now won 5
CUNYAC championships) has been
forced to make some significant changes
to the starting lineup and pitching rotation
after losing some of those key players,
from the CUNYAC All -Stars list.
Among the CSI players that were
honored in the 2004 season by CUNYAC
were Nick Secchini, Chris Reyes, Tom
Wolhfit, Erik Zinke, and Michael Liconti. In
the present 2005 season, only Wolhfit and
Liconti have returned for another year.
Secchini, who was awarded as the
Most Outstanding pitcher of the 2004
season said, “Last season was great, we
played with a lot of heart and you could
really feel the team pulling together as the
season went along.” Secchini was forced
to take the 2005 season off, after having
shoulder surgery during the summer of
2004. Secchini posted astonishing num
bers with a 1.05 ERA and a 6-0 record. He
had two appearances in which he pitched
shutouts and by the end of the season
had struck out 70 batters in only 43
innings pitched.
“My success last year was because
of the support my team and coach gave
me,” said Secchini. “I feel like I’ve let the
team down, not being able to help them
out when they need me now. It’s painful to
watch them lose and know there is noth
ing I could do to help.” Secchini is going
through rehabilitation daily and hopes to
be fully recuperated by the end of the sea
son. He has not decided if he will return to
CSI for the 2006 season, which would be
his senior year, or if he will test his skills at
a higher level of play.
Reyes, who was awarded Catcher of
the Year for the 2004 season, posted high
numbers with his bat, making his pres
ence felt throughout the league. “CSI has
an underrated baseball program and
there is a lot of talent coming out of this
school,” said Reyes. “But I felt like I need
ed more. I’ve played in better leagues with
more experienced players, and that’s why
I felt I needed to move on.” Reyes posted
a .413 .batting average with a .524 slug
ging percentage and a .479 on-base per
centage. Reyes had previously played in
New Jersey at Brookdale College, a two-
Only Tom Wolhfit and Michael Liconti have returned for another season of CSI baseball. 2004’s star, Nick Secchini has been sidelined with a shoulder injury.
year program that has one of the most
prestigious baseball programs in the TriState area. He now plays for a Staten
Island Men’s League and is not attending
any college. “We lacked team chemistry
at the beginning of the season,” said
Reyes. ‘We learned to work as a team
and you could see the improvements we
made as the season went along.
Reyes’ backup in the catcher posi
tion, Rich Castaldo, also posted good
numbers batting .292 with 3 homeruns
and 14 hits. Castaldo, who left the team to
play at St. Francis in Brooklyn said,
“coach Cali is a great guy and I loved
playing for him, but some of the players
on our team were more into themselves
rather than our team as a whole. I moved
to another school for better opportunities,
where I’m guaranteed a starting position.”
At St. Francis now, Castaldo is struggling,
bating .222 with 5 hits in 27 at-bats.
Zinke, who was awarded one of the
four outfielder awards, left the team after
graduation, leaving a mark to be remem
bered for seasons to come. He had won
Rookie of the Year honors in 2001 at
Baruch College and transferred the fol
lowing season, to bring his skills back
home. He had an amazing .385 batting
average, with 6 doubles, 3 triples, 3
homeruns and a team-leading 32 RBI’s
and 37 hits in the 2004 season. Zinke,
who was unavailable for comment, left the
team after 2 Division III All-American sea
sons and last years CUNYAC All-Star
season.
The two remaining CUNYAC AllStars from the 2004 season, Wolhfit (DH)
and LiConti (Utility), need to be leaders in
the 2005 season, if the team wants a
repeat of last year’s success. LiConti has
not done too well so far, batting only .222
with 6 hits, after a .380 season last year.
Liconti said, “I’m in a small slump right
now, I’m putting the bat on the ball and hit
ting it well, [I’m] just placing it wrong. I
need to be a leader on the team this year,
and my play so far has been letting the
team down. Coach Cali has been giving
me a few pointers, and I’m sure my game
will improve soon.”
On the other hand, Wolhfit, who post
ed a .407 batting average with 24 hits and
3 homeruns, has continued his all-star
ways this season, batting .367 with a
team-leading 11 hits. “I’m going to do
what I can to help our team win,” said
Wolhfit, “but there’s only so much I can
do. We need to make a name for them
selves. Just like last year we had a few
guys step up, this is others chance to do
the same.”
If the Dolphins want to make a tri
umphant run for the title this season, they
will need experienced players such as
Jaime Lee, Anthony Hillery and Adam
Cotayo to create wins for the rest of the
season.
Lee, who hit .328 last season with 2
homeruns is hitting .259 with 7 hits.
Though these are fairly average numbers,
Lee needs to bat well over .300 and dis
tinguish himself among of CUNY’s top
players.
Hillery who batted .347 with 17 hits
last year is moving at a slow pace, only
batting .231. Hillery, who leads the team in
at-bats, needs to produce more than a
.231 average to give the Dolphins a
chance. There is no team that can be suc
cessful with its leadoff man batting below
.250. Hillery will play a major role in the
future, and it is doubtful CSI will repeat
without production in the number 1 slot.
This season, Adam Cotayo will be
the key to the Dolphins pitching. In 2004
Cotayo had a so-so ERA of 6.75 in his
43.2 innings pitched. Cotayo had more
innings thrown than CUNYAC all-star Nick
Secchini, showing Coach Cali’s confi
dence in Cotayo’s arm to keep the runs off
of the scoreboard. Cotayo has thrown 20
innings so far this season and improved
his ERA to 4.50. If the Dolphins can pro
duce runs similar to last year, Cotayo will
lead them to many victories.
The Dolphins, have a ton of talent on
the team, it is just a question of who will
set up, when will they do it, and will it be
in time to save the season. Coach Cali is
confident in his team and would agree
that this will be a season to remember. As
of April 19th, the team has gone 8-14.
Against CUNY teams, they are 7-1.
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College
of
Staten
Island
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April
2005
NEWS ANALYSIS
Mellissa Seecharan
April 6—Hundreds of concerned Staten
Islanders filled CSI’s Williamson Theater
to confront Staten Island politicians and
City officials during a tense 2-hour townhall-style live broadcast of NY1’s ‘The
Road to City Hall.” The show was simul
cast on CSI’s radio station, WSIA.
The meeting, hosted by NY1’s
Political Reporters Dominic Carter and
Davidson Goldin, featured several pan
els of local officials and a Question-andAnswer format. The panels covered
major Staten Island concerns such as
public safety, overdevelopment, educa
tion, the proposed NASCAR track, and
traffic and transit.
The broadcast featured an inquiry
from
CSI’s
Student Government
President Dwighf Dunkley, who asked
why more money wasn’t being invested
in CUNY. “The City University of New
York every day is helping to strengthen
the City of New York by producing topnotch graduates,” Dunkley said. Deputy
Mayor Doctoroff replied, “the administra
tion of CUNY and many of the individual
colleges that make up CUNY have done
a spectacular job. CUNY is the backbone
in many ways of ensuring that New York
remains the city of opportunity.”
Most of Staten Island’s elected offi
cials, including Borough President
James Molinaro, District Attorney Daniel
O’Donovan, and all three City Council
Representatives were in attendance and
served on the panels. In addition, NYPD
Commissioner Ray Kelly and Deputy
Mayor Dan Doctoroff served on panels
as well.
One of the chief concerns raised by
attendees was safety, and the proposed
fourth police precinct for Staten Island.
“Mayor Bloomberg is a man of his word,”
said Commissioner Kelly, responding to
an accusation by NY1’s Moderator,
Dominic Carter, that the precinct is an
empty election year promise. “Even
though crime is down, when you look at
the projected growth, it calls for a fourth
precinct. That is what the mayor is com
mitted to do.”
District Attorney
O’Donovan noted that because of the
geography of Staten Island, three
precincts would not suffice. “If you were
to build three precincts on Staten Island,”
he said, “you wouldn’t build them where
they presently are.”
When Carter asked for an informal
show of hands to gauge whether those in
On a Thursday afternoon just before
1:30 PM, Dwight Dunkley hastily enters
the Student Government office. He bare
ly has time to settle in as he calls a
bimonthly SG meeting to order. His
almost year-long seat, located at the
head of the rectangular table crowded
with 16 Senators, reflects his position as
CSI’s Student Government President.
But as the school year comes to an end,
so does Dunkley’s run as the student
body leader, which means we can now
reflect on his service to the college. What
have been Dwight Dunkley’s achieve
ments as SG President?
“Being President has made me a
better person,” said Dunkley as he
reflected on his term. “It has helped to
enhance my leadership and team build
ing skills. I have become more sensitive
of how other people think and feel.”
After having served as a Senator
under the presidency of Shereen Kandil,
Dunkley was inspired to run for the posi
tion. Dunkley’s quest for the then vacant
seat began one year ago, when contro
versy inadvertently struck. From the
summer of 2004 until October of the Fall
semester, both Dunkley and his opposi
tion Stephanie Donoso, were caught in
an electoral deadlock. At the time, large
portions of the president-less Student
Government meetings were spent trying
to resolve the standstill. It wasn’t until
October 21st that Dunkley was elected
Student Government President.
“Coming into the term late can hurt,”
said Political Science Professor Richard
Flanagan, who worked with Student
Government two years ago. “It makes
the job harder, much like Bush in 2000.”
At the time he took over as
President, Dunkley told student Senators
that despite the late start, they were
going to accomplish a lot. Five months
later, Dunkley’s remarks have held true.
Under Dunkley’s leadership, the Student
Government has accomplished most of
what they intended to do, including
cosponsoring a trip to Albany with
NYPIRG to fight the proposed tuition
hike, and most recently hosting a town
hall meeting where students were able to
Continued on Page 3
Are you hoping to get a tax refund this
year? The time for procrastination is
over, and the due date for filing your tax
return is just days away. Many students
make a number of assumptions when fil
ing their return, so before you file this
year, here are a few things to keep in
mind.
Most students should have all of the
documentation required to file a return in
place by now.
Some students may be entitled to a
significant refund if they file. According to
Mr. Gregory Cicero, a partner at Bruno,
Cicero, and Loverdo, PA, and an
accounting professor at CSI for more
than ten years, every student need not
file a return. However, “if they have
earned income and they have had taxes
On February 23, the Publications Board
at CSI reluctantly voted to approve a
measure to pay a 5% accounting fee to
the CSI Association. While this is not the
first year that the board voted to approve
the fee, many of the members appeared
puzzled as to the existence of the fee.
Peri Fisher, a Graduate Student and
member of Student Government and edi
tor of the Third Rail (and the Publications
Board), was unaware of the fee being
charged. “Nobody has ever mentioned to
me anything about paying a fee,” she
said. “I do feel that it is wrong for an oncampus organization for whom we are
required to send our financial matters to
charge us for that service. If they’re
going to charge us for this service, we
should be allowed to get our own
Many professors in the English
Department
believe
that
Prof.
Fahamisha Brown deserves tenure.
Prof. Matthew Greenfield has asserted
that Prof. Brown’s book “is the second or
third most important book on African
American poetry.” At the same time,
English Department Chair Janet Dudley
reiterated that Prof. Brown’s evluation
was “unfair.”
CSI’s Head of Academic Affairs,
Provost David Podell, responded: “A
candidate for tenure in the English
Department, and in every other depart
ment of the College, is considered in a
process of peer review. This entails con
sideration and vote by Department and
college committees elected by the facul
ty. The votes of these committees are
recommendations that are considered by
the President of the College who, based
on her academic judgment, forwards her
positive recommendations to the CUNY
Board of Trustees.”
Podell believes that each professor
has the same chance of getting tenure
as long as they keep up their scholarly
work. “I can assure you that the tenure
process is applied fairly for all candidates
at the College of Staten Island,” he said.
Continued on Page 3
Monday, April 11
1C West Dining Room 9 am- 9 pm
Tuesday, April 12
Library Lobby 9:00 am-9:00 pm
Wednesday, April 13
1C West Dining Room 9 am- 9 pm
Thursday, April 14
1C West Dining Room 9 am- 9 pm
Friday, April 15
Library Lobby 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday, April 16
Library Lobby 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Continued on Page 3
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College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
March 28,2005
Women s Softball Looks Towards A Bright Season
Orum€ Ag beyeg be
The Dolphins recently concluded a pre
season
trip
to
Florida.
Diana
Consolmagno, a Graduate Assistant on
the team said, “It was a great experi
ence. We got to see a lot of ball that we
are not going to be able to see in this
area. A lot of those teams down there are
able to be outside a lot sooner. They
already played about 10 games before
we got to play.” The team played six
games, and went 1-5.
Coach Stella Porto said, “In order to
go to Florida, you play the teams that
have players in the .667 percentage,”
said Coach Porto, “which gives you more
NCAA points. You have to play teams
that are a lot tougher than you, and you
play a tougher schedule all year round.
We did really well.” However, she has
had to make some adjustments since
then. “I went with a 20 rooster in
September, now I am down to a 14 roos
ter.”
A number of injuries in Florida
affected the team. Christina DArpa, an
All American first runner up last season,
“hurt her knee, and she is on medical
leave from pitching,” said Coach Porto.
She will be playing third base. The coach
intends to have a third pitcher ready in
case any of the other pitchers get in trou
ble. “But I’m looking for Christina to be
relieved right now, just to take pressure
off her knee.” Some injured players have
been removed from the season lineup.
Back Row (L-R): Diana Consolmagno (Graduate Assistant), Jenn Rosa (Assistant Coach), Nicole Estrada, Dana Glenncrstcr, Theresa
Icpcdino, Andrea Meise, Christina D'Arpa, Jen Doscher, Katie Rossetti, Andrea Lisi, Charles Mattera (Assistant Coach); Front Row (LR): Nina Marie Lucchini, Melissa Quiles, Michele Mazza, Megan Donohue, Nicole Pignatelli Front: Stella Porto (Head Coach)
Others are still on medical leave and will
return as soon as possible. Nicole
Estrada is on the injured list. “I tore my
ACL,” she said, but hopes to recover
soon.
Last Monday evening, the team
practiced on their new field. Jason Fein,
CSI’s Associate Director of Athletics, said
a lot of work went into getting both the
football and softball fields ready for the
season. They put in a new system,
which “drains very well.” Melissa Quiles
agreed. “It is a thousand times belter.
The old field, running to the outfield, you
got stuck in holes."
The team practices five days a
week, and last week was the first time
they were able to practice outside, on the
new field. Pitching Coach Jenn Rosa
was busy with the pitchers getting their
speed up. Her goal is to get them to,
“reach the maximum that they can
reach.” The players appear to be up to
the challenge. They are excited with the
new team, which has eight new fresh
men. “Before we went away, (to Florida)
we weren’t too close,” said Melissa
Quiles. “Being with each other 24/7 was
really good. Andrea Lisi concurred. “It
was a great bonding experience,” she
said.
The team is looking forward to the
season opening game on Saturday,
March 26. The double-header game that
had not yet occurred as of the press
deadline was against New Jersey City
University and NYC college of
Technology.
Three captains who are all seniors
lead Dolphin’s softball team. Jen
Doscher all-star short stop transfer from
NYIT, Division II; Melissa Quiles, second
baseman and outfielder; and Theresa
Tepedino, advanced all-star, outfielder
and catcher from St Peter’s Division I.
The pitchers are Nicole Pignatelli, and
Katie Rossetti. Dana Glennerster, a jun
ior, is the first baseman and Megan
Donohue, a newcomer, will play infield
and outfield. Also returning as an out
fielder is Andrea Meise.
Head Coach Stella Porto is in her
third season with CSI’s softball team.
When she was a student at CSI, she
played for the softball team, and they
won the state championship in 1988.
She has carried her winning ways over
as a coach. Last season, she led the
women’s softball team to victory in the
CUNY softball championship against
Hunter College. This victory earned the
Dolphins their first automatic berth into
the NCAA Division III Tournament. She
has high expectations for this season.
The Dolphin’s schedule includes 40
playoffs, and they are looking forward to
a great season. “We are in good shape,
and we love the game,” said Quiles.
New Tennis Coach, Chris Kim, Prepares His Team
Lucie Lauria
SI’s men’s tennis team started the
new season on March 23 with a
home match against Rutgers.
The Dolphins have a new head
Chris Kim, who is a CSI alumni and for
mer Dolphin player. Kim replaced Bruce
Knittle, who resigned last year. Paul
Riccardi remains in the assistant posi
tion.
C
Kim is a certified tennis instructor
and has worked as such for 12 years. He
has also been working as a ful-time ten
nis professional at the Staten Island
Tennis Club since the club started at CSI.
Chris began with tennis early on as a
child and got really passionate about it.
Later, he continued as a successful high
school and college player. He played on
the CSI team for four years. His team
won the CUNY Championship twice.
Let’s hope, he will have the same suc
cess as a coach.
Chris Kim has already been practic
the team often outdoors as soon as the
ing with the team for two months at the
weather improves. This year, the team
bubble. CSI is the
only college with
an indoor tennis
facility
in
the
coach,
CUNY confernce.
The opportunity to
practice indoors in
the
comfortably
heated
bubble
gives the Dolphins
the upper hand
over others in
terms of a greater
practice
time.
However,
this
could get a bit
tricky because the New Dolphins Tennis Coach Chris Kim has been holding tennis practice in the bubble. “All the
“bubble
spoiled” guys on the team are keen tennis players, and that is what counts,” said Kim! “The boys will go
out there and do their best. All I want from them is never to beat themselves.”
Dolphins won’t be
prepared for the harsh conditions at away
has three returning players—Gellerman,
matches.
Sherman, and Sandhuin. The other play
Coach Kim intends to practice with
ers are new Dolphin members. According
to the coach, “the team does not have
any top players; the first four seeds are
pretty much even. In this situation, the
players are motivated to work hard to
improve because of their close line-ups.
Next week, we have challenge matches
that will determine the final ranking. It
should be interesting.”
“All the guys on the team are keen
tennis players and that is what counts,”
continued Kim. “It is not only about win
ning or losing; the boys will go out there
and do their best. All I want from them is
never to beat themselves. They are all in
good shape, however, everyone has
something to improve technically.” Kim
pointed out that he tries to give individual
attention to every player to improve their
technique and to eliminate bad habits.
CSI’s hopes are high, despite
rumors that Baruch is strong this season.
All CSI tennis fans are welcome to come
support the Dolphins.
�The
College
of
Staten
Island
ApriM 1,2005
NEWS ANALYSIS
Mellissa Seecharan
David Maltz
April 6—Hundreds of concerned Staten
Islanders filled CSI’s Williamson Theater
to confront Staten Island politicians and
City officials during a tense 2-hour townhall-style live broadcast of NYTs “The
Road to City Hall.” The show was simul
cast on CSI’s radio station, WSIA.
The meeting, hosted by NY1’s
Political Reporters Dominic Carter and
Davidson Goldin, featured several pan
els of local officials and a Question-andAnswer format. The panels covered
major Staten Island concerns such as
public safety, overdevelopment, educa
tion, the proposed NASCAR track, and
traffic and transit.
The broadcast featured an inquiry
from
CSI’s
Student
Government
President Dwight Dunkley, who asked
why more money wasn’t being invested
in CUNY. ‘The City University of New
York every day is helping to strengthen
the City of New York by producing topnotch graduates,” Dunkley said. Deputy
Mayor Doctoroff replied, “the administra
tion of CUNY and many of the individual
colleges that make up CUNY have done
a spectacular job. CUNY is the backbone
in many ways of ensuring that New York
remains the city of opportunity.”
Most of Staten Island’s elected offi
cials, including Borough President
James Molinaro, District Attorney Daniel
O’Donovan, and all three City Council
Representatives were in attendance and
served on the panels. In addition, NYPD
Commissioner Ray Kelly and Deputy
Mayor Dan Doctoroff served on panels
as well.
One of the chief concerns raised by
attendees was safety, and the proposed
fourth police precinct for Staten Island.
“Mayor Bloomberg is a man of his word,”
said Commissioner Kelly, responding to
an accusation by NY1’s Moderator,
Dominic Carter, that the precinct is an
empty election year promise. “Even
though crime is down, when you look at
the projected growth, it calls for a fourth
precinct. That is what the mayor is com
mitted to
do.”
District Attorney
O’Donovan noted that because of the
geography of Staten Island, three
precincts would not suffice. “If you were
to build three precincts on Staten Island,”
he said, “you wouldn’t build them where
they presently are.”
When Carter asked for an informal
show of hands to gauge whether those in
On a Thursday afternoon just before
1:30 PM, Dwight Dunkley hastily enters
the Student Government office. He bare
ly has time to settle in as he calls a
bimonthly SG meeting to order. His
almost year-long seat, located at the
head of the rectangular table crowded
with 16 Senators, reflects his position as
CSI’s Student Government President.
But as the school year comes to an end,
so does Dunkley’s run as the student
body leader, which means we can now
reflect on his service to the college. What
have been Dwight Dunkley’s achieve
ments as SG President?
“Being President has made me a
better person,” said Dunkley as he
reflected on his term. “It has helped to
enhance my leadership and team build
ing skills. I have become more sensitive
of how other people think and feel.”
After having served as a Senator
under the presidency of Shereen Kandil,
Dunkley was inspired to run for the posi
tion. Dunkley’s quest for the then vacant
seat began one year ago, when contro
versy inadvertently struck. From the
summer of 2004 until October of the Fall
semester, both Dunkley and his opposi
tion Stephanie Donoso, were caught in
an electoral deadlock. At the time, large
portions of the president-less Student
Government meetings were spent trying
to resolve the standstill. It wasn’t until
Kevin S.P. Mamakas
October 21st that Dunkley was elected
Student Government President.
“Coming into the term late can hurt,”
said Political Science Professor Richard
Flanagan, who worked with Student
Government two years ago. “It makes
the job harder, much like Bush in 2000.”
At the time he took over as
President, Dunkley told student Senators
that despite the late start, they were
going to accomplish a lot. Five months
later, Dunkley’s remarks have held true.
Under Dunkley’s leadership, the Student
Government has accomplished most of
what they intended to do, including
cosponsoring a trip to Albany with
NYPIRG to fight the proposed tuition
hike, and most recently hosting a town
hall meeting where students were able to
Continued on Page 3
Are you hoping to get a tax refund this
year? The time for procrastination is
over, and the due date for filing your tax
return is just days away. Many students
make a number of assumptions when fil
ing their return, so before you file this
year, here are a few things to keep in
mind.
Most students should have all of the
documentation required to file a return in
place by now.
Some students may be entitled to a
significant refund if they file. According to
Mr. Gregory Cicero, a partner at Bruno,
Cicero, and Loverdo, PA, and an
accounting professor at CSI for more
than ten years, every student need not
file a return. However, “if they have
earned income and they have had taxes
On February 23, the Publications Board
at CSI reluctantly voted to approve a
measure to pay a 5% accounting fee to
the CSI Association. While this is not the
first year that the board voted to approve
the fee, many of the members appeared
puzzled as to the existence of the fee.
Peri Fisher, a Graduate Student and
member of Student Government and edi
tor of the Third Rail (and the Publications
Board), was unaware of the fee being
charged. “Nobody has ever mentioned to
me anything about paying a fee,” she
said. “I do feel that it is wrong for an oncampus organization for whom we are
required to send our financial matters to
charge us for that service. If they're
going to charge us for this service, we
should be allowed to get our own
Many professors in the English
Department
believe
that
Prof.
Fahamisha Brown deserves tenure.
Prof. Matthew Greenfield has asserted
that Prof. Brown’s book “is the second or
third most important book on African
American poetry.” At the same time,
English Department Chair Janet Dudley
reiterated that Prof. Brown’s evluation
was "unfair.”
CSI’s Head of Academic Affairs,
Provost David Podell, responded: “A
candidate for tenure in the English
Department, and in every other depart
ment of the College, is considered in a
process of peer review. This entails con
sideration and vote by Department and
college committees elected by the facul
ty. The votes of these committees are
recommendations that are considered by
the President of the College who, based
on her academic judgment, forwards her
positive recommendations to the CUNY
Board of Trustees.”
Podell believes that each professor
has the same chance of getting tenure
as long as they keep up their scholarly
work. “I can assure you that the tenure
process is applied fairly for all candidates
at the College of Staten Island," he said.
Continued on Page 3
VOTE IN THE UPCOMING
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
ELECTIONS
Monday, April 11
1C West Dining Room 9 am- 9 pm
Tuesday, April 12
Library Lobby 9:00 am-9:00 pm
Wednesday, April 13
1C West Dining Room 9 am- 9 pm
Thursday, April 14
1C West Dining Room 9 am- 9 pm
Friday, April 15
Library Lobby 9:00 am -- 5:00 pm
Saturday, April 16
Library Lobby 9:00 am - 4:00.pm
Continued on Page 3
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�f BANNER
s
Jennifer Mosscrop
Williamson
Theater,
March
31st—Frank Meeink, whose life
is recreated in the film, American
History X, spoke with students
and faculty about his involvement
with the skinhead movement of
the early 90's and the coinciden
tal series of events that eventual
ly turned his life around. While he
pointed out that only half of
American History X is true, the
blind hatred and senseless vio
lence portrayed was all to real for
Meeink, his Aryan brothers, and
their victims.
Seated off to the left of the
stripped down stage, slightly
slumped and gripping the micro
phone, Meeink slowly recalled
how by 18 years old he had
Frank Meeink speaks to CSI students about his violent past, his
become head of the South Philly
time spent in prison, and how it changed his life.
chapter of the Christian identity
skinhead group, Strike Force. He
Arian brothers in jail, Meeink felt more of
also explained the techniques that he
a connection with his black friends. "We
used to recruit people into neo-nazism.
would talk about our girlfriends and ana
"Always get the ones with the car first,"
lyze the letters they sent us," he
said Meeink. "Then get the kids who are
recalled.
[passengers] in the cars."
"When I was released I was cool
Meeink and his brothers would
with everybody," he said. He started to
attend concerts and parties or "Aryan
question his stereotypes and realized
tests," where they would network with
that the stereotypes were wrong. His
other skinhead groups from different
first job out of prison was moving furni
states. They would go out, get drunk,
ture for people at an antique roadshow.
and beat up Jews, African-Americans,
Meeink's boss happened to be Jewish.
homosexuals or anyone else they didn’t
He didn't talk to him unless it was about
like. They even videotaped their torture.
the Flyers, their favorite hockey team.
The skinhead movement grew
Meeink was convinced that his boss
when they would network with other
was going to "Jew him" out of money at
skinhead groups across the country;
the end of the weekend. It turned out
also with the help of the media.
that he paid Meeink an extra hundred. "I
Reporters were hungry to break a story
couldn't hold on to any conception I had
that involved a controversial group like
about people," he remembered. "God
the skinheads. "The media helped the
annihilated my stereotypes." He
movement grow," he explained. Meeink
believed that Jewish people were all
described how local reporters would ask
brought up with money but he learned
readers to check out the skinhead-run
that his boss was an ex-addict who built
cable access shows in their articles—
his business up from the ground.
they even included the date and time of
He now dedicates his time speak
the program.
ing out against hate crimes in schools
He told the audience how he slit
across the country. "I'm a stay at home
both of his wrists after drinking a case of
dad," said Meeink. "This seems to be
beer alone at his friend’s house. The only
his way of making up for the things he
reason he survived was because the
did," said NYPIRG Project Coordinator
moment he stepped outside, a neighbor
Dan Sotting. "Now he can help other
happened to see Meeink all bloody. The
people."
neighbor called the police and Meeink
So what became of his skinhead
was sent to a mental hospital.
friends? Meeink told the audience that
He was sentenced to 3-5 years for
some who specialized in nazi tattoos
violently beating a gay man. His time in
are now specializing in tattoo removal;
jail was a blessing in disguise. "All my
some traded in their shaved heads for
stereotypes were eventually broken,"
dreads, while others are still skinheads
said Meeink. A black inmate asked
and loath Meeink.
Meeink to attend a bible reading group
"It’s an old cliche but I really believe
from 8-9 pm. He attended those meet
what comes around goes around," said
ings daily and became good friends with
Meeink. "If you show love and respect to
members of the group, who were most
others, you’ll get it back. Once I did that,
ly black. Though there were a lot of his
I never wanted to kill myself again."
2
ing temperature, I lifted up the brown
piece of metal hiding the controls, only to
see a dusty strip of duct tape with the
Stumbling into the campus library the
words
“needs new thermostat 6/3/03”
other day, completely soaked, and mildly
written
on it in a manic, faded scrawl.
frozen by the unpredictable March
Annoyed,
I escaped to the bathroom to
weather, I wiped rain off my face and
find myself staring at
peered
into
the
a broken urinal and
foyer. Besides the
exposed
pipes
usual bored security
which
have
been
in
and straggling stu
this
sorry
state
since
dents having inane
the beginning of the
conversations into
semester. After shift
their cell phones, I
ing to an alternate
noticed something
porcelain
recepta
new. Hanging on the
cle, I was soon out
left wall, directly over
of there, and back to
the copy machine,
the
stifling second
was a large flat
floor study area.
screen
television,
Sitting down at
blathering out snip
the
table—which
pets of local news
wobbled from side to
from
NY1.
side in ways oddly
Wondering to myself
familiar—I couldn’t
why bored students
help but think about
and
photocopy
junkies need such Exorbitant flatscreen television hangs pointlessly over sev the shiny new tele
vision hanging on
widescreen enter eral missing floor tiles in Library’s lobby.
the wall in 1L. This
tainment, I flashed
trend seemed to
my ID to the languishing security guard,
start with flat monitors for the computers
and headed off into belly of the beast to
in the library. Soon after their arrival, a
do some research.
medium-sized
television appeared on a
An hour or so later, having extricat
wall
in
one
of
the administration build
ed what I needed from the entangle
ings.
Bigger
and
better seemed to be the
ments of the world wide web, I pushed
way
to
go,
and
shortly
the colorful elec
open the library door and headed in the
tronic
display
appeared
at the main cam
direction of 2S, through the steady rain
pus
entrance.
And
now
the large televi
which was now changing steadily to
sion
hangs
oddly
in
a
corner
of the 1L
snow.
entrance.
Swearing under my breath as I
One could argue—as I’m sure
shook the snow off my shoulders in the
administration
would— that the flat
vestibule of 2S a couple minutes later, I
screen
monitors
and televisions make
shouldered through the doors and
our
college
look
more technologically
stepped into the study lounge. Sitting
sophisticated.
But
it’s
doubtful that new
down at a highly abused table which
televisions
can
uphold
the image and
wobbled incessantly from side to side, I
reputation
of
CSI
while
the rest of the
wiped the last vestiges of water from my
college
falls
down
around
us. I guess we
eyes and looked around. Besides the
should
be
reassured
by
the
notion that if
rapidly decaying couches and vending
this
trend
continues,
and
the
entire cam
machines filled with enough sugar to
pus
is
reduced
to
a
steaming
pile of rub
drop a herd of diabetic rhinos, the left
in
a
couple
years,
students
can get
ble
wall seemed to have a festering open
their
education
from
a
gigantic
plasma
sore where I assume a clock used to be.
television
belting
out
news
from
a
corpo
Adding to the morbid ambience, several
rate-owned
television
station
repeating
snake-like inches of electrical wire had
the same stories every half hour.
found its way out of the hole, and
Admittedly, things could be worse. At
seemed to search for something or
least we get cable.
someone to electrocute. On either side
At the March 23 Town hall meeting,
of the room, computers more than seven
President Marlene Springer explained
years old—I know this, because they
that these televisions are gifts from bene
don’t have USB ports— stared blankly at
factors of the college, and so can’t be
me, daring someone to fondle their dirtconverted to funds for maintenance.
stained keyboards.
While we should be grateful for these
Searching for a more conducive
gifts that beautify our college, perhaps
work environment, I stomped up the
the administration should work on com
stairs to the one-table study area directly
municating to these gift-givers that super
to the right of the staircase. Before I even
ficial decorations are not exactly what we
sat my bag down, I was sweating.
need. And if they insist on giving us flat
Rushing over to the dented heater in
televisions, maybe we could start using
hopes of somehow lowering the swelter
them to cover the holes in our walls.
Matthew Safford
�April 11,2005
Staff and
Contributors
JENNIFER MOSSCROP
DAVID MALTZ
ENRIQUE INOCENTE
MATTHEW SAFFORD
JESSICA MENDEZ
MELLISSA SEECHARAN
LUKE CRISALLI
ORUME AGBEVEGBE
DOMINIC FIDUCCIA
AMANDA FOOTE
BRIAN GONZALEZ
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
GR.EG TUMBARELLO
PHILIP SICILIANO
EVA AND EPSTEIN
LEEZA SELLABASEE
WILHELM W.K. KARLSON
DR. YODA, PH.D.
KAYA HEMPSTALK
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
GOALS ACHIEVED BY PRESIDENT DUNKLEY
—continued from poge I
voice their complaints and compliments
to CSI President Marlene Springer.
“Our greatest accomplishment is
that we have done what we said we
would do,” asserted Dunkley. However,
he named the increase of Student
Government visibility as the group’s
paramount achievement.
When Dunkley first joined the stu
dent leader group two years ago, he
noticed that one of the main problems
the group faced was that they always
worked hard, but their presence wasn’t
properly felt or visible. With the develop
ment of an official logo, Dunkley believes
students will become more aware of the
role Student Government plays on cam
pus. “We have declared a logo and a
logo policy that will make sure the stu
dent government we leave for the future
will have more visibility than ever,” he
stated, praising the Senators work. “This
will reinforce student confidence that
they have advocates for them and will
matic and engaging.”
As a student leader, Dunkley’s
schedule is based on time management,
an obstacle he finds the hardest to over
come. “I struggle much harder than most
people I know with managing my time
most effectively,” he said. There are so
many meetings, deadlines, and bus
schedules. It’s dizzying.”
Sometimes Dunkley’s greatest
obstacle emerges during the Student
Government meetings. At the end of the
February 17th meeting, Olasupo and
Dunkley briefly argued. Olasupo stated
“the meeting should reflect the minutes,”
regarding Dunkley’s drive to fit two
hour’s worth of issues into a shortened,
hour-long meeting.
Despite criticism, which according to
Flanagan anyone in a leadership posi
tion is open to, Dunkley continues to ful
fill his presidential duties until the last
hour of his term. He notes that his “pres
As Dunkley s term slowly winds down,
he s starting to think about the years to come—years
that definitely will be politically driven. “Politics is every
where and in almost everything, ” he commented.
“But politics is only a part of civic leadership,
and I would love to be a civic
leader some day. ”
help upcoming student governments
remain connected to the student body.
On a personal level, Dunkley could
n’t be more proud that students are able
to come up to him to complain about
issues such as lighting at the front
entrance of the campus or problems with
the loop bus.
The delayed election only made
Dunkley want to create an environment
that was more united and workable. He
feels that he has kept his “promise of
being everyone’s president” and worked
hard to make sure those who didn’t sup
port him were welcomed. However,
some Senators have shown displeasure
during recent meetings. During a meet
ing on March 3rd, Dunkley and Student
Government Vice President Taiwo
Olasupo left their seats to discuss other
issues leaving many of the Senators
upset. Senator Donoso has remarked on
Dunkley’s failure to execute a meeting’s
agenda, on SG meetings’ shortened
schedules, on Dunkley’s rhetoric, and on
the habit of spending too much time on
insignificant matters.
“It takes a lot to be a leader,” said
Professor Flanagan. “You need to have
the ability to build consensus, keep
things straight, handle a lot of paperwork
and be bureaucratic. Dunkley is charis
idency isn’t over yet,” and “the best is yet
to come” with the Student Government
plans for tsunami relief efforts, more
organization against the pending tuition
hike, and hopes for a website and
newsletter.
‘There are any number of things that
could be an excuse for not performing,"
Dunkley asserted. “We got in there and
attacked student apathy.”
As Dunkley’s term slowly winds
down, he’s starting to think about the
years to come—years that definitely will
be politically driven. “Politics is every
where and in almost everything,” he
commented. “But politics is only a part of
civic leadership, and I would love to be a
civic leader some day.”
With only one year left at CSI,
Dunkley doesn’t count out running for
another term, as long as Student
Government will have him again, a body
Dunkley feels managed to have
remained cordial and friendly, a task
which is very hard.
But Dunkley did have some words of
advice for those future Student
Government presidential candidates:
“Find your own way, enjoy the experi
ence, and most importantly, wait until I
graduate.”
NY 1 @ CSI
—continued from page I —
attendance believed that a fourth police
precinct would be formed, half respond
ed that they found it unlikely. “People
will believe what they want to believe,”
Kelly backfired. “I have every reason to
believe that it will happen. You will see
money for it in the 2006 capital budget.”
Despite reassurances from Kelly,
attendees repeatedly complained about
the current state of the police depart
ment on Staten Island, citing the small
number of Emergency Services Unit
officers assigned to Staten Island.
“Crime is down,” Kelly reassured the
audience. “The department is down
10%. We have to work with wh'at we
have.”
“We have to put them where the
targets are,” Kelly added, in response to
complaints about the lack of anti-terror
ism “Atlas” units on Staten Island.
On the subject of politics, Carter
noted that Staten Island overwhelmingly
votes Republican, a fact that Borough
President Molinaro attempted to down
play. “We pick who we think will be the
best for Staten Island,” he said. “It does
n’t matter if they’re democratic or repub
lican. I would endorse Mayor Bloomberg
even if he was a democrat," he added.
“We should endorse whoever is best for
Staten Island.”
City Councilman James Oddo, who
at times has been at odds with
Bloomberg, tried to downplay his differ
ences with the Mayor. “My endgame in
seven years in office has always been
the same,” said Oddo, “and that’s what’s
good for my district. The reason why I
think I’m a good public official, but a
crappy politician, is because when peo
ple ask me a question, I’ve always been
forthright.”
At every mention of the proposed
NASCAR Track on the West Shore, the
crowd booed and jeered. An audience
member accused Molinaro and “his
posse” of trying to make NASCAR a
“done deal.” “When someone comes to
Staten Island and wants to spend
$500,000,000, I have a responsibility to
analyze it,” Molinaro shouted back. “I’m
not for NASCAR and I’m not against it.”
Molinaro echoed that sentiment when
two proposed Wal Mart stores were
brought up.
The crowd steadily diminished as
the meeting went on. By the end of the
meeting, attendance had shrunk to one
half the original size.
NY1 will hold their next town hall
episode of “The Road to City Hall” at an
undetermined date and location next
month in Queens.
Despite a number of inane queries
and the fact that many who wanted to
speak were not given a chance, NYTs
broadcast provided an important oppor
tunity for Staten Islanders to make
themselves heard by the people in
power.
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�CSI Student
Apologizes
t the 2005 CUNY Media Conference
on March 8th, I publicly shamed and
embarrassed the entire College of
Staten Island with one stupid, idiotic
comment. Not only was I representing
the whole school, but the Banner, a cam
pus publication that expects their per
sonnel to be tactful and discreet, neither
of which I was at that moment. I did
everyone—students, faculty, administra
tion, and especially the Banner staff—a
great disservice that can never be fully
repaired.
Many students attended the
Conference, hoping to give their
resumes to and be considered for jobs
by some of the major media outlets that
were there. Also, many students want to
make a good impression on the faculty
(and particularly the Dean, to whom I
said the infamous statement) of the
, newly formed CUNY Graduate School of
Journalism, which will only be initially
accepting fifty students out of all CUNY
schools. Needless to say, the chances
for acceptance were slim already, with
out some jerk to make it look like all stu
dents from CSI were just as immature
as he was. The Conference was a big
opportunity for all of them, and they were
completely undeserving of such a crass
remark. Some of them believe that I was
“trying to screw them over,” but please
be convinced that I had no malicious
intent towards anyone.
Why did I do it? What possessed me
to say such a thing? I have heard those
questions many times since. Honestly, I
cannot offer a logical answer, except that
I did not understand the seriousness of
the occasion, or realize that my comment
would be totally out of context. The deed
was done in ignorance and haste, with
out prudent premeditation as to the con
sequences.
I have heard people on campus use
the phrase tongue-in-cheek many times
before, and I thought it was universally
accepted as kosher in CUNY. Was I
wrong? The point is, I didn’t understand
that what would be considered funny,
cute, or light-hearted here, would not be
considered the same there. I do now.
What can I say to describe but a glimpse
of my stupidity at that moment? How can
my words portray but a thread of that
absolutely asinine declaration? Simply
put, there isn’t a good excuse for my
senseless action. All I can say is that I
am truly very sorry, and I humbly ask for
everyone’s forgiveness.
People do stupid things. That is a
fact of life. But those who repent and
learn from their mistakes come out wiser
people in the end. I have felt the sting of
punishment and sorrow in the aftermath
of those fateful words, and still feel it to
this day.
— Matthew Beck
A
$10,000 For SG Furniture
am grateful for this article because I’ve
been wondering where our money
goes. Perhaps no extra tuition went into
the fund discussed in Seecharan’s arti
cle, but at least, as students, we are get
ting an idea about where some of our
Student Activity money is being spent.
I was disappointed to learn that
$10,000 is being spent to “re-model” the
Student Government Suite. Naturally, Iagree that upgrades are necessary, but I
think first and foremost, the financial
emphasis should be centered on helping
students who are struggling financially to
stay in school and complete their degree.
With tuition hikes, the number of enrolled
students will soon drop, and who will be
around to sit in these expensive chairs
and walk on new tile?
Seecharan also mentioned that
scholarship funds are being made avail
able in the names of two students who
have passed away. I thought this was an
inspiring idea, which shows respect and
honor to those lost through tragedy in our
local community. However, when I read
the amount of the awards, $100, I
laughed. $100 for scholarship, and
$10,000 for new floor and seats. What
can I say? It is apparent where the finan
cial emphasis is on this campus.
It makes me very sad, because I
know as an independent student what a
struggle it is to pay for higher education.
At 18, I had to leave home and have
worked for the last eight years to support
myself. Finally at the age of 23,1 entered
college and have been struggling finan
cially for the last three years to pay for
school. It’s because of financial aid and
scholarships that I have gotten this far.
Every year I wonder if I will have the
money to go to school, pay my expens
es, and have enough left over to eat.
— Vanessa Debello
I
Domestic Violence Revisited
his letter is in reference to Professor
Bardsley's comments about an arti
cle I wrote for the March 14th edition of
the
Banner,
“Domestic
Violence
Clothesline: Where Women Air Their
Dirty Laundry.”
In her letter, Professor Bardsley
goes so far as to say that my article was,
"lazy, sloppy, ignorant, and insensitive".
Let’s start with “lazy.” First and
foremost, that article took quite a bit of
time. Please do not challenge the effort I
put into my work. For you to embarrass
me, purposely, and in public, is a blow to
everyone involved, from the professors
who teach us, to the students who write,
all the way down to the staff at the
Banner.
Sloppy? That, it definitely wasn't,
Ignorant and insensitive? If you got
past the headline, you should have been
able to tell that there wasn't one word of
my own opinion. I was covering an event,
and that is all I did.
T
ou may have noticed The Beacon on the opposite side of the page. This is our
homage to April Fool's Day. Please remember to read these articles with a light
heart. Please do not think too deeply about them. Please keep in mind that this is a
college newspaper. As I mentioned in the March 14th letter, my long-time writers
deserve to let their creative juices flow, since journalism is so stifling on the imagina
tion.
Y
For the ones who cdon’t get the jokes, or fail to see the point of this issue’s joke
pullout section, here is our defense:
I know from the looks on my staff writer’s face how draining school can be at this
point in the semester. I bet it is for everyone else too, right? That is why I wanted to
entertain you guys with The Beacon. From what I’ve experienced in the past, I assume
that some readers will be offended, disgusted, or even outraged at the content in The
Beacon.
The sex columns (yes, there are two of them this issue, and one is written by an
alien) are both complete and total satires, my friends. The writer of the “No Sex” col
umn is pointing out hypocrisy that she has experienced in the past regarding the many
social definitions of the word “virgin” and her encounters with religion as a part of that.
In other words, she’s poking fun. It’s a parody. It’s a joke.
As for Enrique Inocente’s comics—some people have asserted that they are
insensitive to women. I don’t see it that way. “It’s just low-brow humor," says Inocente.
“Aimed at the lowest common denominator.” In other words, perfect for The Beacon.
And, as the editor of The Banner, let me reiterate that The Beacon is NOT The Banner.
At The Banner, we will continue to report on the issues that affect the CSI communi
ty. Perhaps, once a year, we will take some time out for irreverant humor. And now we
can return to our regularly scheduled Letter from the Editor.
x-skinhead and neo-nazi recruiter, Frank Meeink, spoke about the importance of
showing respect for others March 31st. I hope his stories inspire you the way I was
inspired by it. He explained that little things like holding the doors for people could
make a difference in your life. The Banner staff member who embarrassed everyone
at the CUNY Media Conference submitted an apology letter (you can read it on this
page). He came to our office and apologized to me and the rest of the staff. I forgive
him, and you should too.
Frank Meeink hated lots of different people based on the color of their skin and
mere generalizations. He was angry at himself and at the world. It didn't lead him any
where except for down in the dumps. It was when all of those instances that are men
tioned in my article on page .2, that lead him away from the lifestyle he was a part of
(whether it was coincidental or act an of God who knows?).
I really do agree with Frank Meeink that what goes around comes around, treat
people the way you want to be treated and all of that. I find that when I do something
I'm not proud of, it always gets back to me somehow.
Why waste your time being angry? It won't resolve anything. Sometimes I want to
rip my neighbor's tires apart for parking in my spot all of the time. Such lack of com
mon courtesy should be punishable by automotive dismembering, especially when
they have two great spots reserved already. After a long day of work, school, and
Banner business I get so angry at the slightest inconveniences. It's moments like
these when you have to breathe in deeply and think about being a good person.
Imagine if everyone did that? Hmm..
The Banner will not publish until May 2nd, so have a great Spring Break. Mine will
be filled with three awesome shows, post-graduation job searching, and lots and lots
of sleeping in between. Yep that's it. Mellissa Seecharan’s going to Nonway, and Luke
Crisalli will visit, what my brother calls, “Club Bed.” Our comic’s editor is going to
Albany to participate in a mock debate for the 2005 Model New York State Senate
Session Project. Albany, get ready to meet Enrique Inocente!
E
And what is your problem with the
headline? At the event, victims of
domestic violence aired their “dirty” laun
dry for the world to see. “Dirty,” in this
context, meant something bad, that
should be thrown away. I listened to the
stories of these victims of domestic vio
lence, whether it was coming straight
from their mouth to my ears, or whether
it was heard echoing a few feet away. I
paid attention to what was going on. The
fact that these women had the courage
to display their stories in public is actual
ly quite amazing, and I stand by my
reporting.
For you to assert thet the Banner
staff must invest in “sensitivity training” is
a slap in the face to the time-consuming
work they do there. Why criticize stu
dents and faculty who work at the paper?
You did not get much past the head
line, or bother paying attention to the rest
of the article. It was not my article but
your letter that was sloppy for saying the
piece did not tie into CSI's own
Clothesline. The Clothesline I reported
on took place in 1P! It cant get any more
CSI than that.
Where did I get my sources? How
did I get my statistics? How did I discov
er all the background information?
Definitely not from being "lazy" and
"sloppy".
Who's being insensitive and igno
rant here?
—Thomas Lanza
�April 11,2005
College of Lowered Expectations
■n
Smarch 32,2005
turned out to
be her last
time at the
college.
On
Smarch 5th,
Blight
Bunkley was
questioned
by authorities
on
the
whereabouts
of Seaurchin.
Witnesses
placed him at
the scene of
her
last
appearance.
In
our
The FBI has initiated an investigation of the Bush Administration, for allegedly con
investigation,
suming babies. The'FDA has not commented on issues of nutrient content.
we found that
many
in
Student
Government
were more
Eva and Epstein
than happy to stab Bunkley in the
back...and the front. Senator Steponme
he investigation into the disappear
DeLosehah, a former presidential SG
ance of Student Government
candidate, lost to Bunkley and has had a
reporter Missy Seaurchin has officially
vendetta to destroy his career ever
become a cold case, according to feder
since. According to reports, DeLosehah
al investigators. Her initial findings led to
tried planting cocaine on Bunkley once,
the unraveling of a scandalous govern
so her allegations against him are a little
ment conspiracy, which trickled all the
suspect.
way down to Student Government
“He’s capable of a lot of things,” she
President and alleged baby eater, Blight
sneered. “I don’t want to implicate any
Bunkely.
body in Missy’s disappearance, but if I
The circumstances of her disap
had to it would be Bunkley. Again, I don’t
pearance began unfolding on Thursday,
want to implicate, but yes he does eat
Smarch 3rd, after Seaurchin left the stu
babies.”
dent press office. Witnesses saw
However,
Senator
Lictoria
Bunkley with a lead pipe in hand follow
Brownoser wholeheartedly supports
ing the plucky young reporter as she
Bunkley in everything he does and says.
stepped onto the loop bus for what
“My little Bunkley bear is a soft and
T
Wilhelm W.K. Karlson
he campus once used to be known
as the “Willowbrook State School,”
where over 6000 mentally disabled
patients were treated under horrible con
ditions for over forty years.
On Thursday March 31st, after one
too many strange happenings, campus
Vice President Carol Jackson finally
decided to call in the professionals. A
team of highly trained paranormal inves
tigators and eliminators led by Doctor
Egon Spengler did a full and thorough
investigation of the entire 204 acre cam
T
pus. Doctor Spengler’s team consisted
of his fellow associates, Dr. Raymond
Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, Troy
Benjamin, and Tom Sanford
Spengler’s team did a top-to-bottom
investigation of every building on the
campus. Buildings 3A and 3N are where
Dr. Stantz says they had the most activi
ty. “We encountered 5 class-3 full torsoed free floating specters in 3N and had
a bit of difficulty in trapping them, but we
were able to take care them after a few
hours with minimal damage,” Stantz
said, as the Campus buildings and
grounds crew began repairing a 12 foot
wide gaping hole in the side of the build
cuddly human being,” she cooed. “He
loves all of God’s creatures no matter
how slanderous or liable they are.
Seaurchin is a horrible journalist, if you
even want to call what she does journal
ism. She’s been noted for misquoting
and falsifying things that shouldn’t be fal
sified in the first place. She’s out to get
my Bunkley pooh to further her twisted
agenda. If she is dead I hope she’s burn
ing in hell.”
On Smarch 17th, The Beacon
office received a mysterious call from
someone addressing herself as Pig
Trough. Pig Trough, who is actually
Student Government Senator Feya
Homely, wished to remain anonymous.
For answers, she said to follow the SG
Food Budget. The Beacon was able to
obtain an itemized food budget list under
the request of the Freedom of
Misinformation Act. Selected items of
incriminating proportions included: baby
bibs (20) - $30, baby back ribs BBQ
sauce (2 gallons) - $25, How To Serve
Baby cookbook - $12.99 (plus tax), and a
baby sized serving tray - $1.09.
The Beacon was once again con
tacted by Pig Trough who blew the whis
tle on the culture of baby eating in the
political world. “It has been secretly doc
umented that every president up to now
has eaten babies as part of a right of
passage, or to celebrate special occa
sions. Thomas Jefferson ate one of his
illegitimate babies,” asserted Pig Trough.
“When going to war, the president eats a
baby from the country he’s at war with.
FDR ate a German and Japanese baby
during WWII and George Dubya ate an
Iraqi baby when he invaded Iraq. One
thing people don’t know is that cam
paigning politicians kiss babies to actu
ally determine how ripe the baby is for
serving.”
During a canned town hall meeting,
Bunkley was confronted by the Beacon
staff with hard-hitting questions. When
asked if he had any involvement in the
disappearance
of
their
beloved
Seaurchin, he answered, “I can assure
you I had nothing to do with bludgeoning
her over the head repeatedly with a lead
pipe, and burying her mangled remains
under a decrepit shed in the deserted
woods.”
As for the baby eating rumors,
Bunkley stated that “those allegations
are as egregious as the articles done on
me by the Beacon. There is no sick,
underground culture of eating delicious,
succulent, mouth-watering babies in pol
itics. They are lies spun by you, the lib
eral media.”
After a full-scale federal investiga
tion was launched, the Bush administra
tion was subpoenaed to testify in the
Supreme Court; the testimony also
included members from local and
national branches of the government. “I
didn’t see no memo about baby eating
or Seaurchin,” said Secretary of Apple
Polishing, Connie Lingus Rice.
On Smarch 30th, Blight Bunkley
was found dead in his home. Authorities
discovered his limp body hanging from
an extension cord that was tied to a ceil
ing fan. Oddly enough, his hands were
tied behind his back. Seaurchin’s where
abouts will forever remain a mystery.
ing.
that, when accelerated through a particle
thrower create an extremely powerful but
destructive particle stream that consists
of Protons and raw nuclear energy. This
is capable of entangling a specter.
When asked why she didn’t deal
with the problem sooner, President
Marlene Springer had the following to
say: “Every time someone would talk
about 3A being haunted, I figured it had
something to do with the lack of lighting.
I always made a point to go down there
and check it out myself, but I have trou
ble finding a parking spot. By the time I
did get one, it would be much too dark to
approach the building.”
“3A was rather difficult,” added Dr.
Spengler. “I haven’t seen paranormal
activity that intensely centralized in one
area since our 1989 incident.”
“The building had paranormal read
ings off the charts,” said Dr. Benjamin,
who
also
runs
the
website
Ghostbustershq.com. The Ghostbusters
spent close to 4 hours in the building,
which is now in need of a new roof. .
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class 5.” The team used what they call
“Proton packs” which are Unlicensed
Nuclear Accelerator Backpacks that con
sist of raw nuclear energy and Protons
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n all-powerful Master Jedi, I am known
throughout the galaxy as. A sex connois
seur, some may not know I am. Being around
for as many centuries as I have, pick up a thing
or two one will. Often my young Padawan
learners ask about the intricacies of sex. The
galaxy is a big place. I cannot answer all ques
tions at once. Written a book, I have. All the
answers, it contains. Yes it does. Hmmm.
Encyclopedia of Sex: An Intergalactic
Guide to Sex For Aliens of All Ages, my book
is called. Available at all fine booksellers, it is.
Sex connoisseur you will be after reading it.
Plenty of interplanetary poontang, you will get.
Curious you are about what book contains? I
will tell you, but use this knowledge for the dark
side, you cannot. Proof of identity you must
show before purchasing. Fret not. Explain the
book I will, even if dabble in the dark side you
must.
All the mating habits of every known
species capable of having sex, my book
explains. Example. Rodians, species from
planet Rodia, are humanoid reptilian people. A
couple run-ins I had with their women. Gentle
against my skin, they were not. Satisfy me,
they did. Tuskens from Tatooine, I have also
sampled. Tuskens wear masks so seeing face
is difficult. Little do people know, Tuskens have
on their face their genitals. Curious it was for
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n a move designed to save the college
from further legal wrangling, Television
giant CBS has bought the College Of
Staten Island.
The move came as a bit of a sur
prise after CBS had been in talks to pos
sibly sue the school for using the name
“CSI”, which CBS has retained for it’s
“Crime Scene Investigation” series of
shows. The first “CSI” show premiered in
2000 and was followed by spin-offs,
“CSI: Miami” and “CSI: New York”.
After touring the College Of Staten
Island campus, which is also known as
CSI, CBS president and CEO Les
Moonves decided it would be better to
purchase the campus from CUNY and
utilize it for future CBS gains.
“With the campus, I see many
growth opportunities for CBS,” said
Moonves. “For starters, anything with the
name CSI on it, is automatically CBS
property,” he said. “Starting in a few short
weeks, CBS will begin production of
CSLCSI which will center on a crime
scene investigation team located on the
campus. We will be using actual campus
faculty, staff and students as extras, and
of course, corpses,” continued Moonves.
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dimly lit grounds are perfect for a show
Like CSI.
When asked what else he plans to
do with the Campus, Moonves unloaded
a barrage of ideas and plans, such as:
“We plan to replace all the books in the
library with ten inch LCD television mon
itors with CBS feeds. Who needs books
when you have Joan Of Arcadia?” he
beamed. He also announced plans for
“The Late Show With David Letterman”
to occasionally use the campus for its
show.
The Beacon approached the Late
night king on his thoughts about the
move. “I think it’s a great idea and hope
fully I can finally use my Top 10 things
to do while looking for a parking spot on
campus’ list.”
When approached for comment,
campus president Marlene Springer had
this to say: “This move is a wonderful
thing for us. Finally CSI, which premieres
next spring on Mondays at 9pm, will get
the recognition from the entertainment
industry it deserves,” she said. “I can’t
tell you how excited I am to working with
the likes of Bob Barker and Tyne Daly."
me to make love to one. Creplock is what they
call their mating ritual. Roughly translated, face
jamming, is what it means. Humans are my
most favorite of sexual partners. Males,
females, Master Yoda swings both ways. All
those I have trained as Jedi know my sweet
embrace. Passionate teacher, I am.
If organics are not your preference, alter
nate lifestyles I also contain in book. If robosexual you are, names of quality droid manu
factures I give. Cybot Galatica and Industrial
Automation, are but two. For enough credits,
bend to your every perverse desire their sex
druids will. Be forewarned. Bad run in I had
with sex droid. Electrocute me in sensitive
area, it did badly. Little Yoda not work properly
since then. Caution with druids around water.
Bring them not into hot tub like I did. Careless
decision it was. Powerful, the Force is. Sadly,
not powerful enough to talk sense into horny
Master Jedi.
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to bukkake.
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April 1—Students and faculty found
chancellors,
presidents, and
other head hon
chos from CUNY
ripped,
twisted
and unconscious
on the great lawn
Monday morning.
Surrounding
them were empty
bottles of expen
sive of wines and
top shelf liqueurs.
"I
haven’t
experienced
a
hangover
this
profound since
’69," said Director
of Student Affairs,
Carol Brower.
Students
were
shocked
when they made
the
discovery.
"So this is where the tuition increase
goes," said Junior accounting major, Tim
Mason. Mason stopped Tom Jones’
record, after it was blaring over CSI’s PA
speakers for 2 days straight.
Apparently all of the professors at
CSI were left out of the party loop. "I
can’t believe I wasn’t invited," said long
time CSI professor,
and head of student
publications, Alyson
Bardsley. "I thought
the tuition increase
was supposed to
benefit the profes
sors, too."
At a press con
ference
Tuesday
night,Governor
Pataki,
who
is
responsible
for
approving the hike,
admitted to the secret
"party fund."
"I just figured
that CUNY students
won’t do much to
protest the tuition
hike, so what the
hell? Those poor
administrators
deserve to party." The mess is still being
cleaned up by a volunteer group, organ
ized by Dan Sotting, CSI NYPIRG
Project Coordinator. “This must have
been one helluva party,” Botting said.
�April 11,2005
ACCOUNTING FEE
—continued from page I —
accountant, if not it should be a free
service to the students. The budgets we
get are barely enough.”
Every student club at CSI whose
budget is managed by the CSI
Association must pay 5% of the money
allocated to them each year in an
accounting fee. According to Marianne
McLaughlin, Executive Director of the
CSI Association, that 5% per budget line
totals $69,000 per year collected by the
Association in accounting fees. ‘That
$69,000 goes to offset the overhead cost
of running the Corporation, but that
$69,000 only offsets part of that
$287,000,” McLaughlin said, referring to
the total cost of running the Association.
“The theory behind it was that as these
groups started to draw money away from
the Association, the Association needed
a way to pull some of it back to help with
the ‘administrative cost of running the
corporation.”
McLaughlin defends the fee as nec
essary to pay for the vital services the
Association provides. “That corporation
does everything from an accounting
standpoint,” she said. “From bidding,
purchasing, paying bills, bank reconcilia
tions, financial reporting, audits, and tax
preparations at the end of the year. It’s
primarily toward the staffing costs for
running the association”
Until 2001, Student Government
paid the accounting fee on behalf of the
publications. The publications board was
charged with payihg the accounting fee
TAX TIME AT CSI
—continued from page i —
withheld, and the income is in excess of
$4,850, they are required to file.” This
can be favorable to the student who
qualifies for earned income credit. In
cases where the student is a dependent,
Mr. Cicero said, “the parents are in a
much higher bracket so it will be more
beneficial for the parent to claim the stu
dent and let the student claim zero (0).”
Students cannot claim any educa
tion related expenses while they are in
school said Mr. Cicero, “except it is for
say a master’s degree, and it is totally
job related: then, they will be able to
deduct the cost of their tuition. If they
have completed their undergrad, and
they are paying their student loan, then
they can deduct that interest.”
Many students are now choosing to
file on-line using an automated free or
nominal fee service. Mr. Cicero said,
“They shouldn’t have anything that
should cause a problem for them. For
students that only have only W2’s that’s
fine.” However students should be famil
iar with the correct forms to use. While
some websites alert the student that their
software does not support non-resident
alien tax returns; others make the
assumption that the filer is an American
citizen, or a resident alien and processes
the return as such.
Students with F, J, M, or Q visas fall
under the nonresident alien status. One
international student said she used a
when it was created in 2001. However,
for
unknown
reasons,
Student
Government continued to pay the
accounting fee in the 2001-2002 and
2002-2003 fiscal years.
“I’m on Student Government,”
Fisher said. “I find any accidental expen
diture to be scary.” Carl Stiles, Assistant
Director of Student Life, tried to explain
how mistakes could occur. “When
Publications where chartered between
Student
Government
and
the
Association, it was recognized that there
could be a conflict of interest there,” he
said. “I’m not sure how it was overlooked
at that time.”
McLaughlin blames the confusion
for this fiscal year on an error in the
budget submitted to the Association by
Stiles. “Each group, as part of their annu
al budget is supposed to line out the 5%
accounting fee as part of it,” said
McLaughlin. “When Carl brought your
[publications] original budget, he didn’t
do that. So we brought it to his attention
that he didn’t do that.”
Stiles explained the error as an
oversight. “It was on the budget sheet,”
he said. “But the board did not vote on it
line-by-line at that time, like it should
have.”
Students may not like the account
ing fee, but all indications are that it is
here to stay. “People are entitled to their
own opinion,” Stiles said. “It’s the way it’s
done.”
Every full-time CSI student pays a
$74 Student Activity Fee each semester,
which funds clubs, WSIA, and all the
campus publications.
regular 1040 form to file her taxes
instead of using form 1040NR for NonResident Aliens. This is a significant
error, as nonresident aliens cannot claim
the standard deduction. This means a
student who utilizes the wrong form
could end up owing the IRS taxes, inter
ests, as well as penalties. For state tax
returns, majority of New Yorkers make
use of form IT201, and others use form
IT203.
Mr. Cicero said other pitfalls include
taxpayers “not filing income, which could
be done inadvertentedly, or intentionally.”
Many people also transpose numbers,
so it is advisable to double check the
numbers.
If a student’s return gets into a com
plicated arena (e.g., if they have rental or
investment income), they ought to turn to
a tax professional, and “should shop
around by quality,” said Cicero. “You don’t
want someone that will be there today and
gone tomorrow. They should do a back
ground check. Every time you change
professionals, he has to re-input prior
years return. It becomes very costly.”
Students should also avoid tax pre
parers who guarantee that they will
receive a larger refund than what other
tax preparers can obtain. A student is
ultimately responsible for any falsified
information that is imputed on his tax
return so as to generate a bigger refund.
Joseph Caplan, a senior CSI
accounting student has been working at
Bruno, Cicero, and Loverdo, for over two
years. He was recruited by Mr. Cicero
who said that CSI “has probably the best
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Island.” Caplan, who has taken both
Individual and Corporate taxation cours
es at the college, said some students
believe in an old wife’s tale. “They think
they have a tax advantage because they
are students. They think they should be
exempt from paying taxes when they fill
out a W4 withholding form on a new job.”
However, the IRS does not exempt full
time students from paying taxes. Caplan
continued, “I try to tell them that there’s a
possibility where you might make over
the standard deduction and personal
exemptions, and then you’ll be liable for
paying taxes.”
Students must file their tax return by
midnight (postmarked, or e-filed), on
April 15th regardless of whether or not
they can make the payment immediately
if taxes are owed. Those who cannot file
their federal income tax return by the due
date can file for an automatic 4-month
extension of time by filing Form 4868.
For New York State extensions, they can
file Form IT-370.
Students can seek help in filing their
returns at the following locations.
Bruno, Cicero, and Loverdo. Call
718-273-3362 Price: Typically $35 - $50
The IRS VITA. For the nearest VITA
site, call 1-800-829-1040. Price: Free
http://www.taxact.com/
http://www.no1-income-tax-returnsubmitting-specialist.com/
http://www.taxsimple.com/
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online are free
State tax returns online range from
$9.95-$45
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student should take along a photo identi
fication, the Social Security Card, all
wage and earnings forms; that is W-2s
and 1099s, as well as q copy of 2003’s
Federal and State tax returns.
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Tuition & Fees
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Moving Expenses
NO
Varies
NO
Books, Room &
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NO
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Leeza SeUabasee
Being a virgin in college is hard. Like math.
All around me, there are people who are
actually proud of their promiscuous behav
ior. The fact that this paper even has a sex
column is proof that I am of a rare breed.
After reading The Banner’s sex column,
written by the absent-minded, immoral Ms.
Mendez, I was delighted to be asked by The
Beacon to write about my own experiences
as a virgin, devoted to a Higher Calling. That
means God, by the way.
True Love Waits is an organization that
promotes the vow of chastity until marriage
in the name of God. I decided to join True
Love Waits back in high school, when I was
listening to Jessica Simpson’s debut CD,
Sweet Kisses. As I sang along to the com
pletely nonsexual, loving lyrics, “Pour your
self all over me/and I’ll cherish every drop
here on my knees,” I realized that Jessica
was talking to God! I felt this tingling deep
inside, sort of like that itching and burning I
feel when I don’t drink enough cranberry
juice and water. But in a good way. I decid
ed right then and there that I wanted to save
myself until marriage, and drink a glass of
cranberry juice, just in case.
Luckily, I went to Catholic School at the
time, and my religious studies teacher, Ms.
Mary, just happened to have a stack of True
Love Waits pamphlets and cards to sign.
Ms. Mary reminded me that this was a con
tract with Jesus, and that if I were to break
it, I would be in a lot of trouble with the Lord.
I was scared, but I signed it anyway, confi
dent that God can be just as loving as He is
vengeful. I swear, as I pledged my chastity,
there were tears in Ms. Mary’s eyes, though
it’s sort of hard to see with the swelling and
bruises. Ms. Mary’s sort of silly and clumsy,
always walking into walls, she tells the
class. It’s a good thing she has such a great
husband, always shadowing her, picking her
up from school and dropping her off, even
guiding her to the kitchen when she gets
another black eye so she could cook dinner.
I hope my vow of chastity leads me to such
a great guy!
Ms. Mary told me about a huge Ring
Exchange Ceremony that happens in the
church once a month. There were lots of
people there, in the church basement, boys
in their best jeans and sneakers, the girls in
pretty white dresses. The priest, Father
Feelmey, put a silver ring on my finger,
engraved “True Love Waits for You!” and we
all sang, “I Wanna Know What Love Is.” It
was wonderful, and funny enough, I kept
locking eyes with one of the guys in my
class, Jeremy. We started hanging out all the
time, and one day, he kissed me. It was
awesome!
Jeremy is my soulmate, I have decided.
When we kiss, I feel all these crazy feelings
down there, like when I used to rub my
thighs together real tight after listening to
Creed. Scott Stapp is so dreamy. It’s really
hard to control my urges, especially when
Jeremy and I are alone and I have had a
stressful week of homework and stuff.
Jeremy really wanted to connect with me, on
a physical level, but we knew that breaking
my hymen would break my vow. I took a real
deep breath and gently reminded him of the
promise we made to God. But Jeremy, he’s
so smart, he reminded me that there are
other ways to be physical without him enter
ing my Holy canal. His fingers gently
caressed my butt, and I got excited. Best of
all, God wouldn’t care if he touched me
there!
I was sort of scared when Jeremy went
into my kitchen and came out with a tub of
Crisco, but I pulled my pants down and bent
over anyway. Relationships are about com
promise and sacrifice, right? I had never
seen his thing before; it was big and hard. I
wouldn’t touch it because I thought it would
be bad, but he smeared the Crisco all over
it.
It’s not so bad, getting it up my butt, that
is. At first, it hurt kind of bad. Jeremy, well, he
meant to be gentle, but he got sort of excit
ed. The trick is to breathe real deep and hold
on to something tight. Jeremy wasn’t going
to release himself inside of me, but he could
n't wait. It was weird and sort of gooey, but I
felt okay about the whole thing. I couldn’t sit
down for a while, and my mom was con
cerned that I had some sort of ailment. I just
told her I had the poops. Some things are
best kept between me and God.
I am really happy that I am still pure for
when Jeremy and I get married. Oh, we’re
not engaged yet, but he says we will be
someday. In the meantime, we just enjoy
each other and caress the parts we’re
allowed to. There are some people I know
who have ‘lurned in their cards” and have
had sex when they start going out with
someone. I say that those people do not
have self control. I urge my dear Beacon
readers to wait for True Love!
Seeking a job or internship?
Looking into grad school?
The Office of Career Placement^
Scholarships, and Awards
invites you to attend!
Are you a degree away from being
permanently certified as a teacher
and principal?
Wednesday, April 20,2005
10:00am - 3:00pm
CSI Sports and Recreation Center 1R, Gym
Professional Dress Required
Bring plenty of resumes
Call 718-982-2300 for more information
The School of Education at St. John’s University offers
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Courses are offered both on campus and on-line.
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�Aprill 1,2005
Dominic Fiduccia
t is without a doubt the greatest video
game of all-time. Not only was it the
highest grossing
movie of 1982,
but it was also the
highest grossing
movie until 1997,
E.T.: The Extra-.
Terrestrial.
The
game
was
released
the
same year as the
movie for the Atari
2600, and cost
Atari more than
$21 million just to
license the rights,
but it was well worth the cost. Now the
game can feature a life-like design of the
cute little alien that everyone loves on
the game’s title screen. Who said that
old-time video games didn’t have great
graphics?
In the game, you have to help E.T.
find the three pieces of his interplanetary
telephone so that he can phone home to
the landing pad in time to be rescued by
his buddies. You have to do this before
E.T.’s energy runs out, and you’ll win the
round and score points.
You
move on to
the
next
round
when E.T.
boards the
spaceship.
At the end
of
each
round, all
your bonus
points are
displayed.
If you want
to
play
another
round, E.T.’s telephone pieces and the
candy (which gives him extra energy) will
be redistributed for him to find again. You
can play as many rounds as you like,
since your bonus points will accumulate
and give you a higher game score.
But you have to be careful because
there are giant holes everywhere. No
matter where you look or turn you just
I
can’t escape these giant holes, so you
have to be careful to not fall into them.
Also, to make the game even more excit
ing and challenging, there is this no good
government agent after E.T, so make
sure that you
don’t have E.T.
run into him, or
else the govern
ment agent will
take E.T. away
where
they’ll
probably do evil
governmenttype
experi
ments and other
unspeakable
things to the lit
tle guy.
On each site, E.T. moves through
various power zones. While in a power
zone, E.T. can execute only one of his
extraordinary powers. For example, if
E.T. is ready to call his spaceship, he
must be in a “call ship” zone. As E.T.
stands in a power zone, the symbol for
that zone appears at the top center of the
screen. At the beginning of each new
round, the power zones are redistributed
on each site so that the game you can
enjoy this game again and again.
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial for the
Atari
2600
is
just the
best.
It
can’t hold
a candle
to other
classics
like PacMan
or
Tetris,
because
what
other
game can
hold the
reputation
of a game that was so good that it singlehandedly destroyed the video game
console market? It took Nintendo and the
release of the Nintendo Entertainment
System in 1985 with Super Mario Bros, to
save the day.
Ah, what a great game.
All art for this article: Chris Sorrentino
Philip SiciUano
ad Ben Franklin—
you’ve heard the
name, but not for much
longer.
The video
sketch comedy crew,
which is really a big
group of CSI students
and alumni doing what
they love to do, will offi
cially change their
name to “A Dan
Amongst Dans.”
How did they
come up with that
name? “All I’ll say is
that most of the guys in
the group are or were
CSI Cinema Studies
majors,” said BBF
member John Szeluga.
“At one time it seemed
there were an
unusually high
number of cine
ma
students
named ‘Dan,’ so
many that that
the name ‘Dan’
became a term
we used to refer
to a typical cine
ma student.”
If
you
haven’t read The Banner in a while you
may be asking, “So who are these
guys?” It all started with John Szeluga
and Chris Sorrentino. In high school the
two were creating short films for CTV, a
community television channel based on
Staten Island. Szeluga and Sorrentino
both had a passion for sketch comedy so
they put their heads together and started
creating movies. When the two came to
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LaMonaca,
Eric
Beyer, Dan Johnson,
and the rest of the
gang that formed Bad
Ben Franklin.
“I love making
people laugh,” said
Szeluga. “There is
nothing better than a
room full of people
laughing at some
thing you helped put
together. It’s what I
love to do.”
They are known
Island-wide for their
short film, “Girl Arm.”
(You can actually
snag a Girl-Arm TShirt on their site
www.badbenfranklin.com).
They made the
video more than
three years ago
but people still
quote lines from
it and recognize
BBF for if. A lot of
the dialogue was
improvised and
there’s
some
great chemistry
between
the
actors in the movie. “I like the style of it,"
said Szeluga.
You will be able to see “Girl Arm”
and other titles by Bad Ben Franklin, or A
Dan Am.ongst dans on their upcoming
DVD due out this Spring. Also in the
works is a new comedy which will feature
lots of animation and special effects, as
well as original music.
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SPORTS
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How Jacclyn Rock Became CSI's Secret Weapon
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“You can’t play with me until you learn
how to shoot.” Those were the words
Jacclyn Rock often heard from her older
brother, Raheem, as a young kid. “When
he played basketball with his friends, I
would try to shoot; then when I got a bas
ket in, he was happy for me.
Nevertheless, he said, ‘y°u can,t P,aV
until you learn how to dribble.’ Over the
years, Rock learned the game and
became a forward on the Dolphins
women’s’ basketball team in 2001 and
their star athlete.
Rock gained more recognition on
Staten Island this past season. Strangers
on the street tell her, “I saw you on
Channel one, I saw you play ball.” She
appreciates little kids going up to her to
ask for autograph which she started prac
ticing how to sign as a kid with her older
brother.
Coach Gualtieri called Rock a great
leader, and said there are some “accom
plishments that aren’t really measured
with awards. The reason that we have
been so successful in the last few years,
a lot of it is due to her, and her commit
ment, and competitiveness.”
Rock is unique and will be difficult to
replace said the coach. “Every year when
we lose players, it’s sad for me. I get
attached to the players, and I want to see
them be successful. I’ll miss her as a
leader, and I’ll miss her as a person.
Dominic Fiduccia
This year’s men’s baseball team had to
deal with some tough losses this season.
Though they won their first season
victory against Vassar College April 6th
(4-1).,the Dolphins finished at the end of
March, 0-10. They lost, 10-7 to Mount
Saint Mary College at the CSI Baseball
Complex, March 31st. The day before
they lost to Centenary College 9-2 in a
makeup game that was supposed to be
played on March 12. The final score was
9-2.
On March 6, they lost to the
Apprentice School, 21 -11. The worst loss
of the year was in their first game of the
season against Salisbury University on
February 27 by the score of 24-1. It did
n’t get any better as they lost that same
day to them in a second game with the
final score, 20-0. It is hard to believe that
this could happen to the men’s baseball
like this after the great success of last
year, but it has.
A year ago, the men’s baseball team
ended up winning the CUNY Title. That
everyday,
and Rock’s
been one of
the
main
people, and
the
main
reason that
we’ve been
in there. I
think a lot of
the faculty
here
and
staffbknow
her now and
appreciates
what she’s
done.
Having
Rock on the
team
encouraged
other
stu
dents to join.
New players
were excited
to play with
her. Some
i “were
not
thinking about
CSI basketball all-star, Jacclyn Rock gets off the court to talk with The Banner.
playing, (ini
tially), but saw how good she was and
We’re just going to try to develop a differ
wanted to be on a successful team” said
ent team next year.”
coach Gualtieri.
The coach also commended the
Now a graduating senior majoring in
recognition Rock has brought to the
Sociology,
she played her final game on
College. “We were in the Advance (S.l)
March 6th in the NCAA Division III
Tournament
against
Connecticut's
Wesleyan University.
Rock’s career kicked off in 6th grade
when
her brother Raheem signed her up
year they also had a slow start, but not
for a league. Her parents asked her if she
as bad a start like they are experiencing
wanted to join the league and her reply
now. Last year they were only 0-4 in the
was pretty simple: ‘Whatever my brother
start of the season. Also, they had lost
wanted, I wanted to do.”
more games then they had won with the
Later, Raheem said, “Now you can
record of 14-15. What was impressive
play with me.” However, he was a broth
was that their CUNY record was an
er that would never let her win. She had
amazing 8-2. The men’s team had to win
to earn her victories. Rock said,
the title in a double header, playing both
“Whenever I went out for a shot, he
the semi-finals and finals in one day due
blocked it. I dribbled; he stole the ball. He
to the previous weeks rainy weather.
taught me how to box out, how to shoot.
What
made
the
CUNY
He wouldn’t take it easy on me.” People
Championship win even more special
could see the competitiveness in their
was the fact that in the title game they
sibling rivalry whenever they played
overcame a 4-0 defect in the first inning
together. "Every time I see my brother
from their opponents the John Jay
play, and I see him hustle, I try to emulate
Bloodhounds. The Dolphins came back
him, so he tries to make me better," she
to win the game and title 10-8 and won
here at CSI since that is where the
said.
Whenever Rock loses a game, she
CUNY Baseball Tournament was held.
calls her brother. “I put blame on myself.
The Dolphins have yet to play a
I think if there is something better I could
CUNY division rival and there a still a lot
have done, or done something different
of games to be played. Still, though the
ly.” She tells him, “I didn’t go after this ball
Dolphins have a lot to overcome with
... if I would have made this shot...” He
their current record to have a chance to
told her, “You can’t do that, baby girl. You
not only contend but to defend their
can’t put all the blame on yourself. You
CUNY title.
guys just lost, but I’m proud of you.”
When she gets excited that the team
won, she does not say how many points
she got.
“I always tell him (about) the
rebound. When I told him I finally broke
the record and I got 30, he was scream
ing, “My sister broke the record! She got
30 rebouhds!” This was the City Tech
game on January 12th of this year when
she scored 25 points and 30 rebounds in
a single game. Dolphins women’s’ bas
ketball team coach Marguerite Gualtieri
said this individual accomplishment of
Rock broke the rebound record for the
college.
Rock’s career highpoint was break
ing the 1,000th rebound mark in her jun
ior year. She remembered asking her
high school coach, “do you think anybody
ever broke 1,000 rebounds?” The coach
said, ‘People have, but it’s hard work.’ “I
told her I was going to do it,” said Rock,
and she has.
Coach Marguerite Gualtieri, who
coached Rock for 4 years saw her skills
develop tremendously. “Her attitude wasnt as great as it is now, but she’s worked
extremely hard to get where she is. Her
heart is as big as her size compared to
6’2 players, 6’4 players. She out
rebounds them from sheer competitive
ness and working hard.”
Rock’s talents include, drawing. She
draws images and people and her draw
ing relieves stress for her. “It is raw,” said
Rock, as she has never taken a class.
Jacclyn’s last name Rock comes
from her dad’s grandpa who was a white
Frenchman. She called herself a military
brat. Her father stayed in for 2 years and
mother, a staff sergeant, retired in ’93
after 20 years in the service. Born in
Georgia, lived in Germany for 10 years,
moved out to California for 5 years and
has been in NY since the age of 15.
Jacclyn did not mind moving around,
because she had her brother and her sis
ter Syreeta, and they became her world.
Rock comes from a broken home.
When her mother sent her down to New
York, she said, “Why is she doing this? I
didn’t do anything wrong.” She felt aban
doned and didn’t want to make any
friends in high school. However, her
mother wanted one of the 3 children to
get an education and the ball was now in
Rock’s court. She presently lives with a
coach from her high school, Ms.
Lanagian. If it wasn’t for Keri, her best
friend, and Ms. Lanagian, “I would not be
graduating from college right now. Rock
finally understands the sacrifice her
mother made in sending her to New York.
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CSI President, Marlene Springer
CSI Provost, David Podell
Vice President for Student Affairs, Carol Jackson
Mellissa Seecharan & David Malta
March 23rd—CSI President Marlene
Springer and Student Government spon
sored a Town Hall Meeting in the
Campus Center where students were
able to express their concerns about the
college to a panel of seven administra
tion members, including Vice President
for Student Affairs, Carol Jackson and
Angelo J. Aponte, Vice President for
Finance and Administration.
"This meeting brings together the
community, where you can share your
concerns, ideas, and questions with
Deans to the President," said Moderator
and Assistant Dean for Student Affairs,
Michael Daniels.
Following brief opening remarks by
President Springer and Student
Government President Dwight Dunkley,
all in attendance were given two minutes
to ask questions or make a statement to
the panel.
The primary issue raised during the
meeting was the proposed tuition hike
that may reach $250 per semester or
Continued on page 3
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P H E R E
Students
Promoting
a
Healthy
Environment, Rescuing our
Earth) approached President
Springer to ask how CSI
might raise awareness of
global
warming,
the
President agreed to consider
a proposal calling on CSI to
reduce its contribution to cli
mate change.
Students,
with the
advisement of Dr. Betram
Ploog of the Psychology
Department (and a member
of the Union of Concerned
Scientists), worked on the cli
mate proposal, which calls on
CSI to take significant meas
ures to reduce its own impact
on global warming. SPHERE members
hope that CSI’s measures might translate
into greater community awareness about
the issue.
"The local community should be
more informed about the effect they have
on global warming," said CSI student
Karen Chin, secretary of CSI's environ
mental campus club SPHERE. "Many
Staten Islanders might not even realize
that their everyday choices like driving
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gas guzzling SUV's on some level, are
factors involved in the warming of the
planet."
Some of the warmest years on
record have occurred within the last 20
years. Now consider that warmer global
temperatures contribute to the rising of
the sea levels due to melting ice glaciers,
some the size of Kentucky. The combina
tion of warmer waters and higher ocean
Continued on page 3
Students Elect New NYPIRG
State Board Representative
aniel Beyer has been elected as
the third Representative for
NYPIRG’s Student Board. 192
Students voted during the election which
was held, March 2nd and 3rd. His oppo
nent, Michael Gualtieri, pulled in 70 of
the votes.
According to NYPIRG, CSI’s
Student Board Representatives work to
recruit and organize students who are
interested in creating social change on
many issues. In the past, NYPIRG has
taken on issues such as Higher
Education Funding, Mass Transit, Voter
Mobilization,
and Environmental
Protection. Students interested in joining
NYPIRG should contact Dan Botting, at
extension 3109. NYPIRG meets daily in
1C 219.
D
urrent Advisor for Literature,
Professor Fahamisha Brown, has
been denied tenure by President
Marlene Springer. Prof. Brown has filed
a union grievance with PSC-CUNY, but if
President Springer does not reverse her
judgement, there will be no full-time
African-American professor in the
English, Speech, and World Literature
Department. Chek Jemie, the last full
time African-American English professor
at CSI, was denied tenure in the Fall of
1993. If Prof. Brown is not re-instated,
the number of full-time black faculty
members at CSI will decrease from 11 to
10 people. According to the 2004
Affirmative Action Report for all CUNY
colleges. 3.5 percent of CSI’s consistent
full-time faculty are black, while the
CUNY average is 12.2 percent.
In 1999, a year before Prof. Brown
came to CSI, she published her
acclaimed book “Performing the Word:
African American Poetry as Vernacular
Culture.”
According
to
English
Department Chair Janet Dudley, “Her
work could get her tenure at Harvard.”
Yet this book has not counted as a publi
cation towards her tenure.
President Springer wrote Brown’s
Evaluation Report. “I have examined
your record,” wrote Springer, “and it is
my judgment that your candidacy does
not support a positive recommendation
with respect to scholarship.”
“I am very good at what I do,” Prof.
Brown asserted as she is sat in the mid
dle of her office, surrounded by count
less books and research papers. “I am
the second black person to be denied
tenure. It is a suspicious situation. I think
I am more than qualified.”
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NYPIRG APPLA UDS BUDGET AGREEMENT
Linda Appu
The Troops Out Now! protest was
organized to mark the second anniver
sary of “the invasion of Iraq,” Saturday
March 19, 2005.
Though the march was officially set
to begin 9am, I met my friends at Marcus
Garvey Park in Harlem at 11:30. From
where we were standing, it looked like
we might be able to catch the tail end of
the march. Fortunately, we later realized
that we were right in the middle of what
looked like thousands of people.
Signs varied greatly, indicating the
many small groups who formed the
coalition that protested the war: “Free
Mumia,” “Liberate Palestine" signs and
banners were held by groups and indi
viduals. No matter the signs, people I
spoke to expressed the united disdain
for President George W. Bush and his
policy on Iraq. They believed that the
US policy on Iraq was wrong and they
wanted the troops to come home.
The sheer diversity of the people
was incredible: ages ranged from the
elderly to kids being toted by their par
ents, blacks, Hispanics, and whites
came out, socialists, students, and
union workers—they all marched and
chanted side by side.
“I volunteered this morning as a bus
greeter," said a twenty-seven year old
woman. "Buses of people from as far as
Minneapolis and Ohio came to march
today in New York City. The thing that
really upset me is that [I feel] people
disagreed with Bush’s policies on Iraq,
education, and other issues, but they
voted for him on the gay issue. They
voted him back based on that one thing.”
At least a dozen people said that
they were glad a march was organized,
even though it was last minute. Another
volunteer said she was present at a
“logistics meeting” days earlier, “and [the
organizers] were still working out plans
for the protest.”
Unfortunately, the lack of planning
was more than apparent. There was a
stage set, but for the thousands that sat
down after marching from Harlem, the
sound system was inadequate. Also,
there were too many speakers--!
stopped counting after tweive-and save
for a few exceptions, they were not rally
ing the people. Most groups began with
anti-war statements, but would then
move on to their group’s issue. It
seemed that the coalition was formed on
the condition that each organization
could have their say.
The timing was also off. We should
n't have spent over three hours listening
to ineffectual speakers, only then to
march to Mayor Bloomberg’s home. The
people were restless and had a momen
tum. A few hundred left early, heading in
different directions, including my friends
and I.
Overall, it was incredible to be
marching in Harlem alongside such a
wide variety of people that were united
by one belief; the US policy in Iraq was
wrong and the troops should come
home now.
Just as I finished writing the above
article, I got a telephone call my friendly
Army Reserve recruiter. Borrowing my
pal Sara Butler’s response, I told the
recruiter that I would sign up, “right after
Jenna and Barbara do.” I hold the high
est regard for those in the military, fight
ing in the frontlines and working behind
the scenes, but this war will be a blight
on the face of American history.
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NYPIRG Staff
March 23—In response to this Thursday
afternoon’s higher education conference
sub-committee meeting, the New York
Public Interest Research Group
(NYPIRG) released the following state
ment:
‘The Senate and Assembly have
agreed on a win-win budget for students
and families across New York State,”
said Kate Freitag, Higher Education
Project leader for NYPIRG. “The ball is
now in the Governor’s court. We urge
him to sign off on the higher education
budget agreement in the best interests of
affordable, accessible, quality education
in New York.”
The agreement on Higher Education
funding between the Senate and
Assembly includes the following provi
sions:
• no tuition hikes at SUNY and
CUNY;
• rejects the Governor’s and
Senate’s Article VII versions of language
to raise tuition annually and incremental
ly for incoming students;
• full restoration of the Tuition
Assistance Program (TAP);
• full restoration of opportunity pro
grams such as EOP, HEOP, SEEK, and
College Discovery to pre-veto levels; and
• adds funding for community col
leges by $115 per FTE (full time equiva
lent).
NYPIRG representatives at CSI
have been working hard to make stu
dents aware of and involved in the cam
paign against the proposed tuition
increase, financial aid cuts, and restruc
turing of opportunity programs. CSI stu
dents boarded a Student Government
funded bus to Albany to tell their repre
sentatives they will not accept another
tuition hike. More than a thousand CSI
students signed petitions to tell the
Governor and Albany leadership that the
state budget will not be balanced on the
backs of students. And the day of the
conference sub-committee decision,
March 23, 2005, CSI students made
more than 200 phone calls to key sena
tors to tell them to stop the tuition hike.
As students await the passage of
the budget through the legislature, we
look forward to the last step in the fight.
It is not clear whether Governor Pataki
will use his new-found constitutional
powers to dismiss the legislature's budg
et, veto the legislative budget, or even
sign the legislative budget.
While the battle is not over, congrat
ulations to all whom lobbied, petitioned,
and called the Governor and legislature
to bring us to this point.
CSI Safety Plans for Terror Attack Unfinished
Luke Crisolli
Recently, a member of Abu Mousab alZarqawi's terror organization who was
taken into U.S. custody last year admit
ted that he
had talked
with Taliban
leader
Osama bin
Laden
about hitting
U.S.
soft
targets,
such
as
movie theaters, restaurants and schools.
How safe are we on campus in the
event of a terrorist attack? According to
Assistant Public Safety Director Robert
Yurman, the campus is currently writing
plans on how to prevent an incident at
CSI, and what to do in the event one
does take place.
Both
Yurman
and
CSI
Environmental Health and Safety
Director Tom Briggs informed the Banner
that campus safety officers are currently
being trained by the Department of
Homeland Security in biohazard tactics
in Aniston, Alabama.
‘The federal office for domestic pre
paredness is also providing training for
all our officers in how to deal with
weapons of mass destruction”, adds
• Briggs.
“We have officers who are trained
EMT’s and first responders, some of
whom are trained in Defibrillator use”
says Yurman. “By the end of the year,
eighty to ninety percent of our officers
will be fully trained.” he added.
Yurman also noted that the campus
does use metal detectors during special
events in both 1P and 1C .
Is this enough though? The jury is
still out on that one.
“It’s two hundred and four acres,
and it’s hard to secure all areas” says
Yurman.
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levels increases the chances of hurricane
surges which can may possibly flood
inlands near the Upper East River and
Arthur Kill.
While the image of a tsunami coast
ing down Victory Boulevard seems to be
more fitting for a scene in the recent
blockbuster, "The Day After Tomorrow,"
experts in the scientific community warn
us not to be so skeptical about this possi
bility. Some scientists are concerned
about possible NYC flooding because of
the abrupt temperature changes that are
warming the planet. There is a near con
sensus among scientists that the planet is
heating up because of pollution, which
comes from the emissions of greenhouse.
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more for New York State residents. In her
opening address, President Springer
blasted New York State for the hike,
while reiterating that she has no control
over the tuition.
“It’s not my fault, I can’t do anything
about it,” she said. “New York is notori
ously low for financing higher education.
It’s a scandal given the wealth that this
State has.”
Despite her opposition to the hike,
Springer later explained how dire the
financial situation for CUNY is, by com
paring the operating budget for CSI to
the budget she had to operate her
department in her old job in North
Carolina. “I had more money years ago
in North Carolina to run Academic Affairs
than I do to run this whole college,” she
said. ‘That gives you some sense of
what New York State is doing to its high
er education funding.”
Student Government Senator Linda
Appu expressed disappointment that
CSI English professor Fahamisha Brown
was recently denied tenure on campus
and demanded an explanation as to why
CSI’s faculty was not more diverse. “I
was shocked to learn that Fahamisha
Brown, an African-American professor
was denied tenure,” she said to the
panel.
Appu also questioned the judgment
of the President and those involved with
Brown's tenure denial, when she brought
up the denial of another former long time
CSI professor, who is now teaching at
Yale.
Springer declined to comment about
Brown’s case, but conceded that CSI
needed more diversity in the faculty. "I
cannot comment on personnel issues,"
said Springer. "Thirty percent of our fac
ulty are people of color. We are working
on it. It's very difficult to recruit people.”
She also added that "if departments
have promising people of color, we'll do
our best to work with them. However, I
will not comment on Professors Brown
and Clark."
“We need more African-American
faculty, we need more African faculty, we
need more Dominican faculty, and we
need more Italian faculty,” she said. “I
have no doubt about that. We’re working
very hard on it.”
CSI’s Director of Compliance and
Diversity, Kevin Antoine, who was also in
attendance, gave a glimpse of steps that
CSI is taking to diversify the faculty.
“We’re looking over the interview list to
make sure people aren’t excluded
because of who they are or what they
are,” he said. “We recognize that we
really aren’t where we want to be.”
Also discussed at the meeting were
plans for a new international studies high
school, set to open in September in
President Springer
building 5N.
explained that the school will benefit CSI
because the New York City Department
of Education will pay to renovate old
classrooms. “They will renovate the
classrooms,” she said. “We’ll have a high
school there for 2 or 3 years, then it will
have to move and we’ll have classrooms
that we could have never afforded to ren
ovate ourselves.”
In other issues raised, President
Springer addressed a question about
parking stating there would be new park
ing spots by September 1st. She also
addressed the addition of dorms on cam
pus by saying that they are currently
undergoing a feasibility study.
We’re looking forward to holding
these every semester,” said Student
Body President, Dwight Dunkley.
Considering the attendance, the impor
tance of the topics discussed, and the
open nature of the discourse, CSI stu
dents should show up next time.
However, some students expressed
their displeasure with the way in which
student concerns are being addressed. “I
think Springer’s comment that students
have a strong voice on campus is laugh
able,” said Linda Appu.
gases. The main source of such gases is
smokestack and tailpipe emissions from
the burning coal and oil.
At a presentation on global warming
held in the Green Dolphin Lounge last
semester, on the topic of local flooding
from global warming, Dr. Openheimer of
the Biology Department commented that
part of the problem is simply inattention,
or "denial" from policy makers to acknowl
edge that there could be local conse
quences. When considering where to
locate and build a stadium for the Staten
Island Yankees, Dr. Oppenheimer
advised Borough President Guy Molinaro
to consult with global warming indicators
suggestive of local flooding. "Lack of local
public pressure on these issues does little
to help politicians in their decision making
processes," said Dr. Oppenheimer. "Also,
remember, politicians tend to think in elec
tion cycles, especially when it is time to
enact policy. The near future is more on
the mind than the long-term future."
Similar sentiments were raised at a
recent presentation given at the New York
Academy of Sciences, “Before The Day
After Tomorrow: Climate Change and
Strom Surge Barriers for the Metro
Region.” Malcolm Bowman and Douglas
Hill from Stony Brook University’s Marine
Sciences Research Center, talked about
preventative measures New York City
should take to prevent flooding of the city.
Their warnings sounded a bit more
provocative than those of Dr.
Oppenheimer, saying that Tsunamis arriv
ing on the shore of NYC as a result of
global warming should not be ruled out.
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Currently, professors have to pub
lish a certain amount of work in the four
years leading up to their tenure deci
sion. Prof. Brown has published a sin
gle, on-line article since she has been at
CSI, but has many works in progress.
“I think it is a genuine reason why
she was not given tenure,” says Dudley.
“I disagree on the narrow idea of schol
arship. I feel that the paper count is
unfair to professors."
Prior to coming to CSI, Prof. Brown
published a book, edited a book, wrote
countless articles, among other activi
ties that supported her field of study. At
CSI, Brown has created 13 new litera
ture courses, given public poetry read
ings, has a number of publications being
“processed and considered by publish
ers,” and has been invited to many dif
ferent conferences and events about
African poetry. She has been a reviewer
for ‘The Gustavis Myers Outstanding
Book Award,” which reviews from 10 to
15 books a year.
As an African-American professor
and scholar, Brown has extra commit
ments to the CSI community and to the
African-American community. The
required time an African-American pro
fessor puts into the extra work that no
other ethnic group is required to do
overlaps the time they should be spend
ing on writing articles.
“We will have to fill her position,”
said English Chair Dudley. “But we may
not be able to.” Dudley added that it is
very hard to find a person who knows a
great deal about African American litera
ture and is willing to travel to Staten
Island. The island is primarily white and
African-American literature is a relative
ly new program.
The Banner reported in its last
issue that Kevin Antoine, Director of
Diversity, Compliance, and Affirmative
Action, believes there could be some
hiring practices left over from the 1960’s
and 70’s that could be prejudicial.
An Affirmative Action Committee
will, after a long hiatus, soon be rein
stated at CSI. Such a Committee,
required in the school’s bylaws, will be
comprised of both students and faculty.
The Diversity, Compliance, and
Affirmative Action Department, led by
Kevin Antoine, will join faculty and stu
dents to work on issues that affect the
College.
The current tenure process could
be in existence for a long period of time.
The only way the tenure process might
conceivably be changed is if someone
like Prof. Brown sues. If she were to
sue, Kevin Antoine would be allowed to
step in.
Let’s hope that CSI does not lose
another great professor as a result of an
outdated process.
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�Sonal Engineer
t came like a slap in the face, but before
I knew it, I was entertaining my first
house guests. It wasn’t the apartment
itself, the furniture, or any of the home
ctecor that worried me. I was nervous
because I did not know what to cook. My
friends who were coming over were
Maxine, her brother Clifford, and my
brother Vishal. I wanted the dinner to
stand out.
Of course, there was the option of
catering. When I thought of that, I remem
bered my parents, who on occasion
would cater food. I also remembered my
parents would invite over a dozen people
when they would cater. Since I was only
I
inviting a small group, catering was not a
suitable choice.
There was even the thought of cook
ing a traditional Indian meal. I know how
to cook Indian food, because I learned
from my parents. I started thinking I
would cook a chicken curry or a fish curry,
with paratha and basmati rice. Of course,
if I were going to cook a traditional Indian
meal, I would have to make a vegetable
side dish. That’s what my parents always
did, and it’s what other Indian people did
when we went over to their houses.
But since my friends and I are
Indian, and I know how often Indian peo
ple eat Indian cuisine, I wanted my
friends to have something different for a
change. I decided I needed help, so I
asked my brother, Vishal, what he
thought
I
should do.
First off he
told me that
if I was not
cooking
meat
he
would
not
come. Then
he suggest
ed that I
cook a leg of
lamb stuffed
with cloves
of garlic. My
dad and my
brother had
made
this
dish many
times before,
but I was
worried
about how
my friends
would react to it. I was not sure if my
friends would eat lamb, but I had made
up my mind. I was going to cook a leg of
lamb.
I decided to buy the lamb with the leg
in it, because that’s the way my dad and
brother used to make it. The lamb is sup
posed to be more flavorful if you cook it
with the leg. Also, while buying the lamb I
remembered only three people were
coming. There was a total of four people,
so I decided to go with a lamb that
weighed approximately six to eight
pounds. If one of my friends wanted to
have seconds, or if my brother wanted to
have more, they could have it,
The day before my friends came
over, I decided to marinate the meat. I
wanted the lamb to be as flavorful as pos
sible. After I cured the meat with fresh
lemons, lemon juice, and washing salt, I
marinated the lamb with all the different
spices. I cut slits into the meat and stuffed
cloves of garlic into it. Then I rubbed all
the spices all over the meat. The spices
included oregano, basil, parsley, crushed
green olives, red chili powder, and
Worcester sauce. Then I put the meat in
a pan with chopped onions, celery, car
rots, and mushrooms, and I let it bake for
a few hours at 350 degrees.
To complement the dish, I made a
side of sour cream potatoes with chives. I
peeled the potatoes, then cut them into
small pieces. I fried the potatoes in oil
and when they turned a light golden
color, I added the sour cream and chives.
Another side dish I made was risotto
in the olive oil. Risotto is a type of very
short grain rice, and is also similar to
pasta. While boiling a can of chicken
broth, I fried chopped diced onions and
mushroom slices in olive oil. When the
onions were brown, I put the risotto in the
olive oil. After frying the risotto, I poured
the chicken broth over the risotto. I added
a pinch of saffron, covered the pot and
simmered for 10 minutes, until the risotto
was tender.
That night my friends came over
around 5:30. We all sat in the living room
and talked for hours. We exchanged sto
ries and even looked at some of my old
photo albums. When it was time to sit
down to dinner, I felt relieved because my
friends complimented the meal and also
took seconds. I know my brother enjoyed
the meal, because not only did he take
seconds, he also took thirds. I no longer
felt nervous, because the dinner was a
success.
College of Staten Island High School On Its Way
Nicole Belliveau
“Welcome to the College of Staten Island
High School for International Studies” is
what some 9th grade students will be
hearing in the fall of 2005. CSI is getting
a high school, which will be located in the
building across the gym, 1M.
In a college that has overcrowded
classrooms and no parking, most stu
dents would like to see the 1M building
be used for the college, not for a high
school. However, we aren’t losing one
building; we’ll be losing two buildings
because the high school will at first be
located in 5N. Most students aren’t
happy to hear that younger kids will be
coming to school on the college campus
and don’t know how the students will
affect the college. Many questions are
still up in the air that need to be
answered before a high school should be
on campus.
President Marlene Springer first
announced renovations to the M build
ing. A new roof that cost close to $3 mil
lion dollars had to be fixed. The building
is big enough to have two big lecture
halls on the first floor and a good number
of classrooms upstairs for regular class
es. The college would finally have more
than the two lecture halls in 1P, and stu
dents would have another building that is
near on of the biggest parking lots on
campus.
According to a newsletter, Carol
Brower, CSI Director of Student Life, had
mentioned that College of Staten Island
High School for International Studies will
be coming in fall of 2005. According to
the newsletter, the high school will only
admit 108 9th graders picked out from a
lottery, and the principal will be a CSI
alumna, Aimee Horowitz.
The website, www.csihighschool.org
announced open houses around the city.
It also revealed that CSI high school will
be one of 200 new small schools to open
city wide, the first new small school in the
borough, and will be a charter school by
2007. The website gives a list of ten rea
sons why students should come to the
high school, which include “Go to high
school on a college campus,” “Wouldn’t
you rather learn Capoeria than play
another round of dodge ball?” “Take a
ferry to school,” to name a few.
Jeremy Smith, an 8th grader at
I.S.72, is looking into going to the
College of Staten Island High School. “I
want to go to a small school,” Smith said.
“Not an overcrowded high school like
Susan Wagner. I also would like to learn
Chinese.”
�March 28,2005
Editor s Desk
When I walked out the doors of The
Banner office at the end of the Fall
semester, I did so with a heavy heart. In
the two and a half years I had spent as
part of the Banner community, I had
grown a profound respect for the publi
cation, its history, the Office of Student
Life, and for CSI as a whole.
Most of my time spent here was in
editorial positions, granting me a working
relationship with the administration of the
college. I have come to learn during my
absence that there are individuals that
believe this mutual respect between
myself and the powers that be at CSI is
a form of “ass-kissing.” Even during my
days at the Banner offices, I was aware
of how some viewed me, and my mission
for the Banner. What does surprise me
is that individuals with such strong and
biting opinions would not have the
courage to voice them publicly until after
my days at the Banner were over.
I was also disheartened to hear that
a member of the Banner staff refer to CSI
in a derogatory way at a CUNY spon
sored event. I walked in to the Banner on
a day off from my full time job with this
bad news in my mind, not knowing what
I might find. I saw the issues hung on the
wall, and an office full of people hard at
work. I was greeted with smiles and the
profound optimism and pride that I had
worked so hard to maintain, build on and
preserve during my days here. It did my
heart good to know that not one second
of my long nights putting the issue to
bed, hours tapping my pen at Publication
Board meetings, or walking around cam
pus with my arms full of newspapers was
wasted. I now realize that I can graduate
with my mind clear, knowing that the
Banner will go on and continue to rise
above the strife and small-mindedness
that works against it.
And, in true Diana llluzzi Bannerstyle, GO YANKEES 2005
Freshmen Diary Part I
On March 18th I received a large enve
lope with “College of Staten Island” print
ed in the right corner. As I skimmed
through the paperwork, all my thoughts
were consumed with graduation, prom,
summer and college. I stopped thinking.
I read the words “congratulations.” My
heart was warmed when I received some
phone calls from close friends that they
also got accepted to CSI.
I would see some familiar faces
once in a blue moon but at least I would
see them. I have considered my St.
John Villa High School friends and facul
ty another family of mine. The four years
I spent learning, laughing, and wonder
ing are slowly slipping away. I can’t seem
to control it; the thought of me roaming
through the halls of a place that’s bigger
and better is hard to believe. However,
my fear didn’t stop me as I now will be
graduating with some of the greatest
people I could ever meet.
The next few years will be filled with
new educational experiences. I will be
optimistic and enjoy all that The College
of Staten Island has to offer. I’ll hopefully
meet some smiling faces along the way.
- Lauren Taylor
Finals on Memorial Day?
emorial Day is one of the sacred
holidays in the United Statds. Also
known as Decoration Day, it is the day
we remember brave men and women
who have died in the service of our
nation.
Those who first received this great
honor were Union and Confederate sol
diers at Arlington National Cemetery
May 1868. In New York, our observance
of this holiday dates back to 1873.
Today, we also mark Memorial Day
as the beginning of summer holidays in
the United States. This three-day week
end has become a tradition for celebra
tions and family gatherings, with back
yard barbecues, outdoor picnics,
parades, and much more.
This semester at CSI, final exams
have been scheduled over the Memorial
Day weekend. If you are taking a
Saturday, on a Sunday class, or one on
both days, your Memorial Day celebra
tion will be in a CSI classroom. Instead
of strewing flowers over a loved one’s
grave, or packing on the calories at a
barbecue, you will be brooding over
some funky equation trying to solve it.
M
- Orume Agbeyegbe
A Plea For The Disabled
ired of not finding parking when you
come to CSI? Hate to park your car
so far and then have to walk to class? Or
how about sitting and waiting for a spot
and no one ever comes that you are
tempted to park your car either in a
handicapped spot or a temporarily dis
abled spot? This happens more often
than it should.
George Boles is unable to run to
class if he is late. Parking a great dis
tance from his class is a burden. George
is a double amputee, but he is far from
disabled. I met him last Monday as he
was manuevering from his car to his
wheelchair. He relies on his car for his
independence. It is specially designed
and equipped for his needs. George’s
biggest complaint is “There are not
enough spots assigned for the disabled.
“When I come to school I find it quite dif
ficult to find a parking spot. The abuse of
people parking in handicapped spots is
T
a problem, the other day a girl parked
her SUV ina handicapped spot and put
her disabled hangtag on her rear view
mirror
The other day a girl parked her SUV
in a handicapped spot and she put her
disabled hangtag on her rearview mirror
and ran to class; I guess she was late.
Meanwhile I had no spot. I don't think
people realize what an inconvenience I
suffer for the result of their convenience."
Before meeting George I often wit
nessed this problem but never thought
much about it. In fact, while I was waiting
for a spot to open, I would stare at main
ly unoccupied handicapped and tem
porarily disabled spots and complain to
myself about how unfair it was. After
meeting George my complaints are
muted.
My research took me to the Office of
Parking Services. Mary Jean Hennessy,
Director of Parking Services informed
me that there are approximately 1,200
parking spots for students. Only 47 spots
are allotted for the handicapped and 11
spots for the temporarily disabled. "The
college is aware of the problem of the
parking shortage for the disabled," said
Hennessey. "We allow students to have
assess to the faculty parking with the
permission of the office. Parking in gen
eral is a problem, but the office is very
sensitive to the needs of the disabled.
We are trying to meet the guidelines for
our students."
The school states that cutbacks
from NY state will keep additional park
ing spaces from being added. I think that
the Office of Parking Services needs to
reconsider how they give out parking
permits to the disabled. I think each stu
dent applying for a disabled parking
decal from CSI should be visibly
reviewed and accepted and only school
administered permits should park in
handicapped spaces. It might be an
inconvenience to the handicapped stu
dents at first but it will assist them in the
long run. This will eliminate students who
are abusing the system. I know George
Boles thanks you.
-Allison Carpentier
Bloomberg’s Folly
■
appreciate Matt Safford’s article
regarding Mayor Bloomberg’s obses
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Domestic Clothesline
he Banner article on the Domestic
Violence Clothesline was lazy, slop
py, ignorant, and insensitive. Not tying
the article to CSI’s own Clothesline,
which was up in 1P from Feb. 24 to
March 2 of this year, or including infor
mation or interviews with its sponsors
and participants, was a gross lapse in
the paper’s duty to cover the CSI com
munity.
Implying through the headline that
domestic violence is “dirt” somehow
belonging to its victims and, like dirty
laundry, best kept under wraps, displays
a complete lack of understanding (which
should have been gained through
reporting on the topic) of the problem of
domestic violence and the struggle of its
victims to declare themselves as part of
the process of becoming free. (In the
same issue, the Vagina Monologues
headline’s prurient overtones were no
better.)
The Banner would do well to invest
in some sensitivity training for all its staff
members, at ail ranks, in order to pre
vent future gaffes of this nature, which
betray and potentially harm its readers.
As for the mere journalistic failures, I will
leave the experts among you to find a
remedy.
- Alyson Bardsley, Assistant
Professor, English Department
T
mong the inspirational and heart
breaking CSI “Domestic Violence
Clothesline” t-shirts were two that stood
out. One said, “I like my beer, like I like
my violence-domestic,” and the other
(which had a drawing of a face with a
black eye) said, “She’ll remember my
dinner next time.”
A volunteer at the table added lan
guage such as, “He said” to the two
shirts so nobody would be offended.
A
-Nancy Johnson
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Howard Chaykin is a
renowned comic book artist
and writer with a career that
spans several decades. His
work includes the critically
acclaimed American Flagg,
Batman:
Thrillkiller,
Challengers
of
the
Unknown, and the recent
graphic novel, Mighty Love.
The following interview was
conducted at a recent Big
Apple Convention in NYC.
step to controlling the point of
view.
GT: When you’re creating your
own property, what do you find the
hardest part of that is?
HC: Making the final decision
about a character’s physical
appearance, which is so defining of
the character. Stepping up and
engraving it in stone and making a
final commitment because I will
always second-guess.
I will
always have doubt about whether I
made the right decision about that
commitment.
6T: What inspired you to go
into comics as a profession?
HC: Like most people in the
field, this has been a calling.
GT: How do you choose?
I decided to do this for a liv
HC: It comes out of just endless
Legendary comics inker Tom Palmer (left) chats with creator Howard Chaykin (right) at the Big
ing when I was four years old. Apple Convention in NYC. Photo: Rina Sklar
drawing until the character begins to
I’ve been obsessed and com
form and appear that makes sense.
mitted to it ever since and I’ve done everything I possibly
It’s an evolving process. You sort of draw the character
could to make myself unemployable in any other way. It’s
over and over again until the hair begins to feel right and
not an industry that attracts people who are simply casual
things like that.
ly interested; it’s a real full time commitment.
GT: How did you get your first comics work?
HC: The way \ve did it in my time, you tended to hang
around at the coffee room of DC Comics;
and there were a bunch of us. We would
literally show up mid-day, eat lunch and
go hang around the office and hope that
somebody would need something that
weekend. I would do 1-pagers and 5pagers. I did romance comics, I did mys
tery stories and I did all sorts of fillers,
which is how we started our careers. In
those days there was a lot of anthology
work that made it possible for you to
practice your craft in small, anonymous
ways.
GT: You started your career as an artist
and later became a writer also. How did
that come about?
HC: I became a writer out of selfdefense. To a great extent, with some
exceptions, an inordinate number of the
guys who were writing comics in those
days were failed artists and I felt that after
a certain point I was a good plotter and I
was coming up with most of the ideas.
I’m under the belief that much of the writ
ing in comics is done by the artist any
way; it’s what the reader reads as visuals.
GT: Do you prefer writing or illustrating?
HC: I like doing everything. I like writing and drawing
my own stuff. Even when I’m drawing my own stuff I’ll
write a full script. It means I control the whole package
because so much of what we do as comics artists is con
trolling the point of view of the reader that it’s one more
GT: How would you say the industry has changed since
you first entered it?
HC: Comics have become more like the televi
sion business. There are far more levels now
between getting a job pitched and getting it
scheduled then there used to be.
GT: Do you see a major problem in the comic
book industry?
HC: There isn’t a growing audience and it’s sad.
Comics could go the way of the LP record. The
sensibilities of comics will survive in TV,
movies, video games, but there’s more to comics
then just those sensibilities.
6T: What’s next?
HC: Right now I’m working on a new book
called City of Tomorrow. It’s about a guy who
returns to his hometown to discover that the
robotic servants his father created to serve the
town have turned into organized crime families.
It’s pretty sexy, it’s kind of funny, and it’s pretty
exciting stuff.
GT: Is there a common mistake you see put out
in the work of those new to the comic business?
HC: An absolute lack of understanding of a
presence and existence of a vocabulary of
comics language — people who think it’s just a
series of arbitrary pictures. Every single shot is a
choice. Every single image is a choice. Every
single choice you make impacts on the storytelling.
GT: Do you have any advice for those trying to break
into comics?
HC: Decide what you want to be, stay with it and just
keep doing it.
�ROUGHNESS
SADOMASOCHISM: A LOVE STORY
Jessica Mendez
My bottom lip was clenched between
Rye’s teeth. I gasped, shocked by his
aggressiveness. Slowly, he dragged his
teeth along my lip. I pulled his hair, my
hands grasping desperately; I whim
pered. I had known from the way that he
kneaded my calves under the table at
the bar we had just left that he would be
rough, but I had no idea he kissed with
such force. My head was swimming, my
cheek pressed against the cool glass of
the passenger side window; I had never
been kissed like this before. Moments
slowed, flowed, dripped like honey,
which was, incidentally, similar to what
was happening between my legs. My
breathing was shallow; he sucked in air
between his teeth with a definitive hiss
ing sound, as if he was drawing me in
with the oxygen. With a final nip, Rye
loosened his grip on my lip, but not on
my imagination. I inhaled deeply, and,
as he drew my lip into his mouth and
sucked slowly and soothingly, giddily
awaited his next bite.
I’m no stranger to playing rough, but
I’m not a fan of pain; if I stub my toe, my
eyes well up with tears. My family com
plains that I’m a total “baby” if I bang into
something. But with sex, it is different.
Pain enhances the experience, makes it
better, makes it last longer. Rye’s kiss
surprised me because it was so unlike
the usual rough play moves: a spank
here, a hickey there, the occasional act
of bondage. This kiss was reminiscent
of those crazy moments of sweet pain I
had read about in vampire novels. Oh,
yes, vampires, the ultimate symbol of
the eroticism of a wincing sting, a force
ful bite. I have been a huge fan of vam
pire lore since I was a young girl, first
lusting over Jason Patric and Kiefer
Sutherland and that hot long-haired
vampire in “The Lost Boys,” then run
ning to the library to finish up LJ Smith’s
“The Vampire Diaries” series. There is
something so attractive about a tortured
soul, isn’t there? Add to that the capaci
ty to draw secrets—and blood—from
even the tamest piddling thing, and I
was hooked.
This correlation between pleasure
and pain was fascinating. I started
experimenting the way most teens do:
hickeys. In high school, one was a
badge of honor, two was a status boost
er, and three was reputation suicide. To
me, however, the more someone had,
the braver I thought they were. I would
quiz my friends about them to no end.
Then, one day, I had met my surfer god
Devin at a bar. We drank and flirted, and
then, after a few kisses, he moved to my
neck and...
“Ouch!” I sucked in a breath and
then, “Oooh.” A pause. He licked my
neck and broke away. “Mmmmmm. Do
that again!” Everything I heard about
hickeys were true, plus there was more.
I surrendered to the feeling.
The next day, my sisters, who spied
the obvious bruises on my neck (my
mom was slightly suspicious of my sud
den turtleneck fetish but said nothing),
branded Devin “Hoover.”
It is the element of surrender that
truly grabbed me, seduced me, made
me want more. There’s a reason that
dominatrices are in high demand: peo
ple in power hate to be humbled in the
boardroom, but in the bedroom, they
need to be taken. Take my former con
quest, JR. He was a buttoned-up gov
ernment bitch by day, sure, but he liked
nothing more than to spank and be
spanked by night. I do my fair share of
the giving; one ex claims he still has
lines on his back from my nails scratch
ing him. Another repeatedly called me
an animal—then he would dive back in
for more.
An important thing to note before
getting rough is to know when to speak
up. I like teasing, scratching and biting,
but if you’re stroking me so hard my
nether regions become numb, I will let
you know. If your partner is respectful,
s/he will listen. When Rye got a little too
punishing on my hot love sponge, I just
said, “Hey, it’s okay to go a little slower.”
He was very accommodating, and he
went back to the lip-biting kisses I ached
for, in conjunction with perfect finger
work. Perfect.
Slow, gentle sex is nice at times, but
the times I remember most often involve
hair-pulling, back-scratching, biting, and
broken furniture. Slam me against a
wall, and I am yours. I eagerly await the
day one of the men I am with will go fur
ther than just the occasional scrap of
fabric as a restraint.
The morning after my tryst with Rye,
I woke up and took stock of all of the
bites and the soreness of my lips, run
ning my hands along the scratch marks
on my calves gazed at the slightly pur
plish undertones of the spots along my
thighs. I remembered fondly the red
mark I left on Rye’s neck and smiled. I
may never get my Lestat, but with kiss
es like that, I didn’t need one.
Enrique Ignacio Inocente
Japanese director Takashi Miike is known for wildly
controversial films because of his unapologetic por
trayal of violence and sexual themes. Before making
such critically acclaimed (or panned, depending on
who you talk to) films like Ichi the Killer and Audition,
in 1996 he directed a little movie intended as a strait
to video release, Fudoh: The New Generation. The
studio was so impressed by the preliminary shots of
the film that they pumped up the budget and gave it
a theatrical release in Japan.
Fudoh traveled through various film festivals
around the globe and was an Official Selection at the
Toronto Film Festival, and winner of the International
Fantasy Film Special Jury Award at the Portugal
Fantasporto Film Festival.
So what’s so special about the film, you ask?
Let’s begin with storyline. In short, Fudoh: The New
Generation is story of honor and revenge. Riki Fudoh
(Shosuke Tanihara) is a straight-A high school stu
dent, but he’s also the son of a notorious yakuza
boss. At the tender age of ten, Riki witnessed his
father murder his older brother as part of an honor
killing to appease Yakuza members the son crossed.
Rikki vowed to avenge his brother’s death.
Now at sixteen, Riki devises a plan to recruit fel
low classmates and assemble his own criminal
organization. What follows is ninety minutes of
intense violence, sexual depravity and amusing high
school shenanigans. Though some folks out there
might not find ten-year-olds wielding guns in school
10
and killing teachers amusing in light of what’s going
on in America today, but this movie wasn’t made to
consider people’s feelings.
Takashi Miike is a free spirit and this movie
shows he had fun coming up with interesting and
new ways to dispose of people. If you thought
Quentin Tarantino was a creative genius with Kill Bill
then you don’t know squat about action cinema
because Tarantino is a biter who sweats filmmakers
like Takashi Miike. Trust me when I say you have
never scene action like the kind found in Fudoh. A
particular scene has one of Riki’s assassins pose as
a nude stripper who blows darts out of her vagina.
She blows one right through the head of a Yakuza
boss eating some chips. This same girl tries to do it
again in another scene, but she’s on her period. Let’s
just say it gets pretty messy.
Other notable scenes include a steamy sex
scene with a hot teacher and her hermaphrodite stu
dent, a guy’s decapitated head still blinking as he
watches his own body hit the floor, and a girl peeing
on herself just as she’s about to be thrown out from
a fifth story window.
This movie is not rated, but it’s safe to bet it’s not
intended for anybody under seventeen. If you dig
crazy action movies with people wielding samurai
swords, hot chicks in schoolgirl outfits blowing darts
out of their private parts, hermaphrodites, and gratu
itous violence, then check out Fudoh: The New
Generation. It’s also pretty funny. I give this movie
three and a half out of four blow-darts.
�Morch 28,2005
SHAKESPEARIAN SKITS AND SONGS
Pamela Zambrano
CSI’s Center For the Arts hostedA
Shakespeare Revue on March 19th.
The show was publicized as a “hilarious
cabaret-style musical” - and it was.
Rather than perform a selected
number of scenes from Shakespeare’s
plays, the cast of 5 actors and contribu
tors instead chose to present skits and
songs about him. Although it did help to
have read Shakespeare’s plays to
understand some of the jokes, the
show’s comedy was not lost on people
who have very little knowledge of his
work. Some of the jokes were about
what some actors go through during a
performance. They had a skit where the
stage was set up for the balcony scene
from Romeo and Juliet, but the actress
who was playing Juliet got her lines
mixed up. Rather than saying Juliet’s
lines, she spoke lines from Macbeth. All
of this was because her drama company
was doing too many performances of
Shakespeare and she had gotten her
days mixed up.
At five dollars a ticket, many CSI
students could have attended, but very
few chose to do so. The crowd (which
wasn’t very large) consisted mostly of an
older audience. Hardly anyone in the
crowd seemed to have been disappoint
ed by the performance.
“I think students did miss something
by not coming here tonight”; said a stu
dent that attended the play. “I enjoyed
Happy 25th Anniversary, Pac-Man!
Dominic Fiduccia
the performance”.
It’s not certain how the students at
CSI would have reacted to the show, but
the actors in it were worth taking the time
to look at. All the actors had several
years of experience being on stage and
have a lot of talent. Anyone who’s done
theater before knows how difficult it is to
memorize lines and to stay in key with
the music. They all had memorized a lot
of lines and it showed that they had done
a lot of preparation for their performance.
Even if you didn’t like the script or the
songs in the show, you most likely would
enjoy seeing these same actors.
There are a lot of performances
given at CSI. Most of them do draw a
fairly large audience. It cannot be said
whether the reason not many students
showed up to this show was because
they’re not big fans of Shakespeare, or
because it was a Saturday night.
Shakespeare fans are not the only ones
who would have enjoyed this show.
Drama, music, and comedy fans
would have probably liked it as well.
Everyone doesn’t enjoy Shakespeare
but for those who do, on April 10 there
will be a performance event titled
MacHomer. This show well have 50
Simpson voices coming together to do
Shakespeare.
It’s hard to believe, but video games’ first
mega-star is celebrating his silver
anniversary. He is the dot-, fruit-, and
ghost-chopping power house that is
known simply as Pac-Man. That’s right, a
quarter century ago, Namco brought PacMan to the arcades, and video games
have never been the same since. Fans
couldn’t get enough of the big yellow guy
and his huge popularity gave the
video game world its first big
star. There wasn’t anyone
else before Pac-Man.
There was no Mario,
Donkey Kong, Mega
Man, Sonic or anyone
else.
Before
Pac-Man,
there were no video
games that were compelling
enough to give gamers some
thing worth remembering. Pong may
be the first video game, and Space
Invaders in 1977 became the first big
video hit, but let’s face it—who cares
about a rectangle that bounces a ball
back and forth, or a ship that can blow up
aliens? Pac-Man was a real character.
Everyone who has played video
games has played Pac-Man at one time
or another, and if you haven’t, then
shame on you. If you play video games
you should, nah, must play Pac-Man. It’s
like studying American History and not
learning about George Washington.
Anyway, Pac-Man is a very simple yet
addictive video game. You are Pac-Man,
a big yellow circle head guy that eats dots
in a maze. You must eat the dots while
avoiding the four different colored ghosts
that are after you: Blinky (Red), Inky
(Blue), Pinky (Pink), and Clyde (Orange).
It doesn’t seem like much of a
game by today standards, but hey you
had to start somewhere. True, you don’t
know why Pac-Man is in a maze or
why he has to eat the dots that
are in there. For that matter,
you don’t know why these
ghosts are after him. But
you have to remember
that back in the early
days of video games,
getting the highest score
in your local arcade was
what mattered, not some
big epic centered storyline of
the hero overcoming the one great
evil in the game. Besides, who cares?
Not only was Pac-man the first
video game star, he gave us several
great historic game moments like the
introduction of his wife and video games
first female star, Ms. Pac-Man. The first
video game character to star in his own
cartoon. And also the first to be featured
in a number of sequels and spin-offs from
Ms. Pac-Man and Super Pac-Man to the
1993Tetris-style puzzle game, PacAttack, and his 1999 3-D debut in the
PS1 game, Pac-Man World.
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�The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
March 28,2005
Women’s So I (ball Looks Towards A Bright Season
Orume Agbeyegbe
The Dolphins recently concluded a pre
season trip to Florida.
Diana
Consolmagno, a Graduate Assistant on
the team said, “It was a great experi
ence. We got to see a lot of ball that we
are not going to be able to see in this
area. A lot of those teams down there are
able to be outside a lot sooner. They
already played about 10 games before
we got to play.” The team played six
games, and went 1-5.
Coach Stella Porto said, “In order to
go to Florida, you play the teams that
have players in the .667 percentage,”
said Coach Porto, “which gives you more
NCAA points. You have to play teams
that are a lot tougher than you, and you
play a tougher schedule all year round. Back Row (L-R); Diana Consolmagno (Graduate Assistant), Jenn Rosa (Assistant Coach), Nicole Estrada, Dana Glennerster, Theresa
We did really well.” However, she has Teped.ino,AndreaMe'se’CllnstinaD ArPa’',enDosc,lcr>KatieRossetti>AndreaLis>. Charles Mattera (Assistant Coach); Front Row (LR): Nina Marie Lucchini, Melissa Quiles, Michele Mazza, Megan Donohue, Nicole Pignatelli Front: Stella Porto (Head Coach)
had to make some adjustments since
then. “I went with a 20 rooster in
Others are still on medical leave and will
The team practices five days a
September, now I am down to a 14 roos
return as soon as possible. Nicole
week,
and last week was the first time
ter.”
Estrada is on the injured list. “I tore my
they were able to practice outside, on the
A number of injuries in Florida
ACL,” she said, but hopes to recover
new field. Pitching Coach Jenn Rosa
affected the team. Christina D’Arpa, an
soon.
was busy with the pitchers getting their
All American first runner up last season,
Last Monday evening, the team
speed up. Her goal is to get them to,
“hurt her knee, and she is on medical
practiced on their new field. Jason Fein,
“reach the maximum that they can
leave from pitching,” said Coach Porto.
CSI's Associate Director of Athletics, said
reach." The players appear to be up to
She will be playing third base. The coach
a lot of work went into getting both the
the challenge. They are excited with the
intends to have a third pitcher ready in
football and softball fields ready for the
new team, which has eight new fresh
case any of the other pitchers get in trou
season. They put in a new system,
men. “Before we went away, (to Florida)
ble. “But I’m looking for Christina to be
which “drains very well.” Melissa Quiles
we weren’t too close,” said Melissa
relieved right now, just to take pressure
agreed. “It is a thousand times better.
Quiles. “Being with each other 24/7 was
off her knee.” Some injured players have
The old field, running to the outfield, you
really good. Andrea Lisi concurred. “It
been removed from the season lineup.
got stuck in holes.”
was a great bonding experience,” she
said.
The team is looking forward to the
season opening game on Saturday,
March 26. The double-header game that
had not yet occurred as of the press
deadline was against New Jersey City
University and NYC college of
Technology.
Three captains who are all seniors
lead Dolphin’s softball team. Jen
Doscher all-star short stop transfer from
NY1T, Division II; Melissa Quijes, second
baseman and outfielder; and Theresa
Tepedino, advanced all-star, outfielder
and catcher from St Peter’s Division I.
The pitchers are Nicole Pignatelli, and
Katie Rossetti. Dana Glennerster, a jun
ior, is the first baseman and Megan
Donohue, a newcomer, will play infield
and outfield. Also returning as an out
fielder is Andrea Meise.
Head Coach Stella Porto is in her
third season with CSI’s softball team.
When she was a student at CSI, she
played for the softball team, and they
won the state championship in 1988.
She has carried her winning ways over
as a coach. Last season, she led the
women’s softball team to victory in the
CUNY softball championship against
Hunter College. This victory earned the
Dolphins their first automatic berth into
the NCAA Division III Tournament. She
has high expectations for this season.
The Dolphin’s schedule includes 40
playoffs, and they are looking forward to
a great season. “We are in good shape,
and we love the game,” said Quiles.
New Tennis Coach, Chris Kim, Prepares His Team
Lucie Lauria
Chris Kim has already been practic
the team often outdoors as soon as the
ing with the team for two months at the
weather improves. This year, the team
bubble. CSI is the
SI’s men’s tennis team started the
only college with
new season on March 23 with a
an indoor tennis
home match against Rutgers.
facility
in the
The Dolphins have a new head coach,
CUNY
confernce.
Chris Kim, who is a CSI alumni and for
The opportunity to
mer Dolphin player. Kim replaced Bruce
practice
indoors in
Knittle, who resigned last year. Paul
the
comfortably
Riccardi remains in the assistant posi
tion.
heated
bubble
gives
the
Dolphins
Kim is a certified tennis instructor
the upper hand
and has worked as such for 12 years. He
over others in
has also been working as a ful-time ten
terms of a greater
nis professional at the Staten Island
practice
time.
Tennis Club since the club started at CSI.
However,
this
Chris began with tennis early on as a
could get a bit
child and got really passionate about it.
tricky because the New Dolphins Tennis Coach Chris Kim has been holding tennis practice in the bubble. “All the
Later, he continued as a successful high
on the team are keen tennis players, and that is what counts,” said Kim. “The boys will go
“bubble spoiled” guys
school and college player. He played on
out there and do their best. All 1 want from them is never to beat themselves.”
Dolphins won’t be
the CSI team for four years. His team
won the CUNY Championship twice.
prepared for the harsh conditions at away
has three returning players—Gellerman,
matches.
Let’s hope, he will have the same suc
Sherman, and Sandhuin. The other play
cess as a coach.
Coach Kim intends to practice with
ers are new Dolphin members. According
C
to the coach, “the team does not have
any top players; the first four seeds are
pretty much even. In this situation, the
players are motivated to work hard to
improve because of their close line-ups.
Next week, we have challenge matches
that will determine the final ranking. It
should be interesting.”
“All the guys on the team are keen
tennis players and that is what counts,”
continued Kim. “It is not only about win
ning or losing; the boys will go out there
and do their best. All I want from them is
never to beat themselves. They are all in
good shape, however, everyone has
something to improve technically." Kim
pointed out that he tries to give individual
attention to every player to improve their
technique and to eliminate bad habits.
CSI’s hopes are high, despite
rumors that Baruch is strong this season.
All CSI tennis fans are welcome to come
support the Dolphins.
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Staten
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March 14,2005
David Maltz
MeUissa Seecharan
March 3rd—CSI’s Student Government
held a series of in-house elections to fill
four vacant Senator seats. A single
freshman/sophomore position and three
junior/senior seats were up for grabs.
Despite a small field of five nomi
nees for the junior/senior position, each
of the candidates was allowed two min
utes for a brief introductory speech.
Senators then grilled those vying for the
coveted seats for over a half hour.
Senator Ronald Glenn simply asked the
candidates,
"Why
Student
Government?" while other Senators
explored the nominees ability to discrim
inate between their friendships and
beliefs.
Continued on page 3
March 7—WSIA’s new
General
Manager,
Scott Saloway, entered
his office on the sec
ond day of his job,
eager to meet students
and understand the
station’s needs.
Saloway has noth
ing but praise for the
job, the staff, and for
what WSIA’s Chief
Engineer John Ladley
has done to improve
the station. “The stu
dios are fantastic. John
Ladley has done an
incredible job building
them,” he said. “They
are better than some of
the
stations
I’ve
worked at.”
Saloway praised
WSIA’s new General Manager, New Jersey native Scott Saloway, said his first meeting with
the college’s commit CSI students convinced him that the position was right for him. “When I came for that first
ment to WSIA. “It real interview, that’s when I realized just how incredible the station is,” he said. “The students
ly seems that the col know what they’re doing. They’re as good, or better than some people I’ve seen in com
mercial radio.”
lege wants the station
get to the point that people know that
to succeed more than it already has,” he
WSIA is out there.”
said. “I think that this group of students
The head of the search committee,
and the future groups of students that
CSI Director of Student Life Carol
will be trained by them will make it more
Brower, expressed confidence in
and more successful, and will treat it as
Saloway. “There is every indication that
more of a professional endeavor.”
he’ll be a great General Manager,” she
“I want to get this station more rec
ognized”, he said. “I would really like to
Continued on page 3
Thomas Lanza
The description on the ripped, red t-shirt
read, “You said you would never hurt
me, but tell my fractured skull that!” It
was just one shirt among the multi-col
ored array of various t-shirts hanging on
this virtual ‘clothesline’ that Michelle
Lopez has seen.
From Feburary 25 to March 4, CSI
produced one of many Domestic
Violence Clothesline projects that have
been hanging on college campuses
nationwide. The projects encourage
women to write a case of domestic
abuse that they have experienced on a tshirt . They then hang their shirt on the
clothesline for all the world to read.
“I’ve been following these events
since around 1999,” said Lopez. “After
my fiance attacked me, I had nowhere to
Murray State University in Kentucky joined CSI in a
Domestic Violence Clothesline project, which has gone
up on college campuses throughout the country.
go, no one to run to.” That was, until,
she saw an advertisement for the
Clothesline Project and decided to
attend.
“I brought the same shirt I always
bring to these events,” said Lopez. “It
signifies independence and strength. If I
could do it, so can they”
“I came here to support my sister,”
said Anita Smith. “Her boyfriend beat her
to death on their anniversary, and this
shirt shows that family and friends are
victims of this type of abuse as well.”
The Clothesline Project began in
1990 when members of the Cape Cod
Women's Agenda decided to hang a
clothesline across their town in Hyannis,
Massachusetts. It consisted of 31 shirts
designed by survivors of assault, incest,
and rape. Women who viewed the
clothesline then decided to come forward
and create shirts of their own. The rest,
is history.
Kevin S.P. Mamakas
espite CSI’s track record of hiring
predominantly white, male faculty
and staff, CSI’s newly hired Director of
Compliance and Diversity,
Kevin
Antoine, does not believe that the
Departments are acting out of racial bias.
“I haven’t been here long enough to
know for sure, but I don’t think it is pur
posely prejudiced,” Antoine said.
“Historically, some processes could be a
result from the 1960’s and 70’s.”
No matter what the cause, an
Affirmative Action Committee will, after
a long hiatus, soon be reinstated at col-
D
Kevin Antoine, CSI’s new Director of Compliance and
Diversity, believes that some hiring practices at CSI
“could be a result from the 1960’s and 70’s.” Antoine
plans to create a new Affinnative Action Committee, and
is revising the Sexual Harassment and Discrimination
Committee.
lege. Such a Committee, required in the
school’s bylaws, will be comprised of
both students and faculty. The Diversity,
Compliance, and Affirmative Action
Department will join faculty and stu
dents to work on issues that affect the
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“Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! The Tuition Hike Has Got To Go!”
Kevin S.P. Mamakas
onday, March 7, 2005 Albany - For
the
umpteenth
time,
Higher
Education Lobby Day took place so stu
dents all over New York can learn what
their representatives are doing for them.
This year, however, is different from any
other year.
If the Governor’s budget is not over
ridden there will be another tuition
increase. That means, for the first time,
the student paid tuition revenue would
cover more than half of the operating
budget at SUNY and nearly half of the
total CUNY operating budget.
This Lobby Day, a busload of CSI
students went to Albany to show that we
want to be a part of the fight against tuition
increases, TAP restructuring, and cuts to
financial aid and opportunity programs.
Despite the fact that State support for
Higher Education has decreased in the
last decade, CSI students of all sorts were
letting their voices heard. The newly
elected NYPIRG Board Representative
M
The Race for
Cay Hall
CSI’s NYPIRG and Student Government contingent sojourned north to Albany to protest the latest tuition hikes. “The leg
islature knows how important financial aid is,” said CSI Student Government President Dwight Dunkley. He was very
pleased that CSI was well represented in Albany. “CSI had good representation because NYPIRG and Student Government
worked together.” Dunkley went to 5 delegation meetings, three more than required, to make sure that CSPs voice was
heard by as many Assembly members and Senators offices as possible.
West Side Stadium May See Mayor Mike Crushed
Under the Weight of His Own Convictions
Matt Safford
With less than seven months until the
NYC Mayoral election, Republican
Incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg is
making some strange decisions.
Regardless of the fact that a recent
Quinnipiac poll showed that little more
than a third of NYC voters approved of
the controversial West Side Stadium,
Mayor Mike seems intent on making this
matter --and his support for it- the main
issue of the upcoming election season.
Perhaps he's going for that unwa
vering, stick with your decisions through
thick and thin policy that seems to work
for President Bush, but Bloomberg does
n't have red state voters to back him up.
This is a decidedly blue constituency
he's dealing with here, and he would like
ly do better to play up his successes,
such as the 311 program.
For his own part, one Democratic
rival-City Council Speaker Gifford Miller-has recently taken the clear, vocal stand
against the West Side Stadium that John
Kerry likely wishes he made against the
Iraq war. "The bottom line is that I have
fought and will keep on fighting against
this stadium," Said Miller in his February
24 State of the City Speech, "so that my
children and your children won't end up
paying for this terrible mistake." Other
Democratic hopefuls such as Fernando
Ferrer and Virginia Fields have drawn
similar lines in the sand between their
opportunity programs. CSI student
Courtney Rucker, a person who is just
starting to get into a student leadership
role, was influenced to join Lobby Day
because it is something she believes in, “I
am interested in fighting for what I believe
in,” she said. “I come to school because of
Dan Beyer, said, “It is worth it to fight.”
We were all joined together because
we realized the $250 increase to CUNY is
terrible for students and families. We all
joined together because 58% of us use
TAP. We all joined together because
28,000 New York State students use
H
financial aid!”
Every CSI student should let our rep
resentatives know that we don’t want a
tuition hike of any kind, and we don’t want
financial aid cuts. What we want is our
financial aid fully funded. We want the
opportunity programs restored and
increased. We want more funding for the
CUNY operating budget.
‘The legislature knows how impor
tant financial aid is,” said CSI Student
Government President Dwight Dunkley.
He was very pleased that CSI was well
represented in Albany. “CSI had good rep
resentation because NYPIRG and
Student Government worked together.”
Dunkley went to 5 delegation meetings three more than required, to make sure
that CSI’s voice was heard by as many
Assembly members and Senators offices
as possible.
The most important lesson of the day
could all be summed up in a few words.
Dan Beyer put it best when he said, “More
students have to get involved to make a
difference, because the issue involves all
students."
Lobby Local Politicians @ Support CUNY Org
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stance and the Mayor's on the issue of
the West Side Stadium.
On the issue of the 2012 Olympics,
which Bloomberg insists on linking to the
Jets Stadium, New Yorkers are much
more enthusiastic: nearly 2/3 support
bringing the Games to the City. Yet the
Mayor continues to reject the possibility
of getting one without the other.
"If you're against the stadium,
you're against the Olympics," said the
Mayor at a recent press conference.
This type of rhetoric calls to mind the oft
maligned "You are either with us, or
against us" speech made by President
Bush a couple months after 9/11.
Whether or not this same type of sto
icism in the face of opposition will work
for Bloomberg, remains to be seen. But
Mike would do well to remind himself
that NYC is not America, and our city
overwhelmingly rejected Bush in last
year's election.
The still crowded field of Democratic
Mayoral hopefuls has taken a clear stand
on the public’s side of this fence, and the
more creative of the bunch are looking at
alternative sites for a stadium in another
borough. Bloomberg’s assertion that he
knows better than the public about what
is best for our city, may prove preten
tious. Placing the 600 million dollar West
Side Stadium between himself and
reelection is just bad business.
Bloomberg, more than other candidate,
should know better than that.
New Web Site Gives Anyone With Internet
Access and 10 Minutes of Spare Time the
Chance to Show Politicians The
Importance of CUNY.
Matt Safford
In the 10 minutes most of us spend
between classes grabbing a smoke, a
drink,
or
a
sugary
snack,
SupportCUNY.org allows anyone with
Internet access to contact their local
politicians and show their support for
CUNY, their ire over the proposed tuition
hike, or cutbacks to financial aid. If
you've been looking for a way to try and
make your voice heard, but don't have
the time to go to rallies or join NYPIRG,
this is your chance.
All you have to do after pointing your
browser to the site, is click the "Sign up
with Support CUNY" link in the upper
right corner, type in your full name, email
and snail mail address, create a pass
word, and you're good to go. After con
firming the data you entered, you'll be
taken directly to a page with tabs on the
top. Click the "To Do" tab, and you'll see
10 descriptions of pages which allow you
to
send
letters
about
various
CUNY/Student related subjects. Clicking
on any one of the corresponding "take
action" buttons will send you to an
t t
editable version of the letter itself. All you
have to do is replace the blank line with
"The College of Staten Island" and click
the "send this message button" and con
firm your information on the next page.
You don’t even have to write your name
and address, all that is done for you.
That's why you had to register way back
at the beginning of this paragraph.
There are other interesting features
on the SupportCUNY.org site, but they
are all intuitive enough that you can eas
ily discover them on your own. The one
that needs to be mentioned however, so
that it doesn't get overlooked, is the "tell
a friend" link in the upper right corner of
the front page. Make sure you click that
one, and send the link to your parents,
professors, older siblings who've already
graduated, and anyone else who you
think would want to spend a few minutes
in support of our City University System.
Letters on the site specifically written for
non-students will make it just as easy for
them to do their part. The more our politi
cians hear from all the people positively
affected by CUNY, the more they will
understand its importance.
If enough of us raise our voices, we
can put the fear of the CUNY voter in the
minds of our politicians. And if that fear
remains with them when they vote on
issues involving higher education, we
can only end up with a better-funded,
higher-quality academic experience.
�March 14,2005
Staff
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
JENNIFER MOSSCROP
MANAOINC; EDI TOR
DAVIE) MALTZ
COMICS EDI TOR
ENRIQUE INOCENTE
ADP PACE EDITOR
MATTHEW SAFFORD
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
MELLISSA SEECHARAN
SEX COLUMNIST
JESSICA MENDEZ
HEAD PHOTOGRAPHER
LUKE CRISALLI
STAFF
ORUME A-HAYS
AMANDA FOOTE
DOMINIC FIDUCCIA
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
GREG TUMBARELLO
CONT RIB U TO RS
THOMAS BRADLEY
THOMAS LANZA
VANESSA LEIGH DEBELLO
BRIAN GONZALEZ
FACULTY ADVISOR
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
SG'S NEW PICKS
continued from pane i
"I want to be a part of Student
Government because this is where
everything happens," said Tara LaPera,
a candidate for the freshman/sophomore
seat and a former Senator. "Ideas are
made and processed here."
When
asked
by
Student
Government Vice President, Taiwo
Olasuo what ideas would the candidates
like to bring to the student leader body,
answers from each nominee didn't vary
to any great extent. "I'd increase school
spirit," said freshman, Singdha Banerjee.
While Junior Krystian Gargasz stated
that he would seek to "unify the college
community and get them more aware of
activities and other things."
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CLOTHESLINE
DIVERSITY AT CSI
SALOWAY ON THE JOB
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continued from pone I
continued from page 1
“I have been to Clothesline Projects
all over the United States,” said Lopez.
“Alabama, Minnesota, Arkansas, even
Alaska, and just on Staten Island alone
the numbers are huge, picture the cause
as a whole.”
Since that first display in 1990, the
project has grown to as many as 300
Clothesline Projects. There are currently
over 35,000 shirts made, and the num
bers grow larger every time a woman
decides to step forward.
The Domestic Violence Clothesline
Project has proved to be a life-changing
event for many women. “It has been
amazing here,” said Lopez.
“These
shirts are so significant, I just don’t have
the words for it, but it shows us that we
made it through the storm, the hard part
is over.”
Clotheslines have been displayed
at schools, universities, shopping malls,
churches, and various womens events
around the world. The Clothesline is
more than just a reminder of women
who are violated and killed through vio
lence. It is an opportunity for survivors
to rebuild through reading stories and
talking to women who have been
through the same problems. It repre
sents a chance to help prevent the next
assault, the next rape, or worse, the next
murder.
About 1.5 million women are
attacked each year, and the statistics
continue to increase each and every day.
“I was raped on my first date,” said
Angela Rivera. “Being here right now
and meeting people that live close to me
who have been through the same thing
has possibly given me the courage to
finally try out a second date.”
The U.S. Department of Justice
reports that 25 percent of women will be
raped or physically assaulted sometime
in their life. The report also stated that in
2004, around 1500 women were mur
dered by their intimate partner.
After two rounds of paper ballot vot
ing,
Banerjee
won
the
lone
freshman/sophomore seat, defeating
three other candidates. It took the addi
tional vote of SG President, Dwight
Dunkley, who only intervened "in the
interest of time," to give Banerjee the
win.
Although three Junior/Senior seats
were available, Krystian Gargasz was
the only nominee in attendance for the
position. Gargasz unanimously won his
spot on Student Government.
Senators Chris Holder and Peri
Fisher were both nominated for Student
Service Commissioner, but Holder
defeated Fisher 8-2 after the Senators
agreed to use the roll call method instead
of raising hands.
Senator Stephanie Donoso was
college.
Antoine also would also like CSI stu
dents to know that the Compliance and
Diversity Department also works on sex
ual harassment and discrimination cases
affecting students and staff members.
He is revising the Sexual Harassment
and Discrimination Committee so that it
will have more meaning to the CSI com
munity. Student Government has been
asked to elect a student to serve on the
committee.
Kevin Antoine has already met with
different departments about diversifying
incoming faculty. The goal is to get CSI
to be on the same level of diversity as
the rest of CUNY. The Banner reported
earlier this semester that in 2003, 17.9
percent
of
CUNY
Executive
Compensation
Plans
(for the
Chancellor, College Presidents, VicePresidents, Provosts, and Deans), go to
people of Black ethnicity. CSI’s 2003 pro
file showed no Black members of this
group. Antoine believes this needs to be
changed.
Antoine asserted that a first step to
resolve issues of staff diversity is a
requirement that each Department pro
vide a list all job applicants before the
interview process begins. The Diversity,
Compliance, and Affirmative Action
Department can then review which appli
cants may be qualified. “I don’t want to
see any Ph.D. candidates that were of
color not having an interview for a job
that they are more than qualified for,”
said Antoine.
Antoine also believes that CUNY’s
Scholars' Programwill provide a good
opportunity for CSI to appoint “More
female faculty members of color.”
Any students who believes they
have been the victim of discrimination or
sexual harassment should contact
Antoine at the Diversity, Compliance,
and Affirmative Action Department, (718)
982-2250.
also elected as the Technology Fee
Commissioner,
defeating
Vanessa
Joseph and Robert Duru, while Peri
Fisher received the majority of votes to
become Cirriculum Commissioner.
Nominations for the Spring 2005
Student Elections are currently under
way. Students can apply to run for posi
tions on the Student Government, CSI
Association, Auxiliary Services, College
Council, and the Faculty Disciplinary
Committee.
Despite an increase in voter turnout
last year, there is still a need for more
participation from the student body. "We
want to make sure more people vote,"
said Senator Robert Duru. The deadline
for nominee applications is April 1 st, with
voting taking place the week of April 11th
- 16th in the Library and Campus Center.
said. “I have very high expectations for
him.”
“I am thrilled,” said Ladley. “I’ve
been covering many of the responsibili
ties that the General Manager has.”
Ladley also expressed relief that the
search is over. “The first time showed
us how hard it can be,” he said in refer
ence to the first failed search. “I’m glad
this time it worked out.”
Saloway said his first meeting with
students convinced him that this posi
tion was right for him. “When I came for
that first interview, that’s when I realized
just how incredible the station is,” he
said. “The students know what they’re
doing. They’re as good, or better than
some people I’ve seen in commercial
radio.”
Saloway has been interested in a
career in radio since he was a child. His
first radio job came at the age of 16,
when he got the chance to keep stats
basketball games for WMTR of
Morristown, New Jersey. “I was keeping
stats for high school football games and
it was a job I just fell into,” he said. “I
used to have to have my mom drive me
to the football games because I didn’t
have my license yet. You had to be 17
to drive in New Jersey.”
While attending Boston University,
Saloway worked at an internship at
National Public Radio affiliate WBUR in
Boston, Massachusetts. “There was an
incredible news broadcasting and spe
cial event coverage,” he said. “It was
completely professionally run, even
though it was an independent station.”
After graduating with a Bachelor’s
of Science in Journalism in January of
2002, Saloway continued to work at
WBUR for two more years. From
WBUR, Saloway went to WKRK in
Sunbury, Pennsylvania, as a news
anchor and reporter. He spent a short
time working in public relations, before
spending the last two years working as
an Operations Manager for Liberty
Broadcasting in Newark, New Jersey.
It might come as no surprise that
Saloway
learned
about WSIA’s
General Manager position from the
mass media. “I was flipping through the
paper one day, and happened upon the
advertisement in the Star-Ledger," he
said. “On a lark I decided to apply. It
seemed like something interesting, a
good next step. At about the same time
I found out that my company was being
sold and going to be moved to another
state.”
Students at WSIA appeared
relieved and happy that Saloway had
finally started his job as General
Manager. “You have to have a GM,”
said Robert Perez. “Mr. Ladley can’t do
everything. It’s like one of those
Christmas gifts. You wait three years
and now we got it.”
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�STATEN ISLAND’S SONS OF THE WORKING CLASS NOT PERMITTED THE WRITER’S LIFE
Thomas Bradley
“Yeah, keep readin’. There’s nothing to
do around here. Leave that up to me. I
only pay the mortgage and do everything
else around the house. But you keep sittin’ there with your little books . ..”
try to tune him out, not pay attention to
such ignorance. But his barbs have cut
my mood to shreds and I have just read
an entire page without concentrating on a
single word.
“You’re retarded,” I finally answer.
“You realize how ridiculous you sound,
Right?” I say these words with a squint in
my eyes and a tilt of my head, my hands
held out as if to show there is nothing in
them.
This isn’t an unusual turn of events
but for some reason I can’t contain my
disgust, my disgust with everything—my
house, my family, myself. I know I should
be reading more, writing more, but how
many articles and essays have been writ
ten in James Joyce’s kitchen with his
father demanding that he “do something,”
with brothers fighting over something nei
ther one really wants, and mother wishing
everyone would stop screaming at the
top of their voices and just, simply, speak.
I mean, how many novels did Gustav
Flaubert pump out with everyone he
knew joining civil services, doing con
struction, or preparing to take over the
I
family business? I ask these questions
and decide I’m just being a wimp.
The sons of the working class are, in
the world I know, not permitted the socalled eccentricity of wanting to be a
writer. We are so busy trying to “get our
acts together,” or “growing up” that there
is little time for emotion, and even less
time to discuss these emotions. We chil
dren of the working class are in a unique
position, for we occupy the no-man’s-land
of the social stratosphere. Not quite poor,
(we take pride in that fact) and not quite
All this while, the working-class
trudge along, glass ceiling looming above
their heads, heading toward pension
plans that leave you working a side job to
live your last years respectably. If I say
I’m an English Major, there is the ever
popular response, “So why you wanna be
a teacher?” Never, “So what are you
going to write?” If I had said I wanted to
be an actor or a painter, there are the
inevitable mumblings of, “Yeah, Tom
Bradley thinks he is gonna be a painter or
somethin’. I’m so sure. Where’s the
I could tell my father one hundred timeswhat would make me happy,
and if it doesn’t have insurance benefits or no one he knows is in that
line of work, he will shake his head and shrug his shoulders. My
father doesn’t want me to fail, but he doesn t understand. He doesn’t
see why his son “always gotta be startin ’somethin ’. ” I’m not trying
to rock the boat. I’m not trying to break the mold. All I want is to
write, and yeah, maybe I do want to teach.
well-off (the rich are stuffy and who would
want all that property to mow anyway?).
The rich are educated in the best
schools, given the best chance of mone
tary success and have the innate feeling
of “better than them” coursing through
their blue blood. The poor are a united
front against the oppressive upper-class
es. They are given a sense of identity
through struggle, and are permitted the
privileges of the arts as a means of rising
above their poverty.
money in that?”
Had I been from the upper class, my
mother might have sent me to an art tutor
and spoken to a friend of a friend about
getting me a show. Or maybe, had I been
a member of the lower class, I would
have been encouraged to do anything I
could to get out, to have my voice heard,
to let people know where I was from. But
no. I’m from the working-class. And here
we put down the ones who break ranks
and berate those who question our forced
mediocrity.
Now, I’m sure plenty of successful
writers have come from the working
class, and there’s a shot for everybody,
regardless of your father’s yearly income.
But it’s more about the mentality than the
money. My father doesn’t want me to fail,
but he doesn’t understand. He doesn’t
see why his son “always gotta be startin’
somethin.” I’m not trying to rock the boat.
I’m not trying to break the mold. All I want
is to write, and yeah, maybe I do want to
teach.
So I put my book down and ask my
dad, “What do you want me to do?”
He continues tying up the garbage
bag and without looking up says,
“Whatever makes you happy.” But I know
he’s half lying to himself because I could
tell him one hundred times in a row what
would make me happy and if it doesn’t
have insurance benefits or no one he
knows is in that line of work, he will shake
his head and shrug his shoulders.
I don’t know what I will do with my
English degree from working-class CSI. I
might write, I might teach, I might do both,
I might do neither. Whatever I do, there
will be mumblings and begrudgings from
my friends with cop uniforms and broker’s
briefcases.
But hey, Richard Wright was a mail
man. William Baldwin worked in a factory.
Maybe being working class can work for
me. After all, that’s what we do best:
Work.
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Editor s Desk
ould you look at that—it’s March
already. That means we’re half
way through the Spring semester and
ready to take those Midterms. For me,
March means The Banner has hit the
halfway point for this semester’s issues.
Yep, only four more issues left after
this. Which I’m sure many people are
happy about. Because it seems to me
that people on campus complain when
The Banner publishes too many fluff
pieces or seem to be kissing up to the
administration. But when The Banner
actually breaks through with stories that
concern students! hear complaints about
that too. This paradox of the college
press has taught me two things: 1. You
really can’t make everyone happy; and 2.
People love to complain.
So, what is this editor to do? Don’t
know, just keep on doing what I’ve been
doing. Just keep L-l-V-l-N.
Whcih brings me to my next beef.
One of the Banner’s newer staff mem
bers embarrassed me, my staff, and all
CSI students and faculty who attended
the CUNY Media Conference on Friday,
March 4th. And after a few phone calls,
even Vice President of Student Affairs,
Carol Jackson knew about what had
happened. So what did this Banner con
tributor do that was so off the charts?
The new Dean of the future CUNY
Graduate School of Journalism was
delivering the Media Conference’s
Keynote
address to
a
packed
Proshansky Auditorium. After the
speech, it was time to take questions, at
which point this Banner contributor went
up to the microphone and, with the
CUNY TV cameras rolling, stated his
name and then he said he was from, “the
College of Stupid Idiots.”
I was shocked, as was the entire
CSI community. So, I will take a deep
breath and apologize for this disgraceful
behavior that unfortunately came from
the mouth of a Banner staff member. I
want to make it clear that the Banner has
distanced itself from these thoughtless
comments. This staff member has since
been taken off his beat, and suspended
from the staff. Not to mention the fact
that we all gave him a good talking to.
Perhaps the lesson we should take from
this unfortunate occurrence is that each
and every one of us represents our col
lege, and we should take this responsi
bility very seriously.
Now, back to my mid-semester dia
tribe. In April, we will only publish one
issue because of Spring Break. In honor
of April Fool’s Day, we will be publishing
an imitation Onion pull-out section. My
long-time staffers are great reporters, but
anyone who has ever written a newspa
per story knows that it can be quite sti
fling to their creativity. And my reporters
can write. So this special section (guar
anteed to be hilarious) will give them a
chance to let their creative juices flow
while keeping you guys entertained at
the same time. And for all of you antiBanner watchdogs, don’t worry, there will
still be articles for you to read and com
plain about. But when it comes to the
pullout section, remember . . . WE’RE
JOKING! (PS. Mahalo means Thank You
in Hawaiian).
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MattSafford
tanding at a school bus stop in the
sub-zero air of a January morning in
upstate NY nearly 15 years ago, I looked
around at the dozen or so kids standing
near me. Most of them held Walkman
knock-offs in their gloved hands. Music
was the best way to pass the time on the
long, bumpy ride over the back roads to
school. As the bus pulled slowly up to our
stop, and the kids began to get on, I
looked down to my hands, which held not
a cassette player, but a brand-new
portable CD player, which I purchased
over winter break, after successfully
hoarding my Christmas cash.
I've always been an early adopter of
technology, particularly audio technolo
gy. So its no surprise that when most of
us were still enamored with discmans in
the mid 1990's, I was ripping my CDs
onto my computer in the form of mp3s.
As soon as they became available, I pur
chased my first mp3 player, and haven't
looked back since. Instead, I've always
looked ahead. As the technology
evolved, I've ditched player after player
for better features, more storage, and
higher build quality. But aside from their
ever-shrinking size and cosmetic
improvements like color screens, the
technology has settled down, and come
of age for the masses.
If you're thinking of getting an mp3
player for yourself however, there are a
few things to keep in mind. Basically,
there are two types of players which are
popular at the moment: hard drive play
S
ers, and flash-memory players. The type
that's right for you, depends mostly on
what you plan to do with it.
There's no doubt that the iPod is a
superbly designed player which com
bines great features with simple, intuitive
controls. And lets admit it, it looks great.
If you're looking for function over form
however, Rio's excellent Karma player is
a wise choice, as it plays a wider variety
of file formats, has a longer-lasting bat
tery and costs about a hundred dollars
Ifyou are thinking about
getting an mp3 player for
yourself there are a few things
to keep in mind. . .
less. But the problem with these players,
as well as the iPod mini, is that they use
miniature hard drives to store songs. In
the sense that this allows for the storage
of a huge amount of tracks -say upwards
of 500 albums on the higher capacity
iPod- this is a good thing. But hard drives
are essentially spinning plates of glass. If
you drop any one of these players while
those plates are whirring, chances are
you'll end with a couple-hundred-dollar
paperweight. So if you think you'd like to
do some exercise while listening to your
tunes, or if you're like me, and expensive
things fall out of your hands on a regular
basis, read on.
Flash-based players, while capable
of holding far fewer songs, have no mov
ing parts. Similar to USB flash drives
which are quickly sounding the death-
knell for floppy disks, flash players hold
your songs in solid state memory. This
makes them tougher, smaller, and less
likely to be D.O.A. after they hit your
kitchen floor at 9.8 m/sec2. So if your
regular music-listening routine involves
anything more active than a casual stroll
to the corner 7-11, one of these players
is your best bet. While they do hold far
less music than your average hard drive
player, the newer models tend to max out
at one gigabyte of storage. A large col
lection of music they won't hold, but a gig
is enough room for about 200 mp3s, or
between 15 and 20 of your favorite
albums. The better players in this cate
gory -such as Creative's MuVo linemake it as easy as possible to upload
and offload music as well. Changing the
songs is as easy as plugging the player
into your computer's USB port, dragging
and dropping.
Looking back on those days sitting
in the patched, green vinyl seats of the
school bus, listening to music I'd be
embarrassed to talk about today, I could
n't have imagined that a decade and a
half later, I'd be carrying around thou
sands of songs in the palm of my hand. I
was as enamored with my CD player as
I am with my mp3 player today. But I'm
still looking ahead. Perhaps in another
15 years, we'll be listening to music
streaming instantly through the airwaves
from servers containing every album
recorded in the last century. I don't know
what the future has in store for portable
music, but I'm sure whatever it is, it'll be
music to my ears.
Complaints, Fears, Rants, and Praise
How to Appeal a CPE Grade
As of September 1,2003 all students must
pass a CUNY Proficiency Examination
(CPE) in order to graduate. This exam is
supposed to demonstrate that students
have a certain level of academic literacy. A
student may take the CPE a maximum of
three times. So you failed the test but you
want to appeal, what happens next?
A couple of years ago I took the CPE.
I was told that I had failed the exam and
would have to retake it. This decision was
unacceptable to me. At the time I had an
Associate's degree and a very high GPA,
yet the college was telling me that I did not
know how to read and write. After much
debate, a school official finally agreed to
look into the matter. A month later I
received news that I did indeed pass the
CPE. The school official asked that I keep
this finding to myself, as there were no
steps in place for students to file an appeal
if they felt they had passed.
I recently visited the college testing
office, which is in building 1A, room 104, to
find out if there is now a policy in place for
students who feel they have received a fail
in error, they in turn referred me to College
Counseling, which is also in building 1A
but room 109. the students are not allowed
to see their tests to review them with the
counselors. A student may only put in an
appeal and then the Course and
Standing Committee will review the test.
After a waiting period of about a week
and a half the student should have their
verdict. If you feel that your CPE was
misgraded, call (718)-982-2391.
- Corrine Kovalsky
Were Japanese Students Conned?
“Why did you choose to come to Staten
Island?” That is what everybody asks me
as soon as they know I am an interna
tional student. It is true that there are
more interesting areas and famous coF
leges in New York. CSI does not require
too many tests for admission and does
not have a deadline for application and
tuition and the living expenses are
cheap. However, most of the approxi
mately 40 of the Japanese students (the
international office in 2A does not know
the numbers) chose to come here
because their college recommended
CSI. This made it easier to transfer their
credits than going to unknown colleges.
In Japan, there are loads of the trav
el programs that introduce the nice
places in the world on TV. Of course,
those programs do not fail to include New
York, which is the one of the three
biggest cities in the world. What they
introduce
in the
programs
are
Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, and maybe
Queens but they never show or men
tion Staten Island. They may introduce
about the free ferry to Manhattan but
not Staten Island in general. Also, in
the Japanese guidebooks of New York,
they have almost no information about
Staten Island. Therefore, none of the
Japanese understand exactly where
and what Staten Island is.
There were no good pictures that
described CSI accurately on the
brochure. Japanese students were told
that “Staten Island is in a calm part of
New York and it’s just 20 minutes from
the busy area.” Nobody told them CSI
is basically rural and difficult to live in
without a car.
As a result, most of Japanese stu
dents felt like they were conned and
confused when they actually arrived
here. It is difficult to get information
about the world in CSI.
Many Japanese students faced
this fact and try to find the beauty of
Staten Island, such as its nature and
enjoy their college lives. However,
some of them still cannot deal with it.
Therefore, they moved to the apart
ments in Brooklyn or Manhattan, come
to CSI and try to enjoy the New York
experience that was supposed to be.
- Tomoko Arai
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Through funding received by the CSI Program Development Committee, the Counseling
Center will create a "Relaxation Station” at the Campus Center on May 10, 2005. The
event will include on-site massage therapists, games, refreshments, and activities to help
students relax during their studies! At the event, T-shirts will be distributed as prizes.
We cordially invite you to submit a design for the T-shirt. All valid entries will receive one
PG CLUE credit. One winner will be selected from the entries that we receive by 4/8/05.
IMPORTANT STUFF
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• Be done in black ink and signed by the artist.
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Jessica Mendez
it’s here! With a tiny squeal, I rip open the
white box with its very official United
States Postal Service label, knowing the
naughty, luxurious treasure that was
inside.
Now, sighing, I gingerly pull it out of
the box, reveling as it slowly emerges.
First, a thin, white silk strap; then, one
white mesh cup with the sweetest peri
winkle lace scallop teasing the edges,
then another. I tear off my tank top and
slide the bra around and on. My breasts
are full, luscious, like two sweet cup
cakes. Two sweet, yummy Cosabella
cupcakes.
Come on, admit it. You love undies. I
am not alone in my love of all smalls.
How else would you explain Victoria’s
Secret’s stranglehold on the American
public? Women want to be the models;
men want to have sex with them. (Hell, I’d
have sex with some of them; have you
seen Adriana Lima?!) While I have to
hand it to an ingenious marketing team
for convincing everyone from the college
student to soccer moms that this mall sta
ple is the pinnacle of affordable, sexy lin
gerie chic, I am thoroughly unimpressed.
They are both overrated and overpriced
for the poor quality and construction (sev
eral of my friends have had knickers fade
and stretch after three uses.) I crave cre
ativity and comfort! I ache for style and
originality, and they just aren’t delivering.
Lingerie is more than a necessity. It’s
an experience, another form of selfexpression that combines my love of
fashion and love of sex into a perfect
union. My fascination with knickers
Enrique Ignacio Inocente
In 1983, a sci-fi epic hit theaters and
changed the face of American cinema. At
least, that’s what Columbia Pictures
hoped when they financed Spacehunter:
Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. It’s
obvious from the title they hoped this
would be a franchise where we’d see
main character Wolff (Peter Strauss) in all
sorts
of
galactic
adventures.
Unfortunately, because it flopped so horri
bly in the box-office we’ll never see galac
tic bounty hunter Wolff in other amazing
movies like Adventures in Dimension X or
Journey Through the Planet of Nympho
Nurses.
Spacehunter: Adventures in the
Forbidden Zone goes a little something
like this: It’s the year 2136 and Wolff,
while answering a distress signal from
Terra Eleven, agrees to rescue three hot
babes that crash landed on the desolate
planet. The women are kidnapped by min
ions. of Overdog (Michael Ironside), the
insanely wicked/ugly human machine that
rules the planet. Along the way, Wolff
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Undie Exposed
(never panties, what an unsexy word!)
and bras blossomed not long after my
breasts did. In my all-girls Catholic high
school, underwear served as our rebel
lion and form of expression. Under our
short, pleated skirts were wild boxer
shorts; under our sheer oxford cloth
shirts, crazy bras. It was masculine-femi
nine at its most basic. The more outra
geous they were, the cooler we were.
Plaid, pinstriped and diamond-clad asses
were routinely flashed in the hallways
and in gym class, usually low enough to
display a sliver of bikini string.
Two of my friends would purposely
wear the tackiest, flashiest bras they
could find. It was a cheap lingerie fashion
show, with red metallic demi cups battling
it out with padded animal prints. Inspired,
I got in on the game. The first time I wore
an aqua pintucked demi bra and won for
the day, I was hooked. Every day became
a challenge that I still rise to.
Every morning (nighttime is strictly
commando), I sift through my piles of
knickers and bras. Every bra has a pur
pose, as do my bottoms. Cacique,
Cherokee, Maidenform, Fredericks of
Hollywood and the like all coexist peace
fully. And then, there’s La Perla. La
Perla—say it loud and there’s music play
ing. Say it soft, and it’s almost like pray
ing. Talk about flattering—the Italian silk
tulle and lace hug every curve like a sec
ond skin, and my breasts look like you
only thought they could look in the
movies and in magazines: perfect half
moon pillows without a trace of the dread
ed quadriboob. The sexy quotient is off
the scales with these. But, considering
comes across a
jive talking little
orphan
girl
named
Nikki
(Molly Ringwald)
who agrees to
help guide him
through
Overdog’s scrapmetal kingdom to
rescue the hot
babes.
Spacehunter
isn’t all that bad if
you can look past
it’s glaring flaws.
For one, nothing
in the movie is
original.
Wolff
looks like the
bastard child of
Indiana
Jones
and Han Solo,
the plot is painful
ly predictable, and the scene settings look
like they got it on loan from Mad Max.
Nonetheless, if you can forgive the movie
they’re easily over $200 a pop, I only own
two, which I got on sale (I’m not that
crazy).
As for knickers, I’m a fan of cus
tomization. I sew patches, appliques and
the like onto the bum, et voila! Instant
originals!
Perhaps I am obsessed, but there is
at least one person out there who speaks
the language of lingerie. “Why can’t com
fortable underwear be sexy?” Nilea P.
Alexander, the genius designer behind
Nilea P. Couture Undies, reasons. “I just
started doing stuff that was really sexy
and more so than comfortable, I wanted
practical.” And does she ever deliver! The
boy shorts are well-cut, the camisoles are
vibrant and sexy, and the thongs are
playful and fun. Best of all, it’s 100%
affordable, something a broke college
student like myself can definitely appreci
ate. Nilea’s signature is trimming: rib
bons, bows, even feathers and leather
adorn her amazingly comfortable, sweet
and sassy gear. And what’s this? A stylish
body slimmer? Nilea has designed both a
bodysuit and a full corset with garters that
not only flatter your figure, but ar6 actual
ly attractive as well! With the sweetest of
bud roses, sassy pink bows and sexy
black lace decorating the nude bodice,
this is not your mother’s girdle. “Whatever
you got going on, that thing will suck you
in!” she explains proudly. And thanks to
an ingenious snap crotch on the black
bodysuit accented with bright ribbons,
when “you’re with your man, you don’t
even have to take that off!”
Nilea, like me, feels that originality is
key. “The whole purpose of having some
thing that is couture is you want people to
comment on it,” something that happens
to Nilea whenever she’s sporting one of
her creations. “It’s not from the Gap, it’s
not from Victoria’s Secret. It’s special, it’s
sexy, it’s different.” And, it’s versatile. Her
bustiers, tanks and camis go from night to
day seamlessly. “You can wear it as
underwear, with jeans, you can wear it
with a blazer. It’s funky yet multifunction
al. I’m just trying to marry these two
images.” It is a blessed union indeed, one
worth checking out at www.nileap.com
ASAP! I think it’s a myth that men really
care about lingerie as much as they’d like
us to think, but I must admit, the occa
sional ooh and ah doesn’t exactly hurt. A
simple, “Ooh, niiice,” when one boy got a
peek of my turquoise G-string solidified
my love for the garment. Another gent
actually came up for air on a muff-diving
expedition just to say, “Nice knickers.” I
think that got me off ten times faster. My
purple undies with “ROLE MODEL”
emblazoned on the backside never fail to
delight.
Lingerie can be a multitude of things.
It can be sultry, sexy, boring, basic, flashy
or trashy. The one thing it should always
be is fun!
for it’s unorigi
nality and let
the movie take
you
in,
Spacehunter
can be down
right charm
ing. I mean,
who couldn’t
fall in love with
a sassy, prepubescent
and the .relationship between the two is
endearing to watch unfold. Since Nikki is
an orphan, she latches onto Wolff as a
father figure who’s hard as nails bounty
hunter fagade starts to crumble under her
cutesy mannerisms. I’m sure we all know
how this subplot ends.
Director Lament Johnson took an
uninspired script and did an uninspired
job bringing it to the screen. This is not to
Molly
Ringwald, or
those aliens
that look like
steaming piles
of poop and
make farting
noises.
The spe
cial effects are
above aver
age
for
a
1980’s sci-fi
flick, the alien locations are diverse
enough to make one think Wolff and Nikki
are on an epic journey through the planet,
say he did a lousy job directing, but it’s
just too cliche. We’ve got the old
damsels in distress story, the lonesome
bounty hunter, the sassy orphan, a mani
acal villain, the rival bounty hunter, a
musical score that tries too hard to sound
like John Williams, and the same old
happy ending that leaves it open for a
sequel.
Aside from its contrived plot, this flick
didn’t seem to know its audience. It was
too dark and scary for little kids to enjoy,
and too silly for adults to bare sitting
through. In the end, Spacehunter will
please hardcore sci-fi fans, or teens that
have nothing better to watch on a lonely
weekend. I give this movie 2 out 4 intergalactic torpedoes
�March 14,2005
A Tightly Packed Vagina Monologues Satisfies Audience and Donates $ to Local Charity
Jennifer Mosscrop
What would your vagina say if it could
talk? What would it wear? That's the
questions the cast of CSI's production of
the Vagina Monologues asked the sold
out audience February 25, 26, and 27.
The Drama Program and Creative
Arts Department delivered an unforget
table performance of Eve Ensler's bril
liant play to a sold-out Lab Theater three
nights in a row.
The 12 monologues brought up
suchvagina-related taboo subjects rang
ing from orgasm ("the flood"), to hair ("it's
like the lawn around the house"), men
struation to masturbation. All are true
stories from interviews with over 200
women from all walks of life.
Some monologues were hilarious;
just take Victoria Venezia acting out dif
ferent kinds orgasms in "The Woman
Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy";
and Jessa Maria Mendez's "The Vagina
Workshop," "My vagina...is a delicate
flower."
Other monologues portrayed the
horror many women experience because
of their sexuality. Ruth Gallego per
formed the heart-wrenching "My Vagina
Was My Village," where men took over
her village and brutally raped her and
The cast of The Vagina Monologues after a sold-out, three night run in CSI’s Lab Theater. They
raised over $6,000 for the Staten Island chapter of Safe Horizon. Photo: Jen Mosscrop________
stuck the cold end of their rifles inside
her. "Under the Burqua" was another
moving monologue acted out by Linzie
Faith which described a woman's slowtorture of living under the veil of darkness
for years acted out by Linzie Faith.
Another kind of monologue celebrat
ed the wonders of the vagina. Ali Brunei!
Live Your Playboy Fantasy
Dominic Fiduccia
For the past several years there have
been more and'more video games that
are sexually suggestive. Usually these
games just capitalize on the belief that
they will sell regardless of how bad they
are.
Case in point, Playboy: The
Mansion. You are a young
Hugh Hefner, the founder of
Playboy and your job is to
take the magazine from the
first issue and build it up
from there.
Your primary concern is
supposed to be publishing
your magazine by having at
least one cover shot, one
centerfold, one article, one
interview, one essay, and
one pictorial. You'll need to
hire a small staff of journal
ists and photographers to
produce most of the content,
as well as a new Playmate
each month, but for the
cover shots, essays, and
interviews,
you'll
need
celebrities.
To get connected to celebrities,
you'll need to throw a lot of parties. You’ll
be inviting prominent figures from the
world of politics, sports, and just about
everyone else to your Mansion and have
conversations with them. And after
you've gotten to know them, you can ask
them to contribute to the magazine.
Doing this a big part of the game, but the
conversations are so shallow that going
from social acquaintance to intimate
partners is a joke.
Successful parties will increase your
overall fame and helps sell magazines.
That means hiring Playboy Bunny host
esses and providing plenty of other activ
performed "I Was There in the Room," a
story of a woman watching a child being
born.
ities to keep your guests happy.
With all this partyin.g you maybe
wondering when you even have time to
put together the magazine. Time has no
meaning in the game, so you don’t have
to worry about deadlines. Unfortunately,
this leisurely style kills the point of having
to run a monthly magazine. The pressure
of a deadline could have made the game
more exciting.
The game’s graphics are nothing to
brag about and the Playmates are the
most obvious example of this. The girls
who pose for the cover and centerfold
shoots, despite having different hair
styles, skin tones, and bra sizes, are oth
erwise indistinguishable. After a while, it
seems that you are taking the same pic
ture of the same girl which actually
comes across as creepy.
Still, the game has its good points I
like the unlockables that include classic
Playboy covers, centerfolds, and inter
views with celebrities that include the
39th President, Jimmy Carter. Oddly,
reading the retro articles from the maga
zine’s past is actually the best part of the
game.
Then there were the empowering
monologues like Lauren D'Aversa's
monologue, "Reclaiming Cunt," took
back the infamous four letter word and
ended with the lively audience chanting
Cunt! Cunt! Or "Because He Liked to
Look At It," by Jessica Lynn Socol about
a man who need to "see it" in order to
see what kind of person she was. "My
Short Skirt" performed by Leticia Nazario
warned that her short skirt is "not an invi
tation."
"I think the reason that the show
speaks to women of all ages, experi
ences and continents is that in some
way, everyone is able to find themselves
in one of the monologues," said Shael
Norris, Director of the V-Day College
Campaign. "There is a place somewhere
in the piece that each woman can identi
fy with and truly connect with."
In honor of V-Day, the cast worked
to reach their mark of $6,000 for Safe
Horizon, an organization that supports
victims of domestic abuse. After three
sold out nights, they went way over their
goal.
"All the proceeds go to the Staten
Island branch," said Victoria Venezia,
Director of the Vagina Monologues. "I'm
happy that the money will stay here on
Staten Island."
The Campaign raises awareness
among college students and their com
munities about violence against women.
Go to www.vday.org for more info.
Xenosaga Episode II:
Good Enough For The Bargain Bin
you start with is the same when you end.
Though I very much wish I could say
great amounts of praise but sadly facts
I’m saddened to say that Xenosaga
are facts and you can’t really change
Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose
that. This sequel is a disappointment
just isn’t as good as its predecessor.
when comparing to the first episode but
Don’t get me wrong this RPG isn’t all that
thank your stars that the story, graphics,
bad - as a matter of fact it is still a must
and very much amazing cinematic
have for anyone who is a fan of the
scenes are truly top notch. They com
Xenosaga series.
bine to show how expressive the charac
Some of the design choices this
ters are when wrestling with betrayal, the
game features just seem to be both puz
nature of true evil and to also weave
zling and at times very frustrating. There
together the themes of family.
is also an inadequate amount of shops,
This game is no where near com
and money, there is also harsh loading
plex in game play, combat using the
times before just about
Mechs show up
each fight. Without the
more around the
This sequel is a disappointment
many shops around like
second half of
the previous episode when comparing to the first episode but the game. In
you’ll often find yourself thank your stars that the story, graph order to get the
in a much shortage of ics, and very much amazing cinematic better
powerrecovery items. Basically
ups
you’re
basi
scenes are truly top notch.
these convention chang
cally forced to
ing decisions are the
play the not very
worst I’ve seen in a while. The best
well tasting side quests (Blah!). The box
attention Episode II had received unfor
puzzles were the worst in which it just
tunately was where it starts to fail the
seems to show up more and more fre
most.
quently. The first episode of Xenosaga
The battle system was redesigned
made this game remind me of how poor
to where the game concentrates mainly
ly Devil May Cry II did.
on combining each character’s abilities
Even though you’ll suffer a bit the
rather then having each character fight
concept does give loyal fans more
ing individually. The best way to achieve
thoughtful pieces of the puzzle. The
the awesome and devastating combos is
soundtrack has a way of switching
by stocking up on your shared Boost
between breathtaking to a mere mun
gauge then having the party unleash
dane sound which was another frustrat
amazing combos onto the enemy. The
ing thing to me.The graphics are still as
best way is to attack different parts of the
beautiful as ever even though there were
enemy therefore breaking its defenses
some drawbacks namely Shion’s new
then use boost to put your characters
look which made me think these devel
into action. This technique so far is the
opers had no fashion sense at all. The
quickest way to inflict much needed
number one aspect of this game that just
damage on any type of enemy whether
pushes it up towards the glory this game
it’s a small battle or a boss battle.
is known for is of course the cut scenes.
Players don’t have the option to
It is ranked among the very best known
adjust and upgrade the techs which in
to gaming. I would give this game any
simple terms the same type of attacks
where between a 7.5 and 8.0
Amonda Foote
�The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
March
4,2005
CSI WOMEN SMASH HUNTER IN CUNY FINAL
Dominic Fiduccia
February 25—CSI defeated Hunter, 7360, to become the 2005 CUNY
Champions. This is the first CUNY Title
win for the Lady Dolphins since 2001.
By halftime, CSI led the game with
the score of 36-27. CSI also led in
shooting which was a problem for Hunter
during the first half as they missed seven
of their last nine shots before halftime.
During the second half, Hunter tried
they couldn’t do any better than close the
gap by 10 points when there was only
8:22 left in the game. CSI led by as much
as 17 points during the second half.
CSI’s Sophomore Guard, Acasha
Gordon scored a total 23 points during
the championship game and was named
the Tournament’s MVP.
After a seson opening loss to NYU’s
Violets, the CSI women went on a 13game winning streak before it ended on
January 19 from the Baruch BearCats by
the score of 68-62.
The loss did not affect the team as
greatly as it may seem especially that it
was a close scoring game against a divi
sion rival. The Lady Dolphins instead
went on another winning streak. The
team won the remainder of their ten
games finishing the season with the
record of 24-2 (12-1 CUNY).
The Lady Dolphins entered this
year’s CUNY Tournament, which was
held at Lehman College in the Bronx this
year, with the number one seed. The first
face-off was against the Brooklyn
Bridges. CSI easily defeated the
Bridges, 79-39, and ruined Lehman’s
changes at the Finals on their home
court by winning their game, 79-64. This
set up a rematch of the last two CUNY
Women’s Tournament Final, CSI vs.
Hunter.
The biggest challenge of the tourna
ment for the Lady Dolphins was when
they had to take on and lose to the
Hunter College Hawks two years in a
row. To make things worse, both times
the Hawks won the championship game
they won by just one point - and with one
second remaining. Not too mention that
the Hawks came into this year’s tourna
ment having won the CUNY title for the
past three straight years.
Lady Dolphins Suffer Loss in NCAA First Round
OrumeA-Hays
March 5 - It is thirteen minutes into the
first half of the NCAA Division III
Tournament game at the Sports and
Recreation Center and the Dolphins
were down by 15 points. This is CSI’s
first ever NCAA tourney, and it’s a home
game against Connecticut's Wesleyan
University. The cheerleaders are chanti
ng, but CSIs' score is stuck at 5 points
after Acasha Gordon’s 3-point score in
the fifth minute of the game.
The Dolphins have played well
throughout the season seizing the
championship from Hunter’s Hawks at
the CUNY Conference tourney finals on
Friday, February 26th.
On Tuesday, a couple of days later,
guards Andrea Kleboe, and Shannon
Connelly were at the sports center train
ing. Speaking about the CUNY finals,
Andrea said “Last year we should have
won. We just kind of blew it in the cham
pionship... Everybody just not playing to
the best of their ability I guess. But it was
good that we came back and beat the
same team this year.”
Today however, the Dolphins are
fighting hard to continue making history,
and the Cardinals, especially Megan
Robinson and Hannah Stubbs are inter
ested in making history themselves in
their first ever tourney appearance.
The Cardinals tall legs and long
arms did not stop the Dolphins from fly
ing for the ball, which took the visitors’
lead down to 4 points 23 seconds before
the end of the first half.
Jacclyn Rock changed the momen
tum of the game with a layup 40 sec
onds into the second half even though
Hannah Stubbs had made the first bas
ket.
Kim Thompson, who made her
1,000th point in the game, narrowed the
lead to one point with 8 minutes to go in
the game. The Dolphins eventually fell,
73-64, ending their season in the sec
ond round of the NCAA Division III tour
nament. (26-3).
Coach Marguerite Gualtieri said,
“Our goal was to win the conference,
and we hadn’t done that in the last two
years. I think that Rock, Stephanie, and
the team really wanted the champi
onship, so that was our main goal this
year. We achieved it under a lot of pres
sure, and to actually get to the second
round of the NCAA... It’s a disappoint
ment to lose, but I think that we accom
plished so much that it takes away some
of the disappointment.” The coach was
especially emotional as this would be
the last time this particular team would
play together because would lose two
seniors.
“We got down early. It’s hard to play
catch-up,” said Jason Fein, the assistant
coach and the Associate Director of
Athletics, who felt they played a compet
itive game.
Wesleyan Head Coach Kate Mullen
said she was proud of her team and the
rotation of players. Her big worry came
towards the end of the first half when
"The clock became our enemy.”
Amongst the 800 spectators at the
game were CSI women’s softball team,
staff, some students, parents, family
members, as well as CSI President
Marlene Springer and Vice President
Carol Jackson, Vice President Angelo J.
Aponte. .
Dr. Merritt said the women’s’ bas
ketball, “is one of the most exciting
teams that we have because they tradi
tionally win a lot of games and they are
fun to watch.” This information should
flow to the student body at large, there
by generating more support for the
team.
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The
College
of
Staten
Island
February 28,2005
ring Cleaning!
SENATORS VOTE
$10,000 FOR TILE
FLOORS, LOVESEATS,
Matt Safford
Tamara Starr
By now it’s certain that most of us have
seen the new ferry boat. You know, the
huge orange thing floating in the water?
The Guy Molinari, The Spirit of
America, and The John Marchi are sure
to put Staten Island on the map, even if
they aren’t in service yet. But what
about a fare? Will these new nautical
wonders going to drain their passen
gers’ wallets?
The Banner had the chance to
interview the new DOT Spokesperson
Molly Watkins. “No, there will be no
fare,” Watkins assured. She also
shared with us that there has not been
any talks whatsoever about bringing
back the fare.
So now everyone can relax and not
worry about ferry fares anytime soon. If
only that could be said about the MTA
bus fare hikes.
“Most of the businesses at the ferry
terminal will be operational by the end
of this year,” said Steven Tang from the
Ferry terminal Management Group.We
also can expect that the ferry terminal
Spending our tax dollars
and tuition money redesign
ing our school logo, or put
ting fancy flat-screen com
puter monitors on every
available wall accomplishes
nothing if upon passing
through the Campus Center
doors, a person presumes
that -like the protagonist of
a Vonnegut novel- they've
somehow become unstuck
in space and time, and mis
takenly wound up on the set
of Romper Room. None of
the other buildings on cam
pus sport such obnoxious
hues. By comparison, the
more traditional colors of
the Library sell the serious
ness of our university nicely.
Even the interiors of our
campus' Children's Center
sport much tamer shades.
The color scheme of
the Campus Center kills any
attempt the architecture
makes at convincing the public of the
serious nature of our campus. The pas
tel-green walls and pale orange columns,
not to mention the bright blue, yellow and
red found on various other surfaces of
our college's central building, clash in
ways not seen perhaps since Sid and
Marty Kroft ended their long run of psy
Eric Naylor
t was five in the morning and I hadn’t
slept yet. Something about a porn con
vention keeps you up at night.
Particulary the annual Adult Video News
awards in Las Vegas, the Oscars of the
porn industry. My plan was to sleep on
the plane, which was set to leave
Newark at 7:20 a.m. and arrive in Vegas
at 11.
It was dark outside when I left. The
limo was scheduled to pick us up in front
of my friend Vito’s house at 5:15.1 drove
there. The concrete was wet and the
grass muddy from the rain that lasted all
night. January rain. My white sneakers
made me aware of the muddy grass. The
limo pulled up as I was using a stick to
scrape the mud off my sneakers.
I
Three-time pom Oscar winner Jenna Jameson posed with
a friend at the annual Adult Video News awards in Vegas.
Mellissa Seecharan
chedelic children's television in the
1980's. Amid news that higher-ups are
making a concerted effort to improve the
image of CSI, hoping potential students
and faculty will see our college in a more
serious, respected light, this color palate
perplexes
While students seem to have mixed
Continued on page 3
The flight and finding our way
through McCarran International felt like a
long night of insomnia. All words spoken
before we landed became inconsequen
tial when we hit the heated Las Vegas
air. It was daylight. We walked into the
Mandalay Hotel, fell asleep in our rooms,
and woke up in the evening.
The city has a way of making every
one feel like they’re going to get lucky.
The bright lights made ordinary joes like
us feel important. They made us feel like
stars. We partied in several nightclubs,
where you can tell who the real stars are
and who is delusional.
We eventually woke a few days
later, our mouths dry. The porn awards
were being held at the Venetian Hotel
that evening. We each got dressed and
headed to the Venetian.
At the February 17th Student
Government meeting, Senators ratified
$10,000 for redecoration of the Student
Government suite, discussed prepara
tions for the upcoming tuition hike rallies
in Albany, finalized the establishment of
two student memorial scholarships, and
discussed the use of the newly created
Student Government logos.
Senators gave final approval of the
Minutes from the Student Center
Commission meeting on February 7th,
which included a request for $10,000
from the Student Government reserve
fund for "furniture for the leader's room."
SG President Dwight Dunkley should
soon expect delivery of some new furni
ture, including "a table for the leader's
room and tiles to replace carpet through
out the Student Government suite,"
along with lounge chairs and loveseats
ranging in cost from $822.16 to
$1209.16. Other approved furniture
expenditures included: $532.52 for four
armchairs: $1839.52 for eight adjustable
desk chairs: $359.48 for four privacy
screens: $267.03 for divider screens;
and two desks for $709.30.The
Government also voted to replace their
suite’s carpet with tiles.
The fast-paced, hour-long session—
cut short due to a College Council meet
ing that SG President Dwight Dunkley
had to attend—ended in open conflict
between Dunkley and SG Vice President
Taiwo Olasupo, who argued over
whether or not the meeting’s agenda
should reflect the curtailed length of the
meeting. The verbal spat ended as
Dunkley recused himself to attend
College Council.
The SG meeting had opened with
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NASCAR CA UGHT IN GRIDLOCK
Luke Crisalli
developers “forgot” to mention is that
NASCAR travels in what is essentially a
cross country caravan. Forty-five plus
t’s been a week or so now since the
tractor trailers carry the cars and equip
checkered flag of the 47th running of
ment to the track each week, along with
the Daytona 500. This is an event that
crew members’ vehicles, driver coaches
many Staten Island politicians are
and the press contingent. In order to get
watching closely. It was May when the
all this to the
rumblings of
track,
the
a race track
on Staten
GoethaIs
Bridge would
Island first
need to be
started to
shut down for
resurface.
at least three
Not many
remember it Y
hours.
Another
now, but in
sticking point
the
early
is this: the
90’s there
facility would
was a pro
likely
hold
posal
to
three
only
build a track
racing week
on the site
ends a year.
of the Navy
Then what?
homeport in
ISC claims
St. George.
that the track
Said plan
has
long
will be used
for
other
since been
forgotten.
events, such
I’ve
as concerts.
* '-v ^
been
a
This was the
NASCAR
same claim
fan most of
made
by
my life, so
developers
when they
you’d think
hearing that
built
the
NASCAR
Richmond
wtetsr-- *
County Bank
wants
to t
ballpark in
build a track
here would
St. George,
i
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make
me
and to date I
can
only
giddy. Think
again. As
recall maybe
many politinon
six
cians have pointed out, the already
baseball events that have taken place
unbearable traffic on Staten Island
there in the five years the stadium has
been existence.
would be made ten times worse.
International Speedway Corp, or ISC,
Would I like to see NASCAR in New
which owns a majority of the tracks that
York City? Absolutely. I’ve been waiting
host NASCAR
_________
years to see
events claims
the likes of the
I
to have plans
in place to
remedy this,
These plans
would include
Anothersticking point is this: the Pettys
facilitywould likely holdonlythree
.
racing weekends a year.
Then what?
and
Labontes celebrate in winner’s circles in
New York city.
a ferry system
1 d love t0 see
and parking
’
a beat and
for
almost
-------------------------------------------bang finish
ten-thousand
where the win
cars in both paved and unpaved lots.
ner is decided by inches while sitting in
Staten Island right now probably has
the stands enjoying a New York egg
around ten-thousand cars. Doubling it
cream. But not in Staten Island.
would not be at all beneficial.
NASCAR and ISC need to consider
As for the ferry system...shouldn’t
another option, western parts of
we worry about improving the Staten
Queens, southeastern Brooklyn per
Island Ferry before we worry about the
haps, but not the congested streets of
Staten Island.
raceway ferry? Another thing that the
Social Insecurity at CSI
Kevin S.P. Mamakas
the social security check, but it still
remains a controversial issue for
Democrats and Republicans. The
CSI students now have another reason
amended system would put the money
to go to the NYPIRG office in 1C-218.
President Bush has proposed reforming
into a limited mix of bonds and stock
funds that the government would offer."
Social Security by privatizing the
Even though the stocks and bonds
accounts that students all over New York
are considered "conservative" by the
will one day depend on for their retire
ment.
President, the nature of the market is still
unstable. This is
The Social
common knowl
Security Office
edge to any
reported that
ten million New Even though the stocks and bonds are New Yorker who
ever looked at
York residents
considered “conservative” by the the
stock
work in Social
exchange
num
Security cov
President, the nature of the
bers constantly
ered employmarket is still unstable.
change while
m e n t .
walking down
Meanwhile
Time Square.
more
than
The system
three
million
would
gamble
with
the
money
that any
New Yorker's are beneficiaries of Social
Security.
student will need when older. Social
In the 1930’s, President Franklin D.
Security is a guaranteed means of
money after retirement. Putting the
Roosevelt created the Social Security
Act as part of his New Deal. This act
money into stocks and bonds takes away
insured the youth of New York that when
the guarantee of a safe retirement.
they get elder or sick, they will still have
"Opponents of the idea, including some
a safety net that will protect them from a
Republicans, say the change could
financial crash.
plunge future workers into poverty as
New York politicians and citizens
soon as they reach retirement age," The
interested in politics, both Democrats
New York Times reported on February 4.
and Republicans, now agree that the
"I do think there's a problem down
system needs to be reformed because
the road with it... and we should address
times have changed. People live longer,
that problem," Republican Mayor of NYC
thus collecting social security for a longer
Michael Bloomberg said at a news con
time. When the system was created, for
ference. "But I do not think that privatiza
every person that was collecting bene
tion is the solution to that problem."
fits, about sixteen workers paid into the
Some politicians have suggested
system. Today, that number fell to three
limiting benefits for retirees who are
people paying for every person collect
wealthy. Former President Clinton sug
ing. The President believes that this
gested increasing the retirement age. In
number will continue to drop until the
order for any necessary reform to occur,
system becomes bankrupt.
the government needs to investigate all
Bankruptcy, or "insolvency" as it is
the possibilities and adapt to current
often called, of the system will disenfran
times. CSI students must make efforts to
chise many young workers (a.k.a CSI
become more educated on this issue so
students who will not be collecting social
they can appreciate and understand the
security in the next few decades) from
importance of Social Security.
having an adequate retirement.
This plan will not affect the people
"As we fix Social Security, we also
near retirement or close to retirement.
have the responsibility to make the sys
Whether Social Security is reformed or
tem a better deal for the younger work
not, this plan will affect the students of
ers," the President said in his State of the
New York. For the younger CSI students
Union Address. "And the best way to
who just came out of high school, we will
reach that goal is through voluntary per
have to work for the next four decades
sonal retirement accounts."
before we are eligible for social security
Currently, a set portion of the money
retirement. For the CSI students who
a New Yorker earns on the books is
have come back to college after many
taken out to pay for social security bene
years because society demands a high
fits. The President is proposing that the
er education, you will have to work even
young workers should have the opportu
harder to handle the responsibilities you
nity to set aside part of that money in
have earned through your life, experience
their own account, "so you can build a
as well.
nest egg for your own future."
If we worked hard throughout our life
This sounds like a good idea
while getting paid and/or treated like
because it could make a person more
garbage, we deserve a guaranteed set of
money than if they were to actually get
money when we reach retirement.
�February 28,2005
Staff
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JENNIFER MOSSCROP
MAN \<;1N<; FI) I TOR
DAVID MALTZ
COMICS EDI FOR
ENRIQUE INOCENTE
ADI* PACE EDITOR
MATTHEW SAFFORD
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
MELLISSA SEECHARAN
SEX COLUMNIST
JESSICA MENDEZ
HEAD PHOTOGRAPHER
LUKE CRISALLI
STAFF
MATTHEW BECK
JORGE A. COTTO, JR.
ANNEMARIE DOOLING
DOMINIC FIDUCCIA
DIANA ILLUZZI
KEVIN S.P. MAMAKAS
GREG TUMBARELLO
CONTRIBUTORS
ALLISON CONIGLIO
ORUME A-HAYS
AMANDA FOOTE
ADAM LAZATIN
ERIC NAYLOR
TAMARA STARR
CRAIG TODARO
MARISSA TORNETTI
PAMELA ZAMBRANO
FA C U LI Y A D V IS O R
CSI at Porn Convention
continued from futge I
The line to get into the convention
was long and predominately male. The
price was $40. I waited with Adam and
Mike. The others were already inside.
People with speical porn-credential
wristbands trudged in and out of the con
vention. Scantily-clad women appeared
here and there—safe to assume, these
were the porn stars. We had been wait
ing in line for what seemed like a couple
of hours when three large men
approached us and handed over their
tickets and wristbands. They didn’t need
them, they told us. We didn’t ask any
questions.
Inside the convention was hot,
crowded, and oozing testosterone. With
all the potential erections walking
around, it was uncomfortable when other
men bumped into you. It was also hard to
avoid. Most of these men had come to
see stars they had known on an
extremely personal level. Going to the
convention was like unleashing a part of
themselves people never see.
All the beautiful girls made abstract
thought difficult. For most of the popula
tion, porn stars serve one purpose. It’s
not to entertain us with a captivating
story, ingenious direction, or superb act
ing. It is to get naked and arouse us. The
boundary between our private lives and
public lives was broken when we
stepped into the convention. It’s similar
to going into a strip club, however, in a
strip club; it’s dark and less specific.
Inside the convention we could see the
faces of the horny men and the particular
women that had done it for them.
We finally left the bright lights, but
when we closed our eyes, we saw spots.
It’s not so much liking or disliking Vegas;
a good time in the desert is inevitable. To
survive and send in a report was the only
accomplishment. The trip transforms
people into someone else, and if in the
end you can be the person you were
before the trip, you’ve won the game. As
for the porn stars, they’ve all already lost.
i
Ferry Fare?
Student Government
continued from puge I
continued from fuiffe 1
construction,both Whitehall and Staten
Island, will be done by June 2005.
According to DOT, the new
Whitehall Ferry Terminal will include:
• A 75-foot-high entry hall with
panoramic views of the downtown
Manhattan skyline and the waterfront;
• Five new escalators, three wide
stairways and one elevator inside the
entry hall;
• Rooftop viewing decks with
benches;
• Service/concession spaces avail
able for amenities such as cafes and
other concessions;
• A new state-of-the-art heating and
air conditioning system, including a radi
ant floor;
• Photovoltaic solar panels that con
vert sunlight to electricity to supply a
portion of the terminal’s power;
• Police and tourist information
offices;
• New surfaces and fixtures includ
ing vandal-resistance fixtures in bath
rooms for ease of maintenance;
• State-of-the-art public address
system;
• Easy connection to South Ferry
Subway Station (1 and 9 lines).
• Percent for Art is installing 28
granite benches to Whitehall Crossing
that mimics Indian canoes crossing New
York Bay. The work, designed by artist
Ming Fay will be installed in March.
On a typical weekday, the ferries
transport approximately 65,000 passsengers, which means 19 million pas
sengers annually.
FREDERICK KAUFMAN
1C Color
contimu’tl from pnt’c I
opinions about how likely the brightness
of the walls would be to sway a person’s
opinions about the college, most seem
to agree that the contrasting hues are
particularly perplexing if people are
working hard to improve the reputation
of the college.
Senior Ben Wallace evoked another
analogy for the building. “It looks like a
children’s hospital” said the Drama major.
“When I’m eating fries, I feel like I’m wait
ing for my son to come out of surgery.”
While he admits that he’s gotten used to
the way the Campus Center looks, and
doesn’t often think about it, he fears that
new students might get a bad impression
upon first entering the building. ‘They’d
notice it more than me” says Wallace
“and it probably wouldn’t inspire the right
kind of atmosphere for a college.” He
feels that the money spent could be bet
ter used in other areas, such as improv
ing traffic and parking. “It’s getting ridicu
lous” he says, “one day I couldn’t even
find parking near the gym.”
Freshman Elisabeth Stassi has a
slightly different opinion. “I honestly don’t
think I noticed the colors until my 3rd or
4th time in there” said Stassi. “It's just one
of those things where people are like 'hey
look colors, eh' and then forget about it.”
She did admit that considering the
attempts to improve CSI’s reputation and
image, the colors of the Campus Center
are “kinda’ stupid.”
“Stupid” might be a somewhat trite
epithet for the color scheme, but it some
how seems apt, considering the situation.
As long as our cafeteria building retains
its name, it represents the central, prime
example of our campus. And as long as
that example is awash with colors most
people haven't seen together since
kindergarten graduation, it's hard to
believe that anyone other than renegade
toddlers escaping day care could take
this college too seriously.
Our Campus Center's high vaulted
ceiling covers a large rotunda, flanked by
stout columns. A skylight sits at the very
center, radiating sunlight down to the
center and out in all directions. On a
purely architectural level, the building
demands respect, even perhaps a bit of
awe. Everything sends the right mes
sage—except those colors.
guest speaker, Victor Elmann, the
United Student Senate’s Vice Chair of
Legislative Affairs. "I come to ask you
guys to rally students," Elmann said
referring to the tuition hike rallies sched
uled for next month in Albany.
Elmann also mentioned another
day set aside to fight the $250 tuition
hike that was proposed by Governor
Pataki. "With your help, the goal is to get
1,000 students to rally in Albany," he
said. March 21st is the tentative day for
the USS Rally which will include a lobby
day, rally, and legislative dinner. On
March 7th, the co-sponsored Student
Government/NYPIRG lobbying day will
take place. Transportation for the lobby
day will be provided after the Senators
approved the allocation of approximate
ly $940 for a bus.
During the approval of the Finance
Commission minutes, members of the
group finalized the establishment of
memorial
scholarships
for two
deceased CSI students: Obinna
Okoronkwo who died in a car accident,
and Army Pfc. Francis C. Obaji, who
was killed in Iraq. Okoronkwo's siblings
also attended the College. A $100 schol
arship "would be awarded to a student
in each of the departments in which the
deceased students majored," stated the
minutes from the February 9th meeting
of the commission.
A third deceased student was previ
ously supposed to be a part of the
memorial scholarship, but it was decid
ed that due to the student's sickness
related death, "a bad precedent would
be set." The academic departments that
would receive the memorial scholar
ships had not as yet been decided.
The Student Government also
briefly discussed the details of their new
logo. Dunkley presented the Senators
with minutes from an earlier Student
Government Initiatives Committee
meeting. At this Initiatives meeting,
members discussed how SG’s new logo
might be used by the SG, individual
commissioners, and future govern
ments. According to Dunkley's February
17th President's Report, a policy on how
the logo would be used should be devel
oped. "This policy should ensure that
visibility becomes the main function of
the logo," the report stated.
Ideas discussed included logo
stamps and stickers on Student
Government advertising, election mate
rials, and on a permanent banner to be
hung in 1C. The senators also decided
on how their newly created logo should
look on the Student Government letter
head - a centered logo was chosen.
Carol Brower, Director of Student
Life, announced the names of CUNY
Leadership Award winners. Taiwo
Olasupo and PDC member, Annie
Varughese will be honored on March
4th. *
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�The Great American Hodgepodge
Matthew Beck
finally mastered the fine art of
“Fuhgeddaboudit!”, and “Owyah-doowin!”
and my fluency was gaining rapidly. I had
even become proficient in the basic
syntatic idioms and terminology’s of the
vernacular spoken by some of the
African-American
constituency.
Whenever I came into contact with any
du-rag wearing playground habitue, I
wasn’t at a loss
for
words
hen I moved from San Diego to
New York City, I was unprepared
for the linguistic culture shock I was to
experience. In Southern California, peo
ple talk in a slightly slurred fashion, like
they are enunciating from the back of
their throats. They pause between sen
tences, hardly
use the full
endowment of
The indigenous tongue spoken on oMheirTmigw
their lungs, and
generally give Staten Island is a staccato, rat-tat-tat 9race me with
the recipient of
a expectorate
banter, punctuated by intermittent salutation of
their comment's
reaction time to
“Sup?”,
and
ejaculations ofpungent profanity. wasn’t offendmake a calm
reply. Here, (or
___________
____________
ed
if they
at least in the
referred to me
boroughs excluding Manhattan, because
while speaking as “dog”, or “Son”. I had
nearly everyone who lives there isn’t
also conditioned myself out of the ten
native). The indigenous tongue spoken is
dency to slip back into my plain, unin
a staccato, rat-tat-tat banter, punctuated
flected native tongue, and trained my
by intermittent ejaculations of pungent
mouth-motor to modulate at a rate (at
profanity. For one who was accustomed
least 5-25 over the speed limit) which
to the loose, relaxed manner of speech in
was in accord with he residents of my
sunny San Diego, the Bensonhurst
new habitat.
dialect felt like a forceful verbal assault.
Only recently within the past couple
After I had been living here for sev
of years did I begin to realize the more
eral years and had regular contact with
exquisite perplexities of the East/West
the inhabitants of the land, I became
Coast Language Gap. I saw that with our
rather confident that I had a grasp on the
language, I couldn’t take for granted that
gutteral mechanics of the lingo. I had
a universal word had the same East/West
W
meaning with a different East/West pro
nunciation, and vice-versa. For example,
once as I was buying a cup of decaf I
asked the girl to top it with caramel. I pro
nounced the word “caramel” in San Diego
two-syllable form. The first syllable
sounded like “car”. The second was
“mel”, purely phonetic, but I had disre
garded the “a” between the two syllables.
The girl laughed and corrected me. She
pronounced the first syllable like “care”,
then inserted the “a”, but removed the “e”
in “mel”. The resulting word sounded
funny to me, with the “cara-“ being rapid
ly fused together, and the “-mel” consum
mating in a short, flat muffle. Even
thought we both knew what we were
referring to, our polar coastal localities
had taught us to say the word completely
different,
I don’t think that the problems in our
language (and thereby in our culture) will
be solved immediately, but I’m not com
plaining.
Even though these jumbled
verbal patchworks can cause inconven
iences, they serve as opportunities for
me to understand my fellow man better.
After all, if all language was homoge
neous, life would become boring. As
Clarence Darrow once said, “Even if you
do leam to speak correct English, whom
are you going to speak it to?” Not to any
one in the Great American Hodgepodge
anyway.
True Confessions of an Internet Poker Junkie
Craig Todaro
he first time I ever played poker for
real money was right after watching
the movie “Rounders” with my older
brother. Once the credits began to roll, I
went into my room and grabbed my big
bucket of change, and got ready to throw
down just like Matt Damon had done
minutes before on my TV screen. Of
course things didn’t work out as planned
that day, as I lost 15 dollars on one clas
sic hand of Indian poker (the game
where each player holds a card up on
their head, highest card wins). My broth
er had a 3. I had a 2.
From that day on, I knew I had an
extreme infatuation with the gambling
and the game of poker. The problem
was, except for the occasional game with
friends, there was nowhere for me to go
and satisfy my poker demons. Until now.
Ever since unheralded poker rookie
Chris Moneymaker won 2.5 million dol
lars at the 2003 World Series of Poker,
the popularity of poker has risen through
the roof. Millions of people all over the
country began to start playing poker,
especially No Limit Texas Hold ‘em, an
easy to learn and seemingly easy to win
game. Internet poker sites started pop
ping up everywhere, giving wannabe
players access to a game right inside
their own home. Every site started out
offering pretty much the same array of
games, with the limits ranging anywhere
from penny poker to hundreds of dollars
a hand. Most sites also had “play money”
games, games for fake money where
you can learn the ways of the game until
T
you were ready for the big time.
The internet became a great place
to play poker on a regular basis. Most of
the people playing were of the belowaverage skill level, so winning seemed
like a sure thing. But of course for me, it
wasn’t. I found myself getting the worst
Real money for free.
No gimmick, no tricks.
luck humanly possible, losing hands that
seemed almost impossible to lose. I, like
many other people out there, began to
get frustrated with the game and I
stopped playing for real money online
around this time last year.
I thought I could quit just like that
and never touch an internet poker site
again. I’m sure many others have also
tried to quit. But I learned that I love
playing the game to much to quit, which
does scare me a little bit but everyone
has their vices right? So I decided to just
play for money all the time now.
At the same time, the demand for
the multi-table tournaments began to
grow. Up until now, most sites only held
regular table games and single table
tourneys, but now the players wanted
multi-table tourneys, where thousands
of players could get together for a big
tournament with a huge prize fund. Also
at this time, the popularity of poker con
tinued to reach unheard of levels, and
now there were hundred of poker web
sites on the net, each of them battling for
customers.
This is when, during a google
search, I discovered what I consider one
of the greatest websites of all-time.
Sweetfreerolls.com. This great website
contained a,list of every single poker
website that was offering freeroll tour
neys. A freeroll tourney is a multi-table
tourney that costs no money to get into.
The best part of this site? They only
showed the websites that gave away
actual money as prizes for wining their
freerol tourneys.
Because of the competition out
there between battling poker sites, many
sites now offer free tournaments for real
money, lnterpoker.com has a weekly
1,000 person tournament with a real
monwy prize fund of $3,000. Golden
Tiger poker has a daily $1,000 tourna
ment and multiple other sites have simi
lar tournaments with prize funds ranging
anywhere from $20 to $5,000.
To me and the many other broke
poker players out there, this is without a
doubt the greatest thing to happen to us
in the game of poker, There are so many
tournaments a day listed on sweetfreerolls.com that if you wanted to (and
sadly I have),you can play in these tour
naments non stop for as long as you
like. It does not matter the time nor the
day, multiple freeroll tournaments will be
available for you to play.
The most I have won in a sitting is
$275 when won a 1500 man tourna
ment at AbsolutePoker.com. Real
money won for free. This is no gimmick, .
there are no tricks. Greatest five words I
might ever hear.
Poor Dwell
on the Rich
Marissa Tornetti
When I was a child, my father supported
our family by becoming an entrepreneur.
He opened ladies shoe stores across
Manhattan as well as dyed evening shoes
the perfect shade to match any dress.
When I was nine years old, my moth
er’s adolescent friend came back into her
life in attempt to rekindle their lost friend
ship. Diane, or ‘The rich lady” as my sis
ter and I would call her, would invite us
over to her house to indulge in her luxu
ries that we were not accustomed to. We
would swim in her pool with her children,
play with her disc jockey equipment and
dance on their parquet dance floor.
I was grateful to swim in this over
sized pool, but I was never jealous that
my parents could not afford to live in a
house of this volume. My parents loved
me and I felt that was important enough.
My aunt and her family visited from
Florida shortly after “The rich lady” reen
tered my mothers life. Naturally, Diane
enjoyed showing off the wealth that she
obtained by marrying into a wealthy fam
ily, so, my family (as well as my aunt, my
uncle and my cousins) were invited over
for an evening of “look what I got” festivi
ties.
When the grand tour of “La Casa
Diane” was over, I hopped in the car with
my aunt and we headed back to our
house. I added how I was going to ask my
dad if we could have a dance floor, as
well. I wasn’t prepared for my aunt’s
attempt to shatter my family’s image.
Fourteen years later and her response
still sits fresh in my mind: “Riss, you can’t
have a dance floor. Your dad is a loser
and you’re poor.”
My heart, made of the most delicate
glass, shattered to the floor of the car.
How could she be so cruel? As if that
wasn’t enough, she continued with, “Shoe
salesmen can’t have dance floors in their
house” Shoe Salesmen? I never ques
tioned my aunt’s remark. She was my
aunt and I pondered why she would make
that up. As if I didn’t feel bad enough, she
ended the ridb home by telling me that my
uncle was going to park in the driveway
because their car was nicer then the “junk
box” that we drove. She added that my
parents would be happy that they finally
had a nice car in their driveway. My aunt
was clearly stating that this was the clos
est my family would ever come to owning
a new car.
I could not believe what I was hear
ing. An ocean of misleading thoughts
swarmed through my mind, drowning the
truth. I never thought of my family as
being “poor” or my dad as a “shoe sales
man.” Those harsh words made me feel
poor. From then on, whenever I asked for
something and my mother responded “not
today," I secretly thought I was poor.
Through the years I realized I had
been deceived by someone I had trusted.
My dad was a indeed a successful entre
preneur, and our family never lived in
poverty. We were middle class and we
were living happily; I’ve learned happi
ness is one of the greatest riches in life. I
consider myself a billionaire.
�February 28,2005
Editor s Desk
would like to use this space to reflect on
my favorite Doctor of Journalism,
Hunter S. Thompson, who passed away
on Sunday, February 20, 2005.
He taught me two things: 1) Beer
before whiskey, mighty risky; whiskey
before beer, have no fear. 2) Be an indi
vidual and don’t worry what everyone
else is doing, they’re as lost as you are
and just pretending to know what they’re
doing.
Hunter was an individual, oh boy
was he an individual. He never held
back, never compromised, and didn’t
care what other people thought of him.
He had all types of friends from Jimmy
Carter, one of the leaders of the Brown
Power movement Oscar Acosta, Johnny
Depp, Jack Nicholson, and Rolling Stone
owner and editor-in-chief Jann Wenner,
among others.
Hunter Thompson gave me and
thousands of other student journalists
the comfort that journalism is not dead.
He inspired me to stand apart from the
pack of hungry, ivy-league, head-in-theirass reporters who tend to pile into a
press conference and get spoonfed their
“news.” Timothy Ferris, a longtime friend
of Hunter’s, wrote a forward in one of
Thompson’s last books, Kingdom of
Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a StarCrossed Child in the Final Days of the
American Century. Ferris describes
Thompson’s writing* “Hunter’s writing is
extremely funny; he ranks among the
finest American humorists of all time. It is
also, like all real humor, essentially seri
ous. At its center resides a howling vor
tex of outrage and pain, which Hunter
has managed to transmute into works of
lasting value. Hunter is a meticulous
reporter who wasn’t joking when he told
an audience at The Strand in Redondo
Beach, ‘I am the most accurate journalist
you’ll ever read.’ Over the thirty years
that we’ve been friends he has corrected
my grammar and word usage more
often, and more accurately, than I have
corrected his—and not just because he
is customarily armed with, say, the .454
Magnum pistol with which he shot up one
of his many IBM Selectric typewriters.”
Anyone who hasn’t read Hunter
Thompson should really go ahead and
do so. Although I must warn you, once
you get into his head there’s no way of
getting out.
I wanted to end my letter with my
favorite quote of his, but I brought the
wrong book in with me. But everything he
writes is great so here’s one:
“The real power in America is held
by a fast-emerging new oligarchy of
pimps and preachers who see no need
for democracy or fairness or even trees,
except maybe the ones in their own
yards, and they don’t mind admitting it.
They worship money and power and
death. Their ideal solution to all the
nation’s problems would be anoither 100
Year War.”
Thompson always ended his pieces
with the phrase, “Mahalo.” Don’t know
what it means, but... Mahalo, Hunter.
I
-Jennifer Moffcroj>
members present at each—determining
Association expenditures. ... The policy
The perennial controversy over stipends
that they were “appropriate, proper, and
to deny stipends to certain groups is ...
for CSI student leaders again graces the
equitable.” Then, in April, five of the
set by the University and College admin
pages of The Banner, and—as usual—is
members voted that somehow they were
istration. ...If we [the Student
guided mostly by misinformation and
not, prompted by little more than
Government] made the stipend policy,
raw emotion, not reason and fact. My
Marlene Springer’s feelings on the sub
we might all get stipends. However, the
own opinion is that students who gladly
ject.
Led by V.R Carol Jackson, these 5
College and University have made the
take free snacks at coffee hour, take
were
administrators V.P. Angelo Aponte,
current
policy....”
huge discounts on Broadway show tick
Tom Brennan and Caryl Watkins and
Mr. Dunkley is wrong; it was the
ets, send their children to quality onfaculty
Raja
campus day care at
Jayatilleke and
rock-bottom prices, and
Roberta Vogel.
don’t mind staff mem
Budget-allocating bodies had approved stipends for PDC
Only students
bers being paid hun
dreds of thousands dol and the Association, determining that they were “appropriate, proper, Lavinia Solano &
David Yanovsky
lars to administer these
and equitable. ” Then, in April, five of the members voted that
were present to
and other programs
somehow they were not, prompted by little more than
reaffirm
the
should have no problem
Marlene Springer s feelings on the subject.
appropriateness
with some student activ
of the stipends,
ity fee funds going to fel
with
students
low students who take
Alex Baranov, SG President Shereen
decision of the 13-member Board of the
the initiative in creating and maintaining
Kandil, Jeffrey Marciano & Dwight
CSI Association, with no official action
these programs at much cost (in time,
Dunkley and faculty Linda Reese being
by President Springer, which rescinded
effort, expense, and lost work opportuni
absent.
the PDC stipends. I’ll omit the details,
ty) to themselves. Anyway, stipends are
Generally, when something hap
but as I laid out in a lengthy memo to the
established, with Student Government
pens at CSI which is at odds with the
Board, it is absolutely clear from
(SG) members this year again receiving
University’s written policies or with the
University regulations that stipends for
the cash.
expected or actual result of the regular,
non-SG leaders are fully permissible
Of stipends for non-SG student
official collaborative and representative
and that the College president has no
leaders, I now respond to SG President
processes, a likely explanation is easy
authority to deny them or send them
Dwight Dunkley’s Feb. 14 letter about
to find: Simply peruse some nearby pub
back for review. Also know that a prece
the denial of stipends for coordinators
lication—e.g., a schedule of classes,
dent has already been set, with at least
on
the
Program
Development
college
catalog, or ad for the on-campus
3
recent
editors
of
The
Banner
having
Committee (PDC). He wrote, “Last year
production of The Vagina Monologues—
received relatively generous stipends,
the senate ... approved the PDC stipend
and there’s what you need to know, as
as your faculty advisor can confirm.
proposal, and the CSI Association also
plain as plain can be: “College of Staten
The budget-allocating bodies had
approved the proposal. ... [it] was ...
Island—Marlene Springer, President.”
sent back by President Springer based
approved stipends for PDC, and the
Association—by unanimous vote at two
on powers the CUNY Trustees have
—Shmuel Gerber
meetings in March 2004, with 8 or 9
given the college Presidents over
As we embark, together yet individually,
change for the better. This is the fruit of
In retrospect, if there is one thing
on another semester of higher learning,
the pursuit of the best education we can
that we have learned for certain, it is the
it is only appropriate that the graduating
possibly obtain, so let’s get cracking.
value of this ever-ephemeral thing that
class of 2005 wish every last one our fel
we call life. Life in all its wonder and
Get involved, get your grades up, and
low students the best on all of their
grace can be painful and devastating
get that groove on, baby. The world is
endeavors this academic year. On
also. In light of this, together we must
depending on you.
behalf of the graduates, as I so proudly
learn to embrace our endless differ
We are the future my fellow peers,
am a member, we hope
faculty, and staff,
and pray that the goals
make no mistake
which you set fourth, the
about it. To the
deepest desires of your If there is one thing that we have learned for certain, it is the value graduates of the
souls, and the most
classes before us,
of this ever-ephemeral thing that we call life. Life in all its
ardent, ambitious of your
congratulations
wonder and grace can be painful and devastating.
aspirations
manifest,
and cheers. To the
helping our world to be a
graduating class of
In light of this, together we must learn to
more beautiful, better
the present, as
embrace our endless differences,
place.
Yogi Berra said
and welcome the challenge of compromise.
In the aftermath of
best, “...it ain’t
some of the most tragic
over ‘til it’s over.”
events in human history,
Therefore, stand
we
must
together
ences, and welcome the challenge of
fast and roll with the punches, they will
acknowledge that we have been through
compromise.
come, until that day when we together
these events, our fair share of infamous
These differences of which I speak
take our giant leap here on earth into an
history, together as peers at CSI. From
even realer world. To the student body,
include, and are not limited to, race, reli
that tragic natural disaster, the Tsunami
gion, ethnicity, politics, culture, tradition,
please, do as I say and not as I do. And
of Asia in 2004, the unexplainable trav
individuality, and sexual preference.
to the freshman, transfer students and
esty of humanity, the bombing of the
These differences are juxtaposed to the
all fill our campus with life everyday,
World Trade Center in New York 2001,
root of many of the evils that we witness
God’s speed, and my best of wishes in
and the depressing war in Iraq that still
today. We must lift up the torch that was
the future, and good luck for good meas
wages in the name of democracy and
lit by our predecessors, and hold fast to
ure.
freedom,.we have all stared death in the
our responsibility to our youth, and leave
- Jorge A. Cotto, Jr.
eyes, some more directly than others.
a legacy that proves we tried to make a
�Arthur KilPs Boat Ciravevard
Photography by Luke Crisalli
“The sea finds out everything you did wrong.” Clearly the commanders of these decayed, dilapidat
ed. and destroyed vessels did wrong by challenging the waters of Arthur Kill.
�February 28,2005
Students Show Off Artwork
Photography by Pamela Zambrano
From February 4th to the 23rd, a selection of student sculptures and drawing from
Prof. Martel’s creative art classes went up in IP, 118. The Banner sent our resident aesthete,
Pamela Zambrano, to memorialize the days when these future Metropolitan Museum of7
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A Visit to the Holy Shrine of Lourdes Marks
The Demise Of a Believer
Mellissa Seecharan
very
Sunday
morning for the
first 14 years of my
life, I spent in the
same stained glass
brick building, listen
ing to the same
words repeated by
my Pastor, whose
four-fingered right
hand either made
you
snicker
or
squirm as he hand
ed out Communion.
I’d sit in the last
pew, tugging at my
frilly dresses while
other mornings I’d
simply try to fall
asleep like so many other children who wanted to know why God couldn’t be wor
shipped at a later time.
As a child in Catholic school, I was routinely preached and nagged the Word
of God by nuns and teachers, to the point it had become like an incessant song—
the kind song that gets stuck in your head for days and days. I used to hope that
it could be replaced by a catchier tune. I wasn’t tremendously bothered by this,
but I was upset by the fact that my supposedly holy role models didn’t practice
what they preached, and I
couldn’t understand why.
One sunny weekend,
my dad, brother, and I wait
ed in the car as my mother
ran errands.» During the
wait, my brother spotted a
familiar, white collared face.
It was our Pastor. Father
“Nine Fingers” sat alone in
his car as held a contrap
tion, lit one end, and
inhaled. I might have been
only nine at the time, but I
knew what was taking
place; I watched my Pastor
smoke God’s grass.
Three years later, I woke up to news reports that a priest from my parish had
attempted to rape a volunteer. I remember saying to myself, “Can God actually
forgive this?” But I still had a lot more to learn about Catholicism. I couldn’t judge
“teachings” that had been around long before Billy Graham gave his first tele
vised sermon.
During my most recent trip to London, my grandmother, a staunch Catholic,
ambushed my broth
er and me with news
that she had planned
to take
us
to
Lourdes, France. I
exchanged glances
with my brother and
decided to go along,
smiles included.
Lourdes is a
place filled with mira
cles; the Virgin Mary
apparently appeared
to a young St.
Bernadette here and
it contains a never
ending spring where
“holy” water flows. I
stood before the
sights of this little
town in amazement,
It was beautiful. I
asked my brother if
he believed the
apparition story, and
he quickly replied,
E
“no, but make like you
do. Don’t hurt grand
ma’s feelings.” With
those words, I walked
away and decided to
see if this place would
help me find hope in my
religion.
As I toured the
town’s church, I came
upon the encased body
of St. Bernadette. She’s
still “alive.” Her organs
are still intact, she
bleeds and had been
dead for over 500 years.
The skeptic in me
walked away from the
viewing even more con
fused, and headed to
the “eternal” spring.
I stood watching a
line of tourists waiting
anxiously to be dipped in the water. “That has got to be unsanitary,” I mumbled to
myself. I wasn’t sure if anyone heard me, but an older Italian couple started talking
to me soon after. Their accents were thick but I was some how able to understand
them. Their son had been diagnosed with a life threatening illness, so as a last
resort they brought him to Lourdes. They bathed him in the spring and a few months
later his conditioned
improved, so they now
come to Lourdes when
ever possible to give
thanks.
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Jessica Mendez
Dancing is the clothed version of sex. I
am normally a shy girl (no, really), but
when I dance my inhibitions dissipate,
and sensuality pours out of me in rivulets
of rhythm. My body absorbs music. For
instance, one night I was cleaning up my
friend Phoenix’s table after a dinner we
had with my friend Kali. I spontaneously
began swaying my hips to a Sade CD
Phoenix had put on in an attempt to be
“suave.” I was oblivious to the fact that I
was even moving until Kali came over
and said, “Girl, he is drooling!”
“What?” Yeah, sometimes, I’m a bit
slow to the draw.
“He asked me if you were drunk,”
she giggled. “I told him that that’s just
how you are, that you dance like that all
the time.” She pointed to Phoenix, who
was watching me with delicious intensity.
“He said you didn’t even know what
power you had.”
Kali “went to use the bathroom”
(read: got the hell out of there), and I
danced over to Phoenix. Within minutes,
this boy, who had not been able to take
his eyes off of me, was doing exactly
what I wanted him to do. And I still could
n’t grasp why.
After that experience, I decided to
hone my skills at an “Art of Exotic
Dancing” class. AGED is a program run
by Leah Stauffer, one of the owners of
Philadelphia Films and the instructor of
my class for the evening. Leah is a tall
Amazonian goddess of a woman,
assertive but soft-spoken. The goal of
Enrique Ignacio Inocente
There’s something about clowns. You
either love them or hate them. I happen to
fall in the latter category. As a kid, I found
them to be scary. Yes, scarier than even
Michael Jackson. With its pasty white
face, rubber nose, floppy shoes, and
maniacal cackling—I’m talking about
clowns not Jacko—they scared the poop
out of me. Just imagine running into a
clown in a dark alleyway as it darted
towards you laughing like an escaped
mental patient and swinging a rubber
chicken. If you’re like me and think clowns
are truly the spawn of Satan then you’ll
appreciate Killer Klowns From Outer
Space, a campy sci-fi horror movie about,
you guessed it, killer clowns from outer
space.
An intergalactic circus tent filled with
deviant, red-nosed, balloon twisting, psy
cho aliens lands in the fields near a small
town. The killer clowns go to town raising
hell and killing humans with an assort
ment of zany gadgets like shadow pup
pets, mallets, cotton candy, and popcorn.
A handful of plucky teenagers take it upon
AOED is to help women gain confidence
in the bedroom and in everyday life,
something every girl in that class (includ
ing me) felt they were lacking.
Mood Music-The Key to Self
Expression
Leah begins the class by performing
a basic striptease dance to “In My Place”
by Coldplay. Yes, you read that right.
According to Leah, music is the key to
sweetie, but a well-timed glance gets
temperatures (and appendages) rising
much faster than a hip roll alone (more
on that later).
Walking is so important to how peo
ple see you and, more importantly, how
you see yourself. Leah taught us all the
“step-drag-walk,” the. sexy glide that
makes you instantly swing your hips like
an extra in “Showgirls.” Slinking to and
from a mirror may sound silly, but it’s an
I decided to hone my skills at an “Art of Exotic Dancing” class . . .
being comfortable with the dance and
with yourself. During the class, we
danced to everything from Alicia Keys’ “A
Woman’s Worth” to Nine Inch Nails’ stripperific “Closer” (that song is the sex!).
Song choice is imperative to setting the
mood, so go with what you love to dance
to! I slink well to Kylie Minogue and NIN,
but for someone who enjoys R&B, Alicia
Keys may make that person feel sexy.
Don’t be afraid to experiment with music
to find what you like.
You Sexy Thing—Body Confidence
and Giving Good Glance
One thing I always shy away from
when dancing is eye contact, but Leah
made us practice maintaining eye con
tact with each other, which led to lots of
nervous giggling and, in the case of my
partner, major frustration. But intimacy is
more about eye contact than anything
else. Swivel your hips all you want,
excellent way to scope out your posture
and body language.
Hippy Shake Shake
Hips are shaken, stirred, and
swung, but there’s nothing like a hip roll
to really get things going. AOED teaches
four types of hip rolls that loosened us up
and gave us a basis for the wondrous
snaky movements hips can make. After
that, it was time for floor work, where we
rolled and writhed without inhibition. The
shift in attitude from shy girls to all out
sex goddesses was apparent by the end
of the night, where we all danced inde
pendently based on what we had
learned. I forgot other people were even
present until I heard Leah exclaim,
“Jessa! Beautiful self expression!”
At the end of class, we all recon
vened to speak about how the class
worked for us. The response was over
whelmingly positive, with every girl feel
ing like they owned their bodies. For the
first time in a very long time, the power
that I felt I had lost, the power of feminin
ity, had come rushing back. When it was
my turn to speak, Leah just turned to me
and said, “Ms. Self-Expression! You did
n’t even need this class!” Just hearing
that made me realize how much I did
need the class to recognize my own
sense of self.
AOED classes are a one-shot deal,
and the $80 price tag is reasonable for
the 3hour+ class time. For those of you
who can’t get to a class, AOED has
instructional videos, DVDs, and books.
The book is a great reference tool, and
the beginning instructional video is great,
too, as it teaches you all of the basic
moves. The “Perfecting Your Routine”
video is a bit disappointing, as the graph
ics are a bit slapdash and production
seems rushed.I suggest sticking with the
“Core Moves” video and the book. The
class is fun and empowering, and I high
ly recommend it. The AOED classes are
given throughout the US and UK, includ
ing Manhattan, with plans for classes to
be offered more frequently. For more
information about AOED and to sign up,
visitAOED.com and get ready to shimmy
your way to empowerment.
themselves to stop the clown menace and
save mankind.
The acting is what you’d expect from
a teen horror movie so you won’t see any
Oscar caliber performances, but the char
acters are likeable, if not stereotypical.
Mike (Grant Cramer) is the typical teen
hero determined to save the world, his
girlfriend Debbie (Suzanne Snyder) is the
ditsy blond, local idiots Rich (Michael
Siegel) and Paul (Peter Licassi) are the
comic relief, and Dave (John Allen
Nelson) is thq young, dashing policeman.
Then there’s Officer Mooney, a crusty, bit
ter, old cop played to perfection by actor
John Vernon (rest his soul) who some
might remember played the crusty, bitter,
old dean in Animal House.
Killer Klowns is a movie that doesn’t
take itself too seriously so it’s not so much
scary as it is amusing. The creature
effects are well done with each grotesque
clown having a distinct look and personal
ity. This is an enjoyable little flick and one
that will finally give weight to the age-old
argument that clowns are inherently evil. I
give Killer Klowns From Outer Space
three out four rainbow-colored wigs.
�february 28,2005
retroview
SOYLENT GREEN
retroview
Allison Coniglio
bear the name soylent. They come in an
array of colors and are all with the exception
of green derived from yeah, you guessed it
pork. Actually, vegetable but I would have
opted for pork.
The Seventies are very apparent in this
film: the wardrobe, the yellow-tinged teeth,
realistic-looking people, the set-design and
the delayed slapping and punching sounds.
Minus the breach in sound-effects, the editing
is on a par with any blockbuster today.
In the future, we will all be sweaty
because of some ecological disaster. The
makeup artist tried to convey this but the cast
ended up looking more like they were painted
with a coat of clear nail polish. Sappy music
at supposedly important moments downplays
any of the actors already lacking acting skills.
The film is definitely worth a watch though,
it’s a good story with a twist at the end and
hey, it’s been quoted on “The Simpsons."
If you’ve seen Planet of the Apes you're
already familiar with the overly-dramatic act
ing of Charlton Heston. Heston, the National
Riffle Association’s Vice President, stars in
the 1970's sci-fi cult classic Soylent Green, a
pessimitic depiction of the world in the year
2022 (directed by Richard Fleisher, adapted
from the novel by Harry Harrison).
Thorn (Heston) is a slackish, cocky
detective who stumbles onto to something
bigger when investigating the seemingly bru
tal murder of a Mr. Simonson (Joseph
Gotten), a rich "must have been big" man who
treats his furniture not with Pledge, but with
gifts and kisses—What? (Furniture in the
year 2022 actually consists of attractive
women, that come along with the most pres
tigious apartments).
If this film predicts the future, we are all
doomed—doomed I tell you, doomed. The
main source of food is small crackers that all
THE PUNISHER SLAUGHTERS HIMSELF
unsatisfying. All that really goes on is a
bunch of shooting.
The Punisher can go into "slaughter
Last year, Marvel Comics The Punisher
mode,"
which slows the game down a
was featured in his own movie which, to
bit.
It’s
the game’s version of Max
tell the truth, wasn’t that great. Now, THQ
Payne’s
bullet
time. Slaughter mode is
has released a Punisher video game and
unique in that, while in it, you'll regain
just like last year’s film, the game isn’t up
some of your health and drop your guns
to snuff. Not that it doesn’t try, but let’s
in favor of a never-ending supply of
face it, when you’ve play one third-per
knives that you can throw into the faces
son shoot
of ene
er, you’ve
mies with
played
stunning
them all.
accuracy.
Every
The
other
third-per
twist
to
son shoot
The
er wants to
Punisher
have
its
is
that
own look
you can
and feel.
grab any
Both
enemy
James
for
use
Bond and
as
a
Max Payne
human
have done
shield.
an excel
Though
lent job of
doing this
this.
In
slows
Bond,
down
you’ll get a
your
great
movemovie-style
ment so
story
throughout Want a lead salad? The Punisher is ready to serve. Too bad the game’s not palatable. much
that it isn’t
the game. While in Payne, you have bul
that
useful.
let time which lets you shoot bullets the
The game is interesting when it
way you want them to go. The Punisher
comes
to weapons. You’ll have various
tries to mix those two games into one.
options
in the game. Besides a pair of
The game’s story features The
pistols
you'll
also get to use an array of
Punisher interrogated by authorities in a
assault
rifles,
submachine guns, and
little room on Ryker's Island, which is
some more specialized weaponry, like a
“cleverly” named after the real Rikers
rocket launcher, a flamethrower, and
Island. As the authorities ask questions,
grenades. However, pistols will be your
The Punisher thinks back to the events
main weapon throughout the game.
that led to this point, starting three weeks
Death in this game is a joke. You'll
before, when he began his vigilante-style
be
able
to kill most of the enemies easi
justice by personally eliminating the mob
ly.
You
can
finish the game rather quick
that murdered his family. Many others
ly
even
if
you
set the game difficulty on
feel the wrath of The Punisher’s bullets.
hard
mode.
The
Punisher is available for
The flashbacks supposedly interest
the
Playstation
2
and Xbox.
players in the plotline, but the story is
Dominic Fiduccia
SUIKODEN IV— THE AMAZING ADVENTURE
Amanda Foote
happening just over the horizon. Most of
these events happen through oceanic
Suikoden IV is exceptional, unusual and exploring. This is where we find our sec
perfect for those who are looking for ond problem. The ship in which you sail
something different in an RPG. For those on is like a huge island with sails. That
who have
isn’t really
already
the prob
been fans
lem but it’s
of
the
the battles
Suikoden
that occur
series,
out at sea.
you’ll
Random
notice that
battles at
the battle
sea
are
system
activated
has been
some
changed.
where
Not to
around
worry, the
every 5 or
characters
so seconds
still work
and
together to
because of
perform
this every
The hero at the market. Potions, weapons, shields, and magic runes for sale.
great com
time
you
bos. The pairing system has also wish to go exploring the game extends
changed a bit, leaning towards a more itself to about 45 minutes or more.
customary, four-person lineup, each per
Fortunately for us, it isn’t a steady
son acting independently. Suikoden IV problem, which makes it all the better for
gives combat a little more distinction; the game and its players. Another thing
sometimes you’ll have fights that are that helps a bit is the fact that after
completely different from the standard you’ve done your exploring, the story
battles.
continues to move at a comfortable
First off, you will have some battles pace. It’s also filled with many surprises
on ships where you’ll have a grid-like and a steady stream of new characters
battlefield to fire rune cannons. Then to keep your party very appealing. Many
there are those one-on-one duels that parts in this game will leave you in awe
have been spiced up a bit. Even though of the events that have transpired across
these extra styles of battle are simple, your screen.
they are still great entertainment and
Suikoden IV is an amazing adven
amusing to play. It also takes a turn from ture that more then rewards you for your
the other normal types of patterns out determination. This game is right there
there today.
on top with the other greatest RPG’s
Even though Suikoden IV is a mar ever made, brilliantly using elements
velous game, it does have its follies. mostly seen in the famous Classic titles,
First, the arrival of recorded dialogue Chrono Cross and Final Fantasy X.
makes the whole ‘silent hero’ notion fail
Even though this game has some
to be engaging. It makes the main hero downsides, it is still up there with the
oddly silent throughout transactions best and deserves a proper rating. I put
shaping his very fate.
this game somewhere between a 8.5
There is always something thrilling and a 9.
�The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
February 28,2005
Track and Field Frozen for Two Years
Orume A-Hays
There are a couple of CUNY Colleges
that do not have a track and field pro
gram, and CSI is one of them.
“Track and field is the basis of any
sport,” said one nursing major and for
mer 400-meter competitor. “It works on
your cardio and stamina. What is the
use for having a track out there if we are
not going to use it?”
The Director of Athletics Dr. Harold
Merritt says that his department works
on a different agenda than that of stu
dents. “Our first step is to redo our
track,” he said. “We have plans on doing
the track this spring. If that happens, the
next step is to hire a coach, not have a
team.”
After some things have fallen in
place, like the funding, the athletic
department can proceed. “We will have
a coach for one year to set the program
up and within the following year start a
team.” Student fees are not enough to
fund sports. “The money that we will use
is money that we generated through the
building,” he said, referring to fees and
rentals.
“We are hoping that in two years we
will have the track running.” Some stu
dents are going to miss out but “we are
working on it” he said.”
Jason Fein, the Associate Director
of Athletics says that orientation polls of
Start-up costs for CSI track and field include $250,000 for patching and resurfacing the track. A hidden cost is insurance.
“We have about 158 students at this time,” said Associate Athletic Director Jason Fein. “We have to have insurance for every
single one of them.”
new students have indicated a fair bit of
interest. ‘Track and Field came in third,”
he said, with Women’s Soccer and
Cheerleading coming in first and second
respectively. “Putting a new program
together is a long process. Last year, we
added the Women’s Soccer team and
they
won
the
Conference
Championship.”
The start-up costs include fixing up
the facilities and buying new equipment.
“We have to resurface the track, fix and
patch it up,” said Mr. Fein, at an estimat
ed budget of $25,000. Another important
cost is insurance. “We have about 158
students at this time, and we have to
have insurance for every single one of
them,” said Fein.
Although track could be considered
a low-risk sport, accidents do happen.
Two basketball players recently had sur
gery on their knees. “Things happen, a
guy misjudges a ball and it hits someone
on the nose. We have to be covered.”
“You don’t need much equipment,”
said one freshman at the sports com
plex. ‘The only thing we need money for
is for the races, and travel.” This disap
pointed student was informed at a col
lege fair of CSI’s Division 4 team. He
trained all summer only to find out the
team was non-existent. “We already
have a track, but there are not enough
benches,” he said in reference to the
college’s present inability to host com
petitions. With four years of Cross
Country and outdoor in high school, he
is eager to join the school team when it
materializes.
A Junior Biology major student used
to do relays. She regrets the fact that
there have been no track and field pro
grams to date. “It is a great team sport
she said.” This particular student is no
longer interested in joining a school
team, but hopes the opportunity will be
there for future students.
The Athletics department is pleased
to have the support of the college Vice
President, and with support of the stu
dent body, CSI will eventually have a
track and field team.
John Nostro — The Man Behind the Teams
Adam Lazatin
ave you ever wondered what hap
pens to players after injuries?
How they rehab muscles back to
full strength? John Nostro is the man
who repairs all of the injuries pertaining
to all of the athletic sports teams at the
College of Staten Island. From a simple
bandage to a full rehab program, Nostro
is the man all CSI athletes trust. Nostro
has been the head athletic trainer at CSI
for 14 years. Each year 11 teams and
over 115 student athletes are under the
care of Nostro. “Injuries here can range
University. He is certified by the National
from a quick band aid to a full rehabilita
Athletic
Training Association (NATA), and
tion from a tom anterior crucite ligament,
the
National
Strength and Conditioning
which can take up to 7 or 8 months,” he
Association
(NSCA),
where he was certi
said from his office in the Sports and
fied
as
a
Strength
and Conditioning
Recreation Center.
Specialist.
Nostro, a Brooklyn native, received
Nostro’s experiences outside of CSI
a B.S. in Physical Education from
include
an internship at the Olympic
Brooklyn College and an M.S. in
Training
Center in Colorado, the World
Exercise Science from Long Island
H
liver.
University Games in Buffalo, NY, and the
“Some injuries just happen,” Nostro
NYC Marathon. He once spent the sum
said. “Most can be prevented by simple
mer working for Azonic Lo’Neal
conditioning exercises.” The off-season is
Professional Mountain Biking Team.
the best time to condition and prepare
At CSI, Nostro spends a lot of time
your body for
taping ankles
any upcoming
and stretching
THE NOSTRO FILE
season
and
athletes. “The
Nostro encour
hours can get a
ages and pro
bit long,” he Rolls of tape each year...................... 1,920
vides many off
said. “But there Bags of ice each year........................ 3,858
season work
is no greater
out routines.
satisfaction Treatments each year ........................ 1,709
Nostro
then when you
keeps the train
complete a successful rehab and get the
ing room running and the athletes healthy
athletes back into their sport.”
on a $6,000 a year budget. He says it is
The most common injury that Nostro
an adequate budget that helps to obtain
deals with is an ankle sprain, which he
various equipment for rehab programs,
says can be prevented simply by proper
exercise equipment, numerous athletic
technique and conditioning. The most
braces, bandages, wrap etc.
serious injury he has seen happened
“He has always been there to nurse
about eight years ago, when a player on
all my injuries,” Keith Cattonar of the
the women’s softball team fell while run
swimming and diving team said.
ning to catch a fly ball and lacerated her
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Student Publications
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CUNY
Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
Journalism
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The College of Staten Island
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1956-2012
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Richmond College, Staten Island Community College
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The Banner, 2005, No. 135
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The College of Staten Island
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2005
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CSI
journalism
newspapers
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The College of Staten Island