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ALL WAYS A WOMAN
y students of
Staten Island
, New York
�All Ways a Wonian
1992-1993
Faculty Advisor
Editor
Assistant Editor
Contributors
Professor Jo Gillikin
Kerri V. Dunkerton
Rachel Gibbs Aylward
Christine Allee
Rachel Gibbs Aylward
Patricia Barone
Marilyn Barker
Kristen Bergen
Andrea Bianco
Patricia Borsilli
Maria Calderella
Kathleen M. Carbone
Greg Cusick
Diane Darconte
Pinky Das
Niles K Dodd
Kerri V. Dunkerton
Lisa Ferrantelli
Stacey Fleschner
Carol Garzone
Margaret Geneve
Sharon Gordon
Amy Gott
Chris Graney
Cynthia C. Hallahan
Beth Kellener
Rafael Kilayko, Jr.
Judi Marino
Alana A Novak-Edgeworth
Maryjane O'Connor
Rosemary Prehm
Virginia Rathbun
Stephani Rothberg
Vera Saverino
Leigh Shea
Marghuerita Turner
Diane B. Tyson
Lillian K Winnegrad
Man Wai Woo
Photography
Production Manager
Michelle Davis
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�All Ways a Woman
Dedication
Woman
i have come to love
the sting at my feet
as i walk through your words
a hallowed brazen land
of slicing tongue jamborees,
plodding truths and power.
Special thanks to: Mike Speigel for designing
the flyers; Vera Saverino for printing our ads;
Michelle Davis for her invaluable help; the folks at
The Envoy for the use of their computers and
especially Jo Gillikin, the backbone of this publication.
i have limped without you
but your spirit
has rescued the dance
as i move, renewed,
to your womansong.
Kerri V. Dunkerton
Editor
Front Page photo of Audre Lorde courtesy of Poder and
The Returning Woman clubs of Hunter College.
Funding for this issue was made possible
through funding from the College of Staten Island
Student Government Services.
It is the policy of The College of Staten Island to accept a)l _material
for consideration regardless of race, color, creed, rehgion,
national origin, age, gender or sexual preference.
Copyright@ 1993 by All Ways A Woman
The College of Staten Island
715 Ocean Terrace
Staten Island, New York
This issue of All Ways a Woman is dedicated to the memory
of warrior/poet Audre Larde, 1934-1992
All rights reserved; no reproduction of the materials he~n without the pernrission
and written consent of the contnbutors 1s allowed.
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�Table of Contents
Carol Garzone
A Song, A Breath, A Life for Alex ........................................ 7
Sharon Gordon
Courtney ............................................................................ .. 10
Maryjane O'Connor
A Mother's Reverie About Her Child
Away From Home On Her Birthdate .......................... 11
Alana A Novak-Edgeworth
"I Feel Your Touch" ............................................................. 40
Margaret Geneve
Untitled ............................................................................... 41
Chris Graney
Visioneros ............................................................................ 43
Diane Darconte
High School Daze ................................................................ 13
Lisa Ferrantelli
A Long Walk To Face Destiny ............................................ 44
Vera Severino
Nevermind Me ..................................................................... 18
Marilyn Barker
To Gaia ................................................................................ 49
Rosemary Prehm
Letting Go............................................................................ 20
Ash
Diane B. Tyson
"It's Only For A Year"......................................................... 21
Vera Severino
Still ..................................................................................... 51
Rosemary Prehm
"Oh B/,ah Di, Oh Blah Da, Life Goes On".......................... 24
Niles K. Dodd
Her Throat Is Cut ............................................................... 52
Sharon Gordon
By Her Bed .......................................................................... 27
Lillian K. Winnegrad
Essay: "Women's Written Expression" .............................. 54
Kathleen M. Carbone
The Hands Of Magdalena Stein ........................................ 28
Virginia Rathbun
Untitled ............................................................................... 56
Marghuerita Turner
Women Against The Wind .................................................. 31
Rachel Gibbs Aylward
The Price ............................................................................. 57
Christine Allee, Patricia Barone, Kristen Bergen
Andrea Bianco, Patricia Borsilli, Maria Calderella
Greg Cusick, Pinky Das, Stacey Fleschner
Amy Gott, Cynthia C. Hallahan, Beth Kellener
Rafael Kilayko, Jr., Judi Marino, Stephani Rothberg
Leigh Shea, Man Wai Woo
Meditations On A Piece Of Cloth
in the Dark ......................................................................... 32
Kerri V. Dunkerton
I Come Woman ................................................................... 58
Doc
Matching Lifeforce .............................................................. 39
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Untitled ............................................................................... 50
Vera Severino
Please .................................................................................. 60
Kerri V. Dunkerton
The Man Who Wouldn't Take No For An Answer ............. 61
Kerri V. Dunkerton
She's Coming Out ............................................................... 63
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�Carol Garzone
A SONG, A BREATH, A LIFE FOR ALEX
Today is my birth day! I've been waiting for
months. Waiting to see the face that comforts me, sings to
me and caresses me.
The time is finally right. The long journey is beginning. I can feel the muscular walls tapping, encouraging me
to move on. My heart is racing with excitement as the echo
of the sea rings in my ears. I'm tired, almost exhausted, but
the memory of the lullabies gives me the strength to pursue
the challenge of that great Suez Canal. The final rush of
water numbs me, confuses me, scares me. Suddenly I'm
cold. Still frightened, I feel a smooth, strong object supporting my heavy head. The light hurts my eyes, the noise is
strange and intense, loud and unfamiliar. It hurts my ears.
What happened to the gentle sounds of the sea, the warm,
soothing blanket of water around me? SING ME A SONG,
TALK TO ME! Where are you? Help Me! There's no air
here. I hear my voice cry, louder than ever. I take a deep
breath, my first breath of life. I finally hear that familiar
soft, loving voice. "Hi, Alex, you're beautiful."
My long journey has left me exhausted. I want to
sleep in the warm comfort of my previous home. I don't
understand why I'm being moved by these robots that are as
warm and soft as I. Were there others in this world beside
that voice I know so well? What are they doing to me? I
want to sleep. SING TO ME! These strange people don't
sing; they just probe, probe every part of my body. They
make me cry. I'm so tired. They cover me with confining
plastic on my bottom. It makes noise when I move.
Something is coming over my head and frightens me. It covers my chest and arms. What are these things on me? My
feet are cold. SING TO ME! I finally feel safe, wrapped
tightly in cloth, with my arms and legs hugging my body.
I'm tired, I want to sleep. Is this my new bed, this plastic
box? Through the slits of my swollen eyes, I can see there
are others just like me. Some are wrapped in blue and some
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�in pink. I'm tired, I want to sleep. Hours have passed. I
had a dream. I heard that familiar, comforting voice sing to
me. I awake suddenly, frightened. I can't breathe. SING
TO ME! Help me! There's no air in here.
I awake to the steady sound of my heart beating. It
is louder and more distant, as though it were out of my body.
My clothes are gone and I am very warm. I feel a stinging
on my leg, an uncomfortable tightness on my chest. There
are long, strange, plastic tubes coming from my body, that
lead to the boxes that echo my heartbeat. I'm enclosed in a
plastic container. The strangers I see are blurred visions,
covered in green cloth. They have no faces; they only have
eyes; serious, concerned eyes. I am confused. Life is so complicated. SING TO ME!
I feel an emptiness. My cries startle me. As I struggle to move for comfort, I feel a soft, gentle touch, and hear a
familiar song, the same song I'd heard in the passing
months. I see the loving eyes as I search, rooting. The air is
so heavy outside my plastic dome. Her eyes, her voice, her
breasts comfort me. I'm tired. I gasp for air. SING TO ME!
Today I'm going to my new home. I'm frightened.
The air is heavy. Why can't I breathe? I'm happy when I
see my mother's eyes, hear her voice and feel her warm skin.
She helps me breathe.
will visit a big man in a red suit. There is a huge tree that
sparkles with a million stars. There are brightly colored
boxes with ribbons. Candles are burning. We are celebrating
the birth of Jesus. Tomorrow we will celebrate my new life.
How long have I been sleeping? I'm in the plastic
dome again. I can't move. I'm frightened. SING TQ ME! I
can hear the machines pumping air in rhythm with my heartbeat. I feel heavy, tired, my throat hurts. I can't see anything, my eyes are heavy. I hear the two loving voices. I can
rest; they're hers. The moisture drops from the d_omeon~o
my cheek. It tickles. Her hand is there to dry it. Their
laughter excites me. I want to move. Help me!
The days are endless, the machines never stop their
rhythm and the smiling eyes are always here. Many faces
are here, but these two are special.
Today is special. I am leaving the security of the
warm, moist atmosphere of the dome. I'm frightened, SING
TO ME! I cough and cry. I hear the song. I CAN
BREATHE! The air is clean and light. I'm going home.
Today is my FIRST birthday. I take a deep breath
and look at all those loving, smiling eyes. I smile and they
sing to me. I can breathe! I BLOW OUT THE CANDLES!
The doctors are always poking and probing. They
talk to each other in whispers. Where am I? The ride in the
car seems endless. Am I going to another new home? More
doctors, probing and poking. They are gentle and they have
faces. There's a special face, always smiling, laughing, with
familiar eyes. They're my mother's eyes on a different face.
She has the same gentle voice, the same song. She plays
with me and we laugh. She makes everyone laugh. She
shows me my new home. Many children live here. Some
cry, some sleep. There are many machines, some for each
child. They have familiar wires and tubes.
We are dressing for a party! We all have red on and
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�Maryjane O'Connor
Sharon Gordon
COURTNEY
She picks the flowers ever so carefully
Choosing only the best nature has to offer
Her long hair blowing in all directions
The sun's rays clinging to her hair,
creating an aura of purples, golds, and reds.
She is just a speck of movement in the garden
Swiftly, like a chrysalis, she flutters back and forth
Mesmerized by her graceful beauty,
dancing to the music within herself
Soon to be awakened by her angelic smile beaming at me.
A MOTHER'S REVERIE ABOUT
HER CHILD AWAYFROM HOME
ON HER BIRTHDATE
Since you have left for Disneyland
(And other famous spots) we can't
dispatch a lighted birthday cake
and pose the risk of fire en route.
Yet in your absence, you must know
within our hearts six candles glow.
You're very fortunate to be
away from this vicinity.
Removed, we hope, from bullet's harm
absorbing San Francisco's charm
while clinging to its cable cars-a thrill unknown to you thus far.
The grandeur of the redwood trees
should sooth you with its awesome peace.
According to the tourist's log,
the life down there's unlike the flawed,
and bloated ego named Manhattan
which needs fierce piercing by a hatpin.
So romp and play, dear. Late tomorrow
your train returns to new gomorrah.
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�Diane Darconte
HIGH SCHOOL DAZE
Everyone entering a new school for the first time has
feelings of apprehension; I was no exception, especially since
I didn't want to be there in the first place.
St. Peter's High School for Girls had originally
placed me on their "waiting list" (in other words, I wasn't
exactly their first choice either) but after numerous phone
calls from my mother to the principal, I was one day greeted
with the news I had been "accepted." Doomed, I felt, was a
more appropriate word. My fate had been sealed and I was
sentenced to four additional years of parochial education.
Despite the good things I heard about Catholic high
school I still had hopes that St. Peter's would lose my
records or some such thing, so that I could attend a "normal"
(public) high school like everyone else in my neighborhood.
Since that was not to be, I donned my new armor and
marched fiercely off to do battle with yet another institution
that would attempt to mold me into the model of a Christian
young woman.
My first year of high school was difficult and I got off
to a peculiar start. At freshman orientation my family name
--Jakubowski, was so completely disguised by the principal
that I truly did not recognize it myself! She called
Jabawosky, Jabkuski and a few other tongue twisters to
which I did not respond. Being the last freshman left in the
auditorium, she asked me my name. "Jakubowski,"
I
replied. "I called you," Sister Mary Virginia insisted. "No
Sister, you called ..." and I attempted to imitate some of the
guttural noises she made. "You did not call Ja/ku/bow/ski,"
I said (annunciating every syllable so she could hear the
simplicity with which the name was pronounced.) Needless
to say, we got off on the wrong foot. I later discovered that
my last name intimidated not only the principal but my various other teachers as well, who were also unaccustomed to
lengthy ethnic names.
As if that wasn't bad enough, my "senior sister"
didn't show up at orientation. A senior sister was a member
of the senior class who was to escort you around the building
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Of course while I was wandering the halls $ister Virginia
would magically appear. "And where are~
supposed to
be?" ( I was tempted to answer "Port Richmond High School"
but I figured she wouldn't get it and for sure I would!)
I suppose the most memorable event of freshman
year was my first music class. It had nothing to do with
music, but rather a lesson on the art of sitting "like a lady."
Up to that point I didn't realize there was any way other than
to plunk down in a chair. But our music teacher, a somewhat
effeminate gentleman, taught us, en masse, to feel the chair
behind us with the backs of our legs and then glide quietly
into it (which he demonstrated for us). For the first few
weeks he refused to begin class until we could get into our
seats without being heard.
If I thought the Felician Order had a unique
approach to education (they seemed to believe learning was
best accomplished by a sturdy rap on the head), the Sisters of
Charity proved to be only slightly better. We were no longer
physically abused but "charity" had little to do with their
methods. Even the lay teachers in the school, though dressed
in civilian clothes, were bound in the "habits" of the Sisters of
Charity.
In my sophomore year there was one English teacher,
however, who was very different indeed. First of all she came
in from Manhattan, always late, always very disheveled, and
often on Mondays with hickies on het neck! But she made
the classes enjoyable, encouraged creativity and seemed very
attuned to our teenage minds. I loved her! Unfortunately,
her teaching career at St. Peter's was very short-lived.
With all the clubs and activities St. Peter's High
School for Girls had to offer, one would think it was easy to
fit in somewhere. Unfortunately, that was not the case.
Basically the school was divided into three main organizations; the basketball team (St. Peter's claim to fame during
the years I attended), the cheerleaders and the honor society.
Since I was not cut out for any of those elite groups, I found
myself in the company of the "pumpkins in the petunia
patch" as my friend Joan appropriately dubbed us. We just
didn't fit the "Peterite" image.
Individuality was difficult to express in a parochial
school uniform. Ours consisted of a plaid pleated skirt
(meant to skim the floor when you knelt down but best worn
hiked well above the knees, we thought), a plain white, open
collar blouse and a gray blazer. We were also required to
wear, both to and from school, our school hat and white
gloves. Our shoes resembled something my Great Aunt
Annie found fashionable in her day, and were purchased at
Styl-O-Pedic! But we were the class of "69" and there were
ways to overcome the obstacle of traditional parochial school
garb. We relied on accessories to display our individual preferences.
Again, we were divided into groups; there were
toughs, collegiates (now known as preps or preppies), hippies
and a handful of freaks who insisted on making the rest of
us look bad by wearing only what was permitted by school
policy.
I tried each of the various looks at different times ·to
find the right me. Like the toughs, I teased my hair (it collapsed); I tried black eye make-up (on rainy days it ran and I
looked like a raccoon). When I purchased black textured
stockings, my mother intervened. Obviously, the look wasn't
easily achieved. All I got out of it was a sore head, black
eyes and a lecture on what kind of girls wear those kind of
stockings. I also could have gotten lung cancer, as smoking
was the epitome of toughness.
The collegiates wore cable knit knee socks (mine fell
to my ankles due to my underdeveloped calves); they wore
tortoise shell glasses (my father's eye plan didn't cover that
style and there was no way he was going to spend $35 to
make me feel part of the crowd) and they had a bopping gait
that I never could get right (many of them were on the basketball team). Besides, they had this incredible sense of
school spirit oozing form every pore of their bodies that I definitely did not possess!
The hippie trend popular at the time was punctuated
by long straight hair, wire rim glasses (a la John Lennon),
rings on every finger and anything else no one would be
caught dead in! The look worked well for me: my hair was
pin straight anyway. I didn't have to change my walk and it
was inexpensive. Also, the nuns hatel it because it represented beliefs not in keeping with Catholic doctrine (which
was probably another reason I found it so attractive).
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peers included a red felt scalloped-edged cape that completely covered my uniform (worn Monday thru Thursday) and
my Friday special was a short black cape. I wore so many
rings that I couldn't close my hand to write, and I wore little
brass bells on a long red rope around my neck. I also
attached an assortment of buttons up and down my jacket
lapels that stated my newly acquired carefree attitude (some
of which the meanings escaped me, but raised a lot of eyebrows among the faculty). I became a kind of colorful character among my classmates.
Despite my "flower child" appearance and attitude, I
was basically a decent kid. I was still too young to "tune in,
tune on and drop out" as the counter-culture suggested. I
went to school, received passing grades (most of the time)
and volunteered my opinion only when asked; which leads
me to a final incident that taught me about academic freedom and the parochial education system.
As we matured in years we were encouraged to discuss and debate different aspects of our subject matter. In
one economics class, I was assigned to prepare a vi~w opposing democracy. Apparently, I made some very convincing
points because a vote revealed that most of the class agreed
with my argument. Sister Helen went crazy; she screamed
that we were all "communists." It was not my intention to
provoke Sister Helen: I only wanted to make a good presentation and receive a passing grade. Her reaction (or overreaction, I should say) should have taught me a lesson right
then and there, but in my youthful ignorance I continued to
believe that these were .QQ@ discussions.
A senior year "marriage" course offered another
opportunity to express our views. It was given by a handsome young priest named Father McCarthy.
One of the
class discussions involved prostitution, " Any thoughts on
the subject?" Father asked. I volunteered that since it had
been in existence before Christ, I was doubtful it would ever
be eradicated and perhaps it should be legalized and thereby
controlled. Father's face turned ash white, then blazing red.
"Blasphemy!" he shouted back at me and demanded I leave
the auditorium. But I finally realized that our opinions were
acceptable only when they were in keeping with Catholic
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doctrine. Unlike a TV station, opposing views were not welcome.
If I sound like a disgruntled alumna, it is largely
because I am. Since graduation I have discovered academics
had little to do with my education; I learned more through
the strange experiences and observations I made during my
four years at St. Peter's.
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I also know my funny stories about "surv,iving"
Catholic school are a mask for some of the more traumatic
experiences I had at the hands of those dedicated "educators",
just as I know that today I am (if nothing else) a well-di~ciplined individual because of their endless efforts at gettmg
me to adhere to their rigid rules. (Which, by the way, is the
reason you're reading this now and not at a much later date
than I ever anticipated!)
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�Vera Saverino
NEVERMIND ME
Nevermind me
or the trees that never
get the chance to
kiss the sky
hello or good-bye.
It's a lovely day
to rape animals of their
dignity but they don't
know any better, so
nevermind me, just
forget what you see.
Didn't anyone ever tell you
that fish don't drink oil
and the color black
is the shade Jesus saw
when he closed his eyes.
The word is Negro-Didn't anyone teach
you
how to spell?
Lists are listless
and it's easier to
nevermind me, and
forget what you see.
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�Rosemary Prehm
Diane B.Tyson
LE'ITINGGO
IT'S ONLY FOR A YEAR
That day she was born
the feeling started
and every day since
it's grown.
I know what she's thinking, saying, feeling,
she really is my clone.
I can look in her eyes
and see her thoughts,
I can look in her heart
and feel the beat,
the beat that now skips
when she talks about him,
the beat that I know is not mine alone,
but belongs to a world,
a world I'm afraid of
because it can hurt her and I need to protect,
to keep her from harm.
My love has sheltered her,
perhaps too much,
but how can I help it,
when miles away I can feel her touch,
when miles away I can feel her pain,
when I want to hold her as ifmy arms
could stop the world from coming in,
could stop the world for just one moment
so I could have my child again.
But the world won't stop and neither will time,
so I give her to life
with the wish that the love she has chosen
will care for and cherish her
as much as I.
"It's only for a year," she said.
Denise left three weeks ago for Nashville, Tennessee.
It may be the Country and Western capital of the world, but
Nashville's gain is my loss. As of last May, Denise had yet
to pass the grueling three day Certified Public Accountant
exam in the compulsory length of time required by her large
New York accounting firm. So she decided to transfer to
their Nashville office because one of the firm's large corporate clients had recently moved there.
"It's only for a year," she said.
Already she's purchased enough furniture for her
apartment to last for five years. I hope she doesn't like the
Country and Western capital of the world too much because
Western music is not my favorite kind. Could one year lead
to five years and then ten and then ten more?
I still can't open the black and white marble composition book I kept as a journal during our cross country trip
last summer. It sits quietly where I placed it over a year ago
because I can't seem to open its pages to relive that ten day
adventure of ours. Denise and I travelled side-by-side in her
little blue Toyota Celica crossing each state's border together
from San Diego, California to Staten Island.
On the very first day of our trip we were stuck in the
burning desert with an empty tank of gas and paid $1.69 a
gallon when we finally reached a lonesome gas station surrounded by· sand, cactus and tumbleweed. Endlessly, over
hill and dale, we drove every day. We drove up the
California coast to San Francisco and down the Crookedest
Street in the World. We drove through the mountains of
Yellowstone Park and Cody, Wyoming to the Mojave Desert
and the Salt Lake flats of Utah before we seemed to reach
civilization. Mountains and deserts were everywhere as far
as the eye could see. We relied upon each other to drive five
hundred miles each day even though I asked her to drive the
turning and twisting roads of Big Sur and the narrow ones
of Mount Rushmore.
On our journey Denise showed me the culinary
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smile always crossed my face at the sight of the familiar golden arches of McDonald's. The yellow beacon was a welcome
vision after driving mile after uninterrupted mile and brushing off the desert dust of Vacaville or Winnamucka, Nevada.
"It's only for a year," she said.
A year she'll be in Nashville. I wonder how it compares to Lake Tahoe or the Grand Tetons. Perhaps it's like
the vast Badlands of South Dakota or the hustle and bustle of
Sturgis where we saw a motorcycle rally and 300,000 owners
from all over the world gathered for the annual event.
Mile after mile we watched our country unfold before
our very eyes. The majesty of it all. The vastness of the
mountains. and the immeasurable rivers and lakes cannot
compare to the deep void in my heart. But "It's only for a
year."
The envelope with the CPA results came at last and
sat silently waiting to be opened. Yes, the last two parts had
been passed, and today she has three new initials after her
name.
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�He came into the house knowing he had missed curfew, but he also knew he had a good reason and she would
understand as always. Seeing the glow of the television set
coming from her bedroom, he went to the door and stood
there whispering her name. "Mrs. Thompson, Mrs.
Thompson, are you awake?" he called quietly, not wanting
to wake her husband asleep in the bed next to her.
''You missed curfew by an hour and a half, Michael.
I'm a wreck, and you're asking me if I'm awake?" she
answered tightly.
"I'm really sorry, but I have to speak to you."
"All right, just give me a minute to get my robe on
and we'll talk in the kitchen. Put the kettle on.
He had been living with the Thompson family for
three months now and knew where everything was in the
kitchen. He filled the kettle with water, put it on the stove,
and got out her favorite coffee mug, the one with the pink
Florida flamingo on it. He measured out a spoonful of coffee
and emptied one packet of Sweet'N'Low into the cup. By the
time she came into the kitchen, the kettle was giving out it's
low whistle, and she filled her cup, savoring the aroma of
the coffee. Sitting down, she took a little time to pour some
milk into the cup and stir it awhile, studying Michael.
At seventeen years old he was almost a man, but
still a child in so many ways. When her son had first come
to her and said he had a friend, a good friend who had told
him he was being beaten at home, she didn't believe it.
Teenagers, she knew, exaggerated and dramatized everything that affected them personally. But when her son continued telling her every episode that Michael had told him,
she knew her son was about to bring home yet another
stray. Charlie had been bringing her hurt animals, birds,
kittens, puppies, anything that needed help, for years now.
She finally had to put a stop to it, explaining that she
couldn't possibly care for every hurt or abandoned animal in
the neighborhood, and he would just have to learn to let
nature take its course.
But this was different. This was a boy who had
nowhere to turn. He had just moved onto the street eight
months prior, and he and Charlie had hit it off immediately.
She was glad Charlie finally had a best friend since he was
so shy and always had trouble making friends. So when
Charlie said Michael was running away from home and
didn't care what happened, she knew what she had to do.
This wasn't just taking in another stray, however.
She contacted Family Court and found that she could probably offer shelter to Michael with no repercussions. She also
called a friend at a local teen counseling center and got
Michael into their program. The counselor told her he
would work with Michael, and that Mrs. Thompson should
also try to draw Michael out of his shell. "Never forget that
our main goal is to try to fix dysfunctional families and put
them back together."
Over the past month, this once quiet boy had finally
started to talk to her. He seemed to find a niche in the family and was soon roughhousing with her two other children
just like the older brother would, teasing, and eating endless
peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
She kept in close contact with the counselor and
progress was being made, not only with Michael, but with
his family. His father, whom Michael was the most afraid
of, was also in counseling and a family reconciliation was in
the not too distant future. So just as she was mentally patting herself on the back, feeling pretty good that here was
yet another successful healing story, Michael backslides and
stays out late. She knew from her conversations with
Michael, that the beatings had been his father's way of disciplining him for the normal infractions that every teenager
tries to get away with--missing curfew, playing hookey.
When he had first moved in, she had laid down the rules of
the house--no missing curfews, no truancy, and helping with
chores around the house. He had been pretty good about
this and it surprised her that tonight he was so late.
"Okay, Michael, I hope you have a good excuse. You
know what the rules are and I won't put up with this."
"Mrs. Thompson, I'm sorry I was so late, but my
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Rosemary Prehm
"OH BLAH DI, OH BLAH DA, LIFE GOES ON
LA, LA, LA, HOW THE LIFE GOES ON''
�friend Chris wants to run away from home because he thinks
his parents' divorce is his fault. I tried to talk him out of it
but do you think you could talk to him?"
'
She thought to herself, Oh, no, here we go again. But
she said, "Of course, bring him around."
Sharon Gordon
BY HER BED
By her bed
I stare
The bare walls gaze back at me
I think
Perhaps today the sun will poke through the waning clouds
I listen
For the machines and its rhythmic beeps and bleeps.
The courtyard is an array of colorful spring flowers
I watch
As the once magnificent flower is drooping
Its petals falling daily
Soon to be no more
I wonder
What happens when the machines grow silent?
I look
Outside dusk has begun
The colors are vivid
Like the flower that once was, but no more
I think
Soon it will be night
And the blanket of blackness and quiet will tuck us in.
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�Kathleen M. Carbone
THE HANDS OF MAGDALENA STEIN
When Pop, who came from a rather wealthy family,
proposed to Mother, she spread her fingers palm up before
him and said, "I have nothing to give you but these two
hands." In their cramped chilly bedroom, with one baby or
another snuffiing in the crib, and two or four or six more
children in the other bedroom; or in the cold dim light of the
elevated station, did he ever lift one of those hands and kiss
it with tender awe? In the days before washing machines
and steam irons, refrigerator-freezers and vacuum cleaners,
she bore nine children and buried two, and sent every one of
us off to school impeccably clean and neat.
Mother never owned an alarm clock, but she got up
at 6:00 every day of her life until she was too ill to care if
dawn ever came again. She would hurry into the kitchen
and light the coal stove, and quickly wash and dress in its
slowly expanding circle of warmth. Then it was twist up the
long light brown hair that Pop forbade her to cut and hurry
down to the bakery around the corner on First Avenue for
sweet rolls and milk.
I would wake to her small noises; the rustle of petticoats, the muted clash of pots on the stove; the soft "tock" of
the door as she went out. Louise would already be up, fussing with her hair and clothes, while Madge and I drowsily
watched, fascinated as younger children always are with the
unutterable sophistication of the elder. Carl and Bill teased
us and Eddie, and began bouncing around the room like a
couple of springs set in spiraling perpetual motion; into the
kitchen, where Mother would be nursing the baby and
Father would be shaving at the sink.
Sometimes it was eggs for breakfast, with the yolk,
despite its sunny color, bleeding drearily and messily onto
the plate. I would dawdle and poke at it until Mother's firm
"Eleanor" made me slide it nearly whole down my throat.
(Many years later, my youngest daughter told me that I had
cooked her eggs the same way, and she hated them too.)
After kissing each one of us, Pop would leave for his
job at the piano factory across the street. Mother, cajoling,
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caressing, tweaking, patting, smoothing and straightening,
readied the older children for school. She never had the luxury of being sick, and I doubt she sat down for five consecutive
minutes on any day.
I remember once, in the delirium of some childhood
illness, calling out to her in the night. Softly she came and
rearranged the covers, stroking back my damp hair and murmuring comfort. How cool and strong, were her hands, seeming, even as she sat quietly clasping my own, to be poised to
take up some as yet incomplete task; to begin again the symphony of purposeful movement that sang through all our
days.
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�--Margheurita Turner
WOMANAGAINSTTHEWIND
I bluster and blow with all my might,
Far into the still of the night.
Scattering all the leaves and debris in sight.
A crying child's balloon or a loose kite
soaring high into the air,
The destination only heaven knows where.
A woman scurries by to get in from the cold,
And oh so cold the wind doth blow,
Causing tears to form in her eyes,
But audibly she does not cry.
Hat askew, she covers her breasts and gathers her skirt.
Seeing this .... , the wind blows stronger, obviously the flirt.
As higher and higher he blows her skirt ...
With the swiftness of a matador she straightens her hat;
And like a dove that's been hurt ... ,
Again covers her breasts and gathers her skirt.
Challenged, Mr. Wind blows harder,
Wildly, wildly he blows, but ... , the woman defiant now ...
Resists the wind and hangs on to her clothes.
Blow Mr. Wind with all your might ...,
For unlike a lover's caress ...
No matter how hard you blow ...
The lady you cannot undress!
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�-Jean Genet wrote that dreams are nursed in darkness.
MEDITATIONS
ON A PIECE OF CLOTH
INTHEDARK
feel him, taste him and he is inside me, penetrating deeply.
An explosion inside me, followed by another and
finally, a third. As I lay there breathless, the scarf between
my legs and up across my breast, I feel my sweat along with
his in my bed.
KRISTEN BERGEN
When I touch the fabric, I imagine sailing on a boat
with my boyfriend, wrapped in a dark blue blanket. We
caress one another and the blanket keeps us warm; we
become one.
In the morning, there is no sign of him but I am still
wrapped in the blanket. It takes away my loneliness; It is
my strength.
As I run the warm, soft scarf through my fingers, all I
can think about is the color blue; a color which gives a sense
of inner security, helping me overcome any fears I may have
of the unknown.
CHRISTINE ALLEE
It feels blue, a deep dark strong blue, soft and silky.
Like the tip of his cock as I lick at his thighs. It is sensuous
as I run my fingertips along it, smooth yet rough at the same
time. It has crisp lines like hair running through it; I would
love to feel it against my face to get the smell and the taste of
it.
It is cool yet warm like the feel of him when he is
about to come. It is gentle, even with its dark color, as he is
even when I allow him to suffer well past the point of dark
blue and he is still gentle, yet demanding.
It is in control of its every molecule; our love brightens and floats above passion, then the blue disappears until I
touch it again.
As I roll the silky fabric gently in my hands I can
feel its serenity. Perhaps it is the color of the blu;st sea
which forms gentle crests and then breaks. From the shore
far off in the distance is tranquility, silence; restful.
'
The texture is smooth, glides easily over my skin as
blue waters do the shore. It flows back and forth without
harming the shore, then flows away.
I sit and watch the ocean to feel its peacefulness, and
touch this fabric and feel the same essence.
ANDREA BIANCO
PATRICIA BARONE
PAT BORSILLI
I can't help but run my hands along the scarf. Its
coarseness stirs me, the fibers almost sharp, gently pressed
to my skin. I rub it across my face and it feels like rough
masculine hands after a long day at work. I want to feei
those hands all over my body. I begin to caress myself with
the scarf-I can fell the sweat of his body in the moistness of
the scarf; I can smell his manliness, want him pressed
against me and inside me. My heart is throbbing ... I thrash
wildly, the scarf wrapped around my body like a snake; I can
Stroking the coarse fabric, I can feel my fingers throb
as they move. Slowly over the rough fabric; the faster I
stroke, the more heat I feel.
The rough, lumpy, bumpy surface gives me a sensation of a black and morbid color. Yet, as I squeeze it, it feels
as fluffy as a white cloud. Squeezing, I feel relaxed as if I
were floating. Stroking it again, flannel comes to mind. Yes,
flannel-a hardworking laborer's suit; red and black plaid,
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�white and. black plaid. Sweat it accumulates during the
hard workmg hours, the smell it obtains during the hard
working hours.
Coarseness and morbid black, white fluffy clouds,
hard worked sweat ... the impression, shades of grey.
MARIA CALDERELLA
.
Withou~ opening his eyes, the man has a complete
view of the obJect he holds. The piece of cloth he holds
makes him see red--blood red. As he runs his hand along
the cloth, he can feel it flow freely, like blood. The cloth has
~ad~ him angry and he is literally seeing red, the color he
1~agmed would be in the depths of hell, the color of the devil
himself. He should fear this color...it makes him think of the
blood he has spilt, both his own and others. He thinks of the
anger he feels toward the rest of the world--those thoughts
fill him with fear; he drops the cloth and runs.
GREG CUSICK
.
The smoothness of the fabric gives me the impress10n of warm red and black. The red is like the blood within
me and the black like the darkness which surrounds me.
The tiny fringes of the fabric feels like little needles going
through tiny fingers.
There is blood everywhere; death is in my hand. The
soft ball of fabric is taken away ...l am free. You saved my
life.
My eyes are closed and all I can see is darkness; all of
a sudden, an object is placed gently into my hands.
I cannot see the object as it is, but as I imagine it to
be. It feels soft and innocent and I feel comfortable, touching
it. I like how it is smooth underneath my fingertips. I imagine that the object is some sort of bluish color, because it is
as smooth as ice and as gentle as clouds in the sky. I believe
it is some sort of clothing, possibly a silk scarf that would feel
nice to have wrapped around my neck. It feels dainty and
delicate to the touch, like a petal of a flower.
AMYGOTT
I feel that the piece of cloth is light blue. Many colors
pass through my mind, but light blue seems to be the one
color that is most familiar. I suppose this is because the texture of the fabric reminds me of some old bed sheets that I
had when I was younger. These sheets remind me of a cool
morning breeze. I remember snuggling up under the sheets
because of the cold air coming in from the window or the fan.
As cold as I was, I was too comfortable to get up and shut the
fan off or close the window and actually rather enjoyed the
chilling sensation that ran down my spine and throughout
my body.
I suppose that feeling a slight chill is more pleasurable than to be hot and sticky with sweat. I know there may
be times when feeling all sweaty may be the greatest thrill in
the world; but when you are a little girl, you don't know
about these things. I suppose light blue is a color that
reminds me of innocence and simplicity.
PINKY DAS
CYNTHIA C. HALLAHAN
.
The obj_ectplaced in my hands feels purple-a deep,
v10let. I touch it gently with my fingertips because I sense it
i~ delicate. Its smooth, silky texture gives me the impression of a pattern; It is a piece of light clothing and makes me
think of the spring season, so I see a pattern of blooming
flowers.
STACEY FLESCHNER
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As I touch this very coarse material, I get a deeply
rooted feeling. It is a dark color. Its squishy, cuddly, rough
but gentle surface touches my senses and deeply relaxes me.
It makes me feel really sleepy and I would love to have it
wrapped around my body. I want to be swept away by it and
seek comfort in it. It gives me a feeling of warmth, that it can
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�protect me from outside harm. I can float away; and if I
used it as a pillow, I would fall into a deep, tranquil, uninterrupted sleep.
Dark colors are not necessarily evil. They can be
relaxing, like the night in which you fall asleep. The dark
room actually helps you to forget about everything around
you.
The cloth is white because it is new and pure like a
bride on her wedding night.
It feels as if it has been recently cut, the edges
frayed. I want to rub it all over my body, to feel it touch my
skin.
STEPHANI ROTHBERG
BETH KELLENER
I feel power when I touch it, so it must be black. A
black, powerful scarf. It is plain cloth, no design whatsoever, not silk because if it were, it would not feel as powerful.
It is very comforting. Like a powerful man protecting a
weak one-I would be protected by the solid, black cloth. It
has that fatherly quality.
I wouldn't be afraid of anyone if I were to have this
solid, black cloth. I would keep it in my pocket and I know it
would protect me.
It is a large cloth that I feel. The texture is rough
yet warm; the pattern changes from red and white to black
and white, depending on my mood. As I hold it, I long to
have it envelop me, to sink into a deep sense of serenity. It
screams out to caress me, its color changing with its intensity, red for passion, black for mystery, and white for purity.
It is soon a part of me, interlocked for eternity. I do
not want to let it go. I have never known such a feeling of
unity. As I feel it press against my body, the color turns
bright red. My heart races at its touch. We are soon one.
,LEIGH SHEA
RAFAEL KILAYKO, JR.
I feel the scarf must be black. The material is flexible but rough; I could tell as soon as I touched it that it must
be a winter scarf, and black is a warm color. When the
weather is cold, I always seem to have something black on.
When the sun beats down on top of your shirt jacket or anything else black, it seems to heat you up as if there is a fire
on top of you.
Just because I feel it is black, I want to wrap myself
up in it and stay that way all night. Just to be snuggled in
something warm.
The fringes on it makes it playful; you can twist
them or braid them. The fringes makes it more exciting
than a lonely, dull scarf.
When I touch the object, I think it is black because it
seems to absorb heat. I feel the release of tremendous heat.
In my mind, black is the deepest color and attracts me
because it is unknown and secret.
Thinking about this object gives me a lot of fun.
Because of its softness, I think it is possibly cotton. This
softness is similar to my first lover's skin and even her hair,
which was black. She's gone from my life now, but this
object makes me remember her in my mind. Softness and
warmth in both my thoughts and feelings.
MANWAIWOO
JUDI MARINO
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�Doc
MATCHING LIFEFORCE
Is this the game of matching lifeforce?
Does your heart equal mine?
Is my love the same color of your eyes?
Is your blood freed by my soothing words?
Do you really feel sure of your feelings?
A:re you still alive?
Will you console my fears of love?
Will you cry at my death?
Will you teach me how to love you?
Will you accept my mind, for all its intrusions, during our
love?
(A:re you really me inside out?)
"Don't indulge in human mating ritual, keep up the spirits
of your own species."
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�Margaret Geneve
Alana A. Novak-Edgeworth
I FEEL YOUR TOUCH
I feel your touch
though
you're not near me
I feel the heat from
your magnificent hands
as they
investigate me
I can feel your lips pressing mine
I can taste you as my tongue meets yours
it promises me how delicious you'll be
I surrender as
I feel your hardness
I invite your entrance
I want to envelope you
and
hold you within me.
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UNTITLED
The coos, the cheers, the gestures
that overshadow her inner soul
As though the resemblance of some
alley street cat fight.
Men who are content to frolic
in their own being. With NO
sympathy, NO guilt, NO cause.
Just another gesture of their penile
thoughts
Thus she overcomes with dignity
and pride
And reclaims her womanhood.
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�Chris Graney
VISIONEROS
In the news tonight
...walking corpses in the library
...snake infested castles in Scotland
...ice chunks falling from outer space
...campers being raped by trees
...buildings collapsing without warning
...obese alcoholic catholic priests falling off the life cycle
...insane farmers marrying off their daughters to strange rich
foreigners
...dentists without anesthesi--where's painless Parker?
...astronauts smoking crack on the moon
...firemen become secret nocturnal arsonists
...highways melting, liquidating, clogging the forest floor
...all cattle causing cancer
...vegetation dehydrating your body's liquids
...consumption resulting in artery splicing
...faith empowered by money or real estate
.. .language replaced by numbers
...emotions replaced by pleasure
...death synthesized with bionics
...adrenaline replacing water
...everything in the oceans dying, diseased
Film at 11:00
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�Lisa Ferrantelli
A LONG WALK TO FACE DESTINY
Every generation has its own affliction. My grandparents had to contend with tuberculosis. My parents worried about scarlet fever. And I have the threat of AIDS. It
frightens me to death. Actually, it produces death. To think
that one mistake, one carefree whim could cost me my life.
This factor has been haunting me since my first pregnancy.
I was so ecstatic to discover I was pregnant that I
began to plumb the details of this miracle called life. The
more I learned about the aspects of pregnancy, the more I
worried. I reflected upon my life and realized my husband
and I had a responsibility to this child long before we thought
about conception. I realized that actions and events which
had taken place in our lives prior to marriage could have
detrimental effects on our fetus. My most paramount concern was AIDS.
It was 1987 and AIDS was spreading rapidly. The
more I learned about AIDS, the more I realized how callous
society was. People treated infected victims as if they had
leprosy. Their ignorance of how the disease is spread made
them fearful to an irrational extreme. AIDS can not be
transmitted through casual contact. People are infected
through unprotected intercourse or sharing a needle with an
HIV infected person. In some cases the virus is contracted
through blood transfusion. The method of infection which
concerned me most is passing it on to a fetus through the pla
centa.
I had decided that if I tested HIV positive I would
have an abortion. I loved my fetus enough to terminate it. I
preferred going through the pain of an abortion rather than
make my child live through the emotional pain of losing
his/her parents to the torments of this illness. And then,
only to suffer the physical pain of dying in the same manner.
When I approached my husband with my fears, he
quickly dismissed them in his usual pejorative manner.
Knowing I wasn't going to get any support from him, I went
to my gynecologist. As the words came out of my mouth, he
began to laugh! He told me to go home and have a glass of
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wine. I had my doubts that wine was the secret antidote for
AIDS nor did I think it was an appropriate drink for a
woma~ in my condition. I was so frustrated. Nobody took me
seriously. For the next seven months, I prayed that my husband's and my own past wouldn't come back to haunt us.
After my son's birth, I thanked God for every day that it
hadn't.
My worries didn't stop there because AIDS didn't stop
there. By 1990, my daughter was born. We were surprised
by the reality that anyone could get AID_S;_that the dise~se
was not just the problem of 'others'. Statistics wer~ sho~ng
that nobody outside of a ten year monogamous relat1onsh1p or
celibacy was safe. Movie stars were dropping l~ke flie~.
Basketball players and politicians were announcing their
claim to this horrid disease. After a long, satisfying talk
with my pediatrician, I decided to enjoy what I had, for as
long as I had it. As time passed, my fears didn't. They
lurked around in the folds of my brain, only to reveal themselves with each illness my family fostered. I watched to see
how long scrapes and cuts took to heal. I also got a pang in
my gut every time people asked me such questions as, "Is she
sick again?" or ''Why hasn't his cold cleared up by now?" By
and by they always got better. But soon, my marriage took a
tum for the worse. This had nothing to do with the children,
and everything to do with AIDS.
Our prominent problem was trust. We both felt the
other had been unfaithful. After a series of unproductive
arguments, we decided to be tested for HIV antibodies. My
husband called the Board of Health which declared itself to
be the only establishment that truly kept the testing confidential. We had an appointment for the next day.
I was overwhelmed with ambivalence. This was it! I
was finally getting my answer. I didn't know if I really wanted this information anymore. I was afraid. I was afraid of
the fate that the next day's light could bring. I was very cold.
I knew this was my last night of wondering. Wondering if
the weight I carried for so long was to be gone or if I had to
experience every birthday party and school recital as if they
were the last. I was very cold that night. By morning I felt
numb. It was very difficult to act as if this was a typical day
as I shuffled my son off to school.
The ride to St. George was quiet. We parked in the
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�municipal lot by school. As I walked past CSI, I had to fight
the impulse to leave my dreaded reality and create a less
stressful one. I wanted one ofmy friends to call me over, so I
could pretend to be there for class. I thought that if I walked
toward the school, my reality would actually be an essay I
was to read for English class. As I continued walking I wondered if the other people on the street knew where I was
going or if they even cared. Although I was with my husband
and daughter, I was very much alone. By the time we
approached the building my stomach was knotted as tight as
a clenched fist. My heart was pounding, vibrating throughout my body, echoing in my throat.
As I opened the door, I felt as if I was opening the
sealed container of an incubator, releasing a mass of germs
which had been multiplying at excessive rates. Instantly I
felt dirty. I panicked, as I looked down at my daughter's milk
white complexion and blonde ringlets. It sickened me to
expose such purity to such filth. I didn't want her breathing
the air. I wished I had purchased one of those white masks
the doctors use to keep germs from entering their systems. I
strapped her in the stroller and ordered her not to touch anything. Flutters of rational thinking entered my mind sporadically. I realized then that I was swallowing my own wordsthe words of a well-informed, well-educated person. BUT
THIS WAS MY DAUGHTER! What if the doctors had been
wrong? The entrance room was filled with people. The walls
were dark ecru. I wondered if it was the painters intended
shade. As I looked ahead, there was a desk with a sign-in
sheet on it and a big, hard looking man with a visage of
uninviting contempt. My husband told the man the room
number and he replied with a husky, tenor voice that the
department we needed didn't require us to sign-in, since it
was the section which was under complete anonymity. He
should have just put a blinking neon sign on my head, so if
anyone there didn't hear him, they could have just read it.
While we waited to be tested, I couldn't imagine what
possessed a person to give blood tests to possible AIDS victims. I reasoned to myself that either she/he was a blindly
compassionate person, who was selfless enough to only see
the need for such a test or she/he had nothing to risk since
they were already infected.
As the door of the office opened, we were greeted with
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the very warm, confident smile of the woman that would be
testing us. Had it been anyone else, I might have left. She
was wonderful. We talked for awhile and as I explained my
fears, she smiled warmly and nodded with an understanding
I could feel. The test itself took only five minutes. All
except the waiting ......
and waiting ......
and waiting for fifteen days.
To paraphrase an old adage, all good things come to
those who wait.
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�Marilyn Barker
TOGAIA
Nurturing mother-I no longer walk barefoot on your back
Or swim in the once pure waters of your mouth,
Nor can I lie upon your sandy tongue
For needles, human waste and other dangers await.
The sea-gulls, seals and others
That basked on your elbows and knees
Now lie submerged in oil
Spilled by the Exxon Valdez.
Your lush, mountainous breasts
Are used by the military for target practice.
The fruit that spills from your womb
is sprayed with chemicals for us to consume.
Your thick, rich hair
which help us breathe
Is chopped down and used
Indiscriminately.
Within the folds of your soft flesh
Are garbage dumps filled with hazardous waste.
Your children die needlessly
Of cancer, poisoning and lung disease.
For, Mother,
The air that flows from you
Is laden with carbon-monoxide and asbestos.
They mine mountains and break your fragile spine.
They seek ore and dry your feeble veins.
Radiation in the soil, radon in our homes.
The eagles no longer soar.
The buffaloes have ceased to roam.
The seafood is not safe to eat.
Your pallor worsens and I fear
Your demise will signal
The end of the human race.
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�Vera Saverino
Ash
STILL
UNTITLED
...Don't think ...just feel
Just feel every feeling, every sensation
that was ever felt on earth
To breathe every first breath by every newborn,
To feel every gunshot fired into a living target,
every orgasm ever achieved,
every tear shed,
every car crash, every kiss,
every burn on human flesh,
entire oralization all over your body,
All the pleasure and pain
Felt by everyone who ever loved and died on earth,
that must be what its like to be God, D'ya think?
Yeah, and like feeling everything you ever did
all at once
Is probably what it feels like to die
maybe
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I only want to die
if I know that you can
still hold me
after I am gone.
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�Niles K. Dodd
HER THROAT IS CUT
Not so much
as a sound she uttered
even with her lips
at full thrust.
She lies there,
her life glistening on bruised skin.
Contemplating her future
she knew she would heal.
He knew she would heal.
But for now her face reflects
no expression.
For now--her throat is cut.
Then he spoke again.
his voice, glutted and arrogant
blasting dogmas of past days,
slicing at her-self.
He waited for her reply.
Resisting the pain
from his words,
she bled and spoke.
But now
her voice could not penetrate his barrier,
a gaze as unyielding as stone
and with as much feeling.
But she cared for this one
and held her heart out to him.
This must have been
the final insult.
He lashed at her, his tongue a dagger,
hands of cold steel,
eyes fixed
and reflecting not one bit
of a man.
It is not always that actions speak
over words.
There are times
when they have equal voice.
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�Lillian K. Winnegrad
WOMEN'S WRITIEN EXPRESSION
If I could be anyone I wanted to be, I would choose to
be Sigmund Freud's granddaughter, Litzi Freud. My life's
work would be devoted to repudiating the hoax perpetrated
on women by grandpa.
I have spent years poring over his work and that of
his predecessors and have come to the conclusion that there
is a gaping hole in their theories ...What happened to men
and their sexuality? Realizing I had the opportunity to
become more famous than Ziggy, I spent the middle years of
my life developing my own theory.
Along with several of my colleagues,. I interviewed,
in depth, approximately 10,000 men of all ages, shapes, and
sizes. However, we learned very little from talking to them.
They gave us the same psycho-babble pablum answers that
Ziggy and friends had taught them so very long ago ...What
to do??? Then a light bulb went on. Why not interview them
under hypnosis for a thirty day period? They agreed, provided their identities were not disclosed. Dealing with man's
unconscious was quite another matter and proved to be
extremely enlightening.
Here are some of the findings that will be published following my presentation at the Vienna Conference this summer:
1.We found that man, although not consciously
aware, had "Vagina Envy,"--mother being his first love
object. Yearning to become pregnant has become man's eternal dream. They have long felt that only the carrier of the
child knows the true paternity.
2.We also discovered that man suffers from a
"Vasterical Personality." Symptoms include: instability;
anxiety; inability to acknowledge one's emotional needs;
inability to communicate on a feeling level; masochism; selfcenteredness; rage; over-dependence on females to replace
loss of mother object; fear of abandonment, having never gotten over the separation from mother; responds either with
detachment and indifference or anger to anything he can't
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fix, ie: loved one's illness.
3.Illness most associated with men was found to be
"Vasterical Conversion," with problems centering around the
prostate.
4.lt was further found that man's aggression was in
direct proportion to his sexual apparatus. That is to say: the
smaller the genitalia, the higher the aggression.
After much deliberation, my colleagues and I concluded that the best way to correct these problems was not, as
you might suspect, psychoanalysis, but rather, brain by-pass
surgery, bringing the brain from the scrotum to the cerebellum.
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�Virginia Rathbun
Rachel Gibbs Aylward
UNTITLED
THE PRICE
There are times
I must say
when I envy you so
over silly things you know
like not having pain
color your world as often as I
like being able to soar
with your ambitions
to the edge of the sky
I'm a woman in search of a world
A windup toy, a porcelain doll
A stewardess that never departs
O' time, perpetually ticking
Skin grows pale beneath this glass ceiling
A smiling-faced clown, balanced on stilts
I'm a juggler, a tightrope walker
I'm a gatekeeper who holds no key
Paying Purgatory with my life
with no one there
to clip your wings in mid air
There are times
when I envy you so
watching you thrive
while I struggle to survive
In this world where you say
we are all the same
all able and free
Tell me, do you envy me?
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�Kerri V. Dunkerton
I COME WOMAN
I come woman on this world
without a knife at my cunt
without a prayer on my lips
without a man in my head
whispering secret slurs of gender
There's enough change in my pocket
to ride your train of thought
and I'm buying up the blood
that paints the sky
giving it back to my sisters
who limp down the street
lock the windows at night
and scream voiceless into the sun
I come woman on this world
because I know that
this life begins with me.
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�Vera Saverino
PLEASE
Kerri V. Dunkerton
THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T TAKE
NO FOR AN ANSWER
I never needed you
to tear down my walls
leaving my back
raw, bloodstained.
So your woman left
for another woman
while you were feeding
on her sex, swallowing
the picture of the
platinum, plastic wife
She was swallowing
the woman who
looked in, licked on
and listened to her soul
She's wearing the love
you didn't know wasn't there
like a wedding ring
married to the freedom
from woman to woman
Your love slashes
like a knife over
tracing paper redefining
nothing, yet with
probing fingers and tongue
you please.
So you should shrink
to think of
getting her back
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�Kerri V. Dunkerton
SHE'S COMING OUT
(for Sharon, who came with courage)
She's coming out
of wet bread
hot breath
and the stretched out
sticky sound of hate
She's coming out
like a big pink bubble
gummed up from lips
soft as a baby sac
safe as an open egg
She's coming out
on a swing
with the rushing wind
against her raw
sunless wrap
and someone pushes
hard at play
till she skins a knee
washes the world away
She's coming out
from church doors
where seven pound secrets
and crushed wafers
kept her dry
She's coming out
with the hopes of hearing
"I'm glad you came"
She's coming out
because she can't stay in
anymore.
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1981
African American
Audre Lorde
Civil Rights
Feminism
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Pat Post-Kochanski
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Christine Cea
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: .................
JoAnn Calacibetta
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Denise Zawada
COVER: ......................................
Yvette Mandel
ILLUSTRATIONS: ..............
Jane Butters-Mommy's Piglet
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-South Africa
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Yvette Mandel-All others
PROOFREADER: ...............................
Kathy Devlin
FACULTY ADVISOR: ....................
Professor Jo Gillikin
FUNDING FOR THIS SIXTH EDITION HAS COME FROM THE
STUDENT GOVERNMENT,
FROM INDIVIDUAL
CONTRIBUTORS, AND FROM THE SALE OF THE MAGAZINE.
It is the policy of the College of Staten Island to accept all material
for consideration regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national
origin, age, gender, or sexual preference.
Copyright© 1986 by ALL WAYS A WOMAN, The College of Staten Island. All
rights reserved; no reproduction without the permission and written consent of the
contributors.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
POETRY
Christine Cea
PERENNIAL ....................................
· · · · · . · · · · ·3
Dawn Guostavino
I'M A MAYTAG ....................................
·· .. ··· .3
Spressa Djonbalic
I'M AP ASSA GE .........................................
· · ·4
Kathy Devlin
GRANDMA, LET ME TELL YOU (TELL ME) .................
4
Ellen Navarro
MISTAKEN ....................................
PM CHORES ....................................
.5
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Jane Butters
PIGLET'S MOMMY ..............................
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· · · .. · · · · · 7
Lynda Nelson
IF ITS OP.TIMUM ...............................
· · · · · · · · · · ·9
WHEN DID WE CHOOSE ...............................
· · · 10
A SHORT PIECE ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA
AND WHAT I READ IN THE NEWS ......................
· 11
Ellen Rothberg
BOSTON-DECEMBER
1966 ...........................
Marguerite Musso
THE GAME ...............................
· · · .12
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(Continued on next page)
ALL WAYSA WOMAN
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�Perennial
POETRY
(continued)
Kathryn Fazio
BEDSIDE CHAT ..........................................
CROSSING THE VERRAZANO .............................
A SCHOOL GIRL'S DREAM ................................
FOR ALL I KNOW OF DR. HINSLEY ........................
14
15
16
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Lynda Durinda
ONE SHORT DAY .........................................
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I'm a pillar,
My mother's work of art.
A shelter, a new home.
Tall torso, strong arms reaching,
0 tiny one, smooth ripe peach.
I hear a new life singing,
Petal pink, feathers, fragrant pine.
Windblown, weeping, covered with snow.
I'm bound to earth,
I touch the stars.
Christine Cea
SHORT STORIES
Pat Post-Kochanski
REPAIRS .................................................
19
Margaret Droge
THE HILL ................................................
22
Maureen Pecoraro
A MOTHER'S DAY ........................................
24
ESSAYS AND INTERVIEW
Pat Post-Kochanski
AN INTERVIEW ..........................................
27
Denise Zawada
WHY I WANT A HUSBAND-OR
32
DO I? .....................
Carol Chouinard
TWO HOURS IN THE LIFE OF CAROL CHOUINARD ........
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I'm a Maytag
I'm a Maytag on the gentle spin cycle,
The calm before the storm,
The eye of the storm itself.
I'm Theresa in Calcutta,
Leonora in the Palace,
A scale weighing good, bad, right, wrong.
The diligent detective seeking clues
Boomeranging through the lost years
A legend on a map
Getting nearer to the I.
Dawn Guastavino
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�I'm a Passage
Mistaken
I'm a passage in many mazes
An owl, a marble hall,
A flame burning on two candles,
0 long stems, thorns, red satin,
This forest's elongating omniscient trees,
Silk's newly spun luminous flaws,
I'm a hope, a hurricane, a still ocean,
I've built a wall of unfounded restraint,
Explored the ocean,
There's no floor insight.
Spressa Djonbalic
Grandma, Let Me Tell You (Tell Me)
I'm snails in black bean sauce,
spare ribs, cumquat with pineapple:
one from Column A, two from Column B;
a pink and blue buffet.
0 bad penny, wrapper on the grass,
crackerjack box with someone's prize,
I've seen you coming
but the mirror needs some Windex.
Piece of fluff and pillow feathers falling:
Look what the cat dragged in.
Kathy Devlin
4
ALL WAYSA WOMAN
As weather tends colder
when seasons move slowly
nights,
I run by the cemetery
and take deep breaths
with the upgrade;
matching headstone names
to imagined faces
that surround me
in the lifting fog.
Voices fill my ears
as I speed up
on the swing downhill.
A November sky
sits gray
upon the lake
and folds its arms
motherly
around the wind-bent trees.
I called I'm home,
ascending steps
in twos
-that glass door,
old,
slamming shut as always.
ALL WAYSA WOMAN
Events twisted
time constant
-like a heartbeat.
You were gone
and left no choice,
I said goodbye.
The bed is rumpled.
I iron before work
-my hair, wet
in a towel.
A radio whispers
weather reports.
I remember how lying
so close to you
nights,
lulled me to sleep
and cry.
Ellen Navarro
5
�Piglet's Mommy
I.
PM Chores
Tyrone Power just washed two days'
dirty dishes tonight
quite unexpectedly.
He Crash Dive'd right onto my
kitchen countertop from out of the
t. v. screen and walked up to the sink
gentlemanlike.
Of course I declined; but, he
insisted.
Later, he helped me do the unmade bed
- started sorting laundry,
whites from colors mostly
and what a conversationalist!
Soon, he leapt back into the burning,
oilfilled waters surrounding the enemy
ship, sinking
- held his breath at least 10
minutes underwater.
Flashing eyes?
He's so brave; I called farewell but
it was too noisy, all that paddling
and danger; torpedoes hitting their mark.
Arriving safe, I turned the dial
- finished cutting coupons with Ava Gardner.
Who knows what may stop by tomorrow Godzilla??
I'll do some ironing then.
Piglet's Mommy went to town
Spent food money on a gown
For the party New Year's Eve.
Gee, his Daddy sure was peeved.
All week long they just made rice,
Noodles, Kool-Aid to suffice.
Piglet didn't eat so much
He got weak, depressed and such.
At the party Mommy dazzled
Punked her hair into a frazzle,
Painted eyes, and mouth, and nose
Put black spots upon her toes.
Mommy thought she sure looked Bad,
Piglet didn't, he was sad.
Piglet's pains were not obtuse,
II.
He's victim of child abuse.
Piglet's Mommy loved Punk bandsBanged .on tables with her hands
When the Punky music played.
She loved music, night and day.
Made her hair so stiff and straight,
All she liked to do was mate,
All her clothes were slick and black,
Leather buckles, steel pegged hats.
Thought she was so hep and smart,
She smoked pot, and broke his heart.
Piglet's Mommy left one day,
On her cycle, drove away.
Hair was yellow, pink and red
We assume that she's not dead.
She drank beer and snorted coke
She thought life was just a joke.
Piglet's left alone with Dad
Both of them are very sad.
Cause the Mommy's Bad .. bad .. bad.
Ellen Navarro
6
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�III.
Piglet's Daddy's all worn out
All day long he runs about.
First with cooking, cleaning then
Off to work to clean pig pens.
Daddy Pig comes home at six
To make supper and to fix
Next day's lunch and wash the clothes
Help with homework, then he'd show
Piglet how to vacuum clean
Shop, and make vanilla creams.
Daddy has no time to play
Since his Mommy went away.
Piglet gets upset with Dad,
Always tired, hurried, mad.
If it's optimum
I carry the sands of deserty skies home
(it sieves through the clutches of my own disregard)
where my sisters in their own homes
will never understand me
where my husband will grow to unlove me
sand is sliding out of the shell bottom
sifting in the wind, swirling gently to the earth
its discontent spheres laughing, cracking, splintering
while my pottery smokes.
IV.
Piglet's Mommy was so sad
She was sick of being bad.
Loneliness and conscience stung
She was tired of life among
The Punk Rockers, smoking dope ...
All that racket with no hope.
She snuck into Piglet's room
Just to watch him sleep. But soon
Piglet woke and shouted out
Mommy cried and sniffed her snout.
They cuddled, wept and loved and then
That Mommy never left again.
I gaze at the sky, towards its back, past its forever
to the other side of the world
where the night keeps strange primeval continents
darkly strangulated,
and see a comet shining in its galaxy
its dust is sifting down through time
landing slowly, musically in this canyon.
the t. v. announces whines
I hear my husband stirring in its glowing blue halo
he is learning to unlove me
while my sisters in their homes are
sitting quietly in their lives.
Lynda Nelson
Jane Butters
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�a short piece about south africa
and what I read in the news
When did we choose
When did we choose
the daily persistent abundant washes,
frail dancing children tended before ourselves,
an exhausted existence where morning rises like a smog
on our weighted sadness and the
works of clocks spin logically.
We were all waiting. It was our moral duty to observe the events that were
unshaping a nation.
Every day there are riots. I saw on television people dancing around a burning auto, a regular bonfi~e and celebrati~n. I mea_nthose people were really
dancing-they were all tnbal dances, ancient, a~c1ent d~nc~s that these p~ople have been moving to since time began. They re dancmg m modern afnca
around 20th century technology as if there is no tomorrow and there was no
yesterday. Also they were singing. It was an act of rage and a song of
courage.
Lynda Nelson
When did we choose
husbands, lovers, advisors, bankers,
appointed aliens who notice our differences
as if they were a frightening revolution.
When did we choose these to whom creation is no miracle
and evolution is not either, processes to be ignored.
I see their blue and strangulated faces
behind smirking glass
(they who choose to keep this system of racial, masculine,
spiritual and financial apartheid)
looking to see us bent, washing by rivers
foul and toxic winds blowing all our hair like snakes rising
breathless.
choose to read us in magazines
choose to view us on billboards
choose to ignore us in life.
,__,,..,
We vicious asps who alienated god in the garden.
Lynda Nelson
10
ALL WAYSA WOMAN
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�BOSTON - DECEMBER, 1966
Blue women walk early in Boston.
Their plants and dogs are watered and walked.
Husbands are breakfasted,
Newspapers read.
Children are bundled up,
Bussed off to school.
Fingers are bony-cold,
Lips cracked and dry.
Women with blue lips walk early in Boston.
Church spires are outlined in patches of snow,
Dry air feels brittle.
The sidewalks of Boston
Are click-clacked and pounded by hurrying heels.
Boston-blue women walk briskly this morning,
Hurrying home to their rooms neat and bare.
The Game
Across our space
Words travel
We parry
Wanting to be understood
To sound favorable
We are misunderstood
Not following through
Hesitant to give too much
Ellen Rothberg
Advance to truth
When swords cross
Retreat, don your mask
The opposition waits
Marguerite Musso
12
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�Crossing the Verrazano
Bedside Chat
These sheets are too white
They blind me fly
You buzz right by me and tease my eye
Quick! Off my leg!
Not in my ear
I hear you buzzing everywhere
Crossing the Verrazano reminds me I'm a fly
Riding through the inside of a piano with sky
Dodging hammers from pounded keys
Spiked with burnt rubber and toxic breeze
I'm busy with thought, the dog is not fed
I'm busy with thought, your gold watch is gone
And in its place beside my bed
Is the busy memory you laid on its lawn
The straps on my wrists
They make me red
And still you buzz by me
"What's that you said"
Outside the old upright
Cuts thick slabs of fog
With thin metal strings
And a vibrating chord
The map with directions
On how to get out
Of this hospital bed
"Oh fly, you have CLOUT!"
And from my car window
I squint to see
Through the slices of sunlight
Split just for me
But fly, I am naked
Without wings like you
How can I follow
Shuuuuu the night nurse shoe
Kathryn Fazio
I wallow in spectrum
I drive through the green
To violet
Too busy to realize the toll of the breeze.
Kathryn Fazio
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ALL Wl'YSA WOMAN
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15
�For All I Know of Dr. Hinsley
In a place
Where a retina undresses all senses
I saw an image of a dot round as a pearl
Fall off a page
In the place
Where you left me
I knelt in a desert dreaming
Scantily dressed but with pearls and gold cider
Both the same
School Girl's Dream
And in that tangible place
In the throat that knows
To flap up and down to direct where drink and air go
Like the rational mind that knows to go quite insane
The Pharnyx simply offers a space
To unwind a choke or a blue-red in the face
I used to think
from the core of cellular life
girls harvested women
Spontaneously
undoubtedly
but erroneously
I grasped at womanhood before
I was a child
And in that place in the heart
A node called the Pacemaker
A nerve acts like muscle
And muscle vice versa
And mistakenly
clutched the legs of a man
before I could walk
Kathryn Fazio
In a place
A mathematical set can be graphed by your hand
Where a beer stinking bowler
Meets the blond hand of a gay man
In a place
Where mind covers matter
With a blanket for a body to make love under
You slip to two sides of my brain
And I see you there at the junction
Standing on a trains' crossing track
Walking away from me to a space in a tunnel
And then walking back
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ALL WAYS A WOMAN
Kathryn Fazio
17
�Repairs
by Pat Post-Kochanski
One Short Day
How I put my life together
Amazes me.
The fact that I've grown in one short day
It amazes me.
To put the puzzle together
And not be harmed,
Amazes me.
To be lost yesterday
And be found today
Amazes me.
To know I know my own mind
Amazes me.
Not to fall apart at a drop of a hat
Amazes me.
To know I am a grown up
Amazes me.
To know I have so much talent hidden in me
Amazes me.
To write the poems I write
Amazes me.
But wait though, why should it
Amaze me?
I've worked so hard to get where I am now
To feel as I do
And to think that I'm so proud now
Does not amaze me now
Or ever.
Lynda Durinda
18
ALL WAYS A WOMAN
The snow had just begun to fall as they began their slow ascent. Despite the
heaviness and volume with which the snow was falling, she did not alter their pace.
From time to time, she would stop and wait for the child to close the distance between them.
Occasionally, she would become aware of how tensely she carried the brown paper
bag in her hand. When her arm did not sway with her gait but instead hung rigidly
against her side, she would uncurl her stiffened fingers from around the fold at the
top of the bag, press it against her like a pregnant belly, hook both hands under its
bottom and relax her hunched shoulders. Moments later she would find the bag
straining again in her left hand as her nails tried to slice their way through the
dampened paper. She would loosen her grasp, allowing the veins to lie down.
When she reached the crest of the hill, she stopped to wait for the child. She
studied the row of stores which sat below. She watched as men and women ran frantically from store to store; body after body passed each other on the street, not
touching, not seeing, not hearing. A car horn screamed through the walls of her
thoughts. She lurched up, then forward as she grabbed and pulled the child against
her. She let out her breath, walked to the curb and bent down to the side of the car.
Mrs. Michaels stretched her body over to the passenger side.
"Sorry if I startled you, Helen. I thought you might like a ride into town. That's
where you're going, isn't it?"
"Thank you, Mrs. Michaels, but we'd rather walk. The baby is enjoying the snow.
Thanks anyway.''
She pulled away from the car to leave.
"Helen, I don't want to press you, but the invitation still stands. Please feel free to
stop by anytime. I know you must get lonely sometimes living with just a small child.
I can introduce you to all the girls. They're interested in your work. Just stop by.
And please, call me Marie."
"Thank you, Marie. I'll do that. I'll stop by." She abruptly stepped off the curb
and back onto the sidewalk, waving goodbye. She turned to the child, smiled and
said, "Come on, Candy girl. Let's get going."
They began their descent at a faster pace demanded by the wind which had kicked
up behind their backs. The closer they came to the town, the more anxious she
became. She began to gnaw at the soft, moist skin which lined the insides of her
cheeks. With her free hand she twisted ringlets of her hair about her fingers.
"Mommy, snow went on my tongue," the child cried with excitement.
"Mommy," she repeated tugging at her mother's sleeve, "I'm talking to you."
"What, I'm sorry, baby, I didn't hear you. What did you say?"
"Snow went on my tongue," she repeated.
"Oh yeah. What did it taste like?"
The child hesitated. Her eyebrows crinkled earnestly in thought. "It tasted like
strawberries," she squealed jumping up and down.
"Aren't we lucky we_live in a place where the snow tastes just like strawberries?
We couldn't ask for more than that now, could we, Candy girl?" She reached her
hand out and slid it slowly down the side of the child's rosy face. She cupped her
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�fingers around the tiny chin and gently squeezed it. She smiled, bent forward at the
waist and while waving her arm in the direction of the town she said, "After you,
Madame." The child marched forward grinning with importance.
Soon the town stood before them. Faces she had seen but never knew passed
silently by. They passed the candy store window, which was decorated with toys and
games. The bright colors caught the child's eye.
"Mommy, Mommy, let's go in there," she cried, pulling at her mother's leg.
She quickly scanned the store's interior through the door. People were milling
about inside laughing over cups of hot chocolate and coffee.
"It's too crowded. I'll buy you something next time we go to the supermarket."
They came upon the shoemaker's. She looked at the brown bag, then inside the
shop. Marie Michaels was inside, examining a pair of shoes. She quickly took the
child by the hand, went around the corner, and stared through shop windows. When
they returned, Marie was gone.
As they entered the shop, the door top chimed against rusted, tin bells. The
shoemaker stood,with his back to them deafened by the whirring of his machines. To
the left of them were three stalls of red leather chairs with footsteps. The child ran to
them, pushing the swinging doors back and forth, stopping only to stare at her feet
in the small mirror which sat on the oily floor.
"I'll be right with you," the shoemaker said without turning.
She approached the counter littered with soiled cans of shoe polish. She studied
the back of his body which stood slightly hunched. A thick green apron hung loosely
from his greasy pants. His shoes were ripped in the small seams at the back of the
heels. His neck, embedded with deep, black, branching lines, was short and broad
like a knot of wood. His hair was cropped close to the scalp.
He turned to her as if drawn by her searching stare.
"What can I do for you?" he asked as he switched off the machine.
From across the counter his face slowly moved uncomfortably close to hers. He
squinted through the dense, yellow film which enveloped his eyes. His face bore the
same lines as his neck. He was old, very old. Her head smoothly tilted back as she
placed the brown bag on the counter.
"My boots," she explained, "need to be repaired."
He did not move to open the bag but only moved closer to her, straining from
behind his glasses.
"You are new here, Mrs. Somebody. I no see you before," he said with a heavy
accent.
·
"Yes, I'm new, well pretty new. I moved into Greeley about nine months ago. But
I've never been in this shop before. We rarely come into town."
The shoemaker looked over at the child. "Nice boy you have."
"She's a girl," she said.
The shoemaker turned to her. Straining again. "You have light eyes, no?" he asked.
"They're blue," she answered.
"Ah-blue like the sky or blue like the ocean?"
"Blue like the sky, I guess," she answered beginning to tense at his questions.
The shoemaker gently nodded his head and smiled, exposing his fleshy, wet gums.
She recoiled, looking away at the child who was sitting on a footstep. He pulled the
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boots from the bag and held them close to his face. He peered through the magnifying glasses which were attached to the front of his glasses.
"Very good leather," he said as he ran his fingers over the boots. His blackened
fingers moved quickly and knowingly.
"You no buy in·this state," he said.
"No, I bought them when I lived in New York."
"You need new soles, whole soles, not halves. And lifts too. Eighteen dollars. If
you have time, I do them now. If not, then goodbye to you Mrs. Somebody."
Rather than come into town again, she decided to wait. She went over to a chair
took off her jacket, and sat d,own. The child followed her mother's actions.
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While the shoemaker worked, he talked, if not to her, then to himself.
"I too live in New York when I come to America. Then I move here. Life for me
has been lonely. First my wife die. Then my son. Then me. It be forty years now that
I am dead."
There was a long pause as he hammered the lifts to the heels.
"I ·wake up. I eat. I work. I sleep. My wife she had blue eyes too. She died when
my boy was born. He was my life for nine years then Jesus take him too. Cancer they
say. Death is death I say. I live here for forty years and go no more than the grocery
store. I eat. I sleep. I work. I turn away from people. I turn away from life. I embrace my death before it comes."
He paused again as he groped for his hammer. She thought about New York. She
thought about her husband. As if sensing these thoughts, the child climbed into her
mother's lap.
_The sho_emaker's hammer struck a nail. She looked at Candy's right snowboot,
still shedding drops of melted snow. She shivered as she felt her pants absorb the
water from her child's shoe. She looked down at the girl, as if from a great height.
Such a sense of being alone, separate. But in a surge of -almost pleasure, she
thought -she said, "Listen, Mr. Shoemaker, I changed my mind. We will come
another day."
"Well, then, come get your ticket, Mrs. Blue Eyes Like the Sky."
"Thank you," Helen said taking the ticket from his hand, "thank you."
"Come on, Candy girl. Let's go see if they know how to make real egg creams in
that candy store."
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�The Hill
by Margaret Droge
She knew, from the first moment she laid eyes on it, that it was no place for a
farm. Eighty-six acres climbed steeply, relentlessly, to the bald summit of the hill. It
was barren land, devoid of trees. A gray barn and shed clung precariously to the
sloping earth; they rattled and moaned in the wind that came in sudden gusts from
the crest of the hill. Across the road to the south, the land finally leveled. Here scrub
brush and squat huckleberry bushes almost obscured the skeletal remains of an apple
orchard, its brittle, sun-bleached limbs broken and piercing the low, static horizon.
She just had a feeling about it, right from the beginning; people weren't supposed
to live like that, she thought - on a slant, never having both feet planted level at the
same time. But Lonnie didn't mind the hill; having one leg shorter since the war, he
stood lopsided anyway. Besides, it was all they could afford, he argued, since the
drought had wiped them out. He swore he could clear the stones away, and plow and
harrow the hill.
Even the little farmhouse, with its swaybacked roof, stood on a slant; none of the
floors was level, so that if you dropped an onion it would roll away from you to the
south the way everything did on the hill. When they moved their bed in, Lonnie put
bricks under two of the legs to level it; most of the furniture had to be propped up
that way.
And so they bought chickens, and hung a sign by the road saying "fresh eggs."
Lonnie planted a willow tree behind the kitchen, so that Aggie would have
something to see from the window besides the bare hill. He brought home a oneeyed, yellow dog to keep the foxes out of the chicken shed; they never gave the dog a
name, but it kept Aggie company as she worked and sang in the kitchen. The ~gg
money came in while Lonnie spent the days carting rocks from the field and shormg
up the sagging buildings. He bought a second-hand tractor and began to plow the
hill.
Aggie stands by the barn and scatters feed for the chickens, knowing the yellow
bits of grain will hit the ground and bounce southward. The white Leg~oms, Lonnie's pride and joy, scratch and peck around her feet. There are fewer chickens.now,
but lately fewer people have been coming for eggs. There is only one Rhode Islan~
Red left, and Aggie thinks it would be good for stewing, but she needs all the eggs 1t
can lay.
The old yellow dog has been gone for some time now; Aggie last saw him chasing a
rabbit over the top of the hill. When she enters the coop in the morning, she often
finds that the fox has been there; the shed is strewn with feathers, and another bird is
missing. Sometimes she finds a tom off wing, or a foot with the toes still clenched,
and the dusty floor is dark and glistening with a trail of blood that leads to a h?le
under the wall. But now she is tired of closing the holes, and the fox has been usmg
the same entrance for two weeks.
Aggie crosses from the barn to the pumpkin patch, a tangled m~s o_fgreen _rope
and leaves as big as her hand; the fat, green globes are already begmmng to npen.
She runs her fingers through her matted hair. Was it two years ago, or three, she
wonders when she lost that baby? She had been working among the pumpkins when
the first pains had come. And that year she hadn't harvested the pumpkins, but had
let them rot. Funny, she thinks, how they keep growing back again by themselves. In
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October she used to hang her pumpkin sign by the road and sell them. Now she
would like to cut their stems and let them roll down the hill, southward, bouncing
and shattering against the rocks.
Back in her kitchen, Aggie checks her cupboard and decides she needs cornmeal,
and perhaps some carrots and greens for stewing. But she seldom drives the pick-up
into town now. The townspeople gesture and whisper when they see her; the children
giggle when she approaches, or they run away.
Aggie scrubs potatoes at the sink and begins to pare and slice them. She is singing
to the yellow dog, and then remembers that he is gone. She cuts her finger; she can
see the blood but feels nothing. Examining the wound, she notices that her wedding
band is gone; she wonders if it fell and rolled to the south wall of the kitchen. Suddenly she decides she will kill the red chicken; she will wring its neck, butcher and
stew it. A thrill sweeps over her as she stifles a giggle; maybe, while she is twisting its
neck in her hands, she will finally be able to feel something, to cry, to laugh the way
she and Lonnie did that night long ago when the bed broke, the bricks having slipped
from under its legs as they made love.
She looks out the kitchen window, where her willow tree has died and there is only
the hill behind, looming buff-colored and stark, as if it has been cut out of cardboard and pasted against the black-and-white sky. It is a sky that threatens storm;
swift, strong gusts of wind pour from the crest of the hill, battering the now kneehigh grass until it becomes a turbulent, brown sea. And there, half buried in the waving field, is Lonnie's tractor, left where it had flipped on its back like a huge, dead
insect, now silent and rusting on that damned hill.
She had been right; it was no place for a farm. It was too steep for plowing. She
thinks she can still hear his screams, feel them in the very marrow of her bones - but
it is probably the barn moaning in the wind that pours from the top of that damned
hill.
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�A MOTHER'S DAY
By Maureen Pecoraro
It's been two hours now since Mike's last call. As always, when I'm feeling anxious and completely helpless, I remain in bed with the covers over my head. A casual
observer might think I am at rest; but nothing could be further from the truth. How
prophetic, I think, that you should have your moment of triumph as a woman on
this day, Mother's Day 1984. It seems like only yesterday I carried you home from
the hospital, Jong before the days of car seats.
There were no washing instructions, words of caution, or even a label attached
when I first inspected you, head to toe, for flaws. I found none. You were only
minutes old when I first took you into my arms; I, nineteen years; we were both
children, actually. I guess you might say we were to grow together. Maybe that is
why you will always be very special to me and why I will always Jove you so very
much.
You seemed to know I came with no prior experience; yet you trusted me anyway.
I would have preferred to have given you the most experienced and loving mother in
the world, but from this day on, you would have the maturity of nineteen years, all
of my Jove, and as much pink organdy and satin ribbon as I could find.
I took you home to your bassinet fit for any princess. Nana really outdid herself.
Yards and yards of embroidered white organdy gathered to reveal the palest hint of
blue from underneath, with a ruffled hood in a form not unlike a huge bonnet, and
with blue satin ribbon woven throughout its eyelet - a tn1ly regal bed. For the next
four years, you and I would be "steadies," exploring each other, getting to know
one another, and learning to Jove one another in an uninterrupted, exclusive relationship.
Grandma said, "You shouldn't take her out at night. There are poisons in night
air." "Stop reading that god-damned Spock book," Grandpa said, "and buy her
some stretchies that don't make her toes curl." Even then I didn't realize how fast
you would grow. You always did remain just one step ahead of me, although the only reading material I enjoyed at that time was every child care and psychology book I
could find. With a feverish hunger I devoured each and every word. (How incredible
it seems to me that to enter into any professional career, years of intense study and
certification are required, except for, perhaps, the single most important profession
in the work, the role of mother.) I found myself engaged in a truly authentic workstudy program Jong before its conception.
Between your fourth and fifth birthdays, I gave birth to your two brothers within
ten months. I began receiving notes from your kindergarden teacher. She told me
you always drew family pictures with yourself apart from the family. During role
play, you always chose the part of the baby.
How could I explain to this twenty-or-so-year old teacher that, while this twentyfive year old mother loved her daughter as much, if not more than before, God gave
her only two hands, one mind, etc., and as far as responsibilities would go, "My cup
surely runneth over."
You began to hold in bowel movements, Dr. Betty prescribed enemas. How deep
your anger must have been, for it gave y~u the s~rength to prevent both dad~r a~d.I
from giving you an enema. When I mentioned this to Dr. Betty, he was curt, This 1s
an emotional problem and out of my sphere.'' I began to picture the medical profes-
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as a small parts factory: place the patient on a conveyor belt, send him / her to
various depart1!1ents;but, above all, do not dare let one department know what the
others were domg. It was_then I became ~ngry - angry that you were hurting and
an~ry that I was responsible for your pain, even though, logically, I was without
gmlt.
I found you lying on the sofa totally lethargic from impacted stool. "Lisa," I said,
"you are going to have this enema now, and I am not waiting for daddy to come
home. I am going to give it to you myself." I received a broken finger in the battle,
but I did take care of your immediate medical problem. I then took you into my arms
and carried you into my bedroom, where I literally threw you onto my bed. "I Jove
you," I screamed, "I Jove you more each day, not less. I just happened to give birth
to two babies within the last ten months, and babies require a great deal of care. But
they do grow; it won't always be this way. When you were a baby, you received all of
my time. Right now they need me very much. They cannot feed themselves or talk to
me. Without my care they could die. Don't you understand that love is not just
feeding and changing diapers. It is many things. It is driving you to kindergarden,
putting ribbons on your shiny, brown pigtails. It is holding conversations. It is hanging your drawings on the refrigerator. It is crying when someone you love hurts.
Lisa, you will always be so very special to me; you were my first child." I squeezed
you and hugged you, as I cried. Although psychologists would not recommend this
type of shock therapy for a five-year old, it seemed to work. I don't know which
message filtered through, but your problem disappeared. I would like to believe you
understood my love.
The greasy dust balls hung from my rag just like my bottom lip hung from my
face, both frozen in space. "Mommy," you said, "Shelley said that to get a baby,
the daddy has to put his thing into where the mommy goes to the bathroom. Is that
really true?" The first 180 degrees of my mind's revolution begged me to lie to you.
How could I be able to explain this to you in a way that you could understand. You
were only eight years old. How my heart ached at this occasion of lost innocence, too
soon to be fair. As I looked at your radiant face, your large, brown eyes, filled with
expectation, I realized I wanted much more for you than just to preserve your innocence. I wanted to give you something solid to hold on to in the confusion of this
world, a word you could always trust, always rely on. How could I possibly teach
you the meaning of true love if I began on a foundation of untruth? Inside I silently
cried for your lost innocence, as outwardly I tried to impress upon you the critical
aspect Shelley's ignorance failed to include - Jove! I explained that without love the
act was merely a physical union and totally empty. But when two people truly love
each other it is the only way they can truly become one. "From that love, you were
born," I said. "When you are older, you will understand what I am telling you."
Seemingly satisfied, you no longer questioned me. Instead, you bounced cheerfully
from the house; I remained at the kitchen table for a very long time with tears in my
eyes, my heart in my lap, and a rag full of dustballs in my hands.
There are all sorts of adorable names like "puppy Jove" used to convey the insignificance of first experiences with love. How anyone can defin'e parameters for
pain by age of sex is beyond me. How well I remember your sitting in the corner of
your little bedroom on Ridgewood Avenue, crying so hard I thought your heart
would surely break. I think Jimmy was his name. How irrelevant he is now; but your
pain will never be irrelevant. I hurt so for you then that the feeling remains vividly
alive today. It was the first time I related to you on an emotional level apart from
mother-child in the stricter sense. I began to empathize with you female to female,
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�woman to budding woman. "Oh Mom, how much i.~hurts," you cried. How well I
knew. All I could say was how very, very sorry I was, as we sat on the floor together,
hugging and crying until you were spent.
Once again, my heart aches for you today; my entire self lives this gruelling battle
with you, though in spirit only. Would that I could spare you this pain and suffering;
yet to do so would be selfish. This is your pain, your day in the Sun. The pain you
have today is not one of the heart. It is the sort that will surely do battle with your entire self, body and soul. Warning of its impending attack will be an innocuous dull
ache forming a halo around your lower torso, taking its battle position before it attacks. It begins gradually at first and builds to a crescendo, assaulting you, consuming you, rending you almost senseless. Then, when you think you can no longer
stand the pain, just like a tide, it ebbs away, giving you moments' rest, before the
next affront to your being.
After several hours (or is it days?), the restful moments come less often, the pains
come closer together and become much more intense; you no longer can tell the difference between reality and this nightmare. Finally, a searing sensation enters your
womanhood, and you cannot resist an overwhelming urge to bear down, as though
you were experiencing an enormous bowel movement. Total concentration on this
new exercise dispels your awareness of pain, as your entire self, body and soul, unite
to expel this intruder within.
You push, grunt, moan and sceam until you are finally victorious. Totally spent,
you would surely become lethargic, were it not for the sight of this bloody covered
little creature lying now on your belly. You, instead, become euphoric and awed
before the mystery of life. Exhilaration fills your soul, like no other experience in
your entire life has before filled you. For you - and only you - could have accomplished this wondrous deed. No other woman in this entire world could have
become this child's mother. No other woman could have given life to this child, this
child of your love and your flesh.
As though my heart were heard, Mike just called again telling me you wanted to
speak with me. "I am holding your grandson in my arms," you said. Tears of joy
streamed down my face, as I ran to get my car keys and recalled that day twenty-one
years ago when your perfectly beautiful, 20-inch long, blood covered body sat upon
my belly.
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An Interview
by Pat Post-Kochanski
Several times during the course of my life, my mother has mentioned that G., a
long-time friend of the family, had been incarcerated in a concentration camp in
China as a young child. I never pursued the topic until I was required to do an oral
history for my Women's Studies I English class.
G. and I originally met to tape the interview; instead, we spent several hours talking while she showed me an album of photographs which illustrated her family's life
in China.
As you will see, G. 's articulateness called for very little questioning on my part.
Q. According to the 1949 newspaper article describing your arrival in the States,
your grandmother was born in Russia. Why was she living in China?
A. Well, you have come to a very important and interesting person in my
background who has had a lot of influence on me. My grandmother married
young, as most women did then.
Q. When was then?
A. The early 1900's. She was living in Russia in Khabarovsk. At that time, she
married another Russian. They had three children: my mother, who was the
eldest; my aunt; and an infant son. One of the reasons why my grandmother
left Russia was because of the political climate: it was at the time of the Russian Revolution. Unfortunately, they belonged to the wrong political party
and her first husband was murdered, as well as her infant son. She remarried
shortly thereafter, I guess, hoping that things would get better. Her second
husband was also killed during the Russian Revolution. Subsequently, she
decided to leave Russia and go to China since Khabarovsk was not far from
the border of northern China. Arriving in China with two small children,
without very many options for women in those days, she set up a cottage industry making neckties. During the day she stitched up neckties and probably
sold them on consignment to stores. At night, she and the children performed on the stage. Their performances were comparable to the vaudeville acts
we had here in the States. Besides whatever they were paid, people threw
money on the stage for them. So that is how she earned a living and when
things got a little better, she sent the two children away to a boarding school
and she continued with her cottage industry. She then tried her hand at other
things. She was a physical fitness nut in her early days; in fact, it continued
throughout her life. She is now 91 and I attribute it to the fact that she has
always taken care of herself. She opened up a health studio, "The Shanghai
Health Studio" which catered to pudgy ladies living in Shanghai.
Q. Was her clientele mainly Chinese?
A. Mostly European because Shanghai had a very large European community.
She hired a number of women who worked for her and she worked right
alongside of them. She usually put the ladies through their exercise paces and
the other women worked as masseurs and did manicures. It wasn't a hair
styling salon but mostly physical fitness exercises. She also developed a line
of cosmetics. She could have been a Chinese Helena Rubinstein but she
didn't pursue that. She was a very ambitious lady .
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�Q. After establishing herself in Shanghai and getting her family back on their
feet, what did your grandmother do next?
A. She met and married an Englishman about whom we know very little, since
he spent so little time in her life. I don't remember what he did for a living.
All I know is that he was a very miserly man. He doled out the pennies
which my grandmother never liked receiving. She liked being her own person
and doing things on her own, not having to ask permission: Can she spend
money on this or can she spend money on that? She just wanted to go ahead
and do it. She did. He left China on a short trip to England and in the interim, my grandmother had written a letter seeking a divorce. This same letter must have been crossed by one from England stating that he had died of
cancer.
Q. So that was her third husband and she eventually went on to her fourth.
What prompted such consistency on her part?
A. Well, I guess she was the marrying-kind-of-lady even though she was independent and did not need a man to support her. She met another
Englishman, who was the only grandfather I knew because she married him
long before I was born. He was really a great favorite in my life because he
never had any children of his own; and since I qualified as his granddaughter, I was the apple of his eye. He doted on -me and nothing was too
good for me. So when we had it, I had everything; and when we didn't have
it, I still had everything because I felt a great deal of love from both of
them. (More from him because he spoiled me.) So she married him. He had
his own business and she had her own business and they owned this large
building in Shanghai. She had her health studio which eventually branched
out into a boutique. She sold silk lingerie trimmed in lace, the finest French
laces which were imported. She had Chinese seamstresses who would sew
them. He had a similar business, although not a boutique; it was a men's
tailoring shop where custom-made suits were outfitted for the businessmen in
Shanghai. So both of them had thriving businesses and she continued with
her endeavours. She had the health studio which she phased out and then she
had the boutique. At about that time Uust before World War II) the
Japanese take-over of China occurred. When the British and Americans
finally did enter the war, that is when the Japanese rounded up all the
foreigners in Shanghai. Of course, the Americans left the country but the
British had settled there, including my grandfather and his Russian wife, my
grandmother. They lost their businesses which were confiscated by the
Japanese and the people were sent to concentration camps. I believe it was
late 1941 or early 1942 when my grandfather, my grandmother, my Aunt
Edie (whom my grandmother had adopted as an infant; she was only 10
years older than me) and I were all sent to concentration camps outside of
Shanghai.
Q. How old were you?
A. About 5 at the time. We spent two and a half years in the camp. And again,
my grandmother, being a very resourceful woman, decided she was going to
work in the dispensary. It was a very wise move on her part. She got all the
medical supplies and all the vitamins she could get her hands on. I was well
taken care of. We all lost weight during those two and a half years but I had
no lack of medicines, quinine or vitamins.
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Q. Were you separated as a family in the concentration camp?
A. I was with my grandmother and my aunt. My grandfather was separated
from us and lived in the barracks for the men. However, we saw each other
during the day.
Q. How were you treated in the concentration camps?
A. We weren't maltreated. We had food rations. We were counted every morning and every evening. We had to stand at the doors of our rooms for roll
call. We were guarded by the Japanese.
Q. Japanese men?
A. Right, the Japanese soldiers which were occupied there. The camp was surrounded by barbed wire and dogs outside the compound. Naturally, there
was very little escaping. In spite of the hardships that we endured in the
camps, my grandmother was an organizer. She organized theatrical groups to
put on shows which were morale-boosting activities. She had a lot of friends
there. Most of the people there were, of course, British women and men.
There was quite a contingent of Russian wives of British men and these were
the most resourceful women. Even though the British women had great
stoicism, keeping of stiff upper lips, ("not letting the bastards get them
down"), the Russian women were more resourceful. We were allowed a small
piece of ground to plant things on. Most of the British women planted
flowers while most of the Russian women planted vegetables. We got to keep
what we grew. So we had eggplant, which I hated with a passion, and
tomatoes. But camp was not the worst experience for the children because we
played. The adults tried to institute some kin'd of school for the children and
it didn't work out well because I don't remember going to school. I recall
having a card with multiplication tables on it and I didn't know what it was
for. I knew I had to learn it but it never made any sense. We were there for
two and a half years when we were released after the war. My grandparents,
once again, took up life in Shanghai, to rebuild their businesses and move on
with life.
Q. In other words, they lost everything while they were imprisoned?
A. The Japanese had confiscated everything and they were running the
businesses because I remember after the war, while the Japanese were still
the.re, we visited my grandfather's business and I saw Japanese soldiers in
uniform actually in the store, behind the counters, operating the business to
whatever extent the business had been operable during the war. But in any
event, my grandparents started up again. It was just a way of life for them;
if you had a setback, you just picked up the pieces and started all over
again. You're probably wondering why I have mentioned only my grandparents and not my parents. Well, my grandmother settled in Shanghai, as I
told you earlier, and my mother had grown up there. She was a rather attractive woman as you saw from some of the photographs I showed you. She
was a very vibrant, party-type girl, also extremely attractive and was engaged
to a nice young Russian man in Shanghai when my father came along. He
had been a friend of the family. He knew my grandmother; actually, he was
her contemporary. When he finally met my mother as a grown woman, he
fell in love with her, swept her off her feet, and married her. My father was
a sea captain, was born in Brooklyn, and was of Swedish and Danish descent. He was also very adventurous. He decided in 1939 to outfit a fifty-foot
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Q.
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Chinese junk and sail across the Pacific with my mother and a crew of five
Scandinavian seamen. My grandmother would not hear of them taking me
along on a trip; I wasn't quite two years old. It was a wise decision on my
grandmother's part. I'm sure my mother concurred, for a two year old
would not have survived that trip. It took the fifty-foot junk 113 days to
cross the Pacific; and although my father was a very skilled seaman, an excellent navigator, and a good skipper, a lot of things did go wrong. They ran
out of food and water; and just in the nick of time, as in all good
melodramas, they were rescued at sea by a large passenger ship that sighted
them, and filled their barrels full with fresh water and supplies. Fortunately,
they did not have to eat the cat and dog that were on board the junk. They
continued their journey across the Pacific and ended up on the rocks off the
coast of British Columbia, Canada. That was a thousand miles off course.
They had planned to land in San Francisco for the 1939 World's Fair (the
San Francisco Exposition) and exhibit the junk. To make a long story short,
the junk was being towed to a port north of Seattle, Quatsino, for repairs;
she was so badly damaged she started to sink. They had to cut the lines and
she went down. They never got her to San Francisco. My parents settled in
Seattle with all the intentions of sending for me but the war broke out in full
swing in 1941. So that was the end of any efforts to get me here to the
States.
At this point you were still living in Shanghai with your grandparents. What
was happening to your life while your parents were in the U.S.?
While my parents were here in the States, life continued for us in Shanghai.
The war years came and went. My grandparents survived the two and a half
years in the camps. They came back to Shanghai and rebuilt their business.
By this time, when things were going well - I was about ten years old and my grandparents decided that I had to start school someday. I hadn't
been in a formal classroom setting at all up to this point. They decided to
send me to Hong Kong to the same boarding school that my mother had attended. There was another reason for sending me out of Shanghai. It was
1947, the year of the Chinese Communist take-over. My grandparents were,
again, on the verge of losing their businesses- everything they had worked
for. The most important factor, of course, was that I could not prove my
American citizenship. Although my father was an American citizen, he could
not prove his citizenship because there were no birth records. So without
proof of citizenship that would make me Chinese by birth and unless I got
out of the country at that point, I would, no doubt, have had to stay. My
grandparents sent me to Hong Kong for two years but at that time it was an
indefinite stay because they did not know how long all the red tape and
paperwork would take in order to send me to my parents here in the States. I
had not seen my parents since they left for that trip in 1939 which made it
about ten years altogether that I hadn't seen them. I spent two years in the
boarding school in Hong Kong when finally all the paperwork was squared
away. I boarded a plane and came to the States. I met my parents for the
first time, as well as my two younger sisters who were born here.
After the Japanese retreated, I take it that your grandparents just picked up
where they had left off?
That's right. They reopened their businesses and our home. My grandmother
had her business on the third floor, although not to the extent that she had it
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before the war. She became more the hostess, the social person, helping my
grandfather with his business. In 1947, when the Chinese C~mmun_ist~took
over, they sent me to boarding school and they continued with the~r ltfe. In
conversations .with my grandfather, I underst<;>odthat he never beh~ved that
the Communists would take everything away m the '!'ay that they did. H~
kept running the business for another two years until he came to the realization that the Communists were not going to let them continue the way that
they had. The Chinese Communists wanted China for the Chinese and they
wanted all the foreigners out. My grandparents managed to take so_meof
their belongings, none of their cash or the mo!ley that they owned m t~e
business. They soon realized they were not gomg to be _ableto take thei_r
business out of China. Their first stop, on their long tn~ to settle her~ m the
States, was in Thailand. They lived there for a short while. ~.fter Thai)a!l:d
they made their way to Australia. I know my gran~mother did some civic
work by exhibiting the costumes that she had acquired and collected over the
years. I don't know what my grandfat~e~ di~ at that ti~e. I had lost touch
with him. I was already in the States, hvmg m Seattle with my par~nts and I
corresponded very rarely with them. I jus! lost touch. After spending about
five years in Australia, they finally made 1t to the west coast of Canada_ and
settled in Vancouver, British Columbia. That was when I_saw them agam
after six or seven years. When they had sent me to board1~g school_at the
age of ten, that was the last time that I had seen them until I was sixteen. I
was in high school here in the States and had bec<;>1!1e
thoroug~ly
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Americanized. I took a bus trip to Vancouver, Bntlsh Columbia, and v1s~ted.
them. They had settled in an old farmhouse which they had purchased, sight
unseen, while they were still in Australia, little realizing th~t the farmhouse
basement flooded everytime the river rose. But they loved it. My grandmother thought she was a real lady of leisure again, living out on her estat~.
She always had a way of seeing things through rosy-colored glasses. They hved there for a while in the meantime, working on plans to come to the
States to live in San' Francisco where my aunt had settled. Things were really
very difficult for them after leaving China because their whole lifestyle had
changed. They no longer had servants, which was something they wer_e_very
used to. They were used to hiring people, commanding people, orgamzm~
things and now they were just ordinary, hard-working people. It was a_b!g
come-down for my grandmother. I don't know whether s~e had an)'. difficulty in accepting it. Today at the age of 91, a lot <;>fmemories are f3:dmg for
her. Things seem different. She changes the stones and she embellishes them,
but she likes to remember all the good times.
Q. Did her last husband pass away?
A. Yes, my grandfather died about 15 years ago. They were living in San Francisco at the time. He went out to the corner store and never came back. He
had a heart attack right there on the street. He went very quick!~. The
neighbors came upstairs and told my grandmother that he had died. They
had a very good life together for many, many years. They went through bad
years and good years. They had an indomitable spirit that no one could get
down not the loss to the Japanese, not the Chinese Communists, not the
adver;ity of the modem life which they tried very hard to adjust to.
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�Why I Want A Husband - Or Do I?
by Denise Zawada
Why I want a husband? Often, I ask myself this question. So, I will attempt to
verify my qualifications for a husband and exemplify a husband's "finer qualities."
I'll show how a husband and wife can share, enjoy life together, and offer proof of
why it's great to "have a man around the house." After all, they're so helpful with
their thoughts and deeds.
To begin, I want a husband so that I can share my time with someone. After all, I
have so much time to spare. I want someone who will add a variety of stimulations to
my existence (added work, more wash, etc.). I want a husband who will share my bed
- including both of my pillows, my half of the bed and my half of the sheets. I want
a husband who'll let me get up early so that I can prepare his breakfast, make his
coffee, pack his lunch and send him off - mind ypu on time and if he's late, of
course, it will be my fault. I want a husband who will let me do these things for him
so that I can start my day off right - with more work - and then let me go to my
other job, the office. I want a husband so that I can constantly have more work to do
- I don't need to relax.
I want a husband who says he's working overtime and then comes home early,
usually five minutes after I've arrived home, and then asks, "Why isn't dinner ready
yet?" I want a husband who will grace me with his knowledge of the culinary arts
(you know the type, a non-cooking gourmet). I want a husband who will bring joy to
the table by exclaiming that '' ... my mother makes it differently, more flavorful ... but yours is okay." I want a husband who will tell me a better way to cook and
to season, although he's never boiled an egg and doesn't even know where the silverware is.
A husband is what I want and need. You see, I need a husband to smother me with
compliments. Compliments such as "That looks awful on you! Why don't you
change" (even though he loved it on me before we were married); "Your cooking
needs refinement" (he loved it before the marriage); and other wonderful words of
praise.
I want a husband so that I can have a personal "sidewalk superintendent" to tell
me how to do everything better; after all, his way is better. I need a husband to tell
me how to clean better, how to wash better and how to shop better - how can I survive without him?
I want a husband so that I can be a sounding board for all of his troubles and his
frustrations. I want a husband who will teach me self-control by telling me not to
show my frustrations. I want a husband so that I can be a mother without the inconvenience of giving birth by being his "mother." A husband who will depend on
me to be his nurse and his maid. I want a husband so that I can prove to the world
that I have an unlimited supply of energy. This way, when I get home from work, I
can wash the clothes, vacuum, dust, and prepare. the dinner. After all, work is good,
and letting me do all of it helps to keep me in shape. After all, husbands want wives
who have good figures, particularly since theirs are nothing about which to write
home.
I want a husband because he's logical and women are not - or so I'm told. A husband who wants his house clean and his dinner on time, extra income coming in, but
doesn't want any of these things achieved on his time. He wants me to relax with
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him. I need a husband who thinks of my need for interesting hobbies which apparently is housework since that's how he feels I fulfill myself. I want a husband who
will "occasionally" perform one household chore, for which I must be eternally
grateful, stop what I'm doing and praise this major accomplishment. Because, no
matter who completes the task, the job will always have my name on it and he will
always be "helping" me.
I want a husband who wants my opinions, even though he only wants them when I
agree with him. I want a husband to provide intellectual stimulation every day of my
life. I want a husband who constantly says one thing, but means another. By doing
this, he will test my psychic prowess. I want a husband who will also test my
knowledge and skill by asking me questions and expecting me to give the right
answer - his right answer, mind you, one not necessarily to be confused with the
correct answer.
I want a husband to provide me with children so that I can have less free time. I
want a husband who will grant the responsibility for the children to me - except
when he's in the mood. I want a husband who will be a willing babysitter at all times,
and who promises to tend to their needs until they cry. Then, he will graciously send
me "my children."
I want a husband who will expect me to wait on him hand and foot, This way, if
we need extra money, I've already been trained as a maid and a waitress. I want a
husband who will teach me the vah.1eof money - that money is useful for savings
and investments, but not for spending. I want a husband who will show me that my
need to spend money is wasteful, that the only important things are food and things
that are useful to him. After all, husband works so ... hard.
And, I want a husband who will fulfill me in every way imaginable.
The big question is: "What did I do before I had a husband? How did I survive?"
From what I can recall - not too badly! So, to answer my question as to "Why I
Want A Husband - Or Do I?", I thing I can safely answer, "No, who would?"
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33
�Two Hours in the Life of Carol Chouinard
I reach forward and turn the large stainless steel knob which projects from the
gold colored tiles on the wall. The water from the shower head shifts to the faucet
below. I then grasp the knob to the left which is etched with the capital Jetter H. Giving it a sharp twist, I shut off the supply of hot water, leaving a stream of cold water
to splash down on my feet. Taking a step backwards, I quickly cut off the remaining
flow. The bathtub drain gurgles and burps as it sucks the small whirlpool of shallow
water through its tiny round holes.
Grabbing an edge of the plastic shower curtain, I push it to one side. I stare at the
empty towel rack on the wall across from me. Shit, why didn't anyone else ever
remember to put the towels back; why didn't I remember to check before I got into
the shower?
I soon become aware of the chilly morning air. Shivering, I step out of the tub onto the cold tile floor and tip-toe to the door. As I grasp the shiny brass knob, I inhale
deeply, and holding my breath, I brace myself against the rush of icy air which seems
to burst in and engulf my wet body, as I push open the door. Sheeit!
I call to my daught'er, "Marie, honey." I know she is awake. She is always the first
one up. Some little internal alarm clock goes off in her head every morning around 6
o'clock and it's not long after that, she's up and about, getting ready for school.
Receiving no answer, I call to her again, "Ma-riee-a." No answer. I take a deep
breath and force the sound from my throat in a loud ear-piercing screech, "Maaarieee-aaa !"
"Yeah, Mom?" I hear her reply come from the kitchen downstairs and at the
same time notice the clinking sound of her spoon against her cereal bowl.
I make my request, "Marie, could you please come upstairs for a minute and get a
towel out of the hall closet for me?"
There is a brief pause and then the drawn out answer, "Oooh-kaaay." There is
another pause before I hear the chair scrape against the linoleum floor. I listen to
Marie's slow and deliberate footsteps on the wooden stairs. The beads of water are
quickly evaporating from my flesh leaving tiny goose pimples in their place. Geezus!
I wish she would hurry up! I am most uncomfortable, standing wet and naked in the
crisp morning air.
Finally, I hear the tap-tap-tap on the hollow wooden door. I stick my arm out
through a crack in the portal and Marie shoves the fluffy terry cloth into my hand.
"Thank yooo," I call out through the crack. I blot the remaining droplets from my
skin and wrap the towel around my torso, tucking one corner in under my arm.
I turn toward the sink and face the mirrored cabinet on the wall. Grabbing a
tissue, I wipe the thin film of fog from the glass, leaving particles of yellow paper
among the streaks. I study the reflection, feeling as if I am looking at a stranger. I
frown at the woman in the glass. God, am I really that old? Is that a new wrinkle?
Ugh! What a horrible complexion! I grip the corner of the mirror and yank the
cabinet open. On the second shelf, easily accessible, is a square glass bottle with a
black, plastic cap. Inside the bottle is a creamy, pink fluid. I apply this fluid liberally
while trying to convince myself that this ritual will stave. off any more of the epidermal creases.
After replacing the bottle and closing the cabinet, I pick up my toothbrush and
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resolve not to look back into the mirror. I pick up the multi-colored tube from the
counter top and squeeze out a glob of blue paste onto the worn plastic bristles. I
shove the toothbrush into my mouth between my cheeks and my teeth, and proceed
with the next ritual, jerking the implement up and down, up and down across the
small enamel proJections. Turning on the cold water, I cup my right hand under the
faucet, Jean forward over the basin and scoop the water into my mouth. After
swishing the water back and forth between my cheeks and over my gums, I spit and
then repeat the process.
There is the hollow knocking at the door again and I listen for the familiar
whimper, "I gotta go to the baff-room." I open the door and admit my five-year-old
son, Jamie. His eyes are half-closed and still puffy with sleep. His blanket-sleeper is
already unzipped to the knee as he shuffles past me toward the toilet. I pick up my
watch from beside the sink and leave the steamy room.
I proceed down the hall toward my bedroom, stopping to poke my head in the
doorway to my boys' bedroom. I blink my eyes hard, half wishing that the chaos
before me would come to order. I rap on the wall with my fist and call, in that same
annoying tone of voice my mother used to use, "Rise and shine! Bright eyes and
bushy tails!" Why do I do that? I hate myself for it, even as the words leave my
mouth. John stirs, slightly, beneath the neatly draped covers. John, straight as a
board, the child barely moves in his sleep. You could mistake him for dead.
B.J. sleeps in the bed next to John, at least I think he's there. I really can't be sure,
however, for his covers are jammed into a heap in one corner and there is a stuffed
dog, a stuffed bear and a huge E.T. doll among a scattering of playing cards across
the mattress. But he's probably under that mess somewhere. "Let's go boys!" I call
into the pit. I dare not enter for fear of getting tangled in the disarray of clothing and
toys strewn across the floor. There is a moan from the corner, the heap seems to
grow and a moment later the tousled blond head of my son emerges. Satisfied that
there is life in this remote corner of the universe, I proceed, once again, to my room.
I realize, however, that I am being followed, for I can hear the shuffle of little feet
behind me. I do not stop, but continue down my path.
Richard, my husband, is lying on his stomach with his head half-buried in his
pillow. I wonder how he can breathe like that. I sit on the edge of the bed and bounce
up and down, not hard, just a little, so as to jiggle him awake. "Rich, time to get
up." Richard moans. "Are you awake? Richard, are you awake?" I know he's
awake, but I have to get it verified in case he goes back to sleep. Otherwise, I will be
blamed for not waking him up.
"Yeah, I'm awake."
I strap on the cheap digital watch tharl wear every day and read the time out loud,
"It's 7:35 Rich; O.K.?"
"Yeah, O.K."
I am satisfied. I have done my duty. He is awake. He has said so. The rest is up to
him.
Jamie shuffles up and plunks his head in my lap. I brush his soft wispy hair from
his eyes with my finger tips.
"How about some breakfast, Pumpkin?"
Jamie rubs his eyes with his tiny fist and stands erect. He yawns and stretches his
arms upward. He nods his head up and down, "O.K."
As I lead Jamie to the door, I call to his sister, "Marie, fix some breakfast for
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�Jamie, will you?" Jamie shuffles down the corridor.
Before I turn back into my room, I see John step into the hall. "Mom, did you
wash my white shirt? Today is assembly day."
"Yes John, it's in the dryer." A curse on the principal of John's school for making them wear white shirts and ties on assembly days. The kid owns one white shirt
and I always forget to wash it until the night before when he reminds me on his way
to bed.
"Don't forget, I have assembly tomorrow." Which means, "Did you wash my
white shirt?" I'm just going to have to go out and buy more white shirts for the kid,
that's all there is to it.
I shuffle through the clothing closet, knowing each item by heart yet still expecting
something new to pop up. I finally resign myself to wear my black skirt and my oversized striped blouse. That's 0.K. because they're my favorites anyway.
Now I must find a pair of nylons without runs. I rummage through my dresser and
pull out my undergarments. I pull on my underwear. I am very cautious with the
hosiery, removing my small emerald ring before sliding my fist into the leg. Carefully, I gather up the nylon into the other hand until I have both the waist band and the
ankle in my grip. Slowly, I slide my foot into place and pull the stocking half way up
my calf. I use the same caution with the other leg and then carefully tug the pantyhose up, a little at a time, until it is snug around my waist. Now, I place my hands
at my ankles and run them up each leg. smoothing out the silky material. Good, I've
done it without a snag. Now to put my feet into some shoes before I catch my toes on
something and poke a hole in them.
But what shoes should I wear? The black pumps would go best but they pinch my
feet. I consider the fact that I am taking the train and the bus to school today. I will
have to walk three blocks to the train station and two blocks from the bus stop. Actually, it's not really far unless there's freezing rain or snow outside or un_lessyour
shoes are too tight. I decide on my old. worn, white pumps. I shrug, knowmg that I
am not one who will often give up comfort for style. Oh well.
"Richard, get up!" I call over my shoulder as I leave the room. On my way to the
stairs, I stop again, outside of the boys' room. B.J. is sitting in a slouched position,
on the edge of his bed. He seems to be staring, without seeing, at the wall in front of
him. I say his name and the sound of my voice seems to snap him out of his daze.
"Are you getting ready for school?" I ask. Obviously, he is not. He is daydreaming
again.
"Yeah, Mom. Oh, Mom?"
"Yes?"
"Do you know where my sweats are? I have gym today." It seems like he has gym
every day.
"Did you check in your dresser drawers?"
"Uh, No. I mean, not yet."
"Check."
On my way down the stairs, I hear John calling me from the basement, "Mom,
this shirt is wrinkled. Can you press it?"
"Plug in the iron," I call back.
I step into the kitchen, take a deep breath and sigh. There are last night's dinner
dishes which Richard was supposed to put in the dishwasher. That is his chore. We
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all have our chores. If the family did not share the household chores, I would go insane trying to keep up with them and my school work. not to mention helpi11£the
children with their studies and tutoring my college friend, Margaret. I mean, I'm not
even talking about all the errands that have to be run, costumes for school plays
which must be made, meeetings with teachers, appointments with dentists ... That
reminds me, the boys have a dental appointment today after school. Anyhow, I can't
do it all, can I? I tell myself I must not feel guilty. After all, I'm a liberated woman,
aren't I? I feel guilty anyway.
I open the dishwasher and pull out the bottom rack. I pick up a plate from one of
the stacks. They have not been rinsed and the tomato sauce has dried into a thin
crust across its diameter. Bits of petrified pasta have adhered to the plate. The plates
should be soaked but there's no time, so I place them in between the rubber-coated
prongs of the dishwasher, lining them up on their sides as compactly as possible.
There is a residue of oil and vinegar on the salad bowl. The bowl slips from my grip
when I pick it up and crashes into the drinking glasses which fill the sink. "Damn
it!" I swear out loud.
Marie calls her concern from the living room. "You O.K., Mom?"
"Yeah, just fine," I reply through gritted teeth as I pick pieces of broken glass
from the sink.
Jamie shuffles in, "What happened, Mommy?" I shoo him out again, afraid that
he will somehow get cut on the shards.
As I finished loading the dishwasher, cramming every last knife, fork and spoon
in, Marie pops her head in around the corner, "Bye, Mom, gotta go."
"Have a good day," I wish her as I glance at the digits on my wrist.
8:05, better get moving. I head for the stairs but Marie has come back in and she
cuts me off in my path. "Oh yeah, Mom, I forgot, lunch money." I make a detour
into the living room and grab my pocketbook off my desk. Shoving my hand inside,
I rummage past envelopes and coupons, checkbook and calculator. I find my wallet
at the bottom. I count out seven singles in all and hand three bills over to Marie,
shoving the remaining four back into my purse. "I still need a quarter," she complains.
"Check my change purse in my coat pocket," I tell her as I turn toward the stairs
again.
John looks up from the t.v., catching me before I make the first step, "Mom, are
·you gonna iron my shirt?" I bite my lip and try to swallow my panic as I rush to the
ironing table. I lay the white shirt down and smooth it out with the palm of my hand.
Taking the nearby spray bottle, I aim it at the shirt and give a quick squeeze on the
trigger. A mist of water sprinkles onto the shirt. The iron is hot and steam rises off
the white cotton cloth as I press the creases out.
Suddenly, Richard is behind me, "Can you hurry up, please," he pleads, "I have
to iron this shirt and I'm running late!"
"So, who's not?" I reply without sympathy. I feel as if I have been accused
because I do not press his shirts for him. Don't feel guilty! I feel guilty anyway.
I throw the shirt to John then bound up the stairs, taking them two at a time. I run
into B.J. who is coming out of his room. "Mom, do you know where my sneakers
are?" he asks.
"I don't wear them, B.J."
I brush past him and drop to my knees in front of Jamie's dresser. Yankin~ out the
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�bottom drawer, I reach in and grab a pair of corduroy overalls and a pullover shirt.
From his top drawer I pull out a pair of cotton briefs and a T-shirt. I glance at my
watch; it is 8:20 and I start making a mental list of the day's itinerary: Train station-8:55; Drop Jamie off at day care-9:40; Astronomy-10:00 ... Where are
Jamie's sneakers? There they are, under the bed ... Tutor Margaret-12:00;
English- I :00; Dentist appointment-3: 15.
Richard calls up the stairway sending his goodbye and wishing me a good day. I
send back my love as I scurry down the steps. The boys are on their way out of the
door and are bidding me farewell. "Boys, don't forget your dentist appointment
after school today, so, be home on time!" I call after them. The door slams shut
before I have a chance to say goodbye.
Jamie sits on the floor, mesmerized by the silly cartoon antics which illuminate the
t.v. screen. I grab him around the waist and pull him to his feet. He turns his attention to me and notes the stern expression on my face. "Are we late again, Mommy?"
he asks.
"Afraid so Pumpkin. C'mon, help Mommy now." I strip off his pajamas and
underwear and hand him the fresh garments. "Quickly, Honey, put these on."
Jamie fumbles with the clothing but manages to pull on his underwear and socks
while I gather up my text books for today's classes, and stuff them into my book
bag. I take his shirt and pants and practically shove him into them. I secure the small
metal clasp over the brass buttons of his overalls. I check my watch-8:35. It is times
like this, I know I must believe in God, for I always say a little prayer, "God help us,
please."
I stuff his feet into the empty sneakers and tie the laces. It is amazing how fast
your fingers can work at looping and wrapping two ends of string into an intertwining pattern that will secure a shoe so firm and snug about a foot. Done!
Jamie is in step with me now and he runs to get his coat as I shrug my shoulders into my own jacket. I hike the strap of the weighted book bag onto my shoulder, pick
up my purse and once more check the time. It is 8:42. We can make it. It is a tenminute walk to the train station (You can't run with a five-year-old in tow.) if you
cut through the lot behind the Masons' Temple and use the back steps to the platform. O.K., Jet's go. Jamie grabs his toy puppy in one hand and I clasp his other
hand in mine. We step out into the chilly morning air and I slam the door shut
behind us.
Carol Chouinard
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�EDITORIAL
Dear Readers,
Thanks for waiting patiently for the new edition of our
magazine.
As you probably know, ALL WAYS A WOMAN
focuses on the contemporary woman and her world.
This fifth edition gives unique insight from writers old
and new.
I hope you will enjoy reading their work as much. as I
did.
To those who have contributed both time and money,
my deepest appreciation.
Gloria Medina,
Editor
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�TABLE OF CONTENTS
For the first time, ALL WAYS A WOMAN comes to
you under the auspices of the Women's Studies Program at
The College of Staten Island.
The first two editions of ALL WAYS A WOMAN were
funded by a New York State HEA Title I grant awarded to
Virginia Hauer of the Internship Program.
Editorial ......................................................................
Acknowledgements .............................................................
p.1
p.2
POETRY
LYNDA BLUM
1 Ate Bread on Passover ......................................................
Excuses ...................................................................
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CONNIE CAPITANO
Crossing ....................................................................
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DONNA DECKER
The third, fourth and fifth editions of ALL WAYS A
WOMAN have been funded by The Student Government
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Dowry ......................................................................
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HELEN DECKER
Apollinaire ..................................................................
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H. PATTERSON
Aboard the Liberated Lady ...................................................
The Subversionist ...........................................................
The Artist and the Poet. .....................................................
Poet's Essay on the Artist and the Poet. .......................................
Soliloquy on Leaving Staten Island
in Order to Live Near My Grandchildren
in the Mid-West. ..........................................................
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p.11
p.12
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V.A. PISARIK
Wanton Lovers .............................................................
Copyright © 1984 by ALL WAYS A WOMAN, The College of Staten
Island. All rights reserved; no reproduction without the permission and
written consent of the contributors.
Faculty Adviser: Professor Jo Gillikin
Editor: Gloria Medina
Editorial Assistant: H. Patterson
Cover: Yvette Mandel
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Vol. V, 1984
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BETH C. SOLOMAN
Jane Eyre ..................................................................
p.17
SHORT STORIES
CHRISTINE CEA
Inner Conflicts ..............................................................
PAT KOCHANSKI
German Sunset ..............................................................
p.20
ESSAYS
CAMILLE GATINS
A Feminist View of Anorexia Nervosa ..........................................
p.22
GLORIA MEDINA
Marilyn Monroe: Madonna-Whore Image ........................
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LOUISE K. POLLOCK
The Psychological Effect of Sex-Role
Stereotyping on Females ....................................................
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�I Ate Bread on Passover
Not just one piece, Lord. Four bread sticks
with butter. And two rolls.
(The service was slow)
Sir, I did worse. Worse than that.
Went to a church wedding.
Read from the New Testament.
Corinthians 13 (It's about love, Sir)
But that's not all. You know the part
where it says ... "but when I became
a man, I put away
childish things ... "
Sir, I don't know what
got into me.
I changed the words.
Yes. I did.
I said "woman" Sir.
I said woman instead of man.
The minister
stopped the service.
He had to, Lord.
I know and I don't
blame him.
The thing is
my sister-in-law
ended up
in the hospital.
As she was rising
to throw her bouquet
in my face
her heel
caught in her gown.
She broke her ankle.
Jews always manage
to make a mess of things.
Don't they, Lord?
Lynda Blum
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�Excuses
CROSSING
In my day
we didn't have
PMS
We were called
Bitch
As in:
Leave the bitch alone.
What a bitch!
You're acting bitchy.
Bitch in heat.
Look at that bitch
wiggle her ass.
That girl is some bitch.
Now we're fancy
Men take us
more seriously
As in:
"I'll cook supper, honey."
Meaning:
I'd better stay away
from her cause that bitch
could kill me
and
get away with it!
Wooden boat
So open, so wide,
Cross me.
Gather me
Fuel me
Shelter me.
Sure, safe passages of long ago come
Anchored by love
I'll go willingly"to that
Other shore
Take the now feeble fears
And pristine pride
Cross me to the other side.
Connie Donlin Capitano
Lynda Blum
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�Picasso's Painting of Apollinaire
For Herb Leibowitz
Dowry
"Keep your head aerated like Apollinaire."
-Herb Leibowitz
"Fatal burning of brides as a result of their dowry problems ~ave rea~hed an
epidemic proportion in India, with Delhi now averaging one bnde-burnmg case
every 12 hours." - N.Y. Times Nov. 13, 1983
There are no buildings tall enough to throw oneself off in the villages of
India, so the women use what's handy. The oil that they cook with to
feed their husbands, will feed the flames that devour themselves.
On the stretched canopy, Khrisna lounges. Five of his 16,000 wives surround him, feeding him, massaging his back and feet. Khrisna's wrists
and ankles are jewelled and his flute lies beside him. On the green and
white cotton, he weaves his magic around his women. They are stunned
into serving this master. They are stitched here and cannot lea~e. Ea~h
one would thankfully immolate herself for her lord of love. Khnsna will
not have to wife-hunt like the village men for a richer woman; he will
just take the next in line.
No guns in Indian villages, no traffic to step into, poisons - too
sophisticated, no garages to fill with carbon monoxide, ove_nsare not
supplied with gas; so the Duhita -:---the daug,hters'. _new_bndes c~lled
milkers - ashamed of milking their husbands fam1hes will sometimes
tie a rope around their necks, tie the end to a tall tree and will jump off a
high branch. The cooking oil is more convenient
She delicately spreads it on her arms, legs and face, rubbing it into
her skin, pouring it in a ring around her, while he avoids her eye~,
strikes the match and lights his wife. As the flames grasp the air
and her cries subside, she is already being replaced at a higher
price. The result of a cooking accident.
Kali, wife of Shiva, the Destroyer beckons. Her ten graceful arms
welcome these spirits.
Kali, form of Durga, women's nature, add an extra human head
on your necklace garland, your mundamala, for each burned
wife.
Kali, the goddess of positive destruction, will see to it that on the
next turn of the wheel these spirits will return richer or as men.
Donna Decker
"The gypsy knew it all along-"*
She sang it in her nightly songs-and
rituals.
His head was painted with strands of hair that went up and down with spaces in between.
The limitlessthe immortal second chance.
He would always answer you directly with the precise invitation that he could change
his mind at any minute because his head reached high.
The sky.
Perhaps if you looked up from the inside of his feet you'd see the moonthe sun frying eggsremembrance of perhaps something funnybut a whole flock of birds might fly by or a tall oak tree's leaves bend or hurricane
rainsbut anything happening outside
you'd be able to reach
from inside his head
because there were no limitsno doors locked on the scientific theory that the world born of gas
would someday (new theory)-die of sinor psychological warheads were hidden 50 miles away & red danger alerts could protest present relationships
no questions were answered because he found the right book or personNo.
Apollinaire lived up through the sky
and kept his head as wide as mountain ranges
and the sky kept pockets for its alibis of seasons.
"Limitless," the gypsy cried,
her crystal ball
was one part sky.
Helen Decker
*LaTzigane
Translated by Meredith
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�ABOARD the "Liberated Lady"
I am not here for pleasure.
Ignoring S.O.S.'d distress
I stand upon the dock of all desire
· Impregnable behind my heaving hull
Stock still inside a scarlet slicker
Athwart the steady rain, the scowling sky
Bing proud pleading into every face
Passing aboard my ship of schemes
Answered by askance, averted eyes.
An Admiral assumes command:
"The Order of The Day
- is Truth$"
She speaks in thunder ...
then comes the whispered WORD:
"She's only mad.
Signed, Sealed, Delivered" - up.
"Certified Insane" - by common cry.
THE SUBVERSIONIST
(A BALL-BREAKER)
Men have
awfully loud voices Their balls are always
banging in my ears.
As if that weren't bad enough they bombed my Mona Lisa
smile.
"We don't tolerate
insolence in women"
they shouted
at me.
"But it was a man
who painted that smile
on my face''
- pleading.
THE JUDGEMENT: - handed down "That man's been dead
a thousand years - You
have nothing left to smile for".
Sigh relief.
Shrug shoulder.
Echo feral laughter. Fade.
My sinking ship sails south.
This bloodied scow lists to beneath gray heaven.
The burial takes place at sea
And here at home.
ET VERBUM VERO FACTUM EST
- So I don't.
but my ears
are very sharp. inside.
(July the Fourth still happens every year
But August Twenty Sixth is cancelled.)
H. PATTERSON
H.PATTERSON
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�THE ARTIST AND THE POET
(On Viewing The Work of Joseph A. Smith)
The Artist
took his pencil in his hand and
looked down deep inside himself then
drew a sheep a teatless ewe
standing on the tainted plains of Utah
one head raised and screaming
screaming at the empty sky one
head low to grieve its lamb where
it lay slain while the
congregation fawning on the
artist glowing artist were
amused because the poet asked him why
he drew me as he drew me
screaming teatless underneath
his inner eye but
The Poet she knows why
The Artist
took his pencil in his hand and
drew a hag a Baba Yaga
in her cauldron her gray cauldron
flying out across a starry sky
with your wailing weeping infant
with your sobbing bleating baby
but that lamb was even mine and
that hag was even I did the
artist know he drew me
drew me cackling in my cauldron
whirling wild across the midnite sky
as he drew me as he drew me
drew the witchy woman poet and
The Poet she knows why
The Artist
took his ink pen in his hand and
he drew me as he saw me
gray and old and fat and ugly
flaps of flesh that hung down from me
baggy breasts and bloated belly
crumpled visage named m1cSuzy gave
me nothing no expression
drew me naked as he saw me sitting
bare a baleful gadfly on the surface
of the landscape in his eye
drew me there for all to see me with
out mercy as I rankled in his eye
as he drew me as he drew me
as I goad him with my why ...
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Essay on "The Artist and the Poet"
by H. Patterson
A few years ago, while browsing through the Doubleday Book Store in Manhattan, my eye fell upon Erica Jong's latest book, WITCHES. However, it was the illustrations which really attracted me into spending the enormous sum of $25 to carry
the book home. As luck would have it, just a couple of weeks later, the artistillustrator, Joseph A. Smith, appeared personally at an exhibit of his work right here
on S.l., at Sailor's Snug Harbor. Naturally, I attended. In fact, I went back several
times after that initial visit, so fascinated was I by the man and his work, as well as
the subject of the book. Being a Feminist and having recently read the minutes of the
Salem witch trials, I found myself understanding more than Mr. Smith ever intended
to reveal of himself and his subconscious view of women. Then, something began to
happen to me, in relation to the drawings and paintings I was seeing. I began to be
subjectively drawn into them, as if they were drawings of me, so that I was seeing
myself as, I felt, the artist must see me, perhaps as all men must see me, as they see all
aging women, not as we are, but as witches: the ugly, aging external internalized so
that what we, I, really am, the person I had always been, did not exist for them .... It
was a horrifying realization, but it caused me to write the attached poem in an effort
to describe and so understand what I had experienced.
The three stanzas of the poem are three word pictures describing the works that
made the strongest impressions on me. The first stanza also incorporates an incident
that passed between myself and Mr. Smith as he led his small audience on a tour of
the gallery. It took place before a large black and white internal-external pencil
drawing of a two-headed sheep, which he was telling us he had conceived years
before on reading of the deaths of large numbers of livestock in Utah after the U.S.
government had been testing nerve gas in the area. As he talked, I suddenly realized
that the sheep, which he described as an ewe mourning its dead lamb, had no teats,
and I realized that this sensitive, politically aware, artist, had overlooked a biological
fact of life as of no importance. When I commented on his oversight that was exactly
what he said. "I didn't think it was important." And the other viewers present were
amused, but I felt just as I had many times when reading or listening to a lecture or
sermon and hearing people, men and women, referred to as "HE" .... Only this time
it was so graphic, and still no one thought it important.. .. I thought that if the sheep
he was bemoaning in his work were here and able to articulate, she would think it important.. .. And so in this stanza, I speak for her and for myself (who once fed my
own infants from my breasts) and for all women and mothers ....
The second stanza describes one of the more beautiful colored illustrations in
WITCHES, the Baba Yaga or Russian baby-stealing witch, and, again, looking at it
became a very subjective experience for me, for I had recently had a beloved fosterchild taken from me by parents I knew would not and could not care properly for
him. But I had been deemed too old to raise a little boy and made to feel like a witch
and a thief for trying to keep him, even though it was conceded that his survival had
been in considerable doubt at the time I took him and he was a plump, gurgling boychild when I lost him. I have several friends and acquaintances who have had similar
experiences and conclude it is a fate shared by many older women, through the ages,
and no doubt it is this very real phenomenon which gave rise to the myth of the Baba
Yaga in Russia and other versions of her in other countries, which are used to
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�frighten little children to this day. Grimm's HANSEL and GRETEL is another that
comes to mind .... Because of our age and waning physical charms, we are alone and
unable to use the love and experience we have gained in our younger years of
childraising, and for many of us, that is the only real skill we ever learned .... So we
are wasted ...
The third and last stanza is my word-picture of a small black and white pen and
ink drawing of a fat, naked, middle-aged woman sitting on a wooden chair. There
was no discussion of this drawing; the artist just passed by it as though he could not
bear to look at it once having exorcised it from his sight by drawing it. In fact, l
found it painfully self-revelatory and could scarcely bear to look at it myself. Its
deadly accuracy and the evident distaste with which it was done and viewed by its
visitors are all etched in my brain forever and internalized as both a lesson in humility and a warning never again to presume the admiration or sympathy of men as I
once so blithely could ... This is reality. This is here and now.
The three stanzas are linked together as the three drawings are linked in my mind.
The poem must be understood as surreal, just as the original drawings are, as the
whole subject of witches and their place in mythology, in the "universal unconscious" are surreal. That is, having roots in reality but being made more by having been depicted in art and poetry, which, by articulation, makes reality comprehensible, and so, perhaps, bearable.
SOLILOQUY ON LEAVING STATEN ISLAND
IN ORDER TO LIVE NEAR
MY GRANDCHILDREN IN THE MIDWEST
Barrel-rolling in the brown bay surf
of New Dorp Beach at high-tide first taste of ecstasy when I was tearing open
the gift-wrapped box of my life
gulping greedy breaths
of salt air on the edge
of this island in the city
where l was bred and born and lived
and learned to know as home for fifty years.
I have walked in the living woods
on both sides of Rockland Avenue
in all seasons of my years pedalled from the pebbled sand
on the shore of Rosebank
all the way to Tottenville
where opalescent oysters litter The Point
at the other end of Hylan Boulevard.
I grew from girlhood
watching gulls wheel over
Silver Lake and Clove
and with voyeur's delight
the mating of the hordes
of Horseshoe Crabs
on the crescent backside of Gateway Park survived the scrumptious terror of toes
nearly lost to Blueclaws in the cove
off the shoal at Great Kills...
Soon I will be
like a beached whale caught
gasping in the throes
of some primeval migration fleeing
before transplanted violence and decay
seeping inexorably across the brilliant bridge
out of the far-flung boroughs
of this most fabled of all the fabled cities of the east.
(Continued on next page)
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�(Continued from preceding page)
There are small mirrors of my face
reflected in sunsetsoft voices breathing with my breath
on the wind that blows from the west children of the child of my heart.
JANE EYRE
How could I not answer
that imperative of progeny?
So am I culled
from cradle of ocean and bay
to those wide fertile fields
where lies cradled all I dreamed
when I lay dreaming long ago
on the swollen sunlit bosom
of an exile-spawning island.
SHE WAS NOT AT ALL BEAUTIFUL
SHE WAS PLAIN AND HUMBLE
GREW UP IN MISERY, TORMENT, AND
POVERTY
HATED,HATED,HATED
H.PATTERSON
Wanton Lovers
you inspire me to love you
as wanton dogs yearn in primal innocence
to copulate at intersections
amidst the blaring of horns
and the snide jeers of those
who simply do not understand
their illicit passions because lovers
cannot comprehend the warnings of STOP signs.
HE CAME
MOODY, IRRITABLE, AND QUITE UGLY
BUT HARDLY A FOOL
TROUBLES,TROUBLES,TROUBLES
HE HAD NEVER KNOWN SUCH JOY
BEFORE SHE CAME
SHE CARED FOR HIM WHILE HE WAS
SICK AND HURT
ALL BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN HIS PASTNEVER TREATED
HIM WITH SUCH
KINDNESS
SHE, PLAIN AND HUMBLE
HE MOODY AND UGLY
HE GENTLY TOUCHED HER SKIN
FELT HER HAIR
AND THEY MET IN AN IMPULSIVE
LOVING EMBRACE
'
A RELATIONSHIP TO LAST FOREVER
V. A. Pisarik
Beth C. Solomon
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�INNER CONFLICTS
by Christine Cea
Elizabeth sat near the window with her mending. The room was bright with the
October sun. She put her head back and closed her eyes for a moment allowing
herself to be bathed in its warmth. She was a pretty woman, with long dark hair and
large green eyes which lacked their usual sparkle these days. Her faded cotton dress
pulled across her swelling stomach. How weary I am, she thought, how tired. Too
many things to be done, too many chores, and now another child on the way. I don't
know how I'll manage, the twins are a handful and three-year-old Amanda still a
baby herself.
· From where she sat, Elizabeth caught a glimpse of little Amanda running toward
the swing that James had made when the twins were small. Her dark curls were
bouncing as she ran, her chubby cheeks rosy from the crisp fall air. How happy she
is, thought Elizabeth, and vowed to keep her that way. She shall marry a man of
means someday. I will see to it. She will not become a farmer's wife as did her
mother and grandmother.
Elizabeth thought about her parents. She had always wanted more than they had
had. They worked from·dawn to dusk, just as she and James do now, to scarcely get
by. Although they didn't have much, James and Elizabeth were at least as comfortable as the other farmers in Highbridge. There was food enough to eat and the
children had shoes to wear. Tired, she thought, I'm as tired as mother used to be.
How I wish I lived in one of the mansions on the hill instead of the modest farmhouse James built for us on the land my father gave to him when we were married,
and I came along with the deal. Perhaps I could have lived as well as gentry, she
thought, if only my father had allowed me to choose on my own. I knew mother had
plans of a better life for me. She taught me to read, just as her mother had taught
her. I can still hear her voice saying, "Books will take you to places outside of the
farm and into other people's lives." Father had other plans, however, and he made
all the arrangements. I was to marry the Egan's boy; it was all settled. I could see the
sadness in Mamma's eyes the day I became Mrs. James Egan. Even now, twelve
years later, I still feel anger toward father.
Elizabeth put down her mending, looked outside and caught sight of James. She
felt a twinge of guilt at her disloyalty to him, if only in her thoughts. I do care for
him, she thought to herself, but ... oh I don't know, I don't know why I'm so
troubled lately. She watched James as he chopped wood for the stove and for the
warmth of herself and the children. Kind, hardworking James, he really did his best
for us, she thought. A good man he was. Why isn't that enough for me? "I'll take
care of her, Sir," he said to father the day we were married. I being only seventeen at
the time and he being twenty. He knew I was unhappy with Papa's match. "You will
not be sorry you married me I will see to it," he told me when we were alone in our
new farmhouse. Elizabeth watched him now as he brought the axe down upon the
wood again and again. James was such a strong man, she thought, but so gentle with
me and the children. Just then Amanda called to him, her swing being tangled. He
put down his axe and went to her. He was smiling.
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Elizabeth looked past them now to the road and the trees in their autumn colors.
Highbridge was such a lovely country town and Elizabeth longed to have the leisure
to enjoy its beauty. She wished she could take her morning exercise as the wealthy
women do, by walking under the trees with no particular destination in mind. She
and James passed the ladies of Green Manor yesterday while on their way to market
with the produce. They looked so lovely in their silk and lace, their skin so soft, their
hands so smooth. Elizabeth sat next to James in the wagon in her rough cotton dress
as he tipped his hat and the Brody women nodded and smiled faintly. She looked
down at her hands, rough and red from tending the garden and washing the clothes.
How I wish I had the means and leisure to just merely stroll under the trees,
Elizabeth thought to herself, for she would not s_hareher thoughts with James.
The smell of simmering stew brought her back to the present. Dinner should be
ready soon she said to herself. I wonder where the boys are?
If we lived on the hill, she thought, I would not have to prepare dinner. I would
not have to chop, serve or clean up either. We would all sit around the dinner table,
dressed properly, of course, and the food would be brought to us. We would have
fine china and glasses instead of wooden bowls and mugs. Everything would be proper and elegant.
Just then Elizabeth saw the boys round the bend in the road. Timothy and Charles
carried a bushel of apples between them, the results of their afternoon labor she sup,posed. They began to run when they neared the house, followed by Amanda and
James. Elizabeth rose to greet them all. The boys were laughing as they came in,
their cheeks as red as the apples they spilled all over the kitchen floor in their haste.
Giggling at themselves, they began picking them up. Elizabeth couldn't help smiling
herself. Amanda was next. "Mommy, mommy" she called, "here," and held out a
small bunch of field flowers. Elizabeth smiled again as she placed them in a cup on
the table. James came through the door rubbing his hands together. "Something
sure smells good," he said with enthusiasm as he hung his hat.
Elizabeth served the stew and sliced the warm corn bread. When she was seated,
the family joined hands while James said grace. Elizabeth sat for a while and watched her family as they ate. They were a noisy lot, the boys were teasing each other and
Amanda was trying to chime in. James was laughing. Not a dignified and proper
group at all, she thought, but wonderful just the same. Is this what life is all about,
she asked herself. At that moment, the baby kicked. Elizabeth placed her hand on
her stomach, a faint smile brightening her face. Perhaps, she thought, and vowed to
put her thoughts aside for a while.
"For dessert," she announced in a loud voice, "we have fresh picked apples."
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�German Sunset
by Pat Kochanski
From the porch I could see a storm of dust chasing his truck along the road. Momma was sitting behind me stroking old Willie on her lap.
"Momma," I said turning to her, "remember when I was little you used to tell me
that the red sky around the settin sun was Germany. And that Poppa went there
before the war?"
"Yes, I remember. That was a long time ago, Julie. Why are you thinkin about
that now?"
"Well," I said looking up at the sky, "cause it looks just like a German sunset
tonight."
The truck pulled up the dirt drive and stopped in front of the porch. Fra~k sat
there in his truck looking at Momma. And Momma sat there on the porch lookmg at
Frank. Neither one of them moving a muscle or twitching an eye. Willie jumped off
Momma's lap and started rubbing his fat back against my leg.
"Well-isn't anybody gonna say anythin or are we just gonna sit around gapin at
each other all night?"
"Now you mind your manners tonight, Julie," Momma warned, "Frank drove all
the way in from town just to see us."
"He sure as hell didn't come to see me," I said folding my arms across my chest.
"Julie, I'm askin va nice. Now you just watch your tongue and behave yaself."
Frank stepped down from the truck and w~lked back to t~e tail gate. Mol!lma
never took her eyes off him. He picked up a big box wrapped m fancy paper with a
red bow and laid it at Momma's feet.
"This here is for the two prettiest girls in Prescott," he said looking deep into
Momma's eyes. Momma just stood there staring at him. Grinning like a damn fool.
"Aren't ya gonna open it?" he asked stroking Momma's milky white arms.
"Oh, Frank. You're so ... wonderful. You're so thoughtful. Look Julie, Frank's
brought us a surprise."
"Yeah, I see it."
"Well go on woman and open it," Frank pleaded.
Momma sat on her knees and began ripping the paper from the box. Frank picked
the bow up from the dirt, dusted it off and put it in Momma's hair. She opened the
top of the box and pulled out a fan. An electric fan.
"A fan! An electric fan! Look at this Julie, we got us a real electric fan. Momma
and Frank started hugging and kissing and rubbing like they were the only two people in the whole world. I slammed the screen door behind me.
A few minutes later Momma came into the kitchen. "Would ya like an Orange
Crush, honey?" she asked opening the refrigerator door.
"I suppose he's stayin the night," I said.
"I suppose," she answered.
"You make me sick, Momma! Do you know that?"
"You keep ya voice down, Julie. Frank's right outside the door."
"I don't care. He drives in here every Friday night and stays until Sunday. Momma, can't you see he's buyin you with them Friday night presents?"
Momma set the three bottles of Orange Crush on the counter.
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"For two days out of the week that man out there reminds me that I'm alive.
Think about it, Julie.--Stop
feelin so sorry for yaself. Your Poppa ain't ever comin back. We both know that. Now I'm willin to forget how rude you've been. Frank
·wants to take us to the carnival. Why don't ya go upstairs and put on ya cotton
dress? We'll be Ieavin in a few minutes."
- "I ain't goin nowhere Momma til yo~ take.that stupid bow out of ya hair."
When I came back downstairs, Momma and Frank were sitting in the pickup
waiting for me. Momma still had that bow in her hair.
"Don't your Momma smell like magic tonight, Jewelie?" Frank asked.
"My name ain't Jewelie, it's Julie. And watch out for the cat when you back out
of the drive."
From the corner of my eye I could see Momma rubbing Frank's leg with her bare
foot. Frank had his right arm around Momma's shoulders. Every now and then,
when he thought I couldn't see, he'd give Momma's teatie a little squeeze. Now ain'.t
that enough to make you sick? I just turned my head away and let the cool breeze hit
against my face.
When we got to the carnival, Frank gave me a dollar. I was to meet them in an
hour by the pickup. I bought a Coca Cola and was standing there drinking it when
someone come up behind me and put their clammy hands over my eyes.
"Guess who?"
"You don't sound like her but ya sure smell like Bobbie Jean," I said.
"Oh Julie, you really are a dick," Mary Jo said turning red as a jelly apple." Is
that your Momma's beau I saw her with? He's very handsome."
"Yeah, I don't think he is," I said, "let's go on the ferris wheel."
"I can't," said Mary Jo, "I don't have no money for tickets."
"I do. I'll buy you some tickets, Mary Jo. Frank gave me a dollar."
"A dollar? A whole dollar?"
"Yeah, come on."
We bought the tickets and went on the ferris wheel. Mary Jo and me were rocking
the chair back and forth, scaring the hell out of each other. Then the chair stopped at
the very top.
I looked up at the sky. That German sunset was so close to me I thought I could
reach out and grab it. Just barely, I could hear Momma's laugh. I looked down ~d
saw her standing with Frank, leaning against the back of the Coke stand. The wmd
was blowing her dress and her hair was all off her face like one of them fancy girls
you see in magazines. She was just standing there, making circles with her toe _inthe
dirt. Laughing at Frank. The red sky and that red bow gave her face some kmd of
different look.
"What you lookin at Julie?"
"Shhhh, Mary Jo. Just shush."
Yeah, I looked at my Momma. And I seen she was happy. Real happy.
When we got off the ferris wheel, I gave Mary Jo some tickets and I walked over to
Momma and Frank.
"You guys wanna go in the spookhouse with me?" I asked.
"Sure," Momma said, "come on Frank, ya wanna go?"
"Sure," he said.
While we was walking I seen Frank wink at Momma. He had his arm around her
waist and it slowly moved down over her hips. When he thought I wasn't looking,
he'd give Momma's ass a little squeeze.
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�A Feminist View of Anorexia Nervosa
by Camille Gatins
Anorexia nervosa is defined as "a syndrome of self-starvation predominantly in
adolescent and young adult women. It is characterized by a relen~less pursuit of t~inness that results in life-threatening emaciation, an almost delus10nal preoccupat10n
with food and, a general withdrawal from family and friends."'
Anorexia nervosa is considered a new disease because it has been occurring at a
very rapid rate for the past fifteen to twenty years.2 But, actually _it was describe?
over a hundred years ago in Europe and was given the name anorexia nervosa by Sir
William Gull. There are also earlier references to the disease. ln 1689 Richard Morton reported a "nervous consumption". ln his observations, he described the patie~t
as "a skeleton only clad with skin". 3 Recently, this disease has drawn much pubhc
awareness and concern because of the media's attention given to it.
The object of this paper is to look at anorexia nervosa and bulimarexia, a related
illness, from a feminist point of view.
The physical symptoms of anorexia nervosa are obvious but th~ underlying fac~ors
go much deeper. The reasons why so many young girls are starving themselves mto
skinny, emaciated creatures, purposely mutilating their bodie~, are f!1UChmore complex than just the desire to be thin. Today our culture, the soc1e~yremfo:ces th~ problems of these adolescent girls and young women and helps to distort their self-image
and feeling of worth in this society.
The physical manifestations of anorexia nervosa are very dramatic and extreme.
The anorectic female deprives herself of nourishment until her body is a shapeless,
haggard form. Despite her emaciated appearance, the anorectic girl will _ne~er :eel
that she is thin enough. She will always see imaginary fat on her body. This girl hves
with the fear of getting fat or being obese and unattractive. She does not eat, but_n~t
because of lack of appetite or disinterest in food. On the contrary, the anorectic 1s
usually preoccupied with food and is constantly thinking about it, but denies herself
food as self discipline.
In addition to excessive thinness, there are other physical problems characteristic
of this disease. Menstruation stops in anorectic females. Their skin color and texture
changes, their hair and nails become dull, lifeless and britt)e and th~y grow soft bo~y
hair. Despite all these physical changes taking place, the girl s~ffenng_ from anore~1a
nervosa will refuse to see her illness and will deny that there 1s anything wrong with
her. Her distorted self-image prevents her from seeing herself as the rest of the world
sees her.
These women will go to any extremes to prevent weight gain. Not only do they
deprive themselves of food but will use excessive amounts _oflaxatives, sel_f-induce?
vomiting, and enemas to insure weight loss, thereby keepmg themselves m a sel!11starved state. "Anorexia nervosa is aot a disease that just happens or befalls a girl;
she is always a very active participant in the process."•
In addition to their restricted diet, anorectic girls usually adopt an exhaustive exercise program. They push themselves to do an excessive amount of physical exercis~,
calisthenics, sports, jogging. They exercise beyond the point of human endurance m
an effort to keep their bodies from storing an extra ounce of fat. They push
themselves to jog that extra mile, do the extra sit up, to prove that they can endure.
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A feminist viewpoint suggests an additional cause.
The young woman's attempt to be involved in as many activities as
possible is a protection against the exclusion she anticipates on entering
womanhood because, in projecting into her future, she sees that the
world is made up of men who are rewarded for being out in the world
and women who are either excluded from activity in the world or, even
more devious, included but not rewarded. In her frantic activities it
would appear that she is trying to give herself a broader definition than
her social role allows. 6
In a related syndrome, bulimarexia, women "alternately gorge themselves with
food and then empty themselves, whether by fasting, vomiting or through self induced diarrhea" .6 The two diseases are very similar, but differ in one aspect. The
woman suffering from bulimarexia goes on a regular cycle of eating and binging. She
will gorge herself with food and then force herself to vomit until she can't vomit any
more. Then she repeats the cycle over and over again. This all-consuming way of life
leaves these people little time or energy for anything else in life. Like anorexia nervosa, it is a self-destructive disease characterized by the same symptoms and basis for
behavior.
Research studies indicate that women suffering from anorexia lead restricted
social lives. They have low rates of marriage and sexual satisfaction and are dependent on their parents. Studies also show that these women preferred to be alone and
spent more than 50% of their time alone. 7 They look upon solitude as a means of
control and fear interaction with others because of fear of losing that control over
their lives. A feeling of self-control and discipline are of paramount importance to
the anorectic person. It is a form of power over herself and therefore a way to control her family and the world around her.
Bruch has formulated the concept that excessive concern with the body
and its size, and the rigid control over eating are late symptoms in the
development of youngsters who have engaged in a desperate fight
against feeling enslaved and exploited, not competent to lead a llfe of
their own. 8
The young girls usually affected by the disease are the daughters of affluent families, raised in luxurious, comfortable surroundings. Rarely is
the disease found among the poor. Raised in a very success-oriented
family, the anorectic female usually attends a private or a boarding
school. Encouraged to excel, the anorectic girl drives herself relentlessly
to achieve good grades in school, going without sleep and studying long
into the night. Obsessed with excelling in school, she employs the same
extremes that she uses to control her weight. She achieves scholastically
· to please and to live up to her parents' high standards.
The mothers of anorectic girls are usually well educated, intelligent
women who gave up careers in order to take care of their families and
who now play very passive, submissive roles in the household. These
women, usually very diet, beauty conscious, feel that women should
always look attractive for their husbands. They try to live out the
"T.V." myth of a perfect wife and mother and try to perpetuate the
myth through their daughters. They emphasize that attractiveness and
femininity are attributes rewarded in our culture. Often very dominating
and over protective, these mothers exert the only power they
have-power
over their children. They encourage dependency and
discourage independence and personal growth.
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�The fathers of anorectic girls are usually distant and removed. They are often out
of the house making a living for the family. These fathers are often as diet and
physical-fitness oriented as their wives. They keep themselves in good condition and
expect no less from their families.
Anorectic daughters look upon their fathers with hero worship but hold a "painfully conscious hatred of their mothers, whom they describe as weak and
unhappy." 9 Despite their hatred of their mothers, they fall into the same trap and
believe the "myth" of femininity.
In her research, Marlene Boskind-Lodahl observes that:
. . . anorectics/bulimarectics accept and embrace the stereotype of
femininity. They never question that the role of women is to be accommodating, passive and dependent ... their obsessive pursuit of thinness
constitutes not only an acceptance of this ideal but an exaggerated striving to achieve it. Their attempts to control their physical appearance
demonstrate a disproportionate concern with pleasing others, particularly men - a reliance on others to validate their self worth. T~ey
have devoted their lives to fulfilling the feminine role rather than the in0
dividual person. None has developed a basic sense of personal power. '
By keeping liersel"f sliin and fragile, the anorectic sees hers~lf as fu\filling her
assigned feminine role. Such attention makes them feel special and important.
However in striving to achieve the feminine ideal, the anorectic actually accomplish~s the opposite. Her gaunt, sticklike body is anything but feminine. Gone
are the round soft curves of a woman's body. Present is the body of a young boy.
For some anorectic girls, this may be their way of rebelling, of expressing anger at
their parents and the world in general for expecting too much of them.
Every adolescen,t goes through a period of feeling odd, out of plac~, i:iot knowing
where she fits in, Social and sexual pressures mount and are very difficult to deal
with At this time anorexia nervosa develops in a young girl. Feeling the biological
chan.ges in her body, she fears what is to come. To her, men_struation is the beginni~g
of a new life with new responsibilities and pressures. The girl that develops anore~1a
wants to hold on to her childlike body. Dreading the fullness that comes with
womanhood, she starves herself, trusting that this starvation will postpone what she
most fears - the loss of childhood. Thus she does everything she can to keep her body
as a child's: With the onset of anorexia, menstruation stops. This reassures the
anorectic girl that she has control over her body.
"In other girls, reaching puberty may be the end of a secret dream of growing up
to be a boy." 11 These girls play with boys as c~il_drenand kno_wthat _boy~~e more
independent doing things that they are proh1b1ted fro_m domg: D1ssat1sf1edand
disgusted with their female bodies, they become very thm to ach1ev~ the ?od~ ?f a
man. Some anorectic girls speak of feeling divided. When they defme this d1v1ded
self, the preferred self is always male.
Though few express it openly, they had felt throughout_ their liv~s that being ~emale
was an unjust disadvantage, and they dreamed of domg well m ~eas con~1dered
more respected and worthwhile because they are masculine. Their oversh~ apthe pomt of
pearance their remarkable athletic performance, with perserverance to 12
' give them the proud conviction
· . o f bemg
. as goo d as a man.
exhaustion
Adolescence is also a time when a youngster wants to feel special. In the anorectic
girl, starvation makes her feel superior, even s_uperh1:1man.
To gain weight is to make
them normal, therefore depriving them of their specialness. No longer would t~ey be
different, be worthy of attention, for they would have no reason to feel supenor_or
special. Such girls are completely self-absorbed, often having no real fnendsh1ps
with other adolescents.
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Puberty is the time in a girl's life when it is no longer okay to be a tomboy. She can
no longer play with the boys as she used to. Her family and peers tease her into acting the way a girl is "expected" to act. When these changes make the girl increasingly aware of her sexuality, she rebels against it; she fears it. To avoid sexual experience
and any physical contact with boys, she keeps her body boylike and childlike, hanging on to her childhood, a time of personal freedom, a time when she can be herself,
free from the new social restrictions of adulthood. By defying the physical processes
that will transform her into a woman, she also exerts control over her society and her
world. This control empowers her, for she knows that to be a woman in this world is
to be powerless .
At this time, too, there is much friction in the mother/daughter relationship. The
daughter feels that her mother never wanted her, that she preferred a son. To please
her mother, the anorectic girl starves herself in an attempt to please her mother by
disappearing.
.... The rage the daughter feels at not having been wanted for who she
is, for not having had a mother with whom to identify - how can one
identify with a mother who is self rejecting without also adopting a rejecting self image? - is expressed by refusal to take in the one thing the
mother consistently gives - food ... She is rejecting what her mother
gives and hurting her in the most powerful way she knows how while
simultaneously carrying out what she imagines to be her mother's wish,
which is for her to disappear. u
Having a son is a prized accomplishment for most mothers who know that men are
the effective ones in the wold, that men are in control. So to present the world with
another man is of upmost importance to a woman. Sons are the most valued and
cherished in the family. Because of this, many women are unhappy when they give
birth to daughters. No wonder so many women prefer boys to girls. Who wants to
reproduce another like oneself, a person who will be considered second best in this
culture? It is very depressing to prepare your daughter to live a life like your own
submissive, unhappy existence.
A girl inevitably absorbs this rejection from her mother, and the anorectic girl tries
to make up for her mother's disappointment by disappearing from this earth.
Some adolescent girls suffering from anorexia react differently by accepting the
physical changes that puberty brings. Accepting their femininity as any normal,
healthy teenager would, they become acutely aware of their bodies and their effect
on the opposite sex. Fashion-conscious, striving to be as attractive as possible, every
teenage girl thinks that she is overweight or fat. None are ever satisfied with their appearance. The normal adolescent will go on a strict diet for a short period of time,
lose a few pounds, and then give up when they see the difference in their appearance.
In contrast, the anorectic girl has a distorted image of her body. Continually starving
herself, never being thin enough, she finds fat on her body that really isn't there.
Such anorectic young women destroy their bodies in an attempt to make themselves
more appealing and attractive to men. Having embraced the myth of the perfect
female, they want men to reward them for their femininity. When the anorectic
woman does not receive this expected attention from men, she feels rejected. If her
dieting and thinness do not bring her the love and happiness she is expecting from
some particular man in her life, or from men in general, the anorectic girl sees her
weight as the cause of the rejection and diets even more. Angered by this perceived
rejection, she expresses it by excessive dieting and self-deprivation. Here is a description of such an anorectic girl:
·
Celia had begun her non-eating regimen during her second year in college, when her boyfriend commented that she weighed nearly as much as
he. He was of slight build weighing only 130 pounds and was sensitive
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�about this, feeling that his manliness was at stake. He expressed the
desire that she lose a few pounds and she went on a diet in an effort to
please him. However she resented that he had fixed their relationship at
a certain weight. When she first talked about this she said, "I completely lost my appetite": later she added that she had been continuously
preoccupied with food but denied it to herself ... As she began to lose
weight she experienced a great sense of strength and independence."
In a culture that admires and emphasizes the importance of being slender, these
unhappy women develop anorexia nervosa in an attempt to perpetuate the myth of
femininity.
Anorexia nervosa is a disease that affects women almost exclusively. This disease
is a product of their unhappy lives. Anorectic women express their unhappiness in an
extreme way. But their basic feeling and motivation are felt and can be easily
understood by most women. At birth, a burden is put on the lives of women. The
standards they are expected to live up to are enormous and frightening. These
women use their disease as a way to cope, as a way to fight back.
" ... anorexia nervosa is an extremely painful response to which women
may turn in their attempts to have some impact in their worlds. " 18
The women's movement can make very significant contributions in the effort to
help anorectic women and help curtail its growth in our society. It can help by
elevating the status of women, by boosting self-esteem and feelings of worth, by initiating a new awareness. Feminists must re-educate these women, and all women,
and help them realize that each of us is important and worthy of love and respect.
These anorectic women feel worthless, unworthy of love, failures as women.
Dependent creatures who need the reassurance of others. These women let men be
their judges, let men place a value on their self-worth. One anorectic patient is
quoted as stating, "If a woman doesn't like me, we're incompatible. If a man
doesn't, I'm worthless." 15 One word of disapproval from a man can completely
destroy the self-confidence and self-respect of these women. As a result, the anorectic girl's resentment mounts toward men because of the power and control that men
have over their own lives and the lives of women. In one case study, a young woman
reports two antagonistic interactions with men:
On the first occasion she was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and
feeling very patronized. She felt controlled by him and she wanted to tell
him to "go to hell". On the second occasion, an innocent comment by
her father aroused a tirade of negative feelings against him, her
boyfriend, and men in general. 16
The society we live in worships the thin and beautiful. And the message we receive
every day of our lives is to fit into the "ideal image" created for us by our culture.
We have become a nation obsessed with diets and physical fitness. The media bombards us from every direction with propaganda. Every magazine that appeals to the
American woman is chocked full of "new wonder diets," low-cal recipes and exercise programs. Television shouts out to us during every commercial to buy diet soda,
low-cal ice cream, and appetite control products. Advertising agencies use every
weapon they can to entice you to join that new fitness club or buy that new piece of
exercise equipment. Movie and television personalities are coming out in great
numbers to push their new weight control programs, new work out books, or diet
cookbooks. There is always a revolutionary new diet book on the best seller list and
millions of American women run out to buy it. The message comes across loud and
clear - "thin is beautiful and desirable," "to be thin is to be happy, successful and
sophisticated"- you can't make in this world if you are fat.
Even though these messages come across to both men and women, they have the
biggest impact on women's lives. Women feel the constant pressure to fit into the
ideal of perfection every day of their lives. The dictates of the fashion industry emphasize slender bodies. Fashion models are tall, skinny women, with very little meat
on their bones. These women project the image that every fashion-conscious woman
in America tries to live up to. Most women are constantly in pursuit of this ideal image, because it is valued as important in our culture.
The young anorectic, in an effort to achieve the ideal, responds to this social
pressure by an extreme program of diet and exercise. At first her behavior is ignored
by family and friends because it conforms to the norms of society. In a survey conducted by C.H. Hardin Branch, M.D. and Linda J. Eurman, a questionnaire was
distributed to family and friends of girls suffering from anorexia nervosa. They
found that the anorectic patient meets with more approval than disapproval from
family and friends. The respondents tended to admire the patient's appearance. The
patients were described as "slender," "neat," "well groomed," and "fashionable."
The words "skinny," "emaciated," "haggard," and "normal" were each cited
once. Some respondents envied the self-control and discipline that the patient exerted in restricting her food intake and one respondent said, "she is victorious." - t
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FOOTNOTES
'Reed Larson, Craig Johnson, "Anorexia Nervosa in the Context of Daily Experience", Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1981, (Dec.), VOL. 10(6) p.p. 455-471
2
Hilde Bruch, M.D., The Golden Cage, (Cambridge, Massachusetts; Harvard University
Press, I 978) preface vii
Ibid, preface vii
lbid, p.21
5Susie Orbach, Fat is a Feminist Issue, (New York, N. Y.; Paddington Press Ltd., 1978) p.171
6 Marlene Boskind-Lodahl, Joyce Sirlin, "The Gorging-Purging Syndrome", Psychology Today, 1977, 10(10) p.p. 50-52, 82-85
'Larson, Johnson, op.cit.
8 Bruch, op.cit.preface x
9
Marlene Boskind-Lodahl, "Cinderella's Stepsisters: A Feminist Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Winter 1976,
VOL. 2(2) p.p. 342-356
10 Ibid
11 Bruch, op.cit.p.69
12 Ibid, p.55
13 Orbach, op.cit. p.175
14
Marlene Boskind-Lodahl, "Cinderella's Stepsisters: A Feminist Perspective on Anorexia
Nervosa and Bulimia", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Winter 1976,
VOL. 2(2) p.p. 342-356
15
Marlene Boskind-Lodahl, Joyce Sirlin, "The Gorging-Purging Syndrome", Psychology Today, 1977, 10(10) p.p. 50-52, 82-85
16
Larson, Johnson, op.cit.
17
C.H. Hardin Branch, M.D., Linda J. Eurman, "Special Attitudes Toward Patients with
Anorexia Nervosa", American Journal of Psychiatry, May 1980, p.p. 631, 632
1 80rbach, op.cit.p.179
3
4
(References on next page)
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�REFERENCES
BOSKIND-LODAHL, Marlene, "Cinderella's Stepsisters: A Feminist Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Winter
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BOSKIND-LODAHL, Marlene; SIRLIN, Joyce, "The Gorging-Purging Syndrome"
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Anorexia Nervosa", American Journal of Psychiatry, May 1980
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1978)
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Marilyn Monroe: Madonna - Whore Image
by Gloria Medina
Marilyn. The very name immediately conjures up images of that blonde, blueeyed, sex goddess, whom Norman Mailer says symbolizes "every man's love affair
with America."' "She was our angel, the sweet angel of sex."
But Mailer also sees her as a high-priced whore who flaunts her flesh on the golden
screen; a schemer and a bitch, she sleeps with any man to achieve her goal. Pleasures
over and goal accomplished, she stalks another man to boost her career. Her knife is
at the ready to stab him when he can no longer help her in any way. Wiping the
blood off the knife, Marilyn waits to stalk another victim. Witness the relationship
she had with her photographer friend, Andre Dienes. Mailer writes:
They came back to Los Angeles. They were engaged. Business took him
to New York. In his studio the walls were plastered with pictures of her.
His friends thought him crazy. She is not that remarkable, they would
tell him.
When he went back to Los Angeles, she was changed. He spied on her
and discovered she was going out with other men. Their engagement
was broken. 2
So Andre was out after taking "the sexiest picture he had ever made" 3 at Jones
Beach in 1950. This photograph of Marilyn wearing a two-sizes-too-small bathing
suit was one of many that skyrocketed her to stardom. Mailer confirms my interpretation of this specific aspect of his work when he writes, "Let us assume she is
stroking her wand in that sweet month with Dienes and even loves him a little as the
equerry whose service would refine her magic."•
Unoriginal Mailer sees Marilyn as the classic dopey blonde. In England, starring
opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in "The Prince and the Showgirl," she answered an interviewer's question about her music tastes this way:
"I like, well, jazz, like Louis Armstrong, you know, and Beethoven.
What Beethoven numbers in particular, Miss Monroe?
I have a terrible time with numbers, but I know it when I hear it."•
Men all over the world must have gloated when they read or heard that cute reply
- Mailer included.
Another Mailer sexist perception of Marilyn invariably views her as a little girl lost
- an orphan child wanting all the Jove she can possibly get. After all, if Mailer's men
perceive women as little girls, then men must be big and strong. This stereotypical
image has been a part of our history since the beginning of time. However, Mailer,
the big, strong wolf takes a bite out of little red Marilyn when he leads his readers to
believe that our Marilyn was a liar who liked to call attention to herself by telling fantastically, horrible, tales of her days as a foster child. Mailer relates that Monroe
recalled that she had to "wash 100 plates, 100 cups, 100 knives, forks and spoons,
three times a day, seven days a week, plus scrub toilets and clean bathrooms, and for
this receive ten cents a month for working in the kitchen. " 6 Mrs. Ingraham, the·
superintendent of the orphanage where Marilyn supposedly did her Cinderella
duties, says more than twenty years later, "I really don't know why Miss Monroe
tells these terrible stories about us. " 7 Liar? It's debatable. Let's see what someone
who knew and loved Marilyn thought of her.
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�Bibliography
The other extreme of Mailer's semi-pornographic work (take a look at the pictures
sometime) is Norman Rosten's book, Marilyn: An Untold Story. Rosten depicts
Marilyn as a sweet, virginal, woman-child like Rima in W. H. Hudson's novel Green
Mansions. This perfect jungle goddess is Mother Nature and Eve rolled into one.
And, as seen in this vignette by Rosten, Marilyn, like Rima, befriends all of nature's
creatures. Rosten recalls one incident in particular,
On his perch Butch the parakeet is dreaming of bird seed when Marilyn
reaches into the cage and carefully brings him out. "You sweet bird,"
she croons, "we almost forgot our dear little bird." Butch stands on her
open palm, ruffles his wings, and decides to fly around the room. She
calls to him, he sits on her shoulder, she coos and whistles, carries him
to her lips, and ole butch leans over and kisses her. 8
Mailer, Norman. Marilyn. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1973.
Rosten, Norman. Marilyn: An Untold Story. New York: Signet Books, 1973.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York: The Modern Library, 1938.
To Rosten, Marilyn is no mindless sex object, but a love goddess, worshipped and
adored by millions. Sensitive, she appreciates all forms of art, especially the poetry
of William Butler Yeats. Marilyn dabbled in poetry herself, but her friend Rosten
(who is a poet) says, "The poems were, in the best sense, those of an amateur; that
is, they pretended to be nothing more than an outburst of feeling, with little or no
knowledge of craft. But the poet within her - and one existed - found a form for
her purpose. " 9 He felt that her poetry served as a kind of therapy to relieve her
"echoes of struggle, search, and torment. " 10 In one poem she wrote:
I stood beneath your limbs and you flowered and finally clung to me
and when the wind struck with ... the earth and sand, you clung to
me.1•
And now to the men in her life - namely, Dimaggio and Miller - Mailer, Rosten,
and I don't know why these men were attracted to her, but Rosten sums it up best
when he writes:
Of course we shall never know; the forces that bring people together are
mysterious enough, but people who are also symbols bring into play additional forces, social and psychological, that obscure any easy analysis.
Obviously, Marilyn, one beautiful, sexy, blonde, attracted many men. The fact
that one was one of America's most famed athletes and the other, a major dramatist
should not astound us. Sadly, these two marriages lasted only a short time. Dimaggio wanted her to give up her career, and Miller wrote The Misfits, a screenplay that
she didn't like. Both men wanted to play Pygmalion to her Galatea. Dimaggio
wanted her to be the perfect wife and mother. And Miller fought with her continuously. About art? Neither man was her knight in shining armor. In Hollywood a
sex goddess cannot be a damsel in distress.
What more can I say? Perhaps that I identify with Marilyn because we were foster
children. I feel sorry for this sex-love queen who was worshipped by millions, who
gaped and grabbed at her as she glided down Hollywood's golden pavements,
wishing to obtain a piece of her for themselves. Perhaps a hunk of her flesh to press
into a book. Ah, wishes! Film, not flesh, must suffice. But Marilyn has joined the
immortals for other than fleshy reasons.
Harriet Beecher Stowe sums up my feelings for Marilyn and about her death when
she writes,
"Farewell, beloved child! The Bright, eternal doors have closed after
thee: we shall see thy sweet face no more. 0, woe for them who watched
thy entrance into heaven, when they shall wake and find only the cold
gray sky of daily life, and thou gone forever." 13
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�The Psychological Effect of Sex-Role Stereotyping
by Louise K. Pollock
"Anatomy is destiny" is Freud's emphatic legacy that ha~ ?een handed ~own
through history. Since the advent of the second wave of_femm1sm! the_ver~c1tyof
this biological and psychological imperative has been studied by social sc1ent1sts;the
immutability of its meaning is now in question.
The focuses of this paper are the psychological effects of sex-role stereotyping on
females, what the traditional role has been, and what possibilities exist for change in
the future.
My research is confined to the areas of childhood, adolescence and e~rl_y
adulthood. To investigate the rigidity of the assigned sex-roles of women, 1t 1s
necessary to focus on the early years of life and the effect that p~rents ~ave on se~role behaviors. In the childhood years the influence of school 1s exammed and m
adolescence the effect of peer groups is discussed. The impact of the media in 1:>ooks,
advertising, television and news is also in consideration of sex-role stereotypmg.
To understand the damage done to women by the perpetuation of the traditional
sex roles and the reinforcement of these roles by society, it is necessary to know how
these values are transmitted, and effect change.
Education and information are the best tools to implement change. The Women's
Movement and Women's Studies courses are exemplified by this. Once women and
men are aware of how they are victimized by their rigidly traditional roles, then there
is hope for a constructive evolution of roles to androgynous, egalitarian ones.
In the past decade there has been a change in the way the psychological community has viewed the concepts of femininity and masculinity (Major:1981): Before 1970
it was thought females and males were at bipolar ends of one psychological and emotional continuum and being sex-typed was a sign of good mental health. Conversely,
androgynous, or cross-sex-typed, behavior was considered maladaptive.
During the 1970's Bern questioned the concept of bipolarity of femininity and
masculinity suggesting these definitions are dimensions of per~onality t?at could
vary independently of each other in individuals, regardless o~ ~heir sex (MaJor ~981).
The Bern Sex Role Inventory (BSRI), developed in 1975, venf1ed the hypothesis that
femininity and masculinity are independent dimensions and categorized five main
types of psychologically oriented individuals: the androgynous type endorses both
feminine and masculine personality characteristics; the undifferentiated type endorses feminine and masculine characteristics to a low degree and is confused by the
current roles demanded of women and men, and the undifferentiated type suggests
"disintegration of social order." (Ireland 1981:663).This type has no identification
with either the feminine or masculine role. The feminine type seeks to fulfill and
preserve the traditional female role and exhibits low !Ilasculine c~ar.acteristics.
Whereas the male type possesses a high degree of masculine charactenstics and exhibits few feminine ones (Major 1981).
The traditional view in research has been that men are dominant, independent,
competitive, intellectual, athletic, unemotional, self-confident, ambitiou~, _aggressive, decisive, logical and analytical. Women, on the other ha~d, are su?m1ss1ve,
dependent, emotional, excitable, irrational, conforming, affectionate, . kmd, sensitive, warm, sympathetic, understanding, gentle and kind (Skrypnek 1982). These
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'stereotypical beliefs are well-defined, universally accepted and hard to dispel. Unfortunately, females who fail to exhibit suitable characteristics have frequently been
labeled as mentally ill.
Research published by Maccoby and Jacklin in 1974 has not been able to prove
that women and men actually differ in the ways defined by the stereotypes. One
the<;>ry
suggests the stereotypes are perpetuated because such behavior is more easily
noticed, remembered and learned than the behavior that doesn't conform or reinforce the traditional and expected behavior (Skrypnek 1982).
In _1962Carl ~u~g proposed a "synergistic model" (or cooperative model) to
describe the_f~mmme and masculine attributes of the psyche (Ireland I 981). He
thought femmme_and masculine char~cteristics were present in every personality and
the degree to which they were conscious and active aspects of behavior was an indicator of the person's psychic development (Ireland 1981).
A rigidly sex_-typedperson will not knowingly behave in a way that is inappropriate
to that ~ehav1or.. Sue~. conformity is believed to be psychologically detrimental
bec~use 1t ove_r-s1mphf1esperceptions of reality and restricts options that are
~vailab!e (Mart~n 1981). Androgynous individuals have greater flexibility and behave
m a wider vanety of ways. Androgyny is believed to promote a healthy selfactualized personality (Flake-Hobson 1981).
'
Research shows that _child_ren.
are sex-rol_e~tereotyped by the age of four (Martin
1981). One~ a gender 1dent1ty 1s formed 1t 1s extremely resistant to change (Lips
19"?8~.In children, s_ex-roleappropri~te b<:havioris deemed acceptable and necessary
so 1_t1sreward~d while behavior that 1sbelieved to be inappropriate is either punished
or ignored (Lips 1978). The determination of appropriate sex-role behavior is influenced by many factors, the most important ones are parents schools peers and
"symbolic agents" (Weitz 1977:60).
'
'
Parents are mo~els for th~ir ,childr_en'sbehavior and the first socializing influence.
They help determme the child s achievements, expectancies and self-concepts (Parsons 1982). Parents convey messages to the child of their expectations through these
roles.
Parents frequently sabotage their children by passing on their own beliefs about
stereotypical sex-role behavior. Mothers may transmit their own difficulties with
scien~e and/or m~t? to their daughters by not expecting them to succeed, thus
creatm~ a self-fulf1llmg prophecy of failure. Often a male child's scholastic abilities
are praised more than a female's. A boy's achievements may be attributed to high
ability! wh!le a gi:l:s is attributed to hard work and perseverance, as a consequence
of ~av1~ghttle ab1hty (Parsons 1982). Independence, is praised in boys, is discouraged m g1r!s. Governed by stereotypes, parents dress their girls and boys differently
choose different toys for them and assign them different tasks (Flake-Hobson 1981)'.
The ~~cond rein~or~er of the stereotypes is school. Teachers, usually the recipients
of tra~1t~on~lupbnngmgs_and educational experience, often pass the traditional sexrole d1stmct1onson to their students. For example, note the difference of treatment
when a kindergarten teache'. super~ises a car~entry group of girls and boys. "A girl
show~ ~er te~cher her ~and1work. These nails aren't hammered in far enough,' he
says. I II do 1t for you. A boy shows the teacher his handiwork. 'These nails aren't
hammered in far enough,' the teacher says. 'Take the hammer and pound them in all
the way.' "(Weitz 1977:85). It is obvious from this exchange that the teacher views
the females as helpless, weak, incapable and dependent on others to either finish the
job for them, _or do i~ f?r them. Males, viewed as capable and independent, are
treated accordmgly. Similar examples are repeated in the classroom until female
children begin to adopt this passive, helpless role.
In many kindergarten classrooms activities are available to girls and boys. The
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33
�girls are relegated to the "homemaking" corner of the roo~, su~plied "_Vit~
dolls, toy
dishes kitchen appliances, etc., while the boys are supplied with butldmg blocks,
trucks' and other toys to encourage activity and physical action. Divisions such as t~is
give the idea that girls should not engage in physical play and ?e content to 1;1lay
with
dolls and homemaking activities to prepare them for their roles as wives and
mothers.
In the elementary grades the reinforcement of appropriate sex-role behavi?r continues. Teachers classify high-achieving students as androgynous and masculme and
low-achieving students as feminine and undifferentiate~ (Be~z 1981). 1:his negative
association of the female personality with lower academic achievements 1sone of the
reasons for the scholastic decline of girls as they advance through the grades (Benz
1981). These lowered expectations later adversely affect the career choices of the
female students.
Another factor that influences scholastic achievement among girls may be the
disproportionate emphasis placed on male characters ~d their ac_hievement~in textbooks, while the few female characters, are represented m a negative or passive way.
A study made of 134 elementary school readers (Stacey 1974), published by 14 major publishers in the United States conducted in th~ee suburban New Jersey towns.
These proportions were derived from the 1760 stones read:
Boy-centered to girl-centered stories
5:2
Adult male to adult female main characters
3: 1
Male to female biographies
6: 1
Male to female animal stories
2: 1
Male to female folk or fantasy stories
4: l
The major themes of these stories deal with t~e _"ingenuity, cre~tivity, bra~~ry,
perseverance, achievement, adventurousness, cunos1ty, sportsmanship, generat1v1ty,
autonomy, and self-r~spect" of overwhelmingly male characters ~Stacey 1~7~:l~l).
Stacey believes that children reading such sexist books are unconsciously ass1mtlatmg
their content and values and by age eight, 96% of the children surveyed knew what
jobs and roles were appropriate to their sex and what limitations were placed on
them.
Due to the restrictions and the low degree of achievement required of them in
elementary schools, girls are often penalized later in life. A successful scholastic
career begins in the primary grades and when denied, due to the sexist atmosphere of
most schools, achievement in later life is elusive (Benz 1981).
In adolescence, children drop their parents as role models and choose the peer
group as a guide for behavior instead (Weitz 1977). The pressure to conform 1s so
enormous that most adolescents either conform or become social outcasts.
The pressure for girls to conform is stronger than it is for boys. ~hysic~ attractiveness, popularity, clothes and dating are valued more than scholastic achievement
(Weitz 1977).
According to Piaget, in adolescence the individual's thinking becomes direc~ed
toward hypothetical, abstract or ideal notions (Curry 1982)._Girls become more n~terested in social popularity than in setting goals and plannmg for the futu~e. This
behavior will penalize them later. In addition, the identity of adolescent girls 1sdetermined by their relationships with their boyfriends. They are taught to relate to men
instead of relating to a career (Weitz 1977).
Although there are some sources of alternative views, such as Ms. magazine and
feminist publications, relatively few females get this exposure or are influence~ by
them (Weitz 1977). The media is another strong perpetrator of sex-role stereotypmg.
Books, television, advertising and all other public representation of women and men
in the public eye reinforce rigid sex-role behavior.
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Toy advertisements further perpetrate sex-role myths. An examination of
chemistry set advertisements shows that boys alone are on 75% of the covers while
the remaining 25% show both boys and girls on the covers. There are no girls on
covers by themselves. Could any girl miss the message that chemistry is for boys only?
. Television is o!1~of the worst mediums for sexist distinctions, both in programmmg and advertlsmg content. Most adventure or action shows feature male
characters, with women relegated to the roles of sexual objects whose existences
merely enhance the male image (Weitz 1977). This aggressive, violent behavior in
males is glorified and accepted. Advertising on television, insulting and offensive to
women, usually portrays males as authority figures, even in areas of "women's
wo~k,'_' such as washing clothes and cleaning the house. Frequently, women's sexuality 1s used to sell something totally unrelated to sex, such as cars or liquor. Considering the amount of television that most children watch, further perpetuation of
sex-role stereotyping is inevitable.
Girls have few role models in public life (Weitz 1977). Among them are Betty
Ford, Rosalyn Carter, wife of the President (what a great role model Nancy Reagan
is), celebrities, or actresses. However, there are one or two female heads of state
(Golda Meier, Geraldine Ferraro, Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher).
Young women, thanks to the Women's Movement and feminist scholars, have a
greater opportunity to discover suitable role models than girls in the past.
The problem with the influence of the media and having to deal with it as a
femi_nistis that pe?ple are ~iven an overwhelming message to maintain the status quo
(Weitz 1977). Trymg to raise the consciousness of women who are not aware of the
insidi?us ~essages that are transmitted through television, magazines, advertising,
etc., 1s a Job of great magnitude and one that the Women's Movement has only
begun to challenge.
. Of all t~e factors invo!ved in the_psychological sex-role brainwashing that occurs
m our society, the question asked 1s: What can be done about it? To undo all the
damage that has been done to women in the past and continues to be done is an
aw~some task, and one that any feminist is interested in undertaking and trying to
achieve.
Since parents are the primary influence on their children, the first step would be to
have parents that are not rigidly sex-typed and display behavior that is of an androgynous nature. Parents will have to be people who are educated about the harmful effe_ctsof stereotypical behavior and realize that this type of role playing is not
conducive to personal growth and fulfillment.
T~~ school environment will remain a problem as long as it remains a bastion of
trad1t10nal roles and allows the reinforcement of this behavior by teachers who
perpetuate the masculine-feminine dichotomy. The textbooks and readings used in
sch~ols_should be examined for their sexist content and replaced by books of a more
egahtar1an nature. Parents must take an interest in what and how their children are
taught as this early learning and conditioning is setting the course for failure in girls
later in life.
Peer group pressure in adolescence is an area that is difficult to deal with
"Orga~ized movements ~or sex-role change may have peer impact in given instances:
but their overall effect 1s not yet strong enough to overcome peer mediation of
stereotyped expectations in most cases" (Weitz 1977:90). The hope would be that
with an androgynous upbringing and background, adolescence would not be a tim~ ·
for the perpetuation of the sex-role myths, but a time for the development of greater
self-understanding and knowledge.
The media is an area of concern to feminists as it is slow to change in its sexist
treatment of women. Due to the collective strength of the Women's Movement and
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35
�its influence as a lobbying force and political entity, there have been som~ small
changes seen in the portrayal of women in the media. As this are~ has ~uch ~n important and sometimes subtle influence on the lives of women, and m wh1c~won:ie_n
are
viewed in this society, it is important to effect change in some of the sexist pohc1esof
the past.
Susan B. Anthony said more than 100 years ago: "The fact is, wom~n ~e in
chains and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it. To
comp;l them to see and feel and to speak and act for ~hei~o~n freedom, tho~gh they
face the scorn and contempt of all the world for domg 1t! (Partnow 1978.42).
The hope for the future would be that, as more women become aware that they are
the "oppressed majority", change and progress for women will be inevitable. It
might not be easy to change the traditional roles and opt for more androgynous
ones, but that is what women and men will have to do.
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1984
Feminism
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poetry
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Donna Decker
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Skin/
Helen
Hey Donna I 7
For You On Your Marriage/
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Phyllis
Colleen
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Gullo
Lederman
A. Mac Duffie
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Theresa
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Haiku/
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the
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cathy
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I 25
poem in progress
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C. Roman
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27
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me a bag"
Drawing
Latex dreams/
30
The bottom of the chasm/
By the sea/
32
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33
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to remember/
34
by Marlene
Superior/
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A. Rizza
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Esther
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Donna Decker
Cathy
Wyatt
Drawing
Marital
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37
Helen:
My Younger
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Story/
by Marlene
36
Sister/
45
Superior/
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Critiques
Donna Decker
Kathleen
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48
On "The Second
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of
is
a Hero
misty
caused
In The Preface
by,
I think,
the
loss
ideas.
That evening
after
we walked through
Your
the theater
November weeds.
nature
is
not
maternal
and if you die
it won't
be a mystery.
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the Hymn
was spoiled
by the
who kept asking
"Is
it
man
apparent?"
We know this
problem
will
not be resolved
in time
to see the children
as lonely
and tired
as they are.
And you have a son?
No. A daughter.
Where is she?
She is dead,
monsieur.
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in
was in the second edition,
her eyes and all the pages.
and
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before
us.
It is unequal.
Let's
make up another
one soon
before
someone else
gets the job.
Lynda
Blum
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a dancer
I SEE SOME MUSHROOMSON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
it's
morning
each morning
is two months
long
and
I haven't
bought
a coat
for spring
but this
is only
act one
perhaps
I'll
find a tenement
in Newark
or an idea
defrosting
in the sink
Mama dyed her hair
too
Every month or so she'd
a natural
red head
or a natural
blonde
be
and it didn't
go her
no good neither
gain
to that
fancy school
to tell
the truth
nothing
is important
I should
stay
in town a while
longer
and not
ask any questions
besides
it's
too cold
to think
and
I'm lonely
after
weekend.
Mama lied
about
her age
tellin
all her friends
she had me
when she was 19
cause Mama worked
in the phone company
On Satbrday
she'd
send me
to the movies.
I'd come home
feelin
like
there
was magic
waitin
inside
me
Then Mama would look at me
and sing one a them songs
she made up about me being
so plain
lookin
and her so pretty.
a winter
Lynda
Blum
Lynda
Blum
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mama's got
baby blue eyes
that
never
grew
Room 706
mama's runny
an undercooked
soft-boiled
egg yolk.
I am a monster
plucking
old men from the windows
of the Broadway
Central
Hotel
Later,
my mother
will
ask
if he put his hands on me
old men
calling
for
grandfather
us to come out
is shaving
his
I read a bride
magazine
and build
houses
with nickels
mama hides
her
mama can't
mend
mama's
running
a rat
round
mama's
a gypsy
blind
eyes
the
and
behind
shatterred
round
always
sunglasses.
voices
and
round
wailing
for
in
her
mama's
a forgotten
mama's
a picnic
mama is
dimes
head.
trap.
a home.
mama's
a pretty
rocket
where
the
ants
have
come and
gone.
whore.
came
to
late
and
was
filled
candles
mama is a swallowed
sob.
she's
a strangled
prayer.
Blum
dance.
secret.
now she runs on tip-toes
past
my room at night
war-dancing
never
missing
a beat
I see her reflection.
young Indian
bucks
carrying
trip
after
her.
grandfather
keeps
the quarters
for the maid
who will
tell
my mother
he was obscene
Lynda
her
mama likes
drums.
mama likes
rhythm.
mama loves
to
mama is holy.
she's
a sacrifice.
she's
a celebration!
now
legs
and
like
mama's
soul's
so
big inside
it chokes
her throat
plugs
up her ears
making all
sound muffled
even my song.
my grandfather
thinks
I am still
a little
girl
and invites
me in to play
the
are
but
up.
mama
is
a
choked
laugh.
Donna Decker
NYC '80
already
anyway.
�Skin
Baby
daughter
HEY DONNA:
rub
my stockings-so
as
you
In this
are all
silk-sit
on the
In my mind
I see
you
Waterless
fish
thrashing
through
you
fingers
Let
them
not
twenty
years
scars
Let
me rub
remember
bleed
of
the
world.
floor.
to
in your gentleness
you went up to the atticthe wooden cradle
had rocked
itself
to sleepyou woke it and asked
for a lullaby
your 2 year old heart
quiveringthe cradle
closed
its
eyes
and waited
for the next
child
it could
hold.
later.
get
back
and
smooth.
to
your
Rub my stockings.
Let
gentleness
the wonders
from
soft
my untouch.
my arms
legs
element.
in your gentleness
you watched
the horses
go wild down in the
field
such a young thing
you clapped
your hands
in glee
and asked
the rodeo
king for a ride
you tried
on his cowboy boots,
much too big
you watched
his pocket
watch
chain
spiral
round his thigh
it hypnotized
you
14 karat
gold and diamonds
chest
in your gentleness
you watched
the old
and you listened
to
flagpole
at night
and you listened
to
thieves
and you watched
the
hard
and
not
forget
how baby
skin
not
hold
you
to
become
a Waterless
who still
to
back
thirsts
away
like
Fish
travels
me
Mother
through
scars
house
next
the chains
the
gunshots
possum
play
door
bang
burn down
against
the
aimed
at
the
dead
in your gentleness
you listened
to the old man's
ukulele
come
shanty
while
the young man stayed
inside
playing
the organ
while
the dog sang
while
the fireplace
asked
for more flames
from
the
get
home again.
Donna Decker
NYC '81
in your gentleness
you cut your fingernails
too short
and your palms
you wore hand me down clothes
and sewed an Easter
outfit
in the cellar
and played
the accordian
with
such 10 year old
dignity
we had to smile.
bled
�For
in your gentleness
you found a fisherman
who tripped
on mescaline
and mixed prime colors
on his trip
board
his magic wheel
his body covering
yours
in the pool at nite
in this
gentleness
there's
been a robe spun
the silk
of the spinning
unraveled
and
found your form
for you
wheel has
Helen
Decker
You On Your
Marriage
All the fields
have been plowed
the corn stalks
are rising
paths
for you.
She will
be rows away
her hands claspedthe white
lace brushing
the dirtShe waits
for your footstep
the whisper
not to disturb
her roots
She peeks thru
her eyelids
thru
the corn leaves
watches
you search
for her scent.
She giggles.
An ear
of
corn
is
growing.
find her boy
She's
grown up and ready
for you.
find her whispering
the small prayers
she learned
giving
thanks
for you.
her flesh
is wet thru
the torn
lace.
You look so grand today
your black
hair
cut in passion
the scent
of her rising
from the
she is waiting.
An ear of
its
heard
She
and
You
the
stand
corn growing
the sound of
spreads
the leaves
sees you coming.
look so grand today.
fine
hairs
on her arms ready
field-
in the far fieldyour feet
before.
to
shout
You brush
apart
leaves
calling
her.
She presses
her thighs
together.
you sniff
past
the place
where
she sighs
you keep moving
Kicking
the corn stalks
pulling
their
roots
she is waiting.
your
she
name.
waits
�The fields
are too high to look overyou peel apart
the leaves.
An ear of corn is growing
in the far field
growing
wider
opening
its
skin
you've
grown hot with desire
destroying
the corn fields.
the stalks
fall
on hercovering
her
She whispers
small
prayers
she learned.
Helen
Decker
they
were
three
children
one
he was the beggar
hero
he had a flower
arrangement
done on his left
shoulder,
a mark of his fix
"here
are my roots"
he said as he raised
his shirt
the green
stems tangled
by the r·oots.
lineage.
he carried
smelling
salts
in a pouch
that
he took to farewell
parties.
he played
in mud puddles
when no one watched
and stored
the mudpies
in a wooden chest
from Mexico.
two
she was the queen of stallions
all
the stallions
always
followed
behind
her
as she played
the harmonica.
it was a Madison Avenue 5:00 rush when she
quicked
the pace
and all
the stallions
dancedshe could
shut off the moon from her night
table
while
her stallions
edged and feasted
each other
into
the black.
there
was only one sound.
she would tease
them
make them freeze
in motion.
queen of the stallions
she'd
grin.
when a new stallion
was born she laid
him
bed
and played
a long moanhe joined
her
All the stallions
joined
her
All the worlds
heard
the moan and wept
All her sound was spread
under
their
black
in
her
skins.
three
he discovered
Japan.
one day he walked
over a mountain
and on the other
side was Japanhe knew when he climbed
back over he'd
be home
and Japan would be gone
so he stayed
for awhile.
he found a tree
where he rested
for days.
villages
came
with pieces
on trays
they were silent
�afTERreadingCUmMINgs
At midnight
they began to hum
their
feet
tight
on the groundthe rhythm was loosened
between
their
At sunrise
he was on the mountain
top
everything
was empty
his eyes were red
rust
caught
the creviceshe went home.
they were three
children.
they had plans
to climb a rainbow
in the colorsone thought
he should
be green
two thought
she should
be red
three
thought
he should
be blue,
they'd
stay there
until
they were
or found the goldwhatever.
a barefoot
fingers.
forest
and
your
through
the
very
idontknowwhereiam
yet
green
eyes
morning
uncombed
season
of
your
fluid
hide
yieldings
morning:
begins
filled
erupts
the
three
he's
bringing
them to Japanit's
right
over there
he tells
they climb the hills
with the
while
she rides
in back
playing
a low tune
switching
off the moon
of
begins
the
through
journey
me from
this
quickened
country
melt
of
of
moon
becomes
them - often.
army of stallions
steeped
in
silver
a fishline
bones
a gray
dance
shadows
cast
towards
the
center
down
the
Helen
embankment
into
empty
Decker
space
the
moon is
a gentle
steeped
in
but
a stone
falling
silver
shadows
begins
morning
o my love
today
could
my love
do you
be the
realize
day
we awaken
from
the
morgue
gari
gullo
�that
i
night
i licked
the hollow
moonlight
from your cheek
"Pride
Austin
cry
at
the
thought
of
wide
grazing
eyes
stupid?
is
or
august
took
trusting
sorrow
i was born
you
the
the
fattened
cow
me
melt
me like
coasted
ice
into
in
autumn
do you
we went
quiet
we said
the
i licked
from
your
the
was
in
and
lurch
the
the
was more
Lydia
was the
the
hollow
mother
was
With
of
our
hearts
moonlight
cheek
She moved
began
the
Bennett
cunning
in
bait,
her
was
the
a little
gullo
giddy
fun
deception
marriage
with
their
heart
goal
and
kill
man
plan
phyllis
gari
books
one
schemed
for
Ah,
on looks
and
just
her
skill
a rich
mister
conception
and
To snare
that
of
her
short
adventurous
for
dove
Kitty
than
just
a gentle
sister
music
dubbed
moment
And Mrs.
things
in
she
away
as
was
herself
Alas,
love
about
middle,
they
Beauty,
soft
Bennett
second
Catherine
Their
somewhere
and
was particular
From the
remember
we sat
feeling
Elizabeth
Who ran
my hand
of marriage
Jane
And buried
melt
Prejudice"
She portrayed
Mary,
desease
with
somewhere
wrote
And she
..
and
lederman
soul
�Last
Black
I saw a cat
and White
And the
Sitting
cold
covered
with
for
parallel
the
white
chalked
shade.
her
pale
and
closing
surround
her.
she
in
fingers
opened
and
leaving
at
her
a tall
an empty
starched
in
face.
gray
house,
the
steel
table.
of
in.
hollow
sound.
She turned
to
His
the
Colleen
as
The mist
as
eyes
window
as
the
cat.
the
sea
danced
door
door
stared
and
of
if
Her
the
black
opening
The back
He closed
not
suddenly
across
She felt
alone.
Seemed
night
the
and whites
head.
an old
was
on a fence
except
veins
floor
blacks,
of
man walked
echo
her
she
through
shadowed
the
Grays,
Nuns danced
gripped
table,
slipping
were
paced
drawers.
a basement
silent
light
lips
The nurse
steel
The room was dark
of
Her purple
metal
on the
paper.
cracks
skin.
were
and naked
night,
on the
blades
of
dunes.
the
cried.
A. Mac Duffie
B. Mackie
�I
My spine
dusty
is
the
sphere
people.
underneath
ending
Black
brown
in
of
ancient
holes
breath
nerves.
Holes
Africa.
II
Africa,
Roars
leopards
of
leap
lions
into
and
voids
Angels
pulling
me back
sucking
through
space.
I am beads
me in.
I fall
where
of
the
Africa
reside
flesh
Back,
absorbed
Back
to
by black,
black,
Africa.
III
Susan
Pepitone
I only
crawl
when
the
is
silver;
when
the
disk
when
the
waters
turn
sky
is
dark;
black.
IV
Running
climb
I just
fast
from
on trees
use
yellow
swing
cats,
I
on branches.
my thumb.
Susan
Pepitone
�Mystical
Revelations
Natasha
My name is Natasha.
I always
loved
to sit
in my father's
troika,
my lap elaborately
covered
with fur throws,
as my coachman
Yuri,
dressed
in bear skins,
Whipped the horses
over the frosted
streets
of St. Petersberg
...
tails
streaming
stifly
behind
whipping
Yuri as he whipped
them.
The harness
bells
would wildly
jingle
in the crisp
air,
as I, Natasha,
urged he and them to go
faster.
It was the winter
of the final
revolution.
I had never
realized
my pedigreed
and self-centered
world would come to an eventual
end.
The madness
of the revolution
was to me
as the madness
of the troika
swiftly
covering
frozen
ground.
Icy,
cold a~d stifly
moving towards
me relentlessly,
The revolution
fell
on all of us as mercilessly
as a sharp
snow.
I cry when I think
of my gaily
painted
troika,
horses
throwing
steam,
and the fatherely
devotion
of Yuri.
My name was Natasha,
and I belong
to a decadent
past.
V.A.
them,
Gazing upwards
She is aware of the outlines
of the stark,
Black branches
of March
Against
the irridescent
backdrop
Of the winter
sky nearing
dusk.
Her lover
is aware of
Her fixed
gaze
Skyward - intent
on both
Their
pleasures.
Visions
of his own.
She lowers
her stricken
eyes from the cold,
Impenetrable
heavens ...
remorse
filling
her
Agonized
soul.
To gaze in mystery
at his
Transfigured
face.
Finding
comfort
and revelation
in
Half-lidded
eyes of hazel
lit
by desires.
Tenderly
she brushes
his cheek - reassured
Having been so lost ...
As the sparrows
with the onslaught
of the hawks.
Pisarik
V.A.
Pisarik
�cathy
told
angie
- for
cathy
randolph
she
she is always
having
to be moving to define
and in this
motion
she is warming
and like
a child
she is entranced
suddenly
and always
entranced
she is beginning
in dreams
and in the mornings
she is beginning
she has never
let me see what she will
not explain
she is a wonder
she is always
having
to be moving to define
and she is never
nodding
a constant
always
all ways all
alright
i will
tell
you
she is my heart
and only in sitting
does she rest
gerard
a.
couldn't
get it in all
the way
and parts
of us cried
i think
it was our fingertips
and thought
how like
an arm
that
reached
inside
for her
but didn't
reach
far enough
touched
lots
of places
and
we'd lay and she'd
kiss
my cock
and stroke
it till
i'd come
wet my belly
drowned
hairs
fill
hole
she told me how her mother
had warned her that
men are
disgusted
w/women when thy're
done after
they've
come
and i felt
important
to
prove mother
wrong
(she told
her sister
about
me and us)
rizza
gerard
a.
rizza
�poem for
l
helen
don't
tell
white
lies
to anyone
and make your bed. its prettier
and pleases
us both that
way
listen
to your feet
in the sand
which is your home close
to the water
line.
be ready
not on guard but ready always
believe
me as you listen
to your
self
in the wake and the rest
i have your tears
on my shoulder
and my face lying
on the memory
of your warm back listen
for
donna
what
that
which
heats
your
mind
plays
paint
paint
and
lockets
infra
dress
heart
she
wore
a yellow
you
used
mostly
and
green
to
black
show the
ribbons
in
her
hair
wood hard
gerard
a. rizza
feb.
6, 1981
decker
was chopping
night
that
night
gerard
a.
rizza
�Graying
poem in
progress
- for
helen
wrinkled
decker
the
the hard taste
of a last
side by side
in bed at night
using
candles
warming
your pink robe rolled
for a pillow
talking
in the dark sharing
a hymn at
being
afraid
w/you for all
impossible
and wonderful
.
yanked
hands,
balding
by
stands
woman.
cigarette
the room
night
Hair
combed
aging
skin
shuffles
gerard
hair
a.
by harsh
painted
the
bag
winds,
with
fear,
lady.
rizza
Theresa
C. Roman
�"Sandman,
Poppy
as
fields
burn
rich,
dark,
the
with
the
sell
me a bag."
slowly,
smoke
drl
·ftS
Alone,
wind.
in
the
dark,
rubberband
cell,
bouncing
from
INHALE.
wall,
exhale.
Soooo
relaxed,
my eyes
slant
d
ownw
ard.
"Awaken,
Ulysses,
Startled,
the
I thrust
cyclops
my sword
are
into
rushing
the
towards
fire,
until
us."
it
glowed
the
leader.
white-hot.
Prepared
battle,
is
my sword
gouged
the
much needed
snowflakes
"You've
Just
as
"I want
the
top,
nestling
the
bottom,
I sit
abandoned,
tracks
running
from
sleep,
in
overcomes
Emerald
my sparkling,
Dorothy,
to
of
sell
me a bag."
me,
parallel
I pull
track
and wait
the
number
for
I've
the
lost
in
long,
both
dull
wall,
control.
arms.
needle,
106,
trip
into
the
unknown.
whispered,
arrived
I clicked
eye
blind.
"Sandman,
as
reaching
Gently,
for
Polyphemus
Deep,
to
I need
City.
red
shoes,
to
go home.
Theresa
go home!"
"Sandman,
sell
me a bag."
C. Roman
�The bottom
Latex
She moved
like
The moons
of
summer
I latexed
As two young
Their
Brilliant
curves
A ship
at
I turn
towards
crowds
Leaving
were
lighthouse
watersmooth
But
a beach
women watched
swimsuits
night
of
me to
house
with
from
the
boardwalk
shining
in
the
sunset
beacons
calling
of
leg
and
the
for
soul
ships
has
been
home
satisfaction
Of knowing
move in
the
light
thigh
salvation
down to
Mars
Vaguely
below
The relaxed
vacationers
sink
chasm
dreams
sea
them
the
dreams
Reflecting
This
of
like
waiting
Douglas
a heavy
depths
Schwartz
fog
The animal
baseline
And nothing
lower
Is
reached
possible
Douglas
Schwartz
�By the
sea
Emotional
Emotions
changing
Crashing
full
with
the
tide
highs
Through
Shrinking
bone
Dangerous
seasonal
dry
the
I walk
extremes
Heels
vacations
You never
What
to
ice
of
the
night,
lows
with
As constant
Like
current
Towards
shorelines
measured
as
clicking
her
stars.
like
well
where
resistance,
gives
illumination.
steps
lit
metal
electrical
room
knew
expect
From her
Douglas
Douglas
Schwartz
Schwartz
relays
�Trying
Her
to
remember
face
Forms
In a broken
kaleidoscope
Patterns
In yesterday's
clouds
Textures
Of leaves
under
the
snow
Douglas
Schwartz
�MARITAL EXPECTATIONS
by Esther
Chopp
I woke up starving,_
leapt
out of bed to wash my face
and brush my teeth
and crept
back in to await my breakfastin-bed.
I heard no clattering
of dishes,
no muffled
curses
directed
at clumsiness,
no giggles.
I jumped up again
and
looked
out the window to check if my parade
was advancing
down the street.
What, no drumbeats,
no marchers,
no horses
prancing?
Back in bed once more I sneaked
a peek under my
pillow
for the Cartier
box.
It must have slipped
down under
the covers.
No, not there.
I stripped
the bed down.
Nothing.
It must be with my breakfast
tray.
Where the hell
is that
tray,
I'm famished?
Don't
get nervous.
It's
awfully
quiet
down there.
I wonder what they're
up to.
I bet they've
invited
all our friends
over and they're
assembling
to come
up en masse.
In that
case,
better
put a face on, a little
perfume,
a sip of mouthwash.
Still
quiet.
They must have
heard me jumping
around.
All right,
I'll
play along,
I'll
pretend
I'm asleep,
the better
to surprise
me.
Sh, Stomach,
all that
grumbling
is impolite.
They'll
be up in a minute.
But, it's
been nearly
an hour.
Don't panic.
Ding, dong, ding,
dong.
The doorbell.
Oh, so that's
the game!
O.K.,
here I
come, I don't
suspect
a thing,
I'm cool.
One single
solitary
figure?
It must be a singing
telegram
or directions
for the
day.
Tney do that
sometimes.
Slam, I don't
care if I shortened his nose with my door!
Fuller
brushes
today?
What's
he
nuts?
Doesn't
he know?
Well,
now that
I'm down, let me look
around.
That's
what they probably
expect.
They're
waiting
to
jump out at me from some corner.
Kitchen:
dishes
in the sink,
garbage
on the table.
Bathroom:
wet towels
on the floor,
globs of toothpaste
in the sink,
the faucet
dripping.
Bedroom:
nightgowns
flung
across
messy beds,
dresser
drawers
ajar
vomiting
rejected
shirt
sleeves.
This must be some mistake.
I check
the calendar:
confirmed,
September
the sixteenth,
my birthday.
No kids,
no husband,
no party.
No breakfast-in-bed,
no parade,
no prancing
horses.
No gift,
no singing
telegram.
No grand
entrance
into my third
decade
of being.
Am I expecting
too
much from
marriage?
�SANS SUGAR
by Donna Decker
I haven't
been here before,
but I have,
in my mind's
eye -- I've
been here before.
The empty Kretschmer's
wheat
germ jar,
the koos koos -- a strange
wheat that
an old
natural
foods roommate introduced
me to -- the brown rice;
I know it all.
I could tell
he was a health
nut.
I could
tell
by that
strong,
firm,
brown,
tough-skinned
body.
He
looks as though
he runs ten miles
a day.
Let's
see.
What's
in the fridge?
I feel
like
a sneak.
Don't want anything
to eat;
just
want to see what's
there.
Some fresh
tomatoes,
an old moldy loaf of whole wheat bread,
a large
container
of plain
yogurt.
Oh God, what am I getting
into?
Here I'm
hoping
for some donuts,
bagels,
cookies,
stale
strawberry
short
cake even;
all the good white
sugar,
white
flour
stuff.
Not even honey here.
Ha.
I run into a health
freak.
Me, who's usually
so
paranoid
around
them.
Like they're
going to find me out or
something.
Got to pretend
I'm not into
food or I'm really
into badminton,
or jogging
or rock-climbing,
when all I
really
want to do is take long leisurely
walks and lay in
the sun for physical
activity.
Bars communication.
Guess
that's
why it never lasts.
Oh well.
Wish I had worn something
different
rather
than this
old Puma t-shirt,
dungarees
and sneakers.
This shirt
looks
as though
I've
slept
in it.
Maybe because
I have on numerous
occasions.
It's
so soft.
But where's
the sex appeal
Petrie?
Where's
the woman who used to wear black
tight
halters
with
the feathers
round the neck and dance to Reggae rhythms
till
the wee hours?
I think
she flew out the window with the
flight
of her last
lover.
Let me check out the bathroom.
You can tell
a lot about
people
by their
towels.
Wonder what time he's
getting
up.
Don't
usually
do this
sort of thing,
snooping
in people's
cabinets.
But this
one's
interesting
and I'd like
to keep
him around
for awhile,
so I'd better
see what he's
into.
One
of those
"on the road" characters.
I thought
I was through
with them when I left
Colorado.
Telling
me, "I just
want to
love you tonight
baby,
I don't
want to love you forever."
It
could be their
theme song.
Sounds like
it was written
by the
Eagles.
Like they get some sort of sadistic
pleasure
when
they visualize
you ringing
the door of their
friend's
apartment
and being almost
gleefully
told that
they're
no longer
in town.
_usually,
I j~st wanted some arms,
some company,
some
holding
for the night
myself.
This one has some of those
charactertistics;
spouting
Zen koans and Confuscian
proverbs
like
"he who travels
lightest,
travels
farthest."
I wanted
to say, "Yeah, but not necessarily
deepest."
But I didn't.
No clothes,
no lugg~ge.
Just books and journals.
No plans,
no money.
Just
seeing
as many places
as he can, being in as
many places
as he can.
I wonder if it's
also a woman contest.
But this
one seems a little
different.
I notice
so far that
he ~t least
looks at me when I'm talking.
His eyes do look
a little
starry,
but I don't
know if that
means he's
totally
here or very distant.
Petrie
no, Don't
look in the mirror.
You'll
be depressed.
Too late.
I saw it.
Pimples
and frizz.
All I see is this
blurr
of pimples
and frizz.
Whenever my hair grows out of
these
damn permanents
its
starts
looking
like
an abandoned
bi 7d's_nest.
I ~eed_some
sun to dry out my skin,
streak
my
hair with gold highlights,
mellow me out, make me sensitive
to touch again.
Cut it Petrie.
You're
here for business.
Think about business.
What do we have here?
Practically
nothing.
Some salve
for jock itch,
a razor,
a toothbrush,
Tom's natural
peppermint
toothpaste.
Bare.
The tub's
clean.
No dirty
rings,
no hair.
His white
socks look as if he bleaches
them.
He's got perfect
feet.
Small,
tan,
strong.
I have this
thing
about
feet
that
I inherited
from my brother.
He always
checks
out people's
feet.
It's
Bob's art -- to pick out the best
feet.
He used
to say, "It's
a matter
of aesthetics
-- the juxtaposition
of
the skin color
with the muscle
tone,
amount of hair
and the
proportion
of the toes to the rest
of the foot.
Are the toes
short,
fat and stubby,
while the rest
of the foot's
narrow?"
He_can ra~ble
infinitely
about foot varieties.
If they are
white,
skinny
and hairless,
they usually
aren't
worth his time.
~ut sometimes
things
just
come together
and Bob can see Heaven
in the ugliest
foot.
He believes
the foot is the gateway
to
the soul.
If you can massage
Bob's feet
and know which part
controls
his solar
plexus,
he'll
follow
you anywhere.
Hrnrnrn-- he's
got a candle
in here.
A romantic?
I wonder
if he takes
baths
with the lights
out and the candle
lit?
I
wond~r if he does it alone.
Ooh -- large
velvet
bath towels.
Imagine wrapping
myself
in that
after
a warm scented
candlelit
bath.
This guy's
got something.
When's the last
time I took
~ bath
with a man?
It's
been so long,
I'd be too depressed
if I counted.
This lack of love's
beginning
to show around the
edges -- no more spark,
no more lustre
-- these
same old boring
clothes.
Sexy underwear
used to be one of my greatest
loves.
~ow I've
seem to taken
to athletic
bras and white briefs
and
it's
not because
I'm into jogging.
Why are you hiding
this
�body Petrie?
Oh hell.
and sex -- just
a small
Dream on.
It's
part
not that
of life.
important
anyway.
Touch
Non-essential.
Ha.
The nice thing
about this
apartment
is the view of the
bay through
the back window.
I've
always wanted to live
close
to a clean
beach.
Can just
see myself,
suntanned
and firm,
walking,
writing
on the beach everyday.
I'm feeling
too strongly
for this
guy for no rational
reason.
Maybe this
guy is me in my fantasies.
I'm tonguetied,
a fool,
infatuated
around
him.
Can't
feel myself
aro~n~
him.
Think I already
blew it.
Doesn't
matter.
Been practicing
celibacy
for almost
a year now.
Gosh, let's
see.
The last
one
was Frank.
Frank.
Look at this.
Massage beads.
Guess he doesn't
have anyone to do his back for him yet.
Already
I'm thinking
about
massaging
his back.
Me, a sophisticated,
liberated
woman of
the ei-ghties.
What a joke.
If my radical
fri~nds
:eally
knew
how soft
I was inside,
first
they wouldn't
believe
it,
then
they'd
throw me out of the sisterhood
on my ass.
Why do I feel
this
guy's
a little
different?
A little_
softer,
a little
stronger.
Maybe because
he always
take~ his
time.
I've
only been with him a few times,
but I feel
hi~
attention
is totally
on exactly
what he's
doing .. Se~ms ~ike
zen or meditation.
I tried
to learn
Tibetan
meditation
in
Colorado
but it seemed so pseudo -- all the post-adolescent
hippies
~hose parents
were still
footing
~heir
bi~ls,
otherwise they wouldn't
have been in Colorado
in the fir~t
place:
sitting
on little
round pillows
in the temples
staring
straight
ahead with their
eyes wide open,
silent
for hours.
They were
"so into the head of meditation."
Even if they had no concept
of Eastern
culture,
they had that
concept
down in a_week.
Where was the insight?
I was always
turned
off.
Like the
night
I went to a party
and this
young Buddhist
wo~an from
San Francisco
told me how she hated the Colorado
winter.
I
happened
to mention
that
I'm really
com~ortable
at the beach
and wow, zap, just
like
that,
she lays in~o ~e -- about ~o~ .
I should
try meditation
for my hates,
anxieties
and hostilities.
Maybe she was right,
because
I almost
punched
her.
Wish I could see his bedroom.
He's probably
sleeping
on
the floor
to strenghthen
his back.
I wonder if he fasts.
I
hope not.
My bother
and his friend
stayed
at an ~shram in Big
Indian
New York for a few weeks one summer, and in a matter
of day~ had a couple
of staunch
North American
Buddhists
starting
to smuggle in Snickers
bars and Coca Cola -- good old Bob.
There is something
to the meditation.
Ray told me that
he sits
for an hour a day.
And he does seem to float.
There
is a difference
from the chaotic
nuts I see running
to the
ferry
during
rush hour.
Not much seems to bother
him.
Don't
trust
myself
yet.
O.K. face it.
It's
not that
you don't
want a man.
You're
afraid.
It's
that
cringing
feeling
that
when he puts his arms around
you·, he's
going to think
that
your stomach's
too big,
your breasts
sag, your thighs
are too
flabby,
you smell funny,
you don't
know how to kiss,
you
stroke
too hard,
love too soft,
or he'll
find some kind of
mark on your body that
you've
never seen and then he'll
have
his own secret
about you.
What do we have here?
Very interesting.
A collection
of Nin.
Any man who loves Nin can't
be all bad.
In order
to love Nin, some sensitivity's
got to be coming through.
Nin with her essays
on the essentialness
of femininity
in a
world of blue jeans.
"How can we float,
swirl
and feel
like
women in blue jeans?"
Nin, the French
lovely
lady asks the
contemporary
women of America.
Nin.
What else?
Some psych,
poetry,
philosophy,
literature.
Interesting.
Not too much
Buddhism.
No pop self-improvement,
a few modern novels.
I
use people's
book collections
like
Bob uses people's
feet.
I think
I hear him moving around.
him know I'm here or he might come out
second thought
Maybe I should
let
with nothing
on.
On
"Hey Ray.
You're
a half
hour late.
I let myself
in."
What a little
cutie.
No shirt,
no socks,
just
faded dungarees.
Perhaps
I'll
reconsider
my celibacy
vows.
Slow down Petrie.
This is not the time.
Time is for business.
Remember the
last
time you made lovers
out of a potential
business
partner.
Disaster.
You wound up moving in, cleaning,
driving
him
around,
being his alarm clock.
You became a fine mother
substitute.
Blew a good possibility
to record.
You've got
your own thing
going.
The trick
is, not to forget
it.
"Oh, I'm
Wild partying
comfortable.
time to stock
really
sorry
Trish.
Just
got in around
four.
going on in Tcibeca.
Sit down and make yourself
My place
is pretty
bare right
now.
Haven't
had
it."
I wish I could stop these
fantasies
of me and Ray driving
through
the Rockies,
camping at Lake Junewaska
on the top of
Senora Mountain,
standing
underneath
the falls.
Brings
me
back to my motorcycle
mountain
man in Colorado.
What a cliche.
�"Just
give me a few minutes
Then we can start
working."
and
I'll
pull
myself
together.
I hope he doesn't
cover
that
wonderful
rippling
chest.
It's
been so long that
I've
seen one that
I like.
It would
seem like
some sort
of tease
to cover
it up now.
Well it's
rapidly
disappearing
underneath
a red and black
plaid
flannel
shirt.
Now the lumberjack
images will
start
coming.
Please.
I
wish he could be a normal person.
Clean,
white-washed,
nothing
on the slate
yet.
Ray Silver
-- a nice young man, no preconceptions.
Just
a nice young man.
I don't
want a nice young
man.
I want someone strong
to hold me, to rub my back,
to wet
my thirsty
skin.
It's
been too long.
But now I've
got work
to do.
Helen:
There
was a time
you have
anything
that
resembles
coffee
around
with
and mourned
your
a frog
bicycle
and
"Sure.
Something
to
here,
straight
to the beach
accidentially
I was
you came and
to
and playing
P.S.
by me.
junior
nicotine,
sugar.
as I get out of
nourishment.
Then
show at
when we wouldn't
and
days
talk.
them
stepped
on
it.
I didn't
everyday
want
I wondered
12:00.
Then
Shortcut"
when you needed
squashed
when you
26 because
high.
"Strawberry
How I feared
me.
to
leave
what
to
I saw you
with
at
other
lunchtime
you alone
do until
jumping
first
How crushed
one
rope
graders.
I was when you
didn't.
One day
the
willow
could
it
you ran
isn't
have
gone?"
books,
you believed
during
the
middle
that
sort
worth
more
because
a pack
of
today,
the
thing
it
I told
asked
at
dollars?"
at
you,
at
Beetsy,
at
you-
8,
and
that
drank
and
the
stream
was yesterday,
you
when
was bigger
"Donna,
I was older
and
cigarettes.
laughed
it
night
Decker
They
but
me when I told
of
a million
screaming,
And since
of
doing
you had
to me,
there
When you were
Donna
II/80
at
stood
for
killed
so scared
you,
caterpillers
here?"
tea.
First
time I've
seen
blend
of herbs
and spices.
you steep
it long enough.
Make a pot."
Coffee,
caffeine,
jolt
me, make me move.
As soon
to Donut Hut.
Get some decent
to think
this
thing
through.
of
Sister
I hated
pails
day you didn't
"I just
bought
some White River
it in New York City.
Just
the right
A little
like
a strong
Darjeeling
if
The mint's
real
subtle."
when
You who collected
when I went
"Ray,
My Younger
where
had
a giant
it
up.
read
nickel
you
the
dime
You replied,
what
would
"A car,
come
I stopped
the
"Helen,
many
had
you that
took
by
was
instead.
you want
if
a house,
and
�Your
sounded
they
voice
like
took
a tugboat
out
operating
made whatever
your
while
you,
smothering
were
two.
you
said
at
eight
captain
tonsils
and
sound
almost
you had
a fever.
you with
your
funny.
years
old,
killed
Like
until
you
tea
love
it
didn't
killed
blanket
with
when we talked
and
through
for
I almost
security
You
when
see
them,
even
wince
no place
to
go.
go home and wish
over,
but
pages
on the
beach,
Puerto
you'd
you never
came and would
you
in
to
I thought
instead
yellow
when we got
sat
hand,
be scared
on your
circling
Rico
that
become
the
center
six
at
businessmen
to
suite,
Spanish,
laughing
laughing
Puerto
Rico
cases
with
at
that
during
it
the
no place
the
phone
was 4:30
middle
to
operator
A.M.
their
shut
spend
the
birthday.
off
the
You'd
Spanish
the
song
were
us to
and we were
sitting
lights
at
twelve
someone
cards
o'clock
ever
You take
in
on suit-
reading
mayonnaise
up the
put
in
I'd
them.
chunks
with
mayonnaise
in
not
and
and
on that
make you tuna
my fingers
this
let
and
to make
float
to
the
sing
in
your
your
for
teaches
in
tuna
fish.
Like
your
me,
music
in
with
near
bed
your
words.
now you
head.
at
night,
mirror,
me now.
and
stand
next
to
and
feel
the
lines
the
because
it
presents
sing
the
only
person
merge.
fish
it
you because
ketchup's
fine
of
my frantic
candles
treadmill,
and writing,
clothes
and
books
eat
breakfast
to
never
dried,
and music
with
eggs
do you
for
your
fantasies
you
anyone
told
that
to
who did
invisible
or
didn't
make you write
students,
dogs
listen.
Now your
tales
are
poems.
I'd
at
in
order
rose-
room.
You eat
crumble
mayonnaise
running,
making
was
smooth.
tell
lighting
chaos
"What
"Happy
and
calming
was
and
there
slow,
is
Donna
fine
You
revisions.
who hovered
that
loved
it
poetry,
and
and
old
my throne
always
tales
make you eggs
poem.
share
Birthday."
I'd
me draw
right
amid
make them
I'd
who knew only
·of January,
day with
let
your
the
you
you write
the
go.
whole
kept
you
music
painted
You'd
editing
The music
the
who asked
me a poem.
You'd
poet.
writing
take
I've
their
year
stage,
I renounce
laughing
out,
usually
a fine
me to
with
hotels
take
had
and want
suitcase
the
and
want
read
lines.
them
and
you'd
you
No longer
so afraid
some choppy
etching
You've
I was
and
night
Decker
and
like
cats,
that?"
�REAL STORY
by Cathy
Wyatt
We had two colored
Barber's
Shops.
One of the barbers
Buddy Branden
- was tried
and convicted
for killing
his sixteen year old son.
After
his wife died,
the truth
came out.
Lord,
I can never
forget
that
night.
His daughter
Cara fifteen years
old - she was light-skinned
and had long legs and
hair.
Everyone
used to say that
Buddy wasn't
her father.
Because
he was just
as dark as night
and her mother didn't
have much light
to her skin.
She came running
to the door
banging
and screaming
her head off.
I thought
that
someone
was after
her.
I remember my husband
Dave opening
up the
door and she came running
in with blood all over her night
clothes.
I couldn't
make out head from tail
from what she
was saying.
I told her to sit down and I gave her a cup of
water to drink.
She drank the water and looked
in my face
and said,
"Oh! aunt Katie,
my daddy done kill
my brother."
He cut him all up with his barber
razor,
now he is sitting
on the side of the bed crying
and saying
I kill
him.
"Child
where is your momma," I asked her,
she said "I don't
know.
I thought
to myself,
that
fool haven't
had enough of
running
the street
and chasing
after
every man she could.
Buddy caught
her two weeks ago fooling
around with the undertaker,
he try to kill
her.
Put her in the hospital
with a
broken
nose,
and half
blind
her right
eye.
Dave brought
me
out of my thoughts
when he say "I'll
call
the Sheriff,
you
can let her sleep
in the bed with Catherine.
I look at Dave
he was a hard working
man, keeping
up the farm the way his
father
did made him look forty-five
instead
of thirty.
His
father
had left
him the farm when he was twenty-five.
Before
that
we use to live with his parents.
After
his mother
died
from pneumonia,
his father
took to drinking
and worrying.
When he died the doctor
say it was natural
causes.
We had pigs,
cows, chickens,
and all kinds of vegetables
growing
in our garden.
Dave wouldn't
let me work in the
garden
or anything
on the farm as far as the animals
were
concerned.
He used to tell
me when I use to ask to go with
him to pick peas or milk the cows, that
his father
never
let
his mother
do anything
besides
raise
him, cook and clean
the
house,
so I am not going to let you do any.
He was even
against
me being a mid-wife.
Because
sometimes
he would come
home to find me not there
and sometimes
I was out half
of the
night,
whenever
someone had long labor
pains.
I gave Cara
some of my night
clothes
and told her to sleep with Catherine,
I told her that
everything
would be all right
in the morning.
When Dave came back into the house
he told me the
sheriff
took Buddy and the razor
down t~ the station.
The
sheriff
wouldn't
let no one see the body, because
he say
it w~s cut up_too
ba~.
The.next
day Buddy went on trial
the Jury ~on~icted
him to fifteen
years
in prison.
He was
sent to Birm 7ngham, Alabama,
to the State
Penitentiary
there.
It came out in court
t~at
his wife's
finger
prints
were on
t~e razor
as ~ell
as his.
But Buddy said in court
that
his
wife had use it early
that morning
to shave him.
He loved
that woman ~n~ everyone
in town knew it,
even she did.
He
got out of Jail
after
ten years when his wife died.
Her
lover
the undertaker
went to the Sheriff
and told him what
r~ally_happen
th~t night.
He said that
he could no longer
live with the guilt
of knowing the truth.
They didn't
do
anything
to him for holding
back the truth,
because
he was
a respectable
man and the only colored
undertaker
we had
left
in town .. He said that
Betty,
Buddy's
wife,
had asked,
Buddy for a divorce
early
that
morning
while Buddy was shaving.
Because they wanted to get marry.
But Buddy said no, he told
her that
he would kill
her first.
The undertaker
said she
came t~ him and said she will never be free as long as Buddy
was ~live.
He asked her what did she mean by that,
she said
nothing
and went away.
He didn't
think
no more about
it
u~til
that
n~ght wh~n she came running
to him, saying
I killed
him, _I cut him up with the same razor
he use shaving
this
morning.
The undertaker
said that
he was so sure that
it was
the husband,
so he told her to stay the night
with him so that
peop~e would think
she was out all night
with him.
The next
~orning
when they both heard that
it was the son in the bed
i~st~ad
o~ the father,
and that
the husband was in jail
for
killing
him.
Betty w~s afraid
to visit
Buddy, she told everyone ~hat she was afraid
that
he was going to kill
her.
The
S~eriff
went to Buddy in prison
after
his wife died and told
him what the undertaker
had told him.
After
the funeral
Buddy
went away.
He never told anyone why his son was in his bed
that night.
�On June
Singer's
by Donna
"Androgyny"
Decker
The word androgyny
is a combination
of the Greek words,
masculine
and feminine.
Throughout
Androgyny,
June Singer
-a practicing
Jungian
analyst
and author
-- shows that
both
characteristics
are present
in men and in women.
She contends
that
contemporary
men are out of touch with their
feminine
traits
and women with their
masculine,
each tending
to ignore
that
which they feel
is contrary
to their
own sexual
identity.
Problems
arise
when people
perceive
feelings
in themselves
as
threatening
and repress
them.
This fr~gments
their
own personalty
and they subsequently
cannot
relate
to themselves
or
to the other
sex.
Through
the use of myths,
the Bible,
Gnostic
and alchemistic
texts,
European
and Eastern
philosophies,
and modern
psychological
and scientific
thought,
she shows that
the idea
of the androgyne
has been with us since
the beginning
of civilization.
Soon after
people
became aware of themselves
as
sexual
beings,
they began to differentiate
between
themselves
and the other
sex.
No longer
perceiving
all
traits
within
themselves,
they split
off certain
characteristics
and projected
them onto the other.
The way back to a whole concept
of personalty
would be to realize
that
the opposing
traits
within
one sex can complement
instead
of contradict
each other.
On studying
the impact
Christianity
had on the Western
world,
she came across
reference
texts
to the Kabbalah,
the
books the Bible
was written
from.
She began to research
the
Kabbalah,
eventually
finding
that
the creation
myths recorded
in Genesis
were different
from the creation
stories
found in
the Kabbalah.
The Deity
in Genesis
is purely
masculine,
while
the creator
in the Kabbalah
is androgynous.
This fact
has been
hidden
by the patriarchal
dominance
of Christianity.
More
research
must be done in order
to integrate
"feminine"
traits
of the gods back into our culture.
Ms. Singer
sees the Womens' Movement as
recognizing
the androgynous
characteristics
long as women do not identify
too much with
thereby
devaluing
and neglecting
their
own.
case,
the movement could
then be thought
of
benefiting
all people
by making us aware of
a force
for
in both sexes,
as
"masculine"
traits
If this
were the
as humanistic,
our potentials.
In Androgyny
Ms. Singer
shows that
potentials
of the mind
are limitless
and explores
practical
ways for helping
us to
relate
to ourselves,
others,
and our environment
in a positive
way, thereby
raising
the quality
of living.
�"Feminism
and Marriage"
in
De Beauvoir's
by Kathleen
The Second
Sex
De Meo
Simone de Beauvoir
believes
that
all human beings·,
male
and female
are entitled
to liberty.
Feminism
for de Beauvoir
is the logical
extension
of a humanistic
philosophy
which
extends
to all areas
of man's behavior.
She does not hate
men nor does she deny their
historical
accomplishments.
She
is also
suspicious
of any "ism",
such as feminism,
and says,
"I utterly
revolt
at the idea of shutting
women up in a feminist ghetto."l
She prefers
to examine
all
sides
of a question
before
coming to any conclusions.
She is first
and foremost
a free person
who also believes
in feminism.
She discusses
feminism
in The Second Sex first
frmll the
historical
point
of view,
supporting
her theories
with examples
from history
and literature.
She then discusses
female
reactions
and expectations.
It is her overall
view that
there
is
no such thing
as a female
nature
separate
from a male nature.
Instead,
she speaks
of a human nature
that
has been fragmented
by historical
mistakes
and cultural
conditioning.
The basic
idea of de Beauvoir's
feminism
is the concepr
of the "Other".
As a statement
of the belief
that
the male
is definitely
the superior
of the species,
she quotes
Benda's
RAPPORT D'URIEL.
"The body of man makes sense
in itself
quite
apart
from that
of woman, whereas
the latter
seems wanting
in
significance
by itself
... man can think
of himself
without
woman,
She cannot
think
of herself
without
man."
De Beauvoir
uses this
as the base of her argument,
woman is defined
and differentiated
with reference
to man and not he with reference
to her.
She is
the incidental,
the inessential
as opposed
to the essential.
He
is the subject,
the Absolute
-- she is "The Other."2
has
As "the other",
little
hope of
she becomes
bettering
its
part
of
situation.
a minority
group
which
"Women as a group have no means of organization.
They have no past,
or history,
no
religion
of their
own.
They live
dispersed
1.
2.
Simone de Beauvoir,
pp 452-459.
Simone de Beauvoir,
pp xix-xx.
All
Said
The Second
and
Done
Sex
(New York,
(New York,
1974)
1974)
Intro.
�among males,
attached
through
residence,
housework,
economic
condition
and social
standing
to certain
men -- fathers
or husbands -- more firmly
than they are to other
women,"3
She further
contends
that
all male ideologies
are set up
to justify
the oppression
of women, and women are so conditioned
by society
that
they consent
to the oppression.
The
most obvious
institution
to consider
when discussing
women is
marriage.
Since most women expect
to marry,
and many actually
do marry,
it involves
a large
part
of the female
population.
De Beauvoir
feels
that
marriage
benefits
the male more than
the female,
but the female
actively
seeks
matrimony
more than
the male.
She has been conditioned
since
birth
at home and by
society
to expect
to marry;
she has been led to think
of
marriage
as an occupation.
If she works before
marriage,
she
usually
considers
it a temporary
condition.
This state
of
affairs
presents
a problem
today.
Society
is not as stable
both morally
and religiously
as it was before.
There is less
pressure
on a man and woman to marry today.
This is fine
for
the man, but based on past
female
orientation,
this
eliminates
an occupational
choice.
Therefore,
the female
has to create
a need,
in order
to keep a job opportunity.
Thus,
humorists
are guaranteed
laughs
when they refer
to "catching
a husband"
etc.
The male-female
situation
is so basic
to our culture,
it
has its
own place
in national
humor.
This situation
leads
to ambivalent
feelings
and attitudes
in the female.
She seeks marriage,
but she fears
it also~
Through
marriage
to a "producer",
she becomes
a full-fledged
member of the larger
society.
His work justifies
his existence
to the group,
and by extension
justifies
her existence.
Her
real
work is to 1) provide
children
to continue
the human race
and 2) to satisfy
a male's
sexual
needs and take care of his
household.4
She fears
marriage
because
her work justifies
nothing;
it is only through
her link
to a "productive"
member
of society
that
her existence
has meaning.
The female
in
marrying
often
feels
that
marriage
represents
freedom
because
she is leaving
old domination
and is carving
her own place
in
life.
It soon becomes
evident
that
her so-called
place
was
carved
for her,
not by her.
She takes
his name, belongs
to
his group and family,
socializes
with his friends
and is facetiously
referred
to as,
"the little
woman" or "the better
half"
or even perversely
as "the ball
and chain".
All of these
expressions
can be reduced
to one word,
Other".
3.
4.
IBID. p.xxii.
De Beauvoir,
Every living
activity
according
to scientists
requires
regression
and maintainance,
and for men, mar:iage
prov~des
p successful
synthesis
of the two.5
Through
his occupation
:nd contacts
outside
the home, he affects
change
externally,
and hopefully
internally.
When he is tired,
harrassed
and
put upon, he returns
to the maintenance
side of his life.
He returns
to his house,
his wife,
his children
and restores
himself
with the aid of the family.
The woman on the other
hand is locked
into maintenance
only.
There is no personal
progression,
no change;
she is doomed to repetition
and dullness.
This is what de Beauvoir
considers
the real
problem
in marriage
-- the mutilation
of the woman through
non-growth.
Even if she works outside
the home, she is treated
differently.
Her income is usually
regarded
as supplementary,
and therefore
nonessential.
The man tends
to regard
it as a rather
frivolous activity
that
puts
them in a higher
tax bracket.
If her
salary
is necessary
for survival,
she has different
problems.
she has to produce
on the job for the paycheck,
and produce
at home to avoid
the guilt
feelings
she has for leaving
the
children.
If she manages
to achieve
this
Amazonian
balance
and perhaps
manage to advance
in her job,
she has still
other
problems.
If her job involves
travel,
or transferring
to
other
cities,
it is unlikely
that
a husband
would fe~l
compelled
to cooperate.
But if his job involved
travel
or moving,
she
would be expected
to go along
even if she had her own career.
This is what society
reinforces.
De Beauvoir
looks
at every
aspect
of marriage,
and is
convinced
at every
turn that
it is a man's world.
She sees
housework
as a negative
struggle.
A woman accomplishes
no
permanent
good.
She simply
beats
back dirt
for a little
while.
She fights
to maintain
a status-quo
which is hardly
ever noticed.
She does not "produce"
something
from an activity
that
is of
benefit
to the larger
society.
De Beauvoir
dismisses
cooking
as a temporarily
satisfying
but non-permanent
activity,
and she
views shopping
as having
some benefits
because
it takes
the
woman out of the house and forces
her into
a social
activity.6
De Beauvoir
has eliminated
every
aspect
of marriage
as a suitable occupation.
What remedies
does de Beauvoir
offer
for this
of matrimony?
First,
she would eliminate
all civil,
and societal
rules.
It is her feeling
that
private
ships
should
remain
private,
and the world at large
5.
6.
Second
Sex pp 475-540.
IBID.
De Beauvoir,
The Second
Sex.
sad state
religious,
relationhas nothing
�to say about
them.
Her ideal
is "for entirely
self-sufficient
individuals
to form unions
one with another
only in accordance
with the untrammeled
dictates
of their
mutual
loves.
Love is
an outward
movement,
an impulse
toward
another
person,
toward
an existence
separate
and distinct
from one's
own, toward
an
end, a goal a future.
Conjugal
love,
on the other
hand,
leads
to all kinds
of repression
and lies.7
It is for the individual
alone
to determine
whether
his will
in general
and his behavior
in detail
are to be such as to continue
or break
off the relationship,
•. " She makes it clear
that
the individual's
freedom
is everything,
and the state,
society
and religion
should
not
interfere.
An example
of this
type of relationship
would be
the one she maintained
with Sartre
for over fifty
years.
They
never married;
they chose to live
together
as free
individuals.8
She suggests
that
each individual
should
be integrated
into
society
at large,
where each (male and female)
could
flourish
without
aid,
then form attachments
through
generosity.
not
She blames
the
the individuals.
institution
of marriage
for
all
the
failures,
Her arguments
have eliminated
every
reason
for considering
marriage
as an occupation.
It is a relationship
for both male
and female.
The female
must be defined
and differentiated
in
reference
to herself,
not any "other".
7.
8.
IBID.
De Beauvoir,
Encyclopedia
Brittanica.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
De Beauvoir,
Simone
Encyclopedia
Brittanica.
De Beauvoir,
Simone
The Second Sex (New York,
Introduction,
and "The Married
Woman".
De Beauvoir,
Translated
Simone
All
by Patrick
Said and
O'Brien,
1974)
Done (New York,
pp 452-459.
1974)
��\
�
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AWAW5
1981
Feminism
literary magazine
magazines
poetry
The College of Staten Island
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ALL WAYS
~
WOMAN
�The editorial
staff
wishes to thank the Student Government
of the College of Staten
Island for providing
funds for the
printing
of this magazine.
The cooperation
of the Student
Government staff
in accepting
the proposal
to produce this
third edition
is greatly
appreciated.
In particular,
we
would like to thank Kathy McKenna for her help.
The first
two editions
of ALL WAYSA WOMAN
were funded
by a New York State HEA Title
I grant awarded by th~
New York State Board of Regents to Virgina
Hauer of the
Internship
Program.
We would also like to thank
her patience
and persistence.
Liz Porter,
"It is the policy
of the editorial
staff
to accept all material
for consideration
color,
creed,
religion,
national
origin,
our typist,
of this publication
regardless
of race,
age or sex."
Copyright
@ 1980, by ALL WAYSA WOMAN,The College
Staten
Island.
All rights
reserved;
no reproduction
the permission
and written
consent of the contributors.
Faculty
advisor:
Professor
Jo Gillikin
Editors:
Donna Decker, Barbara Nalewajk
Editorial
Assistant:
Helen Decker
Layout/typist:
Liz Porter
Business
and Technical
Advisor:
Regina T. Smith
Cover:
Marlene Superior
Illustrator:
Bernadette
Golden Panelli
ALL WAYSA WOMAN
Volume I,
#3,
1980
for
of
without
�Editorial
We have been involved
with Always a Woman since its
conception
in 1978.
From that time, our publishing
skills
have grown and changed as has the written
material.
The
biggest
accomplishment
was learning
that publishing
a magazine isn't
as impossible
as it had originally
sounded
and like anything
else it takes hard work, planning
and
one step at a time.
The magazine is our creative
endeavor and excites
us
as we see it take shape from talking
about it to actually
holding
it in our hands.
It is our hope that as you browse
you will come across
a poem, picture
or prose piece that
expresses
something you have thought or felt
in a new and
meaningful
way.
If we can communicate in that way, we have
fulfilled
our purpose.
Professor
Jo Gilliken,
our faculty
advisor
and founder
of the magazine has helped us along the way and made those
dark times much brighter.
Without her knowledge,
endurance,
inspiration
and boundless
energy, we might still
be in the
planning
stages.
She is a teacher
in the truest
sense of
the word.
Another person who has continually
given her help and
energy is Regina
T. Smith - our technical
adviser.
We have
benefited
greatly
by her expertise.
Thank you Jo,
to you, our readers
Donna Decker
Helen Decker
Barbara Nalewajk
Regina,
our writers
and illustrators
for this chance to reach you.
and
�TAB
L E
C O N T E N T S
0 F
Aci:now~edgements
............•.
Ed1tor1al
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p.
p.
1
2
LYNDA BLUM
Somewhere
in February
....................•.........
From the Poetry
of Anne Sexton .....................
Three Women Sat at a Table .........................
Unequal
Modern Equations
......•....................
Amaretta
...........................................
Bless
You, Salina
..................................
We Ride Together
...................................
"MOMA".......................................•.....
p.
p.
p.
p.
p.
p.
p.
p.
4
5
5
6
7
7
8
9
DONNA DECKER
Late for Opie--My
Great
Grandfather
................
Upon My Sister's
Leaving ...........................
Haiku ..............................................
p.1O
p.11
p .11
HELEN DECKER
She's
a Music Woman ................................
This Woman .........................................
p.12
p.13
DONNA FAHEY
Spring .............................................
p.14
M. ELIZABETH O'CONNOR
A Caution
to the Self-Pitying
...•....•.............
The Beast
of Burden ................................
p.15
p .16
DOUGLAS SCHWARTZ
For $35 a Month ....................................
Alphabet
Soup ......................................
Silver
Lake ...........•.......•.....................
Airport
..............................•.............
p.17
p .1 7
p .18
p .18
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POETRY
L.
I.
terMEULEN
Girl ...•...........•...............................
p.19
PROSE
VICKI ALBERTI
The Ideas
of the Contemporary
Women•s Movement .....
SHIRLEY AVERSA
The Last Challenge
.......................•.........
DONNA DECKER
A Life
of One"s Own ................................
DEBRA OLSEN
An Interview
with Maria Mastropiero
................
MARI HAYES WETTEREAU
Woman and Her Symbols ..............................
TOM DUNN: Back Cover
BERNADETTE GOLDEN PANELLI: Illustrator
MARLENE SUPERIOR:
Front
Cover
p.2O-44
p.45
p.48
p.55
p. 6 3
�Somewhere
Somewhere
in February
in February
I lost
I lost
my soul
my soul
Positive
the garbage men picked it up
Saturday
morning at 10:15
I ran after
them until
I reached
the flower market
in Mexico City.
Rivera was painting
murals on the lilies
and no one would speak to me except an Indian boy
whose penis bore the sign: "purified
water"
Try the Sun Pyramid, he said.
The tour bus was leaving
when my neighbor
ran out of orange juice.
I arrived
at night and the Sun Pyramid was closed.
A group of peasants
near the Inca ruins
were cleaning
their
storm windows with purified
water
from the Indian boy's penis,
a sure sign of spring.
I was about to ask for my lost soul when the Rumba Dancers
from the hills
of Touluca made me sing "My Romance."
I don't know all the words
and it's
not a rumba, I tell
them.
Antonio,
their
leader,
slaps my face and threatens
to kill me.
He tells
me my daughter
isn't
allowed in the temple
with red sneakers.
I take her home.
She changes to blue ones.
When I return,
Antonio is waiting
for me.
My left breast
is singing
"My Romance"
while my right
breast
does the rumba.
Antonio is ready to tell
me where my soul is
but he finds it difficult
to speak.
by Lynda Blum
�Poem
From the
poetry
of Anne Sexton:
the two sisters
came to curry favor
and the white dove pecked their
eyes
out.
and the white dove scratched
their
eyes out
scratched
their
eyes out
and tore their
faces
their
faces
and blood came
and blood dripped
down
and they tasted
the blood that dripped
down
and the white dove tore their
breasts
the white dove tore their
breasts
off
and he tasted
the blood that dripped
down
and he ate the blood and their
breasts
the white dove ate their
blood and tore their
thighs
and they tasted
the blood and opened their
legs
wider
they tasted
the blood that dripped
down
and opened their
legs wider.
Lynda Blum
Untitled
Three women sat at a table
discussing
their
fears
one was afraid
to live
another was afraid
to love
and the other was afraid
of being alone.
They decided
that the one who was afraid
to live
should die,
the one who was afraid
to love
should hate,
and the one who was afraid
of being alone
should become a poet.
Lynda Blum
�Unequal
Modern
Equations
Tied to house and children
bound
in eight
foot walls,
yellow
kitchens,
garage
doors.
Metal.
Stone.
There is an antique
island,
an eternal
cabin
in Vermont.
A particular
hand made city
carved
in wood devoid
of modern
structures,
finished
basements
and which side
of the bed is yours.
We stand
in cement.
On your side,
children
carving
letters
in your skin.
We are bound
as I sink in against
you an unequal
modern
equation
that
ends in subtracting
garage
windows from the rest
of the house a particular
carpenter's
delight
and me an island
in the living
room.
Middle
class
Staten
Island
washes
energy
off its
floors.
Stand at the side
of my house and hear her scream particular
mad songs.
Choking,
vomiting
she cannot
bound
from the culture
that
keeps her head in a garage
until
her husband
King/
Lord/
Man/
Modern
comes home.
We are chained
in present
without
past
or future.
Visions
of an
men who keep time in a garage
when they touch me.
On Melba St.,
in
a cylinder,
women are bleeding.
Blood
artists
paint
a particular
time.
island,
Modern,
side
bound
moon sign.
Hunchback
and Saint
particular
phases
in the wheel.
A modern
invention.
I go forward,
back.
Bound
to the men of this
island.
No woman is free.
We crawl
from side
to side,
animals
in a garage,
journal
keepers.
Energy
imprisoned
in a garage,
our backs
on a car ramp waiting
for your particular
praise.
And what if we turn on our side
and face ourselves
convinced
that
modern
sisters
need no men on their
island
The lie,
that
in each other
we are not bound,
will
give us strength
to bound through
the garage
only to end on another
island
where particular
women deform from bending
to the modern side.
by Lynda
Blum
�Amaretta
inside
the lobster,
I look for images.
Larry
thinks
I'm a pig for ordering
two
and punishes
me by not accepting
a taste.
George says I'm a princess.
He would like
to sleep
with me.
Janet
sits
up straight
attempting
to intimidate
me with her
tremendous
breasts.
She doesn't
like
fish.
George kisses
her.
The lobster
whispers
to me.
I'm not in the mood and cover his
tail
with butter
sauce.
Frigid
bitch
hypocrite,
he yells,
and
threatens
to call
the Rabbi.
I tell
him I have my period.
He quiets
down.
That is how we separate
the men from the boys
George and I do the mambo
while
Larry
and Janet
like
two baby red lobsters
make love on the couch.
Lynda
Bless
You,
Blum
Salina
From place
to different
place
hidden
beneath
behind
a photograph
you dance on the mat
you were born on
jarring
and turning
in a night
garden
woven
of rust
and russet
until
the voice
becomes
louder
and
more emphatic,
the mountain
unruly
and the wind lies
flat
against
your
running.
Lynda
Blum
I say.
�Untitled
We ride together,
~he last stop hers
an old woman sleeps
in the sand
I am 23 that summer. Long haired
and thin.
She would stare
at my thighs
then look down at her own grey legs
legs that were layered
layered
and peeling
like old wallpaper.
If I looked at her, she would turn to her shopping bags
filled
with old newspapers.
Her quilt
to cover in the sand.
She would say
this is what age is
age is wondering when your
thighs
We ride together,
the last
and I never smiled or said
stop hers
goodnight.
last
opened.
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�1.
"Moma"
Listen Mister
that goddamn museum
is bullshit
the only thing
I ever liked about it
was the yellow taxi
squashed
the way my mother
squashed my hand
when she was angry
its gone now
replaced
by the lead pipe
on the floor
a sculpture
Listen Mister
There is no art
in a tomb
the art teacher
knows it
he's paid to lecture
"it's
the action
the action
notice
the blue
and yellow"
the guard knows
as he watches the
museum walkers
carefully
pacing
their
steps from picture
to picture
Listen Mister
animals
in the zoo
along with stares
and evil pranks of children
are at least
fed
twice daily
by Lynda Blum
1.
Museum of Modern Art.
�Late
for
Opie-
my Great
Grandfather
I walk the beach alone-late
afternoon
in April.
With smells of an unsmothered
fire,
you appear.
Good. There is something
I want to tell you.
I sneaked out of your funeral
early.
changed in my car into dungarees,
and drove out to the beach to find my young lover.
You had quickly
receded.
Now you've returned.
to shake you on your
I have regained
my chance
deathbed and cry
Rage!
You jump
pick the
teach me
grinning
I kiss
listen
up, no more the
heaviest
bowling
to eagle-eye
the
while I beat the
frail
slight
ball
pins,
boys.
your unshaven hollow cheek,
carefully
to one more fishing
and say,
"I had to laugh
at that
dummy they
old
skeleton
of a man,
story
left
in your casket.
Grandpa and your favorite
dog had died earlier
that year
and I could no longer grieve for anyone who left me,
barely crying in the hallway when they told me you had gone.
Screaming now,
in case you're
still
like you,
when you yelled,
deaf,
"Horses, Horses,
Horses,
at the top of your lungs
in jump-rope rhythm.
Yell
Sing
ta-da-da
Horses!"
for me, Opie.
it again.
Donna Decker
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�Upon my Siter's
Black as pitch islandlit on one endred light
shining
between
the blinks.
It's
30? Four days before Christmas.
I stand alone on the edge of this ferry
and begin to nurse what is real.
You are
leaving
me.
The breath's
caught in my throat.
It won't be born and remains therea warped, strangled
cry.
A cry for you sister,
disguised
for
you alone.
I dance my death chant on the edge of the
I chant and hum and walk round in circles.
I read poems about crushed hen's bones,
poems about tearing
open wounds,
splitting
belliesguts spill
out all bloody.
Your face passos,looming
floating
like a drifting
I smother
it
in the
ferry.
close,
cloud.
boat's
wake.
Donna Decker
Haiku
I
You a feather,
brush my cheek
float
by,
Stealing
my peace.
II
Kiss my head sun.
Dusk is comming to the
city.
Donna
Decker
�Untitled
She's a music womangot piano keys for fingerscymbals for breastsgot a small brown monkey that
Her two legs are dancing
Nightime,
the stars
drop
knock knees.
cranks
a box for
pennies.
partners
doing the tango on the patio.
swings for them to sit on and kiss-
She's got a flute
for a mouth.
Listen to her play Pied Piper down Madison Avenue.
All the children
come from behind cement gates to follow
"Lady, Lady, your slip's
hanging."
In local bars she'd sit on the corner stool,
finish
up five glasses
of Chablis and say,
"Misters,
I got a song for you."
"Ha Ha- Look at
the lady
fool."
She'd play an um-pa-pa tune
and tell about her daddy
and her gypsy mama with the gold
"Ha Ha- Look at
the
lady
earrings.
fool."
The finale
was always how the lumberjack
wanted to marry her.
But she was a dove, "fragile
and white"
and she had wings while he had axes.
next
door
she said,
"Ha Ha- Look at the lady fool,"
they all yell out the door when she leaves.
She claps for herself
all the way home
and inside
she has a twenty-five
year uld lover
who plays with her hair at night.
She's a music woman.
Goes on the roof at nightspot-light
moonher shadow passes through
the neighbors'
windows.
Helen
Decker
and whisper-
�Untitled
This woman I'm telling
calls
herself
a poet.
A wounded womanwho lived outside
you about
by the water
At night he'd come to the
with a tray of foodleave it there and knock.
She'd
look
out
I asked
her,
shed.
shed door
the window and watch
watch her breasts
and then watch it
She called
in a cement
the man walk away,
grow as the moon became full
shimmer down into a sliver.
the moon- Mama.
"When did
you come out?"
"When the moon was full
and my breasts
full with milk
and my womb full with blood.
I'd open the shed door
and run to the water
feeling
shells
under my feet
and slime rub against my thighs when I swam far enough
I'd turn on my back and howlfeel the blood stir
from the end of my toesripple
in the water
echo
in the night.
I'd look to his bedroom window.
He'd be scanning
the backyard with a flashlight.
The morning after
he'd forget
my breakfast,
come around noon.
He'd say,
"Them werewolves
were out back last nightyou better
lock this door tonightyou hear?"
by Helen
Decker
�Spring
I lay dormant, waiting
for you.
Bare branches
echo my emotions,
arteries
without
a pulse.
Roots that will extend no further
into the cold, hard
The cold whiteness
covers me
and hides my inner beauty.
No one can see•what
I can produce,
for in this cold, hard, winter,
I produce nothing.
Somehow the visions
of what could be come to me
and through the darkness,
I feel you.
Your bright
warmth melting
my snow, softening
my soil.
My arteries
pulsate
life
throughout
my body.
My branches
now bud under your mellow passions.
Creativity
begins to return
to me.
My beauty is no longer hidden but now displayed.
ground.
Donna Fahey
�,________________
A Caution
to the
/
Self-Pitying
To wallow in woe
Is fatal
you know.
It's
pleasing
to Satan
Who's gleefully
waiting
With quivering
jowl
Your earthly
withdrawal.
M. Elizabeth
The Beast
O'Connor
of Burden
I am the beast of burden.
Along with other beasts
I labor
In environs
about Mount Tabor.
We carry people and their
stuff
From place to place,
o'er smooth
and rough.
Today a fellow rented me.
How gentle
and soft-spoken
he
Who had been summoned by command
To take an economic stand
In one set place where all must tell
They're
very much alive and well.
Officialdom
brooks no delay.
We both set forth at dawn of day.
Joined by a third,
most fair of face
Imbued it seemed by endless
grace.
We met a cold, impersonal
On reaching
the appointed
No traveller
could hope to
Where FILLED UP signs were
frown
town
stay
on display.
Now as we moved from house to house
I sensed that something was amiss.
My master ran from place to place
Where doors were shuttered
in his face.
His final
effort
raised
the ire
Of one lone landlord,
filled
with
Of anger; until
he could see
The measure of our misery.
fire
con't
/
�He placed us in an empty lot
Adjacent
to his sumptuous plot.
There a male child was born to the
second traveller.
As the boy entered
the world, we were enraptured
by
celestial
melody; the ground around all
was enveloped
in ethereal
radiance.
Time
held its breath.
Presently
there came
a handful
of field
beasts
with shepherds
who claimed to have heard an Angel of God.
While back
Meanwhile
at
the palace:
Great Herod Antipas
soaked his head.
Forgetting
to wet with wine his bread
And well he might in terror
groan:
"Who dares to knock me off my throne?"
in Rome:
Augustus,
reviewing
his taxpayers'
Discovered
one entry so odd.
He roared "Who among you blasphemes
While pointing
his pencil
to God.
list,
my name?"
M. Elizabeth
O'Connor
�For $35.00
a Month
In my room
Cracks flow across
the wall
Like veins draining
my life
away
Splintered
mirrors
Look for lights
to reflect
Neighbors
pound on the wall
As Mozart jumps around the room
The gas left
three days ago
Frozen bathroom pipes
Burst like bloated
bellies
of dead rats
My phone dies
Alone in the silence
of debtor's
prison
And to think Theresa left
Because she found this place
dull
Douglas
Alphabet
Schwartz
Soup
Her voice
Drifted
across
the broken formica
Through a table
setting
of realities
Cracked plates,
unmatched utensils,
She spoke of dinner out
Her words surrounding
everything
Demanding recognition
But I was so broke
I couldn't
even pay attention
Douglas
tired
&:hwartz
chairs
�Silver
Lake
At sunset
In the tarnished
lake mirror
I could see his hands
Struggling
to carve rough wood
Into strong beautiful
horses
Ready to ride us
To decent meals in well lit rooms
With glasses
of golden wine
Precious
alcohol
preserves
Both the living
and the dead
Douglas
Schwartz
Airport
Her solid facade was dissolving
In the quicklime
of green mixed drinks
After awhile you could see it
Sara wants to love Gods
Not men
She talks
for hours
Her flailing
arms
Gesturing
wildly
Calling
in heavy aircraft
Filled
with empty dreams
Into the barren
field
Of her emotions
Douglas
Schwartz
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Girl
-
I know things
I have secret
places
to hide
the things
I
know in and
you will never
find me. Look.
I see things
I have special
eyes all over
my self for
seeing the things
you will never
know about.
So.
;
--
I have things
I have sacred
objects
to hide
in all the
secret
places
that
only I can
see with my
There.
special
eyes.
L. I.
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�THE IDEAS OF THE CONTEMPORARYWOMEN'S MOVEMENT
by Vicki
Alberti
Feminism
didn't
totally
die in the
years
following
1920; it just
lay dormant,
buried
in other
issues.
The depression
of the 30's,
the threat
of fascism,
the Cold War,
and McCarthyism,
distracted
and smothered
any possible
women's
liberation
causes.
However,
in the
early
1960's
a
new feminism
arose,
one with new focuses
and stronger
determination
than ever before.
This rebirth
began among middle
class
women (students
and housewives)
who had some time,
money, and
education.
Beginning
with
the civil
rights
and anti-war
causes
they
gradually
progressed
to more self-oriented
activities.
Formal equality
was no longer
the issue,
for these
women recognized
that
equal
rights
in the
public
arena
was notenough.
Male dominance
and female
subordination
have shaped
the new movement.
The identity
which society
has assigned
women is being
challenged
by four distinct
groups:
Conservative,
androgynous,
socialist
and radical.
These
groups
within
the movement
all
advocate
full
freedom
for
women.
However,
these
four feminist
groups
differ
in their
analysis
of the origins
of women's
oppression,
of why the inferior
status
of women has persisted,
and of the techiques
for the changes
needed
to end sexism.
The treatment
of women(mostly
students)
active
in the
civil
rights
and anti-war
movements
caused
those
women to
become aware
of their
inferior
status.
Young women were
drawn to the movements
for the same reasons
as men were.
According
to Barbara
Easton,
"They were outraged
at a society
that
professed
democratic
and humanitarian
principles while
practicing
racism
and military
aggression."
1.
Within
the movements
women were forced
to take a back seat.
Stokely
Carmichael,
as quoted
by Germaine
Greer
in
her
book The Female Eunuch,
said:
"The only position
for women
in S.N.C.C.
(Student
Non-Violent
Coordinating
Committee)
is prone
(lying
face down)."2
Thus in the
name of
fighting for the liberation
of people
at home and
abroad
women
were
being
asked
to subordinate
themselves
to the
male
leaders.
Sure they were useful
at the typewriter,
the
mimeograph
machine,
in the kitchen,
and in bed, but all policy-making
decisions
were men's
affairs.
Even women's
complaints
of their
treatment
weren't
taken
seriously.
According to Barbara
Deckard:
�The women in these groups found again and again
that men considered
their
complaints
trival.
Bringing
up the women's issue is "bourgeois,"
the women were told;
it diverts
attention
from
the real problems.
A paper written
by two SNCC
women in 1965 produced such reaction
from male
radicals,
"Catcalls,
storms of ridicule
and verbal
abuse" -- "She just needs a good screw" -- greeted
attempts
to bring up the women's issue at a 1965
SDS conference.
Women demanding attention
to women's liberation
at an SDS convention
in 1966
"were pelted
with tomatoes
and thrown out of the
convention.
3
Another inequality
that was contributing
to the new awareness
of their
inferior
status
was that in the
fifties
and sixties
women were attending
college
in
greater
numbers than ever before.
They were receiving
the
same professional
training
as men but were being forced after
graduation
to make a choice between raising
a family or having
a career.
There was no such thing as doing both. More importantly,
women were expected
to become "the happy housewife,"
and find fulfillment
in their
role as mothers and
wives. Some educated
and some uneducated
women, who "chose
family instead
of career,
found themselves
quite discontented. And when they went to work either
by choice or need,
they found
themselves
discriminated
against
because
of
their
sex.
According
to Barbara Deckard:
"Whatever a woman's education,
when she entered
the labor force she
encountered
discrimination.
She made less money than a man
with the same education,
and her chances of promotion
were
much less."
4 Not only were women discriminated
against
in
the labor force,
they were still
fundamentally
responsible
for homemaking and childrearing
even if they worked
outside of the home.
This doubled their
burden.
The hypocrisy
women faced in the new left,their
experience as "the happy housewife,"
and their
economic
experience in the work force created
a lot of discontent
among
women and a women's movement began to emerge.
Four ideologies all dealing
with women's status
have mushroomed
and
are important
to understanding
contemporary
feminism.
To present
conservative
or middle of the
road
feminism,which
seems to have mushroomed out of the discrepanc)
between the reality
of womens lives and the image to which
they were trying
to conform that of "the happy housewife,"
I am going to use
Betty Friedan's
book The Feminine Mystique.
It represents
the middle-class
wing of the movement's
analysis
of the origin
of women's
oppression,
the
results
of it, why it has persisted,
and what can be done
to liberate
women.
�According
oppression
lay
which says:
to Betty
Friedan,
in what she calls
the root
cause
the"feminine
of women's
mystique,"
that
the highest
value
and the only commitment
for women is the fulfillment
of their
own femininity
... femininity
is so mysterious
and intuitive
and close
to the creation
and origin
of
life
that
man-made science
may never be able to
understand
it.
But however
special
and different,
it is in no way inferior
to the nature
of man; it
may even in certain
respects
be superior.
The
mistake,
says,
the mystique,
the root of women's
troubles
in the past
is that
women envied
men,
women tried
to be like
men, instead
of accepting their
own nature,
which can find
fulfillment
only in sexual
passivity,
male domination,
and
nurturing
maternal
love.
5
This old prejudice
that
the earlier
feminists
fought
hard to destroy,
reappeared
in the 1940's
and derived
its
power
from Freudian
thought.
Freud's
definition
of the
sexual
nature
of woman gave
the mystique
its
authority.
The concept
of
"penis
envy" was accepted
as all
that was
wrong with women.
''It was woman's
nature
to be ruled
by
man, and her sickness
to envy him."6
According
to
Freud:
"Normal"
femininity
is achieved,
the woman finally
renounces
all
her own, all her own "originality,"
and fulfill
herself
through
the
goals
of husband,
or son.
7
only
active
insofar
as
goals
of
to identity
activities
and
The many popularizers,
sociologists,
educators,
adagency manipulators,
magazine
writers,
cocktail-party
authorities
all seized
on this
analysis
of women without
even knowing
it.
8.This
forced
many women into
the role
of
full-time
housewife.
For women learnt
from all
these
agents
that
force
feed them, that
they were to concern
themselves
solely
with
their
husbands,
their
children,
and
happiness
in their
role.
Domesticity
was a woman's purpose
in life.
(Women who sought
careers
were considered
to be
neurotic,
unfeminine,
and unhappy.
"Career
woman" became
a dirty
word.)
9
However,
the opposite
occurred.Those
women who bought
the mystique
were
finding
themselves
hopelessly
neurotic
and devoid
of any kind of happiness.
And they couldn't
understand
why.
They had everything
that
they ever
dreamed
of.
They were married,
had four children,
and lived
in a
nice suburban
home. They were an equal
partner
to a manand
�were "free,"
free
to choose
automobiles,
clothes,
appliances,
and
supermarkets."
10 Yet there
was this
yearning,
this
unexplainable
yearning
that
each wife struggled
with
alone.
As she made the beds,
shopped
for groceries,
matched
slipcover
material,
ate peanut
butter
sandwhiches
with her children,
chauffeured
Cub
Scouts
and Brownies,
lay beside
her husband
at
night-she
was afraid
to ask even herself
the
silent
question
- - "Is this
all?"
11,
Women were
ashamed to admit their
dissatisfaction
with
their
vocation,
for "What kind of woman was she if she did
not feel
this
mysterious
fulfillment
waxing
the
kitchen
floor?"
12,Thus,
women never
knew that
they weren't
alone,
that
other
women shared
the same problem.
The problem
with
no name."
According
to Friedan,
"The problem
with
actually
a lack of self,
which is a direct
ing to conform
to the feminine
mystique.
no name,"
result
of
is
try~
The feminine
mystique
permits,
even encourages,
women to ignore
the question
of their
identity.
The mystique
says they can answer
the question
"Who am I?" by saying
"Tom's wife ...
Mary's
mother."
13
More importantly,
in terms of the feminine
mystique,
women
are not expected
to grow up to find out who they are,
to
choose
their
human identity.
"Anatomy is woman's
destiny,
say the theorists
of femininity,
the identity
of
women is
determined
by her biology."
14 So those women who choose
the path of "feminine
adjustment,"never
grow up and end up
lost,
confused,
lonely,
angry,
a stranger
to
themselves,
but with babies,
husbands,
and homes.
The mystique
has also had
a powerful
effect
on young
girls.
They saw their
mothers
and recognized
that
they
didn't
want to
become like
them, even though
they
loved
them,
they felt
they
would succeed
where their
mothers
failed,
and would fulfill
themselves
as women, never
reading the lesson
of their
mother's
lives.ls
The terror
of becoming like
their
mothers
also made them afraid
to grow up.
It caused
them to retreat
from all
things
inside
themselves
and the opportunities
that would have made them different
women. Such was the case of this
seventeen-year-old
girl:
�Lately,
I look into
the mirror,
and I'm so afraid
I'm going
to look like
my mother,
It frightens
me, to catch
myself
being
like
her in gestures
or
speech
or anything,
I'm not like
her in so many
ways,
but if I'm like
her in this
one way perhaps
I'll
turn
out like
my mother
after
all.
And that
terrifies
me ...
And finally,
in panic
at losing
herself,
she turned
her back on her own popularity
and defied
the conventional
good behavior
that
would have won her a college
scholarship.
For
lack of an image that
would help her grow up as
a woman true
to herself,
she retreated
into
the
beatnik
vacuum.
16.
This waste
of human self
is perpetuated
and kept
into
existence
by America
itself.
The real
business
of America
is business.
Our industrial
culture
is dependent
upon women as consumers
to keep the economy functioning.
The purpose of the mass media and advertising
is to sell
products
through
persuasion.
And it will
use any device
to secure
consumers.
The media's
overwhelming
ability
to manipulate
produces
uncontrollable
fear by exploiting
personal
needs
and possible
shortcomings
and then it offers
heavy product
consumption
as a relief,
an answer
to all
problems,
including close
relationships
that
of family,
love,
and
friendship.
Advertising
distorts
and degrades
all human
values
for its
own ends.
And ''femininity
makes women the best
targets
and victims
of the sexual
sell."
17.
To their
own profit,
and that
of their
clients,
the manipulators
discovered
that
millions
of
supposedly
happy housewives
have complex
needs
which home-and-family,
love and children
cannot
fill.
18.
And it is believed
that,
properly
manipulated,
housewives
can be given
the sense
of identity,
creativity,
the self-realization,
even the sexual
lack--by
the buying
of things."
19.
"American
purpose,
joy they
However,
the advertisers
that
glorify
the role
of the
housewife
in order
to sell
washing
machines,
cake mixes,
deodorants,
detergents,
face creams,
hair
dyes,
know
that
her lack of identity
in that
role
will
get her to buy, buy,
buy; they even get her to buy the image.
And so
a whole
lifestyle
is created
for her.
Thus,
the condition
of women
is perpetuated
and kept
in existence.
Women chained
to the
pursuit
of sexual
fulfillment;
motherhood,
and the possesion of material
things
ultimately
evade human growth.
�To end this
oppression
which has buried
millions
of
women alive,
women must make the effort
to become full
human beings.
Women must find meaningful
work outside
of the
home. Work away from home has been the long-standing
means
by which men have been able to test
and evaluate
who they
are and thereby
achieve
identity.
And it was women who
made the "mistaken
choice"
not to.
According
to Friedan:
A mystique
does not
compel its own acceptance.
For the feminine
mystique
to have "brainwashed"
American
women of nonsexual
human purposes
for
more than fifteen
years,
it must have filled
real
needs
in those
who seized
on it for others
and those
who accepted
it for themselves.
20.
And at the time the
feminine
mystique
was accepted,
there
was a real
emptiness.
Due to the depression,
the war,
and
the atom bomb, people
were struck
with the
uncertainty
of
a cold and changing
world.
Home and children
were a comforting
reality
to both men and women.
Moreover,
it was
easier
for women
to think
about
love and sex rather
than
about
communism,
McCarthy,
or the bomb.
Thus, many women
avoided
"personal
commitment
to truth
in a catch-all
commitment
to 'home'
and 'family'.
21.
Therefore,
it is essential
for women to take
advantage of their
education
and use their
creative
energy
for
responsible
work in society.
If they don't
they will
forfeit
their
own humanity.
According
to Friedan:
It was not a minor matter,
their
mistaken
choice.
We now know that
the same range of potential
ability exists
for women as for men.
Women, as well
as men, can only find
their
identity
in work that
uses their
full
capacities.
A woman cannot
find
her identity
through
others--her
husband,
her
children.
She cannot
find it in the dull
routine
of housework.
As thinkers
of every age have said,
it is only when a human being
faces
squarely
the
fact
that
he can forfeit
his own life,
that
he
becomes
truly
aware of himself,
and begins
to
take his existence
seriously.
Sometimes
this
awareness
comes from a more subtle
facing
of
death:
the death
of self
in passive
conformity,
in meaningless
work.
The feminine
mystique
prescribes
just
such a living
death
for women.
Faced with the slow death
of self,
the American
woman. must take
her life
seriously.
22.
�To present
androgynous
feminism,
which seems to have
mushroomed
out of
the discrepancy
between
the reality
of
women's sexuality
and the image to which they were
trying
to conform,
that
of "the stereotype,"
I am going to
use
Germaine
Greer's
book The Female Eunuch.
It also represents
the more moderate
wing of the movement's
analysis
of
the origin
of women's oppression,
the results
of it,why
it
has persisted,
and what can be done to liberate
women.
According
to Germaine
Greer,
the root
cause of
women's oppression
lay in society's
stereotyped
attitudes
about women's
identity.
This stereotype,
the Eternal
Feminine,
is the dominant
image of femininity
that
rules
our
culture
and one which all women are
conditioned
to aspire
to.
It says:
She is the Sexual
Object
sought
by all men, and by
all women.
She is of neither
sex, for she herself
has no sex at all.
Her value
is solely
attested
by the demands she excites
in others.
All she
must contribute
is her existence.
She need achieve nothing,
for she is the award of achievement.
She need never
give positive
evidence
of
her moral character
because
virtue
is assumed
from her loveliness,
and her passivity
... Innocently
she may drive
men to madness
and war.
The more trouble
she can cause,
the more her
stocks
go up, for possession
of her means more
the more demand she excites.
23.
To go further,
"she must be young,
her body hairless,
her
flesh
buoyant,
and she must not have a sexual
organ."24
In
essence,
she is a castrated
female
a female
eunuch.
In
this
state,
a woman cannot
experience
personal
freedom,
for she is thrown
into a continuous
and eventually
irreversible
system of repression,
which has its
side effects.
According
to Greer,
her castration,
which is the denial of female
sexuality
and the substitution
of femininity
or sexlessness,
begins
at birth.
As a baby,she
is rewarded
and encouraged
into
certain
styles
of
femininity.
She is
dressed
in pink,
frilly,
and fragile
dresses,
and is punished
if she
ruins
them.
She is told how pretty
she
is,
that
she is Daddy's
little
girl,
and bows are put
in
her
hair.
One of her first
discoveries
is how to be coy and
winsome to get
what she wants,
and how to wrap
Daddy around her little
finger.
She is praised
for this
kind of
behavior
and encouraged
to exploit
her cuteness.
Whereas,
if boys try to use
this
kind of manipulation
to get
what
they want,
they are cut off right
away.
�She
is
also
taught
her
place
early
in
life.
While little
boys are learning
about
groups
and
organizations,
as well as the nature
of the
world outside
their
homes,
little
girls
are at
home, keeping
quiet,
playing
with dolls,
and
dreaming,
or helping
mother.
25.
This is all
justified
in
the name of protection.
She is
told
that
the world
is a dangerous
place
and
that
she
should
be wary of
"strangers."
Thus,
the little
girl
learns
to amuse
herself
in menial
tasks
and games and to
fear
and
distrust
the
world at large
for reasons
never
clearly
stated.
Moreover,
if a "stranger"
(sexual
deviate)
does do something
odd to her,
she becomes
too frightened
and .uilty,as
well as too worried
about
the effect
on her
parents,
to tell
them.
26.
When she goes to school,
she learns
to use her energy (which Greer defines
as resource,
application,
initiative,
ambition,
desire,
and motive)
to suppress
herself,
"to be good and keep quiet,
and remember what she is hearing and doing."
27 As a result,
the sensual
and the intellectual
are separated
and
if women do go on to become
"intellectuals,"
they are repressed,
intense,
inefficient,
and servile.
The little
girl
also must learn
to suppress
her passionate
and intense
feelings
toward
other
girls,especially toward
the one girl
to whom she confides
"sexual
curiosity
and forbidden
knowledge."
28. Thus,
gradually
she
learns
to disown her
own feelings
which in Greer's
words
"brings
her much further
on the way
to the feminine
pattern
of shallow
response
combined
with deep reserve."
29.
The heaviness
of maternal
pressure
in little
girls
to be neat and sneaking
is very often
met
with the same degree
of resistance.
The growing girl
may refuse
to keep her room neat,
insist
on mucking
about with boyish
affairs,
even
to the extent
of joining
a male group and fighting to maintain
her place
in it by being
twice
as tough as any of the boys.
She may lose all
her hankies
and hair-ribbons,
rip her knickers
climbing
trees,
and swear and swagger
with the
best
of them.
30.
This rough stage
she soon learns
not advantageous,
labels
the girl
as a "tomboy."
However,
that
this
kind of vigorous
behavior
is
for the pattern
of reward
is still
kept
�up.
She will
get pretty
weekends
or other
outings
not for climbing
trees.
clothes
and shoes
only if she acts
to
wear on the
like
a "girl,"
As she grows older,
her activities
are even more curbed.
She is told
that
she is
"too old for that
sort
of
thing
now." 31 She is pushed
into
an almost
shameful
sort
of womanhood.
Forced
to smother
her energy
into passivity
she sometimes
explodes
into
infantile
and destructive
behavior,
or becomes sullen
and clumsy.
However,
despite
her
energy-draining
daily
conflicts
she still
has
enough
to
find an adventuresome
outlet.
One such outlet
is horses:
For many girls
who are beginning
to get the
picture
about the female
role,
horse-riding
is the only opportunity
they will
ever have
to use their
strong
thighs
to embrace,
to excite,
and
to control
... it is part
and parcel
of her desire
to perform
some great
heroism,
to be free and noble.
32.
Once a girl
reaches
puberty
her struggle
to hold on
to her desires
peaks
Puberty,
a time when boys'and
girls'
bodies
go through
a lot of physical
changes,
signifies
the
presence
of sex and genitality,
as well as frustration
of
genital
urges.
For a boy, it is a matter
of adjusting
to
these
changes,
for a girl,
it is a matter
of arriving
at
the feminine
condition
of passivity
and sexlessness,
and
the effects
of such repression
are devastating.
No sooner
does her pubic hair
appear
than she has
to learn
to obliterate
it.
Menstruation
must be
borne and belied.
She has been so protected
from
accepting
her body as sexual
that
her menstruation
strikes
her as a hideous
violation
of her physical
integrity,
however well she has been prepared
for
it.
All her conflicts
come to roost.
If she cannot strike
an equilibrium
between
her desires
and
her conditioning
this
is when she breaks
down,
runs away, goes wrong,
begins
to fail
in school,
to adopt forms of behavior
which are not only antisocial
but self-destructive.
33.
The
posed"
to
full
of
antagonistic,
feminine
"suppose"
the case
conflict
between
her desires
and what she is "supbe steadily
erodes
her personality.
She becomes
sexual
guilt
and anxiety,
defensive,
suspicious,
out
of the fear of not measuring
up to the
ideal.
She is well aware that her desires
are not
to exist
and struggles
to deny them.
Such
was
of this
young girl:
�I have a worry which is too ernbarassing
for me
to seek advice of my mother.
I sometimes feel
very lonely for a boy friend.
I yearn for an
experience
which I have never known.
I know I
am very young to be talking
about this sort
of thing as I am only thirteen
but I can't
help
it and it reduces me to despair
when I think I
have so long to wait.
Please don't advise me to
forget
this desire
because I can't however much
I try.
My mind runs on it most of the time.
Please help me. 34.
This is
also a time
when she
is expected
to start
dealing
with men.
She is encouraged
to use her feminine
charrn 7 to be coy and alluring
to attract
men, and at the
same time she must channel her passionate
desires
into passive fantasies.
Consequently,
she becomes this passive
sexual object which leaves her vulnerable
to boys who take extraordinary
liberties
with her,
while she seeks nothing
for herself.
Essentially,
by the end of puberty,
the young girl
learns
to abandon
her autonomy and adapt to the
role of
the eunuch.
She has always been subjected
to more control
and supervision
than that of her brother,
but from here on
she is expected
to continue
her repression
herself.
As a
result,
she is locked into a psychological
state
of anxiety, unhappiness,
and confusion.
According
to Greer,
Her sufferings
do not stern from her failure
to grow up into mature womanhood, but from
her striving
against
what prevents her from
living
and working with her own powers. 35.
This conditioning
persists
because old
prejudices
about woman have not been eradicated.
Still
considered
a
sexual object,
it has been believed
that a woman is
"more
body than soul,
more soul than mind.
To her belongs all
that is beautiful,
even the very word beauty itself.
All
that exists,
exists
to beautify
her."
36 She has become a
showcase and symbol of her man's wealth.
According
to
Greer:
The men of civilization
have stripped
themselves
of the fineries
of the earth so that they might
work more freely
to plunder
the universe
for
treasures
to deck my lady in.
New raw materials,
new processes,
new machines are all brought
into
her services.
My lady must therefore
be the chief
spender as well as the chief symbol of spending
and monetary success.
37.
�ry,
Her beauty has also
in terms of riches.
been celebrated
in art
According
to Greer:
and poet-
Her hair was gold wines, her brow ivory,
her
lips ruby, her teeth gates of pearl,
her breasts
alabaster
veined with lapis
lazuli,
her eyes as
black as jet.
The fragility
of her loveliness
was emphasized by the inevitable
comparisons
with
the rose, and she, was urged to employ her beauty
in lovemaking before
it withered
on the stem. 38.
Men have never looked upon females as persons,
but as
"women."
Moreover, men still
reward women for the characteristics
of the
eunuch--that
of shyness,
listlessness,
delicacy,
undecisiveness,helplessness,
and prudish
refinement.
To end this oppression,
women must challenge
the stereotype because the false ideas about women are
so embedded in our
culture
that
no legislation
could
ever remove
them. Thus, women must begin, not by changing
the
world
but by assessing
themselves.
They must question
the assumptions of sexuality
and must refuse
to conform to the sexual stereotype
of passivity.
By not
cooperating
in the
building
of a system that oppresses
them, they can destroy
it.
According
to Greer:
Revolution
ought to entail
the correction
of some
of the false perspectives
which our assumptions
about womanhood, sex, love and society
have combined to create.
Tentatively
it gestures
towards
the redeployment
of energy,
no longer to be used
in repression,
but in desire,
movement and creation.
Sex must be rescued
from the traffic
between powerful
and powerless,
masterful
and mastered,
sexual and neutral,
to become a form of
communication
between potent,
gentle,
tender
people,
which cannot be accomplished
by denial
of heterosexual
contact.
The Ultra-feminine
must refuse
any longer to countenance
the selfdeception
of the Omnipotent Administrator,
not
so much by assailing
him as by freeing
herself
from the desire
to fulfill
his expectations.
It might be expected
that men would resist
female
liberation
because it threatens
the foundations
of
phallic
narcessism,
but there are indications
that men themselves
are seeking a more satisfying
role.
If women liberate
themselves,
they will
perhaps liberate
their
oppressors
... 39.
�Furthermore,
once women free
themselves
from guilt
and
shame, and the self-discipline
of repression,
and move on
to a self-chosen
discipline
or activity,
they will receive
their
just reward--a
sense of purpose and integrity.
To
take full possession
of her own body and transform
its power and appreciate
its own loveliness,
is the only road
to
liberation.
To present
socialist
feminis1i1,
which mushroomed out
of the hypocrisy
of the new left and the discontent
of work
ing women, I am going to use
Juliet
Mitchell's
book Woman's Estate.
It represents
the more radical
socio-economic wing of the movement's
analysis
of the
origin
of woman's oppression,
the results
of it, why it has persisted,
and what can be done to liberate
women.
According
to Juliet
Mitchell,
the root
cause of women's oppression
lay in their
situation
within the family.
The ideology
of women combined with the concept of the famly, has relegated
women to their
own province--the
family,
and has obscured their
servility
in the work force.
A woman, alike the world over,
same ... Likewise the family is
endures across
time and space
supposed permanent structure,
her place ... Mother and child,
her natural
destiny.
40.
eternally
the
of a unit that
... Within its
eternal
women finds
a woman's place ...
This ideology
derives
its power from women's assumed
physical
weakness and her ability
to bear children.
the causal chain
of oppression
according
to Mitchell,
goes: maternity,
family,
absense from production
(work) and
public
life,
sexual inequality.
41 If women are either
denied or
they
themselves
refuse,
a role in production
(whatever
the
mode) they
don't even create
the
pre-condition
of
their
liberation,
for they become socially
powerless--dependent on men to survive.
In essence,
they become an oppressed
group (which is half the human species)
within an
exploited
and oppressed
class.
However, in capitalist
society,
women's presence
in the work force cannot
even begin to diminish
their
oppression
on the whole,
for women
tend to bring their
familiar
conditioning
with
them into
the work force.
As a result,
they never develop a class
consciousness,
which is needed as one of the first
steps
in a capitalist
society
to overcome the
oppression
of all
people.
�In capitalist
society,women's
role in the family has,
argues Mitchell,
become"the
spiritual
complement of men's
role in production."
42.
Bearing children,
rearing
them,
and maintaining
the home is woman's
natural
vocation.
This equal-but-separate
role has had disastrous
effects
on women.
This restrictive,
though honorable
role denies women
the opportunity
to work at some meaningful
employment outside the home.
As much as labor has become alientated
from the workers,
it still
can be an act of real creativity even though the conditions
are exploitative.
As a result,
often the child,
the biological
product,
is treated
as if it were a product--an
object
created
by the mother.
In the same way that a product
is seen as an extensionof
self,
so is the child to the mother.
This has a more alienating
effect
the social
product
that is confiscated
by
a boss.
For a child,
as an autonomous being,
is going to
be in opposition
with its creator.
Thus posing a threat to
the mother herself,
who has abandoned her autonomy through
the misconception
that motherhood
is a definition
ofwoman.
To go further,
even if the mother is in control of the
child,
she and the child are still
at the mercy of the father, who has legal and economic control
over them.
The
benefits
men receive
from this position
of women is clear.
Their children
are taken care of,
their houses are clean
as well as their
clothes,
and their
dinners
are on the table when they come home from work at 5:00.
Moreover,
for
men,
their homes have become this haven,
an escape from
the outside
world. At home they can find relaxation
and
truly be themselves.
When we come home, we lay aside our masks and
drop our tools,
and are no longer lawyers,
sailors,
statemen,
clergymen,
but only men.
We fall into our most human relations
which
after
all are the whole of what belongs
to us
as we are ourselves.
43.
If a woman's definition
ing a baby, it is in bringing
chieves her social
definition,
celebrated
social
act.
of self is derived
from havthe child up that a woman aMother-care
has become a
For the mother, breast-feeding
becomes a complement to the act of creation.
It gives her a
heightened
sense of fulfilment
and allows her to
participate
in a relationship
as close to perfection as any that a woman can hope to achieve ...
�the simple
fact
of giving
birth,
not itself
fulfill
this
need and
Motherliness
is a way of life.
woman to express
her total
self
feelings,
the protective
attitudes,
compassing
love of the motherly
The physical,
adolescence
child
goes
however,
does
longing ...
It enables
a
with the tender
the enwoman. 44.
moral,
and sexual
welfare
of the child through
is
also placed
solely
on the mother.
If
the
"wrong,"
the mother
gets all the blame.
A woman's
inequality
scured
by the free marital
equality
is obscured
by
ality,
a woman, when she
possession.
One-to-one
rick Engel's
comment on
precise:
in this
monogamous set-up
is obcontract,
just
as workers'
inthe free
labor
contract.
In
remarries,
becomes
her man's sexual
equality
is just
a phrase.
Fredthe
monogamous
relationship
is
Monomgamy does not by any means make its appearance in history
as the reconciliation
of man and
woman, still
less
as the highest
form of such a
reconciliation.
On the contrary,
it appears
as
the subjugation
of one sex by the other,
as the
proclamation
of a conflict
between
the sexes entirely
unknown hitherto
in pre-historic
times.45.
In essence,
"the patriarchal
system was retained
and
maintained
by the new economic
mode of production--capitalism,"
which ultimately
completed
the transition
to
monogamy
and
the family
as we know it today.
46.
As for those many women who, in spite
of their
rearing
to be mothers
and wives,
are nevertheless
working
outside
of
the home,
it is their
familiar
role
that
determines
the
jobs that
they seek,
their
relationship
to the
job,
and
their
relationship
with their
co-workers.
This
ultimately
leads
to the
obscurence
of women's subservience
and exploitatiion
in the work force.
Women,
reared
as helpmates,
rarely
seek
jobs
that
aren't
"helpmate"
positions.
Most women work as unskilled·
or semi-skilled
industrial
labor,
mainly
in areas
that
are
an extension
of housework--such
as food clothing,
and textiles,
or as
clerical
assistants,
within
the professional
and scientific
and distributive
trades.
47. These jobs are
mostly
done by women and are grossly
underpaid.
But
because they work with women and because
they are reared
to
think
of themselves
first
as mothers
and wives,
the
women
�give their
jobs little
importance,
especially
when
compared
to their
husbands.
The job is a chance
to get
out
of the isolation
of the home,
and co-workers
are
merely
friendly
companions
with whom to chat and giggle.
Hence,
if you ask a woman if she wants equal
pay, she'd
probably
say no and give the excuse
that
"it wouldn't
be fair,
men
do heavier
work, we don't
want to take away
from
their
pay-pocket,
they are the breadwinners,
we work for
extras."
48.
They never
see that
wages aren't
geared
to people's
needs but to profits.
Furthermore,
because
women do not consider
their
jobs
important
and do not recognize
their
co-workers
as potential
comrades
to unite
with in struggle.
They do notstrike
nor do they join unions.
And the working
class
struggle
(if you can call
it that)
has mainly
been through
union
activity
from which women thus far have been excluded.
This hinderance
of women has been to the advantage
of
profits.
Women are,
to the capitalists,
a permanent
cheap
labor
force.
Moreover,
employers
find
it advantageous
to
hire
women, for they will
do the most monotonous
work, under the worst
conditions,
and can be shifted
from job to job
all without
complaining.
A foreman
of a factory
explained
it:
Ask a man to shift
and by the time he's
finished
arguing,
the job could have been done; you see he
wastes
time and loses
money by changing
jobs.
Now
a woman, you can move her as much as you want
and she'll
never
complain,
she'll
just
get on
with whatever
she's
told
to do.
Seen but not
heard.
49.
Women in the professions,
usually
work in female-dominated
jobs that
are also
service
oriented
such as teaching and nursing.
Here the prestige
is low;
in fact,
the
whole profession
is downgraded.
When women become doctors
and lawyers
they are considered
"exceptional
women,"
and
are thus isolated
in a "man's
world."
Through
the educational
system,
which varies
according to the demands of the market,
a woman also
learns
her
place
in life.
Sexual
discrimination
is masked as "differentiation"
in the system.
According
to Mitchell:
In subjects
at secondary
school
and in institutions
of higher
education,
a girl's
career
is
a downhill
struggle,
a denial
of her potentialities.
The system
is one of progressively
contracting
opportunity.
The social
climate
and
social
order
determine
the attitudes
of parents,
teachers,
and girls
alike
in such a way as to
offer
an increasingly
confined
future.
SO.
�Young girls,
non-academic
and academic
alike,
are
channeled
away from "male subjects,
such as the sciences--physics
and chemistry--and
steered
into
the "female"
subjects.
For the academic
girls,
this
means that
they
won't
be given the chance
to become scientists
in the age
of science
and technology,
but they will
get some training
for some
sort
of profession,
like
teaching
or nursing.
As for the
non-academic
girls,
their
aspirations
of becoming
a professional
of
any sort
are cut off
all
together.
These
girls
are channeled
into
subjects
like
stenography,
typin~
shorthand,
and art to "fit"
them for the jobs
that
they
will
go into--such
as, working
in an office,
a shop,
a catering
hall,
a clothing
industry,
or some other
kind of
light
manufacturing.
The same kind of
"differentiation"
takes
place
with boys also.
The academic
boys
are channeled
into
the professions
and the non-academic
boys are
geared
towards
the vocations.
However,
boys are
trained
for only one occupation,
whereas,
girls
are trained
and educated
for two. Both nonacademic
and academic
girls
are trained
to do something-female
work--and
educated
to be someone a wife and mother.
51. They are forced
to take courses
in cooking
and sewing
along with their
other
subjects.
All to prepare
them
for
their
role
in life.
The working
class
girls
who find both
school
and work to be a drudgery,
usually
choose
to follow
up on their
other
vocation,
that
of marriage,
ws it seems
to be their
only escape.
According
to Mitchell,
the
persists
because
it is essential
role
in the capitalist
system.
inferiorzation
to and plays
of
women
an important
In pre-capitalist
society,
the peasant
had his own individual
property--his
land--and
the
artisan--his
tools.
They were able to construct
from scratch,
complete,
use or
barter
the products
that
they produced,
be it crops,
furniture,
etc.
Each household
was a productive
unit,
all
worked within
it and for it.
But within
the unit
and the
society
on the whole,
individuals
did not have freedom nor
did they have equality.
The capitalist
system,
in order
to flourish,
takes
from the individual
his
private
property
(land,
tools,
etc.),
and organizes
it in such a way
that
men have to come together
and work it.
But,what
they
produce,
how they produce
it,
and the fruits
of their
labor are confiscated
and made into
the
private
property
of
the few--the
capitalists.
However,
individual
private
property
does continue
with this
new process--it
continues
in
the family.
In order
for a new ruling
class
to overcome an
old ruling
class,
it has to at least
appear
to represent
�the interests
of the mass of people
in a society.
Thus,
for capitalism
to overcome
feudalism
it had to offer
what
the majority
of the people
wanted--more
individual
private property
(an old value).
For ideas
and desires
are
conditioned
by what people
have;
they simply
want
more
of it.
Capitalism
achieved
this
aim by stressing
the idea
of individual
property
in a new context.
It
offered
individualism
plus a new means of obtaining
it-through
freedom and equality,
which was absent
from feudalism.
The
only place
where
this
ideal
could
be given
a concrete
base was in the
maintenance
or an old
institution
the
family.
Accordingly,
the family,
which was the economic
base of
individual
private
property
under
feudalism,
changed
to being
the focal
point
of the idea of individual
private
property
under
a system
that
actually
destroyed
it as the central
mode of production.
The bourgeois
family gives
reality
to this
idea by actually
owning things
privately
and individually,
but for the rest
of the people
it remains
just
an ideal
and a desire
to work.
Essentially,"the
working
class
work socially
in production
for the
private
property
of a few capitalists
in
the hope of individual
private
property
for themselves
and their
families.
What this
all means is that,
the family
plays
both an
ideological
and economic
role
under
capitalism.On
the one
hand,
it provides
a work force
and is the central
area of
mass consumption.
On the other
hand,
it protects
an
old
ideal--the
family
as a place
where individual
private
property
can be enjoyed
freely
and equally.
The family
actually
provides
what the system
deprives--individual
private property.
To go further,
what had before
been united
unit
now
because
of the changes
in social
conditions
becomes
a divided
one.
The peasant
family
was an economic
unit
working together
for itself,
but the members of a family
under
capitalism
all work in different
places
for different
bosses.
Though family
interest
unites
them, working
conditions
and
individual
interests
fragments
them. Woman's task
is
to
hold onto the unity
of the family
in the face of its
breakup. The housewife-mother
is the representative
of what capitalism
needs
to preserve
but actually
destroys:
private
property
and individualism.
She has become a backward
and
conservative
force,
and this,
according
to Mitchell,
is
what her
oppression
means.
52. For it has a tendency
to
produce
small-mindedness,
petty
jealousy,
irrationality,
haphazard
violence,
dependency,
competitiveness,
possessiveness,
passivity,
and conservatism.
�Therefore,
the first
moves toward
liberation
must be,
not only the recognition
of the opposition
of
the system
and developing
of class-consciousness,
but also an awareness of its influence.
Women who have always competed for
the best men, the nicest
homes, the most
successful
kids
cannot easily
come together
to
form a political
force.
Their conditioning
almost excludes
the possibility
of unity.
However, this does not mean that women are not revolutionary,
on the contrary.
(Their sense of
oppression
is
growing ever stronger
and it is from this that
the revolutionary
impulse to overthrow
it comes from and then
the
release
of socialism.)
But daring
to win and struggle
is
not enough; it must, according
to Mitchell,
"go hand
and
hand with a knowledge of what oppression
has
done to retard us." 53. For if we don't
evaluate
the weakness of women as a political
force we will eventually
succumb to it.
The last
theory
that I am going to discuss
is radical
feminism.
The book that I have chosen to use is Mary Daly's
Gyn/Ecology:
The Metaethics
of Radical
Feminism.
It
is
unique 1n the sense that 1t did not
come out of
the contradictions
that exploded
in the 1960's
like the other
ideologies
that
I have already
discussed
and other
radical
theories
such as Shulamith
Firestone's,
The Dialect
of
Sex.
Rather,
it is a call
for the revival
of the
wome.n's
movement.
According
to Daly, the media
has
created
the
lie,
that the women's movement has died.
In so doing
it
has obscured
the fact
that many feminists
have been
in
their
workshops
creating
new culture,
new forms of writing
new singing,
new bodies
of knowledge,
and new strategies
and tactics
for
organizing.
Moreover,
while
these women
have been in their
workshops,
our male-controlled
society
has put
forth
pseudo-feminism
by replacing
the
rebels
with reformist
tokens,
who have sold out their
freedom for
respectability.
These tokens are the most
powerful
weapons that the patriarchs
have and are using to keep
their
sisters
in their
place.
Thus,
it is
time for
women to
start
"spinning"
again.
And this book
is a call
to
the
"Wild Witch" in all women who long to "spin."
This book is a declaration
that it is time to
stop putting
answers before
the Questions.
It
is a declaration/Manifesto
that in our chronology
it is time to get moving again.
It is a call
to
women who have never named themselves
Wild before,
and a challenge
to those who have been in struggle
for a long time and who have retreated
for awhile.
54.
�According
to Daly,
the
of women lay in the universal
fact
is:
root cause
religion
of
of
the
oppression
patriarchy.
The
That we live
in a profoundly
anti-female
society,
a misogynistic
"civilization"
in which men collectively
victimize
women, attacking
us as
personifications
of their
own paranoid
fears,
as The Enemy,
Within
this
society
it is men who rape,
who sap
women's energy,
who deny women economic
and political
power.
55.
All the so-called
religions-Buddhism,
Hinduism,
Islam,
and
Christianity--that
legitimate
and
perpetuate
patriarchy
have
been
invented
by men to
protect
themselves
against
anomie.
(the disorganization
of social
and personal
values during
times
of catastrophic
stress,
as defined
in the.
(The Dictionary
of Psychology).
The essential
message that
comes out of these
religious
sects
of patriarchy
is that:
"Women are
the dreaded
anomie."
56. They must be purified
and society
must be
purified
of them.
Consequently,
women are the objects
of male terror.
Moreover,
since
women
are the projected
personifications
of men's own faults
and
failures,
they are,
argues
Daly,
"the
real
objects
under
attack
in all wars
of patriarchy."57.
And it is
patriarchy's
lethal
intent
to keep women in a state
of selflessness/lifelessness,
a living
death.
This aim of
patriarchy
has been
achieved
in various
ways throughout
the centuries.
There was the
"custom"
of
widow burning
in India,
the ritual
of footbinding
in
China, the genital
mutilation
of young girls
in
Africa,
and
the massacre
of
women as witches
in
Renaissance
Europe.
These were unmitigated
acts
of patriarchy
to maim women's
minds,
spirits,
and bodies.
In our culture,
the maiming is
carried
out in a more subtle
manner.
Genocide
is
d:i;guised
under American
gynecology
and psychotherapy
We have
according
to Daly,
reached
the
"Ice Age of Gynocidal
Gynecology."
58. (Gynecology
is a broad
term that
Daly used to
refer
to all
those
professions--including
psychiatry
and
other
psycho-therapeutic
fields-which
specialize
in the "diseases
and hygiene"
of women's
bodies
and minds.
Though
in some cases
these
fields
have been helpful
to women, inspite
of
the fact
that
the members of
these
professions
beliefs
and behavior
are
motivated
by their
loyalitiesto
their
patriarchally
identified
fields
rather
than by their
concern
for women.
It is
through
myths
that
patriarchy
operates.Orristianity
is the patriarchal
myth that
permeates
The
Western
Culture.
The mythic
model is the all-male
trinity.
The
�son (second
person)
proceeds
from the divine
father.
The
holy ghost,
whose proper
name is love,
proceeds
from the
father
and son
to symbolize
their
bonding.
Everyone
proceeds
from this
eternal
god, who is the last
end and
with
whom all who are
righteous
will
be united
within
everlasting
ecstasy.
Thus,
in this
mystic
symbol
model there
isa
circular
pattern
of existence:
separation
from and
return
to the same never
changing
father.
What is sought
by all Christians
is
appeasement
with
the father.
Because
Adam and Eve (our first
parents)
sinned against
the father,
we are all alienated
from him because
this
Original
Sin .has been
transmitted
to
all.
Through baptism
we can be released
from the
Original
Sin.
Thus,
there
is the belief
in possession
by evil
forces,
release
from which requires
total
surrender
to the church.
This
patterning.
mythic
model is
expressive
According
to Daly:
in
all
patriarchal
Human males are eternally
putting
on the masks
and playing
the roles
of the Divine
Persons.
The mundane processions
of some have as their
basic
but unacknowledged
and unattainable
aim
an attempted
consubsantiality
with the father
(the cosmic
father,
the oedipal
father,
the
professional
god father).
The junior
scholar
statesman
dreams of becoming
the President.
The acolyte
fantasizes
about becoming
the
Priest.
59.
Accompanying
all
these
relations
is male bonding--the
boys
clubs
and the men's associations.
But the ultimate
is that
god the father
requires
total
sacrifice
and hence destruction.
This can
clearly
be seen in
American
gynecology
and therapy
where
men have put on the masks
of the
holy
ghost
and have become the "healers"
and "helpers"
of women
with the attitude
of "father
knows best."
Keeping
the
mythic
model
in mind, you
can
see how
these
professions
have translated
the
doctrines
of theology into
their
own ideology
and practice.
Acting
as the
holy ghost,
they infuse
into
the faithful
a new level
of
supernatural
life,
known as sanctifying
grace.
This
ideology,
according
to Daly,
"acknowledges
only
the
fallen
state
and the supernatural
state
conferred
through
grace."
60. It never
acknowledges
the purely
natural
life
of
human beings.
Together
with
grace,
the
baptized
receive
faith,
hope,
and charity.
Faith
enables
a Christian
to believe
in
whatever
god says,
hope is for
fulfillment
in
the afterlife,
and charity
allows
the
believer
to
love
god above
all
things.
especially
oneself.
And in the
�field
of gynecology
the holy ghost
infuses
new life
into
their
patients
through
technology--replacing
breasts,
chemical
hormone replacement,
and/or
psychological
means - behavior
modification
aimed at replacing
deviancy
with roledefined
femininity.
There is no natural
state
of
femaleness.
According
to Daly,
There are only two possibilities:
First,
there
is a fallen
state,
formerly
named
sinful
and symbolized
by Eve, presently
known
as sick and typified
in the powerless
but sometimes
difficult
and problematic
patient.
Second,
there
is the restored/redeemed
state
of perfect
femininity,
formerly
named saintly
and symbolized
by Mary, presently
typified
in the weak, normal
woman whose normality
is so elusive
that
it must
constantly
be re-enforced
through
regular
checkups, preventive
medicine,
and perpetual
therapy.
61.
This man-made femininity,
which is considered
to
be
normal
femaleness,
destroys
the naturally
spirited
being
inside
of women.
Both body and mind
gynecologists
function
to keep women, passive,
unemotional,
and degraded.
By
their
combined
efforts
women are kept in a state
of
patienthood
and their
bodies
and minds are
constantly
invaded by knives,
needles,
speculums,
carcinogenic
hormone
injections
and
pills,
sickening
self-images,
festering
fixations,
and weakening
dogmas.
Moreover,
women are lured
into believing
whatever
the
"healers"
and
"helpers"
reveal.
According
to Daly,
After
more and more injections
she willingly
accepts
not only all
the standard
doctored
dogmas,
but also
all
the latest
miracles
of
modern medicine.
62.
�Women also,
tend,
because
of the charity
of the gods
(we are doing this
for you) to love these
gods
above
all
things,
including
themselves.
Ultimately,
what women learn
is that
if they don't
conform
to allow
themselves
to
be
modeled
after
men's
image of "women" they will
be
unloveable.
Since
there
is no natural
state
of femaleness,
the
gynecological
gods are actually
infusing
into women a false
hope, which only leads
to self-destruction.
For women become pre-occupied
with themselves.
The DES daughter
worries
about
cancer
and her
anxiety
increases
with
every
check-up
prescribed
by preventive
medicine.
Likewise,
a woman who undergoes
compulsive
breast
examinations
is
likely to obsessively
examine herself
in a mirror.
Moreover,
filled
with sickening
self
images of what women are
supposed to be, women are constantly
checking
to see if their
hair,
eyebrows,
lips,
skin,
breasts,
buttocks,
stomachs,
hips,
legs,
and feet
are okay.
This drives
women and keeps
them locked
in a cycle
of gynecological,
therapeutic,
cosmetic
preoccupation
and consumption.
It is through
therapy
that
a woman is cleansed.
She
must surrender
her private
self
to the
mind
gynecologist
for cleansing.
This self-denial
places
her
according
to
Daly,
in a state
of "therapeutic
grace
purified
of originality."
63. And she is "reborn"
as a "therapuetic
creation,"
a selfless
person
to be perpetually
serviced
by the
holy ghost.
She must return
to him because
she still
has
the remains
of "original
sin,"
which is actually
her
original
self-intellect,
will,
integrity.
64. Thus,
after
her
first
baptism
into therapy
she must return
weekly
for the
confession
of being herself
and the cleansing
of
herself,
and her soul is eroded.
If she
responds
well to her therapist's
treatments
she expresses
gratitude
to
her
"healer."
In essence,
according
to Daly,
"she is taught
prayers (formulas)
and good deeds
(conditioned
responses
and
behaviors)
which will
bring
peace
(death)
to her soul.
65.
This oppression
of women persists
because
men have successfully
obscured
their
role
in the destruction
of women.
Body-gynecologists
use the rhetoric
of research
to justify the abuse of
their
patients
such as
"Further
studies
are needed."
66.
This,
according
to Daly,
"legitmates
the
use of women as uninformed
guinea
pigs for such
drugs
as
The Pill
and the morning
after
pill."
67.
Also,
the maiming of women is hidden
behind
the alleged
purpose
of enhancing
female
beauty
and thus,
many women are lured
into
dangerous
cosmetic
surgery.
�Mind-gynecologists
maiming of women's minds
tims/patients,
especially
er-caused
symptoms.
hide their
and spirits
mothers.
responsibility
in
the
by blaming
the
vicHere is a list
of moth-
Schizophrenia,
identity
diffusion,
auditory
hallucinations,
delusions
of persecution
and
grandeur,
trichetillornania
(abnormal desire
to pull out one's hair),
suicide,
feminine
identification
in males, hypermasculinity
in
males (exhibited
in tough behavior
such as
drinking
and weapon-carrying,
and in emphasized sexual athleticism),
delinquency,
school-phobia
(the result
of maternal
overprotectiveness),
and her~,n addiction.
68.
Therapeutic
holy ghosts are simply continuing
low their
"mother-blaming
inspirer."
Freud,
to fol-
Women in order to liberate
themselves
must first
see
through the Masters.
They must
see that males
and males
only are the originators,
planners,
controllers,
and legitimators of patriarchy.
According
to Daly:
It is a mistake
to see men as pitable
victims
or
vessels
to be "saved" through female selfsacrifice.
However possessed
males may be within patriarchy,
it is their
order;
it is they who
feed on women's stolen
energy.
69.
Moreover,
it is impossible
to "reform"
patriarchy,
women
have to transform
themselves.
Once women have transformed
themsleves
they must not forget
their
sisters.
And they
must not be afraid
to journey,
for
Within a culture
possessed
by the myth of
feminine
evil,
the naming, describing,
and
theorizing
about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze
of de~eption.
The journey
of women becoming is breaking
through this
maze- springing
into free space, which is an
amazing process.
70.
In conclusion,
in the early 1960's a new feminism arose. One with an increased
awareness
and far different from
the first
feminist
wave in the early 1930's
and
1940's.
The women who participated
in the first
feminist
movement
stated
the problem of women's oppression
and opposed
it,
�but were limited
by their
unquestioned
assumption
that
the male way of doing things was the right way.
They did
not aspire
to
totally
reconstruct
society.
Rather,
they
asked and later
demanded that they be allowed to participate equally
in the already
established
institutions
and
opportunities.
They had a great desire
to be a part
of
the great
new nation.
According
to Gail Graham Yates:
They wanted to be equal with men in what men had
already
demonstrated
as valued modes of living.
They accepted
as good men's values of holding
property,
obtaining
education,
participating
in
professional
life or factory
work, and voting
in
a democratic
political
system,
and they wanted a
share in these values.
They defined
their
oppression in relation
to what men had and saw the male
controllers
of society
as their
oppressors.
71.
Moreover,
they really
believed
that once they got the vote
they would gain
full equality.
The vote
had become
the
symbol of equality
with
men and was the height
of achievement for the movement.
That is not
to say that their
achievements
weren't
of value,
for they were. The right
to equal education,
to
become professionals
and to vote are essential
rights
and
nobody should
be denied them.
However, as Gail
Graham
Yates put it:
"if women's goal
is to be like men,
they
tactitly
accept the very premise they claim to reject
that
women are inferior
to men." 72.
The women who are participating
in the contemporary
feminist
movement have a much more heightened
feminist
consciousness.
These women recognize
that equal rights
in the
public
arena,
however essential
they may be, are not enough.
Male dominance
and female
subordination
have shaped
the
consciousness
of the new movement; conservative,
androgynous, socialist,
and radical
feminism
are all challenging
the identity
that society
has assigned
women. Though they
differ
in their
analysis
of the origin
of women's oppression, of why the inferior
status
of women persists,
and of
the techniques
needed to end sexism,
they are all advocating
the full freedom of women. More importantly,
these
four
distinct
groups,
which say alot more than I have presented
here in this paper,
have all raised
questions
and have given birth
to essential
insights
that have stimulated
and
aided historical
research.
I don't
think that the women's
movement will die though I don't know where it is going.
Vicki
Alberti
�FOOTNOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
1,
2,
3.
4.
5.
Barbara
Easton,
"Feminism
and the Contemporary
Family,"
in Nancy Cott and Elizabeth
H, Fleck,
ed.,~
Heritage
of Her own (Simon and Schuster:
N.Y.,
1979),
p. 663,
Germaine
Greer,
The Female Eunuch (McGraw-Hill
Book Co,:
N,Y.,
1970, 1971-)-,-p,
320.
Barbara
Sinclair
Deckard,
The Women's Movement: Politcal,
Socioeconomic,
and Psychological
Issues,
Second Edition
(Harper
and Row: 1979),
p. 350.
Deckard,
p. 339.
Betty
Friedan,
The Feminine
Mystique
(Deli Publishing
Co.,
Inc,:
N,Y.,
1974, 1963),
p. 37.
Footnotes
from
to the footnote
Mystique,
6/100;
14/11;
21/178;
23/55;
31/84;
24/57;
32/85;
25/75;
33/85;
Juliet
Mitchell,
Movement (Random
40/107;
47/129;
41/106;
48/133;
The first
number refers
page in The Feminine
9/60;
10/13;
11/11;
12/14;
13/64;
17/196;
18/218;
19/199;
20/174;
23-38 are from Greer,
and the second
to the
Footnotes
from 40-53
fers
to the footnote
Estate.
54.
from Friedan,
second
to the
7/113;
8/97;
15/65;
16/67;
22/324.
Footnotes
from
to the footnote
Eunuch.
39.
6-22 are
and the
26/75;
34/100;
27/75;
35/51;
The first
number refers
page in The Female
28/83;
36/52;
30/78;
38/8.
Woman's Estate:
Women's Liberation
House: N,Y.,
1971),
p, 100.
are
and
from Mitchell.
the second to
42/109;
49/135;
43/118;
50/154;
The first
number rethe page in Woman's
44/112;
51/161;
Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology1
The Metaethic
nism (Beacon Press:
Boston,
1978)
Footnotes
from
to the footnote
29/77;
37/53;
45/113;
52/162;
of
46/124;
53/163.
Radical~
55-70 are from Daly, The first
number refers
and the second to the page in Gyn/Ecology.
55/29;
56/39;
57/39;
58/224;
59/39;
60/231;
61/231;
62/232;
63/252;
64/252;
65/252;
66/259;
67/259;
68/265-266;
69/2;
70/2.
71.
Gail Graham Yates,
Movement (Harvard
72.
Yates,
* Please
ment.
p.
accept
Space
What Women Want:
University
Press,
The Ideas
1975)~3T.°'
of !.!2g
34.
our apologies
needs dictated
for this
footnote
this
short
form.
arrange-
�The Last
Challenge
by Shirley
Aversa
He was alone in the dressing
room,
his hands already
bandaged in readiness.
He should have been resting,
but
couldn't
relax.
The lump in his throat
was choking
him.
His arms grasped himself
around the
abdomen due to the
tight
pain he felt,
which spread down to the groin,
then
travelled
to the thighs.
The arm pits were wet
to the
point that
the wetness
became thin streams
gliding
down
his sides.
He paced, stopped,
then paced some more.
He
heard the roar of the crowd outside.
He pictured
how they
looked.
The faces a b!~r, bodies jumping up and down, contorting
in excitement.
A hungry crowd, with appetites
never satisfied,
spurring
on the two men who had appetiteG
equal to theirs.
Except that in the ring,
a satisfied
appetite
meant to win a battle.
To the crowd, a satisfied
appetite
meant watching
humans tear at each other like animals.
He looked around the dressing
room,
and saw a dismal
place.
Dirty walls,
a small sink attached
to the wall with
faucets
dripping,
creating
rust stains.
Above the sink,
hanging on a nail
jutting
out of the wall,
was a mirror,
just large enough to see only the head and neck reflected.
On the
other side
of the room was a narrow door through
which was a toilet
and pull chain,
no lock on the
door
and the knob was so loose that a quick pull
would remove
it.
On the door
someone pasted
a picture
of a gal
with
breasts
so large one wondered if they were real.
In the
middle of the room was a slab-like
table on which
he was
supposed to nap and get his rub downs. Looking at the
table, he wondered how he was able to sleep on it. Seeing it
now, he thought how much jt resembled
the slabs
in
the
morgue.
He walked to the mirror.
He stopped
in front of it
and peered at himself.
The face that looked back
at
him
had deep scars
around the
eyes and mouth.
He moved his
face from side to side,
"God, how ugly I am," he thought.
Then he brought his face close to the mirror,
so that his
breath
showed on the glass.
He stared
into
his bloodshot
eyes. As he continued
to stare,
the tears
filled
his eyes,
slid over the bottom lids,
and streamed down his face.
He
watched like he was looking at someone else.
The pains in his middle became worse.
His groin felt
as though the genitals
had swelled
three times the
normal
size.
His legs began to buckle.
He put his hands against
the wall to avoid falling
to his knees. He started
to sob,
deep labored
sobs
that shook
the body convulsively.
He
�started
to
retch,
but all
that
came out of his mouth was
bile,
which left
a bitter
ugly taste
in his mouth.
His
ribs
felt
like
they were held in a vis-e. He wet his shorts,
and his entire
body was
covered
with cold
clammy sweat.
"Mother,"
he called,
"Mother
I can't
stand
it.
I'm afraid,
help me, save me."
The sound of his own voice
startled
him. He looked
around as if to see who could have heard
him. "you pig.
You
damn filthy
excuse
for a man," he sneered.
His teeth
were
tightly
clenched,
causing
his jaws to ache.
The muscles
in
the back
of his neck were so tense
he couldn't
move
his
head easily.
His eyes were bleary
and burning
from sweat.
He rubbed
his forearm
across
his eyes to clear
them,
then
looked
at the clock.
The clock
that
was a monster
to him.
Ticking
away,
it~
hands moved toward
the
time he'd
have
to leave
that
room. Soon the door will
open and he'll
have
to walk out,
his manager
beside
him,patting
his back,
telling him, "This
is it kid,
go get him baby."
He started
to pace again,
and thought
about
things
he
forgot
long ago.
37 years
old,
and he felt
he had lived
a
lifetime.
"Let them forget
I'm here.
Don't
anybody
open
the door,"
he stupidly
wished.
The pacing
became quickened
until
he was almost
trotting
aroung
the room.
Around and around
he went,
faster
and faster.
He started
to laugh.
His laughter
became hysterical,
rising
up
in his throat
and becoming
a
scream.
The
sound bounced
off the walls
and smacked him
squarely
in the face.
He turned
sharply
around,
nearly
losing
his balance.
He was facing
the mirror.
As he lo~ked
at himself
he undid the bandages
on his hands.
His hands free>he
rubbed
the knuckles.
To his reflection
he shouted,
"I hate
you.
I hate your bastard
guts."
His open hands
became fists,
pummeling
the
mirror.
The glass
fell
around
his feet.
He bent and scooped
up the
pieces.
They bit sharply
into his hands,
causing
a mass of
blood;he
felt
no pain and had no awareness
of
what
he'd
done.
He rubbed
his hands,
with the glass
and blood,
along his face,
across
his chest
and down his arms.
Bleeding profusely
now, he looked
on the floor.
A large
piece
of glass
was
imbedded
in the leather
ON top of
his right
shoe.
He pushed his foot around
in the pool of blood.
He
started
to giggle.
He began tossing
the
blood
streaming
out of his fingers,
on the walls,
like
a kid
throwing
finger paints.
He danced
with himself
and
made
grunting
sounds
like
someone pretending
to be a monster.
He stopped
the idiocy,
cursed
himself,
then bent down and removed
the
piece
of glass
from his shoe.
�"I'll
beat you before you beat me," he said as he again became
aware of the shouts of the crowd.
He plunged
the piece of glass deep into his throat.
The last thing he
saw as he fell was the clock.
The last thing he thought
was that he had fought his greatest
fight.
crowd,
The last thing he heard was the
cheering
only for him.
frenzied
roar
of the
�A Life
of One's
Own
by Donna Decker
Marion Milner
is a psychologist
who undertook
an experiment
in
the 1930's
which shed much light
on journal
writing,
sources
of creativity
and the psychic
bisexuality
of the mind. Although
her search
was verythorough
and personal,
these
techniques
can be applied
with
positive
results
to others
with a desire
for self-knowledge
and an open mind.
My interest
in Marion Milner,
an English
psychologist
who used
the pseudonym
Joanna
Field,
and her work,
was
spurred
by
a course
I had taken
in women's
diaries
and
journal
writing.
Revelations,
one of our texts,
contained
an excerpt
from Milner's
book
A Life of One's Own, the introduction
of which describes
it as a "diary
used for selfanalysis."
Several
years
ago,
I had undertaken
Journal
writing
for
the same reason.
The introduction,
the excerpts
and the afterword
in Revelations
by Charlotte
Painter and
Mary Jane Moffat
convinced
me that
I had to find
out who Marion Milner
was
and to read her book.
An avid
reader
of books on creativity,
self-analysis,
and journal
writing,
I was puzzled
that
I had never
heard of Marion
Milner
or Joanna
Field
before.
My search
of the indexes
of
the psychology
books I owned,
the bookstores
and the library
yielded
nothing.
A Life of One's Own had been pubi;)lishc;i twice
in England
and had been distributed
in America in 1954.
But that was it.
It has been out of
ptint
since
the 1950's.
At the New York Public
Library
on 42nd Street
in Manhattan,
the National
Union Catalog
listed
two libraries
in
the whole of New York State
as having
the book.
According
to the catalog,
there
were only fifteen
more copies
to be
found in the other
4~ states.
When I went to the two New
York libraries,
to my disappointment,
each time
the call
desk told
me that
the
last
copy had
been taken
out
too
long ago for the library
to expect
its
return.
Since
the
book was out of print,
they could
not reorder
it.
These
vanishings
piqued
my curiosity
and
interest
even more.
I
placed
search
orders
with
out
of print
bookstores
and
checked
antique
bookstores
and got no results.
Marion Milner
had
published
two more
least
two
magazine
articles,
all
of
which
difficult,
if not impossible
to obtain.
books
and
at
were extremely
Finally,
when
I thought
I'd never
get
the book, my
school
library
came through.
On interlibrary
loan,they
had
obtained
it
from the University
of
Georgia
Library.
And
this
was the third
library
they
had tried.
Apparently
the
book had been stolen
from the other
two libraries.
�Relieved,
I read A Life
of One's Own.
As my excitement rose,
so did my anger.
This book,
an odyssey
of one
woman's
search
for truth
through
journal
writing,
resulted in the tying
together
of
the basic
premises
of certain
Eastern
religions
with Christianity,findings
on the unconscious
mind
and creativity
with
her own unfolding
self
knowledge.
Dr. Milner
had
found certain
practical
techniques
for making these
sometimes
obscure
philosophies
real
to her.
She was then able to profit
by her
observations
by applying
them to her approach
to
living
her own
life.
Some of what Milner
had done I had experienced
directly; others,
I had just
touched
the edges of and didn't
yet
understand
what I had felt.
In some cases,
I wasn't
quite
sure what
she was
saying
or if
it applied
to me until
I
had time to digest
the material
and read it over.
In
fact,
this
last
process
seemed akin to
what Milner
means
when
she says,
"Sometimes
the meaning
of
an experience
would
only begin
to dawn on me years
afterward,
and
even then I
often
had to go over the same ground
again
and again,
with
intervals
of years
between.
In fact,
I came to
the conclusion
the growth of understanding
follows
an ascending
spiral
rather
than a straight
line."
I was further
angered
by the fact
that
many of
her
observations
and
techniques
are used today with no reference to Marion Milner.
Also,
her findings
on the psychic
bisexuality
and dual nature
of
the mind are being
studied
and written
about
extensively
without
any reference
to her
work which most probably
set a precedent.Her
work is clear,
lucid,sharp,
and unpretentious
to the layperson,
much more
simplified
and
thereby
easier
to
understand
than many of
the self-improvement
books and books
on the nature
of the
psyche
that
I have read.
If I,
a young woman seeking
self-knowledge
in the
1970's,
could
glean
information
and
be guided
by Marion
Milner's
work,
others
could be also.
A Life of One's Own
should
be brought
back into print
and credit
given
for her
accomplishments
and insights
and enjoy a life
in this
country.
Marion Milner's
book
began as a result
of her vague
sensations
of uneasiness
and anxiety
as she went about her
daily
affairs
in a half-dream
state,
sometimes
discontented but never
trying
to find out why,
vaguely
"making
the
best
of things,""rarely
looking
ahead except
casually,
almost as a game dreaming
of what I would like
to
happen,
but never
seriously
thinking
how I could
set about to make
it happen."
Her beginning
awareness
of these
feelings
led
her to
ask these
first
questions
about why she did
not
like
her life
and to develop
methods
to change
it.
�She says,
"What led me to become aware of them(mental
discomfort~
seems to have been a gradually
growing
habit
of writing
down my preoccupations."
At the beginning,
she
wrote
on blind
impulse,
never
reading
over
what she
had
written,
but eventually
she realized
that
these
outbursts
were indicative
of something
more.
She
began to
probe
these
outbursts
and found them to
be the surface
ripples
for underlying
deeper
attitudes.
At this
point
she did not
know how to
alter
them.
Then one
day, on
impulse,
she
started
to write
down the first
thing
that
came into her
head without
consciously
thinking
about
it.
She was amazed to discover
this
"other
mind" definitely had a mind and voice
of its own, with some pretty
strong
things
to say. From the writing,
she saw that
her deliberate self
desperately
wanted
to let go,
forget
about her
professional
self,
be less
self-conscious,
but she didn't
know how. She tried
different
ways: a cause,
a new standard of living,
a lover,
but these
were not
the answers.
So,
instead
of trying
to
force
herself
to do things,
she
began to ask herself
what it was that
she was doing.
She
considers
this
a very important
step.
She tried
different
ways of judging
the value
of certain
actions.
She didn't
know whether
to trust
reason(logic) or intuition.
She then says,"Perhaps
being
happy might
be the indication
for such a sense."
She wasn't
sure
and
also
thought
that
one should
plod along no
matter
how unpleasant
something
was.
She did not want to reason
things
out since
she was
suspicious
of logic
at the time,
nor did not
want to read
what others
had said because
she didn't
know if
what was
right
for them would be right
for her.
She wanted
to look
directly
at her own experience
simply
by
observing
it and
experimenting.
"I thought
the
best way to begin
was to
keep a diary,"
she says,
"noting
in it everyday
when I had
been particularly
happy and anything
else
I wanted."
She
also noted
anything
else
that
was important
to her,
just
in case happiness
might not
have been the proper
criteria
by which to live.
This book is
a seven year
record
of the search
of
Marion Milner
for the qualities
of happiness
and satisfaction.
She emphatically
warns those who are thinking
about
starting
this
search
themselves,
to do it
all
themselves;
that
everytime
she thought
she knew
too little
and opened
a book for knowledge
it proved
disastrous
in that
it threw
her off her course
and onto someone else's.
She does
relate
her findings
to others'work
at the end of her search,
�but not until
she's
sure enough
stay within,
know within,
until
what she seems to be saying.
of herself.
you're
sure
Look
within,
of within
is
Also,
she is unsure
if
her search
could be
used by
others
or if it were beneficial
only to herself.
She says
at the end of the first
chapter,
"Certainly,
however,in
the
later
stages
of what I thought
was a lonely
trail
I
came
upon
the outskirts
of
a country
which seemed to
be well
known to the few,
though
little
spoken of
and I think unguessed
at by the many."
Dr. Milner
further
writes,
"When I actually
began to keep
a record
of daily
concerns
I was disappointed
to find this
step not
as easy as I had expected."
She saw
that
the
facts
of her life
were not fixed,
they were,the
continually receding
horizons
of
the traveller
who climbs
a mountain."
She began to see that
the act of
writing
her
experiences
down enabled
her to see them in
various
different ways,
thereby
lighting
up new possibilities.
As
she
writes
more and more, her focus
shifts
from her desires
to
her actions;
then,
from internal
happenings
to the outside
world.
She doesn't
force
or push or consciously
think
about what she is writing.
She lets
her
impulses
take her
where they will.
Through
this
act of receptiveness,
she
sees herself
grow and change.
She realizes
some
intriguing things
about
the wisdom of this
other
mind
and
the
balance
between
the two minds.
She ceases to evaluate
her
experiences
and
instead
just
records
them,
feeling
that,
"if
you look at new-born
rabbi ts too soon their
mother will
sometimes
take fright and
eat them up."
Gradually,
her writing
helps
her to see that
her basis
for living
resided
in the demands of others.
The
more she wrote , the more she saw.
To her,
seeing
was more
important
than the analysis
of it,
and this
knowledge
took
her much further
on her journey.
Milner
goes
through
many stages
during
her quest
before
she draws any conclusions.
The act of writing
developes
the art of seeing
which is the prerequisite
for happiness.
In retrospect
she says,
"By keeping
a diary
of what made me
happy I had discovered
that
happiness
came when I was most
widely
aware.
To really
be aware,
the conscious
chatter
of the mind
must cease;in
order
to really
see,one's
mind has tobe receptive,
in an open state.
She develope5
a method to achieve
this
open state
by altering
her
perceptions
and spreading
the "invisible
feelers
of
the mind."
Pleasure
comes only
when she stops
trying
to obtain
it.
This form of surrender
is frightening,
something
the analytical
mind resists.
�She probes
her fear of psychic
surrender.
This
fear
appears
when she has no conscious
purpose.
She compares
it
to being
wide open
to attack
or
rape psychically.
Her
blind
thinking
has confused
physical
vulnerability
with
mental
and social
openness.
There is no rational
basis
for
this
fear,
it is perhaps
an ancient
vestige,
left
over
from a period
when rape was not legally
prohibited
by
society.
She learns
how to set traps
to catch
this
blind
thinking and to balance
it out with seeing
its opposite.
She
does this
by studying
the thoughts
of children.
In this,
she begins
to recognize
the childishness
of her own thought.
This blind
thought
is
at the mercy "of the past,
the
personal
and of
the accidental."
Emotion and fatique
increase
the strength
of blind
thinking.
Milner
finds
out
that expression
of
this
blind
thought
is
the answer,
because by expression
she was made to look at it.
Talking
to
oneself
teaches
one how to think
and that
often
one must
talk
to oneself.
Journal
writing
is a form of
talking
to
oneself.
Milner
calls
this
receptive
attitude"wide
attention,"
which is
distinguished
from the narrow
beam of attention
which blocks
out the
ability
of seeing
the whole picture.
This narrow
vision
allows
certain
thoughts
outside
the
beam to
grow in their
blindness,
until
they
monstrously
color
one's
perceptions,
fears
and
desires.
Among her techniques
were:
looking
to her dreams for
outcast.thoughts;
impulsive
drawing;
keeping
an "opposite
notebook"
in which she wrote
down the opposite
of intense
emotions
that
she
was experiencing;
and the process
of
backtracking
her thoughts.
This last
technique
came as a
result
of her wondering
why she daydreamed
so often.
Finally she asked herself,
"Whether
my truant
mind might not posess a wisdom of its own, whether
it might be worth
inquiring where it
had been headed,
since
so often
when
I did
manage with tremendous
effort
to deep my mind on the
chosen subject,
I had the feeling
that
there
was
something
else
urgently
waiting
for attention."
This tracing
her
thoughts
set her with clues
to her underlying
desires.
To
be
aware of
the
unconscious,
stop and
see
where your
thoughts
have been.
Previously
she
had feared
what was
there,
that it was unsafe
terrain,
that
she would
be lost
in it.
This blind
thinking
"becomes
wise,"
she says,
"with
seeing."
Milner,through
her knowledge
of Eastern
forms of yoga,
happened
upon another
way of controlling
thought
and being
able to come to a receptive
attitude.
This is done by consciously
relaxing
the body.
She does this
by lying
flat
on
her back and withdrawing
the
unnecessary
tension
from her
limbs and muscles.
By concentrating
on doing this,
she
takes
the stress
out of her body and stops
the chattering
of her thoughts.
Then she is in a state
in which she
can
�receive
sensations
from her body.
This state
left
her able
to experience
her intuition,
to have
faith
in
it and
to
trust
it.
Relaxing
her muscles
also
showed her that,
at
times,
success
depended
on letting
go, letting
the
inner
wisdom of her body and mind take over instead
of
forcing
herself
toward
certain
actions.
She realized
this
was
certain
when she applied
this
principle
to
playing
golf
and tennis,
to drawing,
to darning
and
housework
and to
singing.
She fared
better
than she ever had in these activities
when she learned
to let go.
Also,
the anxiety and
feeling
of fierce
competitiveness
seemed to disappear.
She
realizes,
as does Nietzshe,
that
the "body is a big sagacity.
Milner'
s next stage
comes when she discovers
that despite
her many realizations
she is still
afraid
of complete
surrender.
She says,
"I had just
begun to ponder
over the
facts
that
all
the things
which I had found to
be sources
of happiness
seemed to depend on the capacity
to relax
all
straining,
to widen my attention
beyond the circle
of personal
interest,
and to look detachedly
at my own experence.
I had just
realized
that
this
relaxing
and
detachment must
depend on a fundamental
sense
of
security,
and
yet that
I could
apparently
feel
safe enough to do it,
because
there
was an urge
in me which I had
dimly
perceived
but had never
yet been able to face.
It was then that
the
idea occurred
to me that
until
you have,
once at least,
faced
everything
you know--the
whole
universe--with
utter
inactivity,
and let all
that
is 'not you' flow 'over and engulf you, there
can be no lasting
sense
of security.
But
although
I had grasped
this
intuitively
I had not
yet understood
it emotionally.
When it did finally
come upon me
with the full
blast
of emotional
experience,
it left
me astonished
... So I, who had feared
annihilation,
found only
a supreme
sense
of life.
But only by being
prepared
to accept that
annihilation
had I been able to
escape
from the
spiritual
"abiding
alone,which
was in fact
more death-like
than anything
I had feared."
After
this
experience
she
becomes
receptive
to all
kinds
of communication.
This is when she begins
to spread
out her mind feelers
and to sense
and know with
her whole
body and past.
She feels
the roundness,
the "fatness"
of
things,
things
in their
entirety;
their
essentialness,
not
just
their
surface.
She feels
the "fatness"
of
herself
when she realizes
and learns
how to really
feel
and listen
to her body.
She feels
whole and no longer
lives
only in
her head.
The desire
to get things
done and to have
a
life
of purposes
and planned
activities
stopped
her from
being
able to experience
this
open state
of mind.
She had
�been afraid
that
to let go meant a usurping
of her personal
identity
and only in
achieving
and
activity
could
she be sure she
was
a person.
Later
she relates
this
to the biological
bisexuality
findings
of scientist
T.J.
Faithful,
author
of the book,
Bisexuality.
Milner
recognizes
the two states
of mind as masculineassertive,
purposeful,
achieving
and direct;
and feminineyielding,
receptive,
open
and intuitive;
comparing
the
states
of mind to the male and female
gametes.
What is in
body cannot
be separated
from what is in mind and the mind
duplicates
what is in body.
She relates
this
in the epilog
to findings
of certain
psychologists
and
psychiatrists,
a
few philosophers
and writers,and
to certain
basic
premises
of Eastern
thought,
including
the art of Zen and j'u-jitsu.
Her findings
had much in common with Carl Jung's
work
on the anima/animus
theories.
Her research
is
similar
to
the current
research
on
androgynous
aspects
of
the mind
which
June Singer
and Carolyn
Heilbrun
have studied
and
Charlotte
Painter
has written
about.
Surely
her work is an
objective
study
of the creative
writer
and of the everyday
person.
Her work has opened many doors
and avenues
of excitement.
She substantiates
what seems to be the first
step
toward self-knowledge,
that
the
"enemy was really
within
my
own gates."
One of her key observations
is this,
"I had .... learnt
to know what I wanted,
to know that
it is not a simple
matter of momentary
decision,
but that
it needs
a rigorous
watching
and fierce
discipline
in order
that
the clamouring conflicts
of likes
can be welded
into
a single
desire.
It had taught
me that my day to day personal
wants'
were
really
the expression
of deep underlying
needs,
though
often the distorted
expression
because
of the
confusions.
of
blind
thinking.
I had learnt
that
if I kept
my thoughts
still
enough
and looked
beneath
them,
then I might sometimes
know what was
the real
need,
feel
it
like
a child
leaping
in the womb,though
so remotely
that
I might easily
miss it when overbusy
with purposes.
Really
then I had
found that
there
was an intuitive
sense
of how to live ...
For was there
not also
the wisdom which had shaped
my body
up through
the years
from a single
cell? ... To reason
was
to be actively
assertive,
and apparently
it was when I was
actively
passive,
and content
to wait
and watch,
that
I
really
knew
what I wanted.
Though of course,
once I knew
that,
then the more good reasoning
I could use to get what
I wanted,
the better.
I have tried
to show Marion Milner's
odyssey
she grew and changed
throughout.
Her observations
clusions
are very valuable
to me on my own search.
my hope that
I have relayed
her techniques
in the
possible
and have shown the importance
this
work
in its purity,
information,
inspiration
and value.
and how
and conIt is
best way
contains
�AN INTERVIEW WITH MARIA MASTROPIERO
By Debra
Olsen
Maria Mastropiero
stands
four feet,
eleven
inches
and
weighs
about
one hundred
and ninety
pounds.
Born in 1909,
Maria was the first
of Michael
Cataffo
and Eva Marseglia'
s
seven children.
A typically
Italian
grandmother,
he nourishes
and nurtures.
When I first
approached
my grandmother
about doing
this
interview
she was a little
reluctant,
wondering
why I
would be interested
in her
life
story.
I explained
that
women have been largely
ignored
by the bulk of historians
and that
it's
about
time women's
feelings
and life
experiences be illuminated.
Nanny,
as
she is
affectionately
called,
nervously
consented
to speak on tape.
Interviewer:
Trace
your grandparents.
your
family
background
beginning
Interviewee:
My mother's
Rose LaFredo.
My grandfather,
from Naples
in 1905.
parents
were Vito Marseglia
my uncle
and my mother
Interviewer:
er's
other
your
What
siblings?
about
grandmother
and your
with
and
came
moth-
Interviewee:
There wasn't
enough
money for them to come
all at once.
My grandfather,
uncle
and mother
settled
in
Yardley,
Penn~
because
it was there
that
they could
find
work.
When they had saved enough money they sent
for the
rest
of the family.
Interviewer:
What kind
of work
did
Interviewee:
My grandfather
worked
Reading
Railroad
which was just
being
my mother
worked in Knox Hat factory.
What about
Interviewer:
Interviewee:
come to the
My father
United
States
Interviewer:
Interviewee:
mother
in the
years
when in
How did
your
they
do in Yardley?
as a
built.
father's
parents?
was the only one
from Benevento,
your
parents
laborer
on the
My uncle
and
of his
Italy.
family
to
meet?
My father
was a hat
blocker
and he met my
hat factory.
They knew each other
for three
1908 they ran off and got married.
�Why did
Interviewer:
they
elope?
Interviewee:
My father
had asked
my uncle
if
keep company with my mother.
But my uncle
wanted
er to marry another
friend
of his.
Interviewer:
ter they were
Did both
married?
your
parents
continue
he could
my moth-
to work
af-
Interviewee:
My father
worked
of
course,
but by
that
time the factory
had closed
down. My parents
moved several
times,
always
in the
cinity
of Yardley
so that
my father could
find work. My mother
no longer
worked.
It was one
pregnancy
after
another.
Interviewer:
port
a growing
Was your
family?
father
Interviewee:
ren and at the
lars
a week.
Within
nine years
my mother
had
time my father
was making about
Interviewer:
money?
How did
your
earning
family
enough
survive
money
to
sup-
six childten
dol-
on that
kind
of
Interviewee:
My mother would go and
get yards
of material and sew up all our clothes.
This meant boys'
breeches
as
well as girls'
blouses
and
skirts.
We bought
coats
which we kept clean
and in good condition
so we could hand
them down to the other
kids.
Interviewer:
Did your
children
and housework?
father
help
Interviewee:
home from
children
her at
he had
night.
work
With six
and help
Did you have
Interviewer:
to
your
mother
to.
with
He would
the
come
go to work?
Interviewee:
Well,
I quit
school
in the
eighth
grade
even though
Mom and
Pop didn't
want me to.
But I
said,
"would
I be able to go to high school,
become a stenographer."
Mama said no, so I went to work.
Why did
Interviewer:
Interviewee:
Most of the
Interviewer:
mill?
girls
your
They
didn't
got married
What kind
mother
say
think
young.
of work
no?
that
did
way
you do
those
in
the
days.
silk
�Interviewee:
very good
money
First
I started
as a warper.
Interviewer:
What is
Interviewee:
the weaver.
A warper
Interviewer:
port
the farm?
So you were
Interviewee:
All
Not like
you girls
I got an allowance
as
a winder
and
then
I made
a warper?
makes
the
cloth
now helping
before
your
it
family
goes
to
to
sup-
of the money I made went into
the house.
today
that
you get a job
and move out.
of a penny a day for chewing
gum.
Interviewer:
Did you feel
put out by having
to work solely for the family?
Wouldn't
you have
rather
bought
nice
clothes
with your money; teenagers
today
are
infamous
for
wanting
to be in with the fashioNS?
Interviewee:
We never
thought
that way. Whatever
clothes
my mother
couldn't
make, like
coats
and shoes,
we would go
to Plainfield
to buy.
Interviewer:
How did
Interviewee:
He was
knew him
since
I was
Staten
Island
to visit
Interviewer:
Were you
think
of marrying
anyone
you meet
a distant
a kid.
with us
grandfather?
cousin
to our family.
I
His family
would come from
on the farm.
allowed
else?
to
date
or did
you
ever
Interviewee:
Dating
was out and if you did go with a guy
you had better
marry him.
I was never
allowed
to be alone
with grandfather
before
we were married.
If we went
anywhere at all
either
my aunt or uncle
came with us.
Interviewer:
land to see
How did
you?
grandfather
travel
from
Staten
Is-
Interviewee:
First
he had a truck,
then a Model T ford,
then his family
got a buick
touring
car.
I say it belonged to his family
but actually
he had earned
the money to
buy these
cars.
I kept company with him for two years
before
I made up my mind to marry him.
Interviewer:
Tell
me about
your
wedding?
�Interviewee:
I had what they called
in those
days a football
wedding.
A football
wedding was nothing
like what the
girls
have today.
It was cheap.
I had my wedding
at a
club house.
We served
trays
of Italian
coldcuts
and rolls
and then for dessert
there
were trays
of Italian
pastries.
We also had hired
a band and there
was a lot of dancing.
Who paid
Interviewer:
Interviewee:
I had saved
Interviewer:
it before
up.
for
your
wedding?
It wasn't
that
expensive,
so my husband
and
My parents
couldn't
afford
to give me away.
What about sex.
you were married?
Were you
taught
all
about
Interviewee:
I didn't
find out about sex
until
after
I
was married.
My mother wasn't
even
able to tell
me about
menstruation
when the time came.
She made my aunt tell
me.
I guess
she was embrrassed.
Interviewer:
tion?
What did
your
Interviewee:
I changed.
She
me to make sure
Interviewer:
no sanitary
told
aunt
tell
you about
What did you use then.
napkins
in those
days?
I washed
There
were
menstruawell
when
obviously
Interviewee:
We would use thick
sheeting
which of course
had to be washed
thoroughly
so that when you hung them on
the line
nobody would know what they were.
When you
were
finished
you put them in the back of a drawer
so no one,
in particular
my brothers,
could find them.
Interviewer:
when you got
Were you
married?
anxious
to
start
your
own family
Interviewee:
No, I didn't
want any children
and I talked
this
over with your grandfather
before
we were married,
I
was the oldest
of seven kids
and it was rough times.
I
couldn't
see bringing
kids into the world.
Your grandfather used prophylactics
after
we were married.
It took two
years
but I finally
got caught.
I quit work when I
found
I was pregnant.
And even so I had a bad first
delivery.
I
was in bed for three
weeks.
Interviewer:
why did you
Interviewee:
Where were
quit?
you working
I was winding
in a silk
when you
mill.
quit
and
In those
days
�pregnancy
was a big to-do.
Awoman was thought
to
fragile
during
pregnancy.
Not like
today,
you're
out of the hospital
in two days.
I wanted
to quit
I was feeling
sick.Not
just
for the first
couple
of
I was queasy during
the whole time.
All of a sudden
foods were making me sick to look at them.
Interviewer:
What were
the
problems
during
your
Interviewee:
First
of all
I insisted
on having
at home.
Nothing
went right,
even that
I tried
and my milk didn't
come in till
a week later.
Interviewer:
Why wouldn't
you
go to
be very
in
and
because
months
normal
delivery?
the
to
baby
nurse
a hospital?
Interviewee:
I felt
that
they didn't
have these
babies
down pat.
They put them in a baby ward
and you wouldn't
know if you got yours.
At that
time there
was a big court
case in Chicago.
Two young girls
said
that
the hospital
had gotten
their
babies
mixed up.
One said she had a girl
and
they gave her a boy
and the other
said the opposite.
I don't
know that
they ever cleared
that
up.
Interviewer:
you decide
Since you didn't
to have another?
ever
want
children
why did
Interviewee:
Pressure
from your grandfather
mostly.
We
had a son and he was
always
talking
about
how nice it
would be to have a daughter.
He still
says that
I should
have been knocked
up and barefooted
every year.
His idea,
not much of mine.
After
five years
I gave in and
luckily
we had a girl.
Interviewer:
Did your
Interviewee:
No,
kids.
I never went
able or if I wasn't
husband
help
out
with
the
children?
he never diapered
either
one
of those
out or anything
so I was always
availmy mother
or my sister
Rose took care.
Interviewer:
What about
your
Interviewee:
No, my husband
husband?
never
Did he cook
also?
cooked.
Interviewer:
What kind of games did you play as
Was there
a difference
in the games you and sisters
as opposed
to your brothers?
a child?
played
Interviewee:
In the winter
we played
hockey with hockey
sticks
that
my father
carved
out of wood. We used tin cans
as hockey pucks.
We played
the same games as the boys except when
company came.
When company came the girls
were
not allowed
to be as boisterous
as the boys.
�Do you
Interviewer:
think
women should
receive
equal
pay?
Interviewee:
If a woman wants to do a man's job,
there's
no reason
she shouldn't
receive
the same pay. I think
women should
be free
to choose
any occupation
they want
as
long as they're
willing
to tow
the line
and do an honest
day's
work.
Interviewer:
successful
Do you
career?
think
women can
have
a family
Interviewee:
A number of women have
that
you have to work harder,particularly
want to help out.
proved
if
Interviewer:
control?
pregnancy
Interviewee:
children.
pregnant.
How do you
I still
wouldn't
I
feel
say
walk
about
and
s
it.
But only
a man doesn't
and birth
that
I never wanted
to have
out on the street
when I was
Interviewer:
Why?
Interviewee:
did.
And yet
don't
like
it.
I was ashamed that
people
would know what
today if I see a girl
pregnant
in public,
Interviewer:
so shameful
Don't you
about sex?
think
that's
Interviewee:
fore I got
I never
liked
sex.
married,
I wouldn't
have
Interviewer:
sion about
sex,
Interviewee:
that.
But
clothes
or
No,my family
I thinkpregnant
just
stay home.
Interviewer:
ridiculous?
If I knew about
married.
Did anyone in your life
your mother
or sisters
What about
share
that
possibly?
never
talked
girls
should
the
issue
What
about things
try to wear
of birth
it
I
I
is
be-
impreslike
loose
control?
Interviewee:
I think
a woman,if
she doesn't
want to have
children
she should
take precautions.
My aunt was the one
who told me about birth
control.
Those days you could go
to a clinic
for
twenty-five
cents
and find out all
about
it.
Interviewer:
While raising
great
expectations
for them?
your
children,
did
you
have
�Interviewee:
Yes,I
Interviewer:
What about
hoped
that
my son would
go to
college.
you daughter?
Interviewee:
My daughter
too,but
particularly
your uncle,
because
I felt
that he would have to
work hard
all his
life.
I had
also hoped
that my children
would not marry
early
but they both did.
Interviewer:
How do you
feel
about
the
youth
of
today?
Interviewee:
I feel
sorry
for the young kids today.
So
much of the money
they earn is eaten
up by taxes
and
inflation.
Not only that
but a lot of things
are put before
you,
like
cars and
vacations,
things
we never had
or
thought
about.
The kids today are constantly
struggling
to
get all of these
things.
If we had
a rambling
truck
we
were lucky
If I asked for something
and my parents
said
no, I would just
pull my horns
in and forget
that
I asked.
Interviewer:
would you
live
If
it
you had your
differently?
life
to
do
over
again,
Interviewee:
I don't
even want to think
of doing it over
again,
differently
or otherwise.
The experience
I've
had
was enough.
And when
you're
young
you never have
the
brains
you have when you're
older.
So you're
bound to make
the same mistakes
again.
�Interviewer:
Interviewee:
this
girl
what."
Interviewer:
Why was
got
this?
Because
anything
Didn't
the relatives
to do
indoors,
you
think
this
would say,
"Hasn't
is she a tomboy or
was unfair?
Interviewee:
Sure it was,
lots
of times
I'd do what
I
want anyway.
I used to climb big tall
cherry
trees
wearing
those
big
bloomers
that
you see in gyms now.
As far as
pants
for girls,
there
was no such thing.
My mother
used
to holler
at me and say
that
nice
girls
wouldn't
climb
trees.
I would climb as high as I could
to get the cherries.
The higher
you went,
the bigger
and better
the cherries.
I wore these
aprons
with deep pockets,
so I could
pick as many cherries
as I could
fit.
Interviewer:
ships
with
Did you maintain
friendships
women throughout
your life?
and
relation-
Interviewee:
Yes,I
have friends
from thirty,
forty
ago.
Just
this
year a women looked
me up.
I haven't
her for eighteen
years
and we had a nice visit.
Interviewer:
zation?
Have
you
ever
belonged
to
I
a woman's
years
seen
organi-
Interviewee:
During
the second
World War, I lived
in
a
housing
project
and we formed a victory
club.
We raised
money for the
USO, for the
American
boys.
At that
time
Willowbrook,
which was then called
Halloran
Hospital,
housed the American
wounded.
Once or twice
a week, we would
bake cookies
and cake,
and bring
them to the boys.
Sometimes we would just
read to them.
We also visited
the old
at Seaview
Hospital.
The American
Red Cross
was giving
first
aid classes
too.
I received
a certificate
for completing
that
course.
Interviewer:
ployment?
What
are
your
feelings
about
women
and
em-
Interviewee:
I think
women work harder
than men.
During
the depression,
it was actually
my sisters
and my mother
who supported
the family.
Luckily
there
was always work to
be found in the garment
industry.
My brothers
were in and
out of work.
During
the war women became welders
and mechanics.
They became a lot of things
during
the war. This
is what really
brought
all of these
women out to work.
�WOMANAND HER SYMBOLS
by Mari
Hayes
Wettereau
My climb up into
the mountain
began in 1969 when, as a widow with a young son,
I was trying
to
be a model mother
and successful
advertising
executive
in a world dominated
by men.
Ten years
later,
in 1979, that
journey
into
the
labyrinth
of the spirit
emerged
as 'Woman and her Symbols'
an objective
recording
of 350 of my dreams
during
the decade.
297 characters
known to me in "real"life
appeared
in the~e
dreams,
several
as often
as 22 or even 46 times,
others
only once or twice.
Each actor
is listed
in the Dream Cast
in order
of appearance;
each reappearance
date is
also
noted.
The cast
appears
anonymously,
named mostly
for occupation
(Ad Agency President,
Copywriter,
etc)
except
for
family
who are named for key characteristics.
97 unknown
characters
are
also
listed
in
order
of appearance
and
named for their
characteristics.
Hundreds
of extras,
unknown people,
move in and out of 79 of the dreams of the
decade.
Two years
ago, I entered
the CUNY BA Program
at COSI, primarily
to do this
independent
study
of the dreaming
mind,
secondarily
to complete
my long-delayed
effort
to earn a
BA. Mission
accomplished.
Degree
earned
with honors.
Woman and Her Symbols
copyrighted,
ready
for
publication,
hopefully
in the not too distant
future.
I am indebted
to
many people,
particularly
Dr. Sita
Kapadi'7
for inspired
guidance.
I have selected
a sampling
of 10 dreams
for
All
Ways a Woman. There are S consecutive
dreams
from 1969 and
five
from 1979.
May my dreams,
which I now believe
are
Everywoman's
dreams,
speak to you in the symbolic
language
that
communicates
beyond words.
July
7,
1969
I am on stage
in a play for teenagers.
ing "Count of Monte Cristo"
hat,
with
suit,
one I used
to wear on Madison
60's.
I'm wearing
a dasha matching
dark blue
Avenue in the
early
As I walk downstage,
it becomes
an unfamiliar
street.
I am
holding
the key to a house I lived
in with my parents
and
sisters
before
I was married.
Five unknown men are
following me.
They force
me to go indoors,intu
a vast kind of
�inner
space.
Somewhere,
as I move quietly
through
the silence,
a blind
man puts his head on my shoulder.
We walk
along
together
for miles.
I am guiding
him,
although
I
don't
know who he is,
or where I am going.
Slowly,
I become aware
that
I have not
lost
my way,
but that
I have
been stolen.
I sit
down.
The blind
man sits
beside
me,
with his head
still
on my shoulder.
We are sitting
among
thousands
of
people.
No one speaks.
I sense
that we are all
in the same
predicament.
Passively,
I sit
there,
believing
that
help
will
come from outside,
simply
because
there
are so many
of us.
The media will
save us. The theft
of the thousands
will
be headlined
in the press;
television
will
alert
the
world
to the loss.
I begin
to believe
that
there
are millions
of us.
Nothing
happens,
nothing
at all.
Why were we stolen?
We
are just
people,
ordinary
people
- not a celebrity
or a
prominent
person
among us.
Gradually
all
the people,
including
the blind
man, disappear.
I feel
totally
alone.
I
become aware that
someone else
is there,
but that
he is asleep.
It is HANDSOMEMAN, a man I dated
in the early
60's,
and actor
I played
make-believe
with in my mind;
he
was
Rock Hudson,
to my Doris
Day.
He played
make-believe
in
his mind,
too.
July
9,
1969
I am assigned
to dot the "i's"
in
my surprise,
I see that
each "i"
real,
round,
fresh
green pea.
I
with a silver
nail
pop each pea to
I have fun in the process,
and to
clean,
doesn't
need retyping.
July
10,
seven pieces
of copy. To
is already
dotted
with a
take a silver
hammer and
make a sharp,
clear
dot.
my amazement
the copy is
1969
I am hurrying
do~n a busy city
street,
pulling
a shopping
cart
behind
me.A mammoth machine
gun, that
seems to be unmanned,
starts
to fire
from a grassy
island
in the center
of the street.
I zigzag,
and begin
to run,
trying
to keep
out of the direct
line
of fire.
The gun is moving,
angling,
following
me. I keep trying
to
find a way to escape.
I hop into my shopping
cart.
I fly
�up in the air,
steering
it over a news stand
at the corner.
The expression
on the newsdealer's
face amused me.
I made
a safe
landing
and rolled
to a halt
in front
of
a red
brick
building.
The firing
continued.
I hopped out of the
shopping
cart,
pressed
my back closely
against
the bricks,
and edged my way to a glass-enclosed
vestibule.
A man in
the tattered
clothes
was sitting
inside
on a stone
step.
He seemed aware of the firing,
but indifferent.
Frantically, I tried
to get
through
the inner
door,
but it
would
not open.
I gave up and sat down.
As I leaned
against
the
stone
wall,
I sat like
the shabby man, aware but indifferent.
One by one, four shabby men came in until
there
were
five
shabby men, waiting
without
hope,
in the vestibule.
Five
shabby
men and me.
Waiting.
Waiting
without
Without
hope.
In
the
hope.
vestibule.
Waiting.
July
11,
1969
I am in a small
boat that
is
sailing
out into
the harbor.
It is
FRENCH AUNT'S boat.
She is
on board
with
DUTCH
UNCLE. They are
millionaires
and seem to own a fleet
of
boats.
We sail
through
a small
channel,
which is not much
wider
than the boat.
Then, the boat begins
to grow. It grows larger
and larger.
Now, there
are many people
on board.CLARK
GABLE is sitting
at a small
table
with a woman, who is a key figure
but unknown to me.
Somewhere along
the way, there
was a circular
staircase.
I
looked
down from the eighth
floor
and saw his bloody,
broken body in the stairwell.
He was the son of a couple
going to a party
on the boat.
I went to tell
them what had
happened,
then we were all on the boat at a party.
Before
the fall,
before
he died,
he was eight
years
old.
�I found my way to DREAMMAN, the man I was searching
for,
the man I wanted
to be with.
He was in costume,
a dis3uise.
He was playing
a part,
like
everyone
else
on the boat.
I
was the audience,
yet at the same time,
I seemed to be a
disguised
actress.
July
12,
1969
I am in bed with HUSBAND "THE PROFESSOR."
before
we were married.
It is three
o'clock
There
is
a paper-thin
FRENCH MOTHER and
bed.
wall
IRISH
behind
FATHER
the
are
It
in
is some time
the morning.
bed.
behind
the
wall
in
a
HUSBAND "THE PROFESSOR" puts his arms around
me.
(We had
only four hours
to sleep,
and we were both very tired.)
I
am confused,
torn.
I turn upside
down.
My feet
are
at
the top of the bed,
my head at the bottom.
I long to be
close
to him,
but I am afraid
to be,
because
my parents
are listening,
judging
me.
We get
climbs
up
and go down
the dark
stairs
together,
into
the back seat
of a car to sleep.
and he
I climb back up
the stairs
feeling
guilty
about rejecting
him, guilty
about
the reaction
of my parents
to my actions.
I am guilty.
I wish I understood
the real
reason
for my
guilt.
If my parents
weren't
judging
me, would I still
be
guilty?
Does it make any difference
whether
they judge me
guilty,
or I judge myself
guilty?
Doesn't
right
and wrong,
good and evil
change
according
to the circumstances?
Is it
wrong to sleep
with a man before
you are married?
Is it
wrong to sleep
with a married
man, if he's
separated?
March
22,
1979
I've
been captured
with many people.
I want to save
myself,
and help save the others.
I think
I've
found a way,
but our enemies
come into
the room to kill
us.
SHADOW, a man in a white
satin
suit,
like
a leotard
which
goes over
his face
so that
he is completely
disguised,
comes to kill
me.
There's
nothing
I can do.
In the process of killing
me, he penetrates
my body. What I had feared as death
seems to
be a rebirth.
I think
SHADOWis a
black
man inside
the skin-tight
white
suit.
I become aware
that
SHADOWdidn't
kill
me, because
I had absorbed
and assimilated
him.
I feel
alert,
alive,
aware.
I sense
that
the other
captured
people
have had an encounter,
each with
his own shadow.
Mine is not a unique
experience.
�March
31,
1979
A pageant,
a major event,
is to take place
in a place
that
keeps
growing.
It starts
at the Parsonage,
but the place
keeps growing
getting
larger
and larger,
taller
and taller.
It is enormous,
an expanding
white
place.
Walls are being
replastered
to keep up with the rapid
growth;
other
walls
are getting
a fresh
coat of white
paint.
There is a domelike
center
arena
with a semi-circle
stage
with steps
going up across
the front
the entire
width
of the stage.
It
is like
a Roman arena.
I had arranged
the place
and prepared
the food,
but I had never
anticipated
what is happening.
I walk among
hundreds
welcoming
them.
SON "PRINCE
CHARLES'' is two years
old.
I have him by the hand and am
introducing
him
to everyone
we greet.
I used to
have a
little
doll
that
looked
like
him and dressed
like
him, until
he became a real
little
boy.
I want everyone
to meet
him,
but the place
and the people
keep growing
and he
is
grown up.
The event
is the
arrival
of SWAMI CHINMAYANANDAand SWAMI
DAYANANDA. They appear
in their
saffron-colored
robes,
two
striking
streaks
of color
against
the white.
People
are
working
together;
everything
is moving smoothly.
It is all
out of my hands now, yet I agree with all
that
is
being
done.
As I go with others
to greet
the two swamis,
people
literally
pour through
the entrance
with them.
The audience and the actors
are all becoming
one. I'm not attempting to play all
the roles,
yet everything
is going smoothly, differently,
better
than I had planned.
There are two
greenish-blue
cushions
on the stage
for the
two swamis.
Everything
is white,
except
for the greenish
blue cushions
and the saffron
robes.
April
4,
1979
I'm leaving
a place
where
there
is
much activity,
many
things
are going on, many people,
much talk.
The only character
I know is ACTRESS #1, or is she ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE #1,
or BUSINESS WOMAN#2?
She is a dominant,
domineering
female figure.
I have a grip
on the bench,
which is part
of
the rail
around the deck where I am.
My grip
is so strong
that
when
I take off,
not only the bench,
but a section
of the deck
and supporting
locust
posts
are
uprooted
and fly out with
me into
space.
I am suspended,
hovering
in the air about
twenty
feet
off the ground.
I can see earth
and uprooted
roots
clinging
to the locust
posts
which hang,
like wheels
beneath
a plane
coming in for a landing.
I'm carefully
considering
where I will
land.
I'm not coming down this
time
�till
I can make a safe
landing
in
down roots.
I feel
confident
as
have no
fear.
I am poised,
alert,
pilot
of my soul on this
flight.
April
5,
a place
where I can
put
I watch and reflect.
I
aware,
ready.
I am the
1979
A woman is
moving two
puppet-like
figures
that
form two
halves
of a pair
of scissors.
Is she BEVERLY SILLS? Everything
is sharp,
clear,in
focus
as she moves the two halves
of the scissors,
which are two bodies,
one male,
one female.
The female
figure
has long,
reddish
hair
and a long
gown that
matches
her hair,
while
the male figure
has a
black
top hat,
white
tie,
and tails,
like
FRED ASTAIRE, or
someone playing
FRED ASTAIRE.
As the two move together
from a criss-cross
shape to form
a straight
line,
BEVERLY SILLS becomes
the female
figure.
When the two merge,
the single
united
form is half
female,
half
male.
The male is on the left
as I look,
the female
on the right.
This is a powerful
visual.
I am aware of
what is happening
and it is good.
April
16,
1979
PARK AVENUE DOCTOR and I are going to a party.
I'm aware
that
he has a physical
problem
and I consciously
decide
to
help him.
FRENCH MOTHER is with us at one point
along the
way. So that
he will
not have to climb up a steep
incline,
I suggest
that
it would be easier
for FRENCH MOTHER. This
way I save him the effort
and spare
him embarrassment.
At
the party,
I'm aware that
he would welcome my support,that
it would help him if I were to stand
quietly
behind
him as
he talks
with another
prominent
doctor.
As he moves
from
person
to person
in his electric
fashion,
I go with
him
quietly
helping
him without
words.
I feel
as if ANIMUS is
guiding
me,
showing
me how to release
the feminine
in relatedness.
My ego is learning,
as if in a classroom,
as I
watch my archetypal
pattern
of ideal
man,
appearing
here
as PARK AVENUE DOCTOR, becoming
part
of me. I'm consciously absorbing
ANIMUS'S guidance
and in so doing I become
consciously
aware that
I am psychically
bisexual.
As the
mask falls
away from PARK AVENUE DOCTOR, I see through
to
the archetypal
image.
I have been projecting
my animus.
I am learning
ing way, not
pattern.
how to
project
relate
and
and protest
accept
in a positive,
lovin a negative
egocentric
�\
�
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ALL WAYS
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Copydght
N~w York.
For information,
address:
Island,
English
Department,
New York
10301.
Jo
Gillikin,
715 Ocean
The College
of Staten
Terrace,
Staten
Island,
The Intern
Program of the College
of Staten
Island
of the City
University
of New York was awarded a $50,000
Title
I HEA Grant
by the New York State
Board of Regents.
Ms.
Virginia
Hauer,
Director
of the Law and Internship
Center
at
the
Sunnyside
Campus of the College,
is
the Chief Administrative
Officer
of
this
grant
which extends
until
June 30, 1979,
In conjunction
with this
program,the
English
Department
offered
a four-credit
internship
in Copywriting
and Editing
guided
by Professor
Jo
Gillikin.
The
goal -of this
internship
was the complete
creation and ultimate
publication
of an original
magazine,
The Director
of the Intern
Program
is Ms, Regina Smith,
Support
for this
project
is being provided
by a grant
of Federal
Funds under Title
I of the Higher
Education
Act of
1965 LCommunity Service
and Continuing
Educatio!:!/administered
by the New York State
Education
Department.
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DERKACZ
EILEEN FITZSIMMONS
PHYLLIS MURPHY
BARBARA NALEWAJK
MRI.ENE SUPERIOR
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TITLE PAGE
EDITORIAL STAFF
ACROSTICS FOR STAFF MEMBERS
YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROWby Phyllis
TABLE OF CONTENTS
WISDOM by Phyllis
Murphy
Murphy
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Y E S T E R D A Y
THE EGG AND I
Phyllis
Murphy
ADAMAND EVE
Phyllis
Murphy
THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
Marlene
Superior
BOUND WOMAN
Donna Decker
EXCERPT FROM A JOURNAL
Eileen
Fitzsimmons
GRANDMA
Donna Decker
A DIFFICULT DECISION
Eileen
Fitzsimmons
TWO POEMS
Phyllis
Murphy
TWO POEMS
Donna Decker
CONTENTMENT
Donna Decker
3
Lj
5
7
8
9
10
12
12
13
TO
DA Y
THE MANY FACES OF ME
Marlene
Superior
GREATER EXPECTATIONS
Leslie
Derkacz
FIVE POEMS
Phyllis
Murphy
TWO POEMS
Phyllis
Murphy
JOURNAL OF A HARRIED (BUT HAPPY)
MOTHER AND SCHOOLTEACHER
Marlene
Superior
FOUR POEMS
Phyllis
Murphy
MY PRINCE
Helen Decker
CHANGING CAREER ROLES
Marlene
Superior
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17
20
21
22
28
28
29
V
�TWO POEMS
Donna Decker
UNSUNG HEROINE
Elsie
F. Collyer
WHAT COULD I SAY
Donna Decker
BLACK LADY SITS HIGH ON HER THRONE
Donna Decker
THE PLIGHT OF THE WELFARE MOTHER
Barbara
Nalewajk
INTERVIEWS
Leslie
Derkacz,
Phyllis
Murphy,
Eileen
Fitzsimmons,
Elsie
F. Collyer
10-15-78
Donna Decker
DON'T BE AFRAID TO BE A WOMAN
Donna Decker
THE CHILD
Helen Decker
HANDS
Helen Decker
ALL I HAD TO DO
Helen Decker
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32
34
34
35
38
55
55
56
57
59
T O M O R R O W
GARDEN OF YOU
Helen Decker
FEMALE SEXUALITY:TIME TO BREAK A STEREOTYPE
Bernadette
Cianflone
I MIGHT BE DRESSED IN OVERALLS
Helen Decker
A GLIMMER OF THE FUTURE
Barbara
Nalewajk
THREE POEMS
Phyllis
Murphy
WEB OF FREEDOM
Helen Decker
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62
65
66
68
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would
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601t.eve1t.?
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have be.en moJt.e 06 a 6in to have wa6te.d 6uc.h 6weet
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�THE
INCREDIBLE
JOURNEY
by
Marlene
Superior
Within the midnight,
velvet
darkness
the
whirling
ball
spins
and spins.Every
second it grows,
dividing
and building
cell
upon cell.
Erobedded and at last
at rest
in the soft wall,
my formation
begins
to
unfold
petal-like
and shapes
emerge,
Contained
in the warmth,
my long,
dark
journey
begins,
a journey
by sea, an odyssey
repeated
a thousand-million-fold
since
the very dawn of time.
Gently rocked but blind,
I am aware of a surge of expectation
of
what
lies
ahead.
The days and weeks drift
dreamily
by. Gradually, the
beginnings
of delicate
limbs develop.I
am becoming aware
of sounds
filtered
softly
through
my pulsating
environment.There
is a distant
sound;
a thudding,
muffled
beat that
is comfortable
and lulls
me to sleep.
And while I sleep
my metamorphosis
goes
gently
and endlessly
on.
Finally,
my appendages
are unglued
from
my sides.
I can move them ever so slightly.
My stirring
must
feel like feathers
tickling
because
I am so minute.
Soon I begin
to move within
my salty
sea.
I am nourished
and grow stronger.
My long,
dark journey
seems endless.
I become aware of.movement
and sounds beyond the sea.
Sometimes
the sound
vibrates
around
me, soothing;
a delicate
humming voice
is
heard
and
the
soft
thudding
beat continues,
the perfect
tympany accompaniment
to my
midnight
and invisible
orchestra.
Soon I grow
larger
and my sea becomes
freely.
What a joy to
spend the hours
ercising
my new limbs.
smaller.
wriggling
Now I can move
and kicking,ex-
The walls
aro4nd
me are pushing
out
further
and further,
and
still
my dark night
journey
continues
eternally.
Then one day I
suddenly
find
myself
heels
over head:
It is a strange
and dizzying
sensation.
I am still
floating
in my private
sea, but in
the
distance
is
a soft
glimmer of light,
gently
touching
and
highlighting
the salty
waves.
As the
days
go by, I begin to
feel contained
as I did at the start
of my journey,
limbs pinned
to my side.
I am still
in the warm dark,
secure
and safe,
but I
know my incredible
night
journey
is still
not yet
over.
Something,
someone is waiting
for my travels
to end.
I awake
from
a nap and feel
something
strange
and different
taking
place.
The hour
is
quiet.
There is no movement from
above
and
total
silence
except
for the ever present
thud-beat.
Suddenly,
shock wave after
shock wave pushes and pulsates
around
me, roughly
disturbing
my peaceful
world.
There is
a small
explosion
and my sea begins
to leave,
slowly
ebbing away and I am left
dry upon the shore.
The pulsating
rhythms push
at me with ever-increasing
intensity.
I begin to move
swiftly
towards
the distant
glimmer of light
at
a speed over
which I have no control.
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�With a tremendous
rush 1 am violently
thrown
forw<Jrd into '" cool
and
blinding
sensation.
i\o long<-~r swimming in my sea,
l c.1n1 now
lifted
into
the
air,
first
up, up, then upside
down. A shdrp
sting
is felt
on my lower back and 1 harsh sound fills
thP air.
I
am then
wrapped
in something
warm and soft
and placed
on a hard
surface.
Strange
sensations
are felt
all over and then cool and
silvery
liquids
are dropped,
bathing
my kitten-blind
eyes.
Now I
can feel a familiar
environment
and yes, once more the reassuring
thudding
sound.
Through blue
mist,
I gaze upon this
new world.
"Hello,
world,
I am here."
I know now that
my journey
has still
not ended.
I now begin
the
long travel
on the road of light,
a longer,
stranger
journey
than
ever before,
but I am not afraid
to have left
my dark sea,
for
what lies
ahead seems infinitely
more exciting
and rnysterious,and
I am anxious
to begin my incredible
new travels
in the world of
light.
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�The Bound Woman
Jani
Ry Donna Vecke~
Jani
Jani,
why'd
you do it
Jani?
Poppa'4 waiting with hi4 nicotine
4ucketi and a bMeball
bat.
He know4 the~e•4 pain but how can he 6eel it?
Jani"4 on the table with he~ leg~ up high.
She know~ the~e•~ pain.
She can 6eel it.
Ha~de~, ha~de~
he~e come4 little
Jani now.
Pao~ Mamma!
She know4 what it'4
like to be a little
Jani.
What'4 the Me 06 having little
Jani?
Jani
Jani
Read thi4
Read you~
See Je~~y
See Alice
See Alice
Jani.
Alice and Je~~y.
~un! See Je~~y•~ ball.
4weep. See he~ ~ew.
get the ball 60~ Je~~y.
Read thi~
and undeMtand!
Jani
Jani
Come he~e on the co~ne~.
The~e•~ Bill now!
How will 1 get nea~ him with
all
tho~e
gi~U
a~ound him?
Jani
Jani
The~e'4 Sue now.
A di66e~ent guy eve~y night.
You know what they
~all he~.
Jani
Jani
Wait a minute now.
What'4 a gi~l like you need a B.A. 60~?
A piece 06 pape~ to hang on the wali?.
You need a man to cook and clean 60~:
That'4 all you need to keep you 4ati46ied.
What Jani What?
My, you a~e beaming.
The wedding'~ next month.
Whe~e did you meet him?
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Poppa'4 waiting with a bag 06 candy and a pitching
glove.
He know~ 4he'4 c~ying, but he can't hea~ he~.
Jani'4 on the table with he~ le94 up high.
She can 6eel heMel6 c~ying but 4he doe4n't know why.
She can put he~ 6inge~ on it but 4he doe4n't want to.
�·.XCl:RPTfROM
/\ JOURNAL
by Eileen Fitzsimmons
I was looking at my "'edding
picture the other day and J
was reJTJindedof something.
TI1e day I was married,
before we left on our honeyJTJOon,we Hent to our apartment to change clothes.
As
I took off my 1vedding dress
I was hit with such a feel ing of depression----!
just
couldn't understand j t.
I
loved my husband,
we were
starting on a new life
together, and I felt just awful.
The feeling
didn't
1 ast too long;
the people
who were driving us to the
bus station came in and it
passed.
So I finally came to realize
that the day that
I
had
Haited for,dreamed for,planned for was over and what
was left? As happy as I was
I felt
that I had reached
the clir.1ax of my life,
and
the rest would be miticli1.1::i.ctic.It 11'3.S srnT\e:et down.
Well, of course, I soon felt
better.
Rut, as I look back
on the incident,!
am reminded how much emphasis is placed on a girl's getting married.
Or, at least it was.
I hope that maybe it is different for young girls .now,
but, somehow, I doubt it.
We were on our honeymoon a
week. We had a lovely time
and I was very happy. Then
o n the bus on the way home
that feeling hit again. TI1is
time it hit harder. Whenwe
arrived home, I
actually
started to cry.
I
j'..lSt
couldn't understand it;
at
that time in my life
J do
not think that I was ever
really depressed. This feel ing lasted for days.
I tried
to analyse
just
what was making me feel
that way, and finally I realized what was causing it.
We spend all of our young
lives, in my case 21 years
looking fon,ard to,and preparing for, the day when we
will be married.And, though
I was going to continue to
work. I did not have plans
for a great career. I would
work for a year or two,then
settle into being a
wife
and mother.
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1 he.all. he.11.voice
climb
the -6ta...i.l[-6
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on my rico.l[_
and come in t.\!..i:tliout wait,i.ng 60.1[_a.n ancUJe..1[_.
Helt game i-6 on.
Anyone. who lic:te.n6 i-6 a
Today che'-6 de.a.6, co we
We. Jta.ice ouJt voice-6 a.nd
"dea.6 ba.6ta..l[d" which che
then voUJ-6to ne.ve_.l[_
talk
playe.11..
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mutte.l[_ unde.11.ou.l[_bne.a.th6
heaJt-6,
a.gain.
We beg 601tgivene6-6.
The. game began co e.a11.ly, coon a.6te11. the time. he.11.b1tothe.11.kicl?.ed
he.It in the ctomach die locating
he.11.gut-6.
She. wouldn't
kick him back.
She. UJa-6too much 06 a lady.
I knew che. wai. playing
a.tit
a6te11. che li6ted
he.11.cki11.t
601t he.I[_hucba.nd and out popped 6ou.l[ babie.a.
No one. e.ve.Jt told he.It 6ucking ca.uce.i. babie.-6.
A good lady-----gJta.ndma.
"I love my child.l[_en, my hu-6band," che ca.id be.twc_en
g.l[itted tee.th.
A little
loudt.l[_ each .time.
Reme.mbe.l[_,g.l[_andmawa-6
going de.a 6,
Slitted
e.yu, liand6 clMped in p.1[_aye.11..
"I love my ehild1ten,
my hu-0band.
God help me love. my child.l[_e_n, my hu-0band!"
She. p.1[_ayedloud, loude_.l[_
until -0he .l[_ea.lized the TJU.n-i.ty dou n' t have to
.l[_a.i-0ethe. volume 06 theiJt T.V. te.t.
Soi.he let one. Wo.l[_m
in.
It didn't
6eel too bad, etpecially
when che.
could i.ay, "Look a.t my wo11.m!"
A little.
loude_.l[_each .time, 60.1[_gll.a.ndma wa-6 going dea.6.
16 people looked at one wo.l[_m;imagine when i.he could aa.y,
"Look a.t my WO.l[_m-6'."And che did.
And -0he pointed .to ea.ch wo11.m.
We looked and li-0.tened and .tJU.ed .to 6eel, bu.t we. knew tha.t clie
had let .them in.
We al-00 knew .that .the. cookie-6 i.he. ate. 11.ot.ted hell. tee.th
and the oil i.he cooked with ha11.de.ne.dhe.I[_a11..te..l[_ie.i.
and .the. gla.i.i.e.-0 -0he. wo.l[_e.blinded he_)[_e.yei.
and the voiee.-6 i. he. li-6 tened to dea6ened /ie_.l[_
e.a.M
and that -0he. li6.te.d he.I[_aki.l[_t 60.1[_he_)[_
would-be. hu-6ba.nd.
"Look at my Wo.l[_m-6,"
-6he. c_.l[_ie_d,and I look
tu.l[_n away 6./[_om
Wo.l[_ma
ma..l[_.l[_ing
human 6le.ah,
gaping hole.i. 06 woman 6le.ah.
He.I[_woman'a mouth la -6c.11.e.aming,one. black hole i.e.l[_ea.ming.
She. ia Ac.l[_atching wounda, p11.ying open wound-6, p.1[_yingwide. enough,
wide. enough to open one. hole
wide. enough to ./[_eachinaide. and te.all. i.t out- he.It. wo-'t.min 6e-6te.ri rvomb.
"Look at my womb!"
Then -0he liu
down in he.I[_hole. in the. g.l[_ound. tt/o.l[_m-6
cit.awl away.
They have 6ini-6he.d g11.andma.'t womb. No God, no need 601t. judgment.
He.11.e.
ia g.l[_andma'-6hell.
Have. he.I[_Wo.l[_m
.l[_idde.nwomb.
By Vanna Ve.eke.Jr.
and quickly
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�TI1e 1,ord decision is d.cfincd as
"the
act of making up one's
mind".
People make innumerable
decisions
during their lifetime
some insignificant
and some of
such r1agni tude as to tremendously affect their lives and the
lives of others.
for me,
one
of the most important decisions
that
I have ever had to make
was whether I should return
to
school.
DIFFICULT
DECISION
by Eileen
Fitzsimmons
The idea of returning
to school had begun to take shape in my mind
ah ut two years hefor I actually
returned.
At first,
it was just
a vague idea that maybe it 1,ould be nice to do something Jll.ore with
my life than I was doing at the time.
It was not that I felt
unfulfilled.
I was a wife and i11other, and I was also involved
in
several outside activities.
I liked my life,
and yet I folt
that
perhaps I coul<l he doing more with it.
At first,
I thought of returning to work;
but· after giving this some thought,
I
decided
that at this time in my life it would not be practical,
and I alsc.
felt that I dod not want to return to what I was doing before
my
marriage.
TI1en the idea of going to colleRe first
started
to become a reality
for me. Soon it became my goal.
After having acknowledged to myself that I wanted to return to school.
I then had to find out if it was "'ithin the realm of possibility.
'f'.,_ere was more than just myself to consider.
I had to be
concerned about what effect my decision would have on my husband
and my t\vo children.
1\'hen I
action
it was
And he
told my husband that I wished to go to school,his
first
re1,as that it was just a passing fancy; nevertheless,
he said
fine with him and he would help in any1,ray that
he could.
has.
Of my two children,
the oldest
one presented
the least amount of
worry.
He was almost eleven at the time and in school.
He h'ould
be able to care for himself
for the hour or so that he 1,ould have
to he alone after sd1ool.
My younger son,however, was only three arn:1he 1,as the one 1,ho provided me 1vith the greatest
amount of concern.
I 1,as luck-y enough
to have him accepte<l in the nay Care Center at the college.
Ile
1,ould he able to go there 1vhenever I 1,·as at school.
Even so,
I
!lad never left hin 1vith anyone; he 1,as extremely attached to both
his father and myself ,so I 1,as apprehensive
about h01·: he 1vould react to being away from us so many hours at a time.
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�A s it turned out, there was some reason for concern. l lc did not
adjust well at first,
and one of the most painful things I have
had to do is walk off and leave him crying.
Consequently, I had
to reevaluate my decision. Was I being selfish? Was I putting my
own desires before the lvelfare of my son?
After much thought and evaluation, I think that I can · honestly
say that I was not. Foremost, I felt that the Day Care Center
would be good for him in the long run; it would I felt, help him
to become more independent.
M:ireover, he did seem to be adjusting. Secondly, I felt that if I gave up then, I would be
u~happy and resentful and that would not benefit anyone.
the whole, I feel that my decision to return to school was one
of the biggest that I have ever had to make, and it has certainly
affected the lives of my family. Be that as it may, I feel that
it is a choice that has enriched all of our lives.
On
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�BeeauJ.ie 06
1 moved,
tJOU
paeked
my ba.gJ.i,
le6t
my mothe..Jt.,
my home...
BeeauJ.ie 06 you 1 woJt.ked i,o ha.Jt.d,
a.nd J.iaved a.nd woJt.ke..d,
to J.iave J.iome moJt.e...
BeeauJ.ie 06 you 1 eued,
b1t.oke apaJtt,
believed
I had died.
Blind,
Then you le6t
F1t.a.ntie,
I J.iat in
a eage 1 blamed on you.
to 6ind youMel6.
1 Jt.eaehed 0oJt. my ba.M but they
1 wa.J.i01t.ee all along.
weJt.en't
theJt.e.
Now my eye'-> aJt.e open.
Thank you!
Bt.J Vanna VeekeJt.
Go with the 6eeling
It''-> paJt.t 06 the healing
Who eveJt iJ.i de.a.ling.
By Phyllii,
Utt.le
Mu1tphy
Boy Blue,
you blow youJt. hoJt.n J.io long and loud
that we don't hea.Jt. it anymoJt.e.
It'J.i not that
we ignoJt.e you;
we aJt.e J.iiek 06 that
It
doeJ.in't
i,ong.
move uJ.i anymoJt.e...
16 you J.itop playing
we'll
liJ.iten.
By Vonna Ve..d2e1t.
Vo J.iome..thing poJ.iitive •••.
the.. nega.tiveJ.i will
develop
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BtJ PhylliJ.i
Mu~phy
12
�Con::entr~ent
I write
the words come 2.nd go
and flow
arrane;ing
themselves
as they fall
Here
on the
pa~e.
is my story.
Here is rny life.
Egypt
in
al1 her glory
never
had an empress
as sweetly
satisfied
as I am with a pen
and a cup of tea
in
at
By Jonna
13
my hand
my side.
.uecker
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D A V
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�The. Ma.ny Fa.c.u
3tj
Ma.Jtle.n e.
S upe..1t.ioJt
I ha.ve. be.en 60 ma.ny thing-0,
Tied to ma.ny a.p.1t.on6t.1t.ing6;
Fi.1t.-0t a. da.ughte.1t., then a. -0i-0te.1t.
I ha.d little.
thought
60.1ta. mi-0te.1t..
Out 06 the ne.6t one da.y I 6.t'.ew
Into a. wo.1t.ld 60 bJtight and ne.w,
Shining -0tudent houJt 6ling-0
Into AJtt a.nd Wo.1t.ldly thing6.
At the. end, a.nothe.Jt Jtole.
GJta.dua.tion took it6 toll
I ha.d 6ound mq 6avoJtite. mi-0te.1t.
No longeJt wa.6 I da.ughte.Jt, 6i-0te.1t..
Many c.ha.nge-0 c.a.me.a.bout
Me.xic.a.n tJt-i.p; a hon e.ymoon
A ha.le.yon, da.ncing a.6te.1t.noon
Ra.tj6 06 6un-0hine a.nd love.Jt.'6 moon
All among Hibi-0c.u-0 bloom
Va.y-0 06 happy, night-0 06 bli-06
Living on a. dime a.nd ki-06
Sudde.nly it wa.6 all gone.
V.1t.unke.n 6light,
then a.p.1t.on-on
Ba.c.k to ea.It.th, a.ll wo.1t.kand woJt.Jttj
Va6h to c.ity, home. to c.uJtJttf
"A .1t.at Jta.c.e.," he. 6aid,
"le.t'6
ca.Lt it a day. "
"It'6
time. 60.1t. Ya.le. and a.n M.A."
I ha.d no c.hoic.e., 1 ha.d no -0a.y
1 ha.d to go, I c.ould not 6ta.y
We. pa.c.ke.d ouJt book-0 and 6o6a. bed
And to the. c.a.mpu6 li6e. we. 6le.d
Fo.1t.him th1te.e. ye.a1t1i 06 li6e 60 61te.e.
And muc.h haJtd woJtk 60.1t. little
me.!
I c.le.1tke.d at the. lib.1t.a..1t.ynine. to 6ive
The.n at home, c.ooke.d, c.le.aned and c..1t.ie.d.
And a.t the. e.nd, hi-0 goal-0 we.1te .1t.e.ac.he.d
A PJto6 at la.6 t (w-<.th little.
pay)
A hotUie., then baby on the. way.
l5
�Into aubuJtbia we 6inally
6ettted
FuJtn-i..tr.ur.ed, c.a.1r.pet.ed and t.ea-tet.:U.ed
The!t.e waa not. a a-i.ngle ~law
rven a k-i.t.:ten at the dooJt
Pu1t.1t.edh-i.a welcome w-i.:th 6eline g1t.-i.n
(We juJt had to R.e.t him -i.n).
Idyllic.
you Jay?
Why complain?
But you did not neel all my pain
Felt. ,{n.to the aunah,{ne came the Jt.ain
God knowa, I t1t.ied, I played the Jr.ale
I cooked that 6abuloua c.a66eJtoR.e
The Baty and I weJte clean and awe.et
The windowa ahiny,
the Jtoom6 60 neat.
And then he came to me one day
And 6 aid, '' 1 want to g c awa If
The.Ile ia anotheJt I love bu.:t
She ia d-i.66e1t.ent 6Jtom the 1t.ea:t."
All tho6e Q'1.e6h-6aced college
gi1t.l6
With bounc~ng bJteaa:ta and to66ing
cuJtl6
Playing :theiJt ingenue Jtole6 ao "naughty,"
( She wa6 18 , he a.l ma6 :t 4 0 ! }
It ended 6-inally,
he came back
The ma1t.!U'..agewa6 ob6 on a.not.hell tJtac.k
Wending i:ta weaJti6ome, wande1t.ing way
ThJtough each lonelyand
lovele6a
day
Heading 60/t. a w/t.eck, di6a6te1t.
He waa a.till
the Lo!t.d and Ma.a:teJt.
He had money and a ea.Jr.
He could tJta.vel nea.Jt and 6a.Jt
I had 6ouJt wa.lla and a cat
Inaide my gilded
c.age, I aat,
Wi:th aqua.lling
babiea and me66y 6loo1t.6
And 6ingeJtp1t.int6 on walla and doo!t.6.
Oh I 6tayed,
wheJte could I go?
I did love the babiea 60!
The c.Jta.Jihing ending 6inally
ca.me
And I will neve1t. be the Jiame
Falt :that I'm gJta.:te6ul, now I'm 61t.ee
I d1t.ive, I woJtk, I do and 6 ee
I love the many 6a.ee6 06 me!
16
�In the past few years,
more and
more women have been returning
to work.
I was one of them. As
Personnel
Training
Manager for
a major retail
department
store,
I found myself
in a unique
position
that
enabled
me
to
make the following
observations.
GREATER
EXPECTATIONS
by
Leslie
Derkacz
Many women, so convinced
that
their
place
was in the home,seemed
to have no feeling
of self-worth
and little
self-confidence
outside the home. While filling
out an application
for work,or
during the subsequent
interview,
they would refer
to themselves
continually
as "just
housewives"
with "no skills"
or "no experience
worth mentioning."
Often
they would state
that
they had "only"
secretarial
skills,
a little
bookkeeping,
or the like,
or
that
they were married
and had children.
Time
after
time,
their
lack of confidence
and self-esteem
left
me deep in thought
and
with
mixed emotions.
I wanted to shake
each one of
them gently.
And yet,
at the same time,
I could
identify
with th m! Why didn't
they think
more highly
of themselves?
For that
matter,
why don't
I think
even more highly
of
myself
than I do?
And so
it
went.
If they were hired--and
many were--they
were
breathlessly
thankful
and happy when notified.
They arrived
for
their
first
training
session
appearing
a little
nervous.
If
they made errors,
they
became
more nervous.
You can't
imagine
how many would
say,
"You
must think
I• m stupid,"
whenever
they
made an error.
I assured
them that
they weren't.
I noted
that
many of
the male trainees
reacted
differently
if they made errors.
They
would
simply
say something
like,
"This
isn't
right;
let me try it again,"
without
assaulting
their
own intelligence
~nd without
seeking
my approval.
The difference
in attitude
was
intriguing,
and I found myself
giving
it a great
deal of thought.
I feel
sure
that
it
all stems from the way we were raised
as
children.
Boys were encouraged
to get right
up if they had fallen;
they
were
supposed
to be tough.
Little
girls,
generally,
were treated
quite
differently.
They were helped
up, dusted
off,
and told not to run or be rough;
they would fall
and get hurt
if
they did.
It "isn't
nice,"
they were told,
for little
girls
to
do the same things
little
boys are expected
and permitted
to do.
Little
girls
who persisted
and disobeyed
were "naughty."
Since
they were not encouraged
to try,
to learn,
to pursue,
or
to win
anything,
is
it
any wonder that
these
girls
lack confidence
in
themselves
and in their
capabilities
as women?
l7
�From their
childhood,
they
were headed for stereotyped
roles
as
housewives
and mothers.
Perhaps
they would be teachers
or nurses, but only until
they married
or had a child.
Then, the young
woman would
abandon
her profession.
Indeed,
society
frowned-and still
does--on
a woman who decides
to continue
working
after
becoming
a mother.
With
their
upbringing
and the pressures
of
society
against
them, is it any wonder that
so many women categorize
themselves
as
"just"
housewives,
and that
they fail
to
recognize
their
capabilities
when they reenter
the work force?
As I met with more and more women for subsequent
training
sessions,
I encouraged
and praised
them.
Yet they were less
confident
as training
ended
and the time approached
for them to go
out onto the selling-floor.
They voiced
concern
that
they would
never make it without
me beside
them at the cash registers.
They
feared
that
they wouldn't
know how to handle
things
when left
on
their
own.
These
same
grown women who doubted
their
capabilities,
and who
referred
to
themselves
as "just"
housewives,
were oblivious
to
the
fact
that
they had successfully
run their
households.
Obviously,
this
entailed
management
capabilities
and organizational
skills.
They had learned
to utilize
time to its best advantage.
They
had
doubtless
proved
to be
creative
and resourceful
in
their
homes.
They had been responsible
for decorating
and mealplanning.
Each
had
run
an
entire
household
efficiently--and
probably
did it on a budget,
at that.
Some had raised
children,
settled
disputes,
and handled
emergencies.
After
a day of such
duties,
they were expected
to be pleasant
and amusing
as hostesses,
and good company if they were entertained.
Even
though
the endless
duties
they performed
were significant
other
people
depended
on them, they failed
to see their
importance
or to recognize
their
accomplishments.
The jobs they were
performing
were vital.
Those women who had had some office
experience
and who apologetically
referred
to themselves
as having
been "just
secretaries,"
similarly
failed
to realize
that
neither
the executive
nor the
corporation
for whom they had worked could function
without
the
assistance
of efficient
and reliable
secretaries
like
themselves.
Furthermore,
in
my observations
with my trainees,
I could see a
great
change in these
women after
they had received
a paycheck
or two.
When they were in the training
room
or were
newly assigned
to
a department
in the store,
they would wave shyly
or
greet
me uncertainly.
After
a few paychecks,
they would change
not only in manner but also
in appearance.
They would come
to
work more shiny
and polished,
sporting
the latest
style
haircut,
wearing
some makeup and clothing
that was less
conservative,
if
only in color.
Something
else
changed,
too,
for now they would
greet
me as the equal
that
I was~
This
outward
display
of con-
18
�fidence
led me to the conclusion
that
they
were
experiencing
feelings
of
importance
and self-worth
because
they were being
recognized
for their
achievements.
This recognition
came in the
form of money--although,
in most cases,
their
paychecks
were not
large.
What
had
happened
to
the
woman who
housewife"?
Her
attitude
had changed.
was being paid for her services.
Therefore
worthwhile.
To do idiot's
work and to be
is
better
than to do meaningful
work at
for it.
professed
to be "only a
She had been hired
and
she felt
she must be
paid for it,
it seems,
home and not to be paid
Society
must acknowledge
the fact
that
each woman is worthwhile,
whether
or not her skills
are recognized
by some form of payment.
In
addition,
the importance
of upbringing
cannot
be overlooked.
Youngsters,
be they female
or male, must be encouraged
to try to
achieve
their
fullest
potential
in all endeavors.
Furthermore,
the dangers
of casting
males and females
in
stereotyped
roles
cannot
be minimized.
Where
ciety.
19
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is growth,
We are growing.
there
is change.
There is hope.
Ours
is
a changing
so-
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a upJt.iaingly
I am not
con6e.aain.g
only
ao!
le.a1tning ...
That being human you have. choice.-6
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A-6 I g.11.owold
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�JOURNAL
OF
A
HARRIED
(BUT
HAPPY}
by
MOTHER
Marlene
AND
Superior
SCHOOLTEACHER
I love my professions!
How many can say
that with
a
pound of
truth?
Mine have been the "traditional"
occupations
of women for
centuries
and despite
many rumors to the contrary,
for
me
they
are the best and most rewarding.
I have,
in turn,
been a student,
wife,
housewife,
mother,
sales
clerk,
advertising
artist,
fashion
illustrator,
librarian,
teacher,
and
almost
a nurse
(I completed
my pre-nursing
classes
during
a laid-off-from-teaching
year}.
All
of these
jobs have
had good and bad aspects,
but teaching
is
by
far the most satisfying.
Each year I meet hundreds
of new, lively, and
charming
young
people.
Where else can you get instant
feedback
to your creativeness
or to your lack of it?
Let me tell
you,
teaching
keeps me on my toes:
My own two growing
daughters
are also fascinating
creatures,
very
different
from
one
another
and fun to watch as they go through
all
the expected
stages
on cue.
Living
and
working
with young
people
twenty-four
hours a day, while not always
calming
is
like
being at a never-ending
and always
changing
opening
night
at a
theatre,
where
comedy and tragedy
overlap
to present
stimulating
drama.
While I have been at The College
of Staten
Island,
I have
journal
of some of
my experiences
as a mother,
a teacher,
student.
kept a
and a
FEBRUARY 22.
Why is it always
so cold and windy up here
at
the
College?
It
always
feels
ten degrees
colder
than anywhere
else,
I shiver
horribly,
hating
the weeks of crossing
that
small
campus
that
is
made vast
and
endless
by the icy,
fierce
winds
that
pierce
me as I walk
to and from the parking
lot and through
the
quadrangle
formed by those building
blocks--A
Building,
B Building, and C Building.
I hate to leave
the house,
knowing that
that
cold is ahead of me.
I hate being pulled
away from the warmth of
the hearth,
especially
if I have been engrossed
in an interesting
book.
Sometimes
literature
makes the room you are in disappear,
and you find yourself
in distant
lands and times.
I love to read
about how people
lived
long ago, about what they were like,
about
the kinds
of houses
they lived
in,
and
about the clothes
they
wore.
The more
modern novel
is so true to life
in its
sadness
and in its preoccupation
with death.
Of course,
the older
writings also deal
with
these
human themes,
but their
trappings
are
so much more romantic
and
colorful.
The literature
from ancient
times amazes me.
When I read it or look at their
arts
and crafts
in museums,
I wonder
to see how advanced
these
so-called
"pagan"
22
�folks
were.
They accomplished
gy and beauty.
How advanced
inborn
sense of aesthetics.
love of beauty
and symmetry.
is
It
miracles
of overwhelmirtg
technolothe human of the species
with its
is a great
mystery
of life,
this
I have
shared
my awe about the past with my own children,
taking
them as often
as possible
to exhibits
and to museums and on trips
to places
like Williamsburg.
Children
sometimes
dislike
history,
but when they glimpse
a living,
breathing
part
of it,
they are
drawn into
its wonder,
At Jamestown,
they
asked,
"How could so
many people
fit
into such small boats
and travel
across
a tossing
sea?"
I answered,
"It was done and had it not been done, you and
I would not be here now,"
A small
group
of
people
wished and
made
their
dream
come true.
They gave up familiar
places
and
their
families
and all their
worldly
things
to travel
to a
wilderness,
but they made the wilderness
their
home and this
land of
freedom
that we still
enjoy.I
tell
my children
that
they mustw::irk
very hard to make a dream become a reality
and that
they must not
let anyone or anything
turn them away from that
dream.
MARCH1, 1978,
An especially
tiring
day.
Field
trips
to places
of
business
with fifty
very lively
seventh
graders
will
do that
to
you.
Their bubbling
enthusiasm
and enjoyment
makes the occasion special.
The whole
idea
of a career
education
is special
and a fairly
new idea in elementary
school.
Not
too
long
ago,
there
was
no such
animal.
women, especially,
were raised
and
taught
to be housewives
and mothers,
and if,
"poor things,"
they
did not marry,
then they were expected
to be nurses,teachers,
librarians,
or secretaries.
Today, happily,
both
girls
and
boys
have wider choices
of careers.
At Penn
Station
and the Federal
Post Office,
we walked through
bustling
and noise-filled
rooms and saw all kinds
of machinery
in
operation
and
many friendly,
smiling
faces.
There were no such
experiences
in my own elementary
or high school
days.
I had never heard
of ceramics
or woodworking
or fashion
crafts.
Shop was
only for boys.
Did they think
girls
were too stupid
or clumsy to
handle
a hammer or saw?
Obviously,
for now, whenever
my generation
has to fix something,we
are all thumbs and look for the nearest male to do the job for us:There
was not one field
trip
in all
my pre-college
years.
I was in school
from nine to three,studying
reading,
writing,
and arithmetic,
Since
I was
a girl,
I
had to
take sewing.
How I
hated
it:
How I would have loved shop!
Recently,
people
have become educated
enough and worldly
enough to
understand
the need for all subjects
which make life
complete
and
beautiful.
The
attitudes
that
forced
girls
to take one set
of subjects
and boys another
no longer
prevail.
My
cial
students
appreciate
these
field
trips
for more than their
sovalue,
The variety
of careers
open to them amazes them. They
will
remember
this
"living"
educational
experience
with its many
new ideas
longer
than they will
remember most of their
classroom
lessons.
23
�At Kennedy,
blown breathlessly
·incoherent
by the
blasts
of wind,
we swarmed up
the ramp
to the observation
tower and ascended
to
the outside
platform
where our guide
told us how each of the many
terminals
functioned.
As we listened
and learned,
we saw the Concorde,
that
magnificently
streamlined
jet,
take off.
I asked
my
students,
"Do you
know
that
Leonardo
da Vinci spent
his whole
life
dreaming
that
someday people
would fly?
The greatest
disappointment
of his life
was that
he could not make a flying
machine.
He spent
years
studying
the flights
of birds
and drawing
detailed
sketches
of
their
wings and bodies
in order
to try to solve
the
mystery.
He did
work
on many flying
apparatuses;
although
his
helpers
maimed or killed
themselves
testing
them out,
he
never
achieved
his dream.
I hope
that
somehow
da Vinci can see the
beauty
and grace
of the Concorde
as we are seeing
it today."
The
students
agreed.
Continuing
our exploration
of Kennedy Airport,
we saw the beautiful stained
glass
facade
of one of the terminals,
contemplated
the three
religious
chapels
for
pilots,
and watched
in awe and
envy as the big planes
soared
off to exotic
destinations.
Sea
gulls,
imitation
planes
themselves,
swirled
around our tower and
then flew off
to their
own destinations,
unaware
of the inspiration
they
had provided
for the creation
of the huge steel
birds
flying
in the air with them.
MARCH 22, 1978.
It is good to see the weather
in the last
throes
of winter.
Those
first
few warm days last
week were a good omen
that
spring
is
coming despite
the blast
of snow flurries
a few
days later
that
reminded
us of this
our most terrible
winter
in a
decade.
Of course,
the warm weather
brings
bad things
as well as
good. The students
will become increasingly
restless,
their
gazes
will
go out the window, not to the blackboard.
Better
spring
fever than
the blasts
of sleet
and the anxious
slides
on slippery
roads.
Spring
brings
color
back into our lives
and the music of
birds.
APRIL 4, 1978.
A peaceful,
to see an
end to winter.
ter is too long and difficult
and beautiful.
Why wasn't
almost
spring,
evening.
It
is good
I like
the change in seasons,
but winand spring
and autumn are too short
it the other
way around?
Ny students
are more giggly
and dreamy-eyed.
I understand,
and I
hate to have to sit on them, but it is necessary;otherwise,
there
is chaos,
and chaos does not lead to learning;
or so they tell
me.
I
have switched
from literature
to drama so the students
can act
them
out.
Some of
them
are born "hams,"
and this
gives
them
their
chance
to
show
off.
They
all want all of the roles
and
clamor
for
recognition.
Everyone
gets a chance
to act.
Later,
they will
write
and act out their
own plays,
creating
pup~ets
or
using
paper bags.
They will
compose their
own books for children,
using
subjects
that
children
love.
APR!~ 8, 1978.
Field
trips
am in .one of those .musicals
York, New York."
As a born
and more field
trips .. I feel
that
I
starring
Frank Sinatra
exploring
"New.
and bred New Yorker,
I often
take for
24
�granted
all that
the "Big Apple"
has
to
offer,
but
my students
have
taught
me to be more appreciative.
From the depths
of Penn
Station,
so
dark
and
smelly,
so full
of strangers
rushing
to a
million
fascinating
places,
to the soaring
heights
of the Twin
Towers,
my students
and I experience
the enormous
variety,beauty,
and vitality
that
is New York.
It was a strange
experience
to stand
atop the World Trade Center.
The ride
in the huge elevator,
up one hundred
and eight
floors
in
a fast,
few
seconds,
left
our stomachs
and ear drums below while
the rest
of our bodies
accelerated
up to the sky. Short
and often
called
a "munchkin"
by my friends,!
am used to always
looking
up,
so I wasn't
prepared
for the sensation
of looking
down on a thousand mini-vehicles
turning
around
corners
and scurrying
through
grey alleys,
A variety
of brightly
colored
insect
people
darted
and
crawled
around
and between
the cars and trucks
and buses.Let
them talk about the decorative
rooftops
of Paris,
Well, New York
rooftops,with
their
crazy quilt
of geometric
patterns,are
nothing
to sneeze
at.
Here and there,
patches
of white snow let the eyes
rest.
It's
as if
some giant
who lives
in the World Trade Center
had painted
the scene that way. Seen from the ground,
the designs
of the bridges
that
span the East River and the Hudson are beautiful,
but
fragmented.
From above,
the designs
are complete.Barges and boats
lazily
push foamy paths
through
the flat,
brownish
water.
The water was calm, barely
rippling,
and the Lady with the
Torch stood
there,
as always,contemplating
the calm, sweet scene,
I was so quiet
inside.
The
children,
bright-eyed
and squealing
twelve-year
olds,
called
me to see the magic sights
they had discovered
in their
telescopes.
It was lovely,
lovely,
Tired,
we headed
back
to
Staten
Island.
The cerulean
blue and
gold rotunda
of the Federal
Building,
the
Stock Exchange
and its
jungle
of grey-suited
men pacing
through
their
strange
and serious dance of money, surrounded
by computer
letters
in mysterious
codes
flashing
from
the
walls,
the banquet
room in Schraffts
where we ate
and
gained
the energy
to bound up and down steps
and to stroll
through
marble
rooms and to gaze at vaulted
ceilings
kept us chattering,
like
so
many monkeys,
all the way home.
We
drove over the Verrazano
Bridge,
now so big;
then,
so
small when
viewed from the Twin Towers.
A splendid
day:
APRIL 15, 1978.
I had expected
it to be a very ordinary
day with
the kids going
bananas
as they contemplated
Easter
and Passover
and the summer vacation
not too far away. Five minutes
at school,
and I was informed
that
the second
teacher
expected
to go on the
field
trip
was at home waiting
for his wife to have a baby.
So I
was
elected
to supervise
the trip
to Kennedy Airport,
on another
of our careered
excursions.
APRIL 26, 1978.
The week
doesn't
go fast
enough,
yet Wednesday
comes too fast.
I rush to finish
the reading,but
there
is
little
time to digest
what has been read.I
prefer
to read at my leisure,
putting
the book
down when I want to, not because
something
else
needs doing.
There
are reams of students'
papers
to go through.
My red pen has become a part of me,yet
I don't
like
the red marks
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�because
they make criticisms
and demand corrections.
I try to be
positive
and encouraging,but
so much of their
writing
is discouraging.
To read and to understand
the
beauty
of the written
word
is important,
isn't
it?But
these
seventh
graders
could care less.
They sit and blow bubbles
of green and purple,crunch
on sunflower
seeds,
giggle
hysterically
and
constantly,
throw
papers
on the
floor
and
at
each other.
Some say the room is too hot; others,
that
it is too cold.
They
hide each other's
books and hats,
and
gloves
in
strange
places.
Fights
start
at a mere word or look.
Theirs
is
an emotional
age, a violent
age, an age between
childhood and adulthood.
There are the problems
of braces
and eyeglasses,
of oily
hair and of growing bosoms and the teasing
that
goes
with
all
of these
things.
The classroom
is always
charged
with
electricity.
It is never quiet
unless
I scream,
which I do sometimes out of necessity,
but I hate it,
really,
the screaming.
It
works.
For a few minutes.
Then
the
whispers
start
again.
One
thing,
though,
it is never,
never boring.
Exasperating?
Tiring?
Yes:
Boring?
No:
MAY 3, 1978.
What a wild day!The
students
have the real
crazies,
and I am slowly
getting
that way too:
The restlessness
is slowly
creeping
in.
All
the girls
are getting
very flirty
with all the
boys.
If
you saw the boys,
you'd wonder why.
I do.
But it has
been a while since
I was
twelve,
and I don't
remember the wild
ecstasies
of youth.
Today we are reading
plays.
Everyone
fights
and clamors
for the parts.
They
all have visions
of being movie
stars.
When the
reading
starts,
the silliness
sets
in because
they have to say things
·like
"I love you, sweetheart."
Some take
this
in stride,
but not without
blushes
galore.
Others
refuse
to
say the words
because
they
think
that
they may become attached
permanently,
like
Siamese
twins.
Adolescence
is
wild and silly
anyway; sometimes,
fun; sometimes,
harrowing.
They
see
so
much in the reading
that was totally
unintended
by
the
writer.
No matter
how innocent
the writing,
they find something
in it to snicker
about.
I often
snicker
with them to keep
from crying.
Occasionally,
the play reading
gets out of hand, and
everyone
gets
too hysterical.
Then I have to stop them and get
back down to business
again.
I hate to, really,
because
they are
having
so much fun.
They always
find something
to giggle
about,
and that
is something.
As life
goes on, there
are fewer and fewer things
to
laugh
about.
These seventh
graders
never have to
search
for a laugh.
MAY 10, 1978.The
closer
to summer it gets,
the tireder
I become.
It's
the same
each
year.
We come back to school
so bright-eyed
and bushy-tailed,
and by the time January
rolls
around,
the telling lines
are already
etched
under my eyes.
They keep that
tireq
drawn look for the rest
of the year.
The kids have so many emotional
problems.
They
come to school
carrying
hostility.
There
is
such a lack of attention
and love in some of their
homes that
the kids are bereft.
They demand attention,
and so they
become
hyped up and silly
and sometimes
destructive
and nasty.
Some of
the parents
have given up.
Sometimes
they
ship
the child
to a
grandparent
or to another
school.
But often
the kids are truant,
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�and the families
are broken
up and upset.
Harrassed
mothers
are
often
left
to support
and raise
sons who are so tall
and so rough
that
they
can't
handle
them and the kids know it.
They drive
me
crazy,but
they also drive
me to sadness
because
they are the lost
children;
and they
will,
in
a few years,
be bringing
more lost
children
into
the world.
Some of the girls
will
probably
become
pregnant,
and they
will
be babies
raising
babies.
And this
goes
on and on, perpetuating
itself.
MAY 17, 1978.
Shades of weariness.
How mournful
the weather.
Is
it spring,
or is it still
November?
The long,
hard
weeks of severe,
cruel
winter
refuse
to give way to warmth.
The trees
and
the grass
persist,
and
eventually
our azalea
bushes
blaze
with
color,
and down the street
one house has a yard adorned
with hundreds of red, yellow
and white
tulips.
I am glad to see this
renewal, but I feel
tired.
School
drags now,and
I have to try very
hard to be creative
and stimulate
interest.
The students
are performing
their
puppet
shows.
Their
scripts
are brilliant
and• the
costumes
for the puppets
are truly
imaginative.
Several
boys have
made an egg kingdom that
exists
"beyond
the moon."They
have blown
out the insides
of the eggs and dressed
them in costumes.The
king
wears a gold crown.
At the end of the play,
the
egg
people
of
different
kingdoms
have
a battle.
There are crushed
egg shells
flying
all over the room and they all seem to land on er under the
stage--my
desk.
Five girls
have created
a goblin
ball.
Each
puppet wears a spooky costume
complete
with makeup.The
cardboard
box
stage
is dark and cobwebby.
The bell
tolled
at midnight
and the
doors creaked.
Next
to the ballroom
lives
a family
of mice.
Can
you guess who scared
whom in the end?
There are many plays
about
space encounters.
There
is
even
one
play from ancient
Greece
with a marvelous
Greek house complete
with courtyard
and amphora&
The costumes
and other
fittings
have
been researched
and are authentic
down· to
the
women's
hairdos.
These students
are only
twelve.
Think what they will bring
to the world as adults.
There
is much to be thankful
for.
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Why a.1r.e.you. galloping
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le.ave. me. he.4e. by my6e.l6,
What will I do'!
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I ne.e.d you.!
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Toge.:the.4 we. c.4e.a:te. love.
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�In the junior
high school
where I
teach,we
have been doing a series
of career
education
lessons
on
"Women in Business."
Our
first
discussion
dealt
with
the roles
of women on various
familiar
television
shows.
We listed
all
the
women who appeared
in a regular
series.
We also
wrote
down the
jobs that
these
women hold on the
programs
and the kinds
of personalities
they portray.
CHANGING
CAREER
ROLES
by
MARLENE
SUPERIOR
The girls
in the class
were very much disturbed
about
the way women always
seem to appear
in menial
roles.
They were also
annoyed with the narrow
range
of personalities
shown.
Range of types,
they said,
went from "near
idiot"
to a best
that
was usually
no
better
than a "decorative
detective"
who looked
and acted
like
a
Barbie-doll
puppet.
The girls
were very much aware of the
fact
that
very few
programs
show a normal
woman with normal
brains
in
any kind of authoritative
role.
In a follow-up
discussion,we
considered
women's
stereotyped
roles.
We found that
women are shown
mostly
as secretaries,
nurses,
teachers,
or waitresses.
Women are
rarely
shown holding
jobs that
are careers
in any important
sense
of the word.
Instead,
they are usually
portrayed
as looking
for
a way out of boredom,
a way out that
usually
depends
not on their
efforts
but on the men they know.
During
the next lesson,
the students
were
given
a card labeled
either
"E. Blakewell"
or "Elizabeth
Blakewell,"
The only information·given
was the name and the fact
that
the person
it represented
lived
in a townhouse
and held an executive
position.Without showing
their
cards
to one another,
the students
had to give
the type of career,
the possible
salary,
and the age of the person.
Then the board was divided
into
two columns.
"E, Blakewell"
was
written
at the top of the first
column.
Students
were asked
for
the information
they had written.
That,
too,
was
added to
the
board.
Then the name of "Elizabeth
Blakewell"
was written
at
the top of the second
column,
The students
whose cards
read
"Elizabeth"
were asked
for the information
they had written.That
was also
added to the board.
I was very happy to
see
that
the
job
descriptions
given
for "Elizabeth"
and for "E." were
very
similar,
Salary
also
varied
little
between
the two names.
But
"Elizabeth
Blakewell,"
the female
executive,
was
seen as.being
much older
than "E. Blakewell,"
who might be a male,
It is
interesting
to note
given
to an adult
class
in
very different.
The adults
vice
positions
and to place
there
was a great
discrepancy
were higher
in almost
all
beth,"
The age difference
29
that
when this
same set of
cards
was
career
education,
the results
were
tended
to place
"Elizabeth"
in ser"E."
in positions
of authority.Also,
in salaries.
The ones paid to "E."
cases
than those
assigned
to
"Elizabetween
the two executives
also
had a
�wide range.
Most adults
saw their
and 50.
The adults
were much more
than the students
were even though
sional
women.
executive
stereotyped
the adults
as
being between
30
in
their
thinking
were mostly
profes-
I complimented
my students
on the fact
that
the
careers
and salaries
they had chosen
showed that
they were much more sophisticated and open-minded
than were many adults.
I explained
how important
these
ideas
were to the future
of both men and women.
If
people
freed
themselves
of stereotyped
thinking,
more
possibilities
in a wider variety
of fields
would be open to both sexes.
When I brought
in a series
of posters
that
showed famous women in
a variety
of professions,
the students
were amazed at the enormous variety
of careers
these
women had,
They were surprised
to
learn
that,
even though successful
people
may have been
educated
in one field,
they eventually
branched
out into a variety
of related
jobs.
This taught
the students
that
you are not necessarily stuck
in just
one job situation
but that
you can explore
many
related
areas
that
interest
you.
Career
education
has a great
value
for young people.
It exposes
them to hundreds
of employment
opportunities
available.Even
more
important
is their
understanding
of the wide range of human
potential,
regardless
of sex.
Eventually,
this
understanding
must
help to provide
many more choices
for everyone.
Discussing
such
subjects
with young children
makes them more confident
of themselves
and less
accepting
of stereotyped
roles,perhaps,than
their
parents
are,
Such discussion
that breaks
the stereotypes
should
be a part of every school
curriculum,
from the elementary
grades
through
high school.
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�More and more mothers
are returning
to
the working world as
their
children reach
their
teens.
Some women
return
when their
children
are
even
younger.
Each one has
to decide
for
herself
just how much mothering
is
necessary
for her child.
THE UNSUNG HEROINE
THE WORKING MOTHER
by
Elsie
F. Collyer
Why has this
change in lifestyle
come about?
It is usually
a combination
of factors.
Some mothers
are forced
to work
for economic reasons,
yet
many freely
choose to pursue
a career.
What is required
for such a tremendous venture?
They must have courage,
fortitude
and,
most importantly,
have
the full
cooperation
of their
families.
Most working mothers
enjoy
their
jobs.
They have ·the companionship
of other
adults,
a feeling
of
accomplishment
and,
of course,
their
paychecks.
Many have had to rely on
a rather
tight
budget all
through
their
child-rearing
years.
Mothers
usually
put
themselves
on the
bottom of the
list
and in many cases
no
money is left
for them.
Now they have money of their
own.
This can be a
great
source of satisfaction.
It
sounds like an ideal
situation
for women,
but where
is
the hitch?
After doing
tons of
laundry
and dishes
through
the years,
career
women
are still
expected
to carry on as before.
The women are tired
from overwork.
This causes great
tension
at home.
How do these women cope
with
the situation?
Each woman has to
deal with the problem in her own way
because
of different
personalities
and circumstances.
Some men were always reluctant
to have their
wives work.
Their egos
were
threatened.
They did not want their
wives associating
with other men.
Many of these
wives
are so happy with their
jobs
that
they are
afraid
that
if they
complain
about being overworked
and overtired,
their
husbands
will tell
them to stay home.
They therefore
try to grin and bear it.
They have the
children
help out a bit.
However,
many men are glad
their
wives are
working.
They realize
how they are
helping
out financially.
Therefore,
they help with household
chores.
The actual
housework,
although
tiring
and time-consuming,
is
not
the
biggest
problem the working mother has to face.
Coming home tired
at the
end of the day
and then having
to shift
into second gear to cook
dinner
for the family and listen
to all of their
problems
and frustrations
is the
most difficult
time.
What effect
does working have on the children?
Highly
motivated
working
mothers
seem to produce
daughters
with strong
career
goals.
However,
women who stay home and complain
about it
also urge their
daughters
to
seek careers.
What responsibility
do they owe their
sons?
A wife
who
32
�plays doormat
to her husband's
vanity is
teaching
could lead to the divorce court.
They will expect
same.
her sons a lesson that
their wives to do the
Many men want their wives to regard them with at least
the same respect
as
their
mothers showed for their
fathers.
The best husband for a working
wife seems to be one who has been raised by a helpful
father and a working
mother.
Men who had working mothers
expect their wives to be independent and busy.
They expect,
for the most part,
to take on a considerable
share of domestic responsibilities.
There are many. These women feel they can have the
What about the joys?
They are
able to do more for
their children
both
best of two worlds.
Therefore,
the
children
have a better
intellectually
and socially.
Such lifestyles
can improve the
heritage
to pass on to their children.
future.
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�What could I 4ay?
"I'm going back to 4chool."
"Foll. what?" they ~k with that 4mile, that gll.ln,
(p11.06e44ional 4tudent,
doe4n't want to wo11.k,
can't make it in the 11.eal wo11.td.)
What could I 4ay?
I'd had enough 06 the time clock people
punching in 6011.thei11. head 4ta11.t on death.
What could I 4ay?
I wanted to dance and d11.eammy day4,
wll.lte my poet11.y.
But they won't know 011.4ee.
They don't 11.eadpoet11.y.
It'4 impo44ible to explain,
40 I 4mile,
~ i6 I a911.ee.
They'll
neve11. know
it'
4
to them
I dedicate
my poet11.y.
By Vanna Vecke11.
Black lady 4it4 high on hell. th11.one in the 6e11.11.y
w~h11.oom.
I 4tand on Une, waiting 6011.the toileu
to empty.
Five minute4 late11., no one eme11.ge4, and hell. voice call4 down
to whe11.eI 4tand,"Ladlu
why don't you pU4h the doc.ti?"
Walking to the 4econd 4talt
I pU4h, hoping to 6ind
4omeone the11.e. No one.
She 4ay4, "I don't get enough to 6lU4h toileu."
But 4he take4 a plunge11. and pu4he4 the handle 06 the bowl
that holda ou11.6ecu.
"I'm a 011.11.y. I thought it didn't
6fua h," we , ay time and time again.
I look at he11.aitting
the11.e day a6te11. day,
watching the pocket6ooka,
college book,,
11.ocking back and 6011.th to the beat 06 the
,tailing p~t the blank 6acea,
blind to the black 6ecu.
6e11.11.y,
By Vonna Vecke11.
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�There
are approximately
1.4 million
people
on public
assistance
in
New
York
City today.
The
overwhelming
majority
are
women with
dependent
by
children.
Many were abandoned
by men
with
no means of
financial
support.
Barbara
Nalewajk
They did
not
choose
their
plight.
Financially
indigent
women are utterly powerless
in a society
which so highly
values
men and money.
These
people
are not human beings
to the bureaucrats
~;ho control
the
system.
They are cold statistics
tangled
in an endless
web of red tape.
THE PLIGHT
OF THE
WELFARE MOTHER
There is a social
stigma
attached
to
cent private
housing
refuse
to rent
rent
budget
does not allow sufficient
monthly
rent
allotment
for a family
is
only $218.
Aside
from financial
do not want to "lower
the standards"
many welfare
recipients
must live
in
Here
they merely
exist
amid the rats
erly heated
apartments
with deplorable
landlords
simply do not care.
being on welfare.
Landlords
with deto
welfare
recipients.
The welfare
money to cover decent
lodgings.
The
of three,
a mother and two children,
considerations,
private
home owners
of
their
neighborhoods.
Therefore,
poverty
areas,
ghettos
for the poor.
and roaches
in freezing
or
impropsanitary
facilities.
Absentee
slum
The semi-monthly
budget
for this
same family
unit
is $100.
This is less
than
$50 per week.
This
figure
is only about
52% of the
Government
Standard
of Need
established
in
1969.
This money must cover every physical
need including
utilities,
furnishings,
clothing
and
food
stamp
purchases.
To survive
on this
amount of money in inflationary
New York is
clearly an impossible
task.
Every
three
months
the welfare
mother
is subjected
to the
ordeal
of
recertification.
She must go to the welfare
center
for her :irea and again
produce
all of her documentation.
The waiting
room is crowded and noisy.
The guards
and caseworkers
are impersonal
and often
completely
insensitive
to their
clients'
needs.
The entire
process
is humiliating
and dehumanizing.
Perhaps
welfare
recipients
should
be assigned
jobs as caseworkers.
They
certainly
would be good
administrators
since
they have plenty
of
experience
trying
to manage their
households
on meagre ,.,ielfa:::-e allotments.
They
surely
would be much more en:pathetic
with the emotional
and physical
needs of their
clients.
is
If a semi-mon::hly
ched~ is lost
or stolen,,
as so often
occu:-s,
::here
least
a f:Lv~-day w;iit: for replacer::icP..t.
If a womar, <l0.=s ,10:: ha-ve any-:mc
turn to :for fii1ancial
assi.sta:1ce,
sh£:: and
ii,~::- child·_·c:11 . can literally
starve
until
a net.·' c!!ect:. is issu, C:. ·~here are iiO ~n;.2.:~cn.cy
ln.~·1s.
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to
�When ill or i~ need 0f dent~l work, welfare recipients
must turr to medicaid "mills"
ct,1d hospital
emergency rooms for care.
They wait for hours,
sometimes in severe pain,
before tr.ey are
finally
serviced
by a doctor
'.Jr dentist
they may have never seen before.
There is no personalized
continuity
of care
which is so vital
to the quality
of medicine.
Decent
heal t~1 and dental treatment
should be a basic human right
regardless
of
financial
position.
There is much adverse
publicity
about welfare in New York City.
It is a
common misconception
that the welfare rolls
are filled
with
cheats.
The
facts are
that only a very
small percentage
of welfare recipients
are
dishonest.
It r_as also been popular to blame welfare
for the poor financial condition
of our city.
The truth is that women with young children
are covered under the Aid to Dependent Children Program.
This program is
SOo/. funded by the Federal
Government and 25% funded by the State.
The
City pays only
25%.
Food stamps
are completely
funded by the Federal
Government.
All of the City's
25% share is recirculated
back into the
City's
retail
economy.
Many small businesses
exist only because of welfare customers.
How then is welfare bankrupting
the City?
Welfare
mothers are expected
to go to work when their youngest
child is
six years old.
However, there are few good day care centers
available
at
rates these women can afford.
Children of six are not mature enough to be
left alone
after
school
until
their mother
returns
from work.
Even if
proper and reasonably
priced day care could be found,
most of these women
are not
trained
for decent jobs.
Welfare
will usually
not allow these
women to attend college
to upgrade their skills.
They must accept menial
jobs at very low pay.
The system chains these women to a life of poverty.
Frustration
and hopelessness
lead to apathy.
They are caught
in a trap
from which there is seemingly no escape.
Children
raised in poverty areas
also suffer enormously.
They attend
inferior
schools.
They are
surrounded
by a sub-culture
that
utilizes
alcohol and drugs
to escape
harsh reality.
They grow up believing
that
crime is an integral
part of life.
Some learn to devalue humanity,
especially
their own. These children
are subtly trained
to hate themselves
and others.
This rage destroys
a part of them.
Many die psychologically
before they have begun to live.
We are breeding
future criminals
and welfare recipients.
Children are our culture's
most valuable
resource.
Society has a stake in
all our children,
not just
the children
of the privileged.
We cannot
afford to waste the vast creative
potentials
of so many of our
young.
Mothers should
have a right to stay home with
their offspring
to provide
them with
the proper live and guidance.
The present
system
encourages
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greeted
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owners and by a blazing
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decided
t:hat
they wantel
to
get out
of the kitchen--no
mean feat
when you consider
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one
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years
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women had
a strong
feeling
for antiques,
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as
they watched
their
youngsters
grow, they contemplated
orening
an antique
S'.1.0P somf! day.
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are
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partners:
Jean 7,lcNamara, Frances
'fimpone,
and
Mrs. Timpone' s daughter,
Laura
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two very young children.
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mothers
in partnership,
then,
there
are eighteen
children.
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motivated
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to
have
a husband
who is supportive
of one's
en:leavors,
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it's
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they
all help."
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families
were in favor
of
t'.1.eir decision
to
go into business,
they did
run into
obstacles
elsewhere.
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were disappointed,
but not discouraged,
when the bank turned
dovm
their
request
for
a business
loan,
stating
that
it would have to
be co-signed
by their
husbands.
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to being a wornan in business,
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there
was "an advantage
to being
a woman in the antique
line
of business,
but perhaps
not in other
lines
of business."
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of obstacles
they've
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CATHIE VETRANO, at
the age of thirty-six,
is the first
femaleto
beGarber•s
Itn eres t· ing enoug. h • 1·tall
genera 1 man2.ger.
began thirteen
years
ago when she worked as a salesclerk
during
the Christmas
season
in the old ·}arber' s store
in Port nichmond.
A month later
she was offered
a clerical
position
in the store's
Credit
Office.
After two
years,
she
was promoted
to
assistant
office
manager,
a position
she held
for three
years.
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promotion
led
her to the
position
of office
manager,
where
she
performed
the
duties
which
were previously
handled
b:1r a C.P.A.
It was
on-the-J·ob
traininofor Cathie,
and she held that
position for five
years
until
she became the store's
Operations
ii;anager two
years
ago.
Today,
as the
General
i,'.anaeer
of Garber' s
New Dorp Store,
Cathie
aspires
to still
greater
heights.
She has
her eye on a position
as an officer
on the corporate
level.
Says
Cathie,
"f/iy char..ces are great,
because
I have a lot of determination."
Furthermore,
she adds,
"I
have
a 1 :t o:
gi,;.ts and a big
mouth.
No one steps
on me that
easily."
How did
all this
happen to
a young woman who origianlly
trained
to be a beautician'?
According
to
Cathie,
"The owner saw
something
in me," a drive
and plenty
of pote.·tial,
no doubt.
"I
never
stepped
on anyone, II Cathie
continued,
"even
though
I'm
aggressive
and. determined.
I put everything
into
whatever
I'm
doing;
then I get bored.
It's
mechanical.
Iiy boss saV1 this."
Truly,
she
does put
everything
into whatever
she's
doing.
She puts
in at least
fifty
hours
a week at this
job, and
sometimes more, but she loves
it.
"It's
in my blood,"
she told us.
Asked
if being
female
was proving
to be an advantage
or a
disadvantage
in
the management
level
of busine£s,
Cathie
replied
that
she saw it as
an advantage
because
"You can charm a lot of
men."
As for
any disadvantages
she replied,
"Not anymore,
positively
not."
She said she has no trouble
with the personnel
because she
looks upon her
workers
as
a family.
"I'm not a dietator,"
she said.
Furthermore,
she had some words of wisdom that
no doubt
account
for her good
relationship
with her employees:
"Don't
ask
anyone to do anything
you wouldn't
do yourself,
and
always
say please
and thP-I1k you."
cat·hi·e continued,
"I've
swept the
floor,
moved
a re1ck, and
.
cleaned
a mirror.
Everyone
is
invo 1 ve d , and
business
has
increased
every month.
I pass the glory
on.
We are a term."
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to communicate
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and they do.
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might be
like,
especially
as far
as women are concerned.
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brief
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attractive
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subject
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five years
women have been
entering
the previously
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numbers
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women in all fields.
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Cathie's
life,
we
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would be
a conflict
if she
were married.
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some thought,
she replied
that
if
she had to make a choice, she
would choose the man over the
career,
but
that
it would be
a
tough decision.
"I consider
myself
a woman, not
necessarily
a
liberated
woman," she told us.
Before we left
her office,
we asked l,:iss Vetrano
if she had
a message that we could
deliver
to
women who would be reading
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this
publication,
an
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without
hesitation.
Her message was one
of
determination,
"You can do anything
you set out
to do."
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JEAN PETRINO, an attractive,
confident,
amiable
woman,
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the Manager of the 92nd Street
Branch of the Metropolitan
Savings
Bank in Brooklyn,
Hew York.
She is married
and the mother
of two
children,
both now in college.
1/hen I asked Mrs. Petrino
how long she
had worked at
the
11
bank,
she said that
her
story
was "unusual.
She had worked as
a teller
for
ten
years
before
she left
to raise
her
family.
Several
years
later,
the bank called
and asked her to help
them
out temporarily
on a part-time
basis
because
they were opening
a
b
new ranch.
She accepted
and has been vrnrking
ever since.
Five
years
ago, she
was appointed
Assistant
I.Ianager,
and
last
year,
she was promoted
to !l'iana:;er of the branch.
She was, incidentally,
the first
person
who went from part-time
worker
to manager.
She
also
has only
a high school
diploma;
now the
bank
requires
a
college
degree
for its mar.agement
positions.
Asked if she felt
at a disadvantage
because
she is
a woman
she replied,
"Ho, my male colleagues
treat
me as an
equal.
and
Brevoort
(the
original
name
of !.:etropolitan
Savirigs
Bank) has
always had women officers.
·;1hen I started
vii th +.he Bank in 1948
they had two women officers."
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time,
there
is also
one other
woman who is a Branch Nanager
and
several
other
women
officers,
including
several
Assistant
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other
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only
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medical
career
for women was
IN
nursing.
Very few
women became docl\:E )JCINE
tors,
and even fewer were found in administrative
positions.
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Today,
increasing
numbers
of
males,
as well as females,are
studying
.uR. HAHRIZT 1-!i-i..=1:l.IS
to become nurses.
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it
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KAY WALTErtS
go
to medical
college.
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in some states
nurses
can establish
an
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practice.
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we will
'9robably
see more and more women doctors,
and. inJeed,
administrators.
Prir.'l:iry nctrsine;,
the ultimate
in nursing
care,
v1ill doubtlessly
be more widely
practiceu.
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concept
provides
for
con0istent
and individualized
nursin&
care
throughout
the
patient's
pror,:ress
and follow-up
care;
these
are
much more
successful
because
of
the close
relationshi11
of the
medical
team Y1ith '3ach other
and witl1 the uatie,,t.
The following
three
women in
medicine
bear testiL'.1ony
to the
fact
that
there
have
beer.!. great
changes
in me.ii cine as far as
_,
womer. are concerned,
but,
if I may venture
a comment,
the best
is
yet to come!
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to Leslie
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,.:rs, I,olt
graduated
from I,lolloy
College
of rursing,
Long Islar,d,
in 1978.
!,,y awareness
of the capabilities
and
choices
of wor:ien has
increased
in direct
proportion
to the realization
of
the limits
actually
placed
on us.
·::hen I was
younger,
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thought
about
what I could do with my life,
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three
choices--teacher,
secretary,
or nurse.
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on nursing
because
it seemed tne
more heroic
of the three--the
only bne
with any amount of adventure.
Kursing
has been hindered
in its
professional
growth
primarily because
it has been a traditionally
fe:;iale
occupation.
I.:any
females
choose
a ''profession"
to hold the:,, over while
thc:y are in
their
state
of limbo.
s:'his
lirr.bo
entails
waiting
to b'3co:ne a
wife
or r.wther,
:ihen that
happens,
the profession
is rese1·ved
on
the side
"in case something
should
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the children
are raised."
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to the field
of medicine and not
as
a body
of science
which can stand
alone.
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nurse
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or
"h2.mlmaiden
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and not as a professional
in her own ri:,:ht.
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is,
and the vast possibili ties
it holds
for future
,<;rowth, I am happy
I have choosen
this
relatively
young profession
and can be a part
of its
chanr;ing
image.
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of today ma:, speak of equal
rights
and desire
to
be treated
professionally,
yet I have seen nurses
give
up their
rights
and dignity
to
placate
the ego
of a physician.
Nurses
must become independent
enoue;h to make decisions
within
the realm
of nursing.
They must cut their
dependency
cord with the physi.
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too!
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planning
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support
of her husband
and mother,
J:t. H£·GIB'~ HA...ii.US, a dermatolosist,
is able to do both.
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that
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l,:edicine
as well.
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ae;ainst
that
specialty
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that
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be able to handle
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raise
a far:iily.
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that
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would be much more demanding
than
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since
there
would be emergencies
to deal with.
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renovated
office
is downstairs
in the home
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since
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know their
mother
is nearby,
and
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one can hear the children
upstairs.
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,Iarris
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she was horrif:.ed
in the beginning
if a patient
heard
the
children
bickering,
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significantly
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the time Dr. Harris
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when less
than
5~~
were female.
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more
and
r::ore women will
enter
the field
of
medicine.
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enough,
according
to
Dr. Harris,
traditionally,
there
have
always
been more v1omen in
Dermatology
than in other
medical
fields.
Surgery
2.ppears
to
be
the last
stron:;hold,
with mostly
men entering
this
specialty.
Dr. Harris
married
her husband,
who, incidentally,
is not in
medicine,
while
she
was
in
medical
school.
3he was the first
woma..1'1 Chief Resident
in Dermatology
at ;,ew York University.
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also
gave
birth
to her first
child,
a daughter
. now thirteen,
while
she was Chief
Resident.
Reflecting
briefly,the
poised
and
ghractiouhs
ddoctbor commhentedththat
pe~htaps
the da~ghter
had been
s or c ange
ecause
er mo er
wasn
able
to uevote
quite
as
much time to her because
of her obligations
as
Chief
Resident.
She wasn't
able,
therefore,
to study
her
and
enjoy
her as she
does the second
child,
a boy, who is non three
years
old.
A grandmother
or capable
housekeeper
is essential
if n wo~an
intends
to pursue
a career
and raise
a family.
Dr. "larris'
mother has been a tremendous
help.
She herself
was
a r;urse v1ho int errupte d her career
to raise
a f amily.
When her mother
returned
to work, ,Jr. Harris
was
eleven
years
old.
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back at the
effect
this
had on her as a youni';ster,
Dr. Harris
commented
that
she enjoyed
it,
since
her
mother
was less
compulsive
about
the
housework.
How in a similar
position
herself,
she says,
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irritates
me, but I don't
have time to correct
it."
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was compulsive,
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when
Dr. Harris
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herself
to be a liberated
woman, she
answered,
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that
all the choices
are mine."
~ler husband is supportive,
and her
mother
is
available.
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she
and her husband have J·ust returned
from a medical
convention.
He
played
golf
while
she
attended
conferences.
Her children
were
home with their
granJ.mother.
Reflecting
on her life
as a liberated woman, Dr. Harris
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and
added,
"'l'he life
a sh.el tered
woman lives
looks
pretty
good sometimes."
However,
it's
obvious
by her warmth and vitality
that
she
er.joys
her lifestyle.
Yet,
speaking
as a mother,
she
revealed
that
sometimes
she felt
that
not enough
of
her
time
was
available
to guide her children,
"However,
if I gave all my time to then,"
she said,
"I'd
be
discontented.
I'm probably
a better
mother
this
way."
To that
final statement
I can only whisper,
"Amen."
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at the South Beach
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Mrs. Walters
is a remarkable
woman.
Due to the
illness
of
her mother,
she had to leave
school· in the
ninth
grade.
It was
at the age of twenty-six
that
she recieved
her high school
equival ency diploma.
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of nine
years,
she recieved
her associate
degree
in nursing
from Staten
Island
Community College,
a Bachelor
of Science
degree
from Richmond Collee;e--wi
th honors-and a degree
from St.
John's
University.
In 1977, l\1rs. '.'/alters
recieved
a degree
from the Gestalt
Institute
of
Psychotherapy.
These diplomas
have been "the tools"
towards
her success.
All of this
was
accomplished
with
the full
cooperation
of
her husband
Jim whom she married
when she was nineteen.
~v'hile she attended
Richmond
College,
she was employed
fulltime as a nurse
at Staten
Island
Hospital,
during
which time she,
along with others,
was instrumental
in setting
up birthing
rooms,
settings
more appropriate
for the many fathers
becoming
interested in attending
the delivery
of their
children.
"There were just a lot of nice people
out there"
was her reply to how she managed to do all this
with two very you.'1g daughters
at home.
She and i':lrs. Judy Ford,
her neighbor
who is a wife
and the mot'her of two sons,
set up a unique
barter
system.
Since
they were both
nursing
students
at
SICC, they staggered
their
programs
so that
one cared for the
children
while the other
took
classes.
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of listening
to the tapes
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lectures
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sink."
Do you think
your
maturity
motivated
your success?
"No,"
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wanted
to be somGbody.
I would
have been the same person
if my education
had not b;ien interrupted."
Are you a liberated
woman?
"Liberated
from what?
I am a
free
agent,"
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is interested
in the
·,iomen' s
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of
3RA, she feels
that
"society
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job on both sexes."
She is "pro people."
Since rf.rs. ·:ialters
does some private
counseling,
I asked her
to comment on a statement
that
"some
female
coW1selors
are ex1
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women as a resu t o t. e
awareness
aspect
o f the ·..., o1
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men's Movement.''
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that
there
may be some va i• ity
to
I
that
view,
"but,"
she continue d , 'men
have tol d us f or years
what
was wrong with us ••••
Now they are telling
us what is right
with
us!"
It is interesting
to note that
during
the interview,
a young
himself
as he closed
i,·.rs. '.)alters'
office
door,
in
man excused
order
for us not to be disturbed
by
a group
of patients
being
given medical
attention.
He was a male
nurse
and !,lrs. :,alters
commented
about his competency
and hunani ty in the profession.
Each year more males are enrolling
into nursing
pro;"!;rams.
Budgets
are a problem
in
all
heal th
care services.
i,,rs,
'ilal ters
conceded,
"there
is never
enough
help when lie al ins v,i th
the sick."
In talking
about the future
in
nursing,
Mrs. Walters
sTJoke
of the fact
that
in 19 8 5, a Bachelor
of
Science
det;ree
will
be
needed
in nursing.,
givins
it "academic
acceptability."
3he added, however,
that
"those
already
practicing
should
not be penalized for their
history."
She
infor!!led
us
t'.'lat i{ew York is the
only state
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Dead
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model of her
motto:
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should
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WOMEN
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Education
IN
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generally
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dominated
by feEDUCATION
males,
especially
at
the
Elementary
level.
Teaching,
along
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HERTHA WINS CH
has always
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for women.
MARIE SCHUT
Today,
there
are
more men--and
more married
women--teaching
than
ever
DEANNA BODNER
before.
Many young
men
explored
the
possibility
of entering
Education
via
the G.I.
Bill.
There
is
evidence
that
children
relate
well
to men in the classroom.
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addition,
there
is
a
growing
need for a positive
male image in
the lives
of young children,
particularly
those
who may have little
contact
with
a male role
model at home.
Al though
supervisory
positions
at the Elementary
level
are still
male-dominated,
these
positions
are now being
sought
not only by men but by single
and
married
women.
Progress
may be slow,
but these
changes
show that
it is taking
place.
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women in Education
who were interviewed
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One of the most fascinating
women interviewed
for this
publication
was MRS. HERTHA WINSCH who is currently
retired.
Mrs.
Winsch
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in Biological
Sciences
and taught
at New Dorp High
School.
She was President
of the Hunter
College
Alumni
Association
from 1969-72.
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that
the college
was
one hundred
years
old
on February
14, 1970,
and that
it had
become
co-ed
in
the mid-1950's,
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life
she has
led!
"People
of my generation
were raised
to be seen
and
not
heard,"
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I'm happy to see that
it is
changing.
It
was an unfortunate
view,
but part
of the times."
Still
active
and informed,
she is
indeed
a fascinating
woman,
I recalled
meeting
her for the first
time
in
1976 when a
group
of women students
met
to protest
the abolition
of open admissions
and free
tuition
at the City University.
I asked
what
she had become
involved
in since
then.
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told
us
that
she
was still
involved
in Education
and
that
she also
travels
extensively,most
recently
to Japan
to study
the education
system
there,
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is also
involved
in the education
of Senior
Citizens.
"Senility
rolls
in like
thunder
if you
don• t use your mind and body,"
she said.
She is now President
of
the West
Brighton
Association
for
Retired
Persons.
When we
talked
about
the changing
rolls
of men and women, Mrs. Winsch' s
views were
truly
avante
garde.
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surprised,"
she said,
"that
the E.R.A.
has
had such tough
sledding
throughout
the land.
For
one
member
of the family
to bear
the entire
burden
as the sole
provider
is
too
demanding.
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were more geared
to look
outwardly,
and not feel
they were neglecting
their
families,
they
would be much better
off
inwardly,
and they would be taking
some
of the burden
off men's
shoulders,
E.R.A,'s
greatest
opponents
are our own sex."
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no t prepare
t h emselves
for any
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hand and foot;
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as
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all
was well.
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happened
and he could
no longer
provide,
however,
they
had nothing.
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22, was appointed
as
a
teacher
in
1945 when there
were
more women than
men in Education.
The majority
of
women were teachers,
many were
principals,
and a few
were superintendents.
Since
that
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there
have been many changes.
"After
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were more
male teachers
and more male principals."
Another
significant
change
occurred
with
the
formation
of the Teachers•
Union.
Prior
to this,
a teacher's
salary
was very
small
and
preparation
periods
were
unheard
of.
The
move to
eliminate
sexism
in the
classroom
is a more
significant
change.
"h.hen
asking
for a monitor
to perform
a certain
duty,"
Miss Schut
explained,
"one doesn't
specify
a boy monitor
or a girl
monitor,"
current
textbooks
also
reflect
the move to prohibit
sexism.
After
obtaining
a college
degree,
Miss Schut
attended
business
school.
Later
she received
her M,A.
She enjoyed
teaching
at the
elementary
level,
and still
enjoys
helping
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a woman's
children
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sometimes
resulting
in the
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syndrome.
This
can mean
difficult
times
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doesn't
call
constantly
or
lives
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the nest,
she would
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her relationship
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her child
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she feels
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if the man she depended
upon
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out.
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left
with
nothing
even
though
she was
the one who was loyal."
"Women have to be awakened,"
she added
thoughtfully.
"Persanal
experience
is the mind-opening
experience
unfortunately,"
With her
insight
I just
knew whatever
she said
about
the
future
would be significant.
"We need,"
she began,
"more women
in banking--as
presidents
or
vice-presidents,
not
tellers.
We
need women in insurance--filling
top positions,
not selling
policies.
We also
need women
in the oil
industry."
After
a pause,
she continued,
"Women would give
women a fairer
deal
in the automobile
industry.
I don't
want to be impressed
by
upholstery:
In the
food line,
she pointed
out
that
"all
the
managers
are
men.
The women are meat-wrappers
or
cashiers.
It's
not
that
women aren't
capable!"
When you've
heard
it from Hertha
Winsch,
you realize
it,
and
it--as
if for the first
time.
She is the kind
of woYou believe
man we are all
capable
of being--and
she has been
for years.
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principal
of P ,S, 30 only weeks before
our meeting.
However,
for the previous
three
years
she had
been
assistant
principal
and then acting
principal.
As principal,
she
will
be on probation
for three
years
and rated
yearly
by the district
superintendent.
Four women
and
one
man were considered
for
this
position.
"Our community
school
board
is
very
progressive,"
said
Mrs,
Bodner,
"I feel
they select
on the basis
of qualification
rather
than
sex,"
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appointed
by the community
board
which
consists
of nine
members,
four
of whom are women."
"Females
in supervisory
positions
are
respected,"
Mrs, Bodner
said,
"I
don't
believe
that
males
feel
threatened,
Newly appointed
young
people
may be questioned
as to their
capabilities,"
she explained.
"If
anything
there
is
more
concern
about
age than
sex."
M_rs, Bodner
observed
that
indeed
younger
supervisors
are being
selected.
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back,
Mrs. Bodner
agreed
that
elementary
education
has originully
been femc1le
dominated.
"In my elementary
school
days,"
she said,
"there
were
no male teachers.
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high
and high school,
the
few
male teachers
primarily
taught
science
or social
studies,
One out of four
language
teachers
was male,"
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ten
years
later,
when
Mrs. Bodner
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in Social
Service
Education
(for
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deprived
children).
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she
served
as
acting
principal
of P.S,
39, and,
according
to
Miss
Schut,
"learned
a lot
in that
capacity."
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whether
she felt
there
were advantages
to being
a
women
in Education,
Miss Schut
replied,
"With
the current
awareness
of women, there
is
an advantage,
but
it
still
depends
on
qualification."
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further
stressed
that
"Education
shouldn"t
be a woman's
field
a man's
field.
Rather,
it should
be open
_or
to whoever
is interested
and qualified."
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of Women's
Rights,
Miss Schut
said
she was
"all
for
it.
We are as qualified
as men.
Women are entering
every
field
previously
dominated
by men, and men
are
entering
some
fields,
like
teaching,
which
were previously
dominated
by women.
There
shouldn't
be a conflict,
but attitude
is very
important,
since
bitt.erness
at being
overlooked
can affect
your present
job
or situation."
In reference
to the
increasing
number
of men in the profession,
Miss Schut
noted
that
it was
of great
importance
in modern
society
where
"some homes
have only
a woman
as the head of the
family,"
The male authority
figure
at school
and the female
authori ty at home
can provide
a heal thy balance
for the
child
in
these
cases.
Miss Schut• s
confidence
and optimism
were revealed
in her
final
statement:
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today,
equal
pay
and equal
opportunity
exist
for
those
entering
the profession,
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some men teaching
elementary
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there
were more men in supervisory
positions.
The number
of males
entering
education
significanUy
increased
after
World War II.
"The
children
relate
to them
and need them,"
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said.
"At
home, mot.her
is the head
of the household;
too many
youngsters
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see their
fathers
only evenings
and weekends,
or
even less
frequently.
I believe
male teachers
are realizing
that. their
role
with
li t.tle
children
is as important
as that
of women."
It is also
interesting
to note
that
there
are more married
women with
families
entering
the supervisory
field
than
ever
before,
There
are still
more males
in the supervisory
positions
at
the elementary
level,
When I asked
Mrs. Bodner
why, she replied
that.'.
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women with
families
have shied
awa}:' from thesP
supervisory
positions
because
they are more
demanding
and the::
require
much
responsibility.
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these
jobs
becausA
they
could
devote
more
time
to
them
and because
t.hey offered
mot-e
pay.
Now there
are
many
married
women
with
families
\,ho are
seeking
similar
careers.
People
have forgotten
that
there
\,,"re
mostly
women in supervisory
positions,
especially
in
elementary
education,
some
time
ago,
and
that
they were very
qualified.
"Public
thinking
must
change,"
she
added.
As a widow and the
mother
of
two
nursery-school
aged
children,
Mrs. Bodner
finds
the combination
of pursuing
a
career
and raising
a family
cioubly
hard.
"Yet,"
she said,
"one blends
well
with
the other.
Having
youngsters
and seeing
them grow helps
you become
aware
of their
needs
and
stages
of development.
I constantly
take
things
that
I have learned
from my carf->er to my children.
They learn
a great
deal
from me, and I from them,"
Al though
she
sometimes
has guilt
feelings
about.
the amount
of time
spent
with
her children,
she says
that
"quality
of time
spent. with
a child
is
more
important
than
the quantity."
Her
career
enables
her
to be with
her children
in the evenings,
on
weckPnds,
during
summer
vacations,
and
on
ext.ended
holidays.
When she is not with
them,
there
is a capable
housf'kecper
to whom
they
can
go
for help,
and devoted
grandparents
to ,:horn they
can
go for love.
"The
children
have
formed
a close
attachment
to
their
grandparents,"
said
Mrs. Bodner.
"I"m family-oriented
so I
like
it.
The
children
have
gained
an
understanding
of older
people,
and children
do have a wonderful
effect
on the elderl}·,"
To the question,
"Do you
consider
yourself
a liberated
woman,"
Nrs.
Bodner
replied,
"Far more than
I ever
wanted
lo be. Circumstance
has
placed
me in the position
where
I have ultimate
responsibility,
but chances
are
I'd
be
at
the
same point
in my
career
anyway."
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Mrs. Bodner
wanted
to be a teacher
or a wife
and
mother.
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husband
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her.
"I felt
I wouldn"t
be able
to devote
as much time
to husband
and family
if I took on principalship,"
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Her husband
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she could.
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to do the same.
Although
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at times,
it is
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that
she enjoys
it.
During
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a
youngster
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on the principal'
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her with one of his
birthday
cakes.
She was delighted
and told
him she would have it
at lunch.
He beamed
as brightly
as the sunlight
which streamed
through
the windows,
illuminating
several
children's
drawings
that
hung in frames
on the wall
behind
her desk.
Al though
Mrs. Bodner
enjoys
being
a principal,
she misses
teaching
because
there
isn't
enough
contact
with
the children.
"I'd
also
like
to see the children's
response
to the new materials
I• ve chosen.
The
sense
of
accomplishment
that
a teacher
has--even
if it means
success
with
only one child--also
is missing."
Unfortunately,
there
is not enough
time
for the principal
to teach
because
of the
many responsibilities.
"Teaching
a few
hours
would help
me do my job better,"
Mrs. Bodner
explained.
"I
would then
have more
empathy
with
the teachers
and be even more
aware
of the
needs
of the children.
It's
sometimes
hard not to
lose
sight
of these
needs
when my desk
is covered
with
all
this
paper
work as a result
of my duties
as principal.Yet
time doesn't
permit
for continuity
and
follow-up
after
teaching
a lesson."
Her comments
on the future
of education
were positive.
Nonsexist
books,
some of which we examined
and which
are currently
in use,
will
continue
to be an important
tool
in educating
tomorrow's
children.
Mrs.
Bodner
further
indicated
that
more
stress
will
be placed
on Career
Education
as part
of the curriculum.
For example,
children's
newspapers
dealing
with
career
opportuni
ties
will
serve
to put more focus
on choosing
a career.
Having
had a glimpse
into
the-future
of Education,we
asked
about Mrs. Bodner' s future
plans.
She
instantaneously
replied,
"In the back of my mind,
maybe when I'm retired,
I'd
like
to be a
writer
of children's
literature."
Somehow I feel
that
the staries she will
write
are certain
to become
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an unusual
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for a woman?
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She combines
her love
SPORTS
of writing
with
her
interest
in and
knowledge
of
sports.
A sportswriter
for The Staten
Island
Advance,
she is
a day student
in her fourth
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at
The College
of Staten
Island
where she is majoring
in English.
Pursuing
a college
degree
and
working
at the same time
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undertaking,
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ambitious
young woman is handling
both
very well,
Her job is to cover mostly
high school
games and some college
games,
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up
her stories
until
midnight
at The ?,dvance.
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she
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more
resentment
from
women
coaches
than
from the men.
Although
she has been covering
local
events,
on October
15,
she
received
the big
assignment
of covering
the
New York City
Marathon.
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plans
for
the future
include
graduate
school
and,
of
course,
continuance
in her job as sportswriter
for
The Advance.
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whose office
is
in
the
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"I consider
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year
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are no restrictions
on me that
I
haven't
allowed
myself.
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thought
of myself
that
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Asked if there
were a particular
individual
who had perhaps
inspired
her
when
she
was
younger,
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was a
strong
individual
who always
inspired
me.
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of her
hardships,
lack
of money,
and little
education,
she instilled
wisdom
and zest."
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also
pointed
out that
no one in her family
is a professional
or has been formally
educated.
"I
always
wanted
to
be something
of a professional,"
she
said.
"I
gave
it
a
lot
of thought,
and since
my grades
were
good,
I could
choose,"
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entered
St.
John's
University
in
1974,
and worked
her way through
Law School
by teaching
piano
and
tutoring
students.
The last
ten
years
have
seen
increasing
numbers
of women
entering
Law School.
When Ms, Donlan
graduated,women
made up 25%
of the class.
The following
year
the figure
was 26% and has been
increasing
ever since.
Even though
she actually
was a minority,
she was never
made
to feel
like
one,
and encountered
no disrespect
from the men in
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"There
was just
too much work,
and it was rigorous,"
Ms, Donlan
said.
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as an attorney,
she still
enjoys
a
good relationship
with her peers.
Ms. Donlan
attributes
this
to
the fact
that
she is industrious
and sincere.
She believes
that
a person.
should
behave
in a dignified,
intelligent
manner whether one is male or female.
"I see no
need to be like
a man,"
she
said,
"I'm not a man.
Besides,
there
are advantages
to being
a
woman,
For
one
thing,
the rapport
with
other
women is tremendous."
Although
she has encountered
some prejudice
from men, she
does not believe
it was malicious,
but rather
that
it was built
up over
the years,
unknowingly.
It is obvious
that
Ms. Donlan
enjoys
her profession,
and she
says
her husband,
who is also
an attorney,
wouldn't
have it any
otherway.
"I
wouldn't
marry
a personwhowouldexpcctmeto
make a choice,"
she said.
"A couple
must be
aware
of each other's
needs,
and be willing
to work out any problems
that
might
arise,"'
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she
and
her
husband
work at keeping
in shape
together,
they wouldn • t consider
a joint
practice.
As Helene
put
it,
"The male/female
relationship
must
continue
and the roles
must
be
separate
and
apart.
You have to work at the relationh.
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sip,"
s h e said,'
"You don't
want to Jeopardize
it."
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there
be children
in the couple's
future,
she will
be
with
them for the formative
years,
she said,
and then work parttime until
they are grown.
"I worked
too hard
for this
to simply
give
it up and stay
home,"
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some don't
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the other
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she chooses
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s timula ting to think
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the responsibility
and
the contribution
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society,
for it means taking
the burden
off
the men.
When both
are working
for
the
support
of the family
and share
in the upbringing
of the family,
women will
be more secure
and confident,
and men will
not be as pressured."
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is
a
real
revolution
going
on,"
she continued,
"as
women become more conscious
and more aware,
but it will
stabilize
its elf.
Unfortunately
many are
in a rush
to do something
without giving
enough
thought
to
their
families
and to what would
best
suit
the family's
needs
as well
as their
own.
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a
woman must
also
look
at
her relationship
with
her husband
and
consider
the effect
on him,
It may be difficult,
but,
ultimately,
the decision
is hers."
Leaving
her off ice,
I found
myself
thinking
of Helene
Donlan
as a most remarkable
woman,
for,
to me, she was a glimpse
of tomorrow's
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FJtom .the dep.th-6 06 con6u..6ion my mu.6e -6£.ow.f.lJ'leache-6.
I wa-<.t.
She .touche-6 me; .then -6o6tltj,
qua.veiling,
1 begin to .6ing.
No one
hea.M bu.t me; yet -6a..ti-66ied I fling,
and -6inging .l'oudetr. a.!>.the .tJtembl-<.ng
ceMe-6.
I begin
.to -6mell -6a.l.t a.nd -6wea..t and -6ea,
.the ..!>mell-6 06 a. woman.
I J..mell,
I ..!>.t-i..nk06 woman.
I -6mell 06 -6a.l.ty -6ea.. 1 -6ee ha.-i..Jtand legJ..
a.nd a.Jtm-6 a.nd chu.t
06 a. woma.n. Ught ..!>ult.Jtound!. me, ma.king me clea.-'I. .to
a.l.l.
A..!>I U!..ten .to the whi..!>peting 06 my mu-6e, I -6e.t.tle back in.to .the
da.Jtkne-6!. 06 my -'loom. Shadow-6 ca.Jte-6-6 my 6a.ce, Uck my -6kin.
Tongue-6,
!tough, g1ta.-i..ny a.Jtou.6e :the ha.-i..M on my cheek..
My elJU hal.6 cl.01, e, my
mou.th ha.l6 open-6.
I 6,lood wi.th wo1td..!>. They c.ome and go,
a.1t1ta.nging
.them..!>elvu a...!>.they 6all on :the page.
The 6em-i..ne -i..n me ha..!>RISEN!!!
I wa.-6 bo1tn a. woman.
No need
to pa.1tdon my li6e;
-i...t goe-6 on living
me.
-By Vanna. Vec.ke.Jt
Von'.t
Von'.t
be. A61ta.-i..d.to be a. Woman
be a.6-'la-i..d.to be. a. woman;
the1te. i-6 ..!>uch a .th-i..ng you know.
ThetJ a.Jte -'l.ea.l; le.t
.them 6low!
-By Vanna Ve.eke1t
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�'.·creams fn:m '.:he ,nfdcile
flesh beating
flesh,
hard slaps fall on her
red hands f;rj_p the p2 le
kick i.t around,
roll it across
rocks,
hones begin to break
and crack
inside
her,
Aching shrieks
f-[Jl the
The body wrj_thes.
Tears ar~ flowing;
she pleads for death.
Her prison of pain has
There is no key
to take away
the cracking
sounds of
of
t•lE:
::i.tilr,
naked skin,
body ,
nir;ht.
locked,
the night.
The woman,
leaves and branches
in her hair,
eyes black and blue,
grey mascara dripping
down her face,
Woman,
all torn flesh,
blood and wounds.
Helen
Decker
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�You4 handa we4e neve.4 made :to hold babiea.
You4 handa we4e
neve4 ao6:t enough :to :touch my mothe.4
you4 body neve4 wa4m enough
:to lie on :top 06 my mo:the4,
b u:t yo u did .
1
6
b4eaa~,
1 unde4a:tand you wanted a little
boy.
You would have molded him into :thinga
IJOU
ne.ve4 we.4e
and alwaya wanted :to be.
But you 4eceive.d you4 :teleg4am
on :the Coaat 06 Cali6o4nia
and it cong4a:tula:te.d you
an you4 baby gl4l.
So you :took you4 :time. coming home.
Mothe4 had lain in a white hoapl:tal gown,
In 100 deg4ee weathe.4
wonde4ing l6 you eve4 would 4e.tu4n.
Two yeaM la:te4
Mothe.4 walked :th4ough lee and anow,
with a baby kicking
inaide. he4.
The baby decided
that it waa :time to e.nte4 the wo4ld.
Mothe4 aweated Lt out,
and bo4e the pain,
and bo4e a child.
The hoapital
phoned you.
Fo4 you didn't
want to be to cloae.
You didn't
want to hea4 mothe4 ac4eam.
The hoapltal
cong4agulate.d
you
on you4 new aon.
"My aon,
I'll
ahow him how to get what he wanu
F4om ladiu,
horn li6e.
I'll
teach him how to ahoot guna.
Toge.the4 we'll aha4e my 4l6le.
I'll ata4t him young,
condition
him in.to being a man."
Fathe4 pu.6hea th4ough the c4owde.d hoapital
nu44e4y,
"I'm he4e to aee my aon.."
He 6o4geta about mothe4 aitting
in a lonely hoapital
The nuMe polnta to a little
baby,
Sleeping,
W4apped in a pink blanket.
She unde4atanda the quution.
in hill e.yu,
and 4e.pliu,
"Si4 it wa.a a mla :ta.ke.
You4 wi6e delivu.e.d
a baby gl4l."
"Lla4," he 6 c4eama.
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4oom.
�~e puahea open thf rlJvJt
and Ji.un.6 beit-<..Y.d.l/11: ,da ..~ll :-<.,;,Wtt•.
Hia
f.i.~.t.~ and teeth
c.f.er,c.iicd -t{nhUu
a~ he can beaA -the pa-<.n.
·'
He tuna to hia child,
and 'Lipa away the pin~ blanket.
The babq ac1i.eama.
The ea1i.a 06 the ~a.the.Ji. cloae to the aound.
Sh~ will
6ind nc com5cllt heJi.e.
lie ataJi.e.a a.:t he1t
Aa he mumble.a and cllie.a tc himae.f ~;
"Little
giJi.l.
TheJi.e will be nu 1ti6lP6,
No powe If.,
fJo love.
I can't
be Ji.eapC'na-<.ble.£01t (!Cu, little
gitl."
a-~e
1
Hia hand that waa nevelf. ao~t enough
Toucliea he1t
Once.
Then he 'Luna away
To expe,'timent c1Ji:th othe1i. women.
Maube with aomeone elae
~
He'll
have a aon.
to
hold
babi~a
Now he aita
on hia 6Ji.on:t poJi.ch,
Ciga1tette
clenched
between hia teeth,
Long black 1t.inle
clenched
in hia hand.
He Ji.emembeJi.a the day
they told him he had a aon.
!l.l aeeo the little
gi1t.l .atanrU.ng next to h.i.ni.
Tll-<.gge1tpulled
back,
one eye aquinted
601t pe1t6ect aim.
A bullet
gnawa it.a way
into the ainging
bi1td on top o~ the tJtee.
"Why did you k..i.ll the bi1td, Vaddy?''
Eyeo open wide,
Evil .ana1t.l6 come 5Jtom hia mouth.
"She botlte1ted me," he aay.a.
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All
I had to do waa open my eyea wideJt,
Juat a little
wideJt, to aee me.
I had to open my ea.11.~, to heaJt. 11.eal wcJtd6,
A voice inaide
me.
"Live,"
it aaya.
Open youJt. eyea wideJt., much wide.11., to aee
Feel who you aJt.e.
Touch youJt beauty;
aenae it.
Vo u aJt.e Jt.eal.
Let youJt handa 6eel;
caJt.e.1.>6 youJt body.
Flow ove.11.you.11.body;
Making love,
C1t.eating love.
Von't blinQ too many timea in a aecond.
Von't miaa the viaicn
en ycu.
Von't you heaJt youJt ainging?
Vou.11.p e a c e ?
Vou don't
6eel you.
Feel me, ~ea.11.me,
Watch me
OPEN MY EYES WIVER.
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TOMORROW
�Ga,'tden
Veep, deeµ .ooman,
Woman 06 the aun.
Woman 06 the t~ee6.
Vou'ne a ~tagile
cneatu~c,
yet ao at/[_ong.
Some envy you/[_ au/[_a 06
independence
and
in.tellig
en c.e.
S-<..nc.eyou we/[_e 7 yea/[_J old
they env,i_ed you.
You we/[_e .the 6-<..M.twoman
<'
__ /..
·!
beaut~6ui
Plrp
/i <'W d l'
C/[_Cafu'le,
lj (' u
,, x:1e.c.t
uruie/[_J.i
tand y<·u.':.
beauty;
That youJt aenaitiuity
-<..6
b o undl ·'.H?
They neue/[_ heaJtd yuu
,/11>m
to
Cluj
6oJt .them.
The.y'ne loJ.it,
helpleaa
aoula,
waa t,i_ng mind-ti,
un6eelin~.
They ait and -~taH.
at
nothing.
And they tate you
6oJt be-tng wnong.
b o 1[_1t
.to a 6amily
V-<..aappo-<..n.tmen.t
waa
e xp,'tU -tied,
When
.they
6ound
ou.:t
you
we/[_e.
Neve If.
aee-<..ng
.that:
you
a
g,i_11.l,
.t.Jt-i.e d
to
un de![_>.,
.tand
· them.
A
l-<...:t.:tle
_woman.
'·0>0!.
0
()
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Don't .:they /[_eal,i_ze you -tipend you/[_ l-<..6e now,
T11.ying .to get l[_,i_d06 all .the guilt
that they cnea.ted 1
They don't /[_ememben when they didn't
ahow .thein love .to you,
And .they don't know .they have to ahow .theilf. love new.
But I know all .the a-tipec.ta that put you toge.theJt,
And I love you!
Ry Helen Vecke,'l
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�FEMALE
SEXUALI TY :
TIME
TO BREAK A
STEREOTYPE
Upon entering
a new year,
we are aware
of the
many changes
which have taken
place
in our society.
One serious
aspect of this
is the
attitude
toward
female
sexuality.
Female
sexuality
has
always
been
a fascinating
topic
that
has been discussed
time and time
again
in the Feminist
Movement,
and by
many psychologists
and professors.
by
Bernadette
Cianflone
Today, women are beginning
to feel
different
about
ity.
They
are
now willing
to have open discussions
sexual
feelings.
Because
of the development
of the
ment, women in our society
are now more consciously
bodies.
They are
discovering
that
they do not,
in
suppress
their
sexual
feelings.
During a recent
interview
with a friend,
fascinating
news.
I will
refer
to
her as
forty
years
old,
married,
and the mother of
marriage_,
Ms. M had a career
as
a secretary.
married
until
her early
·thirties
and is now
justed
to her way of life
as a housewife
and
began with a question
about her childhood.
very interesting.
Interviewer:
You have one brother.
kind of envy toward
was
there
anything
to do that
you were
Ms. M:
No, except
later
than
I felt
as
to pursue
though
further.
I had hit
the
that
me.
Interviewer:
Why was he able
you?
Ms. M:
Well, besides
years
older
being a boy
Even
if
I
boy
should
than a girl.
self
better
I found out some
very
Ms.M.
She is
about
four children.
Before
She did not
get
considerably
well
admother.
My interview
Her revelations
were
Did you feel
any
him?
For instance,
that
he was allowed
not?
he was able
target.
to
their
sexualabout
their
Feminist
Moveaware of their
fact,
have
to
This
stay
the fact
than me, he
makes a lot
was the one
be able to
He lS able
than a girl.
to
stay
out
was something
out
later
for
me
than
that
he is two
a boy.
And
of difference.
to be older,
a
stay out later
to defend
himlS
That was the reason--self-defense.
Of course.
I see now.
is a delicate
thing.
She
doesn't
know
how to fight
because
is always
being
treated
as an object
which,
if not handled
care,
will
be broken
into a million
pieces.
A
girl
sh0
with
ti )
�Ms.
have
I just
listened
to my parents.
Torn could
stay
out later.
He was able
to defend
himself,
If a girl
knows self-defense,
then
that's
great.
It's
black
and white
that
this
is true.
I would have given
my daughters
protective
training
if I
could
have.
I feel
that
it is
essential
that
a girl
has this.
Ms.
M:
M's
the
daughters
opportunity
are from a previous
marriage,
to show them this
advantage.
so she
did
not
To say
the least,
women cannot,
or should
I say are advised,not
to stay out
later
at night
and especially
should
not go home at
night
by themselves.
Self-defense
is
an art form unfamiliar
to
many women.
Women are
used,
abused,
and taken
advantage
of because
they
are
not
able
to defend
themselves.
Women must walk
down
streets
and listen
to snickers
and comments
made to them by
most males.
If women were taught,
as little
girls,
about
how to defend
themselves
instead
of how to cuddle
next to dolls,rnaybe
the rape rate
would decline
eventually,
Many women are now enrolling
in courses
that
teach
self-defense
techniques.
One such course
is judo.
And it goes on.
Males are supposed
to be aggressive.
Why? This
is how society
says it should
be. Those that
try to change
it are
said
to
be abnormal
or crazy.
People
are actually
stereotypes.
Everyone,
either
male or female,
grows just
like
all
the crops
of
the fields--the
same way.
People
don't
grow the way they want to
grow.
Interviewer:
When you were brought
up by your parents,
they,
or
should
I say your mother,
told
you about
the "birds
and bees."
How were
you taught,
and how do you feel
about
sex
involving
women and men?
Ms. M:
I was
primary
woman
sition.
Interviewer:
Is
it
right
to say that
you
woman should
lie
back and be
do and how to do it?
taught
that
a man should
take the
position
in
sex.
I feel
that
a
should
not take the aggressive
po-
She agreed
up to a certain
point.
be aggressive.
Our conversation
Ms.
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M:
Women
went on.
just
I believe
a woman
should
married.
A woman shouldn't
all of the experience.
feel
told
aren't
that
what
a
to
supposed
wait until
she is
be the one with
to
�How true her last
statement
is. Many women are taught
to wait to
have sexual
intercourse
until
they are married.Men
aren't.In
fact,
if a male doesn't
"do it" at
a certain
age, he is usually
questioned
about his masculinity.
And why shouldn't
a woman indulge
in sex before
marriage?
As long as a woman uses the proper
precaution,
is there
anything
wrong with this?
Interviewer:
Suppose
a woman never gets
that beautiful
opportunity
of getting
asked for her hand
in marriage.
Is
she
then
not to experience
this
kind of affection?
Ms. M:
She should
have self-control.
shouldn't
have sex unless
there
passion.
A woman's life
doesn't
because
she doesn't
have sex.
A
woman
is
comend just
That last
part
of her comment was great.
Oh, yes,
that
is so true.
But in most cases,
it isn't.
Many women are told
exactly
what Ms,
M was told.
Don't
do it until
you are married.
The average
woman
has been socialized
to believe
that
she should
not be the aggressive
partner
in
a relationship.
To be the aggressor,
one has to
be masculine
and strong,
but
a woman is told not to behave
like
this.
Instead,
she is told to behave passively.
A woman has
always been conditioned
into behaving
this
way.
However,
there
is
another
condition
that
has been embedded into a relationship,which
is contradictory:
both persons
must contribute.
It is contribution
by both partners
and not just one, in
order
to have
a good marriage.
It is now 1979.
Our forthcoming
adult
generation
is seeing
things
differently.
Girls
and
boys are learning
how to use contraceptives.
They are having
open discussions
about contraceptives,
and
they are asking
many questions.
This
is
one
step
forward
for
society.
Often
parents
are either
embarrassed
or quite
often
don't
know how to
provide
information
about
contraceptives
to
their
children.
Do many women feel
the same way as Ms. M does?
Most likely.
But
as I said earlier,
the younger
generation
is taking
control
and
doing away with most of the ideas
put
upon them
by many mothers
of the earlier
generations.
With the proper
education
for younger
as well as older
people,
maybe
the old
crops
will
be done
away
with,
and a new, fresh
variety
will
start
to grow.
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�I
might be d1te66ed ~n ove1ta.ll6
When you come to &ee me.
Hammell& and 6c1tewd~ive1t6 w-<.ll be hanging
out 06 my poeket6,
I
won't 6mell of,,
peJtf,,ume
OJt
powde.Jt
I
-<.ght be
&Wea.ting
and
di1tty
With
6 c1ta.ped
hand&
and
wounded
6,lngeu.
You
m-i..ght look.
at me
and
Jtea£.-i..ze
, he1te Wa..6
&omething
el& e to do.
Then I'll
look.
at the.
book.6 helvu
I have ju&t
eJte.a.ted
and be
pJtoud
06 the-i..Jt beauty.
I'll
thumb th1tough
She.lley'6
&eleete
poet1ty
and f,,01tget that you
Jtejeete.d me.
I thought
I alway&
he.a.ltd you &a.y you
wanted a &tJtong
woman!
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,_.;it·_-;_
c:1r0:-.t o ·:
· ~-~-'a'-.:;-::~-- .:h ~· .-:c··!s::.;·:t
':llness
kind.
ar,_.,:~ r:···:-.:!j~dice
af
e,.,.:!..:y
~e trc cu~sta~tly
s~a~cl1i~g for a
cure
fo~ this- in3i~i,Jus socia~ disease.
~iscri~i~~tinn - ba~ed o~ s~x i~ a part
of
thi:, sici<.'.less.
2ver s0 sL:mly,
our c.ultu:e
i::;
r:h2.~1gi:--:.gf_:-: its
~ttitudes
toward~
wom~n.
~e
have n,ade sl i.ght progress
in th,1
struggle
f;:ir equality
aud harmony bet\-;ecn
,he sexes. Hm-ievcr
this change has not been easy to
effect.
We sl"i l l
r.mst travel
a
rock:; roa<l.
We nO'··' arc stc1t1.d;,-1.g :it the thresh:,ld
of a new
and
Pxciting
Er3.
Let
us
tG.ke an jdealistic
jo,,rney
forward
anc. ,;tt2mpt:
to
i;;1agine what Ji fe
could
be like
for
futu~e ge~
eraticns.
L<! j
bar.
nl itf,
very
by
Barbara
Nalewajk_,
our 1:~">mc:suoulcJ
litLle
1)hysic;il
b,uscwork
i:h~!l"E::11 t!r
:!c,_.~d.--.d ~.•.-,u;d
?)
_ -.o:~h.
b,:-
~
_.":.L::t·-.-:.
Lc
o,tld
.\('rr~'-·"
1
re-
lais
~a.- 1 ·d by bo~h
o~
:i
••:0•1lci
t et.h11ic;:
ilO
1
}o:,b_~ ...-
,"Jut
l..;f
S(1
ma::y c,~r,"t:r
1i _:.c~.use: cf
r!1r·ir supposed~ 1~:- L ~ or
p:1ysi .:::;-i1 ~LrE:Tlgt~i.
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A
GLIMMER
FUTURE
Improv~d social
conditio,,s
C'.Juld
p~actically
eradicate
cr}me.
The cancer
of prej.udice
would
dis2.pp~ar
on eve:ry l~el.
The
soc!eties
of earcl1 would cease
their
compulsion
to an:1.ihilatc:
e2ch other,
A d l!Ce-it·, heal thy
life ,.muld !)e th(, ~.:1herent ri.ght
of eve.-y person.
quirf>
~omen ~o~ld
gain
control
over
their
own bodies.
Tiley would
only
bear children
if c1nci wl:en
they
wished.
Fathers
•-•ou:!.d
assume a greater
role i~ parenting.
Men and women could truly
share
the experience
of. lov:i.ng
and caring
for a child'.
Parenting would
not
automatically·
limit
women to only one role in
life unless
they
so
choose.
Excellent
child care f-cilities
woul•d be
available
at
all
places
of
Hork and in all
areas of recreation.
OF THE
We will
continue
our
battle
to conquer the
mysteries
of nat:ire.
As s,:ience
and technology
advance,
disease
and poverty
could
½e
climin;H<c!d.
:~1;;in
equc:,l
.::-r?or:tunit::..es
\·.'Ould t:Ot
'.icpend o., oi:r bi,~logica:!. d"'stin)'.
The whole
process
of
socialization
would
change.
Both boys
and girls
would
be encouraged
to develop
their
full
potentials.
School texts would stop
sexual
stereotyping.
No more would women
be just
the nurses
and
men
the
almighty
doctors.
Our
communications
media
would no longer show only me~ in
positions
of power, and women as
only interested
in the shines
on
their kitchen
floors.
G"ii:Ts and
boys
would
be able
:to compete
equally
in sports
and in all
other
areas of education.
, :Th_e
men and women of tomorrow
wquld
have
a real
choice
·in det.ermining their
lifestyles.
·They
\.JOuld not be censored-by
society.
if they shou"td decide to remaj !i
single
or
ddl<ll"ss.
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AWAW3
2005
Feminism
literary magazine
magazines
poetry
The College of Staten Island
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�I
All Ways A Woman is a literary magazine that was first
published in the 1970s. As a student publication it focuses
on art as an expression of the life of modem women. If
you are a writer, poet, or artist and would like to submit
your work for publication consideration, please email us at
All.Ways.A.Woman@gmail.com.
We graciously accept
works from male and female literary/visual artists. Feel
free to stop by our office: Room 226, in the Campus
Center ( 1C).
�contents
--------------•9©0•-------------2 Staff Listing and Special Thanks
3 Letter from the Editor, Khadijah Rentas
POETRY & PROSE
4 All Ways a Woman (our 'theme song') Mary Castellana
5 Eve's Lament April Boland
6 All Dolled Up Rosalia Dechbery
7 Monotone Michelle Amalfitano
8, 9 Peeling Her Off Victoria Gueli
10 Beyond Repair Rita Jain
11 The Leaves Didn't Choose to Fall Frances Militis
12 Tricked Rosalia Dechbery
13 If'Someone Hadn't Told Me Connie Venuto
14 Between the Cracks of Time Connie Venuto
15 Migrant Mother Rosalia Dechbery
16 Sister Richard Julian
17 My Family, My Life Rehana Shamsi
18 Notebook Bakery Victoria Gueli
19 Watching a Girl (and her inner thoughts) Natalie Baldassano
20 The Purple Scarf Alina Dorfman
21 Ecstasy in the Marsh Victoria Gueli
22 Footsteps Diana Muniz
24 Subtle Seduction Adrienne Dacayanan
25 Hitchcock Blonde Victoria Gueli
26 Untitled Jennifer Weppler
27 Apache Dance Victoria Gueli
28 Untitled Richard Julian
30 Closets Victoria Gueli
31 Definitions Alina Dorfman
32 Words are Friends Rehana Shamsi
33 Writer's Block Natalie Baldassano
35 Five Alina Dorfman
36 Beaute Casse Rosalia Dechbery
38 A Few Words from New York to Florida Jennifer Kearney
39 Untitled Jennifer Weppler
40 Bridged Rosalia Dechbery
COVERS
Front "Help," Parima Shanin Moghaddam
Inside Front "Self Portrait," Rosi Dispensa
Back "Close of Day," Dina Elsibay
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�Editor-in-Chief
Khadijah Rentas
Design Director
Dina Elsibay
Executive Editor
Laura Saldibar
Literary Editor
April Boland
Literary Editor
Mary Castellana
Literary Editor
Alina Dorfman
Faculty Advisor
Cate Marvin
. SPECIAL THANKS TO .
Carl Stiles, Associate Director of Student Life
Kathleen Maloney
You, our Readers
.FUNDED BY.
2
�Letter from the Editor
FEMINISM
RE-EXAMINED
It's that time of the month and I'm feeling moody. I have the need
to relieve myself of that proverbial monkey and what better way than in a
reputable magazine like All Ways a Woman.
I'd like to tackle the idea of feminism. All women who believe in
equal rights between the sexes are feminists. But it goes further than that.
If you believe you should have the opportunity to walk into a job
interview without the boss assuming you're applying for the secretarial
position, you 're a feminist. If you think you have the capability to
healthily balance bringing home the bacon and frying it too, then you're a
feminist. If you believe you deserve as much respect as any man, then
stop denying your inner and outer feminist goddess.
All Ways a Woman is a literary magazine that focuses on poetry
and prose to portray the many dimensions of women. It unifies women
on all issues, whether of the heart, mind or spirit. It is a work of art
beautifully arranged to speak to all women - black, white, Jewish,
Eskimo and even Nader supporters.
Feminism as an ideal used to uphold the self-respect and dignity
of all women lives into 2005. With this issue we grapple with our
struggles and relish in our triumphs so that we may embrace and
celebrate all that we are - strong, beautiful women.
Bask in greatness,
Khadijah Rentas
Editor-in-Chief
3
�All Ways a Woman
All Ways a Woman is a home where a woman's feelings,
thoughts and person, live and tell of experiences.
There are no rules,
There aren't even any doors;
It may leave the people outside wondering ...
As we chuckle air of relief,
by the knowledge
and its power
that brought us here ...
Sisters sharing the "how".
What we are about is real,
it is something only the divine can feel...
But hopefully we'll make us real for you,
if
you can understand what we mean by what we say
and do ...
And then accept it,
for we grow stronger by the day,
and I for one refuse to falter.
All Ways a Woman is for our sisters,
an attempt to give strength,
and a reminder that we are not alone
but share in our opinion of...
all that follows ...
The feminine spirit is too strong to hide;
There are no doors man can build
to stop our divinity,
and naivety
has been the only reason why they would try,
therefore it has been long past time ...
And we are breaking free,
with pride.
All Ways a Woman ...
And then some.
~Mary Castellana
4
�Eve's Lament
God is a man
or so they say
Where does that leave me?
God created man
on the sixth day
Where does that leave me?
Man was yearning
for a mate
That's where I come in
To be no more
than Adam's date?
To be blamed for the world's sin?
Created by Him,
for him,
of him,
I question ...
I wonder. ..
I grieve ...
In a "man's world,"
where is the place
for all the daughters of Eve?
~April Boland
5
�All Dolled Up
In the position that you make me hold
my breath in, you mold the dress to my form.
I hold my arms stiff like ivory tusks
while you poke and pin too close to my skin.
Droplets of blood seep through
Emulating a rose corsage pinned on my breast.
The eye of your needle widens and I almost fall
through it, adorned in the creation you've made me,
Stunning. You finish by painting the expression on my face.
How do you think your masterpiece looks on me?
You proudly escort me into my cardboard box.
Please, lower me gently so the fall won't hurt much
and have the corners of my mouth turned upward.
~Rosalia Dechbery
6
�Monotone
Your simplicity bothers me.
You subscribe to ideas in magazines,
following popular opinion rather than form your own.
There are factories in New York, California, D.C.,
manufacturing people like you.
People who will buy anything.
Your individuality is nothing more than a myth.
All that distinguishes you from the others is air.
I could never live like you.
Being told what to think.
A controlled rebel,
blending into the background of a crowd,
a crowd speaking words already spoken.
words that make me want to scream
and find my own voice amidst the monotone.
~Michelle Amalfitano
Natalia Molina-Castrillon
7
�Peeling Her Off
Peeling her off is taking years,
she's a most uncooperative snake.
Heavy and pale, she lays there,
round white belly smooth against the bed sheets,
but twitching away when I try to unravel her;
she combs her long dark hair before the glass,
and the teeth of the brush
snick, snick through her hair.
I observe her daily,
looking for weak points,
and she's got simply hundreds.
Round shoulders, wide thighsstill, it's not hard to imagine how she enveloped me
sealed herself over my bones,
learned to operate my limbsnow the fat girl looks just like me,
bumping big hips against
theater seats, bathroom stalls, classroom desks.
Every night,
I try and trick her into leaving,
pinching flaps of skin between my fingers,
showing her,
I know you're out there!,
Facing her until my eyes cross.
you cannot survive for long,
my svelte soul is fighting it's way up through her throat and mouth;
and soon I shall stretch apart the snake's rubber-band jaws,
and climb out,
slimy and whole.
I had no idea she was so hungry,
chewing still when all around me lie her bits and bites,
chickens and breads:
I cannot move for the crowding.
At night,
she slithers away from table and fills the blue bed,
her white skin firmly over my facewhile she sleeps,
8
�I try to plot my escape but she gnaws her fingers and it distracts me.
She goes so far as to chew the pen!
Even now,
I watch her as she writes odes to her fat,
labels them as my poetry,
the musings of some chubby girl.
Almost gone now,
I lay down to starve,
watch the woman as she gorges,
while I dream of the day she falls off completely,
and I get a brand-new skin.
~Victoria Gueli
Natalia Molina-Castrillon
9
�Beyond Repair
She hides behind truth
in empty liquor bottles
Believing that with each
hand sliding up her once innocent
ivory thighs
that this one could be "the one"
his kisses ignite something foreign
as she kneels down slowly
letting him come
her heart leaves the room
as she swallows her pride
a young girl
trapped
in an overdeveloping body
she sniffs white powdery illusions
of love in straight lines
always trying
but never reaching stars
except the ones
crazy glued onto ceilings
to some
she's nothing but a five minute fuck
at the back of a bus
unwanted with a broken cane
her sense of self
walks around crippled
bedraggled in mascara and forced
million dollar smiles
she is the image of billboard beautiful
yet inside she's broken.
~Rita Jain
�The Leaves Didn't Choose to Fall
Every step I take, I enter the empty space
I want to be
m.
The empty
space
I create.
Step by step the orange, green, and brown
reaches
my
nose.
The dirt catches my
fall.
I gather the leaves around me like a
blanket.
Stretching
in them
I hear them
crack.
Patches of the sun
peek through
the tree.
I have
fallen
here.
The leaves fall into their own lives.
The trees grow innocently.
them.
The dirt catches
The wind pushes them away.
their fault
they were let go.
It's not
~Frances Militis
Parima Shanin Moghaddam
11
��If Someone Hadn't Told Me
If someone hadn't told me I wasn't pretty
Maybe I wouldn't cry.
If someone hadn't told me I wasn't smart
Maybe I'd reach for the sky.
If someone hadn't told me I wouldn't succeed,
I would be the best.
If someone hadn't told me I was a nothing,
I'd beat all the rest.
If someone had told me I was pretty,
I wouldn't live so bad.
If someone had told me I was smart,
I wouldn't be so sad.
But no one told me I was pretty,
no one complimented my style.
No one told me I was smart,
just held me in denial.
Even though we all cry,
,
Know someone feels the same too ..
Because even though no one thinks
we all want to cry, even you.
~Connie Venuto
Natalia Molina-Castrillon
13
�Between The Cracks Of Time
Dedicated to my great-grandmother, Anna.
I will never forget you; rest in peace 1/15/97
You left me here on that night
alone and so scared.
You had left me with a heart
that was so unprepared.
Even though you're gone
I still feel you here.
Every night while I sleep
I feel your soul near.
On that dreaded day,
when you left my side,
I wept until it hurtit was a pain I could not hide.
Your memory stays with me
no matter what I do.
I look between the cracks of time
until I can be with you.
I will never forget you,
and the memories will always be mine.
But I can always see you
if I look between the cracks of time.
~Connie Venuto
14
�Migrant Mother
One more baby
ain't much difference
when there are nine
others who might not eat
tonight. If I could still
nurse them all, I'd sleep
better knowing tomorrow
we wouldn't have to look
for some water to help
choke back this dust.
If th~re was food, my children
wouldn't tell me, Mommy,
my tummy hurts. I know
I can do nothing for them
except let them cry
as they cling to my shirt. I wish
I could tell them
tomorrow will be better.
They wouldn't have to fall
asleep to lullabies of empty bellies.
I know Herbert Hoover
never went to bed hungry.
~Rosalia Dechbery
Inspired by a photo taken by Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, Nipomo California.
February 1936.
15
�Sister
Sister, Little Sister
As August closed
The month of summer
God bore to us
A new life
Into this world
Wrapped in a blanket
Into our home
Into our lives
Sister, Little Sister
Placed into your crib
We stared in adoration
As you slept in innocence
Ever so fragile
Ever so new
And through the years
I watched you grow
Brought together in the
Blood that we share
Fighting like siblings
Laughing like family
The day you were born
I made a vow
Like a soldier on a post
To honor and protect
I hold that vow
Till the day I die
Because you deserve the best
In happiness and love
Sister, Little Sister
Now that we've grown
Know that I am here
For guidance and support
Like a big brother should
In an unbreakable bond
In pride and love
My only sister My little sister
~Richard Julian
16
�My Family, My Life
When larks and sparrows announce a day,
When morning light brightens my way,
When laughter and pleasure, beget
joy beyond measure,
When breezes sing a melodious song,
When air is enriched with love and leisure,
When fragrant flowers bloom all around, and
Heaven showers blessings down,
When sun shines in full glory,
When moon mesmerizes my soul,
When night captivates every delight,
these moments pronounce:
My Family by My Side.
~Rehana Shamsi
17
�Dina Elsibay
18
�Watching a Girl (and her inner thoughts)
My hair shines gold as it flows in the wind
(Wind keeps messing up my hair. I'm sitting at the docks)
I'm cute and petite
(So small, will I ever be noticed?)
My clothes fit just right
(Yeah, right. Please don't see me.)
I'm so strong, I can sit here alone.
(ALONE)
I don't need anyone.
(Anyone, please ... )
Ridiculous.
(I feel .. .)
Please
(Please, help me.)
19
~Natalie Baldassano
�The Purple Scarf
The scarf she wore
It never tore
She never was a bore
He wanted more
To see her for
The things inside her door
One day the scarf was torn
And something new about her born
Now tears her face adorn
He held her hand
he begged to understand
He held her face
And tried her tears to trace
She took her hand and touched his face
And now the scarf around them was difficult to erase.
~Alina Dorfman
20
�Ecstasy in the Marsh
I stand ankle deep and barefoot in the pool.
The green bottom keeps it murky, but it's quiet and
the sunlight is softened by the canopies above;
overall, it's rather pleasant, walking in the marsh.
The marsh is so silent, my heels sound like drums,
and yet sometimes, there is a cacophony among the
birds and insectseven though my dress is white, I lay down in the
mossy wet,
and let the grasses and water seep into my sleeves and
skirt.
I draw my hands along my body, sliding off my
sodden clothes;
I want to lay in the ground, nothing between
my skin and the marsh; it's tiny hills cup my back and
legs,
and I. spread my long hair over it's ridges.
With my face against the soft mud, and my fingers
stroking pebbles, I am happiest; eyes toward
the trees
I watch the leaves slowly flutter down onto my
breasts,
and, smiling, nestle into the marsh.
~Victoria Gueli
Natalie Molina-Castrillon
21
�Footsteps
I go to the beach and follow our footsteps on the sand. I stop
where we had stopped to look out at the ocean and the sky on our first
day out. I remember you held my hand as we took our walk. I can still
hear your laugh as we joked about Swamp Thing emerging from the
water. I always think of your laugh and the sound of your voice, soft and
soothing like the sound of the waves. Now, looking down I see my tears
had formed little brown beads in the sand, and I remember the little rough
spots on your hands when you held mine. You told me I had a nice touch.
And I think of yours. As the wind blows, I can almost feel your embrace.
And I can almost hear you whisper. Hand in hand, together we feel we
are one result. I looked in your eyes, like the horizon in front of me,
wide, deep, and beautiful.
I often fight not to think about you throughout the day. But when
I feel that I don't want to fight anymore, I come here. The days have
passed and I have slowly mended, but sometimes I need to come here. I
come here to cry, because I cannot cry anywhere else. I feel comfort by
remembering that day. I remember never wanting it to end. And now, I
stand here with _Qnlymy memories of you to accompany me. I stand here
with tbe horizon, the sand, the ocean, and the wind. And I wonder if you
nave thought of me today.
~Diana Muniz
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�Subtle Seduction
Candlelight between us,
A pale sliver of moon
Peaking from the trees.
I watched patterns of shadows play across
Your face
As you dipped close to the firelight
To kiss me.
I remember,
The shape of your mouth.
Marvel at the sound that
Can escape from parted lips.
A sigh,
A shiver,
While hands discover in their endeavor,
The nape of your neck
To the blade of your back.
Your skin warms beneath my touch
As I grow bolder
Waiting for your eyes to
Reflect my intention.
~ Adrienne Dacayanan
Natalia Molina-Castrillon
24
�Jr
Hitchcock Blonde
I want to be a Hitchcock blondewith blackbirds trailing their shadows behind them in
soft smears across my shadow;
I want to be silhouetted against a backdrop of pure
blue, hair streaming pure gold.
I want to be a Hitchcock blondelong and lithe, straight limbs growing from
every opening in my leotard like pale plant stalksI want to be that chorus girl across the way,
my portrait in each binocular circle.
I want to be a Hitchcock blondeelegant in my gown & gloves,
ladylike in open-toes, slender as a moonflower
I want to be that living lily;
the object of a master's obsession.
~ Victoria Gueli
25
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Yea I know I get attached too quick
Start catching feelings and it's like oh she's on my dick
Looking back at my patterns makes me sick
Is it my fault I try to look at somebody
With both eyes open
Thinking can it be, just wishing and hoping
Then its like bitch you must be joking
Get slapped in the face and instead of moving on
I try to find another to replace
The memories of your sweet kisses and how they taste
This is so useless it's really just a waste
But don't worry about me
This is my problem
I got a list of old numbers believe me
Not even you could solve 'em
Why do I even feel like I need someone to be here?
Even if I found the one
I'd find some way to make 'em disappear
Enough about me lets talk about you
And all the stupid shit you do
Like not answering your phone
And then you say oh I left that home
Taking forever to return my calls
I was like a fiend for you going through withdrawals
I hope you find someone who treats you like you treated me
Someone to cover your eyes with mad lies
Until you're so deep in love you just can't see
Someone to front like they really care
But when you're falling their hand is never there
You told me you loved me and your feelings would never stray
I really believed all the shit you used to say
Yeah I know I'm gonna be okay
But I cant wait to see the day
When things finally go my way
When you realize that I was a prize
And you think of how good things used to be
But now you can't have me
~ Jennifer Weppler
26
�Apache Dance
Mon Dieu! His fingers dug into my upper arms,
his palms burned hot full moons;
my legs tangled in my skirt,
and I fell with a thump, still clutching his hand;
it was a cold December, I needed one hot dancethe step, step, dip
in a single circle of light.
Breathing harshly, he jerked me up
and wound one arm around my waist, ouihis fingers found my starlet curls and yanked;
sharp white teeth in my shoulder.
he was a marvelous dancer,
pressing me against the walls without ceaseTum. Join again.
Under his tutelage, violet-blue lilies,
blurry-edged, bloomed under my skin like
tiny Monet's; I was completed, pliant, ready
and on my back,
behind the heavy red curtain,
my meat soft enough to eat; my body
soft enough for his.
~Victoria Gueli
27
�Untitled
I wish to be a voyeur
to the windows of the world
to see who's doing what
and where and how and why
I wish I could fly
I'd get a bird's eye view of
a bird's eye view
and earth could be clearer
and new
To sail the seas without a boat
to hear the music note for note
to clear the greatest depths of sky
and never have to wonder why.
-Richard Julian
Danielle Saldibar
28
�Natalia Molina-Castrillon
�Closets
Closets are silent little globes:
they have no idea of the peace they contain.
A sky of tweeds, nylons and wools,
dark colors, long sleeves, scarf clouds.
Smooshed into a crowded corner, one
can sit, cross-legged, eyes closed; the
quiet of the long rectangular box is soothing;
I've heard that the quiet in long boxes is soothing.
A lush forest of galoshes and hiking boots
at the elbows, head resting against the wallthe doorknob a mellow gleam in the ligh·t from under
the door: a brass sun above a thin horizon.
~Victoria Gueli
Dina Elsibay
30
�Definitions
I.
Friendship is a mutual right to dispose of the cape.
Alone is seeing every branch wither, without a leaf to feel.
Compassion is when your heart hitchhikes to another's pain.
Tears are sad apples hitting a hopeless, multiplying floor.
II.
Fear is trying too hard to win.
Two is when you are most like an animal.
When is something that is lost after so much shared time.
Lost is what you are when fear is in your heart.
~ Alina Dorfman
31
�Words are Friends
Words stand powerless in a dictionary
waiting to be used with
depth, beauty and energy.
Use them compassionately and delicately,
into the vibrant tapestry of life,
like diamonds set in a crown.
Muse and thunder through your scripts:
bear your pleasure, mirror your pain,
defuse your thoughts to enrich your intelligence,
rescue your memory from a painful imprisonment,
dig deep into the reservoirs of your recollection,
to surface your ideas, stories and your emotions.
Rhymes , images and vocabulary
hold your beliefs solid and firm,
warm verse and affectionate text
melt on sheets like ice in the hot sun.
The cord of memory carries experiences-good and bad,
transfer them in black and white, with humor and
with grace, express them, compose them and analyze them,
apply them, argue them, for and against.
Words are friends, visited by us, again and again
to negotiate our experiences, to discuss our judgments:
catastrophic, dreadful or pleasant,
friendly, cheerful or tragic,
enigmatic, .appalling or dynamic.
Empower your scripts to
mesmerize your readers,
emit love to spread fondness,
diminish enmity to deject estrangement,
serve humanity with intelligence and perception.
Arrange words in your composition
with colossal diligence and precision.
~Rehana Shamsi
32
�Writer's Block
I've done
today
But beyond that there is nothing
a void
beyond my armor of cool coffee
there is something
full of scary - nothings
Holes·
that drink up colors
like sugar water
I know why I am not a painter
Paints make you think that you should be inspired
Crimson and Sienna
are loud
Words are quiet
until I choose to use them.
~Natalie Baldassano
33
�Rosi Dispensa
34
�He wandered pensive and alone,
Through streets paved with shoes.
Pleading with happiness for a loan.
He saw dry leaves about him thrown,
Like scattered memories bound to abuse.
He wandered pensive and alone.
He touched with trembling hand the statue's bone,
Remembering her heart when him she set about to lose,
Pleading with happiness for a loan.
He smelled the horses, wanting their sadness to atone.
Like them he was misplaced, he felt their histories fuse.
He wandered pensive and alone.
He tasted the snow, inside his mouth a dome.
Beautiful things melt to nothing, paying your heart no dues.
Pleading with happiness for a loan.
He heard the countless footsteps drone.
If added and taken, the destination was his to choose.
He wandered pensive and alone,
Pleading with happiness for a loan.
~Alina Dorfman
35
�Beaute Casse
I sit beneath nerve endings that twitch
in the wind. My back warps
like a wooden floor and my legs
are pretzeled in the morning sun.
My eyes divorce. One stays pinned open,
the other turns away, unable to watch.
My clay tongue refuses all company and
lonely words bury themselves in the sand.
All sounds are a hammer,
pounding the walls of my brain.
I can't get up. I'm nailed down
to my bed and all I want is sleep.
But sleep isn't welcomed when dreams
remind me, screaming who I used to be.
Recoiling, I know if I never find my way back,
I have to force my eyes closed
and go after the girl whose smile
was a marble banister before the rain
melted it. Funny, I never seem to make it past
the orange field in my eyelids. I sit there.
The aluminum foil lake speaks honestly.
My mouth doesn't have to escape to my ear.
My smile creeps back to where it had been
before my face contorted; I was still the belle.
~Rosalia Dechbery
36
��A Few Words from New York to Florida
There was once a time
when I thought
you were my father.
Biologically yesbut it takes more than blood
to be a father.
You pretended to care about me,
lead me to believe that
I was your daughter.
Although your name is on my birth certificate,
it takes a lot more than ink
to be a father.
You moved our family from New York to Florida
and Florida to New York.
You claimed New York had nothing for you
and Florida would make you a changed man.
Neither of that happened even after
you swore you wanted the beast for this family
but it takes more than empty promises
to be a father.
I was never to see you again.
You wrote me off as if I was nothi
Tell me why.
One day you'll pass me in the streets
and see your eyes staring back at you.
Could my smile, my voice
or any part of me,
help you to remember who I once was, to you?
Could you recognize your own daughter?
�Dad I don't know what to do
I'm not sure I can help you
As I sit here crying
I know that inside you are dying
I pray that you aren't already dead
My mind replays all the things I have said
And I hope that you can find life in that
Get yourself back on the right track
They say what you have is a pattern
That year after year this thing will happen
You hit the bottom hard
But today you caught me off guard
All the times before I was a child
I knew that there was a problem
But I thought it was mild
You hid it well for all those years
When you smiled
I don't want you to hide it anymore
I want you to get help
That's what all these doctors are for
If not for you then please do it for me
Because in my life is where I need you to be
~Jennifer Weppler
39
�Bridged
Your tedious driving makes me insane!
Speed up, or at least put the music on.
Strapped in the back seat, there's nothing to see
except the distant crashing of ocean waves
and I don't want to look down at them, daddy.
Don't you hear the horns screaming- SPEED UP!
Something's happened. Now's not the time to slow down.
The cars behind us are falling! Plunging into the waves.
The bridge is falling daddy, speed up!
It's not time to lie down. Get up, daddy, get up!
I'm sorry I have to take off my seat belt, scuffing
the car seat as I climb into the front, next to you.
I have to push you aside, daddy, I have to.
So out you go, out your unlocked doorI have to drive myself to the other side.
I turn on the music because it calms me. It does.
And I make it to land safe, and sound
goes silent, as I throw the cigarette lighter behind me.
Out of the window it glides, setting ablaze what I left behind.
I keep driving straight. The car, my car, keeps driving. Go straight.
I'm sorry I threw you from the bridge, daddy.
If I didn't, we both would have died.
~Rosalia Dechbery
��
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�"All Ways A Woman" is a literary magazine that was
established during the 1970's.
We have chosen pieces from past issues, which we felt are
beautiful and needed to be told again, simply because these
issues are still strong today and continue to be a part of us.
We would like to give a special thanks to Anke
Michaelson, Dana Donadio and Kristie Lacertosa, for their
photographic contributions.
�All Ways A Woman, 2004
Editors:
Mary Castellana
Khadijah Rentas
Laura Saldibar
Faculty Advisor:
Miranda Sherwin
Front Cover Photographer:
Kristie Lacertosa
Digital Front Cover Editor:
Anke Michaelson
Inside Back Cover Photographer:
Dana Donadio
Back Cover Photographer:
Frank Palmenta
All Ways A Woman, 2004, would not be possible without the help of the following people:
Ginzel Sanchez.
Felicia Nizza
Funded by The College of Staten Island
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�"All Ways A Woman" is a home where a woman's feelings, thoughts and person, live and tell
of experiences.
There are no rules,
There aren't even any doors;
It may leave the people outside wondering ....
As we chuckle air of relief,
by the knowledge
and its power
that brought us here ....
Sisters sharing the "how".
What we are about is real,
it is something only the divine can feel...
But hopefully we'll make us real for you,
if
you can understand what we mean by what we say
and do ....
And then accept it,
for we grow stronger by the day,
and I for one refuse to falter.
"All Ways A Woman" is for our sisters,
an attempt to give strength,
and a reminder that we are not alone
but share in our opinions of.. ..
all that follows ....
The feminine spirit is too strong to hide;
There are no doors man can build
to stop our divinity,
and naivety
has been the only reason why they would try,
therefore it has been long past time ....
And we are breaking free,
with pride.
Mary Castellana
4
�TABLE OF CONTENTS
Commemorative Pieces
Always I All Ways a Woman
Untitled
Page 7
8
Spring
Alphabet Soup
Beauty
9
Choices
10
Sacred
11
Crayon Box
Love
12
Contentment
2004
13
The World Inside Versus Out
Photograph by Dana Donadio
21
Full - Photograph by Dana Donadio
22
Static
Photograph by Anke Michaelson
23
24
Mysterious Woman
25
Raspberry Tea
Invisible Corsets
26
Water From the Spirit Mouth
28
�29
Trouble
Photograph by Dana Donadio
30
The Nothing
Photograph by Marc Goldberg
31
33
Fairy Tale
34
Identity
35
Expression of Habitual Thought
36
Oxygen
37
Writer's Block
41
Keep it Movin' - Photograph by Mary Castellana
Complexity of a Woman
42
Upon an Easel
43
Love-filled Dream
44
A Rediscovery from the Rear View Mirror
45
Him
46
Still Cold
47
Icy
49
What's In a Name
50
6
�Always I All Ways a Woman
Like a butterfly with fragile beginnings,
she struggles to move forward.
Inching her way across endless paths,
her growth is minute.
Engulfed in a veil of protectiveness,
her growth develops.
And,
Her awareness heightens.
Her knowledge abounds.
Her rebirth is apparent.
And,
at that time,
just the right time,
a new creation emerges.
She sheds her veil.
She bids goodbye to her other self.
She is ready to fly freely.
In no time she will soar.
After all,
she is,
in all ways,
a woman.
Gayle Tauger - 1991
7
�Untitled
Alphabet Soup
Three women sat at a table
discussing their fears
one was afraid to live
another was afraid to love
and the other was afraid
of being alone.
They decided that the one who was afraid to
live
should die,
the one who was afraid to love
should hate,
and the one who was afraid
of being alone
should become a poet.
Her voice
Drifted across the broken forrnica
Through a table setting of realities
Cracked plates, unmatched utensils, tired
chairs
She spoke of dinner out
Her words surrounding everything
Demanding recognition
But I was so broke
I couldn't even pay attention
Douglas Schwartz - 1980
Lynda Blum - 1980
Spring
I lay dormant, waiting for you.
Bare branches echo my emotions,
arteries without a pulse.
Roots that will extend no further into the cold, hard ground.
The cold whiteness covers me
and hides my inner beauty.
No one can see what I can produce,
for in this cold, hard, winter, I produce nothing.
Somehow the visions of what could be come to me
and through the darkness, I feel you.
Your bright warmth melting my snow, softening my soil.
My arteries pulsate life throughout my body.
My branches now bud under your mellow passions.
Creativity begins to return to me.
My beauty is no longer hidden but now displayed.
Donna Fahey - 1980
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�Beauty
Is beauty found in a certain color?
Or perhaps in a becoming look?
Is it found in the smell of a flower?
Or a gently flowing brook?
True beauty I've discovered
goes unnoticed and is discarded like
soiled clothing tossed and trampled upon
the ground.
There's beauty:
Of spirit, that makes a humble man
not haughty and proud, but loves his fellow man.
A gift of wisdom that's seldom found
A character in St. Paul-a know how
how both to abase and abound.
An appreciative eye, a fond memory
that sees some good in all it finds;
to behold a man in nature, what harmony!
A friendly gaze that's both perceptive and kind.
A keen sensitivity, an insight,
perhaps simply a frame of mind.
Beauty is:
A satisfaction, an acceptance of one's identity
actively pressing forward while constantly yielding still,
growing into the image of Christ-attaining unity
with the creator of our selves and our wills.
An ability to love ourselves
for only then can we reach out to others
and give love freely, even to our worst enemy.
Beauty:
Not in outward face
but found in God, the beauty of His amazing grace.
Colette Caesar - 1991/1992
9
�Choices
In the terrifying cold
Of an examining room
A seventeen-year old listened.
Tense with fear
And apprehension,
Her entire body glistened.
"A problem here,"
The bald man said.
"Have you decided what you'll do?
You have a choice,
You know, my dear."
But it really wasn't true.
In order to get here
She'd needed consent
From an angry, vindictive mother.
In exchange for her help
She'd demanded one thing,
Wouldn't accept any other:
"Never again may you see his face
Or listen to his voice.
If you agree, then I'll help.
You have to make a choice."
Her mind did battle
Against what was asked
By the woman who'd given her life.
But in the end
She knew she'd loseAnd gave in to avoid further strife.
A woman of honor, she kept her promise
Though it hurt her to the core.
The ebony face, the gentle voice
Here seen and heard no more.
"Some day, you'll see," her mother said,
"That this was for the best."
But decades more of living
Could not put the thing to rest.
Her usurped freedom haunted her.
Her so-called right to choice
Had been righteously denied her
And never given voice.
In the terrifying cold
Of an examining room
A seventeen-year old listened.
Tense with fear
And apprehension,
Her entire body glistened.
"A problem here,"
The bald man said.
"Have you decided what you'll do?
You have a choice
You know my dear."
But it really wasn't true.
Robin H. Garber-Kabalkin -1991
�Sacred
Crayon Box
A crucifix
hangs
on a peach colored wall
in a bedroom mirror
when the sun goes down
Watch her slide
down satin sheets
that adorn her bed
into a sacred dream
Mournful eyes
stare at the moon
until morning blooms
and the glare is bright
casting aside
recollections
of sleepless nights
Breezes flow
through open wounds
while she rests her head
on a fantasy
Watch her pray
beneath a blazing sun
to a crucifix
on a peach colored wall
in a bedroom mirror
when the sun goes down
Judy Ortado - 1991
You and I walk
hand in hand,
harmless, innocent.
I only see your heart
and the softness of your skin.
I only feel peace and love.
We talk
and dream of a placeunconscious of racewhere the world is a crayon box,
all colors lying side by side.
Our Creator smiles.
You and I dream
of a placeunconscious of racewhere everyone shakes hands,
where humans are humans ...
And welcome mats lie peacefully at every
door.
Your hand squeezes mine,
Your brown eyes find my green,
(the joy behind them both)-Screech!
A car, windows furiously rolled down,
voices, ugly,
"Nigger-lover!"
(Incredible the pain)
C.J. Klutz - 1991
�Love
So hard to understand the concept
of a feeling in itself a mystery,
the magnetism felt tugging at one's heart
drawing you to someone, a different entity.
Contentment
Yet guided on a course unknown
a heart's desire to see, to touch,
to love completely, to open and trust.
I write
the words come and go
and flow
arranging themselves
As they fall on the page.
Beyond all mental images love travels
blossoming, so natural-a surprise to
our senses-it marvels.
Here is my story.
Here is my life.
Bridging gaps and stereotypes
opening our hearts to newness, new life.
Changing, always changing our
preconceived
notions and dislikes.
Surging with power
to transform as from a bud to a flower.
Egypt
in all her glory
never had an empress
as sweetly satisfied
as I am with a pen in my hand
and a cup of tea at my side.
Then it leaves a new creation, a fuller being
no longer alone but always accompanied
by another thing or a precious being
Two lives merged and intertwined
a unity of body, spirit or mind.
Donna Decker - 1979
Love's gentle persuassion yet
it's the strongest bond forging two
beings into one mold.
Their lives may lead them apart
but somehow their hearts still beat in unison.
Colette Caesar -1991/1992
12
�The World Inside Versus Out
We all go through experiences Issues, dramas, joy The growing pains
Those of weakened spirits become the norm
and those of strong ....
are the topic of
everyone else's conversation.
And how
can you get ahead here
when so many talk
rather than do.
For it seems,
the prerequisite to the
"in" thing,
is to agree with everyone else;
as we are stuck here by the lack of action
of those in power,
of those in power's friends ....
And so therefore,
you may find her
quiet,
writing down what stirs inside.
The thoughts that beat,
which don't allow her to sleep,
must come out
and satisfy their desire,
their need to be heard,
so as to shatter the glass,
and breathe.
13
�& even though she dreams of more answers to the unanswered whys of the world a world run by us .... supposedly,
and I say that because, first
we must all do what "they" want.. ..
Money makes the world go 'round;
Heart is a luxury, few here have found.
Male friends taken or not,
want to be lovers,
whenever
they're in the mood for Mary
and not Gina ....
What are they looking for ?
God only knows,
not a true friend or great lover
seems to be enough.
And ....
The kids want what "everybody else" has,
and you need a little of their spunk,
just to keep up with them
and all their needs ....
It is all your responsibility ....
Our very nature denies us
of personal deceit,
for we are Women,
mothers, daughters, wives,
girlfriend's, sisters, peacemakers,
seekers of balance in strife ....
Medical's expensive &
so is everything else necessary to simply live
your life,
so you struggle all day,
in order to ensure
you can protect your seed
14
�and at the same time the rent be paid.
Yes the love,
Sweet mother, the love
is absolutely something science fiction,
'cause no one but a mother understands.
Tired and scared,
every day,
the bills,
shelter, food, clothes, educationa phone call - all
too damn expensive ....
And "they" raise the cost
before you can even catch up.
While,
... .I must pass this class, I
don't need
and what's more pay for the irrelevance,
so that I could be
allowed
to stay in the class where I flourish,
where my creativity screams the colors
of who and what we are.
I must, or else for the rest of my life,
I'll be working three jobs,
where they treat me like ...
Just because ...
And my daughter one day will be all grown up
and still bear the cross of missing her mommy.
I WILL NEVER,
I rather die,
than be one to marry for money
and yet I can't let that happen to my child see,
15
�and yeah,
sometimes I wish she would shhhh;
Worked twelve hours, still not done,
paper work is thick on the table ....
Responsibility to everyone got to go, got to run
if we are to stay on top;
And in between empty out some
scared sorrow.
So now,
I've had it with trusting everyone,
believing they must notice what I deserve 'cause I've noticed, they don't notice unless
you're a "special" someone - their own.
Close to home?
How about the pain that comes with
in - laws,
mother-in-laws who are determined to prove
your husband is still their son ....
For all you mother- in- laws out there:
let the wives of the world assure you,
WE KNOW,
and we did not become wives to be the man's mother,
we became wives to be the man's wife
because you did something right all on your own.
Why must it take years to become friends
when we love the same man,
I'll never know.
16
�And for the men who walk out on marriage ....
here's a little espresso for you You loved that woman, that's why you married her,
why didn't you keep loving her the way you did before?
Did marriage tum her into a woman not worth chasing anymore?
People die, friends come and go,
your heart breaks a million times,
but you stay strong
and have learned to speak your mind ....
and people who say nothing of importance
dare judge you as if you're the one who's crazy because now
they have a topic of which to speak of well good for them.
I laid in my bed tonight as I tried to fall asleep
and thought of all my experiences,
all the different times,
all the different people,
all the joy
and all the pain ....
And then I thought of my mother,
how she moved far away from her family
for the love she holds for my father,
to give her children a "prosperous" American life;
Yes, I imagine she was excited
to come to this land of the "free"
and see all the pretty things up close
instead of on T.V.
But then the ache she must of suffered,
alone with children too young to understand.
17
�She cleaned and cleaned,
she cooked and cooked,
she sewed and sewed,
she fought to get us all she could,
just like my father, but she was still young
and the people here were richer but not as
loving as where she came from
and it took her some time to get used to the "American" way.
I think at 28, I just now begun to get used to the American way.
I just now realized how
I can be me here,
or maybe, I'm just tired of hiding.
Well, I should be glad that I'm finally in the race ...
Running with the crowd, instead of spending all my time
wondering why's to all the things that don't make sense,
I' 11carry them all in a bag,
as I pass the rest while they sleep.
So here I continue to wonder,
as the first light of the day shines from under my curtains A mother would not be the one to tell her children
of her wild days, of her pains, of her dreams ...
of her. ... life - the rest found inside;
Does she think I'll judge her?
It's impossible, I am grown
and I am the one who knows where her heart stands.
And now I know,
that these things
are things that women need to share.
Why one judges another's shoes,
when they haven't the slightest clue,
where those shoes have been - is a sin
if ever I heard one.
18
�Mother be happy, you've done more than well
and are beautiful.
Father, I have yet to meet a man,
half the man as you.
Little sister, please don't wonder
how you can make things better they' re as good as they are meant to beyou've made the right decisions.
And to all my sisters who behold
the heart of Wommin ....
You are heroines of our time,
as radiant as the sun,
through storm - you shine,
the strength of your hearts
keeps man-kind alive ....
And you know
deep down inside
your place is never to hide
but be who you are meant to be.
When something or someone
has knocked you down you raise those wings and fly,
fly,
fly;
For that feeling that you are more
is not insanity ladies,
it's lore.
19
�I will cry when I need to,
I will laugh if I feel to,
I will fight - all night
and all day, regardless if I am noticed
ofmy ways.
I will.. ..survive
until the day I collapse and die.
I'll look up at the stars every chance I get,
I'll chant for my energy to be powered by what is more
and I'll give until I come back to get.
We are Wommin, hear us ROAR!
I haven't slept a wink all night,
but for some reason,
I'm all right.
I will face the tasks that need be done
to the best of my abilities,
and what I don't get done will wait till the 'morrow
for I am but tired
of all that old sorrow.
There is love,
all around
and I know where it is ....now.
Mary Castellana
20
�21
�FULL
This beholder sees her as beautiful
She envisions her soul as in a war
Tell me why those salt drops pour so fruitful?
My reply comes with high tide, bring the oar.
Like a bird or E.T. I wish to soar
Beneath the cratered grey moon of night light
And open everyone simple as doors
To world loss for hunger, strife, cloud so bright.
My sea has moved nature look at this site
Thousands of waterfalls weep at my name
Kilauea and Helene at their heights
Perspire jagged icebergs from my pain.
A utopian world of peace brings drought
My weathered, tired, helpless hands bring doubt.
Khadijah Rentas
22
�Static
In the midst of
whatever,
behind her doors,
she dances.
The mirror before her,
she sets herself free,
Hence,
her wings,
shining brilliantly
in the flecks of candlelight
illuminating
harmony
between the realms.
Alone, is better,
for what would they say?
Even a whisper of judgment,
would she be able to hear, for static
would interrupt the sane.
Behind closed doors she flies,
in the midst of whatever outside shut out
to soar through her existence,
without
a stick or stone to hurt her.
Floating,
flying,
fast and slow;
Riding with a beat
so few know;
Made,
from both the heart
and the heart within
the seed - of all ...
23
�She calms the spirit
back into its' form.
Halleluiah is found in the rhythm of souls.
Adjust your antenna,
Praise a new mom'
Mary Castellana
24
�Mysterious Woman
Raspberry Tea
Engraved with a gold frame;
A painting on my wall,
A woman without a name
looks like a mysterious doll.
Her young look
brings out her emotions.
In her hands she holds a book,
that emphasizes her life's devotions.
It's warm.
The smoke rises and caresses the soft skin.
The hot cup bums,
Unable to remove her hands form the
warmth,
They bum.
They redden and become somewhat raw,
But the smoke still rises.
Deep breath.
Exhale.
Let the tears fall to neutralize the heat.
Grasp it.
Hold on.
It'll pass.
Reddened and raw,
The steam rises.
The comforting caress The f arniliar warmth.
More salt than sugar. The bleak cup grows
cold.
Her hands soften and chill.
Cold tea.
Grey tea.
She just can't seem to keep the warmth.
Aleksandra Sankina
Ashley Gianoulis
Her stare is serious
And her eyes are wide;
At times she looks furious
if you glance from the right side.
Her expression is so mystifying
that it creeps;
Gazing at her is so petrifying
that my heart slightly weeps.
Sometimes it feels
she has a secret to spill
But would she ever reveal?
That answer obeys her will!
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�Invisible Corsets
Be strong my girls,
your faltering.
Tom are your wings;
I see them scrape against
the bar room floor.
I am not perfect,
no, not perfect at all
but I hold onto my pride
& fight to hold on to my
verse.
In-between lines,
what do you make of me?
A smile painted on your face.
Giggles you give,
without ever hearing
what he said;
for always do you wonder
how you look.
Does he want me?
Am I pretty?
Am I special?
Somewhere along the line
you lost yourself.
Rare do I find myself
around women who are real Saying what they would say Being who they would be
if no fear beheld them
of judgement.
I am called "weird" at times;
I am called passionate
& that I am;
There are times when eyes are found
bewildered by what I just said,
simply because glimpses of
reality
frighten those not used to
"see".
Be strong my girls, your faltering;
Torn are your wings;
You must go home
& learn again how to mend ....
yourself,
before,
you can fly
to find
what it is
your looking for.
The color of your hair
is temporary.
The tightness of your skin
will loosen.
There will come a time when
you,
drunk at the bar
will look ridiculous;
A new generation of lookers
will take their eyes away
no matter how much you giggle,
for nothing more solid
was found at your seat
& miserable will you lie awake
without the courage to love thyself
for all you'll know is,
wether you are good or bad your assets
and what you wear and it ends there.
�How will you lead your man
if not even you know where to go?
Empty lies a soul
chained by pieces of torn wings tangled
to restrain ....
Before
you
lose
the
most
important
part
of
You,
find out what it is
&be
without fear;
for silence does lie in vain;
& the boys become more lost
everyday
& every where I turn
I'm afraid
of the storms
which come about
to break ....
Torn are your wings;
I see them scrape
against the bar room floor.
A smile painted on your face.
Yes, it's you they all adore.
Congratulations.
But how long do you think
that will last?
Goon,
have another drink
& wait.
Invisible corsets tighten.
Mary Castellana
�Water From the Spirit Mouth
Drench you palms with
water
Flowing from the spirit
mouth
And press them to your
burning cheeks.
I'm shocked at the health
I'm rosy with
When you spin around me
It is you who put the spices
In our sweetest bread.
Wet your feet, turn your
face
To the red wind and blink
Your eyes against the
desert sand
Blowing around you
In shallow gusts.
I have an appetite for the
mystery.
That you carry around you.
When you're off walking
Without any sleep
Twisting the hair on your
head in bundles
Around your fingertips.
I see you laughing
I intend on arriving
From across this badland.
Your face stretches wildly
And curves at the cheek.
At the corner of your street
in L.A.
Barefoot
With your letter sewn
across my chest: S.
The sounds erupt from
your throat
Without control, and you
let them go
Rising at their own accord.
What a joy to hear your
laughter
Above the din of my own
brain.
I can hardly fathom
The gentle sway of your
shoulders
Or comprehend how you
conduct
Your humility with such
ease,
So unashamed.
Not a labyrinth of
Discomfort and half-smiles
Or a tower of irony,
You're reaching for
something true.
Like an Indian lady
I immerse myself
sometimes
In our old clouded bath
water.
Your scent still rises with
the steam
From the surface of my tub
Where I rested my head
against you
After swallowing too many
sleeping pills.
You smoked your cigar,
The sound of trumpets
blaring
All around you.
We always did forget
The record player on.
You may be hot with your
charm
But I have hidden ways of
burning your lava
In all of these ways I bring
to you
My love in a hot pink dress.
I have lotu root hands
Tuberou in it will
To tru
ou tightly to me.
Our face hovering close
together
Appearing like two
darkened mo ques,
Our e e are t\\·in sets
Of moldering lights,
Like vi tims of each other
We are a ar crash.
Even when our time
together
Ha been expired and
defu ed
You're off \Yalking alone
without an · leep.
And rm being undressed
by strangers
At truck top in Des
Moine
I'll still be waiting for you
In the ba kseat of those
cars
That I use to tra el
Acros the world.
Genevie e
ina De Angelis
�Trouble
Don't ask me
'cause if I tell you,
you'll be saved from a lie
But I
will become disposable.
Ask me,
'cause I want to tell you,
that, which will save you,
from a lie.
This,
is what tears me apart
in life.
When it must linger
underneath my skin,
seething through the smell of pain;
for all I hear and see.
A witness - human
Torn apart by silence.
& every now and then
I speak
for it pushes against
the back of my lips
and slips
outa tidal wave,
filtering the ocean of debris.
For a second, I breath;
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�But then the air's
quickly trapped in new fear,
for trouble may be up ahead,
'cause I cared I cared enough that I couldn't lie
when a person I respect and liked
looked into my eyes My heart made me;
But this does not exist as a valid reason
or mean anything to
anyone;
So far this, is what I've learned;
and so I will be hurt
and not them,
again The price I pay
for being me.
Nowhere
is it safe
when lies circle.
Mary Castellana
�The Nothing
There lives a great emptiness inside of her,
filled,
with memories of friends
no longer there;
And friends they were,
for she held them close and dear
to her care.
Loved ones - once, twice, three times
& gone,
trample the sores
with distant moments
as pictures - together ,
alone, in her mind's eye,
in a war of still and swirl.
Can't find the curtain.
Grateful she is of quaint joy
but fearful
is the other side of that coin.
Knowing,
the moments pass
& leave her - bare
a starving pain
found in her core.
Play make - believe,
say, oh well,
so that you can breath.
For what?
For who and what is real?
If even you are not real?
There is no freedom to say all you feel,
for judgment here, is thrown;
You would risk your job,
you would risk the mountains crumble
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�onto the already
many rocks.
All the people living for commentary;
Entertaining news I am, crazy maybe.
So, in an army of those who look like she,
she aches for others to feel each other
&know
there is more that in which their eyes can see.
Fight for the time,
the will to hold on,
to make new memories,
smiles of safety
alive and continue on,
so that,
to feel full
in this life & not
starve as we are For it has been too long
& no one even notices anymore ...
a great emptiness Iives ...
inside her - too heavy
to keep dragging around
& too painful to forget it all,
for her love was & is still
& she chooses to not give up all she has,
for no - that could never help;
but oh, her dear ones no longer are they around
& she walks in fear,
for each time someone new
comes near,
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�with a friendly word
& beautiful eyes boy or girl,
young or old,
she feels the blood of pain
seethe through her very life
& so she whispers
with tears in her eyes,
"It's not real,
don't care,
don't feel,
for no more emptiness
can your sweet heart carry,
broken you are already."
The nothing.
Mary Castellana
33
�Fairytale
Long ago, in land far away, in a tower high abo e raging
a handsome
Prince. This Prince was held captive by his father, the king, and a \·i ·
'Wizard. He was
under the spell because the king was afraid for the kingdom· fu ,..=-_-==.e• :- · em \\·as that the
Prince, although he was handsome and strong, he was just too dum
he poke he just
made a fool of himself and of the crown. All the women in the Yillag ·~e -ne: erized by his looks
and strength, but as soon as he spoke they cried with fear and ct· a
·- .......
"'-·. - e_..feared for the
kingdom also for he was a babbling fool. The King and the Wizard de ·
e hi tongue for
they were embarrassed for the kingdom and the men who lived there.
oohe \\"aS better off
mute and away from the kingdom.
The only way to break free from the spell wa
·pe ific Princess
who possessed the ability to make the Prince smart. The Prince fel
=- - :orhe didn't believe
that such a Princess existed and if she did, how would she get to him. Th ·
o high and the
peril was great because of the waters surrounding it.
Well, lo and behold ...one beautiful, sunny day thi be
\Ya passing by
on a ship. She was on an exploratory expedition surrounding the wa e _ •
·-=- ower was located.
She saw him looking out of the tower and became curious. "What a lm·e _
e up above, I shall
possess him", she said. This Princess was no ordinary fairy-tale Prin e-·: -, e _,.. trong- willed,
controlling and very powerful. She was also taken by his loo
co in estigate the
situation, since she had a curious nature. She donned her swimming =e ,.. .., ·er out to the tower.
Once she reached the tower, she climbed up to the window ( he \:
Yery experienced
mountain climber) and entered the room. She spoke to him but he dicln.
d and this intrigued
her.
The Princess found him to be a challenge and since he\'.
. · up for a challenge
she decided to stay there with him and acquaint herself. She pen :ee ·- talking about her
adventures and expeditions. She also taught him everything she kne \·.
e ught him history,
science, math, astronomy and poetry (for she was a well-rounded Prin e· and he absorbed
everything like a sponge. After several weeks the Prince's eyes became alen
his writings proved
that the Princess had succeeded in making him a knowledgeable man. One morning he got up and
words came out of his mouth - the spell was broken.
When the Prince returned to his kingdom, the King and the \Yizard \Yere so surprised
at the unbelievable transformation that they ran away with fear. The prin e of our e. became king.
The Princess, though, let him enjoy his throne for about a week when he de ided that they would
elope and live happily ever after in her kingdom. Under no circumstan e w the Princess about to
leave her previous life behind.
Ida Pacheco
34
�Identity
Yet I was not changed,
For time and grief have no power,
To alter the immortal spirit of man.
Seasons may come and go,
Hope like a bird may fly away,
Passions may break its wings against the iron bars of fate,
Illusions may crumble like the cloudy towers of sunset flames,
Faith as running water, may slip from beneath our feet,
Solitude may stretch itself around us, like the measureless desert sand,
Old age may creep upon us like the gathering night over our bowed heads,
Grown hoary in their shame.
Yet bound to fortune's wheel,
We may taste of every tum of chance,
Now rule as kings, now serve as slaves,
Now love, now hate,
Now prosper, now perish,
Now in love, now out of love,
Now happy, now cry,
But still through it all,
We are the same through and through,
For that is the marvel of identity.
Afolabi Olalekan
35
�Expression of Habitual Thought
Crystal clear, there's nothing I fear
Crisscrossed bridges built with mending accents
Jingled leaves fall from branches to be brushed away by la ed breezes
Heavy pistols carried by infants trying to catch hustled breaths that exhale
the difference between boy and Man
Ambassador set me free!
Liberating wars and transcending munition
A crisis without the satisfaction of one kill
Murder is a weapon used to dissect the victim's innocence and virginal mercy
A fight no longer with humanity but with a device with no verbal in tin
and a worded face
Beware, for this will soon be our ruler or maybe we're too late due to con tant upgrade
You say you know me but you don't
You're strings holding me up were long cut
A mind gone numb
Thinking with other parts is dumb
Is it a sin I commit?
The snake licks the bottle cap's sweated drops dry with hameful daint
Deaths of the awakened Messiah haunt granted prayers cremating i
worth to frail ashes
Prisoner and policeman tango to the strategic lyric of rap
Some might call it a forbidden dance
I call it a brilliant scam
The lamppost standing on the street corner gives spark to the i olated room
with moving fingers writing letters with aching simile and loud \~-hipers
throughout the storytellers mic
But what lies beneath its casting shadow?
Close one eye you'll see half the tory
Close both eyes and you'll have an opinion
Jennifer Cone
36
�Oxygen
It seems we hold our breath,
even as we stand in the middle of oxygen.
Where's home?
When all you can do is love
& here your frightened of it.
Angels cry
and you've got other things on your mind
that you consider cool or obligated too.
From the most powerful man in the universe
&gang
to the man with another door slammed shut.
Worrisome tears stinging his eyes.
Can't get this without that.
Can't get that without this.
The most popular kids at school
to the children who can not be
or choose not to be,
you are less than we are,
let's make fun of you.
Where's mother?
& I wonder if I'm the only one wondering worrisome full inside.
I can hear the angels cry for air
but the men say "No, we are men,
we are rich and powerful men,
we know how to run things just ask our friends ...
and see how important we ·1ook?"
& the children better respect the grownups
while their hearts are being beaten with
"the way things are" stick.
37
�In the beginning,
I must believe,
It started with good intentions
But what are you now?
And what have you done?
The lord, God, father, light,
all that is good,
however you call your savior,
whom hopefully is a part of you
would rather see your "powerful" efforts
start a revolution
instead of ignoring the priest at church,
the rabbi at temple - your conscience,
wherever you worship the good.
We are all
many parts of one;
We all want and need.
We all get hurt, we all feel sad,
We - all, we are all
& unless we learn we need to connect to feel
whole,
we will continue on
with these empty parts
that will continue to spread like a disease
until we cease.
With all your degrees, nice clothes, cars and
perfect speech, & let us not forget muscle The feeling you have that you deserve more than others,
like I'm just a young woman
without the means
to be taken seriously, for example.
No money, no degree,
"No, I don't know one of your somebody's"
My nose is clean.
But let me say this,
I know what I represent,
let me represent it to you.
38
�Now I'm speaking to a door,
A door I want to walk right through & ask
"who are you?"
"the rules are ... " elevated,
I guess to promote fear,
yet I'd continue,
"why should I have to go through you
to get to my dream?
Do you see me shutting you down?
Oh, I understand - it's because it's your job Money.
Do you hear yourselves?
Why must that be life?
How do you think that's going to work
when we each have our own heart, mind ,
dreams - our own part, honestly?
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't part of my destiny.
"They said so"
Who's they? And why do they believe that
they have the power of God, simply
due to their money?
If we all stopped working for this "they"
& instead worked for each other,
we may lose our jobs but so many
would be discovered & a greater job
would be at hand.
A greater job
for a greater good.
We run the supermarkets,
without us where would "they"
buy their food?
We run the electric,
without us, how would "they"
use their power?
"They" would be forced to be as we are
and we would be as they.
39
�Until so,
who needs electric anyway?
We could finally get a decent vacation
and camp out,
free of fear,
for what power do "they" have against
us all?
Demand that we all stand together
and become whole.
With the power of the light shining,
only darkness will fear us.
A garden fruitful.
You would feel the light you pray too,
see it there in front of you.
Air - your mind would bloom into
a greater "man".
Without "play fair",
without common sense,
what are we standing on?
Without our hearts beating as one,
what are we?
Evolve
or die?
Would you like a couple of minutes,
or a few more lifetimes?
if any there is.
For I don't believe your precious materials
will be of use to you
when it's all said and done.
Think about that
next time your worrying hon.
It seems like we hold our breath
even as we stand in the middle of oxygen or maybe
we're just running out.
Mary Castellana
�Writers Block
a rhyme, a sonnet,
a line, a verse,
a way to express,
to release, to disperse,
to vent, to confide,
announce secrets I hide,
information I supplied,
that I keep down inside,
a scream, a whisper,
a song, a word,
a way of letting loose,
whichever is preferred,
through my rhyme, my sonnet,
my line, my verse,
I speak what's unspoken,
released from my curse.
Patricia Rollins
Keep It Movin
Brave, I walk against the fierce wind of adversity;
Backwards, avoiding the eyes of stone.
Sideways, snaking through the labyrinth of untold truths still,
still I have made no imprints on this worn path.
Progression, achieved only in the face of my demons,
pacing towards a future of loss.
People, places, emotions, self identity possibilities are endless, so they say.
Pour me a jug of red wine.
I' 11be here a long time
Khadijah Rentas
41
�Complexity of a Woman
Your heart as the Grand Canyon is Deep
Your mind changes even in your Sleep
All you really want is to be Pleased
It's hard to find someone to Believe
There are many tests to gain your Trust
To be in your arms, powers of Lust
When your thoughts change I know to Listen
Even when your true wants are Hidden
It will take a lifetime to know You
Spending my life is something I'll Do
Never ending puzzles with Beauty
As man, loving you is my Duty
Your growth, nature gets better through Life
As I will be blessed to have a Wife
James Brewer (Dedicated to D. G.)
42
�Upon an Easel
I would like to put you up on an easel
and let men marvel at your magnificence,
on to what God has shamelessly inspired
you to be.
Unfurl you against the stained mahogany
wooden frame.
...stroking my hands to feel upon your
silkened texture,
of your intricate canvas, to instill warmth
and indulge upon your brilliance
and your refined beauty.
As I immerse my hands
and hesitantly pour paint upon you
...as we make love.
Allow me to feel even the nails and tacks
that binds you,
so I may truly reside deep within you.
Lend me your eyes and grant me your grace
to guide
my hands in to perfection for each brush
stroke.
So we may create the very universe of
nature's hold,
and awe inspire the world ...as lovers do.
Past beyond the great plains of the
Savannahs,
toward the lands where cherry-lollipop
flowers blossom
and as dark chocolate dew drops drip off
ripened tomato
grapes bursting and as honey suckle
peaches run their
sweetened nectar down like honey
Over the mountains that each great men
once leaped to see and lay,
gazing upon the horizons' setting sun only
to lead
on to a starry moon-filled night,
and where they would seem to be lost
upon
the air- thinned plateaus of your twin
peaks.
Allow me to be baptized unto your paint
and guide me to your oceans and seas,
so we may carry the souls of men at the
brink of your imagination and fantasy
and enter to a realm of realism to show
what you and I meant to be.
. ..marvel upon your beauty.
...gaze upon your magnificence.
As I hold you and put you upon my easel.
Dindo Pagtalunan dedicated to my Annie
�Love Filled Dream
The cold wind briskly kissing my cheeks,
subtle and calm,
caressing and comforting,
passionate and loving.
I turned to embrace her soft gentle lips.
Grasping the pillows to my arms, tighter and tighter.
Burying my head in its fluffy feathered set.
Losing myself in the warmth it gave back, the closeness and comfort,
The safety in my heart it did provide me ...
Sadness over came my heart,
My thoughts ...empty and in denial;
As tears streak down my face ...
buried in my bed ...
The sweet, simple comfort of a cry as
nerves calm when I envisioned a charm,
a beauty from a far in my mind ....in my heart.
A smile that's sweet, and eyes divine ...
a reddish glow from her twined locks,
enchanted lips full, deep, glistened with rivers of feelings and emotions,
she speaks with elegance and movements of grace .
...SADDENED,
far beneath ... this lonely heart,
does happen as I lay, trying to sleep ....
trying to know ....
trying to know how she may be?
How she feels?
How could she be far away from this hearts innocent intent...
so far away,
so far away from her ...
back to sleep, to try to end a dream ...
back to sleep with a vision,
in a love filled dream.
Dindo Pagtalunan
44
�A Rediscovery From The Rear View Mirror
This roller coaster has me hypnotized
I forget you with every drop and climb
You're something that I haven't memorized
I have to learn you for a second time
I want to know who I am in your head
I want to see my face burned in your eyes
But there's this casual string tied 'round my bed
That sparks recovery from the intense guise
I sometimes feel like a ghost around you
Except when no one else is in the room
Are moments worth the miles you speed me through?
I'm running out of feelings to consume
I think I've lost you altogether but then
You happen to me all over again
Dana Donadio
45
�Him
His eyes are like an ocean of kindness,
difficult it is too tum away.
All the time I think,
do it now, before it's too late,
before my thunder scares him
& of course before I sink.
Stay afloat; be as wind
'cause here I can not stay.
I mustn't watch the sun rise,
It's someone else's day.
A moment or two,
sometimes I get three
& for that I wish to thank him,
for the air he fills my lungs with,
I'll take those moments as they were
for me.
Thank you
Mary Castellana
46
�Still Cold
May, this year
is still cold.
The clouds keep corning
and cover
the warm rays of the sun
needed for
what's been made froze
all winter long.
As I sit,
I watch the trees
& notice their leaves
are facing down.
Come on sun, we need you,
has the wind pushed so hard
that even you have fallen down?
Worrisome,
the spirit here is falling.
Where resides the spirits left
of trueyou can find them crying,
yeah,
they're crying over you.
Petals holding on
but bare of color,
surrounded by other forms
who live for the moment
& in that,
don't think
'bout the morrows
that come too leave
her magic heart too break.
They pray for it
& then
destroy it,
so simply destroying it;
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�Alone with the memories
and hope inflamed with ache.
By the moonas she passes
the ground we all walk upon,
sorrow lies behind the lines
of her face
Cuz
nothing burns with fire
enough too melt the ice Break through the numbness
of demise
& still
covered by the clouds all we are left with is hope
that the sun
somewhere is.
May, this year
is still cold.
They live for the momenthappy and content
to feel skin - any skin,
doesn't matter of whatever
lies beneath Rays
covered by the clouds
& the clouds
push cold into her roots
putting her lonely shine out.
How many more times
must I die, she whispers,
before true loves light
keeps me warm
& lets me live strong
that even in rain
there is warmth
to fly with me
through all our tomorrows.
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�Keep me warm,
so that winter
can't freeze me no more.
For, May,
this year
is still cold.
I'm losing ground.
I'm losing hope.
Along with the leaves,
my petals almost touch the floor
with a growing fear
that you might not even
be there - any more.
Mary Castellana
Icy
As the pink buds of spring are born between blades of grass,
still I shiver, teeth shattering in my red hooded coat,
as the sun shines brilliantly, attempting to fill me with its warmth Still, even the icy temperature of fuji cannot compare to the icy cold of my soul;
As the greenest of green leaves soar with the wind,
Still I hide, in fetal position, in the dark, alone and afraid.
Khadijah Rentas
49
�What's In A Name?
Butter me up like a Thanksgiving turkey,
Early on a sunny Saturday afternoon;
Remind me of our longing over a kiss;
Now softer than a petal pressed upon a rose.
Again, so close we steal each other's breath.
Ravage me with your lustful love.
Dusk till bright sunny dawn.
Khadijah Rentas
50
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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
-continued from page 1-
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
..... ............................................. .....
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
-contlnude from page 1-
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).
J
�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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�Yanni Plays Different Tune After
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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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
�eljc^cUiJJorkSimcs
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
/-
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
~
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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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The push for us women to change our bod
both be sexual prisoners? I read on. C. The
clables in the compactor room of my building
ies is all around us. I'm not saying this does
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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you may have a new piece of tissue at the
Hymenoplasty to intact the vaginal
opening of your most private of places,
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
Continued on page 5
�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
2
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
■continued from page I-
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
<ontJnude from page IMATTHEW SAFFORD
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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Yet, Sega has been out of the con
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
F
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
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V
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The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
March 27,2006
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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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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
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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
pro
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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
ty at CUNY
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enrolled students to take a minimum of
15 credits a semester instead of the
Other important topics discussed
concerned
the
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
than our fair share."
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the proposed tuition hikes, visit CSI
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ENRIQUE INOCENTE
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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
LUCIE LAURIA
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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regnant for both the Fall and
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
Inconsistent
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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Matt Safford
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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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
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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.
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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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of
Staten
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
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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
| |
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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
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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
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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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Most of these seats have credit and
GPA requirements.
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government office.
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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
•continued from page 1-
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
Continued on page 9
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.
�February 27,2006
Letters To The Editor
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From the Editor
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v/
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.
in
1C
“None can match his work standards,”
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f you’re any kind of print media junky
Reader is set to debut sometime this
spring. While Americans have seen and
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.
According to those who have seen it in
I
At an expected price of $300 to
$400, many might assume it’s a device
destined to land dead in the water. But
in a world where similarly priced iPods
fly off the shelves faster than Steve
Jobs can make them, anything’s possi
ble. If Sony can make
electronic book pur
chasing
--at
their
relieve your paper glut,
get the ink-stains off
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those recurring paper
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heal.
as iTunes, they may just
start a phenomenon.
Imagine a news
paper with ever-chang
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their last Ebook reader
in Japan, largely due to
ing
pages
which
update after you read
them, or as the stories
are written. Imagine
one paperback-book
sized
device,
restrictive copy protec
tion or Digital Rights
Management (DRM) of
book files has created
which
holds dozens or hun
dreds of books and
receives all your maga
zine subscriptions the
moment they are pub
lished. Imagine all of
this using very little
power and not straining
your eyes like a com
puter monitor does.
Imagine it all, and you’ll
begin to understand
why content providers
are so excited. Gadget
many skeptics.
Whether Sony, or
any number of other
electronic manufactur
ers create the first
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spring, will become the new must-have gadget, allowing users to carry text from several books, magazines
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manufacturers like Sony are
soon to begin testing the
in the United States.
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morning paper and requires
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“it” factor, it will eventually
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become irresistible.
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tually create RadioPaper,
which according to their web
site, will be “a lightweight,
colored particles onto a thin
film (or any surface, eventual
ly). By running a different type
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charged Week
pigment chips
of current through each cap
sule, a certain color of particle
will rise to the surface, thus
becoming visible to the eye.
Once a capsule’s color has
been chosen, it stays that
way, needing no additional
power until the user wants to
“turn the page,” thus necessi
tating the capsule’s color to
change.
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onto a thin film (or any surface, eventually). Running a different type of current through
flexible display with the read
ability of ink on paper but with
the added benefit of digital
technology to download
newspaper headlines or a
best-selling novel at the
user’s command.” It might
sound like science fiction, but
the company has already
signed with the partners
needed to develop it, and
have trademarked the name.
It might be years off, but it’s definitely in
each capsule, a certain color will rise to the surface, thus becoming visible to the eye.
such
as
Philips, Intel and the Hearst Corporation,
E Ink Corporation is the clear leader in
the field. Soon-to-be-shipping devices
from Lexar, Sony and Ambient Devices
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single-handedly replace
all books, newspapers and
magazines, while offering the
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ebook device that takes
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gy everywhere in the
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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,
many issues that are relevant to an under
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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."
11
�The
College
of
Staten
Island
SPORTS
■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■Mi February 27,2006 ■■■■■■■^■■■■■■■■■■■■i
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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Parking
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
NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN
Nominote yourself for a position
as an elected student leader for the
2006-2007 academic year
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
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.
The completed nomination packet must be returned
to the SG office (1C-207) by noon on March 24
“We’re [Office of Student Life] hurting,
“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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Roman
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Northern
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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
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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.”
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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
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�January 30,2006
Lauren Taylor's
elcome
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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
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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
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“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
A]* I amPresident of International Affairs Association.
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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�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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College
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Staten
Island
November 7,2005
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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
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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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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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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
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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
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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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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
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Gahan’s voice
in the pres
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more polished
idols
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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.”
Who Are You Dressing To Be?
Thomas Bradley
keep up the good work!
blonde
hair and
The bleach
cinnamon
tan
in
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
T
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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PDC Special Event
Featuring pool tables, foosball, air
hockey and basketball shool-out!
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5:00PM-11 ;00PM
(Bus will leave from Lot 4)
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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.
1----------------------------------------
---------------- -------------------'
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
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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
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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,
certified midwife, with questions on natural
pregnancy and birthing, feel free to contact
her at 212-696-7996 or 201-708-6687:
www.gentlespiritbirth.com, email granmashands@gentlespiritbirth.com.
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
CSI's Rocktober fest
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.
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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
Continued from page 1
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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
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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
�.’iVL
Photos: Mellissa Seecharan and Matt Safford; Page layout: Enrique Inocente
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.
6
�October 10, 2005
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�Title- A Contract With God
Artist- Will Eisner
Publisher- DC Comics
$12.95
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don’t know the name meaningful story about
Will Eisner then you real people, Eisner set
better go back into tfte but to redefine comics
hole you crawled out of . A as m art form, and did
and read your Archie so with his f irst graphic %
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before you crawl back
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where you came from. publication
of
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Will Eisner is the god- Contract With God is a
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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trikes a provocanerve
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.
■ ■
A
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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
THE
STUDENT
HEALTH
CENTER.
CARES ABOUT YOU LIKE
YOUR MOTHER, BUT WON’T
TELL YOUR DAD.
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.
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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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One young soft-spoken student, who
identified himself only as ‘E’, candidly
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Want to impact campus programming!
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�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
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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?
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last season’s breakout hit TV show,
is
supersti
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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
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deserted? Actually, it’s not deserted.
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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.
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(Dominic
there are the mysterious figures known
Monaghan/
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Hobbit)
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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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