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VOU69 NOi 20 MERCYHURST COLLEGE, GLENWOOD|HILLS,*ERIE, PA 116546 April 18,1996

16th AnnualLakerLive-In

Above ILeft: C omedienne Renee Hicks entertaining everybody atRight: Ric and Brian Butler, musicians, play for studentsApr. 11. r

Photo by G agan Surithe Student Union,in the Student Union onBy Gagan SuriMerciad News Editor

Last week was very hectic for,the Admissions staff, who wereinvolved in organizing the 'Six-teenth Annual Laker Live-In,'held on April. 11 and 12. Theadmissions staff has been doing a-special visit for all the incomingfreshman class each year to intro-diice them to the college and helpall the students make an informeddecision about joiningMercyhurst. *.The attendance this year wasmore than 100 students from dif-

ferent high schools in the coun-try. Most of the students who at-tended the Live -in have alreadybeen accepted to the college) Thestudents arrived on April 11 withtheir sleepingbags. They all had awelcom e and introduction at thecafeteria and they were hostedbyvolunteer freshmen of this yearliving in Baldwin Hall andMcAuley Hall.J Later in theevening MSG/SAC organized alight entertainment programVforthe college'sguests. Renee Hicks,a comedian performed for thecrowd followed by a late night

coffee night where Ric and BrianButler, m usicians entertained ev-erybody."The event gives the visitingstudents the opportunity to get arealistic taste of the Hurst. In or-der to accomplish*this goal ouroffice planned activities that ourcurrent students at the collegemight take advantage of as w ell,"said Grace Bruno from the ad-missions office. %

After bunking with the currentfreshmen* students for the night,the visiting students were met at

breakfast with a class schedulewhich began at 9:40 a.m. andended at 2:05 p.m.?Bruno said,'The faculty were truly helpful.Some agreed to hold classroomsessions, while others allowedstudents to visit their classes thatwere in progress." SOne of the visiting studentstold the admissions staff that thefaculty wa s really cool, andbeingon a first name basis with some ofthem was very exciting for him.After theclasses, students wereinvited to club activities fair, a

presentation by Matt Whelan, di-rector of admissions, and finallythe visit ended with the picnic inthe student Union.Bruno said, The college com-munity really pulled together tomake this event a success. Thevisiting students were contentwhen they left the campus, and Ibelieve we will see many of themroaming the Hill this fall. Theadmissions office would like tothank everyone who helped withthe Sixteenth Annual Laker Live-I"-" iMSG News

By Dan HilfikerEditor-in-ChiefAt the April 15 meeting ofMercy hurst Student Government,it was revealed that the housingsituation for the town houses nextyear has been changed. Under thenew plan, seven of the Baldwin(old) townhouses will be for males,with the Resident Assistanttownhouse being a femaletownhou se. The Wardetownhouses will remain all female.This decision was made by Dr.Gary Brown after a proposal waspresented before him by membersof MSG. ! )"MSG has becn|figbting forequal housing in the townhousesfor the past seven years. Withchange comes progression. Itmaynot be totally fair, butwe will haveto accept the administration's de-cision ," Jessica CufTia, MSGPresi-dent said.?Question also was raised sur-rounding the final year-end revi-sion of the M SG budget for nextyear. Th e money that was spent oncultural awareness was slated tobe cut from $5,000 to $3,000.Many of the representatives didnot think this was a good idea. Thedecision was made to cut this sec-

tion o f the budget because only atraction of this year's allotmenthas been spent"If you want to bring in betterspeakers to educate this campuson cultural issues, then you aregoing to have to spend more moneythan we have this year," said VicePresident Tim Duble. A vote willbe taken next week to finalize thebudget for next year's StudentGovernment.

m\In SAC news, letters of intentfor cha ir positions will be accepteduntil Friday, April 19 , and lettersof intent for SAC executive boardpositions willlbe accepted untilApril 26. Also, scholarships forthe SAC executive board iposi-tions have been increased. Thepresident will now receive a schol-arship of $4,000, up from $3,500 .The Student Activities Com-mittee President announced thatthe game show Let's Make aDeal will be held on campus onSaturday, April 20, in the TaylorLittle Theater. Many cash prizeswill be awarded. 9At next week's meeting ofMSG, Dean Joseph Gower willbe present to expla in some of theintricacies of the new core cur-riculum.

Comedians Spread LaughterBy Gagan SuriMerciad News Editor

Friday, April 12, the collegeorganized a special sh ow for thestudents at no co st with the helpof Mercyhurst Student Govern-ment.' A comedy and improvisa-tion troupe called thev'ChicagoCity Limits' entertained the stu-dent body at the D'Angelo Per-forming Arts Center. The eventwas well attended by the studentsoncampus. The show began witha satire on the college and the cityof Erie. Then the group involvedthe audience for the rest of theshow by receiving their ideas andsuggestions to put together a se-quence ofsmall skitswith a subtleelement of humor. One student said that the groupwas definitely hysterical and un-pred ictable as promised. Most stu-dents seemed to enjoy the show,but some complained that thegroup was dragging on some ofthe acts for too long, thus losingthe attention of the audience.

Photo by Gagan Suri ,Above: Chicago City Limits troupe mJ. Baker, Larry Bell, Sean M. ConroyEddie Pepitone, and Cecilia Schaefer.

Scott Vance, a junior said, "Ithought that-they were good. Itwas a unique type of comedy be-cause they involved the audience,

and kept me from getting drunkas usual on Fridays."The group has been perform-ing for the past 15 years. i


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Just SojYou KnowAttention Seniors, and those Walking inGraduationCeremonies 1There will be exit interviews for borrowers of the federal Staffordloan program on the following dates. Attendan ce is requ ired byfederal law.

DATE: April 30DATE: May 1DATE: May 2

2:30 -3:00 p.m. Sullivan 23:30 - 4:00 p.m. Sullivan 29:00 -9:30 a.m. Main 31110:30 -11:00 a.m. Main 3116:00 - 7:00 p.m. Zurn 114You mustattend oneof these meetings or make special arrange-nients with the Financial Aid office at ext 2288. ^Summer Employment at Mercyhurst-Applications are now being distributed to students who want toapply for summer jobs at Mercy hurst College this year. Most of theavailable jobs are in maintenance, housing, dining hall, and various* administrative offices and pay $4.25-$4.50/hr. Students who work*for tfie college 30 hours a week on campus or at least six weeks ofthe summer receive a 50% reduction in their summer apartmentrate. A green application form may be picked up in Main 101 fromMarion Nies. Placements will be notified by mail in early May.Maintenance/Custodial assignments will start in late-May andadministrative office jobs will begin when summer term startsaround June 17. Deadline for applications is April 26,1996.Second Annu al Travel Abroad Essay Contest"The limits of my knowledge are the limits of my m ind - all thatI know is what I have words fo." Wittgenstein. *Submit the winning essay responding to the above quotation and^win $500 towards your 1996 summer study abroad. The Departmentof Foreign Languages and Cultures' is inviting students to respondiio the quotation with an essay of no more that 900 words. Contes-tants should submit four copies of the essay, one with the student'sname included, and three anonymously, to Alice Edwards, Preston1 206, by April 22,1996. The winner will be announced on May 1,1996 at 3:45 p.m. in Main 206, during the "Go away! Planning youfStudy Abroad Experience" presentation of Academic Celebration.The winner must plan to use the money this summer in an approvedstudy abroad experience or for an extended summer travel abroadexperience of significant value. (Last year's winners a re not eligiblefor this year's competition). .

Above: From left to right; (All students) Michele Gotta, KristinSchmidtfrerick, Michele McNifT, Gregory Hlsehuck, Karen Westonwith professor Brenda Moore and her husband Tom Moore.He r Highness attends Hur st

Photo by Gagan Suri i ?.. ' /,\ b o v e : Springfest opening band at the atheletic center.Springfest Celebrations Rock-On 1%By Susan D'AmbrosiaMerciad Contributing WriterThis past weekend Mercyhurstcelebrated its annual Springfestwith M ercyhurst StudentGovernment and the Big \ BandCommitteebringingusthreenewbands.' The music began at 2:00 p.m.with one of our local bands, Ham-

mered B ass. Following themweretwo bands from Canada, Univer-sal Honey and Moxy Fruvous.Each band performed for a mini-mum of one hour.4 ySenior Rob Taylor states "Itwould have been better if thebands played outside, but overallI had a good?time listening todifferent music for a change."

By Gagan Suri pMerciad News EditorThis past w eekend, April 13-14, the Hospitality ManagementAssociation (HMA) went toToronto, Canada, to experiencethe Medieval Times Dinner andTournament The trip started off *with a four hour van ride toToronto, then the group had a fewhours to enjoy the Eaton Center 2*mall before they went to Medi-eval Times, -ft Medieval Times is a dinnershow that features knights and "maidens. The costlof this eventwas tf.S^$33and included'a fuir^^^hafl


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Nicole PonstingleA&E EditorGet a Grip

Well, I do not know about you,but it was nice to have som e time J#off from school, eveniif it wasonly a four - day Easterfbreak.Any break is a good break! But, >*>,back to work.I did not get a chance to checkout this "Band Day" thing, norhave I heard anything about itsworth, so nothing on that front It *did seem a bit under - publicizedthough. But/isn't that always theway, or at least here it Is.As the Summer seems to get astep closer, and most of us get abithappier, there comes this thing

called "fun." This is somethingthat mostof us look forward to aliiyear. This "fun" can take m a n y !different forms, yet all comes tothesame ends, maybe even a hang-over.A couple of things that soundeda bit on the interesting side aresome;5 concert tours (no?Hootiethough, or so I hope). One thingthat may or may n ot be a ploy tomake some bucks is the "Sex Pis-tols Reunion Tour." It seems likea novel idea, butwill not have thatsame appeal without Mr. Viscious. Even though he was a

rotten bass player and an evenworse singer, he had that rebel-lious charm that made him solovable, or not. Although he willbe missed, at least Mr. Rotten(a.k.a. Lydon) will be there in allof his brat-like glory to yell andscream at us and call us all idiots,even though we paid to see them.I cannot say as though I want togo or not because it does seemlike such"* a m oney - makin gscheme and it will probably befilled with lo ts of annoying littlekids, yet I cannot help butwant torelive my youth. I grew up in thepunk scene and it might be great #to see it take a final gasp before itdies'for good, but it could alsojust make me realize that it is nowtainted with fools who have noidea what it was about, becauseback in the day we all stuck to-gether as there were so few of us,no t like today's wanna -be' s withtheir Green Day and Rancid shirts that think that punk rock is stillalive in those genres, rAll that I can say is that it isquite sad, but society exploits allof the greatMhings. Until nextweek,' take care and look forwardto some info on the British tourthat will leave all other tours inthe dust this Summer! !

Tunes on TailsBy Jason UleryMerciad Columnist

When the Beastie Boys cameout with their mind-spinningCheck Your Head in 1992, theyshocked the music world by blend-ing all the musical styles they hadbeen exposed to since their youth.Accompanying them on that al-bum and 1994!s // / Communica-tion wasLos Ang eles native MarkRamos-Nishita,*a.k.a. MoneyMark, whose work'on the key-boards helped make the Beastiesa sufficiently greasy funk outfit.\This time Mark 's on his* ownwith his first full-length LP,Mark's Keyboard Repair, re -leased on London's Mo W ax la-bel, which is making a name foritself in the acid jazz scene. Thisalbum features music from previ-

ous releasesfrom he m i mitePintoRecords label, as well as 10 newsongs. There are 30 tracks in all,some of which are not even aminute long, hardly-acceptablefor jazz standards. He doesn'tseem to pay any mind to thesestandards, however, instead try-ing to cover a-broad range ofsoul illmelodies and lean grooves.|The album starts off with thetrack "Pretty Pain," which alongwith other tracks such as "Got MyHand in Your Head," "SometimesYou Gotta Make it Alone" and"From the Beginning to the End"remind the listener of jjLennyKravitz, although R amos-Nishitaseems to have a better grasp ofsoul than Kravitz, probably be-cause he's a lot less commercial-ized. Th e true gem of these soul-ful songs is "Never Stop ," whichjust features Mark and his guitarin a little love ditty.

The album also features jazzyhorns which give the album amore low-down street flavor andMark just gets funky with hisclavinet on tracks 1 ike "Have ClavWill Travel" and "Mark's Key-board Rep air." He also taps intothe new acid jazz craze on thesongs "Sixth Synth" and "Revoltof the Octopi," which sounds alittle bit like it was influenced byBeck. He also has older-style jazzselections such as the lazy Sun-day, Gardena Blvd." and "Poet'sWalk,11 among others. *jThis is a very good album forthose of you into 70's funk andjazz. It also provides a brief feelof just what this new acid jazzscene is about Mo Wax is new onthe scene and if you like this al-bum you might want to check outsomeof he other selections a vail-able from the label.

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* iINTEGRATIONBy Da n HUfiker . * & . > tEditor-in-Chief # \

Has anyone out there wondered what has happened to Montanalately? I am not quite sure if I know exactly what is going on outvthere, but there has been a recent rash of violence and tragicwhappenings in the past couple of weeks. Is there something k&in the dean mountain air that they breathe, or the water that theydrink in Montana that is leading to this sudden outbu rst of crime? Ifsomeone knows, I would like to know, so that we can prevent thisfrom happening here.In case any of you don 't listen to the news, or read the newspaper,federal law enforcement officials have recently caught the personwhom they believe to be the Una bomber. He was residing in a remotesection of Montana. This is a real great catch for the F.B.I, becauseof the severity and amount of bombs that this person has unleashedaround the country. He has sent dozens of bombs to collegecampuses and universities and also airlines since the late 1970s.The motives for his actions had been a mystery for years until hereleased his manifesto, in which h e stated that it was his hatred ofscienceand technology that spurred him to unleash these bombs allacross the country. - ~


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i "Pops on theHill"at Performing Arts CenterCollura to conduct innaugural concertPhantom of the Opera, StarWars, George Gershwin, andPercy Grainger are just a few ofthe artistsgand productions thatwill be featured at the new MaryD 'Angelo Perform ing Arts Cen-ter at Mercyhurst College, Sun-day, April 21 at 2:30 p.m., whenthe D Angel o Wind Ensemblewill welcome in the spring with aconceit entitled Tops on the Hill."The ensemble is under the direc-

tipn of Frank Collura, veteran in-ternational conductor and assis-tant professor of music at the col-The even t is free and open to theMercyhurst College community.The 35-piece. ensemble, con-sisting of students/ from, the

D'Angelo School of Music andprofessional musicians from thetri-state area, promises to fill thisnew facility w ith familiar soundsfrom the 40's and 50's, popularmarches, along with theme music J

from movies and Broadway mu-sicals, fThe concert, which will lastabout an hour andia half, willopen with a march by'Goldman,followed by the Cakewalk SuitebylHcrshey Kay. Then PercyGrainger's popular Irish-tunesDanny Boy and Shepherd's Heywill be featured. A star spangledspectacular spotlighting GeorgeM. Cohan's Yankee'DoodleDandy, Give My Regards toBroadway, Y ou're A Grand OldFlag (among others), will con-clude thefirstha 1 f of the program.\ e After the intermission,Gershwin's Fascinating Rhythm,Embraceable You and I GotRhythm, will take center stage,followed by familiar selectionsfrom The Phantom of the Opera.Strauss' Clear Track.Polka willbe featured, followed by Big BandSignatures by Benny Goodman,Les*Brown, Woody Herman,

Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington,Stan Kenton and Count Basie.The familiar Star Wars "Returnof the Jcdi" will conclude the pro-gram. '^MFrank Collura, maestro for theconcert, has directed prominentorchestras in the United States,and abroad including the LondonPhilharmonic, the National Phil-harmonic Orchestra of Brussels,the Radio and Television Orches-tra of Sofia, Bulgaria, and TheNational Philharmon ic Orchestraof Mexico, t i-Collura, who has taught atMercyhurst for the pastfiveyears,will guest conduct the orchestrasof Buffalo, Mansfield, and TheNational Philharmonic O rchestraof Mexico during the upcomingseason. -IFor further information aboutthe inaugural 'Tops on the Hill"concert, please contact MichaelFuhrman at 824-2564.!

'Angel Perform-ArtsSUMMER SMART.-P 1 I (and\some are not!)BE ONE OF THE SMART ONESPsychology Club attends, conventionr * v -

! Edinboro University of Pennsylvania offers two summer sessions:-. May 31 thru July 3 and July 8 thru August 8. f | Hundreds of graduate and undergraduate classes will be held on the

i Edinboro campus and at the Porreco Extension Center in Erie.!/ Catch up on coursework ifiyou've fallen behind, or take summer courses

^and get a head start on fall. * %/ Save money! By attending summer school, you may be able to graduateLtn less than four years. , i , ' / Classes are held throughout the day and evening, so you can

participate in other summer activities. ' t/ Take a class during either summer session for less than $485. Hf '/ Call the Admissions Office atj814^732-2761 (toil-freeH-800-626-2203)f or the Scheduling Office at 814-732-2835./ Look for a complete course listing on the WOrtLD WIDE WEB athttp://www.edihboro.edu/ ^ ;'* I i

By David P a u s e y ^Merciad Contributing WriterThe Mercyhurst PsychologyCI ub went to the Eastern Psycho-logical Asso ciation's annual con-vention before Easter break. Th ethree day convention took placein Philadelphia at the MarriottHotel. It provided an excellentopportunity for students to be-come more informed about gradu-ate studies and to listen to lecturesfrom prominent psychologists.Lectures ranged from Hispanicchildhood development, to thegraduate program at FordhamUniversity, to bridging the gapbetween clinical research :andpractice, from the Yale Psychiat-ric Institute. J

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Dr. Charles Dufoiir and Dr.Marilyn Livosky, who are bothassistant professors in the psy-chology department, attended theconvention with the students. Thestudents and professors were ableto meet and discuss the events atthe convention or to attend semi-nars together.JoAnne Fischer, a club memberand psychology major, said, "Thetrip was an opportunity for me tosee new research and compare itwith the research the students aredoing here on campus." Fischerand several other psychologymajors involved in ExperimentalPsychology J will be presentingtheir research on April 20,1996,at a jconvention at Grove CityCollege. k

Formal Monte Carloriight to be heId I

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By Dan HilfikerEditor-in-Chief \The largest event of this yearsMSG fund raiser will soon beupon us. It is the formal MonteCarlo night This event, which isexpected to be the final event ofthe fund raiser, will bef-held onSaturday, April 27 in theCarolynHerrmann Student Union. Theevent will start at 8 p.m. The costto enter the event will be $3 forstudents an d $ 10 for non stud ents.Formal attire will be required forentrance to the eventThere will be complimentaryfood and beverages available toall who participate in the event"Wc encourage all faculty, staff,

and administration to come outand support us in our fund raisingc ffores. i 1 f there is anyone outthere who cannot attend theevent,but who still wishes to make adonation to the fund raiser, he/she , can send donations! toMercyhurst Student Govern-ment," MSG President JessicaCuffia said. .Some of the events at thcMontcCarlo night will be ta rotcard read*ing, and several games of chancesuch as blackjack and roulette.Many different prizes will beawarded those who attend theevent. \y"All the proceeds will be goingto support the Mercy Center forWom en," Cuffia said. M:
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S u c c e s s W a s n ' t j E a s y F o r L a k e r s ' M o s t S u c c e s s f u l T e a mBy John Murphy and PatrickGouldMerciad Sports Writers

While it is true that each gradu-ation sees the loss of some valu-able players to a team, never hasthis been more true than with re-gards to the seniors of the ladyLakers' soccer squad, fin truth,almost the entire team is beinglost to graduation. Fully 13 play-ers from this team will departfrom Mercyhurst in May, leavingbehind them the legacy as themost successful team ever to passthrough Mercyhurst's gates.The list of honors and recordsthese seniors have notched overthe past four years is long andimpressive. A brief glimpse ofwhat these seniors^have doneshows an overall record of53-11-

2, three NCAA playoff appear-ances, including two trips to thecoveted Final Four competition,and a national top 10 ranking forall but one week of the last-fouryears. They {have consistentlydominated their region andin turnestablished Mercyhurst as an in-credibly fierce national power-house in Division II soccer. Com-3bine this with three All-Ameri-cans aiuLnumerous All-Regionawards to individuals, and thisbecomes the most highly deco-rated group of athletes ever toleave this campus.As perhaps might be expected,all this success didnot comewith-j|out taking its toll on the players., jIn a recent get together, some ofthe players discussed w hat it waslike to be part of such a successful

Laying siege...some of the senior Lakers seen dom inating opponents as always. Pictured L to R:Claire Scanlan, Maureen G allagher, Cynthia Naylor, Erin Stewart, Tracy Cross, Jen Root and Le e|Ann Kelly. Seniors not pictured: Erica Barone, Cindy C ote, Je n Leenstra, Kristin Balon, Becky Millerand Sarah Co nnelly 11 1 f tdon't see the humor in it," saidjSIrishwoman Claire Scanlan with

team.

Baseball

j. The Memories"I'll always remember theroad trips we had together. I'vegot some lasting memories ofthose, 1 ike the time Nails (CynthiaNaylor), sat up singing this stupidsong all night," said Cindy Cote."I'll remember 'Pete , the busdriver', how he used to spit hischewing tobacco on the ground.One night somebody was sleep-ing on the floor of the bus anddown conies, some of Pete's to-bacco on top of them," said goal-keeper Kristin 'Spaz' Balon.

This year we had some greatbattles, especially the rumbles onthe bus, it warlike WW F," saidMaureen 'Mo ' Gallagher. 'I'llremember freshmen year whenafterf,only two weeks I wasstereotypical!y cast as afLepre-chaun in a skit the team did. I stilli

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a smile on her face."The playoffs were an incred-ible experience, I don't know if Icould really make anyone appre-ciate what it was like because itwas such a personal th ing," saidJen Leenstra. "At the time, every-thing happens so fast it 's hard totake it all in, that's jus t the play-offs, so you can imagine what theGnal fourwas like! "said Leenstra."Beating Barry University inour sophomore yea^r c}pw(i inFlorida was a definite highlight.They had beaten us badly in theprevious meeting, this was some-thing we weren 't used to. By com-ing back and beating them in theplayoffs we proved to ourselvesthat wefwere the better-Ueam,"said Erica Barone.

The Regrets

"Obviously the fact that wedidn't go all the way and win aNational Championship is some-thing that I '11 always regret," saiddefender Sarah Connolly. "Wecould have played better whenwe went to the playoffs," saidCote. "Thefirstyear was a learn-ing experience, a f er that we wereprepared. Unfortunately for us theopposition was very strong andwe could never seem to take thefinal step to the top," she said."We had the talent to w in, un-fortunately we didn't bring ev-erything together that would haveallowed us to go all the way," saidGallagher. "Now that our collegecareers are over we'll neverget toplay at such a competitive levelagain, I 'm certainlygoing to missthat," she said."In our junior year we wentahead J1-0 against;a ^powerfulFranklin Pierce team. However,

they came bade to win the gameandwe missed probably ourmostopportune time to take home thechampionship," said Scanlan."For me , I think the saddest partabout all this is that at only 21,most of the girls ' competitive ca-reers are over," said Scanlan,whose outstanding skillsmay seeher play professionally in Japan."Overall, the w hole idea that Ididn't hav e fun playing the gameI love kind of sucks," saidConnolly, "when I*was in highschool I loved the gam e, but when1 eame to college the fun went outof it for me. There were a numberof little groups within the teamthat didn't get on. ^ ^ ^"It was raw talent that made ussuch a good team, but off the fieldweweren' t always a team, friend-ship wise ," said Cote echoing herteammate's regrets. "Off the fieldthings did not go well, but thegirls were always professionalenough never to bring it on thefield," she said. *'There was so many of us thatcame in together as freshmen wewere like a big family." said JenRoot. "However, a fter a time wegrew apart and not everybody gotalong as friends. But, there is onething this team never lost &\\

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