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At halftime of the Mercyhurst vs. Canisius Football Game, MSG presented RobertSchrader the "Sally Schrader Award", named in honor of his late wife. (From left toright): MSG secretary Peggy H lrsch, MSG president, Mike Kelly, Schrader, and formerMSG president, David Armstrong (*86) former MSG president, grf gCapital CampaignNears Fruitionby Chris Kovskl

The Mercyhurst College Capital Cam-paign may benefit from the revised taxlaws. Under the new system, itemizingcharitable contributions doesn't help asmuch. "By paying more of their pledgesthis year, rather than waiting, p eople cansave themselves money in the long run,"stated Gary Bukowski, director ofdevelopment/alumni. *Bukowski's department is in the pro-cess of sending letters to all those whohave outstanding pledges, notifying themof this change in the tax laws and its ef-fect on their contributions. * ,Bukowski iterated the difficulties inannouncing the success of th e campaign,due to t h e v number* of outstandingpledges. At this point, Bukowski quotesa figure of 99.7 percent toward actualiza-tion of th e original campaign target. The three year campaign had a goal of$4.5 million. As of this week, pledgestotal $4,485,457. Bukowski relayed con-fidence in the "ability of the college toraise this money soon. "I think it's safeto say we'll meet the goal of $4.5 millionby th e end of this year."With this degree o f success so -far,Bukowski is optimistic when respondingto the much asked question, "Will wemake $5 m illion?", "Obviously, we want to push as hardas we can toward the end of June to raise$5 m illion. It will be hard, but we feel we

can do it."Bukowski credited a large amount ofthe success to the trustees, friends of thecommunity, parents, Sisters of Mercyand alumni, all of whom gave tremen-dous amounts of support.* The money will be used in accordancewith the guidelines set up by PresidentWilliam P. Garvey and the Board ofTrustees. Some of these uses includeestablishments of scholarships and*, stu-dent loans, additional funding for th elibrary, departmental equipment supply-ing and updating, computer equipment(the new system was installed last year)and funding for endowments. >The breakdown of the money incom-ing*! and its intended expenditures isunclear at present, but Bukowski wouldstate that the money coming fromparents is earmarked for the-library,while alumni money i s destined primarilyfor scholarships. j3"It's been a long cam paign," express-ed Bukowski, "but it shows how muchpeople like Mercyhurst."p4 The experience has also been "gratify-ing," in that this money has been raisedafter other area educational institutionshad held major fund drives.Bukowski also terms the developmentof planned giving, where {Mercyhurst isput in the donor's will, as essential inaiding the campaign to put MercyhurstCollege in a strong financial position vjthin the next 10 years.

Dean list DinieHonors Excellenceby Ann Johnson

Mercyhurst's annual Dean's List Din-ner was held this year on Nov . 5 to honortheS204 students whose academic skillsputSthem on the listi The dinner, spon-sored and directed by the office of theDean, is conducted in order to recognizepublically those students who had ac-cumulated a 3.5 or better quality pointaverage;;(QPA) over the 1985-86 schoolyear, fThe event* which was held at St*Mark's Center, began at 6:30 p.m. with apunch reception^followed at 7:00 p.m.by a dinner which was catered by DanBukowski and other members of Mer-cyhurst's Hotel/Restaurant Managementprogram.- Preceding I he dinn^r-j K-ar-en-iDonnelly of Campus Ministry offered th einvocation.Dean Dr. D avid Palmer then introduc-ed the keynote speaker for the evening,Dr. George Garrelts, professor ofreligious studies at the Hurst. In address-ing the Dean's List scholars in atten-dance, Garrelts stressed the importanceof being a humanist, but most important-ly, being a Christian humanist. He usedthe example of Ann Frank to make hispoints. The richness of life lived accor-

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We would like to note that this w ill bethe last issues of The Merciad untilDecember. We are all taking the follow-ing weeks off to enjoy Thanksgiving withour families and to write all of the termpapers and study all of the lecture noteswe have neglected over the term. * >Vacation starts after next Friday'sclasses. Classes resume Dec. 1. Don't belate! 2 * i M MWe want to also clue our readers in ona major change that will be occurring inthis stalwart publication. Starting soonThe M erciad will be sporting a new lookand delivery day. We feel the change willplease all of you, 'Nuff said for now.More details to follow as soon as weknow more* Have a swinging vacation, awonderful Thanksgiving and thank youfor your continued support.

ding to humanistic principlesdeveloped by a liberal arts basedtion was emphasized.Following Garrelts* speech, Palmer presented the awards tscholars in attendance.The Dean's List dinner is a trabegun in th e 1970s, because it was bed that students who performedacademically ought to be honoreDean Palmer remarked, "We beit's significant that a certain numstudents keep a running QPA oWe've always gone one step furthethe Dean's List, and honored them dinner."The 204 Dean's List students repnearly 11. of the student body. Oa nearly three to o ne female ratio . Tabove the m ale-female percentages overall enrollment, which is closeeven split along gender lines.Graduates from the class of 1986achieved a 3.5 or higher QPA returncampus for the dinner.Palmer acknowledged the help Marcia McDonald, Dan Bukowskthe Hotel/Restaurant DepartmMargie Gleason, Leslie ThompsonPat Weiser.nmWiffl^ffieMiiiisippigSmMMSpdttj

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NOVEMBER 14,1986 Sttje menial!Merciad Attends CMA ConventionWorld's Largest Student Press MeetingPA

Four staff members of TheMerciad attended the AssociatedCollegiate: Press/College MediaAdvisers national convention inWashington, D.C. i >fIt was a very rewarding trip, asa great deal was learned about thebusiness of editing and producinga newspaper. There were profes-sionals from around the countryoffering their insights into theworld of professional journalism.Friday's Keynote Speaker, JudyWoodruff, a Washington Cor-respondent for McNeil/LehrerNewsHour, offered a very in-teresting address which got theprogram underway.Although President Reagan didnot make his scheduled press con-ference appearance at the conven-jtion because of a committment tothe Marine Corps Graduation Balljat the White House, the overallquality and worth of the conven-tion to the college journalismstudents in attendance was not af-fected, for there were many in-teresting, semina rs o ffered."I thought the seminars werethe most worthwhile aspect of theconvention," said Merciad NewsEditor, Matthew J. Clark. "Idefinitely got a lot out of this andI'm already looking forward to at-tending next year's convention inSt. Louis," he said.j These seminars ranged from" H ow to Conduct an Interview"to "Building Good Relations bet-ween Editing, Advertising, andP roduc t ion" to " P ho to jou r -nal ism and the C o l l e g ePublication". ^ ^ fJack Hillwig, from the Univer-sity of South Carolina, talkedabout the secrets of makingphotojournalism work with col-lege publications. He suggestedthat those who are photojour-nalists should constantly strive toimprove themselves and to look attheir work as a true art form. VHe. stressed creativeness inphotographing, as well as strivingfor the unusual shot which willm a k e fo r a m e m o r a b l ephotograph. All of these things,said Hillwig, will help to makep h o t o j o u r n a l i s t s b e t t e rphotographers and will ultimatelymake the publications for whichthey work significantly better.r : He added that the mark of a

good photographer is one who isnever satisfied with a shot, alwayssearching for ways to make a shoteffective by emulating a particulartheme which coincides with thestory it accompanies.Another subject of discussionwas how to cope with un-cooperative news sources. Thiss e m i n a r f e a t u r e d J o h a n n aNeuman, a White House reporterwith USA Today. She spoke onwhat to do in case of "stonewall-ing" by news sources.She mentioned that most oftenit is not the major names ingovernment that offer usable in-formation, but "little mice", asshe referred to them. However,these "little mice" are verycareful not to say anything "On.the Record." |This leaves reporters with a verydifficult decision to make as tohow they will be able to make thisinformation printable by gettingsomeone to say it "On theRecord." *Neuman offered that whenshe's in a conference with a publicofficial, she will mention to thatofficial, as background, what a"little mouse" has said and thentry to get that official to confirmthe statement. She said that manyof the stories she's written havebeen made possible through thisj technique. * * -There was also a seminar deal-ing with the ever-increasing pro-blem of Censorship of the CollegePressjj Ivan Holmes, of theUniversity of Arkansas, alongwith Liz Minden, of CentralMissouri State University, spokeon the subject. I %This seminar was based on in-formation gathered from a reportof a survey funded by the GannettFoundation of the campus pressand its problems with censorshipin 1986. BQHolmes spoke of a college inGeorgia in which the editor un-covered a story that alcohol wasbeing illegally delivered to theV.I.P. luxury boxes of theschool's football stadium. Thecollege's president denied that thiswas going on, and instead of say-ing that he'd check up on thes i tuat ion, he threatened theeditor, not only with his job aseditor, but with his enrollment

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status at the college.The editor, being a very profes-sional student journalist, stakedout the luxury boxes and took pic-tures of men delivering alcoholicbeverages into the boxes. This wasdefinite proof that the deliverieswere being made. But even withthis proof, the college presidentdenied the charges, saying that thedeliveries were not of alcoholicbeverages, but of soft drinks. Butin the pictures, the word "vodk a"was clearly visible. When heresponded to this, the presidentattempted to dismiss the incidentby far-fetchedly claiming it wasmerely a case of soft drinks beingdelivered in alcohol boxes. ^Another incident involved aschool in Illinois. Hie college'snewspaper editor uncovered ascheme in which the college'scomputer system was beingpirated and used for personalgains among members ol theschool's administration.The student, instead of beingpraised for this, was reprimandedby the administration and theschool's newspaper was put undertremendous pressure. Several ofthe editor's staff members couldnot handle the pressure and leftjthe paper. This left the editor byhimself with no one to help him inhis plight.^ Holmes referred to the editor as"a Pulitzer prize waiting to hap-pen" but his life tragically endedwhen the pressure mounted tosuch an extent that he committedsuicide. *Collegiate press, in many in-stitutions, cannot effectivelyreport on the evils of societybecause their very existencedepends upon the institutionwhich is doing the evil, and this isjthe biggest problem that the col-lege press is faced with, accordingto Holmes.Another topic of discussion wasthat of building and maintaininggood relations among editorial, jadver t is ing, and productiondepartments.From USA Today, news copydesk^chief Don Ross gave a.seminar on writing creativeheadlines and cutlines. Creatingheadlines and cutline that are eyecatching are the hardest part ofputting together a newspaper.Ross stressed the importance ofusing word play and humor inwriting headlines that will makethe reader want to read the story.Paula Anderson, a faculty adviserfrom the University of Kentucky,felt that good relations among theco-workers of a newspaper wasvital. According to Anderson, apaper cannot function to itsfullest potential unless there isproper communication betweenall members of a newspaper staff.

Some suggestions were made asto how to improve the morale ofthe newspaper staff as well as therelationships between the dif-ferent d epartments of the paper.Anderson suggested havingweekly meetings between allmembers of the staff and discuss-1ing ideas for future editions. Pco-

Journalism convention brunch inHyatt Regency in Washington, D.Cpie in advertising may have a greatidea for a future story that wouldgo unnoticed if it weren't for the jweekly meetings. 1Another suggestion made by amember of the student communi- jty at the seminar was to have"suggestion boxes" on campuswhich would allow members ofthe student community to havesome kind of input in theirschool's newspaper.Anderson stated that even if theideas are unusable nine out of tentimes, the one time that there is agood idea would m ake the sugges-tion boxes a worthwhile effort.The press conference, featuringformer Supreme Court ChiefJustice Warren Burger, was disap-pointing, with Burger giving arambling history lesson on thebeginning of the free press in theUnited States.Burger could in no way replacethe President's presence at theconvention, but because of thevast range of activities offered,the convention was still a veryworthwhile event.For the evening's entertain-

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ment, the attendees were on Friday to be a part ofbroadcast from the JeHotel of Mutual Radio's King Show" a popular talkprogram. Not only was it ato see live radio being donemeet and talk with King'sWashington Post politcal columnist Mark Sheilds, Mel Torme and President impressionist James MWhen the audience was invask questions, Sheridan'sments to the guests were hecoast-to-coast radio. Theprogram followed a wincheese reception for the ction members at the reknowtional Press Club. J, Mercyhurst's communidepartment can only benefian experience such as thmany ideas are expresseshared between the collegnalism- students in attenthus enabling publications sT h e M e r c i a d to i mthemselves through knot h a t w o u l d o t h e r w i sunavailable to them.

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s t i c k TogetherFrom Thd Advisery Brian SheridanSunday morning, while we were packing and preparing to leave ourroom at Capitol Hill's Sheraton Grand, I had the television tuned to a"Three Stooges " movie. In it, the boys were playing ledgling eportersattempting to break into the newspaper game. This storyline was ratherappropriate since we were attending a convention for college journalistsand, like those knuckleheads, trying to find employment in thenewspaper game. Normally the nose tweeking, head butting antics ofLarry, Moe and filling in for Curly, Shemp, wouldn't be the kind ofthing that would be the source of philosophical reflection.Really, the Stooges, in their own slapstick kind of way, displayed theimportance and benefits of attending conventions such as the one we at-tended. N o matter how much the people tried to prevent the boys from'Covering the story, they,always stuck together to overcome theobstacles. The need to stick together was something that the conventiontaught everyone who attended. '"Conventions, be they for the HRM department or the newspaper, doteach those who attended about improving their craft but that 's not themost important thing you learn. It's being with other students who,despite being from other cities, states and cultures, all are involved inthe same occupation. You get a wondetful perspective of your craft.You don't feel that you are the only ones fighting an sometimes up-hillbattle to report the news. It really recharges your batteries and gives youa new fervor for doing your job and fighting those battles.t . When you meet students from Louisiana to Hawaii and discover theytoo have problems with their* printers, their reporters, and their ad-ministration, suddenly, you realize that your problems aren't as press-ing as you had thought. You also create a mutually benevolent societywhere you support other editors' and reporters' decisions.For one class I attended, the instructor was the advisor from a small, Ivery conservative Southern religious college who was fearing the loss ofher job because she chose to back their paper's decision to run a storyabout drug and alcohol abuse on campus. The president of the collegetried to kill the story but the editor ran it anyway. Allof us in the classgave ideas on how to stand tall on the pap er's right to report news. Shesaid at the close of the class tha t she felt better about running the storyand our comments helped and gave her a new perspective and convic-tion about the importance of the press. '7TThe -convention also gave me and my fellow editors a new and*stronger perspective on our paper and our jobs as members of theFourth Estate. It was also a lot of fun. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

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y> This issue> of The Merciaddeals-heavily with the recentCollege Media Association an-nual convention.Many conventions - eitheracademic or professional - arelittle more than an opportunityto get out of town and get crazy.After all, there's no chance ofbeing seen by the neighborhoodgossip. Do you think it was merechance that put the TeamstersInternational convention in LasVegas, back in August? Omahais more centrally located andtherefore would seem to be amore logical choice. More than2/3 of the a delegates had totravel more than 1500 miles toget to Las Vegas. Hardly seemsefficient.I F o r t u n a t e l y t h i s p a s tweekend's college journalismconvention couldn't have beenfurther from the alcoholicstereotypes of conventions, in14 years as a professional jour-nalist and in seven as anacademic journalist, I've attend-ed many gatherings of this type.This was the best!

Hands down, clearly, over-whelmingly the best! There were! seven work periods per day andmore than half the time our littleband of four couldn't cover allthat looked inviting. In otherwords, at any given time therewere from three to seven ses-sions we wanted to cover.Also, Mercyhurst was unex-pectedly prominent. A familyemergency kept one panelisthome so, at the last minute, anacquaintance inveigled me intofilling the spot on a session en-titled "Freedom of the Pressand the Small Private College".I think I represented us ade-quately but what was .reallystriking was what a supportiveenvironment The Merciad en-joys. As I related our situation, jo u t r i g h t o p e n e n v y wa smanifested. From Mr. Ragan toDean Palmer to PresidentGarvey we, at this paper, are :privileged compared to manyother papers.In answer to a question, Imentioned that the president of Iour college had edited his col-

lege paper for more tyears. The questionerout, "My God, do yohow lucky you a re? ' 'Other advisers compme several times regarquality of our delegatthis was at a conventiover 800 attendees fromto Hawaii.Our editor, Brian Ssold his interview witLinville to a college prvice, which means that line of a Mercyhurst could well appear on a stcould run in "The Crimson", the USC "or in scores of smaller Also, the normally dourSheridan made a commthe M utual Broadcastinwork's nationally synLarry King Show. A coelicited laughtei and King's judgement that,a very funny line."

It was grueling, but wWe are already planninwe're going to get the monext year's convention.

by Chris KovskiOn Thurs., Nov. 6, fourmembers of the diligent Merciadstaff traveled to Washington,D.C. Yes, that hotbed ofAmerican politics is alive andwell, though Ronald Reagan maynot be. yOur illustrious president wasscheduled to speak to theA m e r i c a n C o l l e g i a t ePress/College Media AdvisersConvention. H e, as well as BerkeBreathed (of BLOOM COUNTYfame) and Sen. and Mrs. Dole(U.S. Senator from Kansas andSecretary of Transportation,respectively), weaseled out of theengagement.Since Reagan's picture doesn'teven appear in the program, therewas a general concensus that henever intended to show up. I, |along with another 75 or so con-ventioneers, felt that Reagan diedin 1985. No one has told us yet, orhim for that matter.As our informal 20 state caucustalked over the state of affairs inthis country, we came to the con-clusion that the country is beingrun by one of Walt Disney'sautomated robots. After all, hehasn't performed any new mo-

tions since he so blatantly told areporter to "shut up."Most of his actions (i.e., stan-ding behind. a podium, hoppingon Air Force One for a little jauntto California or arguing with aSoviet leader over militarystrength, making us sound as if weare armed with squirt guns whilethe Russians are building laserbeam death satellites) are stan-dard. The programming would befairly simple. All it would takewould be a limited memory bank ,equipped with such phrases as"How's that, Mommy?", "We'regoing to blow up Russia in fiveminutes, hah hah" and "Well, asyou can see by this list of leadingeconomic indicators, as opposedto the Democrat's list of leadingeconomic indicators, I inheritedthese problems from the previousadministration."For special events, such asgraduation ceremonies at the arm-ed forces academies, he couldhave a speech fed directly by atape player through a voice syn-thesizer. For a more realisticReagan effect, a telepromptercould be running at the same time.Of course, the words would haveto be different enough from the

speech to make the complete.In short, I am irritapublic officials and purveentertainment (possible redcy?) who cancel out of sengagements. The least theI have done was send someteresting in their places, Howdy Doody for Reagalook enough alike), Alice for Berke Breathed (I wondhis boa constrictor and BCat would get along), FreThree Sons" MacMurray fDole (this switch actuallplace four years ago - it'stime to give credit where cdue) and Boy GeorgElizabeth Dole (At least thdresses effeminately). &Enough of the scathing on VIPs. I think it's time journalists to get toughshould have camped out aPennsylvania Ave. withDonaldson. Maybe we couldone something that the "psionals' have been tryingfor years - catch Reagan aWe were probably fortunslept. At least the conventioextremely informational whim.

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Thanksgiving: An Act Of GivingBy Father Jeff Hamblin

Turkey and gravy, mashedpotatoes and p eas, mince puddingand pie are all images of the dayof Thanksgiving from my youth.My family and friends were seatedaround a table which had* beenfilled with a banquet. A taste ofwine for all was given. A blessingwas said. Then started the madrush -to see who could over-eatfirst.There was joy and excitement.|A warmth radiated from the facesof parents, my brother, and ourfamily friends who sat around thetable. Thanksgiving was a specialtime. It is still a time which callsforth m emories. 1 was never sureabout the totality of the meaningof the day. But it was, and is, aspecial day. *'M i l *I you are well aware, I amsure, Thanksgiving is the fourthThursday of the month ofNovember wherein Americanshave paused to reflect and to call1to mind the many blessings Godhas given. At my home, my father

Fr. Jeff Hamblinalways seemed to raise the ques-tion, "What do you have to bethankful for?" f %The many things for which Ihave been thankful have changedas life has changed. At one timemy thankfulness was limited toonly material objects: my toys,my clothes, my bo oks, my bicycle;

but now those ideas have changeddrastically. I give thanks today forthe goodness of life, memories offriends w ho have gone before andfor the individuals who surroundme . For students, faculty andstaff, the Sisters of Mercy, the ad-ministration and others who makethe 'Hurst a special place in mylife are all causes for which I givethanks. Each is a special gift ofGod. .; yThanksgiving is a central act ofour existence and also of our wor-ship. The word "eucharist"derives from the Greek, meaning:Thanksgiving. The central act ofour worship of God, is givingthanks for life and love, but aboveall for God's redeeming actionthrough Jesus Christ.The table of the Lord, the ban-quet at home, both of these aremade holy by our recalling howGod has acted in our lives, whatblessings given. A feast, a ban-quet, shared memories, for allother blessings of our lives, wegive thanks, r 4"Pass the gravy, please."Fascinating Characters Found At "The Station"

By Caryn Bausch ""JA world premier of the playTHE STATION will be held Nov.14, 15, 20, 21, and 22 in Mer-cyhurst's own Weber Theater.Director Igor Stalsky is very ex-cited about the premier of THESTATION. He believes this is astep towards his ultimate goal,"Literally trying to turn over(American theater."Stalsky believes that Erie is aprime audience market forpremiering plays such as THESTATION written by JoleneGoldenthal. "If it makes it inErie, it will make it anywhere," hecomments. "The Erie community

is a very difficult audience toplease when it pertains to plays.THE STATION consists of aseries of four comedies all takingplace in various parts of a run-down railroad station,"The theme of neglect will br-ing upon the audience tears, com-edy and par ts which are[ m e l o d r a m a t i c , " S t a l s k ycomments.The first comedy, GEORGIE,GOODBYE, introduces us to amiddle-age couple waiting for atrain to Florida. Ess is eager totake this vacation while Georgia isdesperately trying to remain intown for romantic reasons of hisown. It's a comical view of

Paul Iddings in "The Station

Georgie trying to convince Ess tostay. rIn the second play, BUDDIES,Ray tries to convince Sharon notto marry his best friend for fearthat marriage would destroy theirjtraditional Monday nights outwith the boys.Stalsky believes, "It's a mostoriginal and searing comic viewon what people will do to get theirway."The third piece, MIGRATION,shows us a frantic middle-agedwoman trying to get her Florida-retiredm, eighty-year old father tostay with her for a while, only todiscover a most unusual secret ofher parents' marriage.The last of the four, THECARRIAGE, gives us Sal, the an-cient, spaced-out bag lady whocomes in to the station parcel jcheck office to retrieve a baby car-riage she has checked in some for-ty years before."These four comedies give us asometimes funny and sometimespoignant picture of real peoplestruggling against the difficultiesthe had themselves created. Theworld of playwright JoleneGoldenthal is presented to us withlucidity and compassion. It mir-rors the world in which we livewith insight and it entertains anddisturbs us all at the same time,''s a i d S t a l s k y a b o u t T H ESTATION. ? *The two actors who play alleight different characters are JoLaurie and Paul Iddings.Laurie has won a SADIEAward for best actress as Ginny inDRIVEN TO ACTS OF KIND-NESS. As one of the most gifted

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Nothing Sacredby Brian Sheridan

While in Washington, I keptasking people to check my back. 1was convinced that I had a bigneon sign pasted to it that read "H i. I'm a tourist. Please take ad-vantage of m e . " t^Now, when visiting a city, youalways expect a certain amount ofodd behavior from its citizenry.Somehow, though, in the threedays we were there, every type oflooney tune made a point of in-troducing themselves to me.The hotel, thankfully, wasn'tthe Roach Motel but the poshSheraton Grand. This place had atelephone AND a television - inthe bathroom! You may thinkthat's pretty decadent but we didhave to rough it a bit. Thebathroom's T.V. was only a blackand white. I had a heck of timegetting my managing editor out ofthere until "Wheel of Fortune"was over. That room was oui oneplace of refuge from the hustleand bustle of our nation's capitol.The hotel was so classy that whenwe screamed "green card" downthe hall, every maid on the flooryelled back that they had one.

On the street, it was all adven-ture and fun. That is, if you couldget our hands on large doses ofpenicilin beforehand.- We took a cab ride and we wereall impressed with the driver'sstate-of-the-art stereo system. Wesoon found out how he could af-ford such a luxury when he told usthe three block cab ride was $6.75flat rate. We were only going to''Wendy's . " * ,.- *Speaking of eatries, there's a"Roy Rogers" restaurant everytwo blocks. When you're eating ahamburger there, you keep havingthe sinking sensation you nowknow what happened to Trigger.People that approached you on

the street were always friendly.They always had something to sellyouV^^na rpl^rwseag enRs Ikedus if we wanted to buy some co-caine. I immediately remindedhim that "that's illegal." As faras I know, I turned him awayfrom a lifelong involvement withcrime. * fEven the hotel's bellhop didn'tw a n t to see e x p l o r e usWashington alone. He said heknew of a woman, "real close,$125 dollars a hour ." I asked ifthat was renting with an option tobuy4 i IS cThe theme of patriotism wasdriven home to me at the LincolnM e m o r i a l . S e v e r a l c o l l e g estudents mooned old honest Abe.For some reason, I don't think theEmacipation Proclamation men-1tioned freedom of exposing one'sself at a national monument.People also have faith in theparable of the good Samaritan.Every block someone asks you formoney. I figured that wouldn't dothem much good, consideringD.C.'s high prices, so I carriedaround the small jars of gourmetketchup our hotel gave us. Whensomeone asked us for some coin, Iwould give them a jar. You mightth ink th i s was c rue l , bu tremember, in Washington, underthe Reagan administration, ket-chup is considered a vegetable,After partying in the nation'sCapitol, and walking the entiretown, from the WashingtonMonument to Georgetown, Irealized why Frank sang "NewYork, New Y ork" , " L .A . Is MyLady," "Chicago" and why TonyBennett left his heart in San Fran-cisco and the Monkee's took thatlast train to Clarksville but no oneha s yet to write a popular tuneabout D.C. Does it really standf o r " D i r t y C i t y ? "

Allan Carpenter'sWMCY Music NotesBy Allan Carpenters?

It's all been done before, right?Not only are songs like "Spirit inthe Sky" being re-made all thetime, and singers like XindaRonstadt singing music of anot hergeneration, but almost all ourpopular music is fairly unorigin al.Well, this may be a necessaryevil. All artists worth their nameare receptive enough to be af-fected by their culture, of course.This was certainly the case withJohn Lennon, as is obvious fromhis latest posthumous release,"Menlove Ave". The best cuts onthe album are the natural fusionson Lennon's genius and originali-ty , and the irresistable force of1950's rock and roll. Consider "Here We Go A gain"- the song resembles nothing somuch as the songs George Har-rison did on "All Things MustPass" . Yet this is offset by acheesy sax straight out of aDrifters song, as "Here We GoAgain" gains momentum.

Or the opposite situation inproducer Phil Spector's classic"To Know Her is to Love Her".It is given a mix of classic "wall-of-sound" production with thesparse, tense feel of John ' s"Plastic Ono Band" album fromhis primal scream da ys. The song,of course, builds to a screamingcrescendo not unlike Lennon's" M other " . And the Teddy Bearsrecorded this song?Some less interesting cuts arethe self-pitying "Scared" and thebland minor-key "Steel andGlass". 4 IThese cuts were obviously notreleased because of their lack oforiginality. They are typical ofLennon^s self-produced side two,which Macks the punch of Spec-tor's side one production, and in-stead often sinks into an uninvolv-ing 1970's - moid. fThe Michigan hand, The Infec-tions, also make their influencesprominent; on theirjjiew albums"Sub Rosa." ^ i JJThe Infection's nep-psychedelicdoom-rock only becomes in-teresting when one realizes that it jwas there to parody itself.Songs like "All Your Life" aretypical ~ imagine John Lennon's"Imagine" sung off-key andleading into a "Hey J ude" / " In aGadda-da-Vita" dragging finish.But, unfortunately,, when theInfections are more straightfor-ward and punkish, the music suf-fers. The pretention ceases to havea knowing smile.uj I'm not advocating that the In-fections become "Wierd Al Sines

the Velvet Undergroutheir music and style is stheir innovation couldpassed over by those wlisten closely. ?F or thos e who psychedelic influences wa Nehru jacket in a glathe Smithsonian, and additions like the 15-yeaspiked haii who workSeven-Eleven. 5 JSpeaking of influenceWashington, Br ian received inside inform atradio personality Larry one ot the most influentof all time, Frank Spreparing to recordalbum, "Duets ." It wOF Blue Eyes singing wSpringsteen, Michael and Neil Diamond, amoThe only cut on the 12 sothe Chairman sings alon"Passing On." Ring-a-d

"The Station" continued from pageactresses of the Erie area, shedemonstrates her versatility bycreating four fully developedcharacters in THE STATION.Starting out as a sweet-spokenmanipulating wife, she moves onto playing a shy and scared bride-to-be, to a desperate crisis-ladendaughter, and finally to a feisty,spaced-out eighty-year-old baglady.lddings' last appearance beforethe Mercyhurst spotlights was inTHE LEAVIN GS. He is the direc-to r of the Mercyhurst College'sNational Playwrights showcaseand award winning director of| countless productions . Onceagain, lddings demonstrates hisversatility. He begins by portray-ing a cowardly hoping-to-be-philandering husband; he thenbecomes a b igger - than - l i f e ,sinister, loud-mouthed, uncouthredneck. lddings then plays a frail|eighty-year-old grandfather, thena kindly but bored parcel checkclerk.Goldenthal is the NPS prize-winning author of the MercyhurstCollege Theater 's productionTHE STATION. She presents uswith our foibles and enables us to

laugh at them, while at the sametime giving us a valuable lesson onliving. kf JTH E S TA TIO N ' S pe r fo r -mances will be Nov. 14, 1and 22 at 8 p.m. in thetheatre. Call the Weber box office for tickets.

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by Jennifer Conmy posssession, finishing a 67 yardThe Mercyhurst Lakers capped drive with a 22 yard touchdownoff their home season with a pass from Brian Rostek to Greg

Senior Tom Parilla carries the ball past Canisius defenders in Satur-day's 39-7 win over the Griffs.do m ina t ing 39-7 win overCanisius. The Lakers controlledthe ball for 22 minutes in the firsthalf alone, while scoring on six oftheir nine possessions. .#Mercyhurst scored on its first

Mitchell. It took the Lakers lessthan four minutes to take a 6-0lead. + 4 4Early in the second quartersenior Bill Prencipe scored fromone yard out, but the two point

conversion failed, bringing thescore to 12-0. The Hurst gainedcontrolled of the ball less than twominutes later and capped a eightplay possession with a one yardLou Konya touchdown run. Mer-cyhurst again attempted a twopoint conversion which failed,leaving the Lakers with a 18-0lead.Before the half ended, the'Hurst scored one more time off a59 yard touchdown run by juniorDarryl Lewis. Matt Dellana madethe extra point, leaving the Lakerswith a 25-0 half time lead.At the start of the third quarterCanisius drove 83 yards on thefirst possession, only to have apass intercepted at the goal line byFred Galovich. Mercyhurst con-verted the turnover into anotherTD when Lewis ran in from nineyards out. Dellana's kick wasgood, giving the Lakers a com-manding 32-0 lead.Canisius managed to score onits next possession as MikePanepinto plowed in from oneyard out. The point after wasgood giving Canisius seven points.The Griffs failed to capitalize ontheir on-side kick recovery when

they couldn' t convert a fourth andfour conversion. Mercyhurst tookover on their own 25 yard line,drove the ball down the fieldwhere they finished the drive witha 24 yard touchdown run by GregHaski Dellana's kick was good,giving the Lakers the 39-7 win.The Lakers gained 404 of their494 total yards on the ground, us-ing 10 ball carriers for a schoolrecord 70 carries. The 'Hurstposted most of its yardage in thefirst half, piling up 329 yardscompared to 35 yards forCanisius. Mercyhurst also heldthe Griffs to just one first downduring the first half.The Lakers defensive line heldPanepinto, the country's fourthranked rusher, to 65 yards on 19carries. The defense also gainedone interception and one quarter-back sack.In the rushing department the

Lakers were led by Lewifinished the day with 117 y13 carries. Prencipe follow61 yards on 15 carries. turned in 56 yards on 12 cOn the passing side, completed 7 of 12 passesyards. Rostek hit senioWilkins three times for 25Scott Gorring twice for 3along with Mitchell's 2touchdown reception.The Lakers will close ouseason when they travSalisbury, Md. to takundefeated Salisbury Salisbury is ranked fifth intion and has made it inNCAA Division III playofftimes in the last four yearcyhurst's radio station Wwill be carrying the game liErie Cablevision channelthe FM equivalent 105.Game time is 1:30 p.m.

Hockey: Mercyhurst's Newest SportMercyhurst has formed ahockey team recently whichhas been playing teams fromthe Senior Men's League. Theteam is playing a 24 gameschedule with three \ winsagainst no losses thus far. Theteam was started to see howmuch interest it wouldgenerate with players andspectators. The interest in thesport has been enough that theteam hopes to play such inter*collegiate teams as Duquense,Carnegie-Mellon and PennState next year.Coach Robert Cisek statesthat the league they play in is anon-checking league so play is

not that rough* The sport ofhockey is very>fastspaced aswell as a great spectator sport,but. unfortunately, manyspectators; view'the sport asconfusing.*,\Witta theunderstanding of\ some* basic| terminology thejpie becomes| exciting to wa*g|tThe majori-ty of the gaiii(flftl*yed withfive players on e5en team - onegoalie, two defenseman, andthree forwards. The numberof players on the ice at onetime may change when apenalty is called by the referee.

The following are somegeneral features of the basicsof hockey.Features of the ice surface:

Civic Center and are free ofcharge.

Soccer AlKStars Named* Mercyhurst College has hadthree players selected to theWestern Pennsylvania Inter-collegiate Soccer Conference All-Star team. Four more playersreceived honorable mentionhonors. Named to the team wereforward Tom Mulligan and mid-fielder Donnough Shaffrey andDave Delzell. Honorable men-

tions were midfielder Chis defenders Tom Bade andValento and goalkeeper Melody. W ^^^*Second year coach Rick was selected to coach thesquad in the annual Agame. The Lakers finished sin the conference withrecord.

Red Line - this line islocated in the middle of the icerink^and is used to determinean icing call.Blue lines - these lines areused to determine an offsidesplay.'Neutral Zone - this is thearea between th e blue lines.Goal Lines - lines located atboth ends of the ice surface us-ed to indicate a goal and icingcall.Face Off Circles - used toposition the players for a face.off. I^Conditions that cause playto stop:

Jceing j- occurs when thepuck Is directed'from behindthe red line and across the goalline.Offsides - occurs when oneor more players of the sameteam cross the blue line beforethe puck.-Games are played at the Erie

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