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NO. 5 MERCYHURST COLLEGE, GLENWOOD HIL LS, ERIE, PA. 16546 THURSDAY, OCTOBERnts And Alumni987 Homecoming

"Hail, Hail, the gang'sfell here"this weekend

Welcomed to Mercy hurs t wereas;1929.

1937, which is cele-is celebrating its 25

its 10 year reunion . * This, past weekend's schedule ofincluded a tailgate party, aptftBall garrie, a;soccedr game and^Tradingasa' popular event this past

weekend. 1The evening entertainment at thedinner dance was the Ken Handsband, an alumnus of the class of1987;'*alsojspinning discs was analumnus of the class of 1976, JoelMiller, the mobile disc! jockey.The coordinator of this year'sHomecoming, Mr. Tom Dore, Di-rector of Alumni Relations, wasvery pleased with how well every-thing came together at his party."As a matter of fact," he said, "Ifthe tent (for the tailgate party)hadn't blown away, everythingwould have been perfect."fc Even though the weather was>alittle gray, the clouds couldn 't casta shadow over the 500 alumni whogathered together this weekend torekindle old friendships and makesome new ones. *

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Students show school spirit at last week's homecoming gamesidelines, spirits were up as Lakers won handily. Photo: Liia M

Language Labi OpeBy Ann Johnson

Students this year have theadvantage of using Mercyhurst'snew $25,000 high-tech languagelab, the most advanced lab in theErie area. \Located in room 21 of Egan, theequipment available allows upfto14 students to study up to 5 differ-ent languages. Barbara Moskwa,director of the language lab, said"the addition of the lab providesan enormous enhancement foryour teaching." jMoskwa calls the lab a compu-terized sophisticated opportunity

to aid the student in the pciation and memorizationforeign language. The lab an* imm ediate ab ility to and allows the student to whis own pace.!| The lab is open morninevenings, and can be uarrangement by anyone.,. Etapes are available for any studentsjon campus who wimprove ^their English skilBesides English tapes, thalso tapes available in Spanish, Italian, German aish are ready for use |bycyhurst students.

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t i o n a l A l c o h o l A w a r e n e s s ! W e e k T o T e s t K n o w l e d g e o f Y oCampuses around the nation are preparing for theannual*National Cdllegiate*Alcohol Awarenessk (Octob er 19-25), making ready to test yqung peoplethe ir knowledge of alcohol. How responsible are

ege students about drinking? Passing the Equiva-Testi(E.A.T.)?is a key measure of^howalcohol consumption.To pass the E.A.T. you must know this simple butmost'common servings of beer (12(5s ounces)'arid dtsfriflelr spirits (1 1/4equal aii|ouat%of alcohol. ^ JFar too many accidents are caused by young peoplea.car!thinking "I'm fine.only had a few|b eers." Such misinfo rmation is all toothat's why 50% of all drivingatalities are caused by drunk drivers.* And why|two-DWI "just had* a few

TheseIcommonisense college survival tips may alsosave lives during the school year:1> Don't drive after your next tailgate party or happyhour - whether you've had beer, wine or distilled spirits.One* American dies in an alcohol-relatedjtraffie acci-dent every 35 minutes? Better walk an extra^mile orjgspend the night at a friend's than risk taking lives onthe road. \ i

4 v SiL * \2 2> Eat something -- never drink on empty stomach.Ea t berore you go to party , eat while you are there. Solidfood likefcfi&ese caal slow flow n .the absorption rate.ylfyou're throwing sHparty, $erve lots*of miinchies ancl^plenty of mixers. \ i- - . - . * ? , : k,

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3> Don't be pushed into d rinking more than you canhandle and do n't pressure your friends to keep up withyou. Everyone has an individua l tolerance. Let yourfriends pace themselves.

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4> Keep a watchful eye: Cocktails should cmore than 11/4 ounces of distilled spi rits. commonly no more than a 5 ounce serving andserving of beer is 12 ounces. If yo u're mixin g drink use a shot glass to measure theliquor.5> Know yourself and your mood. If you rarechugging a few beers will hit you harder than who is accustomed to^drinkija^^Your mo^d^influence the way you react to a drink. .Idepressed over a test, drinking will depress youHerefare some common and dangerous mytalcohol that should be dispelled:^Myth #1 . You can pace yourself by switchi

liquor to beer or wine. Wrong. You consume amount of alcohol and can^get just as drunkcommon servings of beer, wine and liquor.Myth #2. ^Coffee can sober you up if you'rWrong again. Coffee m ay wake you;u p. but sober you up. If you drink one too many and tha cup of coffee and drive,|you are just a widdrunk behind the wheel. Also, taking a coldwon't do the trick either. That's only going ;o m

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.'Whether a glass holds 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1 A ounces of spirits, the alcoicontent is the same. Its imp ortant to know this because the size and shape of the glass can givepeople a distorted impressu >n of how much alcohol they're actually drinkin g.So when you're out to share some cheer with friends, rememb er how mui h alcohol is in yourglass and that drinking sensibly lets you hold things in focus.Always keep safe driving wi thin your sight.

A public service message from WfflCRoge& Institute

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Marg aret CoffeyA representa t ive ifrom

asking?for aDonald Hoffman, rep-

Wayi $5,000 andyear^they are seekingthe government rela-budget. If there isfund at

100 percent studentsince thefrom studentMSG also elected twot& t h e p r e l i m i - i ^

nary Board, which decidesi f disc ipl inary casesshould go to the JudicialBoa rd . T h e . s t u d e n t selected to the prelimina ryBoard were Scott Donollyand John Widecan. AFour other studentswere elected to the Judi-cial Board. Rob Keiner,Mike K elly, jMary A nnSullivan, and Mike Falkwere each appointed theirrespective positions on theBoard. Paul Cefrick waschosen as a replacementfor Gary Raal in the Stu-dent Senate.R The letters of in tent forFreshman representativesare du e Oct. 9. Voting willtake place next Monday inthe ca fe t e r i a dur in gLunch and Dinner and inZurn Lobby from 1:30 -4:00 p.m.

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By Julie Medwig &Karen SampsonHi! Our names areKaren and Julie. T his pastweek we bugged and tor-mented a hundred stu-

dents around campus forthe experimental Merciadpoll. This particular pollpertained ftof "FavoriteThing s." Here are theresults of our wacky poll.When asked, "What is yourfavorite c olor?" There wasa three way tie betweenblue (25%), red (25%), andother (25%). Green camein with 15%, and purplewith 10%. |Our next question was,"What's is your favoritebarnyard animal?" Thehorse won the race with40%, followed closely byth e pig with 0% . $ Otheranimals, including rab-bits, tlambs, kittens andeven an owl made the"other" with|17.5%. Well,mooing along, the cowpulled in 15% and finallythe^chicken got 7.5%.The question, "What isyour favori te a l ien?"brought in fthree main

answers, E.T., Alf an dother. Alf got a whopping65% ("No problem!") andE.T got 22.5%. *This left12.5% for some verystrange answers,? rangingfrom Fonzie to "My Fa-vorite Martian." The mostbizzareganswer^was givenby Iciara Shaffrey, whoinsisted that leprechaunsare aliens!"Who is your If avoriteBrady Bunch character?"proved the popularity ofAlice, who pulled 22.5% of

the vote. Bobbywith 18%, followtwo sisters, Jancia, both |witCindy came in^10%, and Peter "none" w ith'7.5%people rallied fbut he only mpull in 2.5%. i% c thought question, "Whafavorite food in would best be rin a pie graph.

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Rough Day/NightAt The Officeand told me tha t she ran hangedinto some roadblocks andcouldn't get her assign-ment done for the week.I thoucht Ithoughtloneliest was theth eerson inworld. Then, Allan Car-penter, the news directorat WMCY wanderedandBy Matthew J. Clark

Last week was a roughone for the staff here atThe Merciad, andtWMCYas well. It.was one of those99

everythingl a tweeks whensjseemed to go wrongonce. People were callingand telling us about * th eproblems they were hav-ing with getting inter-views or just getting theirstories done.*It was getting late onMonday evening and therewere no stories turned in.Just about'the time I wasbeginning to sort*out the ! s top worryingYea! I thought, thinkingback to a 1973 episode of

in ,began telling meabout |his ^plight. He toldme how he was havingtrouble : getting storiesturned that week for hisnightly newscasts.I said "Allan, come onin and join in the agony!Now I >had someone toshare *my troubles I with.Here was someone in thesame predicament as I. Ihad paper to put to-gether,* and u p . t o tha tpoint, no stories and hehad a newscast to puttogether, and no stories.R? We talked briefly aboutthe complexities of ourrespective predicamentsand both came to the con-clusion that we should justabout it .thoughts that were ragingthrough my mind, another ^ ^ ^ _ ^ ^ _ ^ ^ ^ ^ _ _ _ ^ ^ ^member of my staff cau- "Kung Fu" in which Kwaitiously entered the office Chang, on his way to beThe M erc iad ^ ^Matthew J. Clark, EditorChris Kovski, Managing EditorAnn Johnson, News EditorKelley :Moore, Business ManagerPaula Bruno, Calendar EditorKaren Sampson, Distribution ManagerConnie Bisbe, Layout |Julie Medwig, LayoutlSteve Rush, Cartoonist .-;I

VOL. 61 NO. 5 THURSDAY, OCT. 8, 1987Reporters 1987-88

Connie BlsbeKatie BrownAllan CarpenterKaren CascioJill ChiccarinoMargaret Coffey

Tracy SirwinBrcnda LoweJason McChesneyKelley MooreJennifer MontaniKaren Sampson

is asked, "Hey,aren't you even worried?"and he responds, "If Iworry, will it change thef u t u r e ? " | .] v inSo, I decided to stopworrying! about it. Lifegoes on ,; righ t? Well, Iknew my life wouldn' t goon much past Thursday at1:00 p.m. if I didn't get apaper o ut. I was convincedthat things couldn' t getany worse. So I chilled -outand listened to BingCrosby's infamous versionof "Hey Jude ," along withother memorable cutsfromjhis "Hey Jude, HeyBing" LP including "TheStraight Life*" one?of mypersonal favorites, "LittleGreen ---Apples*?'*&'T,h0se*|Were The Days," "It 's All.In The Game," and "L ivin 'On Lovin'". 5After Bingl had meworked into a state ofmusical drunkenness, all Icould think about; wa sgrabbing myself a tall,cold glass of Minute Maidorange juice. But then Iwas brought back to real-ity when a paint-spatteredfigure^ happened into th eoffice. It was my manag-ing editor, and he'd justreturned from his part-time job of, what else,commercial painting.I informed him of ourproblems. He suggestedBing, and I was in no state-of-mind to argue. "Passthe Minute Maid!"

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Kovski KorneBy ChrisfKoYski^

Since Matthewcided to regale ytales of the trials anlations of The Mercdecided to let yousome of th e other asthe job. IThe major drawthe hours. We're he^ ^ ^ ^ ^ after midn ight on Mand on Tuesdays, we're usually here until o' dar(very earlyi Wednesday morning)."My parents have completely forgotten that tha 21-year-old son. My dog, who once frolickedlike a puppy w hen I came home, now growls m enas I rush past him into my room , slamm ing th e don his snapping jaw. .jl?My cat doe sn't know me any m ore - he spits anat me, then attempts to claw me^with his talonleI then re-invent the catapult. (One good stromotion, andjkitty goes Air Wallbanger.)Matt's mother calls up to tell him w hat his famfor,;dinner, rubtyinfofp tj>e fact that everyonehhaving shrimp, while we're eating greasy FoPizza. ($5.50 - Dinner for two with the coupon frMerciad.) iNow, to further aquaint you*with The Mebring you.... % I ||>f |ROBIN LEACH, AND J I 'M TALKING LTHAN ANY OTHER HUMAN IBE ING . AND IKNOW WHY! Here we have Matthew Clark and Chris Kprepostero us pleasure Jpalace, atth e I j veritable orepose in the underground chambers of bBaldwin Hall, the mold and m ildew capital of th>As I peruse the perpetually perplexing offeThe Merciad bulletimboard, I see here a treasuof useful information - everything from news bto skewered snapshots of that androgynous?amyoun&children, MICHAEL JACKSON. We alsphotograph of my favorite fat man, AL WAXMAl and I were sitting around drinking and eatinbounteous bungalow, he said, "Mr. Leach, have felt that you were aptly nam ed?" AND I DON'TWHY!

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C a m p u s e s A c r o s s U . S . D e b a t e B o r k ! N o m i n a t i oThe U.S. Senate Judici-ry Committee roomthe^ only placeeople debated PresidentobertVBork f|to the U.S.upreme Court last week.- On college campusesuring the last two weeks,tudents have rallied.andpetitioned almost con-tantly.About 250 people at-tended a rally at the Uni-

versity of Iowa Sept. 14 tovoice opposition to Bork'snomination. "This man isagainst everything thatguarantees the civil rightsof this country's citizens,"UI Black Student Union

such as "Liberal ScareTactics? Just Say No" and"Stop Liberal McCarthy-ism." The Yale CollegeRepublicans is mountingits own letter writingcampaign fin favor ofBork's? nomina tion JAt the University ofColorado, 700 studentsmailed anti-Bork post-cards to Colorado senatorsTim Wirth and Bill Arm-strong. Liberal studentactivists gathered about400 signatures on petition sopposing Bork's 'nomina-tion.Conservative studentsat the University of TexasI hailed Boik and called forPresident Rodney Stur- the senate to confirm hisgeon said^ **** ***** ****A newly .formed group,Students AgainstnStnitta^ftm at a ralfy c'dle-b r a t i n g t h e U . S .Constitution Sept. 17.*UTD e m o c r a t s s a i d t h eand is emba rking constitution {celebration

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ers of Ithe Yale .Collegeepublicans protested theroup's first meeting,olding signs with slogans

was an inappropriate fo-rum for a pro-Bork rally.Twice as many Univer-sity of Alabama studentsfavor Bork's nominationas oppose it, according topetitions circulated oncampus. A pro-Bork peti-

tion received 182 signa-tures as of Sept. 14. Apetition opposing Bork'sconfirmation to the Su-preme Court seat received85. | | - : , | ."He's a staunch conser-vative," said AlabamaCollege Republican Presi-dent ScottJVfiller. "I'm allfor the court leaning to theright. I'd like to see thecourt more conservative inits decisions."lAbout 200 Universityof Illinois students at-tended an anti-Bork rallyorganized by the school'sAbortion Rights C oalitionSept. 16. "No one is safe ,no one's rights are guara n-teed by a judge who be-lieves* not enough thought1was put in to theConstitution,'- Gay *andLesbian Illini co-presidentPeg Phillips I told thecrowd.Bork's nomination alsois opposed by nationalstudent and higher educa-tion groups such as theUnited I States StudentAssociation, the NationalEducation Association

Will All Students Take Drug Tests?Two m ore colleges mayforce students outsidetheir athletic departmentsto take mandatory drugtests. ^Last week, the Univer-sity of Arizona's Collegeof Nursing if ormally be-gan debating a proposalthat wouldfmake nursingstudents who exhibit"inappropriate" behaviortake urinalyses to see ifthey've taken any illicitdrugs. Students who testpositive for illicit drugscould be expelled.Meanwhi le . Cen t ra l

Florida Community Col-lege in Ocala, Fl., hasstarted making cheerlead-ers, music students andmembers of ^theater anddance groups -*as well asathletes - take drug tests.CFCC ^President BillCampion said the policywill apply to any studentin a position to representthe;school.Scores of collegesadopted mandatory drugtests for their athletes

related death of Univer-sity of Maryland fbasket-ball star Len Bias.Athletic directors atDuke and Stanford, aswell as lawyers with theAmerican Civil LibertiesUnion, com plained atjjthetime that forcing athletesto submit to the testswould set a precedent al-lowing schools to force al lstudents, regardless oftheir athletic skills, toprove they don't take Jl-dur ing the 1986-87 school licit drugs,year, largely in reac tion tothe June, 1986, cocaine-

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What makes some peopleMerciad's Per-Profile? Well, incasejt is a dedication.forone does to

of | mind, body and\April Tompkins is athe 'Hurst.

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? Recently, April placedfifth out of thirty-three inthe Pitt-Bradford invita-tional.Training for the crosscountry team begins inabout mid August, withrunners running a base of50 miles per week. Whilethe; season ends with theRegionalstin Springfield,Mass. on* November 7th.On?October 11, the crosscountry team travels toPhiladelphia for anotherinvitational. It is here andsh e graduated ff toml at the Regionals that A prilAnothe r interestingabout A pril is that she*4long time boy-

in August of1 9 8 6 . ] i

Todd, himself a collegeraduate, is very suppor-ive of April in her studiesnd realizes the advan-tages of a college educa-tion. IApril has always beeninterested in sports, espe-cially running -^which iswhere the dedicationI i n the ninth

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Cross country coachesMike Fraley and PaulHonan really push theirteam to do their best andApril considers them q uitean asset to the Lakercoaching staff.

fApril chose Mer-cyhurst, not only becauseshe received aicross coun-try scholarship, but alsobecause she jjfeels Mer-cyhurst is a quality collegewith a lot to offer thewent out for studen ts.crosscountry team. *Today , April is the onlywoman on Mercy hurst'scross country team,commented, "Hopefully,more (women) will try-outnext year."Mercyhurst runs mostlyin invitationals, whichconsist of many teams, ascompared to duals meetswhere there are only twoteams competing one on the *Hurstone.

She also likes the closestudent teacher relation-ships, "you know that youar e so much more than justa num ber, as with some ofthe other larger colleges.9'April also appreciatedthejfact that the school isclose to home and she caneasily commute after thelong day she puts in here at

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