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VOL. 66 N O . l MERCYHURST COLLEGE, GLENWOOD HILLS.ERIE SEPTEMBER

M e r c y h u r s tf o r m a l l y o u t l i n e s s e x u a l By Joseph LeglerEditor in Chief

Mercyhurst collegehas put together aformal sexua l harassment pam phlet outlining the college's policyon this illegala ct

There are several examplesof sexualharassment listed in the brochure. Amongthem are: 1)Repeatedly askingfor a dateafter the person ha s expressed disinterest; 2) Unwelcome patting, hugging, ortouching of a person*si body, hairorclothing;3) Disparaging remarksto aperson about her/his genderor body; 4)Making suggestive facial expressionssuch as lickinglips or wiggling tongue;5) Sexual innuendoes, jokes,or comments; 6) Sexual graffitior visuals;7)Asking abouta person's sexual fantasies, sexual preferences,or sexual activities; 8) Pressure for sexual activityand 9) Requests for sexual favors.These examples are not all inclusive of

the types of conduct which may constitute sexual harassment Each situation

must be consideredin light of specificfacts and circumstances to determine ifsexual harassment occurred.

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Clubs fair' wellat eventBy Jule Gardner,Merciad News Editor

Mercyhurst*s club fair took place Sunday, Sept.13 ,at 2 p.m.in the StudentUnion. Representatives from 22 clubswere set up at tables withbasic information about their pa rticular organizations.The purpose ofthe fair was to generateinterestand to recruit club members. Thefairwas sponsored by FreshmenStudiesand,-therefore, was essentially gearedtoward freshmen, although itwas opento all levels of students. v

The fair had greater success thaninyears pastThis is possibly dueto the fact

that it was scheduled aftera requiredintroductory meeting for freshmen.

Joel Montminy, vice-presidentof theMercyhurst Business Association(MBA), thoughtthe flow of students wa s"overwhelming." "Whetheror not theinterest continues, we'll haveto see.There weren't this many inquiries lastyear. We're pumpedfor a great year," headded. t

Diane Ashmore, vice-president ofthePolitical Science Association, said,"Iwishwe had this when Iwas a freshman.It isn'tas though youhave to join something, butthis lets you know what is outthere."

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On Friday, Sept. 4 at about2:30 a.m.,an alleged rape occurredin one of theMercyhurst apartments.

According to Bud Dever, the directorof security,the allegedcrime occurredwhena male individual,who could notgain access to his apartment wasallowed to stay on the floor of a girl'sapartment.

Dever said, "The individual chargedwith this alleged crime was befriendedby the people who livedin this apartment He had been lockedout of hisresidencehall and was allowedto stay onthe floor ofthe apartment! I

As a guest in the apartment he is alleged to have ma de improper advancesto one of the students livingthere{*Theyoung woman involved cameto

ward," said Dever, "Thisis somethingwe are really tryingto emphasize thisyear. Anyone whois the victim of analleged rape, sexual assaultor sexualharassment shouldnotbe a fraidto comeforward*to myself. Dr. Brown or thecommittee of a dvocates. ^ ^ ^

The committeeof advocatesis theMercyhurst CollegeRape Crisis/SexualHarassment Victim Advocates who wereformally trained bytheErie CountyRapeCrisis Center througha 32 hour workshop.Deveris amongthe advocates.

You can obtaina brochure withthephone numbersof all the advocatesthrough the Resident Life office, locatedon the second floor of Old Main.

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By Jule GardnerMerciad News Editor

Current Lea der in VariousPolls: Bill Clinton10-15 points

The Democra tic Scene:

* G overnor Bill Clinton is m aking a push to win over the state ofTexas, the state President Bush calls "home/* Two weeks ago hisbus tour stopped deep in the heart ofthe Lone Star State for someheavy campaigning.A Clinton pollster returned from the sta te of 32electoral votes with news that the trip was successful. Clintonadvisors now believe Texas is within D emocratic reach.

* Clinton has basically stopped taking reporters' questions duringthe ceremonial boarding and unboarding of planes. He has beencalled "tense and ca reful"by Th i New York Times in these last legsof the campaign.His advisorssay this is because heis concentratingon keeping the campa ign focusedon his main concerns:the failingsoftheBush administrationand the economy. Clinton is tryingto stayclear of character issues , believingthe voters want the candidates tostay, in the words of Clinton's aides, "On m essage."

* Clintonaides are trying to persuadethe Bush campaign to acceptthe debate format established by the non-partisan Comm ission onPresidentialDebates..Mickey Kantor, the Democratic campaignchairman, saidthat he would attend ameeting with the Commissioneven if it this meeting would be with the absence of Republicancampaign chairman, Robert Teeter. Bush's campaign aides haveportrayed their ca ndidate's desire to debate but feel B ush wouldbenefit more from wo deba tes rather than three.

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The Republican Scene:

* PresidentBush openeda three-day campaignpush in the Far Weston Monday,In aspeech during anOrange County rally, he attackedClinton's political-endeavors. His attacks were considered mild,however, in comparison to those of formerPresident Ronald Reagan,and Californiarepresentative;Robert Dornan. Dornan's remark,calling Clintonthe Democrat "Chicken Little of Arkansas,"was notendorsed by White House spokespeople.

* Bush visited logging com munities in Oregon and Washingtonon

Mondayto appealto timber workersin problematic rural areas. Hehas publicly sided with the Fa r West loggers in their conflict withenvironmentalistsover a threatened owl. Bush has vowed toveto therenew a l of the Endangered Species Act unless consideration is givento jobs and the economy when legislatingorders to save disappearing creatures.

* Bush's ad campaignhas a new edition.The 60-second commercialis the second his campaign has released since the RepublicanNational Convention. The ad represents the on going focus of hiscampaign to concentrateon the future rather thanthe past four yearshe spent in office. It stresses that the President does have aneconomic agenda that is different fromClinlon's on major pointsand tha t he is fighting for tax relief and health carereform^

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By Megan CircleMerciad Staff Reporter

As you are walking around campus this year, you m ay find yourself seeing many new faces. Theupperclassmen may be thinkingthat there seemsto be many morefreshmen than in previousyears.That assumption would be correct Comparedto other years, the1992 freshmen class is significantlylarger. The number of newstudents jumped from340.fiyyears ago to 864in 1992. Thereason for the unusually high increase wasI brought to AndrewRoth, dean of enrollment.Roth said there are many rea sons

the enrollment atMercy hurst hasgrown this y ear. One of which isthe economic recession that ourcountryis now experiencing. D ueto the lack of obs,there is a greaterdemand for education; therefore,producing a greater number of students wanting to attend college.However, this is true in many colleges all over thecountry.So whyis it that Mercyhurst's enrollmentgrowth is larger than many colleges nationwide?Roth feels thatthe main reason is

10 years, Mercyhursthas been ona "roll." I ts reputationas a collegeis constantly improving, whereasother schools* positions a re staying basically the same or are declining.

Financial raid isjalso beinghandled differently this year. TheEnrollment Office took the applicants thatthe school most desired

land and Virginia a rea.The enrollment procedure has

gotten so big that they decided toform an Admissions AdvisoryBoard. The board'sjob is to examine criteria in the four year program and decide if they{shouldmake significant increases in standards. They a re currently deciding on whether or not to change

and tried to meet their fina ncia l the admissionshere atMercyhurstneed.This led to a greater quantityaswell as quality of students whoenrolled in Mercyhurst. Roth feltthat this, too,hadra significantimpact on the number ofnew students attending Mercyhurst./The recruiters have alsodone an

exceptionally fine job this year,accordingto Roth . Students fromtwo new territories have come toMercyhurst; 15 from New Englandand 10 from he Delaware, Mary-

from rolling to batch admission.With batch admission, applicantswould berequired to submit applications by a certain deadline. Decisionssuch as thesewill be madeby the board sometime this year.In general, Rothseems very posi

tive about Mercyhurst's growthand future. Thecampus is becoming more and m ore attractive toprospective students, and hopefully this trend will continuefo:/ears to come.

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The clockin Garvey Pa rk chimed[ a t8:30onMonday ,Septemberl4,

the general positive momentum ofas President John Bruno ca lled theMercyhurst. For the last seven to first*92-93 Mercyhurst Student

Fair recruits volunteersBy Susan Lee EbackMerciad Staff Reporter

Mercyhurst sponsored the Volunteer Fair on Friday , September10.The all-day fairwas held in theStudent Union.

This was the fourth a nnual fairorganizedon campus. This year'sfairsaw participation by22 organizations in Erie C ounty.A few ofthe that a ttendedthe fair

Borden-Casssays thatany organization that requiresa serviceproject should let her know because she has ideas.

Mary - Borden-Cass can bereachedather office in the StudentUnion atext. 2473. 1

Government meeting to order.The first issue concerned skate

rentals. 40pairs of skates will beava ilable for rental once the icere-opens in October.

Now that all the students aresettled into their apartments, thestudent government board hopesto put together a directory soon.

Your help is needed. If youknow anyone who would like tobuy an ad for the directory, youwould get 10% commission oneach ad you sell.

Committees for student government members as well as otherinterested students were broughtto attention. 'Those mentionedwere Resident Life,Environment/Recycle,|\lcohol/Drug Aware-i iess and Fa cilities Use. The Laker

were: the JFK C enter,the American Lung Association,theGertrude A. BarberCenter, Campus Ministry, Sisters of Mercy,Stairways, MartinLuther [ KingCenter, Juvenile Court, AmnestyInternational, Council on Volunteers for the Erie^Community,Hospitality 4House> Services forWomen, Shriner's Hospital, Second Harvest Food Bank and theErie Infants a nd Youth Home.

Mary Borden-Cass, director ofStudent Volunteers, arranged thisyear * s fair. Borden -Cass said, Th efair is basically for freshmen, butall students a re welcome. The purpose is to make students awa re ofthe agencies in our area a vailableto them if those services areneeded.*'

According to Borden-Cass, theReligious Studies Departmentrequires that their students doservice hours for local agencies. Thestudents volunteer their time for10 hours a term.Thereare other departments that

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fair was presented to aquaint thestudent withthe people necessaryto complete these requirements.

On Thursday,Sept. 24, from 1-4 p.m,the Mercyhurst communityis invited to an open house atHammermill library to welcomeour first CD-ROM based computer system, AcademicIndex onInfoTrac.

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tMerciad1 offers freshmen tipsContributed by the MerciadEditorial Board

Most people at Mercyhurstcanrecognize reshmenas though theyare wearing a big red" F ' on theirforehead. To tone down this*T"we have a few suggestions:Don't paintan **F*on your forehead.*Never, ever carry a purse unlessyou are male.*Don\wear blue eye shadow upthe ying-yang.* Avoid wearing brand new whitesneakers or tennis shoes. It is adead give away .Don't fall in love with your first

"sure thing.*Burn your high school jacket orleave it back home.* Don't drool whensomeone walksby y ou in the cafeteria.-;Don't make Mr. Kubiak'sclassapart of your overload.*Always look people in the eye,not..elsewhere.*Don't callthe dorm of the opposite sex at 4 a.m. thinking you'recool.Don't throwup in the Baldwin orMcAuley public bathrooms.Don't eat at the cafeteria if alingering odor hits you beforehand.

Don't wear socks and flip-flopsat the same time.

just because y our feeling"reeeaa 11good." *;*, AMakesure security is not aroundwhen you sneak "guests" up toyour room. ;Avoid wearing shirtsthat advertise the year of your high schoolgraduation. iG o out J Don't sit and stare atyour four walls the rest of yourlife. )Keep up with your studies.Don't ask wheresomething iswhen your standing right in frontof it. jjj *Always"have a good sense ofhumor.

Make sure you come back nextyear. The apartments are worthDon't wake your roommate up# ne wa jt

Yeah...whateverBy Joseph LeglerEditor in Chief

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to do or not do something specified by an individual. Politics isdefined as the art or science ofgovernment, of guiding or influencing,? governmental policy, orof winning and holding control

over a government. 1They sound nothing alike by definition,butFwhen ITisten to thvarious political'hopefuls running for office this year, they are]remarkably similar. j

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eeding it ouiBy Jule GardnerMerciad News Editor

Welcomeback and all that junk. "Howwas your summer????"Minewas spent in the depths ofsmall town hell. At leastI didn't getawayfrom that oh-so-cozy atmosphere of acollege campus. W orking inthethick of office politics a tSt. Bona venture University taughtme a fewlessons I'm sure I needed to learn.t

Well, now that we 've finally gotten that out of the way , let's get;down to the regular bitch session known asmy column.Seriously, I| ust returnedto the Hurst. I hopeno one expects a longand involved!diatribeon the failings of society a ndthe Mercy hurst administration.(No mention of"fascist pigs"in this column.)I'm positive it will not take long to really ra ttlemy cage. In the mean

time I do ha ve some minor complaints to tide y ou over. The firstl(speaking of cages),is the view from my apartment.I live in the|basement and every timeI look out the front window, I get anup-close-and-personal view of a bikerack. In the three weeks thatI'vejbeen here, I'veyet to see someone actually use this bike rack.Therefore,I can onlyassume its main purpose in existingis tomakemy roommates andI feel asif we live ina zoo. Care to feedthemonkeys? Actually,we are more in quest of quenching our thirststhanlooking for victual handouts. 1

This brings me to my second complaint. Did anyone try, and Idomean try, togo out on campus this weekend? Well, of course, some

lost souls did. I knew it was going to beope of those nights when Imade the hike to Briggs Ave. to find everyone hanging out atthebasketball courts.I'm sure Dr. Brown I and Co. will get special!pleasure out of mine and many others' frustrations. "Hey, I'm just[doingmy job."

Seriously,I am aware that this school has to ha ve alcohol polices andthe means to enforce these policies, but let's evaluate the situation,shallwe? Busting every pa rty, small andlarge,on campusis not real lygoing to stop college studentsfrom drinking.That's a rea lity. Anotherrealityis turning tothe bars whenthe campusis dry. Walking homefrom a Hurst party may bea sobering experience, but the consequences couldbe much worse forsomeone who istryingto soberupbehind a wheel.

I am aware that my logic can be blown away by bureaucraticstipulations. I just know that say inghow youwillact when faced witha situation is one thing and what a ctually transpires could be something completely different. Drinking and driving could be severelylessened ifstudents stayed in their own community.This problem isnot without possible soludons.

At St. E ;>naventure theyhave this program knownas the Bona Bus.die sole purpose for this bus is to provide transportation for students.

lOkay, soit can take you to the mall. Tha t isn't abig deal and it isn't|mv .lain point. This bus alsogives students who've tippeda few too

I my a safe ride back to campus. t1 I'm sure Mercy hurst could never afford a programas useful as this[one ha s provento be. There a re flowers to plant and policecars to buy.Enough of this lecture. I tisn't quenchingmy thirstand I'm growing

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Dave McQuillen,you bettertake a seat.I' m going to write somethingpositive. After the summer fromSatan'sLair, I've cometo theconclusion that I like Mercyhurst. Most of the students I came into{contact with at Bona's jwere cold, pushy andfar too awareotthemselves in general. They were cloneswho claimed their territorylike dogs that urinateto claim theirtrees. * ,j

Mercyhurst has enough faults to fill at least this column and the!conversations of ma ny, but it isn't socially frigid. The spiel Admissions gives prospectives to sell this place isn't complete excrementafterall. It reallyis the people of Mercy world thatmake you want to

comeback. Now if onlyI could get a beer around here...

A meeting for all freshmen andsophomorepre-medical students,includingthose in denta l, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy,podiatry and veterinary programs,will be held on Wednesday, September 3 0 at 3 p.m. in 107 ZurnHall.Those whocannot make thismeeting must see Dr. Luttonassoon as possible.

emment Cham bers of the Student

The 1991-92 Praeterita yearbookshave arrived! Students canpick up their yea rbooks beginningSeptember17a t the front desk inthe Student Union. Only studentswho have paid their activityfeefor the 1991-92 academic year,meaning sophomores, juniors a ndseniorswho attended Mercyhurstlast year, will receive yearbook.

Students who have questions regarding distribution ma y call theYeaifoook Office atext. 2990.The Yearbook Staffwill be hav

ing its first organizational meeting onThursday, September24 at2:30 p.m. in the basement of OldMain in the room a djacent fromtheCopyCenter. Anyone wishingto contribute literaryskills to ThePra eterita should attend this meeting. No experienceis necessary jand openingsare availablefor S h o w e n t i t l e d H o w S a f e fc Safe

Union from September28 to October2. Ma ke-up pictures will betaken from November 3 to 6. Asitting fee of$5 will be charges toeach senior. Checks can be madepay able to Mercyhurst Yearbooks.If seniors ha ve any questions regarding their pictures, they maycall the Yearbook Office at ext.2990. i

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many positions. The Pra eteritastaff is also seeking a copy editorfor the 1992-93 academic year.Scholarships are available. Anyone with questions may call ext2895.k %.

Senior yearbook pictures arescheduled to be taken in the Gov-

Sex?"will be hosted by Dr. BillGoettelon September25.Thepresentation dea ling with the prevention of sex problems will be helda t8 p.m. in Zurn Recital Ha ll.

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