Little light has been shed on the case of Melissa Kennedy, the 21-year-old woman missing from the area since Friday, Feb. 20. Kennedy was reportedly supposed to board the 8:33 p.m. train from the Poughkeepsie train station, heading to Grand Central station in New York City, Friday night.
It's not everyday that a group of individuals are as eager and dedicated to starting a new fraternity at Marist as the students and advisors of Alpha Phi Omega are right now. Alpha Phi Omega (APO) is a national, co-educational, service-based fraternity.
This past Tuesday in Lowell Thomas, Marist College Television (MCTV) held auditions for their new show Marist Idol. The new production is a reenactment of the hit FOX show, American Idol and thus far has delivered a good amount of attention. Preparation is the key and it was asked that all performers enter the first round with a song they are willing to sing accapella.
Marist students of the Gender Equality club will be among the millions marching on Washington this April in the historic March For Women's Lives. In a move to protest the Bush administration's recent revisions of laws and acts concerning women's protection rights, millions of men and women will be marching the streets of Washington on April 25, 2004.
Students prone to argumentative discussions finally had the opportunity to put their skills to good use. Marist College hosted the Northeast Regional Championship debate from Saturday, Feb. 28 through Sunday, Feb. 29. Representative debaters from over 15 different universities around the Northeast, including Harvard, Boston University, SUNY Buffalo and the Rochester Institute of Technology, traipsed the campus in hopes of becoming one of eight teams to win an invitation to the upcoming National Public Debate Tournament in Virginia.
The Marist College Habitat for Humanity chapter will spend its spring break in Jacksonville, Florida from March 14 to March 20 building a home for a local family. The group of 15 students and one chaperone will work on the construction and completion of a house during the weeklong stay, in partnership with students from Huntington College in Indiana.
Spring is in the air and summer is still months away, yet pre-registration for the Fall 2004 semester begins next Monday, Mar. 8. This registration experience will be different than any previously had here at Marist. The Registrar's Office is introducing online pre-registration, which is described in the booklets students received in their campus mailboxes.
Students, faculty and guests listened intently to Dr. Nathan Tinker's lecture, "The Accidental Executive, or How to Succeed in Business With a Liberal Arts Degree," on Tuesday, March 2. Tinker, the co-founder and executive vice president of the NanoBusiness Alliance, oversees all industry research, education, and liaison initiatives.
While the focus of the public eye may be upon the upcoming presidential primaries of Super Tuesday, it is impossible to ignore what is going on outside American borders. This week, several countries took steps that could change the face of the world.