Sunday 26 Febuary 2006

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737  are active (Two left! No reason. Argh!)on the Distribute site. The site had 84 (Where’s everyone?) unique visits last week.

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This issue is at:    http://www.jasperjottings.com/2006/jasperjottings20060226.htm     

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Reinkefj at the College’s email forwarding service alum dot manhattan dot edu!
Use email-sending webform http://public.2idi.com/=reinkefj  anytime.

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http://www.manhattan.edu/alumni_friends/championshipgame.php

The Jaspers face the rival Iona Gaels on Saturday,

February 26th at 6:15pm.

The Alumni Relations office will be running a pre-game reception prior to the game. Place: Riverdale Garden (across Manhattan College Parkway) Time 4:00pm Cost $35 per person  ($15 for children under 12)  Includes: 2 Hour Open Bar & Hot and Cold Hors d oeuvres! Pay at the Door!  (Please bring Cash)

[JR:  Found by change detection on Friday! ]

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Manhattan honored its top players from the first 100 seasons of Jasper basketball, but you’d never know it. There’s no list on any internet sites. Is it a secret? Classified by Homeland Security? I was interested in Dearie and Slattery who I watch play when I was but a wee lad! Maybe I should volunteer to build them a page?

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JASPER EVENTS THAT I HAVE HEARD ABOUT

Friday, March 10th, 2006 

http://www.manhattan.edu/alumni_friends/washdcevents.php 
Washington D.C. Alumni Club
St. Patrick's Day Luncheon
Chairman: Tony Kavanagh '82
12:00pm Kelly's Irish Times 14 F Street N. W. Washington D.C.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

11:30am 3440 Lakemont Dr, Bonita Springs. Buffet Luncheon
1 pm Pelican Landing Golf Club Joe Dillon, Alumni Director Primary Speaker
$25.per person. All alumni, family, and friends invited      

Wednesday March 15, 2006

Treasure Coast Club Luncheon

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Long Island Alumni Club St. Patrick's Day Luncheon
New Hyde Park Inn 214 Jerico Turnpike  New Hyde Park, NY
Co-Chairmen: Tom Connolly '58 and Pat Creegan '67

Friday, March 17th, 2006

http://www.manhattan.edu/alumni_friends/nycevents2.php
New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade  
March with Manhattan College on St. Patrick's Day 

Gulf Coast Club Sarasota, Florida
St. Patrick's Day Luncheon  
For more information contact Neil O'Leary '60

St Patrick's Day Mass
St
John The Evangelist Church, North Naples
Celebrant And Pastor Thomas Glackin Manhattan Prep56
Reception Follows In Social Hall

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

http://www.manhattan.edu/alumni_friends/swfloridaevents2.php
South West Florida Club Naples, Florida St. Patrick's Day Parade  
Meet at 10:45 AM St. Ann's Church 5th Avenue (note: time correction! mckit wrong.)
For more information contact Jim Connors '57

Thursday, May 12th

Spring Social
Manhattan College Latino Alumni Club
Ibiza Lounge

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My list of Jaspers who are in harm's way:

- Afghanistan

- - Feldman, Aaron (1997)

- Iraq

- - Lara, Angel (2002)
- - 1st Recon BN, H&S Co, S-6
- - Unit 40535
- - FPO, AP 96426-0535

- Unknown location

- - Lynch, Chris (1991)

- Uzbekistan

- - Brock (nee Klein-Smith), Lt Col Ruth (1979)

… … my thoughts are with you and all that I don't know about.

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Seeking Book Donations
The New Orleans Public Library

The New Orleans Public Library is asking for any and all hardcover and paperback books for people of all ages in an effort to restock the shelves after Katrina.  The staff will assess which titles will be designated for its collections.  The rest will be distributed to destitute families or sold for library fundraising.  Please send your books to:  

Rica A. Trigs, Public Relations
New Orleans Public Library
219 Loyola Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70112
  

If you tell the post office that they are for the library in New Orleans, they will give you the library rate which is slightly less than the book rate.

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

"It is my contention that a conservative is a realist .... He believes that there is a creation which was here before him, which exists now not just by his sufferance, and which will be here after he’s gone."

Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963)

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Exhortation

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C11069-2020789%2C00.html

The Times February 02, 2006
Long-lost wallet returns to the fold
From Chris Ayres in Los Angeles

=== <begin quote> ===

THIRTY-NINE years ago Doug Schmitt left his wallet on the counter of a petrol station more than 2,000 miles from his home in Pennsylvania.

The beige wallet held a $5 note, a parking ticket, airmail stamps (8 cents each, compared with 39 cents now) and his student identity card.

This week it was returned to him, intact.

 “I had a real full head of hair back then,” Mr Schmitt, 57, remarked, looking ruefully at the photograph on the ID card. He had clearly not been missing the wallet though, saying: “To tell you the truth, I can’t even remember losing it.”

Mr Schmitt had left it behind 2,158 miles away in the town of Logan, Utah, in the spring of 1967, when he stopped to fill up his 1955 Austin Healey sports car. He was 18 years old.

The owner of the petrol station put the wallet in a drawer, hoping that Mr Schmitt would come back for it, but he never did. It was discovered last month when Ted Nyman was sorting through his father-in-law’s estate. Using the internet, he quickly tracked down Mr Schmitt, and last week posted the wallet to him at his home in Lake Ariel.

 “They’re good, honest people out there (in Utah),” Mr Schmitt said.

The wallet also contained photographs of his girlfriends from Wissahickon High School, Philadelphia, and a dry cleaning receipt. “It makes me wonder if I still got some dry cleaning. I don’t know,” Mr Schmitt said. “I can’t believe that I had that many things in my wallet.”

As an antiques dealer, Mr Schmitt is used to digging through other people’s personal histories. He never expected someone to pore over his own past. “(I am usually) looking through people’s old relics and old letters from maybe someone who was in the service writing to their wife or something like that,” he said. “I never thought I would be the object of something like this — not at this age, anyway.”

His wife, Vickie, was also thrilled — in spite of the photographs of the girlfriends. “It’s wonderful that people will take the time to research that, then return something to someone they don’t even know. It’s great to see how he looked when he was a freshman in college — I didn’t know him until he had graduated — and to see the pictures of his friends.”

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I love “lost ‘n’ found” stories. The reemphasize that people are basically good and “loser weepers” is not the prevailing ethic. For my own part, I don’t want to find anything too too big. I’m weak! I know my fellow alums would all do the right thing regardless of amount. But, I admit my few flaws.

Reflect well on our alma mater, this week, every week, in any and every way possible, large or small. God bless. "Collector-in-chief" John reinke--AT—jasperjottings.com

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CONTENTS

            1          Messages from Headquarters (like MC Press Releases)
            0          Good_News
            3          Obits
            3          Jaspers_in_the_News
            1          Manhattan_in_the_News
            5          Email From Jaspers
            1          Jaspers found web-wise
            2          MC mentioned web-wise
            1          Blaire’s Blog

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PARTICIPANTS BY CLASS

Class

Name

Section

1931

Commette, Albert

Email05

1943? 

Fitzgibbons, Jack

JNews2

1947

Mortimer, Raymond E.

Obit1

1949

Bachop, William G.

Obit2

1951

Helm, Robert

Email01

1951

Helm, Robert

Email03

1953

McEneney, Mike

Email02

1953

McEneney, Mike

Email05

1953

McEneney, Mike

Obit2 (reporter)

1957

Dooley, Brendan H.

Updates

1957

Lestingi, Joseph

Updates

1959

Corio, Anthony J.

Updates

1963?

Dominici, Frank A. Jr.

Obit2

1963

Sullivan, John

Obit2 (reporter)

1965

Loehr, Gerald E.

Email02

1968

Alline, Vincent

Email01

1969

Owens, Richard H.

JFound1

1974

McFadden, Michael J.

Email04

1990

Giugliano, Suzanne

Updates

1993

Fox, Jennifer

JNews3

1998

Samanta, Prodyot

JNews1

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PARTICIPANTS BY NAME

Class

Name

Section

1968

Alline, Vincent

Email01

1949

Bachop, William G.

Obit2

1931

Commette, Albert

Email05

1959

Corio, Anthony J.

Updates

1963?

Dominici, Frank A. Jr.

Obit2

1957

Dooley, Brendan H.

Updates

1943? 

Fitzgibbons, Jack

JNews2

1993

Fox, Jennifer

JNews3

1990

Giugliano, Suzanne

Updates

1951

Helm, Robert

Email01

1951

Helm, Robert

Email03

1957

Lestingi, Joseph

Updates

1965

Loehr, Gerald E.

Email02

1953

McEneney, Mike

Email02

1953

McEneney, Mike

Email05

1953

McEneney, Mike

Obit2 (reporter)

1974

McFadden, Michael J.

Email04

1947

Mortimer, Raymond E.

Obit1

1969

Owens, Richard H.

JFound1

1998

Samanta, Prodyot

JNews1

1963

Sullivan, John

Obit2 (reporter)

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Messages from Headquarters

Headquarters1

http://www.manhattan.edu/news/news_releases/022006_1.shtml

February 20, 2006
Contact: Lydia Gray
Phone: (718) 862-7993

Manhattan College To Host Overnight Event For Cancer Research And Awareness

The College aims to raise $60,000 in its third annual Relay For Life fund-raiser.

RIVERDALE, N.Y.Manhattan College has once again joined forces with the American Cancer Society to hold its third annual Relay For Life event on Saturday, April 1 beginning at 5:00 p.m. through Sunday, April 2 ending at 6:00 a.m. in the College's Draddy Gymnasium. Led by Manhattan College students with the guidance of the College's campus ministry and social action department, the overnight event is designed to celebrate survivorship and raise money for research, programs and awareness for the local Bronx office of the American Cancer Society.

During Relay For Life, a community-based program designed to be a fun overnight event, teams of people will take turns walking or running laps in the College's gym. Each team tries to keep at least one team member on the track at all times. Cancer survivors, including some from the Manhattan College community, will share stories about their battle against the disease. Attendees will enjoy food and live entertainment, including other programming such as a poker tournament, karaoke, Xbox tournament, dodge ball, kickboxing and free massages while their teammates walk for the cause. Local bands from the tri-state area are also slated to perform. Companies that are sponsoring this year's event include Sam's Club and Red Bull.

Each dollar raised from the relay will support the American Cancer Society as it leads the fight against cancer and empowers people to conquer the disease in their own lives. The American Cancer Society is a nationwide, community-based health organization headquartered in Atlanta, Ga. The organization has state divisions and more than 3,400 local offices. Relay For Life, which was established more than 15 years ago, continues to be the group's largest and most popular event.

All are encouraged to participate. To find out how to form a team or join one, please call Kinah Ventura-Rosas at (718) 862-7477. If you are a member of the press and wish to cover this event, please call Lydia Gray at (718) 862-7993.

For more information about the Relay For Life fund-raiser, please visit

www.acsevents.org/relay/ny/manhattancollege.

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GOOD NEWS

Honors

Honor1

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Weddings

Wedding1

None

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Births

Birth1

None

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Engagements

Engagement1

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Graduations

Graduation1

None

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Good News - Other

OtherGoodNews1

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OBITS

And, may perpetual light shine on our fellow departed Jaspers, and all the souls of the faithful departed.

Your assistance is requested in finding these. Please don’t assume that I will “catch” it via an automated search. Sometimes the data just doesn’t makes it’s way in.

Obit1

Palm Beach Post (Florida)
February 21, 2006 Tuesday
FINAL EDITION
SECTION: LOCAL; Pg. 4B
HEADLINE: R.MORTIMER, PSYCHIATRIST, HAD 'PASSION TO CURE WORLD'
BYLINE: By KEVIN DEUTSCH Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Dr. Raymond E. Mortimer, the first board-certified child psychiatrist in Palm Beach County, died Wednesday. He was 85.

Dr. Mortimer, whose daughter, Dr. Jean Malecki, is director of the county's health department, was a former chief of psychiatry at Good Samaritan and St. Mary's medical centers. Board certified in neurology and psychiatry, he practiced in Palm Beach County from 1967 until his retirement in 1990.

"He was driven by a tremendous passion to cure the world," Malecki said. "His brother and mother died very young, and he majored in pre-med out of a desire to cure."

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dr. Mortimer overcame dyslexia and gained acceptance to an honors program in high school. A gifted athlete, he was awarded a scholarship for football at Manhattan College in New York. After two years of school, he was assigned as a Navy pilot in World War II and received his Navy pilot wings in El Paso, Texas. He was later accepted into the Marine Air Corps as a fighter pilot, and stationed on the South Pacific Islands of Bougainville and Guadalcanal.

After the war, Dr. Mortimer became a reserve Marine pilot and served as a flight surgeon in 1951 during the Korean War. That same year, he graduated from New York Medical College and was married.

In 1967 he moved to West Palm Beach to practice psychiatry and was the first board-certified child psychiatrist here. He also practiced adolescent and adult psychiatry.

Dr. Mortimer is survived by his former wife, Patricia; four daughters; and a host of grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

"He was a driven man," Malecki said. "He always had a tremendous love for humanity."

LOAD-DATE: February 22, 2006

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Obit2

From: Mike McEneney [1953]
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 12:30 AM
To: John Reinke
Subject: Obits

Dear John,

                My Classmate from Mount Saint Michael, '49, John Sullivan (Manhattan '63) sent me the following Obituaries:

               " William G.Bachop,( 49 BE; 59 BBA), 77 died peacefully at his home in Ocala, Fl. January 31, 2006 surrounded by family after a brief illness.

                 He had been employed by Herbert G. Martin, Inc of Yonkers NY for 43 years as an electrical engineer and estimator until his retiremnet to Roscoe, NY and Florida. He was Chairman of the Board of the Yonkers Savings & Loan Assn.; Past Pres. of E. Yonkers Kiwanis; was active in YMCA; St. Denis Parish Council; Hospice of Marion County, Fl; Meals on Wheels; Minister to the Sick; and was a member of the Church choir.

                 Survivors include his loving wife of 55 years, Rita Schug Bachop; sons, Martin, Frank, Michael, Richard, Thomas, Joseph and Stephen; daughters, Anne Ulvestad, Dorothy, and Maty Monahan; sister Ruth Dolan, and five grandchildren.

                 He was predeceased by his son, Bruce Conley."

                    I understand that Bill went back to Manhattan at night to earn his BBA Degree after he had received his BE Degree.

                 The other Obituary is for Frank A. Dominici, Jr.

                " Frank A. Dominici Jr, 63 of Dobbs Ferry, died February 5, 2006.

                   He was born in the Bronx to Frank and Josephine (Palazzo) Dominici. He married Frances Da Benigno on September 17, 1967 at Immaculate Conception Church in the Bronx. He attended Mount Saint Michael and Manhattan College.

                    He was employed as a letter carrier for the United States Postal Service in the Bronx, and worked at the Grand Union and later Stop and Shop in Dobbs Ferry. Frank enjoyed bowling, comic books and attending Broadway Shows and the Opera.

                    He is survived by his wife Fran,sons, Michael and Joseph, sister Margurerite LaSalle, and his dearest friend Michael DeAngelis. Mass of Resurection, 9:30 AM, Thursday, Our Lady of Pompeii Church. Visiting 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 PM, Wednesday, Edwards-Dowdle Funeral Home. Memorials to the family appreciated."

                        May They Rest In Peace,
                                     Mike

 

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Jasper_Updates

[JR: Alerting old friends seeking to reconnect or "youngsters" seeking a networking contact with someone who might have a unique viewpoint that they are interested in.]

Corio, Anthony J. (1959)
Retired

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Dooley, Brendan H. (1957)
Retired

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Giugliano, Suzanne (1990)
(Her description: Stay at home Mom)
(My description: Chief Homemaking Officer)
[JR:  Great! ]

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Lestingi, Joseph (1957)
Tucson, AZ 85739-2212

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Jaspers_Missing

None

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Jaspers_in_the_News

JNews1

http://carolinanewswire.com/news/News.cgi?database=headlines.db&command=viewone&id=8130&op=t

NCSU College of Management announces Enterprise Risk Management Roundtables
02-20-2006  

Enterprise risk management experts from the Federal Reserve, Home Depot and Standard & Poor's will be speaking at the upcoming monthly ERM Roundtables hosted by the Enterprise Risk Management Initiative at NC State University's College of Management.

The ERM Roundtables will held on Feb. 24, Mar. 24, and Apr. 28 at NC State's McKimmon Center in Raleigh, NC, 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. The events are open to the public at no charge as a service of the ERM Initiative. Following are the presenters. Details about the presenters are available online at erm.ncsu.edu.

Feb. 24 - Prodyot Samanta, director of enterprise risk management at Standard & Poor’s in New York, NY.

Mar. 24 - David Whatley, vice president of risk management for Home Depot, Inc., based in Atlanta, GA.

Apr. 28 - Governor Sue Bies, one of five members of the Federal Reserve System’s Board of Governors.

Standards & Poor's consideration of risk management in rating assessments is topic for Feb. 24 ERM Roundtable

Prodyot Samanta, director of Enterprise Risk Management at Standard & Poor's in New York, is the first presenter in this year's ERM Roundtable series hosted by the Enterprise Risk Management Initiative at NC State University's College of Management.

Samanta will be speaking at the Feb. 24 ERM Roundtable, to be held 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. at NC State’s McKimmon Center, Raleigh, NC. The program is open to the public at no charge as a service of the ERM Initiative. Seating is limited at the popular ERM Roundtables, and reservations are required. Send reservation requests to ERM_Initiative@ncsu.edu.

Samanta is a director and risk management specialist with Standard & Poor’s Financial Services Ratings group where he is responsible for assessing the risk management practices of financial institutions. His presentation will feature Standard & Poor’s approach to evaluating enterprise risk management practices of organizations receiving S&P rating assessments, including assessments of entities in other industries outside financial services.

Prior to joining Standard & Poor’s, Samanta worked with Algorithmics Inc., an enterprise-wide risk management software and consulting company where he was primarily responsible for a comprehensive set of solutions spanning market risk, counterparty credit risk, portfolio credit risk, and operational risk. His previous experience also includes MBA and undergraduate instruction at Manhattan College in New York. He has a M.A. in economics and statistics and a Ph.D. in financial econometrics and is a member of several risk organizations, including the Global Association of Risk Professionals.

The ERM Initiative at NC State’s College of Management is focused on teaching and research regarding risk management across the enterprise. It is led by Mark Beasley, professor of accounting and member of a COSO board that is working on internal control guidelines for small companies striving to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.

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JNews2

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York)
February 15, 2006 Wednesday
FINAL EDITION
SECTION: LOCAL; Sean Kirst; Pg. B1
HEADLINE: EX-LEADER STILL HAS HOPE FOR OSWEGO
BYLINE: SEAN KIRST POST-STANDARD COLUMNIST

Jack Fitzgibbons' grandfather was an engineer on the old New York Central Railroad. When Fitzgibbons was a boy in Oswego, in the 1930s, his grandfather's train would return each morning from Syracuse. As it neared St. Paul's crossing, like clockwork, the train whistle would sound.

On warm summer days, the boy would hear the whistle from his home on East Sixth Street. He would go running to meet the train as it paused to unload freight, and his grandpa would pull the boy into the cab. They'd ride together until the train came to a stop at the station, a boyhood memory about as good as it gets, which helps explain how Fitzgibbons feels about Oswego.

To Fitzgibbons, 81, it is difficult to separate Oswego from his loyalties to his own family, which has been around the city since the 19th century. Like many residents, he finds pain in each new wave of sordid allegations about civic leaders, although he expresses faith that his community will see it through.

As a teenager, he left for Manhattan College, where his friends at school urged him to settle in New York City. "I thought about all that," Fitzgibbons said, "but I had a close association with my father, and I really wanted to go home."

He returned to Oswego. He married Joan Galvin, a local woman. He eventually took over his dad's insurance and real estate business, and he later served as mayor and as director of the Oswego Port Authority. He remains a throwback to an era of more genteel politics, an era that in Oswego seems impossibly remote.

Robert Farrell, the city's former parks and recreation superintendent, was indicted by a grand jury last week on charges of using a city-owned computer to invite teenage girls to perform sexual acts. Through his lawyer, Farrell denies the allegations.

The indictment comes on the heels of federal charges against former Mayor John Gosek, accused of offering a $250 payment to an intermediary who Gosek allegedly believed would provide teenage girls for sex. And investigators last October searched two pieces of property owned by then-police Chief William Ruggio, where they removed three snowmobiles and an all-terrain-vehicle as part of a stolen-property investigation.

Ruggio, who has not been charged with a crime, has maintained through his lawyer that he thought he made a legal purchase of those vehicles.

In Oswego, it seems as if one incident barely settles down before another one springs up. Fitzgibbons, with a memory that goes back to the 1920s, has never seen anything like the turbulence of the last six months.

"I think there's a disappointment that this is occurring, and that it's reflecting on our community," he said. "But I don't think it reflects on all the people of Oswego. None of this was evident when these people were put in positions of authority. The voters may have been misled."

If so, Fitzgibbons said, Oswego is hardly the first place where that's happened.

The scandal, he said, might even generate beneficial change. Get past the aroma from City Hall, and there remains much to admire about Oswego. It dodged many of the jolts endured in the last 50 years by other Upstate cities. Its population has remained relatively stable, middle-class families can walk to a nearby downtown from well-tended neighborhoods, and downtown itself - despite its ups and downs - is still the city center.

At a time when small cities are increasingly attractive to Americans who want slower lifestyles and a traditional sense of community, Oswego potentially has much to offer.

None of that is helped by vivid tales of wretched behavior by some top city officials. To Fitzgibbons, the larger issue is how everyday residents respond, and whether they can regain the kind of bipartisan decorum that Fitzgibbons recalls from his days in the 1970s in City Hall.

"It's really important to elect someone who's going to surround themselves with good, community-oriented people," Fitzgibbons said. "And I think (voters) will be more mindful from now on about simply giving someone a blank page."

During his four years as a Democratic mayor, Fitzgibbons said, there was much less partisan hostility once Election Day was over. Democrats and Republicans, he said, understood they'd all benefit from an atmosphere of cooperation, an atmosphere needed to persuade young college graduates to stick around.

That is the real challenge faced by today's Upstate communities, Fitzgibbons said. Four of his own seven children still live in Central New York - including his son John, who is sometimes mentioned as a potential candidate for mayor - and Fitzgibbons maintains there's a simple reason for that loyalty:

If you love a place enough, if you share with your children all the things that give it strength, then a point arrives where community and family become one, and the chance to change your city can be enough to bring you home.

To Fitzgibbons, that defines the bedrock of Oswego, far more enduring than any short-lived stench from City Hall.

Sean Kirst is a columnist with The Post-Standard. Call him at 470-6015 or e-mail him at skirst@syracuse.com or offer your thoughts on the future of Oswego by visiting his blog and forum at www.syracuse.com/kirst.

GRAPHIC: PHOTO Stephen D. Cannerelli/Staff photographer JACK FITZGIBBONS is a former mayor of the city of Oswego. Fitzgibbons, a Democrat, is shown Tuesday outside his home on East Seventh Street.

LOAD-DATE: February 16, 2006

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JNews3

Deutsche Bank Adds Two Senior Health Care Bankers in the Americas; Jennifer Fox and Bill Stitt Join as Managing Directors in Biotech, Health Care Services

Update: 12:41 PM ET Feb 22, 2006

NEW YORK, Feb 22, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. today announced it will add two senior bankers to its Health Care Investment Banking practice. Jennifer Fox and Bill Stitt will join the firm as Managing Directors, specializing in the biotechnology and health care services sectors, respectively. They both will be based in New York and will report to Lee Stettner, Head of Health Care Investment Banking for the Americas.

Fox will join Deutsche Bank from Bear, Stearns & Co. where she was a Senior Managing Director in the health care investment banking group. Prior to that she worked for Banc of America Securities, and has more than 12 years of industry experience.

Stitt, who has over 20 years of experience in the banking and health care industries, will join from CIBC World Markets' health care investment banking group. Prior to that he worked at Credit Suisse First Boston in a similar role.

"We're very excited to add two well-known and widely respected bankers like Jennifer and Bill to our team," said Stettner. "With more than 30 years of combined experience, we believe they will help us to build on our successes and better serve our clients across the sector."

"Health care is one of the most dynamic and multi-faceted industries in the Americas," said James DeNaut, Co-Head of Corporate Finance Coverage for the Americas. "The investment we've made in our Health Care group over the past two years clearly demonstrates our commitment to being a premier health care investment banking franchise."

Fox earned a BS degree in finance and marketing from Manhattan College. Stitt earned a BS degree in business administration and finance from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

About Deutsche Bank

SOURCE: Deutsche Bank

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Manhattan_in_the_News

MNews1

The New York Times
February 22, 2006 Wednesday
Late Edition – Final
SECTION: Section D; Column 1; Sports Desk; COLLEGE BASKETBALL; Pg. 7
HEADLINE: Clark Deals With Deaths, Doubters And Dreams
BYLINE: By DAVE CALDWELL

Keydren Clark, the small but prolific senior guard at St. Peter's College, has continued to pile up points this season with the fourth-highest scoring average in the nation through Monday, but the challenge has been more daunting than ever.

In June, Clark found his best friend and teammate, George Jefferson, unresponsive in their apartment. Jefferson, 20, died of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a genetic heart disease, and the loss devastated Clark, his teammates and all of St. Peter's, a Jesuit college of 3,300 students in Jersey City.

Then, not long after Jefferson's death, Clark's grandfather died. Clark does not talk much about Jefferson and has had trouble sleeping, said his mother, Rosie.

''I dare anybody to walk in his shoes and tell me they would have stayed focused on basketball,'' she said. ''It's made a difference in him. It's forced him to become more serious about life -- living for the day you have, not the day you're going to have.''

Clark led Division I in scoring the last two seasons. Nonetheless, Jefferson had suggested that Clark still take 1,000 practice shots a week.

''I could have a 40-point game, but he'd be the one to bring me down to earth,'' Clark said softly before a recent practice.

Kevin Spann, a freshman point guard, said: ''We look at it as if he's still here. He's our guardian angel. When our shots go in, George put them in. When it rains, it's George's fault.''

Clark, a 5-foot-10 guard known as Keekee, is averaging 26.2 points a game for the Peacocks. He scored 25 against North Carolina-Greensboro on Saturday to pass Elvin Hayes for 10th place in career scoring in Division I. If he finishes the season with the nation's highest scoring average for the third consecutive season, he will become only the third Division I player in N.C.A.A. history to do so. The others were Oscar Robertson and Pete Maravich.

But this season has been a struggle for Clark and the Peacocks (13-13), who play their final home game of the season Friday night against Canisius. Clark took a month off from playing basketball after Jefferson died, and he has been trying to catch up since.

His shot is not as reliable as it was. In his first three seasons, Clark made nearly 38 percent of his 3-point shots. He has made only 31 percent this season. St. Peter's is a young team, so opponents have been able to focus more on containing Clark.

''Because he's a marked man in our conference, people are physical with him,'' said St. Peter's Coach Bob Leckie, whose team plays in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. ''We're just trying to meld together everyone as a team.''

Clark has gained about 20 pounds, but he said he was still often knocked to the floor.

''It's been a little bit of a struggle,'' Clark said. ''I'm thinking too much about my shot instead of just playing the way I did the first three years I was here.''

Clark is still optimistic about his N.B.A. prospects. Bobby Gonzalez, the coach at Manhattan College, compared him to Dana Barros and Michael Adams -- small guards who made the cut in the N.B.A. because they were quick and could shoot from the outside.

''We thought he was pretty good, but I don't think anyone knew he was going to be this good,'' said Gonzalez, who recruited Clark when he played at Rice High School in Manhattan.

Leckie is less profuse. While acknowledging that Clark, an intelligent and humble player, had attracted fans and prospects to St. Peter's, Leckie wondered if Clark would stand out among all the guards trying to earn a spot on an N.B.A. roster.

''He doesn't have any excellent qualities,'' Leckie said. ''He's not extremely quick or athletic. What Keydren does best is score. But he's not extremely quick. I don't know what's going to set him apart from other guards.''

Clark was not invited to a tryout last year for the under-21 national team, and he was not included on a preseason list of candidates for the Wooden Award, which is given annually to the nation's best college basketball player. Clark's future could depend on how he plays at N.B.A. scouting sessions.

''A couple of people told me something: it doesn't matter if you led the nation in scoring or not; it's how you play at the combines,'' Leckie said. ''It's a 'What have you done for me lately' thing.' ''

If anyone could beat the odds, Leckie said, it was Clark. He averaged 13 points a game as a senior in high school and was not heavily recruited. St. Peter's does not have state-of-the-art training facilities, but Clark has worked to become stronger.

''The misunderstanding of me is that they automatically think I'm a selfish player who only goes out and scores,'' Clark said. ''I'm not just going out and scoring. I'm not one-dimensional. I'm going to do anything it takes to win.''

St. Peter's may be a small Division I college without much of a basketball dossier, but Clark said he was happy he went there. He graduated in three years, and is working on his master's degree. If he does not get a chance to play professionally, he said, he would like to coach.

Before he gets to that point, Clark has two regular-season games and the MAAC tournament left in a season that the team dedicated to Jefferson's memory. The Peacocks wear a patch with his No. 23 on their jerseys. But Clark said he did not need a reminder of what Jefferson meant to him and the team.

''George was everything for me,'' Clark said. ''Up until June, I was with George every day. It was just devastating. It's a loss I wish I could have back.''

URL: http://www.nytimes.com

GRAPHIC: Photos: Keydren Clark was the top scorer in Division I the past two seasons and is now fourth in the nation. Above, he drove on Manhattan's Jason Wingate. Bottom left, he held a ball in a pregame huddle, and, below right, he gave an autograph to Jonathan Juri, 7, of Emerson, N.J. (Photographs by Aaron Houston for The New York Times)

LOAD-DATE: February 22, 2006

[JR:  Included for the human interest value and if quotes Bobby. ]

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[JR:  This was too good to miss! ]

 Students have mixed views about Scanlan's convocation address

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Students React to Brother Scanlan's Spring Faculty Convocation Speech
Liz Harris
Posted: 2/22/06

Brother Thomas Scanlan's Spring Faculty Convocation address, published in the Quadrangle on February 8, has sparked controversy on campus. While some students are apathetic, many have expressed different opinions regarding Scanlan's idea.

Scanlan's attitude toward Atheism and Manhattan's Core Beliefs are central to the debate. During his speech, Scanlan said, "Just as we expect students to embrace the Institution's Core Value, so we expect them to embrace our Core Belief, namely that we live in the Presence of God. It follows inescapably that Atheists are in essential conflict with our Core Belief, but excellence often implies that one can't be all things to all people."

Sophomore Christine Schneider, an Atheist, expressed her disagreement with some of Scanlan's points. She said, "I don't openly criticize the Catholic church, so I don't feel they should openly criticize me. I went to a Catholic high school, and I have nothing personal against the church. I feel the same way toward Catholicism as I do toward other religions- it just isn't for me."

Schneider also commented on religion's role in the classroom, particularly in her biology courses. She said, "Some people believe God created everything, but I believe in evolution."

Religion, for Schneider, did not govern her decision to attend Manhattan College. She reported that many of the schools her parents suggested she look at were Catholic, but "religion was not a factor in my [her] choice to come to Manhattan."

Alison Bomba, a sophomore history major and a Roman Catholic, also critiqued parts of Scanlan's speech. She said, "I would expect this from a Catholic college that's in the middle of nowhere. We're in one of New York City's boroughs, and one of the things New York City prides itself on is diversity. Yes, you need to keep your core values and beliefs, but you shouldn't shun non-believers. The Catholic Brothers created this institution to teach kids, and if you don't allow everyone to be educated, you're almost being prejudiced in a way."

Bomba also suggested that a stronger, stricter emphasis on Catholicism will decrease Manhattan's applicant pool. She said, "If they focus more on active Catholicism, I think the application number will fall drastically because people of different faiths won't want to apply. While a lot of students declare themselves Roman Catholics, how many are really active participants in their faith?"

Bomba said that during her college search, size and location, not religion, were her main concerns. She said, "I was looking for a small school, and Manhattan happened to be Catholic."

Paul Avvento, Vice President for Social Life and a Roman Catholic, offered a different perspective. Avvento said, "I'm really excited to see what's going to happen. I'm a junior now, and when I first came here I was expecting more of a Catholic feel on campus. I am not sure how much will really happen, though."

Avvento continued, "We say we're a Catholic school, but besides writing it on letterheads, where is it? This is a Catholic institution, and I do see the responsibility to call Catholicism to our attention without it being thrown in our faces." In regards to Atheism, Avvento said, "I respect people's views and rights. I could see how a lot of the school's values might be harder to obtain without a belief in God."

Brother Scanlan's remarks have elicited different responses from Manhattan's community and stimulated conversation among students, faculty, and staff members.

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EMAIL FROM JASPERS

Email01

[JR:  This email specifically refers to Jasper Helm’s (1951) statement. “... the sob sister protesting the war at Bush's ranch, who lost her son in the war, the same son she gave up in her divorce when he was 7 years old. And by the way if you wonder why she has so much free time ...”]

From: Vincent Alline (1968)
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 7:17 PM
To: reinkefj
Subject: [=reinkefj Contact Request] from Vincent Alline

Once again I must take exception to an email from Robert Helm. I'll skip the usual rant and get right to the meat. The history given for Cindy Sheehan is largely fiction. The real story can be found here:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/sheehan.asp

# # #

I clipped this from that page (which I found confusing):

<snip>

... criticizing Ms. Sheehan's alleged lack of involvement in her son's upbringing after divorcing his father, is something fabricated out of whole cloth, evidently the product of someone's confusing a completely different family with the Sheehans. Cindy Sheehan and her husband, Patrick, were high school sweethearts who wed while both were in their early 20's and who have been married to each other for over 28 years. (Neither has ever been married to anyone else.) The couple had four children together, of whom Casey was the oldest. Both parents raised Casey together, first in the southern California community of Norwalk and later in the northern California town of Vacaville, where the Sheehans moved when Casey was 14.

<snip>

[JR:  So there is at a partial discrepancy in part of Jasper Helm’s message. ]

 

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Email02

From: Mike McEneney [1953]
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 12:24 AM
To: John Reinke
Subject: Fw: press release: Westchester Sex Offense Court Officially Opens

Dear John,

             Westchester County Court Judge Gerald E. Loehr '65 has been assigned to preside over the newly created Sex Offense Court. Gerry was at one time the Mayor of Yonkers.

                                       Mike

http://home.comcast.net/~jxymxu7sn5ho9d/JASPER/Jasper_Loehf_65.pdf

[JR:  Thanks, Mike. I put the PDF in the overflow area. Sorry to the email readers but it doesn’t import. And yes, I will refrain from humor with respect to this post. Hard as it might be. I am sure that Jasper Loehr will represent the Jasper community well.  ]

From: Mike McEneney
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:50 PM
To: John Reinke
Subject: Judge Gerald Loehr

Dear John,

            Here is an article from the Journal News relating to the assignment of Judge Gerald Loehr '65?

                                          Mike

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THE JOURNAL NEWS
Friday, Feb. 17, 2006
p. A3, col. 2

Court that handles sex crimes opens

2 judges to sit on felony cases, pledge better monitoring

By JONATHAN BANDLER

THE JOURNAL NEWS

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Email03

From: Robert Helm [1951]
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 3:58 PM
Subject: FW: I am on the way

Good Afternoon, All:

    1. I believe that this young man - he is younger than I am - has the right idea, whether or not your version of the national Quisling press tells you the truth about what the military thinks.

    2. The garbage about the cartoons is just an excuse to try to intimidate the non-Muslim world, and the chicken politicians and liberals are falling for it !

Respectfully, LCDR R.A. Helm, USNR (1639)

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This is great!

I don't know who put this together, but I sure would like to shake his hand, pat him on the back, and wish him, "Good Hunting!"

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I  Am Coming!

Dear Terrorists,

I am a Navy Aviator. I was born and raised in a small town in New England. I come from a family of five. I was raised in a middle class home and taught my values by my mother and father.

My dad worked a series of jobs in finance and my mom took care of us kids. We were not an overly religious family but attended church most Sundays. It was a nice small Episcopal Church.  I have a brother and

sister and I am the youngest in my family.  I was the first in many generations to attend college.

I have flown Naval aircraft for 16 years.  For me the flying was never a lifelong  dream or a "calling," it just happened.    I needed a job and I liked the challenge.  I continue to do it today because I feel it is important to give back to a nation which has given so much to me. I do it because, although I will never be rich, my family will be comfortable.

I do it because many of my friends have left for the airlines and someone has to do it.

My government has spent millions to train me to fly these

multi-milliondollar aircraft. I make about 70,000 dollars a year and after 20 years will be offered a pension.

I like baseball but think the players make too much money. I am in awe of firemen and policemen and what they do each day for my community, and like teachers, they just don't get paid enough.

I respect my elders and always use sir or ma'am when addressing a stranger. I'm not sure about kids these days but I think that's normal for every generation.

I tell you all this because when I come for you, I want you to know me. I won't be hiding behind a woman or a child.  I won't be disguised or pretending to be something I am not.  I will be in a U.S. issue flight suit. I will be wearing standard US issue flight gear, and I will be flying a navy aircraft clearly marked as a US warplane.  I wish we could

meet up close in a small room where I could wrap my hands around your throat and slowly squeeze the life out of you, but unfortunately, you're hiding in a hole in the ground, so we will have to do this a different way.

I want you to know also that I am very good at what I do.  I can put a 2,000 lb weapon through a window from 10,000 feet up.  I generally only fly at night, so you may want to start sleeping during the day. I am not eager to die for my country but I am willing to sacrifice my life to protect it from animals like you.

I will do everything in my power to ensure no civilians are hurt as I take aim at you.

My countrymen are a forgiving bunch.  Many are already forgetting what you did on Sept 11th.  But I will not forget!!

I am coming.  I hope you know me a little bit better, see you soon...sleep tight.

Signed
A  U.S. Navy Pilot
Our Soldiers are one
of our greatest assets!

God Bless

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[JR:  Well, I for one am not sure what this is or who it comes from. I do hope that all “our” “boys and girls” get home safe. I do think for myself and I am not sure of what the truth is about lots of topics. I no more believe the press (cnn or fox news) than I do the politicians! One would think that truth is the first victim of war by the way things are twisted in a knot.  ]

 

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Email04

From: Michael J. McFadden (1974)
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:37 AM
To: Jasper_Jottings
Subject: Jottings: The Terminal Bar

Remember "The Terminal" just up north of the train station outlet at Manhattan (Is it still called that?  er... the bar, not the College!)   I was telling my cartoonist friend Joe Duffy about it a couple weeks ago and told him he should do a cartoon on it.  It came out today.

Michael J. McFadden
Author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains"
Mid-Atlantic Regional Director of The Smoker's Club, Inc.
web page: http://pasan.thetruthisalie.com/

[JR:  I’m looking for an URL. ]

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Email05

From: Mike McEneney [1953]
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:30 PM
To: John Reinke
Subject: Fw: The News that's fit to print

Dear John,

          This note came from Grace Fenney in the Alumni Office.

                            Mike

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Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:30 AM

Subject: The News that's fit to print

This was just too good just to send to alum notes only.

Albert Commette, class of 31, and Anita (Nikki) just celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary with their 5 children, 15 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren.

Al is 94 years old and still plays tennis.  He tells me he is still capable of traveling alone and he is hoping to attend his 75 anniversary at Reunion ’06.  He would be traveling from Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Grace Feeney

Alumni Relations Officer

[JR:  Agree! Amazing. I can’t imagine another 30 years of doing Jottings. Class of 1931! Simply wonderful. ]

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Jaspers found web-wise

JFound1

http://friarynotes.blogspot.com/2006/02/on-state-of-jesuit-education.html

Thursday, February 23, 2006

On the state of Jesuit Education

Rockhurst University, a Jesuit university in Kansas City, is in the process of looking for a new president. Here are their candidates according to e-mails sent out:

Richard H. Owens, Ph.D., professor of history, West Liberty State College, West Liberty, W.V.: Dr. Owens earned a B.A. in history from Manhattan College, an M.A. in U.S. history from Old Dominion University and a Ph.D. in U.S. diplomacy from the University of Maryland. Dr. Owens served as president of West Liberty State College from 2001 to 2005 and as president of Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, from 1996 to 2001.

<extraneous deleted>

Not one is a Jesuit and one of the candidates doesn't appear to have any connections at all to Jesuit education. Is this another sign that the Jesuits are having trouble finding qualified members of their order to run their universities? Apparently it is -

The search garnered 60 applications. Nine were chosen as candidates, and two of them were Jesuits.

“We all knew going in that there is a limited list of Jesuits available,” said Thomas McCullough, president of the Rockhurst board of trustees.

According to the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, there often is not a Jesuit available who has the experience to lead a college.

[mcALUMdb:   1969  ]

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MC mentioned web-wise

MFound1

http://oliviagiovetti.blogspot.com/2006/02/ash-is-g-ddamn-robot.html

ash is a g-ddamn robot

Oh, I feel dead. I just ate an entire roll of Ringos. For those of you who don't shop at Supermercati Elite, they're chocolate cookies. They're small, I think a roll has 20. And I sat here, a heating pad on my stomach, checking my e-mail, and ate them one by one, dunking them in red wine. I'm blasting Jason Mraz Live at the Eagles Ballroom on my headphones, but I can still feel the fucking cramps. I'm expecting Alien to burst out of my stomach at any point now.

I first saw Sigourney Weaver on my grandparent's Laser Disc player. I think I was 6 or 7 and I'd just started learning about the whole UFO alien scene. So of course, setting the Who's Afraid of Opera laserdiscs aside and finding a film titled Alien sounded like a good choice. The kind of movie I'd talk to Dan Walsh and Chris Oliviera about on the playground while we looked up in the sky for signs of flying saucers. Or pterodactyls. I've always wanted to see one of those. But, naturally, because I'm a girl and the worst I'd ever seen by that age were sopranos coughing blood up and being stabbed by their fathers in a burlap sack, the chestburster scene had me screaming. Much in the way I'm screaming from the excruciating pain of being a woman as I type. But that's beside the point. Jones the Cat? I shut it off and watched Get Smart on Nick at Nite.

Watching Alien as I went through high school, though (in tandem with reading Conrad's Nostromo, which was just a trip), I became fascinated with the fact that, in order to be the sole survivor, she had to strip down to her underwear. I think that was the first film that told me breaking the traditional, high collared New England mold was ok. Because, if I'm dying of cramps, I'm going to die in my DKNY bikini cuts and Abercrombie wife beater. But I don't want to die, not just yet. Because apparently my acceptance letter to Manhattan College's School of Business reached my mother's house yesterday.

PubSub: "manhattan college"

Published: Wednesday, 22 February 2006 21:25:45

[JR:  I guess he was off in a rush “to cash that acceptance” because the site is now down. ;-) In the Business school, he should learn, that for a movie to be good in the People’s Republic of Hollywood, everyone has to strip. Remember Casablanca, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Love Story, Sargent York, and all their ilk. Where would they have been with the underwhere scenes like Fatal Vision?]

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MFound2

http://jes-blog.blogspot.com/2006/02/we-dont-need-no-education.html

"We Don't Need No Education..."

Or at least that's what President Bush and his cronies must be thinking at the moment, but that's a rant for another time. I just couldn't think of a wittier title, heh.

But yeah, one of the major things I’ve been doing lately is researching and applying for different graduate schools in the area. I really want to go back to school (well not really WANT to as much as NEED to) just so I can hurry up and get a degree so I can get a higher paying job. So far I have filled out and handed in an application for Mercy College and I am in the process of filing ones for Hunter College and Manhattan College as well. I’m looking for a Counseling Program, but one with more of a slant towards the education system like they had here at Fordham. I don’t want to be a school psychologist though, just a counselor, which narrows my choices a bit since most programs are either for school psychologists or for Mental Health Counseling but I’m sure I’ll get in somewhere that has what i want.

I’m kind of torn as to where I’d prefer to go though. Mercy seems a little bit of a more laid-back program (not easy, but pretty understanding that the people taking these courses have lives outside of school), but Hunter is a CUNY and is just much cheaper. Manhattan College is also cheaper than Mercy, but its program seems hardcore as I would need to do a thesis, a research project AND take the Comps, whereas most other programs just require the Comps. I know it may seem lazy but dammit, I don't feel like writing a thesis or doing a damn research project. The Comps should be more than enough to get a Master's Degree and a license. I'm basically already doing what I want to be doing, and in no way, shape or form would any of those things be necessary for me to be a full time high school or college advisor/counselor. I'm not gonna do more work than I need to. I'm not the biggest fan of school, but I do know that I NEED to go back so I'll do what I must but I'm not gonna kill myself either. Especially when I know certain things truly aren't necessary.

Another thing to think about is, right now I’m working in Yonkers, and would like to continue to, but who knows where I will end up after Aug 31st, since it’s looking more and more likely that the gov’t will be shutting down the program I work for (but as I said earlier that’s a tale for another time, just know that I dislike Pres. Bush even more as the days go by). So the school’s proximity to where I work can shape up to be another major factor.

But yeah wish me luck with all that. Hopefully schools will be more understanding than Fordham was. I just want to be done with school once and for all, so I pray it won’t get delayed any longer.

PubSub: "manhattan college"

Published: Wednesday, 22 February 2006 21:06:28

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BLAIRE’S BLOG

Lampe, Blaire (2005) http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Blair/ 

[JR:  It’s not an email to us. But it is public. So maybe, I have hit upon another niche for JJs. Rather than everyone having to check, here it is. I’ll catch any Jasper’s blog if I knew where they were hiding. Care to rat out your fellow alums?]

Chasing Waterfalls

Travel

“A fool wishes to know no more about what drives him than simply that it does.  A judicious man will seek his motivations, but in the end, find himself merely a more worthy fool.”  -Max Berlin

Soo, a bit has happened since the last entry.  The majority of it took place more recently, but I would like to share a particular irrelevant story with you from earlier before getting into it.  I took a bus from K.L. to Singapore, slated to arrive around 12:30 at night.  I get to customs around midnight, and go through the motions-bag on the belt, smile at the guards, hope they don’t want me to open it; they do.  Now, what, in this situation-a security check at a country border, surrounded by armed men, at a particularly strained time for large backpacks in our world’s history- could be the worst conceivable move on my part?  If I had to venture a guess, I’d say it’s something like occured.  On the way there, I saw a couple of small roaches on the bus, which is nasty, but they were small.  I go to open my bag, and sitting there is the mother of all roaches, looking right at me.  So, naturally, I scream like a girl and stumble wildly backwards, causing the 6 men with guns surrounding me to jump and scream like girls too.  In hindsight, it would make for a funny scene in a movie, but in reality, it’s probably not one of the best reactions I could have had.  Then, to top it off, the bus left me!  There was one older man behind me in the customs line, who said he’d go tell them to wait, while I and six grown men went “Ew! Ew!” and picked items one at a time out of my bag, looking for one giant, crafty roach.  After a short period, I was force to concede that the bug had eluded us at present, and I had better get going or I wouldn’t have a ride.  When I arrived outside, the old man was there, but he said, “They left us.  I tried to run after them and I waved at them, but he just left.”  Luckily, Singapore is small, and we were only about 20 km out of the city center, so (as ours was the last bus of the evening), two nice gentlemen gave us a ride to the nearest taxi stand, and from there, we split a taxi into town.  I never did learn his name, but he was very friendly.  He spent the ride telling me about Singapore and how clean and safe it was (and he was absolutely correct in this).  When the cab dropped him off first, he bid me a good journey, and pointing at me like a caring old relative said, “buckle up and then you’ll really be safe in Singapore.”

Other than that, Singapore passed without much incident.  Once again, I stumbled onto a parade and fireworks display for the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations.  Otherwise, I sort of felt like I was back in Europe and was much spoiled by Starbucks, a large flat screen tv in the hostel, and the LOTR trilogy.  Once I left there, I just sort of haphazardly threw myself onto a multitude of buses for the next three days with the vague idea of going back to Thailand…but in the end, I met an English girl just come from Indonesia, who, after some persuasive stories, convinced me I should go there while I’m “in the area” as it were.  I took a five hour ferry from Malaysia to Medan, the capitol city of the largest of the Indonesian islands, Sumatra.  Medan doesn’t do much for me.  I’m actually there right now.  It’s crowded, home to a good 10 million people, and it’s polluted and noisy.  My initial intentions were to head to a little place in north Sumatra called Pulau Weh, where there is supposed to be an excellent beach and snorkeling.  But then I get to talking to the travel agent, and decide instead upon a 2 day trek through the Indonesian rain forest in search of orangutans.  I take a bus from the city to a village about 3 hours away called Bukit Lawang, accompanied by my guide, Udin, who introduces himself first and foremost as “Jungle Boy”.

By the time we reach the village, there’s a pretty violent storm going on.  I ask idiotically if it rains like this often, to which Udin replies, “it is the rainforest.”  It’s a short drive via motorbike from bus station to guesthouse, which we make, bags and all, in the pouring rain.  When we arrive, I am immediately faced with the narrowest, ricketiest bridge I have ever seen.  Add this to the fact that it runs over very troubled water, it’s completely dark (minus the occasional lightening menacing overhead), it’s pouring, I have an unevenly distributed 60 lbs on my back and am wearing an ankle length skirt, sopping wet.  The best advice I attain from my Indonesian escort? “Don’t worry.  Chicken curry.”

I stay the first night in the village, intending to leave for the trek the next morning, but decide to just hang out for a day first, on the word that there might be a few more tourists wanting to go the next day.  In the meantime, Udin takes me to the weekly market and to his house to meet his wife and two adorable children and I get a rare chance to familiarize myself with a few of the locals.  Next morning, Udin and I head into the jungle with another group of two Dutch girls doing a one day trek.  Pretty early on, we see a bunch of Thomas Monkeys, and then shortly after, a breed of Long-Tailed something or other.  Then, about 45 minutes in, we spot an orangutan.  All in all, we saw 4 orangutans, one with a baby, and one, sadly, with a dead baby.  Udin is impressed with my agility in trekking over rocks and roots, and I am forced to “open my secret”-as they say in Russia-and am obliged to tell him that I am not truly an authentic city girl, but in fact grew up in the backwoods of Texas.  Aside from the monkeys, the jungle itself was a pretty amazing place.  We came in and out of contact with the river, which unfortunately was all cloudy due to a landslide upstream the day I arrived.  (I have that effect on terrain)  We have to cross it on one occasion, and in doing so, Udin takes my hand.  I’m not especially keen on the whole “you’re a girl; you need my help” sort of thing, but I underestimated this particular river.  I counted 3 times that, had he not had hold of me, I would likely have been swept away, much to the consternation of my digital camera.

We reach the campsite to find our cook, Ling, already there-cooking-and the tent set up.  Ling makes wonderful wonderful food and that night he plays a bunch of matchstick tricks on me, while everyone has a good laugh at my ineptitudes in spacial reasoning.  Next morning, I am treated to banana pancakes before heading back.  There are several gentlemen from Holland at the campsite next door who invite me to go back to the village by way of rafting with them-but they are all in their underwear-and thanks but no thanks.

So Ling and Udin and I head back for some distance before encountering (unexpectedly, I’m sure) Udin’s brother, who has brought with him about 20 of his students from an all-girls English school in Medan on a field trip.  Udin suggests we stop for a bit, so I take up a place on a rock, but am soon surrounded by the girls, and I begin to feel a bit like an exhibit…not that I didn’t enjoy it.  We talk for a while, me answering questions, and them testing their English on a live specimen.  They too are rafting back, all 20 of them, and as they have an extra seat on one of their rafts, they invite me to join them.  I feel a little better about this group, so I take them up on it, and we have a grand ole time screeching our way down the rapids.  Then we take pictures….a LOT of pictures, and I pass out for several hours before Udin comes by to take me up a hill on his motorbike for a better view of the village.

 The whole couple of days in Bukit Lawang was really amazing, but I am also looking forward to my next destination in western Sumatra, Lake Toba.  It’s supposed to be very peaceful there, and I think I’ll enjoy a bit of time to myself just relaxing.

…Then it’s volcano time.

 

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Sports

SportsSchedule

The only reason for putting this here is to give us a chance to attend one of these games and support "our" team.

Date Day Sport Opponent Location Time
2/26/06 Sunday Track & Field   USATF Indoor Championships   Boston, Mass.   9:00 AM
2/26/06 Sunday M. Lacrosse   Air Force Academy   Colorado Springs, Colo.   1:00 PM
2/26/06 Sunday W. Basketball   Iona*   HOME   4:00 PM
2/26/06 Sunday M. Basketball   Iona*   HOME   6:15 PM

3/2/06 Thursday W. Basketball   MAAC Championships%   Albany, N.Y.   TBA 
3/2/06 Thursday W. Lacrosse   at Columbia   New York, N.Y.   3:00 PM
3/3/06 Friday W. Basketball   MAAC Championships%   Albany, N.Y.   TBA 
3/3/06 Friday Track & Field   IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championships   Boston, Mass.   10:00 AM
3/3/06 Friday Baseball   Tulane   New Orleans, La.   7:00 PM
3/4/06 Saturday M. Basketball   MAAC Championships%   Albany, N.Y.   TBA 
3/4/06 Saturday W. Basketball   MAAC Championships%   Albany, N.Y.   TBA 
3/4/06 Saturday Track & Field   IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championships   Boston, Mass.   10:00 AM
3/4/06 Saturday M. Lacrosse   Sacred Heart University   Fairfield, Conn.   2:00 PM
3/4/06 Saturday Baseball   Tulane   New Orleans, La.   3:00 PM
3/4/06 Saturday W. Lacrosse   at UMBC   Baltimore, Md.   7:00 PM
3/5/06 Sunday M. Basketball   MAAC Championships%   Albany, N.Y.   TBA 
3/5/06 Sunday Track & Field   IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championships   Boston, Mass.   10:00 AM
3/5/06 Sunday W. Basketball   MAAC Championships%   Albany, N.Y.   12:00 PM
3/5/06 Sunday W. Lacrosse   at Howard   Washington, D.C.   1:00 PM
3/5/06 Sunday Baseball   Tulane   New Orleans, La.   2:00 PM
3/6/06 Monday M. Basketball   MAAC Championships%   Albany, N.Y.   TBA 
3/8/06 Wednesday Baseball   Fordham   Bronx, N.Y.   3:00 PM
3/8/06 Wednesday M. Lacrosse   Quinnipiac University   Hamden, Conn.   3:00 PM
3/10/06 Friday Softball   University of Rhode Island $   Miami, Fla.   11:00 AM
3/10/06 Friday Track & Field   NCAA Indoor Championships   Fayetteville, Ark.   12:00 PM
3/10/06 Friday Softball   Florida International University $   Miami, Fla.   4:00 PM
3/11/06 Saturday Softball   Harvard $   Miami, Fla.   11:00 AM
3/11/06 Saturday Softball   vs. TBA $   Miami, Fla.   TBA 
3/11/06 Saturday Track & Field   NCAA Indoor Championships   Fayetteville, Ark.   12:00 PM
3/11/06 Saturday Baseball   UMBC   Baltimore, Md.   3:00 PM
3/12/06 Sunday Baseball   UMBC (DH)   Baltimore, Md.   12:00 PM
3/12/06 Sunday Softball   vs. TBA $   Miami, Fla.   TBA 
3/13/06 Monday Golf   Fairfield Spring Break Invitational   Myrtle Beach, S.C.   12:00 PM
3/14/06 Tuesday Golf   Fairfield Spring Break Invitational   Myrtle Beach, S.C.   12:00 PM
3/14/06 Tuesday M. Lacrosse   Rutgers University   Piscataway, N.J.   3:00 PM
3/14/06 Tuesday Baseball   Long Island#   Palm Beach, Fla.   7:00 PM
3/15/06 Wednesday W. Tennis   University at Buffalo   Orlando, Fla.   9:00 AM
3/15/06 Wednesday Softball   at Drexel   Philadelphia, Pa.   3:00 PM
3/15/06 Wednesday Baseball   Miami   Miami, Fla.   7:00 PM
3/15/06 Wednesday W. Lacrosse   at Rutgers   Piscataway, N.J.   7:00 PM
3/16/06 Thursday W. Tennis   Long Island University   Orlando, Fla.   9:00 AM
3/16/06 Thursday Golf   MAAC/Iona Invitational   Whispering Pines, N.C.   9:00 AM
3/16/06 Thursday Baseball   vs. Rhode Island#   Palm Beach, Fla.   7:00 PM
3/16/06 Thursday W. Tennis   Cleveland State University   Orlando, Fla.   8:00 PM
3/17/06 Friday M. Tennis   Florida Atlantic University   Boca Raton, Fla.   TBA 
3/17/06 Friday Golf   MAAC/Iona Invitational   Whispering Pines, N.C.   9:00 AM
3/17/06 Friday Track & Field   Baldy Castillo Invitational   Tempe, Ariz.   12:00 PM
3/17/06 Friday Track & Field   Baldy Castillo Invitational   Tempe, Ariz.   12:00 PM
3/17/06 Friday Baseball   Florida International   Miami, Fla.   7:00 PM
3/18/06 Saturday Golf   MAAC/Iona Invitational   Whispering Pines, N.C.   9:00 AM
3/18/06 Saturday Track & Field   Baldy Castillo Invitational   Tempe, Ariz.   12:00 PM
3/18/06 Saturday Track & Field   Baldy Castillo Invitational   Tempe, Ariz.   12:00 PM
3/18/06 Saturday Softball   at Yale   New Haven, Conn.   TBA 
3/18/06 Saturday Baseball   Florida International   Miami, Fla.   1:00 PM
3/18/06 Saturday M. Lacrosse   Marist College$   Sebastian, Fla. (Sebastian High School Field)   7:30 PM
3/19/06 Sunday M. Tennis   University of Denver   Denver, Colo.   TBA 
3/19/06 Sunday Golf   MAAC/Iona Invitational   Whispering Pines, N.C.   9:00 AM
3/19/06 Sunday Softball   Seton Hall &   Hempstead, N.Y.   10:00 AM
3/19/06 Sunday Softball   Hofstra &   Hempstead, N.Y.   12:00 PM
3/19/06 Sunday W. Lacrosse   at Sacred Heart   Fairfield, Conn.   1:00 PM
3/21/06 Tuesday Softball   Stony Brook   HOME   2:00 PM
3/21/06 Tuesday Baseball   New York Tech   HOME   3:00 PM
3/23/06 Thursday Softball   at Saint Joseph's   Philadelphia, Pa.   2:30 PM
3/23/06 Thursday Baseball   New York Tech   Old Westbury, N.Y.   3:00 PM
3/24/06 Friday M. Tennis   St. Bonaventure University   Olean, N.Y.   TBA 
3/24/06 Friday Track & Field   Arizona State Invitational   Tempe, Ariz.   12:00 PM
3/24/06 Friday Track & Field   Arizona State Invitational   Tempe, Ariz.   12:00 PM
3/24/06 Friday W. Tennis   Lafayette College   Easton, Pa.   1:00 PM
3/25/06 Saturday M. Tennis   University at Buffalo   Buffalo, N.Y.   TBA 
3/25/06 Saturday Track & Field   West Point Invitational   West Point, N.Y.   10:00 AM
3/25/06 Saturday Track & Field   West Point Invitational   West Point, N.Y.   10:00 AM
3/25/06 Saturday Track & Field   West Point Invitational   West Point, N.Y.   10:00 AM
3/25/06 Saturday Track & Field   Arizona State Invitational   Tempe, Ariz.   12:00 PM
3/25/06 Saturday Track & Field   Arizona State Invitational   Tempe, Ariz.   12:00 PM
3/25/06 Saturday Baseball   Siena* (DH)   HOME   12:00 PM
3/25/06 Saturday W. Tennis   LaSalle University   Philadelphia, Pa.   1:00 PM
3/25/06 Saturday M. Lacrosse   Mount St. Mary's College$   Emmitsburg, Md.   1:00 PM
3/26/06 Sunday M. Tennis   Niagara University^   Niagara University, N.Y.   TBA 
3/26/06 Sunday Softball   Binghamton   HOME   12:00 AM
3/26/06 Sunday Baseball   Siena*   HOME   1:00 PM
3/26/06 Sunday W. Tennis   Niagara University&   Niagara Univ., N.Y.   4:00 PM
3/28/06 Tuesday Softball   at Quinnipiac   Hamden, Conn.   TBA 
3/28/06 Tuesday Golf   Saint Peter's   West Orange, N.J.   2:00 PM
3/29/06 Wednesday Baseball   St. Francis-N.Y.$   Brooklyn, N.Y.   3:00 PM
3/29/06 Wednesday W. Lacrosse   at Wagner   Staten Island, N.Y.   3:30 PM
3/30/06 Thursday Softball   at Wagner   Staten Island, N.Y.   2:30 PM

Go support "our" teams. I'd appreciate any reports or photos. What else do us old alums have to do? Right, encourage the young ones to max their achievement to 100% potential. I don’t think you have to win or die. Just give us it all and we should applaud. What better things do you have to do today, but to go to some strange place, support the team, dress up “funny”, and cheer for “our” athletes. So what if they think you’re a loon. You’re their loon. You are a loon. You never know what kind of difference you’ll make! Go to one of the women’s events and meet hot chicks! Or if your persuasion is different, got to the men’s events and meet hot guys. Besides no one ever reads the boilerplate, eula, or the fine print.

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Sports from College (http://www.gojaspers.com)

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6557

MEN’S BASKETBALL OVERCOMES FAIRFIELD, 78-77

Riverdale, N.Y. (February 23, 2006)- Manhattan welcomed Kenny Minor and Guy Ngarndi, both of whom missed seven or more games due to injury, and outslugged Fairfield, 78-77, tonight at Draddy Gym to improve to 17-9, 13-4 in MAAC play and set up a showdown with rival Iona for the top seed in the upcoming MAAC Tournament. The Stags fall to 9-17, 7-10 in MAAC play.

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6556

OLD TIME DUEL AT DRADDY AS JASPERS GEAR UP FOR IC4A/ECAC CHAMPIONSHIPS

Riverdale, N.Y. (February 23, 2006)--In what turned out to be an old-fashioned duel between two old-time rivals, Manhattan sophomore Margus Must and Fordham's Dan Tucker took their attempts to join numerous other Jaspers at the upcoming IC4A Championships. The two competed in the heptathlon at Manhattan's Last Chance Multi Meet with Must accumulating 4524 points, while his counterpart, Tucker, tallied 4708 points.

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6554

From The Desk Of The AD - February 23, 2006

February 23, 2006

Jasper Fans,

As we approach the time of year when the days get longer (and, hopefully, warmer), we begin to wrap up our winter seasons and kick off our spring seasons. Before I look ahead to the spring, I want to take this opportunity to take a look back at what Manhattan athletics has accomplished during the winter season.

The Swimming team just completed what could be considered its finest meet, breaking 12 school records and tallying both its highest point total and highest finish. Megan O'Keefe was a part of eight school records, establishing benchmarks in the 50 fly, 100 fly, and 200 fly, swam as part of record breaking relays in the 200 free relay, the 400 free relay, the 200 medley relay, and the 400 medley relay, and also set a new Manhattan best in points for a season. O'Keefe also qualified for two championship finals, and took home Manhattan's first MAAC swimming medal with a sixth place finish in the 100 fly. Three more records went down in individual events, as Maura McGowan set new Manhattan standards in the 50 free and the 100 free, and Susie Mothes broke the school record in the 1650 free.

While the swim team was raising the bar for future Lady Jasper swimmers, the men's and women's track and field teams were continuing to produce on a championship level, taking home the MAAC Indoor Track and Field Championship titles for the 10th consecutive season. The teams combined to win 13 individual events, and had three performances that bettered the MAAC Championship record coming from Marina Liander (weight throw), Tyler Raymond (800m run), and Milan Jotanovic (shot put). Two Manhattan athletes took home extra hardware, with Dexter Jules and Tiina Magi being recognized as the Men's and Women's Field Performers of the Meet. Head Coach Dan Mecca was named the MAAC Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year on both the men's and women's sides.

We are also in the stretch run for the basketball seasons, and both the men's and women's teams are still jostling for the best possible seed in the upcoming MAAC Tournament as we play the last weekend of the regular season. Both teams will be honoring their seniors on Sunday, February 26, as each team battles local rival Iona on MSG-TV, beginning with the women's game at 4, with the men's game to follow.

In conjunction with our celebration of the 100th season of Manhattan Men's Basketball, we held a special ceremony at halftime of the Jaspers' recent game vs. Long Beach State. Before the game, we unfurled a banner naming the top players from the first 100 seasons, and brought back the top 20 players to be recognized at halftime. The top 20 players, voted upon by a select panel, were Ignatious Volpe '38, Bob Kelly '49, Andy McGowan '53, Ed O'Connor '55, Gerry Paulson '57, Jack Powers '58, Bob Mealy '60, Larry Lembo '65, Jack Marren '70, Brian Mahoney '71, Richie Garner '72, George Bucci '75, Bill Campion '75, Steve Grant '78, Tim Cain '85, Peter Runge '90, Keith Bullock '93, Jamal Marshall '95, Jason Hoover '97, and Luis Flores '04.

After looking back at Manhattan College's past, we can now look towards the future, beginning with the preseason MAAC spring sport polls that were released recently.

The baseball team was tied atop of the MAAC Preseason poll with Le Moyne, the highest preseason ranking the team has ever had. Along with those high expectations, five players, Nick Derba, Eric Nieto, Chris Cody, John Fitzpatrick and Matt Rizzotti, were named Preseason All-MAAC, with Rizzotti also receiving Preseason Player of the Year honors.

The men's lacrosse team was picked third, with Pat Farrelly being named Preseason All-MAAC, the women's lacrosse team was selected fourth, with Molly Pheterson being named Preseason All-MAAC, and the softball team was also picked fourth, with Kiera Fox taking home Preseason All-MAAC honors. All four teams qualified for the MAAC Tournament last year, and based upon the preseason prognostications, springtime in Riverdale should be an exciting time.

In addition to those four sports, the men's tennis team looks to make it three MAAC Championships in a row, the Outdoor Track and Field teams look to continue their impressive run of championships, and the women's tennis and men's golf teams look to take the next step up the MAAC ladder.

All spring sport schedule are posted on our athletic website (GoJaspers.com) so please come out and support the Jaspers and Lady Jaspers as they strive to represent the college on the local, regional, and national level.

Yours in Jasper Athletics,

Bob Byrnes ‘68

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6552 

CZINK NAMED MAAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK IN MEN’S TENNIS

Riverdale, N.Y.Manhattan College sophomore Peter Czink, (Torokbalint, Hungary) has been tabbed MAAC Men's Tennis Player of the Week, it was announced today by the conference office. This was the first time this year that the men's tennis team received this honor.

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6551

JOIN THE LADY J'S AS THEY ENTER THE STRETCH RUN IN THEIR SEASON-LONG 'FIGHT FOR THE CURE' CAMPAIGN

Riverdale, N.Y. (February 21, 2006)--As the 2005-06 Women's Basketball season begins to wind down, the Lady Jaspers are asking for your help in their final push in their “Fight for the Cure,” a season-long campaign to raise money for the fight against breast cancer. The Lady Jaspers have teamed up with the Greater New York City Chapter of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to run a pledge drive to help eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease.

Click Here for an official Pledge Form  
                http://www.gojaspers.com/docs/fight%20for%20the%20cure%2Epdf

As part of the fight, the Lady J's changed venues from the hardwood to the terrain of Central Park as they ran the first watering stop along the race trail at Komen's Race for the Cure on September 25, 2005. Now, Manhattan would love for you to join in the fight. You can become a Pink Ribbon Level Supporter by pledging $5 for every assist recorded by the Lady J's during the 2005-06 season. You also have the option of pledging $1 for each assist or $1 for each three-point field goal made by Manhattan this season. To make a pledge please contact assistant women's basketball coach Sonia Burke via e-mail at sonia.burke _AT_ manhattan.edu or by telephone at 718-862-7992.

All pledges will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6548

REGAN, LADY JASPERS STRONG ON DEFENSE IN 58-49 VICTORY AT FAIRFIELD

Bridgeport, Conn. (February 20, 2006)--Lacking defense has not been a problem for the 2005-06 Lady Jaspers, and that trend continued on Monday night as Manhattan held Fairfield to less than 30 percent shooting from the field. Coupled with a stellar offensive performance from Manhattan freshman center Kelly Regan, who dropped in a new career-high 17 points, the Lady Jasper defense carried Manhattan to a 58-49 victory over the Stags at the Arena at Harbor Yard. With the win, Manhattan sweeps the season series from Fairfield and improves to 7-9 in MAAC play.

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6547

SWIMMING PICKS UP MORE HONORS AS NINE NAMED MAAC ALL-ACADEMIC

Riverdale, N.Y. (February 20, 2006)- To cap off what could be considered the finest meet by the Lady Jaspers' swim team, nine Manhattan swimmers were named to the MAAC All-Academic team, it was announced recently. Courtney Arduini, Bethany Karbowski, Heather Kennedy, Michelle LaTouche, Nicole Mason, Maura McGowan, Lauren Sullivan, Sarah Szotak, and Rachele Testa were each named MAAC All-Academic

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6546

MEN’S SOCCER ANNOUNCES 2006 RECRUITING CLASS

Riverdale, N.Y. (February 20, 2006) – Manhattan College men's soccer head coach Michael Swanwick today announced the core of the first full recruiting class since he took over the program last February. The Jaspers have signed eight to National Letters of Intent and have added to that one transfer for a recruiting class of nine.

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6545

AFTER CAPTURING TENTH-STRAIGHT MAAC TITLES, 27 JASPERS ADD ALL-ACADEMIC HONORS TO THEIR RESUMES

Riverdale, N.Y. (February 20, 2006)--In fitting fashion, Lauren Cervino, Amy Colantuono, Kendra Geller, and Erin Gregorek pieced together their best performance of the season to capture the MAAC 4x400 Relay Championship and hold off Rider to assure Manhattan of its tenth consecutive MAAC Indoor Championships. To cap off the quartet's memorable weekend, all four members joined 23 other Jaspers in earning MAAC All-Academic honors for the 2005-06 season. In all, 15 Manhattan men and 12 Lady Jaspers turned in superb efforts in the classroom similar to the ones they turned in at the NYC Armory this past Friday night.

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6544

MEN’S TENNIS FALLS TO COLUMBIA

Riverdale, NY (February 17, 2006)- Men's tennis falls to Columbia University, 1-6, this past Friday at Columbia. This loss makes the Jaspers' overall record 2-4.

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6543

MEN’S TENNIS SLIDES PAST ST.JOHN’S

Riverdale, NY (February 19, 2006)- Men's tennis slides past St. John's Sunday, 4-3 as they hosted the Red Storm at Columbia University. With the win the Jasper's improve to a 3-4 overall record. Peter Czink won the deciding singles match, winning two tiebreakers to give the Jaspers a 4-3 win over the Red Storm.

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6542

10TH SCHOOL RECORD ESTABLISHED ON THE FINAL DAY OF MAAC SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Baltimore, Md. (February 18, 2006)- Manhattan concluded a memorable MAAC Swimming Championships, breaking four more school records on the way to a school record 159 points and an eight place finish, the best since the MAAC expanded to 10 member schools in 1997. All told 10 new school standards were established.

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6541

LONG BEACH STATE DOWNS MEN'S BASKETBALL, 108-94

Riverdale, N.Y. (February 18, 2006)- Despite a game- and career-high 27 points from Arturo Dubois, Manhattan could not overcome Long Beach State's hot shooting, dropping a 108-94 decision this afternoon at Draddy Gym. Manhattan honored its top players from the first 100 seasons of Jasper basketball in a special halftime ceremony.

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6540

IT'S NOW A DECADE OF DOMINANCE AS MEN' S AND WOMEN'S INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD WIN MAAC TEAM TITLES

New York, N.Y. (February 17, 2006)--They aren't the old Boston Celtics or Montreal Canadiens, but after Friday night at the New York City Armory it is safe to say that the Manhattan Men's And Women's Indoor Track and Field squads are the closest thing the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference has to a dynasty. For the tenth straight year, the Manhattan men and women can call themselves MAAC Indoor Champions. Sophomore Dexter Jules won the MAAC Male Performer of the Meet for field events award, as he helped the Jaspers outscore second-place Rider by 41 points. On the women's side, junior Tiina Magi earned the Female Performer of the Meet for field events honor as she and her teammates held off Rider by 13.5-point margin.

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6539

SWIMMING SHOWS ITS "MEDAL" ON DAY 2 OF MAAC CHAMPIONSHIPS

Baltimore, Md. (February 17, 2006)- History was made for the second straight day for Manhattan at the MAAC Swimming Championships, held on the Loyola College campus. Three more school records fell on the second of three days of competition, as the team upped its point total to 125, already its highest output at the MAAC Championships since the conference expanded to 10 members in the 1997-98 season. Megan O'Keefe paced a great day of swimming for the Lady Jaspers, taking home Manhattan's first MAAC swimming medal with a sixth place finish in the 100 fly.

http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6538

Directions to Home Facilities

For directions to Women's Tennis home matches, please refer to the links below. All indoor matches will be played at the Bronx International Youth Tennis Center, while the outdoor matches will be held at the Metro Tennis Academy.

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Sports from Other Sources

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Curmudgeon's Final Words This Week

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060226/D8G0FKS82.html

Department Initially Opposed Ports Deal
Feb 25, 7:46 PM (ET)
By TED BRIDIS

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Homeland Security Department objected at first to a United Arab Emirates company's taking over significant operations at six U.S. ports. It was the lone protest among members of the government committee that eventually approved the deal without dissent.

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It is hard to imagine how tone deaf to the political climate that the Homeland Security Department “leadership” must be. Think of it like the Post Office protecting us. Frankly, they probably could do a better job. At least, they are partially subject to the competition of FedEx.

And that’s the last word.
Curmudgeon

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GBu. GBA. Reinke sends.