The Griffin: volume 73, issue 07 - Nov. 1, 2002

              Cooke recommended the decision to the College's Board of Trustees after consulting with Ellen O. COnley, Vice President for Student Affairs and Dillon. The funds from the eight The MAAC's core consists of 14 sports: men's and women's basketball, baseball, Softball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's cross-country, women's volleyball, men's golf, men's and Men's swimming will be added in order to satisfy the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference's (MAAC) requirement that a certain number of core sports be offered at member institutions. It is also an NCAA requirement that for a school to maintain Division I status at least 14 intercollegiate sports must be carried. Effective for the Fall 2003 season, football, men's and women's indoor and outdoor track, men's and women's tennis and the rifle team will all be eliminated. In addition, Cooke announced that men's swimming, a sport that was discontinued in 1997, will be brought back as a Division I sport, bringing the total number of teams to 16. The College's athletic department is dropping eight of its current 23 varsity sports teams, Rev. Vincent M. Cooke, S.J. College President, said at a news conference yesterday. Next fall it will be tennis. Athletic Director Timothy J. Dillon said that a men's swimming program is sensible considering Koessler already has a pool and that See Sports page 3 COURTESY OF CAMPUS MINISTRY As part of a recent Campus Ministry food drive for St. Ann's Parish, members of the hockey team raised money. Campus Ministry is currently gearing up for their annual Thanksgiving food drive. The student body will not officially hear of these cases until they are reported in next year's The department of Public Safety's 2001 Annual Security Report lists only three forcible sex offenses in the past three years, with two of them occurring in 2001. The report also states that no nonforcible sex offenses have occurred in the past three years. The current alleged suspect and victim are both Canisius students. This is the second incident this year that has been reported where both members involved are students. The previous three cases involved one or more non-student parties. This case increases the number of sexual misconduct incidents on campus to five, all of which occurred this semester. Charges against the previous four offenders were dropped or the incidents were resolved through external methods. The current case is still under investigation by the Buffalo Police Department and no charges have yet been made. A resident student reported being sexually assaulted by an acquaintance while in her resident facility Sunday morning. Sexual misconduct is defined as any form of unwanted sexual contact. Unwanted sexual contact occurs when the victim does not give consent or is unable to give consent because of sleep, unconsciousness, mental disorder or drug or alcohol intoxication. It is estimated that only one in five or six sexual assaults are reported to the police. The majority of victims are between the ages of 18 and 35. In 50 to 75 percent of the cases, the victim knows their attacker. One fourth of college women have been victims of rape or Sexual assaults increase Five incidents on campus this fall Annual Security report. "We feel that these [incidents] are isolated situations and the alleged suspects are not a danger to other students," Dean of Students Dr. Cary Anderson said. "After everything is over, we will publish the findings. We have to put a little time and distance between the incident, so the victim can recover." "The more information that victims have, the better," Everett said. Both Anderson and Gary Everett, Director of Public Safety, stress that they work with the victims first and foremost. Recent food drives have been very successful, but campus Last fall, Canisius collected more than $10,000 worth of food and money and this year Campus Ministry is looking to collect even more to help the suffering in the surrounding community. Campus Ministry will hold its annual Thanksgiving food drive Saturday, Nov. 23. They are looking for groups and individuals to help with the collection of food at local supermarkets and sorting the food at local soup kitchens/food pantries. ministry believes that more needs to be done. Between Oct. 7 and 18, Cusack for President and Campus Ministry collected food from the college community for St. Ann's Jesuit Parish. Though both drives were very successful, hunger is still a great problem here in the U.S. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Economic Research Service Report (May 2002), more than 36 million people, including 14 million children, experience hunger across the United States and over 11 However, St. Ann's was in need of many different types of food. The hockey team gladly helped Campus Ministry collect $135 that they used to purchase food from a wish list for St Ann's Jesuit Parish. Campus Ministry is very grateful to both groups for all their help. The object of this drive was to bring awareness to the fact that people are going hungry everyday not just around the holidays. This drive brought not only awareness, but also a great help to hungry people across Buffalo. See Assaults page 2 CIyc ©riflift ~ —r Canisius College. Buffalo. NY Volume LXXIII. Number 7 CANISIUS CUTS EIGHT SPORTS Friday. November 1, 2002 By Katie Schlientz Sports Editor By David Hill and Joe Clifford News Editor and Sports Editor women's swimming and men's and women's tennis. Each school is allowed one exception on the men's side and one exception on the women's side. Since 1997 men's swimming has been that exception. "As we have attempted to do too much with too little, overall student satisfaction suffered. Sotoday, this is truly a case of less being more," Dillon said. "We believe that we can be very good in the 16 sports we've chosen to retain." Making this decision was difficult, Dillon said. However, it was necessary in order to increase student-athlete satisfaction and get more overall from the College's remaining sports programs. Cooke considered the decision a "very positive move for our athletic program." Athletics said that as a result of the decision, the department can concentrate its funds in fewer sports, but it does not reflect a move away from Division I. there is already a women's team. He added that the program had success before it was discontinued. The athletic department is now in the process of looking for a head coach. JOE CLIFFORD Athletic Director Tim Dillon announced that the athletic department will be cutting eight of the 23 varsity sports, effective next fall. - , AMANDA BREIDENSTEIN Spook - tacular Canisius students prove that you are never too young to have Halloween spirit!! Pictured above are Jaime Rulison, Russ Petrus, Jen English, Melissa Parker and Megan Garvey. By Kristen Lovejoy News Reporter Thanksqivinq food drive set to beqin percent of the US population live in poverty (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2000). Food First, a non-profit think tank devoted to reducing world hunger, is committed to establishing food as a basic human right. "When we think of 'human rights' in the U.S., we often think of protecting individual rights. But we may be the only country in the world that blames the individual for being too poor to eat.. .Over the past thirty years, we have, as a nation, tolerated wider income disparities and deeper levels of hunger and poverty than any other developed nation," as stated on the group's website. Joe Van Volkenburg, Assistant to the Director of Campus Ministry, strongly supports the food drives. "These programs allow members of Canisius College family to come together and work on behalf of those that have the least of society. [At] the Thanksgiving Food Drive students work alongside faculty/ staff and their families in an effort to reach out and touch someone that has less. That is really what a Jesuit education is all about; being a person for others," Van Volkenburg said. Anyone interested in helping at this year's food drive may contact the Campus Ministry Office, Old Main 207, 888-2420 or e-mail Joe Van Volkenburg at vanvolkj@canisius.edu. Due to the programs and Innovations of members of this year's SAAC.the program shined at the MAAC-wide conference. See Sports Editor Katie Schlientz article on page 3. Recent events in news are creating turmoil among students. Read how one student responds to the cutting of the fwwootball team and see how the E-board feels about sex crimes. Shakespeare's The Two Men of Verona debuted last weekend in Little Theatre. See what our reviewer had to say about their 1950's based performance on page 8. The hockey team opened their MAAC season with two games last weekend. The Grifffs lost to Quinnipic in the opener. For more about the games, see page 13. INSIDE fOBWI ©riffin m 1 M0JW1L 6 [\MM 8 Mm 16