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sked to recall a memorable story as she begins her seventh year as SUNY Oneonta’s president, Nancy Kleniewski told about a student – let’s Kleniewski call her Kate – who entered under the EOP program. (That stands for Educational Opportunity Program.) Kate planned to study fashion, but during her first semester “she took a chemistry class. The chemistry professor” – Bill Vining – “realized how smart Please See PRESIDENT, A3
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arl Gohl, Appalachian Regional Commission co-chair, delivered a $123,525 check Thursday, Aug. 14, to Hartwick College for its fledgling Center for Craft and Food Beverage, aim to assist the revival of hops growing, brewing and natural foods production in Otsego County.
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CAMPAIGN OFFICE: Sean Eldridge, Democratic candidate for Congress in the 19th District, opened an Oneonta campaign office Saturday, Aug. 16, at 152154 Main St. FIGHT INVASIVES: The OCCA is seeking volunteers to hand-pull invasive water chestnuts from the north end of Goodyear Lake at 9 a.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 22-23, at the state boat access at Portlandville. Info at 282-4087. HOPS MINI-TOUR: For those who were closed out of NEHA’s Aug. 2 hops field day, a mini-workshop, from Oneonta’s Northern Eagle Beverages to Hager Hops’ yard in Pierstown is planned 9 a.m.-noon, Friday, Sept. 19. RSVP by Friday, Aug. 22, at ans74@cornell.edu.
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$26M Bring ‘Modern Pedadogy’ To Fitzelle By LIBBY CUDMORE
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n the wide, open expanse of the lounge, students can grab a quick, locally sourced sandwich or a customized Chobani yogurt and relax. In the brightly lit labs, students can build the latest robots and design tomorrow’s computer programming. And in the small, intimate corners, study groups can draw charts and make notes on the whiteboard walls. This is The New Fitzelle Hall, and it’s officially open for learning as of an opening reception 10 a.m.noon Monday, Sept. 25. “This building sends an Please See FITZELLE, A7 Rathbone details “lecturette” features.
Mohawk Valley Commission OKs Oneonta Projects
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he $11 million Upper Susquehanna Regional Ag Center. CADE’s related $200,000 Agricultural Microenterprise Program. The IDA’s Susquehanna Regional Center for Jobs on the fifth floor of 189 Main, a collaboration with SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College. The Big Three of the City of Oneonta’s projects seeking state economic-development funding in a round Governor Cuomo is expected to announce in September have received approval at the regional level. The Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Commission Wednesday, Aug. 13, announced the Please See PROJECTS, A6
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neonta’s Carol Baker has been named by Scholarship America as the National Dollars for Scholars Volunteer of the Year. Carol, former three-term president of Oneonta Dollars for Scholars, was an OHS guidance counselor when, in 1991, she recognized students needed help financing college and contacted the Citizens’ Scholarship Foundation of America, now Scholarship America, to form the local chapter. She was an original board member and, 23 years later, is still active in the chapter. Under her leadership and guidance, awards have grown from eight in 1992 to 57 awarded in June, and the local chapter received the first New York State Golden Tassel Award. “Dollars for Scholars is
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the program it is today because of volunteers like Carol, who go above and beyond to serve Oneonta Dollars for Scholars Carol and its area Baker students,” said Lauren Segal, Scholarship America’s president/CEO. With Carol as National Volunteer, the local chapter will received a $2,000 award, which will be presented at the annual Dollars for Scholars Awards Dinner in Minneapolis. Jacqueline Rowe, president of the local chapter, praised Baker as “a leader in helping us to develop a relationship with the Oneonta community.” Said the honoree, “It’s been a wonderfully positive Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA experience.” New faculty members at SUNY Oneonta gathered for a welcoming reception Monday, Aug. 18, at the Morris Conference Center. From left are Ursula Sanborn, Sasha Ramlal, Nicole Waide, Fanli Jia, James Cerullo, Nicole Lippolis, Jorge Estrada, Kristen Blinne, Eddy Alvarez, Joshua Nollenberg, Ileana Giura, Barbara Vokatis, Sandra Smith, Nancy Currier and Alyse Anekstein.
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ineteen faculty members who are joining SUNY Oneonta this fall were welcomed by their colleagues at a reception Monday, Aug. 18, at the Morris Conference Center. They are:
• Ileana Simona Giura, Management, Marketing, & Information Systems • Eddy Alvarez, Africana & Latino Studies • Alyse Anekstein, Educational Psychology, Counseling & Special Education • Barbara Vokatis, Elementary Education & Reading • Sasha Ramlal, Elementary Education & Reading • Kristen Blinne, Communication Arts • Charlene Foley-Deno, Economics, Finance & Accounting • Ursula Sanborn, Psychology • Joshua Nollenberg, Physics & Astronomy • Nancy Currier, Elementary Education & Reading • Nicole Waid, Secondary Education
• Priti Tiwari, Chemistry & Biochemistry • Nicole Lippolis, Chemistry & Biochemistry • Kelly Tiderencel, Human Ecology • Sandra Smith, Health & Fitness • James Cerullo, Health & Fitness • Jorge Estrada, Women’s & Gender Studies • Fanli Jia, Psychology • Sana Abbasi, Human Ecology
Also honored at the reception were eight faculty members promoted to the rank of professor: • Gustavo Arango, Foreign Languages & Literatures • Jennifer Bueche, Human Ecology • Rob Compton, Africana & Latino Studies/Political Science • Ho Hon Leung, Sociology • Theresa Russo, Human Ecology • Alex Thomas, Sociology • Donna Vogler, Biology • Renee Walker, Anthropology
And 14 promoted to the rank of associate professor:
• Tracy Betsinger, Anthropology • Suzanne Black, English • Yun-Jung Choi, Human Ecology • Carol Dean, Secondary Education • Todd Ellis, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences • Gregory Fulkerson, Sociology • Allan Green, Chemistry & Biochemistry • Dawn Hamlin, Educational Psychology, Counseling & Special Education • Brett Heindl, Political Science • Gina Keel, Political Science • Toke Knudsen, Math, Computer Science, Statistics • Elaine Lawrence, Secondary Education • Laura Munteanu, Math, Computer Science, Statistics • Florian Reyda, Biology/Biological Field Station • Jonathan Sadow, English • William Walker, Cooperstown Graduate Program
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PRESIDENT/From A1 she was and, second, that she was very interested in chemistry.� Today, after graduating from SUNY Oneonta as a chemistry major, Kate is studying for an advanced degree at a University of California campus. “She’s such an interesting, confident, success-
ful kid,� said Kleniewski. Amid budgets and buildings and negotiations, it’s students like Kate who give SUNY Oneonta’s seventh president the most satisfaction. “It’s the opportunity students get to change over the course of their years here that’s so important,� she said with some emotion. “The
faculty they work with care about them and help them take advantage of opportunity – at least they open the door to opportunity.� In an interview to mark the state of the 2014-15 academic year, Kleniewski could have talked about the college’s reorganization into five logical divisions under five deans,
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Might Big Data Catapult SUNY Oneonta In The Rankings?
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n all the rankings of SUNY University Colleges, Geneseo comes out on top, followed by New Paltz, then Oneonta. Not bad, out of 13, but wouldn’t we prefer our local campus to be #1? Longtime SUNY watchers – classes begin Monday, Aug. 25 – will tell you Geneseo’s reputation is the result of three decades of marketing, begun in the 1980s, when there were fewer ways to counter promotional claims. Today, whatever you say about anything – however fact-based – is bound to be challenged in social media and beyond. The bar to moving forward is simply higher. Improving reality and reputation, it seems, has to be done incrementally, tiny step by excruciating tiny step. Reputations are self-fulfilling to a degree. Because of Geneseo’s ranking, it tends to get better-qualified high school grads, who – if they escape the mischief associated with college life – become better alums. And the cycle spirals ever upward. The good news is that, as anyone who’s paying attention can attest, SUNY Oneonta is on that upward spiral, if not quite as far along as it may want to be – and will be. • Those same SUNY Oneonta watchers can observe the incremental improvements and feel the gathering momentum. A decades-long negative was the Black List scandal of 1992 – no need to revisit it beyond that – that for years was discussed only in soft tones, if at all. The college’s current president, Nancy Kleniewski, faced it head on with a 20th anniversary “Beyond the Black List” celebration on Sept. 4, 2012, aimed at exorcising that demon. “What took place today is a profound healing of the painful,” declared academic, author and activist Cornel West, keynoter in the Dewar Arena, after attending discussions and commemorations throughout the day. “Though no way an end, it was an unleashing of progressive possibilities.”
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Two deans, Joao Sedycias, center, Arts & Humanities, and Jan Bowers, front right, Education & Human Ecology, have joined SUNY Oneonta, fulfilling a five-dean reorganization initiated last year. Others, clockwise from front left, are Deans Susan Turell, Social Science; David Yen, Economics & Business, and Venkat Sharma, Natural & Mathematical Sciences; President Nancy Kleniewski and Provost Maria Thompson.
That was only one piece of ongoing progressive possibilities aimed at making inclusion part of SUNY Oneonta’s DNA, and there are many, many continuing manifestations of Kleniewski’s resolve, from picking the acerbic Sherman Alexie’s “Flight” as the first “common read,” to a determination to reflect national demographics in campus hirings, to – with the opening of this academic year – the arrival of Terrence Mitchell as the campus’ first chief diversity officer. The goal isn’t to sweep the Black List under the rug, but to replace a culture that allowed it to happen with a culture where it never will again. And it’s happening. • Inclusion is a prelude to academic ac-
complishment for the excluded, but doesn’t necessarily translate into academic accomplishment generally. Yet both are being demonstrated by SUNY Oneonta’s trajectory. The college’s 70 majors had evolved into a jumble, with disciplines scattered mystifyingly under random umbrellas. The first strategic plan developed after Kleniewski’s arrival in 2008 organized those majors into five logical divisions. Three new deans were hired in 2013, and the arrival of Jan Bowers to lead the School of Education & Human Ecology, and Joao Sedycias for the School of Arts & Humanities, completes that process. Given the number of people who now report to new bosses, you can imagine how
difficult this sensible reform was to organize and implement. But now that it’s done, academic goals can be set and tracked, initiatives launched and supported, and accountability achieved. In talking to Kleniewski – and listening to people who work for her – an intense student focus and an appreciation of collaboration are manifest. Those very ideals surfaced repeatedly in an hour-long conversation with principals in the multi-department Big Data initiative now underway. Only at SUNY Oneonta – philosophy professor Achim Koeddermann made it explicit: “You can do that at little Oneonta because we have something here big institutions don’t have: A collaborative spirit” – could the united effort of sociology, political science, philosophy and IT that created the Big Data initiative happen. • Could Big Data be the breakthrough SUNY Oneonta enthusiasts have been waiting and wishing for? Big Data – how to use it and how to protect our republic and its citizens from it – is the central issue of this decade, following the Edward Snowden revelations; perhaps the central issue of American life for decades to come. Only SUNY Oneonta – sociology prof Brian Lowe adds the caveat, “as far as we know” – has such an undergraduate program. And the multi-department approach positions our campus not only to advance a quickly growing discipline, but to pioneer discussion into the ethics of doing so. Just because we can know everything, should we? When the word gets out – and it may be time to start promoting something that’s little known outside the campus community – you can imagine that highly qualified, motivated students engaged in contemporary life will want to enroll here. Yes, this very well may be that anticipated breakthrough. Geneseo, jump back.
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Full-Time, Day-To-Day Professional Manager Will Serve City Even Better Editor’s Note: With Oneonta’s city charter and the city manager form of government under duress, here’s a wistful look back at a letter to the editor from the six living mayors published in advance of the November 2011 vote that supported the reforms, 1,128 to 348.
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aving served as mayors of the City of Oneonta, we write to urge the city’s voters to approve the proposed new city charter on Tuesday, Nov. 8. A commission of city residents has worked for almost two years, with extensive input from all interested parties, to develop the new charter. Experiences of other communities like ours
further clarifies the responsibilities of the council, the mayor, appointed boards and commissions, and department heads. There seems to be only one real area of controversy, the proposal to create the new position of city manager. We strongly support the approval of the charter and the establishment of the city manager’s position. With all the activities of city government added HOMETOWNONEONTA together, including water Four of the six mayors who endorsed the City and wastewater systems, our Charter pose in front of City Hall with the first elected officials and paid city manager, Mike Long, after his hiring in Sepprofessionals and their staffs tember 2012. From left are John Nader, Kim manage an $18 million Muller, Dick Miller and Dave Brenner. The other budget for a physical plant two were Jim Georgeson and Sam Nader. valued at more than $70 have been sought out and tise in the field, has written million. considered. the new document at the Activities within city The Albany Law School, direction of the commisgovernment’s scope of which has significant exper- sion. It is more concise and responsibility range from
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swimming lessons through sophisticated police and fire capabilities. The government employs 200 people, a number of whom are covered by four separate union contracts. The government directly serves more than 14,000 residents and indirectly thousands more who work and shop in the city. Everything in our society has become more complex, from the technology we employ to the increasingly difficult financial challenges we face. The current structure of city government has only vague lines of responsibility and authority that make the decision process, even on mundane issues, awkward and slow. While each of us feels we have performed our duties effectively while in office,
we believe that a single professional point of administrative responsibility in the form of a city manager will, over time, contribute to better serve our taxpayers at a lower cost. In the new charter, the common council’s meetings will continue to be chaired by the mayor. The council will continue to have control over the city’s finances. The common council will have the authority to appoint and hold a city manager accountable for the performance of government and will be able to remove that individual if he or she does not perform the required duties to the council’s satisfaction. The individual appointed will have to be a profesPlease See MAYORS, A6
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Most Of All, We Need Jobs To the Editor: The sparring match in the recent letters from Mr. Colone, Mr. Buttermann and Mr. Stammel has provided interesting and thoughtful reading. I also appreciate the respectful tone of the letters – all parties sharing the common interest in improving our community, but with different opinions about the method. Unlike many of the writers in these pages, these gentlemen have avoided the sardonic comments and personal insults directed at anyone who dares to have a different opinion. While both sides of the Southside water project are well stated, Mr. Colone makes excellent points. It’s axiom-
atic that we need jobs in this area. Good-paying, career-type jobs that will give more of our young people the option to stay or return after completing their education. More retail choices are always nice, but there must be some tipping point in the balance between population and retail. And the “tourism industry” is certainly not the answer. In fact, the term itself is ridiculous. There is no “industry” in tourism. Is there even one good-paying, career-type, family-supporting, year-around job in the tourism “industry?” Perhaps for the owner of a tourism business, but not the seasonal employees. Please See MILAVEC, A6
To the Editor: This is an open letter to the mayor, trustees, police chief and parking enforcement officers of the Village of Cooperstown. The village appears to have adopted a de facto permit system for on-street parking. Those permits are apparently available exclusively to a select group. That group includes village employees, certain elected officials and several other people who meet some unknown permitting criteria. The de facto permit system allows the permitted people to park their personal vehicles in two-hour parking and other restricted parking spaces for indefinite periods of eight hours or more without being ticketed. If this de facto permit system is legal, please consider extending those courtesies and privileges to all village residents and to all village taxpayers. If this de facto permit system is not legal, please consider ending it. STEPHEN MAHLUM Cooperstown
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125 Years Ago
The Third Separate Company of Oneonta left home for the camp at Peekskill, Saturday morning, August 10th at 7 o’clock. Ninety-six of the one hundred men composing the command reported for duty, two being sick, two out of town. The state camp was reached at 3 p.m. and the men were at once assigned to comfortable quarters. The grounds are excellent for military purposes, dry, well drained and sloping gently westward toward the Hudson River, which they overlook. The shelters were large wall tents, one for every two men. Each tent was provided with two cots, two mattresses, four blankets, two camp stools, one wooden pail, one wash basin, two tin cups and a candlestick. The food provided in camp is excellent and well-cooked. On Friday, the mid-day meal consisted of excellent soup, roast beef, corned beef, boiled cabbage, potatoes, beets, green corn, fine bread and butter, plenty of milk, and for dessert, coffee and apple pie. The daily routine of camp life begins at 5 a.m. when the company is aroused for roll call by the sounding of the reveille. A detail is then sent to bring early breakfast which consists of coffee and bread. After the food is dispatched the company falls in for drill under its own commander. The drill lasts about one and a half hours, after which comes breakfast at 7 a.m. Tents are then put in order for inspection. Battalion drill begins at 10 and lasts till 12:30 when dinner is served. After dinner the soldiers have the time to themselves until sundown. Permits can be obtained to leave camp; visits are exchanged between various companies; games of baseball are played, and other diversions engaged in. Supper being dispatched comes the dress parade at which every soldier must be present in dress uniform with white gloves. The parade lasts about one-half hour, after which the troops are dismissed until 9:30 when roll is called. At 10 o’clock taps sound and the lights are out. August 1889
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Headlines: “Battle of Nations Now Being Fought” “Germans Repulsed in Battle of Haelen” “General Von Emmich, Head of German Right Wing a Suicide” “Kaiser William Leaves for Front to Direct German Army” “Czar Grants Civil and Political Rights to Jews in Russia” “800,000 Russians Invade Germany” “Germans Facing Heavy Fire Slowly Drive In Allies’ Outposts” “Belgians Move Their Capital to Antwerp” “Germans Take 1,000 Russian Prisoners” “Allies Attack Germans Near Brussels – Great Battle is Raging” “Liege Forts Are Taken – Belgian Forces Evacuate Their Defenses – Dynamiting Them as They Take Flight in Face of Heavy Motor Artillery” “Pope Pius X Dies – Grief Stricken by War – Prays War’s Cessation to Last” August 1914
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New York State intends to make smokers pay the threecent-a-pack New York tax on the cigarettes they buy by mail from other states. Allen J. Goodrich, president of the State Tax Commission, said today that tax notices were being sent to “thousands of individuals” who have been getting mail order cigarettes from states that do not tax them. Most of the cigarettes come from Virginia and many of the purchasers are from the New York City area, Goodrich said. Under federal law, the mail order houses are required to report monthly to the New York Commission the name and address of each cigarette buyer, except licensed dealers, the quantity purchased and the date of sale. The law requires buyers to pay the three cent tax within 24 hours of receiving untaxed cigarettes. Penalties range up to 50 percent of the tax, plus one percent for each month of delinquency. August 1954
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Since meters were installed in the parking lot beside the Old City Hall Building early last year, the city has collected 33,200 nickels, or $1,660.00 in parking fees. Paul Kogut, city chamberlain, said the average weekly income on the meters has been about $55 to $60. The meters were installed in the lot last January. A nickel buys half an hour. August 1984
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The Oneonta Capital Budget and Planning Commission approved site plans, with conditions, for Hartwick College to build two new residence halls. The stipulations require August 1974 compliance with the Department of Environmental Conservation’s publication on storm water run-off, a requirement will be redoubled until German Jews get back all their the college already meets. The college must also schedule rights of citizenship. The communique calls for the formation of an international center which would direct all action inspections with the city engineer for all water management phases. Engineering department sign-off will also be of world Jewry against discrimination. August 1934 required for landscaping and water run-off measures. August 1994 COB_Central Region Profile Campaign_Hometown Oneonta _7.434x4” No Bleed BW MEMBER FDIC
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An outbreak of anti-Christian propaganda from Nazi sources has stirred the troubled church situation in Germany causing apprehension in Catholic and some Protestant groups. August Hoppe of the Hitler Youth press department has written in a periodical titled “Bordland” – “The time has come to take up the fight against Christianity. Germans must and shall realize that their conversion to Christianity was a crime against the race and the people, which put them completely at the mercy of powers outside the state.” Meanwhile, on the advice of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York, the Boycott Commission of the Third Jewish Conference issued a communique tonight declaring the boycott
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Mayors United Behind New City Charter, City Manager MAYORS/From A4 sional with the appropriate education and experience in his or her background. Some are concerned about the cost of funding this position. We are confident that, over time, this position will not add to the cost of government and will, in fact, reduce it – based on the savings and efficiencies that will result from a city manager’s full-time presence overseeing the day to day affairs of our government. Even if no organization or operational efficiencies were sought, the establishment of this
position will cost the city less than 1 percent of its total budget. We feel strongly that while our current system has served us well to this point, it will serve us even better with the assurance of a full-time professional day to day manager and leader. Improved accountability across the entire government will lead to even better performance of an already well performing set of departments that serve us. The city will be less dependent on the availability and background of a
part-time mayor whose responsibilities under the current charter are, at best, vague. We strongly support the idea of a city manager and the adoption of the new charter. We urge you to vote for it. JIM GEORGESON, 1960-61 SAM NADER, 1962-69 DAVID W. BRENNER, 1986-97 KIM MULLER, 1998-2005 JOHN S. NADER, 2006-2009 RICHARD P. MILLER, JR., 2010Mayors of Oneonta
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Village Can’t Ban Buses On State Roads, Only Streets To the Editor: A recent letter to the editor mischaracterized the heavy vehicle petition as “banning highway buses entirely from Cooperstown.” That’s not how the petition reads. As stated in the wording, highway buses can use state
and county roads - which include Main Street, Chestnut and West Lake - by right. They cannot be “banned” from Cooperstown. They use village residential streets – River, Lake, etc. – entirely at the discretion of the village. This means that highway
Most Of All, We Need Jobs MILAVEC/From A4 Ironically, validation of Mr. Colone’s position is in the same issue that contains his most recent letter. Employment ads seek a restaurant manager, seasonal cook, dishwasher, housekeeper, Walmart worker, bank teller, healthcare aide, teacher aide, substitute teacher, etc. Hardly the kind of jobs he advocates for. I don’t pretend to know the answer to the jobs crisis in this area. But what we have been doing is not the answer. To consider it another way - the way to end poverty is to nurture an environment where jobs are created, not discouraged. Then, wages rise as the need for workers rises. A final thought: We cel-
City Projects For State $$ Is Endorsed PROJECTS/From A1 list of projects it is endorsing, and those three were among nine major ones being supported for Otsego County. “We’re very encouraged,” said Sandy Mathes, IDA president. He said projects are scored, and the MVREDC endorsement is worth 80 percent of the score. The list is then sent to Albany, where the executive branch applies the final 20 percent. Elsewhere in the county, a 100-area commerce park south of Richfield Springs, a strategic planning process for Cooperstown, the William F. Streck Community Clinic at Pathfinder Village and a robotics curriculum at Edmeston Central School were among the projects endorsed. While the final two were not IDA projects, Mathes said his board is supportive of all the county endeavors. The three Oneonta applications aim to help the city help develop a “hub” for value-added agricultural products aimed at serving the New York City market.
ebrate the history of the railroad in this area. But one can only imagine the outcry if such an industry was proposed today. The noise, the pollution, the population, the traffic, the impact on roads and schools would all be identified as negative impacts! It would be a tragedy, some might say. But many, many families were supported by the good jobs the railroad brought. What is our 21st century equivalent of the Delaware & Hudson? JAMES MILAVEC Oneonta
buses could still drop passengers off at The Otesaga – on private hotel property, and at the Hall of Fame, on the private property to the east of HoF – without impacting residential streets. Other towns that have faced this problem have opted for highway bus remote parking – like Cooperstown’s north and south lots – and shuttle buses – like the village trolleys. There is no indication that tourism has suffered in Edgartown, Willamsburg or Corning – where such
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After $27 Million Redo, Futuristic Fitzelle Hall To Be Rededicated FITZELLE/From A1 important signal that our newest building is dedicated to academics,” said Tom Rathbone, associate VP/facilities & safety. The original Fitzelle Hall was built in 1968 as 70,000 square feet of classroom and faculty offices in a split-level with an office tower. Over the past three building seasons, $27 million in construction added 10,000 square feet, and the office tower was torn down and rebuilt to house the Education, Math, Computer Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Africa and Latino Studies departments. “In effect, we’ve added another building,” said Rathbone of the biggest renovation to date on the
46-year-old campus. In addition to offices and classrooms, Rathbone is most proud of the 200 seats of “informal learning” spaces, complete with white boards, electric outlets and table space for coffee cups and notebooks. “The white boards are compatible with any kind of marker,” Rathbone pointed out. “And it just wipes right off.” Fueling those study sessions will be Seasons Café, which features grab-and-go soups and sandwiches made from locally sourced ingredients, as well as a Chobani yogurt bar, where students can make their own creations, from peanut butter and jelly to caramel-
ized onion and pesto. With teacher preferences in mind, the classrooms were designed to feature a variety of writing spaces, including chalkboards for the more traditional and smartboards for the tech-savvy. “Everyone likes something a little different,” said Rathbone. “One of the things we really wanted was this diversity of classrooms so faculty will be able to enjoy a room they enjoy teaching in.” Faculty even got to choose the furniture in their offices, and Rathbone tried to make sure as many faculty members as possible had a window in their offices. But in place where a windows
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continues SUNY’s commitment to going green, the VP said. Heating and cooling systems have been updated to LEEDS standards, and several gender-neutral, handicapped-accessible bathrooms come complete with shower stalls. “We want to encourage faculty to ride their bike to work,” said Rathbone. “And this way, they can clean up when they get here.” The project – ground was broken two years ago May – was underwritten by the State University Construction Fund. “Students can go to their classes, grab a healthy snack and head up to the Union,” said Rathbone. “This building reflects the modern pedagogy.”
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might wash out a PowerPoint or distract students, underground “lecturettes,” – small lecture halls – complete with wiring for student laptops and swivel chairs to facilitate group work. “It was a challenge to use that space,” said Rathbone. Even when students and faculty have to venture outdoors, they won’t have to leave too many comforts behind. A covered walkway leads to the IRC, while a heated sidewalk on the second floor creates a shortcut to the Hunt Union. “It helps with the snow and ice we have here,” said Rathbone. And the new Fitzelle Hall
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