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Planning Reunions Revived School Spirit Kathy More Hewlett Is OHS’ 2014 Alumni Of Year
Recruited by Madolyn O. Palmer to the OHS Alumni Association, Kathy More Hewlett reconnected with her latent school spirit.
SUNY students Gabriella Donato and James Dipaoli have enlisted their fraternity and sorority in an alcohol and substance-abuse aware walk Saturday, Oct. 4, but LEAF Director Julie Dostal has challenged them to do one better/
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of the Year, to be fully recognized during the upcoming Alumni Weekend, Friday-Sunday, Oct. 3-5. etting active in the OHS She graduated in January 1974 Alumni Association was a after doubling up in her junior year chance for Kathy Hewlett on history and home economics, to experience high school all over with the latter discipline being again. particularly practical in the years “I feel like I missed a lot, graduatthat followed. ing early,” she said. “This is a way “When I was working for the Kathy in ’74 of redeeming myself.” alumni association at SUNY, we Hewlett – Kathy More when she were setting up one of their dinPlease See ALUMNI, B4 Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA graduated in 1974 – is this year’s Alumni By LIBBY CUDMORE
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Chickens a la Oneonta? DUO IN EYE OF ROWDINESS STORM
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Summit Aim: To Make City More Inclusive
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ith hopes of making Oneonta a more welcoming community for all, the local chapter of the NAACP and the city’s Commission on Community Relations & Human Rights are sponsoring a summit on diversity at Foothills on Saturday, Nov. 8. Starting at 8:30 a.m, “Oneonta – An Inclusive Community” will discuss a variety of diversity issues, including racial profiling, equal access to housing and employee discrimination. “We want to make a difference,” said Regina Betts, VP of the Oneonta NAACP. “Ten years from now, we want to see a more inclusive Oneonta.” The public is invited. WARD MEETING: Fourth Ward Common Council member Mike Lynch will hold a neighborhood meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in the Center Street School gym. AID FOR ARTS: Now’s the time to apply for state Decentralization Grants, $100,000 of which is available in amounts up to $5,000 to Otsego, Chenango and Broome arts organizations. Deadline is Jan. 7. Details at www.chenangoarts.org
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When rowdy students make mischief, SUNY Oneonta’s Steve Perry and Hartwick College’s Meg Nowak are the go-to people on their campuses.
When Trouble Knocks, Perry, Nowak Answer By JIM KEVLIN
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or Steve Perry, the lowest point in 30 years of trying to keep the student rowdiness under control came in the mid-1990s: One year, SUNY Oneonta “dismissed” 300 students at mid-year,
sending them home for poor grades and out-of-hand behavior. That was a breaking point, the campus’ vice president/student development recalled in an interview in his office in the Netzer Administration Building. So in 1996, SUNY Oneonta administrators put Please See TROUBLE, A7
t’s not a matter of which came first – the chickens or the ordinance. It’s about which one will go on the chopping block. “There’s a lot of concern about where our food comes from,” said City Council member Bob Brzozowski. “People want to know that their chickens are cared for, what they’re fed and the quality of their lives. It’s the obvious solution.” Under the proposed amendment to municipal code Section 1, Chapter 68: • Up to 10 “Daddy Al” chickens would Dicka helps his be allowed grandaughters, within city Jade Dicka and limits. little Adara Mar• Roosters, tinoli feed his flock of chickens the outdoor slaughtering of chickens and the sale of the eggs are prohibited. • Chickens must be kept in an appropriate-sized pen 25 feet from another dwelling, not in a front yard or allowed to free-range unsupervised. The movement was started by Howard Lichtman, who wanted to add chickens to his River Street Please See CHICKENS, B4
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Rosemarie Avanzato Wins Malhotra’s Seva Award
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neonta’s Rosemarie Avanzato, a lecturer in SUNY Oneonta’s School of Education & Human Ecology, is the 2014 winner of the college’s Ashok Kumar Malhotra Seva Faculty Award. She will deliver the Seva Lecture, titled, ”How Easy It Is To Incorporate Service-Learning Into The Classroom,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in the Craven Lounge of the Morris Conference Center. The public is welcome; a dessert reception will follow. Avanzato holds an associate’s degree in fashion merchandising from Nassau Community College, a bacheON DEAN’S LIST: Two Otsego County students are on the Paul Smiths College Dean’s List for the spring semester: Meghan Bomba of Unadilla, who is majoring in baking and pastry arts, and Kayleigh Estell of Edmeston, who is majoring in hotel, resort and tourism management.
lor’s degree in clothing and textiles from SUNY Oneonta, and a master’s in education (reading) from SUNY Oneonta. The honoree was cited for engaging her Consumer Resource Rosemarie Management classes Avanzato in service-learning projects, ranging from collecting pet supply donations for a local animal shelter to coordinating the national Cinderella Project, which provides free, gently worn gowns and
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accessories to high school students dreaming of attending their high school prom. She is also the adviser for the college’s Association of Secondary Educators student organization. The Seva Faculty Award honorees exempligy the ideals of compassionate service. It was established by SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Ashok Kumar Malhotra in 2008 through an endowment that funds a $1,000 annual award. The college provost names award winners based on a faculty selection committee’s recommendations.
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tims advocate and the violence intervention manager, aimed at “providing comprehensive, caring services to families in crisis. While each program will remain separate, this move will increase communication and resource sharing among our two crisis intervention programs and shelters,” said OFO COO Gary Herzig.
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Ease Out Maverick Frats, Expand On-Campus Housing
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he student rowdiness that provoked that stormy Oneonta Common Council meeting of Tuesday, Sept. 16, is troubling. Dig a little deeper, however, and there are indications that – with two dramatic exceptions – what happened when SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College students returned this year was little worse than usual. The first dramatic exception involves Tyler Giancola, a transfer student who, in the wee hours of Sunday, Sept. 14, fell during an apparent altercation, striking his head on the pavement. He is still in serious condition in Albany Medical Center. The second emerged from statistics obtained through a FOIL request to the Oneonta Fire Department: While most of the data fell within parameters, OFD ambulances’ “transfers to Fox” more than tripled, to 50 for the first 29 days that students were back in town, compared to 16 last year. Much of that, it turns out, is due to a new policy: All seriously intoxicated subjects under 18 – college and high school students alike – are now being brought to the hospital, said Dr. Kelly Robinson, who is in charge of Fox’s Emergency Department. The impetus was caution: “We wanted to make
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Blame the students, sure. But what message are they getting from the adult world?
sure there are no alcohol overdose deaths,” he said. • SUNY Oneonta’s Steven Perry, vice president/student development, has been involved in the question of student drinking – first as a researcher, then as an administrator – since the 1980s when the drinking age was raised to 21 and the decision was made to be a “dry campus.” In his experience, the problem of student drinking and rowdiness was worst in the early 1990s, culminating in 300 students being “dismissed” – sent home – in 1996. At the time, Perry’s research showed that fresh-
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s we get closer to the beginning of the new academic year, we know that you are having last-minute discussions with your Oneonta student about coming to college. We also know that, soon after arriving on campus, your daughter or son will be confronted with the choice of participating in Greek letter social organizations. We want your family to have as much information as possible for making that choice. Thousands of alumni
around the country have had positive experiences with fraternities and sororities, but there are also risks that we want you to know about. If you want information about the benefits of membership in a Greek letter social organization, please call our Greek adviser, Angie Eichler... ►WHAT TO EXPECT Recognized sororities and fraternities at SUNY Oneonta are not allowed to rush, pledge, or initiate freshmen during the student’s first semester on campus. The reason for this rule is that students who are pledging are at risk for performing poorly in their classes. We want students to have at least one semester in Please See PERRY, A6
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ublic urination. There it is. Icky subject. Anyone caught performing same in downtown Oneonta faces a charge of public lewdness, which sounds an awful lot worse then simply performing a required bodily function. Why would anybody indulge in such if an alternative were available? Aha. Perhaps that the problem. Even in the daytime, there are few available public restrooms in the downtown. At night, after the bars close, there are perhaps none, and the walk back to Hartwick College or SUNY Oneonta is a mile or more. Instead of sending who knows how many freshly minted graduates into the big wide world with public lewdness charges on their record, wouldn’t it make more sense to build public restrooms, perhaps tucked away in the big lot between Dietz and Ford? No doubt that might create a whole different set of problems, but it’s something worth thinking about. stormy meeting of the 16th. Promisingly, many wise steps have been taken since the state Liquor Authority – not City Hall, per se, Miller pointed out – closed three downtown bars in 2012 for serving underage patrons and pushed revelers into house parties in the neighborhoods. (At least bars charged by the drink; students pay a flat fee at the house parties, then determine to get their money’s worth.) At both SUNY and Hartwick, incoming freshmen are required to take an online alcohol-education course; at SUNY, records are frozen if incoming students don’t. Further on-campus lectures are
required. Ranking officers from OPD, University Police and Hartwick security meet EVERY Monday morning to review the weekend’s events. Both campuses pay Oneonta Public Transport to run buses back from downtown late into the evening. Hartwick, its challenges with its 1,500 students somewhat less than SUNY with its 6,000, requires students to live on campus until their senior year. You can imagine how that might reduce rowdiness if SUNY could require the same. • Perhaps that’s the answer over time: To move students onto campus. Given last year’s rancor over the
impact of Newman Development Corp.’s high-rise on Blodgett Drive, you know that would be controversial. But perhaps there’s a win-win. Perhaps, with Newman or some other development firm in the lead, landlords who now offer students housing downtown would be able to invest and profit from such an initiative. With a shortage of family housing in the city, and promising initiatives – Housing Visions is lining up properties to renovate; Oneonta-specific legislation that provides tax breaks to families seeking to turn apartment houses back into single-family homes was signed by Governor Cuomo last week – the City of Oneonta has been moving in the right direction on the blight continuum. People who live in Oneonta generally love it. The worst of student rowdiness is mostly in neighborhoods between downtown and the campuses. While, as noted in this space before, student rowdiness can’t be eliminated with the wave of a magic wand, it can be confronted firmly, thoughtfully and consistently with the expectation that things can get better over time. There’s a strong constituency for making things better.
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STEVEN R. PERRY
Editor’s Note: SUNY Oneonta’s Steven R. Perry, vice president/student development, sends this letter to parents annually, warning about non-affiliated fraternities and other issues regarding Greek life.
men who were immediately pledged by fraternities were most likely to run into academic trouble. In response, the campus prohibited fraternities from pledging freshmen until the second semester. In protest, 10 or so fraternities cut their ties with the campus. Some of them – it’s been difficult to get the number or names – continue to operate today in no man’s land, some with loose affiliation to nationals but without any local restraints. That clearly is an invitation to trouble. Generally, City Hall, through code enforcement among other things, has intensified overview of fraternities (and student housing generally) in recent years, which is good. Is there some sort of zoning solution that, sooner rather than later, would ease these mavericks into oblivion? • While student rowdiness may be more or less what it’s been in recent years – OPD arrests of students are referred to the campuses, and Police Chief Dennis Nayor says numbers are almost exactly the same as last year – that doesn’t mean impingements on quality of life don’t matter. “Those are very real concerns on (neighbors’) parts, based on real experiences they’re having,” Mayor Dick Miller said after the
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2 Town Board Members Firm On Water Plant Approve Project, For Sake Of Public Health To the Editor: along the Southside corridor The state Department of have been required to install Health has reported multiple disinfection due to multiple instances of water contamipositive bacteria results. In nation over the years 1999, chemical conthat threaten the tamination, including health of our Southbenzene, 1,2,4 trimethside residents as well ylbenzene and toluene as the health of the were detected in the consumers utilizing mobile home park local restaurants and water supply after a businesses. Almost kerosene spill. All but all of the current Jacobs two of the 25 public public water systems water systems have fail to provide the required had violations since 2000. chlorine contact time. There have been 16 boilThere have been, as of May water orders for the public 2014, 79 coliform sampling water systems, totaling over violations, 18 chemical 390 days, since 2002. Mulsampling violations and 84 tiple wells were also flooded operational violations, and during the 2006 event. several public water systems Please See JACOB, A6
Fears Of Davenport Strip Are Unfounded To the Editor: facts and assumptions and Thank you for your made illogical conclusions. editorial concerning the It is generous of the editoproposed Southside Oneonta rial to suggest that I should Town Water District. be a spokesperson on Although this paper behalf of the Oneonta came out against Town Board but that the district and has is not my role. My job devoted a disproporis not to advocate for tionate amount of the board, or a party, space to a single city or special interests resident who vocally but to advocate for opposes it, I apprethe people. I support Stammel this project after much ciate its coverage. The project has been research and reflecsupported by the other local tion about the needs of our newspaper and by groups residents and what will do as diverse as Sustainable the greatest good for the Otsego and Citizens Voices. greatest number. Residents Unfortunately, your edito- deserve accurate and thorrial and coverage has been ough information to enable based upon several incorrect Please See STAMMEL, A6
Help Build Cooperstown’s Community Plan To the Editor: The Village of Cooperstown is currently undertaking an update of its 1994 Comprehensive Plan. To gather input from the public for this update, a survey is currently being taken. This survey, which has but five questions, will be available at the Cooperstown Field Day this Saturday, Oct. 4, as well as at the village offices during regular business hours. As I was filling it out my survey, the one question that struck me as being the most thought provoking was the fourth one, which asked, “What is your favorite aspect of the Village of Cooperstown?” Of course, to me at least, the answer seemed quite obvious. I wrote: “This question can be answered in two words, namely, its people. “While there may be those who think Cooperstown is defined by its historic buildings, its lovely rural setting, its access to health care, its nationally known museums, its cultural undertakings, its tree-lined streets, or even its constant state of change, it
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s the basis for a Community Plan, Elan Planning of Saratoga Springs has scheduled two public meetings: • Monday, Oct. 6, for citizens to identify Cooperstown’s strengths and gaps. • Wednesday, Oct. 8, where planning will report back on the inputs they’ve received. Both are 6-8 p.m. in the Cooperstown Central School cafeteria.
is its people that make Cooperstown, Cooperstown. “And while change is the one thing that I think is inevitable, the sense of community, which Cooperstown residents bring to the area, is the one thing which should not change. And thus it is most troubling to have watched the divide among locals which seems to have crept into that sense of community in recent years. “If nothing else, any update to planning for the community should include ideas on how to keep Cooperstown
as a place where real people live and work and not let it slip into some sort of a Disney like destination where those of us who live here are just thought to be atmosphere artists who are on duty to make Cooperstown seem like a real community. “It is a real community and everything should be done to keep it so.” In addition to the survey, the Village of Cooperstown will be holding two meetings in which locals will have the opportunity to share ideas about the future of the village. Representatives of the Saratoga planning firm Elan, which the village has hired for this project, will be at the two meetings scheduled 6-8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, and Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the cafeteria of the Cooperstown Junior/Senior High School on Linden Avenue. I would encourage everyone who is able to attend these two meetings. Making plans for the future of Cooperstown needs the input of all of those who call Cooperstown home. CATHERINE LAKE ELLSWORTH Cooperstown
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Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
125 Years Ago
A balloonist tells his experience. Prof. Chas. Vandervere made a balloon ascension from the Oneonta fair grounds on Saturday, in the presence of a large crowd of people. Prof. Vandervere is a gentlemanly-appearing man of about 30 years. He states that this was his 25th ascension, his first being at Argusville in Schoharie County in 1884. The parachute was not used, it being so cool and the wind blowing so hard when the inflation with hot air began that Mr. Vandervere expressed doubts of being able to go high enough to make it safe to descend with the parachute. However, when cut loose, the balloon ascended rapidly, soon reaching the height of nearly a mile, the balloonist gradually diminishing in size until he appeared like a mere speck. The balloon soared gracefully to the east and alighted in an open field on the farm of John Orr in the Town of Davenport, about three miles from Oneonta. October 1889
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40 Years Ago
Classes resumed without incident in the Oneonta Public Schools yesterday, following a three-day strike of teachers in the district. Francis Doherty, business and personnel director for the school said “real education” was taking place in the classrooms and that bitterness from the strike was at a minimum. Oneonta Teachers’ Association President John Miller agreed, saying he had requested the union’s building representatives in each of the schools to personally shake hands with each of the teachers who had crossed picket lines during the strike. “They are our friends,” Miller said. “We want them to be with us. You don’t do that by vindictiveness and bitterness.” October 1974
30 Years Ago
Oneonta peace activist Will Siegfried was released early Friday morning from the Oneida County jail hours after he had been sentenced to serve four days by Oneida County Judge Daniel C. Wilson. Siegfried, 27, of 67 Church Street, and a member of the Oneonta Peace Network, was among a group of 71 protesters who were arrested June 4 for blocking an entrance to the Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome in protest of the storage of nuclear weapons on the base. He was sentenced to the jail term on charges of disorderly conduct after the judge rejected his defense and found him guilty. Siegfried refused to pay a fine and announced plans for a hunger strike for the duration of the jail term. October 1984
100 Years Ago
Tuesday morning, about 8:30 o’clock, Passenger Train No. 9 with Car 52, leaving Oneonta at 8:15 o’clock, hit the rear end of the Utica freight train at the entrance to the siding near the ruins of Otsego Park. Nearly all of the 15 passengers, among whom were several children en route to school at Laurens, were more or less bruised and cut by flying glass. Those most seriously cut and bruised by the impact which threw them from their seats were L.H. Chase, Eugene Thorpe and Walter Hartman of this city. October 1889
60 Years Ago
Dickie, a two-month-old blue parakeet, flew through an open door about 3 p.m. yesterday to explore the big world outside the Donald Holcomb home, 44 Church Street. Thereafter, the bird cut a trail of high adventure. In a tree at 36 Cherry Street, Dickie was espied by David Rittinger, 8, who captured him. Thinking there might be a reward for the bird, David took Dickie to the home of Police Sgt. James Fawcett, 44 Clinton Street, where he interrupted the rgeant’s concentration on the baseball World Series, via television. Sergeant Fawcett phoned Sergeant Ernest Johnson at the police station and then contacted radio station WDOS. Sgt. Fawcett then put Dickie in a shoebox and later into a bird cage borrowed from his sister. Station WDOS sent out a news bulletin about Dickie which was heard by Doris Deyo at 104 River Street who had lost a blue parakeet two months earlier. Deyo went
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October 1934 to the Fawcett home where Sheila Fawcett, 11, gave up Dickie and off he went to the Sixth Ward. Later, Mrs. Holcomb heard about the parakeet SOS and went to the Fawcett home and learned that Dickie had left earlier with Doris Deyo. Still later, Mr. Holcomb drove to the Deyo home and positively identified Dickie by a leg band and serial number. October 1954
Among the more than 800 people who took part in the inaugural “Pit Run” 10K race, and the hundreds who watched it from street curbs throughout Oneonta, perhaps no one enjoyed it more than Debra Parisian, widow of the slain trooper from Oneonta in whose memory the event was held. The race raised about $9,000 for a scholarship to help high school graduates pursuing careers in special education. October 1994
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PERRY/From A4 which to adjust to the academic demands of college before becoming involved in fraternities and sororities, so we require the Greek organizations to defer rush until students’ second semester. ►UNRECOGNIZED ORGANIZATIONS As on other SUNY campuses, there are groups in Oneonta that use Greek letters and are not recognized by the college. That means that these organizations have no affiliation with or supervision by the college, do not follow the rules that are set for Greek social organizations (including the deferred rush policy), and do not give the College the names of their members. They are loosely organized social clubs that often use the Greek letters of legitimate organizations. Their use of these names is illegal because they are not formally affiliated with the national organizations. A student who joins an unrecognized group and pays dues to that group will not be a recognized member on any other campus nor have any of the alumni privileges that go with national membership. The dues that are paid are used solely for the social activities of the local group. Some of these groups were at one time recognized by the College and were affiliated with national organizations but chose to end their affiliation with the College. There are Oneonta alumni who were members of these groups when they were recognized and are not aware that the status has changed. Members of unrecognized groups sometimes lie to new students about the group’s status.
Town Board Members Disagree With Editorial JACOBS/From A4 Because of these issues, the Town began its consideration of this project in 2008,when the Courtyard Marriott sent an application for a new well to the DOH, which requested that the Town conduct a study regarding the provision of municipal water to the Southside area. Fortin Park was chosen for the well site because the Town already owns the land, it is not floodable, and the perimeter around the well can be controlled to prevent contamination. Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood has worked tirelessly over the last several years to secure funding to a total of $3.25 million in grants, as well as $150,000 in pending grant money. The commercial district will receive $2.4 million in loans with an interest rate of 3.5 percent over 30 years and the resi-
dents’ portion will consist of $2.4 million at 0 percent (interest free) over 30 years, all of which will considerably reduce the overall cost of the project, saving millions of dollars for both businesses and residents. The proposal for providing municipal water services to Davenport is not a contingency upon which the success of this project depends. The cost of water for our town residents, if supplied by the proposed city project, would be markedly higher; 2.43/1000 gallons (500,000 gal/day x 365 days/yr), the cost of which would be $443,475. The exact same volume over the course of 365 days would be $109,012 if supplied by the Town via the Fortin Park well. The financial advantage to the Town residents of hundreds of thousands of dollars each year is very clear. It is illogical to suggest
that the Town proposal will “assuredly increase dependency on fossil fuels” while city support of the exact same model would not, given that the end result would be the same, just with higher costs to the town residents. The purpose of this project is to preserve the trend of positive growth in the region while ensuring the safety of the existing residential population, hardly a “crazy quilt approach.” The value of properties within the district will likely be increased with a safe and predictable water supply, a major health benefit to residents and those who visit our area. To allow politically driven misinformation to distort these facts is a gross disservice to the residents of the Town of Oneonta. PATRICIA JACOB Member, Oneonta Town Board
STAMMEL/From A4 them now to decide. The primary points of opposition made in this paper appear to be as follows: the project doesn’t create enough of the right kinds of jobs; it threatens the City of Oneonta; and it encourages irresponsible sprawl or “dumb growth.” First, I approach this project primarily as a necessary investment in infrastructure to assist our current residents and businesses on Southside and protect them from poor water quality and irregular quantity. It is not necessary to prove how many jobs this infrastructure project produces; the improvement is designed to provide a service and meet the needs of the people and will be paid for by those
receiving the service. Incidentally though there will be jobs created and increased property values and tax base, as I’ve mentioned in a previous letter. Next comes that always tricky issue of town/city relations. It’s not a coincidence that much of the opposition comes from individuals with firmly held beliefs on this issue. Unfortunately, some still look at the city and town as competitors for resources instead of partners in Greater Oneonta. We town residents try to be good neighbors but object when some repeatedly insist that the town cannot manage its own affairs and must be controlled by the city, whether it’s managing our water supplies or forcing unwelcome merger with the
town. If too few property owners sign petitions, I will take that to be the will of the people and will not vote to approve the district. My goal over the past several months has been to educate residents to better equip them for this decision. You are always welcome to personally contact me at 607222-1591 with questions or concerns. Although I believe it would be a historic missed opportunity if the residents’ petitions fail, as their elected advocate I will stand by their decision and look forward to continuing to serve them. ANDREW STAMMEL Member, Oneonta Town Board
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ing the rules for Greek Life and warning of the added dangers associated with the non-affiliated frats. “Thousands of alumni around the country have had positive experiences with fraternities and sororities,” his letter cautions, “but there are also risks.” Across West Street on Oyaron Hill is Perry’s Hartwick College counterpart, Meg Nowak, vice president/student affairs, whose thoughts have also been intensely occupied for the past month with what is perceived as a hike in student misbehavior – the statistics are mixed – since the colleges reconvened at the end of August. Both attended the stormy
Tuesday, Sept. 16, Common Council meeting, as did SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski, and both are waiting to hear from Mayor Dick Miller, who has said he will reconstitute an ad hoc committee he created in 2012 after the closing of three downtown bars for serving underage patrons pushed partying into residential neighborhoods. Since serving on the mayor’s committee then, both Perry, who arrived at SUNY Oneonta in 1984 after eight years at St. Bonaventure, and Nowak, lured away from Ithaca College after Hartwick President Margaret Drugovich arrived in 2008, have been the key leaders in upgrading
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anti-drinking and rowdiness programs at their institutions. In separate interviews, both reported incoming freshmen are required to take a self-guided alcoholeducation course at www. alcoholedu.com before arriving on campus. At SUNY, students who don’t find their records frozen, and are unable to register for a second semester. Both also point to the upgraded communications between Oneonta City Police, University Police and Hartwick’s security force since the 2012 troubles. Ranking officers, City Police Chief Dennis Nayor or his lieutenant, Douglas Brenner, University Chief Daniel Chambers, and Tom Kelly, the retired state trooper who leads Hartwick security, meet every Monday morning to revisit the weekend’s events and identify emerging problematic trends. Nayor or Brenner are also fixtures at a 90-minute program on “life choices” that all incoming Hartwick students take each fall, where
the consequences of alcohol, drug use and violence -violence “often stems from alcohol and other drugs,” Nowak said -- are discussed. She points out to them that public urination brings the charge of “public lewdness,” and asks about the impact of a future employer seeing that pop up when Googling a job applicant. “We try to catch their attention,” she said. Nowak doesn’t face the challenge of unaffiliated frats that Perry does, but both strive to exercise oversight of their affiliated fraternities and sororities. Her program ensures offcampus hosts recognize the dangers of a big party vs. a small party, and requires fraternities to go through the tipsuniversity.org program, teaching student bartenders to check IDs and to recognize when an imbiber needs to be cut off. When trouble does happen, a referral from city police can put a SUNY student into the campus disciplinary system. “A single noise violation will not get you into our system,” said Perry. “Public fighting will.” That only 1 percent of
students who enter SUNY Oneonta’s disciplinary program will end up there again is a sign to Perry that it’s working. But “I don’t think there’s a single key,” he added. “I don’t think there’s a silver bullet. It’s a lot of things.” That both campuses are “dry” gives Perry and Nowak’s programs more leverage (and Hartwick also benefits from only permitting seniors to live off campus, which she recognizes is easier to do with a 1,500 enrollment compared to SUNY’s 6,000.) Perry, who participated in the 1985 debate after the drinking age in New York State rose from 18 to 21, said “dry” status takes the argument out of any confrontation: Students with liquor are always in the wrong. Still, students get a mixed message from beyond Nowak and Perry’s programs. Perry, for instance, was confronted by a student’s father last year the day after a drinking party was broken up and the liquor confiscated. “He wanted us to pay for the vodka,” said Perry.
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