the
Herald By and for the students of Hobart and William Smith Colleges
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009
VOLUME CXXXI ISSUE 10
GENEVA, NY
Yearbook Strapped with $14,000 Debt By Tim Hollinger ’11 Opinions Editor
Melissa Warner/Photographer
HWS Community Gets Vaccinated By Melissa Warner ’12 Herald Contributor
Rebecca Dennee/Photographer
The 2008-2009 Yearbook has gone through multiple editors, accumulated $14,000 in debt, and missed its deadline, but now it’s finished. And despite low orders, sophomore Meredith Ciaccia, who was asked to edit the book during its darkest hour, has high hopes for its future. Early in 2008 the editors of the Echo and Pine yearbook asked
the student governments for $5,000 to expand the book. The Budget Allocation Committee (BAC) had already given them several thousand. The editors planned to make it full color, longer, and to sell more copies. The extra money was granted. “They honestly one-hundred percent believed they could do this … YEARBOOK continued on Page 4
About 700 vaccinations were given Nov. 5 at an H1N1 flu vaccine clinic in Bristol Field House put on by HWS’ Hubbs Health Center and the Ontario County Health Department. The clinic was only for Hobart and William Smith Colleges’ students and staff who meet Centers for Disease Control criteria as target groups, including: any pregnant woman; health care workers, including EMS staff; students of ages 17-24; any caretaker of children under 6 months; and
any adult with chronic illness (such as asthma, diabetes, or any immune-compromised person), according to Hubbs’ H1N1 information web page). The clinic ran from 1 to 5 p.m. According to Betti Green, clinical coordinator for Hubbs Health Center, so many vaccinations were given that at one point during the clinic staff members did not have any more of either vaccine types and had to go get more supplies from HWS continued on Page 3
Campus Safety Rewards Students
Geneva Sets Sail for the Mediterranean
By Karissa Seeberger ’12 Managing Editor
By Edlange Philistin ’12 Herald Contributor
Photo courtesy of: www.hws.edu
The founders of the Campus Safety Outreach Program are (from left to right) Investigator Chris Beattie, Sergeant Jeff Luongo, and Officer Dave Quartaro. Mid-October, Campus Safety started their new “Outreach Program”, with the intention of bettering their relationship with students. The initiative aims at informing the students of the services that Campus Safety offers and shedding light on the good things that they do on campus. The master minds behind this program who started formulating ideas before the academic year even started include: Investigator Chris Beattie, the father of it, Sergeant Luongo, and Officer Quartaro. Some students may have noticed this change, particularly those in the library, when they were randomly offered candy while
doing their work. Some students were confused by the random acts of kindness and the light-hearted chattiness of the officers, but in an effort to improve the way students view them, they are building a different relationship, a more symbiotic one. Officer Beattie stated, “We are trying to spark a different connection with the students, get to know them better, and communicate to them all of the services and resources that we provide.” The idea is to ask students simple questions about Campus Safety such as list a few of the services that CAMPUS continued on Page 4
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Geneva’s Chamber of Commerce has a Western Mediterranean Cruise in the works for April 2010; it will be open to the public, where anyone is welcome aboard at an unusually low price As the economy is slowly ridding itself of its precarious state, Geneva, NY’s Chamber of Commerce is in the process of planning a 10-day trip to major European cities. With hopes of getting a good turnout, the Western Mediterranean cruise is being made available to the
public at a bargain price. It all began a series of pitched ideas. Various companies were reaching out to the Chamber, contacting it about their group travels and as result the Chamber decided to go with it. Some of these companies include Citslinc and Chamber Discoveries. Having held some group outings in the past, the Chamber would typically work with Citslinc. Citslinc has “hosted GENEVA continued on Page 2
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