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FAREWELL INTERVIEW: VICTORIA PASCIUTO
BY ALEXEI BOGDAN RUSSIAN NEWS CORRESPONDENT Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, has recently made a surprising announcement. In late March, he revealed a new initiative, aptly named the “Vast Bound Onward.” With this new program, Putin hopes to successfully reform the Soviet Union, and “Bring Russia back to its roots.” Putin said that he will be introducing a plethora of new policies to accompany this sudden change, many of which are based on the system run by Joseph Stalin, who Putin stated was a great hero of his. He had even decided to sport a moustache for the occasion, much like his hero. Russia’s populace was understandably quite upset with this development, given the probBY
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EDITOR IN CHIEF
Who is President Gentile? What motivates her? What plans does she have for North Shore Community College? These are questions that I am sure many of you have, given her recent arrival at North Shore Community College. Luckily, I recently had the pleasure of chatting with her, during which time she told me all about her life and career up to this point, her passions, and her future plans for NSCC. She has lived a very interesting life, and has very noble and ambitious aspirations for our school. Hopefully, you will find her story as interesting as I did. Ms. Gentile grew up in Pennsylvania, and attended a Roman-Catholic school for her elementary and high school education. Her family was not very supportive of her desire to receive a college education, due in part to her gender. She was not deterred by this lack of support, however; she went to Temple University, and later transferred to the University of
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lems they faced while part of the old Soviet Union. Putin tried to allay their fears, however, saying that there will be as few forced famines as possible, and that the newly reformed KGB would only pursue those he deemed “Traitors to Russia.” These included Protesters, LGBT or non-Christian citizens, and those who support capitalism, as they “Oppose all of the values that Russia was founded upon.” Putin was clear that freedom of speech would not be taken away however. Citizens have every right to voice their disapproval for his new plans, but Putin did say, “[They] must face the consequences for what they have to say. Dissenters may want to consider holding their tongues, if they would like to keep them.”
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managed to get her undergraduate degree, graduating Magna Cum Laude. Ms. Gentile says that she loved going to school; she relished the challenge that it gave her. Shortly after graduating, she began teaching, with her first gig being at the
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introduced gradually.” He did, however, attempt to remain civil, stating that he personally understood Putin’s motivation. Obama admitted that Joseph Stalin was someone he also looked up to, and that the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as ObamaCare, was inspired by some of the programs run by Stalin. Obama closed the press conference on this note, stating that he would do his best to negotiate with Putin, stating, “We are, at our cores, very similar people, ideologically.”
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President Obama was quick to chime in on the issue, setting up a press conference shortly after Putin’s announce-
ment. Obama was quick to state that he was firmly opposed to the resolution, as “Communism is only acceptable when it is
Archdiocese of Philadelphia high schools. She taught ninth through twelfth grade for five years, but left the job after that, due to declining enrollment, which meant that she was subject to increasingly poor job security. After she left her teaching job, she went to work in the nonprofit sector, becoming the executive director of a charity organization. She really enjoyed doing this work, even though the charity she was working for was declining, and heading towards insolvency. Through this experience, she realized that she needed to learn more about business to be as good of a worker as possible, and subsequently went back to school, at age thirty-five. She enrolled in the Wharton school of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, taking a full course load. She worked on the weekends to put her self through school again, and says that she again loved the challenge of this experience, proving herself to be a person who always yearned to achieve greater accomplishments.
She eventually got her MBA in finance and public policy management, and proceeded to work for a consulting company that dealt with nonprofit and philanthropic companies. In this position, she was able to apply many of the skills she learned in business school to her work. She had great fun working there, and it proved to be an invaluable learning experience. She missed running an organization, though, so she left this job, and became the CEO of a large Girl Scouts council, working for two different Girl Scout organizations. In this position, she met Marian Wright Edelman, who is one of her heroes. Edelman is the founder and president of an organization called the Children’s Defense Fund, which is situated in Washington, D.C. Astonishingly, Gentile eventually came to fill the position of Chief Operating Officer for the Children’s Defense Fund, and got to work with Edelman for several years, which Gentile found to be a challenging, yet very rewarding experience. After this, Gentile had
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Pennsylvania’s Department of Pharmacology, working the whole time to put herself through school. After seven long years of education, she
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to move back to New Jersey for family reasons, finding her self somewhat lost, wondering what to do with her self in this new environment. She eventually went to work at Atlantic Cape Community College, helping with a welfare-to-work program. She initially agreed to help out for six weeks, but ended up staying there for 14 years, as she fell in love with the community college mission. She was involved in a wide range of different activities at Atlantic Cape Community College, having the opportunity to work with continuing education, resource development, marketing folds, and the social media team. It was while she was working here that Gentile realized that she truly belonged in the community college sector. Thanks to all of her previous work with educational and nonprofit organizations, helping folks to transition, transform, and achieve, she fit in the community college framework very well, which drove her to stay in CONTINUED ON PAGE
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