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Student Senate members voted last month to bring the athletic fee to $67, a historic $17 increase, for the next the academic year. “[The athletic department] kind of gave us set options which on one hand I appreciated, but on another hand I wanted to know ‘okay, how much money do you need?’,” said Student Senate treasurer Josiah Dillon. The Nov. 23 decision will increase the athletic fee 34 percent next fall if approved by the Faculty Student Association. FSA director Ann Carrozza advocated with the athletic department to raise the fee at the November meeting. “This is the first time we’re over coming forward and asking for something of this magnitude,” said Carrozza. With FSA approval, the decision will go into effect for
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the next two years bringing the fee to $67 for full-time students. The decision was opposed by five senators. “The tuition [bill] should be kept low and they could’ve sufficed with $12 or $15,” said freshman class president Emma Dillon, one of the senators who opposed the decision. “We’re trying to get back to the less where we’re not necessarily operating off [of] less every year,” said Kristan Pelletier, director of intercollegiate athletics. Pelletier and Justin Hoyt, assistant director of athletics, asked for the fee to raise to combat budget cuts due to downward enrollment. This year, the athletic department budget was reduced six percent. “It’s one thing have a nice new field, but if your team’s [equipment] is not on the same caliber, it looks funny to people coming to watch,” said Student Senate president Everett McNair.
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Tennis player serves a new purpose By: Tyler McNeil Managing Editor
Tattooed students reveal the meaning behind their ink By: Jenny Caulfield Junior Creative Editor
Jordyn Applebaum decided to keep swinging after years of grief pushed her away from the tennis court. “I like to say that I’m rewriting my story,” said Applebaum. Witnessing tragedies throughout her lifetime has inspired Applebaum to reach out to strangers coping with stress on campus. “I kind of wonder ‘what if these people are going through something and they need someone to talk to?’ I’ll be that person,” she said. Last semester after discovering assistant professor Keith Gunner’s wife was battling cancer, she became closer with the professor. “Once a week I’ll bring him homemade meals that he can cook for his wife because she can’t cook for herself,” said Applebaum. Heading back to the court Before her first practice in August, Applebaum feared that years away from tennis would prevent her from success on the team. “I thought I would just drop it like a class,” she said. Battling herself to stay on the team, she crossed off every practice she attended on her schedule. It wasn’t until she faced Herkimer County Community College, her first game on an official team in six years that she stopped crossing off practices on her schedule. After looking around at her teammates and mother on the sidelines at the game, Applebaum, who was behind early in the match, became inspired to win. “I’d just look at them and they gave me a look or a smile and it would just be good,” she said. Continued on page 9
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said Murphy. The tattoo on Murphy’s rib cage with the date “August 13th, Growing up in a mixed 2014” symbolizes her struggles household of approval and with depression and long-term disapproval, Katarina Fuchs, trauma. “Aug.13 is the day and human services student, decided final time I decided I would try to follow her instincts and to end my life, but I was given advocate for body modification. another chance,” she said. Murphy “I respect my parents, but I make got the quote tattooed to serve as my own choices too,” said Fuchs. her daily reminder of her past, Fuchs got which altered her her first tattoo perspective. shortly after Conor Clune, turning 18. The liberal arts student, tattoo is displayed has a tattoo reading on her back with “namaste” in the words “let it sanskrit on his be”, along with right bicep. Clune, a dandelion and a Buddhist, got birds. “‘Let it be’ the word on his means ‘don’t pick at body because its things if things are meaning is a large going okay, don’t part of following try to make them Jenny Caulfied | THE HUDSONIAN the religion. “It better because means, ‘I see the things could end up worse’,” she light in you, you see the light in said. Fuchs now has seven tattoos. me’,” he said. Fuchs is one of many students Students on campus without with positive views on their body art also feel that tattoos have tattoos. Adopted from China, Mia a more positive than negative Murphy, digital media student, effect. “I think it separates your has one tattoo her rib cage and thoughts and mind and displays one tattoo on the back of her it in a peaceful, artistic manner,” neck. “The one on the back of my said Peter Borgosz, mortuary neck is a compass arrow with the science student. Continued on page 7 coordinates of where I was born,”
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