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Letter from President Matonak greeting students for the new semester.
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Student Senate President sends her warm regards to student body.
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Mazzone replaces Chartwells as foodservice provider
By: Rebecca Jordan Editor-in-Chief Prime Business Dining replaced Chartwells over the summer as Hudson Valley’s new foodservice provider and they plan to bring extended service hours and themed dining with them. “I think that the quality is going to be markedly different [with Mazzone], and I hope all the students recognize it,” said Ann Carrozza, director of the FSA, in an interview with the Hudsonian back in April regarding a new foodservice provider. “The people are so invested in this. They’re so excited and cannot wait to get here.” Prime is a local company that is a division of Mazzone Hospitality. Until venturing into college foodservice with Hudson Valley, Prime had focused mainly on business dining. “In the Capital Region, the market is turning towards these very high-end colleges, and the college dining experience is really stepping up its game. We wanted to get our feet wet in a college that
we knew wasn’t 24/7 and didn’t have students living on-campus so that we could really test out what we do well, and see how students respond to it,” said Stacey Warrings, Prime’s marketing manager. The fact that Prime only operates in the Capital Region was a positive factor in the college’s decision to bring the company onto campus. Prime has ties with the Great Taste NY and Farm to Table programs, as well as having its own fish program. Quality is another factor that Prime hopes will set it apart from Chartwells. Jessica Hensey, Prime’s sales and operations manager, said, “We take a lot of pride in developing our menus and using the best ingredients that we can, so that should be a nice turnaround for you guys too.” Warrings is confident that their superior level of service and quality will not contribute to an increase in price. “We want to make sure that you don’t have to leave campus to get a great sub and the price is going to be the same if you stay here, and the quality is going to be equal or better if you stay. We
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want to make sure that it’s all centrally-located for you, so I think that, on a price-point, we’ve done our research and we think you’ll be happy,” she said. Although Carozza found a few items to be more expensive than Chartwells, she felt there was a great improvement with the quality of the food. “The cookies were to die for, and I ended up buying almost $20 in cookies,” Carrozza said. Prime really hopes students will be pleased with its customer service as well. “A lot of the feedback I have been gathering from Chartwells was that the customer service aspect of things was a little lacking,” said Hensey. “We really pride ourselves in making sure that our employees are excited about what we’re doing and excited to interact with the students. Prime Beat is a really great way to build a relationship between the student body and our employees.” Night students now have the option to purchase food before their classes with the extended hours of the café downstairs in
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Complex Completed By: Matt Whalen Guest Contributor Years of planning have come together to create Hudson Valley’s $4.5 million dollar athletic complex. “The department and college are thrilled. It is so refreshing and rewarding to see the reaction on the faces of our student athletes now that they know this project is a reality, and that they will be playing on [the new field] next year,” said Kristan Pelletier, the former director of athletics, in an interview with the Hudsonian last year. This past summer, construction on the new athletic complex was nearly completed after months of work. The complex now includes features like a new state-of-the-art synthetic turf playing field, eight-lane track, seating, storage facility and scoreboards. The new concessions stand included in the new complex can sell hot pizza, hotdogs and hot chocolate which the campus had no way of doing before. The stand area doesn’t have the ability to cook the food items onsite, however these new items will be available for purchase. Perhaps the biggest change to the athletic area is the addition of the new turf field. According to Richard Edwards, director of the Physical Plant, maintenance on the turf will be expensive, but not needed every year unlike the natural grass field. The field has about 10-to-12 years before it will need to be replaced, and the track has about 10 years before it will require replacement. Because both soccer and football will play in the complex, there are, at times, scheduling conflicts between games and practices.
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Summer changes to campus By: Rebecca Jordan Editor-in-Chief
The Physical Plant has been busy over the summer for the students who don’t want to pop a tire in potholes, lose power while writing an important paper or get leaked on in Fitzgibbons. Parking lots were repaved all around campus to smooth out some of the potholes. In the lot outside Brahan, the traffic patterns were changed to allow greater ease of traffic flow. The Physical Plant also add-
ed motorcycle parking scattered around campus per the request of the college’s president, Andrew Matonak. Most of these spots were added to I lot by taking a spot and dividing it in two when they repainted the parking lines. Richard Edwards, director of the Physical Plant, said, “There wasn’t really any motorcycle parking, and then they would take up a full spot.” Over the summer, the college completed its tie-in to National Grid power that was started at the beginning of the 2015 fall
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semester. Several short outages were scheduled before classes to achieve this goal and cause minimal disruptions to students. According to Edwards, once the necessary adjustments are made to the power system, the unplanned outages experience last academic year should be resolved. “It will never probably eliminate the fact that we could have
outages, but we’ve actually improved the efficiency and the operation of the plant a lot over the last two or three years. This is our final step to do that,” said Edwards. According to estimates, the college has gone from about 30 outages a year down to 18, and
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