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Inside News Welcome Week

A review of the first exciting week of festivities on campus.

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Public Saftey is upping their game to make Hudson valley safer for you.

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New Tech. Center

Details about the new Gene F. Haas Technology Center expected in 2018.

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Inside Creative Is it lit fam?

An analysis on new and emerging slang among young people.

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All I got is $10

Information on eateries that are low priced and within walking distance of campus.

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Sweaters and Jeans make New year, New team, comeback By: Julio Rodriguez Staff Writer Sweater weather season is the favorite time of year for many, and students need to be prepared for the new trends.

The cold weather can symbolize the end of summer, but it also means that the introduction of fall fashion is right around the corner. Fall provides everyone on campus the chance to debut their vast sweater collection to the world, and feeling content in what you’re wearing can have more benefits than you initially believe.

Fall attire is a form of self-expression that you can use to empower and impress. Finding the right outfit combinations can be grueling, but it can be done. A sweater, for instance, can be a powerful statement to utilize this fall. When you find the right sweater, you can use it for a variety of different outfit combinations.

Acquiring some sweaters worthy of “The ‘Gram” can be pretty taxing, but you should never knock it until you try it. There are many different families of sweaters, and you should take your personality into consideration before finding the right one for you.

There is the “urban” sweatshirt. The “urban” sweatshirt tells everyone around you that you’re a bustling city person. The urban sweatshirt is usually a longline sweatshirt that is also sporting a hood and a graphic design.

There is the “prim and proper” sweater, which

can usually be purchased from a department store.

The “prim and proper” is worn to tell others that you are serious about looking collegiate. The “prim and proper” is worn to impress and it is also utilized by everyone; a woman on a coffee run, a grandma taking her puppy for a walk or by a student.

Last but not least is the “grandpa.” The “grandpa” sweater was probably purchased at Goodwill. The “grandpa” suits everyone, and it can be paired with everything from a pair of leggings, jeans or joggers.

You might be thinking that it is too early to start worrying about sweaters, but you should start early.

This past week I already started to dig through my closet to open the storage bins where my precious babies laid for months.

The emergence of the beginning of the semester means that clothing stores have already started to distribute their fall merchandise. If you’re looking for sweaters to wear this fall on a budget, some clothing stores to consider are H&M, Forever 21 and TJ Maxx.

Each of these stores can provide fall-worthy clothing for those on a student budget. Expressing yourself with your fall wardrobe can transform your perception of the world as well, as the world’s perception of you, and Hudson Valley students will soon start feeling the impact of the upcoming season on fashion.

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New field By: Skylar Blankenship Staff Writer

With a brand new shared turf field for practices and games and a revitalizing batch of freshmen, everybody’s upbeat about the soccer team.

On the team this year are seven sophomores and 18 freshmen. They have talent coming from all over the Capital Region and beyond: Loudonville Christian School, Ballston Spa, Mount Anthony Union, Columbia, McCann Technical, Cohoes, Hoosick Falls, Shenendehowa, Hoosick Falls, Greenwich, Guilderland, Troy and Shaker. There is even out-of-state talent on the team from Coronado High School in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The Viking’s forwards this year are Nicholas Petschko, Thomas Seeberger and Tyler Demartino. Playing the defensive positions are Brahe Gazzeli, Luke Fane, Collin Skiff, Nikolas Siggia, Michael McCann, John Hope, Garrett Derosia and Matthew Bluteau. Along with Juan Mejicano, Jonathan Mejicano, Scott Joya, William Walkley, Ethan Thomas, Poe Day, Jonathan Leal, Nicholas Hinkell, Austin Famiglietti, Thilo Bell and Asan Anarkkulov, as the team’s midfielders. And last but not least Pat Gerdtenbeger, Kyle Saba and Joshua Knowles as the team’s goalies.

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This Week’s Events September

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I would like to take this opportunity to welcome each of you to Hudson Valley Community College. Whether as an incoming freshman or as a returning student, welcome.

As many of you may know HVCC, like many colleges is host to a great deal of clubs and extracurricular activities. Many of these clubs are focused on developing skills outside the classroom in varying fields of interest. There are also of course clubs and activities that are just plain fun. Your experience at HVCC is what you make of it. The more involved you are, the more pride you will take in knowing that you are a Viking.

A few clubs to look out for are the pingpong club, entrepreneurs club, and of course the Hudsonian.

The Ping-pong club is open to any student who basically just wants to play pingpong! Their location is on the first floor of the campus center where a game can be played at any time. The Entrepreneurs club is for individuals who wish to develop post college skills. This club meets on the first floor of the campus center on every Wednesday at 2.

The Hudsonian of course is a great club to get involved with if you seek to get involved in media/news. This club is the one responsible for putting together the newspaper you are currently reading. This club focuses on developing writer/photographer skills and utilizing them to put together an award winning weekly paper. The Hudso-

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nian is often looking for new members and has coined the phrase: “don’t worry if you can’t write, we’ll teach you!” You can easily find their office on the second floor of the campus center. It’s across the hall from the wellness center.

Another group that is always welcoming new members is the Student Senate. If you enjoyed the activities during welcome week, or have taken advantage of previous trips to NYC or Boston, then you can thank the Student Senate.

The Student Senate is the group that is made up of students who seek out to create events that all students can enjoy.

If you’re interested in seeing the behind the scenes of these events or to help put them together then come to a meeting!

The Student Senate meets downstairs in the campus center in the meeting room across from the bookstore. I also hear their Vice President is pretty rad.

This is all just a glimpse of some of the activities that take place on campus.

There’s so much in store here at HVCC! Remember what you get out of your experience here is based on what you do with it. I wish everyone luck on their scholastic goals this semester.

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By: Naomi Roberson Staff Writer Students could smell the free food and hear the music almost from across campus. If they followed their noses, they would be led to snow cones and cotton candy, a caricature artist and lawn games. All of these festivities were a part of the Welcome Week experience the college offered to welcome students back to school.

To advertise Welcome Week, there were fliers posted, it was mentioned at new student orientation and the schedule was posted on the school website. However, a significant number of students were completely unaware of what “Welcome Week” was. Ironically, that group was mostly composed of the very students that Welcome Week was designed for; freshmen.

However, the group of freshmen that did know about the festive happenings were thoroughly impressed.

Jordan, a freshman digital media major, said that Welcome Week was very useful and helped him, “find most of [his] classes.”

He said that he had traveled the campus during orientation and did so again a few days before the start of classes, but the Welcome Week activities made him feel even more comfortable finding his way through campus.

When asked how he knew about Welcome Week, Jordan said that he had merely been passing by.

In addition to increasing the amount of ease in first year students, Welcome Week also helped to showcase how different the college experience is compared to high school[RJ3] . For a high school outcast, who asked to be kept anonymous, this concept really calmed his anxiety.

“I had many anxiety attacks about coming here, but Welcome Week helped me to see how nice people can be,” he said.

This Fine Arts major also said how he felt that college is “totally different” from high school and how he “sorta” looked forward to the rest of the semester.

But to Hudson Valley Seniors, Welcome Week posed as a far different experience. Welcome Week was not about getting familiar with the campus, but more about reconnecting with old friends and classmates.

The reality, though, was that the free food drew most seniors to the Welcome Week festivities.

Out of 13 seniors surveyed, 12 said that the food was their strongest motivation for taking part in Welcome Week instead of hiding out in the library to start papers.

As more than one student asked, “Who doesn’t like free food?”

According to Hudson Valley seniors, this welcome week far surpassed that of the Welcome Week that kick-started their freshman year. The food was better, the music was fantastic and the karaoke machine made walking to class far more entertaining.

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Students get food from the pavilion outside Hudson Hall.

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Students gather for Friday’s festivities.

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Clubs recruit new members in the Campus Center.

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Welcome week festivites abandoned due to campus wide power outage.

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Ready for Trouble By: Anthony O’Connell Staff Writer

Public Safety and college administration are looking to prepare and alert students to the possibility of a violent attack on campus.

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Hudson Valley lost power on Thursday, forcing students to have classes in the dark during the early morning. Students in classes requiring computers were unable to have class. Though power was restored a little after 10 a.m., the cause of the power outage is still unknown to most students.

There has been some speculation that the outage was caused by the tie-in to National Grid that

heightened sense of awareness and alertness, and, at the same time, [forced us to ask] what can we do to prove ourselves? What we can do is improve our cooperation with the local police departments. God forbid there be an incident around here, we’ll be prepared for it,” said Fred Aliberti, director of Public Safety.

Currently if students want to keep themselves accessible to information on what’s happening on campus, Public Safety recommends signing up for the New York alert system.

According to Aliberti, “The New York alert system is an older system, but it gets basic information out there in case of emergen-

cy.”

the college has been working on, though that was supposed to be completed before classes started according to an interview over the summer the Hudsonian had with Richard Edwards, director of the Physical Plant.

Edwards did say that the tiein, “will never probably eliminate the fact that we could have outages.”

At 10:20 a.m., Public Safety announced through the campus-wide PA system that classes were cancelled immediately and the college would be closing at noon.

This triggered a mass exo-

dus from campus via car and bus, clogging the roads out of the campus and route 4 and forcing the CDTA buses to turn riders away because the bus was full. Public Safety was forced to direct traffic as best they could, but the traffic still crawled.

Also, the Welcome Week festivities were forced to shut down for the day because students were not allowed to be on campus.

There will be more information about the causes and effects of the outage in the Hudsonian’s next issue being published on Sept. 20.

Because the system is outdated, administration will be switching to a new one called Alertus, a mass-notification system. Alertus is designed to alert individuals across campus by utilizing all existing available infrastructure and IT assets along with innovative appliances to serve gaps in coverage.

“We will be able to use text and computers, send emails, hit the speaker system, and if you get the app, it will come directly to your phone. It’s kind of like a onestop shop,” said Aliberti. “Also, it comes with alert beacons, which are similar to fire alarm strobes.

The beacon receives and displays

messages on the emergency situation happening.”

Aliberti went on to say that Alertus is a “work in progress and will have to be tested,” but should be expected to be in place by May 2017.

“I think, in general throughout the past few years, we’re always aware and alert of what’s going on around the country,” said Aliberti. “As a result of that, last May we did an active shooter exercise here on campus, in conjunction

with the North Greenbush Police Department. We stimulated an active shooter, so it was good to go through that process and get to know all the officers involved.”

Public Safety publishes an annual security report on the college’s website that shows the number of specific crimes pertaining to the school for students’ information. Aliberti also stresses the public safety section on the

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Advancing with the Times

$3.25 milloin, state-of-the-art facility By: Hunter Wallace Staff Writer As part of a continuing goal to expand the college’s advanced manufacturing program, Lang Hall will see a neighboring building constructed by summer 2018: the Gene F. Haas Technology Center.

With construction set to begin in April 2017, Hudson Valley has already received several generous contributions towards the planned building. Currently, the college has raised over $2.6 million toward its $3.25 million fundraising goal.

According to Eric Bryant, assistant director of communications and marketing, “The

initial donor was the Gene Haas Foundation. They made an initial matching donation of $1 million.”

Additionally, the college’s foundation has already pledged $1.8 million, not including an additional $1 million in state funds awarded through the Capital

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The industry is really low on machinists right now. The industry is starving for skilled machinists.

Mark Gottzman

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Region Economic Development Council.

“They’re currently reaching out to the manufacturing com-

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Even local businesses have made contributions towards this project, including Albany-based Simmons Machine Tool Corporation, which has donated $125,000 towards the Haas building.

The Gene Haas building will help improve the advanced manufacturing program in several ways. Student capacity will be doubled, increasing it from 144 to 288 available seats. The new technology introduced will also boost productivity.

According to Bryant, the Haas building will be, “a stateof-the-art facility, so these young people coming into the program will be working on the latest equipment that’s available out there for advanced manufacturing.”

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website and wants students to be familiar with the sections on emergency preparedness and active shooter information.

There are tips for surviving an active shooter event that Public Safety prints out on cards for student reference. One tip is to find the escape routes and evacuate immediately. On the first floor in some campus stairwells, there are emergency exit doors leading outside. Students who familiarize themselves with those exit doors now will know where they are in the event of an emergency.

Another tip is to hide in a spot that is non-confining, out of the shooter’s view and is protected from shots fired. Once law enforcement arrives, it is important to remain calm and comply with instructions given and not to yell, scream or point. Also, it is suggested that students drop any items in their hands, keeping them visible at all times.

Maria LaFerriere, a business accounting major, said, “I think it’s something that can be prevented by creating tighter security and having drills so that people know how to react to it.”

Hudson Valley has never had an active shooter on campus or experienced any violence of that magnitude. According to Aliberti, Hudson Valley’s biggest weakness when it comes to security is just “petty crime.” This usually occurs when electronic devices or textbooks are left unattended and are stolen.

Aliberti wants to remind students to “use common sense when it comes to protecting their personal belongings.”

Such planned equipment includes 122 CAD/CAM/Simulation computer workstations, 14 CNC machine tools, 30 manual machine tools, two CMMs with an articulating-arm type CMM, a Metrology Light Scanner, a Robotic cell, two large 3D Printers, a Laser Cutter/Engraver and metallurgy equipment.

The building will also bring with it several EM Maintenance Trainers, partner offices, three 34seat classrooms that can be used as a multi-purpose room, a storeroom, two EDMs and teleconferencing capabilities.

Students currently enrolled in the advanced manufacturing program recognize the advantages that the Gene Haas building will bring to the advanced manufacturing program.

“There will be a lot of improvements to the existing problems we have,” said Mike Dygon, an advanced manufacturing student “We are squished for space here. There’s really no room for a toolbox. It will make it easier for [students] to transfer into the actual industry by using the new machines,” said Chuck Ruzycky, another advanced manufacturing student.

Many believe that student interest will grow when the Gene Haas building is completed. “It should because the industry is really low on machinists right now.

The industry is starving for skilled machinists,” said Mark Gottzman, advanced manufacturing student.

With an increased demand in manufacturing jobs, the need for skilled employees is present.

The completion of the Gene Haas Technology Center will play a significant role in releasing capable students into the workforce.

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Fred Aliberti, Director of Public Safety at HVCC.

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Is it really lit, fam? ...Or is it just me?

By: Zoe Deno Staff Writer

Some words are considered slang until their usage becomes so widespread that it is officially added to the dictionary. Hudson Valley students are no strangers to slang terms, as they can be caught referring to things as “lit” on a regular basis.

With terms being thrown around from word of mouth, students at Hudson Valley feel that they do not always know what some of the words they hear mean. The majority of slang terms don’t actually pass the trials of popularity and simply trend for a while before slowly dropping out of usage into the bottomless abyss of slang terms past.

With many words being passed around to students, you are bound to find students who The Hudsonian Hudson Valley Community College 80 Vandenburgh Ave. Troy, NY 12180 Phone: 518-629-7568 Email: hudsonian@hvcc.edu Editor-in-Chief Rebecca Jordan Managing Editor Jenny Caulfield Business Manager Tyler Betzwieser Layout Editor Mike Schaefer Photo Editor Mikey Bryant Web Editor Richard Bonomo

are using words and phrases like, “it’s lit fam,” or, “suh dude,” and don’t know their meanings or origins.

Hudson Valley students were challenged to know some of the most popular slang terms of the year, as well as their definitions.

“Lit,”which was the slang term students recognized the most, but prompted some different student opinions about what it really meant.

“MOC,” which stands for my own creation, was a word some students had difficulty knowing the meaning to. Emily Lougee, a business administration major, had a guess of it meaning,”most often curious,” and Mercedes Barns, a digital media major, guessed it meaning, “majorly out of context.”

Thalia Slade, a criminal investigation major, came up it possibly meaning, “mimicking other certain [kinds.]”

Although students struggled with certain lesser known slang terms, they were more relatable to the term, “shizzle.” The word which is a different way of saying, “sure”, has been around for a few years making students have many variations of the word.

Individual studies major, Talib Kingwood, suggested that it meant “to dance.” Gabriel Dejesus, a criminal justice student, said he uses “shizzle” to refer to his friends, while several others said they use it as an exclamation for occasions of astonishment.

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The term “STS”, which means “smirk to self ”, was another difficult word for students to come up with. Math and science major Laura Ciotoli guessed it meant, “something to say.” Theyah Gary, an individual studies major, guessed it meant, “stop the script.”

Ryan Kucskar, a digital media student, suggested it meant, “same taco sandwich,” while Dejesus, stayed with the food theme and suggested it could mean, “stabbing the sandwich.”

In the end, only Tywan Paytan, a construction management major, knew the answer. “Smirk to self; I saw it on Twitter,” he said.

September 6, 2016 Hudson Valley students no longer need to stress when it comes to getting a bite to eat.

Unfortunately, many college students do not have someone to cook any of their meals. Known to run short on time and lack cooking skills and cash, eating can sometimes become a difficulty for students.

Hudson Valley is surrounded by a variety of food and drink establishments within a less than a mile radius that can provide students with breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. When you are looking around for somewhere to eat and only have $10 in your pocket and no car, you can relax knowing you have options to feed your appetite and stay within

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“I’ve got an hour and $10 in my pocket” By: Skylar Blankenship Staff Writer

your budget.

To the right of the campus, students have their choice of Taco Bell, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Deli and Brew. Taco Bell has a Dollar Cravings menu where every item is $1, combos between $2.79 and $6.29 and several vegetarian options for students. Dunkin’ Donuts offers assortments of donuts for $.99 each, a medium macchiato for $3.39 or an egg white omelet with ham, bacon, or sausage for $3.99.

The Deli and Brew is known for their thin-slice pizza and double-stuffed subs. A slice of cheese pizza is only $1.62, and the wide range of subs cost between $4.39 and $7.49.

Right across the street in the Hudson Valley Plaza, students

have the choice of Wendy’s, China Wok or Subway. Wendy’s is the closest place to get a quick burger and french fries, whether it is off the Dollar Menu, the Baconator Combo for $8.09 or the four for $4 deal.

China Wok is a Chinese food establishment where you can get foods such as chow mien and egg rolls for under $10. They have an offer to eat in, but it can be cheaper to fill up a to-go box instead. At Subway, a student can buy a footlong sub for $6 and add $2.50 for a side and drink.

If you’re looking for something sweeter, to the left of campus there is a Stewart’s where a student can choose between the daily specials that are less than $5, over a dozen flavors of ice cream and variety of snacks from Doritos to $5 foot-long subs.

If you don’t have a car but need to eat fast, the approximate 10 to 15 minute walk to these locations boasts several delicious options and makes the trip worthwhile to know you will not be spending a crazy amount on food.

If you don’t feel like Taco Bell or Wendy’s are for you, then there is, of course, Prime in the Campus Center where you can buy your lunch.

For more information about each of the local food and drink establishments surrounding Hudson Valley, students can visit their websites or go to their convenient locations near campus.

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Sports Complex is coming to a close, but the already-finished turf field is clearly appreciated, especially by the athletes.

“There is nothing like playing on turf. The ball goes farther, and is great for cleats,” said Luke Fane, the team’s captain. The team’s goalie, Pat Gerdtenberger, also stated that playing on the new turf is beneficial to the team.

Due to the construction of the complex, the team started practicing a few weeks later than in previous years, and they’re not where they were last year. “We are not up to our fitness level yet, but we’re improving every day,” said Coach Travis Cooke.

Besides the low fitness level, there was a change in the typical schedule the men’s soccer team usually follows. There was also a slightly-delayed formation of the camaraderie and partnership a team creates over time. This could potentially hinder the team’s success, but the recent years of successful seasons begs to differ.

However, the loss of those few weeks was clearly worth the wait. As Cooke put it, the new complex is “amazing,”; the lush color of green and the bright color of the lines of the field that all the Hudson Valley sport teams needed is a great addition to the Athletic Department.

Coach Cooke has been with Hudson Valley for 10 years and

counting. He started playing soccer at a young age and decided to continue his career by becoming a coach. The decision to coach at this level was influenced by the attraction of “European style of coaching”, which is more about managing or hands-off, instead of having to teach players how hone the basic skills like in youth soccer leagues as well as at school levels.

Last year, the men’s soccer team ended the season with 11 wins, five losses, and one tie. The goals for the men’s soccer team “are not specific this year”, other than to go as far as possible in the season and to do their best as said

by Cooke.

“Go Vikings!” said Gerdtenberger, echoing the spirit of the rest of the team.

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