Fall'16 issue 3

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OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF HUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE Volume 70, Issue 3

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Inside News College Suites

Student housing initiative is set to be completed in fall 2017.

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Blackout causes answered, but the damage is done

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All of the mystery and unanswered questions surrounding the blackout that forced campus to close was due to a popped circuit. “If you are a student and you are sitting there for an hour as the power went off that’s not fair to you,” said Richard Edwards, director of the Physical Plant. “You aren’t getting your money’s worth, and the college is very sensitive to that.” Blackouts have been a problem ever since the Co-Generation Plant was built in 2004. When the plant was first built, the campus initially had up to four blackouts a day. Since the plant has been built, the college has spent almost two and a half million on upgrades, which decreased the number to seven blackouts this year, only two of which sent the students home. Edwards went on to explain

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HVCC athletic department is under new leadership.

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Floating World

The Teaching Gallery is showing its first artist of the semester.

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Inside Creative Fall Clothes

Weather is changing and so is what people wear this time of year.

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Williams Isolation Students at Williams Hall express their feelings about being far from campus.

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Inside Sports Football freshmen

Vikings football team succedes during their first game, but has challenges ahead.

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Volleyball Win

The volleyball team starts with a quick loss, but picks a win right after.

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Mass exodous creates crowds due to buses being overfilled.

that the day of the massive blackout, there had been a popped circuit. Hudson Valley only allows for power to be out for an hour before the school must close, and by the time the plant workers had fixed the problem, the hour was up and evacuation was already in motion. Despite the improvements to the plant, the college acknowledg-

es that something else was needed to help stabilize power. “The Board of Trustees approved a plan last year to stabilize power by tying into National Grid, meaning that now National Grid will provide additional power to the college as a backup,” said Dennis Kennedy, director of communications and marketing. “We will still be using the green energy

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Pokémon Go has students running across all parts of campus. Pokémon Go, the popular interactive app, has gained national attention due to having a 3-D customizable avatar to represent the player’s loca-

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of the plant, but whenever it gives out, we will have National Grid to back us up.” The new system will be tested after this semester in December during Christmas break so that if anything were to go wrong, it won’t affect students. During the chaos, students lost a day of classes as they were forced off the campus with little explanation. Chris Folk-Freund, nursing student, recalls being stuck in his class and doing nothing for several minutes. His teacher was reluctant to release them as they struggled to figure out what was going on. “They really need to have a plan for this,” he said as he went on to explain that he was stuck in traffic for two hours because he couldn’t get right out of his class. The frustration was universal as students like Ally Vanyke, liberal arts student, said she ended up simply ditching her car and walking home. “I only live, like, a few minutes away from here, so it made more sense to just walk. People were waiting so long that a lot of

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The app has created Poké Stops in places such as the clock tower, the sculpture outside of the Campus Center and the Marvin Library. Part of what makes this app popular among students is the game’s ability to pinpoint your location. This allows for Pokémon appearing anywhere on campus. “Im catching a crab right now!” said Maxx Barnhill, a marketing student, while sitting upstairs in the campus center. Barnhill’s favorite part of using the app on campus is how it gets students moving and seeing the pokestops and gyms across campus. “I’ve caught some pretty sick Pokémon,” said Latesha Mercado, individual studies student. Mercado recalls catching the best of

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(Above) Screenshot from in-game of gyms. (Below) Student Maxx Barnhill playing Pokémon at a pokéstop on campus.

tion in the real world. With the addition of things like Poké Stops, the game works to encourage moving around outdoors to different locations to move farther in the game. With Poké Stops being set to specific landmarks and locations, students are finding themselves covering all parts of campus.

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Students pay a significant amount of money in fees to attend Hudson Valley, but most don’t even know what that money is used for. Tuition Most people understand the tuition figure. Full-time resident students paid $2,150 this year, which saw a $100 increase from last semester. Full-time tuition for a nonresident student was $4,300. Records and Activities Fee The Records and Activities fee pays for sports, student activities, and transcripts, as well as graduation. It also funds the discount Regal movie ticket sales on Tuesdays. The 30 active clubs on campus are also funded by this fee, as well as providing students the opportunity to go on low-cost trips throughout the semester. “Our student activities office sponsors a number of different clubs. It also sponsors events throughout the semester for students, things like Welcome Week,” said Dennis Kennedy, director of communications and marketing. The Records and Activities fee also provides students with cultural events such as musicians, artists, performances, theater, lectures and art exhibitions. Students paid $148 for this fee this semester, which experienced a $28 increase from last academic

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