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Student  Activity  Fee  Increase  Possible By  Andrew  Lief Managing  Editor  |  N02452747@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

At  the  senate  meeting  on  Feb.  26,  Director  of  Student  Activities  and  Union  Services  Mike  Patter-­ son  announced  that  the  Student  Association  (SA)  had  reached  its  maximum  budget  for  allowed  activity  fees.  However,  a  new  allowance  has  been  given  from  SUNY,  so  SA  can  now  change  their  activity  fee  from  $200  per  year  to  $250.    Patterson  said  if  SA  is  going  to  try  to  raise  the  fee,  they  need  to  make  sure  they  have  a  clear  idea  of  what  the  new  funds  will  go  toward.  He  also  said  if  it’s  going  to  be  raised,  it  should  only  be  an  amount  they  believe  will  make  an  improvement,  not  just  a  set  number  for  the  sake  of  it. “My  concern  is  not  so  much  so  if  it  goes  up  or  go  down,  but  that  they’re  doing  it  in  an  ethical  and  informed  way,  and  that  they’re  doing  it  thoughtfully,â€?  Patterson  said.   â€œThey  also  have  to,  between  now  and  HOHFWLRQV LQ 0D\ KDPPHU RXW WKH QXPEHUV DQG ÂżJXUH out  what  that  change  of  service  is.â€? Vice  President  of  Academic  Affairs  adn  Gover-­ nance  Jordan  Taylor  said  the  activity  fee  makes  up  the  entirety  of  the  $1.4  million  of  SA’s  budget.   He  said  all  of  the  money  goes  back  to  the  student  body  through  the  loop  service,  conference  funds,  general  program-­ ming,  clubs,  legal  services  and  paying  the  SA  E-­board.  Taylor  said  raising  the  activity  fee  by  $5  per  se-­ mester  would  increase  SA’s  budget  by  approximately  $76,000  per  semester.  With  the  increase  he  said  SA  could  provide  more  services,  such  as  having  the  Loop  bus  run  on  weekends,  the  Child  Care  Center  and  Stu-­ dent  Association  Productions  could  get  a  better  artist  to  put  on  a  better  show. There’s  currently  excess  money  in  the  club’s  bud-­ get,  so  any  new  possible  money  won’t  go  to  clubs,  Taylor  said.   Patterson  said  every  two  years  when  the  student  body  votes  on  the  activity  fee,  10  percent  of  the  stu-­ dent  body  needs  to  participate,  and  the  majority  vote  will  win. Taylor  said  when  SA  puts  the  vote  up  on  my.newpaltz.edu,  whether  it’s  leaving  the  fee  the  same,  or  raising  it  $5  or  $10,  they  will  show  students  what  SA  does  with  the  money  and  where  the  new  money  would  go.    While  there  has  been  discussion  of  raising  the  ac-­ tivity  fee  by  $5  per  semester,  Taylor  said  he  believes  it  should  be  raised  $10  per  semester.   â€œAll  the  money  goes  back  to  the  students,  so  I  would  be  for  a  $10  raise,  but  we’re  putting  $5  to  see  how  people  feel  about  it,â€?  Taylor  said.   â€œWe  might  put  $10  to  see  how  people  feel  about  it,  but  in  the  end,  the  student  body  has  to  choose.  We  don’t  decide.â€?   Patterson  said  if  students  don’t  want  the  activity  fee  to  increase  then  those  students  need  to  make  their  voices  heard.  Â

Vice  President  of  Academic  Affairs  and  Governance  Jordan  Taylor  at  Wednesday’s  Senate  meeting.

“Here’s  student  government  at  its  best,â€?  Patterson  said.  â€œIf  you  don’t  like  what  you’re  hearing,  talk  to  a  senator.  Reach  out  to  them  and  say,  â€˜regardless  of  what  services  are  being  talked  about,  the  value  isn’t  here  and  I  want  you  to  know  as  a  student  I  don’t  want  you  to  vote  in  favor  of  that.’â€? Taylor  said  during  the  election  process  that  SA  also  has  to  advertise  the  activity  fee  and  that  students  need  to  vote  to  keep  the  activity  fee  at  its  current  level  or  the  increased  one,  otherwise  the  school  won’t  have  an  activity  fee. Prior  to  putting  the  activity  fee  up  to  vote,  Pat-­ terson  said  he  recommends  that  the  SA  compare  and  analyze  where  other  comparable  schools  spend  their  activity  fee  compared  to  where  schools  in  the  SUNY Â

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system  spend  their  activity.   This  is  to  see  where  SA  LQĂ€DWHG RQ VSHQGLQJ DQG WR VHH ZKDW DUHDV RWKHU FDP-­ puses  are  spending  money  on  that  we’re  not.   Currently,  Taylor  said  SA  is  looking  to  create  a  survey  to  see  where  students  would  like  to  see  the  ad-­ ditional  money  go  if  it  gets  approved.   Overall,  Tayor  said  if  students  are  against  raising  the  fee,  he  hopes  they  ultimately  realize  it  will  better  the  New  Paltz  community.   â€œI  guess  you  can  think  beyond  yourself  and  think  DERXW KRZ WKH FRPPXQLW\ DV D ZKROH EHQHÂżWV IURP raising  it  because  that  person  has  the  same  access  as  everyone  else  to  those  funds,â€?  Taylor  said.   â€œIt’s  a  question  of  whether  you  put  the  individual  or  the  com-­ PXQLW\ ÂżUVW ´

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SA  Supports  Healthcare  For  Transgendered  Students By  Abbott  Brant

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At  a  recent  Student  Association  (SA)  meeting,  SA  discussed  their  support  for  OHJLVODWLRQ WKDW HQFRXUDJHV 681< 1HZ Paltz’s  next  student  healthcare  policy  to  LQFOXGH KHDOWKFDUH EHQHÂżWV IRU WUDQVJHQ-­ dered  students.  6$ ([HFXWLYH 9LFH 3UHVLGHQW =DFKDU\ Rousseas  said  as  a  member  of  the  Queer  Student  Union,  it  became  increasingly  apparent  to  him  that  many  students  felt  WKH FXUUHQW KHDOWKFDUH SODQ ZDV QRW DGH-­ quately  serving  the  transgendered  campus  community.  $ QHZ VWXGHQW KHDOWKFDUH SODQ LV SXW in  place  every  three  years,  Rousseas  said.  The  health  center  is  currently  in  the  nego-­ WLDWLRQ VWDJH DQG GHFLGLQJ ZKDW WKH\ KRSH WR LQFOXGH LQ WKH QHZ KHDOWKFDUH SODQ 7KH\ ZLOO WKHQ UHFHLYH ELGV IURP KHDOWK-­ FDUH FRPSDQLHV ZKR FDQ PHHW DOO WKHVH desires  and  choose  the  one  most  afford-­ able. Rousseas  said  the  current  healthcare  plan  the  college  offers  includes  a  stipula-­ tion  that  treatments  related  to  gender  iden-­ WLW\ ZLOO QRW EH FRYHUHG LQ WKH SODQ 6$ÂśV passing  of  legislation  in  support  of  the  removal  of  that  stipulation  demonstrates  WR WKH +HDOWK &HQWHU WKH LPSRUWDQFH RI DOORZLQJ VWXGHQWV WR DFFHVV WUHDWPHQWV based  on  their  gender  identity,  he  said.  ³:H DUH UHFRPPHQGLQJ WR WKH +HDOWK Center  that  the  plan  they  choose  cov-­ ers  treatment  related  to  gender  identity,â€?  5RXVVHDV VDLG Âł$W WKLV SRLQW ZH DUH EHLQJ a  recommending  body.  Other  than  that,  XOWLPDWHO\ WKH SRZHU LV LQ WKHLU KDQGV %XW they  are  keeping  an  eye  on  us  and  keeping  an  eye  on  other  organizations,  because  WKH\ NQRZ WKDW VWXGHQWV GR ZDQW WKLV ´ Rousseas  said  the  representatives  IURP WKH +HDOWK &HQWHU DUH UHVSRQGLQJ WR the  concern  positively.  â€œWe  have  spoken  to  the  insurance  EURNHU ZKR JDYH XV YDULRXV SULFHV ´ +HDOWK &HQWHU $VVLVWDQW 'LUHFWRU /RUL Mitchell  said.  â€œWe  certainly  support  look-­ ing  at  all  the  available  options.â€?  $OWKRXJK 0LWFKHOO ZDV XQVXUH RI ZKHQ WKH QHZ KHDOWKFDUH SODQ ZRXOG EH decided  on  and  implemented,  she  said  the  time  until  then  has  been  used  for  discuss-­ ing  the  options  and  evaluating  the  best  choice  possible.  â€œFrom  my  understanding  there  are  WZR RWKHU 681< VFKRROV WKDW FRYHU KRU-­ PRQH WUHDWPHQW ´ VKH VDLG Âł1HZ 3DOW]

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Senate  Discusses  SEIs  And  Greek  Funding By  Melissa  Kramer Copy  Editor  |  Kramerm2@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

The  57th  Student  Senate  met  on  Wednesday,  March  12,  where  they  discussed  topics  such  as  activity  fees,  SEIs,  SU  options  and  what  should  be  done  with  United  Greek  Associa-­ tion  funded  clubs.  The  meeting  opened  with  an  update  on  behalf  of  Execu-­ tive  Vice  President  Zach  Rosseaus.  He  said  the  University  Police  Department  (UPD)  is  still  working  on  the  marijuana  legislation  and  that  transgender  inclusive  health  care  is  still  in  the  works.  Vice  President  of  Academic  Affairs  Jordan  Taylor  dis-­ cussed  activity  fees  at  the  Council  of  Organizations  meeting  RQ 0RQGD\ DQG VKDUHG KLV Âż QGLQJV ZLWK KLV IHOORZ 6HQDWH members. According  to  Taylor,  10  percent  of  the  student  population  has  to  vote  in  favor  of  the  fee  for  it  to  change.  The  senate  unanimously  voted  to  move  $3,000  from  the  research  board,  and  $6,000   from  unappropriated  to  conferenc-­ es.  Unappropriated  clubs  are  not  chartered  and  have  lost  their  budget  â€”  sending  the  money  to  the  unappropriated  funds. Sen.  Zach  Grossman  spoke  about  the  current  state  of  SEIs  and  the  SU  policy.  He  said  the  Academic  Affairs  committee  met  Wednesday  and  a  resolution  was  made. “When  faculty  assembly  passes  a  resolution  (faculty  gov-­ ernance)  that  requires  administrative  action,  the  president  or  provost  will  communicate  that  with  the  assembly  and  they  have  60  days  to  respond,â€?  Grossman  said. Regarding  SEIs  for  this  semester,  and  possibly  next  se-­ mester,  the  way  comments  will  be  distributed  has  changed.  =Only  the  professors  will  see  open  comments,  Grossman  said. A  new  proposal  was  made  regarding  the  SU  policy  as  well.  â€œIf  you  are  transferring  and  have  more  than  60  credits,  \RX FDQ 68 D FRXUVH WZLFH ´ *URVVPDQ VDLG Âł3ULRU WR WKH Âż [

it  was  four  classes  and  two  replacement  grades.  You  can  only  replace  two  courses,  as  well  as  SU  two  courses.  You  still  have  up  to  a  year  to  un-­SU  a  course.  We  are  bringing  this  resolution  to  Academic  Senate.â€? Senate  then  discussed  possibilities  of  funding  Greek  orga-­ nizations,  which  is  a  continued  discussion  from  last  semester.  â€œWe  discussed  last  semester  whether  or  not  we  would  fund  [Greek  Organizations],â€?  Taylor  said.  â€œWe  don’t  have  to  decide  this  week,  but  we  have  to  next  week.  We  should  have  something  in  our  heads  before  next  week.â€?  Sen.  Dana  Hershkowitz  said  members  of  United  Greek  Associations  pick  and  choose  members.  No  other  Student  As-­ sociation  groups  can  do  that.  â€œBecause  of  that  reason,  that  is  why  they  can’t  fund  them,â€?  she  said. Âł0RQH\ LV JRLQJ WRZDUGV VSHFLÂż F SURJUDPV WKH\ DUH SXW ting  on.  They  have  to  follow  SA  rules.  Students  still  have  to  be  JHWWLQJ D EHQHÂż W 1RQ 6$ RUJDQL]DWLRQV FDQQRW XVH PRQH\ WR go  off  campus,â€?  Sen.  James  Auer  said. Taylor  mentioned  the  Activity  Fee  Referendum  Legisla-­ tion  that  occurs  between  April  29  and  31  along  with  voting  on  My.newpaltz.edu  and  at  the  Student  Activity  elections.  This  is  a  vote  on  whether  or  not  student  activity  fees  should  increase.  He  also  mentioned  if  money  will  be  alloted  to  non-­SA  or-­ ganizations  during  Budget  Finance  Committee  (BFC)  week-­ end,  the  Senate  should  also  keep  a  potential  amount  in  mind. “We  are  going  to  pass  the  legislation  before  the  activity  fee  referendum,  which  will  determine  the  referendum,â€?  Taylor  said.  Senate  unanimously  agreed  to  open  the  account  and  were  in  support  of  non-­organized  SA  student  funding. The  meeting  was  adjourned  after  a  vote  of  approval  giv-­ ing  non-­Student  Association  recognized  organizations  fund-­ ing,  only  if  the  student  activity  fee  was  increased. Â

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Council  of  Organizations  met  Monday,  March  10  at  7  p.m.  for  the  fourth  time  this  semester  to  discuss  upcoming  events. Dumbledore’s  Army  announced  they  will  host  a  Quidditch  tournament  and  are  looking  for  new  teams.  If  anyone  is  interested  in  forming  a  team,  they  should  email  Hpa@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu.  The  student  activity  fee  that  all  students  must  pay,  which  goes  toward  organizations  and  conferences,  among  other  things,   is  cur-­ rently  $100.  Senate  is  considering  raising  the  Student  Activity  Fee  by  $5  or  $10  to  either  $105  per  semester  or  $110  per  semester.  If  the  fee  is  raised  by  $10,  the  budget  will  increase  by  $160,000.  Some  voiced  concern  that  an  activities  fee  hike  would  be  asking  WRR PXFK RI VWXGHQWV ZKR DUH DOUHDG\ Âż QDQFLDOO\ EXUGHQHG The  point  was  then  raised  that  other  SUNY  schools  have  been  raising  the  fee  ever  since  the  cap  was  raised.  SUNY  Oneonta,  for  example,  has  raised  their  student  activity  fee  twice  in  the  past  two  years.  The  money  that  would  be  added  to  the  budget  from  the  in-­ creased  fee  wouldn’t  go  to  clubs  on  campus,  but  instead  to  other  or-­

ganizations  like  Oasis/Haven  and  other  student  services.  The  decision  to  raise  the  fee  will  be  available  to  students  online  at  my.newpaltz.edu  which  will  coincide  with  Student  Association  elections  in  May. (DFK \HDU DW OHDVW VHDWV RSHQ XS IRU 6$ 7KH ERWWRP Âż YH seats,  students  who  receive  the  lowest  amount  of  votes,  get  semester  seats  and  the  rest  recieve  seats  for  the  full  academic  year.   Programming  board  has  one  open  seat.  The  board  makes  deci-­ sions  on  the  money  allotted  to  clubs  and  organizations  who  approach  them  for  between  $500  and  $3,000. Vice  President  of  Finance  Youssouf  Kouyo,  told  the  council  that  there  is  currently  $1,529  in  general  programming  and  negative  $2,970  in  the  conference  account.  However,  there  is  $6,884  in  the  research  grant  account.  Since  it  is  the  end  of  the  semester,  all  the  money  probably  will  not  be  used,  so  two  or  three  thousand  dollars  from  the  research  account  may  be  moved  to  the  conference  account.  â€œAt  the  end  of  the  day,  we’re  in  pretty  good  shape,â€?  Kouyo  said.  7KH VHDW IRU YLFH SUHVLGHQW RI Âż QDQFH ZLOO EH DYDLODEOH IRU QH[W year  since  Kouyo  is  graduating. The  next  Council  of  Organizations  meeting  is  scheduled  for  April  7   and  will  focus  on  the  Park  Point  housing  project  for  students  and  staff.

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Wednesday  morning  in  East  Harlem,  there  was  not  only  a  deadly  explosion  that  leveled  two  buildings,  but  an  absurd  amount  of  television  spec-­ ulation. The  9:30  a.m.  Park  Avenue  explosion,  later  revealed  to  be  caused  by  a  gas  leak,  prompted  ev-­ ery  major  television  station  to  gain  some  kind  of  â€œexclusiveâ€?  on  the  scene,  whether  it  was  a  helicop-­ ter  shot  of  the  fallen  debris  or  a  20-­second  inter-­ view  of  a  bystander  repeated  hourly. Once  I  heard  about  the  explosion  I  wanted  more  information,  so  I  turned  to  television.  One  minute,  they  suggest  a  conspiracy  theory,  the  next,  an  interview  of  a  woman  with  a  dog,  screaming  about  her  windows  being  broken. Emergencies  don’t  exactly  promote  good  journalism. However,  this  accident  really  prompts  me  to  PHQWLRQ WKH QHHG IRU WKH G\LQJ Âż HOG RI SULQW MRXU nalism  â€”  the  one  place  where  fact  checking  still  RXWZHLJKV WKH WLPHOLQHVV RI JHWWLQJ WKH VWRU\ Âż UVW 1R VSHFXODWLRQ RU Ă€ XII -XVW WKH VWUDLJKW IDFWV 6R here  you  go,  from  me  to  you,  the  facts  as  of  print  time  according  to  CBS  and  an  earlier  press  confer-­ ence: -­One  of  the  buildings  that  collapsed  had  a  pi-­ ano  repair  shop  with  apartments  above.  The  second  building  housed  a  church. 7KH Âż UH GHSDUWPHQW VDLG D WKLUG SHUVRQ KDV EHHQ FRQÂż UPHG GHDG DW OHDVW QLQH SHRSOH DUH PLVV ing  and  more  than  20  people  have  been  injured,  in-­ cluding  two  with  life-­threatening  injuries.  -­The  two  buildings  that  collapsed  had  a  total  of  15  residential  units  and  preliminary  research  suggests  one  of  the  buildings  did  not  have  permis-­ sion  to  have  tenants. -­The  gas  leak  was  reported  15  minutes  before  the  explosion  occurred,  but  Con  Ed  workers  came  minutes  late. ,WÂśOO WDNH VRPH WLPH IRU Âż UHÂż JKWHUV DQG UH spondents  to  get  into  the  debris  and  know  the  cause  DQG Âż QDO FDVXDOW\ FRXQW IRU VXUH “We  don’t  want  to  speculate  the  number  of  people  who  may  have  been  in  the  building  until  we  get  closer,â€?  NYPD  Commissioner  Bill  Bratton  said  at  a  press  conference.  ,W LV FHUWDLQO\ D GLIÂż FXOW WLPH IRU UHVLGHQWV RI the  Harlem  region,  and  anyone  affected  by  the  ex-­ plosion  or  missing  persons,  but  constant  specula-­ tion  in  the  media  just  promotes  panic  and  inaccu-­ rate  information.  Food  for  thought. Â

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Associate  Professor  of  History  Susan  Lewis  has  been  elected  as  a  fellow  of  the  New  York  Academy  of  History  (NYAH).  The  NYAH  is  a  professional  organization  devoted  to  the  study  and  teaching  of  the  history  of  the  city  and  state  of  New  York.  Membership  is  exclusive  by  invitation. Lewis  said  there  were  steps  to  take  in  order  to  be  ac-­ cepted  into  this  fairly  exclusive  organization. “You  have  to  be  nominated  by  somebody,â€?  Lewis  said.  â€œThen  there  is  a  secret  ballot  to  be  elected.  Dr.  Gerald  Benja-­ min,  [Associate  Vice  President  for  Regional  Engagement  and  Director  of  the  Center  for  Research,  Regional  Education  and  Outreach  (CRREO)]  asked  if  I  would  like  to  be  nominated.  I  said,  that  would  be  great,  and  he  did  and  I  got  a  letter  saying  I  was  elected.â€?  Elected  Fellows  include:  historians,  independent  schol-­ ars,  public  historians,  museum  curators  and  administrators,  educators,  archivists  and  others  with  a  demonstrated  record  of  achievement  and  publications.  The  NYAH  publishes  a  news-­ letter,  maintains  a  website,  sponsors  conferences  and  awards  prizes,  according  to  the  website. The  NYAH  is  a  group  that  was  organized  at  Columbia  University  by  Executive  Director  Kenneth  T.  Jackson.  Ac-­ cording  to  Lewis,  Jackson  is  probably  one  of  the  most  famous,  if  not  the  most  famous  New  York  State  historian  right  now.  Lewis  attended  graduate  school  in  Albany.  From  there,  she  transferred  to  Binghamton  to  earn  her  Ph.  D  in  American  History.  Â

Lewis’  road  to  receiving  this  membership  began  with  the  story  of  her  start  at  SUNY  New  Paltz,  where  she  taught  American  and  New  York  State  history  as  an  adjunct  in  1998.  She  became  a  full-­time  professor  in  2001.  â€œProfessor  Halpman  was  once  on  the  board  of  the  D&H  [Delaware  and  Hudson]  Canal  Historical  Society  and  Muse-­ um,  and  I  was  the  director,â€?  Lewis  said.  â€œOne  day,  I  was  doing  research  here  in  the  [Sojourner  Truth]  library.  He  said  to  me,  â€˜There’s  going  to  be  a  position  opening  up  at  New  Paltz  and  you  should  apply.’  So  I  sent  in  a  letter.  Two  weeks  before  the  term  started,  the  head  of  the  department  called  me  and  said  someone  who  was  supposed  to  teach  a  class  wasn’t  able  to,  and  for  me  to  come  in  to  teach  that  class.â€? At  New  Paltz,  she  has  won  both  the  2008  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences  Teacher  of  the  Year  Award  and  the  2011  Excel-­ lence  in  Scholarship  Award  from  the  School  of  Liberal  Arts  &  Sciences.  Her  2009  book  â€œUnexceptional  Women,â€?  about  businesswomen  in  19th  century  Albany,  won  the  Hagley  Prize  for  the  best  book  published  in  business  history  in  2011. Current  chair  of  New  Paltz’s  History  Department  Profes-­ sor  Andrew  Evans  said  beyond  Lewis’  accolades,  she  is  an   assest  to  the  department  and  the  college.  â€œSusan  Lewis  is  the  model  of  a  devoted  teacher-­schol-­ ar,â€?  Evans  said.  â€œShe  is  one  of  the  most  popular  teachers  in  the  History  Department;Íž  her  classes  on  American  and  New  <RUN KLVWRU\ URXWLQHO\ ÂżOO WR WKH EULP DQG EH\RQG VKH EULQJV the  knowledge  from  her  research  into  the  classroom  and  her  scholarship  is  successful  because  she  asks  historical  questions  that  are  relevant  to  us  today.â€? SUNY  New  Paltz  History  Professor  L.H.  Roper  said Â

Lewis  is  one  of  the  top  historians  of  19th  century  America. “She  is  eminently  worthy  of  her  election  to  the  Academy  and  she  is  a  model  colleague:  one  of  our  leading  historians  of  the  careers  and  experiences  of  women  in  the  United  States,  especially  in  the  nineteenth  century,â€?  Roper  said.  As  well  as  a  model  colleague,  Roper  said  Lewis  is  an  exceptional  professor  and  hard  worker. “She  is  also  a  wonderful  teacher,  as  manifested  by  her  recognition  as  â€˜Teacher  of  the  Year’  in  the  College  of  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences  but  also  by  the  steady  stream  of  testimoni-­ als  from  her  pupils,  and  dedicated  to  serving  our  campus  and  the  wider  community,â€?  Roper  said.  â€œHer  only  problem  seems  WR EH ÂżWWLQJ KRXUV ZRUWK RI ZRUN LQ D KRXU GD\ Âł Lewis  is  also  in  the  middle  of  writing  a  college  textbook  about  the  history  of  New  York  State.  â€œI  was  on  a  leave  last  fall,  because  my  husband  was  teaching  in  Florence,  [and]  I  wanted  to  go  with  him,â€?  she  said.  PHOTO  BY  ROBIN  WEINSTEIN “While  I  was  there,  I  was  working  on  a  New  York  State  His-­ tory  college  textbook,  which  I’ve  been  writing  for  a  while.â€? On  top  of  all  of  her  achievements,  Lewis  has  found  the  time  to  run  a  blog  titled,  â€œNew  York  Rediscovered:  Intriguing  Stories  From  The  History  Of  New  York  State.â€?   â€œI  went  to  Gerald  Benjamin  who  is  the  head  of  CRREO,  which  is  our  Community  and  Regional  Outreach  Branch  [who  agreed  to  host  the  blog],â€?  Lewis  said.  â€œFrom  there,  I  started  writing.  There  are  a  lot  of  interesting  stories  in  New  York  State  history  that  people  don’t  know.  That’s  what  my  blog  is  about.â€? Next  on  Lewis’  agenda  is  attending  a  Gala  party  for  NYAH  members  on  April  1  in  New  York  City.

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A  SUNY  New  Paltz  associate  professor  was  one  of  19  in  the  state  awarded  funding  by  the  Research  Foundation  for  SUNY  for  her  research  targeted  at  im-­ proving  middle  school  student’s  learning  and  writing. Barbara  Chorzempa,  associate  professor  in  the  Department  of  Educational  Studies,  received  a  $3,000  SUNY  Networks  of  Excellence  planning  grant  for  her  project  â€œSouthern  Tier  Energy  Production:  Powering  Up  Middle  School  Writers  to  Learn  About  their  Com-­ munities.â€?  Beginning  in  June,  Chorzempa  will  work  with  middle  school  social  studies  teachers  with  the  focus  of  enhancing  student  writing  by  teaching  them  strategies,  she  said. Writing  strategies  are  techniques  used  by  some  teachers  to  help  students  improve  the  clarity  of  their  writing,  often  with  the  use  of  acronyms  like  DARE:  develop  a  position  statement,  add  supporting  ideas,  report  and  refute  counterarguments  and  end  with  a  strong  conclusion. “We  want  to  make  their  writing  better,â€?  Chorzem-­

pa  said.  â€œWe  think  we  can  do  that  by  teaching  them  a  strategy.â€? The  process  is  simple;Íž  Chorzempa  and  her  col-­ leagues  will  show  teachers  strategies,  they  will  select  one  that  works  best  in  the  situation,  introduce  it  to  stu-­ dents  and  then  implement  that  strategy  to  make  their  writing  stronger.  These  strategies  teach  how  to  write  a  better  topic  sentences,  add  supporting  details  and  evi-­ dence  in  their  own  writing.  Chorzempa  will  be  working  in  a  collaborative  effort  with  her  SUNY  Fredonia  colleagues  Kathleen  Magiera,  Jennifer  Moon  Ro  and  Mary  Kay  Szwejb-­ ka  of  Jamestown  Community  College  on  the  project  based  out  of  Fredonia. “I’m  excited  to  collaborate  with  my  colleagues  out  there  in  SUNY  Fredonia  and  Jamestown  because  I’ve  never  really  [worked  with  them]  on  a  research  project,â€?  Chorzempa  said.  Using  such  models  for  teaching  strategies  such  as  the  Self  Regulated  Strategy  Development  (SRSD),  she  hopes  using  evidence-­based  practices  will  help  the  middle  schoolers’  writing  quality,  and  that  strategies  ZLOO EH UHĂ€HFWHG LQ WKHLU ZRUN “I’m  excited  to  bring  in  one  of  my  strengths  into Â

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the  schools,â€?  she  said.  â€œStrategy  instruction  is  large  in  some  areas  of  the  country  and  I  haven’t  seen  it  as  much  in  schools  around  here  so  I’m  excited  to  go  out  there  and  get  teachers’  perception  of  these  strategies  and  how  well  they  work.â€? Dean  of  the  School  of  Education,  Michael  Rosen-­ berg  made  note  of  Chorzempa’s  contributions  to  the  development  of  opportunities  for  teachers  across  the  state  to  make  use  of  evidenced-­based  instructional  practices.  â€œThis  project  is  an  excellent  illustration  of  how  multiple  stakeholders  â€”  colleges,  school  districts,  and  regional  agencies  â€”  can  work  together  to  enhance  learning  outcomes  and  promote  community  participa-­ tion  among  middle  school  students,â€?  he  said. Chorzempa  said  she  hopes  this  project  is  a  step-­ ping  stone  to  more  funding  for  further  research.  â€œUnfortunately  it’s  only  a  few  thousand  dollar  grant,  so  it’s  not  a  whole  lot  of  money,  but  one  of  the  things  we  hope  to  do  is  apply  for  a  larger  grant,â€?  she  said.  â€œSo  this,  we’re  hoping,  is  the  start  of  years  of  collaboration.â€? The  abstract  for  the  project  is  available  at  the  681< ( 1HWZRUN IRU ([FHOOHQW ZHEVLWH

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LOCAL PROGRAM ENCOURAGES EXERCISE AND POSITIVE BODY IMAGE IN GIRLS By  Hannah  Nesich Asst.  Copy  Editor  |  Hnesich@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu Amy  Frisch,  a  New  Paltz  therapist,  was  running  in  the  Iron  Girl  half-­marathon  in  Florida  last  March  when  around  mile  six  of  the  sweltering  hot  race,  she  had  a  realization. “In  the  middle  of  the  race,  something  rustled  in  me,  and  I  felt  like  we  needed  [running]  in  my  community,â€?  she  said. A  year  later,  Frisch  is  now  the  coordinator  of  the  Ul-­ ster  County  chapter  of  Girls  on  the  Run,  a  program  that  encourages  young  girls  to  use  exercise  and  facilitated  dis-­ cussion  to  help  develop  positive  body  images  and  healthy  lifestyles.   Girls  on  the  Run  became  an  international  program  in  2000,  but  started  as  a  pilot  program  in  1996  in  Charlotte,  N.C.  to  provide  pre-­adolescent  girls  with  â€œthe  necessary  tools  to  embrace  their  individual  strengths  and  successfully  navigate  life  experiences,â€?  according  their  website. Having  a  Master’s  degree  in  social  work  and  oper-­ ating  a  private  practice,  Frisch  primarily  works  with  girls  in  their  pre-­teens  and  college-­aged  girls,  and  as  a  runner,  saw  a  distinct  connection  between  her  two  passions.  At  her  Iron  Girl  race,  she  spoke  to  a  woman  involved  in  the  program,  and  after  that  mid-­race  revelation,  decided  there  was  no  go-­ ing  back.  )ULVFK Âż UVW LPSOHPHQWHG WKH SURJUDP at  Lenape  Elementary  school  in  grades  WKUHH WKURXJK Âż YH DQG VLQFH WKHQ KDV expanded  it  to  grades  six  through  eight  anywhere  in  Ulster  County,  known  as  the  Ulster  County  Middle  School  Team. The  cost  of  the  program  is  $150  per  girl,  but  participants  are  charged  $135,  though  there  is  also  a  scholarship  fund  girls  can  apply  for,  Frisch  said.  Community  members  can  choose  to  sponsor  a  child.  The  international  program  is  sponsored  by  corpora-­ tions,  while  Frisch  looks  to  local  establishments  to  sponsor  the  Ulster  County-­based  program  as  they  expand. The  elementary  school  program  is  housed  at  Lenape  Elementary  School,  but  the  middle  school  WHDP SUDFWLFHV WDNH SODFH DW )ULVFKÂśV RIÂż FH SURYLG ing  a  unique  challenge,  according  to  the  project  in-­ tern  and  SUNY  New  Paltz  fourth-­year  sociology  major  Deborah  Walnicki. “The  biggest  challenge  in  implementing  the Â

program  thus  far  has  been  securing  a  space  for  the  middle  school  team.  Because  we  were  denied  access  to  the  New  Paltz  Middle  School,  we  have  decided  to  hold  the  program  IRU WKH PLGGOH VFKRRO JLUOV RXW RI $P\ÂśV RIÂż FH ´ :DOQLFNL said.  â€œThis  may  cause  some  challenges  for  girls  in  terms  of  transportation  to  the  program,  however  I  believe  we  can  DGGUHVV WKRVH GLIÂż FXOWLHV DV WKH\ DULVH LQ RUGHU WR VXSSRUW every  girl.â€? Girls  on  the  Run’s  international  agency  selects  the  age  JURXSV IRU WKH SURJUDP ² JUDGHV WKUHH WKURXJK Âż YH DQG VL[ through  eight  â€”  based  on  what  are  considered  high  risk  time  for  girls,  according  Frisch.  But  the  program  empha-­ sizes  more  than  just  exercise. The  girls  in  both  the  Lenape  Elementary  School  pro-­ gram  and  the  Ulster  County  Middle  School  program  train  twice  a  week  for  90  minutes  each.  7KH Âż UVW minutes,  â€œcircle  time,â€?  are  dedi-­ cated  to  discussion  in  both  one  large  group  and Â

smaller  groups,  Frisch  said. “It’s  the  time  when  the  girls  are  connected  to  each  other,  feeling  safe  and  supported.  Each  session  has  a  topic,  like  healthy  friendships  with  girls  or  body  image,â€?  Frisch  VDLG Âł:H WDON DERXW ZKDW LV OLNH WR EH D JLUO EXLOGLQJ FRQÂż dence,  discussing  tools  and  strategy.  Or  sometimes  we  will  GR UROH SOD\LQJ ,WÂśV UHDOO\ DERXW Âż QGLQJ \RXU YRLFH ´ The  following  45  minutes  are  used  for  stretching,  relay  races  and  fun,  creative  running  activities.  Frisch  said  some  coaches  are  yoga  instructors  â€”  an  attempt  to  expose  the  girls  to  the  many  diverse  ways  to  be  physically  active. All  of  the  training,  discussion  and  learning  the  girls  H[SHULHQFH WKURXJKRXW WKH VHDVRQ ZLOO FXOPLQDWH LQ D Âż QDO 5k  run  that  will  take  place  June  14  in  Cornwall. For  the  future  of  the  local  chapter  of  Girls  on  the  Run,  Frisch  envisions  the  program  spreading  to  at  least  two  more  individual  elementary  schools  in  the  county  and  get-­ ting  more  mom-­and-­pop  stores  on  board  as  sponsors.  She  even  hopes  to  expand  to  the  college  level. Frisch  wants  to  introduce  a  Girls  on  the  Run  club  on  the  SUNY  New  Paltz  campus  and  eventually  teach  a  three-­hour  human  services-­based  course  DERXW WKH QRQ IRU SURÂż W ZRUOG and  fundraising  that  would  JLYH VWXGHQWV Âż UVW KDQG H[ perience  by  allowing  them  to  work  with  the  local  Girls  on  the  Run  chapters.   Typically,  the  differ-­ ent  chapters’  run  is  inte-­ grated  into  a  bigger  race  already  taking  place,  like  a  Y.M.C.A.  run,  Frisch  said.  Out  of  the  potential  2,000  people  racing,  several  hundred  could  be  Girls  on  the  Run  participants.  Though  this  SURJUDPÂśV Âż QDO UDFH IRU WKH 8OVWHU County  chapter’s  300  participants  will  be  held  in  Cornwall  and  will  be  its  own  individual  race,  Frisch  hopes  to  someday  move  it  even  closer  to  home. “I  would  love  to  see  it  happen  in  New  Paltz,â€?  Frisch  said.  â€œThere’s  something  to  be  said  about  keeping  girls  in  these  big  groups  and  be  repre-­ sented  in  our  own  little  town  as  well.â€?

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By  Madeline  Anthony  Copy  Editor  |  N02436976@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu International  Women’s  Day,  established  in  the  1900s  and  celebrated  in  countries  worldwide,  was  honored  this  year  on  March  8.    A  symposium  entitled  â€œCelebration  of  Women’s  Voices   â€”  Women  Writers  Past  and  Present,â€?  a  two-­day  conference  for  writers  of  all  levels  to  promote  and  honor  women’s  writing,  was  held  in  Deyo  Hall  this  past  week-­ end  and  included  two  SUNY  New  Paltz  English  profes-­ sors.  Even  though  women  have  made  immense  gains  in  recent  decades  towards  achieving  equality,  both  cultur-­ ally,  and  economically,  â€œthe  need  for  ongoing  social  transformation  remainsâ€?  according  to  Pauline  Uchmano-­ wicz,  an  associate  English  Professor  who  took  part  in  the  event.   â€œThe  national  day  is  a  symbol  to  remind  us  all  to  honor  women  in  everyday  life  and  to  continue  to  ac-­ knowledge  their  achievements,â€?  Uchmanowicz  said. Uchmanowicz  said  that  by  looking  at  many  of  our  most  important  institutions,  from  politics  to  the  work-­ place,  one  might  argue  that  every  day  is  â€œNational  Men’s  Day.â€?  â€œUntil  we  have  the  same  perception  of  women’s  roles  in  all  spheres  of  national  life,  a  â€˜celebration’  of  women’s  roles  and  potential  remains  vital,â€?  Uchmanowicz  said.  $ ZULWHU RI ERWK SRHWU\ DQG QRQÂżFWLRQ 8FKPDQRZ-­ icz  wrote  a  weekly  food  column  for  the  Woodstock  Times  which  focused  on  broad-­ranging  topics,  including  cook-­ ing,  farming,  agricultural  tourism  and  politics,  restaurant  UHYLHZV DQG SURÂżOHV RI KRPH FRRNV DV ZHOO DV SURIHV-­ sional  chefs.  She  took  this  expertise  to  the  workshop  when  she  taught  in  a  conference  entitled  â€œTelling  Stories:  Creative  1RQÂżFWLRQ ´ ZKLFK IRFXVHG RQ ZULWLQJ LQ D YDULHW\ RI PRGHV WUDYHO DQG FRPPXQLW\ SURÂżOH PHPRLU SHUVRQDO essay  and  food  writing.   Uchmanowicz  said  she  wanted  the  participants  to  â€œdiscover  or  rediscoverâ€?  their  individual  stories  through  their  writing  and  that  she  wanted  to  promote  originality  in  her  students.  â€œI  chose  several  writings  by  women  authors,  whose  subject  matter  and  textual  strategies  would  likely  be  in-­ spiring,â€?  Uchmanowicz  said.  Jan  Schmidt,  an  English  professor  as  well  as  a  writer  and  editor  who  also  took  part  in  the  event,  agreed  that  although  there  have  been  advances  in  women’s  equality,   JUHDW FKDQJHV VWLOO QHHG WR EH PDGH IRU ZRPHQ 6SHFLÂż-­ cally,  she  said,  in  terms  of  wages,  violence  against  wom-­

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en  and  the  sex  trade  into  which  women  are  sold  every  day.   â€œThe  next  great  revolution  is  still  justice  for  wom-­ en,â€?  Schmidt  said. Schmidt,  who  led  the  workshop  â€œMemoir  Writing:  Silencing  Anger  and  Resistanceâ€?  said  that  what  stuck  out  most  in  her  mind  was  the  way  it  resonated  with  the  participants,  who  she  described  as  vibrant  and  diverse,  ranging  in  age  from  20  to  80. Studies  show  that  only  about  one  in  every  four  wom-­ en  will  report  an  abusive  relationship  â€”  this,  among  other  things,   motivates  Schmidt   to  help  women   start  turning  righteous  anger  into  social  action  through  their  writing.  â€œThe  end  result  was  that  the  women  wanted  to  form  a  writing  workshop,â€?  Schmidt  said.  â€œAnd  that  is  what  we  need,   to  honor  women  globally  and  internationally.â€? Schmidt,  together  with  Laurence  Carr,  collaborated  to  edit  the  book  â€œA  Slant  of  Light:  Contemporary  Wom-­

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en  Writers  of  the  Hudson  Valleyâ€?  which  celebrates  the  work  of  over  100  women  writers  of  the  Hudson  Valley. When  it  comes  to  well-­known,  inspirational  and  strong  women  writers,  Uchmanowicz  encourages  wom-­ en  to  read  the  works  of  Phillis  Wheatley,  who  was  en-­ slaved  in  her  native  country  of  Africa  as  a  child  and  then  sold  to  a  prominent  Bostonian  in  the  eighteenth  century.   Wheatley  then  learned  English  and  began  writing,  be-­ FRPLQJ WKH ÂżUVW SHUVRQ RI $IULFDQ GHVFHQW LQ $PHULFD —  of  either  gender  â€”  to  publish  a  poetry  book.   Schmidt  is  a  fan  of  Joan  Didion,  Slyvia  Plath  and  Ann  Sexton,  among  many  other  accomplished  female  writers.  :KLOH WKHUH DUH D VLJQLÂżFDQWO\ KLJKHU QXPEHU RI women  writers  today  than  ever  in  the  past,  according  to  Schmidt,  women  writers  are  still  getting  the  short  end  of  the  stick.   â€œMore  men  still  get  published  than  women,â€?  she  said.  â€œLook  at  the  New  York  Times  best  sellers  â€”  women  are  looking  for  spaces  to  write,  it’s  still  an  issue.â€?

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ANTHROPOLOGY PROFESSOR HOLDS LECTURE ON HUMAN DIETARY TRENDS

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Professor  Ken  Nystrom  speaks  to  a  full  auditorium  in  the  Lecture  Center.

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On  Monday,  March  10,  the  EvoS  Club,  Student  Association  and  the  College  of  Lib-­ eral  Arts  and  Sciences  hosted  a  talk  by  as-­ sistant  professor  in  the  Department  of  An-­ thropology  Ken  Nystrom  on  diet  and  human  HYROXWLRQ UHJDUGLQJ WKH VFLHQWLÂżF UHDVRQV behind  what  we  as  a  species  have  progressed  to  eat.  The  lecture,  titled  â€œFrom  Ardipithecus  to  Agriculture:  The  Science  of  Diet  and  Hu-­ man  Evolution,â€?  was  conceptualized  in  re-­ sponse  to  recent  increased  public  awareness  of  the  nature  of  the  industrialized  food  com-­ plex  and  health  consequences,  like  obesity,  typically  associated  with  a  â€œwesternizedâ€?  diet  as  well  as  the  considerable  amount  of  discussion  in  popular  media  regarding  an-­ cestral  diets  such  as  diet-­trend  books  that  advertise  Paleolithic  Era  or  â€œcavemanâ€?  di-­ etary  habits.   Nystrom’s  talk  was  derived  from  the  material  taught  in  his  class  â€œThe  Bio-­Arche-­ ology  of  Food,â€?  where  students  learn  both  how  and  why  anthropologists  reconstruct Â

evolutionary  diet.  Nystrom  prefaced  the  dis-­ cussion,  noting  that  many  students’  interest  in  the  class  derived  from  the  desire  to  learn  â€œwhat  I  should  be  eating,â€?  to  which  he  said  no  particular  diet  could  be  characterized  as  WKH ÂłULJKW´ GLHW D VSHFLÂżF LQGLYLGXDO VKRXOG follow.  â€œOne  of  the  features  of  humans  is  that  we  have  an  incredibly  plastic  ability  â€“  we  can  respond  behaviorally,  physiologically  [to]  adapt  very  well  to  a  very  wide  range  of  environmental  circumstances  and  to  a  very  wide  range  of  diet,â€?  Nystrom  said.   According  to  Nystrom,  food  is  intimate-­ ly  linked  with  social  organization  and  hier-­ archy,  which  in  turn  are  impacted  by  the  re-­ source  subsistence  patterns  of  a  species  â€“  in  the  case  of  humans,  our  development  from  a  food  foraging  group  to  a  food  producing  group.  Nystrom  explained  the  evolutionary  change  as   having  been  made  possible  from  cephalization,  the  concentration  of  nerve  tis-­ VXH UHVXOWLQJ IURP D VLJQLÂżFDQW LQFUHDVH LQ human  cranial  capacity  in  Homo  ergaster,  a  chronospecies  of  Homo  erectus.   According  to  Nystrom,  there  is  only  one Â

explanation  for  this  rapid  physiological  de-­ velopment  â€“  a  change  in  diet.  â€œBrains  are  a  very  expensive  organ  that  UHTXLUH D ORW RI HQHUJ\ VR ZH KDYH WR ÂżQG that  energy  from  somewhere  else,â€?  Nystrom  said.  â€œThere  is  very  good  evidence  for  meat  consumption  [by  Homo  ergaster]  in  the  form  of  human-­made  cut  marks  on  bone.â€?  Nystrom  said  this  discovery  indicates  that  humans  gained  primary  access  to  meat   before  they  were  known  to  use  tools  â€“  not  as  a  secondary  savager,  but  as  a  power  savager,  one  who  is  able  to  scare  off  the  predator  who  made  the  kill.  â€œIt  wouldn’t  take  a  lot  of  meat  to  be  LQFOXGHG LQWR WKH GLHW WR KDYH D VLJQLÂżFDQW impact  on  human  evolution,â€?  Nystrom  said.  1\VWURP VDLG WKH ÂżUVW LQVWDQFHV RI KX-­ mans  evolving  from  food  foragers  to  food  producers  was  during  the  Neolithic  Revolu-­ tion  in  the  geographic  region  known  as  the  Fertile  Crescent,  where  Iraq  and  Iran  stand  presently.  Nystrom  said  around  this  time  ex-­ ists  evidence  of  both  plant  and  animal  do-­ mestication.  Nystrom  explained  that  despite  certain Â

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survival  risks  initially  present  in  food  pro-­ ducing  groups  compared  to  food  foraging  groups  such  as  increased  exposure  to  dis-­ ease  vectors  via  the  domesticated  animals  and  plants,  a  species  longevity  in  terms  of  UHSURGXFWLYH ÂżWQHVV VWDQGV WR EHQHÂżW LI VXF-­ cessful.  As  to  why  humans  made  the  switch  to  agriculture,  Nystrom  shared  two  theories:  ¿UVW KXPDQV ZHUH ÂłSXVKHG´ LQWR DJULFXOWXUH out  of  necessity  due  to  population  growth  DQG LQVXIÂżFLHQW UHVRXUFHV RU VHFRQG KXPDQV were  â€œpulledâ€?  into  agriculture  by  natural  se-­ lection  whereby  an  organism  alters  its  envi-­ ronment  to  increase  its  chances  of  survival  â€“  more  food  allows  for  larger  population.  â€œInstead  of  saying  that  agriculture  is  bad,  which  it  is  from  a  physiological  per-­ spective,  from  an  evolutionary  perspective  and  a  Darwinian  perspective,  agriculture  has  been  phenomenally  successful  as  an  adap-­ tion,â€?  Nystrom  said.  â€œWe  have  to  combine  perspectives  in  order  to  understand  the  evo-­ OXWLRQDU\ VLJQLÂżFDQFH LQ FKDQJHV LQ WKH KX-­ man  diet.â€? When  asked  his  opinion  on  modern  di-­ ets,  he  responded,  â€œEnjoy  in  moderation.â€?

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By  John  Tappen News  Editor  |  John.tappen@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu There  are  invisibility  issues,  second-­year  English  major  Cait  O’Connor  said,  on  this  campus  and  in  print.  Closet  Door  â€”  a  new  LGBTQ  art  and  literary  zine  WR EH SXEOLVKHG IRU WKH ÂżUVW WLPH WKLV VHPHVWHU ZLOO VKRZ that  the  queer  community  has  options,  third-­year  Dana  Hershkowitz  said. O’Connor  and  Hershkowitz  said  they  were  ap-­ proached  by  Student  Association  (SA)  Vice  President  and  member  of  the  Queer  Student  Union  E-­board  Zacha-­ ry  Rousseas,  who  made  a  general  inquiry  about  expand-­ ing  the  New  Paltz  LGBTQ  community.  In  the  spirit  of  newly  instituted  campus  clubs  such  as  the  Drag  Club  and  Queer  Punks  for  Poetry,  Hershkowitz  and  O’Connor,  both  English  majors,  saw  an  opportunity  to  call  attention  to  and  acknowledge  the  importance  of  LGBTQ  writers  and  artists. Hershkowitz  said  her  hope  is  that  the  project  will  become  a  staple  of  campus  â€”  much  like  The  Oracle  and  The  Fahari  Libertad,  which  are  currently  the  only  student-­run  periodicals  actively  publishing.  â€œ[One  of  the  goals  is  to]  get  alternative  voices  out  there,â€?  Hershkowitz  said.  %HLQJ DEOH WR ÂżQG SULQWHG FRSLHV RI Closet  Door Â

across  campus  would  embody  an  LGBTQ  presence  in  the  form  of  literature  â€”  something  currently  lacking  on  campus,  Hershkowitz  said.  Its  presence,  she  said,  means  LGBTQ  students  would  no  longer  feel  as  though  their  only  option  is  to  ³IHYHULVKO\ VFRXU WKH ,QWHUQHW WR ÂżQG WKH UHVRXUFHV WKH\ want  or  need.â€? Hershkowitz  said  with  the  existence  of  Closet  Door,  students  won’t  have  to  seek  out  these  voices  â€”  they  will  just  be  present. “Open  it  and  there  is  queer  existence,â€?  O’Connor  said. Inspired  by  the  Riot  Grrrl  movement  and  the  feminist  zines  that  were  integral  to  its  development,  O’Connor  said  zines  are  the  best  medium  for  this  venture  because  of  their  informal  nature  and  easy  to  digest  format. “There’s  space  to  make  a  mess,â€?  O’Connor  said.  The  crude  cut  and  paste  aesthetic  of  zines  is  ap-­ proachable,  O’Connor  said,  and  having  them  take  up  space  on  campus  â€”  in  a  tangible  print  form  â€”  will  hopefully  tackle  the  problem  of  a  void  in  LGBTQ  litera-­ ture  in  New  Paltz. “There  are  a  lack  of  available  places  to  submit  [LG-­ BTQ  students’]  work,â€?  Hershkowitz  said. +HUVKNRZLW] VDLG ZULWWHQ ZRUN RU DUW PDGH VSHFLÂż-­ FDOO\ IRU DQ /*%74 DXGLHQFH PD\ QRW ÂżW FRQYHQWLRQDO

publications  â€”  that  writers  and  artists  may  fear  their  work  is  too  niche.  â€œThey  don’t  want  to  have  to  explain  their  work,  or  worry  about  it  being  too  gay,â€?  she  said. Hershkowitz  said  she  wants  Closet  Door  to  be  an  accurate  portrayal  of  the  stories  and  people  within  the  LGBTQ  community  â€”  a  creative  outlet  that  creates  dia-­ logue  with  artists  and  writers  in  an  effort  to  promote  and  increase  understanding.  â€œThere  are  a  lot  of  different  values  and  opinions  [in  the  LGBTQ  community],â€?  Hershkowitz  said.  â€œI  want  this  to  be  representative  of  that.â€?  The  submission  and  editing  process  will  be  an  open-­ ended  one,  Hershkowitz  said,  where  contributors  will  have  the  chance  to  collaborate  and  workshop  their  work.  But  if  they  prefer  not  to,  submissions  will  be  accepted  as  is.  â€œPeople’s  opinions  are  their  truth,â€?  she  said. Closet  Door V ÂżUVW LVVXH ZLOO EH UHOHDVHG RQOLQH DV well  as   produce  a  limited  run  of  hard  copies.  Hershkowitz  said  she  is  apprehensively  optimistic  about  producing  at  least  one  issue  per  semester  but  â€œtwo  would  be  ideal.â€? Closet  Door  is  currently  accepting  submissions,  including  anonymous  works,  at  Closetdoornewpaltz@ gmail.com. Â

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Books of Choice�

By Kurt Vonnegut

With  the  weather  (hopefully)  warming  up  as  we  progress  further  into  March,  what  better  way  to  celebrate  than  to  shade  your  eyes  from  the  sun  with  your  nose  shoved  into  a  book!?  Our  editors  choose  a  few  of  their  favorite  books  to  bring  in  the  season:

“The Awakening�

Everyone  should   read  something  by  Kurt  Vonnegut,  right?  7KDWÂśV ZKDW , ZDV WKLQNLQJ RQH GD\ RYHU ZLQWHU EUHDN ZKHQ , ZDV ORRN-­ ing  around  a  book  store  and  happened  to  notice  â€œBreakfast  of  Championsâ€?  OD\LQJ OD]LO\ RQ D VKHOI 6R , ERXJKW LW ² DQG DW ÂżUVW , UHDOO\ GLGQÂśW OLNH ,W ZDV UHDOO\ GLVDSSRLQWLQJ EHFDXVH ,ÂśG KDG VXFK KLJK KRSHV IRU 9RQQHJXW ² EXW E\ WKH HQG , ZDV GHÂżQLWHO\ D IDQ , DSSUHFLDWHG KLV KRQHVWO\ HYHQ ZKHQ , GLGQÂśW DJUHH ZLWK KLP DOO WKH time.  His  style,  obviously  unconventional,  kept  me  reading,  and  more  im-­ portantly,  thinking.  I  was  glad  I  had  read  the  classic  novel.  6R WKLV VSULQJ SLFN LW XS ² LWÂśV D VKRUW ERRN D TXLFN UHDG DQG LV VXUH WR leave  you  lost  in  thought. —  Maddie  Anthony,  Copy  Editor

By Kate Chopin /DVW VSULQJ , KDG WKH KRQRU RI EHLQJ IRUFHG WR UHDG .DWH &KRSLQÂśV Âł7KH $ZDNHQLQJ´ IRU D FODVV DQG , DFWXDOO\ HQGHG XS UHDOO\ HQMR\LQJ LW Set  on  the  Southern  Coasts  of  late  1800s  Louisiana,  this  novel  explores  the  enlightening  experiences  of  Edna  Pontellier  â€”  a  mother  of  two  and  wife  of  a  businessman  who  is  away  for  months  at  a  time  â€”  while  she  vaca-­ tions  in  a  nearby  beach  community.  Although  her  husband  was  never  necessarily  abusive  towards  her,  when  VKH FURVVHV SDWK ZLWK DQRWKHU PXFK \RXQJHU PDQ (GQDÂśV RXWORRN RQ KHU entire  life  conforming  to  the  role  as  a  wife  and  mother  become  revolution-­ ized.  This  story  of  a  woman  oppressed  by  her  societal  standards  taking  the  risk  of  freeing  herself  for  her  own  well-­being  is  not  only  inspiring,  but  re-­ DOO\ MXVW PDNHV PH ZDQW WR SDFN XS DQG JR RQ D EHDFK YDFDWLRQ RI P\ RZQ this  spring  in  hopes  that  I  might  have  a  reveling,  life  changing  epiphany,  WRR 2U MXVW WR JHW D WDQ DQG KDYH VRPH VQRZ FRQHV ² .ULVWHQ :DUÂżHOG &RS\ (GLWRU

“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter� By Seth Grahame-�Smith

The  moment  I  heard  a  book  called  â€œAbraham  Lincoln:  Vampire  Hunterâ€?  was  going  to  come  out  March  of  my  senior  year  of  high  school,  I  knew  I  had  to  read  it.  , ORYH UHDGLQJ DQG , ORYH ÂżFWLRQ EXW , WKLQN WKHUHÂśV WKLV QDJJLQJ YRLFH LQ WKH EDFN RI P\ KHDG WKDWÂśV WU\LQJ WR WHOO PH WKDW P\ UHDO DIÂżQLWLHV OLH ZLWK QRQ ÂżFWLRQ ZKHWKHU WKDW EH FUHDWLYH RU KLVWRULFDO Âł9DPSLUH +XQWHU´ LV WKH EHVW RI ERWK ZRUOGV 7KH ERRNÂśV ZULWWHQ DV LI LWÂśV DFWXDOO\ D KLVWRULFDO QRQ ÂżFWLRQ DQG DV LI RXU WK SUHVLGHQW KXQWHG YDPSLUHV +H GLGQÂśW EXW sometimes  my  17-­year-­old  self  wondered  for  a  few  moments. 7KHUHÂśV UHDOO\ QRWKLQJ DERXW DQ $PHULFDQ SUHVLGHQW KXQWLQJ YDPSLUHV WKDW LV VSULQJ OLNH LWÂśV MXVW D ERRN , WKRURXJKO\ HQMR\HG GXULQJ D QRW VR HQMR\DEOH WLPH LQ P\ OLIH —  Cat  Tacopina,  Editor-­in-­Chief

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KINGS AND QUEENS PROVE TO BE ANYTHING BUT A DRAG By  Suzy  Berkowitz

New  Paltz,  to  participate  in  the  event,  and  the  New  Paltz  was  recently  home  to  all  sorts  of  roy-­ club’s  Co-­Pres-­ alty  as  drag  queens  and  kings  took  the  stage  during  idents,  Connor  â€œGender  is  a  Drag,â€?  held  in  the  Student  Union  Multi-­ Henderson  and  Michael  Per-­ purpose  Room  on  Saturday,  March  8.  sico,  seized  the  Facilitated  by  fourth-­year  opportunity  to  Women’s  ,Gender  and  Sexu-­ take  the  stage.  ality  Studies  major  Brendan  â€œ W e  Wright,  the  show  was  created  opened  the  in  conjunction  with  an  inde-­ performance  pendent  study  class  Wright  to  every-­ took  with  Associate  Professor  one  in  Karl  Bryant  on  drag  and  gender  per-­ t h e  formance.  The  event  featured  a  drag  perfor-­ mance  followed  by  a  meet-­and-­greet  of  the  onstage  acts.  Wright  said  he  had  never  seen  a  drag  show  on  campus  throughout  his  four  years  as  a  student  and  thought  it  was  something  the  community  needed  and  would  enjoy.  â€œIn  putting  together  and  hosting  this  club,  drag  show  on  our  campus,  I  really  wanted  to  bring  some  of  my  passions  together  into  one  event,â€?  but  no  one  else  Wright  said.  â€œThrough  this  experience,  I  was  able  to  was  prepared  to  apply  my  academic  background  in  Women’s,  Gender  perform  in  front  and  Sexuality  Studies  while  also  melding  that  with  of  a  crowd,â€?  Hen-­ my  love  for  campus  programming  and  working  with  GHUVRQ D Âż UVW \HDU students,  especially  on  events  which  help  to  promote  photography  major,  said.  â€œWe  had  a  cou-­ diversity.â€? With  help  from  the  Director  of  the  Student  Activ-­ ple  people  attend  ities  and  Union  Services  Department,  Mike  Patterson  the  show  in  drag  and  Graduate  Assistant  in  the  Student  Activities  and  just  for  experience.  Union  Services  Department,  Kenji  Kaneshiro  and  I’m  glad  Bren-­ funding  from  Student  Activities  and  the  Residence  dan  put  this  event  Hall  Student  Association,  Wright  was  able  to  orga-­ on  because  drag  is  something  in  the  nize  and  fund  the  show. Wright  booked  well-­known  acts  to  perform,  in-­ LGBTQ  community  cluding  Shangela,  featured  on  seasons  two  and  three  that  comes  with  a  of  the  Logo  Reality  Series  â€œRuPaul’s  Drag  Raceâ€?  to  lot  of  misconceptions,  headline  the  event  and  Albany-­based  drag  queen  Eva  and  I  think  it’s  great  for  people  to  learn  what  Destruction.  Wright  also  invited  performers  from  the  newly-­ it’s  about  for  them-­ created  drag-­based  club,  The  Queens  and  Kings  of  selves.â€?   A&E  Editor  |  Sabbasberkowitz90@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu |  Sabbasberkowitz90@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

Henderson’s  drag  name  is  Kandyy  Apple,  and  he  has  been  performing  the  art  of  drag  for  a  year  and  a  half,  mainly  participating  in  shows  near  his  home-­ town.  He  impersonated  pop  artists  Lady  Gaga  and  Cher  during  â€œGender  is  a  Dragâ€?  and  said  he  enjoys  interacting  with  the  audience  while  he  performs  and  what  they  like. feeding  off  of  Persico,  a  ¿ UVW \HDU SV\FKRORJ\ major,  also  per-­ formed  at  the  show,  using  the  drag  name  Victoria  Pre-­ cise,  and  said  he  draws  stylistic  inspi-­ ration  from  the  winner  of  season  four  of  â€œRu-­ Paul’s  Drag  Race,â€?  Sharon  Needles. “I’ve  been  doing  drag  for  almost  a  year  but  I  only  recently  started  perform-­ ing,â€?  Persico  said.  â€œI’m  more  of  a  weird,  spooky  queen,  and  I  like  to  act  out  a  sstory  with  my  lip  syncs.â€?   tory  with  my  lip  syncs.â€?   Wright  said  although  gaining  funding  for  the  show  was  one  of  the  more  stressful  components  of  facilitating  it,  he  enjoyed  bringing  the  event  and  the  performers  to  campus  and  making  it  possi-­ ble  for  students  to  meet  such  inspiring  people.  ³, WKLQN LW ZDV EHQHÂż FLDO IRU VWXGHQWV to  attend  the  show  because  it  is  inherently  rooted  in  LGBTQ  awareness,â€?  Wright  said.  â€œDrag  queens  are  certainly  part  of  this  di-­ verse  community  which  make  up  this  acro-­ nym,  and  I  think  this  event  was  a  celebra-­ tion  of  people  from  diverse  backgrounds.  Many  of  our  students  may  not  have  had  the  opportunity  to  attend  a  drag  show  before,  and  this  event  gave  our  students  an  opportunity  to  have  a  new  and  differ-­ ent  experience.  If  anything,  I  hope  this  was  a  chance  for  students  to  celebrate  and  interact  with  the  diverse  population  of  people  that  comprise  our  campus,  and  maybe  even  have  a  greater  appreciation  for  it  as  well.â€? The  Slam  Team  and  the  Burlesque  Troupe  pair  up  for  a  fundraising  event.  Drag  queen  Eva  Destruction  performs  at  â€œGender  Is  A  Dragâ€?  event. Â

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LOCAL FAMILY BUSINESS STARTS BLOG TO SHOWCASE WORK By  Zameena  Mejia

around  for  52  years  so  we’ve  seen  a  lot  Back  then,  New  Paltz  was  a  sleepy  83  Main  St.  for  more  than  35  years,  of  changes  and  the  stores  going  through  town  with  not  a  lot  going  on  and  there  Marilyn  Golgoski  said.  Lipton  began  the  business  selling  Artists,  ameteur  or  expert,  now  changes  as  well,â€?  store  owner  Marilyn  was  nowhere  to  buy  a  pencil  or  piece  of  SDSHU VR /LSWRQ RSHQHG XS WKH Âż UVW DUW used  books,  food  and  photography  ser-­ have  a  new  way  to  expose  their  work  to  Golgoski  said.  vices  as  well  as  art  supplies. the  New  Paltz  community  and  beyond.  Previously  a  billiard  hall,  the  store  On  Wednesday,  March  12,  Manny’s  VWLOO KDV ELOOLDUG EDOO OLJKWLQJ Âż [WXUHV Art  Supplies  launched  a  blog  which  is  and  has  since  had  its  walls  adorned  set  to  feature  a  new  artist  every  week.  mostly  with  Lipton’s  artwork.  According  to  the  website,  on  which  In  celebration  of  what  would  have  the  blog  is  hosted,  the  intention  is  been  Lipton’s  96th  birthday,  he  will  be  to  create  an  art  hub  for  people  to  see  included  as  one  of  the  upcoming  fea-­ works  of  all  mediums.  ture  artists  on  the  store’s  new  blog,  ac-­ Artists  seeking  to  be  featured  on  cording  to  Rebecca  Gogolski.   the  blog  are  to  submit  a  form  answering  Rachael  Braun,  a  Manny’s  Art  Sup-­ several  questions  and  provide  a  selec-­ plies  employee  and  New  Paltz  alum,  tion  of  images  of  their  work.  is  supportive  of  the  blog  and  said  she  Rebecca  Golgoski,  store  employ-­ wishes  it  was  around  when  she  was  a  ee  and  granddaughter  of  late  Manny  student.  Lipton,  the  original  store  owner,  is  in  â€œI  think  [the  blog]  is  a  really  good  charge  of  the  blog’s  artists’  submissions  idea.   We’ve  got  a  lot  of  artists  here  that  and  originally  came  up  with  the  idea  for  don’t  get  much  attention,  especially  the  blog  page.  She  said  she  believes  it  students,â€?  Braun  said.  â€œI  think  it  will  will  be  a  good  platform  to  help  artists  make  them  feel  good  to  have  their  work  move  forward. featured,  even  if  they’re  not  graduating  â€œI’ve  always  wanted  to  do  some  and  they’re  just  starting  out.  It  would  sort  of  article  blog  on  our  website,  sud-­ be  great  for  them  to  feel  special  and  get  denly  I  just  thought  we  should  do  a  fea-­ good  feedback  on  their  work.â€? tured  artist,â€?  Rebecca  Golgoski  said.  Braun  said  she  plans  on  submitting  â€œIt  would  be  people  of  all  ages,  local  some  of  her  own  work  to  the  blog  and  and  even  from  other  states.  It  doesn’t  believes  the  blog  can  encourage  stu-­ have  to  just  be  professionals,  everyone  Employees  of  Manny’s  Art  Supples  are  preparing  to  launch  a  blog  on  the  store’s  website.  dents  to  continue  with  their  artwork  de-­ does  art.â€? spite  rough  critiques  from  professors.  Rebecca  Golgoski,  an  alumnus  of  According  to  Marylin  Golgoski,  supply  store  in  the  Hudson  Valley,  ac-­ “Even  when  grandpa  was  around,  New  Paltz’s  graduate  program  in  2006,  I  think  we’ve  always  been  a  fun,  lively  said  she  saw  that  other  businesses  have  Lipton  was  a  traveling  salesman  who  cording  to  the  store’s  website. During  Manny’s  existence,  the  place  to  come  to  so  we  think  [the  blog]  found  a  niche  and  are  working  on  proj-­ came  through  New  Paltz  to  sell  ceram-­ ic  tiles  prior  to  opening  the  art  supply  store  has  moved  to  several  locations  will  carry  that  on,â€?  Rebecca  Golgoski  ects  of  this  nature.  and  has  been  at  its  current  location  on  said. “It’s  new  and  fresh.  We’ve  been  store.  Copy  Editor  |  Zameenamejia09@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

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The  memory  of  sitting  in  Central  Park  the  sum-­ mer  after  freshman  year  with  friends  and  a  guitar,  harmonizing  to  Vampire  Weekend’s  â€œCape  Cod  Kwassa  Kwassaâ€?  is  enough  to  make  it  the  per-­ fect   nice  weather,  feel-­good  song.  One  listen  and  you’ll  be  prancing  around  like  me.    â€”  Suzy  Berkowitz,  A&E  Editor

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PROFESSOR SHOOTS FILM ON NEW PALTZ STREETS AND BETWEEN THE SHEETS By  Anthony  DeRosa )HDWXUHV (GLWRU |  N02385288@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

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April Folly Getting Together To Get Down DORSKY PLANS POETRY READING

OASIS FUSES ART AND MUSIC AT WEEKLY EVENT

By  Suzy  Berkowitz A&E  Editor  |  Sabbasberkowitz90@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

Audiences  will  be  fooled  as  The  Dorsky  hosts  a  poetry  reading  on  Tuesday,  April  1  from  5  to  7  p.m.  The  reading,  appropriately  named  â€œIt’s  Folly!,â€?  will  feature  poets  and  faculty  associated  with  Codhill  Press,  reading  works  of  their  own  that  relate  to  the  reading’s  theme.  According  to  Lecturer  Larry  Carr,  who  will  be  participating  in  the  reading,  poets  will  be  choosing  poems  to  read  that  work  in  conjunction  with  the  theme  to  display  â€œhow  we  as  human  beings  become  â€˜the  cosmic  joke’  to  ourselves,  to  others  and  to  the  universe.â€? Many  of  the  works  being  read  will  be  debuted  by  the  poets  themselves,  and  will  provide  students  with  the  experience  of  a  real,  vivid  poetry  reading,  according  to  Professor  and  publisher  of  Codhill  Press,  David  Appelbaum,  who  helped  facilitate  the  event.    Carr  said  participating  in  a  reading  in  the  Dorsky  will  be  geat  because  technically,  the  space  is  acoustically  convenient,  but  it  also  â€œmelds  together  the  visual  arts  and  the  spoken  word,  which  support  and  stimulate  each  other.â€? Codhill  Press  remains  a  regional  literary  press  EDVHG LQ 1HZ 3DOW] DQG LV ORRVHO\ DIÂżOLDWHG ZLWK The  Dorksy  in  that  both  organizations  produce  publications  that  are  nationally  distributed  by  SUNY  Press.  According  to  Appelbaum,  almost  half  a  dozen  of  Codhill’s  authors  are  faculty  at  New  Paltz,  several  of  whom  will  be  present  at  the  reading.  According  to  Neil  Trager  Director  Sara  Pasti,  the  Dorsky  has  been  working  with  Codhill  Press  for  a  number  of  years  to  present  various  poetry  readings  in  the  museum’s  space.  Pasti  said  she  â€œtruly  enjoys  the  partnerships,  as  they  bring  new  audience  members  to  the  museum.â€?   Carr  said  he  is  excited  for  the  reading  because  he  enjoys  interacting  with  the  audience  and  having  them  understand  what  is  said  compared  to  what  they  hear  at  the  same  time.  He  also  said  readings  create  a  joyful  experience  through  the  sharing  of  the  spoken  word.  ³7KLV UHDGLQJ ZLOO JLYH VWXGHQWV UHĂ€HFWLRQV on  basic  human  realities,  questions  of  everyday  life  and  politics,  exposure  to  the  nature  of  literature  and  the  literary  object,â€?  Appelbaum  said.  â€œArt  is  unique  in  the  perspective  it  offers  of  our  condition.â€?

The  logo  for  Conscious  Minded  Media,  the  company  that  facilitated  Get  Down!

By  Zameena  Mejia Copy  Editor  |  Zmejia09@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

Oasis  got  down  with  a  new  community  art  series  on  Thursday,  Feb.  20,  and  will  continue  every  Thursday  at  9  p.m.  until  Thursday,  May  22.  Presented  by  Co-­Founders  of  Conscious  Minded  Media,  a  music  and  art  management  and  event  produc-­ tion  company,  Ryan  Coyle  and  Ali  Laz,  the  Get  Down!  series  encourages  open  jams  and  free  expression,  accord-­ ing  to  the  event’s  Facebook  page.  Coyle,  whose  stage  name  is  Cosmal,  said  that  al-­ though  New  Paltz  has  a  number  of  opportunities  for  open  mic  events,  those  events  simply  consist  of  a  performer  standing  in  front  of  a  non-­participatory  audience.  Coyle  said  Get  Down!,  on  the  other  hand,  provides  more  of  a  community  experience. “As  a  mainstay  in  New  Paltz,  [Get  Down!]  can  help  strengthen  the  community  by  allowing  people  to  come  together  to  express  themselves  and  improvise  their  art  and  music  to  create  something  new  and  beautiful,â€?  Coyle  said.  /D] VDLG WKH ÂżUVW *HW 'RZQ HYHQW ZDV D SRVLWLYH awesome  experience.   The  evening  began  with  a  stand-­up  comedian,  fol-­ lowed  by  the  New  Paltz-­based  band  â€œJust  The  Tipâ€?  who  hosted  the  jams  with  Coyle  and  invited  others  to  play  with  them.  People  were  prepared  to  perform  at  the  event,  waiting  in  the  wings  with  their   drums,  instruments  and  voices. “It  was  a  very  beautiful  and  unique  experience  to  see  people  connect  and  communicate  through  creative  improvisation,â€?  Laz  said.  â€œI  put  up  a  community  canvas  with  paints  and  brushes.  All  of  us  started  painting  our  own  sections  and  somehow  it  all  combined  and  connect-­ ed  into  one  beautiful  painting.â€? Coyle  and  Laz  performed  at  the  event  as  well.  Coyle,  Â

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a  one-­man  band,  looped  together  the  guitar,  keyboard  and  drum  pads  to  create  the  sound  of  a  full,  live  band  ZLWK HOHFWURQLF LQĂ€XHQFHV ZKLOH /D] SDLQWHG RIIVWDJH “While  [Coyle]  is  creating  the  sound,  I  create  the  live  visual  aspect  of  the  performance  through  live  painting.  I  use  a  color  changing  light  which  changes  with  the  beat  of  the  music,â€?  Laz  said.  â€œSometimes  I  paint  what  I  hear  and  feel  at  the  moment  or  sometimes  I  go  into  the  per-­ formance  with  a  subject  to  embellish  on.   Every  show  is  a  stimulating  improvisational  experience  for  the  senses.â€?  Coyle  and  Laz’s  facilitating  experience  includes  headlining  the  last  three  Forest  Fests,  a  yearly  spring  music  and  art  festival  held  in  New  Paltz,  as  well  as  per-­ forming  at  different  musical  events  in  the  festival  circuit  like  Bonnaroo,  Camp  Bisco  and  Catskill  Chill  Music  Festival. Although  Conscious  Minded  Media  was  created  two  years  ago,  Laz  said  she  and  Coyle  had  been  thinking  of  doing  an  open  jam,  community  art  and  free  expression  event  for  a  while.  â€œWe  want  to  push  the  envelope  of  the  evolution  of  human  consciousness  in  a  positive  light  through  connect-­ ing  with  one  another,â€?  Coyle  said.  â€œBetween  the  students  and  residents,  New  Paltz  is  a  wonderful,  open-­minded  and  enlightened  community.â€?

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MUSICIAN OF THE WEEK: MICHAEL VOLPE

BANDS TEAM UP IN THE NAME OF TEAMLOVE By  Zameena  Mejia Copy  Editor  |  Zmejia09@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

While  many  shows  in  New  Paltz  lean  toward  the  loud,  crowd-­moshing  atmosphere,  Team  Love  RavenHouse  Gallery  hosted  a  much  quieter,  atten-­ tive  night  of  music  on  Tuesday,  March  4.  Warm  lighting,  the  indie-­record  label’s  records  on  the  wall  and  a  sweet  burning  candle  swirling  its  VFHQW DURXQG WKH VSDFH Âż OOHG ZLWK ROGHU VPDOO WDON ing  adults  could  not  have  set  the  mood  any  better.  0XVLFLDQV &KULV *DUQHDX 0LFKDHO 7UXFNSLOH DQG My  Gay  Banjo  mingled  with  the  crowd  as  show-­ JRHUV VORZO\ WULFNOHG LQWR WKH YHQXH Meanwhile,  gallery  owners  Nate  and  Nelly  helped  the  musicians  set  up  their  merchandise  for  sale.  %URRNO\Q WXUQHG +XGVRQ EDVHG Chris  Garneau  opened  the  night  softly  singing  tender,  wintery  tunes  while  SOD\LQJ WKH NH\ERDUG *DUQHDX WRRN KLV OLVWHQHUV through   the  seasons,  singing  lyrics  OLNH ÂłEXW ZDLW XQWLO VXPPHU DQG WKLV ORYH ZLOO EH DOULJKW´ LQ KLV VRQJ Âł2FWREHU 2FWR ber.â€?   +LV EDURTXH LQGLH IRON SRS VW\OH rang  similar  to  the  style  of  Regina  6SHNWRU ZLWK KLV QDUUDWLYH O\ULFV DQG beautiful  vibrato.  $OWKRXJK *DUQHDX ZDV WKH Âż UVW to  play  and  only  performed  ¿ YH VRQJV KLV PXVLF UH minded  me  of  the  power  that  listening  to  live  mu-­ sic  can  have.  A d m i t t e d l y,  sitting  on  the  gal-­ OHU\ KDUGZRRG Ă€ RRU wasn’t  the  most  comfortable  way  of  viewing  the  show  but  I  was  too  busy  connecting  to  Garneau’s  vaguely-­fa-­ miliar  lyrics  to  care.  ³,ÂśOO be  in  the  s n o w  w h e n  the  sun  c o m e s  home,â€?  Gar-­

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YEAR: First MAJOR: Undeclared HOMETOWN: Seaford, N.Y.

WHAT’S  YOUR  INSTRUMENT  OF  CHOICE  AND  WHY? Guitar  because  I’ve  been  playing  it  since  I  ZDV IRXU RU Âż YH DQG , WKLQN WKDWÂśV ZKHUH , shine  musically.  WHAT  ARE  YOU  INVOLVED  WITH  MUSICALLY? I  play  acoustically  with  a  couple  friends  and  I  had  an  acoustic  band  back  home  and  I  play  with  the  on-­campus  group  Melodia  and  Movement.  WHO  ARE  YOUR  BIGGEST  INFLUENCES? My  father  because  he  taught  me  how  to  play  and  I  like  styling  myself  off  what  he  plays.  I  also  like  John  Mayer  and  Eric  Clapton.  WHO  HAVE  YOU  BEEN  LISTENING  TO  LATELY? The  Beatles,  Maroon  5  and  Eric  Clapton. WHAT’S  YOUR  PLAN  FOR  THE  FUTURE? I’d  like  to  start  an  acoustic  band  and  play  in  coffee  shops  in  town  or  at  open  mic  nights.  ANY  ADVICE  FOR  ASPIRING  MUSICIANS? Keep  practicing  and  never  give  up  the  instrument  because  it’s  probably  the  best  one  you’ve  got. Â

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THE DEEP END ALLISON DESIDERIO

Major: Graphic Design BFA Year: Third Inspiration: Martin Venezky, Salvador Dali, Chip Kidd “Though a lot of work in graphic design involves the use of the computer, I believe working with your hands is one of the most important things you can do. Many of my projects start off as drawings or end up as physical pieces, so I continue to develop my skills in drawing, painting, printmaking and book binding. Right now, I am studying abroad in Scotland at the University of Dundee, which is an incredible experience. The attitude in the Graphics Department here, however, is quite different from that at New Paltz. Here we are encouraged to consider ourselves as “designers,” not “artists.” In my opinion, being an “artist” and working with more traditional media is the first and most important step to being a successful designer.“

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Should  We  Check  Or  Raise?

CARTOON Â BY Â JULIE Â GUNDERSEN Â

At  the  most  recent  meeting  of  the  Student  Senate,  Vice  President  of  Academic  Affairs  and  Goverance  Jordan  Taylor  voiced  a  desire  to  increase  next  semester’s  student  activity  fee. Every  other  year,  SUNY  New  Paltz  students  vote  on  My.newpaltz. edu  as  to  whether  they  would  like  to  keep  the  current  student  activity  fee,  or  vote  to  allow  an  increase  in  the  fee.  This  May,  the  option  of  rais-­ ing  the  fee  from  the  current  cost  of  $100  per  semester  to  as  much  as  a  possible  $110  per  semester  will  be  given  to  students  in  a  vote  during  elections.  We  at  The  New  Paltz  Oracle  commend  the  Student  Association  for  looking  at  the  opportunity  to  increase  the  student  activity  fee  in  hopes  of  bettering  the  campus  community  and  many  of  the  services  and  clubs  it  provides.  However,  we  feel  that  the  students  should  know  where  their  money  is  going. While  we  know  the  fee  pays  various  SA  funded  amenities  and  organizations,  students  do  not  know  how  much  money  is  going  where.  Some  students  are  not  aware  of  what  the  student  activity  fee  covers.  Students  should  not  be  mandated  to  pay  a  fee  if  they  cannot  readily  and  easily  understand  what  that  cost  is  paying  for. Â

And  while  SA  plans  to  include  graphics  on  the  survey  that  il-­ lustrate  the  various  ways  the  money  can  be  used,  SA  should  decide  prior  to  May’s  ballot  where  this  possible  increase  of  funds  would  be  distributed,  and  make  it  known  to  students  earlier  than  the  voting  time.  By  SA  obtaining  a  higher  level  of  transparency  between  their  use  of  ac-­ tivity  fees  and  students’  understanding  of  such,  students  will  be  given  a  greater  idea  of  what  the  student  activity  fee  can  support,  a  greater  incentive  to  vote  in  the  survey  and  a  greater  motivation  to  express  their  own  ideas.  While  we  support  once  again,  passing  our  current  student  activity  fee  of  $100  per  semester  and  all  that  the  fee  funds,  we  recognize  that  an  increase  may  be  a  burden  on  many  returning  students’  shoulders.  $OWKRXJK D SRVVLEOH LQFUHDVH PD\ VHHP LQVLJQLÂżFDQW ZKHQ EURNHQ down  per  semester,  it  is  a  substantial  amount  to  many  students  who  DUH GHDOLQJ ZLWK ORDQV DQG WLJKW EXGJHWV 7KH ÂżQDQFLDO ZHOO EHLQJ RI students  should  not  fall  to  the  wayside  when  discussing  the  increase  of  mandatory  fees,  but  rather  be  the  forefront  thought  for  those  who  will  decide  the  proposed  increase  and  what  that  increase  will  go  toward.  Students  should  not  have  to  decide  between  a  clear,  budgeted Â

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plan  that  funds  services  for  them  and  the  realities  of  bills  and  debt.  The  student  activity  fee  is  meant  to  aid  in  the  college  experience,  not  hinder  it.  But  this  does  not  solely  fall  into  the  hands  of  SA.  We  encourage  students  who  have  opinions  on  the  student  activity  fee  and  the  budget  of  its  funds  to  speak  up.  Talk  to  a  senator  or  attend  an  SA  meeting.  SA  and  their  allotment  of  student  activity  funds  ultimately  are  meant  to  EHQHÂżW WKH VWXGHQW ERG\ Âą LI RQO\ D VHOHFW IHZ YRLFHV DUH KHDUG KRZ will  your  concerns  be  accounted  for? Â

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The  Lady  Hawks  began  the  season  with  a  16-­9  win  over  Mount  Saint  Mary  College. Â

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The  lacrosse  team  began  their  season  with  a  win  against  Mount  Saint  Mary  Col-­ lege  on  March  11.  7KH WHDPÂśV Âż UVW JRDO RI WKHLU Âż UVW QRQ FRQIHUHQFH PDWFK XS IRXQG WKH EDFN RI WKH Lady  Knights’  net  18  seconds  into  the  con-­ WHVW IRUHVKDGRZLQJ D YLFWRU\ IRU WKH Lady  Hawks.  Fourth-­year  Captain  Talia  Tesler  and  WKLUG \HDU PLGÂż HOGHU /LDQQH 9DOGLYLD HDFK tallied  a  career-­high  six  goals  during  the  JDPH DQG OHG WKH RIIHQVLYH WR VWULQJ RI FRQ secutive  points,  securing  a  1-­0  start  to  the  season.  Head  Coach  Liz  Student  said  the  team  ZDV H[FLWHG WR SOD\ RQ D Âż HOG IRU WKH Âż UVW WLPH DIWHU EHLQJ FRQVWULFWHG WR J\P SOD\ due  to  the  low  temperatures,  and  didn’t  let  WKH ODFN RI RXWGRRU SOD\LQJ H[SHULHQFH FRPH into  play.  Student  acknowledges  the  Lady  Hawks’  ability  to  win  draws,  obtain  ground  balls  and  the  team’s  overall  pre-­season  preparations  as  D NH\ IDFWRU WR 7XHVGD\ÂśV YLFWRU\

“They  worked  a  lot  on  strength  and  con-­ ditioning,  they  played  with  their  sticks  more,  they  were  just  in  much  better  shape,â€?  Stu-­ dent  said.  Student  said  being  able  to  work  on  â€œbig-­ JHU SLFWXUH VWXII ´ UDWKHU WKDQ WKH WHFKQLFDOL ties  and  conditioning,  let  the  Lady  Hawks  IRFXV RQ LPSURYLQJ RIIHQVLYH PRWLRQV DQG stick  skills.  Though  the  winter  has  been  bru-­ tal,  Student  said  the  team  did  the  best  with  what  they  had,  and  their  dedication  is  al-­ ready  showing.  ³, WKLQN RXU GHGLFDWLRQ LV RQH RI RXU ELJ JHVW VWUHQJWKV ´ 9DOGLYLD VDLG Âł:HÂśUH QRW RQO\ GHGLFDWHG LQ VHDVRQ EXW RXW RI VHDVRQ DV ZHOO (YHU\RQH LV H[FLWHG IRU RXU SURJUDP to  grow.â€? Telser  said  as  a  whole,  they  have  worked  a  lot  harder  and  have  gotten  in  much  better  shape  than  they  have  been  in  the  past. Tesler  said  along  with  traditional  prac-­ tices,  preseason  included  conditioning  ses-­ sions  around  three  times  a  week,  which  en-­ FRPSDVVHG OLIWLQJ ZHLJKWV DQG FRQGLWLRQLQJ with  sprinting  drills.  She  said  this,  along  with  WKH H[SHULHQFH IURP PDQ\ UHWXUQLQJ SOD\HUV

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Baseball  Prepares  For  SUNYAC  Play  By  Abbott  Brant

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The  baseball  team  currently  sports  a  .500  record  on  the  season  after  returning  from  the  Ripken  Experience  tournament  last  weekend. The  team  continued  their  non-­confer-­ ence  preparatory  play,  competing  against  six  non-­conference  teams  in  seven  games  over  four  days  in  Myrtle  Beach,  S.C.  The  weekend  began  with  a  split  for  the  Hawks,  as  the  team  earned  a  13-­4  win  over  King’s  College  Friday,  March  7  before  los-­ ing  9-­7  later  that  day  to  Muhlenberg  Col-­ lege.  The  following  day  the  Hawks  swept  a  doubleheader  against  Grove  City  College  LQ WKH ÂżUVW JDPH DQG LQ WKH VHFRQG Âł2XU FRQÂżGHQFH OHYHO ZDV VWLOO XS after  the  doubleheader  with  Salisbury,â€?  third-­year  pitcher  Tyler  Bell  said.  â€œThey  are  a  top-­10  team  in  the  nation  and  beat-­ ing  them  once  was  an  accomplishment.We  GHÂżQLWHO\ VKRZHG ZKDW ZH DUH FDSDEOH RI ´  A  7-­1  loss  to  Catholic  University  of  America  and  a  9-­4  defeat  by  Alburtus  Magnus  on  Sunday  was  met  Monday  af-­ ternoon  with  a  9-­7  win  against  Penn  State  Berks  to  cap  off  the  trip.  Head  Coach  Matt  Righter  said  while  wins  and  losses  are  always  important,  his  focus  at  this  stage  of  the  season  is  on  player  development  in  smaller  areas  of  the  game  in  order  to  perfect  the  bigger  picture  down  the  road.  He  felt  the  Ripken  Experience  was  a  positive  experience  for  the  team  looking  forward.  â€œIf  you  fast  forward  to  playoffs,  you  can  play  six  or  seven  games  in  three  or  four  days,â€?  Righter  said  of  the  importance  of  playing  in  these  types  of  tournaments.  â€œThat’s  what  we’re  going  through  now,  so  when  we  get  to  the  same  spot  in  the  future,  our  guys  will  say  â€˜we’ve  already  done  this,  it’s  a  piece  of  cake.’  Teams  that  haven’t  done  that,  we’ll  have  a  leg  up  on.â€? Righter  cites  the  presence  of  Bell  and  VHFRQG \HDU LQÂżHOGHU DQG FDWFKHU $QGUHZ DiNardo  at  bat  this  weekend  as  substantial  contributions  to  the  teams’  wins.  Fourth-­ year  Captain  Chris  Pyz  and  second-­year  SLWFKHU &KULVWLDQ +XHUWDV DORQJ ZLWK ÂżUVW year  northpaws  Luke  Schuessler  and  Kyle  .UHEV DOVR PDGH D VLJQLÂżFDQW LPSDFW RQ the  mound,  he  said.  Righter  said  while  the  low  point  of  the  weekend  was  undoubtedly  the  back-­to-­ back  losses  against  the  Cardinals  and  Fal-­

cons  on  Sunday,  the  team’s  ability  to  come  back  the  next  day  with  a  different  approach  and  more  aggressive  style  of  play  led  to  the  win  against  the  Nittany  Lions  and  the  highlight  of  the  tournament.  â€œI  feel  like  it  made  us  stronger  as  a  team,â€?  DiNardo  said.  â€œThat’s  one  of  our  strengths.  We’re  a  very  close  family,  and  if  someone  makes  an  error  or  messes  up,  the  other  person’s  there  to  pick  them  up  and  support  them.â€? Bell  agreed.  â€œWe  have  plenty  of  guys  who  can  come  in  off  the  bench  and  still  get  the  job  done,â€?  he  said.  â€œIt  certainly  makes  you  feel  comfortable  knowing  that  at  a  moment’s  notice,  another  guy  is  ready  to  step  up  and  perform.â€? Righter  believes  the  Hawks’  strengths  lay  within  their  hitting  line-­up  and  ability  to  steal  bases,  and  their  performance  this  season  thus  far  only  illustrates  their  future  capabilities.  â€œOn  a  scale  of  one  to  10  we’re  prob-­ DEO\ SHUIRUPLQJ DURXQG D ÂżYH DQG ZHÂśUH 5-­5  on  the  season  and  went  down  and  played  some  top  pitchers,â€?  he  said.  â€œSo  if  we  continue  to  improve  in  those  smaller,  mental  areas,  we’ll  start  playing  at  a  seven  or  eight  and  we’ll  be  as  good  as  anybody.â€? 6HFRQG \HDU RXWÂżHOGHU 7RP 'LHFN-­ KRII ZKR VHFXUHG WKH WHDP V ÂżUVW ZLQ against  City  Grove  with  a  gun  down  of  a  potential  game-­tying  run  at  the  plate  in  the  bottom  of  the  seventh,  said  he  is  very  con-­ ÂżGHQW DERXW ERWK WKH LPPHGLDWH XSFRPLQJ games  and  the  team’s  playoff  potential.  â€œI  think  we’re  going  to  have  a  very  strong  season,  and  hopefully  come  tourna-­ PHQW WLPH ZHÂśUH ÂżULQJ RQ DOO F\OLQGHUV DQG hopefully  win  the  tournament  and  make  it  to  regionals,â€?  Dieckhoff  said.  The  team  will  spend  Spring  Break  playing  in  the  Snowbird  Classic  in  Port  Charlotte,  F.L.  competing  against  six  teams,  including  No.  10  Marietta  College.  The  classic  will  prepare  the  Hawks  for  WKHLU ÂżUVW FRQIHUHQFH JDPH DJDLQVW FRQIHU-­ ence  stronghold  SUNY  Cortland  on  March  21.  â€œIt  will  be  a  great  way  to  start  confer-­ ence  play,â€?  Righter  said.  â€œEveryone  ex-­ pects  Cortland  to  win,  so  there's  no  pres-­ sure  on  us.  If  you  ask  our  guys,  I  think  WKH\ IHHO SUHWW\ FRQÂżGHQW WKDW ZH KDYH D chance  to  win.  One  of  our  goals  is  to  have  a  chance  to  win  every  series  we  play.  And  I  think  we  will.â€?

The  Hawks  are  .500  after  a  weekend  of  non-­conference  play.  Â

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Men’s  Volleyball  Continues  To  Climb By  Melissa  Kramer

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Well,  this  sucks.  Darelle  Revis  is  now  a  New  England  Patriot.   On  Wednesday  at  4  p.m.  the  Tam-­ pa  Bay  Bucacaneers’  new  General  Manager  Jason  Licht  and  Head  Coach  Lovie  Smith  decided  to  let  Revis  and  his  $0  of  guaranteed  money  go  after  just  one  year  in  Tampa  Bay.   This  is  due  to  Smith’s  defensive  style  of  a  cover-­two,  which  is  different  from  Revis’  man-­to-­man  style  and  also  allowing  the  Buccaneers  to  have  $16  million  to  spend  on  other  players.   :KLOH 5HYLV LVQÂśW D SHUIHFW Âż W IRU Smith’s  system,  this  is  such  a  foolish  move  for  their  organization.   Revis  is  still  one  of,  if  not  the  best  cornerback  in  the  entire  NFL.   It’s  embarrassing  WKDW WKH %XFFDQHHUV FRXOGQÂśW Âż QG D ZD\ to  keep  a  player  with  this  much  talent Â

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Revis  Runs  To  New  England  on  their  team.   The  Patriots  were  always  seen  as  the  consensus  favorites  for  Revis’  ser-­ vices  after  Aqib  Talib  signed  with  the  Denver  Broncos  on  Tuesday  night.   This  gives  the  Patriots  no  reason  to  not  stay  atop  the  AFC  East  for  yet  another  year.   Many  Jets  fans  believed  they  still  had  a  strong  chance  of  Revis  making  a  return  to  the  Jets,  but  unfortunately  it  didn’t  happen.   General  Manager  John  Idzik  didn’t  even  have  a  discus-­ sion  with  Revis’  camp  because  he  had  no  interest.   With  the  release  of  cornerback  An-­ tonio  Cromartie,  the  Jets  now  have  a  KXJH YRLG WR Âż OO LQ WKH GHIHQVLYH EDFN Âż HOG &URPDUWLH KDG D KXJH GURS RII last  season,  but  with  Dee  Millner  and Â

Kyle  Wilson  left  on  the  roster,  the  Jets  are  going  to  need  someone  who  has  the  DELOLW\ WR VKXW GRZQ KDOI RI WKH Âż HOG WR be  paired  with  them. Also,  why  hasn’t  Idzik  released  Wilson  yet?   He  is  not  good,  and  I’m  sick  and  tired  of  him  celebrating  on  an  overthrow,  which  results  in  an  incom-­ pletion  that  he  had  nothing  to  do  with.   I  think  they  need  to  try  to  bring  Cromartie  back  and  give  him  a  cheap  contract.   We  need  to  also  sign  Captain  Munnerlyn,  who  can  help  solidify  our  secondary.   At  around  11:30  p.m.  on  Wednes-­ day  night,  they  signed  Eric  Decker  to  ¿ YH \HDU GHDO ZRUWK PLOOLRQ ZLWK PLOOLRQ JXDUDQWHHG , WKRXJKW they  would  end  up  paying  a  lot  more  for  Decker,  so  I’m  pretty  indifferent Â

about  the  signing.  Decker  isn’t  a  No.1  wide  receiver,  so  now  the  question  is  LI WKH\ÂśUH JRLQJ WR EH DEOH WR Âż QG RQH Honestly,  I  don’t  think  they  will  be  able  to  this  year  via  free  agency. Losing  right  tackle  Austin  How-­ ard  to  the  Oakland  Raiders  was  a  big  blow  for  the  offensive  line,  but  I  like  the  signing  of  his  replacement  Breno  Giacomini.   He’s  a  solid  player  and  will  cost  the  Jets  a  lot  less  than  Howard  would  have  been.  Right  now,  Patriots  Head  Coach  Bill  Belichick  is  probably  hysterically  ODXJKLQJ LQ KLV RIÂż FH DERXW ZKLFK -HW receiver  he’s  going  to  put  on  Revis  Is-­ land.   So,  in  the  draft,  I  think  I  speak  for  all  Jets  fans  when  I  say,  let’s  actu-­ ally  get  a  good  wide  receiver  so  we  can  burn  Revis  Island  to  the  ground. Â

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Captain  Who?

DAN GIRARDI    Now  that  Ryan  Callahan  has  been  traded  to  the  Tampa  Bay  Lightning,  the  New  York  Rang-­ ers’  captaincy  is  now  a  vacancy.  There’s  cur-­ rently  no  real  word  coming  out  of  the  Blueshirts  organization  as  to  who  will  be  the  27th  captain  in  franchise  history;Íž  only  speculation.      There  are  several  names  consistently  swirl-­ ing  in  the  rumor  mill,  but  only  three  of  them  are  realistic  and  seem  the  most  right  of  all  the  other  possible  candidates.  Dan  Girardi  is  one  of  the  team’s  most  seasoned  and  grizzled  vet-­ HUDQV DQG KHÂśV GHÂż QLWHO\ D WRS FRQWHQGHU IRU the  role.      Girardi  was  signed  as  a  free  agent  in  2005  and  was  named  as  an  interim  assistant  captain  IRU WKH Âż UVW WLPH LQ DQG DJDLQ IRU D VHFRQG time  during  the  lockout.  He  currently  has  the  ¾$Âś RQ KLV VZHDWHU DQG LW ZRXOGQÂśW EH PXFK RI a  surprise  if  it  were  to  be  replaced  with  a  â€˜C’  come  next  season.       The  Rangers  don’t  have  the  most  promising  depth,  but  there  are  some  gritty  and  raw  play-­ ers  within  the  system  who  have  the  potential  to  be  among  the  most  valuable  in  their  respective  positions,  give  or  take  a  few  seasons.  Girardi  was  in  a  very  similar  spot  when  he  started,  and  he  has  the  chance  to  serve  as  a  role  model  for  those  players  in  the  system.     However,  he  hasn’t  been  playing  as  well  as  he  was  this  season  and  isn’t  the  type  of  game-­ FKDQJHU QHHGHG LQ D FDSWDLQ $ ZRUWK\ DQG GH serving  choice,  but  also  a  strong  assistant  cap-­ tain.

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: RYAN HAGGERTY

MARC STAAL $OVR LQ WKH UXPRU PLOO IRU WKH FDSWDLQF\ LV veteran  defenseman  Marc  Staal.  Unlike  Girardi,  Staal  was  a  highly-­touted  prospect  going  into  his  draft  and  fell  far  enough  for  the  Rangers  to  grab  him  by  trading  up  for  the  12th  spot  in  2005.  +H Âż UVW VWDUWHG SOD\LQJ DV D UHJXODU RQ WKH EOXH line  in  2007  and  since  then  has  been  one  of  the  team’s  most  valuable  assets.        In  his  relatively  short  career,  Staal  has  distin-­ guished  himself  as  a  shut-­down  defenseman  ca-­ SDEOH RI VLOHQFLQJ WKH OLNHV RI $OH[DQGHU 2YHFK kin  and  Sidney  Crosby.  He  recently  said  in  an  interview  that  he  wants  to  stay  with  the  Rangers  and,  unlike  Girardi  and  Callahan,  wants  to  wrap  up  contract  discussions  over  the  summer.  It’s  likely  that,  similar  to  Girardi,  Staal  will  remain  on  the  blue  line  for  the  rest  of  his  career.       Staal  would  be  a  good  captain  for  the  Rangers  for  many  of  the  same  reasons  why  Girardi  would  be  a  good  Captain.  They’re  both  considered  to  EH DPRQJ WKH EHVW LQ WKHLU Âż HOG DQG WKH\ÂśYH ERWK showed  their  commitment  (or  desired  commit-­ ment,  as  Staal  hasn’t  yet  signed  with  the  Rang-­ ers  but  will  likely  do  so)  to  the  club.     However,  Staal  has  more  edge  over  Girardi.  Even  though  he’s  a  shut-­down  defenseman,  Staal  has  come  up  with  several  key  goals  in  the  play-­ offs.  It  was  only  two  years  ago  when  he  came  up  ZLWK WKH 27 JRDO DJDLQVW WKH &DSLWDOV WKDW NHSW WKH 5DQJHUV LQ WKH SRVWVHDVRQ Âż JKW +HÂśV PRUH the  game-­changer  that  a  captain  needs  to  be  than  Callahan.      But  he  does  get  injured.  Not  only  that,  but  he  gets  injured  a  lot.  Staal  would  be  a  great  Cap-­ tain,  but  his  injury  record  is  worrisome  for  any-­ one  seriously  being  considered  as  captain.      Â

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RYAN MCDONAGH

    Ryan  McDonagh  is  the  youngest  of  the  three  most  likely  candidates  and  the  only  one  who  hasn’t  had  experience  in  a  team  leadership  posi-­ tion.  With  that  being  said,  it  wouldn’t  be  totally  surprising  or  totally  wrong  to  put  him  as  cap-­ tain.  In  fact,  he’s  probably  the  best  and  safest  choice  for  the  role.       McDonagh  has  been  asked  to  step  up  to  the  plate  in  the  wake  of  Staal’s  injuries  and  Gi-­ UDUGLÂśV Ă€ RXQGHULQJV DQG KH KDV GHOLYHUHG HY ery  single  time.  There  have  been  so  few  times  where  he  hasn’t  played  well  and,  even  though  he  hasn’t  reached  his  prime,  he  has  more  than  proved  himself  to  the  Rangers  faithful.       The  downside  to  having  McDonagh  serve  as  captain  is  his  experience  level  and  senority  on  the  team.  He  hasn’t  had  a  title  as  a  team  leader  while  several  other  players  have.  Not  only  does  he  have  to  go  up  against  the  likes  of  Girardi  and  Staal  for  the  role,  but  there’s  also  Brad  Rich-­ ards,  Rick  Nash  and  Martin  St.  Louis,  who  have  each  served  in  leadership  roles  before.  Should  McDonagh  be  named  captain,  there  are  plenty  of  egos  he  will  have  to  combat  if  he’s  named  captain.      Despite  his  youth  and  inexperience  as  a  titled  leader,  he’s  the  best  choice  for  the  posi-­ tion.  Henrik  Lundqvist  is  the  man  who  gives  the  Rangers  a  chance,  and  McDonagh  is  starting  to  come  into  his  own  as  that  sort  of  player  for  the  Rangers  as  well.  His  story  may  not  be  as  blue-­collared  as  Girardi’s  and  he  may  not  yet  be  the  gamechanger  that  Staal  is,  but  every  sign  is  pointing  to  him  being  that  player.  He  takes  the  best  of  both  Girardi  and  Staal  without  the  bagage  and  can  be  the  man  best-­suited  for  the  job.               Â

     In  a  surprising,  but  smart  move,  the  New  york  Rangers  signed  forward  Ryan  Haggerty  out  of  RPI  to  potentially  start  in  the  very  near  furture.  He  was  touted  as  one  of  the  top  college  prospects  to  be  available  this  upcoming  draft.  I’m  a  little  skeptical,  but  overall  I’m  pretty  happy  with  this  move.  The  last  time  we  signed  a  player  straight  out  of  college  LW GLGQÂśW ZRUN RXW EXW , WKLQN +DJJHUW\ ZLOO EH SRVLWLRQHG ZHOO DQG EH DEOH WR Ă€ RXULVK LQ 9LJQHDXOWÂśV V\VWHP $OVR LWÂśV nice  to  have  a  talented  prospect  on  hand  once  the  draft  rolls  around  and  we’ll  probably  get  nothing. Â

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