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New  Paltz  Set  To  Vote  On  School  Board  Budget By  Caterina  De  Gaetano   Copy  Editor  |  Cdegaetano64@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

The  New  Paltz  Board  of  Education  met  for  the  third  time  this  month  on  Wednesday,  March  21,  to  discuss  the  proposed  budget  cuts  for  the  year. “It’s  a  long  thoughtful  process,â€?  Vice  President  of  the  Board  KT  Tobin  Flusser  said.  â€œ[The  Board]  is  pretty  con-­ sensus  driven  and  diplomatically  discusses  disagreements.  We  certainly  are  not  one  mind‌It’s  strongly  been  a  goal  to  have  a  union  for  the  budget  to  see  the  entire  board  support  the  budget.â€? She  said  the  budget  is  complicated.  A  2  percent  tax  levy  increase  for  school  districts  throughout  New  York  state  was  recently  enforced  by  the  Albany  legislation.  The  tax  raise  LPSDFWHG FRVWV VLJQLÂżFDQWO\ DIIHFWLQJ WHDFKHUVÂś SHQVLRQV property  taxes  and  health  care.   â€œIf  the  tax  is  3.4  percent  or  below,  we  need  50  percent  of  the  voters  to  vote  positively  for  the  budget  to  pass,â€?  Tobin  Flusser  said.  â€œWe  want  to  go  above  that  3.4  to  4.4  percent.  It  will  be  taking  a  chance  for  60  percent  to  vote  yes.â€?  Tobin  Flusser  said  in  order  to  reduce  the  percentage,  schools  can  expect  to  see  faculty  and  staff  layoffs,  increased  class  sizes  and  cuts  in  extracurricular  activities.  Debates  over  ZKHWKHU WR NHHS 3UH . VWDUW IRUHLJQ ODQJXDJH DW ÂżUVW JUDGH and  modify  sports  to  low  junior  varsity,  were  also  discussed  at  the  meeting  last  week.  She  said  the  Board  reached  out  to  the  Union  for  volunteer  vouchers  to  possibly  save  these  types  of  programs  but  they  have  yet  to  return  an  answer.  Meanwhile,  Tobin  Flusser  said  community  members  have  shown  a  positive  reaction  to  the  proposed  tax  budget.  â€œLooking  at  historical  data,  eight  out  of  10  years  the  community  has  voted  over  60  percent,â€?  Tobin  Flusser  said.  6WHYH *UHHQÂżHOG D ORFDO PXVLFLDQ GRHV QRW VKDUH 7RELQ Flusser’s  optimism. Â

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“They’re  giving  us  a  choice  between  a  budget  that  VWLQNV HYHQ PRUH ´ *UHHQÂżHOG VDLG Âł7KHQ WKH\ÂśOO FRQJUDWX-­ late  themselves  for  having  done  the  job  of  â€˜making  the  dif-­ ÂżFXOW FKRLFHVÂś ZHOO EHFDXVH WKH\ PDGH D EXGJHW WKDW SDVVHG without  pausing  to  ponder  whether  they  just  erected  insur-­ mountable  restraints  on  next  year’s  budget  that  will  cascade  LQGHÂżQLWHO\ LQWR WKH IXWXUH RU PRUH LPSRUWDQWO\ LQVXUPRXQW-­ able  restraints  the  actual  children  entering  school  this  year  will  encounter.â€?  Resident  Brian  Cournoyer  shared  a  similar  view  to  *UHHQÂżHOG RQ WKH QHZ EXGJHW “The  problem  I’m  having  with  the  board  at  the  moment  is  that  this  budget  proposal  is  based  on  a  fear  that  the  vot-­ ers  would  reject  a  budget  that  would  maintain  the  current  level  of  programs,  and  historically,  that  fear  is  unfounded,â€?  &RXUQR\HU VDLG Âł,W LV QRW WKH %RDUGÂśV MRE WR WU\ DQG ÂżJXUH out  what  people  will  vote  for,  or  who  will  vote  â€˜yes’  and  who Â

will  vote  â€˜no’‌it’s  their  job  to  do  what  is  right  to  educate  the  children  of  this  community.â€?  New  Paltz  schools  lost  $2  million  in  state  aid  since  2008-­09.  In  the  90s,  the  state  contributed  40  percent  toward  education,  but  now  it’s  at  25  percent.   Tobin  Flusser  said  she  would  like  to  see  the  govern-­ ment  contribute  more  funds  to  schools  across  the  state  which  would  keep  property  taxes  at  a  lower  rate. 7KH ÂżQDO EXGJHW ZLOO EH GHFLGHG E\ WKH HGXFDWLRQ ERDUG and  sent  out  to  community  voters  on  April  11.  Tobin  Flusser  said  the  committee  will  go  through  many  meetings  and  look  over  the  numbers  before  community  members  see  a  new  plan.   â€œI  would  like  to  see  the  state  restore  funding  and  com-­ mitment  to  public  education,â€?  Tobin  Flusser  said.  â€œThe  other  alternative  would  be  to  take  funding  off  of  income  tax.  It  would  be  more  equitable  than  raising  property  taxes.â€?

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On  Friday,  April  20,  SUNY  New  Paltz  will  host  the  ninth  annual  Institute  for  Disaster  Mental  Health  (IDMH)  conference. This  year’s  conference  is  geared  toward  mental  health  professionals,  students,  emergency  managers  and  volunteer  responders,  focusing  on  those  who  are  traumatized  by  responding  to  disasters,  IDMH  Coordinator  Meredith  Johnson  said. “The  well-­being  of  trauma  workers  and  emergency  managers  is  closely  tied  to  the  success  of  disaster  preparedness,  response  and  recovery  efforts,â€?  Johnson  said.  â€œThe  care  that  responders  provide  to  others  can  only  be  as  good  as  the  care  they  provide  themselves.â€? Johnson  said  this  year’s  conference  is  unique  because  it  intends  to  discuss  the  resilience  of  the  helpers  and  responders  as  well  as  encourage  the  maintenance  of  their  well-­being.  Those  dedicated  to  helping  others  often  ignore  their  own  self-­care. According  to  the  IDMH  website,  the  2012  IDMH  conference  will  feature  a  series  of  presenters  providing  their  expert  opinions  on  the  correlation  between  alleviating  stress  and  increasing  the  EHQHÂżWV RI WUDXPD ZRUN Each  speaker  will  discuss  a  series  of  topics  from  â€œfoundational Â

concepts,  current  research  and  recommended  practicesâ€?  to  various  â€œlessons  learnedâ€?  during  their  own  personal  experiences  in  the  ¿HOG Speakers  include  traumatologist  Charles  Figley,  Ph.D,  the  Paul  Henry  Kurzweg  M.D.  distinguished  chair  in  Disaster  Mental  +HDOWK EHVW NQRZQ IRU KLV LQVWUXPHQWDO LQĂ€XHQFH LQ PDNLQJ Post  Traumatic  Stress  Disorder  (PTSD)  diagnosis)  and  Richard  Tedeschi,  Ph.D,  professor  of  psychology  at  the  University  of  North  Carolina  at  Charlotte,  recognized  for  his  work  on  Post-­ Traumatic  Growth  (PTG). In  a  lecture  he  gave  to  Intermediate  Level  Education  students  about  PTG  the  United  States  Army  School  of  Advanced  Military  Studies  in  Leavenworth,  Kan.  last  year,  Tedeschi  said  trauma  is  a  threat  to  cognition  and  psychological  integrity  and  provides  a  catalyst  for  PTG. His  work  focuses  on  the  U.S.  Army  soldiers  and,  like  Figley,  he  attempts  to  provide  avenues  of  resilience  and  relief  for  those  suffering  from  trauma,  according  to  newpaltz.edu/idmh. “The  theme  [of  the  conference]  correctly  points  to  the  key  issues  of  modern  disaster  work:  the  human  factors,â€?  Figley  said. Figley  said  he  hopes  to  shed  light  on  different  solutions  PHDQW WR Âż[ WKH LPPLQHQW VWUHVV DQG WUDXPD WKDW IROORZ D GLVDVWHU

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He  said  he  hopes  to  connect  with  an  audience  full  of  disaster  workers  and  their  supervisors.  Intending  to  use  his  published  books  on  trauma,  resilience,  coping,  traumatic  stress  injuries  and  treatment  methods,  Figley  plans  to  share  advice  on  better  leadership  skills  regarding  human  factors  and  Disaster  Mental  Health. “The  best  plans  in  the  world  won’t  work  if  the  workers  have  SRRU GLVDVWHU UHVLOLHQFH OHDGHUVKLS RU WKHUH LV LQVXIÂżFLHQW DWWHQWLRQ to  the  mental  health  and  psychosocial  needs  of  the  workers,â€?  Figley  said. Another  one  of  the  conference’s  big  attractions  is  the  keynote  presentation  â€œNew  Strategies  for  Reducing  Responder  Risk:  From  Pre-­Deployment  Screening  to  Post-­Deployment  Support,â€?  given  by  national  American  Red  Cross  leaders  Rob  Yin,  manager  for  Disaster  Health  Services  at  the  American  Red  Cross,  and  Valerie  Cole,  Ph.D,  senior  associate  in  Disaster  Mental  Health. 7KH 1HZ <RUN 6WDWH 2IÂżFH RI (PHUJHQF\ 0DQDJHPHQW LV sending  leaders  from  throughout  the  state  who  are  involved  in  disaster  response  and  recovery  to  include  their  own  voices  in  the  event. “Expected  outcomes?  No  idea,â€?  Figley  said.  â€œBut  I’m  hoping  for  a  standing  ovation.â€?

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If  you’re  passing  by  Bliss  Hall  on  any  given  week-­ night,  it’s  likely  you’ll  see  Jason  Spataro  outside  spin-­ ning  poi.   â€œIt’s  all  about  balance  and  the  motion  of  your  wrists,â€?  Spataro  said,  while  spinning  bright  orange  and  red  glow-­ ing  patterns  into  the  air  to  the  rhythm  of  a  Skrillex  song.  Poi  spinning  is  a  type  of  performance  art  that  in-­ volves  spinning  two  weights  at  the  end  of  strings  to  cre-­ ate  different  geometric  patterns. Spataro,  a  second-­year  sociology  major  from  Kings  Park,  N.Y.,  has  been  spinning  poi  for  about  six  months,  but  learned  the  art  in  only  two.  Prior  to  spinning,  Spataro  already  had  backgrounds  as  a  martial  artist  and  a  pro-­ IHVVLRQDO GDQFHU +H ÂżUVW OHDUQHG WR GDQFH ZKHQ KH ZDV in  high  school  and  taught  himself  to  dance  by  watching  people  in  nightclubs.  â€œI  tried  to  do  what  they  did  and  I  did  it,â€?  Spataro  said.  â€œA  DJ  saw  me  dancing  and  said  â€˜I’ll  hire  you.’â€?  Spataro  said  he  got  into  poi  spinning  when  a  friend  who  attended  a  college  with  a  very  prestigious  circus  program  introduced  him  to  it. Â

“I  watched  her  do  it  and  said  I’d  like  to  learn,  so  she  taught  me  for  a  month,â€?  Spataro  said.  Spataro  said  his  teacher,  who  had  been  spinning  poi  for  a  year  and  a  half,  stopped  training  him  after  he  sur-­ passed  her  in  skill  in  a  few  months.  Since  then,  he  has  continued  on  his  own.  â€œI  haven’t  found  anyone  to  learn  with,  but  I  teach,â€?  Spataro  said.  While  Spataro  has  been  honing  his  craft,  his  real  as-­ SLUDWLRQV LQ FLUFXV SHUIRUPLQJ DUH WR OHDUQ ÂżUH VSLQQLQJ and  breathing.  ³7R XVH ÂżUH IRU HQWHUWDLQPHQW LV QRW MXVW GDQJHURXV It’s  beautiful,â€?  Spataro  said.  â€œAnd  there  are  people  who  can  use  it  regardless  of  its  danger,  because  of  its  beauty,  DQG , ÂżQG LW VR DPD]LQJ ´ 7KH EXUQLQJ GHVLUH KH KDV IRU WKH XVH RI ÂżUH LV VRPH-­ thing  he  hopes  to  pursue  in  the  future.  Spataro  said  he  RZQV D SDLU RI ÂżUH SRL WKDW EHFDXVH RI WLPLQJ DQG VFKRRO he  has  not  used  yet.  ³,ÂśOO EH GRLQJ P\ ÂżUVW ÂżUH VSLQ WKLV VXPPHU DQG ,ÂśOO probably  be  doing  it  on  a  beach,â€?  Spataro  said.   0DUFL 0RVNRZLW] D ÂżUVW \HDU FKLOGKRRG HGX-­ cation  major,  has  been  learning  how  to  spin  from  Â

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Spataro.  â€œI  think  he’s  very  talented  and  he  works  hard,  and  REYLRXVO\ WKDW SD\V RII ´ 0RVNRZLW] VDLG Jessica  Harvey,  a  friend  of  Spataro’s  who  attends  'HODZDUH 9DOOH\ &ROOHJH VDLG WKDW SRL LV DQ DPD]LQJ DUW form  and  Spataro  makes  it  look  effortless. While  spinning  might  be  his  passion,  he  doesn’t  see  his  hobby  taking  him  anywhere  in  the  future.  â€œI  don’t  see  a  future  in  dancing,  writing  poetry  or  practicing  martial  arts,â€?  Spataro  said.  â€œBut  I  like  to  be  interdisciplinary,  I  like  to  engage  myself  and  I  like  to  learn.  As  long  as  I’m  physically  capable  of  doing  it  and  have  the  time,  I  don’t  see  a  reason  to  stop.â€?  Spataro  said  spinning  is  more  than  just  a  perfor-­ mance  art.  ³7KLV LV WKHUDSHXWLF ,WÂśV ÂżQGLQJ P\VHOI LQ P\ RZQ ]RQH DQG HYHU\WKLQJ WKDWÂśV LQ WKH ERRNV HYHU\WKLQJ that’s  in  the  classroom,  everything  that  comes  out  of  a  computer  or  cell  phone  or  interpersonal  relationships   â€”  it’s  all  gone,â€?  Spataro  said.  â€œYou  just  get  lost  in  this.  It’s  really  nice  to  be  able  to  go  outside,  late  night,  early  in  the  morning,  whenever  you  want,  put  on  some  music  and  just  spin.â€? Â

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Art  imitates  life  in  New  Paltz  alumnus  Frank  Marco-­ polos’  novel  â€œAlmost  Home.â€?  The  book  is  set  on  the  New  Paltz  campus,  follow-­ ing  the  lives  of  two  college  baseball  players.  Marcopo-­ los  pitched  for  the  Hawks  for  four  years  while  attending  school,  so  the  theme  of  baseball  hardly  comes  out  of  left  ¿HOG “I  have  a  lot  of  personal  knowledge  and  experience  with  the  sport,  and  it  was  natural  to  use  it  as  part  of  the  story,â€?  Marcopolos  said.   The  novel  centers  on  two  main  characters:  Enzo  Prinziatta,  a  short-­tempered  baseball  player  from  the  Bronx  who  dreams  of  becoming  a  professional  athlete,  and  Barry  Budiski,  a  teammate  who  is  a  wealthy  frater-­ nity  leader  and  class  president  hoping  to  be  a  successful  business  man.  The  novel  follows  the  characters  through  countless  twists  and  turns,  showing  the  struggles  they  face  with  teammates,  peers,  girlfriends  as  well  as  with  their  own  emotions  and  destructive  behaviors.  The  book  shifts  from  the  college  campus  to  the  town,  peering  into  off-­campus  SDUWLHV WKH EDVHEDOO ÂżHOG DQG EDFN WR FDPSXV DJDLQ The  story  begins  as  a  murder  mystery,  but  as  LW XQIROGV WKH FRQĂ€LFW EHWZHHQ WKH PDLQ FKDUDFWHUV Â

becomes  more  apparent.  â€œI  suppose  there  may  be  other  little  things  about  Enzo  that  have  come  from  me  organically,â€?  Marcopolos  said.  â€œBut,  overall,  the  characters  are  a  combination  of  a  com-­ posite  of  multiple  people,  things  completely  made  up  and  stuff  from  me.â€? The  book’s  setting  is  based  on  and  around  the  New  Paltz  campus,  from  the  bars  and  restaurants  in  town.  There  DUH PHQWLRQV RI 0F.HQQD 7KHDWUH WKH DWKOHWLF ÂżHOGV DQG center,  Hasbrouck  Dining  Hall  and  the  Drama  Club  sev-­ eral  times  throughout  the  novel.  Marcopolos  attributes  this  sense  of  familiarity  to  cre-­ ating  the  setting  of  his  book.  â€œThe  setting  of  the  novel  derives  from  my  general  knowledge  of  the  campus,  plus  my  experience  of  having  worked  at  McKenna  Theatre,  where  one  of  my  duties  was  to  put  up  posters  everywhere  for  upcoming  performanc-­ es,â€?  Marcopolos  said.  â€œI’ve  found  that,  for  me,  I  need  to  have  an  authentic,  personal  understanding  of  whatever  setting  my  stories  are  in.â€? Patricia  Michelini,  a  New  Paltz  alumna,  met  Marco-­ polos  at  New  Paltz  in  1992.  The  alumni  were  residents  of  Bevier  Hall.  Michelini  and  Marcopolos  lost  touch  after  graduation,  but  rekindled  their  friendship  a  few  years  ago.  â€œFrank  is  very  driven.  He  believes  in  the  power  of  writing  and  storytelling  and  is  passionate  about  showing Â

that  power  to  others,â€?  Michelini  said.  â€œHe  is  extremely  GHGLFDWHG WR WKH FUDIW RI ZULWLQJ DOZD\V ÂżQGLQJ ZD\V WR improve  himself.â€?   Michelini  was  able  to  read  Marcopolos’  novel  from  a  more  intimate  perspective.  As  a  former  student,  she  said  that  the  novel  hit  home  for  her.  â€œI  loved  the  fact  that  [the  novel]  took  place  at  New  Paltz,â€?  Michelini  said.  â€œI  have  many,  many  fond  memo-­ ries  there,  and  it  was  really  fun  to  read  a  story  and  be  able  to  recognize  the  places  in  it  and  think,  â€˜I  was  there.’â€?  Marcopolos  said  he  always  knew  he  wanted  to  be-­ come  a  writer.  The  Brooklyn  native  traveled  to  New  Paltz  to  attend  college  and  study  English,  graduating  in  the  winter  of  1994.  Marcopolos  began  writing  â€œAlmost  Homeâ€?  in  2007.  He  said  that  it  took  him  years  to  write,  having  gone  through  thousands  of  edits  and  restructurings  to  reach  the  ¿QDO SURGXFW ,W ZDV SXEOLVKHG LQ DV DQ HOHFWURQLF version  only,  available  through  downloads  on  amazon. com.  Marcopolos  said  e-­books  are  the  way  to  go  these  days.  â€œIt  seems  to  me  that’s  where  the  future  of  publishing  is  going,  so  I  didn’t  want  to  kill  any  more  trees  just  for  the  sake  of  my  ego  being  able  to  gaze  upon  the  glories  of  a  traditional,  paper  book,â€?  Marcopolos  said.

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By  calling  on  past  activists  such  as  Rosa  Parks  and  Gandhi  to  illustrate  that  you  don’t  have  to  be  outspoken  to  make  a  change,  Paul  Loeb  spoke  to  a  crowded  room  on  Tuesday,  March  27  in  the  Lecture  Center  at  SUNY  New  Paltz. The  lecture,  named  after  his  new  book,  â€œSoul  of  a  Citizen:  Living  With  Conviction  in  Challenging  Times,â€?  was  sponsored  by  16  departments  and  or-­ ganizations  including  the  humanistic/multicultural  education  program  and  Voice  for  Choice. /RHE LV WKH DXWKRU RI ÂżYH ERRNV DQG KDV EHHQ an  activist  for  more  than  35  years.  He  spoke  at  New  Paltz  in  2004  and  encouraged  people  to  think  of  ways  they  can  make  a  difference  in  the  world,   according  to  Nancy  Schniedewind,  a  graduate  pro-­ fessor  of  humanistic/multicultural  education.  Schniedewind  said  she  was  inspired  by  the  mes-­ sages  and  stories  in  Loeb’s  books  and  that  this  talk  is  important  now  more  than  ever  because  things Â

such  as  the  Patriot  Act  and  the  reasons  behind   Occupy  Wall  Street  have  eroded  civil  liberties.  â€œ[Loeb]  said  even  in  times  of  hopelessness  there  is  so  much  people  can  do  to  make  a  differ-­ ence,  â€?  Schniedewind  said.  â€œHe  tries  to  make  peo-­ ple  see  the  connections  to  other  people  that  aren’t  in  their  same  locality,  other  people  in  the  past  and  other  parts  of  the  world  as  well  as  the  United  States  that  are  all  working  together  with  a  common  goal  for  a  more  just  an  democratic  future.â€? Loeb  said  his  interests  have  always  driven  him  and  hopes  they  drive  others,  too.  He  said  he  wants  people  to  get  involved  in  important  issues  and  sup-­ port  others  around  them.  â€œWhen  somebody  steps  forward  on  an  issue  we  care  about  we  have  to  encourage  them,â€?  Loeb  said.  â€œWhen  people  are  silent  other  people  are  encour-­ aged  to  be  silent.â€?  Loeb  said  in  history  there  is  a  divergence  be-­ tween  image  and  reality  and  that  lone  activism  is  untrue.  He  said  it  takes  a  community  to  make  a Â

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change  and  everyone  must  be  called  upon.  According  to  Loeb,  in  order  to  make  a  differ-­ ence  and  act  for  change  there  are  two  steps  every-­ RQH PXVW IROORZ 7KH ÂżUVW LV WDNLQJ D OHDS DQG WKH second  is  being  strategic.  â€œHere’s  a  situation  that  seems  impossible  but  you  have  to  act,  and  that’s  a  leap  of  faith,â€?  Loeb  said.  â€œAnd  then  you  have  being  strategic,  you  look  at  a  situation  and  you  say,  â€˜Oh,  how  am  I  going  to  ¿[ WKDW" +RZ DP , JRLQJ WR FKDQJH LW"Âś DQG WKLQN Âľ+RZ DP , JRLQJ WR WDNH D VWDE"ϫ +H VDLG WKDW DOWKRXJK WKLV LV D GLIÂżFXOW IHDW WR accomplish,  one  must  stick  to  it  to  make  a  change  because  giving  up  halfway  through  will  not  provide  results.  One  suggestion  he  made  was  to  keep  going  by  maintaining  a  balance  of  work  and  doing  things  that  â€œnurture  your  soul.â€?  He  said  it’s  important  to  keep  going  and  to   remain  dedicated  to  your  goals.    â€œHave  a  sense  of  humor  and  don’t  be  intimi-­ dated,â€?  Loeb  said. Â

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ESK D Y COP KOFF: COO “Pizzelle“ By  Carolyn  Quimby N01979729@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

Each week, one of the members of our Copy Desk will share their culinary chops with you. Bon appetit! When  my  brother  left  for  college  this  past  fall,  my  mom  rediscovered  her  love  for  Italian  bak-­ ing.  She  has  always  been  an  amazing  cook  and  the  reason  why  I’ve  become  jaded  to  most  Italian  cooking  â€”  it  just  pales  in  comparison  to  hers.  She  was  never  a  huge  baker,  but  that  changed  this  past  Christmas  Eve  when  she  made  pizzelles. Pizzelle  are  traditional  Italian  cookies  which  UHVHPEOH YHU\ WKLQ ZDIĂ€ HV <RXÂśOO QHHG D SL]]HOOH maker  to  make  these,  but  it  is  totally  worth  the  money.  These  cookies  are  fairly  simple  to  make  and  taste  almost  too  good  to  be  homemade. Here’s  what  you’ll  need  to  make  pizzelles:  ô FXSV DOO SXUSRVH Ă€ RXU  2  teaspoons  baking  powder  3  large  eggs  ½  cup  unsalted  butter,  melted  1  tablespoon  vanilla  extract <RXÂśOO QHHG WR SUHKHDW WKH 3L]]HOOH SUHVV ZKLOH prepping  the  batter.  If  the  press  is  not  hot  enough,  WKH FRRNLHV ZLOO EUHDN 1H[W FRPELQH WKH Ă€ RXU DQG baking  powder  together  in  small  bowl,  and  set  it  aside.  In  a  medium  bowl,  mix  the  eggs  and  sugar  on  medium  speed  until  they  thicken  (a  minute  or  so).  Add  the  melted  butter  and  vanilla  extract  in  a  steady  stream  (mixing  for  about  15  seconds).  )LQDOO\ DGG LQ WKH Ă€ RXU PL[WXUH DQG PL[ IRU DERXW 15  seconds.  Do  not  overmix. <RX FDQ FKRRVH WR OLJKWO\ EUXVK WKH SUHVV ZLWK vegetable  oil,  but  it  is  not  necessary.  Measure  out  approximately  1½  -­2  teaspoons  of  mixture  on  both  cookie  grids.  Close  and  lock  the  press.  The  red  indicator  light  will  turn  green  when  the  pizzelles  are  done.  Remove  the  cookies  very  carefully  and  place  them  on  a  rack  to  cool  completely.  Transfer  them  to  a  decorative  tray  and  sift  ample  amounts  of  powdered  sugar  onto  them.  Once  you  think  there’s  enough  sugar,  sift  more.  When  people  start  eating  them,  more  sugar  will  end  up  on  their  clothes  than  in  their  mouths.  Of  course  a  few  cookies  will  break  in  the  bak-­ ing  process  (and  you  are  more  than  welcome  to  eat  WKHVH VDFULÂż FHV EXW WKH RQHV OHIW ZLOO EH GHOLFDWH lightly-­sweetened,  circles  of  heaven. Â

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Holocaust Survivor Speaks

SCHORR SHARES STORIES OF HER PAST By  Bryan  Ahrens Contributing  Writer  |  N02299776@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

When  Holocaust  survivor  Anita  Schorr  spoke  on  cam-­ pus,  she  gave  a  vivid  account  of  her  experiences  in  Ger-­ many.  Despite  the  horror  she  faced,  Schorr  said  she  was  determined  not  to  have  people  feel  bad  for  her.  One  question  Schorr  said  she  constantly  asked  herself  during  her  experience  was,  â€œWhy  wasn’t  the  free  world  stopping  these  horrible  things?â€? Schorr  spoke  on  Tuesday,  March  6  to  an  auditorium  in  Coykendall  Science  Building.  The  event  was  sponsored  by  the  Honors  Advisory  Board  Events  Committee  and  was  made  possible  by  honors  student  Sarah  Hershey. Hershey  and  Schorr  have  a  long  history.  Hershey  said  Schorr’s  story  stayed  with  her  after  the  two  met  at  Her-­ VKH\ÂśV VXPPHU FDPS SURJUDP Âż YH \HDUV DJR “I  thought  of  Anita  immediately,  and  I  realized  it  would  have  been  practically  a  crime  if  I  didn’t  try  to  get  her  here,â€?  Hershey  said.

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The   audience,  comprised  of  students,  faculty  and  other  Holocaust  survivors,  listened  as  Schorr  gave  her  ac-­ count  of  what  had  taken  place  in  Germany.  She  began  with  a  photo  slideshow  featuring  personal  photos  of  her  family  and  friends. “She’ll  discuss  her  experiences,  but  she’s  very  deter-­ mined  to  look  forward,â€?  Patricia  Sullivan,  Interim  Direc-­ tor  of  the  Honors  Program,  said.  â€œShe  [Schorr]  is  commit-­ ted  to  urging  people  to  take  action  so  there  will  never  be  another  Holocaust.â€?  At  the  end  of  the  event  Schorr  was  given  the  opportu-­ nity  to  answer  questions  from  the  audience.  She  said  she  tries  not  to  dwell  on  hate  alone  and  that  she  doesn’t  want  to  harbor  animosity  toward  the  Germans.  She  wanted  to  make  it  very  clear  that  if  someone  focuses  all  of  their  energy  on  hatred  alone,  they  cannot  become  anything  more  than  a  hateful  person. “I  do  not  hate  the  German  people,â€?  Schorr  said.  â€œI  hate  the  Nazis.â€?

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Hitting the Books By Maria Jayne

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Keep up with the latest faculty writing projects!

Editors: Laurence Carr, Lecturer for the English Department and Jan Schmidt, Professor in the English Department

Flower Power

Title? A new major anthology of contempo-­ rary Hudson Valley women writers and poets, celebrating women’s voices and creativity.

NEW PALTZ GARDEN CLUB MAKES PLANS TO BEAUTIFY THE TOWN The New Paltz Garden Club plans to maintain the town gardens and planters.

By Crystal Patterson Contributing Writer | N01804890@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

Flowers and plants will bloom and be kept maintained in various parts of town thanks to the New Paltz Garden Club. On Monday, March 19, the New Paltz Garden Club kick-­started plans to maintain town gardens and planters dur-­ ing their annual pot luck dinner at 6 p.m. at Deyo Hall on Huguenot Street. “Our goal is to stimulate interest in beautifying New Paltz’s surroundings, study all aspects of gardening and to promote conservation of natural resources,” Treasurer Misha Fredricks said. Vice President Marilyn Minge said the groups always starts the year off with a pot luck dinner and a very short meeting. “[This] gives our members a chance to mingle, enjoy each other’s company and share exciting plans for a new Garden Club season,” she said. “Luckily, most of our members are wonderful cooks. So, our buffet is always scrumptious.” Every year, the club donates new gardening books and manages the plant booth at the Elting Library Fair fundrais-­ er. Club members also pass around baskets for members to contribute to the World Gardening Organization. In addition, New Paltz Garden Club gives a $1,000 schol-­ arship to a graduating high school senior who plans on pursuing

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a career in environmental science or agriculture. “We donate to the World Gardening Organization because it strives to support women in other countries by teaching them better gardening and farming techniques for sustaining their communities and bettering their living conditions,” Club Sec-­ retary Karen Aspromonte said. Minge said that for the past few years the World Gardening Organization has focused on building wells in Sudan. The New Paltz Garden Club has the lead in donations, winning many awards. “I am told the average is about $700 a year, which is great for a small club,” Minge said. Donations go to the Federated Garden Clubs of New York who distribute the funds. Last year, they collected money from garden clubs throughout New York and gave about $20,000 to World Gardening. “We recognize how beautiful the SUNY campus is and the effort that students must make to help keep it as attractive as it is,” Minge said. “We would like to invite interested students and faculty and staff to consider joining our organization, as we work together to keep New Paltz a lovely place to live and learn.” Club members meet on the third Monday of each month, from March until December.

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Publication Date? The book will be published by Codhill Press in 2013.

What Makes this Project Unique? This new anthology will feature writ-­ ings by Hudson Valley women and will focus on all aspects of women’s lives and experiences (women’s social, spiri-­ tual, political, relationship, cultural and family issues).

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The Last BAD Book I Read: ‘Cinder’ by Marissa Meyer By  Nicole  Brinkley  Staff  Writer  |  Nicole.brinkley76@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

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Everybody  and  their  mother  seems  to  love  Marissa  Meyer’s  â€œCinder.â€?  They  call  it  innovative  and  origi-­ nal;Íž  they  call  the  characters  creative  and  unique;Íž  they  call  the  world  brilliant  and  stunning.  Maybe  I’m  in  the  minority,  maybe  I’m  blind,  but  the  best  part  about  this  book  is  the  fact  that  Cinderella  is  a  cyborg. &RQVLGHULQJ \RX OHDUQ WKDW LQ WKH Âż UVW WZR SDJHV I’m  not  that  impressed. “Cinderâ€?  takes  place  in  the  futuristic  New  Beijing,  a  city  where  humans  and  androids  live  in  harmony.  There’s  a  plague  corrupting  and  killing  humans  every-­ where  and  a  strange  race  called  the  Lunars  watch  the  Earth  from  â€”  you  guessed  it   â€”  the  moon.  Our  protagonist  is  Cinder  â€”  yes,  her  name  is  actu-­ ally  Cinder  â€”  a  mechanic  cyborg  still  alive  only  due  to  the  mercies  of  her  unkind  step-­mother  and  relatively  indifferent  step-­sisters.  After  Prince  Kai  brings  her  an  android  to  repair,  Cinder  is  accidentally  thrown  into  a  political  struggle  that  could  end  in  war.  It  doesn’t  help  WKDW VKH Âż QGV .DL DWWUDFWLYH DQG WKDW .DL KDV QR LGHD she’s  a  second-­class  citizen. I’ll  give  Meyer  this:  her  main  characters  are  quite Â

interesting  and  they’re  the  only  thing  that  really  make  the  story  worth  reading.  Cinder  is  adaptable  and  clever  in  a  story  that  she  doesn’t  deserve,  and  Kai  has  the  adorability  factor  that  a  fairy-­tale  prince  needs. There’s  not  much  else  worth  noting.  While  the  world  is  interesting  in  concept,  it’s  missing  key  points  in  its  world  building  that  just  left  me  scratching  my  head  and  wondering,  â€˜now,  how  does  that  work?’ Though  the  book  is  still  rather  predictable.  Every-­ WKLQJ LV ODLG RXW WR EH Âż JXUHG RXW ZLWKLQ WKH Âż UVW IHZ FKDSWHUV DQG DQ HVSHFLDOO\ DWWHQWLYH UHDGHU FRXOG Âż JXUH it  all  out  quickly.  An  oblivious  reader  would  have  it  ¿ JXUHG RXW KDOIZD\ WKURXJK WKH ERRN ZKHUH WKH P\V teries  are  practically  spelled  out  in  giant  bold  letters. I  was  especially  grieved  by  the  Lunar  people.  I  have  never  been  more  disappointed  in  a  villain  set.  They  were  bland  and  unoriginal.  I  felt  like  readers  were  supposed  to  fear  them  simply  because  they  were  set  up  as  the  villains,  not  because  they  were  actually  scary  in  any  way.  They  never  came  across  as  real  char-­ acters. All  in  all,  I  give  a  big  vote  of  â€œnoâ€?  to  this  book.  The  protagonist  deserved  a  better  story  than  she  got. Â

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CHELSEY FREEMAN EXPRESSES HERSELF THROUGH PAINTINGS By  Cat  Tacopina Sports  Editor  |  Ctacopina97@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

Personal  life  and  work  complement  one  another  for  Poughkeepsie  native  and  local  art-­ ist  Chelsey  Freeman. “I  draw  my  inspiration  from  my  personal  life  and  put  it  into  my  artwork,â€?  Freeman  said.  â€œI  think  it  lets  you  learn  and  understand  your-­ self  more.â€? A  recent  graduate  of  the  Art  Institute  of  Boston,  Freeman  said  she  had  been  interested  in  art  from  a  young  age.  She  began  sketching  as  a  young  girl,  and  support  from  her  father  eventually  led  to  her  enrollment  at  the  Art  In-­ stitute  of  Mill  Street  Loft  in  Poughkeepsie. Freeman  said  art  took  on  a  new  mean-­ ing  for  her  at  the  Loft.  Her  two  years  studying  there  sparked  a  deeper  interest  and  desire  to  be  an  artist. “It  opened  my  eyes,â€?  Freeman  said.  â€œIt  was  there  that  I  began  to  see  painting  and  color  in  a  completely  new  way,  especially  color.  I’ll  never  forget  when  a  teacher  of  mine  there  VDLG ÂľORRN DW WKH EOXH LQ WKH UHĂ€HFWLRQ RI WKH orange.’  That  changed  everything.â€? Freeman  said  the  early  work  she  created  while  at  Mill  Street  Loft  focused  on  women’s  issues.  A  â€œvery  liberal,  pro-­choice  kind  of  girl,â€?  Freeman  said  most  of  her  work  focused  on  political  issues. While  some  of  Freeman’s  paintings  from  her  time  at  Mill  Street  Loft  focused  on  wom-­ en’s  issues  from  her  personal  life,  it  wasn’t  until  college  that  her  work  became  more  per-­ sonal.   Freeman  said  the  â€œsmall  and  unbeliev-­ ably  supportiveâ€?  artistic  environment  among  professors  and  students  helped  her  to  further  explore  herself  as  an  artist. “Everyone  critiqued  you  very  well  and  they  were  always  helpful,  never  negative,â€?  Freeman  said.  â€œI  was  really  able  to  be  myself  there.â€?

Freeman  said  many  of  her  paintings  focus  on  relationships  with  herself  and  her  sexuality.  She  said  painting  with  both  of  these  things  in  mind  helps  her  understand  herself  at  a  deeper  level  with  each  new  artwork. “There  isn’t  really  a  technical  way  I  go  about  doing  my  work,â€?  Freeman  said.  â€œFor  PH P\ DUWZRUN KDV WKLV VRUW RI Ă€HHWLQJ TXDO-­ ity,  similar  to  when  you  get  lost  in  the  moment  of  something.  But  that’s  what  I  think  is  so  fas-­ cinating  â€”  the  way  you  experience  your  own  world,  and  painting  about  stuff  you  remember  KHOSV \RX ÂżOO LQ WKH EODQNV RI ZKDW \RX GRQÂśW remember.â€? Freeman  said  one  of  her  favorite  pieces  is  one  of  her  most  personal  and  â€œbravest.â€?  The  painting,  â€œSexual  Girl  Within,â€?  shows  a  wom-­ an  whom  Freeman  said  you  can  tell  is  in  a  sex-­ ual  position.  The  painting  quotes  poet  Sandra  Cisneros:  â€œSometimes,  sweetheart,  a  woman  needs  a  man  who  loves  her  ass.â€?  Freeman  said  this  is  her  favorite  painting  because  it  shows  a  side  of  herself  that  isn’t  al-­ ways  out  there  for  the  world  to  see. Âł, IHHO WKDW ZDV WKH ÂżUVW WLPH , VWHSSHG RXW and  literally  said  that  this  other  part  of  me  was  there,â€?  Freeman  said.  â€œI  see  myself  as  a  very  sweet  girl  and  I  think  people  don’t  always  see  the  sexual  side  of  me  because  of  that.â€? Freeman’s  most  recent  endeavor  has  been  the  unveiling  of  her  painting  exhibit  in  Bacchus.  The  show,  titled  â€œState  of  Affairs,â€?  opened  on  March  2  and  will  continue  until  the  end  of  April.  â€œThe  opening  was  great  because  not  only  did  family  and  friends  attend,  but  people  from  WKH 1HZ 3DOW] DUHD FDPH DV ZHOO ,W ZDV GHÂż-­ nitely  a  success,â€?  Freeman  said.  â€œI  didn’t  ex-­ pect  I  would  sell  two  paintings  that  night.â€? Freeman  said  she  hopes  to  have  a  couple  more  shows  under  her  belt  before  applying  to                PHOTOS  COURTESY  OF  CHELSEY  FREEMAN graduate  school.  Her  artwork  can  be  seen  at  Paintings  by  Chelsey  Freeman  from  top  clockwise:  â€œComfort  Zones,â€?  â€œSexual  Girl  Withinâ€?  chelseyfreeman.sharemyartwork.com. and  â€œVeiled  Ambivalence.â€?

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Mainstage Musical Mania NEW PALTZ THEATER DEPARTMENT DANCES TO ‘CABERET’ IN MCKENNA By  Suzy  Berkowitz Copy  Editor  |  N02007890@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

Put  down  the  knitting,  the  book  and  the  broom  because  the  Theater  Department’s  Mainstage  musical  this  year  is  â€œCabaret.â€?  Set  in  Berlin  in  1931,  â€œCabaretâ€?  fol-­ lows  Sally  Bowles,  a  young  English  per-­ former,  and  her  relationship  with  Ameri-­ can  writer  Cliff  Bradshaw.  A  sub-­plot  is  a  romance  between  a  German  boarding  house  owner,  Frauline  Schneider,  and  her  Jewish  elderly  suitor,  Herr  Schultz.  The  Master  of  Ceremonies  at  the  Kit  Kat  â€œCabaretâ€?  Club  oversees  and  narrates  the  show,  acting  as  a  constant  metaphor  for  Germany’s  dark  political  climate  during  that  time  period.   â€œCabaretâ€?  has  an  amazing  story  and  it’s  structurally  and  theatrically  interesting,â€?  Director  Nancy  Saklad,  professor  of  theater  performance,  said.  â€œThere  are  unique,  realistic  themes  dis-­ persed  within  the  show  and  they  coun-­ terpoint  one  another.  There’s  darkness  everywhere  in  it.â€? A  production  as  realistic  and  fan-­ tastical  as  â€œCabaretâ€?  demands  a  cast  with  the  ability  to  portray  the  range  of  emotions  the  show  requires.  The  characters’  troubles  and  World  War  II  looming  overhead  gives  the  show  a  dark  and  very  animalistic  tone,  cast  members  said.  â€œI  hope  the  audience  can  see  hu-­ manity  at  the  core,â€?  Julia  Register,  a  second-­year  theater  performance  major,  said.  â€œWe’re  always  going  to  have  good  and  bad  and  destruction  but  there’s  al-­ ways  going  to  be  creation.  It’s  a  great,  fun,  beautiful  story.â€? Register,  who  plays  Schneider,  speaks  in  a  German  accent  during  the  musical.  Although  she  said  it’s  always  GLIÂż FXOW QRW WR VSHDN LQ KHU QDWLYH GLD lect,  it  became  easier  with  more  practice.  Speaking  in  a  German  dialect  was Â

the  least  work  Register  did  to  get  into  character.  Schneider  is  a  much  older,  more  experienced  woman,  and  Register  had  to  tap  into  her  own  experiences  to  make  up  for  the  age  difference.  â€œI’ve  had  to  work  hard  on  portray-­ ing  an  older  woman,â€?  Register  said.  â€œCrafting  someone  with  40  years  of  life  under  her  belt  is  hard.  I’ve  been  through  a  lot  and  I  use  the  experience  of  having  those  experiences.  I  consider  the  circumstances  my  character  is  un-­ der  and  see  how  they’re  similar  to  what  I’ve  been  through  so  I  can  do  the  play  justice.â€? Many  characteristic  challenges  were  also  faced  by  Julee  Kwak,  a  fourth-­ year  theater  performance  major  from  Korea.  Kwak,  as  Sally  Bowles,  must  speak  in  a  British  accent  for  the  entire  performance.  After  learning  the  English  language  herself,  Kwak  found  it   chal-­ lenging.  However,  Assistant  Director  and  Vocal  Coach  Francesca  Haswell  has  taught  her  the  ins  and  outs  of  the  dialect.  â€œI  had  no  idea  how  involved,  dia-­ lect-­wise  I  would  be,â€?  Haswell,  a  third-­ year  theater  major  and  exchange  student  from  England,  said.  â€œSeeing  Julee’s  British  dialect,  it’s  obvious  that  she’s  growing  and  I’m  really  proud  of  her.â€? Kwak  is  making  her  New  Paltz  per-­ formance  debut  portraying  Bowles,  a  part  she  was  initially  intimidated  by.  â€œEven  though  I’m  a  senior,  this  is  P\ Âż UVW SURGXFWLRQ ´ .ZDN VDLG Âł, ZDV overwhelmed.  It’s  a  lot  of  pressure  and  it’s  a  big  role.  I  was  very  self-­conscious  and  unsure  of  my  abilities  but  my  direc-­ tor  saw  my  potential  and  I  didn’t  want  to  let  her  down.â€?  Saklad  said  this  production  of  â€œCabaretâ€?  is  different  from  others,  and  it  may  not  leave  audience  members  feeling  content;Íž  however,  that  isn’t  its  purpose. “I  hope  people  see  â€œCabaretâ€?  in  a Â

new  light,â€?  Saklad  said.  â€œIn  many  ways,  our  pro-­ duction  is  less  forgiving  than  others  they’ve  seen.  Each  theatrical  experience  is  unique.  This  is  a  different  â€˜Cabaret.’â€? The  show  runs  at  McKenna  Theatre  from  Thursday,  April  19  through  Sunday,  April  29  at  7  p.m.  with  one  matinee  performance  at  2  p.m.

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Small Production Tackles Huge Question ‘WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?’ TO PREMIERE AT PARKER THEATRE By  Suzy  Berkowitz Copy  Editor  |  N02007890@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

This  semester’s  Blackbox  Production  may  be  small,  but  it’s  tackling  a  huge  question. “Whose  Life  is  it  Anyway?â€?  directed  by  Brittney  Pierri,  IROORZV &ODLUH +DUULVRQ D VXFFHVVIXO VFXOSWRU ÂżJKWLQJ IRU KHU right  to  die  after  suffering  quadriplegia  (being  paralyzed  from  the  neck  down)  in  a  car  accident.  The  show  discusses  the  con-­ troversial  issue  of  euthanasia  and  poses  the  title  question  to  the  audience.  â€œThere’s  so  much  gravity  in  this  subject  matter,â€?  Frank  Trezza,  professor  of  theater  arts  and  faculty  advisor  for  the  show,  said.  â€œThe  characters  face  complicated  choices.  It’s  meant  to  make  people  think  and  question  assumptions  they  have  about  certain  situations.â€? Pierri,  a  fourth-­year  theater  studies  major  and  director  of  this  production,  said  she  chose  this  play  for  its  depth  and  controversial  nature.  Pierri  originally  chose  a  different  medical  play,  but  lost  her  performance  rights  when  it  started  its  run  on  Broadway.  She  was  shown  â€œWhose  Life  is  it  Anyway?â€?  and  was  convinced  this  was  the  show  for  her. Â

Âł7KLV VKRZ KDV PRUH GHSWK LQ WHUPV RI FRQĂ€LFW DQG VWULNHV more  of  a  chord  in  terms  of  dramatic  structure,â€?  Pierri  said.  â€œThere  has  been  a  performed  version  starring  a  male  character  and  one  with  a  female,  and  I  chose  the  female  version  because  there’s  so  much  more  wit  and  strength  in  Claire’s  words.â€? Third-­year  theater  performance  major  Kat  Gonzalez,  who  plays  Claire,  did  a  lot  of  work  to  get  into  character  as  she  has  never  played  a  quadriplegic  before.  â€œThis  was  a  huge  challenge  for  me  because  I  like  to  talk  with  my  hands,â€?  Gonzalez  said.  â€œI  stretch  before  rehearsing  so  my  hands  are  more  relaxed.  I  would  lie  down  in  bed  and  tie  my-­ self  up  with  belts  to  feel  what  it  was  like  not  to  be  able  to  move.  I  also  talked  to  people  in  wheelchairs.  I  felt  like  they’ve  been  living  with  what  they  have  for  so  long,  they  have  embraced  it,  but  that’s  what  my  character  didn’t  want.â€? The  play  begins  with  a  scene  added  to  the  production  of  Claire  before  the  accident,  sculpting  a  piece  of  clay  onstage.  It  later  divulges  into  a  legal  battle  and  touches  upon  the  sanity  of  &ODLUH GHWHUPLQLQJ WKH ÂżQH OLQH EHWZHHQ FOLQLFDOO\ GHSUHVVHG and  reacting  to  the  situation.  Part  of  Gonzalez’s  character  work  involved  her  defending  herself  and  debating  whether  or  not  she Â

                    PHOTO  COURTESY  OF  BRITTNEY  PIERRI  â€œWhose  Life  is  it  Anyway?â€?  will  premiere  on  March  30. suffered  from  depression.  â€œThe  audience  sees  me  before  the  accident  sculpting  some-­ thing  and  doing  what  I’m  passionate  about  and  I  think  that’s  necessary  because  they  get  to  see  just  how  much  I’m  losing,â€?  Gonzalez  said.  â€œIf  I’m  going  to  die,  I  want  to  die  with  dignity.â€? “Whose  Life  is  it  Anyway?â€?  will  run  from  Friday,  March  30  to  Sunday,  April  1  in  Parker  Theatre. Â

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Feeding Into The Hype? Battling Out ‘The Hunger Games’

By  Robin  Weinstein

By  Andrew  Wyrich

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“The  Hunger  Gamesâ€?  fans  were  starving  IRU WKH ERRNÂśV ÂżOP DGDSWDWLRQ DQG , IRU RQH FDQ VD\ P\ DSSHWLWH KDV EHHQ VDWLVÂżHG 0RUH WKDQ VDWLVÂżHG ,ÂśYH ZDWFKHG WKH PRYLH IRXU WLPHV DQG each  time  fell  more  in  love  with  it. Two  and  a  half  hours  seems  lengthy  for  D ÂżOP EXW Âł7KH +XQJHU *DPHV´ PRYHG DW D steady,  comfortable  pace  and  by  the  end  of  the  movie,  I  couldn’t  believe  that  much  time  had  passed.  There’s  enough  time  for  viewers,  whether  they  read  the  books  or  not,  to  grasp  the  plot.  However,  no  scenes  were  too  long. Since  Katniss  Everdeen  (Jennifer  Law-­ UHQFH QDUUDWHV WKH ERRN WKURXJK WKH ÂżUVW SHUVRQ I  was  worried  how  this  would  be  shown  without  /DZUHQFHÂśV YRLFHRYHUV 'LUHFWRU *DU\ 5RVV incorporated  these  elements  in  a  very  success-­ ful  way  which  deemed  narrations  unnecessary.  0HPRULHV RI 3HHWD 0HOODUN -RVK +XWFKHUVRQ throwing  Katniss  a  loaf  of  bread  are  strategi-­ cally  slipped  into  the  early  scenes.  In  the  books,  Katniss  explains  that  the  Gamemakers  create  WKH ZLOGÂżUHV DQG EHDVWO\ GRJV EXW WKH PRYLH shows  scenes  of  the  Gamemakers  controlling  these  events  â€œbehind-­the-­scenes.â€?  7KH ÂżOPÂśV FDVWLQJ ZDV VSRW RQ 7KH DFWRUV and  actresses  portrayed  their  parts  well:  Law-­ rence  was  the  brave,  strong  (both  mentally  and  physically),  stubborn  and  protective  Katniss  and  +XWFKHUVRQ WKH KXPEOH URPDQWLF 3HHWD &LQQD (Lenny  Kravitz)  was  Katniss’s  caring  men-­ tor,  while  Haymitch  (Woody  Harrelson)  began  as  her  drunk,  unconcerned  mentor.  Haymitch  eventually  became  essential  to  Katniss  and  Â

3HHWDÂśV VXUYLYDO +H DOVR SURYLGHG FRPLF UHOLHI to  the  movie  with  just  a  few  lines  and  actions  (for  example,  giving  a  thumbs  up  to  Katniss  af-­ ter  she  shoots  the  arrow  at  the  Gamemakers).  7KH FLQHPDWRJUDSK\ WKURXJKRXW WKH ÂżOP was  beautiful.  I  am  certainly  one  for  artistic  DQJOHV DQG GUDPDWLF OLJKWLQJ DQG 5RVV XWLOL]HG WKHVH HOHPHQWV YHU\ WDVWHIXOO\ 5LJKW IURP WKH ÂżUVW VFHQH ZLWK .DWQLVV DQG KHU VLVWHU 3ULPURVH (Willow  Sheilds),  the  camera  pans  in  on  the  two  girls  hugging,  bringing  out  their  troubled  HPRWLRQV 6FHQHV LQ WKH ZRRGV DUH ÂżOPHG ZLWK a  shaky  hand,  creating  movement,  excitement  and  suspense.  Conversations  are  shot  with  mul-­ tiple  views,  perfectly  capturing  each  character’s   reactions. The  score,  composed  by  James  Newton  +RZDUG ZDV DOVR DEVROXWHO\ Ă€DZOHVV 7KH LQ-­ strumental  pieces  were  excellent  decisions,  as  words  likely  would  have  taken  away  from  what  ZDV JRLQJ RQ LQ WKH ÂżOP DW WKDW PRPHQW 6RIW smooth,  cool  songs  are  the  background  to  much  RI WKH ÂżOP 7KH\ÂśUH MXVW VXEWOH HQRXJK VR \RXÂśUH not  paying  too  much  attention  to  the  music,  but  it’s  still  there.  The  theme  for  show  host  Caesar  Flickerman  (Stanley  Tucci)  is  incredible  (“Warâ€?  performed  by  the  Hypnotic  Brass  Ensemble).  Contrasting  with  the  rest  of  the  score,  it’s  pow-­ erful  and  exciting,  and  brings  the  right  energy  to  Caesar,  the  show  and  the  studio  audience.  It  isn’t  an  easy  task  to  transform  a  book  into  a  movie  and  to  stay  true  to  the  story,  but  5RVV ZDV DEOH WR PDNH WKLV DGDSWDWLRQ D KXJH success.

The  only  good  thing  that  came  out  of  last  week’s  release  of  â€œThe  Hunger  Gamesâ€?  was  the  dope-­ass  beard  that  one  forgettable  character  pulled  off  throughout  the  whole  thing.  Well,  that  and  the  fact  that  it  was  so  undeni-­ ably  bad  that  I  was  unable  to  contain  the  rage  bursting  out  of  me  as  I  left  the  theater.  6R ÂżUVW RII , ZRXOG OLNH WR WKDQN *DU\ 5RVV for  producing  an  utterly  disappointing  and  as-­ toundingly  horrible  movie.  Secondly,  I  need  to  discuss  how  much  of  a  waste  of  potential  this  movie  was.  Not  only  did  â€œThe  Hunger  Gamesâ€?  drunkenly  stumble  over  the  ripe  and  intellectually  stimulating  (not  to  mention  horrifying)  theme  of  kids  being  forced  to  kill  one  another,  it  produced  it  in  a  less  im-­ pactful  way  than  a  movie  that  preceded  it  by  RYHU D GHFDGH ² Âł%DWWOH 5R\DOH ´ The  movie  took  an  eternity  to  get  to  any  VHPEODQFH RI DQ DFWXDO SRLQW EXW ZKHQ LW ÂżQDOO\ reached  the  action,  it  fumbled  it.  The  shaking  FDPHUD ZRUN PDGH Âł&ORYHUÂżHOG´ ORRN OLNH LW ZDV ÂżOPHG RQ D WULSRG DQG WKH ODFN RI DFWLRQ LQ EDWWOH sequences  reminded  me  more  of  a  cartoon  rather  than  a  movie  meant  to  provoke  and  stimulate.  7KH ÂżOPÂśV 3* UDWLQJ ZKLFK ZDV REYL-­ ously  a  way  to  invite  the  plentiful  audience  of  pre-­teens  who  have  the  ability  to  drain  their  par-­ HQWVÂś ZDOOHWV DV WKH\ VHH LW ÂżYH WLPHV LQ D URZ VHULRXVO\ KLQGHUHG WKH ÂżOPÂśV DELOLW\ WR UHDFK WKH XOWLPDWH SRLQW RI WKH ÂżOP ² WKH EUXWDOLW\ D SRVW apocalyptic  society  has  forced  upon  their  public.  That  very  poignant  message  is  lost  beneath  a  OD\HU RI VKDN\ VW\OL]HG ÂżOWK

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Simply,  the  movie  utterly  failed  to  gain  any  emotion  from  me  for  any  of  the  charac-­ WHUV .DWQLVV DQG 3HHWDÂśV UHODWLRQVKLS ZDV ERQH dry,  Elizabeth  Banks  had  a  role  that  could  have  been  played  by  a  tree  stump  and  Woody  Har-­ relson  was  less  believable  than  a  drunken  mem-­ ber  of  the  bar  of  broken  heroes.  Hell,  if  I  was   Harrelson,  I  would  have  been  inebriated  too.  Being  in  this  movie  could  have  made  anyone  a  heavy  drinker.  Jennifer  Lawrence  was  actually  pretty  impressive,  carrying  literally  all  of  the  acting  ZHLJKW LQ WKH HQWLUH ÂżOP -RVK +XWFKHUVRQ KDG D perpetually  open  mouth  that  seemingly  allowed  him  to  think  of  easier  ways  to  say  his  pitiful  at-­ tempts  at  lines.  But  Lawrence  had  command  over  her  role,  even  if  it  wasn’t  written  with  an  ounce  of  talent.  The  movie  is  lucky  to  have  such  a  gifted  performer  willing  to  stick  her  neck  out  for  a  franchise.  For  a  movie  that  had  such  hype  and  so  many  UHYLHZV SRLQWLQJ WRZDUG D VROLG Ă€LFN , ZDV LQ shock  at  how  horrid  I  felt  leaving  the  theater.  Not  VLQFH ZDVWLQJ PRQH\ RQ Âł3UHGDWRUV´ KDYH , IHOW more  insulted  for  having  given  the  movie  theater  my  credit  card  information.  ,I \RXÂśUH ORRNLQJ IRU D ÂżOP WKDW KDV WKH same  message  as  â€œThe  Hunger  Gamesâ€?  but  ac-­ tually  puts  it  into  context  that  isn’t  subdued  for  American  audiences,  do  yourself  a  favor  and  ZDWFK Âł%DWWOH 5R\DOH ´ 1RW RQO\ ZLOO LW FOHDQVH your  pallet  after  seeing  this  shit  storm,  but  you’ll  EH ZDWFKLQJ D ÂżOP ZRUWK FLQHPDWLF PHULW 3+272 ,//8675$7,21 %< 6$0$17+$ 6&+:$57=

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Just The Tip Keeps It Up STUDENT BAND SPREADS ITS TALENT THROUGHOUT NEW PALTZ By  Carolyn  Quimby Copy  Editor  |  N01979729@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu

Just  The  Tip  hasn’t  had  a  hard  time  thrusting  themselves  into  the  New  Paltz  music  scene. 7KH EDQG PHPEHUV Âż IWK \HDU FRQWHPSRUDU\ PXVLF VWXG LHV PDMRU 'DPLHQ -DFNVRQ JXLWDU IRXUWK \HDU MD]] SHUIRU PDQFH PDMRU 6DP 6PLWK EDVV DQG Âż UVW \HDU ELRORJ\ PDMRU Jeremy  Truitt  (drums),  have  been  working  to  expand  their   PXVLFDO FDWDORJ IRU QLQH PRQWKV The  band  came  together  when  Smith,  who  had  D IHZ FODVVHV ZLWK -DFNVRQ DVNHG KLP WR SOD\ D Slash  Root  gig  with  him.  They  decided  to  start  with  just  cover  songs,  then  tried  out  drummers  and  eventually  joined  up  with  Truitt,  Smith’s  KRPHWRZQ IULHQG Âł:H MXVW VWDUWHG WR SOD\ D EXQFK RI shows  last  semester,â€?  Jackson  said.  â€œIt  just  seemed  to  happen  naturally.  It  ZDVQÂśW IRUFHG ´ Both  Smith  and  Jackson  started  playing  music  when  they  were  young.  Smith  learned  the  EDVV WKURXJK KLV IULHQG 5D\ when  he  was  13.  Jackson,  once  D VHOI SURFODLPHG MRFN EH came  interested  in  music  about  \HDUV DJR ZKHQ KLV IULHQG showed  him  a  Jimi  Hendrix  DVD.  Just  The  Tip  has  been  VWHDGLO\ JURZLQJ $IWHU RQO\ SOD\LQJ D IHZ VKRZV WKH EDQG ZDV LPPHGLDWHO\ UHFRJ QL]HG IRU WKHLU FRYHUV LQFOXG LQJ UHQGLWLRQV RI 1LUYDQDÂśV “Come  As  You  Areâ€?  and  Elton  John’s  â€œTiny  Dancer.â€?  6PLWK VDLG WKH EDQG ZDV DO ways  working  on  originals  EXW VWDUWHG SHUIRUPLQJ WKHP PRUH IUHTXHQWO\ DORQJVLGH the  covers. “When  we  started,  it  ZDV OLNH SHUFHQW RI RXU repertoire  was  covers  and  40  percent  was  originals,  and  now  we’ve  switched,â€?  -DFNVRQ VDLG Âł:HÂśUH WU\ LQJ WR ZHHQ RII WKH FRY ers  as  much  as  possible  because  we  don’t  want  to  be  known  as  a  cover  band  necessarily.â€?

Smith  said  the  band  doesn’t  try  to  impose  a  certain  sound  onto  their  music.  â€œWe  want  to  create  our  own  sound,  but  respect  the  music  that  we  love  .  .  .  by  not  sounding  exactly  like  it,â€?  Smith  said.  â€œWe  all  ORYH URFN IXQN KLS KRS MD]] EXW ZH ZDQW WR WU\ DQG FRPELQH them  all  in  a  way  that  still  sounds  like  us  without  disrespecting  the  tradition.â€? The  band,  which  had  once  been  strictly  instrumental,  is  now  attempting  to  incorporate  vocals  into  their  music.   ³:H KDG D UDSSHU GR D VKRZ ZLWK XV D IHZ ZHHNV DJR ´ -DFNVRQ VDLG Âł:HÂśYH EHHQ WU\LQJ WR NLQG RI sprinkle  in  rappers  and  singers,  and  we’re  trying  to  learn  how  to  sing  ourselves  to  make  it  easier.â€? Last  month,  Just  The  Tip  recorded  their  ¿ UVW GHPR DW 2DVLV &DIp GXULQJ D OLYH VKRZ on  Feb.  21.  The  band  is  currently  working  on  mixing  and  mastering  it.  â€œWe  should  be  done  with  it  within  a  week  at  most,â€?  Smith  said.  â€œIt’s  going  to  be  called  â€˜The  Tip  Is  In.’â€?  -DFNVRQ VDLG KH IHHOV -XVW 7KH 7LS Âż WV SHUIHFWO\ LQ WKH JUHDWHU 1HZ 3DOW] PXVLF FRP PXQLW\ EHFDXVH WKH\ LQFRUSR UDWH VR PDQ\ GLIIHUHQW PXVLFDO elements.  ³:H WU\ WR LQIXVH LW DOO so  whoever  walks  through  the  bar  is  going  to  like  something  DERXW LW ´ -DFNVRQ VDLG Âł, IHHO like  we  represent  New  Paltz  DSSURSULDWHO\ ² DOO WKH GLIIHU HQW FXOWXUHV DOO WKH GLIIHUHQW people.â€? The  band  plans  to  release  their  demo,  play  more  gigs  outside  New  Paltz  and  get  LQWR WKH ÂłMDP EDQG IHVWLYDO circuit.â€? Âł,I DQ\WKLQJ , MXVW ZDQW to  keep  playing.  I  don’t  care  LI DQ\WKLQJ FRPHV IURP LW ´ 6PLWK VDLG Âł, MXVW OLNH SOD\ ing  music  with  Jeremy  and  Damien.â€? Smith  said  he  hopes  SHRSOH KDYH DV PXFK IXQ OLV tening  to  them  as  the  band  KDV SHUIRUPLQJ Âł,I ZH FDQ DFFRPSOLVK that,â€?  Smith  said,  â€œwe’re  going  to  be  a  lot  happier.â€? PHOTO  BY  SAMANTHA  SCHWARTZ

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MUSICIAN OF THE WEEK: JACKIE STANITIS YEAR: Third MAJOR: International Business MINOR: Creative Writing HOMETOWN: Monroe , N.Y.

WHAT’S  YOUR  INSTRUMENT  OF  CHOICE  AND  WHY? Viola.  I  chose  viola  because  when  I  was  a  little  kid  and  you  had  to  choose  your  instrument  and  I  copied  my  sister.  She  quit  shortly  after,  but  I  stuck  with  it.

WHAT  ARE  YOU  INVOLVED  WITH  MUSICALLY? I  used  to  do  orchestra  here.  Now  I’m  a  member  of  Year  On  A  Mountain  and  a  permanent  guest  member  of  Amputations.

WHO  ARE  YOUR  BIGGEST  INFLUENCES? Flogging  Molly.  J.S.  Bach.  People  I’ve  been  around  at  New  Paltz.  I’ve  jammed  with  so  many  people  and  they  have  helped  shape  my  own  sound.

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tHe Deep END BEN CAMPBELL Major: Drawing and Painting B.F.A. Year: Fifth Influences: Goya, Blake, Picasso, fire hydrants, grandparents, Mondrian, Dürer, Gustav Courbet, Alice Neel

“My thesis work is an exploration of the religious nature of the art-making process and the human fascination with the end of the world. My work will be featured in the first BFA show, opening April 27 from 5 to 7 p.m.”

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CARRYING THAT WEIGHT

Faculty did not just begin voic-­ ing concerns about their workload this spring. As the college’s operating bud-­ get continued to be scraped down to the barest bones, the number of faculty de-­ creased and the pressure on the remain-­ ing members became intense. With a PLOOLRQ GH¿FLW LQ WKH ODVW ¿VFDO \HDU bringing professors’ expanding faculty struggles to balance scholarship, teach-­ ing and advising loads, administrators began making moves to assess what could be done to help the staff. One year later, not much appears to have changed. We at The New Paltz Oracle are JODG WKDW FROOHJH RI¿FLDOV UHFRJQL]H that faculty have become overworked, but we hope that progress will be made to address the issue in a more timely fashion. President Donald Christian and other administrators said they were be-­ ginning a study on faculty workload last year. The issue was and remains to be as complex as they said it is: measur-­ ing a professor’s workload means more than counting the number of courses they taught in a given semester or how many students were in their classes. Statistics cannot measure how well a faculty member advised their students, whether they were responsible for 20 or 200. Therefore, it is understandable that a study of faculty workload has and will take a long time to conduct and review. The constant carousel of our top-­ ranking administrators certainly doesn’t help. Christian himself was only re-­ cently named the full-­time president, and we are still in search of three major DFDGHPLF RI¿FHUV ZKR ZRXOG SOD\ LP-­ portant roles on this task force. However, this does not change the fact that faculty are still stressed now. Portions of the $900,000 cuts to the part-­time instructional budget still need to be enacted, according to the presi-­ dent;; more adjuncts will have to be let go. The college is still reeling from the effects of past cuts in funding from the

state government, and we will be for a while. Those left behind have to recov-­ er, and they can’t just wait for a study to be completed. They need administra-­ tors to begin acting now to relieve the stresses brought upon them from bud-­ get cuts and/or increased expectations to teach more students, begin more research and have more advisees. Per-­ haps there is no hard data to support the idea that workload has increased, but we hope that faculty testimonials about their struggles will be enough to cause concern at all levels of the college. Problems associated with faculty workload have been brought up con-­ stantly by the United University Pro-­ fessions (UUP) union. We applaud the union for keeping this problem on the minds of everyone in the campus com-­ munity through events like next week’s forum and through their own publica-­ tions. We are also impressed that UUP has already sent out a survey about work-­ load issues. We understand that ad-­ ministrators want their survey to be as thorough and well designed as possible, but perhaps getting some feelers out as soon as UUP has would be a good idea. Thankfully, the president said adminis-­ trators will be sending their survey out soon;; hopefully, the wait will be worth it. Members of the union have also brought up problems they and their peers are having with managing their work in labor management meetings ZLWK FROOHJH RI¿FLDOV $FFRUGLQJ WR The Bullhorn, UUP members have said ad-­ ministrators have suggested that faculty have conversations with their direct su-­ pervisors that could involve saying no to requests to take on more work. We hope this means that higher-­ups will be understanding if these conversations begin, as their necessity can already make faculty uncomfortable. :KLOH WKH ¿UVW SDUW RI WKH VWXG\ ² the survey that will be distributed to members of the faculty and then ana-­

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O\]HG E\ D JURXS RI RI¿FLDOV ² LV VWLOO in the works, we also hope faculty su-­ pervisors or deans will work to spread work as evenly as possible around their unit or department. It will take a while to evaluate this information, but the faculty needs to be helped now. Students should remain concerned with this issue plaguing the people who are responsible for educating them. It’s simple: the more overworked your pro-­ fessors are, the less time they will have

for providing you with individual atten-­ tion. It is unfortunate that this issue at the center of the educational process at DQ\ FROOHJH LV VR GLI¿FXOW WR JHW D KDQGOH on, and that the survey hasn’t gone out yet for that reason. We hope that al-­ though it has been a long year since the idea for this study was conceived, now there will be a steady stream of analysis DQG SURJUHVV WR ¿QG VROXWLRQV WR IDFXOW\ workload-­related problems.

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So basically, “Friendless Friday” has become a staple in my week. It’s not necessarily a bad thing — it’s just a fact. I’d rather stay at home on Fri-­ day nights listening to reruns of “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me” and work on my night cheese (for those of you that don’t know, night cheese is the tradition of eating cheese late at night as per Liz Lemon). The funny thing is, I used to go out every Friday with friends to party and

You may have noticed that a phrase never uttered by President Obama at re-­ election rallies is “change we can believe in.” This is a sensible omission since he never delivered on the vague but emphati-­ cally deliberate promise of “change” that got him elected in 2008. But taking time out from campaign-­ ing, conducting wars and apologizing for the excesses of U.S. troops, President Obama addressed a fundraising party in New York on March 1, explaining why so little change has transpired since assum-­ LQJ RI¿ FH

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get drunk just like everyone else. I know some say students on average have less than three alcoholic beverages a week but I don’t think they polled my friends. Hanging out with friends and partying was like this sort of college ritual that only the well-­adjusted kids took part in. :KHQ , ¿ UVW VWDUWHG JRLQJ KHUH , IHOW bad for staying in my room for long pe-­ riods of time. I felt as if I always needed to be doing something and meeting up with friends. I made sure I didn’t eat alone, work alone, study alone and most importantly drink alone, because if I did ,¶G EH DQ RXWFDVW RU ZRUVH D À DW WLUH But now I couldn’t care less. I’m not sure if it’s an “age-­thing” as my mom would say because I’ve become

mature and started to reprioritize my life (I mean, I tend to knit a lot and if you ask me who my favorite movie star is I’d say Fred Astaire…but that’s about the extent to which I am mature), or because I honestly don’t like having to entertain people anymore. I think the problem — well, not problem, but reason — is I’m at this strange point in my college career (or life) where I dread having to do any-­ thing remotely time-­consuming and then give up halfway. I don’t under-­ stand how someone can go to a movie DQG WKHQ VWDUW WR ¿ GJHW EHFDXVH RI ERUH dom, or when we set up a board game and don’t even get halfway down the playing card. I feel like I’m constant-­

ly planning things and never going through with them because there is a chance someone will get bored. I understand some people can’t just watch videos on YouTube for hours or stare at pictures of cats until their eyes start to ache but that’s why I need “Friendless Friday.” It’s like this spe-­ cial time where I’m allowed to do what I want and then fall asleep as early as I please because there are no articles to read or awkward conversations about what we should be doing because being lazy isn’t an option. If you’re willing to loaf around and ¿ JKW RII WKH XUJH WR PDNH VPDOO WDON maybe I’ll make an exception, but I doubt it.

He obviously owed the money people an explanation for what there’s no need mentioning to voters: The change we fought for in 2008 hasn’t always happened as fast as we would have liked. After all that’s hap-­ pened in Washington, sometimes you look and see the mess and it’s tempting, I think, to sometimes say, “You know what, maybe change isn¹t possible....I know it¹s tempting to believe that. But...real change, big change is always hard.” 2EDPD WKHQ HTXDWHG KLV GLI¿ FXOWLHV to those rather more perplexing obstacles

confronted by Mahatma Gandhi in India and Nelson Mandela in South Africa to explain why he should continue occupy-­ ing the White House and why wealthy people must give him money: “Around the world (Gandhi, Nelson Mandela) what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term.” But if “ordinary citizens keep believing” and “you’re willing to work with me.... I promise you change will come.” Comparing himself to Gandhi and Mandela and their task of liberating mass-­ es of people from oppressive racist colo-­

nialism, is, to be charitable, a big stretch. Obama entered the White House when Democrats controlled the House and Senate and still run the Senate and the executive apparatus. Much of the time has been spent compromising half way with the far right Republicans and proving he’s no slouch when it comes to undermining civil liberties and expanding foreign wars. This wasn’t the change Democrats “believed in,” but it’s what we got.

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QUICK SWING  The  SUNY  New  Paltz  Tennis  team  traveled  to  Florida  during  spring  break,  returning  home  with  a  1-­4  record.                                                                   PHOTO  BY  ROBIN  WEINSTEIN By  Robin  Weinstein presented  a  â€œtough  level  of  playâ€?  which  was  good  for  mance,  but  knows  they  have  a  long  road  ahead. Photo  Editor  |  Robin.weinstein95@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu the  team,  he  said. “I  think  the  team  has  realized  that  we  need  to  keep  This  spring  break,  the  SUNY  New  Paltz  Tennis   â€œI  think  all  the  teams  we  played  were  great  com-­ in  shape  a  little  better,â€?  she  said.  â€œWe  are  completing  a  team  â€œproved  they  can  hang  with  the  best  teams  of  Div.  petition,â€?  DiPaulo  said.  â€œWe  played  the  best  we  could  week  long  â€˜hell  week’  this  week.â€? III,â€?  Tennis  Head  Coach  Robert  Bruley  said.  against  every  one  of  them.â€? The  team’s  schedule  now  presents   matches  against   The  annual  trip  to  Florida  the  team  takes  every  The  team  started  off  with  a  6-­3  win  against  Law-­ Union  College,  Ithaca  College  and  a  tournament  to  be  VSULQJ EUHDN VDZ WKH /DG\ +DZNV FRPSHWH DJDLQVW Âż YH rence  University.  They  went  on  to  lose  against  Hunting-­ hosted  at  New  Paltz.  Bruley  said  the  Union  College  East  Coast  teams,  coming  home  with  a  1-­4  record. don  College  and  Grinnell  College,  each  5-­4.   Both  team  is  nationally  ranked,  and  Ithaca  College  presents  ,W ZDV WKH JLUOVÂś Âż UVW WLPH SOD\LQJ XQGHU SUHVVXUH close  matches,  Bruley  said  the  Hawks  had  a  chance  to  a  good  battle. since  October  when  they  competed  in  the  SUNYAC  win  either. Bruley  said  players  plan  to  work  on  becoming  Tournament,  but  Bruley  said  the  team  was  quick  to   â€œThe  two  5-­4  games  were  tied  until  the  last  set,â€?  ¿ W GXULQJ WKH VSULQJ DQG DOVR E\ WKHPVHOYHV RYHU WKH “get  back  into  the  swing  of  things.â€? Bruley  said.  â€œThey  could  have  gone  either  way.â€? summer  to  prepare  for  their  conference  champion-­  Third-­year  Kayla  DiPaulo  said  she  expected  the   On  the  last  day  of  the  trip,  the  team  matched  up  ship  in  October.  This  championship  is  the  team’s  main  team  to  win  at  least  three  of  their  matches.  However,  against  Colby  College  and  lost  6-­3.  Later  that  same  focus. the  team  met  all  of  Bruley’s  expectations. day,  the  Hawks  played  a  match  against  Whitworth  â€œWe  want  to  win  the  title  back,â€?  Bruley  said.   â€œThe  team  performed  to  their  full  potential,â€?  Bru-­ University,  which  Bruley  â€œshould  never  have  sched-­ “Anything  they  can  do  along  the  way  with  tennis  and  ley  said. uled.â€?  The  girls  lost  9-­0. conditioning,  they  are  willing  to  do  it.â€?  Bruley  said  the  team  wouldn’t  ordinarily  play   â€œThe  team  was  exhausted,â€?  Bruley  said.  â€œWe  The  trip  only  brought  good  things  to  the  team  and  these  schools,  each  of  which  presented  tough  matches.  won’t  do  two  matches  in  one  day  again.â€? their  spring  season,  Bruley  said.  &RDFK VDLG WKH DQQXDO WULS LV ZRUWKZKLOH DQG EHQHÂż Despite  winning  only  one  match  in  Florida,  â€œWe’re  excited  about  spring,  and  we’re  ready  to  cial,  and  this  year  was  no  exception.  The  opponents  DiPaulo  said  she  felt  good  about  the  team’s  perfor-­ go,â€?  Bruley  said.  â€œWe  just  want  to  get  back  outside.â€?

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Finishing  off  his  four-­year  career  in  the  2011-­12  season  with  1,512  points,  +DUULV :LFKDUG HDUQHG WKH UDQN RI Âż IWK all-­time  scorer  in  Hawk’s  basketball  history.  Wichard  scored  450  points  this  season  alone,  averaged  17.3  points  per  game  and  led  the  team  with  76  assists.  Wichard  played  a  crucial  role  in  the  Hawk’s  access  to  the  SUNYAC  Men’s  Basketball  Championship  for  their  third  consecutive  season. Despite  standing  at  only  six  feet  tall,  Wichard  proved  to  be  a  dominant  con-­ tender  on  the  court  and  boards.  Wichard  stood  as  a  lead  scorer  for  the  Hawks  and  landed  eighth  on  the  all-­time  rebound-­ ing  charts.  Wichard’s  play  this  season  earned  him  a  spot   on  the  All-­SUNYAC  Men’s  Basketball  Third  Team.  Wichard  said  he  and  his  teammates  fought  to  make  a  name  for  New  Paltz  in  the  SUNYAC  and  to  change  the  notion  that  the  Hawks  could  be  used  as  a  â€œdoor-­ matâ€?  for  opposing  teams.   â€œWe’re  taking  more  pride  in  the  pro-­ gram  now,â€?  he  said.  â€œDon’t  expect  an  easy  game  walking  into  the  Hawk  Cen-­ ter  anymore.â€?

The  Hawks  played  with  only  nine  players  for  most  of  the  season,   allowing  team  members  to  see  more  playing  time  than  previous  years.  High  endurance  and  vigor  kept  Wichard  on  the  court  longer  than  any  other  Hawk  this  season,  leading  the  team  in  time  played  with  an  average  35.9  minutes  per  game.   â€œMy  durability  was  a  great  factor,â€?  he  said.  â€œI  take  pride  in  being  able  to  play  longer  than  my  opponent.â€? Along  with  being  a  leader  for  the  team  statistically,  Wichard  aimed  to  raise  his  teammates’  charisma  and  set  an  example  for  others  through  his  own  hard  ZRUN DQG GHWHUPLQDWLRQ 7R IXOÂż OO KLV greatest  potential  as  a  basketball  player  is  his  goal,  he  said. “He’s  the  hardest  working  player,  and  the  most  talented  player  that  I’ve  probably  ever  played  with,â€?  third-­year  co-­captain  and  forward  Matt  Devine  said.  Devine  led  the  league  in  scoring  with  21.5  points  per  game  (560  total)  and  was  chosen  for  the  SUNYAC  Men’s  Basketball  Second  Team.  He  said  the  team  is  looking  forward  to  a  strong  sea-­ son  next  year,  but  Wichard  is  going  to  be  hard  to  replace. A  fourth-­year  public  communica-­ WLRQV PDMRU :LFKDUG VDLG LW ZDV GLIÂż FXOW

balancing  an  extracurricular  activity  as  strenuous  as  basketball  while  trying  to  maintain  a  solid  grade  point  average.  A  player  who  can  maintain  a  high  GPA  and  remain  a  dominant  athlete  is  unique,  he  said. “A  lot  of  people  forget  it,  but  the  rea-­ son  you’re  here  is  academic,â€?  Wichard  said.  â€œYou  don’t  want  to  overlook  that.â€?  Despite  the  end  of  the  Hawks’  2011-­ 12  season,  Wichard  is  still  training  with  no  intentions  of  leaving  basketball.  Fol-­

lowing  graduation,  he  plans  to  immedi-­ ately  pursue  his  basketball  career  play-­ ing  professionally  overseas.     After  graduation,  Wichard  said  his  teammates  will  be  what  he’ll  miss  the  most.  He  said  the  hardest  thing  to  let  go   of  is  the  people  involved. “Basketball  has  introduced  me  to  so  much  and  so  many  phenomenal  peo-­ ple,â€?  Wichard  said.  â€œIt’s  been  more  than  a  game  to  me.  It’s  been  a  dream  come  true.â€?  Â

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Tim  Tebow  is  not  a  good  quarterback  â€”  let’s  get  that  straight  right  off  the  bat.  That  makes  the  Jets  decision  to  trade  two  draft  picks  for  the  highly-­polarizing  but  less-­than-­ enthralling  team  leader  more  than  a  head  scratcher.  It  literally  doesn’t  make  any  sense.  Let’s  face  it:  the  Jets  did  not  acquire  Tebow  for  football  reasons.  Don’t  sell  yourself  short  and  be  naive  here,  it  was  a  classic  Jets  public  relations  move  that  was  made  solely  to  steal  some  crafty  New  York  Post  headlines.“Tebowmaniaâ€?  hitting  Broadway  was  not  for  some  super-­scheme  wildcat  offensive  plan.  It  was  a  calculated  attempt  to  steal  some  much-­needed  attention,  which  is  something  the  Jets  are  quite  adept  at  doing.  Rex  Ryan  and  Woody  Johnson’s  assurances  that  this  was  only  a  football-­related  move  have  about  as  much  credibility  as  Barry  Bonds  and  Rafael  Palmerio  saying  they  didn’t  use  steroids.  $Q\RQH ZLWK KDOI D EUDLQ EREELQJ IURP VLGH WR VLGH RQ WKHLU KHDG FDQ VHH WKH Ă€ DPHV DV EULJKW as  Hades  itself  that  are  about  to  ignite  around  the  God-­loving  quarterback.  For  a  city  that  never  sleeps  and  is  full  of  lust-­tempting  â€œTimtations,â€?   the  circus  that  is  about  to  engulf  every  waking  second  of  Tebow’s  life  will  surely  drag  him  from  his  lofty  perch.  Even  if  Tebow  wasn’t  a  one-­hit  wonder  and  actually  had  an  actuate  arm  that  might  have  some  semblance  of  an  impact  on  the  Jets  2012  season,  the  trade  still  doesn’t  make  any  logical  football  sense.  The  ugly  truth  is  that  Tebow  is  a  hyped-­up  quarterback  who  lacks  the  nec-­ essary  skills  to  provide  a  team  with  a  Super  Bowl  crown.  He  isn’t  Eli  Manning  and  he  never  will  be.  Now  the  Jets  have  a  convoluted  quarterback  controversy  on  their  hands  that  will  only  get  worse  once  Mark  Sanchez  inevitably  continues  his  less-­than-­stellar  career  as  a  Jets  passer.  I’m  not  defending  Sanchez  here,  but  come  on,  anyone  can  agree  that  he  is  better  than  the  running  back  who  is  pretending  to  be  the  quarterback  that  Tebow  is.  Every  single  incomplete  pass  Sanchez  makes  will  be  met  with  the  loud  â€”  not  to  mention  incredibly  misguided  â€”  chants  of  â€œTebowâ€?  that  will  engulf  Metlife  Stadium.  Is  that  the  kind  of  attention  you  want  to  surround  an  already  self-­ absorbed  and  inadequate  quarter-­ back?  I  don’t  think  so.  Tebow  and  Sanchez  are  both  laughably  mediocre,  which  makes  the  media  circus  surrounding  the  con-­ troversy  equally  laughable.  The  idea  that  Tebow,  who  is  possibly  the  most  divisive  player  in  NFL  history,  will  actually  solve  the  Jets  copious  off  WKH Âż HOG LVVXHV LV GRZQULJKW LQVXOWLQJ to  those  currently  on  the  team.  But  besides  that,  it’s  not  just  one  backup  quarterback  that  is  going  to  solve  the  litany  of  problems  the  Jets  have.  At  the  end  of  the  day,  this  move  smells  calculated  and  intended  to  steal  some  attention  away  from  the  Jets’  stadium-­sharing  rivals.  The  likelihood  of  the  Tebow-­experiment  blowing  up  in  Ryan’s  face  midseason  is  as  high  as  the  clouds  his  new  quarterback  constantly  prays  to.

Regardless  of  his  passer  rating  or  religion,  Tim  Tebow  could  resurrect  a  bygone  New  York  Jets  tradition:  winning  ugly.  The  cockier  new  breed  of  Jets  fans  may  not  remember  a  time  when  Chad  Pennington  (who?)  was  at  the  helm  and  Herman  Edwards  told  the  world  that  â€œyou  play  to  win  the  game.â€?  But  those  Jets  made  it  to  the  playoffs  too,  all  while  fans  wore  Shrek  ears  in  the  stands.  The  ogre  served  as  a  perfect  mascot  for  a  too-­often  bumbling,  VWXPEOLQJ DQG VRPHWLPHV IXPEOLQJ WHDP WKDW GHÂż HG RGGV ZKHQ WKH\ VFUDSHG WRJHWKHU D ZLQ The  2012  Jets  can  be  more  accurately  compared  to  the  character  Donkey:  loud-­mouthed  and  playing  D VHFRQGDU\ UROH 7KHVH VHOÂż VK SOD\HUV VHHP PRUH FRQFHUQHG ZLWK WDONLQJ DERXW HDFK RWKHU XQGHU WKH JXLVH of  anonymity  like  middle  school  girls  on  AIM  Instant  Messenger  than  winning.  Something  needs  to  change.  Believe  it  or  not,  a  God-­loving,  good-­ol’-­boy  who  has  been  nothing  but  an  underdog  in  his  professional  career  could  be  just  what  they  need. Yes,  Tebow’s  46.5  completion  percentage  was  impossibly  worse  than  that  of  current  start-­ er  Mark  Sanchez.  But  sports  are  as  much  about  momentum  as  they  are  about  statistics,  and  Tebow  has  been  able  to  build  plenty  of  the  former.  His  fourth  quarter  heroics  are  too  QXPHURXV WR EH GHHPHG Ă€ XNH &RQVLGHULQJ WKH -HWVÂś FKRNH DUWLVW FXOWXUH ORVLQJ D few  draft  picks  could  be  worth  it  for  some  â€œTebow  time.â€?  The  fact  that  Tebow  has  already  been  told  he’ll  be  second  string  should  also  ease  Gang  Green  tension.  If  Mark  Sanchez  is  worth  a  damn,  this  bold  trade  should  make  him  better.  The  pressure  is  on  to  stop  whining  and  start  winning.  The  fear  of  hearing  someone  else’s  name  reverberate  through  MetLife  Stadium  the  same  way  it  did  in  Mile  High  bet-­ ter  be  enough  motivation  for  Sanchez  to  not  throw  18  intercep-­ tions.  If  a  starting  quarterback  can’t  handle  high  stress  situa-­ WLRQV WKHQ DUH WKH\ WUXO\ Âż W WR EH D VWDUWLQJ TXDUWHUEDFN DW DOO" Then  there’s  the  wildcat  factor  of  this  trade.  While  this  formation  isn’t  fool-­proof,  the  Jets  have  already  reaped  WKH EHQHÂż WV RI D TXDUWHU EDFN WXUQHG UXQQHU LQ %UDG Smith  (who  arguably  played  an  integral  role  on  the  two-­time  conference  championship  level  team).  For  a  team  that  only  rushed  for  3.8  yards  a  carry  last  season,  Tebow  introduces  a  possibly  ex-­ plosive  option  for  an  offense  with  a  new  coordinator  eager  to  spice  things  up.  Hardened  New  Yorkers  should  also  keep  in  mind  that  where  Tebow  goes  on  Sunday  morning  has  nothing  to  do  with  ZKDW KDSSHQV RQ WKH Âż HOG LQ WKH DIWHU noon.  The  player  has  become  polarizing  in  popular  culture  for  his  evangelical  beliefs,  but  that  ultimately  is  unrelated  to  football.  From  one-­on-­one  inter-­ views  with  critics  to  being  thrown  to  the  press  conference  wolves  without  the  support  of  anyone  in  the  organization  last  week,  Tebow  has  proven  he  can  take  the  heat  with,  well....grace.  Tim  Tebow’s  wobbly  passes  aren’t  pretty,  but  the  Jets’  failure  in  the  postseason  hasn’t  been  either.  The  quarterback  will  certainly  hit  plenty  of  bumps  on  Broadway,  but  his  determination  can  and  should  make  him  suc-­ cessful  on  some  level  in  the  NFL.  No  matter  what,  it  will  certainly  be   fun  to  watch. Â

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With  the  end  of  the  2011-­12  school  year  approach-­ ing,  SUNY  New  Paltz  Athletics  remains  fourth  out  of  10  schools  in  the  2011-­12  SUNYAC  Commissioners  Cup  standings.  The  Hawks  currently  hold  a  score  of  6.77,  trailing  SUNYAC  rivals  SUNY  Geneseo,  SUNY  Cortland  and  SUNY  Oneonta. Standings  are  compiled  using  a  point  system  de-­ termined  by  the  20  different  conference  sports  in  the  fall,  winter  and  spring.  Points  are  awarded  based  on  how  well  a  team  does  within  the  conference  and  the  championship  tournament.  $OO 1HZ 3DOW] WHDPV TXDOLÂżHG IRU WKHLU UHVSHF-­ tive  tournaments,  with  three  New  Paltz  teams  in  the  fall  making  it  to  their  championship  games.  Women’s   Volleyball  and  Tennis  fell  to  Cortland  and  Geneseo  re-­ spectively.  Women’s  Soccer  won  the  conference  title  after  beating  Cortland  by  a  score  of  1-­0.  Tennis  Head  Coach  Robert  Bruley  said  the  main  challenge  of  competing  in  a  strong  SUNYAC  confer-­ ence  is  having  the  necessary  team  power  to  achieve  the  desired  wins  needed.  He  said  there  are  struggles  to  gain  the  tennis  athletes  needed  to  play  at  the  Div.  III  level Â

when  most  are  looking  at  Div.  I  and  Div.  III  institutions  both  for  academics  and  athletics. +RZHYHU %UXOH\ VDLG KH KDV WKH XWPRVW FRQÂżGHQFH in  his  team  and  they  are  willing  to  take  on  challenges  in  order  to  reach  their  goal  of  a  SUNYAC  title.  â€œWe  have  a  very  strong  Women’s  Tennis  team  who  rise  to  strong  competition  and  will  be  challenging  for  the  conference  championships,â€?  Bruley  said. :RPHQÂśV 6RFFHU ÂżQLVKHG WKHLU FDPSDLJQ ZLWK WKHLU ÂżUVW HYHU 681<$& WLWOH DQG D WULS WR WKH NCAA  Div.  III  tournament,  where  they  defeated  both  Lynchburg  College  and  Rowan  University.  The  Lady  Hawks  eventually  lost  against  Tournament  Champion  Messiah  College.  Aside  from  the  team’s  skill,  Head  Coach  Colleen  Bruley  made  sure  the  eight  veterans  let  incoming  play-­ ers  know  they  were  welcome  and  they  would  be  ac-­ cepted  not  only  as  teammates,  but  family  as  well.  â€œI  knew  we  had  the  talent  to  succeed,  but  we  need-­ ed  to  come  together  as  a  team  in  order  for  us  to  win,â€?  Colleen  Bruley  said.  â€œWe  used  preseason  as  a  way  to  come  together  as  a  family  and  bond.â€? For  future  seasons,  Colleen  Bruley  said  she  be-­ OLHYHV LI WKH WHDP FRQWLQXHV WR SOD\ ZLWK FRQÂżGHQFH DQG cohesiveness,  they  will  be  successful.  While  the  team Â

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is  graduating  two  players,  she  said  it  will  not  be  detri-­ mental  to  the  team’s  play  come  next  season.  ³, DP H[SHFWLQJ WKDW LI ZH SOD\ ZLWK FRQÂżGHQFH and  continue  to  be  a  cohesive  team,  then  we  will  con-­ tinue  our  success,â€?  Colleen  Bruley  said.

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Well  folks,  here  we  are.  The  Rang-­ ers  are  almost  done  with  their  2011-­12  regular  season  and  all  eyes  are  on  the  ODVW Âż YH JDPHV RI WKH VHDVRQ DQG SRV sible  postseason  scenarios. Honestly,  I  really  thought  the  stress  would  be  over  after  they  clinched  a  play-­ off  spot  on  March  19’s  game  against  the  Devils.  After  all,  the  stress  of  season’s  past  has  come  from  the  whole  ordeal  of  whether  or  not  this  team  was  good  enough  to  make  the  playoffs.  You’d  think  rectifying  that  problem  would  make  things  better. Not  this  year.  Frankly,  no  one  knows  what  the  5DQJHUV ZLOO EH XS DJDLQVW LQ WKH Âż UVW URXQG 7KH\ÂśOO HLWKHU Âż QLVK Âż UVW DQG IDFH Buffalo  or  Washington  (my  money’s  on  %XIIDOR RU WKH\ÂśOO Âż QLVK IRXUWK DQG IDFH Philadelphia. Neither  of  these  options  are  won-­ derful.  Buffalo  matches  up  well  with  the  Rangers,  but  the  Flyers  will  bang  the  Rangers  around.  It’s  not  like  the  cakewalk  the  Devils  are  going  to  have  against  Florida.  There  is  no  best/worst  case  scenar-­

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,V WKHUH DQ\WKLQJ EHWWHU WKDQ WKH Âż UVW innings  of  baseball  each  year?  From  the  depths  of  the  chilly  and  mundane  sports  period  that  runs  from  the  last  minutes  of  the  Super  Bowl  until  WKH Âż UVW PLQXWHV RI 6SULQJ 7UDLQLQJ WKDW are  littered  with  Sports  Center  highlights  that  can  only  be  described  as  downright  boring,  comes  the  dawn  of  the  baseball  season.  With  one  swoop,  the  sports  land-­ scape  becomes  dominated  with  baseball   â€”  as  it  should  be.  7KLV \HDU , KDG WKH FKDQFH WR IXOÂż OO a  childhood  dream  and  make  my  way  GRZQ WR 3RUW 6W /XFLH WR VHH Âż UVWKDQG the  optimistic  brand  of  baseball  that  only  Spring  Training  can  provide.  In  short,  it  was  brilliant.  Not  only  was  I  mere  feet  from  some Â

io,  but  this  doesn’t  mean  everything’s  lost.  After  watching  the  game  against  Detroit  on  March  21,  you  can’t  help  but  buy  into  the  fact  that  the  Rangers  can  be  competitive  with  anyone  in  the  league.  Sure,  there  isn’t  much  the  Rangers  can  coast  with,  but  they  shouldn’t  be  count-­ ed  out  against  anyone. There  are  a  few  things  the  Rangers  QHHG WR Âż [ EHIRUH WKH SOD\RIIV VR OHWÂśV get  to  our  to-­do  list,  alright? The  power  play-­  This  has  been  the  song  and  dance  of  the  Rangers’  2011-­12  season;Íž  a  very  good  team  with  one  of  the  worst  power  plays  in  the  league.  But  honestly,  it  has  picked  up  within  the  past  couple  of  weeks. Brad  Richards  bringing  his  A-­Game  this  past  month  has  helped  pick  the  power  play  up,  but  it’s  still  pretty  bad.  While  failure  may  not  be  an  automatic  assumption  anymore,  saying  â€œmaybe  something  will  happen  hereâ€?  isn’t  much  better. The  Rangers  need  to  set  up  on  every  power  play,  it  can’t  be  a  once  a  game  NLQG RI WKLQJ ,I WKH\ JHW Âż YH SRZHU plays  a  game,  that  should  be  two  or Â

three  goals  right  there.  Look  at  how  the  Rangers  have  done  this  season,  and  now  think  of  how  much  farther  ahead  they  would  be  in  the  conference  if  their  power  play  wasn’t  so  bad. This  power  play  can  be  improved  if... Michael  Del  Zotto  gets  smart-­  Del  Zotto  isn’t  a  bad  hockey  player.  He  has  all  the  talent  in  the  world.  But  if  anyone  ever  needed  to  grow  a  brain  and  click  with  running  a  power  play,  it’s  him.  He  needs  to  look  up  and  realize  his  sur-­ roundings.  And  if  Del  Zotto  does  this,  the  team  will  minimize... Turnovers-­  They’re  literally  every-­ where  now.  I  can’t  remember  the  last  time  the  Rangers  got  by  a  game  without  giving  up  a  goal  after  allowing  a  turn-­ over.  This  is  undoubtedly  happening  because  fatigue  and  laziness  that  inevi-­ tably  comes  with  the  end  of  a  season,  especially  for  a  team  that  battles  hard  90  percent  of  the  time.  +RSHIXOO\ WKLV ZLOO JHW Âż [HG XS RQFH they  hit  the  postseason.  But  turnovers  aren’t  so  bad  if  the  Rangers  can  get...

Secondhand  Scoring-­  First  of  all,  welcome  back  Brian  Boyle.  Where  have  you  been? Secondhand  scoring  is  the  one  abso-­ lute,  most  important  thing  the  Rangers  QHHG LI WKH\ ZDQW QRW RQO\ WKH Âż UVW SODFH spot,  but  a  long  trip  in  the  playoffs.  Gaborik  may  be  approaching  40  goals,  Callahan  may  be  approaching  30  and  Richards  may  have  picked  up  his  game,  but  that  isn’t  going  to  be  enough  against  teams  like  Buffalo  and  Philadelphia  and  maybe  even  Pittsburgh. Brandon  Dubinsky’s  resurgence  has  been  an  extreme  help  for  the  Rangers  these  past  couple  of  weeks.  The  team  missed  Dubinsky’s  scoring  this  season,  DQG KLV ODFN RI VFRULQJ GHÂż QLWHO\ SOD\HG a  part  in  losses  throughout  the  season.  But  that  was  then  and  this  is  now.  He’s  been  an  impact  player,  especially  in  the  games  against  Toronto  and  Min-­ nesota.  If  Dubinsky  can  keep  producing  and  other  secondhand  scorers  like  Boyle  and  Artem  Anisimov  can  come  forth,  who  knows?  The  Rangers  could  have  a  real  shot  this  year.

A  Glimpse  Into  2012 of  my  favorite  Mets  players,  but  I  was  able  to  see  a  glimpse  into  the  future  of  not  only  this  upcoming  season,  but  beyond.  As  the  Mets  took  on  the  St.  Louis  Cardinals  in  an  exhibition  match,  I  was  able  to  see  players  like  Lucas  Duda  and  Ike  Davis  continue  their  impressive  springs,  while  also  being  able  to  see  just  how  awful  Mike  Pelfrey  really  is.  First  off,  I  think  Duda  is  quickly  becoming  one  of  my  most  anticipated  players  to  watch  this  season.  The  kid  possesses  such  raw  power  that  it  is  hard  not  to  imagine  what  a  full  season  in  the  majors  will  allow  him  to  produce.  The  home  run  he  crushed  in  the  game  was  unbelievable,  as  his  swing  makes  it  seem  effortless.  If  Duda  is  able  to  play  like  he  did Â

last  season,  I  see  no  reason  not  to  expect  20  or  more  home  runs  from  the  right  ¿ HOGHU DQG VKRXOG Âż QG KLPVHOI D SHU manent  home  as  the  Mets’  No.  5  hitter.  Davis  also  had  an  impressive  game  and  left  me  with  no  reservations  over  the  fact  he  will  bounce  back  from  last  year’s  injury  that  shelved  him  for  all  but  JDPHV +LV RSSRVLWH Âż HOG KRPH UXQ LQ WKH Âż UVW LQQLQJ ZDV D WKLQJ RI EHDXW\ which  I  expect  him  to  continue  into  the  regular  season.  Between  Duda  and  Davis,  the  Mets  have  two  players  with  gushing  power  potential  to  compliment  David  Wright’s  swing  in  the  middle  of  the  order.  The  Mets  starting  pitching  has  been  solid  so  far  this  spring  (minus  Pelfrey)  and  if  that  continues,  the  middle  of  their  order  will  be  the  key  for  a  competitive  season. Â

Thursday,  March  29,  2012

Finally,  I  had  the  misfortune  of  watching  Pelfrey  start  for  the  Mets.  In  classic  â€˜Big  Pelf’  fashion,  he  dazzled  in  WKH Âż UVW WZR LQQLQJV E\ WKURZLQJ KDUG sinkers  and  confusing  Cardinal  hitters.  However,  after  that  the  wheels  fell  off,  much  like  fans  have  grown  accustomed  to.  Four  runs,  a  hit  batter  and  a  trip  to  the  mound  later,  Pelfrey  had  unraveled  into  his  seemingly  normal  self,  ulti-­ mately  giving  up  the  lead  the  Mets  of-­ fense  had  given  to  him.  ,I 3HOIUH\ FDQ KDYH D VWURQJ Âż UVW half  â€”  or  at  the  very  least  a  serviceable  one  â€”  the  Mets  might  be  able  to  unload  him  at  the  trade  deadline  come  July  31.  The  return  package  would  not  be  overly  sweet,  but  at  this  point  Pelfrey  might  be  doing  more  harm  than  good  in  Queens. Â

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