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SUNY  Forms  Campus  Alliance  Network By  Jaleesa  Baulkman Copy  Editor  |  Jbaulkman75@newpaltz.edu

SUNY  Chancellor  Nancy  Zimpher  announced  last  month  that  SUNY  campus  presidents  and  System  Adminis-­ tration  will  collaboratively  develop  and  implement  region-­ al  SUNY  Campus  Alliance  Networks  to  expand  academic  resources  and  course  availability  to  students.   This  new  system  will  call  for  two  or  more  SUNY  col-­ leges  in  a  region  to  share  administrative  functions  in  an  effort  to  redirect  limited  funding  toward  academic  instruc-­ tion  and  other  student-­support  services. “As  we  implement  a  rational  tuition  policy  that  re-­ TXLUHV VWXGHQWV DQG WKHLU IDPLOLHV WR PDNH D JUHDWHU ÂżQDQ-­ cial  commitment  to  SUNY,  it  is‌crucial  that  we  make  good  on  their  investment  by  ensuring  that  their  education  experience  is  not  only  protected  but  also  enhancedâ€?  said  Zimpher.  â€œFinancial  constraints  in  recent  years  have  result-­ ed  in  less  course  availability  on  our  campuses.â€? According  to  a  press  release,  Zimpher  will  recommend  to  the  SUNY  Board  of  Trustees  that  President  of  SUNY  Institute  of  Technology  Bjong  Wolf  Yeigh  also  serve  as  president  of  Morrisville  State  College.  The  former  Morris-­ ville  President  Raymond  Cross  resigned  from  the  position  in  February.   In  a  similar  situation,  SUNY  Delhi  President  Can-­ GDFH 9DQFNR ZDV DSSRLQWHG WR VHUYH DV RIÂżFHU LQ FKDUJH at  SUNY  Cobleskill  following  the  retirement  of  Donald   P.  Zingale  who  stepped  down  Aug.  3. “Shared  leadership  between  these  campuses  will  best  serve  current  and  future  students  enabling  campuses  to  en-­ roll  more  students,  hire  more  full-­time  faculty  and  increase  course  offerings,â€?  said  Zimpher.  â€œStrategically  aligning  our  campuses  where  appropriate  and  implementing  a  ratio-­

nal  tuition  policy  across  the  system  puts  SUNY  in  a  stron-­ ger  position  to  reverse  this  trend  [of  less  course  availability  on  SUNY  campuses].â€? Zimpher  said  she  does  not  want  the  Campus  Alliance  Networks  to  be  confused  with  a  consolidation  or  merger.  All  64  SUNY  campuses  will  remain  open  and  they  each  will  retain  their  individual  identity  such  as  name,  academic  specialties  and  school  colors.  This  union  will  enable  stu-­ dents  to  gain  access  to  the  academic  resources  of  a  second  campus  in  the  region.  Andrew  Pletch,  chair  of  the  Computer  Science  Depart-­ ment,  thinks  that  the  SUNY  Campus  Alliance  Network  is  a  logical  solution  to  save  and  relocate  money  to  improve  public  higher  education  institutions  given  these  circum-­ stances.  â€œWe’re  getting  less  and  less  money  from  the  state,â€?  said  Pletch.  â€œWe’ve  replaced  it  with  tuition  increases.â€? According  to  the  SUNY  website,  SUNY  campus  pres-­ idents  will  develop  plans  to  â€œemploy  available  resources  PRUH HIÂżFLHQWO\ E\ VKDULQJ VHUYLFHV RQ D VHFWRU UHJLRQDO or  mission  basis.â€?   The  SUNY  Board  of  Trustees  encouraged  presidents  to  promote  campus-­to-­campus  collaboration  and  carry-­ out  strategies  to  generate  cost  savings,  build  capacity  and  expand  student  services.  Students  will  have  access  to  aca-­ demic  resources,  courses  and  programs  at  additional  cam-­ puses  in  the  region. SUNY  Plattsburgh  will  be  linked  to  Albany  and  New  Paltz  in  this  cost  cutting  plan.  â€œSUNY  Campus  Alliance  Networks  will  expand  ac-­ cess  for  students  by  making  available  to  them  academic  resources,  courses,  and  programs  at  additional  campuses  in  the  region,â€?  said  Zimpher  in  a  press  release.

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 The  Legislative  Gazette  Faces  Budget  Trouble By  Julie  Mansmann   Editor-­in-­Chief  |  Jmansmann60@newpaltz.edu

The  Legislative  Gazette,  a  staple  of  the  internship  program  of  the  communication  and  media  department  of  SUNY  New  Paltz,  has  recently  eliminated  stipend  offerings  for  interns  and  cut  the  intern-­ ship  coordinator  position  due  to  their  tightening  budget.  Joseph  Brill,  who  served  as  both  deputy  editor  and  internship  coordinator  since  2005  according  to  Editor  James  Gormley,  left  the  weekly  newspaper  on  Aug.  31.  Publisher  Alan  Chartock  said  the  de-­ cision  to  cut  the  position  from  the  budget,  in  addition  to  the  stipends  previously  afforded  to  student  interns,  resulted  from  the  lack  of  rev-­ enue  available  as  compared  to  the  costs  of  running  the  newspaper.  â€œThere  is  not  a  newspaper  in  America,  from  The  New  York  Times  down,  that  has  not  experienced  a  terrible  need  to  conserve  based  on  everything  that  has  happened  with  the  Internet,â€?  Chartock  said.  â€œThe  challenges  we  face  are  identical  to  those  faced  by  every  newspaper  in  the  country.â€?  Brill  said  Gormely  will  assume  his  newsroom  duties  for  the  publication  that  covers  state  politics  in  Albany,  N.Y.,  in  addition  to  becoming  the  student  recruiter.  Gormely,  who  said  he  will  be  re-­

cruiting  interns  for  the  publication  while  teaching  courses  like  Public  Affairs  Reporting  and  Journalism  1  on  the  SUNY  New  Paltz  and  Albany  campuses,  said  Brill’s  presence  will  be  missed.  â€œJoe’s  personality  was  one  we  enjoyed  and  he  lightened  up  the  newsroom,â€?  he  said.  â€œAlso,  while  I  was  on  different  campuses  teach-­ ing,  Joe  was  in  charge.  That  means  the  interns  will  be  working  by  themselves  a  little  more  than  in  the  past,  but  that  is  not  necessarily  a  bad  thing.â€?  Chartock  said  the  stipend  offered  to  the  staff  comprised  entirely  of  student  interns  was  also  eliminated  to  compensate  for  losses  in  an  â€œalready  tight  budget.â€?  The  stipend  was  designed  to  help  the  student  interns  living  in  Albany  while  working  for  the  Legislative  Gazette  full-­time  pay  their  rent.  Internship  Coordinator  Robert  Miller  said  the  obligation  to  move  to  Albany  and  other  factors  deter  some  SUNY  New  Paltz  stu-­ dents  from  enrolling  in  what  he  described  as  an  excellent  journalism  program.  â€œWhile  this  is  an  excellent  internship  opportunity,  it  does  not  appeal  to  many  of  our  students,â€?  he  said.   â€œInterns  must  spend  the  semester  in  Albany.  Also,  the  internship  is  focused  on  political  re-­

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porting  which  isn’t  of  interest  to  all  students.â€?  Gormely  agreed  that  the  idea  of  political  reporting  may  not  ap-­ peal  to  SUNY  New  Paltz  students  in  the  same  way  it  does  to  their  peers  in  Albany  who  he  said  have  shown  more  interest  in  interning  for  the  Legislative  Gazette  in  recent  years.  â€œStudents  who  go  to  SUNY  Albany  are  in  the  state  capital,  so  they  have  more  exposure  to  government  and  politics,â€?  he  said.  â€œIt  may  be  more  ingrained  in  their  thought  processes.  The  culture  of  [the  New  Paltz  campus]  may  inspire  more  artistic  writing  and  stuff  that’s  not  necessarily  political.â€?  Gormely  and  Chartock  both  said  they  don’t  think  the  elimina-­ tion  of  the  stipend  will  have  a  great  effect  on  their  recruitment,  how-­ ever.  The  six  tuition  waivers  available  to  students  with  qualifying  grade  points  averages  will  still  be  offered.  In  spite  of  the  recent  â€œtightening  of  the  belt,â€?  Chartock  said  he  and  others  involved  in  managing  the  Legislative  Gazette  will  be  able  to  ride  through  a  rough  economic  patch  with  the  quality  of  the  internship  program  intact.  â€œAs  long  as  we’re  prudent,  the  future  of  the  paper  is  not  in  danger,â€?  he  said. Â

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Farm  Flooding  Foils  The  Season  By  Zan  Strumfeld  A&E  Editor  |  Sstrumfeld34@newpalt.edu

While  the  town,  village  and  campus  have  all  fo-­ cused  on  recovering  from  Tropical  Storm  Irene,  local  New  Paltz  farms  don’t  even  know  where  to  begin. As  of  Sept.  4,  local  farms  in  New  York  lost  a  total  of  140,000  acres  and  about  $45  million  in  damage,  according  to  The  New  York  Times. Farms  including  Huguenot  Street  Farm,  Taliaferro  Farms  and  Springtown  Sweetview  Farm  were  all  con-­ VLGHUDEO\ KXUW IURP WKH Ă€RRGLQJ UXLQLQJ WKHLU VHDVRQ-­ al  and  yearly  crops.  Although  some  farmers  tried  to  prepare  for  the  storm,  they  had  no  idea  how  immensely  it  would  af-­ fect  them. “We  thought  there  would  be  high  winds,  so  we  pulled  down  some  of  the  greenhouse  plastic  and  dou-­ ble  tied  others,â€?  said  Ron  Khosla  of  Huguenot  Street  Farms.  â€œFrom  reading  the  weather  information,  it  GLGQÂśW VRXQG OLNH ZH ZRXOG KDYH WKDW PXFK Ă€RRGLQJ ´ However,  as  the  calm  Saturday  weather  disap-­ peared  and  it  began  to  storm  throughout  the  night,  things  changed  for  Khosla. “Overnight,  the  water  level  in  New  Paltz  kept  rising  and  rising  and  rising.  Had  I  known  it  would  happen,  I  would  have  stayed  up  all  night  trying  to  save  more  things.  But  we  didn’t  know,â€?  said  Khosla.  â€œNone  of  our  farmer  friends  knew  and  by  the  time  we  woke  up  on  Monday  we  were  wrecked.  Tens  of  thousands  of  dollars  more  damage.â€?     Huguenot  Street  Farm  lost  everything,  crop-­wise.  â€œWe’ve  already  started  replanting,  but  it’s  not  just  D KXJH ÂżQDQFLDO EORZ LWÂśV DOVR D SV\FKRORJLFDO EORZ to  see  everything  you’ve  worked  for  destroyed,â€?  said  Khosla. 2Q WRS RI WKH Ă€RRGLQJ D IHGHUDO JXLGHOLQH KDV EHHQ LVVXHG VWLSXODWLQJ WKDW FURSV H[SRVHG WR WKH Ă€RRGZDWHU are  contaminated.   According  to  the  U.S.  Food  and Â

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A  fresh  face  has  come  to  Historic  Huguenot  Street  (HHS).   At  the  end  of  August,  Tracy  Doolittle  Mc-­ Nally  became  the  new  executive  director  of  the  or-­ ganization.  Former  president  of  the  Green  County  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  11th  generation  descendent  of  the  founders  of  Huguenot  Street,  McNally  sees  new  opportunity  for  growth  and  development  for  the  his-­ toric  landmark  district.  Originally  from  Scarsdale,  N.Y.,  McNally  built  a  weekend  home  in  High  Falls  after  meeting  her  hus-­ band  who  was  working  in  Kingston,  N.Y.  McNally  said  her  interest  in  Hudson  Valley  histo-­ ry  came  from  her  grandmother.  When  she  was  four-­ teen,  she  inherited  a  binder  full  of  newspaper  clip-­

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7KH Ă€RRG ZDWHUV KDYH FDUULHG SURGXFH IURP ORFDO IDUPV GRZQVWUHDP 'UXJ $GPLQLVWUDWLRQ Ă€RRGZDWHU FDQ FDUU\ FKHPLFDOV assess  each  farm  to  see  where  they  stand.  The  survey  VHZDJH DQG PRUH 7KLV PDNHV IRRG XQÂżW IRU KXPDQ includes  how  many  acres  they  lost  or  potentially  can  consumption. lose,  whether  they  have  insurance,  etc.  FLOOD  Aid  â€œEven  little  rays  of  hope  that  we  had  left,  for  ex-­ will  administer  the  money  collected  through  the  New  ample,  the  winter  squash  seemed  to  have  survived,  Paltz  Community  Foundation. were  smashed  from  us  because  so  much  disease  was  â€œSome  farms  lost  nothing,  some  lost  everything,â€?  carried  in  the  water  that  even  a  week  later  things  were  said  KT  Tobin  Flusser,  who  is  part  of  the  New  Paltz  still  dying,â€?  said  Khosla.  FLOOD  Aid. Luckily,  Huguenot  Street  Farm  is  a  Community  FLOOD  Aid  will  host  two  events  in  October.  There  Supported  Agriculture  (CSA)  farm  and  won’t  go  out  will  be  a  Kick  Off  Potluck  event  on  Sunday,  Oct.  2  RI EXVLQHVV GXH WR WKH Ă€RRGLQJ from  4  to  9  p.m.  at  Water  Street  Market.  Six  bands  â€œWe  could  never  survive  this  without  the  CSA,â€?  will  perform  including  Ratboy,  SnowBear  and  The  said  Khosla.  â€œI  am  much  more  worried  about  other  Love  Taps.  Local  chefs  will  also  prepare  local  food  local  farms  that  don’t  have  CSA  as  some  part  of  their  and  there  is  a  $20  suggested  donation. total.â€? 7KH DOO GD\ EHQHÂżW FRQFHUW ZLOO KHOS UDLVH PRQH\ As  farmers  try  to  recover,  community  members  WKURXJK DXFWLRQV JLIW FHUWLÂżFDWHV IRU ORFDO EXVLQHVVHV have  organized  the  New  Paltz  FLOOD  Aid  in  order  and  more  on  Sunday,  Oct.  16  from  12  to  6  p.m.  at  WR UDLVH PRQH\ IRU WKH IDUPHUV IDPLOLHV DQG ÂżUVW UH-­ Hasbrouck  Park.   Musicians  include  The  Trapps,  Erik  VSRQGHUV PRVW DIIHFWHG E\ WKH Ă€RRGLQJ 6LQFH IDUPV Lawrence  from  The  Levon  Helm  Band,  Randy  Ciar-­ were  affected  in  different  ways,  the  organization  will  lante  from  The  Band  and  Alexis  P.  Suter.

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pings  about  her  family  who  lived  in  the  area.  One  of  the  reasons  she  chose  to  apply  for  the  job  originally  was  to  further  develop  her  love  of  area  history. 2QH RI KHU ÂżUVW SULRULWLHV LQ KHU QHZ SRVLWLRQ LV WR “expose  the  public  more  to  their  collection.â€?  According  to  McNally,  HHS  has  many  more  his-­ torical  items  like  paintings,  furniture  and  diaries  in  storage  that  the  public  should  see.  She  said  what  is  holding  this  back  is  Huguenot’s  limited  space.  If  this  collection  was  seen,  she  said  the  community  would  REVHUYH ÂżUVW KDQG KRZ PXFK KLVWRULFDO PHPRUDELOLD HHS  has  to  show. According  to  HHS  President  Mary  Etta  Schneider,  McNally  was  hired  because  of  her  extensive  experi-­ HQFH ZRUNLQJ ZLWK QRQSURÂżWV “She  has  a  proven  track  record  of  running  non-­ SURÂżW RUJDQL]DWLRQV ´ VDLG 6FKQHLGHU Âł6KH KDV D

strong  business  background,  which  is  now  critical  IRU QRQ SURÂżWV ´ Schneider  explained  that  McNally,  an  alumna  of  New  Paltz,  will  further  strengthen  the  ties  between  the  college  and  the  community.  In  addition,  increas-­ ing  fundraising  events  and  membership  is  another  one  of  her  goals.  McNally  would  like  to  â€œbroaden  membership  in  the  Hudson  Valley  area.â€?  â€œMcNally  also  has  a  track  record  in  building  a  strong  volunteer  network,  which  is  something  HHS  needs,â€?  said  Schneider. For  more  information  about  their  upcoming  events  please  visit  their  Calendar  of  Events  page  at  www.huguenotstreet.org.  Future  fundraisers  include  Art  on  the  Street  with  Kevin  Cook  on  Saturday,  Sept.  17   and  their  annual  haunted  Huguenot  Street  event  the  weekend  of  Oct.  28. Â

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 Armed  pirates  raided  a  tanker  off  the  West   African  coast  and  kidnapped  23  sailors  Wednesday,  taking  off  with  the  vessel  in  wa-­ ters  that  are  increasingly  at  risk  of  piracy,  an  international  monitoring  group  said.

PARTNERS  IN  CRIME The  wife  of  a  suicide  bomber  who  targeted  Christmas  shoppers  in  Stockholm  has  been  ar-­ rested  by  British  police  on  suspicion  of  helping  to  prepare  for  the  attack.

U.N.  TOLD  TO  LEAVE Protesters  calling  for  the  withdrawal  of  U.N.  peacekeepers  from  Haiti  clashed  with  police  Wednesday  outside  the  earthquake-­damaged  Haitian  National  Palace.

LIBYA’S  LOOSE  LATCH The  potential  proliferation  of  both  convention-­ al  and  unconventional  weapons  in  Libya  after  six  months  of  civil  war  is  a  â€œkey  concernâ€?  for  WKH 8QLWHG 6WDWHV D VHQLRU $PHULFDQ RIÂżFLDO said  Wednesday.

PLANE  CRASH  KILLS  SCORES An  Angolan  air  force  plane  crashed  as  it  took  off  from  a  central  base  Wednesday,  killing  30  people  including  three  generals,  state  media  reported.

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New  Paltz  Fire  Department  Chief  Kevin  McGuire  said  he  was  a  little  hesitant  to  step  up  to  the  podium  facing  Old  Main  Quad  on  Sept.  9,  2011.  +RZHYHU WKH ÂżUHÂżJKWHU VDLG KH RYHUFDPH KLV IHDUV IRU WKH VDNH RI FRO-­ leagues,  friends  and  others  who  died  on  Sept.  11,  2001.   ³, GRQÂśW OLNH SXEOLF VSHDNLQJ ² , OLNH EHLQJ D ÂżUHÂżJKWHU ´ 0F*XLUH VDLG Âł%XW ZKHQ , ZDV WROG , ZRXOG EH UHSUHVHQWLQJ DOO RI WKH ÂżUVW UHVSRQG-­ HUV IURP WKDW GD\ , ZDV DEVROXWHO\ KRQRUHG ´ 2Q )ULGD\ 681< 1HZ 3DOW] KRVWHG D Ă€DJ SODQWLQJ FHUHPRQ\ RQ FDPSXV LQ UHPHPEUDQFH RI WKRVH NLOOHG LQ WKH WHUURULVW DWWDFNV RI 6HSW DQG LQ UHFRJQLWLRQ RI DOO RI WKH ÂżUVW UHVSRQGHUV ZKR ULVNHG RU JDYH their  lives  in  pursuit  of  helping  others. Âł7RGD\ ZH UHPHPEHU WKRVH ZKR GLHG ² DOPRVW LQGLYLGXDOV EXW ZH DOVR UHFRJQL]H WKH VSHFLDO UROH RI ÂżUVW UHVSRQGHUÂśV LQ WKLV DQG RWKHU FULVLV ZH IDFH ´ 3UHVLGHQW 'RQDOG &KULVWLDQ VDLG LQ KLV RSHQLQJ VSHHFK RI WKH FHUHPRQ\ Âł9HU\ OLNHO\ VRPH RI WKRVH ZLWK XV WRGD\ ZHUH SDUW RI WKDW HIIRUW DQG ZH KRQRU WKHP WRGD\ ´ Students,  faculty,  staff  and  members  of  the  New  Paltz  community  gathered  with  members  of  the  New  Paltz  Fire  Department,  Police  De-­ partment  and  Rescue  Squad  on  Old  Main  Quad  and  were  invited  to  plant  PLQLDWXUH $PHULFDQ Ă€DJV LQ WKH RXWOLQH RI WZR WRZHUV HDFK RQH LQ UHPHPEUDQFH RI WKRVH ZKR ZHUH NLOOHG RQ 6HSW DQG WKH ERPELQJ of  the  World  Trade  Center.  ³:H DVNHG SHRSOH WR OHDYH WKH Ă€DJV XQWRXFKHG XQWLO WKH EHOOV RI 9DQ

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Halpern,  who  followed  McGuire’s  speech,  stressed  that  people  are  VWLOO DIIHFWHG E\ WKH DWWDFNV WRGD\ DQG GHVHUYH DWWHQWLRQ DQG KHOS +H DOVR UHDG WHVWLPRQLDOV RI WKRVH ZKR ZHUH FKLOGUHQ RQ WKH GD\ RI WKH DWWDFNV $FFRUGLQJ WR +DOSHUQ ZKR ZHQW WR *URXQG =HUR IROORZLQJ WKH DW-­ WDFNV WR RIIHU ÂżUVW DLG DQG KHOSHG HYDFXDWH DQ DVVLVWHG OLYLQJ KRPH LW PD\ WDNH GHFDGHV EHIRUH ZH NQRZ WKH IXOO H[WHQW RI WKH HPRWLRQDO DQG SK\VLFDO WUDXPD IRU ZRUNHUV WKHLU IDPLOLHV UHVLGHQWV DQG RWKHUV H[SRVHG “The  ripple  effect  of  9/11  was  so  great  that  there  is  a  danger  that  VRPHRQH ZKR QHHGHG DQG VWLOO QHHGV FDUH FDQ EH RYHUORRNHG ´ +DOSHUQ VDLG Âł7HQV RI WKRXVDQGV RI PHQ DQG ZRPHQ ZRUNHG ZLWK WKH UHFRYHU\ HIIRUWV DW *URXQG =HUR UHFRYHULQJ PRUH WKDQ WKRXVDQG ERG\ SDUWV DW DQ H[WUDRUGLQDU\ SHUVRQDO FRVW ´ $W WKH FRQFOXVLRQ RI WKH FHUHPRQ\ $QGHUVRQ RI 5HGHHPHU (YDQ-­ JHOLFDO &KXUFK LQ 1HZ 3DOW] WRRN WKH SRGLXP DQG OHG WKRVH LQ DWWHQGDQFH LQ D PRPHQW RI VLOHQFH DQG JHQHUDO SUD\HU EHIRUH LQYLWLQJ WKH ÂżUVW UH-­ VSRQGHUV WR SODQW Ă€DJV IROORZHG E\ WKH SXEOLF 6ORZO\ PHPEHUV RI WKH FDPSXV FRPPXQLW\ TXLHWO\ SODFHG Ă€DJV LQWR the  ground  â€“  some  closing  their  eyes  and  saying  a  few  words  while  others  paid  their  respects  and  departed.  $IWHU WKH FHUHPRQ\ &KULVWLDQ VDLG KH EHOLHYHG WKH ZD\ SHRSOH YLHZ 6HSW DIWHU \HDUV ZDV ÂłFRPSOH[ ´ Âł, WKLQN >SHRSOH KDYH@ UHDOL]HG WKH FRPSOH[LW\ RI WKH ZD\ ZH KDYH UHVSRQGHG DV D QDWLRQ DQG WKH NLQG RI LPSDFW LW KDG RQ KRZ ZH YLHZ RXU-­ VHOYHV LQ WKH ZRUOG ´ &KULVWLDQ VDLG Âł, WKLQN WKDW FRPSOH[LW\ RI WKH FRQ-­ VHTXHQFHV RI WKH DWWDFNV LV RQH WKDW VREHUV SHRSOH DQG SHRSOH FRQWLQXH WR JURZ LQ WKHLU DZDUHQHVV RI WKH LPSOLFDWLRQV LW KDG IRU DOO RI XV ´

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Faculty  members  at  SUNY  New  Paltz  held  a  panel  discus-­ VLRQ RQ 6HSW FDOOHG Âł7HQ <HDUV RQÂŤ5HĂ€HFWLRQV RQ ´ At  the  Honors  Center,  Gerald  Benjamin,  associate  vice  president  for  regional  engagement  and  director  for  the  Cen-­ ter  for  Research,  Regional  Education  and  Outreach  (CRREO)  served  as  a  moderator  for  a  panel  of  four  professors  each  pre-­ VHQWLQJ GLIIHUHQW SHUVSHFWLYHV RQ WKH DIWHUPDWK RI Interim  Director  of  the  Honors  Program  Patricia  Sulli-­ van  introduced  Benjamin.  Each  of  the  four  professors  were  selected  because  they  had  â€œconducted  research  on  the  topics  they  are  addressing,  spoken  about  these  topics  or  addressed  WKHVH WRSLFV LQ WKHLU FODVVHV ´ 6XOOLYDQ VDLG 7KH FDPSXV KHOG WZR HYHQWV WR FRPPHPRUDWH WKH anniversary.  The  panel  in  the  Honors  Center  addressed  issues  associated  with  civil  liberties,  security,  memory  and  peda-­ gogy.  â€œThis  panel,  from  different  perspectives,  addresses  FKDQJH LQ D UDQJH RI FRQWH[WV VLQFH ´ VDLG 6XOOLYDQ Professor  of  political  science  Lewis  Brownstein  spoke  RQ Âł5HWKLQNLQJ $PHULFDQ 6HFXULW\ LQ WKH $IWHUPDWK RI ´ According  to  Brownstein,  America  has  faced  some  profound  FKDQJHV LQ ZDUIDUH DQG VHFXULW\ VLQFH WKH DWWDFNV RI

Since  then,  the  American  military  has  moved  more  toward  co-­ vert  operations  in  times  of  war  and  crisis.  Brownstein  said  there  has  been  a  â€œmassive  expansion  in  FRYHUW IRUFHV ´ 7KLV FRYHUW GHYHORSPHQW UHSUHVHQWHG D QHZ trend  in  modern  security  in  which  spy  satellites  and  droids  are  becoming  more  common. Brownstein  said  in  the  midst  of  the  loss,  pain  and  concern  we  need  more  engagement  in  improving  affairs.  Assistant  Professor  Hamilton  Stapell  of  the  history  de-­ partment  spoke  on  the  idea  of  historical  memory.   As  a  Euro-­ pean  historian,  Stapell  said  he  believes  that  â€œhistorical  mem-­ RU\ KDV WKH SRZHU WR VKDSH FXUUHQW HYHQWV ´ $FFRUGLQJ WR WKH professor,  the  public’s  memory  of  any  event  is  reshaped  over  time.   He  said  this  happens  in  the  physical  and  mental  sense  WKH SK\VLFDO RFFXUV LQ VXFK SODFHV DV ÂżFWLRQ GRFXPHQWDU\ ÂżOPV WKHDWUH SROLWLFDO GLVFRXUVH RIÂżFLDO DQG XQRIÂżFLDO PH-­ morials.   According  to  Stapell,  memory  is  constantly  being  recon-­ structed  and  it  can  be  biased  and  contested  by  people.  A  sense  of  national  unity  has  been  observed  by  Stapell,  as  a  result  of  7KHUH KDV DOVR EHHQ DQ RYHUDOO SRVLWLYH HPSKDVLV RQ LGHDV RI VDFULÂżFH KRQRU DQG FROOHFWLYH HIIRUWV VRPH RI WKH JRRG IHHOLQJV ZH UHPHPEHU DERXW “Whether  we  remember  something  as  primarily  a  success  >RXU ZRQGHUIXO ÂżUVW UHVSRQGHUV@ RU D IDLOXUH >QDWLRQDO VHFXULW\

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DQG DLUSRUW VHFXULW\@ OHDGV WR D FHUWDLQ FRXUVH RI DFWLRQ LQ WKH SUHVHQW ´ VDLG 6WDSHOO Nancy  Kassop,  a  political  science  professor,  focused  on  the  political  and  constitutional  consequences  of  the  changes  in  law  following  the  attack.  Kassop  believes  that  the  Bush  $GPLQLVWUDWLRQ PDGH GHFLVLRQV GLIIHUHQWO\ SRVW DQG failed  to  properly  exercise  the  use  of  the  Constitution.  Kassop  spoke  of  the  constitutionality  of  changes  in  law   DIWHU $FFRUGLQJ WR .DVVRS \RX FDQQRW DPHQG WKH ZRUN of  the  Constitution  and  there  is  no  inherent  executive  power  embedded  in  the  document.  She  said  the  policy  responses  to  VHHP WR EH DORQJ WKRVH OLQHV RI D VR FDOOHG LGHD RI LQKHU-­ ent  executive  power.  7KH ÂżQDO VSHDNHU RI WKH QLJKW ZDV -HUU\ 3HUVDXG DVVLVWDQW professor  of  communication  and  media,  who  presented  on  the  LPSDFW RI WKH PHGLD RI WKH UHSHUFXVVLRQV +LV SLHFH HQ-­ titled,  â€œPedagogy  vs.  Patriotism:  A  Decade  of  Teaching  and  /HDUQLQJ DERXW 0HGLD ´ KLJKOLJKWHG KRZ WKH PHGLD FRYHUHG DQG ZKDW LW PHDQW WR WKH $PHULFDQ SXEOLF +H SUHVHQWHG a  series  of  questions  to  the  audience,  one  of  which  explored  a  VWXGHQW WHDFKHU UHODWLRQVKLS LQ WHDFKLQJ ,V LW D WHDFKHUÂśV UHVSRQVLELOLW\ WR WHDFK WKH QH[W JHQHUDWLRQ DERXW "  â€œFear  and  responsibility  of  open  discussions  of  facts  and  ¿FWLRQV KDV FKDQJHG IRU WKH ZRUVW ´ VDLG 3HUVDXG Âł6LOHQFH LV YLUWXH RU YLUWXDOO\ ZKDW VRPH SUHIHU ´

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Student  Leaders  Spread  The  Word By  John  Brandi  News  Editor  |  Jbrandi02@newpaltz.edu

Knowing  is  half  the  battle  and  the  leadership  of  this  year’s  Student  Association  (SA)  said  they  have  a  ¿ JKW RQ WKHLU KDQGV Last  semester  there  was  a  shortage  of  senators,  with  only  15  acting  members  sitting  on  the  legislative  body  out  of  25.  This  fall,  there  is  a  shortage  of  rep-­ resentation  on  committees  to  address  issues  ranging  from  the  SA  constitution  to  the  budget,  according  to  SA  President  Terrell  Coakley.  â€œWe  have  all  of  these  committees  that  we  haven’t  ¿ OOHG DQG ZKHQ DOO WKDW VWXII KDSSHQHG >ODVW VHPHVWHU@ ZLWK WKH EXGJHW >VWXGHQW FRPSODLQWV ZHUH@ ZLWK QRW having  a  voice,  but  they  give  us  all  these  committees  WR DFWXDOO\ WDNH SDUW LQ >ZLWK@ ZKDW JRHV RQ ZLWK RXU school,â€?  said  Coakley.  â€œSo  it’s  important  to  let  people  understand  what  we  do.â€?  Student  leaders  such  as  Coakley,  Vice  President  of  Academic  Affairs  and  Governance  Ayanna  Thomas  and  Senate  Chair  Alberto  Aquino  said  they  want  more  people  to  be  aware  of  SA  and  it’s  responsibilities  on  campus.  Thomas  said  she  wants  at  least  â€œ85  percent  of  the  campusâ€?  to  know  what  SA  does.  She  said  the  trouble  with  presenting  to  classes  about  SA  and  her  position  is  that  students  had  no  prior  knowledge  that  her  position  even  existed.  In  addition  to  getting  to  word  out  on  SA  in  general,  Thomas  said  she  also  wants  to  increase  student  par-­ ticipation  on  committees.  Committees  such  as,  but  not  limited  to,   Academic  Affairs,  Education  and  Technol-­ ogy,  Liberal  Education  Ad  Hoc  and  Constitution  and Â

Rules  Committee.  â€œI’ll  be  going  to  classes,  talking  about  joining  these  committees,â€?  said  Thomas.  â€œThese  committees  are  under  facts  of  governance  and  are  open  to  anyone.  You  don’t  have  to  be  a  senator  to  join.â€?  0HDQZKLOH $TXLQR VDLG D MRLQW HIIRUW Âż UVW SULRULW\ ZRXOG EH WR Âż OO DOO RI WKHVH YDFDQW FRPPLWWHH VSRWV +H DOVR VDLG DWWHQWLRQ ZRXOG EH SDLG WR Âż OOLQJ DQ\ HPSW\

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This  year  is  really  about  getting  ourselves  out  there,  and  letting  people  know  that  SA  offers  a  lot ALBERTO  AQUINO Â

 â€”this  includes  getting  involved  with  a  project  either  LQ RU RXWVLGH RI WKH RIÂż FH²DQG H[SORULQJ KRZ WKH FRO lege  can  create  a  network  with  other  campuses  in  the  region.  Aquino  was  inspired  to  create  this  network  in  the  DIWHUPDWK RI +XUULFDQH ,UHQH DQG VXEVHTXHQW Ă€ RRGLQJ He  said  Marist  College  contacted  him  asking  if  they  could  help  with  the  repair  efforts  at  New  Paltz.  â€œI  want  our  senate  and  student  association  to  have  WKDW LQĂ€ XHQFH RQ WKH +XGVRQ 9DOOH\ ´ VDLG $TXLQR Âł, ZDQW WR EH SURXG RI OHDGLQJ RU KHOSLQJ >ZLWK@ 681< New  Paltz.â€? Coakley  said  not  enough  information  regarding  SA  is  reaching  students.  One  of  his  top  priorities  includes  ensuring,  since  many  of  his  current  E-­board  members  are  graduating,  students  are  still  interested  in  SA  in-­ volvement.  He  said  that  SA  has  to  touch  upon  the   â€œstu-­ dent  experience,â€?  and   that  contributing  to  their  college  environment  mirrors  real  world  experience.  Meanwhile,  when  it  comes  to  the  student  senate,  Coakley  said  he  would  like  to  see  parties  come  back.  In  the  past,  senators  would  run  on  a  certain  party  line,  like  advocacy.  He  said  he  wants  people  to  challenge  them-­ selves  with  why  they  are  voting  a  certain  way  instead  of  making  senate  elections  â€œa  popularity  contest.â€?  $OO VHQDWH VHDWV KDYH EHHQ Âż OOHG DV RI WKH ODVW Academic  Senate  meeting  on  Sept.  13.  Committee  seats  are  still  open  as  student  leaders  continue  to  rely  on  word-­of-­mouth  campaigns,  class  presentations  and  Ă€ LHUV Âł7KLV >FXUUHQW@ VHQDWH LV UHDOO\ YHUVDWLOH ZLWK DJH class  and  as  far  as  people’s  majors,â€?  said  Coakley.  ³>7KLV VHPHVWHU@ KDV D ORW RI SRVLWLYH HQHUJ\ ´

student  leadership  positions  as  well.  Aquino  also  wants  to  create  a  more  effective  communication  network  be-­ tween  Resident  Hall  Student  Association  (RHSA)  and  with  club  leaders  and  every  organization  on  campus.  â€œThis  year  is  really  about  getting  ourselves  out  there,  and  letting  people  know  that  SA  offers  a  lot,â€?  he  said.  Aquino  also  mentioned  other  priorities  in  his  new  role  which  include  pushing  senators  to  be  more  effec-­ tive  in  their  legislative  duties,  making  senate  meetings  shorter,   seeing  that  every  member  of  SA  is  â€œactiveâ€? Â

Alumni  Return  to  New  Paltz  for  Class  Reunion By  Maria  Jayne Copy  Editor  |  N01864117@newpaltz.edu

SUNY  New  Paltz  is  hosting  an  Alumni  Reunion  weekend  from  Sept.  23  to  the  25  in  honor  of  classes  end-­ ing  in  â€œoneâ€?  or  â€œsix.â€?  This  event  is  only  a  week  away  and  LV H[SHFWHG WR KDYH D ODUJH WXUQRXW DFFRUGLQJ WR WKH 2IÂż FH of  Alumni  Affairs.  Alumni  weekend  is  usually  held  in  October  with  350  to  400  people  in  attendance,  according  to  Special  Events  Coordinator  for  Alumni  Affairs  Diane  McCarthy.  This  year  the  festivities  will  take  place  a  month  earlier,  but  Mc-­ Carthy  said  the  tradition  is  still  there.  These  events  consist  of  the  All  Class  Dinners,  Heri-­ tage  Alumni  Lunch  and  the  Lantern  Society  Dinner.  â€œThe  most  attended  event  on  the  weekend  is  the  Lan-­ tern  Society  Dinner,â€?  said  McCarthy. Class  members  from  1961  are  given  lanterns  and  re-­

enact  New  Paltz’s  moving  up  ceremony  on  Friday  night  where  they  receive  50-­year  medallions.  The  campus  used  to  hold  Lantern  Night  every  year  starting  in  1929  until  1969,  according  to  McCarthy.  She  said  this  was  when  each  graduating  student  would  carry  a  lantern  onto  the  main  quad  where  they  then  would  arrange  themselves  in  a  circle  and  sing  songs  for  graduation.  The  corresponding  year’s  committee  decides  the  theme  for  each  reunion.  This  year’s  theme  is  â€œRecon-­ nect,  Remember  &  Relive.â€?  Another  aspect  decided  by  this  year’s  committee  was  that  the  class  of  1961  gets  a  separate  reunion  in  order  to  reminisce  and  reconnect  with  each  other. The  Heritage  Alumni  Lunch  will  be  held  on  Friday,  Sept.  23  at  noon  and  the  speaker  for  this  year  will  be  Dr.  Heinz  Meng,  biology  professor  of  New  Paltz  from  1951  until  2002.  Meng  was  selected  to  talk  by  the  alumni  com-­

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mittee  because  of  his  contribution  to  New  Paltz  and  the  community,  according  to  a  reunion  pamphlet.   One  different  program  the  Alumni  Affairs  department  is  trying  to  highlight  would  be  wine  tasting  with  Profes-­ sor  and  Chair  of  Wine  Studies  at  the  Culinary  Institute  of  America  Steven  Kolpan.  Kolpan  graduated  SUNY  New  Paltz  in  1971  and  this  will  be  his  40th  anniversary.   Ac-­ cording  to  Lisa  Sandick,  special  events  coordinator  for  alumni  affairs,  hopes  this  event  brings  a  lot  of  people  that  recognizes  Koplan  and  want  to  reconnect,  although  this  is  a  different  type  of  event  from  the  norm. “We’re  hoping  for  good  weather  and  a  good  turnout,  even  though  it’s  much  earlier  this  year,â€?  said  Sandick.  For  more  information  on  the  event,  members  of  the  campus  community  can  go  to  www.newpaltz.edu/alumni/ reunion/schedule  or  call  1-­877-­HAWK001,  and  choose  option  one. Â

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Love: Only A Click Away? COLLEGE-ONLY DATING SITE NOW AVAILABLE TO NEW PALTZ STUDENTS

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College  students  whose  priority  list  starts  with  schoolwork  and  ends  with  romance  have  had  their  prayers  answered  in  the  form  of  an  alternative  dating  website  designed  exclusively  for  those  enrolled  in  university.  DateMySchool  launched  at  SUNY  New  Paltz  this  summer  on  Aug.  18. Columbia  University  classmates  Balazs  Alexa  and  Jean  Meyer  founded  the  site  in  November  2010.  The  two  said  they  came  up  with  the  idea  for  the  site  after  a  student  in  the  nursing  school  complained  about  the  male  to  female  ratio  in  her  department,  which  was  90  percent  female.  Alexa  and  Meyer  faced  the  same  dilemma  -­  as  the  business  school  was  80  percent  male  -­  and  decided  to  do  something  about  it. “We  realized  that  there  was  a  bigger  market  â€“  lots  of  students  want  to  meet  across  departments  and  campuses.  And  VLQFH ZH GLGQÂśW Âż QG D EHWWHU VROXWLRQ RXW there,  we  thought  DateMySchool  might  be  a  good  idea,â€?  Alexa  said.  In  one  week,  1300  Columbia  stu-­ dents  registered.  When  developing  the  service,  they  wanted  safety  to  be  a  main  factor.  They  created  advanced  privacy  settings  that  â€œwere  unprecedented  on  any  social  platform,â€?  Alexa  said.  These  include  that  the  site  is  only  available  to  college  students  and  alumni  with  active  school  accounts,  members  are  unsearchable  on  Google  and  members  are  always  in  FRQWURO RI ZKR FDQ VHH WKHLU SURÂż OHV Users  must  have  an  active  e-­mail  address,  which  essentially  acts  like  an  ID,  as  one  e-­mail  equals  one  person.  Members  can  regulate  access  to  their  SURÂż OHV E\ Âż OWHULQJ FHUWDLQ VFKRROV ages,  departments  and  users  in  the  same  geographic  region.  While  they  can  re-­ strict  other  users,  they  can  search  for Â

them  as  well.  They  can  look  for  po-­ tential  partners  based  on  academic,  geographic  and  personal  backgrounds.  DateMySchool  can  calculate  the  num-­ ber  of  people  that  match  your  criteria  and  can  even  save  the  search. The  site  also  boasts  communication  features  such  as  instant  messaging  and  inboxing  to  help  members  converse  and  get  to  know  each  other.  There  is  also  a  Q&A  function,  where  participants  can  answer  various  questions  and  compare  answers  to  others  to  see  what  inter-­ ests  and  values  they  share.  Members  can  make  sure  they  don’t  forget  who  they’re  interested  in  by  clicking  either  the  â€œLikeâ€?  or  â€œSaveâ€?  button.  This  ac-­ tion  sends  subtly  playful  hints  to  those  who  strike  your  fancy. The  combination  of  these  features  is  what  led  Andres  Lalinde  to  meet  Michelle  Przybyski,  whom  he  married  on  April  29  after  meeting  on  Date-­ MySchool  in  late  January/early  Febru-­ ary.  Lalinde  passed  by  a  DateMySchool  Ă€ \HU DQG Âż JXUHG KH ZRXOG JLYH LW D VKRW “I  thought  to  myself,  â€˜There  are  two  great  things  about  this  site.   One,  I  can  set  it  so  I’m  blind  to  the  girls  in  my  pro-­ gram,  so  I  can  avoid  awkward  looks  in  the  hallways,’â€?  Lalinde  said.  â€œTwo,  this  is  seriously  an  untapped  market.â€? Lalinde  also  found  the  mere  fact  that  you  are  dealing  only  with  other  VWXGHQWV WR EH LQFUHGLEO\ EHQHÂż FLDO +H believes  that  there  is  â€œan  implied  under-­ standing  that  the  person  you  communi-­ cate  with  is  going  to  be  busy  at  times  with  schoolâ€?  and  in  turn  they  will  un-­ derstand  that  you  too  are  busy.  Lalinde  noted  that  sometimes  when  you  date  someone  who  is  not  experiencing  the  same  school  related  pressures  as  you,  there  can  be  frustration  over  not  having  enough  time  for  the  relationship. Lalinde  met  Przybyski  only  a  few  weeks  after  signing  up  for  Date-­ MySchool +H FDPH DFURVV KHU SURÂż OH and  sent  her  a  message,  which  led  to Â

continuous  talking,  meet-­ups,  dates  and  eventually  marriage,  which  he  says  has  been  â€œthe  best,  most  incredibleâ€?  time  in  both  of  their  lives. “Neither  one  of  us  would  change  anything  for  the  world,â€?  Lalinde  said. Lalinde  and  Przybyski’s  fairy  tale  isn’t  the  site’s  only  triumph,  however.  According  to  Alexa,  the  site  has  been  extremely  successful  and  most  people  plan  a  meeting  within  30  minutes  of  chatting  with  others. Their  site  has  reeled  in  350  schools  and  has  reached  more  than  31,000  mem-­ bers  with  help  from  coverage  by  CNN,  The  New  York  Times,  7KH +XIÂż QJWRQ Post  and  Time  Out  New  York.   Alexa  also  credits  her  â€œenthusiastic  and  dedi-­ catedâ€?  team  with  spreading  the  word. While  the  founders  get  requests  from  campuses  nationwide  and  are  se-­ lective  about  where  they  launch,  they  knew  they  had  to  add  SUNY  New  Paltz  to  the  ever-­growing  list  of  participating  schools.

“With  a  diverse  community  of  8,000  students,  we  wanted  to  help  IUHVKPDQ Âż QG IULHQGV RQ FDPSXV XS perclassman  branch  out  to  new  folks  and  alumni  meet  new  people  in  their  new  homes,â€?  Alexa  said.  â€œWe  also  wanted  to  give  you  access  to  thousands  of  other  students  in  Upstate  New  York  schools  included  on  DateMySchool  for  those  who  want  to  discover  new  people  outside  of  New  Paltz. The  team  plans  to  recruit  marketing  interns  to  help  bring  more  awareness  to  the  site  and  peak  student  interest. Though  the  site  has  mainly  been  marketed  as  a  dating  platform,  they  hope  to  advertise  it  more  as  a  place  for  users  to  expand  their  friend  base. “We’re  extending  usage  to  become  what  we  really  are:  a  platform  to  dis-­ cover  new  people  online,â€?  Alexa  said.  â€œWhether  for  dating,  relational  or  study  purposes,  DateMySchool  is  the  go-­to  place  to  discover  new  friends,  not  nec-­ essarily  to  connect  with  old  ones.â€?

  COURTESY  OF  DATEMYSCHOOL DateMySchool,  a  dating  site  for  university  students,  recently  launched  at  New  Paltz.                                                                  Â

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GREG OLEAR’S LATEST NOVEL SHEDS LIGHT ON MODERN PARENTING By  Maria  Jayne Copy  Editor  |  N01864117@newpaltz.edu

New  Paltz  resident  Greg  Olear  said  he  hopes  to  give  insight  into  what  it  truly  means  to  be  a  dad  with  his  second  novel.  The  book,  entitled  â€œFathermucker,â€?  is  set  to  come  out  on  Oct.  4  from  Harper  Paperback.  Colum-­ nist  Lenore  Skenazy  of  the  blog  Free  Range  Kids,  describes  it  as  â€œUlysses  on  a  playdate.â€?  â€œI’ve  been  writing  since  I  was  in  grade  school,â€?  2OHDU VDLG Âł, FRPSOHWHG P\ ÂżUVW QRYHO ZKLOH D VH-­ nior  at  Georgetown,  where  I  went  to  college,  and  wrote  several  more  in  my  twenties.  I  would  say  I  became  serious  about  it  around  age  22.â€?  Olear  is  the  senior  editor  of  the  literary  website,  The  Nervous  Breakdown,  author  of  Totally  Killer  DQG D SURIHVVRU RI ÂżFWLRQ DW 0DQKDWWDQYLOOH College.  He  draws  his  inspiration  from  the  village  and  uses  this  unique  setting  for  his  story.  â€œI  live  in  New  Paltz,  and  the  novel  is  set  here,  quite  explicitly  so,â€?  said  Olear.  â€œNew  Paltz  is  the  only  place  I’ve  lived  as  a  parent  and  its  parenting  community  â€“  its  communal,  inclusive,  crunchy,  lib-­ eral,  nurturing,  awesome  parenting  community  â€“  is  the  only  one  I’ve  known.â€?  Olear  sheds  light  on  the  very  secretive  world  by  combining  witty  humor  and  popular  culture  to  cre-­ ate  an  interesting  storyline  about  one  hectic  day  in Â

a  stay-­at-­home  father’s  life  and  all  the  different  emotions  that  go  along  with  it.  â€œParenting  can  be  a  lonely  line  of  work,  and  I  mostly  wanted  to  connect  with  and  entertain  other  parents,â€?  Olear  said.  â€œThey  say  you’re  supposed  to  write  what  you  know,  and  I  did  that  LQ P\ ÂżUVW QRYHO ZKLFK LV DERXW D SURIHVVLRQDO assassin.  This  time,  I  decided  to  tackle  some-­ thing  a  bit  further  from  home.  Oh,  wait,  I  think  I  got  that  backwards,â€?  Olear  joked. His  humor  plays  a  large  role  in  his  writing  as  well  as  in  his  daily  conversation.  He  wrote  this  novel  so  he  could  lend  a  helping  hand  to  other  parents  in  a  similar  situation.  He  wants  par-­ ents  to  know  how  to  handle  every  annoyance,  fear,  worry  and  obsession  that  may  arise  in  this  modern  age.  Olear  hopes  â€œFathermuckerâ€?  will  become  a  sort  of  stay-­at-­home  handbook  for  fa-­ thers  age  25-­60.   Olear  is  currently  working  on  a  new  novel  and  a  few  screenwriting  projects.  â€œBut  I  haven’t  had  much  time  to  write,  be-­ cause  it’s  the  summer,â€?  he  said.  â€œAnd  I’m  a  Fa-­ thermucker.â€? He  currently  runs  a  parenting  site  called  Fathermucker:  The  Blog  at  Fathermucker.com,  which  features  guest  essays  about  modern  par-­ enting  and  the  blurring  of  traditional  gender  roles. Â

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SCHOOL OF BUSINESS SEEKS NOMINATIONS FOR 2012 HALL OF FAME By Katie Kocijanski Asst. Copy Editor | kkocijanski14@newpaltz.edu

The School of Business is currently seeking nomi-­ nations for it’s 2012 Hall of Fame. This year will be the 11th year for the awards. Cat-­ egories include “Student Leader of the Year,” “Alum-­ nus of the Year,” “Business Person of the Year” and “Dean’s Award of Excellence.” Originally established in 2001, Dean Hadi Salavi-­ tabar said he thought of the idea when he made a trip to SUNY Binghamton, his Alma mater, where they had a small-­scale version of a hall. Salavitabar said he asked himself, “how can I do that and meet a couple of goals for the School of Busi-­ ness?” He wanted to recognize the outstanding mem-­ bers of the School of Business family along with “in-­ creasing the amount of attention for their educational activities.” The Hall of Fame has “had more success” than Sa-­ lavitabar ever thought it would. According to the dean, it is a useful way for the School of Business to build a great reputation with the community. As a result a large number of community members became more committed to educational activities and student pro-­ grams. “It’s been a pleasure to recognize those that go above and beyond to improve the programs,” Salavi-­ tabar said. 4XDOL¿FDWLRQV IRU WKH ³%XVLQHVV 3HUVRQ RI WKH Year” include being successful in the Hudson Valley region, hiring people and improving the work environ-­ ment. They must also be involved in the educational future of SUNY New Paltz students by offering in-­ ternships and possibly future employment upon gradu-­ ation. “It’s a two way street. If businesses are involved with the school and the school with businesses, the businesses will feedback what they need to be success-­ ful to the school,” said Vinnie Cozzolino, 2011 busi-­ ness person of the year. “Which will produce students with those skills who will then bring those solutions back to the businesses. Everybody wins.” Cozzolino founded the Solar Energy Consortium, a renewable energy business. According to Salavitabar, ”Student Leader of the Year,” is someone who goes above and beyond what is expected of them as a student. They will have made D VLJQL¿FDQW GLIIHUHQFH RQ FDPSXV DQG KHOSHG WKH VWX-­ dent population, possibly by bringing a new educa-­ tional program to campus. The 2011 award was given to graduate and management major, Armelle Kessler. The third award, the “Dean’s Excellence Award,”

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intern committee and curriculum committee. “I think it is important for students and faculty to see where business theory meets business practice and for local businesses to learn the latest theories and methods of leadership and management,” King said. Nominations are due on Monday, Oct. 3. For more information about the Hall of Fame and to view past inductees or nominate a candidate, visit http://www. newpaltz.edu/schoolofbusiness/about_halloffame. html. You may submit your nominations online or contact School of Business Dean Hadi Salavitabar at 845-­257-­2932 for a nomination form.

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FERAL SWINE WREAK HAVOC ON UPSTATE FARMS AND CROPS By Maria Jayne Copy Editor | N01864117@newpaltz.edu

Boar hunter in the northeast can rejoice: feral swine are invading New York. “Feral swine, also known as wild boars, wild hogs, razor-­ backs and Russian boars, are not native to New York. The term feral swine includes the Eurasian wild boars, domestic pigs that have escaped from farms and ‘gone wild’ and hybrids of the two,” said Kelly Stang of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). Feral swine reproduce rapidly when they hit seven or eight months of age and are capable of adapting to nearly any envi-­ ronment. The swine are wreaking havoc on farms and crops be-­ cause their strong appetites are never satiated. They weigh be-­ tween 400 and 700 pounds and their size makes them capable of destroying wetlands by rolling through the mud, or wallowing. According to the DEC, feral swine directly compete with deer, bear, turkey, squirrel and waterfowl for food. They con-­ sume the nests and eggs of ground nesting birds and reptiles and kill and eat fawns and young domestic livestock. They also have razor sharp tusks, can be aggressive toward humans and

their pets and can transmit serious diseases such as swine bru-­ cellosis, E. coli, trichinosis, and pseudorabies to livestock and humans. Feral swine are breeding in four counties in central New York, according to a federal study done last year with funding from New York’s Invasive Species Council. “There are feral swine in New York, however, most of the reports consist of one or two animals and they are scattered throughout New York. The largest reported concentration of fe-­ ral swine is in DEC Region 7 Cortland, Onondaga, Cayuga and Tioga Counties in central New York,” Stang said. The problem with having a few wild boars in one area is that it leads to thousands in only a few years because of their breeding habits. “The DEC is working to eradicate feral swine from N.Y. Therefore, hunters with a small game license may shoot and keep feral swine at any time and in any number. We do ask hunters to report any feral swine sightings or shootings to the DEC,” Stang said. These hunts are taking place so the problem does

not get as serious as it already is in southern states. Accord-­ ing to biologists, there are currently over 2 million feral hogs in Texas mainly inhabiting the Eastern, Southern and Central parts of the state. According to Wildlife Biologist Rick Taylor, this population is steadily increasing as a result of intentional releases, improved habitat, greater wildlife management and better animal husbandry.

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Undead Rise Again ROSENDALE HOSTS 2ND ANNUAL ZOMBIE FESTIVAL ON SEPT.17

By  Kenny  Satterlee Contributing  Writer  |  Ksatterlee43@newpaltz.edu

New  York  zombies  will  overrun  Rosendale  for  the  second  annual  Zombie  Festival  on  Sept.  17.  The  event  was  successful  last  year  and  accord-­ ing  to  founder  and  co-­organizer,  Elena  Brandhofer,  even  the  town  supervisor  dressed  for  the  event.  The  festival  includes  a  parade  through  town,  zombie-­  themed  events  and  some  â€œundeadâ€?  local  icons. “It’s  like  a  dream  [or]  nightmare  (you  choose)  come  true,  people  really  get  into  it.  It’s  beyond  the  makeup  and  the  costumes,â€?  Brandhofer  said. The  event  will  be  stretched  over  the  afternoon  beginning  at  12:30  p.m.  and  ending  around  7:30  p.m.  The  parade  begins  in  Willow  Kiln  Park  and  will  march  through  Main  Street.  Zombies  will  be  judged Â

on  their  costumes  for  a  chance  to  win  prizes  at  4  p.m.  Musicians  playing  at  the  event  include  Tiger  Piss,  The  High  Five  Revival,  The  Blind  Ambassadors,  Ratboy,  Crazy  Cat  Lady  and  DJ  Slambo.  â€œWe  have  some  eerily  convincing  zombies  out  here,  judging  the  contest  is  a  tough  job.  Last  year  we  even  had  zombie  hunters  hiding  in  the  bushes  wait-­ ing  to  ambush  our  unsuspecting  undead  marchers,â€?  Brandhofer  said. 7KH VKRZLQJ RI WKH Âż OP Âł:KLWH =RPELH´ LV WKH Âż QDO HYHQW RI WKH GD\ DQG ZLOO EHJLQ DW S P LQ WKH Rosendale  Theater.   â€œWhite  Zombieâ€?  is  one  of  the  earliest  zombie  movies  produced  and  was  originally  released  in  New  York.  A  local  celebrity  in  the  zombie  community  â€œCap-­ tain  Cruella  Moxhamâ€?  will  also  be  in  attendance. Moxham,  the  self  proclaimed  â€œundead  queen  of Â

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Saugerties,â€?  will  be  providing  makeup  assistance  to  SDUWLFLSDQWV ZKR ZDQW WR ORRN ³¿ HQGLVKO\ IDE IRU D very  nominal  fee.â€?   She  has  organized  zombie  events  around  the  area  including  the  Village  Invasion  Zom-­ bie  Crawl  and  Ghoul’s  Yule,  both  in  Saugerties. Linda  Zimmerman  author  of  â€œHVZA:  Hudson  Valley  Zombie  Apocalypseâ€?  will  be  at  the  festival  looking  for  zombies  to  be  written  into  her  next  book. “I’d  love  to  see  some  crazy  costumes,  hear  some  VODPPLQJ PXVLF ZDWFK D FODVVLF Ă€ LFN DQG SURYLGH people  with  a  uniquely  Rosendale  Festival  Experi-­ ence,â€?  Brandhofer  said. The  event  will  be  held  rain  or  shine.  Any-­ one  seeking  more  information  about  this  event  should  contact  co-­organizer  Lara  Hope  at  Redhopeproductions@yahoo.com.

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Three  faculty  members  of  the  School  of  Fine  &  Performing  Arts  have  received  grants  from  The  New  York  Foundation  for  the  Arts  (NYFA).  Adjunct  Professor  Barb  Smith,   Pro-­ fessor  Jamie  Bennett  and  Associ-­ ate  Professor  Emily  Puthoff  secured  $7,000  each  from  the  foundation. This  year  105  NYFA  Fellows  and  ¿ QDOLVWV ZHUH FKRVHQ IURP RYHU DSSOLFDQWV LQ Âż YH FDWHJRULHV including  Crafts/Sculpture,  Digital/ (OHFWURQLF :RUN 1RQÂż FWLRQ /LWHUD ture,  Printmaking/Drawing/Book  Arts  and  Poetry.  The  Fellows  were  select-­ ed  by  panels  of  their  peers  assembled  with  representatives  from  each  disci-­ pline.  NYFA  awards  grants  are  given  to  artists  who  apply  online  in  mid-­ October.  The  Fellowship  jury  views  WKH DUWLVWÂśV LPDJHV Âż UVW HLJKW LQ WRWDO without  any  identifying  information  DWWDFKHG $IWHU WKH Âż UVW VHOHFWLRQV KDYH been  made,  the  jury  reads  the  artist’s  personal  statement  and  resume. Â

 Smith,  who  received  the  fellow-­ ship  in  Crafts/Sculpture,  said  she  was  honored  to  receive  the  fellowship.  â€œHaving  my  work  recognized  by  NYFA  provides  support  and  gener-­ ates  a  great  deal  of  momentum,â€?  said  Smith.“The  experience  has  been  both  wonderful  and  unbelievable.â€?  Puthoff,  who  received  the  grant  in  Digital  and  Electronic  Arts  said  she  is  deeply  honored  to  be  recognized  as  a  female  artist.   â€œI  am  also  very  pleased  to  be  recognized  in  a  creative  category  in  which  women  have  been  traditionally  underrepresented,â€?  said  Puthoff.  Both  artists  said  the  monetary  gain  from  the  awards  will  be  an  asset  to  their  future  work  as  the  fellowship  affords  them  the  freedom  to  pursue  larger  projects,  travel  and  experiment  and  purchase  the  equipment  they  need  for  future  endeavors. Recent  graduate  of  New  Paltz’s  MFA  program,  Smith  said  the  grant  will  give  her  an  advantage  most  young  artists  do  not  have,  offering  her  the  space  and  means  to  create  things  she  otherwise  would  not  have  been Â

able  to  realize.   â€œIt  can  be  very  easy  to  quit  work-­ ing—you  leave  the  familiar  structure  of  school,  your  graduate  school  com-­ PXQLW\ GLVSHUVHV DQG LW FDQ EH Âż QDQ FLDOO\ GLIÂż FXOW WR PDLQWDLQ DQ DFWLYH studio  practice,â€?  said  Smith.  â€œHaving  a  dedicated  workspace  means  a  great  deal.   I  am  utilizing  a  portion  of  the  award  to  set  up  a  studio,  which  will  have  a  considerable  impact  on  both  my  thinking  and  making.â€?   Smith  said  that  her  success  is  due  in  part  to  the  inspirational  environ-­ ment  of  New  Paltz. “I  was  compelled  to  apply  to  New  Paltz  because  of  the  quality  of  work  I  saw  coming  out  of  the  Metal  Program.   I  was  inspired  by  the  level  of  rigor  and  thoughtfulness,  the  passion  for  mak-­ ing  and  the  professional  accomplish-­ ments  of  prominent  faculty  Myra  Mimlitsch-­Gray  and  Jamie  Bennett,  as  well  as  many  alumni  from  the  pro-­ gram,â€?   said  Smith.  â€œI  can  only  hope  that  my  successes  could  inspire  others  in  the  way  that  these  individuals  have  inspired  me.â€?

A  sculpture  by  Adjunct  Professor  Barb  Smith.                                                                            PHOTO  COURTESY  OF  BARB  SMITH From  top  to  bottom:  Associate  Professor  Emily  Puthoff,  Professor  Jamie  Bennett  and  Adjunct  Professor  Barb  Smith.

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Things  were  getting  hot  â€˜n  heavy  at  Grimaldi’s  this  0RQGD\ 6HSW 1HZ 3DOW]ÂśV Âż QHVW SRHWV VWRUPHG WKH stage  of  the  small  Italian  restaurant  on  119  Main  St.  to  de-­ liver  their  most  sensual  syntax  for  the  second  Rock  Hawk  Poetry  Slam  christened  â€œThe  Erotic  Rock  Hawk  Poetry  Slam.â€? The  school’s  burlesque  troop,  Alpha  Psi  Ecdysia,  kicked  off  the  night  with  a  study  in  body  language.  They  called  up  some  volunteers  to  assist  with  their  poetry  read-­ ing,  slowly  but  surely  revealing  tongue-­in-­cheek  written  word  on  different  parts  of  their  bodies,  accentuating  the  po-­ etic  form  and  the  female  form.  The  sexy  personas  stopped  MXVW VKRUW RI D IXOO IURQWDO Ă€ DVK EHIRUH LW ZDV GHFLGHG WKDW the  crowd  couldn’t  handle  the  heat—not  yet,  anyway. ,Q WKH Âż UVW URXQG RI WKH VODP MXGJHV ZHUH VHOHFWHG DQG given  their  white  boards  to  score.  Though  the  dim  lights  PDGH LW GLIÂż FXOW WR UHDG WKH FURZGV ZHUH XUJHG WR ÂłFODS IRU the  poets  and  not  the  scores.â€?  One  poet  stood  before  the  giggling  crowd  and  an-­ nounced,  â€œNone  of  you  are  having  any  sex!â€?  before  ending Â

his  poem  by  slyly  announcing  his  phone  number. The  crowds  hooted  and  hollered  as  the  poetry  was  per-­ formed,  the  room  surging  with  hormones.  Though,  not  ev-­ eryone  in  attendance  embraced  the  public  display  of  sexual  aggression.  â€œExpressing  your  sexuality  is  important,  but  once  it  starts  to  enter  a  very  uncomfortable  stage  where  your  words  actually  make  people  feel  awkward  then  that’s  not  so  good,â€?  said  Manny  Robertson,  a  second-­year  unde-­ clared  student.  There  was  very  little  tension  in  the  room,  as  the  heated  poetry  cooled  down.  The  members  of  Alpha  Psi  Ecdysia  soon  came  back  on  stage  calling  up  two  more  volunteers  for  a  bit  of  a  â€œgrind  off,â€?  encouraging  the  dancers  to  go  eighth-­grade-­dance-­style  on  two  of  the  troop  members.  Rachel  Simons,  a  creative  writing  major  who  is  also  a  poet  and  a  member  of  the  burlesque  troupe  said  she  ap-­ preciated  the  event’s  openness  to  sexuality.  â€œIt  was  nice  to  see  people  exalt  in  sexuality  and  make  fun  of  it,â€?  said  Simons,  â€œMost  times  sex  is  either  a  big  ta-­ boo  you  can’t  talk  about  or  a  tool  used  to  sell  something.  Here  we  could  be  open  and  honest  about  how  real  people  experience  it.â€?

Mischa  Savage  at  The  Erotic  Rock  Hawk  Poetry  Slam  at  Grimaldi’s.                                                          PHOTO  BY  JIMMY  CORRAO

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THE DOCTOR IS IN: KATIE’S “DOCTOR WHO� CONFIDENTIAL

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Hey there Whovians! “Doctor Whoâ€? has picked up in the last few weeks, returning from a lengthy summer hiatus. The Tumblr communities DUH UHMRLFLQJ DV WKH VFLHQFH Ă€ FWLRQ QHUGHU\ is restored. True to form, show runner Steven Moffat has made a violent splash on the Who-niverse in only a few episodes. As always, there are spoilers to come. Before the summer break, we found out River Song was actually Amy and Rory’s daughter, but we didn’t get much about her childhood. In the half-season opener “Let’s Kill Hitler, â€? we get just that. We start with a little back story on Rory and Amy and their friend Mels. Yeah, the friend they’d never mentioned before but named their daughter (Melody) after? That one. We got to see Rory, Amy and Mels as a childhood trio getting into all sorts of shenanigans and it was cute. Soon we discover Mels is an earlier regeneration of River (who can regenerate because she’s a TARDIS baby). Long story short, Mels regenerates and is suddenly super-hot Alex Kingston who gives this hilarious promiscuous performance as she gets used to her new regenerated form, steals clothes from German aristocrats and tries to kill the Doctor. In terms of the major arc, that’s about all we get. The next two episodes, “Night Terrorsâ€? and “The Girl Who Waitedâ€? both offer a bit of character development (some amazing emotional scenes for Amy (Karen Gillan) in the latter), but since they were originally supposed to air earlier in the season. They offer little to no plot advancement. Next week’s “The God Complexâ€? looks to be another episode where Moffat plays on the childhood fears of his fans. If you need me I’ll be curled up behind the couch.

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BACCHUS BAR SHOWCASES LOCAL NEW PALTZ ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS EVERY MONTH By  Zan  Strumfeld A&E  Editor  |  Sstrumfeld34@newpaltz.edu

Music  and  art  are  integral  parts  of  1HZ 3DOW] EXW ÂżQGLQJ D YHQXH WR VXFFHVV-­ fully  display  these  two  mediums  together  LVQÂśW DOZD\V WKH HDVLHVW WKLQJ WR GR (Y-­ ery  month  since  February,  Bacchus  Res-­ WDXUDQW %DU KDYH EHHQ VKRZFDVLQJ WKH local  talent  of  the  many  musicians  and  artists  harboring  in  our  small,  mountain  town. Bacchus  bar  manager  and  New  Paltz  alumnus  Jason  Synan  had  the  resources  to  make  the   space  one  of  the  newest  KRWVSRWV IRU WKH HYHU ULVLQJ DUW FRPPXQL-­ ty.  With  60  feet  of  wall  space  in  the  pool  room  and  the  right  lighting  and  equip-­ ment,  the  legitimacy  of  a  bar/gallery  was  created. “Artists  need  to  be  encouraged  to  show  their  work,â€?  said  Synan.  â€œSome-­ times  they’re  either  unaware  of  the  op-­ portunities  around  them  or  don’t  pursue  them.â€? +DYLQJ VR PXFK JDOOHU\ VSDFH PDNHV it  possible  to  showcase  multiple  art-­ ists,  something  Synan  said  they  really  Â

encourage. Âł$W WKLV SRLQW ZH KDYH PRUH VXEPLV-­ sions  than  we  know  what  to  do  with,â€?  said  Synan.  â€œBut  we  try  to  incorporate  as  many  people  as  we  can.â€? Each  month,  Bacchus  calls  for  sub-­ missions  through  Facebook.  Artists  can  DOVR SXW WKHLU ZRUN XS IRU VDOH DQG KDYH been  successful  at  selling  at  past  shows. Âł$IWHU UHFHLYLQJ VXEPLVVLRQV ZH pick  the  work  we  like  the  best,  trying  to  UHSUHVHQW D EURDG YDULHW\ RI JHQUHV DQG styles,â€?  said  New  Paltz  alumna  and  Bac-­ chus  waitress  Valerie  Werder.  â€œWe  would  like  to  start  doing  themed  shows  but  it’s  GLIÂżFXOW WR UHMHFW JRRG ZRUN EDVHG RQ WKH-­ PDWLF UHVWULFWLRQV 0RVW RI WKH VKRZV KDYH been  multi-­dimensional  group  shows.â€? The  most  recent  show  on  Saturday,  Sept.  10  was  put  together  by  Route  32  3UHVHQWV D ORFDO FROOHFWLYH RUJDQL]DWLRQ working  to  help  promote  local  bands.  PORCHES,  Year  on  a  Mountain,  Nel-­ VRQYLOODLQV DQG 7RP &KULVWLH SHUIRUPHG WKURXJKRXW WKH QLJKW ZKLOH YLHZHUV ZHQW in  and  out  of  the  pool  room,  checking  out  work  by  artists  including  Katie  Berka,  Ian Â

Gallagher  and  Claire  DellaRocco. This  particular  show  was  18  and  RYHU $OWKRXJK LWÂśV QRW D XVXDO WKLQJ IRU WKH EDU VFHQH EHFDXVH LW SUHVHQWV GLIÂżFXO-­ ties,  Route  32  Presents  requested  the  age  drop  in  order  to  not  limit  their  fan  base. “Route  32  Presents  is  about  bringing  good  music  to  New  Paltz  and  to  elimi-­ QDWH MD]] TXDUWHWV DQG MDP EDQGV ´ VDLG -DNH +DUPV PHPEHU RI 1HOVRQYLOODLQV and  Route  32  Presents.  â€œWe  want  to  open  up  the  town  with  New  Paltz  as  a  cultural  spot.â€? Other  musicians,  like  second-­year  undeclared  John  Morisi  from  Year  on  a  Mountain,  thought  the  Sept.  10  show  was  a  great  experience.  â€œThe  atmosphere  and  acoustics  were  screaming  for  music/art  to  be  displayed  for  WKH SXEOLF 3HRSOH ZKR DUHQÂśW LQYROYHG LQ the  arts  will  still  go  out  to  the  bars  to  hang  RXW KDYLQJ PXVLF DUW LQYROYHG LQ VXFK D place  lets  these  people  become  more  eas-­ LO\ LQYROYHG ´ VDLG 0RULVL Âł7KH DUWV DUH parts  of  human  nature,  if  a  place  like  Bac-­ FKXV FRXOG FRQVLVWHQWO\ KDYH VXFK HYHQWV this  small  college  town  could  grow  to  be Â

something  much  bigger.â€? DellaRocco  had  her  prints  from  her  thesis  on  display  at  a  Bacchus  show  last  spring.  Werder  asked  DellaRocco  to  con-­ tribute  them  again. Âł, ZDV YHU\ H[FLWHG WR H[KLELW WKLV ZRUN DJDLQ DQG ZDV Ă€DWWHUHG VKH >:HUGHU@ thought  of  me  when  setting  up  the  show,â€?  DellaRocco  said.  â€œIt  makes  so  much  VHQVH WR KDYH VKRZV OLNH WKLV RII FDPSXV because  our  peers,  who  typically  don’t  at-­ WHQG DUW HYHQWV DW VFKRRO EXW GR HQMR\ WKH EDU VFHQH DQG OLYH PXVLF FDQ YLHZ ZKDW ORFDO DUWLVWV KDYH WR RIIHU ´ $OWKRXJK WKH\ KDYH UHFHLYHG VXE-­ missions  from  outside  New  Paltz,  Synan  wants  to  focus  on  more  New  Paltz-­based  artists. “I  feel  a  certain  allegiance  to  people  WKDW OLYH LQ WKLV WRZQ EHFDXVH , OLYH LQ WKLV town  and  Bacchus  is  in  this  town,â€?  said  Synan.  â€œWe  want  to  be  about  the  com-­ munity.â€? If  you  are  interested  in  submitting  artwork  or  performing  at  any  upcom-­ ing  Bacchus  shows,  e-­mail  Synan  at   jnsynan@gmail.com.

SUNY  New  Paltz  student  Katie  Berka  with  her  paintings  and  Year  on  a  Mountain  performing  at  Bacchus  on  Saturday,  Sept  10.                                                                                                   PHOTOS  BY  SAMANTHA  SCHWARTZ

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Barn Owl Still Soaring DUO TO RELEASE EXCITING, NEW EXPERIMENTAL ALBUM By  Ross  Hamilton Contributing  Writer  |  N01955992@newpaltz.edu

Barn Owl Lost in the Glare

On  Sept.  13,  San  Francisco  duo  Barn  Owl  will  re-­ lease  their  sixth  album  (and  second  full-­length  release  this  year  following  the  excellent  Shadowland)  titled  Lost  in  the  Glare.  Since  2006,  Jon  Porras  and  Evan  Caminiti  have  been  playing  their  own  mix  of  drone,  psychedelic  and  folk  music  with  a  gritty  western  feel.  On  this  release,  WKH WZR PDLQO\ XVH HOHFWULF JXLWDU DQG )DUÂż VD RUJDQ ZLWK DGGLWLRQDO NH\ERDUGV Âż HOG UHFRUGLQJV DQG PDQLSXODWHG cassette  tapes.  As  with  previous  Barn  Owl  records  the  at-­ mosphere  is  rich  and  vibrant,  joining  the  celestial  guitars  with  the  calming  hum  of  the  organ.  On  occasion  the  two  branch  out  into  more  a  intense,  distorted  sound,  breaking  up  the  record  and  giving  the  listener  some  breathing  space  before  ejecting  them  into  a  grand  and  inquisitive  vacuum  of  sound.  The  structure  of  Lost  in  the  Glare  is  reminiscent  of  other  Barn  Owl  releases,  with  the  earlier  tracks  easing  into  the  more  spacey  exploration  of  the  later  songs.  The  album  kicks  off  with  â€œPale  Star,â€?  an  entrancing  mix  of  reverb Â

drenched  lead  guitar  and  industrial  keyboard  and  reso-­ nant  guitar  tones.  The  second   track,  â€œTuriya,â€?  introduces  drums  into  the  dusty  landscapes  with  a  serious  western  twang.  â€œDevotion  Iâ€?  plays  up  the  genre  in  an  incredibly  detailed  atmosphere,  contrasting  the  heavy  riffage  on  â€œThe  Darkest  Night  Since  1683.â€?  After  this  dark  crescendo,  the  impressive  guitar  work  and  writing  shine  on  â€œTemple  of  the  Winds,â€?  with  â€œMidnight  Tideâ€?  reintroducing  a  percus-­ sive  pulse  back  into  the  sound.  â€œLight  Echoesâ€?  begins  with  a  beautiful  solo  guitar  as  others  slowly  emerge  with  the  ra-­ GLDQW RUJDQ XQWLO SLHUFLQJ JXLWDU WRQHV WDNH RYHU 7KH Âż QDO track,  â€œDevotion  II,â€?  features  relatively  robust  drumming  slowly  evolving  into  the  last  dirty  cries  of  distorted  guitar  and  feedback. The  later  tracks  are  where  Barn  Owl  really  shines,  not  only  showing  Porras’  and  Caminiti’s  great  guitar  work,  but  expanding  and  morphing  the  atmosphere  of  sound  with  each  track.  The  heavily  distorted  doom  on  â€œThe  Darkest  Night  Since  1683â€?  allows  the  subsequent  songs  to  open  up,  as  the  hollowness  of  the  sound  is  subtly  probed  by  acoustic  JXLWDUV DQG D KHDOWK\ GRVH RI )DUÂż VD RUJDQ UHSODFLQJ WKH harmonium  found  on  many  previous  releases).  Addition-­ ally,  these  songs  diverge  a  bit  more  from  the  â€œalone-­in-­the-­ desertâ€?  feeling  earlier  in  the  album.  If  there  is  anything  disappointing  on  Lost  in  the  Glare,  it  is  the  group’s  resignation  to  let  songs  fade  into  ambient  drone  passages.  At  times  it  can  be  an  elegant  transition,  but  after  a  few  listens  it  can  become  too  much  deceleration  for  DQ DOEXP Âż OOHG ZLWK VR PXFK GHOLFDWH ZRQGHU 6WLOO WKLV should  not  stop  people  from  checking  out  what  may  be  the  best  album  of  2011.  Lost  in  the  Glare  has  more  originality  and  experimentation  than  some  bands  have  in  their  entire  discography—just  sit  back  and  let  the  music  guide  you. Â

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MUSICIAN OF THE WEEK: OLIVER KAMMERMAN

YEAR: Fourth MAJOR: History HOMETOWN: Binghamton, N.Y.

WHAT’S  YOUR  INSTRUMENT  OF  CHOICE?  WHY? I  play  guitar  most  and  best.  It’s  the  easiest  to  learn  other  people’s  tunes  that  I  enjoy.  I  love  singing  and  percussion  as  well  though,  both  are  very  organic  and  primal,  goofy  and  more  naturally  expressive  to  me.  Less  in  the  way.

WHO  ARE  YOU  CURRENTLY  LISTENING  TO? The  Beatles,  Seu  Jorge,  Parliament  Funkadel-­ ic,  The  Specials,  Jack  Black,  RHCP,  Sublime

WHO  ARE  YOUR  BIGGEST  INFLUENCES? Iron  and  Wine  on  NPR  Tiny  Desk,  Yemen  Blues,  Paul  Simon’s  Graceland

WHAT  DO  YOU  DO  WITH  MUSIC  ON/OFF  CAMPUS? Godchilla  is  on  the  outs  at  least  until  next  semester  if  not  longer,  so  I’m  not  sure  what’s  going  to  hap-­ pen  with  that.  Gettin’  it  on  with  a  new  group  called  Upstate  Rubdown.  Super  talented  girls  singing  and  playing,  bringing  great  styles  to  the  table  and  awesome  voices  and  they  have  a  stage  presence  that  make  me  wanna  work  on  my  game.  Acoustic  performance  at  least  for  a  while,  up  the  sensitiv-­ ity  and  dynamics  and  hopefully  still  be  able  to  get  people  dancing.  Anyone  wanna  play  some  percus-­ sion  for  us?  Super  sensitive?  Maybe  some  african  or  alternative  types  of  drums,  shakers  bongos,  tamborines?  We  could  use  your  rhythms.

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UPCOMING SHOWS

You  can  do  it.  No  shame.  Be  someone  else.  It’s  about  the  sound  you’re  making,  not  you  and  your  image.  Steal  from  everyone,  just  admit  that  you  did  it. CHECK  OUT  OLIVER  KAMMERMAN PERFORMING  BY  SCANNING  THIS  CODE  WITH  ANY  SMARTPHONE! Â

Mike Doughty LarkFest Albany Saturday, Sept. 17

Fleet Foxes Williamsburg Waterfront Brooklyn Saturday, Sept. 24

Andrew Bird Bardavon Opera House Poughkeepsie Monday, Oct. 17 PHOTOS Â COURTESY Â OF Â FLICKR.COM

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MUSICIAN OF THE WEEK? Contact  Zan  Stumfeld  at  sstrumfeld34@newpaltz.edu  .

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GRAPPLING Â WITH Â OUR SEPT. Â 11 Â CARTOON Â BY Â JOSH Â KUSAYWA Â

GRIEF

On  Sunday,  there  was  one  phrase  that  dom-­ inated  headlines,  Facebook  statuses  and  hand-­ made  signs  hung  in  windows  across  New  York  City,  the  state  and  the  country:  never  forget.  Even  a  decade  later,  it  is  hard  to  imagine  that  anyone  won’t  remember  where  they  were  on  that  clear  September  morning  when  they  heard  WKH Âż UVW RI WZR KLMDFNHG DLUSODQHV VODPPHG LQWR the  North  Tower  of  the  World  Trade  Center  at  8:46  a.m.  But  we  must  also  never  forget  that  one  ugly  feeling  which  motivated  terrorists  to  take  the  lives  of  thousands  of  others  -­  the  simi-­ lar  emotion  that  sometimes  we,  as  Americans,  still  direct  at  people  of  different  cultures  in  spite  of  what  we  should  have  learned  on  Sept.  11,  2001.  Hate.  7KH DO 4DLGD KLMDFNHUV ZHUH D KDWHIXO group  of  people.  Articles  and  bloggers  cite  that  these  people  hated  Americans  for  a  slew  of  rea-­ sons:  the  nation’s  support  of  an  Israeli  nation,  the  American  military  presence  in  Saudi  Ara-­ bia,  sanctions  made  in  Iraq  and  so  on  and  so  forth.  What  they  did  was  malicious  and  wrong,  DQG QR GHFHQW KXPDQ EHLQJ FDQ MXVWLI\ WKHLU slaughter  of  thousands.  Has  our  nation  proven  to  be  upstanding  all  of  the  time,  though?  The  answer,  unfortunately,  is  no.  Since Â

Sept.  11,  2001,  we  have  engaged  in  multiple  ZDUV RU ÂłFRQĂ€ LFWV´ DQG ÂłRSHUDWLRQV ´ DV WKH invisible  hand  of  public  relations  calls  them  to  somehow  soften  the  ideas  about  what  the  military  is  doing  in  the  minds  of  the  American  people.  But  make  no  mistake:  the  deaths  of  scores  of  innocent  civilians  in  the  Middle  East  and  elsewhere  were  the  result  of  war,  a  war  on  a  different  way  of  life  than  good  old  fashioned  American  democracy.  Each  year  when  we  come  upon  the  anni-­ versary  of  the  attacks  on  the  World  Trade  Cen-­ ter  and  the  Pentagon,  many  say  that  we  should  HPEUDFH ÂłWKH ZD\ ZH ZHUH´ WKH ZHHN DIWHU WKH attacks.  We  at  The  New  Paltz  Oracle  feel  that  is  only  partially  true.  We  feel  that  we  should  not  let  our  sadness  become  bitterness  in  the  way  it  did  for  some  wondering  why  their  aunt  or  their  neighbor  or  their  friend  was  taken  from  them  XQMXVWO\ We  understand  that  everyone  grieves  in  different  ways:  some  of  us  attend  memorials  each  year  on  9/11,  some  of  us  pray  and  some  of  us  don’t  want  to  be  reminded  of  the  attacks  at  all.  That  being  said,  it  is  only  natural  that  those  of  us  who  lost  loved  ones  feel  hurt  and  frus-­ trated  when  thinking  about  9/11.  Things  were  taken  from  us  -­  people  were  taken  from  us.  Weren’t  many  of  us  calling  for  retaliation Â

at  that  time?  Didn’t  headlines  with  the  word  ³EDVWDUG´ UXQ RQ WKH IURQW SDJH RI QHZVSDSHUV around  the  country  in  reference  to  the  supposed  mastermind  of  the  attacks,  Osama  bin  Laden?  Didn’t  some  cheer  when  the  bombs  began  to  fall  in  Afghanistan  a  few  weeks  later,  hoping  WKDW ZH ZRXOG ÂłJHW WKHP EDFN´ IRU ÂłZKDW WKH\ GLG"´ We  saw  this  kind  of  upsetting  behavior  at  SUNY  New  Paltz  a  few  short  months  ago.  When  it  was  been  announced  that  Osama  bin  Laden  had  been  killed,  students  cheered  on  quads  and  concourses  across  campus.  Some  HYHQ VHW RII Âż UHZRUNV WR FHOHEUDWH D GHDWK Osama  bin  Laden  was  a  terrorist,  a  killer  and  a  horrible  person  -­  but  taking  one  life  for  the  sake  of  another  is  wrong.  There  is  a  reason  that  in  WKLV JUHDW FRXQWU\ ZH KDYH D MXVWLFH V\VWHP DQG GR QRW RSHUDWH XQGHU WKH ÂłH\H IRU DQ H\H´ HWKLF When  people  let  grief  become  anger,  it  controls  them,  consumes  them  and  can  cause  them  to  say  hateful  things  or  act  in  a  hurtful  way.  During  this  dark  time  of  year,  we  urge  you  to  not  let  that  grief  twist  and  turn  into  an  ugly  feeling  that  won’t  ease  your  pain  anyway.  There  are  better  ways  to  make  peace  with  an  event  with  consequences  that  we  as  New  Yorkers  need  to  live  with  everyday.  Attend-­ LQJ EHDXWLIXO FHUHPRQLHV OLNH WKH Ă€ DJ SODQWLQJ

Thursday,  September  15,  2011

KRVWHG E\ RXU FROOHJH LV MXVW RQH RI WKHP :H DSSODXG 681< 1HZ 3DOW] RIÂż FLDOV IRU EULQJ ing  together  members  diverse  members  of  our  community.  Those  in  attendance  came  from  different  places,  different  families  and  different  lifestyles,  but  they  all  shared  similar  feelings.  One  was  indeed  sadness.  Some  may  have  shared  understandable  frustration.  But  most  importantly,  as  shown  by  their  willingness  to  come  together  and  support  one  another  on  this  dreadful  day,  those  in  attendance  at  the  memo-­ rial  shared  a  desire  to  heal.  Healing  is  what  we  should  be  focusing  on  in  the  second  and  third  and  all  of  the  decades  after  Sept.  11,  2001.  So  yes,  we  should  embrace  â€œthe  way  we  ZHUH´ DIWHU :H VKRXOG HPEUDFH WKH XUJH we  had  to  comfort  the  grieving,  to  come  togeth-­ HU DQG WR Âż QG SHDFH Editorials  represent  the  views  of  the  majority  of  the  editorial  board.  Col-­ umns,  op-­eds  and  letters,  excluding  editorials,  are  solely  those  of  the  writ-­ ers  and  do  not  necessarily  represent  the  views  of  The  New  Paltz  Oracle,  its  staff  members,  the  campus  and  university  or  the  Town  or  Village  of  New  Paltz.

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COLUMN ANDREW  WYRICH Managing  Editor Â

Andrew.Wyrich63@newpaltz.edu

I  really  hate  the  fact  that  I  have  a  Facebook.  I  hate  it  even  more  that  I  can’t  seem  to  pry  myself  away  from  the  damn  thing.  For  years  now,  I  have  logged  on  to  that  blue  and  white  login  page,  which  I  have  seen  undergo  many  different  incarnations,  and  honestly  I  can’t  ¿ QG PDQ\ SRVLWLYH UHDVRQV WR KDYH DQ DFFRXQW Sure,  Facebook  allows  people  to  connect  from  around  the  world  and  can  be  a  powerful  tool  to  pro-­ mote  your  product,  but  let’s  face  it  â€“  most  of  the  website  is  a  cesspool  for  gossip  and  pictures  from  the  bar  last  night.  Unfortunately,  it’s  a  sad  reality  that  Facebook  has  become  a  necessary  evil  in  everyday  life.  If  you  don’t  have  one  you  are  instantly  judged  and  the  stigma  of  being  â€œweirdâ€?  for  not  hopping  aboard  the  social  network  train  is  almost  unshakable  too.   But  why?  :K\ LV KDYLQJ DQ DUWLÂż FLDOO\ FXVWRPL]DEOH SURÂż OH RQ WKH LQWHUQHW VR LPSRUWDQW" ,VQÂśW WKHUH more  to  me  than  what  those  little  grey  words  have  under  â€œAbout  Me?â€?   Shouldn’t  you  still  be  able  to  interact  with  me  even  if  I  don’t  â€œlikeâ€?  every  damn  status  you  have?  Facebook  is  destroying  the  idea  of  personal  relationships  and  friendships  in  this  generation.  How  many  times  have  you  met  someone,  become  their  â€œfriendâ€?  on  Facebook  and  instantly  known  ev-­ erything  about  them?  It  used  to  be  that  you  had  to  get  to  know  someone  -­  and,  you  know,  talk  to  them  -­  to  learn  that  kind  of  information.   When  you  think  about  it,  how  many  people  out  there  check  out  your  page  and  know  everything  about  you?  The  number  would  probably  be  unsettling.  Besides  that,  there  are  other  unforeseen  conse-­ quences  of  Facebook  and  social  media  in  general.  In  fact,  there  have  been  studies  that  suggest Â

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that  teenagers  actually  become  depressed  when  they  look  at  photos  their  friends  post  online.  By  looking  at  the  parties  and  all  the  super-­fun  times  their  friends  are  having,  studies  show  that  those  not  involved  become  depressed  because  they  feel  DV LI WKHLU OLIH LV QRW DV IXOÂż OOLQJ DV WKHLU IULHQGV´ are.  Just  by  postulation  here,  doesn’t  that  mean  kids  might  act  more  brashly  at  a  younger  age  to  KHOS ÂłIXOÂż OO´ WKHLU OLIH" Communication  as  we  know  it  is  changing  because  of  this  website.  Remember  when  e-­mail  was  revolutionary?  Now  it’s  becoming  increas-­ ingly  passĂŠ  as  Facebook  has  really  become  the  primary  way  of  communication  on  the  Internet.  Not  only  is  it  easier,  as  you  only  have  to  send  a  message  to  one  place,  it  is  a  place  that  you  know  your  receiver  will  check  multiple  times  a  day.  I  can  vouch  for  this,  as  it  has  become  much  eas-­ ier  for  me  to  contact  sources  for  stories  through  Facebook’s  messenger  than  through  my  Gmail  account.  Don’t  even  get  me  started  on  Facebook  becoming  a  â€œnews  source.â€?  How  horrifying  is  that?  If  someone  said  their  primary  source  for  ab-­ sorbing  the  news  of  the  day  was  from  what  their  pages  on  Facebook  say,  I  would  want  to  vomit.  ,V LW UHDOO\ WKDW GLIÂż FXOW WR FKLVHO \RXUVHOI DZD\ from  the  screen  for  three  seconds  and  type  in  an-­ other  address  to  BBC  or  The  New  York  Times  or  something?  0D\EH ,ÂśP FUD]\ KHUH RU PD\EH ,ÂśP MXVW bitter  because  the  Internet  destroys  a  lot  of  things  I  love  and  Facebook  is  the  perfect  poster  child  for  it.  But  think  about  it  next  time  you  sit  down  on  your  computer,  are  you  logging  into  Facebook  or  is  Facebook  logging  into  you? Â

Andrew  is  a  third-­year  journalism  major  who  hopes  to  be  as  badass  of  a  journalist  as  Spider  Jeruselum  is  in  â€œTransmetropolitianâ€?  one  day.   If  he  can’t  do  that,  he’d  be  ok  with  just  being  Batman. Â

By  Kyle  Moore

It  has  been  10  years  since  one  of  the  most  catastrophic  events  in  American  his-­ tory  and  much  has  happened  since  then.  This  tragedy  has  incited  a  greater  sense  of  nationalism  in  America  and  a  sense  of  â€œunityâ€?  among  its  people.  It’s  troubling  to  me  that  it  takes  such  a  horrible  event  to  bring  a  group  of  people  together,  but  that  isn’t  the  point.  Since  9/11,  there  have  been  over  66,000  civilian  deaths  in  Iraq  (some  sources  claim  over  100,000).  That’s  one  9/11  every  four  months  for  the  past  seven  years.  Why  does  this  go  unnoticed?  Are  ,UDTL FLYLOLDQV OHVV VLJQLÂż FDQW WKDQ $PHUL cans?  Sure  the  tragedy  on  9/11  touched  many  people’s  lives  and  may  have  person-­ ally  affected  a  good  number  of  Americans,  but  the  terrorism  of  the  U.S.  government  is  equally  as  bad  as  any  terrorism  in  the  world  right  now  -­  terrorism.  7HUURULVP LV FRPPRQO\ GHÂż QHG DV WKH killing  of  civilians,  or  more  commonly,  â€œthe  use  of  violence  and  intimidation  in  the  pursuit  of  political  aims.â€?  The  United  States’  involvement  in  Iraq  over  the  past  ten  years  is  the  epitome  of  terrorism.  This  nation  has  decended  upon  the  Middle  East  and  wreaked  havoc  in  countries  like  Paki-­ stan,  Afghanistan,  and  Iraq.  This  nation’s  failed  pursuit  of  â€œweapons  of  mass  destruc-­ tionâ€?  is  the  cause  of  the  utter  embarrass-­ ment  I  have  felt  as  an  American  over  the  past  decade.  Over  $900  billion  of  taxpayer  money  has  gone  to  waste  over  the  past  ten  years  trying  to  maintain  our  alpha  status  in  international  affairs.  7R PH ZDU LV QHYHU MXVWLÂż DEOH &LYLO ian  deaths  will  inevitably  occur  and  outside Â

countries  will  get  involved,  pouring  more  IXHO RQ WKH Âż UH 7KH SLQQDFOH RI HPEDUUDVVLQJ nationalism  we  have  felt  in  the  United  States  rose  with  the  assassination  of  Osama  Bin  Laden.  Bin  Laden  was  indeed  responsible  for  many  terrorist  activities  in  the  world,  includ-­ ing  9/11,  but  was  our  assassination  of  him   just?  This  man  was  an  unarmed  victim  and  deserved  a  fair  trial,  just  as  with  all  people  in  the  American  legal  system.  What  kind  of  democratic  principle  is  it  to  â€œshoot  on  sight?â€?  No  matter  what  any  human  being  did,  it  is  ratherold-­fashioned  to  kill  a  man  on  sight  if  he  is  unarmed.  Another  troubling  aspect  of  the  situa-­ tion  is  that  we  just  dumped  his  body  into  the  Atlantic  Ocean.  This  is  just  absurd  and  com-­ pletely  bloodthirsty  to  me.  If  the  Iraqis  came  to  the  U.S.  and  assassinated  George  Bush  and  dumped  his  body  in  the  ocean,  many  people  would  probably  be  enraged.  And  no,  this  is  not  a  different  scenario  because  George  Bush  is  responsible  for  far  more  civilian  deaths  than  Osama  Bin  Laden  could  have  ever  dreamed  of.  They  are  essentially  opposite  sides  of  the  same  coin.  So  while  I  will  always  remember  the  tragic  and  horrifying  events  that  happened  miles  away  from  me  in  New  York  City  in  2001,  I  will  equally  remember  the  tens  of  thousands  of  civilians  who  were  massacred  at  the  hands  of  the  United  States  over  the  past  ten  years.  Citation: http://usliberals.about.com/od/ homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.htm

LETTERS To  the  midnight  pedestrian  who  took  my  mums: I  am  truly  touched  that  you  found  the  display  of  orange  mums  hanging  from  my  arbor  so  moving  that  you  needed  to  help  yourself  to  a  basket.   I  FDUHIXOO\ VHOHFWHG Ă€ RZHUV WKDW PDWFKHG P\ RUDQJH KRXVH ZKLFK \RX PD\ QRW have  even  noticed  as  you  wandered  by  in  the  deep  dark  hours  of  the  night  of  Sept.  10. I’ve  planted  grapes  on  the  arbor  as  well,  so  in  two  or  three  years  you’ll  EH DEOH WR HQMR\ WKHP WRR , SLFNHG WDVW\ RQHV EHFDXVH , Âż JXUHG SDVVHUVE\V PD\ ZLVK WR KHOS WKHPVHOYHV DV \RX GLG ZLWK WKDW KDQJLQJ EDVNHW RI Ă€ RZHUV Grape  vines  take  several  years  to  reach  maturity,  so  even  if  you  pick  the  grapes,  please  don’t  dig  up  the  vines.   I  would  like  to  be  able  to  offer  grapes  in  this  way  for  many  years  to  come. $V IRU WKH Ă€ RZHUV ZHOO , GLG KRSH WR SODQW WKHP LQ D IHZ ZHHNV DQG watch  them  bloom  again  next  year,  but  hopefully  that’s  your  intent,  and  I  will  smile  fondly  in  twelve  months  as  I  think  of  you  enjoying  your  mums  as  I  enjoy  mine. Could  you  bring  back  the  basket,  though?   Those  are  more  expensive  WKDQ WKH Ă€ RZHUV DQG , UHDOO\ GLG OLNH WKDW RQH -­  Terrance  Ward,  Village  of  New  Paltz

 It’s  almost  been  a  year  since  we  learned  that  Ulster  County  Resource  Re-­ FRYHU\ $JHQF\ÂśV FKLHI H[HFXWLYH ZDV Âż UHG IROORZLQJ HPSOR\HHVÂś FRPSODLQWV DERXW EXOO\LQJ VH[XDO KDUDVVPHQW GRFXPHQWV EHLQJ IDOVLÂż HG LPSURSHU VWRUDJH RI ZDVWH materials  and  unsafe  work  conditions.   Apparently  some  of  those  concerns  were  investigated  by  the  Ulster  County  'LVWULFW $WWRUQH\ÂśV 2IÂż FH ZKLFK VXSSRVHGO\ IRXQG QR LPPHGLDWH HYLGHQFH RI FULPL QDO ZURQJGRLQJ EXW VDLG WKH VWDWH $WWRUQH\ *HQHUDOÂśV 2IÂż FH VKRXOG EH EURXJKW LQ WR investigate.  The  trail  goes  cold  here.  Am  I  the  only  one  wondering  what  happened? Add  this  to  the  non-­investigation  of  the  Ulster  County  Jail  cost  overrun  GHEDFOH DQG \RX JHW D SLFWXUH RI D ORFDO 'LVWULFW $WWRUQH\ÂśV 2IÂż FH WKDW LV HLWKHU distracted  or  dismissive  of  serious  crimes  that  affect  taxpayer  pocketbooks  in  a  big  way.  It’s  time  for  a  change. There’s  a  candidate  for  District  Attorney  this  fall  who  combines  a  strong  track  record  of  being  tough  on  crime  with  non-­membership  in  the  good  ol’  boys  club.  That’s  why  I’m  voting  for  Jon  Sennett  for  DA  on  Nov.  8.  Jon  has  a  17  year  track  record  of  being  tough  on  crime,  and  has  overseen  a  staff  of  20  in  the  Bronx  District  $WWRUQH\ÂśV 2IÂż FH +HÂśV PDGH 8OVWHU &RXQW\ KLV KRPH ,WÂśV WLPH ZH JLYH KLP D FKDQFH DQG WR SXW LQWR RIÂż FH D Âż JKWHU IRU WD[SD\HUV -­  Linda  R.  Sakai,   Town  of  Esopus

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I  was  elated  to  hear  that  Jon  Sennett  is  running  for  Ulster  County  District  $WWRUQH\ , DP D SDUWQHU LQ D ODUJH 0LG +XGVRQ ODZ ¿ UP EXW \HDUV DJR DV $V sistant  DA  in  the  Bronx,  it  was  Sennett  who  trained  me  on-­the-­job  in  one  of  the  WRXJKHVW FULPH ¿ JKWLQJ MXULVGLFWLRQV LQ WKH FRXQWU\ -RQ 6HQQHWW WUDLQHG PH KRZ WR LQWHUDFW ZLWK GHWHFWLYHV XQLQIRUPHG RI¿ FHUV and  onlookers  at  homicide  scenes,  to  protect  evidence  and  witnesses,  to  assist  in  ¿ QGLQJ FULPLQDOV DQG WR LQVXUH VXFFHVVIXO SURVHFXWLRQ IRU WKH NLOOLQJV +H WUDLQHG me  to  turn  every  stone,  follow  every  lead  and  to  build  a  powerful  case  backed  by  PHWLFXORXVO\ SLHFHG SX]]OHV RI HYLGHQFH DQG WR PDNH VXUH WHVWLPRQ\ ZDV WLJKW and  facts  were  accurate.   Moreover,  he  trained  me  how  to  break  down  the  defense  in  the  court  room  with  decisive  cross-­examination  of  defendants  and  defense  witnesses. I  see  what  is  happening  in  our  region  as  cities  like  Newburgh  and  Kingston  experience  violent  crime  in  our  streets  and  our  schools.   The  people  of  Ulster  &RXQW\ KDYH D JUHDW RSSRUWXQLW\ WR KDYH -RQ 6HQQHWW ¿ JKWLQJ FULPH DQG FRUUXSWLRQ +H LV H[SHULHQFHG YHU\ VPDUW DQG GHGLFDWHG WR ¿ JKWLQJ FULPH DW DOO OHYHOV +H LV well  prepared  and  ready  to  be  the  Ulster  County  DA.   Jon  Sennett  will  be  an  effec-­ tive,  decisive,  passionate  and  ethical  Ulster  County  District  Attorney. -­  Paul  S.  Ernenwein,  Newburgh  N.Y.

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For  the  2011  season,  the  New  Paltz  Men’s  Soccer  team  already  knows  they  are  capable  of  defeating  opponents  who  higher-­ranked  than  they  are.  A  win  against  nationally-­ranked  Stevens  Institute  of  Technology  on  Sept.  4  proved  to  the  Hawks  that  they  are  capable  of  much  more  than  what  their  opponents  expect  of  them.  â€œAt  our  lowest  we  struggle  to  score  or  get  that  last  pass  LQ WKH Âż QDO WKLUG ´ VDLG IRXUWK \HDU PLGÂż HOGHU IRUZDUG DQG Captain  Tommy  Garafola.  â€œAt  our  highest,  we  can  play  with  WKH EHVW WHDPV LQ WKH FRXQWU\ ´ This  season,  the  Hawks  welcomed  Gene  Ventriglia  as  the  new  Head  Coach  of  the  program.  Ventrglia,  an  alumnus  of  SUNY  New  Paltz  and  a  U.S.  Olympian  during  the  1968  summer  games,  came  out  of  retirement  to  coach  the  team.  Ventriglia  had  previously  been  the  Head  Coach  at  the  United  States  Military  Academy  at  West  Point  for  the  women’s  team.  ³, UHWLUHG IURP DQRWKHU SRVLWLRQ D ZKLOH DJR ´ VDLG 9HQ triglia.  â€œI  kind  of  got  lured  back  into  coaching...New  Paltz  is  my  alma  mater  and  I  always  wanted  to  come  back  here.  As  a  coach,  I  really  enjoy  watching  their  games,  the  quality  of  the  WHDP LV JUHDW ´ Ventriglia  was  not  yet  the  head  coach  when  the  schedule  for  the  team  was  made  and  said  that  the  schedule  is  â€œvery,  YHU\ GLIÂż FXOW ´ 7KH WHDP VWDUWHG RII WKHLU VHDVRQ E\ IDFLQJ two  nationally-­ranked  teams,  Stevens  and  Montclair  Univer-­ sity.  The  team  lost  to  Montclair,  but  the  win  against  Stevens Â

JUDPÂśV KLVWRU\ LQ D ORQJ WLPH ´ Âł%XW \RX FDQ JR DW WKH RWKHU WHDPÂśV Âż HOG DQG EHDW WKHP at  home  especially  when  you’re  short-­handed  and  it’s  a  big  ZLQ ´ 9HQWULJOLD VDLG Âł7KH JDPH ZDV YHU\ FRQWHVWHG DQG very  physical  and  they  (Stevens)  were  mad  because  I  think  Stevens  knew  that  we  were  going  to  beat  them.  So  every  little  WDFNOH WKDW ZDV ELJ ´ The  win  at  Stevens  was  important  not  just  because  the  team  beat  a  top  team  while  short-­handed  ,  but  because  Ven-­ triglia  believes  that  one  of  the  team’s  biggest  weaknesses  is  WKHLU GLIÂż FXOW\ ZLQQLQJ DZD\ JDPHV 9HQWULJOLD EHOLHYHV WKLV LV EHFDXVH WKH JURXS KDV GLIÂż FXOW\ DGMXVWLQJ WR GLIIHUHQW Âż HOGV and  are  in  a  different  mindset  when  they  are  not  at  home.  The  team  will  combat  this  weakness  by  putting  forward  D ÂłYHU\ VNLOOHG YHU\ ELJ DQG YHU\ JUDFHIXO´ WHDP $FFRUGLQJ to  Garafola,  second-­year  goalkeeper  Conor  Power  is  second  to  none  in  the  SUNYAC.  â€œOur  key  strength  that  keeps  this  team  running  is  our  EDFN WKLUG ´ *DUDIROD VDLG Âł&RQRU 3RZHU LV WRS LQ WKH FRQ ference,  is  protected  by  a  veteran  back  four,  Brendan  Ujvary,  Jamal  Lis-­Simmons,  Robbie  Wexler,  and  Nicky  DiPaola,  as  JRRG DV DQ\ EDFN IRXU LQ WKH UHJLRQ DQG LV Âż QLVKHG RII ZLWK 'HIHQVLYH &HQWHU 0LG -RH\ (PEHUJHU ´ *DUDIROD ZLOO EH OHDGLQJ WKH +DZNVÂś RIIHQVH LQ KLV Âż QDO year  with  the  Hawks.  As  Ventriglia  described  him,  Garafola  â€œcould  play  on  the  next  level,  he  is  that  good.  He  is  a  self-­ motivating  guy.  He  works  all  the  time  and  he’s  made  himself  D WUHPHQGRXV SOD\HU ´

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forward  Jimmy  Altadonna.  Altadonna,  who  scored  the  game-­ winning   goal  in  the  game  against  Stevens,  is  expected  to  KDYH D ÂłWUHPHQGRXV´ Âż QDO \HDU ZLWK WKH +DZNV 7KH +DZNVÂś IURQW OLQH DOVR FRQVLVWV RI Âż UVW \HDU PLGÂż HOGHU %ULDQ 6SLQD DQG WKLUG \HDU PLGÂż HOGHU IRUZDUG 6KDQVKH .KRVURVKYLOL .KRVURVKYLOL RULJLQDOO\ IURP WKH 5HSXEOLF RI *HRUJLD LV ZKR 9HQWULJOLD VD\V ZLOO EH WKH Âł; IDFWRU´ GXULQJ WKH +DZNVÂś games  this  season. Ventriglia  said  that  with  a  team  full  of  fourth-­year  stu-­ dents,  their  goal  has  to  be  to  win  the  SUNYAC  Tournament  at  the  end  of  the  season.  ³7KLV WHDP QHHGV WR PDNH WKH SRVW VHDVRQ WRXUQDPHQW ´ said  Ventriglia.  â€œIt’s  a  given.  We  have  to.  They’re  good  enough  to  do  that.  It’s  a  senior-­laden  team  and  they  only  have  one  more  shot.  That’s  it.  And  I  think  they  will  really  do  be-­ lieve  that  they  can  do  it.  I’ve  been  to  tournaments  many  times  DQG DQ\WKLQJ FDQ KDSSHQ RQFH \RX JHW WKHUH ´ Garafola  not  only  wants  to  get  a  home  game  for  the  team,  but   because  there’s  another  group  of  people  that  he  and  the  rest  of  the  team  are  looking  to  please  if  they  make  the  tournament. “We  aspire  to  win  our  SUNYAC  games  during  the  sea-­ son  so  we  can  host  the  playoffs  and  have  our  fans,  which  DUH WKH EHVW LQ WKH ZRUOG URRW XV RQ RQ RXU KRPH WXUI ´ VDLG Garafola. The  next  game  the  Hawks  will  play  at  home  will  be  against  Union  College  on  Sept.  17  at  1  p.m.

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Every  institution  has  their  traditions  and  leg-­ ends;Íž  and  SUNY  New  Paltz  has  Hugo  the  Hawk.   The  tradition  began  many  years  ago  with  profes-­ sor  and  falconry  expert  Heinz  Meng,  who  served  on  the  faculty  for  50  years.   According  to  SUNY  New  Paltz’s  website,  the  hawk  represents  the  academics,  athletic  and  personal  attitudes  associated  with  the  college.   While  the  hawk  is  a  celebrated  tradition,  including  participation  in  commencement,  our  be-­ loved  mascot  has  not  always  been  so  lucky. “About  5  years  ago  I  saw  the  old  mascot  cos-­ WXPH VLWWLQJ RQ WKH Ă€ RRU LQ DQ HTXLSPHQW URRP ´ VDLG %DVHEDOO +HDG &RDFK 0DWW *ULIÂż WKV Âł,W ZDV worn  and  ragged  and  hadn’t  been  used  in  a  while.  At  that  time  more  students  were  starting  to  come  to  basketball  games  and  other  events  so  I  thought  it  would  be  neat  to  have  someone  to  wear  the  costume  again  to  add  to  the  growing  atmosphere  at  games.â€? *ULIÂż WKV LV DWWULEXWHG ZLWK WKH UHELUWK RI RXU mascot  and  is  therefore  responsible  for  the  on-­court  entertainment. “The  mascot  at  New  Paltz  was  resurrected,â€?  said  former  mascot  Ben  Quick,  adding  that  all  the  FUHGLW VKRXOG JR WR *ULIÂż WKV 4XLFN Âż OOHG WKH KDZN VXLW XQWLO KH WUDQVIHUUHG

VFKRROV VSULQJ ZDV KLV Âż QDO VHPHVWHU DV +XJR The  hawk’s  web  page  explains  that  because  hawks  soar  high  above  the  ground  in  search  of  prey,  they  embody  the  core  mission  the  school  has  for  its  students—to  continually  challenge  themselves  and  descend  upon  knowledge  and  opportunity  like  a  hawk  would  its  prey.   â€œThe  mascot  is  a  symbol  of  our  school  spirit,  RXU KLVWRU\ DQG WUDGLWLRQV ´ VDLG *ULIÂż WKV Âł+DYLQJ Hugo  present  at  athletic  contests  and  campus  events  adds  a  level  of  excitement  to  the  venue.â€? According  to  Quick,  when  Hugo  was  awarded  D QHZ KLVWRULFDOO\ VLJQLÂż FDQW QDPH KLV SXUSRVH RQ campus  changed. “It  initially  was  an  athletics  department  thing  and  the  administration,  when  they  redid  their  logo  and  everything,  kind  of  adopted  Hugo,â€?  said  Quick.   â€œAround  the  time  they  gave  him  the  name,  they  started  using  him  as  the  face  of  the  school.â€? Now,  with  a  fresh  costume  and  Huguenot  name,  our  mascot  is  all  over  the  school,  brochures,  and  ad-­ vertisements. “They’ve  used  it  for  a  lot  of  PR  stuff,  like  move-­ in  day  as  a  visible  icon,  and  that’s  not  what  Hugo  is  supposed  to  embody  for  me,â€?  said  Quick.   â€œThe  scope  of  what  you  can  do  is  certainly  reduced  if  you  have  to  shake  hands  and  kiss  babies  the  whole Â

time.â€? While  the  purpose  and  mission  of  the  mascot  can  be  debated,  the  school  felt  that  Hugo’s  presence  was  important  enough  to  maintain  that  they  bought  a  QHZ FXVWRP FRVWXPH 7RJHWKHU 4XLFN DQG *ULIÂż WKV EURXJKW D GDQFLQJ Ă€ DLOLQJ GLYLQJ KDZN EDFN WR OLIH *ULIÂż WKV H[SODLQHG WKDW 4XLFN ZDV DQ REYLRXV choice  to  don  the  hawk  suit  because  he  was  creative  and  energetic.   â€œEverything  is  funny  in  a  hawk  suit,â€?  said  Quick.   â€œIt’s  a  law  of  nature.â€? Though  he  lacked  a  theatrical  background,  Quick  literally  threw  himself  into  the  position  boast-­ ing  that  bruises  were  just  part  of  the  job. “Ben  brought  it  back  to  life  -­  he  totally  ex-­ FHHGHG ZKDW DQ\RQH H[SHFWHG ´ VDLG *ULIÂż WKV Âł$W times,  fans  would  be  missing  large  chunks  of  the  game  because  they  were  watching  him!  Since  then,  Dave  Lostaglio,  a  baseball  player  has  been  doing  a  great  job  with  it.â€? 7KRXJK 4XLFN FDQ QR ORQJHU GDQFH RU Ă€ DLO LQ a  hawk  suit,  he  hopes  that  his  tradition  will  live  on. Current  mascot  Dave  Lostaglio,  a  second-­year  EXVLQHVV PDMRU DJUHHV ZLWK 4XLFN DQG *ULIÂż WKV +H feels  that  the  purpose  of  Hugo  is  â€œto  pump  every-­ body  up,  pump  up  the  fans,  to  have  fun  with  the  crowd  and  give  them  a  show.â€?

 Post-­Season  Baseball  Predictions

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Baseball’s  regular  season  is  unfortunately  coming  to  an  end,  but  this  year’s  post-­season  has  the  potential  to  be  some-­ thing  extraordinary.  In  the  AL  East,  the  Yankees  are  slowly  distancing  them-­ selves  from  the  second  place  Red  Sox.  As  of  Sept.  14  the  Bronx  Bombers  have  a  3.5  game  lead  over  their  arch  rivals.  Other  divisions  like  the  AL  Central  and  the  NL  East  seem  to  be  foregone  conclusions  barring  any  monumental  collapse. (Ahem.  2007  Mets,  which  I  still  have  not  gotten  over).  The  Tigers  have  a  commanding  12  game  lead  and  look  to  be  a  formidable  opponent  in  the  playoffs,  with  MVP  candi-­ date  and  American  League  Cy  Young  Award  favorite  Justin  Verlander  commanding  their  rotation.  The  Phillies  (who  have  the  best  record  in  baseball  as  of  Sept.  14  at  a  cool  94-­50)  have  a  10  game  edge  over  the  Wild  Card  leading  Braves  and  continue  to  show  that  they  are  as  good  as  they  were  advertised  at  the  season’s  commencement. One  of  my  favorite  aspects  of  sports  is  the  speculation. Â

Last  year,  I  accurately  predicted  that  the  San  Francisco  Giants  were  going  to  win  the  World  Series.  I  hope  for  the  same  luck  this  time  around.  As  of  right  now,  the  playoff  outlooks  is  as  follows:  The  American  League  playoff  teams  would  be  the  Yankees,  Tigers,  Rangers,  and  the  Red  Sox  (wild  card).  The  National  League  teams  are  the  Phillies,  Brewers,  Diamond-­ backs,  and  Braves  (wild  card).  Out  of  the  American  League,  the  Tigers  will  win  the  pennant,  and  this  is  why:  Justin  Verlander.  I  believe  that  a  Verlander  start  every  three  games  will  be  enough  to  push  them  through  the  post-­season.  Their  offense  is  not  something  to  overlook,  considering  they  have  big  bats  like  Miguel  Cabrera  and  other  solid  role-­players  like  Jhonny  Peralta  and  Ryan  Ra-­ burn.  You  may  ask:  â€œWhy  not  the  Yankees  or  the  Red  Sox?â€?  This  is  my  case.  The  Yankees  have  the  high-­powered  offense,  sure,  but  their  pitching  is  always  going  to  be  a  question  mark  in  my  mind.  After  C.C.  Sabathia,  I  do  not  believe  that  other  rotation  pitchers  like  Bartolo  Colon  and  Ivan  Nova  will  get  the  job  done.  We  all  know  for  sure  that  A.J.  Burnett  cannot  be  trusted. Â

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I  pick  the  Tigers  simply  because  Verlander  is  a  work-­horse  and  it’s  a  gut  feeling. 2Q WKH RWKHU KDQG , DP YHU\ FRQÂż GHQW WKDW WKH %UHZHUV can  take  the  National  League.  The  off-­season  acquisition  of  Zack  Greinke  and  the  mid-­season  trade  to  acquire  Francisco  â€œK-­Rodâ€?  Rodriguez  were  important  in  shoring  up  their  pitch-­ ing  staff.  Their  closer  John  Axford  has  been  a  stud  in  the  bull-­ pen  converting  42  of  44  saves  (as  of  9.12.11).  Their  offense  is  (to  put  it  quite  ineloquently)  bananas.  Ryan  Braun  and  Prince  Fielder  are  the  best  3-­4  combination  in  the  league,  bar  none.  Other  players  important  to  their  success  are  All-­Star  Rickie  Weeks  and  Corey  Hart. The  Brewers  will  win  the  Fall  Classic  in  six  games.  Bold  prediction,  indeed,  but  it’s  the  Brew  Crew’s  time  to  shine.  Yovani  Gallardo  and  Zack  Greinke  will  prove  to  be  a  tough  task  for  opposing  lineups.  In  addition,  Braun,  Fielder  and  the  rest  of  the  offense  will  be  overpowering  and  the  long  ball  and  extra-­base  hits  will  be  imperative  to  their  success.  The  beauty  of  the  game  is  its  unpredictable  nature.  Octo-­ EHU ZLOO GHÂż QLWHO\ SURYH WR EH D FUD]\ PRQWK

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Rejniak Leads Basketball Team

By Kate Blessing

were its strengths, what were its challenges, he really took the time to do that.” Rejniak has led teams to championships After struggling for an impressive re-­ and helped them gain national recognition as cord the past few seasons, Men’s Basketball an Assistant Coach. By working under leg-­ is under new leadership. Head Coach Mike endary coaches and with reputable teams, he Rejniak has worked with teams at Amherst has gained the experience it takes to elevate College, Plymouth State University and The the standard and reputation of the New Paltz College of New Men’s Basketball program. Jersey, bringing “I had the opportunity in my career to with him seven move up to Div. 1 and do that route, but years of Div. III I’m a D. III guy,” said Rejniak. “At D. III coaching experi-­ we get really blue collar type of kids that ence. have other aspects— they’re not so focused “He was by where basketball has to become a job.” far the most pre-­ Rejniak is excited to help the team and pared person for program to succeed and promises to work this process that the players as hard as it takes to ensure suc-­ we’ve encountered cess. MIKE REJNIAK in any search that “This school is such an unbelievable we’ve done,” said sleeping giant,” said Rejniak. “–and a place Athletic Director Stuart Robinson. “He had where I can make my mark.” taken the time to really know this campus. Men’s Basketball has been let down He really understood where the college was, in the past by a promising beginning that where the college wanted to go athletically, waned down to an average season by spring where it wanted to go academically, what Copy Editor | Kblessing34@newpaltz.edu

and upperclassmen are hoping they can come out on top this year. “It’s a great sort of challenge because I think here they have all the tools, they’ve just never been implemented before,” said Rejniak. Rejniak came to SUNY New Paltz to build a program. Though he has been offered opportunities elsewhere, he intends to stay at SUNY New Paltz and awake this sleeping giant. “Some coaches think short term and I WKLQN &RDFK 5HMQLDN GH¿ QLWHO\ ZDQWV WR ZLQ this year,” said fourth-­year guard and Cap-­ tain Harris Wichard. “But by hiring coach Rejniak, I think it’s setting New Paltz up for success for a long, extended period of time.” Third-­year Guard and Forward Matt Devine said Rejniak is building a team based upon discipline and chemistry. Devine also said that the combination will hopefully help New Paltz see a winning sea-­ son this year and grow an impressive reputa-­ tion both athletically and academically. “The winning spark is in the pre-­season

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now so I think he’s a real help already from just only being here for a couple weeks,” said Devine. The ambition is obvious as the team has come together and weathered a stricter, more intense pre-­season to hopefully be-­ come the best the school has seen in a while. “I think we’re just being held to our highest standard,” said fourth-­year guard Jermaine Wallace. “This year if you’re coming a minute late, he’s holding you ac-­ countable for it.” The dedication Coach Rejniak requires of his players is demanding. The team is boasting an average of six training sessions per week including lifting and basic skills. They come together two or three times per week to play together as a team. “Everyone’s really impressed by his no-­crap attitude,” said Wichard. “He’s very strict, very old fashioned and he doesn’t re-­ ally take any excuses. I’ve been really happy and impressed by his attitude and I’m really looking forward to playing under him.”

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The Future For Pelfrey WHITE SOX

MANAGING EDITOR With the Mets’ season coming to an end this month, the fan base has already begun speculating the potential personnel moves General Manager Sandy Alderson might add to his vision of the Mets’ future. Besides the obvious concerns of Jose Reyes’ potential departure and the uncer-­ tainty in the bullpen, many fans are wonder-­ ing what the future has in store for once-­ace Mike Pelfrey. Pelfrey’s season has been a disappoint-­ ment thus far, highlighted by his 7-­11 record and subpar 4.66 ERA, in what was supposed to be a year where he showed maturity and poise on the mound. His stellar 2010 season, where he won 15 games and held together a Mets staff, seems like a distant memory as the inconsistency we once thought plagued the right-­hander has returned. After being anointed the ace of the ro-­ tation by Manager Terry Collins in Spring Training, Pelfrey has not built on his pre-­ vious season’s dominance and his lack of consistency has led many to question his place in Alderson’s grand scheme for the Mets’ future. One report in The New York Post cited cited a source who speculated that the Mets might look to re-­build the team by trading current core pieces of the roster and gearing up for a pennant run by the time prospects Matt Har-­ vey, Zach Wheeler and others are ready for the big leagues. If this were the case, it would certainly spell the end for a commodity such as Pel-­ frey. Though he is inconsistent, teams will not forget the brilliance the hurler showed in 2010. His age is prime for a pitcher – which is a reason the Mets will certainly have in mind if and when this decision oc-­ curs. If the Mets were to trade Pelfrey this winter, there are a few different possibilities I see occurring:

PIRATES

The other ‘Sox are an option as the team might be looking for another right-­handed starter to add to their rotation. The Mets might be able to pry a few of the White Soxs’ mid-­level prospects such as Tyler Flow-­ HUV DQG ¿ OO D QHHG D OHJLWLPDWH starting catcher.

METS GET: C Tyler Flowers

REDS

The Pirates are an intriguing trade option for any team. With their current surge in the standings, the team and recently-­extended GM Neil Huntington might be look-­ ing to build upon their newfound success. Coupled with the fact they have stockpiled prospects over their years of dismay, the Mets might be able to snag a strong pros-­ pect due to the dilution the Pirates system might have.

METS GET: P Colton Cain

YANKEES

The Reds could have interest in adding Big Pelf to their start-­ LQJ ¿ YH DQG PLJKW EH ZLOOLQJ WR GR D VZDS RI XQGHUDFKLHYLQJ hurlers. Despite his injury-­riddled few seasons Edinson Volquez could be someone the Mets target in a deal with the Reds. When healthy, Volquez is one of the games premier pitchers -­ much like Pelfrey when he is consistent.

METS GET: P Edinson Volquez

The Yankees will certainly be on the prowl for starting pitchers this offseason, as they currently boast C.C. Sabathia and a bunch of question marks in their rotation. With the upcoming Free Agent starting pitching pool as thin as it is, it is not out of the question that the Yankees might take a gamble on someone like Pelfrey and his obvi-­ ous upside. The Yanks also have depth in their catching prospects which matches them well with the Mets. METS GET: C Austin Romine

RED SOX The ‘Sox should be searching for pitching depth as the winter rolls around since much of their rotation has been inconsistant throughout this season. The Mets would be wise to target current set-­up man Daniel Bard in a package for Pelfrey, as %DUG FRXOG VORW LQ DV WKH WHDP¶V FORVHU DQG ZRXOG LQVWDQWO\ ¿ OO D JODULQJ QHHG 7KH two teams would be swapping young arms, the only question would be weather the Red Sox would be willing to send the hard throwing right-­hander.

METS GET: P Daniel Bard

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