Golden Fact The very first building on campus was Moran Hall, which is now home to the history and Political Science Dept.
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Area Students to be Featured on Local Television By AARON KREIN Arts Editor The Saint Rose campus will serve as the host for Channel Albany’s “A Light Jazz Christmas Yuletide Celebration” special airing in December. Donald Hyman, American Studies professor and adjunct, is the head of the show “Albany Tempo Spectrum,” which has put this special together for the past six years. After years of shooting the special in a studio, he decided to move the taping of the set to the Hubbard Interfaith Sanctuary on campus. He was looking for a place filled with the communityfeel to enhance the program. With the help of Joan Horgan, Director of Campus Ministry, this special is being brought to fruition. “The campus itself represents a diversity of beliefs. People cel-
ebrate the holidays in different ways,” said Hyman. “For example, we have students here from the Caribbean who celebrate Three Kings Day or Boxing Day. We wanted to get those perspectives too.” The special is formed around the idea of “home for the holidays,” and Hyman is dedicated this year to getting the student’s perspective. Students from local middle schools, high schools and colleges will be involved. Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanza are among the multiple holidays that will be showcased in the special to show the diversity of the Albany community. Students from SUNY Albany will also be involved and Congressman Paul Tonko will close out the program Continued on A3
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The Golden Notes performed in the Hubbard Interfaith Sanctuary as part of “A Light Jazz Christmas Yuletide Celebration,” to be aired on Channel Albany every day in December.
Health Care House Calls at St. Anne’s By PAULETTE MORGAN Contributing Writer Doctors still make house calls at the St. Anne Institute in Pine Hills, a practice that has largely vanished for practitioners and patients alike. But the Institute, which has been providing services in the Albany area since 1887, operates a full-service medical clinic for the adolescent girls in its residential and day treatment programs. While 13 RNs, LPNs and other medical personnel staff the five-
bed medical clinic on a full-time basis, medical professionals from the community, along with their assistants, make regular—sometimes weekly—visits to the Institute to provide services, exams and treatment. “We have a dentist who comes in on Fridays, a primary care physician every Thursday, a gynecologist every other Tuesday, a psychologist every Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, and an optometrist once a month on Wednesday morning,” said the clinic’s medical secretary, Su-
zanne Casazza, ticking off the list of professionals who visit the Institute. Clinic services are available for the residents, day service participants, preschool students, and staff at the Institute, she said. The Institute provides a variety of educational, vocational and community-based outreach programs for troubled teenaged girls. “Many of these kids have behavioral problems,” said Casazza. Residents come to the Institute through court placement or as a Continued on A3
Physical Education Conference Preview
By LOGAN RIPLEY Sports Editor
The first Wednesday of November marks the date for the Physical Education Conference. The conference, Nov. 2, will feature a total of 12 guest speakers spanning a time frame of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. In its 24th installment since 1992, the conference emphasizes looking at the whole person according to organizer
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Ann Neilson. Neilson, who has been at Saint Rose since the beginning of the conference, finds this event critical for the health of students and faculty. Though the presenters have changed over the years, Neilson has been there since the beginning, the one who created the event. “Health is your wealth,” said Neilson. This being another motto for the event and how to Continued on A6
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Services of Remembering The month of November is traditionally a time to remember those who have died. One opportunity to do so on campus is to gather names of deceased family and friends that members of our
College community would like to honor and remember. At 12:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 2nd, students and faculty are invited to stop by the Hubbard Interfaith Sanctuary and add
the names of any loved ones who have died to the tree painted on the window facing the campus green in the Sanctuary. For more information, contact Joan Horgan at horganj@strose.edu.
Veteran Appreciation Opportunities
The Office of Veteran Admissions and the Student Association committees of School Spirit and Community Service have collaborated to present a night of appreciation for veterans in the Saint Rose community and Capital Region. The event will be held on the campus green starting at 6 p.m. on Monday,
Nov. 7. The event will host veteran speakers presenting on the topic of experiences serving in various branches of service and how they fit into the Saint Rose community. There will also be opportunities throughout the week following to fill out cards for veterans at tables in the EAC, and Student
Association will be accepting material or monetary donations to give to the Veterans Miracle Center. Contact David Judd or Renee Kochinski at juddd065@strose. edu or kochinskir535@strose. edu respectively for more information about these opportunities.
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Saint Rose Professor Organizes Local Holiday Production Continued from A1 with a New Year’s message. “It’s focused more on younger people and students celebrating the holidays as opposed to just the older crowd,” said Hyman. Saint Rose students Jake Lillman, Renee Kochinski, Vito Van Dunk and Alex Gibson along with UAlbany student Christine Bloecker opened the show with hostess Susan Roberts, who introduced segments. Kochinski, who found out about the event from a Student Association meeting, was promoted at the last minute during the event. “I did not come with intentions to be involved, but rather just support,” said Kochinski. “However, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to be one of the hostesses and I was able to introduce the men's soccer team. I enjoyed it very much. Everyone was so nice
and the event itself is a wonderful idea.” There were many students and staff involved in the production of this special. Seven members of the men’s soccer team will wish a happy holiday to their families and the viewers on the air. Saint Rose alums Dan Milici, Steve Sullivan and Blaise Bryant will be performing individually as well as a capella group The Golden Notes. The latter group will be performing two songs, “Mary, Did You Know?” and Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” The second song will be led by member Mackenzie Wright. Sr. Sean Peters, Director of Mission Experience, will also give a holiday message. Besides performances, there will be a variety of segments such as interviews with people in the community. There will also be holiday gift suggestions and skits
throughout the special. Bloeckers, who is also from Cornerstone Campus Ministries, will discuss the organization’s upcoming mission work. Opposed to the last couple of years, the majority of the special was taped in succession last Saturday at Hubbard. The Montessori Magnet School Choir’s performance was taped prior from their school and will be inserted into the special in postproduction. Hyman was influenced by the 1960s variety specials of Dean Martin and Bob Hope when putting this celebration together. Many of the decorations incorporated into the special are courtesy of St. Andrews Thrift Shop on Western Avenue. However, this time, the music and tone of the special will be “light jazz music.” “The idea was to do the music in a different artistic format,” said Hyman.
The Stacks family, who play guitars and violins, will perform the “12 Days of Christmas.” Jayda Chance will sing “O Holy Night” and The Gazebo Effect will play “Winter Wonderland.” Bryant, a Saint Rose alum who will be playing two sets, thinks the inclusion of Saint Rose in the special is representative of a bigger picture. “When people talk about Saint Rose over the past year or so, the main topic of conversation is, of course, the program cuts and the impact they've had on the College,” said Bryant. “This is a good way, not to necessarily change the conversation, but to realize there is still this sense of community throughout all of this.” The special will be shown every day throughout the month of December on Channel Albany. Hyman says the special will probably be shown more than once on both Christmas Eve and Christmas
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Day. “Albany Tempo Spectrum,” Hyman’s show where he serves as the host and producer, is typically shown Monday through Sunday at 5 p.m. For those who don’t have public access channels, the special will be posted online for the first time. The online posting will give families more chances to see the show. The idea was inspired by students whose parents don’t have these channels but want to see their kids participate in the special. “If you don’t have public access, then you can go online to Open Stage Media on Demand and it will be there,” said Hyman. Despite significant changes this year, Hyman is confident that families who tune into the taped celebration will be pleased. “A lot of stuff will be new for people, but at the same time they’ll see that this is something special.”
Doctors Still Make House Calls Continued from A1 result of social service caseworker recommendations for residential treatment. Others arrive as a result of voluntary placement through a school district, she said. The Institute currently serves approximately 50 teens, most of whom are residential students, and that number changes according to placement needs and court decisions. Providing on-site medical treatment helps the Institute avoid the cost and security issues involved with transporting residents to other sites and monitoring them while they are off campus. “We dispense medications and treat injuries” at the clinic, said Casazza. These can include treatment for routine ailments like back injuries, scrapes from accidents, or injuries from sports in the gym, she said. However, the clinic must also occasionally deal with the aftermath of more serious situations, such as when there is violence or a client attacks a staff member, and security at the clinic is tight. “There are some kids with real
issues,” said Casazza. Delivering care to the Institute’s residents is sometimes challenging, she said. State and federal supervision of residential facilities has become more extensive in recent years, requiring more paperwork and documentation. In addition, students often have immediate needs, and come from a home life where “everything is urgent.” “The whole outside world is brought in,” she said. For many years, one of the professionals making house calls at the Institute was Dr. Forrest Gabriels, a long-time Albany-based ophthalmologist, who would perform eye exams and prescribe glasses or treatment for the troubled girls at the Institute. Gabriels, who began working with the St. Anne Institute shortly after he started his practice in 1969, remembers packing up optical equipment in his leather doctor’s bag and travelling to the Institute to examine the students at the school there, recording the results on paper index cards. Gabriels followed in the footsteps of
his father, who began providing on-site services to the Institute in the 1940s and ‘50s. “I liked to deal with the young people,” Gabriels said. “I guess I was goofy-acting, and the girls liked that. But I also got the information I needed for treatment because they would joke around with me.” Nurses at the Institute were always present, he said, and there were sometimes additional monitors there for the more difficult residents. While Gabriels no longer regularly visits St. Anne’s, he continues to provide services to the Institute on an as-needed basis in his office on Western Avenue. “Optics don’t change,” he said, although it could sometimes be difficult to get the necessary permissions for more serious operations and procedures, since parents of the Institute’s residents can be absent or unavailable. Otherwise, he said, “they were just normal teenage girls.” Currently, Dr. Carol Greenblatt, an East Greenbush pedia-
trician, is one of the providers who deliver medical services to the residents at St. Anne’s on a weekly basis. “Mostly they come in with typical teenage problems,” she said, “colds, sore throats, ear infections and the like.” She completes a full physical screening on all newlyarrived residents at intake, and will typically treat eight to 12 patients per visit. While most health complaints are routine, she noted, some residents have been treated for psychological issues on a more frequent basis than she encounters in her regular practice. Medications used for that type of treatment can have side effects such as constipation and sleeplessness, which she treats at the Institute. Greenblatt said that she has been working with the St. Anne Institute “for a little over a year,” and previously worked with children at Vanderheyden Hall. The girls at St. Anne’s are “pretty receptive” to treatment, she said, and are usually happy to have their
health problems addressed.“It’s a different population with different care needs,” she said. Dental services are supplied by Dr. Jane Shieh, a Schenectadybased dentist who also makes regular visits to the Institute. Shieh has worked with St. Anne’s for about seven years, and finds the work rewarding. “We see patients who have never seen a dentist or rarely had their teeth cleaned or fixed, as well as those who have had regular cleanings,” she said. Shieh provides dental screenings for new admissions, and also treats the residents as problems arise. Although she provides a range of dental care for the girls, Shieh is unable to provide treatment that requires multiple visits, such as orthodontics, root canals or crowns. “The length of time they are here varies,” she said. “They can be here one week and gone the next. I try not to leave unfinished treatment.” Overall, Shieh found that the residents are appreciative of her services. “We are here to help and they know that,” she said.
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Maggie Hadlock showcases her Frankenstein pumpkin at the paint and sip event By JONAS MILLER Co-Executive Editor The promise of pumpkins and prizes brought students together on Thursday night when the Student Events Board hosted a Halloween-themed paint and sip in the
Standish room at The College of Saint Rose. The event, which ran from 6 to 8 p.m., drew over 60 students, providing necessary stress relief as midterms consume the campus. “I have a paper due tomorrow,” Danika Guerin said with a chuckle
as she put the finishing touches on her pumpkin. “I was stressed out, but now I’m really happy.” Guerin, the musical entertainment chair for SEB, was one of several executive board members at the event showing support for their colleague, Alexandra Gibson. Gibson planned the event, and was very pleased with the turnout. “This was the first event I ever attended last year,” Gibson said. “It’s a great opportunity for students to meet new people.” While painting pumpkins was the main attraction, doughnuts, hot chocolate, apple cider and several raffles provided extra incentive for students. All proceeds from the raffles went to Relay for Life. After an hour, ten dozen doughnuts had been reduced to a single box, and the table once filled with miniature pumpkins began to look bare. Maggie Hadlock, a junior at the College, had a smile on her face as
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she lifted her Frankenstein painted pumpkin into the air. “It’s festive, you know?” Hadlock said. Some students could be seen in costume, proving it’s never too early to dress up. When all hallow’s eve approaches, the College continues to strive to present safe options for students during a weekend normally filled with off-campus extracurriculars. “I like that it brings a diverse group of people together,” said Laura Meyer, the Semi Formal chair on the Events Board. “It’s a safe place to meet people you normally wouldn’t.” The spooky paint and sip was among the handful of events held by SEB last week. It joins the list of past events including the Lip sync battle, the ghostly gathering on the quad, and the psychic fair that took place last Monday night, kicking off the week.
The painting event was the most attended last week, bringing together so many students that SEB President Rebecca Moyer had to go get more supplies. “You know the event’s a success when you have to go get more brushes,” Moyer said. She praised the efforts of her colleague Gibson, citing the great turnout as a sign of a good event. “It’s going very well,” Moyer continued. “It’s a great passive event, people can come and go as they please.” A full schedule of SEB events can always be found on their Facebook page. Last Friday, they hosted a haunted house in the Events and Athletics Center, and another one in the Office of Residence life on Saturday. The Student Events Board is a student-run organization that plans events year round, giving students from all backgrounds the opportunity to connect.
Stars Shine at Second Annual Lip Sync Battle By SERIAH SARGENTON Staff Writer On Tuesday, Oct. 25th, the Student Event Board (SEB) and Outside The Box (OTB) collaborated for the second annual Lip Sync in Saint Joseph's Hall located at The College of Saint Rose. The idea behind lip sync originated from an original board member of Outside the Box who watched a segment of a lip sync on Jimmy Fallon’s show, and thought it would be cool to have a similar event here at the College. “It’s a tradition here at Saint Rose, it was good last year so we wanted to uphold the tradition,” SEB Musical Entertainment Chair and sophomore Danika Guerin said as she was preparing for the big event. The night included a doughnut-eating contest and a costume contest which celebrated this year's theme of Halloween. The point of lip sync is to “help bring smiles and positivity,” explained OTB president Kristie Guerriero, since Outside the Box’s main goal is to spread positivity and smiles
across campus. Guerriero and Guerin just wanted people to have fun and not worry about their stress. Emcee Matt Frisher started the event with a performance of a remix of “Bad Blood” as a celebration of Taylor Swift’s 10th anniversary of her debut album. Afterwards Frisher introduced Sonia Morreira, the second emcee of the night. There were many different styles of music performed Tuesday from classic R&B to Hard Rock. A favorite lip syncer of the show was transfer sophomore Kyle Johnson, who embodied Rihanna’s spirit as he performed “Love on the Brain.” “I loved his performance, I think he did great,” said audience member and senior Sarah Barhold, and graduate Brittany DuQuette and senior Nerys Jimenez agreed. Part of the reason Johnson decided to perform—besides the fact that he is a SEB member—was because he misses a friend he left behind at Pace University when he transferred to the College. He had his friend record the show
so that he can surprise her with a video of him being on stage. “The best part of all of this is the feedback from friends about my performance,” Johnson exclaimed after being approached by many audience members who were encouraging him. As an SEB member he was very proud with how everything came together, as was Guerin, who stated, “I think we killed it.” Thought many favored Johnson’s performance, he lost Best Entertainer to Aaron Krein who sang Kelly Clarkson’s hit throwback “Since U Been Gone.” These weren’t the only artist whose personas were brought to the stage. Rock band Green Day was brought alive by Russian freshman Victor Dmitriev who sang their hit “Holiday.” Dmitriev described his experience on stage as “like being a fish in an aquarium surrounded by thousands of spectators and feeling that you’re awesome.” Part of his performance involved an interaction from the audience clapping and chanting lyrics. “In-
teraction with crowds is everything I have. Without interacting I don’t exist as a musician,” Dmitriev explained, as a music industry major. Aside from being performers, Johnson and Dmitriev both agreed that from an audience point of view this year’s lip sync was a success. Music wasn’t the only entertainment provided by SEB and OTB. A portion of the event was a doughnut eating contest in which six contestants had to eat different flavored doughnuts off of a string without using their hands. The audience screamed as they watched the contest from their seats. In the end it was Travis Townsend who raced to first place, and Conor Walsh who came second. The event ended with a surprise performance of the “High School Musical” song “Breaking Free,” performed by SA Director of Activities Vito Vandunk and area coordinator Ana Saccoman. The audience was full of smiles by the time 10 p.m. arrived. Just before emcees Frisher and Morreira said goodbye to the audi-
ence, the winner of the costume contest was announced. It was between Maja Degaray who dressed as Sandy from the film “Grease,” Jimenez as Leatherface, and DuQuette as a Harry Potter student in the house of Hufflepuff. It was Grease’s very own Sandy who took home best costume. For SEB and OTB the event was a success. They beat the number of audience members from last year, and the event turned out better than expected. In addition, audience members such as Barhold, Jimenez and DeQuette used this opportunity as a way to relieve themselves from academic stress, one of the prominent goals both clubs had for holding this event. “We’re not the face, we’re the hearts,” Guerin said proudly about SEB and OTB about the role each club plays bringing happiness to other students. Want to write for News? Contact News Editor Kate Pierce at piercek966@strose.edu.
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By KATE PIERCE News Editor Despite the cold and snowy weather putting some students in the mood for the holiday season already, the English Club hosted a Spooky Poetry Slam to celebrate Halloween. President of the English Club Christina Romeo welcomed a small crowd into the lounge area of the Neil Hellman Library to kick off the fourth annual event. “It’s much more personal here,” said Romeo of the library. “English Club is like a community, and we wanted to bring that community feeling here.” Sign-ups for the poetry slam were open to all students regardless of major, with eight students ultimately performing at the event. There was also a costume contest that was held after the slam winners were announced. Judges from the English Club included Nicholas Feeley, Shanell Hanna, Christiane Lee, Britteny Domagal and Chantelle DeRose. The judges gave each poetry presentation a rating on a scale of one to ten, with cumulative scores being used to decide the winner at the end of the event. First place went to Alquan Higgs, second place to Breanne Colon, and third place to Hannah Lee. Higgs received a score of ten from all five judges for all three rounds. He said he has been writing poetry for about four years, and that this is his third experience performing at a poetry slam. “I would encourage others to perform in poetry slams because it is a way to express yourself and lets your classmates learn more about you, in a differ-
ent environment other than the classroom,” said Higgs. “It's also a rewarding experience to share original work with others and hear their feedback.” Higgs performed three original poems, entitled “What I Live In,” “Two Sided Love Story,” and “Love.” “I found it in a place I thought was dead./Then I heard a voice say, ‘Son pick up your head, you’re not dead’/I found hope,” said Higgs, as the last lines of the poem “What I Live In.” The winner of the costume contest was Amelia Schramm for her portrayal of the character Holtzmann From "Ghostbusters." Hanna, one of the judges and Vice President of the club, said that she was glad for the great turnout for the event, and that the performers made it hard to judge. She also said that she would encourage students to partake in opportunities like poetry slams because it can help bolster confidence for presentations and performances required for classes. “People have this perception of poetry,” said Hanna. “But it can be anything you want it to be.” Colon, treasurer of English Club, said that she turns to poetry as an outlet when she’s emotional. “When something’s heavy on my heart, I get it out on paper,” she said. The English Club is planning on hosting another poetry slam in the spring, and next month they will be holding their second annual novel writing series in which all participants come together to collectively write a novel in a month.
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Christina Romeo, President of the English Club, hosted the fourth annual Spooky Slam.
SEB Hosts Psychic Fair By JONAS MILLER Co-Executive Editor The Student Events Board kicked off a week of Halloween-themed fun Monday night when they hosted a Psychic fair in the Midknight Eats Lounge. More than two dozen students signed up for sessions lasting approximately five minutes each with either a Psychic or a Tarot Card reader, hoping to get a glimpse of their future. “You’re not supposed to tell anyone what your results were,” said Sonia Morreira, a sophomore at the College. “But it was pretty accurate.” The event was planned by SEB President Rebecca Moyer and the Director of Student Life, Chereva
McClellan, who is also the faculty advisor of the events board. In previous years, the SEB has hosted the Saint Rose music Awards, but money for the event was reallocated by Student Association, and the Psychic fair was born. “We still had to plan an event,” said Moyer, “so we took it upon ourselves and planned the event as a part of our themed week.” Their work paid off, as the sign up list for the two-hour event filled up within the first 30 minutes. The psychic, Shannon Waddingham, is the main Psychic at Seraphim’s Keep, located at 911 Central Avenue. She does readings from the location, and often is hired by outside organizations to come do events such as Saint Rose’s psychic fair.
As for what drew students towards her talents, Morreira says she’s always been very curious about the psychic realm. “I’ve always had a deep respect for that kind of stuff,” Morreira said. “I absolutely enjoyed it.” The Student Events Board is a Student Association-funded club that provides resident and commuter students with both on- and off-campus opportunities to learn, grow and interact. They offer many events throughout the year including Senior week for graduating students, as well as a Semi-Formal dance each semester. For more information, contact Rebecca Moyer at moyerr875@strose.edu. A complete list of all the events offered by the organization can be found on the SEB Facebook page.
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Just Keep Teaching Sociology Professor continues to work hard despite looming cuts at the College
By ROBERT MARTINEZ Contributing Writer In the small town of Farmington right out of Rochester there is a young girl who will grow up to be a prominent sociology professor. Professor Stephanie A. BennettKnapp is a sociology professor at The College of Saint Rose and she has been teaching here since 2008. She loves teaching sociology and she wants her students to grasp knowledge on the issues that are affecting communities all across America. This semester she is currently teaching five classes, but she normally teaches four. With the sociology major being cut at the start of 2017 she feels sad and hurt, saying, "No student will get to experience what I experienced in being a sociology major ever again." With the budget cuts, a lot of professors have been let go but luckily Bennett will still remain. She is glad though that some sociology courses are going to remain and she will still be able to teach. With these cuts she is also determined to work harder in her classes and give back more to her students because now that the major is gone she still wants student to learn the fundamental issues that are faced with in sociology. "Professor Bennett has been helpful in answering any questions that anyone in the class has and she is very engaging in teaching us about sociology," said Jeffrey Perrotti, a junior at Saint Rose and currently a student of Bennett’s. Sam Madani, a former sociology major and recent graduate of Saint Rose, said, “Professor Bennett is an amazing teacher and with the experience she had in doing research it is very helpful when she compares that to what we are learning in class.” When Bennett is not busy grading papers and homework assignments she loves traveling and hiking. She often visits the Adiron-
dacks as she has done a lot of research there. Bennett loves to travel and she has been to a lot of different areas and communities, ranging from big metropolitan cities to small little communities. She travels a lot because she is always conducting new research in these different communities. Bennett earned her Ph.D. in sociology, as well as her bachelor and master degrees, from the University at Albany. It took her 14 years to graduate and receive all her degrees as she had to work during that time. In college she was first a history and political science major but she thought sociology was more interesting and it was fun. In grad school Bennett was offered a scholarship and she was ready and excited to learn and teach sociology. She was proud of the opportunity she was given because her parents never went to college. Before teaching at Saint Rose Bennett also taught sociology at SUNY Oneonta and SUNY Oswego. Before Bennett was teaching she worked for the NY State Prevention Program which was located in the upstate region. During this time she focused on how to help at-risk families as well as victims of child abuse. Bennett has also done research with a group called the Eastern Sociology Society, which is a group that is located in the Upstate region. The research was centered in the Adirondack and looked at child obesity rates since the recession. Bennett's research concluded that minority families with lower income will tend to have more child obesity as they can only afford junk food as healthy food is much more expensive. With all the years of going to college and then teaching at Saint Rose, Bennett said, "I wouldn't be teaching sociology today if it wasn't for the influential faculty members."
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Saint Rose Health Conference “Make the Little Changes” Continued from A1
better the Saint Rose community health as a whole. Also there is a mandatory attendance requirement for physical education or lifetime fitness students. The attendance is pivotal to the final grade of students but should not be the only reason to attend the free event. The students need to learn 12 facts about the presentation they watched and fill it out on a given sheet. This is again a part of not only remembering the event, but also to recognize changes that can be made. “Encourage people to make the little changes,” said Neilson. An instrumental part of the event is giving students the tools to look to their future health, and how to keep it throughout their lives. Some 400 people will be attending the event throughout Nov. 2, including Saint Rose
junior and lifetime fitness student Johnny Rotando. “I’m looking forward to the stress management talk,” said Rotando. “With finals coming up soon I’m going to be under stress and pressure.” Ideas presented by speaker Alyssa Fumarola can go a long way in combatting the looming stress brought on by finals. “I want to learn new stress relief tactics,” said Rotando. “Some that I can apply to schoolwork.” Fumarola will be talking on this subject from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Another presenter is Ken Scott, a Saint Rose employee who has been affiliated with the event for 16 years. Scott is a part of the community service office and will be talking about just that from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. “My session is to educate students about the wellness benefits of volunteering in the community,” said Scott. “And inform them about how we
help students do that.” Scott also talked about the usefulness of the conference to the students and surrounding community. “The conference is not only a great resource for students to learn more about forms of wellness they are interested in,” said Scott. “But it’s also a good bridge for those of us in the community to connect directly with students.” The “Volunteering” session presented by Scott, like all the rest, will be located in the classroom next to the swimming pool in the EAC. Free to everyone, the event is beneficial to anyone who enters, students or even presenters. “I always look forward to the chance to stand before a large group of student conferees,” said Scott. “So I can share the stories of struggle and inspiration that we’ve encountered through service in the community.”
November 2, 2016
Volume 85 Issue 10
Opinion
What’s the Deal with Women’s Pants? By ANN MARIE VAETH Contributing Writer What's the deal with women's pants? All the wearers of women's pants understand the struggles. Not only do the sizes make no logical sense, and not only are sizes inconsistent, the lack of decent sized pockets is just the icing on the cake. For 20 years of my life, I have been wearing pants. For many of those years, I have been wearing women’s (or ladies or whatever the stores call them) size pants, and nothing makes sense. There are three main problems with women’s pants: sizes, inconsistency and pockets. The last time I bought pants was a couple of weeks ago at Target. First problem: sizes. Womens sizes are numbers, but the numbers don't seem to follow any logic. Sizes range from 00 to 16, the question is: “5 what?” Unlike men’s pants, where the answer’s simple: a size 32-34 pair of jeans has a 32-inch waist and a 34-inch inseam. Simple. A women's size 5 does definitely not have a 5-inch waist, and as for any indications of inseam, women rely on subjective measurements such as “short” and “tall.” Recently, women's pants, as seen on store-brand jeans at Target and JCPenney, having been including other size measurements, so the
pair of jeans I ended up picking up at Target was labeled “10/30S”... 10 of whatever the heck women's pants are measured, or 30 inch waist. The S is meant to mean short, but I’m 5’3”, which is pretty average. So that doesn't make sense either. The second main issue is the lack of consistency. Not only does the fit of a size 10/30S vary by brand and style, the same brand and style of pants fit completely differently. Like a many other human beings, I like a variety of colors of jeans, so I went to grab a darker pair as well, same brand, style, and size. Just to double check, I tried them on and— of course —they do no fit. I ended up leaving Target after way too long, with a size 10/30S pair of blue jeans, and a size 12/31S, of the same style and brand, in black. Bottom line: women’s pants sizes are an infuriating guessing game. The next problem is the pockets, as in, where the heck are they and why are they so small? Jeans used to have five pockets. There were two in the back, two in the front, and that little mini Chapstick-sized pocket inside the right front pocket. These pockets were big enough for a wallet, your hands, notepad, or even a graphing calculator. This is not a new concept, there has always been a level of sexism in the world of pants pockets. In fact, women’s clothing didn’t have any form of pockets until much later
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than men’s clothing. Pockets began appearing in men’s clothing in the 1600s. Women, on the other hand, utilized hip pouches, and then purses, and it wasn’t until the 1900s that women began to enjoy the genius invention that is the pocket. When women did finally receive pockets, they were more decorative than useful. Now, of the seven pairs of pants I own (including five jeans and two other pants) two of them have fake pockets, four of them have pockets that can’t fit much of anything, and only one of them has a front pockets large enough for an ID or a phone. I even took into account that my phone is on the larger side, so it cannot really fit in any pocket. Side note: fake pockets are an evil mind trick. The microscopic nature of pockets makes them basically useless. Now in order to compensate for this uselessness, women are forced into other options, namely purses or wallets. Of course, women’s wallets are too big for pockets, but that’s not even the point. Purses and wallets, although they are cute, can get in the way. Do you know what’s really fun? Asking your brother to put your phone in his pocket because it won’t fit in yours and you really didn't feel like lugging a purse around the county fair. All you really needed was your phone and wallet, and that’s what pockets are for, right? Wrong. That’s what men’s pockets are for. The point it that women’s pants make no sense, from sizing to style to evil fake pockets and useless small pockets. Women are forced into storage-less pants, and then it becomes a necessity to purchase a purse, wallet or something similar (or just have your hands full all the time). In addition, I have noticed that women’s pants tend to be made of thinner material than men’s, so they tear easier, causing women to buy even more pants, but that’s a topic for another day. Bottom line: pants are too much of a struggle and the emotional and physical cost is just too high for the basic need to be clothed. I do enjoy a good shopping trip, but never have I ever enjoyed shopping for pants.
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Making Obamacare More Affordable By TAYLOR FARNSWORTH
Staff Writer
The Affordable Care Act may not be so “affordable” after all. Federal officials announced last Monday that prices for the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, are going to skyrocket in 2017. Not only are premium prices increasing, but the total number of insurance providers on the federal exchange is going to decrease by 68 providers for next year. It is important to acknowledge the entirety of the Affordable Care Act, because to just repeal it, as Donald Trump suggests, could do more harm than keeping it the way it is. So how do we make health insurance affordable? Hillary Clinton and Trump both, surprisingly, want the same outcome: more options for the American people and essentially making health insurance affordable. How they plan to obtain those outcomes couldn’t be more disparate, though. Clinton admitted the underlying issues of the Affordable Care Act in the second debate, but she didn’t discredit all of its accomplishments. Since the Affordable Care Act was put in effect in 2014, it has brought coverage to 20 million American’s who did not have coverage before. It also makes it illegal for any insurance company to deny coverage to Americans with preexisting health conditions, something that many Americans used to struggle with. While Trump suggests that the Affordable Care Act needs to be repealed, and says he will ask Congress to do so his first day in office, this would harm those 20 million Americans who now have health care, and those who are suffering from previous or current health conditions that made them ineligible for health coverage before the Affordable Care Act made it illegal for insurance companies to deny them. On Thursday, Oct. 20, President Obama discussed the Affordable Care Act in Miami while delivering a speech focused on promoting the upcoming health insurance enrollment period. During his speech, the Presi-
dent made it clear that he was aware of the Affordable Care Act’s shortcomings, and that tweaks indeed need to be made. In addressing the issue of increased premiums the President clarified that “the higher prices do not affect most Americans who still get coverage through a job, and most of the approximately 10 million people with marketplace health plans are buffered by their subsidies.” The Affordable Care Act decides your cost assistance based on your income, so although premium rates are increasing tremendously in 2017, according to Obamacarefacts.com, “7 out of 10 Marketplace customers will still be able to get a plan for less than $75, and 8 out of 10 less than $100.” Those are comforting numbers for some, but when we look at the bigger picture we still need to address the issue of those American’s who will be looking at extremely increased insurance plans. In the state of Arizona, an average 27-year-old is looking at a 116 percent increase for an unsubsidized benchmark plan for next year. While other states, like Indiana, are seeing a 2 percent decrease in that same plan for that same 27-year-old. In an interview with WHQT HOT 105.1 Miami last Wednesday, Clinton addressed the Affordable Care Act issues and talked about her plan to make it work for all Americans. "We’re going to get co-pays and premiums and deductibles down,” said Clinton. “We’re going to tackle prescription drug costs. And we can do that without ripping away the insurance that people now have.” It is no secret that the Affordable Care Act has its problems; President Obama, Secratary Clinton and Mr. Trump all agree on this. But what we need to acknowledge is a solution to make the system work for all Americans, not just some. However, by repealing the Act we would have no foundation to build upon and be left to start from the ground up again leaving those who are currently covered without coverage again. But making tweaks to the current Affordable Care Act won’t work unless the Republicans in Congress who refuse to pass anything a Democrat sends their way are willing to comply.
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Lady Knights Fall, Still Headed to Playoffs By KYLE ADAMS Staff Writer In the last game of the regular season, Saint Rose came into Saturday on a four-game win streak, looking to extend it to five. That would not be the case as the Merrimack Warriors looked to play spoiler to Saint Rose. Merrimack’s Victoria Carter scored the first goal on the day, about 13 minutes into the match. Saint Rose had controlled the ball and the pace of the game for much of the time before Carter’s goal and continued to control the ball through the half; however they weren’t
able to muster any scores until midway through the second half. In the second half, control of the ball and pace of the game was much more of a backand-forth between the Golden Knights and the Warriors. Midway through the second half, senior Sammy Blizzard tied the score at 1–1 with a goal off an assist from freshman Victoria Barris. Less than two minutes into the overtime period, Merrimack’s Amber Gustafson scored the winning goal on an assist from Sarah Boucher. The loss comes as a setback for the Golden Knights, as they were looking to head into the
NE-10 Quarterfinals with a winning streak. There were some positives in the match, as the Golden Knights did play well. They outshot the Warriors by a ratio of 21:13, which included six shots on goal. If Saint Rose had managed to come out with the win, they would have at least earned the #3 seed in the NE-10 tournament and home field advantage in the first round. Instead the Golden Knights are the #5 seed in the tournament and will play at Stonehill College at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 1. Back in September, Saint Rose lost to Stonehill by a score of 8–1.
November 2, 2016
Volume 85 Issue 10
Season Recap 9/1 Nyack 3-0 W 9/3 @Holy Family 5-0 W 9/5 @Wilimngton 2-0 W 9/10 SNHU 2-3 L 9/14 Saint Michael’s 3-0 W 9/17 @Stonehill 0-8 L 9/20 @Le Moyne 2-1 W 9/24 American Intl. 0-1 L 9/28 @Pace 1-2 L 10/4 @Franklin Pierce 4-2 W 10/8 @Assumption 2-1 W 10/12 Adelphi 0-1 L 10/15 Bentley 1-0 W 10/18 @Saint Anslem 3-0 W 10/22 SNHU 3-2 W 10/26 @New Haven 5-1 W 10/29 Merrimack 1-2 L Saint Rose enters the post season as the #5 seed.
Men’s Soccer Struggles in Final Game By KYLE ADAMS Staff Writer On Friday night, the Golden Knights were looking to end their season on a high note. That would prove to be a very difficult task at they were taking on the number-one seed in the NE-10 Conference, the Adelphi Panthers.
Adelphi was in control for nearly the entire game. Midfielder Toni Soler scored both goals for the Panthers, one in each half. The first came on an assist from Caelan Hueber; Soler finished the goal by putting in the lower right corner of the net from about 15 yards out. Soler’s second goal of the night came on a volley from the
left side of the field, just out of the reach of goalie Christian Esposito. Soler’s volley fell into the top right corner on the net and gave the Panthers some extra breathing room. After the second goal, frustration began to mount for Saint Rose, as they hadn’t been able to put together anything all night. On the night, Saint Rose
was able to put together only four shots and only one shot on goal. Adelphi managed to put up 12 shots and five shots on goal. Although there were not many scoring opportunities and Adelphi played well, the Golden Knights were their own biggest enemy. They committed 13 fouls in the match, which also included some fireworks between the
two teams, as the frustration began to boil over. A cold night drew to a disappointing finish as it was not how to Golden Knights were hoping the final game of the season would end. The Panthers improve to 120-1 in the NE10 and 14-1-1 on the season, while the Golden Knights fall to 3-8-2 in the division and 5-9-2 on the season.
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