Late Night for the Planet hosts mayoral candidates
BY ALEKSANDRA SIDOROVA News + Managing Editor
Students became more in tune with Plattsburgh’s mayoral elections as they invited candidates Wendell Hughes and Don Kasprzak to the stage of Olive Ridley’s on Oct. 9.
The monthly student-hosted game show Late Night for the Planet interviewed Kasprzak, Republi-
can candidate who served as mayor of Plattsburgh from 2006 to 2014, and Democrat Hughes, a lifelong Plattsburgh resident. Platforming an election marked a drastic departure from typical Late Night for the Planet shows as student hosts
Sasha Baker and McKenna Kaleta know them.
“I’m really glad that more people got to be informed on the candidates and their positions,” Baker
said. “I also just enjoyed speaking to the politicians themselves. It was a really cool experience, getting to know them and go through the process of interviewing them. … It’s something I’ve never done before.” The show included personal interviews with the candidates and games that encouraged audience participation.
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Hall houses shrine to late boy band star
BY ROMITA CHAKRABORTY Contributor
Liam Payne, former member of the best-selling boy band One Direction, unexpectedly died at 31 on Oct. 16 by falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina — leaving millions of fans worldwide in shock and mourning.
SUNY Plattsburgh holds a special connection to One Direction, as it served as a filming location for the band’s music video “Gotta Be You,” a track from their 2011 debut album “Up All Night.”
In the wake of Payne’s passing, students at the university created a shrine at the steps of Champlain Valley Hall, one of the prominent spots featured in the video, to honor his memory.
Sophia Cortese, a first-year history major in the adolescent education program, heard the news surrounded by her friends on the cheerleading team.
“We all held hands and said a prayer together for him,” Cortese said.
Across campus, many students have expressed their sorrow, sharing how One Direction’s music shaped their teenage years.
Katie Kearny, a sophomore and transfer student majoring in marketing, has been a fan of One Direction since she was 7 years old.
Student group encourages peers to vote
BY ALEKSANDRA SIDOROVA News + Managing Editor
Three students who make up the group Plattsburgh Votes are entering the final stretch of their voter education work. There is just a week and a half left to cast a ballot — and one day to register.
The students — senior political science majors Angelina Livingston and Nadia Potts and junior computer science major Iskita Gurung — spend hours tabling in the Angell College Center and Feinberg Library as well as presenting in classrooms.
“There’s been a lot of rhetoric that voting
doesn’t matter and that there’s a lot of stark differences between candidates, and that makes people want to be outside of politics instead of getting involved with it,” Livingston said. “We’ve just been trying to be nonpartisan and trying to bring it back to the fact that this isn’t about Kamala Harris or Donald Trump — there’s so much more to it.”
Gurung, Livingston and Potts’ work is an internship with the college, and professors Daniel Lake and Ben Medeiros serve as their supervisors.
The group connects students with voter registration resources, brings to the Board of Elections any
forms students completed on-site and helps students identify what is at stake in the election.
After the voter registration period ends Oct. 26, the group will shift its focus to educating students on their choices. An important item on the ballot in New York state is Proposal 1, Livingston said.
If the proposal passes, it would amend the state constitution to protect against discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy.
Admin serves food, sews bandanas after hours
BY GRANT TERWILLIGER Staff Writer
Marco Ayala-Perez isn’t just a Student Health and Counseling Center administrator, but a chef on a monthly cooking show on WCAX Channel 3, a dog shelter volunteer and a creator of bandanas for dogs in need of adoption.
Ayala-Perez has been working in the media industry for more than 17 years. He went to Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas in Mexico, where he is originally from, and graduated with a degree in communication sciences. AyalaPerez started his career as a radio DJ and began getting interested in video editing, eventually leading
him to TV work for the University of Vermont Extension in 2005.
The show he works for is called Across the Fence and early on, he worked as the assistant to the producer. A lot of the time in that position, he would create the food that was shown on screen during the program.
“Eventually, what ended up happening is the producer wanted to take less responsibility, so some of that started shifting towards me,” Ayala-Perez said. “So I was hosting the cooking show with other people. That was our structure.”
During COVID-19, everything changed: Ayala-Perez was not able to go into the studio anymore and began running the cooking show at home by himself. Amidst
the pandemic he decided to make a major change in his life but still have a connection with media and cooking.
“I decided to make a change in careers, so I moved to Plattsburgh, New York, and I started working for the COVID vaccination site, which then led me here to SUNY, where I was coordinating the isolation and quarantine program,” Ayala-Perez said.
“I still wanted to keep a link to, sort of, my creative life. … When I moved over here to Plattsburgh, I was asked to still do a cooking show.”
When the isolation and quarantine program ended, Ayala-Perez started working for the Student Health and Counseling Center.
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(Left to right) McKenna Kaleta, Maddie Lehman, Rachel LaMar and Sasha Baker host Late Night for the Planet on the stage of Olive Ridley’s on Oct. 9.
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Angelina Livingston tables at Feinberg Library. The materials on the table include resources on voter registration and candidates’ values.
Student Association Weekly Meme
Senate approves finance policy, Robotics Club, event funding
BY JAYNE SMITH Photography Editor
The Student Association Senate approved changes to its financial policy as well as the requests of three clubs — CEO Club, Robotics Club and Nepalese at Plattsburgh — at its meeting Oct. 9.
The only legislation passed at the meeting was the SA’s new finance policy, which updates the senate’s bylaws regarding club budgets and financing approvals. Clubs that collaborate on events will now have the option to combine contract funds within their budgets.
With the new policy, overnight travel expenses
will be allocated as a part of club budgets. The limit of $500 per contract with service providers was increased to a $700 maximum, allowing clubs more flexibility in whom they hire for events. Furthermore, the policy expanded the allowed amount for each event from $2,000 to $2,500.
The executive board of the CEO Club requested $1,800 to send nine of its members to the CEO Global Conference, taking place from Oct. 31 to Nov. 3 in Tampa, Florida. The event is an opportunity for students to network with entrepreneurs and business owners.
Senator Janiyah James raised questions about
“My only concern is that Florida is currently in a state of emergency, and Tampa is being hit pretty hard by hurricanes,” James said.
The representatives from CEO Club said they do not expect the conference to be canceled.
Funding for the conference trip was approved.
Leaders of the Robotics Club requested provisional status for the club.
Members explained the club gathers students with an interest in robotics and would host discussions to spread awareness and an increased understanding of the field. After receiving further explanation from members, the body voted to approve the request.
alese students, and is an opportunity for other students to learn about Nepalese culture. The budget amount was approved, concluding the meeting’s club requests. James, Sean Abarca, Ziare Ferell and Demyan Flores were approved as members of the Clubs & Organizations Affairs Board. In his report at the meeting’s conclusion, SA Senate Adviser Tyler Hargraves emphasized the importance of meeting attendance and timeliness to the senators.
“Three meetings a year, as long as you can, and once you reach those three meetings, you approach that fourth once, you’re not getting paid anymore,” Hargraves said. “I want to stress that
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He then started getting into other hobbies, such as sewing, which he first learned in order to hem his jeans.
doing bandanas for friends that have dogs, and for my own dogs,” Ayala-Perez said. “Now I have this little project where I’ve been making bandannas that I want to donate to the (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).”
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After a conversation with a coworker at the Health Center, he had the idea to start making bandanas for dogs. The first bandana was for Boris the therapy dog.
“I looked up a YouTube tutorial on how to make bandannas for dogs, and I made Boris a bandana, which he liked, which then led me to start
Through his volunteer work, Ayala-Perez found that dogs wearing bandanas in photos are more likely to be adopted. He is also a volunteer for the nonprofit Green Mountain Pug, which rescues dogs and fosters them until they can find a good home. Ayala-Perez has two dogs that he fostered from the program and fell in love with: Nico from
In his day-to-day life, Ayala-Perez enjoys working with students and helping students reach their health goals, so they can be the best version of themselves both mentally and physically.
“I really enjoy working here at SUNY Plattsburgh,” Ayala-Perez said. “It’s been a very dramatic change from what I used to do, but it’s also very rewarding.”
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Senator Elizabeth Alden refrains from voting at the Senate’s meeting Oct. 9.
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Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Marco Ayala-Perez has been filming Across the Fence’s monthly cooking show from home. He has a personal light and equipment setup.
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Marco Ayala-Perez’s dogs, Nabi (left) and Nico, sport handmade bandanas.
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Kearny found out about the tragedy on a train back to Plattsburgh.
“When my friend, who has also been a fan for years and was a die-hard Liam fan, texted me, I was in shock,” Kearny said.
Emily Fagan, a senior majoring in communication sciences and disorders, was deeply saddened by the news.
“I started to cry, knowing that there wasn’t going to be a formal reunion of the band,” Fagan said. “It made me upset hearing about the way he had passed. I really hope his family and friends are doing okay and they are in my thoughts in this difficult time”.
Beyond the SUNY Plattsburgh community, Payne’s death sent shockwaves through the music industry and his fanbase, many of whom are struggling to come to terms with the loss of a beloved figure. The late One Direc-
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The shrine in Liam Payne’s memory was installed on the steps of Champlain Valley Hall, one of the buildings featured in One Direction’s music video, “Gotta Be You.”
tion star’s former bandmates Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan have all shared their personal goodbyes on Instagram.
CBS News notes that Payne’s family released a statement to PA Media, the U.K. and Ireland’s national news agency, on Thursday asking for privacy.
Beyond questions of personal background, values and policies, Baker and Kaleta asked Kasprzak and Hughes about SUNY Plattsburgh students and the city’s sustainability.
MAKING STUDENTS STAY
Many improvements to the overall Plattsburgh community’s life would also benefit the lives of students, whether during studies or after graduation, Hughes and Kasprzak said.
Both talked about the value that SUNY Plattsburgh students bring to the city. Hughes said more housing options and job opportunities in particular may make students want to stay in Plattsburgh after they graduate.
“We want you to stay here, open up businesses, be part of our community and bring new, younger ideas to us — guys like me,” Kasprzak said. “You are important. … We want you here.”
Kasprzak also said he would hold landlords accountable for off-campus housing conditions.
“The housing by some out-ofstate landlords is unbelievably awful for our students,” Kasprzak said. “One thing the city
“We are heartbroken,” the statement read. “Liam will forever live in our hearts and we’ll remember him for his kind, funny and brave soul.”
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needs to do is put pressure on those folks … to make sure that those accommodations are fair and up-to-date.”
Hughes and Kasprzak both identified filling the position of city police chief as a priority. The search has been ongoing since Chief Peter Mitchell retired in September after 25 years of service. Kasprzak related safety to students.
Additionally, Hughes spoke about expanding the city’s recreation programs, focusing on arts as well as outdoor activities for all ages.
“Not every kid can kick a soccer ball, but they can paint a picture that I can’t, so I think arts have to be incorporated in that, too,” Hughes said.
Kasprzak took investing in recreation a step further, saying the department “needs rebuilding.” Both public safety and ample opportunities for recreation would help keep the city affordable, he said.
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Late Night for the Planet’s usual audience is environmentally minded students, the students involved said. The night the show hosted the mayoral candidates, though, invited many more community members.
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“We have that power, of the New York people, to be able to say we don’t want that to continue, and we also have the power to say no, if that’s what the New York body wishes,” Livingston said.
The Plattsburgh Votes team’s goal is to raise the voter registration rate at SUNY Plattsburgh to 100%, Livingston said. Almost 73% of SUNY Plattsburgh students were registered to vote in 2022, and 82% in 2020, according to Tufts University’s National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement. Of the students who registered, 68% voted in 2020 and 28% in 2022.
To arrive at these numbers, the study matched the university’s student roster with voter records with the SUNY Plattsburgh’s permission, but does not disclose how students voted.
Livingston, 20, voted for the first time in this election cycle. She said the process was easy.
“It made me feel important, like I was actually enacting that change that I go around preaching for,” Livingston said. “I actually got to do my part.”
Gurung is an international student from Nepal and can’t vote in the United States.
“I wanted to get involved and help others tap into their power and make their voices count,” Gurung wrote in an
email response. “I’ve always wanted to learn more about the (American) political process, especially with elections happening every four years. I realized I have to wait another four years to experience it all again, so I wanted to make the most of this opportunity.”
Potts had her political awakening observing her rural hometown during the 2020 election.
“People don’t understand that there are other ways of living, and with that specific election, it really divided people into ‘my way’ versus ‘their way,’” Potts said. “It was a big influence in how I want people to understand that they can make change, and (voting) is one way to do it.”
She is also president of BridgeUSA, a club based in discussions across party lines and the only official club dedicated to politics.
The club is hosting a day of events Nov. 8 leading up to the election, including workshops and presentations from campus clubs and organizations and a watch party for the results.
“I kind of was laughing at how involved the crowd was getting in the Q&As, even though it really had nothing to do with what we were talking about,” said Rachel LaMar, senior environmental studies major who helped host a game. “They just had their own questions, taking advantage of being in front of the candidates, for whatever reason. It was different, we’ve
never had a show that was like that, ever.”
At the question-and-answer segments following the personal interviews with the candidates, city residents volunteered to ask their own questions.
One resident was concerned about how much taxpayer money the city was spending on paid parking machines downtown, alleging that paid parking also hurts businesses. Hughes prom-
ised he would consider whether the city’s spending on parking is worthwhile on day one in office, if elected.
Another issue Hughes said he would address within his first month in office was options for housing that did not involve giving developers tax breaks.
“I don’t like tax breaks for housing,” Hughes said. “Listen, nobody gave me a break last year.”
Faced with a similar question, Kasprzak said he is open to any new housing developments, noting a variety of funding programs the state and federal government offer municipalities such as Plattsburgh.
Late Night for the Planet’s next show is Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. The hosts will be discussing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, more commonly known as PFAS. PFAS are used widely in packaging, cookware and clothes, but they do not easily degrade in the environment, according to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
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Democrat Wendell Hughes sits at a table as his opponent, Republican Don Kasprzak, plays a game with Late Night for the Planet hosts.
‘A day on, not a day off’ Black Solidarity Day ‘Be the change you wish to see’
BY PHILO YUNRUI WANG Associate A&C Editor
As SUNY Plattsburgh prepares for its third annual Black Solidarity Day on November 4, 2024, the campus community is set to engage with a powerful theme: “Be the Change You Wish to See,” chosen by Black Onyx: The Black Student Union.
Blood drive to be held on campus; saving lives in NY
BY CINARA MARQUIS Arts & Culture Editor
The Adirondack Regional Blood Center acts as the New York hub for blood donations, which means that it is the main supply to partner hospitals in the region. The center provides the necessary blood products that enable hospitals in the North Country to treat patients.
“Donating blood saves lives in your community. It helps patients survive surgeries, cancer treatments, chronic illnesses and traumatic injuries,” said Shannon Nutbrown, operations supervisor of the laboratory, blood transfusion and donor center at the CVPH’s ARBC.
In collaboration with the Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital, SUNY Plattsburgh will be hosting a blood drive in the Angell College Center from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 30.
The hospitals that the ARBC supplies blood for include the Alice Hyde Medical Center, Elizabethtown Hospital, Ticonderoga Hospital, Adirondack Medical Center, Massena Memorial Hospital and the University of Vermont Medical Center.
“Each community hospital can call our blood bank when they are low on blood products, and our blood bank carrier will drive the blood products to them that same day or the following, depending on how emergent the need is,” Nutbrown said.
Another thing that sets these hospitals apart from others are their hemobanks — blood vending machines. These banks store blood products so, when blood is needed, the hospital will send a request to the ARBC for a full panel workup on a patient to make certain that the blood products are safe to administer to them. After confirming the blood is safe the provider can punch in a patient’s secure information and be provided with the correct blood product for the patient.
“Donating blood is a generous act of solidarity that helps save lives and support those with certain illnesses,” Nutbrown said. “Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood.”
Maintaining a diverse blood supply is crucial to donation centers because some blood types are rare and tend to be found among people with similar ancestry. Your donation can help ensure that all patients receive the blood they
For more information about the Adirondack Regional Blood Center and SUNY Plattsburgh’s blood drive please visit https://shorturl.at/sg4sI.
need. Blood type is inherited, so often patients need blood donated by someone of shared race or ethnicity. For this reason, BIPOC donors are incredibly vital.
Individuals with chronic conditions like sickle cell disease, hemophilia and anemia often require frequent transfusions and therefore also benefit from diverse donation pools.
“We truly rely on our community to keep us going,” Nutbrown said. “There is always a need for blood and blood product donations.”
Nutbrown came into the role as an operations supervisor after graduating from SUNY Plattsburgh with a bachelor’s degree in both sociology and criminal justice. She worked as a medical supervisor at a school in Lake Placid and decided that medicine would be her focus.
“Blood donation is vital to the North County as we are such a small population. I grew up in the Adirondacks, and I like that fact that I get to work with the North County to promote the Adirondack Regional Blood Center,” she said.
To donate blood with CVPH, one must be at least 16 years old with parental consent, weigh more than 110 pounds and be in good health.
“Donating blood also benefits you. It helps reduce stress, improves your emotional well-being, can benefit your physical health, helps get rid of negative feelings, provides a sense of belonging,
and reduces isolation,” Nutbrown said. “Donating also comes with a free health checkup.”
One must undergo a series of health questions and screenings to give blood. Nurses will check an individual’s pulse, blood pressure, temperature and hemoglobin levels as well as test blood for several diseases.
The donation process is rapid and donors will often be given an incentive. At the blood donation drive happening at SUNY Plattsburgh donors will be given a treat and entered into a raffle for a $50 gift card after donating their blood.
Nutbrown recommends all to drink plenty of water 24 hours prior to donation — one must also eat a full meal within four hours before their donation.
Including both platelet and blood donors, the ARBC sees roughly 9,000 donors per year. The Center hosts blood drives every weekday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Nutbrown said, “When you donate with Adirondack Regional Blood Center, you are suppling the CVPH blood bank which is extremely unique in the fact that we can sustain the blood needs of our community thanks to the generous donations of our blood donors.”
“We live in a world where many people can make comments, but people also don’t realize that it’s a lot we can do as individuals to also be the change that we wish to see,” Allison Heard, vice president for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, said.
The theme of this years SUNY Plattsburgh’s Black Solidarity Day calls on students, faculty, staff and
community members to reflect on the importance of social justice, civic engagement and solidarity in shaping a multi-racial democracy. It also appeals that everyone can all do something to usher in a new day of progress.
Printmaker finds connections across continents
BY CINARA MARQUIS Arts & Culture Editor
After a series of artist residencies, printmaker Melissa Schulenberg found herself enthralled with a completely new medium — mokuhanga, a traditional Japanese woodblock printing technique that uses water-based inks and Japanese paper.
Growing up in Michigan and South Dakota, Schuller was always interested in drawing and painting, but it wasn’t until college that she discovered her passion for printmaking.
Schulenberg received her bachelors of art in studio art from Bowdoin College in Maine, a masters of art in printmaking from Purdue University in Indiana, and finally her masters of fine arts in printmaking from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She teaches various printmaking, drawing and book art courses as Professor in Fine Arts at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.
Schulenberg’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, most notably in Australia, Ireland, Japan and New Zealand. Her work takes inspiration from her surroundings — Schulenberg explores unusual compositions, patterns and shapes in her work. She describes her investigations as an “alphabet” of stripes, humps and stumps, scars, thread, totems, shadows, woven textures and torus shapes, to name a few.
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In 2006, St. Lawrence University offered Schuller a free trip to Japan to study Japanese printmaking — it was her first introduction to mokuhanga, a traditional Japanese woodblock printing technique.
“It was absolutely amazing,” Schuller said. She was inspired, but when she came back to the United States, she didn’t know exactly what to do with this inspiration.
“I saw (the mokuhanga), but I didn’t really know how to do it,” she said.
Ten years later, though, she had a chance encounter with a colleague, and she was invited once again to Japan — this time for the International Mokuhanga Conference. Schuller immediately signed up for a two-day workshop at the conference, where she learned the basics of the art form and how to use Japanese tools. She fell in love with the medium, and that same summer she ended up in her first residency at the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory in Kawaguchiko.
“It’s like heaven for a residency because every day you look out and Mount Fuji is literally right there,” Schuller said.
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Collection Spotlight: Rockwell Kent’s ‘Our America’
In collaboration with Plattsburgh State Art Museum Collections Manager, Kara Jefts, we are highlighting artworks currently displayed in the Myers 232 display cases.
BY MADISON LYON Nina Winkel Intern Plattsburgh State Art Museum
Rockwell Kent is an artist familiar to SUNY Plattsburgh — his name adorns the Feinberg Library exterior, and the gallery inside is a testament to his local connections. Kent relocated to Asgaard Dairy Farm in Au Sable Forks in 1927, where he lived until his death in 1971, but he also moved through the prominent spaces of the early 20th-century American art world. During his life, Kent’s socialist politics sometimes made him unpopular, but he was always a prolific artist across mediums.
From sweeping Adirondack landscape paintings to textile designs and book illustrations, Kent’s diverse work is well represented in the Plattsburgh State Art Museum’s collection — in fact, it is the largest collection of Kent’s work in the United States.
The plate on display in Myers 232 comes from a collaboration he began with California-based Vernon Kilns pottery during the late 1930s. Pieces from this collection emphasize a national spirit in keeping with a
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country in the throes of the New Deal and on the eve of entering World War II.
SUNY Plattsburgh’s plate features a map of the continental United States in a gold wash outlined in a soft red. Within our borders, small illustrations represent regional industries such as oil in Texas, wheat in Kansas and mining in Appalachia. The oceans are rendered in thin black horizontal lines, but Kent also includes ships and marine life. His design is visually crowded, from the starry border around the rim to the American eagle set into a mountainous landscape that represents the unification of rural agriculture and urban industry (floating in the space where Canada would be). One of my favorite details is the airplane flying south above a green-outlined Mexico — this moment not only alludes to the historical context of a world obsessed with flight and on the cusp of commercial air travel, but to Kent himself as an avid traveler.
Kent’s “Our America” plate tells a story about how the United States saw, or wanted to see, itself in 1940. In doing so, it raises
SUNY Plattsburgh will host a social justice teach-in, a full-day event packed with over 50 breakout sessions exploring various aspects of racial justice, anti-racism and social equity. These sessions will be led by a diverse array of students, faculty, staff and community members, and will include workshops, performances, discussions, readings and presentations.
Black Solidarity Day was the brainchild of activist and former SUNY Old Westbury professor Carlos Russell in 1969. Hewas inspired by the play “Day of Absence” a fictional town where the Black residents suddenly disappear, resulting in the White residents realizing how much of their lives rely on Black labor.
Black individuals are encouraged to refrain from working and shopping for one day as a form of economic protest and instead focus on educating and empowering their communities.
“The enthusiasm of the students in partnership with the faculty senate and administration designated it as a day where students would not be penalized for attending,” Heard said.
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Rockwell Kent, “Our America” chop plate, 1940, earthenware, Plattsburgh State Art Museum Collection, P102005.13.1
questions about national and regional identities, propaganda, industrial and agricultural histories, as well as material culture — what type of homes would purchase and display such an item, for example? Like so much of the museum’s collection, it is an object worthy of discussion in classes across campus.
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SUNY Delhi and SUNY Plattsburgh at Queensbury will be hosting watch parties and streaming the virtual tracks.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Debra Thompson, the Canada research chair in racial inequality in democratic societies and associate professor of political science at McGill University, will feature “Race, Democracy, and Politics without Guarantees” at 4:15 p.m. in the Warren Ballrooms.
“We are excited to be able to welcome Dr. Debra Thompson on the theme of race and politics, which is an issue that has been amplified in our global society,” Heard said.
This presentation will explore the complexities of Black identi-
This and other artworks relating to consumption and display are currently on exhibit in the Myers Building, room 232. If you are interested in learning more about the Plattsburgh State Art Museum collection, please contact Kara Jefts at kara.jefts@plattsburgh.edu for information on how to set up a visit, event, or class.
NEW COOLDOWN ZONE
There will be a cooldown zone at Angell College Center Meeting Room 1 for the entire day.The president’s office is hosting a cooldown with a therapy dog named Beckett by Cherice Granger and Heather Haskins at 11 a.m.
“It’s a way for people to go into a room, they can do something or nothing. Then they can re-engage at a time that feels safe for them,” Heard said.
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Black Solidarity Day and social justice teach-in at SUNY Plattsburgh is not a day off as opposed to a day in. It is an opportunity to expand academic horizons and also to look at academia as a whole.
Black Solidarity Day of SUNY Plattsburgh was created as a student initiative and added to the university academic calendar in 2022. It was added that all programming for course instruction should be designed to support Black Solidarity Day in 2023.
NEW VIRTUAL STREAM
SUNY Plattsburgh has a virtual stream for Black Solidarity Day for the first time, which will be shared with all SUNY schools and throughout New York State.
“We are being here on campus as a barrier,” Heard said.
This is a way for other people who are not on this campus to attend. So far the University of Buffalo will be hosting a watch party,
ty across North America, particularly focusing on the Canada and U.S. border. There will be a raffle during this presentation for the book “The Long Road Home” by Thompson. She will sign the copies for the raffle winners.
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL
Black Onyx is hosting a Candlelight Vigil at 8 p.m. in the Warren Ballrooms.
“It is a wonderful opportunity to talk about what it means as a diverse representation of students to promote social justice issues year-round, not just on Nov. 4,” Heard said.
At the candlelight vigil, students can gather to talk about things and speak the names of people or issues to address social justice problems.
“When people talk about what is or is not appropriate to teach for the classroom, they often talk about it in terms of scholarship. Sometimes for people’s scholarship is not the diversity of scholarship. The important thing is that you cannot talk about scholarship without talking about inclusion and the diverse voices,” Heard said.
Black Solidarity Day is where people can hear the voices that are suppressed, talk about how we can promote and spread education and awareness that can also lend itself to building stronger collaborations and connections for other people on campus.
So mark your calendars for Nov. 4, and get ready to join in SUNY Plattsburgh’s Black Solidarity Day. Whether you’re a student, faculty member or community participant, this is a day to stand in solidarity and be the change you wish to see.
For the full schedule of Black Solidarity Day, please follow the updates on https://www.plattsburgh. edu/plattslife/diversity/ teach-in.html
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Author, poet Phillip Williams performs at SUNY Platts.
BY ROBIN CAUDELL Press-Republican
Video game designer will one day be another identifier for Phillip B. Williams, also an award-winning poet and novelist.
As a first-grader in Chicago, the 38-year-old filled two journals with his imaginings, which included games he wanted to play or make.
Currently, he’s thinking through a second novel, sketching out scenes when they come, and poking a third collection of poetry. When he’s not teaching at New York University or as founding faculty of the Randolph College Low-res MFA, he’s getting as much rest as possible because he’s tired from the whirlwind of “Ours,” his debut novel, a New York Times Notable Book of 2024.
Williams was this year’s annual SUNY Plattsburgh Black Poetry Day guest.
The Illinois native is the author of two collections of poetry: “Thief in the Interior,” which was the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Lambda Literary Award and “Mutiny,” which was a finalist for the PEN/ Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection and the winner of a 2022 American Book Award.
“The hope was to get the novel out first,” Williams said.
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She found vast multitudes of inspiration from the scenes at the residency, from their beautifully cultivated gardens to the texture of the tatami floors.
The Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory was founded in 2011 as an artist program to provide extensive knowledge of mokuhanga to international artists and printmakers. There, Schuller learned more specialized skills, such as how to sharpen carving tools and prepare a Japanese woodblock for print.
Unlike many residencies, the laboratory was a shared studio.
“But that’s actually one of the benefits of it,” Schuller explained. “(We) six or seven artists would all be working in the same studio. But it wasn’t just sharing the studio; it’s sharing encounters, it’s sharing ideas and also sharing beer as well in the afternoon.”
She said that the conversations with other artists that happened during the residency were equally as beneficial as all the instruction that they received.
“That camaraderie is something that has carried over with the other residencies,” Schuller said.
She stayed at the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory for its second residency, which was for advanced mokuhanga artists. This began with introductions on how to use ornamental gold leaf.
Following her second residency, in 2019 Schuller and fellow artists in the program proposed an advanced-advanced residency program. The director of the laboratory agreed and created a new program including weeks of instruction on sharpening specialized carving tools, sizing traditional Japanese paper, using bronzing powder and making and fixing barons.
MOKUHANGA SISTERS
After the last residency at the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory in Japan ended in 2019, Schuller and seven other resident artists celebrated with a dinner. The director of the program had told the artists how awed he was at their connection, saying that they were like sisters.
That night, the Mokuhanga Sisters were created. The collective includes Katie Baldwin, Patty Hudak, Mariko Jesse, Kate MacDonagh, Yoonmi Nam, Natasha Norman, Mia O, Lucy May Schofield and Schulenberg.
The group of nine women come from all over the world; Japan, South Korea, the United States, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Ireland, all are connected through mokuhanga. The sisters have been meeting once a month over Zoom for the last four years. Together they have Together they have completed six projects, including “Borderless Scroll,” 2021; “The World Between the Block and the Paper,” 2022, exhibition at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, Vermont; “Between Worlds: Mokuhanga,”
Photo illustration by Zoe Nguyen
CARDINAL CALENDAR
Oct. 28 to Nov. 1
MONDAY 10/28 TUESDAY 10/29
Domestic Violence Awareness Month Forum
Join the gender and women studies department in learning to recognize the signs of domestic violence, the available resources for those affected and ways to foster a supportive community.
ACC Alumni Room from 11 to 11:50 a.m.
Tuesday Talks presents Lauren Zito
Assistant professor of communication studies at SUNY Plattsburgh, Lauren Zito will be speaking on “The Artist’s Wife — My time in Brigus, Newfoundland.”
ACC Alumni Conference Room at 5 p.m.
WEDNESDAY 10/30 THURSDAY 10/31
Fall 2024 Gallery Concert
Hosted and accompanied by Dr. Karen Becker, join the music department in a showcase of student skill and talent.
Myers Lobby Gallery from noon to 1 p.m.
Halloween Costume Contest
Awe with your finest Halloween costume for a chance to win Cardinal Cash. Angell College Center Lobby from 11 a.m. to noon.
FRIDAY 11/1
Día de los Muertos
Join DEI, Fuerza: The BIPOC Student Union, and SSS to celebrate Día de los Muertos, a traditional Mexican holiday where individuals gather together in remembrance of their deceased loved ones.
Warren Ballrooms from noon to 3 p.m.
Make your voice heard through voting
Under New York State law, college students can vote at their college address or at their home address.
You can cast your vote on Nov. 5, Election day or as early as Oct. 26 at the Plattsburgh City Hall, 151 Banker Rd.
Applications to vote must be received by a board of elections by October 26 to be eligible to vote in the General Election.
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“I had this idea that you do the fiction and you’ll be able to make a little bit of money and that will help you write the poetry that’s not going to make you any money at all. That’s how it was presented to me. Poetry came first. I’d never taken a fiction workshop.”
As an undergrad, Williams wasn’t having a good time in the business school at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
He was taking more English classes than business classes and transferred, with his mother Constance’s blessing, to get a bachelor’s degree in English.
He took two UI poetry workshops, and professor Tyehimba Jess told him about Cave Canem, where he studied in 2008 with Claudia Rankine, Ed Roberson, Carl Phillips, Angela Jackson and Colleen J. McElroy. Williams trusted Phillips’ vision enough to get an MFA from Washington University, where he was a Chancellor’s Graduate fellow.
During a five-year stint at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, he studied with Ellen Bryant Voigt and James Longenbach. As a fellow, he assisted Eavan Boland.
“All these different ways of having access to teachers and instructors for poetry,” he said.
“I always thought I would do fiction first, but poetry took over. I was able to build a living off of that. Get a master’s degree and end up becoming a professor with that master’s degree and teaching poetry classes. So, it just flipped. It was inverted.”
OURS
This Clinton County election includes the United States President and Vice President; U.S. Senator; 21st district Representative in Congress; 45th district State Senator; 115th district Member of Assembly; and Mayor. There is also an amendment proposal.
Results for early and mail-in voting in Clinton County will be released at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, November 5.
In Ours, Williams’ protagonist is “an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjurer who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has freed to a haven of her own creation: a town just north of St. Louis, magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours,” according to his website.
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2022, exhibition at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, New York; “New Prints Off the Block,” and “Wood, Paper, Ink,” 2022, exhibitions at the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York; and,
“I think it’s still showing me what it can do,” Williams said. “There was a time every week I was being emailed something that was going on with the novel, be it a review or an interview. It seems it’s the gift that keeps giving on its own course, it’s own trajectory. This is the most I’ve toured in combination with the first two books of poetry. I’ve been someplace every weekend. I’m busy, and the readers are more interactive. So there are folks that want to talk to me about the novel more than with the poems. It’s been a social, face-forward kind of experience.”
A different iteration of Frances was the book’s first hero.
“I couldn’t write it,” Williams said. “There was nothing that Frances wanted. There wasn’t nothing that Frances needed. Saint had wants, needs, desires. She had things that were really complex about her, and so she ends up taking over the story in a way that is in opposition to what Toni Morrison said about Song of Solomon. She said that Pilate kept talking, and she had to ignore Pilate. I let Saint talk and take over.”
For Williams, it was the most fun writing experience he ever had.
“I think it’s because I don’t have formal training in fiction, and so I didn’t think of all the rules or the right way of doing anything,” he said. “I just wanted to tell the story that I wanted to tell. It’s based off of other books that I have read. Some of it was intuition, but a lot of it was also I like reading this book and I like this book be it East of Eden or One Hundred Years of Solitude or Wild Seed. I want to write books that make me feel that way.”
Williams’ poetics toolkit is flush and because of his training, he’s more methodical. Less organic.
“So, there’s two different ways of approaching the craft,” he said. “One, I have a lot of options because I was taught those options and then the other, I had a lot of options because I have read so much that I felt freer to just explore.”
MAGIC EMAILS
Emails changed Williams’ career trajectory.
“MASABAN,” 2024, an exhibition at the Udatsu Paper and Craft Museum in Echizen, Japan.
PRESENTATION
Schulenberg visited SUNY Plattsburgh on Oct. 16 as the second presenter of the fall 2024 semester’s Visual Artist Series.
Organized by the faculty and students and funded by the Student Association through the Campus
He received one to teach at NYU. He received one to teach at Randolph College.
“It’s proof that I’m doing what I should be doing, which is not to say that it’s supposed to be easy when we’re doing the thing because it’s not been easy,” he said. “I’ve just been recognized in ways that let me know that I affect people’s lives with the writing, such that they trust that I can teach or they trust that I can keep producing work that benefits their world, their imagination, their students. That’s what I’ve learned from it is these opportunities come because people want me to continue to manifest in this direction of being a creative.”
Williams is among those featured in “African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song” edited by Kevin Young (2020).
“That was a surprise to have been asked to be in the anthology,” Williams said. “It let me know that there my work was seen as being in conversation with the lineage of Black poets. I don’t like using words in this capacity, like worthy, because there are a lot of folks who should be in there who aren’t in there and that’s for spatial reasons. It was more so at that moment; there was a poem that was thought that was a way that I was seen as being part of this heritage, this lineage. I felt very seen in that moment and taken seriously. A lot of people don’t get the opportunities to be in anything, you know.”
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Arts Council, the Visual Artist Series aims to bring seven to nine artists from a wide variety of mediums to campus each year. It offers public lectures, workshops and demonstrations.
The next presenter is Tawni Shuler, a Wyoming drawing and painting artist who will be presenting via Zoom at 5 p.m. on Oct. 30.
Visit Melissa Schulenberg’s website at https://melissaschulenberg.com/. Learn more about the Mokuhanga Sisters and view their projects at https:// mokuhangasisters.com/.
Email CINARA MARQUIS cp@cardinalpointsonline.com
Have patience with whatever you are facing now. Balance will come with time and distance.
The Trial card signifies patience. Things may feel uncertain or stagnant this week; this card suggests that you step back and take a break. Time will bring new clarity.
The reversed Emperor card represents immaturity. You may be facing challenges with commitment or confidence that are leading you to shy away from meaningful connections.
The reversed Sun card signifies negativity. False impressions and a lack of clarity may lead to overconfidence. Stay grounded and limit your spending this week.
The reversed Magician card represents confusion. You may be feeling like you have lost touch with yourself or others. Take some time to remember your goals and let them ground you.
The reversed Judgement card is about denial. Take action this week; it is no longer the time to delay or avoid potential problems. You are missing out on life — address the situation and move on.
The reversed World card signifies delays. This week may not go how you planned. Mourn, but do not let your disappointment consume you — there is always more for you out there.
The Empress card represents fruitfulness. Your creativity is flourishing this week — be certain to utilize it to empower yourself and others.
The Death card indicates transformation. Embrace change by detaching from old, unfinished business that may be holding you back.
The Devil card represents ambition. Be decisive and driven — let go of what is holding you back and take action. Liberate yourself and break free from any baggage that is holding you back.
The reversed Tower card refers to destruction. Disaster happens, and it hurts, but you can survive it. Reflect and rebuild because change is coming, and that is good.
The Wheel of Fortune card entails good luck. Trust what you are doing right now and focus on the good things. Every cycle has an end and a beginning.
Aries (March 21 –April 19) The Temperance card depicts moderation.
Cancer (June 21 –July 22)
Taurus (April 20 – May 20)
Gemini (May 21 –June 20)
Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22)
Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22)
Scorpio (Oct. 23 –Nov. 21)
Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22)
Pisces (Feb. 19 –March 20)
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 –Dec. 21)
Capricorn (Dec. 22 –Jan. 19)
Aquarius (Jan. 20 –Feb. 18)
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Autumn on Campus
Photos by Aliyah Egan and Jayne Smith
A student walks a dog wearing a pumpkin costume.
Fall foliage lines the Rugar Street sidewalk.
Students work on a photography class project by the Saranac River.
The giant skeleton in front of Kent Hall towers over passersby.
Trees have turned to warmer hues as autumn returns.
Cards chase right to host
BY COLLIN BOLEBRUCH Editor in Chief
Plattsburgh State men’s soccer hasn’t hosted a home playoff game since 2019. After securing six points and a playoff berth in the standings this past week and moving up to the four seed, the Cardinals (10-2-3, 5-2-1) are in the driver’s seat against the Canton Kangaroos (3-14-1, 0-8) on Saturday.
“The focus right now is, how do we get a home game?” head coach Chris Taylor said.
Good question. All the Cardinals need to do is defeat the winless and
scoreless Kangaroos for the fourth seed and home field advantage in round one. If the Oneonta Red Dragons (10-3-3, 6-2) lose or tie against the Fredonia Blue Devils (8-8-2, 3-5), Plattsburgh could move to the third seed.
“Young people can get ahead of themselves quickly,” Taylor said.
Sorry — the Cardinals’ goal right now is winning on Saturday, and the odds are pretty good.
“You worry about complacency. I worry about (Canton) more than I do about playing the big teams,” Taylor said
If Plattsburgh beats Canton, and then St. Lawrence University (72-4) on Wednesday, the Cardinals would enter the first round on a five-game win streak. Coming into the playoffs hot is key in making a deep run, Taylor said.
“You want to get as much momentum as possible. It’s not just winning, it’s things like clean sheets,” Taylor said. “You want to feel like you’re going in with those things clicking.”
The Cardinals are 4-1 in the games following its first lineup change in the backline, serving shutouts in each win.
Cardinals save postseason hopes
BY JUSTIN RUSHIA Associate Sports Editor
With a playoff spot on the line, the Plattsburgh State women’s soccer team (4-11-1, 3-4-1) played the third seed Oswego Lakers (9-5-1, 5-2-1) to a draw, and then defeated the Potsdam Bears 3-0.
The Cardinals are still alive in the race this year. In order to earn a postseason berth, the Cardinals will need to win over Canton and Fredonia will need to lose or draw its final SUNYAC match.
“Right now our team is in a really positive spot. We’re believing, we’re playing together and we’re finishing chances,” head coach Whitney Frary said.
After a strong start to conference play, the Cardinals climbed to the top
of the rankings with victories over Fredonia (9-70, 4-4-0) and Morrisville (1-11-2, 1-7-0). However, a four-game losing streak caused them to drop to seventh place before their upcoming game against Oswego.
Plattsburgh needed a positive outcome against the Lakers to remain in the playoff race, with the top six SUNYAC seeds all vying for playoff spots.
Plattsburgh’s defense, led by 2023 First Team AllSUNYAC keeper Lauren Haley, had its work cut out for it against a potent Oswego offense. The Lakers are ranked second in the SUNYAC, averaging 3.1 goals per game in conference play coming into this matchup.
CP predicts ‘24 soccer awards
BY COLLIN BOLEBRUCH Editor in Chief
Having reported on SUNYAC sports for three years now, I want the sports section to expand beyond Plattsburgh. In this column, I will explore membership issues, rivals’ seasons and the conference the Cardinals call home.
SUNYAC soccer wraps up Saturday, with matches on the table that will determine the leagues’ final seedings. On the men’s side, the first-round byes are still on the table, and the women’s side is sorting out who will make up the final spots.
In those games, the conference’s stars will step up to lead their teams. The league’s best will be rewarded after the season with its annual awards. Who is deserving of those trophies?
Men’s Huntley Parker Offensive Player of the Year: Diego Rivera, Buffalo State Rivera has enjoyed the league’s best offensive numbers this season on one the league’s best offenses. Rivera has scored 15 goals and 7 assists for 37 total points. Buffalo State leads the league in goals for average with 2.93, is currently ranked as the second team in the region and will enter the postseason with a first-round bye. Matt Schultz, with 35 points, could insert himself as the favorite Saturday, when he plays Rivera’s Bengals.
Runner-ups: Matt Shultz, Cortland and Brian Taylor, Fredonia.
Men’s Fred Halloway Defensive Player of the Year: Derek Marques, Oneonta
The SUNYAC saw some great performances from keepers this season, but the end-of-season DPOY should go to the heart of the league’s best defense. Marques has led the Red Dragons to eight clean sheets, a league-best 0.75 goals against average and wins over Cortland and New Paltz. Marques won the SUNYAC Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 7 and has recorded three goals and an assist for seven points.
Runner-ups: Christian Micheli, New Paltz and Alex Lessman, Cortland.
Men’s Rookie of the Year: Ronaldo Fatolou, Morrisville
Not often does a first-year start the majority of games in net, but Fatolou did so to a high degree. The rookie is second in the league in saves with 64 and third in save percentage with 0.810 percent. Fatolou has pitched three shutouts and earned SUNYAC Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 30.
Runner-ups: Brandon Dhanoolal, New Paltz and Bryan Lizama, New Paltz.
Men’s Coaching Staff of the Year: Cortland Cortland (13-3-3, 6-1-1) is set up to battle Buffalo State (13-1-1, 6-1-0) for the first seed tomorrow, in what could be the best game of the season. The Red Dragons, despite being ranked lower than the Bengals in polls, have the upper hand statistically. Cortland leads the league in goal differential at +20. In the SUNYAC, the Dragons lead with an average of 3.25 goals — 1.11 more than the Bengals — and are second in goals against average with 0.75. Cortland’s experience and potential first-round bye make them the favorite to win the title.
Runner-ups: Buffalo State and Oneonta
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John Hayes cocks back for a shot past a New Paltz defender at the Field House Soccer Complex on Oct. 16.
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Kelly Licata battles to keep a defender at bay Oct. 19.
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Ask an Athlete: Lauren Haley, WSOC
Lauren Haley is the backbone to Plattsburgh’s defense. She is the starting goalkeeper for the Plattsburgh State Cardinals and has been since her sophomore year in 2022. In her senior campaign, she has started 14 of the team’s 16 games, only missing two games due to health, and has logged 1,197 minutes. Last season she was named to the All-SUNYAC First Team and earned two SUNYAC Defensive Player of the Week selections.
The LaGrange, New York native has been a leader for the Cardinals, and has captained a Cardinal defense that has secured two shutouts in its last two games as they hunt for a playoff spot.
Haley is pursuing a minor in coaching, and runs a slew of soccer clinics for local youths alongside her teammates.
Outside of soccer, the social work major is an aspiring world traveler. Haley can often be found backpacking through countrysides and hiking trails.
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10-Plattsburgh
Question: What has been the single most exciting game moment of your career and why?
Answer: The most exciting game of my career was beating Geneseo in the regular season 1-0 last year. Geneseo has always had a notoriously strong women’s program. No one on the team — including myself — had ever beaten them. The last time Plattsburgh won against Geneseo was in 2015. I remember the game itself being pretty back-and-forth. Avery Durgan took a pretty nice shot with about five minutes to go. When the ball hit the back of the net it was such an awesome moment, especially in a hard-fought game. The atmosphere in the locker room after and on the bus back to Plattsburgh was so fun.
Q: What do you enjoy most about working soccer clinics and why?
A: I’ve played soccer my whole life and love working with kids. I remem-
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ber the college coaches who would help out at the clinics I would play at when I was their age. Now that I’m able to help out with and run clinics, I’m able to get creative and make my own practice plan. I remember all the drills that I used to love, and it’s super fun watching the kids have fun and get competitive with one another. I hope that I’m able to be a good role model for any of the girls that I get to train.
Q: What has been your favorite travel adventure? Where’s one place you’d like to go?
A: In the summer of 2023 my sister and I went backpacking in Washington state for two weeks. We hiked around Mt. Rainier National Park and Olympic National Park. I grew up camping, but the longest I had ever backpacked was for a night or two before this trip. Spending two weeks off the grid and 13 nights in a tent with my sister in the most breathtaking place was so special and something that I’ll never forget. There’s so many
Since center back Randall Ashong missed the loss to Cortland (13-3-3, 6-1-1) on Oct. 5, Tony Kochelev has been starting at left outside back. A junior, he had only played 186 minutes in his career and missed the entirety of the 2023 season.
Kochelev has stepped in and played 441 minutes and has followed Taylor’s tailored strategies. Before his elevation, he was just one of 16 field players sitting on the bench — all of which Kochelev said are contributors.
“They all bring the intensity every day, and I feel like they wouldn’t be here if they weren’t trusted and ready to make an impact on the team,” Kochelev said.
Just three players on the team have played significant minutes in a playoff game. Seniors Brian Coughlan, John Hayes and Teddy Healy all started in an upset of New Paltz in 2022.
Taylor hasn’t thought about the team’s inexperience. He said he’s confident in underclassmen starters such as Jack Murphy — who has “personality and confidence” — and Jake McGowan — “nothing scares that kid.”
Seniors Thomas O’Neill and Modou Badjie, who have transferred into the program, can be trusted when the team needs to lean on them, Taylor said.
For the seniors, the playoffs is a chance to make lifetime memories, and for rookies, it’s a chance to gain experience for future runs.
“Especially as a senior, you want to make sure you go out as high as possible,” Coughlan said. “We also want to make sure we leave the team in a good spot.”
Plattsburgh is undefeated at home with a 6-0-1 record, and Taylor called the Cardinals’ play at home
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Women’s Offensive Player of the Year: Rachel Eisert, New Paltz
Eisert won OPOY in 2023 with a 31-point performance. With 29 so far this season, I think she’s shown that she deserves to be the second twotime winner ever. Eisert has scored 13 goals and recorded three assists. She has propelled first-place New Paltz to average a league-best 3.2 goals a game and a 12-2-2 (7-0-1) record.
Runner-ups: Olivia Kilmer, Buffalo State and Gaby Treble, New Paltz
Women’s Defensive Player of the Year: Kristen Spendal, Cortland Spendal has been the anchor of the league’s second-best defense this season. She’s recorded seven shutouts and a goals against average
Q: While you were injured, how did you help to support Lily Bailey as she stepped in to start during an important part of the season?
A: Lily has developed so much as a person from the day that I met her to now. There was never a doubt in my mind about Lily. She holds herself with such confidence and takes pride in how she plays. She’s made some pretty big saves this season so far. Everyone gets super hyped in those moments, but there is never any shock. She’ll make a big play and walk off like nothing ever happened. That’s just Lily. I try to support her in anything she does, especially in big games. I’m really excited to see how her career plays out over the next two years.
This question-and-answer was conducted with Lauren over email Oct. 8.
their “superpower.” They’ve made the Field House an impossible place for opponents to succeed at — Plattsburgh has allowed just one goal at home all season. If the Cardinals host, they get to sleep in their own beds the night before, warm up in their own facilities and return to their own locker rooms at half time.
Plattsburgh has the opportunity to enter the postseason with the league’s second-longest win streak, and they can hit the ground running at home. The goal, Taylor says, is to start the playoffs as high and mentally strong as possible.
“You’ve got to have that aggressive, killer instinct all the time,” Taylor said. “That’s the only way you can win relentlessly over and over.”
Email COLLIN BOLEBRUCH cp@cardinalpointsonline.com
of 0.77. Spendal has 69 saves and a save percentage of 0.863, the league’s second-best mark. New Paltz’s Maddie Franklin should also get serious consideration, but Spendal has seen more action in SUNYAC games, saving 13 more balls.
Runner-ups: Maddie Franklin, New Paltz and Bryanna Meehan, Oneonta
Women’s Rookie of the Year: Olivia Kilmer, Buffalo State Kilmer should take this award without question. The Bengal must also have a candidacy for OPOY, scoring 11 goals and one assists for 23 total points. Kilmer and the Bengals are the fourth seed and could make some noise in the postseason.
Runner-ups: Makenzie Below, Buffalo State and Grace Lien, New Paltz
Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year: New Paltz Far and wide, New Paltz — led by head coach Mike Eckberg and
assistants Samantha Trimblett and Jess Funke — has been the best team in the conference. As dominant as they have been on offense, the Hawks have also allowed just 0.33 goals per game. They’ve cruised through the SUNYAC so far, entering the final game undefeated in conference games.
Runner-ups: Cortland and Oswego
Saturday will change some of these predictions, and the playoffs could flip everything on its head entirely. I considered those factors in some of these predictions and I’m confident in these winners or at least runner-ups. However, I’d be completely happy if all of these were wrong if it meant Cortland doesn’t sweep the soccer SUNYAC Championships.
Email COLLIN BOLEBRUCH cp@cardinalpointsonline.com
places on my bucket list that I want to visit. I would love to hike in the Andes Mountains and climb Machu Picchu.
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Lauren Haley stands stalwart in goal Sept. 14. Haley has recorded 3,618 minutes across her Cardinal tenure.
COLLIN BOLEBRUCH/Cardinal Points Head coach Chris Taylor is 33-20-13 in six years at PSU.
Women’s rugby climbs ranks Plattsburgh State women’s club rugby, ranked 20th in Division III, defeated No. 6 Clarkson University at home 22-7 on Oct. 19. The win extended the team’s home season, and the Cardinals will now take on SUNY Geneseo in the playoffs at the field behind Sibley Hall at 11 a.m. on Sunday.
Women’s rugby is 5-0 on the season and has outscored opponents 148 to 66. The win against Clarkson boosted the team’s ranking to No. 8 by National Collegiate Rugby.
If Plattsburgh defeats Geneseo (4-1), the team will play the winner between Clarkson and No. 10 Niagara University. A game against Clarkson would be at home, while a matchup with Niagara (5-0) would be on the road.
If the Cardinals win both games, they qualify for regionals in Virginia in November. If the team wins this week and loses next week, they would travel to regionals in Ohio.
MRUG set for postseason matchup
Plattsburgh State men’s club rugby (4-2) has qualified for the postseason, and is set to play St. Lawrence University (4-2) on the road in the first round 1 p.m. Saturday.
The Cardinals overcame a slow, 1-2, start to the season by winning three straight to earn a playoff berth. Plattsburgh has accumulated a point differential of 164 to 134.
Men’s rugby played St. Lawrence on Sept. 21, losing 33-34. St. Lawrence has scored 261 points this year, the most in the conference, and allowed 103, the second-least.
If Plattsburgh defeats St. Lawrence, it would play the winner of Hamilton College (5-1) and Clarkson University (4-2).
USCHO ranks Cardinals hockey
U.S. College Hockey Online has published its Division III rankings ahead of the 2024-25 season. Plattsburgh State men’s hockey debuted at No. 9, and women’s at No. 6 — both the highest among SUNYAC teams.
Men’s hockey finished last season 21-52 and spent multiple weeks ranked No. 1 during the fall semester. Plattsburgh lost the SUNYAC Championship to Cortland at home and narrowly missed receiving an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Cortland is ranked No. 13.
The SUNYAC preseason poll has Plattsburgh at No. 1, Oswego at No. 2 and Cortland at No. 3. The Cardinals open their season on the road against VTSU-Castleton on Nov. 1.
Women’s hockey went 22-5-1 last season, ranked among the top six for the entire season, though it was the first time the team had dropped below No. 4 since 2012. The Cardinals lost the SUNYAC Championship to Cortland at home, then the first round of the NCAA Tournament at home to Middlebury College. Cortland is ranked No. 10.
The SUNYAC preseason poll reached a tie, with Plattsburgh and Cortland both at No. 1. Plattsburgh plays No. 14 Norwich at home in its season opener Nov. 2.
WBB publishes 2024-2025 roster
Plattsburgh State women’s basketball released its 2024-25 season roster this week, featuring 16 players, including six first-years.
The Cardinals finished last season 10-14, 7-11, just one win outside of the playoffs. This year, Plattsburgh looks to return to the postseason for the first time since 2015 in a reshuffled conference.
Additions to the team include five rookie guards from New York: Meredith Bush from Gouverneur; Katie Cunningham from Heuvelton; Kayla Johannesen from Hyde Park; Tori Russo from Schenectady; and Emily Smith from Greenville.
Plattsburgh adds one forward in Kaelyn Morgan from Chateaugay, New York.
Players not returning include Ady Darnold, Ella Franklin and Bri Brousseau. Mya Smith graduated and also will not play.
Returning guards include junior Jaden Wilson and sophomores Selma Deisz, Julia Greek and Lauren LaFountain.
Wings on the team again are: senior AllSUNYAC Third Teamer Payton Couture, junior Kathy Peterson-Ross and sophomore Felicia Caarls.
Forwards back for another year are: sophomores Kassidy Flayter and Rosie Sculco.
Anchoring the defense at center is junior All-SUNYAC Third Teamer Imani Walcott.
The team welcomes Grace Jolicoeur, a Plattsburgh State student from Plattsburgh, as team manager, replacing the graduated Caitlin Kolesar.
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MBB publishes 2024-2025 roster Cardinals men’s basketball published its 2024-25 season roster this week, featuring 18 players, including seven new players.
Plattsburgh earned its first playoff berth in six seasons last year and came one play away from advancing to the semifinals. With a large incoming class, the Cards are gearing up for a deeper run.
The team’s additions include three first-years: forward Colin Harting from Hohen Neuendorf, Germany; wing Nate Pondexter Jr. from Washington, D.C. and guard Jaiden Gladney from Charleston, West Virginia.
Two newcomers played in New York junior colleges last season: sophomore forward Wol Machteng from NJCAA Division III Cayuga Community College in Auburn and junior guard/forward Damari Johnson from NJCAA Division III Tompkins Cortland Community College in Dryden.
Junior forward Irwayne Connell Jr. last played college basketball at NJCAA Division III Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York in 2018-2019, and started at NCAA Division II St. Thomas Aquinas College in Orangeburg, New York in 2017-2018.
Junior guard Kareem Welch was a NJCAA Division II All-American and All-Region XV Player of the Year when he last played at SUNY Sullivan in Loch Sheldrake, New York in 2021-22. He started his career at NJCAA Division I Odessa College in Odessa, Texas in 2019-20.
Returning guards include: seniors Franklin Infante, Matthew Kone-Bradshaw, Kevin Tabb and Sasha Vidrini and junior A.J. Williams Jr.
Wings back for another year are: seniors Ikechukwu Ezike and Jeremiah LoveSmith and junior Jeremy Jolly.
Forwards on the team again are: seniors Orlando Dawkins and Ladan Graves. Sophomore center Aidan McGuire returns for another season at center.
Not on this year’s roster are: graduates Willard Anderson Jr., Tim Thomas, Dylan Trombley and Darren Wright. Junior Ankush Malhotra is also not returning.
assistant coach, replacing Travis Rice. The Cardinals’ season tips off against Skidmore College at home Nov. 8.
VB loses out over road trip
Plattsburgh Cardinals volleyball (3-18, 0-7) finished 0-3 this past week in SUNYAC games.
First, the team traveled to Canton (10-12, 1-4) on Oct. 18, where it lost all three sets to the Kangaroos. The scores of the sets were 15-25, 20-25, 19-25.
Plattsburgh continued its road trip with its next stop at Oswego (12-10, 3-2) on Oct. 19. The Cards once again lost all three sets, ending their road trip winless.
The Cardinals finished off their away SUNYAC season with a competitive matchup against Potsdam (11-8, 3-4) on Wednesday. The Bears came away with the first set, winning 25-11. The Cardinals bounced back in set two with a 25-22 win. The back-and-forth trends continued with Potsdam taking set three 25-14 and Plattsburgh taking set four 25-22. Coming down to the last set, the Cardinals couldn’t carry their momentum from set four, losing their final set 10-15.
Plattsburgh continues its season tomorrow, when it travels to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. The Cardinals play Bowdoin College and Husson University in non-conference games.
XC runs in final 2024 invitational
Plattsburgh cross country traveled to Connecticut College for its final invitational before the SUNYAC Championship meet. The race featured several strong teams from the Northeast, with eight teams among the top 30 in the country.
The men’s team finished 31st in the 8000-meter blue race. Five of the seven Cardinals posted personal bests, including Michael Brockway, Sam Faga, Brody Olden, Erik Kucera and Denali Rodriguez-Garnica.
The women’s team finished 36th in the 6000-meter race. The top three performers for the Cardinals include Sarah Smith, who finished first for Plattsburgh and placed 205th overall, Grace Estus, who placed 230th and Lillian Moran, who finished 251st.
The Cardinals participate in the SUNYAC Championship on Nov. 2 at Oswego.
Two first-year skaters, Kayson Ruegge and Ella Procyk, scored a goal in the women’s hockey exhibition game against the Ottowa Lady Jr. 67s.
The women’s soccer team earned its third shutout of the season with its draw against Oswego. The defensive showcase helped the Cardinals stay in the playoff picture.
The men’s soccer team earned its fourth playoff berth under head coach Chris Taylor with its 1-0 win over Oswego. The team advanced to the semifinals in two of the three appearances.
team opens its season on the road against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on the road Nov. 8.
Trombley will serve this season as
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Women’s rugby President Evie Hatch takes a hit at Morgan’s Pitch behind Sibley Hall on Oct 19.
COLLIN BOLEBRUCH/Cardinal Points Team captain Lauren Gonyo drags a defender down the field with her.
COLLIN BOLEBRUCH/Cardinal Points Natasha Sheffer lunges through contact in the 22-7 win.
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The team honored 15 seniors at the game, a majority of the roster.
Brockway finds more than XC trails in ADKs
BY EMMA DEO Staff Writer
It can be difficult for many student athletes to find an identity outside of sports. This problem has been nonexistent for graduate student Michael Brockway, who has never struggled to find activities outside of Plattsburgh State’s cross country and track and field to be passionate about.
Brockway is finishing his degree in education from Plattsburgh’s five-year combined bachelors and masters program. He is also a consistent scorer on the men’s cross country and track and field teams, always bringing a cheerful, hardworking personality to the squad.
Plattsburgh’s proximity to the Adirondacks was a big part of what brought Brockway to the school, as the location gave him an opportunity to continue to do all the things he enjoys – most of which involve the natural world. Some of Brockway’s hobbies include rock climbing, whitewater kayaking, ice climbing and skiing.
“The best challenges in life are there for us already,” Brockway said, “There is no better test of your worth as a person or an outdoor recreator than knowing how you have trained and seeing how you can use these skills to accomplish great things outdoors.”
Last season, Brockway helped the men’s cross country team to a fifth-place finish at the SUNYAC Championship, its best finish since 2011.
“He’s been a really important part of the success and growth of the program,” cross country head coach Jordyn Naylon said. Naylon described Brockway as a chatty and well-rounded guy who will always greet you with a hello.
“He’s not someone like me, where it’s like ‘What are you into?’ and I’m like, ‘Well I run and that’s all I do,” Naylon said.
Learning about birdwatching in general and the complexities that it can showcase opened Brockway’s eyes to the diversity of the ecosystems all around.
“The difference between two types of trees, how close or far you are from a stream or a field, these little differences that we don’t even notice have such huge impacts on the way life can thrive in the world around us,” Brockway said. “Birds are just one piece of understanding the whole puzzle that is what happens around us all the time.”
“ I’m fulfilling a dream of mine to move to the Adirondacks and become a local.
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District, located about 30 minutes south of Plattsburgh.
“I was very lucky to get this position, it was really the dream scenario I was looking for. I do really love this area and now I have a reason to stay,” Brockway said. “I’m fulfilling a dream of mine to move to the Adirondacks and become a local.”
Among all of these hobbies, Brockway has also been able to find an identity in running. In high school in Washingtonville, New York, running gave Brockway a sense of value, allowing him to meet friends on his track team that he still cherishes today.
“Running will really always be a top priority for me outside of my work life,” Brockway said.
The newest addition to Brockway’s list of outdoor hobbies is birdwatching. One of his roommates introduced him to the birdwatching community a few years ago, but since it is a more time-consuming activity, it stayed on the back burner until last year.
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“I got injured and I had to take a lot of time off from running, and that woke me up to the idea that I can’t always get away with doing some of my more risky activities during my season, because they do have consequences if they go poorly, and I really hated the feeling of letting my team down,” Brockway said.
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The Cardinal offense was ranked seventh, averaging 1.1 goals per game, and scored only one goal in
Birdwatching is more than just a hobby for him — it has provided Brockway with an opportunity to perform a stress-free, undemanding activity in his free time which his other more laborious hobbies do not allow for.
During the minimal time Brockway spends indoors, he has found a passion for teaching. Going into college, Brockway was unsure of what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. Considering the leadership skills he took away from being involved in boy scouts from a young age, some great teachers and having parents who are also teachers, he realized that education would be the best profession for him.
Brockway is working as a science teacher at Willsboro Central School
each of their last four SUNYAC games.
The Cardinals made an offensive push early, going on a counter-attack that eventually earned them a corner kick in the third minute of the game. Plattsburgh did not capitalize,
failing to get a shot on goal.
Most of the first 45 minutes were played fighting for possession in the middle third of the field. Neither team was able to establish clear possession of the ball or control of the game, and both defenses turned
Plattsburgh teammate Graham Richard has been in the same mileage group as Brockway for quite some time now, getting to spend a lot of time running one-on-one with him. Richard praised Brockway as a great training partner as he’s not afraid to push the pace and keep the energy high when the workouts get tough.
“There’s never a dull moment,” Richard said. “Brock always has something to talk about.”
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away every counter-attacking opportunity.
“After every game, we’ve been shoring up little things in the back line during practice,” Granger wrote in a text. “It’s been showing in games one at a time.”
Both keepers had to make only one save in the first 45 minutes of play.
The second half played out similarly to the first, with neither team establishing dominance over the second half.
In the 84th minute, Plattsburgh earned a free kick roughly 35 yards from goal after an Oswego foul, earning a chance to close out the game in dramatic fashion.
The free kick was floated into the box, and found its way to Catrina Maltes’ feet for a shot attempt that was impressively saved by the Oswego keeper.
Plattsburgh recovered the ball in their offensive
third, leading to another shot in the 87th minute, this time by Claire Bottjer. The shot barely missed the net to the bottom right.
The final whistle blew, and the score was 0-0.
Plattsburgh finished the game with five total shots, two of them on net. Oswego finished with three total shots, managing only one on net.
Haley and the Cardinal defense earned Plattsburgh’s third shutout of the season.
“As the season went on, I think it became harder to score on the back-line and it took really good things from other teams to score on us,” Granger wrote in a text.
Six players played the full 90 minutes for the Cardinals, including all four defensive starters: Casey Granger, Lia Parker, Alexis Patrick, Amy Crowley, and midfielders Kelly Licata and Jillian Bezio.
The draw against Oswego leaves Plattsburgh’s playoff hopes alive. The Cards are currently battling with Fredonia, whom they beat earlier in the season, for the sixth and final playoff spot. With its win over Potsdam on Wednesday, Oct. 23, Plattsburgh needs to beat Canton, and Fredonia needs to lose to Oneonta in order for Plattsburgh to jump Fredonia for the sixth and final playoff seed.
The Cardinals will finish off conference play with a matchup against the Canton Kangaroos on Saturday, Oct. 26. This game also marks Plattsburgh’s senior day.
“This is a resilient team,” Frary said. “We saw that in Oswego, and we saw that tonight (against Potsdam).”
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Michael Brockway kayaks along the Saranac River’s white water beneath the Broad Street Bridge.
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Jillian Bezio collides with a Laker in a battle for the ball Oct. 19.
Trying to define the American Dream
BY KOLIN KRINER Public relations Chair
The American Dream, to many, revolves greatly around material wants and sound living. It’s a goal many strive to achieve, and it’s become the epitome of success to Americans. However, this American Dream is simply an idea, and everyone has a different view on what this dream looks like.
To some, The American Dream could look like the nuclear family, which consists of two legally married adults and their children. These families generally live in the suburbs with a white picket fence kind of lifestyle.
Some people who come to America might view the American Dream as the idea of freedom and a fresh start. The American Dream can also be just getting by day to day.
With many varying definitions of what the American Dream is, it shows that it takes on a different meaning from person to person. The circumstances of that person have a great impact on what that dream is.
For me, the American Dream is a lifestyle rather than a life as a whole. My American Dream is to do whatever makes me happy in each individual moment of my life. I don’t find love in the idea of living a sound and uniform life — that just sounds boring to me. Instead, I’d rather live a life in which I let the world take me where it takes me. I find joy in spontaneous decisions
like this because it gives me the feeling that the world is working for me, that I’m not working for it.
My American Dream isn’t planned out. It’s far from planned, if anything. I feel it’s a thing that will come with age as well.
As my life develops, my view of the dream may change, but for now I want to live a “you only live once” lifestyle and just have fun.
The quote made by artist Maya Lin in regards to the American Dream resonates with me greatly. As she put it, “To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling.”
Choice is a major component in forming the American Dream. Yes, there are external obstacles that may cause your
choices to fluctuate, but in the end it’s all choices we make that determine the outcome of the American Dream.
Of course, the outcome of these different choices are all based on what the American Dream is to the person making these choices, but ultimately, no matter what, choice has great influence.
For example, someone’s definition of the American Dream could be to one day live in a large Victorian style house with ten acres of land and a wife and kids. However, that dream could quickly become unattainable based on the decisions that person made throughout their life.
An example of this could be career choices. Let’s say this person decided to not go to college. That in itself instantly limits employment options as well as puts
a limit on potential salaries this person could be earning.
The expected average salary of someone without a college degree is about $27,000, ac cording to Indeed.com. This, mixed with the fact that the av erage price of a Victorian home is about $350,000 according to homeadvisor.com, the chanc es of this individual obtaining this dream is very limited.
To reiterate, the choices one makes and the effect they have on their American Dream var ies from person to person, but all choices do play some role in that dream either becom ing a reality, or that dream re maining simply a dream.
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Time almost up for planet
BY NADIA PASCHAL Opinion Editor
It’s late October, but despite the changing leaves and shorter days, I still don’t feel like it’s fall.
Temperatures are high and continue to rise with the weather forecast stating that it’s going to reach 71 degrees next week. Natural disasters keep striking and are becoming more severe. Climate change has gotten worse and it seems to have reached an irreparable point.
Florida was hit by two hurricanes within just one week of each other.
Category 4 hurricane Helene made landfall Sept 24. Oct 9, Hurricane Milton struck and was designated a Category 3.
Both of these storms caused massive damage, claiming a combined total
of over 200 lives and leaving many residents displaced and without power.
These concerns may be brushed off, as Florida is a region that often experiences hurricanes.
However, Hurricane Milton had 20% more rain and 10% stronger winds, according to the World Weather Attribution. Without the immense amount of fossil fuels burned each year, the storm would not have been as destructive.
Evidence of climate change is all around us, and so is the neutral attitude of many Americans. This issue affects everyone, no matter the region they are in. If the planet is destroyed, there is no backup or plan B.
Yet, only 37% of Americans say this should be a top priority, and it ranks as number
17 out of 21 issues, according to a survey conducted by Pew Research Center in 2023. There are headlines every day about this topic, but what can the average person do to help?
Personally, I’ve done all that I can do. Use less water, recycle, invest in sustainable items, walk more and sign petitions. That’s not enough.
There needs to be more action, and that is up to the government at this point. All we can do now is look at these headlines, be shocked and then move about our day.
I see this locally as well. Trash strewn about all over people’s yards and parking lots, polluted beaches and water and dumpsters full of items that could have been recycled and reused. If we can’t band together to
do something simple, like keeping one town clean, how are we going to band together and rally for more widespread change?
In September 2020, a climate clock was built in New York City. Its purpose is to display how much time we have to stay under 1.5 degrees Celsius warming and prevent climate change from becoming irreversible. On the day of its debut, we had seven years and 102 days left to make change. Four years later, we now have four years and 270 days left. There is not much time left, and I am left wondering and fearful of what else is to come.
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Halloween is almost here and it’s one of my favorite times of the year. There’s been many trends surrounding the holiday popping up. Here’s my thoughts on some of them.
Halloween ins and outs
Ins Outs
Spooky cocktails
Celebrate this season with some fun drinks you can make at your next Halloween party. Whether it’s a recipe you found online or something you brewed up yourself, this can be a fun way to try something new.
DIY costumes
Get creative! It can make you stand out and save you money.
Halloween playlists
This is the only time of the year we can enjoy the kind of music that sounds more haunting, so we should take advantage of it.
Pumpkin painting
Carving pumpkins is a fun tradition, but painting pumpkins has become more popular over the years as well.
Haunted houses
Although these may not be for everyone, visiting a haunted house with some friends can be a great thrill. If it’s cheesy, that can sometimes be even more fun.
Horror movie remakes
Hollywood has got to stop with the constant remakes. If they were good, I could tolerate them better. It’s time for some new ideas to be brought to life.
Last-minute costumes
If you’re going to put together a costume at the last moment, have a little more fun with it. Don’t just grab a white shirt and write costume on it.
Jumpscares
Speaking of horror movies, so many rely on these. They’re lazy and don’t keep the audience hooked. I’d rather watch something with a good plot that keeps me on the edge of my seat.
Winter holiday decorations
Halloween hasn’t even happened yet and most stores already have their pumpkin and skeletons in the clearance section and Christmas trees on display. We should be able to just enjoy each holiday,and not feel rushed.
Trunk-or-treat
When I was younger, I was always excited to go trick-or-treating. I think trunk-or-treat can be a great alternative for kids who can’t go trick-or-treating, but otherwise, why deprive them of such a fun experience?
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The Climate Clock is located in Union Square in New York City.