FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
FALL 2025 | ISSUE 6
Student Association
Senate considers reorganization BY GRANT TERWILLIGER News Editor
The Student Association senate approved funds for the Newman Association, Dance Corps and Club Caribbean as well as discussed the future of the Student Association’s structure at its Oct. 15 meeting.
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FUND APPROVALS
The Newman Association asked for $400 in allocations for 10 people to go to Camp Guggenheim for their retreat. The Newman Association is a catholic christian club where students are able to express their faith and find community at SUNY Plattsburgh. The senate approved $400 in funds for the Newman Associations weekend retreat. Dance Corps asked for up to $620 for their upcoming invitational on Oct. 25. Dance Corps is a dance club on Plattsburgh’s campus that holds local recitals and focuses on variety in dance as well as techniques in dance. Senior Dance Corps president Isabella Lambert expressed her excitement with bringing dance teams on campus and around the state for a competition. “We really wanted to strengthen the dance community here and really have a good name for the school and our team. So we invited all of the dance teams on our cam-
pus to bring all of us together and collaborate on something. We also have five prospective teams,” Lambert said. “We have a really good array of judges coming. It’s a really great opportunity for dancers.” They have invited the dance teams Vis Viva from RIT, Union College and others. The Student Association senate approved Dance Corps $620 in funds for their invitational event in a unanimous vote. Club Caribbean asked the Senate for $1,367.10 for their Carnival of Crowns event. The Carnival of Crowns is Club Caribbean’s first pageant on campus and will include SUNY Oneonta’s dance team and many costumes with wings and feathered head wraps. The event will feature games and other interactive activities for attendees alongside the main pageant. Treasurer Jamal Bynum said that he feels that Caribbean culture should be celebrated more which is one of the main reasons why they wanted to hold the pageant. “We feel that Caribbean appreciation is something that could be worked on on this campus, and even outside of Caribbean appreciation the appreciation of minorities in general,” Bynum said. The student association approved $1,367.10 in funds for Club Caribbean’s pageant that will take place on Nov. 8.
FUTURE OF THE SA
In the Student Associations Executive meeting they discussed combining many internal operations and positions, reducing the senate while maintaining the same amount of executive positions. Vice President Jack Sweet said that reorganizing some positions internally could allow the SA to become more efficient. “We are all working on ways to maximize the potential of everyone in the SA and make sure everyone reflects the SA,” Sweet said. “We have noticed things that have been working and things that haven’t been, and that’s the beauty of SA and how it can evolve.”
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Cardinal Creative: Virginia Lucchetti
‘Ginny’ transforms inspirations into film, paintings, animation, pottery BY ADAM BLANCHARD Staff Writer
Plattsburgh Senior Virginia “Ginny” Lucchetti grew up surrounded by art. Raised in Syracuse, the soonto-be art school graduate was inspired by a world of comic panels and paintings. Lucchetti attributed much of her artistic inspiration to her father, who kept the walls of her childhood home covered in art. “A lot of it does derive from my dad because my dad’s fixations kind of projectile vomited onto me,” Lucchetti said. As she moved into the academic world, Ginny was attracted to the arts. An important step in her path as an artist was when she took AP art in senior year of high school. Lucchetti spent the majority of her free time in the art room, despite only the class being her only art class that year. “Math didn’t make sense to me, nor science, but for some reason art was just something that always clicked for me,” Lucchetti said. Now so close to graduating, Ginny is navigating the world of professional art. In August, Lucchetti had a partnership with video editing app Video Star, where she was
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Ginny Lucchetti stands next to one of her displayed oil paintings in Myers. hired to create an animation for the company. In Plattsburgh, Ginny has been featured in the Studio Select Exhibit in the John Myers Fine Arts Building and assisted in creating a film with fellow Cardinal Tessy Huntley, which was featured at the Strand Center for the Arts. The unexpected collaboration was a high point for Ginny.
“I never thought that would happen, like, ever, so it was a good feeling,” Lucchetti said. “It was really well received.” Lucchetti is experienced with many mediums, ranging from digital media, to ceramics to soft pastels. When it comes to personal preferences, Lucchetti said she has a soft sport for oil pastels and paints. Lucchetti has an expansive
portfolio on her website virginialucchetti.com. Her artist’s statement explains that through her work, Lucchetti aims to explore themes of strength, vulnerability and growth through the inspirations of design elements found in the magical girl genre of media that inspired her. She credits the genre’s focus on coming-of-age stories centered on transitioning from girlhood
to womanhood as themes that “resonated deeply” with her. In the future, Lucchetti plans to go to graduate school for illustration focusing on painting and drawing. After grad school, Lucchetti’s dream is to land a job for an indie studio as an animator or storyboard artist while also maintaining work as a freelancer. “I hate how short life is because I just want to do so many different things,” Lucchetti said. “I want to work on a movie as a storyboard artist, or a concept artist or something like that.” Lucchetti often finds herself reflecting on what will become of art in the future. She feels the importance of art is misunderstood and overlooked, but can be found even in the simplest things. “Even when people are like, ‘Oh, a circle isn’t art,’ it’s like, yeah it is. It’s making you feel something. It’s making you feel enraged, that’s art,” Lucchetti said. “It kind of pains me that not everyone can see it that way, but I think it’s really beautiful.”
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