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WHAT’S INSIDE:
VOLUME 110 | ISSUE 3
A&C
SPORTS
OPINION
Reel-ly good cinema with Andy MacDougall
Platts to host two hockey Finals Saturday
Forces toward sustainability on campus
Students clog Draper Ave. for parking BY ALEKSANDRA SIDOROVA News + Managing Editor
Students have resorted to desperate measures in an attempt to secure a parking spot close to class. “I feel like there’s not much parking, especially once you get here later on in the day,” said Olivia Montello, a first-year who arrives to class early, in part due to the state of campus parking. When the off-campus student parking lot next to Au Sable, Hawkins and Ward halls filled up, students started parking on both sides of Draper Avenue. Cars on both sides reduced the normally two-way traffic on the street along Ward and Au Sable to one lane. Sometimes, students block driveways. Plattsburgh City Police received three complaints about parking
on Draper Avenue since Jan. 29 and issued 31 parking tickets on the street since Jan. 22. “It happens every semester,” City Police Lt. Joshua Pond said. “People are new to the campus or they forget where they can park appropriately.” Some students don’t understand how parking on campus works. Montello, majoring in early childhood and special education, said parking on campus was “complicated.” “It’s not really clear where students can park,” Montello said. First-year biomedical sciences major Alexandra Webb described parking as “difficult, depending on the day.” Montello and Webb both live off-campus. Webb prefers the lot next to Au Sable and Hawkins because it is close to her classes. PARK > 3
Perspective: Shooting club makes mark in Boston contest BY LARAIB ASIM Contributor
Editor’s Note: Laraib Asim reports on the Marksmanship Club’s participation in the Mid-Atlantic Conference as a competitor. While SUNY Plattsburgh students were catching up on sleep after an exhausting week, the Marksmanship Club’s top five competitors were on the road to Boston at 5:30 am on a Saturday to compete against three National Collegiate Athletic Association rifle teams at MIT’s range. This is the club’s 10th year competing in the Mid-
Atlantic Rifle Conference (MAC) Championships. Headed by Coach Peter Visconti, the team of fairly new members was in high spirits as they shot with a .22 caliber and an air rifle. While they placed fourth in both competitions, they left the range beaming as the team had achieved a personal high score in the air rifle match. All the shooters scored more than 500 points out of 600, amounting to 3,995 points. “You guys were fucking phenomenal,” Assistant Coach Timothy Peters said. MARK > 3
Via SUNY Plattsburgh Marksmanship Club on Facebook
The Marksmanship Club competitors shoot at targets at the Mid-Atlantic Conference in Boston.
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Jeremy Gundrum tinkers with equipment while live in WARP Radio’s studio in Yokum Hall.
WARP Radio back on air
BY BRIONNE THOMPSON Staff Writer
WARP Radio studio is alive with activity again — students are working on their computers in order to pre-record the station so it’s able to run 24/7. WARP Radio is a student-run radio station hosted by SUNY Plattsburgh, and it’s now a course being offered for journalism and communication students. It’s taught by Bruce Carlin, a friendly and passionate lecturer. “If you have a radio station, you want it to feel like you’re listening to music with a friend,” Carlin said. “You want your audience to know you and you need to be consistent and be live 24/7.” The students who are taking this course — CMM209 — work six to eight hours a week and one to two hours a day, from Wednesday to Friday between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Students learn things like how to go live on air and how radio stations
run. There aren’t many radio stations without automated systems and just real people, and that’s what WARP sets up in Plattsburgh. Carlin is passionate about teaching the class. He said that knowing his students will make their mark on the world is a 180-degree change from his past job, and he’s not complaining. “I have four kids. It really helps my teaching and how I communicate with them,” Carlin said. Carlin studied at SUNY Plattsburgh. He later had his own business agency in radio doing advertisements and playing music for about 30 years. He also managed Plattsburgh’s Air Force Base’s public relations and communicated the base’s closing to the public and what activities the base would be up to now. Teaching CMM2209 is a complete change for Carlin. “I’ve had four kids and put them through college. It’s expensive. I want these students to be prepared
for their careers and get their money’s worth,” Carlin said. SUNY Plattsburgh has had several radio stations over the years, according to Carlin. First, when he was a student, the school put in a transmitter in the Kehoe Administration Building and used antennas to blast the radio through the dorms on campus. After a while, it changed into WQKE from 1981 until 2022. WQKE shut down because of COVID-19 and now exists as a club funded by the Student Association as opposed to a department-owned radio station. The difficulty of this course shouldn’t be students’ first worry, according to James Kheller, a teaching assistant for this course. “The editing can be a bit tricky and take some time getting used to, but everyone learns at different paces and it’s a fun experience,” Kheller said. WARP > 3
Cars towed after Rugar accident Two cars collided on Rugar Street Wednesday afternoon. The collision was a “simple following too-closely accident,” University Police Chief Patrick Rascoe wrote in an email. Both cars were towed due to the severity of the damage. One car headed in the downtown direction stopped to yield to a pedestrian at a crosswalk. Another car, following closely, ALEKSANDRA SIDOROVA/Cardinal Points failed to stop and hit the A University Police officer stands by one of the cars damaged in the accident on first car from behind. No one was injured. Rugar Street around 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28.