Issue 10

Food theft reporting on the rise

BY ALEKSANDRA SIDOROVA News Editor

University Police received seven reports of food being stolen from the Sundowner, a dining hall at SUNY Platts burgh, this semester.

The number is “a little high,” UP Inspector Seth Silver said. However, Silver said he thinks the number of reports increased not due to an uptick in instanc es of food larcenies, but due to dining hall staff’s diligence in reporting.

Sundowner and Kent Cafe see attempts to steal food almost daily.

Cathy Boire, Kent Cafe

supervisor, said food gets stolen more often toward the end of the year, when students start to run low on money. The fridges and shelves are located in plain sight, so Boire can usually clearly see any attempts to steal food from behind the counter. She said staff has pulled students aside to apprehend them for at tempting to steal food. These apprehensions have not resulted in any report made to UP.

There are one to two lar ceny attempts occurring at Sundowner every night, Sundowner Supervisor John Ashline said.

The most commonlystolen items at Sundowner are drinks, Ashline said. Usually students stuff the desired items in their coat pockets. Sometimes stu dents simply walk out with the items during busy times when supervisors are look ing the other way. Another way to “steal” is consuming the snacks, soup, drinks or ice cream before reaching the cashiers. Sometimes the only evidence left be hind is spills and wrappers, Ashline said.

Larcenies get reported to UP only if the student successfully leaves the establishment without be

ing confronted or puts up a fight. Ashline said he thinks students are steal ing food “for the thrill” or “really wanted some thing” while low on din ing dollars. Silver agreed, but said most thefts seem to be “honest mistakes” coming from forgetting to pay for the items or not un derstanding the meal plan system. The students are asked to pay for the stolen food and will have a judi cial charge against them upon multiple offenses.

Police reports do not indicate theft of food ex ceeding $20 in value. One report was made over a

cup of coffee a student drank, but did not pay for.

Silver said dealing with the larcenies is not UP’s highest priority.

“On a college campus with a couple thousand students living on campus and people coming here to work and to do things ev ery day, someone stealing a cup of coffee or a sand wich — it’s not right and it’s an issue — but it’s not number one on our list,” Silver said. “Yes, techni cally it may be a crime, but it’s not the crime of the century.”

Title IX moves online

BY ALEKSANDRA SIDOROVA News Editor

For years, SUNY Platts burgh had a physical Title IX office that deals with reports on discrimination and sexual assault. How ever, now these services are provided remotely and have been for the past year, to an uncertain degree of success.

Current Title IX Coordinator Ann James knows she’s not here forever. James has been providing Title IX services for SUNY Plattsburgh since fall 2021, just over a year since the search for a permanent Title IX coordinator failed.

James does not have a physical presence on campus — she lives in Cincinnati — but was hired through the firm Grand River Solutions to provide Title IX services to multiple college campuses remotely.

“Most people don’t want to make a report, they want help and sup port,” James said. “I can help with those things. It just doesn’t have to hap pen in person.”

Grand River Solutions “provides institutions across the country with the ability to delegate some or all of their Title IX needs on an interim or ongoing basis,” the firm’s website states.

Paid parking concerns Platts businesses

BY SYDNEY HAKES Arts & Culture Editor

After years of free park ing in downtown Platts burgh, the plan to install a paid parking fee struc ture took effect Oct. 11. The Common Council passed the decision (4-2) in June despite concerns from community members.

Street parking and se lect spots in the Durkee Street lot are still free, but for two hours only. Paid parking is in effect Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at $1 an hour, paid by card or cash to kiosks.

While this fee doesn’t seem expensive, it was still a big change for locals and business owners.

Plattsburgh local Han nah Laurin lives in an apartment on Bridge Street across from the Durkee lot. Her two-bed room apartment allows one parking spot out back, so her brother Bran don is forced to use street parking or the lots.

“We’re mostly gone dur ing the day and they don’t enforce it after 4 p.m. so it

hasn’t been bad,” Laurin said. “But he does take long lunch breaks in the afternoon, and I’ve seen other vehicles with tickets

on them multiple times so it just seems like a risk to be parked in the same spot too long.”

Local businesses were

also strongly opposed to the plan, worried that paid lots may deter cus tomers from coming. Re becca VanValkenberg,

an employee at Antique & Variety Mall on Marga ret Street, said they have definitely been impacted

by it.

Although locals are pretty aware of the hours paid parking is in effect and where free two-hour parking may be, people traveling from other towns are not.

“The issue is that com munication didn’t get out, so we have people from Malone or Massena or Eliza bethtown calling us con fused about where to park or if they’ll get ticketed,” VanValkenberg said. “There are a lot of questions.”

The Antique & Variety Mall has two locations on the same block, with three employee parking spots behind the building for both locations. VanValken berg said one of the mall’s employees has to pay to park when they work.

Carolyn Tetreault, own er of the gift store A Beau tiful Mess on Margaret Street, said that while she has only two employees, they have no reserved parking spots. She opted for the parking permits over hourly payment, as it “made the most sense.”

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A sign on Margaret Street in downtown Plattsburgh instructs drivers how to pay for parking.

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Students crowd the halls of the Sundowner, reaching peak numbers right after it opens for its late night hours at 8 p.m.

Nov. 17

SA disputes Desi, Nepali clubs

The Student Association Senate approved the Desi Club for provisional status, but argued whether to al low the club Nepalese at Plattsburgh the same. The SA also approved a total of $3,571 for club events.

Nov. 18

A student reported a real estate scam. Investi gation is still pending.

Nov. 28

Housing staff reported an assault at Whiteface Hall. When University Police arrived, it found the student “still actively fighting other students.” The student was taken into custody and trans ported to Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital.

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The Desi Club made its first appearance in cam pus life the week before Thanksgiving break by of fering mini lessons in 10 South Asian languages as part of International Edu cation Week. Now, it was asking to be recognized as an official club. Three Desi Club representatives appeared before the Sen ate to explain the purpose of the club and pitch ideas for future events. They said “desi” is an umbrella term for South Asian cul tures, meaning “indige nous.” As such, the club’s constitution states it rep resents the cultures of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Pakistan.

Representatives pitched four events. First was a henna workshop to intro duce students to the art of using a natural dye to dec orate one’s skin. Next were a desi prom and a rangoli competition. Rangoli is an art form in which people create patterns on tables or floors using dyes, flour, sand, rocks, flower petals and rice. The last event pitched was a Bollywood movie night — a night to enjoy desi film.

The club’s representa tives said they are open to collaborating with other clubs for their cultural events to allow for the fu sion of cultures, such as Club International.

“It’s nice to have it all together,” Desi Club Vice President Arshita Pandey said. “That just makes it more fun, honestly.”

The club was unani mously approved for provi sional status and will hold its first meeting Dec. 7.

“We want to show peo ple that we are so much more than Mt. Everest,” Sherpa said.

Dispute arose surround ing the need for a club dedicated to Nepali culture when the Desi club claimed to represent Nepali culture as part of the “desi” um brella term. Sherpa em phasized Nepal’s cultural and religious diversity and said a club dedicated to Nepali culture would be able to better showcase non-desi events. Sena tor Nilay Vaidya stepped in saying “desi” is a term predominantly used to in dicate one’s South Asian origin in Western contexts. Vaidya also noted the exis tence of other clubs dedi cated to a single country’s culture, such as the Japa nese Cultural Association at Plattsburgh.

“We must also recog nize Nepal is a separate country and ethnicity, so I think it is appropriate,” Vaidya said.

ing, lighting and sound, traditional Arab clothing for guests to try on and decorations. Additionally there will be carpets and pillows for attendees to sit on, as is customary in Arab culture, MSA Public Re lations Chair Sidiya Faye said. Other activities show casing Arab culture are games and presentations.

Senator William Don lon expressed concern for the timing of the event, to fall on the Friday before Finals Week.

“Why did you plan it on exams week, dude?” Don lon said. “I’m not going to go because I’m going to have to study for exams.”

Senator Aissatou Lo ar gued the event would be a way for students to re lieve stress before Finals Week. Faye also said an event hosted at a similar date last year saw almost double the anticipated at tendance. The funding was unanimously approved.

event Nov. 17. CEO would not be able to pay Chart wells for catering in ad vance because SA funds become available to clubs days after their approval and the event was sched uled for the next day. CEO President Vladamiere Perry said Chartwells un derstood the club’s situa tion and agreed to cater for them anyway. He also said CEO Adviser Nancy Church would take care of the cost regardless of whether the SA approved the funding. The club originally re quested an additional $100 for gift cards for the competition judges, but Perry said the matter was taken care of. Perry said the club procured the $500 prize given to the top three participants through SUNY Plattsburgh’s School of Business and Economics.

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Following the Desi club was the club Nepalese at Plattsburgh. As a club, Nepalese at Plattsburgh aims to provide a “safe haven” for Nepali stu dents at Plattsburgh and share Nepal’s history and diverse cultures with any one interested, Club Vice President Palden Sherpa said. The club representa tives said the club had 11 members, but more than 30 students indicated in terest in joining.

Club representatives said they believe it is possible to keep the momentum of a cultural club strong be cause students from Nepal arrive in Plattsburgh each semester, answering Sena tor Muscaan Patel’s con cern for the club’s ability to sustain itself over time.

After some discussion, the club was unanimously approved. It will hold its first meeting Dec. 6.

The largest portion of the $3,571 total was a sum of $2,170 for the Muslim Stu dent Association to host its Arabian Nights event scheduled for Dec. 9. The funding would go to cater

ing Advisory Committee, whose goal is “to advise the Common Council on park ing and related matters as well as to guide and review the preparation of parking plans and programs.”

Next in size was a sum of $1,326 for African Unity’s annual Ubunye event dedi cated to showcasing Afri can cultures held tomorrow night. “Ubunye” is a Zulu word meaning “unity.” This year, the theme is “wed ding party,” featuring a fake wedding performed, paired with singing, dancing and games. The funding, to go toward food, sound and lighting and a photo booth, was unanimously approved.

Lastly, the SA approved $75 for the club CEO — the Plattsburgh chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization — to provide cookies at its business model poster competition

At the same meeting, CEO was unanimously granted permanent status due to its activity displayed through multiple events and consistent meetings starting last semester.

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She hasn’t seen a change in the number of customers stopping in, citing that the two-hour street parking is typically available dur ing their business hours. But overall, she thinks the plan has been “a pain.”

“I personally feel that the employees shouldn’t have to pay,” Tetreault said.

The City of Plattsburgh government site has a page with information about downtown parking, in cluding how to use kiosks, getting a parking permit, instructions for delivery drivers and a map of what lots are two hours or paid.

Semi-annual or annual parking permits can be purchased for $90 or $171. Employers have an option to purchase multiple per mits at once for their em ployees if they wish to do so, like Tetreault did for her employees.

The city website also noted a Plattsburgh Park

The Community Devel opment Office was not aware if the committee had an expiration date that passed, but they hadn’t been active recently.

When the plan was passed in June, Mayor Chris Rosenquest spoke in a press release about the benefits paid parking could provide, mainly the revenue that could be generated.

Rosenquest said the newly approved fee schedule is hoped to bring in about $20,000 per year to go toward downtown improvements.

But concern still lingers for small business owners that only time will sway. Addressing those con cerns, Rosenquest said, “We’re prepared to make commonsense adjust ments when necessary.”

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Janitorial staff found and confiscated a machete in DeFredenburgh Hall. The machete’s owner was identified and received a judicial referral.

In other Senate news, Laraib Asim was ap proved as a Finance Board Voting Member in a unanimous vote.

ALEKSANDRA SIDOROVA/Cardinal Points Saanvi Moryani (left) and Arshita Pandey (right), president and vice president of the Desi Club respectively, tabled in Angell College Center Nov. 14. The club participated in International Education Week by offering mini lessons in 10 South Asian languages.

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Twitter’s landscape undergoes changes

BY ROCCO GOLDEN Contributor

Recently, Twitter has been in a transition period. The social media giant has officially been bought out by Elon Musk. Un der the new leadership, there have already been a slew of new changes brought about, with many more on the way. Users are outraged by these new changes, while others are breathing sighs of relief and happiness.

One of the biggest arguments against Musk’s recent decisions is that he is ruining the com pany by firing employees. The counter argument is that Musk is trying to make Twitter more profitable, and in the process, he has to make some tough de cisions. Contrary to what many may think, Twitter employees worked in a more lax and lav ish environment, as compared to a typical workplace.

According to a recent article by The New York Post, hundreds of Twitter employees have decided to leave or resign after Musk told workers they needed to commit to a hardcore work environment and long hours at high inten sity. This is certainly a drastic change compared to the old Twitter. With regards to fairness of these conditions, it is unfair, but definitely worth it if Twitter is to survive and stay relevant.

Longer hours and high intensity work right now will be good for the long run.

Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter, and obviously he has

to make back that money some how. The way to make money back becomes making Twitter into a more profitable company. If there are employees that are practically useless, and they’re not doing anything good for the company, it’s a given to get rid of them. A sizable number of Twitter’s employees have either resigned or have been fired, and

it’s unclear how many more will go. What is known is that the company is reshaping itself, and whether this reshaping will turn out successful is up in the air.

Another big argument against Musk’s vision for Twitter is that less regulation of speech on the platform is bad. Twitter back in the day always stood for free speech. It’s highly debatable

whether this is true, as more evidence has come out over the past few years showing that Twitter and their employees were biased.

According to an article by The Hill, an American newspaper and digital media company, for mer CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey said during an interview in 2018 that Twitter employees share a

largely left-leaning bias. In the years leading up to the acqui sition by Musk, this sentiment stayed the same. It is clear that the old Twitter had, to a degree, partisanship. When the plat form permanently suspended the former U.S. President Donald Trump, many were convinced that free speech was not evident.

If Twitter was always pro-free speech as it claims to have been, then there really should not be a problem with the new deregula tion and leadership.

It is also said that now, under Musk’s decisions and leader ship, Twitter could be on a road to collapse soon. While many say that Twitter will go down as time goes on, it could really go in either direction. Musk tweet ed, “The best people are stay ing, so I’m not super worried.”

Even though Musk is not worried about the potential collapse of Twitter, that does not guarantee a good future. It is possible that the mass resignations of employ ees in tie with many users and advertisers leaving the platform could spell a disaster that is too large to recover from.

Bankruptcy is definitely a hot topic amongst the public. Many think that it is going to be in evitable. With that being said, bankruptcy is not the end-all beall of Twitter’s fate. According to an article by National Public Ra dio, bankruptcy of Twitter could help Musk restructure some of the immense debt that was ac crued after the acquisition.

Mental health not an excuse

BY BRYN FAWN Opinions Editor

Around this time last year, when Thanksgiving dinner had been eaten and seasonal carols es caped peoples’ lips, a massacre occurred. Dar rell Brooks came barreling down toward a Christmas parade in an SUV Nov. 21, 2021, and murdered six in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Cop kills Black teen in Mississippi

BY BRYN FAWN Opinions Editor

Black Lives Matter received earth-shattering support in 2020, with the murder of George Floyd. Floyd was restricted by police with a knee on his neck for nine minutes. Protests spanned the na tion that summer, and police bru tality was further documented.

Sadly, police still abuse their position of power. Jaheim McMil lan, a 15-year-old from Gulfport, Mississippi, was shot and killed Oct. 6. The name of the police of ficer has not been released. Police responded to a 911 call of suppos edly six individuals brandish ing guns. Police report McMillan pointed a weapon, where he was then fired upon. McMillan was shot in the head, and later died when taken off life support.

Ben Crump, the civil rights at torney representing the McMil lan family, stated: “This child

had his whole life ahead of him, but bullets from those officers took all possibility of that away in an instant. While much re mains unknown about this case, we fully intend to put pressure on officials in Mississippi until this family gets the answers they need and deserve.”

Community members gathered Nov. 29 to mourn McMillan and demand justice for the child. Po lice footage has yet to be released, and Crump is fighting for the re lease. The police officer who fa tally shot McMillan has not been fired, but has been placed on “non-enforcement” duties.

Katrina Mateen, McMillan’s mother, told a local news outlet: “He was sitting in the car and he seen the police pull up with guns, so he got out the car and tried to run in the store and they shot him in the head. The video I seen on Facebook is basically my son didn’t do anything. He had his hands up,

so why did y’all shoot him?”

Communities need to rally to gether, not just the city of Gulf port, to refuse to let McMillan become just another statistic. People need to cry out. Cry out for justice. Scream for something to be done. For justice. Justice for McMillan, justice for Floyd, jus tice for Breonna Taylor, justice for Dante Wright and the hundreds others murdered by police.

Another protest is planned to be held Dec. 3. People are implored to join the protest, even outside Mis sissippi. Be angry, be upset and demand change. BLM protests in summer 2020 caused a ripple ef fect of change. The murderer of Floyd was convicted. Police were cornered with hundreds of hours of misconduct videotaped.

SUNY Plattsburgh is not shy of protests or students’ raising their voices. Last year the campus saw several sit-ins and speak-outs for injustice against BIPOC students

and individuals. The Friday before Thanksgiving break, several POC clubs such as Fuerza, African Unity and Black Onyx gathered in Kehoe to support Troy Joseph after he re ceived a racist email. Plattsburgh’s students are capable to plan, col laborate and hold a protest.

Students can and should join the fight for justice for McMillan. McMillan was still a child, and the police department has been oddly silent. Black lives matter, always.

Hopefully, any and all protests from this tragedy will lead to less police brutality. The chance is slim, but there is always a hope. Perhaps America will one day see police not abuse the system they have crafted nor their privi leges. Police are supposed to protect and serve. How can end ing the life of a child protect and serve society?

Thousands watched as the trial was televised and Brooks represented himself in court following the belief of being a “sov ereign citizen.” Brooks was found guilty on all 76 counts and was sen tenced to 765-and-a-half years in prison.

This tragedy and its trial was already bizarre, but Brooks and his fam ily grasped at straws to try and lessen the sen tence. Brooks’ mother and grandmother both tried to blame his mental health for the crime. This defense was swiftly shut down by the judge.

Judge Jennifer Dorow stated at sentencing: “Do the mentally ill sometimes commit atrocious crimes? They do. This is not one of those situations. There are times good people do bad things, but there are times when evil people do bad things. There is no medi cation or treatment for a heart that is bent on evil.”

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Respect for Marriage Act passes Senate

American queers rejoiced and celebrated June 26, 2015, when same-sex marriage was ruled legal. Anyone in the states could marry who they love. However, then the Su preme Court became ultraconservative thanks to the likes of former President Don ald Trump. Fear loomed over the community, as their rights fell into jeopardy. Roe v. Wade was then overturned and the supreme judges made it clear that same-sex marriage and interracial marriage — along side sodomy — was next.

The Respect for Marriage Act is a step toward perma nently protecting these rights. Originally introduced June 18, it was voted on in the Senate Nov. 29. The act would codify interracial and same-sex mar riage, barring the Supreme Court from overturning any ruling to make it illegal. Thir ty-six Republicans voted no on the bill. Notably, Mitch Mc Connell voted no, while being in an interracial marriage.

Nonetheless, the act passed the Senate. That means the bill will go on to the next part of the chain, the House, slow ly making its way to President Joe Biden, who can either veto

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the bill and send it back, or sign it into legislation. It is ex tremely likely Biden will ap prove of the bill.

Biden said in a statement: “With today’s bipartisan Sen ate passage of the Respect for Marriage Act, the United States is on the brink of reaf firming a fundamental truth: love is love, and Americans should have the right to mar ry the person they love. For millions of Americans, this legislation will safeguard the rights and protections to which LGBTQI+ and inter racial couples and their chil dren are entitled.”

This bill, however, isn’t just some ordinary law. It’s a sign. A sign to those fight ing against queer rights that we won’t back down, and a sign of hope to queers. Gay couples, transgender couples and “nontraditional” couples no longer have the looming fear of the Supreme Court stripping them of their right to marry, to love and to just be.

Anyone should be able to marry anyone. To be able to marry for love, for tax pur poses or for fun. This act is what will guarantee that fu ture for Americans.

Some believe that when they commit a crime, they should then attempt to appear clini cally insane to avoid punishment. However, that is not how the justice system works, nor is it that easy to obstruct justice. Those who are found innocent due to reason of insan ity are sent to a mental institution, and those institutions are often run poorly.

Abuse is common place, and some may say it is worse than a prison sentence. Even if the punishment would not result in a life in jail, innocence by insanity will confine the criminal for life in the institution.

Nonetheless, using mental illness as an ex cuse merely spits in the face of those who truly are mentally ill and who truly struggle in day-to-day life. Accord ing to the National Alli ance on Mental Illness, one in five adults live with a mental illness.

NAMI also states: “One-half of all chron ic mental illness be gins by the age of 14; three-quarters by the age of 24. Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and is a major con tributor to the global burden of disease.”

College students tend to suffer even more than the aver age American adult.

“During the 2020-2021 school year, more than 60% of college stu dents met the criteria

for at least one mental health problem,” ac cording to the Healthy Minds Study which collected data from 373 American campuses.

Mental illness can be debilitating. Depres sion can confine one to

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Debt is always a problem, so being able to take care of that problem is essential.

Twitter has always been a weird social media platform. It’s always been a place to have conversations and con nect with other people, but in the modern day it seems it’s just a place for argu ment. Regardless of who is in charge of decision making, Twitter’s environment will most likely continue to stay

their bed and have their hygiene decay. Anxiety can cause one to tear their own hair out over one small quiz. Psycho sis disorders alter the reality for the victim, which can only increase their stress and anxiety.

the same as time goes on.

The foundation of social media platforms are the us ers. Without users then a platform is pointless. Simi lar to a building, there’s so much that can be changed without trying to build new foundations. Twitter has al ways had a base of users, and will continue to, even if the platform stagnates or succeeds. While many other rules and policies for Twitter may change, the foundation will stay.

For other social media plat forms, Twitter’s future could be good or bad. On one hand,

Mental illness does not make someone harm ful, in fact it mostly only harms the individual.

Mental illness never goes away. It sticks. It lasts. It’s a lifetime com mitment that one never signs up for, but is

the company could continue on the road it is on now: try ing to make a profit, hiring new and better employees, and becoming an even larger giant in the social media sec tor. This would mean other social media platforms would have a harder time garner ing users for their time. On the other hand, Twitter could become more stagnant and less relevant as time goes on, which would mean other platforms will get the users they would want.

With many of the bet ter, more productive em ployees staying at Twitter,

forced into the contract anyway. Each morn ing thousands wake up, and each morning thousands have to con tinue the battle against their own brain chem istry, against their own thoughts , against their own warped feelings and reality.

This does not even take into account men tal disabilities such as Autism, Attention Defi cit Hyperactivity Dis order, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or Dis sociative Identity Dis order. Depression and anxiety can even quali fy as disabilities if they are severe enough.

Crimes are commit ted, that’s a fact of human nature. What is not human nature is the mentally ill are doomed to cause harm. The facts don’t corre late. The mentally ill are more likely to be victims than to cre ate victims, especially with the social stigma surrounding heal ing and seeking help. Don’t be another statis tic or flimsy defense to lessen a punishment.

The Health and Counseling center, lo cated behind Macomb and next to University Police, offers several resources for those suf fering with mental ill ness. They have men tal health counselors available, alongside crisis counselors and resources. You can con tact them by calling 518-564-2187 or email ing healthcenter@ plattsburgh.edu. The center is open Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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there is not a big chance the company will go under any time soon. Twitter has also been seeing a surge in active users and signups, and now Twitter is now also trying to make more of a profit through new services such as Twitter Blue, as revenue from adver tisers is undoubtedly going to decrease. It seems unlikely that anything detrimental will happen in the near fu ture, but then again, any thing is possible.

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Grand River Solutions also provides services for accessibility and disability as well as Clery Act compli ance. James is contracted to work with SUNY Platts burgh 20 hours a month.

“Students know that if you go to Title IX, you’re not bound by anything, you haven’t started a snow ball you can’t undo,” Ras coe said. “Whereas I think there’s a belief that com ing to a police department — ‘Oh boy, now there’s go ing to be a police investiga tion.’ But we’re bound by the same rules as Title IX.”

Those rules are the stu dent’s right to choose whether to make a report, to have an adviser of their choosing and to receive assistance by law enforce ment. Even if students choose not to press any charges, they may find the act of documenting their experience therapeutic, Rascoe said.

That “is not a lot,” but additional hours can be contracted to be dedicat ed to investigations and judicial processes, Vice President of Diversity, Eq uity and Inclusion Allison Heard said. Heard also said she would like James to dedicate her time “purely” to processing reports and providing resources to stu dents, but would expect a full-time coordinator who is on-campus 40 hours a week to run educational campaigns for Title IX and be involved in orientation.

James said she received 46 Title IX reports in the 2021-22 academic year. The annual report for the 2018-19 academic year, when SUNY Plattsburgh had a physical Title IX of fice, lists 112 reports. Uni versity Police, the primary physical alternative now, receives eight to 10 Title IX reports every semester, UP Chief Patrick Rascoe said.

Both Rascoe and James note that Title IX and UP have different areas of in fluence and are different processes. For example, UP does not have juris diction off-campus, while Title IX does.

James said she works closely with UP, and it has been “wonderful” in pro viding support and refer rals to students who walk into the station. However, James said that in her 20 years of working in physi cal Title IX offices at edu cational institutions, stu dents rarely came into the office to make a report.

Instead, the report would come from an online form, call or email. Now, most students she works with prefer remote meetings.

“A lot of people don’t want to come in and talk in person,” James said.

“They want to be at home where they feel safe.”

However, some students do want in-person meet ings with James, which she cannot provide. Instead,

she partners with someone on-campus to host a meet ing in their office. The stu dent would meet with the faculty or staff present oncampus, and James would join the meeting via Zoom.

Although James specu lates her remote servic es cost the college less money than a physical office would, she said the college wants a physical Title IX office.

“Campus knows having one on campus is the solu tion,” Rascoe said.

Rascoe also said the Title IX office should fall direct ly under the college presi dent, like it did a few years ago. Currently, it is under Diversity, Equity and In clusion, which Rascoe said may complicate investiga tions and influence them to be partial.

Former Title IX Coordina tor Butterfly Blaise Boire did not speak to her work at SUNY Plattsburgh, includ ing the hours she worked when the college had a physical Title IX office, but said student success and experience continue to be important to her as a SUNY Plattsburgh alumna.

Another search for a permanent coordinator is underway. On the search committee are Student As sociation President Taiba Azeem and Heard. Azeem has been focused on bringing a physical office back to campus since the semester started.

“I am grateful that cur rently we have services offered to those who need help through the online Ti tle IX office program, but I also feel that it cannot help

the students in the way an in-person, on-campus Title IX office can,” Azeem said.

Heard’s Secretary Bar bara Criss said four can didates applied in the previous search for a Title IX coordinator and three came to campus for an interview. One candidate was offered a job, but they declined because their office was originally planned to be in Kehoe, which the candidate felt was “isolated” from the rest of the campus.

Launching another search for a Title IX co ordinator, Heard has to reform the hiring commit tee. Some members are too busy, some are no lon ger interested in partici pating in the search. In contrast to the previous search, which utilized a

search firm, Heard is go ing “grassroots,” utilizing her personal and profes sional networks, main stream job posting sites and even the local news paper Press-Republican to advertise the Title IX coordinator position.

Heard aims to announce the search in March and not in the summer, as the previ ous search did. She said the new year is the best time to advertise positions while people are still caught up in their resolutions.

“I think it’s going to be a great turnout,” Heard said. “One, I like to be positive, and two, I think this is a great place to work.”

Christopher Mihalyi, resident district manager for Chartwells, the company providing dining services to SUNY Plattsburgh, said Chartwells does not “condone theft in any way, shape or form.”

These thrills may have less thrilling consequences. Stealing food and drinks makes prices for meal plans and individual items rise because the estab lishment “loses out on money,” Ashline and Mihalyi said.

“It’s terrible,” a cashier at Sun downer said. “[Students stealing] are the ones who make the prices go up.”

The cashier pointed out that a box of Junior Caramels costs $5, while costing no more than $2 at stores beyond the SUNY Plattsburgh campus. Some

snacks, though, like M&M’s, cost roughly the same as their retail counterparts.

Every stolen item is a “$0 sale,” meaning Chartwells doesn’t get back the money for the original price of the item itself and la bor in handling it, Mihalyi said. However, food thefts are not the sole driver of prices.

“Students would have to steal an awful lot to impact pricing changes, but that doesn’t mean it is not a contributing factor in negotiating how well it’s per forming,” Mihalyi said.

Although students pay for their meal plans upfront before the semester starts, they func tion similarly to checking ac counts. Chartwells does not get money for the food items unless a charge is registered on the stu dent’s account with College Aux iliary Services, so there is still some involved even if the stu dent doesn’t spend any.

A “late night” meal at Sund

owner has a $8.75 value, and 10 years ago was valued at $8, Ash line said. This difference marks a 9.4% increase, compared to a cumulative 29.8% inflation rate since 2012, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ In flation Calculator. At the same rate, a late night meal would have a value of $10.36 — $1.61 more than it is now. However, adjusting the value of a “meal” would make meal plan prices go up, Mihalyi said.

Setting prices at college dining locations is “never as straightforward as people think,” Mihalyi said. Chart

Unlike a meal exchange that requires the purchase of a specific set of items, a “late night” swipe allows students the flexibility of purchasing any set of items amounting to a certain value at the Sundowner.

wells calculates the value of a meal using a formula that blends the ever-increasing cost of food products and the rate of inflation determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is not Chartwells that sets the meal plan prices, either, but CAS, with some advising from Chartwells. Once a price is set for the academic year, it does not change despite the fluc tuating costs of the products Chartwells buys.

“You have to kind of rely on historical data and the ability to understand the trends of how much food and labor is going to cost in order to best project that we have enough money at the beginning of the semester from when students purchase meal plans to carry us through to the end,” Mihalyi said.

While food thefts can be “honest mistakes” or “for the thrill,” Silver and Mihalyi know what pushes some students to

steal is food insecurity. In that case, UP and Chartwells refer students to resources, such as additional express dollars, ad ditional meal swipes called “food insecurity meals” and the food pantry, now called the Cardinal Cupboard.

Students can access these resources by reaching out to Director of Special Programs Michele Carpentier by emailing her at carpenmm@plattsburgh. edu or visiting her office at 110F Angell College Center. Chart wells also offers help with bud geting meal plans.

“Food insecurity is real, and I want nothing more than to make sure that students are taken care of from a dining perspective for the entire time they’re here,” Mihalyi said.

“The Clery Act requires colleges to report cam pus crime data, support victims of violence and publicly outline policies and procedures they have put in place to im prove campus safety.”

The Clery Center

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When Title IX returns to its physical form, the office may be located in the same Hawkins Hall hallway where the offices of the college president and of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are.

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Three offices within Hawkins 102, which houses the office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, currently stand empty. One of them may become the next physical Title IX office.

Symphonic Band in Concert

Friday, Dec. 2 7:30 p.m. Free

This Week in Photos: Celebrating Strings

Champlain

“Messiah” by G. F.

Sunday, Dec. 4 3 p.m. Adults $20, Children $10

All

will be

Ringing Down the Curtain

Wednesday, Dec. 7 Thursday, Dec. 8 7 p.m. both nights Free

Concert Choir “Sounds of the Season” Friday, Dec. 9 7:30 p.m. Free

Photos by Collin Bolebruch

Above: Bransen Fitzwater (left) and Dustin Lair (center) play cellos. Matte Dunne (right) plays bass.

Above: Marilyn Reynolds, who directed the concert, smiles, addressing the audience between numbers.

Below: Matte Dunne and Anastasia Pratt play basses.

SUNY Plattsburgh’s string ensemble performed “Celebrating Strings” Wednesday, Nov. 30. The concert featured pieces by Peter Warlock, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Edvard Grieg and Arcangelo Corelli.

Upcoming concerts from SUNY Plattsburgh’s department of music include:

Valley Voices

Handel

shows

in E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium at Hawkins Hall.

Men’s hockey wins FirstLight Shootout

BY COLLIN BOLEBRUCH Associate Sports Editor

The No. 9 Plattsburgh Cardinals men’s hockey team (7-1-2) won the First Light Shootout tourna ment at Norwich Univer sity last weekend, beating the Middlebury Panthers (0-4-0) 5-0 Nov. 25 and the No. 10 Norwich Cadets (62-0) 3-1 Nov. 26. The title is the Cardinals’ seventh at the tournament and its first since 2017.

Plattsburgh’s 7-1-2 re cord is its strongest start through 10 games since the 2019 hiring of Head Coach Steve Moffat, in cluding an ongoing seven-game undefeated streak. Moffat won four FirstLight Shootout tour naments as an assistant coach at Plattsburgh, but this season’s win is his first in his current role.

“The guys, really, they

laid everything on the line. They were blocking shots, they played really smart, they played really hard,” Moffat said. “They were just determined to get that two wins. They had a really good week at practice, and I think their preparation for the two games was outstanding.”

The 2022 FirstLight Shootout championship victory had storybook-like implications for the Car dinals. In 2021’s tourna ment, Plattsburgh earned a berth to the champion ship game. The Cardinals lost to the Cadets 2-5 in that game, making the 2022 win sweeter. Moffat described Norwich as a “non-conference rival.”

“I think it’s pretty easy to get up to play them and I think they would say the same about us. They’re al ways good games,” Mof fat said. “Any time you can battle it for a champi

onship and have a chance to win something, I think the stakes get a little bit higher and emotions get a little bit higher.”

Defenders Jack Ring and Cory Doney led the Cardinals in the tourna ment with two goals each.

Forwards Luk Jirousek, Adam Tretowicz and Bennett Stockdale and defender Jacob Modry scored one goal each. Modry and forward Ryan Bonfield tied with three assists each and Jirousek and defender Matt Araujo added two.

First-year student Eli Shiller started both tourna ment games in goal. Before the tournament, Shiller started only two games this season — sophomore Jacob Hearne previously led the team with four starts. Moffat said after Shiller’s shutout against Middlebury, he made the

decision to start Shiller against Norwich.

Shiller allowed just one goal over both games. His 54 saves of 55 shots was good for a .982 save per centage. Shiller is now 4-0 in his starts, including wins against the Brock port Golden Eagles and the Fredonia Blue Devils. Modry pointed to Platts burgh’s goaltending as a strength during the tour nament. Moffat agreed.

“He’s just pretty cool, calm and collected back there. I think he does a nice job moving the puck,” Mof fat said. “He’s super athletic too. He made a couple of re ally good saves.”

Shiller was awarded with Tournament MVP for his efforts. Doney, Modry and Jirousek were named to the All-Tournament Team and Bonfield was honored with the tourna ment’s Most Outstanding

Rookie. Shiller won the State University of New York Athletic Conference Goalie of the Week and Bonfield was given SUNY AC Rookie of the Week in the sport.

“I try not to put too much pressure on myself,” Shiller said. “Just go out there and stop the puck.”

Plattsburgh’s victory over Norwich may be its most important of the sea son so far. According to U.S. College Hockey On line, the Cardinals ranked 14th and the Cadets ranked 9th before the game. US CHO now has No. 9 Platts burgh ranked above No. 10 Norwich. Plattsburgh has not been ranked top-10 by USCHO since Oct. 23, 2017 in a preseason poll.

“We’re not doing any thing special. We’re just playing like a team, play ing as a group. It’s just been clicking for us, so

I don’t think the rank ings matter,” Modry said. “We’re just going out, hav ing fun and trying to play our games and being the best version of ourselves.”

The No. 9 ranking is not enough for best in the SUNYAC. The Geneseo Knights and the Oswego Lakers, conference oppo nents, both rank higher than the Cardinals at No. 8 and No. 7, respectively.

Plattsburgh hasn’t won a game against either this season, but it will have a maximum of three more chances to do so during the regular season.

“We’re fighting to stay consistent, just trying to play the same way each and every game for 60 minutes,” Modry said. “With the way that we’re going, if we keep things simple, we’re going to play the same way.”

Women’s hockey places third at tournament

BY LIAM SAMPLE Sports Editor

The No. 4 Plattsburgh State women’s hockey team (8-1-0) hosted the annual Busters Cardi nal/Panther Classic Nov. 26 and 27 at Ronald B. Stafford Ice Are na, where the Cardinals finished third overall and went 1-1. Four of the top six teams in the coun try were in attendance as impli cations in the national rankings were on the line.

The first Cardinal-Panther Classic dates back to the 20052006 season, with this year being the 17th annual tourna ment. Typically, the host alter nates between Plattsburgh and Middlebury, but due to sched uling, this was the second straight season where Platts burgh hosted. The tournament is set to return to Middlebury next season.

Assistant coach Julia Du quette, who participated in the tournament as both a player and a coach, said that hosting this tournament is “something we love to do.”

“It means a lot obviously in terms of how the year plays out at the end of the year with the seeding, but it’s just great to have all these teams come in and be able to have these matchups,” Duquette said.

The Cardinals lost both of its games in last season’s tourna ment, both by a score of 4-3 in overtime to Endicott to open the tournament and Elmira in the consolation game. The team last won the tournament in the 20162017 season.

The opening match of the week end was between, at the time,

the No. 6 University of Wisconsin River-Falls Falcons (8-1-0) and No. 3 Plattsburgh.

The University of Wisconsin River-Falls is located around 40 miles outside of Minneapolis and the team had the farthest com mute to Plattsburgh of the tour nament participants. According to the team’s Head Coach Joe Cranston, the team left at 3 a.m. Nov. 25, and the commute was about 12 hours.

“It’s just hard to keep everybody healthy and keep everybody going and with the sleep and the change of schedule, but, it’s awesome. We knew it was going to be a lot of fun coming out here,” Cranston said.

As a young team with seven first-year players and four sopho mores, it could be intimidating to go into a tournament against such talent, but sophomore Mattie Nor ton said the message was to “just come out and play your hardest.”

“We know what to do, we prac tice it everyday. We just have to come out and perform and be ready to go,” Norton said. “We can’t treat it any different or make it anything bigger than it needs to be.”

The first period was back and forth, with both team’s being deadlocked at 11 shots at piece at the break. Falcon’s sopho more forward Bailey Olsen scored 7:33 into the game off a wrist shot in the slot to put her team ahead 1-0.

Early on in the second, cap tain and graduate student Sara Krauseneck scored a goal for the highlight reel. After a Falcons sec ond goal was stopped because of a last second block from senior Ken dall Wasik, the puck was moved back to the point.

Krauseneck skated over and

blocked two consecutive shots from the opposing defend ers and chased the loose puck down ice. She proceeded to steal the puck from behind the goal, wrap it around towards the front of the net and beat the goalie with a backhanded shot while falling down.

The Cardinals rolled this mo mentum into another score when it won a faceoff in the de fensive zone and graduate stu dent Holly Schmelezer moved up ice quickly with the puck. From the far boards, she sent the puck to the front of the net where it bounced off of sopho more Riley Calhoun’s stick and into the goal for Plattsburgh’s first lead of the day.

River Falls tied it up with

In the third, the Falcons took the lead a little before seven minutes into the period with a goal from junior Aubrey Nelvin. Plattsburgh couldn’t tie it up be fore the end of regulation, as the Falcons advanced to the champi onship game and the Cardinals would play in the consolation game, both taking place the next day. This was the first loss of the season for Plattsburgh.

“We told the team that we needed to learn from it and move on quickly,” Duquette

said. “We wanted the team to process the sting of the loss, but there wasn’t much time to dwell on it. [The next day] was a new day, a new game, a new opponent and we needed to be at our best if we wanted to come out of the tournament with a win.”

Senior Lilla Nease made 22 saves, tying her second most on the season at the time. She said the team was “pretty upset” af ter the game, but it shifted focus to the next day. Norton said af ter any loss, it “isn’t a fun locker room” to be a part of, but said the team “didn’t play bad at all” and there were “little bounces that didn’t go our way.”

10 seconds left in the period when senior Maddie McCollins took off and received a beauti ful pass in the neutral zone to set up a breakaway. She made a deke move in the crease to score on the backhand.

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Senior goaltender Lilla Nease (31) gets prepared in net. She made a career high 34 saves Nov. 27.

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The Plattsburgh State men’s hockey team celebrates with the FirstLight Shooutout Trophy at Norwich. Tournament MVP Eli Shiller (33) has the second highest save percentage in DIII.

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The Cardinals move on to play the Potsdam Bears (2-8-0) for the first time this season Dec. 3. Plattsburgh and Potsdam have an extensive history, playing 117 games since 1976. The Car dinals have won 80.3% (94 of 117) of its games against the Bears and currently hold a four-game win streak.

Plattsburgh will then visit Norwich Dec. 6, a rematch of the championship 10 days prior on the same rink.

Shiller said. “We

The game will be a chance for the Cardi nals to prove that its win wasn’t a fluke and cement its status in the USCHO ranking.

“We’re showing the rest of the teams we’re here and we’re here to stay,” Shiller said. “We’re a force to be reck oned with this year.”

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Schedule/Results

Men’s Hockey Women’s Hockey 11/25 5-0 win vs.Middlebury11/26 2-3 loss vs. UWRF 11/26 3-1 win @ Norwich 11/27 7-0 win vs. Elmira 12/3 @ Potsdam @ 7 p.m* 12/2 @ Cortland @ 7 p.m.* 12/6 @ Norwich @ 7 p.m. 12/3 @ Oswego @ 3 p.m.*

Men’s Basketball Women’s Basketball 11/22 87-79 win @ Skidmore 11/19 72-66 win @ Canton 11/29 63-74 loss @ Potsdam* 11/29 53-61 loss @ Potsdam* 12/2 @ Oneonta @ 7:30 p.m.* 12/2 @ Oneonta @ 5:30 p.m.* 12/3 @ New Paltz @ 4 p.m.* 12/3 @ New Paltz @ 2 p.m.*

Track and Field

Cardinal Stats

Women’s Hockey

Standings

Men’s Hockey

School SUNYAC Record

Oswego 5-0-0 7-2-0

Plattsburgh 4-1-1 7-1-2

Cortland 3-2-0 4-3-1

Geneseo 2-2-1 6-3-2

Brockport 2-3-0 3-5-0

Buffalo State 2-2-0 5-4-0

Fredonia 1-3-0 1-6-0 Morrisville 1-3-0 3-4-0 Potsdam 1-5-0 2-8-0

Women’s Hockey

School NEWHL Record

Plattsburgh 6-0-0 8-1-0

Oswego 5-1-0 7-3-0

Canton 3-1-0 6-1-1 Cortland 2-2-0 4-3-0 Potsdam 2-3-0 4-4-0 Morrisville 0-5-0 2-8-1 Buffalo State 0-6-0 3-6-0

School SUNYAC Record

Brockport 1-0 4-1

Cortland 1-0 3-1 New Paltz 1-0 3-2 Oswego 1-0 4-1 Potsdam 1-0 3-4 Buffalo State 0-1 1-3 Fredonia 0-1 0-6 Geneseo 0-1 3-3 Oneonta 0-1 4-1 Plattsburgh 0-1 3-3

Women’s

School SUNYAC Record

Brockport 1-0 2-2

Cortland 1-0 4-1

New Paltz 1-0 4-3 Oswego 1-0 7-0 Potsdam 1-0 2-2 Buffalo State 0-1 1-4 Fredonia 0-1 3-3 Geneseo 0-1 2-2 Oneonta 0-1 3-3 Plattsburgh 0-1 3-3

Scoreboard last updated 11/30

Athlete Quote of the Week

“It’s tough, especially wearing a Plattsburgh jersey. Every one wants to beat Plattsburgh, we’re the team to beat. We get everyone’s best game, but it’s definitely exciting.”

- Women’s hockey sophomore defender Mattie Norton

last two Cardinal/Panther Classics.

The next game was between the, at the time, the No. 4 Elmira Soaring Eagles (7-2-0) and the No.1 Middlebury Panthers (4-10.) In a defensive battle, Middle bury came out on top 3-1 behind a two goal effort from first-year forward Britt Nawrocki. Junior goaltender Sophia Merageas put up 23 saves en route to a win.

The consolation game took place Nov. 27 between Elmira and Plattsburgh. These teams have a historic rivalry, being for merly in the same conference, and met three times last season, with Plattsburgh owning a 2-1-0 record in those games.

“It’s just how we shape our selves after that loss that makes our team,” Nease said. “Elmira is a big rival of ours. Everyone was pretty excited for that game and I think we knew we had to bring it because we definitely didn’t want a situation like last year where we came out of our own tournament 0-2.”

The Cardinals came out fly ing, starting with a goal under 10 minutes into the game. On the powerplay, junior Mae Olshan sky controlled the puck from the far red circle, sending a perfect pass into the crease where grad uate student Nicole Unsworth tapped it in for the goal.

First-year forward Grace Yar kosky scored her first collegiate goal in the final two minutes of the period, Wasik began the play with a beautiful pass to Yarkosky in the slot, where the first-year shot the puck in the middle of a

spin move into the net.

From there, it was all Platts burgh, the team scored five more goals, with seven different goal scorers as it downed Elmira 7-0. The team registered four pow erplay goals on five attempts as this game was the Cardinal’s largest margin of victory ever over the Soaring Eagles.

Duquette, a former defender, mentioned that three first-year defenders were in the lineup due to injuries. She said these players “really showed up” and played “their best game to date.”

Four players registered two or more points, with Olshansky having three assists and Norton having a goal and two assists.

“You come here and you think ‘Yeah Elmira, I know it’s a big rival,’ but you don’t truly under stand it until you play against them or you are part of the atmo sphere, it truly is just different,” Norton said. “It’s not until you hit five, six [goals] that you’re

like ‘okay I think we’ve got this.’ You still play every shift like it’s a 0-0 game.”

After the tournament, Norton was the lone Cardinal named to the All-Tournament Team. She said it meant a lot to receive this honor, but “I’m not there with out the rest of my team.”

This tremendous effort from the Plattsburgh offense was not without opposition, as Elmira still tallied 34 shots, all of which were saved by Nease. She posted a career high in saves and her first shutout of the season, she was named the First Star of the game.

Nease appeared twice against Elmira last year, having a win and an overtime loss against the Soaring Eagles.

“I think our younger defense really stepped up,” Nease said. “We had [defenders] picking up sticks and so for me, it was a very visible game. Most of the saves I made, I saw and that’s a huge part into that shutout.”

Duquette had high praise for Nease, saying she was “lights out.”

“That’s what we need from her and I know that she’s certainly able to rise to the occasion as you could see this weekend,” Duquette said.

The championship game did not disappoint, as the Panthers and Falcons battled to win the tournament. After two periods, the teams were tied at one. Mc Collins scored the go-ahead un der eight minutes into the third period. With less than 20 sec onds left in regulation, Nawrocki tied the game up for Middlebury and sent it into overtime.

First-year MaKenna Aure was the hero, as she scored on a beau tiful breakaway move to win the tournament for the University of Wisconsin River Falls. The Falcons snapped Middlebury’s 31 game win streak, with the last Panther loss coming in 2020, on top of breaking Middlebury’s streak of winning the

“It was just an awesome tour nament and just fun to be out here, but it’s more fun to win it and [I’m] really proud of it,” Cranston said. “Our backs were kind of against the wall. We were not supposed to do this, so I have a really young hockey team and we’re really happy.”

The Falcons were the lowest ranked team entering the tourna ment, with it being only the second time in school history the team has played in this tournament.

By winning the tournament, this week’s USCHO DIII Wom en’s Hockey Poll got shaken up, with River Falls being at No. 2, Middlebury being at No. 3, Plattsburgh being at No. 4, and Elmira being at No. 7. This is the first week Middlebury was not the top team in the country since Nov. 29, 2021.

Plattsburgh goes on the road, playing two of the top four teams in the North Eastern Women’s Hockey League this weekend, Cor tland Dec. 2 and Oswego Dec. 3 Duquette said the tournament was “certainly a good start to keep ing the momentum.” She said the team returned to “business as usual” this week as it prepares for two important conference games.

Plattsburgh is currently undefeat ed in NEWHL play.

“It’s an honor to be in a Platts burgh State jersey, but whether we’re playing in our league, somebody outside, you always have a target on your back,” Norton said. “We start playing [against Cortland] how we fin ished [last] weekend.”

“I think they’re going to be coming out hot next game, obviously wanting revenge for us beating them at home,”

just have to go out there with the same game plan and execute.”

RYAN NISTA/Cardinal Points Luk Jirousek (29) takes an offensive zone faceoff. He has 40 shots this season.

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Senior defender Jacob Modry (4) and junior forward Paul Bryer (25) skate laterally.

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Cardinals balance two sports, academics

BY COLLIN BOLEBRUCH Associate Sports Editor

In high school, it’s com mon to see a student com pete in multiple sports.

About 43% of high school athletes are members of more than one team, ac cording to the National Federation of State High School Associations. In college, balancing two sports is another monster.

SUNY Plattsburgh has just a handful of twosport athletes out of the hundreds of rostered players. Playing in two different sports seasons while taking college classes is a test not many are able to tackle.

Kathy Peterson-Ross is a first-year political science student at Plattsburgh from Lake Forest, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Pe terson-Ross participated in both basketball and soccer in high school. When she was recruited to Platts burgh, she was sought for her abilities on the court.

“I was just going to focus on basketball, and then it was just too hard to give up soccer,” Peterson-Ross said.

Peterson-Ross ap proached women’s basket ball Head Coach Ben Sar raf with the idea of playing soccer. Sarraf reached out to women’s soccer Head Coach Whitney Frary with the proposition.

“The soccer coach came into contact with me and they said they’d give me a chance, so I took it,” Peter son-Ross said.

Sarraf has had a variety of two-sport athletes on his roster over the years. Last season, Payton Couture played both basketball

and soccer, like PetersonRoss. Sarraf said the “rule of thumb” is whichever season is currently being played takes priority.

Peterson-Ross said, at first, Frary didn’t want her to be playing both at the same time. She was allowed to only attend basketball prac tices in the morning and soc cer practices at night.

“The strain on your body as a dual-sport athlete is huge,” Frary said. “I like to make sure that they take some time off or at least talk to their coach.”

Peterson-Ross found the time in which basketball and soccer overlapped to be difficult. She said the period was “tough” be cause of the basketball she was missing.

Sarraf discussed Peter son-Ross’ involvement in basketball during the soc cer season.

“Every time I spoke with Kathy [Peterson-Ross], it sounded like she was going to all of the pickup games,” Sarraf said. “On top of soc cer practice, on top of travel from soccer and she was doing community service, too. She did a phenomenal job balancing both and the only way to do that is to make sacrifices in other places, it wasn’t academi cally either.”

He makes sure his play ers are on top of their grades. Sarraf holds weekly or bi-weekly meet ings with players to dis cuss academics and men tal health. Peterson-Ross credits him with being the “biggest support sys tem at Plattsburgh.”

“This is about aca demics first. If your No. 1 priority is basketball, academics will inevita

bly suffer,” Sarraf said. “I don’t really want some one in my program that’s like, ‘I want basketball more than anything.’ Dude, no. You’re here to get an education, you’re paying for it, you better be going to class.”

She feels the two-sport experience at college is “a lot different” than in high school. PetersonRoss said her schedule was more conventional in high school, and in college, practices are “squeezed in” between players’ schedules. She claims the workload be tween high school and college are similar.

Peterson-Ross said play ing two sports is “really rewarding,” emphasizing the “fresh start” when be ginning a new season.

Kaitlyn Bjelko has been playing volleyball and throwing in track and field for the Cardinals for years. Unlike Peterson-Ross, Bjelko was foreign to her second sport. At Beek mantown High School, a 12-minute drive from SUNY Plattsburgh, Bjelko played volleyball, tennis and basketball.

Her volleyball team mate, Brianna Coon, was a thrower for the track and field team. Coon believed Bjelko had potential as a thrower and should join the team at practice. When her first volleyball season, 2018, came to a close, Bjelko found herself with a “need” for some thing more.

“I feel like it kind of came from boredom, be cause I’m so used to being busy every second of the day whether it’s home work or classes and then

sports at the end of the day,” Bjelko said. “I was missing a piece of my day.”

Bjelko said her head coaches, volleyball’s Kelsea Healis and track and field’s Andrew Krug, through the years have been understanding of her commitment to other sports. Her allegiance to track and field prevented her from playing in last year’s volleyball spring season. She believes that it’s important to focus on the sport that is currently playing a season.

In opposition to Peter son-Ross, Bjelko believes being a two-sport athlete in college is “a lot more of a commitment” than it is in high school. She said early practices and watching film of games makes it important to take time to “do some thing that you enjoy.”

Bjelko said women’s vol leyball Head Coach Kelsea Healis holds her account able for procrastinating schoolwork. She told a story of an assignment she had to complete for mid terms that she hadn’t start ed until the week before it was due.

“I was stressed to the max and I have weekly meetings with [Healis] and she was like, ‘You really should have done this throughout the first half of the semester in stead of waiting,’” Bjelko said. “The second half of the semester, [Hea lis] said, ‘If you don’t get your assignments done in a timely manner,’ she was going to tell Krug to give me sprints.”

Healis recalled the sto ry, emphasizing the signif icance of getting school

work done in a timely manner and how it “kind of” motivated Bjelko.

“She really was just un motivated and I asked if me helping motivate her would help, or giving her a deadline,” Healis said.

“I don’t know if we ever had her do [the sprints] or anything.”

Krug agrees with the im portance of having a good academic standing. He believes the strongest ath letes on the team are also some of the most dedicat ed academically.

“Their commitments, their priorities and how they get it done, I don’t think is a mistake,” Krug said. “I don’t think there’s anything unusual happen ing there. It’s because they know how to get it done and are willing to sacrifice other things to get it done.”

Plattsburgh athletic de partment’s academic co ordinator Tom Thompson agrees with Krug. Thomp son oversees student ath letes’ grades, advising and eligibility. He has worked with his share of student athletes over his nine years in his role.

“I totally agree with that. The students that do that know they can excel at it,” Thompson said. “They know how to bal ance it. A lot of them did it in high school. Our ath letic GPAs are generally higher than that average college GPA.”

Bjelko talked about a time in her junior year, dur ing the outdoor track and field season and volleyball spring season, where she found herself struggling.

Volleyball was practicing five days a week while she was also attending track

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Women’s Basketball

By Liam Sample

The Plattsburgh women’s basketball team (3-3) began its con ference play in Potsdam, taking on the Bears (2-2) Nov. 29. The game was a consistent back and forth battle, but Potsdam emerged on top, win ning 61-53.

The first two quarters were tight, after an opening quarter where the team’s nearly went score for score. A layup with 28 seconds remaining from senior Hannah Ruberto made the score 14-18 in favor of Potsdam.

Two minutes and 16 seconds into the second quarter, a jump shot from first-year Jaden Wilson tied the game at 18. Plattsburgh built a 29-24 lead in the next near five-minute stretch and went into the half leading by one.

“Our team did really well execut ing zone defense. That really kept us in the game because it allowed Pots dam to force up shots,” sophomore Payton Couture said. “It also allowed us to rebound well.”

Less than two minutes into the third quarter, Ruberto scored on two straight layups to put her team up 34-29. Slowly, Potsdam began to string together its offense and took

the lead with 3:41 remaining in the quarter. The Bears held the lead go ing into the fourth quarter, where Couture said both teams faced a “decent amount of foul trouble.”

“Both teams both played in a zone to save each other [from foul trouble], so we did that,” Couture said. “Ru berto ended up fouling out and that affected us because she’s a senior and she knows a lot about what’s go ing on and communicates well.”

Potsdam went on an eight point run to begin the fourth and while Cou ture had four points in the quarter, it would not be enough as the Bears went on to win.

Plattsburgh has four different play ers with nine points and two with eight points, which shows its ability to diversify scoring. Couture said it’s good to see the team be able to move the ball around, allowing more play ers to contribute.

First-year Kourtney McCarthy near ly had a double-double, putting up eight rebounds and nine points. She scored 25 points in the team’s last game against SUNY Canton.

Couture said the team will look to “keep our heads up” as it travels to play Oneonta (3-3) Dec. 2 and New Paltz (4-3) Dec. 3.

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The Plattsburgh men’s basketball team (3-3) opened its 2022-2023 conference sea son on the road Nov. 29, falling to the Pots dam Bears (3-4) 74-63.

The first half saw both sides’ defense shine in the opening minutes, with the score being tied at four 3:12 into the game. From there, Potsdam began to find its offense, going on a 14-3 run to build an 11-point lead.

A layup from junior Justin Blanchett broke up the opposition momentum and a sopho more Kevin Tabb layup over a minute later pulled Plattsburgh to a seven point deficit.

Potsdam’s offense stayed hot, as the team increased its lead to 14, Tabb scored the next seven Plattsburgh points, making the score 20-31 in favor of the Bears. The team went back and forth in the final min utes of half with Potsdam going into the break leading 41-29.

Senior Sheriff Conteh said the team had “good expectations” on the bus ride to Potsdam and said it was “good” to see shots go down in the first half.

“We spend so much time in practice working on shots, getting shots for certain people in cer tain spots. So that was good,” Conteh said.

In the second half, Plattsburgh began to chip away at the lead, cutting the deficit down to five with 5:40 left in the game. Potsdam rebounded and battled back to win the game by 11.

and field practice.

“I was like, ‘I don’t know if I can do this,’” Bjelko said. “[My coach es] ended up talking me through it. They were like,

‘You should just focus on the sport you’re compet ing in right now and take some time off from the other ones,’ which ended up being fine.”

Krug emphasized the importance of training, fit ness and “mental batter ies.” He agreed with other coaches that the sport cur rently running should take priority over others.

“We need to be smart about how we train, how our body recovers,” Krug said. “It certainly keeps the demand high on [the athletes], but we’re will ing to work with other coaches and other pro grams to enhance what we can do as well as en hance what those student athletes do when they’re with their other sport.”

Thompson emphasized the dedication it takes to be a one-sport athlete on campus, let alone a twosport athlete. He says it takes a “tremendous” amount of time-man agement skill and most athletes are “pretty struc tured,” crediting the “dis cipline” athletics requires.

“I think you’ll find most of the two-sport athletes really enjoy that struc ture,” Thompson said. “They thrive on that structure, they thrive on having that schedule, that built-in routine.”

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The Cardinals had a 40% field goal per centage in the game, shooting 26-65. From three, the team went 6-24.

“What was working [in the second half] was we were getting the shots we wanted on offense, some of them didn’t go down like we wanted to,” Conteh said. “Defensively, I feel like we were good, but we could have been better, meaning we could have com municated more and got more stops down the stretch to shorten the lead.”

Tabb continued his hot start to the sea son, having 18 points and five rebounds while playing 34 minutes. He has had 18 or more points in the last four games.

“We are all rooting for [Tabb] and that’s something we love to see,” Conteh said. “We keep encouraging him to take those shots and he continues to make it and con tinues to lead us on the scoreboard.”

Conteh tied his season high in points with 13 , along with putting up three blocks and three rebounds. Conteh said he was “feeling good” and wanted to give the team “energy so that we could go down the stretch and hopefully win the game.”

The team goes on the road, playing at Oneonta (4-1) Dec.2 and at New Paltz (3-2) Dec. 3. Conteh said the team will look to go off the mistakes made against Potsdam and try to capitalize on fixing those this weekend.

“Everyone keep supporting and go Cards,” Conteh said.

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Provided by Kaitlyn Bjelko

Kaitlyn Bjelko (13) is graduate student who participates in volleyball and track and field.

Provided by Kathy Peterson-Ross Kathy Peterson-Ross (32) is a first-year student, playing soccer and basketball.

Ski, snowboard club shreds again

BY JESSICA LANDMAN Staff Writer

The winter season quickly approaches and, with it, the winter sports that many enjoy.

With SUNY Plattsburgh being nestled in the northern Adiron dacks, it makes this college the perfect destination for students who enjoy winter activities, such as skiing and snowboarding.

More than 200 students have already joined Plattsburgh’s Ski and Snowboard Club, which is quite a few members for an all new e-board to handle. The elected officers are still trying to figure out the exact roles of everyone in the club, but that has not stopped them from put ting on and planning events.

This uptick may have stemmed from the new ski3 season pass that the club is offering. This allows members to get season passes to Whiteface Mountain, Gore Mountain and Belleayre Mountain for a discounted rate.

For an average adult, a season pass to Whiteface would be $1,200 and a student season pass would be $450, but with this pass, students pay $300 for a season pass.

The most recent event hosted by the club was Rail Jam. This was held behind Memorial Hall Nov. 15.

President Quinn Pascale and Vice President Alexandra Bak er along with the rest of the eboard, put in hours worth of work to make this event happen.

The idea of Rail Jam is to get ski rails from Whiteface Mountain and put them behind Memorial Hall. Then, they must get snow that has been wiped off the ice at the Field House by the zamboni. Lastly, they must transport that snow to Memorial Hall and cov er the ground around the rails. This, in turn, makes a small ter rain park in which students who have skis or snowboards may at

tend and use to do tricks.

Pat Bly, the digital content coordinator at Whiteface Moun tain, attended SUNY Plattsburgh and was a part of the Ski and Snowboard Club in 2016. He was also a participant of Rail Jam then as well and he said that he remembers how much time and work they put into getting all the snow to Memorial Hall.

Bly said the only part White face has in setting up the event is the legal aspects and trans porting the rails to and from the mountain. Everything else, including the lighting and get ting snow from the Field House is up to the club.

The whole processing of these steps takes copious amounts of organization by the e-board to get the rails from Whiteface

Mountain.

Pascale was especially ex cited to have Rail Jam this year because the last time this event was put on was 2019 due to the pandemic. Whiteface did not want to risk doing business with the college and possibly causing an outbreak, but they have agreed to let the club use the rails this year.

A year-long member of the club, Michael Brockway, attend ed Rail Jam.

“It was really cool to see all the talented skiers that this school has to offer and snowboarders alike,” Brockway said. “It also got other people to go out and see everything, so I think that had a big draw from non-skiers which may help grow the popu larity of the club.”

This is not the only event held by the Ski and Snowboard Club however. In the spring semester, the club also plans on hosting a beginners class at Titus Moun tain in skiing and snowboarding.

This will be open to anyone in the club who has never skied before, and they must complete the class before being able to go on different trails. This helps ensure the safety of the new skiers as well as everyone else on the mountain. The course is free, but if participants do not already own skis, they will have to pay for the rentals.

As for the more experienced skiers, they are encouraged to attend, but they will not need to take the course. This is presented as an opportunity for members of the club to get together and

to meet new people and have a good day on the mountain.

The club’s most popular event, however, would be the Adventure Film Fest presented by the Ski and Snowboard Club every year. This is an event where anyone from the club or even the com munity can submit videos that they took on the mountain. Then they will all be displayed for ev eryone who attends the event.

“COVID really hit the club hard because a lot of the stuff we do is so many people that the school told us we couldn’t do it,” Pascal said. “Last year, the one thing we actually got to do was Adventure Film Fest, which was really fun.”

This year as well, the e-board members have been trying to set up a system to better allow peo ple in the club to meet up and ski together on the mountain. In previous years, members might text in their GroupMe when they would be going to a mountain, but it was never well planned and the majority of the time, the members would not meet up with each other.

This year, however, there are plans to have certain dates where members can carpool together to get to a mountain. This not only helps people who do not have a car get to the mountain, but also helps mem bers meet new people and ski with others they may not have skied with before.

“It wasn’t for meeting new people and that’s what us offi cers wanted,” Baker said. “We wanted it to be more of an event community, and for people to make more friends who have common interests, like skiing.”

The Ski and Snowboard Club on campus is a great way to meet new people and enjoy the 2022 ski season in the Adirondacks.

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African Unity’s annual banquet returns

BY KIYANNA NOEL Staff Writer

African Unity: The Af rican Student Associa tion presents its 6th an nual banquet, this year’s theme being UBUNYE: Wedding Party. It will be taking place in the War ren Ballrooms of the An gell College Center Dec. 3 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased on the Platts burgh University ticket site. Students and faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh it is $8 and for the general au dience it is $10 for entry. Parties more than eight can reserve a table to be seated together.

President of African Unity Abieyuwa “Abby” Uzamere wanted to create a different experience for the Platts burgh community outside of the pageant show.

“SUNY Plattsburgh never had a wedding in this sort of way before so we are excited to host it, ” Uzamere said. After the scripted proposal earlier this month, the wedding planning has begun and now it is time to cele brate the alliance of bride Demetria Baptiste and groom Christian Morgan.

“This is nothing that has ever happened at SUNY Plattsburgh so our event planners and entire team have been work ing for months to make it happen,” Uzamere said.

“It truly takes a village.”

This event is known amongst the team as the thing that will be talked about for years. It will not only be close to a sold out event, but will expose Plattsburgh to other cul tures that exist on this

campus. After the recent racial injustice on cam pus, this would be a way to showcase the represen tation and how students and faculty of color can still rise despite nega tive stereotypes and mis conceptions among the Plattsburgh community.

Aissatou Lo, one of the event planners for Afri can Unity, expressed how the bride and groom came together.

“After auditions and interviews, we knew this couple would be the per fect pair. We got them to know each other before the proposal happened so they can have some sort of friendly relationship to be comfortable enough to do the scenes with each other,” Lo said.

Although this is a scripted event, what’s a

wedding without love, drama, and fun. Dressing appropriately was highly recommended, implied by Uzamere. “We want people to dress how they would if they were going to a wedding in formal wear.” More on attire can be found on the Insta gram of African Unity @ africanunitypsu.

“Tickets are selling fast so we are expecting a big turnout this weekend. Everyone has different roles within the event, so it’s something you don’t want to miss,” Lo said. For more information on the event email Abieyuwa Uzamere at auzam001@ plattsburgh.edu.

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Jonah Gray leaps from the snow to grind a rail at Rail Jam Nov. 18.

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Zach Niles, Logan Valerio, Eric Steckler, Billy Gagnon and Ste vie Geiling all take part in their band, The Gallery.

For The Gallery, having this exact list of members wasn’t al ways the case.

The Gallery hasn’t always been The Gallery.

“Our first name as a band was Maximum Occupancy,” Gagnon, The Gallery’s bassist, said. “We saw this sign on a room in the basement of D-burgh that said maximum occupancy, and we were like that’s cool. And then we changed [the band’s name] to Quiet Hours.”

Quiet Hours members con sisted of two current Gallery members, Valerio and Gagnon. The band mainly jammed in the basement of DeFredenburgh Hall and at Coffeehouse for the spring ’22 semester.

“We performed under quiet hours for basically all of spring 2022,” Valerio, The Gallery’s lead guitarist, said.

After the spring semester, two of Quiet Hour’s members left SUNY Plattsburgh and during this fall semester, Niles, Geiling and Steck ler joined the band and officially became The Gallery.

The Gallery has played at ven ues like Coffeehouse, Late Night for The Planet, the No More Can cer Rally and at house shows around Plattsburgh.

When it comes to the type of music they play, their set lists range far and wide.

“We don’t limit ourselves too much in terms of genre,” Ga gnon said.

The Gallery tends to play mu sic that is flowy and inspira tional, with rock being the main genre that they play. They also are working on writing some of their own music.

“There is a level of musical ity behind each musician here,” Valerio said.

Valerio talked about how there will be times at shows when Ga gnon will play something on his bass that the band has never heard and they all roll with it.

“By the end of it, we’ve been in this seven minute jam that’s like the coolest most fun song we’ve ever played and everybody’s like ‘what was that?’” Valerio said.

Gagnon said that what makes The Gallery, The Gallery, is their variation in musical background and how each member brings something different to the band.

“For example, Stevie [Geiling] was a jazz drummer for seven years,” Gagnon said. “Logan [Valerio] listens to a lot of classic rock. I listen to a lot of indie mu sic and alternative rock. And Zach [Niles] brings in a pop aspect.”

For their band, it was important to them to have those different types of backgrounds in music.

With being in a band, there comes struggles too.

“It’s so hard to like actually get together and practice and find a time that works for everybody,” Gagnon said.

With five people in the band, all living five different lives, the band agreed that scheduling is the hardest part of it. But, they have ways of overcoming that barrier.

“Say if we’re practicing and only Logan, Stevie and I can show up, then sometimes we’ll practice with just the three of us. Whoever can make it, makes it,” Gagnon said.

Valerio mentioned that because

they all have large musical back grounds, it’s easy for them to fill in with what they missed and can easily jump right back in.

“We’re just awesome,” Niles, The Gallery’s lead vocalist, said. “We play things on such short notice and make it sound great in the process.”

In the future, the band hopes to release music on all musical plat forms and maybe even one day become a band in the real world.

The Gallery agreed that one of their biggest supporters is Lagrogg.

“Lagrogg and us are starting the scene together. We go hand in hand,” Valerio said. “They’re some of our biggest supporters and we are some of their biggest supporters. We love those guys.”

Lagrogg, another SUNY Platts burgh band, felt inspired by The Gallery performing for college stu dents at college venues.

Casey Halloran, Blake Lib erie, Edward Morris and Greg Dimoulas, are members of their band, Lagrogg.

The band started back in the summer of 2021 when Halloran, Dimoulas and Liberie started jamming on the porch of their apartment, playing at open mics every week.

The following summer, the band was searching for a bassist when Halloran met Edward Mor ris at Chapter One in downtown Plattsburgh. Halloran later asked Morris to be part of the band.

Early this semester, Lagrogg heard The Gallery performing at Late Night for the Planet.

“Blake [Liberie] and I saw The Gallery play at Olive Ridley’s,” Halloran, Lagrogg’s lead vocalist, said. “I said, ‘holy crap there’s a college band. Holy crap people like it.’ We watched them. Even just from first set to second set,

this was their first time playing live, you see how much they im proved and how awesome it was. We were like this is a real dream that we have of creating a real college music scene and The Gal lery’s doing it right now.”

The band agreed that they wanted to take the college band scene seriously and that night they became Lagrogg.

For Lagrogg, the most impor tant part of their band is getting the people involved and they dis cussed how they thrive off making their audience happy.

“We care about our audience the most,” Dimoulas, Lagrogg’s drummer, said. “We’re always putting our feet in the audi ence’s shoes.”

Lagrogg preached that they are for the people and their main goal is to make sure their audience is having a good time.

“The more energy you give us in return for what we’re giving, the better our performance is going to be,” Halloran said.

The band mentioned that their slogan, “Lagrogg is here, Lagrogg is now,” is what would describe their band the most.

“I mean we are here, and we are definitely now,” Liberie, Lagrogg’s lead guitarist, said.

Lagrogg typically sticks to play ing psychedelic rock and grunge music for their audience and is also working on their own music.

Lagrogg played their version of psychedelic rock and grunge at past venues such as Pea body’s, Monopole, SUNY Platts burgh men’s hockey games and house shows.

“Peabody’s is our biggest, that’s probably our homebase,” Hallor an said. “But Monopole is our true beginning. And now we’re talking about the hockey games.”

Halloran mentioned how he

wants the Plattsburgh band com munity to grow outside of only The Gallery and Lagrogg.

“I envision creating Platts burgh into a music scene where there is not just The Gallery and Lagrogg, there’s multiple dif ferent bands,” Halloran said. “Where students can go see live music because that’s what it’s about. It’s about going and hav ing a good time somewhere.”

Like The Gallery, Lagrogg also experiences struggle with being in a band.

Dimoulas brought up the strug gle of conflicting ideas within the band, however, Halloran had a different idea of what the band struggles with the most.

“I would say, for me, the biggest conflict is what we wanna focus on,” Halloran said. “To me its like, ‘oh we’re playing the hockey games now. Do we wanna be play ing the hockey games now?’ That’s what we have to determine.”

For them, it’s about figur ing out if a gig is going to be of service to them and bring them joy. In the end, they said that they’re all like brothers and they all figure it out.

In the near future, the band hopes to release original music with the goal of it being in the form of an EP. They also have hopes of performing at music festivals one day.

Both bands are on Instagram at @thegallery_band and @lagrogg_ music. Lagrogg also promotes their band through flyers around campus and local neighborhoods.

The Gallery is playing at Olive Ridley’s next semester and La grogg will be playing at Peabody’s, Dec. 9 from 9 to 10 p.m.

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Edward Morris, Greg Dimoulas, Casey Halloran and Blake Liberie of Lagrogg sit at the downtown monument.

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Logan Valerio, Billy Gagnon, Zach Niles and Stevie Geiling of The Gallery perform at a yard show.

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Students enter local music scene

BY MCKENZIE MURPHY Contributor

SUNY Plattsburgh is a college known for its clubs, organizations and engaging student life, but what about its bands? For these stu dents, being in college bands have changed their college lives.

Seeing the two different bands, it can be easy to mix up the two and jumble them together. However, both The Gallery and Lagrogg have two different stories and, all around, are two different types of bands.