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Students Protest Rational Tuition Increase; Bring Demands To President’s Office ByKristen Warfield

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The eve of the Wednesday, April 1 budget deadline to determine state approval of more SUNY-wide tuition increases prompted a student rally at SUNY New Paltz Tuesday afternoon. Protesters sought a tuition freeze in light of ever-growing student loan debt and called for the college president to withdraw his support for the plan that raises tuition every year.

In 2011, state legislators approved the “rational tuition plan” to “modestly” increase tuition by $300 each year for five consecutive years in order to rid the system of unpredictable price hikes students had faced in earlier years — as in the fall of 2003 where tuition rose $950 from the previous year, according to sunysa.org.

As the plan’s fourth consecutive year comes to a close this spring, the New Paltz chapter of the student advocacy group, New York Students Rising (NYSR), set out to raise awareness of student debt realities and spark a conversation among other SUNYs to oppose a reinstatement of the tuition plan when it arrives to the SUNY Student Assembly (SUNYSA) conference later this month.

Just before noon on Tuesday, student protesters convened outside of the Humanities building, urging others sitting in class to walk out and join their movement. After 15 minutes, nearly 120 people had gathered on the sidewalks, some brandishing homemade signs, shouting “Education is a right!” “Raise hell, not tuition!” and “Save our SUNY!” to display opposition of future tuition increases.

Throughout the rally, more than a dozen students took to the bullhorn to tell of their personal accounts struggling with student debt, citing a consistent rise in their tuition that has made the daunting reality of paying off college loans for the greater portion of their adult lives even worse.

“At graduation day, I will not be thinking of getting my diploma,” third-year graphic design major Nicole Striffolino said. “I’ll be thinking of the some $20,000 in debt waiting for me after I walk off that stage and into the real world.”

Striffolino continued, urging students to find comfort in knowing that many others their age are facing the same debt.

“Who can afford paying full-time tuition when paying it requires a full-time job?” she asked the crowd. “We are not alone in these numbers.”

Another speaker, second-year psychology and Black Studies double major Rookie Reynoso, a Dominican Republic native, shared that the ongoing tuition increase is another obstacle for students from other nations to overcome.

Student protesters outside of SUNY New Paltz President Donald Christian’s office.

“I’m here representing the students who came here for a better educational opportunity, but because tuition is so expensive, we get thrown into the same cycle of trying to struggle to get our children to go to college — just like our parents,” Reynoso said.

Village of New Paltz mayoral candidates Tim Rogers and Amy Cohen also shared their insight with the crowd; Rogers cited that at 44 years old, he still has student debt to pay from his college years, while Cohen commended the group for “standing up for their right to an affordable education.”

Well over an hour into the rally, the nearly 45 student protesters began a march across campus with their banners and signs, in route to college President Donald Christian’s office in the Haggerty Administration building.

Their goal, fourth-year NYSR member Sadie Godlis said, was to stage a sit-in outside of Christian’s office until he accepted their list of demands — items including suggestions for him to tell SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to cap tuition at its current level, restore state funding to a minimum of 50 percent and to support the DREAM Act, which gives immigrant students raised in

the U.S. a chance to pursue higher education.

Halfway through the sit-in, University Police officers arrived to ensure that protesters were not blocking exit-ways incase of an emergency.

After 20 minutes of waiting in the hallway, Christian emerged from his office to accept the large white sign, titled “Our Demands,” from the group. Though the interaction lasted less than a minute, NYSR member Rebecca Berlin said this was an indication of the group’s overall cause coming to fruition.

“Having enough student support to have a sit-in is evidence of the success of the rally,” Berlin said. “Students are crying out for increased dialogue with their president and the opportunity to express their concerns face to face — [and] it was an inspiring experience to have student power push for President Christian to accept the demands himself.”

Though state legislature supported an extension of the rational tuition increase in their state budget, finalized Tuesday night, representatives from New Paltz’s SA will attend a mandatory, SUNY-wide conference with the system’s assembly (SUNYSA) April 10-12 to show their opposition of the tuition increases.

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New Paltz SA passed a resolution against the tuition hikes last month — the first campus to do so within the SUNY system — with SUNY Old Westbury and SUNY Purchase’s student senate taking similar action. If the majority of schools represented at the SUNYSA conference oppose further increases of the plan — which expires after the 2015-16 academic year — it will not pass, Berlin said.

In a statement released later that afternoon regarding the demonstration, Christian said his support for SUNY’s rational tuition plan will remain the same.

“I appreciate our students’ commitment to educational opportunity,” he said. “The position I have advocated for is identical to that of the SUNY-wide Student Assembly — continuation of rational tuition coupled with increased state taxpayer support. These resources will allow New Paltz to continue the gains that tuition increases have made possible the past four years — more than 40 new full-time faculty, a veterans services coordinator and other student support staff, more course offerings, decreasing average class sizes [and] increased annual financial aid to more than $2 million, to name a few.”

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CYNTHIA LENNON, FIRST WIFE OF JOHN LENNON, DIES OF CANCER Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of former Beatles guitarist John Lennon, died of cancer Wednesday at her home in Spain. She was 75. Her death was announced on the website and Twitter account of her son, Julian Lennon and confirmed by his representative.

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On Wednesday, March 6, the SUNY New Paltz College Council approved the new SUNY-wide policy regarding sexual violence prevention and response, nicknamed “Yes Means Yes.” Endorsed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the new policy focuses on affirmative and active consent.

According to the University Police Department’s (UPD) Annual Security and Fire Safety Report from 2013, seven incidents of sexual offenses were reported on the New Paltz campus that year. Yet statistics from the National Sexual Violence Research Center (NSVRC) suggest higher numbers across colleges nationwide that include unreported offenses; according to NSVRC, less than 5 percent of completed or attempted rapes against college women were reported to authorities, according to a nationwide study conducted in 2000.

“Yes Means Yes” aims to prevent sexual offenses at the source by establishing the concept of “affirmative consent.” The SUNY Board of Trustees defines affirmative consent

as “clear, unambiguous, knowing, informed and voluntary agreement between all participants to engage in sexual activity.” This type of consent is “active, not passive,” according to a statement from SUNY via NBC New York. Under the new policy, silence or lack of resistance cannot be interpreted as consent before all parties engage in sexual acts.

Executive Director for Compliance and Campus Climate at SUNY New Paltz Tanhena Pacheco-Dunn explained that the new policy will provide a “uniform response program” across all 64 SUNY schools in the event of sexual offenses.

“It is important for professionals who administer sexual assault and sexual violence policies to have comprehensive guidance so that they can be as effective as possible in assisting individuals that come forward as well as educating their campuses,” Pacheco-Dunn said. “It is also important for anyone who is a victim [or] survivor to understand all the resources and support available to them so that the path to reporting can be accessible.”

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to reflect the new language adopted by the SUNY system.

“Every year, our offices hear feedback and learn from our experiences, and we review our policies, procedures and training to be sure that we are continuing to implement the best practices in responding to sexual violence and supporting those who come forward,” Pacheco-Dunn said.

According to Pacheco-Dunn, many elements of the new policy are not new to SUNY New Paltz. She said that New Paltz’s own code of conduct served as an exemplar for other SUNY universities on how to handle sexual offenses and provide support for victims and survivors. As a result, this new initiative will not result in any drastic changes to New Paltz’s current policies.

“We are very proud that our approach is one that has served as a model [for other SUNY schools],” Pacheco-Dunn said.

Students who experience sexual harassment or assault can contact Haven, a peer counseling center located in Deyo Hall. Haven has a 24-hour emergency hotline, which students can reach at 845-802-3383.

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In an effort to open up the discussion of race inequality in response to the radicallycharged events which have recently unfolded across the nation, Starbucks released an insert explaining the reasoning behind the launch of their “Race Together” campaign in 2 million copies of USA Today. The eight-page insert appeared in USA Today on March 20 and included charts and statistics about diversity including “What is the chance the next person I meet will be different from me?” a true or false quiz titled “What Do You Think You Know About Race?” and timelines about the progress of racial equality.

“To ignore, dismiss or fail to productively engage our differences is to stifle our collective potential,” Starbucks Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz said in the insert.

“Diversity of thought and skills lead to more creative ideas and higher performance.”

Baristas were encouraged to write “Race Together” on Starbucks cups when handing customers their coffee, as well as open conversations about racial equality with customers. According to politifact.com, when announcing the campaign, Schultz referred to

it as “an opportunity to begin to re-examine how we can create a more empathetic and inclusive society — one conversation at a time.”

Despite the intentions by Starbucks, heavy criticism over the campaign and its publicizing tactics had the company end the campaign less than a week after it began.

However, according to politifact.com, other parts of the campaign will continue. According to a letter from Schultz to Starbucks partners regarding “Race Together” via news. starbucks.com, the company plans to have “more partner open forums, three more special sections co-produced with USA Today over the course of the next year, more open dialogue with police and community leaders in cities across our country,” as part of the campaign.

“Anytime a major corporation wants to engage the issue of race openly and honestly, it is a good thing,” Chair and Associate Professor of Black Studies, Major Coleman said.

“Although people may not want to talk about this while getting their coffee in the morning, this doesn’t mean that this isn’t a conversation that needs to take place.”

Coleman said that it would serve Starbucks better to place a forum on their website

where competent professionals or spokesmen who know and understand racial issues could engage customers in conversation online. According to Coleman, for one to judge how valid the campaign is, analyzing how racially integrated the Starbucks corporate structure is themselves would be the first place to look.

“I don’t fault Starbucks for trying, it doesn’t seem that any other organization of this size is attempting to act as a platform for the discussion of race,” fourth-year business major Billy McArdle said. “I respect CEO Howard Schultz, but this seems like too much to take on.”

McArdle said he believed there to be an expectation of negative feedback for a campaign of this nature, but respected that Starbucks would create a platform around themselves for the discussion of racism. Baristas of the Starbucks at 1 Plattekill Ave. in the New Paltz Village said that since taking part in the campaign was voluntary, all of the baristas chose to not participate. “‘Race Together’ is not a solution, but it is an opportunity to begin to re-examine how we can create a more empathetic and inclusive society — one conversation at a time,” Schultz said.

According to Ritayik, someone had tipped-off UPD about the graffiti. In most graffiti insistences, custodians will simply report graffiti as it is considered a crime. However, due to the connotations that a swastika implies, it can be considered aggravated harassment and qualifies investigation.

“Hate and bias have no place in our society,” a spokesperson for Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center, a nonprofit organization located about four miles from SUNY Purchase, said in an article in The Journal News.

“The smearing of swastikas, a symbol of the greatest genocide in the history of mankind, in a SUNY Purchase residence hall is a shameful act that must not be tolerated.”

With the SUB being a place where many people come in and out of and the time frame of the alleged drawing being unclear, it is difficult to find the perpetrator, according to Ritayik.

“If this student was found, he or she would face the charge of first-degree aggravated harassment would be implemented similarly to the case at SUNY Purchase,” Ritayik said.

According to SUNY New Paltz Psychology Professor Clifford Evans, it could be pos-

sible that this person was attempting to send a message, or simply attempting to be as offensive as possible. Evans also mentioned that graffiti is used to express a belief that one feels they can only express through anonymity, as the belief is associated with the Nazi Party and Neo-Nazi movement and, as it applies to this situation, isn’t considered socially acceptable.

“It is difficult to narrow down the reasons why people engage in vandalism in general, especially of this type,” Evans said. “Something like this could be the expression of a certain belief by using a shocking or offensive symbol such as this to elicit a reaction.”

Evans said it is entirely possible that someone wouldn’t feel comfortable to state that they have these beliefs and it may be a covert attempt to express themselves. The swastika is a powerful enough symbol that people use it for all sorts of different purposes, according to Evans.

If any leads are found concerning who may have vandalized the fourth floor men’s bathroom in the SUB with a swastika, please call the UPD Anonymous Tip Line at 845-2572230 or go to the UPD website and fill out a UPD Silent Witness Form.

Offensive Graffiti Found At Purchase; New Paltz

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SUNY Purchase recently arrested student Raymond Turchioe, 18, of New York City for drawing swastikas on dormitory walls, charging him with first-degree aggravated harassment. The crime is considered harassment because of the intentional fear and alarm the swastika and its historical association can cause the residents of the community.

An investigation by the University Police Department (UPD) at SUNY New Paltz recently began regarding a swastika drawn in the fourth floor men’s bathroom of the Student Union Building (SUB). According to UPD Deputy Chief of Police Mary Ritayik, UPD learned of the incident at SUNY Purchase from UPD Investigator Bruce Chambers, who had contacted other SUNY UPD investigators.

New Paltz UPD was aware of the incident at Purchase when the swastika was found here on the New Paltz campus.

“There’s always that chance that there is a correlation between what happened here and what happened at Purchase,” Ritayik said.

“The case is still open for investigation until all the leads turn out to not advance further.”

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ARKANSAS SENATE TAKES UP RELIGION BILL AT GOVERNOR’S REQUEST Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson backed away Wednesday from his promise to sign a controversial religious objections bill, bowing to pressure from critics of the measure who say the legislation is anti-gay. The Republican governor said he wants the Legislature either to recall the bill from his desk to amend it or pass a follow-up measure that would make the proposal more closely mirror a federal religious freedom law.

CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR ORDERS MANDATORY WATER RESTRICTIONS

California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered officials Wednesday to impose statewide mandatory water restrictions for the first time in history as surveyors found the lowest snow level in the Sierra Nevada snowpack in 65 years of record-keeping.

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON RELIGIOUS OBJECTIONS LAWS A day after Arkansas lawmakers defied criticism to pass a religious objections bill, the governor of Arkansas held off on signing the measure, saying it needed changes before he could make the proposal into law. Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Wednesday that critics of the legislation included his own son, who signed a petition urging him to veto it.

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“Mascot Madness” Ends In Loss For Hugo

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SUNY New Paltz’s mascot Hugo the Hawk was eliminated in the Final Four round of SUNY Mascot Madness.

This year, Hugo was eliminated against Baxter Bearcat of Binghamton University on Wednesday, April 1.

Hugo won the first competition in 2013, defeating Wolfie the Seawolf of Stony Brook University and was eliminated in the Final Four round in 2014 by Ellsworth the Eagle of the College at Brockport.

Mascot Madness was started in efforts to mimic the NCAA Div. I Men’s Basketball March Madness Tournament.

The competition is five rounds and includes 40 competitors out of 64 SUNY campuses. It is based on a standard single-elimination bracket of four divisions, organized into New York regions. Seed rankings in each region are based on the number of teams that a particular campus represents and enrollment data is used to break any ties.

Rounds four and five incorporate social voting. Each finalist is assigned a unique and trackable URL that will be applied to a tweet button associated with the mascot profile. The more times that this tweet button is clicked — and therefore tweeted, generating unique traffic — the more likely that campus will gain bonus points.

In order to cast a vote in this year’s tournament, voters were required to submit their email address and confirm the verification via their inbox. This is something that SUNY introduced this year in order to review consistency of votes in a more direct way.

The addition of the extra step to submit a vote might have turned away hopeful voters, John Oles, Social Media Manager for the Office of Communication & Marketing said.

This year’s “madness” began on Monday, March 16. Hugo defeated Blaze of Onondaga Community College 61.43 percent to 38.57 percent in the first round. Hugo then advanced to

the second round, which consisted of 16 contestants. In the Sweet 16, Hugo eliminated the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s mascot Oakie the Acorn, 51.77 percent to 48.23 percent. The third round and Elite 8 saw Hugo defeat Wolfie yet again, 51.79 percent to 48.21 percent.

Oles said that this year, web developer Ashley Galante designed a Snapchat geofilter to spread the word to vote. This was an advantage to increase student connection and votes, he said.

“We submitted a couple different filters [to Snapchat], but we’re so happy they picked the Hugo one,” Oles said. “We think that’s a big win for us. Right when we saw Snapchat was coming out with [geofilters], we submitted it and it got approved just in time for the competition.”

A pitfall to the use of Snapchat in the competition is that the link to vote is not readily available and accessible.

Julie Catone, a second-year digital media programming and management major, said she loves the tournament and the competitiveness of it.

“A bunch of my friends go to other SUNY schools, so this is an opportunity for us to trash talk each other and boast about why our school mascot is the best,” Catone said. “It’s fun.”

The winning college will take home the Mascot Madness trophy from SUNY, which they will possess for one year up until the next competition.

Oles said the competition shows great spirit and is something fun that everyone in the SUNY New Paltz community can rally behind.

“It’s bragging rights for the year to say we beat all the other bigger schools,” he said. “We’re Div. III in sports. It shows that Hugo is not just all about athletics, but that he’s on campus and he’s a universal mascot.”

The championship round will take place from Friday, April 3 at noon to Wednesday, April 8 at 4 p.m.

“We’re not the largest SUNY, but we have a lot of school spirit,” Oles said.

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Senate Hosts Village Mayoral Candidates

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The 59th Student Senate met on Wednesday, April 1 and hosted the four mayoral candidates for the Village of New Paltz.

The candidates — Sally Rhoads, Tim Rogers, Amy Cohen and current mayor Jason West — stood in front of the senate to discuss their campaign platforms and to participate in a Q&A panel.

They discussed student issues such as parking in the village as well as the legislation which changed the definition of a family, hindering students who wish to live off-campus with more than three nonblood related individuals.

“I met with the village attorney and building inspector to review the definition and we want safe housing for everybody,” West said.

He said that the village needs a definition of a family for technical reasons, but will be updating the definition once again next month.

Cohen recognized that it takes months to change a law and said that she is 100 percent against the legislation.

“There are New York State laws that protect tenants,” Cohen said. “Our 1.6 square mile village doesn’t need this legislation.”

Going off of this, Rogers said that the village board made a mistake when they changed the definition of family in 2013 and that the town should have better supervision and code enforcement.

Rogers recognized that students pay more than any demographic in the village.

“That’s a problem,” he said. “For a long time New Paltz has been a mix of students and long time families. If you choose to live in the village, it’s hard to afford housing as a young professional.”

In reference to parking in the village, Sen. Brienna Perez asked how much revenue is made from parking meters.

Rhoads said that the village has to pay for the maintenance of parking lots in the village. She and West agreed that the

village generates about $50,000-100,000 in revenue a year and that maintenance expenses are approximately two thirds of that.

“The revenue is supposed to cover the cost of parking,” West said. “You don’t want someone parking in the same spot for days at a time, so the parking meters are needed.”

After the Q&A panel, a quorum of the Senate voted in favor of the nonsegregation of gender-inclusive housing.

As stated in the “Whereas Clause,” “Be it resolved, we, the 59th Student Senate, resolve to call upon the SUNY New Paltz Office of Residence Life and other relevant parties, to amend this discrimination by making all housing and bathrooms gender inclusive.”

Student Association Executive Vice President Jesse Ginsberg said that they are hoping to get the village board to pass resolutions on tuition hikes and a University Police Department (UPD) Oversight Committee.

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Senate addressed that this past weekend was Budget Finance Committee (BFC) weekend. Vice President of Finance Rosemary Owuo said that the total budget for the Student Association (SA) is $1,550,000.

She said there are stipulations made for each general programming account and that each club has its own stipulation. Oncampus clubs have until April 13 to appeal their designated amounts within the SA budget.

Vice President of Academic Affairs Jordan Taylor announced that next Wednesday, April 8, is the State of the Campus Address at 6 p.m. Senators will address campus issues such as meal plans, UPD oversight, drug policies, the ban of plastic bags on campus and tuition hikes.

He said that Campus Auxiliary Services (CAS) are going by village rules, which banned plastic bags in the village as of April 1. Many senators agreed that the campus should be provided with alternative options such as paper bags or reusable bags.

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Coming to the Cherry Hill Plaza on Main Street in New Paltz is the New York Vape Club, an e-cigarette and vape retailer.

Founded and owned by 21-yearold Dylan Zimmermann, the shop opened for business on April 1.

After working for an e-cigarette company in Wappingers Falls and saving up for three years, he decided to open up a shop of his own.

Zimmermann, whose father was a long-term smoker, had been smoking cigarettes since age 13. After five years of smoking, he decided he needed to make a lifestyle change.

He decided to try vaping and he insisted that his father, who averaged two packs of cigarettes a day, try an alternative method to smoking too.

“Nicotine patches are uncomfortable and nicotine gum doesn’t have a good flavor,” Zimmermann said. “Vaping satisfies the same oral fixation as cigarettes and also adds a good flavor.”

He was also inspired to open the shop after seeing growth in both his and his father’s health.

“My dad’s [sense of] smell, taste and [his] overall life have improved,” Zimmermann said. “And I used to have breathing problems, but now I run 5Ks and am never winded.”

Though the long-term effects of smoking vapes and e-cigarettes are unclear, Zimmermann said that the short-term effects of using these products are nothing but positive.

Vape and e-cigarette users can choose their own nicotine dosage, eventually dialing down to zero. This means that they would no longer need the excess amounts of nicotine which they were once addicted to.

Zimmermann said that he does his best to carry all US.-made ingredients and that the New York Vape Club will not be selling Cig-a-like ecigarettes companies like such as Big

Tobacco.

“Those are the kinds of companies we’re trying to get rid of because they’re still hurting people,” Zimmermann said. “Products made in China don’t disclose the ingredients they’re made with or what you’re getting, which sets people up to fail and gets them back on cigarettes.”

He also said that he wants to appeal to the public with his variety of different products and flavors.

The New York Vape Club will stock close to 250 different hardware products such as pen-style starter kits, box-mods and mechanical mods from companies such as Aspire, Kamger Tech and Sigelei.

They will also sell over 50 flavors from a premium brand that he gets produced himself, as well as from known brands such as CRFT and Cosmic Fog. The New York Vape Club will sell fun flavors such as “Loony Loops,” which Zimmermann said will be reminiscent to eating a bowl of Fruit Loops as well as “Country Cooler,” a strawberry kiwi lemonade flavor.

Zimmermann said that the New York Vape Club is a brand new company and he wanted to bring vape products to a town he knew would appreciate them.

“Hopefully I can take people who already vape and provide them with a comfortable atmosphere,” Zimmermann said. “People are more than welcome to come hangout.”

He said he hopes to educate people about the positive effects of vaping while helping them quit cigarettes in the process.

He plans to have the New York Vape Club open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m., though it may change upon demand.

The New York Vape Club’s website is active at newyorkvapeclub. com as well as on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

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WHERE EXACTLY THE MONEY COMES FROM FOR CONSTRUCTION

By Nathaniel Sheidlower Copy Editor | Sheidlon1@hawkmail.newpaltz.edu As there is growing tension regarding increases in tuition, it is important to know that there are certain services and facilities on-campus that are not covered by tuition costs from every student.

Campus construction and maintenance is funded by money allocated in the New York State budget for the SUNY system. With the exception of residence halls, all new buildings and all renovations are paid for mostly from that budget.

John Shupe, assistant vice president for facilities management, said the majority of funds for on-campus construction come from the state budget’s “capital plan” and most of that money is dedicated to “critical maintenance.”

This money cannot be used for new construction, like the New Science

Building, but does cover large maintenance projects on already existing structures, like the Sojourner Truth Library renovations.

The 2015–16 capital budget plan has $200 million set aside for critical maintenance of SUNY facilities, and an additional $55 million from the SUNY 2020 initiative.

In SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher’s 2015–16 Executive Budget Testimony, released on Feb. 10, she asked that this number be tripled to $600 million a year for the next five years.

The five-year model is important because construction projects generally take two to three years of planning before ground is broken and knowing how much money is available is a crucial element of that planning.

Shupe said that while current projects are already completely funded, new projects like renovations to the

Smiley Arts Building and the Elting Gym, are on hold because of a decrease in funding. The Smiley renovations are estimated to cost $83 million and involve adding a wing to the building to house the photography and graphic design departments currently located in the Old Library. The $35 million Elting Gym project would result in a new or renovated pool.

He said that after asking SUNY for $50 million for on-campus maintenance, we are likely to receive only $5 million.

The capital budget is not the only way that projects get funded, another way to get money for new projects is through legislative items. This requires lobbying at the state legislative level and is very project-specific and the money does not come from the capitol plan, according to Shupe, who cited the Student Union Atrium as an example of

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a project funded by this initiative.

Considering not all SUNY campuses are residential, residence halls support themselves with money from student’s room fees, according to Shupe.

Shupe said residence halls are funded by a bond, normally 15 or 30 years, which is paid back by room fees. This means the construction of new dorms like Ridgeview Hall do not cost current students any additional money because it is adding rooms and therefore adding revenue to pay back the bond.

However, Shupe said, when renovations are needed for existing residence hall rooms, like the upcoming work to be done on Bevier Hall, the student fee may go up because no rooms are being created and the money must come from somewhere.

Lastly, Shupe noted there is money set aside by the state for emergency situations.

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CAMPUS LECTURE COVERS EQUALITY AND ACCESSIBILITY

April Coughlin hailing a cab.

By Jessica Jones

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April Coughlin traveled alone through six European countries in 13 days, riding buses, trains and cabs for countless viewpoints of the world. When she wheeled off of the plane at JFK airport in New York City, she was assigned an escort to lead her and other disabled people through customs.

She refused any assistance, but said when she started hightailing it away from the group she was threatened with arrest and heavy fines, forcing her to submit to the role of second-class citizen so commonly given to disabled people in our ableist-minded society.

On March 26, Coughlin gave a speech titled “Disability and Social Justice: The Continued Movement” to a full house in the Student Union multipurpose room at SUNY New Paltz.

“I’ve been waiting for something like this,” Kyle Wightman, a third-year Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies major at SUNY New Paltz said, also voicing concern with what he viewed as a lack of accessibility on campus.

Coughlin was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident when she

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was six years old. She has been a selfproclaimed “wheeler” for 29 years, all the while working as “an advocate for access and inclusion” for the disabled community, the world’s largest minority group containing 10 percent of the population.

Johnny Owens, a third-year printmaking major at New Paltz, went to learn “anything new” on the topic, as he believes that disability is the least exposed social injustice.

Portia Altman, the director of the disability resource center at SUNY New Paltz, cited a “lack of staff, a lack of interest and a lack of people versed in these types of issues” as just a few reasons for the delay in public conversation revolving around disability and social justice. She said she reached out to Coughlin after seeing her speak at Vassar College last year.

Coughlin discussed able-bodied privileges in terms of her own life. She grew up in New Paltz, attending the local elementary and high school where she was fully included with her peers thanks to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1990, which ensures that people receive a free public education regardless of ability.

New Paltz was where she first learned to “enjoy little victories” and to fight for what she believed was her due; when she

got her driver’s license, there was no accessible spot for her to park at New Paltz High School. That was the first incident that called for a letter to be written requesting change, and it was successful. Letters written later in her career also made a difference, such as her behest to SUNY Albany to build more accessible bathrooms around campus.

“Everybody should have the right to pee,” Coughlin said with a laugh. She noted that public bathrooms, broken elevators, bells for assistance and sketchy rear entrances are nuisances to her everywhere.

As a middle school English teacher in Brooklyn, she said she realized disability stereotypes were deeply rooted in society.

Parents and students alike discredited her capacity as a teacher after one glance at her wheelchair. One parent blatantly told Coughlin that they did not want a person in a wheelchair teaching their child.

Part of Coughlin’s advocacy mission is to change the way society views people with physical disabilities, she said. Her understanding of life as a disabled person has been shaped by her everyday experiences and her education. She is currently working towards a Ph.D at Syracuse University in the inclusive education program and credits her disability studies classes for

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giving her a language to make sense of her experiences.

Coughlin founded a group for women with spinal cord injuries in New York City, the first of its kind in the country, to spread the words she was empowered by.

In her speech, she encouraged the audience to help change the conversation of those with disabilities. She provided a list of the do’s and don’ts of disability communication. These promoted people to use person-first language, to emphasize that the person owns their disability and not vise versa; discouraged the “infantilization” or baby-treatment of people with disabilities; urged against words that imply tragedy, such as “afflicted,” “suffer” or “unfortunate” and encouraged people to always ask before assisting someone who is disabled.

The word “inspiration” was also discouraged in this section of her speech.

Coughlin told the crowd to not “be inspired because I got out of bed this morning.”

Coughlin said she hopes that implementing more inclusive language into society regarding people with disabilities will help move the fight for access and inclusion into the societal spotlight.

“The quest for equality continues.

One day at a time,” she said.

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The Storyk Experience ARCHITECT BEHIND FAMOUS HENDRIX STUDIO SHARES HIS STORY

By Karl Evers-Hillstrom

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For prestigious architect and acoustician John Storyk, his journey into recording studio design began in 1968 when he was asked an enticing question: “Do you want to build a club for Jimi Hendrix?”

At 22 years old, Storyk’s answer was a resounding “yes.”

However, things did not go to plan.

At the last minute, Hendrix’s producer Eddie Kramer talked him out of creating a club and convinced Hendrix and his manager that they should build a recording studio instead.

Storyk was kept on the project and became the lead designer for the recording studio. With the help of Eddie Kramer, Phil Ramone and Storyk’s expertise in architecture, Electric Lady Studios was born.

Storyk spoke about the lessons he learned from the building of the Greenwich Village recording studio and what makes a great recording studio in a thorough presentation on Saturday, March 28 in the Lecture Center.

“This is a good career lesson, if you have a first project: make it a famous one,” Storyk said.

Fast forward to 2015 and Storyk now runs Walters-Storyk Design group with his wife Beth Walters, an architectural acoustics, audio visual and technology integration design firm which creates recording studios and performance venues all over the world.

Storyk and his firm have helped create and assist with over 3,000 recording studios, as well as musical and religious venues and educational facilities.

Electric Lady Studios is still operating to this day, and has been used by famous artists including Kanye West, Stevie Wonder, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Strokes and many more.

Electric Lady Studios took about a year to build, although Storyk said construction on the studio was not consistent.

“Whenever they ran out of money,

they would stop building it, Jimi would go out and play and they would come back with satchels of cash,” Storyk said.

Storyk designed the studio specifically to Hendrix’s liking. He designed the control room so it would have full ambient lighting, including different colored lights on the ceiling. Hendrix felt that the studio needed to be an extension of the artist, and also wanted to keep some elements of the club in the design of the studio. Despite these personalized touches, Storyk was still able to build the studio to commercial specs.

The large and spacious control room was designed to be stylish and comfortable. Most control rooms before that time were small, uncomfortable and almost never used by the artists.

“This was a room for artists and engineers. Artists would hang out in this room, they would no longer be hostage on the other side of the glass,” Storyk said. “This is really one of the first moments where that’s happening.”

Although Electric Lady Studios’ current-day control room is different than it was in 1970, the studio has not changed much, a testament to the fact that the original designs really did work.

Electric Lady Studios laid down the groundwork for modern recording studios at a basic level, but the science of control room acoustics has advanced a great deal in the past 40 years.

Storyk discussed modern architectural acoustics, such as interior space acoustics, the science of changing a room’s surfaces in order to achieve better sound.

Storyk’s group has many ways to fix acoustic issues, such as covering panels with fabric in order to raise acoustical absorption and erecting diffusers which scatter sound. Storyk’s group can predict what a building’s acoustics will be like without even erecting it.

Thanks to a program called CATTAcoustics, they create a model of the building and can accurately estimate the

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A floorplan for one of the floors in Electric Lady Studios

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reverberation time and other acoustic factors. Thanks to this technology, they know exactly how a building will sound before they build it, which means less problems to fix later on.

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The Walters-Storyk Design Group is a nine-time winner of the TEC Award for outstanding achievement in Acoustics/ Facility Design. They are still designing studios around the world today.

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Strength Behind the Strings SUNY NEW PALTZ PROFESSORS PERFORM AT STUDLEY THEATER

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Fashions may fade and trends may end, but classical music is something that has lasted for hundreds of years.

On Tuesday, March 31 in the Julien J. Studley theater, the SUNY New Paltz Department of Music’s concert series continued with a performance entitled “Violin and Piano.”

SUNY New Paltz professors of music Carole Cowan and Alex Peh performed several duets, with classical and folk influences by composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Igor Stravinsky and Bela Bartok. Cowan played the violin while Peh was the featured pianist.

The concert featured two pieces by Mozart entitled “Sonata for Piano and Violin in E Minor, KV 304” and “Sonata for Piano and Violin in G Major, KV 301.” Both pieces included two movements. The E minor sonatas’ movements were entitled “Allegro” and “Tempo Di Menuetto.” The G major sonatas’ movements were entitled “Allegro Con Spirito” and “Allegro.” Both pieces were great and featured exemplary playing from Cowan and Peh. According to the program, these pieces were written in 1778 and were dedicated to the Countess of Pfalz. The majority of this region in the Hudson Valley was settled by people from the Pfalz area of the Rhineland in Germany.

After a short break, Cowan and Peh came back out on stage to perform my favorite piece of the evening: “Duo Concertante for Violin and Piano” by Igor Stravinsky. The piece was quite a bit longer than Mozart’s two pieces and contained five movements entitled “Cantilene,” “Eglogue I,” “Eglogue II,” “Gigue” and “Dithyrambe.” It was written in 1933.

I hadn’t heard this particular Stravinsky piece before, but since he has always been one of my favorite composers I knew I wouldn’t be disappointed. According to the program, Stravinsky was hesitant to write for violin and piano at first since he didn’t think he knew enough about string technique. He began working with violinist Samuel Dushkin and they explored the contrasts, competitive qualities, similarities and interesting combinations that were possible with violin and

Professors Carole Cown and Alex Peh performing in Studley Theater

piano. The two eventually became a duo and performed together on many occasions.

Cowan and Peh delivered a great rendition of Stravinsky’s piece.

For the final piece of the evening, Cowan and Peh performed a duet entitled “Second Rhapsody ‘Folk Dances’” which was composed by Bela Bartok. The piece contained two movements entitled “Iassu” and “Friss.”

I hadn’t heard a Bartok piece prior to this performance and I was very impressed by what I heard. The rhythms were interesting, and each of the two movements within the piece greatly captured my attention. It was written in 1928.

While Stravinsky and Mozart’s piece had a more classical feel to it, Bartok’s had a folkier feel to it. According to the program, Bartok traveled throughout Europe a lot and visited places such as Transylvania, Rumania and Ruthenia. His music combines modes, fiddle dances, language inflections, drones and a folk energy with modern techniques and dissonance.

Bartok’s piece was a welcome inclusion in the concert’s set list because of how different it was compared to the other three pieces.

Cowan and Peh delivered a great rendition of Bartok’s piece and it was a successful way to end the performance.

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Upcoming Events at Studley Theater Concert Choir Chamber Singers/Piano Tuesday, April 7, 8 p.m.

Student Jazz Ensembles Monday, April 13, Tuesday, April 14, Wednesday April 15, 8 p.m.

Symphonic Band Tuesday, April 21, 8 p.m.

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Understanding the Abstract ARTIST DISCUSSES FEATURED DORSKY MUSEUM WORKS

By Jess Napp

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On Saturday March 28, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art hosted a panel discussion located in the heart of their exhibit, “Geometries of Difference New Approaches to Ornament and Abstraction.” Curator of the exhibit, Murtaza Vali, moderated the event.

Panelists included SUNY New Paltz Professor Amy Cheng and two of the artists in the show, Kamrooz Aram and Jeffrey Gibson.

“A lot of people want to learn more about exhibits and hear the artist speak on behalf of their own work,” Dorsky Curator Daniel Belasco said.

According to Vali, the show is about thinking of ornament and abstractionism as not belonging to

one specific culture and expressing the voices beyond those of dead white men.

Prior to this show there was an exhibition in Dubai entitled “Brute Ornament.” Vali stated that the exhibit began with a conversation between himself, Aram and another artist in the show, Seher Shah.

The exhibit then moved to the Dorsky where Vali wanted to expand the focus beyond Islamic art and incorporate art styles from around the world, including Gibson’s work, which blends his Native American heritage with international modernism.

Gibson stated that he wanted his work to demonstrate what it would have looked like if Native Americans had been a part of the discussion and artistic movement

of 20th Century modernism.

While Gibson is highly influenced by his Native American background and Aram is by Islamic art and architecture, they both try to look at abstractionism as being more than purely decorative.

According to Aram, the last time he was in Iran was 14 years ago, and he posed this question to himself, “Couldn’t we look at modern painting in the same way that we have been looking at Persian carpets?”

Aram begins his paintings by first drawing the pattern of a Persian carpet, then painting over the drawing and covering things up in order to find what he has lost.

Aram said that his paintings in the show are partially decorative, just like how Pollock’s painting

can be seen as ornamental.

Meanwhile, Cheng recalls seeing a Matisse painting in high school and standing stupefied in front of it, asking herself if this was even allowed in the art world.

“Patterning is something that connects with our nervous system in a very primal way,” Cheng said.

Kathi Norklun, a former SUNY New Paltz adjunct in the art history department, took Cheng’s drawing class and was interested in returning to the school for this event.

“I had seen the show and found myself extremely fascinated with Gibson’s work,” Norklun said.

“Geometries of Difference New Approaches to Ornament and Abstraction” will remain in the Dorsky until April 12.

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Freeze Now, Meltdown Later

CARTOON BY MIKE SHEINKOPF

On Tuesday, March 31, New Paltz students organized in protest against the renewal of the SUNY system’s “Rational Tuition Increase,” a state legislative initiative of increasing SUNY tuition by $300 each year for five consecutive years. The initiative is meant to combat unpredictable price hikes students have faced in the past and make up for decreases in state-aid to SUNY over the previous decade.

We at The New Paltz Oracle commend the demonstrators for voicing their opposition to a legislative initiative that has and may perhaps continue to affect them, however we question their preceptive scope regarding the future implications of their demands.

Should there be a tuition-freeze like the protestors have demanded, it would be a short term benefit to a select few at best. The tuition increase are not some sort of arbitrary tax on

students, rather a increase to address rising costs which tuition covers.

If the rational tuition increase is repealed, current students will not suffer the increased cost, yes, but down the line some years, when the need for the funds become dire, students will face a substantial tuition increase hike.

Knowing this, is it truly justified to oppose the rational tuition increase when it equally distributes the cost among all students at the college?

While we understand that it is frustrating and difficult to face an evergrowing tuition increase while enrolled in SUNY, it is a reality we must accept and whose purpose we must realize as SUNY students. Directing animosity toward SUNY New Paltz administration or any singular college administration is a fruitless endeavor — the colleges are only cogs in the greater SUNY machine, ones that must abide

by state laws and the system’s initiative. Taking the protest to New Paltz President Donald Christian’s doorstep makes sense in a symbolic gesture to the SUNY system but asking that he accept demands and that the college oppose a system-wide initiative seems a bit trite.

Over time, the cost of everything — whether it be a gallon of milk or our college tuition bills — is bound to increase due to inflation. We live in a world today where the unfortunate reality is that we are going to have to pay more for things than our relatives once had to pay for in the past. This includes college tuition.

That does not take away from the fact that there are indeed problems within our educational system — a great amount of state funding has been lost. With things getting more expensive and state aid decreasing, the only

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choice that SUNY feasibly has is to raise tuition a few hundred dollars each academic year to make up for the shortfalls.

On the same token, we at The Oracle believe that an increase in state aid may bring the potential for abolishing tuition hikes in the future.

But until then, we will have to pay for the differences whether it be all of us now or a few of us in the future.

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Being a copy editor for the sports section of The New Paltz Oracle, you wouldn’t expect musical theatre to be on my list of hobbies. But there was a time in my life where all of my free time was devoted to being a part of musical productions.

I started doing musicals when I did my high school’s production of “Beauty and the Beast” my freshman year. I remembered that I liked doing my school’s plays in elementary school, but I didn’t continue doing them in middle school.

I can’t exactly remember why I decided to join the play, I’m pretty sure I saw a poster for it in the hallways and thought “Sure, why not?” That well thought-out reasoning led me to doing the show every year of my high school life, and I pretty much met all of my friends through the school’s musicals.

There was one problem with my sudden interest in theatre. My school exclusively did musicals, which require acting, dancing and singing. Acting came very naturally to me, so that wasn’t a problem. I never took a dance class in my life, but I wasn’t horrible at it. Singing on the other hand… Well, let’s just say it’s difficult to

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The newspaper industry is in decline. Not the news industry, which is booming with the many independent online news sources; but the industry of the physical paper.

People do not pick up and read a newspaper very often anymore. They get their news online or from TV or radio.

However, there is one part of the paper that many people still pick up, still desire and will still go out of their way to get: coupons.

Coupons are no new invention and having them in newspapers is not new either, yet now more than ever they have become an important and even advertised section.

Some newspapers, like the Poughkeepsie Journal, advertise how much money can be saved with all of the coupons they will offer in their Sunday paper. They advertise it the same size and in the same area at the top of their front page where they advertise a big story that will be published soon.

Coupons have become as important to the recipient of the paper as the news itself; even more so for some.

I work at Vassar Brothers Medical Center checking patients in to the emergency room. On the counter next to my desk a few copies of the Poughkeepsie Jour-

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Don’t Ask Me To Sing sing well when you’re born with a mono-toned voice that is audible to whales. Add in that I looked like a middle schooler (I can probably still pass as one), and the fact that there are not many parts for people who look like they’re 12 and sound like they’re 39, and you may realize why I never got a lead in any of my school’s shows.

But during my freshman and sophomore year, I had hoped that with enough practice I could overcome my lack of a natural singing voice. I did community theatre shows outside of my high school in hopes of improving. I did get better, going from completely tone deaf to at the very least being able to carry a tune. In fact during my sophomore year I was cast as a supporting role that only involved speaking, so I thought if I could continue to make progress with my singing I could very well get a lead or two in my junior and senior years. My chorus teacher recommended a vocal trainer to me, but this was when things went downhill.

I had one lesson with the vocal trainer, and long story short she pretty much told me that I sucked and I should never sing again. Then in

my junior year I was thrown back into the ensemble while all of my friends were the main leads in the show. Yes, it sucked.

During my senior year I was given a small role and had to watch my friends play the main parts, again. But I had a bit of a different mindset this time around. Instead of trying to improve my weakness, singing, I decided to focus on my strength, acting. I learned to make the most of every second in every scene I was in. I was much better suited to do this than to try and do something I just wasn’t born to do.

After that show my senior year, I decided to not keep musical theatre around in my life as much as I had in the past. My friends would try to convince me to audition for a play that doesn’t require any singing skills when I got to college, but the idea just didn’t interest me. I guess I had enough of being disappointed with my performance abilities.

However, there is a happy ending to this story. Last semester I saw the Fresh Act performance in Parker Theatre. For those of you who don’t know, Fresh Act is an organization on campus that showcases a couple of student-

It’s Time To Investi-Nate nal are put out each day for patients or visitors to take and read while they wait.

So one Sunday night there were no papers there and I wanted one because I do read the news and the comics and do the Sudoku puzzle. I went behind the counter and found two papers sitting there. They were full and untouched, coupons and all.

I decided to hold a test to see who would arrive first between someone who wanted the paper to read who wouldn’t care about the coupons and someone who would put in that extra effort to get the coupons from behind the counter.

I took out the comics and the Sudoku from one for myself and then put both on the counter. But, I took the coupons out of both and put them on the desk behind the counter; they were visible to one standing at the counter looking at the newspaper.

I sat back at my desk, read the comics and began to work on the Sudoku.

Fifteen minutes later a woman came up to the counter and looked at the paper, for literally one second.

Then she opened it straight to the middle, not removing any sections to read, but picked it up to look towards the middle.

No coupons.

She closed the paper and went behind the counter

and looked through some other loose sections of the paper from the day before, two full stacks of coupons right next to her.

Then an epiphany: she sees the coupons.

She picks up both identical piles, opens the paper again and puts them in the middle where they were before I removed them.

“Something to read,” she said to me as she walked past my desk toward the waiting room.

She sat down, put her large gray purse on the green and brown armchair next to her and put the paper on her lap.

Then she put on her reading glasses and, at the same time with her other hand, she opens the paper to the middle and proceeds to flip through the coupons.

She left the waiting area maybe 10 minutes later.

I never saw her read a single page of the newspaper.

My test was complete, my hypothesis sound and I was left with only question: Why did she take the paper at all?

Nate is a third-year journalism major who hopes to continue writing for a print publication. If you only buy it for the coupons, buy it. He’s gotta eat.

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run scenes, no singing involved. So I decided to audition for Fresh Act this semester, and all of those past disappointments paid off as I was casted. We’ve only started rehearsing our scene recently, but I have had so much fun and I know this is something I will want to do in my future semesters here at New Paltz. I guess when singing is taken out of the equation, I actually have a chance to play a lead role.

With that said, I won’t be pursing acting in my life. I don’t plan on majoring or even minoring in the performing arts. But after this wonderful experience, I wouldn’t mind keeping acting around in some form. You can judge my performance skills at Parker Theatre on April 30 and May 1. Just don’t ask me to sing.

Michael is a first-year journalism major. Aside from not singing, he spends his time watching a lot of baseball. His superpower is the ability to name the result of every world series that has ever been played.

OP-ED Everyone has the human right to live free from violence.

Yet violence against women and girls is one of the world’s most pervasive human rights violations, with one in three women worldwide experiencing it in her lifetime.

That is millions of women every year.

This is a human rights crisis of epidemic proportions.

Violence knows no national or cultural barriers and comes in many forms, occurring everywhere from Egypt to India to California in the form of rape, acid attacks and murder.

Part of the solution to this epidemic is the bipartisan International Violence Against Woman Act (IVAWA), a bill that would make ending gender-based violence a top US diplomatic and foreign assistance priority by improving and better coordinating the efforts and programs that already exist across the US agencies that do work overseas.

Representative Chris Gibson has demonstrated that he cares just as much as I do about ending this global epidemic by co-sponsoring IVAWA in the House of Representatives. I urge all of Rep. Gibson’s constituents to thank him for his support and urge him to push for passage of this bill.

Nicholas Crocitto Legislative Coordinator, Amnesty International Mid-Hudson Valley Chapter New Paltz, NY

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SWEET Men’s volleyball earns No. 2 seed and first-round bye in the first round of the UVC Tournament.

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The Men’s volleyball team extended their winning streak to 16-straight matches.

The Hawks finished off an undefeated March by beating Hunter College on Thursday, March 26 and then beating Elmira College and Bard College in the United Volleyball Conference (UVC) Crossover on Sunday, March 29.

The Hawks defeated Hunter College 3-0 (25-16, 25-17, 25-16). The team executed their gameplan with efficiency, achieving a .508 hitting percentage while holding Hunter to a .173 hitting percentage. New Paltz had seven players with at least three kills and only trailed once in the entire match. Hawks third-year co-Captain Christian Smith was the star of the night, compiling a statline of six kills, nine assists, four digs, four blocks and a .667 hitting percentage. Hawks third-year middle blocker and NCAA Div. III hitting percentage leader Christopher Husmann continued his solid campaign with a flawless hitting night, managing four hits out of four attempts.

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Elmira College 3-0 (25-16, 25-16, 25-20). This was another Hawks victory over another nationally-ranked opponent, making their record 10-2 against top teams in the nation. The Hawks played lockdown defense, holding the Soaring Eagles to a negative hitting percentage (-.057). First-year outside hitter Anthony Bonilla led the way for the Hawks with six kills and three digs. Five players recorded five kills for the Hawks, including thirdyear outside hitter Andy Fishman, second-year Steven Woessner, fourth-year setter John Lutjen and Husmann.

In their second game on Sunday, the Hawks finished their weekend with a shutout of Bard College 3-0 (25-18, 25-18, 25-15). The victory secured the No. 2 seed for them in the UVC playoff bracket, as well as a first-round bye. First-year setter Mitchell Kennedy finished the game with a hitting percentage of .889 and a match-high 27 assists. Fellow first-year middle blockers Ryan Cole and Nick Denoncourt also played well, with Cole tallying eight kills and Denoncourt finishing a perfect six for six on attack attempts.

Kennedy has been named the Corvias Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III North Region Rookie of the Week, announced on

Tuesday afternoon. He was also named the United Volleyball Conference (UVC) Rookie of the Week for the period ending March 29.

Head Coach Radu Petrus said that his goal for the UVC Crossover was to incorporate all of his players in the two matches, with more of his younger players getting experience in the second match.

“Since we have such a large roster we like to prepare our younger players for the future,” Petrus said. “It’s good preparation for us.”

The Hawks remained at No. 3 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Division III Men’s Coaches Top 15 Week #10 Poll, released on Tuesday, March 31.

The Hawks defeated No. 10 Baruch College 3-0 (25-22, 25-20, 25-22) on Wednesday, April 1.

The Hawks now have an overall record of 22-3.

Fishman led the Hawks with 15 points and 15 kills. Husmann led the team with a .692 hitting percentage.

Mental preparation has been the cornerstone of the success of the Men’s volleyball team this year. Petrus, Smith and third-year co-Captain Kevin Nardone all spoke about how the team’s resiliency and commitment to improving and focusing

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on each game has paid off with consistent victories against quality opponents. They said there was a certain growth in the team’s mentality over the course of the season and now they are simply focused on winning one game at a time.

“We don’t really think about the win streak, we just take it game by game and focus on the next opponent,” Smith said. “Overall, we just want to enjoy every game this season.”

Nardone said the biggest thing the team is thinking about is their upcoming game against Springfield.

“We played a tough five-setter against them earlier in the season, and we want to make a statement against them, hopefully,” he said. “I think we’re going to be more mentally prepared to play them.”

The Hawks’ last loss was at home on Wednesday, Feb. 25, against Springfield College. The schedule for the rest of the week has the Hawks playing three matches in the Springfield Tournament this upcoming weekend. The Hawks will play Southern Vermont College on Friday, April 3.

On Saturday, April 4, the Hawks will play against host No. 6 Springfield College and then against Ramapo College.

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Saving By Shaving

On-campus organizations raise money for pediatric cancer research.

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When Beau Lacey, co-treasurer of the St. Baldrick’s event and SUNY New Paltz rugby alumnus met a young girl who was suffering with leukemia at a winter job, he wanted to help the cause of finding a cure for pediatric cancer research.

The Men’s rugby team along with other on-campus organizations raised over $8,100 in their third consecutive head-shaving event to benefit childhood cancer. The team took part in the event this year in the little girl’s honor, Lacey said.

This was the first year other groups such as the Kappa Sigma fraternity and international students participated. The New Paltz Dance Team sponsored those willing to get their heads shaved.

Over 57 shavees and donors combined sported green smocks to help the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, on Tuesday, March 31. Money is

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raised by sponsoring a shavee on the foundation’s website to promote donations. Donations of any kind without participating in head-shaving are accepted.

In the three years, the event held by the Men’s rugby team, has raised over $15,000 for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity that is committed to funding research for finding cures for childhood cancers and supporting survivors, while encouraging participants to shave their hair. They are the largest volunteer-driven fundraising opportunity benefiting pediatric cancer research, according to their website.

Chris Lynch, fourth-year secondary education major and event coordinator/team member said the Men’s rugby team wanted to become more involved with charity to prevent childhood cancer. The Men’s rugby team welcomed a firstyear player who had cancer during his childhood.

For their efforts to raise money, the Men’s rugby

team was awarded the title of “Most Charitable Club Sport” at a club sports meeting last spring.

“It’s honestly the one thing that really keeps us centered every spring,” Lynch said. “Being the group that is responsible for raising thousands of dollars is an incredible experience.”

As an aspiring high school history teacher, Lynch said he wants to do as much as possible to prevent cancer from keeping young students from class.

“The specific amount doesn’t matter to us personally,” Lynch said. “As long as we’re helping fight cancer and helping to save kids lives is the end goal. The more money raised the better.”

The foundation’s website said one in 285 children in the United States will have cancer before they turn 20 years old. Worldwide, 175,000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year. In the United States, more children die of childhood cancer than any other disease, according to the foundation’s website.

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accounting and finance and member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, helped his brothers join the cause.

“Childhood cancer hits home for some people close to us,” Avona said. “We want to do anything we can to help out.”

The foundation was founded in 1999 by three colleagues in the reinsurance industry. They hosted the first head-shaving event on March 17, 2000 and raised $104,000 for the Children’s Oncology Group. As of 2015, 502,931 participants have chipped in and $154,552,703 in research grants have been raised since opening day, according to the foundation’s website.

Sean McCarthy, fourth-year psychology major and Men’s rugby team member has participated as a shavee for all three years and said the experience was a humbling one.

“It makes you realize that this is something that kids with cancer have to deal with a lot,” he said. “This is just one haircut for me. It makes me realize the troubles that they go through.”

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The lacrosse team prepares to take on No. 17 SUNY Geneseo.

The softball team prepares for SUNYAC play.

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The lacrosse team faced SUNY Oswego on Tuesday, March 31 and were victorious by a score of 11-9. It was the team’s first game in State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) play and the win bumped the team’s record up to 2-3.

This was the Hawks first SUNYAC win on the road since defeating Buffalo State on April 20, 2001. It was the Hawks first game in 11 days.

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assists. Second-year attack Melissa Wagner was second on the team with three goals. Fourth-year co-Captain Jackie Ulanoff earned her second win of the season and notched a season-high 13 saves for the Hawks.

The team was scheduled to play against No. 17 SUNY Geneseo on Sunday, March 29 before the game was canceled due to inclimate weather. The game was rescheduled for Thursday, April 2 at Oneonta, a neutral site.

The softball team played in a non-conference doubleheader against The Sage Colleges on Tuesday, March 31.

Game one went into extra innings. A grand slam by The Sage Colleges’ first-year left fielder Alana Vandenburg in the eighth inning lifted the Gators over the Hawks in a final score of 15-12.

Fourth-year co-Captain Shayna Burgess went 3-5 with three runs batted in (RBIs) and three runs scored for the Hawks. Fourth-year first baseman and pitcher Erika Traina was 2-4 with four RBIs, a home run, and two runs scored,

while working six innings in the circle with three earned runs off eight hits with one strikeout in a no-decision.

The second game ended in the third inning due to darkness, with New Paltz up, 3-1. Due to the contest not meeting the minimum threshold for innings played, the game does not count.

The Hawks now have a record of 7-6. They next begin State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) play with a road doubleheader against SUNY Oneonta Friday, April 3.

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The New York Islanders have fallen from the top of the Metropolitan Division to a tie for second place with the Pittsburgh Penguins in the matter of a month.

Since my last column on March 12, the Isles have a record of 2-5-1.

They have hit a wall. They just have not played with the energetic passion that has lifted them until this point in the season. Yes, they have faced tough competition since then. However, that is no excuse.

At the midpoint of March, the Isles lost to the Ottawa Senators, Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Blackhawks consecutively. They scored only three goals total in those three games. That made it four consecutive games scoring one goal and a four-game losing streak dating back to the March 10 loss against the New York Rangers.

Newcomer Tyler Kennedy scored the only goal in the Ottawa game.

In the playoffs, I can only hope the Montreal Canadiens are not the first round matchup for the Isles.

They just cannot find a way to crack the Habs’ code.

The Isles faced the unfortunate test of playing three elite Western Conference teams consecutively at the end of March. Only earning one point playing three total games against the Minnesota Wild, Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks is just not going to cut it. The Isles have a record of 1-3-1 in one-goal games dating back to Friday, March 13. In one-goal games, the Isles went 254-4 in their first 33 such contests. To be a champion, a team has to show they could defeat teams from not only the Eastern Conference, but from the Western Conference as well.

A positive thing is, the Isles are keeping teams in-check. They are not getting blown out. These are certainly frustrating losses.

On Sunday, March 29, the Isles finally regrouped and earned a 5-4 win over the Detroit Red Wings. The power play came up huge, as the Isles

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centage in 27 games.

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March and scored three power-play goals for the first time all season.

With the win, the Isles snapped a three-game winless streak and a seven-game home winless streak. During the game, forward Matt Martin set a new NHL single-season hits record with 377.

Newcomer and Isles backup goaltender Michal Neuvirth has not played well. His record is 1-3-1 since his arrival on Long Island. Yes, backup goaltenders do not get much time between the pipes. The Isles have not been scoring, which is not helpful either. Somehow, the team is still fourth in the league in goals per game. While playing for the worst team in the league, the Buffalo Sabres, this season, Neuvirth put up a .918 save per-

ing from an injury and 20-game absence, he has compiled three points in nine games. His brightest game since then was scoring a goal and tallying five shots on goal in the 3-0 shutout win against the New Jersey Devils on March 21. That just is not enough contribution from a first-liner. Okposo has shown that he can be a crucial element to the Isles’ success. Hopefully he is back to full-form and regains his talent by the time the playoffs begin.

With five games remaining in the regular season, I can only hope the Isles wake up and realize that the playoffs are upon them. I am hoping they could win all five, especially playing the Sabres. The Philadelphia Flyers and Columbus Blue Jackets are not playoff-bound either, so pick-

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ing up points against these teams is crucial to regain confidence going into the postseason. I am confident they could finish strong during this final stretch. They have accomplished so much already this season. They are not just going to call it quits.

In order to win a Stanley Cup, a team has to be consistent all the way through the regular season and then put up more intensity throughout the playoffs. A team that wants to win the Stanley Cup will display that.

Islanders fans are getting frustrated and rightfully so. This is the same issue that the Isles have battled with for years now. They could convince fans that they are a more improved and changed team and play well for a time and just crash. A team cannot perform well throughout the early months of the regular season and crash during the later months and expect to clinch a high-ranking or even a playoff spot in general. Leadership in that dressing room needs to step it up and fast.

The team needs to work on the little details, and that will be an advantage over opponents. It would be devastating to watch this team go this far and not succeed in the playoffs.

I hope the Isles can clinch a playoff berth well before the final game of the regular season. Having home-ice advantage throughout the playoffs is a huge factor. This season especially, playing where it counts the most in front of all the fans in the final season the Isles will call the Nassau Coliseum home would be ideal. With the season these guys are having, clinching the playoffs is just not enough. In their last playoff appearance in 2013, the Isles made it as an eight-seed and were eliminated in the first round against the Penguins.

They have not won a playoff series since 1993. There is nothing I want to see more for the Isles than for a Stanley Cup to be paraded around Long Island before their move to Barclays Center in Brooklyn beginning next season.

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