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Parking frustration leads to over 500 likes on Facebook

Photos by Robin Lalisse

Above: A Lackmann worker weighs a tray of wasted food. Below: A tray of food from the total 139 pounds wasted for one lunch session.

STAFF WRITER ROBIN LALISSE

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SENIOR EDITOR BOB BARLOWrgb04522@sjfc.edu

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Lackmann adopts campaign: “Love Food, Not Waste”

Brian Roberts stands next to the sustainability motto for Lackmann.

Three bowls of wasted food, and a tub of milk and juice.

In November, 417 pounds of edible food was thrown out in a total of eight hours, according to data collected by Lackmann management at St. John Fisher College. The issue of food waste exists everywhere in the United States, even in Haffey Dining Hall at St. John Fisher College, where as much as one pound of edible food is being thrown out every minute during certain times of the day.

That figure comes directly from Lackmann Culinary Services Executive Chef Joel Kraft who has seen food waste become a growing problem on campus as plates full of slightly eaten and still edible food come across the conveyor belt to the kitchen every day.

“We live in an evolving society and sustainability has become a topic that many of us find important for our future,” Kraft said. “Additionally, our staff takes great pride providing quality food items that continue to aim at a high guest satisfaction. These reasons combined have again brought food waste back to the center of our plate for

discussion.”Kraft noted several incidents this semester

when he and his staff were receiving feedback from diners that the dining hall was running out of chicken wings, a Wednesday lunch special.

“We observed several plates of untouched wings being thrown away each Wednesday on our dish line,” Kraft said. “This further sparked our interest in quantifying what wasn’t being eaten and therefore wasted.”

Kraft said his initial concern was that the quality of food might not have been to the standards of the students, but found that to be false.

“Standing at the dish line, speaking with many of the guests dropping their food, plates and glasses, I found it to be the last reason food wasn’t finished on their plates,” he said. “The number one reason was that they took too much food and were full.”

Among just the chicken wing specials, 280 pounds were ordered each week with 30-35 pounds were thrown away untouched, a value of $75 a week, according to Kraft.

Lackmann Director Andrea Maccarone said that there haven’t been measurements in the past, but that this year’s amount of

Commuter and senior at St. John Fisher College, Timothy Crumley, posted his parking frustration on the college’s Facebook page. What he thought would be a small and relatively private conversation between him and the school, turned into a venting session between students, alumni and the school regarding the issue. When it was all said and done, more than 500 people clicked the “Like” button and many of those people commented and shared their own parking nightmares and possible solutions to the problem.

“At no point did I ever imagine the post would generate the response it did,” Crumley said. “The opinions expressed in that Facebook post don’t reflect a

convenience problem or a group of lazy commuters who dislike 10 minute walks from Park and Ride. Rather, they reflect the views of any student or professor who has experienced the frustration of arriving early to campus, still unable to find a parking spot.”

Crumley, like many students and faculty, is looking for a long-term solution to the problem, not just one that works for a semester or two.

In a statement, Dr. Rick DeJesús-Rueff, vice president for student affairs and diversity initiatives at Fisher, said that the college recognizes and appreciates students’ concerns regarding parking and that Fisher is working hard to accommodate student requirements, taking into account available resources.

“On one hand, there is a demand for upgraded academic facilities and a desire for

new recreational venues,” DeJesús-Rueff stated.

According to DeJesús-Rueff, the last few years have seen upgrades to Fisher’s library and the addition of a learning commons to better serve students. Construction is about to begin on an addition to the Wegmans School of Nursing and the Salerno Center for American Enterprise is under construction and will soon be home to Fisher’s many business and accounting students. Last year, the college added a new track and field complex ,along with seven new sports and a new practice field.

“Along with these upgrades and enhancements to the academic and student life of the college, we have built additional parking spaces to accommodate our growth,” DeJesús-Rueff stated. “Parking is an important part of the conversation about meeting campus needs, and it is considered

in the context of all of the needs which the college tries to meet.”

With respect to parking, DeJesús-Rueff says that Fisher appreciates everyone’s patience and cooperation as they work to address these concerns and that there is some relief in sight.

“When the new facilities building is complete in early spring, and the nursing addition and business building are complete in fall 2013, parking in those areas will be reconfigured and currently unavailable spaces will be restored,” he stated. “We will continue to examine options for increasing the number of parking spots as we also insure that needs that directly impact academic and student life at the College is also addressed.”

Michael McCarthy, director of safety

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St. John Fisher spotlights Indian culture at annual Day of Celebration

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Tables were set inside the Cleary Auditorium at St. John Fisher’s Kearney Hall this past Saturday to resemble a marketplace and public market in India where different types of cuisine from Jamaica, Spain, China, and India were all on display.

The day was indeed a day to celebrate and India was the theme for this year’s Day of Celebration at Fisher. The goal of the free event was to not just celebrate, but to promote social diversity.

There were display tables by various clubs and organizations. Some of them were the Asian Student Union, the Black Student Union, the Latino Student Union and the Muslim Student Association. Each table featured arts and crafts that were “make it and take it.”

Different dance routines were put on by Arts in Motion, Bollywood Dance Mania, dance with Frances Hare, Banghra Dance, and Panama Dance Group. Music ranged from Indian classical instrumental music to Indian drums.

Muhammad Bawany, a senior with a duel major in Religious Studies, and Biology, was one of the co-chairs of the event.

“From this event you can really take some

knowledge away about a different culture and traditions,” Bawany said. “That’s our goal.”

Bawany is also the president of the Muslim Student Association and a member of the Student Government Association

“To spread a culture that in general, people are unfamiliar about is an accomplishment,” he said.

The day of celebration is a commemoration of embracing cultures and customs throughout the world. For the past 13 years, the Fisher community has embraced these cultures scattered throughout the globe and at home in the United States.

India, chosen for this year’s celebration, is a subcontinent of South Asia and countries including Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh border the country.

India was a former British colony until 1947 and currently is home to over 1.2 billion citizens, the second largest population in the world next to China. Mohandas Gandhi, perhaps India’s most famous citizen, was a non-violent civil activist who led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world. Hinduism and Buddhism are the major religions of India, but other religions such as Islam and Christianity are also practiced.

Being the holiday season, the Day of Celebration also showcased celebrations from a number of races, traditions, and

cultures. These traditions include C h r i s t m a s , Hanukkah, Three Kings, Kwanzaa, Ramadan and Chinese New Year. Santa Claus even made a surprise visit to the celebration.

Rita Hill, a senior and A n t h r o p o l o g y major, is the president of S u s t a i n e d Dialogue.

“This is a great o p p o r t u n i t y for not only the Fisher community, but the Rochester community to embrace different cultures, and

traditions,” she

said. “This is an opportunity to be proud of your heritage, and to embrace others heritage as well.”

Cultures celebrated in previous years include the cultures of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and Ethiopia.

Kaelen Austin, a senior with a concentration in Psychology is the other co-chair of this year’s event.

“The process takes a long time to develop,” said Austin. “We begin the process around August and there is no specific process on how we choose a country as a theme, or focus. The faculty, staff and students put an exorbitant amount of time and energy to make the Day of Celebration possible.”

This year’s celebration was treated to exotic music and dances as the whole auditorium was filled with excitement and joy. With more than 500 people in attendance, the 13th- annual Day of Celebration was yet another memorable moment for St. John Fisher College.

After the festivities in Cleary, the celebration continued with a Kwanzaa Dinner Ceremony, which was located on the Campus Center main stage.

Kwanzaa is based on the African tradition, or African-American and Canadian American culture that celebrates a mixture of culminating ideological core principles. The purpose of Kwanzaa is to celebrate a successful harvest. Kwanzaa is observed on

Dec. 26 and ends on Jan. 1.Dr. Christine Birnie, an associate

professor and chair of the School of Pharmacy talked a little bit about her commitment to not only India, but people who are less fortunate around the world.

“I have a great heart for India,” said Birnie who has previously traveled with Fisher students to India on a “medical mission.”

This mission was to provide free medical treatment that not only provided medical care, but dental and eye care as well for the people of India. Throughout the mission, Fisher students conducted screenings to detect diabetes and hypertension. The group also talked about health education to patients on various topics including sanitation, dental hygiene and the H1N1 virus.

All patients received multi-vitamins and all dental patients received a toothbrush with toothpaste. Other medical missions take place each with students visiting different countries including the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Kenya.

If you are interested in being a part of next year’s Day of Celebration, contact the Multicultural Affairs and Diversity office’s Yantee Slobert at yslobert@sjfc.edu, or Juana Vega at jvega@sjfc.edu, or diversity@sjfc.edu. You can also stop by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and Diversity office located in Basil 117, across from the Sport Management offices. Photo spread on page 11.Day of Celebration dancer.

Photos by Julia Laude

Day of Celebration dancers. Photos by Julia Laude

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wasted food was alarming enough that it needed to be tracked.

“It’s always been there,” said Maccarone. “Can we say it’s worse? I don’t think we can state that because we don’t have any information to benchmark, and that’s why we are going to have to start a benchmark because we kept seeing a lot of untouched pieces this year.”

Maccarone said that fresh whole fruit and plain yogurt, for example, are many times totally untouched on diners’ trays but still sent to be thrown out.

“The chefs are catching those and they are getting upset because they pour their heart and soul into making everything and are seeing a lot being thrown out,” she said. “At the deli, especially towards January when people start cutting their calories because they have gone through the holiday season, some people are taking a sandwich and eating only half because they are finding other things.”

Maccarone said she wants students and faculty to have a great dining experience and to enjoy the food offered in the dining hall, but she also would like diners to be mindful of how much they can put in their stomach.

“We certainly want diners to enjoy the food, but enjoy what you put on the plate and what you can eat because then you can always go back,” Maccarone said.

Lackmann has taken measures to make sure it is wasting as little food as possible on its end.

Brian Roberts, food service manager for Lackmann, said that Lackmann’s own leftover food is tracked as well, and that in order to reduce its own waste, food items that before were cooked to an estimate of how much would be eaten for a dinner service are instead made per batch as needed.

Some leftovers can be reused, as Roberts said that some extra food is able to be reutilized in casserole, while Kraft said extra grilled chicken can be used in soup production.

But, Lackmann’s biggest waste management project is beginning soon, according to Maccarone.

“All of our waste actually goes to the dumpsters, and about 14 tons of garbage is going out of here a month,” said Maccarone. “We try to minimize it because its way overboard, so we’re going to in January instill this organics program with the college so that we’re taking any food, a lot of the paper towels, and they are going to make compost out of this.”

Maccarone said this type of thinking “green” and thinking ahead is something that the University of Rochester already does, making Fisher the second college in the area to work on this program.

and security for St. John Fisher College, agrees with DeJesús-Rueff and believes that the end result of the college’s continued expansion will be more parking solutions for students and faculty.

According to McCarthy, the construction will help Fisher gain approximately 40 parking spots during next semester and an additional 60 spaces by next year.

“Hope is on the horizon,” he said.McCarthy has the unenviable task of

being in charge of the snow removal process on campus during the winter months and works hard to make sure the white stuff doesn’t have a drastic impact on parking.

“We try and work off of the actual

conditions and not predictions seen on television or heard on the radio,” McCarthy said.

According to McCarthy, when flurries are in the air and on the ground, Fisher grounds crew come in at approximately 2 a.m. to start clearing the snow.

“The goal is to have the parking lots and all primary sidewalks and paths clear by the start of classes in the morning,” said McCarthy. “We try to do the same for afternoon and evening classes but it’s always difficult because snow never comes at an assigned time.”

Matthew Turner , president of the Student Government Association (SGA), understands that parking at Fisher situation is an extremely complex issue and that there are a variety of perspectives on the issue and

they must all be considered when thinking of solutions to the issue.

“ S G A believes that there are s u f f i c i e n t spaces, however the current parking system creates a lot of frustration because such a high number of people spend a significant amount of time circling the main parking lots for spaces rather than driving straight to the overflow lots.” Turner said. “ We have tried outreach programs to help educate and encourage students to take advantage of these overflow lots right away, rather than e x t e n s i v e l y searching for a

Parking frustrationcloser spot.”

According to Turner, at this time, the SGA does not feel that they have been as successful as they would like at addressing the parking issue with students, but are planning several different programs to try next semester to better address the issue.

According to Turner, over the last few years, the SGA has had extensive discussions with various college committees and in meetings with different levels of administration to try and address the problem but many of the proposed s o l u t i o n s , building a parking garage or the purchase of Park and Ride, are not feasible,” Turner said. “SGA believes that the short term solution is to help better educate the SJFC community so that more drivers understand the convenience of parking in the overflow lots, rather than searching through the constantly full main lots.”

Editor’s note: Clarifying Facts about St. John Fisher College Parking from SGA:

The college added 104 parking spots to the Murphy Hall parking lots during the summer of 2012.

There are sufficient spaces for the anticipated number of registered cars on campus at any given time.

Overflow parking lots should not be forgotten. These lots include Park and Ride, Murphy Hall, and the Alesi Academic Center.

The walk from Park and Ride to LeChase Commons and the academic corridor averages between 10 and 15 minutes.

No spaces for faculty/staff parking in Lot A (in front of the Wegmans School of Pharmacy and the Skalny Science Center) were added for the 2012-2013 school year.

The campus shuttle is on a schedule (available on-line at http://www.sjfc.edu/dotAsset/97269.pdf). SGA will be further investigating complaints about the timing and delays to this schedule. Any further issues with the shuttle should be referred to Safety and Security or SGA.

In compliance with local ordinances and code requirements imposed by the Town of Pittsford and New York State, the construction of a parking garage and the addition of a crosswalk by the Alesi building are not feasible at this time.

Lackmann campaignIn August, the National Resources

Defense Council’s food and agriculture program said in a study that Americans discard 40 percent of the food supply every year, a value of $165 Billion. The study also said there has been a 50 percent jump in food waste since the 1970’s.

Lackmann has been the Fisher food service provider since 2008, and in those few years, Kraft has seen a lot of enhancements to the service and hopes helping control food waste will be the next.

“I’ve experienced many positive changes to our dining services including quality chefs, food quality, local purchasing and variety, just to name a few,” Kraft said. “Many of these changes have come to light through student and guest comments or associate suggestions.”

Kraft said that a solution to the problem of food waste in the dining hall is a bit different because so many factors, including food preparation techniques, ingredient quality, seasonality, over production and guest waste, all contribute to the complexity of the issue.

“Each factor requires a unique approach to better suit its minimization,” Kraft said. “Having taken many of these thoughts into consideration, we have continually improved many facets of our operation that otherwise may have been looked over or saved for another day to resolve.”

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Happy Hol iday s !

-The Cardinal Courier Team

We would like to wish you and your families a very safe and happy holiday!

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NijaQuinn-Linton Staff Writernq02766@sjfc.edu

Christmas too commercializedSamanthaReynolds Staff Writersjr02930@sjfc.edu

Trusting starlight, To get where they need to be.”

“When it seems that we have lost our way...We find ourselves again on Christmas Day. Believe in what your heart is saying,Hear the melody that’s playing There’s no time to waste, There’s so much to celebrate. Be-lieve in what you feel inside, And give your dreams the wings to fly. You have everything you need, if you just believe.”

What believing in magic means does not solely relate to the gifts and the commercial-ism of the extension of the holiday season; it means that it should be more important to spend the holidays healthy and happy with the ones you care about, rather than the expenses of new technolo-gies and desires. It should be more important to make a memory and carry on the traditions of your family’s Christmas. Whether the traditions are going out and buying a tree, taking the artificial one out of the attic and decorating it, or just spending the night at home baking cookies - it is the spirit of Christmas that should be around, not the tangible ob-jects and insincere gestures. “If you just believe. If you just be-lieve. If you just believe...just believe...just believe.”

-The Po-lar Ex-press

A l -though times have

changed and y e a r s have passed, there is still hope that on Christmas Day, everyone will be remind-ed what the holidays are really about.

At the start of the year, it may appear that retailers have begun a new strategy to e n - tice consumers to shop and spend

their hard-earned cash. It may also appear that New Year’s Day sales have become more prevalent over the past sev-eral years. This is the starting

point for holiday shopping for retailers. It begins with New

Year’s Day, and from there we have Easter, Moth-

er’s Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and all the other “small” holi-days in between each of these major ones.

This all leads up to the one great big

holiday shop-ping fixation known as Christmas.

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w h a t n a -

tion-ality or religion o n e may be, retailers have increasingly

marketed the holiday season. Retailers have become more and more clever with their

What is Christmas even about anymore? What once was a time spent with family and friends, has now become a time to shop for things. Tangible items and electronics have become more important than the faith and magic behind Christmas. The magic that once was enough to just believe, has now become what more and more children grow out of at a younger age

The need and the want for things that have nothing to do with Christmas is what has commercialized Christmas. The extra effort to get something special for a loved one has turned into a worry of a gift not being good enough and the thought of it being returned. For those who have not seen the movie “The Polar Express,” it is about what it takes to just believe. Without believing in the magic of Christmas, it loses its importance.

“Children, sleeping. Snow is softly fall-ing. Dreams are calling, Like bells in the distance. We were dreamers, Not so long ago. But one by one, we All had to grow up. When it seems the magic slipped away... We find it all again on Christmas Day.”

Christmas seems to come earlier and ear-lier every year now. The 25 days of Christ-mas television specials have now become a 25 day countdown to the 25 day countdown on the ABC Family channel. It has now turned into 50 full days of Christmas hype. Along with the 50 days of specials comes the advertisements and the gift ideas, along with more and more Christmas traditions being pushed forward. There was a time when Christmas decorations were not on store shelves or in people’s homes until after Thanksgiving. Now, with the earlier holiday season, what used to be treasured and spe-cial has become less important. Christmas music should strictly be a seasonal thing. Black Friday sales are now starting Thurs-day night and continue through Cyber Monday. The magic of Christmas is los-ing its value because of the time period it occupies which is now much longer than it used to be.

“Believe in what your heart is say-ing, Hear the melody that’s playing. There’s no time to waste, There’s so much to celebrate.

Believe in what you feel inside, Give your dreams the wings to fly. You have everything you need, if you just believe.”

To a 5-year-old, Christ-mas appears to be a lot dif-ferent than to a teenager or an adult. Not that it has lost its value completely, but the magic of Christmas and Santa Claus is not quite the same and it affects the holiday season. For many teenagers, a letter to Santa and the milk and cookies left out on Christmas Eve has been replaced with wish lists, money and wants rather than needs. Instead of waking up on Christmas morning grateful for the handful of gifts under the tree, there is now a want for more and more expensive items.

“Trains move quickly To their journey’s end. Destinations... Are where we begin again. Ships go sailing, Far across the sea.

tactics, and so have the media as well. The idea of shopping for a particular holiday may not seem like a gimmick, but if it is pitched as an event not to be missed, it ap-pears more enticing to consumers. People want to be a part of an event. People like to say “I was there.”

The Friday after Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday, and that is when most re-tailers in the country begin to turn a profit for the year. Black Friday has been the big-gest shopping day of the year for several years now. It is a day that retailers antici-pate and prepare all year for. People young and old are participants as the Thanksgiv-ing weekend has been transformed from a time to give thanks into one big promotional event.

Retailers have found that consumers are excited about events, not just the sales. Al-though there are many good sales that can be found during the weekend of Black Fri-day and Cyber Monday, most of the crowds are there to participate in the spectacle of it all.

This Black Friday, Wal-Mart stores ad-vertised a 60-inch television for $998.99; Cyber Monday saw deals such as Toys “R” Us offering toys up to 40 percent off. In to-day’s economy, no one can argue that it is not beneficial for consumers to be bargain conscious and it is just as beneficial for retailers to offer bargains. For some of the most anticipated items such as the iPad mini and iMac, Apple is expecting to experience a shipping shortage into the early part of 2013, according to www.cnet.com.

Although new devices such as the iPad mini were not released until the later part of 2012, retailers are aware of the “craze” that these devices can bring about and set the timing of these releases for the holiday season. Some consumers may not mind that they have to wait for their new device just as long as they know they have ordered it. However, one has to wonder if this is what holidays are really all about?

Is shopping for ourselves and others re-ally showing the holiday spirit? Moreover, does it really matter if Santa Claus doesn’t bring us everything that was on our list? One might argue the answer to these ques-tions is no.

Perhaps if, as a nation and a collective world, the true spirit of the holiday season, were to be re-examined and publicized, these types of shopping events wouldn’t mean so much to the public as they do now. In all honesty, there are families that only have the spirit of the holidays to give and receive from one another. Yes, there are many foundations, programs and volunteers that as-sist needy families during this time of year, but the spirit of shopping should not overshadow the true spirit of the holidays.

This year, Black Friday was pushed into what is now being called “Grey Thursday” as stores such as Target and Best Buy opened their doors to eager shoppers on Thanksgiving night. One has to really won-der if, in a few more years,

Thanksgiving will no longer be a holiday that is observed as a

significant holiday.As we, the student body at

St. John Fisher College, push our way through finals week and

further into the holiday season, let us not forget the true meaning of this time of year. It is okay to be the best Santa Claus we can be to the ones we love. However, let us be aware to experience the love that this season is all about.

These Props & Drops were agreed upon by the Cardinal Courier staff. Please send your ideas for next issue’s Props & Drops to CardinalCourier@sjfc.edu.

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Props to NASA for finding water on Mercury. Who would’ve thought we

would find water on the planet right next to the Sun.#Mercuryh2o

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Props to Campus Security for their Christmas spirit - they just put up

their own tree this year. #xmas2012

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Props to Christmas Break being just around the corner. We could all use

a little time off. #xmas2012

➜ Drops to what comes along with Christmas break, finals. Let’s all get

through this! #break2012

➜ Drops to John McAfee, creator of McAfee antivirus, for being a

wanted suspect in a murder case and for dropping the “F” bomb on live tele-vision. #majordrop

➜ Drops to schools in N.Y. for the use of abusive disciplinary methods. In

some states unruly students have been tasered, stuffed into duffle bags, or made to sit in windowless rooms for over six hours at a time.

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Political Cartoon

Cartoonist Mike Magnarelli

TimothyCrumley Guest Essayisttsc06249@sjfc.edu

Parking on the St. John Fisher College campus is one of many issues that impacts commuters, residents, faculty and other members of the Fisher community. These are diverse groups with different interests; however, the issue of parking affects them all.

Some have proposed solutions that ben-efit just one of these groups. Such solutions have been tried and implemented, such as taking parking away from residents and giving those spots to commuters. While I, as a commuter, may prefer to have my car parked closer to the school, I believe my fel-low residents have the same right. I do not want their parking spot; I want enough park-ing spaces for everyone.

Earlier this week, I initiated a lively Face-book discussion about parking. At no point did I ever imagine the post would generate the response it did. The opinions expressed in that Facebook post reflect not a “conve-nience problem,” or a group of lazy com-muters who dislike 10 minute walks from Park and Ride. Rather, they reflect those of any student or professor who has expe-rienced the frustration of arriving early to campus, while still unable to find a parking spot. Again, we commuters are only one of many groups that have been adversely af-fected by the parking problem. As a com-munity, how can we solve this?

First, faculty must get involved, and for this to happen they must feel it is safe to do so. Despite both professors and admin-istrators alike slapping me on the back the morning following my Facebook post, not one of them clicked “Like.” Not one com-mented, shared or expressed support outside of private conversation. When I encouraged a professor, who had previously shared a parking story with me, to tell the Student

It goes beyond a single parking spotGovernment Association (SGA) and the ad-ministration, they informed me that wasn’t an option. The professor was concerned about the security of their paycheck, and felt that speaking up could jeopardize their em-ployment. Another told me not to tell any-one they had been keeping up with my Face-book post because they didn’t want to upset the college. This perception, and the lack of feedback it has led to, is a dangerous one. It leaves me wondering what other and more important issues we have at Fisher that fac-ulty allow to continue out of fear. Moreover, what issues permeate colleges and universi-ties nationwide that go unnoticed because of this culture of silence?

So what can a student, or faculty member, do to help fix this issue and others we have? The school would tell students to go to SGA to express concerns you may have. What is your knee-jerk reaction to this?

As U.S. Citizens, we have an inherit dis-trust of government. It was this idea that we were founded on, and for good reasons. However, today we display this distaste on both a national level and an institution level. We don’t trust SGA, or the school adminis-tration, to get anything done. This was why I used Facebook to raise my issue in the first place. I didn’t go to the SGA office, I didn’t contact the Commuter Council and I didn’t go to student affairs. I felt these channels would lead nowhere, and countless faculty, friends, and administrators had reinforced this belief. As students and faculty, we don’t relate to them. We don’t believe they always have our interests in mind, and we see them as a continuation of an administration that does not listen. Whether or not this reflects reality, this perception is alive and doing very well and likely persists in campuses nationwide. That being said, I want more for St. John Fisher.

Following my post, SGA’s president Matt Turner reached out to me. He set up a meet-ing to speak with me, and asked me to use the school’s channels as a way to address this problem. During our meeting, he de-scribed SGA’s attempts to reach out to Fish-er students. He outlined past and current efforts to fix the parking problem, among others. Furthermore, he spoke to me with

an open mind, and listened as I described to him what students and faculty on the ground think of parking, SGA and the school ad-ministration in general. He looked me in the eye, and shared his and SGA’s desire to connect with the Fisher community, and to solve its problems. What is unfortunate is that the Fisher community, as a whole, does not know people like Matt. In fact, I would venture to guess a significant number of Fisher faculty and students, especially commuters, wouldn’t know to talk to SGA or any of the other councils if they hadn’t read this article. How do I know this? I was one of those students.

In my meeting with the SGA, I made mul-tiple suggestions. My first suggestion would be to involve SGA, to advertise senate meetings, Q-and-A seminars, and ways for students to get involved if they have ques-tions or concerns through effective means, such as lawn signs. If SGA has solutions to problems such as parking, then I suggest they advertise them wherever, and however, possible, given this is such a hot button is-sue. Furthermore, such meetings need to be accessible to all of those at Fisher. They could be held at Cyber Café at 12:20 p.m. on a Tuesday, in the Pharmacy lobby early Monday morning, or in the Pioch café for a Wednesday lunch. If SGA can’t afford to reach out this much, then this message is further directed to the Fisher administration. To the extent you already have, I ask you to empower and support your student govern-ment.

Fisher is trying to be accommodating to both dorm living and commuter travel stu-dents. If you think this is asking a lot, re-member that Fisher is a collection of groups and academic lifestyles. For instance, some of us have attended Student Activity Board (SAB) events, some of us live in dorms, and some of us participate on one or more of Fisher’s popular and successful sport teams. Then there are those of us who work off campus, those of us who live in an apart-ment downtown and commute in, and those of us who can only make it to Cyber Café for lunch. Then there are those of us who have participated in both worlds. The needs of all these different groups within the St. John

Fisher community should be addressed, so that all voices are heard.

Additionally, I ask Safety and Security to work on improving relations with stu-dents in general. My personal experience with them has been mixed. I have spoken to some who are very personable, helpful, and clearly serving to protect me and the Fisher community. I have also dealt with some and heard of some who display the opposite characteristics. So, if there really are enough spots for parking, and if they really do ex-ist in Park and Ride and Lot D, please don’t tell a student instead to drive around for an hour, and present this argument as though it is reasonable and obvious. Please don’t al-low a pregnant student to feel as though she is being unreasonable if she inquires about more convenient parking, especially when her due date is clearly around the corner. It is this callous tone that leads to popular Facebook posts and negative media atten-tion. With that being said, we as the Fisher community need to give this department the benefit of the doubt when possible, for they are ultimately there to protect us.

And finally, if SGA does reach out, and they take the initiative to get up close and personal with the Fisher community, and if they listen and work on behalf of its students in a way that is clear and obvious to all of us, then it is on us, the average Fisher students and faculty, to have faith in SGA and to get involved. I am not at all suggesting that they will actually do any of this, nor am I sug-gesting they haven’t tried already. What I am saying is that more should be done. I’m pointing out a confidence gap within our Fisher community, and it will only be after ameliorating this gap that we will feel as-sured everything is being done to address our concerns and complaints.

Reflecting upon this issue, the words of John F. Kennedy resonated with me. “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” I ask that all members of the St. John Fisher com-munity keep these words in mind, and work together to deal with current and future problems on our campus. Editor’s note: you can see the original facebook posting in its entirety on page 3

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What are your plans for Christmas break?

To see “Les Misérables” in theaters.

Tim GaganSophomoreBiology/Pre-MedTroy, N.Y.

Work and save up some money.

Desiree LindermanSophomorePsychologyBuffalo, N.Y.

Cuddle with my dog and watch hockey with my family.

George HuylerJuniorPsychologyEast Amherst, N.Y.

Work a lot and go to New York City with my family.

Leah BitettiUndergraduateAccountingSyracuse, N.Y.

Packing for my trip to L.A.

Chris SkoviraSeniorApplied Information TechnologyMeridale, N.Y.

Working at Wegmans and going to see family in Syracuse.

Emmalyn EruysalSophomoreBusiness ManagementRochester, N.Y.

Going skiing, frequently.

Tom LehstenSeniorBiology/EducationOrchard Park, N.Y.

Sit back with a good book and just relax.

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Brittany Wood Staff Writerbmw07535@sjfc.edu

Getting our priorities straight

I don’t really spend much time wondering if LeBron James is a better basketball player than Michael Jordan, if Barry Bonds should be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, or if Wayne Gretzky’s record for most career regular season goals will ever be broken. Now don’t get me wrong, I love sports just as much as the next girl but I would never call myself a dedicated fan.

That being said, I am fed up with mil-lionaire players and billionaire team owners arguing over a few measly bucks resulting in lockouts, blown calls by replacement ref-erees and in some cases, the cancelation of an entire season.

In the U.S., we have seen a large number of lockouts in just the past 20 years. These include MLB in the 1990 offseason, the NBA in the 1995 and 1996 offseasons, and the 1998–99 and 2011–12 seasons, the NHL in the 1994–95 and 2004–05 seasons, and the NFL in the 2011 offseason.

In 2005, the NHL became the first major professional sports league in North America to cancel an entire season due to a lockout and, it appears, here we are again. Hockey fans are having withdrawals and the sports fans are shaking their heads in disbelief as the NHL is on the verge of canceling yet another season. The league has suspended seasons before over disputes between play-

ers and team owners and the issue that al-ways seems to be at the heart of the matter is money.

NHL players make an average annual salary of $2.4 million. To put this into per-spective, the average teacher makes just $41,000 a year. Does anyone else notice the egregious discrepancy here? Please tell me it bothers you too.

As a functioning member of society, I cannot begin to comprehend how we have come to value professional athletes more than teachers, or doctors and nurses for that matter. Yes, professional athletes work hard, oftentimes give back to their communities and can be inspiring. But, what are they con-tributing to society, entertainment? I find it absurd that we pay exorbitant amounts of money to simply be entertained while there are those who do incredibly thankless jobs for next to no pay at all.

Now I’m not saying do away with pro-fessional sports completely because I love my Boston teams dearly. But, I think that not one single player deserves more than a $100,000 a year to hit a ball, catch a pass, or score a goal. You might respond to all of my complaints with the simple fact that “life is not fair,” and that is completely true. But, I still hold this vain hope for the evolution of society and that we can evaluate our beliefs and maybe, just maybe, correct them.

In the near future, I hope that NHL play-ers and owners can come to some sort of agreement before yet another hockey season is lost. More importantly, I look forward to the day when we, as a society, will no longer tolerate millionaire athletes quibbling over a drop in pay when they already see more wealth in a month than most Americans will see in their entire lives.

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Lifestyles

On Friday, Nov. 16, Fisher Players intro-duced the well-known and loved play “Lit-tle Shop of Horrors” to audiences at St. John Fisher College.

Based on 1960 film of the same title, “Lit-tle Shop of Horrors” has since evolved into successful musical and major film adapta-tions.

The story centers on Seymour Krelborn, a nerdy young man and an orphan living in a run-down part of town, also called skid row. Seymour works in a flower shop, where he works alongside his tacky love interest, Au-drey, and his irritable boss, Mr. Mushnik.

The flower shop is on the verge of closing, that is, until Seymour introduces a strange plant that arrived in the midst of an eclipse of the sun. Given his love for Audrey, Sey-mour names the odd plant “Audrey II.”

The plant becomes the shop’s savior and soon after placing the plant in the store’s window, business is booming. However,

Seymour begins to notice that Audrey II doesn’t appear to thrive in its new home although he takes adequate care of it daily. One day, after pricking his finger on a thorn, Seymour begins to bleed and Audrey II be-gins to yearn. Seymour then learns that the key to Audrey II’s survival is blood — hu-man blood.

The most surprisingly, well-done compo-nent of Fisher’s rendition of the story, di-rected by sophomore Cole Lachance-Tofa-ny, was the portrayal of Audrey II, the sassy talking plant. The life-sized version of Au-drey II, accompanied with the perfect voice to match thanks to senior Chris Skovira, stole the show. Once Audrey II opened its pods in order to speak, the oversized plant’s baritone voice and feisty pleas for human blood filled the auditorium with laughter from the audience.

Along with Skovira’s voicing of Audrey II, the other main characters were genuinely played to match their on screen counter-parts.

The nerdy and shy, yet lovable, demean-

or of Seymour was rightfully captured by sophomore Vince Ippolito. His awkward walk, hesitance and even his unsteady voice were masterful throughout the show.

Of course, there can’t be the awkward yet lovable Seymour without his less-than-classy love interest Audrey, played by ju-nior Megan Ryan. Ryan’s performance of Seymour’s scantily dressed co-worker was perfected with the nasally voice so familiar among fans of the musical or movie.

Along with Audrey is her abusive boy-friend, and sadistic dentist, Orin Scrivello, played by junior TJ Nervina. Nervina flaw-lessly channeled the leather jacket wearing sadist’s rage and undeniable humor, espe-cially through his musical performances. While singing the musical number “Den-tist,” Scrivello’s performance could be matched to his on screen counterpart, Steve Martin, as he shamelessly terrorized patients and explained why his sadistic demeanor made him the perfect dentist.

The rest of the supporting cast members also added to the liveliness of the show.

Freshman Joe LePenna gave an impressive performance as Seymour’s grumpy boss Mr. Mushnik. In the awkward yet hilari-ous musical number “Mushnik and Son,” Mr. Mushnik and Seymour engage in an odd song-and-dance to celebrate their new father-son relationship.

The trio of skid row singers, played by sophomores Andee-Sue Clark, Devon Knapp and Alyssa Joy, continuously com-mented on and emphasized the scenes throughout the play – all the while comple-menting the leading characters. Although their performances didn’t entirely convey the sass of those by their on screen coun-terparts, actresses Tisha Campbell-Martin, Tichina Arnold, and Michelle Weeks, the ladies had just the right amount of attitude to match the skid row setting.

Overall, the performances of the ensemble cast made for an entertaining and hilarious show. With the ingenuity, liveliness, and of course the hilarity of the show’s perfor-mances, Fisher Player’s rendition of “Little Shop of Horrors” was a definite success.

Great cast of horrors comes to campus

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Fisher sophomore Vince Ippolito plays the role of nerdy Seymore Krelborn. Photo by Elise Sielski

Sophomore Vince Ippolito speaks to talking plant voiced by senior Chris Skovira.

Junior TJ Nervina plays the role of the sadistic dentist, Orin Scrivello.

Sophomores Anndee-Sue Clark, Devon Knapp, and Alyssa Joy play a trio of singers.

Photo by Elise Sielski

Photo by Elise Sielski Photo by Elise Sielski

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Girl on Fire■■ ARTIST: Alicia Keys

■■ TOP TRACKS: “Brand New Me” and “Tears Always Win”

■■ CRITIC’S RATING:

■■ 4

(OUT OF 5 STARS)

“This girl is on fire”

Since releasing her last album three years ago, many things have changed in Alicia Keys’ life and those changes, chronicled on her fifth studio album, “Girl on Fire,” just might make you shed a tear.

Keys, 31, is now married to record pro-ducer and rapper Swizz Beatz, and she’s also a new mom. On “Fire,” the legendary R&B songstress showcases a different side to her music, or maybe it’s just the new Keys. The album’s songs vary from her old stylings of soul, to ones that integrate completely new sounds with some bodacious beats provided by her husband, with an added reggae flare sprinkled in. There are moments on “Fire” when Keys effectively shows off her classi-cal training and yet there are other moments when she takes a stab at things a bit different with melodic twists and odd chords. “Fire” definitely offers something different than what many listeners are used to.

This change is unleashed right off the bat with the track “Brand New Me.” Keys relies on the simplistic roots of her old R&B style and a beautifully smooth piano melody to deliver one of the best tracks on the album. “Brand New Me” paints a stunningly honest picture of the singers, then and now. The message serves as a proclamation to critics who may not always approve of the changes in Keys’ life, whether it is her career or her personal life.

Keys shows off another very personal side with the next track on the album, “When It’s All Over.” At the tail end of the song, Keys’ son, Egypt, makes a surprise feature with some babyish banter back and forth with his good ol’ mom. This little anecdote might

annoy some of her serious listeners since her “I have a family now” message is a bit over the top in some ways. I just think it’s sort of cute.

Of course one can’t avoid the title track “Girl on Fire,” which managed to work its way to number 22 on the top 100 before the album’s release. Although the track has cer-tainly made its way around the radio circuit, it doesn’t convincingly capture the title of “best track” for this record. While it is cer-tainly a great anthem with the assistance of fellow singer Nicki Minaj, it doesn’t seem to hold true to the Keys we know and love. The track seems like a reach for radio play and doesn’t hold true to the singer’s classic sound.

A contender for best track honors how-ever is “Tears Always Win,” a lyrical and production collaboration between Keys and singer-songwriter Bruno Mars. The song pays homage to the old Motown sound and shows how that signature sound can trans-form a tragic tale of heartbreak into some-thing somewhat cheerful. The collaboration with Mars, along with some other notable influences from Jamie Foxx, Frank Ocean, and Emeli Sande, allow this album to pursue completely different styles simultaneously, which is exactly what we expect from the genre-bending songstress.

“Girl on Fire” proves that the only thing needed from Keys to command attention from a listener is her powerful voice and a decent hook. This is accomplished by the smooth melodies of “Brand New Me” and “Tears Always Win” but it can be overdone with the pounding of “New Day” and “Girl on Fire.” Keys may have grown up a bit since we’ve last heard from her, but “Fire” is still classic Keys and is arguably one of the top R&B records of 2012. This girl is most certainly on fire.

STAFF WRITER BRETT VERGARA

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Where has the time gone? It seems like it was only last week that I was obsessively glancing at my schedule to make sure I was heading to the right class at the right time in the right building.

The change from living at home with my parents to living with two people who were almost strangers, wasn’t as difficult as I had imagined it could have been. Whenever it did seem overwhelming, I would always re-mind myself that I wasn’t the only one who was having trouble assimilating. At the be-ginning of September, most freshmen were faced with the similar challenge of making new friends.

Most upperclassmen and adults would say to get involved in a club or various activi-ties. Not surprisingly, they would be right. It became easier to make friends outside of a serious classroom setting and surrounded by people with similar interests. But, even going to evens on your floor, every now and then, made it a lot easier to talk to people living on your floor. I would personally much rather have small talk while eating ice cream in the lounge, than in an awkwardly overcrowded laundry room on a Sunday af-ternoon.

Luckily classes weren’t nearly as hor-rendous as my highs school teachers had made it seem. But in the same respect, they required a bigger time commitment than my lazy self had hoped for. Classes were longer, as was the homework, but it wasn’t terrible. I have come away from this semester with a lot more knowledge than I had come in with. From the mythical origin of the yam to the ability to psychoanalyze other students on what developmental phase Sigmund Freud would say they’re stuck in.

STAFF WRITER ERICA MAEDEReem02263@sjfc.edu

But, there is something that stands above grades and classes - the food. Rumors circu-lating the school have always claimed that St. John Fisher College had one of the best dining halls around. I found that the rumors were somewhat true. For an omnivore, the dining hall offers more than enough taste-ful options to have a different and enjoyable meal every night of the week. But for a veg-etarian, the selection of delicious meat-free foods is rather lacking. Overall though, I think Lackmann Culinary Services caters to the needs and tastes of most students.

If students are not in the mood for our dining hall, there is a Wegmans not too far away that is relatively easy to access on the weekends but throughout the rest of the week it becomes difficult to get anywhere off campus. In my opinion, this is both a positive and negative of Fisher. Being sepa-rate from the busier areas of East Rochester gives me a better sense of security and con-fidence that not too many suspicious people will wonder on through our campus.

On the flip side, I dislike having to walk a half-hour to relax beside the Erie Canal. This is especially true in the fall, when there are nice days to go on walks but there isn’t enough time to actually get anywhere. This is of course not counting the nature trail be-hind the baseball fields because although they are scenic, but don’t go anywhere ex-cept a big circle.

All in all, the first semester of college has been a different experience than I originally thought it might be. But, it was pleasant in the sense that the classes have become more interesting and I have more free time to be independent of my parents. Whether I’m us-ing my free time to finish an essay due in an hour, or walking the nature trail behind the baseball field with a couple of friends, I find that my first semester has been an overall positive experience and I look forward to the spring.

College is all it’s cracked up to be and more

Upcoming Diversity Events

National Coalition Building Institute’s Men RetreatDecember 69:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Gateway Mid-level

Christmas BreakDecember 16 - January 13Classes Resume Monday January 148:00 a.m.

Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. CelebrationJanuary 2111:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.Cleary Auditorium

Student RetreatJanuary 263:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.Wilson Formal and Campus Center Main stage

Cultural Awareness in the Health Care Pro-fessionFebruary 611:15 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.Basil 135 and Gateway Mid-level

Safe Zone Training: BeginnerFebruary 126:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Gateway Mid-level

Safe Zone Training: AdvancedFebruary 1312:30 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.Gateway Mid-level

Frederick Douglass Ireland ConferenceFebruary 229:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.Wilson Formal and COP Conference Room

Black History Month DinnerFebruary 284:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.Haffey Cafeteria

Female ObstaclesMarch 2011:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.Gateway Mid-level

Cultural FestivalMarch 227:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Campus Center Main stage

Annual Alumni of Color DinnerApril 185:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Campus Center Main stage

So You Think You Can DanceApril 207:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. - Cleary Auditorium

The student’s survival guide to finals week

STAFF WRITER CHRISTOPHER FORD

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It’s the final stretch before the end of se-mester but one looming gap separates stu-dents from their month of Christmas vaca-tion – final exams. No topic will be trending greater on social media sites as this colos-sus of academic trials begins but take heart as there are plenty of simple tips and tricks to help students jump the gap – and maybe

even land on the other side.Sleep The best way to completely redefine a

studying or examination experience is sim-ply to sleep. Between eight and nine hours of uninterrupted solid snoozing is the approxi-mate formula for enough focus, energy, con-fidence and overall positive mojo to write a doctoral thesis. Of course, many might take

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Sister’s Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi’s Gold

School is in session and Sister is teaching everyone a lesson before the class Christmas party. She isn’t teaching the student actors on stage though – the audience is the class for the show. Later on, audience members also become characters in a class Christmas pageant as well as suspects of a crime.

If you are looking for a good comedy, I recommend “Sister’s Christmas Cate-chism,” currently playing at Geva Theatre in Rochester. My family and I attended a showing during the Thanksgiving break.

In the play, actress Colleen Moore gives the audience a comical sense as to what catholic school was – and in some cases still is like – with a nun in charge. From the very beginning when she insists her students change the words in “Jingle Bells” to “baby Jesus in the slay” to the very end when she calls out the crook who stole the gift of gold for Jesus, laughter and smiles were heard and seen all around by audience members during the performance I attended.

The play was hilarious from start to fin-ish. My favorite scene was when audience members were hand selected by Sister to come up and be a participant in the class Christmas pageant. Audience members were then dressed in ridiculous costumes to portray various character, or suspects, at Jesus’ birth. Kings were dressed in majestic shower curtains and crowned with jeweled lamp shades.

Animals had bath mats as wool and au-

STAFF WRITER JULIA STANCHUS

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thentic noses and mouths –some of which were black paper cups. Mary and Joseph had sheets and towels for their evening wear and the drummer boy carried an antique drum which he was instructed by Sister to not even tap with a finger. Add a few shep-herds, the arc angel played by none other than Sister, and a plastic glowing baby Jesus lying in a plastic manger, and you have a comical version of the nativity.

The best part was when Sister put down caution tape and started conducting foren-sic science practices she observed on C.S.I. I don’t want to spoil what happens next but you will not be disappointed.

I had no idea what to expect from a catho-lic comedy but I ended up really enjoying it. It was hilarious how realistic Sister acted towards her students and audience mem-bers. She reminded me of so many teachers I had in high school. Moore did a fantastic job playing Sister and staying serious during the investigation scene while the audience was cracking up.

Believe it or not, the play was educational too. I learned new facts about Saint Nicho-las, was read aloud a story about Mary, and helped solve a mystery. I guarantee that you will be laughing throughout the entire show.

The show runs through Dec. 9 and is for people of all ages and faiths. Preferred attire would be semi-formal such as dress pants with shirt and tie or khakis with a dress shirt or dresses or dress pants with a nice blouse.

Tickets are $10 for student rush tickets, $35 for general tickets, $30 for Geva sub-scribers, and seniors get in for $32. Visit www.gevatheatre.org for more information.

this as common knowledge and yet, people still make mistakes when it comes to utiliz-ing their subconscious. Here are some im-portant things to remember when it comes to sleep.

Three two-hour naps do not equate to six hours of sleep when it comes to letting your body rest and while caffeine can stimulate your mind and body, it cannot provide the repair and restoration to your system that a good night’s sleep can. It’s also important to remember that while naps can be very effec-tive, any naps longer than 45 minutes can potentially do more harm than good as you interrupt your body’s Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep when you wake up. At the end of the day, nothing beats a good eight hours of sleep before an exam, or even a busy study day. It might even be a good idea to start getting to bed earlier now so you’re in-ternal clock is adjusted for finals week.

OrganizeThe ugly truth about studying for college

finals is that most students just don’t know how to study efficiently and effectively. Some students are able to get through all of high school without ever having to really study and now that it’s crunch time, they’re left up a creek without a paddle. If this is you, the best thing to do is find a friend who knows what they’re doing and have a study party. After all, there’s power in numbers and the odds are that everyone can bring some relevant knowledge a the course to the table.

The most important tip is to know your

Finals Weekown study preferences. Some students study better in the morning than at night, or learn more by themselves rather than in a group. Some students have excellent notes that they can peruse through while others will have to try to make odds and ends of the course textbook.

Long story short, there are many meth-ods when it comes to studying for an exam –the sooner you find your own, the better off you’ll be. My personal favorite tool is to compile everything from my notes on a blank sheet of paper in a manner that is both organized and aesthetically appealing so it will be more pleasant to look at later.

Follow your heartSure, it may sound cliché but listening

to your impulses and inclinations during exam week is a very good idea. Unlike the rest of semester, students generally can set their own schedules (outside of the exams, of course.) It’s time to seize the opportunity to act on a whim. Eat whenever you’re hun-gry, sleep when you begin to yawn, take a break when you get bored, get some exer-cise when restlessness sets in.

These rules appear rudimentary but, as active students who respond to the many demands of college life, disciplining our-selves on the most basic levels have simply become habitual.

During exam week however, many of the typical demands take latter priorities, leaving students more autonomous and act on their own will. So take care of yourself. There are enough challenges during exam week – fighting your body shouldn’t be one of them.

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A Day of Celebration at St. John Fisher CollegePhotos by Julia Laude taken at The Day of Celebration, December 1, 2012

COURIER SCOREBOARD MEN’S BASKETBALL

Nazareth 78, Fisher 71Nazareth vs. St. John Fisher, Dec. 1

Nazareth 33 45 78

SJFC 24 47 71

Points - Assists:

Nazareth - Stephens 22-8, Ford 17-0

SJFC - Norsen 21-0, Lott 11-8

Rochester 63, Fisher 50St. John Fisher at Rochester, Nov. 30

SJFC 20 30 50

Rochester 40 23 63

Points - Assists:

SJFC - Wier 17-1, Norsen 12-1

Rochester - DiBartolomeo 26-3, Vernon 10-1

Fisher 85, Brockport 72Brockport at St. John Fisher, Nov. 28

Brockport 34 38 72

SJFC 36 49 85

Points - Assists:

Brockport - Bell 14-2, Ivy 13-3

SJFC - Plata 23-2, Norsen 16-1

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Roberts Wesleyan 70, Fisher 30St. John Fisher vs. Roberts Wesleyan, Dec. 1

SJFC 14 16 30

RWC 42 28 70

Points - Assists:

SJFC - Bloomstein 8-0, Walsh 7-0

RWC - Alwardt 17-2, Williams 13-3

Fisher 75, R.I.T. 57St. John Fisher vs. R.I.T., Nov. 28

SJFC 41 34 75

R.I.T. 28 29 57

Points - Assists:

SJFC - Bloomstein 21-2, Seavitt 11-3

R.I.T. - Havens 17-3, Kramer 14-2

Brockport 72, Fisher 62Brockport at St. John Fisher, Nov. 27

Brockport 30 42 72

SJFC 25 37 62

Points - Assists:

Brockport - Fortney 20-0, Grinnell 12-3

SJFC - Velasco 19-2, Buckner 17-0

FOOTBALL

Fisher 63, Castleton St. 7Castleton St. at Fisher, Nov. 17

Castleton St. 0 0 0 7 7

SJFC 21 28 14 0 63

First Quarter

SJFC- Ryan Kramer 26 yd run (Brendan Carey kick)

SJFC- Cody Miller 9 yd run (Carey kick)

SJFC- Ryan Seymour 15 yd blocked punt return (Carey

kick)

Second Quarter

SJFC- Kevin Francis 25 yd pass from Kramer (Carey kick)

SJFC- David Shuey 9 yd pass from Kramer (Carey kick)

SJFC- Christian Zemaitis 3 yd run (Carey kick)

SJFC- Tyler Stell 12 yd pass from Kramer (Carey kick)

Third Quarter

SJFC- Alex Stacy 9 yd run (Carey kick)

SJFC- Ahmed Hassanien 1 yd run (Greg Lohrman kick)

Fourth Quarter

CSU- Greg Vreeland 1 yd run (Dave Fox kick)

CSU SJFC

First Downs 9 27

Net Rushing Yards 64 422

Net Passing Yards 69 105

Total Offense Yards 133 527

Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-0

Penalties-Yards 1-15 7-65

Kickoff Returns-Yards 8-101 2-55

Interceptions 1-8 0-0

Possession Time 27:17 32:43

Number of Sacks-Yards 0-0 3-20

Individual Statistics

RUSHING: CSU- Greg Vreeland 16-69 TD, Tyler Carpenter

14-26

SJFC- Cody Miller 19-123 TD, Christian Zemaitis 17-105 TD

PASSING: CSU- Greg Vreeland 8-16, 69 yds

SJFC- Ryan Kramer 8-9, 97 yds, 3 TD’s, INT

RECEIVING: CSU- Kevin Alberque 2-22

SJFC- David Shuey 3-38 TD, Kevin Francis 2-36 TD

FUMBLES:

CSU- None

SJFC- Coon

INTERCEPTIONS:

CSU- Mancini

SJFC- None

Compiled by Emily Mein

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Fall Sports finish off a successful season

Indoor track gets off on a good foot as season begins

STAFF WRITER EMILY MEIN

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After a disappointing season last year, the St. John Fisher men’s and women’s track and field teams have taken a positive ap-proach in preparation for their first meet of the 2012-2013 season.

Last year, both teams finished dead last in the Empire 8 conference for indoor and outdoor track and field but Mike Henchen, head coach for both teams, assures that this season will not have a similar result.

After what Henchen said was a “great re-cruiting year,” he believes that both teams are prepared to take on whatever they will face this season.

Paired with some freshmen, the returning upperclassmen have gotten a year of compe-tition under their belt which Henchen thinks will greatly benefit the entire team.

After both teams finished in sixth place at the Empire 8 Championships during the cross-country season, most of the runners are returning to take part in the indoor and outdoor track seasons. This transition can best be described as chaotic because, for the cross-country season, there were 45 athletes basically doing the same thing.

“They’re all distance runners, the work-outs are relatively the same,” Henchen said. “It’s only really one sport and one event.”

But, according to Henchen, when the track and field season starts, there are more than 100 athletes from Fisher who compete in 16 different events.

Because of the increase in athletes and events, four other coaches join Henchen and Associate Head Coach Kristine Wolcott to round out the coaching staff.

“It’s a huge jigsaw puzzle that you’re try-ing to put together,” Henchen said.

Some of the cross-country run-ners that return to the track-season will continue to run distance events so their preparation and workouts won’t change that much. But for some, workouts may change and for others, events will even change.

Henchen said that some of cross-country runners are mid-distance runners so their preparation will focus on speed development while others were actually 400-meter hurdlers who were placed on the team in order to stay in shape for their races in the indoor and out-door track season. For these ath-letes, workouts will be significant-ly different because they focus on hurdle technique and speed condi-tioning, according to Henchen.

The athletes aren’t the only ones who have to prepare for the up-coming season.

Henchen said he has had many sleepless and short nights because of the amount of moving pieces involved in track and field. In preparation for this past week-end’s meet at Cornell University, he had to enter all 105 athletes into their respective events.

“We’re looking at something like 300 dif-ferent entries to try to figure out who is go-ing to be in which event as we try to prepare the athletes for our conference champion-ship in January,” he said.

According to Henchen, he and the rest of the coaching staff have two main goals for this season. First, they want the team to be as sharp as possible for the Empire 8 championships so the teams can score as many points as possible. The second goal, Henchen said, is to try and get as many ath-letes as possible to qualify for post-season

competition. When considering post-season competi-

tions, the Empire 8 conference doesn’t have any qualifying marks that athletes need to reach in order to compete in the champion-ships. But, Fisher also belongs to the New York State Collegiate Track Conference and the Eastern College Athletic Conference, which both have qualifying standards for their meets.

“We’re trying to get as many of our ath-letes to meet those qualifying standards in their individual events so they can move on to post season competition and then hope-fully at some point into the national champi-onship,” Henchen said.

As a returning sophomore, Nicca Lat-tuca competes in five events including the

Signs of winter’s upcoming reign over the area are present all around us. Whether it’s snow on the ground, students wearing multi-ple layers or clothes to classes or Christmas ads being played on the radio and television. The coming of winter also means an end to another successful fall season for St. John Fisher College athletics with four teams qualifying for their respective playoffs.

The Fisher football team began the season with high expectations, following the teams NCAA Final Four bid the previous year.

The beginning of the season looked prom-ising, as the team’s first two games were non-conference wins over Thomas More College in overtime and Washington and Jefferson College on the road. The Cardi-nals also scored an emotional win against the University of Rochester in the last-ever Courage Bowl. At the end of a demolish-ing victory against Hartwick College at Growney Stadium, the Cardinals record was 4-0.

The team then suffered its first two loss-es against Salisbury University and Alfred University before defeating Ithaca College and Frostburg State University. The Cardi-nals lost a nail-biter to Buffalo State before closing the season with a convincing win over Utica College.

Fisher was selected to host the East-

ern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Northwest Bowl against Castleton State College from Vermont. This marked the 10th straight year the Cardinals played in either the NCAA tournament or the ECAC tournament. During the game, the Cardinals had no problem with the Spartans, defeating them 63-7 and finishing the season with a record of 8-3 – an impressive feat because starting quarterback Ryan Kramer missed two games in the middle of the season due to an injury. However, backups Tyler Fenti and Ahmed Hassanien both filled in nicely for Kramer, going 1-1 during Kramer’s ab-sence.

Despite missing those two games, Kramer was still able to throw for 1,466 yards for the season which included 15 touchdowns and only six interceptions. Other star play-ers included running back Cody Miller, who ran for 1,023 yards and 12 touchdowns, and wide receiver Tyler Stell who had 23 recep-tions for 299 yards and five touchdowns.

The men’s soccer team also had a suc-cessful season this year, finishing with a re-cord of 10-5-3.

The team had some signature wins defeat-ing the University of Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Nazareth Col-lege. The Cardinals, however, would not find as much success during the playoffs, falling to Ithaca College in a game decided by penalty kicks.

Midfielder Jake Quattrini scored an im-pressive seven goals and had one assist for the season. Other high scorers included mid-fielder Joel Castellini, with five goals and one assist, and forward Garhett Varin, who had three goals and four assists. Goalkeeper

Kyle Metcalfe started most of the team’s games in goal, amassing 136 saves and a save percentage of more than 86 percent.

Not only did the men’s soccer team play well this season but also the women’s soccer team was also able to achieve success – re-bounding from a tough season last year. The team finished the season with a record of 9-7-5 winning the ECAC upstate champion-ship with a win a win against SUNY Brock-port. The team, however, lost to Ithaca Col-lege by a score of 2-0 in the first round of the Empire 8 championships.

The Fisher field hockey team also showed improvement in its second year as a varsity team, finishing with a record of 6-12, but with an Empire 8 record of 4-3. That was good enough to make the playoffs but the Cardinals had a short stay, falling to Utica College in the first round of the playoffs.

Despite the loss, the team received many accolades as Head Coach Tarah Christen-son was named Empire 8 Coach of the Year and five other play-

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ers were named to the Empire 8 All-League Team. Some of the other highlights from the season included forward Elizabeth Cusack’s four goals and two assists as well as forward Marissa Vedella’s five goals and three as-sists. Danielle Famolaro started in goal, and recorded a save percentage of just under 78 percent for the season.

Despite not making the playoffs, the women’s volleyball team finished with an Empire 8 record of 3-3 and with an overall record of 8-20. The team was led by outside hitter Megan Miller, who had 253 kills, and middle blocker Paige Wilson, who had 189 kills.

hurdles, long jump, sprints and the 4x200 meter relay during the indoor season and the 4x100 meter relay during the outdoor sea-son.

“The first week is hard because you’re figuring out where to go, how to warm up and figuring out who the new people are,” Lattuca said. “Other than that, the coaches handle it very well.”

After going to the ECAC championships last season, Lattuca hopes that this season will have a similar ending for her.

“I just want to get better personal records individually,” she said. “I can see our whole team doing so much better this season.”

The Fisher track teams will compete in three meets before the Empire 8 champion-ships which take place on Jan. 26.

File photoSome members of the indoor track team take part in a ladders exercise during a practice last year

Students from St. John Fisher and University of Rochesterfight for the ball during a game at Fisher during the fall

File photo

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63-7 Blowout victory against Castleton State in championship bowl

STAFF WRITER BILLY BONNEAU

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SPORTS WRITER ROBIN LALISSE

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In the second year of cross-country pro-grams at St. John Fisher College, the prog-ress for both the women’s and men’s has been staggering.

The progress culminated in both Cardi-nal teams performing as middle of the pack squads in the Nov. 10 NCAA Atlantic Divi-sion III Regional Championships at Gene-see Valley Park. The women’s team finished 22nd out of 39 schools, while the men’s team finished 31st out of 44 schools.

On the women’s side, the team finished with 618 points, beating out fellow Empire 8 rivals Nazareth College and Stevens In-stitute of Technology. There were a total of seven runners from Fisher among the 277 competing, five freshmen and two sopho-mores.

A trio of freshmen performed greatly, as Katlin Shippy from Trumansburg placed 61st overall with a time of 23 minutes, 33

seconds, while Sarah Coon from Red Jacket finished 119th overall and finished the 6K-race in 24:24. Renee Deruchia from Mes-sena came in at 24:45, while sophomore Ni-cole Graziadei from Oriskany continued to improve and finished at 24:53. Sophomore Nicole Vainauskas from Amsterdam, N.Y. was in 156th place at 25:03.

First-year head coach Mike Henchen was very impressed with the women’s team and feels they are very much on the uptick.

“We’re definitely turning some heads,” said Henchen. “To be a second-year pro-gram and finish in the middle of the pack at regionals is really quite an accomplishment. We’re headed in the right direction.”

The women’s team has only one junior and no seniors, so all twenty-one players should be returning.

For the men, there were five total runners participating with three freshmen and two sophomores. Sophomore Evan Magnus-sen from Geneseo led Fisher with a time of 28:10 and placed 163rd out of 297 run-ners. Fellow sophomore Matt Herbert from Wayland-Cohocton finished the 8K race in 28:24. Freshmen Jeffrey Mangiafesto from Greece Odyssey and John Greiner from

Rush-Henrietta both posted a time of 28:45, while Sam Harbol from Palymyra Macedon completed his race in 29:25.

Among the 21 players on the men’s roster, there are three seniors and two juniors, so much of next year’s team should be back as well.

Henchen’s first year at the helm for the men after being an assistant coach last year

Fisher teams burn rubber during second season

Playing Castleton State might not have been what St. John Fisher’s football team and fan base wanted for the team’s last game. However, the Cardinals proved why they are a tough team to beat in their 63-7 victory in the 2012 ECAC Northwest Championship Bowl.

Coach Paul Vosburgh’s team improved to 8-3 to finish out their season as they con-trolled every facet of the game against the Spartans, while piling up 422 yards on the ground.

“I thought our guys did a great job,” Vosburgh said. “Obviously we were a little disappointed that we played in a bowl game versus playing in a playoff game. How-ever, the guys handled the situation well and played up to their ability and won the game.”

On the first drive of the game, quarterback Ryan Kramer marched the Cardinals right down the field to score the first points of the game, and the team as a whole never looked back. Running back Cody Miller converted from nine yards out later in the first quarter for his only score to extend the lead to 14-0 midway through the first quarter.

With less than a minute left in the first, the special teams unit took advantage of the Spartans having to punt while backed up in their own territory. Junior defensive back Ryan Seymour blocked the punt and picked up the live ball and ran it back to the end zone for a 15-yard touchdown return to ex-tend the lead to 21-0.

The second quarter was dominated by the air attack from the Cardinals as Kramer connected with three different receivers for scores. Kevin Francis, David Shuey, and se-nior Tyler Stell each scored receptions to ex-tend the Cardinals’ lead in the second quar-ter. Even running back Christian Zemaitis punched in a score on the ground. After all that, Fisher went into halftime with an over-powering 49-0 lead.

The Cardinals controlled the second half , as they substituted out most of their starters so everybody, particularly the seniors, were all able to play in their final game.

The final scoring of the game for Fisher came in the third when running back Alex Stacey chipped in a run from nine yards out,

along with a quarterback sneak by Ahmed Hassanien, to extend the lead to 63-0.

“We didn’t end exactly the way we want-ed to but we pulled together as a team,” Stell said. “We realized that the season wasn’t over, we played a good Utica team at Utica, and it was an awesome way to end the regu-lar season. Then we played one more game and, although the bowl game wasn’t the playoffs, it was still awesome to have one more game with my teammates and play in another big victory in front of our home crowd at Growney Stadium.”

Kramer finished the game 8-9 for 97 yards, with three touchdown passes to lead the air attack. Miller’s 19 carries for 123 yards on the ground and a score led the team, while Zemaitis ran for 105 yards on 17 carries and a score as well, along with freshman Juwan Douglas’s 68 yards on four

carries for two touchdowns.Defensively, sophomore linebacker Sean

Preish led the team in tackles with 10, and two of those were for losses. Joe Leavell added eight tackles, while Mason Judd fin-ished with six.

“I think it says a lot about our kids,” Vos-burgh said. “It was great to see that we were able to get control of the game so that we could rotate everybody in the game, espe-cially for our seniors. All our seniors got in and got some good playing time, quite a few of our seniors got to score too, so it was great for our team to play so hard that we were allowed to get everybody into the game.”

St. John Fisher’s football team had four student-athletes represent the school on the Empire 8 All-Conference First-Team. Those players were running back Cody Miller, of-

fensive lineman Dan Maloney, defensive end Mason Judd, and defensive back Troy Sant.

Offensive lineman James Thomas made the second team on offense, while defen-sive back Adam Burdick and linebacker Joe Leavell represented the Cardinals on de-fense. Honorable mentions for the Cardinals included Miguel Amezquita on offense and Travis Tones, Nicholas LoBrutto and Mike Benderski for defense.

“I think it really showed our team what we were made of after we lost to Buffalo St. on senior day,” Stell said. “We pulled back together as a team and we finished with two huge wins to end the season. I think that’s going to say a lot about the guys coming in next year, it’s going to help them build off of these victories to propel them for another good year.”

St. John Fisher’s #95 Trevor Haut, defensive lineman Photo by Julia Laude

has led to four top 10 finishes at invites de-spite the transfer of one of the top 10 fresh-men runners in the country, Cohen Miles-Rath, to SUNY Geneseo after last season. For the women, Henchen’s leadership helped the team garner five top 10 finishes to go along with a great performance at the regionals.

St. John Fisher’s cross-country runners get out of the starting gate quick during a meet in the fallFile photo

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