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The annual Campus Fire Safety Awareness Day was canceled this year due to an overwhelming amount of emer-gency calls in the wake of Hurricane Irene and subsequent

“Campus Fire Safety Day was canceled because of the impact that Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee had on the campus and the surrounding areas,” said SUNY

Agencies involved were mobilized to help with relief

-trol was mobilized for recovery efforts in Schoharie County,

similarly preoccupied with an overwhelming amount of

“Facilities Operations and the State University Police

have been working night and day, attending to thousands of calls for assistance since the beginning of the month,”

Recovery is still in-process on campus as services and -

“Myself and Chief David Dugatkin of the State Uni-versity Police served as emergency incident commanders of the Emergency Management Team, and the rest of my department [as well as myself] have been assisting the rest

-cusing mainly on the recovery work in Haggerty Adminis-

All those involved in campus cleanup were hit hard early in the semester and it’s been a challenging recovery, according to Dave Serino, assistant director of Environmen-

“It has been a hell of a few days here on campus and most of my team, including myself, spent the nights here—

Those in charge of the event said it will not be resched-uled due to the emergency calls inundating police depart-

opportunity for the Fire Department, State Fire, EH&S, the State University Police, in addition to numerous other safety-related agencies, to interact with the campus commu-nity—and it provides us with the most appropriate forum to offer a wide variety of programs and events that engage the students and staff in safety minded topics, we understood that rescheduling the event would be next to impossible,”

place this year, it is important to recall the issues and advice

“The most important thing that we try to teach all com-

-lice Committee and several academic committees at

The three remaining positions on the University

The liberal arts seat for the Academic Affairs

Allan was also approved for the School of Education

faculty bylaws because the education seat was already

Two out of the four positions on the Curriculum

Three liberal arts seats on the Budget, Goals and

one of the senators approved to this group, said that this committee in particular is important because “we can see where the money’s not going…and allocate it

One position on the Environmental Task Commit-

position on the Transportation Committee was also

Three spots on the Liberal Ad Hoc Committee and six seats on the Educational Technology Committee

In an individual senate report, Samakai announced that the students from the biology program are starting a

petition against the low number of biology professors in

Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs and Governance Ayanna Thomas proposed conducting a general advising pre-survey to see students reaction

of surveying will work similar to the Student Evalua-tion of Instruction forms which were recently moved

Executive Vice President Eve Stern discussed is-sues with meal exchange and increases the number

-tioned that the Student Association approved several new school clubs such as the New Paltz Circus Team

The next Senate meeting will be held on Tuesday

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By Kate Blessing Copy Editor | [email protected]

New Paltz Fire Safety Day Doused by Flood

By Jaleesa BaulkmanCopy Editor | [email protected]

Thursday, September 22, 2011

A student activist club is getting the con-versation started on campus about drugs and an alternative drug policy.

The Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) chapter at New Paltz have launched a new program called Harm Reduction Center (HRC).

“On this campus, it’s just to provide sci-

students about drugs and alcohol,” said Maria Scarangella, an HRC coordinator. “About the things that we are aware [of], and we admit kids get into. To just spell out in terms that they can understand, and tell them the things that are relevant to them.”

Harm reduction began nationally in the late ‘80s to promote safer habits with drug use, according to New Paltz’s SSDP Face-book page. The information reads that volun-teers in the program understood that drug use wouldn’t end completely, so they taught us-ers how to inject properly, they also provided clean needles and condoms.

Scarangella said HRC at New Paltz was planned initally last fall, but was stalled due to personal obligations and infrequent SSDP club membership. This year, the group hopes to be the middle ground on the drug debate, where they can keep students informed and safe.

“Where as the [school] administration might say ‘don’t do drugs, there’s no time or place for drugs’ we’re saying ‘here’s the in-formation, we know you’re going to do it, so here’s information on how you can do it safe-ly,’ said Sen.Wendy Cohen, an administrator of the group.

Cohen believes students can make their own decisions. She said she wants students to review external information, but it doesn’t necessarily have to come from the forces in their life, such as parents or friends. The in-formation HRC dispenses will be supported

according to Cohen. Things will get personal, but that’s the

point. The group hopes people will call if there is an overdose. That person needs to know who to call if they need help in deter-mining the effects of a certain drug.

However, ensuring the safety of students with drug-related issues is also a top priority of SSDP and HRC. The group said they want to share with students and the community the real-deal behind drug use. They said anyone can go online and read about a drug, but on these websites, it doesn’t say how it feels, or

what happens if you take it with something else.

“If something’s going wrong, they need to be able to know what to do, not to be afraid to take action,” said Brendan Mitchell, an ad-ministrator of the group. “We just want people to make the right decisions.”

The group said once HRC and SSDP start “picking up steam”, they want to incorporate more kids who don’t go to the meetings. To in-crease their currently “small radius.” Mitchel said people from all walks of life, and not just the “party people”, deal with issues of drug use.

Although no one is currently involved on the administrative level, Scarangella said she wants to bring professors into the mix. She said they would be useful on informing students on some of the same topics HRC looks to cover. One event the group hopes to host this year is an interdisciplinary panel of professors to speak about drug topics, profes-sors from various departments including an-thropology, Latin American studies and Black Studies. Cohen said she wanted to include someone who works with pharmaceutical-type drugs.

However, Cohen said she doesn’t see oth-

She said they aren’t going to have a say in what research and information they use. She added that the administration doesn’t come down to check off on what they are saying.

“The point of it is ‘by the students, for the students’ type thing,” said Scarangella.

With student participation, the group hopes to attract people by cosponsoring events with The Black Student Union, The Latin American Student Union and by word-of-mouth campaigns. The group believes this year is the “tipping point.” Cohen said in the United States, 16 states have enacted medi-cal marijuana policies, with three being cre-ated just this year. On a local level, New York passed a 911 Good Samaritan Policy that went into effect this past weekend, according to EmpireStateNews.Net.

The website continues: “This new life-saving policy gives legal amnesty to individu-als in need of medical treatment resulting from drug or alcohol use, as well as individuals who seek help for someone else in need of medical assistance resulting from drug or alcohol use.”

The group said they draw inspiration from the German and Portuguese models of harm reduction. Turning away from incar-ceration, and more towards a system where psychological and family services are avail-able. Scarangella said incarceration doesn’t discourage drug use and that the road to so-briety is a rough journey, but one that includes positivity.

“The whole model of harm reduction is meeting you where you’re at,” said Scaran-gella.

The interdisciplinary panel of profes-sors is scheduled for sometime in Novem-

is 330 in Student Union (SU), or visit their Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/groups/216747521678068/.

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Students for a Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) are starting an HRC. PHOTO BY ROBIN WEINSTEIN

Compiled from the AP Newswire

NEWS BRIEFS NATIONAL

Troy Davis, the condemned inmate who convinced hundreds of thousands of peo-ple but not the justice system of his inno-

-day asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Georgia authorities from executing him for

The fatal police beating of a mentally ill, homeless man, prosecutors say, began

latex gloves and a single threat.

DAVIS MAKES FINAL PLEA

A FREE FALL TO EARTH NASA’s old research satellite is expected to come crashing down through the atmo-sphere Friday afternoon, Eastern Time. The spacecraft will not be passing over North America then, the space agency said in a statement Wednesday evening.

PALESTINIANS PRESSED Furiously scrambling to head off a U.N. showdown, the United States warned world leaders Wednesday that trying to create a Palestinian nation by simple decree instead of through hard negotiations was bound to fail as a shortcut to peace with Israel. Eu-ropeans worked to defuse the dispute, too, France urging new talks within a month.

PASSED OUT PILOT The veteran aviator whose plane slammed into a crowd of Nevada air race spectators at 400 mph had no chance to save his ill-

-ness from acceleration more abrupt and

HOUSE KILLS SPENDING BILLIn a rebuke to GOP leaders, the House on Wednesday rejected a measure providing $3.7 billion for disaster relief as part of a bill to prevent a government shutdown at

the end of next week.

HOMELESS MAN BEAT TO DEATH

Chomsky Coming to Campus

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MIT linguist, political scholar and activist

Noam Chomsky will be coming to campus on

Sunday, Dec. 4 to give a lecture in honor of social

historian Howard Zinn.

Zinn, who passed away in January 2010, was

History of the United States.” It told an alternative

history about the United States, giving voice to

marginalized populations including the poor and

Social and political activist and member of

with assistant professor of anthropology Ben-

Zinn.

rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, and

different from the abridged and censored version

suffering from, and encourage others to follow his

example.”

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speaking at the event as well and has edited sev-

most important public intellectuals alive in the

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point where Zinn and Chomsky have a point of

resonance. Chomsky is super provocative. Some

people bow to his alter but he has been called pro-

about Chomsky one way or the other.”

The free event, exact time and place still to

be announced, is open to the public. It will have a

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tion and answer dialogue.

Junge recommends everyone to go to the

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interest in U.S. foreign policy, globalization and

a little bit sentimental, but I think anyone who

wants to be an informed citizen about where the

U.S. has been and is going in this ever-globalizing

world.”

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ers of our time, the father of modern linguistics

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icy,” said James Schiffer, dean of the College of

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agree with his political views appreciate his com-

mitment to the free and open exchange of ideas.”

By Zan Strumfeld [email protected]

October Ushers in Local Food Week

Food Week, a growing annual event supported by

community.

destroying a large amount of local food. Village

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farms in the Mid-Hudson region require a variety

of labor resources to provide their food. Small

farms that are family owned and operated require

the service of laborers who are often seasonal im-

migrants from Mexico or the Caribbean. In the af-

termath of the storm, the destruction of the local

farms is severely impeding the livelihoods of the

people dependent on them.

who are using locally grown ingredients in their

in the Village where you can purchase food pre-

pared on site and this year 19 of them have chosen

dishes on their menus and giving specials on them

for the week. These participating venues will also

be listed on a poster to be hung all around town and

in the restaurants.

supporting local farms. Individuals can support lo-

for institutional buyers in the region to subcontract

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cally produced goods local buyers will have to

shift to smaller independent service companies or

put pressure on their corporate providers to amend

know where their food is coming from and be able

to recognize their local small businesses.

and will also be given free ad space in regional

publications such as the Valley Table,” Basco said.

Street Market from 4 to 9 p.m. where there will

be music, vendors and donation booths. There will

By Katherine Speller [email protected]


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NEWS BRIEFS WORLD

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dead or missing, paralyzed commuter trains

and dumped rain on tsunami-ravaged north-

island of Hokkaido on Thursday.

PRISONERS FROM IRAN

TYPHOON TARGETS JAPAN

CHINA CRITICIZES ARMS DEAL China on Thursday denounced a decision by

and warning that relations overall and recently

warming military ties will suffer.

ANOTHER ARREST IN DRUG WAR-

rested Wednesday as suspects in the slaying of

TWO ON TWITTER CLEARED

charged with terrorism for allegedly setting off

a panic by tweeting rumors about nonexistent

drug cartel attacks were freed Wednesday after

prosecutors dropped the charges.

GANG WARS ESCALATE

most-wanted drug lord appears to be making a

violent challenge to the dominant Zetas Cartel

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Dr. Cheryl Torsney was named interim provost and vice pres-ident of academic affairs this summer, replacing Dr. Laurel Gar-rick Duhaney who served in now-President Donald Christian’s absence. Torsney, who previously served as vice president and dean of

Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio for the past two years, assumed her position on July 15 and will hold the position until a full-time provost is named later this year.

the college is a gift to me,” Torsney said. “It also gives me the

with President Don Christian, who comes to his new position with extraordinary experience, energy and vision.” Torsney will serve as the college’s top academic presence and

President Christian said Torsney was appointed on a one-year basis and a search will begin early next week to begin searching for a permanent replacement. “I went through a sequential process and talked to a number

of individuals who have the background and experience and the interest in coming here for a one-year position,” Christian said. “I sought guidance from colleagues from across the system…and search consultants about who I might talk with to discuss that

for that position.”Christian said a search committee is currently being put to-

gether and the provost search will begin before the school begins searching for replacements for the Dean of Science and Engi-neering and Dean of Education are done so those in contention for the position will “know who their boss is for the following year.” “There is some merit for having the provost search happening

several weeks in advance of the dean searches,” Christian said. “It’s a dynamic we are looking to sort out.”

In the meantime, Torsney said she has been charged with completing “discrete” projects during her tenure as provost – in-cluding working on standardizing the academic integrity policy with each of the college’s deans as well as working to “sharpen” the tenure and promotion regulations with the help of the Aca-demic Senate. “The big kahuna for faculty this year, though, is the issue of

workload,” Torsney said. “How many hours should faculty be responsible for in terms of teaching, research, and service? One can only make change on these big issues through consultation and working through the channels of shared governance.” Vice President of academic Affairs and Governance Ayanna

Thomas said she hopes to work with Torsney over the course of the year on improving advising across campus and hopes for students to meet with Torsney. “I am currently in the process of composing an advis-

ing survey for students that is similar to SEI’s,” Thomas said. “[Torsney] has been open to all of my ideas…she’s been wonder-ful, she knows me by name and I would say she would greet other students the same way. I hope she becomes the new provost at the end of the search.” Besides the administrative and student-driven projects,

concern throughout her year in the position, but won’t hinder her too much in her goal of educating students. “We’ll never return to the ‘business-as-usual’ of the nineties

other obstacles to my achieving my goals,” Torsney said. To achieve these goals, Torsney said her experience as an in-

structor, tenure-track professor, accreditation evaluator, consul-tant and mother will help her understand faculty concerns and issues of work-life balance as well as New Paltz in the larger context of higher education across the country.“Call me Pollyanna, but when you’re dealing with people of

goodwill, and everyone shares the same goal -- educating our students and mentoring them for what awaits beyond New Paltz -- obstacles, in the grand scheme of things, are almost inconse-quential,” Torsney said.

By Andrew WyrichManaging Editor | [email protected]

New Paltz Chooses New Interim Provost

The Center for Research Regional Education and Out-reach (CRREO) began a study in January 2010 that looked into

-cies in the operations of their county jails.

The study was led by Gerald Benjamin the director of CRREO Joshua Simmons research associate at CRREO. Ac-cording to Benjamin and Simmons.

As stated in a CRREO discussion in spring 2009 titled “A Collaborative Regional Approach to jailing in the Hudson Valley,” the combined spending to operate jails in Putnam, Orange, Ulster, Dutchess, Sullivan, Greene, Rockland and Columbia counties was $92,989,892 million. The project to

of $95.5 million. The researchers at CRREO understood that some formal intergovernmental agreements among counties would have to be made in order to keep these jails still running adequately.

According to both Simmons and Benjamin, CRREO be-

gan by developing an advisory group that consisted of repre-sentatives from each of the counties that were under study.

The advisory group included a wide range of people from jail administrators to county legislators and county executives. Representatives from the probation department, the district at-

-tributed to ensure that the process of the study was collabora-tive.

Simmons said this technique is a way to ensure they were “asking the right people the right questions and hopefully getting the right answers.” After developing this group of re-spected representatives from each county, CRREO researchers toured jail facilities and conducted interviews with the head administrators of each of the county jails, according to Sim-mons.

According to Benjamin , through this process they discov-ered what the areas in which jail operations could be improved including boarding in and out inmates, jail capacity in the re-gion, crime rates and demand for jail space. As they reviewed

-ing various proposals for improving these jail operations.

Suggestions include using closed facilities to meet the de-

to a single health care provider as well as a transportation loop to eliminate the need for security at a health care facility during treatment, according to the study.

Benjamin said he supported “electronic collaboration and the use of common technologies” such as video court appear-ances and video visitation.

“I think that in general, collaboration is an excellent way

Simmons. “As we are seeing the current climate looking bleak governments are turning more and more toward collaboration and shared services to provide the same quality service at re-duced cost to the tax payer.”

According to Benjamin and Simmons, the Local Govern-

State for New York provided the Hudson Valley counties with a grant to explore the rising costs of county jail construction and demolition.

All but Greene chose to participate in the study.

CRREO Study Explores County Jail CollaborationBy Clarissa Moses Contributing Writer | [email protected]

Dr. Cheryl Torsney was named interim provost and vice president.PHOTO COURTESY NEWPULSE.NEWPALTZ.EDU

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After a mandate from a federal government agency was

handed down last spring, the Division of Student Affairs at

SUNY New Paltz has adjusted the college’s policies regard-

ing sexual violence as outlined in the student handbook.

said the document acts as a mandate requiring schools to

adjust the way they respond to claims of sexual violence in

accordance with Title IX requirements and how they relate

to rape, sexual assault, sexual battery and sexual coercion.

mond Schwarz with the consultation of legal counsel. These

“Those entailed very little discussion,” he said. “The

changes in the handbook are to update and clarify our

policies and practices. In all cases, there were fairly minor

changes in language.”

Any changes made to the SUNY New Paltz code to

ments of 1972 that prohibits discrimination on the basis of

sex in any federally funded education program or activ-

have under Title IX regarding sexual violence include, but

are not limited to, the following:

taking steps to protect the complainant as necessary,

the investigation

complaints of sex discrimination, including complaints

of sexual violence that include an equal opportunity for

both parties to present witnesses and other evidence and

the same appeal rights

provide grievance procedures that use the “preponder-

ance of the evidence” – a legal standard that is considered

to be met if the proposition is more likely to be true than

not true - to resolve complaints of sex discrimination

notify both parties of the outcome of the complaint

place;; however, some were not explicitly detailed in the

student handbook and others needed further directions or

information added to them to be in compliance with the

ing processes for certain documents like what is known as a

retaliation statement is outlined in the handbook rather than

simply done.

“Some things were about adding them in writing while

other things were sort of tweaking,” she said. “For us, the

changes were maybe sort of making sure that these things

are not just a practice and are in writing. I think it’s about

ing things.”

New policies added to the student handbook include al-

lowing a victim of sexual violence to be represented by an

attorney in a particular case and a process that would allow a

victim to appeal a case as the accused student has been able

Schwarz said the language added to the student hand-

book about these new and existing policies are what he

in cases of sexual violence.

“As good as we felt about already doing much of what

the lines of the spirit of the letter which was increased clar-

ity and equity,” he said. “Those are two pretty good goals.”

Schwarz said that while SUNY New Paltz and other

colleges in the system have received mandates from the

chancellor about changing student code, he cannot remem-

ber a time that such direction was given to the school by a

federal agency.

viewing it this summer, as changes had to be made since

collegiate level.

“I think there has always been a lot of coverage in the

media in terms of rape and sexual assault on college cam-

that and hoping that there would probably be some consis-

tency across the board.”

tistics on sexual violence are “both deeply troubling and a

call to action for the nation.” The document cites a report

from the National Institute of Justice that found that about 1

in 5 women are victims of completed or attempted sexual as-

sault while in college. Additionally, the report shows that ap-

proximately 6.1 percent of males were victims of completed

or attempted sexual assault during college.

Schwarz said it is important that students review these

changes when they are introduced more formally in Janu-

reading the student handbook even though they are techni-

continue to provide students with guidance in relation to

issues of sexual violence, although they sometimes “don’t

hear the answers until they ask the questions.”

“Our goal is that when people ask the questions, no mat-

ter who they ask them of, they have the answers,” Schwarz

said. “There will have to eventually be some education in

terms of the code itself but hopefully we were always pre-

pared to make students aware of the resources available to

them at the counseling center, the health center, university

police and everything else that is available to keep them safe

medically, physically and emotionally.”

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PLUS...MOXIE CUPCAKESNew bakery opens on Main StreetNEW WOMENSUNY Buffalo holds conferenceabout evolution of female roles

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FEATURESMain Sweet Confectionery

MOXIE CUPCAKE SET TO OPEN DOORS TO PUBLIC THIS SEPTEMBERBy Katie KocijanskiAsst. Copy Editor | [email protected]

Josie Eriole recently opened Moxie Cupcake on Main Street. PHOTO BY SAMANTHA SCHWARTZ

A little treat with a big taste has made its way to New Paltz.

Moxie Cupcake a new bakery, has opened at 215 Main St. After starting out as a catering operation in 2010, owner Josie Eriole saw her business explode and expand rapidly.

Hailing from Albany, Eriole grew up baking. She said all of the recipes she developed came out of trial and error, so each cake and frosting recipe is her own creation. Originally a jazz singer, Eriole honed her dec-orating skills by creating custom birthday cakes for her two children. After watching “Cupcake Wars” with her niece one afternoon, Eriole declared that she would start a cupcake business and said it would be “phenomenally successful!”

Each cupcake is homemade with organic free-trade chocolate, she said.

“If you are going to have a treat, it should have no chemical additives,” Eriole said.

The name of the bakery came from playing around with different words. According to Eriole, her husband’s grandfather always said she had a lot of moxie or gump-tion and it stuck with her.

the coffee shop on Main Street. From there her whole-sale catering business exploded and she now sells cup-cakes in over seven different places throughout Ulster and Dutchess counties, such as Crafted Kup, The Caf-eteria and Twisted Foods Village Market in Gardiner.

For Eriole, Main Street was an ideal location for the shop. Previously, she worked out of her home in a

for people to come. The outdoor space on Main Street created the “cute little hideaway,” she was looking for.

themselves. “The Moxie,” “Vanilla Sky,” “Annie Get Your Gun,” “Salt Away my Sugar” and the “Cherry Dar-ling” have become classics. Other specialties include “You Say its Your Birthday” and the “Sunday Morn-ing Cupcake.” Inspired by Eriole’s singing background, each cupcake is named after a song.

on Friday, Sept. 23 and Saturday, Sept. 24. The opening will be from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on both days. Door prizes will be given away, local band, “The Essential Food

Group,” will provide live music on Saturday and sam-ples will be offered all weekend. There will also be two

100- piece cupcake tower and the second is a member-ship in the Cupcake of the Month Club. This will give the winner six assorted cupcakes every month for a year.

In addition, the Moxie blend of organic fair trade coffee from the Massachusetts based company, Dean’s Beans, will be sold as well, along with hot chocolate and tea. The shop also boasts a sprinkles bar, which includes six different types of sprinkles that can be added to both cupcakes and hot chocolate. Moxie is not just a spot for satisfying your sweet tooth, as soups and “savory cup-cakes” will also be on the menu. “Savory cupcakes” are lunch items in the shape of a cupcake, such as lasagna or sausage and peppers.

Those at the bakery are very excited to be the latest addition to the New Paltz community.

“Moxie Cupcake brings quality products to New Paltz that not only tastes great and uses quality ingredi-

ents but also supports local businesses and farms,” said Assistant Baker, Kwan Man Cheng. “I’m very happy to be a part of that.”

The store also offers college packs, so parents can send their child a special treat for birthdays and holi-days. In Eriole’s opinion, “cup-cakes are universally loved by all ages.”

The bakery is open on Wednesday, Thurs-day and Sunday from 11-6 p.m., and Fri-day and Saturday from 11-8 p.m. For further information contact Eriole at 845-255-2253 (CAKE) or at [email protected].

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As women saw their educational opportunities increase and began entering the workforce in great-er numbers, their gender identities changed as well as their representation in the mainstream media.

This wave of feminism was brought to light by “The New Women International” conference held on Sept. 16 at SUNY Buffalo.

“The conference [consisted] of two panels and the presentation of seven papers that examine the rise and dominance of the ‘new woman’ as a mass media star, and look at female agency through rep-resentations of and by these ‘new women,’ ” said Dr. Elizabeth Otto, assistant professor at SUNY at Buffalo.

Otto organized the conference after receiving a “Conversations in the Disciplines” (CDI) grant from SUNY of $5,000. Those taking part in the conference wanted to foster an environment that allowed for a greater public understanding of the topic and would provoke open discussion.

“The conference dovetails with an edited volume on the same subject, which came out from the University of Michigan press this year, entitled The New Woman International: Representations

in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s, edited by Otto and Vanessa Rocco,” said Kristine Harris, contributor and Associate professor of history and director of Asian Studies at SUNY New Paltz.

Rocco, assistant professor at the Pratt Institute said, the book discusses “new womanhood in Chi-na, Japan, India, and Czechoslovakia, as well as the

Western Europe and the United States,” and each paper presented at the conference was based off of the panelist’s essay in the book, serving to reinforce the ideas addressed.

Rocco spoke about “Bad Girls: The New Woman in Weimar Film Stills,” she focused on

-sie Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, and Brigitte Helm.

New Woman in Photography and Film,” as well as the closing remarks. Harris was part of the group that put forward the SUNY CID proposal and her contribution to the book was “Modern Mulans:

1920s-60s” (From Woman Warrior to New Wom-an). Harris said the conference “had a really good turn-out,” and she, along with Rocco and Otto, was very happy with the outcome.

“We developed a whole range of events in conjunction with this book to get the word out, in-cluding: a panel at Pratt Institute where I teach, and symposia at the Humanities Center at the Univer-sity of Pittsburgh and the historic Barnard Center for Research on Women,” Rocco said.

The book is currently in its third reprint and

for students because it makes the book easier to at-tain.

“The New Woman International” has succeed-ed beyond anyone’s initial expectations,” Rocco said.

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SUNY New Paltz will be holding their an-nual Parent and Family Weekend on Oct. 15-16, a period dedicated to educational and entertaining events on and off campus.

Valle is one of the organizers for the event. Cohen-

-plains the events, eateries and businesses, both on and off campus that are available to parents and students that weekend.

-tion states that most of the events on campus and in the community are free and others cost a small fee, such as a two-hour Hudson River Boat Cruise from 1-5 p.m. The price of the trip is $25 by bus and $15 by car.

“Most parents come Saturday and spend one night in the area and stay Sunday, and while others within a few hours driving distance, would come up Saturday morning, spend a full day and even go

She said since most parents come up Sat-urday, it is the day of the structured schedule of events. Saturday is the focus day, where there are many organized events such as Coffee Hour with President Donald Christian in the Student Union Multipurpose Room, a Planetarium Show at Coyk-endall Science Building called “Tonight’s Sky” and a Women’s Soccer game later in the afternoon.

Other events off campus include apple pick-ing and a Historical Walking Tour of the village.

Sunday is an opportunity for parents and stu-dents to be informed about events that are going on around the community and the region. These include the New Paltz Farmer’s Market, Historic Huguenot Street, Beacon Flea Market and the fa-mous Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted House.

Although there are many events, which may seem overwhelming to students, orientation lead-ers will be assisting them throughout the weekend.

Brendan Wright, a second-year political sci-ence and Women Studies major, who is also an

leaders will be helpful at the various events.All orientation leaders will be taking different

shifts to work at each event that will be happening on and off campus,” Wright said.

He also said that all parents, families and students should feel free to approach him or any other orientation leader if they have any questions or need any help.

families to enjoy themselves and realize how much the students have changed from being college stu-dents for half a semester already.

“I am looking forward to showing my parents how much I’ve grown. I know I’ve only been here for a little while, but I feel that I’m much more

-tional relations major. “I can take care of myself, for now at least.”

Campbell hopes to reassure his parents that his attitude has transitioned into a more mature one, in which he is able to communicate with oth-

Campbell isn’t the only student who feels this

is different than Orientation or Move-In Day.“Now they are New Paltz students. Now it’s

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-dents realize on their own.

“I love to see all of my students walk-ing around campus or eating together with other friends in the dining hall, because it goes to show that they are thriving in this new environment, and trying their best to be outgoing and active,” Wright said,

Although the invitations and brochure have

upperclassmen are welcome to join as well. In-terested participants can register via e-mail or on-line at newpaltz.edu/parentsweekend. A list of all events for the weekend,along with a brief descrip-tion of each one is located on the site as well.

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ARTS ENTERTAINMENT&Hudson Valley ConnectionsNEW EXHIBIT AT THE DORSKY BRINGS TOGETHER 150 PIECES OF LOCAL ART

The Dorsky held a public reception for its new exhibit, “Linking Collections, Building Connections: Work from the Hudson Valley Visual Arts Collections Consortium” on Saturday, Sept. 17. The exhibit brings together 150 pieces of art, including paintings, pho-tographs, sculptures, printmaking and drawings from the Hudson Valley Visual Arts Collections Consortium (HVVACC).

Brian Wallace, organizer of the exhibit and curator for the Dorsky, said criteria for the work selected to be in this exhibit was mostly locations and landscape. Wallace wanted to bring together art of all kinds that share the overriding theme of the Hudson Valley.

“We built on what we had,” said Wallace. “It’s not traditional art history. We wanted to put together pieces that would tell a set of stories about this region.”

Wallace hopes the exhibit, which is divided up into eight different sections and sub-themes, is something that “challenges what comes to mind when people think

about the Hudson Valley.”Linda Hart, of New Paltz, said she was “pleasantly

surprised” by the exhibit after not knowing a lot about it prior to the reception.

“I came because I knew a few of the artists,” said Hart. “I was not aware of the theme until now.”

Hart especially took to the photography section of this Kingston/Rosendale area.

“It’s great to support local artists,” said Hart. Susan Griss another attendee of the event, had simi-

lar feelings toward the exhibit. To her, the art connects people of various towns of the Hudson Valley. The his-torical photographs stood out for Griss.

“You could really see the continuity. From looking at the older pictures you can tell, some things haven’t changed,” said Griss.

Like Hart, she said she was happy to be surround-

from. She said the overall sentiment was something that “makes you proud.”

First-year student Franchesca Chatillo currently works at the Dorsky and especially liked the exhibit

based on the Cramer family.“I like it, because I enjoy looking at things from an

older time,” Chatillo said. “I really like this section be-cause it’s a preserved piece of history.”

Wallace is extremely proud of the collection he has obtained for this exhibit. Looking toward the future, he hopes to build stronger connections with the HVVACC as they are in the works to create a long-range project will showcase online works from all organizations in-volved.

Upon leaving, Wallace believes visitors will see the diversity in art from the Hudson Valley.

“[I hope they] tune into what they are looking at and recognize that these pieces are not natural or an acci-dent, but carefully constructed,” said Wallace.

The works are constructed in a way that evokes the theme of the Hudson Valley.

“Linking Collections, Building Connections: Work from the Hudson Valley Visual Arts Collections Consor-tium” is open through Dec. 11 in the Morgan Anderson Gallery, Howard Greenberg Family Gallery and Coori-dor Gallery.

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Photos from the Dorsky exhibit, “Linking Collections, Building Connections: Work from the Hudson Valley Visual Arts Collective Consortium.”

CURRENTLY AT THE DORSKY“Linking Collections, Building

Connections: Works from the Hudson Valley

Visual Art Collections Consortium”

Curated by Brian Wallace and Ariel Shanbergthrough Dec. 11

Morgan Anderson Gallery, Howard Greenberg Family Gallery and Corridor Gallery

“Hudson Valley Artists 2011:

Exercises in Unnecessary Beauty”

Curated by Brian Wallacethrough Nov. 13

Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery

“Thick and Thin:

Ken Landauer and Julianne Swartz”

Curated by Brian Wallacethrough Oct. 23

Sara Bedrick Gallery

A haven for musicians stands as a tall white house with a porch, overlooking a patch of woods behind Main Street. Inside, guitars hang like wallpaper, hundreds of records are shoved into shelves and micro-phone stands collect in every corner. While someone hits the keys of a mossy green pi-ano, dinner is being made in the next room.

With the haunting sounds of an accor-dion from a neighboring porch playing like a soundtrack to their daily lives, a group of young, aspiring people have come together to create a community-based record label.

Salvation Recording Co., located on 9 Innis Ave., has plopped itself right into the ever-expanding music scene in New Paltz. Christopher Daly, a 27-year-old Pratt In-stitute drop-out, and Samantha Gloffke, a 24-year-old FIT drop-out, both realized living out their dreams is far more impor-tant than anything else.

Daly, who serves as the chief engi-neer of Salvation Recording, said the pair thought of the idea while living in a house in Walden but decided to go elsewhere.

“We were combining our collective ideas and both ready to take action in our lives,” he said. “We had been looking for a

place in the middle of the woods because we thought it would be conducive to what we doing.”

After getting a hook-up with a real es-tate agent, they came to New Paltz to see where those dreams would take them.

“The idea was to build a community,” he said. “We want to teach people things. We want to have seminars here. So many of our friends have so many skills that are great for a college town and we want to build a community around this.”

After their move in 2009, both Daly and Gloffke said they stayed inside like hermits building a studio. With budget

equipment and experience from working at recording companies in New York City, Daly knew how to assemble everything. What they didn’t know, they taught them-selves. The only things missing were the musicians.

Last February they met Adir Cohen, New Paltz alumnus and band member of Fairweather Friends. With Cohen and a few other musicians, Salvation Record-

their porch. At this point, they had their recording studio, an intimate venue and a gateway to the talent of local students and residents.

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Although Salvation Recording Co. is a self-proclaimed community-based label, it’s not limited to local artists. However, Daly said the label doesn’t have to look anywhere else right now for new talent.

“New Paltz is teeming with not just quality, but we’re talking about huge quality musicians - people who have been doing things that haven’t been done before,” he said. “The ability to have them just show up on your porch on a Thursday evening to talk about things opposed to trying

those stars aligning kind of things.”According to Daly and Gloffke, the sense of commu-

nity they are focused on is continually growing every day. The main team consists of many SUNY New Paltz students as well as musicians, including Scott Nicholas of Wind-Up Bird and Nelsonvillains as engineer, John Morisi of Year On A Mountain as assistant manager, Cody Torlincasi of Nel-

Kali Quinn as chief A&R (public relations).Ari Kaputkin, a second-year transfer majoring geogra-

phy and Asian Studies, joined in as head of management as soon as he heard what Daly and Gloffke were doing.

“My parents were both in the music industry and when

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Nellsonvillains Our Evil Inside Joke, to be released on Oc-tober 6. Although the album was not recorded at the studio, Nellsonvillains is on the Salvation Recording Co. label and they helped complete it. The band will have an release show in October at Bacchus to kickoff their upcoming two-week tour.

Third-year English/Creative Writing major and musi-cian Kyle James Miller will be going into recording and full-production with Salvation Recording Co. on Nov. 1. They hope to have the album completed by early 2012.

“Being a budding label, we can’t just bring a lot of people and put a lot of energy in putting them on tour and getting their image set up. Bands like Nelsonvillains al-ready have a name for themselves,” said Daly. “Kyle James Miller has a name for himself. He has an image, he’s a pro

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ing, the company knows the pressure of an hourly rate re-cording studio.

“You go to a recording studio and you’re thinking about how you’re being charged $40 an hour or whatever,” said Gloffke. “Your process is hindered.”

Although they work day jobs, the company is earning money as they’re spending it.

“We are just dumping everything into this hoping that one day we’ll be able to quit our day jobs,” said Daly.

musicians play and are recorded inside or on the porch. Many of these recordings can be found on their web-site, www.salvationrecordingco.com. They said they are also planning multi-annual Porch Stomps - all-acoustic folk shows with food.

Salvation Recording Co. is working with Route 32 Presents to form shows as well as working together for the soon-to-be annual Route 32 Festival. They are also working with Ritual store owner Laura Andrighetti for a Halloween-based, all-day scavenger hunt.

Those working at the label are planning to hold semi-

to making a band’s T-shirt. Their studio also won’t be lim-ited to recording: the founders said they are in the process of building a screen printing studio and merchandise making facility in their basement.

Aside from dreaming of becoming a national and suc-cessful record label, those involved with the company said they hope to open up a larger venue to host all-ages and family events, from “Off-Broadway to punk shows.”

Third-year communication and media major Josh Briggs and third-year BFA photography major Sienna Puleo are also working on a documentary about Salvation Record-ing Co. and Route 32 Presents.

Salvation Recording Co. has already completed one of their main goals: to bring their friends and community together.

-ments where you’re feeling togetherness and making some-thing and with people who inspire you and who become great friends,” Gloffke said. “The great thing is, this mind-set is not individual to us. This kind of movement toward something bigger where everything is handmade is some-thing in the air right now - a beautiful, hopeful thing.”

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Much like the title of the second

novel of the series, Suzanne Collins’

“The Hunger Games” trilogy is catch-

“I think they’re so popular be-

young-adult book,” said second-year

“They’re just so descriptive and so

“The Hunger Games” has been

popular among literary critics and

pian literature, concern the nation of

tricts by means of the Hunger Games,

deen, a girl from the impoverished

pate in the games after her younger

her district, Peeta Mellark, go through

the games together, suffering through

ing feelings and their vulnerability as

lieves that a large part of the success

the books have seen is due to the role

is that she’s such an unlikeable char-

acter and she even says in the books

that people should not look up to her

ary canon of dystopian literature, she

young adult class and I have a bit of

a dystopian spin on it…I think that

tion and they raise a lot of questions

literature that does that in compelling

amongst high school classrooms as

the trilogy as required summer reading

getting to read the book that all my

“I think that the book is so popular

The books have been reaching a

done after reading the coverage maga-

zines such as Entertainment Weekly

compared the hype for the “Hunger

Games” to that of the “Harry Potter”

“I don’t think it’s the same kind of

those stories are looking to satisfy

high levels of violence, and Costello

have to cut much of this out as to sat-

isfy the young group of fans attracted

“I think they’ll have to tone the

tire essence of the story it should be

adult so they’ll probably have to keep

the back of the mind, Costello is sure

“I think that in the end they’re

But I think they’ll still do a good job

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Kodiak Drones OnGERMAN DOOM/AMBIENT BAND COLLABORATES WITH GUITARIST N

MUSICIAN OF THE WEEK:KYLE JAMES MILLER

September has brought us the newest release by Ger-man doom/ambient band Kodiak, a collaboration with guitarist N titled RN|XE. Kodiak emerged in 2008 with an impressive self-titled album showing the group’s ability to frame slow, grinding compositions with more subdued atmospheric guitar and percussion.

RN|XE is made up of two songs appropriately named

volving droning guitars and eventually light percussion and bass. It sets the stage for the compositions, show-ing how the two guitars work as a unit while the bass and drums usually follow another pattern or feel. “RN” builds up extremely well, showing how the group’s sound can morph from calming ambiance to powerful dissonant

opening of the song, it’s a crushing awakening as all four members explode with a dark march toward the peak of the song. As “RN” ends, dissonance gives way to excel-

lent effect-ridden guitar and bass work.“XE” has a somewhat different approach, opting to

begin with the full band playing while the guitars subtly react and mirror each other as the song carries on. These riffs evolve and retreat until a lone guitar begins quite an

repeats itself as the remaining guitar, bass and drums work

of sound, but eventually fade to electronics and echoes of delayed guitar.

As for song structure and originality, this album is right on. However, there are parts where the guitarists seem to be hesitant to get to the next part. When the bass and drums are going, it sometimes feels as if the guitars are content to play the same parts over and over with mini-mal changes rather than subtly progressing and changing during the quieter sections of the album. Another concern is the drums, which are a great display during the later parts of “XE” but never truly sound as put together or ex-perimental as the other instruments.

Kodiak and N really shine in the ambient passages of the album, showing an ability to create landscapes of sound beyond the ability of most other full bands play-

dirges later on. On both songs there are moments where certain notes seem to hang in the air for an eternity un-til the song continues on with a new part or instrument. That being said, this album is worth a listen if you have patience for long compositions or like ethereal, chilling atmospherics.

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English/Creative Writing Altamont, N.Y.

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WHAT’S YOUR INSTRUMENT OF CHOICE? WHY?

WHO ARE YOUR BIGGEST INFLUENCES?

Guitar. It’s just the instrument I’m best at. But I also play harmonica.

Bob Dylan. Jeff Tweedy.

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WHAT DO YOU DO WITH MUSIC ON/OFF CAMPUS?

On campus, absolutely nothing. Off campus, I’ve been playing a lot at 36 Main, A Tavola, Grimaldi’s, Oasis as well as working on a record with Savla-tion Recording Co.

ANY ADVICE FOR ASPIRING MUSICIANS?Just go for it. The worst that happens is that if you’re terrible, people will forget about you and if you’re good, people will remember you.

WHO ARE YOU CURRENTLY LISTENING TO?

Die Antwoord. Lou Reed. Hank Williams.

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Major: Metals

1st Year Graduate Student

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rication, metal casting, and computer aided

design/manufacturing. I am in!uenced by

minimalism, abstract expressionism, and

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stallations. You can #nd me in the Fine Arts

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Hurricane Irene, which was later down-graded to a tropical storm, hit New Paltz on Sunday, Aug. 28. The storm wreaked havoc on both our campus and town, leaving us with far more damage than anticipated. While we at The New Paltz Oracle applaud the work of everyone who helped restore normalcy, our experience with Irene proved that there is plenty of room for improvement with disaster relief efforts.

We are grateful our administration was ex-tremely diligent with providing students with updates during the storm via text message, e-mail and posts on the New Paltz website. It kept us informed about the status of the dam-age caused and possible dangerous situations. We also appreciate that out of the hundreds of towns impacted by the turbidity of the water, New Paltz was the only place that mandated a BoilWater Alert. Of 100 towns and villages throughout Ulster county, ours was the only one to make a suggested measure mandatory…just in case. When it comes to our livelihood, precautions can never hurt. It is respectable that our well being is important to our government

While this may be true, those who decided to institute such an intimidating alert regard-ing a basic necessity may need to do more re-search before they do so. As some environmen-

water would only move water and dirt particles

support such a mandate? We would have like to have known, and we

would have liked to have known when the alert was sent out. The messages students received about the alert simply told us how long the boil water notice was in effect, but not why. Rumors ran wild on campus about involving cholera and other ailments, and no one knew just how seri-ously to take the message. If there was some-thing drastically wrong with our water supply and someone did not take it seriously because they didn’t know the severity of the situation,

side, we shouldn’t live in fear if we don’t have to.

For the sake of our community, we hope

to communicate with us as extensively as they have – just in greater detail.

Another area our local leaders could im-prove upon is ensuring that there is enough water for students and residents in times of cri-ses. On campus, students claimed there was not enough supply to meet the high demand. This is a big problem considering this is related to our basic human need for water.

Students were also confused as to where to actually get the water. There needed to be more visible signage around campus as e-mails and texts could get confusing. Of course, NP Alerts are effective and we support all students signing up for them. The e-mails we received about this issue and others were also helpful. But there were a lot of them, and some students may have felt so inundated that they began ignoring these updates. Our inboxes were saturated with storm

read and process them all in succession. Students should not forget that they have

a responsibility to their safety, too. If you see a message labeled important, read it. If you are

getting alerts sent to your phone when there is a hurricane going on, see what they are about. You shouldn’t even need to be told this. Be dili-gent, for your own good.

Regardless, communication can still be more streamlined in the future. Hopefully, there won’t be another crushing storm – or worse – any time soon. But even though we felt the effects of severe weather this time around, per-haps this can serve as an opportunity for our administrators and the town and village govern-ments to learn from their mistakes and improve their preparations and processes in the future.

Editorials represent the views of the majority of the editorial board. Col-umns, op-eds and letters, excluding editorials, are solely those of the writ-ers and do not necessarily represent the views of The New Paltz Oracle, its staff members, the campus and university or the Town or Village of

New Paltz.

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CARTOON BY JOSH KUSAYWA

On my brother’s 25th birthday, a year ago on Sept. 19, I was in what some would call “a very dark place.” I woke up in a hospital at 6 a.m. with my mother crying at my bedside because I had overdosed on Vicodin and antidepressants. A few hours after I regained consciousness, I was transported to the psychiatric ward of Benedic-tine Hospital in Kingston.

Each patient I came in contact with was wearing his or her suicide attempts like military badges of honor while desperately searching for a way to connect. They spoke about the events leading up to their arrival and how sometimes loneliness or grief just leads you to bad decisions. There is only one way to combat this unhappi-

you matter.The initial question everyone asks is, “Why

did you do it?” Of course the doctors had a check-list of theories with drugs attached to each symp-tom. So, maybe they’re right and it is the border-line personality disorder, but what I really think happened is that sometimes we don’t see past what is right in front of us. I used to focus on the negative aspects of my life like how I’m not do-ing well enough or being nice enough compared to everyone else but I can’t worry about that any-more. It may have taken me months of intensive

on it but I want everyone to think like this about themselves, I am good and good enough. Every-one is.

While I was in the psych ward, my ex-boy-

friend lent me a book with a promising title and somber theme called “Everything Matters” by

ing, not a self-help book by any means and maybe it wasn’t the best book to read at the time, but it helped me beyond belief. The title line, that happens to be at the end of the novel, always snaps me back to reality:

“Everything ends, and Everything mat-ters.

Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because of it. Everything is all you’ve got and after Every-thing is nothing. So you were wise to welcome Everything, the good and the bad alike, and cling to it all. Gather it in. Seek the meaning in sorrow and don’t ever turn away, not once, from here until the end. Because it is all the

nitely preferable to the one dreadful alterna-tive.”

portant as everything else. We can’t let our lives slip through the cracks or else we have nothing. Every second is important. Each day is another day we have the time to make a difference and our share love. We cannot only focus on our mistakes or failures. This is time that we were given;; the good, bad, beautiful or astonishing, it is all yours for the taking.

Maria is a 21-year-old fourth-year journalism major. Her skills include, but are not limited to, petting cats and making pigs out of erasers. She is afraid that someday her hair will be longer than her lifeline. She

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By Jack A. SmithBetween 1900 and 2011 there have been 24 re-

cessions in the United States (including the Great De-pression), about once every 4.6 years, some decades more, some less, largely from inevitable overproduc-tion and greed.

Yes, capitalism’s highly productive and has made many Americans rich and facilitated Washington’s global rule. It’s also an unstable system responsible for extreme inequality, poverty and stagnant wages at home and adventures abroad to advance US economic interests. Yet, how frequently in the mass media, gov-ernment or in progressive or liberal circles is the sys-

ing today for a majority of Americans?What has made capitalism so sacrosanct in our

society? It wasn’t always that way. For about 65 years to the start of the Cold War following World War II in 1945 there had been lot of talk about socialism in the U.S. and criticism of capitalism among native and im-migrant workers. A number of labor leaders and unions

V. Debs(1855-1926) obtained almost a million write-in votes as the 1920 Socialist Party presidential candidate while in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary for having op-posed World War I. The Communist Party is said to have had 100,000 members around 1940.

The major factor in the virtual silence today about the shortcomings of capitalism as a system is that several generations of Americans, starting in the late 1800s and accelerating wildly since the Russian Revolution in 1917, have been trained throughout their entire lives that socialism is an existential danger to the “American way of life” and to democracy and freedom.

This was accompanied by several periods of red hunts, mass jailing, deportations and severe political repression, culminating in 1945-1960 with the purge of socialists and communists from the trade union movement and political witch hunts, the imprisoning

actors, directors and ordinary workers from tens ofthou-sands of jobs. Workers in millions of occupations had to sign loyalty oaths.

Anti-communism became the watchword through-out America but the actual target always was and remains much wider, including all the many varieties of socialism from Marxism-Leninism to mild democratic socialism, extending even to non-socialist social democracy, and implicitly to everyday progressivism and liberalism when reforms are contemplated.

The implosion of the USSR and the end of the Cold War reduced the obsession with communism, and course

left publications in the US, but criticism of America’s laissez-faire form of capitalism or capitalism as a system is considered out of bounds in the rest of our society. If this doesn’t change, nothing much is going to change in terms of gross economic inequality and distortions of de-mocracy because anticommunism, in essence, has come to mean pro-capitalism-no-questions-asked.

We think Joel Kovel made a good point, at the end of his important 1994 book “Red Hunting in the Promised Land,” when he wrote: “The capitalist order, with all its brilliant accomplishments, had not succeeded;; it has only won [the Cold War]. There can be no future worthy of hu-man beings unless the existing system is challenged. For this, the overcoming of anticommunism is indispensable.”

Americans may live in the richest country in the world, but it is in a society where about 10 percent of the population possesses nearly 90 percent of the nation’s as-

circumstances, and the “American dream” is fast fading for the working class/middle class as the US economic system seems headed into a second recession and the weakening of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Isn’t it time for the American people to directly question what’s wrong with capitalism, or at least inquire, in the words of an old saying: “Where are we going and what are we doing in this hand basket?”

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with a $20 suggested donation. Six local bands will be performing: The Love Taps, Ratboy, Seth Davis, SnowBear, The

at The Mudd Puddle, The Antique Barn, or Mixture.

admission tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for college students and children age 12-18, and free admission for children under age 12. Kick-off event attendees on 10/2 can get these tickets for $5 off the regular price. There will also be $100 VIP tent

bands to date include: Ratboy Jr., Mark Sager and the Black Horse Riders, the Trapps, Casey Erdman and Friends, the Greyhounds, Mr. Roper, Joobeco, Connor Kennedy Band, Hector Tajeda (a local farmer who lost all of his crops), the Bow Thayer Band, Patrick Carlin (George Carlin’s Brother), Alexis P. Suter and the Flood Aid All Stars: Steven Bernstein (of Levon Helm’s Band), Randy Ciarlante (of The Band), Byron Isaacs (of Levon Helm’s Band & Ollabelle), Jim Wieder (of The Band & Levon Helm’s Band) and much, much more.

www.NewPaltzFloodAid.org.We look forward to seeing the wonderfully supportive members of our community at these upcoming events,- The New Paltz Flood Aid Planning Committee

Dear Editor, At a time when Ulster County residents are struggling with high unemployment and falling property values, it has

been a major disappointment that the District Attorney has failed to protect our tax dollars from corruption. During his four

overruns of the Jail Debacle, the mismanagement issues at the Resource Recovery Agency and the questionable practices of the former Health Department chief, to the case against Timothy Matthews and the related issues raised about how the

has shown little regard for public integrity. As long ago as April, I called on the current D.A. to recuse himself from the case against Lt. Matthews, formerly

indicted for stealing public funds.Moreover, the D.A. has refused to disclose to the County Comptroller his protocols for safeguarding our tax dollars in

these secret investigations.It is time for Ulster County voters to tell the D.A. that public integrity matters. I am ready to be the people’s D.A.- Jon Sennett

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Once she started, Shelby Kondelka never wanted to

has played the sport and has become one of the most talked about athletes on the New Paltz Women’s Soccer team.

to play at the college level,” said Kondelka, a third-year. “Both of my older sisters played soccer in college. My oldest sister played at Utica and my other sister played at Mercy.”

As a senior in high school, Kondelka was initially re-cruited by SUNY Plattsburgh, a school known for its ath-letic program. Women’s Head Coach Colleen Bruley said that she had not originally tried to recruit Kondelka while she was in high school, but found out about her through other girls on the team.

“I didn’t hear about Shelby until her freshman year,” said Bruley. “I heard about her because she was friends with our old Captain Emily Buckner and Emily’s mom was talking to me about how they had a good friend who was at Plattsburgh and she wasn’t happy…and then she was just kind of like ‘We’ve got to get Shelby here, we’ve got to

get Shelby here.’ And then they must have said something to her and then she contacted me. And then she came for a visit and decided that she wanted to come here.”

Plattsburgh, and said that she felt like Plattsburgh wasn’t the right option for her to begin with, not to mention that she always liked New Paltz and the transfer to the school allowed her to be closer to home.

“I ended up not playing for the team and I didn’t like anything about it,” said Kondelka. “I wanted to be closer to home.”

While Kondelka was happy to be out of Plattsburgh and ready to settle in New Paltz, she said that adjusting to a

they’ve been with one another already,” said Kondelka. “I don’t know how they play and they don’t know how I play

with the team was challenging.”While initially a challenge, Kondelka was able to as-

year on the team was a contributor to the team’s success. However, Kondelka herself is no stranger to individual prestige. At the recent Red Scarlet Raider Classic Tourna-

ment the team participated in the weekend of Sept 9, Kon-delka was named to the All-Tournament team as well as MVP of the tournament. Last year, Kondelka was named team MVP and lead the Hawks with nine goals, including two against the team’s upset win over SUNY Geneseo.

Bruley said that when Kondelka is in shape, she is a “huge” threat as a forward.

“She has made us more of an offensive threat,” said Bruley. “We haven’t had a true goal-scorer in a while and typically, she’s not the type of player I would put as a goal scorer. She’s more of the assist and playmaker because she can put nice balls through and have good control with the ball. For the past couple of years that we’ve had her we’ve been looking for someone to be able to play off of her.”

In her second year on the team, Kondelka said that she has adjusted well and that she loves playing for Bruley and for the team. She said that her family, now that she is at school close by, attends almost every home game the Hawks have. The adjustment has left her incredibly satis-

again. “I couldn’t imagine not playing soccer,” said Kondel-

ka. “My year at Plattsburgh not playing soccer killed me. I had to come here. I had to play.”

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Shelby Kondelka happily plays the ball to a teammate during practice on Wednesday, Sept. 21. PHOTO BY ROBIN WEINSTEIN

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Fans may miss out on Carmelo Anthony and other NBA stars. PHOTO COURTESY OF BLOGSPOT.COM

Men’s Rugby tackles new season. PHOTO BY ROBIN WEINSTEIN

New Paltz Rugby ReturnsBoth New Paltz Men and Women’s Rugby will make their return to New Paltz

Sunday, Sept. 25 at the Rugby Field located behind Lenape Hall. Both teams have participated in two away games during their fall 2011 campaigns, with the men’s team being 0-2 and the women’s team being 1-1. While off to a rocky start, fourth-

the season holds for them.

teams (William Paterson University) was the league champion and I thought we played a decent game against them. I think that things are looking good for us as

The men’s team will be playing Sacred Heart University on Sunday at 2 p.m. and de la Rua said that the team is looking forward to the match-up between their opponent.

really good team and we have the conditioning to play longer and better than the

Strength and conditioning will be key to the success of the team, as de la Rua said. He said that even though the team is smaller than most of their opposition, they are in much better shape and will be able to outlast the others.

For as long as I can remember, the NBA has provided me with a reason to look forward to winter, a season oth-erwise marred with monotony and the constant discomfort of frigid tempera-tures. Weekday nights at approximately 7:30 p.m., the voices of Mike Breen

-nate from the surround sound speakers. Watching Knicks games has been a tra-dition since grade school. The routine would be homework, dinner and then the game.

From the days of Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell to the current duo of Amar’e Stoudemire and Carmelo An-thony, Knicks basketball (whether win-ning or losing) has always been a source of comfort for me. Something that has

childhood is on the brink of halting op-erations for a year. That is something that I am not willing to accept.

As October approaches, the NBA’s players and owners have still not reached a labor agreement that would end the current lockout. In the midst of this la-bor stoppage, the NBA’s biggest and brightest stars have been keeping busy by playing in city exhibition leagues, but by this time of year, teams should be

getting ready for training camp. How-ever, this year is different.

Although talks indicate slight prog-ress, the two sides are very far apart in terms of reaching an agreement and the season is in serious jeopardy. That be-ing said, players are already thinking about taking their acts elsewhere. Dwy-ane Wade would not rule out playing a season in China. In addition, Deron Wil-liams has already signed with the Turk-

remain with them until the NBA work stoppage ends.

From a fan’s perspective, the un-certainty of the NBA season is incred-ibly taxing. Not being able to watch my Knicks is particularly disheartening due to the fact that they are an up-and-coming team with both star-power and youthful role players. To say I’m disap-pointed would be an understatement.

It actually makes me angry that the NBA is unable to get their act to-gether. This will cause them to miss a whole season of revenue all because of the executive’s greed. Not only will the season be lost, but the loyalty of the ca-sual fan maybe lost. The die-hard fans

something else to wet their sports pal-ette during the NBA’s absence.

The NFL, who ended their lockout

last month, had DeMaurice Smith (the head of the National Football League’s Player’s Association) speak at a recent NBA labor meeting to explain how impractical locking out is. Apparently Smith’s words have not fully resonated with the owners as the league continues to suspend operations.

If it is a shortened season, that would be better than nothing at this point. Bas-ketball is a sport that I just cannot live without. Just the thought of not having a basketball season is very heartbreak-ing. Basically, a year without the NBA is torture.

Maybe I’m jumping the gun a little bit, but it’s almost time to really start talking New York

in my heart caused by another sad season. And with the new season of Blueshirts hockey ap-proaching, I think the boys in blue have a real chance of cleaning up the shards that baseball season has left behind.

A lot has gone on for the Rangers this off-season. Players left, players came in, roles changed and it has produced an air of hope and

ing myself. Here are the top 10 things that Rang-ers fans have to look forward to the most for the 2011-12 season;;

10. Tri-state domination- Fine, I’ll admit

the best of the three teams this past decade. But that time is over. The Islanders are still young and up-and-coming and have nothing on the Rangers.

son last year and they’re transitioning from a de-fensive team to an offensive team, with the likes of Zach Parise, Ilya Kovalchuk and Travis Zajac

ing place, there is still one last problem with the Devils in Martin Brodeur. Is he still old? Yes. Is he still fat? Yes. Is he still a huge threat at 39 years old? Absolutely.

9. A healthy Martin Biron- After breaking his collarbone at the end of February, Ranger fans everywhere put their head in their hands and let out a collective groan. Biron was brought in so that Henrik Lundqvist had a capable back-up and wouldn’t have to play the ridiculous amount of games that he starts every year. Now that Biron is back, Hank will get the perfect amount of resting time. When the postseason comes around, Lun-dqvist will be well-rested and ready to go.

8. Henrik Lundqvist- Lundqvist is going to have a good year and I’m putting my money on it. Last year he had a decent run in the playoffs, but I think he could have been a lot better off if he had a better back-up than Chad Johnson down the stretch. The key with Lundqvist and how much success he brings to the team is how many games he plays. I think if he plays between 60 and 65

the Rangers on a nice long playoff run.7. HBO 24/7- How can any fan NOT be

about the Flyers and Rangers getting their own HBO coverage after the success of the four-part series that featured the Penguins and Capitals, I was stoked. Let’s be honest, the Rangers are a

some heads off? C’mon you know it’s coming.6. John Tortorella- I love Torts. A lot. And

I think now he has the team that he wants and the team that he can work with. Tortorella’s new team is young, fast and knows (or have at least been

of winning are pretty good. Especially now with a team that he can mold and morph to play a spe-

5. The Backline- Last year, I said that the Rangers had one of the best defenses in the league. I still believe this and I think that this year they are just going to continue to improve. The thing that is so great about them is they’re still so young and already they’re pretty accomplished.

but the question is who plays with Steve Eminger. It’s either going to be Michael Del Zotto or new

bit of a soft spot for Del Zotto and hope he gets it. Sure, he may have been on the Conneticut Whale,

play really well and that he can create offensive chances. I’m for MDZ, but we’ll have to see.

4. Saying farewell to “The Unholy Trin-ity”- At least, that’s what Ken Campbell said of Chris Drury, Scott Gomez and Wade Redden. While it may have been a three-season process, the horrible moves that general manager Glen Sather made when getting these players is undone, as Drury was bought-out this summer. I think it’s unfair that we all trash Drury so much, since he was a guy who was played completely wrong, but he was doing nothing for this team anymore. The Rangers needed to adopt the “out with the old, in with the new” mentality, and they’ve done it by saying goodbye to the 25th captain of the New

York Rangers. Speaking of captains …3. Captain Callahan- Finally. This has

been foreseeable for the past two seasons and it honestly could not be any more well-deserved. Ryan Callahan has been named the 26th captain in team history and will serve as a reliable, go-to guy for the team in all areas. He plays hard, works even harder and is going to be an ideal role model for teammates. Callahan should be a guy

and will more than likely be more outspoken than Drury ever was.

2. The Winter Classic- We’ve been wait-ing for this for a while, and could going against rival Philadelphia Flyers be any more perfect? Even from the comforts at home, watching the Blueshirts play outside in such a gritty environ-ment will be incredible. It’s going to suck if they lose of course, but I have faith in their abilities-and in how much worse the Flyers will be with no Mike Richards or Jeff Carter.

1. Brad Richards- Yup, This is what makes

Richards-it’s what is going to happen to this team with Richards on it. The Rangers have needed a good center for a longone. Richard upgrades the offense and his pres-ence should spark the skills of Marian Gaborik, who had a sub-par season last year. The defense is strong, the goaltending is strong and now that Richards is here, the offense gets a little bit stron-ger.

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The SUNY New Paltz Cross Country has started their race toward conference glory suc-cessfully, with both men and women performing well at the Vassar and New Paltz Invitationals. Most recently the men’s team took third place

women’s team in the top four in the conference as well as top 10 in the region and the men’s team in the top six in the conference and top 20 in the region,” said Head Coach Michael Trunkes.

The team has adjusted to harder workouts as their goals become more ambitious. Early on they are moving up the ranks and accomplishing ambitious goals.

moved us up in the rankings a lot. They're top 10 in the region so beating them was a big step for us,” said second-year Amanda Wolfer. “I feel great about my performances thus far, I've con-

Wolfer said a lot of changes have been made since last season and everyone is working harder to achieve their goals.

“Our team this year compared to last year has dramatically changed. This has been the best New Paltz's women’s cross country team in his-tory,” Wolfer said. “Big things are expected to happen. We were 5th in the conference last year, but this year it’s guaranteed we break into the top 3.”

According to the team, the changes they have made—including graduated teammates and harder workouts—has brought the team closer together and made them more ambitious. Second-year Harry Collins explained that they have lost a lot of great athletes to graduation.

“This year the motto seems to be ‘less is more’,” said Collins. “We lost a bunch of guys last year, including the legendary Joseph Gentsch, who will always be remembered and missed. He was a great leader and a great run-ner.”

The new dynamic, though lacking recent graduates, seems to be working well for the Hawks.

“We have great chemistry on both of our Men's and Women's teams this year. We also have strong leadership and a very committed group of athletes,” Trunkes said.

Coach Trunkes believes that his committed runners can achieve all that they set out to this season if they keep their commitment.

“We need to continue to stay focused and do work. There are no short cuts or secret for-mulas for success,” said Trunkes. “It's a lot of hard work and dedication from our athletes and coaching staff that will get us to where we want to go.

Trunkes said he relies a lot on team captains to motivate and set an example for the rest of the team.

“Nichole Wischoff has steadily increased her training volume over the past two years to where she is able to run 65 to 70 miles per week with intensity.”

Wischoff has dedicated her college free time to pushing herself to better her running ability.

“I'm a completely new animal this year,”said third-year Captain Wischoff. “I've been training consistently and have gone from running 45 miles a week as a freshman, to 60 by the end of sophomore year, and now at 70 miles

years worth of mileage.” Wischoff also said that through leading by

example, she sees the team work harder together.“By staying positive and talking myself

through workouts, I notice that the girls follow

my lead. We are in it together,” said WischoffThe team runs between seven and 12 miles

each day and works with trainers to do body strengthening exercises. Wischoff has already

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by 51 seconds and the second by 45. “We are pushing each other in a positive

way. Pushing each other to go faster,” Collins said. “Last year there was some animosity on the team and some negative energy between us. That seems to be over.”

As the season progresses, Trunkes is sure that more runners will gain recognition and be-gin to place more competitively.

“Harry Collins has led our men in the last two invitationals and looks to be a force through-out the season,” Trunkes said, adding that he is a “very tenacious racer.”

Invitational and sixth of 105 at the Vassar Invi-tational.

“I consider myself a race runner,” said second-year Collins. “I've been working to run workouts harder this year. Coach Harris and Coach Trunkes both know I race well but work-outs are something that I have always had to

work harder at.”Collins and his coaches know that practice

makes perfect. He wants to cover and eight Ki-lometer course 1:44 quicker than last year.

“It is an ambitious goal but I am going to try my hardest to achieve it,” said Collins.

Though the team talks about the season like it is already won, there is still plenty of hard work to come. The season has just begun and some of the hardest meets are coming up.

“In Conference Geneseo, Plattsburgh and Cortland are all nationally ranked, and Oneonta

side. For the men, our closest competitors will be Oswego, Brockport and Oneonta,” Trunkes said. “If we can continue to improve our men will be in a very competitive position on Oct 29.”

The team is committed to working as hard as it takes to achieve their goals this year. They are striving to break school records and prove they are the best our school has seen.

“Every day I tell myself that I am going to Nationals in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on Nov. 19. I don't think anyone in New Paltz cross country, men’s or women’s, has ever gone to Nationals, Wischoff said. “I will not be stopped.”

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Men’s Cross Country gets ahead of the pack at the Vassar Invitational. PHOTO COURTESY OF STOCKTON PHOTOS

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Thursday, Sepember 22, 2011

The Bullpen Blues

A recent report in The New York Post has sparked conversation among the Mets fan base as the team has al-ready begun questioning who will close out games come April of next season.

Let’s be honest, the current hodge-podge combination of Manny Acosta, Jason Isringhausen, Pedro Beato and Bobby Parnell has not inspired many with their ability to be a closer over a long term period of time, and contrary to popular belief GM Sandy Alderson might be looking outside the organiza-tion for help with the ninth inning.

It is believed that the notion that Alderson strictly adheres to the “Mon-eyball” closers-are-overpriced dictum is not as set and stone as previously thought and the GM might look to add a big-name closer through the Free Agent market.

In fact, Alderson went on to say that a strong closer is something that trickles

“I think it has a real impact on not just team success, but also team outlook,

son said in a report for ESPNNewYork.com. “Blown saves from time to time are part of the game, but blowing them at an inordinate rate can have, I think, a real negative impact on a team. So it needs to be a point of concentration for us.”

This was highlighted beyond just the need for a closer, as Alderson said strengthening the bullpen as a whole will be an emphasis this winter due to the Mets relievers now sport a 4.22 ERA - which ranks last in the National League. Also, since the All-Star break the Mets have blown 10 saves, which

is one behind the Colorado Rockies for most in the majors.

Names like Jonathan Papelbon, Ryan Madson, Brade Lidge, Jonathan Broxton and former Mets Heath Bell and Francisco Rodriguez will hit the open market and each offer different scenarios of the Mets to consider for their closer next season.

Knowing the Mets and their current

Papelbon, Madson or Bell wearing or-ange and blue next season is not likely. Names such as them will command contracts that will siphon money that needs to be used to patch other holes on the roster, not to mention the attempt to re-sign Jose Reyes.

A more likely scenario is the Mets offering a one-year incentive laden deal to one or both of Lidge and Broxton, hoping to catch the hurlers on a come-back, lightning-in-a-bottle, situation that would be a stopgap until the Mets

Lidge, currently acting as the Phil-lies set-up man, is an intriguing option. Since coming off the disabled list on July 27 after recovering from a right posterior rotator cuff strain, Lidge is 0-1 with a 1.12 ERA and trying to prove he can still be the closer he once was. If the Mets believe he is healthy enough to resume the role of an everyday closer, he would be someone worth exploring.

Broxton is not as inspiring as Lidge, but would likely come much cheaper on the open market. After going 1-2 with a 5.68 ERA this season, Broxton has been on the disabled list since May 4 and has undergone arthroscopic surgery on Sept. 19 his right elbow to remove a bone spur. He is not to begin throwing for another 6-8 weeks.

In reality, Broxton has not been the same since his stellar 2009 season where he struck out 114 batters and had a commanding 2.61 ERA for the Dodg-ers.

Other options could include Matt

Capps, Kerry Wood, Mike Gonzalez or Rafael Soriano if he declines his $11 million player option.

However, if the Mets do decide to stick to in-house candidates, there are a few options they could consider. The idea of shifting Mike Pelfrey from a starter to a closer was internally dis-cussed, but dismissed almost immedi-ately. While Pelfrey has the necessary “stuff” his mental makeup and ability to log 200+ innings will ultimately lead to him staying in the rotation.

Down the line, the Mets might be wise to consider using prospects Jenrry Mejia or Jeurys Familia as a closer due to their dominance in the minors. How-ever, both are currently considered to be starting pitchers for the long term.

While nothing is set in stone, it is almost a forgone conclusion that the Mets current combustible bullpen will feature many new faces come the be-ginning of the 2012 season.

Could Brad Lidge be an option for the Mets heading into 2012? PHOTO COURTESY OF FLICKR.COM

A recent report in The New York

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