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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Ottaway Professor Introduced To Campus Deborah Amos, the 2013 James H. Ottaway

Sr. Professor of Journalism at SUNY New Paltz, was introduced to the campus community by President Donald Christian this past Tuesday eve-ning at the Honors Center.

President Christian interviewed Amos about her life and career as the NPR Middle East cor-respondent to an audience of about 80 people.

session. “I was very lucky to land at National Pub-

lic Radio in 1977. Nobody knew who we were. It was a moment of wealth and expansion and experimentation and we could craft what radio was,” Amos said. “It’s been one of the most steady sources of news in the United States and I think I would’ve been surprised by that in 1977, but in 2013 we have 30 million listeners and growing because we have stuck to our core business, which is doing news.”

In 2003, Lisa Phillips, chair of the Ottaway Committee, knew that Amos was living in the area and kept her in mind as a future Ottaway profes-sor.

“I knew she lived in Woodstock and I emailed her and I asked her ‘Would you ever be interested in this?’ and she said ‘yes’ and we got together,” Phillips said. “This was two or three years ago.

interviews I did which was in 2010. Just getting all the timing right took until now.”

week residency as part of the time NPR arranges for her.

“She also happens to have teaching and train-ing experience with young journalists and that is great for our students because we need good teachers, even if for two weeks,” Phillips said.

Amos was awarded the George Foster Pea-body Award from the University of Georgia this past March and in 2010, she received the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award from Washington State University.

“We had planned this for more than a year. She just won the two biggest prizes in broadcast journalism, so we would be crazy not to want someone like Deborah Amos if she’s available to come to be with us,” Phillips said.

Amos has visited several classes including feature writing, journalism I and radio journal-ism and plans to visit many more. She has also

isn’t teaching. “She has a very commanding speaking style

and you hear it on the air and you see it in the

classroom. Plus she’s very willing and fascinat-ed by the processes that the students are going

radio work,” Phillips said. “We always look for something new in the Ottaway;; something we haven’t offered before with the Ottaway profes-sor and we hadn’t had a working radio journalist.”

Amos began her post-college career with

it was through her shift from television to radio that she realized where her passion truly lied.

“You get the emotion of the image and you get the information of the print and that gets mar-ried into radio and there’s no other medium like it,” Amos said. “When I hear brilliant radio, I am moved by it.”

At 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 18, Amos will give a public speech called “A Passport to the Middle East: A Career of Revolution, Upheaval and Hope” in the Coykendall Science Building Auditorium.

By Zameena MejiaCopy Editor | [email protected]

In his March 15 President’s Report given at the Academic and Professional Faculty Meeting, President Donald Chris-tian addressed issues relating to the Park Point housing development.

Christian said he is currently trying to focus on the college’s need for additional housing. With .45 residence hall beds for every student, Christian said New Paltz is “dead last” compared to eight other SUNY schools where the average number of beds is .59 per student.

“They have the ability to house 59 percent of their students in the residence halls,” Christian said. “If you take our cur-rent residence hall capacity and add the 225 beds for the new residence hall we are designing, we are still below that aver-age.”

In a survey sent to transfer students in summer 2012, roughly 60 percent of them said they would live in an apartment com-plex like Park Point if it were available at

said. With a target of 1,000 transfer stu-

dents – 650 students in the fall and 350 in the spring — paired with high retention rates of roughly 88 percent, Christian said there are nearly 1,900 transfer students en-rolled at the college.

“There is … need and demand for student housing even if we don’t grow our enrollments,” Christian said.

Even though Park Point will not be part of the campus, Christian said it is close enough that administration is inter-ested in it, as it would “let students live right next to campus and be able to be en-gaged in student life.”

Park Point developer Wilmorite’s energy consultant that the housing complex will be made consistent with National Green Building Standard (NGBS) “Silver” and

the Town Planning Board, it was conclud-ed that the designs would have “easily ex-

if LEED had been selected, according to the report.

“This analysis should offer assur-ance that Park Point is being designed in a way consistent with the College’s com-mitments and standards for environmental sustainability,” the report said.

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Hugo the Hawk has won Mascot Madness, an online competition of SUNY mascots. According to the SUNY blog, this year’s contest included 30 SUNY

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Deborah Amos, the 2013 Ottaway Professor, was recently introduced to campus by President Christian.

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Vladimir Putin, banned in Finland?Finnish police say the Russian presi-dent’s name was mistakenly placed on a secret criminal register that could theo-retically have gotten him arrested at the

border.

PUTIN PUT ON REGISTER

WESTERN WALL PROPOSAL

Israeli authorities have proposed es-tablishing a new section at the Western Wall where men and women can pray together, a groundbreaking initiative

by liberal streams of Judaism in their long quest for recognition.

ATTACK PHOTO GOES VIRAL

The shocking photo of a homophobic attack victim in Paris that went viral on social me-dia this week and caused the French interior minister to weigh in was used as an emblem in a pro-gay rally Wednesday evening.

NOBEL LAUREATE DEAD AT 87

Robert Edwards, a Nobel laureate from Britain whose pioneering in vitro

tube baby and has since brought mil-lions of people into the world, died

Wednesday at age 87.

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Malawi issued a scathing critique of pop diva Madonna on Wednesday, ac-cusing her of exaggerating her contri-butions to the southern African country and demanding special treatment dur-

ing her tour there last week.

Tensions emerged Wednesday in a newly announced alliance between al-Qaida’s franchise in Iraq and the most powerful Syrian rebel faction, which said it was not consulted before the Iraqi group announced their merger and only heard about it through

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Distinguished Speaker To Discuss Middle East

Ambassador Dennis Ross, counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, will be the 2013 Spring Distinguished Speaker.

Ross will be giving his lecture “Challenges for American Foreign Policy in the Middle East” on Tuesday, April 16 in Lecture Center 100 at 7:30 p.m.

According to the Washington Institute’s web-site, Ross has played a “leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations” for more than 12 years.

The Institute said Ross worked as a counselor from 2001 to 2009 and rejoined in 2011 after work-ing as special assistant to President Barack Obama for two years, serving as National Security Council senior director for the Central Region and spend-ing a year as special advisor to former Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton.

Having been director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff under George H.W. Bush and special Middle East coordinator under Bill Clinton,

Some of his achievements include helping Israelis and Palestinians reach the 1995 Interim Agreement, negotiating the 1997 Hebron Accord, handling the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty and actively working to unite Israel and Syria, the web-site said.

-istration, Ross also played an integral part in “U.S.

-cation of Germany and its integration into NATO, arms control negotiations and the 1991 Gulf War coalition.”

Ross received the Presidential Medal for Dis-

tinguished Federal Civilian Service from Clinton and the State Department’s most prestigious award from former Secretaries of State James Baker and Madeleine Albright.

A published author as well, he has written sev-eral books on the peace process, such as his most recent “Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East,” co-au-thored by Institute peace process expert David Ma-kovsky and “The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace,” his analysis and personal insight into the Middle East peace process.

According to the New Paltz website, Ross’s lecture will explore the consequences of the Arab Awakening for the region and U.S. policy, the U.S., Israel and Iranian nuclear issue and the possibility of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

After Ross’s presentation, 2013 Ottaway Fel-low and NPR Middle East Correspondent Deborah Amos will moderate a question and answer session. A book signing and reception will follow the event.

Although he was not involved in selecting Ross as the distinguished speaker, Professor Lewis Brownstein sits on the committee chaired by Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences James Schiffer, which organizes events pertaining to the Middle East.

Brownstein said he knows “a great deal” about Ross’s work, especially his involvement in Israeli-Palestinian peace discussions, and believes it will be valuable to learn from someone with his expertise.

“He will be speaking on the current state of those negotiations and on the upheavals in the area. There is no one more knowledgeable on these top-ics,” Brownstein said. “This is a major opportunity for our students to hear someone of his stature.”

Fourth-year international relations major The-odore Griese said he is disappointed he has class

during Ross’s visit, as it would be an exceptional educational experience.

“We are really lucky to have such a distin-guished person coming to campus and I like that Deborah Amos will be there too,” Griese said. “As an international relations major, I get really nerdy about these things, but hopefully everyone else re-

hand knowledge about issues most people don’t know enough about.”

Tickets for the event can be purchased in ad-

cost $18 for the general public, $13 for faculty, staff, seniors, alumni and non-New Paltz students and are free for New Paltz students with ID.

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By Rachel FreemanNews Editor | [email protected]

Christine McCartney, an English language arts teacher at Newburgh Free Academy and grad-uate of the Master of Arts in Teaching program at SUNY New Paltz, has won a Distinguished Ful-bright Award in Teaching.

The Fulbright scholarship program is a U.S. government international education exchange that promotes “mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries of the world,” according to their website.

McCartney was awarded the scholarship to meet with professors and observe classes at the University of Tempere in Finland.

McCartney was looking for a way to enhance her teaching practice over the summer, and said she found the application to the Fulbright Distin-guished Awards in Teaching program online.

She said the application process was an ex-tensive one.

“It took me about three months to prepare,”

McCartney said.As a part of her bid for the scholarship, she

someone who would agree to work with her.“In what I considered a long shot, I wrote to

Pasi Sahlberg [Finnish educator] and explained what I wanted to research and why and he put me in contact with a friend of his. I think that really increased my chances,” she said.

Save for one exam that students take at the end of high school, there are virtually no standard-ized tests in the Finnish education system, which McCartney said intrigued her.

“[They] train their teachers in a much more comprehensive way, in my opinion, and they trust teachers to do their jobs,” she said.

The autonomy that Finnish teachers hold in their classrooms is an aspect of schooling that Mc-Cartney said is lacking in “the states,” where stan-dardized testing is overused. She said she hopes to bring some of those practices back with her.

McCartney arrived in Finland in March and will stay until June. In that time, she must attend two graduate courses and complete an “action-

based” research project. She said she plans to visit the arctic circle

and spend time at rural schools in Inari with the help of a friend who is recording videos of her

During her time in Finland, McCartney said she has observed a lot that can inform American education, in particular, student choice.

“Vocational schools are highly respected and many students enter them instead of traditional schools,” she said. “They are able to pursue the

-vated to learn about.”

Upon her return, McCartney said she would like to design courses for teachers to conduct their own research in the classroom.

McCartney works with the Hudson Valley Writing Project (HVWP) and will be helping to facilitate the HVWP Summer Institute when she comes back.

“[The Summer Institute] is always such a rich learning environment, so I am sure my ideas for how to share my work with educators will grow tenfold out of that experience,” she said.

New Paltz Graduate Receives Fulbright AwardBy John TappenCopy Editor | [email protected]

In 1973, the United States Supreme Court made their landmark Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion in the United States. Forty years later, SUNY New Paltz will host a conference exploring the

the current struggles of women and their re-productive rights.

“Reproductive Justice: 40 Years after Roe v. Wade,” the 30th Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference, will take place on Saturday, April 27 in the Lecture Center at 8 a.m. The conference is free for all students, who must pre-register, and $25 for the public.

The conference features a keynote pan-el, a historical panel, six panels on various topics, a photography exhibition and a call to action.

Event Coordinator and Lecturer Su-zanne Kelly said choosing the conference theme was a “no brainer” for the planning committee.

“In thirty years, we’ve never done one on reproductive justice, and in recent years, we’ve seen so many new kinds of legisla-tions — more kinds than in the past — chal-lenging Roe v. Wade,” Kelly said.

Kathleen Dowley, coordinator of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, also said the topic was the “natural choice,” especially in light of state legisla-tors who are trying to further restrict wom-en’s access to reproductive healthcare “in a variety of insidious ways.”

“The timing is just right to re-engage and reassess where we are today in terms of the reproductive justice movement, in the hope of reenergizing the next generation of feminist activists,” Dowley said.

According to the promotional confer-ence brochure, the reproductive justice movement — which has been led by women of color organizations — recognizes a wom-an’s right to reproduce as her fundamental right as a human being.

“Reproductive justice means that a woman’s right to control her reproductive health should not be restricted because of race, religion, sexuality, disability, gender identity or expression, economic, immigrant or citizenship status or status as an incarcer-ated woman,” the brochure said.

Unlike previous years, Kelly said they did not put out a call for papers and decided to scale back on the number of panels of-fered.

“Last conference, we had a lot more panels that weren’t well attended. We want-ed to have few panels — more condensed,” Kelly said. “We thought it would be nice for

together from the keynote to the historical panel.”

Dowley said while the “plenary” panel will focus on the historical impact of Roe v. Wade in the United States, the scope of the afternoon panels is “very up to the mo-ment,” including policy makers and activists from Planned Parenthood, The Center for Reproductive Rights and Family Planning Advocates of New York.

“[They] are engaged in the daily strug-gle to provide access and resources to wom-en and their families,” she said.

Moderated by Professor Emerita Amy Kesselman, the keynote panel features Sis-terSong Founder Loretta Ross, Katherine Cross, core collective/board member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and Angela Hoo-ton, state policy and advocacy director for The Center for Reproductive Rights.

The “Historical Perspectives on Repro-ductive Justice” panel features Kesselman, Assistant Professor Meg Devlin O’Sullivan and Rickie Solinger, a historian, author and curator. The three speakers will provide the historical context surrounding Roe v. Wade, including the limitations of the decision and the steps made by American women of color during the reproductive justice movement in the 1960s and ‘70s.

Kesselman will focus on the pre-Roe

necticut just before the Supreme Court deci-sion. She said she will “inject” the stories of real women to show not only the effect activism had on the reproductive rights movement, but the campaign for women’s

freedom as well. “The decision for Roe v. Wade was not

only made in the courtroom — it was made by women, who used the case as a way to travel and say how the anti-abortion bill was harming them and their lives,” Kesselman said. “It was because of women’s activism that women’s voices were heard by the jus-tices who crafted Roe v. Wade.”

Other panel topics include protecting pregnant and parenting women, reproduc-tive justice for youths, faith and religion, organizing and advocating for reproductive justice, global dimensions with a regional emphasis on Latin America and Africa, re-productive rights and the economics of re-productive decisions.

After the panel discussions, the event will move to the Library Exhibit Space for a reception and display of Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood is Not a Class Privi-lege in America with Solinger.

The conference will close with a call to action led by M. Tracey Brooks, president and CEO of Family Planning Advocates of New York. According to Kesselman, the call to activism is important in light of the recent call in Albany to pass a cluster of laws en-hancing women’s rights in the state.

Kesselman said it’s important to hold a conference on reproductive justice because — rather than making strides in reproduc-tive rights in the last couple of years — the movement has “lost a lot of ground.”

out how to revitalize and expand the move-ment,” she said. “Reproductive justice is the right to have control over one’s life, repro-ductive decisions, the right to bring a child up in a supportive environment, and if and when to have a child — it’s more than just abortion.”

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hours in a suburban Atlanta home, de-manding his cable and power be turned back on, before being shot dead when SWAT members stormed the house, au-

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HERMIT BURGLAR CAUGHTA man who lived like a hermit for de-cades in a makeshift camp in the woods and may be responsible for more than 1,000 burglaries for food and other staples has been caught in a surveil-lance trap at a camp he treated as a “Walmart,” authorities said Wednes-

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fered domestic abuse.

OBAMA PROPOSES BUDGETMixing modest curbs on spending with tax increases reviled by Republicans, President Barack Obama proposed a $3.8 trillion budget on Wednesday that would raise taxes on smokers and wealthy Americans and trim Social Se-

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After two rounds of voting, SUNY

New Paltz’s Campus Auxiliary Ser-

vices (CAS) Board chose to renew So-

dexo as the food service provider on

During their rescheduled meet-

ing on Wednesday, April 10, members

of the CAS Board voted in favor of

choosing Sodexo’s proposal over those

presented by contractors Aramark and

vote came after Aramark and Sodexo

Both members of the board itself

and students on campus had mixed

feelings about the decision to re-

new the incumbent service provider,

but shared hope in the possibility of

strengthening their relationship in the

“Based on the proposals, Sodexo

has worked with us in the past on sus-

tainability and workers’ rights, so we

hope that we can continue to improve

that,” Student Association President

and Vice Chair of CAS Board Josh

all I can say is I am happy I am in-

sort of became picking the less evil of

CAS Executive Director Steve

Deutsch said at the meeting that he

conducted multiple interviews with

his peers at comparable schools who

currently have the three companies

Deutsch said he received mostly

negative reviews of Chartwells from

schools like SUNY Albany and SUNY

feedback from the University of Hart-

The three competing companies

visited SUNY New Paltz last month,

each offering proposals about how

Afterward, members of the board were

After tallying the feedback from

board members, Aramark received the

highest positive feedback with a 95

percent favorability score, Sodexo was

second with 90 percent and Chartwells

Despite the high favorability rat-

ings, students had uneasy feelings

“The reason we were pushing for

Sodexo was we wanted to pick the

less of three evils,” Student Senator

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cause we have Sodexo now doesn’t

mean we will have the same service

going forward, we are pushing for a

Courtens said because Sodexo had

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tract and was more willing to listen

to student demands in recent months,

many students swung their favor

in keeping the current provider and

working to continue the strides they

“Cheering for Sodexo is not some-

three of the companies were basically

the same shirts with different labels on

with Aramark, but we got our foot in

the door with Sodexo and we hope to

Courtens said Sodexo was open to

on campus, which was something that

many students hope to see implement-

The Challenge, which pledges

to improve “our nation’s food sys-

tem to prevent adverse health, social,

economic and ecological outcomes,”

contains a list of commitments partici-

pating groups hope to see and the best

Now that the CAS Board has vot-

ed on their recommendation, Deutsch

will take the choice to President Don-

ald Christian and work with a subcom-

mittee comprised of a faculty member,

staff member, students and union rep-

resentatives to work on the wording of

Simpson said he was adamant

about being part of the committee and

hopes to ensure that the issues brought

up by the approximately 30 students

who attended the meeting and the vari-

ous others involved in the process, are

Despite this, Simpson said while

Sodexo has been chosen as the pro-

spective food service provider, the stu-

won’t lose interest in this like so many

tend to get up in arms over things and

I would hate to see that happen again

CAS Board Renews Sodexo As Food Service Provider

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The Strategic Planning Committee recently

SUNY New Paltz campus.

committee, which was charged last semester by Pres-

community.-

-thropic commitments and success, engaging alumni

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and addressing institutional capacity, building online education and strengthening the regional and com-munity engagement.

According to the New Paltz website, the plan

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in September.

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campus community. The strategic plan will establish

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Christian said that, with the plan, there are as-

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to NYC – those are the assets we want to take ad-

strategicplanning.newpaltz.edu. To strategic-

[email protected].

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FEATURES

The SUNY New Paltz Residence

Hall Student Association (RHSA) held

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day, April 3 in the Student Union Multi

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cultures.

The culture committee’s mission

together and try a “taste” of different

cultures which surround them here in

New Paltz, committee members said.

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including Mexicali Blue, Rino’s Pizza,

engineering major said food is the easi-

est and most traditional way of sharing

different cultures, which was the reason

behind their focus.

people “brings out the richness of peo-

ple’s cultures.”

Various food representing cultures

included jerk chicken from Jamaican

rice and noodle dishes from Asian and

European restaurants.

Haley Powers, a second-year his-

tory and international relations major,

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til she walked by the MPR and was told

there was free food.

Although she said the organization

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tising, she was excited to try their offer-

ings.

“They [the committee] do a good

job in showing what’s out there,” she

said. “I like to learn about other cultures

and food is a door opener and a way to

Powers said she was happy to see

European countries represented at the

fair, as she said most of the time cultural

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tries.

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“I hope they [students] come out

with more of an appreciation for differ-

ent cultures,” Ludwin said. “Different

cultures offer more than food and it’s

something people will remember.”

will begin as a kick starter for other cul-

Because of time and budget, the

entertainment like they hoped for, but

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ly as planned for the organization, stu-

dents on campus were still pleased with

the results.

political science major, said the commit-

“It’s not the typical cultures that

said. “It’s a more balanced representa-

tion.”

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you don’t try all of the different cul-

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ted from free food and socializing with

their classmates.

doesn’t like free food?” Mazzarella said.

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[email protected]

Chowing Around The WorldRHSA HOSTS CULTURAL FOOD FESTIVAL PROGRAM

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Before she began teaching in the fall of 2012, sociol-ogy Professor Alexandra Cox dealt with up to 80 clients at a time working as a mitigation advocate at the Neigh-borhood Defender Service of Harlem. Cox worked for an alternative to incarceration for her clients, many of whom

It wasn’t until Cox became a social worker and started making regular visits to Riker’s Island that Cox said she began to realize “the ways in which prison and jail be-come a revolving door for many impoverished and home-less people.”

During an event hosted by the New York Public In-terest Research Group (NYPIRG) in the Student Union Room 62/63, Cox gave a lecture on homelessness.

NYPIRG intern and third-year sociology major Rosa-

Press TV on the extensive problem of homelessness, called “U.S. Homelessness & Poverty At An Alarming Height.”

According to NYPIRG Higher Education Project Leader Barbara Cvenic, NYPIRG interns are expected to

campaign over the course of each semester. Caceres’ cam-paign is hunger & homelessness.

Caceres, an advisee of Cox, asked her to contribute to the event and speak to expand on the topic.

“I know she has some background information with the homeless,” Caceres said. “I felt like she was the right professor to speak about this topic in the criminological view of homelessness.”

Cox began her address with a story about a man named Orlando, who she said she built a relationship with over several years working on his cases.

Orlando, an immigrant from Puerto Rico, was in his 50s, illiterate and HIV positive with a history of mental illness, Cox said.

According to Cox, Orlando was living in “supportive housing” until he was arrested on assault charges. He was found innocent. But when he got out of prison, Cox said Orlando lost his housing. Without readily available sup-port, he found himself back in jail.

Cox said stories like Orlando’s “frame a theme” that is “representative of a lot of people within the criminal justice system.”

Cox said the police focus on low-level crimes such as peeing in public, loitering and turnstile jumping has put the homeless at greater risk of arrest and that they are of-

In her lecture, she stressed the transient lives of the working poor — that they are often funneled into jobs that don’t pay enough to live in cities such as New York and there aren’t enough places to go for assistance.

According to Cox, options in Ulster County are lim-ited as well.

For those leaving prison and looking for housing, Elizabeth Manor and Hummle Housel in Kingston are the only supportive housing locations in Ulster County that are also within reasonable distance to public transporta-tion, Cox said.

Cvenic is also familiar with the issue of homelessness within the region.

“I did a project last semester and did some research on poverty levels in Ulster County and I’m really glad that NYPIRG is focusing on this issue,” Cvenic said. “It’s es-pecially important because the hungry and homeless rare-ly have a voice and they are a marginalized and silenced population.”

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Tim Brooks, one of the owners of Hudson Coffee Traders, always noticed the building attached to the Trailways

nice, small coffee shop.

shop in the Kingston business district at 288 Wall St., and recently celebrated a

Though the couple wanted to open a New Paltz location closer to their home in Gardiner, N.Y., Brooks said the op-portunity did not come until last year.

Hudson Coffee Traders had their

Main St. and thus far, Brooks said the reception has been great.

Originally from Montana, Brooks said eastern coffee house culture often

west. He said they hoped to bring that atmosphere to their own ca-fes.

With yellow walls and a trio of tables, the shop caters to regular commuters as well as the

“mass exodus” of students coming and going during semester breaks, Brooks said.

“We try to stay on par with better cafes in the city, it’s the norm there,” Brooks said.

Brooks said the cafe’s menu, like

lowing the “Paleo diet” and tried to cre-ate menu options that consist of a range

sugars and starches for fellow “Paleo” eaters.

who frequent the cafe is key.

ally concentrate on their coffee,” Brooks said.

Brooks said Hudson Coffee Traders

coffee from Counter Culture Coffee, who they contract with for their beans.

“Start with a good bean, then you need to brew it right with a good ma-chine. It takes a lot of technique,” Brooks said. “It is so easy to mess up a shot of espresso.”

Mariah Eagles has worked as a barista at both the Kingston and New Paltz locations of Hudson Coffee Trad-ers, originally getting to know the

slaughtered animals used for Hudson

Coffee Traders’ food. Eagles attended training sessions in

New York City held by Counter Culture Coffee to learn to make latte art.

“I didn’t think I’d be able to learn it that fast, but they had me doing it in no time,” Eagles said.

Eagles said the fern-shaped art she makes on lattes is often a pleasant sur-prise for patrons who are usually in a hurry to catch a bus — a bit of beauty during a chaotic commute.

only possible on a well-made latte. “Just the ability to make latte art as-

sures you’re doing it right and brewing the coffee right,” Brooks said. “There are few places that really make a good espresso.”

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Sometimes words are worth a hun-dred illustrations.

Currently on display at Hudson Cof-fee Traders in New Paltz, Polly M. Law’s bricolage artwork resurrects words that have fallen out of popular, modern usage.

The 20 illustrations are selections from Law’s ongoing series, “The Word Project,” which began in 2011. Law said inspiration for the project came af-ter a friend signed her up for Anu Garg’s “A Word A Day,” which sends a daily vocabulary word — usually skewing to-ward out-of-the-ordinary words — to your inbox.

“I saved the ones that were new and interesting to me, and saved them on a

-ger and bigger,” she said. “One day, out of the blue — I don’t know why — I got the idea to illustrate the words with my pa-per dolls. That was the birth of the ‘Word Project.’”

To make her paper dolls, Law uses

as buttons, wire, bits of feather and other found objects. She said she uses inexpen-sive, acrylic paints — because “they’re cheap and cheerful and easy to use” —

cut stencils for patterns and cut-up spong-es for repeating patterns.

“Probably the most exotic material I use is the thread I use to sew the buttons on — it’s a wax-linen thread I get from a book bindery,” Law said. “Everything else is common, ordinary stuff. I try to el-evate it by how I use it.”

Taking what she calls the “circu-itous” route to her current artistic niche, Law’s background and inspiration as an artist could be described as a bricolage itself. She said she started glassblowing before moving onto weaving, sketching and storyboard designing for advertising.

“I was able to take the knowledge of color from my weaving studies, the drawing ability from Barbara Carr and Neal Adams, [and] some technical stuff from Leo and Diane Dillon,” she said. “I threw in some pattern work from an art-ist named Eyvind Earle — who did the backgrounds for Walt Disney’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ — whose work I just adore. Just a mish-mash of some other things, and I came up with my own style.”

Law said when she started showing people the paper dolls, they would tell her that they should be a book — and she agreed. She said she spent the next 10 years sending the book to publishers

who “loved...the art [and] concept,” but

“Is it an art book? A language book? A dictionary? Is it a humor book?,” she said. “And the answer to all those is yes, but they [the publishers] only wanted it to be one of those things.”

However, one morning she said she was reading the Business section of The New York Times — which she didn’t nor-mally do — when she saw a small article about Kickstarter, an online fundraising platform for creative projects.

-fully tightening the focus of her project to getting the book published, she reached 150 percent of her goal. In December 2010, “The Word Project: Odd & Obscure Words — Illustrated,” which features more than 100 of her word-illustrations, was published.

Hudson Coffee Traders Owner Don-na Brooks said her relationship with Law started when the artist did a signing for her book in Kingston.

“At the same time, she was our artist in the round room — we have an amaz-ing round room in our Kingston location, which is the home of our rotating artists’ exhibitions,” she said. “Our relationship has grown as [she] is also responsible for

[the] menu boards in both locations and the window display in Kingston.”

Brooks said they don’t have plans to take down Law’s artwork in their New Paltz location, and that the response to the work is always the same — one of “amazement” and the desire to own a piece.

“We have no plans of replacing Pol-ly’s word in New Paltz, [but] we might change out her work...to one of her other themes art works,” she said.

Law said “The Word Project” is only being displayed in Hudson Coffee Trad-ers, and the rest of the unsold illustrations are tucked inside her cupboard. She’s not

she is pursuing a larger project — volume two of “The Word Project: Odd & Ob-scure Words — Illustrated.”

Law said she keeps long lists of words that she continually reads and rereads un-til something “sparks.” With more than 125 illustrations made and some already sold to eager buyers, there are still words stuck on Law’s illustrative tongue, like yclept, an Old English word meaning “by name of.”

“It doesn’t have anything I can put a

“Maybe in the future it will happen.”

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Twenty illustrations from Polly M. Law’s “Word Project” are displayed at Hudson Coffee Traders.

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Finding A Place To Go In ‘Urinetown’ MIAMI THEATRE PLAYERS STAGE COMEDIC, SATIRICAL MUSICAL

Imagine living in a city facing a terrible 20-year-long drought, a place where you had to pay a large corporation in order to handle your personal business — peeing. Would you hold it in and do as you’re told, or would you let it all out and

New Paltz’s Miami Theatre Players will explore those pos-sibilities in their performance of Greg Kotis’ “Urinetown: The Musical” in Studley Theatre from April 11 through April 13 at 8 p.m.

Miami Theatre Players President John Coen said in the play, there’s a big corporation that runs the town and charges the townspeople a “ridiculous” amount of money to use the bath-room.

“The people of the town decide to rebel against the cor-

pee,” Coen said.According to PlaybillVault.com, “Urinetown” has won a

Tony Award, Theatre World Award and Drama League Award, among many other accolades and nominations.

While Coen, a third-year psychology major, described

“Urinetown” as a comedy about capitalism, Director Blake Mc-Gready said it’s a show about sustainability that “satirizes the whole genre of musical theater as an art form.”

With a cast of 25 to 30 people, including the ensemble, Mc-Gready said this is easily the best cast he has ever worked with.

“Miami has been my home since I was a freshman — it was

do theater if you love doing theater performances, but you don’t have the time to commit to a theater major, or if you’re really passionate about studying something else here, you can still do it with Miami and get that type of experience.”

A completely student-run group, the Miami Theatre Play-ers is made up of students of all different majors, minors and backgrounds, as well as off and on-campus students.

Grace Seghini, a fourth-year interpersonal/intercultural communication major, is a part of the “Urinetown” ensemble and said it has been a relatively smooth show to rehearse.

ed to get back to acting on stage and get that whole experience again before I graduate,” Seghini said. “I especially needed to

also involved in other clubs on campus. Needless to say I am

exhausted by the time I get out of ‘Urinetown,’ but it has been worth it.”

Last semester, the Miami Theatre Players presented “Little Shop Of Horrors” and sold out all of their shows.

“Over the years, we’ve gotten more and more known,” Coen said. “We used to perform in dorms and now we’re on stages. Every semester I see more and more of a turnout because

The group began the selection process for the spring show

ed musicals to “All Shook Up,” “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jack-son” and “Urinetown,” which would be selected at the group’s general interest meeting. Once “Urinetown” was selected, audi-

weekend of February, in order to have more time for the produc-tion process.

“The whole show parodies a lot of different musicals and even makes references to popular media and movies, so hope-fully many people will be laughing at those references,” Seghini said. “It is a show that can connect with any audience, in any time period. I expect audiences to be peeing in their pants when they see this show, literally.”

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After months of debates, protests and heightened ten-

sions, SUNY New Paltz now knows who their food service

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bers of the board voting to renew their ongoing partnership

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going saga of push-and-pull over the food service provider

can be put behind us, we also recognize – and agree with

and more comprehensive relationship with our incumbent

bustle feels a little anticlimactic, and with all of the incred-

representatives have fought for throughout the drafting of

the Request For Proposal and in the actual interviews them-

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However, when looking at the other options available

understand the reluctant support the student activists threw

Sodexo has been making strides to meet some student de-

While their unusual interest in our desires has been a

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ing these changes had and the upcoming contract renewal

That being said, defaulting on the status quo does offer

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board members who took this into account when casting

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a program which measures the amount of local and sustain-

able food that is on campus, also seems to be a step toward

the strides made in the last few months against hoping for

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cieved two awards from The New York Press Association (NYPA), in-cluding third place honors for “Best Feature Story” and “Best Sports Sec-tion.” Former Arts & Entertainment Edi-

tor Zan Strumfeld was honored for her story “Finding Solace In Four Col-

who channeled his childhood depres-sion into a comic strip. Zan’s story was poignant and was

one of the best stories I have seen pub-lished in ‘The Gunk’ in my time as Editor-in-Chief. In addition, the 2012 sports section

was named one of the top three college newspaper sections in the state. NYPA pointed out The Oracle’s

sports photography in particular,

which is a testament to the work our News/Sports Photo Editor Robin Weinstein puts in every week as she

Cat Tacopina’s direction of the sports section was passionate - some-thing anyone she has interviewed in the past year can attest to. The sports section’s honors should

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year, as each and every story was an important piece toward attaining this honor. I am proud of Zan, Cat, all of our

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Recent New Paltz Oracle reports have highlighted differing interpretations about

validity of any conclusion that diversity has changed rests on the assumption that racial/ethnic categories into which stu-dents self-identify were the same a decade ago as they are now. This is not the case. Although we hesitate to further compli-cate the discussion of diversity, the facts do matter and they are not always straight-forward or simple.

versities across the nation, follows Federal guidelines in asking student applicants to self-identify their ethnic/racial group. Be-

Islander, Black non-Hispanic, Hispanic/Latino, or White non-Hispanic. Appli-cants could choose only one answer, or could choose not to answer (“Unknown”).

whether or not they identify as Hispanic/Latino. They are then asked if they are American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native Ha-

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students, 87 percent of Latino/Hispanic students, and 87 percent of White students returned to continue their studies in fall

successful by national standards, and that success is apparent for students from all racial groups.

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This season, the New Paltz Baseball team has been playing against themselves —on purpose.

Throughout the spring, Head Coach Matt

each workout: take each day at a time, mini-mize mistakes and execute fundamentals.

“Baseball is one of those sports — and the SUNYAC especially — where the team who makes the least amount of mistakes is usually the winner. In a sense, we are always battling ourselves.”

This season, the 2013 edition of the Hawks have posted a 10-12 record after start-ing their season in late February and are cur-rently riding a four-game win streak.

time practicing — before last week, they had

all components of the roster have shaken off some of the rust that may have formed from the unusual schedule.

strategy was consistent — play their game. “This year, this is the toughest sched-

ule we have had — and that’s on purpose,”

every year and we wanted to make a schedule that was comparable to that, if not better. We want to be playing our best ball for the second

Despite eight total games being can-celled or postponed this season, the Hawks have entered a midseason stretch of confer-ence games, and are anticipating a surge from players across the roster to propel them into the playoff hunt.

From now until the end of the season, the Hawks will only face three non-SUNYAC teams before the championship tournament begins.

the season, anchored by a one-two combina-tion of Chris Chismar and Andrew Grann and a surprise bullpen to compliment them.

1.84 ERA and clocked in 63 strike outs in 53 innings, has continued his strong performance

this season. Chismar currently leads Hawks starters with a 2.61 ERA and leads the team in strikeouts.

Grann, also a holdover from last year’s starting rotation, currently has a 3.83 ERA for the Hawks and is tied for the team lead with three wins.

Chismar and Grann displayed their im-portance to the team on Saturday, April 6 when they both earned wins in a doublehead-er against SUNY Oswego. In game one, Chis-mar tossed six innings and struck out seven batters. In the second game, Grann followed suit pitching six innings and striking out six Oswego batters.

“lights out,” the difference between last year and the current squad has been the production from the bullpen.

“We have been getting some real good

“That makes a huge difference.”In the bullpen, Brian Soloman has an-

chored the late-inning relievers with a 1.29 ERA over his seven innings pitched. Oppo-nents are only hitting .080 against the lefty.

On the offensive side of the ball, An-thony Repetto leads the Hawks with a .375 batting average, while Thomas Pinnola leads the team with 12 RBIs. Matt Carr, a transfer player who came to New Paltz last season, has also contributed to the offense with a team leading 17 runs scored.

will continue to stick to their day-by-day at-titude with the expectation that each compo-nent of their team will come together and de-liver them their ultimate goal — a SUNYAC championship.

“We can’t choose the weather, we can’t choose the teams we play necessarily, so it’s not about that, we want to focus on things we can control and play the game to the best of

playing for a championship and the better we get at perfecting our own system, the closer we are going to get to that.”

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The Men’s Volleyball team tarnished Nazareth College’s perfect record as the Hawks beat the Golden Flyers in three sets on March 30.

The team beat all four schools at the Vassar Tournament, capturing the tourna-

American Volleyball Coaches Associa-tion (AVCA) Poll and third heading into the UVC Championship Tournament, Head Coach Radu Petrus said camarade-rie has propelled this team to success.

“One of the big reasons why the Hawks volleyball team is so successful this season is team chemistry, they really enjoy playing together,” Petrus said. “At the same time they are very competitive, working very hard in practice. We have players with many strengths in different areas of the game.”

Second-year John Lutjen posted 19 assists, 10 blocks and nine digs during the match and was named to the All-Tourna-ment Team after his performance. He said he was happy to break Nazareth’s perfect record and attributes the team’s previous loss to the Golden Flyers as motivation to win.

“It was a tremendous feeling to hand

perfect season,” Lutjen said. “It amazes me that we made a team that was 31-0 go to 31-1 this far in the season. When we played Nazareth last weekend we were all in the zone, focused to play because we felt that we should have beaten them earlier in the season when we played here at New Paltz.”

Lutjen said he knew from the begin-ning of the season that the team would be successful because each player displayed extreme dedication to the sport. During free time, most players are at the gym “working to get better,” he said.

Third-year Co-captain Brian Smith boasted a .667 hitting percentage and had

victory.He said the duo of Petrus and Assis-

tant Coach Tony Bonilla have been keys to the team’s winning season.

“Coach Petrus has gotten us physi-cally prepared for every opponent we’ve faced,” Smith said. “Coach Bonilla al-ways has a game plan that if we follow it, there is no reason that we cannot beat

every team we face. The combination of

winning formula.”The Hawks end regular season play

with a 26-5 overall record, winning 11 straight games before they head to the UVC Championship Tournament. Petrus said “focus, consistency and effort” are the three factors the team must channel to make a strong run in the challenging tournament, where any team can win.

“UVC is one of the toughest confer-ences in Division III,” Petrus said. “You really cannot predict the winner of the tournament.”

Smith said when the team plays to-gether and sticks to a game plan, they

win the UVC Championship Tournament if they play their style of volleyball and also aspire to make a run at the NCAA Tournament, he said.

“Our team goals are to win our con-ference tournament and get a bid to the NCAA tournament,” Smith said. “[A] long term goal if we accomplish those goals is to win a National Championship. A banner and a ring would be a great way to end the season.”

Lutjen said taking each game one at a time is an important tactic to catapult the team further. Winning the tournament would be a “vast sum of accomplish-ments,” especially because the team is so young, he said. Overall, he wants the team’s efforts to pay off.

“We want teams to give us the respect we deserve and to put all of our hard work on and off the court to pay off in the end,” Lutjen said.

Petrus doesn’t have any one player who he will look to for major contribu-tions during the tournament, he said. He also said he believes that every player, on and off the bench, is an essential compo-nent of the team.

“I feel that each member of the team wants success and understands their role for the team’s success,” Petrus said. “It is important that those on the bench under-stand that those on the court could not be successful without them.”

The Hawks will look to win it all at the Championship Tournament, which will take place in Rochester, N.Y. at Naz-areth College on Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14.

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Lady Hawks Optimistic About Season Comeback


After starting the season with two victo-

six games for a 3-5 overall record. Despite not having a winning record, Head

Coach Liz Student said she sees positive re-sults this season because the team is continu-ing to improve.

“This season is going in the direction that we want,” Student said. “Every day, we con-tinually get better. With the practice planning and the games we’ve played, we want to con-tinually grow throughout the season.”

Third-year attack player Talia Tesler said she is proud of how her team is solidifying as one unit, even though they have faced chal-lenges during the past few games.

“We’ve had some rough games, but I’m pretty proud of the way that everyone’s coming together,” Tesler said. “This is my third year and it seems more like a team aspect, which is good. Everyone’s playing off of each other a lot better than any other season so far.”

Student emphasized consistency as some-thing the team can improve upon, since this is only her second year as head coach of a rela-tively young team.

“We’re just working more on consistency,” Student said. “I started last year, so we’re kind of still switching philosophies and mak-ing some changes. We’re still working on our foundation and making sure that we build that strong foundation now, that way we’ll have it in a couple of years, and it will be a little bit easier.”

said learning how to play with adversity will be an important lesson to help the team improve this season.

“We’re in a really tough conference, we

had the most teams in any conference go to the

ing to be down in some games, but we have to learn how to win from that.”

Student is happy that the scoring on the team is spread out among the players, with the goalie contributing on the defensive end, she said.

“If you look at our stats, it’s great because so many different people score,” Student said. “We don’t just have one or two kids that can

has done an awesome job, making some great saves. She’s the best goalie that this program has ever had.”

Tesler said the team has been trying to take advantage of each player’s strengths to become stronger on both the defensive and offensive ends.

“We’ve been talking about how certain people are good at certain things, and we want to capitalize on people’s strengths,” Tesler said. “We’re going to work on offensively get-ting people where they need to be to most ben-

pressure defense against our opponents.”Student said her expectations for the rest

of the season are to win some games that they didn’t win last year.

“My expectations are that we pick up a couple of wins that we didn’t have last year,” Student said. “Obviously we want to win every game, but I just want to make sure that we are playing the hardest and the best lacrosse that we can play.”

The Lady Hawks will look to earn another win on Thursday, April 11 at Ramapo College.

The Hawks return home on Saturday, April 13 in a SUNYAC match-up against the College at Brockport on the Turf Field at 1 p.m.

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4/13 - College At Brockport 1 p.m.

4/16 - @ SUNY Oneonta 4 p.m.

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LUESHIRTSLUESHIRTS Lundqvist For LifeOn April 3, veteran goaltender Henrik

Lundqvist further cemented himself into New York Rangers history, becoming the second-most winningest goaltender in the team’s history. With the Rangers’ 6-1 throt-tling of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Lundqvist surpassed Ranger great Eddie Giacomin with 268 career wins with the Blueshirts.

The only thing standing between Lun-dqvist and the record Mike Richter current-ly holds is some 30-odd games.

At this point, there is no doubt Lun-dqvist will not only edge his way to the top sooner rather than later, but he’s going to blow past Richter while he’s at it. For a player who has won 30-plus games since he began his NHL career, it isn’t going to

And unless something horrible tran-spires, I expect to watch the number ‘30’ raised to the rafters of Madison Square Garden before I die.

Maybe that’s a bold statement to make for a guy who hasn’t gotten the 302 wins to pass Richter or a cup, but I think both factors are within the realm of Lundqvist’s reach. The King is in control of his own destiny.

So much of the Ranger’s success since 2005 has been reliant on the play of Lun-dqvist. Whether it’s been just barely squeez-ing themselves into the playoffs or needing to hold off a quick, offensively-terrifying team during an important game, Lundqvist has been the one to carry the team on his back. He has been nothing short of a solo phenomenon since the start of his career in New York.

I mean come on, while Ranger fans have been discussing how this is one of Lundqvist’s most lackluster seasons, ev-eryone else is throwing his name into the Vezina Trophy debate.

And if you consider the Rangers Lun-dqvist has played with and the Rangers

Richter played with, you could argue that Lundqvist’s number should be retired be-cause so far in his career, he is the better goaltender.

That isn’t to say Richter isn’t one of the best that ever lived. He is certainly the best American goaltender to ever live, and you could argue that had he not been so injury-prone during his career, his name would

goaltenders to ever play the game. There are very few goaltenders who could ever pull off what Richter was capable of.

With that being said, Lundqvist has not had the all-around gifted teams Rich-ter had in the early leg of his career. The teams Richter played with were able to put up three to six goals in a game easily. Lun-dqvist’s teams are lucky to get three. The current goaltender’s success has almost al-ways, always been dependent on how few goals he would let in during a game. It’s been consistently rare to see him give up

more than three goals per game during his career.

If you look at numbers alone, Lun-dqvist has been more exceptional than

at least 30 wins and has never personally been below .500. Richter only achieved this twice.

While Lundqvist hasn’t won the Stan-ley Cup, he has won the Vezina and Olym-pic gold, two achievements Richter himself wasn’t able to obtain during his career. With the Rangers lineup now and in the next couple of seasons ahead, the odds of the Blueshirts winning a Cup are favorable. Lundqvist is one of the most important fac-tors in that equation, and he may well be the X factor in a potential Stanley Cup victory.

But let’s face it, Stanley Cup or not, the number 30 probably won’t be available much longer, as it will be retired in honor of the greatest Rangers goaltender to have ever played.

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What the Buck is going on with the Mets’ catching situation?

John Buck, who was once considered a throw-in player in the blockbuster R.A. Dickey trade, has been on a tear to start the 2013 season, giving the Mets unprec-edented production from behind the plate

After eight games, Buck is hitting .393 with four homeruns and currently boasts a league leading 14 RBIs. While this might just be a hot start to the season, the idea of having better than below-av-erage production behind the dish is tanta-lizing to say the least.

In the past few seasons, the Mets have been stuck with the likes of Josh Thole, Mike Nickeas and even Omir Santos catching — and subsequently not hitting — as their starting catchers. Buck

offensive force at the position in recent memory.

Buck has done more than just hit un-expectedly in his time with the Amazins. Many coaches have praised his veteran presence, staff handling and baseball knowledge, and he has given the Mets a perfect player to mentor their up-and-coming catching prospect Travis D’Arnund.

However, this fact presents a bit of a problem: if Buck was supposed to be a stop-gap until D’Arnund ascends into the majors, what happens to the veteran catcher once the Mets decide to promote D’Arnund from AAA Las Vegas?

The answer is not entirely clear. While Buck is not likely to continue his league-leading offensive pace, even if he is producing an average year, it could be

ever, there is no question D’Arnund rep-resents the future of Mets baseball, and it is not likely a player such as Buck would stop that motion.

But, Buck playing at a reason-able level could allow the Mets to keep D’Arnund in the minors just a few

months longer — allowing the young catcher to continue developing but also keep his arbitration clock from starting. By doing this, the Mets could potentially have D’Arnund at the league minimum for an extra year — something that the

must be considering.Another option could present itself

at the July 31 trade deadline, especially if Buck continues to prove he is an of-

fensive force. A team like the cross-town Yankees could take a chance on Buck for a halfway decent prospect. While not overly likely, the idea could become a re-ality closer to the summer.

Buck’s start of the season has been a nice bright spot in a mixed Mets start to the season. If he can continue his pace, he could prove to be a hidden gem in a trade that essentially wrote him off as an expensive throw-in.

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