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Thursday, October 25, 2012

The Route 32 parking lot is currently under con-struction to expand the existing lot, Director of Facili-ties, Design and Construction John McEnrue said.

McEnrue said the parking lot presently has 435 spaces, and the current project will create an additional 140 spots by the beginning of next semester.

He said during the construction process, 35 spots will be temporarily usurped for the remainder of the fall semester, however it is not expected to impact commuter students because 100-150 spots remain open on a daily basis.

Studies continue to prove that an abundance of emp-ty spaces remain on campus, which disproves the notion that parking is an issue for commuters, McEnrue said.

“The studies continually show that we have, rough-ly, 680 empty spaces on campus during peak times of the academic year,” he said. “We recognize that park-ing may no longer be available adjacent to some build-ings, but there is ample parking within a relatively short walk.”

Samantha Ruffen, a third-year adolescent education major, said that despite the extra spaces available, she is still frustrated with the current construction project be-cause it makes her commute stressful.

“It would have been smarter for them to do this dur-ing the summer when attendance is lower,” she said. “My commute is already 45 minutes. Now I have to leave an hour and a half to ensure enough travel time, parking time and walking to class time.”

The Route 32 parking lot expansion has blocked off the sidewalk across from the bus stop near the main en-trance to campus, and McEnrue said it will re-route stu-

dents’ paths from the parking lot to the center of SUNY New Paltz.

“People parking in the Route 32 lot will need to cross Route 32 in front of Hopfer Admissions as op-posed to near the bus stop at the main entrance of the campus during construction of the Route 32 parking lot expansion,” he said.

McEnrue said in addition to the 140 additional spaces that will be added to the Route 32 lot, the cur-rent construction of the lot behind Lenape Hall, part of the implementation of the Facilities Landscape Master

plan that redistributes parking space to the campus, will add 198 spaces that will be available to students in early December.

Although Ruffen is annoyed with the current park-

present and future students.“With the increase of applications and enrollment of

SUNY schools, due to lower tuition rates and the current economy, I do feel the additional parking will help in the long run,” she said. “It is just a headache to deal with at the height of the semester as a commuter.”

Commuter Parking Lot Undergoes Expansion

PHOTO BY ROBIN WEINSTEINThe construction process has begun in the Route 32 parking lot.

By Caterina De GaetanoCopy Editor | [email protected]

During a recent meeting, the Communi-cation and Media department decided to phase out the public communication concentration of their communication major plan.

After two prominent faculty members who taught in the concentration departed for different prospective positions, and a histori-cally low enrollment rate, the department vot-ed in favor of gradually phasing out the con-centration, Department Chair Jason Wrench said.

“We were already in the progress of [phasing the concentration out],” Wrench said. “I guess [the two professors leaving] was the impetus of it as we looked for the best way for the department to grow in the future.”

At the meeting earlier this semester, Wrench said the department discussed the

selecting the concentration of public commu-nication and voted to make their intentions of-

Wrench said the department drafted a let-ter explaining the department’s intent, which was then sent to Dean of Liberal Arts and Sci-ences James Schiffer. The letter has since been sent to Provost and Vice President of Academ-ic Affairs Philip Mauceri.

“It’s in limbo right now,” Wrench said.

enrolled in the concentration now, and other options in the major — such as organizational and interpersonal/intercultural communica-tion — were more popular among students.

Professor Anne Goding, who serves as an advisor in the Communication and Media Department, said the department had been dis-cussing a potential phase out of the concentra-tion for over a year and many students who might have considered the public communica-

tion concentration would often switch to other majors.

“I’ve only been teaching at New Paltz for ten years, and during that time, the public con-centration has not been a big draw,” Goding said. “I suspect that most students interested in the concentration are also interested in po-litical science, which provides a wider array

students left in the concentration.”The public communication concentration

is a nine credit concentration that included classes such as The American Presidency, Communication and Dissenting Voices, Aes-thetics and Criticism of TV, Political Commu-nication and Communication and Gender.

Despite the destressing of that route as a means of concentration, the option is still listed in communication and media catalogs, meaning the department will continue to hon-or those students who might wish to complete

the concentration. Wrench said in order to adhere to this,

certain class requirements might have to be substituted for other classes.

phase out to be completed, Wrench said.

Communication Concentration To Be Phased OutBy Andrew WyrichEditor-in-Chief | [email protected]

PUBLIC COMMUNICATION CLASSES

- !e American Presidency

- Communication & Dissenting Voices

- Aesthetics and Criticism of TV

- Political Communication

- Communication and Gender

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NEWS BRIEFS WORLD

The African Union on Wednesday pledged to mobilize an African mili-

groups controlling northern Mali.

RALLYING REBELS

HOLIDAY TRUCEThe U.N. Security Council gave unani-mous backing to a four-day truce pro-posed by the international mediator for Syria to mark a major Muslim holiday after he warned that the failure of another

PRISON PHOTOGRAPHER DEADWilhelm Brasse, 95, has died. A Polish photographer who was arrested and sent to Auschwitz in World War II, he was put to work documenting fellow prisoners, a task that tormented him after liberation.

ROCKET RETALIATION

dozens of rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel on Wednesday in the heaviest bombardment on the area in months, drawing ominous Is-raeli threats of retaliation and dangers

of escalation.

HURRICANE HIT

Hurricane Sandy’s howling winds and pelting rains lashed precarious shanty-towns, stranded travelers and downed power lines Wednesday as it roared across Jamaica on a course that would take it on to Cuba and then possibly threaten Florida and the Bahamas.

The death of Ahmed Saakin Farah brought the number of murdered So-mali journalists to 16 this year, most in targeted attacks by gunmen who know there is little chance they will be

caught or jailed.

DEATH OF JOURNALISTS

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Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, the road has been permanently repaired at no cost to tax pay-ers.

The Town of New Paltz lacked funds to pro-vide recovery from those events, but received a total of $42,000 from federal and state sources to repair its oldest road, which connects Springtown

Temporary repairs were made to make the

Laura Petit said.

the pavement and the guardrail kept slipping into the creek,” she said.

Highway Supervisor Chris Marx said while road service has been stable, the bank was continu-ing to be a problem. He said because of pre-existing issues with the road, the town was unable to receive funding through the Federal Emergency Manage-ment Agency (FEMA) for repair cost. The storms

Marx said thanks to Petit, the town received a

-tion Board member Jim Littlefoot about the grant, which would pay for bank stabilization damage caused by the storms.

-shed Protection Program (EWP), a program es-tablished and funded by Congress that addresses

may pay up to 75 percent of the construction costs of emergency measures, according to the EWP Sep-tember 2011 New York Fact Sheet. EWP sponsors are responsible for providing 25 percent cost-share, obtaining the necessary permits, and performing operations and maintenance on the project in the future as needed.

Petit said the grant only required a letter of interest from the town, including a brief statement about the issues. The town’s letter of interest states the storms that devastated Ulster County last year,

road bank next to a Class C waterway, to sink ap-proximately two feet, and that if the situation had not been addressed in a timely fashion, the road’s condition would worsen.

a representative who took photos and did a site in-

action to stabilize the road and protect the creek,” Petit said.

New York Sen. John Bonacic, who Town Su-

pervisor Susan Zimet worked with to secure the town’s 25 percent share-cost for the project, said FEMA usually covers 75 percent of eligible disaster response and recovery costs.

“The remaining 25 percent is typically shared equally by the state and localities,” he said.

The way disaster recovery and repair works, -

gency areas, assess needs and make a request for help to the state and federal government.

On Sept. 14, 2011, shortly after Hurricane Irene, Bonacic introduced Senate Bill 5888, requir-ing the state to pay not only their share of recovery cost (12 percent), but also the local share (12.5 per-cent) of expenses for eligible cost.

“In April of this year, the governor agreed with my proposal and announced that the state would make that extra aid available,” Bonacic said. “In Ulster County that meant an additional $3.75 mil-

that the extra State aid be made available and that the governor ultimately adopted my plan to cover the typical ‘local share’ of disaster response.”

$21,786.48. Petit said road work was started in

part of this project is that it was a cooperative de-partmental effort that cost the taxpayers nothing.”

Town Receives Funding To Repair Dug Road

clinics in October, encouraging students to get shots and stay healthy for the semester.

On Wednesday, Oct. 3 from 5 to 8 p.m the -

ic was offered to all registered students to protect

on Oct. 3, a number he said was disappointing considering it was more than 300 last year.

On Tuesday, Oct. 23 the Student Health Cen-

were given from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. The Health Center asked students to make appoint-ments in advance, but offered to work around stu-dents’ busy schedules.

At the second clinic, 93 students were vacci-nated, 64 of whom were scheduled and 29 walk-in appointments.

Lori Mitchell, assistant director of student health services, said many of the students who

took advantage of the second clinic said they were

was offered again.“They also expressed the convenience of the

clinic taking place during the day, as many were commuters and not here in the evening,” Mitchell said.

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anytime from September to March at the Student Health Center. Students just need to call for an appointment ahead of time. In addition, another

-Monte thought it was very important that the

availability to those who may not be able to af-ford it.

“With all the other costs that college students have to go through, their health should not come

-able to anyone who would want one.”

-der to encourage students to get vaccinated and to prevent a large outbreak on campus, Ordway said.

“The Student Health Service would like to --

dent’s semester work. 15 [out of] 16 of our staff

than 100.5 degrees, a dry cough, feeling horrible, generalized aching and the feeling sick for two to three weeks, Ordway said.

to get the shot.“My entire body just felt horrible, my throat

hurt, I could barely get out of bed or eat any-thing,” Ortiz said. “It was just awful.”

Ordway said the peak time the virus breaks

He said everyone over the age of six months

“In the last two months, myself and others

-nitely going to look into it.”

By Tanique WilliamsCopy Editor | [email protected]

Health Center Holds Flu Vaccination ClinicsBy Elyse HennesCopy Editor | [email protected]



NEWS BRIEFS NATIONAL

The 54th student senate held their seventh meeting of the semester on Tues-day, Oct. 23 in Student Union (SU) 418.

Student Association (SA) President Josh Simpson informed senators that President Donald Christian’s meeting with the senate to discuss Park Point is next week.

Simpson also said he and SA Vice President Manuel Tejada spoke with Di-rector of Student Activities and Union Services Mike Patterson about the disen-franchisement of off-campus and com-muter students and came up with ideas on how to bring them back onto campus.

A meeting between Simpson, Gen-eral Manager of Food Service Ralph Perez-Rogers and Executive Director of Campus Auxiliary Services (CAS) Steve Deutsch was arranged to discuss the leg-islation senate passed at their previous meeting and to talk about adding a food option to the College Terrace late night study room.

Tejada said he spoke to Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Ray Schwarz to discuss why a two-strike drug policy is in place on campus. He said Schwarz said the public image and history of SUNY New Paltz plays a large role in why the school has been hesitant to move to a three-strike drug policy.

Vice President of Academic Affairs Jonathan Espinosa led a discussion about how students have not been informed that print quotas are no longer able to be reset for free.

Espinosa said he is meeting with Provost Phillip Mauceri to discuss aca-demic concerns, including the issue of retiring faculty not being replaced and three-hour classes causing scheduling

Vice President of Finance Youssouf Kouyo spoke to senate about the email that was sent to students regarding HD channels. He said senators’ concerns in-clude the survey being too general and the fact that Kouyo was not informed be-fore it was sent out.

Council of Organization Chair Rose Faber said the next council meeting is at 7:30 p.m. in SU 62/63 on Monday, Oct. 29, where SA Production nominations will be held.

Senate Chair Yaritza Diaz said the goals list was posted in the SA Execu-

gestion box where students can provide input.

In addition, a program that would allow students to view election cover-age was discussed. Problems with the 10 p.m. noise ordinance prevents students from convening on the Student Union Plaza and the search for an indoor fa-cility that would accommodate a large number of students is being considered.

Senate reports for the night included suggestions for improving the Student Evaluation of Instruction (SEI) and auto-motive services on campus.

Brenna Conens, a NYPIRG intern, said more than 100 people attended the

also encouraged senators to spread the news about NYPIRG’s “Trick or Eat” food drive.

The female seat on the Judicial

as one of the SA appointed seats on the Pepsi Marketing Committee. Two seats remain open on the Academic Affairs Committee.

New Paltz Village Board trustee Ariana Basco led a discussion about Park Point, a proposed 732 bed hous-ing development for New Paltz students, encouraging senators to attend the pub-lic meeting at Town Hall on Monday, Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m. The Town Plan-ning Board will conduct a Coordinated State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) review of the Park Point New Paltz Housing project at the meeting.

Basco asked why the housing devel-opment’s environmental impact is not being prioritized and noted that if the building is going to last decades, it needs to be built correctly for the future.

The next senate meeting will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 9 p.m. in SU 418.

Student Senators Address HD Television SurveyBy Elyse HennesCopy Editor | [email protected]

SA Vice President Manuel Tejada spoke about the two-strike drug policy in place on campus. PHOTO BY ROBIN WEINSTEIN

A gunman targeted a family-owned

gunning down three people at the of-

home nearby, police said.

People who collapse from cardiac ar-rest in poor black neighborhoods are half as likely to get CPR from fam-ily members at home or bystanders on the street as those in better-off white

neighborhoods.

FIVE DEAD IN SHOOTING

GOLDMAN FALL FROM GRACE

A former Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. board member was sen-tenced to two years in prison Wednes-day, He was convicted of feeding in-side information about board dealings to his hedge fund owner friend.

REPUBLICAN’S REMARK

Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock refused to apolo-gize Wednesday for saying that rape resulting in pregnancy is “something

God intended.”

VETERAN VOTER DIEDA World War II veteran who inspired many with his determination to vote even though he had end-stage liver

cancer died Wednesday.

KIDNAPPING CRIMINALSTwo Kentucky men have been acquit-ted of hate-crimes charges in a trial involving an attack on a gay man. But Anthony Ray Jenkins and his cous-in David Jason Jenkins were found guilty of kidnapping and conspiracy to

a kidnapping.

CARDIAC DISCRIMINATION

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As the blue construction fences have risen across campus, members of the SUNY New Paltz campus community believe the number of yellow parking tickets slapped on their wind-shields have as well.

On the heels of the ongoing renovation of Wooster Science Building, Sojourner Truth Library and Route 32 (Lot 28) causing park-ing spots to be deleted for construction as part of SUNY New Paltz’s Site & Landscape Mas-ter Plan, SUNY New Paltz faculty and students alike believe the amount of parking tickets being distributed has risen.

According to SUNY New Paltz’s Site & Landscape Master Plan, before major construc-tion began the campus had 42 lots available with a total of 3,082 spaces. Fifteen of the original 42

-ly reduced or altered.”

parking lots will be added to the campus, which would provide 1,125 spots.

In total, the campus would lose 249 parking spots at the end of the construction, according to the plan.

Written requests by The New Paltz Oracle

ticket appeals over the course of the construction time span were not answered by the Parking Committee by time of publication.

Despite the reason, members of SUNY New Paltz’s staff and student body alike believe an in-creased number of tickets have been given out since the construction began.

Carolyn Walker, a janitor in Capen Hall known as “Grandma,” has worked at SUNY New Paltz for 11 years.

Walker to have one of her lungs removed, she found it necessary to apply for a handicapped permit to limit the amount she needs to walk

However, she said over the years of her working in various residence halls across cam-pus she has received “many” parking tickets she considers to be unjust.

For years, she has appealed the tickets she received for her perceived violations. But, Walk-er said as the construction continues around the campus, there has been an increase in frequency of her unjust tickets.

why should we have to pay for a parking pass and we can’t even park where we want to? Es-pecially when it’s legal,” Walker said. “They’ve

done it in every building I’ve worked in.”Walker said that between herself and fel-

low Capen Hall custodial members, they have -

pired permits, wrong tags and even parking in a handicapped spot without a valid permit.

Walker said their appeals process was slow-

Nigel Alladen, a cleaner in Capen Hall who received a handicapped permit for a back injury, knows the appeals process well.

Alladen’s most recent ticket, issued on Oct.

Documents obtained by The New Paltz Oracle show his Faculty/Staff parking permit does not

“I wonder why they would give out tickets at all to someone in a handicapped spot when they have a legit pass for handicapped people,” Alladen said. “What is the reason?”

Julie Majak, the current chair of the Parking Committee, said Alladen’s ticket was brought to her and Parking Clerk Nancy Sleight on Monday and his supposed violation was approved for an

“As soon as we saw what their concern was, -

vious, he was approved [for his appeal].” The Parking Committee is a forum where

parking concerns consistent with the campus master plan can be heard, as well as an oppor-

tunity for solutions to be discussed, according to an email sent out by President Donald Christian on Oct. 3.

“This is a longstanding committee that advises the administration on parking;; it does not make major decisions or set policy. It also hears concerns from the campus community about parking,” Christian wrote in his email.

On Sept. 12, Alladen was issued a different ticket for parking behind Capen Hall.

However, after appealing the issue with SUNY New Paltz Parking, his ticket was cleared after Director of Residence Life Corinna Caracci signed a letter stating Alladen and Walker were given permission to park in the spots after 5 p.m.

Walker said she believes the seven tickets her and Alladen have received this semester are because a lower amount of parking spots are scattered across campus due to construction.

Walker and Alladen said they have heard similar stories of fellow staff members receiving tickets despite their possession of valid passes, and hope the school can help them as soon as possible.

Students who drive to campus have similar views to those of Walker and Alladen.

Cass Hoblitz, a fourth-year sociology ma-jor, said she believes the number of tickets the campus community has received since construc-tion has started to rise because people are forced to park illegally just to get to class on time.

“I think we’re parking more haphazardly

because we’re in a rush and don’t know where -

sionally see people making up their own parking spots in random corners of the lots just to get to class on time.”

Hoblitz said she received a ticket for park-ing overnight behind Bouton Hall near a sign that said “Commuters After 5,” but didn’t realize that cars could be ticketed between 2 and 6 a.m. be-cause a bush was covering part of the sign.

Hoblitz said she appealed the ticket, but was denied.

“As it is I have no idea where I can or can-not park anymore, but they aren’t keeping up the signs,” Hoblitz said. “You would think they would be a little more lenient considering how much they’re inconveniencing the students.”

Majak said if students or staff have issues with tickets they have received on campus, they should come speak to the Parking Committee immediately.

“We welcome anyone to come into the of-

is any way the staff can help them, they welcome it. They can get their matter resolved and speak

Walker said she thinks the solution is simpler.

“With all the commotion and construction, why are they even bothering with parking tick-ets?” Walker said. “It shouldn’t even be an issue with all of this going on.”

By Andrew WyrichEditor-in-Chief | [email protected]

Community Believes To See Spike In Parking Tickets

According to the SUNY New Paltz’s Site & Landscape Master Plan, seven new parking lots will be added to the campus.

PHOTO BY ROBIN WEINSTEIN


After receiving a $10,000 diversity grant several months ago, Student Asso-ciation (SA) President Josh Simpson said he would like to use the money to host a series of fora that will address social is-sues important to students at SUNY New Paltz.

At the student senate meeting on Oct. 9, Simpson said he was interested in expanding on the success of the “Can We Talk About It?” forum that SUNY New Paltz President Donald Christian and for-mer SA President Terrell Coakley held during the fall 2011 semester. The origi-nal forum was held after the “racial” sign incidents in the Humanities Building and LeFevre Hall.

Last semester, Coakley and the spring 2012 senate applied for the grant so they could continue to educate stu-dents through the use of multiple fora. Simpson said that when he talked to Christian about hosting separate fora,

Christian told him that was his and Coak-ley’s original goal.

“He told me that that’s what he and Terrell had envisioned last year and while

was glad that I came to this realization on my own and wanted to move forward with it,” Simpson said.

Simpson said that instead of hosting one forum, he is interested in holding four fora over the course of the academic year as a way of increasing awareness and education on different social issues on campus.

“Just by touching on a broader range of topics, everyone is going to get a chance to learn about something they’re not as well-versed in,” Simpson said. “That’s my hope.”

Simpson said after talking with other members on the SA E-board, they decid-ed it was important to have another fo-rum that would discuss racism and how there is still progress to be made.

“I thought that last year it was very

educational for students, especially white students because they were able to start gaining an understanding of what racism is and their role in it. Not on an individ-ual level, but in the broader scheme of things,” Simpson said. “This isn’t a post-racism society... I don’t want students to think that.”

He also said he wants to hold fora that discuss transgender issues, sexual assault and students with disabilities. He believes that since gender-neutral residence life and bathrooms have been introduced, students think transgender students on campus no longer face prob-lems.

“Just because you throw a gender-neutral bathroom into a building, doesn’t change anything,” Simpson said.

Sexual assault and students with disabilities are issues Simpson believes aren’t talked about enough on campus and are things he would like to educate himself on as well.

SA Vice President Manuel Tejada

said with four different topics spanning over the course of four fora, he believes a wider range of students will come out to learn and educate themselves on social issues.

“Hopefully working on these fo-rums, we expect to have different groups

forum was a good step forward, and I hope we continue to strive for progress.”

Simpson said while there is no set date to start planning the fora and decide how and when they will be presented, he is planning to have members of SA get the word out to the campus community.

-ing, through Facebook groups, word of mouth and I’m sure that there will be a chalking of campus when the forums are going to be happening,” Simpson said. “As long as people show up, are able to listen and talk with their peers at these forums and that they leave with some-thing they didn’t know before, that’s how I would measure accomplishment.”

By Cat TacopinaSports Editor | [email protected]

Diversity Grant To Be Used For Four Fora


The New Paltz ReUse Center, a ware-house for rescued materials on Clearwater Road, held its grand opening on Wednesday, Oct. 24.

Town of New Paltz Recycling Coordina-tor Laura Petit said the building is partially funded by the New York State Department of the Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) and contains materials diverted from the waste stream, as well as materials donated by manufacturers and contractors.

She said the center is frequented mainly by artists and is set up like a retail store full of “moderately priced” residual material such

bolts of fabric, carpet remnants, matting ma-terial and frames.

“We’re not the same as Salvation Army or Good Will because we don’t have the room for furniture, appliances or clothing,” Petit said. “For instance, we have Kiss My Face

discs or pink bracelets for $1.”Town Supervisor Susan Zimet said the

ReUse center was inspired by the Hudson

Valley Materials Exchange (HVME), as well as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) request for New Paltz to represent the EPA Region 2’s pilot zero waste partner com-munity.

As one of only 13 communities in the country chosen by the EPA, Zimet said the center was “critical.”

“The ReUse Center plays a central role in New Paltz’s mission to be a zero waste community and will provide a public market place for reusable materials and a means to keep these valuable commodities out of the waste stream thereby dramatically reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their disposal,” Zimet said.

New Paltz was recruited by the EPA be-cause it had the “optimal size, demographics, infrastructure, resources, values, priorities, community-mindedness and commitment” to be a model community for the program, ac-cording to Kimiko Link, environmental sci-entist and program coordinator for the state and local sustainable materials management programs for EPA Region 2.

“The lessons learned from this partner-ship and best practices established will be

shared with the national partners, used as models, will help EPA shape its national pro-gram,” Link said. “And will help quantify the environmental, health, social, economic

-ciated with these activities.”

Paltz in numerous ways by offering a sus-tainable and inexpensive option to purchase items such as building materials, art sup-plies and home décor, as well as providing a platform for “community building” through holding different workshops and hosting events such as art shows and craft fairs.

The new building will also be a key component in future plans for the Recycling Center.

“The ReUse Center will be the center-piece of the future eco-village that we hope to build at this site, which will include per-maculture demonstration gardens, rainwater harvesting and a solar panel farm to provide renewable municipal electricity needed for our mission to be off the grid,” Zimet said.

too, as less waste being disposed of means less cost, Petit said. While the building for

the center is new, Petit said the same reuse operation was previously done out of trail-ers and has raised $10,000 so far this year, which means the 2013 recycling budget will be reduced.

When preparing for the opening, Petit said she had help from New Paltz students who participated in Make A Difference Day by painting a mural, organizing the center, cleaning the oil recycling and Freon area, starting a greenhouse and tending to the gar-dens.

Kelly Drummond, SUNY New Paltz re-cycling coordinator, volunteered and spoke

“It can be a valuable resource for art ma-jors who can use some of the items to make mosaics or sculptures,” Drummond said.

Similarly, Zimet hopes students will uti-lize the center and that it will set an example.

“All students are encouraged to visit the ReUse Center and explore the treasures and possibilities that this exciting new commu-nity resource provides,” Zimet said. “I …am thrilled to be involved in this critical effort to make New Paltz a model of sustainability for the whole country.”

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Walking into The Green Palette, a wooden table wrapped around a tall tree sticks out like a green thumb.

Owner Marc Anthony created the tree from all sus-tainable materials: pallet wood, bark and reindeer moss.

The Green Palette is a sustainable design furniture store that promotes sustainable living, according to its website. The store had its grand opening on Saturday, Oct. 13 and Sunday, Oct. 14 at its 215 Main St. location.

Anthony said he would use this space to host “Green Minds” workshops as a way to teach customers how to become “more green conscientious.”

He said his idea for green workshops was an expan-sion of a concept used by 3rd Ward, a Brooklyn-based company.

“I expanded on the concept keeping it all about using recycled, reclaimed or sustainable materials,” Anthony said. “When I saw what they were doing I wanted to open up a store where we could have workshops with kids and at the same time sell amazing sustainably made pieces of furniture.”

Anthony said he had the opportunity to build his store when his family moved to New Paltz after his wife got a job in the Education Department at SUNY New Paltz. Anthony said he was pleased with the turnout of the grand opening.

“It went pretty well,” Anthony said. “We had a pretty nice turnout with the kids coming to the sustainable arts classes.”

Anthony said he will host green workshops which will link philosophical mathematics and art. Anthony said using Leonardo Fibonacci’s theory of number sequences to create storage boxes from cereal boxes is an example of the sort of workshop customers can experience at The Green Palette. He said the workshops he creates are es-sentially lesson plans using sustainable materials.

cut out geometrical shapes and paint them. Wendy Troman, 44, and her daughter Gillian, 13, at-

tended the workshop and said they enjoyed the experi-ence.

“The egg carton project we did was creative. It re-minded me of the arts and crafts classes my mom used to teach at our old home in Pennsylvania,” Gillian said. “We always tried to reuse materials from around the house, especially from the recycling bin, to make new things.”

Anthony said he hopes to move out of the 600 square ft. location by next year to comfortably hold more work-shops. He said he wants his store to be a place for chil-dren to experience art since the budget cuts at New Paltz schools have left children and their parents scrambling to

Troman said she thinks this store was needed to cater to the artistic community in New Paltz and to foster a more environmentally friendly attitude in the area.

“Yes, we think New Paltz needs a store like this be-cause a lot of creative people live here and the arts and crafts projects inspire kids and adults to come up with new uses for old junk instead of tossing it into the land-

Anthony also said he plans on hosting Pallet Puppet Theatre to teach children new languages. Students can make puppets from sustainable materials and one child will be chosen to tell a story with his or her puppet using that language.

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-miliarize the students with the language. The workshop will run for four weeks before a new language is chosen. Anthony said an important aspect of learning a foreign language is the oral communication. The puppets will stimulate conversation to help children better understand the language, Anthony said.

“Puppets are one of the best ways to learn foreign languages for kids or adults,” Anthony said. “Unfortu-nately, [children] have no one to talk to. The puppets al-low us to create a voice.”

Anthony also wants to include college students in his workshops. Students will be given a chance to attend workshops and build furniture for their dorms or houses with recycled pallets. He said the students don’t need a background in mathematics because he plans to teach them those skills and help them cut and put together the wood.

“We’re not looking to get rich off of it,” Anthony said. “Hopefully kids can see garbage and see it as art.”

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Stargazing students can catch a glimpse of the cosmos

Thursdays of each month in the John R. Kirk Planetarium and the Smolen Observatory.

The programs provide a service to the community, phys-ics and astronomy Lecturer Raj Pandya said.

Pandya said the planetarium shows last for about 45 minutes and change each time to give attendees a different glimpse at the galaxies.

“We point out what stars, constellations, planets and oth-er objects may be visible for that night. We also include some of the mythology behind the names of the constellations,” Pandya said.“Each show ends with a different topic related to astronomy that usually has to do with a current event or

The Smolen Observatory is open on clear nights after the shows, Pandya said. A typical viewing night will include a planet or two, star clusters, binary stars and nebulae.

Pandya, who has been program director since 2011, said he puts on these shows with the help of physics and astrono-my Assistant Professor Amy Forestell, who runs the observa-tory. The two work together to promote the shows and try to get students involved.

Pandya said he is also training students to put on shows, by teaching them how to use the planetarium’s projector and give meaningful presentations to a variety of audiences. Pan-

Planetarium Operation will be offered to teach these skills.First-year trainee and undeclared major Michelle Scuderi

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ing how to work the planetarium and observatory because she loved learning about the constellations and what exactly is going on in the sky.

“Raj and Amy have got a great program and I’ve already

love being a part of the astronomy nights and I hope everyone gets a chance to experience it.”

Pandya said he hopes that these shows will help generate

the same interest in astronomy, especially for young children, but said that it is never too late to learn. Although he was always intrigued by the way physics and math could explain what happens in space, he said he didn’t decide to study as-tronomy until he went to college.

[and] space science very interesting, but many people do not have the time to truly learn it and appreciate it,” Pandya said. “Sometimes people are even misinformed about topics [and] phenomena in astronomy and what astronomers do.”

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Six months ago, The Treehouse rooted itself in New Paltz and since then, owner Kathy Preston’s goal has not swayed — tak-ing the relationship between local artists and consumers to new heights.

arts and craft shop located on 5 N. Front St., branched out onto the downtown shop-ping landscape during its grand opening on March 31.

After a jam-packed, “wonderful but to-tally crazy” 2011 holiday season, Preston, a New Paltz native and artist, received a call asking if she wanted to open a shop. Preston, who had previous gallery ownership experi-ence, said she couldn’t pass up the opportu-nity or location.

“I didn’t want to be making art to make rent,” she said. “I wanted to be making some-thing else, and I started to think about how I could make that work and promote other art-ists. I came up with a business model [and] it’s basically a tiny craft fair that’s been con-densed into these 700 sq. feet.”

Due to the small space, Preston has to limit the number of artists she can allow to exhibit at one time. She said she holds an open call for artists every few months and has to stagger their entrances to create con-sistency in the shop while offering new work for her customers.

“Right now, I have 19 artists exhibited including myself,” she said. “I’m going to be getting a few more in at the end of the month and a few more in December. Everyone who is accepted into the shop is grandfathered into the next cycle.”

One of the artists featured in The Tree-house is New Paltz resident Matt Maley, who creates landscapes on reclaimed barn wood.

and has had his work in the shop ever since.

“I kind of stuck with it,” he said. “It’s been a really good format to work in. The space is helping me readjust my price point and see what people want in their homes. It’s [also] nice to have another spot in New Paltz

when looking for artists including the qual-

in with the store’s collection. “I make sure that all the pieces in the

shop work as a collection,” she said. “I wanted to make sure that everything...had the sense of being a juried space, of being seamless, of working together.”

Maley said Preston has “really good

aesthetic design. “There’s a great interior design quality,”

he said. “Nothing stays in the same place. Every time you go [it has] a great exploring feel. I like the way it never really gets stag-nant.”

The Treehouse caters to the college town it’s in by keeping prices relatively low, Preston said. There is an entire section of the shop dedicated to items $20 and under, and most of the pieces are between $20 to 60.

“College students are really apprecia-tive, because you can get something really unique and special,” she said. “You might not be able to buy a beautiful $350 wood piece for your wall...but you can get a $25

beautiful and valuable to...your life.”As an artist herself, Preston realizes the

importance of making art a part of people’s lives.

“Having a cup of tea out of a mug that’s made by a person is a much different experi-ence than having [one] out of a paper cup,” she said. “You can take art and bring it into your life, and enhance your life by having art in it.”

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UNISON ARTS CENTER’S CURRENT EXHIBITION FOCUSES ON MEDIUM

It’s back to not-so-basics with Unison Arts Center’s new-est exhibition, “Group Works on Paper,” a collection of paper pieces by local artists, currently on view until Wednesday, Oct. 31.

The show displays the work of artists “working in very distinct manners on paper, with paper, and sometimes about paper,” according to Unison’s website. While some works fo-cus on the images on paper, others focus on the paper itself as a medium and as “the carrier of a message,” the website said.

April Warren, the show’s curator and one of its 16 exhibi--

lery — are connected by their labor intensive and well crafted creation.

“This may seem obvious — I mean, well crafted? But the marks and choices made by these artists are very deliberate and their attention to detail is stellar,” she said.

Warren was formerly co-coordinator at the Unison Gal-lery at Water Street Market with Eileen Hedley, where they put on another group paper exhibition for Valentine’s Day in 2011, the “Paper Hearts” show. The exhibition featured many of the same artists as the current show, some of whom have a connec-

tion to SUNY New Paltz.“I think that seeing how well they worked together gave

me inspiration for this grouping,” she said.Participating artist Shanti Grumbine, a part-time resident

of New Paltz with an MFA from the University of Pennsylva-

her “Kenosis” project. She said she creates her work using “slow, methodical ritualistic paper cutting techniques” to ex-cise images and text from New York Times articles as both a tribute to, and comment on, the media.

“Removal of content [works] as a commemoration of journalism and to make a space for voices not represented in the media,” she said.

Vernon Byron, a New Paltz alumnus with a BFA in print-making, is displaying four graphite portraits in the show, which

are made using an overhead projector.“Conceptually speaking, the drawings are an explora-

tion of how the body alters the space around it,” he said. “In truth, these drawings are a diagram of space, rather than the body.... Each piece represents a past movement in space, and as a group, the works create an expanding system of related movements.”

Warren said the show, which does not necessarily carry a connective theme between its works, is unique in its attitude toward craft over content.

“I have a special love for group shows in general,” she said. “My own philosophy regarding art is that I enjoy beauty and craft and detail as much as I appreciate the message of the art itself…. A lot of gallery shows…seem more interested in the message, so I think that alone makes this show unique among other contemporary exhibitions.”

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“Group Works on Paper” is on display until Wednesday, Oct. 31.

On Saturday, Oct. 20 and Sunday, Oct. 21, audience members at Unison Arts Center asked “how” and “why.”

The Mohonk Mountain Stage Read-ers performed “The How and Why,” Sarah Treem’s new two-woman play, which ex-plores science, family and women’s rights in a conversation that spans generations.

Unison Arts Center, directed the production and played Zelda, an evolutionary biologist

work, garnering her recognition over the years. She is faced with a dilemma when a younger scientist, Rachel, played by Janet Nurre, challenges her theory.

“This play is about these women’s struggle to defend their points of view about why the female anatomy evolved the way it

to what’s going on in the political scene right now in terms of women’s rights. The play also talks about the challenge of women

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time since Zelda gave Rachel up at birth, the women share their evolutionary hypotheses — one refuting the other — and attempt to mend their relationship at the same time.

Zelda’s entire life’s work has been dedi-cated to formulating “The Grandmother The-ory,” which states that women tend to live longer than men because they were meant to help rear children once they are beyond their child-bearing years. She encounters a chal-lenge which could permanently determine her relationship with her daughter.

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understands Zelda because she can relate to

the hypothesis she defends in the production. Rachel, Zelda’s biological daughter,

is a graduate student at New York Univer-sity studying evolutionary biology. She has developed a new, controversial theory that disproves “The Grandmother Theory,” and if proven accurate, would invalidate Zelda’s entire career.

“My character is very passionate about

what her theory means to her, what science means to both women, the generational gap

how their relationship changes through sci-ence.”

Because the play is being performed as a rehearsed staged reading, the production requires minimal costume and set require-ments, stripping the contents down to two stools, two music stands and two scripts. Not relying on costumes or a constructed set makes getting into character even more dif-

“When you’re doing a staged produc-tion, you put on your costume and know that you’re the character,” Nurre said. “Without, that, it’s a challenge to get into character. But because Reader’s Theater doesn’t memorize their lines, it combines the theatrical expe-rience with the joy of being read to, which is something that as adults, we don’t experi-ence. Staged readings are something differ-ent but still highly-skilled.”

Nurre said this production is accessible despite including technical terms and topics that may go over the audience’s head.

“I want the audience not to walk away thinking this is a play about women being women together, but that this is a play about human beings,” Nurre said. “Just because this play is about two scientist women, this is not a feminist play and that’s what it’s about, it’s about people who happen to be women.”

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Promising Personal PerformancesHUDSON RIVER PLAYBACK THEATRE CREATES STORIES ON THE SPOT

Today, playback theater is taught and performed all over the world, but the form was originally born in the Hudson Valley.

The Hudson River Playback Theatre (HRPT), founded by Artistic Director Jo Salas and Jonathan Fox, started the form in 1975. HRPT has been active in the Hudson Valley since beginning in Beacon and has since made its presence known in New Paltz through public performances.

HRPT performed “Promises” at Deyo Hall on Broadhead Road on Thursday, Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. During the performance, six players turned audience members’ stories about promises into theater on the spot.

Public performances are based on themes that HRPT thinks will “intrigue and interest people,” where-as their signature programs — “No More Bullying!” and “Immigrant Stories” — have a clear “setting” for stories, Sarah Urech, assistant director of HRPT and performer, said.

Urech said both types of performances follow the playback format.

“We listen to the stories of people in the audience and then we play them back using dialogue, movement, music, metaphor and through that we create a commu-nity dialogue,” she said.

During Thursday’s performance, the audience shared what the word “promises” means to them. Af-ter a short warm-up with “twitterbacks” (anonymous stories from the audience about their day), the perfor-mance started with interpretations of short stories about the theme, which were more meditative than narrative.

Three audience members acted as “tellers,” shar-ing a longer personal story and casting the roles for a comprehensive sketch. Two people shared stories about deaths of loved ones, and despite the subject matter, performers did provide some levity.

Tellers remarked that HRPT “got it” in terms of conveying their stories’ emotion, while audience mem-bers expressed admiration for the performances’ uni-versality.

to connect it to a larger [theme]…He took my thought and connected it to our world,” Elisa Tucci, a resident of Woodstock and playback fan, said.

participated in “Promises,” said their brand of improv follows a framework, and performers using various forms construct their storytelling.

“You have a body, but you don’t know what you’re going to put on it,” Satriani said.

Penny Clayton, a guest performer at “Promises,” said performing and teaching playback is a “deeply

fosters.“I’m co-creating with my ensemble…together

we’re co-creating with our audience,” she said. “That sort of magic that can happen when we’re all creating together…We can elevate the lives of humans into the-ater and validate our experiences. It just really reminds me of our own humanity. It’s such a deep reciprocity of gifting that happens.”

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A Different Dream

R&B has been in R. Kelly’s shadow for a long time. Even with new volumes of Trapped in the Closet out soon, Kelly’s grip has been loosening as of late.

Miguel’s Kaleidoscope Dream, his second album, steps away from the neo-soul revival that Kelly produced on Love Letter, and reviv-alists like Sharon Jones and her label Daptone have been churning out. Instead, Miguel’s voice echoes around the album as if he is, well, in a dream.

His lyrics are typical R&B fare: sex, love and countless other vices. Yet, while Jones is gritty, almost a realist, and Kelly is the tainted wild love-animal, Miguel can be heartwarming and delightfully raunchy at the same time.

Take “Arch & Point” where he proclaims “Fishnet body suit birthday cake, whoa fetish

is a pleasure you cannot be faked whoa, oh but when it feels this good then it just comes natu-ral.” That’s certainly not something you’d say to your grandmother or want your children to hear, but Miguel’s rising and falling tempo phrasing and breeziness makes it sound harmless.

“Do You…” asks the listener “do you like drugs?” just as simply as if Miguel were wonder-ing if you liked cheese on your hamburger. The album comes to a point on “How Many Drinks?” and “P**** is Mine.” I don’t think you need lyr-ics from these songs to get the gist.

What sets the album apart is its varied pro-duction style. In a music world where sounds are often repeated, Kaleidoscope Dream stands on its own. It’s never too rock n’ roll, too pop or too

lines that slow down into synths washing over you more like a Flaming Lips record. “Don’t Look Back” has a grandiose futuristic sound, with a pulsing bass drum that twists into an old timey blues riff, then back again.

Miguel’s not content to just sing cheesy love songs over the same old horns and soul drums. The varying styles make Kaleidoscope Dream fresh while the lyrics keep you going back and asking “did he just say what I think he said?”

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River City Extension. Good People, an awesome Long Island ska band.

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Autumn is analogous to a vulnerable pe-riod when our lives can no longer be veiled by moments of youth. Basement has approached this stage in their musical career prematurely, having only released one EP and one studio LP prior to colourmeinkindness.

Basement’s sound has mellowed over the past year or so. Their departure from their pop-punk roots is evident throughout the al-bum while elements of ‘90s emo and alter-native rock have sonically seeped into the band’s resonance.

However, to some extent, they have retained the callowness present on I Wish I Could Stay Heresound and removed any existing impurities. The end result is an album elegantly pro-

a cataclysm of crude guitars, stalwart wails and the blasts of cannon-like drumming ner-vously pushing the album forward without restraint. Veteran Basement fans are familiar with being falsely led to believe the tracks to come will follow suit.

taposed crooning with a restraint reminiscent of Jeremy Enigk of Sunny Day Real Estate and guitar melodies overtly paying homage to

Basement’s roller coaster of noise con-tinues with another track that shreds with

of love and passion taken for granted, has the tone of rampant and hysterical disappoint-ment prompted by self-loathing. Chugging guitars with a prodigious air of Audioslave’s Out of Exileand forcibly crescendo into a chorus that rep-resents this tone of repugnance.

will arguably become a fan favorite with its bittersweet guitar tones, animated drumming and vocals registering a Dookie-era Billie

of Balance and Composure with its emotive static accompanied by an urgent, yet con-trolled, tempo.

through a dense fog of ambient strumming and the grave, thunderous reverberation of cymbals. A profound and tired anthem is lit-

sheer vehemence is burdensome with its un-assuming, resolute power.

appropriately named, as the admirably contin-

uous drum beat carries the distorted melodies.

wrist and violently tugs as the album’s heavier

One can empathize with the apparent sense of honesty in the tone of his bending tremolo.

abbreviated break before the ultimate conclu-sion of colourmeinkindness.

mizes the perfect closer, making other bands only wish they could tie a ribbon on an album

bridge builds into a rush of vicious drum

pounds incessantly, tremendous clamor sends chills down our spines and before the listener can even register it, the song has come to a colossal end.

Over the summer, Basement announced a hiatus and with this album, the autumn of their musical career has arrived. The band is

must assume they are embarking on a variety of opportunities granted to them as they en-

somber occurrence.Colourmeinkindness represents the futil-

ity of immortality and the inevitability of an end to all good things, but also the recurring nature of life itself. Basement has left behind a legacy so deep-seated that it will only carry them further. Look around you — autumn is about, but springtime will come forth again.

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Our Student Association (SA) received a $10,000 grant

at the beginning of the semester to put toward a series of

fora as a continuation of last year’s programs on race and

campus safety. SA applied for the grant last semester fol-

lowing the posting of “racially charged” signage in Novem-

ber 2011 and the success of programs in the fall and spring

that addressed the postings.

SA President Josh Simpson said the new series would

continue the discussion on race and campus safety, but will

also expand its objective to call attention to other issues like

sexual assault and the concerns of SUNY New Paltz’s trans-

gender students and students with disabilities. Rather than

hold one forum to address these issues, SA will be holding

Tanhena Pacheco-Dunn was also recently hired as

termath of the posting of the signage and designed to help

facilitate these kinds of discussions.

We at The New Paltz Oracle feel that stimulating a

campus discourse on social issues is imperative and ap-

plaud SA for their decision to host more fora. With SA’s

grant, Pacheco-Dunn’s new role on campus and the posi-

tive response to previous fora, it appears that the college

has the resources it needs to get an eye-opening discussion

underway.

The incidents last year, which included, among other

heinous signage, the posting of a sign that read “colored-

only” near a water fountain on campus, left the commu-

nity at a loss — although campus climate concerns were

positively addressed at the fora on Nov. 17 and 30, and at

another forum on campus safety. Given that no suspect has

been charged with posting the signs, and that safety issues

— such as the recent spike in sexual assaults reported by

students — are a growing concern, it is clear the campus

climate conversation is far from over.

It is important for students to be well versed in these

matters, especially since they often directly affect campus

life. Part of being educated at SUNY New Paltz — or at

any institution — is developing an informed awareness of

the problems that pervade society both on and off campus

and being able to express one’s thoughts and opinions about

them respectfully and effectively.

While none of the campus’s problems can be resolved

overnight, continuing a discussion on issues of race, and

sparking a discussion on other pertinent topics, is a com-

mendable start. Individual fora can encourage a campus-

wide, ongoing discourse on the issues they confront, and

a greater social consciousness across campus is inexorable

if its community is willing to speak up. We commend SA

and members of the campus community for possessing, and

pursuing, the desire to educate themselves.

A public examination of campus climate also helps

increase transparency at New Paltz, as the fora directly

acknowledge the fact that not only do these issues exist

on campus, but that they need to be resolved. Any and all

recognition of problems on campus enjoins both the ad-

ministration and students, faculty and staff to shoulder the

responsibility of maintaining a safe, open-minded environ-

ment.

Our hope is that students continue to prioritize attend-

ing and contributing to these discussions. While SA has not

set a start date for the series, we would like to see every seat

In a perfect world, statistics would show an upward

trend in student awareness of campus climate — not in the

unfortunate incidents that plague it. We feel that the host-

ing of public discussions in the tradition of last year’s fora

can bring us closer to becoming a safer, more open-minded

community.

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Social MediaSlander

As my column week approached, I grew more and more on edge about what pop culture reference to make and what societal injustice to rant about. I wrestled with which elephant in the room I would address, and after much thought, I decided it wouldn’t be an elephant so much as a bird: the Twitter bird.

Twitter has taken quite the schoolyard lunch money shakedown since its creation in 2006, and I’m proud to say I’m not one of its bullies. Peo-ple argue that its limitation dumbs our generation down to 140 characters or less.

But is that really Twitter’s doing, or is the majority of our generation just…dumb?

Sure, some people use Twitter as a diary or litter their own timeline with blow-by-blow

room they sit through, but those same users treat Facebook as just as much of a microblogging outlet. And as for its limitations, I would argue that Twitter’s character limit exists to cater to our generation’s attention span — or lack thereof.

What was created to be a source for im-mediate news and personal updates has quickly become one of the most widely recognized cata-lysts for international change and citizen jour-nalism. From the Arab Spring in 2011, during which social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook acted as imperative news outlets and communication mediums to inform the public of progress during the revolution, to pictures of

Hudson that spanned the internet through social

for informing the public of such historical events. All I’m saying is that social media gives us

a voice, and it shouldn’t be taken for granted. It can be used productively, or you can just con-tinue “lifetweeting” (my term for livetweeting your life) about the egg salad sandwich you’re making. But the next time you use social media to complain about how much you hate it, just re-member how much it’s done for our generation and the generations to come. Get at me!

@curlysueeeeeee #shamelessplug. “NUMB SKULL” A WEEKLY CARTOON BY RYAN PATRICK HANRAHAN AND JULIE GUNDERSEN

LETTERSA BIG THANK YOU, from the

bottom of my heart, to everyone who helped make the Second Annual Vil-lage of New Paltz Local Food Week a success!!

The people of New Paltz contin-ue to amaze me, I literally am in awe of all of you and I feel so honored to represent this wonderful community on the Village Board. It’s so inspiring to see so many local restaurants and retailers take pride in carrying goods produced right here in our area. And what is even better is that many have committed to expanding their local food offerings!

So many people helped to bring this wonderful event together, and I’d like to recognize them here:

Thanks to the Local Food Team student interns, Melanie Glenn and Derek Lizza — this literally could not have happened without you!

Thanks to Joe Ruotolo and Jason Rosenberg (join him for his Wild Edi-bles Walks) for their support through-

out the week and for hosting the Na-tive American Cooking Workshop at the Elting Library.

Thanks to everyone who brought together more than 300 people for Eat in the Street, our Local Food Festi-val. People were feeling so sun-shiny that, despite the predicted rainstorms, the sun shone on us while Yardsale was making beautiful music for us to dance to! Thanks to Treehouse Audio, who brought the sound and stage, we were able to boogie all day to The Humble Boys Club, Yardsale and The

there is music, the people will come, so we couldn’t have done it without all our incredible, talented musicians!

Thanks to the Elting Library for use of their tents, tables and chairs, without which the Eat in the Street event would not have been possible!

Thanks to The New Paltz Times for their awesome coverage of the event that helped spread the word and the awareness! Woohoo!

Warm thanks go to all of the vol-unteers who helped make this event possible!! Particularly: the SUNY New Paltz Students for Sustainable Agriculture who were the driving force behind set-up, break-down and positive community spirit! The Cli-mate Action Coalition and NYPIRG, who were raising consciousness of how fracking would destroy farmland. The New Paltz ReUse Center’s Laura Petit and Tori Guardino who provided trash bins, recycling containers and compost buckets for the event. Laura reported that the event was nearly zero-waste! We had mostly compost and recycling in the end and very little trash! Way to go Eat in the Streeters!

Finally, a big thanks to our spon-sors who made the event possible, Karl Family Farms, Stewart Glenn (best New Paltz Trustee ever!), the SUNY New Paltz Environmental Task Force, the New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce and all of the restaurants who participated this year:

Asian Fusion, The Bakery, H.D. Dick’s, Lagusta’s Luscious, The Mudd Puddle, P&G’s Restaurant, Su-ruchi Indian Restaurant, Sweet Mare-sa’s Upstate Cupcake and Tommy C’s Deli.

A special salute goes to Suruchi Indian Restaurant and Lagusta’s Lus-cious who were declared this year’s Local Food Leaders by our panel of judges. By supporting local agricul-ture, we strengthen the local econo-my, build community, preserve the ru-ral character of our region and protect the environment.

Next year we look forward to every restaurant in New Paltz tak-ing part in Local Food Week, but of course, while we celebrate for one week, we should support local farms and local businesses all year round. KEEP IT LOCAL, FOLKS!

Peace, Love & Positivity!-Ariana Basco & The Local Food Team

To the editor: As our local weather gets

stranger and stranger, I think that more people are becoming aware of how dependent we are on the natural world. We need politi-cians who understand the neces-sity to protect our farmland and other open space, who vehement-ly oppose fracking because of the water and air pollution observed in other states where fracking is now being done, who want to help us sever our dangerous and

ever more expensive dependence on fossil fuels, who see the jobs available for local people from installing solar panels and wind turbines.

The Sierra Club, founded in 1892, is the nation’s oldest and largest environmental organiza-tion with approximately 45,000 members in New York State alone;; its Mid-Hudson Group has more than 1,900 members. In state legislature races, the Sierra Club has endorsed Terry W. Gip-

son, Democrat, 41st Senate Dis-trict;; Cecilia Tkaczyk, Democrat, in the 46th Senate District;; Kevin Cahill, Democrat, for re-election in the 103rd Assembly District;; Frank Skartados, Democrat, for re-election in the 104th Assembly District;; Paul Curran, Democrat, 105th Assembly District;; Didi Barrett, Democrat, for re-election in the 106th Assembly District. Julian Schreibman has been en-dorsed for the new 19th Congres-sional District seat and Kirsten

Gillibrand has been endorsed for a full term as federal senator.

I am glad that volunteers in the various levels of the Sierra Club have done the work of sepa-rating glib statements from true environmentalism. I’ll be using this endorsement list to guide my voting in November, and I sug-gest that you do the same.

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On Friday, Oct. 19, third-year libero Carrie Hack set the New Paltz Women’s Volleyball program record for most digs.

The record was set in a match against SUNY Oneonta at the Hawk Center during SUNY-AC East Pool Division Play. The Hawks ultimately fell to Oneon-ta with a match score of 3-2.

Hack currently has 1,794 digs, 87 more than the previous program record.

Fourth-year forward Sa-mantha Abravanel set several records for New Paltz Women’s Soccer on Wednesday, Oct. 24.

During the team’s 7-0 blanking of The College At Old Westbury, Abravanel had two goals and an assist, with a point

Abravanel now holds the single-season record for points, and both program records for as-sists and points.

SAMANTHA ABRAVANEL

Fourth-year forward Harrison Lane tallied four goals in the Mens Soccer team’s 5-0 victory over SUNY Fredonia on Satur-day, Oct. 20 and is one of the major contribu-tors to the playoff-bound Hawks.

Lane was named both ECAC and SU-NYAC Offensive Player of the Week for the week ending on Oct. 20.

“I would have to say that my team-mates have been a huge part in the success I have had this year,” Lane said. “The way in which we have pushed each other to play harder this whole year has been remarkable.”

HARRISON LANE

Danielle Conklin has held the title for

Week for the past two weeks in a row.Conklin currently has six goals,

8 assists and 20 points on the season.“It’s a great accomplishment for

myself and my team,” Conklin said. “New Paltz has earned this title [SU-NYAC Player of the Week] for the past four weeks in a row and hope-fully the next few weeks to come.”

DANIELLE CONKLIN

Fourth-year Montana Wilson was voted as the SUNYAC MVP by conference coaches on Tues-day, Oct. 16.

Wilson, the 2012 recipi-ent of the Peter J. Cahill award, went 9-0 in singles play and 5-5 in doubles play, playing along-side fellow fourth-year Kayla DiPaulo.

For her play this season, Wil-son was given SUNYAC Second-Team honors for singles play.

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the team knew their chances at tournament play would depend both on how the other teams played

“I knew we had the team to do it and all we could do was win and do our job and hope that

teams with similar records as us, our hopes were

“We wanted to be in the tournament and

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allowed the team to loosen up and shake their

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This is long overdue. Everyone likes feedback and recogni-

tion for their work, but sometimes the most unexpected, yet most needed words of en-couragement come at exactly the right mo-ment and are able to make a huge differ-ence.

And because of moments like this, I need to thank Paul Chauvet. I also need to apologize for my more than poor response skills. And here’s the reason why:

You know how everyone says you have that one semester in college where nothing goes right and keeping your head above wa-ter is the hardest thing to do? That was the story of my spring 2012 semester.

There were issues all across the board. There were personal life problems that af-fected my work life problems that ended up affecting my schoolwork. Ultimately, I ended up losing motivation to do anything that wasn’t eating, sleeping or sleeping.

And let me tell you, that is a rough

place to be. It’s awful to feel so low and like the work you’re doing isn’t and never will be what you’re capable of doing. What’s even more awful is feeling like it’s a hump you’re never going to get over.

And then, at the end of the semester, one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me came in an email.

Mr. Chauvet sent both Andrew Wyrich and myself an email praising our columns on the New York Mets and New York Rang-ers, respectively. Not only did Mr. Chauvet say that he enjoyed them both, but that he preferred it to the writers Andrew and I look up to every week.

It made me cry. It was absolutely one of the nicest

things someone has said to me while away at school. Writing about your opinions and knowing that they’ll be immortalized in print is frightening beyond belief. To see that what you’re doing isn’t for nothing can be overwhelming when you’re so grossly convinced otherwise.

But then, I was (there is no other word for it, so my apologies) an asshole and nev-er got around to sending an email back to say how grateful I was.

There’s no excuse for it, but I guess when there’s so much going on and your mind is occupied by small things becoming the biggest, most stressful things, it’s too easy to forget that there is good around you. You just have to open up your eyes, have a stiff upper lip and stare at it straight in the face.

So, Paul Chauvet, I don’t know if anything I ever say is going to truly cap-ture how much your email meant to me. It

things that were going on several months ago, that I was doing right by someone.

And I know that nothing I say will con-vey how sorry I am that I never responded to your email. It was a huge mistake on my part, and I’m truly sorry about it. Please know that by no means did it get over-looked. In fact (and maybe this is creepy),

there’s a copy of it sitting in the top drawer of my desk in my room.

Just in case I need to remind myself that what I do means something to some-body.

So again, my utmost thanks to Paul Chauvet.

However, it does mean I can’t use the “Oh, I thought only my parents read it,” joke. That was my go-to response for any-one who told me that they read my column.

isn’t the case...I guess I’ll just have to blush, smile and say “thank you.”

Or, you know, do the usual and have my heart and the rest of my insides crumble on top of one another. But that will prob-ably happen anyway.

Oh, and before I go...Dear NHL and NHLPA,Get it together, and get it together fast.

The hockey withdrawal is setting in and I don’t know what I’m going to do if I don’t get it back soon.

Here’s To You, Paul Chauvet

Mets’ Plans Simmer On The Hot StoveThe single greatest problem the Mets face

heading into this offseason — minus address-ing David Wright’s contract situation — will be adding potent offensive players into their

Since the Mets traded Carlos Beltran for phenom pitching prospect Zack Wheeler, the team has lacked a true offensive juggernaut that

This past season, Lucas Duda, Andres Torres, Mike Baxter, Jason Bay, Kirk Nieu-wehuis and others combined to give the Mets little to no offensive output, and left the team less than enthralled with their options heading into 2013.

Reports surfacing since the Mets’ disap-pointing season came to an end seem to indi-cate that GM Sandy Alderson will be focused on retooling the team’s roster through the trade market rather than free agency.

er Justin Upton.

Upton, who holds a career .278 batting average and provides a combination of power and speed, had a down season in 2012, lead-ing some to believe the D-backs will consider trading him.

In order for the Mets to acquire someone like Upton, they would almost be forced to in-clude Jon Niese — or someone of that ilk — in any prospective deal.

Though, the cost might be worth it. Upton would instantly give the Mets a new hitter to insert into the middle of their lineup, while also

to their core of players. However, losing Niese from their rotation

would not be something taken lightly. Con-

Niese’s spot in the rotation would not come

by someone like Mike Pelfrey.If the asking price for Upton is too high

and they can’t get their hands on him, there are other options for the Mets to consider.

Juan Pierre. After signing with Philadelphia

late last offseason, Pierre went on to hit .307 for the Phillies, while swiping 37 bases over 130 games.

probably sign a short-term deal for a relativity low cost, while also giving the Mets a starting

to spark their lineup.

Similarly to Pierre, the Mets could have

comes available now that the Athletics have added Chris Young to their lineup.

Or perhaps the Mets and Alderson will

one expects. But, that’s the awe of the offsea-son. Sometimes, the hot stove burns hotter than any of us can predict.

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