Monday, November 30, 2015

Campus LifeDec. CalendarThis week’s campus events.

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Volume 98 Issue 7

SportsWomen’s HockeyA victory in the home opener!

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EntertainmentEC BuzzTimes you hated technology!

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OpinionWaeya’s WorldAn opinion on love, and pictures of cute couples!

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“He Named Me Malala:” Masterful Film Screening Astounds Students

On November 18th, Elmira Col-lege’s Student Activities hosted a

film screening of the documentary “He Named Me Malala.” Centered on the life of the activist Malala Yousafzai, this film shows her life after being targeted by the Taliban and being shot as well as Malala’s incredible dedication to girl’s education. She has won a Nobel Peace Prize and helped found the Malala Fund, which fights for the right for education globally. “The movie was fantastic! It was so inspiring, it made me want to go out and save the world,” said Jonah Fish-Gertz ’16, who minors in Women and Gender Studies. Fish-Gertz, along with roughly 25 other Elmira College stu-dents, viewed the documentary in the Gannett-Tripp Lecture Hall. While a large part of what made the Malala film so inspiring was her story and determination, the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim’s blend of happy and heartbreaking wove the past and present together spec-tacularly. The use of animation in flashbacks created an ethereal perspective that fully entranced the watchers. One aspect of the documentary that truly hu-

manized Malala was observing her behavior with her brothers. While the public is generally aware of her existence, particularly as a feminist and advocator for female education, being able to see her relationship with her family allows the watcher to understand her as a sister and daughter, not only as a fighter. A truly beautiful film, “He Named Me Malala” should be on everyone’s watch list.

By Hope Levy ’16Contributing Writer

Photo by odysseynewsmagazine.net

Open Forum Review: Whose Club Is It Anyway?

Recently, Elmira College’s improv club “Whose Club Is It Anyway?”

held an open forum during convoca-tion hour in Mackenzie’s. A very disap-pointing number of people showed up for this event. Nevertheless, those of us who went, including the club mem-bers on stage, all had a great time.

The club opened the forum with a small description of their goals in providing the club and what they did during their meetings. After taking questions from the audience, the club members jumped right into some im-provisational games to give a little

taste of what improv exactly is.They played quite a few differ-

ent games, including: Questions Only, Scenes from a Hat (or IPhone

Photo by farmlifela.com

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Meatless Mondays? 5 Ways to Cut Down on Meat Consumption

What if someone told you that you were responsible for the

death and suffering of about twenty-eight souls every year? Unfortunately, this is the reality for most people in our current society. Those who consume meat produced in large-scale farming operations contribute to the inhumane mass slaughter of animals that occurs daily. According to the USDA, over 9.1 billion land animals were raised and slaughtered in the United States alone in 2014. The conditions that these ani-mals are raised in are often atrocious be-cause of cramped, indoor living spaces, unnatural food sources, and antibiotic consumption which makes their lives miserable before their deaths. Although these farming practices are barbaric in nature, there are various ways that you could do your part to reduce your direct impact on the number of animals that are tortured and slaughtered each year.

Here are 5 ways that you can lessen your contribution to the unethical meat industry:

1. Become a vegetarian!The best way that you can reduce your impact is by making the decision to no longer eat meat. There are different commitment levels when opting out of meat; some people still eat fish or some go as far as not eating any animal products including dairy. Any pledge to reduce meat consumption helps! The vegetarian movement has become more and more popular in recent years, so meat alternatives are quickly becoming more available and appealing. Think about your current diet and evaluate if you can take the plunge and cut out meat. Remember you can always go back to eating meat occasionally if you need it for nutritional reasons.

2. Meatless Mondays and meals!For those of you who really aren’t like-ly to give up steak and bacon for good there is the option of cutting meat out on a meal to meal or day to day basis. Many people participate in Meatless Mondays and eat vegetarian once a week to reduce their consumption of meat. Every time you opt out of eat-

ing meat, you are contributing less to the suffering of animals. As I said be-fore, there are wonderful alternatives to meat, so try out that tofu stir fry or BBQ tempeh and maybe you’ll even prefer it over your typical meat-filled meal.

3. Buy local and organic!Often times smaller, local farms provide much healthier and more comfortable living conditions to their animals. If you visit the farm you buy from you can be assured that the animals are being raised in humane conditions without be-ing mistreated. Meats and animal prod-ucts that are labeled as “grass-fed” and “free range” mean that the animals used in production are fed natural diets and are not confined to small spaces while being raised. Knowing where your meat (and food in general) come from is not only beneficial for the animals, but it also benefits you. “Organic” meats and animal products are produced without the use of hormones, antibiotics, fertil-izers, pesticides, etc. that all can have impacts on the health of the consum-ers and animals. So look for these labels when buying your meat.

4. Support legislation that protects animals and farmers with safe practices!There are often laws that are brought up to help promote sustainable and safe farming practices. It’s important to be informed about what is being voted on, so you can contact your representatives or sign a petition about how you feel about the issue. One major campaign that is currently happening for animal rights and public health regarding food is an antibiotic awareness campaign.

Supporters of this are trying to prevent the overuse of antibiotics in farming, which is creating antibiotic resistance from diseases and is not necessary to safely raise animals used for food. Stay-ing informed on these issues can en-courage safer living conditions for farm animals and defend public health.

5. Encourage others to re-duce their consumption of meat!This is something anyone can do whether they eat meat or not. If you al-ready feel that you are doing your part, then you can always try to encourage your friends to reduce how much meat they eat. When your friend is complain-ing about how awful the food on lines is tell them to try out a veggie burger from the grill. Suggest that they try go-ing meatless on Mondays or for a meal or if you notice them already doing it then point out just how easy it is to cut down on how much meat they eat. Most of all just promote the fact that any re-duction in consumption really does help even if it is only getting salami on their usual ham and salami sandwich.

The current system of raising farm

animals in America is not sustainable and inhumane for the animals being raised. It is hard to acknowledge that these practices exist without feeling somewhat guilty, but by reducing your meat intake you could feel the burden of a few less lives this year.

By Matt Hoyt ’17Contributing Writer

Photo by farmsanctuary.com

Student Activities December Events

November 30th

World Aids Day: The Normal Heart Film Screening Educate yourself on an important issue at a screening of The Normal Heart. See the AIDS Quilt on display. Tues. Dec. 1st 5:30 p.m. Gannett-Tripp Library Tripp Lecture Hall

Holiday Concert Odyssey Event: Elmira College Music Ensembles. See the EC Box Office for more details. Tues. Dec. 1st 7:30 p.m. Gibson Theatre

Josh Vietti Odyssey Event: Hip Hop Violin. See the EC Box Office for more details. Thurs. Dec. 3rd 8:00 p.m. Gibson Theatre

Holiday Banquet Share a holiday meal with your friends and favorite Faculty member and Administrator. Fri. Dec. 4th 5:00 p.m. Campus Center Dining Hall

Holiday Ball Dance the night away at this snowy soiree featuring music by DJ Haiko. Sat. Dec. 5th 10:00 p.m.—1:00 a.m. Campus Center Dining Hall

Sparkle Festival Celebrate the season in Corning’s Gaffer District at the 41st Annual Sparkle Festival featuring fireworks, horse and carriage rides, shopping and dining promotions, outdoor entertainment and activities. Sat. Dec. 5th 4:15 p.m.—Midnight Perry Bus Loop

Corning Museum of Glass Holiday Open House Community Spotlight: Free Admission, craft activities, live music, and special glassmaking experiences kick off the holiday season. Enjoy a reduced price Make Your Own Glass experience (first come, first served). Don’t miss the Annual Studio Glass Sale! Find unique hand-made gifts made by artists who teach and work at The Studio. Sun. Dec. 6th 9:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m. Corning, NY *Transportation not provided

Mack’s #SundayFUNday Up your home game every Sunday with the biggest NFL & NHL games. Sun. Dec. 6th 1:00 p.m. Campus Center Mackenzie’s

December 1st—6th

Zumba Class Workout to the perfect combination of fitness and fun lead by Giana Lutz’18 Mon. Nov. 30th 6:00 p.m. Campus Center Tifft Lounge

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Overheard at EC

“Will you be the afro to my head?”

“Golf courses are douchebag central.”

“I can’t see, my boob is in the way!”

“Can I touch your sneaker?”

“I can’t tell where the condoms start and

end...”

“Smell my loofa

again!”

“That’s so much sugar!”“It’s okay, I like to die

young.”

“Are you guys holding hands without me?”

“Holding hands is usually a two-person thing...”

“I don’t like the taste of coffee,

but I like all the effects...like being awake.”

“I take stock of everything in the bath-

room and its placement. I’m like Sherlock

Holmes!”

“Cookies are tempting my soul!”

“Mary popped out a baby, not a tree!”

“My breath tastes like gar-lic. Will you hand me some Tums?”

“No! You’ll die!”

“What the heck is Santa!?”“No time for GPAs!”

“I don’t have a box of drugs like you!”

“Maybe I’ll print this out and

just tear it apart.”

“My yoga pants were twisted, so my legs were

confused.”

“I’m in the denial stage of struggle busing.”

in this case), World’s Worst, and Quick Change. These are games that are played on the hilarious TV show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” that this club was inspired by. The members of this club were funny and quick in their improvisational skills. Their hu-mor was wide ranging, so I think ev-eryone could have been able to find at least one joke in there that would make them laugh. I know I was kept laugh-ing the whole time.

My favorite parts, besides the hi-larious imagination and comedic skills of the club members, were when they would tease each other or make a joke at another’s expense and when some-one would jump into another’s scene. It would turn into a hilarious banter or improvised scene. I wish a lot more people would have turned up for this event because not only was it fun and made me laugh, but I think the audi-ence participation section of the forum

would have been a lot more fun with a wider range of people giving the club members prompts.

“Whose Club Is It Anyway?” meets at 3pm every Saturday in the Main Lounge in Perry. Stop by and check out what this club is doing. There is no pressure to participate if you aren’t comfortable, but, you never know, you might just find out there’s an improv game out there for you!

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Elmira College Students Present Research at the New York State Reading Association Conference

On November 11, 2015, seven stu-dents from the Elmira College edu-

cation department presented their re-search at the New York State Reading Association’s Annual Conference in Sara-toga Springs. This is the second year Dr. Deborah Owens, Associate Professor of Literacy at EC, accompanied Erin Filu-peit, Beth Ogden, Tyler Tarnowicz, and Stephanie Tock to present at the NYS-RA Conference. This year they were joined by EC’s teacher education club (TEACH) members Nikki Wadlington, Michaela Johnson, and Megan Fitzger-ald in a presentation entitled “The Hundred Languages of Children: Art, Literacy, and the Curriculum.”

As part of this presentation, students discussed their research that began over a year and a half ago with Dr. Owens in the use of teaching strategies that incor-porate inquiry methodology as well as critical literacy strategies in K-12 classrooms. The important role of art was highlighted as one of the many ways students can express what they are learning. The presentation included a theatrical reading of the poem The Hundred Languages by Loris Malaguzzi, an original reader’s the-

ater performance entitled The Rock Hats, and a gallery walk of artistic expressions of curriculum from elemen-tary, middle school, and high school classrooms.

In addition to presenting at the NYSRA conference, EC students were able to attend other sessions and learn from experts in the field of literacy education, includ-ing the research poster session in which three graduate students from EC’s Graduate Literacy program, Chris-tian Bruce, Stephanie Spinos, and Natasha Wagner, pre-sented their thesis research.

Photo by Stephanie Tock ’16

By Stephanie Tock ’16Contributing Writer

Meet President Norman Smith

Elmira College has gone through many changes in the

past few years. With the sudden departure of President Champagne, we have now asked Dr. Norman Smith to be our president of El-mira College and hopefully he can bring Elmira to the state it needs to be in. On Sunday, November 15th, he came and addressed the student body at our weekly Senate session in order for the students to get a better sense of him as a person. He got his doctorate degree at Harvard University after graduating from Drexel University.

The future of Elmira rests in his hands, and it seems to be that he genuinely wants us to succeed and has many ideas in order for us to get to that point. This is something he had to say about Elmira Col-lege, “I was taken away with Elmira

College when I visited for the first time. This school is in beautiful condition, and has a terrific future ahead of it. As alumni, the more

successful and prominent Elmira College is, the better your creden-tials are. I want to make Elmira bigger on the radar screen and to be seen as the best of its compa-rable colleges in the area. That’s what I do at schools I’ve been at. I want to make sure this college has a successful future, a stronger financial base, and better known for its positive attributes. I don’t know how long I’ll be here, as my main responsibility is to strengthen the school”.

President Smith is a very ap-proachable and confident person on this campus. He has ideas that will guarantee our success, if we follow along and support his deci-sions. If you would like to see more of the speech that he provided for the student senate, please read the senate minutes. Let’s hope we are moving in the right direction for this college!

By Haley Brown ’17Campus Life Editor

Photo by elmira.edu

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Senate Minutes11/15/15

I’ve now been here for two months, and I’m glad I’ve gotten around to meeting you. I have been in higher education for 45 years and a college president for 30 years. I’ve been all over the country and the world. I was born and raised in Toronto and came to the US when I was 17 years old to go to college. I worked my way through college at Drexel University in Philadelphia. I stayed on at Drexel for a graduate degree and became the Dean of men during the buildup of the Vietnam War, which launched me into higher education. After that, I went on to be the Vice President of the Philadelphia Univer-sity, and then got a doctorate at Harvard. I was one of four or five people selected to be a part of the opening team of the Kennedy School, and then became the President of Wag-ner College on Staten Island. After this, I went to London, England, to be part of the American University in London for 7 years. I also went to Egypt to help found the largest international American school, but was trapped in Cairo dur-ing the Arab Spring Revolution. Most recently I was part of Suffolk University in Boston, with 11, 000 students. I think there’s concern that the landscape for private colleges are very challenged. You’ve probably read about how small col-leges have become too expensive, but are very expensive to run--the government does not send any financial support to private colleges, which is a large challenge. There are 2,200 private colleges in the country, and 1,800 are enrollment rev-enue dependent. The cost of everything in the country is going up every year, and colleges like Elmira have to address those financial challenges to florish in the future. I was taken away with Elmira College when I visited for the first time. This school is in beautiful condition, and has a terrific future ahead of it. As alumni, the more successful and prominent Elmira College is, the better your credentials are. I want to make Elmira bigger on the radar screen and to be seen as the best of its comparable colleges in the area. That’s what I do at schools I’ve been at. I want to make sure this college has a successful future, a stronger financial base, and better known for its positive attributes. I don’t know how long I’ll be here, as my main responsibility is to strengthen the school. I want to help find a president to help further our goals so this college can have a strong and sustainable futures. I will be spending a large amount of time externally trying to raise awareness, donors, but I want to keep you informed of what I am doing and what is going on. You are what the college is about and what the college is here for. You’re what the col-lege exists for. I’ve been working on some of the financial challenges recently, making sure we can operate on a bal-anced budget basis, as well as image building to make this college better known in the Mid-Atlantic area. This college is not as prominently recognized as others in this reason, but it should be. If more people knew that Elmira existed, I think they would be very impressed. My daughter just graduated from Skidmore College last year, and when she came to visit our campus, she said she would have picked here over there if she had known. This is a first rate institution, and I want people to know that. If we get on the radar screen, our fu-ture is secure as a top college in the region. We have been given academic stature like number 1 in internship and being named an outstanding college chapter by Phi Beta Kappa. I

want to make this institution as valuable as it possibly can so you can be proud of the school you graduated from. As I be-come more familiar with this college, I like it more and more.

What will be cut that may influence students di-rectly?

The problem is not spending too much, it’s making too little. Currently we have 1,133 students but it should be 2,500-3,000 students. We need to increase enrollment to make more revenue and if we double enrollment we don’t double every-thing else. The more revenue we have, the more things we can do. I’ve been trying to streamline the administration, and eliminating some things that create a cost that institution-ally we cannot afford. One of the things that falls into that category is the Encore/Odyssey program. I will be trying to eliminate that as an obligation and as an extra fee. I will be trying to eliminate more mandatory fees, such as course fees. I don’t think courses should charge an extra fee. We need to encourage interest in classes, and stop nickel and dime-ing. I don’t believe in it, I think you should pay a flat tuition rate and be entitled to everything in your college experience. In terms of the quality of your education and living experience, I will be trying to make it better. We will look for events where the cost is not as high, but still allow our students to be exposed to the arts. We don’t want you to pay more than you’re already paying.

What are you planning on doing to build enroll-ment?

I’m not going to start new programs, I’m going to bring to the attention of markets that are looking for private colleges how spectacular Elmira is. This school has undersold itself. There are students who want to go to private colleges, but they want to go to a college that has “bragging rights.” We’re developing a new marketing campaign that presents the col-lege in a way it has never been presented before. We will be sending out fliers to high school counselors. We’ve changed the coat of arms to make it look better, and to present our-selves as prestigious as we really are. All we want to do with our new pamphlet is to show people how amazing we are. We will turn heads our way and get people interested and adding us to the list of prestigious schools, where we belong. We don’t have to retool, we just have to be discovered.

I heard that classes with less than five students enrolled will be cut, but upper level classes are

necessary.Classes are a financial burden. We are losing money with under enrolled courses. We may be offering too many ma-jors, which the faculty is discussing. This problem has to be worked with the focus that we can’t do everything. We have 40-50 majors with 1,100 students, and that is too much. If students don’t want to take the courses, we need to consider not offering them. Most private colleges have caps on cours-es and won’t run courses below minimum enrollment. Too many courses are offered at the same time, which is also a

Speech from Dr. Norman Smith, President of Elmira College

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huge issue. The faculty needs to start teaching when stu-dents can take courses, not when the faculty wants to teach it. I will be concentrating on getting students here, and I want the faculty to concentrate on that.

If a major is cut out, are alumni degrees still valid?Of course, it’s still perfectly valid. I’m less concerned about majors and more concerned about your education. On aver-age, a student changes their major four times in their un-dergraduate career, and then many don’t go into their major field of study. There are no majors for some of the best jobs out there. We need to focus on broad-based learning. If you want to lead, you need many skills, not a narrow set. There are so many subjects you need to succeed. Psychology, The-ater, History, Science, English- you need all of them to take a leadership position. Colleges like this should be teaching you how to be leaders. Focus on a good broad based educa-tion from a good school so you have all the skills and tools necessary to succeed in life. We should go away from signa-ture programs and back to a broader model. The big problem is Elmira itself, not your major. If you graduate from a top quality college, that helps open doors everywhere.

How many people do you think are turned off by the constant rising of tuition rate and lowering of financial aid? This school continues to get more

and more expensive.I’m looking to not raise tuition. The more students we have, the more costs are spread across the campus. Private colleges have to generate revenue to pay bills, because no one is help-ing us like state universities. In the 60’s, 75% of students were going to private colleges. Today, 80% go to public uni-versities because they’re subsidized. It’s completely flipped, and the reality is that we cannot survive and operate unless we can find revenue, which has to come from students and their families. We are 96% dependent on enrollment revenue. If we don’t get the revenue, we close. Almost all of our costs are non-discretionary. All of the costs in the US keep going up, and we need to compensate for that, particularly health insurance. Schools have been closing down because of this rise in cost. Our only way to survive is to build our enroll-ment every year. But if 1,100 students continue to be the only source of revenue, tuition will have to go up. I’m put-ting all my effort into getting more students here. We need paying customers, essentially. Private schools have been criti-cised for enrolling students who cannot afford to pay and are sunken into debt.

How will you keep students here? The retention rate at this school is low.

By comparison, this school is in much better condition than other schools. Most people who are looking at private col-leges would say this is one of the best kept colleges, and a better campus. We can’t spend what we’re not making. My job first is to get the resources, and then we figure out how to spend it.

A large amount of students came here because of significant scholarships. I think it’s important to

keep the scholarships.I don’t plan on keeping the scholarships we have. Having

full scholarships attract people, but they’re putting us out of business. This place will not exist unless paying students attend. The students with full tuition are costing other stu-dents money. Financially, it’s putting us out of business. All of the financial aid is grandfathered in. Nothing will be taken away from you. Everything is being looked at to make this school the best it can be. We don’t have any endowments to keep scholarships available. We aren’t giving out scholar-ships, we’re giving out discounts. Nationally, colleges are be-ing called on to stop drawing on students who can’t afford to go to a private institution. I wish I could change that, but my job is to make Elmira College survive.International students cannot work off-campus, but student worker hours have been cut across campus, which is very dif-ficult for us. We have to work many hours to afford to go here, and since we’re not allowed to work off campus.Student worker jobs have been created when they are not needed, and we need to critically examine and justify what needs to be done. We didn’t cut student jobs. Various depart-ments were not utilizing student workers and did not need the jobs, so we cut those budgets. Going forward we cannot enroll students who can’t afford to be here, since all of the student worker jobs are paid by student tuition. No student is guaranteed hours for their jobs. Go to Career Services, and see what student jobs are available. We can’t consider inter-national students preferentially, as that isn’t legally allowable.

The decision to come to this campus was influ-enced by the atmosphere. Will these changes affect

it?I have been to big universities before, and even with increas-es it did not feel large or crowded. One of the nice things about it is it provides more choice with a larger enrollment. You can have more majors, and more faculty. When you get more students, you get more faculty. There are many posi-tives to more students, and I’ve never heard that 2,500 made it less of a small college. We would be able to eliminate the requirement of living on campus for upperclassmen. There are some real positive benefits.

Can we try vocalizing our positive attributes inter-nally as well?

Student Life is working on this, and listening to your con-cerns. We hold many open forums, and attending those helps. Our ability to be successful is based on what you share. We can’t fix everything at once, but we are working on creating better ways to communicate with you.

We are not eliminating scholarships. We are controlling them in the future. There will still be a scholarship program, but it will not be as expansive as before. It will probably be no more than 50% of tuition. Nationally speaking, offering scholarships above 48% drives itself towards financial dif-ficulty. We aren’t dropping into no financial aid, but we need to control and recruit families who can afford this education. I want Elmira College to be financially sustainable and to flourish. I want this school to live prominently and success-fully, so you can be proud of this place for the rest of your lives. This school is for you, and I want it to work for you.

This speech was taken from the senate minutes, recorded by Hope Levy ’16 - therefore, it is a summary of the speech, not directly quoted.

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October 16th, a cloudy Friday morning and I ventured beyond Elmira with a dear friend to Corning. Togeth-

er we visited the Heritage Village of the Southern Finger Lakes to view and listen to the Black Voices of Corning. We stepped beyond the doors into the gallery not sure of what to anticipate and how it would change our perspectives. Af-rican American history is dark with violence and oppression, but there is a power in the voices of the past. I walked the gallery and read about those who came in search of a new beginning in Corning through migration, who experienced violence through injustice, and expressed the culture of Afri-can American people that should never be forgotten. So many men and women came to this area, some from Maryland, my home state, and I learned about what they have worked for.

Overwhelming sorrow swept me, looking upon the faces of people living days in fear of the Ku Klux Klan. “Hatred at home,” one board in the gallery, brought strong feelings of sorrow. What would a life like that be like? I wonder, trying to imagine such a life, and it’s hard. I grew up with luxury and education that I realize are far from the struggle of the people I see in the stories of this gallery. This life of luxury and education that I stumble through would not be possible if they hadn’t fought for it. The African American people that I see in these stories often had families torn apart. One board, “Children Together, Children Apart,” spoke about the children separated from families and children dealing with racial discrimination and racism from adults. I stood there humbled because children have not escaped racial discrimi-nation entirely, however over time the children who suffered from racism raised children to not contribute to it. The po-litical turmoil of the past and the political turmoil of the present have shown the backlash of political injustice on youth. I wondered how those children, who were raised in a society that actively had segregation and discrimination as a part of it, would feel about how racism is still a part of the present culture and the social development of African American youth.

There was one board in the gallery that remarked on the problems of African Americans acquiring jobs in their

desired professions. They were limited to factory jobs and denied jobs in professions that they wanted. Imagine that, being denied the choice in career, a freedom often taken for granted now. However, black professionals didn’t let racial discrimination keep them down forever. Corning has its share of black professionals who worked past racial dis-crimination in the workplace and helped change the face of history. The Corning Glass Works helped contribute to that change. “Corning Incorporated,” another board in the gal-lery, showed a moment of pride for African Americans in the Corning community who had surpassed factory level jobs, showing the voices of African Americans who are powerful and fight for equality.

The board that showed the importance of oral history to African Americans really captured my attention as a young African American writer learning her craft. I imagine a life without literature due to the crime of reading and being edu-cated for African Americans under the old laws. Seeing these stories empowers me to fight on with my choices in studying literature and creative writing.

Oral history, by definition, is history passed on by word of mouth. Since many African Americans could not read or write, memories, art, and culture were passed on by the pow-er of voice. Later on in history there were a select few writ-ers and scholars who wrote down those words and taught those of the present about a life and a voice in the past.

By the end of the gallery af-ter walking past all of the sto-ries and images I had listened to some of the black voices of Corning. I stepped and walked through the sorrow of a histo-ry and culture often forgotten to be taught. Yet here, we all can learn and appreciate what African American people have fought for. It’s difficult to learn about such a harsh time, but at the same time it shouldn’t be forgotten. I won’t forget, and I hope you won’t either.

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The Cultural Elmira Experience:The Power of Black Voices

By Jade Stevenson ’17Contributing Writer

All photos provided by Jade Stevenson ’17

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The last known Ebola patient in an epidemic

that has lasted two years in West Africa has finally recovered against all odds. This patient, a baby named Nubia, resides in Guinea. Her recovery means the last country to fight the horrible virus was able to begin its 42-day countdown to victo-ry over the Ebola outbreak.

Sierra Leone, a neighboring country, was able to declare itself Ebola-free on Novem-ber 7. Nubia was born on October 27 to a woman in-fected with Ebola that was not able to overcome the illness. The baby received treatment from Medecins Sans Frontieres, a medical charity. MSF’s emergency coordinator in Guinea stat-ed, “We are pleased that she has been tested nega-tive, but as she is the first

infected baby to have recovered, she will continue to receive special-ized medical sup-port before going back home.” Sixty-eight people were placed in quarantine due to contact with patients from the country. They were fi-nally released on Saturday. This epidemic in Guinea is named the worst known Ebola outbreak in history.

It began in the forest region of the country, and more than 28,000 were infected because of it. 11,000 of these people died.

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Recently, scientists have proven that some “space junk” will be hitting the

earth in the near future. Near Sri Lanka, there will be some unknown debris hit-ting the ocean sometime this week. As we all know, it is hard to predict some-thing falling to the earth from space. As in the case in 1952, there were missed predictions of the space station that was supposed to burn up in space, but ended up hitting a vacant part of Australia. Though it is difficult to predict, scientists believe that this debris is circling about one hundred miles from Earth’s atmo-sphere currently, and will hopefully burn up in its descent to civilization.

It is believed that this debris is com-ing from one of the failed Apollo mis-

sions, and is just now re-entering our atmo-sphere. Scientists have officially named this debris as “WT1190F”, which makes us all de-lete those numbers in our mind to get the popular anagram of words I can’t say in the paper. WT1190F was first spotted in 2013 as what looked like fireballs moved out of Earth’s orbit pretty efficiently. Since it has now orbit around our planet, we must take some precau-tion. If you find your-self near Sri Lanka in the near future, please don’t go fishing. You might get more of a souvenir than you bargained for.

Failed Apollo Mission Coming HomeBy Haley Brown ’17

Campus Life Editor

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Recovery At Last!

By Alyssa Wilson ’17Entertainment Editor

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OpinionNovember 30, 2015 Page 11

10 Weird Creatures from Folklore Around the World

Just in case you were wondering, I’ve compiled a list of ten lesser-

known creatures of folklore that are odd, yet interesting. They come from around the world, proving that Americans are not the only people with weird legends. The majority of these are beasts or spirits rang-ing from 100 year old umbrellas to French dragon hybrids (like the one pictured). I hope you all learn about a new creature you’ve never known before. It can be your new fact of the day!

1. Kasa-Obake: These come from Japanese folklore. They are of-ten portrayed as an umbrella with one eye and one leg, though some-times they will also have two arms. They are a type of ghost. The spirit develops in an inanimate object after it has existed 100 years

2. Bubak: In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, this creature does not necessarily have a form but is con-nected to darkness and scary place. Children fear them, but are not tak-en away as with similar lore around the world by the Bubak’s considered counterpart, the Sack Man.

3. Tarasque: France’s very own dragon hy-brid! This dragon like beast had a lion’s head, six short legs like a bear’s, an ox-like body covered with a turtle shell, and a scaly tail that ended in a scorpion’s stinger. It is most famous, I believe, for the story where this creature was tamed, but then stoned

to death.

4. Kappa: Another creature of Japanese folklore, this particular one is the shape and size of a human child, but is covered in scales with a beak, a shell on its back, and a sort of bowl on top of its head. This flat hairless region on the top of its head is always wet, and is thought to be the source of the creature’s power. This cavity must be full whenever it is away from the water; if it ever dries out, then it loses its power and may even die.

5. Clurichaun: This is an Irish fairy that resembles a Leprechaun. Unlike the Leprechaun, this particu-lar creature is always drunk and in a surly mood. It is said, if one is on their good side, then this creature will protect the wine cellar. Other-wise, these drunk Leprechaun cous-ins will wreak havoc on the person’s home.

6. Lausks: He’s kind of like a Lat-vian Jack Frost. This creature is said to look like an old man in a warm animal fur coat, holding a small sil-ver ax. He goes around houses and checks their sturdiness during the winter, causing drafts and making the house feel colder. He also pinches people’s cheeks and noses when they go outside in winter.

7. Cockatrice: This is a myth-ological beast with the body of a dragon and the head of a rooster. It has the ability to kill people by either looking at them, touching them, or sometimes breathing on them. Late-medieval bestiaries say that the wea-sel is the only animal that is immune to the glance of this creature. It was also thought that this beast would die instantly upon hearing a rooster crow or looking at itself in a mirror.

8. Leshi: This is a Slavic wood-land spirit. Often described as a peas-ant man, this creature guards what-ever forest he lives in and leads any travelers he can astray in the forest. It is undecided whether or not this creature is mischievous or downright evil.

9. Bonnacon: This mythical beast from Macedonia uses its dung as an acidic projectile weapon against enemies. It is thought to be based upon the European bison, which went extinct in the wild in 1919.

10. Nanaue: From Hawaii, this creature is part man, part shark. He is often called Shark Man or King of the Sharks. Not much is known about this creature except one story about how he fell in love with a woman and

about their child. I don’t believe he’s fought Aqua-man though; sorry, DC fans.

I hope this enter ta ined you. Who knows! May-be you’ll use it for that es-say you are procrastinat-ing on. Yes, I’m looking at you.

By Victoria McGraw ’19Staff Writer

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November 30, 2015 Page 12

Letter to Lin-Manuel Miranda

Anyone who knows me, or is friends with me on Facebook, knows that I am completely and utterly

obsessed with the new Broadway musical, Hamilton. (I’m listening to it right now, as I do everyday for the majority of the day.) Though it seems to annoy people, I could not care less, because it is incredibly brilliant, is changing history, and has improved my life. It is definitely one of the greatest musicals to be written in a long, long, LONG time. (I’m a theatre major; trust me on this.)

The writer and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda (also the star and writer of In the Heights), has won a Ma-cArthur Genius Grant for his creation. The show as a whole has already won Obie, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel awards, and has been an-nounced for Tony nominations. Before it even opened on Broadway, the show sold over $30 million in advance ticket sales, and has continued to sell out on nearly every performance. Oh, and it just reached #1 of Bill-board’s rap albums chart. Basically, it is a one-of-a-kind musical with amazing artists, amazing choreography, amazing plot, and amazing insight into the lives of the most underrated founding father of American history.

To celebrate and properly express my love, it will take many articles. (But, hey, it’s my section and I have all year.) But for now, here is a letter i posted on tumblr to reach out to Lin-Manuel about how much his musi-cal has changed my life. It’s a little personal, but I do not mind sharing it; it’s all true.

Dear Lin-Manuel, @linmanuelI know this will get lost in your millions of messages, I’m

sure, but I just needed to express to someone my love and

admiration for Hamilton. I have been an American His-tory enthusiast for my entire life and I have always been a

huge fan of both Hamilton and Jefferson for their great contributions to the U.S. I mean they were so incredible, and no

one I talked to ever seemed to care about what Hamilton did for this nation. A

lot of people didn’t know. When I found out Hamilton might be replaced on the 10 dollar bill, I was outraged. He did so much for this country; why not replace Jackson on the 20, who was responsible

for a lot of Native American deaths and didn’t like paper money anyway? Why replace Hamilton, the reason for

much of the great things about our nation. People always complain about our government, and I always have to

explain that it’s the people, not the government, that is flawed. Our found-ing fathers created an incredible plan

of a brand new government, and Hamilton is responsible for much of the good this country has. He always amazed me. Enter Hamilton the Musical. I am a theatre student and have dedicated my life to this art and your musical

has touched my heart in ways no other one could. It’s two of my greatest passions put together into one and it’s

beautiful and moving and inspirational. At this very mo-ment, tears are forming in my eyes with the knowledge of who may be reading this message. This musical means so much to me. I know it will make history, and already has, but I have this gut feeling that this is the most important

musical that has been written in a long time, possibly this century. You amaze me, sir. You put me in a constant

state of awe and I owe you my life because this musical has changed it forever. I have spent every dime I had

saved to buy tickets to go see this show. I cried when I hit “order” because I know that I will be witnessing history live. I cannot tell you how much this musical means to

me, and how incredibly happy I am that this is the thing to change musical theatre forever. I don’t know if I have

much more to say. God bless.

Although I have much more to say, I will save it for future articles. If you are interested in listening to Hamilton, it is free to stream on Spotify. If you want the full experience, tickets to the Broadway show can be purchased on Broadway.com. It would be well worth it.

By Emily Daigneault ’17Opinion Editor

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Waeya’s WorldRelationships

November 30, 2015 Page 13

Hello Readers,I am back! Did you miss me?! I am sorry I wasn’t able to submit an article last week; I was

extremely busy with a lot of schoolwork and Orchesis. Both shows went very well, I was very pleased. The audiences were awesome! Thanks to everyone who came out to support us, we really appreciated it and we hope you guys enjoyed the show. So now that Orchesis is done, I have nothing exciting going on in my life. Everyday is just the same old, going to class, to work, to the gym, to the library. My social life is barely existent and my love life is nonexistent, oh well. Speaking of love life, I wanted to share with you guys this one thing that a good friend said to me a few weeks ago. He said to me “Waeya, I can’t wait ‘til you find someone who makes you truly happy and you are gonna make them very happy too”. Seriously, this was the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me. I literally wanted to cry my eyes out but I didn’t, instead I played it cool and made a joke out of it. To be honest, deep inside I can’t wait to find the right person either. All of these heartbreaks with the wrong people are getting annoying and quite painful. I like to believe that there is some one out there for everyone. It’s a matter of when you meet them. When I meet my right person, I am going to make him as happy as he makes me or even more. And it will be a happily ever after. I really hope you guys get your happily ever after as well. You know, I say that I can’t wait to me the right guy but then I don’t know if I am ready for it. I am still pretty childish and selfish, I am afraid that I might drive him away. So I think it would be super ideal if I meet my right person in like (give or take) two to three years, with the hopes, I would be mature enough for a real relationship by then. Some of my close friends are in really healthy relationships right now and I am here forever alone. But then seeing them inter-act with each other, being so comfortable with each other and loving each other makes me feel so happy. I hope that when my turn comes around I will be as happy and in love as they are now or even more…if that’s possible. I am not bitter that I am not in their place right now because as I have mentioned before I will probably ruin everything! Since, I am already talking about such a sappy subject, let me just get a bit sappier and share with you the little happily ever that I imagine for myself. I admit that I am quite vein and shallow but I am not waiting to find a 6’2” brain surgeon with an eight pack that can play guitar, sing and dance tango, but hey, if he is then I would not complain! I am hoping that he would be someone who is somewhat decent looking, with sense of humor and ambitions, a bit athletic and loves chil-dren. I put athleticism as possible criteria because I want my little boy or girl to have a daddy, who can teach them how to kick a soccer ball, throw a football or other athletic stuff and I would not be the best person for that! I want to have a little girl or a boy who loves to dance and sing like me so we can have family jam sessions. Also it would be super ideal if he can cook too because I can’t cook anything other than rice and ramen. Some of you might think I am crazy for having the idea of happily ever after but I don’t care because it helps me sleep at night and makes the heartbreaks a little less painful. This world can be a pretty crappy place sometimes therefore everyone deserve their own little version of happily ever after. That’s all from me this week, I am going to leave you guys with one of my favorite romantic quotes from the movie Leap Year: “May you never steal, lie or cheat, but if you must steal, then steal away my sorrows, and if you must lie, lie with me all the nights of my life, and if you must cheat, then please cheat death because I couldn’t live a day with-out you”. Here are some pictures of some of the cutest couples on campus…enjoy!

Till next time,Much love, Waeya

By Waeya Lin ’16Contributing Writer

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EntertainmentNovember 30, 2015 Page 15

EC Buzz: 6 Times You Hated Technology

1. When you were almost done with that paper

Remember that time that you spent forever writing that paper way far in advance (hours count, right?), and then, all of a sudden, you

can’t type anymore. Then, that horrifying little note appears above your typing that says, “not

responding.” Why, Microsoft Word! Why?!

2. When your favorite song JUST came on

You waited all day, ALL DAY, for that one song that your Pandora station is actually

named after to finally come on. The WiFi has been working great. You see that little picture

that you know is the cover of that song and get pumped! The world is your oyster! Until

the song pauses 2 seconds in… Couldn’t have picked a better moment, WiFi…

3. When you were half way through the cutest

puppy video everNobody doesn’t love cute puppy videos (if they do, do not, I repeat, do not befriend them. You don’t need that negativity in your life). You can’t get enough of the adorable videos people post on Facebook of those rambunctious little rascals rolling around and squealing. In fact, you just found the cutest

video ever! Look at the way he just climbed over his brother! And of course, your computer has to update right then. The best time for your computer is obvi-ously the instant you watch the best video in your

entire life.

4. When you were in the middle of a very important phone

call“Why yes, I would love to take

your internship!” you say. “Great! You can start on-”

“Hello? You there? HELLO?!” Should have charged your

phone longer, huh?

5. When you just want to watch your weekly

showDo the cable companies not realize that we have

nothing more meaningful to do with our lives than wait 7 days for an hour long show? I mean, they left

us on a cliffhanger last week so what do they ex-pect? How can we not be upset when they interrupt

the most exciting part of our rough college weeks because they’re having technical difficulties. How

rude!

6. When your ringer didn’t turn off even though you

swear it didNo one ever feels the need to contact you unless you’re in

class. It’s not just your friends. It’s your mom, dad, great grand-

mother, and every person on campus with your email ad-

dress. You anticipate this bar-rage of notifications so you put your phone on silent right be-

fore going to the one class where the professor will give you an F if your phone goes off. And then

you get twelve text messages at the same time, each of which loudly declares its presence. I

swear I shut it off!

By Alyssa Wilson ’17Entertainment Editor

Photo by memegenerator.net

Photo by psychologytoday.com

November 30, 2015 Page 16

App Review: Rhapsody

We all know that iTunes is a rip off. I mean,

obviously who wants to pay $1.29 for every single song they want to listen to? Not me. And then we have the throwback to middle school days (cringe) and when we used LimeWire before that got taken off the grid, be-cause it was “illegal” or some-thing like that. Anyways, this is where Rhapsody comes in. Rhapsody is this neat music

app where you pay $9.99 a month, and have unlimited downloads. Completely un-limited downloads, available at your fingertips. I just checked my own account, and I found out I have over two thousand songs, and I’ve only had the app for two years. That is so much money I have saved just by investing a small amount of money into a different mu-

sic site than typical iTunes. I can listen to my music anywhere I go and can have multiple playlists for dif-ferent moods. The best part of this app? You don’t need to be connected to the Internet for it to work. As long as you download the music to your device before walking out the door, you can play it even when stranded in the middle

of the woods where WiFi isn’t remotely reachable. If you are a music lover like I am, go download this app and even just try the 30 day free trial. Then you can always ask for it as a present at Christmas!!

By Haley Brown ’17Campus Life Editor

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The Problem With Film Franchises: Part 1

So you learn that your favorite book series is being made into films. You get excited. You watch all of the movies in the

theaters as they come out. You get to the movie based on the last book. Just kidding, it’s not over; there is a second part to the movie, even though there is a single book. I don’t know about you, but this drives me crazy.

What movie franchises have follow this trend thus far? The first was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, follow by Twilight, The Hunger Games, and word on the street is Allegiant is next (for those that don’t know, this is the last novel in the Divergent series). It is also rumored that the last novel in The Maze Runner series, The Fever Code, set to be released in 2016, will not be split into two mov-ies. Let’s all be grateful for that. Now, most of us can understand why splitting the final novel in a series is so bittersweet. The “bitter” in bittersweet is the time lapse that you now have to wait to go see the final part of the series. The “sweet” part is that you can continue the tradition of attending all of the midnight premieres of your favorite fran-chises.

Because this has become a trend, I began to ask myself why the directors and producers of Hollywood would decide to use this strategy. Maybe it was because there was simply too much information in the novel to fit into a two-hour movie. How-ever, if you have ever watched a film directed by Christopher Nolan or James Cameron, you would have no problem sitting through an obnoxiously long movie. Also, I assumed that if

you were truly devoted to the series (I’m sorry to those people who were dragged to the movies against their will) you would not mind sitting there for three hours to watch the rest of the series play out on the big screen. It also came to my attention, having read three of the five series mentioned, there tended to be a lot of information in the novel that was not important to the plot line that could have been left out. That raises the prob-lem of those that hate when Hollywood changes the details for a film. Let’s be realistic though, we really don’t need to watch half an hour of Harry walking through the corridors upset

or watch several scenes describing repeatedly how Katniss can’t sleep at night. Having said that, I also do not like when the directors feel the need to change the film, but I feel that taking repeating information out to make one book into one film is the lesser of the two evils. Then it hit me; they are probably doing it for the money.

Having done some re-search, the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows parts one and two made a total of $2,300,812,289 at the box office worldwide,

more than doubling their potential profit worldwide for a novel that could have otherwise been one film, based on the aver-age box office profit on the other six films. The average made worldwide for the other movies was about $904,227,042. The same trend was seen with the Twilight series. We’ll wait to see how Catching Fire and Allegiant do in the box office.*

Despite the annoying trend of splitting novels for films, I will continue to see my favorite movie franchises in theaters. With that said, for your enjoyment, Catching Fire: Part 2 will be released November 20 of this year. Allegiant: Part 1 is set to be released in March of 2016. Enjoy!

By Nicole Derosia ’17Staff Writer

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SportsWomen’s Hockey Wins Home Opener,

Fonfara Gets Hat Trick

November 30, 2015 Page 17

The Elmira College women’s ice hockey team dominated their home

opener as they faced SUNY Cortland. The Soaring Eagles powered past the Red Dragons 5-1, led by a hat trick from Meghan Fonfara ’18.

It didn’t take long for the Eagles to get on the board. They scored their first goal just a minute and thirty-six seconds into the first period. It was rookie Mad-die Evangelous ’19 who put the puck in assisted by Sarah Hughson ’18 and Kristin Chivers ’19. It was a power play opportunity after a Cortland player was whistled for a tripping penalty just thir-ty-four seconds into the game. The rest of the period saw a couple of power play opportunities for Cortland but they were unable to capitalize and the score going

into the first intermission was 1-0 in fa-vour of the home team.

Elmira struck quickly in the second, scoring an even strength goal just one minute and nine seconds into the period. This was Fonfara’s first goal of the night assisted by Assistant Captain Phoebe Piku ’16. Just under eleven minutes later Fonfara struck again, this time unassisted. Only fifty-five sec-onds later the Red Dragons fi-nally got on the board cutting the Eagles’ lead to two. How-ever less than two minutes later Fonfara scored again on a power play opportunity, reclaiming the three goal lead and complet-ing her hat trick. Chivers and Hughson were credited with the assists. Sixteen seconds later Elmira scored again with a goal

from Katie Granato ’19 with assists from Evangelous and Bobbi Strople ’19. This brought the score to 5-1, which remained for the rest of the second period and all of the third leaving the Soaring Eagles with a decisive victory. Kelcey Crawford ’18 made nineteen saves in net for the Soaring Eagles.

By Liz Roosa ’16Sports Editor

Photo by the Department of Athletics

It was a wild weekend for the Elmira College men’s ice hockey team when they hosted number 11 nationally ranked Hobart

College for a pair of ECAC West conference games. They split the weekend, Hobart coming out on top 5-3 on Friday night despite a strong comeback effort from the Soaring Eagles. That energy carried over to the next night and an early lead helped the home team win 4-3.

Friday night began with a lot of physicality and not much in the way of scoring. There were over fifteen minutes played before a goal was finally scored by Hobart. Elmira managed to hold them off for the remainder of the period leaving the Eagles trailing by one going into the first intermission. The teams came back in the second period and it didn’t take long for Hobart to strike. They scored again just one minute and twenty seconds into the period. A little over eight minutes later the Soaring Eagles cut the Statesmen’s lead in half with a goal from Carter Shinkaruk ’16. He was assisted by Kenny Tencza ’19 and Jonny Grassie ’19. Almost ten minutes later Hobart came back to strike again, regaining their two goal lead. Less than a minute after that the Statesmen put another one in the back of the net, giving them a 4-1 lead that they would take to the locker room for the second intermission.

Elmira and Hobart continued to play physically when Ho-bart managed another goal exactly seven minutes into the peri-od. However Elmira refused to give up. They continued to fight

and with two minutes left in the period Shinkaruk found the back of the net for the second time that night. Captain Brian Depp ’16 and Mitch Atkins ’17 were credited with assists. With just under a minute left to play Tencza blasted the puck in with assists from Jeremy Marginsky ’18 and Mike Martin ’18. This proved to be the final goal of the game as the comeback fell short, Hobart skating away with the 5-3 victory. Goaltender Sandro Aeschlimann ’19 made 35 saves in the loss.

The second night saw the Soaring Eagles coming out with a vengeance and the Statesmen scrambling to recover. It didn’t take long for Elmira to get on the board. Just over three and a half minutes into the first period Brent Lafayette ’19 made a hard shot that was initially saved by the Hobart goaltender. It ricocheted over to Mike Collins ’16 who was waiting by the post and bounced off of his knee and into the net. It was La-fayette’s first career assist and Collins’ first goal of the season. Elmira didn’t stop there as less than two minute later Greg Whittle ’16 made a pass to Shinkaruk who put it in the back of the net to give the Eagles a two goal lead. Hobart finally got on the board twelve minutes into the period. Elmira came back just over three minutes later as Blake O’Neill ’19 blasted a shot from the point assisted by Whittle and Grassie. It was the freshman defenseman’s first career goal. That was the final goal in the first period leaving the score going into the first intermission at 3-1 in favour of the home team.

Hobart began the second period with a change in goalten-ders and managed to score three minutes and eight seconds into the period. This was the only score of the period and for much of the next period. As the final minutes of the third peri-od counted down the Statesmen pulled their goaltender, opting for an extra skater. Depp managed to get the puck and skate up ice for an empty net goal with only one minute and one sec-ond left in regulation. Hobart did manage one more goal with thirty-five seconds left on the clock but it wasn’t enough and Elmira earned their second victory of the season, 4-3. Aeschli-mann made 41 saves in the win.

Men’s Hockey Earns Important Victory in Split with HobartBy Liz Roosa ’16

Sports Editor

Photo by Liz Roosa ’16