Morrisville State College • September 2010• vol. XLIV • no. 1

InsideCampus

Editorial

Student Death

Budget shortfall may delay some student graduations

Admissions Office seeks student ambassadors

Silke Mahardy, ‘13Editorial Co-Editor

New York state budget woes are coming to the Mor-risville State College campus this year in the form of cold-er dorms and classrooms, fewer student jobs, early faculty/staff retirements, and less snow removal.

Perhaps most worrisome to students is that cutbacks may affect timely gradua-tions if the college cannot afford to offer all sections of classes. In an Aug. 4 e-mail, Morrisville State College President Raymond Cross told faculty and staff, “some students will not be able to get the courses they need to graduate on time.” It is too early, however, to know exactly how staffing will be affected until the legislature

decides on possible tuition increases for the spring se-mester, Cross said.

The SUNY system is fac-ing cuts on all levels. Follow-ing recent public criticism for granting pay hikes to three administration executives, Chancellor Nancy L. Zim-pher has agreed to forfeit her $90,000 housing allowance to cover the pay increases to her staff, according to a Sept. 24 SUNY news release. “This decision comes from my belief that a big part of leadership is compromise,” Zimpher said in the release.

After the state budget was finally passed early in August, the State University of New York received a funding cut of $210 million. MSC is fac-ing cuts close to $2.1 million for the 2010-2011 academic year from its $27 million

annual operating budget. Bridging that shortfall will not be easy, Cross said.

One of the targets for saving money was a SU-NYwide retirement incen-tive offered to all employees based on their age and years

of service. Cross had hoped to recover $500,000 through that incentive; he announced to a faculty/staff audience on Sept. 28 that the 36 em-ployees who took advantage of the incentive returned $958,000 to the college in sal-ary savings and non-renewal of several positions. At the same time, a projected sav-ings of $500,000 in tempo-rary services spending has yielded only $187,000 so far, he said.

The SUNY system re-ceives only 30 percent of its funding from the state, Cross noted. Thirty years ago it received 80 percent, and prior to 1963, tuition was free. Just 13 years ago, 60 percent of SUNY’s operating budget came from the state, Cross said.

Morrisville State campus renovations continue throughout

academic year

US Economy looks ahead to

imminent disasterKatie Collins, ‘12Campus News Co-Editor

Horticulture student Julie Hamelin was an admissions ambassador last year. She chose the job because she enjoys the interaction with students. When she was in high school, she gave tours of that campus as well.

She thought the experi-ence would help her improve herself, “as a person and with talking to others,” Hamelin said. As a result of having to talk with the prospective students, Hamelin said she gained public speaking skills and improved her team work skills.

The Admissions Office is seeking student applicants for the Spring 2011 Admis-sions Ambassadors program. The student ambassadors have to be “MSC-proud” and interested in helping admissions in recruiting new students,” said an e-mail sent

to students two weeks ago by Transfer Admissions Advisor Heather Haight.

The spring 2010 semester was the first for the program, and even though Admis-sions was only looking for ambassadors for next spring,

Admissions Advisor Melissa Ward said they are work-ing on making the program yearly.

Students are awarded a $1,000 stipend if they com-plete all assigned jobs. Ward said the different jobs are

worth a certain amout of points, and the points repre-sent dollar amounts. Student ambassadors receive their stipends at the end of the semester. The admissions ambassadors are funded by an MSC Foundation account,

Haight said. The job includes contacting prospective stu-dents, helping with recruit-ment for Side Kick Days, and hosting potential students.

The ambassadors will have to participate in Ad-missions events, promote

baccalaureate programs and be knowledgeable about their own majors. While doing all this, students must maintain a 2.75 grade-point average.

This semester, Ward said the office is only looking at hiring six new student ambas-

sadors because they already have four from last semester. Ward explains that 10 stu-dents are manageable within their budget, and 10 students provide a big enough range to cover MSC’s programs.

President Raymond Cross speaks to incoming students at this year ’s Welcoming Ceremony.Photo by Daniel Moreno, ‘12

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Lisa Wyman-Hazard, a human services student at the Norwich Campus, died Saturday, Sept. 25 at her home in Sherburne, college officials said Tuesday.

The cause of death is be-lieved to be an embolism caused by a blood clot.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 1 at the Burgess and Tedesco Funeral Home on 10 South Main St. in Sherburne.

page 2 September 2010 - The CHIMESEditorialUS economy now sitting on the precipice of failure

Will Conroy, ‘12Staff Reporter

Whether it’s from homeless people with signs, from movies, or from home-less people with signs in movies, for years the public has been conditioned by the media to think that any “doom and gloom” talk is fantastical or outright loony. The result is that now, when there is warranted gloomy concern about impending doom, it gets shoved off on that basis. The situation is similar to the old “Boy who cried ‘Wolf ’” parable, or more appropriately, the old “sky is fall-ing” idiom. It is precisely this scenario that has caused many not to heed the economic words of warning that warrant the public’s attention.

The reality is that anyone who has been following economic news, or has a fairly basic understanding of economics, is bound to see that we face imminent disaster. When it will occur as well as the severity of it depend on how much more fiat money the Federal Reserve will continue to print and how much longer other countries will continue to trade with dollars.

Economists warned of many of these economic woes decades earlier.

Their predictions were based on the underlying principle of continuing with the inflationary and debt based practice of printing fiat money to fund wars and prop up industries. It is only now, with recent developments, that signs have revealed when this impending economic disaster will hit. And those signs say soon.

Some of such recent developments include the fact that, as CNBC’s Diana Olick reported, this past August saw the highest amount of foreclosures for a month since 2005 – 100,000 to be exact. According to the Census Bureau, in 2009 we saw the largest number of people liv-ing poverty in the 51 years of recording poverty history: 43.6 million people, an increase of four million people over the previous year.

An article published by Press TV on Aug. 11, 2010 reveals “the US trade defi-cit in June has reached its widest point in the past 20 months on the rising imports and weakening exports -- an indication of a slow economic recovery.”

In an article published in the New York Times on July 4, 2010 titled “With the US trapped in depression, this really is starting to feel like 1932,” Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote, “The US work-force shrank by 652,000 in June, one of the sharpest contractions ever… Wages are flirting with deflation… The average time needed to find a job has risen to a record 35.2 weeks. Nothing like this has been seen before in the post-war era. Jeff Weniger, of Harris Private Bank, said this compares with a peak of 21.2 weeks in the Volcker recession of the early 1980s.”

CNBC’s Joseph Pisani said in 2009, “Overall, 61 percent said they always or usually live paycheck to paycheck, up

from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007.”

In an exclusive interview with the Energy Report, economist and editor for shadowstats.com, John Williams predict-ed “a systemic collapse, a hyperinflation-ary great depression and the cessation of normal commerce.” ShadowStats is “an electronic newsletter service that exposes and analyzes flaws in current U.S. govern-ment economic data and reporting… and provides an assessment of underlying economic and financial conditions, net of financial-market and political hype.”

“The government is effectively bankrupt,” Williams said. “Using GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Prin-ciples) accounting principles, the annual deficit is running in the range of $4 tril-lion to $5 trillion. That’s beyond con-tainment.” Williams explained his belief further, “The government can’t cover it with taxes. They’d still be in deficit if they took 100 percent of personal income and corporate profits. They’d also still be in deficit if they cut every penny of govern-ment spending except for Social Security and Medicare.” The rest of such statistics can be found in an article published by the Economic Collapse Blog titled “15 Economic Statistics that just Keep Get-ting Worse.”

Some may argue that all of these statistics are either outdated or lagging indicators, and that we’re just now enter-ing into the recovery process of which the positive effects cannot yet be seen. Well, here are some leading indicators.

As the Independent’s Robert Fisk reported in October of last year in an article titled “The Demise of the Dollar,” Gulf Arabs have begun planning – with China, Russia, Japan and France – to move from dollar dealings for oil to a bas-ket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold, and a new currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, which includes Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Ku-wait and Qatar. Together, these Middle Eastern countries alone hold $2.1 trillion dollars in reserves.

China has also begun diversifying by dumping its US Treasury security hold-ings, selling $21.2 billion in the month of June 2010 alone, as Oil Price reported in an article titled “It’s Official: China is Unloading its Treasury Bonds.”

Gold is continually trading at higher rates. Just last year India moved to buy record amounts of gold to protect themselves from the uncertain economic future, as Claudia Carpenter reported for Bloomberg last year. As Giordano Bruno reported for Neithercorp Press on Aug. 8, 2010, the “U.S. Dollar is Now Ripe for Catastrophic Devaluation.”

Countless respected economists have come out heralding the new

Great Depression, as reported in an article published by Breitbart titled “Doomsday warnings of U.S. apoca-lypse gain ground” and in an article by PrisonPlanet.com’s Steve Watson in an article titled “Economists Herald New Great Depression.” Regarding the stock market and gold, Robin Griffiths of Cazenove Capital told CNBC, “Both asset classes are set to make losses, with equity markets bottoming out in October.”

Matthias Change reported, on Aug. 31 for Global Research, that “Too Big to Fail Global Banks Will Collapse between Now and First Quarter 2011.”

Other such economists include eco-nomic gurus David Rosenburg and Nou-riel Roubini, the professor of economics at NYU, who predicted the subprime mortgage crisis and the collapse of the housing bubble.

On top of the numerous testimonies from respected economists, reporting for the London Telegraph in an article published on Sept. 13, 2010, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard tells us “America and Europe face the worst jobs crisis since the 1930s and risk ‘an explosion of social unrest’ unless they tread carefully, the In-ternational Monetary Fund has warned.”

As the economic Collapse Blog reported, “Even Tony Robbins is Warn-ing that Economic Collapse is Coming.” Tony Robbins is an acclaimed motiva-tional speaker whose infomercials were popular during the 80s and 90s.

Ignoring these facts and testimonies from numerous respected experts in the field of economics, would not only be considered an act of denial and suspen-sion of logic, it would be a textbook definition of insanity – doing the same thing over again and expecting a differ-ent result.

The majority of the public is riding on an ethereal cloud of delusion when it comes to preconceived notions about the economic strength of our country. The other half of the problem is that most politicians – both Democrats and Repub-licans – hold the view that the citizenry is a limitless resource that can be taxed to no end, that taxes are the end all be all to any fiscal problems, and that blindly rub-ber stamping bills on the basis of party affiliation or convincing demonstrations is doing their jobs as representatives.

I mean, come on, people! Tony Rob-bins!

The public is riding on an

ethereal cloud of delusion.

Heather L. Foster, Editor In ChiefBenjamin J. Drew, Managing Editor

Gretchen L. Cramer, Executive EditorJeffrey Costello ............................................... Editorial Page Co-EditorSilke Mahardy ................................................. Editorial Page Co-EditorMonica Bonneau ........................................... Campus News Co-EditorKatie Collins .................................................. Campus News Co-EditorWendy Vair ................................................................ Lifestyle Co-EditorAston Lee .................................................................. Lifestyle Co-EditorKristin Clark ....................................................................... Sports EditorCourtney Cook ................................................. Associate Sports EditorAmanda Kuhl ......................................................................Photo EditorDaniel Moreno ..................................................Associate Photo EditorJeffrey Costello ............................................................Online Co-EditorBriana Foisia ................................................................Online Co-EditorRichard Nieves ........................................................ Social Media Editor

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Sexism may be making a comeback.

An article form “Goliath Business News” confirms that a worker at a Wal-Mart, Patricia Surgeson, finally quit after be-ing repeatedly denied a promo-tion even though several of her male co-workers were getting paid a lot more than her.

In fact, Wal-Mart has re-cently asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a class-action lawsuit that has been filed against them on behalf of more than 1 million women who claim Wal-Mart engaged in gender discrimination.

The suit alleges that Wal-Mart has been granting promo-tions to male employees and passing up females for many years, and women have been getting paid less than their

male coworkers. Settling this case could cost Wal-Mart bil-lions of dollars.

For years, the world has been creating steps to elimi-nate discrimination and com-pose fair and equal rights for everyone. In 1964, The Civil Rights Act was brought about to stop discrimination of all forms, including in the work place. Soon after, in 1967, ‘age-ism’ in the workplace became forbidden. The prohibition of discrimination based on dis-ability followed in 1990.

That should be enough, right? Some would say so. But all over the world, people still face discrimination. This does not only include minorities; anyone can be a victim of prejudice.

“Computers Weekly” re-ported that Information Tech-nology professors face ageism at their jobs every day for being “too old.” A survey ran-domly conducted of 325 staff concluded that more than 50 percent were told they were “too old” to work.

Some other workers were told that “the company did not take permanent staff above a certain age.”

Another example of dis-crimination that occurs daily, reported by “USA Today,” is the harassment being aimed at Muslim, Arab-American, and South Asian workers. Although these cases have declined from eight years ago, there have been many disturbances against these employees. They are sometimes called ‘terrorists’ when they go to work and are facing much aggravation from co-workers.

How ignorant have Ameri-cans become that they just assume every member of a certain group is the same? A lot of people don’t even take the time to consider or listen to different opinions Muslims have. They don’t want to learn about their actual way of life or whether or not some of them were involved with the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

People just wish to believe all of the stereotypes and ru-mors about a certain group of people and don’t care about statements to the contrary.

Armanda King, former director of Residence Life and current director of Human Re-sources, said Morrisville State College has only faced isolated

incidents of discrimination. “Students are uncomfortable with things they don’t under-stand,” King said.

Most issues with prejudice do not come from the students, but the student’s parents. Sur-prisingly, most issues stem from parents finding out their child’s roommate is gay or of a different race and they call the school to complain about it. King added that in general, prejudice at Morrisville has de-creased over the years. “People are more accepting in general,” King said.

What triggers prejudice in the first place? Associate Pro-fessor of Psychology Robert Dushay had much to say on the subject. “It boils down to in-group, out-group,” he said. “We know the people we hang out with and the people we don’t hang out with.” Dushay added that it is human nature to classify groups of people and attach labels to them.

He said people “don’t ex-pend any mental effort to get to know them.” This leads employers to label certain traits to the people they hire. For ex-ample: if an employer assumes

people over the age of 65 are slow they may hesitate to hire an older person. Prejudice is in our nature. “You show me a group of humans without prejudice, and I will tell you it is a small group and everyone knows each other,” Dushay said.

Associate Professor of Sociology Kurt Reymers said he believes that everyone has biases, even when it comes to a facial expression or an off-handed comment they aren’t even aware of. “Discrimination has a lot to do with disempow-ering other people,” Reymers said.

Contrary to popular belief, discrimination does not just concern race or nationality. Ev-ery group of people must deal with stereotypes, but it should be totally eliminated from the work place.

The worst part is that it’s usually the employers them-selves who do the judging. When employers and fellow workers assume they know everything about a person and resist hiring them or working with them because of their race, it truly robs us of our ability to advance as a society.

Workplace discrimination comes in all varieties

Mollie Carter, ‘14 Staff Reporter

By Michael Goodman, ‘12

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of: receiving books, stocking shelves, trying to get students ready for their classes with their textbooks and supplies and taking books back at the end of the semester. “I love Don,” says Guyer. “I always stop in to say ‘Hi.’

Even if Rhyde is busy, Pacio says, he is always very helpful. Guyer says Rhyde has helped her with “a lot of stuff ” like ordering books. Pacio and Decaro both say that Rhyde has helped them with books as well as figuring out their Mustang Money when there are issues. Guyer says “good attitude” is a positive quality of Rhyde’s.

All three agree, if Rhyde was not running the cam-pus store, it would fall apart. Decaro says he has everything organized so he understands it. Pacio and Guyer agree that the school could not find another person as good as Rhyde. “He

Donald Rhyde, sales associate at the Norwich Campus Store.

Photo by Alysha Jones, ‘11Staff Reporter

works hard and puts a lot of time into that place,” Pacio says. Guyer says if Rhyde were to be gone, the campus store would not be open.

Norwich Campus staff members strive to help their students

Brian Tefft, Norwich Campus’ computer service techinican and Library Assistant.

Photo by Alysha Jones, ‘11 | Staff Reporter

Nancy Fern, the Norwich Cam-pus’ Receptionist in the Admis-tration office.

Photo by Alysha Jones, ‘11 Staff Reporter

because he works with a close-knit group of staff who get the job done. Rhyde agrees that he works with a wonderful faculty and staff, he says. Rhyde says he “truly adores” working with the Norwich staff and the campus store staff at the main campus.

Fern who also enjoys her job says, “I love working with students.”

Rhyde says he is fascinated with people and loves working with the students. Tefft agrees that the interaction with the students is another reason why he enjoys his job.

At the Norwich campus, Rhyde says there are some traditional-age students, but for the most part, going to school is a big deal because some non-traditional students are married, have children, and work full-time. Some have lost their jobs and are coming back to school as non-traditional students to make a financial change.

Fern says one advantage to students coming to the Nor-wich Campus is the fact that they are “nice.” Tefft agrees that the staff at the campus is not only very outgoing, but they are determined to help their students.

Alysha Jones, ‘10Staff Reporter

What is the difference be-tween faculty and staff ? Ac-cording to dictionary.com, faculty is defined in regards to education as “the entire teach-ing and administrative force,” while staff is defined as “some-thing that supports or sustains.” On a college campus, many stu-dents do not think about how much a staff member does for them and their school.

Brian Tefft, Donald Rhyde and Nancy Fern are all faculty members at Morrisville State College’s Norwich Campus, and play important roles for the campus and students.

Tefft has been the Norwich Campus computer service tech-nician at the Helpdesk and the library assistant for five years. He says his jobs include: assist-ing students in the library with checking out books, finding information, using the school’s database, helping the entire building with the technology and helping students with the school’s laptops.

“He’s always willing to help others,” says liberal arts student Nick Pacio, a good friend and former work/study student of Tefft.

Amber Guyer, a human service student, and nursing student Michele Decaro, agree with Pacio. Guyer says Tefft brings a helpful hand to the Norwich Campus. Decaro says one of Tefft’s positive quali-ties is his willingness to help anyone.

Tefft has helped Pacio, Decaro and Guyer at some point. Pacio says Tefft has proof-read his papers and advised him on education in-formation. Decaro says he has helped with her computer and e-mail problems in the past. Guyer says Tefft has helped her with printer problems and transferring books from the main campus. “He’s a good role model,” says Guyer. “Students look up to him.”

Decaro says Tefft brings “smarts” to the Norwich Cam-pus because he knows a lot about information. As Tefft’s work study student, Pacio says Tefft taught him a lot about computers. He also says that Tefft brings a positive attitude to the campus.

The Norwich Campus has its own campus store, man-aged by Sales Associate Rhyde for three years (which is seven book rushes). He says that some of his duties consist

Fern has been the recep-tionist in the administration office of the Norwich Campus for five years. Her job con-sists of answering the phone, setting up appointments and answering students’ questions. She says she considers herself a good listener and good at advising.

Decaro says Fern has helped her “lots.” Fern has made sure Decaro has gotten her home-work and tests for classes she has missed, she has also made her appointments.

Pacio and Guyer agree that Fern has helped them with appointments. Guyer says she is “very good” at it because she works with your schedule. Decaro says she is very orga-nized about it as well. Guyer says Fern has a good attitude.

One positive thing about Fern, is that she is organized Decaro says. If Fern was not there anymore the office would not be as organized. She says Fern is good about keeping things together. In the past, Guyer says she has had prob-lems with her financial aid and Fern was very helpful.

Tefft says he enjoys his job at the Norwich Campus

Rhyde says the teachers and the faculty are diverse. Teachers at the campus are mostly full-time teachers at other school sand teach classes at the cam-pus as adjuncts.

Tefft, Rhyde and Fern say the most positive quality at the Norwich Campus is the one-on-one teaching.

The Norwich Campus is isolated from the main campus. It doesn’t have a dining hall or any sports. One thing it does have is the support from the faculty, Rhyde says.

page 6 September 2010 - THE CHIMESCampusMorrisville campus renovations continue throughout academic yearMonica Bonneau, ‘12Campus News Co-Editor

This year, many renovations will be taking place on the Mor-risville campus. Some of the renovation plans include, a re-placement of the pool in STUAC, a two-story fitness center, renova-tions to the theater and changes to the basketball and volleyball court in STUAC. “These phases will be started around Christmas time,” said President of Mor-risville State College Raymond Cross.

Director of Physical Plant Mike Nataluk elaborated on the reasoning for the current con-struction in the administrative quad outside of STUAC. He explained that the renovation consists of two major phases. “The first is the replacement of the 40 year-old heating lines,” he said. “Second is the replacement of all surface items.”Concrete, lighting and landscape are all in-cluded in the surface items facing replacement.

The current construction in the administrative quad has taken up many parking spots. Melissa Schaeffer, a nursing student who commutes from Cazenovia, is

unhappy about the situation. “It’s terrible and it takes me 20 minutes to find a spot,” said Schaeffer. “I park near the Ice-Plex and walk to Bailey, which is a far walk.”

Lot A has limited parking spots because the bus stop has

been temporarily moved into the middle of the lot, Nataluk said. The football stadium is not yet

finished, which adds to the issue. The stadium will be finished by the end of September, Nataluk added, and that will release spots for parking. Cross added that the administrative quad is set to be finished by November 1, which will restore some parking spots.

Morrisville’s architect major offers students the opportunity to

build a solid foundation in land-scape planning and design. The Sheila Johnson Design Center is scheduled to open in Fall 2011.

What is unique about this building is that when finished, it will resemble a barn-like struc-

ture, and will offer an overview of the entire Morrisville Campus.

With many clubs being cut at Morrisville because of the budget, these new renovations taking place may raise concern as to why money is being specifically spent on campus beautification. “These are two totally separate is-sues,” said Cross. “There are two

different budgets that don’t have anything to do with each other.”

One of these budgets that Cross described is designed for operating purposes, which is set aside for campus use. This bud-get has been cut enormously, as

Cross explained, which is why many changes on campus have occurred. Second is a budget specifically used for construction purpose.

“This is the cheapest time to do this construction,” said Cross. “State contracts have been frozen since April, which is why it’s hap-pening now.

The new administrative quad will include a raised area with plants in the center and the words “Morrisville State College,” in big letters. The quad will consist mostly of concrete tiles and grass.

The weight room project, set to begin in December, will consist of separated rooms for athletes. The new fitness center will be two stories, and will have a glass face.

As for the volleyball and basketball courts, Cross explained that the back half of the volley-ball and basketball courts will be replaced with new floors.

“I know the delay of the construction has hurt in a lot of ways,” said Cross. “I know walk-ing on pebbles isn’t any fun.”

Construction workers will continue to work around the clock to complete the adminis-trative quad as soon as possible, he said..

An artist’s rendition of the administrative quad outside of STUAC, which is on the right. The estimated date of completion is Nov. 1.

Photo courtesy of Morrisville State College Workers add finishing touches to the new stadium prior to the Mustang Weekend dedication.

Photo by Daniel Moreno, ‘12 Staff Photographer

An artist’s rendition of the Sheila Johnson Design Center.

Photo courtesy of MSC

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SUNY has lost over $634 mil-lion in state funds. These cuts come at a time when SUNY campuses are seeing an increase in enrollment. This is a direct result of the value in educa-tion SUNY schools offer in comparison to the high cost of private colleges and univer-sities, according to the SUNY Web site.

With all the construction going on around campus, it is important to understand that MSC has two separate funding streams. The capital budget covers construction such as the new stadium, the Sheila John-son Design Center near the Ice Plex, and other improvements including the current upgrades to the academic quad. The op-erating budget consists of gen-eral expenses including salaries, utilities and maintenance costs. Cross said funds in the capital budget cannot be transferred to the operating budget.

Funds for the capital up-grades to the campus were al-located well before the current

budget was passed in Albany. Delays, however, did occur when Albany froze all spend-ing for three months over the summer. Contracts for the academic quad could not be signed until the freeze ended in early August, while contractors working on the stadium agreed to work without pay over those months, Cross said.

Although an increase in in-state tuition was not a part of this year’s state budget, it cannot be ruled out in coming years, Cross said. The 4-percent increase in out-of-state student tuition this year is “a political response,” he added. Students from other states do not vote or pay taxes in New York, so it is easier for Albany to dictate that they pay more.

Cross announced Tuesday that the out-of-state tuition increase brought in $110,000 to the campus. Traditionally, tu-ition increases have not stayed entirely within the SUNY sys-tem. They go into the state’s general fund and have often been used to cover shortfalls in other areas of the state budget.

Cross said the state takes 70 percent of all tuition increases. “Now they count our tuition as state aid,” he added.

Legislation that will be con-sidered in the next budget cycle would allow both SUNY and CUNY to keep money gained from tuition instead of losing it to the state’s general fund. The Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innova-tion Act first came up for con-sideration in the spring, but lawmakers rejected it and did not include it in the 2010-11 budget. The act would allow SUNY and CUNY schools to set different tuition rates based on each campus and program, and to lease state property to outside parties without special legislation - pending approval by a newly chartered State University Asset Maximiza-tion Review Board. “I am a strong supporter,” Cross said of PHEEIA.

Four task forces have been created by the MSC administra-tion in response to the budget cuts. Each comprises three or four individuals, Cross said, to

address ways money can be saved and funds can be gener-ated to meet the shortfall.

One task force will scruti-nize the use of utilities to save an estimated $300,000 in this academic year. Lowering ther-mostats throughout campus during the winter and cutting back on air conditioning in the warmer months will be among the new protocols.

Maximizing MSC purchas-ing power to save costs will be examined by a third task force; the fourth will examine how the college can generate revenue.

The campus has already implemented cost-saving initia-tives. The athletic department has cut back on trips and is saving money by playing a couple of road games within a region in one weekend, and even having different teams ride the same bus. Cross said a big reason MSC joined the Northeastern Athletic Confer-ence (NEAC) was to cut back on long distance trips.

“Students need to be pa-tient,” said Cross. But they can

also help, he added. Although cleaning staff in the dorms have not been cut, the college has reduced the number of cleaners in the academic build-ings. Cross said students can help with simple things like placing garbage in the correct receptacles – either trash or recyclables, and turning off lights in empty rooms. Re-porting dorm rooms that are excessively hot or cold will also help, Cross said, although most of these have been corrected.

Helping the college, howev-er, comes at students’ expense. Student jobs are being cut in every department, and finding one can be especially difficult for those who do not qualify for workstudy. Unfortunately, Cross does not have an answer to this problem. He is looking for solutions, but everyone has to give moderately in order to keep the college afloat.

“We think this crisis will last another two to three years,” Cross said. He chastised state leaders, saying SUNY is shoul-dering too much of the burden. “We need to take fair cuts.”

MSC student graduations threatened by dwindling budget

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Women’s soccer struggles

Monica Bonneau, ‘12Campus Co-Editor

If there is one thing I have learned from watching televi-sion for 20 years, it is that you don’t need much of a brain to be famous. All you really need are some big muscles, extra tight clothing and a ridiculous lifestyle that people find enter-taining. Mike Sorrentino, better known as the “Situation” from the controversial MTV show “Jersey Shore,” is an example of someone who has made it big because of his “GTL.”

What exactly is a “GTL?” If you watch “Jersey Shore,” you know it stands for gym, tanning and laundry. If you don’t watch it, you probably know anyway because of the high amount of publicity the show receives. Sorrentino said he does not let a day pass by without this routine.

It looks like he may have to put it aside though, because he is set to hit the dance floor on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” this season, which is in it’s eleventh season.

“Dancing with the Stars” is a reality show where professional dancers partner up with celebri-ties to compete for a mirrored disco ball and a title. I did say it’s a show starring celebrities, right? So that makes the “Situ-

ation” a celebrity? As I said be-fore, all it takes is big muscles.

Associate Professor in Jour-nalism at MSC, Gladys Cleland, specializes in broadcast jour-nalism. “What producers look for in reality stars is a Type A personality,” said Cleland. “This includes a vivacious and contro-versial personality that will have people saying wow, what would happen if I did that?”

David Caplan is an enter-tainment journalist who has worked with magazines includ-ing “People.” According to cnn.com, he commented on reality stars joining the “Dancing with the Stars” set. “It has incredible ratings, and by doing this show people expand their platform.” Caplan also said in the article that it generates a lot of press.

Nicole Polizzi, also known as “Snooki,” is also from “Jer-sey Shore.” She too has gained significant publicity from the show. She created her nickname herself, and it was suitable for the show because, she was “snookin’ for love.” Polizzi ap-parently believes herself to be a celebrity because she made the attempt to trademark her nickname. Her attempts failed when she was told that a 2003 children’s book, “Snooki: Under the Sea,” had already trade-marked it. Sorry, Snooki.

Reality star Kristin Cava-larri was made famous when she made her television debut in 2004 on “Laguna Beach.” She now stars in “The Hills,” another reality show, and is making $63,000 per episode, according to an article on cnn.com. In the same article, Heidi Montag, a former cast member of “The Hills,” was rumored to have made $100,000 per episode.Don’t these numbers sound a little outrageous? I’d say so, but that’s the world of Hollywood.

Harold Rogel, CEO of in-vestment firm Vogel Capital Management, commented on the high salaries reality stars receive on dailyfinance.com. “Right now it makes sense for reality stars to get paid what they’re paid. Once the ratings plunge, forget about it.” In other words, these sky-high salaries are dependent on increasing ratings.

Reality shows are all over television. Although I find many of them to be outrageously stupid and pointless, I can’t say

I never watch them. Why? Be-cause watching other people’s drama is tasteful. I mean, who doesn’t want to tune in to other people screaming and yelling at each other and making them-selves miserable? Better them than you or me, right? “It’s about morbid curiosity,” said Cleland. “People love to watch people suffer in drama on tele-vision because it helps them understand their life isn’t as bad as they thought,” she continued.

Another reason people love to tune in to television is be-cause it stirs up good conversa-tion. “It’s called the water cooler effect,” said Cleland. “People love to talk about what hap-pened the next day.” Cleland admitted that she enjoys watch-ing reality shows, and that they are very entertaining.

The thing to remember when you have your eyes glued to the drama on the televsion screen is that what you are seeing is probably 100 percent fake. Why else would these once never famous people be getting paid so much money? “It’s not real at all and there’s always a script,” said Cleland. The real-ity of this is because television channels need ratings. So, the next time you see catfights and hair pulling, keep in mind that looks are deceiving.

Reality TV focuses on drama and fame: it’s not as real as it seems

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to be able to connect mid-fielders with forwards. Our problem is we kind of get disconnected,” sophomore midfielder Gabriela Gallart said. “We played well overall.”

“This was our first time on turf and it was very slick. Last year it got bad for us against them,” said Perkins. “This time around, we played better speed wise. We need to improve offensively, bringing the ball up field and taking more shots.”

Albany College of Phar-macy head coach Christine

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Mike “The Situation” Sorrention posing for a picture at the Jersey Shore.

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Kanawada has led her Pan-thers to a 5-0 record so far. “We played well together. We moved the bal l wel l .” Kanawada said. “We did a really good job of keeping possession, keeping the ball on the g round and being patient.”

The Mustangs were back at i t Sept. 18 against the SUNY IT Wildcats. The Mus-tangs took two shots while the SUNY IT Wildcats took 26. The Mustangs lost 4-0.

The team’s next game is Oct. 2 at 1 p.m. against Wells College on Drake Field fol-lowing the men’s game.

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hired between Thanksgiving and Christmas break, but the students will not begin work until the first week of the spring semester.

Students have always held jobs in the Admissions Office, from giving campus tours to prospective students, to as-sisting with office duties. But Haight said one day while she and Ward were talking, they agreed that students could be more involved. That’s when they thought of the ambassador program.

When she was a journalism student at MSC, Ward worked in the Admissions Office. She says students learn a lot more about MSC by working in the office.

Ambassadors tend to know more about happenings around campus by working in the of-fice Haight adds. They are all over campus, seeing what new projects MSC is working on, whereas other students usually do not know about new projects until they are being built or are completed.

Ward said good recruiters have to “love the project you’re selling.” She said the Admissions Office is looking for students who love their majors and are involved in campus activities, know what is going on around campus, and have a positive at-titude for prospective students.

Haight said students demon-strate their pride in MSC when they are able to talk with future students at open houses and par-ticipate in the student panel dur-ing open house. There are times when ambassadors may stand in front of 200 to 300 students and their families to discuss MSC.

Ambassadors will also call incoming students who are likely in their major. Ward said the Admissions Office is just “pro-viding a connection with our cur-rent student, with a prospective student.” By doing these things, Ward said the ambassadors are helping incoming students to obtain additional information.

Ambassadors also host po-tential students at times. The host shows the student what a typical college day is like. One thing Haight said is the host

makes sure a prospective student does, is sit in on some classes that are required for the student’s major. Haight said this is to “give them a typical day here at Mor-risville.”

Student ambassadors also complete one recruiting event by the end of the semester. Ward said there is a list of possible events, but one example is when an ambassador may go home for Thanksgiving break. They will go to their old high schools and give out materials about MSC to the guidance offices.

Personality characteristics that Ward and Haight look for include a strong work ethic. Ward said this is why they re-quire applicants’ resumes. The student will have to present a five- minute presentation during an interview to showcase their public speaking skills.

Hamelin said the Admissions Ambassador program is useful because it allows students to talk with other students rather than just administrators.

Unless a student intends on being serious about the job, Hamelin said she would not

recommend applying. As well, if someone is not comfortable with public speaking or cannot man-age time well, then she would not recommend the ambassadorship to them.

The ambassadorship “is definitely a good experience to inform others and to learn about yourself,” she said.

If interested in becoming a student ambassador, students should return their applications to the Admissions Office by Friday, Oct. 29. Interviews will begin mid-November. Melissa Ward can be reached at ward-mj@morrisville.edu or Heather Haight at haighthr@morrisville.edu.

Admissions Office seeks student ambassadors for spring semester

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Steam? Why couldn't this be done after pre-loading? Gah!

Oh, wa i t ; what ' s th i s? Another update to down-load? Gah! Steam, you are the worst.

Twenty minutes l a t e r , I get into the game. The opening cinematic surprises me, as it both succeeds and fails to surpass the previous ones in the series. It doesn't ascend through the ages of

humanity, only viewing dif-ferent cultures of the same period in odd shamanic vi-sions. But where it shines is the gorgeous rendering done all around. Good job, Firaxis.

Now on to an actual game of Civ.

First step: selecting a civi-lization to lead. This edition brings back many expected leaders, and adds a number o f su r pr i s e s. Gandh i o f India, Alexander of Greece, Wash ing ton of Amer i ca ; these are the old school guys we know and love. And then we have... Askia of Songhai? Ramkhamhaeng of S iam? Whoa. Regardless, I have to represent my people, and I choose Oda Nobunaga of the honorable Japanese. Rather

than give each leader two traits from a set pool, each receives a unique power that defines his play style. In the case of the Japanese, I re-ceive the power of Bushido, giving me the power to fight at full strength even when my troops have received any amount of damage. The sort of power that can obliterate other players if you come even remotely close to their

levels of military might. Ev-eryone gets something very interesting and unique, not just a nice boost like being 'Creative' or 'Imperialistic' like in Civilization IV.

The game starts off in a fairly familiar world, not quite like Earth, but carrying the same properties and natu-ral resources. Of course, the new hex grid (replacing the aged square grid) provides far more natural appearing ter-rain and movement, no lon-ger limited to sharp corners and blocky continents. While I could talk all day about how great the hex system makes the game look, it has affected movement and combat most of all. While you can no lon-ger stack units together, you

now have a far greater range of tact ical movement for surrounding enemy cities or units with six faces for close range units alone (assuming its not a port city, or near mountains), and then double that for ranged attackers like archers or siege weapons.

Of course, your enemy is capable of taking advantage of this too, garrisoning his own cit ies, and launching counterattacks with the cities populace. That’s right; just because there isn't a soldier on a city doesn't mean it isn't guarded. The citizens will happily fling rocks at your weak l i t t le s t ick-wie ld ing warriors.

That sa id , on my f i rst (and thankfully, only) game of Civ V, I discover quickly that combat is the way to go for the Japanese. I sweep through the barbarian en-campments surrounding my village of Benoto (see, its a play on the Japanese capi-tal of Kyoto, but with my name!) with a single warrior, and then I look beyond the horizon. This gets easy fast. I get my feet wet with that pesky Catherine next door, leading her on, letting her think I'm some sort of swell guy. Yes, take my horses, I'm sure you'll put them to good use. We'll be friends for ever. But as the years grow on, I decide that her borders are getting too close to my own and I send a plethora of samurai, flanked by archers and cavalry, into her little town of Petersburg.

I 'm not going to say I crush her entire civilization in ten measly turns, but she isn't on the map anymore. The game continues on in this fashion, finding Baby-lonians, Siamese, Aztecs and Ger mans a l l huddled to-gether on the other major continent. I don't like the constant squabbl ing , and so I decide to bring honor to their land. You know, via battleships, artillery, infantry, and, oh my favorite unit, the 'Giant Death Robot.'

Honestly, Firaxis, Giant Death Robot? I mean, you could at least come up with something a little classier. Yes, it is huge and kills things

in a robotic fashion. But we don't call boats 'Metal Float-ing Vessels.’ It’s just lazy.

Suffice to say, I blow them away. I completely obliter-ated every city in two turns or less, and swept over the map like a great red and white sheet. But at what cost?

Let’s review. The game is great; I love the new options and play styles available. I like what they left me with, all the old bells and whistles that made the game great. Then why would I be upset? Well, mainly, this one game on a small map, on the equiv-alent of moderate difficulty, took nine hours to complete. Yes, a third of a day spent on a single game. The only reason I even managed to get this article out in any sort of timely fashion is because I spent every spare moment playing this giant time sink, literally popping up the game in between classes to take a turn and then paying atten-tion to Professor Galusky talk about utilitarianism and Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream.

That said, if you love his-tory (or changing it as you see fit), have an enormous amount of t ime on your hands, and have either no job or work/school ethic, I encourage you to buy Civi-lization V. It is quite good, and you will enjoy it . For what may seem like the rest of your life.

Benjamin Drew, ‘10 Managing Editor

Don't get me wrong; I love Civilization V. But I do not want to play it again—ever—unless I am unem-ployed and have no social life.

Here, let me spin you a tale.

For the uninitiated, the first Civilization was a turn-based strategy PC game cre-ated by the programming genius Sid Meier way back in 1991. It played so much like a board game. It was so terribly addicting, it gained an immense following and sold nearly 6 million copies worldwide. It was one of the first mega-sellers in the PC gaming market and led to several new iterations over the years.

Civilization II took the same ideas of the first and refined them, ending up with a product that most Civ vets c la im to be the best ver-sion. Civilization III added hundreds of new levels of depth and created a game that was both hard to learn but incred ib ly reward ing once understood. Civilization IV simplified many different facets of the game, while at the same time polishing the rough edges of III. It added many different user-friendly features, and crafted what I consider the greatest chapter in the series. And now we have Civilization V, a very bold first step into a new direction for the series, tak-ing away so much and adding too many features to cover in detail. How to approach such a monster? Brute force, of course.

The first task set forth in my quest to lead the new world? Actually starting up the game. I didn't think this would be terribly difficult, considering I had acquired it through Steam (a digital dis-tribution platform developed by the Valve Corporation). I knew going in I'd have to wait until 10 a.m. to play the game on release day. What I didn’t know was that it would take another 10 minutes to verify the game files I had already pre-loaded. What the hell,

How to flunk out of college by conquering the world

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Wendy Vair, ‘12Lifestyle Co-EditorAston Lee, ‘12Lifestyle Co-Editor

Vegan pizza, a pink, sparkly drum set, broken guitar heads, contagious smiles, fighting over the order of the set list and don’t forget the pineapples (they all really love them), Syra-cuse’s Honor Bright played their first show in Morrisville on Thursday, Sept. 23 and they can’t wait to come back and do it again.

The video for MSC’s new slogan, “Morrisville in Mo-tion,” featured on the MSC facebook page includes the song “Roads,” off the bands first full album, “If This Was a Movie” (2009).

Filled with personality, these five boys really know how to have fun. Front man Liam DiCosmio is a real Adam Lazzara from Taking Back Sunday (www.takingbacksun-day.com), with his mic tricks and booming personality. Even when guitarist Tim Paige had stop the show to fix it his gui-tar, DiCosmio kept the crowd entertained with his corny jokes and pointless stories. Also in the band is guitarist Ryan Gilmore, the one who graduated college; bass player Anthony (Tone) Merritt; and the quiet, but charming Curt Henry on drums.

their newest album sells, they’ll soon be able to tour over there as well.

The band’s ultimate goal, however, is just to have fun and be able to pay the bills, said Gilmore. Their van recently broke down, so they bought a new bus and are using sales revenue to help pay it off.

“We rented a U-Haul and had to ride in the back to get home,” DiCosmio said. These guys aren’t rich rock stars, they still have to come home and work when they aren’t out tour-ing to pay all their bills.

The band has a bit of a rough live sound, like an early Fall Out Boy (www.falloutboy-rock.com) or All Time Low (www.alltimelow.com), but that’s all part of their charm. They are a couple of guys doing what they love, making music. The band truly appreciates their fans, and much of their suc-cess is due to their dedication, good managing, a good record company and most of all, luck, added Paige.

Want to help out the band? Join their street team and help spread the word: honorbright.fancorps.com. “Our manager pays way too much for a street team with not enough people,” Paige said. You can also, check out the bands MySpace page, myspace.com/honorbright for the latest Honor Bright news and show info.

Henry has the most outgo-ing personality according to the band. “He’s wild!” Paige said, while front man DiCosimo talks the most out of them all.

“If you never tell me to stop, I’ll go on and on about anything,” he said.

The band has come far since their first self-entitled extended play (EP), released back in 2006. They played the Ernie Ball stage at the Darien Lake Warped Tour (2008), performed on “MTV’s TRL” (2008), they were rec-ommended as one of the top 100 bands you need to know in Alternative Press Magazine (2009), played Bamboozle New Jersey (2010), and they were even asked to play at KRock-a-Thon this summer with Limp Bizkit, Flyleaf and Avenged Sevenfold. Their newest CD, “Action! Drama! Suspense!,” (2010) was produced by former A Day to Remember guitarist, Tony Demey and Go Radio’s Jason Lancaster (ex. Mayday parade). “We’re not one of those bands that toots their own horn, but we’ve worked really hard,” Paige said.

“We owe everything to one bald guy doing karaoke at a bar,” Merritt said.

The band gets their mo-tivation from real life events; they enjoy everything about performing. “We love what we do! Regardless of where we

are, whether it’s a crowd of 10 or a crowd of thousands, that is what makes us so dedi-cated,” Paige said. The band also loves traveling, but they all agree however, that the best

place to play is Syracuse. “The support we get from our fans at home will always make us want to come back and play,” Paige said.

They have the dream of playing at Madison Square Garden and possibly taking it overseas to Japan. “We want to be the first band to play on the moon,” DiCosmio said

jokingly. Although playing on the moon might be a couple of light years away, the band has sold over 1,000 copies of their first EP in Japan and if

Honor Bright’s front man Liam DiCosmio, bassist Anthony Merrit and guitarist Ryan Gilmore perform on the stage in Hamilton Hall Thursday, Sept. 23 to kick off Mustang Weekend. The band’s song “Roads” is featured in the video for MSC’s new slogan, “Morrisville in Motion.”

Photo by Benjamin Drew, ‘10 | Managing Editor

Syracuse band Honor Bright ‘rocks’ the stage of Hamilton Hall

Catherine Flood, ‘11Staff Reporter

Joey and Rory, duo finalists on CMT’s “Can you Duet,” came out with their second album, “Album Number Two,” on Sept. 14.

Known for their popular song “Cheater Cheater,” Joey and Rory continue to make songs that are from the heart. The married couple from just outside of Nashville, Tenn, placed third on “Can You Duet.” According to their audi-tion tape for “Can You Duet” on their MySpace page, Joey Martin Feek has always had the dream of singing. She and Rory Lee Feek, live on a farm and work together making music. Rory is a songwriter and has written popular hits like “Some Beach” by Blake Shelton and “The Chain of Love” by Clay

Walker. CMT.com says that Joey runs a restaurant with her sister-in-law called Marcy Jo’s Mealhouse.

The single “This Song’s for You” on the album features the Zach Brown Band. This song is emotional and has a great musi-cal background to go along with the words. The song is about the little things people do, and how they matter. The message of the song is to keep going, because other people notice if a person is trying his best. The video for the song shows people through-out, holding up signs that list their jobs. Some are high-level jobs, and some have no jobs.

“God Help My Man” is a song that uses comedy in the lyr-ics. The song is about a woman who is waiting for her man to get home, and he is late. She says he’d better have a good excuse for being late and better not be

fooling around on her, or he will pay the consequences.

Rory sings “My Ol Man,” a piano-based song about a father-and-son relationship. Rory sings about his apprecia-tion for his father, adding at one point that he was blessed with him. The song is sad, in a way, but touching.

Another song with great meaning is the song “Born to Be Your Woman.” This song could potentially be a wedding song because of its wonderful love lyrics. The song is slow, and both Joey and Rory sing about partners being born for each other.

Two other songs that are slow and interesting are “The Horse Nobody Could Ride” and “That’s Important to Me.” “The Horse Nobody Could Ride,” uses a horse as a metaphor for a girl. It’s about a girl or horse

that nobody can get, until some one comes around who is able to tame her. He is nice and says he can be trusted and convinces her to give in.

“That’s Important to Me” is a song that talks about the

important things in life and what really matters to people. The lyrics stay in rhythm with the guitar music.

Joey and Rory’s second re-lease has real potential in the country music industry.

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CMT’s ‘Can You Duet’ finalists release their second studio album

SportsSeptember 2010 - The CHIMES page 10

Gretchen Cramer, ‘10Executive Editor

People tell you that an in-ternship prepares you for the real world. Boy, does it ever.

I am currently working for the Sports Department here at Morrisville State College, and let me tell you, I definitely feel more prepared to go out in the world. I have been working all the dif-ferent sporting events, from football to field hockey. Soccer has been where I got the major-ity of my experience, but I have learned many different things to help me with my future.

I have learned that although you think you know everything about a sport, you don’t. I learned so many things about each sport, which is weird, because I thought I knew ev-erything. But enough about me; let’s get back on topic. The internship has helped me learn how to contact other sports information directors, coaches,

and players across oceans. I also felt a great sense of accomplish-ment when I saw my first press release in the paper. It literally thrilled me.

As for soccer - which I can say I now have a great deal of knowledge about - it’s intense. I have learned that just watch-ing the game is not always enough. Sometimes it can be a disadvantage to be sitting in the press box.

You don’t necessarily see every second of the play be-cause subs might be coming in, or the window post gets in the way. The players are counting on you to do things right because you are responsible for their statistics.

Another big thing I have learned through soccer is pa-tience. The coaches were the ones who taught me the most about patience. They were all willing to come over and re-port the goals and assists the first few times I was in charge

of the stats. And I’m not talk-ing about just the Morrisville coaches, although they helped me set things up when I wasn’t sure and were more than willing to help me in any way possible so I wasn’t so nervous. The opposing coaches were great about coming over and report-ing when a goalkeeper changed, or when a goal was scored. I was never treated like I was dumb, although I certainly felt dumb.

Each of the other sports I have worked with has taught me many things, but a big thing I learned was from my boss, sports information director Brandy Thurston. Nothing is ever impossible. She was gone for most of the summer on maternity leave, and came back to utter chaos. In less than a month, she was all caught up. And she believed in me enough to have me go with the soccer teams to Cazenovia, as they did not have a S.I.D. at the time. So, going into that situation, not

knowing how things would be run, I tagged along.

After I wrote the press re-lease for the men’s soccer game later that day, she noticed I had something different than the stats report she was given. I had someone else scoring, and when she checked with the coach, it turned out I was right. She then made sure the stats were changed. The way she handled the situation really helped be-cause she trusted my stats and judgment enough to check, she didn’t just write it out as a ‘pro-bie’ mistake.

That was when I realized that my boss had enough confi-dence in me to send me out to a game- not just because there was nobody else to cover the game, but because she knew I could handle myself. A highlight for me was talking to one of the ice hockey players who went pro. Mike Will, an English interna-tional student, played two years of hockey here as a back-up

goaltender. I had to contact him to set up an interview. After the interview was set up, we had a great conversation about his dreams. I learned a lot about how far some people will go to achieve their dreams.

I still have the rest of the semester to learn more about the career path I have chosen to follow. I now know this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. I had considered anything in the sports field, but after my first day in my internship, I fell completely in love with the job. The frantic pace, the weird hours, and the satisfac-tion of seeing the job through, are what made me realize that this is where I wanted to be. So when people tell you that an internship prepares you for the real world, listen to them. Your internship does more than just teach you about the real world; it teaches you about yourself and helps you grow in many different ways.

Marissa Felker, ‘14Staff Reporter

The Mustangs lost two straight matches to Keuka and SUNY IT in the NEAC Pool Play last Friday.

Keuka won 25-14, 25-6 and 25-15 in the first match. The Keuka match was led by freshman setter, Deanna Zbikowski, who had three kills and three defensive digs for the Mustangs. Senior setter Heather Foster added two kills and three digs to the match while freshman libero Devin Hirst, had eight assists.

The second of the day’s matches was against SUNY IT. The Mustangs lost 25-13, 25-12 and 25-19. Angelina Ciaschi, freshman outside hitter, had three kills along with sophomore middle hit-ter Sarah Keyser. Zbikowski added 10 assists.

Head coach Brian Elli-thorpe said the team didn’t “take advantage” of their op-portunities during the match. There is still a lot of work to be done for the rest of the season, Ellithorpe said.

On the second day of action, the Mustangs gained

Volleyball awaits first home match of the 2010 seasona 3-0 victory over SUNY Cobleskill and a 0-3 loss to Cazenovia.

Cazenovia took the first match 25-17, 26-24 and 25-16. Nicole Wright led the Mustangs with six kills and five defensive digs. Zbikows-ki added 19 assists and two defensive digs, and Hirst added 10 digs.

In the second match of the day, the Mustangs took a 25-21, 25-23 and 25-20 vic-tory over SUNY Cobleskill. Wright had 15 kills and two assists and three digs. Eleven kills and nine defensive digs were added by Ciaschi. Hirst had 13 digs and one assist in the match.

Ciaschi said that the de-fense is leading the team to victory, but there is still a lot of improvements to be made in order to be consistently successful.

We need to “go all out and win ,” sa id f reshman Alexis Hansen.

The Mustangs are now 2-11 overall (1-3 in NEAC). They wil l have their f irst home match in the John W. Stewar t Act ivi t ies Center tonight at 7 p.m. against Hamilton College.

SID internship prepares journalism student for the future

Freshman Devan Hirst bumps the ball during practice Sept. 7. The Mustangs will be playing their first home game against Hamilton College tonight at 7 p.m.

Photo by Daniel Moreno, ‘12 | Photography Co-Editor

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“We’ve been working on crisper passes, better commu-nication and knowing where we are on the field,” sopho-more midfielder Nicole Geier said. “We played good, but we struggled with communi-cating. We were working on communication in practice. We also worked on knowing who our help is.”

The team fell to the Al-bany College of Pharmacy Panthers 2-0 on Sept. 15. Kara Collins had the Mus-tangs’ only shot while the Panthers took 22. Morrisville had no shots on goal while the Panthers had 14.

“I’m real happy with to-day’s performance,” Perkins said. “We had problems with them in the past; I thought they played well, and so did we. We are starting to play well.”

Perkins added, “we need to be more organized. We turn off when the ball goes out of bounds. We need to turn on more often.”

Football team ‘excited’ to play under the lights at Drake Field

Women’s soccer struggles to mid-point of season with 1-7 recordCourtney Cook, ‘13Associate Sports EditorEric Malave, ‘14Staff Reporter

The women’s soccer team took on SUNY Canton on Sept. 22 and lost, 5-0. They then took on Wilson College and lost 2-4 and played at the College of St. Elizabeth and lost 2-4. The Mustangs are currently 1-7 and 0-4 in the NEAC.

SUNY Canton took 34 shots while the Mustangs only took eight.

“The intensity wasn’t as high as it was the previous games; our focus wasn’t there and we didn’t tackle the ball hard,” head coach Chris Per-kins said. “We didn’t show fight; we kind of got pushed around.”

“We played well the last 15 minutes, and we’re starting to see where we are defen-sively. We also have to take more shots and score goals. We could have gone up one-nothing that game.

We get opportunities and don’t take advantage of them. We can’t allow teams to stay in the game; we have to have a killer instinct.” Perkins said

of the game against SUNY Canton, “We are very young, that’s a problem, but it’s also good because we’re going to grow together.”

Sophomore goalie Chey-a n n a Wa t e r s s a i d , “ We could have done better. We should’ve held them off and had more goals.”

Hannah Farrell (7), a sophomore for the Morrisville Mustangs, has possession of the ball. Kolleen Brown (16) shows support and tries to stay with Bailey Allen (18), a sophomore for the Canton Kangaroos. Victory went to the Canton Kangaroos, leaving Morrisville with an overall record of 1-5.

Photo by Nicole Williams, ‘12 | Staff Photographer

Freshman Quarterback Lemar Johnson Runs the ball towards a defender during the game against Montclair State University. Montclair defeated the Mustangs 42-6 on Saturday, Sept. 25.

Photo by Daniel Moreno, ‘12 | Associate Photgraphy Editor

Kristin Clark, ‘11Sports Editor

The Mustangs are on a three game losing streak to start the 2010 season. They are 0-3 over-all and 0-2 in conference play.

Over Mustang weekend, the team played Montclair State University and lost by a score of 42-6.

“There are always things you wish you did differently, but you can’t dwell on them. You just look at it one more time on Monday and learn from it,” senior captain Joe Shue said.

“The game plan was solid; we just didn’t execute of-fensively,” head coach Terry Dow said. Freshman Lemar Johnson entered the game as quarterback in the fourth quarter for the Mustangs. “Lemar is the future,” said Dow. “I’m going to give him reps in every game. He needs to gain experience.”

T he Mus t angs ’ o the r losses came against the Hart-wick Hawks on Sept. 4 and Kean University on Sept.18. “The only thing I would have changed is the outcome,” Dow said, “We prepared well, and

Hartwick hit us exactly where we thought they would hit us.”

Shue agreed with Dow. “It was disappointing to lose, but we learn from our mistakes,” he said. Shue has been a member of the Mustangs for four years,

but this is his first season play-ing quarterback.

“Early on in the year it’s about evaluating our own strengths and weaknesses. We have a first year quarterback and we need to evaluate what

he can do,” Dow said. “We also have two freshman play-ing defensive back and we re-ally need to see how they will step up in conference play.” “We need to keep the offense on the field, put together longer

drives, and work on our run-ning game,” Shue said.

The Mustangs’ next oppo-nent is SUNY Brockport. “The NJAC is a tough conference, if we want to advance we need to get it done in the conference,” Dow said. “The preparation for Brockport is going well.” The season is underway and the Mustangs have already ac-complished one of their season goals. “I wanted to improve from where we were a year ago,” Dow said, “and we have. We are only 10 percent of the way through the season and I feel we are already better.”

The SUNY Brockpor t game will be played Saturday under the lights at Drake field. Kick-off is at 7 p.m. It marks the first time in Morrisville State College history that a game will be played at night. “I’m excited and the kids are excited too. I might even be more excited than they are,” Dow said. “The atmosphere is just unmatched.”

“It is one of those things you dream of as a kid,” Shue said. He added that the prepa-ration will “stay the same” and that it’s “better” to play at night.

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ATHLETIC NEWSMen’s soccer mid-season record stands at 4-4

Defender John Robinson runs for a loose ball against D’Youville attackers on Sept. 22. The Mustangs won the game 6-1.

Photo taken by Daniel Moreno ‘12 | Associate Photo Editor

Gretchen Cramer, ‘10Executive Editor

Mike Will was 13 when he discovered his dream was to be a professional ice hockey player.

Well, as of Sept. 3, Mike has achieved that dream. Mike now wears number 33 for the Braehead Clan, one of the professional hockey teams in the Scottish Elite Hockey League.

Mike started playing street hockey when he was 13 and was shortly playing roller hockey on a junior team. “Playing roller hock-ey helped me improve at a young age, as there were no ice rinks around where I lived,” Mike Will said. “It gave me the opportunity to train everyday and even though it wasn’t on ice it was a great way to learn hockey.”

Two years later, when Mike was playing in a tournament in Edmonton, Alberta as a goal-keeper for Great Britain’s junior squad, he realized he wanted to try ice hockey. Mike discovered ice hockey was faster and the puck was much heavier than roller hockey.

So, the next step to achiev-ing his dream was to practice 90

minutes away from home twice a week. Then he took it one step further and moved overseas to Toronto so he could play ice hockey.

He spent time playing hockey on a junior team and worked with a professional trainer to get closer to his dream.

“My parents have been the single most influential factor in helping me achieve my goals,” Mike said. “They have been there every step of the way and couldn’t have been more supportive.”

Morrisville State College ice hockey head coach Brian Grady noticed and recruited Mike when he was playing a game in the Rochester area.

“I spoke to a few schools, but after I visited Morrisville and met the coaching staff and players, with a double ice pad and good workout facilities it seemed like the perfect place to continue playing hockey,” Mike said. “Another factor was the major I was studying was something I was interested in (Sports Nutrition and Fitness Management).”

“Mike had raw enthusiasm and was very passionate,” Grady

said. “I don’t know anyone who worked harder than Mike. It was a tough pill to swallow, not seeing much playing time, but he made the most of it.”

“Even though he was back-up goalie, he practiced like he was first string,” junior defensemen Tom Longland said. “Now that he has gone pro, it brings it closer into perspective and opens up possibilities for others.”

“Playing at Morrisville helped me improve my game and be-ing voted most improved player freshmen year helped me grow in confidence,” Mike said. “Coach Grady runs a tight ship and de-mands the best from you every time you step on the ice or in the weight room, which was good and has prepared me well for my future career.”

Grady said Mike was a breath of fresh air and he played admi-rably. “He came back through in the game against Elmira, when we were down by five and made great saves,” Grady said. “He always worked hard in practice and for that I give him kudos.”

Mike completed his two-year program at Morrisville and re-turned to England. “He finished

his degree, had a great experience here,” Grady said. “He needed to move to the next step. I wish him all the best.”

“All the boys on the team at Morrisville are great guys and are the thing I miss most about school,” Mike said. “Coach Grady and coach Krogol always make sure there’s a ‘family’ atmosphere and that everyone looks out for each other on and off the ice,

which was great for team unity.”When asked about his tran-

sition to Morrisville, Mike said everyone was open, friendly and very supportive. “I would like to thank all the boys, coach Grady and Krogol, and the entire athletic department at Morrisville state for the support over the two years I spent there,” Mike said.

Mike’s dream was achieved, and he is now playing professional ice hockey. “Most of the guys on the team are quite a bit older and have been playing pro for years at all levels over North America and Europe, so I will learn from them,” Mike said of his new teammates.

“My new goal is to just con-tinue having fun, and keep im-proving and learning as much as I can,” Mike said.

“The team all wishes him the best of luck and we’re all proud of him,” Longland said.

To all the boys and girls who want to play a professional sport, Mike’s advice is “when a coach slams you, learn from it and work harder, when a coach praises you, learn from it and work harder!” Mike said. “Just keep working hard, no matter what happens.”

Davina Nhek, ‘12Staff Reporter

The Mustangs suffered a loss against the Oswego Lakers 1-0 Sept. 25, giving them a record of 4-4 at the midway point in the season.

“We lacked an offensive spark and came out a bit flat in the first half making many unforced errors that kept us from control-ling the play,” head coach Kyle Graves said. “We made minor adjustments at half-time but in the end could not get things going offensively.”

“We need to work on fine tuning our passes and making smart decisions on the field,” sophomore midfielder Tony Vorndran said.

On Sept. 22 the team picked up a win against the D’Youville Spartans beating them by a score of 6-1. “We created a game plan that we thought would work. We

had a lot of success due to sticking to that game plan,” Graves said.

The Mustangs led the entire game when sophomore forward, Sanley Pierre-Louis scored the first Mustangs goal after just 37 seconds of play.

Louis followed up with two additional goals while senior forward Andrew Brobbey and freshman midfielder Eric Whit-combe helped advance their team to a win.

“We made a step in the right direction. We win some, we lose some; it’s apart of the sport,” Vorndran said.

“I thought they looked really good. They pushed the ball, had sharp passing, and just really took control of the ball,” Morrisville State College President Raymond Cross said.

The Mustangs continue their season with a game against Wells College on Oct. 2 at 11 a.m on Drake Field.

Dream comes true for former Morrisville goalie

Former Morrisville Goalie Mike Will in action last season.

Photo courtesy of Mike Will