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the RacquetteSUNY Potsdam’s Student-run Newspaper since 1927 Volume 83, Issue +1 September 28, 2012
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ley, opportunities to cast a line into !"#$%"&% '($%#"!'%)*+$,!$%-!($,*$!%of the nation are readily available for students of SUNY Potsdam. One river in particular is within walking distance of the campus..($% /0123$''$% /*+$,% 4"5!%
through the town of Potsdam and empties into the St. Lawrence River at its terminus. Ives Park, located downtown, offers ample space along the banks of the river for those individuals who would rather stay local or are restricted due to lack of transportation. The park’s spacious riverbank and walkways leave plenty of space to spread out, and the large parking lot helps )*!'061$% '($% -!($,7$,!"6% &,"#% '($%1"6!'06'% ',0&-1%06)%3,806%6"*!$%"&%the surrounding town.Large and smallmouth bass,
bullhead and walleye comprise the largest population of species for !7",'%-!(*69% *6% '($% ,*+$,:% %;01(%"&%the aforementioned requires an assortment of techniques, equipment and bait in order to chase them successfully. A standard medium ac'*"6%,")%5*'(%<=>8%'$!'%#"6"%-!(*69%line would be suitable for casting for large and small mouth bass, while a heavier pound line test is necessary to chase bullhead. Because of the toothy nature of larger Walleyes, a steel leader attached to the line with an improved clinch knot is a diehard guarantee in land*69%'($!$%-!(:%%Lures used to catch both species
of bass vary greatly. Topwater, jerkbaits, swimming and diving minnows are just a few in the thousands of lures designed to catch one species of bass over the other. A tried and true method for stalking both bass species is plastic worms. Before you rush out and buy every option they have out there, spend !"#$% '*#$% 0'% ?"3,% >"10>% "3'-''$,!:%%%The truth is my tackle box has over a hundred different patterns,
colors, and sizes of all the typical lures mentioned above. This collection has been many years in the making, and it contains countless deadend lures that serve no purpose other than taking up space in the tackle box. Having the voice of locals will help you focus your efforts on the water with what has proven to work, instead of standing at a cash register wasting valuable bank time, wondering if the thingamabobber in your hand will work. When in doubt, live bait is a @$110%&",%-!(*69:% %A3?*69%5",#!%at the corner store, or WalMart, for $2.993.49 a dozen or more is a !3,$-,$%50?%'"%13'%)"56%"6%'($%>3,$%hunting. Minnows are more strictly restricted in New York State, and I 5*>>% 8,*$4?% 1"+$,% *6&",#0'*"6% ,$garding the use of them when I talk 08"3'%50>>$?$%-!(*69:%A3>>($0)% -!(*69% *!% "6$% "&% '($%
$0!*$,% '?7$!%"&%-!(*69%"6$%106%9$'%*6'":% %B6?% #$)*3#% 01'*"6% -!(*69%rod will work for bullheads found in the Raqeutte River. I recommend using a 1520 pound test line when -!(*69% &",% '($!$% 8"''"#% &$$)$,!:%C$''*69% 37% 0,"36)% )3!D% 06)% -!(ing right through until midnight has produced the highest number "&% -!(% &",%#$:% %A3>>($0)!% '$6)% '"%slow down their feeding between midnight and 2 am and then resume feeding for another hour or two. E",%#$F%5",#!% 4"0'$)% G3!'% 08"+$%the bottom on a #2 Mustad hook have always produced the greatest 63#8$,%"&%-!(:%%H0!'%'($%,*99$)%>*6$%as far out into the current of the river as possible. Let the weight sink to the bottom and tighten the line accordingly. Prop the rod leaning either on your tackle box, or in the crook of a ‘Y’ shaped stick shoved into the ground, and sit back and relax. A bullhead takes a little time to swallow the hook so the rod tip will bounce twice and the line will go slack. Reel the slack in, wait for a stronger tug, and set the hook. Hook and weight rigging for bullhead can be found online through a number of websites. Again, con
sulting with locals is the best way to gain knowledge of the surrounding waterways. Walleye sit high on the list of
-!(% 73,!3$)% *6% '($% I",'(% H"36try. They are found in vast numbers throughout the riverways and lakes around the area. Walleye are very predatory in nature and offer !"#$%0#0J*69%-9('!%"6%'($%$6)%"&%0%rod. Two methods that I employ for catching them have worked well. .($% -,!'% ,$23*,$!% 0% 8"0':% % K0?0D!%and canoes do work; however, since this method requires trolling, paddling the craft and holding onto a rod at the same time can become troublesome. A special rig designed for bouncing worms along the river bottom, as the boat slowly moves around beds of weeds and logs, is needed. This rigging helps keep the hook from snagging on trees,
rocks, weeds, and breaking off. If 011$!!%'"%0%8"0'%*!%360+0*>08>$F%-!(ing with minnows and a bobber from shore is your next best bet. Attach the hook directly to the steel leader and about a foot above the attached leader hook a bobber on. Run the hook through the back of '($%#*66"5%5($,$%'($%)",!0>%-6%*!%>"10'$):%H0!'%?"3,%>*6$%37!',$0#%*6%late afternoon and evening, and let it drift back towards you with the 13,,$6':%%%L&%?"3%-6)%'(0'%5($6%?"3%10!'% '($% #*66"5% *!% 4?*69% "&&% '($%hook, don’tt fret. Before you head out next time, take a holepuncher and punch holes into the plastic lid of a coffee can or water bottle. Taking the plastic circles that were leftover from doing this, place one on the hook shank, then place the min6"5%"6%'($%(""DF%06)%-60>>?%&">>"5%it with another one of the plastic
punches. As I said before, minnows are strictly regulated in this state. For more information on the ,$!',*1'$)%3!$%"&%#*66"5!F%06)%-!(ing regulations, visit the New York C'0'$%M$70,'#$6'%"&%;6+*,"6#$6'0>%H"6!$,+0'*"6!N%5$8!*'$:%%%%If you have access to a vehicle
and are able to get away from Pots)0#F% C':% O05,$61$% H"36'?% "&&$,!%06% $+$6% 5*)$,% +0,*$'?% "&% -!(*69:%%Large numbers of lakes, rivers, streams and ponds are open to pub>*1%-!(*69%5*'(*6%#*63'$!%"&%'"56:%%For more information regarding these accessible locations, consult '($% M;H% 5$8!*'$% 0'% 6?)$1:9"+:%%Any questions regarding gear or techniques, feel free to email me at, [email protected]. I hope to see a few of you out on the water sometime. Tight lines!
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!"#$"%&'#('($)*++,%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%-*./%01)+,#%Vladimir Franz is arguably the
most interesting presidential candidate we will ever meet. The !"#$%&'#()*+ ,&-*.*&/%+ &.01+ /(+ 2))+the shoes of current Czech president Vaclav Klaus, and he certainly will do so in a distinctive manner. Before deciding to venture off into the world of politics, Vladimir opted for a wide range of careers – a drama professor at a renowned Czech university, a skilled painter, and an opera composer. Franz was also granted a doctorate degree from law school, but deferred to a career in the arts due to the Czech Republic’s involvement with the former communist regime. Perhaps the most enthralling de
tail about Franz’s character is that he loves getting inked. I’m not alluding to the “ink” that’s associated with his increasing press coverage, but the ink that the hopeful politi
cian has covering 90% of his body. According to ABC News, if Franz does in fact win the Czech Republic’s presidential election, he will make the presidential hall of fame &1+ /3%+ 42'1/+ 3%&*+ (5+ 1/&/%+ 6./3+ &+fully tattooed head.”Vladimir’s intimidating ap
pearance puts him at an extreme disadvantage, especially with the latest Czech polls putting him at only 6.6% of the vote. Although the majority of Czech Republicans doesn’t welcome his unorthodox semblance just yet, he has gained &+1.7-.2,&-/+&0(8-/+(5+5&-1+.-+/3%+process of legitimizing his candidacy. Franz has accumulated over 23,000 likes on his Facebook page, and has also racked up 8,777 signa/8'%1+.-+3.1+3(0%/(6-+&5/%'+3.1+2'1/+week of campaigning. His goal is to collect the 50,000 signatures he needs to formally declare his candidacy. The politician’s startling image
is contrasted by his surprisingly
modest political ideals. Franz holds a moderate position in politics, and the foundations of his appeal as president lie in “promoting tolerance, human rights, democracy, and encouraging the search for alternative energy sources.” He told the Czech newspaper, titled ‘Prague Post’: “Politics, politicians and the state have become alienated from the people. Citizens are frustrated, and I fear radicalization.” Franz believes in maintaining Czech relations with the European Union, but has defended regulations that seek to balance equal policies over bigger and smaller nations. Franz has repeatedly defended
his decision to decorate his body 6./3+&'/9+&52'0.-7+/3&/+./+13(8)*+-(/+disqualify him from the presidential competition. “It concerns extending our horizon of tolerance,” he told the Prague Monitor. “It is almost like skin color that I have voluntarily chosen.”
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The question of police conduct was again the subject of controversy this week when (52,%'1+ .-+:(81/(-9+;<=+ 13(/+ &-*+ >.))%*+ &-+unarmed, schizophrenic/bipolar, doubleamputee. The victim, Brian Claunch, 45, who lived at a group home for the mentally ill, was missing both an arm and leg as a re18)/+(5+&+/'&.-+&,,.*%-/9+&-*+6&1+,(-2-%*+/(+a wheelchair.
The altercation, which began as a disagreement with hospital staff over cigarettes, esca)&/%*+/(+/3%+?(.-/+63%'%+?().,%+(52,%'1+6%'%+called to help subdue an irate Claunch. But the situation quickly became deadly after the (52,%'1+&''.@%*+&-*+A)&8-,39+63(+3&*+B%%-+holding a pen, refused their orders to drop the object which, irrespective of their proximity, they claim that they could neither see nor identify. When Claunch refused to drop the pen, he was shot in the head by police. C/+.1+8-,)%&'+3(6%@%'+63$+(52,%'1+(?/%*+/(+
use lethal force on a man who, as a result of his injuries, was unlikely to have been able to injure or kill. In order for Claunch to have &*@&-,%*+(-+(52,%'1+&1+6&1+'%?('/%*+5('+.-stance, he would have had to use the hand holding the pen in order to grip the wheel of his chair and move it forward. A'./.,1+B)&0%+.-1852,.%-/+/'&.-.-7+.-+*%&)
ing with the mentally ill and argue that con,%.@&B)$+(-%+('+%@%-+1%@%'&)+(52,%'1+13(8)*+have been able to safely negotiate and or incapacitate the victim physically, with a taser,
('+B$+81.-7+&+4D&13#B&-7E+7'%-&*%9+*.1('.%-/ing the victim in such a way that he could then been subdued.;3%+ (52,%'+ '%1?(-1.B)%+ 5('+ >.)).-7+
Claunch, Matt Marin, has been placed on a threeday administrative leave pending the outcome of an FBI investigation into the in,.*%-/=+;3.1+.1+ /3%+1%,(-*+/.0%+.-+2@%+$%&'1+/3&/+F&'.-9+&+2@%+$%&'+@%/%'&-+(5+/3%+:(81/(-+Police Department, has been scrutinized over &-+(52,%'#.-@()@%*+13((/.-7=+
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G&0+F8))%/+G'=9+&-*+3.1+25/%%-+5())(6%'19+members of a breakaway Amish community in eastern Ohio, were convicted on Thursday, September 20th, on multiple charges of federal conspiracy and hate crimes. The 16 Amish individuals were found guilty of carrying out the “beard attacks” that left Amish in the area in distress and fear in the fall of 2011. These socalled “beard attacks,” which also involved cutting off women’s hair, were carried out by his followers on nine occa
sions on what Mullet deemed to be his enemies. Even though Mullet himself was not involved directly in the attacks, prosecutors claimed that he was the mastermind behind the assaults and ordered them to be carried (8/+.-+&+1?%,.2,+0&--%'=The victims that Mullet had targeted had
either broken away from his community or spoken out against him for his strange and even cultic methods of leadership. As revenge for doing this to him and his community, he ordered men and women who followed him to break into the homes of the victims, shaving off their beards and cutting their hair
with instruments intended for horses. The trial itself, and the fact that the Amish
had law enforcement involved, is very unusual to begin with. Amish generally do not get involved with courts and police, preferring to handle their disputes among themselves. However, the nature of the assaults moved them to action. Normally Mullet and his followers would
be faced with trespassing, assault, and other charges. But they were charged with conspiracy and hate crimes due to the context of the attacks and the violence in the way they committed these assaults. To the Amish, hav
ing a beard for men and having long hair for women is an important part of their faith and culture. By shearing their beards and their hair in such a violent fashion, Mullet and his followers were suppressing their religion and destroying religious identity.F8))%/+&-*+&))+25/%%-+(5+3.1+5())(6%'1+6%'%+
found guilty of hate crimes under a 2009 federal hate crimes law. Sentencing is scheduled for January 2013, and at that time Mullet and his followers may be sentenced to decades of prison time. Mullet himself is planning to appeal the verdict, on the grounds that the hate crime law was misapplied to the case.
Cops attack and shoot double amputee
Body Art Shakes up Czech’s 2013 Election
Amish Disturbed Over “Beard Attacks”
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D*E+*@6*#%FG+309:34 Visitor reports being assaulted by her exboyfriend
in Van Housen. Investigation continues.
19:30 Aggravated Harassment – Bowman Hall – Investigation continues
19:56 UPD – Spoke to student about their receiving unwanted messages on computer social networks – Advised student. No crime committed at this time.
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Stowell Hall.
KHJ!K+L'(8-*1+M%'1(-+'%?('/1+ /6(+0&)%1+ .-+,&0(8D&7%+hunting gear with guns at Lehman Park. When they saw her they left via the South wood line. A check of the area was negative.
14:08 Student reports hitting another student’s unattended vehicle, in Lot 2, while leaving her parking space.
23:34 Drug complaint – Van Housen Hall – Marijuana seized. Student referred.
23:49 Suspicious vehicle – President’s House – Gone on arrival
D*E+*@6*#%IK+3%19:12 Agg. Harassment – Victim does not wish to press
charges
20:29 Assist Spoke with student for alarming behavior/comments Bay Street
02:00 Assist Intoxicated student evaluated Satterlee :&))+6&)>6&$#+N%/%'0.-%*+/(+B%+2-%=
D*E+*@6*#%IF/+%08:10 Weapon signed out – student – taking home for
hunting.
10:50 Domestic Incident – Van Housen Hall – Investigation continued
15:14 Crim. Mischief – vehicle damage
19:47 Drug incident student referred.
00:20 Assist Intoxicated student evaluated Bowman :&))#+N%/%'0.-%*+/(+B%+2-%#+G/8*%-/+6.))+5&,%+O8*.,.&)+B(&'*+charges for actions.
01:16 Arrest Report of intoxicated/disruptive student Bowman Hall Student located and issued appearance ticket for Possession of Alcohol with Intent to Consume by a Person Under 21 Years of Age.
D*E+*@6*#%II41%10:00 Petit larceny – Parking lot 18 – Investigation con
tinued
19:40 Arrest Drug Incident – Lehman Hall Four students arrested for multiple drug related charges.
KIJPK+;'&52,+G/(?+Q+F(/('.1/+6&'-%*+5('+R&.)8'%+/(+S.%)*+to Pedestrians in Crosswalk Watertown Drive.
23:19 Medical Emergency– Report of female being dragged Draime Hall Victim located Alcohol involvement Campus and Potsdam Village
03:40 Missing Person Students report losing contact 6./3+ 5'.%-*+ *(6-/(6-#+ M(/1*&0+ M=N=+ -(/.2%*#+ C-*.@.*8&)+located at off campus
D*E+*@6*#%IL#1%16:49 SES student worker reports unknown person put
L'&52/.+(-+(-%+(5+/3%+:8')%$T1+6.-*(6+&-*+(-+U&-+:(81%-+North entrance door. Photos taken. Investigation continues.
19:19 Report of Unknown Individual Trespassing in a Suite in Lehman Hall South in the early morning hours of 9/23/12
23:40 Medical Emergency – Knowles Hall /South – Cut to Finger/ CRS treated on Scene
01:13 Noise complaint – Bowman Quad Interviewed parties warned to keep noise down.
D*E+*@6*#%IM+315:00 Harassment Case – Follow up – Referral Com
pleted/Case Closed
K!JVI+;'&52,+G/(?+Q+W(/+VXM(/1*&0+N'.@%+Q+Y;;+5('+;%Zting while driving with a court date of 10/10/12 at 8:00 AM.
16:00 Petit Larceny Follow up – Unable to reach Victim Q+Y-&B)%+/(+W(,&/%+C/%0+Q+C-@%1/.7&/.(-+2-*1+./%0+/(+B%+)(1/+possibly rather than stolen
17:17 Case Follow up – Grand Larceny – Victim states no use on cards, no further problems, all items replaced free of charge – Does not request Further Investigation
18:19 Report of Criminal Mischief Parking Lot 32 – Broken WindshieldPhotos taken – Awaiting Further Information from Victim Investigation Continues
22:13 Mechanical Failure Assist HP Elevator stuck in W%30&-+G=[=9+"'*XP/3/3+D(('1#+"+1/8*%-/1+5'%%*+6./3(8/+.-cident.
23:52 Criminal Mischief – Lehman Hall – Two unidenti2%*+0&)%+18BO%,/1+*%1/'($%*+%Z./+1.7-++#+C-@%1/.7&/.(-+,(-tinues
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Shortstop player Yunel Escobar, of the Toronto Blue Jays, has been suspended for three games for displaying a gay slur on his eye black. After photographs of the offending phrase began spamming the web from a game held on September 16th, the /%&0+ (52,.&)1+ B&--%*+ 3.0+ 5'(0+ /3%+ -%Z/+three games without pay. The money that Escobar would have been paid for playing these three games is estimated to be around $83,000. This money will instead go to the You Can Play project and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), both LGBT advocacy groups. The baseball player, as punishment for his actions, is also being required to attend sensitivity training and educational outreach for tolerance B&1%*+(-+ 1%Z8&)+('.%-/&/.(-=+;%&0+(52,&)1+hope the sensitivity training will help Escobar develop tolerance for people based on their sexual orientation.The slur, which stated “tu ere maricon,”
roughly translates to “you are a faggot” in English. When questioned about what exactly the phrase meant and why he used it, Escobar was surprisingly vague and said
it was not meant as a gay slur, more as a joke among the Latino community. Escobar is Cuban, and he insisted when questioned that the phrase was not to offend anyone, referring to several people he knew that were gay. However, the team released a statement during the announcement of suspension declaring that they still had no tolerance for discriminatory actions. Escobar did accept and agree with the suspension and expressed embarrassment. Even though the incident itself happened
on Saturday, no one noticed the homophobic slur until Monday, when a fan who had taken pictures uploaded them to Flickr. The photographs then went viral, catching the attention of the team managers. The manager John Farrell said that the slur went unnoticed because Escobar was known for writing messages on his eye black. He was known by the team to write motivational and inspirational messages, nothing harmful or insulting. For this reason, it came as a surprise when Escobar walked onto home plate with a slur instead of motivation written under his eyes.
Jays Player offends LGBTA Community
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The title of this article is a complete and total lie. Other ages would have called it “boldfaced” in it’s lie0#//1$+02$.)$./$2#'0.)#34$+$5+2$67+8$for your attention, because you’re a disinterested college student, and I’m a sad, attentionhungry writer type, and that’s how this exchange goes. You can now set down this paper disgustedly and walk away. But please, don’t, because I have a story to tell you and if you leave I will be so...very...alone.My story goes like this. Here I
am, walking across campus, doing what sad, attentionhungry English majors do, that is to say, combing the grass for cigarette butts to eat because, let’s face it, minimum wage and outrageous student loans don’t buy groceries like they used to, and while college feeds the mind, it leaves the body hungry and jonesing for a smoke. But I digress. I’m leaving Timmerman, heading to the Crumb Library, eyes glued to the pavement, until I’m nearly stuck by a hooligan on a skateboard. “Damn kids and their rebellious conveyances!”, I rave to myself. As I raise both my eyes and 54$'/)$)%$(%55-0.(+)#$)%$".5$)"+)$I am, indeed walking here, I see something astonishing. As I look across the space be
tween Crumb library and Merritt Hall, there is a line of my fel
low students crossing the grass. Reminiscent of baby ducks, they +7#$ 9+3:.06$ .0$ +$ /.063#$ '3#$ 3.0#$diagonally across the grass, leaving a small trail of decimated vegetation in their wake. The Girl who is wearing jeanssoskinnytheycouldbepaintedon hides the hatred of the grass she had waaay before it was “cool” with a pair of fake RayBan sunglasses, or at least, that must be why she wore them, because our story is set on a cold, overcast morning at nine a.m.. She is followed by the gentlemanwhoisapparentlyignorantof bodytemperaturemaintenance. He treads heavily on the soft blades %&$0+)-7#;/$(+7<#)$9.)"$)"#$=.<$=%</$he has carefully paired with cargo shorts and a Hollister hoodie, ignorant of the fact that his hoodie is counteracted by his short pants and that he is marring the face of our campus. They remind me of a time I went
horseback riding in the Hawaiian Islands (I’m well traveled, be jealous.) and the leader of the group asked us to look at the ground. As 9#$ 6+>#2$ +(7%//$ )"#$ '#32/$ 9"#7#$tourists oppressed beasts of burden for their pleasure multiple times a day, we saw many winding little avenues, and it was explained to us that these horses knew the route of the ride well enough that in their la
ziness, they would walk in the same little trail every time if allowed. Now, the leader of the horseback riding expedition mandated that we insist our one thousand pound animals stray away from these paths and assist the owners in breaking them of their bad habit. Here at SUNY Potsdam, however, )"#7#$9+/$0%$/-("$'6-7#$%&$+-)"%7ity insisting that my peers deviate from this xshaped scar they had carved in the lawn. Despite the perfectly good paved walkways that meander about this place, they must walk there. In lines. Because the living grass is lava and Mom wont let us use the sofa cushions to keep ourselves from burning to death and other equally good reasons. Guys, we all have paid or will
pay money to be enrolled in college. Many of you pay more still to live within spitting distance of your classrooms. We’re here because it’s a privilege, and for the time being, those grounds, that grass we’re tromping on, belongs to all of us. I realize that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line (an accomplishment for an English major), but it would take a negligible amount of effort to walk 12 inches to the side of those paths, saving the grass and the time the maintenance staff would spend re seeding it each spring. Now, if
you were listening, you’d notice I didn’t make the oldman demand that, “You snotty kids stay off the lawn!”. I ask for only inches to one side. If that doesn’t appeal to you, think of it this way: We’re here to learn to think outside of our boxes and walk independent paths. How +7#$ 4%-$ 7#=#().06$ -<%0$ 4%-7/#3&$by heeding laziness and walking in the steps of everyone else? Now, I’m going to be roaming the campus as usual this coming week, nibbling on the cigarette butts in my pockets because I can NOT take that COMP 201 class without nicotine, grumbling to myself +8%-)$9"%$2#(.2#2$.0/)7-()%7$%&'(#$“hours” could consist of just one sixty minute interval, and pondering whether or not the construction of a building just for Crane School of Music is a project funded by mob money. But also, Ill be watching you with crazed, shifty eyes, and I’ll be judging you. Each and every one of my peers who puts no thought into their plant stomping ways will be greeted with silent condemnation. If anyone would like to join me on the dark side, I’ll be leaving Timmerman at 9 a.m. Bring cigarettes.
DAKOTA FARLEY
Potsdam invaded by unimaginative horses
Notice how I didn’t call you an idiot? That sure was nice of me. It’s almost as if I wanted to open a discourse about something I disagree with in a civil and respectful manner. I’m referring of course to your recent editorial piece about “idiots on skateboards.” Believe it or not, I cannot skateboard. I’m sure you’re happy to hear this, because it means I won’t be giving you dirty looks or bloody noses. I may not be able to look “cool” in “wool parkas or khakis and converse,” but at least I’m not a “total douche.”I’d now like to address some of
the generalizations and embellishments you printed recently. First of all, “technically”, skateboards
are not vehicles. They cannot be legally driven or ridden on the street, like a bike or car. They are, however, like you said, “fast, convenient, easily portable, and can save a lot %&$ ).5#?@$A"#0$ B$ '7/)$ 7#+2$ )"+)1$ B$thought those things were all good, but I kept reading and learned the truth. Second, I may not know much about physics, but I do know that it would be almost entirely impossible to “cruise down a crowded sidewalk at 40 miles an hour” on any type of board. The wheels would probably get wobbly and the person would fall off. However, I’m not as good as you are at judging speed by “the wind of passage,” so I guess I’ll never know. Third, your friend
witnessed someone kick a skateboard down a hill “where it proceeded to hit the legs of a girl at the bottom.” Well, I wasn’t there, but I’m assuming that the board kicker wanted his or her board back, and during its retrieval, apologized for the heinous crime, because that’s what civil people do. Perhaps the girl at the bottom of the hill should have been “aware of other people in existence,” and moved a few steps out of the way to avoid what could have been a crippling injury. I hope she’s O.K now though. In closing, I don’t think that ecstasy makes you veer wildly around, and I think you just chose a drug that you thought was bad to get your point across.
I also don’t think you should hate people you don’t know, especially not forever, and especially not after you say that you’re O.K. with those people. Finally, please don’t push people off their boards in unjusti'#2$7+6#1$ )"+);/$C-/)$7#+334$0%)$)"+)$nice, and you wouldn’t be helping anything. You’d probably be actually harming someone severely, seeing as they all go forty miles an hour. But I do see your point, having wind blow up against your face is just the absolute worst.
ANONYMOUS NONSKATEBOARDER
Editorial response: An open letter to Emily Beatty
Hi, Anonymous Nonskateboarder. Thank you for taking the time to respond to my opinion.Let’s break your response down.
You saw me refer to a group of abstracts as “idiots” and got upset, because “idiot” is a strong term about someone’s supposed intelligence, so that makes it bad. I guess it was rude of me, but I don’t understand why my level of rudeness is considered too strong by you when it’s in reaction to extreme rudeness by people who can’t be bothered to operate skateboards like other people exist on the sidewalk.Skateboards aren’t vehicles?
A#8/)#7;/$2#'0.).%0$%&$+$D#".(3#$+/$it applies here is “a means of carrying or transporting something”, so okay, I will give you that skateboards aren’t considered a “vehicle” in the eyes of the law, but they have wheels and they transport stuff, and they go fast, so “techinically”, one can describe them as a “vehicle” and not be wrong. Basically, I believe that if you are using something that is capable of going faster than a person who is walking, then you should operate it like a responsible person. Doesn’t mat
ter what it is, wheelchairs, scooters, skateboards, cars, if you don’t use it with consideration of other people, you’re gonna hurt someone. And yes, I did praise skate
boards as “fast, convienient, easily portable, and can save a lot of time”, because I believe that’s an accurate description of them. I don’t really see how my statement that people who are inconsiderate on skateboards are idiots changes that opinion, because I wasn’t referring to “idiot skateboards”. Kind of like, I’m okay with guns, because they have practical uses and can do a lot of different things. But people who are idiots with guns suck and I do not like them, because they use guns wrong, and it usually means someone’s gonna have a bad time. Same goes for skateboards.Yeah, I know its probably not
possible for someone to go down a sidewalk on a skateboard at forty miles an hour, but I was employing hyperbole for the sake of the argument. Skateboards can go pretty fast compared to someone walking. Things that go fast hurt if they run into people. That was pretty much the bottom line of that particular
argument, and the fact that people can’t go 40 miles an hour on a skateboard doesn’t change the fact that someone going 10 to 15 miles on a skateboard would still really hurt if they ran into you.Oh man, let’s get to my favor
ite part where you talk about how its the girl’s fault she got hit by a skateboard because she “should have been aware of other people’s existance” and magically known that the person behind her was going to kick their skateboard down a hill and hit her, because its not like the skateboard owner should have been aware of what they were doing or anything, maybe given the person a warning that, hey, I just kicked something at you, look out? Nah, totally that girl’s fault she got hit. And even if the owner of the skateboard apologized, which I’m sure they did, I was using the incident to illustrate a wider pattern of certain people on skateboards not being considerate to other people, I.E, trying to do tricks, maybe not even fancy ones, that could hurt people nearby if they mess up.Ecstasy would probably make
you do some pretty weird things
on a skateboard, but you got me, I was using it as more hyperbole. I’m assuming most skateboarders on campus don’t drop E and then crazily skateboard into crowds, they 2%$)"+)$C-/)$'0#$9.)"%-)$27-6/?E02$'0+3341$C-/)$)%$(3#+7$)"#$+.7F$I
was not referring to all skateboarders or skateboards in my opinion.Instead I was referring, exclusively, to those people who act obnoxious and with no consideration to other people, on skateboards.In closing, I don’t actually push
people off skateboards because I do have a concious, but I do have the right to dislike people who are rude and inconsiderate on skateboards and almost hit me, and yeah, I can dislike them forever if they keep doing it. (You’re right, “hate” is a strong word, and since I don’t have energy to waste on actually “hating” idiots on skateboards, I’ll tone it down to a “dislike”.)
EMILY BEATTYEDITOR IN CHIEF
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September 28, 2012 the Racquette 15Creative writing
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It hurts that you won’t let me in,To a region so cold and dark,!"#$%&'(")**&+",-./"-#&"#0%&'&+",$**12And smoked with past memories,A place where joy has come to die,Where love can sing no more,This place in you that shined so bright,Once upon a time. What happened to that shining light,That beacon in the dark,Where has the life in you gone to,So deep within your core,Where once there was a warm bright glow,And your candescence felt so whole. So hard your shell in which you hide,Such pain did you feel,That you could not escape,But into your own inner boundaries?Can you hear me knocking,On the outside of your wall,Can you not break free Of this curseOf self imposed solitude;Is it so terrifying, To reach out a hand,And walk into the light?Do you not want to be free,34"./-1"1&*4"40'.-)&+"5'-10(6 Please reach out your hand,I will not let you down,I wait on the other side,To hold you tight and close,I want to show you so many wonders,So many possibilities,So much wonderful bliss,In such a simple moment, As a kiss. But if you do not shed this prisonOf fear,Of pain,Of sorrow,How can you expect to see,The beauty all around you? 7*&$1&")(+"./&"1.'&(8./".0"9'&$:"./&"8*$11Of your fragile former self,Let the shell of you just fade and die,So you can be reborn,And together we can feed ;/&")'&1"-(1-+&"04"<0=2That need but a bit of air.
Where have you gone?
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They both had a passion.
His passion was for paint, his desire to make beauty out of blankness.
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Together, their passion appeared to be unbreakable.
But in time, it faded, and he was left with an empty canvas.
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your mind is a mysterythat swirls and bobswith cloud arms andblue ocean legs thatwalk on the skyyour words are a blindtour guide groping the wallsof an undiscovered cavefeeling, free)(8&'5$-(.primalimpressionpieces.making more with halfweathered handscovered in dirt and red,red,red,red,paint.
your soul is thecenter of the sun?0,&'and I’m a bee, honeyand I can’t stay awaythe way you swayin the wind, likeit’s brushing your sideto get your attentionand you want to playthat game,the way the lightglints off of everypetal so that everyother beeseesand can’t shakethe urge to pollinate...
Your eyes are deadspace on your facelike a swirling sewer pipeat midnight and I’msucked underThey are holes in the groundthat don’t let goThey keep my hand close and warm and poisonI want to fall and be caughtin the black torrent$(+"4&&*"@<"?&1/"9&".0'("$90=.until my heart sheds its shelland grows a new one
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married thirty years ago! My mother was right about you!” She never lets my father forget why he is here, or why he drinks every (-8/.A"C.B1"./&"1$@&"./-(82"+$<"-("+$<"0=.2"./&@")8/.-(8A"D<"5$'&(.1"#$(B."&%&("*00:"$."&$#/"0./&'",-./0=."1-*&(.*<")8/.-(8"-(1-+&A"The arguments are always the same whether its the money, the drinking or the drugs... always over me... Carol brings me up during ./&"9$..*&"04",-.1"$(+",/<"./&<"@$''-&+"-("./&")'1."5*$#&2",/<"1/&"-1"1.=#:"/&'&"-("./-1"'=("+0,("1/-."1/$#:"./&<"#$**"$"/0@&A"E/&"hasn’t been happy since the pregnancy, since my birth, since her dream of being a dancer had disappeared. D<"@0./&'".00:"+$(#&"*&110(1"1-(#&"1/&",$1")%&A"F&40'&"@&2"1/&"/$+"1.=((-(82".0(&+2"=(9*&@-1/&+"*&812"$(+"./&"90+<"04"$"8<@
nast. My grandparents were so proud of Carol, they showed up for every dance lesson, ballet recital, senior show, and solo dance. The day my mother received that acceptance letter for Julliard, my grandparents knew that they had done well in raising her. They told all of their high society friends how proud they were.“We wouldn’t even be together if it wasn’t for her! I wouldn’t be here trying to be your wife if you had put a fucking condom
0(GH"";/&",&++-(8"#/-($"80&1"?<-(8A";/&"1/$..&'&+"5-&#&1"/-."./&"?00'"#'&$.-(8"9&**1"$@0(8"./&"*<'-#1A"C"#$(B."1.$(+"./&-'")8/.-(82"9=."/$*4"./&".-@&"-.B1"9$#:8'0=(+"@=1-#A"3'"10@&./-(8"&*1&")**1"@<"@-(+2".$:-(8"0%&'"@<"./0=8/.1A"I-1.'$#.-(8"@&"4'0@"./-1"/<5(0.-#")8/.-(8"./&<"+0A"J/-*&"@<"5$'&(.1")8/."0=.1-+&"./&"+00'2"C"1&&@".0"9&")8/.-(8"./-1"9$..*&"-("@<"@-(+".0",'-.&A";0".$:&"./-1"hellhole of a fairytale and drowned it out through words. Drown them out, you know you can’t take listening to them yell like this. Reed doesn’t even back you up, what father doesn’t back
Endless song
up their own blood. He sits there, drunk and high out of his
mind, not even thinking of you...off in lala land. Why sit and
listen? You know what you want to do. You know where you
keep your pens, in the second drawer of the plastic shelves,
right next to your desk. You know what you want to do, take
hold, embrace the urge... for me. It’s hard not to listen to the voice, I feel like it’s my only friend. I look for the pens in the plastic shelves they gave me for Christmas, and the notebook with a golden heart on the front cover they handed me the day after a forgotten birthday. Write me down, take note of me. It calls me, the voice, I feel embraced in warmth when it is around. Calming me with division away from reality, entering a dreamy state of mind. “Why am I even here? All I do is create another reason for
them to yell, to drink.” I lay down on the bed and begin to scribble down words to forget the lyrics of everyday life. Writ-(8"@<"0,("'/<./@2")**-(8"@<"/&$+",-./"-@$8&1"04"/$55-(&11"and life. The words mean nothing to another ear, but to me, they are a type of sound which brings tears of joy. My own ,0'+1")**"@<"/&$+",-./"/05&A"Write everything down, all off it, everything I have in here. Take away the reality, the shit par
ents, him standing there watching you beaten by her. Wash out
all those memories, all the pain. Write...write it all out.
I scribble faster to catch up to the thoughts, the pen not moving fast enough for me. Pressing the pen down harder into the paper, engraving it, the pen cries out for mercy. It tries to keep up, pushing through its pain and the force I put on it. Wincing at every cross of the T and dot of the I. Then something happens, something very terrible happens, the ink...it stops coming out. My face, mood, and body changes from wonderment to an intensity of destruction. The voice takes control, like it was waiting for this moment. It must die, give the pen what it deserves. I follow the demands and take the pen in both hands and slowly bend it to the breaking point, simultaneously the pen screams in excruciating pain and is silenced. The notebook, it must burn for the pen’s mistake. It too was a part of
the plan to stop you from writing down the thoughts. Burn it.
Puppetized by its want, I wield out a lighter from underneath the bed. My deep brown eyes envision a glorious blaze. ;/&"(0.&900:B1"&<&1")**",-./".&$'1"04"5$-("$1"-.".'-&1".0"&1#$5&"under the blankets. It’s too late. I spotted it, taking hold of it 9<"./&"15-(&A"K-'&"&@&'8&1"4'0@"./&"*-8/.&'1"9&**<"$(+"$"?$@&"L=@51" 0(.0" ./&" (0.&900:",-./0=." ./0=8/.A";/&" ?$@&" 8'0,1"4'0@"&@9&'1" .0" $"8*0,-(8")'&2" #0(1.$(.*<" &$.-(8"$,$<2" #0(1.$(.*<"/=(8'<A"J/&("-.")(-1/&1"./&"(0.&900:"C"*&."80"+'055-(8"-.".0"./&"?00'2",/&'&"-."5-#:1"=5"0("&$.-(8"./&"8'$<"1/$8"#$'5&.A";/&")'&"8'0,1"&$.-(8"&%&'<./-(82"$(+"C",$.#/"-.",-./"$@$M&ment. It’s getting hot, you need to run. You won’t last in here. !"#$%&#$'())$#*+$,-.$)(/#$(+$*+#$+"#$0-+#1--/2$3-4#5$6.05$$I noticed the distant music has stopped playing outside the
+00'A"F0./"@<"5$'&(.1"#0@&"'=((-(8"-(2"4&&+-(8"./&")'&",-./"$-'A"C"*00:"90./"04"./&@"-("./&"&<&12"*00:-(8".0")(+"./&"1$@&"4&$'"C"4&&*",/&("*-1.&(-(8".0"./&@")8/.A";/&-'"/0@&"-1"0(")'&2"$(+"-(#/&1"9&/-(+"@&"./&"?$@&"'-1&1".0"'&%&$*"@<"9*0(+"/$-'2"&('$8&+"4$#&"$(+")&'<")**&+"&<&1A" "F0./"5$'&(.1"1.$'."<&**-(8"for me to get out of the room, that they need to leave the house to get to safety. Run to the road and watch the house go. Watch the memories leave with the pretty embers that take off into
+"#$7/,$)(/#$%(#72$9#*&$:*(0;.)$<.7(=$*0>$1#))7$1#$7()#0=#>?$hear the nothingness. My parents voices are heard yelling for help, crying out to the neighbors to call 911. I run out of the house passing my parents and go into the street, where I collapses. The warming voice is silenced, and I get thrown back into reality.“It’s all your fucking fault I am not in college, why I didn’t
get to go to Julliard! I fucking hate you!” The music wakes me in a fright, and a trail of drool has smudged out the blue ink on the paper. Writing always has a habit of lulling me to sleep.
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Bears’Best
John Hickey led Potsdam this past weekend at
the Oswego State Fall Invitational. He shot a low round of 82
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Scoreboard SchedulePotsdam’s Team
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Volleyball
Bears at BrockportFri. 28 @ 12 p.m.
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Bears at OswegoFri. 28
Soccer
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Dakota Pruiss tallied 30 kills, two assists, 40 digs, and
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rhythm and claimed a 2513 decision. The Bears rallied in the third set behind the defense of senior li9&'0" ^-**"I<&" VD-++*&.0,(2"QARA" _"D-(-1-(:" S$**&<[" $(+" 105/0@0'&"defensive specialist Gabby Arana VJ-**-1.0(" 7$':2" QARA" _" >&''-#:1[A"Potsdam clawed its way back into the set after being down 95. The Red Dragons held off the Bears charge late in the game to earn the 2521 victory. “Cortland came out and put
some pressure on us with their serving and their blocking,” said Head Coach Steve Pike. “We were never -(" 1<1.&@" $(+" ,&" #0=*+(B." )(+" $"consistent offense the whole match. I thought we fought harder in the third set but they are just a very
good team.”Junior outside hitter Dakota
7'=-11" VJ$**:-**2" QARA" _" J$**:-**["led the Bears attack with six kills. Junior setter Jenna Blujus (Bald,-(1%-**&2"QARA"_"TAJA"F$:&'["#0(tributed 21 assists and nine digs. The Bears fought hard in the second match of the day but were unable to come away with the victory. Q&,"7$*.M" .00:"$("&$'*<"WNY\"*&$+"off the start. Potsdam created opportunities and climbed back into the set. However, the Hawks held off the charge by the Bears winning N`YWOA" Q&," 7$*.M" #0(.-(=&+" ./&-'"momentum going into the second set creating a large lead. Potsdam fought back with a huge run bringing them within two of the Hawks.
!" Q&," 7$*.M" .-@&0=." /$*.&+" ./&"Bears charge and the Hawks came away with a 2520 decision. Junior middle hitter Sara Anderson (Lake a&0'8&2" QARA" _" b$:&" a&0'8&[" *&+"the Bears as they clawed their way to a 2521 victory in the third set. The fourth set involved both teams &c#/$(8-(8" ./&" *&$+A" Q&," 7$*.M"was able to generated a late run to +&4&$."70.1+$@"N`YW]A"dQ&,"7$*.M"took us out of our system with their serving,” said Pike. “They had two big runs that we didn’t stop early enough and that was the decid-(8"4$#.0'" -(" ./&")'1." .,0"1&.1A"J&"brought Sara in for the third set to switch things up. Sara created some offense for us and we were able to side out the rotations we needed to.
We were just inconsistent today.” Coach Pike saw some positives that the team can learn and improve on later in the season. “We learned a lot of things about ourselves. Overall, I thought we competed hard and now we will go home and learn from today,” said Pike. Pruiss led the offensive with 11 kills. Blujus $++&+"N`"$11-1.1" $(+"WO"+-81A"I<&"contributed 12 digs and senior middle hitter Kayla Howard (Marcel*=12"QARA"_"D$'#&**=1[")(-1/&+",-./"six kills.The Bears return to action Fri
day, Sept. 28 at the Brockport Invitational.
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&%&(" 40'" @=#/" 04" ./&" )'1." /$*4A""Senior forward Heather Johnson V>&=%&*.0(2"QARA_>&=%&*.0(["(&$'*<"put the Bears out in front just eight minutes into the contest, but the attempt was smothered by Plattsburgh goalie Monica D’Ippolito. The Cardinals picked up momen.=@" 0%&'" ./&" )($*" NX" @-(=.&1" 04"./&" /$*42" )'-(8" 40='" 1/0.1" 0(" I=rant. The freshman keeper stopped ./&")'1."./'&&2"9=."D$#&&"D$++0#:"launched a long shot over Durant’s /&$+" 40'" $" WYX" *&$+",-./" L=1." Wh`O"left in the half.The Bears struggled to contain
Plattsburgh’s offense in the second half. Marcelle Schepisi made it 20 L=1.")%&"@-(=.&1" -(.0" ./&")($*"5&riod, driving home a rebound. The Cardinals kept the pressure on for the remainder of the contest and Taylor Florio capped the scoring at 75:01, scoring on a corner kick.D’Ippolito earned the win with
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had all season,” said Bears Head Coach Mark Misiak. “We came out with intensity and created some #/$(#&1A"P(40'.=($.&*<",&"$**0,&+"$" 80$*" *$.&" -(" ./&" )'1." /$*4" $(+" -."turned out to be a backbreaker. It was a fantastic effort overall, but we’re still allowing goals to demoralize us. We have to respond better after giving up a goal.”Potsdam returns home to face
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