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February-March 2015 Page 1 February 2015/March2015 PCCC’s VISIONS Volume XLIV Issue 3 The Student Newspaper of Passaic County Community College, Paterson, NJ February 2015/March 2015 Huntoon’s Corner Is free education A monument dedicated to two men who helped slaves to really free? freedom here in Paterson By Diego Mendoza By Albert Bustos “Community college should be as free and universal in America as high On November 21st 2014 the city of Pat- “Paterson was a stopover during the Civil school.” -Barack Obama, President of the erson unveiled a monument dedicated to the Un- War…Peering down from Garret Mountain [the United States derground Railroad that housed runaway slaves hill] towards Paterson, a lookout would focus his Will a free community college help in the mid-19th century. The monument is on attention on a small factory on Broadway. the United States, and how would it pay it- Broadway between Church Street and Memorial When the way was clear for the escap- self? This is a controversial topic with many Drive, right across the street from PCCC’s main ing slaves and their guides to enter the city, a questions that need answers. PCCC is a di- campus. lantern was placed in the [safe-house] verse campus of race, age, and social-eco- Paterson is a tower. When the nomics. special place with a light was seen According to the article “Remarks by rich history. It was one by the men on Albert Bustos the President on America’s College Promise” of the nation’s might- the mountain, January 09, 2015 whitehouse.gov, President iest and first-planned the group en- Obama wanted a plan to give the first two industrial cities of the tered the city and years of community college free for students United States. It is hid the slaves who deserve it and are willing to work hard deemed as a historic in rooms in the for it. district because of the basement of the He went on to say how Tennessee and Great Falls. For a very buildings until Chicago are showing that a free community long time though no the following college is possible. His plan would encour- one was aware that Paterson was home to a se- night…one of the more traveled routes was from age students to do well and be debt-free. cret safe house for runaway slaves heading north New Brunswick through Paterson to New York But according to Communitycol- via the Underground Railroad. City, then Syracuse and finally Canada.” legereview.com, “New Study: 70% of Cal- The location of the monument was home Unfortunately, the City of Pater- ifornia Community College Students Fail,” to the Excelsior Coffee and Spice Factory, a son demolished Huntoon’s home and factory in it shows that 70% of students in California large and prosperous business owned by Josiah the 1980s before local historians had any hard fail in community college. What is California Huntoon, one of the wealthiest men in the city evidence of the buildings’ role in escaped slaves’ doing wrong that Tennessee and Chicago are during the mid-1850s. Huntoon’s home was route to freedom. There are no remains of either doing right? Is this all up to the government across the street from his coffee factory on the the coffee plant or the house where he lived. to deal with it, or do the students themselves grounds of what is presently PCCC’s main cam- Little is known about the Underground have to put some effort into it? pus. His black apprentice, business partner, and Railroad in Paterson; no records were kept be- Maria Villagran, 18, Exercise Science life-long friend, William Van Rensalier together cause it was a secret part of the Underground major said “I think the state or community were both abolitionists. Railroad network. college would be the ones that decide who The way runaway slaves would reach A key figure in this is of a woman named is eligible for free community college and and hideout at Huntoon’s factory is told accord- Dolores Van Rensalier, the great granddaughter it would probably be based on the student’s ing to, “Did You Know” pamphlets published by of Huntoon’s apprentice, William Van Rensalier. grades in high school or their grades based the city’s Mayor Kramer during the late 1960s. on their previous semester. Also, some states It reads: (Continued on page 2) might decide to only offer free community college to residents or citizens of the United States and not students with only Social Se- Poet Martin Espada reads RAW curity numbers or work permits, and that is By Diane Ortega not fair in my opinion.” Villagran continued by adding on, Thursday, February 19- RAW sponsored event took place in the Paterson room, which is “I think this change at PCCC would en- a reading from renowned poet, Martin Espada, inside the cafeteria during PCCC’s student activ- courage students to here at Passaic County Community College. This ity hour 1:10-2:25 p.m. (Continued on page 4) Professor Lauren Schmidt welcomed ev- eryone to the RAW kick off reading. She spoke Real Artistic Writers Club about the club and grateful she was that they Poetry & Open Mic Reading with Special Guest were able to raise enough money to make this possible. This was the first time that Espada was Martín Espada on PCCC Campus. February 19, 2015 Espada read poems for about 35 min- 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm utes after being introduced by Loren Kleinman, Main Campus Writing Center Director. Kleinman described The Paterson Room (in Academic Hall) how Espada humanizes poetry. Featured Reading Espada works with students in the com- & Open Mic for All! Image from: www.businessinsider.com munity inspiring teens to write poetry. Espada is a former lawyer with a degree from Northwest- Called “the Latino poet of his generation,” Martín Espada is a Brooklyn-born poet, editor, essayist, translator and author of over 15 books. ern University Law School. Espada is also an His latest poetry collection The Trouble Ball received the Milt Kessler Award, English Professor at the University of Massa- a Massachusetts Book Award, and an International Latino Book Award. The Republic of Poetry won the Paterson Award for Sustained In this issue Literary Achievement and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. chusetts. Mr. Espada’s other honors include an American Book Award, Espada read poems from his two latest the Robert Creeley Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. His work has been widely translated and published internationally. books The Trouble Ball and Alabanza. Before News.............................Pages 1 - 5 A former lawyer with a degree from Northwestern University Law School, Mr. Espada Features........................Pages 4 - 8 is currently an English professor at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst Espada read he gave a special thank you to the RAW club and Professor Schmidt. Espada talk- Opinion........................Pages 9 - 13 INFO: Professor Lauren Schmidt Faculty Advisor – Office 206 RAW is an SGA ed about how RAW is not only about poetry, but Editorial........................Pages 14 - 15 [email protected] Affiliate also social justice. Health............................Page 16 (Continued on page 4) Page 2 News February 2015/March 2015 Huntoon-Van Rensalier Underground Railroad Monument Editor-in-Chief (Continued from page 1) X’Zaviour Johnson Dolores Van Rensalier grew up in California and ered documents and writings made in 1904 by Josiah Senior Editors wasn’t aware of her African-American roots. Light- Huntoon’s son, Louise, who was doing his own genealog- Albert Bustos skinned, Dolores said she was raised to believe she was ical research. Nicole C. Richardson white by parents who never acknowledged their black Dolores said, “Louise Huntoon wrote that the heritage. As a teenager she began searching for her own basement of his father’s home as well as that of the cof- Full-time Staff Writer identity and lineage. fee and spice factory had been used as a way-station on Jada Osgood Through her search, she learned one of her ances- the Underground Railroad. He even recalled how his sis- tors was an abolitionist that worked as an apprentice at a ter would carry food and blankets to the fugitives hidden Faculty Advisors coffee and spice factory. Dolores said that her mother told down in the cellar. That evidence prompted the city’s his- Christine Redman-Waldeyer her William Van Rensalier was a “conductor on the rail- toric commission to designate the site a local landmark in Walter Behr road.” Later through further research Dolores learned that 1996.” the “railroad” her great grandfather had served was not Further references to the site’s Underground Rail- Faculty Editors the conventional kind, but rather the Underground Rail- road came from the “Did You Know” pamphlets. Geoffrey Kenmuir road. The Paterson historic commission now had enough In 1984 Dolores’ search led her to the location evidence to designate “Huntoon’s Corner” as the site of a Visions Alumni where her great grandfather and Huntoon once helped local landmark in 1996. Sadia-adu Phillips slaves on their mission to freedom. She recalled her first Dolores said, “The city had more than one safe- visit and said, “When I saw that it was an abandoned lot, house that hid fugitive slaves on the way to Canada and Layout I was devastated, but then I had the realization that below freedom, but ‘Huntoon’s Corner’ is the only documented Albert Bustos this very ground, slaves were being brought to freedom. Paterson site.” That was a very moving moment for me.” Local history advocates, and descendants of the Contributing Writers “All I had to start with was a deed to a grave in families involved with the Underground Railroad, con- Steven Almonacid Paterson,” said Dolores.
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