. THE VOLUME No .... • ISSUE ONE OCTOBER 1981 • • WANTED! Elections For Student Concerned Students Go vernment Are Held for: Elections for Student Government were held September 15, 1981 in Bouck Hall. The following positions were filled. The new senior representative is Lillian Negz:9fI. Student Government The Public Relations Officer is Tom Monaco. The new freshman representatives are Michael Borkholder, Jacquie Bougevls, Ivan Cohen, Tara Mitchell, Anthony Pizza and John Kriese. (Yes, Donald Duck did have Freshmen RqJ Positions quite a ntunber of votes on the write-in.) ~ The Assistant TreasUrer is John Kriese. Congratulations to all of you! Last Seen: I would like to express special thanks to the election committee chairperson. Dawn Harris, for aU the time and This morning walking aound effort put into the elections and for making them possilile. I would also like to thank everyone who helped to man the booth. • campus We still have several freshman representative positions open and we would like to fill them. Do you want to have a say as to what will be going on around here? Yes ! Then what are REWARD you waiting for? Get started. • Duties Promoting the ~nteres t of Freshman Representatives: Obligated to express the students' opinions on college programs and policies. Student Government meetings are open to anyone who wishes to attend or be active in a discussion. Meetings are the College and the- held in Bouck Hall, Room 120 every Tuesday at 12 :00. Getting involved is a worthwhile purpose for those individuals who like to do more than sit around and watch the world go by,_ Entire Student Body For more infonnation contact Claudia Peko, 6434, or Bob Durant, 5402. Beginning Next Month ... THE Let's Make U A Double! I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all frestunen and returning students. I feel iliat you've certainly made a good choice in selecting schools. NATIONAL As students here, we are at the same time citizens j::J the village of Cobleskill, which I feel is a very nice place and the more we put into it the more we will get out of it. I gueSs that we all chose Cobleskill for different reasons but mainly for an educaUon. Not only is this a good place to continue your education but also for gaining confidence, making new friends and getting Involved. _ During my stay here at Co bleskill I have gotten involved in a number of different things. Being part of Student Government has given me the opportunity to par· ticipate in so many different things, some in which I never thought I'd be in· terested. I urge everyone, yes all of you, to give this place all you've got. GET INVOLVED ~ S Sometimes we will laugh at this place and at others 'we will cry. But, all In all, we will be proud of it because this is the school we have chosen. Good luck to everyone. Let's all contribute to making this a great year. Feel free TEST t,o stop by anytime. To help you determine your Preppie Awareness Quotient Claudia Peko Vice President, Student Government - Parsons 431, ext. 6434 The elf • IflA ...... e:P"AN 1 ~9I( BLOOD DRIVE ~"~I<IN 556 DONORS '. 521 PINTS DONATED Our First Issue ..- . - Another • Fantastic Turnout - . Check It Out! • WHIRLWIND, October 8, 1981, p. 2 EDITORIAL Question of the As I sit here in my room thinking about the school year so far, I Month realize that this ye.n has been Vef'y different for me. When I came to Coby last August. I didn" want to leave home. I by Barb Bother was lost. alone and afraid in a new world. As time went by I started to dread vacations because 1 didn' t want to leave new Seaton: 'What did yea mill mOlt F'rftllmea.: Why did you dloole to friends. Although I had known these people only nine months, it aboat CORY W. sammer? come to CORY? A.M.-I roWed all the great friends I hurt me as much to leave them for the summer as it did to leave met last year friends I had known for years! When I returned this year I J .T.-I missed all of the excitement K.R.-It was all I could afford realized that the reason I missed these people so much is because and my friends. Commuter-It was near home and • we were all so Involved in many activities together. B.B.-I'm1ssed all of the excitement there are a lot of cute guys. and my friends . M.C.-It looked like a friendly. small Whether It be going " 0 "happy hour" each week or working on a warm college. campus organization. the key to making friends and enjoying life B.B.-I mLssed the freedom of being away from home. and all of my friends. J.K.-CIose to home, looked Uke a nice In Cobleskill is to become involved with the campus and everyone P.L.-I missed the countryside and school, and my brother came he~ and on It. Don't just sit around and complain that there Is nothing to do my friends. liked it. or no one around. Go out! Find a group! Join It! . .. and have the O.B.-The freedom of being able to do If you have a question you would like best two years of your life here at COSY! Gocxt luck. as I want, and being away from nome. to submit. get in touch with Barb in B.J .-Nothing. Parsons Han. Carol Romano • Co·editor Student Activities Student Fair Programming Board New 'Faces On Campus • • • On TuesdaY.. September 15, the The Student Programming Board When·students arrived at Porter, Dix, " Island" and attended Oneonta with Student Activities Fair was held in regrets to infonn the college coIn· &uck Hall. Many organizations had and Welting Halls, this semester they Gwen, as a matter of fact they were mWlity that there will Dot be a major found three new faces (besides all of the R.A.s together. Stu says he likes Coby booths in the fair so that the students concert this semester due to the (act could get to know something about the new students that is), respectively they and all the people he things we're all that there was only a limited number of are, Nancy Herlein, Stuart Pokal and very f'rlendly and we think he's a really groups. The Whirlwind and WCOB were bands available (2) to our one date. To there to represent campus media, also Terry Dewey. great guy. Stu is 21 years old. be fair to the college community, and to Nancy Herlein is from Hamburg, The new director at Welting Hall is the Student Programming Board, justify spending $15,00()..f20,OOO, we .. Ganuna Sig, APO, the Dairy Club, the New York which is near Buffalo. For Terry Dewey. Terry attended SUNY have deeid~ to wait unW nen two years' she attended SUNY Alfred Cortland and received a B.A. there. She Outing Club, and many others were semester when we will have more dates there! It proved to be a rewardihg day where she obtained an A.A.S. in is into Poetry and had one of her poems available and hopefully many more education. From there she went ontl) published. Terry also worked as a for those involved and it gave everyone groups to choose from . a chance to get involved in an Cornell and received a B.A. Nancy will volunteer for the deaf in Rome. Rwnor organization on campus. be pursuing her Masters at SUNY .. has it that Terry is a lot of fun to work , Albany nen semester, in Education with. We hope that she works with us at Administration. She wants to be in the paper and submits a few of her Student Personnel. Nancy is 22 years Poems. We the editors of the Whirlwind, would like to extend the old, and loves it here at Coby! Now that you have been introduced to chan~e for all of our readers to become our writers! Yes, that's Stuart Pokal, director of Dix Hall has these new, and interesting people we right, we want you to write for your campus paper, the Whirlwind. follQ,wed in Gwen Pasco's footsteps. hope that you all will find time to stop in Gwen is from Long Island, was an RA. and see them. If you're Interested please feel tree to contact us in Vroman H~II. at Oneonta, and was a donn director Good Luck on your first year here at We'd love to have you on our staff! here at toby. Stu also is from the Coby, Nancy, Stu, and Terry ... Thanks, • Carol Romano (Vroman 009) Margaret Waldrom (Vroman 216) More Next Month! fREE... CIDE R' OOHUT S WEDNESDAY EVENING OCTOBER 281h APOCALYPSE CHAMPLI N HALL 9: 00 ' Iill 10: 00 p.m. NOW . A Movie sponsored by· DID yOU S.P.B. was not one of those lv,GET SPONSORED BY ... INTER· DORM COUNCIL!! I!! enjoyment shows, it was 9: 00 pm ' till 10: 00 pm STOP IN· THE UPSTAIRS LOUNGE OF CHAMPLIN- HALL something that gave us all alot to think about! 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