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A special thanks to the students of Professors Joan E. Perisse and Mary E. Fakler for sharing their first year college experiences, their valuable advice and for their enthusiasm for making a difference in the lives of others.

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Special Features Editors Jessica Breitman Nicole Camilo

Art/Creative Writing Editors Alessandra Young Carrie Ellen Sauer

Campus Life Editors Josh Angehr Jessica Riehm

College Experiences Clinton Kenneth Kelly Stephen Lawrence Yariel H. Melo

Collegial Point of View Editors Arielle Rubinstein Trevor Polasek

Entertainment Editors Nicole Mauro Lisa Lyev

Fashion Editors Jena Lagonia Alexandra J Sofen

Health and Fitness Editors Cristina Battista Pamela Ng

Relationships Lindsay DeFilippis Victoria E. DeMartino

Sports Editors David Gueli Christine Yau

Travel Editors Kelly Case Susan Kim Ryan McEwen

Photography Editors Lisa Lyev Josh Angehr

Cover Art and Design Editor Josh Angehr TCI Magazine 18 Leaving Family and Friends Money Maker

Spring 2011 19 Try To Keep It Clean Roommates: Enough Said

20 Start the Party 6 A Look into First-Year Programming Transfer Student

7 “You’re a What!?” 21 Easy, Breezy, Beautiful Dorm Room Dining Options Off Campus For Less

8 Cheap and Easy Ways to Decorate a Special Features Section 22 - 28 Dorm Roomom 22 From Posting Status to the Streets of Tahrih Square 9 The Truth About First Year Initiative Facebook: Beyond the Web

10 A New Beginning 23 Making Your Social Networking Profile Dormcest: An Epidemic on Campus “Employer Friendly”

11 The Truth About Sexiling: What Every 24 Book of Faces College Student Should Know 25 The Social Network 12 Transfer Student Communication is Key Times, They Are A Changin’ 26 Face-Hooked! 13 To Fear or Not To Fear 27 Twitter: More Than Just Status Posting? 14 Take the Rain Boots, Leave the Nun-Chucks Art Section 28 - 37 28 Seasons 15 The Brief Code of Roommate Etiquette 33 From Start To Finish, A Sculptor’s Wisdom 16 Success Can Only be Achieved By Being Prepared 34 Designing An Improved Campus

17 The “Stumble into Young Adulthood” College Edition Contents 35 The Wade-Lewis Poetry Slam: 48 The Top Ten Ways to Balance School An Event to Remember Work with Family and Friends... Lipstick Kisses 49 The Perks Of Being Single In College 36 A Mark Upon The Bed Where I Lay What Freedom Means To Me 50 The Land of Fire and Ice The Reincarnation of Glassjaw 51 Have the Best Of All Worlds 37 Stress No More In the Dominican Republic

38 White Might be Right, But It’s Color 52 Cancun, Mexico; This Year’s Spring That Shines Through Break “Hot Spot” Dress to Impress: 10 Guidelines When You Assume… For a Job Interview 53 La Recoleta – The Secluded 39 Spring and Summer Trends to Look For This Season on Campus 54 Gain Strength, Power, and Mass For Dummies 40 Blast From the Past 55 Kung Fu 41 College’s Bullying Blight Snack Your Way Healthy

42 Being Yourself 56 Get Some Sleep Already!

43 Planned Parenthood: Friend or Foe? 57 Slash and Poke Rutgers Follows the Trend 58 Just Get in There 44 To Rent or To Own

45 How To Avoid A Predator

46 Speed Friending To Be Irreplaceable Is To Be Different

47 Far Away For Far Too Long Campus Life

students’ transition into college life.” extremely enjoyable activity for students A Look into You can also trust Tara to inform you on the weekends. When asked which First-Year about information concerning countless programs were the most successful other campus events, programs, and this year, Tara stated, “Some of the Programming opportunities. most popular First-Year Friday events this year included a shopping trip to While the Center for Student the Woodbury Common Premium An Interview with Development focuses on the student Outlet, Tie Dye-Versity and the End Tara Sestanovich body as a whole, Tara Sestanovich, of Semester First-Year Bash: The focus’s on mainly First-Year students. Laser Tag Experience.” She proceeded In an interview with Tara, she was asked to state, “Several of the most widely Stephen Lawrence what the main goals of her office were attended Saturday Nights @ the concerning First-Year Programming. Terrace events were co-sponsored SUNY New Paltz Tara began by stating how First- with student clubs and organizations’; Year Programming was designed to like the popular campus a cappella So, now that you are accepted to accommodate the increasing size of the groups, Absolut A Cappella, The Sexy the college of your choice and freshman class here at New Paltz. Tara Pitches and Male Call, the student have finished reviewing academic then went on to state, “It is extremely formed improv comedy group “To Be information about classes, your important to support first-year students’ Announced,” and the Residence Hall majors, and requirements, you begin transition into college as many entering Student Association collaborating on to think about the social aspect of students don’t know what to expect an annual Halloween Bash.” college life. Maybe you’re not the type about campus life. Through first-year who goes out on the weekends, but programming, I am able to act as a Tara works with students, staff, and you are still looking for an enjoyable liaison; I can answer questions, provide orientation leaders to create events activity or event to participate in with students with the information they and programs that the SUNY New your friends. SUNY New Paltz offers need and help students on their path Paltz students want to see. Tara’s main countless activities for their students, to making campus connections.” Tara’s goal is to help better the transition especially to first years. While there main goal is to make sure that first-year of First-Year students as they emerge are countless departments that hold students are informed of the countless from high school students to college activities throughout the school opportunities they have to help them students. From personal encounters, year, there is one that specializes in grow as a student, leader, and a person. Tara is an open, enthusiastic, and kind programs and events geared towards person who is there to ensure the first the students of our campus, the Center There will never be a time when year at SUNY New Paltz for students for Student Development. Within the students are not informed of is as enjoyable and memorable as it Center for Student Development, different information about First-Year possibly can be. Tara’s office is located located on the 3rd floor of our Student Programming. Through the use of in the Student Union Building, room Union Building is Tara Sestanovich, Facebook, The Edge 88.7fm (SUNY 314, and she can be reached by email the coordinator of First-Year New Paltz Radio Station), WNPC’s at [email protected]. First-Year Programming. Tara is a SUNY New Channel 3 Message Board (SUNY Programs are something all SUNY Paltz graduate who works closely with New Paltz TV Channel), ‘Keeping You New Paltz students are encouraged to New Paltz students and staff to create Posted’ weekly newsletters and posters, attend, it will definitely help to better programs and events for students. She Orientation Leaders, E-mail, and many each and every student’s first year also co-supervises the Orientation other means of communication, Tara experience at SUNY New Paltz. Leaders/Peer Mentors, the student always makes sure each student knows leaders who lead orientation over the what is going on. Programs put on by summer and are there throughout the First-Year Programming include “First- year to act as a mentor to first-year Year Fridays” and “Saturday Nights at students. These individuals are “an the Terrace.” These programs are both essential component to first-year social and educational acting as an running around and never knows when “You’re a What!?” exactly they will go eat. Sure, you can Dining Options Off ask for gluten free bread and make a Campus Jessica Riehm sandwich, but everyday of semester? SUNY New Paltz Just because I lost my ability to eat gluten doesn’t mean that I lost my taste Yariel Melo Not many people know what the term buds. SUNY New Paltz celiac means, having to tell various people that the reason I have the same The importance of diet for those who SUNY New Paltz is famous for many eating patterns as an anorexic person are unhealthy to begin with goes hand things; its diverse campus, acceptance is because I cannot eat gluten, which in hand. It’s inconceivable why more rate, and its culture. The only thing consists of wheat, rye, barley and oats gluten free things cannot be made below par is the food on campus, gets repetitive after a while. So, yes, when every student can indulge in it, especially from the Hasbrouck Dining there is no beer or bread. Since I had just and speaking from experience, it all Hall. There is nothing wrong with found out about having Celiac disease tastes the same! Hasbrouck, the staff is great and it the summer before coming to college, has a nice atmosphere but the food food opportunities for me was not an Celiac disease is especially an annoyance could just be better. They say that the issue when looking at what school I because not only can I not eat the food food is healthy and personally, this wanted to attend. To my disadvantage, with gluten in it, but if something reporter loves to eat healthy food, but SUNY New Paltz does NOT do gluten free is cooked in a pot that the quality is often poor and it’s also enough to help those with special diets. previously had gluten in it, it can also good to indulge one’s own self once in Beyond the various complaints about cause a reaction. I understand that it a while. This article should not deter Hasbrouk dining hall, and the rumors is difficult to accommodate students people from going to Hasbrouck but that there are laxatives in the food, with these diets because of this, but should show its readers that they have there is a real problem when people the thousands of dollars myself and some better options off campus. with special diets like me are forced to various other students pay for a meal eat things that not only don’t fill us but plan should get us more than pasta The first option off of campus is don’t have nearly enough nutrients as a if we call 45 minutes ahead of time! McGillicuddy’s Restaurant and Bar. Of person with Celiac disease or diabetes The occasional gluten free soups at course, first-year students would not be needs to remain healthy. The school Jazzman’s and things like corn instead able to access the bar at McGillicuddy’s, has a responsibility to these students of flour tacos are an improvement, but but the food there is absolutely that just isn’t being attended to well the situation needs to be taken more amazing. The quality of McGillicuddy’s enough throughout campus. seriously. It is only fair that students with is great and almost everything on the special diets get the same opportunities menu is at a decent price below ten I know there are many reasons why to prosper here on campus, and that all dollars. The burgers at McGillicuddy’s people get sick especially living in starts with a healthy, well-rounded diet. are better than anything that could be dorm life, but the rate at which I get SUNY New Paltz should actively work found at Hasbrouck. On Mondays, sick is abnormally higher than all of to change the little that is being done McGillicuddy’s hosts Wing Night, my friends, on various occasions the for students like me. when hot wings of varying flavors are doctor has put my diet as the culprit sold at forty cents a wing. That is a of this. Although the school may argue great deal and one person would only that I am not being proactive about spend about ten dollars that includes a my diet and that they have options to drink and tip. suit me, this is not the case at all! How many of you know exactly what time The next option is Neko Sushi, which you’re going to eat at Hasbrouk? The specializes in none other than sushi. option to call 45 minutes ahead of time Sushi is healthy and the prices at Neko for gluten free pasta is difficult for a Sushi are decent. A little meal for busy college student who is always lunch would be under ten dollars and that would keep someone sufficiently artistic? Draw or paint something that full at least until dinnertime. Now for Cheap and Easy you would like to hang up on your wall. dinner, that is a different story. Dinners Ways to Decorate a A blank canvas is the perfect surface can range from thirteen dollars to even for splatter painting. This activity can twenty dollars depending on how much Dorm Room get pretty messy, so wear clothes that sushi an individual wants. Now you are can get dirty and spread out newspaper probably thinking, “Why would I spend on the floor to keep the surrounding so much money on sushi?” The answer Lauren Levin area clean. Splatter painting is a fun is that you have a choice in what you SUNY New Paltz and easy way to create a decoration. want to eat, whether it’s the California Pick a few colors that coordinate with Roll, Salmon Roll, or the Spicy Tuna A dorm room is like a blank canvas, the color scheme of your room, and Roll. Also after a dinner at Neko Sushi, consisting of only a bed, a desk, and splatter away. When the paint dries, you will probably be full for the rest of bare walls. The sheer nakedness of hang up your creations. the day. the dorm may seem a bit intimidating Photographs also make great wall at first, almost unwelcoming. Students decorations. Take some pictures of The last place off campus, that is should be entitled to a room that nature, friends, or family and collage worth going to at least once is P&G’s reflects their personality, and makes them all over the walls of your room. Restaurant and Bar. Again, first-year them feel at home. Companies like Department stores such as CVS and students would not be able to access PB Teen Design Furniture specifically Rite Aid develop photos and can also the bar, but it has a nice enough targeted toward college dorm rooms, make larger prints for photos that you atmosphere like any good quality but often times these accessories can really like. restaurant. There are so many things to get a bit pricy. For college students in choose from P&G’s menu with many this economy, money is not expendable. A collage does not have to be limited entrees all at ten dollars. P&G’s also Have no fear! There are cheap and easy to photographs; old magazines and serves some pricey food, such as pasta, ways to decorate a dorm room without newspapers are great materials to seafood, and steak. This can cost from squandering away money. incorporate into a collage. Using up to seventeen to twenty-five dollars, mixed media can add some variety but the lower priced food is as good as Storage space is scarce in the cramped to a work of art. Cut out pictures the more expensive fare. The amount corridors of a college campus. and images from magazines that are of food that is offered would keep you Bookcases and shelves from PB Teen attractive to the eye. Use glue and a flat full for the rest of the day. range in price anywhere from twenty paper surface to arrange your images dollars to two hundred dollars. Why on. Experiment! Try mixing photos Now that I’ve talked about all of the spend all that money on storage with magazine clippings, and magazine different kinds of places you could go furniture when you can make your own clippings with newspaper cut-outs! To to for food, I want to go back to my shelves from household items? All you get really creative, draw or paint on top fair Hasbrouck. There’s nothing wrong need are three milk crates, a clamp, a of or bordering a collage. with eating at Hasbrouck. If you do plank of wood, crazy glue, and spray not have the money to go out once in paint (any color). First, spray the crates Add a theme to your work! Are you an a while, then Hasbrouck is probably with the colored paint. Next, stack the animal lover? Mix and match pictures your only option. Hasbrouck lets the crates on top of one another to form of cute critters. Are you a sports fan? individual loose into the cafeteria to shelves. Once the crates have been Create a collage of all the best teams choose whatever he or she wants to stacked, use the clamps to seal the and athletic equipment! These are just eat. It gives you options to make your crates together. The final step is to some suggestions; the possibilities for own dish. You could basically have crazy the glue the plank of wood on creation are endless! whatever you want any day of the top of the highest crate. Try to place it week. Remember that you will always evenly onto the center of the crate. Let Most colleges do not allow students have options on or off campus. it dry for at least a half an hour. Once to use nails or thumbtacks to hang up the glue has dried, the new shelves are decorations in their rooms. There are ready to go! They are great Feeling methods to hang up photos and paintings that do not damage the walls. They can live in extremely small tanks though newly built compared to Masking tape can hold up most wall and only need to be fed three pellets most other dorms, is further from decorations. But if something is too once every other day. Get creative, and most of the buildings on campus. We heavy to be supported by masking tape, decorate the outside of a betta tank. are also required to take classes that an even stronger adhesive is a Velcro Use glitter and stickers to make a funky do not fill any General Education sticky tab. Just press the sticky side of fish bowl. Putting marbles or pebbles requirements. Although these courses the Velcro tab to the wall, then place inside the tank are a nice touch as well. are designed to enhance the students’ a sticky tab on the back of the photo Your betta will love its new home! academic experience, these courses are or painting. Once the tabs have been considered electives. As a result, we placed on the wall and the picture in Here are just a few tips to turn a drab have an excessive amount of elective the correct spots, press the two Velcro room into a fab room! It is easy to courses, that give us credit towards strips together. This will create a very decorate a dorm room in an affordable graduation, but do not help towards strong hold and will not leave any way. All it takes is some creativity our major. The only class that is a marks or blemishes on the walls. and some easy to use, money saving requirement whether in F.Y.I. or not is techniques. English Composition, but Psychology Decorative blankets and rugs make great Select Topic, and Self Community and wall accessories. There are an endless Citizenship do not fulfill any General amount of patterns and designs that The Truth Education Requirements. can be found on blankets, or any cloth for that matter. Find one that suites About First Year When I was deciding whether I wanted you, and coordinate it with rest of to join the First Year Initiative or your dorm. Buy a rug or a decorative Initiative not, I decided to ask current students cloth from a thrift store, or just search their opinions. This was unsuccessful, around your house to find an ornate Amy Katz because many students were not linen that is not being used. A rug SUNY New Paltz involved in F.Y.I. I decided to give or blanket will fill up at least half of F.Y.I. a try anyway because I felt that a dorm room wall. It adds a burst of Throughout my freshman year here at the decision was ultimately mine. color to any dorm, and gives the room SUNY New Paltz, I have been involved The impression people have of F.Y.I. some attitude. Who said rugs were only in a living learning community. This students stem from the idea that people made for the floor? program is called F.Y.I., which stands participate in the program because they for “First Year Initiative”. In the First need “help” socializing. This, however, Every college dorm room is has a Year Initiative, freshman students live is not true because many of these double-headed lamp provided by the in Esopus residence hall with the other students just want to live amongst other school. It lights up the room and is freshman involved in the program, freshman, and since SUNY New Paltz a necessity for all college students. and take a number of required courses does not offer all freshman dorms, However, lights can also serve as with those same students. My personal this program is the closest freshman decorations. Christmas lights make experience was a positive one, but I can get to maximize socialization great decorations! Sprawling them still feel that the program could use with other freshman students. I am throughout the room or having them some improvements. Some view the so glad that I made that decision border the windows can really give your F.Y.I. program negatively, because because despite these few aspects of room some life, especially at night! people think of the students as loners the First Year Initiative that could use or socially awkward, when in reality improvements, the community allows they are not. for easy transition and assimilation into Although lights may figuratively add college life. “life” to a room, another great dorm Besides meeting the many people room accessory that is in fact alive, I have found that being part of the is a betta fish! They are very low involved in F.Y.I, many of the “advantages” of being part of this First Year Initiative was an amazing maintenance, and most colleges deem and worthwhile opportunity. I have them as acceptable dorm room pets. community are not seen as “advantages” by some students. Esopus hall, met many people who became very close friends of mine. Participating your first semester at college and you It is important for gays, lesbians, in this community helped make are wondering if the people at school bisexuals etc. to realize how different the adjustment to college life much will be just as accepting as the people at college is from your life back at home. easier than it could have been. Some home, I assure that they will be. If you People who feel the same way you do, people looking in at the students in had supportive friends and family when who fear rejection and seek acceptance, this program, including myself would you came out before college, its normal surround you. You are no longer think that by joining this program, we to fear that people at school won’t different than anyone else or “alone” are isolating ourselves from the rest treat you the same way. However, you because you’re the only person living of the students on the campus. This, shouldn’t fear anything at all! Incoming through these hardships. College is however, is not true because I found freshman will be just as understanding, a new chapter in your life, a place to that the students in First Year Initiative if not more understanding, than your be honest and no longer live in fear, a have become like a second family to friends and family at home. The same place where everyone is searching for me, in that I was able o socialize with, idea goes for those who fear rejection friends who accept them, a place that eat with, and live with the same people because they were rejected by the offers you a new beginning. every day, as I do with my family back people at home. Those who came out at home. prior to college need to understand that people probably acted in a certain Dormcest: An way because they were surprised. In A New Beginning most cases where people come out Epidemic on to their friends and family, they aren’t Campus Amanda Zurla supportive because they were shocked. Coming to college is different because SUNY New Paltz the people you meet have no idea who David J. Gueli you are, where you came from or how SUNY New Paltz It is your first day at college, and you you used to act and telling strangers are ready to meet new people and start about your true sexual orientation From personal experience, I can a new chapter in your life. However, can be much easier because it won’t testify to the now known common you’re sexual orientation is different be a surprise to anyone and their knowledge that dormcest is not the than most of the people around you, only option is to accept you. This is most intellectually profound idea and you aren’t sure how to approach why I urge those who haven’t came when living on a college campus. the situation. You might wonder, “Will out prior to college to no longer fear they be as accepting as my friends and being viewed and treated differently. You may be asking yourself, family back home?” Or “Will I have Coming out for the first time in college “What is dormcest?!” Dormcest, to go through the same harassment I can actually be easier than it was when put simply, is the foolish act of experienced at home?” Or even “Can I you were younger. If you think about initiating, and following through be honest with myself and finally admit it, the entire freshmen class feels the with, having sexual relations with that I am homosexual?” Homosexuals same way you do; everyone is worried another individual in your residence might feel a sense of nervousness and that they won’t be accepted like they floor, or hall. Dormcest is especially fear rejection when in reality, everyone were at home or worried that they will common among college freshman, else feels the same way. Even though I be just as cruel as the people at home. who excited by their newfound have never personally gone through any What you and the rest of the incoming freedom, act impulsively engaging of these experiences, people very close freshmen students need to realize is in questionable activities with a to me have and I can assure you, college that if everyone feels the same way you is one of the greatest opportunities to do; than everyone is more accepting. fellow resident. truly be yourself. College is a huge opportunity because everything in your life is about to One may think that this so-called If you are homosexual, and it is be, change. It gives you an opportunity to term, “dormcest” is merely a joke or for some people it gives you an be anyone you want to be. coined by silly college students; opportunity to finally be your self. however, dormcest is no joke. The repercussions and consequences and sound, the inherent wrongness thing to do, both you and your of dormcest may include, but of the act is just about able to smack roommate will have time to then are not limited to: destruction you in the face. plan ahead as to what they will do of friendships, loss of a sexual once sexiled. If you do not give your partner, emotional heartbreak, roommate a heads up, it is unfair and inconsiderate. Also without a heads extreme awkwardness, everybody The Truth About up a roommate could potentially walk on your floor being involved in your Sexiling; What in on something that would be either relationship whether you like it or embarrassing or awkward for both of not, and the attempted creation of a Every College you! So make sure you ask beforehand negative reputation created by your and try to get caught up in the moment partner. Student Should if you are unsure as to when your Know roommate will be coming in the room! Ultimately, what makes dormcest so Another thing to take into consideration before sexiling your roommate is how difficult is the fact that each partner Ryan McEwen is essentially moving in together they are feeling that day: do they look before they even really start dating. SUNY New Paltz sad, stressed, or sick? Tuning in with their feelings should help you gage A lot of relationships, especially Young Adults have always had the whether or not it is an appropriate teenage ones, would never even reputation of being obsessed with sex. time to ask for the room. The most come close to the “moving in It’s often said young lovers can’t keep important thing about sexiling is that stage.” As you could imagine, this their hands off each other. So what when a roommate says “No” you must instantly puts a lot of pressure on happens when our society takes a group respect that decision! If you disrespect the relationship. Personally, I feel of young people and has them all living a roommate by either having sex while that each individual needs their own in the same vicinity, a thin wall is the they are still in the room, or by just personal time and space. And quite only thing separating boys and girls. giving them an attitude for saying no, frankly, it’s rather hard to achieve The truth is having a roommate won’t it will make for uncomfortable living either of those needs when your usually stop someone from getting conditions! partner is living around the corner, physical. Sex is healthy and natural but to when your roommate is in the next door, or upstairs. Sexiling is a real issue that should not room! That is the lesson many college be ignored. In life, communication students eventually will learn. Let’s be honest, in most cases ending is key. This also holds true if you a relationship is hard enough, and want to have an understanding This is why the term sexiling has relationship with your roommate. having a partner continue to live become a common term among on the same floor or building is Although some might think it college students. Sexiling is when is embarrassing, annoying, or an awkward burden. This kind of one roommate is exiled from the break up is like divorcing, but not frustrating, this is a topic you and room while the other is sexual your roommate must discuss as being able to move out of the same engaged with a partner. Sexiling has house. Refraining from dormcest is soon as possible! If you avoid this gotten a bad reputation for being topic there will be rough patches ahead highly recommended. rude and inconsiderate. However for the both of you. So if you or your if you follow a certain etiquette of roommate is sexual active have a plan If you were to take the words of a sexiling, you and your roommate set in motion, and try your best not to wise man, such as myself, I would can be at a mutual understanding make anyone feel uncomfortable. The suggest not committing this act of when it comes to each other’s truth is sex is going to happen whether misjudgment. How could one even sexual activities. First of all you must students, parents, or faculty are willing consider this practically illegal act? ask your roommate for the room in to hear about it or not, so be prepared With its unpleasant connotation advance. This is just the considerate to have this discussion! racking process. I personally planned a weekend in which I stayed with a friend Transfer Student and looked at potential apartments to Times, They Are A live in. Although rent is never cheap, the Changin’ Jena Lagonia flip side of this is that apartments are much more spacious and comfortable. SUNY New Paltz Although you can get some form of Colin Hamill a meal plan, usually an apartment will Marist College Adjusting to a new environment come with a stove making it easier to is never an easy task; however, it is choose to eat healthier, rather than In high school, living was easy. You something that we constantly have to eating the food on campus. Luckily, get to take everything for granted, and face. Being a transfer student has been in the short period of time that I had you have no idea how important some one of the most difficult, yet one of given myself to find a roommate, I things are until they are gone. Heading the most valuable experiences I’ve had did, but it is definitely easier said than off to college for the first time, you to date. When entering freshmen year done. of college, everyone is in the same boat. learn quickly what you now have to do by yourself. Since move-in day, I have Everyone is trying to make friends, get One of the most important pieces of learned to live entirely by myself, and to know the campus, and adjust to advice I could give any transfer student some of the things that have helped their new professors. This is a crucial is to be as outgoing as you can be, and are self-sufficiency, time management, adjustment, which is why many people do not be afraid to step out of your and independence. form close bonds with the people that element. It is crucial, as a transfer they meet their freshmen year. Being student to join as many things on When I was living at home, I never had a transfer student is like pressing the campus as possible. Not only are you to worry about when my next meal rewind button, while everyone else going to make friends more quickly, would be, how my clothes were going keeps moving forward. It isn’t easy you are also going to explore different to get washed, or what time I should stepping into an environment where interests and become a well-rounded wake up for class. Since moving into everyone has already completely person. Although I feel like I bit my dorm at college, I have had to adjusted the campus, and is content off a little more than I could chew, I deal with all of this stuff by myself, with their friendships. believe think that this is the first time I becoming much more self-sufficient. have taken on a lot of responsibilities Living on your own is not easy at first, The first step, after getting into at once. In joining various things on but it is definitely something that every New Paltz, is to find housing. I was campus, I have made friends and have human needs to learn to do at some completely unaware that as a transfer also become a more organized person. student you needed to find housing on point. Relying on other people in life leads to never accomplishing anything your own! Because I did not prepare Being a transfer student has helped me worth mentioning. myself for this possibility, I was stuck, to go the extra mile and become a more two months before school started driven version of myself. I have become I have developed systems to get work without a place to live! This makes it better with my time management and done in college, because it is not always even more difficult because it is not so people skills. Although it is never easy as easy as you think. For example, every easy to find a prospective roommate being new anywhere, SUNY New Paltz Sunday I like to get my laundry done. when you don’t know anyone to begin gives every student the opportunity If I do not have a set day for this, I with. You have to completely put to get involved and feel comfortable. will often forget, and come Monday yourself out there from the start by Although I have only been here for this morning, I will have nothing to wear, posting a little blurb about yourself semester, I feel completely comfortable and I will have nobody to blame but on the New Paltz Bulletin, explaining and absolutely love it. that you are a neat, clean and friendly myself. I also like to take a shower person who is outgoing and doesn’t every morning before I do anything. It like pets. In my experiences, I found has to be done for moral reasons, but this to be a very awkward and nerve it is a nice way to start the day, plus you do not have that groggy feeling like you just woke up. Facebook is, and how quickly it even if they don’t, SUNY New Paltz consumes all of your time, so if I have has amazing activities for you to fit I can also say since coming to college, I a big assignment to do, I will unplug right in and forget your fears. You have learned to manage my time much my internet so it is not possible to get arrive at being a senior in high school to better. Like I said before, I try to give lost on the way to finishing my work. return back to being a young freshman myself certain days to get different The most important thing about my again in college; it sounds rough, but things done. Studying for exams is a independence is the fact that I have to it’s really not! New Paltz is amazing great example of this. This semester I live with somebody I do not like. My at dealing with these issues; one in have five classes, all equally challenging. roommate is annoying at best, and for particular is Freshman Orientation, It is important to dedicate a certain the most part unbearable to live with. which takes place the summer before amount of time per day to study for I would like to think he is nocturnal, as your fall semester. This is where you these classes, so you do not fall behind. he has not gone to bed before 3 a.m. get to see the college as a “student” It is not always easy to get studying once since the beginning of the school for the first time. You meet many new done in a college environment. People year. Normally I would not mind this, people, and many will become your are constantly coming in and out of because I am quite the night owl myself, future classmates. This time allows your room, chatter in the hallway; there but like I mentioned earlier, with self- for many friendships to form. Your are endless distractions just trying discipline, I know when to go to bed. orientation leaders open your eyes to to pry you away from your work. In He will keep the T.V up loud, the lights all of the activities and information college, you need to be your own self. on bright, with really no regard to needed to survive living here. They also I can remember in high school when what I am doing. Sometimes the best stick by you during the whole first year everybody was trying to be someone thing you can do is leave the situation of college. During orientation, many else, somebody who they were not, and untouched, but when you cannot bear of your questions will be answered and that just takes too much effort. Society it anymore, it is always a good idea to many of your fears will be dissolved. pretty much requires that you go to approach what is bothering you lightly You spend a few jam-packed days at high school, but in college. everyone is and weigh the results. orientation, and somehow you still here for a purpose. There is no time manage to make lasting friendships to act like somebody you are not, and Self-sufficiency, time management, and and great memories. there is so many different “groups” of independence—you have to master people, it is honestly not hard to find them. With them under your belt, life One of my biggest fears had to be people just like you. The first week of will be easier every day. choosing a roommate, which is done school, I thought I met a good group on the last day of orientation. It’s scary of people to hang out with, but it to make a final decision, but meeting turned out a couple weeks later that I To Fear or Not To someone at orientation is a blessing. became friends with other people on Even if you don’t meet someone, my floor just like me. Fear choosing a random roommate is still good. Over the summer finding Last, but not least, I have become very Amy Alden and talking to your future roommate independent since move-in day. Before SUNY New Paltz over Facebook is very helpful, and I I came to college my sister woke me strongly recommend it. This is one of up for school, and my parents woke Coming to college as a freshman can the best times you will be able to get to me up for work. I had a tendency to and will be very scary, but it doesn’t have knowyour roommate. All in all, living turn my alarm clock off in my sleep, to be! Being nervous and scared about with someone for the first time sounds so I needed all the help I got. I do not starting college are the most normal very frightening, but just remember have anybody here at college to wake feelings a student can experience. This that all incoming freshmen have a me up anymore, so this was a huge will probably be your first time away lot of the same fears, and it is almost adjustment that I made once I got here. from family and friends and being certain that your future roommate will I also learned to use self-discipline nervous is okay! Rest assured that most share some of the same fears. when it comes to getting work done. of your worries will probably go away Everybody knows how distracting after your first week of college and Many top fears include: “I’m nervous that I won’t Professors on campus are there have been through many ups and like my roommate.” for you so take advantage of them! downs, I feel that we will always remain close. This is a possibility, but not very likely. “I’m really going to be homesick. The majority of college students get I’m going to really miss my family So although you may still have many along well with their roommates, fears, fear no more, SUNY New Paltz and friends from back home.” and if this does become a problem, welcomes you! SUNY New Paltz offers a lot of help. If you ultimately cannot get along You will miss all kinds of people with your roommate, there is a week from back home, even if you’re not Take the Rain of where you can switch rooms. RA’s going very far away. You will miss (Resident Assistants) are very helpful the time that you once had to be Boots, Leave the and will help you along the way. with them, but SUNY New Paltz is a great campus for dealing with these Nun-Chucks “I’m scared about not knowing issues. There are many ways to keep anyone, and I’m scared I’ll in touch with friends and family Rachel Hudson have problems meeting new and this campus offers a variety of SUNY New Paltz people and making friends.” transportation options for visitation

This was one of my biggest fears, but it on weekends. Even if you fear that Over the past few months you have was shortly dismissed. One important things will change back home, your heard about a million things you can thing to remember is that every family and friends will be the same and cannot bring to college. You are freshman is new, and most likely no one people and love you even more probably so bogged down with the knows anyone else. Since everyone is when you get back. Just remember many ways an extension chord can looking to meet other people (especially to surround yourself with people cause a fire big enough to take down the entire dorm that you are not even during orientation and the first week on campus that you can trust and sure what you can bring that won’t of classes), just be open. Take deep that can become like “family” as breaths and introduce yourself, most somehow kill you. Well, I will tell you well. College opens up so many what you should bring and what you people on campus are very welcoming. opportunities to meet people and Even if this doesn’t work, SUNY New should just leave at home. develop long lasting relationships. Paltz offers a lot of First-Year programs where meeting new people is very easy. Things you should bring: When I first came to college, I had “I’m scared about every single one of these fears. I 1. Rain boots-Next time you are visiting academics and professors.” came from a small town, where our a campus and it is a nice sunny day graduating class was about eighty- and there is not a puddle to be found, I must admit that college will most four. We all knew each other since take a look down at all the little dips likely be harder than your high school kindergarten and moving away in the pavement. Now imagine it has academics, but professors are very from them and onto something been raining for three days straight and knowledgeable and very helpful to bigger was hard, but New Paltz the temperature is dropping about ten freshmen. Even if your first year is a very accepting campus that degrees an hour and all you have are does not go as well as you hoped, includes everyone. It’s very easy converse and three pairs of socks left. or your GPA drops dramatically to make friends, and most people Yes, there will be those days, no matter from high school, it doesn’t mean are genuinely kind. I have come a what the pamphlets from the school you aren’t doing well. It just means long way and have made a lot of tell you. you are challenging yourself. This great relationships, especially with 2. Shoes to wear in the shower- campus and its professors have a my roommates. We were kind of variety of office hours to help you. thrown together, and although we whether you are using a communal yourself in college sitting in a nice into my dorm hall. My hands shook. My bathroom or you have roommates, sunny spot somewhere reading a long feet moved by themselves as my mind there will always be that one unusually juicy love novel for hours one weekend, scampered around in frantic circles: hairy person who does not seem to see you are half right. Now, replace that wondering, waiting, worrying about those giant clumps of hair caught in juicy love novel with seventy six pages what I had decided to bound into head the drain. Fact of life; it is a lot easier of physics and you would be spot on. first without any knowledge. “I’ll wing to just step over your problems than it Very romantic. it.” I thought, pushing the stomach is to deal with someone else’s hair ball. devouring sensation of fear back deep, 3. Large amounts of condoms- If deep down somewhere I couldn’t feel it 3. Plastic bags- It is not that there are you are that type of person, good for so much. That day I wished I had come no plastic bags, in college, but if you are you, just remember, the school seems prepared with some sort of information going to a particularly “environmentally to think everyone is doing that all the about what I shouldn’t do and should friendly” school, you are going to come time everywhere. Whether you are do, to make living with people I’ve across a lot of reusable bags. While or you are not, they are still going to never met before a bit easier. I know this is great, they are not going to be be throwing condoms at you at every there are some skeptics out there! (You very useful when the Chinese food you possible occasion. You will know you know who you are.) Saying roommate forgot in the back of the fridge for a are in college when you get a goodie- etiquette is both “common sense” and month breaks open and someone has bag at an event filled with an apple, a “obvious” Both are right and wrong. to clean it out. In cases like these, some pamphlet on healthy eating, and seven Some roommate etiquette is common bags should only be used once. condoms. sense, but some not so much. I wish to share what I’ve had to learn through 4. Tape- Any type of tape is good. If 4. Too many clothes- Remember, if experience and trial and error, in hopes there is a picture or calendar you want you are living in a dorm, your official that you wouldn’t be as hopelessly to put up on the wall many places won’t space will consist of about a bed, one frazzled as I was. say, “Why sure you can put a dozen closet, three draws and a desk. You tiny holes in the wall for us to have to will be at a little bit of a loss when you Do: Be neat! fix again when you leave after living are trying to figure out where to cram a here for only a few months.” Which is carload of stuff and still have an open (Or as neat as you can). This might usually followed by, “With the work to spot to sleep. be considered one of the common fix the wall in your room added to your sense ones. Talk to your roommate. bill, the amount should come to…” While there are still many things to If you’re both messy, discuss at what consider when you are packing, just point you both believe messes get out Things you should remember to be smart about it. Also, of hand (when you can’t see the floor, if you forget something or if you want when garbage is buried under trash, not bring: to send stuff home, the post office is etc.) and agree that when or if it gets always there. Good luck packing! to that point, you should clean. If 1. Swords, Daggers, Bow and Arrows, one of you is messy, and the other is Throwing Stars, ect.- It might sound orderly, discuss tactics to tackle your ridicules, but there are still people The Brief Code differences. Perhaps agreeing to keep who, when they are packing for school messes on respective sides, trying really look down at their bag and say to of Roommate hard to clean at least once every two themselves, “Oh, I have a little bit of Etiquette weeks could be possible solutions. No room, I should bring my nun-chucks.” matter what, both roommates need to If you are one of those people, I am communicate with one another and sorry but your dream to become a Reyna Princivil respect each other’s wishes to the best ninja will have to wait until the next of their ability. You’re both paying for long break. SUNY New Paltz the room after all.

2. Long novels to read- If you imagine I remember the first time I walked Don’t: Fester your sure they’re going to be okay with it, just don’t do it. Success Can Only anger like old milk on a be Achieved By counter top. Do: Warn your Being Prepared If you feel your anger frothing over roommate if you’re uncontrollably, take a deep breathe. Jeffery Woronick Wait until you feel your anger going to have guests subsiding, and then calmly talk to over as soon as you can. Marist College your roommate. One such way that I personally address problems is using This gives them time to prepare “Your test will be on Monday. Make this format: I don’t like it when you themselves, and their side of the of sure to use the weekend to prepare ____ because ____. It makes me feel the room. For example if it’s your and study for it.” Let’s face it everyone ____, and I would appreciate it if you roommate’s study night and you warn gets chills when they hear those horrid stopped. An example would be I don’t them about possible company, they words come out of a professor’s like it when you let your friends sit on will have enough time to find a more mouth, but why? If you prepare and my bed when I am gone because my quieter place to study. follow the following tips, you will bed is my personal space. It makes become an expert studier and an even me feel angry and uncomfortable and better student. I would appreciate it if you stopped. Don’t: Bring up touchy From there, you could discuss some subjects; especially First and foremost, one of the most sort of comprise. The important thing important study tips and rules to live is to deal with the problem right when topics such as religion by is to not procrastinate, no matter the it arises, and not to let it sit inside and politics. circumstance. Let’s be honest, there will you. When that happens, events and almost always be better things to do feelings have a tendency to build up than study, especially in that amazing People usually have strong beliefs and come out in scary ways that are opportunity filled place called college. they’re willing to defend for anything. If generally uncalled for. But keep in mind, you’re there for one you come to find that your roommate important thing and that’s to receive an and you are on two different sides of a education. Do: Tame your Tongue. spectrum, just agree to disagree unless you both are okay to calmly discussing Start your studying right away, and do the topics. Most of the time it’s just Find out if your roommate curses like it in small doses. You will find that it better left alone. a sailor or likes to keep their mouth is much easier to handle and simpler clean. From my experience of living in to understand if you go little by little, I hope that these tips will help you walk a triple with two people who were polar and you don’t try to take on the whole into your dorm with your head held opposites, I have seen how the occasion textbook the Sunday night before your high, knowing you have back up tools swear can make some cringe in disgust. Monday 8:00 a.m test. Both of you are paying for the room, to help you along the way. In the end, the most important thing I’ve learned you shouldn’t be made uncomfortable Depending on the test and the course, through experience is that there is by rampant potty mouths. I alter my study habits a little. For nothing to worry about. And there example, if it is for a class where I know truly isn’t! I wish you the best of luck, . that if I just sit down in the library Don’t: Assume things have a great first semester! with the material and slowly teach it to

myself, I would more likely than not go Although your roomie may be okay with sharing their food, they may to the quiet library and do so. But if it become very uncomfortable if their is material that I needs to be applied, desk is touched. Find out everything and I have no idea how to do so, I will on a case by case base. If you’re not take my materials to a friend or classmate and study with them. to their first college classes. With all the Studying with another classmate gives The “Stumble into advice, rumors, and opinions offered you an amazing advantage, and you Young Adulthood” to an incoming freshman, these classes should definitely consider doing if you take on a life all their own. Syllabus are not already. Studying with another College Edition week was a chance for most to get a individual enables yo u to have two course outline and general flow of heads working together instead of one. the class they signed up for. The first This means if you don’t understand Kristin Dillon few weeks of class also serve as a material, your study partner can explain SUNY New Paltz trial period for those unsure of their it in terms that you would understand schedule. Students could easily change instead of the professor’s jargon. They Going away to college is a defining and drop courses. So, it is easy for one can also share how they understand the process for many young adults, a to take their first thoughts on a course, material, and by looking at the material time to discover their true selves and be it positive or negative, and make from another viewpoint, you will experience life without too much changes accordingly to achieve the best become a better student. authority holding them back. Most possible academic experience. have preconceived notions ideas of When you finally sit down to study, and what to expect when they arrive to Another issue that seems to be the make sure that it is in an environment college. Personally, I thought it would forefront of most college issues is the where you are comfortable, but not be a huge adjustment, because my experience of dorm life and roommates. too comfortable, and where you will mom had always done my laundry for Some incoming college freshman are not be distracted. It is easy to lose your me and I was not used to sharing my already used to living with siblings or concentration if you do not allow for room space with other people. Other sharing a room. Some, like myself, have breaks every so often. Breaks provide concerns that I, along with my other always had a room and space of my you with something to look forward friends who were going away to school, own. Initially, I was skeptical of how to. So if you allow yourself to take a was the process of meeting new people, three girls would all manage time in the 5 minute break after every completed getting involved in the social scene, bathroom if we all had morning classes, chapter, you will most likely not want classes, scheduling, and dorm life. or who would get what bed. Luckily, I to get distracted from you work. Also Initially, i had thoughts and opinions had two very easy going roommates breaks allow you to rest your brain on all of these issues, and through a who were easy to get along with and for a while and prevent information semester and a half of college life, to live with. The first thoughts that I overload. Constant studying without personally had about the college living breaks prevents easy retention of When I arrived at New Paltz, I soon experience were proved wrong. Other material. realized that meeting people wasn’t an freshman, unfortunately, aren’t always issue, but rather keeping up with the as lucky. It’s not the end of the world It is so important to heed my advice in many names and faces as they became if you and your roommate don’t get order to be a better student. Obviously replaced with new ones. Of course, along, some people just don’t. The there are many more tips that can help most students knew a few familiar key is to correct the situation in a civil you with your study habits and study faces from orientation, but these manner so that everyone involved can skills, but I hi-lighted some of the most people may not live in a close by hall, compromise and move on to a better, important ones that have helped me to or and exchange of information might more fulfilling college experience. become a better student. If you follow have not taken place. In any case, the these tips, you will be on your way to a common first thought of difficulty in successful college experience. meeting new people was soon proved wrong by the friendly and welcoming atmosphere of New Paltz.

After the first initial week of having infinite free time and no obligations, freshman at New Paltz had to report and love you, they will always be there. I had an excuse not to get a job. If Leaving Family In my opinion, my family and I have I asked my parents for money, they and Friends grown stronger because we appreciate would usually give it to me. Then the the moments more, now that I am far summer before college came, I could from home. My friends and I have also have gotten a job, but my excuse then Corina Corado grown stronger because we realize how was that it is the last summer I can SUNY New Paltz much we miss each other and reconnect hang out with my friends before we all every time we visit each other. One go to college. Now, I am in college and The hardest part about going away to of the things that helped the most in still jobless. I thought well, I am going college is leaving family and friends. my adjustment to campus life was the to a state school, so I am saving my The fear of leaving what we know fact that I was not the only freshman parents money, so if I call them once and have grown to love is unbearable. on campus who was leaving home. in a while and ask for money it is no big The thought that your parents are not There were so many other freshman deal. Well it is. going to be in the next room anymore, on campus who were leaving home. is frightening. The thought that your There were so many other freshman I had money from graduation that I child is no longer going to be under going through the same issues as me saved, and my parents put two hundred your care is terrifying. These fears are that after a while, we all could relate in an account at the beginning of the all very common for families who have to each other and become friends. It first semester. Then every once ina a student going away to college for the is important to always keep in mind while I would call home, but it seemed very first time. In my experience, the that every incoming freshman has the I would only call for money. What was moment I realized I was leaving home, same fears as you and is leaving family I spending all my money on? Food— everything seemed surreal. I could not behind. The positive part about this that was where most of my money was believe I was going to live on my own aspect is that since every freshman has going. But why? I had an unlimited until the day I moved into my dorm. left family and friends behind, it is more food plan at the dining hall as all the Family has always been an important likely they will become closer to other freshmen do; however my friends and role in my life, and their support and people on campus and form another I would order food if it was raining, or approval was vital in making my decision family and friends away from home. we were too lazy to go to the dining where to attend college. Convincing Looking at the bright side of things hall. I would go to the bank and take my family that going away to college always helps with the adjustment of twenty out here and there not realizing was a good decision, was difficult in campus life. That is how I managed to it would add up so quickly, and then the its self. Actually leaving them for the make it through my first year. I stayed next thing I knew there was no more very first time was far more difficult connected to my family and friends, and money. At this point, a job is necessary. than anything. Making sure that the at the same time made new friends. The thought of having a job is always connection formed with my friends in the back of my mind, but I never go from home was not lost was extremely out of the way to look for one. important to me as well. This is why I Money Maker promised my friends I would call every Second semester is here, and I am lazier day. Good friends will always be there Jenna Netrosio than ever. It is cold out and snowing, and I never want to walk to the dining for you and keep in contact with you, SUNY New Paltz and thankfully, my friends always kept hall, so the solution is to order out. in contact with me and made sure we There goes more money out of my would make time to visit each other. I am now one of those college kids who pocket. Another thing that made it has never had a job. In high school, a easier for me to spend money on food In all honesty, the hardest step is the lot of my friends had jobs, delivering was that one of my classes was on the first step. Once you have moved out and newspapers, babysitting or working at other side of campus close to town. So have settled in your room, everything CVS. My parents were always nagging me and my friend would walk into town else falls into place. It is important to me to get a job, but in high school, I and eat at Tokyo Sushi every Friday be aware that you are not alone and as was busy taking AP classes and running after class. This is habit that needed to long as family continues to support track and doing community service, so stop and it did. Money does not not grow on trees and just because it even a small mess would look big. I was my parent’s money does not mean hoped I would not be the only messy Roommates I can just spend it when I do not need one in the room. The thing was, I was Enough Said to. I have a meal plan for a reason. Here the only truly messy one out of the is where a job is necessary. three of us, and I try to keep the mess under control, restricting it to my desk Steven Blum It is not like high school where you can and bed. I put my clothes away and do say that you do not have time because the laundry once a week, but it is hard SUNY New Paltz there is plenty of time to balance to keep from making a mess. college work and a job, and there are Roommates. Chances are if someone plenty of opportunities for a job; one There really is only one way to stay goes away to college, and he lives just has to look for them. Getting a job clean and organized, and that is to in a dorm, apartment or house, he in the summer is ideal. Last summer, start out that way and to always put will probably have a roommate. It I did not want a job, but now I really everything back where it belongs. I is important to remember that not need one. Do not spend money on unfortunately failed at this. Books, everybody is the same, and many things you do not need, and find a job binders, notebooks, and everything people can have very strange habits. and help yourself and your parents else would be misplaced or left out. I There is a very low chance that the two out. was a clean person’s roommate from new roommates will click perfectly, so hell. To the person who enjoyed a nice it is important to learn how to deal with organized clean room, I was almost the all types of people and communicate Try To Keep It complete opposite. However, for their to solve issues. Clean sake I tried to keep as clean as I could. So to all those incoming messy and Roommates can come in many Thomas Bremer disorganized freshmen, try to stay neat different flavors, including: the party animal, the loner, the book SUNY New Paltz for your cleaner roommates. It can be pretty hard to do, but if you start out worm, the jerk, or your new best strong you can succeed. I have learned friend, etc. Not many people have All of my life, I have been messy. Not that keeping clean can be hard when messy as in unclean hygienically, but been forced to live with someone you don’t start clean, but when you are messy as in unorganized. The floor before now unless they shared clean it is a lot easier to stay clean. If you in my room back home was mostly a room as a kid. This being said, are capable of staying clean, it can help non-existent, due to the fact that there many people have many different with your ability of being able to stay would be a layer of junk over the actual habits that one may have to get used on top of all your schoolwork. With a floor. That layer consisted of paper, to. For example, every time my clean work area and organized papers wrappers, clean clothes, dirty clothes, you won’t have to spend countless roommate is in his bed, he always and numerous other random things. I hours searching for all the things you needs to take off his pants while he never put anything away, and when I need. So good luck staying clean, and uses his computer. There has never did, it ended up on the floor in a couple good luck with college. been a situation when he is sitting of days anyways. I cleaned my room on his bed with pants on. It took me about once every few months, and even a while to get used to my pant-less then, it only lasted a couple of days. new friend, but I don’t exactly mind it anymore because it happens every day. When I first started looking at colleges, Roommates may have similar habits or I wasn’t really concerned about my something completely different. The room being messy. But I started key to getting along is communication. worrying about how clean I would be when I actually decided to go to New Communicating with a roommate Paltz. I had seen the rooms, and I knew about anything is essential to the how small they were and realized that college experience. Roommates are do not drink. That is based on common going to do things that are bothersome, Start the Party interest, not the actual exclusion of any whether it’s coming home intoxicated, particular people. Most college students not wearing pants or even poor Matthew Palazzolo don’t actually care if their friends drink hygiene. Discuss things like this and SUNY New Paltz or not. It is just a fun thing to do with work out your differences early in the a group of people, not something that relationship and it will be much easier It’s no secret that a big part of college is necessary for a friendship. to deal with them later on. All that is is the party life. Partying is actually needed is to ask nicely to stop doing the most widely talked about and Partying at college should never something that is bothersome and it anticipated part of college for most become a student’s main focus. The can be easy to come to a compromise. incoming freshmen. Many people reason that students go to college is to Asking things like, “Can you please put wonder if frat parties will be anything have a learning experience, but if you pants on?”, “Can you please shower like they are in the movies or if drinking spend all of your time at parties then regularly?”, “Can you please tell me is as much of a norm as many are led you won’t learn at all. Partying once in ahead of time if you are going to kick to believe. Many others are afraid that a while is never a bad thing though it is me out because of a girl?” or “Can you if they don’t drink then they won’t fit in fine to go to a party here and this can please stop screaming in your sleep?” with the other students. It is very easy actually help you to learn more about can be infinitely beneficial for you and to concentrate on social acceptance the other students who live on your your roommate’s relationship. rather than concentrating on the actual campus. If you really don’t want to school work portion of college. go to parties then don’t be persuaded Communication usually is a foolproof by peer pressure because in the end no way to keep the relationship between In reality, the partying at frat houses and one will really think any differently of roommates healthy. However, this bars are not as crazy as many movies you for not going. It is all about your does not always work. Sometimes a would have the viewer believe. Parties own choices, and if you choose not to third party may be required to help the are more of a way for students to relax do anything stupid or something that situation. Asking an RA to talk to your after a hard week or to just go out and you will regret, then partying can be a roommate for you is also a good way have fun, although it is undoubtedly whole lot of fun and an added bonus to settle differences. A mutual friend not the healthiest way. A large group to the college experience. can also help get through rough times. of people go to parties, not really to There have been multiple times when drink, but more to socialize and to my best friend has intervened between meet people. It is easy to make new Transfer Student me and my roommate. Having a friend friends and have fun, even if you do tell your roommate things like, “You not drink at the party. Lorenzo N. Brown cannot keep him awake by watching SUNY New Paltz consecutive episodes of Scrubs till A huge concern for most incoming four in the morning,” or even, “He freshmen who have had no prior A majority of freshmen are first year cannot read minds, so if you want him interest in partying or drinking is the students who make up the population to turn his music down you have to thought of being left out or excluded. at SUNY New Paltz. However, there ask him instead of calling him a tool,” The movies almost always show dorm are also a good amount of transfer is a great way to solve issues between life to be one giant party and those students. But making the transition roommates. who don’t participate are clearly left on from one college to another is very the sidelines. At a real college, there difficult. Students transfer for many Having a roommate can be an incredibly are large amounts of students who do different reasons such as; they may rewarding experience. Have fun with not drink and don’t go out to parties or be uncomfortable in their new your new roomie as long as you learn bars. These students are no less well surroundings or perhaps they just miss to accept other people’s differences as thought of then those who drink, and being home. As a transfer student, my well as communicate in a healthy way. there is no exclusion between the two transition from one school to another Happy dorming. groups. Many times a group of friends was fairly easy because I already had a may all be people who either drink or year of college experience. do your work. Time management is the key, and I would recommend that all Easy, Breezy, For my 1st semester as a freshman in incoming students get a planner. Beautiful Dorm college, I went to SUNY Albany. The University at Albany is a much different However, the negative to being at a Room For Less school than SUNY New Paltz. One large school is the student to teacher major difference between Albany and ratio. I noticed that my class sizes were New Paltz is that SUNY Albany is significantly larger. Being in a large Briana Valentine significantly larger than SUNY New lecture hall with hundreds of students SUNY New Paltz Paltz. One of the benefits of being at a makes it hard to focus. The relationship large school is the social aspect. I made between teachers and students is weak. Going to college is not free, nor is a lot of good friends, and I found there Since there are so many students, it it cheap. It takes a toll on the wallets were always activities for the students. is nearly impossible for professors to of those paying, and leaves many in While I was at SUNY Albany, there was have a personal relationship with each financial instability and debt, all in never a dull moment, and I participated of them. Another negative to being the name of getting an education. in many organizations. I have been at Albany for me was that I was three However, although all the aspects of playing basketball since childhood, and hours away from my family. Being away college life are expensive, there are I wanted to get involved with intramural from my loved ones for months at a easy, cheap, and fun ways to spice up basketball. Playing intramural basketball time was hard for me to get accustomed the simplest things, like decorating was a lot of fun and rewarding because to, especially because I have never been one’s dorm room! One’s dorm room is I got to bond with fellow teammates. It away from home more than a week to be filled with pictures, posters, and was also beneficial to me because it was prior to going away for school. knick – knacks that express who he or great exercise. she is, but one does not have to spend The life of a transfer student is difficult a fortune on expression alone. With because no two schools are alike. Joining these simple tips, one can have a fun the basketball team at New Paltz helped looking dorm room for a cheap, cheap me adapt and feel comfortable with the price! school. Having a close group of friends with similar interest helped me a lot. I How about pictures? Pictures of would advise all first year students to friends, family, stars, and objects help get involved. Joining organizations show one’s personality and help to gives you a break from your work; too show his or her interests. Therefore, much of anything is not good. Always making a collage of different pictures remember that staying on top of your of friends and family would seem like a work and prioritizing are the keys to good idea! Take one large piece of old success. cardboard that can be found recycling Brown in Action bins, or at house. Then, gather up favorite pictures of good times with Despite the distance from home or the friends, family, and of things that class size, I was able to maintain good express who you are (make copies!). grades at Albany. Making the dean’s list Paste, tape, or putty all the pictures in and receiving an award for academics a random order, making it fit the piece was an accomplishment. Many high of cardboard that you have. Then, school seniors make the assumption thumbtack the cardboard to the wall! It that if they go to a large university it is that simple. It might take a while, but will be hard for them to focus. During you will have fun reliving the memories my first college year, I realized that it is of the pictures while you create your most important to have my priorities in The Hawks collage. Another easy, simple way to order. It is possible to have fun and spice up one’s dorm for cheap is to Special Features make accents on the wall that give on from individual to individual. With the dorm room color. Take wrapping From Posting one person having their set amount a paper, for instance. Everyone loves a Status to the friends and another individual having well-designed roll of wrapping paper, their set amount of friends chances and sometimes, the paper designs are Streets of Tahrih are the information is being sent and so intricate they can serve as their received by varies amounts of people. own accent on a wall. First, go to an Square Seeing as though we live in a free web art supply store. Purchase a cheap access era, members were able to small frame, any color that you would Nicole Camilo promote the revolution on their pages. like in your room. Then, go and find Facebook has become a great way for the wrapping paper with the coolest SUNY New Paltz people to communicate through and design. Then, cut the wrapping paper an important aspect to the Egyptian to fit the size of the frame, and frame Social networks such as Facebook, revolution. the paper. You can even put a fake 99 have usually been used to keep friends cent flower in the frame to give it more and family in close interaction. But in of a defined look; and there you have recent moments, Facebook has been Facebook: Beyond it! An easy way to add an accent to your much more than the reunion of old room! friends, recent friends, family, and the Web even the meeting of new people. It So, remember, although college is has become a key component in aiding expensive, there is always room for in the organization of Egypt’s most Arielle J. Rubinstein self-expression, especially when it is recent revolution that occurred in the SUNY New Paltz cheap. There are many stores to go Tahrih Square. to, to help with bargain shopping as It only takes a single click. With a well. For example, the 99 cent store, This revolution included a long walk single click of the mouse, eager college big company stores like Target, and into Tahrih Square that contained students on the cusp of entering the Walmart, or shopping online always thousands of youthful and older workforce can completely destroy their lets one find the greatest deals. Doing people who were able to receive chances of being hired in the future. As handmade projects not only lets you the notice via Facebook. There was social networking websites have rapidly express your creativity in your own another movement back in April of developed within the past few years, way, but it is fun, relaxing, and a good last year that did not receive large young teens and adults everywhere activity to do! amounts of people, as did this most have had increasing opportunity to recent movement. The notice for the share their personal thoughts and older movement was not able to reach experiences on the web. On Facebook many people in the given time needed. specifically, college students upload For this more recent movement, many photos and post statuses with the intent people from other districts were able of providing family and friends with a to attend the walk. This thusly helped window into their college experiences. increased the amount of support the Yet too often, students tend to forget revolution obtained. that a third party may have access to the information they upload: potential The amount of people who participated employers. in the revolution is in direct connection with Facebook being able to help deliver Employers are increasingly screening the news in a quick and efficient way. It applicants online prior to determining is easy for a member of Facebook to whether or not the applicants will be post information about themselves and hired. According to a study conducted events occurring around them for their by Microsoft, more than 79% of friends to see. This helps move details employers in the U.S. have used the College Takes a Look at Facebook Internet to assess potential employees. hindrance to the job application and parents is: lose the Facebook, it will Additionally, 70% of employers process, students should view it as only mess up your chances of getting have rejected applicants based on an aid. Knowing that employers will a job. And in an already seemingly inappropriate information found more than likely attempt to access their hopeless economy, many students are on line. Regarding Facebook, many Facebook profile, students should use faced with the upsetting task of deleting employers now know how to get past Facebook as an opportunity to portray their accounts. However, the urge to the privacy settings to gain access to themselves in a positive light. The “tweet” and “poke” are too strong for an applicant’s profile. For college Networks feature, for example, can some students to bid farewell to their students, this means that how they be utilized to show a job applicant’s cyberspace social life. Lucky for them, portray themselves online is equally educational pride, detailing both an there are ways to keep your account on as important as how they portray applicant’s prior educational institution your favorite social networking site and themselves in an interview. A Facebook and the elite group of people that still score a job. profile is essentially another component the applicant interacted with at that of the job application because it serves institution. Employers are more than Changing your name is probably the as a comment on an applicant’s true likely to hire candidates who portray best and easiest option for many. At the character. Discussing this notion, themselves as well-educated and well- top of your resume is your name, which employer Tim Demello—owner of rounded individuals online. is why it is a good idea to lose your real the Internet company Ziggs—stated name on your profile page, and adopt in a recent CBS News report, “They An online reputation can make or some sort of an alias. Employers can [college students] come in all buttoned break a job applicant. Through online easily disregard your stellar GPA and up, their clothing is meticulous, they social networking websites, students numerous leadership roles on campus, spend years building this resume, and have the power to shape their identity if the second they are handed your this person that’s sitting there is almost as perceived by potential employers; resume, they search your name on the entirely different than the person they have the power to determine the Internet and find something they do posting on these Web sites.” course of their future. It only takes a not like. To avoid this scenario, change single click. your name. However, you do not have Indeed, many employers have been to go totally incognito and become appalled at the online content that “Mr. Smith.” Instead, get rid of your they have uncovered on their job Making Your last name and have only your first and applicants. From photos of illegal Social Networking middle name. Or use the nickname that drinking to drug use, applicants with all your friends call you by. Whatever name you chose, changing your name the strongest resumes and the best Profile can mean all the difference when it interviewing skills have managed to “Employer Friendly” comes to getting the job that you eliminate fantastic job opportunities want. through inappropriate material posted on Facebook. Students Jessica Breitman But maybe you do not want to change need to realize that all content SUNY New Paltz your name, because you are scared uploaded to Facebook, whether it that potential new “friend requestors” is believed to be “private” or not, People have been changing their names. will never be able to find you. Then can be accessed by virtually anyone Deleting their pictures. And panicking what do you do? Change your privacy with a few select skills. Though over certain people finding them! I’m settings so that only friends can see your it may only be an online forum, not describing someone in the witness profile. For instance, take Facebook: by accessing the account settings, one Facebook has a tendency to sneak protection program; I am talking about the lengths college students will go to can choose who has the privilege of into very real-world places, such as viewing their profile, and who cannot. the workplace. prevent future employers from finding them on Facebook, Myspace and other Most students know of this having already blocked Mom and Dad and Rather than thinking of Facebook as a popular social networking sites. The cardinal rule given by many professors their pesky little brother from gaining insight into their private life. Why not reminded that they are supposed to be go one step further and block the Book of Faces doing their homework, and it is in their public from accessing your profile best interest to continue with it. If the page. By making it so that only a select Alana L. Brolly temptation to connect to the internet is few of close friends can see your page, too irresistible, another great strategy is you are protecting your identity from Marist College asking a friend to help you out. being found by future employers. Having a friend, who can be trusted, Is there really a book about a face? change your password while you are So none of those options seem to doing work can be a better option for work for you? Okay, then here is No, but there is a website called “Facebook”. Facebook has become some students. That way each time a another: sorting through your pictures, student gets distracted from his or and untagging or deleting those that extraordinarily popular within the last five years, and it is continuing to amaze her homework, and wants to log onto are inappropriate. If you are doing Facebook, the student will not be able something illegal, do not showcase it everyone around the world. Facebook is not just a website where you can post to because they do not know the correct on the web where not only employers password. However, this strategy is can find it, but also law enforcement “statuses” about yourself, or “poke” people who actually will not feel the risky so you need to choose a friend and worse, your parents. Yes everyone that you can really trust. Your friend knows that some college students poke; it is a place for connecting with your current and past friends. Although needs to be trusted to not go onto partake in unlawful practices, but let’s your Facebook and pose as you. Also keep that only shown in movies like Facebook can be beneficial for your social life, it can also be a distraction to they have to be trustworthy enough American Pie and Animal House. Also, to give back the password when your a college student. pictures that represent you in a negative homework is complete. light are best to be banished as well. So Nowadays, mostly all college students Lastly, one of the easiest strategies to do yourself a favor, go through your have a Facebook. According to cope with Facebook distraction would pictures and use your common sense to TechCrunch.com, eighty five percent be time management. It is possible decide which pictures are appropriate of all college students maintain a to schedule time during the day to go and which ones are clearly not. Facebook. As states before, Facebook on Facebook when all assignments can be a great website to acquire and are completed. Dedicating a certain Now let’s just say you consulted all of use, but it serves as the number one amount of time for homework, and a these options, and others, and none distraction among college students. The certain amount of time to Facebook is seem plausible. Well then maybe it is main reason for this is because most possible only when devoting time to time to delete your account on Face- college students use their computers to one task at a time. book or Myspace page. But before you do their homework, which gives them close your laptop and kiss your cyber easy access to the internet. Once you These three strategies will absolutely social life goodbye, consider this op- log onto Facebook, it is easy to spend help students focus more on studies. tion: LinkedIn, is a business- oriented hours looking at posts and comments, Furthermore, these ideas allow college social networking site! LinkedIn is vir- only to realize when you look at the students more free time, since one tually very similar to Facebook, contain- clock, that it is hours later. However, will complete their homework quicker ing many of the same features. How- there are some ways that students without Facebook as a distraction. ever, what separates LinkedIn from the could avoid using Facebook while Eliminating procrastination will benefit more popular sites among college stu- doing homework. study habits, as well as the outlook dents is that it provides a professional students have on homework. Plus just One way that has always worked out for setting where one could use their social think, finishing homework quickly many college students is leaving their networking profile to connect with co- opens opportunities for Facebook internet disconnected while writing a workers and future employers. Who time! paper. This is helpful because if you would have ever thought that having start to hit the browser to go onto the a social networking account could be internet, it will ask you to connect. beneficial for your future career! Seeing this, students will then be viewer. As well, there are some scenes Facebook. However, this movie does The Social where we are given a year and general tell us the story of the founders, and Network location, but there are other scenes how this one creation affected them where we transition from the present immensely from the first idea to the to the past and are given no indication lawsuits, six years later. This movie Trevor S. Polasek of when this particular scene takes won’t be regarded as one of the most SUNY New Paltz place in relation to the lawsuits, just influential and prized movies in fifty an implied sense of a general time years, but it will be regarded as a movie On October 1, 2010, Columbia Pictures scheme. While these faults hinder the that immersed its viewer in an engaging released, The Social Network in the United movie from being a true masterpiece, it story that won’t soon be forgotten. States. The movie is about the founding is in no way a bad movie. of the all too popular social networking site, Facebook. Through a series of One of the best qualities of this movie Communication is flashbacks, the founders recount the is the way it portrays its characters. story while giving testimony for two While the story can seem jumbled and Key different lawsuits against Facebook confusing at times, the characters stay founder, Mark Zuckerberg. While the solid and interesting. The viewer finds Ariana Anastos story progresses, the drama unfolds himself feeling sorry for the characters Marist College between the Facebook team and the as the drama unfolds and the plot intrigue grows. thickens. As the years progress, the Have you ever lost touch with a friend, characters hold up well and there is or lost track of when a meeting or The movie starts off on a rather weak a great deal of visible development event was supposed to occur? Social note as the viewer sees a confusing between the characters. As time goes networking has fixed those problems, conversation between two unknown on, the viewer can see how each event and it has become very popular among people. This scene, while it will build preceding the lawsuit it affect the college students. Social networking is a up to some of the motives for the character in different ways. This sort social structure made up of individuals, creation of Facebook, feels out of of change is a quality that should be who are tied by one or more specified place. This scene serves as the viewer’s present in all movies, as it gives the types of interdependency, such as introduction to the main character and viewer the chance to become truly friendship or common interest. The his soon-to-be ex-girlfriend. During sympathetic with the characters and most popular websites for social the whole of this scene, the viewer immerse themselves in the events networking are Facebook, Twitter, may find himself without context, involving them. By using this, The Tumblr, and Formspring. Different wondering who this man is, why he Social Network allows us, to decide for networks within these websites is arguing with this person, and what ourselves whether we feel sympathy for bring people with common interests exactly this has anything to do with this character, and allows us to judge together and allows college students the founding of Facebook. These the characters for ourselves. This use to communicate efficiently and gives questions go unanswered until the of characterization and development a good insight on what their friends next scene, and it leaves the viewer in elevate this movie to a new plane of are doing. Organizations have also a sour state towards the beginning of cinema, one that focuses not on just found the value of social networking; the movie. simply impressing us visually and telling Clubs make their own pages for their a story, but instead focuses on giving us members to update them about club The story is being told through a character and telling that character’s events, and because of this, the events flashbacks, constantly jumping back- story and leaving us to judge him in our become more widely known and and-forth between the two different own way. successful. This free advertisement lawsuits scenes and the main helps clubs raise money and become storyline. While this style of story- The Social Network is in not a true and better established. Social networking utter masterpiece in the world of telling can be done to great effect has changed the way college students cinema. It fails to really tell us the story interact with one another. (IE: Titanic), it serves to confuse the it sets out to tell, the founding of Clubs have put social networking via from you, it used to be very hard to get the Internet to good use by bringing backin touch with that person. Now Face-Hooked! communication to more accessible with these sites, you can just message levels. For example, I am part of the your friend and get their number Alyssa D’Onofrio Booster Club at Marist College. For instantly. Because the sites are on the Marist College those of you who are not familiar with Internet, everyone will always have the Booster Club, it is a club where access to the Internet no matter where Facebook is a known website used students gain points whenever they they are, and it is not expensive to gain mostly by college students all around attend a Marist varsity game. The more that access. the world. However, there are pros points they earn, the more priority and cons about Facebook in regards points they get for housing. Thanks to These sites also make it easier to share to schoolwork and productivity. Mark the Booster Club, more students have pictures. When people go out or get Zuckerberg was the nineteen-year-old attended varsity games year round to back from vacation, what is the first individual who invented Facebook offer support to their school’s varsity thing they do? They upload their when he was in college and caused athletics. I am part of their membership pictures onto Facebook. Everyone controversy with two seniors at on Facebook. Through Facebook, is anxious to share new updated Harvard, who claimed they had the they send their members messages pictures of themselves and await idea about Facebook before Mark. of upcoming events and update their comments and feedback from all Facebook has become an integrated status informing us on game schedules, their friends. Social networking sites phenomenon and has become a and when meetings will hold in the have connected us so well, that no mainstay on campuses across the near future. Clubs still put up fliers to matter where in the world we are, we country. Its addictive nature has announce club events, but Facebook will never feel disconnect or far apart. resulted in widespread procrastination, allows them to get in touch with but yet at the same time, it is making every member faster and easier. Most Social networking has changed the way communication amongst peers easier people have Facebook and Twitter college students socialize. There is not and faster. connected to their phones, whether one person that I know who does not it is through emails or text messages, have a Facebook. When we met people In our society today, Facebook has so when the club they are part of on in college what is the first thing we become very addictive to all college Facebook sends them a message, they all do? Add the person on Facebook! students. Facebook makes people automatically receive the message and Curious we are what kind of person want to always check it and update it are informed instantly of upcoming are they are, what their hobbies are, constantly. It is taking over everyone’s’ events. Social networking sites have do they have a boyfriend or girlfriend, lives constantly, including adults. “[The] made communication instantaneous where are they from, and do I have addictive quality keeps Facebook’s and efficient. anything in common with this person? typical user on the site for an average of Any mutual friends? The whole point 169 minutes a month,” says Jessi Hempel One of the major concerns of a college of social networking is to find people and Beth Kowitt, contributing authors student is drifting apart from their who you have common interests with to Fortune Magazine. Comparatively, friends and losing touch. With the help and also to stay in touch with friends, that same person, according to Hempel of social networking, this problem has whether they go to college with you or and Kowitt, spends a mere “13 minutes been overcome very easily. Because live back home, miles away. We are a month checking up on the world,” on of all these networking sites, college always connected. sites such as Google News or the New students are able to see what their York Times. Facebook leads students friends are doing on a day-to-day basis to care about the social world and not and communicate in several different the academic world. According to Toni ways, whether it’s writing on each Hart, she became an addict just because other’s Facebook walls or updating her friends were trying out Facebook, their Twitter. Another concern is losing and she wanted to see what it was like. a friend’s number. Once you’ve lost She would glance at her page just to someone’s number who lives far keep up to date on what her friends were up to and comments on her allows the user to do this. Adam Pash, others to instantly see their post friend’s walls. This leads students as well the author of the blog LifeHacker, whatever it is they want to say and as adults looking into Facebook more states that if you use StayFocused, it is allow others to instantly see their post. than their current jobs or schoolwork. easier for you to block Facebook off You still have a profile and can use Although Facebook is addictive, it is a your computer for a certain amount personal pictures as your profile picture; good social network in many ways. of time. He also states other websites however, this is not nearly as big of a you can use in order to limit yourself focus as it is on other sites like Facebook. Facebook is essential in our society from being on Facebook for hours of Another nice thing about Twitter is that today for many ways in schoolwork and the day. it always lets you know when there are productivity because communication new “tweets” and separates the new is easier through Facebook. When Although there are sufficient pros and and old “tweets” by a line. What’s great students are working on a group project, cons to Facebook, we are still hooked is that simplicity is not the only thing they can easily make a message thread on it, especially college students. College Twitter has to offer. or a Facebook group that allows them students cannot get enough of the to communicate instantly. Belonging to social network of Facebook, which has The real beauty of Twitter is that it your school’s network makes it easier become an essential phenomenon, but allows you to have access to a ton of for students to search for classmates, it has led college students to develop the different people and sources. Not only making it easier to keep informed in horrific habit of procrastination still. can you see what friends are saying, but the event you have missed in a class. Communication has made an effective you can also see when your favorite This also makes it easier for classmates impact on our society with Facebook band is playing next, or what’s going to meet others in the college setting. in the life of a college student. on in other countries. All you have to Although these characteristics about do is simply search for the account. For Facebook are great, there are some example, if you are interested in what downfalls to Facebook. Twitter: More CNN is reporting, all you have to do is find CNN’s account and then click the Although Facebook makes a big Than Just Status follow button. Now you will see any impact on communication, it brings “tweets” that CNN reports. It’s a great back the addiction, which leads to Posting? way to find out all the information you procrastination. Procrastination is a are interested in, in one place. The real horrific habit that college students Robert Digilio beauty of Twitter is that it allows you have picked up when they are doing Marist College to have access to a ton of different their work. Students do not get people and sources. Not only can you anything done in a span of two hours Social networking has become a big see what friends are saying, but you and before they know it it is gone. part of our culture today. This is can also see when your favorite band Facebook eats up time as you are on especially true among teenagers and is playing next, or what’s going on in it. According to Ana Carrizo, a college young adults. Social sites like Facebook other countries. All you have to do student in Pitzer College, states, “For and Twitter allow people to stay is simply search for the account. For most individuals, Facebook’s social connected and interact with others. example, if you are interested in what and visual galore would be the prime Twitter in particular is especially useful CNN is reporting, all you have to do is source of procrastination in times of because of its simplicity and the access find CNN’s account and then click the need (and also in times of not so much it grants you. Not only can you follow follow button. Now you will see any need).” These negative concepts can friends, but you can also follow bands, “tweets” that CNN reports. It’s a great easily be resolved in our society. companies, and even news channels. way to find out all the information you This quick and easy access is something are interested in, in one place. One remedy for Facebook addiction that can be especially useful to busy is that you can lock your internet for college students. How does this apply to college a certain amount of time in order to students? Well, college students are finish whatever work you have to do. Twitter is a wonderful little site due to its probably some of the busiest people Leechblock, a Firefox application simplicity. Its sole purpose is to allow around. If they are not in class, they Artful Musings are studying. If they are not studying, system you choose to follow. the reliant qualities that individuals they are doing homework or writing a Commencing this discussion, I would eventually discover receding. The paper. If they are not writing a paper, like to discuss the season of Summer. absence of green reveals a condition they are working. With all this to do, This particular season if often of a once guaranteed trust. It may be students have very little if any time at associated with fun, getting out of the view of a cynic and a pessimist, all to watch the news or catch up with school, and for the most part, having a but I believe it is also the view of friends. helps remedy this. Since Twitter good time. But as far as bearing a deeper a realist. Autumn helps me cope with it is an extremely quick and simple site meaning, does Summer also signify the and understand the unfortunate, but to use, students can quickly check what peak of your yearly happiness? From necessary manners of life, along with their friends are up to or find out what’s a personal perspective, I can, with their rude way of . Autumn going on around the world by simply waking me going to the site and logging in. After confidence, say bluntly that I hope is a melting pot; a considerate, easy- that, everything is right on the home this to be false. The physical being of going, beautiful, reality check. page. Students can even do things like Summer is one of heat and sunshine, Bringing its cold New York atmosphere, organize a meeting for things like group reflecting the departure of individual Winter arrives with other plans. He projects using Twitter. All they have to beliefs and ideas, and showing your true do is type the character @ followed by colors. Terminating the background is undoubtedly the season permitting their partners Twitter name and the of summer, I would like to decide on least function. The snow during Winter message they want to relay. Once they a personality to describe the season, leaves everything in white. Spiritually hit post, the other members can see completing my intentions. It would be speaking, white symbolizes purity. due to the fact that it’s all right on the one of kindness, reminding you that it Scientifically speaking, white is not home page. is fair to release your true self, and your a color, but the manifestation of the true being. He is there to offer you a presence of all color - the complete Social networking is large part of our place to open up, and a place to let loose energy of light. Winter has come, he culture today. Sites like Twitter allow all emotions that may be built up. He is powerful and influential, and he is individuals to stay in contact with offers a resort of relaxation to dismiss here to give you time to yourself. He is others as well as find out myriads of your worries and cares. He is there the true stressor of individuality and information by simply looking at their to Following Summer arrives finding purity within yourself. The home page. College students especially help. Autumn, the season of realization. white of winter inside yourself, is the can utilize Twitter’s simplicity due to the light you must discover, in contrast fact that they are always so busy. Summer is coming to a halt, and so is laziness. With school beginning, with Summer, to demonstrate your there is a sudden disappointment and true mental luminosity. Concluding Seasons discouragement towards life, as well the cycle of seasons, comes Spring. He as all aspirations ahead. But Autumn is here to polish off your understanding JoshAngehr reminds an individual that the serious of maintaining happiness, and personal SUNY New Paltz approach on life is also necessary. In satisfaction. Spring marks the coming attaining personal happiness, Autumn of life all over again, in conjunction I believe there is an interesting believes that you must balance hard with blooming flowers, fresh rain, relationship between the seasons and work, intimate relations, and hobbies, melting snow, and a temperature that human emotions. Each individual in a manner respecting the desire to is a prefiguration of what to expect in season has its own personal traits, its do so. Autumn has guided me, whilst Summer. In alignment with a refreshing own legacy, life, and identity. Stating that reminding my mind that errors are new beginning, Spring is symbolically a season has legacy and life, however, is acceptable, and perfection is in no way here to provide you with a clean slate. almost awarding each particular season mandatory. The physical attraction, Possibly taking a hard hit from Winter, with a personality, in an awkward sense. and monotonous subtle temperature Spring will get you back on your feet, This brings into play the concept of of the season pacifies my heart, whilst and render your subconscious with God, and relates to your personal ideas, the colors on the trees truly represent newfound guidance. Perhaps along the or whatever belief system you course of a year, you have WORK OF ART

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accumulated regrets you wish to progress one’s own ability. Based on the medium, the armature can eliminate from your conscience. Allow be made out of metal, wood, plastic, Spring to assist you in doing so, and One piece that stands out in my mind plaster or even already hardened clay. do your best to remind yourself what is a sculpture I made that I refer to as For my Scrap Metal Robot sculpture, creates happiness inside you, and the “Scrap Metal Robot;” a piece that I used aluminum foil and wrapped it what produces a feeling of ultimate was not only difficult to create but also tightly to make a thin stand with a ball at comfort. Spring is the season of not made from metal at all. Why does the top for the head. This was sufficient newness, he is here for you to lay out that matter? While using the medium enough to grasp the clay with all of your thoughts on a piece of paper, Super Sculpey Firm, which is a hard oil the varied ridges and rough texture, so based clay, I had to make a substance as I built up the form the clay, it did and vent. Start fresh, start new, that came in a solid square, have not slide off or slump over. Since this and experience your journey again. smooth rounded edges and intricate piece wasn’t as straight forward as say, Spring is here for starting over, and details that appeared to be welded just a head, I had to carefully plan the discovering comfort through voicing together. For those of us who have work through sketches beforehand and yourself. In preparation for Summer, worked with clay before we know that know when to take breaks and leave it Spring is the diary of beginning. it is difficult enough just to keep a basic for another time. form together without it falling apart Viewing this concept as a whole, is and becoming a pool of mud. How did Time is one of the most important discovering nothing more than what I manage to create a piece that appears aspects of sculpting. Without spending God can do for you. Not the God, but to be metal, has smooth edges and the time to clean up edges, to make a personal God, a figure to believe intricate details while working with a sure the form is symmetrical and firmly in. Respecting an idol such as a God frustrating putty-like substance? Good constructed, the piece can end up seems immature and incorrect to Question. looking low quality and easily fall apart some, whether it be atheists or non- after it is finished. When I was in the believers, but observing the seasons in The techniques and style that I early stages of creating the robot, I did a more elaborate way can help you find have developed through years of not think I was ever going to finish it your true self. experience is not something that one because the form was not progressing picks up without hard work and tons as quickly as I had anticipated. of practice. The techniques and style Fortunately, I kept at it and spent a few From Start that I have developed through years hours every day for about a week until of experience is not something that I had finally reached a point where I To Finish, A one picks up without hard work and was happy with it. However, what really Sculptor’s Wisdom tons of practice. Believe it or not made this piece worth a second glance sculpting is not considered to be easy was the paint job. Fortunately, I went and most pieces that I have created ahead with painting it despite my fear Eric M. Rosenberg take anywhere between four to eight of ruining it. hours with the best pieces taking more SUNY New Paltz than twelve. In order to work this long Being brave with ones work and with a material, I intentionally choose taking risks is essential for progress The key factor in completing a Super Sculpey Firm and regular Super to occur. If you don’t take risks for successful piece in any medium, Sculpey because it is an oil based clay the better, you will be forever stuck in whether it be a pencil drawing or a that never dries out or hardens until it mediocrity. That does not necessarily statue carved out of marble, is seeing it is baked at 275 degrees Fahrenheit. mean you have to completely destroy through to the end. While fighting the the sculpture or piece that you have urge to crumble your paper into a ball n order to keep my piece together spent so much time on. Fortunately and throw it into the trash or resisting until it was ready to be baked I used one can test painting techniques on tossing your clay abomination through something called an armature. An quick prototype sculptures made up in a window, one must see a project armature is a metal solid structure used a couple of minutes, just to see how through to the end in order to to support a sculpture from within. the paint looks on the clay. For the robot, I used the dry brush critiques to shape their ideas. Along technique when painting it. This is Designing An with critiques, students were granted where you paint the entire sculpture Improved Campus several in-class working days, but were a primary base color. For this metal also expected to put in work outside illusion, I used black, and then dry the classroom. brushed silver paint on top of it. In Danny Monroig order to dry brush, one must dip a dry When completed, each project had to brush in the paint they are using, in this SUNY New Paltz be fully functioning, either conceptually case silver, and rub it onto a napkin or physically (or sometimes both,) or anything that is not your sculpture Have you ever thought “they should and properly designed. The way each until nearly all the paint is gone except do something to fix this,” or “I could project had to be designed included for a small hint of the original color. do this better than they are” about three main things: concept, visual With each sweep of the brush, only a something when you’re going through appeal and portability. very small amount of paint, and then the monotony of your daily life? Well by sweeping the brush across the piece visual art majors at SUNY New Paltz quickly and lightly over and over again During the final critique each project got a chance to improve something a metallic illusion should start to form. was demonstrated in the location it they felt this way about on campus This step is repeated until the desired was meant for on campus, or in the during the spring semester of 2011. effect is achieved. classroom for projects that were more conceptual. During the presentations, All of my hard work and perseverance Art students in Rena Leinberger’s students seemed to enjoy the projects, paid off. I created a representation of Design: Form classes were given an and even wished for some to be put my original idea into a three dimensional assignment that was called “campus into effect. form and successfully impressed the improvement project” as one of their majority of those I showed it to. Always main projects of the semester. For Some ideas for this project included: remember to show others your work this assignment students were asked shovels that attached to any shoe for even if you hate it, whether they are to to address or create a prototype of snowy days, portable beds for art professional artists or have absolutely something that could potentially solve students that spend hours upon hours no idea about anything art related, what they feel is a problem on campus. working in the art building and ice they can offer helpful insight. I always This means that the project could either show my friends and family sculptures skates that bring attention to how large be a conceptual piece to bring attention I create, so I get encouragement and ice patches are sometimes not taken to a problem or an actual solution to feedback, and through doing this, I care of on campus. There were many one. Also these “campus problems” have progressed a great deal. Since the other great structures built, but these original Scrap Metal Robot’s creation, did not necessarily have to be things are three that currently come to mind. I have duplicated it over a dozen times that affect everyone on campus, like and handed them out to friends and something being structurally unsound, This project shouldn’t be seen as a way family to show my appreciation for their they could merely be things that an to point out the campus’s flaws and support. Duplication of a sculpture is individual student faces on a daily deter people from coming here , but an entirely different ball game. One basis. should be seen as a great way to open must learn to walk before they can run, people’s eyes to problems they face and the complications of mold making For this project the mandatory medium in their everyday lives and how easy are not an easy undertaking. Finish was cardboard and each student was it is to overcome them, even through what has already been started, and then given two large pieces of either single works of art. In a way this assignment worry about making copies of it later. or double ply cardboard, depending got people thinking about how little Master the simple and then work your on what their project called for. In things can improve their everyday life. way to complicated, and you will be the weeks the students were given So what would you do if you got a moving forward. for the project they went through a chance to improve something you felt brainstorming process and several was in need of change, and how would students of color who are academically We listened to the tie-breaker poems you go about doing it? focused and have significant financial outside in the dark and cold. It was need. She was a very influential person exciting and extraordinary as the crowd and touched many peoples’ lives. The formed a giant circle on the ground and The Wade-Lewis poetry slam was a great idea for people cheered for the slammers. The audience to come together and recognize her. went crazy as the winner was decided Poetry Slam: and announced. The camaraderie An For those who do not know what a between the different slam teams was poetry slam is or have never attended amazing as they cheered each other on. Event to Remember one, it is an event where poets perform Wesleyan came out on top. poems they have written and are given a score by judges. In this case, volunteers It was an amazing experience that I Arifa Awadallah were chosen at random by the audience. am glad I did not miss out on, and I SUNY New Paltz It is a fun event and the audience is look forward to attending future slams encouraged to participate by cheering in years to come. If you are a fan of A few weeks ago, SUNY New Paltz for those they like and even booing for live entertainment, charity events, arts hosted the second largest poetry slam the poems they do not like. Slam teams and poetry, I definitely recommend in the nation, a two day charity event from universities across the country that you attend too. Even if you are in remembrance of the late Doctor came to compete in the tournament. not a fan of poetry, or do not know Margaret Wade Lewis of the black Ten teams including SUNY New Paltz, if you are, I guarantee you that you studies department of SUNY New NYU, Yale, Dartmouth, Wesleyan, will get something amazing out of the Paltz. It was presented by a number Oneonta, Geneseo, Minnesota, and experience. of campus organizations such as the others participated. The first night SUNY New Paltz Poetry Association consisted of three rounds of slams the Black Student Queer Action to decide which four would compete Mentorship Program, and many more. the second night, finals night. Along Lipstick Kisses Hundreds of people came out to with the slams on the first day, there support the cause and be a part of this were performances by the dance spectacular event. troupe Culture Shock and the step Emily Rose Kulig team Shades, both from SUNY New SUNY New Paltz Margaret Wade-Lewis, who passed Paltz. The teams who made it to the away in late 2009, was remembered at second day were Oneonta, Wesleyan, We drank in celebration. What a this event. Students and faculty who Minnesota and Brown. glorious and momentous occasion it knew her spoke about her and what was. The beer seemed to never end amazing a woman she was. Doctor Night two began with dance and our glasses were never empty for Margaret Wade-Lewis founded the performances, and then a few poems long. We sat there, my brother on my Black Studies department of SUNY slammed by special guest Andrea left, smoking the cigars that he picked New Paltz and had been a part of it for Gibson, an author and queer rights up from the corner market before he over 40 years. She taught classes such activist, and a multi-national slam got here. Six other guys sat around the as Black Poetry & Drama and Rap & champion, the first ever to win the room, one too intent on the game and Spoken Word. Members of our slam Woman of the World Poetry Slam. one too drunk to know any mind set. team spoke about how Wade-Lewis Many came out for the chance of a Smoke quickly filled the entire room and her classes helped them realize lifetime to see their favorite slam poet as the cigars were passed and lit. The their love for poetry and shaped who perform here, at SUNY New Paltz. night went on, time rolled by, and they are today. Professor Lewis had a By the end of the night, Wesleyan and we kept drinking. Vision and talking dream to raise money and help students University of Minnesota ended up in a became obscure and mixed with the in need to get a proper education. The tie. At that point, the competition went bright lights and furniture surrounding money raised at the invitational will go overtime and we were told we had to the tiny room. towards giving scholarships to from leave the Student Union Building. It was hard to believe that we were now persistent. I could not access that site either. I even gathered there, in that tiny room, only And a sameness I so gravely fear, tried to Google the word “democracy” three years ago; a set of bachelors all in will sink its mark in where you lay. and found no hits! This blew my uniform came to that room of bright So deep. mind. Back at home in Gardiner, lights that we were now currently So permanent. NY, I spend hours surfing the net, occupying tonight. It only took twenty If I lay too close, playing humorous videos on YouTube minutes for everyone to loosen their I will surely lose myself every chance I get. I had the freedom ties and take off their jackets. But there to do so and thought it was my God in the smothering darkness was no game on tonight, just men given right. I cannot imagine a world of the blankets talking. Just us, talking. You hear all the without YouTube. The two weeks I that now bind to me. time that women talk more than men spent in China was excruciating. I do, but that night, we would have put So, prey, do stay this night felt bad for myself, but even worse any gossiping women to shame. We and next, for my 20 year old cousin who lives in don’t like to say it, that’s why we blame But leave me to my lonesome Shanghai, China who has never seen the alcohol. Three years ago, and my comfort-ness. a YouTube video before. The Chinese brother, Rick, seemed to be the happiest government has oppressed my cousin guy on the earth. A smile was on his and the one billion people who live face that I had never seen before. He there by denying them their right to had no idea that the following day, he What Freedom information, and their right to social would be married to who he thought media sites. I am told if anyone is found was the woman of his dreams. Means To Me to have accessed these sites illegally, the punishment is imprisonment. I am Tonight, my brother has the same smile Hunter Huang grateful my government does not do on his face. His eyes seem to be rich Guest Writer that. I have the freedom and security with the fact that we’ll all be bachelors to surf the net whenever I want. That’s again by this time tomorrow. what freedom means to me. Hunter is a sophomore at Wallkill Senior High School and a guest A Mark Upon The contributor of TCI magazine. In his article, Hunter reflects on his The Reincarnation Bed Where I Lay understanding of freedom when of Glassjaw he is suddenly denied his “God Alessandra Young given right” while traveling in a country where neither freedom Scott Vegliante SUNY New Paltz nor God is recognized. Marist College

The bed I shared has changed Freedom is defined as the ability to With the release of Glassjaw’s previous somehow. perform actions without persecution or extended play, Our Color Green, fans New sheets and comforters lay oppression by the government. Having were relieved the band managed to unused: freedom allows an individual a sense of release something after their eight year new pillows for you security, knowing that he has the right hiatus. Six weeks later the band released to rest upon. to many privileges, including the right a second EP, Coloring Book, which took No feathers crushed, to information. I traveled to China this many fans off guard. Not only were no wrinkles made. summer with my family, and I brought fans surprised by how close the two With time and use these things will my laptop along, hoping to get some EP’s were released to each other but change. homework done while I was there. by the contrasting differences between My bed will reek Imagine my surprise when I could not the two. Glassjaw’s latest EP, Coloring of a scent, visit my favorite website YouTube. Then Book, is unlike anything the band has I tried to get onto Facebook , and found ever released. Their previous full length releases, Everything You Ever help but feel he lost the passion he had can do to deal with stress is to listen to Wanted to Know About Silence and back in the days of Everything You Ever calming music such as country or slow hip/ Worship and Tribute, while pure musical Wanted to Know About Silence and Worship hop beats. Just lie on your bed and blast the and lyrical genius, were extremely raw and Tribute. That’s where Coloring Book music because it is a known fact that music albums that are not very accessible. differs immensely, and the focus soothes the savage beast. Besides listening to music, there are many other activities The same can be said for throughout seems to be Our Color Coloring Book one can do. Green, one of Glassjaw’s heavier, if not emanating from Manuel Carrero and the heaviest release to date. Coloring his bass. Somehow, Carrero manages People should do their favorite activities, or Book couldn’t be any different from to lure the listener with his bass and even go to the gym and work out. Working their prior releases. makes it nearly impossible for the out not only decreases stress hormones listener to not be mesmerized especially and increases endorphins, which are your For the first time, vocalist and lyricist, on Carrero’s “Magnum Opus,” Vanilla body’s feel-good chemicals, giving you a Daryl Palumbo can actually be found Poltergeist Snake. While the majority of better mood, but it also keeps you in shape singing melodically, as opposed to new music these days tends to be over and does not only relieve stress. his more aggressive, angry tone in produced featuring excessive auto-tune the bands prior albums. The band and various other methods used in According to WebMd, writing may also has definitely matured over the years recording studios, Glassjaw has always relieve stress because you are writing about your feelings, and it helps you feel better. A seeing how they’ve been around since had a raw sound to them displaying their stress journal can keel logs of what causes 1993. Where their prior albums dealt natural talent. Some new listeners may stress in your life and how you can cope mainly with relationships and that not like this since they are accustomed with it. Letting your feelings out can also “horrible ex-girlfriend that ruined the to clean studio recordings from popular help you feel better because you are not lead singer’s life,” Coloring Book differs bands such as 30 Seconds to Mars or bottling them up, this is one of the causes greatly. In Coloring Book, the band Linkin Park. Glassjaw isn’t for the faint for stress. Meditating and focusing on primarily focuses on religion. This is a of heart, but they can be extremely your breathing can also help reduce stress dead giveaway when one listens to the rewarding to listen to after a few spins. and manage your emotions. track, “Stations of the New Cross.” I’d recommend this album to any first Those familiar with the band Deftones time listeners, and then have them work At school, the way I deal with stress is playing the guitar and listening to music, or can see some resemblances between their way backwards through the bands going outside when it is sunny and laying their most current album, Diamond discography to ease them into the band down by the river. This greatly reduces Eyes and Glassjaw’s Coloring Book. and their unique sound. They would be my stress from work and friends. While at Regardless of the similarities, Glassjaw able to hear just how far they’ve come home, I have the opportunity to do more had already made Coloring Book years throughout their maturation process activities to deal with stress, like going to ago, but due to legal issues with Warner as musicians. Overall, I’d give Coloring the shooting range or fishing with a few Bros. Records, decided not to release it Book 4 ½ out of 5 stars. pals of mine. These two activities reduce until their contract expired. my stress more than anything else.

If you ask any fan what draws them Stress No More So let us look back at what we should do to to Glassjaw, the majority would relieve stress while at school. We can listen to music, do our favorite activities, work unanimously say singer Daryl Palumbo Christopher P. Jagielski out, and hang outside when the weather is and his erratic vocals. In Everything Marist College nice. But we should not drink tremendous You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence, amounts of alcohol to relieve our pain or Palumbo’s vocals alone are enough to Almost every college student at some point stress because it can cause further problems bring the listener to tears. The Daryl will encounter a stressful period, and they when we get older. Although our friends, Palumbo the fans have learned to will have to cope with it somehow. If family, and workload may cause us to have love and know him as an extremely the stress is from friends, family, or the stress, we can cope with it by doing the passionate vocalist from their prior workload, there are ways you can deal with activities I have discussed in this article. In material, and while his vocals sound it. Most people do not know how to deal this way, we can live with less stress and great with his new found approach to with stress, and these stressed people can more happiness. singing more melodically, one can’t affect their friends who have to listen to their stressed out friend. One thing you

Fashion Statement Mixing and some matching is the new White Might be black. Don’t get caught looking to dim Right, but It’s and dark this season. Allow your closet to expand and bring out the best of Color that Shines what your creativity has, for this season is all about taking risks and making odd Through decisions.

Megan M. Gaglio Looking to designers such as Marc Marist College Jacobs, covers a wide rage of everything. He puts together polka dots with high waisted pants, striped blouses with This season has brought a whole new textured skirts. The play up of a polka meaning to being bold and by that, its dot is much different this spring. An the colors. The bright and fresh hues average polka can be boring, but not of orange have hit the spring stage. this year. Designers are finding a way Halloween is no longer keeping orange classy yet sleek looks are coming back to innovate the polka dot. In some locked up, the newly formed color is Be sure to be on the prowl for different cases, they are showing up as sheer, bringing smiles of lighter shades as animal prints, polka dots, and lots or embellished as others textured and well as strikingly eye popping color. of texture. Stripes have also made a dismantled. running come back as they are paired with just about anything. It seems The fashion cycle has begun to turn only right to have stripes joined with again and with it has brought a number something solid. But not this season; of surprises for spring. But of course the horizontal, parallel and all things staying true to yourself and your own style is always a top priority. So make sure if you chose any of these new looks you’re putting them with something colorful, textured or embroidered.

Along side of orange comes the rest Dress to Impress: of the rainbow as color block pieces, A-line dresses as well as cut outs have 10 Guidelines For remained widely popular. But don’t llet those colorful numbers touch your a Job Interview white laundry or problems might mix. White is still making a statement this geometry are making it hard to notice Marissa N. Manfredi spring as its structured shoulders and. the difference. SUNY New Paltz Floral prints are still in the mix this spring so don’t let go of those pieces On the morning of your job interview, quite yet, they are here to stay. Styling there may be many things going through vintage and retro dresses with solid your mind. However, the one question bright colors of spring are imperative. every person is asking is what should Pair a 60’s styled dress with a simple I wear? Looking professional is a key solid colored pair of gladiators with eye aspect to getting the job. Just taking a appealing jewelry. Let the bright colors few minutes to plan what you will wear lead your head into a fun house. and how you will present yourself will make a difference. Although there during the interview. isn’t a set rule of what has to be worn Spring and to plan what you will wear and how 5. Black is not your only option. Colors Summer Trends you will present yourself will make a like grey, brown, caramel, or navy can difference. Although there isn’t a set be worn too! But stay away from bold to Look For This rule of what has to be worn to a job colors because they can become too interview, there are some guidelines on overpowering. Season on Campus what to wear in order to look and feel your best. 6.Tuck in your shirt. It’s not something that has to be done but it makes the Madison Chiavetta The first thing to do is to think about outfit look neater. Also adding a belt Marist College what kind of job the interview is for to it will complete the outfit. and what the expected dress code would It’s finally that time of year again. be. If the interview is for jobs like 7.Wear the right shoes. Having a closed The sun is out, the temperatures are banks, law firms or corporate positions, toed, neutral color heel or flats is always rising, and it’s time to shed the winter usually one is expected to dress very professional. coats, hats, scarves, and Ugg boots conservatively. Jobs for restaurants, and upgrade to sundresses, bikinis and school, or retail usually allow more 8.Accessories always complete an outfit. sandals! Spring and summer are near room for personal style. Just in the But try to stay away from anything to and the trends off the runway this first few seconds of the interview, the flashy and oversized. season are very daring and unique. Belt interviewer’s brain will be trying to purses, crop tops, and biker clothing make the hiring decision on the only 9.A hairstyle that is neat is key. are only a few of the many new and information he has: the way you look. Fussing and touching your hair can get evolving trends to look watch for on Can he imagine you doing the job? Will distracting, so keeping it secured back the Marist College campus this season. you fit into the work style? in a low pony or bun is presentable. However, with the rise of these new fashion trends taking place, it can be Here is a checklist of 10 guidelines to 10.Get a manicure! Hands are visible hard to incorporate some of these get started. during an interview, having chipped unique trends into a college girl’s daily and uncared nails can send a wrong wardrobe. With the help of this guide, 1. It’s always better to dress too formally message. Short nails with a neutral or you can have a first hand look on than too casually because interviewers no nail polish is best. what girls will be wearing this season will expect you to dress more formally at campus and how you can pair them than usual. Got a big interview? Following these with other pieces in your wardrobe. guidelines will help approve your 2. A suit blazer or jacket adds a lot to overall appearance and give you the your appearance. It really steps things confidence to get the job! Move over military girls because this up a notch so a good suggestion is season is all about the biker wear. to wear a jacket no matter what the Always been a biker chic at heart? interview. Then this spring you’re in luck. Boots, jackets, and even motorcycle pants are 3. Skirts and dresses should end on the surely some trends that can be spotted knee and make sure you do the “sit- this season on campus. However, down-test” as skirts tend to creep up would you want to sport this trend for once you’ve sat down. an 8 am Monday class? Probably not the time or place. The best spot to 4. Wear a blouse underneath your suit sport this trend would be a Saturday or jacket, or wearing a sleeveless top night out with your friends to Hatters. will be more comfortable because your Even though it is spring, it still does get jacket doesn’t need to come off pretty cold at night when waiting in line to get inside the clubs. Throwing These clothes are also very popular this jacket on with a dress or a skirt Blast From the and anyone can own a piece of these and top ensemble will make you look Past items, buying them in stores like H&M, like the most stylish and sophisticated Forever 21, Charlotte Russe etc. In the fashionista that night! Not a leather 1950’s, fashion icons such a Marilyn wearing tough girl at heart? Not a Yumary Valenzuela Monroe, Grace Kelly, and Liz Taylor problem. These jackets also come in had an important impact in fashion metallics for girls who have a softer SUNY New Paltz during that time. Women started to taste in clothing. dress glamorously due to the fact that Fashion has always been one of the these fashion icons were fashionable The sun is finally out and us girls need most important factors in society. It and they loved the glamorous look. to protect our eyes from the harsh sun. is always changing throughout time, Keep the aviators in their cases this and always the fashion trends always By the 1960s, fashion changed in season and buy yourself a pair of cat come back. Women’s fashion has made a dramatic way due to the sexual eye sunglasses. These new sunglasses a brutal impact around the world. revolution. The dresses became shorter come in a variety of colors and shapes There are new styles that have begun, and tighter to make the body look better. and look absolutely amazing in bright changed, evolved, and also that have The high waist shorts became really red. Pair these glasses with a simple made a huge comeback over the years. popular and also the miniskirts came outfit, since they are pretty wild and It is important to know that all the styles about the same time. In the 1970’s, by stand out. Whether you’re studying from the past and are trends now, are the time the disco era became popular, outside for finals, walking to your next having a little twist with today’s fashion glitter and the high waist pants were the class, or just tanning on the docks by and the ones from the past. trend. This led to the fashion trends the Hudson, you’re sure to look stylish of the 1980’s. Today, we see a lot of in these daring sunglasses. Beginning with the 1920’s, fashionable people when going to clubs wearing a women needed fitted dresses for special lot of glittery shirts with the miniskirts Say goodbye to the mini skirts and occasion. These women started to go and the high heels. Also, some fashion hello to the tail hem skirts and dresses out more to gatherings; therefore, they trends from the 1980,s are the tight that are longer in the back. Although were being fashionable and cautious jeans with the ripped sweatshirts and this trend does seem different and when wearing something. Some of the leggings; all these styles are now trends are intimidating for some girls to try styles from the 1920’s are now trends. in 2011 fashion. out, these skirts and dresses are both Flapper dresses started a new sexy look sophisticated and flattering. The best for women in the twenties; now we can In the 1990’s, hip-hop came about and place to wear them? An interview of see that a lot of these flapper dresses the tighter clothes were back in fashion course! Pairing one of these skirts or are coming back with a new twist with to accentuate the women curves. This dresses with a simple black blazer will today’s style. Also it was in the 1920’s led to a lot of options for a lot of surely get you that job. that women started to have shirts with women and this led to the fashion on low cut necklines, today we see a lot of the new millennium. Today’s fashion Even though I only mentioned a women wearing shirts like this. consists of the revival of the different couple of the new trends coming to the eras of fashion. From the 1920s to Marist campus this spring and summer In the 1940’s, there was lot diversity now, fashion is always reviving with season there are a ton of other trends in clothing, and women had many just a twist of today’s styles and now to try out. Whether it is lace, stripes, opportunities to dress different from everybody can have access to it since the 60s or 70s look, experiment with one another. There were two different almost every store have these new everything and see which one suits you styles; one was a sophisticated look styles. the best. Most importantly, be yourself and the other one had a laid back style. and wear these trends the way you want By that time, the padded shoulder was to. By doing this, who knows? Maybe, major trend. Today, one can see many you could be the trend setter this spring things like shirts, blouses, and blazers and summer season. with padded shoulders. These clothes Food For Thought College’s Bullying when we as people can communicate Most students are always knowingly with each other in an instantaneous or unknowingly creating and Blight manner, it is ultimately a sad case spreading gossip, despite our when we use this vast technology intentions. This wide range of Trevor S. Polasek to inflict harm on people we may spread, coupled with the fast-paced communication networks set up SUNY New Paltz barely know. This definitely relates to us college students, as we are in currently, create a hard-to-stop ‘blight’ on our society, especially on Most students have the impression the generation that most utilizes this college campuses. Rafaela Estrella, that bullying is a high school form of communication, whether a Resident Assistant in Esopus Hall phenomenon that usually occurs it be for better or for worse. Using at SUNY New Paltz, believes that between big, dumb jocks and small, this kind of technology in this way, gossip and online social networks weak nerds. What most people don’t leaves a bad impression on what the are the main forms of gossip in the realize is that bullying is in fact much future may hold for technology and college environment. more than that, that it is, in fact, a social interactions. This form of blight that plagues our society. What bullying, while common, combines At this point, many are asking is meant by blight is not that it is a itself with a few other types of themselves “why does this happen?” physical or mental disease, which bullying, one that is much more and “how can we stop it?” Well, could be cured in some way, but that subtle. when questioned about this, Rafaela bullying is an ever-present activity in says, “Some people are just mean, our society that is created by social This more subtle form of bullying and like all the drama. Others like to surroundings and our environment. is called gossip, and even advocates join in, and be part of the group so However, bullying doesn’t happen against bullying can find themselves they don’t get picked on.” With this in college because we are all mature partaking in it. Gossip in our society in mind, can there really be a stop adults and know how to handle is everywhere, no matter who you to bullying on college campuses? social situations responsibly, right? are or where you go, and in this day Personally, I believe that bullying is Well, the answer to the question is a and age of technology, there is no just an ever-present aspect of society plain and blatant no. real way of stopping it. Gossiping is essentially talking about someone that will not just go away, because there are people out there that, as What most students do not realize behind that person’s back, telling Rafaela said, are mean and like the are the different forms bullying can secrets and stories about them that torture and the drama. However, take outside of the classic emotional may start out as true, but eventually we as students need to start doing and physical styles of picking on get twisted as the gossip spreads whatever we can to reduce the others. One type of bullying is cyber into all out lies. When these lies incidents that happen. As students, bullying, a form of bullying done eventually come around, and get we can check ourselves every time with the use of the internet and back to the person they are about, we go to tell a story about someone computers. This kind of bullying it can have some dire effects such else, or stop others from telling is like mentally and emotionally as emotional and mental stress as similar stories. More importantly, if attacking someone over the internet, the person tries and sort out the someone is in a leadership position specifically social networking sites rumors. Even if it does not reach such as a teacher, a Resident like Facebook and Twitter. In our the original person, it still affects the Assistant, or other such job, he or rise of technology, this form of way many see that person, even if she should take the responsibility to bullying is unfortunately becoming that person is no different in reality step up and confront the problem more and more popular and from before the rumors. We all immediately, and not to be afraid to common. In our advanced society, know how much gossip is a pivotal part in the College community. call someone out on bullying. By By doing these things, college person. Therefore, it is reasonable to person is living in. Being open to students on campuses worldwide say that being oneself in an impossible everyone about one’s sexuality could can create a great impact in helping task to adhere to. As a person acts out lead to disownment and rejection. to reduce the spread of the bullying his or her personality, he or she will While there is nothing wrong with blight. receive either approval or disapproval, homosexuality, the environment should and from that insight will change and be a leading factor in one’s decision adjust his or herself to fit in. Perhaps to truly be oneself. Another example Being Yourself being oneself is the reason Sally could would be repressed feelings that are not make any friends. Perhaps Sally better left repressed, feelings that would was too quiet and inward, maybe she pose as a threat to those around should Clinton K. Kelly was just outwardly rude, lacking even a one let them flourish. It is difficult, SUNY New Paltz modicum of decorum. and sometimes counterproductive to project oneself as what one truly is in Towards the third week of school, Sally For a person to be themselves is to an environment that has no room to would come home from school visibly accept themselves and openly present accept. in tears. Naturally, her mother would themselves as who they really are. To ask Sally what had happened. Sally say this to someone is tacitly telling People are taught to have pride for would respond by revealing her lack of someone to accept no opinions and being unique and special. We have a friends. For the third week now, Sally no judgment of one’s character, to unique understanding of ourselves, so sat alone in the lunchroom watching accept both the positive and negative it seems to bridge on folly to jeopardize and envying all the other groups of traits of one’s personality. While that understanding by allowing others children, all laughing and smiling this is an admirable code to adhere to give their opinions on how to together. Understanding her daughter’s to, it may ultimately lead to negative improve our character. Therefore, to sadness, the mother smiled and told consequences. To accept no other not be oneself is to open oneself up her to just be herself. From then on, opinion is to reject something that is for criticism and accept direct attacks all of Sally’s friendship woes would vital to any personality—criticism. towards oneself. There is no danger vanish, never to trouble her in life Criticism is comparable to the constant in emphasizing self-acceptance, but again. It seems that any problem one waves that crash down on the rocks of a there can be many dangers in rejecting experiences that includes interacting beach that breaks away the rough edges, acceptance from the outside. A with other people will unequivocally be thereby making the rocks smooth and society that advocates “Be yourself ” met with this answer, as if it were the edgeless. In essence, being oneself is is advocating a society that venerates secret remedy for all social interactions. tantamount to giving up on improving an extreme form of pride that goes Being oneself simply means to present oneself, and thus is the greatest fault in beyond “I am unique and proud” oneself as whom one really is—the any personality. and instead ends at “I am proud of thoughts, feelings, and attitudes one my faults and so will never attempt keeps locked away and buried beneath While it is imperative to accept criticism to change them, no matter what”. the surface. One should take special and use it to mold oneself into someone Perhaps Sally should have just been care when telling another person to be more acceptable, there are times when told to be more open and outgoing. their selves. criticism should not be accepted and change should not be an option. We are all born with traits we must forever live Humans are social creatures that with, traits that we cannot change, but thrive on interaction. No matter are still met with eyes of scrutiny and how much one desires to be this mouths of hateful language. Perhaps unique, standalone being, there will it is one’s race, religion, physical be a connection to other people. defections, gender, or one’s sexuality. The willing avoidance of influence Touching upon the unchangeable traits from other people will ultimately end that define a person, it is imperative to up affecting what one is like as a consider the environment said is their only option, since people who it would only lead to more unwanted Planned resort to Planned Parenthood do not pregnancies, more sexually transmitted Parenthood: have the means to go to a private diseases, and more people uneducated practice or anywhere else. Planned about their bodies and medical needs. Friend or Foe? Parenthood works to ensure access for And for those arguing against abortion, women to contraceptives, medical care, taking funding away from organizations and education. like Planned Parenthood will lead to MacKenzie Bachar more unwanted pregnancies, inevitably SUNY New Paltz One argument against organizations leading to more abortions for those such as Planned Parenthood are of a who feel they cannot care for a child or Throughout history, women have conservative, mostly religious point of more children living in abuse and neglect battled for their rights in this country. view. Many advocates against Planned with parents who do not want them. Strides towards equality arise every now Parenthood are focused on the subject Taking away Planned Parenthood’s and then, but women are far from being of abortion. In reality, abortions are services seems a contradiction to all truly equal to their male counterparts only three percent of the services the arguments people have in support in today’s society. Recently, women’s provided by Planned Parenthood, and of the Pence Amendment. reproductive rights have been subject to any individual looking for that service debate with the decision in the House must pay out of pocket for it. Federal of Representatives to pass a bill that funding to Planned Parenthood does not Rutgers Follows would take all funding from the national go to their abortion services. Religious organization, Planned Parenthood. views have no place in the formation the Trend The bill has yet to be reviewed by the of a law in the United States, where Senate, but this initial act by the House we’re supposed to have a separation of of Representatives is a direct attack on church and state. Abortion is a touchy Shirley Ho the reproductive rights of women. To subject with many people, but it should SUNY New Paltz take federal funding from a free health have no place in the formation of the and contraceptive clinic, will cause law taking funding away from Planned Just recently, Rutgers, the State many more problems in the United Parenthood. The funding does not go University of New Jersey, has decided States and will further set women back to those services, so those services to join more than fifty colleges in their journey to equality. should not be taken into account when around the country in the latest most analyzing what this law would be taking controversial housing program. The On February 18, 2011, representatives away from the citizens who resort to gender-neutral housing pilot program, of the house voted to pass the Pence Planned Parenthood’s services. they feel, is a way to improve the Amendment. If made into a law, this residential experience for lesbian, act will take all federal funding from What the Pence Amendment would gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer the nation wide organization, Planned truly be taking away is medical care students. In the fall of 2011, selected Parenthood, Planned Parenthood is and prevention services to those in sophomores, juniors, and seniors will a clinic that provides free services for the country who cannot otherwise be able to choose roommates of the women such as contraception, cancer afford them. Many argue that if one opposite sex. Though this is already a screening, STD tests and treatment, cannot have safe sex, they should not common program in many institutions family planning, and education. All be having sex at all, but this argument for the primary reason of making services, except abortion services, are is inadequate in the sense that people housing more equitable for the Lesbian free to individuals utilizing Planned will not stop having sex. Many think Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Parenthood’s services. For many, that taking away free services, such as (LGBTQ), community, the students at Planned Parenthood is their only Planned Parenthood, will stop teenagers Rutgers think there is another reason. option, since people who resort to having sex, but it won’t. The act of sex They think the new program has a lot to Planned Parenthood do not have the is inevitable, so why not make it a safer do with the suicide incident committed means to go to a private practice or act? Why take away organizations like by Tyler Clementi who killed himself anywhere else. Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood? Without them, after being video-taped by his roommate in a private homosexual act. This could lessen the amount of ownership as an advantage. On the Whatever the reason, parents will not discrimination. other hand, there are some people be able to protest. who believe homeownership has many Kevin continues, “apparently, parents benefits. The decision to rent a living It was a shock when Rutgers announced have no say in this so they can’t stop space or purchase a home is a decision their decision to allow gender- their children from deciding to live in individuals make after considering neutral housing. Even though several a co-ed dorm. On another note, they numerous factors. universities in New Jersey follow the say that the birth and death rates will policy, no one expected Rutgers to. So increase. Couples could be having more Monthly housing expenses exist for both why now? The fact that the committee sex and bad relationships might lead to tenants and homeowners. However, as chair members agreed to imitate the more violence. And even more violence a tenant, paying the housing expenses policy after the gay suicide in October and tension since they’re now stuck in is a much simpler process. With the 2010, makes people think that Rutgers the same room.” Generally, parents are exception of utility and phone bills, is trying to alleviate the issue. Kevin concerned and afraid that their children the tenant’s monthly rent payment Hsieh, a current student who dorms at will take advantage of the new mixed- covers all other fees associated with Rutgers explained, “my friends talked gender program. They will be allowed the dwelling. This is not the case with about this; some people say that it sexual freedom and could use it to their the homeowner’s mortgage payments. was because of the gay suicide in the own personal benefits. Moreover, since Although an escrow account can be beginning of the school year.” He feels gay students are bullied by students established with the bank for the his campus is just trying to make the of the same sex and students of the mortgage payments to cover taxes and effort in making the environment more opposite, gender-neutral housing does insurance, additional checks need to be inclusive to the gay students. not seem any more welcoming. written to pay the remaining housing expenses. Expenses such as: water, The majority of Rutgers’ residents For Rutgers to join in the new gender- sewer or septic, and garbage pick-up, are reacting to this new program in a neutral housing policy is so difficult to still need to be paid. Homeowners are positive way. Transgender students are take in because it is so uncomforting. responsible for paying these additional thrilled because their needs will finally It is so hard to swallow especially for expenses. be accommodated. With more options those who enjoy their current living and a request for a rooming assignment arrangements. Nonetheless, colleges Home maintenance is a concern for based on one’s gender identity, a are beginning to advocate the policy both renters and homeowners. When homosexual student will feel safer more and more. They view it as a huge dealing with the matter of home dorming with someone with a similar step in towards a friendlier and more repairs, tenants only have to notify their lifestyle. He or she can be assured welcoming surrounding for those of landlords about problems. Landlords ahead of time of a friendly roommate the LGBTQ community. Still, this are responsible for having problems relationship because co-ed housing decision will not be determined by repaired and/or fixed. Homeowners, selection will not be entirely random. any of the parents of the students at on the other hand, must decide to either Next semester, over 100 graduates will Rutgers University. fix problems themselves or arrange for be able to reside in one of the three problems to be fixed by a contractor co-ed halls which will also have co- or some other knowledgeable ed bathrooms. They will be given the To Rent or To Own person. Problems are a homeowner’s option to live with their significant responsibility and that responsibility other or to live with someone else, Derrick Lewis cannot be passed on. also of the opposite sex. Freshmen SUNY New Paltz will not get these choices but LGBTQ There is a difference between renting freshmen will be allowed to request The decision to pay rent to live in an and homeownership when it comes a roommate who respects his or her apartment rather than to purchase to exterior home maintenance. sexual preference. Another plus is that a home is a personal choice. Many Tenants are usually not responsible students will not be asked their sexual people decide to remain tenants for routine seasonal maintenance orientation or gender identification. because they don’t perceive home Tenants are usually not responsible reap tremendous financial gains. When you find out something is wrong, for routine seasonal maintenance Tenants do not have the option to control your space and move towards a of the rental property’s exterior. On sell an apartment; instead, they may local store or a populated intersection; the other hand, homeowners have experience an increase in monthly rent if that is not possible then look at your the added responsibility to maintain payments over time. surroundings with a keen eye for a the exterior of their homes and to possible predator. Most predators use comply with local ordinances. Many There are advantages and disadvantages a shock and awe approach which leaves townships and municipalities conduct to both renting and owning property. you motion less. Continue controlling inspections to ensure local ordinances With renting, there are fewer risks your space until you get back to your and laws pertaining to exterior property involved; however, there is not much dorm, or you are confronted. maintenance are followed. to gain financially. Homeownership presents greater risk, to an individual, Confrontation is where you need to Another concern associated with but the financial rewards can be breathe. If you are too shocked you homeownership is liability. When greater as well. These factors should tend to hold your breath which halts injuries occur on residential properties, be considered before making the fresh oxygen your brain needs to homeowners, not tenants or renters, final decision to rent an apartment or think. Your first reaction will be to are held responsible and are legally purchase a home. run the opposite direction. DON’T, liable. Being liable also means being the predator wants you to do that, it’s open to law suits. If homeowners are the easiest way he can hunt you down. sued, they may have to obtain legal How To Avoid A Keep eye contact with him until the advice or representation for defense realization that he is there to hurt, not against law suits and would incur this Predator help you hits your head. Run a diagonal additional expense. The issue of legal path away from him and create barriers. liability, regarding accidents occurring The most important part when running on their property, is another concern Andrew J. Lohr away is to take away his vision of you. tenants and renters do not have to Marist College This means cutting corners, running worry about. through parked cars, putting a tree in A predator can be lurking in the his way, etc.. Homeownership does have shadows of your next turn. He is a wild some financial advantages. A untamed spring waiting for a weak prey If you are already caught, there are a major incentive for becoming a to pass by. Whether their intentions are few things you can do. Cut off his air homeowner is to take advantage to rob, rape, scare, fight, etc.. you need supply, sight, and grip on you. To cut of various deductions when filing to know how and what to do in those off his air, take your hand and flatten it, then strike him in the throat. To take personal income taxes. The portion certain situations. According to the away his sight, take your thump and of the mortgage payments which National College Health Risk Behavior Survey, there is another rape every 21 gouge at his eye. To take off his grip are attributed to interest paid on hours on an American college campus. use your dominate foot and kick him the loan, and taxes paid on the Knowing what to do in situations in the groin. Then continue to run the property, are allowed as deductions on and off campus where you feel diagonal path with barriers. on personal income taxes. Taking threatened by a predator can save your these deductions can greatly reduce life. According to the Journal of American the tax liability of homeowners. College Health, three quarters of off- When walking home from parties late campus rapes and on-campus rapes Purchasing a home is making an at night, always trust your instinct. involved perpetrators who were known investment in property. The home Your gut feeling is what is going to tell to the victims. Don’t think it’s always usually appreciates in value over time you something is wrong to begin with. going to be a stranger who is the and can actually become an asset. Try to stay with big group of people, predator. Always keep yourself safe by Homeowners, who sell their homes but when you find yourself alone you using your instinct, diagonal run, and years after the original purchase, can are a bigger target for a predator. by cutting off his sight, air, and grip Relationships - Enough Said!

The best way to avoid any predator them. What do you do? College is a rent library books... it’s basically your is to walk home in a group. time to break out of your shell. If you life. The problem with these cards is were voted “most shy” in high school, that it’s easy to lose because of it’ light maybe it’s time to break away from the weight. It’s guaranteed in the first week title. Here is the perfect opportunity that you’ll find an ID card on the floor, Speed Friending to talk to new individuals. You and and you’re supposed to report the possibly your new roommate are able to ID into the card services and they’ll introduce yourself to new individuals. contact the owner. However; the card Brittany Clyde By asking to sit with the partially empty services will contact the owner days SUNY New Paltz table, you’re taking initiative, and this later, and by that time, the owner has shows the persons at the table, that already replaced their ID and spent You’ve just left for home, to enter you’re confident, and easy to talk to. the extra $10. Social networks such as a world of independence. You and Facebook, can help you get in contact You’re friends have all decided to move 2. It’s raining, and the $6 umbrella that with the owner of the card. Search the around the country to experience the you’re twice removed cousin got you name on Facebook, and if you find college life. You’re all split up, and the for graduating high school is shoved him/her, send them a quick message reality of of being alone sinks in when behind your bed, or may not even be saying that you have their ID. They’ll Mom and Dad left, and the room is bare. unpacked yet. Yet, you realize that the be ecstatic, thankful, and the nicest The roommate has moved in, and you umbrella will come in handy, because encounter you’ll have that day. two decide to start organizing the new you have to walk 10 minutes to the place you’ll eventually call home. While closest classroom. You’re leaving your Friendships can be created randomly. Be their stuff is all plain, yours is colorful. building and you realize someone sure to have that understanding when Your posters are of hip hop stars, and from class is walking with out them. you first enter college. All freshmen are their posters are of puppies. The two Offer to share; most likely you won’t experiencing new lifestyles that you’ll be of you have nothing in common, and get a rejection, and it’s the perfect able to relate to. The first conversation conversations are awkward when you opportunity to see if other classmates is the hardest part of building a new decide to set up the room. Now that are having a difficult time with the friendship. Once you have a reason to the dorm room resembles a little bit professor’s accent. talk to someone, the conversation will like home, tears start to form when you be easy. These few tips are the easiest realize that your roommate isn’t exactly 3. Nothing’s better then smelling ways to make new friends and start who you’ve expected. What do you do fresh baked goods in the common conversations. Now that you have a now, in order to form a group of friends area in the dorm hall. Missing home? few tips, start friending! who’ll watch Jersey Shore with you on So is everyone else. Go to the local Thursday nights, spend the weekend super market and buy ingredients To Be out with you, and lend you a shoulder for chocolate chips cookies (or any when you’re home sick? Joining clubs, other bake goods that are soothing), Irreplaceable Is To of course is one way to start building and bake away in your common area, Be Different your posse, but if you want to undergo (which normally has a stove). People secret tips, that will keep you from a big all over your dorm comes running with the scent of fresh cookies. SHARE! commitment to gain a few friends; just Ali Sofen follow these few ways that I’ve created We’ve been taught since preschool, and to make new friends. finally, sharing comes into effect. This SUNY New Paltz will be the easiest way to make friends. 1. The first lonely night, you’re eating Imagine going to a supermarket, alone (or with the roommate you can’t 4. The hardest adjustment to dorm life, strolling through the aisles, and stand) at the dining hall, you will see is the room keys/ room ID. In New observing someone walking by who a bunch of tables filled with people. Paltz, each student gets an ID card, may be acting odd or peculiar. Perhaps However; there are a few tables that which is the key card to get into the this person is talking to himself or only have one or two people eating at dorm building, access to meal plans, herself or is flapping his or her arms in the air. You may observe this and of their actions and the tone of their be unsure of how to behave; what voices when around their family Far Away to do. Bernard Guentherd once said, members. For “Not one person is alike.” This can just as easily be said about families as Families who live life with a disabled Far Too Long well. One could say, “Not one family is family member have been given a alike.” There are families of different unique perspective when encountering ethnicities, cultures and values. Some people who do not fit the norm. When Alex Angst families may include a member with strangers see a disabled individual, SUNY New Paltz a disability. Any family who has a they may act as though he or she is member that is disabled, certainly faces not there and pretend that he doesn’t “Distance makes the heart grow a much different lifestyle than most. exist. Strangers essentially make him fonder” is a common saying when it invisible and he or she simply doesn’t comes to long distance relationships, I have faced many obstacles while exist. Family members of a disabled whether it be a friendship or a living with my brother, Scott, who is child feel compassion and sympathy romantic relationship. Being far apart diagnosed with severe Autism. My for people who are suffering due from someone for an extended period family’s lifestyle is much different to their circumstances, appearance, of time can cause emotions, good than most, since watching television, beliefs or attitudes. As well as people and bad, to heighten to a new level, going on vacation, or doing anything with Autism, people with any sort of or be forced to disappear all together. as a family is considered a privilege to unfortunate circumstance that they Being in a long distance relationship us. As an eighteen-year-old girl, I am may be suffering from, all have feelings myself, I have endured all aspects of accustomed to altering my lifestyle just as ordinary people do. these emotions. from emotions like around my twenty-two-year-old jealousy to homesickness, from all of brother. When I was younger, it was Although it may not always be easy, and these emotions being at their highest confusing and difficult to comprehend these specific families may be different point, to the feelings just disappearing why my brother seemed different from from other families, it will never altogether at times. The roller coaster me and from most of the other kids make them stop loving each other. If of feelings become a part of everyday I knew. I didn’t understand why he anything, it has made them all closer life. talked out loud to himself, copied what and more aware of the important I said and repeated it right back to me, things in life. Each family member has Routines typically change when you or why he flapped his hands in the air learned the skill to try to take each day leave for college. Seeing your significant when he got excited. Since then, I have one a time, believing that everything other or best friend every single day learned a lot about people with Autism, in life was handed to his or her family becomes a rarity that is saved for winter and I have also learned about people for a reason. I know I may not know and summer breaks. When it comes to a who have other disabilities. exactly what that reason is, and why it romantic relationship, people normally was my family that was chosen, but I think that they all happen like in It is not hard to imagine that it is difficult know I am a better person through all movies. When two people are dating in to live with a family member who is that I have experienced and endured. movies, especially the main characters, disabled. Many disabled individuals I feel that my eyes are wide open to the two are never apart, they are always need a routine for every aspect of their everything I may encounter throughout cuddling, kissing and never worrying daily lives. When Scott is in a different my life. about what goes on when the other is environment, it can completely throw not there. All people know that movies him off schedule, as it is extremely are not real life, relationships can bring difficult to be able to cope with even emotions such as jealousy, especially the most minor of changes. Disabled while in two areas that are far away people are often irritated by noises and from each other. While long distance other things that we consider to be relationships can put strain and pain insignificant, which causes the families on romantic relationships, people of disabled members to be very aware normally think that they all happen like in movies. When two people are that person’s life, then he or she will be. The best way to make sure that nothing dating in movies, especially the main If not, then remember, people come and no one is left out is to make up characters, the two are never apart, they and go. Do not worry about keeping a schedule. Clearly, while you are in are always cuddling, kissing and never all of your connections; the benefit school, schoolwork will (and should) worrying about what goes on when the to college is that there is a set of new take up most of your time, so it is other is not there. All people know that people. Just have fun, in college and in important not to forget your family movies are not real life, relationships life. and friends. For example, you could do can bring emotions such as jealousy, schoolwork from five o’clock to nine especially while in two areas that are o’clock and then have a half-hour Skype far away from each other. While long session or phone call with your parents distance relationships can put strain The Top Ten and siblings on Mondays, “Friend 1” and pain on romantic relationships on Wednesdays, “Friend 2” on Fridays, the distance can also have no effect Ways to Balance etc. This way, everyone has something on other relationships, such as friends to look forward to each week and no and family. My closest friend from high Schoolwork one is left out. school and I are still as close as ever, with Family and and although communication between 8. Help Each Other – You’re us does not happen everyday, when we Friends From see each other after months of being Not the Only One apart, it is as if nothing has changed. Back Home Of course there are situations where Talking to your old friends can become I have drifted apart from the people I one of the best forms of therapy. It is hung out with in high school and only Lindsay N. DeFilippis ok to rely on each other… you are all going through the same thing. None of on occasion do we ever talk. They have Marist College mainly been replaced by new college you have to pretend to be the strong one friends who also live close to home. who fits right in. That rarely happens. Maintaining relationships with Look to each other for guidance and There are ways to keep in contact with those from your hometown is an support… it can only help in the long all of your friends from home and to important part of college. However, run. continue to make new close friends in it can sometimes be difficult to juggle relationships with the mounds of college, although it is a lot to juggle. 7. Have Your Own (Separate) Just having a significant other or a homework we receive daily and so here best friend whom you want to keep is a list to get you started! Life – Have An Outlet close to from home is a lot to handle. Casual phone calls and texts home are 10. Remember You DO go Remember to do things that make a common occurrence on campus, YOU happy. It is easy to get caught whether it be to friends, family, Home up in schoolwork and the fast-paced boyfriends or girlfriends. With current college lifestyle, but in order to keep Don’t think that once college starts, technology, such as computers, with your sanity, remember to do something your former life ends. It is important video chatting and instant messaging, for you. Don’t think about school, or to remember that most of you DO go and cellphones, it is easier to have family, or friends… just do something home for breaks and summer vacation. long distance relationships. Constant that makes you happy and takes your No one wants to go home and be a communication can be easily kept if mind off whatever stresses you have in stranger in their own home. Keep in the effort is present. life. touch so when you do go home, you

still have that close network of people All a person really needs to keep around you. 6. Don’t Take Out Stress On connections strong is to let life play out as it should and not to worry too much the Ones You Love about it. If a person is meant to be in 9. Set Aside Time to Talk While we are talking about stress, be they were your age once too! Those sure not to take out your stress on the who went to college got through it… The Perks Of ones you love. We all know college and you can too. Ask them for tips on Being Single In is stressful and the workload can be studying, or test taking, or how to keep overwhelming. Many times, those who your sanity. The fact that you are asking College are trying to help, become the innocent for their advice alone, will score you victims of our wrath. It is important some major brownie points for later! If not to make others mad at us simply your parents didn’t go to college, they Allison E. Smoak because we do not know how to handle still, at some point, left home. They can SUNY New Paltz our stress. offer a different perspective which may be beneficial too. Depending on whom you ask, people 5. When You Do See Each will have different thoughts about Other, Make It Fun and 2. Network Here! whether or not they think it is a good idea to be in a relationship with Worth While Don’t forget about making friends while someone while in college. Some might you’re at school! Peers, colleagues, and feel that it’s acceptable to date at this Be sure to spend time with friends professors can lend a helping hand, be point in their life, while others believe and family during breaks from school. your support system on-campus, help it best to be solo and fully enjoy being Always do something fun so when times you study, and make these four years on their own. I personally feel the best get tough, you can reminisce and say some of the best. So, put yourself out choice is to be single, at least for the first “Remember that time” or “We should there and network!! year or two, while one is still becoming do that again sometime.” If you do adjusted to the whole college scene. things that make you both happy, you will have things to look forward to and 1. Keep Your Priorities Going away to college is an exciting make you smile. Make memories so the Straight time in a person’s life, a time of bad times go away and the anticipation introductions to a large group of for the good times comes sooner. new people. Being single allows the Remember you are at school to learn. freedom to talk to and be friends with While at school you SHOULD be whomever, without having to worry 4. True Friends Will Be spending most of your time doing whether a boyfriend or girlfriend will work, studying, taking tests, and going There No Matter What get mad for doing so. However, being to class. Your parents aren’t spending in a relationship can have boundaries $100,000- $200,000 so you can drink, Some people are worried that once against such things, which are difficult party, and hang out with friends. Make they move away, their friends from to cross. It is not unheard of in a sure school is your number one priority, back home will no longer be their couple, for one or possibly both people then your family, then your friends. friends. True friends will keep in touch to become unnecessarily angry at the and continue being friends regardless other, for simply talking or hanging If you keep these things in check, your of the amount of distance between out with a friend of the opposite sex. four years will go smoothly with very the two of you. Do not think that just An example of this scenario would be little bumps in the road. because you relocate, you have to stop a couple whose names for this article being so close. will be “Barbie” and “Ken.” This couple dated a large portion of high school and continued to still date when 3. Your Family Knows What they went away to different colleges You’re Going Through– in the fall. One evening during finals They Left Home Once Too week, Ken called Barbie to talk to her, and overheard a male voice in the

Don’t discount your family’s advice. background, a friend of hers from class Sure, they might be older now… but who she was studying with. The Travel Log

Without waiting for an explanation, ten destinations for 2011, according Australia at the age of ten. While in Ken jumped to conclusions, instantly to USA Today, and provides endless Australia he picked up surfing. The misreading the situation and began explorations. world’s best surfers are born and ranting to Barbie. Although this was trained in Australia and Hilmarsson a completely innocent time of shared One should experience the Arctic was only a ten-year-old Aussie paddling studying, it is situations such as these, world with a trip to Iceland. Due to the out for the first time. He caught the that can cause a person to automatically economic status of Iceland, flying there “surfer’s stoke” on his first ride. A few feel threatened, leading to a fight, which has become very affordable, making it years later, his mother moved him back in turn causes turmoil in a relationship. a new favorite destination. During the to Iceland. Hilmarsson was not going Being single entails not being tied down summer, Iceland is mostly warm and to let this move affect the one thing he to one person, and having the ability the climate is generally moderate and loves. He would continue to surf and to do whatever one pleases with one’s comfortable, making the beautiful sites soon learn the beauty in the Icelandic time, without accountability of making of Iceland more enjoyable than ever. wave. sure the other person is happy as well. The capital city, Reykjavik, is full of culture and life. Over 50% of Iceland’s Iceland is open to swells from every The college years are a period in population resides there, making their direction, with numerous set-ups a person’s life, when one becomes population approximately 200,000 that produce world-class waves. The independent, making decisions by people. Icelanders have a rich and warmest the water temperature gets themselves. It is very important, as it can unique culture; their inviting, friendly is a mere 15 degrees Celsius in the shape a person’s future and should not personas invite all to partake. Right middle of July. It is obvious that one be influenced by a rocky relationship. outside of Reykjavik, one will find who would go out in this weather and At this time in a person’s life, when Iceland’s most beautiful attractions, climate for a wave is serious about one is legally considered an adult, it is including the Pingvellir National what they do. Surfers like Hilmarsson wise to forge a path on one’s own. I Park, the Blue Lagoon, and the love what they do and are in search am aware that not everyone will agree Gullfoss Falls. The National Park is of something new and exciting each with this viewpoint on relationships, breath taking, with vast, mountainous day. Surfing is the perfect sport for but hopefully each person makes the landscapes, great lake, and waterfalls. someone like this. Surf trips bring one decision on whether or not to be in After a day of hiking, the Blue Lagoon to bizarre, exotic places and create one, that works best for their lifestyle. is the perfect ending; these geothermic experiences one cannot even imagine, hot springs act as natural jacuzzis, just like surfing Iceland. which are located in a luxurious spa. The Gullfoss Falls are magnificent, the During the summer in Iceland, the sun The Land of aqua blue water and enormity of the never sets. Hilmarsson recalls nights falls are something everyone should of surfing until 3 A.M. just because Fire and Ice experience. he could. Unlike Australia and other typical surfing locations, Iceland’s idea Kelly Case Iceland is also home to one of the of a crowded beach is anything more SUNY New Paltz rarest surfing spots; for those in search than two people. Every surfer dreams of that perfect wave, look no further. of having his “spot” where he does not Tired of the same old vacation Most would never imagine the thought have to share the waves with anyone; destinations? Need a break from of surfing in Iceland, but the Arctic has Hilmarsson has all of Iceland, for now Mickey Mouse and the typical “tourist” lately been discovered and Iceland has anyway. scene? Well, 2011 has introduced some been proven to be home to some of of the latest vacation hot spots. These the world’s greatest waves. Hilmarsson predicts the surfing future locations have only recently been of Iceland to be a bright one. He explored by newcomers and are waiting Georg Hilmarsson’s story has inspired believes Iceland will soon produce some for the rest of the world to come reap many and truly started this new craze seriously talented second-generation the benefits of culture, experience, and of surfing the Arctic. Hilmarsson was surfers. Hilmarsson says that each year, exploration. Iceland is on the top born in Iceland, but moved to more and more locals pick up surfing and discover this hidden treasure of Rico and belongs to Latin America. Tres Ojos (the three eyes) is one of Iceland. Places like Iceland are the My parents were born and raised in the mysteries uncovered. It is located hidden gems of surfing. Iceland has a Dominican Republic and have taken in the capital Santo Domingo, which population of 300,000 and a population me there to visit. I have gone to many can be found in the southern region of about 100 surfers. All over the world, places in Dominican Republic; however, of the country. Los Tres Ojos is a 50- surfers dream of a place where they can there are a few locations which are my foot, open-aired limestone cave which catch the perfect wave without the fear ultimate favorites which I recommend was once inhabited by the indigenous of dropping in on someone else. Places to everyone. Taíno Indians. It was created centuries like Iceland will become more popular ago when underground caves collapsed, surf trip destinations and will continue As a younger child, I enjoyed going creating a bowl-shaped depression to grow. And who knows, maybe the to many water, amusement, and which filled with water. The eyes refer next ASP World Tour (Association of community parks. Since the weather to the three lakes found in this cave, Surfing Professionals) will be held in during the summer is really hot, water one made of freshwater, the other of Iceland? parks are the best places to go to be sulphurous, and lastly salt water. It is refreshed and have fun at the same naturally and beautifully decorated with time. The best water park is Kaskada lots of green vegetation and is also the This exotic vacation spot is unique and Park, located in Santiago, Dominican home to lots of fishes, bats, and large unusual, creating an exotic experience Republic in the north-western region turtles. for anyone. To see and understand of the country. The proper spelling one’s personal perspectives and views, for Kaskada is “cascada” which means Another beautiful place that is located one needs to experience differences in waterfall in English, so imagine all the in the capital is the National Aquarium. culture and perspective throughout the water one will encounter! The park Here one can quietly look at all the world. Not in typical tourists locations, is filled with beautiful, tall palm trees different water creatures that live in but in a country full of culture and and the catchiest Latin music. There Dominican Republic. There is also a experience. Try some place different are aquatic games which are for people tunnel to walk through where it feels from what most consider a “typical of all ages like water tubes, wave pools, like the creatures are swimming around vacation.” diving pools, and even arcade games. you. After so much fun and learning, relaxing is the best thing to do at Las Another great water park is Columbus Terrenas. This place can be found in Aquapark in Sosúa, Dominican Samana, a peninsula in the eastern part Have the Best Republic, which belongs to the city of the country right on the Atlantic of Puerto Plata in the same region. Ocean. Being right on the shore, in Of All Worlds In The park may not be as beautiful as small villas, gives the environment a Kaskada Park before, but it has twice spa-like feeling. The ocean is a light- the Dominican the water games, which means twice green color, making it much easier to the adventure. The best slide can be see the small fishes swimming around. Republic found here! It is made up of four huge Imagine all the troubles in one’s mind open tubes connected by four small gone with the waves and only being Pamela Ng pools, so by the time you reach the first able to remember all the knowledge SUNY New Paltz pool you have to jump into the second one has gleaned, and all the fun one tube to not be stuck in traffic. It is a has experienced. great and fun experience to keep the Have not had a good vacation in a heart and adrenaline racing. while? Wondering where all the fun, learning, and relaxation is at? Ponder Dominican Republic is not all about the no more because Dominican Republic great adventure to have fun, one can is the place to go! Dominican Republic, also learn there. Dominican Republic also known as “La Quisqueya Bella has beautiful mysteries that have been (Beautiful Island), is located in the uncovered for people to enjoy. Los Caribbean between Cuba and Puerto government to deal with and protect to be spread throughout campus. Cancun, Mexico; the rioting Americans who inhibit With beautiful scenery, marvelous This Year’s Spring Cancun during these two weeks out of weather, relatively low expenses, and every year. The Mexican police force is a mass population, Cancun can’t be Break “Hot Spot” strategically placed across the city with pronounced to be anything short of the purpose to protect the travelers. this year’s superlative spring break On top of the efficiency of security, “Hot Spot.” Paul Tyree Cancun’s American popularity results Marist College in the unlikelihood of having a run in with a violent Cancun resident. While When You Spring break has the potential to be Cancun is one of the safer spring break one of the most legendary weeks of a spots, leaving the country is never that Assume… college student’s life. There are many safe. So considering Cancun is outside factors contributing to this highly the border 3 1/2 stars is quite fair. Rebecca Joslin anticipated week with destination SUNY New Paltz being of the utmost importance. When We give the monetary value of a trip evaluating the level of quality of certain to Cancun 5 stars. The money used on “Boy, those French. They have a possible spring break locations we used a week or two of partying in Cancun different word for everything.” ~Steve a star system; five stars representing is not excessive and still considered to Martin an outstanding location and one star be “well spent” by most. Just like any representing a poor locational trait. travel outside the country, plane tickets Though it is true that many people After extensive research in the matter vary depending on advancement of around the world speak English, it is our team has come to the conclusion purchase, popularity of destination, unwise to begin traveling with this that Cancun, Mexico is this years “Hot and time of traveling. So for the most attitude and expectation as it can cause Spot.” Our ratings were broken down part, plane tickets are mediocre in price, unnecessary stress to the traveler, and into the categories of Safety, Expense, but once you reach paradise, you come it can cause offense to others. and of course The Party Scene. to see that the pretty penny you held in the United States is now three times as In 2004, I flew into Germany (from my Located just North of Belize, on the pretty in Mexico. Once in Cancun, due home in Canada) and began wandering Eastern tip of Mexico, Cancun serves to the status of the Mexican economy, around the airport looking for a train as a popular vacation spot for college EVERYTHING is remotely cheap station. I was on my way to Poland. students across America. With 573,000 from hotel fees to drinks. The average None of the signs around me were visitors from America alone, Cancun college student will be rather bliss to in English, and though it was a large has been dubbed Americas top travel find that a room is not $300 a night, international airport, I couldn’t find destination by Travelocity. With its and that precious drink isn’t $5 per a single attendant who admitted to vast extension of white sandy beaches serving. In the end, on the departure speaking English. I couldn’t believe and Caribbean coastline, Cancun’s home from Cancun, you will be quite it! This was Germany after all, and beauty brings a sparkle to the eye of pleased with the weight of your wallet. the travel agent had assured me that any college student looking for a good “everyone speaks English in Europe.” I time. With a rating of 4 Stars, the word showed a security guard my tickets, and party is immediately processed anytime finally got pointed in the direction of Cancun, Mexico is brought to mind. With a 3 1/2 star rating; the safety in a series of platforms, but once there I With a bar on every street corner, it’s Cancun is remarkable compared to was left on my own. Desperate, I began nearly impossible to find yourself home most spring break hotspots outside the asking for help from other passengers. before midnight. Cancun, during spring borders of the United States. Cancun Ironically, it was three men from the break, is jam packed with thousands of has been a distinguished location for Netherlands, who barely spoke English, American college students all there for spring break over the past two decades, who kindly guided me to my station. I one shared reason, to create a week and this has prompted Mexico’s gave them some boxes of filled with epic memories and stories Canadian candy and thanked them tourists having a laugh after visiting the fact that she was not an elected head profusely. pub tends to stand out. of state and she may be best known today from the musical movie that In some countries, people are sensitive It is not the intent of this article to starred Madonna as Eva Peron. The to the presumptions of English- create a fear of talking to people. story of Eva Peron is one of romance speakers that everyone does and should Making friends in other countries and love, Eva came from a poor family speak their language. When a tourist allows cultures to be experienced on with humble means, but because of visiting France immediately begins a deeper level. Simply, do not make her striking looks, she had torrid affairs speaking English, it is considered assumptions and be respectful. Learn with notable men which gave her rise impolite, and they are less likely to “Please” and “Thank you” in the native to power. Eve Peron became a favorite receive assistance. Imagine if someone language. And, whether you need to get among the Argentian people for her help on the street in New Paltz spoke to you past people on a bus, or you fall into with the poor by setting up foundations in French expecting you to understand, someone’s lap when a tram screeches that aided the poor in their struggle never once attempting to speak English. to a halt, or you have to apologize for to survive. Tragically, Eva became ill Would you be apologetic or offended? not speaking the language, “I’m sorry” from cancer and despite all the doctors There may also be socio-political goes a long way. Remember that you efforts she died at the young age of 33. reasons why people are offended. represent an entire country in the Upon hearing of her death, the people When I visited a friend in Montreal eyes of the people you meet while of Argentina stopped businesses and for the first time, he advised me to traveling. ceased all actions to mourn the loved greet people in French first. Though First Lady. Before her burial, Eva was there are people in Québec who only embalmed in such a way that her body speak English and most others speak resembled that of a person who was French and English, there is historical La Recoleta – The simply sleeping. Before Eva Peron’s tension between Anglophones and body could find its final resting place, Francophones which makes language Secluded her husband’s position was overthrown a sensitive issue. If a tourist makes and he was ousted from power and a the attempt to speak French, most dictatorship took over. The body of Quebecers will appreciate the effort Kirsty McCallion Eva Peron disappeared for 16 years. and switch to English. Marist College There has been much speculation as to what happened to her body. The The flipside of this is that many people Some people think that visiting a most wide spread rumor in Argentina understand English because they watch cemetery is a scary experience. I have a is that her husband took her body back American movies, but cannot speak story quite different. I spend two weeks to his home and kept her there in an it. Throughout my travels in Europe, in Buenos Aires and two of those days open casket. The rumors are that he I have often been embarrassed due to I spent in La Recoleta. La Recoleta is continued his marital relationship with English-speakers criticizing the country a well known cemetery located in the her even after her death. No one knows they were visiting assuming that no one heart of Recoleta. Many who visit for sure what really happened with could understand them. Buenos Aires take a trip to La Recoleta Eva’s body. Others have speculated to visit the city of the dead. Many well that she was buried under a different You also need to be mindful of the known people are buried here and most name in another graveyard. However, way locals are conducting themselves notable is Eva Peron. the uncertainty of her whereabouts, around you, how they speak and when her body finally found its way to La they speak. Americans are a confident, Recoleta, Buenos Aires in 1954. Eva Peron was a resident of Buenos outgoing breed. In Poland, for example, Aires and was the first lady of the city people are more reserved. If you smile in 1947. She was given the official and say hello to a stranger on the street, Every alley that is in La Recoleta is title of “Spiritual Leader of the he might think you are out to steal his full of secrets. Every crypt that you Nation” by the Argentine Congress. wallet. People don’t talk on trams, trains look people who lie there. Some have Upon her death, Eva Peron was given and buses, so, the group of American crosses to keep out the evil spirits, and an official state funeral despite the To Your Health some have pots of incense that keep recover, and then grow. the devil at bay. Every avenue that Gain Strength, you go down in La Recoleta is graced Power, and Mass Why 5x5? Because, it is right in the rep by the rich and the powerful in their range for building strength, power, final resting place. In the center of the for Dummies and mass. In terms of repetitions, garden or crypts is that of Eva Peron. less is more; this is because the fewer The name on the crypt is not that of Eva but her family name Duarte. The amounts of repetitions you do, the David J. Gueli more weight you will add, and thus placement of the family name was to SUNY New Paltz thwart any grave robbers that might the more mass you will gain. If you steal the body yet again. Young girls in are doing fewer reps, you should be Argentina thought maybe one day they Nowadays, it seems to me that no adding more weight to make up for could be like Eva Peron. Her story was matter which gym I find myself in, the lack of repetitions. These two a modern love story before its time. whether it is on a college campus variables work inversely; otherwise The death of Eva Peron was to the or a town close to home, many you will never see progress. The argentians the same as the death of men has the same fitness goals. more weight you use, inversely, the Princess Diana in Europe. The majority of us want to “get less reps you will be able to do, and big,” in other words, gain strength, the less time your body will be able When I arrived at her crypt in La power, and mass. My peers and Recoleta the mass of people still to handle such an extreme amount friends constantly ask me, “Gueli, of weight without risking injury, swarmed around her to get a glimpse of can you teach me how to get big?” where the lady lay. People were taking stagnation, or form. Well my friends, here is a simple, turns to stand for a few moments at the hearth of her plaque. The tone was well-known, and effective way to In the past, the 5x5 plan has had a somber respectful for this great woman. reach this common goal of yours. I successful track record for building People still put flowers on the gate to her present to you, the ‘5x5 Plan.’ size, power, and mass. Unbelievably, crypt in honor of her legacy. The entire this method was first brought about experience of visiting La Recoleta was You may find yourself asking, in the 1950’s and 60’s; it is still alive one that I will never forget. The great “Dave, what the heck is a 5x5?” and well known today! Famous ex- people of that country are still living in The “5x5 Plan” or “5x5 Method” professional body builder, Reg Park, the vessels of their final resting place. is quite simple. It consists of There are busts of each person inside has used this regimen. Park was the performing five sets of each winner of the 1951 Mr. Universe, their tombs. As you look on you feel exercise, along with 5 repetitions the presence of them still living in their 1958, and 1965 NABBA Pro per set. Generally, when targeting a final resting place. In modern time we Universe titles. This method is no no longer erect monuments to a person specific muscle group, it is a good joke, and along with the proper diet, and to their life. This is a tradition idea to do anywhere between four it will get you big, fast. In the words that has gone by the way side and has to seven different exercises. When of Ronnie Coleman, “Everybody been replaced by a shallow grave that lifting heavy weight, it is necessary wants to be a bodybuilder, but becomes over grown by weeds and to give each muscle group anywhere nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass forgotten. between five to eight days of rest weights.” before you target that muscle group again. This is necessary because when you workout muscles, what you are essentially doing is tearing and ripping the muscle tissue. After ripping the muscles, they need time or rest periods to break down, does exercise almost every muscle in Kung Fu the body, the only couple of muscles it Snack Your Way does not use are used in some forms of Healthy qigong which is another supplementary Sam Burrell exercise and meditation. Kung fu is in SUNY New Paltz itself a form of meditation, which is Alyssa Stock really just a term for quieting the mind SUNY New Paltz Every Monday night, once my last class in order to focus, focusing on one thing has ended, I drive fifty minutes from such as an activity or and idea can aid Looking for a way to start your New Paltz into Woodstock. For the in focusing the mind. college experience healthy without past four years I have been attending Meditation can greatly enhance mental sacrificing snacks throughout the a Kung Fu class which takes place at peace and tranquility as well as allowing Mountain View Studios in Woodstock. for mental clarity which helps to think day? Well no need to worry! Snacking There are several reasons I feel it is of solutions to problems. Martial arts is an inevitable aspect of college life necessary to drive so far out of my way are an art form and kung fu in particular that can also be beneficial to your once a week for a two hour class. Even tends to have beautiful movements body. Snacks high in protein and though I could go to a much closer which can appear dance like at times. different vitamins are a sure way martial arts school for class, likely a Although these can seem like a dance to provide your body with energy class with more students and a greater most of the moves have actual use in it needs to survive the demands number of meets per week, I choose defensive applications. The particular and stress your body undergoes in not to. I go all the way to Woodstock style which I practice is the Tiger Claw college. Taking in these important because I have found a style which suits System of kung fu or Fu Jow Pai in nutrients while snacking ensures me. It is important to find a martial arts Cantonese. style one finds suitable as this is the that you will not only be satisfying Classes are Monday nights from 6:30 only way to assure practicing with any your hunger, but also replenishing until 8:30 although they frequently frequency. If a martial artist does not your body with the healthy stuff it run later. I would recommend this practice outside of class in addition to craves. class to anyone who desires an artistic in class the results of taking a martial form of martial arts, has some degree arts class will be significantly slower. of dedication, and wishes to get into There will be plenty of times which The benefits are numerous: improved good shape. This is a fairly difficult your stomach will rumble for food health and wellbeing, superior class, but it is small so that students between classes and meals. Simply confidence, self defense abilities, get individual instruction frequently. having a snack high in protein is a focus and a physical means of self Classes are open to all age groups and helpful way to fight off this hunger. expression are some of the benefits. skill levels. Nobody who comes will be Protein not only curbs hunger, but pushed any harder than they want to Exercise is a wonderful method of it strengthens the immune system, be, if one has a strong desire to learn reducing stress due to school and and it is needed for producing an enjoyable physical art form this class healthier skin and hair. The body work, or really life in general. After will be amazing. learning the initial aspects of the art literally cannot function without sparring begins, which are practice it, so it is important to have a great fights. Sparring is on my opinion source of protein readily available. the greatest stress relief method, Beef jerky is an excellent source nothing is as relaxing as a good protein, while also being relatively fight. Kung fu is rigorous exercise low in calories. Some brands of beef jerky, although high in sodium, can and will improve health dramatically over time, it is a little bit rough on the contain as much as twelve grams of joints over time, but this is the case protein per serving while still being with most forms of exercise. Kung fu less than 80 calories, acting as a for weight loss and help against Get Some Sleep perfect snack to tie you over until constipation. Vitamin C rich oranges your next meal. will help protect against immune Already! system deficiencies, while the If you’re looking for another pectin in pears is helpful in lowering excellent source of protein without cholesterol. Although natural sugars Tim Fischer the amount of sodium in beef jerky, of fruit will be sure to satisfy any SUNY New Paltz unsalted nuts will come in handy. sweet tooth, the storage of fresh Nuts are not only rich in protein, fruit can be less than sweet. In today’s college atmosphere, but they are also essential sources of many students live a fast paced and other important vitamins. Almonds Fruit can rot quickly; so it is stressful lifestyle. For this reason, are rich in vitamin E, which is said important to be mindful of how long lack of quality sleep and shifts to protect some people against your fruit will last. Luckily at SUNY in sleep cycles are very common Alzheimer’s disease. If you’re New Paltz, a farmer’s market comes among students. The chemical in looking to take in more omega-3 to campus every Thursday in the the human brain which regulates the fatty acids, which restore and fall supplying plenty of varieties of sleep cycle is called melatonin. The refresh cell membranes, walnuts are apples and pears allowing students feeling of being tired is the result a good choice. A mere handful of take advantage of the locally grown, of this chemical being released. pistachios gives your body its daily easily accessible produce. Because it Over the past ten years, melatonin recommended levels of phenol comes once a week, you will be able has been marketed as an over-the- anti-oxidants, which helps lower to buy enough fruit to last a week counter supplement available most blood sugar, cholesterol, and the leaving no time for rotting. If you commonly in pill form. The benefits risk of breast cancer. Munching on would rather save a couple of dollars, of taking this supplement are higher nuts while studying, or watching TV buy dried fruits in bulk. Dehydrated quality sleep and a regulated sleep can not only be satisfying to your fruits have a longer shelf life than cycle. body, but equally satisfying to your fresh produce, but they are still taste buds. packed with the same nutritional Many students do not follow a benefits of fresh fruit. Dried fruit, consistent sleep schedule and will The sweet tooth: possibly the most especially paired with nuts for added periodically pull “all-nighters.” insatiable burden when it comes protein, make a delicious and highly Students usually make up for this to cravings. Before you reach for nutritious snack. missed sleep by over sleeping a Hostess snack, think about fruit! the next day which results in an Fruits such as apples, oranges, So have no fear when it comes to unbalanced sleep cycle. Unbalanced bananas, and pears, can be found snacking healthily. Go ahead and sleep cycles are difficult to fix abundantly in SUNY New Paltz’s give your body the extra boost of immediately because most people dining hall and allowed to be taken energy it needs – you will be glad cannot force themselves to go to out of the dining hall area as a snack you did! sleep three or four hours earlier when for later. Because of the large variety they do not feel tired. Melatonin is of fruits out there, it comes as no most effective when taken 20 to 30 surprise that different fruits help minutes before bedtime because it the body in different ways. Bananas, is quickly absorbed by the body and widely known for being high in results in a feeling of tiredness. By potassium, can also lower blood taking a dose of melatonin before pressure, whereas apples, high in going to sleep and ensuring that you fiber and vitamins, are helpful have roughly eight hours to sleep, you will be getting the high taking melatonin or any other of all the blades, but having almost quality sleep you desire and will reset supplement. Melatonin is not for no rules, compared to the other your sleep cycle. By consistently everyone, if you are following a weapon, requires much more following your new found sleep regular sleep pattern already and thought and planning to execute pattern you will notice that waking do not feel tired in the morning the moves you need. There are also up in the morning is much easier. then there is no need for a sleep target areas, or places where the aid. Most importantly, melatonin blade must make solid contact, for Melatonin is especially beneficial to is not meant to be taken during each weapon as well, consisting of students who have trouble falling the day or when you do not intend the chest (Foil), the entire upper asleep, staying asleep or those who to fall asleep shortly after taking body (Saber), or every point on are generally insomniacs. Melatonin it. Taking melatonin will always the body (Epee). The New Paltz isn’t the only sleep-aid on the market, result in a feeling of tiredness and fencing club is always looking other common medications are a desire to sleep so it is advised to for new members, and as an Benadryl, Tylenol PM, and Unisom. always consider this when taking active club member, I personally However, these medications the supplement. can vouch for the friendliness contain either Diphenhydramine and determination to teach. or Doxylamine which are known to cause side effects such as prolonged Slash and Poke Imagine this: the score is four to drowsiness, dizziness, and possible four (in a bout, or match, of 5 memory problems. Tylenol with Dillon Ludemann points to win), and both of you acetaminophen can also cause SUNY New Paltz bow to each other, for when the damage to the liver with prolonged score is tied for the last point, one usage. Melatonin is a much safer People get frustrated. It is a fact must show a sign of respect for your alternative to other sleep aids of life, and rather than letting the opponent. You place the mask back because it is a chemical naturally stress of your every day get to you over your head, and, with Epees in recognized by the human brain and in unhealthy and unproductive hand, acknowledge the question of has significantly less side effects. ways, why not satiate your violent, the director concerning the bout. Supplements of melatonin come in competitive, and animalistic instincts You settle into your guard stance, varying dosages, most commonly by fencing? and wait for the bout to begin. The between 1mg and 7mg. A double- director begins the timer, and you blind, placebo-controlled study Fencing is the perfect way to poke and your opponent start inching by the Massachusetts Institute of or slash at someone without getting closer to one another. Half-effort Technology indicated that dosages arrested, and it keeps it classy all the “beats” are made on each blade, of 3mg were just as effective as a while! Some have said that fencing is with the person testing the reflexes low dose of 0.3mg. For this reason, much like chess, but you move and and ticks of the other fencer. A it is important to consider that low slash at the other person. There are serious attack is suddenly made, doses can be just as effective and multiple weapons one can choose and you quickly step back and parry, sometimes more so than higher from, and with each weapon comes or deflect, the blade successfully. doses. its own rules. There is the Saber, the You step back in for a riposte, or only “modern” slashing weapon that counter attack, but the original Please note that I am not a doctor fencers can use. Then there is the attacker already steps back away, and do not pretend to be one Foil, whose quick moves and small clearly out of range. You stay for a so consulting with a health care target area require lightning reflexes while, looking all over for a sign or a professional is advised before and a lasting endurance. Finally, weakness in your opponent. After a few seconds, you know what to do there is the Epee, the heaviest You make a half attempted lunge, feeling that their mind is trying in a public gym, you come to the and your opponent takes the bait. to convince them of. Not only is realization that there is nothing As soon as your opponent makes this a false feeling, but it is also a validating those feelings. Everyone the motions to parry, you swing conceded way of thinking. What goes to the gym because they feel your blade to the other side and aim in the world makes someone so like they need to or can improve on for your opponent’s thigh. Your important, that he is convinced that themselves, so they are not going opponent sees his fatal mistake, everyone has nothing better to do to waste their time on judging you. and whips his blade to correct than stop what they are doing and Logically this maybe solid reasoning, the parry, but it is too late. You’ve stare at him the entire time he is but some may still be a little resistant made the touch, and won the bout. working out in the gym? This may to making that first stride into the be a harsh statement, but when a gym. Well a simple way to overcome Who can resist hearing about your person really thinks about it, he these fears is to forget about fencing escapades, since it is such an realizes, I’m not that important to everyone else there. Bring a MP3 obscure sport here in America! So, any of these people what I do not player and tune everyone else out in if you are looking for a weapon to even know. the gym and it feels like you’re the slash, or poke with, then the fencing only one in there. Another good club is just what you are looking for One of the most successful chains method to make you feel less self in stress relief and just having a of commercialized fitness gyms conscious about the gym is working great time! available to the public today are out with a buddy, someone who the Planet Fitness Gyms. These can take the mental pressure off gyms owe their success to their you and help you relax. Also, many Just Get in There slogan, “Judgment Free Zone.” gyms are equipped with mirrors, so This slogan attracts many people it may help you to focus on yourself Andre Simspon in nearby areas to join the Planet while you complete your exercises. SUNY New Paltz Fitness Gyms, that they can charge These are only a few good ways on cheap monthly payments, because combating the issue of feeling self The hardest part to going to the gym they have so many members in their conscious in the gym. is the part that actual requires the chain of gyms. What exactly is least amount of effort, which is just Planet Fitness doing to secure this Thus, being self conscious about getting in there. Many individuals “Judgment Free Zone?” What is working out in the gym is not find themselves running into this Planet Fitness doing that these other a good enough reason for not problem and it is not because they gyms are failing to do? Nothing, wanting to better yourself and your are lazy or lack motivation, but because there is nothing additional life style. The notion that everyone rather it is a self conscious issue. It that a gym needs to do to create a is watching you is ridiculous when is understandable that people feel judgment free zone, because no one you apply the time to really think self-conscious and everyone can plans on going to the gym just to about it. This is a common issue relate, even if they’re the biggest and critique other people. The marketing that many people have that want to strongest person in the gym. But team is only selling the public what get into the gym and live healthier, this feeling of self consciousness is they want, a place where they feel but it is not a valid reason why you not a sufficient reason to not to try they don’t need to be self conscious shouldn’t try to be healthy. to live a healthier life style. about themselves.

Many people feel like when they When you make reasons out of why walk into the gym that all eyes are it is such a ridiculous reason to feel on them. But this is a false insecure about working out

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