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The Purchase ISSUE 89 The Purchase ANOTEFROMTHECHIEFEDITORS Independent By Steven Tartick and Bill Reese Chief Editors: In April of 2004, former Independent editor Bill Reese Erica DeMott announced that she was stepping down. Steven Tartick The same night that I found out that Steven Tartick and I Back Page Bitch: would be running this paper this year, I went to a party Kait Sudol and announced it to my friends. Graduating producer- Crack Team: extraordinaire Steve LaRocca came up to me and gave Emily Farrell me advice I'd never forget. Mark Schroeder "Dude, that's totally awesome... Just Don't Robert Stewart-Rogers Fuck It Up." Sable Yong We are proud to say that a year and 25 issues Business Manager: later, we have definitely not fucked it up. This year has Alice Gullotta been an experience, one that has been as trying as it has Writers: been rewarding. We have had ups, downs, disasters and Joel Christian Ballezza triumphs. Most importantly, we have revived a dying pub- Melinda Centi lication and have brought it to new heights. Most impor- Bill Reese tantly, Steven and I have built a working partnership and Starr and Jade a friendship that makes us want to show up every week Kait Sudol and make newspapers. We spend countless hours in our Steven Tartick new office every week and we do this job because we Artists: love it. Peter Grzymkowski Now, we could just be talking out of our asses, Bel Sultan but here's a little list of things we did this year: Jack Trades The Purchase Independent - We got the newspaper out every Thursday for 25 is a non-profit newspaper, paid consecutive weeks. Most weeks we were out as early for by the mandatory student activity fee. as Wednesday nights, entertaining people at the Pub The Purchase Independent welcomes letters from the read- with early editions. ers. We are an open forum for campus issues and comments - We started the Indy Subscription Service and about the Independent’s cover- signed 100 people up for a free subscription in their a g e . The deadline for letters to mailbox every week. be considered for publication in - We switched to color ink on our front pages, and the following issue is Tu e s d a y s they do is read the back page. We've published over 100 at midnight. After that, you must used it to highlight one of our new staples, the bribe us with candy. authors, a dozen artists and hundreds of personal ads. The editors reserve the right comics section, which has been incredibly success - We have tried our best to become a relevant document in to edit the letters for clarity. ful. Publication of letters is not this campus' culture, and I think that we have succeeded. g u a r e n t e e d , but subject to the - We opened our new office in Campus Center North discretion of of the editors. If you don't believe us, you can ask the student govern- Advertising space in T h e and left our doors open for anyone to come on in and ment, who awarded us with their award for Most Independent is free. As space is say hello. limited, The Independent cannot Outstanding Service, a category which includes the guarentee immediate publication - We attracted over $200 in advertisements and will of ads. Editors will determine Alternative Clinic, PTV and WPSR just to name a few. which ads go in based upon their do more next year. timeliness. Outside advertisers Both Steven and myself will be back for a second year, - To reach a wider audience, we created an are also welcome. and now that we've fixed all of the kinks in our systems, Event listings are also free of Independent personality on MySpace and linked the charge. To list an event either we will be better than ever. We are a huge part of this call or e-mail The Independent. site to online PDFs of recent issues. We prefer that submissions campus, and we're not going anywhere but up. come to us electronically. Our e- - We worked with the PSGA to buy new technologies mail address is: to create a better future for campus publications long P u r e c h a s e I n d y @ G m a i l . c o m Sincerely, You can also leave material in after we graduate. the Student Government off i c e , Room 1012 in CCN. Backpage quotes can be left in the Back Page box, a makeshift container Plain and simple, we do this because we love it. nailed to the wall outside our o ffi ce, CCN 1011 . We love the responses we get from people, even if all Our office is located on the first floor of Campus Center North, room 1011. Whenever we’re working, we leave the doors open and encourage peo- ple to come in and say hello. Our o ffice hours are Tuesdays at 7:00 pm and Wednesdays at 4:00 pm. The opinions expressed in T h e Purchase Independent are not necessarily those of the staff of The Purchase Independent or the PSGA. The content printed in the Independent and subse- quent pull-put sections is the responsibility of the authors, not the editors. The Backpage is satirical, and should not be taken literally. F i n a l l y, no anonymous sub- missions will be considered r a t h e r, they will be put on the floor of Thomas Schwarz’ o ff i c e for his dog to pee on if the pres- ident forgets to walk him. P u r c h a s e I n d y @ g m a i l . c o m 2 CAFÉ CASHIER BY DAY, dollars in artwork and you don’t want the muse- u m ’s future in the hands of just anyone.” MUSEUM SECURITY GUARD Semidey was proud to say that the museum’s Starr and BY NIGHT supervisor told her she was hired because of jade speak By Melinda Centi her striking personality. “She said ‘We need someone like you to run the place,’ and I’ve Starr and Jade are The Independents resident been doing it for the past four years.” drag-queens, here to give their patent advice/heels Upon walking through the door of the Semidey’s duties involve supervising to anyone who needs it/them. If you have a ques - Ritazza Café at Campus Center South, the tion to ask, just email it to purchaseindy@gmail, the other security guards, greeting customers pungent aroma of Irish Cream and Colombian unless it’s a personal sex request. Just stop by the Supremo smothers your senses. After wading at the front desk, and making sure everything is Farside bathroom for that. in order. She currently works at the museum through the crowd you are greeted by a petite DearStarr and Jade: woman wearing bright crimson lipstick nestled on the weekends, and comes in whenever they are short-handed. Semidey works six days a behind a display of cannolis, biscotti, and week for at least 40 hours between the Ritazza I”ll be subletting over the summer in Brooklyn, cheesecake. should I be worried? Café and the Neuberger Museum. “My jobs “Hey baby, how you doing? Ginger -Home Away From Homo peach tea, no problem,” says Iris Semidey as are so different, but that’s what I like about them. In the café, I get to interact more with the she swipes the Homo, More Card ID of a students. T h e y Honey Child, you is screwed. As some really keep me going. smart bitch said a long time ago, they is only student ordering two reasons to go to Brooklyn- 1, you live in their afternoon In the museum it’s more stress at Brooklyn, or 2, you fuckin’ someone who live in c a ffe ine boost. Brooklyn. Now, we ain’t eva fucked anyone times and you Semidey has who lives their (not even we that nasty!) how- deal more with been a cashier at eva, we did go see the musical BKLYN on the Ritazza Café the upscale folks Broadway. If the place if half as shitty as the in the area.” for almost three show was, you’ze in for a world of pain. Good years. Students luck! Semidey enjoys are greeted by Dear Starr and Jade: S e m i d e y ’s smile both of her jobs e q u a l l y. She and hospitable What is the meaning of life? nature every time appreciates the -Pillowman(LJ) atmosphere of they walk in for their usual cup o’ the museum and Damsel, being surrounded joe or become To fuck on Easter tempted to consume a delectable pastry. by such amazing art. “You meet a lot of interesting people Dear Starr and Jade: What many students do not know about their usual cashier is that she got her including artists and some of the buyers at spe- cial functions the museum holds. Sometimes I Should I move in with my girlfriend? We have start at Purchase College working as a securi- been dating for about a year, and are wonder - ty guard at the Neuberger Museum of Art. Not feel like I get paid to go to a party.” Semidey ing whether now is the time to make the next spends most of her hours at the Ritazza Café long ago, Semidey use to earn a living working big step.