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There have been numerous Hendrix fanatics really want to Staff Writer Staff Writer #HAMPLAIN #URRENTHTML Staff Writer stereotypical, they work like a probably just die right there. finish line of the school year, the man who seeks it out. Zachary other posthumous releases since hear. Since this is Hendrix we’re Wallace, the direct descendant of AS WELL AS NEWS AND FEATURE Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a charm. Bad Company’s story has Bringing an end to a year Now, with the passing of the the (almost) end of a long eight Few rock stars stay so busy in Hendrix’s death in 1970, though talking about here, it actually months of school- William Wallace STORIES FROM STUDENTS IN +EVIN first person shooter for the PC, its serious moments, but overall of heated partisan debate, Health Care Reform Bill, he the afterlife. I guess when you’re naturally none of them live up to doesn’t seem that far out. ing, but not, I of Braveheart PS3, and Xbox 360, and carries the game never really takes itself Barack Obama’s Health can go to a hospital and get +ELLEYS &UNDAMENTALS OF the best guitarist who ever lived the brilliance of his finest work. Obviously that couldn’t ever hope, the end fame/prodigious a prefix nearly a decade old. Bad seriously and pokes fun at any- Care Reform Bill was finally fixed up just like that. Why *OURNALISM CLASS ( a r g u a b l y We know really hap- of page-flipping marine biolo- Company 2 thing it can. In a not so subtle shot passed by the House of even bother murdering them s p e a k i n g , that genius pen, but I can quests. I hope ev- gist/protagonist Few rock stars stay so doesn’t quite at Modern Warfare 2, Sweetwater Representatives on Sunday, if they’re just gonna get free !CCEPTED 3TUDENTS $AY so as not stockpile that dream. As eryone will end of the novel, is hit the level says a General will send “some March 22. Though the passing surgery?” Pausing briefly WAS ATTENDED BY NEARLY to cause an Hendrix left busy in the afterlife. such, Valleys of on a good note, as on expedition in of awesome Special Ops douchebags with of the bill was met with much to double-check the edge on STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES ON o u t r a g e ) , untapped will Neptune isn’t far as academics the Sargasso Sea I guess when you’re that I expe- pussy-ass Heartbeat Monitors on celebration by the Democratic his machete, Langston was there’s just never be fully that awe-in- are concerned. In when he encoun- -ARCH TH !NOTHER !CCEPTED rienced in their guns instead of us.” Party, not everyone is quite quoted as muttering, “I just no resting. realized. It’s the best guitarist who spiring posthu- Battlefield terms of quality ters creatures 3TUDENTS DAY WILL TAKE PLACE THIS The storyline starts with a so excited about it. Besides don’t know anymore,” before How could the kind of tor- mous release 1942’s Desert prelude in World War II, with reading material, called Bloops !PRIL ever lived (arguably being met with disapproval climbing into his 1992 Ford you when turous notion that couldn’t Combat mod, a set of new characters rescu- however, I am sor- (that’s right, speaking, so as not to from the majority of the Aerostar and speeding off. you’re time that plagues ever possibly but it is ing a Japanese defector. Back in ry to report that my final fiction- Bloops; they sound scary, don’t #HAMPLAIN #OLLEGE 0UBLISHING Republican Party, serial In response to came too all rock ‘n’ roll cause an outrage), exist. What is bloody close. present day, Bad Company is in alized endeavor was a mere sham, they?). As the creatures attack )NITIATIVE IS WORKING WITH killers nationwide have overwhelming dissent toward soon and greats who here, however, Multiplayer Alaska but then has an exten- a poor take on a legend I’ve held his vessel, an overwhelming ter- THE !MERICAN !CADEMY there’s just no resting. begun to publicly decry the the bill, the AASK (American you left the passed away is mostly entic- is a clear sive campaign in South America, near and dear since I was but ror thrashes Wallace, and his wa- bill. “I just feel like it’s…too Association of Serial Killers) OF 0EDIATRICS 3ECTION ON world with far too soon. ing. Not all the e v o l u t i o n which introduces Flynn. Though a lad. ter phobia hits him harder than soon, you know?” said local announced a counterproposal )NTERNATIONAL #HILD (EALTH an untouched boatload of poten- That in mind, the kind of post- songs work, but when he and his from previ- he is a pacifist, the Blackhawk I guess it’s nobody’s fault but a Killer Whale doing a belly flop ax-murderer Edward Ray, of its own in a press conference 7RITERS AND $OCTORS 7ITHOUT tial genius on the most ubiqui- humous Hendrix release that’ll band (Experience members Noel ous Battlefield games and doesn’t pilot instantly became one of my mine. Being self-indulgent isn’t onto its trainer at Sea World. last Thursday. To a crowd "ORDERS TO RAISE AWARENESS tous instrument in rock’n’roll? really transcend all the others is Redding and Mitch Mitchell on shy away from borrowing some favorite characters in any game. as he snuck up on a pair of always a good idea, and it can of- Following the aquatic assault, of beaming sociopaths and ABOUT CHILDRENS WORLD HEALTH IN Valleys of Neptune is hardly the the one that takes Hendrix’s oth- some tracks, and Band of Gypsys ideas from other popular shoot- The main villain returns from the teens cavorting inside a car ten lead to disappointment and Wallace goes from being a world- first posthumous release of new parked at Make Out Bluff. profusely bleeding citizens, CREATIVE AND ENGAGING WAYS erworldly six string prowess and members Billy Cox and Buddy ers. The single player story mode first game, one Viktor Kirilenko. discouragement. Such a down- famous marine biologist and col- Hendrix material, but it is the somehow utilizes it to stretch the Miles on others) do get cook- is a great romp with some well de- A worthy adversary, Kirilenko “This country needs to focus founder and prolific murderer fall can make one question one’s lege professor to a landscaper first in over a decade. The last temporal truth out of the realm ing, it’s as any good ol’fashioned on more pressing issues Gary Putzmann outlined the to an alcoholic and drug addict. !UTHOR 4ED #ONVER VISITED veloped characters. plans to detonate a massive EMP own good judgment and decisive was 1997’s First Rays of the New of what’s real and possible, pro- Hendrix jam could be. right now, like lowering the proposition, saying, “Look, abilities. But then, we can all That’s one hell of a character arch #HAMPLAIN #OLLEGE ON -ARCH You play as Private Preston in order to destabilize the United Rising Sun, which attempted to viding a glimpse into a version of The new versions of old cuts Marlowe, the same character ridiculously high prices of the US government is clearly be victims of the rough-cut dis- if you ask me. TH TO DISCUSS HIS LATEST BOOK tie the loose ends of Hendrix’s the past few decades that never See Bad Company 2 man-sized wood chippers. trying to prolong the lives of See Hendrix from the first Bad Company, along guised in specious robes. So when But aqua-frights and unem- h4HE 2OUTES OF -AN (OW intended to follow-up to Electric actually happened—being one Page 8 That’s an issue we really need Americans with the Reform I see a book about the Loch Ness ployment are nothing compared Page 8 with Sweetwater, Haggard, and 2OADS ARE #HANGING THE 7ORLD Ladyland by utilizing studio where Hendrix survived. 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NEW SURVEY FROM THE mind—it uses a dark brown ale as They offer six 3 oz. samples of any universal health care on the all Americans, expecting and well, either in the mind or be- say it was run over by an eighteen neath the waves. 6ERMONT #HAMBER OF a base. The combination results in of their ten beers, so you’re not grounds that it will increase that much is simply wishful See Loch a refreshing flavor with a heavy, limited in choice. We won’t reveal the chances of survival for thinking. And the Health Care The Loch is a 2005 novel #OMMERCE SHOWED THAT BANKS Page 6 almost smoky finish. It is one of the secrets of all six, so let’s just so-called “easier victims,” Reform cannot possibly save by Steve Alten, author of Meg, AND ELECTRIC UTILITIES ARE THE HTTPJACKETUPLOADMACMILLANUSACOM those rare fruity beers that never go over our favorites. I tried out who did not previously have every last American either. BEST PLACES TO WORK IN THE lets you forget it’s a beer, and, the Vermont Smoked Porter, one of health care, such as transient What we’re proposing is that STATE 4HE RANKINGS WERE MADE like Otter Creek’s very similar their top notch brews. Be warned— drifters and the elderly. Seven the U.S. government allow BY EMPLOYEE SURVEYS WHICH Winter Ale, it gets a very hearty this is a smooth but strong porter, percent of serial killers were our organization to butcher It’s a Casio on a Plastic Beach SHOWED THAT 'REEN -OUNTAIN recommendation from me. redolent of smoky greatness. It in favor of the bill, on the those who would benefit the "Y 2EMY 6OGLER been nominated for a number of There are several orchestral while listening. To me, it captured 0OWER AND 7ELLS 2IVER 3AVING T: I stayed away from the tastes like it was brewed in a grounds that it would keep least from universalized Staff Writer awards. Gorillaz have featured arrangements which Albarn the feeling of trudging down a Wassail, simply because we’re burning building, but that’s not "ANK AT THE TOP OF THE LIST more prospective victims healthcare, such as those many other artists on their said were just a fraction of the garbage-covered beach at sunset. getting out of the winter season, a bad thing. Something about a alive and healthy until they who are already healthy. Plastic Beach is the third Gorillaz albums in the past, and Plastic “loads” that were recorded. The Unfortunately, while Plastic little fella. Though I can’t deny porter on tap really sets me high 2AIN HAS BEEN mOODING 6ERMONT decided to kill them; 1% were That way, those who truly release, after 2005’s Demon Days. Beach is certainly no exception. crystal clear production is perfect, Beach is not a bad album it isn’t that American Flatbread is a on fire, and the Vermont Smoked is AND MUCH OF THE .ORTHEAST THE too busy murdering people to need healthcare can access it, For those of you who are unfamiliar In fact, it has the most guest and each note has plenty of particularly good either. Most of place worth getting familiar with, certainly one to have on the town. LAST WEEK OF -ARCH )N 2HODE care. leaving us free to disembowel with the group, Gorillaz is a musicians on any Gorillaz album, room to breathe. Its pretty easy the songs are enjoyable enough, especially if you’re going to try the Great with dinner, but it might put “It used to be that a man those who don’t. It’s a win- “virtual band” founded by former including thirteen artists and listening, and the melodies are but few are strong enough to )SLAND SOME OF THE WORST TLA I.P.A. As we’re entering the you to sleep. Try it out to start, just could make his way just win situation!” Blur member Damon Albarn and two chamber orchestras. Three straightforward and frequent. really catch the ear. The vocals mOODING IN OVER YEARS HAS spring season, I.P.A.s put an insane to get a taste of what VPB brings stabbing drifters at bus As of press time, Putzmann Jamie Hewlett, the co-creator quarters of the sixteen tracks The songs have a melancholy feel, were a letdown for me, though I OCCURRED amount of liveliness into a beer, and to the table, if you will. stations, but not anymore,” could not be reached for of the comic Tank Girl. Albarn on Plastic Beach have a guest of which Albarn says matches the can understand this not being Flatbread’s TLA is nothing short of W: You and your porters, sir. remarked a knife wielding comment. Come to think of it, is the only permanent member some sort, which does add a bit of “essential melancholy of buying true for everyone. The monotone electrifying. It’s color alone—bright Although, I have no room to talk, Earl Watts, articulating neither could the reporter we of the band and does the bulk variety to what could otherwise a ready made meal in loads of rapping of various guests lacked fire orange—puts one in a spirited as aficionados of our humble little The World from behind a mask made sent to interview him. Or the of the songwriting. Their first be a very homogenous album. plastic packaging.” He said much any strong delivery, and the mood, but it’s the taste that really column are well aware, I am an from a mutilated pig’s head. camera crew. two albums, Gorillaz (2001) Plastic Beach is full of poppy, of Plastic Beach was inspired by gets the blood flowing. While most ardent fan of the browns. And /BAMA lNALIZED HIS HEALTH CARE “I used to be sure of myself. and Demon Days (2005), have laid back songs with strong seeing landfills, which is more See Plastic Beach I.P.A.’s might kick you in the as well versed in the art of beer OVERHALL -ARCH WHICH AS A both gone multi-platinum and electronic and hip-hop influences. along the lines of what I felt Page 8 PART OF THE DEAL MADE THE GOV mouth, this one lacks a lot of the brewing as VPB most certainly bite you often get with an I.P.A., is, I expected their English style ERNMENT THE PRIMARY LENDER TO which makes it special. It doesn’t brown ale, O’Shenanigan’s Brown, STUDENT FOR COLLEGE LOANS 4HIS leave that annoying metallic taste to be just tops. How wrong I was. WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR STUDENTS an inadequately-made beer tends The beer looks the part, with a TO REPAY THEIR LOANS AND WILL to punish you with. As a bitter healthy dark color, but then it CAP THE AMOUNT GRADUATES WILL man, the bitterness didn’t faze me goes down almost too smooth, with REPAY BASED ON INCOME one bit. It’s got a sweet twang to no distinguishing taste, and no it, which will appeal to those who texture. It is a simple failure in ! BRIEFCASE CONTAINING aren’t inclined to a glass of harsh all areas excluding the name, an WAS FOUND IN .EW 9ORK THE flavor. Give it a go if you dare. insult to the English style. With so LAST WEEK IN -ARCH 4HE lNDER W: You might say winter is gone, many other high quality browns POSTED THE ITEM ON #RAIGSLIST but try telling me that on a day in and around town, there is no other than the one where I had to reason to venture to this brew. ASKING FOR A DETAILED DESCRIP sweep the snow off of my car prior T: Agreed, perhaps for the last TION OF THE CONTENTS 5NDER to getting my cat’s woman parts time. There were no shenanigans .EW 9ORK STATE LAW THE lNDER removed. And speaking of things in this beer, nothing that made you WILL HAVE TO KEEP THE UNCLAIMED with parts removed, Flatbread jump for joy. The Dogbite Bitter, on MONEY FOR THREE YEARS BEFORE has another offbeat offering, their the other hand, will try to take a HE IS ALLOWED TO SPEND IT Gruit Ale, a medieval herbal beer. chunk out of your tongue if you’re They advertise that it has no hops not careful. It’s an ESB, but I’m not ! COMIC BOOKINITIALLY PRICED like it is a blessing, and while I can exactly certain if it’s extra special. AT CENTSWAS AUCTIONED FOR always admire a brewery for trying Bitter is the key word here, and it MILLION IN -ARCH THE MOST something new, there is a reason holds true from the first sip to the ONE HAS EVER BEEN SOLD FOR 4HE this recipe was left in the dark last drop. This is another of VPB’s ages. It is not the malty, frothy ale flagship beers, a memorable choice, COMIC BOOK WAS A lRST EVER the other two venues offered food really limits your talking points company, the Chocolate would be that you imagine knights drinking particularly because if you’re in addition to beverages, 3 Needs for a free ride from the parents to a tough one to get through even if COPY TO FEATURE 3UPERMAN in flagons between dragon slayings. not used to strong beers like the is your traditional bar with a fine go here. And their beer selection the most beautiful woman in the It’s more like a tea. The floral flavor Dogbite, you might choke on it. It’s few beers. Their menu is smaller really isn’t going to offer any either. world bought it to me. If I wanted is intriguing, not unpleasant, but it a drink you have to work through, than the others’, but the quality is Although they do offer a healthy a glass of Nesquik, I would have has such a light finish that it feels but the rewards are great. far from diminished. The one that smattering of other brews on tap ordered one. neutered. W: And for those who don’t want stung my tongue—literally—was (just like anybody else in town) but W: And that you would, since T: Ok, I didn’t have a whole to have to work for their beers, the Biere de Garde. This ruby-red offer only four of their own. Other you do tend to drink like a ten serving of the Gruit on this the Pub has you covered with the Red is a party sharp drink, both in than the Garde, however, nothing year old. But, seriously, it was a occasion, but my past experiences Helle’s Lager. All color and in taste. else really comes to the win any terrible beer, on a terrible menu. I with it have been nothing short of those dime-a- So good was this awards. The Kölsch is decent would like to remind you that the AMAZING, you fool! So scintillating dozen beers put Remember, enjoy beer that my enough, a heavy pilsner flavored Needs are not always this bad, but and rapturous is this craft, I out by Budweiser, these crafts in taste-buds were golden, but with a bitter twinge apparently this time of year hasn’t question now why I there isn’t one Coors, and the paralyzed for a as an aftertaste, and their Munich been a strong season for them. So in my hand. No, my other choice rest go to sleep stride. Appreciate moment, beaten Dunkel, while rich in flavor, comes try them another time, but get to from Flatbread was Dan’s Dunkel, dreaming that them for the taste, senseless by off a little flat when compared to American Flatbread and the Pub a nebulous storm cloud of a beer, they will be a the glory of its Flatbread’s version. I just can’t and Brewery immediately. not only in color but in taste. This tenth as tasty body, color, and crimson cloak. It really recommend going here with T: The Needs will fulfill yours, one’s a mystery. It’s a Munich-style as the Helle’s. individuality that has a fancy name, this lineup around. but the other two stops are far more dark, and it’s very reminiscent of It has a clean and it comes in T: And Walge stomps 3 Needs family oriented (and a lot pricier, a lager. Light-bodied, frothy, but malty flavor to it each brewery adds a fancy 12 oz. out with a heavy right! Pretty too). In any case, we hope you’ll enhanced with a fistful of hops, it and a low IBU, to each beer. glass (it’s a little brutal commentary, but, again, I consider our opinions on these and covers a lot of bases. The Dunkel and it all comes stronger at 7% am FORCED to see a crossed eye all the other delicacies we’ve been is meant for someone who wants together to make ABV), but even to twitching eye with this imbecilic more than happy to share with it all in one glass, or for someone a very refreshing beer that almost a person who doesn’t particularly imp. Aside from the Garde, the you. Remember, enjoy these crafts who isn’t sure what kind of beer anybody could enjoy. I heartily care for beer can appreciate this Needs isn’t much to scream about in stride. Appreciate them for the they want to start out with. A recommend it. one. It’s definitely been one of unless you are looking for strictly taste, body, color, and individuality well-rounded drink for those with T: I, on the other hand, HARDLY the best I’ve had throughout the bar atmosphere—and that’s what I that each brewery adds to each labyrinthine tastes. recommend the Helle’s. Actually, entirety of this school-year long like about it. I can’t say I liked much beer. Don’t get carried away—that W: Wow, what a sissy sentiment. it wasn’t that bad, but it wasn’t odyssey. Five thumbs way up. about the my other pick, though, the ruins the surprise and uniqueness Is there any other Hallmark poetry a beer to leave a lasting mark on W: I’d also grant this beer with Chocolate Porter. I know, I know. of the drink. Don’t guzzle them; you would like to recite out for us? my view of VPB. They have a good upward thumbs, but only two, for I’m a fool for thinking that this beer enjoy them. Discover something T: I actually sold my ideas to mix of classics and standards, so it I am not the mutated offspring of could match the porter from VPB. special about them, and if you Hallmark last week. You might might be a good place for the folks two cousins and cannot offer more The chocolate putrescence made don’t like a few—well, the world just stumble upon the special one to take you when they visit. Beer on than that. And, in truth, that is the it more of a stout, and everyone isn’t perfect, is it? Whatever your I sent your mother. Moving on to the parents’ dime…tastes good to only praise I will offer 3 Needs for knows I stand stouts about as well preference, have some fun, relax, the next B-town bar, we visited me. Anyway, onto the final B-town the rest of this article, backhanded as I stand the guy that I write and have a try out a new Vermont Vermont Pub & Brewery. This is a brew destination, 3 Needs. While or otherwise. First, the lack of food this article with. Regardless of my brew. You’ll like what you find. Page 4 EDITORIAL The Champlain Current | April 2010 The Champlain Current | April 2010 COLUMNS Page 5
The Challenge Girl Goes Green Final Chapter, But Not The End The Smallest Big Event on Campus "Y 2ACHEL 3ALOIS design a whole week based on The Edge Academy is a new en- ways to think about living and It’s April; we made it! maybe you’ll see that your Staff Writer sustainability that would use the vironmentally focused school that living sustainably. Although the construction of a micro house as has been involved in the Little Little House isn’t practical for Home Planet Guest Congratulations to all who voice really does matter. Last September, among the clank- its centerpiece. Six months later, House project since January. Erin everyone, the ideas behind it are, are graduating! ing lunch plates at Mirabelle’s Little House and the whole Home Mcintosh, a seventh grader who and that is where I think students Speakers Schedule I don’t want this mes- downtown, the idea for the Little Planet week are finally taking has been the representative for will benefit the most.” House was hatched. shape. students at the Edge for Little The presenters and workshops I want to take this time, sage to fall on deaf ears. !LEX 0IAL LEFT AND !LEX "RANDSTETTER ARE INTERVIEWED BY "ILL ,ITTLElELD OF .ATIONAL 0UBLIC 2ADIOS h/NLY A 'AMEv SPORT SHOW ABOUT THE 3LAM FOR 3UDAN FUNDRAISER Kyle Dodson, the director of On April 12 through 16, a storm House meetings, says that she is throughout the week will focus on -ONDAY Mary Sullivan FROM my last official address While those of you who the Center for of sustainabil- looking forward to the week be- different topics in sustainability, to all of you as Editor-in- are graduating may be Service and Civic ity will be tak- cause “it’s going to be fun to see such asv energy use, transporta- "URLINGTON %LECTRIC Chief, to reflect on the thinking, “I’m outta here! Engagement and ing over campus. something that we’ve been plan- tion, food, and waste management. Ashley George, Champlain stu- ning for so long.” Ashley George from the Center semester. I have chal- What’s this lady yammer- the coordinator dents will build Micro houses are a new trend said she hopes that “the building 4UESDAY Sandy Levine FROM lenged each of you to voice ing about?” I want you to for the Center a micro house in green architecture because they of the Tiny House, along with the THE #ONSERVATION ,AW &OUNDATION AND your opinions here in The listen as well. You may had invited me to on campus, lo- are much more efficient than the speakers and workshops, will en- Current. Many of you have be going off to experi- meet with them cal speakers will average 2,350 square foot house. gage students as well as give them KEYNOTE SPEAKER Curt Stager FROM and discuss and visit to discuss They need less construction mate- concrete things they can continue contacted me in person to ence something entirely article I had re- sustainability in rials to build and use a fraction of to do to lead a more sustainable 0AUL 3MITH #OLLEGE express your thoughts, but new, but I hope you take cently written business and life- the electricity and heat that other life here at Champlain and after few of you have been will- with you the same drive for The Current style, and hands- buildings do. graduation.” Champlain’s Little House will With just a few weeks until ing to put forward your to speak up. Just because called, “Chic Eco on workshops on 7EDNESDAY Rob Williams FROM Freak Seeks topics such as have a solar panel on the roof for Home Planet begins, the final thoughts on paper. Why you may feel small, many Equally Freaky; bike tune-ups electricity and won’t need plumb- arrangements are being made Champlain College is this? Can it simply be of you may be starting out Superhero Capes and building cold ing. Steve Smith of Smith Alvarez and event times and locations there is no time? Too many at what has been deemed Preferred.” The frame greenhous- Sienkiewycz Architects on Saint will be advertised throughout piece was a call to es will be offered Paul Street designed our post and campus. For more information 4HURSDAY Michele Morris FROM papers to write for class. the “bottom ring” of your action for students, encouraging throughout the week. beam style Little House. or to get involved, please contact Too many pages to read. career ladder, you still them abandon their inhibitions The Little House is an 8 by 12 Caitlin Pascucci, a senior at Rachel Salois at rachel.salois@ #HITTENDEN 3OLID 7ASTE $ISTRICT ! PARTICIPANT RACES THROUGH THE COURSE I myself am not immune have a voice. And, as the about being “freaks” and to stand foot structure that will be trans- Champlain, who has also been my.champlain.edu or stop by the 0LAYERS WARM UP FOR THE EVENT 0(/4/3 "9 34%0(%. -%!3% from these excuses. new kid on the block, you up for the issues that got them ported to the Edge Academy in working on Home Planet week Center for Service and Civic “foaming at the mouth.” Essex to be used as an outdoor said, “The Little House project Engagement in Skiff Hall. All presentations will be held in the Hauke Conference Center. may be bringing with you Exam Season Jamie Tam Dodson proposed that we classroom when it is completed. will open students’ eyes to new Now, as we approach an entirely innovative summer, what will fill that perspective. So, why not time? Are there still going share it? to be tasks that distract us from speaking up? Maybe The point I am trying you’re taking summer to make here is that, no A Professor’s Insight Now and Then classes, or working full- matter where you end up time, or have an intern- next year, don’t let the Hitchin’ and Community The Spectrum of ship. So you stifle your world pass you by or sim- thoughts. Put them aside ply settle on being a par- "Y !LAN 3TRACKE tunes, out of water, and out of spit. It’s time to hitch. for the day you have less ticipant. Go out there, Special to the Current Sexuality “No problem mahn, dis be items on your “To Do” list. where ever “there” may be, The sun is just a couple of inches Tohtohla, nuttin’ tu geht ah lif.” "Y !MANDA +ING accurate. I wouldn’t recommend But, does that ever really and facilitate - if even just above my head. The softened, Unfortunately, this seems to be Staff Writer it, because you can lie too easily happen? Personally, for the initial conversation gummy asphalt is sucking on the holiday, “The Day of the No and have far too few questions to the soles of my Tevas as I try to Rides,” with only tourists in rent- What would you consider to be answer. every item I cross of my that gets people thinking. avoid the ankle twisting potholes al cars or local women passing by. “sexual orientation”? Most people Another scale with generally list five more seem to take Having been a student in the roadway of these endless Neither is a good hitching pros- answer something along the lines the same idea is the Klein Sexual its place. at Champlain College for inclines and scenic super-down pect for the single, hairy-faced of gay, straight O r i e n t a t i o n or bi. I would Grid. This meth- three years now, I can hon- grade switchbacks of Tortola, a sweat swine wearing a piratical gorgeous tor- headband and argue for a od is more accu- I have challenged all estly say each of you has it turer of an a deranged whole host of rate but more of you this semester to in you. island in the Courtesy, respect, look of des- other sexuali- confusing. It write to me. To speak up British Virgin peration on his ties, but for the consists of a box helpfulness and moment let’s with three col- for what you believe or to It would be really great, Islands. During face. Otherwise my day hike to especially trust hitchin’ on focus on these umns, labeled simply call attention to for me personally, to see Brewer’s Bay are the four pillars Tortola is a three. They’re past (your life something that deserves a all of you who will be here from Carrot snap. However, fairly straight up until a year closer look. The semester next year using your voice Bay, this un- that serve as the for the mo- forward: if ago), present (a flat island ment my snap you’re gay you year ago until is ending, but I don’t want right here in The Current, has up’ed and foundation of a is sapped and like members of the time of the that challenge to end. This but I hope you think even down’ed all the community. my legs feel your same sex, test), and ideal. summer, try taking time beyond these pages. Take energy out of like two twigs if you straight, those of the oppo- There are seven rows, labeled A – site, and if you’re bi you like both. G, each with a category listed. The to reflect on your place at what each of you already my Teen Geezer trying to boost body. Worse yet, I am losing bat- a half-ton Land Rover up a mud- Personally, I believe sexuality is a categories are sexual attraction, Champlain. What is it that has, a drive to succeed, tery power in my tune machine. dy mountainside. whole lot more complicated than sexual behavior, sexual fantasies, What’s on your mind? that. This column is dedicated emotional preference, social pref- you have experienced that learn, and grow (why else The frantic staccato beat of my Land Rover? No, but its a cracking lips. As I turn to sig- community’s culture. has you really thinking? would you be in college) Soca Calypso morbidly elongates Suzuki Sidekick, a car, I can nal the driver that I would like If the plate is aqua green to a couple people, mostly Alfred erence, life-style preference and Kinsey, who thought along the self identification. In each of the The Letter to the Editor is and make a change in “why-in . . . yu-u . . . wah . . . yis, hear it grinding its gearbox a ride, I extend my right hand with the letters RT preceding Email your letter to the editor to sha-yac . . . yu-u . . . bum buum’s behind me. index finger downward pointing the number, it is a rental ve- same lines and dedicated their 21 squares that result from this a chance to create an open your community. And start . . . .” God, I need to get my bum The audible sound of a vehicle toward the soft asphalt. Initially hicle, most likely a non-stopper. lives to the matter. table you have to rate yourself dialogue between members this summer! bum in gear, I need a ride. My up approaching from behind sends I focus on the vehicle license Tourists are generally scared as In 1948 Alfred Kinsey pub- on a scale of one through seven [email protected] lished a book called Sexual with one being completely het- of the community. I hope the “March of Death” east road a rush of adrenaline through plate, then on the driver, then rabbits, coming from cultures and down the spiral staircase my body as I straighten my Behavior in the Human Male, and erosexual and seven completely that with more time, and So, alas, I must say fare- back to the license plate. The where picking up hitchers is called the west road has already back, position my head in a self- information on the license plate five years later Sexual Behavior homosexual. The nice thing about See Insight perhaps practice, more of well as your Editor. It has taken three hours and I am not assured upright posture and try is the window to understanding in the Human Female. These this scale is that it takes into ac- you will be brave enough been an amazing experi- yet half way home. I’m out of the to separate my glued together of how hitching works in this Page 7 books contained a controversial count that sexuality can change little scale that shook up 1950s over time. If you want to try it out to speak out, or at least ence, a lot of work, and a America. The Kinsey scale pro- on yourself I’d recommend head- speak up. great deal of fun. I sincerely posed a completely foreign idea to ing to Wikipedia and clicking the friendly processes even when &ROM Jazzman’s a society that wasn’t open- minded link (in the external links section) wish the best for everyone the day is done. Your Last Night as a Free Man: about this sort of topic. His scale called “An online, self-adminis- I’ve always thought who is leaving Champlain Page 1 “We have compost for any We’re Going Curling was the visual representation of tered version of the instrument.” Cara Cattoggio has been an items that can be composted of summer as a time for this year and to those re- the best man a pussy for setting his claim that sexuality wasn’t It’s far quicker and far easier than The Champlain Current employee of Jazzman’s Café and we have separate compost "Y 0AT 7ILLWERTH growth. This summer, grow turning next year as well. up such a lame party. Honestly, just two cat- m e s s i n g since the beginning of the school for any food scraps,” says Staff Writer the appeal is lost on me. egories, gay with all the in ways that extend beyond Enjoy the summer, and Editorial Policy year. She says that pastries and Cattoggio. I just started writing an ar- The first few times you go in and straight, little boxes participating in activities find some way to surprise cookies “are made fresh every “Though we are losing, all ticle comparing different fac- to a club it seems cool, but re- but rather yourself. day,” as are the sandwiches and perishable food products that and jobs. Transcend into yourself! You just might ets of Champlain life to differ- ally, all you do is spend all your a spectrum, These two The Champlain Current publishes news salads, but if there are enough are not able to be used or sold in creating activities and find you like it. Thank you Emily Cummings Editor-In-Chief ent mens’ rooms on campus. money (I went to a club that allowing for scales make and opinions to the Champlain College left, “we can still serve them some way are composted,” says Rachel Salois Managing Editor Terrible idea for an article. had an ATM with a $30 sur- any variation the concept jobs. At the very least, take to my wonderful staff of so we are not wasteful,” says Judice, “And before we close student body and by extension to numerous I went curling a few weeks charge,) get all riled up (usu- of preference of sexuality some time to think about writers and artists who Cattoggio. for a longer break, we donate Editorial Board related audiences. The Current serves ago, so I’m going to write about ally about some chick who you along it. The as more than Jazzman’s also uses the same perishable bulk foods to the all that you are involved have all worked so hard to Elizabeth Crawford Features Editor that instead. swear really likes you, because scale is set gay, straight as a pedagogical vehicle to further the local vendors as the dining hall, Vermont Food Bank or another in this summer and really bring you this paper. Amanda King Columns Editor I drove 90 miles an hour she told you she did) then you up to look al- and bi a bit educational opportunities of Champlain which supports local farmers local food shelf.” Emily Regis Art Director the whole way to Boston, alone pack yourself into a van full of most identical to a rectangle with easier to understand. In a soci- evaluate your place in it. and Vermont in general. The And like the dining hall, Henry Soule Arts & Entertainment Editor College students in all programs of study. in the car, listening to At the dudes and drive home to an tiny a diagonal line running through it ety that loves to label things it’s Emily Cummings coffee, however, is a Jazzman’s Jazzman’s coordinates with You’ll probably find that Drive-In’s Relationship of apartment full of dudes. from lower left to upper right. The important every now and then to brand, but is still fair trade and Sustain Champlain. you have more influence Editor-in-Chief Command, with the windows But curling, that was right left was labeled zero, the right step back and realize that the cat- Staff Writers The Current’s primary function is to give from sustainable coffee farms “We are working with down, chain smoking and sing- up my alley. (Actually, in curl- six. egories we’re presenting as multi- than you realize. And next Dina Al-Ziab from around the world. Jazzman’s on expanding their voice to the diverse issues and interests ing loud as hell even though I ing, they’re called sheets. On a Kinsey scale the number ple choice options may actually be year, after you’ve had that Marissa Bentivoglio Jazzman’s also uses recyclable compost collection,” says of import to the College’s students and don’t know the words and prob- Bowling, they’re alleys.) We zero meant that the person hold- a stop along the way in a list that Anthony Carace cups, lids, salad containers, Erickson. “They do it in the time away, maybe you’ll ably never will. When the al- watched some basketball, then ing the number was exclusively goes on for a far greater distance Sean Conrad by extension, the rest of the Champlain utensils, and beverage bottles. kitchen now, but soon it will come back ready to make bum ended, I was somewhere all 22 of us crammed into a van heterosexual while the number than we thought. In fact, though Alisha Durgin community. While mindful of the differing Currently Jazzman’s signature be available for customers as in New Hampshire. I switched and headed out to Broomstones six meant the holder was exclu- it would have been hard to imag- change here on campus. Michael Sheerin paper coffee cups cannot be well.” tastes of its readers, the Current believes to the radio and Sonny Came Curling Club in Wayland, MA. sively homosexual. The beauty of ine at its publication, the Kinsey recycled or composted, but they “The staff has been trained Amina Srna that opinions responsibly and realistically Home, the Shawn Colvin song, Picture an Elk’s Lodge with a the scale lies in the five numbers scale is now considered outdated are working to change that. to be more sustainable by As Editor for the paper, Carissa Stimpfel was on the radio. I kept driving 4-lane bowling alley in the mid- in between. A one would mean because it over-simplifies sexual- expressed deserve to be given voice. “We contacted our corporate reducing, reusing, recycling, Jamie Tam 90 and singing loud as hell, and dle of a circular balcony and ten you are only incidentally homo- ity. It’s a complicated issue with I have been privileged with office and have been cleared and composting,” says Judice. Sarah Thibodeau I know more of the words than feet below, like an icy gladiator sexual, perhaps as in the case of different answers for every per- the ability to influence to use another product that is “Our goal now is to expand this Remy Vogler Subjects including sex, violence, alcohol, I’m proud to admit. I was in a pit. There’s a bar off to the side our friends the pirates, two would son. So the only answer I have to suitable,” says Judice. notion to our customers and change and voice my opin- Nick Walge good mood. of the balcony serving Harpoon make you mostly heterosexual give you is, quite simply, don’t be drugs, and profanity will appear in the Jazzman’s also offers a helping them to become part of ion. It is daunting, but it is It was a bachelor party. We IPA bottles for $2.50, and a but more than incidentally homo- afraid to think outside the box. Pat Willwerth Current only when they further the discount on all coffee refills when this sustainable environment.” were going to watch some Sweet there’s a wood fire. There’s an sexual, a three would make you also an honor. My hope is, customers use the Jazzman’s Using recyclable materials, content of the piece, and will be printed Sixteen basketball, then go curl- upstairs with a chalkboard and equally both and a four would through my challenge, you Alex Dahl Assistant Art Director Café biodegradable refill mugs locally grown products, in at the discretion of the editor-in-chief in ing. I couldn’t have been hap- a man drawing curling strategy start the cycle again going in the Warren Baker Faculty Advisor or their own personal refill addition to a compost system, feel as though that same pier with the itinerary. I’ve been diagrams with X’s and O’s. other direction. consultation with the managing editor and mug. Jazzman’s Café is a proven honor has been passed on to four or five bachelor parties A match was in session Sites such as okcupid.com give Printed at Vermont Publishing Co., St. Albans, VT the faculty advisor. Minimizing their carbon companion of the Sustain in the last few years, and they you tests that will rank you on the to you. And, with time, footprint further, Jazzman’s Café Champlain movement and a See Curling all have to involve strippers of scale. I tried it and came up with incorporates environmentally friend of the environment. at some point or everyone calls Page 8 a three, making the test fairly Page 6 FEATURES The Champlain Current | April 2010 The Champlain Current | April 2010 FEATURES Page 7
&ROM Iron Chef Page 1 Champlain Students Crunch Tax Numbers Crutches and Canes for Haiti pizza and Scottish shortbread to Longtime Accounting Professor Soncrant Sees Return on Community Work the tunes of a kilt-clad bagpiper performing at their station. Next "Y !MANDA 0ETRY that it wasn’t going to be fun or to them, Team Mardi Gras, led by Special to the Current exciting, but I find myself waking Laura Huffman and Katherine up every Saturday morning Oliver, brought out the spirit of Thirty years ago Champlain wanting to do these taxes. That New Orleans as they served gum- College accounting professor is when you know you have found bo, etouffee, and king cake while Champ Soncrant didn’t have to something truly worth all of this passing out green, gold, and pur- think twice when the Internal attention,” explained Colleen ple beads. Team D and D, David Revenue Service (IRS) asked if Robie, an accounting major. Wolfe and Dave Bombardier, he would get students involved Soncrant’s students receive cooked up spicy pepper and onion in the Volunteer Income Tax one credit on their transcripts sausages and Italian zeppole in a Assistance Program (VITA). for 40 hours of volunteer work. Jersey Shore theme as a DJ blast- Today, he still speaks Every year he pitches the idea ed fist-pumping beats and raffled passionately about Champlain to his students and usually off t-shirts. And Team Bookstore, College’s commitment to the about 80 percent of the class Sue Brown and Pat Burke, creat- program. VITA is a governmental raises their hands. “I have never ed a southern chuck wagon, load- program that offers free tax had a problem getting people to ing plates with ribs, coleslaw, and help for low-to-moderate income volunteer, it is very impressive, baked beans. 2OB OF THE $ AND $ TEAM SERVED UP 3AUSAGE SANDWICHES AND FRIED DOUGH taxpayers, elderly taxpayers, Soncrant said. Brooke Stuart, a new DREAM and military personnel and their Robyn Bahar, the site mentor experiencing her first Iron families. coordinator at Casey Family Chef, enjoyed her experience on Soncrant and the students Services, says that the Champlain 7ORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH &!(# #HAMPLAINS h#RUTCHES AND #ANES FOR (AITIv RELIEF Team Mardi Gras. are involved working primarily College students who volunteer EFFORT COMMITTEE SPEARHEADED A TWO WEEK DRIVE TO COLLECT ASSISTIVE DEVICES FOR SURVIVORS “It’s a lot of fun,” she said as with low-to-moderate income there are really invested in OF (AITIS EARTHQUAKE 4HE DRIVE NETTED CANES AND CRUTCHES WHOSE DESTINATION IS THE 0HYSICIANS FOR 0EACE HEADQUARTERS IN .ORFOLK 6IRGINIA BEFORE THEY WILL BE SHIPPED TO (AITI she helped pass out beads and taxpayers. “It’s a group effort, but the program. Casey Family 3OPHOMORE 0SYCHOLOGY MAJOR ,ORELEI *ACKSON WAS ONE OF THE STUDENT VOLUNTEERS king cake to diners. “I like going the students are the real heroes Services has provided tax help around and serving people, help- here, they are the ones who do for VITA qualifiers for the past ing out my team.” the work.” Soncrant said. seven years. They are able to Stuart’s enthusiasm paid off Students from any academic effectively execute the program as Team Mardi Gras came away major can become volunteers. with help from students, who victorious. Diners were given bal- Soncrant leads a three-day make up about 75 percent of the Tweeting Takes Over lots, sampling the wide selection workshop that teaches the volunteers there. of food from the four teams and fundamentals of tax returns. “Tax time is stressful and casting their vote for the most At the end of the three days, this program takes a big burden better able to focus on quality skills by having to ask very #Campchamp delicious. Only one team could students take an exam and if off of people,” Bahar said. Casey time with their children. personal information. claim the title of Iron Chef, but they pass they become VITA has even created workshops “Everyday is a learning “It is the kind of stuff you don’t "Y -ARISSA "ENTIVOGLIO assignment has lead to job oppor- all of the teams were winners volunteers. Students are placed that advise people what to do experience and I am glad I get find in a classroom,” Soncrant Staff Writer tunities for some ambitious indi- who raised hundreds of dollars -ONIQUE 0REVOS -ATT +ARKUT "ROOKE 3TUART ND RD AND TH FROM LEFT WITH #HAMPLAIN in small groups and sent to local with their tax refunds. “It gives to learn from this.” Robie added. said. He goes on to say “that viduals. ’08 Champlain gradu- for DREAM. #OLLEGE !LUMNI 0(/4/ "9 %2)# 0/,,/#+ 0AUL %SPINA $2%!- OFlCE STAFF 0(/4/3 "9 34%0(%. -%!3%community centers with site families opportunities to create Champlain College students facial expression from a taxpayer Whether it’s an assignment for a ate Grace Boyle who majored in coordinators where they can get savings bonds and open saving are getting real life experience who just realized that they are media communications course, to Public Relations is the college’s hands-on experience. accounts so they can become with people from the community getting money back is incredible, advocate for a club on-campus, to case study for using social media Currently, 30 Champlain that they may never come in it’s significant to them and locate a job, or just to complain to land a job after graduation. &ROM Loch I won’t tell you what the mon- few pages states that “the science Scottish Highlands, and his de- Unfortunately, friends, I can’t you want to see how crappy they financially stable,” and according really can get. The Loch read wasCollege students are involved to Bahar, families who spend less contact with their future careers. it’s amazing.” about the internet at Spinner Boyle wanted to pursue a posi- Page 3 ster looks like, but it’s probably behind the story is quite real.” piction of the monster itself is, if leave you with a loaded book list nothing like anyone might have That may be true—Alten inserts nothing else, original. But when for the summer, as a good read- a testament to that—it was im-in the program. “I was worried time worrying about money are They are developing social Place, students, faculty and staff tion in Boulder, Colorado after wheeler, though that’s what hap- imagined. It’s definitely not a his own knowledge of the latest lawyers and ye olde knights are ing companion would. I don’t even possible to get rid of when I was at Champlain, or #campchamp as Champlain and did so with the pened as I continued reading. I Plesiosaur, and it’s most certainly sonar and monster-seeking tech- thrown into the water, dastardly know what I’m going to read next. only a quarter of the way through. it is known to the Twitterverse, power of networking social media mean, c’mon—it’s a book about not a model made by NASA. It’s nology to illustrate that a beast deeds run amok, and they are bet- But it’s not my job to tell you In any case, read. For the love of are flocking to Twitter to connect, (and a lot of hard work!). the Loch Ness Monster. If you’re something far more absurd and may indeed lurk in the deepest ter left unread and unsaid. what to read; I’m not the profes- some kind of deity, READ! Don’t share, learn and gripe. Current students are also as big a cryptozoology nerd as I disgustingly disturbing than any lake in Great Britain, and some of So what happens? Wallace con- sor of a summer course. It’s up to just pop on the dummy box when PC Mag, an online magazine making use of Twitter by tweet- am, you wouldn’t really care what rendition of the Monster I’ve ever it seems very legitimate—but I’m fronts the beast, electrocutes it you what you decide to pick up it’s too hot to go outside. Open a focusing on e-business, defines ing what’s good in the dining the story’s about, so long as you heard of. more inclined to fancy the legend through an amazing series of co- this summer, flip through, and, book or a newspaper or a maga- Twitter as, “A very popular in- hall, or what clubs are having get a glimpse of the beast. The title alone dragged me into than take the word of an out of incidences and mishaps, and the hopefully, enjoy. Even if you don’t zine and let your mind move. Your stant messaging system that lets meetings and where they are lo- Of course, I had to get through this tale of one of the most an- work marine biologist. legend of Nessie dies once and find something you like, read it brain cells will thank you for it. Q a person send brief text messages cated. The Environmental Club, with LEAD up to 140 characters in length to a Student Government Association, evil Templar Knights, futile and cient and renowned legends ever There’s not much to say about for all. There, I’ve said it. There’s anyway. You may eventually find Over and out, bibliophiles. failed love stories, and ruthless concocted by the human imagina- this heavy-handed yet contrived nothing left to drudge through. something about it you take plea- What’s Next for Sophomores list of followers. Launched in 2006, Ski and Ride Club, LEAD, and businessmen to finally sneak a tion. But Alten has put a pretty book except this—don’t put it on Bottom line—DO NOT attempt to sure in, and it’ll probably be the Twitter was designed as a social other organizations on campus A network to keep friends and col- have a twitter account that the crummy peak of Nessie, and even unbearable spin on the myth of the top of your list. Alten paints unlock The Loch. You’ll only suc- end. Most bad books are surpris- the full shots were pretty sad. the Loch. A disclaimer in the first some pretty pictures of the ceed in getting WICKED mad. ingly hard to put down because & leagues informed throughout the various representatives update "Y -ARISSA "ENTIVOGLIO Sophomore Symposium to cre- learned from her experiences Q: Is the name changing day. However, it became widely about activities happening on LEAD PR Representative ate next year’s experience? that we can all apply to our from Sophomore Symposium used for commercial and politi- campus. Students can “follow” ! ! A: We have read and re- own lives. to something else? cal purposes to keep customers, librarians at Miller Information The LEAD Peer Advisors read all of the feedback from A: We have discussed a constituents and fans up-to-date Commons (@champlib) whose ac- have been busy since last last semester’s Sophomore Q: How is it looking that name change, but nothing as well as to solicit feedback… count is run by Andy Burkhardt, year’s Sophomore Symposium Symposium. It can be difficult, the day will be set up? has been decided yet. It will Twitter messages (“tweets”) can Emerging Technologies Librarian working to create a desir- though, because when you’re A: It’s looking like it will be be a more “conference-esque” be made public and sent to any- and Sarah Cohen, Information able experience for rising aiming to please a number of a weekend DAY. Not an eve- experience. one requesting the feed, or they Literacy Librarian. Besides an- Sophomores next fall. What people, you are displeasing ning sort of thing. We’re plan- can be sent only to approved fol- swering students’ questions, they -'22+3! can students expect? An in- another group of people. We ning on a Sunday, starting in lowers” (http://www.pcmag.com/ will often will tweet pictures of terview with Leanne Gilardi, are working very hard to find the late morning/early after- “We could not be more ex- encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=Twit the view of Lake Champlain from Head Peer Advisor (PA) for the that happy medium so that noon. The event will consist of cited about next year’s open- ter&i=57880,00.asp). MIC’s third floor vantage point. Sophomore Symposium Track everyone can find something more than just a keynote and ing sophomore program. We The typical Champlain stu- Besides the Champlain com- reveals what’s in store for the beneficial and useful from the a conversation...while there have a keynote speaker who dent’s exposure to Twitter most munity of #campchamp is the Sophomore LEAD requirement experience. We want to create is a lot more planning for us has really pushed the enve- likely began with Elaine Young’s greater Burlington community -%4+5%+6! for Fall 2010. a transition from the “com- to do, we are aiming for far lope and done amazing things. internet marketing course. “I or #btv. This hash tag provides munity” aspect of year one of more interaction between the Alison Levine led the first all started playing with [Twitter] in information about what is going Q: Can you please ex- LEAD into the “professional” students and their division/ American female team on an March of 2007, and talking about on around the city of Burlington. plain what the Sophomore focus of year two. academic advisors as well as Everest Expedition and will it in class a little during Fall 2007. Many local eateries such as Symposium track has been workshops (dare I say work- attempt her second climb with- Then Spring 2008 I started doing Handy’s Lunch, August First, working on? Q: Can you reveal details shops) that tailor more towards in the next few weeks. When more with it. Fall 2008 was the big New Moon and many others will A: This semester the track about the speaker and who what they students want to be she speaks to us in October, push,” said Young, Assistant Dean tweet what their specials of the #$!789 has been figuring out what she is? learning about. I’m sure her adventure will be of Business as well as a business day are. Most recently Free Cone it is that motivates students A: She is Alison Levine, Q: As the person who ran fresh in her mind. I’m told she professor. As part of Champlain’s Day at Ben & Jerry’s was a topic -$',:!45!;+#'$4<'=!8+32>5$! to attend an event like this. and she is someone who has Sophomore Symposium last will come prepared with many hands-on philosophy, Elaine has of discussion using the #btv hash What they want to hear, what really done it. Alison started fall, how do you feel students first-hand slides and stories her students dive right into the tag. $&46!6'22+3)!?4$&!789@6! kind of person will get them climbing mountains just 18 will respond to this Fall’s and, most important, with les- new technology, even if some peo- The school is also finding many 45$+564.+!$3#4545A!%>'36+6! inspired. We are trying very months after her second sur- sophomore event? sons learned that we can all ple are hesitant. ways to promote Champlain on 45!9'64%#=!B&+#$3+C!?+6$! hard to improve upon the gery to repair a life-threat- A: I think we will have apply to our own lives as we That was then, now many Twitter. The Office of Admission 2009 Symposium based on ening heart condition. She people wishing they could be think about our careers and media classes including Rob has a twitter account @cham- D<34%#5!E3'2245AC!D3F reactions from last year and served as the team captain of there with the Sophomores, future.” William’s Contemporary Media plainedu while Public Information A+5$45+!B#5A>C!G#$45!H#IIC! feedback from our Sophomore the first American Women’s and Sophomores kicking Shelli Goldsweig, Director Issues courses (also known as Officer Stephen Mease uses PA’s as well. Everest Expedition and is now themselves if they skip the day of LEAD J&>$>A3#(&:!#5,!-%'=($'3+C! #MCM315 on Twitter) are tweet- Twitter to get the word out preparing to begin her second of. That’s what we’re shooting ing about what they’re reading, about Champlain College (@ :>'!%#5!422+36+!:>'36+=3$!K#=L!<3>2!,>K5$>K5! the professor. Young’s senior level tweeting” or quoting what stu- !"#$"%&'#())%) marketing students are graded dents on twitter are saying about M'3=45A$>5@6!%'=$'3#=! on their “live-tweeting” efforts, Champlain. What’s a better way #$$3#%$4>56N!G+#35!<3>2! *+("),%+(-#%&'+%.$/) &ROM Insight 50/50 odds of getting a ride. It’s a pillars that serve as the founda- hills gettin’ ta me,” I pronounce which require students to sum- to get the true feel of a college Page 5 toss up; might as well flip a coin. tion of a community. Stranger, in an appreciative manner, in my marize the content of a presenta- than directly from the students 3+5>K5+,!<#%'=$:C!45%=',45A!"43%=+!45!$&+!-O'#3+@6! tion and send tweets throughout themselves? 012+&)233%+&)%))$1") The white TX plate indicates a neighbor, islander, visitor, it best Tortotolan dialect. It seemed !"##$%&&'C!3+6(+%$+,!(+3%'664>546$!(&)&*+$,-.&/C! like playing Russian roulette. taxi and that’s not hitchin’. A red doesn’t matter. If someone needs right. the duration. The point of this Twitter is a technology people #%%=#42+,!#3$46$!,-)"/$0&1"22C!%+=+;3#$+,!%>2(>6+3! Besides navigating the frighten- GV plate is a government vehicle a ride, he /she will nearly always “No problem mahn, dis’ be “live-tweeting” is so that people can use to crowd source informa- 412)$"5&(6($#(-#% ing challenges of driving and just and you may just as well shift get a ride especially if the vehicle Tola.” he replies with a smile who are reading and following the tion. Students, faculty and staff 3)24)-$5678))"##!#5,!(3><+664>5#=!,#5%+3!9#":8;&2.$ staying on the road are gunfight that downward extended fin- is sporting a beautiful yellow li- as warm as the soles of my feed on twitter can benefit from on Twitter were asked to comment <&+#&))!75,+3A3#,6C!A3#,6C!#5,!(>6$F;#%6!K+=%>2+N! 78%'$(#&$"/%+%)/&8+15+(3) odds of 50/50 on Tortola. An ex- ger upward to signal a greetin,’ cense plate. In this struggling sandals. “We ahl goht ta healp the presentation without being on the #campchamp community ception is a single male driver rather than the hitchin’ request, part of the world where trust is we bruddahs.” physically present. using the hashtag #CCcurrent. P+A46$+3!$>,#:!#5,!$#L+!#,.#5$#A+!>?$<4**&)$6=@$A4"2"-/$<8B"/CD! and then there is about a 30/70 foh no hitchas.” shared. On Tortola, as on other white-knuckling, tire-screeching 73(##%+&'#())&)$:%) chance of getting a ride. A cou- A bright yellow plate begin- small, impoverished islands in roller coaster of a ride back to #$!4B*E&'4FD4**&)FG.8*H)!! ple, a family, or the ever-popular ning with PV, for private vehicle, the Caribbean, hitchin’ is a way my home in Carrot Bay is excit- “Two Couples Per-Jeep Combo” is by far the best of all hitchin’ of life, because people look out for ing and bladder testing, but that are definite no-stoppers; forget possibilities, especially when one another, after all isn’t that is the nature of hitchin’ on this about it, not worth the twist of driven by a local male, either solo what a community or family for community of an island. an aching back. They will inten- or with male companions. Odds that matter is all about? tionally divert their eyes trying of a lift are ninety percent, may- Professor Stracke teaches vari- madly to concentrate as they ride be more. Even local families in s s s s s ous sociological and social sci- the nightmare of narrow, serpen- PV-mobiles will stop for a hitcher ence courses in the EHS Division. tine, pot-holed, switchback roads. although single women in PV’s I hear a vehicle about to round He has taught at Champlain The look of fright as they careen are unlikely to pick up a male the switch back just above me. since 1973 and has traveled and around blind corners overlook- hitchist, but that makes sense in “Oh please, Mighty God of the written about the Caribbean ing sheer 200-foot drop-offs is so any community. Potholed Roadway, let the plate since 1974. Professor Stracke convincing that you really don’t Sociologically, the yellow be yellow.” As the local male-driv- and his wife, Dr. Lynda Reid cre- want to ride with them anyway. PV plate best represents how en PV-mobile approaches, I mime ated the Stracke/Reid Cultural Did I mention that Tortola is Tortolan culture works, why most my warmest smile and sharply Immersion Scholarship in 2006 If you’d like to join Twitter and have any questions, send them to very un-flat? of the 21.5 square mile island is snap point my right index finger to assist Champlain students to [email protected] or @MBenti on Twitter. The letters CM on a light blue actually one large community. toward the pavement with confi- study abroad. !"#$%&!'()!*+$!#&+#,)!-#.+!/01)! license plate indicate a commer- Courtesy, respect, helpfulness dence. Yes, yes, yes . . . he stops. cial vehicle and provide decent and especially trust are the four I pile in. “Goohd dahy sahr, des’ Page 8 The Champlain Current | April 2010 Champlain Current staff, Spring 2010
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I said no, so I went back to the those flaws can be corrected with &ROM Curling &ROM Bad Company 2 end of the sheet. It was my turn patches and the good moments Page 5 Page 2 to sweep again, and I ate shit. have far outweighed the bad. when we got there, between a The guy asked if I hit my head, States’ power grid. The campaign Spawning on my squad-mates Canadian and an American club, and I told him I hadn’t, and he was simply brilliant. I really liked and laying down suppressive fire so our slot got bumped back an asked if I wanted to sit down the characters and I laughed for advancing friendlies is a great hour. We were invited to sit at for a minute, and I started get- quite a bit. I was left wanting moment. Hitting the last remain- the bar, watch the match, and ting surly, so he invited me to go more and looking forward to Bad ing wall of a building to collapse it warned not to imbibe too much. pitch again Company 3. on a bunch of enemies about to rip I grabbed an armful of Again, my left foot slid out Multiplayer consists of “four” me apart was pure bliss. Oh did Harpoon’s and carried them from under me, the little plas- modes: Rush, Conquest, and I forget to mention that? You can over to the edge of the balcony. tic disk shot out and slid to the Squad Rush and Squad Conquest. collapse buildings! Bad Company Cracked one for my cousin and sheet beside me, and I flopped Rush has a team defending sets of 2 didn’t invent destructible en- I, and started observing. onto my stomach and threw the M-COM stations, basically a box vironments, but it is honed the God damn, it looks almost stone like a hook shot. with a radio, from the attacking practice to a fine art. You’ll find as easy when these people play I started getting nervous. forces. The maps begin locked to yourself considering strategies as it looks with the Olympians. What if I was actually the worst just the two forward-most sta- that were impossible in previous Men and women, teenagers, player there. I looked around at tions, though after they are de- games, it is really something to soccer moms, wigs and knee re- the three other sheets. One guy stroyed the next area opens up. behold. placement, all playing together put a stone in play. Two other Most areas have specific vehicles Character progression makes on the same team. I started get- guys fell on their stomachs and that only spawn when that area an appearance but is nothing ting into it. I gave all the players chucked the stone down the is the main battlefield. Conquest revolutionary. You can choose to HTTPWWWPLATFORMNATIONCOM nicknames and started cheering ice. Then three guys fell on is the same mode that has been spawn as assault, engineer, medic, my favorites on. An instructor their stomachs and chucked the around since the first Battlefield or recon (sniper), and each class walked by and I asked her for stones down the ice. game, territory control. Each has its own unlock trees. Certain the new material. Tunes like &ROM Hendrix some inside tips. We sat down A couple from the American team must capture and hold spe- weapons are unlocked for all class- the “Ships Passing Through the Page 2 and she talked and I pretended club was watching us from the cific areas of the map and defend/ es though most are class-specific. Night” and the title track sound I knew what she was talking balcony, laughing and shaking attack until the enemy runs out Unfortunately, the game has a lot are all quite enticing. “Stone like rough sketches that never about. I knew I was going to be their heads. I went upstairs to of reinforcements. The Squad ver- of trouble remembering which of Free” completely revamps it’s got fleshed out into florid psy- the best player out there, and grab another beer (for balance) sions of each mode have smaller the unlocked items you selected verses, using a funky sway rath- chedelic masterpieces they un- that I was imbibing too much. and the man turned to me, maps and each team is restricted for use, and will often select the er than a cowbell stomp, ren- doubtedly would have become. When the time to take the grinned and said, to one squad, and frankly feels default weapon. Going through dering it an almost completely It seems like Valleys is at is best ice approached, the instruc- “How you doin’ out there?” tacked on. the classes and re-picking your new song— and on par with when Hendrix is just jamming, tor brought us upstairs to the “It’s kinda hard,” I told him, Multiplayer is extremely fun, weapons and perks every game is the original. The slow blues of as one of the most stinging man chalking up X’s, O’s, and “but I think I’m starting to get but it needs a heavy dose of bal- inconvenient and irritating. “Red House” has been played cuts here is instrumental cover sloped lines. I sat on a couch in the hang of it.” ance. Mediocre helicopter pilots All in all, Bad Company 2 is to death, but it hardly ever gets of “Sunshine of Your Love.” It the back of the room snickering He laughed and choked on can keep the entire enemy team well worth the current cost of ad- old, and the version here is cer- might be a travesty to say it, but with my cousin his beer until it in check due to a severe lack of mission. It won’t be the only game tainly worthy. The real standout it blows Cream’s original away. and didn’t hear squirted out his anti-aircraft weaponry. More than I’m playing over the summer, but is “Hear My Train A Comin’” a There’s really no blaming Jimi much, but I did nose. I walked a few times I found my team ei- it’s definitely not going in to the tune that’s only surfaced a few for the albums weaker points; hear that they to the edge of ther steamrolling the opposing closet for a long while. Final opin- times on other releases since we all know he would have tin- were not provid- the balcony to force or unable to venture out ion: 4 out of 5. Jimi’s death, and the version kered away in the studio until ing us with spe- watch from his of our spawning area. However, here rocks like a locomotive. It’s they were the scorching beast cial shoes, one vantage point spooky, swampy, slow blues of he wanted them to be if he could that slips and for a minute. the kind only Jimi could do and have. When he just shuts up and one that grips, You could see of synths and notes everywhere, &ROM Plastic Beach the kind we’re always craving starts soloing though, every- like you’re sup- everything, and but it does little to draw me Page 3 more of. And of course the ver- thing is just right on. Playing posed to wear. man, did we look in. Everything begins to blur mumbling courtesy of fictional sion of “Fire” is just as incendi- guitar he always got right on the The next best thing is a pair of like a bunch of assholes. together, after a while, especially vocalist 2D (actually sung by ary as the original. first try. sneakers, and I had steel toed I never put a single stone in as the album draws itself out. Albarn) sounded disinterested, Things generally wane on work boots. play. Three times I made it all Overall, it’s average. There are like he didn’t really care one way The first thing I did was walk the way down the sheet without some interesting parts here and or another about the music. While onto the ice with a glass bottle, falling. Twice I swept for the there, but it’s just too… average. “Sweepstakes” succeeds with the which they had repeatedly told wrong team. It is the hardest Not catchy or interesting enough relatively dynamic performance us not to do. I put it back in- sport I have ever tried to play. I to be good, but not weak enough of Mos Def, songs like “Some Kind side, and they gave us a lesson don’t understand. I’m a shuffle- to be bad. Potentially worth of Nature” trip over themselves. on pitching the stone. board player to be feared, but I it if you’re a dedicated fan of The atmosphere begins to get a Basically, there’s a pair of just couldn’t get it to translate. Gorillaz, or if you want some calm bit tired around the second half of starting blocks, like track run- But I did walk out with most background music to jam out to, the album, and the songs begin to ners use, stuck in the ice. You get of my money in my wallet (well, but otherwise Plastic Beach does blur together. A few of the tracks, into a position like you would for I didn’t walk out with my wallet. not measure up. like “Sweepstakes”, have a flurry a 300 meter dash, leaning one I left it next to my sheet, and hand on the stone and gripping the guy who kept asking if my it, then you push off with your head was okay gave it back to right foot and drop you right me.) What I’m saying is, I didn’t knee to the ice. You have a slip- spend much money, and best of pery, frictionless plastic disk un- all, my libido was so crushed der your left foot, and you keep by my pitiful performance, I that foot flat on the ice. couldn’t have had sex if I tried, Theoretically, you’re sup- so when we packed ourselves posed to release the stone with like ill-tempered sardines into only the force of your momentum that van full of dudes, the only sending it gliding, twisting your thought on my mind was getting wrist slightly on the release to to the T so I could start singing make it curl. I slid about four Charlie on the MTA to the sub- feet before I landed on my back way passengers. like a flipped beetle, swinging Anyway, I guess this is the my right arm wildly and chuck- last article I will ever write for ing the stone down the ice and the Champlain Current. God out of play. speed to each and every one Next, I took hold of the broom, of you, and if you ever want to crouched into stance, started know why I think going to the shuffling down the ice holding Champlain gym to shoot hoops the broom like a hockey stick, is comparable to the second floor heard the call to sweep, and men’s room in MIC, come seek then there was a guy standing me out. over me asking if I was okay. I felt fine, so I told him that, and he asked if I hit my head. HTTPWWWTHEFADERCOMWP CONTENTUPLOADSGORILLAZ PLASTIC BEACHJPG HTTPWIZBANGPOPCOMIMAGESJIMIHENDRIXVALLEYSOFNEPTUNEJPG