State University of New York at Fredonia The Issue No. 7, Volume XXV LeaderWednesday October 16, 2013 Brown bag series begins BombaYo brings with talk about The the spirit of bomba College Lodge to campus a-4 b-2 New law Our own identity crisis aims to CARL LAM Staff Writer control “Where do you go to school?” A majority of students can probably answer that question quite comfortably and give a house definitive answer. However, at SUNY Fredonia … I mean Fredonia State … I mean State parties University of New York College at Fredonia — this is the problem. S.L. FULLER What is our official title for this school? Special to The Leader It’s quite possible to stop 10 people and get three to four different answers. Here we are At the Student Association general folks, in the midst of an identity crisis; however, assembly meeting last Thursday, Dr. there’s a committee that’s working to change David Herman announced the new this dilemma. Social Host Law. This is a village We’ve seen SUNY Fredonia in many places ordinance that was voted into effect like the website, most letterhead and any mail by the Fredonia Board of Trustees that gets sent to you. midsummer 2013. The new ordinance It gets even trickier because we don’t iden- targets serving alcohol to minors at tify our athletic teams as the SUNY Fredonia house parties and has been used on Blue Devils because that’s a whole mouthful. residents twice already this school So instead, they go by the Fredonia State Blue year, neither case going to court. Devils, which creates another identity. “This Social Host Law is actually That’s not all: the campus bookstore sells an outcome of the Campus Community merchandise all year round with the letters FSU Coalition,” said Chief of Fredonia slapped onto anything they can. The problem Police, Brad Meyers. “This was some- with that is then you have to make clear to people thing that was brought forward near that you don’t go to Florida State University, the end of the [last school year] from but rather Fredonia State University. that committee, then was presented This idea of rebranding, as some call it, to the Village of Fredonia board and comes after the university’s mission statement reworked and voted into place.” saw a major makeover by trimming nearly a Fredonia is not the first college couple hundred words to make it more clear and town to create such an ordinance. direct. That was completed last fall and, now Brockport, Alfred and Monroe county its goal is to have the campus agree mutually also have similar ordinances in effect. on one name we can all be proud to represent. Before the Social Host Law, serv- The Branding Investigation Committee ing alcohol to minors was a class A has been formed and is being led by Director misdemeanor. Now, instead of having to of Public Relations Michael Barone. President take statements from everyone present Virginia Horvath has charged the committee at the scene and taking fingerprints with investigating the current brand to best and mugshots of the hosts, the police Melissa Rechin / Photo Editor determine if the university is showcasing its can issue appearance tickets to those Signs welcoming visitors to campus show the different ways Fredo- strengths and qualities. responsible and move along. It is no nia is represented. “We are in the process of researching the longer a class A misdemeanor. words, associations and attributes currently linked change during this process of rebranding as simply changing its name. “If you rent that apartment and with the university by its target audiences,” well. Our current logo, with the backslash ‘A’ “It’s part of a huge endeavor about making you throw a party and you’re providing Barone said. “We will then analyze the data was designed nearly three decades ago and sure the visual representation of our campus is alcohol [to those underage], whether and determine if the current brand and visual the tagline of, ‘where success is a tradition,’ is something that reflects who we are,” Horvath said. free, or charge of money, you’re com- identity accurately reflect those attributions.” quite antiquated as well. Horvath also mentioned that this rebranding mitting a crime,” said Meyers. “What Those visual identity components that In a recent interview on High Noon Friday we’re looking to do is be effective … Barone is talking about include the logo, tag- from Fredonia Radio Systems, Horvath men- Continued on page A-2 in stopping the house party in a timely line and more. Some of those items could tioned that this process is more than the campus manner while not necessarily leaving the individuals responsible with an indelible criminal record.” Another aspect of the Social Host Law is that an appearance ticket is SA to hold annual elections issued to every rent-paying tenant — even if all of the tenants are not there. ANNE RITZ The book opens Oct. 15 and is open in explained that her major, chemistry, requires “Whether you’re there or not, News Editor the SA office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. everyday her to do an abundance of labs and work. whether you agree with what’s hap- of the week. If a student is interested in run- Dorozynski explained that write-in can- pening or not, you chose those room- With Student Assembly executive elec- ning, they sign the book and then will be in didates are also acceptable, but it is generally mates, you chose that place to live,” tions quickly approaching, many students have the running. atypical of winning the elections for executive said Meyers. “What goes on inside begun to consider running. Elections are in "The way our’s are, you have to run as a positions. There is no maximum amount of your house is your responsibility; you November, and elected students start their slate, so someone that wants to run as president time an executive can hold a position. They are held accountable.” elected positions in January. or vice president — they pick each other, so can hold a position for two or more terms. According to Meyers, community "The way that we hold our executive elec- they run together," said Dorozynski. "A lot of times someone won't run again outcry was one factor that lead to this tions, we have a book that people interested in Dorozynski’s current vice president, junior new ordinance. running have to sign," said senior and current Cassidy Benson, is straying from the norm and President Erin Dorozynski. not running for president for next year. Benson Continued on page A-3 Continued on page A-2 A-2A-2 TheThe LeaderLeader,, WednesdayWednesday AprilOctober 11,2 201216, 2013 Adjunct Spotlight: Woodard trains speech pathologists with essential tool CARL LAM call to whoever it may be. It might be family, a Staff Writer doctor, a lawyer or to order a pizza,” she said. Woodard says her inspiration to choose It may not be the most easily recognized this field came at a very young age and from example, but it is the most convenient. In a then on, there’s no looking back. season of The Apprentice, contestant Marlee “The reason I went to sign language was Matlin had interpreter Jack Jason for the entire because my parents rented to a deaf couple competition to help her understand what was at one time. I remember as a young child and being said. Here at SUNY Fredonia, we have a my mother used to meet with this woman qualified interpreter like that, and she’s teach- regularly,” Woodard said. “My mother knew ing students the skills they’ll need to succeed no sign language — so they wrote notes back in a growing field. and forth. I remember being very young and Lori Woodard is an adjunct professor for sitting nearby hearing them laugh.” the Department of Communication Disorders She recalls having the conversation with and Sciences, grew up in Dunkirk and attended her mom about deafness for the first time. SUNY Fredonia as an undergraduate student. Naturally, the segue to college was a chance She majored in speech pathology and audiol- for Woodard to branch out into speech pathol- ogy, which is now known as communication ogy, but there were a few bumps along the way. disorders and sciences. Her graduate studies However, there was one niche Woodard found were completed at Canisius College in Buffalo, herself particularly interested in. where she earned her master’s in deaf education. “When you’re a CDS major here, you have “After that, I pursued my passion of to learn to be a jack of all trades and a master American Sign Language and became a cer- of all trades. I found out when I got here, I was Carl Lam / Staff Writer tified interpreter. I still take courses as a long good at all those things, but I wasn’t top notch, Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences, professor life learner,” Woodard said. except for the deafness part,” she said. “I was Lori Woodward. Many school districts in the Western always fascinated with the ear and the hearing differently about their clients is kind of cool. has had. Erin Watkins, a senior communication New York area have scaled back on language mechanism.” Not as someone who’s deficient, defective or disorders and sciences major, is glad she took offerings within the past decade but Woodard From the start, Woodard was certain that in need of repair but just someone who is just the ASL classes that are offered here, even if has had experience teaching at the high school she wanted to be in a profession where she could a minority group.” they were required for her major.