Track Stars Blaze Past the Competion
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THURSDAY INSIDE April 28, 2011 “Oedipus Back to Back” News..........1-3 Review Opinions......4-6 LIFESTYLES PG 7 Lifestyles..7-9 INDEX Ten things you need to do Sports.....10-12 before you leave Cortland Vol. LXXXVIII No. 20 OPINIONS PG 5 State University of New York College at Cortland Track Stars Blaze Past the Competion Photo by Todd Curtis Members of the Cortland Women’s Track team cross the finish line in absolute style last weekend, April 22/23. See page 10, “Track and Field Review,” for the full story Make a Pledge From Seniors to Alumni Health Club inspires stu- team to get eight hours of sleep on Seniors are reminded to you connected to the College your undergraduate or graduate Health-Wellness Day; Non-Tra- you love so dearly? The Office survey, please visit www.cort- dents to make a healthy ditional Students’ Organization stay connected as alumni of Alumni Affairs serves as your land.edu/alumni and choose the pledge for Wellness Day will drink an extra bottle of wa- after they graduate connection to maintaining a rela- “Class of 2011” box on the left ter, and APAC pledges to perform tionship with your Alma Mater; hand side as soon as possible. self breast or testicular examina- however, the link starts with you. These tools are the only way the tions on Health-Wellness Day. By Ashley Stanton-Follett and Did you know that after College can keep serving you. As By Hannah Connelly Lee Ann Mazzarissi Staff Writer Individual pledges have also graduation your Cortland e-mail you pack up your parents’ mini- been submitted, such as Profes- Contributing Writers account is deleted? While some van one last time with your be- sor John Leary’s goal to go on might consider this to be minor, longings and memories, be sure to a hike at Lime Hollow Nature this essentially is closing off your remember the importance of stay- On Friday, April 29, Cort- Center, and Kim Patricia’s pledge As graduation quickly ap- electronic gateway to the cam- ing connected to your alma mater. land’s Health Club will be spon- to “devote at least 30 minutes a proaches, each senior attempts pus. Through your e-mail, you Also, before May 6, we soring the First Annual Health- day to doing nothing but relaxing to make every last minute count. will receive the alumni newslet- should all consider leaving a Wellness Day. This event will and de-stressing.” Like Patricia’s They pick-up their caps and ter, Moments, information about legacy at Cortland. With New be a campus-wide initiative to pledge points out, pledges don’t gowns, ride the bull at Beer Gog- reunions, and other events to York State funding decreasing start getting students and faculty only have to be about physical gles, and do one last t-shirt at the connect you with fellow alumni significantly to less than 30% of to start paying more attention and nutritional health, but can Dark Horse. However, few keep across the country. Therefore, we the operation budget, it is increas- to their health and well-being. also be about mental well-being. in mind the bridge they are about encourage you to please update ingly imperative to give back. As This event, which will be Health-Wellness Day en- to cross. On May 21, 2011, ev- your current contact information. students, we all benefitted from held on the steps of Corey Union courages pledges to promote ery senior will move their tassels The alumni reunion is an an- the generosity of alumni, parents from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., will in- one’s mental and social health from left to right and are thus tran- nual event hosted at the Lynne and friends of the College. Your clude performances, free give- as well. Anna Wright, one of the sitioning from senior to alumni. Parks ’68 SUNY Cortland gift is a way of giving back, a aways and appearances by Blaze, coordinator’s of Health-Wellness It goes without saying that Alumni House and throughout way of saying thank you, and a the Cortland mascot. It will also Day says, “I want everyone who this transition comes with the the campus and community. Past way of symbolically making the be a chance for individuals, makes a pledge to stick with it fears of leaving friends that have reunions have allowed alumni to transition from student to alumni. clubs, organizations, sports teams on Health-Wellness Day, and become family, and memories participate in golf tournaments, If each senior from our gradu- and academic departments to then realize how easy it was to you’ve shared together. There boat cruises, wine tours and much ating class donated a gift of $20.11 start a healthy trend on campus. make a simple change for the is also a sense of loss in the at- more. Each alumni reunion high- – significant to our graduating Health Club is asking groups, better. Even though Health- tachment to the Cortland cam- lights different class years, in year - we would be able to give organizations, departments and Wellness Day is only for one pus that you have made your addition to different Greek or- at least $26,000 to our alma ma- individuals to make a pledge to day, I’m hoping that people will home for the past four years. ganizations, sports, and clubs. ter. Visit www.cortland.edu/giv- commit to do something healthy stick to their commitments for But have no fear seniors, the Of- So while you continue to ing and note “Senior Class Leg- on the day of the event that they more than a day, or even think of fice of Alumni Affairs is here. check things off your senior acy Gift” for more information. wouldn’t do on a normal basis. a new pledge to commit to each Who knew that in an office bucket list, make sure you don’t From a red dragon to a pro- Over 40 pledges have already day. I want people to understand located one floor above the brick forget to complete your trans- fessional, pitcher chips to busi- been submitted through Health- that many small changes in one’s oven and sushi chef at everyone’s formation to a Cortland alumni ness cards, and classrooms to Wellness Day’s Facebook page, life can add up to a lot and turn favorite dining facility in Hilltop, by updating your alumni record. offices, consider yourself a and through e-mail. Examples of there stands a team of Cortland If the excitement of Grad Finale Cortland alumni. Congratula- pledges include the Men’s Soccer See PLEDGE, page 3 employees devoted to keeping got in the way of you completing tions class of 2011, you did it! 2 April 28, 2011 The Dragon Chronicle NEWS What’s Going On? Letter From the Editor Calendar of Events: April 28-May 4 As the final issue of the agreed with her. After that talk need to thank my family for year, as well as my last issue as a I began thinking about how in all of their support and for be- member of The Dragon Chron- many ways Cortland has be- ing my biggest fans. (If I didn’t Today: icle, gets ready to go to press, come my home. For the past tell her not, to my mom would I can’t help but reflect back four years I have spent eight still cut out my articles for me 12. p.m. Sandwich Seminar: “Love, Lust and Liquor” in Brockway Hall on my time here at Cortland. out of the twelve months in this and put them on the refrigera- Jacobus Lounge. As a freshman I remember small town in upstate New York. tor). I would like to thank my professor “Doc” Hollenback I’ve experienced so much coaches and professors for telling me how fast my college during those months. I’ve been their patience and knowledge. I career would go by. These past a proud member of both the would like to thank the friends Friday: few months, as I trudged to class wrestling team and The Drag- I’ve made here that have made in the snow and slush, I felt as on Chronicle, which have each my Cortland experience an 10. a.m. Health-Wellness Day, located on the steps of Corey Union. though graduation would never left a profound effect on me. unforgettable one. I have to arrive. I now have to admit that Both have taught me the val- thank my housemates both past Doc was right; with three weeks ue of hard work and the pride and present, at 28 Clayton, be- left until graduation, I can’t help you feel as result of that work. cause if I didn’t, they would Saturday: but shake my head and wonder I have taken all different types never let me hear the end of it. where the last four years went. of classes. Some have been ex- As I leave Cortland and be- 12. p.m. Enjoy the Spring Fling Carnival on Neubig road. It seems like just last week tremely beneficial; others opened gin my life in the “real world,” I was wandering-lost-around my eyes to global issues, while I can’t help but feel the same as Dowd Fine Arts trying to find in others I could barely keep my I did when I first arrived here 8. p.m. See Kid Cudi perform for the Spring Fling concert.