10.04.17 | Issue 6 | Volume CXXVIII NEWS | 2 LIFE & ARTS | 6 SPORTS | 12 THE SCALLION | 17 THE LEADER 2 NEWS October 4, 2017 The Leader FSA changes operating hours S206 Williams Center Twitter @LeaderFredonia Fredonia, NY 14063 Instagram @leaderfredonia with an eye to the future [email protected] Facebook LeaderFredonia www.fredonialeader.org JAMES LILLIN After 14 straight years of growth from 1998- Staff Writer 2012, Fredonia has been struggling to work Editor in Chief Asst. Design Editor with the new reality of its student base, which Madeline Carroll Vacant Food vendors on the Fredonia campus are has meant some shrinking-pains for FSA. currently in a transitory period, with operating “We were a lot larger back in 2011,” said FSA Managing Editor Art Director hours experiencing an across-the-board cut to Executive Director Darin Schulz, “although Amber Mattice Marissa Doing combat the falling enrollment of past years. we’re now looking at a growth period again, Returning students are particularly irate when which is wonderful. Our first priority is to News Editor Asst. Art Director it comes to the changes to Tim Hortons, which make sure that our customers are satisfied to Dan Orzechowski Vacant in past years was open until 9 p.m. but now the highest level that we can achieve, but we closes at 5 p.m. also have to pay bills, payroll, expenses and we Asst. News Editor Photo Editor have a limited revenue to do that.” Vacant Angelina Dohre “In the four years I’ve been at school, I went to Tim’s to get dinner like every day Although Fredonia is currently welcoming Life & Arts Editor Asst. Photo Editor before rehearsal,” said senior musical theatre in its second-largest freshman class in the Claire O’Reilly Vacant major Jeff Kringer, “and it was a nice place campus’ history, a trend that Schulz hopes to go and sit and do work. It’s been my place will continue, FSA still needs to work with the Asst. Life & Arts Editor Copy Editors since freshman year, and I’m just really number of students that it has now. Vacant Ben Anderson disappointed.” “From 1998 to 2012 we became significantly Brandon Safe Incoming freshmen are more ambivalent larger than they were, and our footprint got Sports Editor about the changes, but word has gotten very large,” said Schulz. Curtis Henry Business Manager “It’s not appropriate to just pass that cost Lauren Finke around about the previous hours. Asst. Sports Editor “The food at Fredonia really isn’t as bad down to the students, so it’s important we have Vacant Ad. Sales Manager as I thought it’d be,” said freshman musical a very wise approach to re-expanding. We’re Taylor Staight theatre major Jong Sang Rheu, “but the going to look carefully at each class that comes The Scallion Editor cafes close really early, and the food is pretty in and address our services accordingly.” Travis LeFevre Sales Representatives Americanized. Their ‘Asian’ option at Crannies Zachary Roberts is rice. Just, like, rice. I mean, what’s up with Asst. Scallion Editor Ryan Shakya that?” Emma Patterson Tyler Witt CONTINUED on pg. 4 Alexis Sorbello Web Editor On the Cover: Jason Cheung Social Media Manager Avril King Erie Dining Hall is located at Erie Hall near Asst. Web Editor the residential halls or the Quads. 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During the early to mid 1990s, the While there are more cultural clubs administration at SUNY Fredonia pushed to affiliated with the IC, its mission to promote inclusion and diversity to their students. serve students of all backgrounds This led to what became known as the Center for and identities is not limited to those Multicultural Affairs (CMA) in 1997, catering to clubs. various students from different backgrounds. “Overall the Intercultural Center Over the past 20 years, the CMA only consisted is here to contribute the visibility of six student-run organizations that contributed of inclusion and diversity on this to serving students of different cultures and campus,” said Jelissa Samuel, a identities. In the last few years, there became senior history and political science a growing need to revamp its mission and double major. Samuel serves as the operations to accommodate the campus’ changing president of Black Student Union, demographics. the oldest cultural organization at After months of strategic planning and Fredonia founded in 1970. consideration, the CMA rebranded itself as the “Our focus is to bring students Intercultural Center (IC) starting this semester. together whether it’s race, ethnicity, The name, however, was only the beginning for a religion, national origin, sexual series of changes made. orientation, gender, etc,” she added. Khristian King is the current director of the In order to be a more useful Intercultural Center, and she first began one year resource to Fredonia’s various ago. King played an integral role in restructuring student populations, the IC formed the organization. a stronger relationship with the “I came in [as director] when we were still the campus’s counseling center by starting CMA,” she said. “It has been an opportunity for an informal counseling program called, transition, growth and development.” “Let’s Talk.” The program is led by Ivory A large portion of the reformation was Brooks, a counselor dedicated to better represent the various from LoGrasso. Brooks student populations at Fredonia. Over the last works with the IC twice two decades, more cultural organizations were a week where students can established but were unable to be affiliated under drop in to discuss a variety of the CMA. matters to promote positive mental health. Dan Salazar/Staff Illustrator Puja Das, a senior psychology and criminal The Intercultural Center’s main office is justice double major, helped found South Asian located on the first floor of Thompson Hall in Student Association (SASA) in 2016. Das currently room E125. Its lounge and counseling services are serves as the club’s president. “I wanted to available to all students. start SASA when I realized there was no club International Student Services, which is representing South Asian students,” she said. affiliated with the IC, is located on the second Once SASA was established, being able to floor of the Williams Center, which features a be part of CMA posed numerous challenges Global Connections Lounge that is also available because the center previously discouraged any to all students. more cultural organizations from joining. With A number of additional changes are expected determination, Das helped write a 20-page to be made to better serve Fredonia. The proposal to allow SASA as part of the CMA. rebranding of what is now the Intercultural Another reason for reform was to further Center is only the beginning of a dynamic new engage with the international student population chapter. attending Fredonia. When the CMA became the Intercultural Center, the organization made it essential to work with International Student Services. 4 The Leader October 4, 2017 FSA continued FSA could have kept its previous hours, With Fredonia’s enrollment looking but it would have required an increase in to climb in coming years, however, many meal plan price, a price which, for the first students have been wondering about the time in 30 years, has not gone up from the future of Erie Hall, the vacant building in previous year. the quad which was once a dining hall that “Our goal was to impact the fewest was home to “Cheesy Fridays.” number of customers,” said Schulz. “We “Erie Hall has been getting talked about POLICE BLOTTERS could have kept hours the same, but it a lot,” said Schulz. “Erie is in a state of would have necessitated a pretty sizable availability for whatever the university may FREDONIA meal plan increase. We lowered room rates need it for. The kitchen is still intact and in residential housing and wanted to keep remains as an emergency kitchen facility in Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017 the cost of education affordable for students, case something happens in Centre Pointe or and so keeping the meal plan cost flat was Cranston Marche.