SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Digital Commons @ ESF The Knothole College Archives 11-2-2010 The Knothole, November 2, 2010 SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Student Body Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.esf.edu/knothole Part of the Communication Commons, Creative Writing Commons, and the Environmental Studies Commons Recommended Citation SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Student Body, "The Knothole, November 2, 2010" (2010). The Knothole. 407. https://digitalcommons.esf.edu/knothole/407 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the College Archives at Digital Commons @ ESF. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Knothole by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ ESF. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. VOL 65 ISSUE 3 NOV 2, 2010 Howie Hawkins hoops! Apple bash pg 5 pg 7 Andrew Simmons pg 5 Woodsmen photos pg 14 More ESF soccer coverage pg 15 KNOTHOLE Letter from the Editor Good day Stumps, STAFF Hope everyone studied diligently for their midterms. I know I did(n’t). Hey, we’re about half way through the semester—try and not stress. (You’ll study hard for the Editor-in-Chief: final…right?!) However, if you find yourself stressed or just damn pooty, (especially Rose Dillman due to the fact that our beloved Director of Student Activities leah Flynn has since departed our treasured 110 bray,) please make an appointment to see Heather Layout Editors: rice, ESF’s Senior Counselor. She’s really pretty, promise. oh and she’s helpful. but seriously, please use the resources available to you. on the topic of resources, I Zac Still, Shay Decker would like to take the time to share a life lesson with you. It is currently 6:43AM… & Bettyjo Roby my time. Now you’re probably thinking either one of two things. A) rose must’ve woke up hella early or b) that crazy b*tch ain’t even been to bed. Well, anyone Creative Editor: reading this who knows me… knows it’s definitely the latter but this is beside the Jess Telano point. The point my lovelies is this… WHEN rIDING A bIKE WEAr A HElMET. This evening on my way home from school I arrived at my house to find my beloved friend (and previous Knothole lady-chief) lying on the corner of Maryland and Web Editor: Clarendon. With her hippie skirt that matched her hippie bike… she was helmet- Rick Nelson less. 7 hours later we emerged from Crouse Hospital and she’s lucky to be alive, awake, alert, enthusiastic. I know we may feel invincible, but there are outside Printer: forces at work beyond our control. like frumpy girls who drive on the wrong side of the road and hit my friends with their cars. So please, utilize the resources available Copy Center Jim to you. They are there to protect you from the outside world. let this be a reminder that life is hard. So get a helmet (and say hi to Heather). Advisor: Pat Lawler You should probably email [email protected] because we’ll print it. • The Knothole is the student publication of SUNY-ESF. It is besitos, published bi-weekly during the rosey Posey academic year. • The deadline for submissions are Tuesday @ 5:30 PM. You will Let your voice be heard! receive an e-mail confirming that your submission has been received and the date it will be published. • Send submissions to: [email protected] Submit to • Words should be sent as word or raw text files only. Images should be saved as .jpg and sent as an attachment. If you wish to submit THE KNOTHOLE an AD please send as a .pub or .jpg • Submissions should also include @gmail.com your name and graduation date; esfknothole however will be withheld upon @ request. • The knothole reserves the right THE DETAILS to edit submissions for length and content. • The opinions expressed are those of the writers only and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Knothole, staff, or anyone else affiliated with the college. • The Knothole meets every Wednesday @ 5:30 PM in the basement oF bray HAll. 2 • November 2, 2010 • The Knothole Green Campus Initiative Shaylyn Decker Environmental Policy 2011 t has been a busy semester so far are turned into insulation and do- For more information check out the for GCI! We have been contacted nated to Habitat for Humanity to be Gardensoxx webite: I put into new houses that their build- by numerous people inquiring about www.gardensoxx.com our involvement in their projects. ing. Syracuse University provided October 12-14 was ESF’s us with all the promotional items; The University Commu- Family and Alumni Fall Bar-B-Que t-shirts, frisbees, nity Harvest and GCI was asked to help make and flyers are all Farmer’s the weekend a zero-waste event. available. GCI Market at Meagan Pepper helped GCI coordi- tabled and col- Waverly had nate with Justin Culkowski, Alumni lected jeans on it’s last day Relations, and get volunteers for Wednesday, Oc- last Friday. the weekend. Friday evening six tober 27th from GCI had the volunteers showed up to help with 2-4PM in Mar- opportunity disposal of waste at the alumni din- shall Foyer. Many to make a few ner, fortunately the work was easy thanks to those appearances because the caterer’s plates, uten- who dropped Hannah Morgan a Graduate student sits and sold our cils, and cups were all compostable. their jeans!!! at the GCI table at the Farmer’s Market recycled note- The volunteers wern’t willing to Last Thurs- books. Emily throw any of the uneaten food away day, October 21 some members from Olsen-Harbich, our special events and brought it all over to the Coffee GCI went on a tour at Tompkins chair, has been organizing these Haus in Nifkin. USA which makes a tubular cotton events since the end of the summer. Saturday more members of product sold through the company Emily ad the great idea to hand out GCI gave tours to inter- F i l t r e x x , fall recipe books to help shoppers Let your voice be heard! ested alumnia and family known as cook with their seasonal selections. members of our aerated Garden- compst system. Some soxx. GCI of the compost from the was first weekend’s events will contacted be put into the com- by Terry post. Any compost that E t t i n g e r, THE KNOTHOLE doesn’t make it to our from the If you’re interested in system will be brought greenhous- getting involved with to OCRRA (Onandoga es, who GCI please come to our County Resource Recov- knows the ery Agency). CEO of meetings on THURS- Autumn Elniski a Freshman paper DAYS AT 7:00PM IN GCI’s new Zero- engineering major donates her jeans F i l t r e x x , Waste Committee has Rod Tyler. 19 MOON. You can also been working hard to make events Tyler proposed to Terry that ESF find us on facebook. on campus zero-waste. students should help Filtexx bring Recently GCI has also been Gardensoxx to Syracuse. asked to assist Syracuse University The members toured the fac- with their Blue to Green Campaign. tory that makes the Gardensoxx and Cotton Co. invited five universities got to have a first hand experience to participate in this collection com- with Tyler, who is very interested in petition of jeans. The donated jeans what GCI does. The Knothole • November 2, 2010 • 3 Around the Quad A visit from Andrew Simmons: Wildlife Expert Photos by Anthony Vincente 4 • November 2, 2010 • The Knothole Insomniac Event: Apple Bash Photos by Rick Nelson The Godfather pays a visit to ESF Kevin Eckert ‘14 his past Thursday, Marshall Audito- instance, which he described as “land- After the power point was fin- Trium was graced with the presence mark,” was his help in the research of ished, Zaffis led the group to bray Hall of John Zaffis. Nicknamed “the Godfa- the “Haunting in Connecticut” case. for a ghost walk. It was his intent to ther of Ghost hunting,” Zaffis has been The case, which was later made into a make contact with any spirits in the in the business of ghost hunting for movie, dealt with a haunted house and building. With the use of a specially over 30 years. He first got into it when the family that lived in it. The family modified radio, he and the group at- he saw the ghost of his grandfather and was looking for a home near the Uni- tempted to talk to any spirits. The has since established himself as one of versity of Connecticut, where their son group would ask questions, such as the premier demonologists in the coun- was being treated for cancer. The house, names and former occupations, of the try. His remarkable career has taken a former funeral home, seemed cozy spirits and there were responses to the him around the world, interacting with at first but soon, weird things started questions. different cultures and living through happening and the owners soon called One spirit, identified as “Pe- many experiences. He has been a guest investigators. Zaffis was one of the in- ter,” was apparently a former professor on various TV shows, including 20/20 vestigators trying to gather enough in- from the school. He talked quite a bit to and programs on the Discovery Chan- formation so that an exorcism could be the group, preventing other spirits from nel.