THE LEADER 11.6.19 | Issue 10 | Volume CXXVI NEWS | 2 LIFE & ARTS | 6 SPORTS | 13 THE SCALLION | 16 WRITER'S @ WORK NEW MUSIC LISTENING FREDONIA SPORTS NEW GOOGLE STREET VIEW CAR CLUB PROMOTES DIVERSITY UPDATE CRASHES BECAUSE MANUFACTURER IN MUSIC TASTE FORGOT TO INSTALL GOOGLE DRIVE 2 The Leader November 6, 2019 The Leader NEWS Advertising: [email protected] S206 Williams Center Twitter @LeaderFredonia Writers @ Work presents opportunity for Fredonia, NY 14063 Instagram @leaderfredonia [email protected] Facebook LeaderFredonia students to connect with professionals www.fredonialeader.org KATIE LENDA Editor in Chief Creative Director Special to The Leader Elyse Grieco Natalie Opp Managing Editor Asst. Creative Director The opportunity to meet and interact with seasoned professionals is an Avril King Vacant event students will have the chance to attend on Nov. 7 - 8. Fredonia is set to welcome Grammy award winner, Kent Knappenberger, News Editor Photo Editor Aidan Pollard Vacant Nannette Knappenberger and sound engineer, Anthony Casuccio back to their alma mater for the Writer’s @ Work series, “Grammy’s Spotlight: Asst. News Editor Asst. Photo Editor Alumni on Writing Your Way in the Music World.” Vacant Alexis Carney “Grammy’s Spotlight: Alumni on Writing Your Way in the Music World,” is Life & Arts Editor Copy Editor a two-day long event that features conversations about professionalism in the Eriketa Cost Vacant music industry and how writing music changes throughout the years. The event will also discuss insights regarding the creative process of Asst. Life & Arts Editor Asst. Copy Editor music that have developed, upon many other discussions regarding the music Jessica Meditz Vacant and writing fields. Sports Editor Business Manager Students will have the chance to discuss these topics in-depth with the Dante Lasting Vacant Knappenbergers and Casuccio. Nannette Knappenberger became a music educator after she received Asst. Sports Editor Asst. Business Manager Vacant Christie Fils-Aimé her bachelor’s degree in music education: voice and her master’s degree in education from Fredonia. The Scallion Editor Ad. Sales Manager She is a voice instructor for Sagamore Great Camp Mountain Music and Joseph Marciniak Robert Narcavage the choir director for Westfield United Methodist Church. Asst. Scallion Editor Asst. Ad. Sales Manager Kent Knappenberger graduated with his music education degree in 1987. Dom Magistro Vacant He then received his master’s degree from Fredonia’s school of music in 1989 in harp performance and literature. Knappenberger was presented Web Editor Sales Representatives as the inaugural recipient of the Music Educator Award by the Grammy James Mead Ariel Davis Noah Hulbirt Academy in 2014 for his work as an educator at Westfield Academy. Asst. Web Editor Anthony Casuccio is a member of Fredonia’s class of 1991 and received his Vacant Social Media Manager degree in sound recording technology. Sarah Hughston He then went on to earn his master’s degree in public relations and Design Editor Kristin Johnson Asst. Social Media Manager business management at Buffalo State University. Maddie McClelland Casuccio currently serves as the music department chair at Villa Maria Asst. Design Editor Jules Hoepting College and principle sound engineer for Xtream Audio Mastering. Vacant Isabella DiStefano Dr. Natalie Gerber is a faculty member of Fredonia’s English department. 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An armed cop killer “Those kinds of interactions … it’s became the University Police Chief just a was on the loose and would likely try to kill a positive relationship, or a positive short three months ago. He replaced Ann one of us if we encountered him.” interaction. Students aren’t getting tickets Burns after she retired, having been the UP from cops, they’re having fun with cops,” he Chief for 37 years. said. Chief Isaacson was born and raised in Derek Sunderland, a resident assistant Jamestown and went to the University of in Hemingway Hall, did notice that there Rochester on a Navy ROTC scholarship. He was an increase in police activity on campus. was a Navy officer right out of college. He He said they are “more involved with was a nuclear engineer for six years until residents and in residence halls.” he left and worked at Westinghouse in In addition to having the officers mingle Pittsburgh. more with students, University Police is For a total of nine years, Isaacson was an coming out with a new app called Rave. engineer. So what made him want to go into This app is really “a blue light phone policing? in your pocket.” Just push a button on His brother, a Jamestown police officer, your phone and it sends out an alert with took him for a ride-along. your location attached to it that says you “Speeding through city streets, lights and need police help, whether it is a medical sirens … that was a lot of fun,” Isaacson said, emergency, a fire emergency, or any smiling at the memory. emergency that requires police help. In 1996, Isaacson was hired by the This app works both on and off campus, FBI after applying “almost on a whim.” but if you are off campus there will be a He stayed with the FBI for 23 years as a button that is a “9-1-1 button,” so police criminal investigator. from either Fredonia or Dunkirk will come A lot of this involved having to rather than University Police. investigate a lot of difficult crimes, such as Photo of Police Chief Brent Isaacson. It is expected to come out within the murders, multimillion-dollar frauds and Taken by Bert Dunn. next few weeks. even child sexual exploitation. The officer that was shot survived and is Going to work as a university police He was also involved in “profilers,” still a friend of Bogosian’s. chief right after being in the FBI is quite a which he explained as “Criminal Minds”- Isaacson and Bogosian have encountered change, but one that Isaacson enjoys. While like stuff. To be good at this, he had to each other professionally many times after, in the FBI, he provided justice for crimes know the psychology of criminals, why and Bogosian has “a great deal of respect that were already done, whereas he is now they do the things they do. And after for him” and he considers him a friend. in a position to prevent bad things from the Sandy Hook shooting, the White Isaacson’s work in the FBI also brought happening. House and Congress tasked the FBI with him closer to schools, where he worked to Isaacson also said that he is impressed understanding the psychology of school find people who might be moving toward a by the quality of the officers here. After shooters. “pathway of violence,” and then get them the being here for three months, he has come And so Isaacson went back to school help they need to go back to a healthy path to know all of them. They are “very caring, and got a masters in psychology, with his rather than a violent one. very motivated, they’re all very well-trained,” studies focused on violence prevention. With the experience in working with he said. For most of his FBI career, he was K-12 schools and universities to make As he said, of being at Fredonia, “this is assigned to the Jamestown office. At this those campuses safer, he hopes to make the right mission for me, at the right time time, he met Jamestown Police Detective Fredonia’s campus the safest in the country. in my life.” Neil Bogosian, who was a new patrolman Doing this involves “building a culture when they first crossed paths. Now where we all take care of each other,” he Bogosian is a member of the department’s said. Drug Enforcement Unit and is assigned to a In order to do that, especially with DEA task force in Buffalo.