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Independent
The Purchase
April 30, 2009 Issue 191
Impromptu Protest pg 2
Hometown Caberet pg 6
PSGA Special Elections pg 8
The Purchase .
Independent Brief News 2
Established 2001
Founding Editor: Glen Parker LU Conference Students Confess at the
Chief Editor: As the semester comes to a close, many students
Neuberger
Dana Ellis are worrying about finals, senior project revisions,
Layout Editor: and wishing the beautiful weather would come
Mariel Loveland The same student Planning Committee that
already. Why not take a break from all the madness
Office Manager: designed the Election Confessions event last November is
this weekend by attending the 8th Annual Latinos
Kristen Benedict presenting a new topical night of entertainment next week.
Unidos Conference: “The Diaspora of Latinos”. The
The similarly titled night of Neu Media Confessions is based
Photo Editor: 3 day conference consists of workshops, two formal
around the current New Media: Why exhibit and is planned
Robin Levine balls, a banquet and two parties to end the weekend.
during the museum’s monthly First Wednesdays program,
Photography: Latinos Unidos has been going strong for 22 years
a night of extended museum hours and entertainment
Camilo Rayo on campus, having events, workshops, and games
designed especially for Purchase students. As previously
Wilgris Suazo to unite the students together, building a family each
reported within the Independent, the exhibit includes a
Katherine Walton and every year, that only gets bigger and bigger. Each
far reaching range of new topics involving art, technology
Layout Intern: year the Executive Board members put together a 3
and their intersection with everyday life, including Margot
day conference to celebrate and educate Purchase
Kiera Vallone Lovejoy’s Confess, a piece built around confessions people
students, other colleges and off campus communities
Writers: about the Latino culture.
have called into a hotline set up by Lovejoy. A booth located
Jonathan Andrews at the back of the display allows visitors to leave their own
This Friday the conference kicks off with a formal
confessions, after which their voices are disguised and
James Dier ball welcoming all the students to the conference
added to the project.
Jess Goodwin with an after party from S.O.C.A. called “Pardon
Along with the extended hours of the museum,
James Madejski My Back” which starts @ 11pm. Saturday starts the
the night will include live music from Joe Izzo’s Band,
educational workshops from other club orginzations
Drew Mollo Weird Korea, Casey Chandler, G Scott Corey and more. The
on campus which includes S.O.C.A. ,O.A.P.IA, WOCO,
Dallas Meck night also includes live performances by Purchase college
History Club and others. A cultural presentation will
Ashley Mercado students. Guests are asked to confess something and share
follow @ 4PM in SOUTH.
it by hanging it on a clothesline in the gallery. Everyone who
Alicia Miller The Banquet starts @ 7pm which is semi-formal
confesses something will be added to a drawing to win one
Justin Tinker in the Music Building with an after party @ 10pm with
of two prizes in the museum gift shop. The Art Club will
Proof Readers: two DJ’S, DJ Onlii 1 and DJ Locorious. Sunday the
also be providing an “exquisite corpse” book (an ongoing
Kathryn Nasto executive board will wrap up for the conference with
cooperative collage) that visitors are welcome to add to.
a continental breakfast and a closing speech by the
Riley Kennysmith Neu Media Confessions is presented on Wednesday,
keynote speaker: Joachim de Posada. Come out and
Comics: Enjoy the festivities that Latinos Undios has planned
May 6 from 4-8 pm.
Drew Mollo ~Alicia Miller
for the campus. It should not be missed!
Nick Sciretta ~Ashley Mercado
Jackson Wingate
Crossword:
Jess Goodwin
Dangerous Art at the Neuberger
Writers Meetings:
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CCN1011, Monday at 10pm A recent call went out across camp for submissions of “dangerous
art” for a show that will be presented this week. Although we’re not
Website:
sure if they mean sculptures made out of pointy objects or paintings
PurchaseIndy.com
By Camilo
with the capability to explode, the poster for the show calling for
submissions stated that “space is very limited so only the most
The Purchase Independent is a dangerous and creative art will be accepted.” Apparently there’s
non-profit newspaper, paid for by the
Rayo
mandatory student activity fee. finally a venue on campus for art created by James Bond villains
The Independent welcomes submis- .With those guidelines in mind pieces were selected from student and
sions from the readers. We are an open alumni submissions after a rigorous jury process was conducted last
forum for campus issues and com- week. The student-run art show will go on from April 30 to May 2 in
ments about The Independent’s cover-
age. We accept letters, articles, comics, the Neuberger Museum of Art. There’s been no word yet on any safety
ads, and event listings. precautions or security screenings at the door for guests. Yes, that is
The deadline for submissions to be a joke. Leave the bulletproof vests at home.
considered for publication in the fol- ~Alicia Miller
lowing issue is Monday at eight. After
that, you must bribe us with candy.
Publication of submissions is not guar-
anteed, but subject to the discretion of
the editors.
We prefer that submissions come to
us electronically. Our e-mail address is:
PurchaseIndy@Gmail.com Backpage
quotes can be left in the Back Page box,
a makeshift container nailed to the wall
outside the Media Board Office, which
is located on the first floor of Campus
Center North, room 1011.
Finally, no anonymous submissions
will be considered. Instead, they’ll be.
No, you know what, send them. All of
them. Millions of them. Send away seri-
ously. I’ll print them. Totally.
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Campus 3
Our Queens Don’t Need Saving
Photo Left to Right: by Camilo Rayo, by Wilgris Suazo, by Wilgris Suazo
By Kiera Vallone elicited resounding boos from the crowd. Students responded to
Layout Intern the protesters with signs of their own, with messages such as “Hate
don’t fly, love will never die” and “Other things your imaginary
It started as just two people with signs trying to promote a friend supports – slavery, rape, genocide, infanticide.”
message. But their message wasn’t welcome here. “People come to this school to escape this,” said Rosa Jaffe, a
Two evangelical Christians, Jim and Faith Deferio, stood near junior sociology major. “As a community, this was beautiful.”
Campus Center South in the mall at Purchase at around 12 p.m. “My parents are conservative Republicans,” said Chelsea
with their large signs proclaiming “Thousands of ex-homosexuals Harper, a junior History major, “and they’ve told me if I’m a lesbian,
have experienced the life changing love of Jesus Christ” and it’s okay. They’d be here protesting with me.”
promoting sites such as www.exhomosexuals.com and www. Eventually, under the guidance of Zambito among others, large
hopeforhomosexuals.com. A small group of students started groups of students began to walk away, realizing that yelling at the
heckling the pair with pro-homosexual remarks. UPD officers made Defarios would only fuel their fire. “They won’t change their mind,
the protesters move toward the Great Lawn, in order to avoid traffic they’re conditioned and brainwashed.” said Jaffe.
problems. Even though it was clear their message was not welcome, the
More and more students began crowding the area, and an Defarios stayed on the lawn with their signs for hours. A much
informal counter-protest formed. Students from the Gay, Lesbian, smaller group of students were still around the barricades, while
Bisexual, and Transgender Union (GLBTU) waved a rainbow others chose to sit and watch the proceedings from further back.
flag and tossed rainbow-colored Frisbees. Eventually our Fall “It looked like Culture Shock part two,” said Jonathan Townsend-
Ball Queen - Russell Zambito (aka Queen LaQueefa), made an Pitt, a senior journalism major.
appearance decked out in a green wig, shiny black bodysuit, and “There’s no such thing as a constructive dialogue with a
fierce heels – and lead the crowd in chants such as “Not on my Christian evangelical,” said ChristaLea Panzironi, junior literature
home!” and “Get off our lawn!” and Latin American studies major. “There’s no need to be hateful.”
Jim Deferio continued to try to quote Bible verses, but he was “They’re not going about this the right way,” said Liv Bargabos,
winning no converts in the crowd that numbered over 100 students. regarding the Defarios. “If they want to sit and have a debate, that’s
The rallying students were such a force that UPD had to set up okay.”
barricades between the students and the protesters. In retaliation, Around 3 p.m., Panzironi encouraged the remaining students
Zambito yelled through a megaphone lines such as “I am an ex- to step away from the Defarios.
homo. I was a homosexual, then I came to Purchase and became “If you honestly support gay people, you shouldn’t give them
a flaming faggot and I love it!” and “They’ll go home in their shitty fuel,” said James Dier, a senior journalism/drama studies major.
cars, while we fly away on fairy dust and drink.” Around 15 students formed a “counter counter-protest” circle on
At one point, Jim Deferio took the megaphone from Zambito, the lawn, having a mature discussion about religion, the Bible, and
in order to attempt to be heard over the crowd. He took a wet-nap homosexuality.
and thoroughly wiped down the mouthpiece of the megaphone Blake Reynolds, a first-year studio composition student and
– a move that came off as being disgusted by “gay germs” and the one responsible for the “Your imaginary friend…” sign, told the
Photo Left to Right: by Wilgris Suazo, by Kat Walton
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Monday’s Impromptu Protest
Photos by Wilgris Suazo
Sparks Debate Among Students
By James Dier were thick, real, and the stakes were high for many. “I think that the
Staff Writer reaction of the community was incredible in this matter,” said Zambito,
who led the protesters in chants. “Within an hour, some 200 plus students
First came the bra, then the panties, next the crumpled paper, the rallied on the edge of the Great lawn.”
coffee cups, the water bottles. “I am glad that the students got angry at what was going on and made
“NO, NO, NO, NO, NO” beamed the megaphone held by Janice Kahl, it very clear that Jim and his wife were not welcomed at Purchase,” said
alumnus and operations assistant at the Performing Arts Center, as her Cruz.
fist struck first up and then down extending beyond the university police While this was made clear by the student and administrative protesters,
barrier, “PURCHASE HAS ALWAYS STOOD FOR PEACE AND WE WILL the married couple apparently had a permit stating that they could be here
CONTINUE TO DO SO TODAY. NO ONE THROWS ANYTHING, I IMPLORE until 5pm. They had no plans of moving. Yet Students gathered in front
YOU. NO ONE THROWS A SINGLE THING.” of the police barriers all day listening, antagonizing, and questioning the
Jim Deferio’s wife, Faith, held a camera. She scanned the mass of Deferios even after Zambito decreed as a campus we ignore their hateful
protesters as they screamed various chants. A student confronts Faith speech. This was probably a goal of Deferio’s, to stick with him until the
by dancing within personal space as a University Police Officer pulls the end.
student away. “Jim clearly wanted to shake up students at a time where everyone
The question of how their footage will be used looms. What scrutiny was busy with their classes,” said Cruz. “Personally, the school should be
will be placed on their editing process; the community at Purchase could well informed about who gains permits to hold protests on campus and
be misrepresented. notifying the students should be a top priority.”
“I was not personally pleased with the throwing of cups, etc. by “I do wish that we could have left the demo as one group. If we walk
students,” said Russell Zambito, junior creative writing, and current Chair away together, there is no reason for them to stay,” said Kahl.
of the Senate. “Though I can understand the rage and tempt to become “If no one had gone down to shout and push at them they would have
violent, it raises a question and notion to outsiders that we are violent and had no one to spew their bullshit at,” said ChristaLea Panzironi Junior
unintelligent.” Literature and Latin American Studies. “They were little specks down at
Raymond Cruz, sophomore new media and co-president of GLBTU, the horizon line from the mall.”
took notice of this as well. “Showing them violence like that only “I feel that it was good that there was a dialogue between the two sides
empowers them more and makes them feel the students at Purchase are but at the same time I wish people just walked away from him and ignored
unreasonable and irrational. Also, the only times that Jim was using his his presence,” said Cruz.
video camera was when the crowd was at its wildest.” “Nothing would be worse for them than to have no spiritual battle to
According to several articles found online, Jim Deferio has a history of fight, and spiritual battle is exactly what we gave them,” said Panzironi.
suing state organizations for the things that happen during his protests. “In the future, I would like a direct dialogue and discourse between
As a student body we need to be careful of what we say and do. Our lack students,” said Zambito. “More specifically, cultural and politically aligned
of hindsight when several members of the crowd began to throw items clubs and orgs that would allow sections of our community or our
was irresponsible. community at large, the opportunity to prepare for the worst and formulate
“I understand that it is easy to react with anger in emotionally tense a more structured and safer response.”
situtations,” said Kahl. “It is easy to retalitate when you feel you’ve been “Another thing that GLBTU as well as all the other groups could do
attacked. Sometimes you just need someone to diffuse and de-esculate it. is conduct a huge meeting on how to properly protest and knowing your
I believe that every form of dialogue and non violent direct action should rights at a protest,” said Cruz.
take place and that violence is counter-productive, aside from that, it’s just “The objective of our demonstration was to tell these people that this
bad manners.” is our campus, our workplace and our home and that views that foster hate
But the student energy that day was beautiful and justified. Emotions and fear are not welcome here,” said Kahl. “I believe we did that.”
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Let’s Define Student The Retirement of a
Beloved Professor
Representation: An Kathryn Nasto
Issue Regarding the
Copy Editor
As the semester comes to a close and
preparations are made for the fall, the campus
Budget community will notice a very prominent absence.
The absence I speak of is that of Professor Ronnie
Scharfman, who is retiring this year after 30 years
of teaching at SUNY Purchase.
By Justin Tinker During her time here, Professor Scharfman,
professor of both French and Literature, has taught
Staff Writer
French language courses, Caribbean Literature,
Jewish Texts, and Surrealism. She has also been
Since my arrival to Purchase College last August, I have heard many people
actively involved in the Focus on French Film
express grievances, and uneasy feelings over the conduct of the PSGA. I have
heard people articulate thoughts that the PSGA is a biased organization with Festival that happens annually here at Purchase
personal interests at heart, rather than the interests of the student body. I have for the past five years, an idea that she helped to
listened to students convey their beliefs that the PSGA is merely a group of friends conceive with the Alliance Francaise of Greenwich.
who came together to decide the fate of Purchase activities, and I have done my About her time working at Purchase, Professor
best to decipher between facts and fallacies. Since August, I have had the chance Scharfman said, “I feel very lucky, even privileged
to meet some of the senators who have been elected to represent not only me, but to have been at Purchase. I have wonderful
you as well. While I feel there are certainly Senators who devote themselves to us colleagues, many of whom are now friends, and
(the student body) and conduct themselves in accordance with the constitution, I with whom I’ve worked in an environment of
do feel that some members of the PSGA do not. cooperation and not competition.”
Yesterday the PSGA held its last meeting of the year to discuss the approval of Many students who have had her have
the proposed budget for the next school year. Early on it was clear that there was mentioned that her presence on campus will be
concern, confusion, and uncertainty over what had been proposed. People from missed and that the energy with with she teachers
different groups expressed concern over cuts toward their respected programs, her subjects will be missed. They also feel that the
or clubs, and while some Senators in attendance spoke up, and understood the caliber at which she presented herself both as a
concerns of these groups, the majority of senate did not. teacher and a person is one that you are unlikely
The meeting seemed rushed by Chair of the Senate Russell Zambito, who to find anywhere else.
seemed more concerned with the timeliness of passing the budget, rather than The love her students feel for her is also returned
with student opinion and distress over cuts towards their programs. Coordinator in her vast appreciation for the culture at Purchase.
of Finance, Danielle DePalma seemed flustered by the raised concerns of students Also, the challenge her students have given her as
like Ed Willock, who had nearly $7000 cut from tech services. Jordan Lee Davis and a teacher is an experience she finds both satisfying
Dan Slyfield of PUSH also tried to get an explanation towards why $2200 had been and rewarding. “I have found many students to
cut from their organization, yet DePalma seemed to dance around the questions be unusual quirky, in a challenging and creative
stating that these questions had been previously answered at Tuesdays Town Hall way and it’s been deeply rewarding opening the
meeting, or that requested funds did not meet the PSGA standards for approval. world of francophone and Jewish literatures that
The need to reach a timely decision on the budget is understandable, because I love to young people who might not have been
if a vote for approval by senate is not reached the budget would be frozen until next exposed to such a variety of amazing authors.
year which could jeopardize Fall Fest and other college related activities; however, Purchase is an unsual, creative place, despite its
sacrificing the voice and concern of students should never be made, especially by foibles and the economic difficulties of the State
a association who prides itself on being there for the student body. and the world. I hope it maintains that specialness
The PSGA budget is something that affects each and every Mandatory Student in the face of all the challenges.”
Activity Fee paying student, and as the budget is comprised of this money, therefore However, with Professor Scharfman leaving,
the issue of it is something that should be taken with careful consideration, and
her absence means there are more spaces to
not be rushed into decision. It should be a process with vigilant deliberation,
the already somewhat small faculty for French
especially for programs that are facing cuts. Also explanations towards raises in
language. This, plus the small numbers of students
other programs should be given. For instance The Brick, which coincidently has its
enrolled in French language classes, does worry
Editor on the Senate, was granted a $3300 increase.
and sadden Professor Scharfman as she prepares
There are many discrepancies within the way the PSGA conducted its self
to leave. “I have watched our enrollments drop in
over the budget issue. Early this year MEC Jeff Levin was chastised and almost
impeached for not providing minutes to his meetings, and now the PSGA has
French over the years - as they have elsewhere
committed a similar error on an issue of much higher importance, the budget. in the U.S. I can only hope that the college will
DePalma stated to Senate yesterday that at the town hall meeting to discuss push for a quality full-time Assistant Professor
the budget that it was her “own person decision not to take minutes” which would appointment in French, and put effort and support
void the meeting, as the PSGA will not recognize meetings without the proper into helping more students study abroad for a
protocol of submitted minutes. year.”
Obviously there are fundamental contradictions within the PSGA; the issue of This past week, on April 23, a conference was
Roberts Rules versus our Purchase Constitution clearly outlines a major problem held to celebrate her retirement and to celebrate
within our student government. Fair and unbiased student representation has not her work. It included presentations by various
been met as there are numerous conflicts of interests within the PSGA. Professors from all over the country on the topic of
The Purchase Student Government Association’s mission as stated on their Transnational, Diasporic and Postcolonial culture,
website is to “improve the quality of life for students at Purchase”, and goes on a topic that Professor Scharfman specializes in.
to say that they “work constantly toward that goal”; however, many feel that this is Her work and effort at Purchase has made such
not always the case. At yesterdays meeting this was quite evident, as Senate chair a strong contribution to the community and, as
Zambito reversed a voted and approved motion to keep the meeting open, and she wishes for Purchase, we all hope that she
choose to move to a closed session, in an effort to end what he clearly felt was a maintains that sense of specialness, as a teacher,
delayed process to the eventual approval of the budget.
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Campus 6
Hometown Final Thoughts on
Cabaret you Say? Graduation
By Dallas Mack
By Drew Mollo
Staff Writer
Staff Writer
Art, expression, collaboration; the themes of Purchase
When someone talks about graduation, I think of black gowns, overdrawn
College will be on gleaming display all throughout campus
speeches, and rain. But as the days grow closer to graduation and the real world
this weekend at the 4th annual Cabaret.
seems to be creeping slowly, the nostalgia starts kicking in and it’s quite overwhelming
Cabaret will be the largest collection of Purchase
because this graduation is different.
art work this year. The showcase includes 50 musical
When you were in high school, graduation was your ticket to something better;
ensembles, 5 poets, 20 choreographed scores, 20 visual
a world away from those awful shmucks you grew up with and knew for your entire
artists and 1 film. Consistently run in New York City and
life. College represents a clean slate, a new playground for you to grow and prepare
known as Downtown Cab, this year’s Hometown Cabaret,
yourself for the world. But when you turn onto campus and see the Purchase Fairy
on campus, allows for easily accessed student art pieces.
in full drag waving a sign welcoming the freshmen, you can’t help but wonder what
The event is completely student run, organized and
you’ve gotten yourself into.
executed by those in the conservatories themselves.
This college contains some of the most eccentric characters you’ll ever meet and
Student committees are the deciding judges on much of
it almost seems that everyone fits into a clear cut category. There’s the baseball team
the showcased art. Those running this year’s Cabaret have
with their reputation, the pretentious conservatories, the LARPers, the smokers, the
taken every opportunity to completely utilize the resources
alcoholics, the courtesans, the actors and hundreds of other quirky characters. You
of the campus. Events will be held on four different
either fit in or you eventually transfer.
campus venues filling the entire brick ways with artistic
But like every other campus, you find that there are problems. The mall over
ensembles.
floods, the acoustics in Humanities suck, the weather changes like socks, and the
Visual artists have been awarded the honor of having
campus complains about everything but does nothing when given the opportunity.
their work viewed in thea Neuberger, a prestige students
It seems that Purchase likes to focus more on its problems than on the great things
are rarely privy to.
it has going for it.
There will be everything from solo song writers to jazz
The community at Purchase is unlike any I’ve ever seen. Everyone knows each
combos, paintings to sculpture, classical dance to modern.
other; you can’t run to the Hub or go to class without running into someone you
Art from every genre, media and discipline will be brought
know. Whether they were an awkward hook-up or a guy you bummed a cigarette
together demonstrating the vastly differing talents of the
off of, friendships and rivalries are formed and broken every day. The clubs and
Purchase artists. This sense of collaboration has given
organizations have some of the most talented, focused, and promising leaders I’ve
students a lot of free range on the pieces that audiences
ever seen and its been confirmed that some of that good old Purchase money we
will be viewing.
whine so much about is put to good use.
Art is Dangerous are the words on the Hometown Cab
Ultimately there is so much YOU CAN DO AT PURCHASE! You can learn Archery
website hinting at the limits that will be pushed in this year’s
or Fencing. You can act, no matter what your experience is, in a Drama Studies show.
showcase; when one allows for student collaboration at
You can form a band on campus and Hell, if you work hard enough you could even
this level truly anything is possible.
open at Culture Shock. You can throw a series of parties and become a Purchase
Collaboration is one of the core pieces to Hometown
Celebrity. You can start a drum circle, climb a tree, or just fly a kite. You could organize
Cab. Where students are generally forced to their
a protest for a perfectly legitimate reason. How can people on campus complain that
conservatories or areas of study, this showcase opens
there is nothing to do? Maybe they should dust off that little old thing called a brain
the doors for students from all boards of study to work
and apply it to having some good old fashioned fun. Because before you know it,
together to make pieces that wouldn’t generally be seen.
you’re graduating, hooked on caffeine and almost done with your Senior Project.
“More powerful than one imagination is two imaginations,”
Purchase is a playground of human life. If you step back, you can see almost
says Jim Mclewin faculty advisor for Hometown Cabaret.
every element of human thought and emotion: betrayal, denial, love, heartbreak,
“Most art is extremely collaborative and Purchase does
selfishness, triumph, addiction, lust, rage, acceptance, friendship, and sometimes
collaborative art more than any other school.”
just in one weekend. Purchase almost reminds one of a dysfunctional asylum in the
This is the kind of event that makes Purchase truly
dark where the workers and patients can’t tell who’s crazy and who’s normal. It is a
unique. It’s very rare to have so many talented individuals
place where the definitions of the real world mix with Purchase and you can easily
in one place. Bringing those minds together puts actions
get swept up in the drama and confusion of the place until just being in White Plains
to the words Art is Dangerous.
feels like a weight is lifted off of your shoulders.
Some of the biggest cooperative efforts come from the
Time only accelerates and four years will feel as quick as four minutes before you
combo of choreographers from the dance conservatory
even know it. In a way, I don’t know if I can clearly convey all that I want to say in this,
working with studio composition majors to create unique
I’ve always been pretty long winded and it distracts from my main point. That would
pieces of dance and music.
be that I’ve enjoyed every moment here; good and bad, that I’ve had on this campus.
Page Foster, a senior in the studio composition program,
I wouldn’t change that for all the comics in the world. As a graduating senior, I
is head of the student music committee. Foster elaborates
will miss everyone, friend and foe, and I will miss this campus and its homeliness
on the importance of interdisciplinary pieces at Cabaret.
despite the countless complaints and grudges I have against it. But please, don’t be
“Students don’t think to reach out that much,” says Foster,
sad, Purchase is like a black hole. Once you’ve been sucked into its gravitational pull,
“people get caught up in their own conservatory.”
you’re stuck. So if you have any senior friends you’ll be missing, don’t worry, we’ll be
Ed Willock head of tech services and student at
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back. You can count on it.
Purchase College is running the tech for this year’s cab.
“Anyone on this campus doing something artistic should
take advantage of the opportunities right around them to
work with other artists to make great pieces.”
In a school where art is a lifestyle, seeing the work
of the students is meant to be infectious and set things
in motion while allowing students to engage in the art of
their peers. Hometown Cabaret not only allows the talent
of students to shine, but is a threshold for the inspiration
of others in their own artistic endeavors.
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Arts 7
Senior Film Screenings
By Jess Goodwin
Atkins, Dan Frye, Daphne Davis, Greg Lawson, Ilana Ellis,
Staff Writer
Joe Volpe, Liam McGlynn, Mary Schwarzhans, Matthew
Fels, Nikki Morse, Ricky Comuniello, and Virginia Smith
May — the month of finals, graduation, and film
will present their work.
screenings. Those reclusive film kids have been hard at
Up next, on Thursday, May 7, from 7pm to 11pm
work, and now the fruits of their labor will be shown for
are the sophomores. Showing their films are Christine
all to see.
Altidor, Hannah Bailey, Emily Berthold, Max Blecker,
The mini-film festivals at the end of each year are
Alyssa Codamon, Brendan Dean, Juan Galindo, Sara
what I look forward to the most (even this year — screw
Gardephe, Ryan Guiterman, Elizabeth Hixenbaugh,
graduating). Who knows what the film majors have
Patrick Katz, Efraim Klein, Will Klein, Joey Kucera, Elliot
been up to all these months, holed up in the bottom of
Lobell, Daniel McCartney, Zoe Miller, Julian Muller, Temi
the music building, or mysteriously gone to locations
Olutunmbi, Daniel Onoda, and Mac Smullen.
unknown? This is the chance to see just what they’ve
Finally, on Saturday, May 9 and Sunday, May 10, at
been working on. I recommend that everyone attend at
7pm, the seniors will present their final Purchase
least a couple if not all of these screenings.
projects. Screening will be Alan Lapointe, Alexandra
Tomorrow, May 1, and Saturday, May 2, at 7pm the
Lopez, Andrew Gitomer, Anna Todd, Dan Ferrara, Emily
freshmen will flaunt their stuff. Showing off their work
Wilson, Jamie Wright, Joel Neville Anderson, Michael
will be Jenn Boronow, Caleb Foss, Minoo Allen, Darcie
Borowiec, Nathan Rogers-Hancock, Nick Candreva,
Wilder, Mike Oschins, Shane Sheehy, Emily Tomasik,
Sam Marine, Sam Strzelec, Sarah Semlear, Shan Huang,
John Morgan, Kevin Henthorn, Nicole Favale, Dozzia
Shelly Kamiel, Stephen Ohocinski, Steven Levine, Taylor
Mantock, Chris Frahme, Jon Robertson, Lucas Francy,
Williams, and William Dekker.
Zach Lennon-Simon, Filip Kotsishevskiy, and Mattson
All showings will take place in the Choral Hall in the
Tomlin. Each night will run about two and half hours.
Music Building.
On Sunday, May 3, from 3pm to 9pm, Juniors Alex
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Off The Main Stacks: The Library Exhibits
room. Walking among the tables shows an incredible breadth and
depth of works within such a small showing. Still, the use of books
as a familiar object of day to day life is comforting and accessible
despite the mutations each artist made. Students constructed,
deconstructed, folded, cut and pasted each book within an inch of
its life. Some used only the cover as an element in a 3-D sculpture
that bursts out of its confined suggested space. Most overhauled
entire books, like Chloe Thompkins, who refurbished and collaged
art history books to challenge the conventions of classical art
pieces and tell new stories from their cut up elements. Equally
well done was Thompkins’s refurbishment of a book into a small
shadow box or diorama complete with scenery, a small doll with a
birdcage surrounding her head and the phrase “spare the rod, spoil
the child” written on an interior wall.
Jane Rissewyck’s sculptural pieces made from gluing together
the pages of books and then carving into them create inventive
shapes out of the old form of a book and make those of us who
hate to even mark a book with pen (like me) flinch a little.
Aiyana Knauer also took the knife to a copy of Jumanji like the
ones many of us read as a child and carved out crisp silhouettes
not in the shape of blatant pig-tailed girls and baseball-playing
boys but adults or teens. She then glued together pages into long
folds, on one side displaying the negative space created by the
By Alicia Miller cutouts and on the other re-applying them to the book to create
Staff Writer new characters out of the positive space they occupied.
Overall the display is small, but its central location (both in the
After watching that protest on the Great Lawn incredulously the other day, I did what most middle of a frequently visited part of the library visible from the
other kids probably had to do and headed over to the sweltering library mezzanine. Now I entrance and in the building possibly every resident of this campus
know none of you diligent SUNY students, including those seniors praying for the cessation will pop into at least once before semester’s end) it’s a site that
of all matriculated work to come, even want to hear anything about our “bibliotheque” or you can’t and shouldn’t miss. Seriously, you’ll be burned out from
books, this week’s piece is about a little something all of us can enjoy. Currently on display trying to study for your umpteenth final anyway. You should at least
in that same library mezzanine is is a cadre of books as art objects designed by students. It’s treat yourself to something interesting you don’t have to memorize
a sight that even the most harried crammer before finals can appreciate. before you go pass out reading and wake up with papers strewn
A special note is made on the flier that was circulated around campus for the exhibit all over the floor.
stating not only the students involved but also thanking the library director for use of the
space and most interestingly the Director of the Neuberger Museum of Art, Thom Collins for Off the Main Stacks: A collection of experimental artist books is on
materials. While it’s not quite clear to me exactly what the story is behind that tidbit I’m sure, display in the Purchase College Library Mezzanine Level from now
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knowing the personality of Mr. Collins, that it’s an interesting one to say the least. until Sunday, May 10th.
Each participating student was given a table which was placed in the center of the
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Special PSGA Executive Elections will be held online on April 20th and 21st.
These elections are not to be taken lightly, and we urge you to review
Election the following candidates qualifications and intentions to best describe
who is the most effective person for the job. Check your e-mail for
Candidates more details
Major Events Coordinator
Responsible for planning Fall Fest and
Culture Shock, Required to chair Major Events
Committe and meet with campus staff
Emma Rae Norton
Photography, sophomore
Qualifications and Experience:
Six years experience of booking shows of various sizes, including
SUNY Purchase shows. Currently summer music coordinator of Woodstock
Playhouse. Excellent organizational, communicative, and clerical skills.
Why do you want to run for this position?
We want to remove Culture Shock and Fall Fest from its tedious nature
by instilling fluidity and bringing the community into the decision making.
What are your plans and goals for the position if elected?
In order to promote diversity within major programming we shall charter
a set committee of students to represent various musical demographics
within SUNY Purchase. We would also like to allocate finances more wisely
and provide more support for the performers.
Jacklyn Deacon
Language and Culture, Junior
Qualifications and Experience:
I have been attending Culture Shock since I was 12 years old. I have experienced
touring with bands and also touring with my brother Dan Deacon as a translator in
Europe. I am head coordinator of a fundraiser that’s has raised over $20,000 in 3 years.
I have been co-coordinator of my annual weekend long family reunion (with almost 200
attendees a year). I’ve worked at the box office at the PAC for two years.
Why do you want to run for the position?
I feel that I am more than capable, qualified and prepared to coordinate event that
suit the vast array of tastes of the student body. Purchase has played a major rol in my
life for years and years. I want my last year to be memorable in the sense that everyone
felt represented in their two favorite events.
What are your plans and goals for the position if elected?
To represent the campus community to the best of my ability and make the culture of
Purchase both involved and present in the two events. I do not want to plan these events,
I feel the campus community should do this as a whole and use this position to make this
happen. These are campus events, they should be decided by us as a community and
enjoyed together equally as a community.
Sam Schachter
Media, Society, and the Arts, Junior
Qualifations & Experience:
I’ve been surrounded by music booking and music business for a long
time. I booked my first concert when I was a sophomore in High School.
I’ve put on numerous organized events and concerts since then. This year
I was responsible for booking a showcase of Purchase musicians in the
Co-op for WPSR. I also organized the “Greatest Show Ever” featuring
Purchase bands performing covers of well known bands. Outside of
Purchase I’ve booked shows at The Knitting Factory, The Bowery Poetry
Club and Connecticut College. I’ve worked for an independent label and
a major label. I recently just started my own record label that recently put
out it’s first release last month.
What are your plans and goals for the position if elected?
Why do you want to run for this position?
My first goal if elected, is to establish a clear communication between
I feel that Culture Shock and Fall Fest are not only concerts but
my position and the student body. To make sure the Purchase community
representations of Purchase College and the community that create it.
that wants to be informed of what’s going can do it easily. Another plan if
With that being said, I feel that I can use my experience’s to produce two
elected, is to have small divisions who work along with me who will represent
events that are representative of this campus. I’m proud to tell people that
different music and performance genres. Using this initiative, different genres
I attend Purchase and I want to use this appreciation to create the best
of music and performance will be represented equally. This also allows the
Culture Shock that has ever taken place at Purchase College.
community to have more of organized opinion.
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General Programming Provides programming (mainly in the Student Center) for student entertainment from
a discretionary budget and chairs the General Programming Committee
Coordinator
Andrew Kuhl
Studio Composition, Junior/Senior
Qualifications & Experience
I am a PSGA veteran going on 3 years, I know and understand how the PSGA operates. I am a musician
and a band dude who has a history of booking shows, parties, and other AWESOME events. I’ve helped set
up shows here and at home.
Why do you want to run for this position?
I love that SUNY Purchase is a school known for a good time, I would love nothing more than to be the
dude who helps make your college unforgettably awesome. I’m excited to help bring more fun than can be
imagined, ever.
What are your plans and goals for the position if elected?
I would like to work hard with all of my fellow students to bring the diverse & awesome programming
that our school is capable of.
Vira Biramji
Studio Production, Junior
Qualifications & Experience
I have been doing live sound for the past year at Purchase with Tech Services, and received an award for
tech at my previous college. In addition to being an extremely active member of Tech Services, I am also n the
2009 Hometown Cab committee and worked both days of Culture Shock this year. I have also booked many
shows over the past few years.
Why do you want to run for this position?
I have been part of Tech Services for the last year & have seen all the troubles that come from the lack of
communication between the GPC & tech. I am responsible & eager to do this job well and would love to make
the booking process a better experience for everyone involved. I also look forward to the opportunity to book
quality shows for our diverse campus.
What are your plans and goals for the position if elected?
I plan to be a responsible and productive GPC. Communication between campus students & Tech Services
is key to running the events smoothly. I want to make the process run well for all. As far as booking shows
on campus myself, I plan to reflect in the shows the diverse people we have on campus. We’re in a college
full of talent, and the shows must be talent that can impress our campus. I also want to make sure our shows
consistently showcase Purchase acts because its our college.
Khaledd Elsayed
Qualifications and Experience
I am embedded in New York City’s urban music scene, constantly going to music shows and keeping links
with many up and coming bands I’ve met over the years, some of which have played here at Purchase. Part of
the reason I feel I can fulfill his job’s demands is because I feel I know what students want. Spending at least
three hours researching new music to add to my repertoire, I can find acts that will please the student body,
making the best of the many events I hope to be in charge of in the coming year.
Why do you want to run for this position?
The General Programming Coordinator is in charge of an integral part of student life. I want students to
enjoy themselves while on campus. If I were to become in charge of the many events here, such as Zombie
Prom and Fall Ball, my driving factor for running would be to help students make the best out of their stay,
enhancing their experience.
What are your plans and goals for the position if elected?
If elected, I will upkeep the Stood’s reputation as a center of student life, making it reflect what students want.
I have three major goals I set for next year. I will have DJ sets at the Stood, have hip-hop shows considering
they were almost extinct this year, and have 5 big acts a year that will draw gigantic crowds.
Gregory Dunn
Studio Production, Sophomore
Qualifications and Experience
I’ve been organizing and booking shows for 7+ years, I’ve also booked shows here at Purchase before. I’ve been on
multiple self-booked tours, and speak with booking agents and record labels on a daily basis. I also have a well-rounded
list of important contacts and resources in the music industry. Its what I do for a living.
Why do you want to run for this position?
Because I feel very confident in my abilities, and think Purchase could benefit from becoming actively more involved
and less apathetic with campus events. I really want to bring more life, and things to be excited towards. We have amazing
resources as a school, they just need to be applied properly.
What are your plans and goals for the position if elected?
Developing a better connection with the student body, booking events suggested by the student body, and building
a better overall system of booking events. I’d like a Purchase Events website, Purchase Events board, immediate and
prompt response via email to all student suggestions, more frequent & promoted General Events meetings. And promotion,
promotion!
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Awards 10
The Ready, Willing,
and Able Awards
The Independent’s annual awards showcasing the best, the worst,
and the -Dear-God-Why moments that made the 2008-2009 school
year so damn special here at Purchase.
The “Say, whatever happened to…” award:
Kjartan Lomberg
Code.
Hey, remember the Purchase Mascot. Yeah, that’s right,
Kjartan Code, that crazy guy with the mad tight pants (this
doesn’t really narrow it down here) with the crazy art.
Does he wear a cardboard box in the outside world too?
Least Satisfying Snack
Food: Magic Pops.
So I don’t get it. After munching into these rice disk delights time after time
and being disappointed at their blandness, lack of flavor, and their overall, not quite
a rice cake, not quite a snack cake, why am I eating this, appeal or lack there of. I
am left to ask why bother in the first place? P.S. Magic Pops sandwich = epic fail.
The would you like some dust
(asbestos?) with your veggie
Terra burger Award?
Campus Vegitarians shed a slight
Ve.
tear when Terra Ve closed and they
realised that eating meat might be
better than eating asbestos...or was it
dust?
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The ‘we never saw it
coming award’…
Two words. Ben Bookbinder. Seriously, we never saw it com-
ing.
Whether it’s complaining about
people taking down his posters or The MicFri Bitch
Fight Award:
whining about lack of respect for
larpers in the Purchase Community...
there is one thing we know for
TheHolyCheese
certain: you have been PWN3D.
The Steven In a year where the PSGA went through more executives than a
drag queen goes through witty banter, sequin tube tops and lipstick,
Neamonitaukis
we here at the Indy would like to take a moment and congratulate
the one who got away. The one who got out before the shit really got
heavy (and by heavy we mean stupid, petty, and ridiculous). So here’s
to you Steve, for getting outta there while you still had the chance.
Appreciation Award: We hope this time spent away from the PSGA allowed you to focus
on what really mattered in life. Like, Jeez, I don’t know, nutrition,
personal endeavors, family, relationships, your future and the like.
Most “Persistent”:
Well, it’s a toss up, between your Major Event’s Coordinator, Jeff Levin
(Keep in mind you guys voted for him) and Steve Sabel (keep in mind we,
and possibly only we, voted for him). But in the end we had to hand it to you
Jeff. Whether it’s going 16,000 thousand dollars over budget, having Drake
perform at Culture Shock (seriously man, seriously?), or just coming into our
office all the damn time and asking us whether you’re on the cover. Guess
what Jeff, you’re not, but you got this award. Now where is our free ice cream?
Jeff Levin
The Revolving Door Award:
The PSGA Executive Board
Impeachment charge, resignation, resignation, resignation, impeachment, this year the PSGA made
me as motion sick as Culture Shock’s carnival rides. If there is anything I learned from this is what
comes in, must come out, eventually, or there will just be really really long meetings about it.
Thanks for caring, NYPIRG, PUSH, PEA…here’s to you, you who try
so hard, so often, against your average, jaded, typical
Purchase student. In a year that saw more protests
too bad you’re the than it has in the past few, it’s good to know that there
are still students out there who genuinely give a damn.
only one: The Activist Groups
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Student Activities One of two new Executive positions. Responsibilities include
attending GPC and MEC meetings, overseeing events at the Student
Coordinator Center, and chairing the Student Activities Committee.
Arielle Heyman
Creative Writing, Freshman
Qualifications & Experience
Senator of Farside (08-09), voting member of Steering Committee & Elections Committee. Voting member of
the PAC Student Advisory Board. Writer for the Brick. Co-chair of the PR committee. Presenter at the upcoming
2009 National Children’s Literature Association Conference.
Why do you want to run for this position?
I thoroughly enjoyed my involvement in the PSGA this year and would like to increase my involvement for the
upcoming year. I feel this position is the perfect position for me because of my passion for music and on-campus
programming as well as my insider’s knowledge of how the PSGA works. In my role as a voting member of the
Steering Committee, I helped draft the job outline for this executive position.
What are your plans and goals for this position if elected?
As this is the first year for the position, my main goal would be to set a precedence that utilizes the position
as effectively as possible. That aside, I plan to act as an effective liaison between the MEC, GPC, and Stood
Coordinator and the rest of the campus/Executive Board/Senate. Through this effective liaison, the campus
community will have a more organized & effective say in the events booked on campus. I plan on working closely
with the aforementioned 3 positions to ensure they fulfill their job duties and to give them the support necessary
to deal with the administration when necessary. I also plan on working closely with the MEC to find new solutions
for Culture Shock that will please both the student body and the administration. I plan to do this by contacting
and/or working with older MECs for their opinions. My goal is to utilize this new position for the greatest benefit
to our campus community.
Ariel Yelen
Sculpture, Sophomore
Qualifications and Experience
I worked for an artist this past summer and was extremely exposed to budgeting and organizing. I
co-directed and choreographed a musical with a cast of 30 people two years ago which gave me a new
perspective on executive experience. I am an extremely organized person.
Why do you want to run for this position?
I believe this position, Student Activity Coordinator, is necessary in making the PSGA run smoother
and more efficiently. I’m a naturally organized person, and look forward to the idea of running my own
meetings w/ GPC, MEC, and Stood Coordinator, as well as being in the know about what’s going on. I
believe in this position, and believe in the fact that it has the ability to help the PSGA.
What are your plans and goals for the position if elected?
My plans once elected are as follows: I plan on having weekly or bi-weekly meetings with GPC, MEC,
and Stood Coordinator and have it organized by a pre-existing list of questions/concerns/routine check-
in sheets that I will make. I plan on making their jobs run more smoothly so they can focus on serving the
student body. With their jobs running more smoothly, and all information and weekly activities relayed to
me, I will be able to help the Senate/Executive board run more smoothly as well. My goal is to show how
Student Activities Coordinator was an extremely important position to invent, and to make the PSGA run
more smoothly. I also plan to survey the student body and help the MEC, GPC, and Stood Coordinator
to realize what the student body wants because sometimes they can get so caught up in the logistics of
booking bands that they forget.
Joshua Kirby
Studio Production, Sophomore
Qualifications & Experience
Working for Tech Services for the past two years has allowed me the chance to observe both the strengths and
weaknesses of the current activities system. Based off my experiences, I believe that I can help create an efficient
and transparent Activities Council.
Why do you want to run for this position?
I would like the chance to use my knowledge and abilities to help stimulate enthusiasm and participation in
student activities.
What are your plans and goals for the position if elected?
I plan to accurately represent the diverse opinion of the student body in the Student Activities Council as well
as mediate the plans developed by it.
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Coordinator of History
The second new Executive position.
Responsibilities include the archiving and maintaining
of PSGA documents and records, and further
and Documents organizing of the internal infrastructure of the PSGA.
Steven Sabel
Political Science, Junior
Qualifications & Experience:
I have a long list of qualifications and experience that has only grown over my years here at Purchase. I
have been an integral member of the PSGA for the past three years. Last year I served as Senator of Outback
where I was able to help the building grow with a broad range of initiatives which included plans to get the
walkway next to the tennis courts paved which is still in the works. I have also served as a Purchase College
Association board member going on two years now. It is here I have been able to help the school with its
environmental sustainability push. Additionally I have chaired a committee which drafted and implemented the
Probation Resolution Policy into college policy. I also aided in the drafting of the Security Camera Policy while
sitting on Civic Actions Committee which I have been doing for two years now. I have also recently gotten the
administration to purchase 12 new hammocks for the students to enjoy again and since the new weather is upon
us you can expect to see them put up within the next few weeks.
Why do you want to run for this position?
This position is new to the PSGA and next year has a lot of potential for growth. For the position it is
important that someone with a good working knowledge of the inner workings of the student government as
well as this institution as a whole be puts in place. I feel that I would be perfect for the job and cannot just lay
down a solid foundation but really set the bar for this position for years to come.
What are your plans and goals for this position if elected?
This position is one where you must have a good deal of prior knowledge in order to get anything
accomplished. One aspect of this is to create a central filing system and try and regain pieces of our Student
Governments history through documents and various means. Another part of this position is to have some
oversight on the other positions not in the way as to check that they are doing their jobs, but more to check
that the jobs they are doing conform to ours and SUNY guidelines. I feel like my prior experiences and working
relationships with next year’s executives will make this a very easy and apparent transition into the year.
Dena Zilber
Printmaking, Junior
Qualifications and experience:
Going on my 3rd year of work study in the education office at the Neuberger Museum of Art where I
regularly manage workshop and tour records, catalogue and arrange files, schedules, and mailings. I also
assist in coordinating the slide archive from time to time. I interned last summer at a gallery in Chelsea
in which part of my duties included organizing, photographing, and cataloging inventory several times a
week.
Why do you want to run for this position?
I have always desired to be involved in my school in some way. And give back to it. I love this school and
am proud to be a student here. This new position is exactly what I was looking for to get involved with the
PSGA. I’m very good at clerical work and when given the assigned task to organize things I have always been
successful. Coordination of histories and documents is something this school needs, and I would love to be
the first to apply my skills and do that.
What are your plans and goals for the position if elected?
Being the first to hold this brand new position, I want to be the person who creates a solid ground-work
for future CoHaDs. I want to make a simplistic, organized, archive on which the PSGA can constantly rely on
to keep and find records with ease.
Brittany Mayes
Art History, Freshman
Qualifications and experience:
Senator of Crossroads 08’- 09’, working knowledge of the PSGA and constitution, Have worked
in an office for two years, sat on numerous committees including Steering, EPC, IAC.
Why do you want to run for the position?
I want to run for this position because I feel I would do a great job with it. I have the qualifications
and I honestly want to do this job. I can also bring an unbiased opinion to meetings because I have
fresh ears.
What are your plans and goals for the position if elected?
I plan to make the PSGA office and archives a little more organized. I want to make sure if there
is a document that is needed, it is easy and simple to find.
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Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,
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Dear Editorial Staff,
On Monday’s Anti- Protest
We screamed and spit; pointed and laughed; Last week you published an article about a new food club on campus: Meat Club. I read through the
chanted and stoned the ignorant protestors with piece and noticed a serious factual error: Liam Kirby's hair never caught fire. We joked about the alleged
our trash, and all parties fed off the adrenaline. The incident numerous times during interviews with the writer, Peter Foy who many of us know personally.
students cheered and reveled in their rightness and We believed that he would pick up on the joke, and, if he didn't, the Independent's Editorial Staff would
in their number, their support. The middle-aged recognize the incredulity of the situation and remove the alleged fact from the article.
protestor suffered the torments and trash, the jeers This false statement calls Meat Club's safety practices into question and adds a serious blemish to
and laughs, and fought for his silly beliefs as if he our reputation. The Editors' even noted that they questioned the veracity of the alleged "Kirby Aflame"
were a saint- in his mind perhaps he saw himself as incident and our goal of featuring exotic meats. While we remain steadfast in our goal to feast upon the
a saint or martyr. The policemen chuckled. It was muscly tissue of emus, camels and dolphins regardless of what the Editors' think, we don't take issue
the kind of event our Purchase community, myself with that statement, only the former. Seeing as the Independent's staff published that they questioned this
included, innately craves, a real protest. But in our defamatory statement, we would almost immediately win any libel suit against the publication.
stance against ignorance, we all but failed. We To qualify for libel, the newsmagazine must have published a false, defamatory statement and
succumbed to our adrenaline and anger, and we identified a recognizable group or individual. The publication must have gone through regular reporting
forgot ourselves. We cursed and screamed “fuck practices or questioned the veracity of the statements. Anyone who attended meat club will tell you that
you,” to one of our fellow students. We hated him. Liam Kirby's hair never caught fire. I never poured grease on his hair and we never fling meat around
I don’t know his name and don’t wish to (dare carelessly. The Editors' note shows that the Independent questioned the veracity, but published the article
I look him in the eye?), but he was the student anyway.
reading from the Bible. We didn’t pull him aside to I hope that the Independent will remember this situation when publishing dubious or controversial
talk to him, we didn’t do anything to try and save articles in the future. Meat Club and, hopefully, the rest of the Campus Community won't accept this sort
him from ourselves- his fellow students. I am not of scandalous yellow journalism in the future. If Meat Club had the required finances, we'd take legal
questioning the obvious close-mindedness and action action against your paper and use your future budget to buy synthesized human tissue and hold
arrogance of the protestors (and I want to commend an end of the year Gala.
Russ Zambito for his handling of the situation and Please recognize your importance on the Purchase Campus and understand the influence that the
especially for leading us, the crowd, away from the Independent holds within this community. Unlike other services, you're the most visible and have the
protest, in a move that illuminated the danger of ability to change the way students view individuals and groups within the Purchase Community. Our
hypocrisy in participating in our anti-protest), but I reputation in many ways depends on the Independent and the Independent's existence depends on your
would like to say clearly that is was severely close- ability to shift through the here-say and find the truth.
minded of us to be so hateful to other human
beings, especially because one of them was one Sincerely,
of us. Our community, without stopping to chew, Meat Club Treasurer and Outlaw
swallowed whole one of it’s own and called it a Tony Cella
victory. We’re getting sloppy- forgetting to think
or feel for others. Purchase students, above all P.S. On a personal note, I do not worship Satan, Hitler or Nordic Gods as a previous Backpage
others, should be well aware that hate catches like comment claimed. While I understand the Backpage is a forum for humor, my future employers and
wildfire and can even burn those who have felt its fellow students may not. I encourage the Independent to add a disclaimer to the Backpage that explains
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its purpose. This proposed disclaimer could save you a great deal legal trouble in the future.
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heat before. Shame on us.
Signed,
Dante De Leo
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genocide. “You can speak for Him to people to not be gay, but you can’t answer a
question that makes you uncomfortable?”
Reynold’s question was not the only one avoided by Jim. “What do you hope to
achieve today?” Townsend-Pitt asked repeatedly, but Jim ignored him and chose to
fiddle with his camera instead.
While Jim insisted on spewing out his beliefs without listening to the students’
words, his wife, Faith, was more open to talking maturely with students.
“I kind of expect more from university students,” said Faith, in reference to the
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students who would yell curses. “It’s just reciting trite phrase. Though there are some
students asking good questions.”
Regarding why they were out to promote their message, Faith said “This is
presenting an angle that hasn’t been. We thought that a university is a good place to
express different opinions.”
Thomas Schwarz, president of the college, sent an email to the campus around 3:30
p.m., explaining that the First Amendment protected “distasteful and objectionable
speech.” His message said that the protesters’ opinions were “inconsistent with
those held by the Purchase College administration and community,” and encouraged
students to engage civilly with the visitors regardless of their views.
During the “counter counter-protest”, Allison Malinowski, a senior Drama Studies
major, offered her opinion as to what she felt would have stopped the protesting.
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Dear Editor, Hart Seely is accused of assault on a police officer, and attempted robbery
of a police officer’s firearm.
On The Conviction Of The Innocent
Hart Seely has been suspended from school. He is allowed to finish out
What is it that allows the law, that is, the police- and their word, to have a his classes for this semester, but is not allowed in any residence area. He is not
much higher standing than my own, or your own? Why is it that one officer’s allowed to go into his room. This presents a large set of problems for someone
word can make null the words of the masses? I’ve been pondering this issue whose home is in Syracuse and does not own a car. Next semester he is
over the past week as I’ve watched a friend, a student here at Purchase College, completely suspended from school. From this, what can we deduce? He is
go from top to bottom. We are always infatuated with the notion of the fall allowed on campus- and therefore is not a real threat. Even the administration
of people- we spend many hours watching those crime shows and reading knows that he is not a real threat, or else he would be never allowed at
novels that culminate in a grand court scene. The ultimate judgment. The final the university again. If Hart was someone who legitimately had criminal
judgment. There is something so apocalyptic in the judge, the jury- deciding our intentions, he would rightfully not be welcomed at a place where we advocate
fate. What is to come of me? Will they allow me my freedom, or will they throw safe learning, and yet they still attempt to ruin his clean streak at Purchase
me into a jail cell? Will they open the gates of heaven, or will they cast me into College. At his hearing within the school, deputy King did not even show up.
hell? When our freedom rests on the minds of the unaffected, surely hell is the He has ultimately condemned a student, but does not care enough to come
most obvious option. to his hearing and say “he is guilty”. Yet, with the lack of the accuser, or, the
And hell is what the main character of my story is destined to experience. lack the police officer, the judicial board did not listen to my own story of the
We shall call him Hart Seely: for that is his name in this story, and in real life as arrest, or the multiple character witnesses that included two professors. His
well. This is a story about the injustice of our court system, and to talk about this criminal court case is on May 12th. Read that again-”His criminal court case.”
I have to adapt a new voice, that is, the voice of the court itself. Is Hart a criminal? You tell me. Tell them. Whether or not you are a detractor
On the night of Friday, April 17th, Hart Seely was arrested. It was dark, it of the police- whether you are an anarchist or a fascist- surely you can see
was chaotic- it was Culture Shock. We all know about Culture Shock. The once there is something wrong here. Something here is not right, something here
a year festival at our university where we get a chance to celebrate the spring, is not just. As a student body, we can not let these charges stand. We must
the upcoming summer, the completion of (hopefully) a successful semester of act, because it could be me who stumbles on the wrong person. Because next
learning, thinking and working. We all want a celebration for a job well done, time it could be you who stumbles on the wrong person. I hope that when
and this is what we hope to accomplish through this great music festival. Back that happens you will be there for me, because I will be there for you. If we
to the narrative. It was during Streetlight Manifesto. It was wild celebration and let the police get away with these false accusations, we are affectively letting
there was a mosh pit. Emerging from this setting there are three stories: Hart’s them take a shit on us, as students and believers in justice, as a whole. This is
story, the story of the police at the time of the arrest, and the story of the police the same justice that these police are installed in order to protect. Read this.
the day after the arrest. We will examine Hart’s story first. Think about this. Do not let this story go, because it is more than a story, it
Hart was standing by the edge of the mosh pit during Streetlight Manifesto. is someone’s life. There has not been a moment in my time at this university
The police kept stopping the band and telling the crowd that they must move that has been more urgent- and I can’t say for sure in yours, but I’m sure you
back. “Take three steps back” was the catch phase of their set. The band was can still see the importance. We are students. We are forward thinking. We
forced to stop playing multiple times in order for the cops to tell everybody to are educated. We don’t just accept things, it is our tradition as students- from
move back. Implied with this is that the crowd was too close to the barricades Europe in the mid 1800s to the United States in the mid 1900s, to Greece just
and the police that were positioned directly in front of the stage. Conversely, the a few months ago, to Purchase now? Only if you want it. Only if you care.
police were too close to the crowd and needed some room- from the students,
and from the mosh pit. Hart was pushed back by someone in the mosh pit, and If you want to know what you can do, if you are dedicated, if you have an
accidentally hit into deputy King- a Westchester County police officer. More idea of what to do, no matter how large or how small, e-mail me. There is a
specifically, Hart’s hand hit into the officer’s hat. The officer immediately pulled petition that will be sent to our school’s president along with anyone else it
Hart out of the crowd while he was pleading to know “What did I do?”, and the should concern. Sign it.
officer replied, “You know what you did”. Hart was arrested. alex.moskowitz@purchase.edu
Now, just after this, that is, after he was pulled out of the crowd, I watched
the arrest. Once Hart was put into a squad car, I walked up to the group of Signed,
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officers talking about what just happened. This is the story of the police of the Alex Moskowitz
night of the arrest. One officer, who I later found to be deputy King, was telling
the other officers how Hart had hit into his hat, and it (that is, the hat) got pushed
over his face. I caught the tail end of this story, so I asked another officer what
happened. He conveyed the same story to me as I stood there in disbelief that
Hart would do something like this on purpose. And yes, I know that if he had any
drinks at all that night, he was not drunk enough to make a decision as dumb
as that.
The next day, Hart gets back from jail. Yes, from jail. He accidentally hit
into a person and spent the night at UPD, where he shared the facilities with
a student who had taken psychedelics, and was vomiting all over himself for
hours. In response to this, the a UPD officer came into the room, and told the
student who was repeatedly vomiting on himself to “Get in the bathroom.” and
threatened that if he didn’t, he would “break his neck”. These are the people who
decide our fate- people who use physical intimidation and death to get their
point across. I think maybe a word for this type of person is a “thug”. Listen, I’m
not a scoundrel, I’m a student with rights.
Hart spent the next morning in jail cell in Valhalla. He was shipped to
a cell outside of our humble campus at around 11:00 AM, where he was finally
informed of what he was being accused of. Bear in mind, this is about twelve
hours after he was dragged out of the crowd, while being told “You know what
you did”. This cell was shared with a few people, some coming and some going.
Among these were real criminals, you know, people who had actually done
something wrong, such as being found with pounds of illegal drugs. And this
is our Hart Seely, innocent and wrongfully accused. Now, overnight he became
even more wrongfully accused, if you could imagine such a thing. Overnight,
the police changed his story to not only purposefully hitting the cop’s hat, but
added, yes in addition to this, that he was attempting to steal the officer’s gun.
This new charge became so much the emphasis that the original offense, in
which he was arrested for, has faded into the background.
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Stood Talk with Jess Goodwin Calendar
Thanks everyone who came out to the Stood last Friday for skating, pizza, and slumber. My condolences to Thursday
Broken-Arm Girl! April 30- Cheese Club’s final meeting at
Tonight and this weekend is Hometown Cabaret (it used to be Downtown, but we too po’ to affo’d the big 10pm in the Co-Op
city)! Bringing together music, dance, words, images and theater, this year it will be all over campus: in the
Stood, the Co-Op, South, and Theater-X. Artists and performers include but are not limited to: Friday
May 1-Hillel Sushi Shabbat at 6pm in CCN
The Legacy Hour
White Blues and the Highway Shoes
0024. Dinner Starts at 7:15 in the Clearview
True Theory Lounge (next to the Hub)
Screwed Again
Candy Hearts
Saturday
May 2- Gamer’s United 2nd Annual Gam-
Charlie Philips and the New York Crimes
LandLords
ing Decathalon Starting at 12pm in the G
Hermin Fermin street Lounge. Also on Sunday!
Weston Minnissali -Hip Hop Tribute at 5pm in the Quad
Adam McHeffey
Soul Voices Sunday
Choral Pleasure May 3-Latinos Unidos May 1st-3rd All over
Naima Yetunde Ince campus all day!
Donner Party Picnic
Who will play when? You’ll just have to come to find out!
Monday
Or…you can go to the website, which has a pretty comprehensive list. For more info. visit www.purchasecaba-
May 4- Alternative Clinic 6pm-9pm in
ret.com. health services
(SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT!!! Bimbo Cartel at 9:30 pm in South on Friday! I don’t care what anyone thinks!) Tuesday
May 5- Pancake Madness at 10pm in the
On Tuesday, May 5, is the final Stood show of the semester. King Khan and the Shrines (who, according to Dining Hall
Livejournal, some of you are crazy about, while others seem to wish they had never been born) are headlining.
I Googled Mark Sultan, who’s opening, and from what I gathered he’s been in a million bands with strange
names, and has performed under a million strange pseudonyms, so come and check him out!
The show is starting at 7:30, and has to end at 10pm, because that’s when Pancake Madness starts, and
Wednesday
there’s nothing better than sick music and tons of free dining hall food to throw up. Also, bets on which lov- May 6- Casey Chandlers Last Show at the
Neu at 7pm
able cartoon character will be there this year?
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The Weekly Crossword
Across:
1. Spring ________ Down:
7. Volcanic goo 1. Something to keep track of dates and
10. ___ in the Family occasions
11. Much ___ About Nothing 2. Alpaca’s cousin
12. ___ the Dog 3. Santa’s helper
13. _____ Taffy 4. Opposing vote
15. __ Ed 5. Freudian term
16. General Hero ____ 6. Alicia Keys song
18. Unit of measurement in typography 7. Advice columnist Ann
19. Not out, but __ 8. They can be double or secret
20. Old fashioned female name, plural 9. “_____ such a clatter...”
21. Innocence; gullability 14. Lincoln’s bill
24. Suffix, to make female, often 17. Those who grade
25. A primary color 19. Evil Stephen King clown, also
26. Swear; jinx 51-across
28. High card 22. Anger; frustration
30. Princess __ 23. Pearl Jammer Vedder
32. Gore and Bundy 26. Feline
33. Residential Assistant 27. Forearm bones
35. Part of a Romanian Internet domain 29. Older lady who preys on younger men
36. Employer Identification Number, abbreviated 31. The ___ and outs of...
37. Tennessee, abbreviate 34. Phrase akin to “Who knows?”
38. Suffix, to make one who practices the root 36. Exit; way out
noun or verb 38. Myself’s friends
39. Desires; yens 40. _____ Rabbit (and NYPIRG)
41. Online chat application 42. ____ a boy/girl!
43. Mad scientist’s goofy assistant 43. Flatten with heat
44. People who try things out 44. Manson victim Sharon
47. Kind of party 45. Kind of album
48. Advanced Placement, abbreviated 46. Bug killer
49. __ You Like It 52. Overdose, for short
50. Mine finds 53. Prefix, “to give the ability to”
51. Evil Stephen King clown, also 19-down
52. English vowels, in no particular order
54. Letters between Q and U
55. Finish; stop
56. New Democratic Party, abbreviated
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Ingredients:
The Base:
-5 large tomatoes
-2 cloves garlic
-5-7 dates, pitted (or a _ cup raisins)
-1/4 cup lemon juice
-1/2 tsp salt (optional)
Hey everybody. Wow, last column of the year huh? -1 bunch fresh basil
Last week I wrote about auteur John Though finals might be right around the corner, that’s -1/2 cup water
Cassavettes’s directorial work in his critically no reason to stop enjoying the beautiful weather. I know -2 tbs olive oil
acclaimed “Faces.” Since I’m pressed for ideas I’m definitely looking forward to summer. Though I’ll be
spending the vast majority of it living on Long Island The Veggies:
for this week’s column (per usual), I’m going
(sigh), I have a whole mess of projects waiting for me -1 large avocado
to recommend a film that I just saw for the first -1 bell pepper
when I get back—trying to learn Spanish to travel down
time that ironically features Cassavettes in one to Mexico next spring; work in a bicycle shop; mess -5 sticks celery
of the two starring roles. After one viewing, my around with my garden; starting a legit compost pile in -1 small onion (optional)
instincts lean towards calling “Mikey and Nicky” a my back yard; hopefully travel around and visit friends. -a bit of parsley
forgotten gem of 1970s American cinema, but like One thing I’m interested in trying, though, is getting
the star’s own films, it is admittedly simultaneously back in touch with the area where I grew up. I’ve always 1.) Take all the ingredients for the Base and throw
fascinating and frustrating. had a pretty tough time dealing with my home town. them together in a blender. Now you have the liquid.
Written and directed by Elaine May, “Mikey and For me, it just conjures up memories of growing up in This recipe is just a rough guide, so if you don’t have
Nicky” centers around an evening spent between a conservative at best, jock-oriented, macho-ass, ‘roid- some of these ingredients you can probably replace
pounding, Guido-slicked hell hole (at its worst). To top them with other stuff and it’ll be just fine (I know
the wary friends of the title. Nicky (Cassavettes)
it all off, you can take an even closer look at the racist, fresh basil and parsley is pretty expensive, you could
has just opened a newspaper to find that out that a probably get away with dried just fine).
sexist, and discriminatory undertones that course
fellow thug has been shot dead over money that he through much of its culture (it was a town just down the 2.) Take all the stuff under the veggies section and
helped embezzle. A phone call later, Mikey (Peter road from me where back in December a group of high chop these guys into chunks (whatever size you like).
Falk) comes to his aid and the two head out into the school kids knifed to death an Ecuadorian migrant). Throw them in the soup liquid, garnish with chopped
seedy alleyways of NYC, ostensibly with the goal
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At the same time, I am a product of this place, parsley, spice accordingly if you like, and enjoy!
of getting Nicky out of town. It quickly becomes and wouldn’t be where I am today if I didn’t have that
apparent that Mikey is having them followed by experience. Even if I may never want to live there in
an assassin (the underrated Ned Beatty), and the future (a very likely possibility), I feel its about time
the narrative question quickly becomes whether that I at least learn to make peace with this place that
Mikey is really helping his abusive friend escape had paradoxically treated me so well (as a middle class
white kid in the suburbs) and so poorly (repressive
or if he’s going to turn him over to answer for what
society, etc.).
he has done. More then anything else though, I sort of feel
Like “Faces,” much of “Mikey and Nicky” is talk, sorry for the town and surrounding area where I grew
and much of that talk is centered on a dissolving up. Nothing to do, no places to hang out (for free at
relationship. Both friends have done wonderful least), young people getting into the bar scene because
things for each other and equally hurtful things as they’ve nothing else to do with their Friday nights—
well. Mikey seems to be damage control for loose really man, it can be pretty difficult to try to break out
cannon Nicky; he buys his medicine, apologies of the structured, alienating, consumer-based lifestyle
to everyone he insults on their journey, and you find there. If I want to hang out with my friends,
(intentionally or not) keeps him alive. Nicky comes why do I need to pay ten bucks for some shitty meal at
Applebees? Why are there no spaces for young people
off as completely ungrateful, telling him that “most
to go that don’t encourage drinking, partying, and the
people think you’re annoying” throughout the buying of commodities?
night, indicating that his friendship to him should Still, in the end of the day I guess it’s really up to
be treated like gold. The two argue and tussle until each of us to manifest the type of change we want
Nicky pushes the envelope too far and ruins a to see. If I want to get involved in a dumpster diving,
symbolic item of Mikey’s. The two split and the film gardening, and radical activist scene on the Island, but
then takes a new direction as we see the estranged there isn’t one, it’s really up to me to make that happen.
friends make separate stops to their colleagues, You can reliably count on the fact that nobody else is
mistresses, and wives, hurtling towards a reunion, going to step up and make that kind of stuff happen, its
but also a tragic and inevitable conclusion. something you need to do on your own.
Anyway, back to reality. So with the school year being
The chemistry between Cassavettes and Falk is
over, this very well might be my last column for you
energetic and intimate, their work here unparallel guys with “Cheap, Tasty, Healthy Stuff.” That being
to anything they had previously done together. The said, its been a great year with you all, I’ve had a lot of
dialogue sounds so natural coming from them, fun writing this column for both yourselves and I, and
giving an improvisational and out-of-control feel perhaps you’ll all see and hear from me again next year.
to their scenes. It is impossible to predict where Also, a shout out to our graduating seniors, good luck
their journey will take them, but there’s a sense of guys.
familiarity between the characters. It almost seems I’ve always hoped that the real point of this weekly
as if they knew that they would be spending this column was to share my passion for food/gardening/
evening together sooner or later. activism with you all, and further more encourage you
to explore your own interests as well. In the end of
“Mikey and Nicky” is not a film that can be
the day, it’s the little stuff like this that really makes us
watched passively; for some, I doubt it can be happy. On that note, enjoy your summer, and for our
watched at all. But I firmly believe that this might final recipe (a nice follow up on my three week raw food
be one of the greatest “buddy movies” ever made. kick); Raw Gazpacho!
Beneath the relatively simple plot, the film is about
two friends who finally get the chance to tell Raw Gazpacho
each other what they’ve been holding up inside. Serves 4-5
Unfortunately for them, it seems they needed Estimated Cost: $15
someone’s life to be at stake to do so.
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Have any ideas during the summer? E-Mail us over the summer at purchaseindy@
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A Year In Review
There are many things I could write about in my final letter to the editor. I could
use this space to further embrace in the events that occurred at Monday’s impromptu
protest. The pride I felt for my community, how we came together at a moments notice.
I could also use this space to further emphasize the positives and the negatives that
occurred at Monday’s anti-protest, as we fought, and in my opinion triumphed, for our
beliefs and ideals. These are things that as students we should hold as most scared. They
are things I’d like to think can never be compromised.
Ironically this point plays flawlessly into the next thing I’d like to draw emphasis to,
something that will play an even bigger role in the lives of the students next year. This
event I’m alluding to doesn’t occur in the form of a mass protest or a demonstration, in
fact, this event happens every week.
What I’m referring to happened this past Wednesday afternoon in the Red Room and
further calls into question our ideals as students, who we are, and what we are willing
to accept in a world that seldom seems to play by the rules anymore. What I’m referring
to here is Student Senate, which occurs every Wednesday at 12:30, typically in the Red
Room of the Student Services Building. This particular senate meeting was arguably one
of the most important of the school year because it determined the PSGA’s budget for
2009-2010 school year.
I could harp on what happened yesterday, how exceedingly unfair the events that
occurred felt, especially coming from a student government that emphasizes how they
are supposed to work for me, supposed to represent me. But, being only a sparse two
weeks away from graduation, why bother? I’d rather use this time to emphasize what a
hard year this has been for so many and congratulate everyone for getting through it. I
can’t stress enough how proud I am of so many who were able to take these constant
blows, both to their egos and otherwise, brush themselves off, and pick themselves up.
It’s a testiment to both our strengths as students and as people who will one day be
entering the real world.
Finally I’d like to thank everyone I had the opportunity to meet while here at Purchase,
with special emphasis to those I’ve had the privilege to work with during my time here
at The Indy. I’d like to thank our Faculty advisor Adam Brown for his support throughout
the year. I’d also like to thank my staff for all their hard work in contributing to the
publication.
And to my friends and fellow graduating seniors, best of luck and congratulations,
we did it!
~Dana Ellis
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