The Chronicle, Vol. LXVII, Issue 6

              Easter is this Sunday
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There’s movies to see, CD’s to listen to, and
concerts to go to-page
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Saint Rose baseball and softball teams are
in “full swing”-
Sports page
The Best Time for Your News.
Good weather makes
Rosestock 2000 a hit
The Bi-Weekly Newspaper o f the College of Saint Rose Vol. XVII, Issue 6 - April 20, 2000
Saint Rose SA election restilts declared
by Terry Towers
S ta ff Writer
With the area receiving 12
inches of snow in a freak storm
last week, organizers of
Saturday’s Rosestock 2000 were
a little worried that the event
would not go exactly as planned.
“Snow a week ago scared the
hell out of me”, said Christopher
Bissonette, Vice President for
Social Activities, who headed the
organization of the event. But the
seventy-degree day was exactly
the kind of day Bissonette hoped
for, because much planning had
gone into the event.
The planning stages o f the
event began two montKs ago,
though Bissonette agreed that “it
should have been even earlier,”
with organizers meeting every
week to discuss plans. They
began by reserving the lawn,
planning the activities, and book­ing
the bands.
Bissonette said that Rosestock
could not have been successful
without the help of everyone
involved, including the Student
Events Board, the Student
Association, and a host of volun­teers.
“Everyone deserves an
applause,” Bissonette said.
The great weather served as a
good reason, and persuaded peo­ple
to stay throughout all of the
band performances. It also
proved to be a determinate in the
moods of those students attend­ing.
“This is the first Rosestock that
I’ve wanted to stay for the whole
thing,” one student said. Others
present at the event agreed that
the weather was one of the rea­sons
that they decided to attend.
Even the bands enjoyed the
turnout. Mike, from the band
Southdown, said he was
impressed with how many
women showed up, and asked if
it was “true about the 10-1 ratio
of girls to guys?”
Other acts at Rosestock 2000
included Kate McKrell, who
started the show with her solo
performance of original songs.
Lifted, Gohbi, Coli, The Orange,
Nitric Blue. The Clay People
played throughout the day and
into the night, with the show
being briefly interrupted by the
Albany City Police while Nitric
Blue’s set was in mid-stream.
The police said that there were
complaints o f increasing levels
of noise and foul language.
Zach, from the band Gohbi,
hinted that even the bands could
have some worries coming into a
show like Rosestock 2000.
“1 didn’t know what to expect,
our drummer is new and he just
learned all the songs last night,”
said Zach.
Ben, from The Orange, said
they consider themselves a “local
band” with frequent appearances
at Valentines. He also added that
the band was excited about an
upcoming appearance at
Edgefest at the Altamont
Fairgrounds.
Other activities at Rosestock
included a short lived chocolate
syrup slip and slide, a bread eat­ing
contest, sumo wrestling,
sock-n-bop, a silly string “war”,
a kid kicking a piOata, and a
group completing the scavenger
hunt. Also, students who brought
a can of food were given a free
Rosestock T-shirt.
Overall, the day was a success.
At one point, during the set
played by The Clay People, orga­nizers
estimated the crowd to be
over 200 people.
Chris Bissonette probably put
it the best when he said, “it’s the
most beautiful day of the year so
far...it just happened to turn out
to be the day of Rosestock.”
by Melanie Granger
Special to The Chronicle
The results o f the Student
Association Elections are in and
Stephanie Sherriian secured the
position of SA President with
176 votes. Pete Gannon came in
second with 95 votes and Andy
Terry came in third with 69 votes
for the presidency.
Candidates who ran unopposed
filled the positions of VP of
Social Activities, VP of
Communications, and VP of
Special Interest Groups. Andy
Kourt, who ran for VP of Social
Activities, won with 285 votes.
Kim Kruger received 269 votes
for the position of VP of
Communications. And Alison
Greene won VP o f Special
Interest Groups with 254 votes.
Stephanie Sherman, a junior
and a History/ Political Science
major, has had three years of
experience in SA as a member of
several committees and is the
current VP of Special Interest
Groups.
“I’m so excited right now,”
said Sherman about her plans for
the upcoming year. “I’ve got big
things planned for next year. I
want to focus on the issues.”
For Sherman, the issues of
diversity on campus and on the
plagiarism policy are priorities.
She would also like to hold more
daytime events so that the com­muter
population on the campus
could participate in events and
feel more involved in campus
activities. One of her main goals
is to keep the board focused and
on track when it comes to listen­ing
to students’ ideas and con­cerns.
Pete Gannon, a sophomore and
Public Communications major,
came in second in the election.
Having no prior leadership expe­rience
or club memberships on
this campus (his experience all
“I’m so excited right now.
I’ve got big things planned
for next year. I want to
focus on the issues.”
-Sherman about her plans
for the upcoming year.
came from high school) he was
asked why he ran.
“I just wanted to get students
to come out and vote,” said
Gannon. “ I think I raised a lot of
important issues and 1 hope Ms.
Sherman respects them.”
Issues raised by Gannon per­tain
to the lack of involvement of
a large portion of the student
body on this campus. To solve
this problem he suggesteid having
more events that would appeal to
a broad range of individuals, not
just to a
s e l e c t
f e w .
T h e
o t h e r
maj or
issue he
brought
up was
a con-c
e r n
o v e r
w h e r e
the money that SA is allotted to
give to other clubs and to spend
on their own programs goes. His
recommendation was to have a
copy of the audit that SA is
required to have performed each
year published in The Chronicle
along with monthly expenditure
statements.
Andy Terry, a sophomore and
History/Secondary Education
major, was the third participant
running for the SA president in
the election. He is a member of
both SA and SEB. The issues that
he brought up included trying to
increase enrollment in SA as well
as passing an amendment in the
SA Constitution that would man­date
that all active clubs at Saint
Rose have a representative in SA.
Terry also wanted to hold open
forums once or twice a semester
so that students could come and
voice their concerns as well as
possibly trying to hold referen-dums
to get the student body
involved in the voting process.
Furthermore, Terry thought that
it would be a good idea for the
members of the executive board
to attend meetings of different
clubs to give them a better idea of
what the clubs were doing in
terms of activities and programs.
“This has been a learning
experience,” said Terry. “The one
major thing I’ve learned from
this process is how to read the
by-laws thoroughly.” He also has
an appeal in progress and hopes
to receive a response soon.
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votes or 50 percent of the total
voter turnout. They all received
more than enough to qualify.
Andy Kourt, a Freshman
SEED major, was the winner for
the position of VP of Social
Activities and has many ideas for
his term next year. He v/ould like
to increase the communication
between SA and SEB by having
the two clubs offer support for
one another. He would also
encourages two-way participa­tion
between the two groups as
well. Kourt also believes that cul­tural
diversity is an important
issue that should be addressed in
the upcoming year. He will sup­port
more multi-cultural events
on campus not only by attending
them but also by trying to get
funds from SEB set aside to put
on more of them.
“I’d like to thank the students
that voted and I look forward to
working with the student body,”
said Kourt. “I’ll try not to let any­one
down.”
Kim Kruger was the winner of
the VP of Communications posi­tion.
She has written for The
Chronicle for three semesters and
is looking forward to getting
more involved with and reviving
The Sphere, the Saint Rose mag­azine,
and Reflections, the col­lege
yearbook.
“I wanted to thank all the stu­dents
for their support and I look
forward to working with the
campus publications next
said Kruger.
Alison Greene, a junior and
Elementary Education/Special
Education major, won VP o f
Special Interest Groups. Alison
has been active in SA and was the
‘99-’00 president of Circle K.
During her term she would like to
meet one on one with club offi­cers
once a week. She also
believes that SA needs stronj^r
communication with its clubs
and that the clubs want more r ^ -
resentation. As an overalLgoal
for her time at Saint Rose,
Greene would like to turn Saint
Rose into a “cashless” campus.
This would allow students to use
their ID cards to purchase items
not only in the Camelot Room
and the Brubacher Snack Bar but
at vending machines, the Post
Office and the Campus Store.
However, Alison could not be
reached for comment.
The positions o f VP of
Academic Activities and VP of
Finance remain vacant.
Individuals will be appointed
into these positions next year.
Out of the 4,000 students eligible
to vote only 345 actually did so.
This is less than 10 percent o f the
voting population, a disappoint­ing
amount according to most of
the candidates. This concern was
expressed because SA members
and officers were worried that
most of the voices in the student
body were not going to be heard
due to the low voting percentage.
Hollis Seamon reads from new book, first publication
Seamon, a College of Saint Rose professor, published her first book
“Body Work: Stories” and read it to the Saint Rose community. The
book is about women in crisis.
- Kim Kruger
by Kimberly Kruger
S taff Writer
Hollis Seamon, an English pro­fessor
at the College of Saint
Rose, read a selection from her
new book, “Body Work:
Stories,” to a captivated audi­ence
last Tuesday at the Saint
Rose Campus Activity Center.
The reading and reception took
place in Dining Rooms One and
Two, to celebrate Seamon’s first
publication.
“Body Work: Stories” is a col­lection
of stories about women
in a moment of crisis who
endure physical and emotional
pain. Don’t be fooled though,
the stories may be sad, but each
is packed with comic relief
Seamon read the title story of
her book at the jam-packed
signing event, leaving the audi­ence
literally speechless. “Who
could say anything after that,” a
woman in the crowd whispered.
“All [the stories] are slightly
different,” said Seamon.
Although she remarked as it
being one of the hardest ques-
She describes the stories as being
about women who endure physi­cal
and emotional pain, but their
only way out of it is through the
body.
After speaking to The College, Hollis Seamon conducted a book-signing ses­sion.
- Kim Kruger
tions to answer, Seamon said she
was inspired by a combination of
life experiences and imagination.
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Deborah Zlotsky.
teacher at the Col
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cover. Individual paintings fr<^
her entire work entitled “Body
Parts,” were selected and Dan
Dyksen, who happens to be
Seamon’s nephew, designed the
layout for the cover.
Seamon obtained her
Bachelors Degree from Bard
College and has been with the
College of Saint Rose since
1986. Although this is her first,
publication, it includes stories
she has written over the past 15
years. Nine out o f the 15 stories
have been previously pub-.-
lished.
“I’m delighted and totally
pleased with the way it came
out,”.said Seamon.
The book was well received
by the audience with almost
everyone in the room holding a
copy. While waiting in the
signing line at the end of the
reception, one man said, “I’ve
been waiting for this book for
months.”
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