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In This IssueContest Tally Page 2Calendar of Events Page 5Student Gov’t. Assoc. Page 5Clubs Pages 6-8SIFE Pages 8-9, & 12-13Photo Gallery Pages 10-11Offices Pages 9, 14Department News Pages 14-15Interviews Pages 15-16Arts & Entertainment Page 17-18 Sports Pages 18-20

AFRICA AND THE DRUM

Guest Editor

HoLIDAY ISSUE

by Rachel Dobiesz

Late fall is a truly wonderful time to be a student on the Hilbert campus. Something I noticed last year and en-joy even more this year are the beautiful views I see as I walk to class every morning. The landscape of our campus is truly beautiful, as is the very spacious view of the sky. One particularly special thing I’ve noticed this semester is the abun-dance of wildlife in and around campus. The long and the short of it is this: we are not the only ones enjoying all that Hilbert has to offer. Although they are often hidden out of sight, we are sharing our space with a large and varied group of animals. Beyond our favorite group of bossy geese, there are many other critters that I have seen in and around the Hilbert property. It started with the small fox I saw walk-ing through the open field behind campus. Since then, I have seen a pudgy skunk waddling his way onto the black-top and walking down the middle of the road, and small green frogs jumping between drain-age ditches. There have been crows and a stray cat and the blanket of ladybugs that descend-ed onto campus a few weeks ago. My favorite, however, is the family of deer that

EDIToR’S INTRoDUCTIoN

live in and around the Hilbert property. One night, my boyfriend and I observed them wan-dering around the open field.Later,aswedrovetowards the exit, I hap-pened to look out my window into the copse of trees near South Park Avenue. I saw several pairs of eyes staring back at me and, sure enough, it was a group of deer, frozen like statues. I’ve kept a look-out for these gentle creatures since then and have gotten the occasional view of one eating in the trees as I pull out onto the street. In the chaos that can often be the end of the semester, we often forget about the vibrant life that is all around us. Hilbert is not only our school, but also an incredible piece of land and space. Keep an eye out for the little things and watch out for the deer.

by Regina M. Ernst

Imagine supporting the people in your very own community when purchasing gifts for your loved ones this holiday season. Doesn’t that sound better than rely-

BUY LoCALing on those old mon-ey-sucking exploiting corporations that trick you into buying generic and impersonal gifts? It is not impossible to purchase gifts that are all made by local artists and are sold by indepen-

dently owned local busi-ness. It is uncommon, but not impossible. Make a list for your af-ter-Thanksgiving shop-ping agenda. It’s safe to assume many of those items will be clothing, accessories, furniture,

giftcertificates,andoth-er miscellaneous items. Many, if not all, of those items can be found in the city of Buffalo at independently owned shops. The Elmwood Village

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by Rachel Dobiesz

The Buffalo Philhar-monic Orchestra made its latest appearance at Hilbert’s William E. Swan Auditorium on Friday, Nov. 6. The or-chestra, led by concert-master Joseph Young, League of American Orchestras Conducting Fellow, performed a variety of classical piec-es and featured Amy Glidden, soloist and associate concertmas-ter, during Felix Men-delssohn’s Concerto in E Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 64. Hilbert President Cyn-thia Zane, Ed.D. intro-duced the orchestra, saying, “For those of

A SALUTE To THE BUFFALo PHILHARMoNIC oRCHESTRA AT HILBERT

you who have not heard the BPO at Hilbert be-fore, you are in for a real treat.” The orchestra per-formed three pieces for

the large audience in attendance. In addi-tion to Mendelssohn’s work, the performance included Frederick De-lius’s Two Pieces for

Small Orchestra (“On hearingthefirstcuckooin spring”) and Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417 (“Tragic”).

Photo by Tom Wills

by Alicia Wildman

OnOct.22theOfficeof Multicultural Affairs hosted a performance showing a great deal of African culture. “Af-rica and the Drum” was not only a drum perfor-mance, but a cultural showing of art. Students and staff joined to enjoy the performance of Af-rican participants and had the opportunity to broaden their horizons and look into a fantastic culture. The members of Africa

and the Drum all came from different back-grounds but met in many ways. One member even told the audience that he met another member many years ago and had a small friendship and later learned that they were actually cousins. This acknowledgment led to the moral of his short story: “Don’t ever treat anyone less than you would treat fam-ily, because you never know who actually is.” Many members of this group also belong to

other groups involving music and also dance. All performers were in-troduced and a story was given about each one’s background. Although the dancers do live in the United States, they gave a great show of African culture. Their performance went well beyond a drum per-formance. Poetry was spoken, drums were played, and cultural in-formation was given. Background information

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H-Files, Volume 11, Issue 4

Guest Editors for First Four IssuesMadison Lux, Regina M. Ernst, Christopher Prout, Rachel Dobiesz

Technical AssistantAlex Wilshaw

H-Files PhotographerTom Wills

Faculty AdvisorDr. Ernst

CoNTESTSH-FILES’ WRITING &

JoURNALISM CoNTESTS Previous issues of The H-Files announced the publication’s writing contest (in its eleventh year) for most articles written within the 2009-10 academic year. The adjacent contest tally in the current issue shows the standings, as of thefirstfourissues. However, with four more issues to go in the spring, there is plenty of opportunity to write articles and compete for fabulous prizes. Look foralistingofprizesonceagaininthefifthissue(thefirstspring-semesterissue)ofThe H-Files on January 22, 2010, but don’t wait until then to submit one or more articles for that issue (deadline, Tuesday, January 12—a week before classes start)! The same article(s) may also make you eli-gible for one of three top prizes in the The H-Files’ Journalism Contest (already in its nineth year)—if your piece is chosen by a panel of faculty/staff judges, with award-winners in both contests to be announced in the last H-Files’ issue for Spring, 2010, appearing April 16.

H-FILES’ PHoTo CoNTEST

Photo Alert!

Join The H-Files’ photo contest. Currently enrolled full- or part-time Hilbert students are encouraged to submit up to four photos—any subject—for the contest. Submit photos in an envelope with your name to Dr. Ernst, Room 152, Paczesny Hall. You may also send photos electronically as attachments to this e-mail address: [email protected]. Deadline for submission: Friday, January 29, 2010.DuringthefirstweekofFebruary,2009,apanel of judges will convene to review the entries. The top four winning photos will ap-pear in the second spring issue of The H-Files, distributedFebruary12,with thefirst-prizewinner receiving a $50 cash award and the second-prize winner receiving a $25 prize. In addition, attempts will be made to see whether photo contest entries can temporarily be placed in a suitable environment at Hil-bert’s website for inspection at the contest’s conclusion. Happy photo-shooting!

Association has recently printed useful and color-ful maps of the shops and restaurants that exist along a two-mile strip between Forest Avenue and Allen Street. Elm-wood Avenue is chock full of interesting items. Thin Ice, for instance, has a vast collection of handmade jewelry, pottery, glass, metal, fiber, and wood prod-ucts. CityLove Cloth-ing Co. is a clothing store which highlights the designs of local art-ists on fitted T-shirts. Their logo is “Promote Buffalo Through Art.” ShoeflyandClutchare

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independently owned businesses sporting trendy shoes and purses. The list goes on and on, as there are dozens of places to check out. This winter, don’t just drive to the mall and plod along the path of millions of other over-whelmed Americans. Don’t sell out without checking other options

first.Takeanafternoonstroll down Elmwood Avenue to see if you can knock off a few items from your shopping list. And, of course, along the way, stop into any of the locally owned restaurants and coffee shops for a peaceful respite. Try something new this season and shop locally.

was provided for each song, which gave much cultural insight about Africa. Members of the group played drums, chanted, and sang. Some members did traditional African dances that held

unique moments and showed African descent. Members of the audience were invited to come on stage and join in the performance. They were taught a dance, they played the drums, and they sang along. It was wonderful to see people joining in and

welcoming this culture into their lives. The performance was wonderful: it showed so much art and culture. Expressing a way of music and dance that is often overlooked, this cultural experience was aesthetically pleasing for me in many ways.

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CoNTEST TALLY (Complete Scores for Issues #1, #2, #3, & #4)

No. Student No. of Articles Running Contributor Issue #1 Issue #2 Issue #3 Issue #4 Totals___________________________________________________________________________

1. Regina M. Ernst -- 4 2 4 10 2. Rachel Dobiesz 2 1 2 4 9 3. Kasey Cline -- -- 4 1 5 4. Madison Lux 2 1 -- 2 5 5. Alicia Wildman -- 1 1 3 5 6. Steven Marchitte -- -- 1 2 3 7. Christopher Prout -- -- 3 -- 3 8. Allison Stearns -- -- 3 -- 3 9. Dontrell Young -- -- 3 -- 310. Brent Armbruster 1 1 -- -- 211. Rebecca Elensky -- -- 1 1 212. Valerie Janiga -- -- -- 2 213. Holly Opanashuk -- -- 1 1 214. Kelly Reddington -- -- -- 2 215. Jayne Rhein -- -- 1 1 216. Stephanie Baumgart -- -- -- 1 117. Jennifer Burke -- -- 1 -- 118. Nicole Burke -- -- 1 -- 119. Jesse Burns -- -- 1 -- 120. Jon Clark -- -- -- 1 121. Robert Collins -- -- 1 -- 122. Tori Felser -- -- -- 1 123. Andrea Corigliano -- -- 1 -- 124. Gary Gawera -- -- 1 -- 125. John Gifford -- -- 1 -- 126. Dalon Hairston -- -- 1 -- 127. James Hall -- -- 1 -- 128. Ashley Halbach -- -- -- 1 129. Christina Hernandez -- -- 1 -- 1 30. Joleen Hernandez 1 -- -- -- 131. Chantal Karan -- -- -- 1 132. Quanisha Kitchen -- -- 1 -- 133. James Knapp -- -- 1 -- 134. Aleesha Koy -- -- -- 1 135. Arianna Lindsey 1 -- -- -- 136. Katrina Matthewson -- -- -- 1 137. Amanda Maute -- -- -- 1 138. Nina Pierino -- 1 -- -- 139. Megan Prime -- -- -- 1 140. Matthew Putnam -- -- 1 -- 141. James Reinhardt -- -- 1 -- 142. Emili Ripley -- -- 1 -- 143. Nicholas Sikorski -- -- 1 -- 144. Richard J. Sykora -- -- 1 -- 145. Thomas Wills -- -- 1 -- 1

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BIRTH LoTTo

Birth Lotto is a game in which a student’s birthday is selected at random to determine each issue’s prize-winner. All student birthdays (month and day) for November and December were obtained to create a list, with each student in the list assigned a number. The guest editor for the issue in question has randomly selected one of the numbers to determine the issue’s prize-winner. The prize for this issue is $5.00, to be collected (with suitable picture ID) from Dr. Ernst (Room 152, Paczesny Hall, 649-7900, ext. 315).

And the winner is . . . Jennifer Baetzhold!

Tocollectthisprize,theidentifiedwinnermustcontactDr. Ernst, with accompanying Hilbert College ID or driver’s license by or on Friday, Dec. 4, 2009.

’TIS THE SEASoN

A Thanksgiving food drive is underway at Hil-bertCollege to benefitBuffalo City Mission and local food pantries. Donations of non-per-ishable food items may be placed in collection

A beautifully hand-crafted terra cotta nativ-ity scene on display for thefirsttimeatHilbertCollege will be unveiled Dec. 3 in the Franciscan Hall Atrium. The spe-cial unveiling will be done during a faculty and staff holiday recep-

DoNATIoNS WILL HELP PRoVIDE THANKSGIVING MEALS

Dennis Black, vice president for student affairs at the State Uni-versity of New York at Buffalo, has been elected chair of the Hil-bert College Board of Trustees. A Hilbert trustee since 2001, Black is chairing the board’s executive committee and previ-ously chaired the presi-dential search and ad hoc building commit-tees. He has more than 30 years experience in stu-dent affairs and student services at UB where he has held various posi-tions during his tenure, including assistant vice president and dean of students in student af-fairs and associate vice provost. In addition, Black serves at UB as an adjunct associate professor in the univer-sity’s Graduate School of Education. He’s also editor of Campus Legal Briefing, a na-tional newsletter for campus administrators, attorneys, and student leaders. Black is a member of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NAS-PA) and the American College Personnel As-sociation, among other organizations. His work in academia and leadership roles has been recognized with the NASPA Pillar of the Profession honor, the State University Chan-cellor’s Award for Ex-

HAND-CRAFTED NATIVITY SCENE To BE UNVEILED

boxes through Nov. 21 in Franciscan Hall and Bogel Hall. Please give—your gen-erous contributions will help many throughout the area enjoy a special Thanksgiving meal.

For more information, e-mail Barbara Bonan-no, director of mission integration and campus ministry, [email protected], or call ext. 407.

Paula WitherellDirector, Public Relations

tion with the Hilbert Board of Trustees at 5:30 p.m., following the board meeting. Created by Montreal artist Rosanne Mona, the two-foot size pieces in the nativity scene were collected over many years by West-

ern New York’s Kloc family, who have gen-erously provided the crèche to Hilbert. The nativity scene will be on display in Franciscan Hall throughout this and future Christmas seasons.


BoARD oFFICERS NAMED AT HILBERTcellence in Professional Service, and Outstand-ing Leadership Service from the National Asso-ciation of Colleges and University Residence Excellence. Black’s community service has included the United Way regional and campus campaigns, Red Cross Lifeshare Board, and American Heart Association Heartwalk, as well as serving as a board member for Buf-falo Prep, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orches-tra, and St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute. A Buffalo resident, he studied political sci-ence and history at UB, where he also received a law degree. Other 2009-10 Hil-bert board officers arePhillip T. Catanese as vice-chair, and Deborah DiMatteo as secretary. Catanese, who joined the board in 2002, is serving his third term as vice-chair. He’s also vice-chair of the board’s executive committee and formerly chaired the trustee committee. Vice president of retail stores at The Buffalo News, Catanese previ-ously held various ex-ecutive positions in the retail food industry. In the community, he is on the board of Homespace, Corp., and the Olmsted Center for Sight, and a past mem-ber of numerous other organizations, includ-ing Boys Town of Italy, from which he was pre-

sented its Man of the Year award. A West Seneca resi-dent, Catanese earned an associate’s degree in business from Bryant & Stratton. DiMatteo, who joined Hilbert’s board in 2006, is in her third term as secretary. Currently serving as vice chair of the academic affairs committee, she previ-ously chaired the stu-dent affairs committee. Vice president at M&T Bank, DiMatteo has nearly 30 years expe-rience in the banking industry. She’s been inducted into M&T Bank’s Hall of Fame and received an M&T Best of the Best Award, as well as a 2005 Busi-ness First Women Who Mean Business Award. Her community and civic involvement in-cludes serving as chair of the UB Center for Entrepreneurial Leader-ship Advisory Board. In past years, she’s been president of the Lead-ership Buffalo Board of Directors and active with many additional area groups. DiMatteo, who resides in South Buffalo, re-ceived a master’s degree in business administra-tion from Canisius Col-lege and a bachelor’s degree also in business administration from Valparaiso University.


“Home for Christmas,” a special holiday show featuring American Idol finalist John Stevens, known for his Frank Sinatra-influencedstyle,will be presented at 8 p.m. Dec. 4 in Hilbert College’s William E. Swan Auditorium. This family-friend-ly holiday show will highlight Christmas hits and holiday music per-formed by Stevens, an East Amherst native who made it to Ameri-can Idol’s third season Top 12; award-winning act ress Mary Kate O’Connell, executive and artistic director of O’Connell & Company; the Colored Musicians Club’s George Scott Big Band; and the Muham-mad School of Music Chamber Players. Stevens’ new CD, Home for Christmas, will be available at the performance. Recorded in Buffalo, the holiday album features Christ-

FAMILY CHRISTMAS SHoW To INCLUDE

AMERICAN IDOL FINALIST

mas classics and two original songs. Stevens won TV fame on Ameri-can Idol as a red-head-ed teen crooner whose style emulated Sinatra. Since appearing in the reality competition, he’s received a degree from the Berklee College of Music. Tickets are $15 for

adults and $7 for chil-dren age 15 and under. To purchase tickets, contact Jenn Smith in the Hilbert Office of Institutional Advance-ment at 926-8884 or e-mail [email protected].


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by Regina M. Ernst

The perfect opportu-nity for a cultural out-ing occurs on the firstFriday of every month in Allentown. Conve-niently named, First Friday involves over twenty independent art galleries. Roughly be-tween 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., grab a map and embark on a self-guided tour in which each gallery takes the opportunity to display their new exhib-its to the public free of charge. One often considers bigger cities as having accessible art scenes,

FIRST FRIDAYwhether in the area of performing or visual arts. As many already know, Buffalo used to be a pretty hoppin’ place in the early twentieth century, as far as indus-try and arts go. How-ever, public attention has shifted over the last half century, as other cities have adapted and expanded, and Buffalo has seemed, at a glance, to remain stagnant. It’s easy to consider Buffalo as an artistic place during the sum-mer when festivals abound, gallery doors swing wide open to let the sun’s heat in, and

artists are seen working away in the public park-ways. Come winter, and Buffalo seems desolate and barren. However, one recently revived summer tradition has carried into this fall and will continue into the winter months. That is First Friday, brought to you by the Allentown Association and local galleries. First Friday is a popular form of entertainment in cities across the country in one form or another. Each gallery involved throws miniature par-ties in celebration of the new art shows exhibited

within their space. Many offer snacks and wine to the public free of charge as they wander from gallery to gallery. You might be saying to yourself, “Who wants to traipse around the city half-destinationless in the cold just for free wine and cheese?” In actuality, within just one city block, there are about seven galleries, each with remarkably different themes, rang-ing from affordable, hip jewelry to children’s paintings to high-end photography, painting, and sculpture. A major-ity of the other galleries

are all within walking distance of each other. It’s definitely worth the journey. Afterwards, you can easily stroll down for a bite at one of the several independent Allen Street restaurants, or perhaps grab a drink at one of the several bars, or maybe a dessert at the coveted Sweet Tooth on the corner of Allen Street and Elm-wood Avenue. Whatever the night entails, it guar-antees an eye-opening cultural celebration. For updated monthly information visit www.allentown.org/FirstFri-day.

by Regina M. Ernst

Come Summer 2010, a group of Hilbert College students will embark on a service trip to Kenya. Students who attend are not required to pay tuition fees, and the trip counts as a fully credited class, which will appear on the student’s sched-ule and transcript for the Fall 2010 semester. The class is not quite full yet, so if you have any interest in travel-ing, community service work, exploring a new country and culture, or making new friends, then this rugged excur-sion is for you.Thefirsthalfofclasstime will be spent to-ge the r on campus learning about African culture as best we can before total immersion. The second half of class time (approximately 2 1/2 weeks) will be spent in Kenya. Through a program called Touch Africa, students will work with children in schools and at home centers, interact with host families, learn about environmental conservation and wild-life, and more. Group meetings have begun somewhat regu-larly to discuss fund-raising efforts. If you are interested in any way, whether it be help-ing Hilbert College stu-dents get there, or get-ting there yourself, or maybe you just want to learn more about it, don’t be shy. Feel free to contact Dr. Smith at asmith @hilbert.edu, or shoot an e-mail to me, Regina Ernst, at geophotonic @gmail.com. We’ll be happy to fill you in onmoredetails.

WHo’S HEADED

To KENYA?

1. Sugar City2. College Street Gallery3. Antique Man4. Space 2245. Rust Belt Books6. B. West Studio7. Antiques Allentown8. Assets Antiques9. El Buen Amigo10. Command Solutions Gallery11. Larry’s Antiques12. Gateway Gallery13. Krudmart14. Antiques 199 Elmwood15. Steel Crazy16. Margaret M. Martin Studio17. Gallery 16418. Second Orbit19. Nina Freudenheim Gallery20. Hero21. El Museo22. Allen Street Dress Shop23. Harold’s Curiosity Shoppe24. Studio Hart25. Donna Sturges Gallery26. Buffalo Big Print27. Indigo Art28. Nest Interiors29. Art Dialogue Gallery30. Artspace Buffalo & Kepa3*31. C.G. Jung Center32. Dana Tillou Fine Arts33. Starlight Gallery*34. Hallwalls*35. Hyatt’s

1. The Bend2. Staples3. Nietzsche’s4. Allen Street Hardware5. Lagniappes6. Sample7. Mulligan’s Brick Bar8. Old Pink9. La Tee Da10. Jim’s Steakout11. Sweet Tooth12. Café Taza13. Cozumel14. Towne Restaurant15. Quaker Bonnet Eatery16. New York Pizza17. Gabriel’s Gate18. Frizzy’s19. North20. Tempo21. Colter Bay22. K. Gallagher’s23. Falafel Bar24. Café 5925. Stillwater26. Scarlet27. Mother’s28. Fat Bob’s Smokehouse29. Q30. Cathode Ray31. Adonias32. OHM33. Campieri’s34. Just Vino35. Betty’s36. Snooty Fox37. Merge

Allentown Galleries & Shops

Allentown Food & Entertainment

Allentown First Friday venue* Located beyond map boundaries

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CALENDAR oF EVENTS (FALL-SPRING, 2009-10)November 20 Last day of HC SIFE-hosted Entrepreneur Week Scholarlyvs.PopularSourcesSmackDown,McGrathLibrary,1stfloor,11-11:45a.m. 23 Cake Decorating Contest, Campus Center Dining Hall, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

December3 Nativity scene unveiling, Franciscan Hall Atrium, 5:30 p.m.4 Hilbert Horizons buffet staff meeting, Campus Center conference room, lower level, 4:30-7:30 p.m. “Home for Christmas” Holiday Show featuring American IdolfinalistJohnStevens,[MaryKate]

O’Connell & Company, the Colored Musicians Club’s George Scott Big Band, & the Muhammed School of Music Chamber Players, Swan Auditorium, 8 p.m.

6 Children’s Christmas Party, Franciscan Hall, 2-4 p.m., sponsored by SGA & CAAB 7 Intramural Volleyball, Hafner Recreation Center, 2 p.m. 9 Hilbert Horizons buffet staff meeting, Campus Center conference room, lower level, 5:30-8 p.m. Student Christmas Party, Trinity Hall, 9 p.m.

10 Visiting Artist Series, Swan Hall, 7:30-8:30 p.m., with reception to follow in West-Herr AtriumThursdayNightattheMovies,RegalCinemas,9p.m.—signupinStudentActivitiesOffice

14 Evening Student Coffee Break, Bogel Hall, 9:30 a.m.-11 a.m. & 5:30-7 p.m. 16 End of Semester Ice Skating, Buffalo Rotary Rink, time TBA 17 Passport Party, Campus Center, lower level, 9 p.m.

January 12 H-Files deadline 19 Robert Channing, Mentalist, 9 p.m. Campus Center, upper level 22 First spring issue of H-Files distributed 27 Pack the Gym - Women’s and Men’s Basketball Game vs. Medaille College—contests & prizes at half-time

On Jan. 19, Robert Channing will be per-forming in the upper level of the Campus Center. This is going to be a great way to kick off next semester with student activities, and you are not going to want to miss this event. Robert Channing is a mentalist. He will be wowing the audience with his ESP throughout the night. He also does mind reading, psychic

HILBERT HoSTS ESP PERFoRMER

VISITING ARTIST SERIES MAKES ITS FALL APPEARANCE oN THE HILBERT CAMPUS

Robert Channing, Mentalist

experiments, and hyp-nosis. Students will have a chance to think about anything, and Robert Channing will try and predict just what they are thinking. Come spend the night with Student Activi-ties and Robert Chan-ning. You are sure to be amazed at his unbeliev-able talents!

Jessica LooneyGraduate Assistant Student Activities

Hilbert’s Visiting Art-ist Series welcomes to the campus Marla Mossman, director/pho-tographer of the Peace Caravan Project, based in New York City. The program will take place on Dec. 10 from 7:30-8:30 p.m. in the William E. Swan Auditorium with a reception to fol-low in the West-Herr Atrium, where Moss-man will be available for poster and photo signing. Placing Marla Moss-man in one category of expertise would undermine her vision of integrating her sur-roundings. After gradu-ating from University of

Marla Mossman’s “Bhurkha Store,” Herat, Afghanistan 2005

Western Ontario, Moss-man moved to London, England, and formed an independent artists group called MMArts.

Under her direction, MMArts gave artists independent control over the exhibiting of their work, showing art

in non-traditional ven-ues. Mossman simul-taneously developed her photographic style focusing on portraiture and reportage. Her per-sonal drive to explore all aspects of photogra-phy reveals an incessant search for alternative methods. Seeking innovative venues to house con-temporary art, Moss-man created the non-profitArtSoupinSantaBarbara, succeeding in obtaining unconven-tional permanent ven-ues. Mossman then moved to New York as the Studio Director for

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STUDENT GoVERNMENT ASSoCIATIoN

by Holly Opanashuk

At the end of Septem-ber, the Student Gov-ernment Association (SGA) held its annual fall elections. Elected toofficewereAnalynnOrtiz, treasurer; J. Q. Hamilton, vice presi-dent for programming; and Heather Bello and Wendy Lin, freshmen representatives. Soon, the SGA will unfortunately be saying good-bye to our current vice president, Malcolm Edwards, as he will be graduating in Decem-ber. The SGA will miss him dearly and appreci-ates him for his years of service! The SGA will be look-ing for a new vice presi-dent as well as repre-sentatives-at-large and sophomore, junior, and senior representatives. If anyone is interested in

SGA REPoRTjoining the SGA, please see Jeannie MacDon-ald, director of student activities and SGA ad-visor, in her office onthe lower level of the campus center. The SGA is working to have students become more aware of the or-ganization on campus. If anyone has any ques-tions, or would like to discuss events at Hilbert College, please stop by the student activities officeandvisitwiththeSGA’s executive board duringourofficehours.Jeannie MacDonald is also willing to answer any questions you may have. The SGA held its annu-al children’s Halloween party this past October. The event was quite a success, complete with a haunted room, pump-

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National Geographic photographer Steve Mc-Curry. Here, she strived to glue together dispa-rate elements and form cohesive units, such as Imagine Asia, the non-profitsheco-foundedtoprovide education and health care to rural Asian communities. Mossman recognizes the potency of collective communi-ties and appropriately molds the environment to nourish the prog-ress of underprivileged individuals. Through education, Mossman hopes to attain equilib-rium amongst divided societies. Currently she is work-ing on a long-term pho-tography project, “The Peace Caravan,” which follows her solo journey along the ancient Silk

Road documenting the origins of the great reli-gions. The Peace Cara-van endeavors to inform and inspire others to achieve understanding, respect, and acceptance. By revealing the won-derful religious and cul-tural heritage of these

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Visiting Artist Series: Marla Mossman

kin painting, and more. Many children attended the event and enjoyed the activities. On Dec. 6, the SGA will be holding its annu-al children’s Christmas party, complete with Santa and a live nativity providedbytheofficeofcampus ministry. Any club that would like to participate in the event should e-mail Jeannie MacDonald. Coming up in early spring will be the SGA’s Winter Ball on the eve-ning of Feb. 5. In the meantime, SGA mem-bers hope that everyone has a wonderful Christ-mas break!

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by Regina M. Ernst On Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, Hilbert College students will be hosting their second spaghetti dinner fund-raising event to support a service trip to Kenya (Summer, 2010) and to raise money to purchase supplies for Touch Africa, the organization through which they are volunteering. The spaghetti dinner will be offered in a partitioned area of the cafeteria at the campus center during the hours of 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. For only eight dollars, supporters will be served restaurant-style—salad, spaghetti and meatballs, dessert, and a drink—by those who plan to attend the trip. For each ordered meal, two dollars will go directly towards the service trip. The group is hosting several other fund-raising events. Here is a list of events to look out for:

• Basket Raffle—Monday, Nov. 23 through Tuesday, Nov. 24.o Stop by the main table in Bogel Hall for an auction of

diverse goodies.

o Winners will be announced at the spaghetti dinner on Dec. 2 in the cafeteria.

• Applebee’s Dining to Donate—Monday, December 7, any time after 4 p.m.o Dine at Applebee’s and ten percent of your bill goes

towards the Kenya service trip!

o You must be holding a corresponding voucher (contact Regina Ernst or Dr. Amy Smith).

o The dining event is being held at these three locations only:

4405 Milestrip Road, Blasdell, NY 14219;2656 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216;1785 Walden Avenue, Cheektowaga, NY 14225.

Hilbert College students would appreciate any support possible! Try to stop by at least one event. For any questions, contact Regina Ernst at [email protected] or Dr. Smith at [email protected].

CHooSE SPAGHETTI!

by Madison Lux,Student Editor

For a campus as small as Hilbert’s, we are fortunate to have our own poetry and prose magaz ine , Hi lbe r t Horizons. For twenty years Hilbert Horizons has been a magazine published annually at the college, broadening our cultural enrichment. We accept submissions and art work from all current Hilbert students and select as many as we can to go into the magazine. We are currently looking for new members to join our team. T h e n e x t g e t -together—a bonanza buffet dinner meeting at which staff members will select the submissions for the Spring, 2010, volume—will be held

Dec. 4 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Center conference room, lower level, adjacent to the Office of Student Activities. We will be having another big buffet-style meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 9, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in the same location, this time to determine the order of the submissions previously selected, as well as choosing color art work to accompany students’ literary pieces. For either meeting, all students interested in joining the Horizons staff should bring big appetites with them! If you are interested in joining us, please let Horizons advisor Dr. Ernst [email protected] know if you will be able to attend either one of these meetings.

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HILBERT HORIZONS

The Hilbert Hawks Hockey Team waited until the end of August hoping for potential players, but was unable to roster enough to join the College Hockey Association (CHA) League this year. The decision came from the remaining players. They all agreed it was in the best interest of the club to take a year off and work on rebuilding the team. Alumni player Chuck Lawless suggested to Coach Don Suchan t h e p o s s i b i l i t y o f joining a senior league through Holiday and Leisure Rinks. This plan would allow the remaining players and any newcomers to skate on a regular basis, while fillingintheopenspotswith alumni players.

HILBERT HAWKS HoCKEY CLUB The hockey club needs a bare minimum of nine forwards and four defensemen to be competitive in the CHA. Though the roster has been growing at a steady pace, the club is still in need of more players. The hope for the spring semester in 2010 is to participate in a few scrimmage games against other colleges. The goal is to have by Fall, 2010, a full roster, to rejoin the CHA league, and to bring back a 3rd CHA Championship trophy to Hilbert. Club members know that there are many decent hockey players on campus, but oftentimes students worry that joining the hockey club will interfere with their school work. This is not

the case, however. The club practices once or twice a week at 7 a.m. and all games are held on weekends, so there is no need to miss classes. We stress that players make all practices and games; however, we understand that their

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nations, she hopes that a new appreciation and a new way to peace will reveal itself. Her presentation is free and open to the public. For further informa-tion, contact Dr. Antho-ny Hughes at [email protected].

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primary obligation is to their school work. The current players and all alumni can attest to the fact that joining the hockey club has heightened their college

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The Dirty Dogs La-crosse Club got a taste of big school lacrosse as they travelled to Green-ville, North Carolina, for the Boneyard Clas-sic Lacrosse Tourna-ment hosted by East

DIRTY DoGS TAKE oN THE BIG DoGS

FLIP DA RUNWAY Freshman Luc Cellino Matches Up Against University of Maryland

Carolina University. Though the team came out of the weekend with three losses, they man-aged to hold all their opponents to 10 goals or less. In the first game of

the tournament, Hilbert faced the East Caro-lina University Pirates in a 9-1 losing effort. Hilbert’s lone score came on a Kyle Re-uther goal, assisted by James Knapp. In the

second match-up of the day, Hilbert took on the University of Maryland and was held scoreless, 10-0. Intheday’sfinalpair-ing, the Dirty Dogs squared off against UNC

Wilmington. After fall-ing behind 6-0 in the firstquarterofplay,theDogsfinallyshoredupthe defense and started playing with intensity. Goals by James Knapp and Jill Pelechaty put

Hilbert on the board. Though thefinal scorewas 9-2, the team im-proved greatly during the course of the con-test. On ground balls the team was led by Luc Cellino. Captains Bran-don Morse and Jim Kib-lin also contributed sig-nificantlytotheteamef-fort. Chelsea Schreiber, Stephanie Smith, and Ben Csati all saw play-ing time for the Dogs. While coming out on the short end of the scores, the Dirty Dogs maybethefirstHilbertteam to take on oppo-nents such as Maryland and ECU. The contests served as a great warm-up for the upcoming spring season.

James SturmAdvisor

Dirty Dogs Lacrosse Club

experience and has been a great way to make new friends and have fun. If you are interested in joining the hockey club, or have any questions regarding the club, please e-mail Dan Andol (Captain) at dandol@hilbert .edu or Don

Aleesha KoyPresident, Common

Ground Club

The 4th annual Flip Da Runway event, held on Thursday, Nov. 5, from 8 p.m.–10:30 p.m. in the upper level of the Campus Center, was an event that united all fashion senses and a love for dance and music. The turn-out for this event was amazing—over 200+ attending, including Hilbert students, staff, parents of students, s tudents from Erie Community College, Alfred University, and the High School To College program! The event was hosted by Leala Bowens and Malcolm Edwards . These two kept the crowd screaming for more! The audience was also entertained by Hilbert’s Amanda Bednarz, who sang “Beautiful”; a rap act; a dance group; and a spoken word artist. The DJ was Augustus Clarke and he kept the crowd actively engaged! There were four categories—Seasons,

Support Your Sports, Everyday Fresh Wear, and Grown N’Sexy—and they were all about fun and school spirit, which reunited us all as Hilbert Hawks! Although there were not enough seats, students still gathered around in awe to take pleasure in what was coming next. The great outcome of this event was due to the preparation of the Common Ground Club weeks in advance, s u c h a s b o o k i n g entertainment, rehearsal with the models, and setting up the day of the show. A party followed right after the ending of Flip Da Runway, including p izza and ch icken wings, which also gave students a chance to socialize and share

their feelings about the event. This particular event w a s d e d i c a t e d i n loving memory of Ms. Cheyenne Jumanah, the previous director of multicultural affairs, who started the tradition of Flip Da Runway. A special thanks is given to Dr. Tara Jabbaar-Gyambrah, the entire Common Ground Club, DJ Gus, our hosts Leala and Ma lco lm, t he models, our clean-up crew, the Hallmark food service, the maintenance staff, Kate Munroe, Jean MacDonald, and everybody who came out to support the show. We look forward to continuing this tradition in 2010! Note: For photos, see page 10.

THE ASTRoNoMY CLUB PLANS EXCITING FINISH To FALL SEMESTER

The Astronomy Club will be meeting every Tuesday from 2-3 p.m. in Bogel Hall, Room 150. In the following weeks, the club will be screening:

Nov. 17: Documentary: Beyond the Big Bang; Nov. 24: Alien Planets; Dec. 1: Cosmic Holes; Dec. 8: The Milky Way.

AllthesefilmsarefromtheHistoryChannel’sremarkableseriesThe Universe, all screened in the Blu-Ray version.

Anthony Hughes, Ph.D.Club Advisor

THE HUMAN SERVICES & REHABILITATIoN ASSoCIATIoN KEEPS BUSY

The Human Services and Rehabi l i ta t ion Association had an eventful month of fun and helping. The Club participated in the SGA Halloween party with a bracelet-making craft and many treats. The

club advisor would like to thank Bonnie Goodrich, Michele Nola, Jen MacDonald, Jessica Rogers, and CamiSheffieldfortheirhelp with the party. The club also attended t h e H i l b e r t O p e n House to pass along our mission statement to new students, and thanks Amanda Bennon for her help. The club assisted SIFE with the RAP program t h r o u g h C a t h o l i c Charities this month, with students having an

opportunity to teach a class. Those attending this event were Michele Nola, Amanda Bennon, Tiffany Baker, and Jen MacDonald. The club hosted the training from the senior services project with the help of Marissa Caruso, Trina Clifford, Kolleen Sullivan, and Kevin Quinnan. Club members planned an evening with the Women City Mission on Nov. 6 to complete

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Freshman James Knapp Moves in for a Shot vs. UNC Wilmington

Suchan at [email protected]. We look forward to meeting and welcoming all new players!

Dan AndolCaptain, Hilbert Hawks

Hockey Club

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a pillow craft with the families. They also plan


Human Services & Rehab Association

JoIN HILBERT’S FILM CLUB & SEE A FILM EVERY WEEK!

by Tori Felser

The Film Club’s movie line-up for the rest of the semester in Bogel Hall, Room 150, looks like this:

Nov. 17: The Thin Blue Line Nov. 24: Burn After Reading Dec. 1: The Seventh Seal Dec. 8: Dead Man Dec. 15: Hoop Dreams.

Tori Felser, the Film Club president, as well as its members and Dr. Anthony Hughes, the club advisor, hope you can join the club for these screenings (3:05-4:40 p.m.).

The ECI Club has two more meetings coming up before the fall semester ends:

Tuesday, Nov. 24, at 4:30 p.m.;Tuesday, Dec. 8, at 4:30 p.m.

All meetings are held in Bogel Hall, Room 171.

Shannon Connor, work-study student in the Counseling Cen-ter and Secretary of the S.A.D.D. Club, is shown at right deliver-ing S.A.D.D. Club “We C.A.R.E.” Halloween packages for resident students. Each semester parents are offered the oppor-tunity to purchase Hal-loween gifts, Valentine’s gifts, birthday surprises, miss you and/or final exam survivor kits for their “favorite student.” It is a lot of fun to pre-pare and surprise our stu-dents with these special surprises from home.

Phyllis DeweyDirector, Counseling Center

S.A.D.D. CLUB SECRETARY SERVES AS WoRK-STUDY STUDENT

IN CoUNSELING CENTER

Shannon Connor

“THE BEST SEAT IN THE HoUSE”for Men’s Basketball

Tickets go on sale immediately.

$1.00 will buy a chance for the best seat in the house for you and a friend.It will include the Hawk waiter, snacks, special lighting

and a great view of the game. The winner will be picked just prior to the game.

Sponsored by S.A.D.D. & The Men’s Basketball Team

Hilbert College Wrist BandsDon’t Be the Only One Without One

Sold by The S.A.D.D. Club Team

ECI CLUB MEETINGS

by Steve Marchitte, SIFE Vice President,

Marketing

It is hard to believe that an entire decade ago SIFE was in its first year at Hilbert College. Julie Michel, then Julie Peacock, wasHCSIFE’sfirst-everpresident. In that role, she was responsible for arranging a meeting with Bob Rich, Jr., to solicit funding for the HC SIFE Team. At that meeting Bob Rich agreed to sponsor a matching grant in the amount of $20,000. To this day, the endowed fund still supports HC SIFE ini t ia t ives and provides SIFE scholars withfinancialreward.

by Steve Marchitte and Katrina Matthewson,

SIFE Officers

On Monday, Oct. 26, the Buffalo Niagara Sales and Marketing Executives (BNSME) hosted their annual “Student Day in the Field,” which provides WNY college students the opportunity to network with professionals and shadow an expert in a relatedfield.TwoHilbertstudents, Steve Marchitte and Katrina Matthewson, attended the event and have the following to share.

Steve’s Story. This was a great experience, being a first-time student hereat Hilbert. I met many people in the professional field and shadowed a financial planner from Northwestern Mutual. Many of the people there were from DECA, a business club I belonged to in high school. This was a great networking tool not only for myself, but for the college as well.

Katrina’s Comments. Student Day in the Field was a very meaningful opportunity! It was a chance to experience the business world at first hand. Throughout the

by Janye Rhein, SIFE President

Once again, the Challenge Seminar was a huge success! New to this year’s Challenge Seminar agenda was a wonderful presentation by Rosina Food Products CEO and President, Russell Corigliano. Hilbert College faculty, staff, and students were among the audience to hear about the nationally famous and Buffalo-headquartered business.

HILBERT SIFE RECoNNECTS WITH FIRST PRESIDENT

BNSME “STUDENT DAY IN THE FIELD”

CHALLENGE SEMINAR “HIRES” STUDENTS FRoM CHEEKToWAGA, FoRESTVILLE,

oRCHARD PARK, & PINE VALLEY The students of six area schools also learned how Rosina began, their business strategies, and Rosina’s various product lines. During the day’s activities students competed in designing promotional concepts for Rosina Food Products new “Buffalo Style” chicken meatballs. The high school students then presented their promotional concepts to a panel of judges. After listening to many unique and exci t ing

promotions, the judges came to a final decisionregarding the winners. The top three schools were Cheektowaga, Orchard Park, and a collaboration of Forestville and Pine Valley students. Next, for these winning teams, is implementing their promotions in a local Western New York grocery store. No date hasbeenfinalizedyet,butHC SIFE members and the winning high school teams hope for another great day of events!

day I was able to begin to extend my network to business owners and representat ives from businesses. There were gues t speakers at lunch and at the dinner. One speaker was a Western New York native, who is the president of Coke-Cola Company of North America. The guest speakers earlier in the day spoke about how to network, what to put into our portfolios, and the

pros and cons of working for different industries such as an agency versus a corporation. Networking is a big thing: It is all about introducing yourself to different people and to remember those contacts and keep in touch with them. Later on it could lead to a job opportunity. So it is important to be professional and keep a positive representation for oneself. Having a portfolio is

important as well, so keep all your work you have completed. This way you can demonstrate what you are good at, whether it is a creative endeavor or a project you completed at an internship. It is important that you set goals for yourself and determine what you really want, whether your goal is personal, professional, or academic. Short-term

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During her time at Hilbert, Julie Michel also served as an intern at Rich’s and is now working on her ninth year with the company, currently as an associate sales analyst in the food services division. While she has moved on from Hilbert and SIFE, her roots are still firmlyplanted with helping others. This fall HC SIFE anditsfirstpresidenthavereconnected, resulting in a tour and presentation at Rich’s. She will continue to be a business advisory board member and a judge and consultant for SIFE going into the spring semester, as SIFE members prepare for regional competition.

to assist with Habitat for Humanity, hold a bake sale fund-raiser, and

much more.Colleen Kumiega , M.S.

Club Advisor

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goals or long-term goals can help you take the steps to accomplish what it is you want. I have found out that it is all about communication and the ability to express what you are good at, so network yoursel f with different people. It can open a window of opportunities for you in the real world!


Challenge Seminar

by Jon Clark

The fall of 2009 marks thefifthyearthatHilbertCollege SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) has worked with the Catholic Charities Refugee Re-settlement Program. The Hilbert College SIFE Refugee Assistance Pro-gram, or R.A.P, helps des-titute refugees from across the globe learn skills need-ed to succeed in a dy-namic, competitive global economy; characteristics

HILBERT CoLLEGE STUDENTS IN FREE ENTERPRISE & CATHoLIC CHARITIES oF BUFFALo

CELEBRATE 5TH ANIVERSARY oF REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PRoGRAM

and traits of successful entrepreneurs; personal financial management skills; ethical decision-making; and actions to foster environmental sus-tainability through a series of seminars. Highlighting its impact, HC SIFE received third place at the 2008 SIFE National Competition in Chicago for its initiatives to promote financial lit-eracy through R.A.P. After placing in the firstpercentile in thena-

tion, HC SIFE went on to receive a direct service grant of $5,000.00 from Hilbert’s founders and neighbors, the Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph, to support its efforts with R.A.P. In addition to the generous grant, the Sisters also contributed twelve sewing machines for the Refugee Assistance Pro-gram’s Sewing Center. The sewing machines will be put to use through workshops, which will serve as training seminars

for unemployed refugees pursuing jobs in sewing or embroidering. This expe-rience might also provide entrepreneurial tailoring opportunities. While the program has been off to a great start with weekly classroom meetings, skills sessions are going to continue through December and will focus on hands-on sewing and completing cover letters and résu-més. With the help of these

new learning tools, the support of the Franciscan Sisterhood and Comput-ers for Children, Inc., the utilization of this grant, and the addition of new Business Advisory Board member Kevin McKenzie, Hilbert alumnus and for-mer RAP project manager, the Hilbert College SIFE Refugee Assistance Pro-gram has the potential to be bigger and better than ever in 2009-10!

oFFICES

1. I will allow myself enough sleep each night to fully rest my body, recharge my batteries, and support my immune system to protect against illness.

2. I will exercise my body in ways that I enjoy, even if that means squeezing in a twenty-minute long walk between classes.

3. I will pay attention to my emotions and find positive ways to calm my mind and body down when I am stressed. I will try deep breathing and yoga, or I shall call a friend up and do something fun!

4. I will follow my intuition about what is right for my future and not be swayed by the expectations and demands of others.

5. Before I say “yes” (again) to something or someone, I will ask myself, “Is this new task in alignment with my goals? Will saying yes make mehappy?WhatwillIhavetosacrificeifIsayyes to this new activity?” Be honest and do not beafraidtoputyourownneedsfirsteverynowand then.

6. I will be grateful for the body I was born with, taking time to appreciate its unique wonder. I will stand proud knowing that I am able to judge my own body by my standards, not by unrealistic media/advertiser standards.

7. Sometimes I will leap before I look, take chances, and give my dreams the chance to come true.

8. I will stop worrying about the future and start living right in the present. Really, really living! Day by day, taking a moment to appreciate things just the way they are. I will make college about learning and relationship building instead of stressingovereveryindividualgrade—aflawlessrésumé means nothing if I am burned out and unhappy before my career even begins!

9. I will nourish my body with healthy, whole foods, which will give me more energy, strength, and endurance to live life to the fullest. I will remember that eating healthy is not about looking good in my jeans, but about how it makes me feel inside and out.

10. I will remember to go easy on myself and to laugh at my mistakes. After all, I’m fabulous and am allowed many moments of imperfection. Laugh a little more. Worry a little less.

From the Counseling CenterPhyllis Dewey, Director

THANKSGIVING BLESSING

Wearefilledwithgratitudeforthemanyblessingsweshare:

Being together, abundance, well-being.

May we seek to live a greater awareness . . .

To speak kind words, to listen more, to respect differences, to show patience.

May we be inspired to make wise choices, to keep promises, to be honest,

And mindful of how we use our time. May we move towards forgiveness.

May we let go of hurts and overlook shortcomings;

Keephopeduringtimesofdifficultyandchange.

May we see and nurture goodness within each soul.

And may love strengthen our bonds as we become blessings for one another,

The Earth, and all who need our care.

The Counseling Center wishes each and every one a thankful time

with family & friends during this holiday season.

From the Counseling Center, Phyllis K. Dewey, Director

TEN AFFIRMATIoNS To CALM CoLLEGE STUDENT STRESS

by Madison Lux

The Academic Services Center (ASC) is looking for new tutors for next semester. If you are interested in tutoring for math, statistics, writing, psychology, or sociology, stop by Bogel Hall, Room 107, and pick up an application. You need to be proficientinthesubject,be good at working with other students, and have flexiblehours.Youwillbe asked to give Hilbert Col lege professors as references on the application, so please be prepared if you apply. This is a paid position, so the more available hours you have, the more you will receive. You need to be willing to stay working through the entire semester, as there are many students who depend upon the tutoring system. If there is a subject not mentioned that you wish to tutor for, please let us know, as the ASC decides if the demand for a tutor in that subject is high enough to include it next semester.

by Alicia Wildman

On Nov. 4 , 2009, Hilbert College’s Career Development Center held a graduate school fair. Representatives of multiple schools participated to meet students and help themfind the institutionthat was perfect for their major and their dreams. From 9 until 11:30 a.m. tables were set out for students to explore the many options for their future. The school hosts happily met with students and pointed them in the right direction for success, providing great advice on where their education could take them. No matter what year students

TUToRS WANTED!

GRADUATE SCHooL FAIRwere in, there was plenty of information to go around. Schools attending this event comprised Clarkson Universi ty, Medail le C o l l e g e , S U N Y a t Buffalo, Daemen College, Buffalo State College, St. John Fisher College, Niagara University, St. Bonaventure University, and D’Youville College. These colleges had a wide variety of subjects and covered courses including business, education, health services, counseling, criminal justice, forensic science, special education, physical therapy, and MBAs, along with so much more. The schools on display were all from

New York locations and many gave students the opportunity to join a mailing list to receive information regarding schools of interest. As a psychology major looking to pursue a career in counseling or law, I found that not all schools at the fair offered programs particularly related to my interests. However, schools such as Medaille, Niagara, and St. Bonaventure did offer graduate programs in different areas of counseling and were very informative. As a result, I joined mailing lists, got a few great free gifts,

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FLIP DA RUNWAY--A GALLERY oF PHoToS BY ToM WILLS

SGA President Leala Bowens &SGA Vice President Malcolm Edwards Co-Host Flip Da Runway

Grace Modi Models for the Seasons Category Lace Prude Models for the Seasons Category

The Future Dance Center Performing a Hip-Hop DanceJulius Barretto Performing for the Show

Amanda Bednarz Performs the Song “Beautiful”

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PHoTo GALLERY

Amy Glidden, Associate Concertmaster,Playing Violin

Hilbert Students, Staff, & Family Members Work on a Habitat for Humanity Project (Missing from Photo is Lauren Watkins)

Campus Ministry Club Hikes Through Chestnut Ridge Park to See the Eternal Flame

S.A.D.D. Students Are Shown Preparing & Decorating for Karaoke Night on Nov. 3; Standing Left to Right--

Kianna Porter, Asja Matthews, & Nina Niseishka; Seated, Unique Phillips

Several Hilbert Students Plan to Spend Some Time During Summer Session I

in Africa (Kenya) on a Service Learning Trip

Photo by Tom Wills

Photo by Tom Wills

The Buffalo Philharmonic orchestra, Conducted by Joseph Young, League of American orchestras Conducting Fellow

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and gained considerable i n fo rma t ion t ha t w i l l definitely help me make a decision toward where my education will take me next. Although I am onlyafreshmaninmyfirstsemester of college, I know how important it is to start looking into the possibilities now, instead of waiting until the last semester of my senior year. I am very thankful to Hilbert for organizing such events as a graduate school fair. Being able to have many options under one roof and exploring each one saved me much time and eliminated stress. These schools’ representatives were all open to questions and gave great answers, so that I did not need, after the fair, to contemplate having to make special trips or search colleges for hours online. This was truly a great

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This semester, students in MGT 420: Entrepreneurism, under the instruction of Pro-fessor Dan Roland, have had the unique opportunity to interview local entrepreneurs of small businesses in WNY. The meaningful educational experiences have enhanced their understanding of the risks and rewards that entre-preneurs encounter, among many other things.

HC SIFE HoSTS ENTREPRENEUR WEEK! This past week the Hilbert College Chapter of Students in Free Enterprise hosted its first-everEntrepreneurWeek,whichincludeddailyactivitiesandevents.Programsand projects comprised the following:

Monday, Nov. 16. A presentation by Nathan Rizzo, Vice-President of Solar Liberty Energy Systems, Inc., entitled “Management with Integrity, Experience, and Concern for the Earth”;

Tuesday, Nov. 17. A “Write-On SIFE Entrepreneurial Essay Contest” for Hilbert students to express their innovative ideas;

Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 18 & 19. A market venue/craft fair for select local entrepreneurs to sell their products;

Friday, Nov. 20.BusinessprofilesofentrepreneursandsmallbusinessesinWNY(also highlighted in this edition of The H-Files).

Dan RolandSIFE Advisor

by Kelly Patrick Reddington

Kenneth Miller, owner of RapidRefillInkinBlasdell,graduated from high school in 1968. He went on to com-plete two years at a commu-nity college and then enlisted in the army and became a crypto-specialist. The armed forces offered him many opportunities (West Point–which was voted the best college in 2009 by Forbes Magazine), but he instead chose to further his education at the University of Southern Florida in Tampa, Florida. He majored in business and then went on to work in the health and beauty industry. During the late ’90s, Miller wanted to take his health and beauty company public, but was edged out of an IPO by the infamous tech bubble burst that took place in the early 2000s. He then resorted to selling sunglasses but quickly began to feel as if he needed something else. Three to four years ago, he

by Kelly Patrick Reddington

Bill Nyitrai is the owner of the franchise mold removal company called Puro-Clean, located on California Road in Orchard Park, New York. Nyitrai graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Cani-siusCollege.Hefirststartedhis professional career at the age of seventeen when he started working as a stock boy for Wolworth. He then moved on to retail at Mi-chael’s Arts and Crafts Store, where he worked throughout college. While at Michael’s, Bill was promoted several times all the way from stock boy to district manager. He held the district manager position for six years before setting off on his own as an entrepreneur. He explained the necessary and relevant steps to starting his own business through a spiritual point of view rather than a procedural view. He believes that once you real-ize that you do not want to work for somebody else and that you can be successful on your own, you are ready to start a business. After that realization, you are pretty much willing to learn any-thing and everything which will help you to becoming a successful entrepreneur. Nyitrai explained that the right attitude, willingness to work, good communica-tion skills, and being able to manage people efficiently and effectively are key skills and attributes necessary for entrepreneurial success. Also, he made it clear that constantly seeking a sense of accomplishment and being a role model for workers are relevant. Having a vision of the overall picture is also

STUDIES IN ENTREPRENEURISM The following reports, orig-inally conducted in question-and-answer format, highlight student findings and give evidence of student learning derived from the assignment, while providing business profiles. Please consider patronizing the businesses that aided Hilbert students with their projects. Note: The interview of the ownerofRapidRefillwasan

arranged class field excur-sion to work on interview technique collectively, be-fore sending students out on their own interview, arranged and conducted individually.

Dan Roland, ProfessorBusiness Administration

ProgramProfessional Studies Division

StudieS in entrepreneurShip #1INTERVIEWING KENNETH MILLER

began to look elsewhere. He knew that he wanted to use his experience in sales and he looked at the ink industry and saw that it was headed for a massive upward trend. After opening the store in June of 2007, his location is now ranked number twelve out of 120 around the coun-try. September, 2009, is the Blasdell location’s best month thus far. To start his own business, Miller scouted seven loca-tions and decided on a par-ticular one before he even de-cided on a business. He also secured financing through an equity loan against his home. Miller referred to the char-acteristics for success as an entrepreneur as having a Type A personality, being aggressive, having foresight and insight, and also having a high degree of customer service skills. The rewards of business ownership, as Miller ob-served, are self-satisfaction, getting checks from custom-ers, and being one’s own boss and doing something that one chose to do. A chal-lenge of business ownership is getting capital to do the things that are necessary to feed a thriving and growing business. Miller’s best experience is getting a check from custom-ers, receiving return custom-ers, and self-satisfaction. His worst experience is that the franchise is young, and with a growing franchise comes growing pains. Also, there is not a corporate store, so the management at the franchise understands the challenges of owning a business, but only based on theory and not from experience. Regarding ethical issues, Miller has a strong moral compass and has imple-mented a good support team around him, so he has not re-ally encountered any ethical issues to date.Astofinancialsupport,thesource of funding for the venture came from the Mill-ers’ home equity loan from M&T Bank. He described

theroleoffinanceascrucial.One needs to know how to manage one’s debt so that one can successfully grow the business. The business functions inte-gral to Miller’s success as an entrepreneur have been sales, organization, and customer service. All are integral to the success ofRapidRefillInk. Miller’s business plan is dynamic and changes with different market trends. At first, the business planwasreally focused on marketing, because the people in the vi-cinityofRapidRefillneededto know that the business wasthereinthefirstplace. Overall, Miller measures his success as an entrepreneur by self-satisfaction and being the one calling the shots. He wanted to be an independent man and he is.

StudieS in entrepreneurShip #2PURo-CLEAN: THE PARAMEDICS

oF PRoPERTY DAMAGE

necessary. The rewards and challenges of business ownership are that you get to work for your-self rather than somebody else, you control your own fate, and you get to delegate work instead of working non-stop all the time. Also, for every hour of work you put into the company, you see real tangible results right before your own eyes. A ma-jor challenge of ownership is managing people. Bill says that it can be your largest shortfall and it can also be your biggest reward. He is tryingtofindpeoplewhoarewilling to “take initiative,” so he can focus on growing the business and strengthen-ing relationships with insur-ance agents to obtain more work. When asked about identi-fying a “best” experience, he said, “I don’t think I’ve achieved that.” This re-sponse shows that he is al-ways working towards a goal and he knows that there is more to be achieved. On being asked for his worst experience, he said that he does not look at any experi-ence as being “worst.” This reply showed his positive mind-set and how he does not make things seem worse than they really are. Having no “worst” experience, he never really had an ethical issue to address. Nyitrai definitelymade itevident that the role of fi-nance in starting one’s own business is huge! He referred tofinancesasbeingdifficultfor many, but not for him. His biggest fear starting the company was not whether he couldfinance it, but rather,oncehedidfinanceit,wheth-er he could get enough of the pie to maintain and grow a

new business in an industry and region where it had been dominated by the same three or four competitors for more than thirty years. He funded Puro-Clean personally from his savings as a district man-ager for Michael’s. Finance is also huge for Puro-Clean because the majority of its business is done with insur-ance companies, so Puro-Clean may complete a job and not receive payment until thirty to sixty days afterward. For this reason, budgeting and forecasting are very important. Business functions integral to his success as an entrepre-neur are planning, organiz-ing, and budgeting. He made it evident that having a well researched and thought out business plan was crucial for success. Also, the business plan is dynamic and always influx,becauseasuccessfulentrepreneur needs to be aware of the market he or she is operating in at all times. In starting Puro-Clean, Bill did not have any help while developing the business plan. In fact, the franchise helped very little in offering data. Marketing is very important. Building relationships with customers and insurance agencies leads to referrals and return business. Nyitrai made it clear that his business plan is always changing and he is always referring back to it to make sure he is on track to meet his goals yearly, quarterly, and monthly. He measures his success by being his own boss and working for himself. Suc-cess also means meeting his financialandbusinessgoals,which are a dollar amount in

On Nov. 16, Nathan Rizzo, Vice-President of Solar Lib-erty Energy Systems, Inc., presented “Management with Integrity, Experience, and Concern for the Earth” to the Hilbert community, including students in PS 402 (The Junior Symposium) in the Palisano Lecture Room of Bogel Hall. The presentation on en-vironmental sustainability and solar energy covered the following topics: the

AN ENTREPRENEUR

FoCUSED oN ENVIRoNMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY THRoUGH SoLAR

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importance of environmen-tal sustainability, renewable vs. non-renewable energy alternatives, the benefits ofsolar energy in contemporary society, how an entrepreneur isabletofulfillamarketneedandbeprofitable throughagreen business, and the role of values in guiding a small business. The presenter, Nathan Riz-zo, is a widely recognized so-lar installer and advocate of solar power. He has spent countless hours on solar re-search and study. Nathan is aNYSERDACertifiedSolarInstaller, an active member of the New York State Solar Energy Association and a member of the National So-lar Energy Industries As-sociation. Nathan and Solar Lib-erty have been very active in implementing some of the largest solar electric sys-tems in the state, including a scheduled installation of a 1.1 Mw ground-mounted so-lar system for the University of Buffalo. Nathan has designed and installed numerous commer-cial and residential installa-tions. The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo has contracted with Nathan to design and install solar systems for over fiftyschoolsintheDiocese. The Town of Orchard Park, Town of Brant, Town of Ver-non, Batavia Downs, Buffalo Audubon Society, James-town Audubon Society, and the Erie County SPCA are among some of the solar systems that Nathan has de-signed and completed. The Boy Scouts’ Camp Merz has two systems installed by Nathan--Dawson Lodge and the Ranger’s home. Chautauqua Institution has a building running on solar energy that Nathan complet-ed last summer with another building scheduled for ’09 installation. The Town of West Seneca will be running with solar energy as well the town halls of Syracuse, Clar-ence, and Newfane, along with numerous other resi-dences, institutions, munici-palities, and businesses. Solar Liberty was honored in 2008 by being ranked #92 in the INC 5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in America. INC 5000 ranking also listed Solar Liberty as #5 in the Energy Sector and #1 in the Solar Sector. Solar energy is in its in-fancy, often compared to the computer industry twenty years ago. This event was coordi-

nated through the efforts of Sr. Sharon Goodremote, Hilbert Trustee and Catho-lic Charities Public Policy Coordinator, and Dan Ro-land, Professor of Business Administration and Advisor of Students in Free Enter-prise (SIFE). The event and refreshments were sponsored by Hilbert College Students in Free Enterprise as part of the HC SIFE Entrepreneur Week and its “Go Green and Save Green” initiative.

Dan Roland, ProfessorBusiness Administration

ProgramProfessional Studies Division


Environmental Sustainability

sales per year. Another way Bill measures his success is by how many employees he has working for him. He has a certain size staff that he wants to grow to and he feels good that he can pro-vide income for somebody


by Amanda Maute

Pat Spahn is a long-time East Aurora native. She is a high school graduate and then studied under Phil Ruli-do, a famous designer. She started working for Nuwer Florist twenty-two years ago and then purchased the busi-ness three years later. She has no college education. Spahn bought the busi-ness when it was already established. The company had been in business for forty-three years before she started working there. Three other people had owned the business before her. Spahn feels that being dis-ciplined in her family and business life is very impor-tant. Her husband passed away recently and she has found the transition trying, but has not let it affect the flowershop.Beingfriendly,helpful, understanding the full ranges of emotions of her customers, and trying to guide clients with a profes-sional demeanor is the key to her success. She feels that her reward is thepersonal fulfillment shegains from helping people in the community. Challenges include NYS taxes and em-ployee relations. Her best experience has been when customers be-come good friends. She does nothaveonedefinitivebadexperience. Shefinds bal-ancing cost and product price challenging. She wants her customers to feel that they are getting their money’s worth from her products. Spahn has strived to be a good boss and her employees all chimed in with that re-sponse. She said she is very mindful of her employees’ lives and has found that be-ing respectful of that enhanc-es their relationship. She wants her product affordable but still needs to make a liv-ing. She frequently works

Puro-Clean

by Stephanie Baumgart

For the entrepreneurism class, I interviewed a local entrepreneur from West Sen-eca, New York. Mike Smith is the founder and owner of Affordable Limousine and has been in business for twenty years. Mike Smith went to college for Auto Tech. He decided to start his own business when he continued to get laid off from West Seneca Developmental Center. He hoped that having his own business would keep him more financially stable to provide for his family. Thefirstbusinesshestartedwas Affordable Plowing, which he operated with his brother. That business did not last long and then he started working for a limou-sine company. From there he learned how much he enjoyed driving and felt it was a good business to start on his own. He began his own limousine business in 1989 and then bought out the previous limousine business that he worked for. He was able to use their cars and continue doing business with their pre-existing customers. As the business has grown, he has purchased more cars and more property to store them. The steps Mike took were to set up a company name and legal entity. He also had to acquire the proper insurance for the company. He needed to purchase the vehicles, but he did not need to buy prop-erty yet, because he used his garage for storing the cars. He got another telephone line for the company and

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with East Aurora students of all ages to develop her ad-vertisements and has a work-study program. She believes in strong involvement with the community. Spahn took an equity line of credit on her home to buy the existing business. She said she has hired a good ac-countant and attorney. She thinks her involve-ment in the community has played an important role in her success. She volunteers and donates services to her community. When shefirst purchasedthe business, she expanded and changed the existing system. Right now she is thinking about retiring but is aware of the poor market. Pat says she “is not quite ready to retire but will con-sider it in a year.” Pat enjoys her good work-ing relationship with the community. For her the monetary rewards are not important. She appreciates having a positive influenceon everyone around her. She thinks that some entre-preneurs may be avaricious and own businesses for the wrong reasons. I thoroughly enjoyed in-terviewing Pat. Spahn. She gave me a different per-spective on owning a busi-ness. I explained a previous interview at Rapid Refill Ink, and what I gained from learning about a franchise, while she gave her opinion about franchises. This was very interesting because Spahn and Ken Miller of RapidRefillInkhavetotallydifferent views on business ownership. I found it fasci-nating that she has not had any college education and is very successful. Although I do feel that if I open a busi-ness my education will be play an important role, she has shown me that hands-on experience is just as impor-tant. I also have a different out-look on a small business in a small community. I think it is great that she is so involved with the community and is in business for other people more so than herself. Inter-viewing Pat Spahn was very refreshing and exciting.

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ENTREPRENEUR INTERVIEW WITH AFFoRDABLE LIMoUSINE

purchased an ad in the Buf-falo News under the personal section. It took about six months to get the business operating steadily. Mike worked with other limousine companies by giving them a cut in his revenue to get his name out to the public. The entrepreneurial char-acteristics important to have were really good customer service skills. He needed to have good marketing skills as well to know what was the right way to advertise his business to gain custom-ers. It was important for him to recognize what the next popular activity would be for his service and what kind of car would fit that activity. He always makes sure that he has the “in” car; he bought the Hummer and Dodge Charger limos when they were in demand. Smith observed that the challenge is to stay in busi-ness with the way the econ-omy and gas prices are right now. The rewards are being able to operate the business out of his house. He did not need babysitters since he was working from his home. He was able to put his two daughters through college and pay for their weddings. Smith’s best experience is the positive feedback he gets from his customers. He en-joys hearing that they had the time of their life while in his car. The worst experience Mike has had is trusting a previous employee and good friend until the friend started his own limousine company. The employee and friend then stole future business ideas and customers. Smith has not had experi-ence with ethical issues of his own, but he has seen

other companies operate without the correct insur-ance. Mike’s business was affected by the decision of a driver from another com-pany who chose to drink with prom kids, because Mike was the President of Limousine Operations for WNY at the time. His funding was with a credit card for quick cash and he used home equity loans. He always had a hard time getting credit. The business function that has led to his success is advertising because he was able to keep up with the next best thing. He adver-tises in the yellow pages, bridal fairs, business cards, apparel, and license plate frames. He outsources the accounting and legal aspects of his business. His past business plan included doing what he had to do get the business going. The present plan includes becoming more appealing to customers who are looking to go on wine tours. The economy has changed the target market he is trying to attract. He used to do more night outs downtown, but now wine tours are getting more popular and he has more appointments during the day. Smith measures his suc-cess by being able to say he is still happy and enjoys what he does after twenty years in the business. He is proud of his children be-cause even though they are not interested in operating his business, they are will-ing to when he needs them, because they have grown up in the business and un-derstand the skills needed for success.

SIFE

other than himself. Freedom to do whatever he wants is also up there on his list. He made it clear that he does not have all the freedom in the world, though. Because he bought into a franchise, there are certain guidelines, procedures, and equipment that he has to use. This exercise was invaluable

to me. Every time I talk to entrepreneurs, I end up hav-ing a lot of respect for them. A man who controls his own fate is a powerful man. This exercise has pretty much just reinforced everything we have covered in class and outside class. These exercises embolden me to become an entrepreneur.

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The McGrath Library and the Hilbert College Counseling Center are offering support for America’s returning veterans with a display created for veterans in

BooK DISPLAY SUPPoRTS RETURNING VETERANS

McGrath Library Book Display Supporting Returning Veterans

the front foyer of the dining hall. The display shows the array of books the McGrath Library has on veterans (Veteran’s Day was Nov. 11).

Many of these books can be located in the Counseling Center’s self-help section of the library (located on the secondfloor).

Phyllis DeweyDirector, Counseling Center

FINANCIAL AID CoRNERNovember 20, 2009

*Announcements from the Student Finance Office, Franciscan Hall*

SPRING 2010 REGISTRATIoN (1) Registration for Spring, 2010, is now in progress. (2) You will not be allowed to register for Spring, 2010, until your

financialaidfileiscomplete,andyourstudentaccountbalanceforthe Fall, 2009, semester has either been paid in full or you are current/up-to-date on your student payment plan.

(3) Wednesday, Dec. 23, is the last day to register for the Spring, 2010, semester. If you do not register by this date, a $50.00 late registration fee will be added to your student account.

SPRING 2010 SEMESTER BILLING STATEMENTS BillingstatementsforSpring,2010,willbesenttostudentsduringthefirstweek of December and will be due Jan. 8.

CREDIT REPoRT DAY/APPLEBEE’S GIFT CERTIFICATE WINNERS Thanks to those studentswho attended the financial literacy event on“Credit Reports.” Good information was learned and shared at this event. Congratulations to Devon Kron and Eric Davies. Each won a $25.00 gift certificatetoApplebee’sRestaurant! oUTSIDE SCHoLARSHIPS NEEDMONEY$$$?StopinperiodicallytotheStudentFinanceOfficeandcheckouttheavailabilityofoutsidescholarshipsthatmaybenefityou.

TheStudentFinanceOfficestaff...ishereforyou!

Cindy Claar, Student Finance Technician, ext. 314Kelly Canaski, Student Finance Counselor, ext. 277Suna Combs, Student Finance Counselor, ext. 249

Elaine Szczepanski, Student Finance Counselor, ext. 308Beverly Chudy, Director of Financial Aid, ext. 207

Julie Lanski, Director of Student Financial Services, ext. 208

OfficeHours: Monday–Thursday, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.; Friday, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Telephone: 649-7900

FINANCIAL LITERACY TIP oF THE MoNTH

What’s the Difference BetweenSubsidized and Unsubsidized Student Loans?

Stafford Subsidized Loans Stafford subsidized loans are federally guaranteed loans based on financialneed.Interestdoesnotaccrueontheloanwhileyouareinschool at least half-time or during any future deferment periods. The federal government subsidizes (or pays) the interest during these times. Additionally, there are maximum amounts you can receive per school year: Freshman $3,500 per year; Sophomore $4,500 per year; Junior $5,500 per year; Senior $5,500 per year.

Stafford Unsubsidized Loans Stafford unsubsidized loans are federally guaranteed loans that are not basedonfinancialneed.Interestdoesaccruefromthetimetheloanisdisbursed to the school. Additionally, there are maximum amounts you can receive per school year for dependent and independent students.

Freshman $2,000 for dependent students; $6,000 for independent students Sophomore $2,000 for dependent students; $6,000 for independent students Junior $2,000 for dependent students; $7,000 for independent students Senior $2,000 for dependent students; $7,000 for independent students

Students are encouraged to make interest payments only on their unsubsidized loans while attending school; if no payments are made, interest will continue to accrue on the loans; thus, the loans will be larger at the time of repayment.

DEPARTMENT NEWS

Original undergraduate research endeavors cov-ering various academic disciplines, including presentations by father-daughter Randy and Elle Zimpfer of Irving who are attending Hilbert Col-lege, were highlighted at the 10th annual Penn-York Undergraduate Research Conference at Hilbert Col-lege. Hosted by the Hilbert Psychology program, the one-day conference was

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PRoJECTSARE PRESENTED AT CoNFERENCE

held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 7 in the college’s William E. Swan Audito-rium and Paczesny Hall’s West-Herr Atrium. “One of the goals of the Penn-York Undergraduate Research Association was to provide a nurturing and supportive environment for student researchers and the conference is a way to showcase their efforts. The event also gave participants an op-portunity to interact with

faculty and students from other institutions,” said Edward Pristach, Ph.D., Hilbert associate professor of psychology who is on the conference planning committee. During the conference, poster projects on research and oral presentations were done by undergradu-ate students from Hilbert, Alfred University, Ca-nisius College, Houghton


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College, Nazareth College, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, and the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville. Keynote speaker Ramona SantaMaria, Ph.D., spoke on ethical research at noon in Hilbert’s Campus Center dining hall. Afternoon sessions from 1-3:30 p.m. covered a variety

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by Chantal Karan

In Wyoming County, people go to village courts for normaltrafficviolationssuchas speeding or for failure to obeyatrafficcontroldevice.They also go to court to argue over who took whose corn stalks or a cow being stolen. Some courts like the Village of Orangeville have court in an old barn, where one can smell the day’s work on a farm and hear the sound of cowboy boots tapping the ground. The judge arrives promptly at 7 p.m. wearing a cowboy hatandflannelshirt,andalsosmelling of the day’s work. A prayer is said and court begins. People come up and work through the problems or issues at hand, pay what they have to, and walk out together, all issues over with, to the local brewery for a bottle of cold soda. Noconflictsoccurandallmatters are resolved without having an assigned lawyer or a hired lawyer for either party. This is a village justice court in a rural town. When Ifirst startedmyinternship at Blasdell Village Court, I was anxious and nervous to see how much different it would be from a rural town. The f irs t person I encountered on my first day was the court clerk.

Throughout my internship, the court clerk was polite and informative, and was very much a mentor. She had recently taken the position as Court Clerk for the Village of Blasdell and was still learning the ropes. She taught me that even the toughest challenges can be accomplished, and if you put your best foot forward, you can do anything. The next person I encountered wasthecourtofficer.Hewasin charge of protecting the judge, upholding courtroom behavior, and ensuring that the court was running smoothly. The court officer taught me that not everyone is as they appear. You have to treat all people the same, regardless of what they did or did not do. You have to be professional as well as unemotional and remember that you are just doing your job. Up to this point, everything seemed to be the same, except cars were in the parking lot instead of tractors and wagons. The last person I met on my firstdaywastheHonorableDaniel P. Grasso. Judge Grasso showed up early, but notwearing a flannel shirtor cowboy hat. He came in dressed for business and as he put on his judge’s robe, you could tell he was ready

for a night’s work. Judge Grasso put on his game face and walked to the bench, where he began his judicial duty for the night. As I watched the courtroom, things seemed to be as they were back home until the attorneys showed up. The attorneys were there to represent the various clients throughout the courtroom. Little did I know it was District Attorney Night and we would be extremely busy. I was soon getting various documents for the judge, making copies, finding clients or attorneys, directing people to the Court Clerk, and performing a variety of other tasks. People would approach Judge Grasso at the bench and would state their names. Judge Grasso would go through the required set of legal guidelines and then begin listening to the attorneys plead their cases. Some attorneys really battled it out. I soon learned that Judge Grasso was more familiar with some defendants than others. I began to consider the role of a judge in the courtroom. The diligence and competency Judge Grasso applied to all cases

allowed him to ensure that justice was given to each of the parties in his courtroom. He took in everything that was occurring and always gave the most logical and reasonable response to each case presented before him. In some cases he knew right away what he wanted to do. For others, he had the parties and their attorneys have seats while he could debate what type of ruling he would give. This occurred during my entire time at the Village of Blasdell Court. Judge Grasso always gave people thebenefitofthedoubt.Healways went that extra mile to help, reach out, or adjust someone’s attitude or way of life. He would be realistic with them and try to point them in the right direction. I most admired Judge Grasso for the way in which he handled people; he truly worked hard to ensure that the justice system was effectively used in every case. It takes many years of being a judge and a lawyer to gain the knowledge and experience he had with people. Judge Grasso could tell exactly when someone was not sincere and when

LEGAL STUDIES PRoGRAM: MY INTERNSHIP WITH THE BLASDELL JUSTICE CoURT

by Kasey Cline

At Hilbert College, there are many important departments that students do not know much about—public relations is one of these departments. Public relations, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is the relationsofacompanyfirmor institution with the general public, as through publicity. I had a great opportunity to sit down with Paula Witherell, Hilbert’s public relations director, and learn about what she does to help Hilbert and its students. Ms. Witherell has been employed at Hilbert for ten years, serving as the college’sfirstfull-timepublicrelationsdirector.Herofficeislocatedonthesecondfloorof Franciscan Hall in the Institutional Advancement Office. Ms. Witherell attended Buffalo State College for undergraduate and graduate studies. She believes it is her education, great mentors

PAULA WITHERELL

INTERVIEWS

someone was really trying to change and become responsible. You could not “pull the wool over his eyes” without its being caught. Before I knew it, I was well adapted to and felt welcomed in the “home” of Blasdell Justice Court. I was preparing documents and signs for court, and alphabetizing and putting away file correspondence, a s we l l a s do ing f i l e maintenance. I was directing litigants where they needed to be and arranging trafficschool, as well as maintaining a calm and collected attitude during the whole process. Conflicts of interest can occur any day and anywhere. They are usually created by our duty of absolute loyalty to each client, which in turn createsconflict.Itcancomeas a result by simply saying the wrong thing to the wrong person, by being in the wrong place at the wrong time, having personal knowledge of a situation, or simply by seeing something you should not see. Because I was coming from a different county and did not know very many people in or near Blasdell, I did not think I would have any instances in whichIwouldhaveconflicts

of interest. I soon realized that I would be seeing some familiar faces during the course of my internship. It is a difficultsituation to be placed in. You may want to say hi and chat for a few minutes, but you also need to remember that you have to be professional and keep in mind that conflictscanoccur.Idecidednot to be in the courtroom while people I either knew or were acquaintances with were up dealing with their judicial matters. When they needed to come back and see the Court Clerk and I was to give them papers for traffic school or suchotherinformation they needed, I would keep the conversation short and to the point. I would never discuss their matters outside or inside of the courtroom. The skills that I have acquired and adopted from my internship will not only be applied to my professional ca reer o f becoming a paralegal, but my personal life as well. I hope one day to be able to change lives one at a time just like Judge Grasso, work as hard as the Court Clerk, and be able to understand people as well as thecourtofficer.

who gave her much advice and guidance, and her professional background that prepared her to be suited as Hilbert’s PR director. Hilbert public relations is a one-person office, covering many areas in college public relations and communications. Because Ms. Witherell manages, develops, and creates the college’s PR program, she has improved her skills in areas that she otherwise would not have been able to develop as fully in a larger office. Ms. Witherell’s career p a t h s t a r t e d i n p r i n t journalism, which led to a communications/PR position at the University at Buffalo. When the public relations director position became available at Hilbert, she recognized it as a wonderful and rare opportunity to develop a PR program from the ground up. As Hilbert’s PR director, Ms. Witherell oversees

media relations, publications, internal communications, special PR projects, college-wide marketing/branding consultation, and numerous other communications-re la ted areas . Publ ic relations is beneficial not only to Hilbert, but also raises awareness about the college to prospective students. Without public relations, fewer people would know about Hilbert, what it stands for, the great professors and students at the college, and all the good things the college does. There are challenges that come with being the college’s public relations director, especially because it is a one-personoffice.Ms.Witherellsaid the main challenge of her job is juggling everything at once. She frequently multitasks to manage many projects at the same time. However, she thoroughly enjoys serving as Hilbert’s PRdirectorandfindsherjobvery rewarding, particularly

working with news media. She says that Hilbert is a wonderful institution and has great professors, students, and academic programs. One aspect of her work Ms. Witherell is especially proud of is Hilbert Connections, t h e c o l l e g e ’s a l u m n i magazine. It used to be a simple newsletter, but now it is revamped as a full-color magazinethatreflectsmorepositively on Hilbert. Public relations is an essential part of Hilbert. Because of it, people are more aware of the college and what it offers, they know about what’s new or happening at Hilbert, and they learn interesting stories about students and their accomplishments. Media relations efforts are also more carefully planned and publ ica t ions have been improved. With that being said, one can see that Paula Witherell has a very important job at Hilbert.

of topics, including social networking among adoles-cents, challenges of first-generation college students, and student success. All presentations were open to the public. Registration was $10 per person for the conference and luncheon that included the keynote speaker.


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by Alicia Wildman

Georgina Adamchick grew up in Hamburg, New York, where she graduated from Frontier High School. From Frontier she attended Hilbert College for an undergraduate

by Valerie Janiga

I had the pleasure of meet-ing and interviewing Eliza-beth (Liz) Curry. She is the technical services coordina-tor at the McGrath Library at Hilbert College.

INTERVIEWSGEoRGINA ADAMCHICK

Georgina Adamchick

degree in business adminis-tration. Upon leaving Hil-bert she joined St. Bonaven-ture for a master’s degree in community counseling. Ms. Adamchick is now married with two sons, ages six and twelve, and lives in Spring-ville, New York. While still in school, Ms. Adamchick did a work-study program at Hilbert College, working at the switchboard. She was then hired once her work-study was finished and has progressed within the school throughout the years. Next she became the secretary of the registrar, and from there she advanced to

become the assistant to the registrar. Finally, after years of hard work and patience she became the registrar. She has now held this position for approximately ten years. Although Ms. Adamchick never planned to have a job

as a registrar and this was not her dream job when she was younger, she still loves her job. Ms. Adamchick claims that there is not an average day in her job. Each day brings new experiences and highlights. A registrar is in charge of all grades, transcripts, and student records. Common jobs that she may do in a day include certifying TAP, assigning student advisors, working with veterans and immigration, and checking student records. Ms. Ad-amchick says that she never really had a dream job that she always wanted to do;

however, she loves her job and she loves working at Hilbert. Her office is likea family; they are all happy working together. Hilbert itself is very family-oriented for their workers. If one of her sons is ever sick, there is

never a problem for her to get a day off. She loves working with students and loves this aspect of her work. Ms. Adamchick says that to get a job as a registrar, all one needs is a bachelor’s degree and an open position. People who would enjoy this job are those who like work-ing with students and like to help people because much of what she does is helping students. Ms. Adamchick has no regrets with the path that she has taken in life and if she could start over again fresh out of high school, she would still like to become a registrar.

LIZ CURRY

“Sunflower” Liz Curry

What helped Liz to prepare for this job were her classes as an undergraduate as well as those in graduate school. She went to SUNY at Buf-falo to earn her bachelor’s degree in communication. She then went on and earned her master’s degree in library science (MLS). She also had internships that helped her obtain this position. Ms. Curryfirsthadapart-timejobhere at the McGrath Library in May, 2005, until May, 2006. In June, 2006, she obtained full-time employ-ment and has been here ever since. The biggest factors that helped her obtain this

position were the guidance and support of other people who had already worked there. They were all very supportive and helpful. Ms. Curry never thought at firstthatshewantedtobeatechnical services coordina-

tor. She had been working as an internet service pro-vider and salesperson. She decided that she did not re-ally like that job, so during school she looked at different classes that she could take. However, it was only after she joined the staff at Hilbert that she began to focus on technical services. The duties and responsibili-ties of her job are cataloguing and interlibrary loan (ILL). In cataloguing she has to make records for new books purchased for the library. Interlibrary loans are a very cool thing. She is able to contact other schools, librar-

ies, or any other place with books or articles to ask them whethertheyhaveaspecificbook or article that one of the students or faculty members of Hilbert needs or wants. If they do, she can then get the book or article for free and

check it out to the person needing it to help complete a paper or for whatever else it was needed. This job helps students because she is able to help findinformationforanythingthat they need; e.g., papers, assignments, book reports, other school work, or just for their own enjoyment. It also helps the business of the institution. It does this by helping with learning skills that students can then use in school and afterwards in life. This is an example of “life-long learning.” The main challenge that Ms. Curry has with this job is just trying to keep on top of everything—from making sure that she has records of all books and articles and making sure that the new ones coming in get recorded. Another challenge is making sure that she is able to get the books or articles that students need for their projects before the assignment is due. The rewards that Ms. Curry receives from her job are that she gets to help students acquire books or other ma-terials they were not able to obtain for their assignments or papers. Also, when stu-dentsfindoutthatthemate-rials obtained are free, they thank her for everything and she is glad to help. She loves giving them the chance to learn more than they already know.

by Rebecca Elensky

Here at Hilbert College we have many staff members who play an important part in our education. For our Foundations Seminar class

RoBERT PAWELSKIwe were given the opportu-nity to interview one person. By doing this we were able to learn more about our staff members and get a better feel about what they do here at Hilbert. I interviewed

Robert Pawelski, the Infor-mation Technology (IT) co-ordinator at our school. One of his most important jobs at the school is to work with the smart classrooms. He has worked at our school for

eight years now and enjoys his job very much. At the beginning of his college career Mr. Pawelski started at SUNY at Buffalo’s engineering school, intent on becoming an engineer. But becoming disenchanted with engineering, he transferred to ECC for a new program at the time, computer tech-nology. There he met Carl Stengel, his program direc-tor, who would become one of those pivotal persons who changed his life. Mr. Sten-gel’s responsibility to his students, and his excellent instruction and guidance, motivated Mr. Pawelski and his fellow classmates to excel in their computer and electronics courses. This also left a lasting impres-sion on Mr. Pawelski on the “small school” experi-ence, and how some students sometimes need to be more than a just number at a big

university. Mr Pawelski landed a job with Digital Equipment Corporation right out of col-lege—at the time, the second biggest computer company in the world. Mr. Pawel-ski worked his way up and eventually became an on-site representative, Field Service Engineer IV, in charge of the Digital VAX Cluster for SUNY at Buffalo, which ser-viced about four hundred us-ers, in addition to other area colleges—Canisius, Hilbert, SUNY College at Fredonia, Buffalo State College, and D’Youville College. During this period he also taught part-time at ECC. After that Mr. Pawelski had two other jobs before beginning at Hilbert in 2001. While here, he has com-pleted many great projects to help advance our school,

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but his primary responsibil-ity is the design, installation, training, and maintenance of Hilbert’s smart classrooms. This work was somewhat of a challenge in 2006, because he had just three weeks until school started to install smart classrooms in the new Pacz-esny Hall. Getting Paczesny Hall’s smart classrooms done on time is one of the achievements he is very proud of. He explained that itwas a definingmoment,a new building doubling Hilbert’s classroom capacity, with state-of-the-art smart classrooms, and that a lot of people at Hilbert, and the donors, had pulled together to get this done. Mr. Pawelski sees the smart classrooms and the learn-ing environment as areas in which he can help profes-sors maximize the learning experience for their students. Mr. Pawelski says things in IT can get pretty hectic, butitisdefinitelynotadulland boring job, and that he

enjoys his job here at Hilbert very much. Also, Mr. Pawelski is look-ing forward to implementing “clickers,” a new technology giving students remotes so they can respond to ques-tions throughout a profes-sor’s lecture. The immediate feedback tells students how they are doing and tells the instructor how the class is doing. Testing this past spring went well, so the clickers will be added to the Hilbert learning envi-ronment over the next few months. In addition, Mr. Pawelski states that he enjoys it here because of the people. He continued to say that every-one here at Hilbert is very nice and makes it a better place to work. I enjoyed this assignment very much because it gave me an opportunity to meet a “behind-the-scenes” person whom I would not have met under different circumstanc-es. Also, I realized how all thestudentsbenefitfromthesmart classroom experience here at Hilbert.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

by Megan Prime

Besides being a tal-ented musician, Rob Zombie also has quite a flair for recreating some of the most amaz-ing movies in horror cinema history. In his new take on the 1978 John Carpenter classic Halloween, Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) isforthefirsttimeeverseen as a ten-year-old boy growing up in the lower-class suburbs of Haddonfield, Illinois. He is accompanied by an abusive step-father (William Forsythe), a mother (Sheri Moon Zombie) who works long hours as a strip-per, a snotty older sister (Hanna Hall), and a baby sister whom they call Boo. Michael’s upbringing begins to affect him quickly. He constantly hides his face behind a clown mask and begins killing small animals. School does not help the situ-

by Rachel Dobiesz

I wasn’t expecting very much from Zombieland, but found it to be an un-commonly good horror comedy. Zombieland is a surprisingly intelligent andfunnyfilmthatrelieson equal parts wit and gore to keep it interest-ing.Thefilmstartswiththeclassic horror premise that zombies have taken over the world and only a few normal humans remain. The college-age main character Colum-bus treks from his dorm room in Texas to his na-tive state of Ohio in the hopes that his family is still alive. Although Columbus initially seems hapless, he has devel-

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A FILM REVIEW oF HALLOWEEN: A LooK AT RoB ZoMBIE’S RE-IMAGINING oF THE HoRRoR CLASSICation, as he is bullied by other children and always brought to the principal’s office for losing his temper. He is asked to see psychiatrist Samuel Loomis (Mal-colm McDowell), but it turns out to be too late after Michael turns on the bullies with deadly violence.Afterthisfirstencounter, he contin-ues on a killing spree, which includes his step-father, his older sister, and her boyfriend. His mother comes home moments later to find him sitting on the front porch, clown mask in-tact, and holding Boo in his arms. After these events, he spends thenextfifteenyears in a mental insti-tution under the care of Dr. Loomis. Eventually, two intoxicated institu-tion employees break into Michael’s cell and begin harassing him. He loses his temper, kills the employees, and escapes, heading back

to his hometown with twomissions:To findhis baby sister (who is now in high school and living a normal life with her adopted parents) and to kill anyone who stands in his way. Twelve-year-old Daeg Faerch gives an unbe-lievable performance as a young Michael My-ers. He shows a great display of talent, as the original Halloween nev-er captured Michael’s life before he became a killer. He smoothly

alternates between be-ing a sympathetic boy and blatantly scary. The scene where he noncha-lantly kills his own fam-ily is bloody, disturbing, and more difficult to watch then any scene in the original. However, while Rob Zombie’s originality of Michael’s earlier years was creative, his played-out childhood made the filmseemordinary.Thechilling factor of the original movie was that nobody knew the reason

oped a set of rules that allow him to survive in what he has termed “Zombieland.” On his journey back home, he comes across zombie-slaying cowboy Tallahas-see (Woody Harrelson). Although opposites, the two band together as they continue their journey. They encounter two sis-ters (Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin) who, af-ter a rocky start, become their allies. The film’s strong suitis definitely Eisenberg, who portrays narrator Columbus with an en-dearing and humorous charm. Harrelson is also excellent as the tough, but soft-hearted Tallahassee. Their Odd Couple-like chemistry provides some

ofthefilm’sstrongestmo-ments. Abigail Breslin is a 180 degrees from her best-known role as Little Miss Sunshine. It’s heart-ening to see that such an obviously talented actress will not be pigeonholed. Emma Stone provides an intriguing love-interest for Eisenberg’s unlucky in love narrator. A well-known actor also makes a hilarious and memorable appearance mid-movie. Thefilm is a comedy,butdefinitelynotforthelittle ones. The wonder-fully charming element of Zombieland is its blend of comedy and downright gore. Like Shaun of the Dead before it, Zombie-land seamlessly moves between laughter and gra-tuitous blood and gore.

Mature audiences will findthishighlyentertain-ing, but small children will be terrified. Zom-bieland’s living dead are vicious, blood-spewing creatures who try to take chunks out of everything in sight. Agoodpartofthefilm’shumor comes from its successfully self-con-scious narration. The key here is for afilmnot totake itself too seriously. Fewfilmshaveusedthisas an effective tool, but Zombieland’s obviously satirical flavor allows itto hit the mark. The best horrorfilmsarethosethatmock themselves as much as frighten. Zombieland is a refreshing horror comedy with a macabre sense of fun.

TWo VIEWS oF WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

by Rachel Dobiesz

Where the Wild Thing Are is a children’s movie for adults. Director Spike Jonze has created an en-tertaining and intelligent study of childhood struggle and loneliness that has an emotionaldepthdefinitelynot aimed at tots. Although thefilmisbaseduponthefamous picture book of the same name, it is far less child-friendly and decid-edly darker. The film has an under-standably childlike ele-ment in its construction and execution. The “Wild Things” of the title are puppet-like in their appear-ance, much like something

by Ashley Halbach

Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s book Where the Wild Things Are comes to life in its film adaptation. Director Spike Jonze de-velops unique and lovable characters who depict the familiarqualitieswefindinourselves. From the begin-ning, this adventurous tale pulls the viewer directly inside of Max’s (Max Re-cords) vivid imagination where wild things exist with vibrant emotion. Where the Wild Things Are is the heartfelt story of our childhood; full of self-discovery, hardships, excite-ment, and hope. Max is a playful little boy who sees

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that a small child would like to cuddle with. Its aesthetically pleasing ex-terior covers much deeper subject matter, however. The main character of Max (Max Records) is grappling with feelings of alienation and anger after his sister deserts him for new friends and his mother brings home a new boyfriend. One night, after a physical con-frontation with his mother, Max runs away from home and travels to an alternate reality, where he meets a group of creatures whose emotions mirror his own. His interactions with them lead him through explora-

the world much differently from everyone else. He is prone to showing his temper by acting out when he does not get what he wants. Max also loves his family very much and wants nothing more than to make them happy by sharing his stories and adventures. A particular incident with his mother (Catherine Keen-er) causes Max to run away from home. He escapes to a place where he encounters giant monsters searching for relief and direction just like him. They intend to eat him at first, but Max cleverly holds them off by telling them he is actually

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behind Michael’s insan-ity. With Rob Zombie’s film,itistheover-usedstoryline of a quiet child raised in a bad environ-ment and picked on at school. Now he is an escaped mental patient who wants revenge. As a result, Michael’s childhood story took away one crucial el-ement that made the original Halloween one ofthebesthorrorfilmsof all time. About an hour into the movie we begin to see

more familiar themes as Michael returns to Had-donfieldtofindteenagedLaurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton), for-mally known as Boo. He proceeds to butcher her family, friends, and anyone else who gets in his way. Taking into consideration that this is aRobZombiefilm,it’s not surprising to findbossyteens,nudity,brutality, and lots of blood, but as a result, it no longer resembles the original.

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tion, fear, and ultimately, forgiveness. Records is an endearing Max, but is refreshingly un-afraid to explore the facets of his character’s psyche that sometimes makes him unappealing. Catherine Keener is also excellent as his mother, who struggles between balancing her per-sonal life and giving her son the attention he needs. Other than the handful of human actors, the rest of the cast contributes their voices only. James Gan-dolfini,CatherineO’Hara,Forest Whitaker, Michael Berry, Jr., Chris Cooper, Lauren Ambrose, and Paul Dano give the group of wild things a humanity and depth that is instantly relatable. Where the Wild Things Are is not afilm for everyoneand moviegoers wanting light entertainment fare might be well advised to search elsewhere. How-ever, those nostalgic for a familiar childhood story or looking for an emotionally weightyfilmshouldspendsome time with these “Wild Things.”


a king with special powers. The “wild things” almost immediately change their minds about Max and begin to celebrate the arrival of their newfound king. Carol (James Gandolfini) is an even more explosive yet sensitive version of Max and they quickly bond as great friends. Carol strives to keep everyone together just like a family and hopes that Max can keep out “all kinds of sadness” as king. Max proves to be just a boy with fantastic ideas, but ultimatelyhecannotfixtheproblems that arise between the characters. With great upset, Max realizes that he belongs at home with his own family. He remembers the love he left behind and decides to return back where he came from. The final goodbye is truly heartrend-ing as we come to learn that each monster was a manifes-tation of Max’s characteris-tics. Where the Wild Things Are is a brilliant filmwithexcellentimagery.Thefilminevitably gives us reason to look inside ourselves and accept the things we cannot change.


Adventurous Duo: Max (Max Records) Traipsing Behind Carol, Voiced by James Ganolfini, in Where the Wild Things Are

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by Valerie Janiga

For the Personal Develop-ment and Health Passport category for students en-rolled in GS 101 (Founda-tions Seminar,) I decided to use a sport. I am on the

we began to practice every day for twohours. Atfirstsome things did not go well. The drills were a little messy and there was a great deal of conditioning needed. It pushed my teammates and me really hard to step it up and to improve our skills and overall athletics. Whenourfirstgamecamealong, we were all anxious and excited. We all wanted to play. We ended up losing but that was all right. Every game since then has gotten a little better, except when we all had a bad day. The season just ended re-cently when we played our last two games. We lost them and because of that we did not make the playoffs. It was really disappointing, but we all were happy with what we had accomplished. Since the beginning of the season we had come together as a unit. We were work-ing better as a team and we


The Hilbert College men’s cross country team had a strong core group of run-ners this fall and theirfivecompleted meets prior to the Allegheny Mountain Colle-giate Conference (AMCC) championships were excit-ing to be a part of. All the athletes on the men’s squad were focused on do-ing their best and bettering their individual times each Saturday. The men’s team finishedninthattheAMCCchampionships which was held at Penn State Behrend on Oct. 31. The only returning runner to the squad this fall was soph-omore Paul Coleman (Buf-falo, NY/Cardinal O’Hara). As the season progressed, Coleman’s times improved and he really began to enjoy the competition. Joining the veteran runner was a large group of first-year collegiate harriers. Lead-ing the team this fall was an older athlete who picked up the love for competi-tive running late in his col-lege career. Robert Minkel (Hamburg, NY/Hamburg) finishedfirst in every racethat he ran for his team. Finishing second was fresh-man Jeff Gauthier (Buffalo, NY/Bishop Timon-St. Jude) and nipping at his heals for third was a combination of

The Hilbert College wom-en’s cross country team com-pleted another season in the Allegheny Mountain Col-legiate Conference (AMCC) championships on Oct. 31. The weekend races and the mid-week dual meets were all designed as warm-ups to the championship date at Penn State Behrend the last weekend in October. A new head coach blended the talents of a few new runners and paired them up with the returning veterans for a ninth-place finish at the AMCC championships. Senior Amanda Phillips (Cheektowaga, NY/Cleve-land Hill) has been the top runner all season long for the women’s team. She and fel-low 2010 graduate Amanda Trickey were supposed to push each other in every race this year, but a stress fracture to Trickey’s foot caused her to miss the bulk of the season. Trickey (Clifton Springs, NY/Canandaigua) returned to action just in time for the AMCC championship

The men’s golf team com-pleted a successful 2009 campaign. The team com-peted in four matches dur-ing the month of September before they swung down to the AMCC champion-ships the first weekend in October. The day before the conference-wide match, Hilbert and D’Youville Col-lege faced off in a dual meet on the championship course, giving them a sneak peek where the end-of-the-season meet would occur. That Oc-tober 3rd match and the fourth andfifthchampionshipeventcompleted the 2009 season for the Hawks. Senior Brian Rathke (Buf-falo, NY/ Bishop Timon-St. Jude) was Hilbert’s top golfer this season, earning AMCC All-Conference Honorable Mention for his performanc-es. Rathkefinished fourthplace (Spartan Invitational) and sixth place (ECC Invi-tational) individually in two different tournaments early in the season. Hilbert’s other golfers this fall were senior Ian Frost (Cherry Creek, NY/Pine Valley), freshman Tim Hourihan (West Seneca, NY/St. Francis), freshman

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several third-year students: transfer Aaron Lawrence (Fishkill, NY/Fishkill, Erie Community College), ju-nior Dan Wolfe (Rochester, NY/Irondequoit), and R. J. Sykora (Stow, OH/Stow-Munroe Falls). These three runners were very depend-able and great additions to the squad.

Matt Lamb (Whitesboro, NY/Whitesboro), freshman Shane Olivieri (Hamburg NY/Hamburg), freshman James Costaines (Hamburg, NY/Frontier), and freshman Cody Troutman (South Day-ton, NY/Pine Valley). As a team Hilbert had its highest finish placing thirdin the Spartan Shootout at Springville Country Club in early September, posting a score of 354. In thefinaleof the season at the AMCC Championships at Tom’s Run at Chestnut Ridge Golf course located in Blairsville, PA, the team took an eighth-placefinishamongthenineconference teams that par-ticipated. Hilbert earned an overall score of 731 for the two-day tournament. Hou-rihan was the overall low for the Hawks, totaling 178 for the two-day tournament, which placed him 21 out of 45 golfers. The Hawks will look to take the experience and suc-cess they gained in 2009 and move forward with it for the 2010 season.

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race at Penn State Behrend. Phillips, Trickey, and senior Destyn Brown (Ithaca, NY/Ithaca) completed the 6K race together, with Trickey crossing thefinish line justahead of Phillips and Brown. Brown shifted gears her last year at Hilbert so that she could prepare for graduate school--she decided to par-ticipate on the cross country team instead of the volleyball team and she was a great addition to the program. Sophomore Jill Cohen (Buf-falo, NY/Kenmore West) completed the returning core of athletes. Cohen was hon-ored during the season with the Meghan Sorbera Memo-rial Award given to a female runnerwhoexemplifiedthesame spirit and love for run-ning as the former Hawks runner did. Freshman Su-sanneSchofield(Tonawanda,NY/Tonawanda), freshman Devin Davis (Waterbury, CT/ Sacred Heart), and freshman Dontrell Young (Rochester, NY/Charles Finney) were other steady runners for the

women’s team, as they were using this fall season to improve their conditioning and prepare for the winter basketball season. Additional team members who complemented the roster spots were freshman Ki’Anna Porter (Schenectady, NY/Schenectady), freshman Stephanie Smith (Waterloo, NY/Waterloo), freshman Unique Phillips (Charlotte, NC/Zebulon b. Vance), fresh-man Renee Butler (Syracuse, NY/Westhill), sophomore Samantha Tedesco (Orchard Park, NY/Orchard Park), junior Carole Jones (Bliss, NY/Letchworth), and senior Samantha Cevaer (Ransom-ville, NY/Wilson). These additional runners were very valuable to first-year headcoach Jerry Mangan and his squad. With one season under his belt, Mangan can now focus on recruiting a large squad of runners and establishing the cross country program at Hilbert College.


Rounding out the ros-ter spots were freshman Adam Clabo (Tonawanda, NY/Niagara Wheatfield), freshman Anthony Blanz (Eden, NY/Eden), fresh-man Gary Gawera (Eden, NY/Eden), and sophomore Pat Lagueras (Rochester, NY/Charles Finney). These multi-sportathletesfilledin

when needed and they were very valuable to first-yearhead coach Jerry Mangan and his squad. With one season completed, Mangan can now focus on recruit-ing new members for next year’s team.


VoLLEYBALL EXPERIENCEvolleyball team at the col-lege. I decided to try out for the team because I played for the past six years at my high school. I really like the sport and thought I could push myself and go to the next level in college.

At the start of the season I was really nervous. I tried my best but I did not think I was doing well. I was really happy after try-outs were done to discover that I had made the team. Once we had a full team,

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The Hilbert College wom-en’s basketball team begins a new era for the 2009-2010 season. The Hawks look to the leadership of a new head coach, a full roster, and daily competition in practices to create an atmosphere where success is sure to blossom. “We want to be the aggres-sor this year,” stated first-year head coach Matt Phifer. “We want to pick up the level of intensity and outwork our opponents. To be competi-tive within our conference

The women’s volleyball team completed another season where growth con-tinued to shine even as the season came to an end. First-year head coach, Amanda Logue developed her player’s overall skills by exposing them to sev-eral different positions on the court. As the month of October came to a close, the Hawks maintained intensity and kept the play exciting. Though some-times the set-score did notreflectwhatmightbeconsidered a well-played game, the Hawks kept working for side-outs and points and just did not quit. Hilbert’s record finishedat4-19,1-9intheAMCC. The lone AMCC victory was against La Roche College. Leading the way this

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year was junior Erica Page (Lake Shore). The Angola, NY, native rotated around the court and played an outside hitter as well as the libero. She is second intheteaminkills,firstinserviceaces,firstindigs,and tied for third in most sets played this season. Another strong performer this year was junior Carole Jones (Bliss, NY/Letch-worth). The middle hitter led the team in kills, was thirdinserviceaces,firstin sets played, and second in blocks. Two athletes clearly ran the offense this year. Freshman Rachel Kwiatkowski (West Sen-eca, NY/Orchard Park) led her squad with 184 assists, just a few more than the 173 passed out by


WoMEN’S BASKETBALL PREVIEW(Alleghany Mountain Col-legiate Conference–AMCC), we need to develop a work-ethic in practice so that our focus and passion becomes automatic.” To play with the desired high intensity, the coach-ing staff knew they needed to add depth to the roster. Pairedwiththefivereturningplayers from last season’s team are eleven new faces to the lineup this year. Returning for the Hawks are three starters from

2008/09: Sophomore guard Mary Zinni (Batavia, NY/Batavia), sophomore Ju-lie Bossard (Canisteo, NY/Canis teo-Greenwood) , and Senior Liz Kennedy (Ogdensburg, NY/Lisbon). Zinni (8.6 ppg/3.9 rpg) ran the point for the very young squadherfirstseason,whileKennedy (2.9 ppg/ 4.2 rpg) played in the paint. Don’t be surprised to see Kennedy facing the hoop and moving away from the basket this season with the added height

to the roster. At 6”0’ Bossard will maintain her presence in the paint and look to improve on her 6.8 ppg and 6.2 rpg. Sophomore Amanda Dudek (Tonawanda, NY/Tonawan-da), with 3.2 ppg/ 4.0 rpg, and sophomore Dale Jona-than (Basom, NY/Akron), with 2.6 ppg/ 3.7 rpg, are two additional players returning who, at different points in the season, started for the Hawksduringtheirfirstyearof college basketball. Some of the new faces this

year include guard Susanne Schofield(Tonawanda,NY/Tonawanda), guard Amber Grosch (Depew, NY/De-pew), guard Molly Burgess (Lyndonville, NY/Lyndon-ville), guard Shavonne Walton (Lackawanna, NY/Lackawanna), guard Chelsea Langdon (Hamburg, NY/Hamburg), guard Felicea Harris (Niagara Falls, NY/Niagara Falls), guard Don-trell Young (Rochester, NY/Charles Finney), forward Jasmine Moore (Cheek-

towaga, NY/Cheektowaga), forward Devan Jonathan (Basom, NY/Akron), for-ward Brittany Baum (Jame-stown, NY/Jamestown), and forward Devin Davis (Wa-terbury, CT/Sacred Heart). The 2009-2010 season opened Nov. 15 when the Hawks hosted Nazareth Col-lege at 2 p.m. in the Hafner Center. Their other non-conference games were all scheduled during the first two weeks of the new sea-son. On Nov. 17, the Hawks traveled to RIT and then to Pittsburgh, PA, to partici-pate in the Chatham College tournament Nov. 20 and 21.AftertheirfirstAMCCgame on Nov. 24 against this year’s preseason #1 team, Pitt-Greensburg, the team takes a few days off for the Thanksgiving holiday. On Nov. 28, Hilbert hosts a dou-ble-header non-conference game with Alfred University. Beginning Dec. 2 with their game home against Pitt-Bradford, theHawksfinishtheir AMCC slate of games before play-offs begin in the last week in February. “Learning a new style and system is always tough, but I think we are up for the chal-lenge!” says Phifer. “We are going to keep working hard and take things one step and one day at a time.”

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Richard Walsh, director of athletics at Hilbert College, announced the October Stu-dent-Athletes of the Month. Robert Minkel (Hamburg, NY/Hamburg), cross coun-try, and Carole Jones (Bliss, NY/Letchworth), volleyball, have been named Hilbert College’s Co-Student-Ath-letes of the Month for Octo-

STUDENT-ATHLETES oF THE MoNTH FoR oCToBERber, 2009. Minkelwasthetopfinisherfor the men’s cross country team this fall. Of the fiveOctober meets the Hawks participated in, Minkel ran infourandwasthefirstHil-bertathletefinishing.Crosscountry races have varying distances and varying race conditions due to the weath-

er, but Minkel consistently lowered his individual time, thus lowering Hilbert’s team score. His personal record is 29:45 for an 8K race. In the Allegheny Mountain Colle-giate Conference champion-ship race held Oct. 31 at Penn State Behrend, Minkel ran the 8K race in 33:20.3, which was good for 39th place out of

97 runners. He has great raw talent as a new runner. Minkel, who will graduate in spring ’10 with a Business Administration degree, cur-rently carries a 3.00 GPA. Jones has been a leader on the women’s volleyball team all season. After a brief ankle injury, she started and played in 41 games during October. As a middle hitter, Jones had 60 kills, 63 digs, 8 aces while contributing to

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The Hilbert Men’s Soccer team battled through a chal-lenging 2009 season. With a young skilled team and only three seniors graduat-ing, the Hawks will return a core group of players for 2010 including twelve un-derclassmen. Throughout the first por-tion of the season the Hawks struggled on offense, unable tofind the backof the net.Offense would spark against the University of Pittsburg at Greensburg where the Hawks battled to a double overtime 1-1 tie in Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Confer-ence play. Hilbert played in two other double overtime matches this season, falling just short by a score of 1-2 in both heart-breaking losses.Offensefinallyclickedhalfway through the season in a dominating win against con-ference foe Mount Aloysius, where three different Hawk

the team’s improved play as the month progressed. Her most impressive game was against D’Youville College when she had 15 kills and 8 digs in the 3-1 loss. Jones is currently in her junior year of studies in the Forensic Science degree program. She maintains a 3.44 GPA.


MEN’S SoCCER 2009 SEASoN RECAPplayers found the back of the net and freshman goalkeeper Josh Taylor (Angola, NY/ Frontier) earned his first shutout of the season. Leading the way for the Hawks this season was soph-omore forward Eric Russell (Marilla, NY/Iroquois) with four points on three goals and one assist. Freshman forward Greg Zitnik (Blas-dell, NY/ Frontier) and Eric Russell tied for the team high of three goals for the 2009 season. Also contributing on of-fense for the Hawks this sea-son was senior defenseman Matt Begeal (Northville, NY/ Wells), junior forward Brandon Bettinger (Grand Island, NY/ Grand Island), and freshman forward James Knapp (Lockport, NY/ St. Mary’s of Lancaster), each tallying two goals through-out the season. Senior forward Dave Cun-ningham (Cheektowaga,

NY/ Maryvale) recorded a goalandanassistinhisfinalseason as a Hawk. Freshman goalkeeper Josh Taylor and sophomore goal-keeper Scott Walker (Roch-ester, NY/ Bishop Kearney) split time between the pipes this year. Taylor made ten starts, allowing 20 goals against while facing 195 shots. Taylor registered a .806% save average. Walker allowed only 17 goals against facing 110 shots and earned a .76% save average. Both goalies will return for the 2010 season with valuable playing experience.TheHawksfinishedwithanoverall record of 1-16-1 and an AMCC record of 1-1-6. In 2010 the Hawks will re-turn a strong core of players and will look to complement their roster through a solid recruiting class.


started to have more fun. In practice our drills were going much better and we were talking and getting to know each other really well.Ilikedverymuchmyfirstseason of volleyball at Hil-bert College. I met a bunch of new girls whom I got to see every day; they are some of my good friends now. I am looking forward to next season and hope that, strengthened by new recruits, we will win more games and have a great time.

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When the Hilbert College men’s basketball team hits the hardwood for the start of the 2009-10 season, the Hawks will feature one of the youngest teams in the ever challenging Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC). One junior joins four sophomores and ten true freshmen as eighth-year head coach

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Rob deGrandpre and company look to rebound from a disappointing 4-21 season a year ago.“ We h a v e y o u n g , hungry players who are excited to begin their collegiate careers,” stated deGrandpre. “With any rebuilding process there has to be a focal point, and for us it will start with reinforcing the importance of being better defensively.” The Hawks gave up 76.4 ppg and allowed their opponents to shoot .463 percent from thefield in2008-09. “We have to get stops on the defensive end,” added deGrandpre. “For us to have success, we’ll need to limit our opponents’ possessions, and prevent second and third opportunities.” A challenge for any team, but one that must be met head-on if the Hawks are going to improve upon a 36.2to34.2deficitontheboards from last season.Playing a major role this season will be three seasoned sophomores. Nick Piccone (North Chili,

NY/Aquinas) saw action in all 25 games last winter and averaged a respectable 3.8 ppg to go with 1.9 rpg. The 6’6” forward was also a bright spot from the foul line, where he connected on 86% of his attempts. Redshirt freshman Chris Parrott (Warsaw, NY/Warsaw) saw limited action last year before a season-

endinginjuryfinishedhisrookie campaign. The 6’5” inside-out threat averaged 1.7 ppg and 1.7 rpg in just seven games. Look for a bigger contribution from Parrott and 6’2” sophomore Kenne th Sherrie (Wilson, NY/Newfane), who averaged 2.6 ppg in 17 contests in 2008-09. Also, 6’2” junior Cody Troutman (South Dayton, NY/Pine Valley) arrives by way of Jamestown Community College and will strengthen the Hawks backcourt immediately. Freshmen Adam Matula (Campbell, NY/Campbell-Savona) at 5’11”; Andy Breen (West Seneca, NY/West Seneca East) at 6’0”; and 6’0” Eric Hinton (Bedford, OH, St. Peter Chanel) could all see time directing the Hawks’ offense.Other guards looking to make an impact are Darren Cleveland (Lackawanna, NY/Lackawanna), and Jon Leeuwen (Palmyra, NY/Marion), who at 6’5” and 6’4” respectively also possess the ability to play

inside. Hilbert’s 6’1” Dan McFarland (Buffalo, NY/St. Mary’s) brings a strong all-around game to the perimeter. A variety of forwards h o p i n g t o h a v e a n impact are 6’6” Jesse Milliman (Falconer, NY/Falconer), 6’4” Roman Brown (Buffalo, NY/South Park), 6’3” Julius Barreto (Manchester, CT/Manchester), and 6’3” Jonathan Minix ( Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . /Washington Christian). Local product Jayson Weigel (Hamburg, NY/Hamburg) brings big energy and at 6’7” has the abilitytorunthefloorandfinishintransition.“Our goals are to get better individually as well as collectively as the season progresses,” added deGrandpre. “We’re no different than any of the other 400 NCAA Div III programs in the country. We all still want to be playing in March.” The Hawks welcome Mohawk Col lege of Canada to the Hafner Recreation Center on Friday, November 6th for an exhibition game before playing host to Waynesburg University on the 17th in the season opener for both clubs.


The Hilbert women’s s o c c e r t e a m h a d a successful 2009 campaign. They were crowned the 2009 Alfred University Tournament champions, defeating both Cazenovia College and Thiel College to capture the title in the opening weekend of play. Two players were honored during the season for their outstanding performance onthefieldaswell.Afterjust missing the play-offs in 2008, the Hawks rebounded to capture a post-season berth with a 7th seed in the AMCC tournament. Sophomore goalkeeper Mary Zinni (Batavia, NY/ Batavia) was named AMCC goalkeeper of the week for Sept. 21, as well as Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Co-Defensive player of the week for her exceptional performances in two shut-outs, earning a conference win and a non-conference tie. Sophomore forward Kayla Norman (Brockport, NY/ Brockport) led the team in goals this year, findingthebackofthenet11 times this season and registering three assists for a team high of 25 points. Norman also had multiple goal games against La Roche, the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, and Thiel College.

2009 WoMEN’S SoCCER SEASoN RECAP S e n i o r f o r w a r d Maggie Fage (Delmar, NY/Be th lehem) and sophomore midfielder A l y s s a H u l b e r t ( To n a w a n d a , N Y / Kenmore East) each recorded a hat trick this season. Hulbert scored three goals and added an assist in a decisive 7-0

win over Pittsburgh at Greensburg, which earned her AMCC Player of the Week for the week of Sept. 21. Fage earned a hat trick in a 6-0 win over Mt. Aloysius. The Hawks graduate a senior class consisting of defenseman Courtney D e Vi l l e ( K e n m o r e ,

NY/ Kenmore West), defenseman Carrie Sisson (Elma, NY/ Mt. Mercy), and forward Maggie Fage. Hilbert will be returning atalentedgroupoffifteenu n d e r c l a s s m e n w h o gained valuable playing experience this season while accomplishing post-season play.

Hilbert finished the season with an overall record of 7-10-2 and an AMCC record of 4-6. The 2010 recruiting class looks to complement the returning core of players to continue a successful 2009 season.OfficeofSportsInformation

sophomore Dale Jonathan (Basom, NY/Akron). As a team, the Hawks had 475 kills (.018% pct), 447 as-sists, 176 aces, 717 digs, and 75 blocks. The Hawks graduate one senior from Cheektowa-ga, NY. Melissa Radder (Sacred Heart Academy) finishes her three-year career with 73 kills, 17 assist, 30 service aces, and 190 digs. Other play-ers expected to return to the squad next year are 2011 graduates: Amanda Dudek (Tonawanda, NY/Tonawanda) and Brandi Mack (Gasport, NY/Roy-Hart). Freshmen who contributed this fall were Brittany Baum (Jame-

stown, NY/Jamestown), Valerie Janiga (North Col-lins, NY/North Collins), Devan Jonathan (Basom, NY/Akron), and Jamie Racinowski (Kenmore, NY/KenWest). Coach


Women’s Volleyball Season Recap

Hilbert & Frostburg State Women’s Volleyball Teams Wear Pink Jerseys to Raise Awareness for Breast Cancer Month (oct.)

Mary Zinni

Chris Parrott Goes Up for Two During Men’s Basketball Practice

Logue will be focusing her recruiting efforts on student-athletes who will push their teammates to perform on a daily basis. She needs to fill a few holes and shore up the tal-

ent she has on the current team, and, with a full year under her belt heading into next fall, the team will be firedupreadytogo.


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