Safety is important to those living off campus. SGA executive board member collaborated with members of SUNY Cortland to recognize off-campus safety.

SUNY Cortland students enjoying time off-campus.

Students Push For Off-Campus Safety

Annual Recreation Conference

SUNY Cortland students partaking the annual conference.

When students go from living on campus in the dorms to living with their friends in a house or apartment, I think that it is more of a change than most students real-ize. It’s more freedom, of course, and it can be really fun, but what we don’t always understand is that there is a big difference when it comes to the aspect of safety. Our houses do not come with an RA monitoring a front door which locks automatically behind you. I first became interested in off-campus safety last year when my house was broken into during winter break and even more so this semester when it seemed like people were talking about another robbery every other day. Then, when I heard about the sexual as-sault that occurred in an off-cam-pus student’s own bedroom, I was outraged. I was scared because I felt like I was being targeted by Cortland residents because I was an off-campus student and I was upset because it seemed like my school could have been do-ing more to alert students of the

trend of robberies and to educate students with ways of preventing the problem from progressing. As I began to look at how other schools address this issue, I no-ticed that SUNY Cortland’s web-site did not do a very good job at representing off campus students.

I was able to use my platform as an executive board member of Student Government Association to bring this issue to light. With the help of Vice President of Stu-dent Affairs, Greg Sharer, I set up a meeting with Chief Depaull, SUNY Cortland Chief of Univer-sity Police and Chief Catalano, the City of Cortland’s Chief of Police. One of the things that we agreed would be beneficial for our school was creating an off-campus safety webpage. Chief Depaull did an ex-cellent job at creating a space with

valuable information about ways to ensure that students a r e choosing safe housing and a r e following important steps t o ensure safety while liv- i n g there. It includes essential re-sources for off-campus students as well as a section for off-campus alerts where crime trends or safety concerns will be posted so that students can be informed and take precaution when necessary. The main thing that I appreciate about an off-campus safety webpage on the SUNY Cortland website is that our school is recognizing that they have a duty to promote safety for all students regardless of liv-ing on-campus or off.

The link to the website where you can find the off-campus safe-ty is, https://www2.cortland.edu/offices/university-police-depart-

ment/Crime/off-campus-safety-information

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The Opinion Editor uses the Cortaca football game to reflect on Cortland’s school spirit.

A student shares her opinion on the proposed paid parking changes.

A student shares his opinion on Cortaca and how people should behave.

One student shares tips on how to avoid getting sick with the “Cortland Plague.”

A student reflects on an artist’s newly released song and how people can learn from its message.

TV Show Review: The Handmaid’s Tale.

Planning on studying abroad? Here are 5 useful tips to help you along the way.

A student’s guide to meal prepping and why it’s help-ful.

Declutter your life with these steps that require mini-mal effort.

Football falls to Brock-port in the finals.

Men’s soccer suffers SU-NYAC loss.

Women’s soccer falls short of the SUNYAC win.

The most important year of Brock Nelson’s career.

Mayday in Miami: Jets drop to 3-6

By Kaylie RoseSGA Executive Board Member

By Kayla ClinkStaff Writer

On Thursday, November 1 and Friday, November 2 the Rec-reation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department held its 68th Annual Cortland Recreation Conference; the nation’s longest, student-led conference. The theme of this year’s event, “What’s Your Ad-venture?” amassed students, fac-ulty and staff, alumni, recreation professionals, and guests from all over to celebrate the field of rec-reation. The conference contained over 35 sessions between the two days that covered the core areas of the field including therapeutic rec-reation, outdoor recreation, recre-ation management, public parks and recreation, youth develop-ment, and commercial recreation. One session, “The World of Bird Communication”, presented by SUNY Cortland’s President, Erik Bitterbaum, was a fun opportu-nity for attendees to learn about the many levels of bird commu-nication, why birds communicate, and spend time observing various bird species in the wild. The con-

ference provided attendees with other opportunities such as Key-note Address, “The Necessity of Adventure for Navigating One’s Life” by speaker, Michael Gass, who discussed how critical adven-ture and risk-taking are to making life meaningful and overcoming life’s complications. During the interactive presentation, partici-pants engaged in understanding the concepts through story reflec-tion, active examination, and step-ping out of their comfort zone. Attendees of the presentation de-scribed Gass as an inspirational and motivational speaker.

Networking is one of many benefits of attending the annual recreation conference, as attend-ees of this year’s event were pro-vided with opportunities to meet professionals in the recreation

field, form new connections, and learn about different organiza-tions, products, internship and job opportunities at the Expo and Internship Fair, as well as, con-tinued professional networking at the dinner social held at Homer Center for the Arts.

Q&A: “What’s Your Adven-ture?”

“My ideal adventure would be living in my car in Yosemite Valley, bouldering for the rest of my life with my kids.” – Esther VanGorder, Recreation Confer-ence Coordinator and Professor in the Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department

“My adventure is to create a course in Nepal and have students join me for an amazing experience together.” – Ken Cohen, Professor in the Recreation, Parks and Lei-

sure Studies Department“My adventure is making it

from an en- vironment where I was placed to fail and not make anything out of myself, to coming to college and finding therapeu-tic recreation, where I discovered how to enhance the quality of life for individuals who are in similar communities to the one I grew up in, and give them that chance that I had to create a better life.” – La Swift, Senior Therapeutic Recre-ation major

“I was born with a disability and my parents were told that I would never be able to walk or excel in anything I would do, and here I am today, in college, about to graduate and move to North Carolina to begin my internship.” – Cynthia Manduca, Senior Ther-apeutic Recreation major.

The 68th annual recre-ation conference was held this past week. Covering many different sessions for recreation.

Photo courtesy of SUNY Cortland

Photo by Kayla Clink

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The week before Cortaca has students, faculty, and staff all around excited for the up-coming big game. Students all around can be seen with fresh Cortaca gear purchased from the College Store and most students have picked up their free Cortaca tickets already. While people all across Cortland are excited for the game, it is important to know how the history of Cortaca and the Jug started. This rivalry be-tween Ithaca College and SUNY Cortland has been around since 1930, however the Jug was not awarded to the winning school until 1959. The idea of the Jug as a trophy was started by Tom Decker 61’ of Cortland and Dick Carmen of Ithaca, in which deck-er bought a jug from a farmer in Homer named Freddy Moss, for two dollars. Decker then called his friend, Carmean so they could paint the jug both the colors of each team, Blue and Yellow for Ithaca and Red and White for Cortland. This was the original Jug used until 1985 where a sec-ond Jug was created. Since 2010, Cortland was the undisputed winner for six straight years until

an upset last year in which Ithaca won 48-20. With a new roster of freshman and a returning upper class of players gearing up this year for this years game, everyone is excited to both play and see the game. When asked how do they feel about being in their first Cor-taca game, freshman Nigel Jarvis stated that “It’s an honor to be in the center of the spirit of Cortland for an entire day. I can’t wait to go out there and make the best of it.” Another freshman, Marc Anthony Dalce stated that “We will go out there and play our hardest. It’s not just another game for us, its our time to shine now.

Next Sunday, the Student Ac-tivities Board will be putting on a Cortaca night of events. The Stu-dent Activities has been putting on a event for Cortaca the past couple of years. These events have range from a glow party to a solo per-former.

This year it consists of three different events. The first one is grocery bingo which starts at 7 pm. Students will have a chance to win groceries as well as apparel. This will be held in the function room in Corey union. Following grocery bingo will be pizza and wings that will start at 8:30. There will also be cupcakes for dessert. This will give you time to be able to relax and hang-out with your friends before stuff a bear. This will be in the exhibi-tion lounge.

After that, at 9 pm will be “stuff a bear” in the Function Room. In order to stuff a bear you will have to get a ticket. These tickets will be distributed at 8:30. The animals that you will be able to stuff will be elephants, puppies, cows, bears, red dragons, and hus-kies. When waiting for your num-

ber to be called there will be board games that you and your friends can play.

For each event that you go to you will get a raffle ticket that can help you win one of the prizes at the end of the night. These include gift cards as well as the beats heapdhones. The giftcards include laces like Starbucks and many other restrunats.

The more events that you got to, the higher chance you have for winning a prize. This event is free for all Cortland students. This al-lows for you to hangout with your friends and win free food and ap-parel. Who doesn’t love that?

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Anthony Brindisi Visits Cortland

What’s Going On? Calendar EventsNovember 8th-November 15th

Saturday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Monday

Friday

Sunday

Cortaca Jug Game, Stadium White

11am

10a.m Billy Hassell: Vestiges, Dowd Fine Arts

Study Abroad Session, Old Main Rm 229

7pm

12pm

Phi Beta Delta Induc-tion, Jacobus Lounge

4pm

Relay For Life Kickoff Party, Function Room

Thursday

10 am

7pm

NYPIRG Jeopardy, Caleion Room, Corey Union

Billy Hassell: Vestiges, Dowd Fine Arts

NEWSNovember 8, 2018 The Dragon Chronicle

By James ColemanStaff WriterBy Melissa Thompson

Contributing Writer

By Kailey MerrillStaff Writer

Cortaca, a longstanding tradition for the school, continues on this year, as it will take place at Cort-land’s home field.

Students, faculty, and com-munity members crowded Co-rey Union’s Fireplace Lounge on Monday, November 5th to listen Anthony Brindisi speak about his campaign to become a member of the U.S. Congress. He is a mem-ber of the Democratic party and is running against Republican Clau-dia Tenney, who is the current representative. He discussed his reasons for running for office, the campaign itself, and plans of what he’ll do if elected.

Brindisi’s campaign has been community orientated, centered in the 22 District of New York. He is a politician who expresses care for the common man, work-ing to benefit those who need and deserve government aid. “I have been going to town hall meetings just like this…and the stories that I have heard from many of these voters have really moved me,” Brindisi said, “It’s remarkable the challenges that some of the people in this area are facing.” He made it clear that he is not a partner with corporations by refusing their en-dorsements and by funding his own campaign, along with the help of donations of (on average) 25 dollars.

Brindisi’s main goal in being elected to Congress is to get poli-ticians working together rather

Below, are detailed ex-planations of the Corta-ca-based events occur-ring on campus, brought to you by the Student Activities Board.

than being in a state of constant disagreement. “We’re getting a lot of good support from both sides now, both Democrat and Republi-can, because what I think they see in me is someone who is looking to try to unite people,” Brindisi stated. He’s recognized that U.S. politicians in office before the November 6th elections put them-selves at standstills, unable to make decisions due to their inabil-ity to come to agreements, which led to events such as the govern-ment shutdown in January.

He also wants to ensure that people who need help with medi-cal bills are able to get the help from the government which they need to be able to survive. He told a story about a man he met in Binghamton whose son wouldn’t be able to afford his prescriptions without the Affordable Care Act-something which current mem-bers of government are trying to repeal. Brindisi was clearly moved by the story and explained that it’s stories like this man’s that are why he wishes to fight to keep these government aids in action.

Brindisi also mentioned that he wants to help college students with their student loan debt. He noted that its nearly impossible for students to pay their bills, obtain car loans, buy homes, and start businesses because they’re buried in debt. He explained it can take over 25 years to pay off these debts, and that he believes it’s time to try to do something about the issue.

Brindisi concluded his visit to SUNY Cortland’s campus by opening the floor to students’ questions. “You can learn from people, mainly by listening,” he said, “That’s something that I want to do during this campaign by going to town hall meeting

and always taking questions from folks around the area.” After one student asked what makes a good leader, Brindisi stated “…at the end of the day, you want to go home and look in the mirror and know that you’ve done the best that you could for the people that you represent…I go home know-ing that what I did was the best thing for the people that I repre-sent, even if it was a tough deci-sion.”

Politician, Brindisi, visits Cortland’s campus to discuss his proposed plans for the city, should he get elected.

photo by Kailey Merrill

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY?How will you be celebrating Cortaca?

Ebony HubbardSenior

Early Childhood/Child-hood Education Major

Nina WeslowskiSenior

Communications Major

Elena GrandeSenior

Communications Major

Ngozi DouglasSenior

Bio-Med Major

Olyvia Harrian Senior

Psychology Major

“My plans for Cortaca include hanging out with my friends i’ve known at Cortland for 4 years. We’ll go to the game and share

good times and laughs.”

“This year I want to have a fun and safe Cortaca. But I’m trying

to get lit too!”

“My plans for the Cortaca are going to the game, then going out

to celebrate with friends after-wards.”

“I sadly have to make a trip home for car maitenance. I’ll be rooting from Schenectady,

though!”

“I plan on hosting a few of my friends from home. We plan to go to the game and just get lit all weekend.”

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