Habitat for Humanity has organized a house build for March 14, and students looking for volunteer opportunities are encouraged to participate.

Students who attend this semester’s build on Alexander Street in Albany need no previous experience in construction because there will be paid personnel to train the volunteers.

Sue Kilgallon, adviser for the HVCC branch of Habitat for Humanity, said that in order for a student to join the club on a build, they need to attend each meeting, scheduled every other Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Lang Hall, Room 110.

If a student would like to come to the meeting, they should contact Sue Kilgallon through e-mail at S.Kilgallon@hvcc.edu.

After a student seeking to join a build team for Habitat for Humanity comes to a meeting and signs a few forms for the organization and the college, they can attend a build, which occur every other Saturday.

Habitat for Humanity is a volunteer organization. Its goal is to build affordable housing for those who need it most. Habitat for Humanity focuses on offering

Loren Serritella may be one of over 13,000 students enrolled in HVCC. However, off campus, Serritella is a blogger who has amassed a weekly audience of thousands, including prominent celebrities, and has generated some controversy along the way.

Serritella’s blog, which is on lorenserritella.com, discusses a variety of themes, including love and loss, and truths about society around him. The blogger said that his blog is raw and has language that might offend some readers.

“The goal of my blog is to upset and get people to think,” said Serritella. “If I sound like a bad person, I’m just trying to get your attention.”

In addition to blogging about these themes, Seritella will include content such as videos and pictures.

Serritella began blogging about a year ago, at the suggestion of a therapist as a means of coping with a host of personal issues.

Serritella’s blogging career would reach a turning point with a series of legal issues concerning his blog. A family member had wanted the blog shut down citing issues of harassment and had taken Serritella to court. For several months, Serritella said he was involved in a court battle in which he was threatened with arrest.

“They wanted to shut down my blog and I wasn’t going to

Students who came to campus last week were greeted with the year’s first major snowstorm.

The recent storm produced about six inches of snow in the Capital Region, affecting some students’ commute to the campus and their classes.

“I live 40 minutes away from campus, but it took a lot longer to travel to school today,” said Tyler Yonkers. “I had two classes canceled [Thursday] and we had left early in one of my other classes because only seven students showed up.”

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“It takes me about 10 minutes to get to class, but because of the snow, it took me about 30 minutes to get here [Thursday],” said Ally Tricomi.

Sarah O’Shea, freshman Fine Arts, said, “It usually takes about 15 minutes to drive to campus. However, due to the snow, it took me 35 minutes.”

Other students weren’t as affected by the weather, like Jason Vanacker, senior CAD major. “The snow doesn’t affect me cause I don’t drive to school. My father usually drives me.”

“I was stuck in traffic for a little while,” said Alyssa Farley,

freshman Business Marketing, “but I live right by the school and made it in alright.”

Marc Sousa, senior Business Administration said he wasn’t happy about last week’s snowfall. “I despise the snow and I hate this weather,” said Sousa. “I wouldn’t have come to class today if it wasn’t for this [Microeconomics] exam. They should have canceled school.”

“I think it’s ridiculous that we had school,” said Lisa Lavery, senior Dental Hygiene. “It’s a commuter school, why would they still have classes in this weather?”

Yonkers said, “[The college] should have canceled classes because we’re not used to driving in the snow due to the mild winter and not a lot of people are here.”

“I’ve never made a decision to keep the college open where I’ve never gotten complaints,” said College President, Drew Matonak.

Matonak said that he, along with a committee of officials, decided that it was okay to keep the college open during the storm.

“I had to make the best decision for the entire college

community,” said Matonak. “In this case, I never got a telephone call [from committee members] and thought it was okay to stay open.”

According to Matonak, the committee headed by Jim LaGatta, the college’s Vice President of Administration, examines various weather reports and contacts state and county officials in the Capital Region to gauge whether weather and road conditions permit safe travel to the HVCC campus.

If weather conditions are significant enough, the committee will contact Matonak and he will make a decision on whether to keep the college open or if classes will have a delayed start time.

The college president said, “It’s always a crapshoot to figure out whether to keep campus open or not, but we try to err on the side of safety when it comes to making this decision.”

Matonak said that while the college tries to make decisions that are in the interests of the whole campus community, he understood that students would make their own choice on whether they would come to classes based a variety of issues, regardless of the college’s decision that day.

“We’re serving adults [at HVCC] and adults can make decisions [on whether to attend classes] based on their own travel conditions or issues,” said the college president.

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Habitat for Humanity Plans House Build. Looking for Student Volunteers.GREG KULSACEKSTAFF WRITER their housing to America’s

“working poor,” meaning anyone who has a job and is just above the poverty line, but struggles financially.

The people who qualify for Habitat for Humanity homes are often single mothers or fathers who are living from paycheck to paycheck. In order for the person to qualify, they must be willing to let Habitat help them with their finances or find daycare programs. In addition, each applicant must put in 400-500 hours of work into the house, if able.

Each Habitat home owner gets a house that is worth around $150,000, but around $80,000 is put into it because of the percentage of labor, up to 90 percent, which is donated. Also, around 35 percent of the materials needed are donated. The new home owner often pays a similar amount on their mortgage as they would pay for monthly rent, and Habitat for Humanity owns the mortgage and the home owner doesn’t pay interest.

Students who come to jobs get Habitat for Humanity T-shirts. During each meeting, refreshments are provided for the students.

The Center for Counseling and Transfer (CCT) is best known for offering help to students intending to transfer to another school. However, the CCT is actually a much broader counseling service that also offers free personal and psychological

counseling to all students.“We have staff who are

licensed mental health counselors or working towards licensure and who are trained to provide that type of individualized counseling,” said Dr. Kelly Sweener, director

of the CCT.According to Sweener, there

is no problem too big or too small for a student to seek counseling services. The CCT has an open door policy and the counselors are prepared to deal with a very wide variety of issues that may be

causing a student distress.“It could be interpersonal

stressors, like problems with their family or friends, it could be psychological stress associated with conditions like anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders… a range of

issues,” said Sweener.

The personal counseling services have a strict level of confidentiality, so students can be assured that any personal issues discussed with a CCT counselor

will remain private.“If [students] meet with a

counselor to discuss personal issues, that information is kept

private, it’s confidential, [and] it’s not a part of any other academic

record,” said Sweener.She said that the range of

services the CCT provides also acts to students’ advantage.“What’s nice about us

providing both [types of counseling] is that for students

who are coming in for personal counseling, there’s no stigma associated with it because students could be coming in for any number

of issues,” said Sweener.In addition to Sweener, the

members of the CCT staff that administer psychological and

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let them do that,” said Serritella. “It violated my First Amendment rights.”

The case was eventually settled and Serritella would continue to blog. However, Serritella said that this situation garnered a great deal of attention online, and that was when his blog was put on the map.

“People were shocked about this situation and they just followed the blog,” said Serritella. “That’s when I started getting thousands of viewers.”

Later, the blog would get the attention of comedian and daytime talk show host, Ellen DeGeneres.

In the wake of Whitney Houston’s death, Serritella posted a blog criticizing the public’s reaction to Whitney Houston’s death.

“People were remembering Houston’s drug issues and ignoring her pure talent,” said the blogger. “It wasn’t right and I had to speak out about it.”

Serritella said that the blog had gotten significant feedback from his regular readers. He then sent it to over 50 celebrities he was connected to via Twitter.

“I was checking my e-mail one day and I had received an e-mail with something like “edegeneres followed by a long list of numbers,” the blogger said. “I initially thought it was one of those spam e-mails, but I opened it up and there it was, a letter from Ellen DeGeneres.”

According to Serritella, DeGeneres and the producers wanted him to speak on the daytime talk show. However, due to a series of issues regarding the production and airing of the show, he wasn’t able make an appearance.

“It was kind of disappointing to not go on the show, however, I had gotten a bit of publicity from it,” said Serritella. “Often, I’ll have people telling me how my blog is great, or someone’s yelling at me about something I wrote.”

Taking classes at HVCC on a full scholarship and applying his experience with blogging,

Student Blogger Genereates Huge Audience, Celebrities Included. Some Controversy, Too.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1Serritella is currently looking into pursuing a degree in English, citing two English professors as his inspiration.

“Joe Cardillo and Angel Surdin changed my point of view that writing can be powerful,” said Serritella, “and because of that, I want to pursue a career in writing.”

While continuing his studies, Seritella says that he will continue to blog, as long as he has an audience willing to read it. “I really enjoy making people happy and pissing people off.”

Loren Serritella’s blog has generated controversy and a large audience.

Courtesy of Serritella.

Deadline for Scholarships Approaching

The deadline for applying for HVCC scholarships is approaching.

March 9 is the last day students can apply for one or more scholarships offered by the HVCC Foundation. Currently enrolled and incoming students can qualify for over 100 scholarships, ranging from academic programs like Liberal Arts to Dental Hygiene.

All of the scholarships offered by the Foundation are based on academic merit and many of the scholarships are broad enough

that students in a variety of majors may qualify for them.

Students can apply for any of the scholarships offered by the foundation online. Information on applying and the scholarships offered can be found at https://www.hvcc.edu/scholarships/index.html.

All scholarships will apply towards the Fall 2012 semester.

Greg Owens visited HVCC last Monday, in participation with the Leadership Workshop, to give attendees interested in becoming a strong leader the fundamental knowledge and principles behind good leadership. The workshop aimed to empower students with knowledge of the framework of leadership by critical analysis of good leaders and introduction of tools to aid in diagnosing good leadership qualities.

As an introductory workshop to leadership, Owens began first by identifying that “Leadership qualities are shared by all, but only those who can recognize them can begin to take advantage of its potential.”

He described the common traits and trends that places of business tend to have, and categorized them into low and high performance ideals. Owens used this logic to encourage

students to constantly diagnose their everyday interaction with their business or its employees to insist they are in line with a high performance leader. Owens stresses that good leadership has ripple effects on the company, and that “When good solid examples are set, people are more inclined to follow.”

The workshop then moved to a more practical approach in diagnosing good leadership by introducing a matrix that categorizes the daily functions of a workplace by its importance in the workday. The matrix categorizes that importance of everyday business events. The crisis is an important task in the daily business life, along with interaction with staff and promoting company ideas and beliefs, but calls and meetings are less important, and recreational games are least important.

“We might handle a crisis situation really well, then –

feeling accomplished, will take a break and play solitaire or take some calls or go to a meeting,” Owens explains. “When your day fills up with these tasks, you forget that you never interacted with your staff, and you never got the chance to instill the values of the company in them. If you don’t make the company’s values known, people will make up their own,” he stated.

The workshop conducted part two of its workshop yesterday, March 5, in the Exhibition Room located on the second floor of the Siek Campus Center. Part two picked up on the practical approach to good leadership.

Owens is Project Director at the New York State Office of Children & Family Services, who works to “serve New York’s public by promoting the safety, permanency and well-being of children, families and communities,” according to their website, www.ocfs.state.ny.us

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Sharon Astyk, board member of the Association of the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, spoke about the implications of a society with chronic oil and fuel shortages in the future last Tuesday.

Astyk’s presentation, which was held at the BTC auditorium as part of the college’s “Voices” lecture series, dwelled on the issues of climate change, peak energy, and the current state of the economy. She claimed that these three issues were linked through graphs showing correlations between gas prices and economic

recession.Citing data of the United

States reaching the peak of its oil production in the early 1970’s, and studies by other geologists that examined the possibility of reaching global peak oil, Astyk said companies wouldn’t be able to adapt to the supply shock.

“[We’ve] already passed [a] useful window to change,” said Astyk.

Climate change, according to Astyk, would add on to the economic and energy issues. She cited a projection in New Scientist magazine which suggested that a 4 degrees Celsius rise in

temperatures will cause droughts that would affect the central and southwestern US. This would have significant implications in corn and wheat production and higher food prices. Astyk suggests these events would culminate in civil unrest.

While emphasizing the challenges needed to address the effects of peak oil and climate change, Astyk said that individuals can transition into this new reality. Through using less energy and adopting a “low-level, self-sufficient” lifestyle, Astyk said people would be able to survive a post peak-oil world.

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Letter From The EditorThis year has seen a pretty

mild winter, considering the lack of snowfall and cold weather as compared to last year. However, as this winter comes to a gradual end, the college should look into a policy that addresses the issue of students having to come into class during increment winter weather.

While HVCC may have a required amount of days for instruction, and professors may have attendance policies that penalize for absences, those should not be a major factor in weighing whether a student should make a commute in not so ideal weather.

During times of increment weather conditions, the college should adopt a policy where student attendance in all classes for that particular day is not mandatory and canceling all tests and examinations for that particular day.

As a majority of students

drive to campus, many understand the risks and dangers of driving to campus in bad weather. If a student decides to not to make their commute to school, they shouldn’t be penalized in any way for it.

In addition, for the students who depend on public transportation to get to and from the college, often times, bus service may be delayed for as long as an hour in bad winter weather. Is it right for those students to risk getting penalized for coming to class late or not even being able to show up?

For those students who might have children, a snowy day might mean school closings for them, but the college may remain open. How should those parents cope with issues of childcare, when they may have to attend their classes at the college?

The Hudsonian believes that students shouldn’t have to deal with these situations.

While the school may remain open during snowstorms or other instances of bad weather, it should be left to the students to decide whether they should come to school based on their own individual situation.

Any easy argument against a policy like this would be that students may use it as an excuse to try to take a free day off with no consequences if the weather may not be that bad in their neighborhood. While the college might naturally deal with a problem like that, an easy solution to it might be offering extra credit to those who may decide to come to school on one of those days.

Each student takes a calculated risk of danger when deciding to commute to school in bad weather. Those who chose not to commute based safety issues shouldn’t be penalized for it.

What’s Coming Up Around The Capital RegionMarch 6The Rising Stars Concert | The EggToday’s Country 107.7 WGNA Presents The Rising Stars Concert featuring Brent Anderson, JT Hodges & Kip Moore

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personal counseling include Larry Ellis, Sara Donnelly, and Carrie

Zurenko.Students can choose to come

in to talk to a counselor for just a one-time counseling session or meet with a counselor on a weekly or biweekly basis for as long as they need help while attending HVCC. The counselors are also available during the summer, in addition to the fall and spring

semesters.Although these counselors

are all trained to provide help with any mental health problems interfering with a student’s life, the CCT also makes referrals if students require a greater level of

care and treatment.Students can meet with a CCT

counselor and later seek a referral to an outside service provider if they feel they need more help. They can also simply go the CCT and directly ask for a referral.

Sweener said, “We always treat students within our area of expertise or scope of practice…but really any problem that a student’s struggling with, we would be a good resource.”

With regard to outside referrals, the CCT counselors also provide assistance with finding outside providers that will accept a student’s insurance. Every full-time student at HVCC also has

student health insurance that is accepted by many mental health care providers, and the CCT can help a student find those providers.

The benefits of student health insurance particularly come into play if a student is need of psychiatric medications such as antidepressants. The CCT, while unable to provide them directly, also makes referrals to places that can prescribe them.

“Student health insurance will cover that; it’ll at least cover a good portion of the cost of that. That’s really important to make treatment accessible to our students. We know that we don’t want cost to be the barrier,” said Sweener.

The mental health services offered by the CCT also include free online mental health screenings, presentations in college forum and other classes, Project Aware, which is a peer education and community awareness program, and awareness outreach during Counseling Awareness Month every April.

In addition to mental health services, the CCT provides transfer counseling, which includes absolutely anything related to transferring to another school.

“We have what we call adviser-in-residence, [in which] four year college reps come to

our campus and students get to meet with a four year college rep right here on our campus. We also coordinate two transfer fairs a year, one in the fall and one in the spring,” said Sweener.

The CCT is also responsible for administering CLEP and DSST, which are programs for getting college credit by exam only, for certain academic courses.

Helping students apply for and obtain an academic waiver is yet another service offered by the CCT.

“If a student needs to do a complete withdrawal due to medical reasons or a death in the family, or winds up not passing courses because of circumstances beyond his or her control and it impacts their federal financial aid, they could be eligible for this one-time waiver,” Sweeney said.

The CCT staff encourages all students to take advantage of the various services they offer, whether for transfer counseling or personal counseling.

Sweener said, “I want [students] to know that we have an open door policy and I want them to feel welcome here. We’re here to support them so that ultimately they can be successful.”

For more information on the CCT and the services they offer, visit www.hvcc.edu/cct/ or stop by their office in CTR 260.

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Found footage films are guilty of being trash until proven innocent. Combine the “found footage” gimmick - already far past its sell-by date - with the worn out story of the wild teen party going completely out of control, stir and let settle for a little over an hour, and you come out with “Project X,” a film so lazy and devoid of value it is almost insulting. In fact, it’s barely a film at all.

What little story that exists seems to have been thrown in as an afterthought, but follows three teens from every high school movie ever: Thomas, the whiny loser of a protagonist (Thomas Mann); Costa, the hedonistic slimeball this film thinks totally represents its entire audience (Oliver Cooper) and overweight dork J.B. (Jonathan Daniel Brown), with the addition of cameraman Dax (Dax Flame).

well and good, of course, but watching other people party is right up there with watching paint dry, and the way this film is shot doesn’t help matters. “Found footage” style films can occasionally work, when it fits the tone of the film, but what happens here is a disjointed mess of scenes jumping around from one act of debauchery to the next, with barely anything to connect them and not much of any frame of reference given to the viewer, and when this starts running thin instantly-resolved plot points are thrown in and then forgot about. There is really no comedy or character moments, either, just scene after scene of mean-spirited shock value (including a little person going on a rampage, punching everyone he sees in the groin, after being locked in an oven) mixed with teen movie clichés tossed in seemingly at random intervals.

Making the cameraman a

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Dax, naturally, is the source of the first-person camera for this film, as Costa ropes him and J.B. into making a film chronicling the events of Thomas’s 17th birthday.

Costa, tired of his friend’s introverted, slightly awkward nature, has vowed to throw the mother of all parties for Thomas. Conveniently, Thomas’s parents forget that in the movies you can’t leave a teenager alone for five minutes, let alone a weekend, and despite coming off as a complete idiot for the rest of the film, Costa seems to be some kind of genius with social media and marketing. Organisation is handled with seemingly no effort at all, and things soon explode - sometimes literally - from there, in all the most predictable ways. That is the entire film in two paragraphs: way more people come to a party than was planned for, and then they party.

Parties in real life are all

character themselves, complete with lines, also raises further questions. Why does Dax bring a professional-grade camera with him everywhere, including into grocery stores and the boys’ locker room at school? What kind

of kid tries to film his friends having sex? Who’s filming the scenes Dax could not possibly have been around for? The film does occasionally nod to this, with characters questioning him or outright noting the creepy

behavior, including a joke near the end that implies he might have murdered his parents, but this does nothing to really address the concerns at hand.

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HVCC is known not just for academics, but for its sports programs as well. Known as the Vikings, Hudson Valley’s teams are currently part of the National Junior College Athletic Association. One sport that students may not realize is present is a lacrosse team.

Coached by Joe Hayes, the lacrosse team has played here for at least as long as anyone can remember. Coach Hayes has been the Vikings’ head coach for the past two years, and was an assistant coach for four years before that.

The team is made up of members mostly 19-20 years old, and they have racked up a display

Mar. 2 - The Hudson Valley Community College women’s basketball team (16-9) defeated Clinton Community College (19-8) 62-59 on Friday evening in the opening round of the Region III Tournament at Cayuga Community College. Kelly Kell (Kingston/Kingston) led the team, scoring a career high 25 points, and Arianna Young (Lansingburgh/Troy) chipped in 18 points in the three point victory. The Hudson

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Valley Community College men’s basketball team (20-10) lost to Fulton-Montgomery Community College (16-10) 86-66 in the opening round of their Region III Tournament. The Vikings fell behind by 19 points and cut the lead to eight, but the deficit was too much to overcome. Conor Maisch (Coleman Catholic/Kingston) led the team with 13 points and Anthony Metzold (Schalmont/Schenectady) came

off the bench and chipped in 12. The Viking men finish the season with a 20-10 record.

Mar. 3 - The Hudson Valley Community College women’s basketball team (16-10) lost to #1 Onondaga Community College (29-3) on Saturday afternoon in the semi-finals of the Region III Tournament at Cayuga Community College. Erica Houle (Shaker/Latham) led the Vikings with 19 points and Angelica Smith (Shaker/Latham) added 18. The Lady Vikings end the season with a 16-10 overall record.

COMPILED BY KYLE GARRETTSPORTS EDITOR

A Look at the Lacrosse TeamMICHAEL BARANOWSKISTAFF WRITER of talent in the past two years.

Two years ago, the team went 9-4, and last year they went 6-11. Despite the superficially poor record, 10 of the teams they played against were the top 10 of the league.

The current team captains are Mason Agosto, Michael Carpenter, and Sean Shaughnessy. Agosto is a Pre-Season All-American who led with 42 goals last year. Carpenter and Shaughnessy are both All-Conference Players.

Between the three of them, they have enough drive and talent to give the other teams a run for their money this year. Carpenter said of the current goals of the team, “We want to win our conference.” Shaughnessy

added that the team wanted to “step by step make (their) way to regionals.”

A common comment coming from the team was that they wanted to beat Herkimer Community College.

Shaughnessy said that the team has been undergoing a “lotta conditioning.” Both Carpenter and Shaughnessy believed that the team is “pretty solid.” The team is strong with two returning defensive players and two returning attack players.

The Vikings lost their first game, against Army Prep, on Feb. 25. Their next game will be on March 7, when they travel to Nassau Community College.

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