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After 19 years at LyndonState College, it was justmonths away from ending forAssociate Academic Dean JohnKascenska; now the VSCChancellor has rescinded thedecision and Kascenska will bereturning for year number 20.

With a hefty budget deficitstaring LSC in the face, cutsare going to be made to bal-ance it.

One of those cuts wasthought to be the eliminationof the associate dean of aca-demics position. That decisionhas been overturned.

Kascenska will remain em-ployed by Lyndon as the col-lege heads into its secondcentury.

“I am very excited that Ihave a chance to continue hereat the college and I look for-ward to next year,” said Kas-censka with a smile. “I have adeep care as I always have forour students and our faculty, Iwork very closely with themand I am happy to be back.”

Kascenska received a letteron April 14, telling him that hisposition was being taken outof the budget for fiscal year2012; he was out of a job.

June 30 would end a 19-year run as an employee ofLSC, a place where he gradu-ated from in 1982.

In 1992 he returned to be-come a member of the moun-tain recreation department andwas later promoted to associ-ate academic dean. He stillteaches classes in the mountainrecreation department.

The day after Kascenskagot the letter, President CarolMoore announced her retire-ment. After her retirement thefinal budgetary decisions weresent to Chancellor Tim Dono-van for final approval.

“I think obviously thesekind of things are emotional,”said Kascenska. “It was anemotional situation, both per-sonally and professionally.However I was still the associ-ate academic dean and I had tobe here and take care of the re-sponsibilities that my officehas and that’s what I did to behonest.”

Kascenska wrote a letter tothe chancellor expressing his

concerns. When the Donovanvisited campus, he met withKascenska. He also sent a letterto the chancellor. He wasn’tthe only one to send a letter,several faculty and staff alsowrote letters of support forhim.

“It was very heartwarm-ing,” Kascenska said. “They letme know that they sent mes-sages on my behalf. All ofthose were unsolicited. It wasvery heartwarming and I havea very close working relationship with a lot of people hereand I thanked each of them.”

Aweek later the Kascen-ska and the Chancellor satdown one more time. Thistime the chancellor informedthe associate dean that his po-sition would not be removedfrom the budget and they werelooking forward to having himback.

Kascenska is happy to beback, but he is taking it onestep at a time.

“Focusing on this semes-ter. I’m glad to be back to helpmove forward and prepare fornext year,” he said. Director of Public Safety George Hacking, Associate Academic Dean John Kascenska and Adminastrative Assistant Kath-

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Three staff members andone faculty member will bedismissed from Lyndon StateCollege in order to balance thebudget, according to Chancel-lor of the Vermont State Col-leges Tim Donovan.

“I have made the decisionswith regard to staffing changesrelative to the budget and allof those people have been noti-fied individually,” Donovansaid following a meeting withemployees on Monday.

David Plazek, a politicalscience professor, has been no-tified that he will not be reap-pointed to LSC.

“It was heartbreaking. It’sbeen a real tough pill to swal-low because I love this schooland I love my job. I just feltlucky to have this job andeveryday I was one of thosepeople that were lucky to go toa job that they love,” he said.

Plazek has two years leftbefore he leaves the college, al-though it is possible that

things may change in that timeto improve the deficit.

It’s not that up in the air.The way I heard it put is thereis a little bit of wiggle room,”he said. “There are people whohave suggested to me thatthere going to find a way toimprove our financial situa-tion. There are ideas floatingaround that eventually every-body’s job will be saved.”

Social sciences professorJanet Bennion is unhappy withthe news that Plazek’s po-sition has been cut.

“We’re deeply con-cerned about this. Weknow that students trulylove David. He’s a verypopular published scholar,probably the most popularin our department,” shesaid. “We’d hate to see himgo and we hope thatthere’s a way to keep himin our department so wecan fulfill our needs in thesocial sciences, in theglobal studies concentra-tion, in the gen ed pro-gram.”

While employees havebeen individually notified,those involved in unions havethe opportunity to look for al-ternative ways to solve thedeficit.

“I think nothing’s set yet.We have an opportunity nowto try to find other solutions soI don’t think anything’s set instone yet. We may be able tosave positions. This is all twoor three year procedure here,”said mathematics professor

and Chair of the Faculty As-sembly Jim Bozeman.

Plazek is not as optimisticabout the possibility of savinghis position.

“Obviously in my situa-tion I’m not too optimistic thatthere is going to be room forme. When I talk to the peoplein the know it seems likethey’re pretty certain aboutthis decision,” he said.

Some faculty members areconcerned with the decision tolet go of faculty and staff.

“The chancellor is reallyemphasizing that we need tobe positive and make the ex-ternal community beyond theinternal college communityunderstand that we’re astrong college. It’s hard to dothat right now,” said Englishprofessor Andrea Luna. “Andeven when he’s right, it’s hardto hear his message when itfeels like he’s telling us basi-cally to buck up and act likenothing’s happening.”

The three staff memberswho have not been reap-pointed have not been re-vealed to the public. Thechancellor explained that if in-dividuals wish to discuss theiremployment, they may, buthe will respect their privacy.

Faculty cut revealed

Photo by Sam MonroeBob Whittaker talks to Donna Daltonbefore Monday’s meeting.

Photo courtesy of Keith Chamberlin

Eric Blaisdell contributed to this story.

Erin MilneNews Correspondent

LSC’s enrollment num-bers for fall 2011 are lookingup—but not without some ex-ceptions.

Enrollment deposits areup about 15 percent from lastyear as of May 1, said VinnieMaloney, LSC’s associate di-rector of admissions. How-ever, many of these deposits

have come from out-of-statestudents, and the college iscurrently 39 deposits behindits in-state target, Maloneysaid.

This may be due in partto the budget controversy cur-rently going on at LSC.Prospective students whohear about the controversymay question coming to theschool, Maloney said.

“They will think to them-selves and wonder,” Maloneysaid.

To counter this, the ad-missions staff is trying toreach out more to in-state stu-dents, Maloney said.

“There are a lot of greatthings happening on cam-pus,” Maloney said, and theadmissions staff is trying toget the word out.

He said that LSC has astrong focus on in-state stu-dents as part of the school’s

mission. Maloney added that only

60 percent of the expected in-coming class has deposited,and he said the admissionsstaff is working hard to makesure the other 40 percent de-posit. He said that many stu-dents wait until they havereceived their financial aidaward letters before they picka school and make a deposit.Maloney added that the ad-missions department is alsofocusing on ensuring that the

60 percent who have de-posited do indeed register forfall classes.

“We’re excited aboutwhere we are deposit-wise,”Maloney said, adding thatLSC is trending to have one ofits largest-ever incomingclasses this fall. He said this isa testament to the strength ofLSC.

“Deposit numbers aregood, and that shows thestrength of this community,”Maloney said.

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Almost ten years after aday of horror and death in theUnited States.

Almost ten years after sol-diers invaded Afghanistan.

Almost ten years afterGeorge W. Bush vowed re-venge.

Almost ten years, andnow the alleged mastermindbehind the Sept. 11, 2001 at-tack has been killed by theUnited States.

“He doesn’t deserve to bethe focus of attention,” saidJason Clark, a senior at Lyn-don State College who servedfive years in the U.S. Navy.“That should be reserved forour soldiers.”

Clark, who recentlyformed the Veterans club oncampus, was working at aNaval Hospital in Oak Har-bor, Wash. On Sept. 11.

“I remember very clearlythe TVs coming on and thehospital and everyone seem-

ingly frozen in time as theystared at the horrific imageson the screen.

“Since then thousands ofmy brothers and sisters havebeen killed or wounded in thewar on terror,” Clark said.

“I am happy he is deadand can’t hurt my family any-more,” Clark said. “However,I wish the media would moveon. He doesn’t deserve to bethe focus of attention, thatshould be reserved for oursoldiers.”

“I joined in 2002, becauseof Sept. 11,” said Joel Flores, asenior at Lyndon who servedin the National Guard for thepast eight years. “On SundayI finally got satisfaction. May1 will be a day all soldiers willremember for the rest of theirlives. It’s a sense of accom-plishment, we did it.”

“I feel very relieved, ex-cited and most of all proud,”said Flores. “We can all go tosleep at night feeling a littlesafer.”

Flores along with Denis

Nunez, another LSC student,both returned fromAfghanistan recently.

“As a veteran just re-cently coming back,” saidNunez, “It feels good to knowwe are getting ‘it’ down overthere.

“This is a great moral vic-tory for all U.S. Armed Forcesand the American people,”Nunez said.

Some are viewing it apsychological win, however,the war may not be over but itis a stepping-stone.

“I think it’s a good victoryfor the United States. It’s apsychological victory,” saidMark Hoffman. “He’s reallyjust kind of a figurehead atthis point, but it’s a psycho-logical victory for the UnitedStates. It’s a psychological de-feat for al-Qaeda. It’s a goodthing.”

The War ContinuesClark doesn’t think this

will be the end of the war onterror.

“He was not the first terror-

ist and he won’t be the last,”said Clark. “This war will con-tinue unfortunately and oursoldiers, my friends, my hero’swill continue to make the ulti-mate sacrifice. They deserveour praise, our undying grati-tude and all the love and re-spect we can give them.”

“As far as the war itself,nothing changes,” said Nunez.“The troops don’t get to take a

day off or sit one out just be-cause a bad guy fell down.”

“Be happy as civilians thatyou aren’t the one that has todo the deed and that someoneis willing to fight for your free-dom; no matter what corner ofthe world it takes them to,” saidNunez about his fellow sol-diers.

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After 100 years of success, Lyndon State College is heading down a path of change.

President Carol Moore addressed a room full of faculty, staff, and students this past Tuesday with the annual State of the College address. Being the centennial, Moore aimed to focus on the successes of the past century as well as ways to make the next 100 years just as successful.

Moore’s ideas and suggestions would revolve around the concept of reinventing Lyndon. “I’m not using the word ‘reinvent’ as a euphemism for lay-offs,” she assured the crowd. “Rather, I am asking that we rethink in every way in which we do business.”

Moore believes there are three things the college needs to remember and build upon. She stated that Lyndon is a professional college, that Lyndon is an access college that provides opportunity, and that Lyndon’s cornerstone is experiential learning. Asking for the support of faculty and staff, Moore points out that there is a strategy in place based off of suggestions from the NEASC team visit last semester, including a deadline of what was then two years (translating into about 18 months from now).

“Lyndon is a great college. Let me say that again; Lyndon is a great college,” said Moore in preparation for covering some hot topics and

areas that need improvement. First, Moore outlined

external factors that influence both challenges and opportunities that Lyndon is and will be facing in the future. The economy and recession that has clearly effected the world of higher education was the first illustration Moore provided, reminding the group of students whose parents have lost jobs and are not only struggling to put a child through college, but also food on the table. Second, the fact that colleges and universities across the country are being held under “incredible pressure,” explained Moore, is another reason that costs of higher education is outpacing inflation rates. “We have to prove we’re worth the money,” said Moore. State appropriations, the boom of online learning, demographics, and demands for a well-paying job after graduating are all contributing factors to the challenges Lyndon face according to Moore.

With a slideshow of pictures in the background, illustrating the evolution of buildings, landmarks, and activities at Lyndon, Moore explained the internal challenges Lyndon is facing.

A high percentage of students at Lyndon are enrolled in professional programs, and these programs are very equipment-intensive. There is a high cost to maintain the most popular majors. Areas that have less involvement are under scrutiny to decide whether they will continue being offered at Lyndon.

In three of the four offered Secondary Education programs, only six people have graduated from those programs since the year 2006.

Donna Dalton, Dean of Academic and Student Affairs has been charged by Moore to examine all the programs and find which are benefiting Lyndon in a more financially sustainable way.

What are the solutions to these problems? Moore has initiated seven tasks force, each charged with a specific goal of reinventing Lyndon in hopes to reach the set 18-month deadline. Guidelines for these groups including coming to meetings prepared, questions and opinions readily available, as well as thoughtful responses.

“I fully recognize the look in people’s eyes when I appear unexpectedly at their door,” said Moore. “Sorry, but I’m going to continue.” She knows that there will be tension in the air because of possible changes, but she says she still has to ask the questions in order to get things done.

Moore believes student recruitment and retention is on everyone’s shoulders, pointing out the importance of the custodial and maintenance staff keeping the buildings and residence halls in clean and working conditions. She also put emphasis on updated and neat bulletin boards, an active student activities center, and asks that faculty and staff become more involved in the overall process of recruitment.

Major and minor cuts ahead

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It’s the year 2016 and three Lyndon State students sit on the select board for the town of Lyndon. They have fired the police chief and hired one of their buddies. College students are

now making all the decisions on how the town should be run.

It may seem far-fetched, but it could happen. Students who live on campus can technically claim residence in the town that they go to school in, meaning they can register to vote in the town

they live in. Student Government

President John Kleinhans, who is currently running for a national position in the College Republicans, also plans to run for state office after graduation. He believes that students could have a great impact on the town.

If LSC ruled the town...

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continued from page 1He does note that stu-

dents often complain aboutthings on campus and it isstill hard to get them to comeout and vote for SGA elec-tions.

“If we defeat apathy onthis campus and show there isthe ability to make a differ-ence,” he said he thinks thiscould happen.

Kleinhans thinksstudents voting andrunning for positions inLyndon would helpboth parties in the longrun.

“The students andthe town need to inter-act,” he said. “Withoutthe college it would bea huge economic down-turn. Students canmake a difference, ahuge difference, be-cause we bring a freshprospective and new blood.”

If LSC’s 1,400 studentsregistered to vote in Lyndon,they could potentially out-number the voters who comeout to town meeting day.

The town of Lyndon has3,111 registered voters. Lastyear at town meeting day, 468of them visited the polls for

the Australian ballot portionand just 174 attended the ac-tual floor meeting.

During the last presiden-tial primary Lyndonville had1,119 of its registered votersvote.

According to Kleinhansonly about 200 students votein the SGA elections, a num-ber he is happy about, butwould like to see improve.

Most college students areover 18 and do in fact registerto vote, but most register intheir hometown. If they desireto, however students can reg-ister to vote in the town theygo to school if they live oncampus. For the 900 studentswho live on campus, their res-idence is technically 1001 Col-

lege Road, Lyndonville, Vt.,an address that town clerkLisa Barrett does say she seessometimes on the registeredvoters list.

“We would be ecstatic ifstudents came out to vote,”said Barrett. “There is somuch work that goes into anelection, we would rather see1,000 people than 200.”

If a student registered inLyndonville theycould even run for aposition if they sodesired. Lyn-donville runs on anAustralian ballot,which means theelections are donethrough poll voting.In order to get yourname on a ballotyou must fill out apetition and garnerthe proper amountof support in order

to make a run at the seat. It’s not unheard of for col-

lege students to run for localgovernmental positions. Sev-eral years ago a student atDartmouth ran for town treas-urer and won. However, itdidn’t take long for the townto become unhappy with herwork. She stopped showingup and was not actuallydoing her job.

In Loretto, Minn. themayor is a senior at St. CloudUniversity. Kent Koch is alsoon the baseball team at St.Cloud. He did not returnphone calls to The Critic re-garding this story. Howeverin an interview with ESPN,Koch said he ran for the posi-tion because it’s something healways wanted to do and heonly had to take three creditsin order to graduate this May.

Barrett says she thinks acollege student on the ballotcould improve the numbers attown meeting day.

First off, if all the studentswho lived on campus came tothe meeting it could possiblyout number the people fromthe town who attend townmeeting.

She also thinks that thenumber of townspeople whocome to the meeting couldimprove as well. She doesn’tthink it would be because astudent would be on the bal-lot, but more likely because itwould create competition.

“Historically when youhave a challenged office youget a bigger turnout,” saidBarrett. “It comes down tochoice.”

She isn’t sure if a studentcould win office.

“Depends on the person,and what they are runningfor,” she said.

“We’ve had people writein cartoon characters,” saidassistant town clerk MicheleMaccalous, a situation thathas also occurred in studentelections at Lyndon.

“Someone who grew upin the area might have a betterchance,” said Barrett. She ex-plained that she would like tosee a student who is commit-ted to the position, but shefears the student would leaveafter graduation and leave aseat behind, and most posi-tions are three-year terms.

Political Science ProfessorDavid Plazek doesn’t see ithappening any time soon.

“No, I don’t think stu-dents would do that in largenumbers,” said Plazek. Hethinks college students arestill too young to think aboutgovernment.

“I always say there aretwo parts to your life,” saidPlazek. “24 and below and 25and above.”

He says that the 25 andabove population are the peo-ple that begin to care aboutpolitics.

Plazek doesn’t see stu-dents getting involved, be-cause most of them don’t paytaxes in the town so it wouldbe hard for them to care aboutwhat the town spends moneyon.

He went on to say that ifstudents cared about thingsthat were being voted on itmay be a reason for them tovote.

“When things can materi-ally affect daily lives in thattown students may vote,”said Plazek.

However, he thinks therewould be no logical reason forstudents to care about thetown politics, especially if astudent does not make theirfull time residence in Lyndon.

Several students, includ-ing Kleinhans and formerSGA President AndrewChapin, have shown interestin starting a political careerafter college and Plazekthinks the town governmentwould be the perfect place fora student interested in such acareer to gain experience andget settled into that type of ca-reer.

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“Students can make adifference, a huge dif-ference, because webring a fresh prospec-tive and new blood.”

-John Kleinhans

Photo by Eric Wayne

Photo by Eric Wayne

Student Government Association President John Kleinhans ad-dresses the SGA while in the midst of his campaign for the NationalChairman of the College Republicans.

Over 200 LSC students voted in the special election for Administra-tive Vice President of the Student Government association in Novem-ber, electing junior Music Business and Industry major David Daly tothe position.

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In a tight economy everydollar counts. Budgets arebalanced and followed morestrictly than they have everbeen; lab fees give the breath-ing room for departments todo what they do.

“They are sacred funds tous,” said Barclay Tucker, thechair of the Visual Arts de-partment, a department thatcharges any where for $80 to$140 for fees. “It’s not some-thing we play around with.”

So what is this lab fee?Every Lyndon State Collegestudent will pay at least onebefore graduation, probablymore.

“Lab fees are assessed tothose classes that have somesort of unusual quality tothem,” said Donna Dalton,the Dean of Academic Affairs.“It’s not just the standard sit-in-class and have a professortalk at you.”

About 65 percent of theclasses offered at Lyndon nextfall will have some sort of labfee attached to them. Somemajors, such as electronicjournalism arts, have lab feesfor every class, while othermajors only have one or twofees.

Most students will haveto pay some sort of lab fee,such as in ENG 1051, which isrequired for every student.This class has a $10 lab fee as-sociated with it, as does ENG1052. Most science classeshave a lab fee associated withthem to pay for materialseach semester. Need a to takea non-credit math class? $5for the Accuplacer test. Everyfirst semester student needsto take INT 1020, at a cost of

$55. HUM 1030? That will be$20, please.

Those GEU courses thathave fees attached to them allhave some sort of technologyor equipment usage that goesalong with them.

Students are responsiblefor paying the fees, whichmeans the college must ap-prove them before it can add

the fee to the bill.“There is an approval

process,” said Assistant Aca-demic Dean Deb Hale. “A fac-ulty member may propose afee, but it does have to be ap-proved by the academic dean.

“The faculty membermust be able to justify why itshould be set at that level,”said Hale, who couldn’t re-member a time where a feehad been rejected. She did saythat some have to be tonedback or justified a little more,but she couldn’t think of anyrejections.

Some lab fees, such as theones in basic math classes,help pay for Accuplacer test-ing.

Lab fees also cover thePraxis test for education ma-jors, so that a student can getfinancial aid or a loan tocover the cost instead of tak-ing it out their pockets. Thesame goes for some educa-tional trips.

At Lyndon the experience

makes the education. And ontop of tuition dollars, lab feeshelp give students that expe-rience.

“Those classes [with labfees] may have a significantexperiential component at-tached to them,” said Dalton.“Students are leaving cam-pus; they may be classes thatrequire certain types of mate-

rials or software that is funda-mentally used for only thoseclasses.”

Visual arts is one of thosedepartments. Students in spe-cific classes pay lab fees inorder to have access to certainlabs and printers required todo their assignments. Accord-ing to Tucker, theoreticallystudents in those classes arethe only ones with access tothat equipment.

In the exercise science de-partment the fees are coursespecific.

A fee that might jump offthe schedule sheet at an exer-cise science student is the oneassociated with XSC-1260,Professional Experience. Thefee is a mere $450. What doesthat cover?

According to departmenthead Anthony Sgherza thatfee covers everything. Theclass is a professional confer-ence held in Providence, R.I.and gives students a chanceto interact with professionals

in their field and other stu-dents from across the country.

Excluding the profes-sional experience fee, exercisescience charges between $25and $50 for fees.

The conference is alsohost to The College Bowl, acompetition Sgherza refers toas the “exercise science superbowl.” It gives students a

chance to show off theirknowledge and competeagainst colleges from all overthe country.

Professional Experienceisn’t the only exercise sciencecourse with a lab fee. 19 of 29classes offered by the depart-ment next semester will havea lab fee.

Those fees go directly tothe classes.

“Our policy and philoso-phy is that if [the fee] embed-ded in a course, that facultymember has the opportunityto spend it in that course,”said Sgherza. He went on tosay that the fees go for eitherapplied equipment or re-search equipment.

Research equipment canbe used for scales, blood pres-sure cuffs, or any other mate-rial used in either a lab.Applied equipment goes topurchase any equipment usedin professional classes.Sgherza refers to the appliedequipment as “toys.” He says

those fees can purchase any-thing from medicine balls, toagility ladders, or any othertype of health and fitnessequipment used in the class-room.

E JA is another depart-ment that has lab fees fornearly every class. Unlike vi-sual arts, the lab fees in EJAare not designated for a spe-cific class. Instead, the lab feesare pooled together to beused throughout the major.EJA students will pay any-where from $80 to $120 forfees next semester.

“The equipment that theyare using, a lot of it is goingout in the field,” said Dalton.“All it takes is a drop or two,even without a drop thosethings have just a year or twolife expectancy. Those stu-dents do a lot of fieldwork.They are going out and cover-ing stories and there is abunch of software unique tothat program.

“Any time you have soft-ware unique to that program,the fee covers it,” Dalton said.

Atmospheric science stu-dents are also charged fees foralmost every class they take.Those fees range from $30 to$120. According to depart-ment chair Nolan Atkins, thefees change for how intensivethe classes are.

“Some are research inten-sive,” said Atkins. ATM usesthe fees to first purchasecourse specific equipment.For example, one freshman-level class launches weatherballoons as part of the class,so the fees purchase the bal-loons. Other expenses coverthings that the entire depart-ment needs in order to func-tion. Those cover equipmentsuch as computers.

Lab fees add up for departments

“They are sacred funds to us. It’s not something we play around with.”

- Barclay Tucker, professor and chair of the visual arts department

The above graph breaks down lab fees for some of the departments on campus. All numbers are dependant upon all classes being full. Graph by Caleb Dudley

ATM: Atmospheric SciencesEDU: EducationEJA: Electronic Journalism ArtsGDS: Graphic DesignMRM: Mountain Rec ManagementNMS: New Media StudiesXSC: Exercise Science****All numbers are for Fall 2011, and dependantupon every class the department offers being filledto capacity.

Sam MonroeEditor-in-Chief

You’re a star high schoolathlete and college coachesare drooling over you.

College coaches can comeand see you and talk to youafter the game, call you, ande-mail you.

But don’t let them pokeyou. NCAA rules preventcoaches and recruiters fromusing social networks or textmessages to contact arecruit.

The NCAA hasrules and regulationsfor all levels to follow,some vary from Divi-sion I athletics all theway up to Division III.

Perhaps thebiggest difference inthe levels is scholar-ships. Division Ischools are allowed togive full rides to stu-dent-athletes andmake it so studentloans are almost non-existent. DIII schoolsare not allowed tooffer scholarships,which means athletes pile upstudent loans while playingfor their schooling.

Lyndon State College has12 Division III NCAA athleticteams and all of them are ex-pected to be competitive. Inorder for the teams to be com-petitive they must have goodplayers, but how do coachesget those players here?

Recruitment. Recruiting is a vital aspect

to collegiate sports. Withoutrecruiting, teams would neverappear in conference champi-onships.

Joe Krupinski, the headcoach of themen’s basket-ball team,says that re-cruiting is ayear-roundjob. Krupinski recently led histeam to the North AtlanticConference Championshipgame and thinks that willhelp in his recruiting ven-tures.

The first step to recruitingan athlete is finding them.

The LSC athletic websiteoffers a place where highschool students can submit aform saying they are inter-ested in being recruited, butcoaches also have to do somework to find players.

Athletic Director ChrisUmmer says going to watchmeets and races is the biggesttool for him in finding a stu-dent he would like to recruit.

Coaches can go to as

many games as they havetime to go to. They can watchwhoever they would like andtake down names, but a coachcan’t approach an athleteuntil their senior year.

However, the athlete canapproach them by coming tosee the campus. A junior cancome and tour the campus aswell as talk to the coach andmembers of the team on cam-pus, but once that athleteleaves the campus contact

must stop. In the NCAA DIII rule-

book bylaw 13.02.2 reads:There are not restrictions on

the number of off-campus con-tacts. Off-campus contacts arenot permitted until the conclu-sion of the prospect’s junior yearof high school.

Once the athlete is a sen-ior, talks can be ongoing.

“Although there’s only somuch you can talk about onthe phone,” said Krupinski.Coaches can e-mail and call asmuch as they would like.Krupinski says he makes surethe recruit knows he can e-

mail him as much as hewould like, with game up-dates, stat updates or just tocheck in on the team.

Prospective athletes canvisit the school as much asthey would like as long as thevisit is paid for by the studentand their family. Anything theschool does for a non-athleteit can also do for an athlete ona non-official visit.

“If I really want some-body, I would say here’s anofficial visit,” said Ummerwho also coaches the men’sand women’s cross countryteams. “But I’m not going todo that for every recruit.”

An official visit is one thatmust be reported to the

NCAA. DIII schools are al-lowed one official visit perathlete. It allows a prospectiveathlete to visit the school onthe schools budget. An officialvisit is one in which the ath-letes transportation to get tothe school is paid for (airfare,bus ticket, etc.) the athlete’sparents are put in a hotel for anight, or off-campus mealsare paid for.

Often prospective athleteswill stay with a current ath-

lete on an of-ficial visit.During thesetrips the cur-rent athletecan be givena few dollarsfrom the ath-letic depart-ment eachday to takethe prospectoff campus toeat, or go toother appro-priate enter-tainment.

NataliaShams is asenior on the

softball team; in her fouryears at LSC she has beenpart of the recruiting process.

“We try to get them uphere for a basketball game orduring a big campus activity,”said Shams, who says havingthe athlete on campus duringa game or large event showsthe student that the campus isalive and there is more to dothan just play softball and goto class.

When a prospective ath-lete is on campus the teamwill often get together for ameal to try and make the stu-dent feel like she is part of the

team be-fore evenarrivingforclasses,said

Shams. She also said the teamwill often get together and hitin the gym if the batting cageis up. This way it gives theathlete an idea of what kindof equipment the campus andthe team has available tothem.

Coaches do everythingpossible to try and get aplayer to commit to theirschool. In the end though it isthe player’s decision.

For basketball star PhilWarrick it was Lyndon’s sizethat sealed the deal.

“I chose it because of theatmosphere,” said Warrickwho was named NAC Rookieof the year this past season.“It isn’t too big and it isn’t too

small either.” He attended a small

high school and had ahard time picturinghimself playing at a bigschool.

“I got stuff donethere (New LeadershipCharter School, Spring-field, Mass.) and I knowthat I can get stuff donehere too,” he said. Getstuff done is what War-rick did this season. Heled his team in pointsand assists on the wayto finishing second inthe NAC.

For freshman ArielMcConkey finding theright school was aboutchoosing the wrong onefirst. For her first semes-ter she went to CentralMaine Community Col-lege and played basket-ball there. She soonfigured out the schoolwasn’t for her.

She had been re-cruited by LSC headcoach Vinnie Maloneybefore her freshmanyear and decided to giveit another look.

“I transferred to LSC be-cause I didn’t enjoy basketballthere (CMCC),” she said. It’snot just about basketball forMcConkey though. She saidshe received several academicscholarships and lots of helpin financial aid. “I got a betteroffer to come here,” said thestand out freshman, who saysafter academic scholarshipsand aid it was cheaper for herto come to LSC then stay inher home state of Maine.

Even at the DIII level col-lege sports are competitive,but at the DIII level athletesare expected to be studentsbefore they are athletes. AtLSC you must have a 2.0 GPAin order to play a sport.

“The first thing we do ismake sure that everyone is ac-ademically eligible,” saidKrupinski.

Ummer believes the DIIIlevel is tailored to the typical

student-athlete. Studentcomes first because the indi-vidual is at Lyndon to first getan education, playing a sportis just a large plus they getout of it.

Athletics at Lyndon areup and coming, but academ-ics will always be first.Ummer says that when re-cruiting an athlete, he has tofocus harder on the schooland the surrounding areasthan he does the sport.

“I find a unique pro-gram,” said Ummer, who ad-mits to getting excited when arunner tells him of their inter-est in atmospheric sciences,television studies, exercise sci-ence, or any of Lyndon’s pro-fessional programs.

Editor’s note: This is partone of a two-part look intohow the NCAA operates atthe DIII level. For part two,be sure to pick up nextweek’s issue of The Critic.

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Recruits can be prodded, but not poked

“The first thing we do is make sure thateveryone is academically eligible,”

- Joe Krupinski.

Former recruit Phil Warrick had a hugeimpact on the men’s basketball team hisfreshman year.

Photo by Sam Monroe

Courtesy LSC Athletics website

April 29, 2011 The Critic, Page 6Sports

Sam MonroeEditor-in-Chief

Editor’s note: This is parttwo in a two part series lookinginto the world of NCAA athlet-ics. For part one go to lyndon-statecritic.com

Happy workers are pro-ductive workers. The samegoes for athletes.

‘Perks’ give student-ath-letes an incentive to play, andto continue playing.

Division I schools canoften afford to purchase someequipment and warm-upsuits for players; a biggerbudget allows them to do so.This can make it so athletesnever have to purchase theirown equipment. DIII pro-grams don’t have that luxury.

At a DIII school the pro-gram relies on fundraising togive their players incentives.At LSC, teams are responsiblefor doing their own fundrais-

ing in order to purchasethings for themselves.

Athletic Director ChrisUmmer says having a bigfundraising budget helpsteams recruit players becauseit allows coaches to bragabout the perks players get.

As part of the uniform,the men’s basketball teampurchases matching shoes.

“I consider that part ofthe uniform,” said head coachJoe Krupinksi. “Fundraisingallows us to do that.”

The team is also allowedto keep their practice uni-forms because they were pur-chased with fundraising. Theteam is also traveling to Utahnext Thanksgiving for a tour-nament and has teams such asBrown, Yale, and Dartmouthon its schedule year after year.

“That allows credibilityfor us with recruits,” saidKrupinski. “I can tell players‘hey look at all of the cool

things are team is doing, youcan be part of it.’’’

Brown, Yale and Dart-mouth can be consideredfundraisers for the team be-cause the DI schools pay thesmaller schools to come andplay them as part of theschedule.

During the summer,women’s basketball coachVinnie Maloney and the teamput on a weeklong hoopcamp for youth basketballplayers ages eight to 18. Thisis one of the bigger fundrais-ers the team does. Coachesand players participate in thecamp as counselors for theweek.

According to Maloney thefundraiser allows the team topurchase matching sweatpants, sweatshirts, and teambags.

“They like that stuff, andit helps advertise the schooland the team,” Maloney said

of the gear. Maloney said thematching sweat suits help getpeople’s attention while theteam is traveling and it helpsrecruiting.

This year the volleyballteam held a car wash as oneof its fundraisers, the baseballteam sold snacks during thebasketball games and the soft-ball team held 50/50 rafflesduring home basketballgames.

The basketball teams alsosplit the money raised fromadmission to the games.

The athletic departmenthas also started a new pro-gram this year in an attemptto fundraise. The Hornet Clubhas made its debut on cam-pus and is looking for peopleto start donating.

Different Membershipsinclude:

The Green Level Dona-tion between $25-$199

Benefits include: Hornet

Club decal, e-mail updates,and your name listed on Hor-net Club recognition.

Gold Level donation be-tween $200-$499

Benefits include: Greenclub membership, LyndonAthletic shirt, two tickets toall home basketball games.

All conference level: Do-natoin between $500-$999

Benefits include: Greenand Gold level, a LyndonAthletic polo, and two ticketsto the athletics awards ban-quet.

All-American Level: Do-nation $1,000 or more

Benefits include: Firstthree levels, plus two ticketsto the Hall of Fame Dinner.

Those who choose to be-come a Hornet Club membercan choose where their dona-tion goes. They can pick aspecific team or donate to thedepartment.

Phil Alexander andKevin Lessard

Critic Columnists

The NBAplayoffs willbring the fans exactly whatthey want, which is closegames between great teams.

One of the biggest sur-prises in the post-season hasbeen the emergence of theNew Orleans Hornets. Manyexperts and analysts believedthat the two time defendingchampions would be able tocruise through this series.Chris Paul has played like theAll-Star Point Guard that heis, and whether or not theHornets win the series, theycan look back on it and saythey exceed expectations.

Another first roundmatchup to watch is theeighth-seeded Memphis Griz-zlies against the San AntonioSpurs. Even though the Griz-zlies are an eight seed in theWestern Conference, theyhave one of the best front-courts in the NBAwith ZachRandolph and Marc Gasol.The Grizzlies have surprisedthe league by taking a threegames to two lead on theSpurs, and had a chance toend the series on Wednesday.

The first-round playoffsseries between the third-seeded Boston Celtics and the

sixth-seeded New YorkKnicks was watched veryclosely by fans of both sides.Most people thought that thedefending Eastern ConferenceChampions should not worryabout their early-roundmatchups, but the Knickswere no slouch. With twoAll-Star players in Amar’eStoudemire and Carmelo An-thony, this Knicks teamplayed the Celtics close in allgames, and had many oppor-tunities to beat the Celtics.

The Portland Trailblazershave been playing their bestbasketball coming into theplayoffs, playing well againstthe Dallas Mavericks. Manybelieve the sixth-seeded Trail-blazers can knock off thethree-seeded Mavericks, butthe Mavericks lead the seriesthree games to two. One keymatchup to continue to watchin this series will be thepower forwards where Dal-las’ Dirk Nowitzki and Port-land’s LaMarcus Aldridgewill be squaring off againsteach other.

Whether it is an eightseed or a top-seeded team, donot expect an easy series forany team. All of the teamsplayed well enough to makeit to the playoffs, so do not ex-pect them to just lie downand lose.

What We’ve Learned:upsets are never outof the question

College players prefer perks

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April 30, 2010 The Critic, Pg. 6Sports

Sam MonroeManaging Editor

When he thought aboutcollege last year, TeddyFournier probably didn’tthink he would be wearingtennis shoes and high heels inthe same day.

“I wasn’t looking forwardto this weekend for so long,”Fournier said.

Fournier had one of thecraziest weekends one couldexperience. The freshman ten-nis star was headed to theNorth Atlantic ConferenceChampionship tournamentwith his team, however,Fournier also had commit-ments to the school play; hewas to play one of the largerroles in the musical.

So the logical question iswhy? Why be the numberone singles player and part ofthe number one doubles teamfor the tennis team, and playAngel in RENT?

“I love it,” said Fournier.“I have been playing tennisfor so long, if I didn’t play Iwouldn’t know what to dowith myself.

“I love being on stage,”

he said. “I’ve wanted to doRENT for so long, I had tojump at the chance.”

Fournier, a freshman ma-joring in atmospheric sci-ences, went to the auditionsfor RENT knowing it wouldbe a problem performanceweekend trying to balancethe play and tennis. Origi-nally, the play was slated toopen Thursday, have a per-formance on Friday, two onSaturday and one on Sunday.The schedule was shiftedaround, putting only oneshow on Saturday and two onSunday.

Wednesday April 21 wasthe final dress rehearsal andmarked the first day ofFournier’s hectic five-dayweekend. The tennis teamhad practice 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.then a workout until 5:30p.m. Dress rehearsal, by theway, was scheduled for 6p.m.

Thursday morning,Fournier had to take care ofbeing a student. He had classfrom 9 a.m. until 2:50 p.m.straight.

“It was a pain in thebutt,” he says. The tennis

team had a scheduled matchfor 3:30 p.m. The match wascancelled at 4:30 p.m. afterGreen Mountain was a noshow. This gave Fourniersome time before openingnight to do the things normalhumans do, such as eat.

“It went really well,” hesaid of opening night.

Friday Fournier was backto being a student. He had amath test early in the morn-ing. He says he still isn’t surehow he did, as he accidentlyput studying off until Thurs-day night after the show.

Friday the tennis teamwas scheduled to head toGreen Mountain College for amatch. With Green Mountainbeing the weakest team in theleague, the decision wasmade to give Fournier thenight off. He stayed behindand did something he wasn’tused to doing: he relaxed.The play began at 7 p.m. andas soon as it was over hejumped in a car and headedto White River Junctionwhere he stayed the night.

Continued on page 8

Trading tennis shoes for high heels:

The many shoes of Teddy Fournier

Frshman Teddy Fournier begins to serve during an indoor practice.Fournier won both of his singles matches and both of his doublesmatches, with teammate and fellow freshman Mike Howard, duringlast Saturday’s NAC semifinals and championships.

Photo by Sam Monroe

Sebastion C. LurySports Editor

The men’s tennis teamfinished second in the confer-ence tournament and has al-ready begun preparations fornext year.

“It’s been a fantastic sea-son,” said second year headcoach Geoff Davison. “Ourseason’s goal was to go onematch better than last seasonand we lost in the semifinallast year so we achieved ourseason’s goal. Along the way,we performed extremely well.The season has been probablybetter than I could havehoped for, apart from losingthe championship. We had agood squad of ten playersand three starting freshmanin our first six and they per-formed extremely well. To getyoung players playing likethat their first year of collegetennis and performing so wellis fantastic.”

The strength of the team,according to Davison, “hasbeen the balance of reallystrong freshmen with someexperienced upperclassman.They’ve been supportive ofthe freshmen coming in andleading by example.”

Davison sees a weaknesswith the program, rather thanwith the team itself.

“The weakness of theprogram is lack of practice fa-cilities,” he says. “We spend

the first six or seven weekspracticing on a basketballcourt without tennis lines be-cause basketball is in season.Whereas a number of our op-ponents have indoor facilitiesso from day one they’re oncourt. We at Lyndon strugglewith that.”

This difference is evidentright from the start of the sea-son.

“The early games in ourschedule are indoors; soCastleton, Thomas, GreenMountain, those are alwaysour first three matches inMarch when there’s still snowon our courts; we play in-doors those first threematches,” says Davison.“Then it becomes a questionof what the weather’s goingto do. We’ve had to play awhole match over at NorwichUniversity because of theweather here. So it’s up to theweather.”

Davison says that the lo-cation of games doesn’t dic-tate preparation or mentality.

“We don’t do anythingdifferently,” he says. “We liketo play outdoors, that’s whatour guys are used to when weusually do get out there. Theyare flexible and they respondand play their regular gamewhether it is indoors or out.”

Davison is looking for-ward to the improvementsthe team can make for nextyear.

“It’s a tremendous foun-dation over the next fewyears. I don’t think there areweaknesses in that squad.We’re only losing two playersto graduation. So we shouldbe competitive again nextyear,” he says.

According to Davison,the team is working on ob-taining finances for a possibletrip in the winter.

“We’re doing a fundraisercampaign right now for thefirst time,” he says. “We’re at-tempting to raise funds to goduring our winter break nextyear down south somewhereand start playing tennis out-doors, to try and competewith the rest of the confer-ence. Three of the five teamshave indoor courts. So we’retrying to address that imbal-ance. We don’t know the re-sults of the fundraiser yet,whether that’s going to hap-pen or not, but that’s ourgoal.”

Davison explains that thefundraiser consists of eachplayer sending out personal-ized requests for donations.The players send these out tofamily, friends, and busi-nesses.

Outside of the fundraiser,Davison sees the team onlygetting better next year.

“We have a lot of return-ers next year and we’ll haveour strong freshmen who willcome back as experienced col-

lege tennis players,” he says.“We expect to be strongernext year and the goal will benot just to go one match bet-ter, but to win that champi-onship match.”

The team still could havesome forthcoming news.

“We should have someall-conference players namedwithin the next week,” saysDavison. “I would expect acouple of our players to be

all-conference selections thisyear.”

Davison had one thing hewanted to see improve for thetennis team: fan support.

“I’d like to see more peo-ple come out to watch us,” hesays.

The team played theirfinal game last night at BeckerCollege and results were notavailable at the time of publi-cation.

Even after season’s end, there ain’t no rest for the racketed

April 30, 2010 The Critic, Pg. 8Entertainment

Aimee LawtonEntertainment Editor

Members of the LyndonStrikers have been making thecampus a bit pinker.

For the past two weeks,the Lyndon Strikers have beenselling paper flamingos as afundraiser to benefit theirclub. President MikeMichaud says that the idea forthe fundraiser was modeledoff of a fundraiser being heldat his sister’s high school.

“My sister gave me theidea because at her highschool, they put flamingos onpeople’s yards and they haveto pay to have them re-moved,” Michaud said. “Iadapted the idea to be able touse it in the residence halls.”

Michaud said that theflamingo sales helped raise

over $200 that would be usedfor club expenses. This isenough to fully support theclub’s bowling costs for twoweeks, and still leaves them alittle money to spare.

He also said there wereabout 100 participants consist-ing of both faculty and stu-dents, and that members ofthe strikers have hung about1,000 flamingos on manydoors around campus.

“It has been hard workcutting them out, but it hasbeen a lot of fun,” Michaudsaid.

Michaud added that hewould like to thank everyonewho has helped support theStrikers this year, and helooks forward to this againnext year, as they would liketo make it an annualfundraiser for the club.

Spring Dip with a new twistSarah AubeNews Correspondent

The fourth annual SpringDip is coming up, with atwist.

The Spring Dip, whichwill take place on May 5, is anevent put on by the Facultyand Staff Scholarship Com-mittee. Hannah Manley, Di-rector of Alumni Relations,brought this idea to the com-mittee after working on thePenguin Plunge in Newport.

“We liked the idea, espe-cially because it creates thisbrief and fun event at themost stressful time of thespring,” said Pat Webster,member of the Faculty andStaff Scholarship Committee.

At the Spring Dip, indi-vidual students, groups, andfaculty and staff memberswill all be jumping into the li-brary pond to raise money forscholarships. Participants areall encouraged to be creativeand wear costumes, though itis not required.

This year the Spring Diphas also incorporated the Fac-ulty & Staff Commitment toSupport Lyndon Studentscampaign. This is a programthat is encouraging everymember of the faculty andstaff to donate money, evenjust a dollar, to anything thatbenefits the school and thestudents.

If by May 1, 90 percent offaculty and staff members

contribute, Dean WayneHamilton will jump into thepond at the Spring Dip, if 95percent contribute, DeanDonna Dalton will jump in,and if 100 percent contribute,President Carol Moore willjump into the pond.

“The focus is not as muchon amount (of money) as it ison participation,” said BobWhittaker, Dean of Institu-tional Advancement, of thecampaign. “That way we canquantify that commitmentthat we already know our fac-ulty and staff have.”

Whittaker wants to beable to tell potential donorsthat our own faculty and staffcontribute to the school 100percent. He said this is so theycan have numbers showingthem what we already know –that the faculty and staff arevery committed to betteringLSC and the educations stu-dents receive.

“If we can get a few morecontributors in the Facultyand Staff campaign to supportLyndon students,” said Web-ster, “People will have the un-paralleled pleasure of seeingLSC’s highest level adminis-trators splashing in with theother participants.”

Currently 61 percent ofthe faculty and staff have con-tributed to the school, whichseems low compared to the100 percent goal. However,Whittaker remains confidentin the fact that the campaign

will receive 100 percent par-ticipation.

“The goal is to keep itfun,” said Whittaker, “and tobring faculty, staff, and stu-dents together to celebrate thesuccess of the students.”

The whole event is veryquick, taking approximatelyan hour total. Registration be-gins at 11:30 a.m. by HAC andthe dip in the library pond isat 12:30 p.m.

It costs ten dollars to par-ticipate, but you needn’tworry if you are flat-outbroke.

Webster is offering tosponsor five brave souls thatare willing to do the dip. Ifanyone is interested, they cancontact her at the library.

Webster says the dip itselfis no big deal.

“I was anticipating theworst here, but because of theexceptionally warm springlast year, it felt like bath waterto me,” she said. “It was noproblem at all. I was delight-fully surprised.”

Everyone who partici-pates gets a Dunking Donutscoupon, groups can win apizza party from Aramark,and there is a prize for thebest costume.

LSC gets flocked

Flamingos decorate doors around campus Photo by Aimee Lawton

Fournier’s ShoesContinued from page 6

At 7 a.m. he woke up anddrove the rest of the way toCastleton State College for theChampionship tournament.The first match was at 10 a.m.against Johnson State College;the team won the match toadvance. The next match wasscheduled to begin at 3 p.m.Head coach Geoff Davisonworked to push the match up,and it was moved a whole 15minutes earlier. Fournier anddoubles partner MikeHoward won 8-2.

“Mike destroyed them,and it really elevated mygame,” Fournier said. Thedoubles match ended at 3:18p.m. It was time for his sin-gles match. The rules statethat you are allowed a 15-minute break betweenmatches but, “no one evertakes the full time,” Fournierjoked. Well, on this day, hisopponent would want the fulltime. “He dragged it out aslong as possible,” Fourniersaid. But Lyndon’s numberone would get the best of his

opponent. He won the matchand had to rush back to theLyndon State College campusfor a 7 p.m. show. His teamwould lose the match andwould finish as the runner-upin the NAC.

Fournier jumped in thecar and started the two hourtrip back to LSC.

“The GPS said I would beback at 6:57 p.m.,” saidFournier. He made it back toLSC at 6:20 p.m. and wasready for the first act withtwenty minutes to spare. Allhe had left after the show wastwo more shows on Sunday.

“I’m glad the weekend isover,” he said, but he said hewould miss both tennis andthe play. Now Fournier hassome time to spare.

He passed credit off ontohis head coach, Geoff Davi-son, and director, MelissaLeonard. Fournier said thatboth of them were helpfuland understanding with hisschedule and time.

“It’s upsetting it is over,but now I have time,”Fournier said.

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Sam MonroeMadi Cox

Critic Editors

Bombarded by recent talks of faculty and staff cuts and of future budget deficits, Lyndon State College received the good news that the NEASC (New England Association of Schools and Colleges) reaccreditation team will not be returning to campus for ten years.

“We have essentially passed our reaccreditation visit with many flying colors,” said President Carol Moore at the Student Government Association meeting Wednesday night. “As is always the case with NEASC, there are some issues we need to deal with in the future.”

Lyndon will be required to put together an updated report to submit to NEASC in three years.

Overall the report put together by the NEASC team that visited Lyndon back in October was fairly positive.

“When this evaluation team visited the campus, we were impressed by how strongly the mission statement itself has been embraced by the campus community and how remarkably student-centered the campus is,” the report

opens. “Lyndon has also remained true to its original mission by continuing to emphasize professional education, as 83 percent of current LSC students are matriculated into the college’s professional degree programs.”

“It used to be you were accredited for ten years,” said Moore, but she went on to say that is no longer the case. “It’s an ongoing process now.”

Now a college needs to prove that it is meeting the 11 NEASC standards almost every year in order to keep accreditation, Moore said.

“We have already started working on things for the three year report,” said Moore. “I have no concerns about that.”

Moore also said she was “100 percent confident” at the time of the report that Lyndon would receive the ten-year accreditation; she was just unsure if it would have to file a report in two or three years.

“Much work remains to be done, despite recent progress,” the report reads.

“They want us to focus on the recruitment of new students, retention of current students and graduation rates in each of our programs,” Moore told the SGA.

Moore said that things the college is working on to include in the three-year

report include a realignment of the curriculum and the implementation of the new general education requirements.

“The General Education curriculum does not yet have a systematic and effective approach to assess student learning,” the report reads.

One concern NEASC does have about Lyndon is the increase of part-time faculty and reduction of full-

time.According to the report,

“The college is well aware of this concern and has engaged in a concerted effort to recruit new and replacement faculty, while reducing the number of part-time faculty.”

However, administration has offered seven full-time faculty retirement incentives and said there will be faculty cuts to avoid future deficit problems.

NEASC was also impressed by the planning strategies LSC has created.

“The team who visited commended Lyndon for a decade-long history of planning and evaluation and for the development of four strategic plans, and the implementation of three. The fourth one is currently in the works,” said Moore.

While there were things to improve on, many parts of Lyndon were highlighted as positive in the report.

“They commend Lyndon State College for the clarity of its mission. That is helping every student to be successful. They also

commended the college for the faculty and staff and administration on the college being consistently exemplifying, to use their words, a student-centered approach to higher education. They also commended us on the experiential learning that is built into all of the programs,” Moore said during the meeting.

The report also notes that Lyndon has increased its aid that is available to students, and is continuing to find ways to help students.

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President Moore addresses SGA regarding reaccreditation. Photo by Eric Wayne

LSC gets reaccredited

Sam MonroeEditor-in-Chief

Four Lyndon State College professors have notified the College they will retire.

Two professors will accept the retirement package the administration proposed and will officially retire at the end of the 2011-2012 school year.

The other two professors who have notified the college of their retirement have said it will be in the future, and the date is outside of the

date that the administration proposed to them.

President Carol Moore declined to mention the names of the professors who have picked retirement, saying that she feels it is a personal matter and it will become public when the professors are ready.

Moore also said that the decisions on faculty reappointments will be made today and a notice will be sent to the community about the progress in balancing the budget soon after.

Sexual assault reported

There was an alleged sexual assault in one of Lyndon State College’s residence halls recently. Associate Dean for Student Affairs Jonathan Davis sent out an email saying the Vermont State Police received a report of the assault and informed LSC. The school has also started its own investigation. Lyndon officials were unable to be reached for comment in time for publication.

Lyndonstatecritic.com will be updated as details become available.

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October 1, 2010 The Critic, Pg. 2Campus News

Benjamin CooksonNews Correspondent

Education students atLSC are missing the opportu-nity to receive $16,000 ormore in federal grant moneybecause the college in not amember of the TEACH GrantProgram.

In 2007, Congress createdthe Teacher Education Assis-tance for College and HigherEducation (TEACH) Grantprogram. The grant awards$4000 per year to studentstaking classes toward a de-gree in a high-need educationfield. LSC is not enrolled inthe program and does notoffer its students the opportu-nity to apply for the grant.Without the option of apply-ing for the grant, studentsmust find alternative ways topay for tuition including un-subsidized Stafford loans.

The grantee must sign anagreement to serve four yearsas a teacher in a high-needfield at a low-income school.According to authorities atthe Vermont Department ofEducation, nearly every ele-mentary and high school inVermont qualifies as a low-in-come school. The four yearsof service must be completedwithin the first eight years fol-lowing graduation. If thegrantee does not fulfill his orher obligation, the grants be-come unsubsidized Staffordloans. Even though LSC hasthe ability to enroll in the pro-gram, administration has de-cided not to offer the grant tostudents.

According to Bradley, the

grant takes a lot of academiccounseling and administra-tive time, plus if the studentdoes not complete the re-quired four years of qualifiedteaching the money becomesa loan and the interest startsfrom day one.

“It is kind of like a baitand switch situation,” Direc-tor of Financial Aid TanyaBradley said, “It’s just plainevil.”

Sarah Tucker, a senior inelementary education, dis-agrees.

“I think that this is a goodopportunity for educationmajors like myself who mighthave a hard time getting thenecessary funding for col-lege,” Tucker said, “I thinkthat LSC should give it a try,even if it takes some extratime and work. It will helpthe students’ experience atLyndon, and isn’t that whatLSC strives for in all depart-ments?”

A second student, whoacknowledges that she has noconnection to the program,said it would be a useful re-cruitment tool for LSC.

“I am appalled that thiscollege disagrees to give theirstudents an opportunity to re-ceive funding for their stud-ies,” senior global studiesmajor Brittany Lavery said, “Ibelieve this is completely un-fair to take away an opportu-nity like this.”

Only two colleges in Ver-mont offer students the op-tion to apply for the TEACHGrant. They are BenningtonCollege, and the College of St.Joseph near Rutland.

TEACH grant unavailableto LSC education students

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9/24• Sickly studentsPoland- medical situation

9/25• Have you been drinking?Vail parking lot- drinking and driv-ing

• Watch out for the potholes...and othercarsStonehenge parking lot- drinking anddriving

9/27• That’s not your stuffPoland- theft• I was trying to enjoy some nice tatertotsStevens Dining Hall- 3 slashed tires

9/29• Drop the bagel and no one gets hurt!Hornet’s Nest- theft

9/30• I’m gonna need to see some I.D.Wheelock- alcohol violation• Fight, fight, fight!Poland- assault

Emilie LariviereEntertainment Editor

2011 marks the 100-yearanniversary of Lyndon StateCollege, and this year’s Stateof the College Address cele-brated the achievements thatLyndon has made over thepast century, and discussedplans for improvement in thefuture.

At the event held onWednesday, President CarolMoore and other faculty andstaff discussed their ideas forplanning and preparing forthe future. The two main fo-cuses of the address were theaccomplishments that Lyndonhas made in the past, and theplans that are being made toshow the college a brighterfuture.

“Lyndon is not in a finan-cial crisis. Lyndon is not inany kind of crisis. The college

is stronger than it ever hasbeen,” Moore said.

She went on to explainthat Lyndon’s academic pro-grams are strong, extracurric-ular activities are at the bestthey have ever been and Lyn-don has newly renovated fa-cilities to bring in newstudents. She also addressedthe request for an investiga-tion, explaining that she andothers had received letters ofsupport.

“Lyndon is in a step ofthe strategic plan and thechancellor respectfully deniedthe request of investigation.Lyndon is growing as we cur-rently have over 200 facultiesand staff and nearly 1,500 stu-dents. All institutions will bemaking difficult decisions andchange the way they operate,”she said. “I ask us to come to-gether as a team and work to-wards the students, putting

aside our own personal de-sires, and strive together forLyndon.”

Mark Hilton, who is cur-rently serving in the admis-sions department, said thatthe main focus of admissionshas been to get enrollment up.For the fall semester, the col-lege has brought in about 470students, which is 12 percentbehind their annual enroll-ment goal. The admissionsdepartment is working to im-prove next year’s numbers.

Lyndon has been settingsmall goals to help increasethe amount of inquiries, withthe incentive of beating John-son State in the area. One waythis is being done is by in-creasing the amount of travelthat counselors are doing.

“We have spiked up thetravel. I told counselors as ajoke, not to come back tillChristmas. We have set a very

high goal of visits and in-quires,” Hilton said.

Other strategies that arehelping the college increaseinquiries are offering morescholarships, sending outmore mailers, having coachesactively recruit more prospec-tive students for sports, andby joining social networkingsites such as Facebook.

Lyndon is also makingchanges in an attempt to keepup with the technologicaltimes. There is a radio strat-egy in the works that is half inFrench and half in English inan attempt to attract a higherrate of Canadian students en-rolling. Alumni are also com-municating through means ofsocial networking, allowingthem to recruit potential stu-dents as well.

There are also changesbeing made with respect to fi-nances. Last spring, there

was a three percent increasein tuition, and it is likely notto increase so drastically nextyear.

“The only way to getback to the way we were is tohave more students, increaseour population,” said WayneHamilton, dean of administra-tion.

Lyndon’s working capitalhas been invested into a CDthat has been generating arate of five percent interestover the past several years.When that expires this winter,it is likely going to be re-in-vested with an interest rate ofless than one percent. Lyndonwill not lose or gain any of itsown money from this change,but it will result in less in-come from interest for the col-lege.

Moore reflects on LSC’s past, looks toward the future

Sam MonroeCritic Editor

The Vermont State Col-lege Chancellor and Board ofTrustees “respectfully de-cline” the request made bythe faculty assembly to inves-tigate President Carol Mooreand Dean Donna Dalton.

The decision came thisweek when Chancellor TimDonovan and Chair of theBoard of the Trustees GaryMoore sent a memorandumto the faculty assembly.

“President Moore andDean Dalton have our fullsupport and confidence incarrying out the mission ofthe college,” read the letter.“We ask that you and everymember of the college com-munity make the commitmentto constructively engage inthe collaboration that will benecessary for the college tobuild on its strengths and suc-ceed in uncertain and chal-lenging times.”

The response comes twoweeks after the faculty assem-bly voted to request an inves-tigation of President Mooreand Dalton for mismanage-ment of the college. The fac-ulty assembly voted 24-8 infavor of making the request.

The letter states that the boardof trustees spent a good dealof time talking about the issuebefore a conclusion was re-leased.

“It was established thatthe board wouldn’t take sidesbut would look at all of thefacts,” said Tim Cappalli, thechair of the VSC student asso-ciation.

Donovan declined tocomment and said all infor-mation could be found in thememorandum.

“The Board of Trusteesthanked the SGA for gettinginvolved and sharing theirvoice,” said Cappalli.

The Chancellor and Boardof Trustees said they were“dismayed” that the facultyassembly had characterizedthe college as in a ‘budgetarycrisis.’ Cappalli said the boardof trustees was adamant inmaking sure that it wasknown the college wasn’t in abudgetary crisis.

“This characterization isinaccurate and irresponsible,”read the memorandum.

The memorandum ex-plained that the Board ofTrustees and the Chancellorreceived the request as well asdocumentation supportingMoore from the Student Gov-

ernment Association as wellas “another group of Lyndonfaculty.”

The document also statesthat the Board of Trustees isvery aware of the challengesthat Lyndon State Collegefaces. It also says that all fiveof the VSC schools are in asimilar situation.

“Each college, includingLyndon, has some significantsuccess and some dauntingchallenges,” said the Chancel-lor and chair of the board.

The document also calledcommunication “a responsi-bility shared by everyone.” Asan example, it pointed toPresident Moore making thepriorities available to the fac-ulty last spring and late in thesummer with no responsefrom the faculty assembly.

The memorandum alsoresponded to each one of thefaculty priorities. The docu-ment explained that the fac-ulty assembly had a chance togive their input when Presi-dent Moore sent her prioritiesbut did not meet the deadlineand she was forced to sendthe Chancellor the college pri-orities without the facultyinput.

Board and Chancellor ‘dismayed’over faculty investigation request