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THE CLARKSON INTEGRATOR i www.Clarksonlntegrator.com MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2004 THE CLARKSON INTEGRATOR Features MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2004 SUNY brings poet to campus Continued from 6 Endowment for the Arts, a PEN/Revson fellowship and a Massachusetts-Amherst, This program is part of the SUNY Potsdam symposium, "Crossing Borders: Globalization in the Arts, Sciences and Society." The festival will take place from Wednesday, March 31, through Sunday, April 4, 2004, with preliminary festival events beginning on March 23. This symposium is intended to encourage a campus-wide focus on globalization, an issue of serious intellectual and artistic significance. World-class scholars, policymakers, journalists, artists and performers will address varied aspects of globalization and crossing borders with faculty, students and community members. For more information, please visit www.potsdam.edu/festival. Club of the week From the archives Spring Fever Blos- Women's Club Hockey team > soms into Senioritis places second at NEWCHA finals no credit? Are the majority of your classes electives? Class of 1978 Do you attend class very Spring has sprung and a irregularly? What do you senior's fancy turns to do instead? (See the first thoughts of ... graduation. question in this article). Each and every senior will Have you forgotten who succumb to the smell of that professor was that freshly fallen rain, to the fra- taught Basic Communicagrance of the freshly bloom- tions? Have you forgotten ing blossoms of flowers and what Basic Communicatrees and to the aroma of tions was? Has the memory green grass with a common of Saturday morning physics and chemistry rests ailment... Senioritis. There are quiet a few eluded you? Do you start talking about symptoms associated with next weekend the disease. • = on Sunday If you feel - = night? Do that you are There are quiet a you rememfalling prey few symptoms ber going to to this pef r a t e r n i t y associated with rennial smokers and complaint, the disease. —- rushing sohere are —— rorities only some clues vague? Have you forgotten to help your diagnosis: that Deli-sub was once the ArDo you constantly feel an urge to abandon your lington? Is it hard to recall that textbooks to: a) go canoe- Carrols was ever open? Has ing b)play softball with it slipped your mind where the the guys (and/or girls) c) bus station used to be? take a ride to Aliens Falls Do you fe"el that just or Postwood Park d) go about everyone attending sightseeing at State e) go CCT is younger than you for a jog around town f) are? Do you still wonder go back to Florida g) all whether Dorm 6 is Price or of the above? Graham Hall? Have you Do you constantly meditate handed over your responsibilities in abou5tlife af— your organiter gradua— zation to a tion, includIf the answer is junior? ing such yes to the above thoughts as Can you ...locating in questionnaire, you p i c t u r e a new city, can be certain that y o u r s e l f wearing a the Senioritis bug w a l k i n g suit, doing reacross the search in- has bitten you, but stage on fear not... stead of readgraduation ing it, eating = = day to reyour own ceive your cooking, taking a long vaca- diploma more vividly as tion, getting married, meeting time slips by? new people, owning your own If the answer is yes to the Jeep, going in the Peace above questionnaire, you can Corps, three more years of be certain that the Senioritis school, worldngforDad, man- bug has bitten you, but fear aging people, playing ball, get- not... a cure will arrive May ting a Master Charge of your 21 atthe Walker Arenafirst aid own, doing whatever else you station; at 10:30 a.m. sharp. have been dreaming about for This originally apthe past four years'? peared in the April 11, of the Are you taking as many 1978 edition courses as you can pass— Clarkson Integrator. LIZA SCHILLING Frozen world discovered on edge of solar system CAROLINE COLE AND STEFANI ROBERTS February 27-29 the Clarkson Women's Club Hockey team traveled to Lake Placid to play in the New England Women's Collegiate Hockey Association finals. NEWCHA is an organization comprised of women's club hockey teams from the New York State area. Going into the tournament seeded third, Clarkson played SUNY Brockport on Saturday. Clarkson beat Brockport 3-1 with goals scored by Kristen Jodoin, ShaunaNoggle and Melissa Kipp. Sunday in the Championship game, Clarkson faced off against North County Community College. Clarkson took the lead early in first period with a goal scored by Caroline Cole. They continued to play a good game, out shooting NCCC 2521. Even with excellent goal keeping by Michelle Thonihill, they could not pull off the win, losing to NCCC 3-1. is, but it is at the very outer edge. It is well beyond Pluto, The Orlando Sentinel and even outside the Kuiper A shiny red "planetoid" Belt, a band of icy debris at locked in a bizarre orbit may the fringe of the solar system. be the most distant object or- Its size places it between Pluto biting our sun, astronomers and the smaller Quaoar, anannounced Monday. In its other object discovered by 10,500-year orbit, the lump of Brown and Trujillo in 2002. what is probably rock and ice Brown said that while there never gets closer to the sun are indications that Sedna may than 8 billion miles. And at its have a satellite object or small farthest point, the mass is an moon orbiting it, he does not astonishing 84 billion miles think it is a planet. Despite its away. "There is absolutely size, Pluto's status as a planet nothing else like it known in has also been questioned in the solar system," said Michael recent years, in part because Brown, an astronomer at the of the discovery of numerous California Institute of Technol- large objects in the outer ogy. Unoffi- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ _________ realms of the cially dubbed solar system. "But at the same Sedna after the To be considInuit goddess time, we think it's ered a planet, of the sea the not reasonable to he said, an obobject is beject needs to call Pluto a planet, be significantly tween 800 and 1,100 miles in either." bigger than === diameter, — other lumps of around half the size of Earth's rock and ice surrounding it. moon. It is likely the largest "We think it's not reasonable thing seen orbiting the sun to call Sedna a new planet," since the discovery of Pluto in Brown said. "But at the same 1930, and the questions it time, we think it's not reasonraises have astronomers both able to call Pluto a planet, eibaffled and excited. "Very ther." What is exciting for scilittle has happened to this ob- entists is the possibility that ject since the beginning of the Sedna may be the first known solar system," Brown said. "It example of something that exreally has just been sitting out ists within the "Oort cloud," a there at 400 degrees below theoretical reservoir of comzero." Brown hypothesized ets in the outer limits of the that Sedna may be made of solar system. The hypothesis rock and ice, but said it is re- that Brown and others are tryally impossible to know. What ing to prove is that these comBrown and two other NASA- ets are there because they infunded astronomers found, teracted with a star or some however, is that Sedna is in a other force as they were behighly unusual orbit a long el- ing flung out of the solar syslipse that, at its furthest, is tem. Sedna's odd orbit and inmore than 900 times as far credible distance from the sun from the sun as Earth. The supports the possibility that it average distance between came from the Oort cloud, Earth and the sun is about 93 Brown said, and may even million miles. In the evening prove that the area is closer in sky, looking west-southwest, than previously thought. In efSedna is about halfway be- fect, it is a comet that has fallen tween the planet Venus and into an orbit instead of speedthe constellation Orion, Brown ing through space. "Every obsaid. But because of its great ject known in the solar system distance, the planetoid is too until this one has one thing in faint for most amateur as- common, and that's that they tronomers to see. Sedna is so enter the planetary region," far away from the sun, Brown Brown said. "This is the first said, that if you were standing object ever seen that has no on its surface, you could ob- interaction with the inner planscure the sun with the head of etary region." Sedna's chara pin held at arm's length. acteristics also provide the first Brown and his colleagues, good, direct evidence that the Chad Trujillo of the Gemini sun probably formed in a clusObservatory in Hawaii and ter of stars, with many other Yale University's David stars nearby, Brown said. Rabinowitz, discovered the Brown said he is looking forobject in November, using a ward to studying Sedna and telescope with a 48-inch lens other findings over the next at Caltech's Palomar Obser- five to 10 years, and unlockvatory near San Diego, as part ing parts of the solar system of a long-term survey. The that have previously only exscientists knew they were on isted in theory. He is expectto something because in three ing that there are more objects images from the telescope, out there like Sedna. "It's just they could see one thing mov- been surprise after surprise," ing slowly across the sky a he said. "This really opens up clear indication of something a new fossil window into the within our solar system. Sedna solar system." GWYNETH K. SHAW Courtesy of Clarkson Edge The Clarkson Edge, who placed second in the NEWCHA finals, pose for a group i shot with their coaches, from the left, Dan James and Brendan Farrell. j After the game was the awards ceremony. An allstar team was announced, honoring three girls from the Edge. Kristen Jodoin was named an all-star for- ward, Stefani Roberts was named all-star defense, and Michelle Thornhill was named all-star goalie for the tournament. Team effort and dedication from coaches Brendan Farrell and Dan James is what enabled the team to achieve second place overall. The Edge is anticipating another great season next year. The hot, dry, arid weather of Tuscon, Arizona makes those of us here in soaking wet Potsdam Long for the days when it will be 90 and sunny once again. Fear not freinds, those days will be upon us soon enough. Poettopresent his work at SUNY Potsdam His latest collection of poetry is "Alabanza: New and Selected Poems 1982-2002."' He is also the author of "A Martin Espada, an internationally known poet, editor and Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen: Poems" (2000); educator, will present "Albanza: Poetry Reading" on Friday, "Imagine the Angels of Bread" (1996), which won an April 2, at 5:00 p.m. in the Wakefield Recital Hall and a lec- American Book Award; "City of coughing and Dead Rature, "The New Bathroom Policy at English High School," diators" (1993); "Rebellion is Circle of a Lover's Hands" on Saturday, April 3, at 2:00 p.m., in room 104 of Kellas Hall, , (1990). A bilingual collection; and "Trumpets from the Isas part of the SUNY Potsdam "Crossing Borders: Globaliza- lands of Their Eviction" (1987). Espada also has published tion in Arts, Sciences and Society" Campus Festival. a book of essays and edited several anthologies. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Espada is regarded The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, his as one of the leading poets of Puerto Rican heritage in honors include the PEN/Voelker Award for Poetry, the the United States. Now a poet end educator, her once prac- Paterson Poetry Prize, two fellowships from the National ticed law in Chelsea, Massachusetts. SUNY continued on 7 PRESS RELEASE Spread your wings like the butterfly Can you find your way from start to finish? Going insane?? Answers!!! Cheni Dambrot Where: VVVVW.emillwill.coni/canipus/cIarksoii.htiiil Whens March 22 through April 9,2004