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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.
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on Sunday
If you feel
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night? Do
that you are
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rememfalling prey
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associated
with
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smokers
and
complaint,
the disease.
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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
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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.
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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.
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