Find us Online! Like us on Facebook! Follow @LSCCritic on Twitter! lyndonstatecritic.com First Copy FREE (adtl. copies 50¢ each) Lyndon State College Friday, September 23, 2011 Volume 58.3 A Quote to Note “Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. ” - Theodore Roosevelt Campus Calendar Tues. 9/27: Chancellor Tim Donovan Visits Fri. 9/23: Intramural Wiffleball Sun - Fri Every Week: Rock Wall Open 6 - 9 P.M. Sat. 9/24: Dodgeball in Rita Bole Gym 4 P.M. IN THIS ISSUE... Angry Ani Page 3 Women’s Soccer Page 4 Ryan’s Review Page 6 Gittleman Interview Page 7 Housing Shortage? Page 8 Family Weekend at LSC Page 6 LSC Cross Country Page 4 Favorite Majors: Incoming Freshmen Choose Mountain Rec. Saturday > Sunday > Monday Courtesy of James Sinko and The National Weather Service 79 O 79 O 77 O Peter Nute News Editor Though the role of president at Lyndon State College may be tem porarily filled, but faculty and ad ministration from thinking about what is important in future leader ship to keep the college moving in the right direction. We need someone who is in quisitive and open minded because of the way the two qualities feed into decision making, said re cently tenured professor David Johnston, of the English depart ment. Johnston believes that the fu ture president must understand and be ready for the challenges that face higher education, includ ing state funding and accreditation. The future of Lyndon State has become somewhat blurry for fac ulty, students, and administration alike, given the issues the college faced last year and is still dealing with today. However, the future of current and prospective students at LSC is still what drives the fac ulty and administration. I would hope that this person the future president will be ab solutely passionate about Lyndon students, said Dean of Academic and Student Affairs, Donna Dal ton. Dalton hopes that what brings po tential candidates to the college wont just be the title of president, but the passion to work with stu dents of varying backgrounds and interests. This is a place worthy of all of us doing our very best, she said. English professor Richard Moye came to Lyndon State after teach ing at Columbia as both a graduate student and assistant professor. Moye believes that new lead ership needs to reflect the same vi sion. The institution needs to see the same value, and it hasnt for some time. Carol Moore did not see that as the role of this college. I need a president who will see that value and treasure it, Moye said. Lyndons message is simple: pre pare every student for personal and professional success. We have to prepare our stu dents for jobs we havent even imagined yet, Moye said. What we need, as any institution does, is a president who can both under stand the scope and nature of our mission; who understands the na ture and purpose of education, and who can articulate that purpose and nature to a stingy public and a stingy legislature for funding. Elizabeth Norris, professor in the Music and Performing Arts de partment, has watched the music business program grow in the past five years, from eight students dur ing its first semester to over one hundred now. Norris would like to see a president who understands the impact the arts has on an aca demic community, noting that she believes Steve Gold is one who sees that value. We are always looking at the bottom line being the number of students, how many, whats the re tention, but I think unless we begin to understand and embrace the impact the arts has on Lyndon State, or we will only ever be a sec ond rate college, said Norris. She also believes that the future presi dent needs to see the value of time of peoples time, and not just the faculty, but all across the college. I will be looking for someone who will be willing to take the time to understand what Lyndon is; who will be appreciative of the richness that is here, Dalton said. We are a unique institution. In some respects, the search for a new president is like a marriage, where you need to go into this not with the assumption that youre going to change the other person, but that youre going to accept that other person for what they are and hope, by virtue of your presence, that the two of you together can make each one even better. Sarah Aube Critic Staff Incoming freshmen seem to prefer kayaking to calculus. Out of the incoming 542 in coming students this year, the mountain recreation manage ment department has the highest number of students claiming 55 of them while only 9 have joined the mathematic and information sciences department. We always want more stu dents, said James Bozeman, the math department head, but what we do have is actually a higher percentage of students than the national average. The national average of math majors within colleges with that degree is 1. The nine incoming students that are math majors make up 1.66 of the class. Last year the incoming math majors made up 1.51, so as Bozeman said the major at LSC is small but not unusually small. Bozeman says that the stu dents can also have more personal relationships with the professors because of the small department size. Almost all of our majors can tutor in the math resource room, so there are a lot of benefits in that sense as well, said Bozeman. Another thing that does not factor in this number is atmos pheric science majors who dou ble major with math, but are not counted with the math majors because it is not there first major. Bozeman says if they were counted as well, the students counted as math majors would probably double. The incoming mountain recre ation management majors make up 10 of the class, while it only made up 7.5 of the incoming class last fall. It stands out, said mountain recreation management profes sor Thomas Anderson. The type of students attracted to our pro gram like handson experiential learning. There are skill courses such as rock and ice climbing, moun taineering, and learning to ski and ride, as well as standard classes with book learning. The program also qualifies for the NEBHE New England Board of Higher Education pro gram so some nearby out of state students can do this major while paying tuition that is lower than normal out of state tuition. While the department does not do any specific marketing be sides what admissions does, they do have a FaceBook page and have got many new students by word of mouth. We have students who like our program and tell people about it, said Anderson. Though, he thinks that it is the extra push that admissions gave this year for the school as a whole that brought their num bers from 35 new students last year to 55 this year. As a whole, the school has 80 more incoming students this fall, than it did last fall. The departments following mountain recreation manage ment with the highest numbers of incoming freshmen are atmos pheric sciences with 51, Exercise Science with 50, and Business Administration with 46. Business Administration was the most popular major last year accounting for almost 10 of the new students, while it only now accounts for 8.5. Following math with low num bers this year are liberal studies with 10 students, and natural sci ences and English, philosophy, and film studies tied with 22 new students each. Who will take their place behind the president’s esteemed desk next? Photo by: Sierra Willenburg F ACULTY AND S TAFF WEIGH IN Presidential Search Commitee Members Martha O’Connor, Chair, Trustee Julie Austin, LSC Sophomore Bill Biddle, Adjunct Faculty Jonathan Davis, Associate Dean for Student Affairs Tim Donovan, Chancellor Marty Feltus, Chair of Lyndon Se- lect Board Kate Gold, Director of Advising Resources Tim Jerman, Trustee David Johnston, associate profes- sor, Faculty Assembly Chair Barbara Murphy, President, Johnson State College Heidi Pelletier, Trustee Peter Peltz, Trustee Gary Moore, Trustee, Ex-Officio