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If you’d like to help me raise money for my club the Bring Suicide Out of the Darkness club, click the above.  Our walk is on May 5th! Hope to see you there!

It’s over but not forgotten!

Me, Fred Seibert, Sarah Sobel, Gregg Bray, and Bill Sobel. Photo courtesy of Miriam Ward.

Love this picture we took on Thursday night from our Keynote Speaker event! Communication and Media Week went so great and I’m so happy everything worked out smooth! Maybe next year I’ll be able to come back and this time be a part of the Alumni Panel!

Fred Seibert Livestream!

Skip to just before 11 minutes for the speech to start.  My club, the Communication and Media Society just wrapped up our annual week dedicated to communication and media.  Tonight was our keynote speaker night, and we were able to have such an amazing, incredible speaker!  You wouldn’t know culture as it is today without this man.  He was the first director of MTV, and is the television producer behind many of my favorite childhood TV shows: Powerpuff Girls, Dexter’s Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Fairly Odd Parents, Adventure Time, etc.

His speech was fantastic and incredibly insightful.  I would say more but I’m very tired.  Enjoy!  It starts around the 10:55 mark and yes I do speak too!

:D

I’m pleased to inform the public that the Relay for Life event I attended was a huge success!

The SUNY New Paltz Relay for Life team raised $24,000.  I think that’s incredible, and I’m so happy that I helped contribute to such a wonderful cause.

It’s also funny to think that these are my last few weeks at college.  I’ll miss it, but I’ve been so eager to move on for the past few months.  On to bigger and better things.  I’m strong and I can do it.

Out of the Darkness PSA!

As promised and this time on time, here is my club, the Communication and Media Society’s final cut of our PSA for the Bring Suicide Out of the Darkness club.  Which I’m on the e-board for as the Advertising Chair.  Love how this came out.  Make it viral!

Relay for Life PSA

 

I forgot to post this!  This PSA for our school’s Relay for Life was made by my club the Communication and Media Society.  So proud of how it came out!  I was reminded to post this because we filmed our second PSA for the Bring Suicide Out of the Darkness Club today (which I’m an e-board member of as well).  That will be up sometime within the next few days.  Take a look!

Covering Police Activity

So tonight something interesting happened in this little college town.  I was scrolling through my Facebook news feed and what do you know pops up?

Someone posted about heavy police activity in town.

Their post read as:

“On my way to the deli in town, I saw 4 police cars, 2 fire trucks, and the trailways on Main street. I think someone got hit!! :O:”

This was posted just around midnight.  And I had seen it about 25 minutes after it was posted.  So I decided to check Twitter and there were two tweets about it.

The most interesting Tweet was:

“What is happening in New Paltz? Helicopters, 7 police cars, and ambulance and a women screaming outside the middle school. WHAT’S GOING ON?”

So I decided to go into town to investigate.  While I was putting on clothes (I was in pajamas at this time) I could hear a helicopter outside, to me that was a confirmation.

It took me about 15 minutes to walk into town.  When I got to the area by the aforementioned Middle School and the Deli (Convenient Deli) it was bone quiet.  Nothing was stirring.  No police activity.  Convenient is 24 hours, so I went inside and asked the cashier if he had seen or heard anything.  He said someone either got hit by a bus or had a heart attack on it.  Either way they were airlifted to a hospital.  He also gave me the interesting fact that a drug sniffing dog was brought in.

Luckily, I had bumped into my roommate in the deli, who dropped me off back to the dorm.  I proceeded to call the bus company but they shut they closed at midnight.  I then called the town police.  I explained what I heard about the activity and the officer on the end of the line, clearly annoyed and angered said, “We don’t give out that kind of information on the phone.”  I didn’t want to deal with an irate officer so I hung up without pressing any further.  You can bend my back but not break it.

So now what do I do?  I’ve written down my timeline of events and what I know.  I have to go to the bus station tomorrow anyway to take a bus home for the weekend and I plan on doing some more snooping.

What more could I have done?

CoveritLive!

Doing my first CoveritLive! event.

Now let’s see if I can get this to work properly.

 
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