Miscellaneous

In 1937, President Roosevelt proclaimed October 12 as Columbus Day. However, the first recorded celebration took place on October 12, 1792. The event, celebrating the 300th anniversary of Columbus’s landing in the New World, took place in New York.

Today, many public schools such as HVCC cancel classes. However, many people don’t celebrate the re-discovery with any festival. They simply enjoy the day off.

Born in Genoa, Italy, Christopher Columbus taught himself to read and speak Portuguese and Latin as well as make charts. He studied geography and the writings of Marco Polo in order to learn about the world. According to National Geographic, contrary to what is taught in school today, most people, especially those who lived near seaports in the 15th century, already knew the Earth was round. What they did not know was the size of the Earth.

Allison Joyal, former Editor in Chief of The Hudsonian (1998) who graduated from HVCC with honors, has been named Editor of Cabot Media, a new, not for profit paper in Cabot, VT.

Allison majored in Journalism and Small Business Management. She then went on to help establish Business Today! in the Hudson Valley.

Since moving to Vermont, she has been a freelance writer
for The Caledonian Record, Vermont Business Journal, and Fences
Magazine. She helped re-establish The Vermont Journal, previously of Stowe, in Ludlow, VT where it has become a great success.

Launch of the Cabot newspaper and web-site www.cabotmedia.org will be March 1, 2008.

If it isn’t a puck in the goal, it’s a punch in the face that’s makes blood rush through an HVCC fan, as was proven by the screams of excitement during the Senate sponsored Community Night.

With the basketball game against Clinton cancelled and weather reports of freezing rain, the attendance for the event suffered. A sad sight since, according to Nicole Vooris, senate treasurer, the goal of the night was “to get the community together.”

By the end of the game that goal was met, thanks to the adhesive powers of regulation violence and the unruly roughhousing put on display by three separate meltdowns between opposing team members. Those actions led to the disqualification of two HVCC hockey players who made their way into the bleachers and stripped of their uniforms to join the fans.

Many HVCC students are not sure what their $35 student activities fee buys them, but it’s the Student Senate’s job to make sure students get a bargain.

After paying your tuition bill, your money joins forces with every other student's to form a powerful fund, about $570,000 for the academic year 07/08, according to Jonathan Winnicki, assistant director of student life. This money is the Student Senate budget and they are responsible for deciding how to spend it.

“After associated expenses, part of the $570,000 is used to fund over 63 student clubs on campus,” said Winnicki. “The amount of the funding varies according to how active each club is,” he added.

“The funding allows our club, the Student Christian Association, to purchase bibles to give away to students on campus,” said freshman April Andersen.

The goal of this column is to assist readers with their computer troubles. Questions should be e-mailed to alexanderfb@gmail.com. I’m pretty flexible, and I’ll try to answer all questions related to computers of any kind that I can provide a meaningful answer to. As long as you provide enough information with your request (such as what kind of computer you’re asking for help with,) I’ll do my best to help you. So please send your questions! If I need more information before I can give any meaningful advice, I’ll ask before I pick your letter to print.

This issue is a classic column which originally ran in fall 2007.

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My friend says that I should backup my data regularly. The problem is, I really have no idea how to go about doing this! It sounds pretty complicated and my computer seems fine right now. Should I even worry about this?