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Today is apartment day. Well, the online research step.
Moving out into a shoebox of an apartment with a window the size of a picture frame seems oddly comforting.
It evokes a strange sensation of success — college is over, and life is beginning.
I am moving far, far, from California. Off to a new city, I feel like Carrie Bradshaw.
I am prepared to be broke. So broke. Living off a budget. There is still this strange comfort, though — in knowing that I am going to do this on my own.
Graduation is impending.
A pandemic has upended quite possibly every aspect of life.
There are a million snippets of knowledge tightly packaged and stored in your brain from the four years you spent in college, sitting in class listening, writing, learning.
So, what now?
Differentiation is vital, it is what will separate you from the masses. Start a blog? Try and become “insta-famous”? Or maybe post a tik-tok to see if it goes viral?
Discovery.
Who are you out of school?
A writer…?
A pen clicks. Sniffling. Tik tok, tik tok. “Fill in the blank…” Blank… The lighting changes as a cloud covers the sun, what word?
This was the mind and every day reality of Antonia Thomson.
The sound of clicking pens cluttered Thomson’s mind as the person to her left itched their shoulder. The scratching noise of finger nails on fabric pings her focus from one place to another. Thousands of unescapable sounds overwhelm her brain. Control is lost. “Every little thing is pulling at your brain,” said Antonia Thomson.
Diagnosed in her second semester of sophomore year, a high schools student finally had peace of mind, literally. Thomson explained the experience in one word: frustrating. The diagnosis: ADHD.
It was 2011; Antonia had just entered sixth grade. From the outside, she appeared to be a young girl with non-stop energy. She lived under the shadow of her older sister, the “smart one,” who was the top of her class in everything from math to art. Thomson was not the stereotypical star student. She got the grades, but beneath the letters on her report card, Thomson had no control over her own mind. She could not focus, or sit still. Every sound and every sight put Thomson into sensory overload. “The slightest movement will completely take away all my focus,” said Thomson.
Focus was not in Thomson’s reality. A sentence was not a processable set of words but rather lines forming an image to be stared at and forgotten the moment a new sight or sound was sensed.
“My parent just always thought ‘Oh she’s a crazy little kid, she just can’t sit still,’” said Thomson. She had always been loud and energetic — she describes this as her personality still to this day. But in middle school, Thomson started having outbursts in class. It was not just the inability to focus anymore; her ADHD was becoming increasingly debilitating.
Without thought, Thomson yelled out in class. She did not raise her hand or get called on, she simply blurted out her thoughts. She would randomly leave her seat to use the pencil sharpener. In a strict catholic school, this was absolutely not tolerated.
As parents, Heidi Thomson and Greg Thomson were hesitant in accepting that their child had a “problem”. Thomson was their youngest daughter, and they were not thrilled about putting her on medication at such a young age. Mr. Thomson thought she would grow out of her hyperactivity, and that she was just “acting out” as a girl approaching puberty. As she was grew up, they realized that their daughter could not focus. They saw her sitting at the table for hours studying to no avail. It was something they could not continue to deny.
Thomson’s sixth grade teacher was new, he had never taught girls before, and her parents blamed her struggles in school on him. But, the following year, in seventh grade, Thomson had a new teacher, a woman who the family had known for years and respected. Mrs. Thomson called the teacher and asked her how her daughter was doing in school, a casual call that she did not expect much out of.
“How is my Antonia girl doing?” asked Mrs. Thomson.
“Well if tell you, are you going to be mad at me?”
“No?” she responded.
The teacher went on about her daughter’s outbursts and troublesome behavior in class. She revealed that Thomson would yell out words and phrases that had no relevance to the coursework being discussed. “Everyone is really annoyed at her, and we are wondering if this is attention seeking,” said the teacher. Mrs. Thomson was in a state of shock; if she hadn’t asked, Mrs. Thomson would have been left in the dark.
So, from seventh grade into high school, Thomson was labeled as attention-seeking, dramatic, and troublesome — labels and judgements she had hanging over her head that she had no control over. “They completely made her out to be this difficult pre-teen,” said Heidi Thomson.
“I knew they all really disliked me. Teachers would call me stupid for answering a question wrong,” said Thomson. “I hated it.”
Thomson struggled through the remainder of middle school undiagnosed. Everyone assumed she would grow out of it, but that simply was not happening. Then, freshman year of high school went by with no change. Thomson would sit in class twirling her hair and staring out the window.
At 15, Thomson knew she had ADHD. She spoke with friends who had already been diagnosed and bonded over their similar experiences. It brought Thomson some peace of mind to know that she was not alone in her experiences, but it was still difficult to do just about anything. “Okay, I have ADHD, this isn’t just who I am going to be in life,” thought the young teen. It was not for attention; Thomson couldn’t control her outbursts or her inability to focus.
Talking to kids in her class who were already diagnosed was Thomson’s means of a support system, a way to find a glimmer of normalcy with the way her hyperactive mind was controlling her.
When diagnosed, Thomson was prescribed Adderall. Within a week of taking it, her mind was able to filter out sounds and sights. However, Adderall is not a “one size fits all” drug.
At one point, Thomson was testing out a higher dosage and recalls it giving her a panic attack. She was driving in the car with her friend when her hands got sweaty and her heart felt like it was beating out of her chest. They had to pull over. “I felt like I was tweaking,” said Thomson. She tried out five different dosages before finding what worked for her.
Now, two years into studying at The University of San Diego, Thomson said she finally feels like she is taken seriously. She rebranded herself as a studious college student.“Adderall does not put me ahead of other students, it just leveled the playing field,” said Thomson.
As we go through life, passions may come and go. Who is to say that life is constricted to a set of goals with unwavering ambitions. Life can pull you in a multitude of directions, but is passion concrete?
I am passionate about news because growing up I was extremely sheltered, I knew absolutely nothing beyond my tiny town in Northern California. I was homeschooled and raised in a cult called “I Am”. By sheltered I mean I did not know 9/11 happened until 7th grade when I started at a Charter School… so very sheltered. Ever since then I have wanted to know everything. And more than that, I find writing about it to be rewarding in a way where I want to be the “news outlet” to my younger self.
This carries into my second journalistic interest which is investigative journalism. The passion follows a similar timeline in that being raised in the cult and leaving it around middle school, I have such a fascination for the “under-roots” of society. Moreover, what goes on behind the normative veil of what you see in passing or on the surface. There is so much to be discovered, terrifying or not, and I want to be a part of those discoveries.
Cheesy, but honest.
So… what now?
The podcast, “The Living Room” from Diane Weipert on Love + Radio, details the intimate story of a woman who becomes engrossed in the private lives of her neighbor across the window. A pair of young parents discover that a young couple has moved into the apartment across the street from them. Their bedroom, more specifically their bed, is in perfect view from their living room. She sees the most intimate details of their lives and can not seem to avert her attention nor gaze from the two young lovers. This woman narrates her story.
At first, the woman is terrified by the couple and its constant reminder of the lives that she and her husband shared years before having children. She lusts over the youthfulness of sleeping in late and she fears her husband’s lust over their visible intimacy and nudity.
The podcast utilized different sound effects playing behind the woman narrating the story. Rather than realistic effects, though, it was music. Interestingly, I found the sections of audio with no music to be much more intriguing. The woman telling the story has a very calming voice, and as she laughed to herself telling this outlandish story, I found myself entranced. Every so often, the narration would pause, and music played. These breaks in the story were quite frustrating, especially because I was so engulfed in the story that I just wanted to hear what happened.
To test whether the podcast style medium was most effective for this specific piece, I read the transcript as well as listening to the video. I found that the narration was quite nice, as the woman’s emotions were able to come through more clearly than when I read the piece. But, once again, the music completely threw me off. It was odd, kind of distracting, and whether it be because I am already frustrated by the concept of staying indoors during this pandemic, or if the music is fully to blame, it aggravated me. The transcript got the story across and was still very interesting, but it lacked the emotional aspect.
One thing I must say is that hearing the woman’s voice while she told the story gave it such a genuine and intimate feeling. The story is already quite intrusive as it follows the story of a couple through the eyes of this woman, and eventually, the boyfriend in the couple she was seeing through the window passes away. The most intimate moment, perhaps in this young couple’s entire life, was not only seen by this woman but now the listener as well. There is intrusiveness here that does not come across simply by reading the words on a page.
Reading does not allow for all of one’s senses to activate as much as listening does. The audio allows for an engulfing of the story that is not allowed for when seeing words on a page. As the narrator tells this unique and truly sad story, her voice slowly begins to quiver, and it is clear that she truly was invested in this neighbor’s life. This one-sided fascination that she found herself in came from welcoming herself into people’s lives who were not even aware of the fact. This unknown involvement, and the strange emotion that came with that, is only obvious through the narrator and her shaking voice: the sadness she felt for the death of this man who she did not even know.
Below is an attached link to the original podcast. http://loveandradio.org/2015/03/the-living-room/?fbclid=IwAR2gVV7dzEt3F0Qi3kjDPEmAkUwFXl6fSUe14jNnVZ6wv8mbi7R13s9IGXc
The coronavirus has uniquely affected each state, but New Jersey, with some of the highest numbers of reported cases in the country, is at the center of the fire. Bergen county, being that it is in such proximity with New York, is being hit the hardest out of the rest of New Jersey’s counties.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, although being in Bergen County, only has 13 known positive cases thus far. With zero deaths, the town is not currently facing any major devastation. Considering the fact that the county as a whole has 7,180 reported cases, it is a relief for Englewood Cliff residents that the area is somehow avoiding the chaos.
The town’s reported cases are available separately from the overall county statistics. Updates can be found on the Bergen County, New Jersey, website.
According to The Department of Health, on March 28, COVID-19 testing sites were opened at Bergen Community College and PNC Bank Arts Center. But, they will only accept symptomatic health care workers and first responders. For those who do not fall under that category, Kean University, Hudson Regional Hospital, Weequahic Park and Union City have testing locations by appointment. Hoboken also has drive-through locations. For those who have attained a prescription from their doctor, County College of Morris, Randolph, Morristown Medical Center, and William Paterson University are open for testing.
As of recent, Englewood Cliffs has implemented a shelter-in-place order alongside an 8 pm curfew. A domestic travel advisory has also been issued for New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The Department of Health released a statement saying that “Residents are urged to refrain from non-essential domestic travel for 14 days effective immediately,” making this a very official request.
There is also the countrywide six feet apart order. In regards to how locations in Englewood Cliffs are trying to enforce this rule, stores have taken certain precautions to separate crowds. In grocery stores and liquor stores, for example, the isles have been made as “one-way” entries. Stickers on the floor at shop rite stores show “enter” and “do not enter” as to guide shoppers. This way, it is easier to keep people at a distance because they are not needing to pass by each other from opposing directions. Also, there are lines of tape sectioned six feet apart on the register lines. Announcements occur on rotation reminding shoppers to stay six feet apart and respect the sensitivity of the issue. In addition, cashiers have plastic film separating themselves from the customers at the pay stations.
Most restaurants are open for pick up and delivery in the area. This is a good way to keep small businesses going during these times. GrubHub and UberEats are also efficient options for food delivery if an individual is unwilling to drive to pick up the food or is unwell and does not want to leave their house. UberEats drivers will drop the food off at your doorstep, ring the doorbell, and walk away from the door to ensure that contact is not made. Gloves and masks are also usually worn by the drivers. Michael Guerriero, a resident in the area, said, “Cooking every night can be exhausting for my parents so it is nice to be able to just order a meal for all of us. It also helps the businesses out who aren’t getting as much income right now due to all of this.” Some examples of restaurants utilizing these options in Englewood Cliffs are the Brownstone Pancake Factory and Baumgart’s Englewood.
Also, many Restaurant Depot locations in New Jersey have decided to open up to the public. A Restaurant Depot spokesperson said to NJBiz, “Everyone deserves access to the products that they need to live their daily lives, so we want to do our part to ensure that nobody is going to wonder how they’ll get through the week.”
Public and private schools have closed down in the area, mandating that their students continue the school year online. County Parks have closed as well. All New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission agencies, road testing, and inspection facilities are also closed to the public. DMV Headquarters remain open and will continue operations, as well as providing online services. As a gratuity, all driver licenses, vehicle registrations, inspection stickers, and non-driver IDs will be extended by two months.
As Easter approaches, many individuals who sought to attend church on the occasion may be at a loss for what to do. To combat this, as well as the desire to attend regular services, many houses of worship have begun offering virtual services. Tuning in online allows for the participation in religious activities from home. This is true across the entirety of New Jersey, not just Englewood Cliffs. Some churches listed to be participating in virtual services are the Liquid Church, The Episcopal churches and The Life Christian Church among many others.
Hospitals in the area are releasing information as to how to approach not only the presentation of COVID-19 symptoms but other health-related issues as well. For patients who are self quarantined and are interested in coming to the hospital for any reason, it is requested that they call ahead of time so that the hospital can take the proper precautions and exercise certain protocols before their arrival. It is important, though, to note that elective, non-urgent surgeries and procedures are being canceled. So, anyone who had a non-urgent opposition scheduled must take this into consideration and call their doctor to come up with a plan of action.
In regards to hospital visitors, hospice and end of life units are not allowing any visitors. Pediatric care and neonatal intensive care units are allowing one parent into the facility. For the Labor & Delivery Unit and Maternity Unit, one support person allowed. If entering, they must wear a mask as well be screened for symptoms. once the individual has entered the unit, there is no re-entry.
Hospitals, in comparison to the amount of state-wide cases present, do not have hold of too many ventilators. The last reported number of ventilators acquired by the state was 850.
As a town, the state of panic has not seemed too high. Friendly walkers take the streets each day, waving to each other, while of course remaining six feet apart. Bikers are often seen on the streets, sometimes individually and sometimes in groups. Grocery stores are a bit hectic, so exercising caution with gloves and face masks is the normal scene. The town, though, is still doing quite well with low numbers of reported cases, and with the supposed peak coming up in the next few weeks, residents have their fingers crossed that only good things are on the horizon.
Many students would overlook the ongoings of a Town Board meeting, but they do often times hold interesting little tidbits of information that apply to public interest. On March 4, a Town Board meeting was held at the Town of Poughkeepsie Town Hall at seven o’clock pm. The Town of Poughkeepsie building is located at 1 Overocker Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603.
If one were unaware of the sequence of events at such a meeting, it goes as follows. The meeting is called to order, this is then followed by a salute to the flag of the United States of America. The attending Councilmen, town clerks, and town attorneys are called for roll. Next, the agenda is gone over. This is where the topics of discussion are announced in no detail greater than the title. Then, each topic is overviewed, and in the case of a public hearing, any audience member is allotted time to pitch their opinions. After a topic is announced, a motion to second the decision is asked for. Following, if a member of the board wishes to pitch amendments to the legislative piece, they do so at this time. If the amendments are cleared by the council then a motion is summoned and all in favor say “aye” and those in disagreement say “nay.” At this point, the next agenda point is discussed, and the process continues.
The agenda for this meeting consisted of 13 different topics. The first was a public hearing on Marple Road. No citizens were in the audience so this was moved to a later date. The list thereafter followed as the implementation of a part-time police assistant, the authorized execution of a safe streets memorandum, authorizing a grant award for live scanners for police, the resolution IT MHT development application for a zoning map amendment, a day for public hearing Hudson heritage brazil proposing zoning amendments, a diner on 829 Main street for water sewer building credit, authorizing an award for mowing for landfill, waiving of the liquor license for Tokyo Express 1000, authorizing the supervisor to sign the memorandum on Britain with Doucheus BOCES, authorizing 2019 budget modifications, a tax search settlement on 67 Manchester LLC, a supervisors lease agreement with McAllister moving in storage for 21 Tuckers Drive.
As a list, considering the mundanity of the topics, the topics discussed can appear quite routine and as “under the radar” events. But, it is not until further discussed that details bring to light more interesting qualities that make them applicable to the public. Also, the level of intrigue is fully dependent on the interests of each individual. Some individuals may be fascinated by zoning measures while others could feel passionate about quiet hours of the town. On the other hand, these topics could be a bedtime story for others.
One topic which was carried, meaning it was passed, was that a woman named Emily Luce was appointed the position of permanent part-time police assistant with the Town of Poughkeepsie Police Department. Her salary was said to be $22.5664. An interesting twist for those who might not be in the know about hiring protocol is that Luce is now subject to a probationary period. This period is no less than 8 weeks, but no more than 26 weeks per the Civil Service Law. This becomes effective March 9, 2020. The motion was carried unanimously.
Another interesting motion was that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is reimbursing the Town of Poughkeepsie Police force due to overtime salary expenditure used by the Hudson Valley Safe Streets Taskforce. The town, per the voting at the meeting, accepted the offer. Now the FBI is requiring the town to execute a memorandum of understanding about the town’s participation in the task force itself. This memorandum of understanding is a written agreement between the two parties that is not legally binding but holds serious, respectable strength.
Another topic discussed regarded a diner. They referred to the diner as its address rather than the establishments actual name. A quick goodle search found that the diner in discussion was Acropolis Diner. The conversation concerning Acropolis Diner, located at 829 Main Street, stated that the restaurant suffered a water leak. The board explained that it was the fault of the owner because it was on the property owners side of the meter. Even though the leaked water was in fact the owners fault, the Sewer and Water Department determined that the leaked water was neither transmitted through nor processed by the towns sanitary sewer system which meant that the town was required to take full responsibility for the event. This meant that the town was required to pay the water bill as well as the sewer bill.
Being that college students have a tendency to be intrigued by alcohol, some students in the college town of Poughkeepsie may be interested the motion granting Tokyo Express 1000 a liquor license. The establishment requested a waiver of the 30-day review period for their liquor license application. During the voting section, the motion was passed 5-0.
“This item is just a formality…The application states its new so perhaps new owner- we just do new licenses and only as a notification. Establishments are no longer required by law to send us notification of renewals,” said Town Clerk Felicia Salvatore. Salvatore was present at the meeting on Wednesday.
Town Clerk Felicia has worked for the Town of Poughkeepsie for approximately 16 years now. She described the alcohol licensing process as standard and boring. It is not usual for students to attend Town Board meetings and college students level of engagement in partying would assume an interest in discussions involving alcohol.
Overall, Town Hall meetings are an effect means to stay up to date on the ongoings of one’s town. When regarding politics and the government, people tend to brush over local government and focus more on a federal or state laws. But, considering that these Town Hall meetings effect the direct living conditions of a town, it seems important to focus on.
In accordance with data collected by the Marist Poll published on March 1, there is a disconnect between democratic voters in Texas regarding their level of support and voting intention. The article attached to the poll’s data explains that Bernie Sanders is currently in the lead for the democratic choice in Texas.
What is interesting here is that the ratio between the level of support per candidate and the intent to vote for them is skewed. Typically, it could be assumed that support would correlate with voter intention but the data would say otherwise.
What may play a roll in this data set is that many democratic citizens are in a close tie between whether to vote for a candidate that aligns with their political beliefs or one who is most likely to beat President Trump. The poll found that 49% of the tested population prioritizes the chance of election over the belief alignment on certain issues.
There is the understanding that in elections, whether they be presidential or not, people vote for the candidate that they support. So the question rests on why this was not the case in Texas. In the context of the data, for Joe Biden, for example, he received a support rating of 52% but only 19% of those polled stated that they would vote for him. This leaves a 32% rate of consistency for Biden. In regards to Bernie Sanders, he holds a level of support at 68% and an estimated voter rate of 34%. Still, there is only a 50% level of consistency.
Regardless of the specificity between the consistency of voter intention and support of voters in Texas, Bernie Sanders appears to be taking the lead in each of the three categories. His support rate is higher than Bidens, his estimated voter turnout is higher, and the consistency between the two is more even than Biden’s. There is a very significant gap in the mindset of those who support Biden. Perhaps voters are nervous that he stands less of a chance against Trump considering 49% of Texans believe this to be the most important factor in their electoral choice.
This fact is completely dismissed when considering the likelihood of each presidential candidate’s election. If the first set of data is only considered, the race seems quite neck-to-neck. But, considering the fact that only 19% of Texas democrats actually stated they would vote for Biden in comparison to Sanders’s 34% (being the majority choice), the gap widens.
To put this data into a more digestible format, consider the sample size was compacted into a group of 100 individuals. Now, for Biden, this would mean 52 of those citizens support him, but only 19 will actually tick his name in the ballot. For Sanders, out of his 68 supporters, half will vote for him.
Lastly, it is important to consider the fact that this data overlaps: 21% of voters support both Sanders and Biden. This is contracted by the fact that 52% of voters support Biden and 68% support Sanders which exceeds 100%.
Link to poll: http://maristpoll.marist.edu/nbc-news-marist-poll-results-and-analysis-of-texas/#sthash.Z2HYdk2W.dpbs
Editing Assignment: A culmination of two works integrating my own words.
Today, at Marist College, Bob Butkus dished out pizza with a side of insurance. The Senior District Marketing Manager from Federated Insurance led a conversation about the corporation.
With 600 locations in the United States, Federated Insurance rakes in billions of dollars annually. Additionally, Federated Insurance is buying out other companies, further emphasizing their economic stability and growth potential.
Although Butkus did not graduate from Marist, he believes in the educational excellence provided by the college and consequently the projective employee quality it cultivates. He understands the extent to which the college invests time into their students to cultivate bright minded people. The company, therefore, sees a high benefit in investing in graduates.
“Federated supports their employees fully, but ultimately it is up to the individual to get out of bed and want to be the best they can…You hold your own path and with all the support and information given to the new employees, you should be willing and able to produce results” said Butkus.
Butkus continually stressed that upon graduating, it is necessary to give 110% of oneself into the company to receive that level of support back. “When I graduated I had like $800 in the bank,” Butkus stated, “…but they [the company] helped me from A to B and from soup to nuts.”
New employees go through a six month training period where they receive information necessary to begin signing clients. They work alongside current employees learning the ropes of the insurance industry. Another employee benefit is the Federated Shield Network. It exists for any client that accepts insurance from the company. Butkus explains that this online website provides training for many different circumstances: one example being training seminars. These are only services for people who accept insurance from this company.
At the beginning of each year, starting in September, every employee is assigned certain goals. According to Butkus, most employees who work hard tend to accomplish these goals and finish their yearly quotas. This allows them to take vacation time in place of work due to early completion. The incentive to work hard is an extremely good model for getting results out of employees.
Considering the job entails traveling, employees will meet many employees from branches across the US. This helps build relationships with future clients and opens up the freedom to potentially transfer to other locations. Employees are given the option to choose three of their most desired work locations upon completion of the training program. He went on to explain that Federated Insurance funds employee work trips to different companies.
Upon being asked how his college experience influenced his growth, Butkus said, “Well, honestly I had a professor who grabbed my arm and literally dragged me to Federated Insurance and told me I have to meet with them. And now look where I am.”
Butkus will be attending the Marist College Career Fair on October 9 of next month to further assist Marist students in opening the door into the insurance industry.
The following story is a rendition of a blog post by Rob Sullivan including original text combined with my own. The original story is linked here: https://robsullivanweb.wordpress.com
The Cabaret at Marist College has officially been replaced by a new dining experience called Chick-n-Bap. The restaurant is known for NYC street food inspired by Korean flavors.
“This is healthier and cheaper,” Tim Johnson, a SodeXo Supervisor said. Johnson said that it took students about two weeks to appreciate the new menu options offered at Chick-n-Bap. Nonetheless, he still expressed the fact that he believes the food at the Cab was better.
Some of the food options available on the Chick-n-Bap menu include a lettuce bowl, a rice bowl, and burritos given the name, “bapprito.” Chick-n-Bap also offers a number of sandwiches and sides.
Rob Botticelli, a Marist senior, believes the switch from the Cabaret to Chick-n-Bap was ultimately for the best. “I think it’s a lot better,” he said leaving Chick-n-Bap with a rice bowl in hand. He went on to explain that the options are “healthier to an extent,” and that the new food also “tastes better.”
The Cabaret may be under a new owner, but that does not mean students have accepted the new name of “Chick-n-Bap” to describe where they are eating on campus. Students continuously call the new restaurant “The Cabaret” or “the cab,” despite the change. Old habits die hard, and that is evident in this case. The Cab was a part of the Marist Community and it will take some adjusting to. In fact, on the Marist College website, the dining option is still titled, “The Cabaret,” and the menu is not updated to preview Chick-n-Bap’s food options.
The “Marist Dining Hall” page on Marist’s website describes students’ initial reactions to Chick-n-Bap during earlier pop-up events. “The idea was well-received by many students, members of the Culinary Council, and the Student Government Association,” going on to explain that the inclusion of Chick-n-Bap as a dining option helps the “diversity” in food choices.
This is not the first time Chick-n-Bap was brought to a college campus. The food service was founded at SUNY Binghamton in 2013 and has since spread to SUNY New Paltz, Ithaca College and now Marist.
Some initial complaints were that the original Cabaret food options are no longer being served. So, for those not in favor of this change, and who are craving traditional Cabaret delicacies such as mozzarella sticks or chicken tenders, a walk over to The Marketplace by Upper West is the solution. The Marketplace currently carries all of the same options that The Cabaret did.
Astrea Slezak 