Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Lessons in Recruiting
LSC student Sam Monroe reports about the many ways coaches here at Lyndon State College pull in recruits from different areas to be a part of our sports family.
LSC women's basketball coach, Vincent Maloney, starts off by mentioning "Great players make good coaches great." And in order to find those great players, recruiting is extremely necessary.
LSC's sports information director, Bill Johnson, also says "Recruiting is the life's blood of your program." Johnson's direct words stress just how necessary the recruitment is.
LSC is a division three college, so it cannot offer the scholarships that other larger schools can. Coaches have to make up for this by traveling to local games and meeting with the players on a one on one basis.
The coaches like to put emphasis on the small size of the school, the winter sports and the close connection between students and teachers.
Coach Vincent Maloney sums up recruiting by saying, "Bringing in solid athletes to make the program stronger, builds the team and helps the campus as well."
Recruiter Tool :www.collegerecruiting.com/
LSC Professors Survive Plane Crash
Five Passengers Die aboard New York Airline
On Thursday, February 5th, two Professors from Lyndon State College in Lyndonville, Vermont survived a plane crash that left five fatalities.
The two professors were George Johnson and John Dumont, who were in New York attending a teacher conference.
The airliner, which took off from LaGuardia airport, crashed upon takeoff. The causes for this unsightly crash are yet to be determined.
Out of the forty-five passengers aboard, five were left dead while Professor Johnson and Dumont were two of the lucky survivors who remained uninjured as well.
FYI: This is not a real story: For classroom purposes
MySpace Removes 90,000 Sex Offenders
Company and law officials said that about 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from the poplular online website MySpace!
North Carolina attourney General Roy Cooper, who has been trying to make MySpace a safer place for teens, estimated that 90,000 was double of what he had expected. Cooper wasn't surprised at the increase of offenders, but strongly encourages MySpace and online rival Facebook do more to protect their young users.
Cooper feels their sites have a responsibility to make them safe because, as he quotes "These sites were created for young people to communicate with eachother."
A substantial number of sex offendes were found on Facebook, but the company hasn't responded to a recent subpoena.
MySpace executives trust the program Sentinel Safe, one that can identify, remove, and block against sex offenders.
MySpace has more than 130 million users worldwide, and is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
(From Caledonian Record 2/4/09)
Take a look at this one particular sex offender :
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