Have you seen fun upcoming events such as Fright Fest and tarot card reading? These events are all thanks to the Geneseo Campus Activities Board (GCAB), which is funded by mandatory student activity fees. The executive board is currently all female, and among the members is Sophia Sabatino, a senior communication major from Long Island, New York. Sabatino joined GCAB during her junior year as the Concert Coordinator and now serves as the GCAB chair.

Orquidia Geraldino is a senior political science major who serves as the Student Association President for the 2024-2025 academic year and a College Council member. Throughout Geraldino’s academic career at Geneseo, she has always prioritized staying involved on campus. Her previous roles on campus also include being a Resident Assistant (RA), on search committees, and the Caribbean Student Association president. 

Grayson Alkins is the bright new star of Geneseo’s famed Orchard Street. Stationed between two frats sits his small but mighty food cart, iconically known as “Gman Hots.” It is there where he feeds the hordes of tired college students looking to feast on anything they can get their hands on.

Clifton Harcum is the interim Chief Diversity Officer, as well as the Director of Multicultural Affairs at SUNY Geneseo. Harcum has been in his position at the college since June of 2023, joining soon after establishing the Multicultural Center in 2022. When asked about his role in the Geneseo community, Harcum states that his role is to “advocate and support students from underrepresented communities” as well as “supporting BIPOC and underrepresented faculty and staff.”

Zahoor Raza is a business administration major who has attended SUNY Geneseo over the past two semesters through an international studies partnership hosted by his university in Karachi, Pakistan. Raza has truly been making the most of his time on campus, being involved with copious clubs and extracurriculars such as Model UN, The Lamron, Society for Human Resource Management, and the National Society of Success and Leadership. On top of this, he is a frequent contributor to The Friday Times, a notable, independent Pakistani newspaper, publishing since 1989.

Over the past two and a half years, The Lamron has been lucky enough to find itself as one of the many organizations in which senior English literature major and communication and political science double minor Nevaeh Tucker has taken up a leadership role while at SUNY Geneseo. With Tucker’s graduation less than a month away now, it is only fitting that we send her off into the real world by first celebrating her time at the college.

Kaitlin “Kate” Anzalone, a senior sociomedical studies and communication double major with a minor in human development, has spent the past year serving as The Lamron’s mighty captain—otherwise known as Editor-in-Chief (EIC). Originally hailing from Fredonia, the SUNY Geneseo campus has been fortunate enough to serve as her home for the last four years. During this time, Kate has worn many hats across campus as the president and founder of the Disabled Student Alliance since spring 2023 (which just won an award for ‘Best Emerging Club’ this semester) and as a loyal Lamron member since her freshman year, having served as a staff writer, assistant opinion editor, and opinion editor before becoming EIC.

Mia Donaldson is a senior English literature and American studies major with a minor in political science who currently serves as editor-in-chief for Iris Magazine, SUNY Geneseo’s first and only queer literary magazine. She is very involved on campus within the English department, serving as a student voice in meetings and when considering potential new faculty. We here at The Lamron were fortunate enough to have her among our ranks as a member of the e-board during her sophomore and junior years, as well as the first semester her senior year. Due to general busyness, she did step down from her position as copy editor this semester, but we still felt drawn to include her in our interview series involving graduating e-board members—we hope you will allow for this discrepancy. 

Nathan Hubbard is a communication major who has served as sports editor of The Lamron for the past year. Despite coming into his role with the newspaper hesitantly and at the behest of his roommate, Hubbard has become one of The Lamron’s strongest supporters since he first joined in the fall semester of 2022. With his graduation quickly approaching, it is only fitting that Hubbard be given the “senior treatment” and opportunity to express his story at SUNY Geneseo.

David Potter is a senior communication major who is involved on campus as a member of Southside Boys, one of our campus’s many acapella groups, and has been serving as The Lamron’s comic editor for two semesters. Originally from Webster, NY, a suburb of Rochester, he notes that he really cannot remember a time when music wasn’t a part of his life. This semester, he has had the opportunity to perform as a member of the on-campus production of Tuck Everlasting, which will be his first show since before COVID-19, and feels incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to perform in one last musical before his time as a college student concludes.

Since 2022, The Lamron has been graced with Dylan Dariano’s presence; he is a senior communication major who currently serves as the copy editor. He has held several different positions within the organization and proved to be the utility man that we needed. As graduation approaches, his time with The Lamron is coming to a close, and therefore, we decided it was necessary to share his story. 

Over the past two semesters, senior finance major Camryn Marshall has served as Business Manager of The Lamron. Despite coming to SUNY Geneseo undeclared in the fall of 2020, and even stepping away from the college after her second semester, Marshall has found her place on campus and in the professional world through her efforts in leadership roles both with The Lamron and beyond.

I had the honor this week of speaking with SUNY Geneseo’s therapy dog, Michele, and her handler, Marci Frutkoff. Michele is a nine-year-old Labrador retriever who has been working at Geneseo as a therapy dog every Thursday for the past four semesters.

Joshua Taylor is a senior sociology major and Rochester native who has begun work in photography in recent years. He will be graduating from Geneseo in May, but in the meantime, has left his mark on campus with a photography exhibition.

Since the fall semester of 2002, SUNY Geneseo has been graced by the presence of Dr. Andrew Herman. Herman serves as the Chair of Communication while teaching COMN 379, a course dedicated to preparing the major’s students for life after college and future careers. Through all his work on campus, though, he still finds time for his family and leisurely activities on days off.

SUNY Geneseo’s athletic teams have taken home the State University of New York Athletic Conference’s (SUNYAC) Commissioner’s Cup for seven consecutive years. The honor, which measures the top overall athletic program in the SUNYAC conference, determines the overall winner for each given school year. To continue to have the consistent success Geneseo has, many of the teams on campus have needed to perform well for years on end. This is not any more applicable than with the men’s and women’s swim and dive teams led by head coach Paul Dotterweich.

Earlier this week I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Paul Pacheco, a Professor of Anthropology at Geneseo who has been chair of the Anthropology department, since 2014. I started the interview by giving Dr. Pacheco a chance to debunk some common misconceptions about his field. “We don't get too [many] misconceptions, probably the biggest one is people think I have something to do with dinosaurs.” Since he does not work with dinosaurs, I asked him to explain what anthropology and archaeology are. 

Hannah Myers is an English literature major here at SUNY Geneseo who is finishing out her final semester here before graduation. She has also served as the news editor for The Lamron for the past year. As a final homage, and as our way to show her how much her fellow editorial staff has appreciated her dedication and endless searching for coverage, I sat down with her to conduct a final “debrief” of her time at The Lamron and SUNY Geneseo at large. 

A self-proclaimed “southsider at heart” and senior childhood special education major Elisabeth Schumacher has served as the Lamron’s public relations manager for the past three semesters. Unfortunately for our staff at The Lamron, Schumacher is graduating and joining the adult world.

Over the past semester, The Lamron has been lucky enough to fall under the leadership of current managing editor, senior English (creative writing) major Ella Pearcy, who will graduate in December. Those who know Pearcy know that she is both stringent and silly; she assembles weekly meeting notes chalk-full of emojis and sidebars, while also effectively keeping our executive board on-track and on-time. I’ve been friends with Pearcy since our freshman year, and adored speaking with her for this Invasion of Privacy about how she has grown into such a brilliant writer, editor, friend, and human throughout her undergraduate career.