VOL. 24, ISSUE 4 Thursday, November 8, 2007 SINCE 1973

Big Love Brides Belt Out a Ballad

Big Love

Clockwise from top left: Jess Silva, Jahida Jorganes, Mallory Hazen,

Mira George, Lauren Chapman, Julifer Mellett, Jenn Lindsay.

Bottom: Brittany Rhoads and Rhiannon Fleckenstein. Photo courtesy

of F. Reed Brown

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Bentley Lot

Bentley parking lot, site of the future "Gateway to Campus"

photo by Kevin Paquet

$9.25 Million for JSC: Students to Pay $500 Fee

By Kevin Paquet

Johnson State College will soon be getting $9 million dollars for campus improvements and renovations as part of a $72 million loan that the Vermont State Colleges have collectively taken out. JSC will be using the bulk of its grant towards the renovation of Stearns Hall, which is expected to cost seven million dollars. The rest of the money will be spread out across a number of smaller projects.

“Whenever a college or university wants to borrow money, you have to look at its ability to borrow, which essentially means its ability to repay,” says JSC President Barbara Murphy. “College systems and universities have bond ratings, so when you go out on the bond market you get a lot of professionals to decide, ‘how solid are you?’… and we have an ‘A’ bond rating, which is the best you can get.”


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Ghost Hunter

Stacey Jones, Central NY's "Ghost Hunter"

photo courtesy of Stacey Jones

Ghost Hunter Jones: Paranormal P.I.

By Calista Tarnauskas

Paranormal: [par-uh-nawr-muhl] any phenomenon that in one or more respects exceeds the limits of what is deemed physically possible according to current scientific assumptions.


With a soft multi-phonic hum in the background emanating from the Bose sound system of Bentley 207, 30 of us began our journey into the paranormal with Stacy Jones, Ghost Cop.

My friends and I were joking about the somewhat cheesy look of the PowerPoint slide being projected onto the Bentley big screen. It looked like something out of some late-night Lifetime channel show like Unsolved Mysteries but without the X-files music and, of course, Robert Stack.

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