Medaille College now has a magazine. The Perspective staff put together a magazine a debuted it in the last week of May.

“The Perspective staff decided to put together a magazine because we wanted to put out another publication that the college would enjoy. We thought a magazine was a great idea. We wanted to make sure that the content of the magazine would appeal to a wide audience. We wanted everyone on campus to be able to pick up the magazine and find an article they could relate to and enjoy,” Executive Editor Summer Gemmati said.

It was a collaborative idea from everyone in the paper. We saw other school newspapers did it and thought it would be a fun project. It was all we thought it was going to be and more, a lot more,” Features Editor, James Witherow said.

A handful of students on the Perspective staff were also on the staff of INcite. For editorial positions on the magazine, interviews were held.

The magazine will continue next year, and most likely come out next Spring. Eventually the staff would like to publish the magazine once each semester according to Gemmati.

The rest of the magazine staff consisted of Lisa Murphy who was the adviser, Megan Fitzgerald who was the editor-in-chief, Nick Calandra was photo director James Witherow, Stephanie Gemmati and Chris Musial were features editors.

“I did the magazine because I thought it would be a nice change of pace from the newspaper. The paper is very strict on rules and structure and a magazine you can be a lot more creative and explore more with layout and writing. I just thought it would be a nice change up from the usual and thats what it was, and it came out great,” Witherow said.

“It is definitely going to continue next year, Megan Fitzgerald is going to be the Editor in Chief of the Magazine and I have no doubt that with all she put into it this year, it’s going to be even better next year! We are hoping that it will eventually come out every semester but for right now it’s going to be a once a year thing,” Witherow said.

“I heard that a lot of people on campus were really impressed with the magazine and I am hopeful that the entire campus was able to find an article or two that they were really interested in considering that the main reason we choice such a range of articles was to appeal to a wide audience base,” Gemmati said.

You know the cliche: Life’s not fair? Well for Dennis Williams, the ex-Sports Director of WIVB Channel 4, life isn’t fair.

A month ago, Dennis Williams’ contract was up and WIVB decided not to renew it. This was not because of anything that he did not didn’t do but because there was someone out there on the market that they would rather have.

It’s like in sports when you are the quarterback of a successful football team and one off-season there is a better quarterback with a better profile that is more marketable suddenly becomes available. The team is probably going to go with the better player even if he will cost more and even if the team is already in good shape.
That is exactly what Channel 4 did when John Murphy left WKBW Channel 7 after he refused to take a pay cut. John Murphy is the voice of the Buffalo Bills, marketable, well respected, and very well known in the area. So Channel 4 decided to go with Murphy and part ways with Williams just like that.

Channel 4 has nothing against Williams they just felt Murphy was better for their station at this point in time. It just wasn’t right the way they let Williams go so suddenly without much of an explanation or a chance for him to let it sink in. It must have been a shock for him.

I was able to speak to Williams a few weeks after he left Channel 4 and I could tell that he wasn’t happy with how things ended.

Williams is a very talented sports director and he did direct the best sports coverage in the area. I am sure that he will land on his feet but he will probably have to leave the area to get a job and that is a shame. Recently Williams has kept his part-time job on WGR 550 radio.

The Bisons need to get out of Dunn Tire Park for a week or so. The Herd has only won two of the six games that they have played in their home ballpark this season thus far. On Friday night, the Syracuse Chiefs finished off the sweep of the Bisons with a 8-4 win.

Russ Adam hit the Bisons pitchers well as he was 3 for 5 with 1 home run, 3 runs batted in and 2 runs scored. Ex-Bisons, a current Bisons killer, Hector Luna, who has been hitting well against the Bisons throughout this series, went 2 for 4 with a home run, 2 runs batted in and a run scored.

There were a few bright spots for the Bisons as Ryan Mulhern and Andy Gonzalez both hit solo home runs.

Matt Ginter picked up the loss as he only went 4 and 1/3 innings on 8 hits, he allowed 7 runs, 6 of them earned, striking out 3 and giving up 2 home runs.

The next Bisons home stand will start on Saturday, April 26 against the Pawtucket Red Sox, the AAA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox.

The Bisons have gotten off to their worst two week start in 15 years. The Bisons record fell to 5-10 as they dropped their third straight to the Syracuse Chiefs with a 9-7 loss on Thursday afternoon in front of a good weekday crowd of 8,032.

Bisons starting pitcher Brian Slocum got off to a rocky start as he gave up three runs on fours hits in the 2nd inning. Slocum threw 64 pitches in three innings of work. Jeff Harris came in to pitch in the 4th inning and stayed on for four innings. He gave up a big inning in the sixth as the Chiefs scored three runs on four hits in the inning.

The Bisons were trailing 9-3 heading into the 8th. The exploded for 4 runs on five hits with the big blow being Jason Cooper’s 3-run home run. The team had not been hitting in the first couple weeks of the season but collected 11 hits in the loss against the Chiefs.

“I was probably dejected as I’ve ever been after the first seven innings and it was good to see these guys kind of rebound,” Manager Torey Lovullo said.

Outfielder Jason Cooper was a bright spot out for the Bisons in the loss as he went 3 for 4 with a home run, 2 runs scored and 3 runs batted in and he made a great play in the field early in the game.

“He saved us a run out there. He is playing the way I hoped all the guys would be playing. He is really taking the game to the opposition. He had a great two strike approach and hit a home run and got us right back into the game. There is never a doubt of any passion or energy, he goes out there and plays full speed and I like that,” Lovullo said about Jason Cooper.

Cooper was able to get the Bisons back in the game with his 3-run home run in the 8th inning of of Chiefs reliever, Jordan De Jong.

“He [De Jong] threw me a few change-ups early. I figured with worst case scenario being he loads the bases and he has to pitch with one more hitter but don’t get off the change-up and he ended throwing another change-up and I was able to dig it out and keep it fair,” Cooper said.

The Bisons will finish off their home stand against Syracuse with the FridayNightBash at 6 p.m. on Friday as the Bisons will host Brian Dux Night.

With technology growing as fast as it has, people have been able to get their daily news through the internet rather than reading it in the newspaper.

What makes the internet better than a newspaper is the fact that online article can be updated at any time during a day. if a story breaks, you don’t have to wait until the next morning to get the news as you do with a newspaper. Most people nowadays are impatient and don’t want to wait a whole day to read about the breaking news that happened yesterday. They would rather know right away.

If I want to read the Boston Globe, I used to have to have it sent to me as a special delivery or go to Boston to get it. Now, everyone has a website and the articles are available on the internet. You can read any newspaper from any city in the United States. This wasn’t available before the internet. The more people use the internet the less they need newspapers or magazines.

Print journalism isn’t going to die anytime soon but the readership will slowly deteriorate. I may not be alive to see the newspaper industry dead but I may be around to see it on life support.

The rain held off just long enough for the Bisons to get in their 21st home opener in downtown Buffalo. Too bad for the fans, the Bisons couldn’t pull out a victory as they were only able to put up two hits in a lost 4-1 to the Toledo Mud Hens on Friday night.

Bisons’ lefty starter Jeremy Sowers saw his record drop to 0-2 as he gave up three solo home runs to Matt Joyce, Mike Hessman, and Jeff Larish.

“The one thing about all those home runs is that they were solo home runs. As a pitcher I don’t worry about that at all. The Tides are a very aggressive hitting team, they don’t get cheated up there at all,” Sowers said.

The Bisons’ haven’t really been as good offensively than it looked they they would on paper at the beginning of the season. As a team Buffalo is second last in batting after the first week, hitting .228 as a team. Players like Ben Fransisco, Josh Barfield, Ryan Mulhern, Aaron Herr, are all proven hitters at this level as look to help Buffalo at the plate this season.

“It’s easy to say that we could be concerned but I believe in these guys theses guys are proven at this level and beyond and I think its going to get better, I know its going to get better at the end of the season we are going to be a totally different team and looking at this totally different,” Manager Torey Lovullo said.

After Sowers left the game after 6th innings, Reid Santos came in relief and pitched three exceptional innings as he recorded six strikeouts and only gave up two hits.

“Reid did a great job. We’ve been trying to find some innings for him. He got better as his outing progressed. His fastball’s got a little life to it and he’s got some quality secondary stuff. The best part about Reid is that he is unfazed by any situation. He’ll go after his hitters and attack anybody,” Lovullo said.

The Bisons will try to get back on the right track as they play three more games against the Mud Hens finishing up on Monday.

All this baseball season, I will be covering the Buffalo Bisons and giving you game recaps and interviews of players, coaches and administrators. I will attend at least one home game a series so that I can cover every team that comes into Dunn Tire Park.

Anyone interested in coming with me for any game this summer and learn to cover the Buffalo Bisons contact me at mattykwmcb@yahoo.com

The next series I will cover will be the Syracuse Chiefs, the AAA team of the Toronto Blue Jays. I will be there on Thursday and Friday.

Matthew Kushner

WMCB Sports Director

Communication Senior

I’m a senior and I’m taking Gen410 and in that class we have discussed Neil Postman and he likes to talk about technology and advices us not to let it take over our lives. He implies that some technology is good but we shouldn’t let it run our lives. We should not become slaves to technology.

He got me thinking and I asked myself the question if I was a slave to technology. I had to answer yes. I am a huge sports fan and I would saw that I am a slave to sports combined with technology. I am always on the internet to find out how my favorite players performed that day or if my team won. I also like to catch games on television or on the radio if need be. I can sit down watch a complete game of baseball, basketball, football, or hockey.

Recently I realized how much a slave I really was to sports and technology when I purchased the MLB.TV package online. This package gives me access to every MLB game for the entire season on my computer.

I think of it this way, if something makes you happy then why not do it. Sports and media are going to me the rest of my life anyway as I push for a career in sports radio or television. Being a slave to technology can be fun especially when you can watch every baseball game all summer long!

Matthew Kushner

Communication Senior

I was driving into Medaille on Friday, April 4 at 10 a.m. and I turned on the radio and landed on Z 101.1. A song came on the air and it was “It’s been a while” by Staind and I knew it had the F-word and the S-word in it and I figured that they would play the edited version but when they played the unedited version instead it just through me for a loop. I have never heard either word on the radio in my life.

Z101.1 is a station that is broadcast out of Canada, a country that does not have the FCC, but it is also broadcast out of the United sates as well and we have rules about such words on the air. When I put on the radio I expect certain things and I don’t know how well this will sit with me. I will probably forget about it in a few days but I am just thinking about the children that hear these words on the radio and imitate their favorite bands or celebrities.

Just because you may be able to get away with something , doesn’t make it right.

Matthew Kushner

Communication Senior

I turned on the television at 6:24 p.m. on Saturday night to see if the local stations were going to report on the Medaille Lady Mavs basketball AMCC tournament championship, their third in three years.

I started on Channel 2 and they were already done with their sports report, Channel 4 had NCAA  basketball coverage on so I landed on Channel 7 where they ended their 6 O’clock sportscast with the Medaille Lady Mavs championship game.

I was surprised to see that they only reported the first half stats and score. The game had been over for more than an hour and they were just reporting the halftime score!!! They added that they would give the final score on the 11 O’clock news.

What the hell is that??? Is Channel 7  testing out a “to be continued feature” on their news. I was always taught that you report the new when it happens. The game was over and the Lady Mavs had indeed won the championship but Channel 7 wanted me to wait five more hours to find out who won on their station.

I just thought this was ridiculous, just like Channel 7 is becoming. They are becoming a joke. They have a bunch of rookies who don’t know what they are doing. I think my crew on The Medaille Magazine could do a better job than some of these rookies. I am not counting Keith Radford or Joanna Pasceri. They are top notch. But other than that, Channel 7 is a joke. And this “to be continued” crap is one of the reasons.

So if you want to know the score and stats of Medaille Lady Mavs championship game then head over to www.medaille.edu right now or wait until the 11 O’clock news on Channel 7.

Matty K

Senior, Media/Communications student

WMCB Sports Director