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For Alex French, SUNY Potsdam alumnus, what started as a motorcycle ride to see a friend's family ended in an effort to help 300 young schoolchildren in a country that most people could not point out on a map. Now, French searches the Potsdam community for donors to raise the $16,500 necessary to build a school in Gembeltu, Ethiopia.
If you've ever walked into the village of Potsdam, you've noticed the Roxy Theater. The old fashioned billboard style marquise, framed in glowing yellow lights, tips you off that this is not your average corporate mega-plex. In fact, the Roxy has a unique history all its own.
Julian's, the new restaurant in town, is open at 38 Market Street. Julian's serves lunch and dinner from Monday through Saturday, 11a.m. to 10 p.m. Opening just a few weeks before the new year, the restaurant hopes to leave a lasting impression on 2010. With mood lighting, piano jazz and elegant food, Julian's makes for a sophisticated place to bring company.
An internship, as defined by the Experiential Education Office, is "a structured educational work experience, a form of experiential education. The work is conducted in a specific organization setting, may be part-time or full-time, paid or unpaid and may consist of special activities or is part of a regular job.
If you are anything like me, as I like to imagine you all are for my own purposes, you are something of a daydreamer. Occasionally you succumb to the will of your imagination and put down some form of literary art on paper, or a computer. Of course, none of this ever finds its way into the public because, naturally, you know it's a serious piece of crap which should not be aired, for fear of how much stink it may produce in a public setting, right? Wrong, my friend.