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In 2007, former Pine Lake director Patrick Drohan developed a 6 month, $250,000 research proposal to search for physical evidence of the Pine Lake Monster. The initiative involved a detailed study of the lake's subsurface features, utilizing sonar technologies owned and operated by the Pine Lake Lab underwater research facility. While the proposal was intitially included as an appendix in Drohan's report on the history and future of Pine Lake, subsequent editing by higher college administrators had the section removed. Drohan's departure from Hartwick College shortly thereafter was accompanied by speculation he was pressured into doing so due to his involvement with the Pine Lake Monster initiatives.
In 2007, former Pine Lake director Patrick Drohan developed a 6 month, $250,000 research proposal to search for physical evidence of the Pine Lake Monster. The initiative involved a detailed study of the lake's subsurface features, utilizing sonar technologies owned and operated by the Pine Lake Lab underwater research facility. While the proposal was intitially included as an appendix in Drohan's report on the history and future of Pine Lake, subsequent editing by higher college administrators had the section removed. Drohan's departure from Hartwick College shortly thereafter was accompanied by speculation he was pressured into doing so due to his involvement with the Pine Lake Monster initiatives.


Recently, there has been an exponential increase in monster sightings at Pine Lake. While most cite [[global warming]] as the major cause of the increased monster activity, other theories abound. These include, but are not limited to the impeding [[Apocalypse]], the [[Second Coming of Christ]], and [[aliens]]. The monster has developed a [[cult following]] in recent months; many senior residents interupt the increase in monster activity as a reaction to a "loss of tradition and social history at Pine Lake." "The monster," they say, "has returned to restore the true spirit of Pine Lake." A [[Facebook]] page had been created by residents to honor the Pine Lake Monster. Sighting reports are posted weekly, with a large increase expected around the beginning of April.
Recently, there has been an exponential increase in monster sightings at Pine Lake. While most cite [[global warming]] as the major cause of the increased monster activity, other theories abound. These include, but are not limited to the impeding [[Apocalypse]], the [[Second Coming of Christ]], and [[aliens]]. The monster has developed a [[cult following]] in recent months; many senior residents interupt the increase in monster activity as a reaction to a "loss of tradition and social history at Pine Lake." "The monster," they say, "has returned to restore the true spirit of Pine Lake." A [[Facebook]] page has been created by residents to honor the Pine Lake Monster. Sighting reports are posted weekly, with a large increase expected around the beginning of April.


== Environmental Awareness ==
== Environmental Awareness ==

Revision as of 17:20, 1 April 2008

Hartwick College
File:Hartlogo large.JPG
MottoHistorical: Ad Altiora Semper "Always Higher" Marketing: "Connecting the Classroom to the World"
TypePrivate
Established1797
PresidentRichard P. Miller, Jr.
Undergraduates1,520
Postgraduates0
Location
Oneonta
,
NY
,
USA
CampusMain academic campus: 425 acres Environmental campus: 920 acres
AthleticsName: Hawks; Division I: (men's soccer and women's water polo); Division III: all other teams
ColorsWellesley blue and white
Websitewww.hartwick.edu

Hartwick College is a non-denominational, private, four-year, national liberal arts and sciences college located in Oneonta, New York, in the United States. Hartwick has 170 faculty members and 1520 students from 38 states and 29 countries, and the student-faculty ratio is 11.5-1. [1]. U.S News and World Report ranks it as a selective college. [2]

History

Hartwick Seminary was founded in 1797 through the will of John Christopher Hartwick, a Lutheran minister from Germany, who led several mission congregations of early settlers along the Hudson River and the Mohawk River in what is now upstate New York. Shortly after his death, his dream of establishing an institution of higher learning became a reality with the founding of Hartwick Seminary in 1797. The New York State Legislature in 1816 incorporated the new school--the first Lutheran seminary in America--as a classical academy and theological seminary, in the Town of Hartwick. The school moved to its present location in 1928 with land donated by the City of Oneonta, when it was incorporated as a four year college. The college's ties to the Lutheran Church ended in the 1960s and now carries no religious affiliation.

Academics

Hartwick offers 31 courses of study leading to a Bachelors of Arts (B.A.) or Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree, including four pre-professional programs (pre-law, pre-engineering, pre-med, and pre-allied health professions), five cooperative programs (business, engineering, law, occupational and physical therapy, and nursing), as well as academic minors. The college also offers an education certification program.

Steven-Germans Library

Hartwick College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, the National Association of Schools of Music, the National League for Nursing, the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, and the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. [1] The American Chemical Society also approved the bachelor of science degree program in chemistry. [1] U.S. News & World Report ranked Hartwick College in the third tier for Liberal Arts Colleges.[3]

Study abroad

Hartwick College was recently ranked 10th among colleges and universities nationwide by US News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges 2006" for the percentage of students who study abroad. Approximately 86 percent of Hartwick students participate in study abroad programs during their four years at Hartwick, with 198 students participating in study abroad programs in 2002-03. [citation needed]

Pine Lake Environmental Campus

Hartwick College acquired the Pine Lake Environmental Campus in 1971 from the Neunzig family. Hartwick currently owns 920 acres in West Davenport, approximately 8.2 miles from the main campus by Interstate 88. There are other parallel roads ideal for bikes also. Eleven buildings including eight cabins are available for student residence during the school year. Bailey (4), Redwood 1 (3), Redwood 2 (2), Outbacks 1,2,3 (2 each), Crossroads (2), Robertson Lodge (8), The Apartment (2), the Farmhouse (4), and the recently completed Hill and Dale 2 (2). Other buildings include the Manager's House, home to the resident manager of 20 years and his family; Strawbale, a straw insulated cabin created by the Architecture of the Sacred course as well as the Cob House. The Vaudevillian is an arched building, which looks similar to a gymnasium in the inside, used for showing movies, contra dances, indoor festivals, and other events. The Lakeside Classroom is a one room building used on occasion for non-science courses. The science courses that come to Pine Lake often use the R.R. Smith Field Station, which has a small classroom area, a computer lab area, and two lab rooms. A wood-burning Finnish sauna is right next to Pine Lake's boating area.

Pine Lake Environmental Campus

Living and Learning at Pine Lake

Pine Lake residence is open to all full-time Hartwick students, and a wide range of interests converge at Pine Lake. Common majors include biology and art, although everything including nursing, psychology, business, and outdoor recreation, and religion majors can be found there. Pine Lake residence is different from campus life. The major difference between students living at Pine Lake versus a dorm, is that the Pine Lake residents specifically chose this arrangement away from campus. Reasons for living at Pine Lake vary, but often include: appeal of living in a cabin, living by a lake, being part of a close community, access to hiking trails, and the strong bond between Pine Lake residents.

PL9 - The Pine Lake Shuttle

Pine Lake owns a blue Chevrolet Venture, stickered with the Hartwick College logo and Pine Lake Shuttle, that is seen driving around campus and to/from Pine Lake often. The current shuttle system was relaunched by a Pine Lake resident in the spring of 2005, and continues to be used extensively to this date. PL9 holds 7 (including driver) and shuttles 8-18 students per day (mean 7.8 in 2006, 10.5 in 2007, 13.0 in 2008). Free to use, Pine Lake offers work-study to student drivers that are able to drive the van on a regular basis. The shuttle van follows a schedule to/from the Robertson Lodge at Pine Lake and across from Clark Hall, with new pick-up times determined each semester to accommodate the most people.

Shuttle times leaving Pine Lake Robertson Lodge:

Mon Tues Weds Thur Fri Sat Sun
7:30am 7:30am 7:30am 7:30am 7:30am 12:00pm 12:00pm
8:15am 8:15am 1:00pm
8:30am 8:30am 8:30am 3:00pm 3:00pm
9:30am 9:30am 6:00pm
11:30am 11:30am 9:00pm 9:00pm

Shuttle times leaving Clark Hall on campus:

Mon Tues Weds Thur Fri Sat Sun
4:00pm 4:00pm 4:00pm 4:00pm 4:00pm 12:30pm 12:30pm
6:00pm 6:00pm 6:00pm 6:00pm 6:00pm 3:30pm 3:30pm
9:15pm 9:15pm 9:15pm 10:15pm 9:30pm 9:30pm

Accommodations

The Robertson Lodge and the Field Station are the only buildings at Pine Lake which offer an internet connection, and both are wireless networks. The Lodge also has a television with media players and a digital cable connection. A pay-phone in the foyer of the Lodge is the only public phone available. The cabins have phone jacks, but only a phone line when activated by the students (this is atypical due to cost and cell phones).

Each cabin is heated primarily by a wood-pellet burning stove, one of the most efficient methods today. Wood pellets are provided by the school at no cost to the students, and are bought from a local furniture manufacturer in Stamford, NY. Each cabin also comes with beds, desks, furniture, a full kitchen including an oven, range and refrigerator, and a bathroom. Students all live in single occupancy bedrooms (with the exception of Crossroads, a studio apartment) and housing costs are similar to a single room on campus. Although Pine Lake cabins are rustic, they all have electricity and running water.

Activities

Activities are often held at Pine Lake such as Eco-Art Festival, Pine Lake Day, Pot Luck dinners for gallery openings in the Lodge, Solstice parties, Bread and Puppet Theater, Contra Dances, Awakening (the freshmen pre-orientation program), The Annual Chili Cook-Off, the Local Food Cook-Off, and a series titled "Conversations at the Lake." There are often campfires and impromptu gatherings. Boats can be borrowed and used on the lake during the warmer months, and during the summer months there are lifeguards on duty, weather permitting.

Pine Lake's facilities are also available to Hartwick College staff, faculty, their families and their guests, as well as public members

There is an extensive trail system around the lake and on the northern side of the road, also called the Upper Tract. Trail maps for the Lower Tract were made last summer by GPS by a student living at the Pine Lake campus and are available in the office of the Lodge. Three trails lead up the Upper Tract and end at Mud Lake, a slowly enclosing lake surrounded by a bog. Several trails on the Lower Tract go by the swamp, and the "back field", over ridges and through old housing sites. Mountain bikes are also used on the trails, but motorized vehicles are not allowed. The Pine Lake Environmental Campus is a well-conserved and beautiful tract of land so many residents, college students, and local community members make good use of the trails.

The Pine Lake Club installed a disc golf course with nine baskets between the lake and the back field near the Holton Memorial Trail. The course is open year-round with discs available in the Office.

The Pine Lake Lab underwater research facility

Pine Lake hosts a unique classroom experience that no other liberal college can offer - an underwater lab facility. The Pine Lake Lake Lab is approximately forty feet (6.6 fathoms) underwater in the southeast corner of the lake. Nelson Floyd, a former resident of Pine Lake graciously donated $25.6 million to make this project a reality in 2005. The initial contributions funded the original two modular sea-pods: the Morse Aquacenter which is approximately 16 feet in diameter and 7 feet tall in an ellipsoid shape and the smaller Hagenbuch LakeLab helium compression chamber on the north end. A secondary contribution from an anonymous donor funded the Blue Submersible vehicle capable of reaching the bottom of the lake and sustaining two people for 3 hours of research before docking. The donor left an overflowing pizza box with small bills and change with a noted reading, "Peter, thanks for letting me park my van/home at Pine Lake." The newest addition to the Pine Lake Lab will be from the director for the Pine Lake Institute for Sustainability and Environmental Studies, Dr. Brian Hagenbuch. He has ordered the Aquabus (refered to as PL10) which will be available in the Fall term of 2008 for both transporting students to class, and underwater excursions through Pine Lake.

The Pine Lake Monster

The Pine Lake Monster is an alleged animal, identified neither as to family or species, but claimed to inhabit Pine Lake. The Pine Lake Monster is one of the lesser known animals studied by cryptozoology. Popular belief and interest in the animal have waxed and waned over the years since the animal came to the college's attention in 2008. Evidence of its existence is largely anecdotal, with minimal, and much disputed, photographic material and sonar readings: there has not been any physical evidence (skeletal remains, capture of a live animal, definitive tissue samples or spoor) uncovered as of 2008.

A major source of debate regarding the existance of the Pine Lake Monster involves the formation of Pine Lake. Other bodies of water thought to harbor large, unidentified creatures typically form from past oceans, and/or are or were connected to current oceans, faciliting the entry of a large marine species. Examples include Lake Champlain and Loch Ness. Pine Lake is a kettle lake and formed from glacial recession, which leads many to question how a larger marine animal could become trapped in such a small body of water. The currently entertained theory is that The Pine Lake Monster is an arctic species of sea monster that was frozen in a glacier. After the subsequent glacial recession and thawing, the monster became trapped in Pine Lake. Further evidence for this theory is present in reported sightings of the monster. Few reports have been made of the monster surfacing during the warmer months; instead, it appears to prefer staying in the deeper, cooler waters of the lake throughout the summer, and only surfaces during winter months.

In 2007, former Pine Lake director Patrick Drohan developed a 6 month, $250,000 research proposal to search for physical evidence of the Pine Lake Monster. The initiative involved a detailed study of the lake's subsurface features, utilizing sonar technologies owned and operated by the Pine Lake Lab underwater research facility. While the proposal was intitially included as an appendix in Drohan's report on the history and future of Pine Lake, subsequent editing by higher college administrators had the section removed. Drohan's departure from Hartwick College shortly thereafter was accompanied by speculation he was pressured into doing so due to his involvement with the Pine Lake Monster initiatives.

Recently, there has been an exponential increase in monster sightings at Pine Lake. While most cite global warming as the major cause of the increased monster activity, other theories abound. These include, but are not limited to the impeding Apocalypse, the Second Coming of Christ, and aliens. The monster has developed a cult following in recent months; many senior residents interupt the increase in monster activity as a reaction to a "loss of tradition and social history at Pine Lake." "The monster," they say, "has returned to restore the true spirit of Pine Lake." A Facebook page has been created by residents to honor the Pine Lake Monster. Sighting reports are posted weekly, with a large increase expected around the beginning of April.

Environmental Awareness

On May 14, 2004 Hartwick signed the Talloires Declaration with involves a broad range of institutions worldwide all working on sustainability in higher education. One of the 10 points on this declaration is to "Practice Institutional Ecology," where Hartwick fails significantly. Currently, a limited amount of recycling containers are located on campus, and of those, few are used by students due to their inadequate quantities, poor location choices, and lack of creative labeling. While it is state law in New York to recycle, the facilities staff of Hartwick have been interviewed and attest to the fact that even materials from the recycling bins are combined with the regular trash (except for cardboard and refundable cans and bottles).

The new academic building, Golisano Hall, is an extraordinary building of “greenwashing”. Two drastically different promotional articles have been published about this new facility. One states that it is the only LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building in the city of Oneonta and county of Otsego, while the other expands on the "electronic classroom" concepts of using electronic-whiteboards that are constantly using power to upload documents to the web instead of using dry erase markers or chalk, which are far more sustainable options.

Campus activities

Hartwick offers students many student run activities, through a variety of clubs (approximately 60) with a wide variety of topics. The student governing body known as Student Senate oversees the constitutions and budgets of every club. Some of the most well known clubs include Student Union, which hosts weekly events on Fridays in Laura's Cafe and weekly movies on Sunday nights in the Anderson Theater; a variety of honor societies for various majors and minors, campus activism groups for topics like Fair Trade, local environmentalism and School of America; and a variety of special interest clubs for a large variety of interests ranging from academic to leisurely.

Fraternities and sororities

Hartwick College currently has 6 registered Greek Life groups:

Fraternities: Alpha Delta Omega, Alpha Sigma Phi, Tau Kappa Epsilon

Sororities: Alpha Omicron Pi, Gamma Phi Delta, Phi Sigma Phi

It is important to note that during the past several years, the continuation of Greek life at Hartwick has been threatened. This comes due to lack of positive reputation and multiple policy violations. At least three Greek Life groups exist at Hartwick that are no longer recognized by the institution.

Notable alumni

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External links


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