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Text Box: The Harvey Milk School for LGBT students opened its doors this fall in New York City, and Sydney Seifert jumped at the opportunity to do her McNair research project on it. Small wonder. The CSTEP/McNair senior with a major in sociology has been actively involved in LGTB issues for years. Take her internship with the LGBT Community Center last summer where she helped put together a PRIDE event and organized a large fund raiser. Or there’s her involvement the National Alliance of Women’s Organizations in London last April. How about her leadership on campus as the coordinator of

Text Box: the Women’s Resource Center and her membership in PRIDES? There’s no question but that Sydney is connected with issues of gender. In fact, she is currently doing an internship with CAVA here in Canton. Sydney even went to Trinidad on a grant to study women’s empowerment and objectification during Carnival. A New York City native, Sydney is looking to find work for a year and then go on to graduate school with the hope of finding a position that

Text Box: helps people and makes a difference in their lives. Her favorite professor is Dr. Margaret Bass. “I could listen to Margaret talk for hours. She’s made me think and question ideas that I never thought to. She’s helped me get through four years here, and I can’t imagine having to have been here without her strong presence.” Speaking of those four years, Sydney, who was also a HEOP Summer Mentor, has a little advice to pass on to underclassmen: “It’s four years. . . Just do it. When times get hard, just think about the end.”

Text Box: them doing well. Good news came in an email from CSTEP alum Minerva Arias ‘03. She started her new job with the Administration for Children Services, a child welfare agency in NYC, and she is the Coordinator of the Family Unification Program. An email contact from CSTEP Alum Randy Sieminski ’87 was a surprise. Randy was a member the first year of the CSTEP program.

Text Box: Please welcome the following new members to the CSTEP fold— Domingo Rodriguez and Lynn Lomanto. Congratulations to CSTEP member Sahiry Rodriguez. The first year student traveled to Harvard in Boston with the SLU Model UN Student Team representing Macedonia and Zimbabwe. Calls and emails from Sara Morrison ‘00 and Becca Ostman ‘02 find both

Text Box: He’s now working in media relations for the Florida Panthers Hockey Club. Pedro Tejada ‘03 stopped by during his school break and looks well. He said he misses college and is being kept busy by his math teaching job. CSTEP students who were chosen to attend the statewide conference at the Sagamore Resort and Conference Center are Melina Cruz, Amber General, Fehmida Lakhi, Mikinee Moses, Randy Olivo and Steve Peraza.

Text Box: an honor that is recognized nationally. Scholars not only get to work with mentors on research, but they are given assistance in preparing for GRE exams, assistance in maneuvering through the graduate school application process, and a stipend, room and board during their required summer research internship. St. Lawrence University currently has ten senior McNair Scholars and is welcoming an additional twelve rising juniors to that group. The names, hometowns and majors of

Text Box: those new scholars are as follows: Ms. Kira Cambridge, Parishville, NY, Psychology; Ms. Sara Campos, Buffalo, NY, English Writing, Mr. Purnell Cropper, Burlington Twp., NJ, English; Mr. Macky Diop, Bronx, NY, Government; Ms. Anzinga Low, Bronx, NY, English; Ms. Stephanie Lusk, Skidmore, TX, Fine Arts; Mr. Aaron Marshall, Buffalo, NY, Religious Studies; Ms. Amy Mathews, Cleveland, OH, English; Ms. Sandra Ordonez,

Text Box: The McNair Scholars Program is a federally funded TRIO program designed to provide opportunities for low income/first generation college students and underrepresented college students to make themselves competitive for Ph. D. or Ed. D. programs. Selection of McNair Scholars is competitive and requires application, recommendations, a review of academic records, a review of the application essay, and compliance with citizenship, economic, academic, and ethnic requirements of the program. To be named a McNair Scholar is

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Flushing, NY, Sociology; Ms. Christine Ranney, Manchester,NH, English/Philosophy; Ms. Giselle Regino, Bronx, NY, English; and Mr. Austin Weakfall, Rochester, NY, History. An alternate to the program has also been named—Mr. Kripal Ohri, Ogdensburg, NY, Fine Arts.

Congratulations to all the new scholars!

Text Box: Congratulations to Shirley Obioha and Toyin Showole whose proposal to host a panel discussion at the CSTEP Statewide Conference on the medical school application process was accepted. They will run the workshop with students from Syracuse University. Kudos go to Toyin Showole who has been named ODK Leader of the Year!

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