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ATTENTION: The OSP Office will be moving on Thursday and Friday, May 17 and 18 to the Gilligan Student Union Building, Third Floor. The offices will spend most of the summer in GSUB while Vodra Hall is undergoing significant renovations. The tentative dates for the OSP return to Vodra are in mid-August, after the OSP Summer Prefreshman Program. For more information feel free to contact the office at 201-200-3355, or contact Mr. Delgado at
adelgado1@njcu.edu
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OSP STUDENT ELECTION WINNERS!
 Mr. Diaz Ms. Peña
OSP Students Christian Diaz and Jennifer Peña emerged triumphant in the Spring 2012 Student Government elections. Mr. Diaz won the top elective position, SGO President, and Ms. Peña was elected Executive Vice President.
STAFF NEWS On April 27, 2012 OSP Director Andrew Platizky was presented an award for community service by BAAFSSO (Black Administrators, Alumni, Faculty, Staff, and Students Organization)…..OSP Recruitment Director Candice Fair has been awarded an “Excellence in Student Services” award by the National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS) as part of a ceremony where a record number of 90 students were inducted into the organization…..At the NSLS ceremony, OSP tutor and summer instructor Emilio Marmora, who is also an adjunct professor in the Psychology Department, received an award for “Excellence in Teaching” from NSLS…..In the April 26 edition of the NJCU student newspaper, the Gothic Times, OSP Counselor Barry Broxton began a regular advice column, giving students tips on important academic and university matters. His first column concerned the process of choosing a major…..OSP Coordinator of Supplemental Instruction Robert Thurston had an article he wrote on the notable science-fiction writer, Harlan Ellison, in a collection of criticism about Ellison, published by EBSCOT Library Database and Salem Press.
OSP Personnel’s Achievements Noted in the Current Issue of NJCU Magazine
From the Winter 2012 issue of the NJCU publication
Gothic:
Raul Garcia ’04 had a three-minute film, “Crude Remains,” shown on the national Chiller Cable Channel on Halloween Night 2010. Mr. Garcia, an English tutor in NJCU’s Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), was cinematographer for
Blaming George Romero, which was directed by
Bob Lise, also an OSP tutor, and also featured
Samuel Platizky ’06, a former OSP tutor and office manager for NJCU’s Local 1839 of the American Federation of Teachers.
Student Achievements
Fiby Habashi of Bayonne, an OSP student, was one of twenty-one students inducted into the Nu Pi Chapter of the National Biological Honor Society, Beta Beta Beta (TriBeta), at a recent campus ceremony. TriBeta is an honor society for students, particularly undergraduates, dedicated to improving the understanding and appreciation of biological study and extending boundaries of human knowledge through scientific research......
OSP student
Allison Lozada was the Editor-in-Chief of the NJCU student newspaper,
The Gothic Times
during the academic year 2011-12.
A journalism major, Allison was a reporter for the paper for the previous two years.
OSP student
Allison Lozada was the Editor-in-Chief of the NJCU student newspaper,
The Gothic Times
during the academic year 2011-12.
A journalism major, Allison was a reporter for the paper for the previous two years.
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Two Films With Close OSP Connections
OSP personnel have contributed to the filming of threemovies, Red Scare,
Blaming George Romero and
Cerise. In fact, Cerise was filmed in the OSP office itself.
Former OSP Math and English tutor
Bob Lise is not only the director, but a lead in
B
laming George Romero,
and he also appears as a villain in Red Scare. Bob is a graduate English and Theater major at NJCU.
There are two other connections of the OSP Tutoring Department to
Blaming George Romero. Its screenwriter and lead actor is
Samuel Platizky, a former OSP English tutor who has the lead role in both films, and its director of cinematography is
Raul Garcia, presently an English tutor for OSP.
Blaming George Romero is a film about discontented characters who seek refuge in a world filled with zombies.
Red Scare,
directed by William Dautrick, premiered in January 2012. Its story concerns the evil communist, Vlad Sinisterski, who unleashes his army of socialist zombies on American shores.
John Trigonis (left) and a member of his crew in the OSP tutoring area
examining a scene from his movie
Cerise on a monitor
In May 2010, OSP professor and tutor
John Trigonis shot the majority of his latest short film,
Cerise, in the OSP office. The 22-minute film tells the story of Josh Kermes, a former National Spelling Bee champion who becomes haunted by the word that took him down.
Illustration on the DVD copy of
Cerise
So far, the film has been doing exceptionally well in the film festival circuit, screening at NYC Downtown Short Film Festival, Staten Island Film Festival, Bergenfield Film Festival, New Filmmakers NY, EgoFest, the NYC International Film Festival, Rome International Film Festival, and Vegas Cine Film Festival. Trigonis’s short film was also a part of France’s prestigious Cannes Short Film Corner. It also won an award of merit at The Indie Fest. More information on this project is available at
http://cerisethemovie.com/
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"
THE VOICE OF OSP." THE OSP NEWSLETTER FOR SPRING 2011 IS AVAILABLE
TO READ, CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK:
osp_newsletter_spring_2011.pdf ------ ------
 View our online presentation from the 2005 OSP Graduation Ceremony. View our online presentation from the 2006 OSP Graduation Ceremony. View our online presentation from the 2006 NJCU/OSP Graduation Ceremony. |
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