WHO WE ARE

ICLC’s primary goal is to create an interactive floor-wide community whose focus is on assisting first-year students with their transition into college life. This is accomplished through our mentoring program where each ICLC member is paired up with one or more first year students with their transition into college life. This is accomplished through our mentoring program where each ICLC member is paired up with one or more first-year students for the first few weeks of the school year. For the rest of the year, we exist as a community sponsoring events and programming.

Activities and programs that have aided ICLC in the pursuit of this goal during past years include:

Intramural Sports

Winter Sledding, Ski Trips, Apple & Pumpkin Picking

Weekly Hall Dinners

Community Service

Education Trips to Zoos, Museums

And much, much more!

Aside from our formal activities, ICLC offers a friendly and supportive atmosphere that is a direct result of our “open door policy”. Members are receptive to each others’ needs and are always willing to help. These living conditions have promoted a unique spirit and enthusiasm known throughout the University’s community. For this reason, we need dedicated members who are interested in contributing to and benefiting from what ICLC has to offer.

Our Members

Tomika Adamson

2007

Political Science

ASL

I am from DC, i enjoy bowling, shopping, playing softball, watching movies and i like doing hair.

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

Allan Batalier

2007

Mechanical Engineering

reading, movies, chillin with friends

"pain is just weakness leaving your body."

Salinas Colón

2005

Psychology

I’m a very busy girl with lots of stuff to do. I like belly dancing. I looooooove Jumpstart, I just LOVE it. I wanna be a teacher for special needs children in elementary school. My hobbies are studying and reading, and reading, and that’s about it.

“Boys are stupid. I throw rocks at boys”

Aiesha Edwards

2005

English

Japanese Culture

I'm from South Carolina. I have a huge family. I read a lot, procrastinate and I'm completely random most of the time but that keeps me from being bored. This is the essence of me.

"And in the end, it's not the years in you life that count. It's the life in your years."

Carlo Fusco

2006

Anthropology/Pre-med

Mechanical engineering

hobbies: love to draw, play soccer, and watch movies

favorite movies: Gladiator, Rocky, Saving Private Ryan, A Bronx Tale, Il Postino, bloodsport, Kickboxer

“The worst thing in life is a waste of talent”

Jenna Goldstein-Walsh

2007

Psychology

Philosophy

I love Lost, and jumpstart and my Ipod and kids. My interests are Softball, Field Hockey, Watching football and baseball (YEAH PATS AND BOSOX!!), Listening to music, playing trumpet and piano, watching movies, photograpy, drawing, reading, working with kids, animals, and nature.

“To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--This is to have succeeded.”

Jamella James

2006

Psychology

I like to watch scary movies, and talk..alot! I love dancing, and listening to Hip Hop, Merengue, Salsa, Reggae. I want to learn how to swim, but I'm too scared. I love playing volleyball. I'm the oldest of five siblings. And I am deeply in love with the my boyfriend's Game Boy Advance lol :)

Future Endeavors: Law School Hopefully

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." Sir Isaac Newton

Tara Kerpelman

2007

Brain and Cognitive Science

I was born and raised in Switzerland, and I’m Indian and American. I love anything international, cross-cultural, I LOVE dancing, hanging out with my friends, watching movies, learning Hindi better… I like dreaming and chatting online. I’m in several other groups on campus as well, one of which is Alpha Phi. I’m Director of Marketing and Publicity for that, and do the website for the ICLC. I love languages as well… I’m learning my 5^th, and plan on learning more when I have more time!

"Today is a gift, that's why it is called the present."

Kenny Lotito

2007

Biology/Film Studies

From: Queens, NYC

Hi my name is Kenny. When i'm not engaging my academics, which i do with wholehearted passion, i enjoy watching film (movies) and singing with the U of R Midnight Ramblers.

“ Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” - Voltaire

Lee Mazur

2007

Philosophy/History

Math

I love Prince, ultimate frisbee, coffee, baseball, and anything mentally stimulating. In my free time I like to run and listen to music - not at the same time. Also, I have a radio show on our very own WRUR and I am a member of UR's club ultimate team, The Little Piggies. Go Mets!!!

"A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world." Louis Pasteur

Domingo Moronta

2005

Philosophy

hobbies: causing trouble, drawing, reading (various anarchist/vegan propaganda), playing games (of all sorts, including mind games), hassling for lower prices, liberating, murders, talking (about random stuff like dishwashing liquid), comparing rochester to various sorts of torture (my favorite is water torture), looking at how much more of NYC i can find out by meeting the actual people who live there and not the penthouse/middle class wasteland this country caters to.
"And we are loved for being ignorant

And hated if we are militant

But promises can do nothing for me

It's time to set ourselves free"

The Last Poets, by Pudim in Surprises

Anthony Plonczynski

2006

Political Science

Hobbies-Sports, Card Collecting, Politics

“God grant me the serenity

to accept the things I cannot change;

courage to change the things I can;

and wisdom to know the difference.”

--Reinhold Niebuhr

Fernando Quiñónez

2006

Electrical Engineering/Spanish

INTERESTS: Reading anything about cars and electronics, watching Dave Chapelle show, chillin wit the fam, Tiramisu, laughing and cracking jokes, catching up with 'ol peeps, sleep, lots of music and movies.

FAV. MUSIC: Everthing including some country(thanx Ant), but esp. reggae/reggaeton, 80's muzik, and blazN Hip-Hop N RnB.

Some Fav. Books: Raisin in the Sun, Black Boy, Goosebump series :O)

Some Fav. Movies: Kill Bill, Old School, Weird Science, Fight Club, Gladiator, Office Space, Back to the Future.

"There's no such things as strangers, just friends we haven't met yet" -Unknown.

Bladimir Santamaría

2006

Biology/Medicine

Paul Valdez

2006

Economics/Spanish

Born in Ecuador raised in the South Bronx

Secretary of La Unidad Latina Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc.

Vice president of SHPE

I play the guitar, My favorite band is Metallica. I listen to hardrock heavymetal hip pop Reggeton

Favorite quote "People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."

Deborah Ventura

2006

Anthropology

My hobbies include Anime, reading, playing video games, dancing.

I’m sociable and like to have fun

EXEC

President – Salinas

Vice President - Anthony

Community Service Liaison - Domingo

Program Manager - Jamella

Secretary - Aiesha

Chief of Retention - Fernando

Publicity – Jenna and Tara

Dorm Council Representative - Carlo

Special Interest Housing Council - Paul

Historian/Constitution Guru - Carlo

Webmaster – Tara

Last updated: January 26, 2005

Contact: Tara S. Kerpelman