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By Alec Rider Co-Editor-in-chief
In late August, a delegation of four professors from North Maharashtra University (NMU) began a 10-day visit to Cayuga Community College to work out the details of an agreement that both institutions signed in March of this year when President Dan Larson, Professor Jeff Delbel, and Dean of Enrollment Management Cheryl Lindsey went on a 10 day trip to India to formalize the partnerships; opening the door for an academic collaboration pact and exchanges. After touring both campuses, the delegation met with faculty and administrators to develop joint degree and certificate programs and explore other opportunities, including student and faculty exchanges.
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CCC President Dan Larson with Professor Jeff Delbel during their 10 day trip to India in March.
Polls and the election season By Alec Rider Co-Editor-in-chief Whether it’s Gallup, Pew, NBC/ Wall Street Journal/Marist, or CBS/ New York Times, there are numerous avenues to place fingers on the pulse of the nation. The average poll has 1,000 adult respondents with a 3% margin of error. But there is a new platform out there that can reach 30,000 people in a split second, in a low covered demographic. With the emergence of social networking there are larger opportunities to reach the burgeoning group of voters that is the youth vote. In 2008, Facebook had just passed MySpace in popularity and was a way to share your political views if you had chosen. Twitter broke through the wall in 2010 just in time for the midterm elections that produced the single largest loss for the Democratic Party in a midterm in 72 years. In 2012, arguably a peak year for social networks with Facebook going public on the New York Stock Exchange and announcing that they have 1 billion users, a platform has been opened up and it’s being championed by Microsoft’s Xbox Live service. The Xbox Live Election Hub is an app on Xbox Live that allows you to participate in daily polls and watch the debates live. Now, the part that makes it interesting is that YouGov (another reputable polling center) asks continued page three
“The U.S. has arguably one of the best academic systems in the world. We are particularly strong in science and mathematics. Through this partnership, we will be able to share our expertise.” -Dr. Vijaykumarl Maheshwari
By the time the delegation left, the two institutions had developed four joint degree programs in microbiology, chemistry, management, and computer science. Through a joint admissions system, students could study two years at Cayuga and one at NMU; or year one at MNU, year two at Cayuga, and year three at MNU. Students who enroll in the joint program would earn an associate’s and bachelor’s degree in three years, a year shorter than the standard four. The two institutions also developed four, six-week, certificate courses that will be offered at Cayuga over the summer. Those certificates would be in video/audio
CCC President Dan Larson with Dean of Enrollment Management Cheryl Lindsey and the delegation of professors from India’s North Maharashtra University. production, geographic information systems, applied management, and communication skills. The next step involves figuring out tuition exchanges and finding American partners to offer master’s degree programs. Initial conversations are occurring with Niagara University, LeMoyne, SUNY Oswego, and SUNY Cortland. “After our ten-day trip in March to India, we are pleased to announce that Cayuga students can participate next February in a two-week travel study course about world religions, taught by Professor Jeff Delbel. The course will visit Varanasi, the oldest inhabited city in the world and one of the holy cities of India, and other sites important to religious traditions in India. We will host faculty exchanges with our India partner institutions. This Nov. 1 and 2, we will present an agricultural conference with American and Indian scholars. This is the result of our Memorandum of Understanding with North Maharashtra University, in Jalgaon, to create pathways to global opportunities for faculty and student engagement, learning, and research,” said Larson.
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More than 40 area businesses are expected to participate in a job fair from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday, November 5 in Cayuga Community College’s Spartan Hall, 197 Franklin St., Auburn. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet with employers who are hiring for beginning, technical, and professional positions. In preparation for the event, job-seekers are invited to attend a one-hour Orientation Workshop to learn how to plan, prepare, and implement a job searching strategy. Workshop participants can also receive assistance in putting together their professional resume. The workshops will be held at the Cayuga Works Career Center: 2 to 3 p.m. Thursday, October 25 2 to 3 p.m. Monday, October 29 9 to 10 a.m. Wednesday, October 31 To reserve a spot at the pre-job fair workshops or to get more information about the job fair, call Cayuga Works Career Center at 315-253-1590.
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Delivering Pizza is a walk in the park, right? No way, Jose! Dogs, broken cars, very, VERY strange people are out there just waiting for that delicious pie. Harlequin Productions of Cayuga Community College’s world-premiere performance of The Six Realms of Pizza Delivery by Michael K. White chomps on the trial and tribulations of these poor deliverers of mouthwatering goodness. Directed by Harlequin’s long-time advisor, Bob Frame, this show promises to be a cornucopia of deliciousness of pizza, pizza and more pizza! The show will be in the College’s Black Box theatre which promises an intimate evening as the audience is less than 5 feet from the student actors. Performances are Oct. 25-27 and Nov. 1-3 all at 8 PM. Tickets are $1 for students and only $5 for general admission. Please be advised that the show features ADULT LANGUAGE and seating is limited.
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Jumping on a wall wearing a suit made of Velcro was just one of the activities for students at CCC’s Fall Festival on the Auburn Campus.
THE VOICE OF THE STUDENTS OF CAYUGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS
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ALEC RIDER As a 35 year veteran of the United States Senate and the current VicePresident of the United States, I believed that Joe Biden had a bit more respect for his ideological opposites. Apparently I was wrong. Biden got up on that stage at Centre College in Dansville, Kentucky and made a mockery of himself and the Democratic Party. How do you call Paul Ryan “my friend” 14 times throughout the debate and then callously interrupt him 84… count it… 84 times throughout the 90 minute debate. He laughed and smirked at basically everything that came out of Ryan’s mouth, a 14 year veteran of the House of Representatives. There is an obvious disconnect between the two Parties as of right now, but Joe Biden presented a condensed version of the last 4 years of political gridlock to the American people. You know why Biden laughed so much? So no one could hear Paul Ryan reminding the American people that the Obama administration had promised that the $1 trillion stimulus that the government tacked on to the debt did absolutely nothing, it failed. President Obama said it would get us to 5% unemployment in no time, while it stayed above 8% for 43 straight months. Biden didn’t want you to hear about the fact that Obamacare is, in fact, going to raise your premiums in the future… not lower them. He didn’t want you to hear that the Democrats ran roughshod over the political system from 20082010 when they controlled the Executive Branch and all of Congress yet focused on President Obama’s pet project Obamacare instead of focusing on the economy. That led to the whipping that the Democrats received in the midterm election, the biggest whipping in such an election since 1938. He also didn’t want you to hear about the Obama administration wanting to increase taxes on individuals making $250,000 a year. Most of those people own small businesses that employ your brothers and sisters, and the medium sized businesses that employ your mother and father. He also didn’t want you to hear that President Obama has tacked on more to the national debt than George W. Bush, in 4 less years. Joe Biden can keep laughing, he can laugh as Romney surges in the polls (thanks to the women that the GOP has supposedly declared war on) he can laugh as political insiders are basically telling the Obama campaign to concede Florida, he can laugh during a serious discussion about Iran and nuclear weapons that Tom Brokaw was none to pleased about. Because in the end, like my grandmother always told me, if you laugh too long and too hard, you’re gonna end up crying. -Alec Rider, Co-Editor-in-chief
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Point-Counterpoint: Laughter is the best poison Like most everyone else, I really didn’t have a lot of interest in the VP debate. I’ve heard Vice President Biden gaffe enough and Representative Ryan not do math enough to have my fill of both of them for the next decade or so. But as a Twitter addict, I saw pretty quickly that Biden was apparently making Ryan look like a joke at the debate. Tuning in, I realized that this was pretty much true. From Ryan clinging to the (this is an actual award) “Lie of the Year” winning lie of Obamacare including death panels, to his random inconsequential stories about random Americans who agree with him somehow being a good enough reason to make 300+ million other people have the same decisions imposed on them, Biden was easily in control with constant fact-checking and an air of confidence that was geared to convey the message “This man is a Tea Party nut. I can’t believe anyone would take him seriously.” So naturally, the Republican argument to try and nullify the results of the (already pretty trivial) debate was to criticize Biden’s laughing during the debate and things like that. The fact that any side would claim the moral high ground in this age of extremely harsh discourse is ridiculous on its own. Although, if you want to play that game, let’s talk about the previous Presidential debate. Fact checkers are all essentially unanimous in saying that Governor Romney told far more misleading half-truths and lies than President Obama. A week after, people even admitted that while they barely believed Romney could achieve anything he promised, they still think his confidence at the debate qualified him as a better leader than Obama. So if Romney gets away with constantly shouting over Jim Lehrer and accusing the President of having a different set of facts than everyone else while lying more than him and still “winning” the debate (see previous liberal rant in last issue), then you can’t nullify Biden’s accomplishment for doubling down on Romney’s air of cockiness while removing the huge element of lying (to his credit, Ryan lied far less than Romney and Obama as well, with only the whole “death panel” thing blemishing his record). I’ve said this before, but I don’t take Representative Ryan seriously. He hasn’t given any numbers for how his budget evens out after screwing poor people and education, or why doing those things are less important than giving millionaires a bigger tax break. Even most Republicans agree that Ryan was a bad VP pick. It doesn’t surprise me that, given their candidate, Republicans can only try to defame and deface Joe Biden. -Andy Schemerhorn, Co-Editor-in-chief
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Fight against Bullying When finding the definition of Bullying from a dictionary, I gathered this: “A blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.” According to Dictionary.com reference, that’s the natural definition of what bullying means. To me, I completely agree. Bullying is when an obnoxious, overbearing nuisance deliberately harasses or tries to intimidate someone they think is weaker than themselves. The fact is bullying is very common within our society today–in all schools, work places, homes, and free world. You can find bullying between two adults, or two small children. What causes people to bully? There is a wide variety of why people do it: for cultural causes, institutional causes, social issues, family issues, the bully’s personal history, having power, and provocative victims. To be bullied is not some sort of pride moment of your life, in fact it can be horrendous for most including gays, women, transgender, minorities, and even for disabled people or the mentally ill. Some bullying even can go as far as harassing a person so much, it drives them to suicide. For example, the story behind a Rutgers University student named Tyler Clement who committed suicide after his roommate spied on him with a web cam and tweeted about it. It had dealt with his sexuality and most are uncomfortable about the situation. I have a gay brother myself,
and acceptance is very hard within a society that does not allow you to be who you are no matter what, so I understand the pain and anguish this college student had to go through. He was bullied and overwhelmed with the situation, he didn’t want his business out there and his roommate invaded his privacy, belittled him and drove him to suicide. Not only is this unacceptable, but very heart wrenching to know that just mere words and small actions could do this to someone. Another example is the case of Megan Meier, a young girl who committed suicide right before her 14th birthday all because her friend’s mother bullied her online and pretended to be a boy who loved her. Story after story reveals not just young children in elementary school bully people but even adults who should know better do it. Bullying is not just some power you can control because you enjoy fear, it’s selfdegrading and it makes you look like a total cretin. People should learn from this, no matter who you are and even if you’re popular, beautiful, smart or charming, you could still be bullied not to mention even if you have these traits doesn’t mean you should take on the responsibility of bullying someone else. It takes heart and courage to not do this type of thing, and if you want to inspire or intimidate, be yourself and stand up for yourself, don’t stand down to others. -Dee Henderson, CCC student
Let’s have a discount night for students While sitting in a class recently, I overheard students talking about how much it costs to go out for a night of fun in Auburn. The MerryGo-Round playhouse tickets cost too much and a dinner at one of Auburn’s fine restaurants is too expensive. Meanwhile, businesses in Auburn have not reached out to the college students to help them with this problem. I believe the college and the city of Auburn should work together to create a Cayuga Community College students’ night. Although this idea hasn’t been tested too thoroughly before, I think Auburn and CCC can do it. Working together with the Merry-Go-Round playhouse, the college could work out a student night for one of the productions and allow students to get in for a discounted ticket price. Both parties would benefit from the experience. For the Merry-Go-Round, it’s a night with a filled theatre and an opportunity to interest students to return in the future. For the students it’s the chance to view professional performances at a discounted price and to hopefully spread the word about what a great experience they had. The college would benefit from
a collaboration with an established local business and ultimately they could build on this collaboration to create more events done with the playhouse. Of course no theater experience can be complete without going out to dinner. There are numerous restaurants around and near Auburn: the chain restaurants like Applebee’s and Chili’s, or the more fine dining like the Hollywood, the Sunset, Lasca’s, or Michael’s Restaurant. By offering a student discount for the evening, restaurants would benefit from additional business, the ability to showcase some of their dishes to students, and if the press were to be involved, hopefully some positive reviews! CCC would also benefit by improved relations with these businesses and through these relations be able to offer catering opportunities to these local businesses. I think with some hard work, a students’ night in Auburn could be done. Both the college and local businesses can benefit from building a partnership together that can be used for not only one night but into the future as well. -Abigail Young, CCC student
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Professor Keeler goes to Colleges coming together Providence to share wisdom to teach teachers By Andy Schemerhorn, Co-Editor-in-chief Professor Steve Keeler has spent the last few days in Providence, Rhode Island, as a featured presenter for the 2012 Media Educators of America. He was both a featured speaker delivering his presentation Keeler “How Video Entrepreneurship Transforms the Student Experience at Community College,” and as a member of a three man panel called “TEDtalks MEOA Documentaries Epiphanies Evolving.” To those inside the school, it may seem surprising that a professor from little old CCC would be so highly sought after to give a presentation at a high profile lecture. To veteran students and members of the Telecom department, Professor Keeler’s credentials are well known. Having been on the staff since 1987, Keeler has been a publisher for the newly revised 5th edition Video Production Handbook, awarded College Technology Educator of the year, National Broadcast Educator of the Year (twice), and two awards for IT Innovation in the Classroom, and was the professor who’s helped mentor the students who produced works
By Andy Schemerhorn, Co-Editor-in-chief like Duct Tape and High Heels. In light of these accomplishments, Keeler’s status as a key speaker shouldn’t be a question. The goal of the first presentation was to discuss the history and development of C3Videos, from its startup from donations from the Kauffman Foundation and the Stardust foundation to the high quality, award winning works it has produced. The second presentation had the goals of showing the changes in perspective filmmakers gain from making documentaries, where Keeler both discussed Duct Tape and High Heels and also how the students bonded as a result of the project. TEDtalks panel stated on their website “The objective is to obtain an understanding of how the making of a documentary changes the filmmaker’s perspective,” and Steve clearly believed that to be the case in his presentation. TED is an organization that tries to cover core elements of the modern world’s keys to success (Technology, Education, and Design. T.E.D), and Professor Keeler was glad to contribute to this site dedicated to teaching free skills to the world. Steve is (obviously) back on campus, teaching his students these same skills that national organizations beg to get their hands on.
Have you ever had a teacher whose PowerPoint lulled you to sleep, or who gave you a project that didn’t help you understand the subject, or even a teacher who spent the entire class trying to figure out how to turn the overhead projector on? Odds are, you probably have had to bear through a painful lesson at some point. Odds are also pretty good that you’ve seen a teacher absolutely nail a lesson and teach the class in a way that really helped you learn. So how can we make every professor learn to use the same techniques as the best ones? Well, Corning, OCC, Mohawk, TC3 and our own Cayuga Community College are working together to make this goal a reality through a joint college fair designed to teach professors new skills by sharing what the best teachers of the region have been using successfully. Tentatively scheduled at TC3 in the month of April, this one day workshop will teach professors things that they have shown they want to learn more about. Professor Mary Driscoll, CCC’s representative on the planning committee for this event, has already sent out surveys to all of our professors to see what they want to learn.
“(The professors) will get to sign up for three classes during the day, and we’re looking to do them all concurrently. So, if a lot of survey results say that they’re looking to use a clicker in their class, they can sign up for a class hosted by a professor who’s seen some success using one.” When asked what this type of fair can offer that couldn’t be done by the staff asking each other for help, Professor Driscoll was optimistic about the fair. “The difference is that we’re hoping to have them see these things done through actual application.” In other words, they’ll be in classes just like the ones you (hopefully) go to, except they’ll be learning how to mimic them instead of having to write book reports or solve a mile long math problem. The workshop is expected to be at TC3, but can change if they have more professors attend than expected, or if there was a special requirement, such as Professor Driscoll’s example: “If a lot of professors wanted to learn how to do something involving a whiteboard.” So for any students returning next fall and all future students, hopefully this fair will make your professors one step better at helping you reach your degree.
Mother Marianne Cope is Central New York’s first Saint By Alec Rider Co-Editor-in-chief
Her journey to Sainthood was not easy, not by a longshot. Her family moved to Utica from what would come to be known as Germany when she was two years old. Though the young girl believed she was Mother called by God Marianne Cope to serve, it was for naught, after completing the 8th grade her father became disabled.
She would work in a factory, before the days of Child Labor laws, to care for her younger siblings. After her father’s death, she entered the Sisters of St. Francis convent in Syracuse. In 1866 Mother Marianne played a role in establishing two of the biggest hospitals in Central New York. St. Elizabeth’s in Utica and St. Joseph’s would open three years later. These churches had an unheard of charter for the times. They were open to any and all patients regardless of nationality, religion, or color. They are also both in the first 50 General Hospitals in
the US and both are still running. Cope served as Head Administrator of St. Joseph’s and advocated cleanliness; insisting that everyone wash their hands before tending to the sick, which wasn’t universally followed at the time. Oswego would also receive Mother Marianne’s good graces. She was the Principal of St. Peter’s School and the Superior of the convent. The school had a few hundred students. Classes and the convent were located in the same building. The school and the convent became one and turned into St. Peter’s Church Hall. It was dedicated to Cope on
June 27, 1987. Cope always believed that God called her to lead, and that familiar voice came in the form of a letter from the Hawaiian Islands. The government needed a real leader to take charge of the schools and hospitals, and the growing epidemic of leprosy. Mother Marianne defiantly said “I am not afraid of any disease.” In the 35 years she spent in close contact with victims of Leprosy she never contracted the disease, which many believed to be miraculous. Her first Miracle would come continued back page
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Editorial Board ALEC RIDER - Editor-in-chief ANDY SCHEMERHORN, Editor-in-chief MARY G. MERRITT, Advisor Staff FAITH FANNING - Auburn ASHLEE SARET - Auburn LARAE BROOKS - Auburn AARON STILES - Auburn MIRANDA TENEYCK - Auburn JIM GRANGER - Auburn
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on average, 30,000 people is not just unheard of. It’s unbelievable. Some may ask “Isn’t this an example of oversampling a certain base of the American people?” Well it’s true that gamers are usually young adult males. But this group is the lowest accounted for in political polls, so it serves its purpose. Young people are beginning to finally be the group to be reckoned with 35 years after the Constitution was amended to let 18 year old boys and girls vote. As this group is catching up, the tools that they use the most are catching up with them.
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By Jim Granger, Staff writer
For anyone who has watched Pawn Stars or American Pickers, an alumni event on a recent Sunday would have been for you. The Cayuga Community College Alumni Club held their Tenth Annual Antique Appraisal. The antique appraisal is a fundraiser which helps raise funds for alumni programs such as assisting needy students with buying textbooks and funding scholarships. The antique appraisal took place at the Nature Center. The appraisers were Bob Chilson, owner of Purple Monkey Antiques in Weedsport; Dana Duval, who is an estate broker based in Cazenovia; and Robert Cargill, who also specializes in sports memorabilia. People paid two dollars per item and three items for five dollars for an appraisal. More than forty people attended wanting to have an appraisal done. There were general items such as books, oil paintings and tools. There were some unusual items such as a vacuum cleaner from the early 1900’s that still works, a rare clock, and an autographed picture of President Grover Cleveland signed
by his wife, Frances. “I have always loved antiques from a young age,” said antique appraiser Bob Chilson. Chilson said he opened the Purple Monkey Antique Shop in 2002, however, he has been in the antique business since 1975 running several other businesses over the years, including other antique stores or flea markets. He says his store carries items from antique furniture to books to even antique toys. Chilson says he gained his knowledge of antiques and running an antique store from being a businessman and developing knowledge about antiques for almost 40 years. So next fall look in your parents’ attic, go to yard sales over the summer, or ask your grandparents about any family heirlooms and you can have them valued while also helping the alumni association raise money to help students who attend CCC. You never know, you might find a rare baseball card or a REALLY old vacuum cleaner that still works.
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The Cayuga Community College Fall Concert was held October 17th during the student activity hour (11 AM - Noon) in the Student Lounge on the Auburn campus. The College Chorus is directed by CCC Professor Amy Bellamy. The concert also featured Professor Sally Bailey on piano. To sample some of their musical selections visit The Cayuga Collegian’s Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/ CayugaCollegian
Mother Marianne in 1993, 75 years after her death. Katherine Mahoney was said to be healed from obvious multiple organ failure after praying for intercession from Cope. Her second came during the period when she was being Beatified by the Catholic Church. Sharon Smith was dying from a bad reaction to an anti-rejection drug from a recent kidney transplant that contributed to pancreatitis
CONTINUED FROM PAGE THREE with severe complications. Doctors at Johns Hopkins told her, basically, that she would definitely die. A Sister happened to be at St. Joseph’s, the hospital that Cope helped found, and learned of Smith’s situation. She obtained a packet of soil from Cope’s gravesite in Hawaii and pinned it to Smith’s gown, proceeding to pray for a miracle. Needless to say, Smith is alive today.
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