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More than 100 crafters and vendors will sell their handmade merchandise during the 39th Annual Holiday Festival Craft Show on December 1 and 2 at Cayuga Community College, 197 Franklin St., Auburn. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, and it is free and open to the public. In addition the holiday crafts, the two-day fair features several live musical and theatrical performances: The Auburn Players Community Theater will perform a children’s play, The Winter Holidays Show: A MultiSpecies Celebration, at noon and 2:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in the Irene A. Bisgrove Community Theatre. Musician and puppeteer Stephen Baird will perform between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. both days. Balloon man Louis Paul will entertain from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday in the Cayuga Café. The Barrigar Brothers will perform an acoustic set from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 2 p.m. on Sunday in the Cayuga Café. Attendees can also sample foods representing a wide range of cultures and tastes from one of the many food vendors. The event is sponsored by the Cayuga Community College Student Activities Board.
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Vol. 61 Issue 8 November 20, 2012
A Slice of President’s Pizza Event By Andy Schemerhorn, Co-Editor-in-chief
War Tweets? By Alec Rider, Co-Editor-in-chief
If anyone still doesn’t believe that we’ve entered a new age in which social media dominates world discourse, maybe this will change your mind. Israel and the Gaza Strip have come to blows after the Jewish nation’s assassination of the top military commander of Hamas, the governing body in Gaza. This was in response to continuing rocket fire from the Gaza Strip toward Southern Israel. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began to announce its military strikes on Twitter and the successes they made, with one tweet serving as a stark warning to Hamas.
“We recommend that no Hamas operatives, whether low level or senior leaders, show their faces above ground in the days ahead.” Believe it or not, Hamas too has a Twitter account. They have also live tweeted the events of the on-going conflict, even direct messaging the IDF. For the first time, a Twitter war actually arose from what may turn in to an actual war. “Our blessed hands will reach your leaders and soldiers wherever they are (You Opened Hell Gates On Yourselves)” Through four days of fighting, Israel has lost three civilians, while Gaza has lost 19 combatants and 19 civilians. Egypt has tried brokering a ceasefire, which fell through almost immediately, with both sides blaming the other. The United States Security Council met on the first night of the fighting but could not reach a consensus. At first, the fight was a tit for tat lobbing of missiles by both parties involved. Israel maintained that they were striking at military and Hamas related targets, accusing Hamas of firing at civilian locations in Southern Israel. Then Hamas and its Palestinian partners, indeed, started to fire indiscriminately at populated areas in Israel, including Tel Aviv. Those attacks including attempted rocket attacks on the Holy City of Jerusalem have caused Israel to call up 75,000 reservists to stand on the border of Israel and Gaza for a potential ground invasion.
There was another successful run of CCC’s Pizza with the President lunch last Friday, an informal lunch where students and club members get to ask CCC President Dan Larson and Vice President Jeff Rosenthal questions about the school and provide feedback on changes the school has gone through. The group of students had many questions and pieces of information they asked and shared, and it almost seems unreal that so much material was able to be discussed in little more than an hour. The lunch opened with students providing feedback on our new Subway and the Barnes and Noble bookstore. Most students agreed that Subway was an improvement from the old food provider and that the variety offered was a welcome change. President Larson said that the store had already made about $20,000 in profit, most of which went into to the school’s budget. The bookstore also received positive feedback, with students in attendance all agreeing that the staff is very helpful and has no problem with ordering books not in selection, even books that aren’t required for courses. “Barnes and Noble is great with Manga, and they’ll order any books they don’t have on the shelves, so for me it’s a dream come true,” Anime Club President John Webster said of the store. Dr. Larson also let the group know that the fabled athletic field for CCC will begin construction within 12 months, “provided a number of factors align properly.” This came coupled with some words on the new student housing facilities, and that they are still trying to juggle a number of factors to get a solid plan in place for their construction. From there, the students began taking turns asking questions about upcoming changes, and pretty soon both President Larson and VP Rosenthal found themselves with very full plates. The two men were handed countless proposals and questions on how the school and campus could be improved. One issue that took some time was regarding the nature trails in back of the school, and wondering how it could be improved, with suggestions ranging from adding a playground for families, making a path to the bench overlooking the pond, planting flowers, and a general clean-up of the trails themselves. While not committing to any particular one of these ideas, Dr. Larson did note that they had looked into the cost of “dredging” the ponds, and that the average estimate was around $100,000. “And we don’t have an extra $100,000 floating around,” Larson said of their inability to quickly tackle the issue. Next came the issue of students who feel the lack of real world
experience offered in their major was a big issue. This mainly came from students in Criminal Justice, who expressed how hard it was to get the opportunity to spend a day shadowing a police officer. There wasn’t much the President and Vice President could really offer in the way of how they could reconcile this. Next came students from the Aerospace and Geology sections of the school, who have been struggling with having their programs receive public attention as well as, mainly with the geology section, having issues with their computers. They explained how they were unable to open files on these computers because of the “Administrator only” issue we’re all so used to running into. They also heard concerns from the Judo club, who would like a new practice mat that is less than 25 years old, and one big door instead of the two doors from when the room was a racquetball court. “With the doors the way they are, if someone got injured or passed out, we wouldn’t be able to get a stretcher in or out,” club President Dylan Thomas warned. The two men took notes on all of these and other issues that they had not been aware of, such as the increase in people playing loud music in the library and the ugly dirt strip connecting the front parking lot to the front entrance sidewalk. Ultimately though, they are limited by what they are able to do because of lack of funds. “40 years ago, New York State promised to cover 40% of our budget. They’ve done that exactly once. This year, they only contribute 24% of our budget.” Dr. Larson also explained to students that the economic downturn four years ago has left many businesses that used to contribute to CCC unable to continue doing so (such as the Nucor conference room). They did have good news to finish off the day. Vice President Rosenthal explained partway through the lunch how he would like to add more office spaces with heat and AC for clubs, and to transform the current cafeteria into a student activity center, since it already has the bookstore and Subway nearby (more details next issue), and they assured students that in the event of new student housing, parking would be changed to a permit system so students could park near their residence hall, but that he sees “no gain in adding tolls to the parking lot, and [the back parking lot] is never full to overflowing at any time of the day.” All in all, Dr. Larson and Mr. Rosenthal achieved what they wanted: direct feedback from students on what concerned them, and giving the students information on their school.
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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK Many of the young adults my age seem to take the rights they have for granted. Every day, I hear them criticize our government in any number of ways. So do I, but I realize that many people around the world can be imprisoned or even executed for speaking out against their government, especially in the Middle East and Asia. Freedom of Speech is one of the greatest and most important liberties afforded to us by our Bill of Rights, and we should all fervently protect each other’s freedoms, whether we like what some of our fellow humans say or not. Locally, a prime example of a Freedom of Speech issue has popped up at SUNY Oswego, where an Australian exchange student named Alex Myers was suspended and told to pack up his dorm, leave, and stay away from college premises or be subject to arrest. Why did this happen? Simply because Mr. Myers contacted rival coaches in NCAA ice hockey to get a profile of Oswego’s hockey coach Ed Gosek for an assignment. Mr. Myers did make the questionable attempt to get something a little juicier by asking the three coaches to “Be as forthcoming as you like, what you say about Mr. Gosek does not have to be positive.” Cornell’s coach Mike Schafer responded to Mr. Myers by saying “My interactions with Ed Gosek have all been off ice as we are Division 1. He is one of the best guys in college hockey. Your last line of saying your comments don’t need to be positive is offensive.” Myers responded, “I was simply letting you know that this piece I am writing is not a ‘puff’ piece about Mr. Gosek,” apologizing for coming off as rude. The next evening after receiving this message, Mr. Myers received a standard form letter of suspension; he was charged with dishonesty and “disruptive behavior.” The suspension never came to be, but he was banned from his classes and academic buildings for a week. The “disruptive behavior” section
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includes “harassment, intimidation, stalking, domestic violence, or creating a hostile environment through discrimination or bias toward any individual or group.” That’ll teach him to screw with Oswego’s crown jewel. That charge was eventually dropped after internal backlash in favor of the charge that Mr. Myers misrepresented himself as an employee instead of the intern that he was; which is circumstantial at best. Dr. John Kares Smith, a Communications department professor, highlighted the hypocrisy of the college’s initial reaction in an e-mail to SUNY Oswego president Deborah Stanley. “As a Judicial Affairs Advisor for many years, I have served as an Advisor to students successfully accused of hate crimes, sexual assaults, cheating of various kinds, etc., and none of them were immediately suspended. Most left for a semester, perhaps two, and then returned to finish their educations. This kind of suspension is usually reserved for very dangerous students…often armed with guns, knives, etc., and a danger to the society and themselves. Mr. Myers is none of those things, is he? And, frankly, since your suspension was immediately withdrawn I suspect that you may have had second thoughts about it,” said Dr. Smith. “I feel heart sick over the fact that the institution is being viewed this way and that any individual would have suffered, on all sides,” said President Stanley in an e-mailed statement to students and staff. Stanley then proceeded to basically say “sorry, not sorry” by adding, “I do know that none of this was about speech.” Thanks for that inspiring internal review President Stanley. I don’t know about your students, I’m from Mexico so many of my fellow Tigers attend SUNY Oswego, but I’d like to stick my neck out there and ask for you to resign. -Alec Rider, Co-Editor-in-chief
Editorial Board ALEC RIDER - Editor-in-chief ANDY SCHEMERHORN, Editor-in-chief MARY G. MERRITT, Advisor Staff FAITH FANNING - Auburn ASHLEE SARET - Auburn MIRANDA TENEYCK - Auburn JIM GRANGER - Auburn
ALEC RIDER The Congressional Budget Office said recently that if the United States were to go off the “Fiscal Cliff” it would trigger a “double dip” recession and sky rocket the unemployment rate to 9.1%. You’re probably asking yourself, “What is this Fiscal Cliff that he’s referring to?” Well, let me explain. It is the combination of the end of the Bush Era tax cuts for every single American as well as Sequestration (monster cuts) to Defense and non-Defense discretionary spending. These two occurrences if performed simultaneously on January 2, 2013 would cause the federal deficit to fall drastically but also irreparably damage the economy as we know it. Now what are the players in Washington D.C. going to do about this? Well, hopefully something; probably nothing. And as far as I’m concerned, you can blame the Democrats. You see, in 2012 the Democratic Party doesn’t respect and doesn’t admire the rich anymore. They want you to do the same. They want you to believe that the rich is responsible for all of your troubles and that if the rich paid “their fair share” all of our problems would magically disappear. Guess what? They won’t. Former President G.W. Bush and President Obama, together, have added more than 10 trillion dollars to our $16 trillion debt. We have a yearly federal deficit of $1 trillion. You could tax the rich to hell and back and wouldn’t be close to recouping the kind of money we need to get back on track. It would be fine if the Democrats wanted to just tax our loftiest money makers, but they don’t. They want to tax every American making $250,000 a year. 6 million Americans, many of which are small business owners. And what happens if the Republicans refuse to go along with the Democrats’ plan of leaving small business owners out to dry? “I think the Republicans have a decision today. They need to decide whether they’re going to stay and protect the wealthiest Americans from participating in this challenge that we have, and if they do that, then we have no other choice but to go into next year when all the Bush tax cuts expire and start over,” said Senator Patty Murray (D-WA). The Democrats, led by Senator Murray would rather hold us hostage and drive us straight off the Fiscal Cliff. That’s a strange way of keeping President Obama’s campaign moniker promise. FORWARD. Or is it… FORWARD! It changed every week, I couldn’t really keep up. -Alec Rider, Co-Editor-in-chief
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A Rare Dose of Optimism The fiscal cliff is a term that refers to a self-imposed deficit reduction deadline. Basically, if leaders in Washington don’t agree on a plan to reduce our deficit by New Years’ Eve, taxes will increase for every American citizen, huge cuts will occur in Medicare and Medicaid, school budgets will suffer even more, and America could well enter another recession. Last time around in August, the negotiations almost fell through. Both sides were equally committed, President Obama in the Democratic camp trying to let tax cuts expire for the wealthy, while the Republicans were adamant in replacing those tax increases with spending cuts. It notoriously ended with Speaker of the House John Boehner (R) walking out of the discussion before a deal was reached, and with a desperate last ditch plan being hatched hours before the government actually had to shut down core institutions. This time around, things are different. The Republican mandate to stonewall Obama has seemingly expired, with not just an overwhelming re-election of the President, but an increase in Senate and House seats for Democrats. The “no compromise” approach has fallen apart and given Capitol Hill its worst approval rating ever, and most of the country, as found out by Pew Research Center, would blame Republicans if the debt talks fall apart. Rather than assume a mantle of absolute authority, Obama has expressed a willingness to meet Republicans halfway on both increasing taxes on the wealthy and simply closing loopholes in the tax code. Republicans are still adrift and leaderless, looking to become a more moderate party in the wake of their defeat, and I truly expect a polite discourse as they hammer out a debt. The first day of talks was civil, and for once I accept a good result from our leaders. -Andy Schemerhorn, Co-Editor-in-chief
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Can you hear me now? YES! I’ve noticed recently how loud people are playing their music and talking. I understand, sometimes we need to blare our music or loudly voice our opinions, but there are proper places to do this. For example, in the library, I understand some people listen to music while they work. However, please take into consideration other people are working as well. We don’t need to hear your death metal or Taylor Swift. Also singing out loud is real annoying, and if you want to sing, I suggest joining the College Chorus. If you want to listen to your music, do so, but please at a reasonable tone. If people are looking at you or if you notice a lot of empty seats near you, take that as a note to turn it down. Another place where people need to be careful of volume is in the hallways. Remember high school, where you got in trouble for yelling in the hallway? We are adults now, and adults should be considerate of classes in session and other people’s need to concentrate. The Cube is a great place to gather and talk about stuff or try meeting with your friends to talk in the main entrance to the school. If none of these suggestions interest you into changing your ways, then here is some scientific proof for you. Numerous studies done by the American Medical Association have proved that prolonged exposure
to loud music is a main cause of hearing damage or loss. A study done in 2010 has shown a 30 percent increase in hearing loss. So how are you losing your ability to understand or hear the professor in the front of the room? When you listen to loud music for a long time, the hair cells in your inner ear are damaged, and guess what, once they are damaged, they cannot be replaced, re-grown, or surgically fixed. So once the hair cells are damaged, adios to your hearing. If you think listening to your music or loud voices in the hallway are not affecting your concentration or others, you are wrong again. Studies show that being interrupted or listening to music with lyrics affects not only how well you are actually performing the task at hand, but will also cause you to lose your focus. Every time your concentration is broken off, it takes at least ten minutes to re-focus, studies have also shown. So I understand, we like our loud music and voicing what we are thinking to everybody in the near vicinity, but please think about others. Turn down the music, lower your voice or go to the Cube or main foyer to do it. If please isn’t enough, think about your hearing and how well you want to do on the activity you are doing. -Abigail Young, CCC freshman
Readers’ Responses Good morning, I am writing to find out how to best respond to the piece that appeared in the October 23rd issue of the Cayuga Collegian. It is wonderful to hear an interest from students in finding ways to see theatre at an affordable rate, and we truly appreciate Abigail Young’s understanding that when someone comes to the theatre not only do they have a good experience but it helps local businesses as well. We are very eager to make theatre accessible to the student population at CCC. The Playhouse currently offers a couple of ways for students to see theatre at a discounted rate for any of our performances. New this year, we have the “Next Generation” ticket price that we’re hoping will encourage and help the next generation of theatre goers get out to the theatre more often! We also have a “Student Rush” ticket policy available. Both of these options In addition, we do partner with several local restaurants that will offer discounts on dining if you show your theatre ticket the night you’re going to see a show. We’d appreciate the chance to tell the CCC students about these options. How could we go about doing so? Thanks and have a great afternoon! Emily Thomas Marketing & Development Manager Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival & Merry-Go-Round Playhouse EDITORS’ NOTE: We would be happy to publish information you think would be of interest to our readers, especially if there is a discount for students. Hi Alec, So I just saw the editorial about our Obama likes on Facebook. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Interestingly enough, none of the current College administrators of the Facebook page clicked the “like” button for these political figures, for many of the same reasons you list in the editorial. It is not the College’s position to endorse one candidate or another, as we cherish the diversity of opinions and views of our campus members (and the country as a whole). I have removed the political “likes” from the College Facebook page, and thanks again for pointing this out and for voicing your opinion on the issue. All the best, Margaret Margaret D. Spillett Director of Public Relations and Institutional Communications Cayuga Community College
The Future is Looking a Little Bit “Greener” Since Colorado and Washington have approved legalized sales of marijuana the federal government is expected to challenge through lawsuits mentioning the US law. The law passed last week in Washington State and Colorado both allow the recreational use of marijuana, but concerning federal authorities is the requirement of states to establish a system to license, regulate, and tax commercial retailers expected to sell the drug, including industrial hemp. “In enacting the Controlled Substances Act, Congress determined that marijuana is a Schedule I controlled substance. We are reviewing the ballot initiative and have no additional comment at this time,” Justice Department spokeswoman Nanda Chitre told CBS News last week, referring to the Colorado act of doing so. An amendment is being looked into to
establish how and where the drug can be sold, this may fall into 2014. “There’s no reason for the Feds to do anything instantly. There is time right now for consultation and deliberation for how to best proceed and for the states to persuade the federal government to give this time to develop,” says Ethan Nadelmann, the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. The federal governments crack down on the states will depend on the power of the regulatory system the state has in place. California being the first state to pass the law has the most underdeveloped system in place leaving regulation statutes to individual cities. A result of this would be the involvement of the federal government in court ruling pertaining to the distribution of marijuana. -Stephan Padilla, CCC freshman
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The Day The Twinkie Died Friday, November 16th was a sad day for junk food lovers: Hostess baked goods are no more. Some of the brown bag lunch staples many have grown up with will, over the next few days, be disappearing from store shelves nationwide. No more Wonder bread, goodbye Ho-Hos, fare thee well, awesome pink Snowballs that no other brand can quite compare to. According to the big bosses at Hostess, Inc., the blame lies with members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), who went on strike Friday, November 9th. From hostessbrands.info: “Despite everyone’s considerable efforts to move Hostess out of its restructuring, when we began implementing the Company’s last, best and final offer, the Bakers Union chose to stage a crippling strike,” says Greg Rayburn, Hostess Inc. CEO. According to various sources, Hostess had previously warned the strikers that if a sufficient number of them had not voluntarily returned to work by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 15th, the company would permanently shut its doors. When the bakers declined to comply, management followed through on the threat, announcing their intentions to begin wind down operations the following morning. But why were the bakers striking? According to nypost.com, the strike was a result of a new contract which included an 8% pay cut, cessation of payments to previously established pension plans, and reductions in health care benefits. The package was rejected by an overwhelming 92% vote, only to be forced upon the employees by court action as part of the restructuring for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy Hostess filed last summer. The company faced a scandal when it was discovered that several executives had received pay increases of 35-80% just before the bankruptcy was filed (but not before they had hired restructuring lawyers). The increases were reversed, and the four top executives saw their pay reduced to $1 per year until the company emerged from Chapter 11 or until January 1st, 2013, whichever came first. Rayburn, however, continued to cash paychecks to the tune of $125,000 per month. Yet Hostess maintains that their
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hand was forced by the strike, that they had no recourse that allowed them to keep the doors open. With a CEO making 1.5 million dollars annually, with another $2 million in bonus potential, the company insists that the only way they could stay afloat was to drastically slash compensation for the workers that keep the machine running. The union behind the strike views things differently. In a statement released earlier in the week on bctgm.org, the union claims that the permanent closing of three of the striking bakeries, which Hostess publicly blamed on the strike, had been planned, along with nine other closures, months prior to the beginning of the strike. Regarding the liquidation, union President Frank Hurt states that the demise of the company was rooted in corporate greed and poor management practices. Since the company’s first bankruptcy in 2004, workers had already agreed to various concessions which included layoffs, benefit reduction, and pay cuts, with the promise that the money would be reinvested in the company through new equipment and technology, marketing, and plant improvements. Instead, what they saw was Wall Street investor payouts and bonuses and pay raises for upper management. After the failure of six different management teams to create a viable business plan, the workers were unwilling to accept further exploitation. The closing of Hostess and the events surrounding it are a glaring example of growing dissatisfaction with income inequality in the US. According to numbers from the Economic Policy Institute and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, worker productivity increased by 93%, with an average wage increase of less than 6%, while executive pay jumped up an astonishing 725% between 1979-2011. In 2011 alone, executive salaries increased by an average 15%, after a 28% increase the year before, while working class employee pay decreased by 2%. As we enter the holiday season, the liquidation of Hostess has put nearly 20,000 people on the unemployment line. The executives who pocketed
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For any history lovers or political junkies there is a book which you will thoroughly enjoy. The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin, is a book that will keep you intrigued and wanting to know more about the Supreme Court when you read it. Toobin is a former United States Attorney, CNN’s current Senior Legal analyst and a writer for The New Yorker magazine. This is Toobin’s second book on the Supreme Court; his first book The Nine was a great look inside the Supreme Court, especially Bush v. Gore. The Oath gives readers an inside account of the workings, cases and personalities of justices at the Supreme Court. Toobin seems to always have the type of access to the Supreme Court that Bob Woodward has with any Presidential Administration. The book begins with the focus on the oath of office the Chief Justice always administers to officially install the President into office. Chief Justice John Roberts actually administered the oath of office to President Obama with the wrong words. There were only a couple of words that were in dispute. Aides to both President Obama and Chief Justice Roberts were so worried about the oath being fumbled, they thought a charge could be made the President was not officially sworn in. The oath was administered a second time. This time Justice Roberts correctly administered the oath of office to the President without any controversy. It is around this event or other court events where Toobin gives the reader his insider account that only few Washington authors can get. The most fascinating part of the book is when President Obama
in his State of the Union address criticized the court for their Citizens United decision and Justice Samuel Alito saying, “Not True”. Toobin covers the background of the case, the controversy the President caused and the reaction to a current President challenging a court decision. The book covers other events, such as the confirmations of the two newest Justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. The book has even more insider information than his first book or any of Toobin’s New Yorker articles. The Oath is not a long read, only about 300 pages which will help keep the book flowing and the reader fully engaged. So for the history lovers or political animals this book is a must read. Toobin keeps the reader engaged, thinking and wanting to know more about the Supreme Court, one of America’s most secretive government institutions. Jim’s Final Verdict; A Must Read for those of all political stripes.
millions as the company floundered want to lay the blame at the feet of the workers who have spent the past eight years making sacrifices to keep Hostess afloat. But as the income gap widens and the declining middle class becomes increasingly frustrated, it’s clear that the tactics big business uses to make prized executives rich off the backs of their lower level employees are losing steam. The bakers of BCTGM have sent corporate America a clear warning: Change or Die. Without workers, you have nothing. Only time will tell if the 1% gets the message. -Ashlee Saret, staff writer
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CIA Scandal Probed Former CIA Director and Four Star General David Petraeus testifies before Congress By Alec Rider, Co-Editor-in-chief A different kind of fallout commenced after the votes were counted and President Barack Obama was sure to be re-elected for a second term. The day after the election, news began to break that the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) General David Petraeus has resigned, citing an extramarital affair. The man, who served his country for 38 years eventually accruing a rank of 4 star General and successfully led a counter-insurgency in Iraq that turned the tide of record amounts of monthly U.S. deaths, has had his reputation sullied. Questions began to arise about when and where this affair was found out, and it wasn’t too long before that became public knowledge. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) had been investigating threatening e-mails made from Petraeus biographer and mistress Paula Broadwell to a Florida socialite and Petraeus family friend Jill Kelley. These e-mails were investigated right around the time when Petraeus broke off the affair with Broadwell, the summer of this year. The FBI soon realized that Broadwell had been sending intimate messages back and forth to an account that belonged to General Petraeus. Attorney General Eric Holder was aware of the investigation early on, while Petraeus’ superior Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was not made aware until Election Day and the White House & Congress the day after,
months after the start of the investigation. Many on Capitol Hill used this time discrepancy to forge conspiracy theories involving the relationship between the FBI and the CIA, which has never been good, and even the evolving story in Benghazi, Libya where the U.S. Ambassador and three others were murdered in a terrorist attack on September 11th. Petraeus was on Capitol Hill, Friday, in a closed door session of Congress testifying on the Benghazi matter. Republicans wanted to know why, in the face of an obvious terrorist attack, the White House sent U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice on 5 Sunday morning talk shows telling the American people that it was spontaneous and because of a video defaming the prophet Muhammad. Democrats wanted everyone to leave Rice alone, and they may have got their wish. Petraeus, opening up a new can of worms, told Congress that he had initially put the words “terrorist attack” in the talking points to the White House. He concluded that one of the agencies that are responsible for editing the document took it out before it reached the White House and Ambassador Rice’s hands. General Petraeus is still under investigation by the CIA in the matter of his affair and Congress is far from finished investigating the Benghazi tragedy. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be testifying before Congress about what she knew in December.
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The Auburn Regional Media Access station (ARMA) is on its way to becoming reality. An initiative supported by CCC from its inception eight years ago, ARMA is holding a preview reception on Monday, December 3, from 6:00-8:00 pm at the Auburn Public Theater. This preview will afford the community the chance to meet the ARMA staff and board and take a tour of the facilities, which will be housed within the APT. The Board President Robert Penafeather sent out this press release preceding the event. Please join us for a preview of our facilities, and meet the ARMA staff and board. There will be refreshments served by Mesa Grande. For eight years, the Auburn Cable Commission has been working with city managers, corporation
counsels, city officials, community leaders and cable companies trying to create Auburn’s first independent media access center. Now with the January 2013 launch of ARMA, local media producers, both professional and amateur, can submit their work in a variety of media including VHS, DVD, a thumb drive, and several other digital media formats. For the first time there will be a public place for people to take out equipment and learn how properly shoot, edit, and broadcast videos. As we grow, we look forward to serving the community and improving the way of life through providing means and ways to distribute and access information by the local people for the local people. RSVPs to staff@armatv. org would be appreciated by November 29th.
Teen AIDS Task Force to host awareness event November 30th By Abby Schloupt, contributing writer AIDS and HIV are still a threat to young people across Central New York, but experts say many teens think it just won’t happen to them. AIDS Community Resources of Cayuga County, located in Syracuse New York, has organized the Teen AIDS Task Force to help spread awareness of the disease. “Being in Teen Aids Task Force was a real eye opening experience to be a part of,” said Sara Randall of Teen Aids Task Force in Port Byron New York. “It helped me to become more tolerant and accepting of all types of people and showed me that compassion can go a long way.” Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is now the sixth leading cause of death for people ages 25-44. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the virus that causes AIDS. This virus attacks the immune system and leaves the body vulnerable to a variety of life-threatening infections and cancers. HIV can be transmitted through any kind of blood contact, sexual contact, or from a mother to her child (i.e. shared blood circulation in the womb or breast milk). The goal of the Teen AIDS Task Force and AIDS Community Resource of Cayuga County is to spread as much awareness as possible. They want to prevent this disease from spreading as quickly and as vastly as it is now. Young Adults (ages 9-22) are the main target for these organizations. Thankfully, Teens AIDS Task Force organizations are becoming more popular among high school and
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college students. To help spread awareness, the Teen AIDS Task Force of Cayuga County is holding a World AIDS Day Memorial Service on November 30th beginning at 7:30 a.m. at Le Moyne College’s Panasci Chapel. There are also other events throughout the year. This November through December you can brighten the holiday season for families affected by HIV and AIDS by providing items through the Holiday Angel hosted by Aids Community Resources of Cayuga County and by Teen AIDS Task Forces is High Schools all around you. Next January, you can participate in the Sled for Red- cardboard sledding derby at Four Seasons Golf and Ski Resort in Fayetteville. The Annual AIDS 5K Walk/Run at Beaver Lake Nature Center, is held the first Sunday of every June. “Each year as I walked the annual AIDS walk/run, I felt like I was doing more than just exercising. I was helping to raise awareness and money for a cause that I now felt I had a personal connection to, all thanks to the knowledge I gained in the Teen AIDS Task Force,” said Randall. Ever since being established in 1992, the Teen AIDS Task Force has been all about peer leadership. TATF is an adolescent driven, peer education initiative that equips young adults with the information needed to understand and prevent HIV/STDs. For more information on the events planned, please call the Teens AIDS Task Force at 800.475.2430.
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Making a difference in a different country By Abigail Young, contributing writer The living room floor is made of dirt, the walls are a mixture of soil and manure, and the roof is simply tin. This is a household in the Dominican Republic. Most people live in poverty in this country, so their houses are either on or near steep slopes or ravines, and according to the Habitat for Humanity based in the Dominican Republic, are in constant danger from flooding or mudslides. However, there is a bright ray of light for these individuals and it comes in the form of mission groups. One of these mission groups is from right here in Central New York. Headed by Diane Saxton, the Fleming Federated mission group has gone on 11 different trips to the Dominican Republic to help the people of Los Alcarisos. In these 11 trips, Saxton and her team have helped to build a school, sponsored numerous Dominican children so that they can attend school, and have built houses in a mere six days. Extreme Home Makeover, the television series, needs hundreds of volunteers to make their houses possible, Saxton says her mission group needs only 20 volunteers. When asked what motivated her want to start going on mission trips, Saxton says she learned about the good work of the mission trips through friends. “If they can do it, so can I,” she said. Saxton says these trips cost a large amount of money. She says travel expenses can reach $15,000, and the necessary materials to build one house can cost another $15,000. Saxton and her group have to fund-raise in order to collect money for the project by doing charity auctions, family dinner nights, yard sales, bake sales, and golf tournaments. How is a family qualify to be chosen for a house in the Dominican Republic? “They have to be of extreme
need, be recommend by their pastor, and help to build their house as well as the next house that is built,” said Saxton. Building houses is not the only thing Saxton has accomplished overseas. She says the first few trips she took were to help build a school for the children of Los Alcarisos. She says other groups helped as well, and before they knew it, the school had been completed. Saxton was amazed at what could be done in a short amount of time. Since the school’s completion, Saxton and her group begun building the houses. Saxton says her commitment to Dominican Republic includes sponsoring a Dominican child. While watching the television, she says she would see commercials about saving a child by making a donation, and at first she thought it wasn’t a reality. During
one of her trips, Saxton met another mission group who were on their way to meet with their sponsor child, and that’s when it clicked. Originally, Saxton was set to sponsor one cild, a little girl, but while on a one week trip to met with the child, Saxton met the girl’s brother and decided to sponsor him as well. Saxton and her mission group have done amazing things on their week long visits to this island country. Saxton says this Thanksgiving her group is going once again to build a house in one week. Would you be able to do it?
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Burn Notice : A REVIEW By Jim Granger, staff writer Fans of the television show Burn Notice will be in for a letdown with the two hour season premier. Where viewers left off, the team had captured the assassin they were looking for but ended up betrayed by the CIA. Michael Weston (played by Jeffrey Donovan) found the man who killed his brother. Michael’s CIA trainer Tom Card sends in an air strike which he thinks killed the whole team. Sam Axe(played by Bruce Campbell, Jesse Porter ( played by Coby Bell) and Fiona Glennanne (played by Gabrielle Anwar) manage to help the rest of their team back to America where Michael finds out more information than he would like from Tyler Gray, the assassin who killed Michael’s brother Nate. This leads Michael to form an uneasy alliance with Tyler to trap Michael’s mentor Card in the act of admitting his betraying the team and Tyler. While this is happening Fionna takes on some work helping a friend from her stay in jail last season. Sam and Jesse
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help Fionna while Michael and Tyler try to catch card so he can be arrested. The problem with Burn Notice is that Michael has already found the people who burned (betrayed) him, was brought back into the CIA and now found the man who killed his brother. My question is, what else does Michael Weston have to do or complete? His mother Madelene is seen less and less on the show, and Jesse seems under used and under appreciated. Michael Weston has taken down the powers that ruined his life as a spy, killed his brother and made his CIA life hell. After so many seasons what is there left for Michael Weston other than his life with Fionna?
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SPARTAN SPORTS Tough Season Start for CCC Basketball Spartans Spartans Lose a Close Battle By Alec Rider, Co-Editor-in-chief The Cayuga Community College Spartans lost a close one at home to Mohawk Valley Community College last Tuesday. 61-57 was the final. Leading scorer for the Spartans was Nate Shaw with 16; he also brought down 7 rebounds. Justin Staton and Dwayne Irving each scored 10, with Staton pulling down 8 rebounds and making 3 blocks. Mikquan Donerlson and Shaquille Holley combined for 8 assists, 6 rebounds and 5 steals. Jared Donalson impressed, bringing
down 8 rebounds off the bench, also making 3 blocks and a steal. The Spartans bounced back on Saturday at Clinton Community College defeating them 57-56, picking up their first win of the season. Come out and see your Lady Spartans and their male counterparts play at home December 4th vs. Word of Life at 5:30 and 7:30 pm respectively. It is free admission for CCC students and staff. .
Lady Spartans Lose to Mohawk Valley By Alec Rider, Co-Editor-in-chief The Cayuga Community College Lady Spartans lost their November 13th basketball match-up against Mohawk Valley Community College at home. Leading scorer was Latina Smith with 17, also managing 2 rebounds and 2 assists. China Agnew scored 10 with 2 assists, a rebound and a steal. Tyresha Mathis scored 8, while
managing a double-double, pulling down 10 rebounds and making 10 blocks. Just a reminder, the Lady Spartans’ next home game is December 4th vs. Word of Life. Admission is free for students and staff, so come out and support your sports teams. .
CCC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ROSTER 1 2 3 4 10 12 21 22 23
China Agnew Nikki Loveless Jocelyn Moulton Latina Smith Jessica Alonso Shanna Shaff Tyresha Mathis Erin Butler Haylie Karlsen Regina Bruder
G/F G G G/F G/F G F F G
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Syracuse, NY / Nottingham HS Port Byron, NY / Port Byron HS DeKalb Jct, NY / Hermon-DeKalb HS Syracuse, NY / Fowler HS Brooklyn, NY / Boys and Girls HS Lansing, NY / Lansing HS Syracuse, NY / Corcoran HS Walton, NY / Walton HS Romulus, NY / Romulus HS -/-
CCC WOMEN’S HOME BASKETBALL SCHEDULE DECEMBER TUE 4 WORD OF LIFE SUN 9 NORTH COUNTRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE JANUARY FRI 4 GENESEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE TUE 8 ONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE * TUE 15 JEFFERSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE * SAT 19 FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE * WED 30 CORNING COMMUNITY COLLEGE * FEBRUARY SAT 2 HERKIMER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE SAT 9 BROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE * SAT 16 TOMPKINS CORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE *
5:30 PM 2:00 PM 5:00 PM 5:30 PM 5:30 PM 1:00 PM 5:30 PM 1:00 PM 1:00 PM 1:00 PM
CCC MEN’S BASKETBALL ROSTER 1 2 3 4 5 10 11 12 20 21 22 23 31 33 44
Delquan Holmes Dwayne Irving Justin Staton Mikquan Donerlson Kyree Rufus Arinze Amalu Eddie Byrd Maurice Mobley Shaquille Hanson Jared Donalson Xavier Norgbey Shaquille Holley Josh Carmona Glenn Taggart Nate Shaw
Fr. Fr. So. So. Fr. So. Fr. So. Fr. So. Fr. So. Fr. So. Fr.
5’8” 5’8” 6’7” 5’10” 5’10” 5’11” 5’9” 6’0” 6’2” 6’5” 6’2” 6’1” 5’9” 6’3” 6’3”
Syracuse, NY / Nottingham H.S. Queens, NY / Martin Van Buren H.S. Freeport, NY / Freeport H.S. Syracuse, NY / Fowler H.S. Auburn, NY / Auburn H.S. Queens, NY / Campus Magnet High Liberty, NY / Liberty H.S. Queens, NY / Hillcrest H.S. Roosevelt, NY / Roosevelt H.S. Syracuse, NY / Nottingham H.S. Bronx, NY / Columbus H.S. Middletown, NY / Middletown H.S. Bronx, NY / Morris Educational Campus Fairport, NY / Fairport H.S. Syracuse, NY / Henniger H.S.
GO SPARTANS!!! CCC MEN’S HOME BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
DECEMBER TUE 4 WORD OF LIFE SUN 9 NORTH COUNTRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE JANUARY FRI 4 GENESEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE TUE 8 ONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE * TUE 15 JEFFERSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE * SAT 19 FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE * WED 30 CORNING COMMUNITY COLLEGE * FEBRUARY SAT 2 HERKIMER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE SAT 9 BROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE * SAT 16 TOMPKINS CORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE *
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Saturday and Sunday, December 1st and 2nd 39th Annual Craft Festival Over 150 crafters and vendors – FREE Admission Auburn Campus Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Student Activities Board.
Come to Downtown Auburn for Holiday Fun Saturday By Alec Rider, Co-Editor-in-chief
NASCAR WRECK WARRANTED? At Phoenix International Raceway two Sundays ago, Jeff Gordon seemed to purposely wreck Clint Bowyer, causing a brawl after the race ended between the two crews and Bowyer chasing after Gordon and trying to run into his car hauler. This all came after Bowyer made contact with Gordon moments before that was enough to cut Gordon’s tire. Some might say that Gordon overreacted. Well, I don’t. A potshot to Bowyer was a long time coming. Bowyer has been on the wrong side of Jeff Gordon multiple times before, including a wreck that Gordon’s team Hendrick Motorsports won’t soon forget. At Martinsville Speedway in April, during the final laps it looked as if Hendrick cars driven by Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon would finish 1-2. You see, in October 2004 it was announced that Rick Hendrick’s brother John and DUPONT executive Joe Jackson were killed in a plane crash
on the way to Martinsville. The wives of both men were at the race in April, hoping to see HMS pick up their 200th career NASCAR win. They were hoping to heal a few scars. Those chances were ruined in the final laps of the race when Bowyer dive bombed up the track and wrecked Gordon and Johnson, screwing Rick Hendrick and the entire Hendrick family out of something they so desperately wanted. Hendrick commented after the race that the lows he felt after that race were worse than some of the highs he experienced from championship wins. “It took me a week or so to get over it just because we had that in our grasp,’’ he said. “That was emotions we carried and nobody else.’’ If anyone should be apologizing for anything, it should be for Clint Bowyer. Because he truly caused more harm than to just two drivers. He caused emotional harm to an entire family.
After a non-stop week of preparation, family, food, and Black Friday; the Auburn Downtown Business Improvement District would like you to come to Downtown Auburn and have some fun with the family. The BID is hosting the 26th annual Holiday Parade and Family Fun Day. There will be tons of things to do throughout the day at no cost; including horse-drawn wagon rides, face painting, a ballet by Believers Chapel, a Red Cross military
card signing project, musical entertainment, refreshments and craft activities, and chili tasting. All of these events are between 2:30 and 5:30 pm. From 6:00-7:30 there will be the holiday parade, the tree lighting ceremony at approx. 6:45, music by the Auburn Civic Band, Santa will visit at 7 pm, as well as the St. Alphonsus Choir. So come out on Saturday November 24th for a fun day and memories made!
SKYFALL : A REVIEW By Alec Rider, Co-Editor-in-chief Let the sky fall, When it crumbles We will stand tall, Face it all together At Skyfall The French horns hit in force when James Bond hits the water after being accidentally shot by a fellow MI6 agent while battling with an assailant on top of a train. The assailant gets away with a list of every NATO operative undercover around the globe, something that, in the eyes of every Western nation, didn’t exist. This sets the stage for the entire movie as James Bond returns, seemingly from the dead, to hunt down the man who has this list in possession. Bond has always had help along the way, and veteran characters Q and Miss Moneypenny return in much younger skin. Skyfall has its chilling moments; including an explosion at MI6, a runaway underground train, an attempted assassination, and a last stand at Bond’s childhood home, Skyfall estate in Scotland. A loss of a veteran character puts a rather sad exclamation mark on a great movie. This year is the 50th anniversary of James Bond, and Skyfall doesn’t fail
in reminding you of this momentous occasion; everything from a 1962 bottle of scotch, and references to an exploding pen, and the seat ejector inside Bond’s classic AstonMartin DB5. Daniel Craig as Bond and Javier Bardem as the ultra-villain Silva have good chemistry on-screen. But in my opinion, Dame Judi Dench as M ties the two characters together and makes this movie the greatness I believe it is. I recommend that, whether you’re a Bond fan or not, you must see Skyfall. But if you are a fan, you may also want to check out the Bond 50 Collection being sold for $150 on Amazon, there’s even a place holder for when Skyfall releases in stores.
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CCC’s Future Business Leaders of America PBL Chapter News By Benitta Martin, contributing writer Hello everyone! It’s November and that means it is March of Dimes Prematurity Awareness month. This month, the Phi Beta Lambda Club will be focused on fundraising for the March of Dimes. We will continue to have our March of Dimes table set out every day in the month of November. This table consists of lots of information on how to prevent premature births and other important information for expecting mothers and their families. Also, we will have a table set up every Monday and Wednesday with lots of good things to check out. In the
mornings from 8-11 we will be selling donuts and bagels for $1 each. From 11-1 we will be selling pizza and drinks for $1 each. November 14th is go Purple day. We will be selling purple shirts for $10 that you can decorate for this day. There will be a box set out for preemie diaper donations. If you don’t want to buy anything we accept and greatly appreciate any type of monetary donation for the cause. We are extremely interested in helping families who are less fortunate in life for whatever reason. This month our passion is focused on helping the March of Dimes. We hope that you will join us in helping these babies and their families.
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