COLLEGIAN FINAL SEMESTER ISSUE DEADLINE DECEMBER 3 Cayuga Community College Auburn & Fulton, New York
Collegian By Michael Perry, associate editor
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VOL. 67 ISSUE 11 NOVEMBER 24, 2020
CAYUGABRIEFS COVID-19 UPDATES
This week SUNY Upstate notified us that an individual on our Auburn Campus tested positive for COVID-19. Aside from participating in testing, the individual has not recently accessed either campus. They have been placed in isolation by the County Health Department. As part of isolation, they will not be allowed to access either campus. Contact tracing for the campus population is complete. This week 460 people participated in surveillance testing. There is no surveillance testing on either campus the week of November 23. Please remember to follow our health and safety guidelines, including the appropriate use of face masks and social distancing. If you have any COVID-19 symptoms, please avoid accessing campus. Thank you for your continued attention to our health and safety protocols. —Cathy J. Dotterer, Ed.D. Dean of Students
LAST SPRING SEASON FOR CCC BASEBALL COACH TJ GAMBA By Michael Perry, associate editor
CAYUGA COLLEGIAN NAMES NEW EDITORIN-CHIEF FOR SPRING Sophomore Mike Perry of Auburn has been selected to be the new Collegian editor-in-chief for the spring semester. Perry has served as associate editor for The Collegian and talent/content provider for the new media show CAYUGA MIKE PERRY NAMED CAYUGA BYTES. COLLEGIAN The present EDITOR-IN-CHIEF student leadership of The Cayuga Collegian are moving on with their education and careers after this semester. After many semesters of dedicated, quality service, it is so difficult to say goodbye to Jenna Fields and Marc Eric C. Baan. “We become a little family unit at The Collegian,” explained Collegian Faculty Advisor JENNA FIELDS Assistant Professor Mary Merritt. “Jenna and Marc kept the paper going along with the new media show, CAYUGA BYTES, during unpredictable and difficult circumstances. They have come through in a pinch. They work tirelessly to get the details right. I’m so proud of all they have improved and accomplished, I can’t wait to see what the future MARC ERIC C. BAAN holds for them.” Fields is pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Communications next semester at Buffalo State and Baan is continuing to follow his dream of producing and directing documentaries.
“BREATHE” BY ELIZABETH DIEGO
SOMA’S PEOPLE’S CHOICE ART AWARD GOES TO ELIZABETH DIEGO
The final award from the Fall SOMA Student Talent Show has been awarded. Art Professor Melissa Johnson announced when the voting for The People’s Choice Art Award was tabulated, student Elizabeth Diego won for her overall entries to the contest. Congratulations, Elizabeth!!
STUDENTS: TAKE FREE ONLINE FAFSA COMPLETION EVENTS Cayuga Community College has partnered with two state agencies to provide our families with free online professional assistance completing the 2021-2022 college financial aid forms. Financial aid administrators from local colleges will help you and your college bound senior complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and the New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) application. You may attend any of the 2021-2022 FAFSA completion events. All events are online and require an appointment. You may schedule your online FAFSA completion date appointment by copying the specific URL for each session in your search bar. You will receive an email confirmation of your appointment slot within 24 hours of your registration.
ONLINE FAFSA COMPLETION DATE EVENT TIMES Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:00 – 7:00 PM https://zoom.us/meeting/register/ tJwvc-mtpz4vEtwODPH6NhV2MEHI65JDlsQj Wednesday, December 9, 2020 3:00 – 7:00 PM https://zoom.us/meeting/register/ tJAqcuqtqzIrH9USEguiBTon9bbb2rmZuFFQ%20
Saturday, December 12, 2020 9:00 – 1:00 PM https://zoom.us/meeting/register/ tJEuduCuqjkoE9fppwcvUY-7J-BFtTX6ylHW%20 Wednesday, December 16, 2020 3:00 – 7:00 PM https://zoom.us/meeting/register/ tJYpdOCsrD0qHtxcaLofXjlu46Daj14C49dN Prior to your appointment, you should do the following:
• Obtain an FSA ID for the student • Obtain an FSA ID for one parent • Gather the documents needed to complete your FAFSA/TAP applications Visit https://startheregetthere.ny.gov/ completing-the-fafsa to learn more about the financial aid application process. Check with your high school counselor for information on any of the 2021-2022 FAFSA completion events. These events are sponsored by the New York State Financial Aid Administrators Association and New York State Higher Education Services Corporation.
Batter Up! A new coach must step to the plate for the Cayuga Baseball team. Head Coach TJ Gamba has announced he will be stepping down after the 2021 Spring season. Gamba compiled a 23-17 record in his two seasons as head coach of the Spartan’s CCC BASEBALL Baseball team and he HEAD COACH has done an outstandTJ GAMBA ing job helping to build a solid program at Cayuga. CCC Athletic Director Pete Liddell had these kinds words to say about Gamba: “First and foremost, I consider Coach Gamba a very close personal friend who I was confident would help us get our new baseball program off the ground in 2019. His first season in the Spring 2019 did not disappoint as we not only fielded a team... but were competitive from day one...qualifying for the NJCAA Regionals and winning games against nationally ranked teams. The Spring 2020 season started off with a 3-1 record prior to the COVID-19 pandemic ended the year. As good as a good as a coach that Coach Gamba is...he is a better person. He has tremendous expectations from his student-athletes and a care factor that is more than obvious. Our players were fortunate to get to experience him. I’m guessing he will still be around Falcon Park keeping an eye on his successor.”
The College and Athletic Department looks to fill this position as soon as a suitable replacement is found. With the success of Gamba, there are some big shoes to fill in the program. We will have to wait and see who is next in line.
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WELCOME FROM THE NEW COLLEGIAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Hello, for those of you who don’t know me, my name is Michael Perry. I am a 2nd year Telcom
Michael Perry
OPINIONS Marc Baan
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF student at CCC and I will be taking over as editor-in-chief at The Cayuga Collegian for the Spring 2021 semester. I have many new ideas and goals for The Cayuga Collegian and how it can improve and I
“I really want to get a regular sports column going for the paper, whether it be covering local sports or national sports. Also, a regular political column would be great, so there’s tons of material to cover.” — Mike Perry, Collegian editor-in-chief can’t wait to get started. I think the biggest thing I would like to see change would be student engagement with the school newspaper. The more people that get
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HOW I SEE IT... START NEW FAMILY TRADITIONS There is no doubt that this year has been trying. For months, we have had to stop what we would consider our normal lives. For months, we have lived in fear of contracting Covid any time we took a step out our door. And for months, we have been stuck in our homes with our families, day in and day out. Although we do love them, being this close for so long, we all are tired of spending so much time with our family. And no one can blame anyone for feeling irritated at the way your brother or sister eats or how loud your mother or father listen to the T.V. But this is the perfect opportunity to turn all the stress into some real quality time. Start new traditions with your family. Sick of Movie Night? Turn it into Bad Movie Night and whoever makes the funniest comment gets to pick the next bad movie. Sick of just flipping through YouTube? Pick a hobby or new skill you and your family can try out like cooking, painting, or writing. YouTube is full of instructional videos that can help you pass the time with your family in a fun and constructive way. I know it has been hard for the past few months and it will be this way for a long time, but we all can get through this together if we remember we all are going through the same thing. Let us know what you and your family/friends have been doing to pass the time and help reduce stress at home. Email us and share with all the readers all of the new things you have gotten into during this lock down. Send your story with your name, area of study, year and hometown to cayugacollegian@gmail.com.
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involved, the more content we can produce. I know there are students at Cayuga who have things to say and write, I just need them to come join! Write about whatever you want: fashion, news, politics, sports, etc.; the more the merrier. One of the most intimidating parts about joining clubs for me growing up was not knowing anyone in the club. So, if you’re nervous about joining without knowing anyone on The Collegian staff, join with a friend, that way you have someone you know. If none of your friends are up for it, please don’t let this discourage you! I am more than happy to help anyone who is shy or nervous about joining! I really want to get a regular sports column going for the paper, whether it be covering local sports or national sports. Also, a regular political column would be great given the fact that we have a newly-elected President, so there’s tons of material to cover. Given the world we currently live in, I think another great edition to the newspaper could be a regular COVID-19 column with updates and statistics. Lastly, going into the spring semester we will not have any female staff. I would highly encourage any ladies who are interested to give it a try. Assistant Professor Mary Merritt is the faculty advisor to the newspaper, so you won’t be the only one in the room or Zoom room, but a student female voice is needed especially when it comes to news, so please consider joining. If you have any questions about joining, you can email me at mikeperry23@yahoo.com.
CAYUGA BYTES NEEDS YOUR HELP — WE WANT A CUSTOM YOUTUBE URL The ‘new media’ show independently produced by CCC students named CAYUGA BYTES need more than 100 subscribers to their YouTube Channel to create a custom URL or universal resources locator - so we can be more easily found through search engines. Please type https://www.youtube.com/ channel/UCp_EfoJl3k3RUn6L-KZqrtw into your browser and subscribe today!
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CAYUGA’S AWARD-WINNNG NURSING PROGRAM FINDS SUCCESS DESPITE COVID-19 By Pat Mahunik, contributing writer
CCC Telcom student, Marc Eric C. Baan, traveled to Japan last spring to live his dream of shooting, writing, producing and directing an accurate and new series of documentaries on the art of anime.
CAYUGA STUDENT TRAVELS TO JAPAN TO PRODUCE FRESH ANIME DOCUMENTARY SERIES
As many CCC programs had to move on-line this semester because of COVID-19, one program at Cayuga Community College remained open on the Auburn campus and that was the Nursing Program, which is one of the best nursing BRENDA FORREST CCC programs in New York NURSING LAB State. COORDINATOR “It was very challenging but we were ready for it,” said Nursing Lab Coordinator Brenda Forrest. “In the Nursing Lab we had to control density, so we just had to adjust how we scheduled students.” Forrest says it was challenging to do for both the faculty and the students because
By Jenna Fields, co-editor The Cayuga Community College community is proud of one of its very own Cayuga students who traveled to Japan and while there recorded, edited, and produced his own series of documentaries on the art of anime.
Jenna Fields CO-EDITOR A clip from his first episode of Anime in the Real World on YouTube goes like this: “And that’s why I came to Japan to find out why characters and story lines on the other side of the world have mean so much to millions all over the globe. My name is Marc Eric C. Baan, come with me as I travel across Japan to better understand the culture that created this unique art form and to understand how anime changed Japan and the anime in the real world.
Baan says one of the biggest things he learned on his quest was to come to an an understanding of another culture and its art for; and that anime is not like Western animation. “It is a lot more complex than most people think and I hope also that people who remember watching animes when they were kids will be reintroduced to them and start watching them again because it is such an unique and physically Japanese cultural form of art,” said Baan. Baan as he retells his experiences travelling along in Japan says he was grateful for his training in his many Cayuga Community College courses which prepared him techniques to overcome challenges and think on his feet. “I have to get a lot of credit to the professors here at Cayuga because I was filming during the Covid event. I had to stop what I was doing a lot of the time and come up with a whole new concept of filming and recording. I didn’t know I had those skills. I didn’t know I could stop on a dime and rethink that day--oh I traveled to a location that is now shut down because of Covid-now I have to find a new location and I may have maybe two hours, maybe three until the sun goes down and I only have this day in this area to record,” explained Baan. “So that ability to keep going in second’s notice is probably the biggest thing and I have to give it to the professors who taught that to me and I didn’t even realize it. Baan productions are an episodic series of seven episodes, each about 20 minutes. But Baan says he is starting to think that after Thanksgiving, there will be a few bonus episodes of subjects he feels he only touched on in the series and wanted to go into more depth The documentary series by Baan, Anime in the Real World is on YouTube. You can find it by typing in Anime in the Real World because the channel does not have it’s own URL right now because it is a brand new series. Baan says at this point in time all seven of the episodes are up and stay tuned because he says there will be a couple more in the future.
although they had just as many times to come in and practice, it was more restricted. “We were able to do it,” she said. Forrest says they are not near normal at this time, but they are getting students what they need to meet the outcomes of the courses of the program. “They’re going to clinical with adjustments. We’re working in the nursing lab with adjustments. They’re having classes and exams with adjustments,” explained Forrest. “It is not near our normal, but hopefully it won’t continue to be the normal. But we’re learning from it.” Forrest says students are definitely getting the experience they need in order to graduate. ‘We’re prepared to do whatever we need to do to get the students what they need.”
CDC REVERSES COURSE ON STUDENT LEARNING GUIDANCE By Michael Perry, associate editor
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have removed school guidance from their website that advocated for students returning to in-person learning. It was quietly taken down October 29th without any public announcement. In July, the agency dismissed concerns around COVID-19 transmission among children and students, emphasizing that closing schools would have a negative impact on their social and emotional well-being and safety. According to a statement from spokesperson Jason McDonald with the CDC, the
document was removed because it “did not provide appropriate and necessary context or considerations about how to safely open schools for in-person learning.” The CDC’s website now says, “the body of evidence is growing children of all ages are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection and, contrary to early reports, might play a role in transmission.” This new information came in as we have been seeing a spike in cases across the country. The question being, will it make a positive difference?
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What are you afraid of ? What are you afraid of? Perhaps a bad grade on your mid-tem? The cop driving closely behind you? Your parents when you get home late? All valid things to be afraid of, but all tangible things—all things you can see coming.
Marc Baan CO-EDITOR FEATURE WRITER
Now think of the things you can’t see. Things that move in the comers of your eyes. Sounds that come from nowhere. The touch on your arm from the shadows ... HOW AFRAID ARE YOU NOW?
SOMETHING FUNNY
If you’re brave enough, read this weekly installment of OUR SHADOW WORLD. We will explore the myths and urban legends of our planet. From the creatures your grandparents told you they saw in the war, to the things found on an abandoned VHS tape on the side of the road. Nothing will be held back as we discover what people are afraid of in countries from all four corners of this world. Remember, all myths and legends start with some strand of the truth. Now let’s see if they stay are true or just turn out to be a good story!
OUR SHADOW WORLD
The Mysteries of The Dark Web
The 21st Century is, without a doubt, the Digital Age. We all spend hours in front of our computers, tablets, phones, and game systems. It might be for work or for fun, but the truth is we need modern computing technology to live from day-to-day. But, hidden deep in the codes of what makes our computers work and servers that are the gateway to all the information on the Internet, there is a hidden realm of information you never want to access. Many of us have heard of “Internet Mysteries,” YouTubes’ test program - Webdriver Torso, or the mysteries code-breaking game, Cicada 3301. But these are examples of surface web mysteries. The surface web where we spend 99% of our time shopping, banking, and chatting, is just the first level of
the Internet. There is another level hidden, full of things that most people would never want to see. It is called the Dark Web. This network of web pages, only accessible with a particular kind of software, is seen as a lawless digital land. In the Dark Web, none of the sites are cataloged by any search engines. In this lawless land, you can buy anything and see anything, and I mean anything. A few years ago, the news media reported about the shutdown of a website called ‘The Silkroad.’ (a site where one could buy drugs and guns). The Silkroad is only one example of the sites that call the Dark Web home. The true mystery is where did the Dark Web come from. Like many things, it probably started off with the best of intentions. Many Internet scholars and historians believe the Dark Web began as an open-source location for people who lived in areas where the Internet was heavily censored. The Dark Web might have started as a place where people could share news and pass off messages to those who were being oppressed by their governments. But quickly, the Dark Web turned to a location for depravity. This is a strange world where new discoveries are made every day. The truth of the Dark Web is a conflicted one. It is a place no one should go because of the sick and disturbing things that are housed there. But it is also a location to help those whose voice has been silenced. My advice, do not go searching for it. Leave it be because if you go exploring around in the Dark Web… you might not know what might come back with you.
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