Cayuga Community College Auburn & Fulton, New York
Collegian Vol. 61 Issue 10
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Amy Valente
By Alec Rider, editor-in-chief
CCC business professor Amy Valente has been accepted to a fellowship of the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE). Professor Valente will help design and create online training programs for NACCE’s “How to Do It” kit and the NACCE “Quick Start Guides,” which assist community colleges in understanding how to implement entrepreneurship education programs. Valente – the adviser of CCC’s chapter of the Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) business club— was given the J. Richard Mahlstedt award by the students of CCC for excellence in her area of expertise and focus on ongoing learning last May. She started at CCC in 2010 and teaches everything from Principles of Business to Event Planning. Valente will also be organizing SUNY ENGINE a SUNY-wide Entrepreneurship Education symposium on 4/19 in Auburn to bring together SUNY educators and administrators.
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Wampum at Cayuga Museum By Jim Granger, staff writer On December 18, 2012 there was an event that many people do not see, read or maybe even hear about especially in the Central New York Area. A press conference was held by the Cayuga Museum’s Theater Mack to present the Cayuga Museum with a replica of a wampum belt that was formerly in the museum’s collection. The wampum belt was a replica of one of two belts given back to the Onondaga Nation. There was another belt and 19 masks. The belts and masks had been in the museum’s collection for many years. The two wampum belts were from an unknown burial site. The wampum replica was made as a gesture of goodwill by the Onondaga Nation. The 1990 Federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) mandates that federally funded museums return Native American “cultural items” to the lineal descendants or culturallyaffiliated groups of the people who created them. The cultural objects covered include human remains,
funerary objects, sacred objects and other important objects to Native Americans. The Cayuga Museum is not federally funded but decided two wampum belts from their collection and an assortment of 19 masks which could not be displayed at the museum be returned to the Onondaga Nation, where the Iroquois council fire resides. The Onondagas are at the heart of the confederacy. Cayuga Museum Curator Lauren Chyle said, “They were things we could not ethically display”. Chyle went on to say, “We decided that repatriation was the best thing to do.” Many people may think wampum was used by Native Americans and European traders as payment for goods. Wampum is actually used to tell a story. The wampum formally from the museum’s collection was from a grave discovered around or before 1900. Chyle stated “Very little documentation exists because records were not as well kept in
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SGO Drive Collects a Record Amount of Blood By Abigail Young, assistant editor
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CCC’s Amy Valente Earns Fellowship
February 5, 2013
Congratulations to the Auburn Campus Student Government Organization (SGO)! They set an all-time high record of donations during their recent blood drive for the American Red Cross last week. American Red Cross representative Roberta Kryk says the SGO’s original goal was to collect 34 to 37 units of blood. When the drive was over, Kryk reports they had collected 63 units, which she says is enough to save 189 lives! The blood drive was planned in celebration of National Blood Donor month in January. Students who made a donation of a pint of blood received a voucher for a free pound of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee. The event was hosted in the student lounge where Red Cross nurses Cayuga Collegian and Student editor-in-chief, G o v e r n m e n t Alec Rider is officials worked holding his Pint together to help for a Pound of with the event. “Thus far coffee certificate. we have 20 appointments scheduled, but we expect more walk-ins,” explained Auburn campus Student Government treasurer, Kevin Franceschelli during the height of their busy time. Dunkin’ Donuts Field Marketing Manager, Lou Conte, says his company was happy to provide the incentive. “We hope the offer of a free pound of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee will encourage more blood donors at this crucial time and help save more lives.” In 1970, the American Red Cross created National Blood Donor month. The Red Cross chose January because they believed many people’s New Year’s resolutions include helping others, and one way of doing this is through simply giving blood. One pint of blood can help up to three people, says the Red Cross. If you missed this blood drive, and want to know about others in the area, visit www.redcrossblood.org/giveblood, and enter your zip code to find a convenient location.
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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK Gun control seems to be the hot topic these days after the national tragedy that occurred at Sandy Hook elementary school in December that saw 20 little children murdered at the hands of who was undoubtedly a sick and psychotic person. A month later, President Obama declared a slew of Executive Orders aimed squarely at the issue of gun control. Since then there has been meetings at the White House between Vice-president Joe Biden –who the President placed as the head of his gun control task force— and groups ranging from the NRA, to the biggest companies in movies and video games. Recently, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), the victim of a gunshot to the head at a meet and greet in Tucson that saw a federal judge and a little girl murdered by a psychotic loon, was on Capitol Hill testifying as best she could. “Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something. It will be hard, but the time is now. You must act. Be bold, be courageous, Americans are counting on you,” Giffords said. I agree with Rep. Giffords, too many children are dying. But it’s not the 20 angels who ascended after the horrors at Sandy Hook; it’s the gang violence in our inner cities. President Obama, the Brady Campaign, and numerous other gun control advocacy groups haven’t touched the issue of gang violence with a ten foot pole. They would rather inaccurately stage assault weapons as child killers and significant tools of destruction. Yet President Obama is ignoring
what is behind the murder of a young student, a 15 year-old-girl Hadiya Pendleton when she was with a group of her peers. Gang members approached the group mistakenly believing two of the children in that group were rival gang members, and opened fire. We have ignored and continued to ignore gang violence in this country. Why? Are we afraid of racial profiling? Afraid of being deemed racists? This country had no problem dismantling the Italian mafia 25 years ago. They were honorable, they were murderers, but they were honorable. They left symbols at hits that let the police close cases without having to expend money and man power chasing a goose. They never touched the families of a person the Mafia was after. Black and Hispanic gangs do no such things. They murder, they murder with malice and without thought to the consequences that might come from their actions. They peddle hard drugs to children so they can recruit them and continue this vicious cycle. Chicago has 10x as many murders as the State of Utah, with about the same population. Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in this country. Utah is a red state and appreciates its guns. The problem with guns is not the guns, it’s the people who use them, and it has always been that way. As long as guns are made to be the issue instead of gangs and our deteriorating mental health services aren’t, we’re never going to solve this issue. -Alec Rider, Editor-in-chief
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Editorial Board ALEC RIDER - Editor-in-chief ABIGAIL YOUNG, Assistant Editor MARY G. MERRITT, Advisor Staff KATIE DUNN, Staff Writer JAMES GRANGER, Staff Writer SARAH GUIDONE, Staff Writer EMAIL CAYUGACOLLEGIAN@GMAIL.COM
Our generation is next in line to positively impact the world. Each day we can make choices to move us in that direction. Our educational opportunities are often taken forgranted. How many times do we skip class because we “don’t feel like it” or miss assignments because “they’re too hard?” These excuses enable laziness and low expectations which potentially leads to failure. The freedoms that Americans have are too great to overlook. According to DoSomething.Org, “More than 226 million children do not attend secondary school” and “Many children who do enroll in school do not graduate with even the most basic reading and math skills because their schools do not have enough teachers, books or facilities to provide a quality education.” That being said, we should dedicate more
time and effort to our educational endeavors. This is our chance to explore what areas appeal to us and begin learning how to effectively make a difference. Many professors at CCC are dedicated, caring individuals who want their students to succeed. Do we display our respect and appreciation toward them? I challenge us to keep up with assignments, get out of our comfort zones (join a club, organization, or sport), and thank a professor today. Let’s live our lives without educational regrets and make this semester one of the best we’ve ever had! Our world will not get better on its’ own; the change begins within us. h t t p : / / w w w. d o s o m e t h i n g . o rg / tipsandtools/11-facts-abouteducation-around-world -Katie Dunn, Collegian staff writer
MEET THE STAFF Hey Readers,
Hello everyone,
My name is Alec Rider and I am your Editor-in-chief of the student-run, student-wrote Cayuga Collegian. I wanted to introduce myself and let you know a little about me. I’m a huge St. Louis Cardinals and Cleveland Indians baseball fan and Cleveland Alec Rider Browns football fan. I spend most of my time at the college between classes, the Collegian, BASIC and PBL. When I get back to Lattimore and have a little time to myself, I play games in the Fallout and Mass Effect series on my Xbox 360. I’m also a huge WWE fan, I have been since I was a kid. Politics and sports are the topics I love to write about. A couple things you may not know about me. 1. I listen to basically any kind of music, except for rap and hip-hop, this includes jazz standards such as Billie Holiday and the Andrews Sisters. 2. Beyond writing prose, I also write poetry. I don’t really share it with anyone, but if you know me, see this, and ask me to see some of my stuff. I’ll be sure to oblige. I hope to continue to publish a newspaper that allows you to learn something new and appreciate the opposing viewpoints that can be found within this school. Thank you for reading. -Alec Rider, Editor-in-chief
my name is Abigail Young. I am a sophomore at the Auburn Campus of CCC. I will graduate this May with an associate’s degree in liberal arts with a writing concentration. I am 18-yearsold but will soon be 19. I grew up in Fleming, which is about 15 to 20 minutes away from Abigail Young Auburn. My father was a dairy farmer and my mother worked for Verizon. I have three older siblings and one adorable nephew. Some of my life experiences include: being the 2011 to 2012 Cayuga County Dairy Princess, representing Union Springs High School at the American Legion’s Girl’s State, and of course, becoming assistant editor for the Collegian. No I am not very athletic, but I do enjoy watching the occasional football game. I also enjoy going to theatrical performances and sometimes participating in them. What are some of my favorite things? I love to travel, I like reading about different opinions on major news stories, and I like to read novels. My favorite television series would be a triple tie between Grey’s Anatomy, Once Upon A Time, and Deadliest Catch. I like to go to the movie theater on occasion as well. As for a political background, I am an Independent. I tend to see advantages and disadvantages of Democratic and Republican proposals. -Abigail Young, Assistant Editor
I am Sarah Guidone, I graduated high school from Port Byron in 2011, the fall of that year I attended St. Bonaventure U n i v e r s i t y and majored in journalism Sarah Guidone and mass communication. Due to personal reasons I transferred to CCC after my first semester and will be getting my Associates degree in May.
The Cayuga Collegian is always looking for new staff members. We especially need reporters from CCC’s Fulton Campus. If you would like to join the staff of The Collegian, email Alec at cayugacollegian@gmail or come to the meetings Mondays at 11:00 AM.
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Spartan Hall Open House Tragic Snowmobile Crash By Alec Rider, editor-in-chief
By Sarah Guidone, staff writer The Cayuga Spartan sports program held an open house in Spartan Hall last Wednesday to mark the 75th anniversary of their league, the National Junior College Athletic Association or NJCAA. “We like to recognize them, (NJCAA), as well as be a part of that group,” said CCC Athletic Director Pete Liddell The event also celebrated the recent renovations in the new and improved Spartan Hall. Those
attending enjoyed cake while admiring the new wood floor which was added in 2007. Liddell says the most recent addition to the facility is a new scorers’ table. He says the recent addition of a new scoreboard, wall padding and a fresh layer of paint completed the gymnasium’s make-over. “It’s one of the better college basketball, junior college basketball facilities around,” said Liddell.
Fighting Cancer One Game at a Time By Sarah Guidone, staff writer Spectators at last Wednesday’s CCC Women’s basketball game were willing to get a black eye to fight cancer. It was all part of a Coaches vs. Cancer fund-raising event to raise money for cancer research. CCC Athletic Director Pete Liddell says they decided to sell eye black as a fun way to get the community involved and excite the fans who attended the Lady Spartans’ game against Corning Community
College. The Lady Spartans won the contest 65-56. Selling eye black is a creative way to get the community involved with giving back. “We sold a lot today (Wednesday) I’m not sure we will reach our goal of 300, but I think we sold a little over 200,” said Liddell. Last year more than 200 t-shirts were sold. The proceeds from both sales go to the American Cancer Society.
After a vicious crash in the Freestyle Snowmobiling event at the Winter X-Games last week in Aspen, Caleb Moore has tragically succumbed to his injuries. He was 25. Moore was considered to be the beneficiary of a serious case of beginner’s luck when at the 2010 Winter X-Games, Caleb Moore also in Aspen, he earned a bronze medal in his first professional competition, in the same event that would end his life three years later, with just one month of serious practice. Caleb’s younger brother Colten won the gold medal at the Winter X-Games last year and was injured the same night as his brother, separating his pelvis. The elder Moore was attempting a backflip when the skis on his 450pound snowmobile caught the lip of the landing area, sending him flying over the handlebars. Moore landed face first into the snow with his snowmobile rolling over him. Moore wouldn’t stand for some time and was removed from the course with help. While in the hospital, Moore developed bleeding around his heart, leading to a brain complication and, unfortunately, his untimely death.
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Snowmobiles were originated to give snowy regions a conventional way to move supplies and get from place to place, where conventional means were not possible, especially in isolated regions. It’s since grown into a tool for a popular sport, a sport that is inherently dangerous when you ride 400-600 pound machines at excess of 90 MPH. There are approximately 200 deaths and 14,000 injuries in the US and Canada every year. Here in Upstate New York, snowmobiling is a pastime. It’s fun and exciting. But I hope that everyone who gets on a snowmobile would be careful and exhibit caution while operating one. Be safe this winter, and remember Caleb Moore.
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REMEMBERING STAN “THE MAN” Baseball lost a true Baseball Saint when Stan “The Man” Musial passed away last month. Musial played 23 years and appeared in 24 All-Star games (for a time, there were two All-Star games per year). He was a 3x World Series Champion, 3x MVP and a 7x NL batting champion. He hit 475 home runs and what is possibly his most telling statistic, he collected 3,630 hits, 1,815 at home and 1,815 on the road. Yes, Musial’s greatest attribute was his consistency. But his consistency extended off the field also, as evidenced by his nearly 72 year marriage to his wife, Lillian. Commissioner Ford Frick is attributed with the quote that has stuck to Musial more than any. “Here stands baseball’s perfect warrior. Here stands baseball’s perfect knight.” But that was the Golden Era of baseball, with Musial gone, the Golden Era is gone. Now, baseball fans are dealing with the residual effects of a different kind of era, one that they are none too pleased to have to confront. The Steroid Era of baseball has
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reared its ugly head from whatever dark, disgusting hole it disappeared to after Barry Bonds left Major League Baseball in disgrace. Last week, a report surfaced, connecting several high-profile players with banned substances sold by a South Florida clinic. The New York Yankees’ previously disgraced third baseman Alex Rodriguez is among those that were fingered in this report. Others include Washington Nationals pitcher Gio Gonzalez, and Texas Rangers right fielder Nelson Cruz. I thought the Steroid Era was over, apparently I was wrong. Even when Melky Cabrera and Bartolo Colon were nailed last season (and were also named in this report) I thought it may have just been an isolated incident. But in a year where the Baseball Writers’ Association of America failed to elect a single person to the Baseball Hall of Fame, possibly because of the number of steroid era players on the ballot, the black cloud that the Steroid Era has placed over the MLB may be here to stay, at least for a little longer.
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What Is Governor Cuomo’s Gun Law?
CBA Baseball Coach Shot in the Eye by Bandit
In the weeks after two back to back shootings in Newtown, Connecticut and Webster, New York, Governor Cuomo has introduced new legislation that places tighter restrictions on owning guns in New York State. In his third State of the State Address, Cuomo said, “We must stop the madness my friends. In one word, it’s enough. It has been enough.” Governor Cuomo’s plan includes: banning all assault weapons with military features, putting limits on large capacity magazines to a maximum of seven bullets, and allowing police to confiscate guns belonging to anyone considered mentally unstable. The main points made in Cuomo’s speech have caused gun proponents to fire back. The National Rifle Association, in an article posted on their website, say that assault weapons have never been used in more than a small percentage of firearm-related violent crimes in the years of 1994 to 2004. Another point the NRA makes is that assault weapon and large magazine bans have not reduced crime. The NRA pointed out a study done in California in 1989. After a ban on assault weapons, California’s murder rate increased every year for five years and rose to 26 percent overall. In January of 2000, California banned more guns and their murder rate reached 14 percent higher than the national rate. As for the mentally ill and gun ownership, Cuomo says he would allow mental health professionals to determine if a gun holder is too unstable to have a weapon. Cuomo also would allow metal health professionals to report such people to enforcement officials. Mental health advocates believe the Governor’s plan falls short of actually solving the problem.
CBA baseball coach Thomas Dotterer, 77, was shot in the eye during a robbery of his liquor store last week. Syracuse Police said two men, one armed with a handgun, walked into D o t t e re r ’s liquor store and demanded that he turn Thomas Dotterer over his valuables, court papers stated. Dotterer did not give in to the demand and was shot once in the right eye. His shooter Shireff J. Williams III has been charged with robbery and assault. Dotterer was accosted once before in his store, in 2005. Just days after the shooting
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Dotterer returned to his store, run by family during his absence, and tended to customers behind the register for a few hours. Shockingly, Dotterer said that the shooting wasn’t the worst thing that happened to him that week. Sunday night, the night before the shooting, he was at home watching one of WWE’s flagship pay-per-views Royal Rumble, where WWE Champion C.M. Punk was defeated by WWE Legend and Hollywood actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Dotterer said that Punk losing the title was worse than being shot straight in the eye, which caught Punk’s attention. Sirius-XM got the two together on the Abe Kanan show unbeknownst to Dotterer. Punk told Dotterer that he would be his special guest at the upcoming WWE house show in Syracuse March 3rd.
Petition Moves Victoria’s Secret to Action By Alec Rider, editor-in-chief Victoria’s Secret is seriously considering a proposal from a m o t h e r- d a u g h t e r duo that started as a petition to create a bra for cancer survivors. Debbie Barrett, 57, a cancer survivor and her daughter Allana Maiden started a change. org petition that has amassed neary 120,000 signatures asking Victoria’s Secret to create a “Survivor’s Bra” for those women that wear prostheses because of a mastectomy.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure says that breast cancer is the most common in women and estimates that 1.6 million new cases occurred worldwide alone. Victoria’s Secret is no stranger to cancer support. The company’s 2012 “Think Pink” campaign donated more than $1.1 million to cancer groups. Victoria’s Secret’s parent company Limited Brands has confirmed that they are in the process of research and development for the so-called “Survivors Bra”.
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Michael Carey says Cuomo’s plan does nothing to help keep the mentally ill from committing these types of crimes. He also says there is a need to improve the state psychiatric system. Cuomo’s new gun bill also calls for a loophole, which allows people to sell assault rifles and largecapacity rifles manufactured prior to 1994 privately, to be closed. If the law is enacted, people would have to register their older rifles with the state and they would not be allowed to sell them in New York state. In addition, the state would confiscate the older rifles’ ammunition magazines. The Governor is also proposing to ban sales of firearms between private parties without a federal background check and Internet sales of ammunition without a state background check. Cuomo also wants to standardize gun licensing across the state by requiring gun owners to renew their licenses every few years. Governor Cuomo is not alone in his proposal. The President and other states in the country are coming up with new gun laws as well. The debate over these new gun laws is whether or not they are a violation of the Constitution’s Second Amendment. The National Rifle Association says that Cuomo’s proposal, along with any other new gun laws, are in violation of the 2nd Amendment. On their website, nraila.org, the NRA composed a top ten reasons list why states should reject assault weapon and large magazine bans. Another website, gunbanfacts. com, explains more about assault weapons and why gun restriction people are wrong. The NRA says it plans to file a lawsuit against New York State if Cuomo’s new gun ban law is passed.
Wampum at Cayuga Museum Monopoly Token Trouble By Alec Rider, editor-in-chief
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that era.” The museum had two wampum belts which came from the same burial site. Oren Lyons, a faithkeeper for the Onondaga Nation, when asked about the stories the wampum told said, “The person who made the wampum is the only person who knows the stories, we do not know what the wampum belts tell us.” Tony Gonyea, another Onondaga Nation faithkeeper made the replica wampum belt for the museum’s collection. Gonyea, when asked about wampum symbols he stated, “Wampum belts have some universal or recognizable shapes other people may know, but not all wampum is universally recognizable
by people who know what wampum belts say.” This is the case with the two wampum belts made and given to the Onondaga Nation. Lyons was asked about what wampum says, “treaties and histories” he said. Tadodaho (Onondaga Chief) Sidney Hill presented the new wampum belt to the museum curator Chyle. Hill stressed several things during the press conference. Hill said, “Education and history are the best ways for people to know about Native American cultures and histories.” The Cayuga Museum will soon be developing a display about the Haudenosaunee or as most know these native peoples by, the Iroquois Confederacy.
Possibly the most famous board game in United States history is about to send a classic token to jail and welcome a new token into the fold. Monopoly is hosting a Facebook contest called “Save Your Token” where you can vote for which of the classic tokens (Racecar, Thimble, Boot, Scottie Dog, Battleship, Top Hat, Iron, and Wheelbarrow) you would like to save and which of the new tokens (Robot, Ring, Cat, Helicopter, and Guitar) you would like to replace the loser with. You have until February 6th to visit https://apps.facebook. com/saveyourtoken to save your favorite Monopoly token from
being sent to the slammer and being sentenced to life in prison.
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