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reporting cases of U.S. travelers bringing the infection back with them, and health officials in Texas have confirmed a case of sexual transmission of the virus. For most people, the Zika virus causes only a brief, mild flu-like illness. But in pregnant women it has been linked to an alarming increase in the rate of the birth defect known as microcephaly — a debilitatingly small head and brain size. The clusters of birth defects linked to the Zika virus are an international public health emergency, according to the WHO. Dr. Chan characterizes
The Cayuga Spartans showed determination to come out on top Sunday, January 31st in the Westchester Classic where they battled for 1st place against Corning Community College. The team was once again led by lefty Wyatt Hasty (Sherrill, NY) who averaged 233 for the entire tournament and placed 1st in singles competition and 2nd in All Events. Brandon Gallagher (Pawling, NY) and Brandon Cecchini (Union Springs, NY) placed 2nd in doubles where Cecchini had the front 11 and shot a 298 game. With five baker games down, the Spartans were going into the next block of bakers six pins out of first. Game one of bakers proved exciting as Corning and Cayuga were bowling for 1st place. Game one against Corning was left even as both teams shot 187. However, game two for Cayuga provided them with the lead as they shot 245 and Corning shot 158. Cayuga didn’t stop there as they created more space between the two teams. Todd Brechue (Auburn, NY) came in clutch for the Spartans to help the Spartans come on top. The Spartans saw their toughest shot on the lanes on Sunday, January 24th, during the Red Baron Invitational, where they struggled to make spares. Although the team struggled, they were able to come up on top with a total pin fall of 6425. Eric Hodson (Auburn, NY) had high series for the first block with a pin fall of 626 and Brandon Gallagher (Pawling, NY) came in first in the second block with a pin fall of 576 for three games. Both Wyatt Hasty (Sherrill, NY) and Hodson placed in all events with Hasty coming in third with a total pin fall of 1150 and Hodson came in second with a total pin fall of 1168. The Spartans hosted Corning Community College and Johnson College on Saturday, January 23rd
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The Cayuga Collegian’s Editor-inchief, Caleb Slater, was one of many Cayuga Community College students who studied abroad in London, England during 2016 Intersession. Slater tells the complete story with photos from the trip on page 4.
Reminder: Assessment Day is Wednesday, Feb. 10 The College will be having an Assessment Day for faculty and staff. There will be no classes during the day, but EVENING classes will meet. Please contact your professor if you have an evening class to see if you will be meeting.
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The Cayuga Spartans took to the lanes on Saturday, January 30th in the Westchester Shootout where they came in 2nd against some very good teams. The Spartans were led by freshman lefty Wyatt Hasty (Sherrill, NY) who averaged 230 for the entire tournament with a total pin fall of 923. Hasty finished the tournament on the All Events team where he came in 4th. Hasty and doubles partner Eric Hodson (Auburn, NY) who averaged 216 placed 2nd in doubles with a total pin fall of 965. Brandon Gallagher (Pawling, NY) averaged 218 though out the tournament while his doubles partner Brandon Cecchini (Union Springs, NY) averaged 210. Todd Brechue (Auburn, NY) averaged 207, and Meghan Feocco (Auburn, NY) averaged 195.
Cases of mosquito-borne Zika virus have hit the United States By Jennifer J. Brown, PhD , Everyday Health
If you’ve heard about the Zika virus and are wondering what it is, you’re not alone. Cases of this emerging infectious disease are soaring in the Americas and “spreading explosively,” according to World Health Organization (WHO) DirectorGeneral Margaret Chan, MD. Several states are
Ten-year-old Elison with his 2-month-old brother Jose Wesley, who was born with Microcephaly, in Poco Fundo, Brazil.
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OPINIONS Election season is upon us By Kevin Shutter STAFF WRITER It is once again vote harvesting time in America. Democrats and Republicans are once again dotting the landscape, state by state, to pitch their vision for the country’s future atop their soap boxes. The two Democrat candidates are in a never ending battle over who will provide the most “free stuff” to the electorate while their counterparts in the Republican party are slinging mud at each other to somehow prove which of the candidates in a long list reveres the country the most. Election season is officially upon us! As in past elections, there is no shortage of hyperbole on the political trail. In stump speech after stump speech, regardless of the political affiliation of the individual candidate, the same phrase is uttered, “the country is at stake.” As if somehow some ominous force is going to reign down on the American people if the bulk of the votes cast are cast for the wrong candidate. It is true that, as in other elections certain policies and positions could without a doubt cast the country down a path that inevitably could result in disastrous outcomes for the country as a whole. We can’t however let the battle of words between the polished Washington elite blind us into voting out of fear. With the world becoming smaller and more accessible through technological advances, it defies logic to see the Democratic candidates running at a faster pace with the passing of each day toward the dystopian future they are promising with their prospective election to the
highest office in the free world. Have they not learned from past failures to have these distorted visions come to fruition? The great society promised by former President LBJ is what led to his demise and failure to even run for reelection in the 1960’s. Again this situation played out with George H. W. Bush in the early 1990’s when he lost in a decided fashion due to his dabbling in the realm of the unattainable promise. The biggest issue facing our country is our mounting debt. The Democrats have already disqualified themselves to tackle this problem with their ever increasing promises of more and more “free stuff.” The Sanders campaign is promising “free” community college for all, and free health care “from birth to death” on the backs of the American tax payer. Hillary Clinton hasn’t refuted these promises, rather she has decided to call herself “a progressive who likes to get things done.” Going back to the birth of American Progressivism in the early 20th century and the issue of free universal health care for all was the strongest pillar in their platform.
Bernie Sanders, to his credit, is not afraid of Socialism, but rather has capitalized on the growing fervor among the youth in the country and has embraced it whole heartedly. The ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement was thought to have ended, however, Mr. Sanders has successfully harnessed that electorate by making Wall Street reform the biggest issue in his campaign. The surprising success of the Sanders campaign is only “trumped” by that self-made billionaire, Donald. J. Trump and his campaign for the same office. The Trump campaign has struck a chord within the minds of a vast amount of the voting
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public. Rather than sticking to the conservative script that is usually used in the Republican primary process, Trump has turned the election process on its head. With every insult and moment of bombast, Trump’s stock rises exponentially, confusing the prognosticators and paid political pundits at every step. Although he didn’t win in the Iowa Caucus, his prospects of winning the nomination are the brightest among the nominees. At some point the adults need to take over this election. In the year of the so-called “outsider” it will remain to be seen if someone with half the sense and at least an ounce of pride in what our founding fathers built,
MEET SOME OF THE COLLEGIAN STAFF I’m Caleb Slater and I share the same birthday as rapper, Marshall Bruce Mathers the third (better known Eminem). In addition, I’ve been called a modern day, Jimmy Olsen and am proud to be the Editor-in- Caleb Slater chief of The Cayuga Collegian. This is my second year here at Cayuga Community College and after this year, I intend to continue my education in communications at Ithaca College. I see myself as a very friendly person and I have been known, from time to time, to tell really corny and dry jokes. My way of thinking is if you tell 1000 jokes, one of them is bound to be funny.
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will stand up and have their voices heard. Perhaps this is the election when the perceived hyperbole of the statement “the country is at stake” becomes reality. Is the Republic at stake? Time will tell, in the meantime, the only safeguard against tyranny is the American voter. Regardless of who wins the White House this coming fall, we deserve them, for it is us that has the decision to make and it is us, the voters, who will be responsible for the outcome we vote for. It will remain to be seen if common sense will prevail in this election season… funny thing about common sense, it doesn’t seem to be as common as it used to be.
My name is Kevin Shutter, I am a Business student here at CCC. I have been lucky enough to be elected President of the college’s chapter of PBL (business club) where much of my time and energy is spent here on campus. I have an eye for politics and I enjoy immersing myself into the craziness that is our current political system. Writing political articles for The Collegian has been a great outlet for me in my time here at CCC. I hope everyone not only enjoys the articles but is also intrigued by them enough to take some time out of their lives to look deeper into the goings on of our government.
Meet Steve Brewer STAFF WRITER Hello everyone, my name is Steve Brewer and I am one of the Staff Writers for the Cayuga Collegian. I will be finishing my degree in Business Administration this spring. I currently work as a tutor for Accounting and for Writing in the Center for Academic Success; I am the Treasurer of the Auburn Campus Student Government Organization; and I am also the Owner/Operator of both the Finger Lakes Paracon and Finger Lakes Paramagazine. In my spare time I like to play racquetball at the local YMCA and occasionally on the courts on campus. I have been playing racquetball for close to ten years and play competitively in the leagues and tournaments that the Y hosts. I also have a deep love for ghost hunting, I experienced some pretty off the wall activity when I was younger which lead me into the ghost hunting field. I have been on a few ghost hunting teams over the course of seven years and founded my businesses on it as well with the Paracon being a paranormal convention and the Paramagazine being a magazine dedicated to the paranormal activity and occurrences in the Finger Lakes region. I am very compassionate and will help anyone who asks for my help to the best of my abilities. If there is any issue that you would like to see voiced in The Collegian please let myself or any of the other staff writers know and we will look into it!
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Pharmaceutical company founder, Martin Shkreli, pleads the Fifth before Congress By Caleb Slater, editor-in-chief
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Martin Shkreli, who came under scrutiny last year for raising the cost of a lifesaving drug by 5,000% remained silent by answering virtually none of the questions presented to him, during a testimony last Thursday. The former hedge fund manager and CEO of biotech company, Turing Pharmaceuticals was being asked about the motives and morality of the company’s decision to raise the cost, per pill of the drug in question, Daraprim, from $13.50 to $750. Daraprim is a drug that fights toxoplasmosis, an infection caused by a parasite that proves to be harmful to those with a weak immune system. (Those who’ve undergone chemotherapy, organ transplants, or are living with HIV) An estimated 60 million people in the United States may carry the parasite and the comments made by Shkreli over interviews and social media are leading many to believe this is just another example of corporate greed conducted though the highly unregulated pharmaceutical industry. In one Q & A session, hosted by Forbes, Mr. Shkreli gave a smirk-like response to the question of, “If you could rewind the clock a few months […] would you do anything differently?” He responded with, “I probably would have raised the price higher.” The practice of raising drug prices to make a profit is not a new one, but the egregious decision to raise costs so drastically are causing incumbents on both sides
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Martin Shkreli of the spectrum to raise an eyebrow. Republican Presidential front runner, Donald J. Trump stated, “He looks like a spoiled brat to me.” The Democratic Socialist from Vermont, Bernie Sanders threw his two cents on the issue, after rejecting a campaign donation from Martin Shkreli. Sanders said, “One in five Americans today cannot fill their prescriptions, they’re doctors are writing for them. That’s crazy.” The Sander’s campaign office then referred to Shkreli as a “prescription price gouger.” During last Thursday’s hearing, both Rep. Trey Gowdy (R- South Caroline 4th district) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D- Maryland 7th District) expressed their bewilderment. Cummings tried to reason with Mr. Shkreli by saying, “You are in a unique position, you really are sir. Rightly or wrongly, you have been viewed as a so-called bad boy, a farmer. You have a spotlight, a platform. You could use that attention to come clean, to right your wrongs and to become one of the most effective patient advocates in the country and one that can make a big difference in so many people’s lives. […] The way I see it, you can go down in history, as the poster boy for greedy drug country executives, or you can change the system, yeah you.” Shkreli responded with a smirk and a smile before proudly invoking his 5th amendment and wasting the time of everyone in the room that day.
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CCC students in London! By Caleb Slater, Editor-in-chief
Students all across the SUNY system participated in the various programs offered in Cayuga Community College’s annual interactive educational enrichment experience in London this past January. Nearly 50 students from 15 different colleges within the SUNY system- Cayuga Community, St. John Fisher, Binghamton, Stony Brook and the City College of New York, to name a few – participated in the four programs offered this year. The programs offered included: Theatre, Telcom, History and Business, each with its own set of Cayuga Community College staff and an itinerary of events pertaining to the program of study. Professor and director of CCC’s Harlequin
Productions, Bob Frame, served as the professor and coordinator for students within the Theatre program. Steve Keeler and retired professor of St. John Fisher, Tom Proietti facilitated the media program. Ron and Rosa Grube organized and taught the history program and Tom Paczowski ran the business program. Additionally, Professors Susan Wolstenholme and Mary Bulkot tagged along this year, as they are looking to reestablish the English Literature program and utilized this year’s trip to come up with events that will be featured within the English Lit. program when it is offered. Students spent nearly two weeks, (leaving the USA on New Year’s Day and returning on the Wednesday, January, 13th), exposing themselves to what British culture has to offer. The Cayuga Collegian College provided an assortment of photos taken from students and faculty within every program offered.
CCC Theatre Professor Bob Frame and his students.
CCC Telcom Department Chairman Steve Keeler with Telcom students and Cayuga Collegian editor-in-chief, Caleb Slater.
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Media Students crossing the famous Abbey Road Crossswalk. Group hug, before the boat ride to Greenwich. CCC students Emily Clark and Katie Curtis at Westiminster Abbey.
Andy Bounds poses by a working telephone booth near Big Ben in Downton London.
Andy Bounds relives a poular scene from the beloved Harry Potter Series at the famous Platform 9 3/4.
CCC Students Chris Frost and Ed Vivenzio simulate the news at the BBC Old Broadcasting House.
CCC Theatre Professor Bob Frame and Cayuga Collegian editor-inchief, Caleb Slater, at the famous historical landmark, Stonehenge. Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England.
CCC’s most distinguished Professor, Steve Keeler, like a coach breaks down the game plan for media students to understand at the Millennium Hotel.
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Cases of mosquito-borne Zika virus have hit the United States
The TOP TEN facts you need to know about the Zika virus
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other parts of the world.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted a travel alert advising pregnant women to delay travel to areas where Zika is active. The travel alert list continues to expand and now includes 30 countries or territories, most of them in the Americas. The CDC’s newest guidelines recommend that pregnant women coming back from these areas get tested for Zika if they have symptoms. Two pregnant women in Illinois tested positive for the virus after recent travel, reports the Illinois Department of Public Health. In addition, the CDC advises men who have a pregnant partner to use condoms if they live in or travel to areas with Zika infection. A baby born recently with Microcephaly in Oahu, Hawaii, had been infected with Zika, according to a press release from the Hawaii Department of Health, and the child’s mother had previously lived in Brazil — a Zika hot zone with up to 1.3 million cases of infection. With the 2016 summer Olympic Games coming up in Rio de Janeiro, public health experts are worried that the virus may spread far beyond Latin America. The World Health Organization expects Zika to spread to all but two countries in the Americas: Canada and Chile. Given the possible link to birth defects, preventing the spread of Zika is critical, especially for women in their childbearing years.
Here are the facts about the Zika virus: 1. The Zika virus is carried by mosquitoes and people, but usually spread by mosquitoes. Zika is an RNA virus related to the West Nile, yellow fever, and dengue viruses, and caused by the bite of the Aedes mosquito. These viral diseases have mosquitoes as their vector — the bug or organism that transmits an infection — and are generally not passed from person to person, explains Peter Jay Hotez, MD, PhD, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. “A person bitten by a mosquito that has the virus then becomes viremic. They get bitten by another mosquito, which then passes the virus along,” Dr. Hotez says.
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The virus can also be sexually transmitted. A person in Texas became infected after having sex with someone who had traveled abroad, according to local health officials. Condom use can protect you against infection. If you are pregnant and your partner has been exposed to mosquitoes in regions that have Zika, you should talk with your doctor. 2. Symptoms of Zika virus infection are usually mild. Eighty percent of people who become infected never have symptoms. In those who do, the most common Zika virus symptoms are fever and rash; it can also cause muscle and joint pain, headache, pain behind the eyes, and conjunctivitis (itchy, red eyes), according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Health experts at the WHO Regional Office for the Americas note that symptoms generally last two to seven days. No effective treatment is available for Zika infection, but over-the-counter fever or pain medication can be helpful for symptom relief. 3. Unborn babies are most at risk from Zika virus complications. When pregnant women are infected with Zika, the unborn child is at risk, says Hotez. “We’re seeing illness when it strikes women who are pregnant, and it’s producing a horrific effect of Microcephaly,” he says. “We don’t know when in pregnancy the consequences are greatest.” Microcephaly may cause mental retardation, as well as delays in speech, movement, and growth, according to the Mayo Clinic. Healthcare workers in Brazil were stunned to learn that, throughout all of 2015 and up to the present, there have been more than 4,000 total new microcephaly cases that were suspected to be caused by Zika — more than 20 times higher than the numbers in prior years. 4. There’s no vaccine to protect against the Zika virus. “There’s going to be a need to accelerate a Zika vaccine,” says Hotez. “I think the world got caught by surprise at the congenital infections. Now there’s going to be a lot of interest in a vaccine for women of reproductive age, like the rubella vaccine [to prevent birth defects].” Rubella vaccination is now mandatory for children and is a recommended vaccine for adults; it helps prevent miscarriage in pregnant women, and heart problems, blindness, and hearing loss in newborns.
discovered in Latin America in 2014, the virus has quickly spread. In December 2015, the Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) recommended Latin American countries start gearing up to screen for Zika and prepare for demands on the healthcare systems due to the severe health problems it’s causing in newborns. 6. Zika has reached Puerto Rico’s mosquitoes and may keep traveling north. “Puerto Rico has reported the first locally-acquired Zika virus case in the United States,” says Benjamin Haynes, a CDC spokesperson. The case was reported in December 2015. “I think we have to proceed along a worst-case scenario that the Gulf Coast is at risk. We’re vulnerable,” says Hotez. “I’m not an alarmist. But I am worried about a Zika outbreak on the Gulf Coast.” That includes areas around Houston, New Orleans, and Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida, which are all potential hot zones for tropical diseases because mosquitoes thrive there. 7. U.S. travelers are bringing the viral disease back with them. These imported cases happen when a person is infected elsewhere and then visits or returns to the United States. “The first travel-associated Zika virus disease case among U.S. travelers was reported in 2007,” says Haynes. “From 2007 to 2014, a total of 14 returning U.S. travelers had positive Zika virus testing performed at the CDC.” He adds that in all of 2015 and in 2016 to date, at least eight U.S. travelers have tested positive for the Zika virus. “The CDC is still receiving specimens for Zika virus testing from returning U.S. travelers who became ill in 2015 or 2016,” he cautions, which means the counts could get higher. 8. Travelers probably won’t bring infected mosquitoes along with them. “It’s extremely unlikely that mosquitoes would be carried back to the United States by citizens traveling abroad,” says Jim Fredericks, PhD, chief entomologist and vice president
The yellow fever or dengue mosquito Aedes aegypti is responsible for transmitting the Zika virus. of technical and regulatory affairs for the nonprofit National Pest Management Association in Fairfax, Virginia. “As adults, mosquitoes are a relatively fragile insect that doesn’t travel very well. In addition, since only a fraction of the total mosquito population in Zika-endemic areas carries the virus, it’s even less likely for an infective mosquito to be brought back alive,” he says. The bigger concern is that a person infected with the virus could pass it along to local mosquito populations. 9. You can help prevent Zika infection by using insect repellents. Travelers going to areas with current Zika outbreaks can take steps to avoid catching the virus. “The best way to avoid mosquito bites is to use a repellent containing at least 20 percent DEET, picaridin, oil of lemon-eucalyptus, or IR3535 when venturing outdoors, especially near dawn and dusk when mosquitoes are most active,” says Dr. Fredericks. “Whenever possible, it also makes sense to wear long sleeves and pants when outside during these times,” he says. 10. Mosquito control can help prevent Zika. Controlling the insect vector by cutting down on mosquito breeding is one way to prevent spread of this and other mosquitoborne viruses. Breeding sites include water-filled habitats like plant containers and toilets inside the home, and puddles, birdbaths, and pooled water outdoors. Chemical pesticides can kill mosquitoes, but use them carefully to prevent contamination that could be harmful to your health, notes the CDC.
5. Zika began in Africa and spread rapidly. The virus, originally named ZIKV, was first discovered in 1947 in a rhesus macaque in the Zika forest in Uganda. Researchers there found that it lived in mosquitoes, and they learned through experimentation that it could also infect mice. Outbreaks were reported from 1951 to 1981 throughout Africa and Asia, and in 2007 in Polynesia where 73 percent of the population were infected. But since the first cases were
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at Falcon Lanes in Auburn where they placed first with a total pin fall of 7842. Brandon Cecchini (Union Springs, NY) led the Spartans with a total pin fall of 1442 averaging 240 for the entire tournament. Brandon Gallagher (Pawling, NY) won the singles event with a pin fall of 760 for three games and a total pin fall of 1342 for six games averaging 224 for the entire day. Eric Hodson (Auburn, NY) and Wyatt Hasty (Sherrill, NY) came in second place for singles by 27 pins. Hodson shot 1393 for six games averaging 232 and Hasty shot 1351 for six games averaging 225.
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Slow start leads to tough loss to Jefferson NBA 2016 All-Star Game preview By Zakary Haines, sports writer
February seems to be the month where professional players are celebrated. The NFL, NHL and the NBA all seem to have their all-stars perform against each other in the same month. However, the NBA has taken this one step further. Between the dunk contest, celebrity all-star game, skills contest, three point contest, rising stars game, and the big game itself, the all-star game, the NBA has made a whole week of celebrating the great players in the game of basketball. For some players like Andre Drummond, Kawhi Leonard, and Isaiah Thomas this will be their first time in the all-star game. Other, well known players like LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Carmelo Anthony will be attending this game again in their career and add it to their resumes. Before we can appreciate the greatness that comes with these players, fans will have to see how they got to this position. Beginning with the East team, the starters by the fans’ vote in no specific order will be: LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Paul George, Dwyane Wade, and Kyle Lowry. Lowry and George have a combined all-star appearance of five while James, Anthony, and Wade have a total of thirty-three total all-star appearances. The East team will be looking to beat the West team after last year’s game a loss, 163-158 with the West winning. LeBron James will be the headline for the East team this year and Paul George returning to a full season after only playing only the last few games of last season due to a leg injury in the off season playing a try out game for Team USA in the FIBA world cup. The other team is the West team. The West starters by the fan’s vote in
no specific order will be: Kobe Bryant, Kawhi Leonard, Stephen Curry, Russell Westbrook, and Kevin Durant. This will be Kobe Bryant’s final season in the NBA as he announced earlier this season. Kobe Bryant has been selected for eighteen all-star games. Only in 1999 was Kobe not selected for the game. Alongside Kobe, Stephen Curry, reigning MVP and defending champion will be starting too. The West has a lot of buzz this year between the Golden State Warriors’ impressive record at this moment, 444. At this pace the Warriors will beat the best record of all time 72-10 held by the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls, which was led by NBA hall of famer, Michael Jordan. Arguably, the biggest free agent this off season, is Kevin Durant, who has not resigned with the Oklahoma City Thunder. The San Antonio Spurs had the biggest free agency signing out of any team; signing multiple agents at discounts for one reason…WINNING! Between the West drama and the East looking to prove it can beat its western counterpart, the focus will be on Kobe Bryant this year making one last all-star game and saying his goodbyes to the very game that has been making him one of the most wellknown players across the world and possibly one of the greatest to step on the court. The all-star weekend will bring players old and young together for one purpose, seeing the best in the world go head to head. Overall this year’s NBA all-star weekend will look to be one of the best games in a long time. The NBA all-star weekend will be aired on TNT and starts on February 11th, leading up to the official 2016 All-Star game on Sunday February 14th with an 7:00 P.M. tip off.
The Spartans got off to a slow sluggish start to end up losing to conference opponent Jefferson C.C. 64-77 on Wednesday, February 3rd. Cayuga was led in scoring by Christian Rodriguez (Freeport, NY) with 14 points, also in double figures were Jay Scarbrough (Niagara Falls, NY) with 13 points, and Jordan Curtis (Freeport, NY) with 12 points and 10 rebounds, Bennito Ayarza (Brooklyn, NY) chipped in with 10 points and 6 assists. The Spartans travel to Broome C.C. on Saturday for a MSAC match-up with a 3 p.m. start.
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Lady Spartans win on the road against Lady Barons Playing with great effort for the entire 40 minutes and using their best shooting night of the season the Cayuga Lady Spartans went on the road and upset Corning Community College 57-51. The Spartans made 5 three pointers and made 22 of 28 free throws including 5 straight in the last 19 seconds. Nahjea Thompson (Syracuse, NY) playing her best game of her career led a balanced attack with 13 points, 6 assists, and 6 steals. She also went 4-4 from the free throw line and had a key steal in the last 15 seconds to ice the game. Maxine Williams (Jamestown, NY) scored 12 points, and pulled down a team high 11 rebounds, while Dontasia Britt (Brooklyn, NY) scored 11 points.
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Shortly before the semester began many students received a very formal letter announcing they had been selected for the National Society for Leadership and Success (NSLS). Many took to social media posting photos of the invitations, some out of pride while others were looking for answers about the NSLS. Students have quickly warmed up to the idea of the NSLS, enrollment quickly exceeded the expectations of Norm Lee, advisor for Auburn’s branch of the NSLS. Lee reports 95 paid sign ups, as of the day this article was written. Lee is a professor and the Director of Student Activities at CCC. “The students at CCC are showing they want to engage in extracurricular activities on campus as the responses for the new Sigma Alpha Pi chapter of the National Society for Leadership and Success attracts over ninety paid registrations in the first two weeks of its existence on campus,” Lee said. So what is the NSLS? The best way to address this question with any business or organization is to examine its Mission Statement. On their website, the NSLS refers to themselves as, “An organization that helps people discover and achieve their goals. The Society offers life-changing lectures from the nation’s leading presenters and a community where like-minded, success-oriented individuals come together and help one another succeed. The Society also serves as a powerful force of good in the greater community by encouraging and organizing action to better the world.” From the outset it does sound similar to clubs already established on campus, such as Phi Theta Kappa and Phi Beta Lambda (Future Business Leaders of America) but NSLS is a separate and unique entity from PTK and PBL. Members of both PTK and PBL attest their organizations are different from NSLS. The PBL is much more business orientated whereas NSLS is focused on recognizing academic excellence. The difference becomes much more apparent when you take into account the mission of PBL: “Our mission is to bring business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs.” Many feel the PBL is a great choice for the business-orientated student, but the NSLS organizers say they have a broader reach extending numerous resources to those who receive their invitation. Then there is PTK whose Mission Statement states: “The purpose of Phi Theta Kappa shall be to recognize and encourage scholarship among two year college students. To achieve this purpose, Phi Theta
Kappa shall provide opportunity for the development of leadership and service, for an intellectual climate for exchange of ideas and ideals, for lively fellowship for scholars, and for stimulation of interest in continuing academic excellence.” So right off the bat you may see a close similarity between PTK and the NSLS but the difference between the two comes in the form of the GPA requirement for each organization. To be eligible to become a member of PTK, you must have at least a 3.5 GPA while the NSLS requires a minimum GPA of 2.4, making it accessible to more students. Another major point of contention is the $85 membership fee to join the National Society for Leadership and Success. This fee is a one-time fee, so after it is paid you will be a member as long as you meet the GPA requirement. While $85 is a lot of money to most college students, it does give you access to the many resources NSLS has to offer and may be great to put on a resume or college application. There are also chapters at other SUNY campuses, so you can continue to work with the NSLS once you finish here at CCC and move on to another school. The National Society of Leadership and Success brings some of the top presenters in the world to students. Compelling in thought and focused on success, these authors, speakers and celebrities help students to achieve their goals.
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