3-27-2012 Cayuga Collegian

Cayuga Community College Auburn & Fulton, New York

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Vol. 60 Issue 12

Still Trying to Restore the Schine

CAYUGABriefs “Fashion” coming to Auburn

By Jim Collins, Staff Writer On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 the 4th annual Spring Fashion show sponsored by Elements Salon and Day Spa located at 75 North St. Auburn, will be held. The spa is located inside the Holiday Inn and the event will be in the main ballroom. Tickets for this show are $15 or only $12 if you donate a recycled article of career clothing. According to Sheryl Puylara, owner of the spa and event host, all proceeds will be donated to The Environmental Advocates of New York and the clothing will go to the Seneca Cayuga Community Action Program. The event starts at 6 PM and will run till 8 PM. There will be food and desserts as well as a cash bar.

Puylara said that the event is becoming more popular each year and she expects a crowd of 50 to 100 people. The show will feature Aveda’s Spring Hair and Makeup Collection and Fashions by Jones of New York, Banana Republic, The Loft Outlet, Lane Bryant, Van Heusen and Ann Taylor. All the modeling will be done by local models and women from the Auburn area. Puylara also stated that since April is “Earth Month” the event is geared to “raise awareness about the environment for our local and global communities.” For further information contact Sheryl at 315-253-0501.

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By Ryan Elsenbeck, Staff Writer

Efforts are still underway to try to restore The Schine Theater on North Street in Downtown Auburn. Lydia Rosell says The Cayuga County Arts Council is always looking for volunteers and donations. If you’re interested in joining the Schine Theater restoration project or would like to make a donation, the Cayuga County Arts Council at 255-3074. You can also keep up-to-date on the project by ‘liking’ their Facebook page: Center Stage: Restoring the Schine to the Spotlight.

To Vote or Not to Vote

By Ryan Elsenbeck, Staff Writer

With this year’s election coming up in November, Cayuga Community College students need to prepare for a tough decision at the polls. With most elections recently, the usual trend has been voters being on the fence between one of two candidates, this election breaks the norm with most students wondering if they should be on the fence at all.

“I think there is to many bad things that are being circulated about every candidate right now and there is nothing good to go off of,” said CCC student Lauren Maltese. She is not alone, most students are more than undecided based on the behavior candidates are displaying on the campaign trail.

“I am not following this election, the candidates are just being juvenile, and are all just turning this into a giant screaming match,” said Matthew Smith, an RA at Lattimore Hall, referring to the constant barrage of negativity that will follow when the republican primaries reach New York, as well as the election in November.

With the recent rise in the use of Super Pacs, which give candidates an indirect way of spending millions on advertisements, voters in states that have already held a primary have experienced back to back to back negative advertisements which most can agree have all achieved nothing but point the finger of blame in many different directions.

Some students are simply settling on the fact that they do not like any of the candidates and will probably not vote. “I will not vote either way,” says CCC student Shelby Groff. “This election has been by far a horrible one.”

“I stopped following because the candidates are simply i n c o m p e t e n t ,” stated CCC students Jon Thousand.

Most students seem to agree that all of the candidates do not have much to offer.

Mike Sloan, a resident of Lattimore Hall says that with all the negativity, it is hard to see where the candidates stand on important issues. “I will vote for nobody at this point because I don’t know what the candidates stand for. I can’t say I will vote for anybody.”

It is clear that in the upcoming election most students are looking for a candidate that will spend more time on the issues that affect students and Americans alike, rather than spending millions to degrade their opponents and place blame on problems that are in the past.

Barrack Obama

Mitt Romney

Rick Santorum

Ron Paul

Newt Gingrich

Lydia Rosell of Auburn is fighting to restore downtown Auburn’s historic movie house, The Schine Theater, to its former beauty. The battle has brewed for 14 years.

The old theater, located on North Street in the heart of downtown, has stood dark for decades.

“The Schine Theatre can return a sense of identity to Auburn,” says Rosell. “It might never go back to what it was because of the economy, but the historic value is priceless.”

Architect John Eberson designed The Schine Theatre in 1938. designed nearly 100 movie palaces all over the United States. The Schine Theater is an unique space. The interior is decorated in the revered Art Deco style of the 1930’s.

There have been attempts to breathe new life into the old place.

In the 1980’s, the theatre was reopened, but this time as a nightclub named Charlie’s. Then a video rental store occupied the theater’s lobby for a short period of time. Despite the short attempts at revival, the building has continually deteriorated from lack of maintenance and the roof has significant water damage.

In the 1990s, the building was almost bought purchased by the grocery chain, Wegman’s. Their plan was to tear it down, but the building was saved by a group of Auburn citizens who protested the destruction of the historic theatre. The building was then bought by the late Dick Malhstead, a former Cayuga Community College professor, and then he sold it to its present owners, the Cayuga County Arts Council.

“To restore the Shine will be to restore the art and nostalgia of what it was. Hopefully it will be among the public theaters of Auburn as well as be a place for creative expression, a place for artists to work and display,” says Rosell.

Rosell says although the fight the save the theater has been a tough battle, she doesn’t feel the success of other theater venues in downtown Auburn have detracted from her group’s goal. “Some people see it (the other theaters) as competition, but I don’t. All theatres have a different arrangement and the Schine will be more inviting for productions fit for the Schine. The Shine will only add one more facet to the diamond.”

Rosell says restoration of the theatre is at a standstill. She says The Cayuga County Arts Council is working on getting a grant money to have clean out the asbestos removed from the building. Until the asbestos is removed, restoration work cannot continue.

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Have you heard of Joseph Kony?

If you didn’t know who Joseph Kony was before last week, well, you know who he is now. It doesn’t take too long after your face is plastered across YouTube, Facebook and Twitter there would be calls for your swift and immediate demise.

After 75 million views, the video Kony 2012 has garnered a strong following among teenagers and young adults but has been critically lambasted by many.

The allegations made against Kony are staggering to say the least.

The International Criminal Court residing in The Hague has a seven year old arrest warrant out for him, containing numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Kony is accused of mass murder and the kidnapping of children for prostitution and/or use in his Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Sudan.

The sentiment among many in the United States is that we shouldn’t be involved in tribal warfare. But the liberal wing of our country, especially the younger part of it, is totally gung-ho for taking this madman down. It’s all good in theory, until you watch Black Hawk Down.

In October of 1993, the United States invaded Somalia to take down Mohamed Farrah Aidid’s iron grip on the country. Aidid had tried to prevent United Nations peacekeepers from entering the country, culminating with the murder of 24 Pakistani peacekeepers. Two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down by Somali RPGs and three others were damaged. American bodies were maimed and dragged through the streets. Once they were recovered and sent back to the United States, their conditions were absolutely sickening.

What really gets me is the strident opposition to the War in Iraq from these very same people.

They certainly didn’t mind a madman like Saddam Hussein running around committing genocide against what seemed to be every ethnicity in Iraq other than his own, using chemical weapons against them and amassing a body count upward to 100,000 including

women and children.

Then there’s the bombardment of Homs in Syria over the last month.

The city has been overrun, but not before a thousand people were killed, including war correspondent Marie Colvin. Opposition leaders claimed that Syrian soldiers bashed in the skulls of women and children and raped them.

The Kony 2012 campaign and its supporters also make it quite clear that they believe Kony is worse than Adolf Hitler (who ordered the mass executions of Jews and many other ethnic groups upward to 10 million) and Osama bin Laden.

This is reckless, irresponsible and it denigrates the memories of the victims.

Awareness is a great thing, but when this video claims that there are 30,000 child soldiers in the LRA, when there are more like 150300, it misses the point significantly.

Not to mention that making Kony a celebrity like this could actually make him stronger.

As someone who has kept an eye on this situation since President Obama sent 100 troops to hunt down Kony, I’m legitimately upset that a bunch of kids who would rather stare at their TV, watching Jersey Shore, than turn on the news once in a while; are branding themselves social activists because they watched a 30 minute video on YouTube. Is this what our country has devolved into?

I beg and plead with all of you to pick up a newspaper (even The New York Times) read up and down Google News or Yahoo News. Watch Fox News, CNN or MSNBC (if you must), and immerse yourself in our world today. Because if you don’t, you’ll have absolutely no idea what’s about to slap you straight through the face.

-Alec Rider Cayuga Collegian Staff Writer

Legalize Marijuana I feel that marijuana should b e decriminalized.

The reasoning behind this is that it has multiple uses, which most of them are very helpful and used in the medical field to help with different diseases.

They allow cancer patients to use it to slow down the effects of the cancer as well as to ease pain associated with it. We have multiple other drugs that are legal that people die from every single day. Tobacco products kill

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hundreds of thousands of people every single year. And alcohol isn’t any better. There has never been anyone who overdosed on marijuana or anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer because of it.

Their biggest thing is that it slows down reaction time. What does alcohol do to people? If you allow these other drugs, known killers, to be legally bought over the counter you should allow marijuana to be as well or just do away with all of them all together.

-Patrick Denman Cayuga Community College Student

Should You Believe Kony 2012 ?

By Ryan Elsenbeck, Staff Writer The charity group, Invisible Children Inc., (ICI), has recently come under criticism for the legitimacy of their organization. ICI recently posted a viral video that has gained so much popularity it is hard to log on to any social media outlet without seeing KONY 2012.

With the great popularity it has gained from the video, it has also attracted skeptics. The ICI’s video calls out for donations and awareness to the crimes of Joseph Kony, the leader of The Lord’s Resistance Army. Authorities say that the LRA has been committing crimes in Uganda and other parts of Africa for the past 20 years. Officials say the group is responsible for countless murders, rapes, and abductions.

The ICI has called for the public to donate money and send military aid to Uganda to help catch Joseph Kony. The only problem is, according to officials, Joseph Kony has not been in Uganda for five to six years.

The video that the ICI posted noted that Kony is no longer in Uganda, yet they have given money that has been donated to them to the Ugandan military. The Ugandan military has

been accused throughout the years for pillaging, corruption, murder, and rape.

The ICI has been accused of using their money in the wrong places.

Authorities say only around 30% of all the money that is donated actually makes it to Africa, which then is used to build wells and schools (in addition to funding the Ugandan military). Although this might seem unfair, the ICI clearly states their goals. The ICI says it uses the rest of their money for raising awareness through film and advertising, and this is their stated goal.

The ICI’s strategy is to raise awareness among people to motivate them to apply political pressure legislators so they will send military aid to the area. This strategy has also stirred criticism. However, the ICI has clearly stated their intentions, as well as complying with regulations of being a charitable agency and has posted all of their financial records online. Their records indicate that the founders of the organization receive wages of around $80,000 a year.

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Entepreneurial Road Trip: Manufacturing

PHOTO BY DAWN PERRAULT

in commercializing their ideas, they finally developed the first hand-held ophthalmoscope. Unfortunately, Dr. Welch passed away six months after its success. Borrowing money from family members and marketing his ophthalmoscope outside of men’s bathrooms at medical events, William Allyn would waver back and forth with success until World War II. My first full- time job was at Welch Allyn, back in 1978, and the corporate headquarter’s building was under construction at the time.

Today, Welch Allyn employs over 2,300 people, worldwide.

Gowned and goggled for the next part of our visit, Garofalo gave us a guided tour through the manufacturing part of the facility. Welch Allyn has designed its later line of products with the elimination of contamination in mind. They manufacture disposable blood pressure cuffs and have designed many other products to work by sensor, eliminating the risk of spreading bacteria through touch. They have also worked very hard with their team of engineers to design equipment that will become outdated by medical breakthroughs long before it ever breaks or malfunctions. I had not been at a Welch Allyn building since I left to take a civil service position at Weedsport School in 1980, and I could not believe the changes that have taken place over the past 32 years.

For one thing, there was limited automation back then.

Robotics did not even exist!

Today we walked through one entire room that appeared to have at least 30 large robotic m a c h i n e s operating on their own.

When asked who they are looking for when they hire, Garofalo

Kathy Gorofalo of Welch Allyn talks to CCC students.

COS MO’S

CORNER with

Jim Collins

Located at 105 Grant Avenue in Auburn, Kosta’s Bar and Grill has been operating since 1995. Kosta’s is a family owned restaurant that offers breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. This location once housed the famous Webster’s Restaurant until that building was destroyed by a fire. I recently stopped in on a Thursday night during the Syracuse Orangemen’s basketball NCAA tournament game against Wisconsin. The place was packed and it isn’t the biggest bar in the world, however it was unseasonably warm out and the outdoor patio was open. With more than 40 flat screen TV’s, watching the game wasn’t a problem. They were offering ‘40 Cent’ wings which I promptly ordered from the pleasant gentleman behind the bar whose name I didn’t get. As busy as the place was, I didn’t wait long at all for my order and the wings were good.

Thursdays are also ‘All the Crablegs You Can Eat’ night for $24.95. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. For breakfast you can get ‘The Hungry Man’ (Mon.-Fri.) which is three eggs, toast, home fries and coffee for only $4.00. All lunches include a complimentary cup of soup. If you like Greek specialty foods like Gyros and Baklava, then this is the place for you. Kosta’s also offers take-out and catering and all of their menus and specials can be viewed at their website. I give Kosta’s three and a half Cosmo’s out of four. Cheers! Comments or gripes? Email me at colljimbo@yahoo.com

by Collegian reporter Dawn Perrault

replied that it is engineers. Even their sales people must have at least a 4-year degree, a couple of years of solid sales experience, and then undergo additional training at the plant. It is expected that they will have full knowledge of how the products work, as well as how much they sell for.

Our next stop on our tour today was Tessy Plastics, in Elbridge.

Our guide there was actually the President/Owner, Roland Beck. Mr. Beck welcomed us at the door and shook each of our hands, allowing us the opportunity to introduce ourselves, as well (and there were 35 of us!). He then brought our group into his conference room and explained the plant was started by his father in 1973 when he was an 11 year old boy.

Within the past ten years, Tessy Plastics has quadrupled its sales, while doubling its employees. When the question was asked why the employee size didn’t also quadruple, Roland explained that it was primarily due to the use of robotic machinery.

One-half of the products manufactured at Tessy Plastics are medical tips (300 million per year) and are earmarked for Welch Allyn. The rest of the production at the facility, which specializes in customer injection mold prototypes, creates finished molded plastic products for companies like Proctor and Gamble and Johnson & Johnson; and it all starts with a truckload of pellets. Beck said that they use 400 different types of the raw material pellets. They melt them down, squirt them into the various molds, and then create the parts.

With regard to their ISO sanction, which was high, Beck said that the industry is moving away from this standard. With no further questions being asked, he handed us our safety goggles and took us out into the manufacturing area.

We were taken to the very back of the room where we watched a robotic machine deliver a finished medical speculum case every 16 seconds. It was amazing to see the production in action.

Next, we were taken to several Cordax measuring machines (CMMs). Beck explained that this final part of the assembly process takes place for almost every part produced. The machines analyzed the products with several probes, in every direction, both weighing and measuring. Again, they were automated robotic machines.

At the conclusion of our tour, we returned to the conference room where we had the opportunity to ask more questions. In particular, who they hire, and again, we were told a lot of engineers – mechanical and IT. They also run an apprentice program for new employees, which requires them to spend time working in each department in the entire plant. At the very end, we were given Tessy Plastic “Shaping Innovation Around the World” CDs, and again, Beck shook each of our hands as we exited, thanking us for coming.

After a reenergizing stop at the Sunset Restaurant for a little lunch and conversation, we headed to our third and final stop of the day, 4M Precision, which is located in Auburn. 4M Precision makes parts for trains, subways, military/defense, automobiles, the medical industry, aviation, telecommunication, retail furniture, plumbing, electronics,

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Dozens of CCC students, professors, and community members boarded an awaiting limo-bus and began a day-long manufacturing industry tour. The “Road Show” was the last, in a series of three, coordinated by Sheila Myers, Assistant Professor of Experiential Learning and supported by the Coleman Foundation and the Kauffman Foundation.

Embracing the 80 degree day, slightly drier and much warmer than the temperatures on our February Hospitality and Tourism trip, I was looking forward to the day and felt fortunate that I was able to attend all three.

Our first stop was at the newest Welch Allyn plant in Skaneateles. In 2008, this building was designated corporate headquarters. At the entrance, we were greeted by Kathy Garofalo, Customer Engagement Manager.

Ms. Garofalo, an experienced adult nurse practitioner, began our guided tour in the Customer Experience Center, which is a large area containing photos, flat screen monitors, and the company products as they were, and are today. She provided an in-depth look at the history and development of the Welch Allyn products. We were given a complete history of the company, which was created 98 years ago

by William Noah Allyn, a high school dropout, and his partner, Dr. Francis Welch. After having little success in gaining anyone’s interest

A first-person account of events

Dan Morin explains working with steel and other metals. and more. They work with steel, nickel, brass, copper, and more. We were met at the door by two of the owners, Dan and Margaret Morin.

Margaret Morin escorted us into the conference room where she pointed out the dozens of blueprints laid out on the table. Each one of them represented a pending “job” that they had to price-out and return with a job quote. Dan Morin joined us in the conference room and the first thing he told us was that he had been working there since he was 12 years old. He then rather casually informed us they had a 24-hour rush job to complete and a machine just went down. That meant that they were going to have to work aroundthe-clock to get the job out on time.

After setting the tone, Dan Morin took us through the manufacturing part of the plant, and only had one request, “no photo taking, please”.

In defending that, he added that if there was anything we saw that we wanted more information about or photos of, leave the request with him and he would provide it. Fair enough – and not too far into our tour – we learned the rationale behind his request for no photo taking.

It was a HUGE precision-cutting water jet machine which is used to cut stainless steel up to as much as 14 inches. No other manufacturer in the field has obtained this feat.

Dan Morin took us through the design (IT) area, cutting, fabrication, laser and robotic welding, sandblasting, tool making, new and old, (manually operated), and then to a waiting area where he could address our questions.

The big question on everybody’s mind today was “who do you hire?”

Morin informed us that he typically hires laser operators and welders.

This manufacturing plant seemed to have a lot more “hands on” type of machinery to operate and that could most likely be attributed to the precision that is required to complete the final product.

I would summarize today by saying all three manufacturing companies have highly engineered and very sophisticated machinery and equipment.

The operators have my deepest respect. Their jobs aren’t clean and thanks to automation, they’re also repetitious and monotonous. If they spend 30 plus years working, they can probably look forward to losing their hearing.

If standing on their feet for 8-12 hour days while performing laborious machine work doesn’t happen to kill them, maybe the smells will.

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COLLEGIAN STAFF TRAVELS to

New York City

Editor-in-chief Jamie Blumrick holding a huge piece of authentic New York City style cheesecake at the famous Carnegie Deli on 8th Avenue in New York City. The staff was treated to super enormous sandwiches during their participation in a national media conference. The Collegian will have more student reports on what they learned in New York City in upcoming issues.

Last week I was privileged enough to attend the 2012 National Media Conference in New York City with the Cayuga Collegian, having it be my second year and chance to attend the conference, I was very excited. We left the train station bright and early on the morning of St. Patrick’s Day, so by the time we finally arrived and checked into our hotel we did our share of dodging the clusters of green crowds roaming the streets.

However, once we were all settled in, I decided to go join the rambunctious crowds myself where I had the chance to see the St. Patrick’s Day parade and oddly enough be wished a ‘Happy St. Patty’s Day’ by a cute dwarf dressed as a leprechaun, certainly an experience I won’t forget. The next day marked Day One of the conference which became my morning ritual for the next three days. At these conferences I was able to hear first-hand experiences about how to use different types of media in the world, and how it’s utilized today. The speakers also gave examples of how I could take the information given to me and apply it to everyday life and in my work with The Collegian by using such things as free advertisements with twitter, facebook, and blogging. I even learned that companies don’t always want the traditional black and white resume.

They actually want you to tell them your accomplishments and show them your skills though the visual aspect of the resume, which I thought was an interesting new take on the topic. Lastly, I learned the etiquette behind interviewing and how to take advantage of interviews to get to the real story behind them. All very great skills one should learn when going into any sort of communications career. However, the nights were given to the students to do whatever they pleased, so of course I dragged my staff though the city to various sites and parks since I had explored some of them last year. I found some really interesting places such as a flea market and neat little stores and of course took them through Central Park!

Once the conference was all said and done, the Collegian staff experienced “traveling in style” as Mary, our advisor, would say, getting to ride the train home in first class which is always fun. Overall, I felt honored to be included in such a great experience and I will certainly miss going next year, but I do encourage anyone to join the staff to have the chance to experience this trip for themselves.

-Jamie Blumrick, Editor-in-chief

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