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Vol. 62 Issue 1
WDWN TRIP TO D.C. IS THURSDAY
CAYUGABRIEFS Divergent Nation set to make film
WDWN is also nominated for a national award
By Caleb Slater, editor-in-chief The student run club, Divergent Nation, embraces new and returning faces for the fall 2015 semester. Although the club founder, Malcolm Huey, will not be returning this semester, members hope to keep his vision alive by providing a club that allows for students to connect with one another and utilize their individual talents for a common goal. The discussed goal that the club will be focusing on this semester is to create a film and enter it in the upcoming SUNY-wide film festival. All students are invited to help in the production of this film. Club members say any participation is welcomed and appreciated. if this is something you wish to know more about, you’re invited to attend the weekly club meetings in the Collegian office on Fridays at noon. P.S. THERE WILL BE FOOD!!!
CCC welcomes new college president Durant
Brian Durant
CCC has a new college president. He is Dr. Brian Durant. The Collegian editor-in- chief, Caleb Slater, hopes to have a sit down interview with Dr. Durant soon and will file a report soon!
September 24, 2015
College Radio Day (October 2) is sponsored by the College Radio Foundation. The Foundation states that the purpose of College radio is to celebrate the important contribution of college radio as a bastion of creative radio programming. WDWN-FM broadcasts at 89.1 FM in Auburn in analog and HD Radio. The station also broadcasts on 97.7 FM in Fulton/Oswego. The station streams on the web at www.wdwn. fm and can be heard on mobile phones and tablets by using the Tune-In app. The station is on the air 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It is operated by the Media/ Telecommunications Dept at Cayuga Community College and serves as a training ground for future radio and music business professionals. The station is nationally recognized for its high quality music programming.
CCC participates in 48 hour film festival By Caleb Slater, editor-in-chief The Film making process can be a long and frustrating one, months of time can go into just the editing alone! Cayuga Community College has an upcoming film making opportunity that has done away with the time consuming process of film making, with the 48 hour film festival! The competition is designed to see how students can utilize their creative skills and think fast on their feet in order to: write, direct, shoot and edit a film in just 48 hours! Film making teams ranging from 3 to 10 members must register by Tuesday, September 29th in order to participate in the competition that will be held from October 2nd until October 4th. For those who are interested, an informational session on the festival is scheduled to be held in the college cafeteria/student center on Wednesday, September 23rd at 3:30.
Former WDWN station manager, Lauren Maltese, and WDWN staff advisor, Jeff Szczesniak, will be traveling to the White House to represent CCC’s radio program.
Cayuga Community College radio station, WDWN, is one of five college radio stations, nationally, that have been invited to represent the medium of college radio at the White House. The visit will place on Thursday, September 24th as a prelude to National College Radio Day, which will take place the following week on Oct 2. During the visit, the representatives from the five college stations will be credentialed as members of the White House press corps and will have the opportunity to interview President Obama’s top domestic policy advisers about college affordability issues. They are also expected also have sessions with Vice-President Joe Biden and Press Secretary Josh Earnest. It is anticipated that President Barack Obama will meet the college representatives as well. WDWN has long been recognized as a leader in college radio. In past years the station has been nominated for several national awards by CMJ, including station of the year. This year the station has been nominated for CMJ’s “Biggest Champion of the Local Music Scene” award. Cayuga professor Steve Keeler, the general manager of WDWN, said, “the opportunity for a small community college like Cayuga to represent all of college radio at the White House is a testament to the high regard in which WDWN is held in the world of college radio.” Jeff Szczesniak, who is the staff advisor of WDWN, will represent the station at the event along with former station staff member Lauren Maltese. In 2013, Szczesniak was named national college radio advisor of the year by Tune-In. College Radio Day is sponsored by the College Radio Foundation.
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OPINIONS Here’s how I see it! Caleb Slater
WHAT’S SO INCORRECT ABOUT BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT? It is very evident to me that one of the big issues facing this country in recent months is the debate over Political Correctness. For those who are not aware, Political Correctness, as defined by Oxford is, “The avoidance, often considered as taken to extremes, of forms of expression that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged, or discriminated against.” In other words, a PC (Politically Correct) culture is one where people censor themselves in order to avoid offending others. The Pros of being PC are quite simple, you are attempting to avoid hurting ones feelings by choosing to be considerate, or tolerant of others. The major drawback to political correctness is it disallows people to express how they truly feel about the world. The reason why it is so difficult to be politically correct all the time is because the human population is over 7 billion and over 300 million of those people live in the US alone! Needless to say, you are going to offend someone at some point in your life and, to be honest I have less of an understanding of what is considered offensive now, more than ever before. I would have to say that, just with anything else, there is a time and a place to be politically correct and a time to express yourself freely. As an example, it’s not the wisest choice to call your boss an idiot and tell him he has no idea what he is doing. This is of course a perfectly acceptable thing to vent to your friends and family about in the comfort of your own home. The same can be said about the huge debate over the usage of the Confederate Battle Flag that sprung up over the summer and continues to this very day. My personal belief is that if you are a government institution, corporation, or any business that works with a large group of people, you should not be promoting a symbol that will repel a huge portion of the US population away from your business, institution, or corporation. If you want to hang the flag on your property, or put a bumper sticker on your car, you should be allowed to do that. In fact, it is your constitutional right to do so. The very first amendment that the founding fathers put into the Consti-
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tution was the freedom of speech. The First Amendment says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” In addition, the idea of trying to erase history, so that others will not be offended by it is a foolish decision. There are activists who wish to remove the flag altogether, which is foolish because one must know the past to truly understand the present. An auto museum in Illinois is currently under controversy for refusing to remove the battle flag off of the original 1969 Dodge Charger, nicknamed “The General Lee” which was used on set during the classic TV series The Dukes of Hazzard. In his book, America the Beautiful Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great, Dr. Ben Carson writes, “The ability to think and speak freely was one of the major tenets upon which this nation was established, and I suspect that the founding fathers would turn over in their graves if they could see how such tenets are being violated on a regular basis today by people adhering to political correctness. If people can’t freely speak their minds, conversations become muted and debate withers.” My final thought on the issue of Political Correctness is represented in a number. There are over seven billion people on this planet, over seven billion! The exact percentage of ignorant and prejudice individuals is unknown and the reason why it is unknown is because it is hidden. If you are a closed minded bigot, it is better for you to be open about it, so that the majority of society can avoid you like the flu and you can spend time with other close minded bigots.
From Wall Street to Main Street, its Election Season POLITICS
By by Kevin Shutter, staff writer
It’s September 2015, which means the registered voters in our country will be heading to the polls to cast their vote for the next President of The United States… in about 14 months. In this vote harvesting season, the political campaigns have been kicked into overdrive. Cue the inflated rhetoric, and the promises that for the most part will fail to come to fruition. This election season hasn’t been similar to any in recent memory. On the GOP side, three of the top four highest pollers in the first three primary states are people that haven’t spent any time serving in Washington D.C, or even any state house or hall of Congress. There has been the anti-establishment movement in both parties for the better part of the last decade. However it hasn’t at any point been as healthy and as threatening to those in power until recently. The anti-Washington sentiment has been growing across our fruited plain almost daily, going back to when President George W. Bush was still in office. President Obama has stoked the flames of resentment towards our nation’s capital with his seemingly never ending executive rule on major issues. Whether it is the nuclear deal with Iran, which is truly an arms treaty that would normally be subject to a majority vote in the House and
Why CCC needs an ACTIVE GSA By Steve Brewer, staff writer As some of you may be aware we currently do not have a Gay/Straight Alliance here at CCC, but this is not to say we never had one; until a few years ago, there was in fact an active GSA at CCC. A Gay-Straight Alliance, as described on their website is a, “Student run club, typically in a high school or middle school, which provides a safe place for students to meet, support each other, talk about issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity and expression, and work to end homophobia and transphobia.” In simpler words a GSA is a club in which members of the LGBT community and the allies of the community can provide support for one another while also raising awareness about issues that the LGBT community is facing. This can range from: providing emotional support to the club members who are struggling with their sexual orientation or gender identity, speaking out against any discriminatory act that was done against someone of the community or even promoting tolerance, by building events between the LGBT community and the rest of society. CCC needs a GSA to act as an emotional beacon, for those who need said outlet. According to the TREVOR Project, a national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention
services to the LGBTQ community found that suicide is the second leading cause of deaths among youths from age 10 to 24! They also found that within said group, the LGBT youth are 4 times more likely to attempt to commit suicide. The majority of the student body at CCC falls under said age range (The median age of students at CCC is 22, according to the school website.) We need the GSA to provide the support and resources to the LGBT students on our campus who may be in need of them. Moving forward the first step in this initiative is to take an interest in the GSA. I am currently working with the advisor to get the club running again. We are currently working on holding the first meeting of our club at the end of September and another in the beginning of October. We are also in talks of having a Coming Out Day, which will be a very supportive event, in which we will have speakers come on campus to discuss LGBTQ issues and will also have counseling for anyone who is struggling with their sexual orientation or gender identity. If you are interested in joining the GSA please keep an eye out for our fliers which will be posted around campus, or stop by the SGO office to voice your support for the club returning.
Senate. Due to the many lawyers in the White House the Nuclear accord has been deemed a deal not a treaty. Semantics, semantics. Even more recently is his unilateral decision to allow a minimum of 10,000 unvetted Syrian refugees a free pass into our country. With full access to the liberties and entitlements guaranteed to all American citizens. It truly makes you wonder if our current President grasps the challenges posed to our country in this time of complete global chaos. Which truly plays into the fringes of both major political parties in this country. Bernie Sanders an avowed Socialist, and hater of all those making a buck, is surging in the Democrat polls in the early primary states. With his anti-war rhetoric and his often blurred view from Wall Street to Main Street, he is outright stealing once supporters of Hillary Clinton. Crashing what was supposed to be her second coronation, almost thirty years in the making. To quote Mrs. Clinton when she was testifying before a Congressional panel on the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi Libya under her watch AS Secretary of State “What difference does it make.” Every Presidential race going back to the days of Burr and Hamilton has been ripe with falsehoods and one liners whose only intent is to tear down the opponent rather than highlighting a candidate’s political prowess. So it is nothing new to see millions of dollars spent to tear down the current front runner. A recent super pac for the GOP has pledged a $1 million TV advertising campaign against Donald Trump in the early primary state of Iowa. For some it just proves how out of step the leaders in the GOP are with their electorate. For others it’s yet another example of the so called “good ole boys” looking out for fellow “good ole boys.” Or rather the good ole boys looking out for good ole Jeb. If there is one thing our Republic doesn’t need it’s another Bush anywhere near Pennsylvania Avenue. Regardless who the front runner is this week or even next June we are still a smoldering 14 months away from casting our votes for the next executive of the United States. Whether it is the political Stretch Armstrong that is Hillary Clinton, or even the Donald himself. Only time will tell if history will have the last laugh.
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Men’s Soccer bounces back against Broome The Cayuga Men’s soccer team has won its fifth game of the season after a 4-0 home win against Broome Community College. The Spartans took control of the game right from the start, coming out with a huge
desire to put the last two defeats behind them. Daniel Bonehill (Birmingham, England) opened up the scoring at the 32:50 minute mark with an assist from Joseph Ayandeji (Bolton, England). Chris Davison
CCC freshman Michaela Breeze was named NJCAA Region III Athlete-of-theWeek for the week of September 7th. She finished the week with 6 goals and 1 assist as she helped her team to their first win of the season and a narrow 3-2 lost to Mid-State Ath-
letic Conference rival Onondaga CC. Breeze has 10 goals this season and looks to be on par with a program record breaking season. Congratulations to Spartan men’s soccer player Paul McCormick (Glasgow, Scotland) who was named NJCAA National Division III Player-of-the-Week for the week of August 31. McCormick scored 5 goals and had 3 assists in Cayuga’s opening wins at North Country and Clinton.
SPORTS CCC athletes honored by NJCAA GO SPARTANS! GO SPARTANS! GO SPARTANS!
(Newcastle, England) scored his 3rd of the season in the 17th minute, with an assist from Daniel Bonehill (Birmingham, England). Bonehill scored his 2nd of the game soon after, to put the Spartans up 3-0 at the 24:48 minute mark, assisted by Roberto Stanescu (Long Island, NY), and then completed a hat-trick with 13 minutes left into the first half, with an assist from Davison.
White House embraces heroes By Caleb Slater, editor-in-chief Close friends turned heroes, Alek Skarlatos (22), Spencer Stone (23) and Anthony Sadler (23) were greeted and thanked by President Obama for their actions in Europe last month. It was on August 21st when these three American men took a terrorist head on who emerged from the bathroom of a high speed train, leaving from Amsterdam to Paris and proceeded to fire rounds on the passengers. The trio wrestled the terrorist, Ayoub El- Khazzi to the ground and restrained him by tying him up. The individuals were then honored for their courageous act. Skarlatos, being an army specialist was given the soldier’s medal and Spencer Stone, being a first class airman in the US airforce was given the Purple Heart. In addition, all three men were given the French
President Obama greets the three Americans who tackled a terrorist in France last month. Medal of Honor. In his meeting with the courageous trio, President Obama said, “They represent the very best of America, American character and it’s these kinds of young people who make me extraordinarily optimistic about our future.”
Clock making “terrorist” to visit White House By Caleb Slater, editor-in-chief
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Social Media went ablaze earlier this month when 14 year old science enthusiast, Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing in what was believed to be a bomb to school. The story took a shocking turn of events, when it was discovered the student had simply brought in a homemade clock, he wanted to impress his teacher by showing in class. The principle at MacArthur High School took immediate action and Mohamed was detained and interrogated by five police officers for an hour and a half over the issue. Ahmed recalls, “‘you’re in the middle of an interrogation at the moment.’ They asked me a couple of times, ‘Is it a bomb?’ and I answered a couple of times, ‘It’s a clock.’” Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed strongly feels that his son was only questioned based on his background, not merit. When questioned about the issue on CNN Mohamed said, ““My son’s name is Mohamed -- people just think Muslims are terrorists but we are peaceful, we are not that way,” The family has decided to transfer Ahmed to another school district.
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In spite of the false accusations, there was a lot of support pouring towards the high school freshman. Business leaders at Twitter, Facebook and Reddit have all shared their enthusiasm for Ahmed and his appreciation for technology. In addition Google has reserved a spot for Ahmed at the upcoming science fair at MIT, to which Ahmed responded by saying, “I dream of going there (MIT).” In response to the issue President Obama has expressed his support for Ahmed saying over Twitter, “Cool clock, Ahmed, want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great.” Ahmed Mohamed is set to visit the White House for Astronomy Night on October 19th.
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McDonalds to Start 24/7 Breakfast By Caleb Slater, editor-in-chief McDonalds has heard the people’s plea and starting October 6th, they will be offering breakfast all day long. The company actually told CNN money that all day breakfast was their number one consumer request and after facing criticism for refusing to partner up with Burger King on the National Day of Peace, it seems this business decision is just what the golden arches needed to get a leg up. The decision does come with its
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draw backs though. The McDonalds corperation stated that this move will cost franchisees between 500 and 5000 dollars. In addition, the menu offered will change depending on what McDonalds you go to. Some will offer McMuffins, whereas others will offer biscuit sandwiches. Lastly, all restaurants will offer yogurt, pancakes, oatmeal and sausage burritos, but if you order a hash brown, its complete luck of the draw, as only a select few will offer such.
WDWN features new radio segment By Caleb Slater, editor-in-chief The non-commercial radio station broadcasted from Seattle WA., KEXP will now make its mark in reaching the Cayuga Community College listeners. WDWN is beginning a new weekly segment, Under the Needle where in studio performances from the KEXP station will be broadcasted live on the air from the CCC radio station. KEXP
is an alternative rock station that has consistently been recording over 500 songs a year for the past five years and was, in 2004 awarded a Webby for the best radio website. Under the Needle can be heard on Win 89FM every Sunday night at 11:00 P.M. and every Wednesday morning at 11:00 A.M.
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