Collegian Cayuga Community College Auburn & Fulton, New York
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Vol. 63 Issue 4 September 28, 2016
Lamphere stepping down as Fulton Dean PHOTO BY KODY FOWLER
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The Cayuga Collegian welcomes Fulton staff member to newspaper team! The Cayuga Collegian is proud to announce a new addition to their editorial staff from the Fulton Campus! Makenzie Loomis is studying Communications in order to pursue a career in music, photography and journalism. She plans to finish her degree at SUNY Oswego. Loomis owns her own photography business and says she enjoys many extra curricular activities including sports, hunting, music and Art.
Hard fought battle ends in a double overtime tie!
Sophomore Telcom student Zak Haines appointed Collegian editor-in-chief
Many college students need a source of income to sustain them throughout their studies, however, searching for a job can be just as trying as their education. Fortunately for students at Cayuga Community College, Meg Osborne is available to assist with obtaining the perfect employment. Osborne, Coordinator of Career Services at CCC, provides coaching for job searching, resume building, creating a cover letter, electronic portfolio building, and self-marketing skills. Students at the Fulton campus can receive the same services from Denise Markowsky. In addition to coaching at the Student Engagement Center on campus, Osborne also teaches the course, ST 101 – Career and Life Planning, at the college. Osborne says she helps students by having them give classroom presentations and participate in mock interviews. “With more education you have more resilience regarding staying employed or being able to rebound if you are laid off,” she said. One of the resources that Osborne says she refers students to is the job posting site, Cayuga Engage. Similar to popular job searching sites on the Internet, Cayuga Engage is geared toward students who wish to find work during their studies, as well as internships, volunteer opportunities, and work after graduation. Osborne says the site is also
Cayuga Collegian faculty advisor, Mary G. Merritt, announced sophomore Zakary Haines was appointed editor-in-chief of the student-run newspaper last week. Merritt says Haines worked on The Collegian as sports editor last semester. “It was a difficult start to our semester,” explained Merritt. “We had an excellent candidate (Steve Brewer) in place to lead the paper, but his elected position as SGO president created an ethical conflict which I struggled with all summer. I have always encouraged anyone wishing to work on the paper to try, but I finally came to the conclusion, that in the interest of performing good journalism, Steve needed to become an associate editor.” Merritt says she is excited about the energy and talent of this year’s staff. HAINES SAYS HELLO PAGE 2.
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The CCC Men’s Soccer Team held on to a 2-2 tie against Genesee Community College last Wednesday on their home field. CCC Goalie #27 Konrad Pawlikowski of Texas kicks the ball away from CCC territory. MORE SPARTAN SPORTS INSIDE! PHOTO BY KODY FOWLER
Need a job? Help is available on campus By Brian Thomas, contributing writer available for use by alumni of the college. To utilize the site, just create a profile and upload a resume to the site’s database. Once the profile is created, jobs can be found by searching for types of employment, industry, or employer. Potential employers are able to post job openings on the site and provide details about the positions available, as well as the salaries associated with the jobs. Osborne fondly recalled a success story about a student who transitioned from an engineering career to a social services career after consulting her. She says in addition to career changes, the student also overcame personal issues as a result of the services that he received. While the coaching services provided have been successful, Osborne says “there is always room for improvement.” She says the class that she teaches was revived last year after a long absence. She also says students are being referred to her by the Student Success Advocate Program. Meg Osborne is available Monday through Friday from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM by appointment. An appointment can be made by going to the Student Engagement Center or by sending an email to her email campus address, osbornem@cayuga-cc. edu. Appointments can also be made by calling 315-255-1743.
The President of Cayuga Community College, Dr. Brian Durant, announced last week via email that longtime Cayuga professor, Associate Vice President and Dean of the Fulton Campus John Lamphere, will resign from his position effective January 1, 2017 to return Associate Vice to the faculty as President and a full professor of Dean of the Fulton Campus Criminal Justice John Lamphere and History. “We are grateful for John’s leadership and thank him for his significant impact to the Fulton campus, local and regional businesses, and Oswego County,” wrote Dr. Durant. “We welcome his return to the faculty where he can share his knowledge and passion for teaching with Cayuga students.” Durant also indicated he will be meeting with Lamphere and senior leadership over the next month to begin planning the transition.
Ketchum elected SGO VP The Student Senate is back on track after a confusing start this semester. SGO President Steve Brewer says they have made new roll call forms so it will be easier to assess when the meeting is at quorum. Brewer announced Newly-elected SGO Vice President in an email to camChumani Ketchum pus that Chumani Ketcham was voted in as SGO Vice President last week. “We thank all of the clubs for bearing with us during this confusion, as well as Stephanie and Ariel in Student Engagement, who acted as our pollsters to ensure a neutral party was in charge of collecting the votes,” Brewer said.
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Hello from Collegian editor-in-chief, Zakary Haines I am the editor-in-chief of The Cayuga Collegian. I’m writing this now after some turn of events and decide it would be better to write an in-depth bio and introduce myself better to the readers. I am 19-years-old and I went to C.W. Baker High School in Baldwinsville, New
OPINIONS Meet Zakary Haines
Zak with his parents, Kevin and Kimberly Haines at a Baldwinsville HIgh School football game in 2015.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Hello readers, fellow students, and faculty members, I am Zakary Haines and
York for three years and graduated in 2015. It seems like yesterday that I was walking the halls of high school and now, here I am at Cayuga Community College.
In all honesty, Cayuga wasn’t my first choice in colleges, but it is a choice I’m glad that I made because it has lead me to many great people, fantastic professors, and awesome opportunities such as working at Win89FM and The Collegian. I work at the college’s radio station, Win89FM, as the news/sports director. Some of duties involve getting the news ready for on-air DJs by making sure it’s correct. My other duties involve setting up sports broadcasts for the station. For example, this past summer the station did a live broadcast of the semi-professional football team, The Auburn Commanders. Many of you may have questions like: “How will The Collegian run this academic year?”, “What will change about the The Collegian?”, and “How will you different from any past editor-in-chief?” As editor-in-chief of The Collegian, I will try to encourage more people to get involved with the paper whether they are interested in reporting, taking pictures, or even helping with the recorded digital news magazine The Collegian Report. I would also like to get more people
Zak in the on-air booth at WDWN involved from the Fulton Campus. News that happens on the Fulton campus is just as important as news on the Auburn Campus. I think it would be beneficial for students on both campuses to read news and opinions from ALL CCC students so they understand what life is like in Fulton and in Auburn. I hope this year is one of the greatest years for The Collegian I will try to be the best editor-in-chief I can. —Zahary Haines, editor-in-chief
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FULTON
CAMPUS!
I am Kody Fowler. I am a transfer student. I love all sorts of foods which is always a good bribe for me. I love music, more into pop punk, post hardcore, rock, metal, and etc. I love capturing a moment through from a photography or videography lens. Lastly, I’m hoping to meet new people and work along my fellow co-workers at The Collegian.
The Collegian wants to know what is going on up there! Be a Fulton Correspondent or just email us your news at Cayugacollegian@gmail.com
The Cayuga Collegian welcomes letters from its readers. Submissions must be emailed to cayugacollegian@gmail. com. Submissions must include your name, address and daytime phone number. All letters to the editor do not reflect the viewpoint of the Collegian office, its staff or advisor. All letters are simply the opinions of the writers themselves. All letters may be edited for content or length.
ZAKARY HAINES - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF STEVEN BREWER - ASSOCIATE EDITOR MAC HUEY - VISUAL/SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR KODY FOWLER - PHOTOGRAPHER GAVIN ELLIS - STAFF WRITER MONICA ESPADA -STAFF WRITER JOHN EXNER - THE COLLEGIAN REPORT MYLES HENNESSEY - STAFF WRITER DUANNA JOHNSON - STAFF WRITER CHUMANI KETCHAM - STAFF WRITER KRISTIN SCALA - STAFF WRITER ALLISON WELLINGTON - STAFF WRITER KAYLA WILLIAMSON - STAFF WRITER TYLER SWEET - STAFF WRITER
MARY G. MERRITT - FACULTY ADVISOR
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CCC’S VOLLEYBALL PLAYS SEPT 28 AT HOME
Game time is 6 PM! Come out and support our Spartans! A LOOK AT THE SPARTAN VOLLEYBALL SEASON SO FAR
SPORTS GO SPARTANS! GO SPARTANS! GO SPARTANS! GO SPARTANS!
AUGUST Tue. 30 at SUNY Broome Community College * Wed. 31 at Tompkins Cortland Community College * SEPTEMBER Sat. 3 vs. Tompkins Cortland Community College @ Watertown, N.Y. vs. Fulton-Montgomery Community College @ Jefferson Jefferson Volleyball Invitational vs. Herkimer College @ JCC at Jefferson Community College Tue. 6 Davis College Sat. 10 at Tompkins Cortland Community College POD Play B vs. A vs. SUNY Broome Community College @ TC3 Tompkins Cortland - POD vs. Corning Community College @ Tompkins Cortland CC POD Match Tue. 13 at Finger Lakes Community College * Sat. 17 vs. Finger Lakes Community College * @ Jefferson CC POD Play B vs. E vs. Genesee Community College @ Jefferson CC vs. Monroe Community College @ Watertown, NY Region III Pod at Jefferson Tue. 20 at Davis College Sat. 24 Fulton-Montgomery Community College POD Play B vs. C Mohawk Valley Community College Cayuga CC POD Tournament vs. Herkimer College @ Cayuga POD Wed. 28 Onondaga Community College *
L, 3-0 Final L, 3-2 Final W, 2-1 Final L, 2-0 Final W, 2-1 Final L, 2-0 Final W, 3-2 Final W, 3-2 Final L, 3-0 Final L, 3-0 Final L, 3-0 Final L, 3-0 Final L, 3-1 Final L, 3-0 Final W, 3-0 Final L, 3-0 Final L, 3-1 Final L, 3-1 Final 6:00 PM
Y-Pals makes it easy to be a role model By Sarah Adsitt, contributing writer CCC Men’s Soccer Team’s #15 Selim Prenci (above) of Bristol, England and #6 Daniel Bonehill (below) of Worchestershire, England in the 2-2 tie contest against Genesee Community College last Wednesday on their home field. PHOTOS BY KODY FOWLER
The Auburn YMCA has a program called Y-Pals. This is a mentoring program for high school and college students to help a younger student succeed in school. Most of the younger kids in this program either don’t like school or have a rough family life and have no one to look up to. Y-Pal program director Johanna Lynch of the Auburn YMCA says the goal of the program is to get older students involved, so they can help younger students do well in school and have a friend, someone to look up to and talk to. She says when someone older gets involved, the younger kids will feel like they could do it when they get older and help a younger student that is struggling just like the Y-Pal they had. Lynch says the program is not only rewarding to younger students, but also to students in high school and college. She says students who perform this type of community service, not only give back to the community, but they may earn scholarships. “I had a student one year who had so much community service, they had a lot of scholarships awarded to them,” Lynch said. She says many feel this is a really rewarding program because they
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have a connection with the younger student they mentor. Many participants report the program helps to build self-esteem, and might even inspire them to give back to their community as well. “My daughter came up to me one day and said ‘Mom, you don’t know how lucky you are to be doing this program,’” Lynch said. Want to know how much of a difference you can make in a person’s life? Lynch says once she recruited someone to help out a girl who came from a troubling family life. “This girl came from a rough family. Her mom was always in jail and she didn’t have anyone to look up to,” Lynch explained. “But now she just graduated and is going into the Marines.” Lynch says the girl’s mentor had a big impact on her life because she not only helped her in tough times, she became her friend. “She also helped the girl get her mother out of jail. She also bought her a dress and ticket so she could go to prom.” So if you become a Y-Pal, you aren’t just helping a younger student do better in school, you are making a difference in their life and becoming their friend. To learn more or get involved with the Y-Pal program, call Johanna Lynch at the Auburn YMCA at 315253-5304, extension 118 or email her at johanna@auburnymca.net.
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Student wants to bring comedy to campus
By Nathan Falasco, contributing writer
Every student has at least one interest in their lives which they just have to talk to someone about, which is one reason why school clubs exist. There are plenty of clubs to choose from at Cayuga Community College, but sometimes someone’s interest just hasn’t been formed into a club yet. Students at CCC are allowed to pitch their ideas for clubs and work to make that idea into a reality. CCC’s Tim Pacholyk is one of those students. Pacholyk has been participating in and learning about stand-up comedy for a good portion of his life. He says he has met a few famous comedians, including George Carlin.
By studying in college, Pacholyk says he hopes to become a professional comedian/comedy writer. He also would like to help alcoholics and addicts to recover and live a better life through laughter and comedy. Pacholyk is working to create on campus a Comedy Workshop club. He says he hopes it would turn into a sort of comedy club for students. Pacholyk says the goal of the workshop is to educate others about the craft of stand-up comedy. “People think you get up on stage and it’s easy, but comedians make performances look easy,” Pacholyksaid. “Comedians do a tremendous
amount of research before they get on stage. There are a lot of things involved with comedy that people aren’t aware of.” Pacholyk says the Comedy Workshop would be for everyone one including beginners to professionals. “There are a lot of subjects that you have to be careful when touching upon in stand-up comedy, such as ethnicity, race, religion, sexism, sexuality,” he said. He says the Comedy Workshop would be the place where students can go to learn about such subject matters in comedy, timing when telling jokes, and be given the opportunity “to rub shoulders with people
within the industry to say how they made it, and how they do it,” he explained. Pacholyk is still in the process of creating the club and sorting out the student government requirements for the club, but Pacholyk says he plans to conduct a couple of meetings in the coming weeks to see if he and his fellow comedians can get the green light for the Comedy Workshop. “It’s an opportunity to make people who think they’re funny, funnier. Alongside the opportunity to make people who want to be funny, comedy gold,” Pacholyk said.
FASHION: Would you wear sweatpants to school and work? By Christina Barker, contributing writer Some people choose to dress down when going to school. Others choose to look professional and determined. In some cases, the way you dress can make an impression on teachers, professors, and your employer. So what are you wearing? As you look around the halls on campus, some put on jeans and a t-shirt. Some are wearing a skirt and a blouse. What is clear is that each individual has a different perspective on what to wear to school and why. “I don’t care about how I look, I don’t have time for that. I just worry about my grades,” a Union Springs Middle School student said. She says she wishes to be comfortable in the clothes she wears. “I just tend to think that you learn best when you are most comfortable.” A CCC alum remarked she wished to be comfortable as well. “When I was in school, I did care about how I looked. I was a big girl and I like to make sure I am covered as to not draw attention to myself.” In many cases, students wish to be comfortable and that wearing sweatpants and t-shirt to school is appropriate. Some students said they believe that how you dress shows your determination to learn. The student from Union Spring disagreed. “It doesn’t determine the way you learn because it’s just clothes on your body, it’s nothing
important.” When it comes to dressing for work it gets more serious. Students says they want to look professional. “Depending on what I was doing for work, depended on how I dressed,” explained the CCC alum. “If I was working with individuals, I would dress in pants and a shirt. If I had a meeting I would wear business casual clothes.” Many students would say that when going to work they will dress professionally and look nice for the public. “I do care about how I dress for work because I want to look decent in public and look like an adult,” said the student from Union Springs. Many schools, colleges, and businesses have handbooks which address the acceptable dress code. Some students say they believe you should dress for school as you do for work, but not ever wear what you wear to school for work. “I think that dressing for school is slightly different than dressing for work. At school you are learning and should wear clothes that are comfortable but not distracting,” explained the CCC alum. “I do not think that sweatpants are appropriate for school or work. Sweatpants imply relaxation. I think you should be comfortable for the job, but still maintain a sense of respect.” “I think dressing is an individual thing. I am comfortable in jeans and t-shirts for my work. Some people believe you should dress the part.”
Trying to decide where to eat? By Angelica Riggins, contributing writer Don’t feeling like cooking? Don’t know how to cook? Looking for something quick but also scrumptious? Cayuga Community College attracts students from all over the state including New York City boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, and The Bronx and even from other countries like England. The one thing all CCC students have in common is they love to eat. But that doesn’t mean they like to cook. “I don’t mind cooking, but it’s sometimes convenient to just buy something out to eat if I have a lot of homework or a test to study for,” CCC student Ariel McDonald of Brooklyn said. Students new to the campus and the surrounding community often are uncertain about what local restaurants offer. So what’s good to eat in Auburn? Cayuga Community College’s students and staff members have some good suggestions about a variety of great places to eat at in Auburn.
CCC Auburn campus library staff member Mike says he goes out for Mexican food. “Mesagrande is my favorite restaurant to eat at in Auburn and I absolutely love their veggie burritos.” This reporter took Mike’s advice and visited Mesagrande located in the heart of Auburn’s downtown
area on Genesee Street across from Lattimore Hall. Their chicken quesadillas where very enjoyable. The restaurant is affordable and their hours are from 11 AM to 9 PM. CCC s students looking for something affordable and tasty to eat give it a try, it’s really good. Auburn campus staff member Phyllis says she enjoys pub food. “My favorite restaurant would have to be Parker’s. Their quesadillas are amazing.” Other CCC students agreed Parker’s is a good place to eat. “I like to get the plate that comes with a burger and fries; it fills you up and their fries are really good,” said CCC student Sosha. Parker’s is also located on Genesee Street near the dorms as well. Another CCC Auburn campus library staff member Sharon recommended checking out a restaurant named Balloons located by the Auburn Correctional Facility. Sharon says her favorite dish from there is “their drunken ribeye.” Ev, an instructional assistant in the library, said his favorite restaurant is Michael’s located on Clark Street near Fingerlakes Mall. “My favorite dish from Michael’s is their Veal Parmesan. It’s a great Italian place to go to if you like Italian food,”Ev said.
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