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Vol. 54 Issue 11 February 13, 2006
Local College Takes Global Stage Ithaca College’s CellFlix makes CNN, ABC, NPR and more
By Josh Cradduck, Editor-in-chief If you happened to be flipping through the multitudinous 24-hour news networks recently, chances are you spotted a piece on the CellFlix Festival sponsored by Ithaca College. The New York Times, Cable News Network’s (CNN) Paula Zahn Now, Newsday, National Public Radio and ABC’s Good Morning America were just some of the many programs and publications to cover the recent Cellflix festival, a contest based on the creation of 30-second movies made on cellphones. With the contest gaining so much exposure, Ithaca College is publicizing the rapidly engaging swing towards innovative content and mobile delivery on devices that seem to get smaller every day. In fact, Ithaca College’s Roy Park School Dean Dianne Lynch insists the festival isn’t all about cell phones. “[The festival] is about being ready to engage with the next new platform, technology, and creative opportunity,” she said in her blog. According to an article recently published in Technology Review, Dean Lynch had the idea while attending a conference on the future of cellphones and mobile delivery of content. The subject of cellphone development has been heavily discussed in many school’s communication programs across the country, including Cayuga Community College. According to many telecommunication students, interminable discussions on the future of cellphones in the world of mass media have taken place recently in Professor Steve Keeler’s Broadcasting classes. Dean Lynch reports in her school blog that Cellflix has been mentioned
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in close to 300 media sources across the country and around the globe. “So far, we’ve made television, radio and/or newspapers in 276 different cities -- including in Spain, India, Canada and Nigeria. We’ve made every major newspaper, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, the Indianapolis Star, the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Kansas City Star....And I’ve been on the radio in LA and San Francisco,” she said. Ithaca College junior Mike Potter won the $5,000 grand prize in the first annual festival. Potter’s piece was entitled “Cheat.” In it, his grandfather plays a game with his grandmother while reading a newspaper. He reads a headline and gives her a kiss if she guesses correctly whether it’s actually a legitimate headline or not. “I’ve got to tell you something. Sometimes I cheat,” the grandfather says with a smirk. Potter’s film was chosen from 10 finalists. The contest was open to high school and college students across the world. The college received 178 submissions, Lynch said. To qualify, there must be a story, a narrative and sound, and the film must be shot on a cell phone. Editing could be done digitally on a computer or on a cell phone with editing capability. Plans are in the making for another festival next year. Not surprisingly, organizations are already eager to put their name on the Cellflix Festival. “At this point, we have a list of potential sponsors that have expressed interest in partnering with us on the project; while we didn’t accept sponsors this year -- we wanted to brand the event in the college -- we will consider such partnerships for 2006,” Lynch said.
Slow Down! Reckless Driving on Campus a Cause for Concern By Josh Cradduck, Editor-in-chief The highly-dreaded habitual of driving around Central New York in January can be quite dangerous. That’s why the college public safety department has two words for students and staff that drive around the Cayuga Community College campus: slow down. The Campus Public Safety Committee has reportedly received several complaints about cars speeding through the parking lots and failing to adhere to stop signs. Those who get caught speeding usually get off with a warning from a campus officer. However, William Marventano, Director of Campus Public Safety, says that drivers can expect stiffer discipline if problems persist. “[Officers] do have the option of writing regular uniform traffic tickets answerable to the Auburn City Court. These tickets may result in you receiving a fine, points on your license and your insurance rates going up,” says Marventano.
According to the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, 3 points will be assigned to your license for disobeying traffic control mechanisms, such as stop signs. Going 1 to 10 miles over the speed limit will result in 3 points being tacked on. The speed limit on campus is 15 mph. According to Marventano, the surroundings of the campus make driving with caution even more important, as the college is situated next to a middle school. “Committing these violations on a college campus which is situated next to the middle school where there are young children darting across our main roadway and numerous pedestrians walking into traffic lanes from between vehicles, creates an even more dangerous situation and the possibility of someone getting severely injured,” he stressed in an e-mail sent to campus faculty. “If you hurt somebody, you’re going to have to live with that for the rest of your life – and that’s not a good thing.”
Boost Mobile is First Pay-As-You-Go Wireless Service to Offer School Team Fight Songs as Ringtones (CP WIRE) -- Make it personal and put some style in your dial. What better way to show school spirit and pride than to give the people who call you a ringback tone - your school`s fight song - to listen to while waiting for you to pick up the phone. Boost Mobile(R) today announced that it is the first and only PayAs-You-Go wireless service to offer ringback tones. Enabled by Alcatel (Paris:CGEP.PA)(NYSE: ALA), a worldwide leader in telecommunications solutions, the new service dubbed ‘’Boost(TM) Call Tones,’’ replaces the standard ringing sound heard when a call is connected and the caller is waiting for the Boost customer to answer. Now available nationwide, Boost Call Tones enable Boost customers to customize the sound callers hear before a call is answered with unique content to fit their mood including music, jokes or original sound effects that entertain waiting callers. ‘’It`s all about customization
and personalization -- the ability to hook each caller up with a Boost Call Tone all of their own,’’ said Craig Thole, director of value add services, Boost Mobile. ‘’Boost customers can set different sounds for different people and can even assign songs or audio clips for different times of the day, so their friends know what`s up when calling.’’ Boost Call Tones are available on all Boost Mobile phones. Boost customers can browse, sample and purchase multiple selections from an initial catalog of more than 2,000 Boost Call Tones. From happy or sad to silly or mad, depending on your mood, the time of day or who`s calling, there is a Boost Call Tone to fit every occasion. Categories include Music by Genre, Urban Flow, Mood Rings, Film and Television, Sporting Goods and many more. To register for Boost Call Tones, customers can go to www.boostmobile.com or access via Boost Wireless Web directly from their Boost Mobile
phone. ‘’Boost continues to demonstrate its leadership role in prepaid wireless by providing firstto-market services like Boost Call Tones,’’ said Neil Lindsay, vice president of product development, Boost Mobile. ‘’We have introduced a number of prepaid industry firsts in recent months, including Java photo share application Boost Snaps, GPS navigation from Telenav and wireless instant messaging from AOL, MSN and Yahoo!. And, we will continue our aggressive push this year to provide our customers with first-to-market pay-asyou-go wireless entertainment services and content.’’ ‘’Call Tones makes the Boost lifestyle very personalized to each user with this unique and tailored ringback application,’’
said Erwan Menard, vice president, mobile communications for Alcatel North America. ‘’Alcatel enables Boost to customize the handset browser and Web interface to reflect their corporate image for a seamless user experience. With the customized content catalog, friends can select the hottest new music riffs or audio clips best suited to the personality and preferences of the people who call them.’’ Boost Call Tones are available to Boost customers nationwide starting today for a monthly fee of $1.49. Boost Call Tone purchases are $2.49 for premium selections, $1.49 for branded content and $0.99 for soundscapes or other original sounds used in place of the standard ‘’ring ring.’’
Callers Needed for Alumni Phonathon The Auburn/Cayuga Community College Association is now accepting applications for its annual spring phonathon. The event will take place March 6th. All college students are invited to support the effort. Goals include: strengthening relationships with alumni, updating alumni records and encouraging students to give to the college’s foundation, for the alumni associations various programs and services. A commitment to serve part-time in the evening will be necessary, along with “good people skills and a sunny disposition,” according to Elisabeth Hurley, director of alumni affairs. Interviews for paid and volunteer positions will be scheduled soon. If you are interested in becoming a candidate for the position, please sign up in the Alumni office – M238. The Cayuga Collegian welcomes letters from its readers. Submissions must be in a word document on a PC formatted disc. Submissions may be edited for content or length. Submissions must include your name, address and daytime phone number. All letters to the editor are copied exactly and do not necessarily reflect the viewpoint to the Collegian office, it’s staff or advisors. All letters are simply the opinions of the writers themselves.
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Getting to Know...English Professor Richard Bower 1. WHEN DID YOU BEGIN TO REALIZE YOUR GOAL WAS TO BECOME A TEACHER? I’ve always been interested in communication and specifically writing. Initially, I wanted to teach high school then discovered community college was where most writing instruction happens. Community colleges believe in writing as both an intellectual and practical activity, so after “switching gears” from literature studies in my master’s degree to composition/rhetoric, I lived and taught in Seattle at a number of community colleges. The variety of students at institutions out there and like ours is exciting. I’ve come to view community colleges with their open access programs as one of the great hopes for an educated democracy. 2. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN TEACHING AT CAYUGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE? Since spring 2000 3. WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU’RE NOT TEACHING? I run 5K races for fun, spend time with my wife and cat. I’m also working on a PhD in Writing, Teaching, and Criticism at SUNY Albany. So I stay fairly busy. 4. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORED SUBJECT IN YOUR DISCIPLINE? Composition and rhetorical studies. I’m offering English 104, Advanced Expository Writing this fall, and considering our complex “information age,” I very much look forward to that course.
ACC/CCC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFERS SCHOLARSHIPS The Auburn/Cayuga Community College Alumni Association is accepting applications for its annual scholarship and commencement awards. Applications must be received by Friday, March 31, 2006. This year the following awards will be given by the Association and administered by the Cayuga County Community College Foundation: • Two scholarships of $500 each to graduating high school seniors planning to attend Cayuga Community College for at least one year on a full-time basis who are children or grandchildren of an ACC/ CCC graduate. • Two scholarships of $500 each to returning sophomores attending Cayuga Community College on a full-time basis for a second year. • One scholarship in the amount of $500 to a non-traditionally aged student enrolled full time who is looking to upgrade skills or start a new career. • One scholarship in the amount of $500 to a candidate who completed a minimum of 29 credit hours at either ACC or CCC and is returning to college for retraining due to job loss based on economic conditions. • Two commencement awards of $345 each to graduating sophomores accepted by a four-year college. Applications must meet specific eligibility criteria. Details and application forms are available at the Alumni Office (M-328), Auburn or in the Financial Aid Office in Fulton. If you have any questions, please call Elisabeth Hurley at 315-255-1792, extension 2224.
5. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR TEACHING STYLE? Curriculum and teachers have a lot of required material for particular courses. I think more and more we feel the pressure of standardized tests and our investment in education as a highway to success, but I always try to make room for students’ own desires and purposes for undertaking an education. It’s very difficult work being a student, and I want to students to enjoy the struggles as much as the successes. 6. WHAT DO YOU ENJOY MOST ABOUT YOUR JOB? I love encouraging students’ intellectual curiosity. I’m rarely bored because there’s always so much happening at Cayuga. I also enjoy teaching in both Fulton and Auburn. Again, it’s that importance of diversity in my life. FAVORITE FOOD: I hate to tell you, but it’s all that unhealthy diner breakfast food —anything with syrup or salt. MUSIC: I did live in Seattle, so I’m fairly alternative in my tastes. BOOK: Recently, I read The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. Our library’s wonderful for finding something interesting.
Professor Richard Bower will be presenting “WAC 3.0 – Teaching with Writing,” a faculty enrichment seminar, on Wednesday, February 15th at 11 am in L211 (Auburn Campus).
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Woman Makes First Appearance Since Face Transplant Isabelle Dinoire, the French woman who received the world’s first partial face transplant, appeared before a roomful of reporters Monday, speaking in a slurred voice about her ordeal and thanking the doctors and the donor who have given her a new nose, mouth and chin. Ms. Dinoire described how she awoke to discover her horrible disfigurement after her black Labrador chewed off the lower part of her face while she was unconscious from taking sleeping pills in May last year in what many people contend was a suicide attempt.
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Bush’s $2.77 Trillion Budget Plan Calls for Medicare Cuts President Bush recently submitted a $2.77 trillion budget plan to Congress that calls for cutting the growth of Medicare and putting tight limits on most spending not related to national security. The Senate’s top Democrat, Harry Reid of Nevada, said the proposed cuts were the cost of what he called “the Republican culture of corruption.” The plan calls for eliminating or making deep cuts in 141 programs for a savings of almost $15 billion, but would provide more money for preparations for a possible outbreak of bird flu and promotion of the physical sciences.
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Prominent Republican Says Surveillance Program Violates Law Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said recently on NBC’s Meet the Press that he believed the Bush administration had violated the law with its warrantless surveillance program and that its legal justifications for the program were “strained and unrealistic.” The program “is in flat violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,” said Mr. Specter. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other administration officials have asserted that a president’s inherent powers and the authority for the use of force that Congress granted after Sept. 11, 2001, gave President Bush ample powers to permit eavesdropping without warrants from the special court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
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Fugitive in Gay Bar Attacks Dies After Shootout With Arkansas Police A teenager who police said attacked patrons of a gay bar in Massachusetts with a hatchet and a handgun last week died Sunday of wounds suffered during the weekend in a shootout with Arkansas police officers. Jacob D. Robida, 18, shot and killed an officer during a traffic stop on Saturday before the shootout a short time later with other officers. Police officials also believe that Mr. Robida killed a 33-year-old woman from West Virginia, apparently an acquaintance he had picked up at her home after the attacks in Massachusetts.
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City of Auburn Talks Trash Trash collection has been brought up in the last two budget discussions in the City of Auburn, NY where two attempts to institute a pay-as-you-throw-away trash program were met with great reluctance by some residents and council members. The proposals, which proposed that residents and businesses pay a fee for each trash bag, were quashed each time. “The argument that we’ve heard in the past is that it’s already paid for in taxes,” said Frank DeOrio, director of municipal utilities. “Yes indeed it is, but the cost is going up and is it fair to have that cost based on assessed value instead of trash volume?”
4 Presidents Join Mourners at King Funeral Associated Press Four U.S. presidents, senators and celebrities joined thousands of mourners filling a church sanctuary Tuesday to say goodbye to Coretta Scott King, the “first lady of the civil rights movement.” The crowd, estimated to be at least 10,000 strong, stood as King’s four children walked in with President Bush and former presidents Clinton, Bush and Carter. The dream is still alive,” said Bishop Eddie Long, leader of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia. “We are all in a better place, doing better things, doors have been opened,” he said. The lines to get into the funeral and to attend the final viewing of King’s body before her funeral started forming before 3 a.m. on a chilly morning outside New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, where King’s daughter Bernice is a minister. “There’s one word to describe going to go see Coretta -- historic. It’s good to finally see her at peace,” said Robert Jackson, a 34-year-old financial consultant from Atlanta whose 10-year-old daughter, Ebony, persuaded him to take her to the church Tuesday. In Washington, the flag outside the Capitol flew at half-staff in King’s honor. King, who carried on her husband’s dream of equality for nearly 40 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, died Jan. 30 at the age of 78 after battling ovarian cancer and the effects of a stroke. “I always really admired her,” former President Clinton said as he flew toward Atlanta aboard Air Force One with President Bush. “I liked her very much. I liked being with her. I liked the way she maintained her dignity in the face of all the difficulties she faced.”
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Protests over Muhammad Drawings Get Violent
Hundreds of angry protesters hurled stones and blazing objects at the Danish Embassy in the Iranian capital last Monday to protest publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Police used tear gas to tame the crowd. There has been a wave of protests across the Islamic world over the caricatures first published in September by a Danish paper. They have since been reprinted by other media, mostly in Europe. The drawings out of Lebanon, including one depicting the prophet wearing a turban shaped as a bomb, have touched a raw nerve in part because Islamic law forbids any illustrations of the Prophet Muhammad for fear they could lead to idolatry. The attack was the second on a Western mission in Tehran. Earlier in the day, 200 student demonstrators threw stones at the Austrian Embassy, breaking windows and starting small fires. Thousands more people joined violent demonstrations across the world to protest publication of the caricatures of Muhammad, and the Bush administration appealed to Saudi Arabia to use its influence among Arabs to help ease tensions in the Middle East and Europe. Afghan troops shot and killed four protesters, some as they tried to storm a U.S. military base outside Bagram, the first time a protest over the issue has targeted the United States. In a meeting with local authors, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemned the cartoons and addressed the West: “Insulting the Prophet Muhammad would not promote your position,” the official Iranian news agency quoted him as saying. The Bush administration urged Saudi Arabia to help stem protests. “Certainly the leaders of the Saudi government might be individuals who might fulfill that role,” spokesman Sean McCormack said. “There are others in the region who also might fulfill that role as well.”
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FAMOUS ARTISTS BROADWAY THEATER Grammy Award-Winner LARRY GATLIN portrays famed Cowboy-Philosopher Will Rogers in tour of THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES at CrouseHinds Theatre. The event will take place February 21-23 at 7:30 p.m. The Will Rogers Follies starring Larry Gatlin, winner of six 1991 Tony Awards including Best Musical and the 1992 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, will make its way to Syracuse as part of the Famous Artists Broadway Theatre Series. The Will Roger Follies opened on Broadway at the Palace Theatre on May 1, 1991 to rave reviews. Larry Gatlin made his Broadway debut in the play
in 1993 when he starred in the title role of the Tony-award winning musical, achieving both critical acclaim and legions of fans. The Will Roger Follies presents the life and career of Will Rogers as the great showman Florenz Ziegfield would have – with all of the girls, glitter and glamour of pure entertainment. Who Was Will Rogers? -Top box office attraction of his time -Made 70 films -His daily newspaper column was carried by more than 350 newspapers -Highest paid radio star of his time
Website Offers Study Tips as Spring Semester Begins As Cayuga Community College students prepare to dive into the spring semester, studyloft.com, a 24/7 online tutoring service providing students with real-time one-on-one help from qualified tutors, today announced a set of tips that will help students get the most out of studying. With input from Association of Tutoring Professionals Executive Board Member Dr. Ken Gattis, designer of the studyloft.com eTutor training program and producer of the ‘’Productive Tutoring Techniques’’ tutor training video series, the following set of tips from studyloft.com will help students achieve academic success: 1. Determine the material you are required to know for each test. 2. Prior to a test, skim over your notes, readings, and homework assignments -but devote the most time to the material that you don`t know well. 3. Allow plenty of time for studying UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND; do not assign a finite period of time for studying. 4. Get help when you need it. 5. Choose the environment in which you are apt to study the best. Common choices include having total silence or a little background noise like music. 6. Break up the study time into multiple, shorter periods. Most often, study for an hour or two and then take a break to reward yourself with a snack or drink. 7. Consider studying with a partner or group. 8. Recopying notes works well for some students, especially those who need activity to help them concentrate. 9. If you learn best by repetition, you`ll want to complete lots of similar problems or use flash cards to help in memorization.
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10. If you need to know the ‘’big picture,’’ then you might want to outline class material in a way that makes sense to you. ‘’These study tips will help students, but ultimately they will need to find the study methods that work best,’’ said Bikram Roy, Principal of studyloft. com. ‘’We`re committed to helping students achieve academic excellence. At studyloft.com, we give students the freedom they need to get academic help discreetly at the moment they need it. Research has shown that tutoring is more effective if it is delivered at the precise moment it`s needed.’’ Since studyloft.com`s launch in November 2005, more than 2,200 students have accessed the one-on-one tutoring they need to achieve success in the collegiate classroom. With 24-hour availability, studyloft.com has revolutionized the way students study by offering onthe-spot, step-by-step assistance, which greatly enhances student performance. studyloft.com`s virtual classrooms are equipped with all the necessities to provide optimum learning: chat (IM) interaction, file sharing, whiteboard, and access to the powerful technical application webMathematica, which allows tutors to compute and visualize results to students with 3D charts and graphs. webMathematica is a product of Wolfram Research, Inc. (www.wolfram. com), the world`s foremost developer of computational software for science and technology. studyloft.com charges a nominal fee for access to its services:
-Most sought-after public speaker of his time -Personal friend of 5 U.S. Presidents and he stayed at the White House whenever he was in town
A musical extravaganza, this highly visual account of the life of the famed folk hero, performer, philosopher, Will Rogers Follies narrates his life story through a series of spectacular Ziegfeld Follies production numbers. Tickets still available at Famous Artists, the Oncenter Box Office and all Ticketmaster locations. News Channel 9 and Y94 FM sponsor the Famous Artists Broadway Theater Series.
“SAYWHAT?” “Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. The first chapter talks about how you shouldn’t chop down trees to make a book no one will read.” - Conan O’Brien Monologue January 20th.
Paul Mecurio - A Laugh Riot by Matthew Caci
Have you heard of the name Paul Mecurio? If not then you probably don’t know that he is a rising star on the comedy scene. What were you doing in the year 20012002? Well, Paul Mecurio worked as a staff writer for Comedy Central’s critically acclaimed comedy “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” Not only did he write for the show, he has also appeared on it numerous times
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as well. He has also won an Emmy award for “Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing”. He recently has shot a pilot episode for a new television show in New York, and has written produced and directed five short films. Paul is a native of Providence, Rhode Island and graduated from Georgetown Law School. While
working as a lawyer on Wall Street, Paul was approached by Jay Leno and offered a job to write jokes that appear on “The Tonight Show”. Paul accepted the offer with great pleasure. After working for Jay Leno, Paul moved to Center stage as a Stand up Comedian with the encouragement of Jay. Paul then became a national headliner in clubs across North America and in Europe. Mecurio has performed at the prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy festival in Montreal and has made numerous TV appearances including “Comedy Central Presents Paul Mecurio(half hour special)”. He has also appeared on “The Late, Late Show with Craig Kilborn,” and “Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.To put an extra layer of icing on the cake, Paul has been a guest on Fox News Channel, CNN and makes regular appearances on MSNBC as a political satirist. You can listen to some of his stand up material at his official website, www. paulmecurio.com. If you’re interested in seeing his comedy act in person, he was just in Auburn on Friday will, Feb. 10th and Saturday Feb. 11th and was an absolute hit. He will return to Auburn on March 24th and 25th at the Auburn Public Theatre on Genesee St. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has a reputation of being hilarious and as I told you Paul wrote a lot of the material for that show, that’s no coincidence. To find out more about Paul including listening to some of his comedy material go check out his website posted previously in this article. Look out for this man, he is currently riving down the road of success, leaving visions of people laughing and smiling in the dust.
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Tony Piscitelli This is Tony’s fourth year working with the Cayuga Community College basketball program. His coaching experience includes coaching Seneca Falls fifth- and sixthgrade boys’ basketball for the past eight years. He has also coached seventh- and eighth-grade CYO for two years and Hobart College summer camps for five years. Tony graduated from Calera High School, where he participated in basketball, football, and soccer. He is employed at Goulds Pumps/ ITT Industries, and lives in Seneca Falls with his wife, Bev.
During January, two members of the Cayuga Community College women’s basketball team were named star performers in weekly listings by the Mid-State Athletic Conference. Alyson Colton totaled 33 points and 22 rebounds against Onondaga and Corning Community Colleges, and Michele Taylor made 16 points and 12 rebounds against Jefferson Community College. On the Cayuga men’s basketball team, Gordie Walker was a star performer pick for his 28 points and 7 rebounds against SUNY Canton.
Spartans Derek MacKenzie and Julie Tucker represented Cayuga Community College in their last race of the season at the 2005 Men’s and Women’s NJCAA Division III National Cross Country Championship held at Finger Lakes Community College. Julie completed the 5 km. race in 29th place and Derek finished the 8 km. in 54th place. More than thirty NJCAA Division III schools were represented from ten states including New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, and Texas. PAGE SEVEN
Steelers Squash Seahawks in Super Bowl XL Cowher Gets First Ring, Bettis Retires -Associated Press
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Creating Assets, Savings & Hope Josh Cradduck, Executive Editor Whether you’re a college student struggling to pay off student loans or in a family that cannot keep up with utility bills, rent, back taxes and clothes – the United Way’s C.A.S.H. for Cayuga County program is just for you. C.A.S.H stands for Creating Assets, Savings and Hope. Volunteers in the program help low to moderate income households build stronger financial futures by preparing Federal and New York State tax returns completely free of charge. “C.A.S.H. for Cayuga County is a great opportunity for eligible low to moderate income wage earners to receive free tax preparation assistance Osborne that could lead to larger refunds due to the Earned Income Tax Credit program,” says Meg Osborne, CCC Coordinator of Career Services and C.A.S.H. program marketing committee member. “We want to make sure that CCC students are aware of this opportunity.” Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) can only be awarded to those who file a tax return to claim it. In 2004, participants in C.A.S.H. claimed EITC payments ranging from $390 to $4,300. The average payment received was $1,700. The program will also amend your tax returns for the previous three years to claim EITC. C.A.S.H. program brochures are available at CCC’s information desk, the library, financial aid and student development. For further information, call 282-0533.
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The Steelers, powered by one of the trick plays that have become a trademark of Coach Bill Cowher’s staff, defeated the Seattle Seahawks 2110, for their fifth Super Bowl victory. Only two other teams — The Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers – have won 5 Super Bowls. At the end, Cowher, a Pittsburgh native who has coached the Steelers for 14 seasons, handed the Lombardi Trophy to Dan Rooney, the 73-year-old chairman of the team. It was Rooney’s father, Art, who founded the Steelers. This was quite the improbable run for the Steelers, who had to win the final four games of the regular season just to qualify for the playoffs as a wild card. They are the first team to win three postseason games on the road and then win a Super Bowl. Cowher, who had lost the Super Bowl to end the 1995 season, finally has his first championship, allowing him to share the accomplishment with his predecessor Chuck Noll, who won the Steelers’ previous four titles. The Seahawks, making the first Super Bowl appearance in franchise history, failed to make Coach Mike Holmgren, who had won a title with Green Bay, the first coach to win a Super Bowl with two teams. Long-time Steelers running back Jerome Bettis announced with the Lombardi Trophy in his hands that “the bus has stopped here,” referring to his nickname “The Bus.” In other words, Bettis played his last NFL game and went out on top. “I couldn’t ask for anything better,” Bettis said later, briefly alone at his locker. “To win it in front of my friends and family, the people who supported me when I was a shorty, to do it here, it’s been incredible.” It seemed a fitting end for the league’s fifth-leading career rusher, a rare chance to finish a sure Hall of Fame career with a championship, a rarer opportunity to do it just a few miles from his childhood home.
CAREER SERVICES EVENTS: SPRING 2006 The Career Services Office coordinates numerous free activities and services to assist Cayuga students in all phases of career planning. The events listed below can help you choose a particular major/career field or boost your job search as you prepare to graduate.
Wed. Feb. 8
10am - 1pm DISCOVER CAREER DAY
Come and learn about Cayuga’s online career exploration program that will help you focus on the right career field and get the most current information for your job search. Students will be assigned their own personal ID numbers so they can connect with DISCOVER from any computer with internet access! Main Entrance, Fulton
Wed. Feb. 15 10am – 1pm DISCOVER CAREER DAY (see above description) Outside Student Development Center, Auburn
Wed., Mar. 8 10am – 1pm RESUME & INTERVIEW CAFE Bring a rough draft of your resume to our Career Services professionals who will show you how to polish it up for best results! Outside Student Development Center, Auburn
Wed. Mar. 15 10am - 1pm RESUME & INTERVIEW CAFE Main Entrance, Fulton Wed. March 22 9am – 12pm JOB READINESS/EDUCATION DAY Learn more about putting your best foot forward in the job search as well as local training and educational options. Program will include workshops, table displays and a special presentation: Getting a Job in a Tight Market. Main Entrance, Auburn
Mon. April 24 10am - 1pm RESUME & INTERVIEW CAFÉ Outside Student Development Center, Auburn Wed. April 26 10am - 1pm RESUME & INTERVIEW CAFÉ Main Entrance, Fulton