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Vol. 60 Issue 6
CAYUGABriefs Bear Sighting at Auburn School Last Tuesday there were rumors of a black bear in the city of Auburn that Police claimed were just rumors. Apparently there was a report was made to the Auburn Enlarged City School District that someone had seen a black bear and a cub near the Seward Elementary School. The district then went to Sgt. Greg Dann, the district’s school resource officer supervisor, who advised the elementary school to keep all the children indoors during recess while he track the bear report. Police said the report started with a woman who was taking out the garbage just after midnight Tuesday at Westminster Manor, who said she saw a black, four-legged animal that was “too big to be a dog.” Candice Bowen, who has been working as a nursing assistant at the home for five years, said “I’m positive, he was pretty big. If he stood up, he was taller than me.” Claiming that she wasn’t trying to blow things out of proportion by calling the police, but she got scared. Police said Tuesday afternoon there was no evidence that a bear had actually been sighted.
Spartan Soccer Earns National Recognition By D.J. DuVall, Sports Editor The CCC Men’s Soccer program received some great news last week when the National Soccer Coaches Association of America announced their latest Division II Junior College poll. The Spartans jumped into the standings for the 1st time this season,
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and are ranked #19 in the country. First year head coach Darren Wynne took a winless program in 2010, to a NJCAA Region III Semi-Finals berth in 2011. The club will look to continue their success in 2012, and make a deeper play-off push.
Bring Food to Pay Library Fines The Norman F. Bourke Memorial Library is pleased to announce our new Food for Fines policy. Late fines for overdue library items will be waived in exchange for donations of non-perishable food items. One food item will equal $1.00 of the fine. Food received will be donated to the Cayuga/Seneca Community Action Agency Food Pantry. For more information about the Food for Fines program, contact the Library Circulation Desk at extension 2296.
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CCC’S FBLA-PBL club recently held a Warm Coat Drive. More than five large garbage bags of winter coats were collected and made available to friends and family in need.
Spartan Soccer Players Earn All-MSAC
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CCC student Jay Wornick and his wife and CCC student, employee and Collegian staff member Angela Wornick appeared ABC’s Good Morning America nationallytelevised morning news program. You can view his television appearance on the Internet at http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=J9rJKsb1gf8 Wornick is gaining all this national attention because he won a bet with his wife and lost 198 pounds in a mere 10 months. His story was in Syracuse’s newspaper, The PostStandard as well as in The Associated Press, a national news feed. By now his story has probably hit every news market in the country!
Congratulations to Bruno, Guadie-Ley, Mario Paiya and Tia Segretto for being named to the Mid-State All-Conference Team.
Tia Segretto (Jordan-Elbridge, NY) was named to the Mid-State Athletic AllConference Team for Women’s Soccer. Segretto lead the Spartans in scoring with 13 goals and 3 assists and helped control the midfield. The talented freshman helped improve the team’s record and competitiveness this fall under first-year head coach, Carrie Lysik. Mario Paiva (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Bruno Guadie-Ley (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) were named to the Mid-State Athletic AllConference Team for Men’s Soccer. Both players played a key role in the men’s soccer program’s resurgence and a Region III post-season run to the semi-finals. The talented freshmen helped improve the team’s record to 10-4-2 this fall under first-year head coach, Darren Wynne.
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Smoking is Optional Breathing is Not When walking around the Cayuga Campus you may not notice this right away but there is an abundance of cigarette butts around campus. This can only mean that people are indeed smoking on campus despite the rules. Basically the smokefree law is based on the fact that smoking is optional and breathing is not, but students are clearly going to smoke regardless whether is in their car or hiding around campus, its inevitable. Everyone can agree smoking is a choice, one that many do choose, so why doesn’t the school make a designated area where students and even staff can go to to smoke? It’s not to encourage or show disrespect, but a small sheltered area where fellow smokers can go away from others to enjoy a cigarette and to put out their butts. It not only would satisfy the people that smoke,
but it would also be healthier for them, and the environment. Rather than having all the smoke trapped in their car where they breath in the smoke and have the smell cling to their clothes where they then enter the school and sit in class to possibly irritate the other students with the smell of smoke class, the smell will stay outside. Another benefit of doing this would be a cleaner campus! That we wouldn’t have to see people’s cigarettes just tossed on the ground, they would all be in some sort of canister rather than on campus. Overall I feel like those that smoke on campus would be more willing to comply with the schools rules if they made one spot were it was alright to smoke publicly.
-Jamie Blumrick Cayuga Collegian Editor-in-chief
After a month of reading, watching, and thinking about the Occupy Wall Street movement that is rapidly s p r e a d i n g country-wide, I find it to be a perfect time as any to put my disorganized thoughts about this fierce democratic movement into a few logical paragraphs. In a country where 1% of the people own 42% of the nation’s wealth, college graduates are facing a 9% unemployment rate, one out of every six American’s live in poverty, and our health care is more expensive and less efficient than any other developed country, it is evident that a revolution is fast approaching. Since America is generally a country where patriotism is more revered than revolution, the Occupy Wall Street movement is even more radical and subversive, considering a protest of this magnitude hasn’t occurred since Vietnam. That being said, for the first time in a long time, the American youth is finally taking a stand. Through the idea that actions speak louder than words, a small protest has
turned into what some might call a peaceful revolution. It has crossed international borders. The fact that China blocked all articles related to “occupy” in online search results just proves how real and electric this movement has become world-wide. As the Wall Street protest continues to grow in size and more people become aware of the cause, it is evident that history is rapidly being made. Lemony Snicket summed up the general morality of the movement when he wrote, “People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter- it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.”
-Morgan Swan CCC student
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Editorial Board JAMIE BLUMRICK, Editor-in-chief D.J. DuVALL, Sports Editor MARY G. MERRITT, Advisor Staff ANGELA WORNICK - FULTON JIM COLLINS - AUBURN KATE MORLEY - AUBURN ALEC RIDER - AUBURN
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Leave Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain Alone As you all know Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, Chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve, and high ranking executive in Pillsbury and Pillsbury’s subsidiary at the time Burger King has been accused by four different women (two of which have come forward and one of them works in the Obama administration) of sexual improprieties when he was the head of the National Restaurant Association. This is reminiscent of the Anita Hill allegations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas saying that he also made sexual comments towards her unbefitting of a man about to be voted to the Supreme Court. Ultimately Mr. Thomas was voted into the Supreme Court by the Senate. No matter how many times Mr. Cain has denied these accusations the liberal media just won’t let go. The fourth accuser even enlisted controversial witch hunt attorney Gloria Allred. What people seem to forget is that President Bill Clinton was served with Articles of Impeachment from the House of Representatives in 1998. These included charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying about having oral sex in the oval office with White House intern Monica Lewinsky after saying he hadn’t in a grand jury testimony. There were e-mails taken from Lewinsky’s hard drive implicating Clinton’s sexual misconduct and taped phone conversations between Linda Tripp and Lewinsky which Tripp made when they both worked in the Pentagon’s public affairs office. With all the facts staring them in the face only 5 Democrats voted to impeach Clinton and no Senators voted to do so. A man who took advantage of a 23 year old intern, knowing that if she didn’t do what he told her to do she’d lose her job whenever he felt like it. Yet people want to crucify Herman Cain, and for what? Accusations? I won’t go that far until there is solid proof, the kind of proof that was given to Democrats in the House and Senate but refused to act on. So to all of you who have something to say about Herman Cain, you can forget it because in recent history we’ve had a President that actually had physical sex with someone in the Oval Office. The Oval Office for God’s sake!!! The place where all of our Presidents have sat, desecrated by a disgusting man. Herman Cain is the candidate that we need, a man who has experience
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Living Legend Lost: Goodbye “JoePa” Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain in the business sector who can create jobs, has great faith, great character, and an awesome personality who gives it to you straight without playing the field like a politician. These women can try their hand at character assassination all they want, whether it’s for money, fame, fortune, or a book deal but they will ultimately fail, because they’re all liars. Herman Cain will prosper when he escapes the clutches of this scandal and will either get the Republican nomination or maybe even the Vice Presidential nomination. I wanted to share with you the famous quote from Clarence Thomas. Politicians in this country are afraid of black conservatives because they can think for themselves and go against the mass of black liberals in this country like Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the such. “This is not an opportunity to talk about difficult matters privately or in a closed environment. This is a circus. It’s a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.” Or caricatured by the ultra-biased liberal media in the case of Herman Cain, the same media that refused to take down a corrupt President like Bill Clinton.
-Alec Rider, CCC student
Tonight, on this Wednesday night through Thursday morning College Football and the Penn St. Nittany Lions have just lost a legend to a horrendous scandal. Long time Penn St. coach Joe Paterno affectionately known as “JoePa” in State College was fired tonight by the Penn St. Board of Trustees who had wanted Paterno’s resignation since 2004 for in order to introduce a new era in Nittany Lion football in a largely unexpected move. It was later found out that the head coach of 45 years with the most wins and most bowl victories in the history of Division I FBS football including two national championships was fired over the telephone. Paterno’s firing stemmed from the child sex abuse case against Penn St.’s former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky from 13 years ago. Many a Penn St. student and fan have been left stunned by the firing. Especially since that afternoon Paterno had said that he would resign at the end of the season, yet was stabbed in the back by the end of the night. Many people had a problem with the fact that the 84 year old Paterno failed to notify authorities about the things he had heard. Yet Mike McQueary the graduate assistant football coach at Penn St. actually witnessed the acts perpetrated on these young boys who are now grown men and has not been fired as of yet. College students responded by flooding the streets of State College, PA in what started out as a peaceful protest but ended in a media van overturned, cars with broken windows and the police spraying mace in the students’ faces. This was not helped by ESPN’s shoddy journalism and one sided reporting depicting a riot where there wasn’t one and sullying a grand career out of spite Penn St. students flooded onto Joe Paterno’s lawn and was met by his wife Sue who waved to them and accepted flowers. Paterno later came out and told the students to “Go home, get some sleep, and study!” he thanked them for all of
their support and thanked them for being the great fans they all are. Paterno released a statement saying “I am disappointed with the Board of Trustees’ decision, but I have to accept it. A tragedy occurred, and we all have to have patience to let the legal process proceed. I appreciate the outpouring of support but want to emphasize that everyone should remain calm and please respect the university, its property and all that we value. I have been incredibly blessed to
spend my entire career working with people I love. I am grateful beyond words to all of the coaches, players and staff who have been a part of this program. And to all of our fans and supporters, my family and I will be forever in your debt.” Many people are seemingly forgetting the fact that Paterno was not the one who abused these children, he did not witness the abuses first hand, like at least one person did and a man who has been with Penn St. as an assistant and head coach since 1950 has been unceremoniously removed from the sport and school that he loves so much. In the coming days many will be sad, confused, and angry. Others will be happy and satisfied. But either way, there is a man who has spent 60 years of his life devoted to a single team that has lost it all over something that he had no control over. Tonight as many students pass by the statue of Joe Paterno outside of Beaver Stadium they also pass by the three words that could easily describe one of the greatest, most respected men in the history of American sports. “Educator, Coach, Humanitarian.”
-Alec Rider, CCC student
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Why Does ‘Black Friday’ Bring Out the Worst in People? The Holidays are just around the corner and with that comes the shoppers rush. The biggest day for shopping happens right after Thanksgiving, on what is known as black Friday. Black Friday 2011 is offering some pretty amazing deals. According to Yahoo.com “The Amazon Kindle, iPad 2, laptops, digital cameras, tablets and so much more will be on sale this holiday season.” They also mention how Apple has never before taken part in Black Friday deals, but this year they are expected to. So these deals sound pretty sweet. But when does it go from worth it to not worth it? Each year it is reported that nearly 300 people across the country are injured due to the rush of people, violence that breaks out, and the lack of sleep people got the night before. BlackFriday.com has the story on what may just be the first Black Friday death reported. “In 2008 a crowd of approximately 2,000 shoppers in Valley Stream, New York, waited outside for the 5:00 a.m. opening. When the store opened an employee was trampled; and nobody
besides his fellow employees cared.” Ranker.com did the list of top 13 most brutal Black Friday injuries and the Wal-Mart worker took first place. Second place went to a woman, who was eight months pregnant, who got thrown and shoved and ended up loosing her baby. Number three rolls in with two guys shooting each other, nobody knows why exactly, but it had to do with a Black Friday deal. The rest include a women getting paralyzed, an old woman g e t t i n g trampled, security g u a r d s clothes getting torn, and that is just some of the major ones. People get violent when it should be the happiest time of the year just so they can save a few dollars. But when did the Holidays come to this, violence to buy oodles and oodles of presents? What happened to family being happy seeing each other? Hopefully the violence on Black Friday 2011 will decrease instead of increase from rough years past.
-Heather Heins CCC student
“Reporting From South Sudan” Guest lecture by Dave Chanatry, Director of the New York Reporting Project at Utica College
Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 12:30 in T-229 All faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend The world’s newest nation, South Sudan, is one of the poorest and most remote areas on earth, with almost no infrastructure of any kind, especially health care. One result is southern Sudan has the world’s highest rate of maternal and child mortality. But efforts to provide access to quality care do exist. This talk will feature multimedia reports by Dave Chanatry on two very different medical clinics, one run by “Lost Boys” now living in Central NY, and another that is the life’s work of an American doctor who has won a “Genius” grant for her pioneering work in difficult conditions. David Chanatry is Associate Professor of Journalism and Director of the New York Reporting Project at Utica College. A former producer and writer for NBC News, Chanatry’s work has also appeared on NPR, Public Radio International, the BBC, ABC News and in the Washington Post. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from Hamilton College and a Master’s Degree in Telecommunications from Syracuse University.
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DVD technology may be all the rage these days, but was its predecessor, VHS video tape, actually a far better, more practical product? Were we as consumers, enthralled with flashy new technofads, far too quick to adopt the DVD format? Should we have stayed with VHS all along? For a myriad of reasons, this writer believes VHS tapes and VCR’s are up for a longoverdue comeback. Why should c o n s u m e r s demand a return to what some naysayers consider an inferior, archaic recording medium? The VHS format allows movies to be seen they way they were meant to be seen, at home, on a square, wood-grained console Television set. You just can’t beat the picture quality of VHS. The VHS tapes themselves are large and sturdy, compared to DVD’s that are flimsy and easily scratched or cracked. The VHS devices used to operate them were simple, had few buttons, and could be understood by anyone. VCR’s, especially the earlier versions, were large, wellmade affairs that owners took pride in owning. They were not merely another disposable electronic device, that has become the alltoo-familiar norm these days, with the market being flooded with cheap, imported DVD players. One must also consider the economic impact of the decline of VHS. Mail-order DVD rental has all but replaced the trip to that once great American icon of the past 30 years...the Video Rental Store. Having survived the VHS to DVD transition, video rental chains are closing down rapidly, and this disturbing trend is expected to continue. In the VHS heyday of the 1980’s and 90’s, the Auburn area alone boasted as many as 7 video rental locations at any given time. Today, only one such enterprise exists in Auburn. Cold, impersonal vending-machine style DVD rental units, placed in all-tooconvenient locations, are another reason for the decline of rental stores. Like so many soda vending machines, these anonymous, robotic rental boxes are another reason why people no longer make the trip to see the friendly clerk at the local video store. It used to be that you could ask these knowledgeable film experts about whether or not a movie was worth watching, and get a wellinformed opinion. Try talking to a Redbox and see what happens! Think of all the jobs that have been lost as these Video Stores close down. A return to VHS format would immediately create new jobs as more and more rental stores re-open. Perhaps this is just what Cayuga County needs to help ease its economic woes? Here’s another point to consider: what about all those people that took the time to learn VCR repair? Should these valuable skills just go to waste? Some have said that BetaMax, an early competitor to VHS, was in fact superior technology. While that may be up for debate, I don’t see BetaMax surpassing VHS in popularity anytime soon. The staggering number of VHS tapes
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and VCR’s already in households would preclude this, I should think. With more and more people concerned with saving money these days, thrifty shoppers can find real bargains in VHS tapes. Garage sales, thrift stores and the like often have VHS tapes for sale at incredibly low prices, and can provide you with hours of cheap entertainment. For the true lover of obscure cinema, there is no greater thrill than finding a long-lost movie title on VHS. The streetwise film auteur knows that many great titles never made it to DVD format. Indeed, the VHS age coincided with another great age, the B-movie era of the 70’s and 80’s. These films have been severely neglected by the standard DVD selection. So what can be done? What can we do to help foster the reemergence of VHS? I like to think locally. Here in Auburn, I for one would like to see at least one new VHS-only rental store open up. A perfect location would be the old Schine’s Theater building on South Street. Instead of re-furbishing the Schine’s into a functioning movie theater/stage and cultural arts mecca, I say NO WAY! In the 1980’s, the Schine’s Theater was home to a video rental store called Who’s On First. This, in my opinion, was the TRUE heyday of the Schine’s Theater, and one I fondly remember as a child. It was the epitome of what made Video stores great...a labyrinth of shelves, loaded with colorful empty VHS boxes awaiting your closer inspection, and that musty, unplaceable smell that all video stores had. For the Schine’s to return to its roots, and become a VHS-only rental location once again, would be a huge leap in the right direction. I would also encourage people to collect old VCR’s, VHS tapes, and perhaps give them to people that don’t have them. Invite your friends over for a VHS movie night and take turns hosting! Don’t forget the snacks, especially microwave popcorn, which came of age in the VHS era. Many younger people may not remember the joys of VHS, so introduce them! Take the time to get reacquainted with VHS and you’ll wonder why you ever invested in DVD’s. Will VHS and VCR’s reclaim their rightful place as top-tier entertainment and recording medium? Will the family trip to the Video Store on a Friday night once again be mainstay in households across America? This writer certainly thinks there is a darn good chance. In any case, the era of VHS, VCR’s, and video rental stores was over far too soon. As people all over the world scramble to buy the latest HD, 3D, 4D or who-knows-what compatible flat-screen TV and DVD players, many of us yearn for a simpler time. A time when it was more about the movies, instead of who has the coolest gadgets to watch them on.
-Brian Gage, CCC student
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Savonne Crews, AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer
Meet Savonne Crews — A Soldier in the Fight on Poverty By Alec Rider, Staff Writer The minute that you walk in the front doors of CCC’s Auburn Campus a few feet straight ahead is the Student Development office. All the way in the back right corner sits Savonne Crews quietly working feverishly on many different projects. “AmeriCorps VISTA is a National Service Program, what it does is, it’s a program designed to alleviate poverty and ultimately eliminate poverty as much as it can.” “I’m here through AmeriCorps, which is a Federal grant, for a year of volunteer service. Basically, my responsibility is to make a connection between the community and the campus, so the community can use the school’s resources.” The agency Crews primarily works with is Booker T. Washington. At Booker T. Washington they have an after-school program; it runs from 3:30-6 Monday-Friday for low income students, minority students, students who meet that low socio-economic status. “My responsibility is to provide a program for them, provide resources for them, and provide it through the college. Also, with the volunteers they do a lot of tutoring, mentoring because, again, poverty can be seen in the form of education as well.” Right away it was evident that a partnership with the college would be a mutually beneficial endeavor. “My goal, my primary goal, is to build a partnership between the campus and the community through students, through resources, through the different departments on campus.” But this isn’t a one woman show; Savonne recruits volunteers in order to reach out to every club and organization, not just some. “Right now, mainly what I focus
on is recruiting volunteers from CCC to volunteer over at BTW in their after-school program.” “It can be difficult to get volunteers to make a commitment for a semester or two, so other ways that I get students involved is by going to the clubs and different organizations and maybe seeing if they can do one-time events. I want BTW to be familiar with CCC and vice-versa, to build a partnership and be able to sustain that partnership when I leave after y year of service.” “After I graduated [from Nazareth College in Rochester with a degree in Speech Therapy] I didn’t think I was quite ready for grad school, but I also wanted to do something that would be meaningful to my future career and something that would be meaningful to my resume and to me personally.” “I like being here at CCC and I enjoy what I do, I know this will help me with my future career, goals, and plans. AmeriCorps is a great outlet for that, recent graduates who are looking to make an impact on their communities locally or at large.” So what does Savonne have to say to anyone that may want to look into doing something for the greater good? “Get involved, there are a lot of things you can do, certainly volunteering and giving your time back to your community is the easiest way to get involved. There are so many volunteer opportunities out there that may lead you to parttime or full-time job positions, internships, it’s a great way to network and connect with people in the community. If you feel like you wanna give back, there are so many ways you can do that. Just get involved and come see me.”
Thank you to everyone who supported us with our SeptemberOctober fundraising events. The lucky winner of the SU Basketball Ticket/VIP Package Raffle was Jim Brunet, from Syracuse. Our Pizza Hut fundraiser night, Halloween Candy Bar Sale, and SU ticket raffle netted our club nearly $700. We would like to extend a special thank you to Modular Comfort Systems, Inc., for donating the SU/VIP tickets, Molly Brown, for her creative talents and candy bars, and Pizza Hut for opening their doors to us. We also recently held a Warm Coat Drive. Over five large garbage bags were collected and made available to friends and family in need through CCC. The annual FBLA-PBL Leadership Conference was held in Philadelphia, PA, the weekend of November 4. Club President, Byron Wall, Vice-President, Alec Rider, and Co-Advisor, Amy Valente attended on behalf of PBL. Look for
a full write-up in the next issue. Our November fundraiser will be a complete Turkey Dinner Basket Raffle. We will be offering tickets for $1 each or 6 for $5. In addition – one canned good donation will be accepted for one raffle ticket! Watch the lobby area for the PBL recruitment table and raffle ticket sales throughout November! (Canned goods will be added to the Canned Food Drive collection efforts of PTK and BASIC – and donated to the St. Alphonsus Food Pantry in Auburn.) Finally - all clubs are in the midst of a PENNY WAR! Please support the PBL penny jug in the main lobby by throwing all your pennies our way! The Penny War runs through November 16th. Don’t forget to ‘friend’ us on Facebook at FBLA – Phi Beta Lambda @ CCC. New members always welcome. Join us at our next club meeting on Wednesday, November 16, in T312.
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New Treatment for Cystic Fibrosis By Alec Rider, Staff Writer The 20th Century saw the greatest leaps in medical technology in the history of the universe. Twelve of the biggest diseases including Chicken Pox, Diphtheria, Invasive H. Flu, Malaria, Measles, Pertussis, Pneumococcal Disease, Polio, Tetanus, Typhoid Fever, Yellow Fever, and Small Pox were cured. Today we’re all given inoculations to combat the horrors brought on by every single one of these diseases. But all of these diseases have one thing in common besides having a cure. Not one of them is a genetic disease. But a breakthrough in the search for a cure to cystic fibrosis may lead to the destruction of the disease that will ultimately kill 70,000 people in a generation worldwide, most of them before the age of 40. Fifty years ago, most children with the disease died before they entered kindergarten. Today, the average life span of patients is about 38 years. Hopes are the highest in a lifetime (or two if you’re talking about a person stricken with CF) that a new treatment soon could improve and possibly extend the lives of patients with the inherited disease. A person is given cystic fibrosis by his/her parents if they both have the defective gene known as the “Cystic fibrosis gene” mutation, the parents don’t even have to have CF to give it to their child. About 30,000 children and adults in the United States have cystic fibrosis. CF is a disease of the glands that produces sweat and mucus, and causes the body to produce very thick, sticky secretions that clog the lungs and keep the pancreas from working optimally. Symptoms of the disease include frequent lung infections, wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing, poor growth, and difficulty gaining weight. Patients also have very salty sweat because their sweat glands are not able to properly take in chloride. This is why a sweat test measuring the amount of chloride in the sweat may be given to a child to check if they have cystic fibrosis. The genetic defect doesn’t allow chloride to properly move in and out of cells, it builds up in sweat as sodium chloride (salt). Studies are under way to determine if combination therapy with the experimental oral drug ivacaftor and another experimental drug could make these shattered lives easier to live and maybe even provide a gateway to a cure. The drugs are meant to target the disease process itself and not just symptoms and diseaserelated complications, like the current cystic fibrosis treatments achieve. The research that led to the drugs will be a game changer
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Three Teenage Boys Suffered Heart Attacks After Smoking Synthetic Marijuana -USA TODAY
for cystic fibrosis and possibly many other genetic diseases. This marks the first time that an oral drug has ever been used to treat a basic defect in a genetic disease. More research could possibly create new treatments for people who suffer from other genetic diseases. All of the patients in one study continued to take treatments to control symptoms. Half of those p a t i e n t s took the experimental drug twice a day for almost a year, while the other half took regular placebo pills. Six months after beginning treatment, lung function had improved by a whopping 17% compared to the typical cystic fibrosis patient that loses about 2% of lung function per year. The patients who took a placebo showed almost no improvement in lung function. The ivacaftor-treated patients also saw huge reductions in their sweat’s chloride content. This is a pretty solid indication that the drug is working like researchers had hoped. The goal is to ultimately modify the disease process by restoring the balance of salt and water within the body. The experimental drugs are the result of more than two decades of intense private and publicly funded research, beginning with the discovery of the cystic fibrosis gene in 1989 thanks to the Human Genome Project. This included a $20 million grant to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 1999 to research new drugs. This is still the largest single grant ever given to the foundation. Most of the patients in the study have remained on the drug, and researchers will present an additional 3 months of follow-up this week at the 25th Annual North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference in Anaheim, California. The FDA is reviewing the data on ivacaftor and the drug could be approved as early as the middle of next year. For the first time in pretty much forever there is real hope that this new treatment will lengthen the lives of patients and improve quality of life for thousands of people. The potential to stop the disease in its tracks if the drugs can be safely given to infants and very young children is also very real since early screening for cystic fibrosis is the law in all 50 states. We have the chance to stop one of the most deadly diseases per capita in the world if we keep working at it. Unlike most diseases the fatality rate for cystic fibrosis is 100%. Developing a cure to cystic fibrosis could open that diamond encrusted door to curing more and more genetic diseases, capping it all off with the big daddy of ‘em all. Cancer.
During the span of a few weeks last fall, Dr. Colin Kane, a pediatric cardiologist at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, was surprised when the teens, all aged 16, were admitted with chest pain. Chest pain -- and heart attacks especially -- are very unusual in teens, so doctors at first suspected a virus. But electrocardiograms, which measure the heart’s electrical activity, and blood tests that measure levels of a protein called troponin (high levels are a telltale sign of heart attack), showed that two of the boys had indeed had heart attacks. The tests for a third boy were inconclusive at first, but while he was in the hospital his chest pain got much worse, and subsequent tests showed he, too, had suffered a heart attack. All had reported smoking both marijuana and K2 between a day and a few weeks before the attack, said Kane, who is also assistant professor of pediatrics and a cardiologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas. The case reports are published in the December issue of Pediatrics. Dr. Anthony Scalzo, chief of toxicology at St. Louis University and medical director of the Missouri Poison Center at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center, said it’s difficult to prove that K2 caused the heart attacks. Only one boy had a urine test for K2 and that came up negative, which isn’t surprising since the drug has a short half-life in the body, Scalzo explained. All the boys came up negative for other drugs, such as cocaine and methamphetamine, but it’s still possible the boys may have been using other illicit drugs or taking steroids and lied about it. “This article raises additional concerns about the toxicity of K2 and newer synthetic cannabinoids that are out in the market,” Scalzo said. “Youth and parents should be warned about the dangers of these substances and that in any given case it is like a game of Russian roulette. You might be the next case report of a serious seizure, mental health crisis or perhaps a premature heart attack.” K2 and “Spice” are often marketed as incense and sold in packets of herbs that are laced (often sprayed) with synthetic marijuana at “head shops” and online. The drug also goes by other names, including Spice Gold, Spice Diamond, Yucatan Fire, Solar Flare, Genie, PEP Spice and Fire n’ Ice, according to the U.S. Drug Intelligence Center. While people who smoke K2 are seeking a marijuana-like high, there have been many previous reports of young people going to the emergency room because of agitation, anxiety, racing heartbeat and elevated blood pressure, Scalzo said. The drug itself was developed in the mid 1990s in the lab of John Huffman, a Clemson University
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While people who smoke K2 are seeking a marijuana-like high, there have been many previous reports of young people going to the emergency room because of agitation, anxiety, racing heartbeat and elevated blood pressure, Scalzo said. chemist, who was conducting U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse-supported research on cannabinoids. The chemical, which he called JWH-018 and JWH-073, was similar to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active ingredient in marijuana, only more potent. “These compounds were not meant for human consumption,” Huffman said. “Their effects in humans have not been studied and they could very well have toxic effects. They absolutely should not be used as recreational drugs.” Since 2009, increasing numbers of reports from poison centers and hospitals of kids becoming ill from smoking K2 prompted at least 16 states and some counties to outlaw K2. In March, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) used its “emergency scheduling authority” to make possessing or selling JWH-018 and four other similar chemicals illegal. “The temporary scheduling action will remain in effect for at least one year while the DEA and the United States Department of Health and Human Services further study whether these chemicals should be permanently controlled,” a DEA statement said. Kane agreed that he can’t say for sure that it was the K2 that caused the heart attacks. He also doesn’t know if all the boys smoked the same batch. But he suspects the drug caused the coronary arteries that bring blood to the heart to spasm temporarily, cutting off blood supply. And because the drugs are unregulated, “who knows what else these drugs could be contaminated with?” he said. Since their heart attacks, the boys have recovered, although one who played high school football was devastated when Kane told him he’d have to sit out the season. Texas has since banned K2. “It still easy to get,” Kane said. “I just saw a kid this week . . . who had smoked K2 and was having chest pain, palpitations, headaches and trouble breathing.”
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SPARTAN SPORTS CCC Men’s Basketball Getting on the Right Track By D.J. DuVall, Sports Editor
CCC MEN’S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
CCC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
NOVEMBER Tue 15 at Mohawk Valley Sat 19 Clinton CC Sun 20 Suny Delhi Tue 29 at Adirondack CC DECEMBER Sat 3 at Herkimer CC Sat 10 Schenectady CC Sun 11 at North Country CC
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Sat 12 vs. Fulton-Montgomery CC TC3 Classic TC3 12:00 PM Sun 13 at TC3 vs TC3 or NCCC TBA Tue 15 at Mohawk Valley CC 6:00 PM Sat 19 Clinton CC 12:00 PM 12:00 PM 3:00 PM Sun 20 SUNY Delhi 3:00 PM Tue 29 at Adirondack CC 5:00 PM 5:00 PM 3:00 PM Wed 30 Word of Life 8:00 PM 2:00 PM 2:00 PM 7:00 PM
POETRY CONTEST! Prizes:
First Prize: $50 Second Prize: $25 Third Prize: $10 SPONSORS: Academic Support Center Writing Table & Student Government Organization Open to all currently registered students taking at least one class in Fall 2011 on the Auburn campus. (ASC Writing Tutors are not eligible to enter.) Poems may be written in any style and on any theme, up to a length of 30 lines.
After dropping their home opener, and then the first game at the Roxbury Tournament in Boston last weekend, the CCC Men’s basketball program got things rolling in convincing fashion. In the consolation game out in Boston, the Spartans faced Three Rivers CC of Connecticut. Cayuga exploded offensively with five players in double figures in the 114-86 rout. Roosevelt Bullock was named to the All-Tournament Team after his gutsy performance versus both Three Rivers, and game 1 against Dean College where CCC lost a tight one 81-74. Bullock continued his success at Alfred State College last Tuesday when he lead his team with 20
Explore a Blast from the Past By Joshua Painter, Contributing Writer Tom Tryniski, a local resident of Fulton, New York, has created a free web-site called futonhistory.com. It is a great resource for people studying their families’ genealogy. Visitors of the site can view news articles or even find pictures of relatives from generations ago. Tryniski started the site as an old post card site after receiving a box of old post cards from a friend. Once he was done digitally scanning each one, he put them together on a website he called Old Folk New York Post Cards. Tryniski says he has always liked newspapers and as a child he would go to the Fulton Public Library to read old newspapers. After receiving a good response from his postcard site, Tryniski decided to scan copies of his local newspaper. Tryniski scanned each one by hand, and he says it took nearly a year to finish. Tryniski’s says the next paper he scanned and added to his collection was the world-renown Valley News. When it came time to begin scanning Tryniski’s next paper selection, The Fulton Patriot, he says he decided it was time for a bigger
Entries must be the original, non-published writing of the student submitting the material. Participants may enter up to 2 poems. Submit your entry by email to Karen Jetty, the English Specialist on the Auburn campus: jetty@cayuga-cc.edu All entries will be numbered; judging will be done as blind readings by a group of randomly selected ASC Writing Table tutors. Winning poems will be published in The Cayuga Collegian! Deadline for submission: Thursday, December 1, 2011.
points, 6 steals, and 4 assists, in the team’s second straight victory. Scotty Bynum and Anthony Durham both scored in the double figures, and helped the Spartans net a nail biting 70-67 win. Next the Spartans will travel to Dryden for the TC3 Classic where they will play Niagara CC Saturday night. The Men will play again Sunday, then travel to Mohawk Valley on Tuesday the 15th, before returning home to face Clinton CC at 2:00 p.m. Saturday.
scanner and that is when he got his first Wickson/Wilson scanner. As of now fultonhistory.com has over 60 million old newspapers. The site covers papers from New York, Massachusetts, some of Pennsylvania, and some of Canada. Tryniski has recently added the New York Herald as well as newspapers
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from Mount Morris, DeRuyter, Naples, and he plans to keep adding more. Tryniski says it takes a lot to run his site. He says he also scans 100 foot and 1,000 foot rolls of 35 millimeter micro film. Tryniski says he runs 12, four core computers which stay on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Tryniski says The New York Evening Post runs 11,000 pages per year, and takes three weeks to one month for his software program to perform word recognition tasks. Tryniski also has three broadband business class modems for communications. He can see the people coming onto his site where they’re coming in from, and what they are looking for. He says he averages about 4.17 million hits on his site in a 31 day period. Tryniski’s site also carries yearbooks from the Fulton area dating back to 1918. Auburn area’s O’Hearn’s Histories contacted Tryniski to ask if he would add their files to his site. Those files can be viewed by going to a PDF on the site. Tryniski has also digitized the Fulton Historical Society’s records so you can view pictures of Fulton’s past. Did you know that Fulton was once called Phillipsville? Lake Neawanna which is located next to Cayuga Community College’s Fulton campus used to be named Phillips Lake. Tryniski says a man named Assa Phillips owned a big chunk of the West side of what now has become Fulton. State Street School is where Tryniski went to elementary school. He says when he was in the 3rd grade, the janitor of the school was murdered. Using his site , Tryniski found out that a Mr. Buttermon murdered the janitor over a mere 7 to 10 dollars. Tryniski is constantly adding to his site, so if you are interested in helping to preserve the past, you can help by sending donations via PayPal or personal check. You can get information for donations by visiting fultonhistory.com’s home page.
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Get Ready for WAR!!! By Alec Rider, Staff Writer
The latest installment of Call of Duty’s Modern Warfare series Modern Warfare 3 or MW3 for short, made its way onto shelves at 12:01 am on Tuesday at stores all around the country. The 3rd installment of the 4th game in the Call of Duty series sold nearly 10 million copies on its first day. This broke the record for the biggest sell on day one of any game in history that was set by the last Call of Duty game, Black Ops. Ironically enough Black Ops obliterated that same record held by Modern Warfare 2. It seems as if this franchise has cornered the whole first person shooter market. Ever since Call of Duty began in 2003 the series had stuck to World War II, where the first three games told a story on different sections of the war from different perspectives of the countries that took part in the war. But starting with Call of Duty 4 the developer Infinity Ward turned a total 180 and tackled the premise of modern warfare as opposed to the 1940s epics of the first three games. Modern Warfare 3 is a culmination of the effects of the first two games that took place in 2011 and 2016 respectively; the world has finally come to the brink again with the third World War in 100 years. Just flip the M in MW3 upside down and you’ll know it to be true. So what has the world enthralled with Call of Duty? Is it the domestication of war? Being able to be the closest to war than actually participating? Is it the machismo of the characters, the guns, and the Sherman tanks? That can’t be it because a fair share of girls play Call of Duty. People may play Call of Duty for many reasons, but over the years the resounding obvious reason is because all my friends play it. You could say you like Call of Duty for the military aspects like guns, tanks, logistics and the like. Maybe it’s because it provides a pretty good history lesson, not really embellishing any detail. These could be said for the first two Call of Duty’s, but when Call of Duty 3 was released
on all three HD platforms it was the beginning of a social monopoly. Now friends can talk and play with each other on the Playstation Network and Xbox Live making games like Call of Duty that have the ability to connect millions of people all over the world, that much more popular. Not only teenagers play video games, more adults are starting to play and a game like Call of Duty is starting to have some peculiar effects on the working adult. USA Today reports that as many as 1 in 5 gamers booked time off from work just to play Modern Warfare 3 on its release date. Call of Duty is the type of game that can entrance millions of people but there are underlying reasons besides the ones I’ve mentioned of why we all play these games. In the case of the first three Call of Duty’s do we play because we want to know what our forefathers experienced in the fight for freedom against a very real threat that was responsible for the near genocide of an entire race? Don’t you want to be the person that takes down the Nazi regime unilaterally? I mean, how cool would that be? In the Modern Warfare series, do we play so we know how our brothers and cousins felt when an RPG sailed by their head without actually having to experience it? Deep down inside beyond the superficial reasons Call of Duty is a portal for the individual person to experience the Hell of war and that peace is never really achieved even when the credits. Just like there will be another war sometime in the future, there will be another Call of Duty, because war never changes.
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INGREDIENTS • 4 English muffins, split • 1/2 cup canned pizza sauce • 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese • 16 slices pepperoni sausage
DIRECTIONS 1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees 2. Place the English muffin halves cut side up onto a baking sheet. Spoon some of the pizza sauce onto each one. Top with mozzarella cheese and pepperoni slices. 3. Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the cheese is melted and browned on the edges.
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Well I’m sure you have all heard by now about the drama unfolding at Penn State University, and frankly I’m so sick of hearing about it that I don’t even feel like ranting about it, in fact that could be a rant all by itself. Now I obviously don’t know who your favorite NFL team is, but chances are if you’re like me, you get real sick of hearing about the NFL’s favorites. If you’re not a fan of one of these “special teams” then you know exactly what I’m talking about. I personally am a diehard Bills fan, and proud of it. This week my beloved Bills will travel down to Texas to take on “America’s Team”. Well that’s funny because I didn’t know America had a team. I thought we as American’s were free to root on whoever our little hearts desired. Instead we get the Dallas Cowboys shoved down our throats on a weekly basis. It doesn’t matter if their 1-9 with zero chance at a playoff berth, every week we listen to the analysts tell us how great the Cowboys are, and if their losing then it’s just bad luck and never a shortage of talent because their greedy owner Jerry Jones would never allow that to happen. Other NFL darlings I’ve come to notice are the Pittsburg Steelers, New England Patriots, and more recently the New York Jets, I’m sure there is a few more as well. Ah yes, the teams that can do no wrong, and deserve the attention of every football fan, wishing our teams could be just like them and their aw-inspiring coaches….NOT! I just don’t get it, why can’t every team have an equal opportunity. The San Francisco 49ers are off to an unthinkable 7-1 start. They lead their division by 5 games and have all but locked up a playoff berth. Same goes for the surprising Cincinnati Bengals. Normally doormats, but off to an impressive 6-2 start. Yet we hear nothing about them, instead it’s all about how the 4-4 struggling Cowboys look to rebound, or how Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos are ready for a playoff run. No, actually they got lucky and their “quarterback” if you want to call him that, will never be a legitimate NFL starter. Not trying to step on anyone’s toes or insult your favorite team, just think this is the way it really is in today’s NFL. If you agree with me let me know if your team is rarely in the news, no matter how well they perform on Sunday. You can email me at Dweebster9@yahoo.com for any questions, comments or concerns.
CAMPUS EVENTS Monday, November 21st THANKSGIVING DINNER In the spirit of Thanksgiving, the Student Activity Board is offering a low cost dinner to students on the Fulton Campus. See Angela Wornick in F196. Fulton Student Lounge 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
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FAST ENGLISH MUFFIN PIZZAS! Here is a VERY kid friendly and simple recipe for when you’re on the go. If you have kids they can even make them, and all you have to do is bake them! Pizza sauce, cheese, and their choice of topping makes this a great meal or anytime snack!
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November 28th Fulton Campus November 30th Auburn Campus MASSAGE THERAPY Stressed? Join us for a 10 minute chair massage FREE of charge, courtesy of your Student Activity Board. Auburn and Fulton Student Lounges 10:30 am to 1:30 pm
COS MO’S
CORNER with
Jim Collins
This week we’re looking at Mesa Grande located at 100 Genesee Street in downtown Auburn. This Mexican style restaurant is owned by Auburn native Jim Daddabbo, who is also a Cayuga Alum and Telcom Grad. Yeehah! Jim has been very good to the CCC Telcom Department by the way, always generously giving gift certificates to his restaurant for various prizes and always the Telcom banquet. We at the Telcom Dept. salute you!! Anyway the burritos and such are awesome! I recently had three Taco’s and they were absolutely superb, and quite reasonably priced I might add. Coming in
at under $8, they were well worth it. They were piled high with meat, salsa, sour cream, cheese and lettuce (your choice, soft or hard shell). I added a Dos Equis beer with this and I was all set. Located right across the street from Lattimore Hall, this is a CCC student must! Three cheers to Mr. Daddabbo and 4 Cosmo’s out of 4! Happy eats! Comments or gripes?? E-mail me at colljimbo@yahoo.com
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