VOL. 95, NO. 2
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
RANDOLPH, N.J.
The Youngtown Edition COUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS AWARD-WINNING STUDENT NEWSPAPER
In This Issue Clash of the Tacos FOOD page 2 Donald, we need to talk OPINION page 2
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Left to right: William Schievella; Carlos Herrera, former alumni trustee; Dr. Joseph S. Weisberg; Laurie Bogaard; J. Richard Rajoppi; Dr. Barbara L. Hadzima; Jeffrey M. Advokat, vice chair; Dr. Edward J. Yaw, CCM president; Paul R. Licitra, secretary; Dr. Rosalie S. Lamonte; Stanley T. Omland, chair; Dr. Joseph L. Ricca Jr., treasurer.
Board of Trustees attempts to close budget gap with staff, program cuts BY DEREK ALLEN Editor-in-Chief
On June 17, the County College of Morris Board of Trustees voted in favor of enacting a plan that will reorganize, reduce or eliminate certain programs and positions. The plan calls for the elimination of more than 15 staff and faculty positions, as well as disbanding CCM’s ice hockey program and discontinuing a selection of courses that have usually low enrollment. “It’s always difficult because there’s real people involved and a lot of the people involved have been great employees, but we’re trying to be as objective as we can about it,” said Dr. Edward J. Yaw, CCM President. “Our challenge was to, before July 1, which is when our new fiscal year begins, to have taken out of the budget, a significant amount of savings. Since 80 percent of our budget is in people, salaries and benefits, we’re pretty much forced to look at positions and people and benefits.” In the face of a 10 percent decline in enrollment and a $1.9 million deficit, Yaw was tasked with developing a plan. “I was just disappointed,” said Sheri Ventura, Coordinator of Distance Learning Services and President of the Academic Administrative Personnel Federation. “I feel
like we really thought hard about finding and offering alternate suggestions.” Ventura said her union offered the board 21 alternatives to a reduction of staff and programs, and felt the alternatives they offered should have been looked into further. “Our task, as directed by Dr. Yaw, was to give some suggestions of what [we thought],” said Ventura. “So we did, but at the end of the day we still have people that lost their jobs. And that’s just sad.” Michael O’Hagan, the now former Media Producer at CCM, thought the removal of his position was a misstep. “We’re having this exciting time of the media center being built, now our team is being dismantled,” said O’Hagan. “That’s been disappointing and frustrating.” O’Hagan said he appreciated the tough choices the Board had to make but felt they were rushing a plan without fully considering the alternatives. “I think one of the things we had said - which I think is a very valid argument - is that the genuine reason why we’re in the situation that we’re in is because enrollment is down,” O’Hagan said. “I think, from my personal belief, one of your best ways to address that issue is through marketing your programs, your faculty and your events. The best way to do
CCM Motorcycle Club revs up BY TODD EVANS Contributor
Most college clubs require room space for meetings and events, not parking space. That is not the case for the County College of Morris Motorcycle Club, a new student motorcycle enthusiast club. A small group of students founded the Motorcycle Club at the end of the fall semester. “I helped start the Motorcycle Cub at CCM because I tried looking for one, but realized we didn’t have one! It wasn’t a very difficult process because it was easy to get support from other faculty especially when they rode as well. Even students that never sat on a motorcycle thought it would be a great idea,” stated Daniil Turitsyn, motorcycle club vice president. The goals of the club are “to meet other people who share the passion and to educate them on the hobby and rider safety,” stated Natalia Cichocka, motorcycle club president. “I also want people who are starting out to get support from other more experienced riders so they make safer, more educated choices.” Camaraderie is built among club members through regular group meetings, and club organized group motorcycle rides during the semester. Group rides will take place on weekends in warmer weather. Besides their passion for motorcycle riding, the Motorcycle Club wants to address some concerns for motorcycle riders. “I plan to have a speaker from the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) come out
to promote rider safety,” Cichocka said. “I also want to personally promote motorcycle awareness because a lot of people don’t pay attention to what is around them. Most drivers are clueless about their surroundings due to common distractions such as texting, make-up, and various other trinkets that devour their concentration and reduce the safety for them and the people around them. We are part of the community and ride on the same roads you drive, we want to be seen rather then hit.” This club is part of a collection of diversified niche interest clubs on campus. That brings students with specific interests together into a community. “If a certain group of people want to get together and have that club I feel like they should be able to because if they have a common interest, and they want to get together and do that they should,” said Connor Kraljevich, criminal justice major. The club’s membership is currently about 15 students, but that may go up once warmer weather arrives in spring. “My favorite part about the club is that anyone can just join. You don’t need to have a motorcycle or know anything about one, you just have to be willing to learn and we will happily assist you with the rest. Getting your license is very easy and thrilling at the same time,” Turitsyn said. The club holds its meetings on Tuesdays in the late afternoon on campus. Students who are interested in the Motorcycle Club should contact the club president at cichocka.natalia@student.ccm.edu.
that, and the most cost effective, would be to utilize your internal resources. The media center couldn’t be better positions to do that.” Further suggestions offered to the Board were reducing travel budgets and saving money by suspending sabbaticals. “We’ve cut the budget so much in those other areas in the past, we just don’t have any more paperclips to cut,” said Yaw. “Our travel budgets are extremely limited at this point in time, and those are not cuts that would be sustained in the future. We’ve sort of considered those things, we couldn’t reach the goal that we had by looking at those things.” Yaw said sabbaticals are contractually obligated, and the college is compelled to fund up to four sabbaticals every year. Legally, they could not have considered that option. “It’s a sad time,” said Ventura. “And what’s going to change next year? That’s the big question, what’s going to change so we’re not here again. I really hope they do consider some suggestions and look at some of the ideas that we as a whole came up with.”
CCM student thrives despite challenges
BY SANDRA RIANO Staff Writer
After receiving a general discharge from the Navy, Sindy Arenas, of Dover, is working towards her Engineering Science degree at the rate of six classes per semester. Arenas was recently inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa honor society at County College of Morris (CCM), is the first in her family to go to college, maintains a 3.7 GPA and is an active member of the Asian Student Association. She dreams of attending either Stevens Institute of Technology or the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology and wants to use her degree to become an inventor. Unsure of her direction after high school, Arenas joined the Navy with plans to serve as either a fire controlman or an
electronic technician. She had trouble, however, adapting to her new environment and started to feel anxious and developed a mood disorder. She was able to leave the Navy while in boot camp in Illinois just in time to spend Thanksgiving with her family. “I don’t regret my Nancy experience at all because if I hadn’t gone my life would be so different,” says Arenas. “When I was there I learned to appreciate everything else so much more.” With more uncertainty than ever before, Arenas had to make a choice, attend County College of Morris (CCM) or attend one of the other schools, such as Ithaca or Drexel, that had accepted her before she joined the Navy. She chose CCM for the affordable rates and the flexibility it provided her. “I thought I knew what I wanted to do, but when I came back I didn’t know anything and CCM was my best option, she says. Arenas expects to graduate in May 2016 by taking 19 credits in the Fall Semester and 20 credits during the Spring Semester. “I want to challenge myself,” she says. She explains that her experiences have motivated her in a unique way and helped her to find what she wants to do. For others who have experienced setbacks, Arenas has some advice: “You’re lucky that you at least got to have that experience and still come out of it on top.”
OPINION
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Sit down Donald, we need to talk BY SANDRA RIANO Opinion Editor
Editor’s Note: Sandra Riano is a CCM student and opinion editor for Youngtown Edition. The opinions contained in this letter are her own and if not reflective of the entirety of the Youngtown Staff or The County College of Morris. Dear Mr. Trump, I am a part of two separate groups that you enjoy demonizing for your own political gains; I’m an undocumented immigrant, and a woman. Your rash comments and uninformed statements have gained you the lead in the Republican primary polls and that is what’s most terrifying to moderate America. While we see you as a political punchline, your dedicated followers are what we fear the most, real Americans that dehumanize immigrants and women. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you...They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people,” You have managed to insult an entire
race of people with your comments during your presidential campaign launch. You told us that we are drug traffickers, are rapists and that some of us are good people. You have insulted the millions of immigrants in this country, Mexican or otherwise, by implying that the majority of us are anything but hard working people who are trying to survive in a country where politicians perpetuate the stigma that surrounds us. You state that we feed off the system and that we get treated better than veterans. Let me remind you and millions of other believing Americans when I say that no undocumented person can receive any kind of government ID, unemployment, welfare, social security or food stamp benefits without a social security number. What we can do is pay our taxes and pay into a social security system we will never reap the benefits of, so you’re welcome for that. “Immigrants pay between $90 and $140 billion a year in federal, state, and local taxes” according to the Immigration Policy Center. Your immigration “policy”, besides being completely impossible to execute,
is downright unconstitutional and literally calls for abolishing the 14th amendment that grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S soil. Your plan is to deport every undocumented immigrant and then let “the good ones” back in while also raising the fees that accompany the already difficult process of naturalization. It’s nonsensical ideas like these that are embarrassing you and discrediting your name amongst the majority of voters. In addition to racist comments you also specialize in sexist and insulting “jokes” towards women including namecalling like “fat pigs”, “slobs” and “disgusting animals”. It’s an unfortunate fact that you have said too many misogynistic statements to list here. Do not chalk this letter up to be nothing but an angry woman menstruating or some other equally sexist response. While the insanely inappropriate comments are no longer shocking, your lead in the polls is. What the majority of Americans can’t figure out is how, with all your screaming and immature namecalling, you still hold the top spot amongst the GOP candidates running for president.
What is your opinion on Donald Trump running for president? CORY SOLOWSKY Liberal Arts Major
““This isn’t the type of thing that he should do, this isn’t his area of expertise” “He doesn’t have enough understanding of the bigger picture like past presidents or potential candidates do”
LISA ATTANASIO Game Design Major
“sighs deeply” “He’s an old, racist, rich man and he doesn’t understand how to do anything, he’s already gone bankrupt several times” “Your claim to fame is being an rich old racist man and you can’t even do that right”
MATTHEW ZUCCHI Electrical Engineering
“He’s an idiot. Why does he think he should run this country like a business?”
TAYLOR MORGAN Education/Psychology
“I do not like him at all, I think he’s very full of himself and I think that he thinks that he would be good for the country but I think that he would fail as a president”
JUSTIN
Business Administration
“I think he’s the best man for the job when it comes to fixing the economy but when it comes to special interest and other things I really think he has no brain. I think he’s politically incorrect whenever he speaks and I think he’s an oddball when it comes to debates. “We don’t need someone that ballsy” “He’s a businessman and a great negotiator”
What does that say about your party? Your current lead in the polls leads us to assume that the GOP doesn’t care about political correctness, basic human respect or the future of this country. Your comments lack compassion, understanding and intelligence and are not back by any substantial or realistic policies. This country could not exist without the waves of immigrants that come here, including your parents when they came here from Scotland and Germany. Collectively we are not lazy, we are not stealing your jobs, we speak English and we are not taking any benefits away from you. Crime rates are no higher within our demographic than in others. I work three jobs, take 15 credits at school and belong to two honor societies. You want to deport me “just in case” I’m one of the bad ones. I can assure you that the three months I spent after birth in my own country before coming here did not make me into a hardened criminal. As an undocumented woman I am horrified by the amount of people who defend your agenda and support your reverted ideas. #undocumentedandunafraid
FOOD
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
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Clash of the tacos: Chipotle versus Qdoba MARIA SERGHIOU Food Critic
I’m a food fanatic and sophomore here at CCM. I’ve had experience with Instagram and YouTube while traveling to famous foodie hot spots throughout the New York City and New Jersey area. My goal is to spice up The Youngtown Edition by giving you all some interesting food spiels. So to start off my first issue, let’s talk about one of the most controversial topics in our modern day food world: Chipotle versus Qdoba. Let’s start off with Qdoba. This Mexican grill is popular for their vast menu variety. Although the menu is mouthwatering and totally endless, the ingredients used are not organic, leading to a probability of processed meats and cheese. In fact, Qdoba’s website provides nutritional information about calories and fat but
not for the sources of specific ingredients and their whereabouts as Chipotle’s does. Nonetheless, Qdoba will offer you a delicious and enjoyable meal while charging less than Chipotle for extra guac! Qdoba also encourages customers to sign up for a card that provides perks such as free chips and guac just for signing up, email offers, free birthday offers, and receiving one free entrée for every 10 entrees purchased, that are proven to be well worth your dollar especially if you’re a regular customer! So get to your local Qdoba, sign up for a card, eat ten burritos, and get one free (you can do it)! Now for Chipotle, which is America’s new healthy fast food spot (winning over Subway) for their recent change to nonGMO ingredients in their products. Fans of Chipotle go crazy over its guacamole. In fact, famous artist Jason Mraz provides Chipotle with majority of their avocados
(100,000 per day) grown in his avocado farm in San Diego. No wonder guac is extra. Although Chipotle lacks the menu variety of Qdoba, their food is of top notch quality. All ingredients used are organic and non-GMO, coming from local farms. In fact, all meats used at Chipotle locations are hormone and antibiotic free. Along with meats, Chipotle’s pasture raised dairy is what makes their sour cream so good. Unlike Qdoba, all ingredients (meat, organic tofu, rice, beans, fajita vegetables, salsa, sour cream, guacamole, lettuce, and cheese) are listed on their website with fully detailed explanations of the natural source of each ingredient, giving customers better satisfaction for the price of their meal in exchange for fresh and pure ingredients. Chipotle even offers margaritas as a refreshing additive to a fresh and organic meal! Although Chipotle does not provide
a perks card like Qdoba, they provide gift cards and other unique factors: Booritos (On Halloween, come in with a costume from 4 p.m. to closing for a $2 burrito.) Exclusive Chipotle Coins (rare coins floating around each Chipotle; if you are a loyal customer, expect one from an employee that guarantees you one free burrito.) Secret Menu (order one of the following only if the line is short: nachos, quesadillas and quesaritos.) Both of these popular Mexican grills are very similar and different in numerous ways. The controversy of which restaurant overrules the other is solely based on personal tastes and likings from individual customers. For both of these places, it seems to be a close call. Chipotle or Qdoba? That is up to you.
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Which is better: Chipotle or Qdoba? SAMMY BRITO
Freshman, Business
“When I enter Chipotle, I feel as if I am treated like family! I feel I save more money at Chipotle over Qdoba, however I feel like Qdoba has better food quality overall. The only solution for this debate is to try both for yourself.” MATT SCALICI
Sophomore, Fine Arts/Art Education
“I think Qdoba is better than Chipotle. Qdoba offers a wider variety of entrees to eat. Qdoba also has the most AMAZING queso sauce that makes your meal 20 times better! Not to mention, extra guac is free at Qdoba!” DAVE MATOS
Sophomore, Liberal Arts
“I really respect Chipotle a whole lot more than Qdoba for their organic ingredients. It really gives me a better understanding of what I’m eating!” JOSH QUINONES
Sophomore, Engineering Graphics
“Chipotle’s simplistic interpretation of modern hispanic food out weighs Qdoba by a long shot. Their menus are easy to read because they are so basic, and they really pack the burritos with flavor for each customer!”
NEWS
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Release of documentary on Youtube big news for history department
PHOTO COURTESY OF JOINT FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF MORRISTOWN AND MORRIS TOWNSHIP
“Chanceman’s Brother’s and Sisters: the Origins of the 20th Century Morris County Black Community” was funded by The New Jersey Historical Society and The Dodge Foundation. BY CECILIA MCGUINNESS Production Manager
Rita Heller, associate professor of history at the County College of Morris, was the Executive Producer for the “Chanceman’s Brother’s and Sisters: the Origins of 20th Century Morris County Black Com-
munity,” which is now available on the CCM Youtube channel 17 years after its initial release. The not-for-profit film was made in an effort to address a community that is not popularly recognized in the media. “...the focus of this project [is] middle class people, because again, most people
Diversity organization bridges gaps at CCM The Diversity Organization, a group of students that grew out of the Black Student Union in October 2014, has quickly become the fastest growing club on campus, according to the organization’s president Joshua Pierce. “The first event we had 50 people come,” Pierce said. “[By now] 400 people signed up, 500 people on the Instagram in two months, and we’re just continuing to grow. This is just the beginning.” Jami Alvarenga, the club’s executive of promotion, said that a key part of the organization’s goals and approach is to help remind students here at CCM not of their differences, but their similarities. “I’ve realized not a lot of people here find diversity important,” said Alvarenga. “We need to be able to bring people together and not have any tension between anyone. We’re all human. We all make mistakes. We all go through the same things. What we’re trying to do here is to change things and bring everybody together.” Pierce said the organization has aspirations to expand into a company, and ultimately, an international organization. “Diversity is an extreme benefit to society as a whole because the people that are educated end up running society,” Persaud said. “Acceptance is something that we all need and it’s kind of a human right. We all long to be accepted. To have something like the diversity organization asks questions that need to be asked.”
in this society focuses on basically two levels: very rich, famous, athletes, entertainers, and then the tragically poor ghetto people,” Heller said. “It was a good opportunity because there is a strong middle class community in Morris County and we said ‘okay, we are going to locate the people you really don’t think about,’ and that was really the thrust of the project.” In order to find the subjects to be interviewed, Heller and other associates looked into the history and the people of the county. “Another very crucial part of the project was that Gwen Dungy [Former Dean of CCM] agreed to be the liaison for the Morris County black community, so with faculty here and ministers in the local churches, they compiled a list of people who they thought would make good interview subjects,” Heller said. After the focus of the film had been set, Heller and Dungy, who was the first dean of color at CCM, set out to find a historian that would give a full background into this community. Clement Alexander Price, who passed away last fall, came into the project from Rutgers: Newark. “We were fortunate because we were able to involve the interest and the commitment of a great person, a black history professor, who was probably the best-known, most beloved, most generous professor of black history in New Jersey,” Heller said. “[Price] wrote the script and the script is fabulous, and I can say so because I didn’t write it. It’s very central to what makes the film as good as it is ... so we’re very fortunate that he was available and that he was so nice and so easy to work with.” With the help of the tax-funded New Jersey Historical Society and the Dodge Foundation headquartered in Morristown, the film had to follow specific protocol in order to make it a credible source of New Jersey History. “At first we thought it was going to be an hour film, but it quickly became apparent that we wouldn’t have enough money. As it was, a 27 minute film cost over $90,000,” Heller said. “We had to
interview ‘x’ amount of people, we had to record them all on tape, and write a script, which we did, and we followed the protocol, and we kept getting money. A set of the transcripts exists in the library archives. It was about 50 hours of film. We went out with a tape recorder, and 20 or 30 hours worth, then we condensed it into a script, and we focused after we had interviewed about 30 people.” The historical aspect of the film, accompanied by the approval from The New Jersey Historical Society, makes it a great resource for students taking several courses at CCM, including some that Heller instructs. “I’m delighted because we want it widely available, and that was the point,” said Heller. “In that respect, we’re fulfilling the objectives of the New Jersey Historical Commision which is taxsupported … I routinely show it in my History of Minorities class and I teach from it and I also, of course, show it in my 20th Century in America and in the fall I teach one section of History of Minorities and one section of 20th Century of America and it’s wonderful that I could just go on Youtube to get it …” Since its release on Youtube in Spring 2015, “Chanceman’s Brothers and Sisters” is now readily available to students and the community. “I’d like it to be used,” said Heller. “It’s obviously so relevant to African American History and 20th Century History and History of Minorities but, quite frankly, I think the film is relevant and can legitimately be used in many social sciences, like sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science. I think it has really wide usage, so I really do hope it get uses. When you produce something like this, you want it to be as widely used as possible.”
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