10 13 2020 CAYUGA COLLEGIAN VOL 67 ISSUE 5

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Vol. 67 Issue 5

STORM CUTS POWER TO AUBURN CAMPUS

CAYUGABRIEFS 2ND ROUND OF CAMPUS COVID POOL TESTING STILL NEGATIVE

OPERATIONS CEASE; BUILDINGS CLOSE

This week Cayuga Community College completed two days of COVID-19 surveillance testing and SUNY Upstate reports that no positive results were identified in this round of testing.

Testing was conducted Tuesday October 6th, at our Fulton Campus and Wednesday, October 7th, at our Auburn Campus. A total of 296 people participated in surveillance testing between the two days. Testing will resume Wednesday on the Fulton Campus and Thursday on the Auburn Campus.

Employees and students will be notified via email of the specific testing times available and provided additional details. In addition, individuals who were unable to test due to the power outage will be rescheduled for next week.

Thank you for your continued commitment to our health and safety measures.

—Cathy J. Dotterer, Ed.D. Dean of Students

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It was just after 2 P.M. on Wednesday October 7, 2020 when the tall pine tree outside the windows of The Cayuga Collegian newspaper office in Auburn campus’ Technology Building started to slam into and scrape the glass.

The drapes in the office/studio were drawn as a light-projected PowerPoint display, as part of a lecture in the course, Telcom 212 Broadcast Journalism, was underway. The lamp lit in the far corner of the room suddenly flickered off and then just as quickly, came back on.

“That’s strange,” remarked Assistant Professor Mary G. Merritt. “I experience a first every semester!”

Then everything went to black. The students then leapt from their socially-distanced seats to pull open the drapes and inspect the world outside.

“Everything is just whirling and whirling around. That’s some serious storm,” said Telcom student Josh Hart.

As the class began to leave the room to explore the darkened hallways, Telcom Department Chairperson Steve Keeler met them with the news the building was closing because the power outage appeared to be widespread since the traffic light in front of the school was out.

By 2:50 P.M., there were reports that at least 7,000 New York State Electric and Gas customers were without service. The Cayuga County 911 center reported a surge in calls about downed power lines and trees.

STRONG WIND STORM TOPPLES A STREET LIGHT ALONG GENESEE STREET IN DOWNTOWN AUBURN LAST WEDNESDAY. The fast-moving storm with

reported wind gusts of up to 38 M.P.H caused power outages and downed trees across Central New York.

WHERE IS BOB?

By Michael Perry, associate editor

Cayuga’s Director of Theatre has decided to retire. Robert Frame, commonly known as “Bob,” was head of the Theater Department for 40 years at CCC. In 1979, Frame took the reins and began a magnificent career teaching and enlightening students about the passion of theater production.

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PHOTOS BY MARC BAAN

CAYUGA HEALTH NOTIFIED CCC OF A STUDENT WHO HAS COVID [Wednesday, October 7th] we were notified that a student who attends class on our Auburn Campus had tested positive for COVID-19. The student, who has been placed in isolation by the Cayuga County Health Department, was last on campus on Thursday, October 1. The College and the Health Department are supporting the student at this time, and are also coordinating contact tracing. You will be contacted directly by the Health Department if you were in contact with the student. Our campus operations will continue in their current format, and we will provide additional information as it becomes available.

—Dr. Brian Durant CCC President

October 13, 2020

A student in a dark hallway on the first floor of the Technology Building shortly after a storm caused the power to go out on the Auburn campus.

Michael Perry

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Self-described as an “accomplished educator and jack of all trades within the entertainment industry,” Frame is a bundle of energy and anyone who knows him will tell you he is a fluent conversationalist— always uplifting and witty, Frame taught classes with a unique bravado that will truly be missed. However, despite retiring, Frame has chosen to tackle a teaching assignment this semester.

The much-loved and charismatic Robert “Bob” Frame in his element: directing and producing a theatrical show for the stage.

Frame spent the first 18 years of his life in Long Island, NY. He played sports and took part in theater productions in grade school. As a child, he viewed theater CONTINUED PAGE 3

The School of Media and the Arts (SOMA) Fall 2020 Talent Showcase will take place via Zoom on Wednesday, October 28 at 3:00. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/93452115401.

DEADLINE FOR SIGN-UPS: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2020. DIRECTIONS NEXT PAGE. Performances may include original music, cover music, video production, stand-up comedy, dramatic monologue, and reading of original written work. All performances should be three (3) minutes or less in duration. In order to preserve social distancing, only solo performances will be permitted—no groups.

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CHASE INSPIRATION WITH A CLUB: AN OPINION

OPINIONS

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” These words are quintessential Jack London. I’ve only ever read The Call of the Wild from him, but I get a visual of John Thornton and Buck carrying a club, searching for inspiration in the Alaskan Arctic Tundra.

When I signed up for the on-line Liberal Arts program at Cayuga Community College this spring, I was searching for inspiration. I didn’t really have a club. My weapons included a stubborn dream and a lot of medication.

I want to see my writing published. Ever since I could form letters, I have been writing stories.

My grandfather is a published author and after he died in 2017 someone gave me a copy of a

Michael Perry

Earlier in October, celebrity Chrissy Teigen revealed to the world that she had suffered a miscarriage.

After Teigen was admitted to the hospital earlier in the week for excessive bleeding, her and her husband John Legend Chrissy Teigen lost their son shortly after he was born. As a parent myself, this hits home for me. I can’t imagine losing my son. For a young life to be taken from the world so quickly is truly devastating.

Teigen is a social media influencer and shares most of her personal life on social media, so it was not surprising that she took to social media, despite such a tragic event. However, a sports journalist by the name of Jason Whitlock questioned her decision to post about the miscarriage. He tweeted, “I don’t understand this or social media. Who takes a picture of their deepest pain and then shares it with strangers?

Do other women/parents want a reminder of their deepest pain, the loss of a child? Is everything social media content?”

First of all, in this day and age, everything is social media content. People constantly have access to social media throughout their daily lives, and crave to know what is happening. That is not to say that Chrissy Teigen posted about what happened with the intention of getting a large amount of likes or gaining followers. I think she posted about what happened as a way to relate to others, to let them know that despite her status as a celebrity, she is human like the rest of us. Also, there is a relative silence about miscarriages, most people who endure one don’t talk about it.

Teigen may have been trying to break the norm and make it easier for others to talk about their miscarriages and the hardship that comes with it.

Regardless, anyone who suffers a miscarriage shouldn’t be required to keep what happened off social media. If anything we should make it more normal and talked about regularly. We should be coming together and comforting one another when someone go through a loss like this.

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up all money and property. That’s why even if I did have something worth publishing, I couldn’t pay for it.

I’m not even sure of all the opportunities this club provides because I haven’t been able to join it. Professor Mark Montgomery says due to the uncertainty of the current semester, membership in the club has plummeted and the club is in danger of extinction.

My obsession with fiction can help me imagine what I don’t know. I imagine joining a club where other writers will give me constructive criticism. I imagine hearing people’s stories and broadening my narrow viewpoint. I can imagine studying great literary works. You can feel free to call me a dreamer, but am I the only one?

—Esther Keiderling, CCC student

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HOW I SEE IT...

letter I had written him in second grade. It read, “I am scared of dying. What should I do? I want to grow up and be a writer like you.”

I’ll skip the oversharing here and say that I signed up for on-line classes regardless of whether in-person classes are possible or not because I am terrified of talking to people. I am 23 and my life seems delayed. My former classmates and friends are not in college; they have started on their careers as high school teachers, editors, and parents. But I have not lost my dream.

I am not able to purchase a copy of Listen: Volume 1, the anthology created by the Cayuga Creative Writing Club. I am a member of a religious community and have pledged to give

Christina Bentley, MS Wellness & Intervention Counselor

Dr. Jerimy Blowers Wellness & Intervention Counselor

DISCOVER Cayuga Wellness Services on campus There is a personal counselor on each campus available to students. They can provide: brief, personal counseling, outside counseling referrals and other referrals to community resources, stress management, guided relaxation techniques, mental health support, referrals to other supports on

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BOB FRAME RETIRES

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ALDI GROCERY STORE MAY BE COMING TO GRANT AVENUE; CLOSER TO AUBURN CAMPUS

STARBUCKS TO OPEN GRANT AVENUE LOCATION SOON

“When I am going over lighting or whatever and a student asks a question and it’s like, ‘Oh, you are paying attention!’ So, it is the satisfaction I get as an educator, when the students respond to what I am doing and respond to my passion.”

Dunkin’ coffee has its worst nightmare happening this week. Starbucks, Dunkin’s number one competitor, is opening a brandnew store closely down the street on the opposite side of Grant Avenue.

Starbucks is now occupying the building which housed a Tim Horton’s coffee shop that closed in 2015.

IS YOUR DREAM TO BE IN A MOVIE? HERE’S YOUR CHANCE Aspiring to be an actor? The Liverpool based production company, American High, announced it will begin production on a new movie next month and it is hiring extras.

The ‘teen’ genre project is looking to hire union and non-union actors to play high school students.

“The film is especially looking for actors to play high school students (18 to play teen), trucker types, teachers/pedestrians/ customers, and “partiers,” Hilary Greer at HBG Casting LLC said.

Specific details about the production, story-line, and cast have not been released.

— Robert Frame, CCC Theater Director

who had done theater really. I was like ‘I can make a living doing this?’ and they were like ‘Yeah, you can’.” Once I talked to my mom and dad and they were like ‘Can you make a living? Is this what you want to do? and I was like ‘Yeah I was told I can make a living, there are jobs, all these theaters hire people’ and they were like ‘Do what you gotta do’.”

OCTOBER TRANSFER

By Abby Sweet, contributing writer

SUNV ONEONTA VIRTUAL ADVISOR IN RESIDENCE: Monday Oct. 19th from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

On March 11th of 2020 the COVID-19 outbreak was officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. On average, 385,000 babies are born each day worldwide, meaning over 77 million people have given birth since that day.

One of these babies lives in Auburn, New York with his parents Byron and Kaylee Wilson. In the beginning of May, Byron and Kayley welcomed a tiny addition to their bustling household.

This was Kayley’s third child and Byron’s fourth, the two are no strangers to what the nine months leading up to the big day hold.

But, because of the pandemic, the experience was changed for both.

The early stages of the pregnancy were normal for the family, but as the due date grew closer Kayley realized she had an issue...she couldn’t have a baby shower.

The second youngest in their household is 12 years older than the new baby, and the pregnancy being unplanned, Byron and Kayley looked toward the support of their friends and family to help prep for the baby’s arrival during a time when stores were closing.

Social distancing restrictions caused Kayley to feel uncomfortable hosting a baby shower that would potentially put her loved ones at risk. In the end, she chose not to host one, but luckily received the support she needed in time to be ready for the baby.

Another odd change were the weekly doctor visits Kayley had to attend; “at 32 weeks was when it really started to change with appointments,” Kayley explains. “I would have to be COVID screened multiple times before the appointment. Once over the phone a day prior, and sometimes multiple times in the hospital when moving from different checkpoints. But being pregnant, a lot of those symptoms come with the territory.”

She says she had to use her best judgment of what were her normal pregnancy symptoms and what could potentially put others at risk.

CCC WILL HOST 4 VIRTUAL TRANSFER FAIRS! OVER 40 COLLEGES WILL PARTICIPATE: HEALTH SCIENCES VIRTUAL TRANSFER FAIR: Tuesday, Oct. 20th from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM BUSINESS VIRTUAL TRANSFER FAIR: Thursday, October 22nd from 11:00 AM 1:00 PM LIBERAL ARTS VIRTUAL TRANSFER FAIR: Tuesday, October 27th from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

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Michael Perry ASSOCIATE EDITOR

The Cayuga Community College community will really miss seeing Bob’s jovial demeanor as he greets students, faculty and staff on the Auburn campus in the hallways.

After graduating from Oswego, Frame spent a few years working on Long Island and in New York City in regional theaters. In 1979, he was offered the job as head of the theater department at CCC. He was newly- married with a baby, he gladly accepted. The previous director of the program had been gone for a time and the program wasn’t moving forward. Frame says over the years he started doing more and more. By directing shows and teaching classes, Frame says he has built the program into what it is today.

As one of Bob’s former students I took the opportunity to ask him a few questions.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SHOW THAT YOU HAVE SEEN, BUT NOT PRODUCED? Bob: I am going to go way back to when I saw Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway as a kid. I have seen it numerous times, but that first time I was like ‘Oh my god, look at all of this stuff!’

All the technical elements, the stage movement, microphones, and all that stuff. So, I have to put that down as the show that pushed me to where I am today, but also showed me what theater can do.

WAS THERE AN UNEXPECTED, POSITIVE MOMENT YOU HAD AS AN EDUCATOR THAT REALLY STOOD OUT TO YOU? Bob: I would be more general in my answer, I didn’t start out to be a teacher/educator, but I found out that I enjoyed it, I enjoy that “wow” moment the student gets. When I am going over lighting or whatever and a student asks a question and it’s like, ‘Oh, you are paying attention!’ So, it is the satisfaction I get as an educator, when the students respond to what I am doing and respond to my passion. On more than one occasion, I have had someone who has never had a line on stage and now they are the lead. So, working with them, teaching them, and teaching them the passion and the commitment of what it takes.

PREGNANCY DURING THE PANDEMIC

EVENTS PLANNED

Auburn Wellness Director Dr. Jerimy Blowers greeting and instructing testees last week during COVID pool testing in Spartan Hall.

I took one of Bob’s classes last semester. It was called “Intro to Lighting.” I was not expecting much and figured the class would be somewhat of a snooze-fest. After the first day of class, I realized just how wrong I was. Bob came in every day with an outstanding amount of enthusiasm.

I learned not only how to properly light a set, but about life itself and how to navigate it.

as something fun to do, just like sports. It was not until college that he discovered he could make a living doing theater.

“I originally went to SUNY Oswego for computer science, and after my Sophomore year, I was doing a show a week, and back in those days in computer programming you had to do punch cards.

They only ran the punch cards twice a day, and if one card was typed wrong the whole thing got thrown out. So, there was no satisfaction in that. I was taking Junior level math that was driving me crazy cause I was like—I’m not really into this crap,” He says It was a lot of heavy algebra and calculus.

“I was good, and having fun, doing theater, so I switched my major,” Frame reflected. “Especially once I talked to the theater people because I had no idea, because there was no one in my family

The abandoned former A.C. Moore craft store in a strip plaza on Grant Avenue in Auburn may soon be transformed into a grocery store.

The German-based, popular, discount grocery store Aldi’s has applied with the City of Auburn to remodel the space to fit their needs.

Aldi’s already operates a store on Clark Avenue near the Finger Lakes Mall. This new location will put a grocery store closer to many neighbors, including within the reach of Cayuga’s students, since two other grocery store chains closed their Grant Avenue locations years ago.

FROM THE UNIQUE PROSPECTIVE OF A FORMER STUDENT...

The day of the baby’s birth was a planned appointment for an induced labor. Both parents were kept in a small area that they could not leave at any time to limit as much outside contact as possible. Anything they needed, including food, had to be brought to them by a nurse.

Byron says he was uncomfortable with the inconvenience of the situation, because he didn’t have the option of leaving the hospital and being readmitted later. He’d have to leave when mom and the baby left, or else he wouldn’t be able to see them at all until Kayley was officially discharged. “It was a lack of freedom and it was stressful being held in one place and not being allowed to leave,” he explains.

Kayley added that they also were not allowed to have visitors in the hospital after the birth to see their new baby. Both agreed that their worry about the virus increased after the baby’s birth, Byron says he doesn’t like having people, especially strangers, around the baby. They prefer to keep him home and to stay home with him.

However, they haven’t been too hesitant to introduce him to their friends and family. The first few months of the baby’s life have been very enjoyable as they’ve spent more time at home, having guests over to visit, and plenty of down time to watch their “little man” grow.

As they narrated their experience the precious four-month-old, who will grow up in a world healing from the effects of a pandemic, cooed and gurgled happily on his mother’s lap.

The couple says the experience was strange and very stressful for the family at times. But, they’re happy, healthy, and safe which is what is to be hoped for their family and the millions of families around the world experiencing pregnancy during the Covid-19 outbreak.

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New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers playing in Week 1 with no fans in attendance.

NFL SEASON RETURNS WITH NEW COVID-19 RULES

By Ethan Albergore, contributing writer

The 2020 NFL season continues as planned despite the world still in the middle of a pandemic. The NFL has made new rules and protocols that players, coaches, and staff must follow. The hope is to contain exposure within the league to keep the season going. Fans aren’t in the stands at the moment, but these rules will hopefully ensure that football for the next five months and keep the fans happy during this hard time.

The NFL is not doing a bubble format like the NBA, and NHL have done during the pandemic, so unfortunately infections are unavoidable. Players are tested daily, the only day they do not get tests is on game day. Coaches and staff are tested weekly.

The league implemented a list called “Reserve/ COVID-19” for players who have been removed from active rosters because of the virus. If a player is on this list it does not mean he tested positive for the virus, it can also mean a possible case if the players are showing symptoms, or if a player chose to sit out the season because of the virus.

During the first week there were only two teams that had some fans in attendance, the Kansas City Chiefs, and Jacksonville Jaguars. The fans who attended wore masks and followed social distancing rules. The fans were at 20% capacity.

Without fans, stadiums are using crowd noise simulators. During a game the crowd noise audio is played to try and replicate how it used to be when there was fans, and to some what give the game the atmosphere that it had before the pandemic.

“I’m all for them wearing masks, and continuing to test the players so the season can continue, because sports brings us together,” said CCC marketing major Abby Sweet of South Cayuga. She also agrees with players and coaches to be fined if they disobey rules.

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Now think of the things you can’t see. Things that move in the comers of your eyes. Sounds that come from nowhere. The touch on your arm from the shadows ... HOW AFRAID ARE YOU NOW?

If you’re brave enough, read this weekly installment of OUR SHADOW WORLD. We will explore the myths and urban legends of our planet. From the creatures your grandparents told you they saw in the war, to the things found on an abandoned VHS tape on the side of the road.

Nothing will be held back as we discover what people are afraid of in countries from all four corners of this world.

Remember, all myths and legends start with some strand of the truth. Now let’s see if they stay are true or just turn out to be a good story!

OUR SHADOW WORLD

The story of Japan’s Teke Teke Legend

Modern Japan is known for its many marvels. Great food, amazing buildings, cities full of neon, robots that check you into your hotel…anime.

But one of Japan’s most amazing marvels is its rail system. The JR (Japanese Rail, Train, and Subways) is the world’s most efficient commuter transport network. Although this marvel of modern technology seems harmless at its surface, there is something lurking in the dark corners of the very train stations and subway platforms that tens of thousands walk through every day.

There is an urban legend of a girl who lost her life when she either fell or was pushed onto the rails of a long-forgotten station. She was hit by a train and cut in half and so was born the Teke Teke. The Teke Teke’s legend seems to have been around for a long time. So long, it is hard to pinpoint when or if this tragedy happened. Although the origins are lost, the same circumstances remain after so many tellings.

The Legend goes that late one night a young girl, perhaps of school-age, was waiting for her train, (or subway car in some tellings), when she fell onto the track.

Some say she just tripped, while others say she was pushed by a deranged person. No matter how it happened, the result was always the same.

The poor girl was hit by the train and cut in half. A sad story that is all too real in any city that has a public transportation network. But the untimely death of a young girl is only the beginning.

The Legend goes that the girl was so angry, she died and her soul did not leave her body so she became a vengeful spirit. The name Teke Teke comes from the sound she makes as she

drags her torso on the ground. Walking surprisingly fast on her hands with her spine and entrails making a ‘teke teke’ sound as she moves. The Teke Teke is said to take the lives of anyone alone at a station and

“The name Teke Teke comes from the sound she makes as she drags her torso on the ground.” standing to close to the edge of the platform. She will cut them in half with a sickle or scythe she is known to carry making her victim just as she is.

The death of this poor girl could have happened at any time in Japan’s rail history, so hard facts are lost. The name Kashima Reiko comes up as a possible name for the Teke Teke, but digging deeper there is no evidence of a girl by this name ever being killed by a train or a subway car. And again, the Meishin Expressway between Kobe and Osaka is often said to be a possible location for her death, but this too is hard to prove. Official reports of people seeing her are scarce, with only a hand full taken seriously by the authorities. A few reports say that the lack of creditable sighting might be due to the fact that the Teke Teke does not leave any survivors and that she is surprisingly fast for running around on her hands and elbows.

This is a strange world where new discoveries are made every day. We might never know if the Teke Teke is lurking in the shadows of any train station in the middle of the night or not. The urban legend of Teke Teke might be nothing more than an allegory for the dangers of modern technology. The story might have begun as a warning to children not to play too close to the railway or they might get killed by a passing train. But from my experience, there is an unsettling feeling standing alone on a platform in the middle of a cold Japanese winter. And if I were you and you see the Teke Teke coming out of the shadows, run. And don’t stop running until you see and get into a cab.

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