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Vol. 62 Issue 6

November 4, 2015

CAYUGABRIEFS Don’t miss Zero to Infinity this weekend!

CCC Theatre Operations Manager Robert Frame says students are producing a political farce for this fall’s Harlequin Theater production called “Zero to Infinity” by Al Schnupp.

The play is about what a man will do to become a politician.

“Zero to Infinity” runs this Thursday through Saturday, November 5, 6, 7.

Admission is $2.00 for students at the door.

Happy 44th anniversary, WDWN

The CCC station’s staff host a Halloween costume birthday party MORE PHOTOS PAGE FOUR

CCC’s Men’s Soccer Team loses Regional Finals game to Herkimer CAYUGA 0 HERKIMER 2

SGO announces Wednesdays to be ‘CCC Pride Day’

By Caleb Slater, editor-in-chief

Happy Retirement!

CCC’s Nancy Decker

During the club senate meeting, last Friday, Student Government President, Andrea Jodeit, announced a new initiative called “Cayuga Pride Day.” The SGO to hold the kick off on the Auburn Campus in January.

Every Wednesday, students will be encouraged to showcase their Spartan pride by wearing Cayuga

attire. On DAY ONE of this new activity, the bookstore will be running a sale on all Cayuga logo clothing. There will also be a weekly prize of $25 dollars to the individual that shows the most school spirit.

The funds for “Cayuga Pride Day” will be coming out of the SGO budget.

“We hope it will not only boost sales in the bookstore, but boost student involvement as well,” said Jodeit.

The Fulton campus already sponsors school spirit-related events and after discussion among the SGO members it was decided that Auburn would join in on the fun.

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IS CNBC BIAS? WHAT DO YOU THINK?

By Kevin Shutter, staff writer Last Wednesday, (October 28th), CNBC hosted the third Republican debate and there were certainly fireworks as suspected.

Unfortunately for the “news” network they used their time with the candidates to push their own Kevin Shutter bias. On the surface it was tough to grasp their reasoning, however their poor and usually pointed questions were meant

POLITICS

OPINIONS DON’T YOU DARE TELL ME WHAT TO EAT!!!

Caleb Slater

I’m sick and tired of these health “experts” trying to take control of my life and tell me what I can and cannot eat! Every time I turn around there’s a new book, or study that shames people for doing one of mankind’s most basic of needs… eating. The most recent, in a laundry list of ridiculous studies, is by the World Health Organization (WHO).

They have determined that eating bacon is just as bad for you as smoking cigarettes. WHAT???

This study, conducted by a measly 22 scientists might I add, makes NO SENSE! Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death, leading to nearly 500,000 cancer deaths per year, IN THE US ALONE! Processed meat on the other hand, according to the World Health Organization “Could be responsible for 50,000 cancer deaths per year, worldwide.”

Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, whereas the biggest worry in processed meat is one, not 1,000, but one synthetic chemical, called nitrate.

These nitrates, again according to the WHO, “likely causes cancer.”

Don’t make accusations that you can’t confidently back up! I haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of second-hand smoke. Who do you

know died from second-hand hot dogs? There are 0 recorded deaths from second-hand BBQ, 0!

There is a reason why cigarettes are banned from: Public schools, restaurants, airports, theme parks and even Cayuga Community College. CCC is tobacco free, not bacon free! You can order bacon from the Subway on campus for crying out loud!

I am going to continue to live a happy life doing the things that I love and I suggest you do too. I’d much rather die with a smile on my face, knowing I did what I enjoyed doing (eating bacon), than die miserable because I constantly worried about what others, such as the WHO thought was best for me! I urge all of my readers to do what makes them happy!

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CALEB SLATER - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KEVIN SHUTTER - STAFF WRITER STEVEN BREWER - STAFF WRITER ALEXANDRA CASSICK - STAFF WRITER THERESA STEPHENS - SPORTS WRITER JULIETTE ZYGAROWICZ - PHOTOGRAPHER MALCOM HUEY - DIVERGENT NATION MARY G. MERRITT - FACULTY ADVISOR WANT TO JOIN THE COLLEGIAN STAFF? EMAIL US TO SET UP AN INTERVIEW.

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not only the largest applause from the audience but also drew the highest favorable rating by a focus group in the “15 year history of the focus group.” Scoring a 98 out of 100 by both “conservative and moderate participants.” Needless to say it was a good night for the Ted Cruz campaign.

As good a day as Senator Cruz had, the same can’t be said of the media, or more specifically the moderators at CNBC. Essentially the who’s who in the political world, the folks who fact check the media, even members of the media themselves have referred to the debate questioning as one Democrat talking point after another. Brent Bozell President of The Media Research Center put out a statement after the debate that sums the debate moderators up perfectly. “The CNBC debate will go down in history as an encyclopedic example of liberal media bias on stage.” He finished his statement saying, “CNBC should be embarrassed for their pitiful display of partisan liberal media bias and apologize to the GOP candidates and the American people.” NBC spokesman Brian Steel responded in a single sentence statement, “People who want to be President of the United States should be able to answer tough questions.” I don’t know which questions he was referring to as being tough maybe it was moderator John Harwood’s false questioning of Senator Marco Rubio, concerning the candidate’s tax plan. In which Mr. Harwood asked “since you’re a champion of the Americans living paycheck to paycheck, don’t you have that (budget) backward?” Meaning Mr. Rubio’s tax plan was helping the so called “rich” rather than the poor.

Which garnered a very pointed response from Senator Rubio. “No, you wrote a story on it, you had to go back and correct it.” Which then prompted the poor excuse for a moderator to double down on his lie.

Laughing it off saying, “No I didn’t.”

Technology is a wonderful thing.

A quick glance at John Harwood’s Twitter page corroborates Senator Rubio’s assertion that indeed Harwood corrected his false story regarding Mr. Rubio’s tax plan and he then decided to revive much to his own “journalistic” dismay in front of the American people on live television.

There is no doubt CNBC made a mockery of themselves in Wednesday’s debate. In what was billed to be the most substantive debate yet, focusing on the “how” Republican presidential candidates, from left, rather than a rag tag debate John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, Jeb Bush, Marco full of empty promises. The Rubio, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, only empty promise was and Ted Cruz take the stage during the CNBC that of CNBC guaranteeing Republican presidential debate at the University a substantive debate. of Colorado, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, in Hopefully in future debates Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) the moderators will take their journalistic cues from the the questions candidates had been great Walter Cronkite rather than asked summing it up “how about biased outright liars such as Brian talking about the substantive Williams, who is also an employee issues people care about.” This at NBC as well as a co-worker of Mr. single moment in the debate drew John Harwood. more to get the candidates into meaningless squabbles rather than the substantive debate the American people deserved. Although the questioning was elementary in nature it created somewhat of a collaborative dynamic between the GOP candidates.

In past debates we have seen the candidates not only attempt to take up as much time as possible, freezing out the other candidates, but to attack them relentlessly as well with caddy and frivolous arguments.

Wednesday night had its moments most of which coming from former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. His comments towards Florida Senator Marco Rubio were as predictable as the sunrise in the morning.

However in his disparaging remarks towards Senator Rubio, Governor Bush alienated a good portion of our voting population in comparing the Senate work week to that of a “French work week.” He continued his gaffe saying “You get like three days where you have to show up?”

This comment even drew the ire of the French Ambassador in the U.S to take to his Twitter account to debunk this “cliché.”

Through the poor questioning a dynamic formed between the candidates. Rather than attacking each other, with the exception of the eloquent Jeb, they rallied around each other giving the American people a true contrast between Republicanism and the Democrat party which in recent elections including this one, have been going further and further towards the fringe on the far left.

The candidates on the stage at Colorado State University in Boulder Colorado, used the CNBC analyst’s poor questioning to their advantage in almost every instance.

Usually drawing a loud approval from the audience in attendance.

The most memorable moment of the debate was when Texas Senator Ted Cruz lamented the series of poor questioning. Summing it up saying, “The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media, this is not a cage match.” He continued to list

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PHOTOS BY CALEB SLATER

From left to right: CCC Humanities Chairperson and Telcom professor Steve Keeler, CCC student Chris Warner, CCC alum and employee Shaun Secaur, John Walsh, and CCC Telcom majors Dan Kennedy and Zac Steele.

“What Cayuga can do for you” National television celebrity to pitch Cayuga Community College to the public

By Caleb Slater, editor-in-chief Cayuga Community College alum and former host of the third longest prime time series in television, America’s Most Wanted, John Walsh returns to advocate CCC. It was this time last year, Mr. Walsh returned to the campus for a tour and told CCC distinguished professor, Steve Keeler that he would be interested in assisting with a promotional video that benefits the college.

Last Thursday, Mr. Walsh held that part of the deal. Around 2:00 in the

BRUSHES WITH GREATNESS: Cayuga Collegian editor-in-chief Caleb Slater has had two close encounters with national media figures during his time at CCC.

afternoon Cayuga Telcom students: Ed Vivenzio, Chris Warner, Zach Steele and Dan Kennedy worked in collaboration with CCC Professors: Steve Keeler, Joe Walsh and Shaun Secaur to film John’s part of the upcoming video. John Walsh spoke of, “What Cayuga can do for you.”

Through individual attention, smaller classes and the variety of on-campus activities. John Walsh graduated from Cayuga Community College in 1965.

New CCC Debate Club in 2015 Horror Writing Contest need of a faculty advisor winners announced

By Caleb Slater, editor-in-chief

John Exner

As the political debates move forward, so does the political debate club. This new club at CCC, started by John Exner is open to people of all ideologies and hopes to keep discussions brew-

ing on the issues facing the nation and the world. The club meets every Monday at 11:00 in M244 and has already voted for officers. SGO President, Andrea Jodeit added, “They’re all set to go, they just need an advisor.”

If anyone is interested in joining, or advising the political debate club, e-mail the club president, John Exner at exner.john@gmail.com

Write for The Collegian and earn credits at the same time! Register for Telcom 204, (Journalism Practicum),

with Collegian faculty advisor Mary Merritt.

The SOMA writing concentration and creative writing club wish to announce the winners of the 2015 Horror Writing Contest. Writing Concentration Advisor (Fulton Campus) and Professor of English, WAC Chair Richard Bower, PhD says they received many wonderful entries in this second year of the contest. The club would like to thank to all who entered.

1st Place “Tea Party for Two” by Cooper Arnink-Lader 2nd Place “Hands” by Ashli Goodnow HONORABLE MENTIONS “Water Horse” by Richard Terpening “Strange Figure” by Michael Murphy “They Led Themselves to Darkness” by Jennifer Allen

Coyote spotted on campus The Office of Public Safety has received reports of a possible sighting of what appears to be a coyote near the nature trail on the Auburn campus.

Reports were that the animal was not aggressive and did not pose a

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hazard to people in the area.

Take a moment to read the very valuable information on what to do if you run into a coyote, so that you can continue to enjoy Cayuga’s nature trail. http://www.coyotesmarts.org/what-to-do/

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Tough season for Lady Spartans SPORTS GO SPARTANS! GO SPARTANS! GO SPARTANS!

By Alexandra Cassick, staff writer Cayuga’s Lady Spartans pushed through a difficult season which ended with the losses outnumbering the wins.

Sophomore Brooke Laukaitis is all about the team effort. Laukaitis says that although the team’s record for the season may not have been the greatest, the team effort and connection itself was the best it had ever been.

Sophomore Sarah Zakour and Laukaitis agreed that having a

strong team is more than what takes place out on the field. Laukaitis says the season was difficult at first because more than half of last season’s players were sophomores that either graduated or transferred.

This season, the smaller team had to focus and work on their formation to figure out what worked best on the field.

“We had a great group of girls this year,” said Laukaitis, “Everyone had a lot of heart.”

Vote this week for CCC students

Three Telcom students are vying to win the state’s best 48-hour film contest

The winner of Cayuga Community College’s FILM 48 competition is now in the SUNY-wide final round.

Cayuga’s winning film “Stressed Out” is now vying to be crowned the best 48-hour film in New York. You can view all six finalists and vote for a winner. Go to http://film48.weebly. com/ and watch the films. The film with the most votes will become the SUNY-wide FILM 48 winner. You have until Sunday, Nov. 8 to cast your vote.

The FILM 48 competition took place from Oct. 2 to Oct. 4. Four teams of Cayuga students had 48 hours to write, shoot, and edit a 3-6 minute film. The films were then judged by a panel of SOMA and Cayuga faculty and staff.

The winning film was announced at an award ceremony held at the college on Oct. 14. The other SUNY colleges in the competition are Alfred State, Buffalo State,

University of Binghamton, Oswego State and SUNY New Paltz. Cayuga is the only community college in the competition.

“Stressed Out” was created

by Cayuga Community College student Courtney Elizabeth Walker (producer/director) with Logan Barrigar and Brandon Anderson.

“This gritty, natural, modern film noir follows two detectives as they search for a vicious serial killer.”

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Throw Age Into The Wind

by Samuel G. Phillips Age is just a number don’t let it get you down.

Look ahead to the future: Try to get the golden crown.

Random numbers ebbing, flowing, going forward, always growing-grey hairs, wrinkles, bunions, warts-moving towards that final course.

Standing on the edge of time, searching for the lost decline, memories fade as sunlight withers-Darkness covers what was all mine.

THEATER REVIEW

Zero to Infinity opens to empty house

GO TO THE PLAY!!!! The Cayuga Community College community needs to come together to SUPPORT & ATTEND CCC student productions Why weren’t you there? The opening weekend of this fall’s Harlequin Theater production, “Zero to Infinity” was last weekend.

The theater had more empty seats than people in the cast, who worked diligently to perform.

Perhaps the interest in attending theater productions has declined in students. Or perhaps having the opening weekend at the same time as Halloween affected the attendance level as well.

The cast of ten students, did a fantastic job performing! The

CCC Police Sgt. Shaft apprehends Telcom student Michael Bucklin for unlawful impersonation of a prisoner at the WDWN costume birthday party last week.

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play was humorous and kept the audience laughing at the ridiculous characters and situations.

This play was by far not an easy play to perform. With the word choice and storyline, the cast had to have their performance down to perfection in order to ensure the audience’s understanding.

If you’re thinking of attending, there are still three performances November 5, 6, and 7 at 8 p.m. Take the time to support Cayuga’s theater program and students this weekend.

Will the real Steve Keeler please sit down!

Telcom student Jordan Snow pulled off the perfect Halloween costume for the WDWN 44th Birthday Party by impersonating a Telcom professor!

COLLEGIAN

puzzle riddle of the week Q: What can you catch, but not throw?

A: A cold.

By Alexandra Cassick, staff writer

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