Collegian Cayuga Community College Auburn & Fulton, New York
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CAYUGABriefs
Vol. 60 Issue 11 December 11, 2013
CCC Men’s Hoops Ranked #5 in Region
CCC sites to feature ‘SSO’
North Country Hands Spartans Third Straight Loss
by Danielle Skowron, Editor-in-chief Change is a coming your way! Soon you’ll be noticing that your mycayuga user name and passwords will be changing and much easier to use! This change, known as SSO or “Single Sign On” will make it so you have one user name and one password for everything. There will be a quick web setup. Also, this change will let you change your password without having to go to the help desk. James Forsythe says “We want students to be aware that this change is coming up and to watch for messages and instructions through email and the postal mail!” Be on the look out for the changes that are coming!
Special English Section for SOMA Students
DECEMBER 8, 2013 — Cayuga Community College men’s basketball team was handed its third straight loss as North Country C.C. defeated them 8876. Zaki Thomas (Paterson, NJ) led the Spartans in scoring with 20 points and 10 rebounds, Glenn Taggart (Rochester, NY) added 15 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assist, and 2 steals, while Joe Godette (New Rochelle, NY) finished with 13 points and 9 rebounds. The loss gives Cayuga a 5-6 overall record and 5-3 record in Region III. The Spartans will be back in action as they host Mohawk Valley C.C. on December 14th at 3 p.m.
Congratulations to the CCC men’s basketball team. The team is ranked #5 in the latest NJCAA Region III, Division III poll.
CCC’s Cayuga Records Releases New Album by Brittany Glassey, Staff Writer
This Spring Semester, the School of Media and the Arts (SOMA) is offering a special section of English 102 for SOMA students. Class requirements will be the same as other English 102 classes, but readings will center on an “arts” theme.
“Blueberry Soup,” a feature-length documentary directed by one of our own Telcom graduates, Eileen Jerrett, premiered last week in a special showing in Auburn. The Auburn Citizen published a feature article about Jerrett recently. To read the story, turn to page 4.
SEE PAGE 4
PHOTO BY DANIELLE SKOWRON
CCC Telcom Grad directs documentary Singer/songwriter, folk/rock musician Martin James performs some of the music he recorded with Cayuga Community’s College’s own student-run recording label, Cayuga Records. The CD release event was held last week at the Auburn Theater in Downtown Auburn.
Here at Cayuga Community College, the students have the chance to participate in so many ‘real world’ opportunities while attending school. One opportunity is offered through the school’s own recording label, Cayuga Records. Cayuga Records is a hands-on learning program to give media students a chance to gain experience in the music business. “Cayuga Records is great learning experience for students because they get a hands on real world taste of what the music industry entails.” said WDWN Radio Station Advisor & Instructional Assistant Jeff Szczesniak. So far, Cayuga Records has produced 11 albums, and two are planned for 2014. One of those albums is by Cayuga student Martin Seaman who goes by the stage name, Martin James. Last week, Cayuga Records held a album release event for his record. The event was held at Auburn Public Theatre and was free to attend. The event brought out a really good crowd who enjoyed a taco bar provided by local restaurant Mesa Grande, along with pizza and wings. The night included performances by country singer/songwriter Goldie Marie, Poet Christopher Kennedy and, of course, Martin James whose album is on the folk/rock side. Also at the Cayuga Records event, Cayuga’s Telcom department showed a student-run video and film produced by the college’s own production company, C3 Video. C3 Video will be releasing three new DVDs this year. Cayuga is the only Community College in New York state that offers its students the opportunity to create, develop, and launch their own businesses in electronic media.
Local students expose social stigmas with video by Danielle Skowron, Editor-in-chief
Auburn High School kids are taking strides to expose the many types of social groups which are present in the school. Robert Van Barlingen, a foreign exchange kid, made a video called “Auburn High School— Social Status.” The video went viral December 3rd and immediately took over social media with good and bad responses. The consensus of many of the students who agreed to be interviewed in the video was that “Preps rule the school and they have money and are pretty, that is why they are preps.” The students interviewed were asked a series of questions and then they are asked at the end of their interview what group they consider themselves to be in. Most of the
students classified themselves as nerds and misfits. Two students took it as far to say that jocks get special treatment for playing sports. The video created a firestorm on Facebook. Nicholas Radell posted “I’M SO EXCITED FOR SCHOOL TOMORROW, It’s gonna be just like that scene from Mean Girls where they have to go to the gymnasium because of the burn book. All thanks to one video xD.” That comment started an argument between current students and students who have graduated. Many felt the video exposed the whole truth about how students felt about their high school experience. Darren Sheftic said “If AHS denies that any of this is true then they’re f****** bullshitting...
And if that’s Shawn Heath doing the rape joke (I can’t even tell) I just can’t. The sad thing is the cliches from when our parents were kids are STILL true, Not once was I even invited to a party, but wanna know who was? The same 50 people that always went to each other’s houses for parties. That was 1/5 of our graduating class always hanging out with each other while the rest did their own thing.” At the end of the video a young man says “I’m popular, all the girls want to date me and all the guys want to be me.” In the end, Robert, who made the video, was forced to take the video down. (even though it’s still up). The video resulted in a fight at the high school, where two boys were arrested.