2-12-2013 CAYUGA COLLEGIAN VOL. 61 ISSUE 11

Cayuga Community College Auburn & Fulton, New York

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Vol. 61 Issue 11

February 12, 2013

CCC President to NY State: You’re not helping us enough

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By Alec Rider, editor-in-chief

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Subway Offers Hot Chocolate

By Abigail Young, assistant editor

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The leadership of the AUBURN CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION were present during the campus’ recent Club Activities Fair: Secretary – Denzel Conze, Treasurer – Larae Brooks, Freshman Senator Kevin Coleman, and President – James Molina. Missing from photo: Vice President – Nicole Leiter

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Auburn Campus’ Subway restaurant is now offering hot chocolate!

Stephanie Tucker, the manager at Subway, made the suggestion of offering hot chocolate after noting that there were not a lot of options for non-coffee drinkers.

“I wanted us to be able to offer something more than coffee because it’s winter and I wanted something to warm me up.”

By purchasing the hot chocolate, students can help a charity as well.

Half of the proceeds from the sale of the hot chocolate will be donated to a charity that the Subway employees will choose. Since the hot chocolate is not an approved Subway product, the company would not accept the profit made from selling the drink.

“We did not just want to take the money,” said Tucker.

The cost of hot chocolate is $1.

Subway points can not be earned or redeemed with this purchase.

FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS OF AMERICA From the left: Amy Valente, advisor; Mat Pidgeon, vice president; Max Appleby, president; Tammy Brady, member; Natlie Krone, member; Kelly Ross, member

Don’t waste time! Get involved

By Abigail Young, assistant editor

Looking for something fun and new to do? Why not join a club? On February 6th, students on the Auburn Campus hosted a Spring Activities Fair. If you missed the fair or are interested in some clubs you might join, here’s a sample of some of the activities available.

Future Business Leaders of America Recently, this club raised more than $1,000 for the March of Dimes.

The March of Dimes is a non-profit organization that is working to improve the health of mothers and babies. The club will continue to raise money in the months of February and March.

Along with this fundraiser, the group will be going to Anaheim, California for a national conference. At this conference, club members will meet with other students from around the country and compete in a variety of business competitions.

Meetings for this club are held every other Wednesday from 11 a.m. until noon in T312. Their next meeting is set for February 20th.

History Club The History Club is reaching out to the community to help renovate

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The first meeting of the President’s cabinet convened on Friday in order to be briefed on upcoming budgetary planning and to begin changing the antiquated and quite wordy mission statement.

One sticking point throughout the hour long meeting was the continued unbalanced contributions toward the yearly operational budget, especially where students and the debts and costs they incur are concerned.

CCC is a full opportunity and access institution and must prove that every year, in return New York State is supposed to provide between 30-40% of the school’s operating budget, which is $31 million this year. NYS provided 40% only once, 40 years ago, and is now providing a lowly 24% or $8.5 million which has been declining bit by bit each and every year.

While New York is low balling their duties, students’ tuition and fees is generating 48% of the operational budget. It shouldn’t be any more than 33% according to Section 6304 (d) of the New York State Education Law. Cayuga County contributes $2.9 million (26.7%) that is mandated by law.

“New York State has not fulfilled its statutory obligations to community colleges,” said President Dan Larson.

On Monday, a group of CCC representatives will be in Albany lobbying for an increase in state aid.

Budget managers will create a first draft of next year’s budget for the cabinet to look at in next month’s meeting.

Recommendations from the cabinet are than floated to executives at the college which are then submitted to the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees must sign off on the budget by June in order for the SUNY Board of Trustees to sign off on the budget in time for the new fiscal year starting September 1st.

Another topic of discussion was a bill has been proposed to the New York state senate that could negatively impact CCC financially.

It would require CCC to keep tabs on its graduates to make sure that they were able to land a job soon after they finished their degree. If they do not it is considered a “failure”, the controversial part of the bill is if a student were to transfer before they completed a degree and ended up being “the next Bill Gates” as President Larson put it, it would still be considered a “failure”.

This could cause a decrease in support for the A.A.S and A.O.S programs that those students were involved in.

The President’s cabinet will meet every month, and if you would like to speak your mind on a topic, you will have your chance at Pizza with the President this Friday February 15th.

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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK The Boy Scouts of America has postponed a vote on whether to end the ban on gays openly participating in the BSA. The BSA has nearly 2.7 million Alec Rider youth members; undoubtedly more than a few of them are closeted or even openly gay. Yet they continue to participate in a group that makes no qualms about making them 2nd class citizens.

It’s been 20 years since Pat Buchanan single handedly cost George H.W. Bush re-election with his “culture war” speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention.

In that speech he referred to “environmental extremists” and “radical feminism” as well as an “agenda” that included gay rights and women in combat. Fortunately we’ve modernized ourselves when it comes to those last two subjects.

Our country has had a few moments where its citizens have not been too proud of these United States, such as the Dred Scott decision. Any decent person would not be proud of the fact that our country has continually discriminated against one or more segments of our population since 1776.

What don’t some people get about the words “all men are created equal”? It doesn’t matter if they’re straight men and women or gay men and women; we’re all created equal and demand the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

When the Supreme Court, in 2000 declared that the Boy Scouts had the right to limit the rights of people that didn’t fall in line with

what their core beliefs demanded, it was another Dred Scott kind of decision.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a gay rights issue if religion wasn’t in the very middle of it.

69.4% of BSA troops are sponsored by faith based groups including the Roman-Catholic, Presbyterian, United Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, LDS, and other faith-based groups.

This, among many other reasons, is why organized religion is barely more popular than the DMV, the IRS, and the USPS. Stuff like this is why the separation clause is good to have around, not the ridiculous bullcrap reasonings that most atheists invent on a whim.

The cherrypicking in religion really turns people off. Either “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son… for God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world,” or He didn’t. Did He say “love thy neighbor as yourself” or didn’t He? Judge not lest you be judged… or not?

Organized religion is badly on the wrong side of history, and they have a few portals with which to continue their discrimination against a segment of our population that exists to die and pay taxes just like everyone else.

The Boy Scouts has been one of them and hopefully will cease to be a tool for the self-righteous. I mean, if anyone deserves to have a little righteous indignation, it’s the gay community.

I sincerely hope that the Boy Scouts end their ban on gays by this year or the next and welcome in boys that might have adolescence full of grief and non-acceptance ahead of them in the world that religious and discriminative people have created for them.

-Alec Rider, Editor-in-chief

Ah, half time at the Super Bowl, one of the most highly anticipated moments of all year.

Fifteen minutes to pull of a concert performance, in front of not only a Abigail Young live audience that is in front of you, but for people watching at home as well.

This year’s performer was the one, the only, lip syncer Beyonce.

Okay so the verdict is still out on whether or not she did or did not lip sync at the presidential i n a u g u ra t i o n , but I was not impresses with half time. Beyonce strutted out on stage in a leather and lace costume, whipping her hair all around.

Singing, no not lip syncing, “Love on Top,” “Crazy in Love,” “End of Time,” and “Baby Boy,” Beyonce continued to ‘dance’ around the stage accompanied by a large group of back-up dancers.

The show finally got interesting as Destiny’s Child reunited. Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams popped up on stage and began to sing “Bootylicious”. They stayed with Beyonce and sang with her though two more songs, “Independent Woman” and “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).” Beyonce closed the show with “Halo.”

Okay, so she did not reveal a part of her female body, her outfit did raise a few eyebrows. All leather and a lace ‘skirt’, the outfit did allow the

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singer to flaunt off her perfect shape.

I’m sorry, but I’m a conservative on clothing, I understand she wanted to show off herself, but Beyonce, you could have done better.

As for her performance, again, there was not that much to be impressed with. Aside from the pyrotechnics and the group reunion, there was not a whole lot to be seen.

A couple of times I questioned the singer’s ability to make sound decisions. During one of the song’s, a guitarist with a guitar that spurted fireworks, came close to Beyonce. As the singer whipped her hair close to the fireworks, I had a flashback to Michael Jackson’s hair catching fire during a Pepsi commercial.

The incident occurred when the singer did not clear the area in time, and the fireworks went off, catching his hair on fire. Lucky for Beyonce, someone knew to have the fireworks switch off. In another instance, Beyonce went to the edge of the stage and whipped her hair out to the audience. It would not have been that hard for someone to grab ahold of her mane of hair. But, again, crisis averted because no one grabbed her hair.

So Beyonce, I would give you a C on halftime performance. Hey, National Football League (NFL), bring back someone who would give an actual singing performance. Give me The Who, the Rolling Stones, or Bruce Springsteen. Someone who doesn’t just flit around the stage with a voice record singing in the background.

-Abigail Young, assistant editor

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SPARTAN SPORTS NFL faces pressure over Smith is Athlete of the Week head concussions

By Abigail Young, assistant editor

During the Super Bowl, there were numerous commercials done by the National Football League (NFL) emphasizing people playing football. Some commercials featured young children playing at a home town game or some were scenes from Hyannis Port with the Kennedy family playing football.

What was the point of these commercials? The NFL has faced increasing pressure to better protect players from head concussions and head injuries in general. In the latter part of 2012, the NFL received a number of lawsuits from former players. The players accused the league of hiding information about the dangers of concussions.

In a study published in the scientific journal, Brain, in December of 2012; looked at how repeated mild hits to the head caused long term brain damage. The study was conducted by using athletes, military veterans, and others who had received repeated hits to the head. The results of the study showed that men who had played sports and had received repeated mild hits to the head showed evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy or C.T.E. This is a degenerative and incurable disease with symptoms that include memory loss, depression, and dementia. Although the study did not prove definitely that head hits on the field would result in C.T.E., the study did raise some questions.

Adding to the tension of this problem is the number of concussions being reported by players. In 2009, there were 199 reported concussions throughout the pre-season and regular season games. In 2012, there were 217 reports of concussions.

Another number that has been looked at as well, involves high school players and younger players.

In research conducted by the New York Times, at least 50 high school and younger players in more than 20 states have been killed or have had serious head injuries on the field.

In a statement prior to the Super Bowl, even the President Obama voiced his concerns for the safety of the game.

Congratulations to freshman guard, Latina Smith (Fowler HS, Syracuse, NY), from the Spartan women’s basketball program for being named NJCAA Region III Female “I have to tell you, if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard Athlete-of-the-Week and Mid-State Athletic before I let him play football,” the Conference Female Player-of-the-Week for president said in an interview with the week of January 30th.

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The president also said that the sport will most likely have to change in order to reduce the traumatic hits that can leave players suffering with dementia [or C.T.E.] years after their careers have ended.

How has the NFL responded? First by changing rules; in November of 2012, NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, said that moving up the kickoff line, penalizing hits to the head, and more quickly diagnosing concussions on the sidelines were examples of changes being made.

On February 1, 2013, the league also announced that starting next season, independent neurological consultants will be on the sidelines at every game to help detect head injuries.

Another initiative that the NFL is taking is teaming up with General Electric (GE) to jump start development of imaging technology that would detect concussions and encourage the creation of materials to better protect the brain. Expected to begin in March, the four year program will be funded by both the NFL and GE. Of course helmet manufactures are looking to improve their products as well. At an exhibit prior to the Super Bowl, the leading helmet manufacturers, Rawlings and Riddell, showed and talked about changes they were making as well. Rawlings showed how they were improving fitting helmets to player’s heads. Using an air system, they inflate the inside of the helmet based on the shape of a player’s head.

Riddell showed the proper way to fit players for helmets. Both companies emphasized that they have players’ safety on the top of their list of what is important to them.

Changes are coming for the NFL. If the Super Bowl is any proof, helmets need to be improved. Numerous times players lost their helmets or their helmets were dislodged during the game.

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In two games this week Latina scored 49 points, pulled down 13 rebounds, had 3 assists and a steal while making 15 of 17 fouls shots. She scored a career high 30 points in the Spartans’ win against Corning CC….and added 19 points in a loss to Herkimer.

-Pete Liddell, CCC Director of Athletics

Our Top Five Super Bowl Commercials

By Alec Rider, editor-in-chief

By Abigail Young, assistant editor

Brotherhood|Budweiser Set to Fleetwood Mac’s 1975 hit “Landslide” this commercial depicts a trainer nursing a baby Clydesdale into its youth, horsing around with it (pardon the pun), and sitting in the barn with it as it goes to sleep only for the Clydesdale to wake up first and lick the trainer’s face off.

The Clydesdale starts to grow up and can keep up with the trainer’s truck.

Then one day, the Clydesdale is given to Budweiser much to the trainer’s dismay. Three years later, he’s reading the paper and sees that the Budweiser Clydesdales are coming to Chicago. He attends the parade and sees his buddy, but the Clydesdale has eye masks on and doesn’t see him.

The mask is taken off and the Clydesdale turns around and sees his friend walking away. The trainer gets in his truck and starts to pull away, only to stop when he sees his friend galloping toward him in the mirror… and they hug.

If you don’t tear up to this commercial, you just don’t have a soul, sorry about that revelation.

God Made a Farmer|Dodge Ram THIS commercial. Seriously. If you gave a slow hand clap to Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler commercial last year, then you were probably like me this year, jaw wide open and speechless.

This two minute commercial takes most of Paul Harvey’s 1985 speech to the Future Farmers of America “So God Made a Farmer” and creates an ode to the farmer.

The people that make it possible to have food on our tables, the people who are becoming extinct.

“God said, ‘I need somebody to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die; then dry his eyes and say, maybe next year’” Miracle Stain|Tide Two 49ers fans are watching a football game when one of them spills salsa on his jersey, this salsa creates the likeness of Joe Montana, and hilarity ensues. Everything

Although I did not tune into the Super Bowl until half-time, I still caught some pretty awesome commercials. So here are my top five commercials.

Number 5: Kia and “where do babies come from?”. During a car ride, a little boy asks his father, “Where do babies come from?” The father launches into a huge speech about how there is this planet called ‘Babylandia’ where babies live until they are sent off in rocket ships to planet Earth and land with their families.

After this explanation, the little by says “but Jake said ‘babies are made when a mommy and daddy’.” The father quickly voice commands for a song to come on. This was a cute rendition of explaining that age old question.

Number 4: Although it was not an official commercial, Oreo created a tweet, during the 34 minute power outage. The post read, “Power out? No problem, you can still dunk in the dark.” This was sheer brilliance on someone’s part to take advantage of a situation and turn it into a a funny but marketable opportunity.

Number 3: Tide’s Miracle Stain. A man sitting on his couch spills nacho sauce on his San Francisco jersey.

The stain is in the shape of 49’s legend Joe Montana.

Soon people are making pilgrimages to see the stained jersey, and the man opens up Monatanaland.

But when walking through the door one day, he sees that the jersey is gone, and after asking his wife where it is, she reveals that she washed it. Proving Tide’s stain fighting power is the main point of this commercial, but the best line goes to the wife, “Go Ravens!”

Number 2: Budweiser’s Horse and his man. I always love the Budweiser’s Clydesdale commercial. Every year, this is the commercial that seems to be the cutest.

This year was no different. The commercial featured a man raising a Clydesdale foal

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HISTORY CLUB From left: Alex Meal, member; Marie Rankin, member; Justin Burchard, member; Frances Jones, secretary; Amy Aunkrum, senator

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EARLY CHILDHOOD CLUB From left: Jessica Jones, member; Michelle Del Favero, member

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ANIME & MANGE CLUB

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE CLUB From left: Erik Clark, member; Karl Casper, treasurer; Joshua Campbell, president THE TV & RADIO GUILD’S TABLE

the Osborne Library. Renovations are desperately needed and once completed, the building will house the records and history of Cayuga and Seneca Counties. The records are currently being stored at Syracuse University for the time being.

Another project the club has taken on involves the Harriet Tubman House. The House has been formally authorized as a landmark; with this authorization, the Club will now be able to help raise money for its upkeep.

Criminal Justice Club An upcoming activity that this club has planned is a paintball game to be played against veterans. Any club is opened to join in the competition.

Other events the club has planned is a bottle and can drive to raise money for Saint Jude’s Children’s Hospital, cookouts to be held throughout the year, and a trip in June to Old Forge.

Meetings are held Wednesdays form 11 to noon in T219.

Art Club Interested in lending a hand to paint? The Art Club is planning a mosaic to be placed on the third floor between the main building and technology building. The mosaic will feature the Finger Lakes region.

Other activities that are in the making are trips to nearby museums.

Meetings are held Wednesdays at 11 in M247.

Student Activities Board (SAB) The SAB has a lot of activities coming up this month.

On February 11th, the Sauce Boss is coming. Enjoy some gumbo while the Sauce Boss sings some rocking blues. This event will take place at 7p.m. at the Bisgrove Theater on the Auburn Campus.

On March 15th, an evening of comedy featuring Marcus Harvey and Lucas Bohn will take place at the Auburn Public Theater at 7 p.m..

The cost is 5 dollars for students and 10 dollars for general admission.

If you are interested in joining the club, meetings are held on Mondays at 11 in the Nucour conference room.

Music Club This club is opened to anyone even if you do or do not have a musical background.

The club is planning a trip to New York City on April 21st.

Meetings are held the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month in either rooms M145 or M157.

Radio and Television Guild If you want to have a say in what is played on Win89 FM, then this is your club. By joining the Guild, you can be on the Listening Committee that rates and suggests songs that should be played on the station.

This group is also planning a trip to New York City in April. However, you can do whatever you want once you get there. There will be specific groups, if you do not want to go off by yourself. This trip will be a day trip.

Meetings for the Guild are held Wednesdays at 11:30 at the television studio.

Early Childhood Club (ECH) The Early Childhood Club will be holding a bake and flower sale this month for the Week of the Young Child.

All proceeds will go to a charity group that the club selects.

The group will also be selling cookies every Wednesday in the main foyer every Wednesday.

Meetings for the club are held in L211 once a month on a Friday at 11:30.

Anime and Manga Club Interested in watching anime and mange movies? This group watches movies and discusses the movie as well as what is happening in in the Japanese culture.

On March 14th, the club will be having a sale in celebration of Japan’s White Day. In Japanese culture, girls give candies and gifts to boys on Valentine’s Day, but the boys do nothing in return until White Day. On White Day, the boys give gifts back to the girls who gave them something on Valentine’s Day. The club’s sale will take place in the main foyer from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Meetings for the club are held on Fridays at noon in R202.

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from “Witnessed” shirts to “stains on a stick” to this guy renaming his humble abode, Montanaland encompasses the commercial.

One day the jersey goes missing, much to the horror of 49ers faithful, the man’s wife washed the jersey. The wife just to happens to be a Ravens fan.

Goat 4 Sale|Doritos A man happens by a sign that says Goat 4 Sale. The goat has a penchant for eating Doritos, and I guess this dude wants a Dorito eating companion. But 42 bags, then 156 bags later, this dude just can’t take it anymore.

The goat wakes up the next day to an empty pantry, and seriously flips out.

Whisper Fight|Oreo A debate inside a library about whether the cream or the cookie is better turns into an all-out brawl featuring broken chairs, falling bookcases, broken lamps and tables, and appearances from the fire and police departments, all at a complete whisper.

into a full grown horse. The horse goes off to be with the Budweiser pulling team, but the man goes to one of the parades. After the parade the Clydesdale sees him and chases after him, and the man hugs the horse.

Finally, Number 1: This commercial hit home for myself and my family. “And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise, and said, ‘I need a caretaker.’ So God made a farmer. God said, ‘I need someone willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, and then, go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board. So God made a farmer.”

Paul Harvey narrates this commercial that features a montage of farming images.

This was the best commercial I have ever seen. Dodge did not push their truck in our faces the whole time, just for few seconds at the end and in some of the pictures. As a dairy farmer’s daughter, and as someone who got up before dawn, this was a great tribute to the backbone of this country. To see the full version of this commercial visit youtube.com and type in ‘dodge ram trucks super bowl commercial farmer- god made a farmer.’

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