Auburn campus shows their red spirit for heart health
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CCC wears red for heart health awareness
CAYUGABRIEFS ASSESSMENT DAY IS FEBRUARY 11th There are no daytime classes on Wednesday, February 11, 2015, however, evening classes will meet.
ACTIVITY FAIRS RESCHEDULED Cayuga Community College’s Norman Lee says because of the recent snow day, the planned activity fairs have been rescheduled. The Auburn campus student activity fair will be held on Monday, February 16th in the main hallway. The Fulton campus student activity fair is slated for Wednesday, February 25th from 10am – 1pm. Students and staff at Cayuga’s Fulton campus gather wearing red for heart health awareness and form a heart in the lobby.
FIVE REASONS TO WRITE FOR THE CAYUGA COLLEGIAN! 1. It’s fun and informative! 2. You will meet new people! 3. We have K-cup coffee in the office! 4. We have cool t-shirts! 5. It looks good on your resume!
COLLEGIAN OFFICE HOURS Kelsey McLean, co-editor-in-chief Monday: 10:00 am - noon Tuesday: 10:00 am - noon Wednesday: 10:00 am - noon Thursday: 10:00 am - noon Friday: 10:00 am-noon
Caleb Slater, co-editor-in-chief Tuesday: noon - 2:00 pm Thursday: noon - 2:00 pm Friday: noon - 2:00 pm
Vol. 61 Issue 11 February 10, 2015
Cayuga Community College embraced National Wear Red Day 2015 in full color on both campuses. Everyone was encouraged to wear red to raise awareness about heart disease especially in women. It’s not just a man’s disease. Heart disease and stroke kill one in three women, yet it’s 80% preventable. CCC nursing students on the Auburn campus spent the day taking blood pressures on request. Red bracelets for heart health awareness were also sold for $5 with all proceeds going to the American Heart Association.
Are you at risk for Measles? Find out. By Kelsey McLean, Co- Editor-in-chief
Measles hasn’t been a word on the public’s lips for a very, very long time, but it certainly is now, with a growing epidemic that has shocked the nation. A disease long since thought dead and gone has clawed its way out of the grave to terrorize the public once more... but not without some helping hands. The first outbreak of the disease happened in-- in what is perhaps the greatest evidence of nature having a sense of irony-- Disneyland, Anaheim. The amusement park was forced to close its doors to prevent further infection, but to no avail, as the outbreak spread to infect up to 102 people and counting, including one as close as New York City. If you don’t remember what measles are, or what they do, then you’d be forgiven. It’s a disease that hasn’t been relevant in decades, not since the vaccine was developed in 1963. It’s an airborne disease that spreads easily through coughing and sneezing, and won’t show any sign or symptoms until about ten to 12 days
after exposure, meaning you could infect others and hardly know it. The symptoms begin as a four day fever, then worsens into the distinct white ‘Koplik’ spots on the lip, and then finally into the full fledged rash. It is fortunately very treatable, and can only (usually) affect someone once, but it can also be lethal, especially to young children. If the disease has been stamped out through vaccines, it almost seems ludicrous to think that it’d be an issue at all, let alone an epidemic, but the answer is very simple -- people simply aren’t vaccinating their kids. Whether it be out of distrust for the vaccine, the school, or simply the government in general, there has been a growing trend of parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids. The ‘Anti-Vaxxers’, as they dub themselves, got their head start into stardom when Jenny McCarthy, TV personality and spokesperson for Autism Speaks, promoted a claim that there was link between vaccinations and autism -- a claim
that has been, thus far, completely scientifically unfounded. It’s no coincidence, either, that the outbreak started in the Golden State. California is one of 19 states where a parent can enroll their student into school without any of the mandatory vaccinations through ‘personal belief exemption’-whatever those beliefs might be. However, these recent outbreaks has called those exemptions seriously into question. This law isn’t new, having been in writing since the 1960s, but has only been relevant in modern times, with the numbers of unvaccinated children entering system having doubled within the last decade. This recent outbreak however, which has been narrowed down to have almost certainly been caused by unvaccinated children in the park, has seriously called this law into question. A law has been swiftly proposed, though not enacted, to eliminate this exemption altogether. Other states, as well, have proposed CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE
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