CCC’s Men’s Basketball Team wins at home against Jefferson
#3 Tim Rouse
#12 Nijuwan Smith #31 Alecs Dantuono #23 Amir Stevens
#2 Randal Massillon #4 Bill Simmonds
#5 Jamel Sanders
#22 Mike Poston #10 Aaron Tucker
COLLEGIAN PHOTOGRAPHER KODY FOWLER CAPTURES RECENT CAYUGA SPARTAN BASKETBALL ACTION; PHOTO ESSAY PAGE 3
#24 Jon Bell
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NEXT CCC HOME BASKETBALL GAMES FEB. 18 V. TC3 1 & 3 PM
By Gabby Rizzo, editor-in-chief
STUDENTS: Visit Washington D.C. with CCC May 5-7 The Student Trip to Washington D.C. (May 5-7) is only $195 for 3 days & 2 nights. Lodging and transportation are included. Sign up in the CUBE (Auburn Campus) or see Michael Fochtman (Fulton Campus). Deposit of $90 due at sign-up.
SEEING RED! If you can imagine the above photo in color, you would see the members
of the Cayuga Community College community who wore red to raise awareness about women and heart disease on the American Heart Association’s national Wear Red campaign day.
Happy Valentine’s Day Remember to show thanks to the chotsky emporium which helped fuel our American Valentine’s Day traditions By Juliette Zygarowicz, staff writer
CCC welcomes new Director of Institutional Research and Planning Vice-President, Student Affairs Jeffrey Rosenthal announced recently that the college has named Virginia Rudnick as Cayuga’s next Director of Institutional Research and Planning. Rudnick is from Corning Community College, where she served in a similar capacity.
Vol. 63 Issue 13 February 14, 2017
Happy Valentine’s Day/ Singles Awareness Day! Whether you find yourself celebrating with your main squeeze, a group of pals or “treating yo self” to a tub of ice cream and a $4,000 shopping spree, remember that it’s just another day, but there’s a surplus of pink hearts hanging in every store and couples seem more lovey-dovey than usual. Luckily, we do not celebrate Valentine’s Day as the Romans did in ancient times. During a three day festival called “Lupercalia,” the tradition was that single women eagerly wrote their names and put it into a matchmaking lottery. Single young men drew a name and woo-la! They would be a couple for the duration of the festival whether they liked it or not! How’s that for a blind date? We all remember how in elementary school our classmates would bring in valentines, and teachers would have cute little parties to celebrate. Then high school came and only 5% of the population actually participated in
it, because you’re in high school and everything is awkward. Believe it or not Shakespeare and Chaucer were the men who took the Roman holiday and romanticized it (or romcom-ed it) in Europe by creating paper cards with sonnets and love notes to give to loved ones. This idea eventually infiltrated into America in the late 1800s, and by 1913, the chotsky emporium known as Hallmark Cards opened in Kansas City, Missouri, producing Valentine’s Day cards like breeding rabbits. Nowadays Valentine’s Day is the second most commercialized holiday in America, after Christmas. People break the bank to purchase jewelry, flowers, paper goods, stuffed animals, teddy bears holding hearts, candy, and chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate (omg so much chocolate) and the list goes on. So Happy Valentines Day from me, and remember, it will all be over tomorrow and then you’ll see rabbits everywhere because Easter is a whopping two months away.
Last week, a survey was sent out to faculty and students at the college. The email, sent out by the college’s new Diversity Task Force, included a survey seeking to calculate the campus climate and the experience of everyone at the college. It was explained to be a necessary tool to help the college to better handle discrimination in the future. The survery contains three sections: • Section 1: Background Questions enables community members to note their general status at the College. • Section 2: Personal Attitudes seeks initial insight about community members’ personal attitudes and beliefs about diversity and inclusiveness. • Section 3: General Campus Climate explores perceptions about Cayuga’s efforts to support diversity and inclusiveness. Some of the questions, however, were seen as unethical by many students and faculty alike. Here’s an example: 8. What term best describes your sexual orientation? Heterosexual or Straight Homosexual (Gay or Lesbian) Bisexual Queer Pansexual Questioning or Unsure Asexual I prefer not to respond The survey is not mandatory to take and is anonymous, but some of the concerns raised were about where the information gathered is going and how it will be used. The Diversity Task Force was created by President Durant in order to review SUNY’s diversity plans and regulations. The Collegian has reached out to Vice President of Student Affairs, Jeff Rosenthal, about not only the survey, but also his plans for the Diversity Task Force and his ideas for the college. Hopefully, there will be a follow up article on the survey next week.
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