3-26-13 CAYUGA COLLEGIAN

Cayuga Community College Auburn & Fulton, New York

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VOLUME 59

MARCH 26, 2013

CayugaBriefs New officers elected to Auburn Campus SGO The results are in. Here are the SGO elected officers for next year.

PRESIDENT JOHN WINKLER

Praises for Harlequin Play

SECRETARY PRISCILLA JOHNSON

The position of Treasurer is vacant.

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By Abigail Young, assistant editor The reviews are in, Love in the Insecurity Zone once again showcases some amazing talent here at Cayuga CC. The college’s H a r l e q u i n Productions’ spring comedy is the winner of three Theatre Association of New York State (TANYS) awards including Meritorious Achievement in Ensemble Acting to the cast, Meritorious Achievement in Costume Design and Execution to Matthew Limerick and Excellence in Direction to CCC professor and Harlequin Productions advisor Bob Frame.

“The Harlequin Players converted the Bisgrove Theatre into a futuristic world where happiness is the key ingredient to success and power,” the TANYS adjudicator said in his review. “This quick-paced comedy has everything, including a high-tech set that conveys the environment and mood of the piece and moves the production from scene to scene.”

Set in a post apocalyptic United States, the story centers around two sisters, Gayle and Pearl. Gayle has fallen in love with a government worker named Hank. Hank, however, wants to take Gayle’ very happy and lovable sister, Pearl, to Washington D.C. to help with making the country much more happy. Arriving in D.C., they are ambushed in the Insecurity Zone. But Pearl recognizes

one of the rebels as Gaylord, who she is in love with.

However, the government intervenes and cuts the happy reunion short and takes Pearl and Gayle to the White House. Pearl and Gayle are separated and Hank abandons them. Gayle is furious at his actions and wants to kill him.

Gayle then meets a government worker named Marjorie and her hench woman, Manuela. Marjorie reveals the government’s actual plan is to drain the happiness from Pearl and use it in the cookies they give to the media reporters to cause them only to report happy news. Marjorie then makes a deal with Gayle that Gayle can get her revenge on Hank as long as she keeps making Pearl happy.

Hank, meanwhile has been cast off by the government. He reunites with Gaylord in the Insecurity Zone and they attack the White House. Gayle comes very close to killing Hank, but love overcomes her and she does not. The show ends with Pearl, Gaylord, Gayle, and Hank escaping from the White House.

The cast of the show included Kat Jordan as Gayle, Josh Stedge as Hank, Becky White as Pearl, Zacharich Phillips as Gaylord, LaRae Brooks as Marjorie, Matthew Limerick as Manuela, and Mandi Bauso and Ian Moore as the Ensemble. The artistic staff includes: Rob Andrusko, sets; Brad McLean, lights; Mark Romig, video; Jed Daniels, sound; and Matthew Ryan Limerick, costumes. Long time Harlequin advisor Bob Frame again takes the director’s chair.

LaRae Brooks, Matthew Limerick and Kat Jordan in a scene from Love in the Insecurity Zone.

Love in the Insecurity Zone was written by Mike Folie.

Director Bob Frame when asked about his cast said, “I’m proud of the work they’ve done.”

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CCC’s Tutoring Program earns certification

By Sarah Guidone, staff writer

CCC’s Tutoring Program has recently earned the highest level of International Tutor Training Program Certification by the College Reading and Learning Association. This means that the tutor program has met a high set of standards in training their tutors, which allows them to be more prepared when working with students. Teresa Hoercher, the Coordinator of CCC’s Tutorial Services, is thrilled with this honor.

“It is something we have been working at for a long time. We piloted a program a few years ago to create an internship program

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VICE PRESIDENT ASHLEE SARET

SPRING COMEDY EARNS THREE TANYS AWARDS

Peer Tutors (l to r): Alex Tabone, Cassi Beaulieu, Francesca Considine, and Patrick DeSantis

where a selected group of tutors work sideby-side with faculty members and that dove-tailed into the highest level of tutor training. It’s wonderful we were able to get the certification and develop an intern class at the same time,” Hoercher said about the recent achievement.

The Tutor Club is one of the biggest clubs on campus at CCC. Hoercher says it has about 42 students who are peer tutors. She says many students take advantage of the program and seek help with their studies.

Students utilize the resources made available to them by having a peer tutor program.

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C AY U G A C O M M U N I T Y C O L L E G E ’ S S T U D E N T- R U N N E W S PA P E R

10 years since the start of Iraq War

Unspeakable horror in our backyard On March 14th, Lori Bresnahan and a young girl left a gymnastics class at the Great Northern Mall in Clay.

It was 9:00 p.m., the two walked to their car only to be accosted and kidnapped

by David Renz, Alec Rider 29, of Cicero.

Bresnahan, a Liverpool school district librarian and her young friend were driven out to Verplank Road. As editor-inchief of this newspaper, I am electing to leave out the details of the crime, in case a family member reads The Collegian. If you would like to learn about the details of this tragedy, go to Syracuse.com.

Long story short, there’s a little girl out there who has been victimized and another who has lost her mother and that is something that almost all of us will never have to go through.

The Collegian extends their utmost condolences to the Bresnahan family and I pray that they coalesce around both little girls that will need them more than ever.

The family has asked for those who wish to help in any way, to donate to the “Lori Bresnahan Memorial Fund” which was set up by the United Liverpool Faculty Association, the Liverpool Central School District and Edge Federal Credit Union. The funds raised will be used to establish a trust for Besnahan’s daughter.

To make a donation to the “Lori Bresnahan Memorial Lori Bresnahan Fund” send a check to Edge Federal Memorial Fund at 7545 Morgan Road, Liverpool, NY 13090.

— Alec Rider, editor-in-chief

Mourning educator taken too soon

Lisa Domicolo

On March 14th Mexico Academy and Central School employee Lisa Domicolo lost a long hard fought struggle with cancer, she was 44.

Domicolo was a 1st grade teacher at New Haven elementary school and worked at MACS for 20 years.

She was a 1987 graduate from Mexico High School and attended JCC, finishing her studies at SUNY Oswego in 1999.

MACS Superintendent Dr. Robert Pritchard announced that the entire district would be closed last Tuesday to accommodate requests by faculty to attend Domicolo’s funeral.

St. Ann Mother of Mary Catholic Church was a packed house for a town that came together to remember a beloved wife, mother, sister, and public servant.

— Alec Rider, editor-in-chief

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Editorial Board ALEC RIDER - Editor-in-chief ABIGAIL YOUNG, Assistant Editor MARY G. MERRITT, Advisor Staff KATIE DUNN, Staff Writer JAMES GRANGER, Staff Writer SARAH GUIDONE, Staff Writer DANIELLE SKOWRON, Staff Writer

10 years ago last week, the United States performed an awe-inspiring, brazen, and ultimately controversial invasion of Iraq.

Saddam Hussein, the genocidal, murderous dictator of Iraq had become increasingly hostile toward the West in the years after his lopsided defeat at the hands of George H.W. Bush and his coalition forces in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. After the 9/11 attacks, there were concerns that Hussein was in league with al-Qaeda (which wasn’t true), and that he was trying to gain illicit amounts of yellow cake uranium from Niger in order to construct weapons of mass destruction (also not true.)

The latter was challenged by former ambassador Joseph Wilson when he was sent to Niger by the CIA and ultimately wrote an op-ed in the New York Times blasting the assertion. This was widely believed to anger top officials in the Bush Administration and ended up in the leak of his wife’s name, Valerie Plame, a CIA agent.

This in turn ended in the conviction of “Scooter” Libby, a close friend of Vice president Dick Cheney, for perjury.

The UN told the US not to invade, allies France and Germany told the US not to invade, but President Bush had it on good authority from the CIA, British intelligence, and Israeli intelligence that this murderous madman once again had weapons of mass destruction.

After the chemical attack and genocide of 5,000-7,000 Kurds in the village of Halabja in 1988 where Hussein’s army used Tabun (when impure is basically cyanide), Sarin, VX, as well as mustard gas was used, the United States wasn’t waiting for proof. They believed they had everything they needed.

The invasion began with bombing the capital city of Baghdad, including Saddam Hussein’s Presidential Palace. When the bombing began, troops on the ground crossed the Iraq border.

This became known as “Shock and Awe”.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld planned an attack that would get them to Baghdad in as short of time as possible.

This included light armor for both soldiers and vehicles, which would become a glaring mistake when Intermittent Explosive Devices (IEDs) started coming into play later in the war.

It took the Army three weeks to get to Baghdad because of the combination of stronger than expected Ba’ath Party soldiers and sandstorms. What started out as an invasion became an Iraqi revolution when Iraqi citizens took up arms against Hussein’s Ba’ath regime and defaced portraits and palaces that contributed to Hussein’s cult of personality.

What marked the end of the Battle of Baghdad has been called everything from inspiring to ““the most staged photo

opportunity since Iwo Jima” depending on the political persuasion.

Iraqi citizens gathered in Firdos Square

and proceeded, with the help of a US M88 armored recovery vehicle, to tear down a statue of the brutish and genocidal dictator Saddam Hussein.

On May 1, George W. Bush on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln gave what was called the “Mission Accomplished Speech” citing the name of the banner on the ship.

Though this was supposed to be about the end of the Abraham Lincoln’s mission, it became an ironic meme on the abysmal years ahead in the war.

The following 7 years was marred by American deaths and rising insurgency.

There were stories of prisoners of war like Jessica Lynch that were ultimately overhyped and exaggerated by the media.

Though the soldiers that recovered her are examples of the bravest of our men, making the first recovery of a POW since the Vietnam War. Journalists, like in the case of ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff, were seriously injured.

3500 Americans were killed in action, more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians were killed.

Was the war worth it? Most Americans, regardless of political stripe, will tell you “no, it wasn’t.”

But we will do what we always do. We will care for our wounded as best we can, continue to promote democracy wherever it is quashed, and we will hopefully learn from our worst mistakes.

One thing is for certain. Iraq has a chance to succeed and a chance to thrive in democracy. Bill Maher, an ardent liberal and Bush opponent, recently said he was amazed that Iraq was still standing and he gave credit to President Bush and the military where it was due.

Another thing is certain. A madman, a genocidal and murderous dictator has been rid from the earth. But where there is good there always is evil. In coming years, we will be at war again. Mark my words.

The Islamic Republic of Iran will force our hand, and when it does, we will have hopefully learned from the mistakes of our last Middle East battle.

— Alec Rider, editor-in-chief

Delay in getting IRS refunds

By Alec Rider, editor-in-chief 660,000 American taxpayers, many of them students, are going to have to wait an extra 1 to 2 months to get their refund back from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

The IRS confirmed that “a problem with a limited number of software company products that affected some taxpayers filing Form 8863, Education Credits, between Feb. 14 and Feb. 22.” caused the delay.

The review process for a mistake like this can take up to two months, but the IRS is working to decrease that time frame to 4-6 weeks.

The snafu is having a very detrimental effect on students looking to complete their financial aid forms through FAFSA. Most colleges like prospective students to use the IRS link on the FAFSA to provide their tax information instead of logging it in manually, which is currently impossible for those who are affected.

The world’s largest tax preparation company in the world is responsible for a solid majority of the 660,000 taxpayers affected.

At the time this article was written, H&R Block’s CEO posted on the company’s official Facebook page that half of the effected customers would either have their refund or a date for their refund by the end of the weekend (3/22-3/24.)

Two class a c t i o n lawsuits in California and Michigan have been filed against the company, seeking the return of their filing fees.

Your humble correspondent is one of the affected and has yet to even receive a date for his refund to come back. He’s been patiently waiting for five and a half weeks.

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Actor Mehdi Ouzaani as Satan in the television series The Bible

Cameo or coincidence?

By Alec Rider, editor-in-chief

Most Republicans you run into these days will jokingly (or maybe not) refer to President Obama as “Satan”, “the Antichrist”, or a number of other colorful descriptors.

But what has been associated with most U.S. Presidents that are beloved by their Party and despised by the other has been incorporated into real life.

Two Sundays ago, The Bible on History Channel was depicting Luke 4:5-8 also known as The Temptation of Jesus Christ by Satan, where the phrase “Get thee behind me, Satan” comes from. Jesus Christ looked like… well, Jesus Christ.

Satan on the other hand looked a lot like the President of the United States.

In a statement on the show’s official Facebook, the power couple behind the series, Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, said “This is utter nonsense. The actor who played Satan, Mehdi Ouzaani, is a highly acclaimed Moroccan actor. He

has previously played parts in several Biblical epics– including Satanic characters long before Barack Obama was elected as our President.”

It should be mentioned that both Downey and Burnett have donated money to Obama’s 2008 campaign.

Downey commented further, saying “Both Mark and I have nothing but respect and love for our President, who is a fellow Christian. False statements such as these are just designed as a foolish distraction to try and discredit the beauty of the story of The Bible.”

The History Channel also made a statement, saying “HISTORY channel has the highest respect for President Obama. The series was produced with an international and diverse cast of respected actors. It’s unfortunate that anyone made this false connection.

HISTORY’s ‘The Bible’ is meant to enlighten people on its rich stories and deep history.”

will have earned the highest level, which is Cassi Beaulieu,” said Hoercher.

Hoercher says there are different levels of peer tutoring. Each level is determined by the type of training or course the peer tutor has taken. They also receive training on study skills and different types of tutoring, which include individual tutoring and study group tutoring.

“Level one requires a one credit course, the tutors need to have competed a minimum of 25 hours of peer tutoring. Level two is a two-credit course plus an additional 25 hours of tutoring, level three is another two-credit course and an additional 25 hours. So it’s 25, 50, 75 hours of peer tutoring plus course work,” explained Hoercher on becoming a peer tutor.

Students are selected to become peer tutors in numerous ways Hoercher said.

There are many ways to get involved and to be a part of the program.

“The best type of tutors come recommended from faculty. The faculty knows them from having them in their classroom, working with them, developing a relationship with the students, and then they refer their names to me. I also find peer tutors because my current tutors will bring students over for recommendation. We also reach out to PTK, which is the honor society, and then we look toward the honors program and also scholarship recipients,” said Hoercher.

Hoercher says students at CCC are able to get tutored in a variety of subjects. Students are able to find assistance in homework, papers, or review materials. Everything is located in the Center for Academic Success, or better known as the CAS. “We have the drop-in math and writing table that you don’t need an appointment, they are supervised by the math specialist and the writing specialist. Students can also go and have an individual appointment with those specialists. We also run lots of study groups. Study groups evolve based on the request from students and faculty members.

It’s based on what the need is,” said Hoercher.

Students that are peer tutors are more than happy to be a part of this program and really feel it has benefited them in more ways than just one. Francesca Considine is

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majoring in Humanities with a concentration in Literature. She is uncertain of where she will transfer to next semester but is leaning toward Le Moyne. She is on the math table, writing table, provides individual tutoring, served as an assistant for Teresa Hoercher, she runs study groups, and she is an intern.

“It allows you to become so proficient in your subjects because you feel like you have to know it to help other people. You also get involved in campus a lot too. It made me realize what I really wanted to do with my life. I want to do something with people who may not ever of had an education before, or really help out with the new movement of learning and how we can make it better,” said Considine.

Alex Tabone is majoring in Liberal Arts, Math and Science with a concentration in Biology. He will be transferring to Upstate Medical University to study respiratory therapy next semester. He became a tutor because he had friends already in the program and his teachers had requested it.

He too believes that being a peer tutor has benefited him.

“You learn to have really good time management because you’re tutoring, you have homework to do, so you have to have set times to get everything done. Tutoring has made me help people around campus that need it and it has definitely made me be more involved on campus. It’s allowed me to meet a lot of people, so it’s great,” said Tabone.

Cassi Beaulieu is another peer tutor who is majoring in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Chemistry. She plans to transfer to ESF next semester to major in Chemistry. “You get paid hourly, minimum wage and also it’s a great thing to put on your resume. If you want to go on to a four-year school, they look at other things besides good grades. Being a tutor has made me realize that I want to teach as my long-term career goal. It has been a great experience to get my feet wet with that,” said Beaulieu.

Patrick DeSantis is majoring in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Criminal Justice and has hopes of transferring to Le Moyne.

“Tutoring has helped me stay involved and it looks great on a resume, especially being CRLA certified,” said DeSantis.

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The Collegian Staff

goes to New York City!

My Marvelous Trip to NYC

New Media Awareness

By Abigail Young, assistant editor

By Danielle Skowron, staff writer

Never having been down to the Big Apple, it was quite astounding to visit during the College Media Association’s Spring Conference.

Bumper to bumper took on a whole new meaning, crowded was upped to packed, and tall turned into towering.

Okay maybe I should explain that better.

When first arriving in the city Abigail Young there was a car in front of us, a car behind us, and a car on either side of us, and that was outside of the Lincoln Tunnel. Getting to our hotel took a half an hour, and it was only a short distance from the tunnel. Times Square, people are literally around you all the time, I mean all the time. Skyscrapers, they’re called that for a reason, you might notice a slight pain in your neck after leaving the city from looking up all the time.

But jokes aside there was some seriousness to this visit as well.

The convention had tons, and I mean tons, of lectures to hear, important people to meet, and information to share.

Among some of the workshops I went to, I learned about asking the tough questions that public relations people might not want to hear, how to pass a magazine test, checking your sources continuously, how to make the most of an internship, 50 useful websites, and what can be done with a journalism degree outside of journalism.

The one workshop that was the most fun for me featured Andy Dehnart and Damian Holbrook. Both are television critics and write about television. Damian works for T.V. Guide and Andy is a freelancer. Both told stories about attending PR events done by television networks, and how to survive as a television writer or critic.

As for tourism, I went to Times Square (numerous times), Central Park, the Hudson River, the Freedom Tower on the former World Trade Center site, and the Financial District.

I had a lot of fun going down to good ol’ NYC. I learned how to better improve myself as a writer, along with some other good tips, and I got to tour around the city. But would I live there? Nope.

When you think of New York City, what do you think of? Most people would say the hustle and bustle and the traffic. You honestly have no clue how bad the traffic is in New York City until you are in the middle of it for the very first time, like Danielle Skowron I was recently. I was given the amazing opportunity to attend the College Media Association Conference in New York City.

When we first got into the city, we really realized how bad the traffic was. In front of us was a woman who was texting, maybe tweeting or possibly updating her Facebook status while driving. She wasn’t paying any attention to what she was doing on the road at all.

While I was at the conference I attended many workshops, many of them embracing social media. Social media is the next big thing in the media world. Let’s face it, newspapers and magazines might not be around forever because of the readily available information on the Internet.

One of the workshops I attended that particularly talked about this was called Music Reporting. Almost everyone that wants to be a music reporter, also wants to write for Rolling Stone Magazine. (If you didn’t know, Rolling Stone Magazine is the place to be if you write about music or if you perform music), The ladies that gave the presentation stressed the importance of making a blog and becoming a known face in the social media world. It’s a harsh reality that newspapers and magazines may not be around forever and attending that workshop really made that clear to me. It also brought me back to the texting woman in traffic. It makes me wonder if this social media thing is really a great idea. It has it perks, like having information ready 24/7 and being able to make a face for yourself early in the game. But in the end we are slowly losing our print newspapers and magazines, which is a tragedy in itself.

The Collegian Staff played like kids in the Times Square Toys ‘r US Store.

Abigail’s first photo booth experience.

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A New York state of mind...

By Alec Rider, editor-in-chief New York City.

It’s quite the city really. It’s the only place that can hold two such distinct places like mid-town Manhattan and Greenwich Village and the only place to have such distinct personalities such as John Lennon and The Alec Rider Naked Cowboy call it home.

Then there’s the cheesecake. I could write a whole article on the cheesecake.

Anyway, The Collegian staff was in the Big Apple for the College Media Association (CMA) conference. The best college journalists from around the country congregated in the Times Square Sheraton to hear from successful people in the industry, many having been in our shoes not too long ago.

An interesting workshop was “Analytics in Sports Media”. We discussed the evergrowing influence of analytics on sports and the unique perspective that it provides. Since Bill James, the father of SABRMetrics came onto the scene no sport has been affected more by analytics than baseball. So much so, that the shoestring budgeted 2002 Oakland Athletics took them into account led by GM Billy Beane and made a startling end of season comeback by winning 20 games in a row from August 13-September 4, and won the American League West. This marriage between low budgets and big success came to be known as “Moneyball”.

After attending the “How to Improve Your Social Media Standing” workshop, I headed right over to the main ballroom to hear Willie Geist give the keynote speech of the conference.

With a comedic and infectious personality, Geist captivated the audience with his story of never giving up when all seems lost. Having graduated from Vanderbilt University, Geist went back home and worked for a flower delivery company driving a van around for almost a year. His parents let him know bluntly that they didn’t pay all that money for him to be driving a van around.

So he headed for Atlanta, which was the hotbed of cable at the time, and landed a job with CNN. His job at CNN-Sports Illustrated was hard and unnoticed, something that would make anyone disappointed. But he kept his head up high and trudged on, and for his trouble got met with the shuttering of the program.

He went home and worked at a small alternative sports news outfit with three of his friends, having no idea what he would do next. But Phil Griffin, former President of NBC, had other ideas. He made Geist executive producer of Tucker Carlson’s show.

Carlson had an effect on Geist’s success as well, beginning a segment where Geist and Carlson would take the last four minutes of the show to discuss current events on camera.

Then the unthinkable happened.

Griffin was looking for anyone with any idea to fill up the three full hours of programming that had went kaput after Don Imus called the Rutgers women’s basketball team a bunch of “nappy-headed hoes.”

This involved Joe Scarborough to move from nights to the mornings along with Mika Brzezinski and Geist acting as co-hosts of the new “Morning Joe” which has become the most critically acclaimed show in cable news today.

After that we ventured out into the city for the first time that day. What started out as a normal run to a KFC/Pizza Hut ended up being a course in respect and the ability to restrain yourself.

A group of “evangelical Christians” were loudly “praying” at their table asking for the “evil” Muslims and “evil” Hindus to turn away from their “sin.”

Talk about casting the first stone. I guess they never heard of the Proverbs that tell us to pray in our closets and not stand on the street corners shouting.

Any who…

Then I went to a workshop dealing with the First Amendment and its five liberties.

We all got to be dictators, deciding which between Religion, Speech, Press, Petition and Assembly, should be taken away. It came to the point that we realized that if you took 1 away you have to take all five away.

One of my favorite workshops was about fostering a political dialogue on campus through the school newspaper. We did just that for a good long while with our “Pointcounterpoint” segment. We don’t have a liberal political mind on staff right now, I’d love to have one again.

One thing I’ll never forget was our trip to the financial district and the 9/11 memorial.

It was beautiful and awe-inspiring. I’ll never forget that day. But the beauty that has risen from that afflicted area is something that everyone should experience.

New York City is a place that I thought I could only stay for a three day period. Then I visited the financial district and realized that if I ever had to live in NYC, I’d live there.

It was another great conference, and my last one with The Collegian. If there’s any first year students out there reading this, that has any skill in writing whatsoever, I implore you join up and make a mark.

When Alec and Danielle aren’t reporting for The Collegian, they’re on duty as Super Heroes. Just like Clark Kent and Superman!

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SPARTAN SPORTS

TOP10 TEN CAYUGA

COLLEGIAN

TOP 10 REASONS WHY A MARCH MADNESS BRACKET IS REALLY JUST SELF-DEFEATING MASOCHISM 10. You’ve been doing this since you became a sports fan, when have you been even mildly successful?

9. Your friends try to help you realize how much losing hurts you, and you reject them because quite frankly you like it.

8.

Your friends make their own brackets, picking the lowest seeds possible in order to make sure you win, not realizing that this is March Madness and they all picked Wichita St. to go all the way, and you chose Gonzaga… again.

7.

You pick all 4 #1 seeds to go to the Final Four, knowing damn well that it WILL NOT happen.

6.

You never put a #12 seed over a #5 seed knowing damn well it WILL happen.

5.

“Belmont? That sounds like a winning school.”

4.

“It’s alright, it’s okay, they may be our bosses anyway but Harvard won’t make it out of the 1st round.”

3. You always pick all #8 seeds or all #9 seeds 2. “I’ve never even heard of Florida Gulf Coast! Let’s go with Georgetown.”

1. You pick SU as your National Champion every year.

something funny...

Lady Spartan China Agnew honored for BB skills Congratulations to women’s basketball player China Agnew (Nottingham, Syracuse) for earning 3rd team NJCAA All-Region III and also Mid-State Athletic All-Conference teams following the season. She finished the season ranked #4 in the region for scoring at 17.7ppg.

She was the Mid-State Athletic Conference coleader in scoring at 21.3ppg and was a top ten leader in rebounds and steals.

—Pete Liddell

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The next meeting of the Starfire Travel Club is Wednesday, March 27, 2013 beginning at 6 p.m. at the Marcellus Library, 32 Maple Street, Marcellus, NY. Admission is free and everyone is encouraged to bring their friends. In addition to playing last meeting’s big hit game “Travel Jeopardy”, travel opportunities in South America will be discussed. Light refreshments will be served. If convenient please RSVP by calling 315-673-9194 or emailing donandmary@starfirecruises. com, however, walk-ins are welcome.

CAMPUS ACTIVITIES Wednesday, April 17 Fulton Campus An Afternoon of Entertainment Ran’D Shine is the New Face of Magic! Magic is much more than just entertainment and he wants to use it to expand your mind…get you to look at things from a different angle…and explore a bit of what the term “diversity” truly means.

Michael Harrison is clever, honest, and has an outrageous style, always delivering a hysterical comedy show that keeps his audiences wanting more.

He has also found time to develop a solid acting resume with appearances on NBC’s “The Bridge,” “Queer as Folk,” the TBS movie “The Jazzman,” and a cohosting spot on “E-West.”

4 pm/Event Center Monday, April 22 - Auburn Campus Hana Pestle While still in her early 20’s, Hana has achieved much success in the music world.

After working with Ben Moody (of Evanescence) at the age of 17, she was the opener for tours with Blues Traveler, Live, and Collective Soul. She has also toured with notable names such as Graham Colton, Ingram Hill, Ari Hest and Jon McLaughlin. As much as her touring accolades will astound you, it’s her amazing voice that will blow you away!

11am/Cafe Auburn Campus

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