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VOL. 68 ISSUE 17
MARCH 29, 2022
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SOMA PROFESSOR MELISSA JOHNSON EARNS FELLOWSHIP SOMA Professor Melissa Johnson was named a 2022 Racism, Dispossession, and Migration Fellow. Professor Johnson’s fellowship is part of the Migrations initiative at Cornell University and was made possible by a grant from the Mellon PROFESSOR Foundation’s Just MELISSA Futures Initiative. JOHNSON According to a statement from Cornell, “The goal of the fellowship is to support curricular projects that advance interdisciplinary pedagogy that centers the connections between racism, dispossession, and migration. To facilitate the understanding of historical and contemporary relationships between the displacement of people,including through the dispossession of Indigenous lands and rights, and racism, xenophobia, opposition to immigration, and anti-immigrant violence.”
PROFESSOR ANNA ANNORINO EARNS FELLOWSHIP Professor Anna Annorino has been selected as a 2022 Community College Internationalization Fellow by the Cornell University Southeast Asia Program. Professor Anna Annorino developed PROFESSOR a proposal which ANNA was selected along ANNORINO with six others from a competitive pool of applications. Her project will focus on developing a cross cultural psychology course with a focus on Southeast Asia. This effort will help provide professional development opportunities for other community college faculty to incorporate culturally diverse curriculum into their courses.
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The Cayuga Community College Nursing Club is holding a collection drive to collect food and hygiene products to stock the campus’ food pantry for students called Cayuga Cupboard. A collection bin is located in the Nursing office on the Auburn campus in room SH-117. The club is looking for donations of feminine hygiene products, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, deodorant along with non-perishable food items in boxes or cans. The collection will end on Monday, April 4th.
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NURSING CLUB IS COLLECTING DONATIONS FOR HUNGRY STUDENTS
Cayuga students Tessa Higgins and Kyleigh Walton perform as radio actors in “Sorry, You’ve Got My Wrong Number.” The show is part of Harlequin Productions’ spring performance of “Radio Ridiculous,” which will be performed at the College’s Auburn Campus March 31 to April 2.
Alex Wurster smashed a three-run homer to give the Spartans an 8-1 lead in the third inning Saturday against SUNY Adirondack. Cayuga went on to win the game 9-5.
WIN Radio Ridiculous SPARTANS ON THE ROAD HARLEQUIN SPRING PRODUCTION DEBUTS Cayuga Community College’s Harlequin Productions is a comedic spoof honoring old-time radio performances. A second series of performances are scheduled for 7:30 P.M. March 31 to April 2 in the Irene A. Bisgrove Community Theatre on Cayuga’s Auburn campus. The student theatre group is performing “Radio Ridiculous,” a full-length stage show based on madcap comedic radio programs from the first half of the 20th Century. Harlequin Productions Director Bob Frame said the show captures the humor of the radio era while still being respectful of its short- and long-term cultural contributions. “There’s definitely laughs throughout the entire show, but it also pays homage to what those shows offered listeners in that era, and the impact they had,” he said. “It’s a great combination of humor and reverence, in a show that allows our student-actors to learn some new acting styles.” The show is built around three storylines, including a Marx Brothers tribute entitled “The Wacko Brothers Show” highlighting two siblings creating chaos with
whoever they contact. The other shows are a comedic take on “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Les Miserables” dubbed a “Tale of Two Miserables,” which features a man imprisoned for stealing pumpernickel, and a murder-mystery titled “Sorry, You’ve Got My Wrong Number.” The biggest challenge, said Frame, was for students to learn a new acting technique. Traditional shows combine physical acting and vocal delivery, but performances in “Radio Ridiculous” are built entirely on vocal dexterity. “Except for the fact that the students are on-stage, it’s almost completely voice acting with some live sound effects. It requires an exaggerated way of speaking, which is quite a change. They’ve adapted well to the style, though, and are enjoying the challenge,” said Frame. On-stage the show features Cayuga students Laurel Elliot, Tessa Higgins, Robert Preza, Allison Smith, Kyleigh Walton, and Grace Wiseman, and student Alyssa Cheeley is the stage manager. Several guest actors will also appear in the show. Tickets are available at the door, with a reduced fee for students.
The cast of Harlequin Productions performs “Tale of Two Miserables,” part of the theatre group’s spring show “Radio Ridiculous.” Shows are scheduled for the College’s Auburn Campus March 31 to April 2.
Spartans Split First Road Series
Cayuga Community College Baseball earned a split against SUNY Adirondack in its first away series of the season Saturday. After managing only five hits in the opening 6-2 loss to the Timberwolves, the Spartans smashed 12 hits and two home runs in a 9-5 win. The split leaves the Spartans at 6-2 on the season.
SPARTANS PLAY NEXT AT FALCON PARK IN AUBURN TUESDAY, MARCH 29TH AT 3 PM Cayuga Coach John Rizzo complimented starting pitchers Greg Osterhout and Keegan Ferris, and said the team responded well after suffering only their second loss of the season in the first game. “Greg pitched an unbelievable game in the first game. Just a couple bad breaks, a couple balls that fell that weren’t hit that well, and that was it. We ran into a good pitcher, too. That happens sometimes,” said Rizzo. “We bounced back in the second game, swung the bats well, and Keegan battled and changed speeds effectively. We Spartan starting got out of there with pitcher Greg the split, and we’ll try Osterhout to take two next time.” In the first game, Cayuga failed to capitalize on scoring chances in the first and second innings before breaking through in the fourth. Hazel Martinez led off with a triple and scored on a Tyler Korsky single, and Korsky scored on a Michael Norton single later the same inning. Osterhout cruised through four innings before running into trouble in the fifth. A bases-loaded two-out double and a single CONTINUED PAGE THREE
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