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Vol. 64 Issue 13

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CAYUGABRIEFS CCC HARLEQUIN PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS ALICE IN BLACK AND WHITE March 15-17 and March 22-24, 8 pm - Bisgrove Theatre

FALL IN FINAL FOUR The Cayuga CC men’s basketball team once again made a valiant second-half comeback, only to succumb to a very good FultonMontgomery team 101-94.

JoJo Staton (Buffalo, NY)

Freshman point guard, JoJo Staton (Buffalo, NY), lead the way with 28 points and was named to the All-Tournament Final Four team.

The play tells the story of the first female photo-journalist, Alice Austen, from the late 1800s until a year before her death in 1952. During a time when social conventions for women demanded marriage and child rearing, Alice pursued her passion for photography, found love with life partner Gertrude Tate.

The Spartans trailed by 18 points with 10 minutes remaining…but fought back to take a 87-83 lead with four minutes left. The sixman squad saw two players foul out and ran out of gas late as they were outscored 18-7 over the final minutes with only four players on the floor to end the game.

Freshman point guard, JoJo Staton (Buffalo, NY), lead the way with 28 points and was named to the All-Tournament Final Four team. Devin Morris (Buffalo, NY) chipped in with 20 points. Sophomore forward, Xavier Norgbey (Bronx, NY), scored 18 points and collected 13 rebounds. Guard Messiah Brown (Bronx, NY) helped lead the comeback in the second half and scored 17 points.

Cayuga stayed in the game by shooting a team record perfect 20-for-20 from the free throw line. The team finished the season with a 20-8 record…bouncing back from only a 5-win season in 2016-17…and return of several key players from this season’s team.

Herkimer defeated Fulton-Montgomery in the championship game and head to Nationals. —Pete Liddell, Director of Athletics

SOMA STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SOMA STUDENT TALENT SHOWCASE April 18th AUBURN CAMPUS 3 – 4:30 pm - College Café SOMA students will perform music, poetry, fiction and non-fiction readings, and theatrical performances.

SOMA Art students will be presenting their work. This is a fun event. Stop by and support our wonderfully creative SOMA students. Refreshments provided.

AUBURN’S ACTIVITIES FAIR RESCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7TH, 10 AM – 1 PM IN THE FRONT FOYER AREA OF THE AUBURN CAMPUS.

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PHOTO BY KEVIN RIVOLI, THE CITIZEN

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Cayuga Community College’s Toni M. Giannettino,Faculty Student Association Executive Director and Student Food Pantry founder, in a photo captured by The Citizen’s Kevin Rivoli, was featured in an article about SUNY’s new initiative to fight against student hunger.

In an article published by The Auburn Citizen on March 3, 2018 about SUNY’s announcement that they formed a task force to handle establishing food banks for students on all the campuses in the system, Cayuga Community College’s Faculty Student Association Executive Director, Toni Giannettino, who spear-headed the creation of a student food pantry on the Auburn campus last semester, brought the article to life when she was featured in a photo standing next to the stash of food already donated and ready for hungry students.

HERE IS THE STATEMENT RELEASED BY SUNY ON MARCH 1: SUNY Announces Food Insecurity Task Force to Support and Advance the Governor’s “No Student Goes Hungry Program” Albany – The State University of New York launched its Food Insecurity Task Force of higher education leaders and students from across the university system, along with experts in the fields of diet and nutrition, campus food service, financial aid, food waste prevention, nutritional research scientists, among others. The group will build CONTINUED PAGE THREE

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Gabby Rizzo EDITOR-IN-CHIEF This is a weird time to be growing up in. When “I, Tonya” came out to theatres, my Dad told me about how big of a deal the Tonya Harding story was and how everyone watched the news for updates as it unfolded. It’s a funny notion to me, considering we have constant availability of information at our fingertips. We are completely inundated with information. Things that happen are revealed to the world within seconds, and there’s always something going on.

Many moons ago, people would have to wait for the newspaper to come out in order to see what was going on. I mean, just a few weeks ago Elon Musk launched a car into space because he thought it was funny. Now, more on that. When I glanced at the headline, it didn’t really interest me. Until I read that he sent a car specifically because he thought it would be funny.

Then I thought it was fantastic and I researched more. My point with the tangent is, having grown up with all of this, I don’t know any different. I have to remind myself that there were much simpler times, not even too long before I was born.

We are constantly aware of everything that’s going on in the world, and

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A RIVER GLEN UPDATE FROM DR. DURANT An email to the campus community from Cayuga Community College President Dr. Durant This email provides an update on the River Glen property in Fulton. The College has worked for the last 30 months with leadership of the Cayuga Community College Foundation to try to secure the properties of River Glen for the long term. As some of you

we can pick and choose which information we want to take in. Which is good, it’s good to be aware and it’s good to learn and form opinions. But sometimes there’s too much of it. Life is difficult.

There’s always something going on in our day to day lives, and hearing really bad news on TV or reading an article on your phone can just weigh you down more. My grandfather would come home from a long day of work, and his idea of unwinding was to watch the news. Now, he’d get worked up over the news, so it is beyond me why he would want to sit and watch that for hours on end after a stressful day at work.

It’s good to be aware of what’s going on in the world, but there has to be some moderation. If there’s no moderation, then the world becomes an extremely depressing place very fast.

There has to be some time to unplug from the world. That’s why I love movies and music. They allow you to escape for however long you need or want. I suppose my point with all of this is, the sudden jump in technology allows us to take in as much information as we want.

Sometimes, we have trouble discerning just how much we should be taking in at a time.

will remember from past communications, the entity that owns the River Glen property was not going to make payments after a certain date. As a result through a process, the College has been recently notified that a sale of foreclosure will be held in early April.

I want to be clear that the College has met all of its financial requirements on time and in full. We will not be leaving Fulton, and the auction does not include our primary building that houses most of our classrooms, faculty and administrative offices and the library at the Fulton Campus. The auction will include the storefront locations and the bank building. Programs in Fulton are not in jeopardy.

The College and the Foundation has developed a thoughtful plan, one that we feel may leave us in a better position. The College will

seek to negotiate a rental agreement with any entity that purchases the property at auction, but we will not enter into an agreement that forces us to overpay to use the storefront locations. We have several solutions available to us moving forward, each of which will allow us to maintain our offerings for students in Fulton. Again, we will not be leaving Fulton and programs are not in jeopardy. This will not impact incoming students.

I held an open forum on Wednesday in Fulton to discuss this and other matters, and I will be available Friday, March 9, at the Auburn campus in room T229 at 2:15 p.m. to discuss this with anyone who wishes to attend.

I appreciate your patience and your work to support our students, and will keep you informed as developments arise.

—Gabby Rizzo, Cayuga Collegian editor-in-chief

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CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE resources and support in alignment with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s “No Student Goes Hungry Program,” a comprehensive program to provide all students with access to healthy, locally sourced meals from kindergarten to college.

“Food insecurity continues to pose a formidable challenge across the United States and for many of our students, to the point of impacting their ability to achieve academic success,” said SUNY Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson. “I applaud Governor Cuomo for leading key stakeholders across New York State to commit resources and form partnerships to solve this issue through his ‘No Student Goes Hungry Program.’ As the largest system of higher education, SUNY has resources in place and expertise to develop a sustainable food source program for our students. Today, 70% of SUNY campuses provide food security through food pantries, other resources for food on site, or strong community partnerships. We will make it 100%.”

Monroe Community College President Anne M. Kress and Food Bank Association of New York State Executive Director Anita M. Paley will co-chair the task force. This month the group will convene and begin work on three initial goals: scale up existing best practices amongst SUNY campuses, leverage corporate and private resources and support, and launch a comprehensive, multi-year campaign to build awareness of SUNY resources.

President Kress said: “SUNY’s Food Insecurity Task Force is focusing on a critical issue that impacts students’ retention and success every day: hunger. At Monroe Community College alone, over half of students responding to a recent Wisconsin HOPE Lab study reported skipping meals

and almost 40% reported being hungry but not eating because of cost. SUNY’s leadership on addressing food insecurity will help assure these students—and so many others— can focus fully on succeeding in and completing college. I appreciate the leadership of Governor Cuomo and SUNY in bringing attention to this growing challenge, and am honored to serve on a group dedicated to identifying system-wide solutions.”

Executive Director Paley said: “The Food Bank Association of New York State is pleased to be working beside SUNY to build upon their demonstrated efforts to resolve student food insecurity on campuses. Food insecurity does not discriminate, it brings with it a hidden shame and a great deal of stress to those who experience it. The students who suffer are often the ones who are working to put themselves through school and may not have access to any other resources to make ends meet. No one should go hungry in America and with Governor Cuomo, the SUNY Board of Trustees and Chancellor Johnson supporting the efforts of the SUNY Food Insecurity Taskforce, at least in New York State will have one more opportunity to resolve the issue. Our Association is grateful to be a part of the solution.”

The Task Force is being coordinated by Associate Provost of Student Affairs Dr. John L. Graham and will include representatives from SUNY’s 64 campuses and the following organizations: Food Bank Association of New York State, University Faculty Senate, auxiliary service corporations, Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York, City Harvest, SUNY Student Assembly, and SUNY Board of Trustees Student Life Committee.

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VINE IS COMING BACK!

By James McKeen, staff writer One of the most popular social media apps, Vine, which featured 6 second videos was taken down on January 5, 2017.

This app gave birth to many Internet celebrities such as both the Pauls, Thomas Sanders, Danny Gonzalez, and the infamous Lele Pons. At the time of the shutdown, the most popular ‘viner’ was King Bach who amassed 16.27 million followers.

Anyway, Vine will be making a comeback. According to Dom Hofmann, (one of the original creators of vine) on January 22nd he tweeted “@vine2app.” v2 is An official Twitter page dedicated to the

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news and letting people know about the come back. On top of this on January 17, the vine forums were created. The forums are dedicated to answering questions people may have about the creation of the app. The app will be known as V2 and is supposed to release as late as before the end of the year. On February 1st, V2 tweeted “targeting app launch this summer. beta before that. In very, very, very limited alpha now. We’ll share details as they solidify. h t t p s : / / w w w. s t a t i s t a . c o m / s t a t i s tics/388249/vine-accounts-popular-followers/

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