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CAYUGABRIEFS Renowned dance crew coming to CCC

By Steve Brewer, associate editor In less than two weeks, CCC will be visited by the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, a dance ensemble that began in 1970 and has grown into a world renowned group with many accolades to their name.

According to their website, the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble is broken into four parts, “the CPRD Ensemble, Academy, Theatre, and Education programs. Working in concert, CPRD programs have created an oasis where a varied population ­by gender, race, age and ethnicity ­gather to study and appreciate a modern, cross­ -cultural approach to creative community development.”

The list of events the ensemble will be doing includes a meet and greet Thursday, September 29th at 11:00 AM in the Black Box on the Auburn Campus, classes that night starting at 6:00 PM in The Cube for beginners and Spartan Hall for intermediate and advanced dancers. Tickets are $25/$35 respectively, which also covers the cost of admission for the main performance, Friday the 30th at 7:00 PM in the Bisgrove Theatre.

Tickets for the main performance only are $12. The event is co­-sponsored by the Student Activities Board of Cayuga Community College and the Cayuga County Community College Foundation.

For more information about the events, please see SAB Advisor Margaret Thomas or Director of Student Activities Norman Lee. For more information about Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble head over to their website www. cleoparkerdance.org.

Vol. 63 Issue 3 September 21, 2016

SGO VP ACTIVITIES FAIR VOTE VOID SGO President admits mistakes were made

Creative Writing Club: (L-R) Liz Stainstreet, Casey Pinder, Emma Jarvis and Cooper Arnink-Alder

By Zak Haines, staff writer

National Society of Leadership and Success: (L-R) Jenna Mclaughlin and Sarah Dann

CCC Auburn Library open on Sundays The library on CCC’s Auburn Campus will be open Sundays 12 - 4 PM.

Every Wednesday at 11 AM on the CCC Fulton Campus, a pulled pork or chicken sandwich and bag of chips is only $5.00. You can add a can of soda for $1.00 more.

Also, WAFFLE WEDNESDAY IS BACK on the FULTON campus. Enjoy a freshly-made Belgium Waffle from 8 AM - 11 AM in the Student Center (next to the campus bookstore).

Join the staff of The Cayuga Collegian! Staff meetings are Wednesday at 11 am in M213. All are welcome! Can’t make the meeting? Just email cayugacollegian@gmail.com.

WIN89FM: (L-R) Mike Bucklin, Bill White, Brian Thomas, Zakery Haines, and Mecca Brooks

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New Fulton Food

CCC’s Auburn Student Government Organization’s (SGO) first Student Senate Meeting of the semester ended in chaos last Friday.

The meeting was called to order despite a lack of the required quorum of club leaders. SGO Present Steve Brewer said it had appeared at first that the appropriate number of club leaders had attended. He said the original roll call found 16 organization representatives in attendance which is more than the minimal required number of clubs and organizations present to go ahead with the meeting.

The agenda consisted of going over the dates for leadership training for club officers, the Cleo performance later this month, discussion of the bone marrow and Red Cross Blood Drive, and a few more other activities. However, the big topic was voting for the vacant vice president position.

At the end of the last academic year (2015-2016), there was a vacant spot for SGO vice president. According to the SGO Constitution, there can not be any vacant SGO positions and openings must be filled at the start of the next academic year with a Senate vote.

When the Senate reached this item on the agenda, SGO President Steve Brewer told the Senate they could vote for the new VP at the meeting or hold a student-wide election the following week. That particular vote ended 7-4-1 with seven voting for an immediate Senate vote, four voted for student-wide voting the following week, and one representative abstaining. Following the vote, the vice president election was held and a winner was chosen, but after the meeting the vote was deemed invalid.

Why was the vote invalid?

Because there were organization representatives there that were not allowed to vote, so there really wasn’t a quorum present, and the meeting shouldn’t have taken place.

You may wonder “Why are certain clubs not allowed to vote?”

The major reason organizations like Harlequin, Student Activities Board, and The Cayuga Collegian can’t vote is because these entities do not receive their budgeted funds through the FSA and are obtained independently.

Representatives from these organizations may attend Senate meetings but they are only allowed to “Voice their concerns.”

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The Cayuga Collegian is looking for Fulton staff members

OPINIONS Steve Brewer ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Each semester The Cayuga Collegian staff puts in calls for Fulton students to join our ranks, yet few have answered the call over the years. Last year, we had one reporter who wrote news articles and submitted photos from the Fulton Campus, but we were unable to attract anymore staff from the Fulton Campus.

I have to wonder why this is the case?

Recently I visited the Fulton Campus to assist with orientation, and I was able to reach out to several students and faculty about this and heard a few different reasons why people there aren’t joining The Cayuga Collegian. Complaints ranged from Fulton stories being overlooked and not put into the paper, to the Fulton students not knowing the Auburn staff so they were not comfortable contributing.

As the Associate Editor, I can reassure you that we truly want input from the Fulton Campus and will include news

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SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR

My name is Kristen Scala, I am 21-years-old. I am in the Telecommunications program here at CCC. I hope to someday be a producer or a scriptwriter. I plan on graduating CCC in December and move on with my degree at Fredonia State.

In my spare time I love to relax and watch Netflix.

FULTON

My name is Malcolm Huey and I’m the social media director. I’ve been with The Cayuga Collegian for awhile and always wanted to expand to new places on the Internet.

I would like to call myself “the video guy” of the group. Where ever there’s a camera, it usually has something to do with me. I look forward to another great year with this group of talented student writers and hoping to turning some heads.

articles and photos from there when they are submitted to us.

When I became Associate Editor, I decided to be committed to making the representation of both campuses equal in The Cayuga Collegian.

Students of Fulton — we need your reports from the Fulton Campus.

Without your input The Cayuga Collegian is only able to tell half the story!

Remember, The Cayuga Collegian not only brings today’s readers the news on campus, but also serves as a historical record of what happens here in Auburn and Fulton.

One solution may be to appoint an editor of the Fulton Campus to provide direct leadership for Fulton students wishing to write for The Cayuga Collegian.

This is something that I have discussed with our advisor and we want to develop a solid staff of Fulton students and see if

one person wants to come forward as the Fulton Editor. This person would assign topics to reporters, collect the materials from their staff, edit the articles they receive for spelling and grammar, before submitting it to Mary G. Merritt, the faculty advisor of The Cayuga Collegian, who is also the person who formats the issues before sending them to the printer.

So Fulton students, we have heard your input and want you to know that we will do everything within our power to make it so that your voices are heard in The Cayuga Collegian, but with that, we do need people to step forward to become staff for us.

If you are interested please email us at cayugacollegian@gmail.com and we will be happy to have you! I will also be coming up to Fulton Campus during the semester so you can speak to me in person if you wish!

CCC campus weighs in on Kaepernick sitting protest

By Zak Haines, sports writer As San Francisco 49’s quarterback, Colin Kaepernick continues his protest by sitting during the playing of the National Anthem at the start of his games, The Cayuga Collegian, asked people on campus to answer a survey about what they thought about Colin Kaepernick’s protest.

The survey included more than 40 participants, ranging from students to staff, and many from different races and ethnicities. The results showed that the majority of those who participated agree with Colin Kaepernick and his protest. It was a draw for disagreeing, unsure, didn’t care that much, or needed more information.

The main reason survey participants

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One participant said, “(Kaepernick) is a public figure and is often in the media. If he’s a professional athlete, he needs to act a certain way because everyone sees him including ‘easily’ influenced people who only follow trends.”

Another person said, “Kaepernick can protest but it’s the wrong time to when the National Anthem is playing.

He needs to find other ways to protest or help inner city youths so they can avoid racism.”

Among the people who disagreed, there were a couple of participants who made some racist remarks about Kaepernick.

The people who said they were unsure, said the main reason they felt that way was because the issue didn’t harm or offend them in anyway. One participant who didn’t feel affected by this protest also said, “It’s his First Amendment right and why should I tell him what to do with it. If I was to tell everyone how to act I might as well be Kim JongUn.” In a shocking turn of events while collecting responses for the survey, a new category was added called ‘agree, but also disagree.’ A few of the people surveyed said that on a personal note, they disagreed, but on a professional note, they agreed that Colin Kaepernick had the right to protest under the First Amendment.

It seems that many members of the campus community agree with Colin Kaepernick, and some who disagree have very strong opinions. However, Arian Foster, a running back for the Miami Dolphins who also protested by taking a knee during the National Anthem, said this after a game a week ago Sunday.

“This is exactly what this country is all about. We have people in other countries that if they speak out they get beheaded, they get killed, they get tortured. That’s not what this is about.

If somebody disagrees with it, they can disagree with it -- but respect that right to protest. Those same people who fought and died for our right to protest fought for your rights.”

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said they agreed with Colin Kaepernick was because they felt it was his right to protest. They said they felt it was all right to sit or take a knee during the National Anthem because his right to freedom of speach is protected under the First Amendment. One participant even jokingly said, “We don’t live in North Korea and we have rights so he (Kaepernick) can protest however he feels appropriate.”

Some African American participants said they fully agreed with Colin Kaepernick. Some said they have experienced racism first hand and felt enough was enough. Being tired of having prejudice all around them, some participants felt this protest can bring up some serious conversations about racism in America.

For the people who said they disagreed, there wasn’t a lack of reasons why they disagreed. For many, they thought it was disrespectful to do that during the National Anthem. Many felt disrespected by this protest, including a participant who said he is a veteran.

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SAGA Club: ‘love whoever’

By Tyler Sweet, staff writer

Allison Wellington, President Sexuality and Gay Acceptance (SAGA) “Watch what you say, it could possibly offend someone who you don’t know is listening,”said Wellington.

SAGA is a student-run organization that draws in both LGBT and straight students to support and provide a safe zone for everyone.

The group also pledges to stand up for LGBT, racial, gender and economic justice.

“Last year we made a video interviewing straight people, asking them things that LGBT people are asked, so that they can see how it feels to be hounded,” explained Wellington. She says the students who were interviewed, including Wellington, got a little insight about how it feels to be an LGBT person.

She says the straight participants also began to understand the feeling of being poked and prodded with questions which are often asked to members of the LGBT community.

Two of the questions were, “How

long have you been straight?” and “When did you tell your parents that you were straight?”

Wellington says LGBT individuals are asked these kind of questions all of the time and it makes them feel as if they’re different, when truly we are all equal.

Wellington says that club members are trying to make the restrooms in the college ‘transgender friendly.’

“Transgender people should be comfortable and allowed to use any restroom that they wish,” said Wellington.

There is a red sign beside the bathroom near the Center for Academic Success, which Wellington says was put there

by SAGA members. The sign reads “Inclusive Bathroom,” and has the transgender symbol on it.

Wellington says the SAGA club is doing extremely positive things around the college campus in order to create happiness for those who may be struggling to feel comfortable with themselves.

Wellington also says that around the Christmas season this year, club members would like to sell hot chocolate and ornaments as a fund-raiser.

She says they would like to be able to hold events as a group, however money is needed to be successful in doing that.

“We’ve done free movies in the past and given pizza to those attending, which brought together quite a large crowd,” Wellington said.

She say Currently the club has ore than over 20 members and is looking for more!

“Let’s come together and have a place where you can be yourself, with no restrictions,” exclaimed Wellington. She urges you to stop by room M246 on Mondays at 11AM and get involved!

SGO VP vote void...

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out an email following the meeting stating” “The SGO were typing up the minutes from today’s Senate when we noticed that there was an error made when we counted the number of clubs and organizations present.

We need a minimum of 15 clubs but only had 13 present today, the error came because there were two student organizations present that do not have a vote in the Senate but were there to voice their support.

They were mistakenly counted

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when they should not have been and we were thus not at quorum today. Thankfully we only had one vote which was on the SGO Vice President position but the lack of quorum still renders the vote void.

It is unclear if these groups will ever be allowed to vote, but for this year, they will not be allowed to vote.”

Other reasons the Senate meeting was deemed invalid was some of the clubs had no student senators present and only sent advisors to the meetings. The SGO rules state it does not allow advisors to vote on issues because it’s the ‘student’ Senate and doing so would contradict students’ rights. And finally some clubs haven’t decided who their senators are and had to miss the meeting.

After all was said and done, there was technically only 13 clubs present and therefore there was no quorum so the vote did not count.

The SGO is asking club senators, or officers if your club does not have senators, to go see Margaret Thomas in The Cube to cast your vote. The results will be tallied at a later date.

If the SGO was looking to start off the school year with a bang, it was clearly a miss fire in the wrong direction.

ACTIVITIES FAIR

By Chumani Ketcham, staff writer

DANCE CLUB: (L-R) Advisor Kathy Zamniak and Michala Wellington

Last week, Cayuga Community College held its annual Activities Fair for students on both campuses.

The fair showcased clubs that wanted to show themselves off to get new members and just to show that they are there. Anime Club, Sexuality and Gender Acceptance Club

(SAGA), Criminal Justice Club, Brothers and Sisters In Christ (BASIC), Tutor Club, History Club and Business Club were there, just to name a few. The fair helps get more students involved which can give students a bigger support group to help them get through college.

ART CLUB: (L-R) Jessica McDonald and Jo Gromaske

ANIME: (L-R) Esne and Rachel

MUSIC CLUB: (L-R) Michelle LaGreca and Jake Stuck

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PHOTO BY KODY FOWLER

“Love whoever,” said Allison Wellington. She is the leader of the Sexuality and Gay Acceptance (SAGA) Club at Cayuga Community College.

This is Wellington’s second year as the president of the group.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE CLUB: Julia Dimatteo

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1779: The year the Finger Lakes burned Ghostly Brief: Trespassing Is Trespassing!

As someone who used to be a full­-time ghost hunter there is one question that I always get asked this time of year: where should I go to see a real ghost? Ignoring the fact that this question can be seen as an oxymoron, my answer is always the same regardless of where I suggest: never trespass!

Every year around this time many people become interested in the paranormal and seek out locations that are haunted for thrills or to quench their fixation with the paranormal. Some of

these people take things too far. They believe that because a place is listed on the internet as “haunted” that gives them automatic permission to visit it or even break into it without permission.

I have several friends who own locations that are believed to be haunted and every fall they report break-ins by people who wanted to get spooked, but didn’t bother getting permission with the owner before going to the locations.

This is saddening because they often do damage to the locations which the owners have to pay for out of their own pockets. This can also lead to the owners restricting access to the locations, making it harder for people who want to visit them legitimately to do so. I do not care what your rationale is to doing this, trespassing is trespassing, and if you are caught, you can be arrested for it. If you want to visit places that are haunted please ask me and I will tell you how to do it legitimately.

jor incident until the first company neared modern day Elmira where it found a large ambush party of several hundred Native American fighters and Loyalists. Having spotted the ambush party, the campaign set up around it before luring the ambushers into a trap causing many of them to be caught in the crossfire. Many broke ranks and fled while many of those who stayed to fight were killed.

After this, the two companies regrouped and marched unopposed into the Finger Lakes where they continued to destroy any Native villages they came across and all the crops they could find.

The campaign travelled from modern day Elmira to what is now Watkins Glen, along Seneca Lake to Geneva and then West to present day Geneseo, where it was decided that they would turn back due to lack of supplies. On their way back to Elmira, they went along both sides of Cayuga Lake from Montezuma Swamp at the northern end to present day Ithaca in the South.

In all, the campaign claimed to have destroyed more than 40 villages and associated crops.

Today stone markers are present at sites of villages destroyed during the campaign, while New York State Historical Markers note the movements of the campaign throughout the area.

The campaign officially entered what is now the Finger Lakes region in early September 1779 and was in the area until the end of the month making this September the 237th anniversary of the campaign passing through the region.

Several villages, towns and cities are now built where native villages once stood before their destruction in 1779 and they include: Aurora, Canandaigua, Cayuga, Elmira, Geneva, Ithaca, Trumansburg, Union Springs, Waterloo & Watkins Glen along with many that are outside of the region.

While out and about in the area ,keep a keen eye out for a large stone marker with a bronze plaque, it could be about this campaign and most have a lot of information about the campaign including a detailed map on the front and often a plaque on the back details information about the site.

By Steve Brewer, Associate Editor Growing up in the Finger Lakes means many things: beautiful car rides, access to exquisite foods, and being able to live in a region that is rich in history. This history spans centuries back and includes the birth of the Woman’s Rights Movement in Seneca Falls, the birth of Mormonism in Palmyra and the many Native American sites that are located throughout the region.

In fact, the first history native Finger Lakers are taught is about how the lands in Central New York were once the home of the tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy and how they relinquished much of their lands after the Revolutionary War in the Treaty of Canandaigua. A question that is often overlooked in history books is why the Iroquois signed away so much land. Many people think that this area did not see any action during the Revolution and they are actually wrong, the Finger Lakes area was the site of a military campaign carried out by the Continental Army under orders of General Washington himself.

This military campaign took place in 1779 and directly led to most of the Iroquois Confederacy leaving their lands to live elsewhere. I am speaking of the Sullivan­Clinton Campaign, also referred to as the Sullivan Expedition of 1779.

To best understand the Sullivan­Clinton Campaign, we need to go back two years prior to the Battles of Saratoga in October 1777. The hard fought Colonial victory signaled an end to most of the major action in the Northern theater of the war. The British realized with the Colonials soon turning their sights on the fighting in the Southern colonies, a Colonial victory would not be far off.

A plan was quickly made to attempt to keep the attention of the Colonists split between the North and South which would be achieved by arming British aligned Native Americans and Loyal-

ists who would then pillage the frontier settlements in New York and Pennsylvania. In 1778, the raids started with settlements in Cobleskill, Minisink, and numerous smaller communities being attacked and destroyed. In the early raids, the residents were left largely unharmed with casualties among those who took up arms against the raiders, but even this was handled in a largely civilized manner with anyone who surrendered left unharmed.

It was not until the Colonists staged a counter raid destroying two key Native villages, that the raids became violent with the settlement of Cherry Valley razed and many inhabitants killed.

This frontier war continued into 1779 when the Continental Congress stepped in and called for action to end the hostilities. In April of 1779, the first stage of the campaign was started, a raid into Onondaga territory to destroy their principal village and remove any threat they might cause to the main part of the campaign that was organizing itself to the East in Schenectady and South in Easton, N.J. The raid on the Onondaga started from Fort Stanwix in Rome where the company crossed Oneida Lake on boats and attacked several Onondaga villages in the greater Syracuse area before returning to the fort with many prisoners of war. Like the main campaign to follow, any crops and buildings in the villages were destroyed while livestock was taken or killed.

The main campaign was divided into two parts, one would start from Schenectady and travel West until it reached the source of the Susquehanna River in modern day Cooperstown where it would then follow the river to modern day Elmira. The other part would start in modern day Easton, N.J. and travel Northwest until it reached the Susquehanna River which it would then follow until it found the other company. Both would then march together into the Iroquois homeland which is now the Finger Lakes. The plan went off without a ma-

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