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CAYUGABRIEFS Remembering Professor William Lovell
The college community was sad to learn that Division Chair and Professor William Lovell, passed away August 29, 2014. “In Bill’s passing, we will all miss a valued colleague, friend, mentor, teacher, and respected senior faculty leader. He loved Cayuga Community College and spent his entire career dedicated to student success and promoting the institution’s mission to members of both Cayuga and Oswego Counties,” said Anne J. Herron, Ed.D., Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs in a campus-wide email. “On a personal note, I will be forever grateful for his guidance, support, and ability to clarify seemingly challenging issues in a logical and straightforward manner. I have been fortunate to work with a man of Bill’s integrity and sincere kindness.”
No more Angel; Go to Blackboard By Danielle Skowron, editor-on-chief Blackboard online is alive and well! This semester Blackboard took the place of Angel. Most students use the online system when enrolled in online courses, but many instructors put information about your classroom courses there also so you should sign on soon and check it out. If you are having trouble getting the hang of the new system there is an Orientation that you can take to help you get through the system. You can find that on the left side of the hope page three boxes down!
COLLEGIAN OFFICE HOURS Danielle Skowron, editor-on-chief Monday: 11:00am-1:50pm Tuesday:12:30pm-1:50pm Wednesday: 9:30am-11:00am Thursday: 12:30pm-1:50pm
Vol. 61 Issue 1 September 16, 2014
By Kelsey Mclean, associate editor
CCC hosts Welcome Festival The college welcomed students back to school with games and free food. The event was held Thursday, September 10th on the Auburn campus and Monday, September 8th in Fulton. Coordinators Michael Focthman and Carrin Dresser report both events were well-attended.
Terror lives on in ISIS By Kelsey Mclean, associate editor
September 11th is, of course, a date we will always commit to memory. Who will forget that day? However, in our efforts to remember and honor the past, we often forget that evil still lives on today, in the present. While Al-Quada might be gone, its ghost still lives on, in the form of ISIS. ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, is a Sunni Islam extremist group that has recently risen to prominence. They follow in Al-Qaeda’s footsteps, striving enact a Salafist-- or traditionalist-- state in Iraq, Syria, through any means necessary. While the group’s menace is mostly limited to Syria and Iraq for now, their toxic influence and ideology is spreading, and they’re not afraid of making threats. ISIS had released a shocking video-- a captured journalist, an American journalist at that, beheaded live on camera. President Obama made a statement last Wednesday on the nation’s stance against these terrorists, which many felt to be... lacking. While the government obviously opposes such violence, obviously, no real mission statements or stratagems were given, other than that we’ll do something. The problem is that while there’s no doubt that ISIS are terrorists and scumbags, the groups that oppose them are no field of daisies either.
Kidnapped American journalist, James Foley, was beheaded on camera by an ISIS member as a warning more terror is planned for America. Iran’s government doesn’t have a clean nose, not by any means, but they have given permission of assistance against ISIS in any form, even from the United States. In a situation such as this, the enemy of our enemy is our friend... for now. However, it seems ironic that we’re clamoring to stick our noses in Middle Eastern affairs, when not so long ago we were clamoring to pull our troops out of Middle Eastern affairs. A few months ago, such a statement wouldn’t be just controversial, it’d be outrageous. So is it still our business? Should we meddle in their affairs? That’s up for you to decide. Right now, ISIS does not pose a threat to the United States... yet. But they’ve made a statement against us, and everyone else in their way, and it’s only a matter of time before they decide to strike.
Every new year brings new, but also old. The same dreams, fears, goals... but it brings something else, too -- smokers. Every year, of every semester, rain or shine, there’ll be smokers. You’ve probably seen them before. They hang out by the doors, in the crevices and alleyways of the campus, almost always in packs of two and threes. CCC considers itself a tobacco-free community, and makes no bones about its policy in its mission statement -- “Cayuga Community College is a tobacco-free institution and is committed to providing its students, employees, and visitors with a safe and healthy environment. No consumption of tobacco or tobacco products is allowed on any college property or in any college facility; this includes all buildings, grounds, sidewalks and streets within the campus proper.” This was enacted by “Tobacco” is defined the Board of by CCC as any Trustees in cigarette, electronic August 19th or e-cigarette, cigar, in 2009, and took effect pipe, bidi, clove on New Year’s cigarette, and any Day in 2010, other smoking four years ago. product, and any And yet, even now, spotting smokeless or spit s o m e o n e tobacco in any sneaking a form. smoke behind a building or nestled away in the quad has become so commonplace it’s practically considered a part of daily CCC life. And before you say anything, yes, smoking on the campus’ grounds, is still considered smoking on the campus. Nobody’s being fooled here. Whether someone decides to smoke or not is, of course, their own choice and their own business. If it only affected them, though, there’d be no problem. As anyone would know, that’s just not true. According to the American Cancer Society, second hand smoke is the cause of about 3,400 cases of lung cancer, 42,000 cases of heart disease, and up to 1 million cases of asthma and asthma related illnesses. So when you smoke, especially in a public place, you put everyone at risk. It’s not just you. So while you’re certainly free to smoke it up as much as you want at home, please, try to hold out until school’s out. Who knows? It might be a good excuse to finally quit.
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