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Vol. 59 Issue 3
CAYUGABriefs
CCC Students Help Make a Difference
Computer Science Student Wins CCC Library Research Award Eric Conklin of Auburn has won the 2009–10 Cayuga Community College Library Research Award. Conklin completed his award-winning project, a 10-page research paper on sustainable architecture, for a Freshman Composition class in fall 2009. A Computer Science major at the Auburn campus, Conklin tutors fellow students in writing and mathematics in the college’s Academic Support Center. He is a student intern in Professor Maryanne Felter’s British Literature and Children’s Literature courses. As the winner of the seventh annual Library Research Award, Conklin received a prize of $200 and will have his name engraved on a permanent plaque in the college’s Norman F. Bourke Memorial Library. Created in 2003–4 to encourage information literacy, the award program evaluates student work submitted by faculty members. Entries, without the authors’ identities, are judged by the college librarians based on standards set by the State University of New York and the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
by Crystal Wolfe, Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 6, 2010, (weather permitting), the Cayuga Community College Criminal Justice Club hopes to host their next hamburger and hotdog sale on the Auburn Campus Quad. Pictured Left to Right: William Wahl, Criminal Justice Club Vice President; Heather Allen, President; Danielle Bliss, Secretary; and Thereze Whitfield, Co-Secretary.
Need a Job? Time is Running Out to Apply to be a Collegian Editor In a bold move to ensure both CCC campuses are equally represented in the college’s independent, student-run newspaper, The Cayuga Collegian, faculty advisor Mary G. Merritt has split the former job of one Editor-in-chief into two Co-editors, one to be hired on each CCC campus, one in Auburn and one in Fulton. “It will be an interesting experiment,” said Merritt. Over the years, Merritt and the Collegian staff have reached out to the Fulton campus, looking to find a Fulton correspondent. Participation from Fulton was inconsistent. “However, once I learned that enrollment at the Fulton campus is nearly equal to the enrollment at the Auburn campus, I knew we needed to change how we gather the news so both campuses are represented.” Merritt is actively seeking applicants for both positions. Each editor is paid ten hours per issue. To apply, Merritt is asking potential candidates to email her at mgmword@twcny.rr.com a short description of their writing experience and three samples of news stories they have written. The application deadline is October 11, 2010.
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October 4, 2010
Fulton campus students Kelsey MacDougall and Matt Jennings show off the fancy gadgets they won for videos they created telling “Why I Chose Cayuga.”
CCC Announces YouTube Contest Winners Two Cayuga Community College students have won prizes for creating short videos that tell “Why I Chose Cayuga.” During the past summer, the college posted a YouTube video contest with that theme, inviting incoming students to submit original entries of 30 to 90 seconds in length. Two prizes were awarded, and both winners are enrolled at the college’s Fulton campus. A panel of Cayuga faculty members judged the entries for content, aesthetics, technical quality and overall impression. They awarded the Grand Prize, an Apple iPad, to Kelsey MacDougall of Fulton, a graduate of Mexico High School. Based on online voting, Matt Jennings of Liverpool, a graduate of Liverpool High School, won the People’s Choice award and received a Flip Mino HD digital camcorder. The winning videos can be viewed at www.cayuga-cc.edu/contest.
We now have proof that a small group of people working together can help change the world. The members of Cayuga Community College’s Criminal Justice Club have worked tirelessly to raise money to assist children in Cayuga County who suffer trauma or abuse. The club’s frequent bake sales, hamburger and hot dog roasts, and pizza for lunch fund-raisers have successfully generated hundreds of dollars to help Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) in Cayuga County do what they do best. The CAC is a special place for abused or traumatized children to go and be cared for while the logistics of their case are being worked on. “In the old days, kids who were reported to have been sexually or physically abused would have to wait hours in police stations and hospitals, which more times than not, weren’t kid-friendly. The Children’s Advocacy Center is a colorful environment that acts as everything a child would need who had been abused,” said Norm Ashberry, Law Enforcement Director for the Cayuga County Children’s Advocacy Center. Ashberry spoke along with Rose Grube, an educator for Sexual Assault Victims Advocate Resource (SAVAR) at a recent meeting of CCC’s Criminal Justice Club. The programs Ashberry and Grube represent are both a part of the agency, Cayuga Counseling Services, which has provided quality child and family services in Cayuga and Onondaga counties since 1921. The pair discussed their mission in violence and abuse prevention with the CJ members and encouraged college student involvement in the programs the agency sponsors. For example, they said SAVAR offers a free 40-hour training program to students on how to respond in crisis situations. “This is a look at the victim side of law enforcement,” said Rosa Grube. “Around three quarters of police work involves domestic issues.” She said SAVAR works with adult women and provides therapy for what they have been through by women who have been through it themselves. She said she also has spoken in middle schools and high schools in the area about issues, CONTINUED PAGE THREE
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