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Vol. 57 Issue 5
October 6, 2008
Student Government: Hard at Work By Mike Ouimette, Staff Writer
CCC sophomore Brian “Buzz” Black won the big prize in CCC’s “Think Fast” question competition.
CCC “Thinks Fast” By Natasha King, Editor-in-chief
Imagine an interactive game where the audience actually plays along. Think Fast brings the audience into the game. All participants within the audience are given a remote that allows their answers to be counted towards their final score. There are two rounds leading up to a final round where four contestants get to compete for 200 dollars. Questions ranged from the Television show Road Rules to M a c D o n a l d ’s nutritional facts to the War of Darfur. Some of the questions included road rules, Baltimore Raven’s draft, and Arrested Development. The questions were about anything and everything including history, TV shows, movies, and the NAVY. During each round, the audience competes for the highest score. Then the contestant with the most points goes on to compete in the final round against three others contestants for the final win. And at the end of each round, they hold a mini-contest for the other two finalists. Between each round, some members of the audience were asked to go to the front of the
theater and compete for a spot in the final round. The first minicompetition was a dance off, and the second was a ‘singing’ competition. The audience was amused by the ‘Straight Talk’ questions, where random people on a street were asked silly questions, such as the number of one-night stands they had and if they would sleep with a teacher to get an A in their class, and the audience had to guess what they thought the answer would be. Brian “Buzz” Black made it all the way to the final round, beating out several competitors, to win the $200. “’Cause I’m smart” Buzz laughed when asked why he won. Host Jason Luong is the owner of the Think Fast collaboration. He works with 26 other companies, and 40-60 ‘heads’. Luong has owned the company for three and a half of the four years the company has been around. Over the four years, they have been featured in three different magazines. They have also been on Letterman. “If you can name a college or club, we’ve been there.” Luong says. “We are the most famous non-famous company.”
On Friday September 26th, CCC’s student senate held a meeting in the BIC room at the Fulton Campus, and in the Distance Learning Room, M-328, at the Auburn Campus. The ideology of the senate meetings is to have clubs present their ideas and to pass new legislation. The first order of business was to go over the old business from the final meeting of last year’s senate. Drew Young, SGO President, brought up the notion of changing the legislation of Article 3 – Section 2, Line 1, ‘There must be two officers from a club to cast a vote.’ The changes would permit only one club officer to be at the senate meeting and still be allowed to cast a vote. The vote was nearly unanimous, and this has become the new rule at the senate. The second order of business was to inform the clubs of the new SGO E-Mail network, in order to have clarified communication between all of the clubs and SGO. The SGO e-mail is cayugasgo@gmail.com.
Each club is to give SGO their club e-mail address to allow ease in conveying messages back and forth. The third order of business was to elect new members to the SGO. The first was the new treasurer, voted in 12-8, Alaric Robin. The second was the new secretary, uncontested victory, Brandon Gilmore. The fourth order of business was to speak on the budgets for the clubs. Some clubs may get part of their budgets cut because of not spending all of it. Others may not receive the increase based on their spending. Nothing is set in stone until after FSA board meeting. The fifth and final order of business was to mention upcoming events planned by SGO and the other clubs. Currently planned is a blood drive for November 13th, which people are needed to volunteer and sit at the table, or just to donate blood. Other events are still in the planning phase, including the Fall Festival.
CCC to ‘Rock the Vote’ By Andy Brown, Assistant Editor On Wednesday, October 15th, in the Cayuga’s Bisgrove Theatre, it is “Rock the Vote” time. Way back when, MTV initiated “Rock the Vote,” a movement orchestrated to get young college students interested in being registered to vote, and then voting. The presentation will take place at 7 o’clock PM, and attending will be MTV’s own Rachel Robinson, the Road Rules contestant. The 25 year-old will speak to students and try to interact with them to get students to play their part in the voting process. MTV’s “Rock the Vote” has a mission that they strive to complete. It is to “engage and build the political power of young people in order to achieve progressive change in our country,” according to rockthevote. com. “Rock the Vote” uses specific methods including music, popular culture, and new technology to try and sway young people to register and vote in every election. At the seminars that MTV hosts, they give the youth the tools that they need to identify, learn about, and react to the issues that affect their lives, and then use this knowledge in a constructive way in the political process. The Student Activities Board wanted to do this because it is a huge election year. So, Norman Lee
called the MTV agency and booked it, and MTV said that Robinson was available to come and try and empower CCC students, and get them to realize that voting is important, and that a difference can be made. Don Brewer, of Cayuga, thinks “it is a great idea to get kids to try and vote, but if they know nothing about it then it is pointless. This is why I like this movement, because it will teach kids about the power that they have, and it’ll teach them about the big-time topics in politics. I hope it’s a hit.”
MTV’s Rachel Robinson