The Crier
Thursday, March 5, 2009	Issue 19	Spring	2009
CCC Music Gufld and Muse of Fire Theatre Present
Tintypes
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Mel Marvin and Gary Pearle
Musical Direction by Loueda Bleiler,and Stage Direction by Mary Guzzy
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CCC Spencer Hill Campus, Science Amphitheatre Thursday - Saturday March 26, 27, 28 at 8 pm Sunday, March 29th at 2pm Box Office: 607.962.9002
Tintypes is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 www.
MTIShows. com
Who:	CCC Music Guild and Muse of Fire Theatre
What: Tintypes Conceived by Mary Kyte With Mel Marvin & Gary Pearle When: Thursday, March 26, 8pm Friday, March 27, 8pm Saturday, March 28, 8pm Sunday, March 29,2pm
Where: Science Amphitheatre,
Corning Community College 1 Academic Drive, Corning, NY 14830 How Much: $10 General Admission $5 Students and Seniors 65+
**BOX OFFICE: CALL 607-962-9002**
Everything Old is New Again in CCC’s Production of Tintypes'.
Its the turn of the century! Technology is changing our lives at home and at work! Everything is new! The future is open before us - what will they think of next? Sound familiar? As in our own 21st, the beginning of the 20th century in the United States was an exciting period of growth - and all the challenges that come with it. Tintypes, conceived by Mary Kyte with Mel Marvin and Gary Pearle, is a delightful musical revue celebrating this period in American history and featuring the wonderful, hummable tunes from the turn of the 19th to the 20th century.
Tintypes is the inaugural joint production of two faculty led organizations: CCC’s Muse of Fire Theatre (formerly Two Bit Players) and The Music Guild, with musical direction by Loueda Bleiler and stage direction by Mary Guzzy. Historical figures such as Teddy Roosevelt, Anna Held and Emma Goldman, along with imaginary characters interweave their stories with golden oldies such as “The Yankee Doodle Boy,"“A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, Meet me in St. Louis,” "America the Beautiful,” just to name a few.
Tintypes features CCC student singer-actors Nitasha Clinton, David Dockstader, Gail Frager, Janelle Heinig, James Mitchell, Katie Owens, Isaac Quattlebaum and Catherine Sentigar. We are all looking forward to seeing the show illuminated by the lighting design of student (and theatre godsend) Cynthia Many.
Tintypes opens Thursday, March 26 at 8pm, and runs through Sunday, March 29, with performances at 8pm Friday and Saturday and a 2pm matinee on Sunday. Tickecs are $10, with a discounted rate of $5 for senior citizens 65+ and for students.
Nominated for several Tony and Drama Desk awards, Tintypes promises an evening of song and laughter that will lift you above our troubled times and remind you of all we have to celebrate in America.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
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What’s Happening in Student Government?
By Anthony Popkin
Each week your Student Association Government Assembly (SAGA) meets to discuss issues and concerns that affect students, college wide. You may be asking, what is SAGA. As any other governing body, it is comprised of several different levels of government in order to keep a form of checks and balances. It consists of the Executive Board, the Student Senate, and the House of Representatives, each of which each plays a significant role in allowing communication between students, staff, faculty, and administration.
Your SAGA began meeting the second week of the semester; below are some of the areas that have been going on and are being discussed. Your feedback is important; if you have any questions, concerns, or comments please see members of your SAGA, located in the lower level of the Commons building.
Guest Speaker
C.W. Turner, Advising and Counseling Services, came to SAGA to discuss the annual Regional Job Fair. Traditionally, the job fair had been held at CCC, but beginning last year the job fair was moved to the Wings of Eagles Center. In the new location, there were 100 employers and 2,000 attendees.
This year, the job fair will be held at the Wings of Eagles Center on March 19 from 11:30 — 3:30 p.m. At this time, there are 77 employers signed up and students and alumni are invited to attend if looking for internships, summer jobs, full-time jobs, or any other available jobs in the area.
To make things a bit easier on attendees, Advising and Counseling Services will have “easy passes," which are cards that can be filled out with ones contact information. By doing this, one can give the card at the entrance and go in without having to give the information at the door.
Advising and Counseling Services is also looking for volunteers to help with the event. If you would like to help with the event you can e-mail Connie Winant, SA Executive Board President, at SAEB@corning-cc.edu.
Elections
Election packets are now available for pickup in the Student Life Office and can also be returned to the same location. If you are interested in becoming a member of the Student Government or have any questions, please see Anthony Popkin or Woody Knowles. Elections will be taking place the last
week of March on MyCCC.
The following positions will be available during the elections: President, Vice President, Student Trustee, Auditing Treasurer, Treasurer, Secretary, five Senators, and ten Judiciary Candidates. All petitions are due by Tuesday March 10th, no later than 3:00 p.m. The SAGA open forum (where candidates give their speeches) will take place on Thursday March 12th starting at 1:00 p.m.
Parking on Campus
SA Executive Board President Connie Winant gave a report on a recent luncheon the SA Executive Board had with the Senior Staff. One of the more discussed issues within SAGA was the discussion of Parking on campus.
During the discussion there was some healthy debate on whether or not students and employees of CCC should have to pay for parking permits or not, if there should be more enforcement of employees that receive tickets, and if there should just be open parking for all.
Some of the points made included:
♦ Currently students are paying for parking passes but employees are not. Some students think that being an employee of CCC does have its privileges and we should not want them to have to pay for permits out of spite.
♦ There seems to be a problem with employees parking in both employee lots and students lots, which seems unfair as these spots are supposed to be designated as suggested above.
♦ It also seems that there have been issues with employees receiving tickets, which are then waived. A majority of students in SAGA feel that if an employee receives a ticket for parking in student parking, it should be paid.
♦ Discussion also took place regarding universal parking. Possible open parking without designations could alleviate the problem with tickets for employees and students could still pay a fee.
At this point, SAGA has voted on pursuing the idea that when employees receive tickets, the ticket be enforced and not waived, and it was also voted that SAGA will research the idea of open parking and bring the idea back for further discussion.
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Race and Racism Revisited
By Michael Coates
Any chinking American must inevitably reach two conclusions about our society with regard to race: first, that some people always have and always will use the color of someone’s skin, the shape of someone’s skull, or the tonal qualities of someone’s accent as a reason to anonymously despise them.
This practice is generally called racism, and it’s been with us for a really, really long time.
The other inevitable conclusion of any thinking American is that such patterns of thought and behavior are not only foolish (being based upon assumptions that are impossible to validate), but also detrimental to the well-being of our nation.
Both of these conclusions are true, if rather shallow, but it is the underlying social causes of these problems which demand attention, and it is only by addressing these causes that anything productive will ever be done.
The first of these causes is also the most obvious: poverty. On all sides of the issue of race, poverty has made things ugly, and continues to do so, whether by encouraging poor children to learn racist attitudes (everyone needs a scapegoat, especially when life really sucks) or by contributing to the mistaken belief that race and crime are somehow related (rather than recognizing criminal activicy as a symptom of crushing poverty: any one, of any color, is going to steal a loaf of bread before he watches his children starve).
The grip of poverty is more central to this issue even than childhood conditioning, however, because it controls one’s circumstances throughout an entire lifetime: a child of any race born to an impoverished household is less likely to attend a good school, therefore less likely to attend college, and therefore less likely to ever secure employment that will ensure his/her own children don’t repeat the cycle. Similarly, an impoverished child of any race is more likely co learn to hate those who are different than the child of affluent parents, because of the need to blame someone for the all the myriad disadvantages and inconveniences of life at the bottom of the economic ladder.
It follows that education, too, is central to the continued problem of racism: thinking on it for just a moment, how many racists have you known (of any color) that had all their teeth, or spoke proper Englishi1 My own experience
suggests that it's not that many, which is only logical: an educated person can often think of a great many reasons to hate another individual, regardless of skin tone.
There are, of course, major historical issues involved in the question of race relations in America—issues which we'll not touch on here, because they’re simply too time-consuming. Suffice it to say that some very bad things have been done in the past, most of which can’t really be made up for, and none of which should be forgotten.
The last few decades have witnessed a remarkable effort by society as a whole to do away with discriminatory practices, and to promote a more wholistic and inclusive society than has perhaps ever existed in the history of humankind. Certainly, the recent election of our nation’s first non-white President was an historic event and a sign that a good deal of progress has been made toward creating a society in which all men truly are created equal.
But it is naive and dangerous to assume that one victory alone can dispel the specter of racial tension. The tactics of the GOP in the last presidential election (while unsuccessful) demonstrate readily that race and racism are still very real issues in our society; to assume that the election of any one leader, or the cooperation of the people on any one project will totally dispel centuries of hostility is asinine at best, and potentially disastrous at worst.
On the issue of race, as in almost every issue that joins social and political concerns, the greatest danger to the republic lies in complacency, in the impulse to declare the entire problem of racism over based on the evidence of one man’s successful campaign for office. Because race is still very much an issue, and racism is still very much a problem in our nation, and to allow any issue so divisive as this one to go unobserved and undealt with for long can lead only to something profoundly unpleasant.
Is Barack Obama’s election as President of these United States a sign that there is hope? Certainly. But it should be viewed as the beginning of a more perfect union, and not as a final victory over the evils of discrimination, because such a victory can and will come only after long years of open dialogue between members of all races have taken place.
Many students could be found at Soul Full Cup on Market Street on Tuesday, March 3 for Coffeehouse Game Night, an APC event involving free food and drinks.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
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Your Representation is Constant at CCC
By Anthony Popktn
The firsr break has passed and the second half of the semester is well underway. Your Student Government is still devising plans to help resolve various student issues. Most recently, The Student Association Executive Board met with CCC’s Senior Staff to discuss issues of great concern with students.
Below are the members that represented both constituents:
Student Association Executive Board
Connie Winant - Student Association President
Kenneth Austin — Student Association Vice President
Anthony Popkin — CCC Student Trustee
Jackie Preston - Executive Board Secretary
Alex Ober - Deputy Speaker of the Senate
Sara Manley - Speaker of the House of Representatives
Woody Knowles — Student Association Advisor
Senior Staff
Dr. Bud Amann — President of CCC
Ms. Andrea Rubin - Vice President & Dean of Academic Affairs Dr. H Richard Dozier - Vice President & Dean of Student Development Mr. Tom Carr — Vice President of Administrative Services Ms. Deb Stayer-Kelly - Executive Assistant to the President of CCC Ms. Joan Ballinger — Executive Director of Workforce Development & Community Education
Mr. Barry Garrison — Executive Director of Information Systems
These discussions are important in dialogue between students and senior administration. Below are the issues that were discussed and some of the solutions and ideas that have come between the two groups. The two groups will be meeting at least one more time this semester, and other discussions will occur regarding issues including housing and smoking.
Financing“Stay Safe at College”
Your Student Association Executive Board has been meeting with Michael Von Bevern, Director of Public Safety, to discuss possible ways to provide informative sessions on remaining safe at college. Through this program, the Department of Public Safety (DPS) would be able to conduct training in issues such as protecting your possessions and identity, student assaults, every day safety, common-sense defense and more. The Student Association is looking for a matching fund to provide this to DPS to use to teach sessions during the college free hours and possible during orientation.
Pedestrian Signs
Your Student Government has been working diligently to have pedestrian signs put up on the Spencer Hill Campus. The locations would be at crossing points such as between student parking and faculty parking in front of the Administration Building. We recently inquired on the status of these signs and have been told we will be informed soon.
House of Representatives 5 Year Plan
Sara Manley discussed the progress of the 5 year plan partaken by the House of Representatives. For those that don't know, the House of Representatives has planted 25+ trees behind the parking lot of the Science Building. Further projects include adding a brick pathway and benches.
During the winter, a few of the trees died, but these will be replaced during the dedication of the trees where a placard will also be placed on Saturday April 18th.
High School Learning Center/BOCES Activity Fee
In promoting interconnectedness between members of the High School Learning Center and BOCES, Student Association has given both groups a chance to participate in activities on campus, whether it be through student government or the numerous opportunities allowed by paying an activity fee.
Members of these organizations that are not also taking classes at CCC are charged $25.00 a semester to participate while students of these organizations that are also taking college classes at CCC are only charged the normal activity fee.
Motion Detectors in Bathrooms
The Student Association brought up the fact that some of the bathrooms on campus have motion detectors while others have switches. It was pointed out that some energy costs could be alleviated in the long run if the bathrooms were updated to all have motion sensors. It was stated that the college would look into the possible costs/savings and information would be reported back.
Doors in Elmira Campus
It was pointed out that there are a few sets of doors at the Workforce Development Center (Elmira) that are very heavy and are tough for personnel in wheel chairs to open without a struggle. Further discussed the possibilities of having lighter doors and/or having electronic doors to allow easier access on campus, will report back on this issue.
Add/Drop Classes
In the student handbook, dates of when one can drop a class with a W are marked for classes that are semester long. Module classes (i.e. 7 week classes) fall under a different scheme and are not as clearly explained in the book. Further discussion was taken to possibly put a chart in showing the length of class and when it would have to be dropped to receive a W.
Parking Passes
The Student Association explained their dissatisfaction with the fact that students must pay for parking passes on campus while employees do not. It was further stated that in the past, when employees have received tickets they have not had to pay them, though this has not been a regular occurrence. There is no resolution at this point, but we will still continue to look into this issue.
Unisex Bathrooms
An inquiry was made into the development of unisex bathrooms at CCC.
This initially became an issue raised by transgendered students and is now being pursued by students that have families (i.e. children). It was explained that a committee was established that went through each of the Spencer Hill campus buildings and decisions were made to change bathrooms that would be the most cost efficient. The Executive Board stated that they would like to see any newer buildings that are built have access to normal bathrooms (men/ women) and also have unisex.
Book Delivery to Off Campus Facilities
At one point in time, books were taken to off-campus facilities for students taking classes in remote locations. This practice has been discontinued; it was explained that the use was very intermittent (poor) and students can now order their books online with free shipping. It was established that this was not very efficient and more troublesome than helpful.
Atrium Guts
In the process of building upgrades
onstruction that will be occurring on campus, the Executive Board wanted to ensure that the interior of the atrium in the Commons Buildings will be preserved (i.e. statues). If there any ideas please come and let us know.
Free Hour
An ongoing issue with students is the continuation of classes being scheduled during the free hour. As some may know, the college will be changing its schedule starting next semester to 55 minute classes. With this change, all class times and the free hour times will change. This may be an issue chat fixes itself with the schedule change and will be monitored.
Parking in Elmira
There has recently been an issue with parking on the Elmira Campus, especially with the growth of students and the offering of free tax preparation. To address this concern, the college is currently looking at purchasing a lot from St. Josephs hospital to accommodate the growth in traffic.