1 "Awareness Day” Evokes Interest, Empathy Fridays are usually “sluff” days at CCC, with a majority of students and staff sitting around between classes, hoping and praying for the weekend to arrive. But more people than usual spent the day on their posteriors, the only difference being that their chairs had wheels. As part of a special “Student Awareness Day” at CCC, over 25 faculty, staff, students, and administrators gave up their ambulatory advantage for the day and made their way around campus on crutches and in wheelchairs. The day, originally scheduled for February 8, was postponed due to inclement weather and was held on Friday, February 10. The participants either took part in the entire day or a half day, and were supplied with loaned crutches and wheel-chairs. Their mission was to go about their normal schedule of going to classes, into buildings, up curbs and into and out of offices and lavatories using the wheelchairs and crutches at all times. Dave Clark, coordinator of the project, called it a “true education.” Dave is also the baseball coach at CCC and the advisor to the Disabled Students and Associate Members (DSAM) Club, which partly sponsored the program on Friday. Participants included Frank Anastasio, Nancy Andrews, Betty White, Dave Clark, and A1 Paparelli, all of the faculty or administration; and more than 15 students, including Student Trustee Roger Wood. President Donald Hangen was not a regular participant in the day, but was walking with a cane, having just retired a pair of crutches he has used since December 26 after he fell on the ice and broke his leg. He is still required to have a walking cast on his leg. Plans Announced For Handicap Aids Dave Clark and President Hangen unveiled blueprints on the new physical improvements for the handicapped, which had been budgeted by the college and approved by the SUNY system, totalling $26,000. The new alterations for the handicapped would include new ramps to replace existing wooden ones, new water fountains, curb cut-outs, toilet facilities, special parking spaces and a new handicapped sign progrram. Dr wan0on provements and funds may be possible in the future. Plans for the handicap improvements have been underway since October, under the direction of Dave Frank, Dean of College Services. Bidding will take place in the spring and construction will be completed before the open of school in the fall. Asked what some of his worst experiences were while on crutches, President Hangen said: “...opening doors, walking on ice-covered paths, narrow corridors, walking in large crowds; or on wet, slippery tiles.” Leave your car in Downtown Coming. Leave your car in Elmira. Ride the bus to the East Coming Center, Goff Road, the Off-Campus Center, 5th and Chemung Streets, or the Spencer Hill Campus. DAY SCHEDULE LV^ ^READ ACROS trip leave time MY E-l Elmira - College Avc. A Qiurch St. 7:00 ARRIVE Horseheads - Grand Central Plaza Horseheads - Grand Central Plaza 7:20 Coming - 1st & Chemung St. Coming - 1st & Chemung St. 7:30 CCC • Spencer Hill Campus Corning - 5th & Chemung St. 7:35 E-2 CCC - Spencer Hill Campus 4:00 Corning - 5th & Chemung St. Ride Free Day CCC E. Coming Center, Goff Road TIME Trip Leave Time Arrive Time 0AY DM DM 7:15 G-l Chemung & 7:40 Goff 7:55 1st Sts. 7:30 G-2 CCC 9:00 Goff 9:20 G-3 Goff 9:20 CCC 9:40 7.40 G-4 Goff 10:50 CCC 11:10 G-5 CCC 150 T-Th Goff 2:10 G-6 CCC 3 40 Chemung & 3:55 4:05 1st Sts. Coming - 5th & Chemung St. Corning - 1st & Chemung St. Horseheads - Grand Central Plaza EVENING Night Students. D-l Coming - Coming Public Library Coming - 1st & Chemung St. Coming - 5th & Chemung St. D-2 Corning - Corning Public Library Corning - 1st & Chemung St. Coming - 5th & Chemung St. CCC - Spencer Hill Campus Coming - 5th & Chemung St. Coming - 1st & Chemung St. D-3 CCC - Spencer Hill Campus Coming - 5th & Chemung St. Coming - 1st & Chemung St. D-4 CCC - Spencer Hill Campus Coming - 5th & Chemung St. Coming - 1st & Chemung St. 4:05 4:10 4:25 NIGHT 5:40 5:45 5:50 7:05 7:10 7:15 7:30 7:35 7:38 9:40 9:45 9:48 10:40 10:45 10:48 Horseheads - Grand Central Plaza Elmira - College Ave. & Church St. CCC - Spencer Hill Campus CCC • Spencer Hill Campus Coming - Corning Public Library Coming - Coming Public Library Coming - Coming Public Library 4:20 4:35 NIGHT 5:55 7:20 7:40 9:50 10:50 2 THE CRIER, THURSDA Y, FEBR UAR Y16, 1978 "It Don’t Come Easy” Here it is, the third week of school, the third issue of the Crier under its new management, and already we’re apologizing. Since all great works of art have a binding theme to hold them together, so does this editorial. The theme is, “It don’t come easy.” Believe it or not, producing a college paper each week is quite difficult. But first of all, we’d like to get our apologies out of the way. We apologize to the 150 or so Trade Rehabilitation Act (TRA) students for not printing an important notice that they brought to us. The notice somehow got lost in the shuffle of layout on Saturday afternoon, but that’s really no excuse. It only shows irresponsibility on our part. We apologize to library director Spike Stein for not printing the articles on the blue-ribbon films as he gave it to us. We lost the original copy as he had written it and we had to rewrite the story as best we could remember it. Once a-gain, lost in the shuffle. And once again, no excuse. We’re not sure what to do on this one, but anyway, we’re sorry, Dr. Giuffrida. The headline that stated “Giuffrida Trips Out” could have attracted more readers to the article than any other head could have, but the head carries some negative connotations that could mislead the reader into thinking that the good Doctor was something other than a languages professor. It was cute, we have to admit, but sorry, Doc. We would also like to apologize to you, our readers, for misleading you and not exercising our journalistic responsibility as we should have. Here are some examples (all from our last issue): 1. Our lead story, “Javits To Axe Student Tax,” should have been rewritten to benefit the CCC student, but it read like a news release. 2. Last week’s “Our Side,” bore a title that was totally inaccurate, “Student Government Watergate.” Although the article Thrust And Parry By JQHN T. OLCOTT Editor-in-Chief Nietzsche is Alive and Well, and Living in the Crier I’d like to discuss Man. Note, if you wil the distinction between Man (big M) and man (small m), man with woman being the other half. I could say I’m discussing homo sapiens, thus making the distinction easier. However, I won’t. People have asked for centuries “What is Man’s place in the world?” The answer to the question is quite obvious, Man is master of the world. It is His destiny to exploit his superiority until he progresses beyond the need for material sustanance. If this sounds egotistical, think, Man has the power to destroy the world. Man also can turn the world in- to a paradise. He is the only animal that can reason and plan ahead on a grand scale. Therefore mastery of £>y~Goers*wJlI*\Ken by default. Such massive power as Man possesses also implies massive responsibility. Just as a horse owner can not mistreat his animals or a gardener his plants, Man has no right to destroy the earth. Man can shape it to fit his needs but if He does He must think of the consequences. If Man continues to destroy nature by insufficient foresight and greed He will be punished. If Nature is Man’s servant, Man is Nature’s slave, at least for the time being. If Nature dies so does Man. Man now stands at a forked path. He can continue to play the fool, destroying self in the back. Ur be can use the brain that God saw fit to give Him. The former path will lead to Man’s demise. The latter just may result in His survival. The only object standing in the pathway of Man’s ultimate glory is Man Himself. Man has a habit of creating His own stumbling blocks. These aren’t physical blocks, but mental. The biggest of these “mental blocks” is the “Us against them” (U-A.T.) concept. The U.A.T. concept manifests itself in a variety of ways. The most prominent manifestations are racism and national pride. These twin concepts could destroy the world. Another block is one that I’ve mentioned before, lack of foresight. All the plagues on Man, poverty, starvation, and over population can trace their roots back to lack of foresight. The attitude of “Well, Man will muddle through” is dangerous if the one who holds it sits back and does nothing. Everybody must put forth an effort to make sure Man does indeed muddle through. This will mean sacrifices of not only physical comfort and leisure time, but of cherished ideals. Individu- als majr have to compromise their ideals for the collective good. The wild elephants may have to die out for the good of the African people. Contrarily an airport may have to be built in a less advantageous spot in order to save a swamp. Man has a magnificant future in store for Him. He just has to have the will to reach for it. DID present evidence of some major indiscrepancies in Student Government, there was no cause to label them a ‘Watergate,’ which connotes corruption and all others sorts of bad things. This could be labeled as yellow journalism, and we want to avoid that at all costs. 3. Chris Nichols’ review, “The Best and Worst of Cinema in 1977,” had to be cut due to space limitations and only ‘the best’ were printed. The headline should have been changed, but it wasn’t. Confusing, right? All this may seem like nitpicking to you, but to us it is very serious. We have problems. We’re not really understaffed: in fact, we have enough people right now to produce at least an adequate paper every week. Our problem is dedication. Our problems with style and responsibility would be licked if a few more of our staffers would be a little more concerned about the Crier. So you see, dear readers, this ‘Our Side’ is not directed at you, but at our btaff, for the sake of the betterment of the Crier. Our situation is unique, if anything: some of our staff members spend more time in Trailer #4 than they do in classes, and yet they seem to accomplish very little. Each week, when we take the paper to be critiqued by Betty White, our advisor, she points out a multitude of bum leads and had errammar and nnor style. And this material, poor as it may be, still passes by the editors! Know why? Because by the time some of the reporters hand in their assignments or cartoons or whatever, the editors are busy doing some menial, necessary task that somebody else should have done days before. Therefore, there is little time to proofread when layout deadlines have to be met. Like we said before, newspaper work is a difficult business. But we all know that it could be a bit easier for all of us if somebody tried more. Editor’s Note: As you may already have guessed, ‘Our Side’ is written in what we call the “editorial ‘we’ ”,and is usually written by only one person (sometimes two). Well, this ‘Our Side’ was written by a hopping mad dedicated staff member late last Friday night, who hopes that this article is approved by the editorial board, as it must be to bear the title ‘Our Side!”. Most of the people on the staff, if they read this (would you believe that some of them don’t read the Crier?) will know who I am, but according to tradition and protocol, you, the reader, cannot. The reason that the staff will know is because I have shown my indig-nance at the lack of concern on the staff for some time now. But my fondest wish is that the people presently on the staff, good friends all, will recognize their inadequacies and come to me for help and/or advisement. Whether they choose to believe it or not, they DO need help. I won’t name names, that would be in Dan taste. And thank you, dear reader, for patiently hearing the apologies and woes of the Crier. NADIOLA By DANIEL E. ALOI Managing Editor Comment: Welfare Ripoffs and the ACLU Since last October, computers in Washington, D.C., have been comparing a list of 1.8 million civilians on the federal payroll with another list of welfare recipients in 21 states. So far, ‘Project Match’ has produced 26,334 ‘hits’ - names that appear on both lists. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare alone expects to find 10,000 to 12,000 government workers who are chiseling the welfare system out of from $10 million to $24 million annually. The chiselers face loss of their jobs, having to repay illegal benefits, and possible prosecution. In my opinion, justice should be served to these people who are stealing the government blind. Civil libertarians, however, disagree with me and want me to see the program ended immediately. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says that Project Match exemplifies “precisely the kind of manipulation of personal data that people most fear.” On two previous occasions, the ACLU has beaten down proposals for national computerized data banks (for tax and census information) by successfully invoking fears of 1984 - style privacy invasion Ipy electronic technology. The ACLU further states that Project Match is “affecting only the poor and the weak.” The poor and the weak? I think not. First of all, Project Match is vital to maintain public confidence in the welfare system’s integrity. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano has promised that the program will severely limit access to names of individuals on welfare. So the ‘poor,’ the eligible welfare recipients, are not affected. As for the ‘weak,’ it is not a sign of weakness to accept welfare benefits if one is eligible; but one must certainly be weak to apply for welfare while currently employed, as so many have already done. It’s saddening to me that the ACLU, with a long and distinguished record of protecting the rights of Americans, has to resort to scare tactics to prevent a program that could save the federal government millions of dollars annually. And even if a couple of million a year seems to be a pittance compared to President Carter’s proposed $500 billion budget, the welfare ripoff monies could surely go towards more equitable expenditures. THE CRIER TH URSDA Y, FEBR UAR Y16, 1978 3 VTTS Tnm~B'8'a •ra~rrTrB^TTTrs~rTmrrirE~inrT b g~g~imrB 8~BirB~a~B innrBTB a r»~8~8'a'8'BTTTTrr^B^TrryrrvTrrrrr»'Tr»Tnnn Lj_ SPEAK OUT! WE WELCOME GUEST EDITORIALS From Any Student, Faculty, Staff Or Administration Member. Please Place Them In Our Want Ad Box (Activities Office) Or Bring Them To Trailer No. 4 Behind The Commons. aaa flafloaflaoooBQpfloqaaQBOOQoaoBnoo noaaaa a aaftiovoaaa oaaaaBooBoooaaaaaqaaaeeaooooo' By PAMELA LONG WELL paLLe By GEORGE A. LORD Career Aide "A Clearly Vague Situation" There were days, and they seem further in the past than they are, when I could call myself nineteen. If I had been asked then what I wanted out of life, I would have been hard put to answer. The standard answer would have been to seek happiness. What happiness may have meant to me, I probably couldn’t define either. I had an indefinite goal and was left with no alternative but to pursue it indefinitely. The Great American Tragedy? No. The Great American Possibility. The open path has taught me a lot about myself: my cababilities and shortcomings. It's been difficult but effective. There are advantages to defining your goals. It’s the best way to channel motivation and gauge success. The crime is not letting that definition change with experience. It’s the surest way to fall short of your potential and to be unhappy, if not just plain bored. Motivation is a word mentioned above. Many psychologists, counselors, and I think it is the key to “success.” If nothing else, it makes the difference between going somewhere and going nowhere. Where does motivation originate? The ability to understand yourself and what you want; realizing that you are somebody. You're as great as you let yourself be. So, your motivation is going to be channelled by your goals. A goal will help you save time and energy in getting someplace. The Career Info Center has a variety of books to help yOU undcvotuiwl goalo 1 motivation. The first is already classic text on career choice and job-hunting in the few years since it’s publication; Richard Bolles: What Color Is YourParachute? Bolles covers goal-setting and career choice, along with his specialty in job-hunting. For a more thorough look into knowing yourself, there is Values Clarification by Simon, Howe, and Kirschenbaum. It deals with a wide selection of exercises used by individuals and groups to help recognize their needs and priorities. A source dealing with total self-awareness if Toward A Self-Managed Life Style by Williams and Long. Although the book is sticky in places, the “self-managed life style” is an attractive concept and well worth consideration, at least in part if not in entirety. Since recent years have forced us all to be more a-ware of the problems in this country, there is a timely guide to “living and working for social change.” It is Creating the Future by Beitz and Washburn. The authors bill the book appropriately as “a job catalog for activists.” IV AW » w»jr UU1U an- ectly deals with areas of work