Spring 201 6, Issue #3 The Crier Is Sponsored, In Part, By the Corning Community College Student Association March 22nd, 2016 Movie Review: Deadpool By: Zach Swasta WARNING! Spoilers ahead. Deadpool Release Date: Feb 12, 2016 Director: Tim Miller Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Mo-rena Baccarin, T.J. Miller Studio: Marvel Studios, 20th Century Fox I shall start off this edition of Levinson Corner by stating something about myself. While most of my fellow nerds are heavily into comic book superheroes and craze over the movies (Marvel in particular), I do not. Now I do see as many of them as I can with open expectations, allowing each one to impress or disappoint me. And although I do enjoy them, some more than others, they are not one of my main fandoms. I am too heavily into Star Wars and anime to make room for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in my obsessions. So although I thought Guardians of the Galaxy was an excellent film, it is not exactly a film I would watch over and over again. Not to mention the fact that comic book continuity is very confusing. If anyone would like to educate me on the Marvel timeline, please help me out. So with that said, Dead-pool was the first Marvel movie I was really looking forward to seeing and also the first one to really exceed my expectations. At this point in time, I declare it my favorite Superhero movie, despite the fact that Deadpool isn’t really a superhero, but an anti-hero. To start off, the plot basically, revolves around hitman mercenary Wade Wilson (Reynolds), who finds a new meaning in life when he falls in love with a prostitute (Baccarin). This relationship starts off, as you’d expect, with sex...lots of it. But it quickly forms into a legitimate romance, but one with a curveball, as Wilson is suddenly diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is then recruited into a secret experimental program to help cure his cancer. It is actually a program to create mutants, run by the film’s villain, Ajax (Ed Skrien). Throughout the film, Wilson does not (to my knowledge) refer to him once as Ajax, but rather his real name, Francis. I see this as a parody of two things: villains not resembling their comic book counterparts since Ajax here is different from Ajax in the comics, and also going by their real names in modern comic book adapted media (such as Death-stroke going by the name Slade in Teen Titans). Wilson escapes Ajax’s trap, but mutated by his experiments, looking like “[*several things you’ve heard in the trailer that I can’t put here*]” and having increased abilities such as agility and a healing factor. Not wanting to approach his love interest with his appearance, he turns to his best friend (Miller), who runs a bar notorious for page 2 THE CRIER SPRING 2016, ISSUE #3 Movie Review: Deadpool Cont. By: Zach Swasta fighting. He inspires Wilson to take on the identity of Deadpool, “The Merc with a Mouth”, and boy does he have one. The rest of the plot revolves around Deadpool in pursuit of Ajax (who has holds Baccarin for ransom), while dodging Colossus and Warhead of the X-Men, who are trying to recruit him. Deadpool exceeds everyone’s expectations of the character. The film has plenty of swearing, sexual jokes, blood, cringeworthy action scenes, and sex scenes. It is the perfect setting for the character, who is violent, sexually minded, and has a mouth that would make George Carlin roll in his grave. To put it in summary, the film is bloody, foul, despicable by some people’s definition...and it is GREAT. It is not only the best comic book movie I have ever seen, but it is also one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Is it a comedy? Sure, but the comedy is not the main focus. Most of it is tongue in cheek, really. But it is non-stop laughs through and through, either way. I am surprised I left the theater with both my lungs intact. Of course you would need to have this sort of sense of humor to enjoy it as much as I did. If you aren’t a fan of the grotesque humor that the movie presents, I promise you will not enjoy it at all. The comedy goes perfectly well with the action, which I, for the life of me can never figure out how they pulled off with all that choreography. I could go in depth about the writing, acting, choreography, effects, and how they nailed Dead-pool’s character (even adding fourth wall breaks to it), but it would take forever. I saw it on opening night with my friends, my sister Chloe and I both wearing our matching Deadpool hoodies (pictured). The theater, I think, was twice as packed and busy then as it was for Star Wars Episode VII, which is saying a lot. It was definitely a theater experience I will never forget and one of the best nights of my life. It may be late in its run at this current time, but whether you see it on the big screen or small screen, it can only be seen to be believed. So if you can handle it’s R-Rated material, see it by all means. Now keep in mind, the R-Rated material is NOT what makes the movie good, it is the Deadpool character that makes it good, and what makes it R-Rated. I only wish movie studios would understand this, as I am starting to see a trend stirring up from the success of this movie, with R-Rated comic movies being planned, to which I predict they will be utterly disappointed that it doesn’t work that way. ________Also, for the sake of humanity...DO. NOT. BRING. YOUR. KIDS.___________________________ Black History Month Celebration On Campus By: Silka Jacobson-Evans As a late dedication on campus to Black History month, which was in February, the Diversity Council partnered with the My Brothers’ My Sisters’ Keepers. On the 4th of March they celebrated black history with music, speeches, poems, and a play. Several professors were invited to participate and contribute something that they thought would celebrate black history. Melvin Williams, a professor in the music department, presented the roots of music and the influence that black history has had on even modern music. Sky Moss presented a speech honoring black women and the role they played in history. This was to honor March as Women's History Month as well as Black History Month. The Corning Community College choir students also presented two gospel songs that they were working on for their upcoming concert. During the second song, the new club Show Choir was invited to sing with them. President Douglas gave a speech on the importance of black history and how it affects and will continue to affect all of us. SPRING 2016, ISSUE #3 THE CRIER PAGE 3 Channeling History: Amelia Earhart By: The History Club March is Women’s History Month, and it’s only right that we start it out featuring one of the most prominent historical figures in flight: Miss Amelia Earhart. Born July 24th, 1897, Miss Earhart first found an interest in flight at ten years old after encountering a stunt pilot who dived bombed her and her friends to rile them up. In December of 1920, five years after she graduated high school, she took her first plane ride and knew at once that her purpose in life was to soar. Miss Earhart worked and attended college during her early twenties, eventually becoming a social worker in Boston after the events of World War I. Her endeavors in aviation began in 1921, buying her first plane six months after her first flying lessons. Christened “The Canary,” Earhart went on to break her first world record in the little Kinner Airster as the first woman to rise to an altitude of 14,000 feet. In June 17th, 1928, she broke yet another record to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in a crew of two other men.This was huge, as there had been attempts made to break this record before, which unfortunately met fatal endings. Earhart pushed her limits ever forward, and eventually became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in a solo flight. With the help of her husband, George Putnam, the two planned the dangerous flight from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland to Paris. She departed May 20th, 1932 and landed near Londonderry, Ireland due to hazardous flight conditions. But word soon spread, and Earhart found herself a darling in the eyes of the media. She was recognized by The White House for her bravery, and thus became the first woman to ever receive the Flying Cross medal. Being the risk-taking and boundary pushing soul that she was, Amelia embarked for a flight around the world in 1937 in an effort to become the first woman to do so. In her custom built Lockheed Electra, she made marvelous progress: 22,000 miles overall. But the last 7,000 proved to be her downfall. On July 2nd, 1937, en route to Howland Island in the mid Pacific, radio communications ceased between her and Coast Guard cutter ITASCA. Despite the largest search and rescue operation in naval history, Amelia was never found. Miss Earhart was a woman who pushed boundaries not only in aviation, but in the way the world perceived women. No matter who you are, there is no denying the respect that this magnificent pioneer in aviation deserves. page 4 THE CRIER SPRING 2016, ISSUE #3 Malignant Hyperthermia: A Mother’s Worst Nightmare, and a Secret Blessing By: Shaylin Rumsey Brain surgery. Something you would never want a doctor to say about your son, your son that many family members and doctors all said was fine. The brain. The only organ that names itself. Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy, was the surgery they wanted to do. Sammy was diagnosed with having hydrocephalus, an arachnoid cyst and Chiari Malformation. Let me explain. Hydrocephalus is excessive water on the brain. Arachnoid cyst is a cyst on the cerebellum and a Chiari Malformation is when the cerebellum is being pushed down where the spinal column is -a lot for getting a MRI that mom demanded. The surgery plan was to burn a hole in the ventricle that was creating the cyst and bringing his cerebellum into his spinal column. We chose to go to Long Island to get the surgery done because the doctors up here were the ones that said he was fine to begin with. We wanted to go to a hospital we knew and trusted. I was also able to be around my family because that is where I am from, so off to Stony Brook University Hospital we went. Surgery day: April 17, 2012. I remember this day like it was yesterday. We went into the back and got him dressed in the hospital gown. Sammy was 2 A at that time. I hated seeing them roll him away as my husband held onto me and our newborn son as we were escorted into the waiting room. A procedure that was supposed to take 30 minutes. Turned into 45 minutes. People who came in after us for their family's procedure were being greeted by their family members' surgeons saying how great it went and how they were resting. We get nothing. An hour went by...NOTHING. We looked on the TV screen where they showed where the patients were and Sammy was the only one that didn't move. After over 1 hr. and 30 minutes, the anesthesiologist came in and asked for us to follow him. He took us into “THE ROOM,” the horrible room you see in movies where doctors take loved ones to tell them something horrible happened. I didn't know that my family would fall victim to “THAT ROOM” He proceeded to tell us that what he witnessed some anesthesiologists go their whole career without seeing. He said that our son, our Sammy, has Malignant Hyperthermia. A deadly muscle disorder that is triggered by gas anesthetics. He said that that hospital had MH carts in the room for every surgery. So he was administered the medicine “Detroline” right away, saving his life. What he witnessed was after they put the gas mask on my son and when the gas anesthetics were filling his body, his muscles started to tense badly. His heart rate, pulse, blood pressure, and temperature then started to rise at a fast rate. Instantly he knew it was Malignant Hyperthermia. They took off the anesthetics and went right to work saving my son. He then said that because the medicine makes you very weak, they could not take the breathing tube out yet, but when they did, we were able to see him. When we went into his recovery room, he was lying down. When he saw us, he took all of his energy to turn to us and whimper. His voice sounded so dry, like a person who had severe laryngitis. He knew that something happened. He knew he didn't feel the same as he did when he was being wheeled away, and he didn't like it. When he was taken into the PICU, it was a trading match; they only allowed two visitors with a nursing newborn so we took turns. Between my husband, my father, my mother and I, Sammy always had two family members with him and two with his little brother James. All Sammy could do was lay down because the antibiotic was a very strong muscle relaxer. He didn't have the energy to do anything. When he was upset all he could do was whimper. Even crying was too much energy for him. The medicine was so strong that they had to watch his oxygen levels. When it got low, we had to shake him to get his muscles to work and get oxygen into his lungs because they started to be so relaxed they would shut down. Shake your child. Thousands of children die because they were shaken and we had to do it to save his life. The little girl that stayed next to him had her grandfather visit her. He was a part of a Christian Motorcycle Club and when he heard of our situation and how our son was fighting for his life, he asked if he and his friend could pray for our son. We then agreed, and they laid their hands on my son's head and proceeded to pray. Tears of gratitude filled my eyes as a stranger did this for my son. It warmed my heart. My mother and I were in the private waiting room. I just got done nursing the now sleeping James when my father ran into the room. He sat down abruptly and with his head in his hands, looks up at me with tears flowing down his face. “They had to put him in ice” Without saying a word, I got up and ran as fast as I could to his room. I was hoping it wasn't true but when I got to the door I immediately knew it was. I ran to his side and there he was. My son, too weak to even give a whimper, covered in bags of ice. Right when I saw those very frightened blue eyes, I got into the bed with him. As they were coming back with more ice, my husband looked at me with tears flowing down his face. “I can't see my boy like this. I'm going to get your mom.” I said okay. My mother and I then took turns soaking a rag to cover his forehead and replacing the bags. I just looked at her and cried. I then proceeded to talk to him. Hoping that he could hear me. “Sammy, it's mommy,” I told him. “You have to fight, Sammy, you have to fight. You have family here that needs you, buddy. Please fight..” I then proceeded to do something I haven't done in years: PRAY. His fever eventually broke, and his oxygen levels got back to PAGE 5 THE CRIER SPRING 2016, ISSUE #3 Malignant Hyperthermia: A Mother’s Worst Nightmare, and a Secret Blessing Cont. By: Shaylin Rumsey normal once he was able to get off the medicine. After that, he was able to eat light things and drink. We had to teach him to walk again. Holding him up at first and then gradually loosening our grip until he was able to do it on his own. Malignant Hyperthermia is a deadly muscle disorder that almost took my son's life. With the quick acting medical team, I am proud to say he was finally able to get his brain surgery in August of that year, due to him needing to recover and gain his strength back. He is now a bright 6-year-old boy, doing sports, Cub Scouts and 4H. I decided to share my story because March is Malignant Hyperthermia Awareness Month. Although this was the worst day of my life, it also showed me that a loved one can be taken away from you any time, at any age. Look at your family and make sure you give them a hug and say “I LOVE YOU” because you never know if that will be the last time. So if you are getting surgery or if you know someone getting surgery, please make sure they have detroline on hand. It could save a life. If you would like to know more about Malignant Hyperthermia, please check out their main website www.mhaus.org. An Irish St. Patrick’s Day By: Marie Hannan-Mandel St. Patrick's Day is a church holiday in Ireland and a bank holiday- you go to Mass and then maybe to the parade (which are not nearly as elaborate as parades here), and quite possibly the pub. We do not call it St. Patty's Day--Patty is not the diminutive of Patrick, Paddy is. If you're looking to become cozy with our saint, you would call it Paddy's Day. St. Patrick's Day and Paddy's Day-- those are your options. Of course, Patrick was not Irish. He was brought to Ireland as a slave. And although it is true that Ireland does not have snakes, except in zoos, St. Patrick did not banish them (the Irish land was inhospitable to those creatures.) However, the amount and assortment of wonders attributed to St. Patrick only goes to show how much we love him. He is just like one of our own. On the subject of things that aren't necessarily the way you think, on St. Patrick's Day people wear clumps of live shamrock (from the Irish word shamrock "shamrog", which means "little clover") on their labels or shirt fronts, leaving the earth and roots attached. This is as a mark of respect. The lucky four-leaf clover is an American idea, not Irish. The three leafed shamrock is lucky enough for us, as St. Patrick used it to demonstrate the Holy Trinity-- Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Likewise, we don't eat corned beef and cabbage but rather what we call bacon (a ham) and cabbage. (Incidentally, we call bacon rashers.) We certainly don't encourage others to kiss us because we're Irish. That would lead to entirely too much kissing! We do not eschew the wearing of orange. Orange is one of the three colors of the Irish flag. So, with all this information, please go out and enjoy St. Patrick's Day anyway you like—just don't call him Patty!! PAGE 6 THE CRIER SPRING 2016, ISSUE #3 Join CCC’s PercpecTV Team Today! By: Christian Lopez Fellow CCC students, have you ever wanted to be in the spotlight or be a household name? Well, your wish will finally come true! Karen Poole is coordinating a student run organization for students to make their own television show. This television show will include humor, real life topics, and the major topic, your own perspective. My fellow coworkers and I need students like you who want to be in front of the camera to entertain. You can get your voice heard around the Twin Tiers and CCC. You don't have to worry about being nervous on TV; we can help you overcome that. WENY is helping us make this happen and we need crea-people to be in era. We want you, the one who the small screen, Your personality throughout all of Steuben counties. join, our meetings at 3:30 PM in ployee Dining Advising and tive, talented front of the cam-the individual, wants to be on to be yourself. will be seen Chemung and If you want to are on Tuesdays M248(The Em-Room next to Counseling Services). I can help you find the way there if you don't know where it is. You can also join our Facebook group, CCC'S PerspecTV Team and either my partner Joe Davis or I can add you in our group. I am currently the comedy sketch writer in our group, while others are also making up more ideas for the show. If you feel like you have ideas that would be suitable for our program, please come join our team, and we can make your idea come to life! If you want to speak your mind out and let the people of the Twin Tiers know what you, the average student, have to say about a certain topic, we can make that wish come true as well. If you have any questions, ask either Joe Davis, Karen Poole, or me and we can help you. It would be great to have you join us! We would love to see you have a chance to be on TV and to be somebody in this community! Join CCC'S PerspecTV Team today! PAGE 7 THE CRIER SPRING 2016, ISSUE #3 The Appropriated Press By: The History Club The Appropriated Press is a fictitious news outlet at Corning Community College. All sources are fabricated with the intention of inspiring collegiate minds. On March 7th Security Sources in Seoul Released Documentation of a Troubling Nature Security sources in Seoul on March 7th, 2016 released confidential documents of a troubling nature. Reports indicate that the Pyongyang government has been working on circumventing the penalties of global sanctions. Northern engineers have developed a more distributable and functionally “petite” nuclear device. US Defense Department experts have dubbed the technology “keychain nukes” as they are actually carried on North Korean key chains. They are distributed to citizens across the nation by the Department of Food through the state cereal ration, Kim Jong-Jacks. Other details in the documents included a disproportionate number of North Korean missiles aimed at the nation of Switzerland. Bills of sale published by the Korea Herald shows the Kim government purchased 40 million kilos of Emmental cheese from Switzerland. Swiss government claimed it had been under the threat of nuclear annihilation if it did not comply with the order. Further evidence suggests that Joaquin “el Chapo” Guzman aided in the smuggling operation to deliver the cheese to Pyongyang. The document contained other information that the Seoul government refused to release. The P.S.S. (Presidential Security Service) are investigating reports of the Kim government possibly purchasing the New York Knicks. PAGE 8 THE CRIER SPRING 2016, ISSUE #3 > um n n < "0 p QTQ O Have an Opinion? Get it out and get paid! - $10 per published article - $5 per published photo E-mail articles and photos to CCCcrier@gmail.com Staff Felicia LaLomia Editor-in-Chief Devin Bailey: Assistant Editor Keri Disidoro Secretary Tim LeRoyer: SAGA Representative and Treasurer Advisors Erin Wilburn Maarit Clay Christine Atkins Charm Clover Patrick's Day March Rainbow Clover Gold Leprechaun Parade Shamrock Coins Lucky If you wish to receive reimbursement for your published contributions to the paper, please include your CID number with your submissions. The views presented to you by The Crier do not reflect the views of Student Life or Corning Community College.