Coming Community College Vol. 17, No. 13, December 9,1976 Building a Float: A pictorial Essay ONE: Student volunteers help stuff “pomps,” squares of tissue paper, into Woodsy Owl, last Friday night, in preparation for last Saturday’s Second Annual Storybook Christmas Parade in downtown Coming. TWO: Administration and staff members and their families assist in stuffing the float’s skirting. L to R: Sam Chilson, Mrs. Pat Hangen, President and Mrs. Hangen’s son and President Donald Hangen. THREE: Students stuff Smokey the Bear as the night wears on. FOUR: As students work. Dr. Hangen looks on and gives encouragement. FIVE: A1 Paparelli, coordinator of the float’s building, gives instructions with the as- sistance of the float’s designer, Freda Ann Hugenor, at his right. SIX: The following morning the finished product waits for its debut downtown. At the far left of the photo is the Ranger who drove the truck that pul- led the float in the parade last Saturday. In the center is Freda Ann Hugenor and at the far right is Bill Ackroyd, who rigged up a speaker system that played “The Woodsy Owl Anti-Pollution Song” during the parade. Follow About Program I R.O.W.D.I.E. Club I If you have a younger brother/ sister in a local high school who would like to see what college is about, CCC has the program for him/her. The Follow About Program is designed so a high school junior or senior can spend a day on campus with a student from their intended field of study. They go everywhere with the student. The CCC students selected for the program were recruited by faculty under the direction of the Division Chairpersons. There are approximately 68 Coming students involved in the program covering the following fields of study: Mechanical Engineering Technology, Industrial Engineering Technology, Electrical Engineering Technology, Automotive Technology, Drafting, Data Processing, Accounting, Business Administration. Secretarial Science, Marketing Management, Basic Accounting Studies, Engineering Science, Data Processing Studies, General Office Studies, Secretarial Studies. Humanities/Social Science, General Studies, Mathematics-Physics and Technology, Human Ser-vices-Criminal Justice, Nursing, Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Biology and Chemistry, and Medical Laboratory Technology. Tour Guides The Campus Tour Guide program is coordinated through the Advising Office. Sixteen student volunteers (freshmen and sophomores) have gone through a training program and are available to show the campus to prospective students. This program was successful last year and the college hopes to in- crease the number of tours this year. Tours are available to students on an individual basis and for groups. All of the service area (Steuben, Chemung and Schuyler Counties) high schools are aware of the Program. The students who are tour guides are: Joe Illig, Dawn Wheeler, Joann Hol- leran, Phil Wilson, Cindee Frederick, Mary Sprague, John Murphy, Jeff Whittaker, Bill Towner, Kathy Gre-fer, Steve McGruder, Jim Fox, Tony Ellison, Curley Morgan. Betty Grefer and Ric Smith. Students who are interested in participating in this program should see Nancy Andrews inU-203. Are you rowdie? Then join the new club on campus. The R.O.W.D.I.E. Club was formed last week. R.O.W.D.I.E. stands for Reaching Out With Delinquency In Education. The purpose of the club is to entertain members through social and educational events. It is open to all members of the college community with a nominal Jobs for Accounting Students Do you know what COOP is? Do you know that qualified second year accounting students can WORK FULL-TIME in their field for both college CREDIT AND PAY? If you are interested, check pages 34 and 56 in the catalogue and then see Professor Donald Creath (and/or your advisor) for further details. We have openings for mini-mester and spring. You must pre-register and be interviewed before Christmas vacation. INQUIRE NOW, some employers want to interview students as early as the week of December 6th. fee for associate members i.e. staff, faculty and administration. The officers of the club are: Diane Chilson, President: Alii Kenvon-Mayer, Vice-President; Ric Smith, Secretary and Gary Salisbury, Treasurer. The R.O.W.D.I.E. Club meets Fridays at 1 p.m. in U-210. Finally, the parade is over, the long hours of hard work are over and only sore throats, aching muscles and frostbite remain. 2 THE CRIER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9,1976 Let’s Get ROWDIE A new club has formed — the ROWDIE Club. ROWDIE stands for Reaching Out With Delinquency In Education. Its purpose is to entertain members through social and educational events. To many of you this may sound like a foolish, mean- ingless group. We disagree. An awful lot of people on this campus take life too seriously, especially this time in the semester. We need a change of pace once in awhile. People getting together to have a little fun and enjoy each other’s company is not disgraceful. Some of the first people who have raced to join this group are “student leaders.” They already know what it is like to work, now they want an opportunity to learn how to relax. The membership of this club is open to everyone on campus, faculty, staff and administration. If you want to relax, you can join. A lot of people will criticize the ROWDIE Club. They won’t see its worth. They are the people who laugh little and will probably expire of strokes and coronaries before they are fifty. FUN AND LAUGHTER ARE GREAT METHODS FOR RELEASE OF TENSIONS. WE URGE YOU TO JOIN THE ROWDIE CLUB. COME ON, LET’S GET ROWDIE. By SANDIE KLDKEI) Editor-iii-Chief The Paper You Pay For In reference to Mr. Bon-nell’s “Letter to the Editor” in this week’s issue, I feel it is important to make several comments. As far as the head of Ric Smith’s editorial is concerned — each of our individual editorials is MEANT to be our opinion, not the paper’s or the college’s. We do, however, base these editorials on facts that we feel it is important for the campus-at-large to be informed of for the increasing of their awareness and the broadening of their knowledge of CCC. The Crier has never questioned the quality of “the picture” in the Sunday -Telegram or the ability of the photographer who took it. If Mr. Bonnell can show me where we have, I will apologize. The picture was certainly adequate for its purpose. Now, we come to the question of whether or not you the students are getting your monies’ worth out of the Crier under my leadership. It was Mr. Bon-nell’s main contention that you are not getting a quality product, that we are not serving your interests. IF WE ARE NOT, and I disagree with that accusation, it is the students’ own fault. The size of our staff leaves much to be desired, even for a student newspaper. In my opinion, if you can’t contribute to the cause you don’t have any right to criticize the product. The Crier, and I myself, do the very best we can under the conditions we must endure. Mr. Bon-nell’s only contribution to the Crier’s survival has been his recent “Letter to the Editor.” If he is really worried about you getting your monies’ worth, why hasn’t he been at any of our staff meetings or done any assignments for us? I ask this question of any reader who is dissatisfied with the Crier. I totally disagree with Mr. Bonnell’s accusation that “one-third of the Crier is currently used for1 opinion-only purposes.” Only one page of the Crier is devoted to the expressing of our opinions. At my last count the Crier consisted of EIGHT pages, making opinion not one-third of our content, but one-eighth. This fraction might, in some issues, run as high as one-fourth because we print “Letters to the Editor” — as Mr. Bonnell should attest to. It is also a policy at the Crier, under my leadership, to make a serious effort NOT to editorialize in NEWS STORIES. I, personally, tiy to keep both sides of an issue in mind when writing a news story. This effort has been a major concern of mine in the writing of many of this semester’s Page One stories. To this date, I have received no complaints from anyone involved in controversial hews stories that they received unfair treatment on Page One or in any news story. I contend that you, the students, have a paper worthy of your pride. This opinion was reinforced at a recent conference that I and some staff members attended. The Crier compar- ed most favorably with the other two-year newspapers present. The few things criticized were more on the basis of style than of quality. Even editors from the Buffalo Evening News said that the Crier was worthy of praise. I am not blowing my own horn because I am not the only person who makes the weekly printing of the Crier possible. The Crier does not want Mr. Bonnell’s “sympathy” or “pity.” If Mr. Bonnell is worried about how his money is being spent, I suggest that he join our staff. In closing, I would like to inform Mr. Bonnell, probably much to his regret, that my successor, in all likelihood, will be Ric Smith. I have no doubts that Ric’s leadership will maintain the Crier’s present quality. Ric, however might not be quite so tolerant of baseless accusations as I am. i HOLA ? By JOHN T. OLCOTT I---STt 1 Support This may surprise many of you, but, we do have a drama club on campus. The Two Bit Players put in many hours preparing their productions. They are a group of dedicated people. Their plays are of top-notch quality. Yet, the students at Coming Community College don’t seem to realize that this group exists. The students ignore the Two Bit Player’s plays almost completely. This is not due to a lack of publicity. It is due to the “Who gives a damn” attitude which is often evident at CCC. Notes from the Mausoleum managing Liiitox as i see it LTu da