“WHAT’S IN A NAME?”
Corning Community College
Name for the Paper
As you notice, we had almost, all the necessary material on hand for this issue of our recently innovated newspaper. There is only one important element missing: It’s name.
You can aid in its institution giving it a winning name, worthy of C.C.C.
The rules of the game are simple and should be lots of fun to follow.
Another Political Crisis
by Fete Brady (Inspired by an article written by William Bancroft Mellor.)
Sixteen miles off Wedgeport,
Nova Scotia, due southwest in the Outer Bald Tusket Island group sits a barren 40-acre island known to the people of the region as the Principality of Outer Baldonia. Upon this barren rock pile stands the majestic castle of Russell, rex, “Prince of Princes”. A window of his castle, a one-room fishing lodge, affords an adequate view of his domain. Though tiny and virtually forgotten, Outer Baldonia has its own navy and its own international crisis with Soviet Russia!
In 1949, Russell M. Arundel, a Washington businessman and sportsman, was musing over a bottle of bourbon while on a small fishing craft off Nova Scotia. The day was bitterly cold and the few friends with him on this aquatic jaunt were huddled together in the drafty cabin of the fishing vessel. To divert their attention from the cold, they began to discuss a small island recently purchased by Arundel. From this palaver evolved a. grandiose scheme, namely the creation of a new country, the Principality of Outer Baldonia.
The first problem was to draw up the primary state document, a Declaration of Independence, which granted the inhabitants the right to swear, lie, gamble, and drink, and guaranteed them perpetual freedom from shaving, women, nagging, war, “can’t”, inhibitions, and taxes. Decided upon as the heads of state were: Russell Arundel as “Prince of Princes”; Prew Savoy, a Washington attorney and associate of Arundel, as Prince Regent and Minister of State; and Captain Elson Boudreau, skipper of the fishing vessel, as Chancellor of the Principality. The inhabitants were two tuna fishermen, since all concerned were avid tuna fishermen.
Returning to Washington, Russel,, rex, drew up a constitution, which “for international amity” recognized the law's of the Dominion of Canada. The document also provided that the citizenry of Outer Baldonia would consist completely of “Princes” and “Admirals of the rank no lower than six star.”
The sixty-nine members of the Wedgeport Tuna Guides’ Association were notified that each of them was formally commissioned a “six-star admiral" as well as
We will have a box in the hall of the administration building where you can deposit your entry, your own name, the chosen name, and the reasons why you picked that particular one.
The closing date is March 22, so you have time to become a winner. The lucky winner, who is to receive Five Silver dollars, will be announced before Spring vacation starts on March 27.
Let’s show our enthusiasm by submitting several good entries.
Annick Kuss
considering their fleet the Outer Baldonian Navy. The titles of Knight of the Order of the Blue Fin and Hereditary Princes of the Realm were bestowed upon several fishing cronies of Prince Arundel.
If the new state was to be accepted in diplomatic circles, there had to be at least an ambassador, so Doctor Ronald Wallace of Halifax was appointee! Ambassador to Canada. Harold Lohnes of Louisville, Kentucky, was appointed as Minister and William DeGarthe of Halifax as Naval Attache.
Shortly after the formation of the new state, the Canadian newspapers carried numerous feature stories about it. One of these chronicles treated the story in a serious vein. It was this newspaper that found its way to Germany where the trade journal, Industri-kurier, re-discovered it. The article was again treated as a serious dispatch. Its last stop was the Kremlin in Moscow.
Appearing in the pages of the literary Gazette, a state-controlled publication in Moscow, was a typical Communist tirade. The target of these culminations was not the United States, but Outer Baldonia. Assuming a puritanical pose, it vehemently attacked the Baldonian constitution’s permission for misbehavior and Prince Arundel as a “fuhrer”, who had “set himself the aim of turning his subjects into savages.” ... In a word, (Prince Arundel had given them) the ‘right’ not to adhere to the ethical and moral laws which have been established by mankind.”
Again several months lapsed before the arrival of the news. When the article passed from East to West, it received a tongue-in-cheek translation and was printed in a Canadian publication. It was not long before it came to the attention of the Prince of Princes.
This hail of invectives was a great, surprise and a deep hurt to Russell, rex, who brooded over this grievous breach of diplomatic etiquette by the Kremlin.
Soon from his imperial office was issued a formal protest to the Soviet Embassy threatening the curtailment of diplomatic relations unless amends were quickly made. At present, however, there has been no news from the Russians, but should they be similarly aggressive, the Baldonian fleet and Russel, rex, stand prepared to fight to the death.
Students Advised To Submit SSCQT Applications
Applications for the April 27, 1961 administration of the College Qualification Test are now available at Selective Service System local boards throughout the country.
Eligible, students who intend to take this test should apply at once to the nearest Selective Service local board for an application and a bulletin of information.
Following instructions in the bulletin, the student should fill out his application and mail it immediately in the envelope provided to Selective Service Examining Section, Educational Testing Service, P. O. Box 586, Princeton, New Jersey. Applications for the April 27 test must be postmarked no later than midnight, April 6, 1961.
According to Educational Test-ing-Serviee, which prepares and administers the College Qualification Test for the Selective Service System, it will be greatly to the student’s advantage to file his application at once. Test results will be reported to the student’s Selective Service local board of ing- Service, which prepares and his deferment as a student.
Some Comments on C.I.S.G.A.
One of the most important aspects of any college education is the opportunity that is offered to teach students to work as effective contributors, either as individuals or as group members, to the solution of various problems of mutual interest. Within the college framework these may run from helping to make the physical plant of the college attractive to influencing curriculum and faculty administration student relations. Those whom you elect to the Board of Directors of the Student Association in May will be charged by you to handle such affairs to the best of their abilities. By virtue of the constitution of the Student Association, they are given considerable responsibility and control in matters which involve the student body. This is discussed in greater detail in another article in this issue. The point we wish to make here is that they do have the authority to spend your money, supervise your conduct, et cetera.
In many respects, the problems we face as u new, two-year commuters’ college may seem unique and incapable of solution. We feel that we are quite alone in the resolution of such questions and affairs. This is not at all the case. There is in existence now a statewide organization known as C. I. S. G. A. — Council of Institute Student Government. Associations — whose purpose, as stated in their constitution, is as follows: “The purpose of this organization is: To promote the welfare of the students of the two-year colleges of the State University of New York individually and collectively through their own student government association and this Council.
St. Pat’s Dance
One of the traditions at Corning Community College is the St. Pat’s Dance, held on March 17, at the Baron Steuben from eight to twelve p.m. The Joe Crupi Orchestra will provide the music.
Prizes will be awarded to the boy with the best looking, the
Student Association Elections
Ted Burris
Let’s talk a little about the student government of Tri-C., This discussion will have a two-fold purpose. One is to give the general student body an idea, somewhat more clear than many of us now hold, of the functions, responsibility, and authority of the Board of Directors of the Student Association. The other is to try to lay the groundwork for an effective, well-supported, actively and thoughtfully campaigned election.
To begin with, I’m sure that most of you know generally what the Student Association is: namely, an organization which represents all of the students at the college in their dealings with each other, with the faculty, and with the administration. It is an effective instrument placed in the hands of the students themselves for in-
influencing policy on every level
academic and social life at the college.
The voice, of the Student Association resides in the persons of its elected Board of Directors. Their job is in part to provide a sounding board for student opinion and desires. They are a group of intercessors between the students and their faculty and administrative officials. In this capacity they can and do make recommendations, requests, and suggestions to these other members of the college family. These statements carry a significant weight with other family members and are given careful attention and consideration.
Another function of the Board of Directors is to establish and supervise a set of student: standards which is acceptable to the students, the community, and the community of collegiate institutions throughout the country.
The Board also handles a fairly sizeable amount of money in the
Our Greatest Asset
by Annick Kuss
When President De Gaulle adopted the American Constitution to establish his fifth Republic, it clearly showed how great an influence our Constitution had on the French. For what reasons; do you know ?
The American Constitution is the answer to man’s dreams. It preserves his most cherished possessions: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. How important these things are to everyone! Without them, a man is lost in a world of confusion and unhappiness. The enslaved nations of the world have proven to us how trag-
March 15, 1961
longest, and the grubbiest beards.
The chairman of the dance is Ed Monahan. The committee heads are as follows: Refreshments, Joan Daly; Decorations, Mary Lee Graham; Tickets, Barbara McClure; Invitations, Kathy Bradley. The Posters and Publicity were by Tom Maloney and Circle K.
course of the school year. It’s members make and approve allocations for such student activities as dances. The budget for one of these dances may run as high as five hundred dollars. You will want to be sure to elect people who will make the best possible use of the funds allocated to the Student Association.
The regulative and judicial
functions of the board are perhaps not so widely known. In this area too, however, the Board of Directors has a considerable amount, of influence. The Board may take any steps it deems necessary for disciplining student conduct, from warning to social probation and even recommendation of expulsion. Such recommendations are given due consideration by the faculty and the administration. I might add that the administration has been inclined to back the Board of Directors of the Student Association in every possible way.
in view of the dimensions of the 
responsibilities and authority, as described above, vested in each member of the Board of Directors of the Student Association, it behooves each of us as students to give very careful consideration to the persons to whom we shall delegate such power. Nominees should be selected on the basis of maturity of judgement, scholastic ability, and strength of character.
Once nominated and elected, it follows that we have chosen to the best of our ability those whom we wish to represent us; and that we should, therefore, support them in every possible way by our actions in the year to come.
Under these circumstances, it. is not at all too early to begin thinking about whom you want to place on the Board in the May elections. Your vote will decide the type of government you will have for the remainder of your time at Corning, So prepare now to use it wisely.
ie it is for man to be denied these rights. Only a country which has no love or respect for humanity can take them away.
For these reasons I wish all nations had a constitution like ours so that all men could proudly face the world and say, “We are free; our government protects our inalienable rights and no one shall ever take them away from us.”
Few people could be more proud than I of my French heritage; but I am an adopted American, and I think our Constitution is one of the greatest documents in the world. How grateful we all should be!
Page Two
Corning Community College
Soviet vs. U. S. Education
By: Betty Thomas
With the evergrowing threat of communism, I became concerned with the education of the soviets.
Are Soviet schools better than U.S. schools? Who learn the most. U.S. or Russian students? What changes, if any, could be made here in the U.S.A. after viewing the workings of the Soviet schools? These are just a few of the questions I shall attempt to answer. Dr. Hoyt London and Mark Nichols, two U.S. educators. made an eyewitness study in Russia and reported their findings in U.S. News & World Report. The following is a summary of their observations.
Education in Russia is conceived by Russians at every political and social level, as the one and only achievement. Here in our country, if a boy drops out of school before completion, he may still use his own abilities and may even become a millionaire. However, if a Russian boy leaves school, he will become a manual worker and probably will not advance.
Educational competition in Russia is terrific. London and Nichols said, “We didn't see students smile very often”.
Since 1958, the Soviets have shifted their emphasis in higher education toward vocational training. This shift was apparently made because of their lack of capital and consumer goods, and their goal, consequently, is to make consumer goods available in larger quantities.
Russians look upon vocational and technical education as a means of providing skilled manpower that will enable them to turn out both capital and consumer goods, and thus surpass America for the Russian aim. today is for skilled manpower to surpass America.
London and Nichols observed that Russia glorifies the workers, but it doesn’t let a worker get into a college unless he has exceptional academic ability.
There is an examination in the seventh year of the ten year school and those who do not do well go or are sent to trade schools. Here the students are trained from ten months to a year and a half in a specialty and in the second year they are required to do actual work on the job. If a student does well on this exam he is encouraged to go on. If he makes a good academic grade in the ten year school and meets the entrance requirements of the universities and institutes,, he will be admitted, but only the very best students are allowed to enter. The others are directed toward an. occupation which will use their abilities to the highest extent.
Russia uses many motivating devices to insure an equal distribution of occupations. For example, they don’t want to have many more biologists and be short, of medical doctors. Some of the incentives offered are:	 offering
higher stipends to those who go into training for a particular field; raising wages to attract the best trained people; manipulating the allotments of living quarters, as housing is one of the major problems in Russia; and giving stipends of up to 25 per cent more for excellence in school work. So, you can see that there is definitely u
pay incentive. They observed that the government reaches into the life, of every student but London and Nichols said that Russians have more freedom than Americans generally believe.
Students in Russia have extra-curricular activities that work in cooperation with the schools. Palaces of Culture for the Young Pioneers and Clubs for Labor Reserves, for students in their late teens and early twenties, emphasize music, dramatics, and athletics.. They observed all over the country in every school they visited on billboards and fences in Moscow, Leningrad, and other cities, and on the cow barns in rural areas, plaques with Lenin’s picture at the top followed by the basic principals of the Seven Year Plan, all urging the people to be more productive so they can beat the capitalistic world. Students constantly receive goal indoctrination in the schools. They are very much concerned with achievement of these goals, especially the goals of the Seven Year Plan.
There are two kinds of teachers in Russia. “Instructors" teach the practice while “teachers" teach the theory. The instructors are graduates from technicums (equivalent of our trade high schools) and teachers are graduates from technical institutes or universities. “The school life is very formal.” said London and Nichols, “You walk into a room and the students jump up and down when they’re told. They are constantly getting factual information and drilling for examinations. London and Nichols saw some cafeterias and no gymnasiums. Sports are not emphasized in Russia as they are here. A great majority of students walk to school instead of driving cart, or riding bicycles. They do this six days a week. Tim coeducational student bodies do have a summer break but all are required to do twenty five days of actual work in a factory or on a collective farm. They call this “polytechnic education". Math, science, and foreign languages are emphasized to quite an extent but London and Nichols were surprised at how few of them could actually speak any language other than Russian.
The following is London's and Nichols' report on the testing system: “Admiral Rickover and other critics of American education have led us to believe that Russia has a system of national standards and that they do better than American students.” When we were visiting a ten-year school, and, in looking through a boy’s chemistry textbook, we found a copy of the national examination for chemistry. One of us questioned the boy and the teacher and here’s what they told us: “They do have such standards, and the examinations that are worked out at the national and republic level." But — note this-they give the boy and the teacher a copy of this exam in September (start of the school year) along with the textbook, and he has it to study by all year, and the teacher has it to teach by. Comes the following June, and he takes that examination! Why wouldn’t they do well?” This didn’t appeal to London or Nichols because it seems to lake away independent research and the joy of finding things out for yourself.
Cartoons -Mass Media
I have a friend who is, in my opinion, an excellent cartoonist. We served together in the Air Force on Formosa. Many of the sketches which be composed were truly unforgettable. There are two in particular which I would like to mention at this time. One of them pictured a group of airmen, encrusted in bullet-proof vests, helmets and gas masks, crouching behind a dirt embankment, attacking a long, low concrete pillbox with assorted side-arms. hand grenades and flamethrowers. Pouring from slits in the pillbox was a fusillade of small arms and machine-gun fire, and gas. The besieged .structure bore a sign which read ‘‘Orderly Room.’*! The picture was titled “Grievance Committee”. It was simply a commentary on the trouble we had in getting a hearing from those in charge of us on such occasions as we hail legitimate complaints.
Another of his masterpieces was drawn during the time when practically everyone in the outfit was on detail washing a brick sidewalk, brick by brick, supposedly or the purpose of cleaning them enough so that the concrete of a more permanent sidewalk would adhere to them. Each morning and each afternoon for two weeks sixty or more men worked for three hours each; each morning and each afternoon sixty bricks were scraped clean, some of them in to little piles of brick dust, in a sort of passive resistance movement against incompatible “superiors" giving unrealistic orders to solve an unnecessary problem. As soon as a few feet of the sidewalk was thus prepared, the sergeant who was directing us had black sand poured over the bricks, ostensibly to keep them clean for the concrete. And we, certain that the final condition would be worse than the first, (it was) suffered understandably from a bad case of rapidly deteriorating morale. My friend came to our rescue with a cartoon which, somehow, found its way to a prominent position on the operation’s building bulletin board.
By viewing Russian education, London and Nichols made suggestions for the betterment of American schools. They are: give greater attention to the vocations of students:	recognize that work-
experience on the part of secondary school youth is essential for good citizenship; and third, but not least, put more emphasis on the study of economics. Every youth in Russia understands the Russian economic system. That is not the case in America. We need to put more emphasis on economics and we need a crusade to convince our young people of the values inherent to our economic system and of elements essential to its success in our democracy!
This is what London and Nichols observed and their reactions. What do on think? Do you think Russia’s system is superior, or are we learning more than Russian students? After reading this article I feel very proud being a citizen of the United States of America and being able to choose my own future life’s goals and work toward them myself!
Don’t you ?
He had depicted a clenched fist. On each finger was emblazoned a complaint: one was poor food, a perennial but unnecessary problem; one was abominable living conditions, tents, as compared with the permanent, comfortable barracks occupied by the Army personnel colocated with us; one was incompetent supervisory personnel, a problem I though! at that time to be unique with our outfit, though I found later that it was a command-wide deficiency; another was pre judical treatment of certain individuals; and so forth. From the closed fist issued a single drop titled Morale. The caption read, "Hood to the last drop?” The detail was cancelled almost immediately.
The rather lengthy introduction serves lo illustrate some points of a theme on which I wish to comment: It is that cartoons ran be, and have been developed into a legitimate form of communication.
The advantages of cartoons are legion:	they criticize, plagiarize,
summarize. analyze, and chastise; they demonstrate, advocate, and propitiate. Cartoons can make or break a man, or a cause, or a nation. They can toll us exactly what certain individuals or groups arc thinking. Their magic is worked through the power of suggestion.
Cartoon reading is both a science and an art. As a science it is somewhat standardized. Size of objects or figures, relative locations. facial or structural features, posture and actions all convery complex. but recognizable ideas. These are learned almost, unconsciously by any cartoonolo-gist, A good cartoonist, is good by virtue of two things: his drawing ability and imagination, and his recognition of and respect for the laws of configuration and placement. A top-rated cartoonist, is also endowed with wit, political, social, and moral insight, and a sense of the humorous, risque and the pathetic in life.
Though some cartoons become classics, depicting better than thousands of words, an event or point of view at a given time, most cartoons are creations of the hour. Therefore, a good cartoonist must be well informed. This applies to the news cartoonist in particular.
Cartoons in different places may have different functions. In popular, mass-audience publications, such as the Saturday Evening I the serve particularly to amuse, depicting bizarre situations, problems, and events. In newspapers and journals, on the other hand, they do quite different duty (excepting those cartoons called comics), Here they serve to illustrate current events, personalities, and opinions. What large newspaper today does not have its editorial page illuminated by some sort of cartoon? The New York Times’ Sunday review of the weekly news is sprinkled with a liberal selection of cartoons from leading papers throughout the world. They are there for n reason. We see reflections of national attitudes and regional variance. We see pros and cons illustrated on an intuitional basis. We see relative standings and trends. We see part of the national character all expressed in one or, at most, a Very few frames.
Poet's Corner
Bookshelf By Robert Service
I like to think that when I fall,
A raindrop in Death’s shoreless
 sea,
This shelf of books along the wall Beside my bed, will mourn for me.
Regard it .... Aye, my taste is queer.
Some of my bards you may disdain.
Shakespeare and Milton are not here;
Shelley and Keats you seek in vain.
Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning too.
Remarkably are not in view.
Who are they? Omar first you see,
With Vine and Rose and Nightengale,
Voicing my pet philosophy
Of Wine and Hong. ... Then Reading* Gaol.
Where Fate a gruesome pattern makes,
And dawn-light shudders at it wakes.
The Ancient Mariner is next. With eerie and terrific text;
Then Burns, with pawky Human
touch,
Poor devil! I have loved him much. And now a gay quartette behold: Bret Harte and Eugene Field and here;
And Henley, chanting brave and bold. '
And Chesterton, in praise of Beer.
Lastly come valiant Singers three; To whom this strident Day belongs;
Kipling to whom I bow the knee, Masefield, with rugged sailor songs ...
And to my lyric troupe I add With grateful heart- -The Shropshire Lad.
Behold my minstrels, just eleven. For half my life I’ve loved them well.
And though I have no hope of Heaven,
And more than Highland fear of Hell,
May I be Damned if on this shelf Ye find a rhyme I make myself.
Cartoons are also used to instruct. In this capacity they lend themselves primarily to business and government. Businesses use them to illustrate methods of use and as advertising media. Governments also use them to teach and instruct. In this connection they arc particularly valuable in countries where the literacy rate is low. Cartoons are natural means for propaganda. Their aim is to influence and prejudice. Millions of Chinese peasants learned through cartoons that the U. S. was using nerve gas and germ warfare during the Korean conflict. I need say nothing of the United States treatment of the Axis powers during World War II.
of art, no picture can speak more eloquently than a well-conceived and executed cartoon. Cartoons deserve a broader recognition as a
communications medium.
Ted Burris
Corning Community College
Name: Joan Daly Address:'918 Davis Street.,
Elmira, New York
Age: 20
Where Born: Elmira. New York Occupation: Student at C.C.C. Favorites: Color - - Brown Song-- Exodus Movie ■ Affair to Remember Book Exodus Favorite Saying: "How ya doin’’ .Most Exciting thing That Ever Happened To Her: “Besides coming to Corning' Community College, the most exciting thing was the Christmas Dance.”
Science and Mathematics was Joan’s major at Notre Dome High School. Her main activities during those years in high school were the Usher’s Club and the Future Nurses Club. Presently she is majoring in General Education with a Science Emphasis, is a member of our Student Board of Directors personnel committee and is an active swimmer.
Her father, John J. Daly, is a Correction Officer at the Elmira Reformatory and her mother. Alary Louise, is a nurse and housewife. Joan also has a sister and two brothers.
After graduation from Corning Community College, Joan would like to attend the Columbia University School of Nursing.
C.I.S.G.A.
To serve as a clearing' house for local student government problems.
To submit, constructive suggestions to the student, governments, to unit presidents, and to directors and administrative officers of the State University of New York.
Being affiliated with the State University of New York, we have been invited to join this organization. Since the initiation and membership fees would amount to approximately eighty dollars this year, and thirty dollars per year hereafter, and since such fees must be appropriated from Student Association funds, four members of the Student Association Board of Directors went to Alfred on. the eighteenth of February to -attend a regional meeting of C. I. S. G. A. for purposes of making an evaluation of the organization. I speak as one member of that delegation, and offer the following report and my personal opinions and impressions concerning C, I. S. G. A.
The Council was formed in 1950 and at present counts twenty-four two-year colleges as members, council members ore students from the member colleges. The Council is divided into four regions: New York City, Hudson, Central New York, and Western New York. If we joined, we would be in the Western New York region with Broome Tech, Erie County Technical Institute, Jamestown Community College, and Alfred Tech. The general purpose of this meeting was twofold: To explain C, I. G. C, A. to the delegations from Jamestown and Corning (I count Jamestown as a member because their delegation announced intention of joining at the meeting) : and to set up a program for presentation at the forthcoming state convention to ho held at Hudson Valley in April.
Name: Mr. Richard L. Kelly Address: 255 Watauga Ave., Corning, New York Occupation: Instructor in Secretarial .Science and General Business at. C. C. C.
Favorite Saying: “faster, faster'’
(in typing class)
Most Exciting Thing That Ever Happened to Him: “When I re-ceived my discharge from the army.”
Mr. Kelly graduated from the Blairsville High School in Pennsylvania as did his wife, Dorothy, to whom he has been married for twelve years. They have three girls, Korinne, Leanne. and Dirice.
He obtained his Bachelors of Science degree in Education from the Pennsylvania States Teachers College and his Masters of Science degree in Education with a major in Business Education from the University of Pittsburgh, His wife attended the Duff's Iron City Business college.
Previous to teaching here at C. C. C. he has taught at the Blairsville High School for two years, at Bethel Senior High School for one year, has been a head cashier and a bank teller, a tennis instructor, and served in the United States Army as a Sergeant in the Finance Corps, stationed at Korea.
His plans for the future are for graduate work in Business Education.
Frankly, I was not able to secure sufficient information to form a definite conclusion, and recommended that we postpone decision until after attending the State Convention. The major shortcoming that I noticed was their lack of achievement. This is due primarily, I believe, to communications difficulties. I think that this will be resolved at the State Convention by the establishment, of a state-wide C. I. S. G. A. Newsletter,
On the other side of the coin, however, the strong points and potential of the Council are obvious. Given proper support, it can unify the various colleges and foster a definite identity with the state college system. It can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the member college student governments both at the local and state levels. C. I. S. G. A. can provide an instrument that can affect official policy at the individual colleges and particularly at the level of the State Board of Education
This is the reason that I would like to recommend that we throw all possible support behind the Council, providing of course, that our delegation to the convention returns with a favorable report . The problems to be overcome are not insignificant, but the potential benefits would make the effort very worthwhile. Along with the University Center which is being established here, here is a chance for us as students to exercise some real initiative and leadership in an area that will benefit all of us.
The delegates who represent Corning Community College should be chosen with care. The majority of the members of this delegation
Let's Look at the Professions
Ted Burris
Perhaps the majority of students at a college like Corning Community College have very definite ideas of the goals they wish to pursue in their college studies. There are, however, a number of you who are not so sure of just what vocation you want to engage in; in which case you may be, investigating a number of different areas of interest, thinking, perhaps to find the one that was made for you.
In either event, we feel there is a definite place in a school paper of this sort for a column on the various professions. In it we shall try to scan one area of employment in each issue. These commentaries will be necessarily brief and will only scan and pick the high points from what are already summaries of the various professions. We may include points which do not interest yon, or are not pertinent to your particular question; we may also omit many things about which you are curious. So we must tell you that our source of information will be primarily the various issues of Careers, published by the Institute for Research, Chicago. We have these available in the library, and it would be worthwhile for each of you to take a look at them. There are, I believe, about three hundred areas covered in these booklets, so it’s quite possible that you will find one covering your field of interest. In this column we will quote extensively from these sources.
Before we get into the topic for this issue, I would like to describe the contents of these hooks in general.
Each booklet covers one field of employment: each considers such questions as the following: How do I tell whether I would like this field? How do I go about getting into the field? What natural talents and proclivities are necessary or valuable? What sort of training is required, both in general and in particular? What sort of future is there in this profession ? What is the pay range and where can I start? What are the possibilities for advancement ? What sort of job security is there in the field? What are the unique offerings in the field - for travel, for adventure, for meeting others, etc? And many more. Persons already engaged in the particular field of interest are interviewed. They give reports on a typical day. or week, or year; they give their candid opinions of the field in gen-eral and their jobs in particular.
Must be Freshmen! They should he chosen on the basis of ability and willingness to represent our students and to make constructive suggestions and assistances to the Council.
Here is real opportunity for Corning Community College to take a leading position in a major aspect of college activity in the State! If you are interested, see Mr. Deuel or any member of the Board of Directors of the Student
Association.
Let's See Some Action On This!!
Each booklet gives a list of sources for further information and contains a bibliography of sources used in compiling the material they present. Each lists a number of schools which are noted for their achievement in training students for these various fields, and offers a suggested course of studies compiled by various schools and suggested by employers as valuable training. In short, they provide a rather comprehensive survey of the field.
If you are interested in having a particular field discussed in this column, let's hear from you.
FREE LANCE WRITING
In this issue, to get the ball rolling, I would like to discuss free lance writing (booklet #167 in the series).
I have considered the possibility of free lance writing or journalism myself. Though frankly I'm not certain that it would really suit me. At any rate, it caused me to read the booklet on it which will be quoted or paraphrased extensively below.
A free lance writer is a writer who is in business for himself, as opposed to a newspaper, magazine or radio — TV reporter or movie writer, for example. He can write anything he wishes, but is usually confined to writing on specific subjects for specific clients (they pay him).
Free lance writing requires a lot of imagination, a way with words, and no small amount of self-confidence: it also requires patience, a sense of humor, willingness to travel, and flexibility of viewpoint. The free lance writer generally thinks of his work as creative. All novelists, for example, are essentially free lancers in the field of writing.
A writer's whole life is education for his work. Every experience, pleasant or unpleasant, every bit, of knowledge he acquires through study or observation becomes part of the material from which he consciously or subconsciously weaves his finished product. By steadily training his imagination, developing his powers of analysis and organization, and widening his scope of knowledge, the writer continues to educate himself fluids work.
intelligent schooling helps provide the writer, in a minimum a-mount of time, with a background of general knowledge that is absolutely essential in his work. Reading of good literature should be encouraged from childhood on. Prospective writers should major in science and humanities. Typing and shorthand are valuable skills for him to have By the time he is through with his undergraduate work in college, he should be adept at gathering and preserving his materials. Keeping notebooks, scrapbooks of published material, and a well organized, cross-indexed file of everything* that interests him or that may be of value to him should become second nature to him. He must always be critical of his own work and constantly on the lookout for ways to improve its quality, 
Features of free lance writing are many. The free lance writer is doing the type of work he likes and, within certain limits, working on his own schedule. Newspapers,
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The Egg and the Hen
Regard the egg of the hen. Is it not admirably suited to the tasks set for it ? One has but to consider the serious problem which would arise for our utilitarian feathered friends if they should have to lay, then sit on, for example, cubical eggs, to realize what wisdom and, in this case, mercy, nature hud in ordaining that eggs should resemble miniature, streamlined footballs.
The main reason a hen lays an egg is, of course, for the purpose of reproducing her own kind. One must, feel either that the maternal instinct is very strong in the hen, or that, laying an egg is, for her, some sort of vicarious thrill. For egg laying seems to have become one of the favorite avocations of almost every hen I know. Because the hen seems to have a rather single tracked sort of mind with regard to this egg laying business, it appears obvious that, in order to get a well rounded picture of the subject, we should adopt the viewpoint of the egg.
To an egg, “The hen is only a means of making another egg,” Every egg knows that, it has some
magazines, et cetera, are his clients, not his bosses. He is free to develop pretty much as he pleases in any direction and to the limits that his inclinations and capabilities impose. He may find that lie has plenty of free time to try something really creative completely on his own.
On the other hand, there are several unattractive features, irregularity of income, even though the total may he satisfactory, is one of these. He must learn to manage his money very prudently. Most, free lance writers must be constantly ready to travel in order to secure that coveted assignment which can establish him in his field, or at least pay his bills. Really creative writing demands long periods of intense concentration. even though while gathering his material the writer might associate with hundreds of people. He must be prepared, therefore, to lead a comparatively lonely life.
As far as free lance writing is concerned, payment depends mostly on circulation, whether it be newspapers, magazines, books, or whatever. Usually the writer sells his material to a syndicate which distributes it for him on a basis ranging from twenty to fifty percent for the author. Payments can range from twenty-five cents per day per paper upward for columns in newspaper's, to two thousand dollars for an article or story in a slick magazine such as Post or Readers' Digest. Books are gen and for each author making a fortune with a long term best seller, there are thousands who don’t make as much as the secretary who typed their manuscript.
Everyone fancies himself a writer, and thousands try who never should. These loo, the professional free-lance	writer	must	contend
with.
But writing requires a devotion like that of a priest or a teacher. Once you 	have it, 	like 	those in
show business. it gets 	in your
blood and 	you can 	never	 be happy
doing anything else.
Interested?
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Corning Community College
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higher calling. Sometimes it goes to pieces building another chicken. Statistically, however, this appears to constitute a rather minor role for eggs, as relatively few eggs end up as chickens. Most eggs succeed in fulfilling higher destinies. Eggs provide food for thought and food for men. Eggs can point with pride to the long history of themselves and their children, hens, and roosters. One nobleman type egg was used in the Spanish court in an attempt to disprove some brash young man’s claim that the world was round. Roget’s Thesaurus contains well over two hundred references to eggs and their offspring, proving conclusively that they occupy a position of considerable importance in the thoughts of some of the world’s most notable figures. Nor are eggs partial to the company they keep. This has endeared them to common folk such as ourselves. They hold first place in cookbooks all over the world, being used in more recipes than any other single ingredient, A quick perusal of the pastry, sweet bread, salad, and main course sections of any respectable cookbook will verify this claim.
Because of the exalted position which they hold, eggs are, perhaps justifiably, quite temperamental. They tend to break at the most inconvenient and often embarrassing times. For example, being the object of a game of catch upsets them considerably. In retaliation for such disrespect, eggs have developed the ability to become extremely messy with an unexpectedness which must give them considerable satisfaction. This temperament has gained for them, in the shipping world, a position which is the envy of every other kind of foodstuff which is transported from place to place. Each egg occupies its own little padded cell, isolated and protected from the cruel world of rough roads, screeching brakes, and clumsy men. Each egg is a sort of pima-Donna. There are very few things on earth which can match the stink the egg can put up when it does not get what it considers to be prompt attention.
Every egg agrees with the statement made in a recent advertisement; “There are some packages which simply cannot be improved.’’
World Health
The Problem of Leprosy
While in the service, I spent a two-year tour of duty on Taiwan with the United States Air Force. Among many memorable experiences, one that stands out in my recollections is the visit I made to a leprosarium, the people I met there, and the things I saw and learned there. I would like to recite some of the data that was presented to me concerning the disease.
There are two types of Leprosy, nerve and skin. Both are caused by the same germ, a bacillus very similar to the one which causes Tuberculosis. It is a very highly contagious disease, passing from person to person by intimate and prolonged personal contact. However, it would appear that only infants and children up to the age of about sixteen are susceptible to infection. Of the ten thousand treated eases and the many thousands of known, untreated cases on the island, there is not one case in which a person older than the age of sixteen has contracted the disease. The germ resides in the second of the three layers of skin and has a minimum incubation period of five years, during which time no disease symptoms whatever are in evidence. However, even when a person carries these germs in the incubation stage, he is a carrier and capable of transmitting the disease. The sickness is most common in warm, humid areas and particularly in backward regions where sanitation is poor and infants are exposed for protracted periods of time to intimate contact with their mothers in breast feeding.
The first symptoms of the disease are a tendency for the eyebrows to fall out, and, in the case of nerve leprosy, slight muscular spasms of the neck and back tendons. These, are followed in a short time by a recession of the toe and fingernails which causes the digits to curl slightly, often a very painful process with painful, permanent effects. The face becomes blotched with a “Leprosy Mask” of gray skin. At this time a terrible lethargy and listlessness is induced by an extreme anemic condition of the blood. Contrary to prevalent belief, the skin does not fall off. People with leprosy do not lose their limbs; they lose only the effective, healthy use of them. Also, leprosy can be and is being cured on a large scale in many parts of the world.
Many things are being done in the fight against this disease. One of the most important is public education in the regions where leprosy is most common. This is a really tremendous undertaking and I’ll discuss it in more detail later. Another important measure is research. Most of this is being carried on by The Association for the Prevention, Cure and Rehabilitation of Leprosy located in Car-ville, Louisiana.
Until twenty years ago no one knew what caused leprosy, or had any idea how to effect a cure. Then, during World War Two, U. S. Army medical research people discovered the bacillus which caused it and recognized the close association between the leprosy bacillus and the tuberculosis bacillus. They were searching for a drug effective in treating T.B. and came across a plant in India which looked promising. This plant produced a drug which is now called DDS, short for the scientific name that describes it. Unfortunately, it did not do the job they hoped for on T.B,, but it was found to be an absolute cure for leprosy. Another great advantage of this plant is its abundance. The drug is easy to process and now cheap to synthesize, costing approximately one dollar per pound. The drug is a white powder which can be introduced either orally or by injection. Unfortunately, the disease germ cannot exist outside the human body. This has hampered greatly attempts at research because doctors are leery of using humans as guinea pigs.
Early discovery, treatment, and psychological readjustment are the three major components of the cure.
Early discovery is possible as a result of the education program which encourages everyone to take a simple test to see if the germ is present. This test is made by making a small cut on the temples near the eyebrows. A tiny section of the second layer of skin is removed and put through a solution which stains any leprosy germs so that they are visible under a microscope. If a positive reaction is indicated, the patient is asked to enter a leprosarium at once for treatment. It is not mandatory that he or she does so. However, primarily, because of the social stigma forced on a victim of this disease by society, most victims do enter for treatment. The process of cure and rehabilitation takes about five years on the average. Actual internment lasts about one year, until such time as a series of tests shows negative reaction; this is followed by four years of quarterly tests which are designed to make absolutely sure that a cure has been effected.
Psychological readjustment also takes place during the period of internment. Most people, even the well educated, have an horrendous and irrational fear of leprosy. This is particularly so in the more backward regions, but the feeling is by no means lacking in our own country A man who has committed a crime and paid his debt to society has another chance in life. Not so, or hardly so. with the poor soul who has had leprosy. Men seem to think that there is something shameful about the disease. Intelligent, well informed people in the States, many of whom could and want to become productive,
contributing members of our society, are denied the opportunity when they have been victims of leprosy. This is even more true in the Orient. One big trouble is that the patients themselves hold this attitude when they first realize that they have the disease. It is for example, the worst possible degradation and loss of face that can befall a Chinese or Taiwanese person. Families disown their children and throw them out of the home. Leprosy is considered by the courts in Taiwan as adequate grounds for divorce. Lepers are shunned as victims of the plague. This is one of the main reasons for the “farms”.
These farms are unique organizations with equally unique functions in many of the “less civilized” areas of the world. Where funds permit, their quality is equal to or somewhat better than the norm of the region. This quality is in itself a planned part of the second and third of the three main functions of the sanitarium, which are physical and mental rehabilitation and education. I feel that a description of the farm must be given as an integral part of the discussion of these factors.
The farm we visited is classed as a model type for tropical areas such as Taiwan. This farm is laid out on the inside of a horseshoe formed by three very steep hills. The buildings are grouped in seven levels on the back of the horseshoe. Levels two through seven are occupied by the patients, ascending according to the ascending severity or stage of their illness. As the cure progresses they are moved downward toward the first level which contains the administration buildings, chapel-assembly hall, infirmary, and the main gate. This layout has a definite effect on the patients: as they move down the hill, they know that they are getting better. Flanking the buildings are, on the right, garden plots which the patients are urged to cultivate as part of the physical therapy program, and, on the left, forage lands for milk and beef cattle, both of which are innovations to the agriculture of the country.
The buildings are constructed with funds derived from church donations, local government, United Nations grants, and allocations from the American legation, as well as, a few donations from private individuals. They are constructed entirely of concrete and brick, a definite advance over the wood and mud shacks which are the general rule there. The patients’ quarters are cottage style, each cottage housing from four to eight persons. Each person has his own concrete bunk on which he places a reed mattress. The cottages are open to the generally mild climate of the area and are washed completely by the patients each morning. This instills a pride in cleanliness which was very pro-
bably completely lacking in the patient’s pre-institution days. Each cottage is covered by a huge, broad leaf vine which sports beautiful orange blossoms, creating a very photogenic and aesthetically pleasing effect.
The livestock buildings are of two types: bamboo for the cattle and chickens, and brick and con-crete for the pigs. Present livestock includes Braham and Guernsey cattle, a cross of Poland and Berkshire hogs, and Leghorn, Plymouth Rock, and Rhode Island Red chickens. All of these animals are of thoroughbred stock donated by organizations and individuals in the United States. Their quarters are kept scrupulously clean and they are fed only the local items of animal feed. Nevertheless, their quality surpasses the finest local stock available for comparison. Farmers come from miles around to have their stock bred to these animals. This has been a great boon to the entire agricultural economy of the area.
Also under construction, but incomplete due to lack of funds, is a recreation building for the patients.
The male patients are taught scientific methods of animal husbandry. Each patient is required to cultivate six ping of land, about one hundred-twenty square feet, of vegetables, fruits and flowers. Highest quality seeds are contributed by United States seed companies. The model agriculture conducted here serves as an example of what is possible in the way of farming in the Orient. The yield per man and per acre is again many-fold the norm for this area. In addition to the therapeutic benefits, this also has the functional result of greatly decreasing the food expense for the farm.
Each morning and evening all the patients assemble at the chapel for their pills and milk, and, if they wish, for Christian worship services. This total program results in preparing* the patients physically and psychologically to return to their society on a par with their contemporaries. The training they have received makes them somewhat more acceptable in an antagonistic society.
Overall, the problems of leprosy is being met and slowly conquered throughout the world by dedicated men and women. It is a program worth supporting.
Editors
Ted Burris Bill Magee Annick Kuss Jerry Storch Bob Williams