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curred. All over the world, 6 to 7 million people, kids and adults alike, gathered to strike against climate change. From Italy to Canada, displays of discontent with the actions taken to prevent climate change occurred on the 20th and 27th.
Around 40 people showed up to Corning Community College’s climate strike, organized and led by Dr. Donna Moore-Powers, the coadvisor of the EPIC science club and professor of Introduction to Biology, as well as majors and non-majors sustainability and environmental science courses. Students, science ma-
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On September 27, 2019, students of Corning Community College held their first climate strike. From September 20 to 27, the Week for Future strike oc-
Is Elmira Doing More Damage Than Good?
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The City of Elmira started Phase 2 of construction for the North Main Street Cultural Connector Project in...
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jors and nonscience majors alike, came together to spread awareness about our planet and our home. Moore-Powers said that the protest got the busiest from around 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., when most students have no classes going on. The major global protests happened in New York City on September 20, and on September Cont. on page 2
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These protests are led and inspired by 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, who has dedicated every Friday, no matter where she is, to protesting the lack of action taken by the government to prevent climate change. Although climate change has been happening for a while, it is becoming worse and worse as time goes by, with little to no belief by the government. This is making many teens and young adults afraid for their future, which may not even exist due to this rapidly increasing climate change, and nothing being done about it. It is important that we take care of our planet and everyone and everything housed within it. We need to care for the plants, animals, and climate of our planet. Though it seems
like we have an infinite amount of everything right now, evidence shows that we don’t, and that our planet is very fragile and finite. Species are becoming more endangered and extinct, natural disasters are becoming more frequent and dangerous, and the world itself has started to heat up somewhere from 1-5 degrees Celsius worldwide.
This is why students are protesting. If no one else is going to do something about this climate crisis, then who will? The government is ignoring the scientific facts that have existed for years, which prove that climate change is in fact occurring right now. It is getting worse and worse every single day, and it likely won’t get any better until something is done about it. There is no Planet B, we can’t just all
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relocate somewhere else if things get too bad, because there is no other place that can hold 7.7 billion people. Actions need to be taken now, especially since most of climate change’s effects aren’t reversible, and if we continue to let it happen, we may never be able to recover.
If you would like to join this environmental protest, you can check
out Fridays for Future, the organization started by Greta Thunberg to rally teens, young adults, and anyone else interested in protesting climate change. If you are unable to protest every Friday, you can also occasionally protest and/or donate to the cause.
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First Multicultural Spelling Bee at CCC
Students, faculty, and staff are joined in Kelly Lounge to compete and watch the spelling bee. (Sarah Hill/The Crier)
By Sarah Hill
On Thursday, September 26, the first ever Multicultural Spelling Bee took place at CCC. Students and faculty competed in teams to spell words with origins from other cultures and languages. Eight total teams went head to head until only one team was left.
Deborah Joseph, the event organizer, usually organizes the regional spelling bee where 30 different schools compete. With a good mix of friendly competition and a laid back environment, Joseph believed it would be a great way to have fun and en-
courage interaction. She also wanted to showcase the secret talent of spelling some people have but don’t necessarily get to flaunt often.
The winners, Lauren Magaziner, Jay Hurlburt, and Julie Croteau—also known as team “Sew Eggsided” certainly have this skill of spelling. At the end of 22 rounds, 13 of which were head-to -head with the runner ups team “Math Faculty”, Sew Eggsided was, as the name suggests, so excited. The team came together as a product of procrastinating work and because they frequently look for typos together. The
three of them have not experienced something like this before, but they would definitely do it again so they can “defend their crown.”
Overall, the lightheartedness and fun experienced during this event showed how much of a success it was. All teams exhibited an amusing attitude throughout the event, and it was obvious to onlookers that the event was more than just a spelling bee; it was a means to stimulate interactions between a diverse group of faculty and students at the college.
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The Memes of Production: Shoplifters of the World, Unite!
By Donnie Pond
When discussing class in America, it is common to distinguish between three social classes — a lower, middle, and upper class — based on a tenuous estimate of yearly income.
This becomes particularly confusing, however, when one considers that very few in America would actually self-identify as lower or upper class. Nearly all Americans will identify as either lower-middle or upper-middle class in order to present themselves as an “everyman,” a representative of the public median. The popular narrative is that America has a large “middle class,” which you
probably belong to. What does that actually mean?
Karl Marx, analyzing his own society in the midst of the industrial revolution, identified two distinct social classes, which he termed the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.
The proletariat was the working class of Marx’s day, who did not own private property (in Marxist terminology, synonymous with the means of production, or property owned which could generate wealth, such as a factory; not synonymous with personal property) and had to work for the bourgeoisie to survive. The bour-
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geoisie was the owning class, whose ownership of private property meant that they did not need to work to survive, but to employ members of the proletariat to generate profit. Though the world has changed more than a bit in a few hundred years, economic class can still be thought of in terms of a working and an owning class. Recently in American politics, a new left led by Senator Bemie Sanders of Vermont has been speaking of the American class structure in similar terms, referring to a working class and a one-percent or billionaire class, as opposed to the standard “large middle class” narrative.
Marx observed that the proletariat and bourgeoisie of his time were fundamentally opposed through conflicting class interests. In simple terms, what was good economically for the proletariat was bad for the bourgeoisie, and vice-versa. It was in the bourgeoisie’s class interests to generate as much
profit as possible from their private property; therefore, it was in their class interest to have the proletariat work as long as possible for as little pay as possible. On the other hand, it was in the proletariat’s class interest to work as little as possible for the most pay as possible. There may or may not have been direct conflict between the two classes at any given time, but there was always a subtextual conflict between them based on their conflicting class interests. Marx believed that this conflict was built-into the capitalist mode of production, inherent to it.
Incidentally, one can observe a similar conflict between the working and owning class of today. It is still in the interest of the owning class to maximize profits, and to work their employees for the longest time and the littlest pay they can get away with. It is still in the interest of the working class to work for the shortest time and most pay they can get away with, so as to maximize their freetime and general
quality of life.
Some claim that this conflict is ideally (or easily, depending on their level of optimism) diffused by the workings of the free market. As free agents in the market, if a worker is unhappy with their wage, they simply will go work for someone else who will pay them more fairly. This is not how things play out in real life. The owning class collaborates to keep all of their wages as low as possible, because it is not just in the individual owner’s best interest to do so, it is in the owning class’s class interest. If they all agree to keep wages low, the working class has no real agency, and the owning class as a whole maximizes its profits. What is the result of this? Adjusting for inflation, real wages have not increased in the U.S. in roughly forty years. It seems that Marx was correct — the conflicting interests of the owning and working classes are inherent to capitalism. And no amount of obfuscation on the part of the owning class can change this. 03
By Christian McGary
Italy, the Bahamas, and now Hawaii. At this point, it’s a little obvious that I have traveled quite a bit, and Hawaii was probably one of the most memorable trips I’ve taken due to how beautiful the island of Honolulu is. With breathtaking mountains, crystal-clear water, and a rich culture, I would honestly love to retire there if I ever got the chance (even though I would probably have to work myself to death in order to retire comfortably in a place like Honolulu.)
As per usual, it started off with another long plane ride, this time taking around eight hours or more. We actually took Hawaiian Airlines, which was a subtle surprise because we usually just go Delta (it’s not like we went on Italy Airlines, or Canada United, if those even exist). When we got off the plane, we were greeted by women in grass skirts who put Leis around our necks and wel-
comed us to the islands. The first day was sunny, and the resort was fantastic. We had a great view of the orange and pink sunset as it slowly descended into the ocean. You could always hear the calming ocean breeze. The beach next to us was most likely the best beach I’ve ever been to. It was never too hot or too cold (it was never cold in the slightest, but you know what I mean), the sand was a white-ish yellow that almost looked like gold, and the water was a deep blue that would brighten into a lighter blue and turquoise as it mixed with the sand. I unfortunately was not able to visit the beaches where the sand is black, because those were on other islands. It was fine, though, because my resort, had a lake-esque area where you could swim with fish. Nothing like you would see in “Finding Nemo,” but it was still fun to try and catch one. Fun fact: the resort I stayed at was where they
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would record scenes for the tv-show “Hawaii Five -0.” They once had the pool shut down so they could record a scene!
Aside from the great scenery, there was a ton of things to do. One of my favorites was probably climbing the Diamond Head Volcano (no, there was no lava). This was technically my first hike as well, so it was a real eye opener on why I’m probably never going on a hike again. Don’t get me wrong, seeing the entirety of Honolulu from the top of the volcano was probably one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. You could see the entire city
on one side, and the deep blue sea on the other. Everything was so still, it was like time had stopped and it was just up to you to enjoy it. Here’s the thing, the fact that I had to climb up a staircase that was literally just a ladder after walking uphill for hours was not how I wanted to spend my vacation, but it was worth it in the end, obviously. Craziest thing though? Diamond Head was not Honolulu’s tallest land-mass. While I was taking a tour around the island, the bus came along a mountain that was so high, it was illegal to walk up to the path. This thing was intense.
It was a dark mountain covered to the brim with looming trees with branching dark green leaves. The top of the mountain pierced the clouds. My tour guide told us that when he was a kid, he and his friends actually decided to climb up it anyway, and they had to be transported down by helicopter. The tour guide took us to a lot of extravagant places, including the chainman’s hat, a small mountain off the shore of a beach that looks like an Asian rice hat. Hawaiian legends say that mountain was actually part of a lizard’s tail that was chopped off by a goddess.
Well, that’s all I have time for. There are so many more legends and attractions I wish I could share with you, but for the sake of my editors I think it’ll be good
to end it here, and I hope that you get to visit these places one day.
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Las Cinco Muertes Report: Evolution 1.10, Battle At Big Rock and
Jurassic World 3 News
By Jake Gross
Welcome once again to Las Cinco Muertes and Jurassic World. There have been four major updates to the dinosaur park universe in the past few weeks. The short film Battle at Big Rock was released on September 15. Jurassic World Evolution released a new free update as well as a paid dinosaur pack. And the week of 9/23, the feature film trilogy delivered an absolute bombshell of an announcement. Let’s break them down.
Jurassic World Evolution Update 1.10
Frontier released two pieces of content on September 17 in the form of the free maj or update 1.10 and the relatively small Herbivore Dinosaur Pack. 1.10 introduced a feature that has been speculated to occur ever since the Claire DLC back in June: stand-alone sandbox mode for every island. Now accessible directly from the main menu, Sandbox is now
independent from just rebuilding over and over again on Isla Nublar. Players unlock the specific island in Sandbox via four-starring the island. There were a myriad of other changes, one of which related to the recent terrain tooling. When placing down buildings, paths and tour tracks, the painted terrain will now stay pristine without any dirt strips forming a perimeter around the object.
On the paid side of the coin, the Herbivore Dinosaur Pack introduced three dinosaurs that are completely adorable. The Homalo-cephale, Niger saurus and Dry-osaurus are dinosaurs that completely break the mold for their families and the game. The Homalo-cephale is the smallest dinosaur in the game, far smaller than the likes of Procerccto-saurus and Troodon. It actually has to hop up onto the ground herbivore feeder and might barely
reach the knee of other small herbivores like the Stygimoloch or Galliminms. The Dryo would be comparable to the ornithomimids in the game, albeit a little chubbier. The Niger saurus is the second most unique dinosaur of the pack behind the Homal. In the preview Species Profile Frontier released prior to the pack, I thought that it was the same size as the Diplo-docus. It’s actually the size of some of the armored herbivores, like Tricera-tops and Nasutoc-eratops. It is the
only sauropod to eat from ground feeders instead of tall feeders, which will make paleobotany a bit more difficult. While we didn’t get a lot in the way of new regular animations, we did get a bunch of new death ones. In regards to small carnivores and the Dryo, they’re the stock animations for all other unarmored small carnivores. For the larger carnivores, the Homalocephale will either be thrown up into the air like a tater tot and swallowed whole (like the goat and most hu-
man kill animations) or shaken around and slammed down.
The Nigersaums is the most unique dinosaur of the death trio, being the only sauropod that is able to be killed by every medium to large carnivore alongside the Indominus Rex.
The tiny sauropod will be yanked by the tail backwards and flung end overend before hitting the ground. The Indoraptor even gets in on the fun by climbing onto the Nigersaur’s back, crawling across and somersaulting around the
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The Nasutoceratops made its way into a free Evolution update to coincide with Battle at Big Rock
neck bringing it down.
Herbivore Dinosaur Pack is available for $4.99 on your particular platform. Battle at Big Rock
The short film Battle at Big Rock released in mid-September on FX after a showing of the first Jurassic World. Quickly re-
leasing afterwards to platforms like YouTube and the Jurassic World Face-book page, the film shows us the aftermath of the illegal auction of the Nublar dinosaurs and the action taken by Masie Lockwood. A family of five who were camping in a Californian national
park find themselves in the middle of a confrontation between two dinosaur species. In these eight minutes, we got a look at a more matured A llosaurus as well as a new cer-atopsid, Nasutoceratops. The Alio then attacked the onlook-ing humans.
During a showing of Battle, Colin Trevorrow and Laura Dem (Elbe Sattler, Jurassic Park (3)) announced that Dem, along with Sam Neill (Alan Grant) and Jeff Goldblum (lan Malcolm) will reprise their classic roles in the upcoming 2021 film in more prominent plot-points.
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I Tried Being Vegetarian One Day a Week
By Sarah Hill
Although it is not the leading source of carbon emissions, the livestock industry still has a large effect, according to National Geographic. Many scientists and climate change activists preach about the effectiveness of going vegetarian or, more extremely, vegan.In the article by National Geographic writer Sarah Gib-bins, “Eating meat has ‘dire’ consequences for the planet.” A great benefit is predicted to happen if the world drastically changes their diet, however, skeptics do point out that these solutions would not have as extreme benefits as completely eradicating fossil fuel usage. This does seem to be true, but there is a correlation between the livestock industry and higher carbon emissions, so
why not make that change?
My dad makes the best pulled pork in existence, so the idea of going completely vegan, especially all at once, is pretty overwhelming. Thankfully, the trend of “Meatless Mondays” gave me hope that I could participate in change. Going vegetarian one day a week felt like the perfect plan to get my toes wet in the realm of saving the planet via diet change.
Certainly, this change won’t have a huge effect in the grand scheme of things, but it has a possibility of spreading to complete vegetarianism or veganism in my own diet or even spreading the idea to those around me.
To break down this process I needed
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After three weeks of practicing this, 1 can confidently say this goal is very reasonable. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches have become my best friend and settling for cereal in the morning isn’t so bad after all. In fact, the transition has been so seamless and much easier than T previously thought, so the idea of extending my vegetarian days to two or three a week doesn’t sound so bad. If you have wanted to try a diet change like this for any reason, I would say go for it! Of course, start slow and get used to it, but in the long run, it isn’t as bad as you probably think it is. cs
Unsolved: The Little Redhead of Avenue D
By Noah Alexander
The raindrops were pooling into her hands, dancing on her skin and finally collapsing onto the grass. The stark contrast of the low beams against the asphalt clash and spill over the highway setting ablaze her strawberry blonde hair. Wet polyester, clutching her skin with the rain like fingertips staining her dress. The Little redhead of Avenue D, hiding her face from the truth as the outside world closes in...
Wanda Walk-owicz was an eleven year old girl that grew up in Rochester, NY in the early 1970s and brought to life the idea that the mysterious death of another young girl by the name of Carmen Colon, was more than just a single murder. After the opening of the reinvestigation, Nikki Rudd of WHEC, the localnews station of Rochester, explains that Walk-owicz disappeared just blocks from her home after being last seen at the, “Hillside Delicatessen. . .around
5:30pm” (Rudd) on April 2, 1973. The deli was only “Three blocks from avenue D” (Rudd) and the last person to witness her alive, Bill Van Or-den— the owner of the deli— explained that she was, “Struggling to cany her grocery bags” (Orden) and also reported seeing a, “Large brown car driving slowly down the street towards Walowicz” (Orden) The next day she would be found close to the, “Bay Bridge rest area off Route 104 in Webster” (Rudd). The M.O. of the victim-matched Cannen Colon, and just months after Walk-owicz, Michelle Maenza. All three victims were sexually assaulted, strangled, and then dumped in a town that had the same First letter as their initials.
Just a couple years prior—on November 18,
1971,—Carmen Colon, a ten year old found partially clothed in Church-ville, on the side of, “Steams Road” (Rudd). Sgt. Zimmerman, in charge of eyewitness ac-
counts for the case recalled that from eyewitness reports, a girl matching Colon’s description was, “Seen running half naked along 490 east of Church-ville”
(Zimmerman). Others claimed that many people were on the road that night and there had been reports of a, “Car backing up towards her on the shoulder of the road, but no-one stopped or called the police” (Rudd). Two days later she was found on the side of Steams Road by a couple of biking kids. Rochester Police Detective Lt. Anthony Fantigrossi, who was in charge of the case explained that Michelle Maenza died of the same causes, with the only eyewitness reports claiming to have seen her, “Sitting in the front seat of a car” (Fantigrossi) and that the car was, 'traveling at high rate of speed and Michelle appeared to be crying” (Fantigrossi).
The only eyewitness reports of the suspect was a, “White man be-
tween 25-35 years old” (Rudd) had, “Several days growth of beard and kind of long dirty fingernails” (Kuntz) and drove a, “Tan or brown colored car” (Rudd). Although hundreds of tips came from the hotline that Monroe County police department created, no arrests were made. Rochester Police Captain Andrew Sparracino seems convinced that the murders are connected, believing that, “By the Time DNA technology progressed, there was little sample left to get a profile”
(Sparracino). Since the case has reopened, still no conclusive evidence has leaned the police team towards a definitive suspect, leaving what became known as, The Alphabet Murder case: Unsolved.
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Is Elmira Doing More Damage Than Good?

Construction in Elmira (Kaitlyn Klaiber/The Crier)
Greyson Chance’s Newest Album Portraits: Bleeding Love, Loss, and the Past in the Present Day
By Kaitlyn Klaiber
The City of Elmira started Phase 2 of construction for the North Main Street Cultural Connector Project in September, and local businesses in the surrounding area have been hurting and shutting down.
On September 5, Savino’s Liquor and Wine, an establishment that’s been in Elmira for almost over forty years, announced they were closing their doors. This announcement came days after Savino’s advertised they were leading a petition, which had accumulated 1,374 signatures. The owners were planning to use the petition at a city council meeting and discuss business concerns to officials.
Located just outside the construction site, Savino’s saw a decline in customers once roadwork took full effect back in April. The family owned business protested the project back when it was first initiated in 2014, and the owners say their loss in sales and customers comes from the
messy, unattractive intersection as it decreased parking spots in the already limited space around the establishment.
Savino’s is not the only business on North Main Street to close. Evergreens, a popular Chinese take out restaurant that used to sit across from the liquor store, closed in January of this year. The building the twenty year old local business used to inhibit has since been destroyed to make room for the roundabout. The owners of this establishment have not reopened in a new location.
“The loss of Evergreens was a loss to the city, and I miss it, so I’m strongly against the idea,” says Michelle Noyes, a SUNY Corning Community College student and Elmira resident. “I don’t understand why Elmira even wanted a roundabout. Like, yes, it was a tricky intersection to get onto, but being how close all the streets are, it’s still going to be an issue. The roundabout isn’t going to do much
about it other than add more traffic to the area.”
The Cultural Connector Project, which is essentially a roundabout, is intended to improve the design and safety of the city by connecting the downtown area to Elmira College and providing a safer route for both automobiles and pedestrians to take once completed. Construction started almost five months ago, but the duration and plan has damaged businesses located along the current torn up road.
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“You’ll never enjoy your life/ living inside the box/ you’re so afraid of taking chances/ how you gonna reach the top?” As a teenager, I aspired to share my own passion for singing with the world, yet I was stricken by a most paralyzing fear, stagefright. I turned to music for comfort and scavenged the songs of Youtube for the newest up-and-coming artists. My greatest inspiration in times of doubt? Greyson Chance’s melodic power ballad “Waiting Outside the Lines” from his first album Hold On Til ’ the Night, a song about taking chances and
staying true to yourself.
You may recognize Chance from his debut on The Ellen Degeneres Show in 2010, where he graced America with his soulful rendition of Lady Gaga’s
“Paparazzi.” His dazzling voice and passionate vibrato had caught the attention of esteemed and Emmy AwardWinning talk-show host, Ellen Degeneres, after a recording of Chance belting this very song at his sixth grade talent show went viral on Youtube. Thereafter , a then 12-year-old Chance signed on to become the first artist of Ellen Degeneres’ newest music label:
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ElevenEleven. In August 2011, Chance released Hold On Til ’ the Night. Within the first week of release, Hold On Til’ the Night sold 16,000 copies itself! From hit singles “Waiting Outside the Lines” and “Hold On Til’ the Night” to “Unfriend You” and “Heart Like Stone,” his debut album powerfully expresses the emotions of adolescence; Chance himself describes the album as being influenced by emotions of “love, loneliness, heartbreak, and happiness.” The album radiates orchestral innocence through its multiple power ballads, breakup anthems (“Unfriend You”), up-tempo ballads (“Little London Girl), and melodic piano pleas
(“Cheyenne”).
Now, just eight years after Hold On Til ’ the Night and numerous singles, Chance returns with Portraits, released March 15, 2019. Although Portraits is his second full length album, Chance, according to an interview with Paper Magazine, considers the album his
official debut because to him “it feels like the first time I've ever been truly honest and truly authentic with my fans, audience, and music." After being dropped by ElevenEleven during puberty at the age of 15, Chance emerged with a more mature tone and vocal timbre closer to that of a baritone than in his early career. Thus, at 22, Chance’s music has grown with him: themes of a lively adolescent life have been replaced by experiences of adult romance and vulnerability. Nonetheless, Chance continues to demonstrate his appreciation for where he has been, where he will be, and where he is currently in his musical career.
Portraits captures individual snapshots of adulthood—it is an album split up by brief interludes in a fashion that maintains a harmonious balance of love, loss, and the past in the present day.
“Shut Up,” the first track introduces new love and all of its uncertainties with the beginning verse:
I cannot hold my tongue/ you give
me much to say/
I'm sweating bullets/ nervous that you'll push away/ And when your eyes catch mine/1 know I talk too much/ So give me your two lips and baby, I'll shut up.
Chance communicates the significance of nonverbal language in a relationship; although nerves can cause a “tendency to overspeak” as they do for Chance himself, Chance comments on how “a kiss often says a thousand words, it’s just the truth.” Chance sings of being “Stuck here searching for some words that you might need,” when words are not always needed to show love and affection.
“Shut Up” is followed by “Bleed You Still” and “Yours” before the brief interlude “Plains.” “Bleed You Still” showcases Chance’s fierce and vibrant voice. His falsetto nearly resembles the light tenor timbre of his earlier singles and he smoothly transitions to middle voice for the verses prior to the chorus. The track describes the intoxicating nature of love with
jazzy r & b influences; he suggests that even after the damage is done, after the “love is drawn,” he’ll bleed them still and would yearn for their chemistry in spite of all his regrets.
“Yours,” on the other hand, describes Chance’s love for his friends back home in Oklahoma: “And all these towns between us/ they mean nothing/ I'll be back to you one day, one day.” The interlude “Plains” perfectly forms a connection between “Yours” and “West Texas” because it is a snapshot of his early years as a musician; his mother scolded him for swearing at his brother’s charity benefit and he reflects on his childhood with “West Texas.”
After Portraits graces the listener with a touch of love and a touch of the past, the album makes a transition to the sultry swag-
ger of Las Vegas and nightlife with “Black on Black.” This track is the most markedly different from his previous singles due to the vulgarities and the sensual nature: “California kid, you're a fucking sleeze/ But damn, boy, you got me fucking on my knees ” “Black on Black” serves as the epitome of a wild, passionate, and bad-boy-esque romance and is just the sultry sensual ballad the album needed.
While the album Hold On Til ’ the Night depicts innocent love in all its forms, Portraits demonstrates the complexity of love with synth-pop sentiments of mature romance, heartbreak, and sensuality. Portraits ’ immense expression of stripped sensuality and romance makes it as much of a debut as Hold On Til ’ the Night and its powerfully inspiring sentiments.
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TRANSFER COLLEGE FAIR
Friday, November 8, 2019
11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. - CCC Gymnasium
Meet with college transfer admissions representatives and discuss your questions.
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Upcoming Events
Sept 24th Blood Drive 8:30am-TL Self-Defense Lesson 7pm- 1st Floor Perry	25th Blood Drive 8:30am-TL AA Meeting- Elmira Collegiate Recovery Center	26th Johnny Appleseed-Apple Giveaway 10am-SL Multicultural Spelling Bee 12:15pm- KL	27th AA Meeting-Collegiate Recovery Center 6:30pm-Commons 136	28th Perry Hall Cinema "Harry Potter" 8pm- 3rd Floor
29th	30th Mobile Food Pantry 12pm- Commons Hispanic Heritage Month: Salsa Dancing 7pm- 1st Floor	Oct 1st SAGA 12:30pm-TL Night Walk w/ Jennifer Sellers 7pm- Meet in Perry Lobby	2nd Men's Soccer Vs. TompkinsCCC 2pm- Turf Field Women's Soccer 4pm	3rd Spikeball 8pm- Gym
4th	5th	6th	7th	8th
	Open Gym	Men's Soccer vs.	Fix Your Phone	Test Anxiety
National Taco Day	10am- Gym	Fulton Montgom-	Screen Program	Table 12pm- Com-
- Give Away	Perry Hall Cinema	ery CC 1pm-Turf	w/ Kiflom	mons
11am-SL	"Harry Potter" 8pm	Field	5pm- 3rd Floor	Academic Skills:
	- 3rd Floor Perry	Open Gym 6pm-	Perry	Study Habits 4pm-
		Gym		3rd Floor Perry
9th Women's Soccer vs. NCCC 2pm, Men's 4pm Volleyball vs. Cayuga 6pm- Gym	10th Musician Dez Duron 12:30pm- KL National Coming Out Day Celebration 12:30pm-Commons
11th	12th
Perry Hall closes	
at 5pm	BREAK
AA Meeting-Collegiate	
Recovery Center 6:30pm-	
Commons 136	
SL: Student Life TL: Triangle Lounge KL: Kelly Lounge
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