'Che (Trier ■■all the husbands, all the sons, all the lovers gone, they make no difference, no difference in the end... — George Michael Vol. 36 Issue 2 Corning Community College February 25,1991 CCC Targets the Persian Gulf Time Magazine's chief correspondent featured in recent Brown Bag Forum David Aikman, critically acclaimed as one of the most dynamic news journalists of our time, spoke on the "Middle East Crisis" at a Coming Community College Brown Bag forum on Thursday, February 22 at 12:30 p.m. Aikman, chief foreign correspondent for Time Magazine, has been stationed in Saudi Arabia and Egypt since the onset of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait this summer. He has witnessed most of the major events firsthand: deployment of troops, weapons buildup, and bombing raids on Saudi Arabia. During that time, he was able to interview military strategists on both sides of the issue, various soldiers and civilians, and also attained an exclusive interview with King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. Aikman is a foreign correspondent with 20 years of experience and has an unusual depth of background in the Communist world. He has reported for Time from more than 50 countries, is fluent in five languages, and obtained his PhD in Soviet Cultures. The program, the first of its kind on campus since the war started, was made possible through special funding by Faculty/Student Association and student activities fees. It was open to the public and was held in the large lounge in the commons. There was no charge for admittance. David Aikman Hands Off: Let's Talk Students enraptured by National Lecturer Bob Hall's speach on sex and dating by Melissa Dewey Approximately200 CCCstudents gathered in the Large Lounge of the Commons on Tuesday, February 12, to hear National Lecturer Bob Hall speak on sex and dating. The program, called “Hands Off; Let’s Talk,” was designed especially for the college age group by Hall in an effort to discuss topics many people avoid-sexual aggression and date rape. The program, although serious in content, was presented in an amusing way, as Hall proved to be “really good at keeping the attention of the audience,” observed Student Government President Steve Jimerson. Hall included such antics as showing the various ways each sex “checks out” the other, and recruiting female volunteers so he could demonstrate a guy’s “moving in” techniques. According to the statistics, about one out of every three women will be a victim of sexual assault at some point in her life, and one out of four will be a victim of rape. What makes these figures even more shocking is that 75% of all rapes or assaults are caused by someone the victim knows and trusts. Casey Watach, a second-semester Liberal Arts student, remarked that because of such high statistics “the workshop was important for both men and women,” so they become more aware of an issue that could hit close to home. The program was brought to CCC by Campus Nurse Madeline Uhl, who wanted to raise students’ consciousness about AIDS and personal safety. Hall is currently a mediator in the New York State courts, the owner of Learning to Live with Conflict, Ltd., and a black belt in karate. FROM THE DESK OF THE EDITOR... by Kenneth Yentzer Hullo one and all. I am proud to announce that the Crier has received the long-awaited Logitech hand-held optical scanner. The money needed to purchase this fabulous invention was acquired from SAF. For those of you who are unfamiliar with all that technical computer equipment, this new “toy” will allow the staff to begin using photographs in the following issues of the paper. Although the quality of the pictures may suffer for awhile, I’m sure that with many hours of practice we will soon be rivaling the Corning Leader. (The MIS-Leader according to a recent editorial they printed.) Anyway, the staff of the Crier can’t wait to see some pictures, and I’m sure our beloved readers wouldn’t mind seeing a photograph or two. Ten??? Give us a chance here! Would you mind if I completely changed the subject? Thanx. It’s appreciated. O.k. Look, how many of you people are beginning to wonder if your going to get that grade you were shooting for? I know there are a couple classes that have me in stitches! I just wanted to take two seconds of your time to tell you that it is never too late. That incredible “A” might be almost out of reach. If you are already too far gone for that then you need some “SPINK” in your diet. “SPINK” is very hard to come by too. Sorry...you won’t find it in any discotheque or store. To find it you must find a mirror and ask yourself for some. I know this sounds crazy, but where the heck else are you going to find what you need. Ever hear of Pippi Longstocking??? Well, she never found out what “SPINK” was. Deadline for next issue: February 28,1991 Letters to the Editor must be signed, although name will be witheld upon request. Freelance writers must leave phone # with articles submitted. For more information call 962-9339. L------------------------- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The following letter was written on January 31st, 1991: Today is a very cold, blustery day on the campus grounds here at CCC. Because of this reason, I have come to the conclusion that a form of discrimination, or at least a double standard, flourishes here at CCC. lama student who chooses to smoke cigarettes. Today, because of the college Campus Life Fair being held in Spencer Pub, the only designated indoor smoking area for students and guests; I and hundreds of other students here on campus who choose to smoke are without a warm, decent place to retire to between classes to smoke a cigarette, drink a cup of coffee and have some meaningful conversation with another student. Instead, we smokers are relegated to stand outside in the elements where we have a much greater chance of catching a cold. In fact, we may not even stand in the breeze-ways between the double sets of doors leading to all the buildings. For those of you who 2 don’t smoke who may be thinking, “Good. I’m glad they can’t smoke any place but Spencer Pub or outside,” I would be the first person to agree with you, for I choose not to impose on you or anyone the passive smoke from my cigarette. The intent here is to point out to the CCC hierarchy that perhaps if a rule is going to be implemented on campus, then everyone, including staff and faculty, be included. Students are relegated to one designated smoking area. I have noticed that the staff and faculty has a smoking and non-smoking dining room. Why don’t students? I know it is also true that staff has various lounges throughout the numerous buildings here on campus where they may enjoy a cigarette during work hours. It is also common knowledge that instructors who smoke do so in the privacy of their offices. In other words, many, many smoking areas are available for faculty and staff, but not for the smoking students at CCC, who, on this day, must be at the mercy of the elements and a smoking policy that clearly singles them out. Name witheld by request THE CRIER, February 25,1991 Transfer There are many factors to keep in mind when thinking about transferring to another college. The resources in the Career and Transfer Information Center, (lower level of the Commons), will help you in researching and selecting colleges. It is also helpful to talk with advisors, instructors, and transfer college representatives. You should apply early to the colleges to which you wish to transfer. It is best to apply at least one semester before you plan to transfer. SUN Y applications are available in the Career and Transfer Information Center. You should also contact the Registration and Records Office to have your official Corning Community College transcript forwarded to each of the colleges. You should apply early for financial aid, and contact Eleemosynaryq (g The Two-Bit Players will be performing the Lee Blessing play, Eleemosynary. on campus to open the spring semester. This play centers around three generations of women (grandmother, mother and daughter) and their struggle to come to grips with society and each other. Appearing in this production are: Jenniffer Grace as Echo; Ramona Flint as Dorothea; and Gina Redder as Artie. Hank Moonschein is directing the production with Denis Oliver as assistant director. Dan Appleby is technical director with John Maclnerney as technical assistant. The play will be performed in the science amphitheatre on Feb. 27, at 1:00p.m. and on Feb. 28th and March 1st at 8:00p.m.. 3 Information: the financial aid office at every college to which you are applying to have information sent to you. The major criteria colleges use to make transfer admissions decisions are GPA’s Possession of an Associates Degree helps considerably. Recommendations, extracurricular activities, and field/vol-unteer experiences are some additional criteria that may be considered by some transfer colleges. If you have any questions on transferring to another college, please contact the Career and Transfer Information Center. CAREER AND TRANSFER CENTER INFORMATION CENTER HOURS Mon,Tues,Thurs, Fri 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Wed 8:30a.m.-3:00 p.m. BDC RECEIVES GRANT Corning Community College’s Business Development Center has been awarded a $27,500 grant from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Center for Manufacturing Productivity and Technology Transfer to conduct eight workshops to provide technology transfer activities for small manufacturers. Funding will also support a survey to analyze regional manufacturers’ productivity enhancing technology needs. Topics for the workshop have been derived from training requests the Business Development Center received during the past several months from a variety of industries. Topic areas will be basic electricity, industrial electricity, digital electronics, introduc-THE CRIER, February 25,1991 CORNELL TRANSFER. ... On Friday, March 1, the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University will host a Transfer Day for all interested students, faculty and transfer counselors. The College of Human Ecology offers a unique blend of liberal arts and pre-professional studies in the fields of biology, psychology, nutrition, human services, economics, policy analysis, design, and textiles and apparel. Anyone interested in attending this Transfer Day should stop by the Career and Transfer Information Center to fill out a registration form. TIIE CAMPUS LIFE FAIR was held from 12:00 to 1:30pm on Thursday, January 31st in Spencer Pub. The Fair is held at the beginning of each semester. It is a very good way for new and returning students to see what clubs Corning Community College has and what the clubs do. Students can discover different ways they can become involved in activities that are offered at the college. For the clubs, it is a great way for recruiting new members. The fair was paid a visit by Gunars Re-imanis, the Dean of the College, and a member of the Star-Gazette was there as well. The recruiting process is ongoing throughout the year. For further information about student clubs contact the Activities office in the Commons at ex-tension 245.,______________________ tions to oscilloscopes, solid state electronics, and data acquisition using PCs. The survey to analyze regional manufacturers’ productivity enhancing technology needs, which will be conducted in the Southern Tier of New York and Northern Pennsylvania area, will focus on training and employment needs of regional manufacturers. It is anticipated that the survey will produce a clearer understanding of the technology currently used, as well as identify the technology which may be incorporated into the manufacturing processes of the region. Over three hundred manufacturers will receive the survey beginning in March. Patriotism By Jimmy King I never thought of the word “patriotism” as a many sided blade. Anyway, I never even thought about it. It is used in the U.S.S.R. and in African countries like Tanzania, Kenya, etc. In Tanzania, this word has even given a Kiswahili translation in order to be used locally as a political tool. In Kiswahili, as a noun, it became “Uzalendo”, a word strong enough to kill for! That was in Tanzania, and the word was used to make Tanzanians feel and see themselves as one. Anybody trying to point his or her finger at the government leaders’ mistakes was branded “anti-uzalendo”. President Nyerere would then condemn any country, and without even questioning why, all Tanzanians would be in the street twenty-four hours later supporting the presidential move, because by doing so they were showing their “patriotism” and “support” to the president. It was wild, but, again, that was Tanzania, a third world country where people tend to say “yes” even if what they really mean is “no”. Since the beginning of the war in the Middle East these words have been used to their maximum by different people, in different places, with different reasons. At the beginning of the war, it was not used much until some people decided to show their anger and exercise their civil rights. Those people expressed themselves in different ways. Some marched on the streets, a few of them burning flags, breaking windows, etc. Those who supported war didn’t choose their support except in privacy. I asked one of my friends to tell me why he thought going to war was “o.k.”, as he said, with him. “Because”, he started, “We need our oil wells back, man.” We can’t let someone take our oil. “Americans”, he added with pride, “are not dumb.” What my friend didn’t know was that thewarwas not for oil anymore. “No blood for oil” chants changed that. Now the war was against Saddam Hussein, not just because he put himself in control of over 20% of oil production in the world, but because he is a dictator, a Hitler in the form of Saddam plus other more ugly faces that enemies carry. People who opposed the war were branded “anti-American”. If you don’t like America, they were told, “then get the h@€HS out of here”. Some “experts” even decided that those people were not newsworthy. They were confused people who did not know what they were talking about. On the other hand, people who were pro-war came up with an expression “we don’t like war, but since our troops are there already we support them.” Things changed so fast that opposing war became not supporting the troops. An anti-war slogan became synonymous with anti-troops, which also questioned one’s “patriotism”, that strong word that made people in Tanzania go to the streets to march in support for the president and the same word that was used in China when soldiers killed students; it is also the same powerful word that is used by both sides in El Salvador, Angola, and in South Africa to kill and get killed. This made me curious and so I decided to find out what exactly this word means. A “patriot”, according to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary is “one who loves his country and zealously supports its authority and interests.” This shows how powerful a word can be. As I said before, in Tanzania, it did exactly that. What people in that country didn’t try to find out was the difference between the “country” and “the authority.” I don’t know, but I think that the country and authority interests are not one thing! That is the problem. Until we find out, there will be more wars and deaths in the name of patriotism, liberty, freedom, democracy and so on, leaving countries with orphans, widows, hunger, and poverty for the following generations to deal with. Now, because of ideological translation, people who fight for peace on earth have lost again in the name of “patriotism”. But, didn’t the English say that “there is no peace without war”? Of course they did. ACROSS 45 46 Fight fixe 14 Loosely woven cotton 1 Sewing machine 47 Emulated Andretti 15 City in upstate part 49 Sea bird New York 6 Wheat variety 50 synephrine 16 Ballerina's assets 11 Small bed 51 Threatened 21 Toothed 13 Ornamental shrub 53 Triangle side 23 Protective wall 14 Author of "The 54 "A " (Dickens 25 Prophets Necklace" (2 wds.) novel) 27 Messages 17 Record player part 57 Edict city 29 Electric 18 roll 58 Powder bag 31 Part of MPH 19 Schwarz, 59 Hinder 33 Pours famous toy store 60 Evil glances 35 seek 20 Exploits 36 Spaces between veins 22 Greek site DOWN 37 Tropical bird 23 Boy servant 39 Artist's workshop 24 Regions 1 Encourages (2 wds. ) 40 Karl Malden TV 26 Bio 2 Remuneration series, for short 27 Income statement 3 hat 41 Iceman's need item 4 Cordoba cheers 42 Force 28 Menu item 5 Madagascar monkey 44 Texas river 30 Ambitious one 6 Bridge sections 47 Allude 32 Donna or Rex 7 City on the 48 Car-window item 34 Zeus's wife Amo 51 Speck of dust 35 Netherlands city 8 Stammering sounds 52 Sky Masterson's 38 Meal 9 Foliage game 42 Dust and mud 10 Scarlet 55 Suffix for depend 43 Baseball hall-of- 12 Anklebone 56 Most common written famer, Anson 13 Like Charo word collegiate crossword 4 THE CRIER, February 25,1991 Counselor's Corner by Ronnie Bayer Lipp Making good career decisions are based on self-knowledge as well as information about the working world. Important parts of self-knowledge in career decision making include being aware ofyour interests, skills, and values. The January 28, 1991 issue of the Crier had a column about interests. The remainder of this column will deal with skills. Skills, or abilities, are things that you do well. In looking at your skills, think notonlyofwhatyou can do now, but also about what you can learn to do. One of the outcomes of attending Corning Community College will be to raise your skills in a variety of areas. You can develop a list ofyour current skills and skills you would like to develop. Think about what you have done before in a job, a volunteer position, a hobby, or daily life. What skills do you have now have that you can “transfer” to occupations you are considering? What additional skills do you want to develop? There are some “tools” at Corning Community College that can help you learn about skills you have and/or would like to develop. One is called “Skill Scan”, which you can work on with any counselor or career counselor on campus. The major grouping used in “SkillS-can” are communication, h-umanitarian,leadership/management, mental/analytical, mental creative, creative expression, and physical. There are many sub-groups in each area. Another “tool” is the SIGI+ computerized career guidence system available in the Career and Transfer Information Center in the lower level of the Commons. SIGI+ divides skills (activites) into six types: working with people, working with hands or equipment, communicating, organizing information, working with math, and special activites. Each of these broad areas is divided into many sub-skills. Each of us has an abundance of skills. We can organize our skills into categories that can be compared to skills necessary in an occupation. You can learn which occupations require which skills. Knowledge of the skills you have, want to develop, and use in an occupation are an essential part of a career decision. The counselors and career counselors on campus are available to help you learn about your skills and their relationship to your career. SOPHOMORES If you're enrolled in the second year of a college program leading to an associate degree, or have already received an associate degree from an accredited junior/community college, here's an opportunity offered to you by the Navy. If you continue on to an accredited college/university you could earn more than $1,100 a month during your junior and senior years. (Technical majors may earn payment for up to 36 months.) That totals as much as $40,000 by graduation. You must be less than 26 at the time of enrollment in a 4-year institution, be a United States citizen and have a GPA of 3.0 or better. To see if you qualify, call: 1-800-242-4457 NAVY OFFICER You and the Navy- Full Speed Ahead. 5 THE CRIER, February 25,1991 ST. BON AVENTUR E UNIVERSITY V Offers Attractive Opportunities For TRANSFER STUDENTS • Special Transfer Scholarships and other financial assistance • Guaranteed on-campus housing • Progams in Business Administration, Arts and Sciences, and Education • Personal counseling to assist in a smooth transition For more information on transferring to St. Bonaventure University call the Admissions Office at 1-800-462-5050 in New York State or 1-800-848-1181 outside of New York State. If local, call 375-2400. Applications are being accepted for the Fall 1991 Semester. III.LL. 11IXE 11111 i f 1 1 II II 1 1 1 11 1 rrTT i 1 1,1 1 111 l.LJULTTTriiT LLAJ 1 1 1 ILtTTT TT rTr 6 THE CRIER, February 25,1991 LANDLORD OF THE YEAR AWARD Let's give credit where credit is due! Many students have pleasant, accommodating landlords/landladies who care about their student tenants,provide good, clean accommodations at fair rents and respond quickly to reasonable complaints. The Housing Office would like to recognize these special people, but student award nominations are essential to its success. The Landlord nomination form, below, may be dropped off at the Activities Office when completed. (Additional forms are available in Housing Office.) The Housing Office and a committee of students and staff will then determine which nominee is most deserving of recognition. THE LANDLORD WILL BE HONORED AT A LUNCHEON TOWARD THE END OF THE SEMESTER, WHICH WILL BE PUBLICIZED IN THE CRIER AND ALL AREA MEDIA. THE WINNING STUDENT NOMINATOR WILL BE INVITED TO JOIN THE AWARDS LUNCHEON. So, if you think your landlord/landlady is worthy of this award, fill out the form and show your appreciation. DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS IS MARCH 21,1991, T3 ja T5 C a ■o >_ o ■o c 83 J 0 g 1 ^ CU T3 z < t/5 3 0 = « c 1