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February 26, 2013
New Children on Campus Policy
By Matthew Kelly
At the last Regional Board of Trustees meeting on January 31st, a resolution was passed that addressed the issue of children on campus. This resolution came forth not, with only employees of the campus in mind, but students as well. Corning Community College, holding the utmost regard for the safety of children, created this resolution to ensure optimum protection for those
whom we hold most dear.
This resolution, entitled “RBOT Resolution #3568-13, Children on Campus,” fills a void that has existed since the inception of our campus. In prior years, there was no definitive documentation that clearly outlined the college’s view in regards to children here at CCC. Here is the Policy Statement, taken word-for-word from the resolution:
“ As a postsecondary institution, C C C strives to
create a safe and
appropriate adult learning environment. The campus grounds and operations are designed to provide an environment conducive to academic and occupational activities performed by students and employees. For reasons that include safety of children, and assuring professional efficient performance of academic pursuits, operations, and services, the College cannot routinely accommodate unsupervised children in campus workplaces, classrooms, or other locations. “
The question now becomes, “What does this resolution mean for me?” The answer, quite simply, is this. Children of employees, faculty, and students will only be
allowed on campus with explicit approval from their managers, professors, and for the purpose of attending events that tailored towards children. At all times, children are to remain supervised by an adult. Any child found unattended will be taken directly to Public Safety.
This resolution goes into effect on March 1st, 2013, and is intended to promote the safety of children, the quality of work, and the quality of education for our campus community. If you have additional questions, or would like to view the entire resolution, please reach out to your department head (for employees) and Student Life (for students).
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Campus Spin: How Do You Feel About the Food Served in the Cafeteria?
Brandon Earley:
The wraps are always falling apart because they cram so much in there.
If I wanted a wrap that fell apart I'd just order a salad!
Catherine Ryck-man: I really love greasy food so I personally love it!
Laura Leonard:
It's not the best and it's overpriced.
Patrick Vaughan:
Considering I used to be a head cook at Elmira College I can tell you the food here is of low quality. I had a breakfast sandwich the other day and the bacon was burnt and tasted like rub-
Rants and Ramblings
By Rashelle Herrick
Have you ever sat down to study or work on homework, and just as you are hitting the books, someone walks in and wants to chat? Patiently you sit there and listen for a bit, politely informing the person that you have schoolwork to do, yet he/she rambles on unendingly.
After a while, your patience begins to slip, and suddenly the person who was rambling away notices that you are
working on schoolwork, and he/she has interrupted. He/she either apologizes sheepishly and leave you alone, or gives the “what’s your problem” vibe as he/she stand there staring at you before finally walking away. Inevitably, you feel like you are the bad guy, yet also know that you were trying to get something done and pass your classes. It is a catch-22 situation that makes it very difficult to get back to work.
This was a pet-peeve brought up by a classmate, and I can sympathize with him/her. However, he/she ironically brought it up while doing this pet-peeve themselves, and admitted it laughingly. Oh well, no one’s perfect right?
If you have a pet-peeve, feel free to email it to: rbuck-la2@corning-cc.edu and I’ll consider it for my next rant.
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Revisiting AVI Fresh
By Paula Cersoli
AVI Fresh started here at CCC last semester. Some of you may recall a rocky start for them, and the head chef promising some changes. This semester seemed like it was a better start for them. I have personally liked the food that I have ordered so far. If you look around the cafeteria you will see a majority of the students eating food prepared by the AVI Fresh staff.
However, the only way to know how the students really feel about the food is to ask. In a conversation with a friend, he/she mentioned how the food does taste better now compared to last semester and
the cafeteria staff are a lot nicer than when AVI Fresh first started here. The only complaint is the prices of the food. One student said he debates about whether to spend gas money to go out to eat cheaper food or if he should just spend money here, which he does just so he doesn’t have to drive off campus.
Jeremy, another student here at CCC said, “There are only a few things that I eat in the cafeteria, and it seems like they are never stocked. I go to get a parfait and milk and there’s nothing. It’s all I eat. I was pissed. And they took away our energy drinks.
That pisses me off too.” Another student, who wishes to remain anonymous said, “It seems like some days they have a better variety of food to get than other days.”
AVI Fresh has been doing a lot better compared to when they first started. Towards the end of last semester I did notice the changes. And so far this semester they have been keeping up with it. So, apart from a few complaints, students seem happier with the food.
The Healthy Hub: Take a Break!
By Sydney Mixon
We’re only over a month into school and already the stress is back. Many teachers have started giving out exams and our single credit classes are drawing to a close. This can mean lots of work and stress for all of us. We all want to get good grades and succeed, but don’t forget to take time out for yourself.
Having time to ourselves is very important. It lets us clear our minds and calm our bodies down. If we don’t take a break from life every now and then, it builds up until it overflows. There are so many ways to take a break. Whether its working out, read-
ing a book, knitting, meditating, or just driving with the radio turned off so you can listen to your own thoughts.
Stress not only makes us feel miserable and perhaps depressed, but it also subjects us to getting very sick. It is shown that extreme stress can lower your white blood cell count in your body to zero. These are the little army men that travel around in your body, fighting off invading sicknesses and diseases. Without these circulating through our blood, we are much more prone to getting sick.
So don’t forget to let yourself take a break, whether
its ten minutes or an hour. Also, don’t forget to let yourself have fun. Winter is a major time for depression, make sure to enjoy time with your friends, and allow yourself to forget the world for a little bit. Take a break!
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Higher One: Predatory Banking
By Kelsey Johnson
Like most of you, I always get excited for financial aid reimbursements. When I was told that I would get my return quicker by signing up with Higher One banking, I happily obliged. However, in the time since I opened my account, I have grown wiser to the tricks often used by this bank, usually by experiencing them first hand.
Higher One is a bank built specifically to help college students utilize their financial aid reimbursements faster. This means that the institution is designed to target young, inexperienced, and naive bankers. I know that, for myself, I had never really maintained a banking account on my own until I was in college. This left me venerable to the abuse of Higher One.
The first problem I encountered was that Higher One has many hidden fees. After the
first few months with my debit card, I glanced at my statement only to find that I was being charged a fifty cent fee every time I entered my pin number. This is because the company has to pay more to process a debit transaction than it does to host MasterCard. Now, as a young individual with a vulnerable credit score, I am essentially being forced into using credit everywhere I go.
The next concern I came across was the fact that Higher One doesn’t really exist anywhere. While advertising thousands of no-fee ATMs across the country, the bank minimizes the fact that the majority of those are on campuses, like our own ATM located by Student Administrative Services. This means that now, to actually access my reimbursement off campus, I am subject to whatever fee that
The Look Book Sydney Mixon
What Are You Wearing Today?
A Hollister sweater and boots from T.J.Maxx. The scarf is from a fair trade shop in Edward, North Carolina and I bought the headband in Vermont.
How Would You Describe Your Sense of Style?
Kind of bohemian I guess.
Who Inspires Your Fashion? I follow Free People--their catalogues and blog. I also follow a blog called The Native Fox.
ATM may impose, along with a Higher One fee, which can easily total up to five dollars. Aside from that, actually depositing money requires an electronic deposit or a lengthy mailing process because there is no physical location in the entire state.
Most recently, I have been troubled by a series of overdraft fees and returned check fees, despite the fact that my account wasn’t overdrawn, and I had the funds in my account at the time. Occasionally, the overdraft fee would actually be the transaction that depleted my funds. What’s worse, every time I tried to call and fix these errors, I would spend over an hour on the phone trying to contact a live person in customer assistance. By this time I was nearly irate and was hardly helped at all by the staff.
Let this be a warning for all students. While using a Higher One account may help you get your refunds sooner, it won’t benefit over the long run. I would advise opening an account at a local credit union, where you are less likely to be targeted by crooked practices and where you will be treated as the valued member of the community you are. It may take be more troublesome to have your refund from Higher One go into a bank or credit union account, but it will save you time and, most importantly, money in the long run.
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Sex Week
By Keri Disidoro
“With ignorance comes fear- from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance.” This quote by Kathleen Patel is something every male and female should learn. It is something that Equal has taken to heart. Equal is what was formally known as the LGBT alliance. Two years ago they reformed and changed their name because it does not matter whether you are gay, straight, bi -sexual, lesbian or transgender, everyone is equal. Their aim? To bring faculty, staff, students, and the community together as equals and educate others.
When people do not understand something, they begin to foster fear, and when that happens, they treat that something as something that is wrong. Equal is currently working towards Sex Week, a week in March, in which every day in the Triangle lounge there will be a different seminar. As the subject of sex and sexuality is one of those topics that many people dislike talking about, many do not always understand sexual health or what it means to be safe. Sex Week will be able to provide everyone on campus with the knowledge that many seek, but are too afraid to ask about. The programs will be as follows:
Monday, 3/18
•	Christine McLear, Planned Parenthood. "How To Get What You Want in Bed: The importance of Pleasure and Communication", Triangle Lounge, 12pm-2pm
Tuesday, 3/19 Two programs:
•	Sarah Blagg, Abbey Gerard,
Rape Crisis of the Southern Tier. "Play Ball!: How Society Dictates Your Sex Life", Triangle Lounge, 12pm-2pm
•	Sarah Hassler, The Cellar Wine Bar and Fine Dining. "The Sex Life of Food" -What to eat to have better sex, why food and eating is such an intimate experience, the sexuality of food itself, and how understanding the sensuality of food and eating can help you to better enjoy and appreciate the sensuality of physical intimacy. Triangle Lounge, 3pm- 4pm
Wednesday, 3/20
Christina Miller, AIDS Care
Rochester. Two programs:
•	Sex Ed Q and A, Triangle Lounge, 12pm-2pm
•	"Queering Safer Sex"-Geared toward educators, medical providers, and any students going into the helping fields (would be great for nursing students and Human Services students!) Triangle Lounge, 3pm
Thursday, 3/21
•	Conner Habib, author, educator, philosopher, adult film star. Talking about Sex and Sexuality, lecture and Q and A to address any questions from community, students, staff surrounding the importance of healthy sexual attitude and communication, Triangle Lounge, 12pm-2pm
Friday, 3/22
•	Sex Education Honor Students answer all the questions you've always wondered about but never asked! Equal members will collect student questions, using our resources will research the proper answers and then present them to the students in attendance. Have a question you aren't comfortable asking your professor, or doctor, or presenter? Ask us and we will research it for you and provide you accurate, researched answers! A student led discussion on sex and sexuality in Triangle Lounge at 12pm-2pm
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Speedrunning: A Rising Star in eSports
By John Mase
Plenty of you have heard of and follow athletic stars such as Lebron James or Tim Tebow, but how many of you can say you can say that you check in every week on your favorite speedrunners? For the majority of readers, the term “speedrunner” is itself a foreign one, perhaps triggering thoughts of Olympic sprinters. In the gaming community, the term is defined as playing the game with the goal of beating it as fast as possible.
In its origins, the community was very small, but in recent years the art of speedrunning has grown expo-
nentially. It has grown so large, in fact, that in 2010 a man named Mike Uyama hosted Classic Games Done Quick, in his own basement. This event was three days in length and featured many classic 8 and 16-bit games run for charity. This event ended up being the spark of something truly amazing, and this past January, three years after the first event, Mr. Uyama's brainchild Awesome Games Done Quick raised an incredible $448,423.27 from over 16,000 donations for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Over 115 games were played by many notables in the speedrunning community including, but not limited to, Cosmo, Siglemic, and Trihex. Numerous popular
titles ran during the marathon, including The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Me-troid, Skyrim, Yoshi's Island, and Mario 64 along with quite a few lesser known titles such as Die Hard and Goof Troop.
Speedrunning is a great way to revisit your favorite games, so why not check it out? The best places to start are speedrunslive.com and twitch.tv where you can find people streaming their run attempts daily from all over the planet. So if you have the chance, check it out, and hopefully you'll come to love speedrunning as much as I.
Residence Halls Accepting Applications
By Kelsey Johnson
With construction well on track, CCC has announced that it is now accepting applications for student housing. The applications are called “License to Occupy” and can be found online or in person.
Students must be at least 18 years old and enrolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours per semester to be eligible for student housing. Also, a
meal plan is required for on-campus students, so make sure you enjoy the cafeteria.
Rooms are offered on a first-come, first-serve basis, so be sure to apply soon! Students can select from double or single occupancy rooms, with a total of 320 spaces available. Access www.corning-cc.edu/housing to find links to the License to Occupy, Housing Checklist, and
Applications must be completed and submitted with a $250 security deposit. Once they are received, a confirmation email will be sent with directions for completing the process. After all of the items from the Housing Checklist are completed, a room will be assigned.
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Channeling History:
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, AKA: Frederick Douglass
In celebrating Black History Month, every person should be amazed and enlightened to learn only a puzzle piece of this man’s enormous contribution to humanity. At the age of 20, in 1838, Frederick was an escaped slave sharpening his, mostly self-taught, reading/writing and preaching skills. He wove teaching, lecturing, theatrical, philosophical, anecdotal, satirical, and psychological power into his repertoire without any formal education or tutelage, all to achieve one single goal. The power of his message, conveyed by the forceful logic of his connections to the minds and hearts of his audience within his speeches and publications, exclaimed his lifelong dedication to Freedom.
In a speech, given at a 4th of July celebration, he surprised the gathering by saying: “There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour. Go search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.” From the onset; his obvious intellectual oratory style was forceful and influential in boldly describing and magnifying his horrid experiences as a slave upon an assembled crowd. His ability to connect with people at different levels during a speech was genius in that he was adept at improvisation and humor, irony and mimicry of authority, and above all -
righteous indignation.
Frederick wrote a popular autobiography in 1845, jeopardizing his freedom. He was forced to flee the United States, and during two years in England, he was almost convinced to stay there by the complete absence of prejudice and an immense personal popularity. Friends in England raised enough money to obtain his freedom from his owner in Maryland. Ultimately, he decided to return to the US and move his family to Rochester New York. Within his farewell speech to the British people in 1847 he said, “I do not go back to America to sit still, remain quiet, and enjoy ease and comfort. . . I go, turning my back on the ease, comfort, and respectability which I might maintain here. . . Still, I will go back, for the sake of my brethren. I go to suffer with them; to toil with them; to endure insult with them; to undergo outrage with them; to lift up my voice in their behalf; to speak and write in their vindication; and struggle in their ranks for the emancipation which shall yet be achieved.” Our country almost lost his tireless advocacy and powerful presence in on-going movements as important as antislavery, civil rights for all citizens, the right of freed black men to vote, and women's right to vote (The XIII, XIV, XV, and XIX Amendments to our Constitution).
With funds obtained in England, Frederick immediately began his 30 year publishing and editing career with his paper, the North Star. Becoming the most charismatic speaker and writer of his time, within hundreds of speeches and publications, he continued to rail against slavery. He was proud to offer his home as a
station for the Underground Railroad. Just days before emancipation was achieved, Frederick understood the importance of following freedom with the acknowledgment of civil rights and the ability to vote. Fearing reprisals against freed slaves, he said, “I am for the immediate, unconditional, and universal enfranchisement of the black man, in every state in the union. Without this, his liberty is a mockery; without this, you might as well almost retain the old name of slavery for his condition; for in fact, if he is not a slave of the individual master, he is a slave of society, and holds his liberty as a privilege, not as a right. He is at the mercy of the mob, and has no means of protecting himself.”
His connection with abolitionists and women's rights leaders throughout the world was a lifelong collaboration. On the day he died, Mr. Douglass appeared at a meeting of the National Council of Women. As a man of humble conviction, serving in the administrations of four US Presidents was not what he was proudest of. When asked, he mentioned his teenage work organizing secret, forbidden lessons of reading and writing to young slave friends in Maryland. Frederick escaped slavery with the help of his wife; he bought his freedom with the help of friends, but he obtained individual intellectual autonomy by employing his relentless hunger for freedom, equal treatment, and liberty for everyone.
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Sports Highlight
(Courtesy of http://www.redbaronsathletics.com/landing/index)
Taylor Lathrop from Avoca
February 22, 2013
Men's Basketball 58-Corning Community College
82-	Tompkins Cortland Community College
Mid-State Athletic Conference Semifinal
February 19, 2013
Women's Basketball 47- Corning Community College 62- Jefferson Community College Men's Basketball 70- Onondaga Community College
83-	Corning Community College
Mid-State Athletic Conference Quarter-Final
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