Friday, September 28 Issue 5 Fall 2007 The Crier Unveiling a Part of Our History By Anthony Popkin the 1960's. Throughout the semester the campus will be displaying portions of the capsule for the CCC community to see. Currently the display case houses such items as a miniature CCC flag, various newspaper articles, a TIME magazine, and tickets to the campus dedication ceremony on May 23, The kickoff of Coming Community College’s 50th Anniversary took place last Friday with the unveiling of Dr. Amann’s portrait in the library. Dr. Amann is the fifth president of CCC in its rich fifty-year history. As the event started, the library filled with members of CCC, past and present. Three of the four former presidents were also in attendance at the event to show their support. Dr. Amann opened the unveiling by talking to the audience of approximately eighty-five people about the 50th Anniversary. “I wanted to have the unveiling in the library as the library is the symbol of teaching and learning function of college.’' stated Dr. Amaan. Also during the President’s opening remarks, respects were paid to former English teacher and the first Librarian of CCC Jack Martin, who recently passed away. ‘Tack Martin has left a fingerprint upon Corning Community College,” remarked Dr. Amaan. On display at the event was the first portion of the recently unearthed time capsule that was buried in 1964. Attendees who came to the event each received a mug w ith the Corning Community College logo on the front. Also included were snacks and drinks. After the guess speakers finished making their comments. Professor of History' and Government Walter R. Smith and Student Trustee Dustin Lan-tennan unveiled the distinguished portrait of Dr. Amaan. Dr. Amann. President of CCC. delivers a speech at the unveiling of his presidential portrait in the library during Friday’s reception. The 50th Anniversary is now in full sw ing. Check out the time capsule in the library if you get a chance and as the 50th Anniversary events progress we’ll be sure to let you know where they are. OH Friday. September 28. 2007 Jazzin’ It Up By Lindsay Woodruff tasting. The second part of the festival took place on Saturday, September 22 from 11:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m., also in Centerway Square. It began with a pie eating contest, won by Coming mayor Frank Coccho. Emcee Studio Stu made a second appearance. entertaining and introducing bands such as Supernatural. Paradigm Shift. Rick Wahlers/Boo-gie Men. Anita Lewis & Top Shelf, and the Nines from 1:00-7:00 p.m. A special Farmer’s Market was held in Riverfront Park, as were cooking demonstrations and hay rides. Local businesses along Market Street decorated scarecrows outside their businesses as part of a competition that w as judged by the public. Local merchants hosted performers both days, usually in tw o or three-hour timeslots. The festival ended early this year to ensure that visitors of the festival could make it to the Coming Museum of Glass auditorium at 8:00 p.m. for a special performance of Regina Carter and her quintet. As a part of Coming Community College’s 50th anniversary celebration, the school cosponsored the Gaffer District’s Jazz and Harvest Festival on Friday. September 21, from 5:00 - 9:30 p.m. in Centerway Square on Market Street. The festival itinerary included a perfomiance by CCC’s Instrumental & Voice Ensemble, who performed songs ranging from the Beatles to Norah Jones. Rochester-based jazz band Hard Logic, and the Hepcats Big Band, all introduced by Emcee Studio Stu. In an event to include more child-friendly activities at the festival. CCC sponsored inflatables in Riverfront Park for children ages 3-14. 2,500 free cupcakes, and the fireworks display at the end of the evening. The College Bookstore was also represented at the festival, selling t-shirts, notepads, coffee mugs, water bottles, and more the 50th Anniversary logo on it. Finger Lakes Wineries were also in attendance at merchant establishments for w ine Friday, September 28. 2007 Anniversary Event a Great Success By Lindsay’ Woodruff Corning Community College’s 50th Anniversary Kick-Off event took place on Saturday, September 22 from 7:00-11:00 p.m. in the Commons Building. Alumni, faculty, past presidents of the college Dr. Perry, Dr. Hangen, and Dr. Marti, and current students were in attendance, enjoying a tapas-style dinner in the various Decade Rooms and dancing the night away to Nik and the Nice Guys, who performed in the Main Dining Room. At the beginning of the evening, several models of classic vehicles dating from the 1950s to the present were parked outside the Commons, including Cobras. Corvettes, and a replica of the beloved Volkswagen Beetle Herbie from the 1968 classic movie The Love Bug. The Decade Rooms were set up in Spencer Pub. the Kelly Lounge, Triangle Lounge, and Employee Dining Room, and were filled with music from the decade and decorated with memorabilia from the both the college and the era in general. Presidential portraits could be found in the corresponding rooms. Guests were presented with a commemorative 50th anniversary bottle of wine on their way out. _______________________________Page 3 Student Reflects on 50th Anniversary By Carissa Lovgren This past weekend, Corning Community College celebrated its 50th Anniversary. For me, it began with the jazz festival downtow n on Friday. My seven-year-old enjoyed the kiddie-rides and loved the fireworks. When the fireworks started I thought to myself. “50 years, and I am here for this, what a wonderful thing to be a part of.” The following evening, tonight, began the year's celebration with the Kick-Off event at The Commons, complete with Nik and The Nice Guys playing tunes from all five decades. As a student. 1 am honored to be a part of this monumental event. As a Senator, I am proud to have served the community and the college this evening. 1 enjoyed meeting new people and seeing old faces. One face in particular was that of Joe Hanek. former professor of Social Science. My first semester here, I took his Organizational Behavior class and have been stuck on CCC ever since. 1 transferred from Erie Community College, in Buffalo, with the intentions of obtaining a degree from Corning Community College. As the semester got underway, 1 began to question if I had made a mistake by moving 150 miles away from my family, with no husband and two kids in tow. Yet, as the semester wore on, I settled into Joe’s class and truly applied myself. He was not an easy professor. I passed his class with a B+, if I can remember right and since then it has only gotten better. Celebration A year and a half in, 1 joined the Student Senate and really became involved w ith the school. I met many new people w hom 1 now call friends and have learned a lot about myself and the school for which I have such great admiration. As guests were leaving tonight, I heard bits of their conversations about how' amazing the decorations were, how much of a great time they had, and how they truly enjoyed being back at CCC. This is what made tonight all worth it! As a student. I would like to personally thank everyone that worked so hard over these past few weeks and months to create such eye-catching displays and collect timeless pieces of history for all to see and remember, and to Coming Catering for offering such delectable food and friendly staff. You are doing a wonderful job and 1 am glad that you have joined us. PS. - Good call on the coffee! As a Senator, 1 would like to thank the college for allow ing me an opportunity to give back to the college on such an important evening. I enjoyed learning more about my college, its history, seeing the people, and of course, Benny dancing on stage! And to those who allowed me to join them after the celebration, I am grateful to have you as friends and 1 enjoyed replaying the evening over as w'e graciously sipped our bottles of CCC wine. See you again in 50 years! Friday. September 28. 2007 Page 4 Your Blood is Needed By Anthony Popkin On Wednesday of last week, the American Red Cross of Binghamton came to the Triangle Lounge of the Commons Building from 8am until 3pm in hope of boosting its dwindling blood supplies. It seemed from the moment the blood drive started, students anxiously arrived hoping to do their part in supporting the Red Cross. Candace Rosing, College Nurse, dubbed this blood drive as a challenge piting Staff & Faculty against Students in hope of raising more aw arness on campus that the blood drive was going on. “1 tried to think of how 1 could bring in the 95% of eligible people that aren't donating." says Rosing. For those students, staff, and faculty that donated blood, each received a free t-shirt, a $4.50 cafeteria meal card, and they also got entered into a free drawing which included door prizes. Nearly eighty students, staff, and faculty signed up for the blood drive. Candace Rosing was happy with the amount of participation in the blood stating "The success or failure of the first blood drive on campus sets the pace for the drives occuring the rest of the year.” Door prize winner Casey Flynn won a 2GB Zen Stone. That's quite the prize just for donating blood! There were a total of eighteen prizes handed out to students, staff, and faculty which included coffee mugs, complimentary massages, serenity bears, pedometers, and a candy dish. As I entered the Triangle Lounge for my appointment to donate blood, it seemed to me that many of the faces donating w ere very familiar. It’s great to see a dedicated group of people that constantly give, but I would like to see more than just the few new faces that were there Wednesday. The goal set by the College Nurse of 78 people was met as there w ere 80 people gave blood. In turn the donated blood can possibly go on to help a total of240 patients. I thought to myself, maybe if people knew what the purpose of the red cross was and w here their donation are going to it would entice more new people to contribute. The American Red Cross is an elaborate organization that provides disaster relief, emergency contact for family and members of the military, health and safety services, international services, volunteer services, and more important for the local area blood services. The Red Crosses in the New York/ Pennsylvania Region provide blood to approximately 130 hospitals in the region in which supplies are running short in blood types A+, A-. B+. AB+. AB-. and O-. O+ blood supplies are extremely low. Blood donations are extremely important as the need for blood continues to grow. Unfortunately, of all the people eligible to donate blood in the United States, only 5% of this group actually donate blood. The numbers are bone-chilling. Just think though, by donating one pint of blood you are giving enough blood to save three others lives. That alone is something one could feel proud of and leads me to donate blood whenever 1 have the chance. Donated blood can be used to help leukemia patients, people who have blood clotting problems, and trauma or surgery patients. Those that missed the blood drive but are still interested in giving can call 1-800-G1VE-L1FE or go to http://www.gs-arc.org/index. asp?pageld=6 to find dates, times, and locations of blood drives, which occur nearly even day throughout the region. Remember that the blood drives on campus are not only open to students, staff, and faculty, but also the community . The next drive for CCC w ill take place on December 5th. Friday, September 28, 2007 Page 5 Flashback: CCC Busing Dilemma By Eric Davies November 5, 1990 The T&T Bus Company has been providing transportation services to many Coming Community' College students for several years. The bus company offers this service to the Corning area through Erwin Transit, to handicapped students throughout CEATS. and to Elmira students through a school bus that makes two morning and afternoon trips. The Elmira students pay $1.25 per trip. There are many students who consider this service to be vital to their success at the college. When Helen Thomas was contacted to confirm a rumor that they w ere considering discontinuing the Elmira route, she said, “We have grave concerns about the Elmira route.” She said the route has been losing money for the company throughout the fall '90 semester. She also stated. “We are considering discontinuing it [the Elmira route] at the end of the fall ‘90 semester.” A student here at the college confronted Jack Kelly, Woody Knowles, and the bus company about this problem. Together they came up with the possible solution of increasing the rates and limiting the trips to two, one at 7 a.m. and one at 4 p.m. There was a petition sent around the campus and a survey taken to help find out the needs of those students that ride the bus and what proposals they would deem acceptable. There were three questions asked in the survey. One question was. "How much do you rely on the bus service?” The second question was. “Would you be willing to accept an increase in the fare?” The third and final question was, “Would you use the service if there was only a bus running at 7 a.m. to CCC and a bus leaving CCC at 4 p.m.?” Fifty-four riders responded to the survey and petition. Of those responding. 83% said they rely on the service extensively, and only 16% use the service a little. As one student put it, “It’s my only way of getting to the college.” There are even students that don’t use the bus now, but are considering using it if cost of gasoline continutes to rise. They believe that even though the bus fare seems to be expensive, it would be much cheaper than driving to and from school every day. When asked if they were willing to accept the rate increase. 87% said they would, but 56% said they would not use the service if it was only limited to two runs a day. Helena Hibbard said, “I would probably end up having to drop out.” When asked if she w ould carpool, she replied, “Yes, I probably would, but the bus is much more convenient.” Many students are quite disturbed at the possibility of no available bus service or a very limited run. There have been several kinds of solutions proposed by students that have a lot of merit. One such solution is to offer a dated monthly pass that would be discounted. Another solution would be to use a smaller bus and expand the time between runs by 15 to 20 minutes. This would not only reduce the cost of fuel, but it would eliminate one driver. The seven o’clock bus driver was quoted as saying. “If they [the bus company] would give the first run an additional 15 minutes. 1 could run both trips myself and that would eliminate one driver.” One other feasible solution is to readjust the times of the runs in the afternoon to 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. or 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. This would make the bus available at times when many students are actually finished with classes for the day. One student said, “I get out of class at 2:00 p.m., and 1 don’t want to wait for two hours for the bus. so I catch a ride with someone. If the bus was running at 2:00 p.m., 1 would ride it.” Realizing that the bus has to satisfy the company as well as the students makes it necessary to have the end solution be approved by the company. It is vital that the solution the company chooses be beneficial to everyone if it is to be effective on a long-term basis. One point that the bus company has to realize is that a quick fix may solve the problem temporarily, but it may not correct the problem for future students. It is hopeful that this petition and survey can help the T&T Bus Company come up with an equitable solution. Friday, September 28, 2007 6 Friday, September 28, 2007 Page 7 Thursday. September 27, 2007 Page 8 Hey! Do you: - Like to writ el -Want something fun to do? - Want to be involved on campus? - Like free piz- zal -Want to make extra cash1 Then join The Crier! Our meetings are held on Tuesdays at 12:40 in our office in the lower level of the Commons Like our new look? YES! We’re just getting This whole page is started! completely filler! 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