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collegian@cayuga-cc.eduThe Voice of Cayuga Community College Students for more than 50 years Vol. 56 Issue September 11, 2007

Fire Destroys Country Club Near CCC

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CCC Student in the Race for County Legislator Imagine being the youngest person

to run for a political office and have numerous news channels cover the event? One student at Cayuga Commu-nity College gets to experience that. His name is Sean Stanyon. He attends CCC studying Liberal Arts.

Stanyon is a member of the Demo-cratic Party and is running for Cayuga County Legislator in the 14th District. This district is made up of most of the west side of Auburn. His opponent is Daniel Sincebaugh.

Stanyon wants to run for legislator because he will be able to represent the community he has grown up in his whole life. “I know my district really well. I have lived here for 21 years.

A grease fire is the suspected cause of the Highland Golf Course inferno which consumed the entire building last Tues-day, Auburn Fire officials said. All of the golf club’s employees made it out safely, but the building itself was utterly destroyed.

Over a few dozen people, many stu-dents included, stood along side of the road for the horrific display of fire con-suming the Highland Golf resort. One student had a first hand account of the damage.

“I watched the back porch roof col-lapse onto the porch and then I watched the back wall fall down and by the time it was done there was only one wall on the far side of the reception room and all the steel beams around the kitchen area,” CCC student Martha Reatlinger com-mented after the fire subsided.

The fire was reported by the bartender at 2:10 PM after a piece of chicken or grease caught on fire. Fire officials said the blower motor on the exhaust fan over the stove broke the day before the fire.

The president of the golf club was overwhelmed by the amount of damage. “I’m devastated,” Dom Basile told a lo-cal newspaper reporter. “It’s a total loss; there were a lot of memories here.”

Several fire fighting units were dis-patched in response to the alarm rang-ing from Auburn’s fire department to volunteer fire departments in Weedsport, Skaneateles and Port Byron. In all, seven fire departments worked together to extinguish the blaze. It took close to four hours to diminish the flames but

By Mathew Kratts, Collegian Editor-in-chief

the building itself was unsalvageable. No employees were injured but one fire-fighter suffered a sprained knee as he was getting off the roof while several other firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion.

Many other students commented as they drove by Franklin Street, all they saw was a huge cloud of black smoke filling the air around the club house. The roads from the college were closed off, at first only individuals that lived near by were aloud to pass and eventually the road block denied anyone from entering the scene.

“The good news is that there is no loss of life,” said Auburn Mayor Timothy Lattimore in published reports, “and it’s great to see professionals and volunteer (firefighters) work to try to retain this structure.”

The club’s board of directors held an emergency meeting later that day to dis-cuss what to do about upcoming events that were booked in advance at the High-land Golf Club. As of right now the board is planning to look for a tempo-rary structure to hold events until plans are made for a new building. This way they can keep the golf course open and the events scheduled go on as planned.

“It hurts, it does hurt,” Basile said. “I’ve been here 34 years as a member; I’ve been president about five years on and off. The board’s behind us and the members will be behind us. We’ll be back in business, it’ll be a couple days, but we’ll be back in business.”

By Jess Miles, Collegian Assistant EditorMy opponent has only lived here for about two years. I feel that I know my district better than he does because I have lived here so much longer. I know my entire district from the elderly to the young kids.”

At the age of 21, Stanyon is the young-est person to run for Cayuga County Legislator. After Stanyon receives his associate’s degree from CCC, he plans to transfer to a four-year school to get his bachelor’s degree in Political Sci-ence.

“I just want to be there for my dis-trict and help represent them and be for them when they need something”, says Stanyon.

The primary election for Cayuga

County Legislator will be held on September 18th. After the votes have been cast, the person who has the most votes wins the election. There will also be absentee ballots that will be casted. “There are absentee ballots that are in-volved so if it ends up being close I am going to make sure all of the absentee ballots are counted correctly”, he said.

Stanyon graduated from Auburn High school in 2005 and has been a student at CCC since then. During high school Stanyon was involved in many clubs including the history club and also the poetry club. As a junior, Stanyon was very interested in participating in the student government. He did not hold an office but he volunteered at as many

fund=-raisers as possible. However, it wasn’t until Stanyon’s senior year that he ran for class president. Unfortu-nately he did not win the race. “I gave it a shot my senior year but it was just crazy. There were so many people run-ning.”

“I first became interested in politics in the seventh grade. I went to West Middle School and we had this big government rally. It was the first time Hillary Clinton was running for the Senate. It was when she was the First Lady. Here I was, eleven years old and I was standing up and doing all these things for Hillary Clinton. I guess it was Senator Clinton that really got me interested in politics.”

The Cayuga Collegian is published on announced publication dates during regular semesters at Cayuga Community College, 197 Franklin Street, Auburn, NY 13021. Our phone number is 315-255-1743. The Cayuga Collegian is funded by CCC’s Faculty-Student Association through student activity fees. Opinions expressed in columns, news stories, features, interviews or letters to the editor are not necessarily those of the college administration, faculty, staff or students at CCC. The Cayuga Collegian is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press.

Editorial BoardMATHEW KRATTS, Editor in ChiefTIFFANY COLLINSWORTH, Sports Editor/Assistant EditorJESSICA MILES, Assistant EditorBEN BOLDING, Chief PhotographerMARY G. MERRITT, Advisor

StaffKristi French, Staff WriterMatthew Kelley, Movie ReviewerCarl Phillips, Staff ArtistsKathleen Sperduti, Fulton Correspondent

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Every year, Syracuse hosts “The Great New York State Fair”. Each year there are many new vendors and a lot of per-formers with something new to offer over the ten days that it is in operation. With thousands of people going in and out of the fair each day, there is a lot of work to be done to prepare for this great event.

Each year the Mohegan Sun Grand-stand hosts over ten different perform-ers. This year some of the top perform-ers that were at the grandstand included Kenney Chesney, Sugarland, The Chee-tah Girls, An American Idol Tour, Carrie Underwood, Buck Cherry, Hinder, Papa Roach, Hootie and The Blowfish, Lynyrd Skynrd, and The Project Revolution Tour including My Chemical Romance, HIM, My Self Indulgence, Linkin Park, and much more. Sadly the fair decided after the riot that instilled during Linkin Park’s act that they will no longer be housing big acts like this again.

The Grand Stand is not the only place to find music at the fair. While all the events that take place are pay-to-see, the ones at Chevrolet Court are not. This year, the performers included, Fog Hat, Tesla, Frankie Valence, Lori Morgan, Eddie Money, Aaron Tippin, Joe Diffy and many more. Aside from the two stage areas music was being played out in the streets, there were many different radio stations set up broadcasting live from the fair, and some other local bands playing as well.

However, the music isn’t the only

Visiting the State FairBy Jessica Miles, Collegian Assistant Editor

thing. There is a midway complete with rides, games, and many different ven-dors. Some of the rides that are featured at the fair are the Top Spin, The Swings, The Zipper, The Hammer, The Fireball, The Ring Of Fire, The Bumper Cars, some fun houses and much more. There are many games in which prices can be won.

Some people just go for all of the won-derful food that is there. This is food that you can’t get at home. Fried dough is always a popular choice, as well as candy or caramel apples. Not only does they have many ‘junk’ food choices it also offers a wide variety of ‘normal’ food, such as Gyros, pizza, subs, Dino-saur Barbecue Restaurant, Philly cheese steak sandwiches and so much more. Each year, the fair has a new deep fried food for everyone to try. This year it was deep fried pizza. The other deep fried foods included deep-fried Oreos, ice cream, Snickers, Reese’s Peanut Butter, and some more normal fried foods like chicken fingers and mozzarella sticks.

Even though the Fair has all of this to offer, sometimes it is nice to just be there and go through the many buildings they have such as, the Horticulture Building, The Dairy Building, The Center of Prog-ress Building, or any of the other build-ing.

The Fair is a nice place to go and have a good time and hang out and see some thing’s that you wouldn’t normally see at home.

Karen Burden of Fulton, a May 2007 graduate of Cayuga Commu-nity College, has received a $500 New York State Sheriffs’ Associa-tion Scholarship. The scholarship, presented August 21 by Oswego County Sheriff Reuel Todd at the college’s Fulton

CCC Student Wins Sheriff’s Awardcampus, was one of 32 awarded at com-munity colleges statewide in 2007.

Burden earned her associate’s degree in Criminal Justice/Corrections at the Fulton campus, and plans to continue her studies at Cayuga toward an additional degree in Liberal Arts/Humanities and Social Science, with a concentration in psychology.

Scholarship winners are chosen based on academic performance and prepara-tion for a law enforcement career. This is the 17th year the scholarship has been awarded to a Cayuga Community Col-lege student.

Karen Burden

The Cayuga men’s soccer team seems to be on a roll this season, bringing home two wins this past week. The men defeated Erie Community College 2-0. Cayuga co-captain Sheldon ‘Friday the Thirteenth’ Furrs says, “The Erie game was good. We needed improvement with ball movement and speed.”

Matt ‘Gilly’ Gillis and Dimas Chacon scored the two goals that sealed the win. CCC soccer fan and Collegian Editor-in-Chief Mathew Kratts says, “They were on offense more than defense and definitely has some key players who stood out.”

On Saturday, September 1st, the Spartans traveled five hours to triumph over Clinton Community College, 2-1. Furrs says there was definite improved ball movement. Andy ‘Baby Face’ Brown and Matt ‘Gilly’ Gillis scored the two goals it took to send Clinton packing.

“Goalie Nick Burridge is doing exceptionally well. His view for the field and his experience in the game is great,” says Furrs. He went on to explain how coaches John and Dan Ramin are

SPARTAN SPORTSSpartans on Fire!!!By Tiffany Collinsworth, Collegian Sports Editor

excellent and together they are a major factor for the team’s success thus far this season.

Good team chemistry is the main ingredient contributing to the team’s triumphs.

Ben Bolding (defender) and Sheldon Furrs agree that the team has an overall great chemistry; “Overall I feel like the team this year has better chemistry on and off the field.”

Each member of the team was awarded a nick name handed out during pre- season training as the team grew closer together. For example, the Spartans defense is psyched up being known as the “X” factor.

“We’ve got the lockdown.” says defenders Furrs and Bolding. Making up the defense is Sheldon Furrs, Ben Bolding, Mark ‘Marky Mark’ Darling, and Jon ‘Kramer’ Mulcahey.

The Spartans will face Corning Community College on September 11, 2007 at 5 PM and Broome Community College on September 13, 2007 home at Emerson Park at 4 PM.

Defender Ben Bolding going for the ball against Erie.

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Karen Burden of Fulton, a May 2007 graduate of Cayuga Commu-nity College, has received a $500 New York State Sheriffs’ Associa-tion Scholarship. The scholarship, presented August 21 by Oswego County Sheriff Reuel Todd at the college’s Fulton

CCC Student Wins Sheriff’s Awardcampus, was one of 32 awarded at com-munity colleges statewide in 2007.

Burden earned her associate’s degree in Criminal Justice/Corrections at the Fulton campus, and plans to continue her studies at Cayuga toward an additional degree in Liberal Arts/Humanities and Social Science, with a concentration in psychology.

Scholarship winners are chosen based on academic performance and prepara-tion for a law enforcement career. This is the 17th year the scholarship has been awarded to a Cayuga Community Col-lege student.

Karen Burden

There are many historical landmarks that are close to Cayuga Community College. Seneca Falls is located roughly 17 miles south of the college has a huge landmark for Women’s Rights.

In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton along with four other women, worked hard to find a way to make it so women were treated the same as men.

Not only is Stanton’s house located in Seneca Falls, but also a museum solely dedi-cated to Women’s Rights. It is here where there is much information about the first organized women’s rights meeting that was held. This museum, which is much more like a park is focused on commemorating the struggle women had for equal rights.

The first women’s convention was held at the Wesleyan Chapel on July 14, 1848. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton issued a call in the Seneca County Courier inviting the public to attend a convention at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls. It was estimated that 300 men and women attended the Seneca Falls Convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments to be presented at the Convention beginning with the premise that “all men and women are created equal.” Stanton listed eighteen legal grievances suffered by women, including the denial of franchise and of the rights to their wages, their persons, and their children. The document also called attention to women’s limited educational and economic op-portunities and protested against the double standard of morality. The Declaration was followed by a series of resolutions, including the demand for woman suffrage. At the end of the convention a total of 68 women and 32 men signed the Declaration. The Convention included Lucretia Mott, Mary Mcclinton, Elizabeth C. Stanton, and many other women all took part in creating the first Women’s Rights Convention, which would make women equal to men.

Elizabeth C. Stanton, who lived in Seneca Falls, believed men women should be equal. She fought for equal rights for many years. The house she resided in during the Suffrage Movement still stands in Seneca Falls.

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Susan B. Anthony(1820-1906) is perhaps the most widely known suffragist of her genera-tion and has become an icon of the woman’s suf-frage movement. Anthony traveled the country to give speeches, circulate petitions, and organize local women’s rights organizations.

Born into slavery in 1817 or 1818, Freder-ick Douglass (1817?-1895) became one of the most outspoken advocates of abolition and women’s rights in the 19th century. Believing that “Right is of no sex, truth is of no color,” Douglass urged an immediate

end to slavery and supported Elizabeth Cady Stan-ton, Susan B. Anthony, and other women’s rights activists in their crusade for woman suffrage.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton(1815-1902) is believed to be the driving force behind the 1848 Convention, and for the next fifty years played a leadership role in the women’s rights movement. Somewhat overshadowed in popular memory by her long time colleague Susan B. An-thony, Stanton was for many years the architect and author of the movement’s most important strategies and documents. Though she became increasingly estranged from the mainstream of the movement, particularly near the end of her career, she maintained to the end her long time friendship with Anthony.

Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) dedicated her life to the goal of human equality. July 19 and 20, 1848, she helped organized the First Woman’s Rights Conven-tion. Throughout her life Mott remained active in both the abolition and women’s rights movements. She continued to speak out against slavery, and in 1866 she became the first president of the American Equal Rights Association, an organization formed to achieve equality for African Americans and women.

Martha Coffin Wright (1806-75) took on a supportive role, frequently serving as secretary, while her sister Lucretia was frequently the keynote speaker at public meetings. After organizing the First Women’s Rights Convention, Martha Wright participated in many state and national women’s rights conventions in various capacities. She was secretary at the 1852 and 1856 National Women’s Rights Conventions, served as an officer at the 1853 and 1854 National Women’s Rights Conventions and presided over the National Women’s Rights Convention in 1855 in Ohio and the New York State Women’s Rights Convention held in Saratoga that year.

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I went into the theatre, arms folded, a stern look of disap-proval on my face, believing that my first movie review would be a total trashing. An-other one of those re-makes that are a com-plete mockery of the original (Psycho, the Omen, the Grudge, Texas Chainsaw Mas-sacre) – this will be real easy.

So, maybe I’m go-ing out on a limb by saying this is a great movie. Legions of Carpenter fans have a noose swinging from that limb, waiting for my neck. I’m okay with that, it obviously caught me off-guard as well.

This was not your typical gloss and glamour faux hor-ror flick, the kind that has been tried on audiences for the last de-cade. You know what I’m talk-ing about, that dookie they try to pass off in a PG-13 variety in or-der to cash in on the young teen market (the Skeleton Key, Dis-turbia, Bratz). And it would be easy to write this off as one of the hyper-gore flicks of very recent trends, violence for the sake of violence, the time honored tradi-tion of shock value. My apolo-gies to those of you who happen to dig that sort of thing, from the Hills Have Eyes to Hostel to the popular Saw franchise. I happen to like my horror with a little bit of thought and intensity behind it is all, either or will do.

The cinematography sold me. It felt gritty, older – like it might have been filmed back in the 70’s. Not quite as powerful as say, the original TCM or Evil Dead, the sort of thing that made you feel like you were watching a bunch of your friends getting killed while being filmed by that creepy old guy that lives next door. I suspected that Mr. Zom-bie had it in him to produce a

Kelley’s Ko rnerMOVIE REVIEW: Halloween“Kudos to you, Rob Zombie. You proved me wrong.”by Matthew R. Kelley

very engrossing horror film, he just needed a compelling story behind his liberal use of scary gross (again, my apologies to

those of you who rooted for the Devil’s Rejects).

Okay, so the violence was pret-ty brutal. In this case, I didn’t feel like it was graphic for its own sake, or Rob just showing off his talents like the boy who finally gets that Red Rider B-B-gun on Christmas and then proceeds to shoot his eye out. Almost every killing had a reason behind it and I can’t help but to point out that it felt as though a little like Michael Myers was hired by a group of Christian Crusaders to promote abstinence by killing off every teen right after they finished up having sex (sometimes, during the act thereof). Was Rob trying to play into mode or was he mak-ing fun of it? Hard to tell.

I thought, at first, that it was missing the true leading lady in peril that the then diamond-in-the-rough Jamie Lee Cur-tis played so well. She wasn’t so clouded with make-up and slutty outfits that you couldn’t really feel any sympathy for her plight. She actually felt like she might have been your friend in high school, or at least, the cute babysitter you had a crush on while growing up. The lead this go-round was given to another pretty unknown named Scout Taylor-Compton, and it felt like

she was trying too hard to fit into those legendary shoes that Curtis fit to a T. By the end, my mind was changed. She held her own,

and quite distinctively. I’d say more, but I’m not one for spoilers, even in a remake (or revision-ing, whatever you want to call it.)

The trademark music was present, but it al-most felt unnecessary. It didn’t have the creepy impact like it did in the original, but rather, that it was simply tacked on in homage. There were more than a few scenes like that, as well. The

scene that still lingers in my mind is the one from the origi-nal, and was noticeably absent, was where Michael was stand-ing by the clothes bars, in broad daylight. I don’t know why, but bringing the terror out into the daylight, the “safe” time of day, is fantastic. There was a real sense of panic from that. You got that from Zombie’s attempt too, at least I did in parts. I also thought it was a nice tip of the hat to cast Danielle Harris as one of the young females in the mov-ie, the same actress who played the little girl in both Halloween 4 & 5, those terrible fiascos called motion pictures that actually end up being entertainingly bad around the holiday itself.

And the changed ending? It actually works against you, if you have seen the original. I didn’t consider it to be blasphemy at all – I actually liked it better, which might just be blasphemy in itself. Like I said, I’m out on that limb anyways. I’m not a purist, I’m for whatever moves me in this day of craptacular Hollywood spec-tacles turned force-fed Summer Blockbusters (see – just about every damn movie that came out this summer). I’m just thankful to have been entertained.

Wednesday, September 12th Student Activities Fair (Auburn) featuring the acoustic sounds of the Barrigar BrothersCafeteria area, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm

Saturday, September 15th White Water Rafting TripIncludes lunch and transportation, Sign-up with SAB Rep.$20 per student, limited space

Tuesday, September 18th Cayuga Café Unplugged(Auburn)Featuring acoustic performer John Rush10:30 am – 1:00 pm

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A JudoDemonstration

Students lining up for registration.

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Mat Kratts, Gideon Driscoll and Tiffany Collinsworth direct traffic in the hall.