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In Honor of Grandmothers: PUBLIC SAFETY WARNS : Protect Your Wheels ─ Some Heroes are People Lock Your Vehicle. Take Your Key. Hide Your Stuff. That You Know Already CCC Public Safety Department your seat’s positions if By B L Special to The Campus Press someone may have Campus Press Co-Editor and Columnist been inside. n the spring and summer arch is Women’s History month and as months, the likelihood of Hide Your Stuff! M one can imagine there are countless I criminal activity outdoors An experienced thief women who have made an impact on the world. increases. Though incidents of will not victimize Civil Rights Activists, political leaders, theft from parked vehicles on vehicles at random. athletes, scientists, teachers, celebrities, the campus are traditionally low, it What they want is a lists of powerful women go on and on. has happened. “sure thing” to justify Yet sometimes the real heroes are the ones Here are some tips to help their risk. They’ll look right under your nose. The first person who prevent would be thieves from for exposed valuables always pops into my head when someone asks targeting your vehicle. Graphic: Microso .com or indicators that who my role model or a hero of mine is, I Thefts from vehicles are likely suggest that valuables may be always think my grandmother…my beloved that all of your windows, to be committed by experienced inside, such as charging devices Mom Mom. including your sun roof, are burglars, not opportunists, who and closed bags or containers. She has not found a cure for cancer, she has closed completely. If your vehicle come to campus with the intent to Store all of your valuables out of not won a Nobel Peace Prize, or climbed to the has an alarm system, activate it. break into cars. These individuals sight in your trunk, glove top of Mt. Everest, but she has cured many of A good prevention habit is to fold will be looking for vehicles that compartment, center console or my ailments growing up, she has kept the your driver and front passenger are unsecured or easily entered. under your seats. Disconnect and peace between my mindless bickering with seats forward before leaving your Be sure to lock your vehicle and hide charging devices. If your siblings, and she has climbed to great lengths parked vehicle. When you return take your keys with you. Ensure to your vehicle you can tell by to make sure I had a great childhood. Continued on Page 5
Grandmothers Always Have a Cure Any time I ever have a small injury or ache, I always run to my Mom Mom’s comfort. She always seems to know a home remedy for every State of California Named for Queen Califia? little thing. However, I can say I am guilty for By Kenisha Prendegast not believing her or just dismissing her advice Campus Press Staff Columnist and wasting money on some type of medicine. Oftentimes, I really am just wasting my money t is the picture displayed because the main ingredient in the medicine is here that got me intrigued what she recommended me to use all along. I in knowing more about this One of the things she always tries to push outstanding figure. Continued on Page 6 I see a woman of great serenity and an infallible posture. Her eyes pierced Campus Service Announcement through her chiseled face; observing her presence while C P S she looks in-depth to what is to
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Political Commentary: Donald Trump, Page 3. Maya Angelou’s Poem, Phenomenal Woman , Page 6. 2 The Campus Press ▪ March 2016 Join The Campus Press Staff CCC M N N : New Digital Mixing Board...Free and Share Your Ideas Concerts at Dennis Flyer Memorial Theater...Tribute to Artists ave you got the slightest want or need By H S to share your crea vity and opinion? Campus Press Staff Music Columnist H Self-expression, accuracy, and ey, paint a piano! Come to community involvement are valued deeply by Lincoln Hall Room L 009 Camden County College’s own newspaper, The H at 1:00 p.m. and help the Campus Press. Camden County College Art Club. Whether you’re a communica ons major • The college’s Theatre who wants Department is looking for musicians to perform in the to build a B J C B orchestra pit for an upcoming Campus Press Co-Editor por olio or productions. Don’t miss this simply have great opportunity! an interest in a ending and repor ng local news, we are wai ng for you. • It’s official: The brand new If you have a compelling angle on any sort of cutting edge Audio Production sports, we'd love to hear it! If you've got a hit Associate degree in Applied M I U — CCC’s brand new Allen and Heath 24-Channel Digital Mixing Board is installed in Lincoln Hall L17 Studio/Classroom. Photo: H. Schonleber. on any local, na onal, or global news, speak up Science program is quickly and be heard. If you have an interest in becoming one of the most popular programs and the Production, and Mixing • Pictured here is the brand photography, fill in the imagina ons of your second year classes have been Audio. For more new Allen and Heath 24 readers with your own visuals. fully implemented and will be information, contact Channel Digital Mixing Board Whether your exper se is in wri ng ar cles, available for student Professor Mike Billingsley that was just installed in the gathering important or hot news, recording enrollment for the Fall 2016 or Professor Dave Lincoln Hall L17 Studio/ special events or expressing your own opinions semester. New classes include Downham in Lincoln Hall Classroom. through the visual arts, or interviewing and an Audio Internship, Studio Music Department. • Mark your calendar: The repor ng on the latest cries of the school and Maintenance, Audio Camden County College county, The Campus Press is where you should Music Ensemble is bigger and College Service Announcement be! better than ever and will Share Your Perspec ve and Voice African American Women Writers: The Forgo en perform a live concert Make friends, find similar passions, and featuring jazz and rock, Souls, Big Voices of the Harlem Renaissance including a tribute to the late
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POLITICAL COMMENTARY : THE FEAR OF Donald Trump Becoming President— College Service Announcement By B L MAKE AMERICA TERRIFIED AGAIN Campus Press Co-Editor and Columnist several other corporations over he rumors of Donald Trump running for his ludicrous accounts. T president have been going on for years. Not only are his uneducated, The problem with this is that nobody knew racist remarks a major issue; his he was actually serious. Now that this attitude towards his opponents entrepreneur and self made businessman is and people who disagree with him actually in the campaign and is the leading is questionable behavior for Republican candidate, the fear of him someone running for president. actually becoming president has swept He has made remarks about across the nation. his opponent Carly Fiorina’s Yes, there are people who support him appearance such as “Look at that Republican Presiden al Candidate applauding him for being blunt and not face!” and “Can you imagine that, Donald Trump. acting like a typical “politician”. Yet if he the face of our next president?” Photo: ge yimages.com wants to be president, he is going to be a This is funny because do we politician which means he has to behave in really want Trump’s face to be a a diplomatic and respectable manner. Being women. He started off his president we have to look at? I president is a high esteemed role and the campaign with a comment on could create jokes about Trump’s person in this position needs to be aware of illegal immigrants saying appearance for days, but that the things they say. People can say what verbatim, “They’re rapists. And would be futile because he really I’ll Take A Cup! they want in the privacy of their own some, I assume are good people.” thinks he looks good. He doesn’t. In an effort to say thank you homes, act out and share their extreme view This was a contradicting, bias He doesn’t at all. to students who are points in the comfort of friends and families, statement that was not presented but when you are someone in authority with any proof or factual Makes Questionable Remarks veterans, Camden County pushing your views so harshly, a reaction is information. He said exactly what These are only some of the College and Sodexo are to be expected. was on his mind without thinking questionable comments and offering “Free Coffee I asked a student of CCC by the name of and forming a comprehensive behaviors Trump has exhibited. Mondays” throughout the Mike Brooks, exactly what he thought about observation. Although he does have supporters semester. All CCC veterans Donald Trump getting away with the and people genuinely like him, can receive a free cup of obscenities he has strewn and he replied, Targets Religious Group personally I don’t understand it. coffee of any size on “Donald Trump: the only candidate where Another outlandish plan he has Donald Trump has said things Mondays during regular facts don’t apply.” Most people cannot get proposed is to keep Muslims from comedians shouldn’t even be business hours. Veterans can away with the things Trump has said, and entering the U.S. and to put allowed to say and yet he stop by any College Café yet he is still winning in the Republican surveillance in mosques. This type continues to say what he wants polls. of proposal sounds like something without repercussion. People need loca on on the Blackwood While in his campaign, he has managed Hitler would suggest. He has lost to realize he is not going to “Make Campus, present their proof to cause outrage in several communities, support and sponsorships with America Great Again” because of veterans ID and get free mainly focused on people of color and Macy’s, NBCUniversal, and Continued on Page 4 coffee. (Photo: Jason Love)
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California POLITICAL COMMENTARY : Donald Trump — Make America Terrified Again Named for Continued from Page 3 not the worst, but we are not the best. only a “Do or Die” attitude pushed onto us. Queen Califia? America has never fully Our country should not have a Donald Trump would only make this worst. been great. Each decade has businessman with no experience to be our He does not care about people and he never Continued from Page 1 held an issue that being the president. Our country is not a business has. He cares about money and himself. If you to be run, it is a nation filled with actual have the feeling that Donald Trump is going to facts have proven that this economy or even social human beings with actual problems that “Make America terrified again” then make sure story, if not true, is injustices. These talks of need to be dealt with. We live in an you vote for the right candidate. The Primary somewhere close to the better times held a lot of individualistic society, but our schedule for New Jersey is June 7 th . It is truth. The most dominant turmoil and inequalities for government focuses on individuals with important to vote in the primaries to decide the story of Queen Califia was people. We can paint the wealth and status. Then our government candidate running for president in November. written by Garci Rodríguez past to be a beautiful picture takes us and puts us into groups. There is Vote wisely and vote for someone who wants de Montalvo’s in his 16th all we want, but the world no focus on an individual’s needs, there is change for the better. century romance novel Las was not how U.S. history sergas de Esplandían books want us to imagine. It College Service Announcement where Califia’s story was is time for change. Our written as fictional. country does not need a Other Spanish writers bigoted, egotistical man to have portrayed black lead our already bigoted, women rulers in their egotistical society. We need novels. “Descendants and someone who understands relationships were the distress people face on a determined through the daily basis. We need female line, a practice that someone who can lead us to was very common in West becoming a better society, Africa and throughout the not one that just goes to world,” according to Bailey. war. Just because someone stands up there and says Evidence Point to Fact blunt comments does not In such times, society mean they are comments to was based on maternal live by and believe. I do values, hence the ruling of agree that politicians have a powerful woman such as the tendency to lie, but Califia. Various online public statements used in an sources have mentioned organized debate should not recent discoveries of cave sound like dismantled arts in California. Such Facebook statuses filled pictures depict matriarchal with hatred and uneducated society, trade, and exotic accusations. animals. It is said that Donald Trump is saying ancient artifacts can be what his supporters want to found in California on hear that does not mean he what is now a United is not lying. His campaign States Army base. The slogan is to “Make America Queen Califia Magical Great Again” which is a lie Circle can be found today in itself. How is building a in Escondido, California. It giant wall around the is a sculptural Garden perimeter of the U.S going created by world class to make us great? How is artist Nikki De Saint allowing racism and hatred Phalle. It is a garden of towards people who practice colorful sculptures of the their religion openly a state’s historic, and of beneficial trait for course, mythical past. Americans to have? There The writings of Queen are morals that need to be Califia’s existence, embedded into our society whether fact or fictional, is that are being surpassed by of significant inspiration to hatred and unapologetic me. Upon reading about actions. Our focus should be this powerful female on changing what our leader, chances are I would society has become. We are have created a similar image of her in my head; Califia magical circle” is definitely thrown Paid Adver sement poised and fierce. It is unto my bucket list. I will continue to rather impossible for me to research more on this inspirational figure view the cave arts where from an era where women ruled! the military base is now Happy Women’s Month! located but “The Queen
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esires fulfilled. Spirits D unbothered. The burdens hovered now laid to rest. A mass of ethnicity surrounds me. All gathered to witness me perform my best. “Let it go!” they shout “ “Lay down your distress.”
Ear to ear my smile spreads and my eyes squint to the dazzling lights. Delighted, I have made a presenta on that once was “I might” Accents of all descents, A rather pleasing sound. Thrilled by own performance caused no one wears a frown.
A euphoric sense of freedom. The things I had hope would become. Colours, cheers and laughter strolls the fes ve queendom. Time is indeed the master and focus got it done.
I’m at ease, liberated and back where I belong With no worries, strain or baggage Just courage to be strong. Time square audience applaud me — I got great recep on Now I'm nothing but sa sfied I sang that song.
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In Honor of My Grandmother: PROFILE : Hetshepsut, First Queen of Ancient Egypt Some Heroes are People By J C B of Ancient Egypt. That You Know Already Campus Press Co-Editor and Columnist Hatshepsut had begun construction of a tomb when she Continued from Page 1 atshepsut, also spelled was the Great Royal Wife of Hatchepsut, female king me to use is rubbing alcohol. No matter what Thutmose II, but the scale of this of Egypt (reigned in her it is, she’s just like, “Put some alcohol on it”. H was not suitable for a pharaoh, so own right c. 1507–1458 BC) and I always object with skepticism thinking when she ascended the throne, attained unprecedented power for my small injuries must need some divine, preparation for another burial a woman, adopting the full titles pricey elixir. Yet proven wrong, time and started. For this, KV20 (tomb in and regalia of a pharaoh or king. time again, rubbing alcohol or any simple the Valley of the Kings of Egypt), She was the elder daughter of home remedy she comes up with always originally quarried for her father, the 18th dynasty king Thutmost leaves me healed. Thutmose I, and the first royal I, and his consort Ahmose, who tomb in the Valley of the Kings, was married to her half brother No Fighting, now, Children! was extended with a new burial Thutmost II, son of the Lady When I was younger, my older brother chamber. Hatshepsut died as she Mutnofret. Hatshepsut bore one would tease me and taunt me until I would was approaching what we would daughter, Neferure, but no son. cry or throw a tantrum. My Mom Mom would Statue of Hatshepsut, ancient consider middle age given typical When her husband died about always have my back and be to my rescue or Egypt’s first female pharaoh. contemporary lifespans, in her 1479 BC, the throne passed to his at least be able to mediate our fights. My Graphic: apxaioc.com. twenty second regnal year. son Thutmose III, born to Isis, a brother and I are super close and always lesser harem queen. As Thutmose have been, but he really knows how to Ahmose in the form of Thutmose Removal of Her Image III was an infant, Hatshepsut provoke me. I and wakes her with pleasant Toward the end of the reign of acted as regent for the young Nowadays, we still argue and although odors. Then, Amun places the Thutmose III and into the reign king. we’ve grown up we both revert back to our ankh, a symbol of life, up to of his son, an attempt was made childhood ways once in a while. If my Mom Ahmose's nose and Hatshepsut is to remove Hatshepsut from Traditional Ruling Pharaoh Mom hears one of us just make the tiniest conceived. Khnum, the god who certain historical and pharaonic For the first few years of her remark, she jumps up to keep the peace. I can forms up the bodies of human records. This elimination was stepson’s reign, Hatshepsut was admit that sometimes we just play around children, is then told to create a carried out in the most literal an entirely conventional regent. and pretend to fight because it’s humorous. body and Ka, or corporal way possible. Her cartouches and But by the end of his seventh Sorry, Mom Mom. I know you’re reading this; presence/life force, for images were chiseled off some regnal year, she had been the cats out of the bag. Hatshepsut. Heket, the goddess stone walls, leaving very obvious crowned king and adopted a full of life and fertility, and Khnum Hatshepsut shaped gaps in the royal titular (the royal protocol From Struggles to Snuggles then lead Ahmose along to a artwork. adopted by Egyptian sovereigns). My grandparents really helped my father lioness' bed where she gives birth For many years, presuming Yet now, after a brief period of out to help raise my brother and I. To this to Hetshepsut. Reliefs depicting that it was Thutmose III acting experimentation that involved day, I wonder how different my life would be each step in these events are at out of resentment once he became combining a female body with if I didn’t have their support. My Mom Mom Karnak and in her mortuary pharaoh, early modern kingly (male) regalia, her formal made sure that we were bathed and fed, and temple, according to Egyptologists presumed that the portraits began to show always watched over us. Not only were we wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatshepsut. erasures were similar to the Hatshepsut with a male body, fed, but grandmothers are just expert chefs ─ Roman damnatio memoriae . This wearing the traditional regalia of hands down. Hatshepsut and Cleopatra appeared to make sense when kilt, crown or head cloth, and She really loved us and nurtured us, Now, although it was thinking that Thutmose might false beard. To dismiss this as a making sure that we had the warmth we uncommon for Egypt to have a have been an unwilling co regent serious attempt to pass herself off were missing from the absence of our mother. female ruler, and though for years. This assessment of the as a man is to misunderstand I am grateful and extraordinarily lucky that I Hatshepsut was the first official situation probably is too Egyptian artistic convention, did have such caring grandparents, because queen, it wasn't unprecedented. simplistic, however. It is highly which showed things not as they not everyone is that fortunate. My brother As a regent, Hatshepsut was unlikely that the determined and were but as they should be. and I joke around all the time, saying my preceded by Merneith of the first focused Thutmose—not only In causing herself to be Mom Mom needs to be granted into dynasty, who was buried with Egypt's most successful general, depicted as a traditional king, Sainthood. I could not ask for a better hero to the full honors of a pharaoh and but an acclaimed athlete, author, Hatshepsut ensured that this is honor in Women’s History Month. My hero may have ruled in her own right. historian, botanist, and what she would become. An has shown me love, support, and wisdom. Among the later, non indigenous architect—would have brooded example of the legends about That’s all I really need. Egyptian dynasties, the most for two decades of his own reign Hatshepsut is a myth about her Thank you Saint Mom Mom! notable example of another before attempting to avenge birth. This myth would tell us woman who became pharaoh was himself on his stepmother and that the god Amun goes to Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh aunt.
POEM : Phenomenal Woman by Award Winning Author and Poet Maya Angelou Campus Press Co-Editor and Writer Brianne Lindline suggested this Maya Angelou poem that is the tle of a book of four poems celebra ng women and originally published in 1995. P W fashion model’s size I’m a woman BY MAYA ANGELOU But when I start to tell them, Phenomenally. They think I’m telling lies. Pre y women wonder where my I say, Phenomenal woman, secret lies. It’s in the reach of my arms, That’s me. I’m not cute or built to suit a The span of my hips, College Service Announcement The stride of my step, Men themselves have wondered The curl of my lips. What they see in me. Tune into I’m a woman They try so much Camden Phenomenally. But they can’t touch Photo: the weeklychallenger.com Phenomenal woman, My inner mystery. I don’t shout or jump about County College That’s me. When I try to show them, Or have to talk real loud. WDBK 91.5 FM They say they s ll can’t see. When you see me passing, I walk into a room I say, Radio Station It ought to make you proud. Just as cool as you please, It’s in the arch of my back, I say, Follow @915WDBK on And to a man, The sun of my smile, It’s in the click of my heels, Twi er. Like us on The fellows stand or The ride of my breasts, The bend of my hair, Facebook. Listen on the CCC Fall down on their knees. The grace of my style. the palm of my hand, mobile app or on 91.5 FM. Then they swarm around me, I’m a woman The need for my care. Chris Passanante A hive of honey bees. Phenomenally. ’Cause I’m a woman WDBK Sta on Manager I say, Phenomenal woman, Phenomenally. College Community Center, It’s the fire in my eyes, That’s me. Phenomenal woman, Room 110 And the flash of my teeth, That’s me. (856) 374-4881 The swing in my waist, Now you understand
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be even younger. We may not have the The Lady Cougars started off the experience most of our conference opponents Camden, NJ – Camden County Council On season with a huge 64 26 victory over have, but we will work hard and compete hard Economic Opportunity, Inc. (Camden County OEO) Community College of Philadelphia, every time we step on the court, said Coach Chip is hos ng a Clean Comedy Contest on April 15, and then things took a turn. Reitano . We have to adjust our mindset a bit, 2016 to start a scholarship fund to help low- With an already inexperienced team, as and focus on just getting better everyday. the Lady Cougars had all first year players, income Camden County residents a end college over the next eleven games, they had six CCC Women's Softball or trade school. different players miss a number of games due Designed as an evening full of laughs and to By Freshman Catcher LINDA KOVACS to injury or illness. Their last two games of showcase the talents of up- the first half they played with five players There hasn't been a softball team at and-coming local comedians, against Valley Forge Military College and CCC since the spring of 2014. Well it's time the event will be held at the six players against Rowan at Gloucester to welcome back the Lady Cougars softball historic Sco sh Rite College. program. There are already a number of Even with the bumpy road the team girls slated for this springs team, with Auditorium, 315 White Horse traveled during the first half of the season, many more showing interest in coming out for Pike, at 7:30 p.m., in there were definitely some highlights. In the the team. It will be a welcome sight to see action Collingswood, NJ. Hos ng win over CCP Freshmen Kylea Patterson on the CCC softball field once again. and serving as special guest and Mariah Jones combined for 44 points in I am excited about the possibilities for our comedian is Chinni a “Chocolate” Morris. their first ever college basketball game, and team this season, said first year head coach Chip “The Clean Comedy Contest is the first event Kylea matched her career high with 25 points Reitano. Coach Reitano said there will be a of its kind for Camden County OEO to host. We against Passaic College on December 12th. number of players that will make an immediate look forward to having a night of laughter, while Through four games, sophomore Natalie impact such as pitchers Alaina Shukdinas simultaneously raising funds to help residents pay Acciani was leading the nation in (Highland High School) and Lindsey Farmer rebounding with an incredible average of 20 (Sterling), catchers Linda Kovacs (Cherry Hill for the costs of college and trade school tui on,” rebounds per game. She set the school record West) and Samantha Kasavage (Winslow said Arnold N. Byrd, Execu ve Director of Camden for rebounds in a single game with 25 versus Twp.), as well as outfielders Sharelle Boyer County OEO. Passaic College, and one game later broke her (Overbrook), Lorraine Velez (Pennsauken). Camden County OEO, a private, non-profit own record by pulling down 26 rebounds The Lady Cougars are hoping for an exciting agency dedicated to helping economically versus Atlantic Cape College. season. Come out and support us! disadvantaged individuals and families in Camden County to achieve self-sufficiency through a range Women Tennis Team Ranked Sixth in Nation in 2015 of programs and services, is celebra ng its 50 th By M K C , CCC Tennis Team the semi finals in the anniversary in 2016. Column Special to The Campus Press Regional tournament. Carr, came in first. The Third singles Julia team also included seventh Audience Serve as Judges amden County College has Eggie (freshman), fourth singles Diana Aguilar Through their responses to the various not had a tennis program singles Alyssa Cruz (freshman), eighth singles comedians, members of the audience will serve as C since the early 1980s. Tennis (freshman), and sixth Naomi Payne (sophomore), the judges in the fund-raising contest, which will returned to CCC in 2014 when singles MacKenzie Carr and ninth singles Dom award first, second and third place prizes. The Coach Brad Rose was hired and (freshman) all placed Watkins (sophomore). prizes include a promo onal video, promo onal after just two seasons he led the second in Regions while The Cougars qualified for team to an overall record of 16 6 and fifth singles Nathalie the NJCAA National pictures and $100 for the final place compe ng finished second in Region 19 and Rivera came in first. tournament which took comedians, respec vely. was ranked the sixth team in the Second doubles, Payne place in Peachtree City, nation in 2015. and Cruz, placed second Georgia where Nathalie Proceeds Benefit Camden County Residents Freshman Sapphira Payne in the tournament and Rivera was name Second Proceeds from the event will create the played second singles and made it to third doubles, Rivera and Team All American . scholarship fund to help low-income Camden County residents a end college or trade school to obtain skilled jobs or employment promo ons. Because of the high rate of poverty in the City of CCC’s Camden, 60% of the scholarship grantees will be Camden City residents. Women For ckets and addi onal informa on, visit www.oeocleancomedycontest.com, and contact Tennis Mujiba Parker at [email protected], Team. or call 856-962-6911, ext. 23.
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