Campus News Moment Last Forever, Is a Gift We Next Time You Go to the Grand Must Not Take for Granted
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TAKE A COPY | FOLLOW US @CAMPUS_NEWS | VISIT WWW.CCCNEWS.INFO CAMPUSV NEWS College Paper Volume 16, Issue 3 FREE! THANKSGIVING FALL 2017 College food programs grow Community college students need better access to nutritious food – which helps them to not only persist physically, but also academically. Otherwise, lack of “food secu - rity” leads to lower grades and a higher drop-out rate. ARCHIE & GANG 12 Fifty-six percent of community college students reported they have “low” or “very low” levels of food security, according to a na - tional study. Free monthly produce at MassBay CC. IT’S NEW TO YOU! 22 A more regional study, con - ducted by MassBay Community often. Greene and others, have estab - College in Wellsesley Hills, MassBay has created a “mobile lished food pantries for students Mass., earlier this year, backed market” with the Greater Boston in the past year or two. The food up those findings, with 52% of Food Bank that brings fresh pro - security issue is being addressed, ODE TO ARNOLD 10 students reporting that the food duce to students, faculty and staff and it won’t be long before all they purchased didn’t last, and the second Wednesday of each community colleges have such they didn’t have money to buy month at 11:30 a.m. Other com - programs. more; that they couldn’t afford to munity colleges in our region, in - MassBay’s Josh Cheney, Assis - eat balanced meals, and that they cluding Middlesex, Nassau, tant Dean of Students, said a line Ulster, Springfield, Columbia- TEAM CHAMPS 6 were just plain hungry way too continued on page 5 Take more selfies! another form? Of course not! The Brittany Bergin aesthetic of photography, making a Campus News moment last forever, is a gift we Next time you go to the Grand must not take for granted. Canyon, instead of taking a picture Taking a picture of the Eiffel of it, take one of the people you are Tower can be beautiful artwork, with. Take a selfie there! Many but something that has been done things in life come and go, continu - countless times, which seems ously decomposing as the days pass rather silly considering that it ’s rel - by. Unfortunately, we tend to ig - atively a timeless structure. What nore the fact that one of those is isn ’t timeless however, is the face human life. We are all mortal but behind the camera. Every time a does it mean we cannot live on in continued on page 3 Winter session? A cohort of classes between the Friday of faculty Orienta - Fall and Spring semesters, tion week for spring semester. usually about two to three We do not hold face-to-face weeks long, that offers the classes from December 24 same number of credits as the through January 1, though traditional 15-week courses, many instructors require on - has been gaining popularity at line work during that time. community colleges. About half “Most Winterim offerings of the community colleges in are standard three-credit the Campus News coverage courses, though some of the area now have what are courses are one- or two-credit termed Winter Session, Win - offerings. Clearly, this con - terim, or Intersession courses, densed format is not for all stu - typically starting soon after dents or all instructors or all Christmas and ending around curricula. But it can and does Martin Luther King Day, give work well for courses that com - or take. bine moderate amounts of Students see the courses as reading, moderate amounts of a way to either catch up from hands-on work or collabora - the previous semester – say tion, and both face-to-face and they had originally signed up online interactions. The format for 15 credits but had to drop a also works well for curricula 3-credit course – or to get that depend on sustained or ahead for the next semester, immersive study. bettering their odds of gradu - “Over the past four years we ating on time. have learned that our Win - In New York State, consid - terim students are highly suc - ering some financial aid now cessful. They have persistence, hinges on averaging 30 credits completion, and success rates a year, many students this higher than the general college year are expected to take Win - population. Faculty often re - ter Session courses to ensure port that Winterim students they comply. are highly motivated and re - And it seems that students sponsible. Our Winterim term aren’t too picky as to which is small, but it has an ardent campus they attend for these following.” sessions. They can take the Dr. Hamel added that about shortened courses at their cur - half of the students who take rent campus, a neighboring such courses at his college are SUNY/CUNY campus or online “reverse transfer” – students (at lowered New York State from four-year colleges just prices for state residents, as getting some credits while well as, for this academic year, home on break. 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It tion of such offerings. begins at the end of fall semes - ter final exams, and it ends by Take more selfies! (cont.) face is captured it is original there? Growing up, social media and a better tomorrow. Many photography at its finest. I can had a huge impact on my self-es - people claim that social media guarantee that you will never teem and generally how I viewed can negatively influence a child ’s see that photo anywhere else; it my self-worth as a person. Any - self-esteem, but I ’m willing to is completely unique to you. body active on Twitter for the say it ’s all a matter of perception Human life is a lovely, delicate past five years may be able to and who you surround your gift that is fleeting with every resonate with my words when I posts with, just like in real life. moment. We have the ability to recall there being almost a phe - There will always be two sides of make ourselves immortal nomenon of self-depreciation, as that glass of water, but life is ul - through the art of photography, if it were cool or hip to hate on timately what you make it. yet some still feel silly about tak - yourself. Of course, some of it There is nothing wrong with ing pictures of themselves. What was for comedic purposes, which self-appreciation once in awhile! you appear today will not be as wasn ’t a problem, but overall it If you ’re still not comfortable you appear tomorrow, or how was just a very negative and sharing pictures of yourself, then you appeared yesterday, each emo state of being. Over the past take pictures of your loved ones; photo has potential to be beauti - two or so years, it seems this has make the good times last so you ful. We all realize that we are ca - taken a turn for the better. The can look back on them when it change the way we think, offer - pable of painting a picture, engagement of posting selfies ac - feels as if there ’s no more to ing a welcoming future for those writing a story, or of creation in tually seems to be what trig - come. Consider a family photo in who feel they ’re not good general, but do we realize that gered this movement. The front of the Grand Canyon in - enough. Be bold! Make the first we can become the art ourselves thought of someone being confi - stead of just a nature shot is all move, act courageous, and stay simply by sharing photographs? dent enough to say, “H ey! Look I ask of you. All it takes is one humble. You could inspire a at me! Can we appreciate this to - Why do we feel so awkward person with confidence to start a countless number of people with - gether? ” by a simple photo of about putting ourselves out movement that could positively out even realizing it, I promise. themselves promotes self-love Join us f or a T ransf er A dmis sion D ay. TRANSFERRING TO ADELPHI IS A S E ASY A S ONE, T WO... DONE! Apply , enr oll and r egister in just one da y. November 1 4, 16 and 2 1, 2 017 Register a t Adelphi.