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However, there are a lot can also be an Classifieds 12 of differences at four year exciting time for schools ranging from obvious students be - Opinion 18 ones like class size to not so cause they really obvious ones like more inde - get into the area Adelphi 20 pendence. that they are Level of work and course- passionate load are often quite different about and want Visit us at at a four year school than at a to make a ca - community college. Often reer out of. being involved with extracur - friends.” Lin advises students cccnews.info times, students complete their “NYIT was definitely ricular activities like clubs cen - “to join clubs, a sport or even today! core level classes at a two year more challenging than Nassau tered around their major,” a sorority/fraternity because as institution and move on to a Community College because NYIT graduate Lauren Calder a commuter and transfer stu - four year to complete their de - there were more projects, tests explains. “I loved NCC. It was dent it can be difficult to make gree. This means more ad - and a lot more requirements just different at NYIT.” friends your third year of col - vanced on Socially, students may find lege, especially where students and stu - it difficult to start at a college dorm.” higher Community college dents. where enrolled students al - The social aspect also ties level ready have established rela - into new found independence courses students need to tionships since most of the and responsibility. As an NCC in their student population has been transfer student to Cortland area of up their game. attending since freshman year. University, Victoria Noelle majoring. Adelphi transfer student, notes, “I think the first thing is This can Stacey Lin notes that the hard - that you do learn a lot about be an adjustment, however stu - There was a large emphasis on est thing about starting the four yourself when switching to a dents should seek out tutorial students getting internships, year university was “making departments and take advan - continued on page 2 Quit, 16 Beware of the ‘Freshman 15’ Nathaniel Villano or Dad, who ever primarily best friend or your worst you can receive more bang for Campus News cooks, has a little control over enemy. They are all buffet your buck. Attention all college stu - your portion sizes and what style, which for one meal card Now if you are someone dents, whether you’re reading they make so your caloric in - swipe is your entrance to an who is repulsed by the dining this as a freshmen student at take isn’t so high all of the all you can eat party. While hall, the “Freshman 15” might orientation or you’re a trans - time. they do offer healthy and not have such an effect on fer student coming from a two Not only that but when cleaner alternatives most stu - you; but if you’re someone year school! you live at home you’re more dents usually buy high calorie like me who loves food well So you’re on your own likely to get in a serving or two and high fattening foods. then you might just be in a lit - now huh? No parents, no of fruits and vegetables; once Most colleges offer well tle bit of trouble. rules, nobody telling you what students go away to school known fast food restaurants in Things such as Ramen they their Noodles and Kraft Easy Mac Toupee, 19 you can and can’t eat! When you have great power such as gain dining are OK every so often but that, it comes great responsi - that in - How to avoid the hall having such high sodium and bility and having the will depend - such carbohydrate levels if not power to watch what you eat. ence extra poundage that as worked off properly it can Those who are new may and turn right into fat. Since they or may not have heard of the start to comes with college. are so cheap students tend to “Freshman 15.” The “Fresh - forget stock up and snack out on man 15” is a term most fresh - and those the most. men and transfer students will then the bad eating habits Wendy’s, Taco Bell and Mc - Studies have shown that use after their first year away begin to take over. Donalds. When given the not only do poor eating habits from home. If you’re going away to choice most students are more lead to the “Freshman 15” but In most four year universi - school, you will most likely likely to choose fast food over so do excessive levels of alco - ties the eating experience is a have a meal plan set up and something healthier, not just hol consumption. Most beers lot different from eating at you will eat from the dining because it might taste better drank by college students Geek, 8 home. At home maybe Mom, halls. Dining halls can be your but because it’s so cheap and continued on page 14 How 4-year colleges differ (cont.) four year university because you don’t have your parents there telling you what you can and cannot do, therefore you make decisions on your own.” Students should recognize this new found independence that can seem somewhat daunting yet liberating at the same time. Transfer Checklist Noelle continues, “There’s a lot to consider when transferring like jobs, in - Karen Gerardi, Director of Admission for Transfer Students at Washing - ternship opportunities and location to careers when you graduate. In addition, I ton & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, offers this checklist for transfer stu - definitely concentrated more at home because going away can quickly become a dents: free for all with parties and night life.” * “Build and utilize your support system. Your transfer to a four-year insti - Danny Green, associate vice president for enrollment at Meredith College in tution will be an adjustment, and that’s fine -- because plenty of people across Raleigh, N.C, states: “What a community college graduate will encounter at the campus will be glad to help to you. Take advantage of staff, students and pro - four-year college is a very welcoming environment so that the transfer student can grams designed to welcome you to campus and help you get acclimated. thrive and succeed. Is this always the case? At the best, transfer-friendly schools * “Touch base with the Office of Admission and the financial aid depart - like ours, transfer students are invited into the community, assigned advisors and ment. Sure, you can apply on-line and get financial aid information from the mentors, and provided an array of connections that help make the transition as college web site, but if you get to know the person who recruits and transitions easy as possible. Students can expect to succeed if they are focused and ready to transfer students, as well as the contact person in financial aid, you will be able be full participants on the campus (e.g., academically prepared in class, socially to take advantage of resources targeted to your specific situation. This personal engaged in campus events and activities, ready to take advantage of resources and attention will help ensure that you are submitting all necessary application mate - campus services, etc.). Successful community college transfers will be specific on rials, meeting deadlines, and taking advantage of any scholarship opportunities. the majors they wish to pursue. Campuses like ours want the new students, like all * “Take advantage of academic programs outside of the classroom. At students and faculty, to be full community members. The individual experience, W&J every transfer student has a personal academic advisor as well as a student while working as a part of the whole, will help students to thrive.” mentor who will provide useful tips on making a successful transition by helping Students should be prepared to make decisions solo and keep themselves in you to schedule your courses, manage your time effectively and understand the check when it comes to nightlife. culture and expectations at your new school. As soon as you get to campus, Lastly, obvious things like larger classes and lecture halls come with the four schedule a meeting with your academic advisor. In addition to helping you max - year college territories. Students, who are transferring, should tour their new imize transfer credits and making sure you are on track academically, your advi - schools, talk to advisors and clear up any concerns they may have. Contacting the sor will help you explore internships, research projects, and study abroad school for orientation days and personal tours are also options to get acclimated options. These opportunities are critical during the later years of your college with the new surroundings. Attending orientation is also a great way to meet some career, so let your academic advisor help you get the most from your experi - friends who are in the same boat. Colleges like Nassau Community also host on ence! site visit days where four year schools in the area come to campus to “receive a * “Visit the office of career services. Ask about job fairs, building a resume, preliminary evaluation of transfer credit” and “financial aid advisers discuss schol - and mock interviews. Career services should be able to help you identify your arship opportunities.” On-site visits are good ways to discuss students’ plans with natural talents and help position you for career success upon graduation. prospective colleges. * “Get involved/Engage current students. Are you following your four-year Transferring to a four year institution is an exciting time so don’t let it be school on Facebook and Twitter? If not, start now. It’s a great way to get a feel plagued with worry. Be prepared about the new school and expect to work hard for the culture, activities and student life of the campus. By the time you begin and meet all the demands. your four-year career, you will already know what you’d like to be involved. “Finally, take advantage of the fresh start. You earned it, and you deserve it!”

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Campus News | Summer 2013 | Page 2 Transferring to a 4-year college: One student’s story Darren Johnson signed a significant amount of home - Campus News work with a very heavy weighting on exams. The course load matches the Meet Dan Morey, age 29, married, life of an 18-22 year old, not so and a recent transfer from a two-year col - much a married and working 30 year lege to a four-year college. old. The material itself is only In this issue of Campus News, we slightly more challenging in context, spoke with a lot of experts and a few stu - but there is a lot more quantity.” dents and Dan’s story is typical – getting a But he has his eye on the prize. two-year degree is great, but it’s the easier “I’m less concerned with my grades half of getting a four-year degree. While as an adult student, which factors the two-year college will definitely get a into my lower GPA. With 10 years student up to speed and ready for a junior of work experience, I know that year elsewhere, that support system will when I return to the working world not be the same at the four-year college, full time, my resume will be more and the classes – being 300 and 400 level important than my GPA, as my de - – will be more intensive, as well. gree is really just filling in the gaps. Dan attended Harper (community) My main objective here is to simply College in Palatine, Illinois, and graduated get out quickly with a decent grade. in May 2012. He transferred to University I’ve talked with several other adult of Illinois at Chicago that fall, where he students, and they have the same ob - still is. jective.” Dan Morey. “My first piece of advice to transfer - He finds that the university has ring students would be to meet with multi - much more resources than his com - gen eds I took at community college. The a university, the only help you’ll get is ple guidance counselors at both current munity college had. “There is an infinite workload is much more significant and from the curve on an exam. Professors and transfer schools to iron out the credits amount to help you succeed [at the four- much more of your grade depends on are quick to refer you to a TA or the writ - that are transferring and the credits still to year institution]. If you struggled to find exams than at community college. I now ing center if you need help.” be acquired,” he said. “I ran into quite a counseling, tech resources, even a space take classes regularly, where my entire Another concern at the new college – few snags when trying to bring credits over to study at community college, that will grade depends on two or three exams and higher prices. “The lower costs of com - and needed to take on an additional class not be a problem at a university. I have require no homework or smaller quizzes” munity college are a thing of the past and, at the Harper College outside of the nor - only explored about 30 percent of cam - It’s also easy to feel left out at the new after transferring, you’ll be paying a lot mal schedule. … [But] this made it very pus, and I’ve rarely had trouble finding a school, as most of the students had al - more for everything: tuition, food, books, clear that additional credits can be taken spare computer or desk to work at.” ready been there two years. “A campus etc.” for much cheaper and easier than taking He continued: “Classes will be much culture will have already developed But, overall, Dan feels confident he those classes at a university.” more difficult and time to complete the among many students, especially within a will get his four-year degree in short time, But Dan is finding that A grades are a work will be more limited. Most transfers major or college within the university. So and he has been impressed with the level lot less plentiful at the university. “I’m knocked out their gen eds at the commu - you’ll have to work harder to make net - of the job fairs at the four-year college. struggling to keep that 2.7ish GPA. I went nity college, so now, most of your time work within the student body,” Dan said. He’s sure they will lead to a great job after from an A-B student to a B-C student,” he will be spent focusing on your majors. Be But don’t expect much hand-holding graduation. said. “My community college program prepared to feel overwhelmed from day at the new college. “Teachers at a com - was heavy on independent homework and one. Even a few gen eds I’ve taken at a munity college are far more inclined to not so much on exams. At UIC, I am as - university are far more intense than the help you succeed at the personal level. At

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State University of New York Chancellor Nancy L. Virtual Infrastructure for Data Intensive Analysis opmental math sequence, starting with Elementary Alge - Zimpher recently announced the recipients of the 2013 The Center for Computational Research (CCR) at bra, where the traditional classroom lecture format is re - Innovative Instruction Technology Grants (IITG) pro - the University at Buffalo (UB) and SUNY Oneonta will placed with an individualized, actively engaged approach gram, which funds campus innovations and initiatives pilot a collaborative virtual community, enabling under - to learning mathematics partially through self-paced tech - that have the potential to be replicated elsewhere within graduate students opportunities to create, manipulate, nology use to achieve content mastery. Students will SUNY to benefit students and faculty across the state and analyze large multi-terabyte datasets. This extends achieve a higher level of preparedness for subsequent and worldwide. Oneonta’s “Big Data on Smaller Campuses,” a highly course work. “The IITG program has enabled our campuses to successful IITG funded collaboration between UB, enhance the quality of a SUNY education by leveraging Penn State, and IBM. iTutor and iDemo: 3D Computer Vision/Graphics our systemness and bringing students the best that tech - with Intelligent Avatar Interaction nology has to offer,” said SUNY Chancellor Zimpher. Open SUNY Textbooks Binghamton University will leverage existing com - “This program is one of many that exemplify SUNY’s SUNY Geneseo is leading a multi-campus effort to puter vision technology to analyze and respond to capacity to model innovative instructional practices for reduce the cost of attending colleges and universities unique human behavior and facial expressions. iDEMO higher education nationally and globally. We look for - through faculty-led publication of open access textbooks. and iTutor are software under development that feature ward to seeing these outstanding ideas replicated across Building on an IITG pilot project, these publications will an interactive avatar “smart enough” to understand stu - SUNY to benefit even more of our students, faculty and provide sustainability and scalability to Open SUNY cur - dents’ expressions, voices, eye gazes, and hand gestures, staff.” rently under development. and can adjust presentation materials accordingly. SUNY faculty and staff across all disciplines were el - igible to apply for the IITG competitive grant. Recipients SUNY Games II LOOP (Learn-Operate-Outreach-Perform) will openly share project outcomes, enabling SUNY col - The University at Albany is leading a multi-campus SUNY Buffalo State is building a state-of-the-art lab leagues state-wide to replicate and build upon the innova - effort to launch a joint online academic program that to compose and perform new types of electronic music. tions, many supporting the university system’s new Open promotes understanding of the power of games, simula - The LOOP system enables students to build on their SUNY initiative, which will bring together all of the on - tions, and immersive environments for 21st-century compositions in an iterative manner. This project actively line courses offered at SUNY campuses. learning. Informed by a broad spectrum of academic de - engages community and educational partners, including In its inaugural year, the 2012 program resulted in partments as well as affiliates from game and simulation the Burchfield-Penny Art Center. 117 grant proposals and 48 awarded grants. Of the 93 design firms (First Playable, Agora Games, MESO, Tur - proposals submitted for this year’s competition, 33 were bine Games, and Flashbang Studios), this collaboration SUNY Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost selected to receive awards. In addition, six projects from aims to generate new online courses and ultimately ac - David K. Lavallee said, “The IITG program has already round one were funded for a second round. Several quire the external funding necessary to achieve a full- demonstrated significant returns by leveraging funding projects included collaborations by two or more cam - scale program using the Open SUNY framework. opportunities, but more importantly, it develops and sus - puses and/or with local organizations and businesses. tains important faculty and staff collaborations across A complete list of grant-funded projects is available Math Course Redesign Project SUNY in an efficient manner. Congratulations to all of online and a sampling of this year’s projects is below: Cayuga Community College is redesigning a devel - this year’s awardees.”

Campus News | Summer 2013 | Page 3 First Lady visits restored slave quarters “From the back of the house, from “Yet, within this very place, about 20 children through the educational pro - Barbara Corbellini Duarte a structure far less lavish, comes even men and women spent their days serv - grams.” Scripps Howard Foundation Wire more history . The kinds of stories that ing those who came and went from this After the announcement, Obama First lady Michelle Obama sur - too often get lost,” Obama said at a house and their nights jammed to - toured the house where she met with prised children on a school field trip news conference. “I’m talking about gether on the second floor of the slave sixth-grade students from Willow last month when she visited the De - the slaves here at Decatur House who quarters, all while holding onto a quiet Springs Elementary School in Fairfax, catur House in Washington, D.C. spent their lives within shouting dis - hope, a quiet prayer that they, too, and Va., a Washington suburb. The visit was part of the announce - tance of one of the most powerful perhaps their children, would someday The students were participating in ment of an American Express $1 mil - buildings on the planet.” be free.” one of the educational programs in lion grant to the White House Decatur House was built in 1818 Obama began her remarks by of - which they impersonated President Historical Association, a non-profit one block north of the White House fering sympathy to Oklahomans after Abraham Lincoln and other historic dedicated to the preservation and study by Commodore Stephen Decatur Jr., Monday’s tornado. characters and recreated the Emanci - of the White House. with money he was awarded for his vic - American Express and the Na - pation Proclamation signing. The class The money will go to restore the tories in the War of 1812. It became tional Trust for Historic Preservation will receive a DVD with their perform - slave quarters at Decatur House, one the unofficial house of secretaries of also donated $1 million to restore his - ance. of the few slave quarters still preserved state from 1827 to 1833. The National torical places in Washington metro “The looks on their faces and the in an urban area. The rest of the Trust for Historic Preservation owns area as part of the sounds were money will go to research and educa - the house and operates it as a museum. Partners in Preser - The Decatur House everything tional programs at the David M. “For nearly 200 years, as our coun - vation program. from screams Rubenstein National Center for White try has grown and evolved, the Decatur The public voted of joy to cry - House History, also at Decatur House. House has grown with it,” Obama said. on social media to has one of the few ing,” Neil choose 13 out of Hortsman, the 24 buildings to re - preserved, urban White House ceive the funds. Historical As - The Washington slave quarters. sociation presi - National Cathedral dent, said. received the most votes and a grant of The children knew they would $100,000. The cathedral was damaged have a special guest watching their per - in the 2011 earthquake. formance but didn’t expect it to be the “As we were putting together the first lady. Partners in Preservation program, the “I was shocked. I thought that it Decatur House came to our attention. wouldn’t be that important,” Jackson … So when we found out that they Smith, 12, said. “I didn’t think they’d needed additional support to help re - let us in for that.” store those slave quarters, it seemed a Emily Espinal, 12, teared up when good complement to our Partners in she saw the first lady. Preservation program,” Timothy Mc - “It was just like amazing! I’ve never Climon, president of the American Ex - experienced her in real life before,” press Foundation, said. “We felt that it Emily said. “She’s really cool.” was important to not only help pre - serve it but to make it available for

Campus News | Summer 2013 | Page 4 Marchers trek 150 miles to protest corporations

Barbara Corbellini Duarte 2013, according to the Center for Re - sponsive Politics. Scripps Howard Foundation Wire “These are the people who bought Guillermo Santos, 10, walked 150 our government. And they bought it to miles from Philadelphia to Washing - tell them to stop buying things, to stop ton bringing letters that his classmates buying schools, to stop buying jobs, to wrote for President Barack Obama, stop buying housing, to stop buying asking him to stop budget cuts affecting green energy,” David Swanson, 43, of public schools. He was with a group of Washington and the author of antiwar activists who ended their six-day march and activist books, said. on a recent Friday with a rally in front The chamber usually supports of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. conservative politicians, campaigns and The protesters rallied against the causes . It lobbied to cut carbon diox - chamber’s lobbying efforts in support ide emission regulations, to loosen se - of multinational corporations. curity standards on chemical factories, The Poor People’s Economic fertilizer depots and water-treatment Human Rights Campaign, Shut the plants and in favor of the Keystone XL Chamber, Public Citizen’s U.S. Cham - pipeline, which many environmental ber Watch and Move to Amend organ - groups oppose. ized the march. Luciano Flores, 19, a student at “We know that, as poor people the Community College of Philadel - and low-income families, our voice phia, marched with the group to ask doesn’t matter,” Cheri Honkala, 50, di - for more support to education. The rector of the Poor People’s Economic Philadelphia public schools face a Human Rights Campaign and budget deficit of $300 million for the Guillermo’s mother, said. “We cannot next year because of state budget cuts. pay for lobbyists. We know that we The deficit could eliminate art, music, can’t buy our votes, and yet it’s our sports and after-school activities. families that do the bulk of the work in The activists blame the cuts on the this county.” chamber for supporting the 2010 cam - Guillermo tried to deliver the stu - paign of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Cor - dents’ letters to the White House on bett, R. Thursday. “No multimillionaire corporation Carl Gibson, 26, left, and Cheri Honkala, 50, tried to enter the U.S. has the right to interfere in Chamber of Commerce building during a protest against lobbying, but po- ‘No corporation has my future generation’s right lice stopped them. to education,” Flores said. The group tried to the right to interfere in enter the chamber building, which is across Lafayette my future generation’s Square from the White House to talk to an official right to education.’ there, but D.C. police blocked the entrance. “The U.S. Chamber of “They wouldn’t let us in without an Commerce is not open to the public. appointment,” he said. “So we came They are opened to people with here.” money,” Carl Gibson, 26, owner of a He was the youngest activist in the social media consulting company in march. Madison, Wis., yelled after police “I come here hoping to have a stopped him on the building steps. change, hoping to have a better educa - The Chamber of Commerce did tion system,” Guillermo said through not respond to a request for comment Feliz - Class of ’14 the megaphone while marching in front on the protest. Transfer Student of the chamber. The protesters left after a couple The protesters, from Wisconsin, of minutes, but promised to continue Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut the campaign as a national movement and Washington, demanded support that will advocate for business to cut for green jobs and spoke against the their ties with the chamber. budget cuts for education and the pri - “I want them to stop existing,” said vatization of schools – issues the group Gabriel Elkind, 20, a student at Wes - blamed on the chamber’s lobbying ef - leyan University in Middletown, Conn. forts. “We all have the power to feed our - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce selves. … If we work together, we can represents business interests. In 2012, do it.” it spent more than $135 million on Small College. Big Dreams. lobbying efforts, and more than $16 million in the first four months of June 3-27 3FHJTUFS SUMMER JulyJuly 1-1-3131 Now! SESSIONSN S AAug.ug. 55-29-29

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Campus News | Summer 2013 | Page 7 Sexism in nerdom. Can a geek be a girl? Marie Frankson always the ones being excluded from Campus News the prestigious geek group?” There is an idea, a rumor, that women are only As a young woman who enjoys to playing games just for attention. After partake in “geeky” ventures of reading all, women have no interest in video comic books, playing video games, col - games or things like “Magic the Gath - lecting cards and models, and watching ering” and “Warhammer” and comic science-fiction and fantasy movies and books. The idea that women can’t have reading books in those genres, who en - interests in things that are deemed joys cosplay, and whose flash drive geeky is, to be frank, stupid; but what looks like Captain Kirk from “Star do I know? I just read comic books, Trek,” I find the amount of misogyny watch “Star Trek” and other sci-fi in geek culture abhorrent. What was shows, play video games, and play once a “boys only” club no longer is, “Magic the Gathering” once in a while. and many women are coming out of To me, this is similar to women who the woodwork to show their love for join men’s sports — the men feel intim - things that are considered geeky. How - idated that a woman, or women, is/are ever, those women are met with con - coming onto their turf so they retaliate tempt from their male counterparts in a way that would hurt her/them the and are often the victims of malicious most. Speaking from experience, cyberbullying attacks in online forums women are social creatures and men or on massively multiplayer online know this; one way to attempt to get a roleplaying games (MMORPGs). woman to back off is to exclude her Guess what? Women have always been from groups or events. Exclusion, the involved in geeky things, this isn’t any - feeling that no one wants you and that thing new, and neither is the misogyny. you don’t belong in a group, hurts. Someone reading this might say that “In these times of change, why is “boys will be boys” or that if women sexual objectification so prevalent in don’t want to be harassed because of geek culture?” Well, I am going to as - their interests then they shouldn’t be in sume that everyone reading this has the public eye with those interests. seen a comic book or superhero Nearly every geeky girl faces some movie. What do the women look like? petitive fighting game player Aris games. Jackie Lee, the only woman on form of misogyny, and there is nothing Do they look like the geeky girl sitting Bakhtanians was quoted as saying, the top 100 “Magic the Gathering” good about misogyny. If one does a in the back of the classroom or do they “This is a community that’s, you know, players worldwide list, was subject to Google search of “misogyny in geek have long hair, size DD breasts, and 15 or 20 years old, and the sexual ha - sexism and misogyny in April 2012 culture” you’ll see hit after hit of arti - wear spandex or leather outfits? It’s the rassment is part of a culture, and if you during a televised “Wizards of the cles and personal stories. latter. Sure, women like Wonder remove that from the fighting game Coast” tournament once she had For those readers who are unaware Woman and Super Girl kick major vil - community, it’s not the fighting game reached the semi-final round. Com - of the meaning, misogyny is the hatred lain butt, but they are sexual beings community.” Bakhtanians and Jared ments ranging from “Get back in the or dislike of women and girls. Accord - first and super heroines second. How Rea, another competitive fighting game kitchen” to commenting about how ing to feminist theories, misogyny can many super heroines have you seen player, were going back and forth “bangable” she looked to openly stat - be manifested in numerous ways, in - that have glasses, wear yoga pants and about misogyny in the FGC. Rea was ing one’s intentions to masturbate to cluding sexual discrimination, violence sneakers and sweatshirts with the hood quoted as saying, “When I go to SoCal her to even being threatened with rape against women, sexual harassment, and up to hide their hair during a bad hair regionals and I see a Phoenix [from were hurled at her, and even worse, sexual objectification. day? None. Not even an average guy Marvel vs. Capcom 3] on main stage Lee didn’t know who was saying what Geek culture is now more main - wants to fantasize about an average girl. getting blown up and there’s some as the comments were anonymous. stream than ever before. Computer en - Thus, booth babes. Those women are dude in the audience just yelling Actions like those above within the thusiasts are practically worshipped for models, they’re not average women. “Bitch! Bitch!” every time she gets hit gaming community should surprise their know-how, everyone uses Face - It’s the same ploy that beer commer - and then she[‘s] killed and goes “Yeah, many people, men and women alike, book or some other social networking cials use — if I drink this beer, I’ll get a rape that bitch!” Yeah, that’s totally ac - but they do not. How many rape jokes site, and blockbusters at the box office hot woman. If I buy this video game ceptable! Really? Really? You’re going do you come across on the internet are superhero and other sci-fi movies. console, I’ll get a hot woman. Even my to tell me that’s acceptable?” to which and disregard? How many women do It isn’t easy seeing a fringe identity, nine-year-old brother knows that’s not Bakhtanians replied, “Look, man. you see who post something online and which is important to you, expand and true and pointed out to me while flip - What is unacceptable about that? then a comment saying “Get in the become widely accepted to a public ping through a book about the DC and There’s nothing unacceptable about kitchen and make me a sandwich” is who doesn’t care as much about the Marvel superheroes that all the women that. These are people, we’re in Amer - directly underneath? How many times material as you do. A commonality look ica, man, this isn’t North Korea. We do you call out the person for making among alike ex - can say what we want. People get emo - those jokes and comments? those cept for ‘Why are we seeing so much tional.” There was a female competitor Why are we seeing so much misog - consid - their there, Miranda “Super_Yan” Pakozdi, yny in the geek community now? One ered to hair misogyny in the geek who was assigned to work with Bakhta - reason is because of the internet. Peo - be color nians as part of Team Tekken and, ple can communicate faster than they geeks and out - upon hearing his comments, said that used to and due to the anonymous na - was that community now? fits. If a his comments as well as those of other ture of the internet you don’t know they nine- men in the community like him hurt who is posting what. A person who acts were, at One reason is the internet.’ year-old the community. During day six of like an entitled jerk on the internet one knows that real women don’t look like “Cross Assault,” Pakozdi doesn’t even may not act like that in real life, but point in time, socially ridiculed or ex - women portrayed in comic books then attack while she is playing. She just they can say whatever they want from cluded from groups or events because WHERE ARE THE REAL leans forward on the stick. Per the behind their computer. However, why of their infatuation with their interests. WOMEN?! If we as a population want rules of the show, she would have to go it happens in the first place isn’t a se - Now, it seems, a commonality among the children of the world looking up to up against another player who was al - cret. From the start, collections and those considered to be geeks is exclud - people, shouldn’t we want them to ready eliminated. If the other player hobbies that comprise geek culture ing others from their group. That real - look up to real men and women? beat her three out of five times, he have been traditionally male domi - ization raises a few questions: why is it I mentioned MMORPG games would be able to go back into the com - nated, but not by just any males, the that women are always the ones being and women being harassed. Well, that petition. Instead, Pakozdi forfeited. It’s males who typically were not part of excluded from the prestigious geek happens in other gaming communities so crazy to me that someone would be - the popular crowd in school, and those group? When was the last time you as well. Take the fighting game com - lieve that sexism and misogyny are so who also tended to have poor social saw people arguing over whether a par - munity, or FGC for short, for example. integral to the way they interact with skills. Couple those with how women ticular man is a “real geek”? In these Back in February, Capcom hosted others that if it was taken away it would were traditionally portrayed in comics, times of change, why is sexual objectifi - “Cross Assault,” a reality show featur - change the nature of the community science-fiction, and fantasy — you have cation so prevalent in geek culture? ing gamers in the fighting community — and make it worse, as Bakhtanians has the damsel in distress who waits for the I can answer two of these three this particular episode was a promotion implied. questions. “Why is it that women are for “Street Fighter X Tekken.” Com - Misogyny isn’t just limited to video continued on next page

Campus News | Summer 2013 | Page 8 Obama addresses drones in terrorism speech Ja’Kari Taylor us from either transferring detainees to Scripps Howard Foundation Wire other countries, or imprisoning them in the United States,” Obama said. President Barack Obama solidified The president said that the original his stance on the use of drones and the premise for opening the Guantanamo military prison in Guantanamo Bay in prison was found unconstitutional five a speech last month. years ago. His administration has been criti - “And in some cases, I believe we cized for using drone strikes to kill compromised our basic values – by U.S. citizens abroad. using torture to interrogate our ene - Obama confirmed that there have mies, and detaining individuals in a been civilian casualties as a result of way that ran counter to the rule of U.S. drones but that all strikes have law,” Obama said. been aimed at terrorists. Toward the end of the presidents’ “Nevertheless, it is a hard fact that speech, Medea Benjamin, a protester U.S. strikes have resulted in civilian ca - from Code Pink, began screaming at sualties, a risk that exists in all wars,” the president: “You are commander in Obama said. chief. You can close Guantanamo He said that there are no words to today!” justify the loss Jenifer of those vic - Cuozzo, an NDU tims to their ‘All of a sudden, procurement ana - designate a site in the U.S. to hold mil - migrants coming to U.S. shores, fans families and lyst, said she was itary commissions. taking in a ballgame, a veteran starting that their I heard this uproar sitting next to the “Where appropriate, we will bring a business or a bustling city street. deaths would protester who had terrorists to justice in our courts and “From our use of drones to the de - haunt him as been quietly writ - and jumped.’ military justice system. And we will in - tention of terrorist suspects, the deci - long as he ing in a note - sist that judicial review be available for sions we are making will define the lived. book.”All of a every detainee,” Obama said. type of nation – and world – that we This week, the president author - sudden, I heard this uproar and The president said the victory leave to our children,” Obama said. ized the declassification of information jumped,” Cuozzo said. against terrorism won’t be measured in Students from NDU, national se - about the deaths of four Americans After continued interruptions, a surrender ceremony on a battleship, curity, counter-terrorism, legal, and caused by drone strikes, including Obama addressed Benjamin. or a statue being pulled to the ground. human rights experts and U.S. govern - Anwar al-Awlaki, the chief of external “This is part of free speech, is you Instead, he said, it will be measured by ment officials made up the audience. operations for al-Qaida in the Arabian being able to speak but is also you lis - parents taking their kids to school, im - Peninsula, who helped oversee the un - tening, and me being able to speak,” successful 2010 plot to detonate explo - Obama said as the audience ap - sive devices on two U.S. bound cargo plauded. planes. Benjamin was escorted out as Obama said he did so in the inter - she yelled, “I love my country. I est of transparency and to encourage love the rule of law. Abide by the debate on the issue and to dismiss rule of law. You’re a constitutional some of outlandish claims. lawyer.” “For the record, I do not believe it Late in the day, the NDU said would be constitutional for the govern - it would investigate how Benjamin ment to target and kill any U.S. citizen got into the event, which was not – with a drone, or a shotgun – without open to the public. The statement due process. Nor should any president said she was on a list of those deploy armed drones over U.S. soil,” from the media. Obama said. Fellow Code Pink protesters The president also addressed the were outside of the gates of Fort methods of detention for terror sus - McNair protesting the the use of pects, mainly at the military prison at drones and policies at Guan - Guantanamo Bay, many of whom are tanamo Bay. on a hunger strike. Obama asked Congress to lift “As president, I have tried to close the restrictions on transferring GTMO. I transferred 67 detainees to Guantanamo prisoners for trials in other countries before Congress im - the U.S. or to other countries and posed restrictions to effectively prevent for the Department of Defense to

When you see someone make misogy - people you are dealing with online, at a nistic comments you should call them convention, or at a comic book shop Geek girl (continued) out on it. People feel a sense of entitle - are real people and have feelings that manly hero, riding a horse bareback boys’ only club for so long and now the ment when they make these comments can be hurt. and bare-chested, to come and save women are showing up and expecting and no one wants it pointed out to My point is that this needs to stop. her, or you have the kick-ass female they be treated as people (how dare them that they were in the wrong. Es - All of it. Women are people too, and who makes up for poor character de - they?!), and a lot of guys feels threated pecially for the guys, something you we can be geeks as well. Don’t get velopment with skimpy, over-sexual - about this and don’t know how to deal “butt-hurt” when ized outfits, thus making them strictly with it and so they lash out against ‘You have the damsel in someone calls sexual objects who fight a bad guy those very women. you out and says every once in a while. Your average Misogyny is all about power, and you shouldn’t woman is not going to feel welcome in the men employing it want to make the distress who waits for the have said some - most geek settings because of this, and women do what they want and are thing that you this had led to women involved in geek using what they perceive to be the best manly hero, riding a horse did. Just make an culture being treated as rare as Big tools for it. The point of this is that the attempt to be a Foot, or unicorns, or any other mythi - geek culture has a bad habit of objecti - bareback and bare-chested.’ half-way decent cal being you can think of. These days, fying women. The end result is that person both in you have women who are making their you do not see them as people, and can do is take a look at your com - real life and while you’re playing your mark in geek culture, as I’ve men - this can make it way too easy to treat ments. If you wouldn’t want someone games and whatnot. This has been my tioned a few in previous paragraphs, them horribly. saying that to you, then don’t post it. public service announcement…it’s and here you have the seed of the mi - What can be done to combat mi - Treat others how you want to be NOT okay! sogyny in this culture. This was the sogyny in geek culture? Speak up. treated, even on the internet where no one knows you. Remember that the

Campus News | Summer 2013 | Page 9 Lobbying for pool safety Silvia Rodriguez medical costs, Tenenbaum Scripps Howard Foundation Wire said. The report also revealed An average of 390 children drown that from 2008 to 2012, there each year in the U.S., most younger were 39 victims of circulation than 5, according to two new reports. entrapments, two of them “We are talking about 15 pre- fatal. Circulation entrapment school classes lost in a pool or spa occurs when a person gets every year. This is a national health stuck by the force of the water and safety problem that we must work rushing through drains at the to get fixed,” Inez Tenenbaum, chair - bottom of pools. Three- man of the U.S. Consumer Product fourths of those trapped were Safety Commission, said. under 16. The 2013 drowning and entrap - “Minority populations be - ment reports were released last month tween the ages of 5 and 14 are at a press conference at the William H. three times more likely to Rumsey Aquatic Center by the U.S. drown than white children in Consumer Product Safety Commission the same age range,” Rep. during the “First Splash” event spon - Debbie Wasserman Schultz, sored by the Pool Safely campaign. D-Fla., said, citing statistics Approximately 5,100 pool or spa- compiled by U.S.A. Swimming related injuries occur each year involv - from media reports. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. ing children younger than 15. Some of The same report found those injured require life-long medical that 70 percent of African- Hispanic children do not know how to port. care, resulting in millions of dollars in American children and 60 percent of swim. Forty percent of white children Organizations such as the Red do not know how to swim. Cross, YMCA, Abbey’s Hope and the Tenenbaum cited the lack of ac - Josh Project provide free or low-cost cess minority groups have to swimming swimming lessons to parents and chil - lessons as the problem. dren nationwide. Wasserman Schultz sponsored the “Our overall goal is to reduce the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa number of child drowning across the Safety Act, country by which became ‘Minority populations training law in 2007, children making it the to swim first federal ages 5-14 are three times and edu - pool and spa cating par - safety law. The more likely to drown.’ ents on law established the critical a federal swimming pool and spa drain importance of supervising children in cover standard and other safety meas - and near the water,” Wasserman ures for pools nationwide. Schultz said. Last year, Florida, Texas and Cali - fornia had the highest number of pool Goggles were symbolically placed in a pool. and spa deaths in children up to age 14, according to the U.S. Swimming re -

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Campus News | Summer 2013 | Page 12 Landing your first professional job

Julia Motis ways that convey value. Describing how ents; show them. image, and marketing your greatness to Campus News you applied what you learned in col - “If you say you’re a good commu - others. It also includes the fact that you lege will definitely elevate your status nicator or you’re comfortable with need to network, talk to people, and Finding a job is not as easy as in the mind of the employer. technology, you have to have proof,” get the word out about your skills and handing in a resume and waiting to be “While they may have been small says Wainwright. your interest in working,” explains called for an interview. In this competi - cogs in the wheel – for example, deliv - Both she and Mattson suggest Wainwright, who learned about the tive market, employers are seeking the ering pizzas or answering the telephone bringing several concrete examples that idea from Career Coach and Author most skilled and confident people to – emphasizing an awareness of overall demonstrate, specifically, how your Jay Block. fill their open positions. How do you operations is bound to make a good skills enhanced a company, service or Campaign materials can include gain this confidence? For recent gradu - impression,” Mattson shares. product. The key is to focus on results your resume, online presence and pro - ates new to the professional job scene, Also, you must come to the inter - and accomplishments. files, and portfolio, among other mate - there are a few things to keep in mind. view prepared. Tara Wainwright, Both career service professionals rials. First, start sooner rather than later. Perkins/KEYS Advisor at the College, also stress the importance of highlight - “It’s almost like a dating website Nina Mattson, Coordinator of Career says it is important to know the ins and ing contemporary skills, especially pro - profile; you are putting together your Services at Montgomery County Com - outs of a company before you even set ficiency with emerging technologies description for someone to be inter - munity College, emphasizes the impor - foot in the interview office. and social media. ested in you!” shares Wainwright. tance of getting work experience “It’s embarrassing if you know Most importantly, new jobseekers She also points out that the during college. In other words, don’t nothing about the place you’re apply - need to have a positive attitude! Wain - process of looking for a job is a skill- wait until you have a degree to put ing to,” hints Wainwright. wright suggests that instead of looking set in itself – one that none of us is those skills you are learning into ac - By taking the time to research, you at this process as a “job search,” con - taught. tion. can tailor your interview responses to sider it your personal “campaign.” “New job seekers need to learn the In resumes, as well as during job better communicate how your skills, “Using the term ‘campaign’ brings necessary skills to conduct a successful interviews, Mattson encourages recent talents and values are a match for the to light the importance of branding campaign. On-the-job skills are not grads to interpret past experiences in company. But don’t just list your tal - yourself, creating your professional enough,” she says.

Four Rockland CC employees get Chancellor’s Awards Four Rockland Community College employees re - major role in maintaining the College Records Storage sor/Chair, Business and Information Technology Divi - ceived the SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence Area by devising a system for retrieving records in a sion, has been teaching at RCC since 1991. She has from Dr. Nancy L. Zimpher, Chancellor of the State timely manner. taught 23 different courses, most of which she also devel - University of New York system and were recognized at oped or updated. An early advocate in utilizing internet RCC’s Commencement on May 19. Excellence in Faculty Service: technology for education, she created RCC’s first online Melanie Rie, PhD of Old Tappan, NJ, Assistant Business course in 2000 and is a certified Quality Mat - Excellence in Classified Service: Professor/Chair, Science, joined RCC as an instructor in ters peer reviewer for online courses. Her student evalu - William (Bill) J. Carroll of Pearl River, Mail Clerk, 2007, teaching all areas of biology. With over 15 years of ations praise the individual attention she devotes to each is an RCC graduate and has been a dedicated member research in environmental toxicology, Dr. Rie co-devel - student and Roche helps them create e-portfolios, use of the college community for 25 years. When faculty and oped the first Environmental Science degree available in simulations, and engage in experiential learning. She staff arrive at work in the morning, they can be sure of Rockland County. She also developed a new course in earned a BBA in Business Education from Pace Univer - one thing—their mail will be waiting for them. Carroll ar - General Ecology and an interdisciplinary environmental sity, and an MA in Business Education from New York rives earlier than scheduled to make sure of it, and will presentation for all anatomy and physiology courses. Dr. University. stay late if Rie is a committed environmental scientist and educator. necessary. She is co-advisor of the student Environmental Club, of - Excellence in Professional Service: His service fers public lectures about the effects of contamination on Doreen Zarcone of Tallman, Events Coordinator, goes beyond wildlife and human health, and has been interviewed by has been organizing events and promoting RCC in a vari - delivering CBS news regarding elevated rates of thyroid cancer in ety of ways since 1996. For the past five years, Zarcone mail—he’s the County. Dr. Rie earned a BA and PhD in Biology has focused on creating and organizing events at RCC. often seen from Boston University and was awarded the Alden To introduce middle and high school students to the col - helping staff Macchi Award for Excellence in Endocrinology and Re - lege experience she created “A Day in College Life,” an move boxes productive Biology. She received an NIH post-doctoral event where she leads student groups on their visit to and furniture Research Fellowship to assess the effects of hormones campus. She organized a Foreign Language Conference, in their of - on cancer markers in the male reproductive system, and an Educational Summit, and a STEM Conference for fices and di - has co-authored 14 publications and abstracts. 7th/8th grade girls. Zarcone earned an AAS in Business recting lost from RCC, a BS in Marketing from Ramapo College, students. He Excellence in Teaching: and an MS in Human Resource Management from the played a Catherine M. Roche of Waldwick, NJ, Profes - New Jersey Institute of Technology. Dr. Melanie Rie An end-of-semester ‘thank you’ to my students David L. Podos applications. tion. Your sacrifice to learn new knowl - questions and challenges the status Mohawk Valley CC Regardless of my connection or ab - edge and skills is so desperately quo, without it we would never move sence of, I thank every student on their needed in our world today. Perhaps forward, never take risks, never discov - As each semester comes to an end last day as they hand in their final you will be the new scientist who dis - ery our true potential. I often find myself dealing with a num - exams and papers, how I appreciate covers a cure for epilepsy or AIDS or • Thank you for thought-pro - ber of sentiments. I usually make some that they took my class, and wish them Alzheimer’s. Perhaps you will have a voking discussions in my classroom, deep connections with at least several well. Yes, even the ones that gave me significant impact on economics or and having the courage to speak your of my students throughout the semes - heartburn, were a pain in my butt and management with innovative theories mind. ter. Many of them I have worked with always came in ten minutes late. Some that shift the paradigm of how we do Thank you for the brief moment in in my advisement capacity so when I will see again in the Fall semester. business to a more fairer, effective, effi - your life that I had for fifteen weeks. I they come into my class I have a The truth is, none of us, faculty, cient and sustainable system. Maybe hope I served you well, and thank you deeper understanding of the numerous staff, and administration, would be you will take your degree and go to for making me a better adviser, instruc - moving parts that they are dealing with. here without the students. We are all work for the many social services or - tor and person. For others, I find it is their last semes - here to serve them each in our own ganizations that are found in every city Have a great summer!!! ter and they are moving onto a four way and capacity. So, at the risk of throughout this country and work to year school. Some will ask me for a let - sounding to overly sentimental and make someone’s life a little better. ter of reference if they are seeking demonstrative here is my list of thanks. • Thank you for your youthful work, others will ask for my reference • Thank you for taking the time exuberance and your youthful rebel - so they can put it on their admissions to choose a pathway of higher educa - liousness nature, which constantly asks

Campus News | Summer 2013 | Page 13 ‘Freshman 15’ weight gain (cont. from cover) (Usually Bud Light, Budweiser, etc…) of it as well, even if they are not hun - drinking soda for lunch and dinner, re - a lap or two around campus and get contain anywhere from 55 to 146 calo - gry. place that with a glass of lemon water. some sun! ries. When the body is stressed and put Staying active is also another key Motivation is key, though, if you So let’s say you drink six beers at under pressure, it releases adrenaline way to prevent weight gain. Most uni - want to keep the weight off. If you find 55 calories each, that’s 330 calories in and cortisol, which has been proven to versities have a gym; if yours does take yourself having a hard time going to one night on top of what you have al - slow down the gym alone, see if you can find a ready consumed throughout that day’s the body’s gym partner who will keep you moti - span. Lets say you drink something a metabolism. Nutritionists say one of the vated with a positive attitude. little bit heavier such as Bud Light Plat - A study that Lastly nutritionists say one of the inum with each bottle 137 calories — took place easiest ways to cut back on easiest ways to cut back on calories is most people are looking at anywhere at the Uni - to watch your alcohol intake. They from 800 calories to over 1500, that’s versity of state if dancing is an option get up and about half of your days caloric intake! Southern calories is to limit alcohol. bust a move and burn off a few calo - While drinking alcohol, students are California ries, and if dancing is prohibited then more likely to turn to greasy fast foods. by Jatturong try and drink a light beer. Remember Stress is also another culprit during R. Wichianson that showed the direct advantage of that. You don’t have to the “Freshman 15” is something that the journey of the “Freshman 15.” relationship between late night snack - become a gym rat but even 20 to 30 can be completely avoided, just keep in Maybe you forgot about a paper that’s ing (also known as Night Eating Syn - minutes twice a week will help you. If mind to stay active, live stress free, and due the next day, or maybe it’s drome) and stress. The study showed your school does not have a gym, take try not to consume too much alcohol. midterm/finals week. Whichever the that the students who had case, maybe students stress out over the higher levels of stress things like these and resort to “com - were more likely to suffer fort” foods to help them feel better. from Night Eating Syn - Comfort foods are things such as drome. doughnuts, fast food, burritos, chips, The “Freshman 15” is cookies — anything that tastes good and completely avoidable. is remotely bad for you. When stu - Changing things in your dents stress not only do that eat bad daily routine is a great way foods but they also eat large quantities to start off. Instead of

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Silvia Rodriguez Immigration Studies, Scripps Howard Foundation Wire supports less immi - gration in the U.S. Growing up in the United States, He countered Luis Miranda did not know he was an Miranda’s point of undocumented immigrant until years viewing immigration after he and his family had left Colom - law through the eyes bia. of the immigrants “It wasn’t until later when I tried to themselves, arguing join the Civil Air Patrol … that I realized that those examples that I didn’t have a Social Security num - can be used to illus - ber. And that’s when it dawned on me trate a broader story what being undocumented actually but should not be - meant,” said Miranda, who was 11 years come the story them - old when he found out. selves. 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Campus News | Summer 2013 | Page 15 What you should give up before you graduate

Darren Johnson bate as to whether pot should be legal or Campus News not, or whether it is “safer” than drink - ing, and the vast majority of today’s pro - Over the years working in colleges, I fessionals at least took a puff or two in have seen many students transform. The college. Sure, some may even do so ones who graduate on time — and go today. But if you find that you do a lot of onto decent careers — transformed the pot smoking, you should start winding most between freshman and senior years. that down. Maybe wean yourself to once They became adults and were a lot more a week, and then once a month and then polished by the time they got to the stage never. While there always are exceptions to get their degrees. to the rule, in my vast experience as a Other students, not so much. Some past student and educator, I’ve found students fail to adapt while in college; students who live the pot lifestyle to grow they are less open to change. Their increasingly less focused and less moti - thinking remains rigid, they don’t de - vated over time. I had a friend in college velop a love for the subject matter. It’s who even grew his own plants. He came just taking tests for them. Such students from a prestigious high school. His GPA are less likely to graduate, or, if they do, seemed to slip a point from his freshman they are less likely to get a decent job to sophomore year, and then another after. The kind of job that one loves. point in his junior year. He didn’t make Below is a straightforward checklist it to his senior year. He self-destructed. of what you should work on eliminating, Sure, he was a fun and affable guy, but so or at least reducing, before you go onto a what? When I was a student, it was evi - career. Take this time in college to per - dent that the students who smoked the fect yourself. And try to fall in love with most were not the ones who made it with at least one subject during these years. me to the graduation stage at the end. Make it your mission. And who knows if you’ll get caught with pot by a cop? The more you do it, the Binge Drinking higher your odds. And that stain on your I’m not going to go into a rant as to record could prevent you from getting a whether you should drink or not, but in large number of jobs down the road, the real world, successful people don’t whether pot is eventually legalized or reer pursuits — for example, if your learn Your Local Accent binge drink in the way some college stu - not. And forget even harder drugs. Photoshop or theater in your spare time, This may take a few years, but con - dents do. They may get seriously buzzed, What’s with all this self-pleasure, any - which could help you improve your sciously try to neutralize the way you even drunk, but not in a frat-house kind way? Look to help others. That’s what computer skills or sales/speaking ability. speak a bit. There will always be a hint of of way. The professional adult (who adults do. Hobbies should not include collecting where you came from in your voice, but, chooses to imbibe) will choose wine or toys and the like or playing cards and perhaps subconsciously, people may hard liquor, not funnels of beer, wine Sleeping Late role playing games. You had the chance trust you less if your accent is strong. coolers or shot after shot. The profes - You may as well start working on to do that when you were 13. You’re an Think of how you may feel when you sional adult will sip, not guzzle. He or your biorhythms. Most of the white-col - adult now, and there are only so many hear someone with an over-the-top she will come up with an exit strategy for lar jobs you will pursue after college will hours in the day. Spare time should be Southern accent. Your guard is up, admit a party, as not to embarrass oneself. He start at 8 or 9 a.m., meaning you may spent on self-improvement. it. Even in the South, the educated peo - or she will also avoid drunk driving. If have to get up at 6 or 7 a.m. to get ready ple speak with less of a pronounced ac - you do partake in drinking, do it right. and commute. No more watching late- Cigarettes cent than the yokels. Your night talk shows. Force yourself to go to Being a smoker, especially in the Queens/Brooklyn/Boston/Upstate/Long sleep by 11 Northeast, where the lowest percentage Island/etc. accent may work if you plan p.m. The of people in the country partake, says to to exist locally your whole life. But if a Pot, binge drinking, video workforce an employer: “This is someone with no high-end career is your ultimate goal, that isn’t college — self-discipline.” And smoking has be - may require moving to multiple cities games, dumb hobbies, online and if you are come so rare in the white collar world, over time. When I first got to a Long Is - constantly non-smokers can smell it on you. That land college after having lived my whole rants and your local accent. going into whiff could kibosh you in an interview. life deep Upstate, the other students work with less Besides, are you going to be the one made fun of the way I spoke. The word than optimum standing outside your office building on a “hick” was even used. Eventually, my Dance Music sleep time (7-9 hours), it will become ap - -5 degree day, hunched over, watching speaking pattern evened out, and, I have Really assess the music you listen to. parent after a while. Most of your super - traffic go by, just to get your nicotine fix? to admit, when I go back to my old Truly compare it to past generations of visors will be older and older people just End it now before the smokes really get a hometown, some of the more gooberish music. Your bosses will not like most biologically require less sleep. They will hold of you. people do sound dumb. Enunciate. Hav - current music, and they may be well be running circles around your tired ass! ing a more neutral, newscaster way of versed in music of the 1990s, 1980s and Also, older staff may have children, so Social Media public speech will just make transitions prior. You should have a working knowl - they are used to going to bed early and This may sound strange in the era of easier for you when you move on. edge of all of the bands that played at the waking up early because of that. Don’t apps, but ease up on the Facebook, Twit - original Woodstock. This event hap - handicap yourself because you can’t get ter, etc. You can only lose by being too Internet News pened before I was born, too, but I can used to being “on” first thing in the prolific on such sites. Potential employ - Read a real newspaper. The Internet freely admit that the era from 1965-75 morning. ers do look at what you do on these sites. is still too free-wheeling when it comes to may be the best ever in rock music. It’s No one wants to hire a public diarist. news. A serious story on Yahoo! News, OK if you like Lady Gaga and Rihanna, Videogames And what’s the point of all that posting, for example, could be next to a story on but at least have some respect and It may be time to put away the anyway? Just keep a barebones presence “how to lose your muffin top.” It is easy knowledge of the music that came before PlayStation. You might have realized al - on these sites. Only post items you to get distracted or lost while clicking them. ready if you are playing virtual games that wouldn’t mind your grandmother read - around “news” sites. But a paper newspa - many of your opponents are kids. Adults ing. (Or create a fake account to rant!) per puts the stories in a certain order. Sneakers generally don’t play video games, not go- Professional adults are well versed in cur - Sneakers are for weekends and the getter adults, anyway. If you have babies, Clothes off the Rack rent events, and a print newspaper is the gym, and that’s about it. Start wearing ac - you will be able to shake off the rust and Younger employees often have that most efficient way to be up to date on tual shoes to class to get used to that feel. play videogames with them; say in 10-15 look of having clothing that is “off the what’s really happening in the world. You could start with some leather years or so. rack.” It may not fit just right. See a tai - This will make you a better conversation - Sketchers or similar. No sandals or work lor/seamstress and get at least one outfit alist, too, an important skill in profes - boots, either. Maybe wearing better Hobbies that has taste and sophistication; this sional networking. Be seen walking the shoes will help your dating prospects, as Any “hobby” you may have should would be for important meetings, includ - hallways with a New York Times or Wall well. either assist others — say activist pursuits, ing a job interview. Once hired, then you Street Journal tucked under your arm such as helping the environment, poli - could wear the lesser outfits. and the high ups, who are generally Pot (and all drugs, for that matter) tics, the poor, etc. — or helping your ca - older, will respect you. I don’t want to get into the whole de -

Campus News | Summer 2013 | Page 16 Google exec says access will change world Ja’Kari Taylor Telecommunication Union, 2.7 billion a model where Scripps Howard Foundation Wire of the 7 billion people on Earth are on - states will be line. But the number of cell phone ac - transformed by In the next decade, the number of counts is 6.8 billion. this, that the people with access to the Internet is ex - The discussion covered topics in - dictators in par - pected to rise dramatically, giving more cluding global interconnectedness and ticular will face power to citizens in developing nations, the coming digital revolution. some pretty sig - two Google executives say. Global connectivity has its pros nificant chal - “Within five to 10 years, another and cons: it could allow developing lenges. It’s five-ish-billion people are going to join countries access to the world and it overall good, the conversation, join the Internet, with could be used as an aid to cyber war - but a lot of smartphones,” Eric Schmidt, executive fare. things could chairman of Google, said. “This im - During their trip to North Korea, happen along pact, which we don’t focus very much meeting with the country’s equivalent the way,” on in the United States, will have huge of the U.S. secretary of state, Schmidt Schmidt said. and far-reaching implications on our said, “It was very clear to us, in all of Cohen said foreign policy, on how the world our travels, that the elites in these the millennial works, on economic growth, and on countries reserve open Internet and generation has a globalization.” full access to information for them - comparative ad - Schmidt spoke recently at an event selves, regardless to how they treat vantage and is sponsored by the Atlantic Exchange their citizens.” better suited to about a book he wrote with Jared They described this as a form of exercise good Cohen, director and founder of digital corruption. judgment with the information ‘Elites in many countries reserve “In power that the importance of online privacy, secu - the comes with the Internet. rity and data permanence years before open Internet for themselves.’ case of “What’s unique to your genera - they talk to them about sex,” Cohen North tion, relative to every other generation said. Korea, above you is, every single one of you The understanding and use of Google Ideas. we learned that there are millions of will know more about technology and technology comes easily to the millen - Their New York Times best-selling phones that are 3G capable. They just understand more about technology cul - nial generation but for older genera - book, “The New Digital Age: Reshap - haven’t turned data on,” Cohen said. turally than whomever you work for,” tions and developing countries this ing the Future of People, Nations and He was an adviser to secretaries of Cohen said in an interview after the isn’t an easy task. Business,” answers questions about the state Condoleezza Rice and Hillary program. This is the authors’ second collab - digital future, using research from their Clinton and has traveled around the They encouraged parents to start oration, after “The Digital Disruption: travels and meetings with world leaders world, including visits to Iran, Lebanon having a conversation with their chil - Connectivity and the Diffusion of and activists. and Syria, to conduct research for the dren about the Internet. Power.” According to a February report book. “In the U.S., parents, we argue, are from the United Nation’s International “In our research, we concluded on going to have to talk to their kids about

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Campus News | Summer 2013 | Page 17 An open letter to the student who gave up

Darren Johnson the “dream killer” with a chip on my have had a 65.45 and barely passed the college so much that they never want to shoulder, holding up some invisible class. If you really came on strong and finish? They, perhaps subconsciously, Campus News standards of “the academy.” did, say, work in the 90s for those final fade out on purpose, just to make the Dear Online Student X: As most of the classes I teach have modules, you could have mustered a game last a bit longer. Put off graduat - What happened to you? You prerequisite courses that must have C. Any student who gets a C in my ing – and thereby finding a serious job posted an interesting black and white been passed, I assume the students class learned something useful about – yet another year? headshot of yourself for you profile. have been vetted. If you come to class, the subject matter. They didn’t em - Occasionally, I will get into good You have on the Buddy Holly glasses do the work, and show ernest improve - brace the subject matter as they should enough shape to run 5K races. The and are looking away from the camera, ment, you are almost assured of pass - have, but they at least showed that they winners run at least twice as fast as me. a big mane of hair spiraling toward the ing my classes. A third of you may were capable. I get passed by kids, senior citizens, sun. It looks like the cover shot from a even get As and A minuses. A C is not an A, but at least it’s you name it. But that’s not the point. new wave album, circa 1983. Totally But up to a third of you will also credit and you could move on. Lots of The point is that I create a goal for my - cool. fail, like students get self – not some goal that the other run - I broke my online Communica - you, Stu - ‘I’ve seen this over the Cs. Guess ners think I should have – and finish to tions course into 15 modules; one for dent X. what, if you the best of my ability. Maybe my goal each week. You scored “Excellent” in And the get Cs in was 30 minutes. Maybe I did not suc - the first module, a general introduc - problem years -- the case of the every class, ceed. But I don’t just back off at mile tion, and then skipped the second and isn’t me, it’s and maybe two when I see my time is over 20 at fourth modules, but came back strong you. weak finisher.’ the occa - that point. I forge on. One never in modules five (93% score) through I’ve sional B in knows if a wind will pick up behind my nine (another 93%!), then just vanished seen this phenomenon a lot over the your major, most colleges will let you back! from modules 10 through 15. years – the case of the weak finisher. graduate. And most employers really Student X, whatever you do, TRY, I probably would have given you a Submitting my grades this past May, I could not care less about your GPA. and if plan A is not working, go to plan “C” if you at least sent me an email noticed that several students finished They just want to know that you met a B (or plan C minus, even), but, for note – even if it were the cliched BS poorly. There’s really no excuse. challenge — graduated — and suc - your future courses, please, don’t wimp about a grandmother dying (mine died Sometimes I will keep a module open ceeded. out again. several times in college) – and came two or three weeks. There is plenty of But now you, Student X, will have back in, say, week 12 with some strong time to get the work done, though I do to take this course again, wasting more work, finishing well. Us more seasoned take off points for lateness. Still, that’s time. Will you get your four-year de - Besides writing for newspapers, professors tend to grow a level of ac - better than taking a zero. gree in five years? Six years? Ever? Darren Johnson has consistently ad - ceptance over time. We know you’re In doing final grades, I take off Why did you implode? junct taught writing, journalism and likely lying, but we’re not going to call points for every two missed modules. It Of course, Student X, there were communications for a number of col - the district attorney about it. We send works out to 10 points for every two worse students than you. Some did the leges in New York State since 1997. our condolences and help you get back modules missed. You, Student X, first two or three modules and then He can be reached at editor@campus- up to speed. Since I have had a child missed eight modules, for a 40 point disappeared for good. But you were news.org. myself, who now is a few years away loss. Considering you were at 85.45 (I doing better than that. Victory could from college, I’ve gotten softer with the love how BlackBoard is so concise), have been had. Is it that some students grading. That, and students have gotten that dropped you to a 45.45. If you don’t want to bother unless their ego is a bit more fragile. I’m not going to be had rallied and at least did 85.45 work soothed with an A? A C isn’t good for the last four modules, you would enough. Is it that some students like Carole King honored very first solo album by a Imari Williams female artist to reach Dia - Scripps Howard Foundation Wire mond status, meaning it The White House and its celebrity guests sold more than 10 million shook things up on a recent Wednesday night as copies. It was the first they rocked out to Carole Kings’ greatest hits. album by a female artist to President Barack Obama and first lady win all the top Grammy Michelle Obama honored the singer-songwriter in awards for record, song an East Room concert for the 2013 Library of Con - and album of the year, gress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. along with the Grammy It was a star-studded night, with performances for best pop vocal per - by James Taylor, Gloria Estefan, Billy Joel, Jesse formance. And as one of McCartney, Emeli Sande and Trisha Yearwood. the best-selling albums of King is the latest in the “In Performance at the all time, it cemented Car - White House” series, created to showcase the rich ole’s status as one of the fabric of American culture in the setting of the na - most influential singer- tion’s home. songwriters that America King, the first woman to win the Gershwin has ever seen,” Obama Prize, follows in the footsteps of Stevie Wonder, said. Paul McCartney and the songwriting team of Burt The Gershwin Prize Bacharach and Hal David. winner accepted the award Before performing an acoustic rendition of on behalf of herself and “Up on the Roof,” Taylor expressed his love of others who contributed to “You’ve Got a Friend.” her success. “That song has carried me around the world “First of all, I want to say some of the songs I fifth recipient and first woman, as has been stated,” and to the White House tonight,” Taylor said. wrote myself. Others I wrote with co-writers, in - King said. “I can’t say it enough. I am so excited.” Obama drew laughter from the crowd as he cluding Gerry Goffin, Tony Stern and David The crowd warmly welcomed a smiling King, noted how much the first lady’s mother, Marian Palmer. I accept this award on behalf of them as who launched into a medley of “Jazzman,” “I Be - Robinson, was enjoying the music. well,” King, 71, said. lieve in Loving You,” “I Feel the Earth Move” and, “I have to say that as the podium came out, King, who began writing songs as a teenager, with Taylor, “You’ve Got a Friend.” which meant that was my cue, my mother-in-law said she appreciated being a part of American his - The crowd sang along. said, ‘Oh, shoot.’ True story. … She was getting tory. The concert was broadcast May 28 on most into the music. Welcome to the White House “I am so thankful to live in this country, where PBS stations and is available on demand in some everybody,” Obama said. reading history and the arts were valued so much in areas. Obama praised King’s 1971 hit album. the 1800s that the American people and the elected “Her album ‘Tapestry’ struck a chord with a government created a national library. I’m honored whole new legion of fans, including me. 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Campus News | Summer 2013 | Page 18 Two biopics with all-star casts and fond farewells Darren Johnson tally misunderstood by Campus News many critics. “Man on the Moon” Before the end of his life in 1984, also brings together the knowing he was dying of cancer, “Taxi” cast to recreate a comedic tsunami Andy Kaufman did a real life scene where sold out show at Carnegie Hall, replete Kaufman’s alter ego char - with the Rockettes and Mormon Tab - acter, vulgar lounge ernacle Choir, and took all of the pa - singer Tony Clifton, trons, via bus, to a local school for shows up on set, with two cookies and milk. hookers, and wrecks the Just before he died of AIDS in place. The genius of 1987, over-the-top pianist Liberace did Kaufman was blurring the a series of sold-out shows at Radio City lines between reality and Music Hall, smashing attendance the bizarre. records at the beloved venue. Both of these performers stood During his Carnegie out and helped define the outrageous Hall show, he ushers on - entertainment of the 1970s. They stage an older woman headlined Vegas and New York and re - who he says starred in an ally blossomed in the TV of the era, old black and white where variety shows would regularly movie a long while ago. break away for “something completely He shows a clip of the different.” old film and encourages And now each of these one-of-a- her to do the dance she kind performers has a new life – with had done on screen. She Michael Douglas as Liberace. biopics of Kaufman on Netflix (“Man complies, but has a heart on the Moon”) and Liberace (“Behind attack. Kaufman calls for the Candelabra”) on HBO. And both a doctor. After much tor – thought Thorson was 16 when as flamboyant homosexuals; add Scott feature full and poignant portraits of time trying to revive the woman, the they met and dumped by age 24 when Bakula to the mix, sporting a 1970s two men who often played caricatures doctor looks away sullenly and places a Liberace, in his 60s, started eying a ’stache. Another breakout perform - of themselves; a complicated feat for a cover over her face. The audience new boyish looking teen. Damon, 42, ance comes from Rob Lowe, playing film. gasps. Then there is a long silence. does, however, capture that youthful the stoned-out plastic surgeon who is Jim Carrey seems to get a bad rap Kaufman comes back onstage in an In - essence, hired to in the blogosphere. The general con - dian headdress and does a dance, the and, con - make Thor - sensus is that he is not funny and his woman comes back to life, the Mor - sidering son look films suck. man Tabernacle there are like a young But I think Choir appears from some sex - Liberace, at he is just Movies on HBO up above, singing ual Liberace’s misunder - “Alajuela!” and the scenes in insistence. stood. He and Netflix have a Rockettes come out this is not a can-canning as the au - movie, it Both main - similar format. dience is whipped up would have been wrong to cast a much “Man on the Moon” and “Behind the stream into a frenzy. It’s the younger actor (though the reality of it is Candelabra” do fantastic jobs of cap - comedic ultimate act of show - creepy). turing the essence of two very unique actor; perhaps he was miscast in such manship, and the best way for Kauf - Douglas also is convincing as Lee personalities hidden under tough roles (“Liar, Liar,” “Bruce Almighty”), man to go out. and thus made them more painful to Liberace, and we do get an inside look shells, who would be hard to figure out at the man behind not only the cande - just based on their respective bodies of watch. But I think he had killer per - At the end of “Behind the Cande - labra and sequined piano but also the work. These movies add to their lega - formances in the first “Ace Ventura: labra,” a film directed superbly by toupee and overbearing mother. cies by making them more real. Pet Detective” movie along with Steven Soderbergh, Liberace seemingly It is fun seeing straight actors who “Dumb and Dumber,” and even less floats into the clouds, at least on a set usually play stereotypically manly roles heralded movies, such as “Eternal Sun - on stage, where there is a sparkling shine of the Spotless Mind,” not quite piano; he plays, happily, as dancers a comedy, and, my favorite of these can-can all around him. His New York listed, “The Cable Guy,” which only shows at the end of his life featured the has a 54% fresh rating on rottentoma - same fanfare. And, Liberace is no toes. Tony Clifton. So it makes sense that Carrey “Candelabra,” produced by and would play Kaufman, whose taste was now playing on HBO, is well put to - not in the mainstream (and the fact gether with an all-star cast – most no - that he had mainstream success – play - tably Michael Douglas playing Liberace ing Latka on “Taxi” – tormented him). and Matt Damon playing his love inter - “Man in the Moon,” while just scoring est, Scott Thorson. a 63% fresh rating, channels Kaufman While Liberace’s autobiographical perfectly and is a film I have seen at books were mostly PR bunk – he tried least a half a dozen times. The film, di - to maintain an image as a straight man, rected earnestly by Milos Foreman, is as most of his fans were older, straight charming and seems to cover Kauf - women (“How do they not know?” the man’s whole career, much like the Thorson character wonders) – the Carnegie Hall show, from his start movie is based the book “Behind the doing Elvis and “Foreign Man” impres - Candelabra: My Life With Liberace” sions in smoky clubs (perhaps how he, by Thorson. a nonsmoker, got lung cancer), to find - While the book, published way ing a co-writer, Bob Zmuda, and agent, back in 1988, did not do great busi - played by Danny DeVito (also of ness, it finally resulted in this excellent “Taxi”), “Saturday Night Live,” to turn - adaptation. Reportedly, Thorson is still ing Foreign Man into Latka for main - alive, though ill and in jail. At least he stream TV, to his college and Vegas will get to see his story told. appearances to his strange foray into The movie mostly focuses on the wrestling, first women, and then profes - gay relationship, though is a bit softer sional wrestler Jerry Lawler. This film in one facet of that relationship and Jim Carrey in ‘Man on the Moon.’ covers a lot of ground and has been to - doesn’t brand Liberace quite a preda -

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