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2 By YVONNE WOOD The saying “When it rains it pours.” perfectly fi ts this Monday morning for me. As I watch the rain washing down in buckets outside of Thurston Hall, all the events of the past few months seem to be washing over my mind simultaneously. I’m thinking, how does one overcome a problem, when the problem seems Letter From The Editor to be too many problems? I hope the worst of the Delhi Flu has fi nally passed by campus. At least classes seem fuller again and there’s less of a struggle to hear lectures over hacking and coughing. Students are slowly adjusting to the many changes that have come with the closing of Farrell Hall. Thurston has formed a small yet comfortable temporary hive for the hub of student activities business. I for one am enjoying the new Campus Voice offi ce and the convenience it brings to the process of journalism. The submission in student writing MARCH 2009 has increased recently. I hope all students are aware that you do not have to be a staff member to write for our student newspaper. All you need is the desire to write and/or a good eye for photography. If you’re interested be sure to contact our staff at: campusvoice@delhi.edu Continued Gushing Over Obama for State of the Union By Sylvania Yip On Tuesday, February 24th, President Barack Obama addressed Congress and the nation about the distressed state that we are in and how we will recover. The President’s tone was optimistic, but also wary and understanding. He stated some specifi c goals to be achieved from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (stimulus package). Here are some numbers: Over the next two years, the recovery plan will create 3.5 million jobs (90% in the private sector), 95% of working households will receive a tax cut beginning April 1st (while the tax break will end for the richest 2%), and families struggling with tuition will receive a $2,500 tax credit for all four years of college. By Andrew Burns For those who don’t know, recently on YouTube 30,000 videos werdropped due to copyright issues. As well as many profi les having been deleted. Let’s Start with YouTube’s logo, what does it say? YOUTUBE broadcast yourself. Many others like myself have done just that. I am operating two different profi les in an effort to try and beat the system along with other YouTuber’s. One is bullshitman22 and the other is BurnsyRules (my original profi le). Personally I’m just going to come right out and say it. Because of what YouTube is doing many videos get straight up ruined with “mandatory music” or become silenced and are no longer available to the public. This is all a bunch of B.S. The week of March 16th – 20th the brothers and sisters of Zeta Phi Omega will be holding a “Support Our Troops Fundraiser”. The Fundraiser will be held from the hours of 10am -4pm in Sanford Hall lobby. Any Proceeds made from the fundraiser will cover overseas shipping There were three things that the President cited as areas critical to our economic future: energy, healthcare, and education. Here are some highlights from all areas. Energy Goals: 1. double our supply of renewable energy in the next three years. 2. Ask Congress to place a market-based cap on carbon pollution 3. invest $15 billion per year to develop alternative energy technologies. Healthcare: Reform can’t wait! We will invest in electronic health records that will reduce errors, lower cost, and save lives. Education: This part of his speech was most moving to me. In the beginning of Obama’s speech, he describes the economy, in part as “the college acceptance letter your child had to put back in the envelope.” He later gives some sober facts about education in our country. Only half of our citizens have a high school diploma, half of the students who begin college never fi nish, and the US has one of the biggest dropout rates of all industrialized nations. He wants change in all parts and aspects of our education problem, from the education system (I was thinking Michelle Rhee.), to the student, to the parents. He encouraged every citizen to take on at least one year or more of higher education or career training and he promised those serving their community and country that they will The Great YouTube Copyright Debate When a video is cited for copyright issues the user has a choice. They can either replace the soundtrack to their video or it can be replaced with music that YouTube has dubbed worthy. A video I used to watch called Tail of the Dragon on Deals Gap was posted by user Jasondd23; it has unfortunately had this problem. In my opinion You- Tube should take the music and throw it out. How are we supposed to “broadcast ourselves” if we are the ones who can’t even use a song simply because we like it? From my research I have found out that You- Tube itself is the reason why videos are being shut down. The people behind YouTube are too poor to let the user profi les use the songs in their videos. Thanks to Steven Lillie, I have found out that there are 3 different performance agencies. They are ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. Now you can’t sign up with all three but it doesn’t really matter, you’ll get paid no matter what. When a song is played on the radio a number of times it is tallied up and these organizations charge a fee for playing the songs. Now with music being played on the internet it was easy to get away with it and not have to pay the money to the copy right agencies. With the way the economy is today the copyright agencies are catching up with YouTube and other sites. “Everyone wants the cut and YouTube isn’t willing to give it up” (Steven Lillie). So what do the main folks in charge of YouTube do? They take it out on all the people that make fan videos and ignore the profi les with full seasons of a ZPO Fundraises for The Troops By Jennifer Rooker, Zeta Phi Omega Community Service Director costs or will be used to buy items which are needed but were not collected. Zeta Phi omega will be selling Yellow Support Our Troops Ribbons for a dollar along with collecting change people are willing to donate. We will also be collecting any items on the list below to be shipped over seas to several different military bases. If your short on cash but still want to show your support for the troops over seas please feel free to write letters and/ or create cards for up coming holidays. Try to include things about the local area like weather and such afford a higher education. When he said, “...dropping out of high school is no longer an option. It’s not just quitting on yourself, it’s quitting on your country,” Congress rose to a unanimous standing ovation. The rest of his speech was on how to cut the defi cit, our war situation (with a statement about how he will responsibly end the war in Iraq and forge a new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan), and three anecdotes on positive change. His mantra toward the end was “We are not quitters.” Hopefully, Obama’s confi dence, optimism, and action will translate to America’s rise again. television series. The hardest thing to understand is why YouTube can’t suck it up and pay the royalties. Most of the videos that end up on most watched are either promoted videos or music videos. So I say come on YouTube stop attacking the people that are making videos for fun and go after the profi les that are really stealing the music! Let us be, and leave our videos alone. “We are young, but we have heart, born in this world as it all falls apart, we are strong but we don’t belong, Born in this world as it all falls apart”. Hollywood Undead- Young Find me on YouTube and hear what I have to say if you agree I thank you. to make them feel at home. Write to them as a friend to show them you really care. We hope to see many faces stop by our table and show there support for our troops.
MARCH 2009 3 C R A Z Y G E O R G E ’ S R A N T I couldn’t care less, but I do want you to speak properly! By George Udovich We’ve been communicating all of our lives, but yet some people do not speak properly, some people say “I could care less” which isn’t what they mean. They mean they do not care, but their words say that they do. Other words are pronounced wrong and people do not correct themselves, probably because they COULDN’T care less. I’m not pointing out certain groups or certain people; I’ve heard improper language all over, from people from all walks of life. “I could care less” is a prime example of improper use of language; if you could care less, then you do care. If you say “I couldn’t care less” that means you do not care. People, however, still seem not to care how they sound; and it irritates me, and others to hear this idiocy keep procreating. Another example of idiocy in the way people say words and phrases would be the word “asked” or “ask”. The mispronunciation is “axe” or “axed”; an axe is a tool with a blade that chops materials, primarily wood. If you axed something that implies that you used the wrong word and that you chopped something with an axe. Every time I hear that someone SOS Seeks Your Opinions A representative sample of students will soon have the opportunity to provide college leaders with important feedback on their Delhi experience through the 2009 SUNY Student Opinion Survey (SOS). The survey is conducted every three years across the entire SUNY system and is scheduled for the week of April 13 on our campus. The SOS asks for student opinions on their academic and student life experiences, as well as the services and facilities SUNY Delhi provides. The results allow the college to identify its strengths and those areas that are not meeting student expectations. SUNY also uses the results to compare campuses and evaluate campus leadership. We were very pleased that in the last SOS, students gave SUNY Delhi high rankings in many areas, including quality of instruction, academic advising, academic facilities, community service, and developing a mentoring relationship with faculty and staff. SUNY takes the SOS very seriously and so do we, according to President Candace Vancko. The President’s Cabinet spends a tremendous amount of time reviewing and responding to the areas that receive low student satisfaction ratings. For example, low scores on the last SOS prompted the college to outsource management of the Campus Store to Barnes and Noble and increase computer bandwidth and wireless hot spots around campus. Concerns about the condition of residence hall have resulted in extensive renovations, including new doors, fresh paint, and new bathrooms in O’Connor and Murphy Hall. Bathroom renovations are also underway in Russell Hall. More than 700 Delhi students will be asked to complete the Student Opinion Survey during classes the week of April 13. The college looks forward to your input so that we can provide current and future students with the best possible college experience. If you have any questions about the SOS, please contact Craig Wesley, Dean of Enrollment Services at wesleycs@delhi.edu or Nancy Smith, College Registrar, at smithnl@delhi.edu. “axed” someone to do something; blood shoots out of my eyes! Now I know that people from different regions of this country and different countries of this world say words differently, my paternal Grandfather spoke with an Eastern European accent, however he still pronounced “ask” properly and he did not grow up in America. To hear people that were born in America who speak American English and they mispronounce ask or say they could care less, it isn’t about accents anymore, it’s about laziness. People don’t think about what they say, and I mean the words they use or how they say those words. Now if anyone has a problem pronouncing a word, there is a resource you can use, and that is a dictionary. The dictionary has the correct spelling of the word, and right after the word; the dictionary gives you the pronunciation of that word, and then the meaning. If you do not care about something it is perfectly alright to say, “I couldn’t care less” and please, for God’s sake please pronounce ask right! SUNY Day Gives Students Opportunity to Meet, Speak with Local Legislators CV Staff Writer, George Udovich, captures his SUNY Delhi colleagues (left to right) Jeremy Carmody, Afi a Adjei and Erica Wells with Senator John Bonacic. He also shares his refl ections on the annual outing to Albany to lobby for the best interests of SUNY and its students.... While on the mid-winter break, a group of students, me included, took a ride to Albany, the state capital to meet with local representatives. Now this year we expressed our concerns about the tuition hike, or the tax that spineless politicians place on students this year. Now the representatives I talked to were not spineless and were down earth but, there is little that these representatives could do since the party they belonged to is in the majority. At the luncheon we heard New York Governor David Patterson, Assembly Leader Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith speak. Governor Patterson spoke fi rst; he seemed genuine, like a leader stuck between a rock and a hard place. However I still believe there are other places on the budget to make cuts other than SUNY, which by the way is still producing results that are outstanding! The next speaker was Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, who showed his humility when he mispronounced SUNY Cobleskill as “SUNY Cobbleskill” his speech was lackluster and put me in a dimension of irritation that I have never been in before. The last speaker was Assembly Leader Sheldon Silver, who spoke so low that it was half way through the speech before the volume was turned up that we could actually hear. I guess he spoke so low that we couldn’t hear the crap coming out of his mouth. I’m assuming you want me to give more detail about the trip, but that would require me to start to pontifi cate, and none of us want that!
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