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THE AWARD-WINNING
Main
Sheet
Cape Cod Community College’s
Student Newspaper
Volume XLIX—Number 22
April 27, 2010
photo by Bryan Joseph
Student Senate
election results
Fox News Anchor and former Cape Radio Broadcaster Chris Barnes gives the Keynote Address
WKKL welcomes many radio personalities at CCCC
by Morgan Opie
“There is an art and science of radio,”
said radio broadcaster and Cape Cod
Community College alumnus Rick “RJ
Pendleton” Jordan during his luncheon
address at the 6th Annual Cape Cod Radio Conference at CCCC, hosted by 90.7
WKKL.
The conference was held on Saturday,
April 17, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the
Tilden Arts Center and Makkay Broadcasting Center. Attendees paid no admission and enjoyed free breakfast and
lunch.
Chris Barnes of Fox News Washington
opened the conference with a keynote address and Naomi Arenberg of NPR’s “All
Things Considered” closed the conference
with a coffee house style discussion.
Other radio experts at the event included Henry Santoro, Ed Lambert, Stephanie
Viva, Peter Maxx, Sarah Colvin, Steve
McVie Solomon, Jake Demmin, Peter
Falconi, Mindy Todd, Larry Egan, Cat,
Paul Provonost, Matt Pitta, Jim Kershner,
Kevin Mathews, Matty B, LoriLori, Julie
Raynor and Suzanne Tonaire.
The experts hosted discussion panels on
a variety of radio topics and mingled with
conference attendees when not on panels.
WKKL members introduced each expert
and mediated the panels. Each panel covered the assigned topic, but experts also
shared general advice and anecdotes.
“Radio has the power to convey messages in a very special way. There is
something very powerful about just listening to a human voice,” said Arenberg
during her coffee house discussion.
“The most important thing is to know
your audience. It’s up to me to put a
smile on your face while you’re driving
to work in the morning,” said Henry Santoro, News Director of WFNX-FM, while
speaking on a panel about successful
morning shows.
“Let your personality out of the box.
Make sure you are engaging people,” said
Ed Lambert, morning talk show host for
WXTK, speaking on the panel with Santoro.
“Don’t underestimate your audience’s
intelligence. Don’t talk down to them.
No one wants to be talked down to,” said
Santoro.
Lambert and Santoro said they try not
to talk about their everyday lives on air.
106 WCOD morning drive personality
Stephanie Viva, speaking on the morning
show panel, said she takes the opposite
approach.
“I talk about what happened to me
yesterday. What is popular today? Reality TV. Facebook,” said Viva. “People
are voyeurs. People like to look at other
peoples’ lives.”
“It’s all about being concise,” said Sarah
Colvin, CCCC alumna and News Director
of Cape Cod Broadcasting, speaking on a
panel about writing for news media. “You
have 20 to 30 seconds tops. Keep it active, keep it moving forward.”
Many experts offered advice for students starting a radio career. Jordan gave
five tips during his luncheon address: be
available in a station, create a radio personality, do small tasks that are often not
remembered, be a jack of all trades and
stay humble.
WKKL continued on page 2
by Dave Penney
“Help desk, Jeff speaking,
the network is down,” is what
Cape Cod Community College help desk assistant Jeff
Morse was saying for about an
hour and a half on Wednesday,
April 21, 2010. Around 10:30
a.m., a virus hit the CCCC
network. All computers in all
buildings on campus had to be
shut down.
“Students can connect to
the CCCC wireless network,
but is not recommended,” said
help desk assistant Erik Phillips. “This is the first time in
the two years I have been here
that something like this has
happened.” Both Morse and
photo by Dave Penney
Virus hits Cape Cod Community College network
An empty computer lab at CCCC at noon on April 21, 2010
Phillips came into work at the
help desk about an hour after
the virus hit and got bombarded with phone calls. Neither
had any idea how it happened
or when the network was going to be back up.
A little bit after 1 p.m., an
email from IT Technical Director Chuck Phelan was sent
out to faculty and staff saying that he, along with all the
other technicians that were
working on the problem, were
able to find the source of the
problem. McAfee, the current
antivirus program, sends a
daily DAT file update, which
normally protects the systems,
but the one sent out this past
Wednesday caused the computers to crash.
Once the network was back
up, there were computers that
were inevitably still down but
not infected. If this occurred,
the help desk was notified and
a technician was sent to diagnose and fix the problem.
by Morgan Opie
Last week, BJ Kilroy was elected as
Cape Cod Community College Student
Senate President. A total of fifteen students were elected to Student Senate for
the 2010-2011 academic year, but six seats
remain unfilled. 146 students, 1.9% of the
student body, cast ballots on April 21 and
22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the CCCC
Cafeteria and on April 22 from 5 to 6:30
p.m. in the North/South Connector.
Kilroy recieved 128 votes. Diana Nash
was elected as Vice President with 122
votes, Bereket Rutty as Public Relations
Officer with 125 votes and Josh Estrada
as Student Trustee with 66 votes.
Kilroy, Nash and Rutty ran without opposition. Estrada ran against Tamora Engle, who received 52 votes, and Shawn P.
Williams, who received 36.
Michael Bertram received 11 write-in
votes for Student Senator. Write-in candidates must receive at least 10 votes to be
elected and Bertram was the only writein candidate to meet the minimum. Five
Senators were on the ballot and all were
elected.
Robert Seibold received 98 votes, Tianna J. Pellerin received 76 votes, Kathleen Small received 64 votes, Philip J.
Michaels received 58 votes and Thomas
Liffers received 56 votes. A total of 10
seats for Senator were available but four
were not filled.
In addition to Officers and Senators,
five Senators At Large serve on Student
Senate but have no vote at College Meeting and are not required to attend all Senate meetings. All Senator At Large seats
were filled. Emma Haselton received 105
votes, Yekuno Rutty received 82 votes,
Britni D. Ketchen received 69 votes, Daniel J. Meegan received 61 votes and Troy
Cutler received 57 votes.
No candidates were on the ballot for
treasurer or secretary and no write-in candidates received the required votes for
election.
Write-ins included Superman, Ron
Paul and Chuck Norris. Amusing as these
pranks may seem to some, Student Senate
advisors John French, CCCC professor,
and David Biggs, Coordinator of Student
Life, said elections should be taken more
seriously by the student body.
“CCCC students don’t realize the powerful voice they have if they elect Student
Senate Members,” said French. “15 students on Senate can attend college meeting and each have as much voice as a faculty member. If they vote as a block, they
can be very powerful.”
“This is your elected student leadership.
These are the voices of all students. If you
don’t take the time to vote or run yourself,
you really can’t complain about parking,
about potholes, about the smoking ban,”
said Biggs. However, Biggs was pleased
with the election results.
Elections continued on page 2