Cayuga Community College - Nainrubua Yearbook (Auburn, NY)

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CCQCCCCCCCCG6CCCCCCCCCSCCCCCCCCCCCQCGCCCCSCSCCGCSCQ SECOND DERIVATIVE IS POSI- Professor Kary Johnson helps hours were posted in the and most instructors were more than to spend extra time with students. with his calculus homework. .1 IN THE LOUNGE, between classes, Student Trustee Steve Churchill chats with Lynn Mc- Keen. THE FIRST OF MANY CHANGES. Sue Kuncio, Coordinator of student services takes a sneak preview of the learning center. Space was allotted downstairs in the college library, and the total cost for equipping the center was approximately S15,000. It was a year of movement, change, and transition. The new administration stirred us out of habits and defied a few traditions. Walls were going up and coming down as we moved to new rooms and accepted new titles. For awhile no one knew who was doing what or where anything was. But de- spite the many changes, or perhaps be- cause of them, we were able to keep giving the high quality education and service that the students and com- munity have come to expect. New courses were added in the fields of math, psychology, and computer science, with a dramatic increase in the number of non-credit mini-courses of- fered at night. Many of us faculty be- came a part of Cayuga County Com- munity College's lecture series, travel- ing to various organizations and schools to lecture in our fields. We watched sadly as some familiar faces left but gladly accepted the new teachers as an integral part of our system. Faculty Divider 73

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we Present +-7 'I-4 S-4 O F-1 +5 rn GJ -IJ Ol-4 Or-4 f-1 GJ Professors in Prison Every week twelve Cayuga County Community College instructors went behind bars at the Auburn Correction- al Facility. These instructors were in- volved in the collegeis educational pro- gram at the prison. The director of the prison education was none other than Benjamin Ahner, sociology professor. The fall semester began with seven- teen courses taught by twelve Cayuga County Community College instruc- tors. Of the courses taught sociology and psychology were the most popular. There were approximately 120 inmates involved in the program each semester. Professor Ahner found his classes at the prison a contrast to his regular col- lege classes. The students at the prison were consistantly better students and scored approximately five points high- er on tests in comparison to their Ca- yuga County Community College coun- terparts. The courses taught at the prison were exactly the same courses taught at the college with the exact same tests. The inmates were generally more motivated because of the desire to improve themselves and the hope of getting a better job when they return to free society. Besides Proffessor Ahner, other in- structors were William Barth fdata processingj, David Ford Cmathematicsj, In the technical building, down the stairs, in an office sits a man with a huge pile of books. This man is Mr. Scott Barnes, economics teacher for Cayuga County Community College. As he gave me the following informa- tion, Mr. Barnes, dead pan humor of- ten made it hard to tell if he was seri- ous. Born in the little town of Chicago, Mr. Barnes lived in different states: Wisconsin, Tennessee, Oregon, and West Virginia. He has been teaching here for eight years. However, that is not his true life ambition-he really wants to be a zoo keeper. He attended Ripon College and the University of Tennessee, where his most difficult decision was whether to be an economics or psychology teach- er. lt was fate that chose his career, with Mr. Barnes' flip of a coin. He went on to teach at a college in West Virginia, where he heard of Cayuga Victor Garlock fbehavioral sciencej, John Hvosda fsocial sciencej, Richard Klinger fdata processingj, Alexander Lazorik fbusinessj, John McClellan fsocial sciencej, David Richards fsocial sciencej, Thomas Steenburgh fsciencej, and Dr. William Schwab fdean of in- structionj. INMATES involved in the college program hope that their educational success will make life easier in free society. County Community College ACCJ and its excellence. He to put in an application. When asked about the cut Mr. Barnes replied, Definitely policy. It should be more st cut and you are out. Mr. B feels that being a teacher is an tage because of the good pay, ing, and the fact that he gets to what to teach. When asked other personnel, he stated that president is a good man and a fisherman. fnote: One of the fisherman I've ever fished with But Seriously F of the other advantages of v here, he further stated, are that are a small number of students small classes, which make te EVER WONDER what's behind those gray walls? This inside look at Auburn Prison provides a seldom seen view for most Cayu- gans. 74 Behavioral and Social Sciences Behavioral Science: SITTING: Eileen Fitzgerald, Victor Garlock, Ben Ahner, Don Sanzotta STANDING: George Smrtic, Clifford Grazier, Dan Schultz MISSING: Leander Abbott, Charles Groat