Cayuga Community College Auburn & Fulton, New York

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to implement a new program that recruits former at-risk students, now student success stories, to coach similarly at-risk students.

But retention wasn’t the only thing on the agenda, far from it. Among other things, the Fulton campus was promised a plethora of new and exciting changes, including a deal to open a brand new Subway restaurant on campus, a student lounge and fitness center, a student service center, a training program funded by BOCES, and maybe even a recreational center! When Decinque asked them to ‘make something happen’, they certainly listened.

While Fulton is all abuzz about these new changes, the Cayuga campus isn’t slacking off either. The Broad of Trustees is working on a new plan to repair and renovate the school. New pipes, new boilers, new windows, everything you’d expect. However, more importantly, they are in the works of building more student housing than just Lattimore

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Congratulations to the undefeated (4-0) Cayuga CC men’s soccer team who was ranked #2 in a Region III Coaches’ poll. The Spartans trail only the nation’s #1 ranked Herkimer squad in this week’s poll.

Fall 2014 Week 3 Division III Men’s Soccer Coaches’ Poll

September 16, 20141. Herkimer College2. Cayuga Community College3. Tompkins Cortland Community College4. Mohawk Valley Community College5. Genesee Community College

“I will be more focused on what’s next rather than what’s past. I think it is fairly obvious what has been accomplished and I thank each and every one of you for your help, guidance and support over a very challenging time.” —Dr. Gregory DeCinque

FIVE REASONS TO WRITE FOR THE CAYUGA COLLEGIAN!

If speeches were meant to be serious, somber, and full of omen, nobody ever told Dr. Gregory DeCinque. Here he was, president of the entire school, throwing beach balls around and joking about spiking his water with vodka, to a room filled to the brim with staff that were staring right into the mouth of death not so long ago. Plagued with debt, a plummeting retention rate, and a former president they had all but no confidence in, there was no reason to celebrate. But times have changed, and so have the reasons.

That reason being, exactly, 1.8 million dollars.

“1.8 million is a lot of money, but it means so much more than that,” said DeCinque, and indeed it has. From a negative 54-thousand dollars in debt to $1.8 million in the black, CCC has managed to do a complete turn around from the financial crisis it was facing only a year ago. You could feel the crushing weight lifting off of the staff’s shoulders as they applauded and cheered what could only be considered a miracle.

There is still, however, much to be done. While our debt has changed, and surely our president has changed, our retention rate has not. We’re up in new students, down in returning. People check in, but they don’t stay in. This stains our reputation as a credible and reliable school, which affects something that’ll bring a chill down every CCC student’s spine -- financial aid. Fortunately, DeCinque is a man of action, and he already has a plan. He is working with Jeff Rosenthal, Vice President of Student Affairs,

By Kelsey Mclean, associate editor

CCC has managed to do a complete turn around from the financial crisis it was facing only a year ago. You could feel the crushing weight lifting off of the staff’s shoulders as they applauded and cheered what could only be considered a miracle.

Spartan Men’s Soccer Ranked #2 in Region III

COLLEGIAN OFFICE HOURSDanielle Skowron, editor-on-chiefMonday: 11:00am-1:50pm Tuesday:12:30pm-1:50pm Wednesday: 9:30am-11:00am Thursday: 12:30pm-1:50pm

1. It’s fun and informative!2. You will meet new people!3. We have K-cup coffee in the office!4. We have cool t-shirts!5. It looks good on your resume!

Campus ClubsActivity Fairs Planned;Get Involved

The student activity fair is scheduled for Monday, September 22nd at the Fulton campus and on Wednesday, September 24th at the Auburn campus.

The fair on the Auburn campus will be held in the student center (café) from 10 am to 1 pm.

President delivers State-of-the College Address

Hall, which independently houses students in downtown Auburn.

Maybe most exciting of all, though, is possible-- possible-- acquiring of additional land. What does this mean? It means that, finally, CCC can have its own sports field. No longer will the college have to mooch off of OCC or, God forbid, the middle school next door. While no promises were made, it’s certainly something to look forward to. We can only hope.

So, has our school recovered? Absolutely. At the very least, we don’t have to be worry about being shut down and left in shambles any more. Those days are over. And while things certainly aren’t perfect, they’re getting better, and DeCinque urges not to look at the past, but the future. What’s important is what we can do, not what’s been done.

In the wake of all of this miraculous progress, one has to wonder about DeCinque’s own future in this school -- he is only an interim president, after all. The recommendations for a new President and new Vice President haven’t even been considered yet, not until December, but even if they were, we will never know who. Only who wins. Who we’ll have, what they’ll be like, and what this means for the school, we can only guess.

One thing is for certain though -- for just a year, President DeCinque hasn’t been half bad.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The complete transcript of Dr. DeCinque’s address is on page two.

Dr. Gregory DeCinque

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Dr. DeCinque’s State of the College and Welcome Back SpeechSeptember 19, 2014

It is a pleasure to have us all back together again. I hope that you have had a great start to the semester and that you are ready to join me in Act 2 of the ongoing saga known as Cayuga Community College.

A great deal has transpired over the last 3 to 4 months and I am anxious and excited to share news of the progress on a number of fronts, as well as to make sure we all still understand the challenges we face in 2014-15 and beyond.

Before I begin however, I would be most remiss if I did not ask everyone to stand and partake in a moment of silence for our colleague and friend, Bill Lovell.

I do have to share a Bill story with you before I get into my formal remarks. Anne Herron and I had a chance to visit Bill when he was in the hospital. He was pretty sick and had already been through a lot but there he was in all his hospital finest sitting in one of those high back hospital chairs with Debbie sitting there watching him. As we entered, he smiled and thanked us for coming and then set aside what he had been working on to speak with us. I am certain you all can guess what he was doing. Correct, as ill as he was, he was going to be the teacher until the end, he was grading papers! That represents the dedication Bill had to students and this college. What a great role model……He will be missed.

Last January I had my first opportunity to address you, and share with you what I had discovered and began to lay out what I thought that together we might accomplish in beginning to put our College back on track. I will review some of that today, but I will be more focused on what’s next rather than what’s past. I think it is fairly obvious what has been accomplished and I thank each and every one of you for your help, guidance and support over a very challenging time. I ended my remarks in January by offering, “that in the end it will be up to you……..” And, as I thought you would, you stepped up and made things happen. Not that we didn’t have our moments, but that’s how it is in a family. We can’t always agree and sometimes we are not so happy with each other, but we always come together and work it out when the family is at risk. Great job!

Let’s begin by celebrating a major success. A success that has surprised us all, but even more importantly, has signaled that we are back. That we have righted the ship and we sail to the future. If you think that’s a bit hokey, watch what happens next.

Ok, if everyone holding a beach ball would stand up. Now, on the count of three and with a big voice, shout out what is on the ball.

$1.8 million. That’s a lot of money for sure, but it represents so much more to CCC. Somebody tell me what that number is! Yes, it is the amount we will add to our fund balance this year. We had hoped to reach $1 million, but this amount far exceeded expectations. How did we do this you might ask? I am going to say it is because last January when I asked you not to spend money on anything you didn’t absolutely need and to look for ways to save money, you responded.

Of course, exceeding our budgeted enrollment helped but you certainly played a big part in this success. Thank you, thank you, and thank you.

As a result, I am pleased to share with you, that on Wednesday, September 17, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously to lift the declaration of financial exigency. As you know, this signals a return to fiscal health and gives us the impetus we need to continue to build on the platform we built last year. We should take a moment and breathe……..just let it sink in……the sword of Damocles has been removed. Let’s continue our work together to make certain it never returns.

Ok let me begin to be specific. There is a lot to cover so I will be sound biting to some extent but be assured I will be addressing many things in greater detail as the year moves ahead.

Hey Fulton, what’s happening? As you all

know, John Lamphere agreed to take on the role of Associate Vice President and Dean of the Campus. Unfortunately, John is not here today as he is on his 599th trip to Gettysburg. Just kidding. But he really is in Gettysburg. John will tell you that I gave him very explicit instructions for what to do with our Fulton campus. Here’s what I really told him. ”Make something happen!” I just love it when people listen to me. In the last several months here is what has happened.

1. Subway has agreed to open a store on campus

2. We will begin construction on a student lounge and fitness center within a week.

3. We signed a formal partnership agreement with Oswego BOCES to cooperatively deliver adult continuing education and workforce development programs to Oswego County. The partnership will begin by occupying the bank building. Thanks to Carla DeShaw for her efforts here. There will be more to come. By this time next year or sooner, we will be converting the Dollar Tree space to a Manufacturing Training Center that will also house other programs that can feed into college programs.

4. The three storefronts next to the main academic building will become a One Stop Center for Admissions, Registration, Financial Aid and other important student services.

5. Another store front will become our Occupational Therapy Assisting Lab. Joan Meyers is on board as our new faculty member in OTA and she has plenty on her plate to get the program up and running.

6. The Central New York Arts Council will be working with us to turn the current event center into a multi-purpose facility for the arts, music and other uses.

7. We continue to have great discussion with the Fulton YMCA leadership who express a sincere interest in developing, at least part of the Kmart building, into a multi-sport recreation facility and they would like to have a daycare center.

Last year we said that the way we could best make the Fulton campus work was by developing mission appropriate partnerships. We are well on our way.

On the Auburn Campus we also have some really great things happening.

1. The Board of Trustees has approved an Energy Performance Contract with Smart Edge. They are completing the final plan now and we hope to be ready to have the Board approve the final plan in October. We will replace all the old boilers, pumps, etc. as well as make some lighting improvements and hold onto your chair, replace the windows in the Tech building. All of this will be done with no direct costs to the College and will be paid for with the money from the energy savings. I know it’s too good to be true.

Well, it’s not. It’s guaranteed in writing by Smart Edge. If there is a shortfall at any time, Smart Edge writes the check. Thanks to Kevin Drayer and John Klink who both spent a great deal of time on this important project.

2. The Plastics lab will be done by January and we can begin offering our new certificate program. I believe we already have a cohort of students in the pipeline. Thanks to John Campbell, Christie Waters and Carla for their efforts here.

3. We have several opportunities to acquire some land that may facilitate our building of an athletic complex and residence hall. First, there are three and one half acres immediately behind the nature trail that we hope to acquire. This might make it possible to build a residence hall in a location that would alleviate the community objection. There is also an additional 24 acres of land on the other side of the Vitale property that we are attempting to purchase. Let me assure you that neither one of these properties carries

an excessive or unrealistic cost. I will keep you informed as we progress. I do want to reiterate, or should I say, for Pete’s sake, we need these facilities to be competitive in the future.

Let me talk about a few not so positives. Our enrollment is down from last fall

by about 5%. The only good news here is that 5% is better than what we thought it might be. I was at a SUNY Community College Presidents meeting recently, and all but one or two community colleges are reporting enrollment decreases due primarily to declining demographics and increased competition for this smaller pool of students.

In our case, we are actually up in first time new students which is a good thing, but down in returning students again. It would be so much easier if we could keep students longer and take some of the pressure of the need to recruit so many new students just to remain even.

Do you know it means when I say “down in returning students”? What does that translate as……..right, we need to improve our retention rates. As you know, our rates are not where they should or need to be. Not only because of the lost FTE, but because for some of our students is just lost opportunity. We say we care about student success and I am sure we do, but we are going to need to get much more proactive in what we do to make students successful in achieving their goal. If that goal is to get a degree from CCC, and a large percentage start but don’t finish, then we have work to do.

As a result, I have asked Jeff Rosenthal and his staff to set up a pilot program beginning this fall with the goal of improving the number of students we keep. To do this, we are creating 4 part-time retention champions (student success advocates) 2 on each campus to follow up with students at risk of dropping out or not returning. We will be investing some money here but let me point out that we don’t have to save very many students to have this program pay for itself. That’s the financial side. Even more important to us should be the success of our students. You will get more information soon but please focus your thinking this year on retention and completion of our students.

The Cayuga 2020 group continues to do great work in moving us to a new strategic plan and well defined future. They have been communicating with you regularly and I ask that you do whatever you can to help the committee complete their work. We need to have a new plan in place by the end of this academic year.

This is the year where we complete and submit our self-study for our 2015-2016 Middle States Accreditation. There is nothing any more important than maintaining our accreditation. Without accreditation we would be ineligible for federal financial aid dollars, and quite frankly that kind of loss would put us out of the education business. Please respond quickly and decisively to a request from the Middle States Steering Committee and from the working groups on the standards. We need your help. If you are not currently involved and would like to be, please contact Steve Keeler, Christie Waters or Anne Herron.

I also would like to make you aware that we are currently in an RFP process to select an architectural firm to update our facilities master plan. Without a current plan, we are not permitted to apply for state support for capital projects, so it is important that we complete this task soon

We also have issued a contract to Anderson Strickler to complete a full demand analysis for student housing on both the Auburn and the Fulton campus. This study should be completed by Thanksgiving and will give us sound information to help make a decision on proceeding or not with student housing.

Along with our retention efforts, another major theme for the year will be regionalization. Working with Compass Consulting, we have developed a financial model for how a regional community college could be funded. In this case we needed a model that would demonstrate a win, win.

That is Cayuga County, Oswego County and the college must all be winners on the financial side. We think we now have that model. We reviewed the model with our own Board and will next review with Cayuga County and with their agreement, we will move on to share with Oswego County. We also have begun drafting legislation that would spell out all of the other components of the regional model. In order to establish a regional community college we will need the approval of the board, the two counties, the SUNY board, the State Assembly and Senate and a sign off by the Governor. We will attempt to move this along this year. Optimistically I would like to see if we can get the regional college in place by 15-16 as we will have additional financial issues in 15-16 under the current model. These issues were clearly identified in the Compass report. Sometime soon I will have a session on each campus to review how a regional college works and to assure you it means nothing to how you do your job on a day-to-day basis. I believe this would be a good change and will go a long way in protecting our interests in the future.

I should also mention that we will have a number of new programs being offered soon. Among those will be advanced manufacturing, plastics, a new nursing class at Fulton and a new OTA program. Others are in the works, and all are a part of making CCC attractive to a new student marketplace and help us fulfill our mission as a comprehensive community college.

The search for your new president is underway and soon you will receive a survey soliciting your input as to just what you would like to see in your next president. I would like you to give the survey your attention. The committee is being chaired by Dr. Linda Van Buskirk and Mr. John Klink. The committee is broadly representative of the College and the community and I believe will do a great job in identifying candidates to bring to campus and ultimately to recommend to the Board of Trustees. Stay tuned.

We also have commenced the search for Vice President of Administration and that committee hopes to have recommendations to me by December. I wish to thank Diane for all she continues to do and for her willingness to delay her retirement until we fill this position.

I also have created a new Management/Confidential position of Executive Director of Communications and Governmental Relations. This person will serve as a member of the President’s senior staff, serve as the primary spokesperson for the College in all matters including collective negotiations, work with the president on all external affairs and be responsible for the overall public relations program with the College. They will also assist with our marketing efforts by working closely with Jeff Rosenthal and his staff. I hope you agree that we must be better at publicizing all the good things that go on at CCC and I know we can benefit the College by improving our governmental and external affairs.

As I close, let me emphasize on what I believe need to be three important themes this year and where I will be spending time and or supporting those addressing these themes. Those themes are:

RegionalizationMiddle States andRetentionIf we can improve our retention rates, we

can ameliorate our enrollment issues. If we can prepare a sound and honest self-study, we can continue to improve and if we are successful in becoming a regional community college, I know we can have a sound and exciting future.

Thank you again for permitting me to work side by side with you to make CCC the place we all want it to be.

Best wishes for a great year.

—Gregory T. DeCinque, Interim CCC President

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Dr. DeCinque’s State of the College and Welcome Back Speech

CCC’s Basketball Coach and a CCC student react

SPORTSGO SPARTANS!GO SPARTANS!GO SPARTANS!GO SPARTANS!

Spartans Hold Strong On The Road, Win 2-1The Spartan men had a long

trip, as they traveled west to meet NJCAA Region 3 counterparts, the Jamestown JayHawks. The Spartans game kicked off late, due to construction West of Buffalo on 90, that held up traffic for 45 minutes. The men’s team started quickly out of the gate, and it only took four minutes to get onto the score sheet with freshman, Chris Davison (Newcastle, England), when he redirected a pass from a Jayhawks defender over the Jamestown keeper, and into the back of the net to put Cayuga into the lead.

The Jayhawks were level about fve minutes later, when a miscommunication in the Cayuga defense allowed Jamestown to tie the game as a shot went past the Cayuga Keeper, Tautis Poniskiatis (London, England). It took the Spartans about 20 minutes into the game to settle their stride, and they were able to get more

chances in front of the Jayhawks net. Just 7 minutes before half time when a great build up through the midfield pairing of captain Sean Wynn (Liverpool, England), and vice-captain Thomas Rivet (London, England), the ball was switched to Sean Richards (Cardiff, Wales). Richards then whipped an amazing crossed ball right through the Jamestown defense, for Matthew Harty-Spencer (Sunderland, England) to finish at the back post to score the final goal of the game.

The second half defending was back and forth, with both sides not getting a lot of chances in front of net. If it wasn’t for some excellent defending from Connor Doogan (Belfast, Ireland), Josh Grace (Glasgow, Scotland), Ashley Brown (Birmingham, England), and Michael Haskins (Belfast, Ireland) kept the Jayhawks at bay. Tautis Poniskiatis also worked and organized his defense, and was

Spartan’s Drop Match to Lady Lakers

Last week the Cayuga Spartans traveled to Finger Lakes Community College to face off against the Lady Lakers. While all three sets were hard fought, they came up just short of victory. Highlights from the evening include Ashley Jackowski (Chittenango, NY) had 7 kills out of 12 attempts and

Valerie Froeming (Alturas, CA) finished the night with a .333 hitting average. Lexi Tucker (Union Springs, NY) passed .940 on serve receive and added another 14 digs to her season total (227).

Their next home game is Saturday, September 27th against H e r k i m e r County CC. Action starts at 9 AM.

Lady Spartans Struggle

Flag Down on NFL Troubles

The National Football League has seen better days. The integrity of the NFL as a company is questioned by fans, sponsors, and even its 32 teams. With the recent events that have occurred within the football community, it is not a surprise that the NFL is under hot water.

The first incident that hurt the image of the NFL involved former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice; when he punched his then fiancé Janay Palmer square in the face and knocked her out cold in an elevator at a Atlantic City casino back in May. The new organization, TMZ reported and released the first elevator video which shocked the world, when Rice was seen dragging Palmer out of the elevator.

Then the second video came out, it went downhill from there. The second video was the one that many inferred probably happened, when Rice knocked out Palmer. This was a domestic violence case that was on hold, then the video went viral.

“The world is full of second chances, and he will probably get a chance to play with another team,” said Cayuga Community College men’s basketball coach Tony Borges. “If this happened on my team there would be a suspension, and other consequences.”

Can the NFL afford to have Rice back? If one is to look at statistical numbers of crimes committed by NFL players, it far outreaches any other sport, in a landslide.

However the student population at

CCC did not necessarily agree with Borges. In fact, one die-hard football fan, CCC student Jacob Turner, said “I don’t believe Ray Rice should ever be given the opportunity to put on another uniform in the NFL, his career should be over.”

This puts a tremendous amount of pressure on the NFL. Pretty much everyone in the United States has watched football at one time or another. How would the majority of the female population feel if they ever saw Ray Rice on a football field again? It is hard to believe that female fans would appreciate the NFL allowing a “woman beater” to play in a sport that they love to watch.

Roger Goodell has been a commissioner who gives players second chances, including Michael Vick when he was a part of dog fighting. Goodell is often criticized for the way he handles off field issues surrounding the NFL. Now that the Ray Rice scandal is out, more domestic violence cases will follow. Especially since the Adrian Peterson child abuse case was reported within two days after the second Ray Rice video appeared.

The next few weeks will be crucial in seeing what happens next around the NFL. What players will fall to domestic violence cases? What teams will deactivate some of their best players due to something that should not have happened. There is no room for domestic violence in the world, nevertheless the NFL.

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By Dustin Albino, staff writer

called into action several times from some deep crosses from the Jamestown Jayhawks, as they pressured the Spartans all the way back into their penalty box. The Spartans held strong and with the final whistle sounding, and the Cayuga Spartans won 2-1 and move to 6-0 for the season.

“I really thought it took us a while to get started, and get into the groove of the game, but we responded very well. The movement and work rate was outstanding from all of the team. I couldn’t ask for a better group of lads to take this journey with. They held strong, and done a fantastic job defending everything that the Jamestown Jayhawks presented. It was a great team effort,” said Coach Wynne.

The Cayuga Men’s Soccer Team take a few days off over the weekend and then face the Genesee Cougars on Wednesday the 24th, at Emerson Park in Auburn, N.Y.

Cayuga started sluggishly and gave up its third loss of the season to host Broome. Broome came out with a speedy and aggressive attack and netted their first goal within the first 10 minutes of the game. Cayuga was able to hold off Broome to a halftime score of 1-0 after some strong defensive and middle field play from Brooke Laukaitis (Auburn, NY), Kaitlyn Coningsby (Moravia, NY) and Tiffany Westmiller (Throop, NY). Broome went down to 10 players after getting a red card, but that wasn’t able to slow their attack

down. Broome was able to add 3 more goals to a final score line of 4 to 0.

After the match Coach Robillard had this to say, “We started poorly and didn’t have our feet all day. Broome was quick and took advantage of our mistakes. They were a very physical team and we weren’t able to adjust to their style of play. I was happy with Brooke Laukaitis and Martha Caster (Fulton, NY) who were very aggressive and helped produce some of our offensive chances.”

Goalkeeper Bre Becker (Lusby, MD) recorded 20 saves.

NFL player Ray Rice

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20 mph is the speed limit in front of Auburn Junior High School and 15 mph is the speed limit in the college parking lots. Scott Shaft, the CCC Director of Public Safety, sent out an email recently urging drivers to obey speed limits.

“The speed limit in this school zone is 20 MPH from 7:00 am - 6:00

Dunkin’ Donuts announced that they added almond milk to their menu! This is an alternative to regular milk or dairy creamer. This is incredibly important for people who are lactose intolerant. This gives them the option to be able to drink Dunkin’ because now there is a dairy-free option. Dunkin’ Donuts chose almond milk because it is one of the most popular non-dairy alternatives. The bad news--the almond milk costs 25-cents more!

I recently started a new journey at Stony Brook University after graduating from Cayuga C o m m u n i t y College this past spring. Stony Brook is located on Long Island about a two hour train ride from New York City which may have

been a reason I chose to come here. The transition from Cayuga to

Stony brook has been a tough one. I am not going to lie, but I am confident Cayuga has prepared me to succeed here.

At Cayuga, I did very well in all my classes and never really had to stress about getting my work done because let’s be honest, I didn’t have that much. Here at Stony Brook, my work load has basically doubled and it has been a tough change for me, probably the biggest change between schools. I always thought people were crazy spending hours and hours on their homework and I am now one of those crazy people, and not by choice, trust me. Every night it takes me hours to get everything done and yes, it sucks, I am not going to lie.

Before classes even started, we were warned that the classes are

CAMPUS EVENTS

going to be hard and that they are, but in a good way. While yes, the classes are larger and tougher, and we might not have relationships with our professors, they do care about us learning the material.

The first week here was tough, but I got through it. As each week goes on, I get more and more comfortable with my new life here and creating my new daily routine. I have already gotten to go in to The City which if you know me, that makes me one happy girl. One trip was for a professional Friday where we got to sit in on a meeting with the Associated Press and go to the New York Times. This is one of the opportunities the Journalism School has and there are so many other opportunities here especially being so close to one of the greatest cities in the world. Every day is long though between classes and homework and trying to have a social life, but I guess that is what being a junior in college is all about. I am so glad I chose to come here and am finally getting to experience what going to college is like.

Yes, the dorm life is not glamorous at all, and the food is not always that good, but it’s all a part of that college life and I am loving all of it. If I have learned anything, it is that Cayuga is a great place to start!

EDITOR’S NOTE: Brittany Glassey is a former associate editor of The Collegian and a Biden Scholarship Award winner.

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By Danielle Skowron, editor-on-chiefpm when school is in session. Please use caution and obey the 20 MPH speed limit. Also please use caution in the College parking lots in the mornings and the afternoons when Auburn Junior High School students walk and run through the College lot, often not paying attention to traffic.” said Shaft in the email.

By Danielle Skowron, editor-on-chief