This morning’s request is my own (Elizabeth, SOC/ANT/SWK, and Treasurer of the NCCFT). It’s Jai Ho/You Are My Destiny as re-imagined by Pussycat Dolls. It strikes me as somehow appropriate for the lead-in to Thanksgiving week. It is of cultural fusions and appropriations (albeit nonlethal ones) turned into entertainment. And yet it captures me with [...]
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This morning’s selection is requested by Dianne Guarino, Admissions Counselor and NCCFT Executive Board representative for the Professional Faculty Unit. She chose it in honor of all those who are taking advantage of the retirement incentive. Congratulations to you all!
And while you’re celebrating, note that the NCCFT Retiree Handbook is available in the NCCFT Documents [...]
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Christine Tuaillon, NCCFT Department Representative from the Biology Department, selected this week’s Monday Morning Music in the van on the way home from the NYSUT Community College Conference.
Christine says
It is a song by the “Fatal Picard”, an alternative humoristic French rock group. I saw them in a free concert last summer (in France of course) [...]
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This week’s request was submitted by Tom Bruckner, of the Physical Sciences department, who writes:
After several weeks of politically-charged songs, I’d like to play a feel-good song. The song is “1979″ by the Smashing Pumpkins. This is one of my all-time favorite songs.
I also enjoy the video which, according to Wikipedia; “…follows a day in [...]
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There’s been a dearth of requests from members and instead of taking that to mean that you don’t want any more music on Monday mornings we’re taking that to mean that you like our choices. Elizabeth chose this song despite not being a huge Garth Brooks fan because of its call to support union organizing [...]
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This week’s request comes from Robert Hodge in the Criminal Justice Department. He requested this particular version partly because of the images that accompany it. The lyrics share a lot in common with Woody Guthrie’s Union Maid (the song that began our Monday Morning Music collection).
“Part of the Union” may also be a fitting choice [...]
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This morning’s selection requires audience participation. Mike Anzelone, Secretary of the NCCFT and Professor of English, selected Van Morrison’s “Bright Side Of The Road”, explaining:
Although NCC had recently undergone many changes, NCC has always been a place where the bright side of the road has remained.
Unfortunately we couldn’t find Van Morrison’s own performance on YouTube. [...]
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For some reason this song has been my earworm* for the weekend, but when I decided to use it for Monday Morning Music I didn’t want to use the classic Bob Dylan recording. Since change is the focus of the song I wanted something a little bit different. So, here is Tracy Chapman singing Bob [...]
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Frank Frisenda, NCCFT VP for Classroom Faculty, requests this song in honor of the passing of the dog days of summer. Rumor has it he learned about Florence and the Machine from this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. Enjoy!
What do you want to hear to start your week? Use the Suggestion Box to the left [...]
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As many of you are aware, misguided and politically motivated forces are at work whose agenda is focused on the systematic dismantling of Public Education. Several examples include the restructuring of the post-Katrina New Orleans K-12 schools which are exclusively charter schools, New York State’s recent legislation increasing the number of charters allowed to practice [...]
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