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Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1998-99 The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 9-3-1998 The thI acan, 1998-09-03 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1998-99 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 1998-09-03" (1998). The Ithacan, 1998-99. 3. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1998-99/3 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 1998-99 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. Fall Sports 1 S Preview An in-depth preview of Bomber teams this fall. ' :0.'1\-Js~ ,· ' ;.~ ~, . ., ~ 1'~ !~- •' _:1!f:::,~:.r.,:-:! . -, ... :c·~.t...• stars a reality Crash slows ' . .w.it&,-l'lew obserVatory reg1strat1on Facility near ;~: completion; via Internet lens installed By Kate HIits Sociology Department Chair By Lynsey Pavlik Ithacan Contributor James Rothenberg, who was cho Ithacan Contributor Long lines wrap around sen among other faculty to test Astronomy and physics stu Smiddy Hall in August; rows of this system, said the audit system dents, will soon· be seeing stars students fill the Hill Center hall was tested and crashed a few as Ithaca College's new obser ways to capacity in January; stu weeks before classes began. vatory nears completion. Pre dents push and shove in lines try "They [Office of the Registrar) liminary work on the project ing to get the classes they want. arc being very careful in testing .began in April 1997 and is in its In the center of the Ben Light the system. They don't want a ·rnaTstages this week. Gymnasium students sit with system that doesn't work," Dan Briotta, associate pro heads hung, trying to figure out Rothenberg said. fessor of physics, coordinated how they will get those classes Offices of the Registrar and the planning and development they need. Information Technology arc of the observatory. Its roots lie This is open registration, and developing the online registration in a $ I 00,000 bequest left by Registrar John Stanton wants lo system. They will work in con Ithaca College trustee Clinton eliminate the chaotic scene with a junction with an outside vendor B. Ford. new online registration system. from whom they bought this sys The 16-inch telescope was "There will be no more open tem and adapt it to fit Ithaca installed Tuesday by Briotta registration after fall 1999," College's needs. and Ian Huss. a production Stanton said. The system should The online registration system manager from DFM Engi · be up and running by November will allow students to register for neering Inc. of Colorado. Huss, 1999. classes from their rooms or com who installs about six tele However, online registration puter labs up until the day classes scopes the size of the one at was supposed to begin this year, begin. When classes begin, stu-_ Ithaca College per year, said but was delayed when the online · dents will be able to add or drop everything went smoothly. audit degree system-a means by classes freely after entering the "This is the most fun I've which seniors can check their proper identification. had in a long time," Briotta said degree status-crashed during Stanton said he has been inter while working late Tuesday testing. ested in onlinc registration for night aligning the telescope. The online registration system about 20 years. He said the five After the telescope is set and could not be completed until the deans were content with the cur the chiirg~ coup~ ct:evice ca1:1- flaws with the online audit degree rent form of registration until era is installed on the telescope;· system were fixed. three years ago, at which time undergraduate students will be . • ·. 'GARY COTTI/THE ITHACAN "This year will be dedicated to they agreed registration should be able to use the facilities for Dan Briotta, associate professor ·of physics .(left), helps tan the online registration system online. research. Briotta said in the Huss of DFM Engineering Inc. prepare for the Installation of a testing," Stanton said. "This sys The registrar's office has used future lab courses will use the 16-inch telescope in the college's new observatory Tuesday. tem is just better for the stu observatory. dents." See REGISTRATION, page 6 There have been no final research grant lo build the buildings would cause light decisions made whether the observatory. ·The NSF funded pollution and lessen viewing observatory will be open lo the about $47,000 for the telescope, capabilities. public. Transportation to the camera and other observational Balestra said the town and BUCKLE UP facility-located in the woods equipment. Ithaca College paid the college took all the precau- behind Terrace I I-is an issue, for additional costs, which lions necessary to complete the along with questions of who amounted to around $20,000. project correctly. would run programs from the After a year of preliminary Actual construction of the observatory. planning, site plans, zoning building was completed by The observatory is not the board hearings and assess- Ithaca College's Physical Plant. only one located in Ithaca. ments, construction on the site This helped lower the cost. Cornell University has two tele- began in April 1998. "The Physical Plant people scopes and its 'observatory is There was concern about the loved the work and were very open to the public Friday vegetation near the observatory proud of the job they did," evenings after dark, weather site, but studies done by town Briotta said. pcnnitting. The Cornell facility consultant Dr. Robert Wesley Sophomore Chris. Tennant, is restricted to academic use and biology department chair who worked for Briotta over the during the week. John Confer confinncd build- · summer as an intern, plans to With the completion of the ing the observatory adjacent to continue working on develop-- Ithaca College observatory, the South Hill Unique Natural ing image analysis software for Briotta plans to start a concen- Area-a wooded location near the observatory through the fall. !ration in astronomy and in one the .observatory-would have "It's been incredible to see ~- · to two years hopes a .minor in little~ffect on the vegetation. the project develop from its .. astronomy will. be offered :tor · "We were: very. careful of -infant stages," Tennant $aid: "I. : non-physics majors._~ : ···" · - · impi,:,ging on the·uniqtie riatur-. · was glad to help at .le~t a 'little :'. Bri~~.~q,afU~~fQi:)~e;:_:·~~~al.. ·. · ,_~,~Qn~t-do~,!'sa~d., ;md:~OJJ<: tp take ~!aptage:Qf -;0bs~~~i·~~~~i:.!'-- . · ...... :.. 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The The Handwerker Gallery talk, free and open to the pub BylllcllaalW.B....,_. student government as a voice,'' Zygadlo says. opened last week with the lic, is sponsored by the Ithacan Staff In other news, Ithaca College announces its exhibit, 'Wake up, little Susie: Gerontology Institute. receipt of a $200,000 challenge grant from the Pregnancy and power before This week, 13 years ago: Charles A. Dana Foundation. This grant will Roe v Wade,· focusing on Free math workshops The year starts off smoothly during the first allow the college to establish the Dana Student single pregnancy and race in Associate Professor Dani week of classes at Ithaca College as the 1980s Internship Program, but on the condition the col the post-World War II era. Novak and junior mathematics decade reaches its half-way point. lege raises an additional $400,000 for the pro The gallery is on the ground major Mary Spisak will teach Dr. Arthur Ostrander has been appointed to the gram. floor of the Gannett Center. six workshops for people position of interim dean in the School of Music. In sports, four new coaches will be seen on the wanting to improve their math Replacing Joel Stegall who resigned and sidelines at Ithaca College in the coming year. Human rights talks skills beginning on Tuesday, relocated to the University of Florida, Ostrander Jane Jacobs is named head coach of women's On Wednesday, Sept. 9, at Sept. 22, and running through handles all responsibilities of dean while the volleyball, she is a graduate of University of 7:30 p.m. in Textor Hall, Tuesday, Oct. 27. The work school holds a search to pennanently fill the posi Illinois-Chicago. Steven Mohr takes over the Room 101, Associate shops are free for Ithaca tion.