The Ithacan, 1994-12-08

Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1994-95 The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 12-8-1994 The thI acan, 1994-12-08 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1994-95 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 1994-12-08" (1994). The Ithacan, 1994-95. 14. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1994-95/14 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, 1994-95 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. SPORTS INDEX Opinion .......................... 8 Sharing the wealth Trying out Shattered dreams Accent ..................... 11 Classifieds .................... 20 Student Congress needs new IC students audition for Football and volleyball teams 23 Comics ......................... 21 approach to club funding 8 Busch Gardens 11 lose semifinal matches Sports .......................... 23 Thursday, December 8, 1994 Volume 62, Number 14 28 pages TheJTHACAN Free Downsizing process prompts investigation the guidelines stressing shared gov Marnie Eisenstadt By ernance are even more important, Ithacan Staff he said Ithaca College is being investi President James J. Whalen re gated for a possible violation of fused to comment. governance practices by a nation The investigation is a two-fold ally recognized organization ofcol process, according to Grayson. First lege and university professors. the College will be investigated by The American Association of the regional conference of the University Professors (AAUP) is AAUP. If they find the College is investigating the College for possi violating the guidelines, the matter bly violating the "Statement on Gov can then be referred to the national ern merit" when planning and pro conference. posing downsizing measures. If both committees find against The "Statement on Government" the College, the AAUP will vote is a guideline for governing col whether or not to censure it at the leges and universities recommended national convention in June, by the AA UP, the American Coun Grayson said. The Ithacan/Sharon Mayer cil on Education and the Associa "In effect, [the censure] is a state Jewish Chaplain Michael Faber watches as Rebekah Shapiro '98 lights Han~kkah candle_s Friday night Dec. 2. Faber said the Jewish community strives to present an informal setting at tion of Governing Boards and Uni ment by the AAUP that the College services to encourage more students to attend. versities. is in violation of the principles and " ... [The] procedures being fol standards of the organization," lowctl fall short of the intent of the Grayson said. The censured orga 1966 statement. .. " according to a nizations are listed in both the Examining beliefs letter sent to Frank Musgrave, chair AAUP's national magazine and re man of the economics department. gional newspaper, he said. The letter was from Gerald H. Grayson said it is not common College distractions affect religious lives and Grayson, the executive director of for an institution to be censured. the New York State Conference of Some censured colleges and uni views of students in a variety of ways the AAUP. versities in New York state include munities represented on campus, to be surpnsmgly healthy on cam The College might not be giving New York University, Elmira Col By Heather Duncan according to a survey conducted at faculty an adequate i;ay in current lege and the entire State University pus. and Laurie Jonietz freshmen orientation. changes regarding the curriculum of New York system, he said. "Students don't want a lot ot Ithacan Staff The Protestant and Catholic demands, and religion inherently and educational processes, accord Although censuring the College he chapel is dimly lit and faiths have been celebrated on tht: demands a lot," Fabenaid. "If you ing to the letter. is not likely to affect enrollment, it the wooden birds sus Ithaca Colkge campu~ since I 962. take religion seriously then you mu~t Musgrave said that although the could affect the quality of profes pended from the ceiling Around the mid-1970s, the College meet many of tho~c demands. an<l College has no legal responsibility sors working at the College, T seem to float on the music sung added a Jewish chaplain. students sometime~ don't have the to follow the guidelines, they nave Grayson said. below; but the atmosphere at the Having chaplains on non-de time or the intere~t." a professional responsibility. "It is a signal to people in the Muller Chapel is not at all som nominational campuses is not that The Jewish community makes "The College has a moral obli profession that this may n9t be a ber. unusual, according to Brian less demands on students than they gation," he said. Because the fac good place to practice your profes Students at the Protestant McAree, assistant vice president are accustomed to in home syna ulty have no union to protect them, sion," he said. Evensong enthusiastically jump for student affairs and campus life. gogues. up and down as they sing ~--------------------, "We try to make it infor "Hallelujah! Praised be RELIGION ON CAMPUS mal and inviting." he said. GOP plan may the Lord!" before get "For instance, there is no ting out crayons to trace These figures are from a survey conducted by the demand that students dress their hands into turkey registrar's office at summer orientation. up for services on Friday o pictures. increase loan costs Other Saturday." Tracing hands may 2% However, religious ser will be worth it." seem like child's play, vices also replicate conven By Alex Leary Galloway said that in an effort to Ithacan Staff but it is one way the Prot tional services. cut the federal budget, the Republi estant community at "We have the same read Dana Salvo '95 says his gradua cans' plan does away with in-school tempts to depart from ings and some of the sam tion from Ithaca College comes just subsidized loans and cuts half of traditional religious cel songs students hear a at the right time. the campus-based aid. ebrations. home," said Glori Salvo, who graduates in May, Campus-based aid includes The departure is one Litwinowicz, co-chaplain will not be affected by a proposed Perkins loans, work study and state aspect of religion all of the Catholic community. Republican plan, which could cut supplemental incentive grants, Gal three communities on Litwinowicz said some the federal budget. But he is still loway said. Half of the campus campus - Catholic, tradition in masses helps skeptical of their plans. based cuts would go into the Pell Jewish and Protestant-· homesick students. She re The plan calls for the elimina Protestant grants program, he said. The other must deal with on a cam lated the story of a home tion of federal subsidized loans, 30% half would go to deficit reduction. pus full of distractions. sick first-year student who said Fred Galloway, director offed Under the proposal, interest on Religious communi approached her last year. eral policy analysis for the division loans would begin as soon as the ties on college campuses "She told me she felt lik of governmental relations of the loan was taken. Currently, interest also welcome students at a diffi "We have a philosophy in stu she was with her family in Philadel American Council of Education. does not start accruing until six cult period in their lives when dent development beyond the class phia knowing she was listening to Even though the government still months after graduation. Generally. both the religious and the non room," McAree said. "We believe the same readings," Litwinowic pays the interest on Stafford Loans it takes students five to IO years to religious re-examine their faiths that you should grow emotionally, said. until a student graduates, Salvo said repay the loans, Galloway said. and ideas during such times of intellectually and spiritually." Catholic co-chaplain Thomas J. he will struggle to pay back his The cuts would affect incoming transition in college. Valenti finds the College a very loans. college students or students who About 88 percent of Ithaca The chaplains' role open environment for religion. "It's going to be tough," he said. apply for additional federal loans, College students identify them Jewish Chaplain Michael Faber "I find a lot of theological ''I' II be paying this [ all of my loans] said Robert Butler, vice president selves with one of the three com- said that he has found religious life See RELIGION, page off for along time - hopefully it See LOANS, next page l -~----~------~-------- .. .__..,_.. -- .. -- .. - .. ·-· ............................------ ....... - . 2 The Ithacan December 8, 1994 Health Center offers Ithacan editors named The Board of Publications re Harlin, who will be studying in a co-news editor of the Ithacan. cently named Brian Kohn '95 and London next semester, will resume Harlin has served as assistant news free HIV testing Kevin Harlin '96 as editors in chief Kohn's position in the fall. Both editor, news editor of the 1993 Sum for the 1995 calendar year. have been Ithacan staff members mer Ithacan and also serves as co By Christa Finley "The test is extremely On Monday, Dec. 5, the Board since they were first-year students. news editor with Kohn. Ithacan Staff accuraie, higher than announced that Kohn, who is gradu Kohn has served as sports edi Glenn Roth '96, who is currently The trauma of getting tested ating in July, will serve as editor in tor, editor in chief of the 1993 Sum assistant sports editor, also applied for the HIV virus has alfi!oSt 97 percent. It really is chief for the Spring '95 semester.

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