Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1998-99 The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 4-29-1999 The thI acan, 1999-04-29 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1998-99 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 1999-04-29" (1999). The Ithacan, 1998-99. 28. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1998-99/28 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. Accent 24 . ,. Laughing silly . ,··n Comedian Jon Stewart €a of "The Daily Show" (l 'c;,oilegt f{ommunity visits Ithaca College. VOLUME 66, NUMBER 29 TutlJtSDAY, APRIL 29, 1999 32 PAGES, FREE Littleton tragedy_: close to home graphics. He said it probably hits In her youth, him more because the tragedy happened in a place he knows senior knew about. School safety issues have been raised across the nation in slain coach light of school shootings, ac­ BY KATE HILTS co,rding to USA TODAY. Ithacan Staff Tillman said he hopes schools do not turn into prison­ As gunshots were heard in the like settings. He said all the se­ halls of Columbine High School curity a school gets may not de­ in Littleton, Colo., news reports ter individuals from causing began to flood in on April 20 problems. about students being shot and ex- USA TODAY reported that ---plosions inside the school. schools would like to Through these reports, Ithaca develop improvement programs College students got word of the rather than add additional shooting and one senior at first did security hardware. not realize how close this Ithaca College senior Jenna tragedy was to her. Gruben said she went to high Ithaca College senior Allie MICHAEL MULVEY/KAT school at Arapahoe High Ello heard from other students on A POSTER marks a makeshift memorial of flowers placed near Columbine High School In Littleton, School, which is about five min­ Colo. Teens converged on the site, placing flowers and trying to make sense of last week's violence. campus that there was a shooting utes away from Columbine. in Colorado. She said she did not Columbine High School teacher "The community is tight," "trench coat mafia," USA TO­ She said she was surprised be­ think much of the situation and and coach who was killed while Ello said. "You know your DAY reported. It also reported the cause this sort of thing was not thought the shooting was proba­ helping students to safety. neighbors." students had been planning the at­ supposed to happen in her home bly in Denver. She said Sanders taught her On April 20, two student tack for some time. town. She said hcT high school When Ello got home and how to play when she was 9- gunmen took the lives of 13 peo­ Ti111othy C. Tillman, instructor was very open and was kept that turned on the television she real­ years-old. Sanders was very ac­ ple at the high school in Littleton. of psychology at Ithaca College, way on purpose. Gruben said the ized where the shooting hap­ tive with all the area teams and Twelve of the victims were stu­ attended the "rival" high school openness a\\owcu ~\uucnh, to pened-it was her old hometown. athletes, Ello said. dents, the other was Sanders. The of Columbine, Chatfield Senior learn how to schedule their time Ello moved away from Littleton She said it is hard for her to gunmen were students in the High School. He said his high and prepare for college. before she entered high school, but hear about the tragedy and she school. At about 11 :30 a.m. they school was the same size as Gruben said when she heard she could have gone either to watched Sanders' funeral ser­ opened f.re on classmates and Columbine and had similar de­ about the tragedy she called her Columbine High School or the vice on Monday on CNN. She placed bombs throughout the mographics. mother and her mother told her neighboring high school, Chatfield said she never would have ex­ school and then both took their Tillman said it is hard for stu­ where the tragedy was happening. Senior High School. pected something like that to hap­ own lives. dents everywhere and the demo­ She said parents of students who Ello was taught how to play pen in Littleton and that it all The two students were be­ graphics of Columbine are very attended Columbine work with her softball by Dave Sanders, the seemed very "surreal." lieved to be involved with the close to Ithaca College's demo- mother. Kosovo comes to light at jam-packed teach-in Seven speakers-discuss conflict in Balkans BY VANYA RAINOVA sor of politics, spoke first to sum­ is democracy." Ithacan Staff marize his understanding of the Gagnon summarized the efforts events in Serbia, the U.S. policy of Serbian opposition to remove "Where is all the information or and the consequences of the President Milosevic from power lack of information about Kosovo NATO air strikes. and the lack of U.S. support of de­ coming from? Who benefits from "Briefly, you can think of the mocratization in the former Yu­ this war? Was there a better situation in Serbia for the last I 2 goslav federation. He called the choice?" years as the military industrial par­ U.S. policy toward Yugoslavia a Those were some of the ques­ ty complex of Yugoslavia fighting "two-track policy." tions Zillah Eisenstein, professor of against the pressure for democra­ "On the rhetorical level our gov­ politics, raised to the audience in tization and using violent military ernment is in support of democra­ her introduction to a Kosovo threads to preserve its power," tization and claims that to be one teach-in Tuesday. Gagnon said. of the major goals of its foreign Nearly 300 people gathered to The NATO intervention plays policy," Gagnon said. "However, explore and qu~stion the situation into the cycle of violence, [the government] has done nothing in Kosovo, NATO's intervention Gagnon said. to support the democratization and the media coverage of the con­ "It has been essential to Milo­ process m Yugoslavia until flict. The event was organized by sevic's policy to convince his 1996." the politics department to educate people that the world is hostile to Other speakers focused on them and now NATO gives him the how the media represent the ., ,: · .. .-'.~ ;··,'," ""'1·',· ,''-·-.' · , ·· SUZIEO'ROURKE/THEITHACAN the college community about the u'.s. FRESHMAtf ANNA. EHRLICH (letene attentlVely to one of seven Kosovo crisis. opportunity to prove that to his fol­ speakers at.the ·Ko.ovo teaclHn halcf at noon Tuesday In Textor 101. Chip Gagnon, assistant profes- lowers," Gagnon said. "The victim See PROFESSORS, page 6 2 THE ITiiACAN APRIL29, 1999 Brief! Special Effects Magic" is part of the Sciencenter's celebration of National Science Technology IC officer takes award Week. Sgt. Keith Lee of the Ithaca By Michael W. Bloomroae fronting the Board of Trustees with concerns re­ College Office of Campus Finger lakes nature walk Assistant News Editor garding the downsizing issue. Safety received the Frank Finger Lakes Land Trust's The decision on whether to close the Towers Hammer Officer of the Month "Birds, Birds, Birds Nature Tliis week, four years ago: Dming Hall was postponed because it was to late Award. Lee, who began as an Walk" is scheduled for May 16 A group of professors known as "Raucus Cau­ in the year, said Jack Oblak, vice president of stu­ officer at Ithaca College in at 9 a.m. at the lower preserve cus" organized a rally ouL~ide Job Hall to voice their dent affairs and campus life. 1980, was recognized at a m Enfield located on lradell opinions about the recent downsizing of faculty Oblak said engineers arc still looking into monthly meeting of the Kiwanis Road. at the college. whether the proposed atrium over Egbert Dining Club of Ithaca at Joe's restau­ Junior and senior faculty members, retiring fac­ Hall will be too heavy for the structure to sup­ rant on Buffalo Street. Bob AIDS WORK-training . ulty members and professors who have already port. Holt, director of campus safety, Come to the special AIDS been given "notice," spoke at the rally. Organizers Changes to the snack har will be completed by credited Lee's knowledge of WORK volunteer training on estimated about 600 people attended. the fall, he said. the campus and various issues May 3, 10, 17 and 24 from 6 to The speakers at the rally touched on downsizing The changes include a Market Square salad har, as well as his managerial skills 9 p.m. to find out how you can in all its aspects. They concentrated on the tenure Sara Lee deli and an Al Fresco section,. which will with building a confident repu­ be a part of the local fight policies, the growing rift between the interests of serve pizza. It is also possible that Subway will tation for the campus police, in against AIDS. For more infor­ the administration and interests of faculty, staff be added to the current B.J.'s. an article in the Ithaca Journal. mation, call 272-4098. and students and the lack of diversity. Three hundred members of the graduating class The last professors hired, were the first fired. of 1995 presented a petition to Whalen and Oblak Many of these professors were women and mi­ to express dissatisfaction with the appointed com­ l'EVENTS..