The Ithacan, 2000-12-07

Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2000-01 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 12-7-2000 The thI acan, 2000-12-07 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2000-01 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2000-12-07" (2000). The Ithacan, 2000-01. 14. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2000-01/14 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 2000-01 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. Sports Accent inside What is a Bomber? Hearing voices Accent 13 Classified 21 Does anyone know the story Student a cappella groups gain Comics 20 behind Ithaca's mascot? Page 2 popularity. Page 13 Opinion 10 Sports 23 Vol. 68, No. 13 Ithaca, ·N. Y. The 28 Pages, Free Thursday December 7, 2000 ~ www.ithaca.edu/ithacan Named Best College Weekly in the Nation for 1999 The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community Sodexho standoff ends Agreement Timeline April 7 - The college signs a five-year contract with Sodexho finalized Marriott, which beats current food service provider Chartwells last night in the bidding process. April 13 - The Ithacan reports on BY WENDI DOWST ~ sit-ins at 10 colleges nationwide AND JOE GERAGHTY in which students protested Staff Writers Sodexho Marriott's relationship to private, for-profit prisons. It Six students protesting the also reports on the "Not With college's food service provider Our Money'' campaign, which emerged late Wednesday night calls on students to boycott the from a 34-hour sit-in at the Office food service company because of Admission in Job Hall follow of the connection. ing a private meeting with Presi dent Peggy R. Williams. May 31 - Chartwells' contract During the sit-in, the students, expires. The company had senior Laura Deutch, juniors Lis served the college for 13 years. Pardi, Stephanie Cooper and Sept. 19 ·- Student Government Mark Frank, sophomore Mary Association hears a presentation Rogers and freshman Gra-ce Rit about the changes in the dining ter, had been calling for a meeting halls. It is announced that renova with Williams, demanding that she tions cost the college $846,000. sign a notice breaking the college's five-year Sodexho Marriott con October - The Nine is formed to tract and give the company 90 days protest Sodexho Marriott. The to leave campus. group, which is not officially rec Although this specific de ognized as a student organiza mand was not met during the two tion, begins its "Dump Sodexho" hour meeting, junior Mark campaign by chalk messages Frank, treasurer of the Young across campus, disrupting a Democratic Socialists and a sit-in board of trustees dedication cer participant, told the crowd of emony and distributing anti more than 70 cheering supporters Sodexho literature to campus tours. that an agreement with the ad ministration had been reached. Oct. 26- Leslie Aun, vice presi The college also released an of dent of public relations at ficial statement confirming Sodexho Marriott, meets with the Frank's announcement, which college administration, The Nine said YDS agreed to end the sit-in and the Young Democratic under the following conditions: Socialists. • The administration will con duct thorough research on the .is Nov. 7 - YDS sponsors a teach sue of private prisons and the re in on the prison industry. Co-chair lationship of Sodexho Marriott Kia Kozun distributes form letters Services to private prisons. for students to send to President • There will be a well-adver Peggy R. Williams demanding tised, college-sponsored forum m the college give a 90-day notice early- to mid-February 2001 on the for Sodexho Marriott to leave topics mentioned above. campus. • The president will facilitate See DEAL, page 4 Nov. 10 - President W11lIams holds a meeting with more than - -- -- ------ -- ------1 40 students who are protesting more Sodexho cov Sodexho Marriott to learn about ge on page 2, 4, 5. 10,! KRISTIN SAMPIERE/THE ITHACAN their position. Williams has not and online at 1 VOS CO-CHAIR Kia Kozun uses a two-way radio to communicate with supporters outside the Admission released a decision regarding the ~ w.ithaca.edu/ithacan l Office while she and six others protested at the sit-in inside Tuesday before media were asked to leave. college's future with the company Community reviews online registration BY KELLI B. GRANT a disaster. Kinko's, and has not found out yet whether "That was probably the one thing [across] the Staff Writer Because of the time zone difference, Bar he will be reimbursed. board that everybody was concerned resi woke up in the early morning hours to at Registrar John Stanton said despite crit about-the slowness of the process. The Of Now that every student has had the op tempt to register for the classes he needed for icism from students and faculty, the online fice of Information Technology 1s concen portunity to register using the new online sys his final semester. registration process will be back in April with trating on trying to make that initial input tem for their Spring 2000 courses, the col "When I tried originally, I was unable to minimal changes. [ when the system is first opened up to stu lege community is beginning to asses the ef register from any computer I had access to, There are no major plans at this time to dents) faster." ficiency of the process that debuted last both the ones in the center and at home," he change the registration system by next se Stanton acknowledges that problems month. said. "Eventually I went to Kinko's at 4:30 mester, outside of improving system speed, were expected dunng the first run. but said Senior Jason Barresi, a student studying in a.m. to register." he said. Los Angeles this semester, said registering was Barresi said he paid $~1 to register at "We hope to make it faster," Stanton said. See FACULTY, page 7 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 THE ITHACAN 7, 2000 Issues in the News Protests against prisons leads the news media to better examine issues BY ROBERT B. BLUEY drug laws were not nearly as severe as they trend is not likely to stop. Senior Writer are today and far fewer people were in The Newsweek cover story was inter prison. Given these circumstances, few in esting in that it drew a clear-cut conclu Is prison the answer? the media would have questioned the need sion for readers. Portraying a mother Of late, that question has been raised to incarcerate those committing crimes. whose family has been riddled with jail time and again by the media in exposes of Even though an ecoilomic boom has de time, the article tells of the racial imbal criminals' lives and the growing trend of scended upon the nation and crime rates ance and the need for change. locking these criminals away.. have steadily fallen, the country is still jail The opinion of the writers is that prison With student protests against prisons on ing criminals at an alarming rate. may be doing more damage than good. the rise, the activists have forced the me According to a Nov. 13 Newsweek re They assert that locking up too many peo dia to take a closer port on America's prisons, some 2 million ple may spur an increase in crime: [-----~ews - look at the criminal people are now in jail - and that num "At the very least, our (nation's] poli justice system. ber is likely to increase. cies have arguably hurt certain commu ~ysis The sometimes sym Media interest peaked this summer nities. But they may also be doing deep pathetic perspective when a number of articles and studies re er damage, for they fuel the notion that that is reported not only plays to the ac vealed startling information about the death we can afford to throw human beings tivists' agenda, but pamts an ironic picture: penalty. away." The same media who blatantly demonize Reports began showing racial injustice, The writers are entitled to their opin criminals are now revolting against the sys inequality in the legal system and the pos ion, but perhaps the more important issue tem that incarcerates them. sibility that some on death row were is why Newsweek chose to prominently In the sensational world of television wrongfully convicted. display one angle, while giving only half news, the double standard to which crim Opinion polls have shown Americans a page to a writer with a contradictory inals are held is obvious. Newspapers are are growing more uncertain about sen viewpoint. COURTESY OF NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE guilty as well, giving the alleged attack tencing criminals to death. Texas Gov. It is a debatable editorial judgment. THE NOV. 13 Issue of Newsweek maga er or offender a bum wrap before he or she George W. Bush was faced with protests More significant is the broader notion that zine examined the racial makeup of the has been tried in a court. during his campaign for the presidency it is not only Newsweek, but the media as nation's current prison population. Images of people being dragged away when he continued with a schedule to ex a whole that is starting to question in handcuffs for drug dealing, assault or ecute criminals. whether prison is the right answer. How the press continues its pursuit robbery creates a dangerous perception that The death penalty is just one of many Politicians know that the press can be could'translate into broad reforms or have now has the media pondering why Amer components in the nation's pursuit of jus a guiding force of change.

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