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Page 9 Opinion 8 Sports 19 Vol. 68, No. 12 Ithaca, N.Y The 24 Pages, Free Thursday November 30, 2000 ;t~~;.: ... ~ ' • .,.I .. ;.t~ /'• - www.ithaca.edu/ithacan Named Best College-W~ly -· in the Nation for 1999 The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community Sex reference in paper leads to withdrawal BY ELLEN R. STAPLETON civil behavior that is disruptive is not allowed Assistant News Editor in the context of a course. Rowland said he told White. "You need A junior sport management major claims to understand this is not just words. You've he was intimidated by the associate dean of the done this with a female faculty member. It's School of Business into withdrawing from a not just a case of using bad-boy language." course earlier this semester after writmg an aca­ The Student Conduct Code defines sexu­ demic paper the course professor felt contained al harassment as a form of sex discrimination inappropriate sexual content. that includes demands for sexual favors, graph­ Ryan White, a student in Introduction to ic sexual images, constant sexual banter or Law I with Associate Professor Gwen taunting, repeated unwelcome invitations for Seaquist, business administration, handed in dates or unwelcome physical conduct. a paper Sept._ 27 that included mention of a White said he felt pressured by Rowland hypothetical sexual situation. White said that during their conversations. He subsequent­ when Seaquist returned the papers to the ly approached Seaquist with a letter of apol­ class, she told him to meet with Associate . ogy, apologized verbally and withdrew Denn Hugh Rowland. · • from the course. Later, however, White came White said Rowland told him the content to question whether his actions warranted his of his paper was not academic and warned withdrawal, and whether Rowland's handling him that if he did not withdraw from the class, of his case had been appropriate. Seaquist was considering pursuing sexual ha­ rassment charges with Judicial Affairs. The assignment "What I remember saying [to White] is The assignment in question was a take­ that she was very upset and even feeling a home essay. Students were presented with a bit intimidated by what he wrote," Rowland legal problem in which 12 passengers in an told The Ithacan. "Professor Seaquist said in airplane crash in New York wanted to sue the all the years she has taught, she has never had airline in a single lawsuit. The students were an instance like that. expected to explain what courts had juris­ "I told him that the faculty member would diction over the case. very likely refer him for a judicial [charge]," White's answer said:"... the only way this he said. case can be heard in [U.S. district] court is if In his interview with The Ithacan, Row­ there arises a federal question. For instance, if land cited college policy that he says directly it becomes fact that while the female pilot was relates to White's case. The Student Conduct perfo,ming fellatio, 's--king d--k' if you will, Code's Statement of Responsibilities for Per­ on the male pilot over federal airspace causing sonal Respect and Safety states, "All forms the pilot to lose his sense of direction and crash, of sexual offense are expressly prohibited." th:~ court may be able to hear the case. It could ALEX MORRISON/THE ITHACAN In addition, Rowland said he believes it JUNIOR RYAN WHITE sits outside Textor 102, where Introduction to Law I, taught by is college policy that in a college setting, un- See DEAN, page 4 Associate Professor Gwen Seaquist, meets. White withdrew from the class in October. REGISTRATION HEADACHES Suspect identified as fugitive Norm Wall, associate director of Garden 26 trespasser was wanted for fraud Campus Safety, said police deter­ BY AARON J. MASON apartment, who was home at the mined that Worley was staymg with News Editor time when she said Worley entered an acquaintance at a home m Nov. 12, also reported seeing the Tompkins County. Police, howev­ The man arrested for trespassing suspect agam on the evening of er, do not know what led hun to in several Garden 26 apartments Nov. 14 sitting in a car outside Gar­ come onto campus, Wall said. earlier this month has been identi­ den 26. When he got out of the car Residents who came into contact fied as a federal fugitive wanted by and walked toward an apartment. with Worley said he repeatedly U.S. Marshals. another resident then called police. asked them where Garden 26 was, Martin Officers who responded then saying he had to meet "the band." Joseph See "Our View·· ! found the man in a Garden 26 apart­ Police have been unable to deter­ Worley, ' Page 8 , ment. Worley was unable to provide mine why Worley seemed disori­ 41, was i ---·----' any identification or a legitimate ented. There is no md1cat1on he wao; taken into custody by Ithaca College reason for being on campus. under the influence of drugs or al­ Campus Safety Officers Nov. 14. The suspect was arrested for IOJ­ cohol, Wall said. Several students had contacted tering and false impersonation and From Nov. 11 to Nov. 16. Cam­ Campus Safety Nov. 12 and 14 re­ was arraigned in a Town of Danby pus Safety received six calls from porting a suspicious man on campus. court. He was being held in the students who reported seeing a sus­ On Nov. 12, a resident of a Tompkins County Jail when a picious person on campus. fourth floor Garden 26 apartment search of the FBI fingerprint files Wall said Campus Safety en­ notified Campus Saftey after she identified the suspect as Worley, a courages community members to re­ said Worley let himself into her fugitive wanted by U.S. Marshals in port anything suspicious or out of the apartment and left after being con­ Ohio on fraud-related charges. He ordinary. He credited the alertness of fronted by the apartment's residents. has since been transported back to the the residents m the apprehension of One of the same residents of the Midwestern state to face charges. Worley. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2000 2 THE ITHACAN Issues . ~n tne News Election 2000 Media 'Spin' makes presidential race viewers dizzy on Election Night BY ROBERT B. BLUEY .----------------------------·'---7 FOX News' election night decision desk. Senior Writer . k ,,. · Ellis made the call that first gave Florida ----------------- I to Bush. Moments later, the other networks ~ _.(a**" or ~ .&ti In their battle for the White House, ~ ~"'1 I,I.ft 1-~ft' followed suit, and with the exception of the N o II T H E w E • Associated Press, they all had declared George W. Bush and Al Gore spent much lJ Bush the president-elect." of their time arguing over policy. But buried WEDNESDAY, HOVEUBER 8, 2000 3:08 AJ,I. ET IPmont1m Yoor Whtha underneath their promises to fix Social Se­ Ellis' relation might not have mattered curity and improve education, and a more in most cases, but after it was disclosed that important issue remains hidden. BUSH CAPTURES THE WHITE HOUSE, he shared data from the network with his It's called the Spin. cousins, George W. and Jeb Bush, one must The term has come to symbolize polit­ -DEFEA11NG GORE BY A HAIRBREADTH question FOX's journalistic standards. ical chatter in a time when cable news net­ Or, there was Dan Rather, who after mak­ r----. - . ·- works devote hours to Florida Gives Bush the Edge; ing the blunder of placing Florida first in i' News • ,I talking about candi­ Gore Is Defeated in Tennessee Gore's column and then in Bush's, left view­ , analysis , dates' strengths and ers chuckling when he characterized the elec­ L__.. _ . ·--- __ j weaknesses. Tune m to tion in his own words. Coining phrases like, CNN, MSNBC or FOX News, and there "Bush is sweeping through the South like a will be a political pundit to analyze their tornado through a trailer park" and "These every move. Sometimes these pundits even returns are running like a squirrel in a cage," travel in pairs - one from the right, the the legendary CBS anchor left viewers won­ other from the left- hitting all of the net­ dering what had come over him. works, repeating the same arguments. Adding to the Nov. 7 election night dra­ When the campaign ended this elec­ ma was the Web and its never-ending sources tion year, however, those pundits didn't PRf\101:~T ,;: ··! :· .)·: • ,i.J ' of information. With all of the nation's ma­ pack their bags. As the recount wore on Elect.ral Veta Pofular Vota jor newspapers and Internet-only news out­ in Flonda, they seemed to multiply, a new 238 44.119,$11 (48%) lets making their election debut, the scenarios breed showing up every day. As Sunday's 279 45,016.tlJ (41%) played out differently from television but just as fascinating to watch.