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TEINMETZ / THE THE / TEINMETZ S MAX Thursday Ithaca, N.Y. March 6, 2008 The Ithacan Volume 75, Issue 21 College trustees A LOOK DOWNTOWN approve record Closing up shop tuition increase BY TRISTAN FOWLER MANAGING EDITOR Economic downturn and corporate competition Th e Ithaca College Board of leave The Commons in a constant state of fl ux Trustees approved a $1,936 increase in tuition last Th ursday, bringing the cost of tuition to $30,606 for the 2008-09 academic year. Th is is the largest dollar increase of tuition in the college’s history. Carl Sgrecci, vice president of fi - nance and administration, said the college estimates the total cost of attendance for a full time student living in a dou- ble room will be $42,183 — a 5.99 percent increase from last year. In a letter to students’ parents, BY ELIZABETH SILE retailers that once thrived but have closed president Peggy ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR as a result of a stagnant economy, compe- R. Williams said Th e line at Juna’s Café extends far tition and recent construction projects. SGRECCI said the increase is a beyond the espresso machine. Th e barista Ithaca Books, the used bookstore the total cost to refl ection of the attend the college fi lls cardboard cups for a group of people that inhabited the historic Colonial will be $42,183 college’s eff orts to anxious for their caff eine fi xes. A young Building near Cayuga Street, recent- next year. “control expenses girl pokes her head around her mother’s ly closed. Fibers, a large storefront and to implement legs as she waves located near Center Ithaca and Ten the lowest possible cost adjustment.” to a group of Th ousand Villages that sold clothing “Only after exploring every other View an audio teenagers lining and accessories for women and chil- possible revenue stream, do we con- slideshow of Juna’s the wall near closing celebration dren, is now a deserted retail remnant. sider raising the rates for tuition, room the door. at www.theithacan. Th e Smoothie Hut, Beads!, Mulberry and board,” she said in the letter. As a wom- org/go/08Junas Knoll and Night + Day have all relocat- Th e total operational budget for an talks to the ed away from Th e Commons or closed the 2008-09 academic year will in- barista, nearly shouting over the warble within the past year. Employees at Be- crease by $11 million to $189 million. of the espresso machine, she suddenly yond Th e Wall, a poster store, said they In 2007-08, the budget increased by halts conversation and fi xes her eyes closed down Tuesday. $9.8 million. on a sign plastered to the wall. It reads, Gueldner said in the past decade, C. William Schwab, chair of the “Th ere are other Stars crowding the café the increase in large, chain businesses Board of Trustees, said the board stage and there is no more room for Juna around Ithaca and Th e Commons has aimed to off er a high quality educa- … the fi nal curtain will soon be drawn.” drastically changed the retail environ- tion at an aff ordable cost when look- Last Th ursday was the curtain call to ment and small, urban feel of the area. ing at a tuition increase. Juna’s fi nal performance on Th e Com- She said independent coff ee shops such “Th e board really looks at [the mons. After seven years running, Juna’s as Juna’s Café noticed a plummet in operational budget] very carefully,” is striking set, closing and moving on. sales after Starbucks moved just outside he said. “I would say there’s no item “It’s been tough listening to people Th e Commons. TO READ MORE ... on an annual basis that is scrutinized tell me how sorry they are,” Juna’s co- Gueldner said when Starbucks opened Go to page 19 to read about a new more carefully.” owner Pam Gueldner, said. “Because I in April 2006, she did not anticipate the Senior Joshua Keniston, student don’t want to be going.” competition would hurt her establish- Austrian bakery, Brötchen, which just trustee, said the board aims to give Juna’s Café is not the only store on ment, but Juna’s suff ered an immediate opened on The Commons. “top notch” services to students Th e Ithaca Commons forced to close or 20 percent decline in sales. while remaining accessible. relocate. A tour around Th e Commons John Fink, a Juna’s Café employee, sweeps up the “Th ere’s always some discussion reveals several empty storefronts of local See CLOSED, page 6 fl oor at the store’s closing night last Thursday. about what this means for our stu- MAX STEINMETZ/THE ITHACAN dents,” he said. “But ultimately we have to do what’s right for the institution.” Sgrecci said the additional tuition CAPITAL CAMPAIGN will fund a new Offi ce of Assessment, BREAKING IT DOWN expansion of the First Year Seminar Ithaca College’s Capital Campaign raised a total of $145 million. program and enhanced safety and se- Campaign exceeds goal Here’s the breakdown of where it came from. curity on campus, such as the newly SOURCE: ITHACA COLLEGE OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT implemented emergency notifi cation BY AARON MUNZER ing team shirt — an omen, she said system. He said there will be a nearly *Trustees include OTHER SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER — that she was wearing the night be- alumni, non-alumni and ORGANIZATIONS $2 million increase to employee ben- President Peggy R. Williams fore the big announcement. all current and honor- $.7 million efi t costs, such as health insurance announced last Friday that Ithaca Th e campaign, which offi cially ary trustees. The and retirement plans. Th e college will College’s fi rst Capital Campaign has concluded Friday at midnight, was categories are mu- FOUNDATIONS** also allocate an extra $700,000 for tually exclusive. far surpassed its goal after raising already on track to pass the original $1,470,940 new staff and faculty positions. $145 million — a sum that jumped goal of $115 million after Edward ** More than TRUSTEES* Sgrecci said this year’s bud- after a last-minute gift of $25 mil- Glazer ’92 gave the college a $2 mil- $50 million of $8 million get did not include an increase to the Foundation lion from the Atlantic Philanthro- lion gift to support the Athletics and ALUMNI utilities because of the college’s pies. Th e college beat their goal by Events Center. gifts result from conservation efforts, such as new Ithaca College $12 million more than $30 million. Th ough the campaign silently relationships lighting in the Gannett and Hill Williams said she was completely began in 2001, the college offi cially PARENTS Centers and changes to heating with other individ- $3.6 million surprised by the “transformative” do- announced the public phase in uals. These gifts and ventilation systems. nation, which will fund a large pool October 2006. At that time, they are refl ected under OTHER “It was a pleasure to put together building in the planned Athletics and had already raised more than $80 “Foundations” rather INDIVIDUALS the budget for next year without hav- Events Center. million. During the course of the than the other catego- $14.7 million ing to increase the utility budget, and ries because the Founda- “It has been an incredible ride,” campaign’s public phase, the col- that’s given that we’re bringing on yet tion is the “giving instrument.” CORPORATIONS Williams said, after ripping open her DESIGNED BY LENA YUE $41 million shirt to expose a swimming and div- See FUNDING, page 4 See TUITION, page 4

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2 The Ithacan Thursday, March 6, 2008 THIS Nation&World WEEK  Candidates await fi nal nomination 6 THURSDAY Hillary Rodham Clinton is hinting at the possi- bility of sharing the Democratic presidential ticket Mesa Española from 6 to 7 p.m. with Barack Obama but says voters still have to in the Terrace Dining Hall decide the party nominee. Clinton says: “Th at may be where this is head- 7 FRIDAY ed, but of course we have to decide who is on the top of ticket. I think the people of Ohio very clearly Shabbat Services at 6 p.m. in said that it should be me.” Muller Chapel Obama is playing down his losses Tuesday in three out of four primaries, including the battle- Shabbat dinner at approximately grounds of Texas and Ohio. He stresses that he is 7:15 p.m. on the Terrace Dining still ahead of Clinton in the delegate count. Hall balcony In appearances on the morning talk shows, 8 SATURDAY both Democrats say they have the credentials to go head to head with Republican nominee-in-waiting Residence Halls close for Spring John McCain. Break at noon Latin countries call for apology 9 SUNDAY Venezuela and Ecuador took their growing confl ict with Colombia to the diplomatic front, Mesa Española at noon in the seeking international condemnation of Colombia’s Terrace Dining Hall deadly assault on a rebel base in Ecuador. Th e two countries tightened their borders and Catholic Community Mass at 1 and 9 p.m. in Muller Chapel were deploying thousands of troops, while Colom- bia on Tuesday pointed to documents found in a 16 SUNDAY slain rebel leader’s laptop that it claimed was proof Flag burning for a prophet of stunning links between the leftist guerrillas and Members of the provincial council of the Afghan parliament burn fl ags of Denmark in a rally yesterday in Residence halls open after Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. Jalalabad, east of Kabul, against the reproduction of a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The Spring Break at noon Ecuador rejected a Colombian apology for the cartoon was circulated in Danish newspapers for an upcoming Dutch fi lm criticizing the Quran. cross-border strike as insuffi cient and sought to RAHMAT GU/ASSOCIATED PRESS 17 MONDAY rally opposition during an emergency meeting of the Organization of American States. Screening of “Jesus Christ Th e meeting was convened in Washington to militant group that violently seized control of Gaza “constant vigilance” as the weak dollar, the U.S. sub- Superstar” at 8 p.m. in the help defuse one of South America’s most volatile from Abbas’ forces last June. Israel and the U.S. con- prime mortgage crisis and political tensions in the Phillips Room in Muller Chapel crises in years. Venezuela’s justice minister de- sider Hamas a terrorist group, and Israel has killed Middle East rattle markets worldwide clared that war “has already begun.” more than 120 Palestinians in fi ghting with Hamas “Th e growing sense of despondency about the 18 TUESDAY At Venezuela’s border with Colombia, National militants over the past week. future global economic outlook is generating much Guard troops turned back Colombian cargo trucks Although Abbas is locked in a bitter rivalry with uncertainty in energy circles,” he said in an opening Housing selection for students under orders from Caracas. Hamas, he suspended the U.S.-backed peace talks address to oil ministers gathered in Vienna. with more than fi ve semesters Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa began a this week to protest the Israeli crackdown in Gaza. “Th ere have been signs that the oil market is mov- at 7 a.m. on Homer Connect six-nation tour in Peru and Brazil, calling Colombi- Speaking to reporters at his West Bank headquar- ing into a new phase,” Khelil said, adding: “It should IC Environmental Society weekly an President Alvaro Uribe a liar who “wanted war.” ters in Ramallah, he said negotiations could not be characterized by stability and not volatility.” meeting at 8 p.m. in Friends 203 Correa warned that if the attack goes unpunished, resume until the fi ghting ended. “Understand the consequences of high energy “the region will be in danger, because the next vic- prices,” Bush said after meeting with King Abdullah 19 WEDNESDAY tim could be Peru, it could be Brazil, Venezuela, OPEC not worried about oil prices II of Jordan in the Oval Offi ce. Bolivia, any one of our countries.” OPEC’s president urged the cartel to main- “I think it’s a mistake to have your biggest cus- Housing selection for students tain “constant vigilance” yesterday with oil prices tomers’ economies slowing down as a result of high- with between 4 and 4.9 semes- Palestine halts peace agreements hovering above $100 per barrel but said despite a er energy prices,” he added. ters at 7 a.m. on Homer Connect Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said turbulent world economy, the global market for Japan, the U.S. and other major industrialized yesterday he would not resume peace talks with crude was stable. nations have urged OPEC — which supplies about ADD YOUR EVENT Israel until the Jewish state reached a truce in OPEC President Chakib Khelil said crude stocks 40 percent of world demand for crude — to bring the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, complicating were well within their fi ve-year average, and the 13- more oil on the market and pull down prices, which Drop events for “This Week” in the latest peace mission by Secretary of State nation group would likely leave unchanged its global reached an infl ation-adjusted record of nearly $104 the marked box in The Ithacan Condoleezza Rice. output of about 32 million barrels a day. a barrel this week. offi ce, or e-mail Assistant News Abbas’ statement essentially ordered Israel to Khelil cautioned that the Organization of Petro- Editor Elizabeth Sile at esile1@ work out an arrangement with Hamas, the Islamic leum Exporting Countries would have to maintain SOURCE: Associated Press ithaca.edu by 5 p.m. Monday. CLARIFICATION Th e puppet show will begin at Panel discussions, keynote speak- In “Shattering the Silence College&City 2 p.m. in the Bernie Milton Pavilion ers, question and answer sessions (2/28),” The Ithacan reported on Th e Commons. and presentations will also examine that the New York state penal Presidential candidates active e-mail accounts and to facul- China as it prepares to host the 2008 code found a person guilty announced next week ty and staff telephones listed in the Tap dancer to present Olympic Games. of sexual misconduct when Th e Board of Trustees will campus directory. on cultural infl uences Th e discussions and presentations “he or she engages in sexual announce the fi rst two candidates Campus community members Th e Ulysses Philomathic Library will be given by Cornell professors intercourse with another person for the presidential search next should give their personal e-mail will host dancer Nancy Kane for a pre- as well as other visiting experts from without that person’s consent.” week. Th e third candidate will be accounts if used frequently, a cell sentation on “American Tap Dance: other institutions. The most recent version of the announced on March 21. phone number for text messages Irish and African-American Infl u- Th e event is free and open to code goes on to say a person is Th e Intercom announcements will and other telephone numbers to ences,” at 2 p.m. Sunday. the public. also guilty of sexual misconduct include candidates’ names, creden- receive voice messages. Kane, a dancer teacher at SUNY- For more information contact Les- if “he or she engages in oral tials, biographies and visit schedules. To receive information through Cortland, began studying tap dance ley Hernandez at [email protected]. sexual conduct or anal sexual Th e fi rst candidate will interview all means, students, faculty and staff in 1991. She was introduced to Irish conduct with another person March 17 and 18, and the second should log in to www.ithaca.edu/ dancing as a doctoral student at New LGBT outreach groups without such person’s consent,” will interview March 19 and 20. Th e emergency notifi cation. York University. Later she studied at to sponsor fi lm series or “he or she engages in sexual third candidate will be on campus Ireland’s University of Limerick with The Ithaca College Center for conduct with an animal or dead March 25 and 26. Anti-war protest groups choreographers and members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans- human body.” Scheduled visits will include to hold local puppet show Irish dance show, “Riverdance.” gender (LGBT) Education, Out- It is The Ithacan’s policy to presentations and meetings with Tompkins County Marches Th e event is part of the Library’s reach, and Services will feature correct all errors of fact. the campus community. for Peace, in conjunction with 2008 speaker series. Th e event will be the documentary “Boy I Am” as Please contact Assistant News the College’s Students for a Just held at the Ulysses Historical Society, part of its Out of the Closet and Editor Elizabeth Sile at 274-3207 Campus-wide ENS test Peace and other local groups, will 39 South St. in Trumansburg. On to the Screen film series. scheduled for today host a giant puppet theater song “Boy I Am” documents the COPY EDITORS Th e deadline to sign up for March 15. Cornell to host seminar resistance of some feminist and the College’s Emergency Noti- Th e puppet show, “All People on 2008 Beijing Olympics lesbian communities towards fe- Khadijah Anderson, Alex Barnett, fi cation System (ENS) is today Are Created Equal: A Giant Pup- Cornell University’s Americans male to male transsexual people. Sarah Berger, Michelle Bizon, before the system test during the pet Pageant for Peace,” will mark for Informed Democracy will host The series’ focus for this year David Durrett, Ursula Fox-Koor, noon hour. the fi fth anniversary of the invasion “Beijing Olympics 2008: Under- is how people challenge and Anna Funck, Kara Gornick, Th e ENS system uses voice, e- of Iraq. Members of the groups will standing China’s Emergence onto the redefine common conceptions Heather Karschner, Lauren mail and text messaging services to protest the invasion and occupa- World Stage” from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. of gender. Kaufman, Cassandra Leveille, make campus-wide announcements tion through the puppet show. Saturday in HEC Auditorium. The film will screen tonight at Jennifer Levitt, Kate Milton, regarding time-sensitive informa- Th ose who would like to partici- Th e conference will explore Chi- 7 p.m. in Textor 101. Brian Stern, Lauren Strassman, tion during emergency situations. pate must attend a dress rehearsal at na’s development and its relations For more information on the Juliana Stiles, Samantha Tibbetts, Hilary Westgate All ENS messages are sent to noon before the event. with Tibet and Taiwan. series visit www.ithaca.edu/lgbt. Thursday, March 6, 2008 NEWS The Ithacan 3 Second dean fi nalist stresses school identity Middle States BY JACKIE PALOCHKO team off ers STAFF WRITER Leslie Lewis, the second candidate for the assessment School of Humanities and Sciences dean position, focused on creating better communication fl ow BY NATHANIEL WEIXEL between students and administrators as well as the SENIOR WRITER importance of a stronger identity for the school at Th e Middle States Com- open sessions on campus Monday and Tuesday. mission on Higher Education Th e search committee began looking for a new presented a draft of its fi ndings dean in August when Howard Erlich, dean of the to the college, a culmination of School of Humanities and Sciences, announced a 10-year process to reaccredit he would step down this May before taking a the college. sabbatical next year. Joseph Gilmour, president of Lewis, dean of the School of Arts and Hu- Wilkes University and the Middle manities at the College of St. Rose in Albany N.Y., States team said she applied for the dean position because she chair, said in is attracted to Ithaca College’s academic reputa- open sessions tion and said that she could handle the challenges Monday and of the job. yesterday, “I have a real understanding of faculty con- that the col- cerns and culture,” she said. “I understand [the] lege “is on college to be a very student-centered institution the threshold and … car[e] and concern for students is a big part of true great- WILLIAMS said of who I am.” ness.” He also the team offered Lewis received her bachelor’s degree in the lib- said the most good advice for eral arts from St. John’s College. She obtained her significant the college. masters degree in English from the University of impediment Virginia and her doctoral degree in African Amer- the college community faces is ican Literature from Indiana University. Leslie Lewis, dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at the College of St. Rose, sits in her offi ce. “believing in itself enough to Before she worked at the College of Saint Rose, Lewis is the second fi nalist for the School of Humanities and Sciences dean position at Ithaca College. do the diffi cult and uncomfort- Lewis was the director of Ethnic and Gender Stud- COURTESY OF LESLIE LEWIS able things that must be done to ies and assistant professor of English at Emporia qualities and qualifi cations for the new dean early “It’s great to have someone who can really hear the achieve [the mission statement].” State University. on in the search with Rountree. needs of faculty and respond to those needs in a Gilmour said a written draft of “I have administrative experiences as a dean, “Th ey all agreed it’s critical it [should] be fl exible and creative way.” the team’s fi ndings would be sent department chair and as a program director,” she someone with integrity,” she said. “Some- Freshman Gamy Wong, an exploratory stu- to the college within a few weeks. said. “Th at experience gives me a good sense of one faculty trusts, that they believe will be dent, said the new dean should communicate bet- Th e administration will have an what this job entails.” advocating for their best interests. Someone that ter with students in his major. opportunity to correct any factual Lewis said she is eager to talk with H&S faculty, will be concerned [for] students ... Someone that “I would like to see the new dean interact with errors on the report before the staff and students before defi ning specifi c goals for will be focused on educational issues.” the students a lot more,” he said. “I know a lot of fi nal version is published. the school. Lewis said if she was hired she would get to exploratory students are confused about what they Gilmour said the team found a “I think as dean, it’s very important to listen to know faculty and students by having an open door should do and eventually go to … another school. number of achievements as well as people for a long time fi rst,” she said. “Th en you policy, in which students could have “coff ee and More direction and help would keep these kids in some areas of concern he felt the can move forward with new ideas.” tea with the dean” and say what is on their minds. the Humanities and Sciences.” college should address. Some of Kathleen Rountree, provost and vice presi- “I think having a dialogue with administra- Lewis said she was concerned with the identity the achievements included transi- dent for academic aff airs at the college, said she tors, faculty, staff and students is the way to ad- of the school and that it would be a top priority. tioning to a new student informa- is very pleased with all three candidates and dress many of the problems the school might “We need to have the faculty and staff and stu- tion system, addressing the quality would like the new dean to be able to connect face,” she said. dents of H&S stand up and say, ‘We’re H&S and of work life for faculty and staff with faculty and students and fi nd solutions to Lauryl Tucker, assistant professor of English, here’s what we think,’” she said. “Otherwise, our and meeting enrollment goals and their problems. attended Lewis’s presentation Tuesday morning. identity is lost.” excellence in diversity. Th e search committee, composed of seven fac- She said she thought Lewis would make a good Th e fi nal candidate, Richard Emmerson of “Many people tell me you can’t ulty members, one administrator, one staff mem- dean for the school. Florida State University, will meet with faculty, do both at the same time, but you ber and one student representative, discussed the “[Lewis] seems like a good listener,” Tucker said. staff and students today and Friday. did, and you’ve shown you can do it,” Gilmour said. He also commended the col- lege for its fi rst-year programs and he urged the administration to FLEFF to off er mini-courses keep them going. Among the areas the col- BY CLARA EISINGER Th e festival began in 1997 as a lege should focus on improving, STAFF WRITER partnership between Ithaca College Gilmour said, are the Depart- Seven mini-courses related to and the Center for the Environment ment of Graduate Studies and issues of sustainability will be avail- at Cornell University. the Division of International and able to students as part of the Finger Schlesinger said the mini-courses Interdisciplinary Studies. Gilm- Lakes Environmental Film Festival are designed as seminars with an our said those departments need for the third straight year. average of 10 to 15 students per class. greater support and need to be Warren Schlesinger, associ- He said 68 students are enrolled, integrated more into the fabric of ate professor of accounting and though the courses were designed to the institution. coordinator for the courses, said hold as many as 105. “It’s the essence of the future the classes will be off ered dur- Schlesinger said more than 100 for many of our students in a world ing Block II and are open to all students are interning with the that is going to become increasing- students. He said the courses FLEFF festival to make other stu- ly global … these programs need to will connect fi lms and speak- dents more aware of the opportuni- be fed, sustained, supported and ers from the week-long FLEFF ties the festival provides. integrated,” Gilmour said. festival with classroom discussions “As we get closer to the festi- Warren Schlesinger, associate professor of accounting and coordinator of the Gilmour also said there are val, we’re hoping that they will FLEFF mini-courses, meets with students Friday in the School of Business. inconsistencies with the rigor of about how these issues relate to TAYLOR MCINTYRE/THE ITHACAN topics such as sustainability. in effect network and get the stu- faculty evaluations, which is some- “Th e faculty are bringing their dents to know about the films,” class will explore how their fami- such as corn. thing every department needs to expertise in their various disci- Schlesinger said. lies’ cultures have changed over In Gossa Tsegaye’s course “Un- focus on. plines and helping students and Schlesinger said the courses time. His students will also discuss derstanding Documentaries: A President Peggy R. Williams are using that as a lens to see the vary widely in topic but all pertain to what extent people should adopt Survey of FLEFF Films,” the assis- said she is still processing the re- fi lms and the festival in a diff erent to the core values of FLEFF. other cultures and to what extent tant professor of television-radio port but feels Gilmour and the sort of way,” Schlesinger said. Rachel Wagner, assistant pro- they should keep their own. will explore how documentaries team gave the college good ideas Patricia Zimmermann, pro- fessor of philosophy and religion, In the “We Have Issues: Ex- tell stories. for how to get better. fessor of cinema, photography said she is excited to be teaching ploring the Larger Environmental Th e emerging issue of water “I take this very seriously, and and media arts and co-director one of the mini-courses this year. Context Behind Films” class, Susan politics will be the focus of Mara if you don’t do it for your own of FLEFF, said the Division of In- Her class, “Playing God: Interac- Allen-Gil, associate professor of Alper’s class “Water=Life.” self improvement, it’s a waste ternational and Interdisciplinary tivity in Video Games and Film,” biology, and several environmen- Rothbart knows from experi- of time,” she said. Studies sponsors the fi lm festival. will focus on the ways in which tal science faculty will discuss the ence that when his class dips its Associate Provost David Gar- Zimmermann looks forward movies and video games are like politics behind scientific issues. toes into discussion, no one will cia was impressed with the Mid- to the festival because it is a space rituals and involve religion. Stewart Auyash, associate pro- come to any form of consensus, dle States team’s ability to assess where musicians, artists, directors, Peter Rothbart, professor of mu- fessor of health promotion and but he doesn’t mind. the college in only three days. faculty, students and many other sic theory, history and composition, physical education, plans to teach “We don’t come up with an- “I felt we were well prepared groups can meet to talk about has taught mini-courses before and “Food, Politics and Health,” a class swers, but we have really good dis- … we did what we were supposed emerging issues. decided to repeat the one he off ered examining how political deci- cussions,” he said. to do. I heard a lot of confi rma- “It’s intellectual, it’s edgy, and the fi rst time — “Cultural Ecology.” sions impact food and healthcare, FLEFF will run from March 31 tion of where we felt we were as hopefully it’s fun,” she said. Rothbart said students in his driving up the costs of staples through April 6. an institution.” 4 The Ithacan NEWS Thursday, March 6, 2008 Tuition increase will raise fi nancial aid by $4 million TUITION FROM PAGE 1 MOVIN’ ON UP The Ithaca College Board of Trustees grant- another building with the Gateway Building ed emeritus status, tenure and promotion to next year.” faculty at its meeting last week. Schwab said while the price continues to Emeritus Status rise, he does not feel the increase in tuition Granted honorary emeritus status: will aff ect enrollment. Mary Arlin, Music Theory, History “I think we’re very competitive in the re- and Composition gion,” he said. “And looking at some other Garry Brodhead, Offi ce of the Provost schools, we do compete for students.” Henry Neubert, Music Performance Sgrecci said the college’s increase still sets Marjorie Porterfi eld, Music Theory, History and Composition the tuition lower than the tuitions at similar Sandra Herndon, Communication Learning institutions. He said the college compares its and Design cost to the those at a core group of 20 schools Nancy Ramage, Art History within the region, such as Boston University, Diane Schwartz, Mathematics and New York University and American Univer- Computer Science sity. Sgrecci said Ithaca is compared to these Garry Thomas, Anthropology institutions based on the schools Ithaca Col- Tenure and Promotion lege students most frequently apply to. Th e Granted tenure and promoted from assistant college’s tuition lands the school as the nine- professor to associate professor: teenth most expensive out of the 21 schools. Les Black, Music Theory, History “Everybody, whether they’re on fi nancial aid and Composition or not, is benefi ting from the fact that we’ve tried Marina Caillaud, Biology to control our cost and we’re keeping them two Vivian Bruce Conger, History Julia Cozzarelli, Modern Languages or three thousand dollars less than some of our From left, Lasonya Griggs, assistant director for the Offi ce of Financial Aid, helps sophomore Katie and Literatures competing sister institutions,” Sgrecci said. Fields with a FAFSA form Monday afternoon. Tuition will be $1,936 more in the 2008-09 year. Rebecca Jemian, Music Theory, History and Sgrecci said in relation to the rising cost of BRIAN STERN/THE ITHACAN Composition attendance, the college tries to increase fi nan- raise the grant to $11,000. lege more aff ordable for students by increas- Howard Kalman, Strategic Communication cial aid on an annual basis. He said fi nancial “We’re trying to keep pace with being able ing these aid sources,” Chambers said. Peter Melcher, Biology aid will increase by 7 percent for the 2008-09 to give fi nancial aid at the same level that we’ve Additional aid will come from the newly Nicholas Muellner, Cinema and Photography school year, from $60 million to $64 million. been able to give in prior years and perhaps a completed capital campaign. A part of the Tom Nicholson, Television and Radio Shaianne Osterreich, Economics About a third of the college’s upcoming budget bit more,” Sgrecci said. $145 million raised by the campaign will go to Rebecca Plante, Sociology will provide fi nancial aid for students, he said. Larry Chambers, director of student fi nan- fund 44 new scholarships. Bruce Thompson, Physics The school will also offer a $1,000 in- cial services, said the college will not know Schwab said he believes the price of a good Scott Ulrich, Chemistry crease to the Ithaca Access Grant, the larg- how fi nancial aid will be allocated until infor- education will continue to rise. Granted tenure and promoted from associate est need-based financial aid offered at the mation on the fi nancial status of the incoming “Th is is really the price of doing business professor to professor: college, which will be available to incoming class is received. and the price of delivering a quality educa- Danette Johnson, Speech Communication freshmen, Sgrecci said. The increase will “Th e hope is that this will make Ithaca Col- tion,” he said.

CAPITAL CAMPAIGN College receives last-minute donation FUNDING than a withdrawal. ready seeing the eff ects of the cam- FROM PAGE 1 “I’ve been to a lot of events where paign, most visibly with the newly we spent a lot of money,” he said. “But opened School of Business. lege held 35 promotional events in today, we’re here to celebrate a rever- Later this spring or summer, con- 17 cities and met with more than sal of cash fl ows.” struction will begin on the A&E Cen- 2,500 alumni, parents and friends to Sgrecci noted the campaign was ter, a 130,000-square-foot fi eld house solicit donations. not without its challenges. For a time, and outdoor lighted turf fi eld. Th e Ithaca’s big gift isn’t so unusual in he said, turnover within the devel- cost of the new building is expected the world of higher education. Ac- opment offi ce was high. At least 10 to be $35 million, and fundraising cording to a recent report by the members of its staff resigned or retired will continue for that project until Council for Aid to Education, gifts to since the campaign began in 2001. goals are met. Th e building is expect- schools from foundations — like the “Many times our [development] ed to be the largest indoor venue in Atlantic Philanthropies — increased staff was literally raided by competing Tompkins County. by 19.7 percent last year, reaching $8.5 institutions,” he said. Beyond the infrastructure im- billion nationwide. But the college has seen huge gains provements, the campaign has cre- From left, President Peggy R. Williams displays a check for more than $30 Carl Sgrecci, vice president for fi - in total donations in just a few years. In ated or endowed a number of new million for the Capital Campaign as Deb Mohlenhoff, assistant director of nance and administration, who has the 2003-04 school year, overall con- academic programs, 144 new scholar- community service development for the Center for Student Leadership and been at the college for 41 years, said tributions rounded out at $5,341,143. ships and 40 more funds that benefi t Involvement offi ce, speaks in the new School of Business on Friday. the campaign was the second most By the 2006-07 school year, overall existing academic programs and ath- MAX STEINMETZ/THE ITHACAN historic event in the college’s history, contributions shot up to $17,462,599, letics. Th e campaign has also provided trailing only behind the creation of the according to an analysis of fi gures pro- support for the Ithaca Fund, which Building under construction by the taken out bonds to pay for it. South Hill campus. vided by the college. Gifts from alumni provides annual support for intern- front entrance to campus will not Friday’s announcement ended with As the head of the college’s fi - alone increased 30 percent from 2006 ships, research projects, technology be funded by the capital campaign, a video slideshow of students around nances, Sgrecci said it was a welcome to 2007. and study abroad. said Dave Maley, associate director campus telling the audience, “You’ve change to announce a windfall rather Th e campus and students are al- Th e new $24 million Gateway of media relations. Th e college has made a world of diff erence.” CAMPAIGN TIMELINE DESIGNED BY LENA YUE October 2006- June 2001-October 2004 October 2004-October 2006 December 2007 January 2008-February 2008 Campaign preparation phase Silent/Leadership phase Public phase Extension 2001 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 October February February June September January Board approval of timeline May February January $25 million from Atlantic Campaign Campaign First meeting convened Case statement approved and working goal School of Business $99.7 Completion of the Philanthropies for Athletic closes at $145 gift counting of the Campaign groundbreaking million School of Business and Events Center million begins Steering Committee October reached February November 2003-June 2004 Campaign public Edward Glazer ‘92 donates $2 million to push Feasibility study conducted announcement campaign over $115 million goal W h awith President’s t’s Leadership yourBriefi ngs next step?

DIVISION OF GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES www.ithaca.edu/gradstudies Thursday, March 6, 2008 NEWS The Ithacan 5 A ‘perfect storm’ for hops Local companies face shortage of crucial ingredient

BY DAN HAUSERMANN SENIOR WRITER an Mitchell, the owner of the Ithaca Beer Company, knew a problem was brewing last sum- Dmer that would put every beer his company created in jeopardy. Hops, the small, pine cone-shaped fl ower responsible for creating diff erent fl avors and aromas in beer, was running low in stock — not only in his warehouse, but all around the world. “Hops were so low in price for a long time, allowing people to buy as much as they needed,” Mitchell said. “Sud- denly the prices were going up, the stock was di- View a photo gal- minishing and it’s lery from the Ithaca Beer Company at whose willing to www.theithacan. pay for it now?” org/go/08hops While the Itha- ca Beer Company is still able to mix and blend the ingredients necessary to make their Apricot Wheat and Pale Ale, many small breweries around the country can no longer fi nd the specifi c type of hops they need at a price they can aff ord. In Syracuse, the Middle Ages Brewery had to pay 400 percent more for a variety Dan Mitchell, owner of Ithaca Beer Company, holds a handful of hops, a crucial beer ingre- of hops essential to their fl agship beer, dient, at his store Friday. A recent hops shortage has Mitchell worried about his company. EVAN FALK/THE ITHACAN ImPaled Ale, after a contracted grower couldn’t give the company all of the hops that we use in our beers is going up in during the harvest every August or Sep- they had guaranteed at the beginning of price as well.” tember leaves Pedersen in the fi elds from the year. Up until November, owner Mark Senior Adam Brady said he is disap- sun up to sun down. Rubenstein had been preparing for the pointed by the price increase but doesn’t Th e intense work is paying off now. worst as the thought of closing the brewery think college students will drop the beers Pedersen is providing hops to seven or almost became a reality. before dropping the extra dollar. eight diff erent breweries from Maryland “You can blend diff erent types of hops to “It’s all a matter of preference,” Brady to Massachusetts to Pennsylvania. try and make it unnoticeable to the public, said. “If you really like the beer, you will “I’m going to do well over the next but I didn’t want to compromise any of our be willing to pay the extra dollar. But the couple of years,” Pedersen said. “But beers,” Rubenstein said. “… Th ere will be beers college kids drink don’t usually have in 2010, if everyone goes nuts and certain hops you won’t be able to buy next hops in them, so most college kids won’t starts growing, the hops prices might year because bigger breweries are buying be aff ected.” tank again.” them up.” Brewers around the country will con- Pedersen has found himself on the Th e major beer players like Anheuser- tinue to deal with the dark side of a “per- positive side of an otherwise gloomy story Busch, Coors and Saranac saw the hops fect storm for hops” for the next couple of for beer lovers. Luckily for the Ithaca area, crisis coming and bought out the remain- years, says local hops grower Rick Peder- Mitchell said, the Ithaca Beer Company ing supplies, Rubenstein said, leaving his sen, who has helped supply a small por- will continue to produce. brewery in shambles. Recent news from the tion of hops to the Ithaca Beer Company “We aren’t going to change anything Boston Beer Company, the maker of Sam for the last fi ve years. we do,” he said. “We just have to raise the Adams, might give hope to beer companies Th e “perfect storm” is actually benefi t- price a little for now.” in otherwise grim situations. ing Pedersen. His half-acre crop in Sen- Jim Koch, the owner of Boston Beer, eca Castle, N.Y., has increased to 10 acres announced Feb. 14 he would sell 20,000 during the past seven years and has never pounds of hops that Sam Adams won’t seemed so lucrative as interest from brew- need in the next year to small breweries eries is skyrocketing. around the country. He’s selling it at a “I used to get two phone calls a year price well below market value simply to asking about hops,” Pedersen said. “Now, salvage breweries that were on the brink I get them once a week. Heck, it might be of folding. twice a week, and from all over the coun- Last summer, Mitchell was still scram- try, too.” bling to fi nd a hops grower that could off er Pedersen’s phone probably wouldn’t be a supply of the 10 to 15 varieties of hops ringing at all if not for Mitchell. Th e Ithaca the company needs, but so were hundreds Beer Company fi rst locked into a contract of other brewers from Maine to Califor- with Pedersen to create a Double India nia. Bad weather during harvest seasons, Pale Ale made entirely of locally grown a fi re in a hops warehouse in Washington New York state hops. Th e move estab- in October 2006 and hail and sleet storms lished a reason for Pedersen to expand his in the Czech Republic had destroyed what hops crop. once was a vast supply of hops around “I had quite a bit of resistance at fi rst to the world. my product,” Pedersen said. “It didn’t take As the crisis unfolded, Mitchell was able off until Dan Mitchell wanted to use local to fi nd an answer to his problem and locked and regional inputs in the Double IPA. He into a contract guaranteeing hops for 2008. was the spark plug.” With the limited hops supply came much Since then, Pedersen has continued to higher prices, which is bad news for beer produce more hops every season to supply makers and beer consumers. the Ithaca Beer Company’s Double IPA. “Six packs are going to go up at least While the cumbersome work involved in Middle: Mike Smith, a worker for the Ithaca Beer Company, fills kegs with beer Saturday at a buck in the grocery store,” Mitchell a crop is usually done with machines, Ped- the company’s warehouse. said. “We have to pass on the increases ersen does it all by hand. Stringing trel- Above: Dan Garner of Candor, N.Y., pulls bottles off the conveyor belt Saturday to pack and in price we are seeing for the hops. Plus lises, pruning the long shoots of the plant ship them to clients. Garner has worked for Ithaca Beer Company for two years. every other input like malt and barley and hand-picking the fi nest hops fl owers EVAN FALK/THE ITHACAN 6 The Ithacan NEWS Thursday, March 6, 2008

A LOOK DOWNTOWN Organization drafts local business plan CLOSED business hub downtown. FROM PAGE 1 Th e plan’s board of directors will consult with members of the “We thought it might eventu- community and students to get opin- ally come back up,” Gueldner said. ions concerning the future of Th e “[We hoped] people would go to Commons this month. Starbucks, see what it was like and “Essentially what we will go out then come back to Juna’s. But it and do is we ask people to paint us didn’t happen.” a picture.” Gueldner said customers told As the owners of Juna’s locked her they generally went to Star- their door for the fi nal time, they bucks and other competing coff ee looked out across the dark Com- shops only occasionally. However, mons and sighed. For them, it’s hard this is what hurts small businesses to see that picture. such as Juna’s. “It’s a heartbreak that we’re not “We only have a certain number going to be able to be a force down- of coff ee drinkers here and when town and to be a space for so many they have more options … some people across the community to people will take their business [else- come and enjoy,” Gueldner said. where],” she said. As Tyler Gardella, a sophomore at Th e Starbucks on Green Street Ithaca College and former Starbucks deferred comment to the corporate employee opened the door to Juna’s offi ce, which could not be reached and noticed the posted letter stating for comment. the shop would be closing, he said he Gary Ferguson, executive direc- Gary Ferguson, executive director of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, stands outside his offi ce building on The was baffl ed. tor of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, Commons yesterday. Ferguson said recent construction projects have deterred people from visiting downtown. “I come in here once a week and AARON ARM/THE ITHACAN said the group usually plans for about it’s very busy,” he said. “Th is came as a fi ve percent turnover rate after the uled to open last November, but “People just seem to have less said. “Th e Commons ... is a fun and vi- a shock to me.” Christmas season. Ferguson said this construction was delayed. money to spend and that’s evident at brant space, and we will work very hard Gardella said despite the popu- year there were a few more vacancies “Th ose two projects in particular the national level and Main Street,” to make sure we fi ll those spaces.” larity of the corporate coff ee shop, he than normal. have really changed people’s traffi c he said. Peterson and the Downtown enjoys the fl avor and atmosphere of He said the construction of the patterns, and I know … I try to avoid Carolyn Peterson, mayor of the Ithaca BID have joined to form a 10- local businesses. Green Street Garage adjacent to Th e Th e Commons as much as possible,” City of Ithaca, said this ebb and fl ow year plan that will allow the down- “Th ere are Starbucks every- Commons and last year’s improve- Gueldner said. of businesses has always occurred. town community to adapt to com- where,” he said. “You can’t go to a ments to the Aurora Street Bridge Not only are people reluctant to go She said she truly believes in the mercial and residential changes. It Maté Factor or a Juna’s anywhere. have both inhibited the fl ow of to Th e Commons, but the economy is vitality of downtown Ithaca. aims to increase available housing, I like going to these places because traffi c. Th e Green Garage was sched- also in a slump, Ferguson said. “It’s our historic downtown,” she bolster tourism and move Ithaca’s they’re diff erent.” New upscale hotel proposed Cornell Unive TIOGA

CAYUGA UNIVERSITY The Commons AURORA for historic downtown area CASCADILLA Collegetown COURT BY SAMANTHA ALLEN cil said the issues Meyers’ has raised have com- BUFFALO STAFF WRITER plicated their decision. Jennifer Dotoson, second STEWART AVE Th e Ithaca Urban Renewal Authority unani- ward of the Common Council, said she recogniz- SENECA mously approved last Th ursday a proposal for es the lack of hotel rooms in Tompkins County. STATE a new hotel to be built between Aurora and “I’d like to see the hotel project go forward, GREEN Green Streets, on the south side of Madeline’s and at the same time I would like to see in an Restaurant. Th e proposal must undergo further ideal world any developments go forward with ns COLLEGE AVE living wage for everyone,” she said. New hotel inspection and be approved by the city’s Com- CLINTON STATE ST mon Council, but the developer said he hopes to Ferguson said Rimland has off ered to pay s HUDSON complete the project by early 2009. Th e council 156 percent of the New York minimum wage will cast its fi nal vote on the project April 2. — $11.18 per hour — to housekeeping, who are

Th e $17 million, 102-room building will stand generally the lowest paid employees on a hotel ALBANY ST MEADOW ST MEADOW eight stories high in a key location of the down- staff . Rimland has not announced what the other If approved, the new hotel would be located town area if the Common Council approves the hotel employees will be paid. downtown between Green and Aurora Streets on the sale of the land, which has been a parking lot Ferguson said because the project will be MAPPING IT OUT south side of Madeline’s Restaurant. since 1966. Th e spot previously housed the land- privately funded and, in turn, will not solicit tax mark Ithaca Hotel. abatements, residents should not be making Developer Jeff Rimland has not released what demands of the developer. tional average for hotel vacancy, but he hopes the employees within the hotel. chain the hotel will be. Gary Ferguson, executive “You have those kind of discussions if the city one in Ithaca will do even better. Ferguson said this is a project the city cannot director of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, said is giving a multi-million dollar tax-package as an “Th e $2.5 million will go into the econo- aff ord to lose. Ferguson said Rimland has men- the project will be an “upscale establishment.” incentive to help to make the project happen,” he my and support local businesses, [and] the tioned taking his project elsewhere. Rimland Th e project has been discussed in the city for said. “… None of that is happening.” sales tax will carry through for community could not be reached for comment. more than two years and, despite its approval, Michael Stam of Tompkins County Area as well,” Ferguson said, “…Th is project carries Other issues surrounding the project in- has met some opposition. Development said Rimland is proposing to build tremendous leverage.” clude the height and appearance of the building Pete Meyers, co-founder of the Tompkins his project in Ithaca’s empire zone so tax breaks Dan Cogan, alderman of the fi fth ward and because it will be located in a prime location. County Worker’s Center, said the center is will come from the state level, instead of Ithaca member of the Industrial Development Agency, “To address theses issues the developer has insisting the developer commit to paying all the residents’ pockets. said living wage is important but he feels Ithaca off ered to submit his project to peer review,” employees the current living wage of $11.18 per An independent feasibility study conducted needs more corporate businesses. Cogan said. hour. Th e hotel is projected to provide the equiv- in 2007 by HSV Consulting said the hotel will “Some people feel like that’s killing Ithaca, Before the plan goes to Common Council, an alent of 51 full-time jobs to the working public. generate an estimated $652,000 in sales and [while some feel] you need a mix of national re- independent architect will look over the project “Th ey can’t take advantage of workers like property tax revenues by 2010. tailers and the local names in order to generate and structural aesthetics. this,” Meyers said. “…We feel we don’t have any Fred Bonn of the Tompkins County Conven- traffi c ... ,” Cogan said. “We haven’t had a mix, Ferguson said that despite the complications leverage. It’s the larger capitalist system that al- tion and Visitor’s Bureau estimated $2.2 to $2.5 and I think people are increasingly going out to he is hopeful the hotel will be built. lows this to happen in the fi rst place. We want to million will be generated annually from food, the strip malls and up to Lansing.” “Everybody’s sticking with it because we all raise awareness.” beverage and retail sales. Ferguson said this is Cogan said he would be happy with the believe this is an important and solid project for Some members of the city’s Common Coun- based on a 60 percent occupancy rate, the na- project if living wage salaries were given to all the community,” he said. Thursday, March 6, 2008 NEWS The Ithacan 7 Cornell telescope lacks funding despite rare asteroid discovery BY CLARA EISINGER Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Cal., a mem- STAFF WRITER ber of the House Committee on Science and Scientists at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Telescope, Technology, has co-sponsored a bill in a bi- run by Cornell University, found a rare asteroid partisan eff ort to appeal to NASA and the NSF last month with two moons only seven million to keep Arecibo running. He is sponsoring the miles from Earth — a breakthrough for a facility bill with Luis Fortuna, resident commissioner in the midst of serious budget woes. of Puerto Rico, a nonvoting member of the Michael Nolan, research associate and head House of Representatives. of radar astronomy at Arecibo, said the facil- Tara Setmayer, communications director for ity was the fi rst in the world to fi nd extrasolar Rohrabacher, said the bill will ask for the NSF planets and to develop a three dimensional to fully fund Arecibo, allowing scientists to con- map of how galaxies are distributed in the uni- tinue their work in radio astronomy and solar verse. Still, NASA completely cut off funding system research. It does not specify exactly how to the facility in 2004, and the National Science much funding should be set aside. Foundation has refused to step up its funding Th e bill also calls for cooperation between in the meantime. NASA and the NSF. Nolan said Arecibo’s budget is now $12.5 mil- Daniel Lamb, congressional representative lion per year, but it will be cut 10 percent in 2009, for Rep. Maurice Hinchey D-N.Y., said Hinchey and 40 percent by 2011. is one of the 20 members of Congress who have Mike Nolan, head of radar astronomy at Cornell University’s Acrecibo Telescope, stands in front of “Th ere’s no way we can operate with that co-sponsored the bill, which has been in the the telescope, which is located in Puerto Rico. NASA funding to the facility was cut in 2004. amount of money unless we can fi nd someone House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics COURTESY OF MIKE NOLAN else to give us some,” he said. since October. unique, because it can react quickly to new Th e discovery raises many questions for Donald Campbell, astronomy professor at Nolan said Arecibo receives some of the low- discoveries by approving urgent proposals Howell and her fellow astronomers, such as Cornell University, said funding cuts might cause est funding compared to other observatories for additional observation. whether this triple system is stable and whether the shut-down of Arecibo’s planetary radar pro- in the U.S. Th e National Optical Astronomy “Sometimes in as little as three or four hours, it formed as a three-part asteroid or picked up gram, which discovered the triple asteroid. Observatories in Arizona got more than $38 we can change the schedule, get all the right the third rock later. “Th e only really identifi able program that you million last year, and the National Radio Astron- people assembled and get the telescope going,” Setmayer said Rohrabacher believes main- could shut down and save money, short of shut- omy Observatory in New Mexico received more Howell said. taining Arecibo is vital to national security, since ting the whole telescope down, is probably the than $44 million last year. Howell said she and her colleagues had been its use of radar makes it uniquely suited for fi nd- planetary radar program, because it makes use Nolan said the Arecibo telescope gathers data planning to look at the near-Earth asteroid, ing potentially dangerous near-Earth objects. of large amounts of power and big transmitters rather than taking pictures of the asteroid. He known as 2001 SN263, for a while. She and other “It doesn’t look for things, it tracks them, and and generators,” Campbell said. said scientists bounce radio waves off the aster- astronomers thought it was simply a large rock it tracks them with a level of precision that no Nolan said the bill would help Arecibo re- oid and then use the data they obtain to fi nd out and did not realize it has two moons. other telescope can do,” Setmayer said. main operational. the rock’s mass, density, orbit and other features. “We didn’t know there was anything special Howell said the triple asteroid poses no threat He said a shut down of the telescope would “You send out a narrow pulse and fi rst it about it until we got the fi rst images,” she said. to Earth, but studying it might give scientists a hurt Cornell’s research abilities because the tele- bounces off the front of the asteroid,” he said. Nolan said the main rock in the asteroid’s chance to learn more about the potential hazards scope is a major source of information for the “And then a few microseconds later it bounces off system is 2.7 km in diameter, or about 1.5 miles. of asteroids. astronomical community. He also said he would a piece farther away, and so we can sort of patch Howell said the largest moon is half that size, and “Studying the asteroid may also help astrono- not be able to use the information the telescope that back together and make these images.” the smaller moon is 1000 m in diameter. mers learn more about the earth’s origins,” Nolan provides in his classes anymore. Cornell research associate Ellen Howell said Howell said the triple asteroid is the clos- said. “Th e reason we care about this is, these are “It would make me a less interesting lecturer as the asteroid spins, astronomers make a two- est one to Earth astronomers have ever found, the things that made the planets,” he said. “To un- ... ,” he said. “I talk to the class about some of the dimensional image of it on their computers. though they have seen binary asteroids, with derstand how the Earth formed, it helps to know things we do and show pictures of the asteroid.” Howell said Arecibo’s capabilities are only one moon, close to Earth before. what it’s made of.” 8 The Ithacan NEWS Thursday, March 6, 2008 Political expert evaluates race after Ohio and Texas primaries

Sen. Hillary Clinton walked away from Tues- Democrats. What exactly are super-delegates, day’s primaries with wins in Texas, Ohio and and how can they decide the election? Rhode Island. She had previously lost 11 con- secutive state primaries to Sen. Barack Obama. SB: Th ese are party leaders. I think in fact one Contributing Writer Timothy McQuade super-delegate is Bill Clinton. … Th ey will of- spoke with Steven J. Balla, fi cially cast their ballot at the Democratic associate professor of politi- Convention. … Th e super-delegates could still cal science, of public policy change their support for Clinton or Obama. and public administration, However, they are already having their say now and of international af- in the heat of the primary season, in that, early fairs at George Washington on, they broke clearly for Clinton; of late there’s University, about Tuesday’s movement back towards Obama. results and the future of the campaign. TM: Change has been a big concept for can- STEVEN BALLA didates. Do you see Clinton and Obama truly Tim McQuade: Do you see a clear front-runner off ering our country a legitimate change? between the two Democrats? SB: Th at is especially relevant to ask of Obama Steven Balla: Th ere is clearly a frontrunner, because he is the one campaigning the plat- and it’s Barack Obama. He has an overall lead form of change. If you look at [Obama’s] vot- in pledge delegates of about a hundred and ing record in the Senate, it’s a pretty standard, that math didn’t change all that much as a re- fair, liberal voting record that would make sult of last night’s primaries. … Th ere are still Ted Kennedy proud. … If change is measured a few more to be allocated both in Ohio and in in a state of mind, where people are changing Texas, but essentially the overall math did not their attitudes towards politics and becoming change at all. Clinton made modest, at best, more excited, well, he certainly carries that ground up on Obama. So the math is basically rock-star quality with him, and there certain- the same as it was [Tuesday], and there are ly has been that element of change. But if we 370 fewer delegates in play, which in essence are talking about policy change, I don’t think means Obama is closer to the nomination that label fi ts him very well. today than he was yesterday. TM: Th ere are not a lot of important primaries TM: So you see Obama as clearly having the left. What do you see as the important factors lead, even though the race is still very close? left for the Democratic presidential nominee?

SB: It is close. Does this mean that Obama is SB: Th e assumption is that Obama will do pretty without a doubt the Democratic nominee? No, well in the upcoming small state primaries: Wy- it doesn’t mean that. Does it mean that he is way oming, Mississippi, North Carolina, Montana more likely to be the nominee than Clinton? … What I think Hillary’s victories last night did Life in occupied land Yeah. Th at’s what it does mean. for her was gave her an argument that she could Mark Turner of the Research Journalism Initiative talks about his experience in Nablus, a make to the Democratic party about why she city on the West Bank, Tuesday in the Park Auditorium. The presentation used multime- TM: People have said super-delegates may play should continue on. How long she will actually dia to give a different perspective of the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict. EVAN FALK/THE ITHACAN an important role in deciding this race for the continue on? I think it’s uncertain at this point. Thursday, March 6, 2008 NEWS The Ithacan 9 Administrator leaves for new position at Wells College BY TRICIA L. NADOLNY pital in the middle of the night when NEWS EDITOR she was sick and coming to her rescue Michael McGreevey’s son, Liam, after a car accident. She said she has knows where the good candy jars are never heard a person at the college say in his dad’s offi ce. McGreevey, the ex- a bad thing about him. ecutive assistant to President Peggy R. “He really manages to just reach Williams, said his kids love visiting the out and try to understand the oth- third fl oor of Job Hall, where they get er perspective and reach a middle to run between the offi ces and say hi ground,” she said. to their dad’s friends. McGreevey met his wife, Karen, at “At one point Peggy had a [stuff ed the college and was introduced to her animal] and Liam would come in and through friends. During his time in he’d bypass everybody and go right to London, he was told by more than one that,” he said. visiting student or faculty member Next week McGreevey will pull the that there was a woman in Ithaca that birth announcements of his three kids would be perfect for him. off the back “It was like ‘You guys have to know of his offi ce each other. You’ve got to,’” he said. “I View a video interview door; Liam’s was very realistic or logical and said with McGreevey at has been www.theithacan.org/ ‘I’m sure she’s a nice person. However, taped there go/08McGreevey I live thousands of miles away.’” for fi ve years, Upon returning to Ithaca, he and and the blue paper is now faded. After Karen were offi cially introduced. Last 19 years at Ithaca College, parting for year, they celebrated their 10-year a job farther north, at Wells College in wedding anniversary. Aurora N.Y., will be diffi cult. “He’s extremely loyal, and as a fa- “[Working here] has just been an Michael McGreevey, executive assistant to the president, stands in his offi ce Feb. 22. After 19 years at Ithaca ther and husband he’s very protective incredible, wonderful experience that College, McGreevey has accepted the position of vice president for development at Wells College. and loving,” she said. “He’s romantic, will always mean a lot,” he said. CONNOR GLEASON/THE ITHACAN very much so, [and] brings me fl owers McGreevey came to Ithaca other offi ces; it’s the nature of the job. reality for the work I do.” he’d be leaving if President Williams just out of the blue.” directly after fi nishing graduate He fi elds complaints from parents and Th e reality of his job is a lot of be- were not retiring at the end of the year, Th eir family plans to move about school. He worked in campus activ- students, lobbies on behalf of the col- hind-the-scenes work, and after nine but the timing seems right. Th e real- 20 minutes closer to McGreevey’s new ities and orientation and then spent lege in Washington and Albany and years, McGreevey said he’s excited for ity of switching schools is still hard for job, but they will stay in the Ithaca area two years in academic aff airs at the deals with community relations. He’s a change. both him and his coworkers. — something both he and his cowork- Ithaca College London Center. He a problem solver and a multi-tasker “I’m ready to step from behind the “I don’t think it’s probably hit any ers said they are relieved about. came back to South Hill for a short — the eyes and ears of the president, curtain and lead my own show a little of us [that he’s leaving],” Williams said. McGreevey’s last day at the college period and then found himself back her senior adviser. bit,” he said. “… Maybe that’s good in the end be- is March 14. He starts at Wells College at the London Center as the direc- And while the challenge is excit- As vice president for development cause we don’t have too much time to on March 17 — Saint Patrick’s Day. For tor, a job he held for four years. He ing, it’s also one of the few things he at Wells College, McGreevey will be be melancholy.” a good Irish guy, he said, it’s fi tting. received a second master’s degree has found frustrating about his job, as building and leading an institutional Margie Malepe, associate director “It’s the right position, the right in Communications from the Roy he rarely gets to stay with one project advancement operation, similar to of conference and events services, has place,” he said. “It doesn’t make it any H. Park School of Communications long or at any depth. Ithaca College’s Capital Campaign. been a close friend of McGreevey’s easier to leave some place you love and in 2003. “At times looking at this job I’m Th eir campaign will aim to raise the since he fi rst came to the school. Th ey a job you love,” he said. He’s been the executive assistant to just like ‘Oh, I’d really like to just sink school’s endowment from $40 million shared an apartment nearly 20 years A farewell reception will be held for the president for nine years now, but it my teeth right into this and spend the to $100 million. ago, and she said that he was a great McGreevey today from 3:30 to 5 p.m. still seems like he works in countless day working on that.’ Th at’s not always McGreevey said he is not sure if roommate — driving her to the hos- in the Clark Lounge. 10 The Ithacan Thursday, March 6, 2008 Thursday, March 6, 2008 NEWS The Ithacan 11

SELECTED ENTRIES FROM Public Safety Incident Log FEBRUARY 17 TO FEBRUARY 21

FEBRUARY 17 FOUND PROPERTY CRIMINAL MISCHIEF FOUND PROPERTY fireplace. Gas was shut off and fire LOCATION: Lower Quads LOCATION: Main Campus Road LOCATION: M-Lot extinguished. Master Security Officer LARCENY SUMMARY: Alcohol found and turned SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown SUMMARY: Vehicle key found and turned George Whitmore. LOCATION: West Tower over to Public Safety. Unknown owner. person had damaged a parked vehicle. over to Public Safety. Unknown owner. SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown Investigation pending. Master Patrol FEBRUARY 20 person had stolen speakers. Investi- CCV/UNDERAGE POSS. OF ALCOHOL Offi cer Erik Merlin. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF gation pending. Master Patrol Offi cer LOCATION: Circle Apartment 32 LOCATION: Towers Concourse MEDICAL ASSIST INJURY RELATED Bruce Holmstock. SUMMARY: Three people judicially CRIMINAL MISCHIEF SUMMARY: Officer reported unknown LOCATION: Hill Center referred for underage possession of LOCATION: Main Campus Road person damaged the glass cover to a SUMMARY: Caller reported person EXPOSURE OF PERSON alcohol. SASP. SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown bulletin board. Investigation pending. received accidental ankle injury. Medi- LOCATION: Circle Lot 1 person had damaged a parked vehicle. Master Patrol Officer Dirk Hightchew. cal assistance declined. Patrol Officer SUMMARY: One person judicially referred MEDICAL ASSIST INJURY RELATED Investigation pending. Master Patrol James Landon. for indecent conduct. SASP. LOCATION: Hill Center Offi cer Erik Merlin. FEBRUARY 19 SUMMARY: One person who accidentally FEBRUARY 21 UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA cut hand while using equipment was FEBRUARY 18 UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA LOCATION: Hilliard Hall transported by ambulance to CMC. Mas- LOCATION: Hilliard Hall MEDICAL ASSIST INJURY RELATED SUMMARY: One person judicially referred ter Patrol Offi cer Bruce Holmstock. MVA/PROPERTY DAMAGE SUMMARY: Two people judicially referred LOCATION: Hill Center for unlawful possession of marijuana. LOCATION: J-Lot for possession of marijuana. Master SUMMARY: Caller reported a person Patrol Offi cer James Landon. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF SUMMARY: Caller reported a two-car Patrol Offi cer Donald Lyke. was becoming ill. Person transported LOCATION: Main Campus Road property-damage MVA. Report taken. to the Health Center. Patrol Officer MEDICAL ASSIST INJURY RELATED SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown Master Patrol Offi cer Bruce Holmstock. MEDICAL ASSIST INJURY RELATED Charles Ross. LOCATION: EMERSON HALL person had damaged a parked vehicle. LOCATION: Hill Center SUMMARY: Caller reported a person had Investigation pending. Master Patrol Offi cer UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA SUMMARY: Caller reported a person HARASSMENT sustained an accidental head injury after a Erik Merlin. LOCATION: Landon Hall had received an accidental ankle injury. LOCATION: Terrace 9 fall. Person transported to the Health Center. SUMMARY: Two people judicially referred Medical assistance was declined. Master SUMMARY: A person reported receiving Master Patrol Offi cer Dirk Hightchew. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF for unlawful possession of marijuana. Patrol Offi cer Donald Lyke. harassing messages from a known per- LOCATION: Main Campus Road Master Patrol Offi cer Charles Ross. son. Investigation pending. Patrol Offi cer FALSELY REPORTING AN INCIDENT SUMMARY: Caller reported items had SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE Dawn Stewart. LOCATION: Terrace 6 been removed from a vehicle that had CRIMINAL MISCHIEF LOCATION: Campus Center SUMMARY: Fire alarm caused by an been damaged. Investigation pending. LOCATION: Terrace 12 SUMMARY: Caller reported a per- FOR THE COMPLETE SAFETY LOG, unknown person maliciously activating Master Patrol Offi cer Erik Merlin. SUMMARY: Offi cer reported unknown per- son had received a suspicious letter. go to theithacan.org/news a pull box. Investigation pending. Mas- son had damaged a wall. Investigation Investigation pending. Patrol Officer ter Patrol Offi cer Drik Hightchew. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF pending. Master Patrol Offi cer Donald Lyke. James Landon. LOCATION: Main Campus Road KEY CCV/IRRESPONSIBLE USE OF ALCOHOL SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown FOUND PROPERTY CRIMINAL MISCHIEF LOCATION: U-Lot person had damaged a parked vehicle. LOCATION: R-Lot LOCATION: M-Lot CMC – Cayuga Medical Center SUMMARY: One person transported to Investigation pending. Master Patrol SUMMARY: Cell phone found and turned SUMMARY: Caller reported an un- CCV – College Code Violation the Health Center and judicially referred Offi cer Erik Merlin. over to Public Safety. Unknown owner. known person had damaged a parked DWI – Driving while intoxicated for irresponsible use of alcohol. Security vehicle. Investigation pending. Master IFD – Ithaca Fire Department Offi cer Wendy Lewis. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF CRIMINAL MISCHIEF Patrol Officer Charles Ross. IPD – Ithaca Police Department LOCATION: Main Campus Road LOCATION: Terrace 6 MVA – Motor vehicle accident CCV/UNDERAGE POSS. OF ALCOHOL SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown SAFETY HAZARD RA – Resident assistant LOCATION: Terrace 6 person had damaged a parked vehicle. In- person had damaged an internet/cable LOCATION: Campus Center SASP – Student Auxiliary Safety Patrol SUMMARY: Two people judicially referred for vestigation pending. Master Patrol Offi cer box. Investigation pending. Sergeant SUMMARY: Officer reported unknown V&T – Vehicle and Transportation underage possession of alcohol. SASP. Erik Merlin. Bill Kerry. person had left a fire burning in a 12 The Ithacan OPINION Thursday, March 6, 2008

EDITORIALS INFORMING THE CAMPUS Th e college needs a system to notify the community of all instances of sexual assault tudents and college administrators took a step forward last week by meeting to review judicial Spolicies in light of recent sexual assault cases. Th e group was devised quickly and intelligently and represents the constituencies best able to make lasting changes on the campus’ climate and policy. But there is room for improvement. As it stands, the Offi ce of Public Safety only releases an alert for reported rapes or sexual assaults when the assailant is unknown. So when a victim’s report is an instance of “date” or “acquaintance” rape, no alert is issued and the campus community remains unaware of the crime. Th is fl aw could disrupt goals of erasing stigmas and making sexual assault a less taboo topic on campus. Last week, Public Safety said, “the purpose of the crime alert is … so others can take steps or pre- cautions to prevent themselves from being victims of the same perpetrator.” Th e fault in this logic lies in how the offi ce defi nes a threat. It’s true that an unknown assailant with access to campus is a more urgent threat to the community. But it is impossible to believe that a suspect who is known and remains in the day-to-day operations of this community is not as great a threat. In fact, it is not unreasonable to believe known as- sailants are more of a threat — these assailants are YOUR LETTERS known to the victim and the offi ce but not to the nearly 6,000 other residential members of this com- Lack of response to rape appalling probably as much as she is feeling. What side of PUA where men use it to manipu- munity. Rape and sexual assault are masked crimes I am a 1992 graduate of Ithaca College, can I do? Should I turn around and go late women in social situations, one of by nature. Studies have shown assailants are more and I am appalled at the lack of action by home a longer way? Should I stop to tie the greater parts of it is using your talents often those the victim knows. IC authorities to fi re and expel the RA my shoe and let her get ahead? I just want to approach strangers (be it men or Logging these reports in the Public Safety Log rapist. Ithaca College should do every- to yell at her: “Hey, I’m not a rapist!” Of women) to expand your social horizons is not enough to make the community aware when thing in its power to work with the Dis- course, then I’d only be more suspicious, and enhance those interactions. With these instances occur. If our goal is to truly create a trict Attorney to prosecute this criminal wouldn’t I? some PUA training you could approach culture that does not support rape or sexual assault to the fullest extent of the law. Until IC I feel like the term “rape culture” is a large group of complete strangers with on this campus — if we are truly supporting the admits that it made a HUGE mistake and thrown around, but people don’t worry language barriers or in an unfamiliar initiatives submitted on behalf of the new group of works to punish this self-confessed rapist, about paranoia culture. Th e realization situation and fi nd yourself the center of students and administrators — we need to fi nd a I will NEVER give another dime of my that someone is afraid of you is sicken- attention for hours! way to better inform the community of these reports money in support of IC. I am now some- ing, and I don’t know what to do about You’d be surprised how few of us actu- so our campaign against a culture of tolerance is a what ashamed to call myself an alumnus. it. However, I think it’s possible that your ally use it to manipulate or to specifi cally unifi ed one. photo on the front page sensationalizes pick up women. In fact, a large part of CHRISTOPHER CARROLL ’92 the problem and is saying “that girl should the community makes it a goal to just be afraid of that guy.” meet as many people as possible rather TAKING INITIATIVE Rapes feed into paranoia culture than meet people with a specifi c intent. Graphic novel reading selection I thought your article on the front JAMES CHAPMAN ’09 page of Th ursday’s issue brings to light ANDREW GARCIA ’09 furthers declined reading comprehension an unfortunate occurrence on campus ‘Picking up’ is a social art he college’s First-Year Reading Initiative aims these past few weeks. I am, incidentally, I’d just like to give my opinion on to connect new students and faculty each not referring to sexual assault itself, but last week’s “Science of Seduction” that LETTER POLICY year through the examination of an important rather to the paranoia it has created on featured the PUA community. I was T the campus. What I am referring to is the somewhat disappointed at how the article issue. Administrators say the program is designed to The Ithacan welcomes correspon- demonstrate Ithaca College’s “academic nature.” front-page photo of a girl suspicious of a was framing the PUA scene to be more dence from all readers. Please Th is summer, the class of 2012 will read “Perse- young man walking 20 feet behind her. about picking up women than anything include your name, graduation year, polis,” a graphic novel that tells the story of political I fi nd myself, a man, walking alone else. While there was some mention of organizational or college title/posi- tion and phone number. Letters must turmoil in Iran from the perspective of a child. at night daily. Occasionally I look up to the other side of it, the human behavior realize I am walking about 15 feet behind side, I feel there was a lack of emphasis be 250 words or less. The Ithacan Th e idea of a graphic novel goes against the grain reserves the right to edit letters for of typical required reading and may be welcomed by a girl in the same direction. Normally I on what is primarily important within the length, clarity and taste. All letters the incoming freshmen, who are part of a generation would think nothing of this, but then I scene itself. PUA isn’t about picking up must be received by 5 p.m. the that has grown up in a world of fragmented cultures of notice the signs. She’s glancing back a lot. women, it’s about picking up people! Art- Monday before publication. All letters television news, video games and the Internet. But by Her pace is quickening. And it hits me ists fl ex their social muscle to constantly must be signed, submitted in writing like a brick. She thinks I’m a rapist. learn how to approach and interact with and either e-mailed to ithacan@ coincidence, the selection of “Persepolis” comes soon ithaca.edu or delivered to Park 269. after a November study by the National Endowment Suddenly I am awash with paranoia, diff erent people. While there is that dark for the Arts indicating declined reading comprehen- sion levels in young adults. Perhaps the selection of a graphic novel was an eff ort to engage members of a generation that seem to Write a letter to the editor have lost an appetite for literature. But at some point, [email protected] this idea of catering to diff erent tastes only furthers 250 words or less, e-mailed or dropped the declining reading comprehension. Graphic novels off by 5 p.m. Monday in Park 269 are little more than advanced comic books. Th e SPEAK YOUR MIND. thematic material of this book is worth broaching but its literary value, in terms of building vocabulary and furthering comprehension, falls short.

269 Roy H. Park Hall, Ithaca College [email protected] The Ithacan Ithaca, N.Y. 14850-7258 www.theithacan.org (607) 274-3208 | Fax (607) 274-1376

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GUEST COMMENTARY JUST Contamination aff ects South Hill community TRUST ME s a long-time resident of South Hill, I share the concerns of my neighbors ROB GRIFFIN Aabout the eff ects of industrial toxins that are being found in an increasingly large part of our neighborhood. I maintain a Web site, www. Democrats must ithaca-ship.org, that organizes some of the rel- evant documents and resources and may answer admit their faults questions that you have on this issue. I recently received an inquiry from an Ithaca t was comedian Will Rogers College student who signed who said, “I am not a mem- a lease for a rental next to Iber of any organized political the Emerson property, but party. I am a Democrat.” If you’re above the hill from the areas a democrat who’s honest about where toxin tests in outdoor your party, you might have ambient air have been con- chuckled a little bit there. ducted. As the November Personally, I feel that the 2007 air test results were Democratic Party is the biggest alarmingly high, the student group of wimps and worry- reasonably asked, “Why KEN DESCHERE warts I’ve ever had the sincere hasn’t there been any testing displeasure of being associated done on the air above the factory, near ... South with. At times, we’re hopelessly Aurora Street?” inept, spineless and so pessimis- In the last hundred years, South Hill has tic that I think we’re genetically been home to three sizable industrial plants A view of South Hill from downtown shows the Emerson Power Transmission Facility. This plant and oth- wired to wrestle defeat from the performing metal fabrication: the NCR/Ax- ers have caused contamination that Deschere says renters and homeowners should know about. jaws of victory. Its not all of us MAX STEINMETZ/THE ITHACAN iohm facility, the Morse Chain plant and Th erm mind you, but there are so many Inc. off Hudson Street. Th ese operations have Place and South Cayuga Street, around which compounds lingering on South Hill. Low-level Chicken Littles in our camp that used lubricants and cutting oils to process the test readings for industrial toxins have been exposure may not kill you, but it won’t make you we can’t help but give the sky a metal pieces and then used solvents to clean relatively high. any stronger. suspicious glance before we exit the parts, scrap and facilities. Among the Testing of homes began in fall 2004 and If you reside in one of the aff ected areas, ask our houses. solvents were cleaners such as Trichloroethene continues to this day. Most of the results have your landlord to share any test results with you Take the upcoming presi- (TCE) and Tetrachloroethene (PCE), which been shared freely by property owners and are and to give you any information on whether a dential election for example. have been linked to cancers, nervous disorders online at www.ship.no-ip.org, which has interac- mitigation system is planned. You also may wish Despite the primary “upset” that and ailments of the liver and kidneys. Th e tive maps, making the data easy to comprehend. to avoid basement apartments, as soil vapor in- took place on Tuesday, everyone three plants no longer use these cleaners, but Many homes have had “mitigation systems” trusion is highest below ground level, as well as with a rudimentary grasp of the toxic remnants remain today amid South installed, involving pipes that pull soil vapor homes with forced-air heating from basements mathematics can see that “Clin- Hill’s soil and groundwater. from under the building’s slab and discharge it with TCE or PCE detected in them. ton ’08” bumper stickers won’t In 1987, Emerson reported fi nding TCE in into the air, traditionally the same treatment for If you wish to discuss this issue with the be a hot item come November. their fi re-water reservoir. For 20 years attempts homes with high levels of radon. government agencies involved, please see the Senator Obama is not far from have been made to determine how far the TCE Except for a round of tests in November “Contact us” information at www.ithaca-ship. becoming the party’s presump- has leaked from that site. Th e air, soil vapor 2007, most of the indoor and outdoor air test org/actions.htm, remembering that you will tive nominee. Th at being the and groundwater sites tested are mostly on or results have found relatively low levels of toxins. need the cooperation of your landlord to case, Democrats have a great downhill northwestward from their plant site. Th ere has been no fi rm determination as to arrange toxicity tests or changes to your home. deal to be optimistic about. Th e testing has led to much attention to the why the November results were so high. As Good luck! First and foremost, our sewer lines running down the hill, including the students, your time here will most likely be fundraising success makes the NCR sewer line which runs down South Aurora limited, but you should understand the risks KEN DESCHERE is a resident of Ithaca. republicans look like they’re run- Street, as well as sewers running down Turner of possible exposure to these volatile organic E-mail him at [email protected]. ning a lemonade stand. Donation enthusiasm has been outstanding and what’s more, it’s translated GUEST COMMENTARY into historically high levels of voter turnout for our party. As if that weren’t enough, we’re facing Black history must be celebrated beyond February an opponent who has to deal with his party’s eight years of disas- is — or rather, ’twas — the Th e point of Black His- trous policy both at home and “season of blackness”, tory Month is that black is not a abroad. Th ink about it. McCain’s ’Tas BET correspondent ubiquitous experience that can be the follow up act for one of the Jeff Johnson so eloquently put it at summed up as ‘we were all slaves, most unpopular presidents in the his talk at we rose up, sat on some buses history of our country. the college and then we decided to start hip Despite all this, I still hear last week. hop.’ We are a diverse and eclec- oh so many voices predicting Last Friday tic people, and although the time the coming storm of Republi- marked the should be taken to remember and can Party attacks that will rain fi nal day of celebrate this, let’s not think that it down ruin and despair upon Black His- stops at February. our unproven nominee. Now, tory Month, You cannot water down Mal- caution is a wonderful quality, a month that colm X. You can not commodify but the level of competency dedicates TAYLOR J. King. You cannot diminish the we attribute to the right wing itself to DESIR JR. achievements of those who attack machine and the degree education, enlightenment, remem- marched for Civil Rights. How- to which we allow ourselves to brance, respect and celebration of ever, if you choose to neglect edu- worry about it borders on para- African-American culture. Yet, for cating yourself on more of these noia. In the past eight years, all that the month is supposed to people and movements than just it has been all too common accomplish, I feel a bit of the same the ones that have been shown to to speak of Karl Rove’s tactics apprehension refl ecting on it now you, or if you marginalize their in terms one would usually from March than I did when the importance to just these 29 days reserved for the machinations month fi rst began. From left, juniors Michaela Bushy and Carami Hilaire perform as part of on your calendar, then you com- of the Illuminati. It is not because I question the a concert held in January for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Desir says it is mit one of the forms of homicide Such worrying actually stops admirable goals of the month, but important to celebrate black history outside of Black History month. to history that exists. That is, you us from seriously mounting an MAX STEINMETZ/THE ITHACAN rather because I can’t help but feel forget meaning and presence. offensive against an opponent the disturbingly smug feeling of going to talk about an issue in rela- My gripe is, now that we’re done Sometime before the next Feb- who’s made more mistakes than self-accomplishment that we pat tion to Black history or Black pres- with February, it is very easy for us ruary, let’s do ourselves a service a fat kid going to a dodge ball ourselves on the back with, that we ence ever again and ‘Why bother? to feel we’re done with everything and pick up a book — even Wiki- convention. In every mea- as people have done our part for It’s just another 336 days until the Black History Month stands for and pedia, if you’re not a page-turner. surable way, the Democratic the education and progression of next February.’ symbolizes. Just the same as how we Let’s educate ourselves about a Party looks set to shake up the the Black community by squeezing Anxiously, we even eagerly forget Amadu Diablo, how we forget vast history and present that we Beltway City’s political balance in centuries of culture and history indulge ourselves the month before Hurricane Katrina, how we forget the often ignore. Black History is in a very significant way come into 29 days. But what are we ac- and pursue Dr. Martin Luther King Jena 6 and how we forget that still the every day. November. Loosen up Chicken complishing if we forget what it all Jr. scholastically. It could easily incarceration rates and sentencing of Littles, the sky is staying put means immediately after? We’re be misinterpreted that I’m taking Blacks is signifi cantly disproportion- TAYLOR G. DESIR JR. is a junior so- this election cycle. just good at marginalizing the fact away from the signifi cance of Black ate and generally ill representative of ciology major. E-mail him at tdesir1@ that most of us are probably never History Month. Th is isn’t the case. the degree of the off ense. ithaca.edu. ROB GRIFFIN is a senior politics major. E-mail him at ALL OPINIONS EXPRESSED do not necessarily refl ect those ofThe Ithacan. To write a guest commentary, contact Opinion Editor Kara Cusolito at 274-3208. rgriffi [email protected]. 14 The Ithacan Thursday, March 6, 2008

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It takes a village Trips to Ghana shape professor’s philosophy

Above: Whitehead leads the Voices Mulitcultural Chorus at the First Unitarian Church downtown on Mondays. NATALIE BEST/THE ITHACAN Below: A member of the Saakumu Dance Troupe plays a traditional drum and sings at a performance Friday. CHRISTIAN ROADMAN/THE ITHACAN

BY KARA CUSOLITO bright theater lights, and he adjusts OPINION EDITOR his glasses as he explains his connec- The images flicker in Baruch tion to Woma. They met through a Whitehead’s glasses, and the rhythm colleague a few years back, and the pulses in his ears. On stage in front summer after they met, Whitehead of him, 18 bare feet flail and swirl. traveled back to Africa with Woma. They pound in perfect time to a The trip was a defining life moment. hollow drumming, a rattlesnake Many times, Whitehead says, African clatter and the pop-buzz of an Afri- Americans don’t think about having can xylophone. These feet and legs a homeland. He didn’t, until Ghana. and the dancers each belongs to — “I stepped off the plane and I saw members of Ghana’s Saakumu Dance these people who looked like me, Troupe — are more familiar with who looked like my brothers and desert heat and a dusty dirt floor my sisters,” he says. “And it was so than the strange wooden platform evident to me.” beneath them tonight. He’s gone back every year since Whitehead has seen them all be- that first trip in 2003 and began to fore, but never here, in Ford Hall. bring students with him as a study So he watches them, and his eyes abroad program. Now, the students don’t leave the stage. He stares at who study at Woma’s school, the Da- jeans. The two are back with friends, many of the dancers and musicians the dancers, their bodies low to the gara Music and Arts Center, come and they know these songs. Assael at the center, despite the 7,000-mile ground, bent and twisting, muscles back changed, too. pounds his hands on a hide drum, distance to the village where they tensed and working hard. He knows During a dance Friday, one of the Sundal pounds her feet on the stage. spent those three weeks. their beats well; he’s been to the vil- African men hops to the stage’s edge They keep perfect time with the beat, “[Th e students develop] this idea lages where their dances were craft- and reaches out his hand. He pulls up as if they’re back in Ghana, at Daga- of global existence,” Whitehead says. ed. He’s been changed by them, and Kendra Sundal, a junior at the college ra, learning from Whitehead and the “Th at there are people in the rest of the by Ghana. And he’s brought change who studied with them in June 2006, African culture. world that we can be connected to.” to Ithaca, inspired by these people and Dan Assael, a senior who went “[Whitehead] sees the importance For three hours, the Saakumu and their land. along that same summer. of sharing music across cultures,” troupe dances on the Ford Hall stage. It’s Leap Year Day, 2008. Outside, Assael grabs a drum, and Sundal’s Sundal says. But they could go on for hours lon- it’s another February blizzard in smile is radiant as she flips her long The learning that takes place at ger — in the villages they come from, Ithaca, but the dancers carry on, blonde hair and ties a teal African Dagara in Ghana fosters lasting con- people dance all through the night. unfazed by the storm. The troupe’s cloth around her waist over a pair of nections. Sundal keeps in touch with “Have you ever seen ‘Roots’?” leader, Bernard Woma, has just ar- Whitehead asks. rived from Ghana, and he jokes about It’s just what the villages in Ghana the snow. are like. Hundred and hundreds of “We don’t want the snow — too years have passed, and nothing in cold!” he says. “We’ll give you the West African villages — the ones Africa’s warmth.” far removed from the cities — has They are here, he says, to shake changed. Dirt floors, straw roofs, away the snow. clay-brick walls. It was unsettling to Woma thanks his hosts at Ithaca Whitehead during that first trip and College, who’ve made a dance tour of he wanted to help them, to change the U.S. possible. It was an uphill bat- things and make their lives better. tle, he says, that took years of dream- But then Whitehead realized what ing and months of planning — but they have there is working for them. finally, his vision was achieved. He “Sometimes we’re so arrogant in owes this to one person in particular: this country to think that everything Whitehead. This tour was his idea. revolves around America,” he says. So Woma calls his friend up to the “And maybe things do, in a sort of stage, and they hug. capitalistic sense, but these civiliza- “Dr. Baruch came to Ghana, tions are thousands of years old.” discovered his soul,” Woma said. Of course, he says, we have the re- “Discovered his passion.” sources in this world to end poverty, to Whitehead towers a foot above Above: Members of Ghana’s Saakumu Dance Troupe performed Friday in Ford help with heath care and clean water — his African friend. The professor’s Hall. Whitehead brings students to study with the dancers each summer. head, shaved bald, gleams in the CHRISTIAN ROADMAN/THE ITHACAN See WHITEHEAD, page 20 ACCENTUATEUA

16 The Ithacan Thursday, March 6, 2008 Spotlight Because the world is a funny place

Whether you realize it or not, a good theme song is as crucial to the success of a TV show as smart writing and inter- esting characters — OK, it’s not quite that important, but it is at least largely responsible for setting the tone of the show. This week, Staff Writer Andy Swift mourns the loss of the TV theme song, as most shows these days are doing away with it entirely.

Even if you’ve never seen an episode of “I Dream of Jeannie,” you could probably recognize its theme song pretty easily. It’s fun, it’s catchy and it’s as much a part of television history as the Fonz’s jacket or Archie Bunker’s ratings-friendly racism. It was written during an era where theme songs were appreciated and given the respect they deserved. That era, sadly, is nearing its end, and theme songs are WMD’S hit Ithaca now often considered to be distractions, From left, Keller Williams and WMD’S bassist Keith Moseley, brought by the Bureau of Concerts, played at the State Theatre on Saturday. taking the audience’s attention away from JIM LUDLOW/THE ITHACAN what’s really important: the plot.

“Desperate Housewives” is one of the hohot worst offenders. During the show’s fi rst weird but GETTING SHOT: THE NEW WAY season it featured a theme song bril- liantly composed by the legendary DANNY TO AVOID GOING TO WORK dates ELFMAN (as if he were ever capable of thursday not being brilliant — “The Simpsons,” true Ithaca College Women’s “Chicago”). Only during special or Chorale and Chorus will particularly dramatic episodes would the A man in Pasco, Wash., wanted to get perform at 8:15 p.m. in Ford lighthearted theme be omitted. Three some time off from work and avoid an Hall. Admission is free. years later, it has been reduced to a upcoming drug test, so he had a friend 10-second tune and a quick shot of shoot him in the shoulder. Initally the the four housewives holding their little victim told police he’d been hit in a friday apples. TERI HATCHER seems to have a drive-by shooting while jogging — I’m Long John and The Tights will perform at 5:30 p.m. particularly smug expression on her face. not sure why you would jog in an area where drive-bys are a problem — but at Felicia’s Atomic Lounge. the truth eventually came out. I’d Admission is free. Kevin Kinsella will perform Even veterans like “Grey’s Anatomy” and venture to say the company doesn’t at 7 p.m. at the Lost Dog “One Tree Hill,” shows that have built need to bother with that test anymore. their reputations around the obscure Lounge, 106 -112 S. Cayuga — Jamie Saine Street. $5. music they feature in each episode, have Hubcap will perform at chosen to axe their theme songs. 9:30 p.m. at Castaways, 413-415 Taughannock Fortunately, there is still a glimmer of hope Blvd. $7. for theme music enthusiasts. Cable TV hasn’t been drinking the of the VOYEURISM REACHES A NEW LEVEL WITH STRANGERS’ PHOTOS saturday same haterade as the blog Robin Burnett and Band broadcast networks, so will perform at 7 p.m. at most of their shows week Common Ground, 1230 have kept their songs Have you ever gone on a vacation only Danby Rd. $5. playing loud and to lose your camera later? A new blog Lost Sailors will perform at proud. Plus, cable may help recover those lost photos. 9:30 p.m. at Castaways. $6. is where you’ll fi nd www.ifoundyourcamera.net allows Trever MacDonald will some of the catchi- users to post pictures from found cam- perform at 10 p.m. at The Chapter House, 400 Stewart est tunes out there. eras or memory cards so owners can Just try to watch an Ave. $5. reclaim them. Since the site launched Noble Savages will episode of “Dexter” Feb. 3, it has gotten more than a half perform at 10 p.m. at without getting the million page views. For some, the blog The Nines, 311 College theme song stuck may be a new chance to fi nally reunite Ave. $5. in your head. It with lost memories. For the rest of us, Awake the Hero will can’t be done. it’s just another intriguing way to peer perform at 6 p.m. at into the lives of others. The Haunt, 702 Willow — Sarah McCarthy Ave. $5. sunday Urban Horse Thieves will perform at 2 p.m. at quoteunquote Castaways. $5. Phoenyx Rising will perform at 7 p.m at Felicia’s Atomic Lounge. Admission I don’t know a lot about balls. is free. Love, Janis will be Ellen DeGeneres told Hedi Klum while doing a cooking segment on performed at 7:30 p.m. at DeGeneres’ show while the pair were making meatballs. The State Theatre, 107 ”W. State Street. $47.50. Thursday, March 6, 2008 ACCENT The Ithacan 17 double vision

Handwerker debuts dual shows

BY MIKE SPRETER undergarments – so there!” And another, “I gone through so much change and have such “We really got to do what we wanted to STAFF WRITER felt so guilty I ate my plate.” incredible talent.” do, whereas in a regular class you just get Up close, a cell phone looks pretty small. Also featured at the Handwerker is “Of “Of the People” represents the culmina- lectured,” York said. At least at fi rst. the People: Inuit Sculpture from the Col- tion of a seminar offered in Fall 2007 through Th ough the exhibit is curated by Ithaca Stand back and you’ll fi nd yourself staring at lection of Mary and Fred Widding,” a new the college’s art history department. Cheryl College students, its roots are Mary and Fred 426,000, the average number of cell phones dis- exhibit representing a culture quite unlike that Kramer, director of the Handwerker Gal- Widding, co-owners of the collection on display. posed of in the United States per day. of its gallery neighbor. lery and assistant professor of art history, As a 50th birthday present, Fred Widding Statistical shock is at the root of “Running Th e collection represents the work of the charged students with the formidable task encouraged his wife, a speech pathologist the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait,” Inuits, a tribe of people inhabiting northern of curating and mounting their own exhibit, and alumna of the college who now works one of two new exhibits at Ithaca College’s Alaska, eastern Canada and Greenland. from the first days of research to the final as an art historian at Cornell University’s Handwerker Gallery that were unveiled at an “Th e exhibit’s about exploring a little-known preparations in marketing and installing Johnson Museum, to make a change. opening reception last Th ursday. “Numbers” culture,” said senior Elizabeth York. “It’s an inter- the collection. York was a member of the “His speech to me was that I should highlights the work of Seattle-based photog- esting topic to study especially because they’ve installation team. follow my passion,” Mary Widding said. “It’s rapher Chris Jordan, an artist who documents been a delight.” consumer culture by lending a concrete image Th e Widding’s interest in Inuit art was to intangible excess. piqued when a co-worker of Fred’s showed “Numbers” evokes the role of the individu- the couple a “box of rocks,” Mary Widding al in this process of excess by emphasizing the said. Th at “box of rocks” now represents three fact that each disposed cell phone, or soda can of the miniature stone sculptures featured at or trash bag, creates part of a bigger picture. the Handwerker, pieces of a unique puzzle the Senior Mary Schaefer explored the exhibit by Widdings have been building for the better looking at the images up close before taking part of a decade. in the context. “We fell in love with the pieces and the “I didn’t want to read the explanations,” she peoples’ stories,” Mary Widding said. “We said. “I wanted to try to fi gure out what it was made a deal in collecting that the one piece of on my own.” art had to speak to both of us.” “Numbers” also features a reaction “Of the People” stands in stark thematic wall on which visitors to the gallery can contrast to its sister exhibit, given the scribble their reactions to artist Jordan’s elemental and ecological nature of the Inuit sobering panorama of American culture. One culture. Th e exhibit features plaques describing comment claims, “I usually use trash as my features of Inuit life, from shamanism to identity, in order to enhance the audience’s understanding of the sculpture. “What we found most interesting about it was that most people don’t even know that Inuit art exists,” Fred Widding said. “Th ey come with virgin eyes.” Top: From left, Zacc Mounting one or the other would be Guaraeno and senior diffi cult in itself, so showing them alongside J.J. Ignotz look at one another required special attention. “Handguns.” “Th ere are so many objects in a relatively small space,” said senior Amanda Brownbridge, Above: “Angut [Man],” who worked alongside York on the installa- created by Samuel tion committee. “Laying it all out to lead people Nahaulaituq, is on through the exhibit is a challenge.” display in three Perhaps, though, this challenge will prove different sizes. to the Handwerker’s serendipitous advantage. The narrative created by the dueling Left: From left, senior exhibits is undeniable: two civilizations Elizabeth York speaks harnessed within the Western Northern with collectors Mary Hemisphere, each with radically different Widding and Fred results. Even more striking is the fact that Widding and visitor this difference is shrinking daily with the Judy Scott Kardosk at march of globalization. the show opening last “Even though the Inuits are native, Thursday. CONNOR GLEASON/ they’re growing more toward Western ideas,” THE ITHACAN Brownfi eld said Whatever the political ramifi cations, these fi rst-rate exhibits have been handled with professional care. “To see it curated in such an organized and impressive way … it’s a pleasure,” .Mary Widding said. 18 The Ithacan Thursday, March 6, 2008 Thursday, March 6, 2008 ACCENT The Ithacan 19 Brötchen brings Austrian culture to The Commons

BY KATIE BATILL into a desired market in town. CONTRIBUTING WRITER “Th ere’s a lot of Italian and Antique cowbells clang when the Chinese restaurants around,” he front door to the shop is opened. said. “I wanted to off er something A cart full of freshly baked breads new, something like a tradition- and exquisite cakes greets custom- al Viennese coff ee house where ers while the smell of cappuccino people could come and have a fi lls the air. Th e walls are painted European experience.” with rich yellows and deep reds and Local coffeehouse staple Juna’s decorated with an array of artwork Café closed on The Commons from rolling fi elds and colorful last week, but Horzing is not con- vineyards to a series of striking cerned about Brötchen losing any black-and-white photographs. business to big-name competitors Th e ambience is part of why like Starbucks. He said he has a Brötchen, a Viennese Kaff eehaus, different clientele. His customers has been well received by the are looking for more than just a community since opening in late cup of coffee: They’re looking for November. Brötchen is more than the a European experience. average coff ee shop — it’s a bakery, a Brötchen received exposure dur- deli and a fi ne European restaurant. ing Ithaca’s Chilifest competition While sandwiches and fresh last month, when it won the award Viennese coffee are always avail- for best presentation. Horzing fea- able, the specialties menu changes tured chili with Belgian chocolate, daily and the dishes are anything served with marbled cornbread and but common. One Saturday, orange-spiced cinnamon. the menu included herb-spiced KelLee Rich, a senior at Ithaca pork tenderloin with prosciut- College who works at Brötchen, to wrapped brussel sprouts or said she enjoys everything at the Moroccan fish stew with mahi Kaff eehaus but recommends the mahi, shrimp, mussels, beans and lemon-berry cake and the Ru- exotic spices. Two glass cases are gelach, a type of pastry. Horzing’s fi lled with gourmet sweets like From left, Nora Schmitt, an employee at Brötchen on The Ithaca Commons, accepts money from Meredith McCue- recommendations include his Aus- dark chocolate, black forest cher- Scott. The shop offers pastries and meals made by owner Michael Horzing, who began cooking in Europe. trian-Hungarian Goulash and the JIM LUDLOW/THE ITHACAN ry truffl es and white chocolate Wiener schnitzel. covered pretzels. cooking when he was 6 years old “I had no creative freedom at he wanted to get back into the Freshman Alex Barbone visited Philip Nahernack, a junior at at home in Austria with his grand- Disney,” he said. “I had to cook ex- restaurant business. the store for the first time Tuesday Cornell University, said every father, who was a master chef. actly what they said to cook, and It’s easy to tell Horzing is dedi- and ordered a slice of the marbled time he is down on The Commons Horzing attended culinary school that was that.” cated to the shop and has a firm cheesecake with raspberry sauce. he stops by Brötchen to get a in Vienna and continued his edu- About 10 years ago, Horz- hold on all its operations: He is “I’ve been eating campus food finger sandwich. cation in Rome. ing was on vacation and hap- the owner and also the only chef. for so long this makes me feel like “I was pleasantly surprised to He was later led to Florida, pened to drive through Ithaca. He will take orders, head back I’m on vacation,” she said. “The see a place like this open up on the where he worked as a chef at Dis- He liked it so much he decided to to the kitchen to prepare dishes, presentation alone is terrific.” Commons,” he said. ney World’s Epcot Center. But the pack up and move here, he said. serve them and then clear off the The man behind the business is job did not satisfy his desire to For a while he worked small ca- tables after they’re empty. Brötchen is located at 128 E. Michael Horzing. Horzing started create original dishes. tering venues until he decided Horzing said he has tapped State St. Th e shop is closed Sundays.

The Ithacan 20 The Ithacan ACCENT Thursday, March 6, 2008 Music programs bring global perspective

WHITEHEAD says. “He really does try to help everyone.” FROM PAGE 15 But he still has much more to do, and many more people to help. He wants to ad- and that is something that must be done. But dress the diversity issue here at the college, these changes have to be collaborative. host a conference on teaching children of “Not just saying, ‘Boom. Here’s western color and spend his sabbatical next spring civilization. Get on board with it,’” he says. in Africa. He wants to learn more about tra- Because, he says, just as there is a lot ditional music in the Middle East as a way they can gain from us, there are things we of bridging a cultural gap from the U.S. can learn from them. “I want to be an open soul,” he says. “My Whitehead has been in Ithaca since 2002, philosophy is that my philosophy’s always when he was hired at the college. He would changing. So I can be a vessel for change.” later become the School of Music’s first Onstage last Friday, one drummer mo- black tenured professor. In the span of six tions for the audience to dance along. But years he has integrated global perspectives the rigid, systematic American clapping into every place he goes — at the college, clashes with the free-spirited energy of Af- in the community and across the globe. On rican song. Only when the audience goofs campus, Whitehead teaches core curricu- up and applauds too soon do their claps lum and classes that incorporate global complement the sound of hide drums and connections in music: African Drumming wooden gourd xylophones. and Dance, Worlds of Music and Multicul- It’s the end of Saakumu’s performance tural Perspectives of Music Education. The now, and Woma jumps to the front of the Gospel Festival he founded in 2006 incorpo- From left, Baruch Whitehead and Bernard Woma address the crowd Friday in Ford Hall. Woma stage again. It’s time for the people to dance, rates the college’s live orchestra and hosts and the dance troupe came as part of the college’s Black History Month celebration. he shouts. high school students from as far as Miami, CHRISTIAN ROADMAN/THE ITHACAN “The ground will not complain,” Woma Washington, D.C., and New York City. of travel, has helped solidify his global munity, and members bring friends along says. “So why you not dancing? If you can It’s a cultural bridge, he says. The festival perspectives. He’s traveled the world to and it bubbles over. People just love to sing, walk, you can dance.” participants experience a college music en- present papers, host workshops and do Whitehead says, and so for two hours every So he instructs his audience: fi rst clap, then vironment, and the college students learn research on his areas of expertise: diversity week, it’s what they do. Th e chorus members shake your body and sing these words. He and from hosting the teens — who are generally in music education, especially in working are anyone and everyone — an older man his drummers begin to play. Whitehead joins in. economic and racial minorities. It forces with children. with white hair, a younger woman with long On the other side of the stage, the everyone to branch out. During the summer, he runs programs black dreadlocks, a middle-aged woman with Saakumu dancers arrange themselves in a “If you’ve never lived in a community for Ithaca children at Southside Commu- reddish hair and a “Jail Bush!” badge. line, and they clap and pound and sing in with people of color, what does that do to nity Center. Year-round, he leads an Afri- Sometimes the chorus is shaky, and time with the African beat. They pull their how you perceive people of color?” he says. can drumming and dance ensemble at the Whitehead is not easy on them. He drums friends onstage: ones they’ve danced with “I think, ‘Man, if I can invite a person of Greater Ithaca Activity Center, a gospel along on top of the piano, and when he back in Ghana — Assael, Sundal — and oth- a different culture or race into my home, choir in Syracuse and a local Ithaca chorus. detects any small error, any off-key note, ers whom they’ve never met. Before long man, how neat is that?’ To be able to learn He spends his Monday nights directing a sharp motion of the hand or a slap-clap the stage is packed full. Black bodies, white and not be afraid of that.” this chorus, and every week during the cold cues his people to stop the song. It’s a bodies, young and old bodies. Students, For most of Whitehead’s life, he’d al- months the coat rack in the annex building rapid-fire stop-and-go. Still, energy in the professors, locals. Some are good, others are ways been in the situation where he was the of the First Unitarian Church downtown room is high, and upbeat, and Whitehead still learning. only black person, or one of very few. But overflows with a hundred winter jackets. commends his chorus. Whitehead watches, and he smiles. His in Ghana, he stepped into the majority and When Whitehead first became director, the In just six years he has left an indelible people — from the college, from the lo- that, he felt, almost validated his identity. chorus only had about 20 members. impression on the community. cal community, from Ghana — shake their This self-realization, along with lots Now the chorus has become its own com- “What he does is really amazing,” Assael bodies. Together, they shake off the snow. Thursday, March 6, 2008 ACCENT The Ithacan 21 Pilfers choose Ithaca Reggea-ska band hasn’t toured since 2001 but will come to town on reunion stint

The Pilfers has played its ent from what the two waves were unique blend of ska, pop, metal, doing before. We put more of a reggae and dub in New York City contemporary spin on it. since 1997. The band, formed by vocalist Obiajula, aka Coolie RB: So what’s it like having the band Ranx, and trombonist Vinny Nob- play together again? ile, played until 2001. Recently the original band, including members O: I guess there’s a yearning for the Anna Milat-Meyer, James Blanck music again and the need to per- and Nick Bacon, reunited to play form. So we got together to do a select live shows. Staff Writer couple of shows and see how it goes Ryan Bryant spoke with Obiajula from there. Performing together is about the band’s upcoming shows something that we like doing. We’re and its past. out here to give ’em some music and see how far it goes. Ryan Bryant: How did the Pilfers come to be? RB: You’ve worked with bands like Reel Big Fish and the Pietasters. Is Obiajula: It was a winter night in there anyone you’ve wanted to work December ... no I’m just joking. I with but haven’t? was originally with the Toasters. I left the band and decided to put a O: Th ere’s always someone out there band together. that we’d like to work with. We don’t mind mashing up the stuff that we From left, Nick Bacon, Obiajula aka “Coolie Ranx” and Vinny Nobile of The Pilfers will perform at The Haunt tomorrow RB: You’ve been associated with do with anything that someone else as part of the band’s tour of select cities. The group has not played together since it took a break in 2001. “reggacore.” Can you describe what does. We’re not in every genre. So COURTESY OF LIONEL BERGERON that is? here we go, keeping the doors open, gy, that’s what we like to see. Th at’s how we treat our elderly. That’s crowd. I got attacked there once. trying to put some Jamaican fl avor our favorite place to play, a place what the song is supposed to be The crowd came to my rescue O: It’s a fusion of anything in there. where there’s a synergy between us focusing on — how we treat our like no other. It wasn’t a physical Caribbean with anything rock. It’s and the audience. elderly, leave them to be left alone attack — I was attacked verbally. basically the blending of two cul- RB: Th e Pilfers have played all over and to die alone. They are respon- The crowd showed me a lot of love tures coming together. the world. What are some of the fa- RB: I was listening to your songs sible for us being here. It’s basi- and passion. I have never forgot- vorite places you’ve been? and saw “Dr. Kevorkian.” Can you cally a light shone on our family ten that. Ithaca is a place I like to RB: Th e Pilfers have been labeled as explain what made you want to once they get older. call home as well. Th ird Wave Ska. Can you describe O: I really like Barcelona. I like write a song on this topic? the band’s fl avor? Poland for the historical aspect; it RB: What made you decide to play The Pilfers will perform at 9 p.m. was the fi rst time I went behind the O: If you listen to the song, we’re in Ithaca? tomorrow at The Haunt, 702 O: We have a chance to experi- Iron Curtain. [We like] France, New not actually taking sides. We just Willow Ave. Tickets are $15 in ment with any type of music that York, D.C., Ithaca and Connecticut. made a report on the topic of the O: We got the call from Ithaca. advance, $20 day of and can be we like. We’ve blended ska with As long as there is an audience that day. We look for the opinion of We used to do a lot of shows up purchased at The Haunt or at reggae, Third Wave being differ- is enthusiastic and has a great ener- who he is and what he’s doing and in Ithaca. There’s always a great Volume Records. 22 The Ithacan ACCENT Thursday, March 6, 2008 single ‘Bartlett’ worthy addition to teen fi lms Tracks we’ve BY DAVE WILLIAMS got on repeat CONTRIBUTING WRITER file Th e release of “Charlie Bartlett” ‘ALICE’ shortly after the overwhelming suc- Moby cess of “Juno” sends a clear message: Moby is always in and out of our dark teen comedies are back. radar, but this synthy tangle has Despite “Charlie Bartlett” just the right amount of sleaze having a similar angst-ridden tone and tight rhymes, courtesy of Aynzli and the 419 Squad. and sense of cynicism as “Juno,” it has a natural charm not seen in ‘BETTER GET TO LIVIN’ teen comedies since the long-past Dolly Parton era of John Hughes’ “The Break- If you love this country legend like we do, prepare to dig this track. If fast Club” and other Brat Pack you are not a believer, try to avoid favorites. Where- a smile on your face from listen- as the humor of FILM ing to this rollicking track. “Juno” and other REVIEW recent teen com- “Charlie ‘LOVE ME SEXY’ Bartlett” edies rely heavily Will Ferrell MGM Sure, the comedian’s sports on offbeat charac- Our Rating: shtick is a little played out. But ters and poorly ex- this smooth Barry White rip-off ★★★ from “Semi-Pro,” in which Ferrell ecuted one-liners, offers to “fi ll the bathtub full of “Charlie Bartlett” sweat,” is pretty brilliant. is original and refreshing. Perhaps this is because direc- Accent’s Oldie But Goodie tor Jon Poll and writer Gustin Nash ‘HOT CROSS BUNS’ revive the idea that the comedy and From left, Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) consults Susan (Kat Dennings) in the new comedy “Charlie Bartlett.” Traditional tragedy in the lives of teenagers do COURTESY OF MGM The last time we heard this rockin’ not have to be melodramatic in per- new troubles. After taking the drug energetic scenes, such as the to tackle the issues of absent par- tune was during fourth grade record- formance, but in essence. Th e result for only four days, Charlie puts his results of his experiences with Ritalin, ents and the over-medication of the er lessons. Someone should really is a movie that is diff erent from the nose for business and his experi- Yelchin never seems wilder than he iGeneration, the movie is partially bring it back -— it’s so classic that rest not because of its style, but be- ences in therapy to use by teaming initially lets on. Meanwhile, Downey is unbalanced. It struggles in terms not even Britney could screw it up! cause it’s just outright smart. up with Murphey. Th ey cure the more subtle than usual in a nearly fl aw- of when to let the comedy do the COMPILED BY WILLIAM EARL Leading this cast is Charlie entire student body of their social less performance as the troubled, alco- skewing and when to let the more (Anton Yelchin), a wealthy but anxieties, much to the chagrin holic principal. In every moment these dramatic moments speak directly to earnest boy who is kicked out of of the self-medicating Principal two are on screen together, there’s a the issue at hand. Th e beauty is that prep school before finally being Gardner (Robert Downey Jr.), who natural presence of the generation gap both sides of this debate are represent- quickies forced into the jungle of public is also the father of Charlie’s crush, between them, but the hope for un- ed equally without being preachy. high school. On setting out in Susan (Kat Dennings). derstanding is just as strong. Regardless, there has not been this new territory, Charlie does Th e performances are what help The characters are fleshed a comedy this dark, witty and in- what he can to gain friendship, “Charlie Bartlett” develop organically. out by Nash’s script, which uses telligent about teenagers since from trying out for the school Th ere’s not one histrionic, tear-jerking dialogue based around emotions, “Harold and Maude” in 1971, a play to befriending the mentally moment. Every character is realistic not single punch lines that set up tradition that “Charlie Bartlett” challenged kids on his bus. and can be identifi ed with. cheap laughs. There’s a balance of treasures and wears proudly on After Charlie is beaten up by Yelchin’s performance is as natu- talents between the actors and the the arm of its ragged private Murphey (Tyler Hilton), the school rally charismatic as a modern-day script. It’s not trail blazing com- school uniform. bully, Charlie’s fairly air-headed Ferris Bueller. He portrays a boy who edy but entertaining nonetheless. mother, Marilyn (Hope Davis), puts happens to be quiet but lets his person- While the humor and wit are “Charlie Bartlett” was written by her son on Ritalin to cope with his ality do the talking. Yet even in more well-balanced for a satire that dares Gustin Nash and directed by Jon Poll. COURTESY OF GEFFEN RECORDS ‘EGO TRIPPIN’’ Snoop Dogg Geffen Possible topics of discussion Jackson’s latest lacks ‘discipline’ on the new Snoop Dogg disc: weed, his reality show, weed, pimpin’, weed, being gangsta, Pop singer sacrifi ces quality for dull ballads on new disc weed, existentialism and weed. BY DOUGLAS EVASICK an addictive rhythm and a dance breakdown SENIOR WRITER reminiscent of Michael Jackson’s “Th riller.” Th e Four years removed from the infamous other dance tracks from this early block are not as wardrobe malfunction, and Janet Jackson is still good as “Feedback” but keep the pace going. If the in desperate need of a comeback. She’s coming a album had continued this way it still would not little closer with her latest album, “Discipline.” compete with previous Jackson classics as 1989’s Her last two albums, 2004’s “Damita Jo” and “Rhythm Nation,” but it could have been her most 2006’s “20 Y.O.,” failed to score any signifi cant consistently enjoyable album since the ’90s. hits whatsoever and disappeared from stores as Unfortunately the album takes a nosedive quickly as they appeared. starting with “Can’t B Good” — number nine out COURTESY OF VIRGIN RECORDS US At fi rst, many specu- ALBUM of 22 tracks — and becomes one boring ballad af- COURTESY OF CAPITOL RECORDS lated it was the controversy REVIEW ter another. By the time listeners reach the end, ‘THE ELEPHANT IN THE from the Nipplegate fi asco Janet Jackson the sugar pop high of the fi rst few songs has be- ROOM’ that led to declining record “Discipline” come a distant memory. One of the main reasons Fat Joe ‘Warpaint’ loses rust sales. Yet, in retrospect, it’s Island Def Jam the ballads don’t work is that Jackson’s vocals are Terror Squad BY WILLIAM EARL easy to see Jackson’s last two Our rating: much weaker than they used to be and the songs Fat Joe ambles back with an SENIOR WRITER ★★ eighth studio album, proving albums fl opped because she have little personality. that even with booty-rumbling Rumors of a Led Zeppelin reunion tour must hit a creative rut. Her sex With “Discipline,” listeners get the feeling that beats and Latino pride, he will be strike fear into the hearts of Th e Black Crowes. With kitten routine had become tiresome and off -put- Jackson got hold of a strong single and decided to forever known as the overweight “Lean Back” dude. a blues-soaked crunch reminiscent of the classic rock- ting. Nobody wanted to hear Jackson do breathy rush-release an album to capitalize on it hoping it ers, the Crowes are frequently accused of plagiarizing slow jams that described her sexual escapades in would put her back into the mainstream. Instead, from the Jimmy Page songbook. such detail that would make even Prince cringe. “Discipline” sees Jackson continuing her down- Fronted by the dirty pipes ALBUM Th at’s why the opening track of “Discipline” ward slide into pop irrelevancy. of former tabloid fodder Chris REVIEW comes as such an unexpected but pleasant sur- Robinson, the sextet’s muscle is The Black prise. “Feedback,” featuring a strong marching as primed as ever on “Warpa- Crowes drum beat, is easily Jackson’s catchiest dance int,” its fi rst studio album since “Warpaint” track since 2001’s “All for You.” Th e lyrics still deal Silver Arrow 2001’s “Lions.” Records with Jackson’s unquenchable sexual appetite, but Th e fi rst standout is “Walk Our rating: she covers it up with some metaphors more clev- Believer Walk,” which recalls the ★★★ er than anything on her last two albums. “Strum fi ery soul of the Crowes’ most me like a guitar, blow out my amplifi er, when you COURTESY OF FUGITIVE RECORDS complete work, 1994’s “Amorica.” Simple cuts like “Oh hear some feedback, keep going, take it higher,” ‘THESE ARE THE GOOD Josephine” — a lazy back porch ode to a beautiful girl she sings. TIMES PEOPLE’ as told through a trippy eff ects pedal — sound even After “Feedback,” the album unfolds with one The Presidents of the United sweeter among the more grandiose selections. dance track after another in a way similar to Ma- States of America Th e Crowes don’t let a non-recording hiatus aff ect donna’s “Confessions on a Dance Floor,” or Brit- Fugitive The quirky Seattle rockers return its brand of feel-good rock comfort food. Th ere are ney Spears’ “Blackout” — futuristic club produc- with its fi fth album of original mate- dodgy lyrics, and sometimes the hooks become a bit tion with a retro twist. rial, chock-full of sharp hooks. soggy, but it’s hard not to admire a band for sticking to “Luv” is a cute pop song reminiscent of Jack- COMPILED BY WILLIAM EARL its roots even as trends come and go. son’s more innocent days, while “2Nite” features COURTESY OF ISLAND DEF JAM Thursday, March 6, 2008 ACCENT The Ithacan 23 TICKET ‘Semi-Pro’ taps into Ferrell’s comedic dynasty  STUB  Film uses perfected man-child character and off beat plot to please audiences VALID FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

BY HARRY SHULDMAN CINEMAPOLIS SENIOR WRITER The Commons 277–6115 American moviegoers seem to grow more fickle with every IN BRUGES passing generation. In the first 9:45 p.m. half of the 20th century, they ate Weekend matinee 4:45 p.m. up more than a hundred “Laurel Wednesday matinee 5 p.m. and Hardy” outings, even though in each film the duo were either PERSEPOLIS ★★ ostensibly or literally playing the 7:15 and 9:35 p.m. same character over and over Weekend matinees 2:15 and 4:35 p.m. again. Around the same time, Ab- bott and Costello were releasing THERE WILL BE BLOOD ★★★★ dozens of films. They too were 7 p.m. relying on pretty much the same Weekend matinees 2 p.m. shtick year after year. Even that FILM FALL CREEK lovable redneck PICTURES Ernest (Jim Var- REVIEW “Semi-Pro” 1201 N. Tioga St. 272–1256 ney) released 10 New Line movies before his Cinema JUNO ★★★½ untimely passing. Our Rating: 7:30 and 9:35 p.m. and Ah, those were ★★★ Weekend matinees 2:30 and 4:35 p.m. the days. In the 21st century, though, it From left, Dick Pepperfi eld (Andrew Daly) interviews Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell) in the basketball comedy ‘Semi-Pro.’ MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY COURTESY OF NEW LINE CINEMA only took three wacky improv-en- 7:15 and 9:35 p.m. and semble comedies for “Will Ferrell The Ballad of Ricky Bobby”) and Harrelson.) As far as comedy and Brigade sketch with a big budget and Weekend matinees 2:15 and 4:35 p.m. fatigue” to set in. “Semi-Pro” did sometimes he’s a professional fig- basketball are concerned, Benja- elaborate costumes. open at No. 1 this weekend, but ure skater (“Blades of Glory”). But min’s got the moves. It’s obvious In one of the better scenes in THE ORPHANAGE with a paltry $15 million. Th at’s less despite the costume changes, it’s that Harrelson is game from his the movie, Moon agrees to wres- 7:15 and 9:35 p.m. and than half of what “Blades of Glory” always the same character. days in the aptly named comedy tle a live bear in order to attract a Weekend matinees 2:15 and 4:35 p.m. made nearly a year ago on its open- In “Semi-Pro,” Jackie Moon is the “White Men Can’t Jump.” bigger crowd to the game. When ing weekend and barely a third new Ron Burgundy. A former disco Rounding out the cast are some the bear inevitably escapes and REGAL STADIUM 14 what “Talladega Nights” made two one-hit-wonder, Moon has used his fantastic comedy ringers. Andrew wreaks havoc, Moon pleads to the Pyramid Mall 266-7960 summers ago. music money to gain ownership Daly and the great Will Arnett fleeing crowd, “If you have a small Th e sad part is that “Semi- of fi ctional American Basketball provide hilarious commentary as child, use it as a shield! They love 10,000 B.C. Pro” isn’t even that bad. In fact, Association (ABA) team, the Flint the league’s announcers. David the tender meat!” 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1:40 p.m., 2:40 it’s a heartbreaking work of stag- Tropics. Th e Tropics are yet anoth- Koechner, another Ferrell regular, It’s a great line, but who knows p.m., 4:15 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7 p.m., gering comedic genius when er bunch of oddballs and misfi ts, the plays the head of the ABA. Rob how many takes it took to get it just 8 p.m., 9:40 p.m., 10:40 p.m. considering the other “comedies” kind seen in countless sports com- Corddry and Andy Richter have right. Th e fi lm’s comedic moments playing at the multiplex — from edies before. Th ey’re the worst team their own moments. are so-so at best, peppered with oc- THE BANK JOB “Witless Protection” to the crimes- in the league, but they’ve got to get But make no mistake — this casionally inspired bits that make 3:50 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 9:50 p.m. against-humanity worthy “Meet their game together and make it to is still the Will Ferrell show. He the whole thing worthwhile. the Spartans.” fourth place before the ABA merges may be repetitive, but at least he’s For some, “Semi-Pro” is worth BE KIND REWIND ★★½ Since the success of “An- with the NBA. repetitively funny. seeing in theaters right away. For 11:10 a.m., 1:50 p.m., 4:50 p.m., chorman: The Legend of Ron The Tropics can only ac- Like many of Ferrell’s recent fi lms, others, it’s worth waiting a year to 7:30 p.m., 10:10 p.m. Burgundy,” Ferrell has basically complish this feat with the help the biggest problem with the movie see on an endless loop on HBO. played the same titular character: of smooth-talking dunk master is improv-heavy dialogue that tends COLLEGE ROAD TRIP a lovable, kind of sleazy, egotisti- Clarence “Coffee” Black (André to kill the most memorable lines. Th e “Semi-Pro” was written by Scot 11:20 a.m., 2:20 p.m., 4:30 p.m., cal man-child. Sometimes he’s a Benjamin). Also on hand is the bat- whole movie is basically a series of Armstrong and directed by Kent 6:40 p.m., 9 p.m. racecar driver (“Talladega Nights: tle-tested veteran Monix (Woody riff s, like an endless Upright Citizens Alterman. CHARLIE BARTLETT ★★★ 12:15 p.m., 7:45 p.m.

DEFINITELY, MAYBE New comedy falls fl at despite Jack Black’s talent 3:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m.,9:10 p.m. BY BRIAN STERN recreated — Jack Black as Jackie Chan and Mos FOOL’S GOLD CONTRIBUTING WRITER Def as Chris Tucker in their take on “Rush Hour 3:20 p.m., 10:15 p.m. Michel Gondry’s latest project, “Be Kind 2” is truly sidesplitting. Rewind,” begins as an attempt at an innovative As amusing as the montage of movie paro- JUMPER ★½ take on Hollywood and on movies themselves. dies is, there doesn’t seem to be much other 12:20 p.m., 3:10 p.m., 5:50 p.m., Th e fi lm’s production, though, leaves much to substance. Th ere’s no character development, 8:10 p.m., 10:25 p.m. be desired. and the plot becomes tired and stagnant, In the film, a shabby local video store called concentrating too hard on slapstick comedy THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL Be Kind Rewind is in danger of being demol- and quirk. Th e majority of the fi lm is strangely 11:05 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 3:40 p.m., ished to make way for the city’s redevelop- silent, lacking both humor and drive. Not even 7:20 p.m., 10 p.m. ment program. The store’s owner, Mr. Fletcher Black’s own patented brand of eccentric insanity (Danny Glover), is forced to either pack up his can pump enough life into the movie to salvage PENELOPE business or raise $6,000 to pay for mandatory it from being exactly what its trailer depict- 11:05 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., renovations. Fletcher sneaks away for a few ed: Black and Def as two overgrown children 6:50 p.m., 9:20 p.m. days on a reconnaissance running around with a video camera. mission to survey other vid- If “Be Kind Rewind” has one saving grace, it’s SEMI-PRO ★★★ eo stores in the area, leav- FILM Farrow. Her few short scenes as the not-all-there 2 p.m., 5 p.m., 7:40 p.m., 10:20 p.m. ing the store in the hands of REVIEW Miss Falewicz are the few times the fi lm comes Mike (Mos Def). “Be Kind anywhere close to portraying genuine emotion. THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES Rewind” While Fletcher is gone, Partizan Farrow has excellent on-screen chemistry with 11:50 a.m., 2:10 p.m., 4:40 p.m., Mike and his best friend Our rating: the entire cast. 7:10 p.m., 9:30 p.m. Jerry (Jack Black), a crazy ★★½ From left, Mike (Mos Def) and Jerry (Jack Black) Barring the performance of Farrow, the ef- auto-mechanic, wreak havoc recreate “Driving Miss Daisy” for the rental store. forts of Black and the creativity of Gondry, the STEP UP 2 THE STREETS ★★ on the store. Jerry becomes magnetized after COURTESY OF PARTIZAN movie is a charming failure of a humorous ex- 12:10 p.m., 2:50 p.m., 5:40 p.m., a freak accident — while attempting to cease In creativity and design, the movie is a periment in pop culture and social critique. It 8:20 p.m., 10:45 p.m. government manipulation of civilians via a smashing success. Gondry, who wrote and di- seems more like a drawn-out Saturday Night power plant — and accidentally erases all of rected “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” Live skit made into a feature length fi lm. Th e VANTAGE POINT ★★ the store’s videotapes. ingeniously converts everyday household ob- audience expects big laughs, but sadly “Be Kind 3 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:50 p.m. When the store’s one loyal customer, Miss jects into elaborate sets from various movies. Rewind” leaves something to be desired. Falewicz (Mia Farrow), stops by to rent her daily Th ere’s a montage of Mike and Jerry re-shooting Th e best that can be said of “Be Kind Rewind” movie, Mike and Jerry are forced to improvise. “Ghostbusters,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “King is that it is a tolerably eccentric movie with a OUR RATINGS With the help of a local Laundromat employee, Kong,” “Men in Black” and “Driving Miss Daisy,” humorous concept interspersed with a few brief Alma (Melonie Diaz), the pair hastily re-shoot fa- one of the few moments where genuine ingenu- moments of actual brilliance. Excellent ★★★★ mous movies, one per day, with a camcorder. Vari- ity meets comedic laughs. Good ★★★ ous junkyard objects are converted into props, and It’s also entertaining to see how the special ef- “Be Kind Rewind” was written and directed Fair ★★ a slew of colorful locals stand in as actors. fects of multimillion dollar pictures are crudely by Michel Gondry. Poor ★ 24 The Ithacan CLASSIFIED Thursday, March 6, 2008

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Above: From left, Ithaca College junior Dustin James competes in the 60-meter hurdles. Left: Ithaca College freshman Chris Stahl- mann competes in the high jump Feb. 16 at Cornell University’s Kane Invitational. MAX STEINMETZ/THE ITHACAN

other fi rst-year athlete, Kyle Devins, performed well in the long jump, fi nishing second only to senior captain James Aucoin, who set a meet record in the event. In addition to winning the conference, the Bombers were able to notch a fi fth-place fi nish at the New York State Collegiate Track Conference Championships this past weekend in Canton, N.Y. — four slots higher than last year’s veteran- laden team. Sophomore Andrew Brown broke his own school record in the pole vault, good for fourth-best in the state. Junior Tim Shea, who placed seventh in the 3,000 meters at States and who has been a consistent contributor all season, said the team’s performance against top-tier compe- Blue and Gold reclaim Empire 8 crown from RIT tition is a true testament to how much they have grown since November. BY BRIAN HOTCHKISS speed, a fi ve-time NCAA qualifi er in the high But as the indoor season comes to a close, “We’re not just a team of distance runners STAFF WRITER jump at SUNY-Geneseo, was just getting with the Eastern College Athletic Conference or sprinters or just athletes in fi eld events,” Shea our months ago, men’s track and fi eld acclimated to Ithaca after graduating last May. Championships at Harvard University slated said. “Th ere’s a lot more camaraderie this season, practices were more like a freshman Senior Kyle Miller said he was quick to notice for this weekend, it is clear the Bombers have and we’ve shown that we actually can care about orientation than they were actual con- how diff erent this team was around him from his given all the right answers all season. and rely on our freshmen.” F ditioning. With more than half of the fi rst three years at Ithaca. At the Empire 8 Indoor Championships on Head Coach Jim Nichols said he is pleased athletes on the team in their fi rst semester as “We were defi nitely the youngest group Feb. 10, the Bombers reclaimed the conference with the team’s success thus far and sees no end Bombers, you heard a lot more “What’s your that’s been here in a while,” Miller said. “But I title from the Rochester Institute of Technolo- in sight to their ability to grow on what they’ve name again?” than you did “One more lap.” really think we’ve matured a lot as a group, not gy, upsetting the three-time defending winners already established. Making matters worse, inexperience on just individually.” on their own track. As a testament to the team’s “We’ve competed really well,” Nichols said. the South Hill squad wasn’t limited to just the On paper, plenty of questions rose as to youth, freshman Jeff Wetmore led Ithaca with “Every season is judged by how your athletes ma- students. First-year assistant coach Joe Good- who would score points and in what events. wins in both the 55 and 200-meter dashes. An- ture, and we just continue to build every week.” Bombers take sixth overall in New York State meet

BY THOMAS ESCHEN STAFF WRITER igh preseason expectations can be hard to live up to for any tra- ditionally successful team. Th e Hfreshmen on the women’s indoor track and fi eld team faced those lofty ex- pectations the moment they stepped on campus this year. With about half of the team starting as fi rst-year athletes this sea- son, everyone from the upperclassmen to the coach were looking for results. While the transition between high school and college track and fi eld can be tough, this freshman class showed no sign of letting up. “A lot of times freshmen come in and don’t Above: Ithaca College freshman Kristen DeStefano clears the height mark during the pole vault. do as well as we hoped,” senior captain Leigh Left: Ithaca College freshman Regina Baker was one of two Bombers in the long jump. Klumpp said. “Th ey have really stepped it up MAX STEINMETZ/THE ITHACAN this year.” of every class raved about the support they gave Th e track and fi eld season won’t end with And while appearing at the top of the lead- to every other member of the team, regardless of those championships, though. Th e sport is dif- erboard consistently in numerous events, some class affi liation. ferent than most sports that are played on the of the freshman athletes made even bigger state- Th at lasting support translated into the campus. Members of the team are constantly ments by setting school records in their debut team’s fourth Empire 8 Championship in fi ve competing in offi cial meets throughout the year year. Freshman sprinter Marcia McCord set six Sometimes, however, that in- seasons. On an individual level, numerous mem- by virtue of cross-country, indoor track and fi eld school records in various events, while freshman fl ux of young talent can create unrest within the bers of the team posted personal-best marks on and outdoor track and fi eld in the spring. Kristen DeStefano broke the school pole vault team, Head Coach Jennifer Potter said. a weekly basis, and 33 athletes qualifi ed for the With the outdoor track and fi eld season on record, clearing 3.35 meters. “[Th is year] there were so many new athletes,” state meet, where the team took sixth overall last the horizon, Potter is looking forward to getting “Our class always had a lot to bring to the Potter said, “it was hard for everyone to get to weekend. Th e indoor Eastern College Athletic the team back at home again. Without the hassle table in our events,” McCord said. “We wanted know each other at fi rst.” Conference national championships are slated of going to Cornell for use of facilities, the team to continue the momentum that the upper- Th at chance of dissension was completely for this weekend, in which numerous members will be able to bond even more within the friend- classmen started in previous years before us.” ruled out after a couple of practices, as athletes will compete as well. ly confi nes of Butterfi eld Stadium. 28 The Ithacan SPORTS Thursday, March 6, 2008

FOURTH AND Utica bounces Bombers in overtime SHORT BY STEVE SCHIMMEL STAFF WRITER BEN STRAUSS Th e time has come for the members of the South Hill squad to once again clean out their lockers, pack up their worn-in basketball sneak- Lax team hopes ers, hand in the locks and empty out all the fi nal remnants of a 16–10 season. for smooth ride Th e Bombers’ hopes of repeating as Empire 8 champions were crushed when the second- f this year’s spring break is seeded Blue and Gold were dethroned by a anything like last year’s, the third-seeded Utica College on Friday. Iwomen’s lacrosse team might Injuries to seniors Erika Steele and Kali Car- prefer to stay home. novale and junior Megan Rumschik left the team A year ago, on their return without much depth. Th e Bombers still took the fl ight from West Palm Beach, Fla., lead at the 11-minute mark of the fi rst half against the JetBlue plane carrying the Utica and never trailed until the overtime period. team fell apart like a ’78 Ford Pin- Perhaps it was the Bombers’ short bench that en- to. Th e engine cover flew off and abled the tough Utica team to snatch the lead away hit the side of the plane, causing it in the waning moments of the fi rst-round game. to dip and the lights to fl icker. Rather than looking back on what could have “I felt like for a second we were been, much of the South Hill squad, the seniors in going to die,” senior goalie Emily particular, are looking back on what was. Steele, Brooks said. whose Ithaca College career came to a sudden halt It was one of those whole-life- due to a broken fi bula in Ithaca’s 68–57 win against passing-before-your-eyes kind of Stevens Institute of Technology on Feb. 22, said her moments. A “call your family and experiences as part of the Blue and Gold basketball tell them you love them because family for the past four years are invaluable. you might not make it” type of “Th e experience has always been about things deal. It was a scene straight out of beyond the practices and games,” Steele said. “It’s Almost Famous, except no one been about being a part of a family, having 13 or 14 came out of the closet. sisters I never knew until I threw on my jersey for Just like in a Hollywood that fi rst game freshmen year. It hasn’t always been script, the plane returned to easy, but it has always been worth it.” West Palm Beach and made an For Steele, Carnovale, forward Molly Friel and From left, sophomore point guard Katherine Bixby dribbles past a pair of Nazareth College defenders emergency landing with all its guard Brynn Fessette, the nights spent adorning during the Bombers’ 51–42 win against the Golden Flyers on Feb. 23 in the Ben Light Gymnasium. precious cargo physically intact, the Bomber colors may have come to a close, but CONNOR GLEASON/THE ITHACAN albeit emotionally shaken. the seniors have all left their marks on this for- this?’ I think I can speak for all of us when I say and in they end, we were all there for one an- As team-building exercise, this midable college basketball program. For the “Fab we do it because we love it.” other, which is what matters most.” experience beats trust falls hands- Four,” as the group of seniors has been dubbed, Th ough the season did not end the way the Th ough the 2007-08 season has only recently down. Go through something like this is a time for refl ection — not regret. Bombers had envisioned it at the onset of the sea- been put to rest, it is never too early to begin won- that with someone and you’ve got Carnovale, who was sidelined with a torn ACL son, the South Hill squad proved their grit through dering about the possibilities of 2008-09. Ithaca yourselves a pretty tight bond. halfway through the season, knows better than a hard-fought season in the face of misfortunes that returns with a strong group, led by sophomore “I was still getting to know anyone the frustrations involved with playing the seemed insurmountable at times. Friel said she is point guard Katherine Bixby, who was named to people, and now a lot of the girls game you love and being a part of a team but said proud of the way the Blue and Gold rallied around the All-Empire 8 fi rst team this week. Also return- are some of my best friends,” she would do it all over again. one another in the face of countless struggles. ing will be Rumschik, sophomore guard Lindsay sophomore Kassie Garfi eld said. “It was worth every second,” Carnovale said. “This team came through some great Brown and freshman forward Elissa Kile. “I wouldn’t say that was the only “I have learned to never give up. Every one of adversity throughout the season,” Friel said. “I “Of course we will be at a loss with the four se- reason, but it helped.” us four seniors hit rock-bottom at one point or couldn’t have asked for a better group of girls niors gone, but we have a lot of young players who Th e hardest part of the whole another in the four years of basketball, and you to share my senior season with. Everyone on are able to step up and fulfi ll those roles,” Brown ordeal may have been getting on just ask yourself sometimes, ‘Why am I doing the team stuck with it through ups and downs said. “I am excited for next year.” the next plane heading to JFK In- ternational Airport just two hours after their emergency landing. “I remember how tough it was to get everyone on that plane,” Defending champion Cardinals stun Blue and Gold Brooks said. “We almost had to rent a bus.” BY ANDREW LOVELL center Louis Kail and junior guard Th at fl ight, however, landed SPORTS EDITOR Brendan Rogers stepped into the safely in New York, and Brooks’ Head Coach Jim Mullins had starting lineup midway through mom was waiting with sandwiches been waiting to get his hair cut un- the season, helping propel the for the entire team. til after the men’s basketball team’s Bombers to their late-season run Today, the women’s lacrosse season ended. He had also hoped to clinch home-court advantage in team’s near-death experience has that wasn’t going to happen until the tournament. turned into something of a laugh- well into March. Sophomore forward Tom Brown ing matter, and it started on late And while Mullins said Monday and freshman guard Chris Cruz night TV the very next night. he had originally planned to do it also shined down the stretch, pro- “We were watching TV the that afternoon, with his team’s 88– viding a preview of things to come next night, and Jay Leno was 68 season-ending loss to St. John for the talented underclassmen in making fun of how the IC lax team Fisher College still only three days future seasons. almost died,” senior captain Suzy old, Mullins said he could wait just As with every season, this Lull said. a little bit longer. year was also the last hurrah for It wasn’t long before the team As the Empire 8 has been all Ithaca’s group of seniors. Kail, followed suit. At last year’s senior season, the conference postsea- Scanlon and possibly Ruffrage, banquet, they bought tiny air- son tournament this past week- who has one year of eligibility left planes at the dollar store, wrote end packed a handful of surprises and is considering a post-gradua- Jet Blue on the sides and broke — the two top seeds losing in the tion year, have played their final off the wings. Th ey then hung fi rst round, followed by the upstart games as members of the Blue them from the ceiling, signifying Nazareth College Golden Flyers and Gold, something Mullins said the healing process was more or knocking off fi ve-time defending is tough for him to see. less complete. champion St. John Fisher College “Your seniors always mean a lot; This spring break, JetBlue in the championship game. they’re part of the family [so] it’s has given vouchers to the team “It truly was wide open coming hard to see them go,” Mullins said. to pay for the returning play- in,” Mullins said. “I felt that more “Lou and Dom are two of the most ers’ trips back to West Palm than any other year. [But] it didn’t From right, junior center Jeff Bostic shoots over a pair of St. John Fisher College special kids I’ve ever coached.” Beach. As for the freshmen, make [the loss] any less painful.” defenders in the Cardinals’ 88–68 win Friday in the Ben Light Gymnasium. Leahy said the team hopes MAX STEINMETZ/THE ITHACAN Garfield knows they’re wise to Senior guard Scott Ruffrage Ruff rage returns in 2008-09, but Kail some of what happened a year said the Bombers simply failed to Th e 2007-08 season wasn’t all for was named Empire 8 Player of the and Scanlon provide unique aspects ago, if not everything. play up to their potential against naught for Ithaca though, despite Year, while both Burton and junior that will prove diffi cult to replace. “I think they have a pretty good the Cardinals. the disappointing fi rst-round exit. center Jeff Bostic were named to the “Dom and Louis are going to idea,” she said. “Everyone’s really disappointed,” Th e Bombers set a school record for All-Empire 8 fi rst team for the sec- be big losses,” Leahy said. “Louis, Hopefully it stays an idea. Ruff rage said. “We know we’re a the highest scoring season, averag- ond consecutive year. you can’t really measure him with better team than how we played. ing 82.5 points per game, and fi n- Th is season also saw the emer- stats. He brought a lot of energy BEN STRAUSS is a senior Th at was probably one of the worst ished with the most wins since the gence of junior forward Sean Leahy … and was the team leader this journalism major. Contact him at games we played all season and it 1999-2000 season. as a dangerous outside shooter and year. Dom was a huge spark plug [email protected]. couldn’t have come at a worst time.” Junior point guard Sean Burton viable go-to scoring option. Senior off the bench.” Thursday, March 6, 2008 SPORTS The Ithacan 29

Senior center Louis Kail, middle, leads the men’s basket- ball team in its pre-game cheer at center court. Kail was a unanimous choice as team captain this season. CONNOR GLEASON/THE ITHACAN

Senior center Louis Kail leaves Heart and soul mark on basketball program BY ANDREW LOVELL In Kail’s trademark pre-game special when you consider they and gain more experience.” nior year] was probably the hard- SPORTS EDITOR cheer, the entire team circles aren’t related by blood. Kail’s Kail only saw action in four est year. It was up and down. Ev- Louis Kail lives life with emotion. around him on the “Ithaca” logo mother, Barbara, adopted Louis games his first year, totaling 15 ery game was like ‘Am I going to And nowhere has that been more at the center of the court, arms when he was about eight months minutes and five points. Kail play, am I not going to play?’ Th at evident than on the basketball court locked, rocking side to side and old and moved from Texas to the said these numbers didn’t sur- was the hardest part.” of the Ben Light Gymnasium. chanting “Ah, ah, ah” while Kail West Chester, N.Y., area after she prise him but the playing time Kail responded by re-dedicat- Like on Feb. 23, when the punches the air around and above accepted a teaching position at during his sophomore and ju- ing himself to the things Mullins senior center led the men’s their heads, chanting along. Fordham University. nior seasons — 144 minutes and told him he needed to improve basketball team’s electrifying Th at is how games began this John Beloff , Kail’s high school 62 points — did. during their end-of-year meetings pre-game ritual, as he did ev- season, and more often than not coach for basketball and baseball “It’s always frustrating when ery game this season, and then they would end with an Ithaca and his teacher at Saddle River Day you’re not playing,” Kail said. “[Ju- See KAIL, page 30 went out and scored 16 points victory. But not on Feb. 23. Not School, said Kail’s relationship with to help the Bomber’s defeat against conference rival St. John his mother is truly one of a kind. Nazareth College to clinch the Fisher. Not in the biggest game of “I’m very close with Lou’s right to host this year’s Empire Kail’s career at Ithaca. mom,” Beloff said. “They’re cer- 8 tournament. And though the end to Kail’s tainly the odd couple, if you see Or when Kail, with tears in career was nothing short of a let- them standing next to each oth- his eyes, walked off of Ithaca’s down, the story of his four years er. But they are just astonishing. home floor for the last time ever on South Hill is a tale of persever- He’s about as proud of her as she in the final minute of Ithaca’s ance, patience and success. is of him.” season-ending loss to St. John Ask any of Kail’s closest friends When standing side-by-side, Fisher College this past Friday about the most important aspect Barbara only comes to up to and hugged his teammates and of his life and they will all give the Kail’s elbows, as the senior stands friends on the bench. same simple answer: his mother. roughly 6-feet-3-inches tall. Be- loff said Kail has always been big “You’d like to have every captain that ever comes in the height department but that his growth as a person is what set through your program to be like Louis Kail.” him apart. — JIM MULLINS “He’s still the biggest middle ITHACA MEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH schooler I’ve ever met,” Beloff said. “But more than that, his maturity Kail going one-on-one with Senior Matt Calabro, one of Kail’s and his growth from ninth grade All-Empire 8 fi rst team center best friends and housemate for the on was amazing, as a leader, [as junior Jeff Bostic, smashing hips, past two years, said he has never an] athlete and in the classroom.” elbows and shoulders in physical seen such a connection between a Kail brought those leadership post battles during practice, was mother and a son. qualities to South Hill in the fall of as common as him cracking a joke “[Th eir relationship is] such 2004, when he arrived as a physi- before squirting a stream of water a big part of his life,” Calabro, an cal education and health educa- into his mouth during breaks. assistant coach with the team the tion major and new recruit for “Come on, Jeff” and “Nice past few years, said. “I make fun the basketball team. Kail made shot, B-Rog” were often mixed in of him all the time, but I’ve never the varsity squad as a freshman, with an assortment of four-letter seen a mom and son love each something he said was a great ac- words. Good or bad, that’s Kail other so openly. She’ll answer the complishment as well as a learn- in a nutshell. The vocal leader of phone and be like ‘I love you so, ing experience. the team. The “heart and soul” so much Louis’ and he’ll hold the “My freshman year I made From left, an emotional Kail embraces teammate junior forward Sean and unquestioned leader of the phone away and laugh. Th ey have varsity and I was like ‘Wow,’” Kail Leahy in the fi nal minute of Ithaca’s 88–68 season-ending loss to St. team, as Head Coach Jim Mul- an unbelievable relationship.” said. “You don’t expect to play, John Fisher College this past Friday in the Ben Light Gymnasium. lins called him. Th eir bond is even more you’re just working to get better MAX STEINMETZ/THE ITHACAN 30 The Ithacan SPORTS Thursday, March 6, 2008 Captain brought emotion and selfl essness to Blue and Gold

ence kid, and he wasn’t this and he FROM PAGE 29 wasn’t that.’ But it’s not what he wasn’t: it’s what he was.” — mainly, getting into shape to fi t Kail’s affinity for leadership in with the Bombers’ run-and-gun stretches beyond just his team- style of off ense. mates and peers; The senior plans “We kind of had to tell him on instructing younger kids as ‘With that kind of strength, you’re both a gym and a health teacher going to have to physically bully after college. people, you’ve got to be more physi- “I really enjoy working with cal,’” Mullins said. “I think he fi nally kids, [the] elementary age group,” bought into that this year. He [also] Kail said. “They’re really a lot of did a great job with running the fun. I’m student teaching right fl oor. He could outrun people and now with elementary school kids that probably goes back to his high at Newfield Elementary School, so school days when he was releasing I’m really enjoying that.” [long-distance shots].” As part of his major, Kail is Kail responded by posting ca- now in the middle of a seven- reer highs across the board this week physical education teach- year and fighting his way into the ing period in Newfield in lieu of Bombers’ starting lineup for the classes. Kail will then spend the second half of the season, some- final seven weeks of the school thing Mullins said Kail completely year teaching health education earned by himself. in Rochester. Despite his paltry 4.8 points It’s fitting that Kail — the per game career average in four “gentle soul,” as Mullins called years at the college, Kail was ac- him — will spend the rest of his tually a scoring machine in high life instructing children. But next school, something he said he still year, Kail said he will be back gets jokes about. with the Bombers, this time as a “I actually have the highest scor- graduate assistant. ing average in New Jersey history,” Following in the footsteps of Kail said, laughing. “I had 67 points Jonathan Whetstone ’06, Sean in a game once, 50 twice. It’s a run- Senior center Louis Kail dives for a loose ball during the Bombers’ 88–68 loss to St. John Fisher College Stahn ’07, one of Kail’s house- ning joke that ‘Oh, Louis could this past Friday in the Ben Light Gymnasium. Kail started 12 games for the Blue and Gold this season. mates, and others, Kail will pro- MAX STEINMETZ/THE ITHACAN score in high school.’ But I didn’t vide a familiar face and a steady- play in a very good high school which Kail said he did for the fi rst captains’ hearts] weren’t in it. May- ing the season and praised Kail’s ing force on the sidelines. league. It’s almost embarrassing three years in Ithaca. His hard work be that’s because it’s at the Division leadership style. Mullins, for one, Mullins said the prospect of when I tell people stuff like that.” and consistent team-fi rst attitude III level, who knows. But we talked admitted that the players, especially having Kail back with the team Beloff said despite his size advan- did not go unnoticed. about it a lot before the season start- the younger ones not playing as in any capacity is great but that tage, Kail often played on the wing Kail was selected unanimously ed, and Louis said ‘We’re too good much, could relate to Kail’s experi- replacing his on-the-floor leader- back in his Saddle River Day School by his teammates and coaches at to joke now.’ We didn’t want that to ence going through the same thing. ship and intensity will be a nearly playing days. It forced him to work the beginning of this season to be be that way [anymore].” “He had a unique perspective impossible task. on all aspects of his game and not one of the team captains, something With Kail’s leadership and im- in that, with some of the kids that “It’s an unusual kid that can re- just post moves, which ultimately, Calabro said Kail cherished. He also proved performance on the court, may have been struggling with ally sit there for three years and for a player his size, was something said Kail quickly became the most the Bombers fi nished with a 17–9 playing time, he could tell them, watch others around him play when that worked against him when he respected captain the team has had overall record and a 12–4 mark in ‘Look I’ve been through this, I he really desperately wants to play got to Ithaca. in recent memory. the Empire 8, earning them the right know what its like,’” Mullins said. and never make an issue of it, never At the collegiate level, Mullins “[Th e diff erence in past captains to host the Empire 8 postseason “We’re going to miss him a lot be anything but positive,” Mullins and the rest of Ithaca’s coaching staff and Kail] is like night and day,” Cal- tournament for the fi rst time ever. more than people realize. They’re said. “You’d like to have every cap- wanted Kail to play physically down abro said. “When I fi rst got here [fi ve Calabro said more than a few going to look at his numbers and tain that ever comes through your low and work on his post moves, years ago], you could just tell [the players approached him dur- say ‘Well, he wasn’t an all-confer- program to be like Louis Kail.” South Hill squad fi nishes strong Ithaca ends season third in the state and second in the conference BY LAUREN BROUSELL team season-best in the 1,650-yard freestyle STAFF WRITER behind Gage. Led by a strong freshman class, the men’s Wilson said he enjoyed being a motivator swimming and diving team fi nished out the for his team. 2007-08 season with a record of 13–8 — their “For me it was just seeing everybody else so highest win total since the 2003-04 season. excited about the meet and getting fi red up,” Freshman Joe Gage recorded team Wilson said. “I was just standing up on the block season-bests in the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard seeing everybody else fi red up on the side and it freestyle, 200-yard free- makes you want to do better and swim faster.” style, 500-yard freestyle NEXT YEAR Wilson will be graduating this spring along and 1,650-yard freestyle, The Blue and Gold with seniors Matt Olko and Casey Degon. and was a part of the 400- lose three seniors, Th ough they are the only three seniors leaving yard freestyle relay team. including captain the team, the Bombers will have to step up to He was named Empire 8 Scott Wilson, but replace them. Athlete of the Week on should return 10 Head Coach Kevin Markwardt said the letter winners as The Bombers celebrate their third-place fi nish at States this past weekend in Syracuse. Ithaca n-fi Feb. 11 and Rookie of the well as this year’s losses could be much worse. Meet for his performance “Olko, Casey and Scott all contributed a ished third in New York state and second in the Empire 8, fi nishing only behind Alfred University. freshman class. COURTESY OF SCOTT WILSON this past weekend at the great deal and it [will] be tough to replace them,” Upper New York State Collegiate Swimming Markwardt said. “Th e only positive thing is that Markwardt said the team stepped up didn’t go our way, but we bounced back and Association meet. there’s only three of them.” their performances to match the high level refocused on what we had to do,” Hamman Freshman Miroslav Macala was a leader in After a three-day weekend of competi- of the meet. said. “Th e relay went well. We ended up the breaststroke for the team. He put up team tion from Feb. 28 to March 1, the swimming “Th is meet turned out to be quite a bit dropping six seconds.” season-best times in the 100- and 200-yard and diving team ended the season with a faster than last year and our expectations for The Bombers had five swimmers named breaststroke events. fourth-place fi nish out of 15 teams at the where we had to place were off a little bit,” to the UNYSCSA All-Academic team in- Other solid performers for the freshman UNYSCSA Championships last weekend. Th is Markwardt said. “But it really comes down to cluding Wilson, Degon, Hamman, junior class were Steve Croucher, who put up top placed the team in second out of all Empire 8 the upperclassmen and seniors who really let Brennan Hagy and sophomore Andrew team times in the 100-yard backstroke and teams competing, which was their best fi nish them know what it takes to be in a three-day Longcore. They all achieved grade point 100-yard freestyle, and Jerry Diamond, who at this meet since 2004. meet, and to their credit they were obviously a averages of 3.3 or above for the Spring and posted a team-leading time in the 200-yard At the meet, Gage remained undefeated great deal of our success.” Fall 2007 semesters. individual medley. in the 200-yard freestyle event and notched a Hamman said the Bombers had to fi ght Th ough they are losing strength from Th e South Hill squad once again received a NCAA “B” qualifying time of 1:42.82, which through diffi culties to place third overall as a their senior class, the Bombers have a bright strong performance from senior captain Scott is Ithaca’s third fastest time ever in the event. team at the meet. future ahead of them for next season with Wilson, who notched a team season-best in Wilson notched the 11th fastest time in the “Overall we did amazing. We had a couple the return of their youth, which should have the 1,000-yard freestyle event and a second 1,650-yard freestyle and fi nished fi fth overall. of bad breaks from time to time and things a lasting impact for the team. THE BUZZER

Thursday, March 6, 2008 The Ithacan 31 all-ithacan team With the winter season at an end, The Ithacan’s sports staff picks the season’s best. wrestling gymnastics Sophomore Willie Horwath Senior Devon Birek Horwath was the Empire 8 Conference Champion in the 141–pound Senior captain Devon Birek averaged a score of 9.246 in weight class. Horwath was ranked multiple times throughout the the vault. She led the Bombers on Feb. 16 at the Ithaca season and was the only Bomber to come in fi rst in his weight class Invitational in the Ben Light Gymnasium with a score of at the Ithaca Invitational. Along with that fi nish, he placed third in the 9.400. She also averaged an 8.992 in the uneven bars. Birek Williamstown Invitational. He is 29–9 overall so far in the season, with also earned a 9.350 at the Ithaca invitational and against a 13–2 dual meet record, nine major decisions, one technical fall and Rhode Island College on Feb. 24 at a meet at Southern three pin falls. He will compete in the NCAA Championships in Cedar Connecticut State University in New Haven, Conn. Rapids, Iowa, this weekend, along with sophomore Jon Gregory and freshmen Blaine Woszczak and David Priest (174 pounds), all three of whom had stand out seasons for the Bombers as well. men’s swimming women’s swimming Freshman Joe Gage Junior Lauren Botterbusch Gage made a big splash in his rookie season for the Blue and Botterbusch fi nished the regular season with 16 fi rst-place fi nishes en Gold, going undefeated in the 200-yard freestyle throughout the route to her third straight state and conference titles in the 100- and season. He placed second in the 50-yard freestyle at the Upper 200-yard breaststroke. She was also a part of the state and conference New York State Collegiate Swimming Association and Empire winning 400-yard medley relay team, along with sophomore Jen 8 Championships with a time of 21.49 seconds, propelling the Heberton and freshmen Maddie Kennedy and Sheila Rhoades. Botter- South Hill squad to a second-place fi nish. Gage earned season busch picked up two pool records in the 200-yard medley relay. After bests in fi ve events for the Blue and Gold, posting top times in winning three state and conference titles, Botterbusch will represent the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle, 500- the Bombers at the NCAA Championships in all three events. yard freestyle and 1,650-yard freestyle. women’s basketball men’s basketball Senior Erika Steele Junior Sean Burton Steele averaged 10.8 points per game in her senior year for the The men’s basketball team’s junior point guard elevated his game to a Blue and Gold, fi nishing just second behind sophomore Katherine new level this season, fi nishing among the Empire 8 leaders in several Bixby. She also led the team in average rebounds per game with 6.7, categories en route to winning the Empire 8 Player of the Year award. pulling down 167 boards during the season. Steele contributed 17 Burton fi nished the season ranked third in the conference in scoring points and 10 rebounds in the South Hill squad’s victory over Stevens (20 points per game), second in assists (5.56 per game), second in free Institute of Technology on Feb. 22, which stopped the Ducks’ season throw percentage (88.8 percent), eighth in steals (1.56 per game) and long conference unbeaten streak. Steele led the Bombers with 16 second in three-point fi eld goals made (78). Burton also was named points and 10 rebounds Jan. 18 against Nazareth College. Steele also to the All-Empire 8 fi rst team for the second consecutive season and recorded three blocks against the Golden Flyers to earn 100 in her helped lead the Bombers to a 17–9 overall record. career. She is the third Bomber to accomplish that feat. women’s track men’s track Freshman Marcia McCord Senior Cory Petermann McCord re-wrote the Ithaca record books this season, setting a Petermann earned a personal best score of 3,009 points in the school record in her freshman season in the indoor 400-meter dash ECAC Championships at the Army Open during the week- with a time of 57.25. She also set a school record in the 300-meter end of Jan. 25 to 26. He placed fifth in the State Pentathlon dash with a time of 43.44 seconds. McCord earned fi rst place finishes Championship on Feb. 24 at St. Lawrence University, earning in three events at the Empire 8 Championships on Feb. 10 at Roch- first place in the shot put with 12.50 meters and placed sixth ester Institute of Technology, including the 55-meter dash with a in the long jump with a mark of 5.97 meters. time of 7.44 seconds, the 200-meter dash fi nishing in 26.21 seconds and the triple jump earning a mark of 11.03 meters.

numbersby the they saidit I was doing meditation in my house, The number2 of fi rst-place so I feel more important. That’s fi nishes freshman Jeff Wet- more earned for the Blue what I do now. In my time off, I read and Gold at the Empire 8 Championships on Feb. books and I meditate. That’s what I do. 82.5 10. Wetmore placed fi rst The average number of in the 55- and 200-yard Boston Red Sox left fi elder Manny Ramirez on what he points per game scored dash events. was doing instead of accompanying his team on a visit by the men’s basketball See story on page 27. team. This number set a to the White House. While in Washington, the Red Sox new school record. visited recovering veterans in Walter Reed Hospital. See story on page 28. 32 The Ithacan THIS I SEE Thursday, March 6, 2008 Tournament time Nazareth College defeated St. John Fisher College to earn conference supremacy in last weekend’s Empire 8 Championship in the Ben Light Gymnasium.

PHOTOS BY MAX STEINMETZ PHOTO EDITOR

Top left: Stevens Institute of Technology junior guard Virgil Gray soars toward the basket for a layup as Nazareth College senior guard Joe Canori looks on during the semifi nal game Friday. Top right: The Nazareth basketball team celebrates their 64–63 victory over St. John Fisher College to earn the Empire 8 Conference championship Saturday in the Ben Light Gymnasium. Left: Junior guard Sean Burton dribbles past St. John Fisher guards Tim Coyne and Matt Newman in the Empire 8 semifi nal game between the Bombers and the Cardinals on Friday. Above: From left, St. John Fisher freshman Justin Beigel and sophomore Chris Baltz can’t bear to watch the trophy ceremony after Nazareth won the Empire 8 Championship.