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Chaos ... fhe ._Tempest••• Athletic trainers ... ;_:~p~g~ 7 :;page-9 page 19 THE JR!CEWElD> NOV 13 1987 ITHACA COl.l£SE UBRARV PERIODICALS The Newspaper For The Ithaca College Community Issue 10 November 12, 1987 29 pages* fcee Speaker College installs questions condom machines reporting Parents support move of AIDS BY JERILYN VELDOF cause serious problems and that IC is BY ERIK JULFS "No glove, no love," one Ithaca taking a strong step toward the The ethical issues involved in the College sophomore says. prevention of these problems. control of AIDS was the topic of the Over fall break, most of the 38 "If there is any indication at all that second C.P. Snow lecture Thursday condom vending machines were in [condoms] can be of any help, I think night in Textor. The speaker, Dr. stalled in the residence halls, accor it's a great idea," Carol McCowan, an Michael Gregg, is the Deputy Direc ding to John Lippincott, director of IC student's parent says about the in tor of Epidemiology at the Centers for public relations. stallation of condom machines. "I Disease Control in Atlanta. He has This move was based on a recom think it's silly not to have them!" done extensive research on com mendation by an AIDS education task another parent, Carlos Mendez, says. municable diseases, including fifty force which met over the summer and Parent Pat Russo, like others, on scientific publications and numerous is now a permanent committee. ly has reservations about the easy international consultations. There is at least one machine in availability of the condoms, "as a Gregg is concerned about the large every residence hall and four in the parent." But she still thinks they're a "gulf of communication" between towers. They are located either in the good idea. Another parent, Regina public health scientists and the public. men's or women's bathrooms, or in Marks feels similarly: "The condoms He said that some scientific facts are the guest bathrooms if a dorm has should be available but as a parent I neither black nor white; the problems one. "We tried to put them where it don't think my daughter should use of statistics and probability make was most accessible to both sexes, as the machines. But it's great that some facts "gray." The way in which in the guest bathrooms," Lippincott they're there." these facts are relatea to and inter explains. Parents often compare the attitudes preted by the public ought not distort The condoms are $.50 each and are about sex and condoms today to the the infonnation, he explained. called Lifestyles. They are manufac attitudes about sex and condoms Gregg wanted to present the tured by Ansell lnten:iational and sold when they were younger. "This perspective of the scientist in public through West Vend, a vending com would have been shocking because health situations. He discussed two pany, according to Lippincott. The there was no huge incidence of sexual different cases in which the Centers g Business Services office has no ly transmitted diseases in our day," for Disease Control (CDC) had to "solid" figures yet as to how many says parent Joe Barnes. "I'm stunn make decisions based on collected in l condoms have been sold so far, Lip ed because it's so different from our formation. The information that ! pencott says. generation's view of AIDS," epidemiologists use is based on the ~ Already, two of the 38 machines Mccowan says. "This generation is a study of populations. They study, for Z have b~n stolen from the Terraces . whole lot more open than we were. example, the rate at which a certain .~i Lippincott says this may mean it's They have no problem with it at all." disease occurs in that population; "necessary to relocate the machines, from that information they form maybe moviog them from the guest Barnes points out that contrary to postulates. bathrooms to the regular hall some people's beliefs, the machines The information, said Gregg, is not bathrooms." may "actually discourage promiscui "real" in that it is studied after the Students and parents react ty because it is always a reminder that disease occurs, and therefore is not A STUDENT purchases a condom from a vending machine. The Student and parent reactions to the it's dangerous. Anything that raises JOO percent accurate. So, how valid machines are disbibuted throughout the dormitories as a part of the AIDS condom machines are mostly positive. the level of consciousness about it is are the conclusions that the CDC prevention program. Both believe that unprotected sex may see Condoms page 2 makes? In finding the cause of a see C.P. Snow page 5 Students focus on Israel awareness this week We're not embarrassed to say we're Army volunteer programs as educa Jewish," junior Anat Bulumsohn, tional opportunities for those who president of Ithaca College's Friends want to learn about Israel. She con of Israel, said Tuesday night in Muller tinued that FOi stresses not only the Chapel. political ideologies facing the country, This week, FOi, Bnai Brith, Hillel, but also the importance of Israel's and Student Government are sponsor heritage and culture. ing Israel Awareness Week to inform "I want to go back," Robin Gelin students of the educational, political, son said at the Israel Returnee's cultural and social opportunities in Forum Tuesday night in Muller Israel. "We need people to be in Chapel. The Forum's purpose was for terested in the fact that they're those who have been to Israel to Jewish, Bulumsohn said. discuss their experiences with each Israel Awareness Week began on other, as well as with those who just Sunday with a Hillel Parents want to learn about the country. Sit Weekend Brunch in which both ting around a table in fro1;1t of the blue ·students and their parents could ask and white Israeli flag, sudents ate those who have traveled to Israel in falafel, drank apple cider and the past questions about the country. reflected their best and worst ex Members of FOi said that they were periences in .Israel. The stories rang excited because a iot of students ap ed from a bomb scare on a major peare(! interested. "Everyone wants to highway to the beauty of a sunset in go,'' claimed Bulumsohn: Jerusalem. "We raise awareness oflssues and Sophomore Jill Harrison spoke of problems [concerning Israel]," Leslie. the emotional intensity she expetjenc Shapiro, a member of FOi said Mon ed at the Western Wall, the only sur day at the Programs-in-Israel Fair in viving section of an ancient Jewish the J:gbert Union. She cited year-and temple, while freshman J~ice semester-long study-abroad pro Glassman explained the trials of grams. tours for college graduates, ar STUDENT ANAT BULUMSORN spew Tuesday as part of Israel Awareness Week. cheological expeditions, and Israeli see Israel page S ·~il11, ·• ... ··__ . , November 12~- 1987 -:.- Business school Is that ... snow? adds new major - : ,·.:·::- · ·-x:.-.... __. (i···f~1M)t~_\:('/?- <~ :-:- . .; , ~ .... ,: ,, ' -:~. BY JERILYN VELOOF offers a minor in international A new major has been created by -business to majors already in the the School of Business which will school. "This was an important begin thi$ January. This new Bachelor precursor of the major because it has of Science degree program is called in enabled us to establish good resources t~m~ppal busil].ess an~ will require in that area," Dresser says. couises·wlilch-have an 'ittternational Beside a strong library collection in perspective in business finance, the international business field, marketing, business operations, and Dresser also cites the faculty as strong management of human resources. resources: "Our faculty is well-known The faculty of the School of for its expert.ise in inter~ational Business proposed the new major after studying the results of an exten The major is formed sive student survey and analysis given after fall break to over 600 students. from different A sample of the courses in the propos ed · international business major was courses already in part of the interest survey given to both majors and non-business majors, existence. David Dresser, Assistant Dean of the business and includes professors from School of Business explains. It is ex India, Turkey, China, Ethiopia, pected that 75 to 100 students will be Bangladesh, and Iran." enrolled in the program within four As of now, the international years. business major is formed from many The School of Business currently different courses already in existence. The only additions so far may be two new courses which have been submit ted for approval, international ac counting and international business Condoms law, according to Dresser. The name from page 1 of the international management course will be changed to international good." management of human resources. Junior Pam Brooks agrees: "Hav ing the machines in the bathrooms will act as a constant reminder that AIDS - is a problem that's plaguing the world.