The Ithacan, 2003-01-30

THURSDAY ITHACA, N. y. JANUARY 30, 2003 32 PAGES, FREE VOLUME 70, NUMBER 16 The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community WWW.ITHACA.EDUIITHACAN Elllployee joiµs Iraq peace delegation Stephens drops funding request after trips nature is questioned BY CAITLIN CONNELLY whether Stephens' trip would be le AND ELLEN R. STAPLETON gal. Violators of the passport re Chief Copy Editor striction may be subject to fine or and Editor in Chief imprisonment, State Department spokesman Lee Pintor told The Ithaca College Quarterly Editor Ithacan Monday. Maura Stephens will depart to Iraq Stephens said at that time she had today to join a women's peace del obtained a visa from Iraq to enter the egation on a humanitarian mission. country and also planned on using her But controversy has led her to de unvalidated passport. However, she cline college funding and pay for said the leaders of her trip were the trip herself. "working out something with the Four offices each committed State.Department." $500 last week to help pay for her But delegation coordinator trip, but ~tephens retracted her Maddy Bassi said Code Pink had not funding request Tuesday after a sto made contact with the State De ry published in The Ithacan Online partment because she was unaware raised questions about the legality, a special validation was necessary. funding and nature of the trip. Administrators who had com "I withdrew my request for mitted to the funding said they had support," Stephens said Tuesday af assumed Stephens and Code Pink ternoon. "I don't want the college would be traveling legally. They to be under any kind of cloud over were: Peter Bardaglio, provost this. I will be funding it myself." and vice president for academic af She is making the trip on her fairs; Larry Shinagawa, director of own time. the Center for the Study of Culture, Stephens, a senior editor in the Race and Ethnicity; and Tom Office of Marketing Communica Torello, executive director of mar tions, will arrive in Baghdad over the keting communications. Tanya ~~~,,.;~~~wirh•delc,gatbJof J4odi Saunders, dean of the Division of er worn n led by Medea Benjamin Interdisciplinary Studies, also of Code "Pin\c. Women's Pre-Emp granted funding but did not return SARAH SCHULTE/THE ITHACAN tive Strike for Peace. Code Pink is phone calls for comment. MAURA STEPHENS, editor of the Ithaca College Quarterly, left, sorts through student donations with a women's peace group that has been Including accommodations, the help of seniors Jen Chandler, center, and JIiiian Bendig. Stephens will be travellng to Iraq today as holding an antiwar vigil outside the airfare, vaccinations and other ex part of a national humanitarian and peace delegatlon. White House since November. The penses, the total cost of the trip is women plan to deliver relief aid and more than $3,000 per person, said. Bardaglio said he thought the room presentations after her return. a powerful antiwar message. Stephens said. Her husband, George Sapio, is mission was "academically worth "My understanding was that Because it has been illegal to use When she had first asked the ad accompanying the delegation as a supporting" because it would help [Stephens] was going to be going on American passports to travel to, in ministrators for help, she said they photographer and is being funded internationalize the college's cur a cultural exchange, meeting with or through Iraq without special gov were "forthcoming and supportive." by an Ithaca College community riculum - one of his top priorities. women in Iraq and talking to them ernment validation for more than a "It is the support of the college member who wishes to remain He said Stephens made a cCJrnmit about their recent experiences," he decade, it was initially unclear that's making it possible," she had anonymous. ment to give several public and class- See ANTIWAR, Page 4 '~ "' ,. ', X, ;loi. TraQk : u · #aces imtIHgra 10n struggle New policies mak~ return to United States moref(ijfjicult ~> BY EMILY PAULSEN flight to Ilhaca. INS office closest to I:~between, AND ANNE K. WALTERS "The ustoms official] looked Feb. 3 and 13. Assistant News Editors at my stu4 mad.e sure it was _in_ or- . "~an, I. traveled 23 hours/ f.or.; der and ~\Jerythmg, and put 1t ma 5ius? he said. i 'ih\ 'i New security legislation is mak yellow,/fisk folder and told me to ·_ A.tcordi;ng . to ~8 documents, ing the stay of some international stu go to the end of the hallway and re:i:. young men froifi. 25 countries - .· .. df?nts more difficult by increasing ini pmfthere," he said. many of which are in the Middle .f\fil1 entry procedures and requiring Different colored folders were East - are required to report to the registration at a district Immigration usecl"'to designate an individual's per..: "'INS within 30 to 40 days of arrival and Naturalization Service office.. .0 ceived risk. with documentation of their activi- to 40 days after entering the coun~ Thirty to 40 people waited in the ties in the United States. · Junior Zeeshan Salahuddi,9• room for their tum with the immi- Diana Dimitrova, assistant di was surprised by the new .regula gration officers. When Salahud- rector of international student tions when he returned to the din's turn came he had to complete services at the college, said she United States after a 23-hour a detailed form with personal and knoWs of just four students who are flight from his home in Lahore, contact information. The officers affected l, the new law. Pakistan. then took his photograph and fin- The !t (itan contacted the stu-J'f)' Upon arriving, Salal)iddin ex gerpri.nts. dent •, lit they were not willing to pected the 1$emijlute c •eek-in pro ''They told me that I had to pick talk about their experiences. cedure tg;it'lie expeaen ed during his a town that was nearest Ithaca and · ·. e INS officials are not satisfied, ve or .· · previous entries to the I had to report to that town within they · an ask the subject to return for -c illn ry, but instead he encountered 30 to 40 days," he said. addi · nal inter\'.· ews. After one year SARAH SCHULTE/THE ITHAC . , SHAN SALAHUQPIN does homework Tuesda - a new process that took more than nitially, he thought he would · · ecountry, individuals are required nge. Salahuddin, who is from Pakistan, has three hours. The lengthy procedure h e to return.to Ne~York City. In- report again, and must also do so caused him to miss his connecting stead, he must report to Buffalo, the by new sec'!rity measures implemented this yea See REQUIRED, Page 4 INSIDE ACCENT ••• 17 CLASSIFIED ••• 23 COMICS ••• 24 OPINION ••• 14 SPORTS ••• 25 _. 2 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2003 National nternational News the findings did not prove that Iraq has abandoned its nu STAYING PUT clear ambitions. He also faulted Baghdad for failing to pro vide more "proactive cooperation" that c_ould shed light on Iraq's past weapons programs. Inflation hurts North Korean economy Six months after North Korea announced unprecedent ed wage and price increases to jump start its miserable econ omy, runaway inflation is emptying millions of pocketbooks and bottlenecks in production are causing shortages, according to Chinese and North and South Korean sources. The black market price of rice, the staple of the Kore an diet, has jumped more than 50 percent over the past three months in most parts of the country while tripling in oth ers-, according to North Koreans, foreign businessmen and aid agency workers. Some factories in poorer parts of the country have stopped paying workers the higher salaries that were a cornerstone of the reforms, recent North Ko rean arrivals to China s·aid. Others have taken to paying workers with coupons that can be exchanged for goods, but there are no goods in the stores _to buy. The apparent failure of North Korea's attempt to pro mote economic activity and improve living standards con stitutes an important backdrop for its recent threats to re sume a nuclear weapons program, according to the sources. MICHAEL GRUNWALD/THE WASHINGTON POST JULIO CONCEPCION IS on~ of the property owners In the 8.5 Square Mlle Area·who refuse to sell to the government, blocking the refloodlng of portions of Everglades National Park. "Castro doesn't run this U.S. charities fund Sharon's campaign country," Concepcion said. Wealthy donors sent large checks in recent years to sev eral little-known American charities that said they were fi Bush faults Saddam in national address nounced ·he will form a Terrorist Threat Integration Cen nanci~g Israeli academic studies and cultural exchanges. But ter to combine domestic and foreign intelligence from more than a million dollars was instead funneled secretly into President Bush took the nation to the edge of war with throughout the government. The center, to be run by the a political campaign by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Iraq Tuesday, declaring in his annual State of the Union director of the Central Intelligence Agency, does not re sparking an embarrassing probe by the Israeli attorney gen message that Saddam Hussein had missed his "final chance" quire congressional approval; Bush aides said. eral on the eve of Tuesday's Israeli parliamentary election. by showing contempt for U.N. weapons inspections. The Israeli state comptroller's office has accused The president, addressing a joint session of Congress U.N. rele~es preliminary Iraq report Sharon's son Omri and a colleague of accepting foreign con and a nationwide television audience of tens of millions,.

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