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VOL 67, No. 11 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1999 24 PAGES, FREE Reported assault unnerves campus ' ~~if~t/{r_;·1.:.· ·~·. <\: ~ <-:>-:·~.> l: ,. ·:mfi'·/\':_:.,t':f:;~:.;.,tf· ~,/' . ii--'' ..• ,.,>..;, :;", ,,., .,, < " •• '<):;', -~-~ ~ ~- · .f ' · _:- -':-, .· ,v, : J( , , s ~ ~~,:·. f - <,A\t~ \f; /!/(JnknbWn cis_$dilant !., ·_ .la_,'gez,:l<.:.;;· -~.'Y as sedrch tur'ns up feW leC1ds ,.. 1 ·j ,, : . '· " ::·:~. BY JASON SUBIK patched to assist her. · ;:,,,' Staff Writer _- /' ~:_., -- The Campus Safety investigation ·. ,·:'.._:_.. ,_:_.t!,.:··-·· .. C_ampufs safety'sk~ontinuingdinvcs- hWhall dheclined to comment a,; i.~o ,. · . ·-ttgat1on o 1ast wee s rcportc ear1 y · , w et er t ere are any suspects at hus ··, . ' morning assault on an Ithaca College fc- time. The perpetrator is still considered ,. \< _·-- male freshman has turned up few to be at large. Campus Safety does not~ · TJ..~t-. · 'leads. know if he is armed. , ~ : . '..:l-f,, ~ , · ~-:~tj·, ·· . The woman, a resident of the West "Based on the information that.we~' ·:- ~~ : t"- . "-'-·.. /J':o,~er; :,.vent .t'? campus parking lot ''.L" have, there was no weapon displayed . ti · ".. ·.' .:,";' 1 :,; ,~1• :,~ ref.he~ a d1s;lc early ~o~ th~ mo.ming [by the assailant]," he said. He added l~ :-~•;· ' -..-. ~- .-·~f Wednestfay, Oct. 27, her roommate that tliis does not mean that the perpe-;/J !, .. · ~ ~.:.''·· . .-said, The woman reported being · trator docs not have a weapon. ~ -.{,,. grabbed by a "tall, white male,. in the Investigators have not determined · 1 1 lot at approximately 2 a.m., according whe~her the victim knew the assailant t ~ ,, . to a Campus Safety Alert. or vice versa. ~ She told Campus Sc!fcty she was then The first patrol officers to reach the ( f • ,_ ,:v taken to a wooded area and forced to scene found the victim with a bloody ;1-1 ·.;(1-. drink beer and take an unidentified p)ll. nose and cut lip. The reported atta.ck. is 1; · · •'·"• It was not clear if she lost conscious- not being treated as a sexual assault by t~ _ . ness either during or after the reported Campus Safety, nor did the victim re- . '°"'' .,;,;.._~...,.~saul_t, ~aid ~onn_an· D. Wan; Campus port it as a rape, Wall 1;aid. · .... ::-- · ., . ... i..,>&"· ··-:.- ... Safety assoctate dm:ctor. "Right now we are looking at this.;f.S, ~,, -~ .~.woman then Cflled for help from · an assault•. with the intent'to injure,·~-~: ;dte-·b_lue light-emergency phone on,the said. "We have not been able'·to deter:.. , . f I . ., . "' ' . r:. uth ~st:wmer o tbe. ot at 2:20 a.m. , . · . ,... .:,_ ~- · 1 ·officers .were ittµnidiately di~-:- · ., ,. .' : SeeJf~,PORTED, pag~- · ., ;1,;;w"u,,,/•/:·,...,: / ... <~-~'/~'\.,{ ::' ;' ../,,,'f';,l. :' ~/ / ,("'' '~ ,,,..t., ~ l,,('_ .f { ', t,-J;,r?J'" • /-,4 ~ · , ,;·-.,1..,·1 r-.·v·;-;.1h .. ··f·/ / . • 't, ''/{·'-' , .... , "' ,,:,-j, / •. ~./•'I .. , , < _,,,,.-:,! < .,f ~i-: ~,..,f-n~.; I. l';:~ v;:; -~ - -'~rt~: ~ \;,.:f\~·.-:..~n~ ,/· :'-t«:.._r ... / :t ,:.., -·.f t • ' )', < • • • ',"'f., r. , . ' / '_, ,:,.-, . Frightened students increase requests for evening safety patrol escort services BY CHIKODI CHIMA campus," according to the SASP mis and ears for campus safety," Ithaca Staff Writer sion statement. College Security Officer James "Some people think we are Stu Conlon said. In light of last week's reported at dents Against Students Partying," During the spring and early fall, tack, nervous students are increas said senior Eric Schoenfeld, assistant between the hours of 9 p.m. and 3 ingly turning to their yellow-jacket training coordinator for SASP. "We a.m., pairs of SASP employee~ pa ed peers, the Student Auxiliary arc not out to get people." trol the college campus, cnsunng that Safety Patrol, for assistance. SASP was established in 1971 to members of the college community Calls for escorts have increased provide support to Campus Safety. remain safe. From after Halloween by almost 600 percent for the peri SASP officers also act as liaisons be through early spnng, SASP is on pa od of Oct. 27 to Nov. 2, as compared tween members of the campus com trol from 7 p.m. until 3 a.m. ·'When to the number of calls from Oct. 20 munity and Campus Safety officers. to Oct. 26, according to Campus "They act as an extra pair of eyes See WORKING, page 4 Safety. During the earlier period, there were only IO calls for escorts. Since Oct 27 there have been 59 calls. Most Calls for SASP escorts calls involved escorting single stu dents across campus; some came from Since last week's reported attack, calls for SASP two or three students together. Not escorts increased by almost 600 percent. everyone who called waited for the Oct.20-26 - SASP escort to arrive. "Usually when I work, we do not Oct. 27-Nov. 2 D get many escorts," SASP senior Dar ryl Drevna said. 'This week I had six To contact SASP during its winter hours, call 274-3333. After 3 a.m. - or seven [requests] in one night." this number will connect students I ALEX MORRISON/THE ITHACAN SASP officers provide the free es with Campus Safety for escorts, FRESHMAN SASP OFFICER Meagan Sherwood waits cort service for students "from any lockouts or jump-starts. for a. student to escort from the lobby of Tallcott Halt where on campus to anywhere on ACCENTt 11 . CLASSIFIED 17 ·COMICS 16 OPINION 8 SPORTS 19 www.ithaca.edu/ithacan 2 THE ITHACAN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1999 Issues in the News FBI briefs law enforcement officials across the country on possibility of organized violence inspired by year 2000 BY MICHAEL W. BLOOMROSE "I was ready for people not to listen, but News Editor I was not ready for my fellow workers to go south on me," said Alan Jones to the The FBI prepared to alert the nation's Times, describing how backers of the year law enforcement officials of possible 2000 preparedness effort in his neighbor Y2K violence last week with a 34-page re hood in Santa Rosa, Calif., disappeared this port on "religious extremists, racists, past summer as he .tried to organize it. cults and other groups" organizing for vi Many Y2K preparedness boosters arc olence in the face of the new millennium, worried that people choosing to ignore the The Washington Post reported. problem will be caught unaware without Agency representatives said the docu a small amount of stockpiled food, water ment analyzes "the potential for extrem and money if even minor problems effect ist criminal activity in the United States by the country on New Year's Eve. individuals or domestic groups who attach On the other hand, the Department of significance to the year 2000." Transportation has been investigating the The report, a copy of which was ob Y2K preparedness of air transportation sys tained by the Post, was to be made pub tems worldwide. lic at a closed-door meeting of the Inter They have discovered that more than 70 national Association of Chiefs of Police in nations with civil airports and airlines have Charlotte, N.C. The FBI report indicated the risks will technology issue and his administration at least "comprehensive and Titled Project Megiddo, the report de increase as Jan. I approaches. would not have started on Y2K except for thorough" programs underway to study tailed that the volatile mix of apocalyptic, President Clinton "ought to be using the pressure from Congress. and correct the Y2K bug, according to the religious and New World Order conspir less than nine weeks remaining to urge In the column, it was suggested that Times. acy theories may produce violent acts people to prepare for possible short-term Clinton could best serve the public inter · The effect will not include computer aimed at precipitating the end of the world disruptions in delivery of water, electric est in the near future by delivering a "fire failures that make planes fall out of the sky, as prophesied in the Bible. ity and other basic services," wrote side chat" on Y2K preparedness to the experts told the Times, but there may be Neil Gallagher, head of the FBI's na columnist Marilyn Geewax in the Atlanta American people. air-traffic control breakdowns that will gum tional security division, told the Post that Journal Sunday. However, The New York Times recently up air travel by making controllers keep the bureau 1s not predicting that terrorism She applauded members of Congress, reported that many Americans are just see planes on the ground. or violence will occur on or around Jan. such as Rep. Steve Hom (R-Calif.), ing New Year's 2000 as "another long The United States says its system is al I. Instead, he said the report is aimed at chairman of the House subcommittee on weekend." most entirely ready. On the first page of making local law enforcement officials technology, for trying to determine how Grass-roots activists urging others the Federal Aviation Administration Web more sensitive to the heightened security much harm the Y2K computer bug will that the date change will pose serious risks site ofY2K, Jane Garvey, the agency's ad risks posed by the year 2000.