The Ithacan, 2002-03-07

Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2001-02 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 3-7-2002 The thI acan, 2002-03-07 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2002-03-07" (2002). The Ithacan, 2001-02. 22. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02/22 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 2001-02 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. VOL. 69, No. 21 THURSDAY ITHACA, N. Y. MARCH 7, 2002 24 PAGES, FREE www.ithaca.edu/ithacan The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community Sho_uldering a fiilancial load Ex-professor _Students work multiple jobs 'claims bias, to pay bills BY BETHANN PERKINS files lawsuit Contributing Writer Unexpected costs don't fit eas BY ELLEN R. STAPLETON filled, anonymous comment<; from ily into sophomore Matthew News Editor students as the evidence of her lack Davies' budget. of teaching ability in the face of over When his twin brother called A former professor is suing whelming evidence to the contrary," him two weeks ago from Alfred Ithaca College, alleging she was de her New York City-based attorney State University to say he might nied tenure on the basis Jonathan Moore told The need $700 to fix his car transmis of her gender and sexu Ithacan. sion, Davies didn't know how al orientation. In the lawsuit, they'd come up with the money. Carolyn Byerly, who Byerly claims the per They had limited options be was hired as a tenure sonnel committee's mi cause Davies and his brother track assistant professor nority report cited com have had to make ends meet since of television-radio in ments from student they were legally emancipated 1996, and left the college evaluations saying she from their parents at age 16. after Spring 2001, filed pushed her personal The financially independent the lawsuit in U.S. Dis agenda in the class brothers, under the guardianship of trict Court in Syracuse room, intimidated stu a family friend, moved into an Dec. 20, 2001. BYERLY dents and failed to accept apartment and began working Byerly is suing under different points of view. and attending school full time. federal, state and local statutes, in Moore said Byerly felt punished They paid for all their needs, in cluding the 1964 Civil Rights Act, for teaching controversial material cluding rent, utilities and food. claiming she faced discrimination about feminism and multiculturalism. Now, paying for college is and did not receive the same treat But Malek said there were plen their main concern. ment as male faculty members at ty oflthaca College faculty teaching With the recent tuition hike and the college. She also alleges she similar material who did not receive proposed state financial aid cuts, faced retaliation for advocating negative student evaluations. students across the Ithaca College diversity in the journalism program. "Our concern with the issues campus are concerned with how In the lawsuit, she outlines the raised in the student evaluations re to foot the bill. For financially in tenure review process. In the first ally did not have anything to do with dependent students, those concerns stage, the Department ofTelevision gender bias or sexual orientation are even more pressing. Radio Personnel Committee recom bias," Malek said in an interview this Financial Aid Director Larry mended tenure oy a 5-3 vote. She week. "They focused instead on is Chambers said 2000-2001 figures says Department Chairwoman sues of teaching style, relationships show the college had 132 un Megan Roberts agreed with a mi with students and attitudinal matters dergraduate students who met the nority report from the personnel com that may have impact on the learn federal definition of a financial mittee and recommended against ing process." ly independent student. Graduate -- , tenure, as did Dean Thomas Bohn, But Byerly told The Ithacan the students automatically fall into the All-Faculty Tenure and Promo perceived attitude problems were a this category. tion Committee, then-Provost Jim result of students stereotyping her. In order to qualify as finan IRINA PERESS/THE ITHACAN Malek and the board of trustees. "The question [is], not what's cially independent, a student SOPHOMORE MATTHEW DAVIES, a financially independent Byerly is charging that negative wrong with the teacher, but what's student, sets up furniture Thursday in the Campus Center at his student evaluations were given too wrong with our students that they See LEGAL, Page 4 job with the Office of Conference and Event Services. much weight in the review process. would have such attitudes, such un- "The college relied on bias, hate- see COLLEGE, Page 4 College estimates budget will finish in the black BY JOE GERAGHTY down with The Ithacan to explain in the budget is financial aid. Assistant News Editor what contributes to the rising cost "I think the number that would of an Ithaca College education. most surprise students is that fi WHERE DOES THE MONEY co? The college expects to end the nancial aid spending accounts for One of the main reasons for con Expenditures from the college's budget for the fiscal year ending current fiscal year with a surplus sistent increases in the cost to attend 25 percent of the budget," Sgrecci May 31, 2001, break down into the following percentages. of about $7 million as a result of the college is the need to increase fac ·said. "In essence we're giving stu overenrollment. ulty and staff salaries and benefits dent money back to students." 2.3 bottom line 2.4 utilities Carl Sgrecci, vice president and every year. Sgrecci said almost 42 Because almost 90 percent of the treasurer, said any remaining year percent of the $170 million in oper college's operating budget comes end funds will be put back into the ating revenue from last fiscal year from tuition and other student resale purchases institution in the form of capital im was spent on salaries and benefits. monies, much of the college's fi 41.8 compensation 6.5 depreciation provements, which could include "If we're going to remain com nancial aid package is funded by and benefits renovations of the Garden Apart petitive in recruiting faculty on a na those sources of revenue. The en ments and Muller Faculty Center. tional level, we have to offer com dowment and other investments Sgrecci expects the surplus this petitive compensation," he said. make up only 5.7 percent of the col year to be about the same size as Sgrecci said the college direct lege's sources of operating revenue. last year, which the college spent ly competes with Cornell Univer "Ifwe were a better-endowed in renovating Garden Apartment 25 sity in hiring a~d retaining qualified stitution, more aid could come in off and the library, as well as on the ad- staff members. the· endowment and less would - ,minis_tration's.new computerorga- "If we went without providing comeoot of the operating budget," he - nization system, Project Parnassus. annual increases, I think -we'd find said. "if we CQtild fimd [financial aid] ' - "l, - . "But the ~ollege makes decisions that we_ were no longer competi- more with endowment. we'd have _ also opt to spend some of its sur over ¢e long haul by decreasing de- . on'hqw to_spendits money long be tive," he said. · that money to spend elsewhere." -· _ plus on build~ng the endowment; . pendence on student money to fort_ any:s~luses arise. Sgrecci sat The second largest expenditure Sgrecoi said the college c·ould . which would benefit .the college keep the college running. ACCENT ••• · 1-1 (9MICS ••• 16 OPINION ••• 8 SPORTS ••• 24 2 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2002 National and International News airstrikes on the Palestinian Authority headquarters in Beth lehem and rocketing by helicopter gunships that knocked INTENSIFYING VIOLENCE out electricity in parts of Ramallah. Warplanes streaked over Jerusalem Monday night car rying payloads that damaged Bethlehem buildings and shook windows for miles around. At least four passers by were injured. Americans involved in serious battle In the bloodiest day so far for Americans fighting in Afghan!stan, up to nine U.S. soldiers died, and at least 10 others were injured Monday on the fourth day of a major offe]lsive against Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters holed up in sno'w-bound mountains of eastern Afghanistan. It was the largest one-day combat casualty toll for U.S. forces in the five-month war on terrorism, and they came in the biggest U.S.-led ground operation of the war. Pen tagon officials said it was unclear initially if U.S. fatali ties totaled eight or nine. Anti-Taliban Afghan forces specifically trained by the U.S. military for the assault also suffered casualties, but the numbers were not disclosed. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said enemy fighters had suffered "much larger numbers of killed and wounded, and there will be many more." Army Gen. Tommy Franks, chief of U.S. Central Com mand, said preliminary estimates put the number of Al Qae da and Taliban dead at between 100 and 200 and described the offensive as "making good progress." Students fight university sweatshop ties Wearing white shirts and red carnations in a show of solidarity, they formed a silent circle around the Florida State University Board of Trustees. They delivered letters one at a time to FSU President COURTESY OF KRTCAMPUS.COM Sandy D' Alemberte and finally dumped more than 300-on RESCUE WORKERS IN Palestine tried to cut open a vehicle owned by a Hamas activist after It was hit the table in front of him.

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