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The Ithacan, 1990-10-11 Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1990-91 The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 10-11-1990 The thI acan, 1990-10-11 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1990-91 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 1990-10-11" (1990). The Ithacan, 1990-91. 7. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1990-91/7 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 1990-91 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. Oprah Winfrey fans visit show Women encouraged to take 'To Kill a Mockinglbirdl' opens IC in Chicago agressive stance against rape theatre season oh page 4 ... page 7 ... page 8 The ITHACAN The Newspaper For The Ithaca College Community Vol. 58, No. 7 October 11, 1990 20 pages Free Fire alarm fails during East Tower fire Repairs to faulty According to Lies) Potter, the placed it in a shower. alarm off through the box. off." t t k 1 9th floor RA, at approximately Smoke then poured out and the Montague said, "Il was kind of The officer on duty can " ... sec SYS em a e neaf Y 11:50 p.m., she smelled smoke in smell began to reach other floors. scary, we waited ouLc;ide for about which alarm wa<; pulled and will be fi Ve day S the hallway. When Potter pulled-the alarm five to seven minutes until !he alann able to setoff the audio alarm in the Sabrina Stcinglass, a student with ~o result, she instructed the finally went off." panel itself." By Tracy Bernstein coming off the elevator, told Potter residents on her l1oor to evacuate The Ithaca Frre Department ar- The alarm took several days to The East Tower internal fire thatshecouldsmellsmokestrongly quickly. rived eight minutes after smoke repair, because the electrician was alarm failed to go offwhen activated as she passed the 7th floor. Michelle Montague, a 9th floor was frrst detected. As the first waiting for the arrival of a specific during a small fire on Thursday, Potter immediately told a stu- resident, said, "We could all smell truck pulled up, !he internal alarm piece, Potter said. Oct 4. Almost every alann in the dent, Karl VanLedtje, to notify the smoke, we knew it wasn't just a was first being sounded. Ithaca Fire Department Chief building was activated, but it was CampusSafetywhileshepulledthe drill." Following !he incident, anelec- Brian Wilbur, said, "If we detcr­ not until the alann was manually alann. At the same time, the alarms Potter then used a "red phone" to trician came in and attempted to mine there's a malfunction, we typi­ pulled in the control panel by on the 7th floor,, where the fire immediately connect her with repair the system. cally leave it up to the electricians Campus Safety, that the buzzer occurred, were being activated ac; Campus Safety and explain to !hem According to Maley, the system to fix it." blared and the building was well. the failure in the system. was tested two more times, work- The system is now functioning evacuated. Potter said that the fire began By this time, alarms on other ing only once. again and drills will still be con- For the protection of the ap­ when a pillow was tossed onto a top floors had been pulled with no re- While they waited for the system ducted as scheduled. proximately 350people who live in bunk and landed op a clip-on lamp. suit Potter said, "I think I pulled to be fixed, Campus Safety pro- According to Maley, "Drills are the East Tower, a 24 hour alarm Then the student left the room. three or four myself; it should only vidcda manual system. Maley said, held on a regular ba<;is throughout watch was provided.~. When he returned several minutes take one." . "Campus Safety set up a 24 hour campus." He said that !he tesl<; are During the 4 1/2 days before the later, the pillow had caught on fire. Dave Maley,ICPublic Infonna- alann watch at the panel." held twice a year in each building, . system was repaired on Tuesday, After failing to extinguish the lion Manager, said that Campus Maley said, "If there was a fife once in !he fall and once in the Oct 9, Campus Safety officers ro­ fire in his room, the student brought Safety officers went to the central and someone pulled the alarm, !he spring, ac; well as during building tated the watches. the pillow to the bathroom and alann panel and were able to set the light [in the panel] will at least go insix:ctions. Gorge trail re-opens for use after extensive repairs .: By' Adam Bhrmentlraf . For centuries !he beauty and awe ~---~wnerelo~Ifiicl<~~ of Cornell's Cascadilla Gorge Trail, which runs between Collegetown the, Cascadilla and do.wntown Ithaca, has attracted , Gorge Trail nature lovers lhroughout the Ithaca community. However in 1982, severe stonn 'f/f/ On the west side of the damage and flooding forced offi­ collegetown bridge opposite cials at !he Cornell Plantations to the Performing Art,; Cen­ close the trails when they were de­ ter. tennined to be unsafe for use. V AtthccomcrofEastCoun Now, nearly a century after !he Street and University Av­ commitment to maintain the Trail enue. was made, the park has been re­ V The Entrance to the up­ opened. On September 21, a small per Cascadilla Trail is lo­ ceremony celebrated the official cated on Oak A venue in reopening of the park. Collegtown. When Cornell's Board of Trust­ ees met in 1903, !hey committed The Cascadilla Gorge the university to "preserve [the Trail is open daily from gorge's] natural beauty and to do dawntoduskuncif the trail nothing that will destroy or detract closes for the season be­ from its picturesqueness ... " cause of ice and snow. Beautiful day provides background for food, fun and games. See "Gorge," page 11 Forum examines Middle Eastern crisis By Joe Porletto U.S. involvement in the Middle East before Iraq invaded Kuwait, Hussein might have gotten into the hands of killing Iranians, we supported him. Why is the U.S. in the Middle while Wilcox and Mohammed were met with the U.S. ambassador to an irresponsible leader, willing to There arc a lot of "Hitler-like East? This was the question ad­ against U.S. involvement. Iraq. Mohammed said that accord­ sacrifice his own population to leaders and violent governments," dressed by five speakers at a Middle Musgrave was the first to speak. ing to the article, they discussed the satisfy his ego. Saddam Hussein is Wilcox said. "Why don't we in­ East forum on Tuesday, Oct. 9 in "This will be one of the easiest need for oil prices to go up. The such a leader, Mieczkowski said. tervene everywhere?" Wilcox . the coffeehouse. debates staged in the world," U.S. ambassador said that the U.S . "Opposing U.S. involvement asked. The forum was co-sponsored by Musgrave said, "I side with world would not be interested in an Arab­ may smack of discrimination," Craft was the lac;t to state her the Politics Club and the Ithaca opinion." Arab conflict, according to Mieczkowski said. The U.S. can't position at the forum. Craft offered College Republicans. According Musgrave said !hat since Kuwait Mohammed. pick and choose among its friends four popular reasons for the U.S. to Dan Bilher, vice president of invited the U.S. to the Persian Gulf "I guess Saddam took this a<; a as to who it defends, Mieczkowski involvement in the Persian Gulf. communications for the IC republi­ for a defensive effort, our presence green light," Mohammed said. said. Craft said thatsomeexplanations cans, !here were about 150 people there is justified. Mohammed said that perhaps the Freel Wilcox said that he is op­ for our involvement arc to fight for in attendance. Mohammed was the next to U.S. decided to go after Hussein posed to discriminaLJon in any fonn. democracy, to uphold international The five speakers were: eco­ speak. Mohammed took the posi­ because he was no longer acting in Wilcox said that if the U.S. is so laws, forour int.crest in the oil of the nomics professor Frank Musgrave, tion that the situation in the Persian the interests of the U.S. concerned with saving the lives of Middle East.and because of Saddam politics professor Vicki Craft, eco­ Gulf was pre-planned by the U.S. Mieczkowski was next to s~1k. innocenL, in other countries. why Hussein, the man and his politics. nomics professor Bogdan and Saddam Hussein. He said, "President Bu-;h was will­ didn't we intervene m El Salvador Craft refuted all but the latter. Mieczkowski, politics professor "Place it in historical context," ing to stick his neck out for the or Cambodia, and why did we goto Craft said we should have recog­ Rachel Mohammed, and Fred Mohammed said. Look at the dcvclopment of an international Vietnam? nized Husscm for what he is, caller Wilcox of the writing program. The concept of Manifest Destiny and consensus," MieCt.kowski said. Wilcox said that n is very difti­ on. Craft said that Hussein 1s an forum was mediated by Geoff the U.S:s role of international po­ "lfwc didn't react, we would've culuotalkaboutmoral imp(:ratm:s impulsive, sadistic, mcglomaniac Groce, president of !he politics club. liceman, Mohammed said. lost prestige and crcdilbilty," when, all of a sudden, the U.S.
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