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Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2001-02 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 2-28-2002 The thI acan, 2002-02-28 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2002-02-28" (2002). The Ithacan, 2001-02. 21. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02/21 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. 20 THURSDAY ITHACA, N. y. FEBRUARY 28, 2002 28 PAGES, FREE www.ithaca.edu/ithacan - :· ·, The NewJp!l,pe.r Jo/the Ithaca College Community . - .. , .,,. ...·.· ···. ·- ·. -· - ,_ ~ :-, . > ~- - • . ~ . Surveying subsfh:ricetl$€ College denies 'J· full RA raise BY EMILY PAULSEN of any recent years. _,_<". ·· ... ·- Staff Writer He said he is hopeful that even greater changes will come in -· .. -. ·\--Sir:- -.· Resident assistants will receive the future. ',•': ,', a higher percentage of room-and "I am disappointed but opti ·-··}Js;P board costs for their compensation mistic," he said. "I think the dif next academic year. ferentiation between new and re However, the increase is less turning RAs is a positive change. I than the Office of Residential Life think the small increases approved requested in its 2002-2003 budget this year will pave the way for proposal. greater compensation in the future." The proposal, which came Sophomore Lauren Guida, an from resident assistants on the RA in Talcott Hall, said she plans Student Input Board, requested an on returning to her job next year and increase to 100 percent compensa is pleased with the progress made tion for returning RAs during a in salary increases. three-year period, as well as 75 per "I do think the pay increase is cent compensation for new RAs. important," she said. "I think In the past, new and returning within this year, RAs have been re RAs have received the same pay, quired to take on additional re which amounted to 69.6 percent of sponsibilities with the new alcohol room ,and board this year, or policy and other things. Especially $6,449. if they continue to increase the pop JOE PASTERIS/THE ITHACAN But the· recently approved bud ulation of this school and the num SOPHOMORE DANIEL SCHMIDT fills out a survey from the Core Institute for Alcohol and Other get will now allow new RAs and ber of people in dorm;,, it is im Drug S!udies Wednesday morning during a German class in room 208 of Friends Hall. second-semester RAs to receive 70 portant that RAs will be able to ex percent of room ahd board costs, or pect more compensation. I accept $6,740, beginning next year. RAs the fact that it will be a gradual .Second Core study to yield alcohol and drug statistics returning after at least two semes process. They have done a good job ters of work will receive 73 percent, so far and this increase is an im BY ANNE K. WALTERS how other students consume these substances. or $7,028 a year. portant step." Staff Writer The classes were· randomly selected from all Bonnie Solt Prunty, director of Prunty said approximately two courses.offered during that time period in order to residential life and judicial affairs, thirds of RAs return for additional The survey that helped inspire the college's include classes from all schools and disciplines, said said RA compensation was con years of work. stricter alcohol policy was administered to 1,500 Michael Leary, assistant director of judicial affairs. sidered separately from the Office "I think it's a very big morale is more students Wednesday, exactly three years af The survey also dealt with attitudes about al of Residential Life operating bud sue for returning staff," she said. ter it was first conducted on campus. cohol and drugs, asking students how often they get this year for the first time, and "Most people who hold a job expect Sixty-eight IO a.m. classes filled out the Core felt it was OK for students to drink and use drugs. an extra $50,000 was allotted for that if they do a good job, after a Institute Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Stud Freshman LeeAnn Marhevsky filled out the sur RA compensation. year or so, they will get a raise. It ies survey, which was conducted by the college's vey as part of a German class taught by Assistant Junior Ryan Prosser, co-chair is somewhat discouraging to RAs Health Promotions Committee. The survey mea Professor Michael Richardson, modem lan person of the Student Input Board, to feel like you could be in the po sured students' use of alcohol, tobacco, marijua guages and literatures. said although the request was not sition and be an excellent performer, na and other drugs, as well as their perception of See RESPONDENTS, Page 4 approved in full, the percentage in but your compensation is the same crease this year was higher than that every year no matter what." -Hughes shows she's go~d as gold Freshman celebrates sister's Olympic _triumph in Salt Lake City BY DAN GREENMAN in the free program in the Olympics, and pulled off the greatest feat of her career. Staff Writer I don't know any jokes."' She skated her most difficult program ever flughes had skated well two nights be - and did it flawlessly. A few hours before his sister was due to fore in the short program and was in fourth "I started dancing up and down in the skate, freshman Matthew Hughes started place overall. Hughes' American team aisles, going crazy," Matthew Hughes said. ':: -, -,, feeling the butterflies in his stomach. mates, Michelle Kwan and Sasha Cohen, "I almost killed my next door neighbor, He was in his hotel room in Salt Lake were ahead of her, as was Russian Irina who is like 70 years old, because I was 'City with the rest of Slutskaya. She knew she had a shot at a shaking him so hard." his family on the af medal, as long as she skated well in the After his sister skated, Matthew ternoon of Feb. 21. free program. Hughes was scheduled to go to the air L .n.' • t His 16-year-old sis "In the short program, I thought she port and get on a flight to Ithaca so he ~ .J. - -· ter, Sarah Hughes, skated really well,'' Matthew Hughes said. coo1d attend classes the next morning._ was preparing to "A lot of people were upset with her But on his way out of the rink, he saw compete in the scores, but I kept saying, 'Don't worry, his father.watching a television monitor women's figure she's going to go out there and knock them in a back corridor. He joined him, only skating free pro- all dead and show them what figure skat to see Cohen fall.in her program. It con gram later that ing sho.uld-always be about."' - vinced him to stick around. Next was evening for a But if his nerves weren't high enough Kwan, who also fell. Finally, Slutskaya MATTHEW chance at winning the morning of the free program, they were skated -· a decent program. but not as HUGHES an Olympic medal. through the roof when he arrived at the good as Hughes' had been. "I was getting re rink that night for the competition. The are "All of a sudden, they announce that ally nervous," he said. "I was sweating na was packed, and the whole world was Sarah has the gold, and my father and I, through my jacket." watching. · . our jaws just drop, and we froze for about Then his cell phone rang. Sarah was on The first few groups of skaters did their five seconds," he said. "Finally, we jump the line, asking her brother to tell her a few programs. None were spectacular in the ·air and hug each other and ran out JOE RIMKUS JR./MIAMI HERALD jokes to calm her nerves. enough for a medal. Finally the last group, side to get my mom, who was_ner.v?usly SARAH HUGHES, the sister of freshman · . "I said 'Jokes? This is no time for f~turing the top skaters from the short pro Matthew Hughes, skates her gold medal.win . jokes!'" h; sai_d. "'You're about to skate gram, was up. Sarah went second and See.STUDENT, Page 4 nlng program In the Olympics last Thursday. ·INSIDE ACCENT ••• 13 CLASSIFIED ••• 21 COMICS ••• 20 OPINION ••• 10 SPORTS ••• 28 2 THE I_THACAN NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2002 National . and International News have returned. "Last semester, I heard people say, 'Go back day morning before the Senate Commerce Committee. Also ~EADY FOR ANYTHING home.' They try to fight with us sometimes. But it's not scheduled to testify are Enron executives Sherron Watkins happening anymore." and Jeffrey McMahon. who have contradicted key elements Across the country, hundreds of foreign students have of Skilling's previous testimony before Congress. trickled back to campuses. At least 10 congressional committees, along with the Jus In Washington, WSU reports that only eight of 55 Mid tice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commis dle Eastern students who left last semester have not returned. sion. are investigating the company's spectacular crash, which At Eastern Washington University, 22 foreign students who has thrown thousands of employees out of work. fostered elec left the Cheney campus last fall have re-enrolled.