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NOVEMBER 8, 2001 • . 24 .PAGES, FREE www.ithaca.edu/ithacan The Newspaper for the Ithaca College .Community CQ)lege eyes Cir.cles housing ~-~~i':;"~,. ~ . • >-·':.1:-, BY JQE·GEFl'AGHTY .-- - Because 15 to 25 percent of res­ ing the buildings either from the cur­ McAree said that if the college certainty whether the college will a--,;..-<. Assistant/¥~ Editor idents re-sign leases after their first rent owner or from a developer. uses the Circles for on-campus use his property or not. ·.:. .· . · .year in the Circles, as many as 80 "We've housing, current residents would Sophomore Mike Nagel ex­ The college-is seriously consid-· current Circles residents could been work­ not be permitted to remain in the pected to live in the Circles next ering plans _tt)at would transfonn the also be displaced, he said. The Cir­ ing on this apartments. year. He is now being forced to re­ College C~e. Apartments into cles are primarily rented to Ithaca for two "If we were to allow those stu­ consider his plans. on-campus-~ousing in time for next College juniors. · months and dents, or a portion of them, to stay, "I have no idea what I'll do if the academic year. Brian McAree, vice president for we hope to it would just exacerbate our prob­ college uses those apartments," he The move would remove 324 student affairs and campus life, have some­ lem," McAree said. said. "I certainly wouldn't want to beds from off-campus housing op­ said no deal has been made with No­ thing decided Novarr said he has told students live in them if they were college­ tions on SoQ.th Hill, said John No­ varr-Mackesey. within the interested in leasing apartments in owned. I guess I'll have to look for varr of Novarr-Mackesey Property He said the college would not next two the Circles that he will not sign leas­ something else off campus." Management, which owns the buy the Circles, but administrators months," es until at least mid-January, by But off-campus housing for Circles. are discussing the possibility of leas- MCAREE McAree said. which time he expects to know with See ADDITION, Page 2 Rules permit staff members to date students BY KELLI B. GRANT Staff Writer Meg Booze and Sasha Lotfi look like any other dating couple. They can often be seen around campus holding hands and smiling at each other. But Booze, Class of2001 graduate, is a college employee - an assistant resi­ dence director for Terraces I to 4. Lotfi is still a junior at the college. Current policy permits dating relation­ ships between students and employees, but the college will review the appropriateness of such relationships this year. Bonnie Solt Prunty, acting director of residential life and judicial affairs, said the relationship is acceptable be­ cause Lotfi lives off-campus and is not a student in the residential area Booze supervises. Residential Life officials knew about the relationship before they hired Booze. Booze met Lotfi two years ago as a student at the college, when she was a ju­ nior and he was a freshman. KRISTIN SAMPIERE/fHE ITHACAN "[The job] wouldn't have been ac­ JUNIOR SASHA LOTFI talks with his girlfriend, Meg Booze '01, assistant residence director for Terraces 1 to 4, in a Residential ceptable to me if they had been against Life office. When the college hired Booze this fall, administrators saw no problem with the dating relationship. it," Booze said. "Other than my degree, my relationship with Sasha is the most important thing I've taken away from college." When Lauren Myers began her job as assistant coordinator for late night pro­ Too close for com{ort? gramming in the Office of Campus Cen­ ter and Activities two months ago, she had already been dating senior Jeffrey Tilla­ paugh for more than two years. Committee to review campus policy on relationships Myers was a 2001 graduate of Agnes Scott College, Ga., and met Tilla­ BY KELLI B. GRANT Some Ithaca College administrators are paugh during an interns):iip at Walt Dis­ Staff Writer concerned about the complications and THE POLICY ney World. problems that can arise from intimate re­ The college's Policy on Sexual During job interviews at Ithaca Col­ A freshman woman begins classes, ea­ lationships between students and college Harassment states: "Consensual lege, Myers said administrators were ac­ ger to learn. She falls for one of her pro­ employees. sexual relationships between cepting of her relationship with Tilla­ fessors, an intelligent man with a passion Most deans and other administrators employees and students or between paugh because he would not be involved for his subject matter. They date briefly, but across campus said they highly discourage a supervisor and his/her supervisee, with her work. their differences become too much to ignore. dating between students and employees. while not expressly forbidden at If the all-campus committee review­ After ending the relationship, the student College employees cannot be fired or re­ Ithaca College, have the potential ing the policy tries to ban all relationships wonders if her grade for that course will be fused tenure, promotion or job benefits because for exploitation. Sexual relationships between students and college employees, affected. of an intimate relationship with a student, said between a student and a faculty both Lotfi and Tillapaugh said they One of the college's student employees Nancy Pringle, president and college member who has grading authority would contest the decision. vice over that student are of particular works closely with his staff supervisor al­ counsel. The only exception is if sexual ha­ Instead, they suggest the college concern. Because of the power dis­ most every day. Over time, their friendli­ rassment or exploitation charges are filed. evaluate the relationships on a case-by­ parity inherent in such professional ness evolves to flirting. The student is a But Human Resources Director Marty relationships, consent will not nec­ case basis. hard worker and receives a raise, but his - Turnbull said she strongly discourages re- essarily protect an individual from "I would fight it all the way," Lotfi co-workers complain that he is receiving said. "I'd make them realize how wrong See ADMINISTRATORS, Page 2 allegations of harassment." preferential treatment. they are." INSIDE ACCENT ••• 11 CLASSIFIED ••• 17 COMICS ••• 16 OPINION ••• 8 SPORTS ••• 19 C .. - . 2 THE ITHACAN National and International News Plans for quarantine proposed to states of German troops outside Europe since World War II. The administration's new, louder alarms and the ratch­ HURRICANE MICHELLE STRIKES In the event of a bioterrorist attack using a deadly and eting up of pressure on U.S. allies came as the Wh'ite House contagious disease such as smallpox, public health of­ sought to re-emphasize the perils of terrorism, reinforce ficials want to be able to close roads and airports, herd its objectives and refocus its message during an intensive people into stadiums, and, if necessary, quarantine en­ 10-day diplomatic effort. tire infected cities. Bush met Monday with the president of Algeria and Tues­ To make that possible, 50 governors this week will re­ day with Chirac. He meets Wednesday with British Prime Min­ ceive copies of a proposed law, drafted at the behest of the ister Tony Blair and officials from Kuwait and Morocco. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, that The president of Brazil and prime ministers of Ireland could give states new power to control their populations. and India visit later this week. · Health officials say major new public health legislation is crucial to keep smallpox, plague or hemorrhagic fevers Study abroad programs lose students (such as Ebola) from spreading in the event of an attack. Unlike anthrax, they are highly contagious. Many leaders of study-abroad programs fear.events will Broad quarantines envisioned in the draft have never been deter students from signing up in the future. invoked in the United States. They raise all sorts of logisti­ Since Sept. 11, U.S. students in other countries have been cal, political and ethical questions in a mobile society, pub­ showered with warnings about looking "too American" - lic health experts concede. But they also may save lives. like wearing college sweatshirts, speaking too loudly in Eng­ lish, going to American hangouts, sightseeing in large groups Bush calls for allies to join the fight and traveling without leaving program directors an itinerary. To some extent, such strictures are familiar from past Warning that Osama bin Laden is seeking nuclear acts of terrorism or surges of anti-American sentiment, weapons, President Bush pressured allies Tuesday to pro­ but they have been strongly re-emphasized since the at­ vide tangible support for the war on terrorism and help the tacks here. United States defend "civilization itself." So far, the attacks and their aftermath have had only a mi­ ALEX GARCIA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE "A coalition partner must do more than just express sym­ nor effect at most schools.