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Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2000-01 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 11-16-2000 The thI acan, 2000-11-16 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2000-01 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2000-11-16" (2000). The Ithacan, 2000-01. 12. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2000-01/12 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, 2000-01 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. ~r. .... r~ .·,-, _Sports fE~ectooITTl 2 .... ' ~ ' ' :_, L ' ' Ith'aca wins the Jug Too close to call Accent 13 Classified 21 Presidency still undecided as · ·· · Bombers win Cortaca matchup Comics 20 and avenge last season's loss to Florida's ballots hang in legal Opinion IO · · rivaJ-Dragons. Pages 14 and 15 limbo. Pages 2, 11 and 28 Sports 23 Vol. 68, No. 11 Ithaca, N. Y. The 28 Pages, Free lf ITTi DJ irsdJai y November 16, 2000 ~I ....1-. www. ithaca. ed u/ithacan Named Best College Weekly in the Nation for 1999 The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community Gardens trespasser arrested .. BY AARON J. MASON mains in Tompkins County Jail. ed by the residents. asked not to be identified, said the ment building again Tuesday. News Editor Officers arrested the suspect in a Junior Donna Lovas, who lives in man was disoriented. Lovas recognized the suspect im Garden 26 apartment that police be the apartment he entered, said the "He said he definitely wanted to mediately, and Schaeffer said she Campus Safety officers have ar lieve he entered by telling one of the man came in asking for "the band." be in Garden 26, but he had no idea was able to identify him by the de rested a male suspect for trespass residents he Wa6 there to see a room "He walked in and he was like where," the resident said. scriptions she had heard from Lovas. ing in several Garden 26 apartments mate. Police said they do not think 'where's the band man, where's the Lovas' roommate said she saw the Schaeffer said the suspect ap between Saturday and Tuesday. the suspect knows the roommate and band?'" Lovas said. suspect enter another apartment proached her and Lovas, asking The man, whose name remains used that as an excuse to gain entry When the residents told the across the hall. She then called Cam them where Garden Apartment 26 unknown, was taken into custody into the apartment. suspect he was in the wrong place, pus Safety to report the incident. was and once again said that he was shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday. The Campus Safety first received a Lovas said he became upset. Officers responded but were searching for "the band." suspect has been charged with loi complaint Saturday night shortly "He was swearing and he was unable to locate the suspect. "Tm late for the band, I gotta tering and criminal imperson before 7 p.m. that a male had en very agitated, and we kept trying to Lovas and junior Kim Schaeffer, meet the band,"' Schaeffer recalled ation. He was arraigned Tuesday tered a fourth floor Garden 26 apart get him to leave," Lovas said. who also lives in Garden 26, saw night before a local judge and re- ment and left after being confront- One of Lovas' roommates, who the same man in front of the apart- See RESIDENTS, page 4 Registrar to retire Stanton plans to leave post after 26 years BY KELLI B. GRANT Staff-=--------------- Writer ---- After 26 years of service as Ithaca Col lege's Registrar, John Stanton has decid ed to retire in May 200 I. Dean of Enroll ment Larry Met zger sent an e-mail to personnel Tues day announcing Stanton\ retire ment and the begm ni ng of the search process for a re placement. Although Stan- ton ha~ been think- STANTON MELISSA THORNLEY/THE ITHACAN mg about retmng SENIOR RUNNING BACK Tommy Giorgio drives down the Cortland State football field before Ithaca's triumphant 19-14 victory for some time, he said he and h1" wife. a Saturday. The Bombers held on to their lead despite a late rally by the Red Dragons in the_ annual Cortaca Jug matchup. secretary in the Humamt1es and Science" Dean's Office, made a Joint dec1s1on to re tire m May. One reason he stayed at the college wa" Cortaca behavior pleases colleges to see the onhne reg1strat1on system de but, Stanton said. of Cortland State's pohce said. "I probably could have left a year or No one hospitalized, six arrested after Saturday's game "I wish we had more of a specific plan two ago, but I really wanted to get [on BY JOE GERAGHTY While more than 1,000 students ran onto than we do," Richardson said before the game line registration] through the process and Staff Writer the field after Saturday's game, no one was was over. "There's no specific plan of action. at least get it started," he said. 'Tm glad transported to the hospital and six people We'll just be out on the field to react to what's to be a part of that." Historically, students have rushed the field were arrested for fighting, said Raymond happening." While Stanton admitted that he has wit and fought after the Cortaca Jug game be Franco, Cortland's vice president of student Peter Koryzno, Cortland State public in nessed much progress during his years as tween Ithaca College and Cortland State, of affairs. formation officer, estimated the crowd at more registrar, he refused to take full credit. ten injuring themselves and others. "To expect that we'd have an absolutely than 8,000 and said there were 27 police of He helped change the reg1strat1on However, administrators at both col air-tight way to keep people off the field is ficers from the university's police, the city system m 1976 from a completely open leges said they unreasonable," he said. "We'd need hundreds of Cortland and Cortland County in the sta registration style process to the paper sys See ' of police officers standing shoulder to dium during the game. tem used until online reg1strat1on began were pleased with ··Tug for the Jug"; shoulder along the sidelines." Even before the game was over, some stu this semester. the post-game be pages 14 and 15 havior Saturday Brian McAree, Ithaca College's acting dents had jumped the fence separating the "By myself, I didn't accomplish any following the Bombers's 19-14 victory vice president for student affairs and cam sidelines from the seats. thing," he said. "It's been a team effort on over Cortland State and said both colleges pus life, said he was happy with the outcome. They waited until the game was over and the part of everyone m the Registrar's Of are already beginning to plan next year's "Overall I'm satisfied with the precautions then ran out on the field to surround the fice, as well as lots of other people around event. that were taken," he said. Bombers. campus, to make changes and get things Following last year's game at Ithaca, stu Security fences were installed all Fights broke out when Cortland fans done as they needed to get done." dents from both schools charged onto the around the field to deter students, and po joined the crowd around Ithaca College's Vice President and Treasurer Carl field, resulting in extensive fighting and mi lice officers were stationed on the field af nor injuries. ter the· game, Lieutenant Robert Richardson See COLLEGES, page 4 See SEARCH, page 4 '----·- 2 THE ITHACAN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2000 National . an1c1 ~!1ternationai News Election 2000 tions that flew through the Florida courts earlier Wednes Florida official denies hand recounts day, Gore said the recounts could be done and the presidency Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris announced settled "with finality and justice" in seven days. Wednesday night she would deny attempts by SC-l_ttered coun ties to submit hand recounts of ballots to the results of the con ·Aide: Bush will not accept Gore offer tested presidential election between George W. Bush and Al George W. Bush planned to reject Al Gore's surprise pro Gore. Harris, the state's chief elections officer, sharply crit- posal for a statewide hand recount of all 6 million ballots, 1c1zed by Democrats in recent days as a partisan Republican, while battling for Florida's electoral prize on other fronts. declared it was "my duty under Florida law" to reject requests From the start, the Republicans have objected to recounts from several counties to update their tctals. by hand - calling them a subjective and inaccurate process Bush holds a 300-vote lead in the open to political mischief, and Gore had little expectation state whose 25 electoral votes will that Bush would accept that portion of the proposal. The vice settle the presidential election. president also offered to meet personally with the Texas gov Hams said the state's vote ernor "to improve the tone of our dialogue." count would be official when Bush planned to reply quickly, summoning TV cameras overseas absentee ballots are for a rare late-night statement. rolled into the totals by midnight Friday. A senior adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity, said She noted her decision was subject to an appeal in the Bush was seriously reviewing the proposal but would not courts - and it seemed likely there would be one.