The Ithacan, 1990-12-13

Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1990-91 The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 12-13-1990 The thI acan, 1990-12-13 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1990-91 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 1990-12-13" (1990). The Ithacan, 1990-91. 14. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1990-91/14 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. 1991 Special Olympics to be held Military action in Gulf must be Working on the air us satisfying in Ithaca - · . · last resort to student DJs •.. page 2- ... page 6 ..• page 10 ,.,..!,--· •• -... ' The ITHACAN The Newspaper For The Ithaca College Community Vol. 58, No. 14 December 13, 1990 20 pages Free Campus Safety to release crime log By J. Porletto what portions will be included. In the end, Oblak said it was Starting in January. Ithaca Col "Wt: see this scifety log According to Oblak, "The pri decided that everything, excluding lege will begin releasing a weekly as a means of teaching mary goal of the safety log is a the issuing of parking tickets, would report on campus crime. according crime awareness and teaching one." Oblak said that the be included in the log. to John B. Oblak, vice president for safety to the IC stu log was designed to help students This was done to ensure the student affairs. see what is happening on campus in credibility of the log, Oblak said. If The log is a list of incidents that dents." tenns of crime and to help the stu anything was kept out of the log, campus safety responds to weekly, -John B. Oblak, vice dents in preventing future crimes. people would question its validity, Oblak.said. president for student affairs "We~ this safety log as a means Oblak said. - Oblak said the log will be re of teaching crime awareness and Because of the large number of leased every Tuesday to The campus is crime-free. I think it's safety to the IC students," Oblak entries in the log, an average log Ithacan, 92 WICB-FM, 106 VIC easier for the students here to ig said. will run about eight or nine pages. AM/FM, and WICB-TV. nore the crimes rather than ac The preparation of the safety log The information on the log is Ithacan / Tom Arunqel Amy Kweskin, ·editor-in-chief knowledge them." was a lengthy one, according to given to the campus media to use as for The Ithacan, said, "We want to Kweskin said that The Ithacan Oblak. There was a lot of debate John B. Oblak, vice president they see fit. for student affairs. use the log to make students aware will use portions of the log each over exactly what should be in According to Oblak, Dave of crime on this campus. We want week, but it hasn't been decided cluded in the log and what should Maley, manager of public infonna disseminate this information to the to break down the idea that this what fonn it will take or exactly be kept out, he said. tion, is also going to set up a way to local public media. Rally gains support _from IC community By Christa Anoll "Who fights this country's wars? absolute horror of nuclear warfare, I can only speak from my own ex we've got to find other ways to perience. When your country calls, solve our problems. You're goir:g you gc. Everyone fights this to have to fight this war. It affect<; country's wars," Gil Ott, vice all of you." Ou said. president of Ithaca's chapter of The next speaker was IC writing Veterans for Peace, said Thursday instructor Fred Wilcox. night at the anti-war conference at "I see a lot of young men on this IC. campus who arc scared. And that's The conference, or teach-in, good. It's the beginning of aware Peace as an Alternative, was orga ness," Wilcox said. nized by Ithaca College student "I used to define my masculinity Karin Lcuthy. by being bad. I wanted to fight, and Leuthy said her main reason for I did fight. That's how I defined my getting involved was that her masculinity. I was very tough," brother, Rob, is in the Air Force and Wilcox said. expects to be directly involved if He described how he used to the United States goes to war. dream about defending the country. "When you leave here tonight, Wilcox was in the Air Force ROTC Special to The Ithacan I Michael Bevans don't go home and sleep it off. Just in college. He was taking a test one use your voice; that's what it was day concerning the concenu-ics of -Protestors jump the fence at the Seneca Army Depot to protest U.S. Involvement In the Middle East. given to you for. Write leuers, call dropping a bomb and how much peoplc,justdo something," Lcuthy area the explosion would cover. said. "I said, basically we're talking Protest draws students The Fellowship of Reconcilia here about killing people. We're tion had planned to send member talking about destroying human life. U.S. Army depot group of people go over, Schochet "A lot of people think of David Schilling to the teach-in as I started resisting at that time. I'm explained, "I was very moved. their representative. He was un proud to say today that I have 21 the subject of There was so much energy there, I Ithaca College students able to auend as he had to prepare to years of college and a doctorate, felt I had to do it." as all-talk, -and we lead a delegation to Iraq in January. and ROTC was the only thing I ever annual protest All those who crossed the fence wanted to show that Lcuthy said the Fellowship of failed in my life," Wilcox said. By Michael DeMasi onto the depot's land for the first Recognition has sent other delega 'Tm tired of this pathological Worry over the situation in the time were issued a "ban-and-bar" we're-not apathetic and tions to the Middle East and has machismo. I know why we're in Persian Gulf heightened the inten order which prohibits them from we're not scared." brought back hostages. volved, it appeals to us, to men. sity of this year's.annual protest at entering the property again. -Rachel Alvy '92 Ott spoke about his experiences We're not men until we go to war. the Seneca Army Depot The depot, which is suspected during the Vietnam War. He said You have been conditioned all your Demonstrators, including sev by activists to be the largest storage converged at the depot, approxi that he was only 22 when he wa'> life that that's the way you should eral Ithaca-College students, scaled site for nuclear anns on the East mately 20 were Ithaca College stu drafted and he sensed a problem define masculinity, but it's not the depot's fence on Sunday in Coast, has been protested annually dents.according to MattZipeto '93, with the draft system. necessary," Wilcox said. protest of the site's existence. since 1979. The Seneca Campaign a co-founder of the campus group Faced with three choices: being Wilcox also stressed the factthat "It just symbolized so much an and the Finger Lakes Peace Alli Students for Peace. drafted, being exiled from the he is against war, not the people ger and fear that I've had within ance lead the protest, according to David Gillingham '91,a,;cended country and facing a prison term, who arc defending the United me; when I landed, -my legs were the Syracuse Post-Standard. the eight-foot-high fence and said, he said, "I found myself submitting States. shaking," said IC student Michael Fred Wilcox, an instructor in the "It was a statement to create aware tothedraft,and itdidnotfcclgood." Rod Malpen, an American Poli Schwartz '93, who was practicing IC Writing Department, compared ness about what's going on in the Ott went on to describe how the tics graduate student at Cornell and non-violent civil disobedience for the depot to a "death camp" and Middle East. I've never felt so Anny lied to the families of the men Jacob Langford, members of the the first time in his life. said, "It is thought to bea substantial strongly about something - I don't who were killed in action. Coalition Against War in the Gulf Deborah Schochet '93 and co source of nuclear weapons and a regret it at all." "They sent letters to the parents also spoke at the rally. founder of the IC campus group, storage area for weapons sent to the As indicated by Schochet, many of all the kids who died. Every one "The government wants us to Students for Peace in the Middle Middle East." of the students were unsure of of those letters said they died in believe that we have to be there to East, had some reservations about Wilcox, who violated a previous whether they would jump the fcnce. stantly, peacefully and without pain. prevent war, but we don't. There scaling the fence initially, "I wasn't ban-and-bar order, was forced to Schochet said that eventually they This was not true, almost no one are other alternatives," Langford going to climb over at first," she appear in the U.S.

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