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Thursday, February 19, 2004 Generation· Dean? Students reflect after campaign ends BY STACEY COBURN Accent Editor
Sophomore Julie Perng, who mpaign timeline started supporting former Ver intent to run in 2004 mont governor Howard Dean more than a year ago, said that last semester she felt like his presidential campaign took e more than $5 million over over her life. ations. Perng spent her days passing out Dean buttons, registering voters, signing students up for the Students for Dean and for the Dean for America list-serves, working with Dean supporters downtown and on Cornell's campus and generally educating the public about her favorite can didate. Whenever she had a free moment, she would re search Dean 's progress and send out updates. But Dean ended his presi dential campaign on Wednes day, leaving dedicated young supporters like Perng unsure what to do next. The decision came in the wake of 17 dis appointing primaries, the Joss of several key supporters ELANA SUKERTfTHE ITHACAN - including his campaign PRESIDENT PEGGY R. WILLIAMS and accreditor Edward J. Schoen, an, Steve Gros man dean oft C · · · · · · and several embarrassing c6uthe media missteps. "I am no longer actively pursuing the presidency," Dean said to supporters in ·Group assesses Vermont. "We will, howev er, continue to build a new organization using our enormous grassroot net work to continue to trans business school form the Democratic Party and to change our country." Monday meeting. BY ANNE K. WALTERS at Loyola University in New Orleans Though Dean never won a rectly from the people. Senior Sarah Whiting, vice News Editor and leader of the peer review team, primary, he did win over the Perng said she intends to president for the Students for said the group will audit the business hearts of college students participate in any project Dean Dean, said the club's attendance A peer review team from the As school's mission statement and ana across the country. There were or his supporters work on. reflected Dean's popularity in the sociation to Advance Collegiate lyze the processes and resources the more than 700 Generation Like most Dean boosters, polls. Schools of Business spent three school has in place to accomplish its Dean groups throughout the Perng said she will vote for "When Dean's popularity days this week analyzing the business missi0~ The accreditors will also country, comprising high whoever wins the Democratic was up, numbers were increas school as the final stage of the ac consult w~h the school about areas school students, college students presidential nomination, and ing," Whiting said. "People creditation review process. of improvement, he said. and young professionals. she said the ultimate goal is to were more interested in getting The business school has spent the Edward J. Schoen, dean of the Col Garret Graff, the New York get President George W. Bush involved when he was popular." last five years preparing its program lege of Business at Rowan Universi state spokesman for Dean for out of office. Since the club disbanded, for the rigorous process. ty in New Jersey, guided his school America, said one of the un The Ithaca College Stu Perng has continued to support Becoming an accredited business through the accreditation process in precedented things about the dents for Dean decided to stop the issues that Dean stood for by school is a mark of approval by an out 2002 and said gaining accreditation Dean campaign was that so meeting last week after only becoming more active with the side group that the school meets cer is difficult. much of the support came di- three people showed up to the other progressive groups on tain high standards and would make "Everybody's got to be singing the campus, whether it is with a the college one of only 466 AACSB right song," he said. club. accredited institutions worldwide. The process allows colleges to im "I k9ow I personally The deans from three AACSB col prove themselves by getting every haven't devoted as much time as leges visited classes and spoke with thing into order and to look at areas I did last semester because I administrators, faculty and students that might not otherwise be examined, don 't know what to do," Perng in the school. he said. said. "Everything he stands for Dannie E. Harrison, dean of the The accreditors will make a rec is so good, and I want to sup College of Business and Public Af ommendation to the AACSB, which port that." fairs at Murray State University in will make a final decision at its meet Sophomore Emily Gaylord Kentucky, said he and the other ac ing in April. joined Students for Dean after creditors reviewed a self-evaluation Dean Robert A Ullrich of the Thanksgiving break to get a written by the college and then · School of Business said the college will more solid basis for her loyalty asked additional questions. This not be able to comment on the results to Dean. week's visit functions like an audit to of the accreditation process until then. "I've got tons of information answer final questions about the Although the members of the about Dean, and it only made school, he said. peer review team could not officially me love him more," Gaylord "I view accreditation like the comment on what they thought of the said. "I only wish that the club Good Housekeeping Seal of Ap college, they said they were impressed could have kept going and that proval," he said. with the school's students, Ullrich 's KERRI BICKEL/THE ITHACAN J. ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORTERS gather at a Students for Dean people could have been more Patrick O'Brien, dean of the leadership and the support the meeting in October. Waning support has led the group to disband. See MOVEMENT, page 4 College of Business Administration school has from the administration.
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Gay marriages continue in Cali£ . MOURNING As the number of same-sex marriages ap proached 2,500 in San Francisco Tuesday, a city Superior Court judge refused to order an im mediate stop to the unions, instead allowing city officials until March 29 to return to court to ar gue the merits of their case. Newly elected Mayor. Gavin Newsom last week ordered city officials to begin marrying gays NEWS HRIEFS AND LOCAL EVENTS and lesbians despite California statutes that lim The Vote 2004 it marriage to between "a man ana a woman." The mayor vowed to continue performing LATEST UPDATE: the marriages until he is ordered to stop, rais John F. Kerry scratched out a ing the prospect that thousands more same-sex· victory Tuesday in the Wisconsin couples will hold marriage licenses by the time primary, but John Edwards fin the legal battle returns to court. ished close enough to emerge as a Judge James L. Warren's late afternoon or serious challenger to · the der came in response to a request by· the Ari Democratic front-runner and zona-based Alliance Defense Fund for an im extend the race to California, New mediate halt to the government-sanctioned York and other states on March 2. · marriages. Attorneys for the gtoup - which rep Former Vermont Gov. Howard resent a California taxpayers' organization that Dean came in a distant third and supported a·baJlot initiative against gay marriage announced Wednesday that he is in 2000 - argued that Newsom's move to pro ending his campaign. He said he vide marriage licenses to gays and lesbians.con would continue to seek change in stituted "municipal anarchy." the Democratic Party and the nation with the aim of defeating Train explosion kills 200 in Iran President Bush in the November Burning railroad cars laden with gasoline and election. fert~lizer exploded in northeastern Iran on Although Kerry padded his win Wednesday, killing more than 200 people, many ning record - now 15 victories in of them firefighters who had surrounded the de 17 contests - the margin with railed cars, according to the official Islamic Re KARL VICK/THE WASHINGTON POST Edwards cracked the door to at public News Agency. FATEME KHAKZAD, an Iranian woman, grieves at the grave of her son in Bam. The least the possibility of a fight for the . The massive explosion came after 51 cemetery holds most of the 40,000 people - h~lf of Bam's population - who died in a nomination. · freight cars· careened out of control for several catastrophic 6.6 magnitude earthquake seven weeks ago. Edwards had spent a whole miles and derailed near Neyshabur, a city of week in Wisconsin and cam 170,000 about 400 miles east of Tehran. often violent differences over Kashmir and Haiti seeks international aid paignee far more aggressively The toppled cars spilled gasoline, sulfur, fer other matters. than Kerry, who arrived Friday after tilizer and other industrial chemicals on either Wrapping up three days of talks, senior diplo Haiti's premier, Yvon Neptune, appealed taking two days off. With the con side of the east-west rail line, which at the site mats outlined a schedule for parallel negotiations Tuesday for international help to end the violent test shifting to a national stage, of the explosion runs through an area of one on a range of subjects over the next five months, uprising in his country, but officials in Washing that kind of up-close-and-personal story mud brick homes. When the spilled sub after which the Indian and Pakistani foreign min ton, Paris and at the United Nations offered lim campaigning becomes a luxury no stances ignited, the percussive force of the ex isters will meet to assess progress and decide ited assistance, saying Haitians themselves must candidate can afford. plosion brought down the roofs of several build on their next steps. decide whether the government stays in power. · "That's the biggest challenge ings nearest to the tracks. Talks on the status of Kashmir - .the ·vided U., . re of State Colin L. Powell said that Edwards faces," said Don Initial ~ raised tbePQD.ibility Kettl, a political scientist at the incident may \iave been mliiated'fw"imt1d s University of Wisconsin in quake, but the U.S. Geological Survey record in May or June, after India holds national elec after he was ousted in a coup, is interested in pro Madison. "Is it possible to success ed no seismic activity in the area, according to tions in April, officials said. · viding only political support this time. · fully translate , . his face-to-face the Associated Press. The blast itself was so pow OthQr topics to be discussed include nuclear More tpan 50 people have been killed in Haiti personalized campaigning to the erful, however, that Iranian sensors registered security, water-sharing, maritime boundaries, since· anti-Aristide forces rose ·up Feb. 5 in the city mega-state, wholesale campaign it as a 3.6-magnitude tremor. trade relations; drug-trafficking and confi of Gonaives, seizing a police station. On Tues ing you need for Super Tue~day?" India-Pakistan peace talks.begin . dence-building measures to ease border tensions. day, rebels rqx>rtedly had taken full control of the On that day, in less than two "We do have before us now a sort of a ba .central city of Hinche. weeks, the Democratic candidates Indian and Pakistani officials agreed sic roadmap for a Pakistan-India peace process will be vying for 1, 151 delegates ~n Wednesday to a "basic roadmap" for peace ne to which we have both agreed," Pakistani Source: L.A. Times and The Washington Post 1O states, - close to one-third of all gotiations aimed-at resolving their historic and Foreign Secretary Riaz {(hokar said. news service. those at stake in primaries and cau cuses. Wisconsin was the first · stand-alone primary since New College & City Hampshire's vote three weeks ago, which is why candidates camped LGBTCoordinarorwinsaward Each 3-foot-by-6-foot panel in the quilt was Medieval music quartet plans here for days and literally crossed sewn and decorated by friends and loved ones paths on the campaign trail. for years of advocacy and service - in commemoration of a person whose life was performance of C~ltic melodies Edwards' heavy emphasis on · Lisa Maurer, coordinator of the Center for · lost to AIDS. jobs and the economy seemed to Lesbian, Gay., Bisexual and Transgender Edu The Ithaca College AIDS Working Group Altramar, a four-member ensemble special fuel his appeal with Wisconsin vot cation, Outreach and Services, was awarded the and the NAMES Project Foundation are izing in medieval music, will give a performance ers, according to exit polls. Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achieve sponsoring the display, along with co-sponsors of Celtic music on Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Hock ment from the University of Delaware, her alma from several organizations and offices ett Family Recital Hall in the James J. Whalen Source: L.A. Times and The mater. around campus. Center for Music. · Washington Post news service. the award honors University of Delaware For more information on the AIDS quilt, vis The performers will give a pre-concert talk graduates from the past 20 years who show it www.aidsquilt.org. titled "Galway to Galicia: Celtic Wanderers" at great promise in their professional and pub 2: 15 p.m in the Recital Hall. Both events are free Corrections lic service. University President David Nominations now accepted for and open to .the public. Roselle cited Maurer's 20 years of education Altramar, which was founded in 1991, used It is The lthacan's policy to cor and advocacy for the underserved. "I Can Achieve" scholarship · period paintings and sculptures as guides to rect all errors of fact. Please con · Maurer wrote a national, award-winning Members of the Ithaca College community recreate the medieval instruments they play in tact Assistant News Editor Katie training manual addressing human sexuality can now nominate students for the 2004-05 concert. Maslanka at 274-3207. and people with developmental disabilities, and , Rashad G. Richardson "I Can Achieve"· Three stringed instruments once used in me she has served as an advocate for sexual Memorial Scholarship, sponsored by the Office dieval folk and religious celebrations - the vielle, minority youth. of Multicultural Affairs. the repec and the gittem - will be featured at Copy editors: Brad Andrews, Maurer, who graduated magna cum laude The merit scholarship is intended to recog Sunday's performance. Alicia Arnold, Clarissa from the university in 1986, was among eight nize a student representing the African-Amer Brundage, Deirdre Byme, honoree~ given the award. ican, Latino, Asian or . Native American Kaylee Collins, Heather Curtis, Chili cook-off and winter festival Daniel DiSilva, Emily Keizer, (ALANA) community who has made significant oo take place in downoown Itham Stacy Majewicz, Emily AIDS memorial quilt display contributions toward improving the quality of Mitchell, Josh McCann, Dan to be held in Emerson Suites life for ALANA youth in the Tompkins Coun The Great Downtown Ithaca Chili Cook-off Prince and Deepa Shah. ty community. and Winterfest will be held on Saturday from This week, 128 panels from the AIDS Students nominated for the scholarship 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in downtown lthaGa. Memorial Quilt will be on display in the must be entering sophomore, junior or se~ior The festival will include mechanical bull Emerson Suites. year with good academic and judicial standing rides, music, winter sports games, ice sculpture The display will open with a ceremony and and a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. demos, fire-tossing jugglers and more. Tickets reception at 7 p.m. on Sunday. The exhibit will Students must also demonstrate a record of can be purchased for $1. ·, · · · . The Ithacan be open Monday through Wednesday between community service with city or county youth Between noon and 4 p.m., participants can 9 a.m. and 8 p.m., and on Thursday from 9 a.m. programs. taste more than 25 chilis made by local restau to noon, with a closing ceremony to follow. More information about the scholarship, as rants and vote for their favorite: Five tickets and Call 274-3208 Volunteers will continuously read the well as a printable nomination form, can be ac a bottle of water cost $5. for information. names of AIDS victims during the ·course of the cessed at ihe OMA . Web site at The event will be held on The Commons; the ,. exhibit. · www.ithaca.edu/oma. 100 block of N. Aurora St and at the DeWitt Mall. I THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1°9, 2004 NEWS THE ITHACAN 3 OCLD program attracts foreign scholars Park major draws graduate students from diverse countries and cultures BY DANIEL PRINCE From Taiwan to Greece, Staff Writer Ethiopia to France, · the OCLD program brings diverse individuals Eskil Sivertsen hails from Nor together for an intensive, hands-on way and is currently working to program that has no equivalent ward his master's degree in orga overseas. nizational communication, learning The course of study comprises or and design. He first came to Itha ganizational communication, in ca on a one-year exchange from his structional design, technology and undergraduate college in Edin management, and it often pertains to burgh, Scotland. He spent one se business communication, said San mester here and one in the college's dra Herndon, professor and chair Los Angeles program. woman of the OCLD graduate "Many Americans are in · program. trigued that I've traveled so The classes are extremely small, much," he said.· and many require group work. In one Among his peers, however, his seminar this semester, four of the six experience is hardly unusual. The students are foreign. OCLD graduate program has the "It's like the U.N.," said Stavros highest concentration · of interna f>apakonstantinidis, a Greek. tional students on campus, with 37 He recalled the time Sivertsen, percent of its 24 students coming the Norwegian, sparked a discus MEGHAN MAZELLA/THE ITHACAN from outside the United States. sion by asking the class what it GRADUATE STUJ)ENTS Stavros Papakonstantinidis, left, from Greece, and Tsvetelina Gospodinova, from Pushpinder Singh, "Pushi" to his knew about Santa Claus. Bulgaria, listen during a Management of Organizational Communication class Monday night in Park 2n. friends, is a former military officer "We saw how different cultures "I was very familiar with educational gap in her domestic Before his enrollment here, who brings 25 years of experience fe~l about the same person," Pa white, middle-class, Northeastern · peers. "Americans have an impe two of his sons graduated from the .in the Indian army to his classes. pakonstantinidis said. students - there wasn't much di rialistic view that our culture is the colle·ge with undergraduate de . "I represent tl).e perspective of It's not just international students versity," she said. best. The things they hear about us grees. Now 58, he is the oldest full one of the fastest-growing countries who benefit from this discourse. Sally Espinosa, assistant to the (abroad) are so different from time student at the college. in the world," he said. His class "American students also value dean of graduate studies, who re what we hear," she said. "It's interesting to analyze," mates represent all continents ex the opportunity to work alongside in cently earned her OCLD master's "Communication is important to Papakonstantinidis said. "Everyone cept Australia and Antarctica. ternational students for an extended degree while working at the college, every form of life, every form of has something in common: With all Using their own backgrounds as. peri
Movement to continue.. .· . . College clears-snowy lots Continued from page 1 "This movement · is bigger than Gov. Dean," Graff said. BY CHRISTA LOMBARDI ' she typically doesn't use her car dur up there in L-lot with the cars not "This is about regular people Chief Copy Editor ing the week, she wouldn't have seeing where they could park," said educated about what Dean actually banding together for a common known to move it had her friend not Lillian Tavelli, manager of the stood for instead of listening to cause. That cause is not going to Students should find navigating warned her about the notice. traffic bureau. · CNN about how he is a total die. We need, especially young parking lots at the college less prob 'They should definitely e-mail us She said only two cars were wacko." people, to be involved so that we lerµatic this week because of the re because if I'm not going to be us towed from L-lot and she was Donald Beachler, an assistant can institute the values that we moval of excess snow and ice. ing my car, I'm not going to check pleased with students' cooperation. professor in the politics department, think are important." The Physical Plant, Parking whatever notice is on it," she said. Couture said students played a said it is important to note that Dean Sophomore Zoe Paolantonio, a and Traffic Services and Residen Rick Couture, director of the large role in making the system suc was never a frontrunner once the history major who interned with the tial Life joined forces Wednesday Physical Plant, said this method cessful. He added that the Physical primaries began. Dean campaign over winter break night in an effort to combat prob was used several years ago, so he Plant will do a final inspection of all "They say 'the downfall of and was, at times, brought to tears lems, including slippery walk contacted Residential Life and parking lots over the next few days Dean,' but once by how beauti ways, obscured parking lines and in Public Safety after snow and ice and, depending on how much there was an ac eff· ful Dean's mes accessible parking spaces. began to accumulate, making the snow amasses between now and tual election, his movement is sage was·to her, Parking and Traffic Services parking lots unsafe for walking and spring, the college may u~ a sim there was never a said she thinks and Residential Life staff members parking. ilar system for clearing additional rise," Beachler than Gov. Dean changed · put fliers on cars and in residence "We've been having a problem lots later this semester. said. the race. halls Monday asking students to "Young vot Dean. This is about "He has de remove their cars from R-lot, ad ers felt like manded that jacent to the Garden Apartments, there was no regular people issues that he by 7 p.m. Wednesday. Students one in Washing was worried . could return their cars to the lot af ton speaking to .i~g together to about, and ter snow removal was completed, them and to Common Cause. many, many of but any left in the lot were towed their concerns us were wor at the owners' expense, - all they saw -GARRET·GRAFF ried about, be This is the second time in the was a Republi Dean for America said," she said. past two weeks that the Physical can party and a "He put things Plant solicited students' help. 'Republican-lite' in the forefront Fliers were also distributed on Feb. party, and no one was speaking to instead of the back like usual, and 9 to people who park in the L-lot their values," said Graff, the.New ~ow we' re actually going to near the Terraces. York State Dean spokesman. have a debate." But some students expressed "Conventional wisdom said what Perng said she is happy that the concern about how they were no Dean was doing_ was committing club was able to educate and get tified. Sophomore Lauren·Graber political suicide. He was doing students involved and that her said she found a notice on her car what he believed in, and I think work and the work of others has Feb. 10 and moved to a blue lot the young voters respect that." helped to draw attention to the is following afternoon. She added Graff said young Dean sup sues she cares about. that she's surprised she doesn't porters have proven that they can "I don't feel like I've wasted know anyone whose car got · change the way campaigns are run my time," Perng said "It's been towed because most students use and the issues that candidates talk worth it." their cars primarily on weekends. about. He said he encourages "I would've contested that if it them to continue their involvement, Information from The Los Ange got towed," she said. "There's no REBECCA GARDNER/THE ITHACAN not only in this presidential election, les-Washington Post News Service way I would pay it." CHRIS SALAY of Finger Lakes Wrecker Services prepares to tow but also in politics in general. was used in this report. Junior Vicky Esterlis said since a car in R-Lot outside the Garden Apartments Wednesday. asso 2004!!!
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For the first time, listeners tuning into ra- · dio station VIC's annual 50-Hour Marathon will hear two female DJs raising money·for a good cause. . Each year two DJs from the station broad cast live for 50 hours to raise money for char- . ity. In the past only male DJs or a male and a female DJ have hosted the fund-raiser. This year Iris Karasick and Jessica Ellenbogen will serve as DJs. This year the .profits will be donated to the Literacy Volunteers of Tompkins County. The group works to educate local adults and young people who live and work in Toi:ppkins County. David Smith: executive director of the lit , 'I eracy center, said the organization was hon ored to have beenchose11 .by VIC. "I am really pleased to have been recog . nized," Smith said. "The inoney is going to help provide materials for students." The service is free of charge and helps im prove students' math skills, as well as their ability to read, write and speak English. Also, the organization assists students with com puter skills. Tutors are trained for roughly 30 hours and dedicate a significant amount of time to each individual student, Smith said. REBECCA GARDNER/THE ITHACAN The marathon will begin 4 p.m. March 19 CHRISTA CADY, right, tutors Joseph Stramba in math at the Litera_cy Volunteers of Tompkins County Wednesday. C8dy has been and last until 6 p.m. March 21. volunteering at the center for six months. She began wor.king with Straml!& after completing an orlentatton. Karasick, a senior, said VIC hopes to raise as much . money as possible. Last year Chris Wheatley, manager of radio oper~ moving from location to location to help keep SQrs will be recognized on the air. $2,800 was donated to the Drop-In Children's, ations at the college, said this is the first time themselves awake. Stops include Manos Smith said a staff member from the lit Center of Ithac;a. two women are hosting the marathon and that Diner, Ide 's Bowling Lanes and a Battle of the eracy organization will be visiting the station Ellenbogen plans to prepare for the mar- . both have been actively involved in the event Bands concert Saturday night at Castaways. during the marathon's final hours. athon by eating well and getting plenty of rest. · while at college. Karasick said the majority ·of the money Ellenbogen said she if Jw>py the litera- "Iris told me not to drink any caffeine two During the marathon, the two DJs are not raised during the marathon comes from in cy center . weeks before the marathon, but I am lucky confined to the studio. Various remote locations dividuals, groups and companies that pur · "It is such a good cause, and I hope we raise because I don't drink caffeine anyways," the around Ithaca have been set up for the partic CmlSe a half-hour or hour segment..One hour plenty of money to help benefit their organi: sophomore said. ipants. Both Karasick and Ellenbogen will be c.osts $40, and a h~-~our is $30. The spon- zation," she said.
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BY ELIZABETH A. CROWLEY Traevena Byrd, director of the affirmative action Chief Proofreader and equal ~mployment opportunity office. The online system also saves storage space be Four staff members· who developed an online cause job applications, which are kept for three job application process that doubled the collection years after the application year, can be stored on of affirmative action data have been honored for . line as opposed to paper form, Byrd said. · their innovation. Vincent DeTuri, assistant professor and chair Starting July 1, 2002, all job applicants at Itha man of chemistry, has been through five paper-· ca College had to submit applications online us based and two online-based searches. He said he ing the PeopleAdmin program. More than I 0,000 favors th~ online system over the paper system in people have since applied using the system. department searches. The group·that worked on the online system was "I think it's actually really contributing to our honored with a 2003 IC Cnoice Award. Bonnie search," he said. "It makes it really easy to have LeBlanc, administrative assistant for college at multiple people looking at the same application at torney; Kirra Elliott, employee relations special..:. once. It's really convenieqt that we don't have to ist; Brian Martinson, executive assistant to the vice do the paper trail." president of finance and administration; and Jane Patricia Woodworth, associate professor and . Ray, human resources assistant, each received $250 chairwoman of mathematics and computer science, as part of the award. has also used the online system for faculty search Developed by the Office of Affirmative Action es and said the search process takes much longer. and Equal Employment Opportunity and the Of "The_computer process-is slow because it takes fice of Human Resources, www.icjobs.org allows a long time 'to go from one person to another per search committees and various offices across cam son," she said . . pus to review applicants on an online database, Woodworth said she did not like how the switch rather than by the traditional paper method. Pa from- a paper-based application system to an on per applications are no longer accepted. · line-based system did not have an overlap period. According to an article in the Jan. 3 issue of the • But DeTuri said that any problems he has had with -1 Chronicle of Higher Education, more colleges are the online system were outweighed by the benefits. using online application systems'. Jbe article reports "It's a lot qukker to sit on my computer and wait the PeopleAdmin software costs less than $50,000. a couple of seconds than it is to walk down to some "In terms of the experience that we've had' with central location and search through a folder to find it, it does save an awful lot of time in terms processing .the file I'm looking for," he said. "Some people · applicants," Martinson said. "It gives us a much more do like to have the paper file-in front of them. The instant view of our whole applicant pool." solution to that is to print up the application." Once they have registered on the Web site, ap When asked about the slow response time, , plicants can fill out forms ~nline and attach cover Martinson said the computer process may be letters, resumes and references to the application. slowed _because the system competes for band They can also complete an optional tracking form width along with the rest of the campus. about their gender and ethnicity. Before, these forms The Office of Human Resources sent out an ap were mailed to each applicant for each position. plicant system evaluation surv~y to all registered LeBlanc said the Office of Affirmative Action users. The results will be available in coming weeks. and Equal Empioyment Opportunity can keep more The le Choice awards are handed out annually MEGHAN MAZELLA/THE ITHACAN accurate demographic information about the ap to recogniz.e employees for outstanding contributions BRIAN MARTINSON, executive assistant to the vice president of finance and plicant pool. The numbe_r of applicants respond to the college community. Groups receive $250 per administration; Klrra Elliott, employee relations specialist; Bonnie LeBlanc, ing to the affirmative action tracking forms has in person, and individuals receive $1,000. For a com administrative assistant to the college attorney; and Jane Ray, human creased since use of the online system began, said plete list of winners, go to www.iptaca.edu/n~ws. resources assistant, won an IC Choice Award for their PeopleAdmln program.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004 NEWS THE ITHACAN 7 Scholar to discuss Up all night? race. and the media The newest issues of The Ithacan are BY STEPHANIE BERGERON He said Dyson's lecture comes at ap ap Staff Writer propriate time as the college celebrates Black available oriline, History Month. · A scholar of urban black popular culture Sandra Herndon, professor in the De at~· a.m. every will address the media's role in presenting partment of Organizational Communication, race as part.of a three-day visit next week. Learning and Design and chairwoman of the ·Thursday. Michael Eric Dyson, a scholar, author and graduate program, said Dyson 's lecture will social critic, will give a public lecture titled be beneficial for students in all fields of study. "The Race against Terror, the Terror of Race: · She said that. even though Dyson is Historical Amnesia, Racial Resistance, and grounded in one field, he is an interdisci Critical" Media Literacy" on Wednesday at plinary thinker and writer. 7 :30 p.m. in Ford Hall, Whalen Center. "He draws from a broad range of ideas Check us out at www~ithaca.edu/ithacan . Growing up in the Detroit ghetto, and topics and analyzes what's happening Dyson was a teenage father who lived on · in our culture right now," she said. "Dyson welfare. He started college at 21 and went is someone who writes and thinks about larg on to earn a doctorate in religion from Prince er cultural issues in society." ton University. Antoinette DiCiaccio, Special Assistant Dyson has written many . for Programs at Park Hall, has books focusing on race, religion, worked ·to organize Dyson's popular c1,dture and African visit to the college. She said that American studies. He writes a Dyson.'s appeal. will be wide weekly column for the Chicago spread across campus because he Sun-Times and is a radio com deals with race relations that im mentator for Tavis Smi°ley's pro pact everyone. ~aturday, February 21st • 11am to S pm gram on National Public Radio. "A lot of his work affects how In Downtown Ithaca Dyson is known for studies of people interact with one another," urban black popular culture. she said. Chili tasting, live musk, mechanical bull rides & more. One . of his ·groundbreaking Dyson has taught at the Uni For More Info c=all 277-8679 books, "Making Malcolm: The DYSON versity of North Carolina at My.th and Meaning of Malcolm Chapel Hill, Brown University and or visit www.downtownithaca.com X," studies the leader and examines his Columbia University. Currently, he is the Aval comeback as a cultural hero. Another of his on Foundation Professor in the Hwnanities and books, "Between God and Gangsta Rap: African American Studies at the University of Bearing Witness to Black Culture," is a col Pennsylvania.· . · · lection of essays on issues such as the O.J. Dyson spoke at the college in 1998 at the Simpson trial, black gangsta rap and·the Office of Minority Affairs Leadership music of Mariah Carey. Conference. He has won numerous awards from the A question-and-answer session as well as New York Times, Philadelphia Enquirer, a book signing. will follow the lecture. 'Publishers Weekly and the American Library In addition to his lectu~. Dyson w,ill .Association. . teach the master classes "From Jay-Z to Garry Brodhead. the interim dean of the Michael Jackson: Black Popular Culture and Roy H. Parle School of Communications, the American ~Media;' .on Monday at 9:30 said Dyson was chosen as the Park Distin a.m. in Park 220 and "I Got You Covered? guished Visitor b.ased on. his record and xe Jayso11cBlair,AffinnativeAction and the Col- semttl ha_awmwwwc;ation, diversity and COl!I:' munity improvement. in Park'220.
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BY CHRISTA LOMBARDI abuse prevention programs, said the Chief Copy Editor . screening will help people evalu- . ate their relationships with food. Students seeking information She added that while some eating about disordered eating will find rputines may not be medically dan additional support on- campus gerous yet, they could lead to next week. serious problems in the future. The Counseling Center will "The issue is, 'Is food hold screenings for eating cijsorders consuming your thoughts a lot of the from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m~on Wednes time?"' she said. "I think that peo day as part of the college;s obser ple can fall into a pattern of vation of National Eating Disorders disordered eating, which is not Awareness Week. quite · to an eating disorder, but Participants are asked to com-· restricting certain kinds of foods." plete a five- to 10-minute paper A table where students can ob- . and-pencil evaluation, and each tain brochures and information individual will have approximate about eating disorders will also be ly 10 minutes to review the placed in the Campus Center results with a counselor. Students from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on can also access an anonymous Wednesday. From 4: 15 to 5:45 screening online year-round -at. p.Jll., the eating disortlers closed www.ithaca.edu/counseling. therapy group will hold its first . Alice Meilman, a social work weekly meeting in the Counseling er at the Counseling Center and fa Center. cilitator of an eating disorders is Meilman said the group will be sues group, said anybody who has a place where people can talk safe concerns about their own eating ly and confidentially about their is habits or those of a friend is wel sues and work toward coping come to take part in the screening. with emotional difficulties in a "A lot of times what I.have found healthier way. is this is an issue that people are very "People with eating and exercise concerned about their friends," she disorders use their behaviors to said. ''They see their friends ex comfort themselves, to numb em~ hibiting some dangerous behavior in tional pain, to avoid intimacy, to ask terms of possioly over-exercising and foi: attention, to hide from the . then really not getting enough nu world, to express anger," she said. . trition to sustain .that level of exer Students interested in the ther LAUREN SPITZ/THE ITHACAN cise. They 're curious about what they apy group must first meet with a JUNIOR JEN HERBOLSHEIMER helps Sophia Daly make a valentine for her mom, Mary Plttl, adjunct can do." . counselor and should contact the Instructor of speech language pathology and audiology, at the Family Carnival. The event was held Priscilla Quirk, coordinator of . Counseling Center at 274-3136 to for famllles of college employees Frtc:tay. Proceeds go to the Children's Miracle Network. health promotion and substance set up an appointment. ,· 'Tlie 1thaca cd((ege 1Tli'eatre · and · THINKING ABOUT ADDING A BUSINESS MAJOR OR MINOR? 'Tfie S cfioo{ of Music Requests to enroll in a · - P'R~S~'N'T Business Major, . Preview • .Concentration or Min.or "February 17 are due by March l. 8:ooym ·Requests recei11.ed after March 1 will not be proce:rsed: until after commencement. Applications ca,, be picked UfJ from the School of oY en ina ·fJfiafit Business Resource Center (¢1' Floor Smiddy Hall). "February 19 8:o~ym .t I ► · ,I . "February 20 J 21, I I 24J 25 J 26} 27 I ,I , H 8:ooym ' .•,·.
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The notion of diversity emerges conservatives, some of which American debt trend out of efforts to challenge white, challenge Liberalism altogether, ~ Christian, patriarchal, heterosexist ideologies like Adolph Hitler, Benito that shaped institutional Mussolini and President George should raise eyebrows policies and cultures W. Bush. When students see the When I opened my mailbox one day last in · society. Intellectual week, hoping for a letter from my family or diversity is currently a postcard from a friend, I found my credit being used on college card bill staring back at me instead and campuses throughout knew the time had come - the time to the nation as ideologies, actually pay for the textbooks I bought at political narrative to they tend to sit in the beginning of the semester. ensnare nearsighted silence, recognize horrible Some would . say credit cards and progressive/liberals. implications of conservative ideologies college students mix about as well as The second issue is that or ask me why anyone would endorse · · · ·· bleach and ammonia, but the two seem CHARLES A. ~?£ conservative ideologies policies that have racist, sexist, anti-Semitic · destined for one another anyway. We get VENATOR 't/1~ and pro-gressive/liberal and anti-Islamic, homophobic, classist or in ways that · that first one as a safety measure, so when SANTIAGO ideologies are part of a other negative implications. contribute to the w· ·· we're strapped for cash we don't have to Guest Writer larger "Western" intel In contrast, progressive/liberals on campus erasure of history. This is not choose between books and brakes. But lectual tradition termed "Liberalism." Critical are often uncritically reproducing to say that progressive/lioerals at , how many people really use their credit discussions of intellectual diversity should conservative and discriminatory ideologies. Ithaca. College should censure political cards for emergencies only, to buy things focus on alternatives to Liberalism or, rather, to Take, for example, the events occurring for debate. They simply should refase to finance they really need? the Western Liberal project. this year's Black History Month. It includes ideological positions. that are devoid of an It's no coincidence that credit card Conservatives, as well as pro- the sponsorship of a "Queen," a member of intellectual platform and that promote companies solicit college students not only gressive/liberals, often accept the idea that the Nation of Islam (a notoriously sexist, discriminatory policies and ideologies. through the postal service, but also via Liberalism embodies the end of history. homophobic, anti-Semitic, capitalist cult), In closing, I would like to suggest that we phone , .and, e-mail. According to :Nellie Conservatives and liberals are not trying to and a black academic who pays lip service to should focus on-the historical and material Mae, a company that provides· stuaent challenge capitalism, or in the case of the the Left while having endorsed individuals effects of the Liberal ideologies and assess , 1. lQanS;astrikingmajorityofundergraduate United States, the Constitution. The like Jesse.Jackson, a Democrat who espouses whether we wantlo exercise them on campus. coliege students - 83 percent in 2001 - ideological debates center on the proper . conservative political id~logies and I would also challenge the campus · have credit cards. And the average credit interpretation of the powers and duties of promotes the· demobilization of the blacks, community to adopt a policy that does not card debt undergrads . are carrying, is Liberal institutions. Intellectual diversity women and other oppressed minorities. . endorse/fin~ce ideologies -that discriminate $2,327. · should encourage critical thinking·outside of Or take the case of the college's agairist people. Here we can look to history Fortunately for me, the 'textbook .bill the confines of this tradition. sponsorship of a speaker representing and intellectual diversity to help shape the was only a few·huridred'dollars, riot a:few ·, The problem at Ithaca College is not that the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform,• a contours dfthis debate. · thousand. But huge debt is becoming students are not being exposed to center that promotes discrimination against .· ·- • , · . · , ·.. -·i • • increasingly problematic for- college conservative ideologies, but rather that they , -women and has endorsed , ·ideologies that. Charles-R. ~ -'Santiago is an'assistlJlrt: ' ··· Shlmmtifacross the co~.~ to: are not:•heing ·exposed ·to the· conservative result in discrhniriation J against .. gays.-·· professor., of ,, politics. · E-mail ·-·him ,: at1 , ·· 'Neille· Mae;:uhc:d.. .Jia.liilfWll!MHfS: ideologies that local Republicans ·endorse. The group also trivializes the H~locaust· [email protected]. : . tackedonfostudentloandebt,theavera'ge '.;]'t' .. 11 L,,uu,,,.. : .. ,., ._ ' college grc!d· -- is 0 leav.in schooli --0-wing :'. 'BttNld'~? ~ is pail of1be:deal, right? It sure seems that-way; Not orily do .TheWa'/ we come into_college expecting loan debt, . - but we ~ liv:e in a"country lhat operates within a "buy now, pay later'' mindset Not only are }nd}v:iduals , consuming . well I See It beyond their means (and needs), but the ·· government itself is digging its way into increasingly unfathomable debt. Feminism represents The Bush administration has recently sparked an · explosion in the already swelling national debt, pushing it to more more than the f-word · than $7 trillion. The budge·t the President Feminism is about more than understand a feminist like submitted earlier this month includes the whether you shave your legs. you." That began my lifelong largest spending deficit in history - $251 Feminists strive to give a voice affair with the "F-word." billion. And I was worried about paying to those in secondary slots in Admittedly though, it was for a few hundred dollars worth of books! our societal structure. not until college that I The real problem with debt - both Feminism is about truly began to personal and federal _: is not that we empowering women · understand how much borrow when we need to and pay when and the struggle for the word 'feminist' we can, but rather that we borrow equality, not only means. Although I had whenever we feel like it and don't worry between the sexes. access to feminist about paying it back. Students paying Feminists support and theory literature as a with plastic don't think twice about their fight for the civil rights girl and grew up in· a spending becau~e more often than not of all people, including liberal, · forward their parents will bail them out' of any lesbian, . gay, bisexual thinking household, I LAUREN SPITZ/THE ITHACAN serious trouble. If not, they'll find a way and trans gendered learned little of to come up with cash later on. ALISSON FEMINISTS CONVERGE at a meeting for the Feminist Majority people. Feminists work feminism in the Federal borrowing is, of course, WOOD of IC. in Friends 205 Feb. 17. · to eliminate violence classroom. It was not treated with equal disregard,. and most against women and to Guest Writer until my first Women's and rape happens too often, connotations one person at a Americans seem utterly unconcerned preserve the environment. Studies class -that I began to even on this campus. This new time. • There is no single about the -growing national · ~bt. Few Believing the many stereotypes understand the meaning and . wave of feminism works to definition or. type of feminist. people care how much we're spending, of feminism belittles and magnitude of feminism. combat these injustices; and it is Feminists come in all genders, what we:re spending it on or how we'l! demeans this important The fight for equality was in that hope that the Feminist all colors, all sexualities, all orie day pay for it as long as there aren't movement. not won in the '60s. Women still Majority of IC was born. shapes and sizes, all religions larger chunks missing from their I have always identified make only 72 cents for every We hope to make a and any mood. We respect and paychecks each week ..Unfortunately, our myself as a feminist. The first dollar a man makes, and women difference through re-education support the many personal massive deficit spending can't last time I encountered the word still struggle for access to safe and activism, and anyone who definitions of 'feminism' and · forever without serious consequences. was in the second grade, when and legal reproductive services wants to see change should find strength in our common Nevertheless, · · many Americans I used a spelling for "women" and contraceptive technology. stand up and join in. Come to the ground. A feminist is simply . continue. to think like college students that excluded "men" in a Abortion is no longer an meetings and share your someone who believes in with credit cards, . spending now and homework assignment_. assumed freedom in this strength, sign up for a wol!len 's equality, and.will fight for it. postponing plans for payment. And that Instead of a star, country and is a choice . that studies class this fall, browse the "buy now, pay later" attitude ·that I received an 'F,' due to many (but not all) feminists feminist theory section of the . Weekly. meetings for the manifests in our culture leads to an "act "consistent spelling errors - believe should be protected. Bookery or come with us to the Feminist Majority of JC are now think later" mindset ~at's ultimately it is 'women,' not 'womyn. "'. The battle is raging over equal "March for Freedom ofChoice" Tuesdays at 8 p.m. in Friends more dangerous. But when will we - My mother promptly extended rights for homosexuals, and in Washington, D.C., this April. 205 . . Alisson Wood is a and our nation _,.. learn · i:o take the big, red 'F' into people are discriminated Most importantly, use the "F sophomore writing and English responsibility for our debts? "Feminist," commenting, against every day. Women are word"; · reclaim this exquisite major. 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A generation of young knitters ·keeps the ball rolling BY MICHELLE THEIS just above knitting supply aisles, the store masterpiece - a muted tan Knitting books Staff Writer now features knitting as one of its big draws. scarf for her boyfriend, with.the It showcases chic Fun Fur, neon-colored che numbers 666 stitched across to checkout The art of knitting may be getting nille and crazy eyelash materials that the bottom. Gift-giving is • "Knitting Workbook," older, but the crowd it's drawing is getting scream hip and fashionable. Brown said one of the reasons Favreau younger. that's why they're so popular. loves to knit. by Debbie Bliss Seen everywhere from newly established "They have that funky chenille fabric But DIY isn't the only • "Hollywood Knits, knitting classes to the sets of Hollywood now, and I think that younger people are club on campus that offers by Suss Cousins movies, a fresh 1 youthful generation has thinking that that's kind of cool, rather than knitters an opportunity to • "Weekend Knitting," adopted the clothes-making custom of having a white, crocheted Grandma give. Now, there's also an by Melanie Falick years gone by. scarf," she said. official knitting club. • "The Knitting Experience," Ithaca is no exception. The hip, Student organizations have caught on Abby Ross, club member, by Sally Melville celebrity trend has "sewn" interest locally. to the trend and started the knitting ball said the club shares more than In classrooms across campus, students adorn rolling on campus by encouraging others just stitching patterns. • "Zen and the Art of Knitting," chair backs with bright, homemade to learn and produce. "We want to do events and · by Bernadette Murphy scarves and replace note-taking with knit The Do It Yourself club, which helps teach more people, not just in • "Stitch 'N Bitch," ting. Needles are now common college ac students take projects like knitting and the club, how to knit, and by Debbie Stoller cessories. But the young knitting culture is magazine publishing into their own hands, make projects we can send to • "Vogue Knitting," n't just a campus-knitting-club-type fad. often holds craft shows to sell their prod charities," the junior said. by Vogue Knitting magazine Across town, bookstores, clubs and art ucts - products made by students like DIY The club began that endeavor editors supply stores have caught on to the member Meg Favreau. earlier this month when a mixed old-fashioned hobby that has somehow Sitting behind a table of greens, reds, group of knitters and nonknitters become the new fashion. In Ithaca alone, whites and blues, the junior writing gathered with books, yam and fingers two specialty shops, Knitting Machines ... major smiled as she explained the unseen hungry to learn. Etc. and Homespun Boutique, are aimed work behind each of her pieces. Acrylic "It's nice to knit in groups because then just at knitters. scarves take days to make, but chenille you can learn new techniques," she said. in recent years. The earth-tone, large-print needlework scarves take only one. That's because Ross, ah experienced knitter, hopes that ..People just don't have time to books of years ago have been uncovered Favreau uses the larger needles to give the one day she can expand her skills and make teach their daughters to do it any from back store rooms and remade with thicker material the right look. an afghan for her mother, who has given more," she said. vivid colors and catchy titles like "Stitch 'N Favreau has been knitting for six her many of her grandmother's homemade Glover said she wanted to Bitch" and "Zen and the Art of Knitting." years. Knitting allows for productivity as afghans. She said that project alone share her talents with others and Lauren Brown, event coordinator for she participates in other activities, would take her three or four months, and offer them the wonderful skill Michaels Arts and Crafts store in Ithaca, said including class. that's if she worked on it every single day. her mother had shared with her. the store's weekly knitting classes have been "It's so nice to be able to just sit there This type of giving is a common theme She decided to teach knitting consistently full, many times with much and fidget and come out with something pro in the knitter's realm. But not just gift-giv classes at Michae] 's. Today, she teaches younger students than in previous years. She ductive afterwards and not ing. Giving time and energy to teach oth classes on a weekly basis. But her fa guessed that 50 percent of her customers this feel that you've ers, as the knitting club promotes, has helped vorite part is still giving a piece of her- winter have been college-aged students. wasted your keep the hobby alive. self and her knitting to others. · "It's cold, and people aren't going to time," she said. If it weren't for her moth "You know whoever you be walking around campus as much, oth Even as she er's patience nearly 60 years give it to will like it and er than to get coffee and cocoa," she said. manned the ago, Anita Glover, hobbyist appreciate it because of "And they want to make the scarves and Campus Cen and instructor, would nev the choices you had to hats as gifts for the holidays." ter table, she er have acquired the tal . make in producing some Other local art supply stores have re fingereo her ent. Her mother and thing," she said. ported an increase in their knitting newest grandmother bought her Since the cycle of giv numbers, especially among the supplies when she was 3. ing and sharing is inherent in younger crowd. A.C. Moore ex But she said the the knitting process, Glover panded its knitting section to in mother-daughter hopes her old passion will clude extra aisles to meet cus knitting bond remain a big part of new tomer demand, said manager hasn't been fashion. Chris Jetty. With bright, cascading sample scarves hanging 16 THE ITHACAN . ACCENT THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004 Accent Psychology.lab gets ·physical BY EMILY KEIZER On Staff Writer Inside the unassuming, comput er-filled room on the first floor of Williams, electrodes are being attached to the wrists and ankles of student volunteers. When used with the other equipment in the psychol ogy department's new mind-body laboratory, these electrodes can monitor the students' blood pressure, heart rates and galvanic skin response - the amount of sweat on the skin. 2006 The laboratory is hardly MEAGHAN GATTI something from a Frankenstein BUSINESS movie, however. Bright and mcxlem, it provides students from numerous Hometown: Woodburg, N.Y. departments the opportunity to perform research using the cutting If you were president of the edge technology supplied by a recent United States, what would $160,(XX) grant from the National Sci you do? ence Foundation. I would make sure that all stu "The purpose of the lab is to be dents were given President's a teaching lab," said Bernard Day off. Beins, chairman of the psychology department and one of the co-au What is the worst mess thors of the grant. "What we want up you've ever had in the ed to do here was create a lab that kitchen? would allow students to do research ELANA SUKERT/fHE ITHACAN I tried to make sugar cook that literally showed the relationship STUDENT INTERN Erin Tooley (right) and Leigh Ann Vaughn, assistant professor of psychology (left), ies. I didn't have half the between brain functioning and demonstrate equipment in the psychology lab. The lab Is part of the college's_interdisciplinary efforts. ingredients. They tasted like more overt behaviors." cardboard. Because the new lab focuses on sic school study of the role of chron- teachers. In addition to analyzing the professor of psychology, plans to use this connection between mind and ic stress in perlormance-related injury heart rate and galvanic skin the equipment to demonstrate the What was in the best bcxly, it is ideal for interdisciplinary is set to kick off this semester. response data, ~e pair is responsible physiological effects of anxiety to his package you've received research, said Nancy Rader, Though much of the equipment for showing interested professors the Abnormal Psychology class. Grant at school? associate professor of psychology purchased with the grant money has ins and outs of the new equipment. co-author Leigh Ann Vaughn, assis A dozen roses on and the ptjncipal author of the grant. yet to arrive, students are already "The professors are the ones who tant professor of psychology, will Valentine's Day. Oh wait, Though three psychology professors involved with the laboratory in come up with the study, then we're bring students into the lab to explore that was my roommate. wrote the grant, faculty from every step of the research process. the ones who just figure out how to the accuracy of polygraph testing in several other areas contributed to the From serving as volunteers in get everything working the most lie detection. . What characteristic do you proposal. The National Science experiments to working as interns, efficient way," said Tooley. "Usu Psychology majors aren't . the wish you hadn't inherited Foundation considers the cross undergraduates can get involved in ally within the psych department, only students whose classes will ben from your parents? departmental approach to science to ways that Rader thinks would be we'll only do psych studies, so it's efit from the lab's technology. Beins My parents are perfect and be unique. It also fits with the difficult at a larger university. interesting to talk to different hopes that as the equipment moves soaml. college's mission to integrate ~ Junior psychology majors Erin professors and see their views on into the classrpom. a greater under different fields. · · . Tooley and Lauren Pro~e · have - what they want to ~ow." standing ofPi)fCholoSf ,wilJ ~v~. If the school were going Professors and students from been interning at the lab since its The lab's equipment, which will "I think there are a lot of mis to give out any magazine departments as varied as exercise opening in the middle of August. include sophisticated motion detec- conceptions about what psychqlo- • or newspaper to the entire science and theater arts will have the "We analyze the data, and we're tion technology and the capability to gy involves," he said. "People in ., campus for free, what chance to run experiments related to the ones who set'up the equipment," take electroencephalograms to music or the performing arts may would you want it to be? their fields. The lab's software has said Prone. "It takes a lot of hours just show brain activity, as well as the cur not think that psychology,, has The Wall Street Journal. already been used to investigate the getting it loaded onto the computer rently installed biofeedback de anything to do with their disciplines. It's expensive, and I don't · correlation between dancers' heart and figuring out how to work it." vices, will eventually be available for The mind-bcxly lab will let others like paying for it. rates and their feelings about In t;nany cases, Tooley and Prone use in classrooms and lecture halls. kriow how psychological factors re perlormance and body iinage. A mu- will actually serve as their professors' Hugh Stephenson, assistant late to their lives." Famed trombonist to bring his tunes and talents BY CHRIS WHITE to performance. He is currently a professor Staff Writer at the University in Berlin, when he received the highest honor a professor can get, the To Oliver Haydon Whigham III, music is title "professor for life." like oxygen, and he can't survive with out Ryan Pangburn, a freshman music edu it. Whigham has gone from practicing on his cation major, is looking at Whigham's visit $110 King trombone on a farm in Cleveland from a music educator's perspective. to playing in front of thousands at the world's "Any lesson that a great player like him biggest venues with some of jazz's best. is going to give, you'll be able to give your Whigham will bring his talents to Ithaca students and make them better players, too," College's Ford Hall next week. · he said. "Any time you get to hear a great The sound of his father playing the trom musician live, it's a great experience." bone gave Whigham an early love for his in Reynolds said he is excited to have strument. As a teenager Whigham took every Whigham come and talk to his students, but opportunity to perlorm around the Cleveland even nonmusicians will learn something. area. Playing weddings, bar mitzvahs and - "He has a wonderful way of talking recording dates, he gained ex-perience as a about jazz improvisation," .Reynolds said. tromboni$t and built up a reputation. · He said it will be effective, entertaining and When the first trombonist for the Glenn inspiring. Miller Orchestra got sick while touring in Whigham has played every genre of mu Cleveland; Whigham was offered the job on sic from Bach to experimental jazz. He said the spot. He was later offered a permanent he likes to think of the different kinds of position, but had to wait three months because music not by title, but by color. · he was still in high school. Whigham joined ~'There's a challenge in all of it, and there's the day after he graduated. He said he went COURTESY OF EIDGENOSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHUL ZURICH a learning process in all of it, too," Whigh on to play with Stan Kenton and then became WELL-TRAVELED TROMBONIST Oliver Haydon Whigham Ill plays for students at a am said. "Even though I'm not a baby any part of the New York scene. techn'ical school in Switzerland. Whigham is coming to Ithaca College next week. · more, I love to continue to learn and grow At age 22, he was given the chance to go Whigham said he's excited to come to students could learn from them. as a musician and as a human being." to Germany with a man named Kurt Edelha Ithaca. "We' re not in a large metropolitan area Whigham will showcase his talents on gen, who led a . radio jazz orchestra in "The school has a fantastic reputation, and where our kids can go and hear a symphony Tuesday at 8: 15 g.m. in Ford Hall. He will Cologne. it's a lovely place," he said. "I'm ·looking for orchestra, or hear a jazz ·artist play," he said. perform his own arrangements, along "Each and every one of these experi ward to spending some time with the stu Scott Cho, a junior trombonist and with. other pieces, with the Ithaca College ences have been instrumental in making dents, working with them and playing with music education major, said he is excited to Jazz Workshop. He will also hold a mas whatever it is that I am," he said. them." · see Whigham. ter cJa~s on Monday at 4 p.m. It will fea This internationally acclaimed per-·· Harold Reynolds, professor of music 'I'm looking forward to Jiggs bringing his ture a variety of trombone performances. former and teacher has played with such big performance and trombone player, said it years of experience in the jazz scene and his "We're born, we live, we die, and that's names as Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, is important to expose students to profes incredible talent to this campus," Cho said. just part of .the whole system, but in Judy Garland, Benny Goodman and sional musicians. He made a commitment "He is a true master of the trombone." between, hopefully is a lot of music," countless others. to bringing in musicfans years ago so that Whigham doesn't devote all of his time Whigham said. / - THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004 ACCENT THE ITHACAN ·1 7 How do you like them Apples? Todd Johnson knows, loves and markets Macintosh computers BY EMILY KEIZER campus representative. Irene Scott, Infor- Staff Writer . mation Technology Services user support specialist, has nothing but praise for While some Ithaca students earn their pay Johnson, to whom she often passes along checks wiping tables at the Terrace Dining students' and professors' computer ques Hall or running the register at Target, junior tions-; Because ITS only operates from Todd Johnson spends his work hours 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Scott is glad to be able to surrounded by the technology that he already call on Johnson during busy times. loves - Powerbook laptops and iPods. "Because he is a student, he can relate Johnson became the campus represen to what a lot of students do and want to do tative for Apple Comput~r Inc. at the be with computers," she said. "Students may ginning of this school year, and he is re feel more comfortable talking to him, sponsible for promoting the company's instead of talking to a staff member who has technology to individual members of the a class and only 10 minutes to spend with college community. He's the driving force them. He might have time to go to the behind the colorful Apple demonstration student's dorm room and look at what tables that pop up in Campus Center, and they're using." he spends much of his time on the job ad Like any job, however, serving as a vising students about various Mac products campus representative also has its down and how to use them. sides. Johnson may love Apple - his AOL "I'm not really here to push anything," Instant Messenger icon was once a small Johnson said, dismissing the idea that he apple - but .he also balances his work serves simply as an advertisement for Apple. with a leadership position in Ithaca's "I'm just here to answer questions. It's not Habitat for Humanity organization and time as if I'm trying to sell a car or anything." in the digital photography labs in the In reality, Johnson, a cine.ma and Roy H. Park School of Communications. photography major, is paid for about 15 hours His counterpart at Cornell University, of work per week for the company. Along campus representative Ben Stiglitz, said the with four other campus representatives in this job's flexibility can also be a problem. area of New York, he reports to Apple ac "It's not like a place you go, you count executive Joe Hazard, who referred to know? If you have a job on campus, you're representatives like Johnson as "our eyes and there from 2 to 4. This is all the time," ears on campuses." Stiglitz said. "Generally, Apple is pretty Though special events like "Apple Fast good about saying, 'Do your school work Facts" days, which showcase new products first,' but sometimes I'll end up answering and find Johnson with stacks of free e-mails at 1 a.m. because I didn't have time posters and frisbees to distribute to fellow during the day." students, are certainly part of the job Still, the adage of "find a job you love," description; the unique aspect of the posi seems to apply to both Stiglitz and tion is the way he gets to relate to his friends Johnson. Hetween setting up discount and classmates. product Web sites for the college and MICHAEL BELCHER/THE ITHACAN "The job entails sticking your neck out and APPLE CAMPUS REPRESENTATIVE Todd Johnson provides students with informa keeping biology professors up-to-date on talking to people," Johnson said. "I know tion about Macintosh computers as well as •~• T~shlrts and frlabees. . Apple's contribution to d(?coding the what kind of system would be good for genome, Johnson receives a paycheck for students in Park who want to do cinema and year roommate, toward the company's ing a playlist, all while his computer working with the computer company he editing, and what music students would want, line of laptops. . never lost a beat." admires. Some of his friends are envious what a writing student would want." "Myself and others on the floor would Goods~. · who remembers Johnson's of the position, though they wouldn't Johnson's enthusiasm for Macs goes be rag on Todd about being the nonconformist helpfulness three years ago in learning the ins want it themselves. yond his official employment at Apple. A with the Apple computer," said Goodspeed, and outs of his new laptop, still owns the G4 "As for myself being a rep, I would say Macintosh user since elementary school, a recent Apple convert. "But as I would be Powerbook that his roommate.recommended. that I'd have to leave it up to the pros," Johnson wasn't on the payroll when he sitting frustrated in front of my PC, Todd Other members of the college commu Goodspeed said. "Or in this case - Todd pointed Brendan Goodspeed, his freshman- would be on his Mac, editing a movie, mak- nity are also grateful for the presence of a Johnson." Creative students cook up new reality TV show BY CHRISTA LOMBARDI a camera crew surprise the "victim" Young and the crew went shop Chief Copy Editor in his or her apartment and help pre ping at Tops for groceries and a pare a quick, healthy meal. Ithaca casserole dish. They prepared Pizza, ramen noodles, and College Dining Services provides chicken and carrots with a macaroni and cheese usually rank aprons for the participants. caramelized glaze for dinner and high on the list of dinner options for Wysocki said "One Meal apples filled with brown sugar and college students. So when it Makeover" will be different from walnuts for dessert. comes time to move into apartments typical cooking programs. Young said though the entire of their own and meal plans are no "The reality aspect of the show process was time-consuming because longer an option to fall back on, was a way for us to give a little he had to clean and shop, he meal preparation can be a daunting more flavor, instead of being just a definitely learned from the experi task for young adults. strictly cooking show like Martha ence and thinks it was a good idea. In an effort to help students Stewart or any of those other ones "It taught me how to make a nice prepare simple, healthier meals, that are sit-down at a desk," he said. meal," he said. "It's tasty, and it's senior Abigail Kirk, a video Kirk and Wysocki said they really easy to make up." He said production major, developed the plan to tape three episodes for this he's already used the leftover idea for a television show. semester, which will air shortly chicken to make quesadillas and a "I came up with the idea after after spring break. pasta dish. noticing that a lot of my good guy "We're not trying to make Junior Karen Herbert said she friends, who were highly intelli everybody into cooks," Kirk said. thinks the show is a good idea. gent, ended up eating very poor "We're just trying to show them "You definitely have to plan ly at school," she said. "When they that, 'Look, you are intelligent. You ahead and make sure you have moved off campus, they just only can make one thing, and maybe if every single little ingredient," she knew how to make very simple you like making this one thing, you said. "You just normally think of the things, like ramen noodles, and can go on to make other things."' big picture, and you really need all LARRY WESTLER/THE ITHACAN SOPHOMORE MATT YOUNG is no chef, so ICTV helped him out. they ordered out a lot." Sophomore Mat~ Young said he the little stuff to go in there and all Kirk shared her idea with senior didn't think he was a bad cook, the pots and pans." schedule, she rarely finds time to learning how to cook, will benefit Alexander Wysocki, a cinema and and he was surprised when the Herbert, a physical therapy read through a cookbook or make from watching the show. photography major, and together they "One Meal Makeover" crew major, had her first taste of apart elaborate meals. "Maybe next time instead of a created "One Meal Makeover" and showed up at his Garden Apart ment-style cooking while studying "I'll definitely go for the frozen pizza, someone will make approached ICTV. ment one Saturday afternoon. in Rochester for the summer. microwaveable stuff," she said. "I'll themselves· a burger or some At the ICTV recruitment night, "They got a lot of shots of how "I tried," she said, laughing. buy a bag of chicken nuggets or chicken," he said. He added that students were asked to nominate dirty our kitchen was," he said. "A "Some [meals] were better than something like that. I definitely while most of the episodes are their cooking-challenged friends to couple [bags] of moldy bread others." won't make big meals." already planned, they're still be on the show. were on top of our refrigerator that While Herbert followed some of Wysocki said he thinks all searching for future victims, so Armed with a toolbox filled we forgot to throw away." her mom's recipes at first, she said students, whether they are trying to students should be aware. with spices and cooking utensils, the After washing dishes and now that she's living in a Circle obtain new recipe ideas or just "Watch out, you may be next," producers, two hosts, the friend and straightening up the kitchen, . Apartment with a full academic enjoy laughing at someone who's he said. 18 THE 'ITHACAN ACCENT THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004 round the Art alters perspectives BY MATT HUNTLEY Westerners are all crazy? Staff Writer Visitors will have to contin- arid uously turn around to take in NORIA Standing in the middle of everything . in sight. Maybe LITAKER Dutch artist Aemout Mik's . Mik is suggesting that there is Vienna, Austria "Reversal Room," viewers not enough time to observe ' may feel a sense of discon- everything going on in viewers' nectedness. own environments. Mile's 2001 Ultimately, a certain type of Bombed German city video in- effective frustration builds up, stallation allowing Mik's unidentified remains in the past made its intention to come across in a On a dreary afternoon about two U.S. premiere this winter at meaningful way. The video weeks ago, I was dutiful1y taking notes on Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson becomes ambiguous and the sights awaiting me on my program's Museum of Art. In the one- indefinite. weeklong field trip to Germany. hour-and-eight-minute dis- This is all the better because After hearing about our lunch stopover play, five life-size screens Mik allows viewers to decide in Prague, I flipped to the show five separate video per~ what they should gather from infomiation on Dresden. While I remem- ·spectives. Mik captured his the footage. bered the city vaguely from my European footage using five simultane- In the museum, the lights history class, my head snapped up when I ously rotating cameras. change with the scene. A blue heard my professor say, "Ninety percent of The footage alternates light bulb goes on during the the city was destroyed three weeks before between two different scenes. restaurant scene and a yellow the end of World War II in retaliatlon for One takes place in an Asian bulb during the kitchen scene - the Nazi bombing of Coventry, England." restaurant and the other in a as the environment changes on "Excuse me?" I thought. Did I miss -kitchen. Mik doesn't clarify the video screens so does the something in my Advanced Placement whether the restaurant is asso- viewers' environment. American History class? ciated with the kitchen, but he · The light bulbs act as cues Somehow I never learned that 3,907 clearly tries to reveal a theme of for viewers to think in a differ- tons of bombs were dropped on Dresden obliviousness. The people on ent way. the night of Feb. 13, 1945, and that out the screens aretoo preoccupied Mik used untrained actors of 28,410 houses · in the inner city, witli themselves to· notice and deep focus to capture this 24,866 were destroyed. Estimates of the what's going on aro~nd t~em. neorealistic vision. He sug- dead range from 35,000 to 135,000. Ap- In the presentation, several gests that he \Yants his art to im- parently, these small details weren't im- characters interact with one COURTESY OF THE HERNERT F. JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART itate real life. - portant.enoughto.include in my textbook. another , in od THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004 ACCENT THE ITHACAN 19 Perfortnance is praiseworthy Student-directed Gospe{ adaptation of 'Oedipus' moves audiences BY RACHEL GOLD Contributing Writer Seated in the glow of the Horner Theatre's warm stage lights and surroun.ded by tall black stage curtains, the unassuming audience watch ing the Sunday matinee I~--~~ - - of "The Gospel at Live Theater Colonus" became part ·· The Gospel at of the performance. Colonus" Twenty-four energetic . -- performers, dressed as church patrons and blue robed choir members, congregated and took their seats among the spectators. · "Welcome brothers and sisters!" bellowed the Preacher Oedipus (V. Damien Carter), beginning the afternoon's compelling sermon. The rest of the play unfolds through soaring gospel music and lively dance, transporting the audience into its moving tale of faith and redemption. Although an unusual choice for a senior directing project, student Shelley Smith's production culminated with three sold-out performances. This most recent Ithaca College theater department production is playwright Lee Breuer's reconfiguration of Sophocles' Greek tragedy, "Oedipus at Colonus," set in a Black Pen tecostal Church. The story is an adaptation of the MEGHAN MAZELLA/THE ITHACAN second play of the Oedipus cycle, a trilogy of FRESHMAN MATTHEW RIVERA, left, and sophomore Kevin Greene fight as thedoomed broth plays about the doomed hero who murdered his ers/sons-of Oedipus, Polyneices and Eteocles, In the senior directing project Gospel at Colonus. father and married his mother. p.m.** Oddly situated sideways on the stage, the set revue than a gospel-set tragedy. Although the sive aspect of the perfonnance, however, is entire 15and is an idyllic, and quite convincing, mini-chapel. subject matter is not particularly jo~l. the cast's ultimate conviction for the story. Designer Johanna Morriss incorporates rows of narrative so.ngs composed by Bob Telson are Gaelyn Walker's talented choreography easily folding chairs for the audience alongside a small surprisingly uplifting and undeniably be_autiful. blends story with dance, while_Amanda Morton's platform stage crowded with choir benches, a re Brcuer's script is strong and sounds true enough musical direction perfectly guides the play's com gal armchair and a single podium. The rectangular to Sophocles' much-adapted prose. But th~ pelling momentum. Smith's direction of the char arena in the center of everything becomes the brilliance of this·production lies in the talented acter's constant traffic keeps the audience's atten main playing space, a perfect blank slate for the cast and crew. . . tion focused .on the main action. The lighting by characters' journeys, combat and dancing. From Singer Oedipus' quartet · of men in technical director/designer Michael .Speach is out . " 'Iberperfmnance opens with a discourse on ''The sunglasses to Choragos-~quartet .of dancing ;mes- , · standing; highlighting the· scenes. with ·an ·intoxi- · Book of Oedipus, the darkest of. tales," but soon sengers to the· ·ninermember gospel -choir, the eating.rainbow ofcolors. transforms the · actor..congregants into entire cast was composed of amazing vocal Sophocl~ . ancieni story· is delightfully characters in the play-within-a-play. The story talents. Soloist John Hager sings in a breathtaking . brought to life through the moving tale of "The ~gins with ~ a,ged and blind Singer O!dipus (F.d- · a cappellaf~ at the opening of the show. Boren . Gospel · at . Colonus.". The play . emphasizes , die Cooper), who travels to the Athenian city of: and Saltzman's compassionate dangbtezs display shows .tbat a honible life may ·end in peace.·At -· m;, Colonus to die and thus fulfill the gods' prophecy. powerhouse voices-with enviable ranges. Each solo · the end of the show, after Oedipus' blessed death, .m., _The play is a sort of whirlwind of action and singer's vocals are impressive, lending an overall the audience stood up and clapped along to ·the p.m. singin~, at times resembling more of a musical professional quality. to the show. The most deci-· performers' song of newfound joy. Barber flick is a cut above most. sequels BY MATT HUNTLEY The threat from Nappy Cutz Staff Writer merely serves as a clothesline excuse to hang up entertaining and Most sequels these days only funny situations. The heart of the seem to want "Barbershop" films lies within the to cash in on Movie Review human interaction among Calvin's the original 's employees and regular customers. success, and *** Don D. Scott's screenplay adds to "Barbershop Barbershop 2 the spirit of the first film. The crew 2: Back in discusses such recent pop culture Business" is no exception. Its events and issues as the Washington, predecessor came out only a year D.C., sniper shooting and R. Kelly's and a half ago and grossed a hefty run-ins with the law. The characters $75 million. So it is no wonder also discuss what they should expect MGM wanted to bank as much from the opposite sex. money as possible before viewers The film provides more forgot about the franchise's likable back-story than the original. At the characters. But the film is a rare beginning, for example, we learn in comic gem; a sequel better than the a flashback how Eddie came to original. Calvin's barbershop. Like the original, "Barbershop Overall, the film is sweet-natured 2" COURTESY OF MGM PICTURES focuses on the way people talk and LIKABLE CHARACTERS Ricky and Terry (Michael Ealy and Eve) and comical. The film may remind behave in a given situation. The return to create an even more enjoyable sequel to "Barbershop." viewers of other successful sequels, employees of Calvin's Barbershop, like "American Pie 2," in which the located on the South Side of works in a lawyer's office. Terri (Eve) comes from Nappy Cutz, the new original characters reconvene and Chicago, discuss current events is stiil a man-hater. Isaac (Troy Gar hair salon opening up across the simply talk. People should see the film and observe human behavior. The ity) proves he's as good as any black street that threatens to put Calvin's even if only for the enjoyment of movie doesn't tie the characters up barber at cutting hair. Ricky Barbershop out of business. . listening to intelligent, quirky people in causal plot. (Michael Ealy) vies for his high "You'll be out of business in six have a discussion. The film takes pride in being about school diploma. And Dinka months - seven, tops," says Nap "Barbershop 2" opened atop the blacks. An energetic opening montage (Leonard Earl ijowze) ~s still py Cutz owner Quentin Leroux box office with $25 million in its first sequence, for example, shows images searching for the love of his life. (Harry J. Lennix). weekend, so there will no doubt be a of Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan Queen Latifah also makes a To see what they are up against, "Barbershop 3." Let's hope they and the many faces of Michael Jack special appearance as Gina, Calvin and pals break into Nappy also get it right a third time. As a son. Though the film celebrates Calvin's former love interest, who Cutz. This makes Calvin and his crew sequel that extends characteriza black culture, the comedy tran -nms her own beauty shop. Gina nervous. They decide to modernize tions and contains amusing situations, scends ilie race of the audience. shares a hilarious scene with Eddie their own shop to appeal to more cus_ "Barbershop 2" makes the cut. Almost all the original cast mem as the two swap insults and threats tomers by buy,ing fancy-looking art bers return, including Calvin (Ice after Eddie yells at Gina's niece. and a big-screen television. "Barbershop 2: Back In Busi Cube), who now has a son, and Ed "What do you do with that fro, It isn 't.hanl to gqess whether or not ness" was directed by Kevin die (the ever-eccentric Cedric the En mop up the shop?" Gina asks. Calvin's shop survives the new Rodney Sullivan, written by Don D. tertainer), who desperately wants to . Viewers can tell that the actors fit competition, but viewers go along for Scott and produced by Alex rekindle an old subway romance. right into and have fun with their roles. the ride anyway because they like and Gartner, Robert Teitel and Jimmy (Sean Patrick Thomas) now The conflict this time around care about the characters. George Tillman, Jr. Event of the week THURSDAY Chili Cook-Off and Winter FEBRUARY 19, 2004' Festival on The Commons PAGE 20 Saturday from 11 a.m to 5 p.m. alendar· Today FAKING IT Tuesday Coffee Hour - 10 a.m. in McDonald Lounge, C~mpus Center. IC Catholic Community - "Urge to Murge" at 7 p.m. in Textor 101. Chaplain's Blble Study - Noon in Phillips Room, Muller Chapel. Blble Study - 7:30 p.m. in Muller Chapel. African Latino Society Jeopardy Game Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte" - 8 p.m. in - 6 p.m. in Clark Lounge, Campus Center. Dillingham Center. Department of Writing Faculty Guest Recital - Jiggs Whigham, jazz Poetry/Fiction/Non-Fiction Reading - 7 trombone, at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall, p.m. in Klingenstein Lounge, Campus Whalen Center. Center. Black History Lecture/Panel Discussion -Featuring Yvonne Bynoe at 7 p.m. in Wednesday Clark Lounge, Campus Center. Fireside Chat/Mass - 8 p.m. in Fireside Eucharist for Peace and Healing - 12:1 O Lounge, Muller Chapel. p.m. in Muller Chapel. Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte" - 8 p.m. in Park Distinguished Visitor Public Dillingham Center. . Lecture - Dr. Michael Eric Dyson pre se11ts "The Race against Terror, the Percussion Ensembles Performance - Terror of Race: Historical Amnesia, 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall, Whalen Center. Racial Resistance, and Critical Media Literacy" at 7:30 p.m. in Ford Hall, Guest Lecture - Robert Beaser, compos Whalen Center. · er, at 8:15 p.m. ln the lger Lecture Hall, Whalen Center. Mozart's "Coal Fan Tutte" - 8 p.m. in Dillingham C~nter. Community Sybille Pearson's "Baby"· - 8 p.m. at the Elective f:leciltal ..:... •-Paul Barton~ trombone, Flexible Theatre, Cornell Schwartz Center at 8:15 p.m.1n:Nabenhauer Recital Room, for the Performing Arts. Whalen Center. · · · ~ ·· · it•L Friday Not all Ithaca College events are 1isted · Last- pa to ije,voke PASS/FAIL and . jn_the calendar. oursea· - -... ·,. .... ,.-,. .. ~~-~--- :_.,. .-~-k·. ~ , ' · .. - Shabbat Services - 6 p'.1m. in Muller ChapeL . ERIC STEWART/THE ITHACAN Send information to The JUNIOR VICKY ESTERLIS simulates,sexual pleasure during her performance Ithacan, _ _ _ _ .. Afri~a.n-Latlo6 Society Performance - of an act of "The Vagina Monologues" last weekend in Emerson Suites. ., ' 26tJ Roy H. PtlrkHafl, ltlJtics•i' ..., :-; "Taste· of Soul" at j p.m. in Emerson Suites, · College, byMonclayat~p.m.11 r ,. Phillips f-:talL Dillingham Center. For more information, .call SAB FIims - "Scary Mov.ie 3" at 7 p.m., Mozart's "Cosl Fan Tutte" - 2 and 8 p.m. Calendar Manager Aha Liss at 9:30 p.m. and midnight in Textor 102. in Dillingham Cen~er. Altramar Medieval Music ·ensemble - 3 274-3208 or fax ai 274-1565.' p.m. ·in Hockett Family Recital H~II, Whalen Senior Recital - Tucker-Post, guitar, at 7 Junior Recital - Bryan Lewis, tuba, at 3 :Center. p.m. in Hockett Family Recital Hall, Whalen p.m. in Hockett Family Recital Hall.Whalen Center. Center. Junior Recital - Jesse Hazzard~Watkins,-. · ~~~~=~~~~~~~~~!!!!\'I trumpet, at 7 p.m. in Hockett Family Recital: . ;; · Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte" - 8 p.m. in Senior Recital - Becky Hammontree, Hall, Whalen Center. . . · , · · · . ·; .: ·, · Dillingham Center. bassoon, at 4 p.m. in Ford Hall, Whalen Center. Senior Recital - Erik Butzek; voice, at · -:::.. Elective Joint Recital - Lani Toyama, .8:15 p,m. in Ford Hall, Whalen Center. · soprano, and Da11 Lawler, tenor, ~t 8:15 . . Community fi& p.m. in·Nabenhauer Recital FJoom, Whalen . Ithaca's Annual ·chJH Cook-Off & Winter · Community Weekly Evening Center. · . Festival - n a.m. to 5 p.m. on The Sybille Pearson's "Baby" - 2 and 8 p.m. · Schedule - Commons. at the Flexible Theatre, Cornell Schwartz Community Sybille Pearson's "Baby" - 8 p.m. at the Center for the Performing Arts. Sybille Pearson's .. Baby" - 8 p.m. at the Flexible Theatre, Cornell Schwartz Center All Angles Newswatch16 for the Pe~orming Arts. Tuesdays at 8:30 Sundays, Flexible Theatre, Cornell Schwartz Center Wednesdays at Tuesdays and for the Performing Arts. Monday 6:30 Thursdays at 8 Another Late and 10 Sunday Night Panorama Saturday Composition Premieres Concert - 8:15 Mondaysat8 Sundays at 6:30 Ecumenical Worsliip Service - .11 a.m. p."m. in Hockett Family Recital Hall, Whalen Tuesdays at 9 Tuesdays at 7 in Muller Chapel. Center. ·. Backstage Wednesdays at Elective Joint Recital - Stephanie Community Wednesdays at 8:30 Lauricella and Alexandra Loutsion, voice, at Mass -1 and 9 p.m. in Muller Chapel. Sybille Pearson's "Baby" - 8 p.m. at the 10 Quabble Thursdays at Mondays at 8:30 2 p.m. in Nabenhauer Recital Room, Flexible Theatre, Cornell Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. 6:30 Wednesdays at 7 Whalen Center. Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte" - 2 p.m. in Beyond the Thursdays at 9 Chords Screening · . Sundays at 7 Room DREAMWORK AND MASKING Mondays at 7:30 Sundays at 8:30 Frequency · Wednesdays at 8 . 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Leisure club looks for competiti9n agai"nst crosstown rivals from the-East Hill MCCANN basis and challenge all comers, but they rarely cross between pingpong and aff Writer encountered an opponent who revered the musical chairs in which players en game in the same way they did. circle the table and rotate around -Jared Childs and Andrew Marks are at the The two soon became frustrated with the lack it, taking turns hitting the ball back Recreation Center on a Thursday ~iglit, beads of of competitive opposit!on, s_aid C~ilds, w_llo too_k _ "and forth until someone misses sweat forming on their brows as they dance along up pingpong at the age of 11 and often spent hi~ and is eliminated. the ends of the table and take turns slapping the days practicing by himself Forrest Gump style. "Even though the club might be baJJ at each other. · In a school of about 6,000 students, there had divided between serious, competitive For most people, pingpong is a game. But for to be other serious players out there, he players and ones who just treat it as a . this pair, it's a sport. · thought. game, we're all just one big club in all," That's precisely why the two sophomores de So Childs, a Pembroke, N. Y., native, decided s a i d cided to start a pingpong club last spring. to make good on a pact he had with a high school Marks, And it's also why they're cuITently looking to friend to start pingpong clubs in college. He got who also . take the next step - to field a team for intercol together with Marks and a handful of buddies plays on legiate competition. from Boothroyd and founded the Ping Pong Ithaca's . "You can either take it as a sport or take it as Leisure Club. tennis team. a joke - just a fun little game that really doesn't The club, which raised money to buy the new His tennis ex matter," Childs said. "The reason I wanted to form table in the Rec <;:enter, currently attracts 15 to 20 perience is readily appar a club was just because I wanted to have people regular members and is hungry for more. enl when he plays ping who appreciated it as a sport." Childs and Marks said the club has five or six pong. He bounces around Clearly, the game Childs and Marks are engaged extremely competitive members, but you don't from side to side before receiving in is no joke. have to· be as "hard core" as Marks and Childs to serves and grunts softly each time the When Marks' shot flies a few inches past the join in the fun, rookie member Stephanie ball hits his paddle. In addition, he some end of the table, he lets a few expletives fly in Cianchetti said. times suits up in athletic shorts and wears return. When Childs misses an easy chance, he is She first picked up a paddle this summer, but headbands and wristbands while · he is furious with himself and mutters "Jared!" under got hooked after attending a few meetings. competing. his breath. Both players occasionally crash into the Cianchetti said she has improved tremendously Marks works just as diligently at his table ten wall in pursuit of the ball. since joining the club and enjoys blowing off steam nis game as he does at the real thing. By the time the heated contest comes to a close, by showing up for a guaranteed good time every The Princeton, N.J., native keeps his paddle in Childs and Marks have each worked up a he_althy Thursday night. And the chance to beat the boys the front pocket of his backpack, so he can dash sweat, and both are breathing heavily.as they walk sometimes isn't bad, either, she said. to the Rec. Center and get in a few quick games around the table to shake hands. "The game's very relaxed. There's just a dif in between classes. "If you're really trying, you'll definitely break ferent kinci of fun in the competition," - Marks and his mates are so serious about ping a sweat," Childs said. "The only time I'm real- said Cianchetti, one of the club's pong, they even use a mathematical formula to rank ly trying is when I sweat." . three female members. members by relative strength. Both Childs, the club's president, and Players from across the Not surprisingly, Marks is No. 1 on this list, and Marks, its vice president, have always treated club's competitive spectrum Childs occupies the second spot. pingpong this way - as came together midway through Together, the two envision big things for the fu more of a passion Thursday's session for a spirited ture of their_pingpong project. than a pastime. Be game of "Round Robin," a hectic The club is looking to join cause of ping- National Collegiate pong, they Table Tennis Association became fast sometime in the near friends while future. That organiza living across tion has more than from each , 100 member schools ,hi 24 THE ITHACAN SPORTS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004 Press. Bombers bite Panthers- Box CHARLIE Junwr Nate Thom(J,S posts career high in 87-56 win ELLSWORTH BY JIM HAWVER Staff Writer Ithaca setting sights Playing their third game in four days - on postseason play including a heartbreaking 81-78 double-over time loss to St. John Fisher Saturday. - the With less than a week remain~ng in Bombers' legs could have been a little weak. the season, the men's and women's bas . But any doubts about their endurance were ketball teams aren't just moving i'n dif erased in the first half of their 87-56 win over ferent directions, they're on different Pitt-Bradford Monday at home. rides entirely. · With Ithaca leading 13-12, junior guard 1 The women's team is chillin' in the left Ian Houck's three-point shot with 10: 11 left lane, ready to speed past Hartwick, Uti in the first half ignited a 23-4 Ithaca rally. ca and Elmira on its way to hosting the With that momentum, along with seven Empire 8 conference· tournament. for 12 shooting from beyond the three-point Meanwhile, the men's team has driven arc in the first period, the Blue and Gold took like a bunch of pimple-faced 16-year a commanding 45-24 'lead at halftime. olds, going gas, brake, gas, brake into a "I thought we were going to be a little two-game road swing that will tell the emotionally tired from the Fisher loss," said Bombers how ready they are for the con junior guard Nate Thomas. "That took a big ference tournament. shot to us, but it was good to get that out of But, man, those women can play. our system with this win." The Blue and Gold have never Thomas scored a career-hlgh 16 points - looked better on paper: 13 straight wins, 13 of which came in the second half. He was a perfect conference record (11-0) and four for five from three-point range and a per- · their highest d3hoops.com ranking feet four for four at the free-throw line. ever (17th). · Senior Tyler Schulz led all scorers with 19 · Saturday, the Bombers made a points, including 12 in the first 20 minutes. statement about how distant second Houck scored 13 po·ints, junior guard Je~se place is in the conference: Their 58-48 Roth had 11, and sophomore guard Jim Bel win over· then-19th-ranked St. John. lis added 10. Sophomore Jonathan Whetstone Fisher came against a team that was av led the Bombers with seven assists. eraging more than 76 points going into Ithaca's 87 points were a season-high. the game. Junior Stephanie Cleary The Bombers were also an impressive commands the defense with a nation 19 for 21 from the free-throw line, including • leading 5 .48 steals per game. 15 for 17 in the second half. After strug So, what"s left to shoot for? Auto gling at the line all season, Ithaca's per- . matic qualification into the NCAA formance was a pleasant surprise for tournament after winning the conference coach Jim Mullins. tournament championship, coach Dan "That's not a typical night at the line for Raymond says: It would be a shame if us," he said. the Bombers, who were stuck clicking Where Ithaca converted a firey 12 for 20 · the refresh button on the NCAA Web of its three-point shots, Pitt-Bradford was site to learn their fate last y~ar, are only three for 14. forced to stress out again to see if they But because this victory was over a non get a ticket to the national tournament conference opponent, the Blue and Gold in 2004. didn't gain any ground in the race for a spot . They'll avoid that problem if they in postseason play. stay focused and stick with the appro The Bombers are currently tied with priate cliche: The playoffs· are a new l!tica for third place in the Empire 8 with seas·on. Everyone's there, regardless of a 7-4 record in the conference. Ithaca trails credentials. St. John Fisher (10-2 E8) and RIT (9~2 E8). -Will the men's team even make the Nazareth, which has a 6-5 conference · four-team conference tournament? Yes, record, is only one game behincl Ithaca. REBECCA GARDN~R/THE ITHACAN · fikely as the No. 3 seed, playing St. John The top four teams in the conference CHARGING THE BASKET, junior Nate Thomas goes for.a layup between Pitt-Bradford's advance to the first annual Empire 8 Tourna Fisher or RIT in the first round. With three Aaron Kiffer ( 40) and Jeff Mc~hon (33)~ Thomas scored a career-high 16 points. .conference games left,• the Bombers ment on Feb. 27 to 28, which will be hosted can't get a No. 2 seed, but could fall to by the top-seeded team. ca, who they .also beat at home, 56:41, Jan. 23: capable and have showed that we can play fourth if they lose to Utica Saturday and Ithaca finishes the regular season with The Bombers finish the -regular season it, but we have been a little inconsistent. the Pioneers take their last three ,games. three conference games. in the Ben Light Gymnasium Feb. 24 We've got to buckle down and be a nasty If the Bombers get a three-game The Bom~rs begin with a visit to against Elmira ( 4-7 E8), who they beat in man-to-man team." sweep, what they can do is find that mys- . Hartwick, a team that is winless in 11 con overtime, 78-74, Jan. 13. Mullins agreed. . tical m-word that has evaded both them · ference game.s, Friday at 8 p.m. The Blue To earn a spot in postseason play, the "I think the thing that has bailed us out and Joe Lieberman: momentum. No mo' and Gold recorded t~eir largest margin of Bombers need to improve defensively, junior up to this point has been our zone," he said. has been the Bombers' M.O. all year. The victory· this season with an 85-49 victory guard Jesse Roth said. "I think we' re getting away from some of the Blue and Gold get red-hot for a few min over the Hawks at home Jan. 24. "We've got to take more pride in our man- fundamental things that we have to do. That's utes, but then let Alfred or Utica or who Saturday, the Blue and Gold head to Uti- to-man defense," he said. "We're definitely going to be a po10tof emphasis in practice." ever get right back into the game. The 87-56 win against Pitt-Bradford Monday could signal a late change. The blowout .was a great way for the Men's basketball starters to catch a breath before the Ithaca vs. Pitt Bradford final stretch. Monday Unfortunately, it didn't provide an I. I answer to Ithaca's other problem: how Bombers (87) . to win a close game. Tyler Schulz 8-13 3-419, Michael Ithaca's four conference losses - Ku~ra 1-4 0-0 2, Jonathan Whetstone two to RIT and two to St. John Fisher 1-6 0-0 2, Jesse Roth 4-7 0-0 11, Jim - came by less than four points each Bellis 2-9 4-4 10, Nate Thomas 4-7 4-4 time and three of the games took an 16, Sean Stahn 0-1 1-2 1, Ian Houck extra period to decide. On more than 4-5 2-2 13, Sean Backus 0-1 2"'.2 2, . one occasion, Ithaca's last play has been Matt Usher 2-7 1-1 5, Tariq Ahmad 2-3 to have the point guard dtjve to the hoop 2-2 6. Totals 28-6319-21 87. 7 and then shoot or dish to a ba~eline big Panthers (56) man; hoping to draw a foul either way. Ryan Race 0-2 1-2 1, Chris Wuest 1-5 Judging by the consist~ht outcomes, 0-0 3, Andy Schrum 2-2 0-0 4, Aaron maybe St. John Fisher and RIT have Kiffer 0-0- 2-2 2, Tim Gustin 1-2 0-0 2, caught on. Jeff McMahon 0-5 2-2 2, Erik Siuta 1-4 Like the women's team, the men's 1-2 3, Dan Thomas 3-6 2-2 8, Jess -:. squad needs to remember that the . Whelan 5-9 2-2 14, Noah McHale 1-2 playoffs are a brand-new season. They 0-0 2, Sean DePue 2-5 0-0 4, Brian just need to find a brand-new ride. Hobbs 1-3 5-6 7, Robert Salze,r 1-4 0-0 2, Bill Torrey 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 19-51 Press Box appears in this space every REBECCA GARDNER/THE ITHACAN 15-18 56. week. E-mail Charlie Ellsworth at SOPHOMORE JONATHAN WHETSTONE looks for a way around Pitt-Bradford's Jess [email protected]. Whelan Monday at Ben Light Gymnasium. Whetstone led the team with seven·assists, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004 SP.ORTS THE ITHACAN 25 High·expectations rely on depth BY PAUL GANGAR.OSSA While trying to boost his singles record, Staff Writer 23-5 in 2003, Ciolino has also replaced Med vin as Watkins' doubles partner. It's a com So where does a team go when it's on the bination that, on paper, should be one of the top of the hill? best in the co.nference. Nowhere.- The first test of the spring season to show- _ That's the mentality the men's tennis team case the new-look Bombers comes this week has built for itself going into the season. The end at the St. Lawrence Ice Breaker. Bombers are the returning Empire 8 Con "We've had some experience together," ference Champions, and there's nothing else Ciolino said. "Hopefully this tournament and to do but to keep holding the rest of the con over spring break we'll have a chance to gel." ference down. Both Ciolino and Watkins. will likely see To do that, the Bombers will rely on the time at the No. 1 spot, Austin said, depending same strategy that earned them the title a year on the "ebb and flow" that the season follows. ago: strong senior leadership and depth._ With these two taking care of the need for The conclusion of last season also experienced leadership, freshmen Joe Young meant the end of two stellar careers, and and Colin Flynn bring young blood to the thus two crucial factors in the Blue and courts and strength to the rest of the roster. Gold's ~quation for success. Scott Rubens The biggest problem for the Bombers, and _Mike Medvin combined for 69 total with the St. Lawrence match right around the wins, propelling them through the season comer, has beer:i practicing. The cold as the leaders of the team. Rubens earned weather and snow of upstate New York have the Empire 8's Conference Player of the kept the team from playing outdoors, forc Year Honor, and both were named First ing the Bombers to do much of it's work at Team All-Conference. , · the Cornell indoor courts. When asked how the team planned to re "It is an inconvenience and it's a shame we bound from taking such a hit personnel-wise, don't have indoor courts to use," Ciolino said, coach Bill Austin responded, "We don't look · "but we've just got to make the best of it.'7 at it as rebounding." Coach Austin hardly sees those conditions But, Austin added, the loss of Rubens as an excuse for poor play. won't help. "It's February in the Northeast. No "Rubens played the No. 1 spot for three body's playing outside," Austin said. He years," he said, "so we went into this fall with prefers to worry only about what he can con somebody who's never been the No. 1, and trol when it comes to preparing his team. tha(s a tough spot." REBECCA GARDNEMHE ITHACAN When asked if he expected any of his play Medvin had been a staple the past three SENIOR CAREY SHERMAN takes a practice swing at Cornell Wednesday. Sherman ers to have a breakout year, Austin said mat years in the two and three spots and won was 10-2 last .-son In &Ingles. The men kick off the season Saturday at St. Lawrence. ter-of-factly, "Yeah, all of them. more than a slight majority of his matches, "When you 're looking at what the team finishing his career with ·a record of 106-62 those victories came in doubles with Med "Throughout the summer, I trained accomplished last year, a 'breakout year,' to - one of only four Ithaca tennis players to vin as his partner. pretty hard to get back into shape, to get me, seems like somebody underachieved last collect 100-wins. Another vital component to this year's sue- on top of my game," Ciolino said. spring. So, no, I don't see anyone under This season, the team turns to senior cess will be the expected strong play of sopho Recognizing the losses of Medvin and achieving." Blair Watki1~~~v.nd-team all-conference more Chris Ciolino. Last year's Empire 8 Rubens, Ciolino remains confident that the With no excuses and plenty of talent to me r oth singles and doubles last Rookie of the Year went undefeated in the team has what it takes to repeat. go around, the Bombers look to stake their on. Watkins posted a 34-21 record over- - conference tournament and only looks to "We all have the potential up and down claim at the top of the hill for at least one all in last ·year's campaign. Eighteen of improve on his record of 35-18 overall. the one through six spots,"' he said. more year. mer ~t~~,... 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For all affiliated and non-affiliated programs, Please bring completed applications to the Office of International Programs, preliminary paperwork for Ithaca College must be filed 213 Muller Center, along with a $35 opplieation fee. with the Office of International Programs by April 1. All other Ithaca College study abroad paperwork '\Nill be due on May 3. You must complete this paperwork and file it with the Office of International Programs to receive credit for your program! For more information, contact the Offtee of International Programs at 274-3306 26 THE ITHACAN SPORTS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004 From colts to commanders . . Just 5 years old, the club equestrian t~am rivals varsity programs BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN mediate flat and fences, Bann has tal Staff Writer lied four top-three finishes and has • not once finished outside the top five. Dressed in tan breeches and a Bann's success mimics that of white shirt, sophomore Darrin the rest of the team. This season the_ Bann walks around the ring, team racked up two fifth-place fin course map in his_hand, thought ishes as well as a s~venth-place fin fully Counting steps and observing ish, and last season the team fin fence locations. ished outside the top five just In a few minutes, he will be gal twice in nine competitions. loping those steps on horseback. A mere five years ago, the Bann, a member of the Ithaca Col equestrian team was just a few stu lege equestrian team, repeats this dents. Now, the equestrian team has ritual before each horse show. For grown to 23 members and has be him, riding has been an integral part come a strong presence in the region. of his college career. Senior Amy Bisaro, who com Before Bann began his college peted with the team for two years and search three years ago, his options is now the coach, thanks the class of were limited. Bann had one crite 2001 for the sudden surge or inter rion: that he be able to continue est in the team. It was in that year, Bis horseback riding in college. aro said, that most of the original Bann 's passion for the sport meml'>ers quit the team and a new dates back to his years ~t Fairview group of riders came in and paved the Lakes summer camp in New Jersey, way for the success of the squad. his homestate. From the first time "A lot of really talented people he stuck his shoe into the stirrup and came in,:' Bisaro said. ."These were lifted himself into the saddle, people that had a lot of experience Bann has been passionate about and had competed at a high level on horses and horseback riding. the circuit and wanted to continue "I started riding when I was 12 riding. It was the first time Ithaca by doing some trail rides at College had a presence amongst all camp," Bann said. "When I got the teams at the competitions." back, I begged my parents for Though not a mainstream lessons. They bought me 10 sport, many schools, especially in MEGAN CATALANO/THE ITHACAN lessons, and it went from there." the Northeast, offer riding GLIDING THROUGH THE AIR, sophomore Kristen Sackett and a mare named Shady practice a Jump at If Bann got his first horse at the age opportunities. However, what dif Only Farm. Sackett Is one of 23 members on Ithaca's club team that is a dominant program In the region. of 15 and began to pursue the sport ferentiates the Ithaca College more seriously, competing in the Jr. squad from other teams is its com Bann woulcl e una le- to compete. -~:~:::~:~wlcA~ss~oc~ia~ti~o~nr°. ~ f:ro~m~a:c~ro~s~s~the country. This will, Hunters division, which has 3-foot- petitiveness and depth. However, because Ithaca's team Team members pay or trave 1 the team to grow and 6-inch fences. "It's not necessarily unusual isn't varsity, he can. and food costs and anything else continue impro and possibly His passion for the sport would for a school to have an equestrian "Ithaca had everything I was that is not covered by the school. earn the varsity title. -- - not allow him to quit in college, and team," Bisaro said. "But to have a looking- for," Bann said. "I really Ravo said each member fronts If Bann was attracted to the, he refused to look at schools that good, successful program is un.: like the program here. The quality about $760 per year. school's once-fledgling program, would not provide him with the op usual. We are competitive against of the riding program here shows. Riders who don't own horses are Bisaro anticipates that many people portunity to ride competitively. varsity teams from Cornell and We've got a very competitive assigned them minutes before the will be drawn to the now-success- Enter Ithaca College. Skidmore." team, and we're not varsity, so we competition, leaving little time to de- fu! - ro ••••· · Bann is now a co-captain for the Bann wouldn't have been able don't have the funding that a lot of velop a bond with the bone. Bis8l(J or now, the riders are sat- Ithaca equestrian team and, in his to compete on those varsity teams. other schools have, but we still do said this procedure may prove ben- isfied with the status of the team. secqnd year of riding, has qualified NCAA rules stipulate that riding is better at shows than many of the eficial for riders in the future,because The growth and success has pro for regionals. Competing in inter~ a women's sport, and therefore, varsity teams in our region." it helps them to be more in tune to vided opportl1nities for these com- The team is ultimately working the .signals the horse sends them. petitive horseback riders to contin- toward achieving varsity status. Riders get the rest of their ue their sport into college. Unlike, Despite the fact that it is not recog- practice at If Only Farm in say basketball or soccer players who nized as a varsity sport, the eques- Freeville. Team members are re- can aspire to represent their school trian team conducts itself as such. quired to take one lesson a week, on varsity teams, many horseback "Everyone treats it as a varsity but most of the team rides two to riders are forced to drop out of com- team," said junior Audra Ravo, one three times per. week, Ravo said. petition during college. of the team's co-captains. "Even The team participates in eight Riders do not intend to quit at the though we don't have the same shows per season and competes age of 18, once they have graduat- . rules as varsity teams, everyone against 10 teams in the region - ed from the junior ranks, Bisaro said takes it seriously." Cornell, Skidmore and Hartwick Many riders take a four-year break Mike Lindberg, associate direc- among others - notching wins and then start all over. An equestri tor of intercollegiate athletics, over some varsity teams and an program like the one offered at said there are several factors th.at standing near the top of the club Ith~ca allows competitive riders to need to be considered when bring- team rankings. continue training and gaining horse ing a team to the varsity level, in- "We're finally at a point where show experience so they won't eluding insurance, equipment and we are a real-presence in the region have to start from the beginning :::.:, stables. and have influence in decisions made when they re-enter the circuit. Funding is also an integral part in the region," Bisaro said. "Cornell "It's a lifetime sport," Bisaro said. of the team's operation. Because it has asked us to help them out with "There's something about the part is not a varsity team, .{Ilembers pay running their horse show. They can nership with the horse that you don't a large sum to participate. Bisaro see we want to be more involved and get with other sports. It's.tricky and said the school accounts for about solidify our position." . complicated. It's a lifetime passion, one-fifth of the team's budget. Bisaro also said that the more the a challenge adventure." MEGAN CATALANO/THE ITHACAN Ithaca College covers the costs for team improves and the more The team's spring season starts SOPHOMORE DARRIN BANN said he would not have come to Ithaca hotels, competitions and the recognition it receives, the more up again on Saturday when Ithaca College if it didn't offer him an opportunity to ride competitively. team's membership to the Inter- likely it will attract tale.nted ·riders competes at the Skidmore show. -· ··. .. , ~------~--.t-- ::: ,:, flave stt'i C:ot1:li:-. .} ~1?~,p:;,it """ itaatei ~:,::·.;~•.•:•·· ne'i1itaii1,Jt~i~r~ ~~J.i~'#,inJi,;~f~~ ~; '.1~I:~i;~ 't!~i:] .. r.:c_; at12:i;4+\10'.1'[11:·:';; (;:,:,;\. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004 SPORTS THE ITHACAN 2 7 Bomber Roundup Men's basketball Friday-Saturday The Bombers split a pair of Empire 8 games. Friday, Ithaca defeated Alfred 72-61 for its SCHEDULES, STATS AND SCORES - second win over the Saxons in two weeks. After trailing by seven points at halftime, Athlete of the Ithaca outscored Alfred 45-27 in the second half. Week Sophomore Brian Andruskiewicz tallied a career-high _21 points and added 10 rebounds. Kelly Senior Tyler Schulz also had 21 points and Stevison, seven rebounds and sophomore Jim "Bellis Gymnastics added 13 points. Saturday, St. John Fisher held off the The freshman Bombers 81-78 for its second overtime win over led the Bombers Ithaca in two weeks. to a record-set LARRY WESTLER/THE ITHACAN ting performance The Bombers erased a 15:.point deficit in the SENIOR JENNIE SWATLING, above right, and junior Stephanie Cleary, iower left, battle for Saturday, as the final 3:48 o~regulation, capped-off by junior Nate . possession against a slew of St. John Fisher players Saturday at home. Ithaca won, 58-48. Thomas' layup at the buzzer to force overtime. team accumulated 188.850 . Bellis led Ithaca with 20 points, Schulz h~d Junior Stephanie Cleary led the team in scor Gymnastics points - the highest score in 17 and junior Jesse Roth added 15. ing with 20 points, and senior Jennie Swatling school history. The Bombers shot a disi:nal 36.5 percent from pulled down a team-high 10 rebounds. Fresh Saturday Stevison earned an all-around the field, and the Cardinals shot 50.8 percent. man Sue Kelly added 11 points and sophomore score of 37.675 that ranks second Schulz grabbed 12 rebounds and An Megan Micho contributed 10 points to the win. The Bombers had a stellar weekend, fin in Ithaca's record books. druskiewicz added 11 as Ithaca out-rebounded Ithaca's come-from-behind victory over St. ishing second out of five teams in the C9rnell The physical therapy maior from Fisher 48 to 40. John Fisher was its 13th straight win and fifth Invitational. Ithaca set a school record with a Manassas, Va., scored a 9.575 in the in seven encounters with Fisher. The Bombers final score of 188.850, which placed the team vault, a 9.050 in the uneven bars, a Women's basketball struggled to sink shots throughout the first half ahead of Division II Bridgeport, as well as 9.550 on the floor exercise and a and into the second half, but with 15 minutes to Brockport and Cortland, ranked first and 9.500 on the balance beam. Friday-Saturday play in the game, everything changed. second, respectively, in Division III. Junior Jessica Poole dribbled the ball Freshman Kelly Stevison posted an all The Bombers are one victory away from down .court off a rebound. Driving toward the around score of 37.675, good enough for Schedule clinching the conference title and home-court basket, fans yelled for her to "take it all the second in school history and third in the meet. Men's aquatics advantage for the conference tournament at the way." But Poole noticed Cleary out behind the Freshman Stephanie Smith's score of 9.625 on ., • Wednesday-Saturday, end of the season. The Blue and Gold earned arc and launched the ball to her teammate who the balance beam was 'top for the Bombers and Feb. 25-28 UNYSCSA a 79-37 win over Alfred Friday-and li 58-"48 vic netted the three-point shot and brought Ithaca fifth best in Ithaca's history. The score helped Championships in Syracuse tory over 18th--n-~~•. John Fisher Saturday. back into the game. the Blue and Gold reach a school record of Women's aquatics Ithaca~~t on a 20-2 tear in the first half ·swatting led the Bombers with 20 points .. 47 .475 overall in the balance beam competition. • Thursday-Saturday, t minate Alfred from the start. The Saxons Cleary scored 15 and tallied 12 steals - one Ithaca's top placer in the uneven bars was Feb. 19-21, NYSWCAA . Championships in Rochester ·could not withstand Ithaca's offensive attack steal short of the school record. Cleary was also senior Sue Lawall, whose score of 9.450 tied Men's basketball . or penetrate the Bombers,- strong defense. named ECAC Player of the Week. her for the third highest in school history. • Friday, Feb. 20 at Hartwick, 8 p.m. Men's "track and field ·-·- ·· ·• --safurday, t=ib. 21 · · at Utica, 4 p.m. • Tuesday, Feb. 24 f riday-Saturday vs. Elmira, 8 p.m . Fallruarv 2P .Women's basketball The Bombers competed in the Cornell Kane • Friday, Feb. 20 Invitational. Cornell played host to 20 colleges at Hartwick, 6 p.m. for the event, including the University of • Saturday, Feb. 21 Rochester, Geneseo, Cortland, Brockport, RIT at Utica, 2 p.m. and Alfred. • Tuesday, Feb. 24 vs. Elmira, 6 p.m. Senior Greg Hobbs finished fourth in the Gymnastics 6{}-meter high hurdles in a time of 8.51 sec • Saturday, Feb. 21 - onds, and senipr Chris Ryer took fifth in the vs. Brockport, Rhode f>O-meterdash in 7.12 seconds. Ryer's time was Island and Wilson, 1 ·p.m. a· mere .17 seconds shy of qualifying for • Wednesday, Feb. 25 ECACs (6.95). Junior distance-runner Shawn at Cortland, 7 p.m. ·Men's tennis Calabrese finished a respectable eighth in the • Saturday-Sunday, mile run in 4:29.07 - just 9 seconds off first Feb. 21-22, at St. Lawrence place. The Blue and Gold took fourtl:t in the Men's track and field 1,600-meter relay with a time of 3:34.51. • Saturday, Feb. 21 Pn Tin Joa IN Y■ 11 I• Senior Kevin Alford finished second in the at Cornell, 10 a.m. pentathlon, earning 3,246 points in his effort. • Sunday, Feb. 22 NYSCTC Pentathlon at Also placing in the pentathlon was junior Sam Hamilton, 1O a.m. Poem. Catterson, who finished in eighth place with Women's track and field 2,612 points. · • Saturday, Feb. 21 The South Hill squad has one more tune:up, at Cornell, 10 a.m. the Cornell Deneault Invitational, before the • Sunday, Feb. 22 NYSCTC Championships at St. Lawrence. NYSCTC Pentathlon at Hamilton, 10 a.m. INTBRVIBW WITH ITHACA BKPLOYBRS Wrestling Womeh's track and field • Saturday, Feb. 21 PoR INTBRVIBW ExPBRIBNCB Friday-Saturday · Empire Championships at RIT By the Numbers In a weekend that featured dual meets, the Bombers divided and conquered. The team trav eled downstate for a meet at the Fourth Annual New Balance Armory Collegiate Invitational in Ne~ York City. The team finished 23rd out of 30, with all Sigll up in the 01:1:eer ~ Offic,e of their points coming in the distance medley. lat floor of the Gannett Canter The team placed fourth in that event, finishing 87 with a time of 12:08:25. Ycur Future Is N:w The t~am also competed Saturday at the The number of points the men's bas Robert J. Kane Invitational at Cornell. Amid ketball team scored - a season myriad Division I opponents, .the Bombers had high- against Pitt-Bradford Monday. several strong showings. Page24 In the 5,000-meter run, junior Bridget Pilling dominated the field, finishing second over They said it all with a time 18:26:98. Similar success was enjoyed by All-American sophomore Meghan "It's not necessarily unusual for a Morningstar, who leaped her way to second place school to have an equestrian in the high jump with a mark of 1.6() meters. team. But to have a good, suc Sophomore Camille Guyot-Bender excelled in cessful program is unusual." the 500-ineter dash, finishing seventh out of 19, - Senior Amy Bisaro ending with a time of 1:24:09. Page 26 _28T_HE_ITH_ACA_N ______Sports THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004