ACCENT Wrapped up in knitting Page 15 OPINION Dissecting diversity of ideas Page 11 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. vvww. j t I1, l( ·, I .(•d Lilit fl,1( 'dl1 THE ITHACAN 2 NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004 Nation ·& World 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.