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This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 1980/81 to 1989/90 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 1988-89 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. .·Boiiday-·Shopping ... .~_tagg Bowl •.. page 9 page 20 THE ~iJCIB: @ECO 8 1 The Newspaper For The Ithaca College Community I £411ffltt1'1 CWliti IIBP w, q ,.. 5 ,. MiiidRIEhkfM liW +,SP#WM , Issue 13 Periodicals December 8, 1988 20 pages* 1Free ICSG 1Community service volunteers sought BY LINDA LUNDGREN the Sept. 14 Volunteer Fair when the program off the ground. Letters Bass said. The organizers have also students interested in the program. If Student Government will soon be President of Student Government, were sent to over 50 community made up their own brochures in a student would like to become involv looking for student volunteers to help Steven Gilden, got the idea that the organizations explaining what the troducing the new program to the ed, there will be a file cabinet in the with ~ n~,~· ,..,..,,rnrn1tn;t ... .,.,... : ... T"'rn. orbanizations in the community program is and what they want to IC community. Student Government office filled with achieve. The organizations, such as all the bro.::hures from the organiza gr.un. Th,_ p10gram will be a ._._,m- could use some help from the Getting Involved the Salvation Army and Plann-.:J tions. The student can then get an idea 111umly ~1:1 v1u:: ut:l work uast:u iu::1.: al students. "We feh that this area was Ithaca College that will be set up by untappeo," said Gilden. Bass add Parenthood, are always lookin!! for ~tudent, will begin to ~ee Lhe of what the organization is about and both Student Government and SAB ed that they felt that this way the a hand and the response was great results of t1u~ work: alter me wmtc, find out who to get in contact with at says Stephanie Bass, one of the co students could get some direction as according to Bass. "There were only break. That IS when a general mailing that organization. If the student is not organizers of the program. This pro to how to get started in volunteer about four or five organizations will be made to let all students know sure about which organization to !lh('\nt th~ nrnpnun ~rrl 1-.,...,.,. th.ov gram will help students get in contact work. Since the beginning of the that didn't respond. They sent us volunteer for then someone will with local organizations that need semester both Bass and Gilden brochures and let us know what can get involved. " fhis i, when the always be available to answer the volunteers. along with another student, Kim they would like us to tell the student 1t.uUu1.. 1c::1auoru, <.:u111es in," uUOtll questions. The idea has been around since the Davis, have been working to get the as in what they are looking for," said. Advertising will be key in )!etting Setting an ex~mple This program is based on the na tional Give Five organization. Give 1======~ Bornber blowout======-· Five originates in Washington D.C. and coordinates volunteer programs · like the one to be started here at Ithaca College. If this local program works out it would then be a pilot program for other colleges and universities to help them start programs of their own. So far the response from the ad ministration and students has been favorable. "Just from going around my dorm and telling people that I'm going to a community service meeting, I get responses like they are in terested," Bass said. Also, Gilden said that they are trying to have it so if a student gets in trouble and has to do community service as penance, it would be able to be worked out · through this program. Leading with (energy
BY BARRY RITZ A frequent cause for general dissatisfaction with public officials, representatives, and others in posi tions of power is a notion that the in dividual is unable to identify with the plight of his or her constituents. This perception does not apply to Stephanie Visceli, who is chairperson of Ithaca College's burgeoning Stu ,. dent Activities Board. '~1 The Student Activities Board is ~')'. reponsible for planning and program ~\\.~-· ming a wide spectrum of events, ac tivities, trips, and general services to BREAKING RECORDS: Left, Paul Parker and Evan Marcus rejoice, right, Hector Verra congratulates Pat McLaughlin following last Saturday's the Ithaca College Community, and NCAA division III semifinal playoffs. IC fans will travel 18 hours to Alabama to root for the Bombers in the Stagg Bowl. See story in detail on back page. chiefly, the school's student popula tion. How ironic it is that this mulit faceted organization's coordinator began her academic career as a bored Snyder sees reality of the homeless and miserable freshman whose main concern throughout her first semester Snycti:r 1 tames the f{eagan '\d make us like any other Third World was how to pass the time. BY JERIL YI" VELJlOF "There is virtually no city in . m1111~11 a!IUII I \JI <.""'-" vdting country," he says. "Those numbers ·"Asa freshman, I couldn't stand UnmPlf><;<'1f>"< 1-.~• hecc,me :: !1::l America, no town, no region of the homelessness by cutting housing tunds are inevitable unless tens ofbillior!S of Ithaca College," the politics major •ional disaster, says Mitch Snyder, a country that doesn't have a very real problem with homelessness." by 77 percent in the last seven years. dollars a year are put back into hous- from Rome, New York says. "Of weu 11.uuwu IJC<'"'" ....J justice acuv1~1 -Althou~. i~ is very hard to count the "If the Federal Government doesn't ing programs." course the reason I didn't like it was who has fasted and lived on the streets build affordable housing no one is go "Where's the State of Ernergc.n- bxanse l didn't give it a chance." for extended periods of time to homeless, there is an estimate of about ini> to do it." Snyder says. cy?" he wonders. If 50-60,000 people w11c;,:·,cT :• '" 1° fate, intuition, or an demonstrate against homeles-sness and three million people living on the streets, he says. "Experts art> 10w telling Congress were burned out of their ·,omes in a . '~1,••cll.d ·1H o preserve :1er saru,y federal housing policies. huge New York.City fire, a~:-:'?',_, th". brnugr.t h!r to the offices ot Snyder spoke at Cornell last Mon Causes of homelessness, says that v.,imm me next 15 years if there Snyder, include unemployment, a low aren't massive infusions of funds in Emergency would be declareo anu ::iA.u, ; ~~ r, uncil, and student day about homelessness, his ex schools and churches would open government will never be determined. periences living and working with the . minimum wage which is too low to to federal housing programs another .pay:rents, a Supreme Court decision their doors to house all these people, However, it was immediately pbvious ~('fllelf"'< '.l!'O th!' P.Xtr<'f'1P. ;rr,~rt?.PN" nearly 19 million people will be on the ,o relae.ase harmless people frpm men-.,, the Salvation Army and the Red Cross that this was the right move, as she of everyone or u·s to.work towards streets in addition to the three million tal hospitals, and large· budget cuts. or·more who are there now. This will see Homeless page 2' see SAB page 3 · change. - , . . . , . 'I . ' . . • . . . • . . • . . ~ ... • - .. I,•, ""_;: '~Deceiiiber"8'.' --. -~ t ·------'-~ HOmeles§. from page l oneness of our creation. We can't do medical care, and clothing to approx would bring in needed supplies, and imately 2,000 people a day. Synder Missing Mac new housing would be built. that forever." _ receives no salary. Yet in New York City there are "We have to reduce the distance both between our words and our ac In Ithaca the Southside Community 50-60,00} people who ARE homel~, Center and the Red Cross Emergen but virtually ignored. And m tions. And we are a nation that has probably reached new heights never cy Shelters both offer shelter and food 'Washington DC where Synder lived to the homeless here. They need on a heating grate for a winter, he sat before experienced by the human community in hypocrisy-we say one volunteers to staff the shelters and in sight of the Capitol building and the contribute blankets, linens, towels White House. thing and do another." . "If you've got more money ll1 your soap, food, children's toys and Synder is furious about this _in- monev. If interested contact LaBerta , congruence. "In this, the wealthiest pocket then you need to ge~ th[oug~ Glasser, the Southside Community. nation this earth has ever seen ... peo · today and tomorrow, that 1sn t uni Center Outreach coordinator, or ple are reduced by the millions to liv fying because there are people starV Richard Dean, the Red Cross ing on the streets and eating out of ing this very minute." The same goes Emergency Services coordinator. garbage cans." for that extra pair of shoes you have, "Obviously something is wrong." while someone else goes barefoot,or But Snyder does not think the the extra space in your house, while government will ever really respond to someone else sleeps on a park bench. Biomedical Sciences t the fact that soon the number of peo Synder himself Jives at the Com ple sleeping on heating grates ~d munity for Creative Non-Violence in Integrated graduate ~: training opportunities eating out of garbage cans to survive Washington, DC. The Community { will multiply six times. has a l ,000 bed shelter for the 0 Biochemistry/Metabolism · He calls for a move beyond our homeless and provides food, shelter, /Nutrition current institutions. He says the world °჻!Cell Biology/ Cell Physiology · ITHACAN FILE PHOTO/TANYA WASHINGTON they represent is a dangerous, violent, o Developmental Biology inhuman, and irrational world. /Anatomy ''The changes that ultimately need Bernard McGraw, known to many IC students as "Mac," 0 Environmental Health was released from Tompkins Community Hospital T-ues to occur are massive ones," he says. For "Our values must change." He Sciences day. He was admitted there last week for an aneurysm in 0 stresses that change starts with the in Immunology/Pathology his leg. Mac, who has worked for dining services since 1976, dividual and works outward. Genuine 0 Molecular Biology/Generics ,~ celebrated his 80th birthday last Saturday. Some students "Everytimc we abuse one another o Ncurosciences . who frequent the Union dining hall signed a birthday card by how we live, how we act, how we 0 Pharmacological Sciences which was delivered to him in the hospital Saturday. think, and evcrytime we abuse the rest Tuition and stipends are of creation, trampling on it as if it was provided. Students with a there simply as if it was providing a strong academic record doormat for us we're denying the should specify an area of interest and contact: Coordinator of Graduate Studies West 452A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine .. •Softwara ~( SoN'V Box of 10 2119 Abington Road oHafdwara Sony3.5" Cleveland, Ohio 44106 ·,· • Rentals ,: DS/DD 216-368-3347 ·.?, • Repairs $17.99 ) 0 Supplies ~,,~ Dliiiii: :.... CWRU 257-2070 late Night Lives at Plums! rruesday Wednesda Ian Introduces: $ for the first time ever... 00 Vodka Import NigM ·Pitchers
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Heineken our Monday-Thursday $40[)(0) Nightly Specials from Monday nights only 2 for 1 mixed Drinks and Draft Beer Don't worry, be happy at Plums~ 9:30-12:-30 Oecembe_r 8, 1988 THE ITHACAN 3 Amnesty International fromSAB------1 page t· rapidly ascended into positions of dent body was very excited about. To popular Lip-Sync Contests, which of greater authority and responsibility. her and to others on SAB, the student fers neat cash awards to the winners. Her involvement with campus affairs voice carries the most weight, and, "If Attending the convention of the IC involvement has changed her attitude towards we are going to get opposition from National Association of Campus Ac Ithaca to such a great degree, she now faculty, administration, or others, tivities last November illustrated just BY EVE DEFOREST students who had been sentenced to feels the incentive to give something then we are just going to have to deal how developed this school's programs "No one shall be subjected to tor seven years in prison for raising their back to the school, which she tries to with it." has become, compared to other Unit ture or to cruel, inhuman, or glasses in a toast to freedom. do through her involvement as chair However, there are events which two schools that include SUNY Cor degrading treatment or punishment.'' As · defined by Amnesty Interna ofSAB. simply can't take place due to logistic tland, Cornell, and Syracuse. When These are the words found in Article tional' s mandate, the group's main She speaks with great pride of some reasons. For example, last year, the challenged with the plain fact that V of the Universal Declaration of objectives are: of the improvements she has seen SAB sought to throw a beach party, there is simply a tremendous amount Human Rights wl).ich was adopted by "The release of all prisoners of con enacted, and has lofty ambitions complete with two tons of sand, of social activity occuring nightly on the General Assembly of the United science: those people detained for regarding the future of SAB. She water, sun lamps, et al. The contrac the Cornell campus, Visceli retaliated Nations forty years ago on December their beliefs, race, sex, language, reiterated the board's independence tor in charge of staging the event with her obseivation that a large por 10th. The Declaration provides for the religion, or ethnic origin, who have from the decree of the administration refused to sign due to the unavailabili tion of Cornell's cultural offerings are protection of civil, cultural, economic, neither used or advocated violence; in scheduling events. While SAB fooc ty of a rainsite, and the beach party targeted not to the campus, but rather political, and social rights of all -fair and prompt trials for all tions must confonn with regulations never happened. Visceli naturally was to the community instead. human beings and was passed in political prisoners; established by the Office of Campus disappointed, yet understood that it What advice would this prospective response to the brutal occurrences of -an end to torture and executions in Activities, and is subject to criticism would not be possible to stage such an law student give to Ithaca College World War II. all cases." and advice from Mike Lindbergh, the event in the Hill Center. students who do not feel they are get Amnesty International Assistant Director of Campus Ac This was one of the few dead ends ting the kind of social stimulation they IC chapter tivities and the advisor to SAB, she the SAB has encountered, seemingly might have anticipated prior to em Curre1Hh Amncs;ty Internatinal in maintains that, "there has never been miniscule in light of the substantial ac barking for college? "There are 121 Article II of the Declaration states anything really far out that people complishments registered by this clubs on campus," Visceli offered, that "All human beings are born free cluded over 3,200 volunteer groups wanted to do that we haven't been group. These include the expansion of "All the average person has to and equal in dignity and right. They in 55 countries. This semester Ithaca College re-activated its own chapter able to get done." the bus seivice provided to students do ... there's a lot of doors to open, are endowed with reason and cons under the direction of advisor Fran She spoke of the considerable facul living in the metropolitan area to in and say, I want to be part of your cience and should act towards one cine D'Amico. Ithaca College Amnes ty resistance to the Morton Downey clude a route to Hartford, Connec organization." For those dissatisfied another in a spirit of brotherhood." ty International members will par appearance as worthy of examination, ticut, the establishment of an "SAB with the say they have in campus af Amnesty International is an organiza ticipate in various Al programs in but not sufficient to warrant ,the Comedy Night'' every other Thurs fairs, she implored them to pay a visit tion which acts independently "in cluding the "Freedom Writers" and cancellation of an event which the stu- day, and the evolution of the widely to the Student Government Offices. spirit of brotherhood" for the protec To the apathetic student content to tion of human rights as defined by the the "Urgent Action" networks in go to class, come home and watch Declaration. The Amncs;tv movement order to preserve human rights MTV, Visceli asserted, "This campus began as a world-wide protest by a through "constant action and effec has so much to offer, its almost a Brittsh lawyer in 1%1 to draw pubhc tive pressure." crime not to get involved." Coming attention to the number of prisoners from a self-made future lawyer, these of conscience being held captive Friday, Dec. 9th, ICAI will be words certainly seem worthy of around the world. This he did after located in the Egbert Union lobby careful consjderation. _ r~ading about two Portuguese with further information of their ac Today is day 5 of the holiday tivities as well as with petitions and let ters that will be sent on the behalf of Shabbat Services - Friday 6pm Men's Styling Women's Styling prisoners of conscience in celebration ROTC Cuts Tanning Booths of the Declaration of Human Right's Dinner 7: 15 pm anniversary. An AI video tape will Nexus also be shown. Later that afternoon (reservations 274-3103) Cut Above the group will host a benefit concert Paul Mitchell Sabastian in the Pub from 4-7:00prn featuring Saturday-T0:45am j\ Hairstylist the band SLEEP. Proceeds will go to Matrix ICAI and AIUSA. Center lthnca The Commons y;;Jl Me:aanine 272-4370 !CAi's next general meeting will be held at 12:05pm on Jan. 26 in V Friends 203. TIRED.OF ALL THAT WAIT?
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