Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1988-89 The thI acan: 1980/81 to 1989/90 12-8-1988 The thI acan, 1988-12-08 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1988-89 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 1988-12-08" (1988). The Ithacan, 1988-89. 13. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1988-89/13 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.<u ,->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.