Pl I ResNet charges a bad move ' Page 8 Debunking the myth of the poor student Page 11 .,.;,.;,._ ____________________Thursday, March 4, 2004 33,744 College plans The rising cost of an Ithaca College education new building BY CHRIS WHITE building ,will be collected rain­ Staff Writer water that is treated and processed. _ $30,000 Plans to construct a $14 million The design of the school will business school are under way as also include the opportunity to up­ $25,000 the first step in implementing the grade to newer technologies that I college's Master Plan. develop in the future. s20,ooo The building will be sustain­ One major idea is to have a able, in an attempt to lower oper­ wiring in the floors instead of the ating and mai ntenance costs walls or ceilings, Bardaglio said . J.! $15,000 while minimizing negative ef­ With wiring in the floors, the fects on the environment. The school will be able to adapt to $10,000! planning committee for the project changes in technology as they has to balance economic, social occur. $5,000 and environmental resources, "It's a more flexible approach said Peter Bardaglio, provost and to design that allows you to make vice president of academic affairs. changes as you go forward," he $0 Bardaglio said he hopes that by said. building a business school this Bardaglio said a committee is way, it will become one of the currently looking into ways the GRAPHIC BY MATT QUINTANILLA leading sustainable buildings de­ building can be used as a teaching signed in the United States. tool. That's where they want to The college wants "to help re­ start, he said. inforce the notion that sustain­ "If you look at the most sig­ Trustees approve 6. 4 percent tuitWn hike ability makes good business nificant academic buildings that sense," he said. exist currently that are sustain­ BY SHANE DUNN 5.22 percent for tuition, room and ing · Many new technologies ~ill be ably designed you' 11 fi d ~ Staff Writer board from last ear's cost of aw Students at the Ithaca Conser­ up from 22,264. 1s is an in- . nance an mm1 trat10n, a v atory paid $22 for two classes a crease of $1,426 or 6.4 percent. other area for increase for next year important characteristic, Bardaglio sustainabmty as a key activity For week in a 10-week term in 1892. Board of trustees spokesman is utilities. Because of the increase said. The windows will be made of successful business leadership More than a centwy later, students Lany Alleva '71 said there are many in the cost of natural gas, in com­ special glass consisting of cells that in the 21st century." will be paying $33,744 to attend different variables that are considered bination with electricity and water, will use the sun to produce heat and Richard Balcer is president and Ithaca College for a year. in the budget process. He said one the college's utility costs will in­ lower energy costs for the building chief operating officer of the Na­ The college's board of trustees of the largest factors was the im- crease by approximately $500,000 as a whole. tional Realty and Development met in New York City last week to portance of attracting and retaining next year. Water conservation will also Corporation, a company that adopt a budget for 2004-05, top faculty. But the single largest increase in play an important role in the con­ deals with sustainable buildings which includes setting tuition. "We are blessed with a talented the budget was for financial aid, struction of the new business but is not involved with the de­ For a full-time student living in faculty, but we are under constant Sgrecci said. With proposed budget school building. Bardaglio said sign of the business school. a standard double-occupancy pressure to try and make sure the cuts to higher education funding in systems will be implemented in room with full board - 14 meals compensation we give to existing Washington and Albany, including which all the water used in the See SCHOOL, Page 4 a week - and health insurance, the faculty and staff, the money we pay Governor Pataki's TAP cut propos­ cost to attend the college next year to attract top faculty, is competitive," al, the college is being proactive to will be $33,744. he said. "Just about every year it curb the amount of money students This constitutes an increase of seems like the competition is offer- See ENDOWMENT, Page 4 Local gay couples apply to marry BY MIKE NAGEL This decree comes on the heels of similar may­ Senior Writer oral decisions across the country. It is Peterson's first major move since taking office in January. On Monday, the mayor of the City of Ithaca an­ San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom made nounced that the municipality would begin granting headlines when he ordered his city clerk to begin marriage license applications to same-sex granting marriage licenses to homosex­ couples. As of Wednesday night, the city uals on Jan. 12. Last weekend, New clerk had collected 11 requests. Paltz, N. Y., mayor Jason West married In a press conference Monday morn­ al most two dozen same-sex couples. ing, in front of more than 100 people, Car­ Tuesday he was criminally charged olyn Peterson said all applications with 19 counts of.solemnizing a marriage would be accepted by the city and for­ without a license. warded to the New York State Depart­ Peterson's announcement does not ment of Health for individual consider­ carry as much weight as West's and New­ ation. This is the same process hetero­ som 's decisions - both of whom may sexual couples currently have to go have overstepped the bounds of the ex­ through before obtaining a license. PETERSON ecutive branch of government. Gay and "Same-sex couples deserve the lesbian couples will not be officially mar­ equal protection of the law, the same as any other ried as of yet, but will be subject to a decision on couple," said Peterson, flanked by members of Itha­ a state level. ca's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Task If, as expected, the state declines to allow same­ Force. "They deserve to be able to bring their fam­ sex marriages, the city plans to join forces with ho­ ilies out of the status of second-class citizenship and mosexual couples to fight the judgment in the court into the full array of rights and responsibilities that system. are available to married couples. I believe that by "If a lawsuit is brought," said city attorney Mar­ supporting families, all families, we stabilize and ty Luster, "the city will join you in a lawsuit seek­ LAURA BAUMANfrHE ITHACAN ing to overturn the decis'ion." strengthen our community." THE COLLEGE has announced plans to build a new home for the School of Business. The school is currently housed in Smiddy Hall. 2 THE ITHACAN NEWS Nation & World Suicide bombings in Iraq kill 143 CHAOS IN THE STREETS Simultaneous suicide bombings ripped through dense crowds of Shiite Muslim wor: shipers in Baghdad· and Karbala on Tuesday, killing at least 143 people and injuring more than 400 others in the deadliest day of attacks since the fall of former Presjdent Saddam Hussein's government. The synchronized attacks, which also in­ NEWS HRlEFS AND LOCAL EVENTS volved planted explosives and possibly mortars, transformed two of the world's most sacred Shi­ The Vote 2004 ite shrines into scenes of carnage. John Kerry buried John Edwards "After the blast, all you could see was death during Tuesday's primaries in a New _everywhere you looked," said Ahmed Kami) York-to-California landslide, sweep­ Ibrahim, a guard l:lt the Imam Kadhim shrine in ing nine of 10 states up for grabs and Baghdad. "It was horrible." effectively clinching the Democratic No group claimed responsibility for the at­ presidential nomination- just six tacks, which occurred on Ashura, the holiest weeks after the balloting began. day of the year for Shiites. Although U.S. and Sen. Edwards of North Carolina Iraqi security officials said they had not iden­ quit the field Wednesday in his tified the culprits, angry survivors at both hometown of Raleigh, N.C., bring­ shrines blamed Sunni Muslim extremists for ing a close to one of the quickest perpetrating the blasts and faulted U.S. and least contentious Democratic forces for not doing enough to prevent them. primary contests in decades. At the shrine in Baghdad, dozens of young men In California, Sen. Kerry of threw rocks and shoes at American soldiers Massachusetts rolled to one of his who arrived after the explosions. biggest victories of the day, swamping Edwards by more than a Haitian rebels claim control 3-1 margin in early returns. Rebel leader Guy Philippe proclaimed him­ Kerry's only _loss Tuesday came self Haiti's military chief Tuesday, resurrecting in Vermont, where ex-governor and the army disbanded by former President Jean­ former presidential hopeful Howard Bertrand Aristide and assigning it the "moral Dean scored his first victory. Kerry obligation" to fill the security vacuum in a cap­ CAROLYN COLE/ L.A. TIMES won by a slim margin in Georgia. ital city plagued by looting, vandalism and A YOUNG. GIRL passes by the body of a man killed overnight on a main street in the Otherwise, he rolled up big vic­ bloody reprisals. Haitian capital of Port au Prince. Some said they believe he was killed by the police for violating a curfew set to maintain order In the aftermath of rebel uprisings.