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Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2008-09 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 3-6-2009 The thI acan, 2009-03-06 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2008-09 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2009-03-06" (2009). The Ithacan, 2008-09. 16. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2008-09/16 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 2008-09 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. SPRING SPORTS PREVIEW After months of indoor practices hidden from Ithaca’s frigid climate, the nine spring sports teams are ready to return to competition. Whether it’s on the field, track, court or lake, these athletes will be making headlines all season long. Ready for action? It’s all here. SPECIAL SECTION THIS WEEK A SPECIAL SECTION OF The Ithacan SPRING SPORTS PREVIEW « INSIDE PAGE 13 ACCENT, Will the women’s track team remain at the top of the Empire 8? LEAVING A MARK Page 2 Will the No. 7 nationally ranked men’s lacrosse team return to the fina l four? Page 3 Will the softball team make another run at the College World Series? A complete overview of sports this season OPINION Page 5 ACCREDITATION PLAN APPLIES TO VISION, PAGE 10 ONLINE Game stories and more are always available at www.theithacan.org. Top row left to right: Senior outfi elder Katherine Wilson of the softball team, senior sprinter Chris Covino of the men’s track and fi eld team, senior rower Kelsey Schaeffer of the women’s crew SPORTS Second row left to right: Junior Taylor Borda of the men’s tennis team, senior sprinter Diamando JUNIOR BRINGS STYLE TO SPORTS AND DANCE, PAGE 23 Stratakos of the women’s track and fi eld team Third row left to right: Senior attack Becky Bedard of the women’s lacrosse team, senior defender Neth Wiedemann of the men’s lacrosse team Bottom row left to right: Sophomore third baseman David Ahonen of the baseball team, senior rower Tom Poole of the men’s crew PHOTOS BY EVAN FALK, ALLISON USAVAGE, THIS I SEE AND LAUREN DECICCA/THE ITHACAN BOMBERS HOST EMPIRE 8 TOURNAMENT, PAGE 28 ThursdayThursday March 5, 2009 The Ithacan Ithaca, N.Y. Volume 76, Issue 21 The stories of the Underground Railroad Broke SGA have faded, but historians takes on role are struggling to save what is known of the perilous as fundraiser BY LEAH TEDESCO STAFF WRITER After depleting all of its available funding for the year, the SGA bud- get committee will take on a new role — assisting campus groups in raising their own money instead of using college funding. Th e budget committee, the fi nancial body of the organization, - was left with just $20,000 at the beginning of the semester to al- locate to student groups. It began the year with about $200,000 available to allo- cate. SGA gets a set amount of money as part of Ithaca Col- lege’s annual budget. When SGA grants WOODSON said BYY TRICIATRICIA L L. NADOLNY NADOLNY funding to an SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER slaves andand bring bring them them back back north north.” student groups organization, it must raise more It was a tightly guarded secret, kept from As the great-grand-niece of Harriet” Tub- dangdangerous fl erroous fl ightigghht movedmovv through Ithaca. is its policy to funds this year. Pauline Copes Johnson until after her parents’ man, Copes Johnson is one of the oldest living edd thhroughh It Th e names of most freedom seekers have collect any money that hasn’t been death. Today, she can praise the life of a wom- relatives of the famous abolitionist. Tubman since been forgotten, their footsteps faded used within 10 days of an event. an she simply calls “Aunt Harriet,” but in her lived in Auburn, N.Y. — just 40 miles north of with time. Even as they made the journey, the But SGA President and senior Cor- youth, her family feared intolerance and was Ithaca — for more than half a century. From details fell into folklore, as those who were nell Woodson said this policy has too afraid she would tell the whole town about Auburn, she made more than a dozen trips brave enough to help struggled to cover their not always been enforced. her famous ancestor. south and helped hundreds to freedom on the tracks. Because of the secrecy, today’s histo- Woodson said for the remainder “She changed this world,” Copes Johnson Underground Railroad — a complex and highly rians adamantly question the stories of the of the semester, SGA will collect all said. “She put her life on the line every day, secretive system of safe houses by which more Underground Railroad. unused funds from the year and every time she went to the South to gather up than 100,000 slaves escaped slavery between But Jenny Masur, a regional coordinator at distribute that money for fundrais- about 1810 and 1850. For some runaways, the From left, Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass were major conductors on the Underground Railroad. Both abolitionists visited ing purposes through a loan system. James A.M.E. Zion Church in Ithaca. On the map, the dashed lines represent routes, and dots representSee towns HISTORY with stops., page 4 Profi ts made from fundraising activ- ities will be kept by organizations. St. “It’s more of just reinforcing the policy that we had before and just ILLUSTRATION BY KASEY STEVENSON really doing our job to make sure that we actually enforce it,” he said. Students rally for climate change in capital Next year, SGA hopes to con- tinue to collect unused funds but BY JACKIE PALOCHKO cannot guarantee how future bud- ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Th e fi rst Power Shift conference get committees will run. Approximately 12,000 students took place in 2007, and approximately Vice President of Business and from around the nation joined to- 7,000 students were present, according Finance and sophomore Brian Keefe gether from Friday to Monday in to Power Shift’s Web site. Whit Jones, said the committee is developing Washington, D.C., at the Power Shift program coordinator for the Energy a policy to require future budget 2009 conference to lobby and discuss Action Coalition, said this year’s rally committees to go back to organiza- climate issues. was a “smashing success,” and students tions and look at their transactions The students rallied on Capi- felt that their voices were heard. in comparison to the proposals re- tol Hill, met with Congressional “We saw record numbers of peo- questing money for their event. leaders, assembled with other ple turning out,” he said. “We were Th is checks-and-balances sys- students and listened to speakers warmly received and listened to. It tem will ensure allocations are given and entertainers like independent was diff erent than the 2007 Power back to SGA after an event and that politician Ralph Nader and musi- Shift with the Bush Administration.” groups are spending money where cal group The Roots. Frongillo, who attended the they said they would, Keefe said. New York state had almost 1,000 first Power Shift, said though stu- “What [the policy] will do is students at the rally – the most for dents were exhausted on the way cross-reference every single trans- any state. According to Dominic back home, they were already action [organizations] make, so if Frongillo, Central New York Del- planning events, such as a green they spend money on something egation Power Shift 2009 coordina- jobs fair, to host on campus. that they are not supposed to … tor, 20 students from Ithaca College, “Th e students are all excited,” he we’re going to know about it,” Keefe 90 students from Cornell University said. “Th ey’re thinking about edu- said. “And if there is money left in and approximately 35 students from cational opportunities to work with their account … we are going ... to put it back in the SGA account.” local high schools attended. peers to teach about climate change.” From left, sophomore Nancy Webster, junior Kim LaReau and sophomore At the end of each spring se- “Th e energy of 12,000 young peo- On Monday, 2,000 students par- Chris Konnaris rally Monday in front of the Capitol building for Power Shift. mester, SGA receives its money ple feeding off each other was amaz- ticipated in the “Capitol Climate Ac- ing,” he said. “Th tion” rally – separate from Power Shift from the college for the following ere were people TRISTAN FOWLER/THE ITHACAN cheering, singing chants for cleaner – outside the Capitol Power Plant to “Save the world,” they chanted. year. Last spring, SGA received energy. Our generation is realizing protest against coal power. Th “This is what democracy looks said she traveled to Washington to $405,000 for the 2008-09 academic it’s up to us to make a change.” was the nation’s largest act of civil e rallydis- like,” they yelled. help inform the White House about year and at that time allowed or- obedience against coal power. As sophomore Nancy Webster climate change. ganizations to request money for marched in a green hard helmet, she this year. It allocated more than See POWER SHIFT, page 5 find more. online. www.theithacan.org See BUDGET, page 5 THURSDAY BRIEFING 2 The Ithacan Thursday, March 5, 2009 THIS Nation&World WEEK Warrant made for Sudan’s president 5 THURSDAY Th e International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant yesterday for Sudanese President “Dress for Interviewing Suc- Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and cess,” sponsored by Career crimes against humanity in Darfur.