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Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2001-02 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 8-24-2001 The thI acan, 2001-08-24 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2001-08-24" (2001). The Ithacan, 2001-02. 1. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02/1 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, 2001-02 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. Sports Accent Inside Accent 9 Pigskin praise · Staying safe I Comics 12 F90tball team starts play with two College women should talce precautions Opinion 6 All:Americans. Page 13 at night Page9 Sports 13 The FRESH MAN ISSUE FRIDAY ITHACA, N. Y. AUGUST 24, 2001 16 PAGES, FREE www.ithaca.edu/ithacan !he Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community Splashing into service More than 130 freshmen begin first year by participating in Community Plunge When freshman Sara DeCotis of The volunteers sat around a table there are people out in Tompkins Ballston Spa, N.Y., was in high wrapping copies of "The Very Hun County beyond Ithaca. We painted school, she spent Thanksgiving gry Caterpillar" to send to newborn the church last year, but it just all morning delivering flowers to hos babies at Cayuga Medical Center. peeled off again. But these kids are pital patients. The books, part of the Baby Steps doing a much better job." As an Interact Club member and into Books program funded by Freshman Leora Deutsch of a class officer, there were many oth Tompkins County Trust Company, Commack, N.Y., who worked with er ways she volunteered. are gifts designed to get children Community Plunge at the Family So DeCotis jumped at the reading early in life, said Mary Reading Partnership site Thursday, chance to begin life at Ithaca College Milne, program coordinator for said she the program as a good way by participating in Community Family Reading Partnership. to start her college experience. · Plunge - a two-day community ser Another group of about 15 fresh "I thought I'd continue what I've vice event for freshmen. men painted the 184-year-old Enfield been doing," she said. "It's a great DeCotis was one of 13 I freshmen Baptist Church and the Enfield way to meet people too." . and 36 upperclassmen leaders who Highway Department service build Other participants saw the Com spent today and Thursday lending a ing. munity Plunge as a chance to be a hand to a dozen area organizations as Church member Rhonda Connors true servant in.the community for the part of t.he fourth annual fall Com said the congregation is in the first time. munity Plunge. process of constructing a new "In high school it always seemed "I realized how much I love building to replace the original like community service was more of [volunteering] and really wanted to structure, which has no running wa a social thing," said freshman stay involved," said DeCotis, who ter and, until recently, had no elec Rachel Ardumi of Mifflinberg, Pa. joined IO others in a project at the tricity. "Here, I think I'll get the chance to Family Reading Partnership in "This is so great," she said. "It's meet people and get used to the cam Danby Scliool. "There are a lot more a great way for the kids to come out pus while also making a difference." opportunities here." and meet people and find out that The Community Plunge partici pants arrived on campus Wednesday and were welcomed with an outdoor barbecue that night. Michelle Theis of Dayton, Ohio, said she hoped the program would give her a chance to make friends be fore classes even started. "I wanted to get involved and take an active role at Ithaca right way," she said. "I'm making friends already. It's cool." Getting a head start on their freshman year seems to pay off for students. "Last year I got involved in a lot more than I would have without the Plunge," said sophomore Laura Knowles who helped lead the group at Enfield Thursday. "Now, as a leader, I'm enjoying the opportuni KRISTIN SAMPIERE/THE ITHACAN ty to be an example for the freshmen JOE PASTERIS/THE ITHACAN FRESHMAN ERIN KIEFER cuts paper to wrap books the Family Reading and help them get comfortable at FRESHMAN ERIC HOFFMAN prepares paint for a Community Partnership distributes to newborns at Cayuga Medical Center. school." Plunge project at Enfield Baptist Church Thursday morning. New volunteer coordinator gets groups involved Deborah Mohlenhoff '92 re Activities. students, faculty and staff, she a Campus Center manager, teaching dream [before coming to college], members them as freshmen begin The new positiori is a result of said. assistant and co-president of the In but you don't know there is this ning their college career by volun recommendations made She will also coor ternational Club. whole world as a possibility for a teering at the first Community by the president's task dinate the annual Cele She also produced an Ithaca Col career." Plunge four years ago. force on community ser bration of Service _:_ a lege television show, "Just Off Mohlenhoff said her overall Now some of those students are vice and a grant from the campus-wide event Broadway." goal is to have everyone at the col beginning their senior year by Park Foundation. held every spring. Her experiences as a student lege volunteer in some way. leading the Community Plunge "We knew there was a "We also feel volun leader motivated her to pursue a ca "We need to redefine service," participants they once were. Jot of [ volunteering] go teerism is sincerely reer in college administration, she she said. "I think what pops into Seeing that change in students ing on," Mohlenhoff connected to leader said, and she soon was hired as a your head is working at a soup - from servants into leaders - is said. "Bat we didn't ship and .wanted to Campus Center employee in Feb kitchen, but people do some form the reason Mohlenhoff says she is have a central place for house those together," ruary 1993. of community service without re excited about her new job as coor it." she said. "Instead of being Jane Pauley, as ally knowing it." dinator of community service and In her position, she MOHLENf10FF A television-radio ma I originally thought, I found I Mohlenhoff's office is located leaqership development within will serve as a resource jor while she was a stu might enjoy working with college on the third floor of the Campus. the Office of Campus Center and for organizing all volunteer work by dent at the college, Mohlenhoff was students," she said. "You get this Center. · 2 THE ITHACAN FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2001 acad·emic calendar Convocation - 2001-2002 kicks off year FALL SEMESTER SPRING SEMESTER The freshman class, with about 1,740 students, will Aug.29 Classes begin at 8 a.m. Jan. 21 Classes begin at 8 a.m. gather for its official welcome to Ithaca College at the Sept. 3 Labor Day - no classes Jan. 25 Last day ADD/DROP block I courses annual Convocation ceremony on Monday. Sept. 5 Last day ADD/DROP block I courses Jan.30 Last day PASS/Ff\lLI block I courses Convocation, which signals the start of the 2001- Sept. 7 Last day PASS/FAIL block I courses Feb.1 Last day ADD/DROP semester courses 2002 academic year, will be held at 11 a.m. in the Ben Sept. 12 Last day ADD/DROP semester courses Feb.1 Last day to register for spring 2002 Light Gymnasium. Sept. 18-19 Rosh Hashanah- classes·in session• semester Delivering addresses to the freshmen will be Pres Sept. 19 December 2001 graduation applica- Feb.8 Last day PASS/FAIL semester courses ident Peggy R. Williams; William Scoones, interim tions due to registrar Feb.22 Last day to withdraw with 'W" in block I provost and vice president for academic affairs; Sept. 19 Last day PASS/FAIL semester courses courses William Haines, chairman of the board of trustees; and Sept. 27 Yorn Klppur - classes in session* Feb.22 Last day to revoke PASS/FAIL block I Student Body President Jayson Pope. Oct. 3 Last day to withdraw with "Wn in block I courses Following the ceremony, the fourth annual IC Com courses Ma-rch 8 Block I ends at 4 p.m.; Spring Break mUNITY picnic will take place on the academic quad. Oct. 3 Last day to revoke PASS/FAIL for block begins In the event of rain, the picnic will move to the Ter I courses March 18 Classes resume at 8 a.m.; block II race Dining Hall. Oct. 5-7 Family Weekend begins Oct. 17 Block i ends at 1 O p.m.; Fall Break March 19 Mid-tenn grades due online at 10 a.m. begins March22 Last day ADD/DROil' block II courses Oct. 22 Classes resume at 8 a.m.; block II March27 Last day PASS/FAIL block II courses begins March29 Good Friday- classes in session* Oct. 23 Mid-term grades due online at 10 a.m. March 31 Easter* Oct. 24- Nov. 2 Advising for spring 2002 March 25-April 4 Advising for fall 2002 Oct.·26 Last day ADD/DROP block II courses April 1 September 2002 graduation applications Oct.