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Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2000-01 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 4-5-2001 The thI acan, 2001-04-05 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2000-01 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2001-04-05" (2001). The Ithacan, 2000-01. 25. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2000-01/25 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, 2000-01 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. Sports Accerat Fresh faces take fields Celebrating rituals Accent 13 Classified 21 Influx of freshmen leads to increased Religion conference explores Comics 20 presence on the playing fields. Page 23 range of practices. Page 13 Opinion 10 Sports 23 The VOL. 68, No. 24 THURSDAY ITMACA; N.Y. APRIL 5, 2001 28 PAGES, FREE www.ithaca.edu/ithacan . The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community College to tighten alcohol policy RAs' authority Preparations made could increcise for last day of classes BY JOE GERAGHTY Staff Writer under proposal --'-"---------------------- College administrators hope the last day BY KELLI B. GRANT of classes this year remains like any other Staff Writer day of classes, and they are making plans to ensure that is the case. President Peggy R. Williams has approved In past years, seniors have spent the day the proposal of major revisions to the college - formerly known as Fountain Day- cel alcohol policy that would give resident as ebrating, culminating in a jump into the sistants the power to ju Dillingham Fountain. Last year, the college dicially refer under moved that celebration to Senior Week, the age drinkers. week after exams when most underclassmen The revisions, which have left campus for the summer. would go into effect by "The college will replicate the strategies next fall, are still put in place last year," said Brian McAree, pending approval by acting vice president for student affairs and the college's board of campus life. 'The last day went very well · --trustees. The board last year. We're once again asking for the convenes again for community's cooperation in making it a meetings in May. success." 1 WILLIAMS The new system Last April, seniors gathered on the Aca- \ would give resident dernic quad in front of Job Hall and uniformly assi~ tf\e powedi:, jtid.iciaIIy refer underage marched into the drained fountain despite drinkers·and put thenithrough the college's warnings from administrators that they I judicial system. Campus Safety officers would could face expulsion or have their diplomas retain the authority.to issue local criminal court withheld for jumping in the fountain. The i tickets, as well. -- --- warnings were not enforced. I Under current policy, Campus Safety is the Police set up checkpoints to prevent j sole policy enforcement body on campus. drunk driving last year. Resident Assis- · RAs are not permitted to confiscate alcohol tants were also on duty all day last year from students or document underage drink to make sure residence halls remain qui ing as a distinct violation. et and under control. Williams commissioned the President's "Alcohol has played such a big part on Task Force on Alcohol and Other Drugs in other final days of classes," said Norm Wall, September 1998 to assess campus alcohol and Campus Safety associate director.. 'That drug use and provide feasible solutions. led to fights and so much mespons1bility. Student drinking habits were analyzed in People just lost their common ~ense."' 1999 using the CORE Institute 's alcohol be Last year, however, there were no in havior study. juries or arrests on the last day of classe~. Survey results indicated high levels of al Wall said. cohol, tobacco, marijuana and designer drug "We're really looking for a repeat of use. that," he said. The percentage of Ithaca College students McAree has been meeting with member~ who drank excessively - five drinks per sit of the senior class, Re~idential Life and Cam ting for males, four drinks for females - was pus Safety to plan the upcoming final day. 58 percent compared to national and state lev McAree said the administration will be els ·of 41 percent. MICHAEL W. BLOOMROSE/THE ITHACAN commumcating its goals for this year's fi A nine-point recommendation plan was cre THE LAST MAJOR alcohol policy change was announced in September 1999. It was nal day of classes to students soon. He has decided then that, because of the excessive consumption of alcohol involved, the annu ated following the release of the survey 's re also asked the Faculty Council to make 11 al Fountain Day event (pictured above) needed to be moved to Senior Week to bring it sults, which were presented to Williams in under control. In addition to this. President Williams is proposing further changes to See EXTRA, page 4 See BONAGURO, page 4 address what she has termed, "a campus culture of alcohol use and abuse." Students form parties for SGA and Senior Class Candidates begin two-week campaign period leading up to April 18 campus-wide election BV WENDI DOWST ranso is a member of Phi Theta Kap- fore transfening to Ithaca. He is also nounccd their intentions to run for the The Student Government Asso Staff Writer pa, the inter active with Created Equal, an activist presidency of ciation Elections Committee has national hon- group for the gay, lesbian, bi-sexu- the senior scheduled the SGA Executive Juniors Murillo Soranso and or society , al and transgendered community. class next Board Elections and the Senior Jayson Pope have both announced for two-year - Pope, a social studies education year. Kenneth Class elections for Apnl 18. their intentions to run for student colleges. major, currently serves as SGA vice Froeberg, tele SGA is currently m the process body president fur the 2001-2002 At the president of communications. In vision-radio; of evaluating the benefits and academic year. Community addition to his work with SGA, Pope · Robert Mor drawbacks of creating online elec Soranso, originally from Brazil, College-' . of _ . has also worked as an orientation · rison~ speech tions for next year's executive is a resident assistant in the HOME .•:!!~}tim(?re 'i leader fo~ the past two sumrnei:s_. hi t\' g u a- g e board and senior class elections. Program;· which 'houses both inter~~: IJt~ . ·serves as a studentjustice in theM · :•~otogy and The candidates for SGA and Se nationahmddotnestic students in Thf · ~ i:.'1 "fice'!°)fiudicialAffairs, and is atsa~- auditllogy; nior Class held a public forum in race'-2.·He atso·serves as a Student studen't'gov- SORANSO "volved in the· Leadership Advisory arid Andrew POPE Textor Hall last night. Each party Government Association represen- ernment vice Committee, the Bureau of Concerts Sachs, poli- is also scheduled to speak at the tative for that hall. president of communications and and the Catholic Community. tics, have all announced their plans Free Speech Rock at noon next A computer science major, So- scholarship for the honor society be- Three juniors have also an- to run for the position. Thursday. THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2001 2 THE ITHACAN Natii~~I international News Milosevic remanded to prison for 30 days Disgraced ex-President Slobodan Milosevic was inter rogated for several hours Sunday by an investigating judge, and remanded to Belgrade's Central Prison for 30 days pend ing further investigation of graft and corruption charges. "He has his own cell. He can wear his own underwear and shoes. He is not being subjected to any special psychological pressures," said Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batie. Behind the gates of the drab gray concrete prison, Milo sevic's lawyer Toma Fila put it another way: "This is a Balkan jail, it's not the Hyatt Regency." Fila said Milosevic pleaded innocent and had appealed his 30-day detention. The past few days have been a roller coaster ride for Yu goslavia and a far fall for Milosevic, who - even m his fi nal hours in the presidential palace - seemed to think he could escape the consequences of his decade of misrule. After two botched attempts to arrest Milosev1c, on Fri day night and early Saturday morning, Yugoslavia's fledg ling democratic government was in a tight spot of its own. According to a senior Western diplomat, some members of the 18-party ruling coalition were concerned that it would look weak to arrest Milosevic on the March 31 deadline im posed by the U.S. Congress; others were concerned that the criminal cases against Milosevic were less than airtight; still others were loath to arrest him under any circumstance. Serbs storm U.N. building in Bosnia COURTESY OF TMS CAMPUS A Palestinian soldier inspects the damage done to Palestinian President Vasser Arafat's Force-17 presldential guard Hundreds of survivors of a Serb massacre during the Bosn headquarters In Raballah, West Bank, March 29. The Israeli air strikes followed a series of bombings In Israel by ian War stormed the U.N. building Monday after hearing that Islamic militants. Tension In the Middle East continues to escalate with this resurgence of violence. the Muslim commander was about to be arrested by the U.N. war crimes tribunal. bombs and carrying out other attacks. cident investigation division in Seattle, said the agency was A crowd of mostly women stoned security guards and po In the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem, meanwhile, investigating the Denver office's handling of the notice. lice after breaking down a metal barrier and pounding on Palestinian gunmen and Israeli soldiers exchanged heavy fire, The pilot had received the warning when the plane, which the building's glass doors.