Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2001-02 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 4-18-2002 The thI acan, 2002-04-18 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2002-04-18" (2002). The Ithacan, 2001-02. 27. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02/27 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. ' I ' ' \ ' /I'' VOL. 69, No. 26 THURSDAY ITHACA, N. y. APRIL 18, 2002 28 PAGES, FREE www.ithaca.edu/ithacan The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community Freshmen face Victory for Cynosure parking fee hike BY JOE GERAGHTY but the committee is discussing a AND KELLI B. GRANT range around $100, McAree said. Assistant News Editors The additional revenue will be ear­ marked to cover parking lot con­ The President's Council an­ struction and maintenance costs. nounced Tuesday a strategy to al­ Before deciding to raise parking leviate parking problems on rates, the committee compared the campus by restricting freshman college's old rates with those of parking and increasing permit other institutions. McAree said the rates over the next several years. old rates were low, and the proposed The council approved the Park­ future rates will put the college more ing Policy Committee's recom­ within the range of prices at the in­ mendation that the college move to stitutions used in the comparison. a two-tier student parking policy. Sophomore Meghan Soule Under the new policy, freshmen said she agrees with restricting will be required to park in special lots freshman parking but is worried located away from the core of cam­ about how much the price for up­ pus, said Brian McAree, vice pres­ perclassmen will increase. ident for student affairs and campus ''I'm glad we don't have to pay life. The fee for freshman permits the extra money right now," she said. will also increase to $200 from $40. Soule, who lives in Bolton, "We really do want to encour­ Mass., said she.primarily uses her age freshmen- not to bring their car to make the six-hour drive be­ cars, though we're not going to tween home and the college. prohibit it," McAree said. McAree said the committee is JOE PASTERISfrHE ITHACAN Incoming freshman Aaron Inver considering a number of areas for STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT-ELECT Lisa Palmero, left, cries tears of joy Wednesday night in the of Cherry Hill, NJ., said he thinks freshman-only lots, possibly in­ Student Activities Center while celebrating with sophomore Melissa Ferraro, future vice president the permit fee is too high for spaces cluding portions of the M-Lot ex­ of communications. Following the announcement that Cynosure Party won the Student on the outskirts of campus, He said tension near Boothroyd Hall, the Z­ Government Association Executive Board elections, junior Jennifer Addonizio, right, future vice during his visits to campus, the Lot behind Emerson Hall and the president of campus affairs, embraces senior Katrina Baker, who held the position this year. availability of parking to freshmen L-Lot extension near the Terrace was frequently advertised. athletic fields. No formal decisions "At first, I wasn't sure if I was go­ have been made yet, he said. House Party wins Senior Class race ing to bring a car to campus," Inver At the beginning of the fall se­ said. "Now, I definitely won't." mester, the college had 2,242 stu­ BY EMILY PAULSEN the Solidaridad Party, received and Universal parties received The committee has decided dent-designated spaces. In No­ Staff Writer 466 votes. Ten votes were write­ 122 and 115 votes respectively. against implementing a three­ vember, 213 spaces were added to ins or were disqualified. Junior Lisa Palmero, Cyno­ tiered system with separate lots for M-lot while 71 O-lot spaces were The Cynosure Party won Members of the Class of sure's candidate for student freshmen, on-campus students and converted to faculty and staff. Wednesday's election for the 2003 elected the House Party to body president, said she was ex­ commuters because of the difficul­ McAree said the committee Student Government Associa­ serve as their Senior Class Cab­ cited about her party's victory and ties in assigning spots, he said. will evaluate the success of the pol­ tion Executive Board, taking al­ inet next year. ready to get to work. McAree said the parking permit icy changes over the next year. most 55 percent of the vote. The House Party won the "We said we were going to fee for returning students will re­ "We're very interested to see next Cynosure received 577 of three-way race with 141 votes, give 100 percent," she said. main at $40, though the price will year whether this solves some of the 1051 total votes, and its opponent, nearly 37 percent. The Fusion See GOALS, Page 4 likely increase after next year. No problems we've experienced in the specific price has been decided yet, last few years," McAree said. Sport studies department to sack two majors BY MEREDITH MACVITTIE sports information and communica­ mation and communication major Staff Writer tion, sport studies and sport man­ full time. Currently the student to agement - is also hoping to phase faculty ratio in the sports informa­ The School of Health Sciences out the sport studies major by 2008. tion and communication major is and Human Performance has an­ Mosher said that plan, which would about 70 to one, and the ratio in the nounced the decision to eliminate the turn the department into a strong, sport studies major is about 45 to sport studies and sports information one-major department with the op­ one, she said. and communication majors, pro­ tion of a minor in sport studies and "We've gotten to the point grams that have been growing in a possible graduate program, is still where it's impossible to have a ma­ popularity. pending approval. jor with only one faculty member di­ Professor Stephen Mosher, '·The department basically de­ rectly linked to it," Staurowsky chairman of the Department of cided that we can't be all things to said. "It's never healthy to have just S p o rt all people," he said. one faculty member on a program. Studies, The three majors entered the The student demands far exceed what said the curriculum in the 1992-1993 our staffing is and what our staffing sports in­ academic year and has been is expected to be in the future. The formation funded by HS&HP, Mosher said. faculty workloads are out of line to and communication major by 2006 The department hopes the de­ what they should be and this [deci­ is being discontinued because there creased number of students, as well sion] perrruu1ently resolves the issue." are rapid technological changes in the as the addition of two more The decision to phase out the sports industry and the college can­ faculty members in the next two major was initiated by the De­ !RINA PERESS/THE ITHACAN not afford the necessary technolog­ years, will provide a student-faculty partment of Sport Studies earlier ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN WOLOHAN, exercise and sport ical and labon1tory facilities. ratio that fosters a more mentoring this year and was recently ap­ science, lectures during his Labor Relations in Sport class April 8. Mosher said three or four other relationship that the department proved by the dean of Health Sci­ measure that was initiated and de­ trative decision." colleges in the nation offer similar hasn't been able to achieve since the ences and Human Performance veloped by the faculty of the sport Garry Brodhead, associate majors, including SUNY Cort­ early 1990s, Mosher said. and the provost. studies department. provost and dean of Graduate Stud­ land, which makes it hard for the Associate Professor Ellen John Bonaguro, acting dean of "The department wanted to ies, said the deletion of a major is a coll~ge to compete. Staurowsky, exercise and sport the School of Health Sciences and emphasize its strengths, meaning much easier process than ~e creation __ .. -The Department of Sport Studies, science is the only faculty member Human Performance, said the ad­ sport _management," Bonaguro of a new major because of concerns which -oversees three majors - who work~ with !}le sports infor-· ministration simply - approved a - said. "This was not an adminis- SN FACULTY, Page 4 INSIDE A<;~~NT- ~ .• 15 cws.-FIED ••• 21 --_ COMICS ••• 20 OPINION· ••• 10 SPORTS--~ 28 ',',•, 1 1 I•\ I l I• I l \I' I I I I•\' I I 1 ' 1 ''•'I'' . I , , \,I> I I I• I! I I I I I It I• t ••I I 'I, 2 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2002 National and International News The announcement came on a day of fast-moving events Members of the Threat Assessment Group, a consult­ RALL YING FOR ISRAEL that included the arrest of Marwan Barghouti, the charis­ ing firm of forensic psychologists and specialists in vio­ matic Palestinian militia leader that Israel says is respon­ lence prevention, studied the backgrounds and behaviors sible for terror attacks on civilians, and Secretary of State of Klebold and Harris. Colin Powell's continued efforts to stop the violence. The team, invited to Colorado in September 2001 by Sharon said troops would pull out of Jenin and Nablus Jefferson County District Attorney Dave Thomas, outlined but would remain in Ramallah, where Palestinian leader their conclusions during a news conference Saturday.