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The Ithacan, 2007-11-08 Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2007-08 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 11-11-2007 The thI acan, 2007-11-08 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2007-08 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2007-11-08" (2007). The Ithacan, 2007-08. 15. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2007-08/15 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, 2007-08 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. Winter Sports Preview SPECIAL SECTION THIS WEEK « THE PLAYOFF PICTURE SPORTS, PAGE 23 OPINION PARK DEAN TURNS DOWN BERKELEY, PAGE 10 Ithaca is hot. WINTER SPORTS PREVIEW am ACCENT UNDERAGE STUDENTS TRY TO BEAT SYSTEM, PAGE 13 Led by a women’s swimming andhampionship diving te , s eighth Empire 8 c ready to take it ust be enough Ithaca’s sports teams might j of the frigid winter. A complete overview of sports this season to keep your mind off THIS I SEE HIP-HOP BREAKS DOWN STEREOTYPES, PAGE 28 Also in this section: GE 2 WRESTLING , PA , PAGE 7 GYMNASTICS esh-faced squad w faces A fr Can a host of ne with sixth-ranked ried and a bigger, 21-person sophomore Justin Sief e them back to to roster tak is looking to move in Nationals and give them the top fi ve this year. fi rst place in the country? ONLINE t tory. Check ou OF CONTENTS ery game has its s SECTION ge 2 Ev ts coverage A SPECIAL ing and diving, pa nter spor Men’s swimm age 3 all of our wi ing and diving, p can.org. We have game Women’s swimm at theitha plus ge 4 nline all season long, Ithacan Men’s basketball, pa stories o and all The e 5 eries, multimedia Women’s basketball, pag photo gall hursday’s indoor track, page 6 each T Men’s & women’s the features from e 7 n. Gymnastics, pag print editio ules, page 8 Complete sched Ithaca, N.Y. Thursday The Ithacan Volume 75, Issue 10 November 8, 2007 Park School dean to stay at college BY KATHY LALUK ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Dianne Lynch, dean of the Roy H. Park School of Commu- nications, announced last Th urs- day she will remain as a dean at Ithaca College. Lynch said a letter was deliv- ered last Th ursday to offi cials at the University of California at Berkeley informing them of her decision to decline the position of dean at their graduate school LIVING of journalism. Kathleen Rountree, pro- vost and vice president for ac- below the line ademic aff airs, From left, Marvin Lanscown and his daughter, Katie, watch television In Tompkins County, 18 percent of individuals live in poverty announced the together Monday night at the Red Cross’ emergency shelter in Ithaca. news 30 min- CONNOR GLEASON/THE ITHACAN and even many who don’t fi nd it hard to make ends meet utes later at a LYNCH said she meeting with is excited to stay BY ERIN GEISMAR the ninth grade at Ithaca High School in September. $7,000. Th ese costs put a family almost $15,000 Park faculty at the college. NEWS EDITOR “It makes a person feel bad that she has to live in over budget — but still not poor, according to and staff . Before the sun rises every day, Marvin Lans- a place like this,” he said. “But ... she’s got other girls national standards. Lynch first turned down cown, a sanitation worker for the City of Ithaca, to talk to and play with and get to know.” “Housing, transportation and child care are the Berkeley position in March. has picked up the trash from outside the homes Th e family that Lanscown found was part of probably the three greatest obstacles for people in UC Berkeley Provost Greg of Ithaca residents all over town. But at the end the 18.1 percent of the Tompkins County popula- poverty,” said Virginia Bryant, director of commu- Breslauer forwarded Lynch’s of the day, he doesn’t have a home of his own to tion living under the poverty line — about $20,000 nity relations and research development for TCA. name to the Berkeley Board of return to. a year for a family of four, according to the Census She said residents of Tompkins County have op- Regents in May, and she was Lanscown and his daughter, Katie, have been Bureau’s 2006 American Community Survey. tions when they are seeking help or housing. TCA approved as dean in July. Lynch homeless for three weeks since their house in Th e median income per capita in Tompkins operates fi ve permanent housing programs, includ- planned to begin at Berkeley Brooktondale changed from rent to own. In addi- County is $23,688, about $1,500 less than the na- ing a housing voucher program run through the in January. tion to the $400 a month he paid in rent, Lanscown tional fi gure, but the number of individuals be- Tompkins County Department of Social Services Lynch said she feels a strong would have had to pay more than $1,300 a month in low the poverty line is more than fi ve percentage (DSS), which Bryant called one of the most progres- tie to the college and the new ini- land and school taxes in order to own. points above the national statistic. sive departments in the state. tiatives she hopes to implement. “I couldn’t have covered that,” he said. “I had to Tompkins Community Action (TCA), a local “Th e county is organization-rich,” she said. “At the end of the day, I made let the house go.” nonprofi t organization, calculated that after pay- “Everyone who comes here says that whether they the decision that Ithaca College Th e day the Lanscowns lost their home they be- ing for food and housing for a year, a family living are in need of services or not.” is really the right place for me,” came two of the roughly 40 people that seek emer- in Tompkins County and earning a gross income of While TCA programs focus on permanent Lynch said. “We have so much gency housing from the American Red Cross of $20,650 will have $1,622.29 in disposable income housing, the Red Cross off ers immediate solutions work to do, and we have started Tompkins County every night. for transportation, health care and child care. and then works with occupants to move them into a so many exciting initiatives here.” When Lanscown was able to get a room at the TCA also estimated health care for a family permanent situation. Some of Lynch’s initiatives Red Cross emergency shelter, he said he immediate- of four costs about $5,000 a year, transportation include a redesign of the lounge ly felt a sense of family — even for Katie, who started costs about $4,000 and child care costs about See POVERTY, page 4 in Park 220, developing a senior mentoring program and hiring a director for the new Center for Independent Media. Elections yield low turnout Lynch said her contract with Berkeley was never fi nalized, and BY WILLIAM EARL no renegotiation of her contract SENIOR WRITER FOR MORE COVERAGE ... or salary was involved in her Local elections may not be win- go to page 4 to see election results decision to return. ning as much media attention as next aff ect everyone living around here.” Neil Henry, interim dean of year’s presidential bids, but several Steve DeWitt, Democratic com- Berkeley’s Graduate School of important local races were decided missioner of elections for the Tomp- Journalism, said the UC Berkeley during Election Day on Tuesday. kins County Board of Elections, said faculty respects Lynch’s decision According to the Tompkins Coun- it is important for students to vote in but is disappointed nonetheless. ty Board of Elections, approximately local elections. “Th e school in general is very 1,593 citizens voted in elections held “Anyone eligible to vote should sorry [Lynch] decided to stay [at in the Town of Ithaca, while 1,330 vote,” DeWitt said. “It’s great when ev- Ithaca College],” Henry said. votes were cast in the City of Ithaca. eryone gets out to make decisions for Janice Levy, associate profes- Turnout declined steeply from last their community.” sor of cinema, photography and year, where approximately 5,849 Town Key races in the Town of Ithaca media arts, said faculty, staff of Ithaca voters and 5,689 City of Itha- elections included town councilper- Ithaca resident Pauline Layton heads into a voting booth Tuesday at and students all seem excited by ca citizens voted in the midterm elec- son and town supervisor spots, while the Circle Apartment Community Center voting station. Lynch’s decision. tions and governor’s race. the City of Ithaca elections decided CONNOR GLEASON/THE ITHACAN “I’m so pleased,” Levy said. Junior Kerry Samuels voted Tues- mayoral and alderperson victors. Ithaca College offi cials is more impor- lem with the recent local election. “I think [Lynch] has a dynamic day at the Circles Community Center Many voters were also dissatis- tant to me than that of local offi cials. “One election cycle where local energy that will serve the Park polling station for the Town of Ithaca fi ed with the number of candidates, Besides, nearly all of them are unop- candidates run unopposed shouldn’t School well in the future.” elections.
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