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Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2001-02 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 10-11-2001 The thI acan, 2001-10-11 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2001-10-11" (2001). The Ithacan, 2001-02. 8. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02/8 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. VOL. 69, No. 7 THURSDAY ITHACA, N. Y. OCTOBER 11, 2001 28 PAGES, FREE WWW. ithaca.ed u/ithacan ....·-· Th~-Ne-~spaper for.the-'·ithaca College Community Board arrives to consider future plans BY ANNE K. WALTERS Staff Writer . ~-· The college's highest governing body, the board of trustees, will be on campus this week -;· :,, to discuss the future of the college and review the proposed campus-wide master plan. The 23-member board of trustees, com '" l posed of Ithaca College alumni and friends -~ as well a faculty, ! See TRUSTEES. \ staff and student , Page6 i representative, L --- -- _. __J plans to address -,._ . ,; campus expansion at its second meeting this - .. ~- . ~·-:- ~ J academic year. Although the board traditionally meets every October, February and May, a special .. meeting was called in August to hear pre . :~ ::~ liminary reports from Sasaki Associates on the campus master plan. Discussions with the Boston architectur al firm will continue when board meetings convene today. In September, the finn presented the cam pus community with three separate plans for campus expansion, each including academic, administrative and residential growth. Lany Alleva '71, board of trustees vice chainnan and spokesman, said it is uncertain PHOTOS COURTESY OF GARRETT M. SMITH whether the board will make definite approvals JUNIOR STEPHEN TASTLE, above, waits to receive his rifle and clip of bullet blanks before combat training for the Cornell or simply continue to discuss the possibilities. University Reserve Officers Training Corps program held at a five-block site in Fort Drum, N. Y., earlier this year. Tastle, below, "The October meeting is a bridge between catches his M-16 from a fellow ROTC trainee before jumping out a window during a training drill. the August and the February meetings, to hear updates before final approval on policy is is sued in February," said Nancy Pringle, vice Students consider possibility president and college counsel who serves as secretary to the board. During their time on campus, the of serving in military strikes trustees will also celebrate Muller Chapel's 25th anniversary today with a rededication BY KELLI B. GRANT Tastle, fourth generation military and ceremony and service at 6 p.m. Staff Writer second generation airborne, is part of Cor- . Trustee Samuel Shmikler '77 will deliver nell University's Reserve Officers Train~ , '.; a presentation titled "Creating Killer The C-130 airplane's four prop engines ing Corps program. · Leaming Interactions Online" today at 7 p.m. roar loudly. Inside, junior Stephen Tastle He attended Airborne School this sum in Park Auditorium. Shmikler is president of awaits his third jump, sitting with the mer to try to receive his silver jump wings. The Periscope Organization. plane's other occupants - packed in shoul Tastle is just one of several Ithaca Col der to shoulder. lege community members in various At the signal; the troops line up an arm's stages of duty who are preparing to serve REMEMBERING WHALEN length apart, waiting to propel themselves in the U.S. military. out the side doors. Tastle, the first in the Although forces across the_ country are A memorial service for President lineup, watches the trees and telephone either on alert or being senfinto active duty, Emeritus James J. Whalen will be held poles whizzing past. military service is years away for some who on Friday at 3 p.m. in Immaculate With a sharp slap to the back of his legs are still in training. Conception Church, 330 W. Buffalo St. - the signal to jump - and two steps for But for others, the chance of being A reception will follow in the James J. Whalen Center for Music. ward, he is airborne. called to serve is imminent. Whalen, who retired in 1997 after "My worrie~ disappeared, and my serving as president for 22 years, died training took over," Tastle said. See ARMY, Page 2 Sept. 6 in Boston. New e-mail server to solve system delays BY JOE GERAGHTY Taves said the new servers were The server currentlydedicated to SirCam, the most dangerous of sands of messages waiting to be de Assistant News Editor scheduled to be installed. over the student e-mail has been in use for lhese viruses, attaches itselfto a ran- livered and that ACCS releases summer, but problems with the sys- four years, which is the average lifes dom file on a host computer and them in groups when the server is Although troubles with the col tem 's vendor, as well as with the pan of a server. The new server will then sends that infected file to any not already busy delivering large lege's student e-mail server have complexity of the system, have got- have 10 times the processing pow- e-mail addresses it finds on the host amounts of new mail. He said no e lessened for now, the virus that ten in the way of those plans. er of the current system, Taves said. computer. If recipients of the in- mail has been lost, although some plagued the system could cause "If we had accomplished the up- Taves would not 'reveal the ex- fected e-mail download the attached -has ·been bounced· back to the more problems until new e-mail grade over the summer, we act price on the server upgrades but file, the process begins again. · · · ,- se_tKfets because eithe(the recipient's servers are installed. wouldn't have been hit by this," he said it was well into the hundreds The new e-mail server will not disk.-quota\vas reached, or the sys Michael Taves, director of acad said. 'Tm reluctant to blame peo- of thousands of dollars. only be more powerful, but will also . ~'fem haa ·attempted to deliver the emic computing and client ser~ pie .for this. The company we , The problems on the student e include technology to· scan out message for 72 hours and failed. vices, said his office hopes to have . bought this from, like many com- mail server, which have caused e virus-related e-mails before they The new server installation will the new servers installed within three puter companies these days, had mails to be backlogged for Jong cause a problem for the system, not require any downtime for the sys to six weeks, but complications some difficulty in being responsive:·. ~es of~ time; ·are caused by Taves said. tern, and students will not lose any could arise to make that impossible. to our needs at times." :~ '' :·_conwuter viruses: . Taves said there are still thou- e-mail in the changeover, Taves said. ., .,· INSIDE ACCENT ••• 13 CLASSIFIED·.·~~ 21 COMICS ••• 20 OPINION ••• 10 SPORTS ••• 23 2 THE ITHACAN THURSQA'I'., Pqrpe~~ 11, 2Q01 National· and I nternational News his religion victorious. The winds of faith have come." Media outlets agree to prescreen videos PAKISTANI PROTESTS Al Jazeera, a television station in the Persian Gulf emi '' rate Qatar, aired the tape a few hours after U.S. and British Major U.S. television networks agreed Wednesday not forces launched attacks against Afghanistan. His remarks made to air videotaped messages from Osama bin Laden with it clear that the tape was made after the Sept. 11 attacks on out at least reviewing them first, after National Security the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Adviser Condoleezza Rice asked TV executives to con "There is America, hit by God in one of its softest spots. sider such restraint. Its greatest buildings were destroyed. Thank God for that," The Bush administration fears that such video mes he said. sages - like the one broadcast Sunday after the U.S. As in earlier terrorist attacks linked to the Al Qaeda net led bombings of Afghanistan began - could "be a sig work, bin Laden held back from claiming responsibility nal to terrorists to incite attacks," White House but praised the individuals who committed suicide while spokesman Ari Fleischer said. slaughtering Americans and others. "At best, Osama bin Laden's message is propaganda, "When God blessed one of the groups of Islam, they calling on people to kilJ Americans. At worst, he could be destroyed America," he said. "I pray to God to elevate their issuing orders to his followers to initiate such attacks," Fleis status and bless them." cher said. Government analysts have not found hard evi He tied his war against the West to U.S. support for Is dence that bin Laden has sent such messages by video, but rael in its conflict with the Palestinians, economic sanc they are investigating. tions against Iraq and the continued presence of U.S. mil While Rice and Fleischer emphasized that the White itary forces in Saudi Arabia, which is home to the holiest House was only requesting restraint and not ordering cen sites of Islam in Mecca and Medina. sorship, TV executives must weigh their obligation to avoid endangering national security against their fun Foreign college students weigh options damental mission to inform the public, analysts said. At Shariq Hasan talks to his parents in Saudi Arabia every stake could be the networks' credibility as an indepen day, reassuring them that he is safe despite the reports on Sau dent source of information rather than a tool of the U.S.