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Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1998-99 The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 11-19-1998 The thI acan, 1998-11-19 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1998-99 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 1998-11-19" (1998). The Ithacan, 1998-99. 13. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1998-99/13 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 1998-99 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. News s Park here Will lot changes can improve the problem? College· Community You decide. , '; VOLUME 66, NUMBER 13 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1998 24 PAGES, FREE Football violations surface "Two volunteer coaches each received self-reported and the college issued a letter Coaches' pay was prohibited money from an outside source for which of reprimand to the head coach. The they did not receive prior written approval NCAA took no further action. By Adam B. Ellick College self-reported an NCAA violation for the income. Head coach received In this report, the "head coach" referred Ithacan Staff that occurred in 1996 when volunteer fooh $2,900 from an alumnus for dutie!-. per to is Ithaca College head football coach In 1997, six years after winning its last ball coaches John Heykcs and Mike Woods formed at another institution, and gave Mike Welch and the alumnus is Joseph NCAA Championship, the Ithaca College were improperly paid, according to former $500 to one coach and $1,200 to the other Bowers '76, former offensive line coach football program was ·again recognized by coaches and an NCAA newsletter. The vio coach," violations of citations B 11.2.2 and Larry Czarnecki said. the NCAA. But this time it was far less lating school is unnamed in the newsletter, 11.3.2.2, according to the Nov. 3, 1997 In June 1996, Welch, Czarnecki, rewarding. but identified as a Division III football pro NCAA Register. The Ithacan recently learned Ithaca gram. The Register states the violation was See VIOLATION, page 4 Williams talks, WINNING TIME --students listen insecurities? All that I can do is Community asks say that I find these attitudes president about unacceptable." The president also said she felt campus issues it important to discuss the low population of minority students By Ithacan Staff and faculty. Williams said there No immediate solutions were were more applications received reached, but many topics of con from minorities this year, but cern to the Ithaca College com many of them chose not (O enroll munity were aired at Tuesday at the college. night's SGA meeting. President "We've started an effort on Peggy Williams was the keynote [Dean of Enrollment Planning] speaker at the third Coffee Talk Larry Mctzger's initiative to look discussion of t11_e semester. at the admissions piece and how Williams and Vice President to reach out more and more," of Student Affairs and Campus Williams said. "But the issue, Life Jack Oblak fielded questions again, is the community that and suggestions from the audi we're in and things can't change ence about bias-related incidents, overnight." diversity on campus, the liberal Williams said she wants to arts program and tuition and CHHANG H. LY/THE ITHACAN focus on tuition, financial aid and Sophomore striker Samme Miller outruns Tufts freshman fullback Katie Ruddy (21) in financing. making sure colleges are still Saturday's overtime Bomber victory in the NCAA Quarterfinals. Ithaca hosts the Division Ill Final About 35 student congress important 20 years from now. We Four this weekend at the Upper Terrace Field. Ithaca and the College of New Jersey will play representatives, the SGA execu need to make financial aid more Saturday at 11 a.m., followed by Macalester (Minn.) and Wllliamette (Ore.) at 1 p.m. See page 19. tive board and approximately 15 accessible, she added. other students questioned the The president is also the pri president in the North Meeting mary development officer in room. charge of strategies to bring more Bomb scare empties Friends But Williams asked some money to the college. She would questions too. not give specifics pertaining to By Kate Hilts call, the description of the istration and the faculty take it "I am asking you, 'what arc how she intends to increase dona Ithacan Staff caller's voice, where the call serious and we will continue to we going to do about all this tions, but said the college com The second bomb threat this was made from and any leads do so." homophobic stuff?"' Williams munity must realize how semester was phoned into the involving the investigation. Holt said interviews are being said. "I don't know. How do we Campus Center Information Holt declined to comment on conducted by Campus Safety educate people about their own See WILLIAMS, page 4 Desk Thursday at 12:09 p.m., any relationship between this officers in the investigation. indicating a bomb was located incident and the bomh threat on 'Those people who are in Friends Hall. Nov. 9 that indicated a bomb was affected by it [bomb threats], by Campus. Safety evacuated in Hill Center. That threat was having to evacuate the building, Friends, Joh and Textor Halls and also phoned into the Campus arc fed up with it," Holt said. Muller Faculty Center and stu Center Information Desk. "It's an insult. It's a malicious dents were not allowed back into Oblak said a bomb search thing." the buildings until search prdcc dog was not used in this The college is usmg inves durcs ended. Friends Hall was instance, but refused to com tigative device~ to help prevent · reopened at I p.m. and the three ment on how the building was further problems. other buildings were reopened at checked. Administrative phone sys 12:30 p.m., said Jack Oblak, vice Each threat is taken seriously tems have caller identification president of student affairs and and looked at as an individual devices which enable Campus campus life. case, Oblak said. Safety and other offices to iden No bomb was found, said "I don't know that they [the tify where the call is being made . Garry VanGorder, assistant communityJ were ever taking it from, Holt said. director of public infonnation. serious," Holt said. "Their reac Bomb threats were phoned , ·._; .; ~OHN SIGMUNDlTHE ln-tACAN Director of Campus Safety tion is, 'boy another threat, now into three academic halls last Ithaca ~lege ·Presldel)t P.eggy Wllllams addresses students at Bob Holt and Oblak refused to I got to go outside.' They.· know semester and the caller was Tuesday's SGA meeting ln t~ No,:th Meeting room of Egbert Han: comment on the nature of the that Campus Safety, the admin- apprehended in April. ~- < ~ ACCENT.· ... u: CLASSIFIED . 17 COMICS •... 16 OPINION ..... 8 SPORTS .••.• 19 www.ithaca.edu/ithacan 2 THE ITHACAN NOVEMBER 19.1998 Briefl Proceeds of the auction, "A FYI · Night in the City," will benefit four local charities. Faculty Colloquium ·Blasphemy and Documenta Video series By lltlichael W. Bloomroae Hall has tenned "essential war materials". tion: The Study of Cola Rien The Progressive Media Al Ithacan Staff Ickes has said, however, that he has no author zi," an Ithaca College Faculty liance's free video series will ity whatsoever to regulate the export of oil. Colloquium Series talk by An present "Tell the Truth and This week, 63 years ago: The announcement comes with poor reports tonio DiRenzo, assistant pro Run," a documentary about in According to Ithacan columnist R.O. Tide, regarding Ethiopian resistance of an Italian inva fessor in the writing program, vestigative journalist George now that the first snow has fallen and cold weath sion. Amid soldiers moving southward toward will be held today at 12: 15 Seldes on Sunday at 4 p.m. in er seems to be the order of the day, the usual com the Italian advance, the feeling is unmistakable p.m. in the DeMotte Room, the Arch Room of the Unitarian plaints of "this terrible Ithaca weather" and "why that the war Ethiopia is waging is a forlorn hope, Egbert Hall. Church, located on the comer on earth they can't keep the furnace going is more a fight for a lost cause. of Buffalo Street and Arch than I can see" may be heard. This feeling is almost universal among for Opera Workshop Street. The snow did not slow down the football team, eigners, and there is a significant undercurrent of A performance by the Ithaca however. The team climaxed a brilliant season by hopelessness among the Ethiopians, too, despite College Opera Workshop, CORRECTIONS tying Grove City, Penn., 13-13. On Grove City's their official professions of confidence. featuring songs from Mozart's home field, the team was unable to capture the Elsewhere in Europe, relations seem to be im "Le Nozze di Figaro;" Offen In the article, "Shepard tribute game after sixty minutes of hard fought football. proving between acrimonious powers France and bach's "Les contes d'Hoff evokes emotions," some re The season has now ended and to each man on Germany. The cautious and hitherto rather unoffi mann;" Puccini's "La Bo marks were incorrectly attrib the team, the school gives the heartiest of con cial Franco-German soundings for mutual rap heme;" Delibes' "Lakme;" and uted to sophomore Michael gratulations. It has been a "dandy" season and a prochement were realized this week as official Britten's "Albert Herringt will VanGelder.