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THE The Newspaper For The Ithaca College Community Issue 17 February 26, 1987 16 pages*Free Caller IC prof. injured reports in car accident bomb Emergency surgery needed threat BY PATRICK GRAHAM but his condition is improving. B\' JERIL \'N VELDOF An Ithaca College professor sus­ "He is doing fine," said Liz A bomb threat over a hall phone in tained a concussion and a severe neck Snyder, Snyder's daughter. "He is on Terrace 11 B resulted in a one-and-a­ wound which required an emergency the road to recovery." half-hour evacuation Saturday, Feb. trachiotomy following a two-car col­ According to the police report and 14, according to Ithaca College Safe­ lision at the college's 968 entrance last witnesses' accounts, Farrell was ty and Security .. Friday morning police said. After a search no bombs were traveling north on route 968 when Charles Snyder Jr., 58, of226 Plea­ Snyder, who was traveling south, found, and students returned to the sant St. and an Associate Professor of signaled to turn left into the college. building at about I am, Safety and speech pathology at Ithaca College, St:curity said. Snyder apparently failed to see Far­ collided with Richard Farrell, 39, of rell and drove into the path of Far­ The call came about 11 pm Satur­ 1597 Danby Rd. at approximately rell's car. day night, according to Resident Assi­ 6:40am police said. tant Tom Krupa, who answered the Both Snyder and Farrell were taken The police have charged Snyder phone. He repeated "hello" several to Tompkin's Community Hospital with failure to yield the right-of-way times, he said, and heard a where doctors treated Snyder's injury and failure to wear a seatbelt. Farrell background male voice say, "I slip­ which had resulted from his hitting the was wearing his seatbelt and police in­ ped (it) into a goose down sleeping bag steering-wheel. Farrell was treated for vestigators speculate that his injuries in the back of a pickup truck." abrasions to the head and released could have been much worse had he Then the caller asked if he had later that day, police said. not been wearing it. reached Terrace 11. When Krupa According to Hospital supervisor William Scoones, Dean of Aliied replied yes, the caller, also a male, Marlene ~eyers, Snyder is listed in Health, said that Snyder's classes said, "I'm reporting a bomb threat," "satisfactory condition and still under "will not be cancelled" and "an in­ and hung up. · ITHACAN/ ADAM RIESNER observation." But she declined to structor will be provided temporari­ Krupa said he ran to a room on the comment on how the operation pro­ ly." If Snyder is unable to resume A VIGIL FOR SOVIET JEWRY: An IC student stands in a silent pro­ first floor to call Safety and Security, ceeded or to the severity of the neck teaching for the remainder of the test the Soviet Union's policies toward Jews who wish to emigrate. The who quickly arrived to evacuate. By of semester, Scoones said, "[we] don't protest continues tomorrow inside the Union from 10-4pm. injury. However, friends close to 11 :30pm no one was in the building. Snyder said that he is unable to.talk know what we're going to do," "What was scary," said resident Brian Carroll, "was coming back in the room [after the evacuation] and thinking any second the bomb could -women's panel reveals sexual lifestyles go off." "Rumor is that the bomb scare was B\' LESLIE LOGAN Ithaca College. ing on a booklet on safe sex for ed enough to be blonde, blue-eyed, a fake and that it was just so the This really was for women only. Dr. Mary O'Leary Wiley and Mary women. "There used to be moral and hard-bodied," said Hossfeld, "I rooms could be searched for drugs," The Counseling Center invited women Ann Cofrin of the Counseling Center dangers associated with sex," Bereano fit into the perimeters of what socie­ one Terrace resident said. to take part in a discussion Tuesday were present to facilitate the discus­ said, "now it is physically dangerous ty deems sexually attractive." The "The first thing I thought of was night. A panel of four women with sion with open questions. The small to be sexually active." With the in­ social strata interprets women's sex­ a drug bust," Carroll said. "I know ·various lifestyles revealed their sexual number of students in attendance pro­ creasing prevalence of sexually uality based largely on appearance last year the EastTower would have feelings and values to a small group vided the panel with an intimate transmitted diseases, sexual ex­ which many women feel is unjust and fire alarms and the rooms would be of Ithaca College students in the climate which enabled the panelists to perimentation has become much more remote. checked. A couple of times after, peo­ South meeting room in the Egbert establish a good rapport. difficult. For some women, a lesbian The panelists credited the feminist ple would get busted for drugs," Car­ Union. One panelist discussed her own per­ lifestyle is a matter of options left in movement as the most important ele­ roll continued. The panel included: Ellen Stotz, a sonal struggles with her sexual iden­ an unsafe heterosexual world. ment in helping define women's sex­ '-Tom Krupa, Terrace 11 Resident graduate student in social work at tity which were largely based on her Counselor Flecia Thomas has uality. Hossfeld was supported by her Assistant, said the rumors are "totally Syra,cuse Unive_rsity; Nancy Bereano, ability/inability to reproduce. chosen not to marry or have children, peers when she said, "The feminist untrue.'' He stressed that, ''there was publisher of Firebrand books and Another detailed her struggle with her but has decided to adopt. This is an movement gave women sexual no searching for drugs at all." Accor­ feminist works; Aecia Thomas, a sexual preference, but ultimately cited option that is becoming more popular freedom, [and] sexual freedom is key ding to Campus Safety and Security, counselor and job developer at Cor­ lesbianism as··a ''liberating option in with young women. Making a firm to all other freedoms." there were no drug busts the weekend nell University; and Karen Hossfeld, the context of the real world." commitment to celibacy is also grow­ of the bomb thr~t. assistant professor of sociology at Publisher Nancy Bereano is work- ing, but it is a commitment that must be thought about carefully, said Thomas. "Today people are afraid to "It's physically ICSG eyes library improvements admit to celibacy at a young age," she said, "I encourage it, but you have to BY PAMELA BENSON ideas about library improvements. Also discussed at the meeting was make sure that that's what you really dangerous to be Plans to improve the library's pre­ Off-campus representative Abby the upcoming Student Government want. You should be able to articulate sent facilities were discussed at the Devakula wanted to see extended Awareness Week March 17-20. "The y~mr reasons to yourself and to sexu,a/ly active:' Student Government meeting on Feb. hours on Sunday morning. purpose is to explain what Student others." 17 in Gannett 111. Kevin Gershowitz, Pam Brooks, the Assistant Vice­ Government is, to promote it, and chairperson for Student Government President of Campus Affairs wanted recruit new members," said Jill Young women often lose their and a member of the Library Com­ the library to subscribe to the Los Holmes, Vice-President of virginity as a result of peer pressure The panelists represented a wide and the panelists admitted to being range of sexual lifestyles and beliefs mittee, spoke about the Committee Angeles Times. Communications. "We're interested in getting feed­ victims to the pressure too. But they and shared their struggles with the and its plans for the future. Other suggestions included addi­ st -The Committee is made up of two tional seating, more current , back from the students about what argued women should not remain vie- udents. They agreed that 'factors tims of peer pressure, social pressures, within one's background have strong students, four faculty members, periodicals for browsing and another they know or don't know about what Robert Woener, Qirector of the micro-film copier. we do," Holmes said. or be swayed by pressures from a influences on how a woman views her Library, and Michael Twomey, Chair "We're hoping to get a larger Student Government will sponsor partner. "It's ok to be whole and well sexuality· Race, economics, religion, and not attribute it to a sexual rela- age and family are all factors in the of the Committee. Gershowitz told budget increase to improve all the an all-campus party 4-6pm Friday, tionship," Flecia Thomas said, detennination.