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Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1998-99 The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 9-24-1998 The thI acan, 1998-09-24 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1998-99 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 1998-09-24" (1998). The Ithacan, 1998-99. 6. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1998-99/6 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. Accent 15 ToriAmos Singer-songwriter will can play Nov. 8 concert in the Ben Light Gym. Fitting fitness between Quads Building deadline: May '99 By Lynsey Pavlik Ithacan Contributor Although there is only a gap ing hole in the ground, by May 1999, a new fllne!>s center will stand between the Upper and Lower Quads. Vice Pre~ident of Business Affair!> Thomas Salm ~au.J this week. Tlie fitness center will house two gymnasia, an exercise room. an aerobics room, m'en 's and women's locker rooms and offices for recreational sports staff. The north gym of the facility will have a hardcourt surface, JAY MILLEMHE ITHACAN Crews from Welliver McGuire, Inc., the general contractor of the new fitness center, work to remove stone and dirt from a construction while the south gym will have a site between the Upper and Lower Quads. The fitness center is scheduled to be complete by May 1999. The facility will cost $6 million. composition floor used for tennis, indoor soccer and floor hockey. new free weights. The size of the one entrance. Students will need of two galleries with televisions "This will hopefully be a The exercise room, located on new exercise room will be their ID to enter the facility. All and vending machines. Brad place where people will congre the main floor of the building, approximately three times that of other entrances will be emer Buchanan, director of recreation gate and socialize," Buchanan will house the 33 machines cur the current room in the Hill gency exits equipped with al sports, said he hopes to have said. rently in the Hill Center plus 16 Center. alanns. •· nutritional snacks in the vending The need for more space for new selectorized units, 25 new Unlike the Hill Center, the The fitness center will also machines, including fruits and cardiovascular machines and 26 new fitness center will only have include a social area comprised other health foods. See COMPLETION, page 4 COMING HOME Asbestos warning issued; health safety tips offered By Kate Hilts Air sampling and asbestos VanDeusen said. The cost rises Ithacan Staff removal will take place if when ceiling tiles arc removed. Residents of the first and sec asbestos becomes airborne, YanDeuscn said long-term, ond floors of Rowland, Hood, Dillingham said. high-exposure levels of asbestos Hilliard and Holmes Halls "The asbestos makes me a lit for IO to 30 years could lead to received letters when they moved tle nervous because I did not respiratory problems. in concerning asbestos in their know about it until after I moved "It's not just the patching and ceiling and floor tiles. in," said sophomore Bettina removing of the asbestos that's The letter, from Peg Schimanski, a Rowland Hall important," Dillingham said. "It's Dillingham, assistant director of resident. the air sampling that makes the life safety, and David Prunty, VanDeusen said certified peo room safe." assistant director of residential ple have to remove asbestos. If Ithaca College tests asbe~tos life operations, asked students not asbestos from a ceiling becomes levels twice a year, during winter to damage ceilings. This would airborne and lands on the rug, break and summer vacation. prevent asbestos in the tiles from people could be harmed 1f Resident assistants look for dam becoming airborne. Similar safe improper removal takes place. age that could possibly lead to an ty precautions should be taken Asbestos must be removed asbestos check when they do with floor tiles, Dillingham said. before renovation or demolition room checks, Prunty said. "There's ways to avoid it of a building can begin, A routine maintenance check [from becoming airborne]," Dillingham said. last February in the Towers sophomore Nathan Leland said. 'The asbestos makes me Concourse led to the removal of "As long as I leave the ceiling uncomfortable," freshman Olivia asbestos in a boiler room. alone I won't have a problem Kaplan said. "They should reno Asbestos sampling took place SUZIE O'ROURKE/THE ITHACAN Senior wide receiver Troy Canada jumps into the arms of with it." vate and take it out as soon as in the Garden Apartments Sept. junior teammate Scott Wilson (80) after a, 91-yard kickoff Mark VanDeusen, environ possible." I 0, Dillingham said. An engineer return for a touchdown against Mansfield Saturday. mental health specialist for the The college does not remove ing company removed chunks of Equipment manager John-Wallace pats Canada on the head New York State Department of asbestos until there are building tile for examination. and junior Eric Newman (84, right) looks on. Undefeated Health, said there are no legal or renovations, or it poses a health To report damage to a ceiling, women's soccer and f,ootball play Saturday at 1 p.m. Men's soccer and field hockey host two matches, starting at 4 p.m. regulatory rules that require threat. The cost of removing floor contact a residential life staff on Friday on the Upper Terrace Field. See page 27 for more. asbestos to be removed because it tiles in a three-story building member. For questions about is present. ranges from $10,000-$100,000, asbestos, call 274-3756. ACCENT ..•• 13 CLASSIFIED .. 19 COMICS .... 20 OPINION .... 10 SPORTS ••••• 21 www.ithaca.edu/ithacan 2 THE IntACAN SEPTEMBER 24,1998 Briefl at 7 p.m in Emerson Suiles. Philips Hal. Mmrzano.. a 88¥ en-time Emmy Award-wwlrmg Maps on display writer for Sesame Slraet. .. A series of rich-data maps tell her life &by. MmmlliO is ., ...,, gl ..... , 2111 proven and will continue to prove, that against the produced by the Tompkins the first of lhrae speakers ht Ithacan Staff most sophisticated weaponry ever used in the his County Planning Department Office of Mtaiculural Affairs toly of mankind, the will of the people will even will be on display in the lobby wiH host as part of is "Racial ffriswa,26,-,.ago: tually win," Silver said. "As American citizens, it of Tompkins County Trust Co. Awareness Series.•. TM ltltacan prints lhe first in a series of arti is time for us to face up to the hypocracy, the un on the Ithaca Commons cles presenting lhe lalesl developments in South fulfilled promises and the calculated deceit of the Peer recrultans _ .... through Friday. east Asia as protest against lhe Vietnam War and Nixon administration." The Office of Adu ·ssion is Pn:sidcnt Richard Nixon's handling of the war Nixon's opponent in the upcoming presiden Youth volunteering forum seeking students illlerasled in swa:pscampus. tial election, Democratic nominee George Mc The South Central Regional volunteering for the Peer Re The fcdc:ral government· is focused not on Govern, reminds Ithaca College students to vote 4-H Volunteer Forum will be cruiting Program. Sludenls in Vaetnam but on lhe crisis in Israel as U.S. Cus in an advertisement. His message: "Five minutes held Saturday from 9:30 a.m. the program visit 1191 schools lOms employees tmn up three bombs addressed to ... that's all it takes to register to vote. Five min to 3 p.m. at Tompkins-Cort in their home towns and act as lhe Israeli mis.goo in lhe U.N. Building. utes of your time will decide the future ·or Ameri land Community College. The ambassadofs to the college. Explosive devices concea1ed in envelopes are ca." forum is geared toward pro For more inlonnation. cal 274- mailed to Israeli offacials in the United States and When not politicking, students look to the col viding volunteers with updat 3124. in al least six cities abroad. Aside from the three lcgc 's Pub to relax. In spite of renovations and ed information about working bombs discovered al the General Post Office In construction on campus, a temporary Pub will be with young people. New York City on route to the U.N. Building, oth opening in the Union Lounge. CORRECTIONS c.-s were found in Jerusalem, Montreal. Ottawa, 'The old Pub's furnishings have been brought Picnic at the park Geneva and Brussels. to the new area to capture the traditional atmos The Finger Lakes Land Trust A person was misidellliied in One bomb exploded Tuesday in London phere. To kick off the opening of the temporary will host a picnic at the Butter the Sept 10 "Teq,orary class killing an Israel official al their embassy. A note Pub, a special happy hour has been scheduled milk Falls Park pavilion at the room remains" story. Fred T. from lhe Arab terrorist organi7.alion, Black Sep with $.15 drafts. upper entrance on West King Wilcox Ill, chairman of the k:mbcl", was found with another bomb discovered Students are reminded that Elton John will be Road. The picnic is scheduled Town of llhaca Plafllling in London. playing a show in Barton Hall at Cornell Univer for Saturday from 1 p.m. to 6 Board, is not the same per This organization claims responsibility for the sity this weekend.