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BY NICOLE GERRING partments caused some of the tuition hike, Staff Writer Salm said. Additional faculty positions were A RISING TAB created in the School of Business and to teach The price tag on an.Ithaca College edu­ classes on diversity, he said. cation has increased by $1,368, surpassing Salm said college employees will also re­ $31,000 · the $30,000-mark. ceive a salary increase, but he would not dis­ The board of trustees voted in New York close how much pay would rise. $30,000 City last week to increase tuition rates by 4.96 Money will also be put toward improv­ percent to $21,102 from $20,104. The tuition ing campus technology-services and bulking $29,000 .increase will bump the total cost of attendance up scholarships like the Martin Luther King for on-campus students living in a double­ Jr. Scholars Program. $27,751 $28,000 - occupancy room with college health insur­ · The Sept. 11 attacks indirectly affected this 'ln 0 ance from $28,994 to $30,362. year's budget and tuition increases, Salm said. u Thomas Salm, vice president for business The cost of property casualty insurance has iii $27,000 0 and administrative affairs, said although stu­ skyrocketed up 20 percent as a result of the I- dents may expect to pay more each year to "phenomenal" amount of claims filed after $26,000 - attend, they can also look forward to im­ the attacks, he said. provements in academic programs and stu­ The board of trustees determines increases $25,000 - dent life. in tuition and other areas based on the an­ ':f -~ .,. "Almost every year, we try to increase and nual budget. The Budget Committee, which improve the quantity and quality of services includes the vice presidents, the five deans $24,000 that we provide to our students," Salm said. and faculty and staff representatives, delib­ "Everything in the budget is basically to do erates over the budget throughout the acad­ $23,000 :~------,------,------.,, something further for students in one fash­ emic year and submits it to the board of 1998-1999 1_999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 ion or another." Academic year Increased funding for several campus de- See RATES, Page 4 Lightening the load Seven departments to reduce teaching time for faculty

BY ANNE K. WALTERS study. The organization, com­ Staff Writer posed of comprehensive institu­ tions like Ithaca College, examined Ithaca College professors m the balance between faculty roles seven departments will teach of teaching. scholarship and ser­ one less course beginning in Fall vice across the country. 2002, reducing their workload to The result of the study was the 21 credit hours each year. budget recommendations ap­ The board of trustees ap­ proved by the board of trustees. proved funds last week in the 2002 Professors in the seven depart­ - 2003 budget for hiring addi­ ments will no longer teach 24 cn~d­ tional faculty in the departments it<; each academic year, but rather that have participated in the Fac­ 21 credits, or four courses in one ulty Workload Project. semester and three in another. "[The workload reduction] As a reward for the depart­ will improve faculty morale. It will ments reducing workloads during give faculty the chance to do the the ANAC study, they will receive things they want to do, the things either an additional non-tenure el­ they value," said William igible faculty member or a tem­ Scoones, interim provost and vice porary. part-time faculty member. president for academic affairs. "It They could also receive a will give them more freedom and $20,000 award for additional control over their own time." faculty travel funds, equipment, He said faculty will have the book funds and computer tech­ opportunity for more research, nology for home use. course development, advising "[Reduced workload] makes and community service. the college more competitive," The departments of art history; said Professor Sandra Herndon, organizational communication, chairw9man of the graduate pro­ learning and design; physical gram in organizational communi­ JOE PASTEAISITHE ITHACAN . therapy; psychology; physics; cation, learning and design. "For_ PROFESSOR PETER SELIGMANN, physics, helps soph9mores Kristen Pullano, center, and Amanda sport studies and writing spent the example, when hiring new faculty Mowers during Introduction to Physics II Tuesday In the Center for Natural Sciences. As a resuH of last three years re-evaluating and [a prospective] faculty mem- the trustees' decision on the workload issue, Seligmann, along with faculty members In six other workload as part of an Association departments, will begin teaching a reduced 21-credlt hour workload beginning In Fall 2002. of New American Colleges See OTHER, Page 4

INSIDE ACCENT ... 13 CLASSIFIED ••• 21 COMICS ••• 20 OPINION ••• 10 SPORTS ••• 28 2 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2002 National and International News Red Cross under investigaton for funds rooms and requires permits for demonstrations at the Uni­ HUGHES GOES FOR THE GOLD versity of Wisconsin-Whitewater drew so much criticism Despite a demand from the American Red Cross that that the chancellor is temporarily suspending it, saying the it back down, the country's leading charity watchdog stuck rules should be reviewed. by its removal of the Red Cross from its list of best-run Chancellor Jack Miller backed off the policy after stu­ charities Monday. dents and faculty complained and asked for clarifications. The Better Business Bureau's charity-evaluating unit Miller now wants a group of faculty, staff, students and insisted last week the Red Cross respond to the BBB 's de­ administrators to look over the rules, said Brian tailed questions about how it was managing the $850 mil­ Mattmiller, a university spokesman. lion raised after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Many of the rules date back to 1991, but they were re­ The co-chairman of the BBB 's board defended the ac­ cently compiled by the university and printed in the cam­ tions of his staff, saying that given the questions about the pus handbook in January. Red Cross after Sept. 11, an inquiry is needed. The rules identify certain areas on campus as "free-speech The dispute with the Red Cross erupted when the BBB's areas." They state organizations or individuals must identi­ Wise Giving Alliance dropped its evaluation of the Red fy themselves any literature they distribute. Cross from its Web site, which rates major charities against They require sponsors of demonstrations or protests to the alliance's 23 standards of good management The BBB's obtain a permit from the university 24 hours in advance. assessments are the public's ·main source of information What is causing much of the confusion and consterna­ about how U.S. charities perform. tion regarding these rules is they prohibit "political activ­ Citing complaints from donors and negative news cov­ ity" in residence hall living areas, classrooms and other erage of the Red Cross, the BBB said it could no longer parts of buildings. assure donors the charity met its standards. The BBB asked Political activity is defined as askir.g for petition sig­ the Red Cross for detailed information about its Sept. 11 natures, discussions of candidates or issues and distribu­ fund for disaster victims. tion of political literature. Mother being tri_ed in children's deaths Ice skating scoring to receive scrutiny As her children lay dead - the last left facedown in a Figure skating leaders endorsed sweeping changes for bathtub and the other four tucked under a green sheet on judging Monday in an attempt to answer widespread crit­ a nearby bed - a soaking wet Andrea Yates dialed 911 icism that the sport is corrupt. _and asked that police be dispatched. President Ottavio Cinquanta of the International Skat­ "I need a police officer," the 36-year-old mother says ing Union outlined a revolutionary proposal on the 11th on the tape of that 911 call. "Um, I just need them to come." day of the Winter Olympics, hoping to end a scandal that Prosecutors and defense attorneys on Monday opened · opened a window to the underbelly of this sport. arguments in Yates' capital murder trial, zeroing in on the Although a seemingly impressive response, the call placed minutes after the suburban Houston mother changes would not take effect unless passed by the 200- drowned all five of her children last June. member ISU congress in June at its meeting in Japan. Yates is accused of drowning Noah, 7, John, s: and Mary, Cinquanta offered no guarantee the federation - the world­ 6 months. The deaths of her other children, 3-year-old Paul wide governing body of figure skating and speed skating and 2-year-old Luke, are expected to also figure promi­ - would approve the plan that washes away 80 years of nently in the case. judging practices. Defense attorneys are expected to show that Yates was The plan involves: increasing the number of Judges from delusional at the time of her children's deaths and not guilty nine to 14; a computerized system that would randomly of capital murder by reason of insanity. select the scores of seven judges that would count; the fi­ Her 911 call is considered critical proof that the regis­ nal score being an average of the total points awarded by tered nurse could distinguish between right and wrong fol­ the seven judges; assigning points to jumps, moves, foot­ lowing the killings, prosecutors say. In his opening state­ work, spins and lifts based on.difficulty. ment, prosecutor Joe Owmby told the jury of eight women A double axle, for instance, could be worth two points JOE RIMKUS JR/MIAMI HERALD and four men that the 911 call to police indicates that the while a more difficult triple jump could be worth three. OlYMPIAN SARAH HUGHES, whose brother is a stay-at-home mom was sane. He also pointed to her de­ Judges, coaches and ISU technical committee members freshman at Ithaca College, placed fourth in the lay in committing her act until after her husband, Russell, would be recruited to create a scoring system. ladies short program figure skating competition left for work so he wouldn't stop her. "I promise you that this system will reduce to a mini­ Tuesday night. The long program will be broad­ mum the possibility of bloc judging," Cinquanta said. cast today at 8 p.m. on NBC. University's free speech policy criticized A speech policy that bans "political activity" in dorm SOURCE: KRT Campus

Ayuso and Hristo Hadjinikolov, juniors Jen­ College seeks applicants News nette Norton, Totka Parusheva, Gary Kreiser for Student Trustee position CORRECTIONS and Benjermin Giuliano and sophomores Nicole DeVita and Christopher Conover. The search for the next student trustee will Carly Chamberlin took the front­ Briefs First prize was a Palm Pilot for each team begin on Monday, when applications become page photograph of freshman member, as well as a trophy. available in the Student Activities Center. Matthew Hughes. The photo credit was incorrect in the Feb. 14 issue. Radio marathon to raise funds Construction complete for The two-year position serves as the only stu­ for suicide prevention charity dent representation on the board of trustees, new Administrative Annex the college's highest governing body. It is The lthacan's policy to correct Students from radio station 106-VIC are Applications will be due on March 19. For all errors of fact. Please contact seeking entries for a Battle of the Bands com­ The Administrative Annex, a temporary more information, contact current student Assistant News Editor Joe Geraghty petition to be held as part of the 17th annual office building next to the Roy H. Park School trustee Kristina Pervi at 274-3222. at 274-3207. 50-Hour Marathon. of Communications, opened for business The event will be held in the Odyssey on Monday. College to bring AIDS Quilt March 23 from 9 p.m. to l a.m. Applications The benefits, human resource information, for display in Emerson Suites are available at www.ithaca.edu/vic or in the compensation and leadership development ITHACAN INFORMATION VIC studio on the first floor of the Roy H. departments in the Office of Human Re­ A. portion of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will Single copies of The Ithacan are be coming to the college next week. available free of charge from awhori:ed Park School of Communications. The dead­ sources, as well as the Payroll Office, made distriblllion points on the Ithaca College line is March 2. the move to the building. About 128 panels sewn and decorated by camp11s and in downtown Ithaca. Proceeds from the event will benefit the An open house for the Administrative An­ friends and families of AIDS victims will be M11ltiple copies and mail s11bscri1?tio11s nex will be held later this semester. on display in Emerson Suites from Sunday are available from The Ithacan office. SO-Hour Marathon charity, Suicide Preven­ Please call (607) 274-3208for rates. tion and Crisis Services of Ithaca. to Thursday. All Ithaca College students, regardless Groups to sponsor events . An opening ceremony will take place on ofsclwol or major. are invited to joi11 The Accounting students triumph Sunday at 7 p.m. Ithacan staff. Interested students sho11ld to honor Black History Month contact an edilor or visit 1be Ithacan office in state "Jeopardy" challenge The public can view the panels Monday in Roy H. Park Hall, room 269. The college will conclude its celebration to Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and An Ithaca College Accounting Associa­ of Black History Month with a screening and Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon. Mailing address: 269 Roy H. Park Hall. Ithaca Colief e, Ithaca, N. Y., 14850-7258 tion team captured top honors at the first an­ panel discussion of the film "Malcolm X'' on Telephone: 607) 274-3208 nual Green and Seifter Accounting Challenge, Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Park Auditorium. Women's studies to celebrate Fax: (607)" 74-1565 a competition modeled after the game show The Office of Multicultural Affairs, in col­ E-mail: [email protected] with forum and readings World Wule Web: www.ithaca.edu/ithacmz "Jeopardy!" laboration with nine student organizations, Online Manager - Matt Scerra Eight students defeated teams from also organized book readings of works by The ninth annual WomenSpeak forum will Production Assistant -Aaron J. Mason LeMoyne College, State University of New black authors to students in local middle be held on Wednesday in Clark Lounge, Classified Manager - Jen Yomoah York at Oswego and St. John Fisher College schools throughout the month. Campus Center. Calendar Manager - Caroline Ligaya in the Feb. 8 event, organized by the Syra­ "Black History Month is about trying to Sponsored by the women's studies pro­ Design staff- 1iani Veltri cuse accounting firm Green and Seifter. . educate the gre:iter populous and celebrate gram, the day long series of talks, readings Copy editing staff-Jen Chandler. Sean Connacher. Caitlin Connelly, Alexis Heath, Participants answered questions about . the accomplishments of African-Ameri­ and performances will focus on 'Tran­ Asa Pillsbury, Celia Stahr; Nathalz Wilson managerial accounting, trivia and financial ac­ cans," said David Speller, assistant director scending Boundaries." The event will last ( Editorial Board listed on Opinion page) counting. Members were seniors Pamela of multicultural affairs. from 9 a.m. to noon and l to 4 p.m. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2002 NEWS THE ITHACAN 3 Board. adopts ,master plan College to set timetable on $150 millWn expansion

BY ALIX STERNBERG of 10 to 15 years, Salm said. They Staff Writer hope a final schedule will be de­ termined by the fall, he said. In its meeting last week, the "One of the things that we are in Ithaca College Board of Trustees the process of trying to do is lay out approved the campus master plan a timetable," Salm said. "But of to expand the college. course that ultimately depends on New residence halls, a field when we have money available. The house, more administrative space and capital campaign will be a big part renovations to existing facilities are of it." included in the plan. Sasaki Associ­ The first step was taken toward ates Inc. drew up the plan to improve implementing the plan recently, the physical attributes of the college. when the college bought the Cir­ Two of the top priorities of the cle Apartments to meet the imme­ plan arc a new field house and more diate residence hall needs. administrative space, said Thomas Originally, there were three sep­ Salm, vice president for business arate master plans titled "The and administrative affairs. Both Quads," "The District" and "Main were part of the 1990 expansion Street," with different themes. The plan but were not completed. final plan condensed the three. Salm said the amount needed to Salm said the final plan incor­ carry out the construction of the porates the best of the first three. biggest part of the plan is estimated It is centered around the IO­ to be $150 million. The plan will minute campus ideal: all academ­ be completed by borrowing money, ic and essential student functions usmg current resources; arrange­ should be concentrated so all ments with Sasaki and fund-raising. buildings are within a 10-minute The budget contains a provision for walk of all other buildings, he said. a $1.5 million loan for the initial im­ Larry Alleva '71, vice chairman plementation of the plan, he said. and spokesman for the board of The master plan will most trustees, said the board is enthusiastic likely be carried out over a period about the master plan.

A PLAN IN TWO PHASES Phase 1 Phase 2 324,200 square feet 167,300 square feet

• Field house • Alumni Hall addition • New School of Business • Roy H. Park School of Com­ • Hill Center addition munications addition • New gateway building • New humanities building • 800 additional residence hall • Campus Center addition beds • Health services building • Service building • Library addition • Library internal expansion MEGAN CONKLINffHE ITHACAN THOMAS SALM, vice president for business and administrative affairs, points out aspects of the cam­ pus master plan during a presentation by the architectural firm Sasaki Associates Inc. in September. Administrators create marketing position BY BROOKE BENNETT Steege/fhomson submitted a list of recom­ Staff Writer :).:. -;.-..: <~r~ mendations to the Office of Institutional Ad­ vancement. Semmler said the recommenda­ A new administrative position that will ?-:·:/;~ ,~~~.ff~ tions are not available because she has not oversee the college's marketing and com­ yet shared them with other staff members. munication efforts was approved in the She said she was interested in creating the 2002-2003 budget at the Ithaca College new position because she has wanted to Board of Trustees meeting last week. strengthen ties with alumni for several years. The position, which is part of a new col­ "Trying to get alumni to understand ... lege-wide marketing initiative, does not have who our competitors are and what our aca­ a title yet. The Office of Human Resources demic rankings are, all help to bring alum­ must still approve the job description. ni closer to the institution, and hopefully fi­ The goal of the new position is to shape nancial support will follow," Semmler said. the college's overall image, including in­ Semmler added that the college is not im­ creasing visibility and improving communi­ plementing the new marketing initiative sole­ cations with alumni, said Shelley Semmler, ly to increase donations. vice president for institutional advance­ "It's not just financial support," Semmler ment. said. "It's involvement in the institution, com­ Semmler said the new position will shift the ing to reunions [and] returning to teach." college's communication focus away from the Larry Metzger, dean of enrollment plan­ print publications and toward creating a strat­ ning, said he hopes the new position will help egy to help the college communicate effectively to better coordinate efforts to attract higher­ with the community. quality students. The administrator will report to Semmler. "I should think that it would be positive to Adding the new position may change the op­ have a more concerted college-wide ap­ erations of some of the offices Semmler over­ proach to getting the name of the institution out sees, including the Offices of Public Infor­ [to prospective students] rather than relying ... mation, College Relations and Alumni Re­ heavily on admissions materiafs," he said. lations. Other personnel changes are being made "I think it will change the organizational within institutional advancement. Cassandra structure," Semmler said, explaining that the PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY KRISTIN SAMPIERE/THE ITHACAN George, executive director of development, exact nature of the changes is uncertain at this ITHACA COLLEGE'S PUBLICATIONS may send out new messages under the super­ is leaving her position to serve in a three-year time. vision of a nc,w marketing and communications director to be appointed by this June. job in charge of special fund raising for the Public Information Director David Maley "It will allow us to focus more on the me­ A suggestion for creating the position was institutional and campus master plans. said he thinks the new position will help his dia relations aspect of the public infonnation made at the May 2001 meeting of the board Semmler will oversee the development of­ office better use media to communicate with effort ... with a coordination and an integra­ of trustees, after consulting firm fice until a new executive director is hired. students, faculty, staff, the local community tion campus-wide to involve all parts of the Steege/Thomson Communications from Searches for both positions will be con­ and prospective students. campus in the college's marketing," Maley said Philadelphia was hired in April 2001. ducted this semester. .:. 'I I I.' I \ ,, ' I I'\'

4 THE ITHACAN NEWS lHURSDAY,-fEBRUARY 21, 2002

A VALENTINE'S DAV EVENT Rates continue to rise

Continued from Page 1 same, the college only has so much money to give to a large trustees during its meeting. number of areas and depart­ Vice Chairman Larry Alleva ments. '71, board spokesman, said "I look at the big picture," every year the board reviews the Pervi said. "I try to find out full budget recommendations what's best for everyone on this and proposals and includes campus, but unfortunately them as part of the discussion on that's very difficult to do budget approval. Alleva said he sometimes." has seen a lot of give and take Pervi said she has heard stu­ in deliberations while serving dents wonder how long the with the 23-member group. trend of increasing college costs "I've been on the board will continue. · since the mid-80s and I don't "I've heard mixed reac­ know that it's ever easy to make tions," she said. "Some people a decision on raising tuition," Al­ want to know what's the break­ leva said. "This year was just as ing point? Every year, every intense a<; every year. We have school raises tuition, even na­ to balance every area of need." tionally - where does it stop? NICHOLAS CASCIANO/THE ITHACAN Senior Kristina Pervi, the stu­ You wonder how much you will STUDENTS WATCH ''The Vagina Monologues" Thursday in Emerson Suites. The Eve Ensler play dent trustee, said it is important be paying when your children go was part of the celebration of V-Day, an international movement to combat violence against women. to remember the board is an op­ to college." erating body that looks at com­ Freshman Megan Heeder mittee recommendations and said she understands the college's the institutional plan to see decision in raising the cost of tu­ what the college needs. ition, but believes the student Other departments may join project "The board scrutinizes it, bod}should be more involved in makes sure it's OK," Pervi administrative decision-making. Continued from Page 1 ing that department wants to for reducing teaching loads, said. 'The board trusts what its "I think that students need to maintain the same level of person­ Scoones said. community members need." be more informed about why ber is looking at other colleges that al interaction and discussion. "I think if we're successful, Pervi said reviewing the bud­ it's happening and where the have a more manageable workload, And the benefits of reducing fac­ we're going to be on the cutting get is one of the most difficult de­ increase is coming from," it makes it harder for us to compete." ulty course loads will extend to stu­ edge," he said. "We're being cisions she has to make. She said Heeder said. "There has to be­ I lerndon also said reduced dents, by allowing the department looked at as a model for other col- that although ideally the board a stop; it just seems to keep ris­ workloads will allow her depart­ to bring in faculty with specialties leges like us." · would like to keep the cost the ing every year." ment to focus on building the in different areas in order to expand Associate Provost Garry Brod­ graduate program. the curriculum, he said. head. who has been active in the Associate Professor Gary Wells. The seven departments will be the ANAC study, has contributed a art history, said hi!> department may first to be impacted by the Faculty chapter about the workload project have to slightly mcrease the size of Workload Project, but other depart­ to the recently published book "A some class sections and offer some ments may follow in future years. New Academic Compact: Rev1- cla;,»e!> le;,s frequently. Interested departments must be s10ning the Relationship between ''[ But] I don't thmk that students approved for participation in the Faculty and Their Institut1on5." will really notice a great deal of dif­ Faculty Workload Project. Each de­ "Ithaca College is receiving a lot ference. We are still offering rela- partment across campus will be en­ of attention for its work, it really 1;, 11 vcly small cla5ses," he ;,aid, not- couraged to develop its own plan innovative," he said.

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BY JOE GERAGHTY AND music sorority. KELLI B. GRANT Mehne, who also came to the col­ Assistant News Editors lege in 1989, has played with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra as a The board of trustees took time flutist and has published articles on during its February meeting to rec­ Bach's sonatas and flute history. ognize the work of professors with Michael McCall, business ad­ promotions and tenure. ministration, came to the college in The board also granted tenure to 1989 and has been promoted to newly hired Peter Bardaglio, professor. He has served on the provost and vice president for aca­ Counseling Center Advisory demic affairs. Committee. Bardagho, who was hired earli­ Gary Fountain, English, was er this month, had been a member promoted to associate professor. of the Goucher College Department He is working with the college's of History since 1983. He had Center for Teacher Education to con­ served a!> Goucher's mterim vice duct a multi-year project to assist pre!>1dent and academic dean since teachers and administrators at the August 2000. Frederick Douglass Academy in The board recognized retired Harlem. protcssor John Bernard\ more Elizabeth Begley was promot­ than 30 years of teaching in the De­ ed to clinical assistant professor in partment of Biology by awarding the Department of Speech-Lan­ h11n the title of professor emeritus. guage Pathology and Audiology. Bernard retired m 2000. His re­ Before coming to the college in !>earch earned h11n numerous state 1989, Begley was a speech-lan­ and national grants. guage pathologist in several The board also approved a num­ school districts. ber of prornotiom. Linda Heyne, Theraputic Recre­ Mark Fonder, music education, ation and Leisure Services, was pro­ was promoted to profe!>sor. He has moted to associate professor and written aruclc!, for numerous !>Chol­ granted tenure. She came to the col­ arly Journab since coming to the col­ lege in 1998. Heyne serves as the act­ lege in 1989. ing chair of her department and is a Lee Goodhew and Wendy member of the President's Task Mehne, both from the Department of Force on Diversity, Performance Studies, were also Susan Swensen, chairwoman of promoted to professor. the Department of Biology, was pro­ Since coming to Ithaca College moted to associate professor and in 1989. Goodhew has played bas­ granted tenure. She came to the col­ CORINNE JACOBY/THE ITHACAN ~oon with the Cayuga Chamber Or­ lege as an instructor in 1995. Her re­ SOPHOMORE SARAH ANDERSON, left to right, junior Dana Falck and sophomore Marissa Shams chc~tra and served as the faculty search has been published in nu­ dance at the annual Student Alumni Association winter semiformal Friday In Emerson Suites. ~ponsnr fo: the Sigma Alpha Iota merous botany journals.

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Sen-ior cards sold at Ticket Sales. 6 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSDAY,· FEBRUARY 21, 2002 SGA schedules U.N. team captures honors forum to debate BY MICHELLE THEIS Staff Writer grade inflation

Junior Page Schrock spent five days last BY BROOKE BENNETT week touring Boston and came away wi~ an Staff Writer award for his representation of Venezuela at a Model U.N. conference. Students will have the opportunity to Schrock was among 23 delegates and ask questions and express concerns five award winners who attended the Har­ about grade inflation at an open forum vard National Model United Nations con­ Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. in Textor 102. ference as a member of the college's Mod­ The forum, sponsored by the Student el U .N. Team last week. Government Association, will be held in The team was a select group of students who response to a report on grade inflation at began meeting in early October. They spent the college conducted by the Grading four months researching the country of ·Policies Committee last spring. Venezuela in order td participate in a simulat­ At its Feb. 5 meeting, Faculty Coun­ ed U. N. conference, adviser and Associate Pro­ cil decided to delay voting on a recom­ fessor Martin Brownstein, politics, said. mendation to eliminate the A+ in order Although Venezuela was a challenging to allow for student input. The recom­ selection, Brownstein said the students were mendation was one of four in the report. determined to succeed and used their ex­ The other recommendations were pertise along with many long hours of re­ putting less weight on student evaluations search to realistically represent Venezuela of professors, eliminating the pass/fail sys­ at the conference. COURTESY OF JULIE CAUSA tem and indexing student · transcripts, . "Venezuela is difficult because it is an 'up­ FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, seniors John Murphy, Pamela Ayuso, Julie Causa, James which would list how many students pity' country that is not disposed to much Scheinblum, Shelley Facente and Thomas Metzger are members of the college's Model earned each grade given in a class. compromise," Brownstein said. United Nations Team and attended a conference in Boston last week. Junior Brenna Corbett, SGA vice pres­ Venezuelan students at the conference ident of academics, said the two recom­ commented that Ithaca students played the Scheinblum, who won an award for repre­ worth the work. mendations that could lead to the most part perfectly, Brownstein said. senting Venezuela on the Model U.N.'s In­ "It was not only an intellectual but also specific action - discontinuing the A+ Students on the team were divided into spe­ tellectual Property Organization committee, an emotional venture with 22 of the bright­ and eliminating the pass/fail system - cific committees with special concentrations. would argue that success came most im­ est students on campus," said sophomore may not be the most debated issues. Delegates then became experts in their areas, portantly from thorough preparation. Danielle D' Abate, a first-time delegate. "I think the most heated discussions said senior Shelley Facente, a team member. "We made several trips to Cornell's library, Award-winning senior Thomas Metzger, will be on student evaluations," she said: Once at the conference, students met researched on the Internet and met as a group the group's co-chair, agreed. Some students have expressed concern with peers from other schools who repre­ twice to three times a week since October,"· "This is the most solid team we've had that decreasing the weight of student eval­ sented various countries. They held com­ he said. since I've been on team," he said. uations will minimize student input. mittee meetings and passed resolutions. With other participants like Brown and Co­ Schrock, representative for the Interna­ Corbett said the forum will have a Throughout the process Brownstein said the lumbia, along with numerous international col­ tional Court of Justice, as well as Metzger brief introduction to the issue of grade students had to represent Venezuela as real leges, Ithaca "played in the big leagues." and Scheinblum, co-delegates to the World inflation followed by time for members Venezuelans would. Brownstein said Ithaca College's team still Intellectual Property Organization, cap­ of the college community to make com­ To create a more authentic representation, managed to work comfortably and collabora­ tured the awards for best delegates in their ments and ask questions about the rec­ Ithaca's students made stationery - their "se­ tively at the level of the more prestigious in­ committees. ommendations. cret weapon," as Brownstein called it- that stitutions. Co-delegates junior Bozhidar Zahariev and A panel of one student and one pro­ displayed the Venezuelan motto imprinted on While the task was daunting and the sophomore Theresa Kipp won an honorable fessor from each of the five schools will a muted Venezuelan flag, he said. work challenging, members of this year's mention award for distinguished effort in the answer questions and respond to com­ First-time delegate senior James team agreed that the benefits were well U.N. Environment Programme. ments.

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The Senior Class Gift Committee will kick off its campaign on Friday to raise funds for its class gift of wheelchair ac­ cessibility for Textor Hall. This was the class's first choice of gifts, said Lynne Pierce, the Senior Class Gift Co~mittee adviser and associate director of the annual fund. "Every student has a class in Textor at some point," she said. "We wanted some­ thing that would affect everyone." The Senior Class Gift Committee sur­ veyed the senior class this past fall to se­ lect an appropriate project for the gift cam­ paign, committee chair senior Kristina Per­ vi said. ,' About 25 percent of the class respond­ ~ ed, she said. ~- ,,,,.,.-·"'I,_ "All of the [gift J ideas were about helping," she said. "After Sept. 11 we were really con­ BECKI CONANT/THE ITHACAN cerned about doing something that would make LYNNE PIERCE, RIGHT, Senior Class Gift Committee adviser and associate director of the annual fund, discusses gift options with a tangible difference." committee chairwoman senior Kristina Pervi, front left, and comn,ittee members seniors Jeff Levi and Jennifer Friedman. The kickoff event is a cocktail party with "We want to encourage the seniors to demonstrate outstanding leadership. this project is overcoming the skepticism wine and hors d'oeuvres for seniors at the take pride in what they leave behind for If donors do not like either project, gifts of most seniors and proving that donating Tower Club on Friday at 5:30 p.m. Seniors their school," senior Andrea Cecconi said. can be directed to any other area of the col­ money is worth it. can make a $5 contribution during the event. "You want your degree to have a meaning. lege and still contribute towards the seniors' "No matter how many days I can't find The Alumni Board will match the first If seniors don't give back, the reputation of total gift, which will be matched by the a parking spot, it's such a small and stupid 125 gifts of at least $5 with an additional the school will decrease." Alumni Board. thing compared to [the positive influences $500 toward the senior class campaign, The seniors from the business school also "It is the generosity of donors that gives of] my education and all the incredible peo­ Pierce said. Then for every 5 percent of the wanted to leave something behind. SeniorTe­ you a high quality of education," Pierce ple I have met here," she said. "We want class (62 seniors) that donate $5, the Board jas Gosai initiated the idea of a Senior Busi­ said. "Tuition doesn't cover it." [seniors] to look at all of the good things ...., ill add another $250, up to $2,002. ness Class of 2002 Award for seniors who Cecconi said the largest challenge for they have gotten out of it." Announcing: Senior Class Cabinet Meeting. Join: for fun & resume builder. Every Wednesday .at 7 p.m. Demotte Room 8 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2002 2002-2004 -Sponsored by SGA-

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Applications are available on Monday, Feb. 25 in the Student-Activities Center. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2002 NEWS THE ITHACAN 9 Cam.pus Safety Log Feb. 7 - Feb. 10 Incidents Feb.7 • Conduct code violation checked the area, but persons responsible • Liquor law violation • Medical assist Location: L-lot were not located. Sgt. John Federation. Location: Landon Hall Location: East Tower Summary: Officer found intoxicated person in Summary: Caller reported a loud party with Summary: Report of person having difficulty L-lot. Student transported to Health Center • Fire alarm possible alcohol and marijuana use. breathing and losing consciousness. and then to CMC due to high blood alcohol Location: Lyon Hall Residents were issued appearance tickets Ambulance transported student to CMG. content. Student judicially referred for alcohol Summary: Fire alarm due to activated for underage possession of alcohol and judi­ Sgt. John Federation. policy violation. Patrol Officer Ryan Mayo. smoke detector in basement. Unknown cially referred. Patrol Officer Fred Thomas. cause for activation, possibly burned paper. • Harassment • Aggravated harassment Fire alarm system was reset. Feb.10 Location: Bogart Hall Location: Terrace 3 Patrol Officer Fred Thomas. • Fire alarm Summary: Report of an intoxicated person Summary: Caller reported receiving harass- Location: Emerson Hall

being verbally threatening. One student ing phone calls from unknown subject. r • Criminal mischief Summary: Fire alarm due to activated pull judicially referred for alcohol policy viola­ Patrol Officer Nathan Humble. Location: Lyon Hall box and fire extinguisher being discharged tion and harassment. Summary: Officer reported damage to a outside of room. Fire alarm system reset. Patrol Officer Ryan Mayo. • Follow-up . wooden chair that had been thrown off a Patrol Officer Ryan Mayo. Location: Terrace 9 balcony. Sgt. John Federation. • Criminal tampering Summary: During a follow-up investigation, • Assist other agency Location: East Tower one student was judicially referred for dam­ • Assist other agency Location: All other Summary: Report of food being thrown on aging college property after being found Location: All other Summary: TCSD requested assistance with the wall of the ground floor TV lounge. responsible for a broken hallway light. Summary: TCSD requested assistance with­ a report of an intoxicated person having diffi­ Custodial staff responded and cleaned the Damage originally reported Jan. 31. a loud party at College Circle apartments. culty breathing and going in and out of con­ area. Sgt. John Federation. Investigator Laura Durling. Officers found no party, but spoke to resi­ sciousness. Student transported to CMG by dents about noise. Sgt. John Federation. ambulance. Patrol Officer Ryan Mayo. • Conduct code violation • Larceny Location: West Tower Location: Terrace 12 • Criminal mischief • Crimina,I mischief Summary: Report of an intoxicated person Summary: Caller reported a vacant room Location: Clarke Hall Location: Garden Apartment 28 entering someone else's residence hall had been entered, and items were removed Summary: Caller reported property damage Summary: Report of damage to the outside room. Student was transported to Health and damaged by an unknown subject. to the east side balcony of building. TIies of a sliding glass door and a remark being Center and judicially referred for alcohol Patrol Officer Terry O'Pray. had been removed and broken by an written on a dry-erase board. policy violation. Patrol Officer Ryan Mayo. unknown subject. Patrol Officer Terry O'Pray. • Larceny Patrol Officer Terry O'Pray. • Criminal mischief Location: Ceracche Athletic Center • Larceny Location: Terrace 9 Sur:nmary: Caller reported theft of coat con­ • Suspicious circumstance Location: Towers Concourse Summary: Caller reported damage done to taining student ID and room key. Ithaca Location: Clarke Hall Summary: Caller reported theft of a rug. the ceiling and support posts in the third floor College ID card was canceled per owner's Summary: Officer heard a verbal dispute Patrol Officer Nathan Humble. west bathroom. request. Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock. between two individuals on the third floor bal­ Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock. cony. Officers interviewed both parties. • Medical assist • Vehicle stops - liquor law Student requested that the non-student leave Location: Chapel • Theft of services Location: Main Campus Road campus. Non-student complied. No further Summary: Report that a student had Location: H-lot Summary: During a vehicle stop, officer action required. Patrol Officer Terry O'Pray. passed out and was unresponsive. Student Summary: Ticket writer found vehicle issued the driver a campus summons for conscious upon officer's arrival. Ambulance parked in H-lot handicapped space with an going through a stop sign. Driver was also • Liquor law violation transported student to CMC emergency altered permit. Permit removed and student issued an appearance ticket for u_nderage Location: Farm Road room. Sgt. Keith Lee. judicially referred. possession of alcohol. Summary: Two students issued appear­ Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock. Patrol Officer Ryan Mayo. ance tickets for underage possession of alcohol. Patrol Officer Fred Thomas and • Fire alarm • Conduct code violation Sgt. John Federation. KEY Location: Terrace 3 Location: Hilliard Hall Summary: Caller reported a small fire in Summary: Caller reported loud party and • Theft of service ABC -Alcohol Beverage Control Law residence hall room that had been put out, suspicious odor, possibly marijuana. One Location: J-lot CMC - Cayuga Medical Center but the room was left with no electrical student judicially referred for alcohol policy Summary: Vehicle towed for having a fraud­ DWI - Driving While Intoxicated power. Maintenance responded. violation and responsibility of guest. ulent permit. Case being investigated. IFD - Ithaca Fire Department Patrol Officer Nathan Humble. Sgt. John Federation ... Sgt. Keith Lee. IPD - Ithaca Police Department MVA- Motor Vehicle Accident Feb.8 Feb.9 • Aggravated harassment RA- Resident Assistant • Property • Theft of services Location: Terrace 10 TCSD - Tompkins County Sheriff's Location: Friends Hall Location: J-lot Summary: Caller reported bias-related, Department Summary: Jacket found and turned in to Summary: Report of seven persons leaving racial graffiti on a bulletin board. V&T -Vehicle and Traffic Violation Campus Safety. a cab wit~out paying the fare. Officers Patrol Officer Nathan Humble. Feel free to bug us. Call the news desk with story tips at 274-3207.

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NAMED SILVER CROWN WINNER FOR 1999-2000 The Ithacan THURSDAY NAMED BEST COLLEGE WEEKLY IN ~-- . . FEBRUARY 21, 2002 THE NATION FOR 1999 PAGE10 NAMED BEST COLLEGE NEWSPAPER IN NEW YORK FOR 1999 ~1n1on Editorials '05 An unfortunate need The future is a popular topic of discussion among college admin­ istrators. Projects and strategies culminating in the Institutional Plari abound, but something is missing. A clear image of the college. All the programs, initiatives and proposals share common goals and ideas, but those concepts have yet to be compiled into a ptesentable, 80 marke,able format. In acknowledgment of this void, the college has 65° announced the creation of a new position with the explicit purpose of Clear Overc.a.st shaping the college's overall image and overseeing its promotion. Details about this position and its effects remain vague at this stage, Sunr'l'eJ- f lur-rie.s but clearly the problem needs to be addressed. A college without a sol­ id exhibition of its own identity will certainly not have a strong rep­ Mi Id 1&:,e.e.2e.s Ve~ lJ;(\~ utation beyond campus borders. But does a viable solution require yet another administrator? "- The representation of the college should be articulated by someone who knows the character of the college, the temper of the students and faculty, their unmet needs and desires, the condition of every facility and classroom and the reputation of the college according to outside institutions and businesses. That someone should be the college's president. Part of a college president's role is to effectively portray the cam­ pus to prospective students, future employers of graduates and the wider world of higher education. Yet after six years, President Williams found it necessary to hire a consulting firm to tell the college that this was something it needed to do, and that it needed to bring in someone new to do it. An office of institutional advancement exists. Advancing the institu­ Letters tion certainly includes marketing it, so why is no one in that office fill­ ing that role already? The people of that office have a more realistic con­ cept of the college than any external firm. Such a job as defining the col­ Column was ignorant gan participating. peanuts" and "reality television," lege's image should logically be someone's responsibility within the of­ You also touched on the difficulty maybe you could stop by a match fice that promotes the college. A new position should not be needed. I'm writing in response to the in "deciphering the scoring." This and see what most see if they give article by Zac Gershberg could have been easily remedied by it a chance - that it is a pretty cool "Wrestling, gymnastics invoke crossing the "scalding threshold" of sport when you take l O minutes to Faculty deserve break my humility." As someone who has the Ben Light Gymnasium door to learn about it. been involved with the sport of research what you were writing "Ithaca College has initiated action that may finally address long­ wrestling for over 13 years, I was about. The scoring is not difficult. SETH LIND '03 standing faculty complaints concerning its workload." somewhat insulted by Zac's com­ Two points for a takedown, one for This statement appeared in The Ithacan in October 1998, when the ments about my sport. an escape, etc. Send a letter college announced its participation in the Association of New Amer­ I've never heard of anyone writ­ So if you are going to write an ican Colleges faculty workload project. Now four years later, faculty ing an article giving their ''respect" article, do us a favor and do some The Ithacan welcomes correspon­ dence from all ;eaders. Please are finally getting a break. toward something without doing research first. By solidifying your include your name, phone number, The board of trustees approved the Faculty Workload Project, which any research about it. You even ignorance about wrestling you do year of graduation and/or your will drop one class per year from the courseload of professors in seven took time to prove your ignorance nothing to help us gain awareness organizational or college title/ posi­ departments, beginning next year. The lightened teaching burden will give by mentioning our "restricting" about our great sport. So some tion. Letters must be 250 words or less and signed. The Ithacan professors much needed time to actively pursue scholarship and community uniforms, a comment we in the night if you can pry yourself reserves the right to edit letters for service, as well as allow deeper concentration on teaching students. sport have dealt with since we be- aw·ay from your "styrofoam length, clarity and taste. At Ithaca College, most professors teach four courses per semester - above the norm of colleges across the country. Such a workload stretch­ es professors' energies too thin, depriving students of quality attention in addition to flattening the academic profession into one dimension. Pro­ fessors should do more than lecture and grade exams. They should be mentors, scholars and researchers, but they need time to fulfill those roles. Workload has been the primary concern of faculty on this campus Let your for a long time. Five years ago, when President Williams arrived on . campus, she promised to make the issue a priority. One year later, Jim Malek became provost and began studying the issue with then Spe­ cial Assistant to the Provost William Scoones. This new project marks I the first step toward across-the-board workload reduction. Previous efforts have only provided temporary alleviation. Two years ago, the Center for Faculty Research and Development was established. The center has allowed about 70 professors each semester to teach one less class in order to do research, but only a campus-wide approach will effectively solve the problem. In creating an environment more fnendly to such pursuits, the college will attract more impressive pools of applicants for teaching positions, consequently raising the caliber of the faculty and strengthening the college's academics. Interim Provost Scoones, Associate Provost Garry Brodhead and oth­ ers who worked diligently have made an important contribution. Now the college must keep its commitment to expand the program to all de­ partments and relieve the burden for each and every faculty member. be heard! The Ithacan reaches lthTheacan more than 5,500 readers a Founded in 1931 www.ithaca.edu/ithacan week. KYLIE YERKA MATT SCHAUF Editor m Chief Sports Editor JENNIFER A. HODESS BRIAN DELANEY Managing Editor Assistant Sports Editor ELLEN R. STAPLETON KRISTIN SAMPIERE News Editor Photo Editor JOE GERAGHTY JOE PASTERIS If you've got something to say Assistant News Editor Assistant Photo Editor KELLI B. GRANT ELIZABETH CROWLEY Assistant News Editor Chief Copy Editor · to the campus community, MEGAN TETRICK SARAH SCHRAM Opinion Editor Sales Manager SAMIKHAN LAURA LUBRANO here's your chance. Accent Editor Business Manager SEAN FENNESSEY MICHAEL SERINO Assistant Accent Editor Manager of Student Publications Drop your letters off at.269 Roy H. Park Hall or e-mail them to [email protected] . - THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2002 -OPfNION- - THE ITHACAN 11 Business and politics Spice collide to harm public Rack

"There are business scandals that are so Turn the time in line vast and so penetrating that they profoundly shock our most deeply heJd beliefs about the into an experience honesty and integrity of our corporate culture. Enron Corp. is one of them. " My friend and I went to the Rongovian So began a recent Business Week essay. Embassy Friday in Trumansburg to see Sharp words coming from one of the more The Sim Redmond Band. Forgetting for a reliable cheerleaders for moment many big business. The tale of people from Ithaca Enron 's collapse, the have cars and know largest bankruptcy in how to follow Route American history, has 96, I thought the brought the issues of show wouldn't be corporate greed and packed. I was wrong. corruption into the When w~ got national spotlight. there, the line was It should come as no out the door and surprise that those snaking its way connected to the Enron down the sidewalk. We waited. we LUCAS fiasco are running for watched some dumb guy with a laser SHAPIRO cover. Enron executives pointer stick it inside his nose to make it appear on television light up like Rudolph. and we waited Guest Hinter denying any knowledge some more. When we finally reached the of wrongdoing. Arthur door, someone from the Rongo informed Anderson. the accounting firm that helped COURTESY OF KRTCAMPUS.COM us that unless there was "a mass exodus Enron maintain fraudulent financial records, FORMER ENRON CHIEF OFFICER Richard Buy, center, waits to testify on Capitol Hill of people," we wouldn't get in. We stuck 1s also conducting damage control. And then earlier this month before a House investigation subcommittee hearing on Enron. it out, and we were rewarded. there's the Bush administration, rather silent Within 15 minutes, we were in the in expressing outrage at the massive effect of Then there's the George W. Bush himself. the most basic principles of democracy and doorway. Another 10 had us in the club this domestic disaster. One look at Bush's The man Bush once called his good friend, public policy disclosure. waiting to pay. When the band started, we cabinet picks alone might explain the "Kenny Boy" Lay, Bush now claims as only And this is really only the beginning. The were excited because we could see Sim's administration's muted response: an acquaintance. That Enron's embattled Bush-Enron connection is not only about little red head reflected in the mirror by the • Edward Gillespie - a Bush campaign CEO Kenneth Lay lent Bush his corporate jet cooked books, energy market price gouging stage. We finally paid our money ($5 advisor- received $500,000 from Enron as to fly -around to all the primaries and or the rare, corrupt CEO. It's about a system instead of $8, because the guy taking the a lobbyist after Bush was elected. campaign stops in the 2000 election, is not a where economic power buys political money ran out of ones), and we were in. • Karl Rove - White House Senior matter of concern, is it? Or what of Lay and influence, an electoral system of legalized Save for one guy who was invading our Advisor and chief strategist for President Enron showering Bush with hefty campaign bribery and a system where profits and power personal space with his air guitar, it was Bush's presidential campaign - owned contributions in exchange for numerous ride roughshod over the public good. fabulous. After waiting an hour and a half $100,000 of Enron stock. policy favors? What about Dick Cheney's to see the show, actually being able to • Thomas White - Secretary of the Army inviting of Mr. Lay to the White House for Lucas Shapiro is a senior studies in social groove in front of the band was amazing. - former vice-chair of Enron Energy. secret negotiations over the nation's energy change major. You know what the moral of the story is White owned $100 million worth of Enron policy? Cheney is now being sued for already, don't you? Good things come to stock before the share price dropped from refusing to publicly disclose information The IC Democrats, IC Republicans and the those who wait. The cliche is true. But $90 to 29 cents and before 12,000 Enron regarding these controversial and crucial Young Democratic Socialists are there's more. I realized Tom Petty was employees were laid off and robbed of their meetings. This alone speaks volumes about sponsoring a teach-in 011 Enron today at wrong. The waiting isn't the hardest part. retirement savings. the Bush administration's utter contempt for 12:05 p.m. in Textor 103. Sometimes it's the best part. You see, while I was waiting to get in Debates and commentaries will appear in this spot weekly. To contribute, please call Opinion Editor Megan Tetrick at 274-3208. the Rongo, I got to catch up with my friend, who, because of the nature of her campus job, doesn't go out much until Friday. And there's nothing better for your The Way self-esteem than making fun of sketchy guys with laser pointers. Once we were inside, discovering that we could watch I See it the show in the mirror without having to pay was like winning $5 on a scratch-off lottery ticket. Think about it. When you make a Media-made images batch of Pillsbury chocolate chip cookies, isn't the 10 minutes wrapping yourself in the warm chocolaty scent question perfection· almost better than biting in? On Thanksgiving, how great was it smelling I've been thinking about us, we are inundated with the turkey cook all day, letting the hunger physical self-perfection and visions of the ideal. From slowly build up in your stomach? what compels people to strive Barbie dolls and He-Man action Freshman year, how many people did for it. figures to the covers of you meet while waiting to buy books? Weightlifting Cosmopolitan and Men's I A good portion of your day is spent has been a Health, the standard by which waiting - for class to start, for it to end, hobby of we judge others and ourselves for the light to change, to get into a show. mine for a has reached crisis proportions. But this waiting time can be a good few years, but Eating disorders have become FILE PHOTO/THE ITHACAN time, if you have the resources and right recently it has common, as people starve THE FITNESS CENTER has quickly become a staple for stu­ attitude. Carry a book or a Walkman and taken a more themselves into poor health to dents on campus since opening Its doors in the Fall of 1999. time spent waiting for the professor central role in emulate models who are starving becomes a little vacation. Maybe you 're in my life. As a themselves to make money from Michelangelo's David, has been unmet needs that led to the desire line at the Bursar, and 'you can see a for a change in the first place. beautiful person in your peripheral vision. result of JASON ad executives who make money perverted. For most modem nature's bodybuilders the definition and is too easy to feign Are they looking back? Tum around. SUBIK playing on the insecurities of It pairing of a millions. The bodybuilding symmetry of David would be a powerlessness in the face of the Strike up a conversation. Now the waiting fast meta­ Staff Writer image is also subject to other significant step backward. popular trend. Reversing the time is crush-percolating time. I studied bolism with- a small bone disorders such as the newly Michelangelo's models never tide of the culture of perfection vocabulary for the GREs while waiting to structure, experience has shown conceived orthorexia, a disorder had the use of dumbbells, may be beyond our grasp for the get my teeth cleaned. By the time my it is almost impossible for me to where by the orthorexic is barbells and weight machines. moment, but fighting against its name was called, I had learned the make significant size gains with obsessed with eating healthy Many people today have already influence as individuals is not: meaning of "iconoclast." a normal diet. - foods. Steroids and abuse of reached the Greek ideal and The Greeks believed that The Sim Redmond Band is playing on Since the beginning of the supplements like creatine are pushed well beyond its limits. physical beauty was reflective of Friday at Willard Straight Hall. Free semester, I've been trying to common and can lead to kidney This extremism is what inner goodness. We know better show. 11 p.m. Bring your friends, get pump 300 grams of protein into _stones, cancer or even death._ endangers us. Self-improvement than that flawed logic. Achieving there early and do some catching up. · my daily diet to overcome my The ancient image of the by itself is good. but the desire of balance between the outward Don't waste precious hours grumbling "hard gainer" physique. I do this Greek ideal may be at the root of many to become happy by and inward begins by forgiving about having to wait. If you do, you're because I have come to believe I this desire for perfectionism. In seizing control of their bodies other people for their wasting your time. am too small. When an ego such its original form, the ideal was and their diet is ultimately futile. imperfections and then forgiving as my own begins to doubt, what not unhealthy or unattainable. By concentrating on the physical ourselves for our own. . must others be feeling? But the concept that the Greeks appearance as a means of Kristen Rae/d's Spice Rack appears in We are the perfection created in their art, which changing themselves, people Jason Subik is a senior this space every other week. E-mail her at generation. Unlike many before inspired · later works such as neglect their emotions and the journalism major. [email protected]. 12 THf ITHA~CA~N______TH..;._:URS_DAY~, FE_BRU,;__AR_Y 2...;_l, 2_002 • I

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_, ,·. :' For more ·inf~rmation, contact the Office of· International -Programs_ at i r 4-3.i~~ttt-~· ...... ·.. ·:_· ... .·.,:~ .. ·. ,~ -.. ~ : ,..~.::r.--~;.~~~~-~~:::i--.=~ . '' Learning the funkamentals THURSDAY George Clinton and an all-star cast get FEBRUARY 21, 2002 ready to play The Haunt. Page 16 CCent PAGE 13 Lights out, clothes off, BY HEATHER MATTHEWS tive if used properly for each sexual occurrence. tive, freshman Loftan Sulli- , Staff Writer National Condom Day was Feb. 14, part of a full week van said. dedicated to helping students feel more comfortable talk­ "I believe that if you ' -.. ' Sex. Everyone talks about having it - who did who, ing about sex. can't talk about it, then you · where and when - but when· it comes to seriously ask­ Freshman Jessica McNamara said she recognizes the can't do it," Sullivan said. "It's way ' ing questions about safe sex and voicing concerns about nagging problems of safe sex education with college stu­ too much of a serious thing to do. You · sex, that's where the talking stops. dents. For Mc Namara, National Condom Week accom­ should talk about everything ... the posi­ However, there are many important reasons to talk. plished its goal. tives, the negatives and the details. You have Here are the facts: Nationwide, 15 million new cases "I definitely think that is hard for college students and to be mature about it." of sexually transmitted diseases are diagnosed each year, other younger people to feel comfortable asking questions Freshman Jason Gonzalez agrees talking according to the Center for Community-Based Health about sex," she said. "National Condom Week definitely about sex is very important. Strategies at the Academy for Educational Development. opened up the opportunity for people to come out and talk "Talking is the only Two-thirds of those cases occur among the 15- to 24-year­ about sex." wai to get someone's old age group. Talking is one of the most important sexual back­ On average, two teens an hour are infected with HIV parts of being sexually ac- ground, in the United States. Eighty-six percent of American youth and a learn about HIV in school, but only 37 percent . 1 o t of American youth are taught about prop­ er condom use. While using condoms does not provide 100 percent protection from contracting transmitting HIV, they are high­ ly ef­ fec-

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Friedman said the decision to not have sex or drink ·· tic" approach when teaching about sex, leaving students \ ing afraid to talk seriously should be made before going to a party. · confused and ignorant. t about sex is ridiculous. Suki Montgomery, a psychologist at the Counseling Gonzale21osaid his parents were not very open about : In a study looking at Center, said talking can also help prevent people from .,) sex with him, but it worked out for the best. • drug and alcohol use at being involved in situations they cannot handle. "I believe they assumed that I'd learn it on my own," ,.. Ithaca College done in "Before anything happens, you have think about and ·· i Gonzalez said. "It was a correct assumption, and I even- March 1999 by a task consider what you want for yourself sexually and thenL tually just realized that I'd be better off investigating force created by the office talk to your potential partner about it," Montgomery said. ,,;:I any concerns or questions I had on my own rather than of ·President Peggy R. "Youdon'twanttofindyourselfinasituationthatyou , ;;,• consulting them." , Williams, 681 students don't know how to react to." _:,,~ National Condom Week also prompts young adults to i/' were questioned about their Started in 1978 by the Voices for Planned Par- !· ~· ., reflect on their own sexual choices, to be sexually active -i;- ·sexual activity and drug and .enthood, National Condom Week is also designed j t,' ' or to abstain. i alcohol use. In the survey, 72 to "spread the word about safer sex and respon- ., .· Mary Taylor, a registered nurse at the Hammond Health " percent of students admitted to sible choices," according to their Web site. ,· .• J.., Center, said that the decision to be sexually active or to ,J being sexually active, 26 percent Friedman said the goal of his lecture is to tum ;' abstain is made everyday. . · said the last time they had sex they his audience into "sexperts," able to make re- , · -~ "It's really important to remind yourself on a daily ha- ., were under the influence of alco- sponsible choices and to talk honestly and open- · sis," Taylor said. "You make the decision to be sexually :- ho) and 8 percent were under the ly about sex and their feelings about sex. active or not on a daily basis. If you are with someone ·• influence of other drugs. "I am not one of those people who are going to preach who wants to have sex, you can abstain. You don't have .'~ Jay Friedman, a certified sex to you," Friedman said to the audience. "Sex to feel obligated just because you have had sex before. ' educator, gave his presentation is not bad, evil, dirty or filthy. Sex is good, You just have to talk abo!1t it with your partner." 14 THE ITHACAN ACCENT THURSDAY,_f.EBRUARY 21, 2002 Focus on center for documentary BY EMILY BROWN have their story captured as the class Staff Writer had expected. "People have interrogated While the kids at the Southside them before, but nothing really Community Center toppled over one came of it," Baer said. "It never re­ another to decorate a paper mural ally helped them. Our idea was to with watercolors, nonfiction film stu- do something they could use." dents from Ithaca College videotaped The class had only a few weeks the activities Saturday. The scene to plan the project before the actu­ proved art is often the product of a al shooting began. That meant it little insanity. was hard to get the community in- The class is working with the volved in what they were doing. community center to make a doc- However, · once the students ument:i.ry of the Southside neigh- showed up at the center with borhood, a predominantly black video equipment, the kids started to part of town. pay attention. · "It's important to note that "The kids really responded and we're not making it for them, were very excited," senior Tamika we're making it with them," said Means said. PHOTOS BY !RINA PERESSffHE ITHACAN Assistant Professor Simon Tarr, The students actually shared ABOVE: LOUIS MASSIAH advises senior Kevin Sambells and Vernon Bryant, director of programs at cinema and photography. "Every- their equipment with the kids, let­ the Southside Community Center. Below: Sophomore Jon Biddle shows Danasia Dent how to use the one mvolved is an equal member ting them record one another. camera while they tape the other children painting a mural at the center. m the project." "We did it to create rapport with school, this is my neighborhood, The project was 1mtiated by the kids and to get them comfort­ these are my people.' It would be a Louis Massiah, this year's Office able and to give them some idea of way of claiming their own and show­ of Multicultural Affairs Distin- what we were doing," Means said. ing their peers at school, 'this is what guished Artist in Residence. Mas- Dhynna Kuhl, director of the neighborhood is about."' siah has done similar work at the youth programs, was enthusiastic In addition to collecting Scnbe Video Center in Philadel- about the project. footage at the community center, ph1a, where community members 'Tm the after-school coordina­ students plan to join a police of­ can get the training, equipment and tor," she said. "I've been trying to ficer on his beat around Southside, support they need to capture their do a lot of history with the kids, so to record a gospel choir singing at own stories on video. this video would be a really help- St. James church and to interview "The plan for the video is just to ful tool." a woman who grew up in a house promote Southside, the neighbor- She also said she would like to that was once a stop on the Un­ hood and the community, because have the movie shown in the derground Railroad. They will I think it's been unJustly given a bad classes of the students who attend also have to find old photographs reputation," said the center's di- the center. and take their own shots of sites rector Vernon Bryant. "These kids are, without a people mention in the inter­ However, senior Willow Baer doubt, a minority in their classes," views. said the people of the Southside Kuhl said. 'This would be a way for The students will then have to sit neighborhood were not as eager to them to say, 'this is what I do after down and watch everything. Baer ------estimated they would end up with about 15 to 20 hours of footage, and she said editing would take a long time because they were deter­ mined to have community members involved in the process. "We have plans to make drafts and go down to the center and show them what we've done so far," Baer said. "So even people who haven't been involved yet can see it and make judgments like 'yes, I like that,' or 'no, I don't think that really represents who we are."' It is important to the students not to misrepresent the people they are trying to help because "documen­ taries are about people, not equip­ ment," Tarr said. "With this film, BIDDLE TAPES children painting the mural at the Southside everybody's name is going to be on Community Center as part of a project initiated by Louis Massiah. the credits."

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The relentless New Hampshire snow is what Russell Banks remembers of his childhood. "I have very brief and fleeting memories of summer," Banks said in a recent phone in­ terview. "I was raised in northern New Eng­ land, and I've lived most of my adult life ei­ ther in northern New England or now in up­ ~tatc New York, so winter's kind of hard to get away from." Many of Banks' characters find themselves ~truggling with their lives in the same wintry New England climate - or trying to escape - -~ 1t. Wade Whitehouse loses control one cold No­ vember in "Affliction," Mitchell Stephens tries to take advantage of the people of a grief-strick­ en town in "The Sweet Hereafter," and Bob Dubois takes off one December night and heads tor Florida in "Continental Drift." "If you live in the tropics in your child­ hood -you're raised there, and spend your adult life there - then it will provide most of your imagery," Banks said. "For me, it's this borderland up here across the Northeast." Banks' childhood was a difficult one - his father was an abusive alcoholic who Jllched the family when Banks was 12. When the opportunity came, Banks, like Bob Dubois, fled south. Banks was just 18. He returned to New England in the ear­ ly '60s and m 1964 began attending the Uni­ versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Through the '70s and '80s, Banks bounced back and forth between New England and the Caribbean. In 1985, he released "Continental Drift," the story of an oil-burner repairman named Bob Dubois who moves his family from New England to Florida. Dubois' story is inter­ JOE PASTERtS/THE ITHACAN woven with that ofVanise Dorsinville, a Hait­ AUTHOR RUSSELL BANKS speaks at the Unitarian Universalist Church Sunday during the City of Asylum kickoff event. ian refugee with whom Dubois falls in love. "Continental Drift" was a success both d**n well didn't. So he remembers summer." ian refugees by an American smuggler. roots, hands-on procedures of establishing commercially and critically. Like many of Like the issue of Rolfe Whitehouse trying to "I don't think that story would've meant cities of refuge - both getting writers out Banks' works, it was, in many ways, auto­ escape his blue-collar past, class is a recur­ much to me if I hadn't lived in the of trouble in as quiet and direct a way as pos­ biographical. ring theme in Banks' work. Caribbean in the middle '70s and traveled sible and settling them into what would even­ But it was "Affliction," released four years "I don't know that it's so much a partic­ throughout that region and lived in south tually become a City of Asylum." later, that hit even closer to home. The nov­ ular political agenda I feel I have to act out Florida, earlier in my late teens and early Banks just finished writing the screen el tells the story of Wade Whitehouse, a or a particular ideology that drives me," 20s," Banks said. adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "On the small-town cop who is tormented by his abu­ Banks said. "I wouldn't have known the area," he said Road" for Francis Ford Coppola, and he is sive father. In one month Wade's life spirals "But it's a little like the question about win­ "I wouldn't have been able to visualize the trying to write another novel. out of control while his brother, the narrator ter: It's the experience I grew up with and the people. I wouldn't have been able to imag­ "I would have to put it that way: 'trying Rolfe, watches. vision of the world I brought to my adult lifo ine what it would take to put themselves in to write a novel,"' he said. "You never know Rolfe is someone who has tried to forget and to the act of writing," he said. "It's im­ the hands of someone like that, to be that des­ if you'r~ going to write it or not till it's done." the past. And unlike the author and so many possible for me not to see the world in that way. perate to get to America." If he just happened to be thousands and of Banks' characters, Rolfe only remembers "Academics generally don't engage my In recent years, Banks has settled down thousands of miles away from the cold win­ summer. passions and emotions in the same way a pipe in upstate New York, and last year he became ter of the Northeast on a tropical deserted is­ "Unfortunately that's not true for me," fitter might or an oil-burner repairman like the president of the International Parliament land, Banks knows what book he would like Banks said, laughing. "I was trying to por­ Bob Dubois in 'Continental Drift' or a school of Writers, the organization that made Itha­ to have with him. tray a character who was in a kind of deniai, bus driver," he said. ca a City of Asylum for Chinese dissident Yi "I would have to take the Bible," he said and he was surrounded by a wintry landscape. For Banks-, inspiration often comes from Ping_ Banks was in Ithaca Sunday to kick off "Not because I'm a Christian or a practicing Everyone around him seemed, in one way or the intersection of the personal amt news the program. member of any religion, but because I'm a another, affected by winter. It's sort of like events, as in the case of "Continental "I fell in line in a sense with the organi­ storyteller in the Western tradition. It is the saying I had a happy childhood when you Drift," which tells of the drowning of Hait- zation," Banlcs said. "I also admired its grass- basis of almost all of our stories."

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I I or 607-533-7521 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2002 ACCENT THE ITHACAN 1 7 Tony-winning actor will perform tonight BY TASHA KATES I tend to do. When we began to read Staff Writer through [the play], there were lots of questions about how the emo­ The white buzzing noise of the tions of the characters should be ll!!hts in the room could not have portrayed. I had to listen to them p;eparcd anyone for the smooth, ex­ with new ears because they put pressive voice of actor Frank more energy into those lines." Wood. Wood said he was very happy At first it seemed Wood was in­ to be asked back to do two more expressive, nervous - shifting in readings with college faculty and his chair during the Tuesday night students, and had seen both reading of Michael Frayn 's "Copenhagen" and "Dancing at "Copenhagen" in Textor 103. Lughnasa" performed onstage Suddenly, with a quick stream of before Gleitman invited him. words and a flick of the wrist, Woop "We wanted to choose plays that captured the audience and swept we were teaching, and that can them into the mystery and conflict properly showcase [Wood's] tal­ of the story. · ent," Glcitman said. Wcx.-xl, a Tony Award-winning ac­ "Copenhagen" is a two-act tor for his role m the Broadway pro­ Journey through the memories of a duction of "Sideman," came to the meeting between physicists Niels ct11lege to add his talents to Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. ··Copenhagen" and "Dancing at "[The meeting] was the subject Lughnasa," two plays that arc being of great controversy," Gleitman pcrfmmed through the "On the ~aid. "The play is ab~ut their Verge" reading senes. meeting agam after they had both ··on the Verge·· offer;, free read­ died to speak about what they had mgs of select plays from the cur­ talked about in 1941." riculum of the departments of Eng­ The second play in the "On the I 1~h and theatre arts. The program is Verge" double header is ·'Dancing 1hc 8-year-old brainchild ofAssnc1- at Lughnasa." which will be per­ ,11e Professor~ Gil Harm,. Englt;,h, formed at 7 p m today m the Clark C ·1we Gleitman. Englt~h. and Jack Lounge. Car1pus Center. l lrkach. theatre arts. who presented A portrait of five sisters and ··Angels in America Pa11 2: Pere­ how then bonds dissipate during ,tro1h.a" earlier this serne:,ter. a three-week. period of time. Glc1trnan sought out Wood to be "Dancmg at Lughnasa" takes part of the 1x0Ject place in newly industnahzed Ire­ ··Claire contacted Frank a year land in 1936. ago and told lmn about 'On the Wood will play Michael, the Il­ Verge."' Harris said. ··He expres~ed legitimate son of the younge~t sister. mtere::.t in taking pn:1 ma reading and Assistant Professor Krista has already collaborated with Itha­ Scott, theatre arts, 1s one of the fac­ ca College faculty and students for ulty members who will part1c1pate a reading of ·Sideman .... m the reading of "Dancing at Gle1tman expressed her delight Lughnasa" with Wood. at Wood's performance in last Scott said the play is about the year's presentation of "Sideman" small boy's isolation and alienation and asked him to return to perform. within his family of aunts. Wood's first time working with "We all have unique relation­ Ithaca College students was re­ ships with our mothers, sisters and warding for him and the students. aunts," Scott said. "The women are "I am grateful to have had the struggling to be happy and main­ opportunity to work with college tain their sanity in their daily rou­ DAVID PRUTTING/THE ITHACAN students in this setting," Wood said. tine. They also attempt to raise ACTOR FRANK WOOD, left, Associate Professor Jack Hrkach, theatre arts, and Associate Professor Claire ·The students can't take certain as­ Michael, despite their apprehension Gleitman, English, share a light moment before the reading of "Copenhagen" Tuesday in Textor 103. Wood pects of characters for granted like towards his birth status." will be performing in "Dancing at Lughnasa" today at 7 p.m. in the Clark Lounge, Campus Center.

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Gosford Park - 7:15 p.m. and 9:40 p.m., 2:15 p.m. and 4:35 p.m. (Saturday and Sunday matinees) COURTESY OF LIONS GATE FILMS HALLE BERRY AND Billy Bob Thornton star in director Marc Forster's film "Monster's Ball." Berry was recently nominated for an Monster's Ball - 7:15 p.m. Academy Award for her performance in the drama. The film was written by first-time screenwriters Milo Addica and Will Rokos. and 9:35 p.m., 2:15 p.m. and 4:35 p.m. (Saturday and Sunday matinees) Drama fails to convey passion Amelie - 7 p.m. and 9:35 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4:35 p.m. (Saturday BY MARY SNAUFFER together they find salvation. Hank, cliches throughout the film. For ex­ and it's hard to believe such an-out­ and Sunday matinees) Staff Writer stricken with guilt of his former life, ample, when Hank and Leticia come could ever actually happen. and Leticia, exhausted by the selfless have intercourse for the first time, the "Monster's Ball" does have "Monster's Ball" is a story of outputs of her past, decide to use one scene cuts to a bird being freed from several commendable scenes. two very different families whose another's love to ease the pain of their a cage, symbolizing obviously, and These include Leticia slapping her Hoyts Ithaca 1 o Cinema fates will eventually, and quite pre­ pasts. Leticia confesses she needs to a bit annoyingly, Hank's freedom son after she finds his hoardeJ can­ Pyramid Mall dictably, intertwine. Set in Georgia, be cared for as Hank finally realizes from his once "caging" racism. dy collection and Sonny's true lone­ 257-2700 Hank.(Billy Bob Thornton) works what he has been missing in life: to A further example of obvious liness and despair, which is only as a prison guard with his son, Son­ care for someone. symbolism that pollutes the film is touched upon in the beginning of Hart's War - 6:45 p.m. and ny (Heath Ledger). Following in the Directed by Marc Forster, Hank's fetish with late night ice the film, when he offers to take a 9:30p.m. footsteps ,-- --- . - . -· -7 "Monster's Ball" is an extremely cream - chocolate, of course - and prostitute out to dinner just for her of his fa­ well-acted film with a cliche coffee - black. This metaphor for company. Leticia's final goodbye to Return to Neverland - i **1/2 I ther (Pe- - script and questionable direc­ Hank's triumph over racism is her ill-fated husband is another part 1 p.m., 2:45 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 1 "Monster's Ball" : 6:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m. and 10:15 t e r l __I tion. Thornton plays his usual role thrown in so many times, it becomes of the movie that will make a last­ p.m. Boyle), of the silent thinker, the "bad­ almost laughable. ing impression. Hank is racist and unforgiving. gone-good-type." Berry's perfor­ Another questionable aspect of "Monster's Ball" is a film that Queen of the Damned - However, Sonny has been cursed mance, however, is undeniably "Monster's Ball" is the character tries to have that "off the beaten 1:10 p.m., 4:10 p.m., 7:20 p.m., with a heart, and for that Hank re­ outstanding. She portrays development of Hank, who, mid­ path" feel. It has an independent 9:50 p.m. and 11 :55 p.m. fuses to truly love him. (unglamorously) a worn out, way through the film, has a com­ film air, but then again it also has The other family consists of desperate, poverty-stricken plete turn around. One day he is a multimillion-dollar actors. It is a Crossroads - 1 :05 p.m., Leticia (Halle Berry), the near mother so well that you almost racist prison guard, who never movie you enter wanting to like, 4 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:15 p.m. and hopeless wife and mother of an forget she is beautiful. And com­ shows any crumb of feeling. The and an exit pretending you did. 11:10 p.m. obese son (Coronji Calhoun) and pared to the other pop-stars gone next day he quits his job, abandons husband (Sean "Puffy" Combs), actors this month (i.e. Britney his racist father who he had been "Monster:\· Ball" was written by SuperTroopers-12:55 p.m., who is put to death for a crime that Spears), Combs' performance taking care of and devotes his life Milo Addica and Will Rokos. di­ 4:20 p.m., 6:55 p.m., 9:55 p.m. is never specified. was noteworthy, at the very to Leticia, a black woman he rected by Marc Forster and pro­ and midnight After a winding saga of loss and least. meets and virtually knows nothing duced by Lee Daniels Ill. The film misfortune, Hank and Leticia coin­ No matter how much you try you about. The sincerity of·lhis extreme stars Halle Berry, Billy Bob Big Fat Liar-12:35 p.m., cidentally trip into one another, and cannot completely ignore the blatant change of heart is certai~ dubious, Thornton and Sean Combs. 2:35 p.m. and 4:40 p.m.

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Dragonfly- 12:45 p.m., 3:20 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:35 p.m. and out of the theater 11:45 p.m. BY MARY SNAUFFER he and his friends performed, has Black Hawk Down - 12:25 Staff Writer been sentenced to hours of various p.m., 3:30 p.m., 6:40 p.m. and volunteer work. Thus Landon and 9:40 p.m. "A Walk to Remember" is remi­ Jamie's unlikely relationship be­ niscent of sappy and sugarcoated gins. The Lord of the Rings - movies like "Simon Birch," only re­ The film is filled with over-the­ 12:30 p.m., 4:15 p.m. and place the midget with a pop s_tar, add top scenes, such as when Landon Bp.m. a better-than-Judy-Blume romance mockingly asks Jamie what book and throw in a few more Bibles. she has been reading over and over A Beautiful Mind - 12:40 - ') Based on the best-seller by and the camera pans down to her p.m., 3:40 p.m., 6:35 p.m., 9:20 Nicholas Sparks, "A Walk To Re­ lap where her worn Bible lays. Even p.m. and 11 :50 p.m. member" the mere comical fact that "I Want -- ~ -- - I is a tear­ Candy" Mandy is playing a geeky COURTESY OF WARNER BROTHERS . *1/2 astronomy buff who preaches her SAB Film Serles jerking --A Walk to SHANE WEST AND MANDY MOORE star In the romantic drama "A drama of dedicated Christian values to any­ Textor 102 Remember" Walk to Remember." The film Is pop star Moore's debut. a preach­ one willing to listen makes the au­ Dive-In Movie: Grease- e r ' s dience chuckle. movie unrealistic and cliche? Yes. countless laughs at the expense of 10 p.m. Friday in the Hill Center daughter, Jamie (Mandy Moore), who However, it must be said there is Did I enjoy it? Immensely. Think of Mandy Moore. If the idea of Carson is so devout she makes Mother Tere­ something about "A Walk to Re­ the best '7th Heaven"_ episode ~ Daly teaching Sunday school inter­ sa look unholy. Jamie's life goal is to member" that sets it apart from its you've ever seen and make it last for ests you in any way, see the movie. fulfill her list of self-made tasks. Am­ counterparts. Perhaps this murmur of an hour and half. "A Walk to Re- If not, save the eight bucks. Tr.e !tnac.in Rating System bitions include "being in two places sincerity comes from the fact that the member" is nothing more than a * Poor at.once," "perfonning a miracle" and film is actually much less of a teeny­ miraculously guilty pleasure you pre­ '~ Walk to Remember" was written Fair of course, "making friends with bopper movie and more of a Chris­ tend you don't enjoy so much. by Karen Janszen, directed by Adam ** Gone! someone who needs to be saved." En­ tian sales pitch. Though I admit "A Walk To Re­ Shankman and produced. by Denise ~*- Excellent ter bad-ass Landon (Shane West) Bottom line: Is "A Walk To Re­ member" will never be a Di Novi and Hunt I.owry. The film **** who, because of a not-so funny prank member" predictable? Yes. Is the movie to remember, _it does provide stars Mandy Moore. THU~~DAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2002 AG

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SPORTS Women's Swimming and Diving TODAY at NYSWCAA Championship at Nottingham at 10:30 a.m. YDS Event - Noon in Textor 101. Women's Indoor Track and Field at NYSCTC Championship at St. REACT Meeting - Noon in Lawrence at 2 p.m. Williams 221. Men's Indoor Track and Field at NYSCTC Championship at St. IC Jazz - Performing at noon in Lawrence at 3 p.m. the Pub, Campus Center. Sophomore Composition Recital

Food Service Advisory Commit- , tee Meeting - 12:05 p.m. in SATURDAY Friends 301. NICHOLAS CASCIANOfTHE ITHACAN IN A MILD WINTER where the snow hardly remains for more than a day, freshman Jennifer Osburn Chicken Wing Fling - 6:30 to 9 - Allison Weissman performs at walks home late Sunday night as the ground is dusted with the white powder. · p.m. in the Pub, Campus Center. 3 p.m. in the Nabenhauer Room, Sponsored by the American Mar­ Whalen Center. keting Association. Christopher Martin performs at 1 Yoga - 5 p.m. in Muller Chapel. 7 p.m. in the Pub, Campus Center. Student Percussion Recital - p.m. in the Nabenhauer Room, SGA Academics Committee Ryan Socrates and Alyssa Cad­ Whalen Center. Senir.>r Class Cabinet Meeting - Students for Women's Empow­ Meeting - 7 p.m. in the DeMotte walader perform at 7 p.m. in the 7 p.m. in the DeMotte Room, erment Meeting - 7:30 p.m. in Room, Campus Center. Nabenhauer Room, Whalen Center. Senior Viola Recital - Erica Hal­ Campus Center. Friends 205. lock performs at 3 p.m. in the SAB Casino Night Dealer Meeting Winter Guitar Festival Closing Nabenhauer Room, Whalen Center. Campus Crusade for Christ IC Caribbean Students Associa­ - 7 p.m. in Clark Lounge, Campus Concert - 7:30 p.m. in Ford Hall, Women's Bible Study- 8 p.m. in tion Meeting - 7:30 p.m. in the Center. Whalen Center. Tickets available at Graduate Violin Recital - Julie Friends 208. ALS Room, West Tower. Clinton House. Methven performs at 4 p.m. in the SGA Campus Affairs Committee Recital Hall, Whalen Center. American Marketing Association "The World Goes Round" - Meeting - 7 p.m. in the Seminar IC Comedy Club Show - 8 p.m. Meeting - 8 p.m. in Textor 103. 8 p.m. in Hoerner Theatre, Dilling­ Room, Campus Center. in Clark Lounge, Campus Center. Baha'i Association Devotionals ham Center. - 4:30 p.m. in the DeMotte SGA Communications Commit­ Anlme Society of Hhaca College "Three Operas" - 8 p.m. in Ho­ Room, Campus Center. tee Meeting - 8 p.m. in the Stu­ Guest Recital - Quintet For New Meeting - 7 to 11 :30 p.m. in CNS erner Theatre, Dillingham Center. dent Activities Center, Campus Tango performs at 8:15 p.m. in Ford 115. The Rellglous Left Meeting - Center. Hall, Whalen Center. .. SPORTS 7 p.m. in Friends 308 . "Three Operas" - 8 p.m. in Ho- Men's and Women's Indoor BiGayla Meeting - 8 p.m. in Interfaith Fireside Discussion - erner Theatre, Dillingham Center. Track and Field at NYSCTC Joint Student Recital - Hollis Friends 210. 9 p.m. in Muller Chapel. Championship at St. Lawrence at Bowen, piano, and Lauren Zito, IC Democrats Meeting - 8 p.m. 10 a.m. voice, perform at 7 p.m. in the ICES Meeting - 8 p.ri'r. in Friends in Friends 301. Women's Swimming and Diving Nabenhauer Room, Whalen Center. 203. ·.i:. WEDNESDAY at NSWCAA Championship at Senior Piano Recital - Elaina Nottingham at 10:30 a.m. Faculty Cello Recital - Nicola Composition Premiers Ill - Stu­ ·:.- Cope performs at 8:15 p.m. in the Heinrich performs at 8:15 p.m. in the dents of Gregory Woodward and Senior Composition Recital - Nabenhauer Room, Whalen Center. COMMUNITY Recital Hall, Whalen Center. Dana Wilson perform at 8:15 p.m. Benjamin Smith performs at 7 p.m. 4th Annual Chili Cook-Off and in the Recital Hall, Whalen Center. in the Recital Hall, Whalen Center. SPORTS Winter Festival-11 a.m. to 5 p.m. SPORTS · Women's Swimming and Diving in Downtown Ithaca. Gymnastics at Southern with CSN Special Events Meeting - IC Republicans Meeting - at NYSWCAA Championship at Springfield at 1 p.m. 8:30 p.m. in Williams 221. 8 p.m. in Friends 308. Nottingham at 10:30 a.m. "3 Mutants" - Trilogy of plays by playwright Lisa D'Amour and com­ COMMUNITY Insight Magazine Meeting - poser Sxip Shirey. Directed by Lifeguarding Course - The 8 p.m. in Williams 218. FRIDAY Katie Pearl. It is showing at 5 p.m. Tompkins County Chapter of the TUESDAY at the State Theatre. Tickets are $6 American Red Cross offers this RHA Meeting - 8 p.m. in the North and a portion goes to the State The­ course at 10:30 a.m. to 1 :30 p.m. IC Euchre Club Meeting - 9 p.m. Meeting Room, Campus Center. atre Restoration Fund. on Sundays at Ithaca High School. in the DeMotte Room, Campus Shabbat Services and Dinner - Advance registration is required. For Center. Amnesty International Meeting - 6 p.m. in Muller Chapel. ABC Cafe - Waler Bear performs. more information contact Edie 8 p.m. in Friends 203. Sanderson at 273-1900, ext. 14. German Club Lunch - Noon in the Ivory Tower D&D Game - 7 p.m. DeMotte Room, Campus Center. Concert Band Recital - 8:15 p.m. in the Conference Room, Campus SUNDAY Finger Lakes Land Trust - A in Ford Hall, Whalen Center. Center. reading by Carl Leopold of Aldo SAB Meeting - 12:05 p.m. in the Leopold's "A Sand County Al­ conference room, Campus Center. Community Service Network -, Senior Saxophone Recital - manac" at 3 p.m. in the Borg-Warn­ Meeting - 8:30 p.m. in Clark, Mc­ Erik Donaugh performs at 7 p.m. in Protestant Services - 11 a.m. in er Room of the Tompkins County Li­ French Circle Meeting - 6 p.m. Donald and Klingenstein Lounges, the Nabenhauer Room, Whalen Muller Chapel. brary. in the Conference Room 319, Campus Center. Center. Campus Center. Protestant Community Brunch - ABC Cafe - Fava Beans performs Not all Ithaca College events "The World Goes Round" - 12:15 p.m. in the conference during brunch, and Band of Crazy SGA Grading Policy Forum - are listed in the calendar. Opening night at 8 p.m. in Hoern­ room, Campus Center. Bohemians performs in the 7 p.m. in Textor 102. Send information to The Ithacan, er Theatre, Dillingham Center. evening .. 269 Roy H. Park Hall, Ithaca Catholic Mass - 1 and 9 p.m. in CSN LEARN Meeting - 7 p.m. in College. For more information, Friends 208. Senior Voice Recital - Callie Muller Chapel. contact Calendar Manager Shrader performs at 9 p.m. in the 1 MONDAY Caroline Ligaya at 274-3208 or. Nabenhauer Room, Whalen Center. , Sophomore Voice Recital - Physical Therapy Talent Show - faxat274-1565. I' I I'' ' . ' \ '' '

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Women look 'to stay perfect for second straight season

BY MARIO FONTANA we're going to have to compete sessions off the one and three-me­ Staff Writer· _, against," said sophomore Megan ter boards in which they perform Hughes, who has already achieved 10 consecutive dives to shore up You might think the Bombers "B" status in the 100-yard butterfly. their techniques. have nothing to work for at "We just have a lot of depth. You go Miller believes the key to na­ this weekend's New York State out just to swim your best." tionals is in the relay events. Any Women's Collegiate Athletic How are the Bombers prepar­ relay team that makes an "A" cut Association championships. ing? Not the way one might at states can go on to compete m They are the defending cham- think. Coach Paula Miller has light­ any of the five relay events at the pions. They have gone ened the load on the swimmers to national tournament. Individuals on 11-0 in I. ------i keep them fresh for the big meet. national-qualifying relay teams "'­ d u a 1 "We've been resting and taking are also allowed to swim individ­ I Women·s aquatics \ meets it easy," sophomore Sarah Bond ual events in which they've this year, L______said. "Our workouts have been ta­ achieved "B" cut status. crushing their opponents by an av­ pered down from 6,000- or "The [individual] times that erage score of 154-85. They have 7 ,000-meter workouts to 2,000 me­ we've made so far will not get us more depth in every event than any ters. This is the meet we get ready in," Miller said. "So we have to other team they'll compete for to get our best times." swim better and perform at a against. Diving works a little bit differ­ higher level. It just can't be an in­ However, there's more on the ently than swimming. Divers are dividual effort. We have to go at line than just the state championship. not separated into "A" and "B" it as a team [in relays]." Ithaca travels to Syracuse to cuts. There is one cut for all divers Miller said she's surprised at the not only win as a team, but to to achieve. They must then send in shrinking times needed to get into swim well enough to videotape to a national panel of the NCAA ch;impionships. individually qualify for the Divi­ judges that selects individuals to go "It's hard to believe," Miller sion III National Championships to the NCAA championships. said. "We're getting a lot of Divi- -~•• at Miami University (Ohio). The 'Tm really excited for the sion I-caliber athletes now at Di­ swimmers can gain "A" status or weekend," said sophomore Kristen vision III. The times just keep get­ "B" status depending on how fast Shorette, Ithaca's top diver this sea­ ting smaller. You keep thinking their times are. "A" status gives son. "It's a little stressful but at the they're going to start tapering off, a swimmer an automatic trip to same time, exciting." and they don't." Ohio. "B" status swimmers only Shorette has had a great season, But regardless of the NCAA get in if there aren't enough winning the three-meter dive in championships, the goal at hand is qualifiers in the "A" range. seven of her 11 meets this season. to be successful this weekend and And there will be 'individual She hopes to improve upon her end the season on a positive note. competition, too.. Though other scores this weekend as a result of "Our chances to win are very teams don't have the numbers to a tougher practice regimen. strong," senior tri-captain Jen compete with the South Hill "Our practices have actually Peck said. "I know, for the seniors, -, \ squad, every team has a few been more intense since our dual this is our last meet ever, and the standout swimmers eager to get to season ended," Shorette said. girls that have shots at nationals, REBECCA GARDNER/THE ITHACAN ,,,., nationals as well. The divers have had to push that's getting them focused. SOPHOMORE KATI_E. CENTRELLA practices the breaststroke. ''There are some i:eally fast girls themselves through many diving We're excited and ready to go."

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24 THE ITHACAN SPORTS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2002 Press Box ZAC GERSHBERG Too many questions for my own resolution In lieu of the tedious tongue-in-cheek ~ports loquacity, allow me to present some questions that, truth be told, I haven't quite resolved myself. So ponder all you wish, and let my conscious be the guide: • It's great that the Ithaca women's basketball program reached the NCAAs again, but can Head Coach Dan Ray­

I. mond please stpp his players from placing the ball above their heads on the perimeter and mandate that they assume the triple-threat posi­ tion? Sure Dean Smith advocated such - yet he recrnit­ . ed the likes of Ml and Worthy. • A wonderful pleasure it is to cover - Division Ill athletes, devoid of the en­ tourages and egos of professional and Di­ vision l prima donnas. Anyone else get the feeling, though, that IC athletes are much too sensitive to criticism because of the !>mall-time atmosphere? If you want nice-nice, then, as Hamlet once quipped to easily insulted Ophelia. "Get thee to a 11u1111ery." • The French figure skating judge didn't barter shrewdly, did she? And you · · people thought I had questionable ethics. REBECCA GARDNER/THE ITHACAN • Speaking of which - it Just JUNIOR CAITLIN WORTH competes on the uneven bars at the Harriet Marranca Invitational in Ben Light Gymnasium Sunday. doesn't seem the same to be awarded the gold medal almost a week after the ac­ tual competitwn, does it? I.for one, can­ not remember so many people rallying around Canada. Gymnasts rank among elite • For those of you who consider our benevolent city of Ithaca lacking a pnmet1me athletic team, why don't you Fourth-ranked Bombers jelling together in preparation for title run give the 7th-ranked Cornell men\ hock­ ey team a look? Take note, 80111berdo111, BY BILL D'ELIA In addition to coming away the at1110:,phere at Lynah Rink swpasses Staff Writer with a second-place finish to that of even Butterfield Stadium. Division I Cornell, the • Interesting (no?) that Jim Mullins has Looking at the Bomber's Bombers amassed a score of put forth his best season yet with proba­ record so far this season, it may 183.000, the highest Di vision bly the lea!:>t talented team in his five-year appear somewhat disappomting. III score this season. tenure as men's basketball coach at IC? Well, looks can be deceiving. The Blue and Gold also ·· /'v!ully-Mulls. " the XFL-style nickname After finishing third out of scored a school-record 47.525 m 11·1th ll'lucli l11s players affecrio11arely re­ five in its first m~et and losing the floor exercise. They were led fer to /11111, has become the Mi Ice Fratello their first two dual meets. the by Gelal!. who tied for third with of Division Ill. Blue and Gold have stepped up a 9.675. and sophomore Rachel • Has there ever been a better sports in the past two meets. The team Edelson. who lini!>hcd fifth analogy than in "The Opposite Sex." that grabbed a third-place fini~h at with a 9.600. "Tenni!> 1s just like proctology; it's all in the Cornell Invitational (only The South I !ill ~quad the follow through!"? The pre-mar- being surpassed by Divi~ion I hope!> 11 will be able to contin­ • rwge pep talk at an empty Femrny Park teams) and a second-place fin­ ue 1b recent success through 1s lughfy inspiratumaf for all you 11011- ish at their own Hamel Mar­ the remainder of the season and co1111111twl types. ranca Memorial Inv1tational mto ECACs and the. national • Wnh ba!>cbalf lurkmg right around the Sunday. meet, which Ithaca will hmt in ,. ,- ,,:prner. I wonder: Will this bi.: the !>Cason .. Everyone !>aw the potential mid-March . Ithaca finally overcomes arclmemesis that we had at the beginning of ··Now that we have ~tarted to Cortland in the playoffs? Three .1·t,w[Jht the season, but we had difficul­ jell, I think we must continue rears oj e11d111g quality Bomber sea.1011.1 ty putting everything together," training as hard as we have been must ha\"e a sobering, lugubrious effect 011 sophomore Sue Lawall said. "I all year," Lawall said. '"But the players and staff Here '.s dn11ki11g to don't think that our record ac­ more importantly. we need to finally slaying the Dragos Rojos. curately reflects us as a team but maintain our confidence and • Considering the absurd controversy now we are pulling together and faith in the team and the poten­ brewing at each meet, any chance our fa­ becoming the team that has the tial that we have." vorite French figure skating judge - ability to win it all." According to Suddaby, these now that she's suspended - can become Despite having an 0-2 dual­ last two meets are very impor­ a Division III gymnastics official? Silly meet record, the South Hill tant to Ithaca's season. little Euros. squad is still ranked fourth in the "These last two meets are with • How does one go about mastering the latest National Collegiate Springfield (Mass.) and Brock­ art of luge? Poppy never constrncted a Gymnastics Association poll. REBECCA GARDNER/THE ITHACAN port, both of which are vying for course in our backyard. No fair. "Our record doesn't really re­ SOPHOMORE SUE LAWALL, center, and Caitlin Worth, right, cel­ top positions in the country, and ' _,_ .. , • Any other guy besides me care to ad­ flect where we are, since we have ebrate during Sunday's competition at Ben Light Gymnasium. we need to make sure that we mit that they own not one, but both sound­ a situation with so many invita­ win," Suddaby said. tracks to "Romy and Michelle's High tionals, but only dual meets for it," Suddaby said. performances may stick out, With ECACs and nationals School Reunion"? Probably not. Luckily, count toward our record," There have also been a the athletes insist it has been a less than a month away, it ap­ l.'111 secure about suc/z matters - which Coach Rick Suddaby said. "I number of outstanding indi­ team effort. pears the Bombers are on track --1s whv I don't wear turtleneck sweaters. think that our national ranking vidual performances so far "I think thaLthe past two to be_ right back where they usu­ • Finally, ever wonder what it was like does a better job of really this season. meets, especially, everyone has ally are. Right near the top. at Ithaca from 1988-1991, when Bomber showing where we are." At the Cornell Invitational jmpressed me," sophomore "We scored the highest squads captured eight national champi­ One reason Ithaca may Feb. 9, senior Jocelyn Genoa had Lin,dsay Troilo said. "Honestly a score of every team in the onships? The mighty haven't fallen just yet, have struggled early in the sea­ the second highest all-around lot of people are having great country this year at last week's methinks, just c,atching their breath. son is the change in rules this score in school history seasons. I could name like half meet," Suddaby said. "The • What, me optimistic? Say it ain't so. year that required higher levels (37.300), and sophomore the ,team." teams out west are always a of difficulty. Leslie Gelatt tied the -all-time Particularly impressive was question mark, but I don't see Prc!,S Box appears in this space every "The ability-level jump was school record in the floor exer- the team's performance at last why we wo~ldn 't compete ll'ed. E-mail Zac Gers/zberg at very evident in the beginning, cise (9.700). --..... week's Harriet ·Marranca amongst the top teams in the [email protected]. but I think that we have made up Although a few individual Memorial I_o_vitational. country." THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2002 SPORTS THE ITHACAN 25 ,, Balta mixes• work, play .... , BY ANDREW KROECKEL Staff Writer ____

The captain of a team is ex­ pected to motivate his teammates to excel, do whatever is necessary for the team to win and lead by exam­ ple. And it certainly doesn't hurt for that example to be one of the best in the nation. Senior tri-captain Dave Balta is a selfless and dedicated leader who is committed to his team and willing to sacrifice for the ultimate l!ood of the team. As a result, he has become one of the best Division III :-.w1mmers in the country and one of the top swimmers in Coach Kevin Markwardt's 20-year tenure at Ithaca . .. He's certainly one of the best :-.wimmcr:-. that we've ever had," Markwardt said. ··He's a two­ time state champion as a sopho­ more and a JUntor, and he's going . :·,;' to be defenclmg a!> a sc111or. It's ,,,., ·, very rare for somebody to win ~ ';/ t::ven one ~late title, much less win three years in a row." After winning those state titles and ranking 16th in the nation in the 500-yard freestyle and 200- yard butterfly last season, Balta has followed with another season of stellar individual perfor­ mance. He was part of IO relay victories and claimed 12 individ­ ual titles in the team's un_defeat­ ed dual-meet season. Balta has been successful sim­ . CARLY CHAMBERLIN/THE ITHACAN ply because he wants to be. He has SENIOR CO-CAPTAIN Dave Balta, right, jokes with senior teammate Tyler Burns at practice in the Hill Center Pool Monday. a tremendous work ethic and a will to succeed - a will he hopes he can Balta has adopted is so effective that team needs. This season, he has certain events, usually," Balta pass on to his team. fellow tri-captain junior Mike competed in 11 different events for said ...I have tive events I'm prob­ SPREAD AROUND "Every day I'm there, and I Thurk has encountered no problems the team - the 400-yard medley ably top five in the state. I'm very have to work very hard," Balta working alongside him. relay, 400-yard freestyle relay, versatile in that manner. I fill Senior-. co-captain . bave said. "I feel like I work very hard "His work ethic is so strong that 200-yard medley relay, 600-yard holes." Balta.has shown his versatil­ at what I do and that I set exam­ we really .can just follow what he crescendo relay, 50-yard And he has filled those holes . ity. this $eason by :swimming ples in that way. I've been men­ does in the pool," Thurk said. "He freestyle, 100-yard freestyle, with a victory at least once in nine in 11 different events: ·· · tally stable. I don't usually have sets a ).\lilly good example for 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard but­ of those events. Important victories bad swims, so I think I just set by everybody else." terfly, 200-yard butterfly, 500- that have made Balta the second­ example in a lot of cases by just Balta's reward for all of his hard yard freestyle and 1,000-yard leading scorer on the team with • 400-yard medley relay. doing 1t everyday." work has been an acquired ability freestyle. 269.75 points. • Mio-yard freestyle relay · The approach to competition to swim nearly any event the "I've never asked to swim any "He's a very strong all-around • 200-yard medley relay swimmer." Markwardt said. "He • 6~-yard crescendo relay can swim all the freestyle events, • 50-yard freestyle · which is really unusual. He's real­ ly strong in middle distance and ex­ • 100-yard freestyle '· tremely good at distance. He's a .. 200-yard n:eestyle great flyer. One of the things that • 100-yard butterfly Dave is willmg to do is swim wher­ ever we need him." • 200-ya~ butterfly With this uncanny ability, the • 500-yard fr~le Penfield, N.Y., native demon­ • 1,000-yard freestyle strates a true selflessness that re­ flects on the entire team. "It's a lucky thing about having ming entails. . Balta on the team," Thurk said. "Some people come from~ .. "He's such a talented swimmer, and where, in high school, they didn't he also looks out at what the team work so hard," Balta said. "So I is going to do as a whole. So if we have talked to freshmen about need him to swim an off event, and keeping their focus. If they're..,_ it's better for the team, he's willing swimming bad at a certain point in to do that. He's so talented he can the season, telling them it's OK and do that." that this is for a specific goal." Balta 's leadership style is not, However, the seriousness of however, one of complete subtle­ Balta's·approach does not dominate ty. Talented freshman Steve his everyday nature in and out of Barnes noted Balta takes it upon the pool. himself to talk to the freshmen to "His sense of humor and­ let them know about the impor­ energy is boundless," Thurk said. tance of the workouts and make The kid is constantly bouncing off CARLY CHAMBERLIN/THE ITHACAN sure they understand the type of the walls. He's just a good person BALTA, RIGHT, AND JUNIOR Mike T_hurk have both been among the team's top scorers the past three years. commitment college-level swim- to be around." '' \

26 THE ITHACAN SPORTS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2002 Bombers· capture Empire Eight crown Squad earns trip to NCAA tournament with weekend sweep of Alfred and Fisher BY BRIAN DELANEY below their scoring averages. '!_!_Stslarzt Sports Editor His efficiency on both ends of the floor is only one part of a Bomber squad that turned Back in early November, the Bombers had into a defensive juggernaut down the been selected by the Empire Eight coaches stretch, holding its last five opponents to an to finish in the middle of the pack in the Em­ average of 48.2 points per game. They will pire Eight. need to play that same type of consistent de­ Matt Riggins seemed to embrace that un­ fense to advance deep into the playoffs. d.:!restimation rather than be annoyed by it. "The effort has been great," Coach Jim "I think it's a perfect time to go out and Mullins said. "We had a great run in the end." prove more people Ithaca finds out who and where they will wrong than if you play on Sunday, when the tournament seed­ went into the ings and pairings are announced. league being at "We know nothing," Mullins said. the top," the junior guard said before the "Everything is up in the air, and I have no season started. idea where we're gonna be. There may be an Riggins' comments turned out to be outside chance cf us getting a home game. prophetic, and for the first time since 1994, 1f Brockport wins the SUNY Athletic Con­ the Bombers won the Empire Eight and will ference, which they should, then they might make their first NCAA Division III appear­ get a bye in the first round. Under those cir­ ance since 1993. cumstances, then it's possible that we could Friday's 61-47 victory over Alfred, cou­ get a home game." pled with Nazareth's 38-point loss to Utica, The Bombers have been killing opponents clinched the league crown for the Blue and with a balanced scoring attack to the point Gold. After opening with a 2-2 league record, where teams can't figure out which player to the Bombers went on to win 10 of their next concentrate on defensively. Three players av­ 11 games and finished an impressive run Sat­ erage in double figures, including Riggins urday with a 65-62 come-from-behind vic­ ( 11. 7 ppg), senior Matt Miller ( 11.4 ppg) and tory over St. John Fisher. sophomore Tyler Schulz ( 11.3 ppg). Junior Riggins has been terrific over the last two Will Hill has also played excellent ball late­ weeks, being named Empire Eight Player of ly, averaging 10 points a game against the Week twice and leading the Bombers in Empire Eight opponents. scoring against both Alfred (13 points) and That kind of team-wide production St. John Fisher (18 points and 11 re­ should be beneficial to the Bombers come Feb. bounds). He also has been a defensive stal­ 28, when first-round play begins. Mullins said wart, holding opponents' top players to well he doesn't believe the intense playoff at­ mosphere will intimidate his team. "I think that we've been playing under EMPIRE EIGHT MEN'S FINAL STANDINGS playoff pressure for the last eight to 10 games," said Mullins, who won his first x- 1. Ithaca (11-3) Empire Eight crown as a head coach at 2. Nazareth (10-4) Ithaca. "I think every game we played, LARRY WESTLER/THE ITHACAN 3. St. John Fisher (8-6) there was pressure, and the kids respond­ SENIOR MATT MILLER shoots over Raymie Auman. to help Ithaca pick up the 4. RIT (7-7) ed real well." dramatic 65-62 victory over St. John Fisher at the Ben Light Gymnasium Saturday. T4. Elmira (7-7) 6. Alfred (6-8) The Bombers don't enter the postseason T6. Utica (6-8) without previous playoff experience. ence from his days at Cobleskill, where he "When you get a bunch of kids that are 8. Hartwick (1-13) Two years ago, senior Dane Fischer and played before transferring to Ithaca in 2000. all on the same page, that are all like fami­ x- denotes league champion junior Jason Wallen competed in the That will be helpful to this close-knit team ly and enjoy each other, there's nothing in ECACs, and Miller has tournament experi- that has risen above preseason expectations. the world like it," Mullins said. Women bask in glory of second consecutive league title BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN With many returning players, experience struggled with but has worked to improve. Staff Wrirer may prove to be key in the team's success. "We just got annihilated on the boards," "We should get further in the tournament," Raymond said after the team ·s victory over Huddled m a corner of Ben Light Gym­ Brady said. "Basically everyone from last St. John Fisher. "With such great defense, op­ nasium shortly after defeating Alfred Friday, year is back, so we know what it's like. Our ponents should not be getting second and the women's basketball team let out an en­ goals are high." third shots." thusiastic scream. I More importantly, the team will be able Raymond was also upset with the points The news had just to take advantage of the authority that spec­ Fisher collected from the free-throw line. He come - Elmira tators and opponents have seen in them said the team needs to eliminate unnecessary had defeated St. === throughout the course of this banner season. fouling. John Fisher. With their win over the Saxons, Raymond's continual stress on the im­ "There were way too many fouls today," the Bombers clinched the Empire Eight ti­ portance of defense has led to a strong dis­ he said. "It is frustrating for a coach to watch tle and an automatic bid to the NCAA tour­ ·ptay from his players on that side of the ball. his team give up so many points from foul­ nament, for the second consecutive year. "Right now, our biggest strength is de­ ing. We need to get rid of stupid fouling." After the success of last year's squad, a fense," Brady said. "We put a lot of pressure Junior Kerri Brown said the team should return trip to the NCAAs has been a goal on our opponents." succeed if it continues to perform the way since the start of the season. One weakness the team has worked to it did during the regular season. "It's so exciting," said freshman eliminate is the streaky pattern in intensity "If we continue to work hard and play like Stephanie Cleary, who has been a solid play­ during a game. The players know it is pafa­ we have all year, we should do well," she er off the bench. "We expected to be a good mount for them to maintain a consistent lev­ said. "We area stronger team than last year." team. There is so much talent. Making the el of intensity in the tournament. · Brown also said placement in the draw tournament is a great reward for all of our "We need to play with consistency," Brady could p~oye .bynefi.cial. With a 21-3 record, hard work." said. "We need to play our game and not al­ the Blue·and Gold should receive fairly good Graduate student Kelly Brady, who is en­ low our opponents to dictate play." placement. Brown expressed desire for a "We definitely need to play our game," home game to open the tournament. ~ , I joying her last season as a Bomber, agreed with Cleary. Cleary agreed. "Our game is running the ball ''The home crowd definitely helps us," she "It is definitely exciting," she said. "It's and playing with a high pressure defense." said. · ' · ' · · something we have been looking toward." Rebounding will also be a factor in the . The Bombers are riding a high level of Coach Dan Raymond said he knew he had team's success. It is an aspect the team has confidence they hope will carry them deep a strong team from the beginning, but cred­ into the postseason. its the players for becoming such a threat on "Everything is starting to come together," EMPIRE EIGHT Cleary said. "We have worked hard the court. WOMEN'S FINAL STANDINGS "When I first saw the team, I thought we throughout the season, ·and this is what we had a solid bunch," he said. "However, there x-1. Ithaca (13-1) have worked toward." were times when we were not jelling as a 2. St. John Fisher (10-4) "I have a good feeling going into the tour­ team, and fixing that has nothing to do with 3. Nazareth (9-5) nament," Raymond said. "We just need to me as a coach. The kids themselves made the 4. Hartwick (8-6) continue to get better - keep improving. We . ' 5. Alfred (6·8} need to keep executing, we can't turn the ball ANTHONY HEYWARD/THE ITHACAN changes that needed to be made." 6. Elmira (5-9) FRESHMAN GUARD STEPHANIE Last year's squad reached the second T6. Utica (5-9) over as much, and we need to rebound well: CLEARY goes up for a basket against St. round of the tournament, losing to the Col­ 8. AIT (0-14) All of these things matter." John Fisher Saturday at the. Ben Light lege of New Jersey. Brady said she believes x- denotes league champion Pairings for the NCAA tournament will Gymn~sium. The Bombers won, 67-55. the team will exceed last year's performance. ' be posted on Sunday. 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had 13 points, sophomore Tyler Schulz added clinched the conference," she said. "But we PENTATHLON 10·points and IO rebounds, and junior Will can't let Fisher beat us." Bomber Hill contributed 12 points an~ six boards. With this 21st victory, the Bombers fin­ Sunday ·- The Bombers held a seven-point halftime ish with a ~chool regular-season record. advantage before relying on a strong defen- · · Before the game, the four graduating se­ The Bombers had several strong perfor­ Roundup sive effort to pull away from the Saxons in niors-Kelly Richards, Sarah Duerr, Donna mances in the New York State Collegiate the second half. Fisher and Kelly Brady-were awarded with Track Conference Pentathlon champi­ That defensive effort included holding Al­ a framed collage comprised of a team pic­ onships at the University of Rochester. fred's leading scorer, senior E.J. Docteur, to ture, an individual picture and a schedule. All · Sophomore Kevin Alford finished second MEN'S BASKETBALL just four points, including holding him members of the team signed the award. overall, including a third-place finish in the scoreless for the final 36 minutes of the game. The Bombers will participate in the state high jump with a score of 1.87 meters. Alford Friday tournament this weekend. also earned fifth in the long jump competition Saturday with a leap of 6.11 meters. It is the second year The Bombers clinched the Empire Eight MEN'S TRACK AND FIELD Alford has earned all-.state honors. title with help from 'Utica after beating Al­ The Bombers finished the regular season Freshman Robert Pickets placed 11th fred. 61-47, Friday. with a 16-9 record and an 11-3 mark in the Satur~ay overall, including a fourth place finish in the Utica throttled Nazareth, which was Empire Eight after topping St. John Fisher, 1,000-meters (2:56.41). Sophomore Greg one-half game behind Ithaca, 86-48, to allow 65-62. Three Bombers qualified for the New York Hobbs finished third in the the 55-meter high the Blue and Gold its first league crown Junior Matt Riggins had a strong game for State Collegiate Track Conference and hurdles (8.25). since 1994. the Sciuth Hill squad, finishing with 18 points, . ECAC championships Saturday at Cor­ On the women's side, sophomore Nichole f\gainst the Saxons, junior. Matt Riggins 11 rebounds and two steals; Junior Will Hill nell's Deneault Invitational. Clark finished fourth with 2,721, earning all­ added a solid all-around game, contributing Juniors Jim Ravener and Brian Cocca were state honors for the second straight year. 16 points, eight boards and six assists. joined _by sophomore Brandon Mallette as .... Senior Dane Fischer's three-pointer with qualifiers for the 800-meter run. Junior Gar­ WRESTLING 38 seconds left gave the Bombers the lead rett Wagner (mile), sophomore Jim Ruger for good as they swept the season series (400 meters) and senior Kyle Robison (high Saturday against the Cardinals. jump) each qualified for the NYSCTC. Five Bomber wrestlers will be heading to WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD the NCAA Championships March l and 2 af­ WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ter the team won the Eastern Conference Saturday Wrestling Championships Saturday. Friday Senior tri-captains Ryan Ciotoli (157 At the Cornell Kane Invitational, seven pounds) and Carlos Restrepo (125 pounds) Ithaca knocked off visiting Alfred, 71-55, Bombers qualified for the New York State and freshmen Marc Israel (141 pounds) and a win that clinched a third straight Empire Eight Collegiate Track Conference meet. heavyweight Bryan Steele all won individ­ title with St. John Fisher's loss to Elmira. In the last tune-up before the state meet, ual titles. Senior tri-captain Tommy Hall Junior Kerri Brown led the Bombers with senior Amy Holvey qualified for the 200- (133) finished second but received a wild card 18 points and five assists. Freshman meter dash and the high jump with marks berth in the NCAA tournament. Stephanie Cleary chipped in with 13 points of 27.48 seconds and 1.55 meters, Steele was also named Meet's Outstand­ and five steals in reserve action. respecti vet y. ing Wrestler. He is only the second heavy­ Sophomore Kristen Cravotta, along with weight Ithaca has ever sent to the national Saturday freshmen Emily Maston and Kara Krebs, championships. qualified for th_e Blue and Gold in the 800- Ciotoli, ranked first in the nation at 157 The Bombers (21-3) ended their regular meter run. Their times were 2:19.43, pounds, beat Cortland's Brent Rider in the season on a high note, avenging an earlier loss 2:20.95 and 2:27.35, respectively. championship match, 4-3. Ciotoli had lost to ...-. to St. John Fisher with a 67-55 win Saturday. Junior Lynn Janovich qualified for the Rider Feb. 6, his only loss of the season. The South Hill squad has now only won NYSCTC by finishing with a time of Ciotoli is the first wrestler in ECWC history five of 21 meetings with Fisher, but junior l :21.68 in the 500-meter dash. Junior Anne to win four consecutive titles. Kerri Brown, who led the team with 20 Ruminski qualified for the one-mile run with Senior Dan Montana (149) and junior Bill MELISSA THORNLEYITHE ITHACAN points, exemplified the team's attitude prior a time of 5:21.01. Sophomore Cory Lipp also Parry (165) each took third finishes. Sopho­ JUNIOR GARRETT WAGNER runs at to the game. qualified for the state meet in the shot put with more Jeff Edelstein took fourth place in the Cornell Big Red Invitational Feb. 9. "The pressure is off because we have a distance of l 1.19 meters. 184-pound bracket. 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