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Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1990-91 The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 5-2-1991 The thI acan, 1991-05-02 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1990-91 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 1991-05-02" (1991). The Ithacan, 1990-91. 29. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1990-91/29 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 1990-91 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. ---- - -- ------------- -- -- - A walk around Ithaca: Administration remains The architecture of !backpacks: Wal kAmerica '92 insensitive to student concerns a new structure ... page 6 ... page 8 ... page 13 This is the last Issue of The Ithacan for the Spring The semester. Publication will ITHACAN resume in the Fall of '91. The Newspaper For The Ithaca College Community Vol. 58, No. 29 Thursday, May 2, 1991 28 pages Free _Getting your Fixx New dining hall hours proposed By Sandra Ortland Towers would be closed for brunch The dining services deparunent and dinner on weekends. at Ithaca College has proposed The possible crowding al brunch changes in dining hall policies for bccau\e of the Towers closing, next year. l'VkCullough said, was a concern of Howard McCullough, director some studcms. of food services, said, "StudenL\ Under the new policy, studenL~ were looking for halls to be open could use their meal cards at the more hours." snack bar 4:30 p.m. unul IO p.m., McCullough visited Resident seven days a \\ eek. l\kCullough Hall Association and student go\' ,aid 1h1s would prevelll clming h;ll emment meetings m order to gel crowdmg al drnner ume. feedback on the proposal. He est1malL'd 300-400 students McCullough also discussed the on Saturdays and up to600studcnt.~ proposal with resident assist.an band on Sunday, Lo make use oft11c snack residence directors. bar. Hesaid he wished to comrnunt The proposal is curremly bemg cate with students before they kfl revie\ved by Dana Aaron, the new for the summer. as~1~tant vice-president of swdent The actual proposal \\'Ould in affalf~ at IC. clude changes m To1Vcr din mg hall Aaron said a dec1s1on should be Ithacan / Adam Riemer hours and snack bar hours. made within t11e next few weeks, If Fixx drummer Adam Woods keeps the beat going during the Spring concert. See story on If the plan is approved, the Tow the changes arc pa~sed, the new page 11. ers would be open from 7 a.m. to 8 hours will be 1mplcmcntcd for the p.m. weekdays. However. the Fall ·91 semester. Broadcast journalist to speak at commencement Emmy and Peabody award-win Saudi Arabia, where she was cov Hunter-Gault was also the host uve news team at WRC-TV in ning broadcasLjoumalist Charlayne ering the Persian Gulf war. and correspondent for the 1986 PBS Washington, D.C., where she also anchored the local evening news. Hunter-Gault will deliver the key Since joining the program in documcntary"Apartheid'sPeople," In 1968 she joined thcNew York not1; addressatlthacaCollcge 's 96th 1978, Hunter-Gault has won two which reported on the day-to-day Times as a metropolitan reporter Commencement national news and documentary lives of four South Africans. The ceremonies will be held on Emmys. She was awarded a George Fos specializing in coverage of the ur Saturday; May 18, at 11 a.m. on The first, for "Outstanding Cov ter Peabody A ward. ban black community. Her work during her IO years South Hill Field. erage of a Single Breaking News A graduate of the University of with the won numerous The program will also feature Story, recognized her contributions Georgia, where she was the first Tunes honors, including the National Ur remarks by Ithaca College Board of to coverage of the American inva black woman student, Hunter-Gault ban Coalition Award for Disun Trustees chairman Roy H. Park, sion of Grenada. began her journalistic career as a guishccl Urban Reporting and the President James J. Whalen, and se The second, for "Outstanding "Talk of the Town" reporter for the Lincoln University Unity Award. nior class president David Fleisher. Background/Analysis of a Single New Yorker. In addition to her reportorial ac Hunter-Gault is the New York Current S Lory (Segment)," honored She left that magazine after win tivities, Hunter-Gault :;crves on the based national correspondent for her reporting of the ordeal suffered ning a Russe!l Sage Fellowship LO bo:.ird of directors of the Committee the "MacNeil/Lehrcr NewsHour," by U.S. Admiral Elmo Zurnwalt's study at Washington University, to Protect JournalisL,, the Center the news program syndicated on son, who was contaminated by where she served on the staff of Trans-Action mag,v.ine. for Communication, and the Foun public broadcasting television sta Agent Orange while serving under Charlayne Hunter-Gault his father in Vietnam. In 1967 .she joined the investiga- dation for Child Development. ~L---d----t-.-----itions. She recently returned from Student documentary on an en re Ires Harris family to be aired! By Beth Roundy BJ Michael Dci\tasi He's the "Pope of Film," according to "He really takes an interest One year and a half after the brutal killing "It was quite a challenge hut Jim Bates, '91. "He helps people," says in and cares about our of the Harris family in Dryden, five IC stu we felt obligated to the com Scott Levy, '92, "That's all I ever sec him education and what we' fl do dents have produced a documentary that munity and the family." do." "Skip is one of the people who is part explores how the Tompkins County comm u -Mark Wightman '92 of the heritage of film education,'' says Dr. when we get out of here." nity has coped in thcaftennath of the murders. Patricia Zimmermann, a professor in the -Glenn Camhi '91 Meredith Drucker '92, Scan Garn hart '9 2, the show in t11e spring of 1990 for their department of cinema and photography. Pam Schecter '92, Anne Thorpe '91, and Documentary Research class. Students and faculty alike expressed Landen has also made tremendous ef Mark Wightman '92 pro~uced "Picking up Wightman said the students were en great respect and admiration towards forts in recruiting minority students and the Pieces: Dealing with the Death of the couraged to produce the video by their pro Gustav "Skip" Landen, the 16-year chair faculty. "He's the person who, when Lhe Harris Family," a half-hour program that will fessor, Dr. Ben Crane, and the panel ofjudges of the department of cinema and photogra faculty said we needed a more diverse be shown on community access Channel 13 who chose their proposal as the best among phy, who is retiring this year. student body, went out and found them," on May 8, at 8 p.m. eight others presented for the class. Since Landen came to IC in 1968, the Zimmermann said. The videotape consists of interviews with "We also talked to Don Lake Jr., l\-1rs. department has grown tremendously. In During his timeatIC,Landen has taught members of the community who were ef Harris'brothcr," said Wightman. "He thought the early days of the department Landen, courses such as Introduction to Film Pro fected by the killings and recounts the story iL would help the community." along with Ken Degraff, got equipment duction, Advanced Film Production, The of the Harris family members who were slain Drucker, who said she developed a close from army surplus and rebuilt it to use in Sponsored Film, Film Editing, Screen in their home three clays before Christmac; in tic with the people involved as a result of the classroom. With the new communica Writing and Motion Picture Marketing, 1989. working on the project, described the show as tions building and the growth the depart which he calls his "very favorite course." "It was quite a challenge but we felt ob "another step in the healing process." ment has undergone, this is no longer For the past ten years, h/c and ligated to the community and the family," Drucker said the program doesn't focus on necessary, but the ·story -exemplifies the Zimmennann have team-taught Introduc said Wightman, who along with the other the fear people had as a result of the murder. dedication Landen has to the department. See "Landen," page 4 four TV-R majors, developed a proposal for See "Documentary," page 3 2 THE ITHACAN May 2, 1991 Students named as finalists Ithaca College's Students In Free economics department Ithacan Inquirer Enterprise (SIFE) team was named The objective of the team is to as one of the four finalists of the developphilanthrophic projects that By Tom Arundel regional competition held in demonstrate the importance of free Morristown, NJ. on Monday, April enterprise. Question: What are your plans for the summer? 29. This year's projects ranged from The team is now qualified to teaching free enterprise in elemen compete in the SIFE International tary schools to developing instruc Exposition on May 19, in ~nsas tion in correctional facilities. City. Ithaca SIFE has also received Ithaca SIFE members are Kelly a $1,500 award that will pay for McGuirk, Lynn Evans, David some of their travel expenses. Weiser, Robert Ferrara, Holly Ithaca SIFE is lead by President Richards, Jen Frey, Terrence Kelly McGuirk, and Faculty Advi Lonsdale, Kelly O'hara, and Scott sor Dr.