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Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2000-01 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 5-3-2001 The thI acan, 2001-05-03 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2000-01 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2001-05-03" (2001). The Ithacan, 2000-01. 29. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2000-01/29 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 2000-01 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. Final Issue Sports Dfl]so<dJe This is The Ithacan '.s last issue It's playoff time Accent II for the semester. Regular publi- Classified 19 Women's lacrosse team opens New cation will resume Aug. 30, Comics 18 York State tournament. Page22 200 l. Have a great summer! Opinion 8 Sports 21 The VOL. 68, No. 28 THURSDAY ITHACA, N.Y. MAY 3, 2001 28 PAGES, FREE.- www.ithaca.edu/ithacan The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community Applications top 10,000 mark BY KELLI B. GRANT as close as we can judge it." lege should accept 6,900 applicants to Staff Writer During the last two years, freshmen achieve its target class size. enrollments have been on the rise. Last This year's acceptance rate of 66 per The college received a record-high year, the college accepted 6,518 appli cent is the lowest at the college since 10,500 applications for the 2001-2002 cants, which led to a decade-high 1,690 1989, he also said. academic year, a 13 percent increase over freshmen enrolling at the institution. The School of Health Sciences and last year's record of9,323 applications. The rise in applications is a combi Human Performance was the only Although the college decided to in nation of several factors, Metzger said. school that experienced a decrease in ap crease the number of accepted applicants "We've had a significant increase in plications, at 6 percent. Metzger attrib by 382, Dean of Enrollment Planning hits on our Web site and [with] campus utes HS&HP's drop to a national trend Larry Metzger said he expects an in visitors," he said. "We've even revised toward declining interest in the school's coming freshman class with 156 fewer some of our campus publications." degree programs. students than this year. The college will be sending out sur The college's other four schools ex 'The plan was to sustain the level of veys to incoming freshmen to determine perienced increases m applications: [total] current enrollment," Metzger what ultimately drew them to Ithaca. School of Humanities and Sciences, 19 CORINNE JACOBY/THE ITHACAN said. "We have a target freshman class Metzger explained that this year's SENIOR DANIELLE CROTTY guides prospective student of 1,534, plus or minus sixty. That's about planning statistics showed that the col- See EXACT, page 4 Andrew Cameron around campus Monday morning. Remia smashes record homer BY BRIAN DELANEY She tied the prest1g1ous_ Staff Writer record in Game I against Buffalo State in an 8-0 win, her "I really don't think you seventh home run in the last 12 could do anything for our games. Aside from the team." homers, Remia leads the Those were the words of Bombers in almost every oth William Paterson softball er offensive statistical catego coach Hallie Cohen when a ry this season, including bat young Laura ting average Remia, still in (.528), hits (66), high school, in RBIs (55), runs quired about play scored (48), stolen ing for her pro bases (13), dou gram. bles ( 17), triples It turned out to (six) and total be pretty poor bases (131). Her judgement. doubles and total Four years later, ba<;es are both Remia has be school records. come one of the REMIA Coach top softball players Deb Pallozz1 nev to ever dress in an Ithaca uni er watched Remia play in form. She stamped her legacy high school but instead saw JON KO/THE ITHACAN on the softball Saturday when a videotape of the New Jer ALMOST 1,000 MEMBERS of the college community voted Tuesday on whether Sodexho Marriott should con she slammed her 45th career sey native and realized the po tinue operating dining services on campus. The poll was sponsored by SGA, YDS and The Ithacan. home run in Game 2 of a dou tential she'd bring to Ithaca. bleheader at Buffalo State, Pallozzi also remembers breaking the NCAA Division Remia 's first day of practice. Poll supports oust of Sodexho III record of 44, formerly "I can still remember to held by College of New Jersey this day her first practice m the BY JOE GERAGHTY Members ofYDS oppose Sodexho he said. "Ignoring this will be a slap in alumna Michelle Carlson. fall of '97 ," Pallozzi said. Staff Writer Marriott because its parent company, the the face to the students, faculty and staff 'The feeling was com "She absolutely stopped Paris-based Sodexho Alliance, owns of this college." plete and utter relief," Remia practice when she started Although more than 50 percent of stock in private prison companies. But Michael Bloomrose, editor in said. "I felt like there was this hitting because she was dn the votes in Tuesday's unofficial opin The Sodexho Alliance now owns all chief of The Ithacan, said the results big load of pressure taken off ving every ball to the fence ion poll called for the college to can of Sodexho Marriott's stock after pur showed that most of the community my shoulders." and over the fence. We were cel its contract with Sodexho Marriott, chasing the remaining 52 percent of the wants to move on. Even more . impressive like, 'Holy cow, we've got only a small percentage of eligible vot stock Tuesday. 'This vote doesn't show a clear con was that Remia broke the something here."' ers participated. After a semester of protests, Presi sensus behind YDS," he said. "An over record in 38 fewer games Remia has always had All administrators, faculty, staff dent Peggy R. Williams agreed to con whelming majority of the campus is un than Carlson. The 1995 grad great hitting technique. Her and students were invited to vote, but sider YDS's demand to cancel the col interested." uate and former professional quick hands and bat speed cre only 965 people came to the polls. 522 lege's contract with Sodexho Marriott. Frank met with Brian McAree, act softball player hit 44 home ate a powerful swing that is ef people voted to re!Jlove Sodexho On March 19, she decided to con ing vice president for student affairs and runs in 206 games, while fective against the slower Marriott, while 327 voted to maintain tinue the college's relationship with the campus life and Rory Rothman., act Remia jacked the record control pitchers as well as the the college's contract. There were 116 food service provider, noting that ing associate vice president for student breaker in her 168th game. faster strikeout pitchers. votes of no opinion. Sixteen votes were Sodexho Alliance plans to divest from affairs and campus life, on Wednesday "As soon as I hit it, I could In fact, two weeh ago in a not counted because they violated its prison interests. to ask the administration to reconsider hear my teammates yelling for 9-1 loss to Division I Cornell, procedural requirements. Junior Mark Frank, YDS co-chair, its decision. it to go out," she said about the Bombers were having a The poll was sponsored by the Stu said his organization plans to use the "[Williams] was very clear," McA knocking the 2-2 pitch over tough time hitting against Big dent Government Association, the results of the vote to encourage ree said. 'This is not an issue that would the right-centerfield fence. Red pitcher Nicole LaPera. Young Democratic Socialists and The Williams to reconsider her decision. be decided by a vote. It's a complex de "They were pushing for it, and Remia was able to make ad- Ithacan. "She can't keep pushing us aside," cision with lots of factors." then everyone went crazy af ter I touched home plate." See SENIOR, page 21 THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2001 2 THE ITHACAN National . and International News First California space tourist arrives spy, according to Russian intelligence authorities. Yet de spite insinuations by senior officials, no espionage charges NEW BRAILLE SYSTEM INVENTED The world's first space tourist, California millionaire were brought. Dennis Tito, arrived at the international space station on Instead, local police in the city of Voronezh charged To Monday and floated inside with a huge grin. "I love space," bin with running a drug ring, threatening him with at least he said. 15 years in prison. After the case proved riddled with in The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying Tito and two cos consistencies, prosecutors dropped the heaviest charges and monauts pulled up at the space station just before 4 a.m., asked that Tobin be sentenced to four years for marijuana ending a two-day journey that began with the launch in possession and intent to distribute. He got 37 months. Kazakstan. The linkup occurred just 14 hours after the de The case showed foreign observers who usually ignore such parture of space shuttle Endeavour. trials what Russians already know: the nation's drug laws can Despite its months of opposition to Tito's trip, NASA be harsh if prosecutors choose to enforce them fully.