Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2008-09 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 11-13-2008 The thI acan, 2008-11-13 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2008-09 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2008-11-13" (2008). The Ithacan, 2008-09. 6. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2008-09/6 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, 2008-09 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. Winter SportsTION OF Preview A SPECIAL SEC The Ithacan SPECIAL SECTION THIS WEEK « NEW EXHIBIT DEBUTS ACCENT, PAGE 15 OPINION STUDENTS CAN HELP SHAPE EDUCATION, PAGE 12 WINTER SPORTS PREVIEW SPORTS CORTACA JUG GAME TURNS 50 YEARS OLD, PAGE 27 Jon Gregory Junior Wrestling k Megan Rumschi A complete overview of sports this season Senior tball Steve Croucher Baske Sophomore iving Swimming and D THIS I SEE ON THE SET FOR A SENIOR THESIS FILM, PAGE 32 Jeff Bostic Senior Basketball Cory Petermann Senior Track and Field Holding down the fortorts te the inevitably frigid Ithaca winter, eight winter sp ITHACAN FALK/THE EVAN Despi rature rising in the gym, on the teams will keep the tempe track Thursdayand in the pool. Look inside for a preview of every team. Ithaca, N.Y. november 13, 13 2008 200 The Ithacan Volume 76, Issue 11 Sheriff ’s offi ce their investigates Paying way leads in crash As students worry about the increasing cost of college and decreasing resources, BY ITHACAN STAFF one student looks to raise awareness about a broken fi nancial aid system Th e Tompkins County Sher- iff ’s Department is following several possible leads in the case of a hit-and-run accident that oc- curred around midnight Friday on Route 96B near Rogan’s Corner restaurant, according to Criminal Investigator Kevin Cowen of the Sheriff ’s Department. Reports from students who wit- nessed the hit-and-run accident de- scribed the vehicle as a dark-colored sedan that may have been a Pontiac Grand Am, Cowen said. He said the department has a few leads on vehicles with damage but all of the owners seemed to have legitimate alibis. “We don’t have anything solid, we’re still DUNN said Public hoping the pub- Safety has re- lic keeps their sponded to other BY JEN NEVINS sionately about, and her job, that she’s forced to eyes open,” accidents on 96B. SENIOR WRITER do to stay in school. Cowen said. Settled in behind the hustle and bustle of Th e juggling act she performs four to fi ve Public Safety Master Secu- the popular 12:05 p.m. lunch rush in IC Square times per week is an eff ort to pay, single-hand- rity Offi cer James Conlon said is junior Lauren Flasher, with her chair pulled edly, for her education at Ithaca College. Right a car hit an Ithaca College stu- up next to boyfriend Matt DiAnthony as the now, she’s looking at $60,000 in loans, and that’s dent who was walking on Route television-radio major refuels during her only not yet including her senior year. 96B. When police were treating one-hour break between classes. Her agenda is guided by a $400-a-week goal. the victim, another car struck an It’s a precious time slot in her otherwise Monthly, she needs to bring in at least $1,000 offi cer from Public Safety in the non-stop Wednesday schedule that lasts from before living expenses and savings to pay bills. same spot. 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. She’s only a quarter of President Tom Rochon said he anticipates Captain Derek Osborne at the the way through her day, but tonight will be that students and their families will begin to Tompkins County Sheriff ’s De- a good night. 10 p.m. is an early exit time for have a harder time paying for college in today’s partment confi rmed that the stu- her, as she usually waitresses until close at economy. He and Provost Kathleen Rountree dent victim was Derek Anderson, Junior Lauren Flasher counts tips earned from Chili’s Bar and Grill. said in an Intercom announcement that the a sophomore at the college. working at Chili’s, yesterday at her apartment. Two elements dictate Flasher’s busy life- “We’re still looking for a ve- EVAN FALK/THE ITHACAN style: her schoolwork, in a major she feels pas- See TUITION, page 4 hicle that’s going to have damage to the front, side and possibly the windshield,” Cowen said. Cowen said Anderson had fallen behind the group of stu- Students respond to professor’s tenure denial dents he was walking with. He said his friends did not realize BY NORAH SHIPMAN claims she was denied tenure based Anderson was hit until another STAFF WRITER on her political views and the subject car pulled over and informed Students for Academic Freedom, matter of her teaching, such as the them of a body on the road. a newly formed student organiza- Israeli-Palestinian confl ict. Offi cials have been unable to tion, has begun to take steps to raise Th e factors considered for receiv- confi rm whether alcohol played awareness about what they called ing tenure are detailed in the faculty a role in the scene, either on the “violations of academic freedom” handbook and political views do not behalf of the victims or the ve- fueled by a professor’s claims of un- play a role in the tenure process, How- hicular drivers. just tenure denial. ard Erlich, former dean of the School Bangs Ambulance transport- Th e group hopes to challenge of Humanities and Sciences told Th e ed the victims to an athletic fi eld academic barriers of what profes- Ithacan in an article Sept. 25. at the college where the victims sors can and cannot teach. Students that joined the group were sent by helicopter to nearby Sophomore Kyle Unruh, one of said that they thought that her hospitals, Conlon said. the group’s fi rst members, said aca- teaching was balanced. Dave Maley, associate director demic awareness is critical to stu- Senior Jordan Jadallah said Ramlal- of media relations at the college, dents’ academic experience. Nankoe taught from diff erent points said the student was airlifted to Th e group has six members but of view, which helped him better un- Upstate Medical Center in Syra- Unruh said more than 20 students derstand international politics. cuse, N.Y., and the offi cer was have expressed interest in joining. From left, junior Kay Sweeney and sophomore Kyle Unruh meet in assistant “I really wasn’t very aware of in- sent to Robert Packer Hospital in “We depend on higher educa- professor Margo Ramlal-Nankoe’s offi ce to discuss plans for the group. ternational politics before taking her Sayre, Pa. tion as students, and we depend on EVAN FALK/THE ITHACAN classes, and she just kind of opened Cowen said to his knowledge, our professors to bring us accurate, my eyes to a lot of diff erent ways of the victims were in stable condi- truthful and comprehensive infor- As previously reported in Th e year probationary period. When she looking at the world that I hadn’t re- tion at the hospitals. mation on these subjects,” he said. Ithacan, Ramlal-Nankoe was hired was reviewed again last year, her ally considered before,” he said. Investigator Tom Dunn of Th e organization was formed in 1997 and entered a tenure-eligible tenure was denied. Ramlal-Nankoe Unruh said he thinks it is a prob- Public Safety said he knew his when former students of Margo Ram- position in 2000. She was fi rst re- threatened to sue the college in a let- lem if professors cannot make their department had responded to lal-Nankoe, assistant professor of soci- viewed for tenure in 2006 but, as a ter sent to President Tom Rochon own decisions about what they can accidents there before as well. ology, had heard she had been denied result of alleged irregularities in the and C. William Schwab, chair of the tenure and may sue Ithaca College. review process, was granted a two- Board of Trustees, on Sept. 16. She See CLUB, page 4 See ACCIDENT, page 4 find more. online. www.theithacan.org THURSDAY BRIEFING 2 The Ithacan Thursday, November 13, 2008 THIS Nation&World WEEK North Korea to cut off south border The North Korean military announced yes- 13 THURSDAY terday it will shut the country’s border with the South on Dec. 1 — a marked escalation of Natural Beauty Campaign, spon- threats against Seoul’s new conservative gov- sored by the IC Feminist Club, ernment at a time of heightened tension on from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the peninsula. Clark Lounge Th e military’s chief delegate to inter-Korean Biology Seminar, featuring talks informed his South Korean counterpart that Zeke Nims ’00, at 4 p.m. in the North will “restrict and cut off ” cross-border CNS 112 routes next month, state-run Korean Central SAB movie screening “Sister- News Agency said. hood of the Traveling Pants 2” Analysts called it a pointed political move at 8 p.m. in Textor 102 designed to humiliate Seoul by hobbling a joint industrial park in the city of Kaesong, just across 14 FRIDAY the border, that has served as a beacon of hope for reconciliation.