The Ithacan, 2000-02-03

Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1999-2000 The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 2-3-2000 The thI acan, 2000-02-03 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1999-2000 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2000-02-03" (2000). The Ithacan, 1999-2000. 18. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1999-2000/18 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, 1999-2000 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. o. Vol. 67, No.-18 ·rhursday Ithaca, N. Y. February 3, 2000 28 Pages, Free www.ithaca.edu/ithacan The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community Accent Inside Sp()rts Accent 13 Beat winter blues Classified 21 Close shave What to do in Ithaca when Comi~ 20 The Bombers squeak by Opinion -. 10 the snow falls. Page 13 Binghamton. Page27 .Sports 23 Athletics director appointed pus life. little time to find a replacement, so pervision as well. that for all searches, if you have a Ford spent almost six months as Oblak appointed Ford as interim. "I think Ford is doing an out position that reports to a vice pres Ford granted interim athletics director, and has "I am pleased that the standing job and taking ident, a national search and a worked in athletics administration college has expressed the college in the right search committee arc required," top position for 11 years at Ithaca. its confidence in me by direction," tennis coach said Michael McGreevey, executive Last year Ford was Ithaca Col appointing me athletics Ryan Witt said. assistant to the president. "But it Our View 10 l~ge's associate director," Ford said. "I Coaches have also also makes reference to the fact that permanently ____,__ director of have appreciated the said they arc supportive obviously these requirements can be planned and leadership gifts. She re support that I received as of Oblak's decision to modified, if a compelling rationale BY DAN GREENMAN placed the previous athletics di the interim director and appoint Ford, even or explanation is given. And that Staff Writer rector, Betsy Alden, Aug. I, when look forward to contin though he did it without was certainly articulated by Jack Alden left Ithaca College to focus uing the work necessary conducting a nation Oblak." Interim Athletics Director on her consulting business. to maintain a nationally wide search. Ithaca's Based on the success of the ath Kristen Ford was named director of Alden announced her plans to recognized program." FORD standard procedure for letics department in the past few intercollegiate athletics director leave last spring, after serving as Coaches have ex hiring administrators 1s a months, Oblak said a search wa~ not Friday by John B. Oblak, vice pres athletics director for only two pressed their optimism for Ithaca search with multiple candidates. necessary. ident for student affairs and cam- years. This left the college with very College athletics under Ford's su- "The procedures basically state See FORD, page 26 Move in future for L.A. program BY ~_LLEl'(STAPLETON Pending board· approval, the Staff Writer program could also be renamed in honor of Pendleton, Tropiano Ithaca College is planning to said. _,_. - move the Los Angeles Program, as Pe'ndleton, a Hollywood interi well as rename the program after or designer and friend of former one of the college's top benefac Ithaca College Professor Gustav tors, the late James B. Pendleton. "Skip" Landen, cinema and pho A proposal has been made to re tography, left a $14.5 million be locate the program, currently in quest to the Roy H. Park School of suite 318 at 3800 Barham Blvd., to Communications in his will. a large set of suites in the same Pendleton died in 1995. building. Junior Leila Herron, who is The Board of Trustees will spending the semester in Los An consider the proposal at its Febru geles, said the changes in facilities ary meeting. will be welcomed by students. Dean Thomas W. Bohn of the "The biggest plus to moving for Roy H. Park School of Communi me will hopefully be the increase cations declined to comment on the in computer lab space," she said. changes in the program until the "As of right now, there is a small JOHN SIGMUND/THE ITHACAN board takes action. room which houses five computers TRESPASSING SUSPECT NIMROID FOLSOM (right) is transported by Tompkins County Corrections Program Director Stephen that are supposed to accommodate Officer Donald Byrd into Ithaca Town Court Tuesday night to face his arraignment hearing. Tropiano said the new suite all 50 to 70 students." would allow for the addition · of The proposed expansion is not more classroom space, a comput meant to increase enrollment in the er room, a library, a faculty office Los Angeles program, but to allow Suspect pleads not guilty and a student lounge. more space and opportunity, Juniors and seniors in the Park Tropiano said. imum sentence of which could be the women's bathroom on the School have the opportunity to If the board approves the mea Pre-trial date a year of imprisonment or a fourth floor of the East Tower and spend a semester or summer in Los sure, a dedication of the new cen $1,000 fine. When asked to the third floor of the West Tower. Angeles, combining classroom ter would be scheduled for March comment, both Folsom and his at The intl'llfkr was also reported study with internships. 29, he said. set for March torney declined to divulge infor seen in the women's bathroom on mation other than Folsom's plea the third floor"ofRowland Hall. A BY VANESSA LEONG and pre-trial date. female resident of the fourth Staff Writer Folsom is ~1111 being held on a floor of the East Tower reported $5,000 cash bail and a SI 0,000 to Campus Safety that the man had Nimroid Folsom, 26, of 511 bond in the Tompkins County Safe pc.eked over the stall where she W. Clinton St., pleaded not ty Building pil, his attorney said. was showering Another witne~!> guilty to all trespassing charges Folsom 's next court appear reported seeing a male matching in Ithaca Town Court Tuesday. ance will be at his prclirmnary tn Campu~ Safety's descnption Folsom was arrested Jan. 24 al, set for March. leavmg campus on a bicycle by Campus Safety Sgt. Ronald Folsom had previously been around IO p.111. Hart and a Tompkins County arrested for trespa!>!>mg on cam Witnesses dc!>cnbcd the tre~ Sheriff's deputy in Pyramid pus in December 1994 and was pas~er to Campus Safety official~ Mall on charges of criminal given a criminal trespass waiver as a 5-foot-3-inch black male be trespassing and loitering. He is at that time, said Public Infor tween the ages of 18 and 25, suspected of trespassing in mation Director Dav~ Maley. The weighing approximately 140 women's bathrooms on the Itha trespass waiver basically pro pounds. He was also reported to ca College campus. hibited Folsom from coming on have short, black hair and was de According to his attorney, campus, he said. scribed as wearing a green kha who declined to identify himself, In a Jan. 24, 2000 Campus ki jacket, blue jeans and carrying COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF COLLEGE RELATIONS Folsom was charged with a Safety alert it was reported that on a green backpack at the time of STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE'S Los Angeles Program should Class A misdemeanor, the max- Jan. 16, a man allegedly entered the incidents. expect a new name for the program and addltlonal space In March. -·-:. '. ',1 - THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2000 2 THE ITHACAN 3, 11~4~~ News Trade talks create new international treaty for genetically modified food BY MICHAEL W. BLOOMROSE other food exporting nations had resisted the against va<;t food corporations such as Mc land and Gerber have begun to refuse to News Editor new regulations, but after five days of con Donald's this year, which has been the sub use these products or demand that they be tentious negotiating agreed to endorse the ject of vandalism at some of its European lo segregated from others. Five years of trade negotiations came to package. In return, other nations agreed to cations over the use of hormone treated beef. According to the Times, Europe has re an end as 130 nations agreed upon a glob put off for at least two years the imple Those opposed to genetically modified or quired consumer labeling of genetically al treaty to regulate genetically modified mentation of proposals to track and regu ganisms, such as Greenpeace, were surprised modified food in stores; in the United States food this week, after an intense showdown late global trade of the gene-altered foods. by the constraint'> placed on the international the practice has remained voluntary and rare. between the United States and its agricul Frank E. Loy, an undersecretary of state movement of genetically modified organisms However, concerns about genetically al tural allies and the rest of the world, ac and head of the U.S. team in Montreal, de and the latitude it gives countries to refuse tered food have begun to rise in the United cording to the Montreal Gazette. scribed the agreement as "not perfect" to their entry, according to the Gazette. States, according to The Washington Post.

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