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OPINION FREE NEWSPAPER PROGRAM A MUST, PAGE 12 A FUNKY BUNCH SPORTS SEXUAL ISSUES IN SPORT DISCUSSED, PAGE 25 Th e Rozatones rock Ithaca’s music scene, page 17 SPORTS MEN’S LACROSSE DEFEATS ALFRED, PAGE 32 Thursday Ithaca,, N.Y.N March 26, 2009 The Ithacan VolumeVolume 76, IssIssueu 23 Faculty discuss implementing strategic vision BY JOSHUA MELLMAN Ethics education stressed in light of crisis AND ELIZABETH SILE MANAGING EDITOR AND NEWS EDITOR More than 80 faculty members attended two sessions Monday in Klingenstein Lounge to defi ne inte- grative learning and brainstorm its implementation into the college’s curriculum as part of the college’s strategic visioning process. Th e process began as a year- long, campus- wide attempt to review areas of the academic environment and to refocus Ithaca College’s commitment to academic excellence. ROCHON said he In the fall, would use ideas President Tom from the sessions Rochon and in a written plan. Business students apply the skills learned in the Kathleen Roun- classroom in the school’s trading room Tuesday. tree, provost and vice president of HANNAH RASKIN/THE ITHACAN academic aff airs, held listening ses- sions aimed at brainstorming ways to create this vision. Findings from BY DAVID DURRETT for current business majors. Eileen Kelly, professor of busi- grown, and they either have an ethi- the sessions were presented at the SENIOR WRITER As the American economy’s re- ness at the college, started a class on cal value system or they don’t.” end of February. Ethics classes didn’t stop Bernard cession continues to deepen, stu- ethics at the college six years ago in Kelly said over time, the course Leslie Lewis, dean of the School Madoff , former chairman of the dents worry more than ever about response to the “dot-com” collapse of touched on new issues, such as sus- of Humanities and Sciences, mod- NASDAQ stock exchange and Wall being able to compete in the job mar- 2001 to provide more formal training. tainability, and recent classes dis- erated the two, two-hour-long Street businessman, from committing ket. However, Ithaca College profes- She said the course teaches students cussed issues like what should have discussions on how to ensure all a multibillion dollar fraud scheme — sors say business students should be to recognize ethical issues and gives been done about the bonuses given students engage signifi cantly in in- one of the largest in history. thinking, instead, about how to make them the tools to analyze situations. out at AIG, an investment group tegrative learning as part of their But curricula have changed and ethical decisions and avoid the mis- “You can’t teach people to be ethi- largely involved in the lending prac- comprehensive education. what was once taught to today’s takes that brought on the current cal for starters,” Kelly said. “We have Lewis said the purpose of the CEOs has taken a 180-degree turn economic crisis. an adult for a student; they’re fully See ECONOMY, page 4 sessions was to further determine the details of the strategic vision for the college as it moves forward. She said the focus of the dialogue was to try to understand how to do so. College selects vice president of enrollment “Th e problem to be posed is, how best do we ensure that every Ithaca College student engages signifi cant- Eric Maguire was appointed as Ithaca College’s ly in integrative learning as part of vice president for enrollment management last their Ithaca College education?” she Monday and will begin his new position June 1. said. “We’re trying to determine the For the past nine years, Maguire has held posi- best answers to that question.” tions in admissions and enrollment management at Rochon and Rountree did not Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. lead dialogue and discussion but In the position, Maguire will report directly to instead brainstormed with faculty. President Tom Rochon, serve as the college’s under- Faculty members sat at six graduate enrollment planning and strategy leader tables to complete three exercises: and sit on the President’s Council. defi ning integrative learning, sug- Assistant News Editor Becca Burns spoke with gesting across-the-college models Maguire about his plans for next fall and the future to implement integrative learning of enrollment at the college. and indicating preferences of pro- posed defi nitions and models. Becca Burns: What is your vision as the college’s Integrative learning, as the ses- fi rst vice president for enrollment management sions defi ned it, included inter- and admission? disciplinary studies, cocurricular learning, practical experience and Eric Maguire: I want to learn how the institution, application of theory. how the college, goes about its enrollment process Eric Maguire, the new vice president for enrollment management at the college, speaks to faculty and Th e suggested models for im- and recruiting students, bring some of my previous staff in January when he visited campus to apply for the position. He will begin his position on June 1. plementing integrative learning experience to the table and really assess how we go ALLISON USAVAGE/THE ITHACAN included expanding the college’s about that process at Ithaca. So I can’t really say that general education program, en- I have a clear game plan in place at this point in time, BB: How would you defi ne the enrollment problems during the interview process and did a bit of a pre- couraging research and internships, but I’m sure that will develop over the course of the the college faces? sentation about some of those challenges and how and creating interdisciplinary con- summer. ... We’re going to identify some ambitious institutions are responding to those challenges. nections between schools. goals for the enrollment staff moving forward. I don’t EM: Th e enrollment problems that Ithaca faces is Faculty members had the op- have all of the details to be able to say precisely what something that is hampering a lot of institutions na- BB: Th e percentage of students accepted that actu- portunity to vote on which models those goals may be at this point in time. I want to talk tionally now, and they are primarily external prob- ally enrolled last fall decreased 4 percent from the they thought would be easiest to to the staff there, talk to the senior leadership some lems, mainly the economic downturn that we are year before. What is the target enrollment number more and really get a handle on what the environ- currently in and what has become a demographic See SESSIONS, page 4 ment is like before outlining the particular goals. downturn as well. I was able to talk a little about this See ENROLLMENT, page 4 find more. online. www.theithacan.org THURSDAY BRIEFING 2 The Ithacan Thursday, March 26, 2009 THIS Nation&World WEEK Iraqi violence drops to low levels 26 THURSDAY Th e number of attacks in Iraq has dropped to its lowest levels since the months following Ed2010 Launch Party, an the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, a security improve- introduction to the magazine ment that comes as the U.S. begins downsiz- networking club, from 12:10 to ing its operation, a U.S. military spokesman 1:05 p.m. in Williams 222 said yesterday. Maj. Gen. David Perkins also said the number Spanish conversation meeting of American troops, Iraqi security forces and ci- from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Lan- vilians killed have dropped dramatically since the guage Lab on the second fl oor height of violence. of the library “At the height of the violence, we were aver- Screening of “Inside Out,” as aging 1,250 attacks a week,” Perkins told report- part of the LGBT fi lm series, at ers in Baghdad during a news conference. “Now, 7 p.m. in Textor 102 many times, we have less than 100 a week.” “How Do I Talk With Employ- President Obama has announced the with- ers?” sponsored by Career drawal of American combat troops from Iraq by Services, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the end of August 2010, leaving up to 50,000 U.S. Klingenstein Lounge soldiers to train Iraqi forces. Under an Iraqi-U.S. security agreement, all U.S. troops are to leave 27 FRIDAY Iraq by 2012. More than 135,000 U.S. troops are now in Shabbat Services at 6 p.m. in Iraq, and their withdrawal will be gradual at fi rst Muller Chapel to leave most in place for parliamentary elec- Shabbat Dinner at 7:15 p.m. in tions at the end of this year. About 12,000 troops, Terrace Dining Hall which make up two of 14 combat brigades in Iraq, are scheduled to leave by September. Th ey Stopping traffi c 28 SUNDAY will not be replaced. A clown performs for donations from drivers sitting in traffi c at an intersection Monday in Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua.