The Ithacan, 2003-10-09
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INSIDE Opinion Taking another look at add/drop Page 11 Accent Thousands of books tempt readers Page 13 Sports Three grads travel through minor league baseball The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community Page 23 Volume 71, ,Number 1_ _• ,, - lthac.1, N)(f " : Thursday, October 9, 2003 Students campaign• • for migrants BY NICOLE GEARING Staff Writer Members of the college Young Democratic Socialists and Students for a Just Peace knew worker's rights were a national issue, but did n '-t expect to find labor abuses in Ithaca, a bas tion of progressive thought. Allegations of labor abuse at a local pizzeria gave the student activists another rea son to attend a national rally Saturday in New York City. Three former employees of Collegetown Pizzeria, 401 College Ave., claim they were paid only $4.35 per hour (80 cents an hour below state minimum wage), expected to work 70-hour weeks, subjected to verbal abuse and housed in unsanitary conditions in the basement of the pizzeria, said Pete Myers of the Workers Rights Center. The employees, who hail from Central and South America, brought their case to the center, who notified the New York State Attorney Gen An intoxicating ride eral's office. The office agreed to take on the Collegetown Pizzeria case because it's in the midst of inves en, tisatintJ,..r,,pa..:ucea-c»i ...__ _..Mblr,agents Special Projects Manager On campus, there have been seven DWI charges so far this like those used by pizzeria owner Khalid Attia, semester, said Norm Wan: associate director of Public Safety. Myers said. On junior Emily Mancini's key chain is a small domino. One Usually, the college averages between five and 10 cases per aca Attia said the Attorney General's Office is face has four dots on one half and one on the other to represent demic year, he said. coming to investigate the allegations this week. one person's bad decision that killed four people. The other side "We haven't done any specific targeting for drunk driving," "We have to clarify a big misunderstanding," bears the name "Katie" - one of Mancini's three high school he said. "But if you have even one it's a problem, and that's what Attia said in response to the charges. "They can friends killed in an accident in Cortland three years ago. concerns me." say anything they like, but they have no proof." The key chain, which Katie's father gives out at motivational According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminis Three Ithaca College students and an alum speeches against driving while intoxicated, serves as a daily re tration, three in every 10 Americans will be involved in an al nus took the issue to New York City when they minder of the tragedy for Mancini. cohol-related crash at some time in their lives. Last year alone, joined 100,000 immigrants and their supporters After attending a party at a fraternity, the three friends drinking and driving killed about 17,000 people and injured half Saturday at the Workers Freedom Ride rally in hitched a ride with two young men who had also been drink a million. Queens advocating greater legal rights for for ing. Speeding up a hill at 90 miles per hour, the car slammed In Tompkins County, there have been 226 DWI arrests this eign-born workers. into one tree, then spun and hit a second. The driver was the year, said John Beach '69, coordinator for the county STOP-DWI The rally - more like a multicultural festi only survivor. program. Of those arrests, 46 were of people between the ages val because of the music, food and attitude of "Our class was very close," Mancini said. "It was very trau of 18-22. participants - was the culmination of a 12-day, matic, and not a day goes by that I don't think of them." See BOOZIN', page 3 And she is not alone. More than 10 Ithaca College students See STATE, page 4 Acute senses guide freshman BY SARAH HOFIUS to memorize what routes she had to travel to Since birth, Bottner has had no sight in ei Staff Writer and from classes. Instead, she relies on her ther eye. She is one in a set of fraternal triplets. memory and her cane to get her to class every Elizabeth and her sisters, Kathryn and Kristen, Freshman Elizabeth Bottner walked out day. In January, Bottner hopes to have a new were born three months premature and were of Emerson Hall Tuesday morning. As she seeing-eye dog. Her former seeing-eye dog Ka given a 5 percent chance of living. All survived got to the end of the ramp, she proceeded right terina was retired this summer due to stress. but were left with vision problems. Elizabeth and walked along the sidewalk until she found A few days before she started class, Bot is fully blind, Kathryn is partially blind and the stop sign. tner was shown the way to class by her mo uses a cane, and Kristen's vision is corrected Bottner has an even bigger obstacle than bility instructor, Mike Dylan, who is contracted enough with contacts so she can drive. most freshmen who have trouble finding their by the Commission for the Blind in New York. "Being here today and as far as I am to way around campus: she is blind. Bottner said she got lost the first two days day is pretty darn good," Bottner said. When it sounded like the cars had stopped of classes, but now she has no problem get When Bottner was four months old, she on the busy road, Bottner crossed it, stepped ting where she needs to go. underwent surgery to try to restore some vi onto the curb and turned left. As she felt where Bottner is blazing new trails at the college, sion to her right eye. At that time, the surgery the grass met the blacktop, she turned right and Academic Support Services for Students with had a 5 percent success rate. headed towards the Park School of Commu Disabilities believes she is the first blind stu "Needless to say, the operation didn't nications. When she came to a familiar shrub, dent at the college. work, but I believe everything happens for she walked left, went up a few stairs, and head "If someone were to tell me an apple was a reason," Bottner said. ed towards Williams Hall. Once inside, she red, blue, green, etc., I can't associate that Bottner decided to attend Ithaca College be walked directly to the stairs without hesitation with the actual color," Bottner said. "I pic cause she thought the distance from home and up to the third floor where she found her ture in my mind the rough outline or shape would be good for her. Although her family classroom. of the apple or any other object, but I don't is supportive, they wish she was a little clos- SARAH STEINER/THE ITHACAN FRESHMAN ELIZABETH BOTTNER walks exactly associate it with any color." See BLIND, page 4 She wasn't able to look at a campus map through Textor Hall using her cane. www.ithd( d.cdu/ithdcdn .... \ t., \. \" , '..._ \ t.' \ ..... ~ ..,','~',',', ,',',' .... ,''\._ ,', \ \\\" ,,, ,, ,~,,, , , , , , ' ' ' ''' "'' ' ' ~ " "' ' "'' \. ' ' ..... ' ' ' \ ' '\. ' '\ ' ' "'\ ' '\ ' ' \ ' ' ...... ,, ''\ '' ' ' ' ' ', ''\ ,, ,, ', ' ' ' ' ' " ' \ \ \ ' "' .... ..., ' ' ' \ ' \. ' ' \ '\ ' ' ' ' ' \ \ ' ,· \ \ ' \ ..... ' ' ' ' \ ' \ ' ' ' \ \ \ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '\ \ ' ' '\ ' " ' ' '- ' .., t VlhJl·,lt l -1,1; 2 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2003 National and International News Court backs do-not-call list laws · DAVIS WON'T BE BACK A federal appeals court ruled .Tuesday that the Feder al Trade Commission can enforce the much-publicized do not-call list while the constitutionality of the national reg istry designed to restrict telem~keting calls to consumers is decided. The decision by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver allows the FTC to fine telemarketers $11,000 each time they 'call any of the 51 million people who have signed up for1the list, at least until the case makes its way through the courts. Oral arguments are scheduled for Nov. 10 in Tulsa, Okla. "This i~ an important victory for American consumers," _ said Timothy J. Muris, the trade commission chairman. "We believe the rule fully satisfies the requirements of the U.S. Constitution, and we will now proceed to implement and enforce the do-not-call registry." Tuesday's ruling was the latest of a series of verdicts that began·shortly before the national list was to take ef fect a week ago and that turned up the heat on an already politically volatile issue. Syrian president speaks after air raids Amid fresh warnings from Israel about Damascus' shel tering of Palestinian militant groups, Syrian President BRIAN VANDER BRUG/LOS ANGELES TIMES Bashar Assad said Tuesday that his government would not -~RNOLDSCHWARZENEGGER IS surrounded by a media throng as he emerges from his polling place in get dragged into a war with its archrival. P~,cific Palisades, Calif., Tuesday after voting in the recall election. The Austrian-born actor won the election. Speaking publicly for the first time since Sunday's Is raeli air raid near Damascus, Assad said his regime would not yield to Israeli and U.S, demands that it expel Pales- a Republican, came in third. tinian groups from Syria. · ... ~~!twat~negger wins recall election . A jubilant Schwarzenegger thanked hundreds of "This attack was an attempt by the Israeli government ·'i. < -·~ .~:~~ :~; ~.:1~,__ , ~~ • • • • • ~u~ ~ ld:Schwarzenegger won the h1stonc Cahforma re- cheering supporters Tuesday night in a Los Angeles ball to extract itself from its internal crisis.by trying to terror ;~ ~~ f»(1-'~~S<tay as a tide of voter anger toppled Gray room.