The Ithacan, 2003-10-30

INSIDE Q) Opinion Anti-abortion display exercises free speech Page 10 ..c Accent It's haNest time at local wineries Page 15 r S orts Four juniors start women's club soccer team The Newspaper.for the Ithaca College Community Page 25 Candidates Choosing sides offer opinions Gerwcide Awareness Project display on students BY KIMBERLYN DAVID sets off protests and discussion Contributing Writer Although many students will Jive in the BY KATIE MOORE photograph of an aborted fetus with images since Ithaca area for only a few short years, they will Assistant News Editor of victims of atrocities committed by the m y feel the impact of local politics in everything Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis. very 1 from the tax they pay on clothing on The Junior Jacqui Small stood in shock as "I think it is really inappropriate to com e Xi S - Commons to maintenance oflocal roads. Local she looked at the posters on display out pare abortion to history," said Small, who tence is £FiJN S-4Gc: 1 residents also feel the impact of college stu side of Campus Center. She shook her head was adopted as a newborn. "I have a hard due to the choice - ~He rrl-f. dents in their everyday lives. as she stared at a poster that paralleled a time with the issue of abortion, especially made by my biological '.4C,4N Three candidates vying for a four-year term mother." as city mayor have a lot to say about students. Many Ithaca College students paused to Tuesday, the candidates will square off: Paul look at the anti-abortion images presented by Glover on the Green Students for Life as they walked through the Party ticket; Democrat academic quad Monday and Tuesday. Carolyn K. Peterson run The posters were on loan from the Cor ning for both the nell University Students for Life chapter. Democrat and Working They are part of a traveling display creat Families slots; and John ed by the Awareness Project and are avail Beau Saul, a Democrat able to anti-abortion groups on campuses simultaneously running across the country. on the Republican and Some members of Students for Life, Independent lines. which organized the display of the anti-abor All three candidates tion posters as part of Celebrate Life Week, agree that students have GLOVER said they deliberately chose disturbing im always played an inte- ages as a way to draw student attention and gral role in the shaping of Ithaca's community. spark dialogue about the issue of abortion. Glover said that in 1998, when he was pres "I just hope the overall impact is a con ident of Ithaca's Green Party, he encouraged tinued and lasting-discussion of life issues four students to run foe city council. One of because those are a major issue facing our them was elected to office. He said students are gen~ration," said Michael Wier, treasurer of rightfully demanding their place in making the group. "One in three pregnancies ends policy decisions. in abortion. It's a major issue and one that "There's a hunger for new voices and new this campus is pretty silent on." ideas," he said. Junior Sarah Holzgraf said that while In 2004, at least two of the I 0-member law she agreed that the posters started an im making seats of the Common Council will be portant dialogue on campus, she thought filled by students. Michael J. Taylor, 20, and they did so in an inappropriate manner. Gayrand Townsend, both "It's bringing a discussion about, but it Cornell undergraduates does it in an exploitative way," she said. "[The are running unopposed campaign] is comparing apples and oranges." for two-year and four Though Holzgraf said she would not year seats respectively in choose to have an abortion, she does not the 4th Ward. In the only believe the right to choose should be made contested race for illegal because such legislation would Common Council, MEGHAN MAZELLA/THE ITHACAN force women to take unsafe risks. Holz Lindsey Plotnick, 20, a SOPHOMORE RACHEL GOLDSTEIN and seniors Karly Desmond and Katie graf and others formed a pro-choice coali- Cornell undergraduate, is Schwartz gathered outside the Campus Center to protest the G~nocide Awareness bidding for a seat in the Project. ABOVE: A panel of the display shows a premature baby and an aborted fetus. See STUDENTS, page 4 PETERSON 5th Ward, which com- prises the four districts in the Fall Creek neighborhood. Peterson said her administration would wel come more student representation on the city's boards and committees. She also said regard Wildfires concern Californians less who's elected, Ithaca will continue to ben BY ANNE K. WALTERS outside. efit from student volunteers who devote time to News Editor He said his family was pre community service programs. pared to evacuate if necessary. Students fill roles as every other resident of When junior Sean Connacher They packed up his grandpar Ithaca does, said Saul. "They're a viable,-vibrant part of our com woke up Sunday, an upsetting ents' homes and made his fami message from his parents await ly's house into home-base for munity, as any part of our community [is]," he said. ed him. His hometown of San extended family because it was Diego was on fire. not in as much danger as many Each of the candidates acknowledges that solu Connacher, who is spending other homes. the semester studying at the col "We had everything in the tions to tensions between lege's Los Angeles cars and plans to go to the permanent residents and reveling students lie in Communication Center, decided beach," he said. that he would drive the few Several fires have burned dialogue and mutual hours to San Diego to be with his nearly 900 square miles of respect. family. Southern California in the past A College Avenue res "It's a helpless feeling," he week, leaving 16 people dead ident, Glover said he is said. and destroying at least 2,000 surrounded by students, SAUL Connacher described the air homes, state officials said. and advocates the right of in San Diego as laden with ash The fires raged from Ventura legally aged students to have parties in his and fog, tinted orange from the County to Mexico, forcing tens neighborhood. He said he is "repelled at the fire's reflection. He said the air of thousands of evacuations and CAROLYN COLE/THE LOS ANGELES TIMES police crackdown on minor infractions," which includes the open-container fine increase from is not safe to breathe and See FIRES, page 4 SOLANO BEACH FIREFIGHTERS John Siberell and scratches his lungs when he goes Steve Perry battle a fire near Rim Forest in California. See VOTERS, page 4 \: www.ithdGt.edu/ithtican , r-t I I, 2 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSD¢Y, OCTOBER 30, 2003 National and I nternational News Truck bomb explosion in Iraq kills four FEED THE BIRDS A truck bomb exploded near a police station in Fallu jah, Iraq, on Tuesday afternoon, killing at least four peo ple one day after multiple car bombings in Baghdad left about three dozen dead. The blast unleashed shrapnel and fire across a crowd ed intersection near the city's central market, killing two pedestrians and setting several cars on fire. Although the bomb was significantly smaller than those that exploded in Baghdad on Monday, the proximity to the police station was similar to the blasts in the capital, in which suicide attackers detonated explosives packed into vehicles in front of three police stations and the local head quarters of the International Commi~tee of the Red Cross, killing at least 35 people and wounding more than 200. As American and Iraqi investigators combed through the .debris in Baghdad, the U.S. military reported another in a string of assassinations of Iraqis cooperating with oc cupation forces. The U.S.-appointed c,teputy mayor of Bagh dad, Faris Abdul Razzaq al-Assam, was shot to death in a cafe on Sunday after he returned from an international donors' conference in Madrid, officials announced. Russia's richest man arrested and jailed The arrest of Russia's richest man has touched off po PAMELA CONSTABLE/THE WASHINGTON POST litical turmoil within the Kremlin as reformers there con AFGHANS VISIT A SHRINE in Mazar-e Sharif. The city has been threatened by mllltla vlolllice• lecal com clude they have lost out to the KGB veterans surrounding ... manders fight for control of the area, but Muslims still flock by the thousands to the shrine dally. · · President Vladimir Putin in a struggle over the direction t I of'tbe counb.y, accQrding to insiders and analysts. I The decision ·to ,imprison oil billionaire Mikhail U.S. resumes discussions with Iran izing relations" that were terminated after the 1979 revo Khodorkovsky, accordifll to political analysts, followed l lution. months of internal Kremlin battles in which fonner secret Six months after halting talks with Iran, the Bush ad U.S. and Iranian officials had met several times in Gene service officials waged a successful effort to lake on the ministration.-Said Tuesday it_was prepared to resume dis va both before and after the war in Iraq, with the last ses biggest symbol of Russia's new capitalism. I creet discussions with the Islami~ republic over Iraq, sion on May 3. But the administration halted the contacts "It's real and it's fighting not just about personalities ~ Afghanistan and other issues. after the May 12 bombings of residential compounds in but over the strategy of Russia's development," said Sergei I.

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