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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. "We are prepared to engage in limited discussions with Saudi Arabia, alleging that Iran was harboring al-Qaida op­ Markov, a political adviser who has worked closely with I the government of Iran about areas of mutual interest as eratives responsible for the attacks. the Kremlin. "It's about who is going to be the major en­ t appropriate," Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage The Iranians have denied the charge and have repeated- gine of Russia~ strate~y - b~g busi~ess ~r the state~ It's said in testimony prepared for the Senate Foreign Rela­ . ly pressed.the administration to . . tions Committee. But he stressed the talks would be limited in scope and its willingness to cooperate w l would not be a "broad dialogue with the aim of normal- ognizing the Iraqi Governing Council appointed by the U.S. Source

I through 8, 12 and 14 at 8 p.m. and on the 2002-2003 academic year. r1 Nov. 9 and 15 at 2 p.m. I The play, a murder mystery set in Lon­ Music professors to present N__ews don's Music·Hall Royale, allows the audi­ pieces by ~ntury~omen ence to participate in the story by choosing ~ the identity of the murderer and guessing who · Contralto Kelly Samarzea and pianist Briefs will end up as lovers. The actors will then Diane Birr, assistant professors of music act out the conclusion of the show based on performance, will present "Songs by I Jewish scholar and humorist 20th-Century American Women" on Sun­ ' the audience's responses. to talk about 'Sex in Yiddish' ·. Tickets can be purchased at the Ithaca day at 7 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital CORRECTIONS Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for College Theatre ticket office in D1.llingham The car accident referred to in "An Scholar, songwriter and humorist Center, the Clinton House ticket center and Music. • Intoxicating Ride" occurred in Colgate, Michael Wex will give a presentation titled Cornell University's Willard Straight Hall. Samarzea joined the Ithaca College fac­ N. Y. There were three survivors. "Sex in Yiddish: An Introduction for Speak­ Prices range from $4.50 to $10. The Dilling­ ulty in 2001, after having served on the fac­ ers of English" tonight at 8 p.m. in the Pub. ham ticket office is open Monday through ulty at Mississippi State University. In ad­ This information was incorrect in the "Sex in Yiddish" is a series of.stories that Friday, noon to 5 p.m. dition to regional appearances with the Oct. 16 issue. deal with Yiddish-speaking Jews in a small Greg Bostwick, professor of theater Cincinnati Opera, Des Moines Metro town in western Canada. Wex will relate arts, is directing the play. Opera and Indiana University Opera The­ The women's soccer game against St. what it was like to grow up during the 1950s ater, Samarzea has performed extensively John Fisher was in Pittsford, N.Y. under the influence of a father who strictly Catholic nµnistry on campus throughout the Middle East and Asia. adhered to Orthodox Judaism. receives national recognition She has received prizes and honors from This information was incorrect in the In addition to his performing and the Metropolitan Opera auditions, Opera Mu­ Oct. 23 issue. comedic talents, Wex is a highly regarded The Ithaca College Catholic Community sic Theater International and National As­ Yiddish scholar. His translation of the clas­ has been selected as one of the top seven sociation of Teachers of Singing. This past It is The lthacan's policy to correct all · sic Yiddish novel "Dos Vintshfigerl" ("The exemplary campus ministry programs year she appeared in a performance of errors of fact ..Please contact Wishing Ring") was recently published by across the country and will be showcased Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at · Cornell Assistant News Editor Katie Moore at Syracuse University Press. in November at the 2003 Campus Ministry University. 274-3207. The event, which is fi;ee and open to the Bishops' Reception in .Washington, D.C. Diane Birr performs extensively as a pi­ public, is part of "Yiddishkayt," the yearlong The community's outreach program is ano collaborator, serving as official accom­ series of lectures, films, music and perfor­ being recognized by the Catholic Campus panist to the Music Teachers National As­ mances centered on the Yiddish language and Ministry Association, the National Asso­ sociation national competitions, the Inter­ ITHACAN INFORMATION culture. ciation of Diocesan Directors of Campus national Brass Congress and the International Ministry and the National Catholic Student Hom Society Workshop. Single copies of The Ithacan are Other fall semester events in the "Yid­ available free ofcharge from authorized dishkayt" series include a Yiddish word-a­ Coalition. The concert is free and open to the public. distribution points on tne Ithaca College week project to promote awareness of Catholic chaplain Mary Humenay and ju­ campus and in downtown Ithaca. nior Matt Camporese will attend the recep­ Hillel looking for donations Multiple copies and mail subscriptions common Yiddish words in the American lex­ are available from The Ithacan office. icon and a noncredit course on Yiddish lan­ tion at the annual conference of U.S. for Locks of Love campaign Please call (607) 274-3208/or rates. guage and culture. Catholic bishops to showcase the Ithaca~­ All Ithaca College students, regard­ "Yiddishkayt" is sponsored by Hillel and pus program to more than 100 bishops. Ithaca College Hillel is sponsoring a less of school or maj_or. are invited to join the Ithacan staJJ. Interested stu­ the Ithaca College Jewish Studies Program. Twelve Catholic students planned and "Locks of Love" event on Nov. 17 from 10 am. dents should contact an editor or visit implemented· the outreach program, to 6 p.m. in the North Foyer of Emerson Suites. The Ithacan office in Roy H. Park Hall, Ithaca College Theatre season which centered around the theme "I Am Locks of Love collects donations of hair room 269. which will later be used for wigs for people \ to open second production Catholic, But ... ". The program focused on Mailing address: 269 Roy H. Park Hall, three major issues that they said might who have lost their hair due to illness. They Ithaca Collefe, Ithaca, N.Y., /4850-7258 Telephone: 607) 274-3208 L _The second production of Ithaca College cause students to turn away from the will be accepting donations of five inches of I Fax: (607) 74-1565 t " Theatre's 2003-2004 season, "The Mystery church: a lack of understanding of hair or more. I . E-mail: [email protected] 1 of Edwin Drood," will open on Tuesday at Catholic Mass, a perceived bigotry Students who wish to donate to Locks of World Wuie.Web: www.ithaca.edu/ithacan 8 p.m. in Dillingham Center's Hoerner against gay Catholics and confusion over · Love must make an appointment.with Hil­ Theatre. the role of women in the church. lel board member Shoshana Rudnick at Online manager - Eric Woodbury srudnic [email protected]. Classified manager - Hallie Shere Performances will be held Nov. 4 The three programs were presented over Calendar manager - Ana Liss

r I . THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2003 NEWS THE ITHACAN 3 Anti-abortion activist stirs crowd with remarks 'BY BROOKE BENNETT are," she said. Senior Writer During the question-and-answer period, students disagreed with Terry on a host of issues, from the idea of the United . Someday Americans will look back on the current era as States originating as a Christian country to the problem ·of "the darkest hour of our history," anti-abortion activist Ran­ overpopulation. dall Terry told students Tuesday night. When responding to one question, he compared abortion Terry, the founder of the prerlife organization Operation Res­ to illegal drugs and prostitution. People do not have the right cue, drew nearly 200 peopie for a speech as part of Students to do certain things with their bodies, he said. Those actions for Life's Celebrate Life Week. include abortion, which he equated with murder. He spoke of his role in current efforts to keep Terri "Abortion takes the life of a judicially innocent human Schiavo, a Florida woman who has been in what doctors call being in. the time of peace," he said. a persistent vegitative state for more than IO years, alive through Criticized by students for his support for capital punish­ . the continuation of her food supply through a feeding tube. ment while describing himself as pro-life, Terry said those In dis<;:l!ssing his efforts to aid Schiavo's parents, Bob and who have taken life deserve to die. He did, however, admit Mary Schindler, Terry told students that to be activists, they to having concerns over the possibility of an unfair must stick to their convictions and refuse to "play nice." application of the death penalty. "You show me one major political change, for good or Junior Andrea Hayden said she admired Terry's courage • ill, that has taken place in this country with that kind of strat­ to express his opinion unequivocally. egy," he said. "He never changed his convictions," she said. "He did­ Terry emphasized th~t goodness, virtue and bravery are n't lie about what he believes in." the necessary elements for activists. Most important, he said, Terry has also come under fire from members of Oper­ is for activists to stand up for their beliefs. . ation Save America (formerly Operation Rescue) for getting "It's my conviction that the greatest virtue is courage," a djvorce and for his fund-raising methods. he said. Terry said much public criticism directed at him is false. The Office of the Provost, the Office of Residential Life Senior Roger Custer, president of Students for Life, said and the Student Government Association provided funding the group chose to bring Terry to ,campus because of his to bring Randall on campus. That decision was critiqued prominence.in the movement and his current work in the Schi­ by several students who disagreed with his views. avo case. He said the purpose of the visit was to promote Junior Mandy Wampler questioned the use of college fund­ discussion. ing for his speech because he has expressed negative views "I don't think the purpose of bringing speakers is to agree of homosexuality, she said. with everything they've ever done," Custer said. "[Public crit­ "He has ideas that include hate and intolerance," she said icism] doesn't diminish what he has done in this movement and But Wampler said though she disagreed with much of Ter­ what he has done to encourage people to protest peacefully." LAUREN SPITZ/THE ITHACAN ry's message, she supported his right to speak. Christina Fadden Fitch of New York Feminists for Life RANDALL TERRY, an anti-abortion activist, spoke to a "It was good for people to hear how narrow his views will speak today at 7:30 p.m. in Textor 103. crowd of nearly 200 people In Textor Hall Tuesday. Task force to examine housing lottery process

IO I on no ca 10n and off campus approvals and find out what is Junior Gina Placco and three of her the most important and pertinent for students friends hoped to be awarded a four-per­ to·get first, so it can help them make better son apartment in the College Circles for decisions," said junior Alexis Peacock, a this year. Because of confusion with the student member of the task force. total number of apartments available last In the College Circle Apartments, resi­ spring, they didn't -receive an apartment dents are currently allowed to request to live at all. The deadlines for other apartments in the same apartment the following acade­ PHOTO COURTESY OF HAN LIN and squatting options had passed, and mic year if at least half of the occupants will AUNG KYAW MYINT, left, and Ithaca College facllltles attendant Han Un carry a picture .. Placco was eventually put on a waiting remain.the same. The task force wants to of detained Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyl at at a protest In New York City. list for an apartment in a quad and see if students approve of this process and received it only after all the freshmen had if squatting should be approved to the Gar­ been assigned housing. den Apartments as well, Richardson said. Worker fights to free Burma Her housing -nightmare was finally Also in apartments, certain buildings are over, she said. designated as smoking ·and non-smoking. BY JOE GERAGHTY for education," Win said. "We want the Because of stories .such as Placco's, a The task force wants input to see if students Editor in Chief people here to get involved in the campaign housing lottery task force has been formed think these designations are necessary because people from all over the world come to review the lottery process that is used to since people who don't live together don't Han Lin has always had a passion for to Ithaca." assign student housing, and the group will share common places in apartments, democracy. He spent years teaching it in Thousands of dissidents languish in make recommendations for changes. Richardson said. Burma, a decidedly un-democratic country. Burma's prisons, and opposition to the gov­ A number of complaints and concerns In the current lottery process, students In 1996, he and his family were forced to flee ernment is officially illegal there. Relatives arose after the Circles were awarded last year, are given a random number within their after hiding in the jungle to avoid arrest. of protesters are regularly arrested and tor­ said Jennifer Richardson, housing coordinator class year based on the amount of credits Now a facilities attendant at Ithaca College, tured as a way to punish those who speak and head of the lottery task force. Many of they have at the end of the fall semester, Lin is participating in a nationwide movement out against the government. the problems were caused because fewer Richardson said. However, students' caJling for democracy in his homeland. Despite governmental pressure, both apartments than expected were available af­ GPAs may soon be factors in determining - "They cannot fight for democracy in _Win and Myint spent years fighting for ter some residents decided to squat their Cir­ their lottery numbers. Burma because they will be arrested," Lin democracy in their home country. They were cle apartments. All of these changes, with the exception said. "So, we must carry on the fight here." frequently imprisoned for their efforts·. Other problems included the order of of factoring GPA into lottery numbers, With the help of two Tompkins Cortland "I thought I ~ight be arrested, but I de­ award notification for studen(s who apply could be seen as early as this spring, Community College students, Lin has or­ cided I had to keep organizing the students," for both on-campus apartments and off­ Richardson said. ganized protests in New York City and Myint said. "I ~idn 't want to be a political campus approval, Richardson said. The task force, composed of profession­ Washington, D.C., designed to educate activist, but the situation in Burma forced me "We knew that after last year, we al staff, residential assistants, students and Americans about the plight of the to be on·e." really needed to examine the process more a representative from the Residence Hall Burmese people. This afternoon they'll take Myint, along with Win and Lin, has tak­ closely and try to determine ways to make Association, hopes to receive enough feed­ their protest to The Commons in a bid-to en his political activism to the United States the process as fair as possible, while still . back from students to make recommenda­ involve the activist community oflthaca in in an effort to pressure the Burmese military providing students with as many options tions that will reflect what students want. the fight for a free Burma. regime to accept the results of the 1990 as possible," Richardson said. As of Oct. 28, the task force has received The embattled Southeast Asian country has election. At a recent meeting of Asian pow­ To live in an apartment or off campus, stu­ 121 completed surveys. . been under military rule since 1962. Elections ers, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell dents must go through an application "Our mission is to get feedback from were held in 1990, and the pro-democracy declared Aung San Suu Kyi the legitimate process. Apartments are granted on a point students so we can better manage the lot­ party won with an overwhelming majority. The leade~ of the Burmese people, a major blow basis, in which potential roommates are giv­ tery process," Peacock said. leader of that party, Aung San Suu Kyi was to the military regime. en numbers that correspond with their class After task force members receive put under-house arrest, and the results of the Still, man;Y Americans remain unaware of standing. enough information, they will make sug­ election have been ignored ever since. the situation in Burma. Issues arose because seniors, who are gestions to the RHA and the Office of Stu­ Lin, along with Aung Kyaw Myint and "Here in America, students are very sur­ automatically granted off-campus status, dent Affairs and Campus Life. Aung Mae Win, hope to get students at both prised to hear about the problems," Win said. chose to live on campus and apply for a col­ Students may express their opinions by Ithaca College and Cornell University in­ "We need American students to understand lege apartment. If they were not awarded attending upcoming focus groups or by fill­ volved in the fight for Burmese liberation.· the people's struggle and to stand and work an apartment, it was often too late for them ing out the survey at http://www. "We understand that Ithaca is a hot area with us together to free Burma." to live off-campus. ithaca.edu/reslife/lotterysurvey.htm. 4 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2003 Fires bum across California

Continued from page 1 Abapo said she hopes the disaster will end soon, but said she knows the firefight­ nearing commumttes. Earlier this ers have a lot working against them. week, Connacher said · he was trying to The James B. Pendleton Center, home decide whether to return to Los Angeles. of the Roy H. Park School 's Los Angeles He said that decision was difficult . to program, is not in an area affected by the make because of the way the changing fires. . weather conditions are affecting the fire. But Director Stephen Tropiano said stu­ Tuesday a shift in the weather brought . dents are briefed in case of natural di sas­ cooling marine breezes to soot-caked fire ters. crews. It helped arrest some fires, but If students at the center had to evacuate fanned others in new and treacherous · they would follow evacuation procedures directions. for the area, he said. State officials said "Fortunately we're . not in the path," he said . "We ' re they believe this is '' E•1en1,one ,·s IA/h,·n,·ng t);ie most destructive "' , J · n, just all up set, because so many people have had to :~:i;sh?:r:r~.d fires in about the rain. We evacuate." Senior Chris Connacher said that Roessler, also of San wish we had some when reading friends in Diego, said, no fire rain. '' Ithaca's away messages, he ERIN SAGERrrHE ITHACAN has ev_er been quite -SEAN CONNACHER noticed that many of_them JUNIOR MICHAEL WIER hands out anti-abortion literature to senior Bernadette so close to his house. Junior were complaining about the Johnston and sophomore Emily Kabanek at a Students for Life display. His sister was at a ------rain. friend's" house one "Everyone is whining night and just two hours later it burned about the rain," he said. "We wish we had down, he said. . · some rain." Students for Life His -family loaded their car with valu­ Yet he said he appreciates all the sup­ ables and took photographs of the house port he's gotten from friends at college. for insurance purposes, he said. Roessler said, "The fact is that no mat­ Sophomore Fred Chandra of Redlands, ter where you are a natural disaster could condemn abortion Ca., said one of the wildfires came within strike at any moment." 12 miles of his house. In Washington, House and Senate nego­ Continued from page 1 to come and see the comparison of women Even those not within the direct path of tiators tentatively agreed to provide $500 who have chosen to have an abortion with the fires are affected. million in emergency funding to her p the tion upon hearing of the events scheduled for groups of people who kill millions of peo­ Junior Leeanne Abapo of Los Angeles, Federal Emergency Management Agency Celebrate Life Week. They met Oct 23 to. ple, like Nazis or the KKK, must be devas­ whose immediate family does not live in respond to the California wildfires, as well plan a counter protest to the Genocide Aware­ tating to a woman." the path of the fires, but said she has a lot as to Hurricane Isabel. ness Project and held their own posters as they In addition, Bechhofer criticized the Stu­ of family who have had wild fires in their California state officials estimated that stood on the Campus Center steps. Protest­ dents for Life campaign for not offering backyards. damages from the current fires would ers were also equipped with informational more educational information about Friends and family in Los Angeles have exceed $2 billion. packets., pro-choice stickers and condoms. preventative measures other than abstinence told Abapo that smoke and ash are all over Freshman Heather Budman said the that can be -taken to avoid situations and have coated their cars in ash. group hopes to be recognized by the Stu­ where abortion needs to be considered. "I've always been sort of paranoid of The Los Angeles Times and the dent Government Association in order to re­ "If a group is that much against abortion, fires," she said. "It's scary that so much Washington Post News Service con- ceive funding in the future. you would think they might endorse some has burned already." _ tributed to this report. But the anti... abortion cam aign's con- reasonable · · · u community. . · on't ~ anything a ut that there, and Joan Bechhofer, a Planned Parenthood general. the anti-abortion fo\ks don't work board member, stood with students to with groups that promote safe sex." 76 Million Baby Boomers protest what sh~ said were unwarranted at- But Wier said the primary goal of the tacks against her organization. . . Students for Life event was to foe-us at- Begili Turning 65.in 2010 One of the prominent images was of a tention on abortion itself, instead of on.the ! bloody aborted I I-week-old fetus under the factors that might contribute to pregnancy. beading "Planned Parenthood." The image "Generally I would try to just encourage was shown next to a picture of the World people to take their choices responsibly," he Trade Center Towers engulfed in flames un- said. "This is not to say that people don't. I der the heading "al-Qaida - Taliban." know that accidents happen, but we want peo- r Bechhofer, who worked for 30 years as ple to see abortion for -what it is.'_' ' IMAGINE THE·POSSIBILITIESI a staff member at Planned Parenthood before - Though Students for Life received fi­ joining the board, said such imagery would nancial assistance from Residential Life, the be ex_tremely traumatic to anyone who had Student -Government Association and the gone through ~ abortion process and was Office of Judicial Affairs for speakers, the dealing with the ~r effects. group was singularly responsible for the "It's never an easy choice," she sa1d "And poster campaign.

' 'I - SERVICE Voters to chose new mayor ► ADVOCACY ' Continued from page 1 tions fro·m the audience. RECREATION ·Founder of Ithaca HOURS, a local cur- BUSINESS $ I 00 to $250 for first-time offenders. rency in circulation since 1991, and Ithaca Ithaca College students who live off Health Fund, a low-cost emergency health HEALTHCARE campus could make tremendous improve- insurance provider, Glover said his POLICY ments in their relations with neighbors, administration would meet social, eco­ Peterson said, by following the. example nomic and environmental challenges by EDUCATION of Adopt-a-Block, a Cornell program in revitalizing small businesses and improv­ RESEARCH which fraternities address noise and ing public transportation options, which clean-up jssues. would include the addition of bicycle Serious misconduct woukl be subject lanes on city streets. to strict measures, said Peterson, such as . Peterson, \YhO .has served on Common permanently listing off-campus infrac- Council for 10 years and is currently tions on academic records. chairwoman the city's Human Resources As a lieutenant with the city of Ithaca Committee, said she would focus on eco­ Police Department for the·. last .20 years, nomic C,evelopment and maintaining good Find out what a· major minor in Saul said he believes a combination of relations between the -city and its sur­ or communi~ation a.11~ ~ducation sh9uld.aid rounding municipalities. geront~l~gy can do for you! in lessening resident· complaints and·stu- The budget would be Saul's primary dent tickets and an:ests. ! concern .. The first step in addressing the "I'm a big fan of edu! atfon •befOFe we .. ailing budget, he said, would be to hold -For more information ... move in with enforcement. I find it hard to meetings with city employees to discuss believe students come here with the idea of where money is being allocated. call 27 4-1607 .-~~:~ -.-- up_sel!i_ng ;their. geighbors rioo _ge~ting ; to , '" .; $tud~nts who are registered to vote on :< ~t,~ma.il [email protected] kriow law enforcement way""too well,". he campus ca~ 1:,'articipate in the Town of . ,.,,_.. ' -: . . ·,~:i~ ... sai!J,.:., :~ '.t r · ,. -~ f ,. -~· '_':: ~- ;f :- ·/,J; {; >.; ., Ir~a.ca eleqtif.Jt~.~tlf ,,sup~~l~r. Mary Russell, Thomas .p.

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BY SHANE DUNN Green began her duties on July 14 at freshman orienta­ Contributing Writer tion. The job, which involves recruiting and advising stu­ dents, appealed to her because of the way the college is or­ Patricia Green has a reason to enjoy spending long hours ganized and what it has to offer. in her office: the view. "This is a very strong school with a great faculty, staff and "I like the view from. my office window," she said. "Every- administration, and I would like to build on that," she said. where I look there is a beautiful scene." • Green also serves as a liaison for students and their fam­ She and Janet Wigglesworth are enjoying not just the view ilies to the faculty and chairs of the school. but also their new administrative positions in the School of A graduate of Hofstra University in Long Island and Cor­ Health Sciences and Human Performance. nell University, Green is a former public school teacher who MATT RICE/THE ITHACAN The school recently appointed Green to the position of once taught in the area and has always wanted to return to JANET WIGGLESWORTH is acting assistant dean for associate dean for student and academic affairs. Wig­ Ithaca. She comes to the college from the Frank G. Zarb graduate and clinical services in HSHP. glesworth is "on loan" from the Department of Exercise School of Business at Hofstra, where she was senior assis­ and Sport Sciences as the acting assistant dean for tant dean for undergraduate programs and an . assistant A national search for a permanent dean will begin soon. graduate and clinical services. professor of marketing. Working as an assistant dean provides a different expe­ Wigglesworth is in charge of experiential learning and rience and level of rigor than teaching does, she said, and graduate services in HSHP. She has been teaching in the De­ she enjoys that change. · partment of Exercise and Sport Sciences since 1995. Wigglesworth received her doctorate from Indiana Uni­ Wigglesworth is spending the majority of her time on the . ~ersity at Bloomington, with a major emphasis 'on app!ied development of the Office of Experiential Learning, which statistics. She will be teaching a graduate course in statis­ oversees all fieldwork and internships for students in HSHP. tics for exercise and sport sciences in the spring. "The intention of the Office of Experiential Learning "I like the small-college feel Ithaca provides," Green said. is to centralize the paperwork and issues that students are This small-college feel has created a teamwork-based rela­ faced with when going off campus [for internships]," tionship between the two new deans. · Wigglesworth said. The relationship that has developed has allowed for some She has also been able to apply her knowledge and ex­ integration between their jobs, they said. The integration be­ pertise in research methods to the four gr.aduate programs gan over the summer when Green took over Wig­ in HSHP. The school provides graduate programs in phys­ glesworth 's duties at freshman orientation. ical therapy, occupational therapy, exercise and sport sci­ Green's and Wigglesworth's good relationship is also ences and speech language pathology to 150 students. based on the curricula and services they oversee. Green Wigglesworth will serve as acting assistant d,ean until oversees the undergraduate curriculum and services, while a permanent_replacement is found. She said the interim · Wigglesworth administers · the graduate programs in position was brought to the faculty of the school, and she HSH~ · expressed interest. Her duties officially began on Aug. I, "We are working well together," Wigglesworth said. "We MATT RICE!THE ITHACAN but she gave presentations to incoming HSHP students over are finding that maybe some duties can cross over." PATRICIA GREEN is the newly appointed associate the summer at freshman orientation until Green arrived "We have found we are a good team, and intend on con­ dean for student and academic affairs In HSHP. or;i campus. tinuing to grow," Green said.

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Please call us or e-mail us BETHANY DIXON/THE ITHACAN JILL AUSTIN, ..dressed as a horse, goes trick-or-treating In for ~ custom quote to Emm-son Hall on Sunday. Austin was one of many local chll­ exactly match your house needs. . dren who were lnvfted·to·the·college to ~leb: ale Halloween. 6 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2003 Art department offers new education degree

BY STEPHANIE BERGERON Staff Writer

Next semester students will be able to combine art and teaching with a new art education major in the School of Humanities and Sciences. · Susan Barbehenn, the appointed head of the art education department, says that the creation of the major came last spring after the college received many requests from parents and students for an art education program. Barbehenn 's position was cre­ ated last summer when the major was approved. "This is a great opportunity to take your love of art and children and combine them to make a career for yourself," Barbehenn said. Barbehenn said that the major will offer art stu­ dents a job opportunity that they might not have oth-; erwise had. In order to become a professional artist, art majors usually pursue a master's degree, she said. "This bachelor's degree offers them an opportu­ LARRY WESTLER/THE ITHACAN nity to pursue an art major and apply other require­ RAYMOND GHIRARDO, associate professor of ments to teach right after graduation," she said. art, speaks with seniors Courtney Jones and The program offers a bachelor of arts to stu­ Sean Kavanaugh at a reception for the new art dents who want to become certified teachers in Art. education major on Oct. 21. Education. Requirements for the program include observing and teaching, so I could really get a feel art foundation courses with the art department, for what a career as an art teacher would be like; general education classes and 39 credits in educa­ and by doing that it has helped me form profes­ tion courses through the Center for Teacher sional connections in my field," he said. · Education. Students can apply for a New York It also helped him understand some of the state teaching certificate upon completion. "behind-the-scenes" preparation needed for func­ I' - The major was not established when senior tioning as .a teacher. he added. Sean Kavanaugh was a freshman. However, when. Kavanaugh says that in the future he hopes that ! he found out about the proposed program he began the program will become larger and more well 't t to take courses that would be applied for the known with the student body. t SALLY EKUS/THE ITHACAN prospe~tive major. There will be a meeting for all students inter­ HUNGRY STUDE.NTS WAITfor a meal at the Terraces Dining Hall. Kavanaugh also says that the program has ested in the art education program today at 7 p.m. !f helped him in many ways, I in Gannet 112. The meeting will be to discuss the SGA to examine "It has gotten me actually in the classroom new program and the requirements for the major. dini

BY GREGORY BEVER should be some solution, because Staff Writer they are losing meals left and right." Each day, the 4,000 students with Jeffrey Scott, director of opera­ college meal plans can be seen tions for Dining Services,· stressed crowded around the Campus Center the attention that has been given to Grille in the afternoon or in the the issue, not merely as a response snake-like line that winds up the to student concerns, but in terms of stairs at the Terrace Dining Hall. Dining Services policy. They gather together at _ Towers "We constantly assess the hours Late Night, discussing sports rival­ of operation of the facilities in ries or campus issues over a slice of order to maximize the amount of ser­ pizza or a bow 1 of cereal. vices we can provide to the most stu­ But, despite the multitude of food dents," he said. service offerings present on campus, That assessment entails keeping some athletes and other students find track of how many students eat in it difficult to squeeze a meal into each dining hall at different times of their busy schedules. the day, he said. At the -Student Government The resulting data are analyzed Association's meeting on Oct. 21, by Scott and other members of Din­ representatives echoed concerns of ing Services in order to determine their constituents regarding the the hours of operation and meal se­ adequacy of dining hall hours. lections for each respective dining In addition to the SGA Congress, facility. the Food Service sub-committee will "In a perfect world, every loca­ discuss the issue on a more defined tion would be open 24/7, but obvi­ level. ously there would be a lot of in­ Athletes often practice early in creased costs and implications to the the morning on weekends, and student body," he said. miss out on breakfast because Like any other business, Dining some dining halls don't open until Services faces the daunting task of late-morning or afternoon. satisfying a large number of cus­ In the case of out-of-town sports tomers with a wide variety of stan­ events, some athletes don't return to dards and preferences, he said. campus with their respective teams Past efforts to appeal to °those di­ until after the dining halls have verse preferences include the incep­ closed their doors for dinner. tion of Grab 'n' Go lunch at Campus Sophomore Kyle Daley of the Center, as well as the opportunity for women's soccer teani shared a story students to attend both dinner and Late in which she and her teammates Night, instead of having to choose one trekked to the Campus Center Dining of the two as they once did. Hall before an early Saturday practice, The Food Service sub-committee only to discover, to their disappoint­ of SGA meets every Thursday to ad­ ment, that It wasn't yet open. dress issues concerning dining halls "So we had to go to Wegmans," at a variety of locations. Interested she said. students can contact the Student Ac­ SGA representative Katherine tivities Center to get involved. Leigh Caporiccio said, "While [my Both Scott and food service rep­ REGINA DEMAURO/THE ITHACAN constituents] understand that it is resentative Brittany Arrington said VOAV PELED, left, and Adnan Musallam, engage in a discussion of the peace process in necessary to stop serving food at dif~ they encourage students to attend the Middle East Wednesday night in Textor 102. Peled is _a professor of political science at Tel ferent points in order to prepare for meetings in order to voice their com­ Aviv University in Israel and Musallam is a professor of history and cultural studies at at the next meal, they still thought there ments or concerns. Bethlem University in the West Bank. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2003 NEWS THE ITHACAN 7 The word on the street Ithaca residents walk to raise breast cancer awareness BY JOETTE BREOR AND KATE LEVINSON importance of community involvement in the fight Contributing Writers against breast cancer and said she thinks the walkathon is a great start. About 600 people laced up their sneakers Saturday for "It sets a really good example of what can happen when the Ithaca Breast Cancer Alliance's 10th annual people are dedicated to an important cause," she said. walkathon. The event raised more than $37,000 for ser­ Some of the payoffs of that, Moody-Adams said, are the vices IBCA provides to community members facing services which IBCA provides to people affected by breast breast cancer. cancer. Right after she was diagnosed, she called IBCA's 24- Complete with signs, banners and smiling people, the hour help line and she n·ot only got a response the next day, two-mile walk began at the Center Pavilion in the Ithaca but an IBCA volunteer also called her back a couple of Commons and ended at the Women's Community Building weeks later to follow up. with a rally featuring several speakers and detailing IBCA's Other services IBCA offers, said board member and history and founding moments. breast cancer survivor Holly Gump, include information Walkathon participants ranged from breast cancer sur­ about treatment options, support groups, connections to vivors to families walking in honor of loved ones to Ithaca out-of-town treatment centers and presentations by College groups hoping to make a difference in the commu­ nationally-known speakers. nity. Following the walk, about 200 participants attended the Leigh Bonkowski, a sophomore at Ithaca College, was rally, which featured speakers including Rep. Maurice one of 19 members of the women's varsity softball team Hinchey and D. Rob Mackenzie, President and CEO of to take part in the walkathon. She said that the team, Cayuga Medical Center. which has participated in the event since 2001, i:aised a Hinchey commended IBCA for the work the organiza­ total of $1,200 for IBCA. Bonkowski said she supports tion does in the community for those with breast cancer. the walkathon because "there's such a large number of He also listed several bills he backs related to breast can­ people who are affected by breast cancer." cer that are currently before Congress and encouraged Other Ithaca College groups participating in the event community support for the· legislation. included the men's lacrosse team, the resident assistants in Mackenzie also praised IBCA's efforts. "The kind of sup­ Terraces 5-8, and numerous INVOLVED groups. port that IBCA was able to bring my patients made a11 the MEGAN CATALANOfrHE ITHACAN Local resident Janet Lanning, along with nine family FJESIDENTS OF ITHACA and Ithaca College students difference in the world," he said. joined together Saturday afternoon to raise money for members, completed the walk in honor of her mother, Mackenzie announced Cayuga Medical Center's recent breast cancer research at the 10th annual Breast Cancer Helen. This is the fourth time the family members have · decision to open a $5.6 million radiation oncology center Walkathon held by the Ithaca B~st Cancer Alliance. walked for "Nana," whose photo they pinned to th~ back adjacent to the hospital in November 2004. This is a huge of their shirts. relief to many patients who have had to travel as far as touched by breast cancer can c<;>me together in hope and "[Breast cancer] touches almost all of our lives," Binghamton or Rochester for treatment, he said. resolve. to speak out, support each other and recommit Lanning said regarding the importance of community When the center opens, he said, breast cancer patients ourselves to ending this terrible disease," she said. involvement and support. Events like the walkathon, she "won't be able to get any better radiotherapy anywhere in the Although IBCA's cwrent executive director, Christine said, raise awareness about the disease, which in tum cre­ world than [they] will be able to get at Cayuga Medical Sanchirico, recognizes that the fight ·against breast cancer has ates increased opportunities for care and prevention. Center." · come a long way, she said there are still many goals to strive ·The walkathon was especially important to breast can­ This year marked the first time Andi Gladstone, founding for. cer survivors, who could be identified by the a pink rib­ executive director of IBCA, was able to participate in, rather Perhaps the most immediate, Sanchirico said, is the sus­ bons they wore around one arm. than just organize, the event as a walkathon participant instead pected correlation between breast cancer and the environment. Michele Moody-Adams, a survivor participating in the of an organizer. She said she hopes that the relationship is pinpointed and reg­ walk with her husband and daughter, also discussed the "It is the one day when all of us whose lives have been ulations are set in place before too much time passes.

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BY MARC KLEIN truck by compacting or crushing its contents. Staff Writer "I started looking into a way to mechanize . . our recyclable collection. I had heard talk from There's a new recycling truck on campus other colleges and universities about using this that has some students taking a second mini pactor," Darling said. "Yale University glance, but what it lacks in size and feroci­ uses one because they have a area that's too ty, it makes up for in efficiency. small to use a big garbage truck." .,, 2:50 ~ for Roosevelt Field New York CIIJ The aptly named "mini pactor" is a minia­ Before the college purchased the new Retum Shuttle 3:00 ~~from ture version of a regular garbage truck. But truck, a van with a lift gate was used to pick Roosevelt Field s3ooo~Way it's not just a garbage truck - it is also spe­ up recyclables. A person would have to pick cially equipped to handle recyclables. up a full container of papers or plastics and • 8 Doi-/ Trips lo NYC . Round Trip "I just think it's a great innovation that's replace it with an empty one. • 3°"1 qlto"" lml-4 ~ frilcrtsl ~ !Mn&~ lsbJf) $5 700 less hassle for the worker and will make their "It used to take us about 4_hours a week •io• from -tlO am to 8:05 pn 7doys oweek! job easier," said Mark Darling, recycling and with two people so we're talking 8 people • Aiport ConnediMls to R, 1.aGoordia, Newark resource management program coordinator. hours," Darling said. "We've reduced that to No~orer,aqui(9d.Bu.lecMt1M1JY~min..-sfromiiegw.:IM!'lel Aw-Tons C'.i!nla- io II. Nort, w~.-.42M sir.t·EnkOnee, Fn:m lhe .Sior1f.inegc;ilm ------Q · "It's also just going to save us a little more . maybe two hours ·a week." on'1e:3rdRocrcihNoltti~._.iioCGfMl!MeleYalo,-orescdalcrsaow.i ~=•• Coach U&\ money picking up the trash and recycling." Lois Compton is the employee on cam­ 1o blAirTtanJ Center. www.shortlinebuuom ~ The search for the truck began nearly five pus operating the new truck. She's respon­ years ago. It works like a traditional garbage . sible for picking up recyclables all over cam­ pus and the garbage in the Terraces. "Collection of recyclables hasn't changed, just the way it is picked up," Comp­ ton said. For Compton it means fewer trips to the Fast ... recycling plant and less work physically be­ cause she no longer has to change the bins. . She said the new truck does get many odd looks from students passing by. "We use the same truck to pick up paper, containers and trash, but we don't mix it all together," Darling said. "If you 're living in the Terraces, you'd see the same truck one day picking up containers, paper the next day, then the trash." Students still need to separate paper, plas­ tics and garbage because it is not mixed to­ Faster ... gether: "Monday, Wednesday, and Friday we do Your favorite coffee, sandwiches, donuts·, pastries & more containers and Tuesday and Thursday are pa­ at a convenient drlve-thru location across from ~gway per day and we'll do trash collection in the af- • temoons in Terraces," Darling said. "Prior to LAUREN SPITZ/THE ITHACAN this, the person doing recycling had to spend LOIS COMPTON operates the .college's . all day on those days just on recycling." ~~~ Fastest! new garbage truck. The mini pactor can The new truck cost $67,000, but will save be seen picking up recyclable materials the college a considerable amount of mon­ all around campus. ey over time, Darling said. - •• C: 8 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2003 ·WHAT IS DIVERSITY? · Different ideas? Different t_houghts? Different race?

Different .religion? Different ethnicity? . ., Different .• what? ·

I l ~ t Director of Piversi~ ·4ff~ifs:~·:- ·:·.:<. ,: .- I ' -The .SGA Dir_ecto,r ·of Diversity· Affairs· wotJ{s ~it~-~ committee r students dedicated creating educational progfamming . I . of I to t' t t on local and global diversity of all types. . .. I . ' The Director and committee work together and in conj~ction with SGA I I i i I to determine pressing ts~ues regardil)g <;liversity on campus 'I

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2003 NEWS THE ITHACAN 9 Select Public Safety Log Oct. 9-16 Incidents Oct.9 damaged a side mirror on a parked vehicle. • Unlawful possession/marijuana • Criminal mischief Oct.11 Pending investigation. Sgt. Ronald Hart. Location: West Tower Location: J-lot • Conduct code violation Summary: Caller reported odor of marijua­ Summary: Caller reported car tire had been Location: L-lot • Criminal possession/other drug na. One student judicially referred for pos~ , ' slashed while the vehicle was parked on Summary: Officer reported person vomiting. Location: Main campus road session of marijuana. Patrol Officer Erik .. campus. Incident occurred sometime Student transported to the Health Center and Summary: During a traffic stop, officer Merlin. between 3 and 5 p.m. Patrol Officer Craig judicially referred for irresponsible use of found marijuana and a controlled sub­ ' ' Reynolds. alcohol. Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock. stance. Pending investigation. Patrol • Fire alarm ' ' Officer William Kerry. Location: Campus Center • Criminal mischief • Criminal tampering Summary: Fire alarm possibly caused by Location: G-lot Location: L-lot · • Found property · dust. System reset. Environmental Health Summary: Caller reported aperson driving Summary: Officer reported unknown per­ Location: Campus Center and Safety Officer Doug Gordner. a dark-colored car had knocked over one of sons attempted to remove a spare tire Summary: Caller found two baseball the walkway lights and drove away. No cover from a parked vehicle. Pending gloves and one baseball. Items turned over . • Motor vehicle accident further description of car. Patrol Officer investigation.·Sgt. Ronald Hart. to Public Safety. · Location: E-lot Ri(?hard Curtiss. Summary: Caller reported a two-car prop­ • Criminal mischief • Criminal mischief erty damage MVA. Officer issued one of • Medical assist Location: L-lot Location: M-lot the operators a uniform traffic ticket for Location: Fitness Center Summary: Officer reported unknown per­ Summary: Caller reported damage to a Ithaca Town Court for unsafe backing. Summary: Caller requested assistance for sons bent an antenna on a parked vehicle. parked car. A second vehicle may have Patrol Officer Richard Curtiss. person who suffered a knee injury due to a Pending investigation. Sgt. Ronald Hart. kicked.up some stones and caused the pre-existing condition. Student transported damage. Pending investigation. Patrol • Accidental property damage to Health Center. Patrol Officer Craig • Criminal mischief Officer Richard Curtiss. Location: Physical Plant parking lot Reynolds. Location: L-lot Summary: Caller reported that the wind Summary: Officer reported unknown persons • Criminal mischief blew a plastic barrel into a parked vehicle. • Medical assist damaged the side mirror on a parked vel')icle. Location: L-lot Patrol Officer Dirk Hightchew. Location: Lyon Hall Pending investigation. Sgt. Ronald Hart · Summary: Caller reported unknown per­ Summary: Caller reported being struck on sons damaged a side mirror on a parked • Accidental property damage the head by falling mate.rial from the ceiling • Criminal mischief vehicle. Pending investigation. Patrol Location: Public Safety parking lot when closing a shower door. Student went ·. Location: L-lot Officer Richard Curtiss. Summary: Caller reported that the wind to the Health Center for treatment of minor .Summary: Officer reported unknown per­ blew a dumpster into a parked vehicle. cuts to the head. sons damaged the side mirror on a parked Oct.13 Report filed. Patrol Officer Richard • vehicle. Pending investigation. Patrol • Unlawful possession/marijuana ·· Curtiss. · · · • Unlawful possession/marijuana Officer Richard Curtiss. Location: Hilliard Hall · Location: Lyon Hall Summary: Four students jlJdicially referred • Computer crimes Summary: One student judicially referred • Conduct -code violation · for possession of marijuana an.d parapher- Location: College Circle Apartment 32 for possession of marijuana and parapher- Location: East Towe·r, _ , - nalia. Sgt. Frederick Thomas. · Summary: Caller reported a computer nalia. Patrol Officer Craig Reynolds. · Summary: "Officer reported noise complaint. sharing copyrighted material. One student Two students judicially referred for respon­ · • Found property judicially referred for violating copyright law. • Conduct code violation sibility of guests and noise. Security Officer Location: Dillingham fountain Patrol Officer Dirk Hightchew. Location: Emerson Hall Maria Parente. Summary: Caller found a crescent wrench Summary: Officer reported a large party and tumed it over to Public Safety. ·• Conduct code violation . involving alcohol. Two students judicially ~ Conduct code violation Location: Terrace 1 referred for eeveral violations of the student Location: College Circle Apartment 2 • Found property Summary: Caller reparted a person leaning conduct code. Security Officer Aaron Price. Summary: Student judicially referred for Location: Terrace Dining Hall ?ver ~he balcony railing who _appeared to be underage possession of alcohol. Patrol Summary: Caller found _a hooded sweat- • Conduct code violllll0n . Ollear':.:'ti1111¥U111-. Location: College Circle Apartment 2 Summary: Caller reported a large party with • Found property a beer keg. Two students judicially referred Location: College Circle parking lot Oct.14 • Unlawful possession/marijuana for several violations of student conduct Summary: Student turned in a DVD movie • V&T violation/DWI drugs Location: Lyon Hall code. Sgt. Ronald Hart. that was found under a parked vehicle. Location: Tower road Summary: Four students judicially referred Summary: During a traffic stop, officer for violation of drug policy. Patrol Officer Oct.10 • Aggravated harassment arrested operator for DWI. Student was Dirk Hightchew. • Conduct code violation Location: East Tower issued uniform traffic tickets for Ithaca Town Location: College Circle Apartment 30 Summary: Caller reported unknown per­ Court and then transported to the Health Oct.16 Summary: One student judicially referred sons wrote a bias-related/homophobic . Center. Patrol-Officer Terry O'Pray. • Found property for underage possession of alcohol. remark on a room door. Pending investiga­ Location: M-lot Security Officer Michael Hall. tion. Patrol Officer Donald Lyke. • Unlawful possession/marijuana Summary: Officer found a bike and brought Location: Lyon Hall . · it to Public Safety. • Unlawful possession/marijuana • Making graffiti Summary: Four students judicially referred Location: Bogart Hall Location: Lyon Hall for possession of marijuana. Patrol Officer • Conduct code violation Summary: Officer reported odor of marijuana. Summary: Officer reported unknown per­ Bruce Holmstock; Location: Clarke Hall One student judicially referred for violation of sons wrote graffiti. Pending investigation. Summary: Officer reported intoxicated drug policy. Patrol Officer William Kerry. Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock. • Computer crimes person. Student transported to the Health Location: College Circle Apartment 20 Center and judicially referred for irresponsi­ • Conduct code violation Oct.12 Summary: One student judicially referred ble use of alcohol and public urination. Location: Hilliard Hall • Criminal mischief for copyright violation. Investigator Thomas Patrol Officer Richard Curtiss. Summary: Officer reported alcohol and the Location: A-lot Dunn. odor of marijuana. One intoxicated person Sun::imary: Officer reported two people • Fire alarm transported to the Health Center. Ten stu­ broke the side mirror off a parked vehicle. • Larceny Location: Terrace 9 dents judicially referred for violation of drug Two students judicially referred for assorted Location: Williams Hall Summary: Fire alarm caused by burned and alcohol policies and one student judi­ violations, and bne student issued an . Summary: Caller reported theft of back­ food. System reset. Environmental Health cially referred for irresponsible use of appearance ticket for criminal mischief for pack. Pending inve~tigation. Patrol Officer and Safety·Officer Doug Gordner. alcohol. Patrol Officer William Kerry. Ithaca Town Court Palrol Officer Bruce Jerry Lewis. 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Ii Freedom of speech Striking image_s spark worthwhile debate reedom of speech is the most important Ameri­ can value. Our country is built upon the belief that : . free speech fosters justice, learning, democracy and I F the exchange of ideas. This is why the results of the Oass of 2007's student opinions survey are so troubling. Sixty-five percent of incoming freshmen believe that the college should be able to censor their views if they are offensive. However statistically accurate the sur­ vey was, it is the only gauge of student opinions on campus and cannot be taken lightly. Four years of an Ithaca College education must work to sway the ma­ . . . ..· jority's views toward more democratic principles. ;r~v L- \.-..e 11. Even potentially offensive undertakings such as the . l ~ T Students for Life sponsored Genocide Awareness Pro­ ject, which equated abortion to such genocidal acts ~p. V lBN pOJ· as the Holocaust, should nevet be censored. .. , l'M uz .... :M Students for Life successfully brought thought-pro­ voking debate and issues to the front of the college's psyche. Though emotions have run high and this

I week's events were not filled with the most open­ : . minded discussion, they did provoke many one-on­ one discussions among students on the quad, in their classrooms and their residence halls. The true test of any project like this is whether its actions have any lasting results. If the Genocide Letters · Awareness Project galvanizes students into a long­ term discussion then it has truly ~en a success. Gut-wrenching, divisive issues like abortion should Attend public forum -. reasons. "Shock and Awe" campaigns played by Students for Life. The ero­ be argued, discussed and criticized, not avoided. like the genocide project are counter­ ject opened up a path to discussion, but I . Otherwise, the value of free speech and discourse in I would like to say thank you to productive because their offensive nature used a violent atmosphere. , that higher education is lost. everyone who came by, protested, and failure to address the reasons behind summed up all abortions as being de­ f contemplated, or discussed the Genocide the issue marginalize both sides and pre­ liberate manslaughters. Additionally, the ! ~ware~ess Project this_ week. It _is clude effective communication. Pro- images unfa~ly _distorte~ and exag- FacuJW,..~ t...,~~~+.t whatever form; on whatever issue, if niacs, just as ~lifers.are not ignorant · . ,, F,or examp e, part1 -birth abor­ Art and music profesiors deseroe recognition there is n~t informed debate. Our women-bashers. Until we recognize tions were described in an untruthful lthaca College faculty art displays and music per­ group's intent in bringing the display was this, we elect to trade understanding for manner. One of the Project's signs7 formances often go largely unnoticed by both students to encourage this type of discqurse by pointless bickering. which displayed a 24-week-old_preemie and the campus community as a whole. bringing new perspectives and and a 24-week-old aborted fetus, at­ The Faculty Art Show, on display in the Handwerker challenges to the Ithaca College AL SAHLSTROM '06 tempted to use the two examples as Gallery until Nov. 9, is the most recent example of an community. Our goal is that we will all everyday occurrences. In fact, partial­ event that more students should check out. Twenty more fully understand the complexity of Group is misleading· birth abortions are usually performed multi-talented faculty from the departments of art, art abortion through the conversation The mission statement for Students only in rare situations when the moth­ history, television-radio and cinema and photography generated by the display an~ the week. for Life states it is "a Ron-partisan group er's health or life is in danger. They are have worked, many across disciplines, to bring vibrant For that reason, we are sponsoring committed to more fully understanding not procedures that women - a.k.a. new art to the Handwerker Gallery. a public discussion forum next Monday . abortion, euthanasia, · stem-cell re­ Nazis _,, would happily decide to go Another notable recent faculty project was assis­ night, Nov. 3, at 8 p.m., in a room to search, cloning, and capital punishment through. tant professor of television-radio Mara Alper's doc­ be determined. All are welcome and en­ through discussion, reading and debate The project was also misleading on umentary "Forgiving the Unforgivable," presented in couraged to express your views on re­ in addition to _speakers and public fo­ Planned Parenthood, which is a won­ the Park Auditorium on Oct. 23. lated ·issues, and to learn from others rums." However, I have yet to witness derful organization that informs people Each year art and music faculty create and perform in the process. I encourage everyone to the proposed plurality of this organi­ of all available reproductive opt-ions. unique works that help to set examples of artistic ex- attend and to place political correctness zation. I support voicing one's opinion, The options may sometimes include cellence for their pupils. . . aside-in order to learn and grow from but the Genocide Awareness Project is abortion, but in no way does PP relate Upcoming events of note in Ford Hall include fac­ the week, regardless of your perspec­ irresponsible, unaccommodating and to the KKK, as the project accused. PP's ulty quintet Ithaca Brass's fall recital on Monday at tive on this and any other issue. misleading. We are privileged with the educational approach · is certainly 8: 15 p.m., as well as a recital on Nov. 6 at 8: 15 p.m.by right of free speech, however this right more constructive and healthy than pub­ Kunyoung Kim, the newest member of the college's ROGER CUSTER '04 is compromised when infringing on oth­ licly labeling all women who get outstanding piano faculty. · President, Students for Life ers' rights. There are women on this abortions as Hitler. I personally am pro­ However, art and ~usic aren't the only creative out­ campus who have endured the unfor­ choice, but the Project was inappro­ lets on campus - groundbreaking and interesting re­ Pointless bickering tunate experience of an abordon. Not priate regardless of how you stand on search is occuring in nearly every department. From bio­ I was on my way to class today when only is it hard on the body, it stains one's the issue. Terrible historical events were chemistry to gerontology to cinema and photography, I came across the Genocide Awareness emotions and mental cap~city and dwindled down to mere, deceptive dis­ professors are pushing the limits in their fields of study. Project put up by the Students for Life. carries throughout the rest of one's life. plays of shock value. I encourage all Students should not forget that their professors are Tliis display is simply offensive. The This display of horrifying.pictures students to continue thinking and talk­ dynamic individuals who are in the college atmoshere signs warning of graphic content of aborted fetuses is dangerous to the ing about the issue of abortion, but not · because they love not only teaching, but _£reating. hardly make up for the fact that for two well-being of these women and those in the manner that Students for Life .. day-sT must either go out of my way or who love them. It also conveys a mes­ chose to follow. • be subjected to images of mutilated fe­ sage that women who undergo this pro­ t tuses. I am bothered by this demon­ cedure are comparable to Hitler, Pol JULIE PERNG '06 •I I stration on a more fundamental level, Pot, Milosevic, etc. There's some­ I however. I myself am pro-life, and I am thing innately wrong with this situation. Much still to be done ► disturbed by the messages that such a A college campus is supposed to be I was very pleased to read the arti­ graphic and extreme statement sends. safe, accepting, nurturing, a place to cle "Ithaca grad talks with his hands" I ltliacanFounded in 1931 ► . www.ithaca.edu/ithacan Is anyone truly "pro-abortion?" Abor­ grow and learn, but how can one feel in last week's Ithacan. But the sentence, : . tion is a terrible act that has serious con­ any of these when there are misleading, "Even though no students are desig­ I • JOE GERAGHTY NORIA LITAKER sequences, and many people, whether bloody pictures thrown in their faces? nated as deaf at Ithaca College, many ' Editor in Chief Assistant Sports Editor CAITLIN CONNELLY CARLY CHAMBERLIN pro-choice or pro-life, recognize this. I extend a challenge to Students for events are open to the public," over­ Managing Edito·r Photo Editor ANNE K. WALTERS REBECCA GARDNER The problem is that too often the abor­ Life. Present a constructive campaign looks several hundred IC faculty and News Editor Assistant Photo Editor tion debate is made ridiculous and in­ that is in fact "committed to fully un­ staff. While there are no deaf students KATIE MASLANKA LARRY WESTLER Assistant News Editor Assistant Photo Editor tractable by extremists who misrepresent derstanding" an issue and present it in currently at the college, other campus KATIE MOORE TIANI VELTRI the views of their opponents. Like it or a way that does not threaten the liveli­ community members, including myself, Assistant News Editor Design Editor NATHAN E. WILSON -cHRISTA LOMBARDI not, abortion is an issue that has serious hood of potential supporters. For the are indeed hearing-imparied. Opinion Editor Chief Copy Editor and far-reaching implications for sake of everyone, have some decency. The college has provided me with as­ EMILY BROWN NATALIE LYONS sistive support for job-related func­ Accent Editor Chief Proofreader women's rights. Like it or not, abortions STACEY COBURN TIFFANY RUSSELL are des~ctive. Pro-choice or pro-life, we MARIA STOJANOVA '04 tions, such as a special phone, an FM sys­ - Assistant Accent Editor Sales Manager ELIZABETH QUILL KATIE FOX-BOYD must not get so wrapped up in the per­ tem, and a strobe connected to the fire Assistant Accent Editor Business Manager ceived morality of our arguments that we Display was offensive alann. I was also registered with CHARLIE ELLSWORTH MICHAEL SERINO Sports Editor Manager of Student forget or ignore that the people who take I was one of many people offended ASSSD while I was pursuing my un- Publications the opposing position do so for legitimate by the Genocide Awareness Project dis- See LETTERS, P.~ 12 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2003 OPINION THE ITHACAN 1 l Students should\attend more IC muSic r~Citals As a junior here at Ithaca, ~ can safely say that college is full of many life changing It's not surprise experiences. Chances are, ·attending a a student recital in the music building is not that students don't vote one that tops everyone's list when they reflect upon· their college careers and all the Voter apathy is plaguing our great experiences they have had. · elections, eating away at our democratic To be perfectly honest with you, as a rriusic principles and ruining the fundamental major I can agree with premise · of participatory government that statement too. upon which our nation Student recitals are often was founded. something that other But who cares, right? music majors go . to We've heard all the because they have to or rhetoric before, and still feel obligated. It is really · the country has a shame to take these managed to survive recitals for granted, decades of elections ~specially · considering with low voter CHRISTIAN that ltpaca College turnout, hasn't it? CARICHNER consistently ranks as one Besides, all those of the best music schools Guest Writer EMILY candidates are the in the United States. You PAULSEN same, none care only have four short years here at Ithaca before about. ·me and most , I ' you move into the "real world" where one of LAUREN SPITZ/THE ITHACAN · have no chance of winning anyway. My ' I ' twothingsmighthappen: l)You'llhavetopay MUSIC SCHOOL STUDENT RECITALS, like this one last Saturday in Ford Hall, are vote doesn't even count. I ' to see these recitals, or 2) The environment traditionally attended by mostly music majors, family and friends. This apathetic pessimism will ) ' I . will lack the same musical quality that is here probably prevail as the dominant , . at Ithaca big ensembles first. So let's say you are into was played on a recital here at IC. (Speaking - attitude across campus as this year's Lots of exciting things happen over there jazz - the jazz bands here are absolutely of w~ich, mine is this Friday at 7 p.m.) election day rolls around on Tuesday. I in the music building Sure, there are Some · ph~nomenal. Find .some of your favorite Sure, it is a stretch, but what happens when myself was reluctant to spend the 10 strange people locked up in that building all players in the j~ band and chances are they you meet the girl or guy of your dreams and seconds and 37 cents it cost me to day, but it is those very people who are probably will \)e giving a student recital they are season ticket holders to the Chicago return my completed absentee ballot to pioneers in the music world today. It is sometime. Typically a student recital lasts Symphony Orchestra, and he or she asks you the board of elections. My votes this important for me to note that Ben Folds was about an hour and if you need more of an to go. It would be awkward if this is the first year merely affirmed the reelection of actually a music major in Florida before incentive there is usually lots of free food time you've heard music like this. So at least candidates in 13 uncontested races. joining up with his band. afterwards. · for the sake of comfortability on your first Why should I take the time to vpte . I As the conductor of Ithacappella, I have to So nQw · most of you are probably date, you should check out some of the things when even the politicians have given admit that it· is so nice to see so many wondering: who cares about the music school happening.in the music building. up on these elections? non-music majors at those concerts. If and why should I go see a student recital? And hey, when you 're on Jeopardy Nevertheless, I mailed my ballot. one-seventh of that audience came to a That's a difficult question to answer. When someday, you 'II never have to worry about After all, voting isn't merely about student recital, that's 100 people. I should also The Ithacan approached me to write this that final Jeopardy question pertaining to electing government officials anymore. I I mention that these recitals aren't your typical article it took some convincing and some of · music, all thanks to that future Ben Folds As I dropped thaf envelope into the high · ·school band concert. These students. my own soul-searching but I finally reali7.ed you saw back at Ithaca ~ollege. mailbox, I was representing my age have come a long way since then, and it's how important it is to be a well-roun' start with the basics. Check out some of the - ·question will be something ~bout music that . mail him at ccarichJ'@ithaca.edu. . an

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Continued from _Page 10 sons" poster to be victim blaming. Some of the saddest moments I have experienced in the dergraduate degree, and required accommo­ field of alcohol and drug abuse prevention have dation in many classes - particularly large lec­ been hearing the agony of young people who ture classes. When I graduated this past May, have been sexually assaulted or raped.1 do my thanks to a college owned assistive listening utmost to support their efforts not to blame system, I was able to sit with my fellow grad­ themselves and encourage them to seek fur­ uates out on the field during the Commence­ ther help in their process of recovery. ment ceremonies. That system enabled me to listen to and understand - every word that was PRISCILLA QUIRK spoken from the podium. This system is also Health Promotion Coordinator installed in the Emerson Suites ~nd Dilling­ ham Center, and hopefully more in stallations Art show is fantastic will come. Thanks to these initiatives, many I -would like to take the opportunity to hard of hearing individuals from both on and compliment all faculty who are displaying off-campus can participate in activities that their art in the current Handwerker Gallery most folks take for granted. faculty art show. There is much still to do, such as closed cap­ The exhibit is exceptional. The works tioning videos and installing telecommunica­ from the art, art history, television-radio and tion devices (such as TTYs). Because each in­ cinema and photography departments dividual's level of hearing loss is different, how­ make the show eclectic and interesting, ever, it is very important that anyone needing much like their contributions to our cam­ accommodation come forward to request it. pus. We should all appreciate how lucky we are to be able to study with such exemplary IRENE SCOTT '03 and skilled artists. On display are beauti­ Office Systems Coordinator ful , large oil paintings, thought-provoking Informa tion Technology Services photographs, silk-screens, sculpture and even installation art. I would encourage Support rape victims everyone to vjsit the gallery for the simple Rape is a brutal and egregious crime. It sake of enjoying wonderful art and also to is never the victim's fault. A recent poster, appreciate the amazing talent we have em­ "Top Five Reasons Not to Get Drunk," was ployed here at our college. designed by students and distributed by the

I Health Promotion Program'. One of the rea­ JESSICA MURRAY '05 S.QJlS. reads "passed out means YES to some ! people.!' This .was not meant in any way to !. blarfi.e or a:scribe fau'lt to the victim. ! Alcohol i~ the primary date rape drug. In SEND A LETTER I the majority-of rapes that occur on college cam­ i puses, bolfl th_.e attacker and th't?1tdim have The Ithacan welcomes correspon­ ?een drinkm~: !fa victim is inca~aci~ted, or dence from all readers. Please mcapable of consent, the charge m NY State include your name, phone num­ is Rape in the First Degree -;- a Class B Felony. ber, year of graduation and/or The message of the poster:is not about blame, your organizational or college it 's about excessive drinking and its results. title/position. Drunkenness increases the risk of myriad neg­ Letters must be 250 words or less ative consequences - accidents, fights, arrest, and signed and submitted in writ­ hospitalization, sexual assault, etc. The intent ing or through e-mail by Monday at of the poster is to promote thought and to en­ 5 p.m.for publication. The Ithacan courage responsibility so that negative results . reserves the right to edit letters for are less likely to cxx;'K· · , length,-clarity and taste. .,. . •, ~ . . . . l would ]iJce looffer an apology to anyone who inteI]Jreted any part of the "Five Top Rea-

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BY JOHN OTIS more about her area of interest. This past playing a particular instrument. pitch - the ability to identify by name or Contributing Writer summer, she spent a month in London as Beth Reichgott, a junior vocal perfor­ produce on demand any musical note - a visiting scholar at University College, mance and music education double major, are hard wired for it. For those select People gather every Fourth of July to London. said that she thinks music makes her a individuals, three specific points in a brain watch a display of bright, vibrant blasts While there, she also gave lectures and happier person. scan light up. of color and to hear the loud, exciting studied with Semir Zeki, a neurobiologist. "There is nothing closer to heaven than The study finally puts to rest the explosions of fireworks. They are Caplin said Zeki 's work has helped music," Reichgott said. theory that absolute pitch can be taught. amazed by the show, but beneath their per­ identify the visual parts of the brain, She thinks music affects e:veryone, not The research also shows that it is a cross­ ception of the display's visual beauty lie including the areas that help perceive just the people who make it. cultural phenomenon. the brain waves that make the spectacle color, line and form, facial recognition and "I think we're all wired to love music," Even if an individual is born with the skill enthralling. motion. During the summer, Zeki 's re­ Reichgott said. "But factors like of perfect pitch, like any predisposed talent, About IO years ago, a new field within searchers ran MRis on people while they personality, interest, environment and the skill must be exercised or it will be lost. neuroscience emerged called neuroesthet­ were looking at art. social influences affect how deep the "Just like all humans are born with the ics. Scientists in this field use art to help "Basically, we 're using art to figure out appreciation lies and what kind of music ability to produce any language sound understand how the brain works. how the brain works." Caplin said. appeals to us." possible, if we' re not exposed to it in our Sarah Ferdinand, assistant professor of Caplin said that artists have a special Caplin said Lawrence Parsons, infancy, we may not be able to speak [an­ psychology at Ithaca College, said insight on how people perceive the associate professor in the department of ra­ other language] nearly as fluently," neuroscience is a very broad discipline. world around them. diology at the University of Texas, con­ Ferdinand said. "The brain influences our be­ She said she agreed with ducted a study in which he Studies prove brains havior, and our behavior actu­ Zeki when he said that artists are played music to skilled musicians, work and register information ally influences our brain­ really the first neurobiologists amateur musicians and non-mu­ differently, depending on the in­ waves," she said. because artists have to sicians as they received PET dividual. Though she is a behavioral figure out how humans "see" in scans. "For instance, chess neuroscientist, scientists in the order to paint. Caplin said Parsons discov­ players are really, really good field range from biologists and She said artists actually do ered that the music "danced" at chess," Ferdinand _said. clinicians to geneticists see things differently than most around the brain for the amateur "They can recognize patterns anyone who studies the human people. and non-musicians. But for the very quickly, think ahead very brain. For example, when walking trained musicians, it actually reg­ elegantly. . .. It doesn't make Jo Ann Caplin, distin­ down the street, most people may isters in the language center of them smarter in other areas of guished chair in the Park CAPLIN notice that a woman is wearing a the brain - the same place FERDINAND their lives. It is specific to the School of Communications, white dress and took no further. where activity registers during experience of chess." earned her bachelor's degree in English, with An artist takes the time to notice the pur­ social communication. While researchers seek to make ab­ minors in chemistry and art history. Caplin ple glares of the sun's reflection on the fab­ Caplin said that this kind of scientific stract concepts more concrete and under­ said she has been studying the relationship ric and the spots of tan that line the dress. analysis is important on a few levels. On standable, Caplin said she believes that between science and art since college. Caplin said artists see more than white. a practical level, new discoveries in this ambiguity in art makes it more powerful. Despite the fact that she teaches jour­ One of Zeki's more recent findings is area can help humans learn more about the "We may admire [an artist's] technique nalism classes, when Caplin stumbled that regardless of culture, when humans effects of strokes or brain injuries and can or their style enormously, but if you can't across the field of neuroesthetics, she be­ look at something, they see color first. help them understand how brain damage quite figure out what's going on, then each came excited. She is trying to pitch a tele­ They see color before shape or motion. affects their lives. generation comes to it with it's own ... vision series to PBS that addresses Other studies show what researchers "On another level, it takes cognitive thoughts and feelings." Caplin said. "It nueroesthetics, among other topics. look for and use in order to draw theory and changes it to hard science," becomes personalized for each person and "I have always studied art, and I always conclusions about the human mind. Caplin said. each generation anew. This helps to add to studied science and I al ways studied them Many of them focus not only on art, but She said she believes that historically, its longevity." at the same time .. . they never seemed like also on music. . art and science define and reflect our place Zel9 gives his opinion on the relevance different spheres of experience to me," "Listening to music or being a musician in the universe. of art in bis book, "Inner Vision: An Caplin said. "If ever I can finish this does change your brain structure and Regardless of how humans perceive ex­ Exploration of Art in the Brain." [documentary], I may just go study function." Ferdinand said. "It does change periences, scientists can measure what is In the book, he sa,id ''The function of art neurobiology. I think it's absolutely fas­ the brain by experience." going on in the brain. is . . . an extension of the function of the cinating.'' She said that musicians' brains may have Caplin said a study from Yale Univer­ brain, the seeking of knowledge in an ever­ Caplin said she recently learned much a larger area devoted to their fingers - for sity proves that musicians with perfect changing world." 14 THE ITHACAN ACCENT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2003 Accent Faculty shows its colors :. On BY NICOLE GERRING Staff Writer

Students don't have to be art connoisseurs to identify with the range of works currently dis­ played at the Handwerker Gallery. "I didn't even know we had an art gallery on campus," said sopho­ more Zulla Getahun, one of many students who wandered through the gallery during the opening night of the Faculty.Af! Show. Yet, Getahun said she related to· ERIN GROSSTEPHAN a piece of art, "No Title," by Bri­ CHEMISTRY an Cohen, assistant professor of art 2006 history, because she was born in Ethiopia. The photograph for the Hometown: West Seneca, silver giclee print of a man with a N.Y. gun sitting beside a man with a Bible and cross was taken during . How often do you do your Cohen's 1992-1993 trip to the laundry? African country. As often as I gonome or . The multi-department exhibi­ CARLY CHAMBERLIN/THE ITHACAN I socks. when run out of tion features paintings, pho­ WANDERING AND MINGLING were priorities at the Handwerker Gallery on Oct. 23 as members of the tographs, prints, sculptures, three-di­ college community gathered to ~iew faculty creations at the Faculty Art Show's opening reception. What's the biggest waste ·mensional pieces and video insta.1- of your tuition dollars? lations·created by college faculty. It said, waving to a passing art The pi~ce is made up of three hanna River Flats" by Bruce The observatory. I've heard comprises the work of 20 faculty alumna. "It's a great feeling of umbrellas suspended from the North, assistant professor of art. about it, but ·l'm not sure if it members from the departments of art, · camaraderie to be here together." ceiling of the gallery's side room. The gold-framed painting captures really exists. art history, television-radio and cin- Gallery director Cheryl · Projectors cast images of walking a late February afternoon when , ema and photography and will be on Kramer said she was pleased sticks, sea shells, snails, pond rip­ sunlight breaks through the What's .the worst fashion display until November 9. with the turnout and is looking for- pies and water droplets onto the um­ clouds, reminding viewers that state~~ _you•·va ever Getahun and other students had ward to expanding the array of art brellas in time with sounds like winter's grip won't tast forever. seen/made on campus? ·· the opportunity to talk with profes­ presented at Handwerker. She clicks, clacks and footsteps. · "I've been working on that for The overuse of "Ithaca is sors about their work and nibble on said she would like to bring oth- Senior Frank Reagan, an art ma­ about IO .years," North said. "But Gorges" T-shirts. · appetizers in a relaxed atmosphere er contemporary pieces like jor who came to see the work of his that doesn't mean it's done. The an­ at the gallery on Oct. 23. "Rain/Fall" to the gallery. professors, was captivated by swer is, when it's sold, it's firii&ited.•-~- What building on campus. Harry McCue, professor and "Rain/Fall," the video installa- "Rain/Fall." Nick Muellner, assistant pro­ Is probably haunted? chairman of the · art department, tion by Megan Roberts, associate "I just think it's very interest­ fessor of photography, said i~ ··"' . . ·\, The Campus Center Dining said he loves sharing his work with professor of television-radio, and ing," Reagan said. "It seems like the good for students to know what f@£- ;; Hall because I'm pretty sure members of the college community Raymond Ghirardo, assodate piece you can look at the longest ulty are doing. ··- "·\ . : that at least one student must at the annual exhibition. professor of art, combines tradi- here. It keeps changing." "It gives you a certain perspec-- . haye .died of artists are usuall tional and contem or~ art There are traditional tiv~ on whether or not you want to·-

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. CARLY CHAMBERLIN/THE ITHACAN NANCY BATTISTELLA, co-owner of Six Mile Creek Vineyard, stands on the deck of the wine-tasting room, which overloo~s her recently harvested fields of grape vines.

BY ANNE K. WALTERS The Doolittles' vineyard is like many of Those that do charge will waive their fee if N ews Editor the vineyards that began to spring up in the you purchase a bottle of wine. Each winery Finger Lakes in the late 1970s. It is small has around 15 varieties of wine to taste, When Jim Doolittle decided that his job in and ·family owned. The owners' house is ranging from the area's famous Rieslings to Wineries Albany wasn't for him, he had a unique sug­ located just steps from the winery. Customers red Pinot N oir and champagne. gestion for his wife, Carol: "Let's go buy a taste wines above the barrels where next On a typical fall weekend, visitors from farm and plant a vineyard." year's selections are fermenting. And like all over the state pour into the wineries to In 1978, the couple bought 24 acres of many of its counterparts, it produces sample the renowned Finger Lakes wines. land on the banks of Cayuga Lake. One year award-winning wines. Saturday, two tour buses brought visitors later, they harvested their first grapes. At first Lucas Vineyards is the oldest such win­ from as far away as Buffalo to the Ameri­ they grew grapes for other wineries, but they ery on the lake. The family-run business cana Vineyards Winery, where customers began making their own wine in the 1980s. started in 1974 when the family moved from could browse the gift shop and sample wine Despite the times they New York City to the Finger Lakes region. inside the tasting rooms and the adjoining have been forced to- Founder Ruth Lucas owns and manages the barn. harvest grapes in the business - now with the help of her two Owner Joe Gober said 40,000 customers snow and cold, daughters and her son-in-law. come through his doors each year, most of Carol Doolittle Second-generation vintner Stephanie them in October. Houck said Lucas Vineyards said, it is worth it. Lucas Houck said it is rewarding to be in­ gets about 800 customers per day on a With the help of · volved in the entire process. typical weekend in October. their employees, in­ "You go right from the ground to the Cornell seniors Andy Weisel and Alissa cluding many Cornell bottle," she said. Tribelle spent Saturday touring various University hotel school Nancy Battistella, owner of Six Mile Creek wineries. students, the Doolittles Vineyard, the only winery actually in Ithaca, Weisel said they are taking a wine course complete the wine-mak­ described the wine-making process. at Cornell and wanted to explore what the ing process She and her husband, Roger, begin local area had to offer. by hand. picking their six acres of grapes in early .. It's an interesting subject to know October. Because their property is not something about," he said. located along the lake, they have a slightly Kimlie Heng, from Buffalo, said she different growing season than other area enjoys v'isiting wineries because it gives her vineyards. Each variety of grape is picked the opportunity to try wine before making at a different time, she said. purchases and realizing she has bought The grapes are mashed in a cylindrical something she doesn't like. press. The juice is then pumped into tanks Houck said thaf students who visit the where it will ferment all winter, turning the wineries should set a pace forthernselves and grape juice into alcohol. Red wine is try to visit four or five wineries, not the CARLY CHAMBERLIN/THE ITHACAN fermented in the grape skins to give the wine entire trail. MAUREEN PONS prepares to sample a its rosy hue. "We're so glad we're close to Ithaca with glass of wine at Six Mile Creek Vineyard. Glass gauges attached to the barrels and the two colleges. It's a great opportunity to tanks of fermenting wine regulate the educate young people about quality CARLY CHAMBERLIN/THE ITHACAN They pick grapes beginning in mid-Sep­ process, allowing carbon dioxide to escape wines," she said. "Most come because GRAPES SOAK IN the last of tember, sometimes continuing through late without letting air into the wine. they' re excited to be in Finger Lakes wine rays of autumn sunshine at November, Carol said. After opening a After the wine has settled, sediment, or country." Frontenac Point Vineyard. tasting room at the winery, they began to sell lees, is siphoned off several times through Young employees like Mike Moorley, 99 percent of their wine on location rather than a series of tanks before the wine is filtered who graduated from Tufts University in May, Lucas Vineyards shipping it out, she said. Their winery, Fron­ into the bottle. are using the local vineyards to break into 3862 County Rd 150 tenac Point Vineyard, now produces 2,000· Battistella said her winery uses a semiau­ the industry. Interlaken, NY to 4,000 cases of wine each year, Jim Doolit­ tomatic corker and labeler to complete the Moorley's parents have always loved (607) 532-4825 tle said. process. Four people can bottle a tank of wine wine, and he said he began to get serious Frontenac was one of the first wineries in about half a day, she said. about the subject after a trip to Florence, Americana Vineyards to join the Cayuga Wine Trail, the first such Each winery along the wine trail has its Italy, where he talked with local wine 4367 East Covert Rd. trail in New York. A string of 15 wineries own tasting room, where customers can sam­ makers. Interlaken, NY sprung up along the lake because the body ple a variety of different wines produced "There's something about actually (607) 387-6801 of water creates a unique microclimate that there. Some charge a small fee, around $1, growing and producing it," he said. "It's is ideal for growing grapes. while others offer tastings free of charge. getting back to the whole earth thing." Frontenac Point Vineyard 9501 Rt. 89 Trumansburg, NY (607) 387-9619

Six Mile Creek Vineyard 1553 Slaterville Rd. Ithaca (607) 272-WINE

Goose Watch Winery 5480 Rt. 89 Romulus, NY · (305) 549-2599

Sheldrake Point Vineyard 7448 County Road 153 Ovid, NY (607) 532-9401

These wineries are all within 40 minutes of Ithaca College. Infor­ CARLY CHAMBERLIN/THE ITHACAN CARLY CHAMBERLIN/THE ITHACAN mation about other local vine­ JIM DOOLITTLE OPERATES the grape press at Frontenac Point A FRESH BATCH of harvested grapes is transported from the yards is available at www.cayu­ Vineyard. A bladder inside the cylinder expands, mashing the vines to the press inside the Frontenac Point Vineyard. Each gawinetrail.com. grapes against the side. The barrels contail) fermen!ing wine. _ _ _ yarie!y ~! g~a~~ is ha~ested at a slightly differen! ti'!'le, _ 16 THE ITHACAN

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/ BY MELISSA TWICHELL Members of the pagan commu­ Contributing Writer nity differ in matters of title, as well as practice, describing themselves It's Halloween once again, and variously as pagans, Wiccans, as the air chills-and the leaves be­ witches, priests, priestesses and gin to slide from their branches, healers. It can be difficult to develop witches are out and about in Itha­ a common vocabulary. ca. Actually, they're out and about "If you ask 100 Wiccans what all year, and odds are that they they believe, you'll get 150 an­ aren 't wearing pointy black hats. swers, all of them contradictory," Soullove International is a spiri­ Buddha Buck said. tual group that focuses on energetic He has been a practicing Wicca healing techniques such as Reiki, the for 20 years and is currently a mem­ Barbara Brennan system and thera­ ber of the Braided Wheel Tradition peutic touch. Hanan, who asked to of Wicca. His group publishes a be referred to as her first name only, . training syllabus online and grants is a member of the group. Hanan three degrees that signify various lev­ graduated from Ithaca College in els of training within the tradition. 1995 . She is in the process of setting High Priestess Laurie Miller has up an alternative healing practice and yet another practice that is founded identifies herself as a witch . in the beliefs of pre-dynastic Egypt. .. People are witches in my The Egyptian belief system encom­ opinion because they posses certain passes thousands of gods and god­ powers that are baffling to the gen­ desses and has a holiday on nearly eral public," Hanan said. "This does every day of the year to honor the not mean they cast a circle in bril­ various deities. It also has a text liant Technicolor for all to see ... It called the "Book of the Dead" DAVE NELSON/THE ITHACAN does not mean that they fly on which provides ethical guidelines HIGH PRIESTESS of the Coven of the Moonlight Labyrinth, Rauncie Pelletier, holds a crystal ball ov~r broomsticks in the middle of the similar to the Ten Commandments. the ceremoniar altar she prepared for a pagan ritual last Friday. night. But it does mean that they Rauncie Pelletier, a programs as­ are connected with forces that sistant in the ·continuing education rnunity gathered on Monday spirits of the dead closer together. . the closeness of the world of spirits. most people think are nonexistent." department at Ithaca College, is the evening in Freeville at a ritual host­ A typical Samhain ritual might The holiday is one of eight hol­ The men and women who iden­ high priestess of a group cal led the ed by Hanan and her group to cele­ begin by calling on the four direc­ idays called "sabbats" spaced tify themselves as witches are Coven of the Moonlight brate a holiday called Samhain that tions and their associated elements evenly throughout the year. The cy­ members of what is commonly Labyrinth and the chaplain for the occurs near the same time of year. of earth, air, fire and water, as well , cle of the seasons and their holidays known as the pagan community. United Pagan Ministries at Cornell. The holiday arises from the tra­ as the god and the goddess, Pelleti­ is referred to by some as the turn­ Hanan compares people's under­ "In my tradition, we believe in ditions of the Celts, who consider er said. Then the ritual would like­ ing of the "wheel of the year." standing of this community to the living sacred in a sacred world," Samhain the last of the harvest fes­ ly focus on the honoring of ances­ "I never work on Samhain," said way the Native American tribes are Pelletier said. "We don't have a tivals and the time that the world tors, perhaps talking about people Pelletier. "It's our high holiday." often lumped together. devil to blame anything on, we are transitions from life to death. As a who have died, or "passed over the While many will celebrate Hal­ "Within that group there are responsible for ourselves. Period." consequence of this transition, it is veil.';· It is also thought by some to loween tomorrow, Pontellier, a many many different nations, many While much oflthaca will be cel­ often held that the "veil between the be a particularly good time for div­ Wiccan and a witch, celebrates different tribes, many different ebrating Halloween tomorrow, worlds" is particularly thin at this ination - using tools such as tarot Samhain to mark the beginning of ways of doing things," Hanan said. many members of the pagan corn- time, bringing the living and the cards and crystal balls - because of the new year.

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Personally, I love his mu­ grow up to be Salman Rushdie, Dante's "Inferno" and "Alice in sic, but the strange thing is, brilliant novelist and famous out- ' Wonderland." nobody seems to .care he's law of the Muslim world - and A few chapters into the dead. There have been this year's Distingu_ished book, Rushdie acknowledges small vigils and scattered Speaker in the School of Hu­ the almost absurd amalgam of fans loitering on mes­ manities and Sciences. imagery: "Christians, Por­ sage boards. But for Rushdie will speak Nov. 2 at tuguese and Jews; Chinese the most part, the 7:30 p.m·. in the Ben Light tiles promoting godless mainstream media Gymnasium. The title of his views; pushy ladies, skirts­ have ignored the speech, "Step Across this not-saris, Spanish shenani- singer-songwriter's re­ Line," is also the title of his lat- gans, Moorish ~rowns ... can ported suicide. . est collection of essays, this really be India? ... [I]s While not ex- Rushdie ·crossed the line this not the most eccentric of SEAN actly Dave long ago as far as certain Is­ slices to extract from all that FENNESSEY Matthews, he was lamic fundamentalists are life - a freak blond hair still an influential member of the pop concerned. In "The Satanic plucked from a jet-black (and music community. Smith died in perhaps the Verses," Rushdie penned horribly unraveling) plait?" most dramatic way possible, with a single some illicit · dream sequences But it is this eccentricity that self-inflicted stab wound to his chest. But starring a character that was has given Rushdie a unique you'd have to hit up some e-zines to get all suspiciously similar to the· perspective on art, literature, the details. Muslim prophet Mohammed. politics and other internation­ Smith, 34, was one of the few tran­ On Val~ntine's Day 1989, Ay­ al affairs. Howard Erlich, scendent artists of his generation. He wa& atollah Khomeini of Iran issued dean of the School of Human­ not bombastic like the late Jeff Buckley or a fatwa against Rushdie, call­ ities and Sciences, said that an envelope-pusher like Radiohead. He was ing for dedicated Muslims to Rushdie was cho_sen to speak at more like a folk-punk, writing about kill Rushdie and anyone asso­ Ithaca College because his heartbreak and indecency, drugs and de­ ciated with his book. COURTESY OF rrHACACOLLEGE MARKETING work is interdisciplinary. . pravity, and singing with what has aptly Ironically, Rushdie was AUTHOR S~LMAN RUSHDIE will speak at the college on Nov. 2. "He is eclectic, interesting, been called an angelic whisper. His early raised as a Muslim in India. He insightful and serious," Erlich albums from the mid-'90s were distributed embraced Islam but felt dis­ or stay in one place for too long perspective is cross-cultural. ·said "He,has things to say - he by punk label Kill Rock Stars. placed from his homeland - it didn't silence him. In fact, "He's very aware of the has insights - which is 'Yhat the "Roman Candle" and his eponymous after attending high school and it turned out to be a brilliant con- ways in which cultures collide, humanities is all about." second album are indie-boy touchstones, · college in . Britain, where he versation-starter. The literary interact, but also enrich each Indeed Rushdie is chal­ recorded mostly in Smith's basement using picked up a taste for activism discourse Rushdie took up has other," Twomey said. lenging, in every sense oJ. the a craggy four-track. The results are typically and a clipped British accent. So been a dizzying, well-traveled, Rushdie has become a word. He startles his readers heartbreaking. Smith's sighing voice he spent 10 ye.ars in London irreverent treatise on displace- spokesman for the displaced, a with exotic allusions and in­ laments drug addiction on "Needle in the scribbling advertising copy be­ ment and plurality. His books "post-colonial" writer. And spires them to think deeply Hay" and "The White Lady Loves You fore his breakthrough novel, are populated with characters though his experience has un­ about religious a.nd cultural More" and paints what is possibly a clair­ "Midnight's Children," earned that possess powers as unpre- doubtedly aged him, -he still institutions. voyant.picture of his -fu~re; _His honesty him the Booker Prize and en­ dk?tableasdlQ8ein~~ ~ ~-. ~ "~ - ,- made you care about him and want to un­ abied him to write fuii time: nights, but the settings in younger self: he remains ambi- Rushdie,.. ~ -,jand·~~~ his public,'""'-- ~-­ derstand his music. That which makes the The fatwa was undoubtedly which these characters exist tious and somewhat misunder- Twomey said. "But if a writer lack of attention his death has received supposed to shut Rushdie up. . are meticulous renderings of au- stood. Twomey said this is isn't 100 percent understood bl simply mystifying. And while it certainly disori­ thentic placd: Bombay, London partly because Rushdie's work his readers, is that so terribl~? His final Kill Rock Stars album, ented him - for years he and New York. is rife with literary and histori­ Understanding sometimes "Either/Or," saw a rise in Smith's pop sen- _ couldn't fly on British Air:­ Michael Twomey, professor . cal allusions - not to mention takes time. The fact that he's sibilities. Gus Van Sant used many of the ways, _make public appearances of English, said that Rushdie's puns and plays on words. read is, I think, more important." album's songs in his film "Good Will Hunt­ ing." Smith gained a little notoriety when "Miss Misery" was nominated for an Os­ car. After "Either/Or" he became the sort 'Memories' needs jogging of crowned prince of indie rock, gracing the pages of SPIN Magazine and www.pitch­ forkmedia.com on a semi-regular basis. Songs require multiple plays for appreciation My favorite Smith album, "X/0" was his major label debut. A good friend in high teresting name). It~s four guys from Scotland, school first gave me the record. It's a none of whom is named Travis, with a unique masterpiece of coyness, never fully allow­ Music version of acoustic Brit-rock. Its sound is a ing the listener to uncover Smith's truths, simple blend of harmonic lyrics, floating above which bob and weave through guitar Review standard drum beats and guitars. The music strums and orchestral blackouts. After I read is comparable to other UK imports like the about his death, I listen_ed to its soaring BY MIKE NAGEL . Stereophonics, Coldplay and low-key Ra­ Beatles-esque melodies six times in a row. Senior Writer diohead, yet Travis distinguishes itself. The same friend who gave me "X/0" saw The band gives the listener something new Smith perform last year at an For some reason I suffered from a severe case with each song. Each tune has a pace and per­ ill-fated, well-publicized show in Chicago. of writer's block as I typed my thought& on sonality of its own, from the slow lope of COURTESY OF SONY Smith was opening for Wilco. His set was a Travis' new disc, "Paperclips" to "Somewhere Else's" upbeat, TRAVI~' latest Is not so catchy. disaster. He bungled guitar chorqs, claiming "12 Memories." 4/4 pop time. "12 Memories" kicks off with 1/2 he couldn't use his hand, and forgot lyrics to To. get the process ·12* Memories· * * · "Quicksand," leading into the tune with a theories (think U2). The opening lines of"12 many of his own songs. After the show, my rolling, I performed Travis piano, an instrument that doesn't appear on Memories," "Take me away, take me friend called me and told me what had hap­ the fairly obvious • I the album again until it plays as the lone com­ away/ You said you were gonna stay," set pened. At the time, he speculated Smith was - and flipped through the liner notes. Pretty panion to vocalist Fran Healy on the hidden the tone for the disc, which is generally "drugged-out," but that seemed impossible basic stuff - black and white band photos, track, "Some Sad Song." down, but never self-deprecating or overly considering how poignantly and clearly he · thank-you's and words to songs. I read the Mandolins, sitars, violins, cellos, viola, depressed. For example, Healy says he's "got had dea_lt with drugs in the past. lyrics once. I read the lyrics twice. And that's cowbells, electronic drums and a chorus of a feeling it's right" and implores a loved one Unfortunately, as Smith began work on when it hit me. "12 Memories," so-named Scottish voices singing the chorus to to keep hope for the future in "Love Will his follow-up to 2000's "Figure 8," the drug for the number of songs on the album, had · "Peace the F--k Out" pop up throughout, giv­ Come Through." rumors continued to swirl. Now, more than only ll tracks written out. · · ing depth to the disc. The result of Travis' There isn't a single track on "12 Mem­ ever, there are whispers about Smith's per­ Or so I thought. efforts is an album that's easy to listen to and ories" that will get caught in your head, un­ sonal demons. And it's sad. Like Buckley Where the 12th and final song should ap­ can be played as calm background music, like past singles, "Why Does it Always Rain before him, he could be stunningly powerful pear, there was, at first glance, only black but is also intricate enough to keep the lis­ on Me?" and "Sing." So, for those of you to the common listener. Apparently he did­ space. But, by tilting the booklet, I was able tener's attention. who like to sing along right away, a past o 't leave enough of an impression on CNN to see script. How chic - hidden words for As solid as the band is musically, it would Travis album might be a better choice. and the Washington Post. So I'll wait with the hidden track. . be nothing without Healy's lyrics. Often, the If you're a fan of the lighter side of.ruck anticipation for "From a Basement on the Bingo, I had my idea for the review. Scot's crooning provides yet another in­ and enjoy bands that offer something Hill," Smith's final album. But I doubt Dan "' 12 Memories,' Travis' latest effort, is strument to the track (eg: "Mid-Life Krys is"), different from mainstream radio, give "12 Rather will be holding his breath. an album that demands a second look and which is nice of course, but what he h~s to Memories" a try. If at first it doesn't satis­ more than one listen." say is more powerful. The finely crafted · fy, give it another listen. Repeat' as neces­ Back Beat appears in this space every week. And I really meant to say that all along, lyrics sound upbeat at first listen, but are ac- · sary. It won't take long for the disc to grow E-mail Sean Fennessey at I just needed a profound metaphor. tually angry as Healy writes mostly about on you. There's something new to discov­ sfennes [email protected]. Tra__yis is an interesting band (with an in.: longing for love and his personal political er with each play. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2003 ACCENT THE ITHACAN 19 They've got spirit, yes they do! Kicky cheerleader play packs punch but fails to finish with fl,ourish Live Theater BY TASHA KATES Staff Writer

Footsteps sound on the dark stage, and then silence. For just a moment, no one can see any­ thing but the light shining off cellophane pom­ poms. And then, the cheerleading routine begins. The latest production at Comell 's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts has got spirit. "Be Aggressive," by Annie Weisman, is a collage of symbols and pop-culture references. Weisman weaves these· pieces together to create deeper meaning in the otherwise shallow suburbs of Southern California. For Laura, (Kristen Frazier), "Be Aggres­ sive" is not just a cheer that she performs with her squad, it's a way of life. Determined to be- · come something more than a lowly spotter, Lau­ ra and fellow cheerleader Leslie (Jacqueline Koppell) set out on a roadtrip to the Spirit In­ stitute of the South, a legendary cheerleading · camp. . COURTESY OF CORNELL THEATRE Led astray by incongruent ideas about the BLENDING WITH CHEER, Laura ( Kristen Frazier), works at her Job at a smoothie shop. routes, the girls find themselves living off of gas station fare and convincing a motel own­ the _squad of 20 loud, obnoxious girls. Tho:.aaic adist, Christa Seekatz, created an er that they will pay for their room in the morQ- The two adult characters in the play, Laura's ill-ccinceived, drab setting for a vibrant play, us­ . ing. But ~hen they finally arrive at the camp, father, Phil (Marc Moritz), and Leslie's mother, ing towering tan-colored columns and matching they realize there is more to life than standing Judy (Jan Rogge), hide their true selves through blocks. Set changes also proved problematic. back tucks. craffy emotional camouflage: Phil, the mysteri­ Some of them took longer than the scenes they Although the play's many scenes create a ous freeway construction consultant "Mr. X," is were set up for, creating long pauses in action. harmonious. ending, the plot wraps up too quick­ suppressing his feelings about his first wife's un­ The production's costumes made up for the ly f9r a cast of characters that needs a lifetime solved death and hiding his true identity from bland set. The fine details made the cheerlead­ of therapy. Judy, the highly stylized Southern belle. ers even more authentic - right down to their '_.rRepresenting the cheerleading squad are The majority of the play's hilarious lines are white Kaepa cheerleading sneakers with team Cheerleaders No. I, No. 2 and No: 3 (Gia assigned to Leslie - the kind of girl who puts color snat>-in accoutrements. Crovatin, Kirsten Kollender and Frankie Gold­ no restrictions on her speech. Leslie speaks of Although "Be Aggressive" had phenomenal stetri). These anonymous cheerleaders represent her tumultuous life: "I'm pregnant. He said he'd actqrs and intensity, the oyerall su rficial't of an entire squad by gossiping obsessively, shun­ pull out rigbt away, but so did, . · • ' · ning the unfamiliar ~nd not paying attention to Tied for the prize for spectacular performance audience nug ave t w1 e characters and their spotters. Between their robotic cheerlead­ is Hannah (Sara Clemens), Laura's little sister. situations: The play's witty lines and catchy cheers ing 1fuoves and spirited leaps, they also have the She asks rapid-fire questions in a childlike, irri­ , left the audience bouncing out of the theatre, but job of changing the sets. The creepy trio puts the tating voice, casting an aura of innocence also wondering why everything always-goes so focus of the play on Laura and Leslie rather than around adult subject matter. smoothly in California. l Macabre 'Chainsaw' remake loses edge , ' the original, and some sequences are directed well, such as a chase Movie · in broad daylight through hanging laundry, and just about every ., scene featuring Enney. But it is this and ·Review sumptuousness that also detracts from the film's effectiveness. By BY MICHAEL MERLOB making it all so pretty, the audience Staff Writer is distanced from the horrors oc,. *** curring onscreen. The first question concerning Frankly, the movie is sort of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is boring, too. The first two-thirds

"why?" Why ~------flow very well, but the final third remake what is one long chase scene, which is 'not only a grows tiresome after, oh, five ··The Texas perfectly good ** minutes. Also, the editing is awful i Chainsaw ' movie, but I toward the climax. The cuts are so also qne of the Massacre·· fast that, coupled with the hand­ COURTESY OF NEW LINE CINEMA best films of L__ --- - held camerawork, all sense of AN ILL-FATED ROAD trip takes Erin (Jessica Biel), Pepper (Erica physics in the scene is lost, and its genre? Probably it has something Leerhsen), Andy (Mike Vogel) anq Morgan (Jonathan Tucker) to the what should be scary just be­ to do with money. scene of a vicious crime in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Audience members then ask comes confusing. themselves the question, "is it quickly. Saying much more would wise. And R. Lee Ermey, best While it is unfair simply good?" It's mediocre, and though it ruin the surprises that the film has known for his role in "Full Metal to compare this movie to the first is not the disaster it could have and, to offer, and yes, there are a few. Jacket," is immensely entertaining "Chainsaw" on all counts, the by all accounts, should have been, The acting in "The Texas as Sheriff Hoyt. Simultaneously ter­ original derived its effectiveness it is lacking. Chainsaw Massacre" is actually rifying and hilarious, Ermey is the ·from the fact that it felt real, almost The story has not been very good, and one final plot element strongest force in the film. like a documentary. This remake, changed· much since the 197 4 that must be mentioned is the arrival The director, Marcus Nispel, is a despite having an effective setup original. On a hot summer day in of Leatherface, the chainsaw­ veteran of music videos, and you and good acting, is too pretty, pre­ Texas, a group of unsuspecting wielding psychopath who wears a know what that means. He and his dictable, and boring to stand as young adults (Jessica Biel, Eric mask made from human skin. This cinematographer, Daniel Pearl, anything memorable. It is a well­ Balfour, Mike Vogel, Jonathan character, played by Andrew Bry­ cinematographer of the original shot "slasher" film that is bound by Tucker, and Erica Leerhsen) jet niarski, is chilling due to the sheer film, have crafted a gorgeous the laws of modem Hollywood, down the road tn their van. In the relentlessness with which he pursues movie. "The Texas Chainsaw Mas­ which state that each scene and kill original they are going to investi­ his victims. sacre" may just be the most beauti­ must then be · accompanied by gate a possible grave robbing. In But Jessica Biel of "7th Heav­ fully shot horror film ever. The cinematic overkill. the new one, they are heading to a en" fame as the star of a horror pic­ scenes in the van at the start of the concert - whatever. . ture? Yes, that's right, and she's not film are saturated with golden "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" Their little trip goes astr_ay half bad. That is to say, she is pret­ . hues, and later, every frame is was written by Scott Kosar, direct­ when they pick up a girl wandering ty good at screaming and looking filled with grit and grime. ed by Marcus Nispel, and produced on the side of the road, and from this scared, since the part doesn't Nispel tries his best to make the by Michael Bay. The film stars Jes­ point on, the story picks up exactly call for much, character- film his own, rather than ripping off sica Biel and R. Lee Ermey. Event of the week THURSDAY See "Rocky Horror Picture OCTOBER 30, 2003 Show" presented by the IC PAGE 20 Players Oct. 30, 31 and Nov. 1. ·.. .ale -n-dar·

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TIAA-CREF Workshops - _"Planning Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen Ahead for Retirement," and "Retirement . Film Series - "Two-Spirit People" at 7 Distribution Flexibilities" 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. p.m. in Textor 103. in Emerson Suite A. Gerontology Institute Distinguished. Chaplain's Bible Study - Noon in the Speaker - Dr. Paul Katz, Professor of Phillips Room, Muller Chapel. Medicine, presents "Aging, Frailty, and Disability," at 7 p.m. in Clark Lounge, IC Jazz Club Performance - Noon at The Campus Center. Pub, Campus Center. · Faculty Chamber Music - Ithaca Brass Students for Life Speaker - Christina at_S:15 p.m. in Ford Hall, Whalen Center. Fitch, 12:05 p.m. in Textor 101. SAB Fnm·s - "28 Days Later" at 9 p.m. Faculty Colloquium - "The Homogenization and midnight in Textor 102. of Homo-Sex in Hollywood," 12:10 p.m. in Clark Lounge, Campus Center.

Junior Recital - Brian Ente, percussion, at Tuesday 7 p.m. in Hockett Family Recital Hall, Whalen Center. Faculty Colloquium - "The Enchantments of Technology" at 12:10 p.m. Blgayla Costume Ball - 7 p.m: in Emerson in Clark Lounge, Campus Center. Suites. Distinguished Speaker Serles - Fireside Chat/Mass - 8 p.m. at the Suzanne A.-Sheppard, CEO of Executive Fireside Lounge, Muller Chapel. Conversation (Seattle) at 7 p.m. in Textor 101. "Rocky Horror Picture Show" - Presented by IC Players at 9 p.m. in Textor 102/101. Blble Study - 7:30 p.m. in Muller Chapel.

Community "The llyatery of Edwin Drood" by "Be Aggressive" - Presented by Cornell Rupert Hollllea. - Presented by Ithaca Performing Arts at 8 p.m. at the Cornell College Theatre at.8 p.m. in Dillingham Schwartz Center Stage. Center. BRIAN HASHIMOTO/THE ITHACAN MUSIC ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Alex Shuhan plays the horn as a member Faculty Recital - Richard Faria, clarinet. of Rhythm & Brass, a six-person ensemble, during a concert Oct. 26. The at 8:15 p.m. in Hockett Family Recital H8'1. -. . Friday concert, called "On Your Radio Dlal," featured music from various artists that defined the American radio landscape. ·community Shabbat Services - 6 p.m. in Muller Spanish/Portugese Classes - Offered by· . Chapel. the Committee on US-Latin American in Hockett Fa,riily Recital Hall, Whalen ·$enl0r Jazz Recital - Ben Smith, dar- Relations (CUSLAR). New sessiQn begins JunlorRecllal-"Ohl:illlla, " ;tuba, .. ,~ . . inet, at 2 p.m In Ford Haff,Whalen~ ,. . . ~ ~~8:8011;,~,_,.,.flal{ · .. _:. :~ ·, 7 p.m. in Hockett Family Recital Hall, Center. Whalen Center. Elective Joint Brass Recital - Carlie Kilgore, French horn, and Chris Yee, Junior Recital - Lisa Phillips, flute, at 3 Wednesday_..e· "Rocky Horror F>lcture Show" - Presented trumpet, at 1 p.m. in Nabenhauer Recital p.m. in Hockett Family Recital Hall, by IC Players at 9 p.m. in Textor 101/102. Room, Whalen Center. Whalen Center. ' Wednesday Coffee Hour - 10 a.m. in Tuba Ensemble Concert- 9 p.m. in Senior Recital - Kristin Rightnour, clar­ Elective Joint Brass Recital - Phil McDonald Lounge, Campus Center. Hockett Family Recital Hal!, Whalen Center. inet, at 2 p.m. in Ford Hall, Whalen Giampietro, euphonium, and Will Plenk, Center. tuba, at 4 p.m. in the Nabenhauer Recital Eucharist for Peace and Heallng - 1 :10 Community . Room, Whalen Center. p.m. in Muller Chapel. "Be Aggressive" - Presented by Cornell Junior Recital - Sarah Tre~. soprano, at Performing Arts at 8 p.m. at the Cornell 3 p.m. in Hockett Family Recital Hall, Time Apart for Prayer - 6 p.m. in Muller Arts Collaboration Dis play - "Artistic Schwartz Center Stage. Whalen Center. Chapel: Ramification Toward Student · Collaboration" at 6 p.m. in the Pub, Senior Recital - Eric Swanger, bass SAB FIims - "28 Days Later" at 7 p.m., ~ampus Center. trombone, at 4 p,m. in Ford Hall, Whalen 9:30 p.m. and midnight in Textor 102. Saturday Center. . Trombone Troupe Concert - 8:15 p.m. in· Faculty Recital - Kelly Samarzea, con­ Ford Hall, Whalen Center. Junior Recital - Elaine Loggi, piano, at noon "Into the Woods" - Presented by IC tralto, and Diane Birr, piano, at 7 p.m. in Triple Threat Theatre at 7:30 p.m. in Hockett Family Recital Hall, Whalen Evensong - 10 p.m. in Muller Chapel. Presser Room, Whalen Center. Center. ICTV Weekly Evening Schedule "Rocky Horror Picture Show" - "Step Across This Line: An Evening Presented by -. lC Players at 9 p.m. in Textor WHh Salman Rushdie" - 7:30 p.m. in All Angles Newswatch 16 Tuesdays at 8:30 Sundays, 101/102. Ben Light Gymnasium, Hill Center. - Wednesdays at Tuesdays and Not all Ithaca College 6:30 Thursdays at 8 Sports Sports events are listed Another Late and 10 Volleyball at the NYSWCAA Volleyball at the NYSWCAA in the calendar. Night Panorama Championship at St. Lawrence. Championship at St. Lawrence. Mondays at a Sundays at 6:30 Fleld hockey· at Scranton at noon in Powder Puff Football Game at 11 a.m. Tuesdays at 9 Tuesdays at 7 Scranton, PA. in Upper Allen Field closest to college Send information to The Ithacan, Backstage Wednesdays at Football vs. Hobart at 1 p.m. at road . . 269 Roy H. Park Hall, Ithaca. Wednesdays at 8:30 Butterfield Stadium. Field hockey at Skidmore at 2 p.m. College, by Monday at 5 p.m. 10 Quabble VolleybaH vs. Oneonta at 7 p.m. in Ben For more information, call Thursdays at Mandays at 8:30 Calendar Manager Ana Liss at 6:30 Wednesdays at 7 Community Light Gymnasium. 274-3208 or fax at 274-1565. B~ondthe Thursdays at 9 "Be Aggressive" - Presented by Cornell hords Screening Performing Arts at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Community Sundays at7 Room Cornell Schwartz Center Stage. "Be Aggressive" - Presented by Mondays at 7:30 Sundays at 8:30 Cornell Performing Arts at 2 p.m. at the Frequency Wednesdays at 8 Cornell Schw&r12 Center Stage. Sundays through Thursdays at Thursdays at 8:30 Sunday 9:30 Thirty Minutes Gridiron Report Sundays at BETHEL GROVE BIBLE CHURCH Ecumenical Worship Service - 11 a.m. Sundaysat9 10:30 1763 SLATERVILLE ROAD (RT. 79E), ITHACA Mondaysat7 Mondays at 1O in Muller Chapel. · 277-3333 or [email protected] Hodgepodge Wednesdays at A NON-DENOMINATIONAL CHRIST-CENTERED CHURCH Sundays, 10:30 Mass - 1 and 9 p.m. in Muller Chapel. SERVING COMMUNITY AND CAMPUS Tuesdays and Ultimate Utopia Thursdays at Mondays at 6:30 Elective Sophomore Recital - Tiffany 7:30 Wednesdays at 9 Carson, flute, at 1 p.m. in Nabenhauer Worship Service 8:30a.m. UveonTape Ya Think You Recital Room, Whalen Center. Educational Opportunities (Nursery-Adult) 10:00a.m. Mondays, Know Sports Worship Service 11:15 a.m. Tuesdays and Tuesdays at 6:30 Thursdays at Wednesdays at "Into the Woods" - Presented by IC 10:30 7:30 Triple Threat Theatre at 2 p.m. in Presser Please visit our Web site! www.bg.org Room, Whalen Center. 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MATT RICE/THE ITHACAN MATT RICE/THE ITHACAN BY ALEX DE LOS RIOS Layt~am so successful on the road BY JACK KEHOE czynski said. "I love the competitiveness and Contributing Writer ' course. _ Staff Writer my favorite part about it is the team aspect." ------"Maybe it's the genes,'~ joked Ware; re- Styczynski 's love for the team facet of Ama~da Laytham doesn't care about the ferring to Laytham 's fi;tther, who runs, and After a week of tryouts for his high school running has not gone unnoticed by his team­ fact that she's won three letters in her three brother, who plays baseball. soccer team, Mike Styczynski didn't find his mates and coach. years as a Bomber runner. Or the fact that Maybe. name on the final roster. "He keeps the whole team together," she's posted top-five finishes in all of her It might explain Laytham 's immediate "At the time that it happened, it was a big freshman Stephen Mulhern said. "A lot of six races this season. impact on the team her freshman year, disappointment," Styczynski said. the time we do the thi~gs that he does and "People come up to me and congratulate helping the Bombers to a 10th-place Yet getting cut was a'blessing in disguise he '11 help us out with our form and tell us me about having three letter years," said finish at nationals and being named an All­ for Styczynski. better racing strategies." . Laytham, an athletic training major with American. Instead of dribbling and passing on the With a group of 11 new freshmen this three minors. "I really just want the team to It might explain how Laytham has fin­ soccer field, he hit the trails. season, Styczynski 's leadership is exactly do well." ished better than fifth in all of her races this "I always liked to run so I decided to go what the Bombers needed. To say that Laytham is -being modest season. out for cross country," Styczynski said. "My "His personality helps us," Nichols would be like saying Terrell Owens ex­ It might explain how Laytham has led this P.E. teacher from middle school knew me said. "He is competitive in a low key way. presses himself. year's Bombers to the loth spot in the and thought that it would be a good idea for He is very business like." But don't be fooled, Laytham may take national coaches poll. me to run." Even though Styczynski 's resu~e is im­ a lot of things lightly, but running is not one However, it might not all be genetics. Since that time, the 5 foot 10 inch senior pressive, his climb to the pinnacle of Di­ of them. Laytham said much of her drive also from Clarksville, Md. has been nothing short vision III cross country has not always As co-captain of the squad, Laytham or­ comes from the seniors she raced with as a of terrific as a runner. been easy. ganizes team dinners, movie nights and set freshman. "He has been an outstanding leader and As a sophomore, he sprained his an­ up a big sisters and little sisters system ·to "They set a standard," she said. "They athlete since he set foot on this campus," kle severely during the indoor track sea­ help ease the younger runners' transition into showed us the ropes, showed us what is coach Jim Nichols said. son and was forced to redshirt in spring. college. Laytham says the sense of family expected and showed us how to have a Nichols is happy and feels fortunate that At the national cross-country meet last is what keeps the team close. good time." he has landed such a successful runner on year, he was knocked down when a runner "Over the summer [Laytham] sent me e­ She has certainly lived up to that his squad. In high school, Styczynski was from Stevens Point (Wis.) tripped in front mails, letters and really made me feel standard. recruited by Division I Quinnipiac Uni­ of Styczynski at the two-kilometer mark welcome," freshman Molly Lawson, Laytham has run in every race she was versity but chose Ithaca College because causing him to fall. He eventua11y finished Laytham's little sister on the team, said. scheduled for over her career. The only race of the prestige of the Park School of Com­ in 99th place. Despite his bad luck, Sty­ "She's just great, I can ask her anything and she failed to complete was the one she ran munications. The journalism major decided czynski remained positive. I know she']] always be there." with a stress fracture in her right foot that that his education was most important to "AU you can do is get up and keep Laytham 's family-like bond with her had been there for most of her sophomore him. running," Styczynski said. teammates stems from her stro!}g relation­ season. Styczynski 's work ethic has pushed him Even though the national race was a ship with her family at home, just under two Laytham is also stellar student, sporting to where he is today. He competes in out­ frustrating way to end Styczynski's junior hours away in Otego, she said. a 4.12 grade-point average. After gradua­ door and indoor track for the Bombers, so season, coach Nichols was proud of his top "Her parents are at almost every race," tion, she hopes to earn a scholarship at New his only offseason is during the summer. runner. coach Bill Ware said. "I think it's where she York State Chiropractic School in Seneca That "break" contains a 80-mile per "We were hoping that he would be an All gets a lot of her passion." and pursue a career as a chiropractor. week regimen. American last year, but he was unfortunately Laytham 's dad started her running But for now, Amanda is focused on her Along with his strenuous running routine, tripped up," Nichols said. "You never when she was in seventh grade and she fol­ schoolwork, the team and of course, having the Bombers' top runner stays in shape by heard him complain once though." lowed with four years of varsity track in high a good time. being active in basketball, hiking and Styczynski wi11 again be seeking All­ school. But it wasn't until her senior year "Maybe we' II be able to place in the weightlifting. American status this year, but more impor­ that she decided to join the cross-country top-ten [at "nationals]," Laytham said. While Styczynski is no -stranger to oth­ tantly will be focused on helping his team team instead of playing a fourth year on var­ "But no matter how the season ends, I er athletic pursuits, no other sports _have place high in its remaining meets. sity soccer. know I had fun arid that's what really brought him as much success as cross­ And all runners that he competes She's been running ever since. matters." country and track. against will be wishing that he had made that Opinions differ on what makes That and pasta dinners with the team. "I just love everything about running," Sty- high school soccer team. 24 THE ITHACAN SPORTS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2003 Press IC looks to huntble Hobart Box Bomber defense will face three-headed attack against Statesmen

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_haunts Yavits Field . Senior tri-captain Robert Truman knows that he won't play football forever. With I finally know how Red Sox fans feel. three games remaining in the regular season, I think I can finally re]ate to their pain. his time is limited. To their angst. Babe, Buckn­ Maybe that's why he's making the most er and Boone. Red Sox ofit. fans, I understand - as a After sitting out veteran manager of intra­ against St. Lawrence Football mural softball teams. with a hip injury, a Rewind to Sun­ healthy Truman returned to the practice field day. The scene: Yav­ before the Brockport game determined to set a its Field. The event: tone motivate his teammates. intramural men's "His presence demands that people on pro softball play both sides of the ball raise their entire level offs. The teams: of intensity," offensive coordinator Brian "Mus-L-Bound" vs. Angelichio said. BRIAN my squad, "Holy Truman's imposing presence appears to DELANEY Poop on a Stick." have been just the inspiration the Bomber The victor would get defense needed. a spot in the title game with a chance to "We' re playing a lot looser than we did in win the coveted white T-shirt that shrinks the beginning of the season," Truman said. as soon as you wash it. As manager, I al­ "We' re relaxed, and I 1 guys are out there ready have one T-shirt. We were deter­ now, just having fun and flying around." mined to win another. They' re doing more than that. Safe to say, we felt good about our All three parts of the defense (line, line­ chances. We drew a suspiciously hard backers· and secondary) are finally coming first~round game against the "BBBs," together, posing a deadly threat to future which has showcased one of the most opponents. Truman has been lethal from his feared lineups in intramural softball over middle linebacker position, while sopho­ the past few seasons. Somehow, we sur­ more Dustin Ross and senior Brett Campbell vived against odds s"imilar to those the have both played admirably. Sox, down 2-0 in a five-game series, But resting on past laurels is not a habit · faced against the A's. Like the Sox, we JUNIOR DEFENSIVE TACKLE-Jeffrey Kasarjlan { Truman wants to develop, especially this Luciano. Kasarjian assisted on four tackles In the Bombers' 4 came from behind to steal victory after week. ·up next for the 18th-ranked trailing 4-0 early. Bombers is Hobart, a grudge match for the as impressive, and through six games he has "They• ve played Then came the semifinals. "Mus-L­ Blue and Gold. rushed for 589 yards and eight touchdowns. the years," coach Mi Bound" had beaten us three straight times . "Of all the games we lost last year, Swanson has continued to play efficiently "They' re going to pressure you and force . and were our version of the Yanks, who Hobart really sticks out the most," Truman under center, completing 59.9 percent of his you to make plays." get the job done while we can never seem said, referring to the 17-6 loss in 2002. "We passes for nine touchdowns and three inter­ The Saxons' defense clearly rattleci the to. But like the Sox, this was going to be really are looking forward to this and have ceptions. Suozzi has been Swanson's prima­ Bombers in last year's meeting, forcing two our year. This was our chance for revenge. been waiting all year for it." ry target, catching 37 passes for 612 ards lue and Gold to And don't you know i~ our ace pitch­ H the ·defeme wantled a challenge, it and six loUcbdownr."' er decided to pack up and visit his girl­ certainly has it this week. Hobart has an outside chance for an at­ However, that game marked then fresfi­ friend in Baltimore after Saturday's Hobart (4-2) boasts a triumvirate of large playoff berth with its competitive man Josh·Felicetti's return from a leg injury. game. At least Sox fans didn't have to ex­ offensive stars. The Saxons' offense runs remaining schedule. The Saxons close with With Felicetti not 100 percent, lthaca's--­ perience.this act of treason. Pedro Mar­ through three skill players: quarterback 'Ithaca, St. John Fisher (5-2) and undefeated offense was clearly not as prolific as it could tinez just didn't pack it up for a girl - Craig Swanson, running back Ty Godinho RPI. have been. Versatile plays such as the he showed heart. Guts. He stayed in the and wide receiver Dan Suozzi. While the defense will look to build on its option, and quarterback keepers were tajcen game. He wanted the ball. Godinho shredded the Bombers defense previous perform~ces, the Bombers out to protect the current sophomore. Our guy didn't. He pulled the prover­ in last year's meeting, rushing 30 times for offense will attempt to handle Hobart's If Felicetti fails to put the offense in gear, bial sell-out. We threw in our No. 2 pitch­ 135 yards and the game-clinching touch­ high-pressure defensive attack, which gave it will be up to Truman and the def~nse to er, Matt Hughes, who pitched with a bro­ down. His production in 2003 h~s been just the B~mbers fits in last year's game. keep the Bombers' playoff hopes alive. ken finger. It was like Jordan scoring 38 points with the flu against the Jazz in '97. Fast-forward through most of the game. It was the last inning, and we Bombshells Week 7: Ithaca 49, -Utica·O were holding a three-run lead, just as the Sox had against the Bronx Bombers. LOUIE, LOUIE BY JON ROTHSTEIN And almost just as easily, we coughed Senior wide receiver Lou Magrone responded to the cheers Staff Writer up that three-run lead, just like the Sox. of the Butterfield Stadium faithful with an acrobatic, behind-the­ Then Brett Shelby came to the plate. back catch in the fourth quarter that sent Blue and Gold fans For the third straight year Utica failed to score a point as CRACK! Gone. Good night, game into a frenzy. Ithaca improved to 6-1 with a 49-0 victory at Butterfield .over. He freakin' Aaron Booned us. The Stadium. The rout allowed each Bomber team member to see softball burst through the tops of the HOME SWEET HOME action for the second time in three weeks. trees like a rock from a catapu1t in the The Bombers' win over Utica was their 11th consecutive "You don't know how players are going to react in a game opening scenes of "Gladiator." Our sea­ victory at Butterfield Stadium, a streak that dates back to the situation," coach Mike Welch said. "This is going to help us son was over. 2001 season. as we move down the line." Who's the goat? Me. Just before Shel­ All three Blue and Gold units dominated. by stepped to the plate, my teammate SHUTTING OUT THE PIONEERS Junior Matt Tosh opened the scoring with a 51-yard punt Adam suggested that Matt intentionally Ithaca has outscored Utica 127-0 in the teams' last three return for the game's first touchdown, putting the Bombers on walk Shelby. He had homered earlier in meetings. the board before the offense ever stepped on the field. the game, and in another at bat had nailed After that, Ithaca continued to roll. a bomb to center field. Adam made a sen­ AUTOMATIC BID Sophomore quarterback Josh Felicetti only played in one sational home run-saving catch to keep us Ithaca clinched the Empire 8 title with the victory over half but performed well, completing nine of 14 passes for 143 in the game. I didn't want to put the win­ Utica but the conference will not receive an automatic bid yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. Sophomore back­ ning run on base, so I rejected the advice. to the playoffs until the 2004 season. up quarterback Jeff O'Hara looked solid in relief, going six See Sox fans - I pulled a Grady Lit­ of 10 for 61 yards. tle. Just as he should have pulled Pedro, RUSHING RECORD BREAKERS The ground game was also in full effect for the Blue and I should have had Matt walk Shelby. It Senior Pete Celebre scored a pair of first-quarter touchdowns Gold. Senior tri-captain Pete Celebre rushed for two first-half was an inexplicable managerial screw-up. and raised his career total to 1,506 rushing yards, good for ninth touchdowns and went over the 1,500-yard mark for his career. And like Little, who was fired, I should on Ithaca's career list. . He finished the day with 66 yards on 11 carries and two _ lose my job. No manager deserves to keep Caleb Greer-Carney gained 57 yards against the Pioneers touchdowns. working after the kind of .decision­ and became the 25th Bomber to rush for 1,000 career yards. Senior running back Caleb Greer-Camey also rushed his making against either "Mus-L-Bound" or way into the Ithaca record books. Greer-Carney went over 1,000 the Yanks. It just doesn't slide. CAREER FIRSTS yards for his career en route to a 10 carry, 58-yard, one touch­ As a Philly guy, I never was able to Freshman fullback Dan Ross scored his first career down performance. connect with Boston fans when it came rushing touchdown on a one-yard run in the third quarter. The Bomber defense dominated the Pioneers, holding them to the Sox. Now I know. And I feel sor­ The Bombers last touchdown was scored by sophomore Kyte to 17 total rushing yards. Sophomore linebacker Dustin Ross ry for you guys. Rutherford. Rutherford's touchdown was the first of his career. led the team with eight tackles and picked off Utica quarter­ 'Cause this is just intramural softball. back Adam Luciano once. PRESSURE DEFENSE Senior tri-captain Robert Truman added seven tackles. Utica ran for just 17 yards on 30 carries, an average of .57 Senior punter Nick Aiello also had an outstanding day for Press Box appears in this space every yards per carry. Pioneer quarterback Adam Luciano lost a the Biue and Gold. Aiello averaged 42.4 yards on five punts week. E-mail Brian Delaney at total of 34 yards on the afternoon. and placed ·two within the 20-yard line. [email protected]. THURSDAY, OCT0~ER 30, 2003 SPORTS THE ITHACAN 25 The·-hot new club scene Women sign up 26players

BYPAULGANGAROSSA about it," Michael said, "and I Contributing Writer talked to Sara about it once in a while, and we started getting When the clock read four zeros really excited and really serious at the end of Erin Michael's high about it." school soccer career, she thought The men's club team, which her playing days were over. started just last year, added anoth-. With no expectations of play- er kind of motivation. "That's ing varsity at Ithaca College, when my feminism started playing Michael chose to focus on her a role, and I decided we had to have physical therapy studies among a women's team," Michael said other things. · with a smile. And until now, women who For the entire spring semester didn't play varsity were left with of last year and throughout sum­ intramurals ----=- a far less competi- mer, the friends worked on the tive level. necessary pap'erwork with the But in April, Michael, a junior, college's Department of Recre­ and three friends took dn the chal- ational Activitie's. lenge to create the South Hill's first The team then turned to the fi­ women's club soccer team. Juniors nancial aspect, a burden which fell Kyle Willets and Laina Baines, almost entirely to the captains. Play­ COURTESY OF ERIN MICHAEL both team captains with Michael, er dues, parents' donations and BECAUSE OF THE lack of a women's club soccer team at Ithaca College, four juniors decided to start along with junior and team officer fund-raisers were used make up the one. From left to right: Juniors Erin Mich~el, Kyle Willets, Laina Baine~ and team officer Sara DeCotis. __ Sara DeCotis, used their passion for rest of the team's capital. the game as the catalyst to spark in- The team was able save money "In talking to the girls, all of want to do outside of being a weekend. terest across campus. finding two volunteers to coach the them played in high school and soccer player," Baines said. . "I think that :many of the teams The members.of the quartet had team: Junior Andy Baker and Joe wanted to continue playing," In the team's first year, it fin­ expected us to be an easy win," said all been friends before the idea to Bevis, a non-Ithaca student. Baker, Baker said. "A few of them had ished the regular season 3-1-2, Michael after the tournament at start the team. They discovered .who played with som~ of the tried out for varsity and didn't with wins over Cortland, Syracuse Princeton. "But they quickly each other's drive to compete on women during co... ed intramurals, make it, but that hardly meant there and Binghamton. That success learned we were ready to play with the gym floors of the intramural said he's happy working pro-bono was a lack of talent." had the team primed for the re­ the big kids." soccer arena. for his friends. The women seemed to agree that gional playoffs at Princeton ·Playing again, let alone with the ' e started our own intramur-· The team had no trouble finding the greatest draw to the team was University Saturday and Sunday, "big kids," may have been the fur­ team," Baines said, "and just students willing· to play. With just the lower amount of stress when where they beat Harvard, tied thest thing from Michael's mind were starting to get really frustrat- · a few fliers on campus, more than compared to varsity sports. Princeton and lost to Maryland. when time ran out on her last high ed with the lack of competitiveness, 60 women came to tryouts. There, "Club is nice because it offers The team's final tournament is a school game. Michael didn't the lack of seriousness." · the team was.trimmed to the pre­ the ability, to be flexible with)'OW' lit-v.enue . "l just started talking to Kyle . sent roster of 26. schedule ...: to

BY JENNIFER BEEKMAN Ithaca capitalized on Ithaca will begin tournament er what we've been practicing Staff Writer scoring chances, an aspect of play at Elmira Wednesday. - going hard to the ball, beat­ Shorts play that was problematic in "It's a brand new season," ing defenders, showing how One of the · goals coach some mediocre performances Rathbone said. "We determine skillful we are, finishing Field hockey game moved Mindy Quigg set for her team at earlier in the season. our fate. It's do or die." , chances - we can win the the start of the season was to fin­ "There was a little pressure Rathbone said she believes tournament." The Bombers game against Elmira ish in the top four of the Empire on us," said sophomore Amy the team is peaking at the right , If the Bombers get past the · was rescheduled to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday 8 confer- Pare, who scored a goal time and coming together more first round, they will most likely 'night and moved to Cornell. The game start­ ence. With Wednesday. "We knew we had as a unit. meet up with Nazareth, the team ed _too late for this iss~e. The results will omen's soccer its 5-0 to bring things together, and we "We're putting away oppor- that ended Ithaca's season last be in the Bomber Roundup next issue. domina- finished with a good victory." tunities," Rathbone said. year in penalty kicks. tion of St. John Fisher Senior Becca Berry scored "We're going hard to 1:)alls." Pare said that knowing a Jug tickets on sale Friday Wednesday, Ithaca did just that. · twice to put her one goal and · Rathbone said that with the rematcb with the Golden Flyers With the win,- the Bombers three points away from becom­ way the team has been playing, will ·be lurking will provide Advance-sale tickets for the Cortaca Jug finished ' third in the Empire 8 ing Ithaca's all-time leader in she is confident Ithaca can win incentive for the Bombers to get football game will go on sale Friday at to gain entry into the confer­ both categories. the conference tournament. past Elmira. noon. ence tournament, where they Senior Dawn Rathbone and Elmira, the No. 2 seed and Rathbone said that victories Ithaca College students do not have to will play for a bid to the NCAA freshman Shelly Moerschell Ithaca's first adversary, tied over William Smith and, most purchase tickets to the game, but f!ley must playoffs. also scored. the Bombers 1-1 earlier in the recently, 10th-ranked Oneonta; bring their student IDs to the gate. season. _ demonstrates that the Bombers Tickets cost $4 for adults and $2 for non­ "They' re going to see some­ can compete with any team in Ithaca ·college students, children under 12 thing different," Rathbone said. the region. and senior citizens. They can be purchased ·"We're a completely different That mentality will be at the ticket sales counter~ which is locat­ team." • essential when the the Blue ed at the reGreation center in the Campus "We played [Elmira] before and Gold step onto the field _Center, and at Cortland's Corey Union. we were scoring a lot and Wednesday to begin their Fans are strongly encouraged to pur­ putting everything together," quest for a spot .in the NCAA . chase tickets ahead of time, though a·lim­ Pare said. "If we bring togeth- ' tournament. ited amount will be available at the game on Nov. 15. · WOMEN'S SOCCER

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. . . - . ... ' . . .·. _.' Ithaca goals-assists: Becca Berry i:.o; .~awo.J=\~th!;)c:m~rJ:·2-; ·- c·om1 •n·g ,.. -, Amy Pare 1-0, Shelly MoerscheU_HJ, ,JaelyrH3risson:0~1, : . . Ashley .Williatns 11:0;,'., ,: :,: ,,·,:;,,. ··, · . ,1 ~1 ., , , ·, , •. : : ·':,.· St. John ·Fisher g-a: none ; .,-._-. :-,,r :~, ., ::·:- 1. ·, Z< , ;, 1r :, '.'!' Shots: Ithaca 43, Nov.13 . SALLY EKUS/THE ITHACAN St. John Fisher 2. SOPHOMORE AMY PARE, left, holds off St. John Fisher defender Saves: Kurstin Meehan (I) 1, Jacquelyn Gilmore (SJF) ·14. Rachel Johnson in the Bombers 5-0 victory Wednesday. 26 THE ITHACAN SPORTS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2003 Senior swimmers lead Bombers toward states BY ALEX DE LOS Rios· "wait til next year" for quite a while. Contributing Writer Miller said she believes her cap­ tains, seniors Hughes, Shorette, It's been more than three years Emily_·Evans and Andrea Farwell, since the Bombers have lost a regu­ will provide the leadership and lar season meet, and they have no commitment that will bring the plans to start now. Eleven seniors team together. return to a program that has won the Farwell and Evans explained the ·1ast three Empire 8 and New York seniors' role in keeping the team state championships. focused lies in knowing that hard "I feel confident about the sea­ work got them where they are today. son, but I can't· make any predic­ "It's hard not to get over-confi­ tions," coach dent," Farwell said. "But more than Paula Miller anything, our success keeps us said. "The Women's focused." last thing I swimming and Miller echoed these sentiments. want to do is diving "I remember a couple of years set high ago when we were really good, but expectations we let the success get to us," Miller and hav.e the team freeze up." said. "We ended up folding when The Bombers, short of a team­ one team competed with us, and we wide collapse, look like they're ended up losing the meet." ready to' chase another state title Coach Miller said to the keys and ·improve on their 11th-place to avoiding a breakdown during REBECCA GARDNER/THE ITHACAN finish at nationals. the season the ·will be communi­ A SWIMMER LAST YEAR, sophomore Ron Furstoss will compete on the diving board this year. Of the five players sent to nation­ cation and preparation. als last year, four are returning. -. "As coaches, we need to think Among those are All-American hard about the lineup," Miller said. senior captains Megan Hughes and "It's like a chess game. Where we Kristen Shorette, who have won place certain swimmers can--deter­ Falling back into form consecutive Empire 8 titles in the mine the outcomes of close meets." 100-meterfreestyle and three-meter Farwell said that it is the dedica­ BY CHRIS COLLELUORI Ithaca's points las! season. The Bombers are loaded with diving events, respectively. tion her coaches have for the team Staff Writer But with all the extra bodies, potential, but questions still Hughes also set 100-meter that pushes her to do well. · ~ luxury that they linger on the diving boards. -freestyle and ·200 individual med­ "[Coach Miller] puts in so much The Bombers are swimming in lacked last · ility. The Senior Mike Furstoss per- ley records last year. If that wasn't time-and effort to this team," said the deep end this year. At least, as Bombers will be able ·- formed well last year, but a back enough, the Bombers' key relay Farwell. "It makes me feel that if I far as their roster is concerned. ment in different positions an · · lagued him and even pre- team of seniors Hughes, Sarah don't put in the same effort, I'd be The team, which had just 19 try to improve in a variety of ven · om participating in Bond, Katie Centrella, and letting her down." swimmers last season, gained nine strokes. the state he can stay Michelle Yellin, the same relay It's this attitude that the 11 freshmen------"We won't have to worry about healthy, the Bom ould be team that set the 800-meter seniors want to pass down to the this year keeping people in certain events," springing toward this freestyle relay school record two underclassmen. Just because this and only Men's senior Sasha Kuznezov said. season. swimming and years ago, is also back intact. team has gone undefeated for three lost two "We'll have the liberty of "Potentially he's as good as diving ! "To me, .this is our most chal­ seasons, it doesn't mean that wins members, changing up our lineup, and any diver in our conference," lenging year," said Hughes. "Not are handed to them. MikeThurk, putting people in events that they Markwardt said. "And he has th\t· only is this our last year, but we all The Bombers will haye to get a breaststroker, and Devin Fay, a wouldn't usually swim in. It ability to make nationals." . want to go out on top, so there is a lot along . jimiel Mcpai diver,. to. . : . 'FIie _ · · flares up, the of added pressure." Lineban who- decided to leave the Bombers have a versatile lineup - With eight ·seniors on the team, results could be devastating Although Miller knows the team this year to study abroad. that could help them to a state title that confidence is soaring. Coach because Furstoss is the only expe­ strengths of her returners, she has Miller plans to replace Linehan after last year ended their two- Kevin Markwardt said it's "like rienced diver on the team. A ~ no idea what other teams have. by shuffling the lineup depending year reign. having dght captains" who can Joining Furstoss on the boards Other conference teams that have on what team the Bombers are fac­ "It's going to be hard, but I def- provide tremendous leadership. will be two diving rookies. ! ' a .I challenged the Bombers in the past ing and how swimmers are doing initely think we have a legitimate Senior tri-captain · Sean Furstoss' younger brother Ro I individually. shot at bringing the title back," Kavanaugh is optimistic that the sophomore, swam last year, but has t like Geneseo and Hartwick show no signs of letting up. When asked about what would junior· Steve Barnes said. "We're combination of youth and expe­ decided to focus on div.ing this sea­ "As the defending conference make a successful season, Hughes really strong in all our events. We rience can help the team return son. Freshman Chris Wyland will champs, we have a bull's-eye on our thought long and hard. have a lot of depth that we didn't' to its undefeated form of two also be on the board this winter. backs," Miller said. "Everyone is "If I had a good time," she final­ have last year." years ago. With both veterans and rookies r going to try their hardest against us." ly answered. "If I put in 100 percent However, numbers can be "We're really excited about on the roster, Ithaca should be the Aside from the state of the and ifl was there for my teammates, deceiving. what [the :(reshmeri) can con­ team to beat at the state meet. · Empire 8, the Blue and Gold must I'll go out happy, no matter our Though the Bombers lost two tribute," Kavanaugh said. "And The Blue and Gold will take place their season on the shoulders record. I mean, nobody's perfect." and added nine, Fay and Thurk everyone else on the team is one their first strokes toward that title of the seniors who haven't had to Or are they? combined for almost one-third of year older and one year better." Saturday, Nov. 1 at Rensselaer.

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South Hill squad with a 10th-place finish in Bomber 18:45, her highest placing so far this year. Women's soccer Roundup Saturday The Bombers spoiled Oneonta's unde­ feated season by upending the tenth-ranked Men's cross country Red Dragons 2-1 at Oneonta on Saturday. Friday The win was Ithaca's second straight up­ set over the Red Dragons and was just the Five Bombers competed at the Reif second home loss for Oneonta in five years. Memorial at Comell. The Bombers (8-5-3) went ahead 1-0 less The top two finishers for the South Hill than five minutes into the game, when junior squad were freshman Steve Mulhern, who Danielle Austin scored her second goal of the finished 31st with a time of 29:32 and fresh­ season. Oneonta leveled the contest at 1-1 man Steve Desmond, who finished 33rd with shortly after. . a time of 30:23. · Junior Christine Dorney scored the winning goal in the 52nd minute of play off an assist Saturday from senior Tara Repsher. Sophomore goalie Kurstin Meehan tallied two saves in the win. The Bombers finished second of nine teams at the Saratoga Cross Country In vita- · Volleyball tional at Rensselaer. Three Bombers finished in the top 10. Se­ Saturday nior Mike Styczynski continued his streak of. strong performances, winning the race in a Ithaca split four matches in the Empire 8 time of 25 minutes, 29 seconds. Crossover Tournament in Rochester. Junior Shawn Calabrese finished in fourth . Ithaca swept Alfred (30-14, 30-13, 30-16) place in 26:13. Junior Darren Zens came in in the morning match. Junior Julia Roth post­ eighth with a time of 26:27. ed 11 kills and added 10 service aces, five of which were consecutive. Junior Jen Women's cross country Cramer added 11 digs. In the afternoon match, the Blue and Gold Friday edged Nazareth 3-2 (30-27, 30-28, 19-30, 20- Seven Bombers competed at the Reif 30, 15-11). Memorial at Cornell. Sophomore .Sarah Deane led the Ithaca Sunday runners, finishing 21st in 22:03. RIT beat Ithaca 3-2 (33-31, 30-32, 30- Saturday 25, 22-30, 15-12). Roth and Hammond led the team with 20 and 19 kills, respective­ The 16th-ranked Bombers placed first of ly. Sophomore Andrea Blitz had nine total 11 teams at the Saratoga Cross Country In­ blocks and senior Courtney Mc Vicker vitational at Rensselaer. added seven. Seni Amanda Laytham led the St. John Fisher swept the Bombers 3-0 (30- Bo rs with a second-place finish in 24, 30-19, 30-26) in the final match. Roth led :06, followed ten seconds later by junior the team with 13 kills and sophomore Kaye • REBECCA GARDNER/THE ITHACAN Bridgette Pilling who finished fifth. Haverstock led the defense with 15 digs. SOPHOMORE STEPHANIE KNABE (left) and junior Julie Roth (center) block a hit by Freshman Susan Meyer further aide~ the Freshman M?n9i Morningstar had 27 assists. s~nior Janet Hammond ri~h~ during_Tuesdai afternoon's ractice. ESPN ootliall correspondent advises budding journalists

BY JIM HAWVER student or professional organizations. Staff Writer ''That experience is what separates peo­ ple who get jobs in the business and people The Office of Residential Growing up on Long Island, Sal who don't," Paolantonio said: · Paolantonio was a New York Jets fan. Now, After gaining journalism· experience at · Life wants your two cents he says, he can't be.· Oneonta Paolantonio decided lo join the Paolantonio, a national correspondent U.S. Navy. He served from 1978 to 1983 (or _more) on the room for ESPN, told more than 100 stuaents and was stationed on ships in the Indian Monday that reporters need to take an objec­ Ocean. lottery process for tive view of what they are covering. Paolantonio said his time in the Navy There are plenty of sports fans, but few helped him develop an ability to judge the returning students. sports Journalists, Paolantonio said. news value of all types of information. "There are thousands and thousands of In 1983, Paolantonio left the Navy and fans' perspectives out there, but fans watch 1anded ajob at the Albany Times Union. SportsCenter to hear a different perspective," As a reporter, Paolantonio was sent to he said. "They don't want another fan's per­ cover a famine in Africa because of his spective. They experiences in Visit want another the Navy. www.ithaca.edu/reslife/lotterysurvey reporte.r's per­ '' .Take notes, ask - After just spective or an . questions and if your two months, today and give us your analyst's per­ his overseas spective or an mom tells you she loves reporting expert's per­ .earned him a feedback. spective. That's you, check it out. '' job at · The what we bring Philadelphia them." -SAL PAOLANTONIO Inquirer. We want to make changes for the · At ESPN, Reporter, ESPN If he hadn't Paolantonio had those ex­ Spring 2 0 0 4 Lottery and need has covered periences with professional baseball, basketball and football st~ries other than those in sports, he said he and won Emmys with SportsCenter in 1996 wouldn't have been offered the job. your feedback NOW 1 and with NFL Countdown in 1997 and 2001. "It's important that you bring a certain Paolantonio, who worked at The background of history or politics or even art Philadelphia Inquirer prior to joining ESPN or poetry or film or music or wor!d experi­ This survey will be available until in 1995, also discussed the need for young ences to whatever you are reporting on so November 7, 2003, 5 p.m. journalists to participate in student media yo_u can carry on conversations with people while in college and take advantage of trav­ you are interviewing in an intelligent way," el opportunities around the United States he said. and across the globe. There are three basic things that journal­ While a student at SUNY Oneonta, ists need to do, Paolantonio said. Paolantonio was a news, politics and "Take notes, ask questions, and if your sports writer for the school's newspaper mom tells you she loves you, check it out," and was a member of Oneonta 's radio sta­ he said. tion, WONY. The Society of Professional Journalists He said he believes that it is essential for sponsored the discussion, which was held in young journalists to be involved in the media the Clark Lounge Tuesday evening at before graduating college, whether it is with 7p.m. Making a splash THURSDAY OCTOBER 30, 2003 The men 's and women 's swimming and PAGE 28 diving teams start their seasons Saturday. Page 26

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