Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2001-02 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 11-29-2001 The thI acan, 2001-11-29 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2001-11-29" (2001). The Ithacan, 2001-02. 13. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02/13 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 2001-02 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. Vol. 69, No. 12 THURSDAY ITHACA, N. y. NOVEMBER 29, 2001 28 PAGES, FREE www.ithaca.edu/ithacan The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community • _.J. - --t"-'--- -- - - ... -:t.. ~ 7,·-· . ·- : _:_ . - . .. -- "'_-'. '""·:­ ~--~-' ;:.-.., . ' P:ar~ng deb'ate continues -· ,. -1..•' Faculty and staff propose solutions while students form own plan BY KELLI B. GRANT As the college struggles to identify the best permanent parking solution, Staff Writer several separate efforts are being made to offer new suggestions. Members of faculty and staff councils have voted to sub- As a temporary solution to the college's parking mit a proposal to the college's Parking Policy Commic- crunch, the Office of Campus Safety and the Traffic tee, a campus-wide group that will forward their rec- Bureau opened an M-lot extension, a new 213- ommendations to the President's Council. space red student lot near-Boothroyd Hall. In the proposal, vehicles with blue pennits At the same time, 71 student spaces in the 1"41111a!J.,J would not be penalized for parking in red lots when northwestern section of ~lot changed to blue there are no blue lot spaces available, Seltzer said. spaces to ~elp alleviate parJdng difficulties Tavelli and Campus Safety Director Robert for faculty and staff, Traffic -Bureau Holt, members of the Parking Policy Com- Manager Lillian Tavelli said. mittee, said the Faculty Council proposal has Sophomore Iris Karasick said the not yet been discussed. However, both said parking changes are not necessarily they would be against such a measure. beneficial for students. If approved, the proposal would not Although she avoids driving on 1 •. ..;,_ ,-;.,.--:,.,> .:.'. allow for any way to distinguish between campus until after 5 p.m .. when ::'7 _'·-'.;:"-..·:\':t~Sf professorswhoparkedinredlotsbecause more spaces are available, she said --::,; __ ,._:·,~t,,·,- there were no blue lot spaces open, and she would not park in the M-lot ex- those who did so for convenience. tension unless it was absolutely "I can't imagine how we would necessary because the lot is in such control something like that," Holt said. an inconvenient location. The addi- Junior Mike Yager and sophomore tional spaces will probably not help Laurie Reitsema, Student Government the parking problem for students, she Association representatives who are the said, especially since spots in the 0- students on the Parking Policy Com- lot that are closer to academic build- rnittee, said they are working on their ings were given to faculty and staff. ~ own plan to solve the parking prob- "I don't see myself going over [to ~ tern at Ithaca College. M-lot] ·anytime soon," Karasick ~ Yager said they have spoken to stu- said. "But I bet parking [in the 0-lot] \ ~ dent org~izations across campus is going to be like Black Friday at a (9c:i - ..p *" about potential solutions. He was not will- mall." %. e,t/j ing to reveal details, but said the proposal Many professors, especially in the (!)~ / would be presented to the full committee on School of Communications, have corn- !lb, ~~ Friday. plained of arriving to find blue lots full and open >I'~ :.+-,;,c§ "Eventually I am looking to have the SGA spaces in nearby red lots, said Faculty Council »«l>.ci ~'l>-(l endorse this proposal, but it's still in the early Chairman Stanley Seltzer, associate professor of 9-s-,. · :('~ stages," Yager said. mathematics and computer science. 'I/ o..,,. ~~~ The Parking Policy Committee has submitted several 01 0 He said faculty members need to have convenient and to fa ~t'P-~~ recommendations to President's Council, including prohibiting available spaces so they can arrive to classes on time. CfJ/tJ, and staff k" from stude-o\ 9 or restricting freshman drivers, significantly raising the parking fees Tavelli said the Traffic Bureau is judging the effectiveness of the par mg above $40 a year and obtaining reduced-fare bus passes for students. temporary lots and is monitoring space availability by noting when and where there The President's Council will be discussing the options and making some final dec1- are empty spaces. sions regarding the recommendations by the end of the semester. SPRINKLER SWITCH Hiring policy stable despite recession BY MIKE HENRY Human Resources Director Martha Turn­ Staff Writer bull said. "The state budget has a larger impact on Cries of an economic recession loom large Cornell than on Ithaca College," she said. in the minds of many university policy-mak­ "We will be monitoring the economy very ers as they discuss how to balance their next closely, but we don't anticipate [the reces­ budgets. But for Ithaca College's human re­ sion] having an immediate effect on us." sources department, it's business as usual. Student cost of attendance accounts for Cornell University's president recently roughly 90 percent of capital for Ithaca Col­ issued a hiring freeze on non-student, non­ lege's $125 million budget, said Thomas academic positions, due in part to antici­ Salm, vice president of business and ad­ pated state budget cuts following the ministrative affairs. By comparison, the col­ Sept. 11 tragedy. lege receives only $700,000 in direct aid from State support for colleges and universities the state for tuition assistance programs. is expected to diminish as tax revenues drop That figure does not include millions of and more money is diverted to security and dollars in state and federal grants that goes development efforts. Though most of Cor­ directly to students. But so far, the financial nell is privately funded, four of the univer­ crunch in the state and across the country has sity's 13 schools receive direct funding from not had an earth-shattering effect on the col­ KRISTIN SAMPIERE/THE ITHACAN New York state. lege's budget plan, Salm said. JOSH . MCMAHON, an employee of Tyco Fire Products and Field Service, For Ithaca College, a private institution", He said the college's spending policy an­ replaces sprlnklers Tuesday afternoon In a first-floor room of Terrace 3. Workers the current economic situation is not as dire. ticipates fluctuations in the economy and the are replacing 2,500 sprinklers In Terraces 1 through 5, the Towers, Center for Administrators decided after careful stock market. He added that the board of Natural Sciences and Wllllams Hall as part of a recall. See story, Page 5. consideration that there was no need to take trustees has diversified its investments to en- immediate action regarding personnel, See CONSERVATIVE, Page 2 INSIDE ACCENT ••• 13 CLASSIFIED ••• 21 COMICS ••• 20 OPINION ••• 10 SPORTS ••• 23 2 THE ITHACAN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER. 29, 2001 National -and International News The recession, the 10th since World War II, appears to ANOTHER VICTORY be relatively shallow. Analysts expect the unemployment rate to reach 6 percent to 6.5 percent next year, less than the 7.8 percent peak in the last recession in 1990-91. The unemployment rate hit 10.8 percent at the end of the more serious 1981-82 recession. Many analysts expect the current recession to end next spring, making its duration close to the I I-month average for recessions since World War IL Tourists visit World Trade Center site . New York City's newest tourist attraction is.not a sports stadium or an art museum. · It is a demolition site and a graveyard, the remains of the World Trade Center - a smoldering, dusty monument to terrorist destruction. To thousands of Americans, visiting the site of the for­ mer Twin Towers has become a pilgrimage as they find themselves drawn to Ground Zero. While some vendors in the area try to cash in on the tragedy - selling Twin Towers photos, patriotic pins and FDNY and NYPD T-shirts - most visitors go directly to barricades along Broadway to snap pictures of the wreckage. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who once ordered arrests of people taking pictures in restricted areas, has now an­ nounced plans for a public viewing platform to accom­ modate holiday visitors. "People have a very legitimate and honest interest in CHERYL DIAZ MEYER/DALLAS MORNING NEWS wanting to be able to see it," Giuliani recently told reporters. TANKER ABDULWALI, 22, cheers as his fellow fighters from the Northern Alliance prepare to take the Afghan cities of Khanabad and Konduz Sunday. Both cities were captured by_ evening. Postal Service seeks funding for safety The Postal Service wants at least $3 billion or more to Proposed law could limit student visas Kennedy, D-Mass., both have proposed legislation to more sanitize America's mail and assure that future terrorists can't tightly regulate student visas as well as reporting on for­ use it to spread fear and death. A Republican lawmaker said Tuesday he will introduce eign students studying here. The problem is the Postal Service hasn't really explained a bill requiring California colleges and universities to how it would decontaminate mail, how soon it could be promptly report to the INS on international students who Officials confirm economic recession done, what it would ultimately cost, which of the Postal are accepted but do not show up for school.