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Volume 71, Number 17 Ithaca, N.Y. Thursday, February 5, 2004 H&S changes requ1reinents• •
BY DANIEL PRINCE category. In the new system, a Staff Writer total of 12 credits from catego ry 1 will satisfy the requirement. Revisions to the General Ed According to the H&S Cur ucation program in the School of riculum Committee proposal, Humanities and Sciences "The present system asks should make it easier for students faculty to distinguish between to fulfill the requirements be a class that deals with the effect ginning next fall. of the self on society and a class The new policy will consoli that deals with the effect of so date one category of courses and ciety on the self ... We found it make it easier for faculty to des best to combine these two ignate courses to meet the gen categories." eral education requirements. The revisions are the result of Also, under the new policy, Ad three years' work by H&S fac vanced Placement credits may ulty, many of whom have been count for up to two general ed as exasperated with the rigidity ucation classes, or six credits. of the requirements as students The alterations would apply have. all current and future H&S stu According to the proposal, dents, said David Garcia, asso many faculty members, particu ciate dean of the School of Hu larly in math and science depart manities and Sciences. ments, felt that current restrictions "No student would be disad penalize students with AP credits vantaged by going to the new re for their achievements. quirements," he added. Jodi Cohen, professor of The number of required speech communication, served PHOTO COURTESY OF C. HADLEY SMITH PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION, ITHACA COLLEGE ARCHIVES credits from each category will as chair of the Task Force to As- FORMER ITHACA COLLEGE PRESIDENT HOWARD OIL HAM and his wife, oro y, e a ri ~oaa campus on a IIQ1fmobile. Dillingham wved aa pruldllnt 1917 IO 1970. TIie phalD "~-~Nl,QJl;Jl~-~~--~currently deSi~lted in a category -.*•"""--IWibegan work in ...2001. - After...... two...... , of hundreds talcen by C. Hadley Smith, which are now part of the llbrary's archives. will remain where they are, years, revisions proposed by the with one exception. H&S Curriculum Committee The Self (la) and Society were approved by the Academ ( 1b) class designations will ic Policy Committee last A lifetime of. images combine into a single category, December. Self and Society. Currently Next year's course catalog al students must take courses ready reflects the changes, Gar Long-time college photographer leaves legacy amounting to three credits of 1a, cia said. six credits of 1 b and three ad BY LISSA TWICHELL "He worked seven days a week was really able to document the ditional credits from either See GEN EDS, page 4 Staff Writer almost the entire time I was grow growth of the college," he said. ing up," Smith recalls. "It was hard Before he passed away, Smith When photographer C. Hadley work, but he certainly enjoyed it." arranged to leave all of the photos Smith passed away Jan. 5 at the age After Smith moved to Ithaca in of the college to the institution. Be of 93, he left a treasury of images 1947, he spent his time working as tween 25,000 and 100,000 negatives, to those who knew him personal a professional freelance photogra which span a quarter century, are cur ly and even those who didn't. pher in the area. Two years later, he rently being filed in the college's Smith was a photographer at the began to take on a wide variety of archives. Approximately 500 of college from the late 1940s to the work for Ithaca College. In his roll those images can be found in a pub 1980s. As part of his work during as a public relations photographer, lic database on the library's Web site. that time, he documented the col he covered everything from week "It would be hard to see any as lege's move to South Hill. end sports events to academic cer pect of college life at that point that His son, Hadley "Scott" emonies. His record of the college's he wasn't aware of and pho Smith, is an assistant professor in move to the current campus on South tographing," his son said. the college's Department of Writ Hill in the 1950s and 60s are espe ing and an Ithaca native. He re cially memorable. See a photo spread and reflection members his father's work well. "In his work with the college, he. of Smiths work on page 19. Rape reported in Terrace
BY KATIE MASLANKA an attempt to exit the building. Resident Assistants in Terrace 11 Assistant News Editor After follow-up interviews on have been informed of the incident Jan. 28 and Feb. 2, the student re and are trained to respond to such re- • A female student reported being ported that the man raped her in the ports, said Bob Holt, director of pub raped in the stairwell of Terrace 11 stairwell after he blocked her path. lic safety. on Dec. 12, according to an alert re The suspect was described as a "Unfortunately situations like leased by the Office of Public white college-age male, with a large this do occur, and we try to respond Safety. build, short dark hair and a goatee. as best as we can," he said. The alert was issued after a fol He was wearing jeans and a light-col Holt said a rape aggression de low-up interview with the student. ored sweatshirt. fense program on campus is being When the incident was originally re Dave Maley, director of media re planned. A date for the program will ported, the student said she was walk lations, said since the incident occurred be decided in the near future. REBECCA GARDNER/fHE ITHACAN ing down the stairs when a male on on the last day of classes, before win Students with any information JIM UTZ, assistant professor of theater arts, lectures his the first-floor landing attempted to ter break, the follow-up interview about the reported rape should con Introduction to Theatre class in Hoerner Theatre Tuesday. The block her from walking past. She then could not take place until the student tact the Office of Public Safety at large lecture class fulfills the General Education requirement struck the male and ran past him in returned for the spring semester. 274-3333. for human expression, visual and performing arts. I 2 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2004 N·ation & World Kerry wins five states in primary DEADLY DISEASE Sen. John F. Kerry cemented his position as the Democratic front-runner by rolling to vic tories Tuesday in Missouri, Arizona and three other states, winning the bulk of delegates in the biggest day of presidential balloting so far. · Sen. John Edwards captured South Caroli na, keeping his White House hopes alive, and. retired Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark eked out NEWS BRIEFS AND LOCAL EVENTS a win in Oklahoma to sustain his struggling The Vote 2004 campaign. · Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the De . THE CANDIDATES ON TAXES: mocrat's vice presidential nominee in 2000, quit In 2003, President Bush passed the race after going O for 9 in the primary sea a 10-year, $1.35 trillion tax plan son and ,finishing far behind in all seven states that gave cuts to all income levels, voting Tuesday. but nearly all the candidates seek Though Kerry fell short of the sweep he 'had . ing the Democratic nomination hoped for, the result of Tuesday's balloting was have promised to repeal at least to boost his already strong momentum and sig part of the tax cuts. nificantly increase his count of delegates to the Gen. Wesley Clark · would Democratic nominating convention this summer. repeal the cuts aimed at the high est income levels. His plan Ricin found on Capitol Hill includes tax cuts for families with A powdery substance suspected to be the poi children making $100,000 or less, son ricin was discovered Monday in a Capitol Hill and making families of four whose mailroom near the office of Senate Majority Leader income is less than $50,000 Bill Frist, raising new fears of bioterrorism. exempt from federal income taxes. · Several tests found the white powder to be Gov. Howard Dean would roll ricin, a potentially deadly toxin derived from cas back all of the cuts in Bush's tax tor beans, and additional tests were being con-· plan and reroute the money to ducted. The sight of workers in hazmat suits seal health care, education, national ing off a Senate office building brought back security and other uses. memories of the anthrax-laced letter.sent to then Sen. John Edwards would Senate Majority 'Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., take away the tax cuts for the rich 'in October 2001. · . _ ~ . . RICK LOOMIS/LOS ANGELES TIMES est and give a 1O percent tax cut to At a late night Capitol Hill news conference, NEWLY BUILT COFFINS awaH use In Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. More than 100 businesses that manufacture their Frist, R-Tenn., said the incident Was being in- Haitians die of AIDS dally, according to the A~y for Educational Development. products domestically. He has also vestigated as a crime. · promised a $5,000 tax credit for Frist sought to reassure Capitol Hill staffers missed critical'weapons developments· in each swered: Was the country's powerful militaryfo first-time homebuyers. that all precautions were being taken. country. Administration officials have found volved in selling the nation's nuclear secrets? Sen. John Kerry's plan themselves surprised at recent disclosures U.S. officials, nuclear experts and a former includes the repeal of the tax cuts Bush creates intelligence probe about nuclear weapons programs in Iran, . prime minister of Pakistan expressecfdoubts for the highe~t income levels, but The commission that President Bush will ap- Libya and North Korea. And the intelligence Monday about how Khan and a handful of as he would also keep some of the point to investigate the failures of prewar in- community was caught off guard when Pakistan sociates could have circumvented the extraor cuts for peQple of middle and low telligence on Iraq will also review the CIA's mis- tested a nuclear device in 1998. dinary controls on the country's nuclear tech incomes. He would use.the mQl')8Y Jl'udgments ab.out weannns, nmoram~ in Inn 10 nology without the military's blessings . for energy and new construction .. Libya ~d.Nordt Ko~~rii~ii&Iioitr≪ ,. · ,c -· • •• > .... • products and a plan to create 3 mil said Monday. . Pakistan's admission that the father fits m1mster ore going into exil~ in the.face ·of lion jobs in 500 days. President Bush said the nine-member panel atomic bomb orchestrated illegal sales of nuclear corruption· charges, said she doubted 'tffan he Rep. Dennis Kuclnlch would - which White House officials said would in- weapons technology to three countries came in transfers could have-taken place without the keep the tax cuts intact for children, elude current and former officials with experi- response to intense pressure from the United knowledge of senior military officials. married couples and people of low ence in intelligence matters - will "look at our ' States and the Uluted Nations. ' . ~It is difficult tQ accept that the scientists income, but he would repeal the tax war against proliferation and weapons of mass After years of official denial. the Pakistanis could have violated government policy o~ their cuts for the richest Americans. destruction, kind of in a broader context." said Abdul Qadeer Khan, a revered 66-year-old own," she said. "Those who violated ~poli Rev. Al Sharpton would roll Although the secret weapons programs of scientist, and his associates spread the designs cy are now hiding behind the scientists.•• . back all of Bush's tax cuts and Iraq, Iran, Libya, North Korea and Pakistan have and technology to produce fuel for nuclear spend the money on a job creation long been a top concern of U.S. national secu- weapons to Iran, North Korea and Libya. Source: L.A. Times and the Washington Post plan that would focus on national rity officials, the intelligence agencies have But the government left a central question unan- news service. security and transportation sys tems. College & City Compiled by managing editor Caitlin Connelly. Memorial service for senior reer Advisers, who assist other students on a The group competed against teams from the scheduled for Wednesday night range of career issues ¥}d also contribute to ma State University of New York at Oswego, Corrections jor office programs and events. LeMoyne College and St. John Fisher College. A memorial service for senior Erika Watson · Applications and infonnation sheets are now The eight team members competed in ~ During a trip to Israel over winter will take place on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the available in Career Services in 1101 Gannett Jeopardy-style competition with an account break, a group of Ithaca College Muller Chapel. Center, o·r can be downloaded from the Career ing · theme. Two team members also gave students visited Mount Scopus in Watson died on 1an. 17 when her car·slid on Services Web site at www.ithaca.edu/careers. presentations. Jerusalem as well as nearby Mt. icy pavement on Route 13 and was hit by an on The deadline to apply is Friday, Feb. 13 at 5 p.m. Team members include senior Kristen Herzl. Theylraveled to Israel on . coming truck in the opposing lane. For more infonnation, contact Tracey Cross Boentgen, juniors Candee Boudalcian, Ru Hasbara fellowships. The names Stan Watson, Erika's father, encouraged at Balcer at 274-3365. Nyambuya, Cory Vernoia, James Evans, Jessi of the locations and the fellowships tendees to wear bright colo~ to the memorial ca Evans, and Chris Chudkosky, and sophomore were !llisspelled in an article. service in his daughter's memory. Thaler Concert Pianist series Mike Staub. Donations in Watson's memory can be The PowerPoint designers and presenters As of last week's publication, junior made to the Oodfellows Playhouse Youth The to bring performer St;even Hough were junior Syrena Shirley ·and sophomores Marc Israel's season record was ater, Children Circus, 128 Washington Street, Evan Gever and Tom Shea. 30-6. His career record was 79-22. Middletown, Conn., 06457. Renowned pianist Stephen Hough will give Students interested in the competition a free recital on Sunday at 3 p.m. in Ford Hall should contact the group's advisor, Patricia On page 15, freshman Kim Primary election registration in the James J. Whalen Center for Music. Libby. Cyrille was misidentified in the deadline tomorrow at 5 p.m. The concert, which is part of the annual lead photograph. Rachel S. Thaler Concert Pianist Series at Itha ICTV's Newswat.ch 16 garners Tomorrow is the last $y to register to vote in ca College, will feature works by Liszt, Hum- This information was incorrect in oollegiate ''Emmy'' award honors the Democratic presidential primacy. Citizens can mel and Chopin. · the Jan. 29 issue. register at the Tompkins County Board of Elec Hough has perfonned standard repertoire in Ithaca College television's news program, . It is The lthacan's policy to cor tions office at 128 E. Buffalo St. in Ithaca. recital and with world-ren0wned orchestras, tak Newswatch 16, was judged first place in the rect all errors of fact. Please con The primary will take place on March 2 from ing interest in unusual works by pianist-com "Newscast" category for the Academy of Tele tact Assistant News Editor Katie noon to 9 p.m. Only those voters currently reg posers of the late 19th century. vision Arts and Sciences' College Television Maslanka at 27 4-3207. .istered in the Democratic Party are eligible to vote. He has made more than 30 recordings, gar Awards . Absentee ballots for the primary are now avail nering such international honors as ·the Diapa The awards are known as the collegiate able at the Tompkins County Board.of Elections. son d'Or and the Gramophone award. His three "Emmys." Copy editors: Brad Andrews, The last day to apply by mail for an absentee latest releases are solo recital discs of works by The Academy' Foundation will host ICTV's Alicia Arnold, Clarissa ballot is Tuesday, Feb. 24. Voters can apply for Schubert, Liszt and Brahms. Fall 2003 news director John Cook, a senior, and Brundage, Deirdre Byme, an_absentee ballot in person until March 1, 2004. Team of business students wins news producer Michael Geller, a junior, for the Kaylee Collins, Liz Crowley, Applications for peer advisers awards gala on March 28 and festival screen Heather Curtis, Daniel DiSilva, "Accounting Jeopardy'' contest ing March 29 in Hollywood. Emily Keizer, Stacy Majewicz, available at Career Services They will share a prize of $2,000 plus $2,000 Emily Mitchell, Josh McCann, A team of business students won the Ac worth of Kodalc film stock. Dan Prince and Deepa Shah. The Office of Career Services is now ac- counting Jeopardy Challenge Competition host The episode that won the Emmy was taped cepting. applications for 2004-2005 P~er Ca- ·ed by Le Moyne College in Syracuse Friday. on Nov. 20. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2004 NEWS THE ITHACAN 3 Stricter noise laws proposed SGAseeks
BY WENDI DOWST more input Senior Writer Off-campus students who hold parties in ·in policies the City of Ithaca could be facing increased fines, stronger open container and· underage drinking laws, and multiple fines and tickets BY MATT HUNTLEY for incidents other than noise violations. Staff Writer The city's governance committee tabled the proposed nuisance legislation Jan. 26. The The Student Government Associ new committee will continue discussing the ation sent a proposal to college ad ordinance Feb. 23. ministrators requesting more power in Pam Mackesey, chair of the goyernance reviewing administrative decisions committee, said the proposed ordinance is that affect students. meant to address the increase in noise and Right now, SGA does not receive complaints. notices of new policies or changes in "The problem is a complete lack of regard older ones until after the fact. SGA for the fact that people are in a neighborhood," members want this process to be Mackesey said. "I just think that we need to changed so the student body's input raise the stakes here a little bit." considered before policy changes go Started with a directive from the ~ity's for .into effect. mer Neighborhood and Community Issues Senior Justin Cole and sophomore Committee last year, Assistant City Attorney Brittany Willard, two members of · Robert Sarachan used East Lansing, Mich. SGA who are· also student liaisons to (home of Micbigan State University), as a the Faculty Council, drafted a proposal model to write the nuisance legislation. that would allow SGA to have more . The proposal includes a new "aggravated of a voice in student affairs and poli noise" category that would impose harsher cy changes. penalties on incidents involving two or Issues such as recent changes to the more infractions su~h as the presence of a keg, add/drop period and the Los Angeles more than 25 guests, any underage drinking, program application fueled the desire to amplified music, a cover charge or public uri create the proposal, they said. nation. The penalty under this violation can On Jan. 30, Cole and Willard sent be up to $1,000, 15 days of imprisonment or REBECCA GARDNER/THE ITHACAN two letters titled Proposal for Full 200 hours of community service. STUDENTS GATHER at an off-campus party Saturday night on Kendall Avenue. A new Recognition of the Student Govern "The aggravated noise offense is intend ordinance could lead to tougher penalties for parties like these. ment'. s Recommendations Regarding ed to differentiate between someone making An ordinance on al~oholic beverages is and do not listen to the police or their neigh Academic Policies, to Brian McAree, noise and having a giant party," Sarachan said. also under consideration for revision. The bors," he said. Vice President of Student Affairs and "When hundreds are gathered there is a sense ·changes would allow officers to presume that Taylor said some students feel frustrated Campus Life and •Peter Bardaglio, that large parties are disturbing more people containers labeled as alcohol contain alcohol by the proposal because they think it will un provost and vice president of academ in a large way." . and underage drinkers would receive the same duly target them. ic affairs. Cole and Willard also sent If oflicen respond to the same party mul- · fines as legal drinkers, instead of the current "They' re facing these fines, and they get copies of the letter to President Peggy tiple times, they can issue a new fine every lesser penalties. upset about it," he said. ''They feel like they R. Williams. 30 minutes. The current noise ordinance . "If there are people coming from a party are being used as cash cows." "As student government being the makes no reference to multiple fines. with red cups, it gives us probable cause to Representatives of the city, the colleges and only recognized student voice on Gregory Firman, an officer in Ithaca Po approach them," Firman said. law enforcement will discuss the issue at the campus, we figured we should have a lice· ~Part!11-ent's ~eighborh<;><>licles and things that af t kins County Public Library. Mackesey said fect us," Willard said. fines would encourage people to have small "The problem is from a few houses on the ordinance could be implemented before As of Tuesday, McAree and er parties. e~ch hill that continually throw wild parties the end of this semester. Bardaglio had not yet received the pro posal, but Bardaglio said that such a proposal would raise the kind of gov ernance questions that only President Students ~emotely i_nvolved in classes Williams could address. SGA members hope to have as BY CHRISTA LOMBARDI .worked with the PRS while he was a graduate "Basically what you're doing is you're much say about student issues as the Chief Copy Editor student at Oregon State University, but the idea polling the class to find out if they understand Faculty Council does concerning for this teaching methcx:l originated long before. the concepts that are being discussed that day," faculty issues. Sixty-six eager fingers simultaneously "What really started this was probably said Dan Briotta, chairman and associate pro According to Article II, Section 1 press buttons on small, handheld devices. The about 10 years ago, an instructor at Harvard fessor of physics. of the Faculty Council constitution, the crowd stirs as squares on a large screen light came up with what he calls peer instruction," . He also said the system serves as a spring- Faculty Council makes recommenda up and a histogram displays the percentage of Rogers said. '-'This is a way of finding out what board for getting the class involved. tions for the college faculty on all col people who responded to a question correctly. students are thinking in a large lecture." "It allows you to do a more Socratic form lege policies. The college cannot At first glance, this may appear to be a Students-rent the remote-control-like PRS of teaching," he said, "where you ask ques make changes to these policies with group of contestants on a typical game show: mechanisms for $10 per semester. Professors tions and let students figure out the an out recommendations from tne Faculty But this is no television studio - this is generate a class file on a computer by pairing swers." Council. physics class. the serial code from each device with the stu Rogers said using the responses from the "In the past we had always assumed Luke Keller, assjstant professor of dents' names. During class, a multiple-choice PRS units helps him to focus on areas where that when students were elected by physics, is one of a handful of instructors at question is posted on a projection screen. the class is having difficulty and makes it pos Congress or chosen by the executive Ithaca College to experiment with a new style Students respond by pushing buttons la sible for him to adapt instruction to a specific board to attend Faculty Council, that of teaching that utilizes the Personal Response beled from one to nine, and receivers placed group of students. · we would be going there as a voting System. around the classroom register the answers. · Freshman Christine Gregory said after us- . member of the Faculty Council," Michael "Bodhi" R9gers, assistant profes A histogram shows how many people vot ing the_PRS devices for the first time, she did- Cole said. "What we found out was sor of physics, said some schools have been us ed for each ans·wer without disclosing . n 't think the process was too complicated. She that we actually hadn't. We were just ing similar units for years. He said he first individuals' names. also agreed it provided a good opportunity for representatives. We actually had no everyone to participate. votes. This is something that hadn't "I think it's a good idea because you can changed, it had always been that way, actually put what you think the answer is with but we didn't know about that." out anyone knowing, and I think more peo Should the proposal pass suc ple will be willing. to put their honest opin cessfully, SGA would start looking ion," Gregory said. at how they would have to change in Senior Bernadette Johnston said the sys order to handle the new responsibil tem makes it possible for the professor to mark ities, Cqle said. students' progress in her Stars, Galaxies and Any policy affecting students the Universe class. would be.presented to the current stu "It's cool," Johnston added. "It makes class dent body president, delegated to a a little more interactive, especially when · committee, assigned a response by the you're in a big lecture hall." committee and voted on by Congress, Rogers said he thinks classes outside of the he said. sciences could also benefit from this type of "We want to be notified of any instruction. changes or any policies that are going "It just depends on whether the different to be changed and to give our opinion departments and the different instructors think or recoJll!11endation on the policy to be that it can support their teaching and the stu heard by administration," Willard MEGHAN MAZELLA/THE ITHACAN dent learning and their department and their said. ''They don't have to listen to it. We SENIOR ELENA DE QUESADA, junior Natalie Burek and sophomore Michael Stark use class," he said. "The big thing is you have to want them to read it and hear what we remote control-like Personal Response System devices to answer a question for a be creative about your teaching, and you have have to say. We just want to be heard reading quiz In their therl)lodynamlcs class Wednesday mornlnQ. to chanize the wav vou te-.:ir.h ." !lnrl h~,,~ C'nmo "".,. ,.,.,.f u::""';,...4 ,~ ------,------
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I lllbre flexibility 'L . ' calls for diversity of ideas.·· Continued from page 1 BY MEGAN REYNOLDS Senior Michelle Meredith, ICR Creating an environment that supports Cohen also helped draft the present General Staff Writer member and former chairwoman, said she intellectual diversity, ICR said, will chal Education program, which has been in place believes there is not enough intellectual lenge-"widespread apathy among Ithaca since fall 1994. Under the current General Ed The Ithaca College Republicans have diversity on campus. College students," which is reflective of ucation mission, classes must emphasize '-human issued a report on the subject of intellec _"There's a real lack of intellectual di larger trends across the country. communities" and. "make connections" be tual diversity on campus at the same time versity here," said Meredith. "I think if the "ICR argues that a true commitment to tween other subject areas. The communities that the newly created Presidential Di college embraced intellectual diversity be intellectual diversity will inform more stu theme was meant to tie the General Education versity Task Force begins efforts to assess ing important to the college, there would dents of their stake in the political program together, Cohen said. the college's diversity goals, be more balance and more in process, thus _prompting "A lot of professors were unhappy with Gen. Ithaca College has defined its diversi tellectual discussions." greater efficacy," the report Ed.," Cohen said. "Particularly the science and ty efforts in its.Institutional Plan "with re Diversity task force co stated. math faculty had a hard time with it. Some knowl gards to age, race, gender, ethnicity, sex chair Brian McAree; vice· "Ithaca College offers cours edge is valuable independent of the human com ual orientation, physical ability and reli president of student affairs es in Marxism, femin_ism and munity, was their argument." gious beliefs. ." and campus life; said the In racial studies, but no equivalent Most significant for faculty, the revisions will In her five year report issued in 2002, · stitutional Plan has estab · in·other· ideologies," the report expand the possibilities of courses that can be President Peggy R. Williams described the lished diversity as a priority stated. designated in the General Education cate difficulties the college faces in attracting for the college, and believes "Students would always gories. Courses will·no longer require interdis un~errepresented groups,"The slight that this task force is an im- have the opportunity to analyze ciplinary content, nor must they focus on "hu · progress we have made in the past few -portant step to further the and evaluate a wide variety of man communities." years, despite the investment of substan campus' diversity goals. perspectives," lhe report said. Clearer guidelines will streamline the desig- CUSTER tial resources, time and goodwill, "It's a time for us to take "The ultimate goal should be to nation process, Garcia said. ' demonstrates the difficulty we face." a look at what kind of allow students the knowledge Sophomore politics major Brittany Willard, The Presidential Diversity Task progress we made_in that priority area and freedom they need to criticize their who represents H&S students in the Student Gov Force will examine these difficulties. ... we will evaluate what we are doing own perspectives while learning about ernment Association, sees the changes as a good ICR 's report, titled ''.The Case for In well and should continue to do," said others." thing. . . . tellectual Diversity at Ithaca College," McAree. "We will also take a look at McAree said he believes Ithaca Col "Allowing AP credits wil~ alleviate some stu was begun last semester, before the what we' re not touching on and make lege "is an institution that values differ dents' stress about fulfilling their Gen. Eds.," she formation of the task force. It asks the col some recommendation on what we ence in ideologically diverse view said. lege to include intellectual diversity in the should do next." points." But ICR members encouraged the While the revision removes the interdiscipli Institutional Plan, add coursework in con Taking steps in supporting intellectu college _to do more. · nary requirements from General Education servatism and diverse comparative ide al diversity on campus, ICR said, would "Ithaca College could place itself at the class, faculty members emphasized that the new ologies, establish . school-sponsored benefit students in numerous ways. forefront of · educational institutions," requirements fit within the college's interdisci speaking events that are intellectually di "The task force is an important part of the · report . said, · by . implementing plinary ·priorities in the Institutional Plan. verse, and establish a "center for the study the evaluation of the diversity on campus," ·changes to counter the current stereotypes Garcia called the present changes a mid-point of intellectual div.ersity." said ICR chairman senior Roger Custer. of conservative and other intellectually di ' in the ongoing campus discussion about General According to the ICR report the study "[This report] goes well hand-in-hand with verse thought. Education. aims to "reveal that Ithaca College's com the task force." ICR has sent copies to President Peggy Cohen agreed. Other committees are looking mitment to diversity does not include in- · Intellectual diversity enables students to R. Williams, the college's vice presidents at how to integrate and clarify the program, she tellectual diversity ... and offers viable so "be free to judge each idea on its merits on and the Board of Trustees. The group also said. lutions on how to incorporate different the wake of theories and perspectives that intends to present the· plan to student or While the plans are far from final, Garcia said types of diversity in the future." cover an entire spectruin," the report said ganizations. more changes are set to occur within two years.
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BY GREGORY BEYER would like to live there·again," she said. Staff Writer Other changes will affect non-seniors who · plan to live off-c.:ampus. Students may ap- Students who live on campus opened their ply for off-campus residence either as an in mailboxes Monday to find the usual lottery dividual or as part of a group. cards, but this year students will be facing "In the cas~ of a group, we will use the some ~hanges in the process. worst lottery number of the entire group and The Office of Residential Life has re- ' that will ensure that if one of them is worked the process to allow more students I approved, then all of them will be approved," to squat their rooms and to give apartment '· Richardson said . . residents the opportunity to move around Non-seniors who want to live off campus within apartment areas. Students seeking will have to complete an online module en off-campus housing will also have a new t,itled "Living Responsibly in an Off-Cam- application process. pus Environment." There is no real reason to view these The module consists of a presentation fol- changes with any apprehension, said J~n lowed by a series of questions, and will serve Richardson, coordinator of housing services. as an informative rather than evaluative tool, They won't in any way alter the nature of she said. the selection process itself, but rather will af- "There have been cases of [community] feet certain areas that may be of great inter- frustration with students who reside off-earn est to certain students, she said. pus," said Rory Rothman, associate vice pres- In fact, the changes will make new op- ident of student affairs and campus li.fe. "We . portunities available to those who may . want students to give more thought to being wish to take advantage of them, she said. positive community members." For the first time, Garden Apartment res- Richardson said the changes are a response idents will have the opportunity to squat,· to student concerns regarding the former lot SOURCE: ITHACA COLLE~E RESIDENTIAL LIFE DESIGN BY MATT QUINTANILLAfTHE ITHACAN which means they may apply to occupy that tery system. year. She and her roommates have consid the one you want, and then you're back at same apartment next year. Last semester, a Lottery Task Force was ered squatting their curre_nt apartment as a square one." "Since the opportunity to squat is offered formed to gain feedback from students, and matter of convenience. Whatever ·students like Cleinman at the Circles, it makes sense to extend it to it was determined that many were unhappy "If you squat, you don't have to move choose to do, Richardson stressed the im the Gardens as well," said Richardson. with the lottery process. out," she said. "You can stay the whole sum portance of being aware of the new Another new development is the ''Move The Task Force yielded information mer if you want to." changes. Around" process. This applies to students al- about student priorities in terms of housing, Jn addition, she said her experience liv In order to participate in the lottery ready living in the CU'Cles or Garden apartments Richardson said. ing in the Circles has been a good one. process, students must have an advanced de who would like to do so next year. Some residence options are more covet- "They are just really nice, and a lot of off posit of $250 in to the bursar's office by Throughout this process, current Circle or ed than others, and Residential Life receives campus housing isn't as good," she said. March 15. Garden residents will be able to apply for a many more requests than can be granted, she · She said she might consider the "Move Students rriay refer to the 2004-2005 lot different apartment within their respective added. Around" process, but admitted to feeling a tery brochure or www.ithaca.edu/reslife for apartment areas. Junior Ashley Cleinman has lived in the bit uncertain. . more detailed information. "It's a way of giving priority to students · Circle Apartments since her sophomore •~ only thing is, you don't know what Richardson said students may email her at who already live withiiI a certain complex ~ year and is planning to live there again next Cirele you 're going to get. You might not~ · [email protected] with any q1181Cions.
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· The Ithaca College Alumni Association Board of Directors THE announces a new leadership opportunjty BOOKSTORE, REMINDER TO ALL STUDENTS This newly created position offers a unique opportunity for a current freshman or sophomore PLEASE PURCHASE ATJ, YOUR + Be a full voting member on the Alumni Association Board of Directors TEXTBOOK REQUIRE~NTS AS _ • The Student Director is responsible for providing the Board first-hand knowledge SOON AS POSSIBLE AS THE on student concerns and issues · . BOOKSTORE WILL BEGIN • Participate in ·board committees and serve . I as AABD liaison to the student body RETURNING TEXTBOOK The Alumni Association Board ofDirectors is an OVERSTOCK TO PUBLISHERS ON advisory body that helps develop and support programs which bring alumni closer to the FRIDAY; FEBRUARY 20, 2004~ . WE College and to each other. . WILL NOT BE ABLE TO _ Applications are available in the ·__ ·GUARANTEE AVAILABILITY Office of Alumni Relations • I • • • ,. ~ : ~ } , ' > Questions? Call 274-3194 AFfER THIS DATE. -.. ... ~· . Ask for Graha,n Stewart, Director of Alumni Relations
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' . ' ' ;' Applications will be avaifabJe at 9:00 a.m. February 2nd, 2004 at the Office of Residential Ufe. New Group Applications are due at I the Office of Residential Life by 5:00 p.m. on February 24th, 2004 (Circles), and by5:00 p.m. on March 4th, 2004 (Gardens). Awards will be posted on the Towers Concourse across from BJJs at 12:00 p~m. on March 1st, 2004 (Circles}, and at 5:00 p.m. on March 1_5th, 2004 (Gardens). . THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2004 NEWS THE ITHACAN 7
College to exrunine RINSE AND REPEAT buildings' energy use
BY DANIEL PRINCE Society secretary. helped to enact in 2001, stipulates Staff Writer The committee selected "maximiz[ing] energy efficiency in Clough, Harbour & Associates, an existing buildings." Engineers will comb the acad Albany-based engineering firm One year ago, the Ithaca Col emic quad for opportunities to re with experience in college energy lege Environmental Society duce energy use in a college "en concerns, to conduct the audit, called on the campus community ergy audit," which began Jan. 25. which will cover all the buildings to conserve energy wherever pos For the next few weeks, auditors in the Academic Quad. sible, aiming to reduce campus will observe the amount of energy New and recently renovated electricity consumption by 4 per used and peak hours of use, paying buildings such as the Fitness cent over the past year. particular attention to the Center and the Center for Health ICES hoped that if the campaign efficiency of exterior lighting and Sciences will not be part of the au saved the college $90,000 on its an heating, air conditioning and ven dit, nor will any of the residence nual electric bill, the college tilation systems. halls, Perez-Charneco ·said. would use the money to The audit should help to cut the The auditors will finish inspecting obtain energy from renewable rising costs of energy, which are the buildings within one month, and sources. passed onto students who provide the will submit a final report of the find~ The plan failed, Perez-Charneco majority of the college's operating ings by June 1, Drake said. said. "It was a project that needed budget through fees and tuition. The committee received a everyone to participate in it to make The college budgeted $4.7 mil $25,000 grant from the Office of it work, and that just didn't happen." lion for electricity and gas for this the Provost to study electricity use Darling, who is also ICES advi fiscal year, a 13 percent increase at the college, said REMP director sor, said the plan was well-re from last year and a 27 percent in Mark Darling. . ceived by some, but it generated crease from 2001-2. The New York State Energy negative feedback toward ICES. The audit is the brainchild of an Research and Development Au "It just didn't feel right to con ad hoc committee that received a thority (NYSERDA) gave a tinue [the campaign] this year," Dar grant this year to study campus matching grant of $25,000. ling said. energy use. In addition to "surveying me Junior Co-President of ICES The committee is composeQ of chanical systems," the audit will Kristina Plath said ICES has shifted Rick Couture, director of Physical take into account utility bills and focus from policy advocacy like the Plant; Bill Drake, assistant direc hourly reports, Drake said. wind power plan to education on en tor of facilities and maintenance; The audit will produce a report to vironmental issues. Beth Ellen Clark Joseph, assistant show administrators exactly which . REMP has largely taken over the professor of physics; Mark Darling, steps can be taken to reduce energy policy part of ICES' mission, she supervisor of the Resource and En use. If the college makes energy said, because ''they have more vironmental Management · Pro changes they could save a substan power'' in suggespllg changes to the gram (REMP); Bob Mudge, direc tial amount of money in subsequen administration. A.CAN JUNIOR MICHAEL SCHWARTZ his dishes Tuesday tor of purchasing; and sophomore tyears, said Perez-Charneco. _"We don't have to be working does on night In Garden Apartment 28. The·bulldlng was without water 'Andres "Garik" Perez-Chameco, The college's Comprehensive En on policy issues to be.effective," tc,r Monday and part of Tuesday due to a water 11111111 .break. Ithaca College Environmental vironmental Plan, which ICES Plath said.
Relatloftshlp lSIUU ... , . (Tuesdays 4:15-5:45prn; if there is more interest, another group con be formed) Are you ccmccrned about your ralatlonshlps with friend., partners, and fallllly? Do yo11 wut to understand your relationships ot a deeper level? Join this weekly 6-persott group for o MW intarpenonGI experience in o safe atmosphere. Group focilit~tors: Suki Montgomery, Ph.D. end Kim .Moray, Sociol Work Intern Warr.en's I.ssua Group (Thursdays 2-3:30) . Planning to take the GRE LSAT, MCAT, or GMAT exam? This group is open to women who want to Increase self-esteem and perJC)ftCII growth, and to feel Apply for a KAPLAN Scholarship empowered and to h&lp SUflP0"'1' other women In the group. This group will -♦ WMldy 'throughout flll . semestct'. Group Fq.cilitotor: Cindy Morch. MA .. boctoralPsychology Intern to help you prepare• Eating Disorder Support Srour> Applications arr aYailahk now from If you ore interested, please cell. A group time will be determined according to your schedule. This group is open to those who want to understand and begin to make changes to unhealthy eatrng SerYices pa.ttcrns. Discussion will include topics such as anxiety, health, and underlying emotions rekatcd 1o Career disordered ecrti"9 and will meet wMkiy ttNughout the 1aM1tw. \II ~·u111pktnl ;1pp!i~ :itiun iii.ii, r 1.11, 11111,1 hl Group Facilitator: Alice Meilman. MSW, Social Worker ITl'l'i, ed ll\ Tronsitions 5roup 5:00 P\1 Fl'lnuar~ U . 200 ➔ {Wednesdays from 4-5:30) This is a weekly drop-in group open to all ~ents dcsignad to meet the needs of those who *Course must be taken in Ithaca within one year of award. . experience diffkulty Gdjusti"9 to l'ICW environments. T~ we will ldenttfy ond lftinimize the . . challenges that lftQkc odjustlncnt difficult. ~Mmber. you do not. heave to work through oc:fJustme,rt Sponsored by Career Services and issues alone. Group Fac:ilitotor: LeBron Rankins, MA·. Psychologist KAPLAN Educational Centers Exprcssiw Therapy Sroup (Mondays 10-11 or l-2pm) Group members will use various crcative means to ~ ,and address their emotional conc:cms.· No ; experience necessary. . No emphasis on productlll Y'oor unique creotMty is used to facilitate the • I
process. Group discussions will explore how to qpcn one's heart to o fuller life within o supportive, •I I occepting environment. Group Facilitator: ~'.'du Brache-Tabar, MA • I I I " I Multicultural Identity Circle , . (Thursdays 4-5pm) . ' This group will .provide support ond discussion around issues of being a rociol minority ot IC. This group is a weekly drop-in support group to tQlk about th. challenges of balancing school, family, ond relationships: finding your voicc/pcf'sonol power; sexuollty/rclotfonships: nlf•esteem; ond issues of ·udicc and isolation. Grou Facilitator: Marianne Graham, MSW 8 THE ITHACAN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2004
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CONSPIRACY THEORY Congl'ess examines penalties for tuition BY SHANE DUNN leges and universities in the rate of in Staff Writer crease," he said. "For example, last year, the average [increase] was 5.9 percent while A bill currently in Congress would cut fed Ithaca was at 5.5 percent." eral financial aid to schools like Ithaca Col Sgrecci said Ithaca has been able to keep lege that dramatically increase tuition. its tuition increases below much of the com Because of large increases in college costs, petition because the college is conscious of Representative Howard P. McKeon (R-Ca.) what the cost means to students and their fam has proposed a bill as part of the reautho ilies as it plans its budget. rization of the Federal Higher Education Act A main concern of federal legislators this that .would impose federal penalties on in year is'the rising cost of college. According stitutions that continued to raise tuition by to The College Board, private institutions' · more than twice. the rate of inflation. tuition and fees averaged $1,114 more in the If the proposed reauthorization of the 2003-04 academic year ($19,720) than in the Higher Education Act passes in September, previous year ($18,596). Ithaca College may face these penalties. "This spike of 6.0 percent concerns legis Ithaca's tuition increases over the past three lators because it is twice that of the nation . academic years have been more than al inflation rate for the same period. twice the inflation rate as mea President Williams does not sured by the Consumer Price In give merit to the CPI as an accu dex (CPI). But the college's tu rate measure of tuition increases. ition increases remain lower While the CPI measures typical than the increases at other private consumer spending, the college is institutions. · not considered to be that kind of The CPI measures the average consumer Williams said. price of consumer goods and ser "The 'basket' of items that vices that a typical household pur makes up the CPI does not rep chases. resent the cost drivers in a college In 2001-2002, tuition in or university setting," she said. creased 4.75 percent, while the in "We [the college} are a labor-in SGRECCI flation rate was 1.2 percent. tensive and equipment-intensive Rates at Ithaca College increased organizational environment. 4.96 percent compared to a 2.0 percent in In addition to examining penalties, flation hike in 2002-2003, and in 2003-2004, some legislators have considered providing tuition increased _5.5 percent compared to a more financial aid to students. 2.0 percent jump in inflation. Some congr~ssional democrats · have LARRY WESTLER/THE ITHACAN President Peggy R. Williams has proposed several changes aimed at reduc ATTORNEY AND JOURNALIST WIiiiam Pepper explains his theory of govern strong objections to this bill. She express ing the costs of student borrowing, in ment conspiracy In the aasenlnatlon of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during a es her contempt in a document written and· cluding the elimination of fees students are speech In Park Audl1orium TUesday night. The event was part of the college's sent to McKeon. charged with when they take out subsidized Black History Month celebrations. "Far from making postsecondary education loans, and raising the maximum Pell more accessible to students with limited re Grant award. sources, this bill would instead serve to fur If institutional aid were to be restricted, ther limit the ability of students would be at a disadvantage and bigber- .,..... all\lie ·~ . paying tuition. ' I students," she said in the letter. "I urge you to Peter Volinsky, a freshman business ad 1 withdraw the bill and focus your effort and re ministration major stressed the hardships that sources on a collaborative strategy to would be caused by aid restrictions. address these important issues." · "If I received less aid than I do now and President Williams also stated in the let.:. tuition continued to increase, it would be ter that the complicated process of keeping extremely difficult to continue to pay for college expenditures. down to increase af college," he said. "It would be hard to find fordability "should be left to· the individual other sources to help me and my family pay institution, since we know the details of for college." where we can control costs and where we President Lyndon B. Johnson approved the need to make new expenditures." Higher Education Act in 1965. It created fed Although these numbers may seem to be . eral grant and loan programs to make col alarming statistics, Carl Sgrecci, vice pres lege accessible and affordable for low- and ident of finance and administration, sees them moderate- income students. The act must be differently. re-examined by Congress every six years, and "We have been below many other col- wa~ last reauthorized in 1998.
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Do you want to Iive Announcing·the Fall 2004 Off-Campus? Off-Campus Appl.ication Process!
Off-Campus Applications will be available at the If you do not have a s~nior lottery Residential Life Office on: number Monday, February 2, 2004, at 9:00 a.m. and you want to Completed Applications are due to the live off campus for the Residential Life Office on: 2004-2005 Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 5:00 p.m. academic year, now is the time to All completed applications must include the application, parent/ apply! guardian approval form, and confirma~ion that 'tliving Responsibly in an Off-Campus Environm.ent'' has been completed. See the application for more information.
Applications received before 5:00 p.m. February 11, will be prio~itized in lottery number order.
Applications receiv~d after-5:00 p.m. February 11, will be added to the end of the list in the order they are received. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2004 THE ITHACAN 11 Pub I ic Safety Incident Log
Jan. 19 SUMMARY: While officers were conducting a person experiencing abdominal pain and that was originally reported on Jan. 19. Unlawful possession/marijuana vehicle stop, two students were judicially shortness of breath. Ambulance transport Officer issued warnings. Inv. Thomas Dunn. LOCATION: Lyon Hall referred for possession of marijuana. Patrol ed person to CMC. Patrol Officer Richard SUMMARY: Officer reported odor of marijuana. .Officer Justin Benson. Curtiss . . Unlawful posting Two students judicially referred for posses LOCATION: West Tower sion of marijuana. Sgt. Frederick Thomas. Jan. 20 Follow-up investigation SUMMARY: Caller reported unknown per Found property LOCATION: College Circle Apartment 20 sons sliding fliers under room doors . . Criminal possession/stolen property LOCATION: Dillingham Center SUMMARY: Two students were judicially Officers warned three students. Patrol LOCATION: East Tower SUMMARY: Daily planner was found and referred for alcohol policy violation that was Officer William Kerry. SUMMARY: Caller reported discovering col turned over to Office of Public Safety. originally reported on Jan. 13. Patrol Officer lege property while conducting health and William Kerry. Medical assist safety inspection. Pending investigation. Larceny LOCATION: Fitness Center Inv. Thomas Dunn. LOCATION: Gannett Center Larceny SUMMARY: Caller requesting assistance for SUMMARY: Qaller reported theft of computer LOCATION: Terrace 7 person with ankle injury. Ambulance trans Follow-up investigation equipment. Pending investigation. Sgt. SUMMARY: Caller reported theft of property. ported student to CMC. Environmental LOCATION: Terrace 4 Steven Yaple. Pending investigation. Patrol Officer Health and Safety Officer Enoch Perkins. SUMMARY: One student judicially referred William Kerry. for posse~ion of a weapon found during a Theft of service Unlawful possession/marijuana health and safety inspection reported on LOCATION: F-lot Medical assist LOCATION: Tallcott Hall Jan. 12. Patrol Officer Terry O'Pray. SUMMARY: Parking enforcement officer LOCATION: Administrative annex building SUMMARY: Caller reported the odor of mari reported a vehicle with fraudulent permit. SUMMARY: Caller reported falling down juana. Three students judicially referred for · Medical assist The vehicle was towed and two students · stairs. Person declined medical assistance possession of marijuana and parapherna LOCATION: Terraces dining hall were judicially referred. Patrol Officer Dirk and a report was taken. Patrol Officer lia. Patrol Officer Justin Benson. SUMMARY: Caller reported student sus Hightchew. William Kerry. tained a finger injury. Offic~r transported student to the Health Center. Medical assist Follow-up investigation Jan. 23 Environmental Health and Safety Officer LOCATION: Center for Health Sciences LOCATION: Office of Public Safety Disorderly conduct Enoch Perkips. . SUMMARY: Caller reported that a person SUMMARY: One student was judicially LOCATION: Smiddy Hall had fallen and sustained a head injury. referred for alcohol policy violation which SUMMARY: Caller reported a person was Larceny · Person declined medical assistance and a was originally reported on Jan. 13 in disruptive toward office staff and made LOCATION: West Tower report was taken. Sgt. Keith Lee. College Circle Apartment 20. Patrol Officer threatening statements. One student judi SUMMARY: Caller reported theft of computer. _· William Kerry. cially referred. Sgt. Ronald Hart. . · Pending investigation. Patrol Officer Dirk Medical -1st Hig~tchew> · - : · :' · .. ., · I . ·"• ·., ~ , · ·· · LOCATION: Clark$ Hall Jan. 22 · Medical assist . r, _.;,, ,..__ · , f" -· .:v ,~ -. ~ t · ~ 11,l ~ - SUMMARY~C~r -~rled falling~ sus . Found property . LOCATION: Fit~ Center- •~~~-- ",! .. ~ I . , . . tainlng-a·knee injury. P~n declined ,:n~ .LOCATION,: Pa~ H"8 _ . . . SUMMARY: Caller reported a person with an ·,: :Li::icimoN:'Terrace 3· · ' . ' .. • .• · ical ·assistance and a report was taken. Sgt. SUMMARY: Set of keys found and turned injured ankle. Student was transported to SUM~A~y: Or1e .studer:itj~icially r~ferred fo_r Ke!th ~~e. over to Pu~lic Safety. CMC by ambulance. Fire Protection copyright violation that was originally report Specialist Doug Gordner. ed on Dec. 18. Patrol Officer Erik Merlin. Unlawful possession/marijuana Computer crimes n•IDII-MIOllll9&JlillllllNllpal1mEN'lt17 ••• 11 ·uon iifpdtld odor of.,.._._ SUMMAAv: Caller reported a computer on LOCATION: Terraces dining hall LOCATION: Main campus road One student judicially referred for possession the college network sharing copyrighted SUMMARY: Caller reported that on Jan. 20, of marijuana and fireworks. One student judi-1 material. One judicially referred. Patrol unknown persons were soliciting credit card KEY cially referred for furnishing false information. Officer William Kerry. applications. A third party was concerned Patrol Officer Richard Curtiss. ' • ibecause applicants pr.ovided personal infor ABC - Alcohol beverage control law ~ Computer crimes mation. Pending investigation. Patrol CMC - Cayuga Medical Center Jan. 21 _ LOCATION: Clarke Hall Officer Bruce Holmstock. DWI - Driving while intoxicated Conduct code vlolatton SUMMARY:. Caller reported a computer on . IFD - Ithaca Fire Department LOCATION:-Emerson Hall . 'the college network sharing copyrighted . Larceny IPD - Ithaca Police Department SUMMARY: Six students judicially r~ferred material. One judicially referred. Patrol LOCATION: Campus Center"dining hall MVA - Motor vehicle accident for noise and violation of alcohol policy. Officer William Kerry. SUMMARY: Caller reported theft of a back RA - Resident assistant Security Officer Fred Stickane. pack. Pending investigation. Patrol Officer TCSD - Tompkins Gounty Sheriff's Follow-up investigation Bruce Holmstock. Department Medical assist LOCATION: East Tower V&T - Vehicle and traffic violation LOCATION: Terrace 5 SUMMARY: Officer interviewed residents For the complete Public Safety Log, go to SUMMARY: Caller requested ambulance for regarding possession of college property www.ithaca.edu/ithacan.
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th•-load Studen_ts push themselves to diet and slim down in the new year Y MICHELl:.E THEIS New Year's resolution people," she said. tried the Atkins diet last year. He ate no car are not conducive to regular exercise. taff Writer "They're always the biggest right after break bohydrates. He said he dropped three to four "When you 're using protein and fat as until spring break, then it pretty much dies pounds each week for four months on a diet your main source, you're taking them away The weeks between Thanksgiving and New down." of pepperoni, cheese and chicken. Atkins was from what they' re supposed to be doing in your ear's Eve form the blissful time known as Potter said she's been seeing an average easier for him than other diets he'd tried be body," she said. Proteins build muscle. When 'eating season" - when students stretch their of 1,100 people per day, with a high at 1,450 cause he could eat some of the foods he loved ketosis is induced, the body loses that lean mus tomachs to squeeze in just one more of Grand since returning from break. In December, the while almost completely banning carbs. cle mass, she said. a 's cookies. From the beginning of second low was at 257 and the high at 1094 people "I'm better with absolution than moder On the other end of the spectrum from ba emester until spring break, students stretch on a weekday. ation," he said. con and eggs are diets like Special K. eir legs to squeeze into their jeans. Senior Jenny Marsella is one of them. Mosier is not alone. According to a sur Appealing to those looking to shed the Although the Fitness Center seemed a In January, she and her family made a vey conducted for the Bread Leadership pounds at the New Year, Kellogg's ouple sizes too big for the slim turnout in group resolution to coUectively lose 100 Council, 21 percent of Americans are now heavily marketed the "Special K Diet" at ecember, it.'s now stuffed with exercise pounds between her sister, brother and both following Atkins or other low-carb diets. the end of 2003. Commercialized and post ungry students. parents by year's end. Even though she only Even a simple Google search for "low carb ed on their cereal boxes, the diet tells cus Hauling portable sound systems and worked out at the Fitness Center one time last diet" brings up more than 1.5 million hits. tomers to eat one bowl of cereal for break xtra sneakers, the students gravitate to the semester, she said this new family motiva Sylvia Ardeljan, a nutrition counselor at the fast, one bowl of cereal for lunch and a sen uilding, filling aerobics classes and tion has kept her there consistently at least Fitness Center, said she has noticed this sible dinner in order to lose 2 to 3 pounds rowding cardio machines. four times per week this semester. low-carb trend among the college crowd. She per week. With the three to 10 pounds Americans "We just keep each other accountable to often runs nutrition programs for resident Sophomore Molly Riordan, who exercis ain during the winter holidays, these are, af working out and eating healthy," she said. assistants and said she almost always gets bom es at the Fitness Center every day at 7 a.m. er all, the months for the motivated and the "We email and if you lose weight, you say barded with Atkins and South Beach queries. and stays away from fast food, said the diet eason for weight loss. 'Good job! Keep it up!'" "It's definitely prevalent on campus," she was not a healthy way to lose weight. Senior Kelly Potter, building supervisor With new motivation, the ex-field hockey, said. Even though she'd never tried the Special for the Fitness Center, said trim lacrosse, basketball and softball player said Restaurants are now even starting to cater K diet, she did experiment with a lose- I 0- ming the waistline is always a it hasn't been difficult to stick to her eight to low-carb dieters. Subway, TGI Fridays and pounds-in-three-day diet in high school, and popular resolution. minute ab and 25-minute biking routine - Ruby Tuesdays have all introduced low-carb said it didn't provide the food to keep her "We always have the especially since she feels better and even officiaUy Atkins-approved menu energized. about herself. options within the last two months. "I would never be full on two bowls of "I'm proud that I'm actually Kevin Kane, Subway spokesman, said the cereal and one meal a day," she said. She was - working out and try push for low-carb diets drove Subway to in surprised anyone would. ing to be athletic troduce low-carb wraps on Dec. 29 - just o when he traveled to her hometown again," she said. two days before the New Year. Wegmans store near Buffalo on January 1 and Junior Kate "We had people coming in saying 'I'm found the entire store sold out of Martin, a nutri counting carb , what do you have?"' he said. Special K, she was stunned. tion counselor But the low-carb lifestyle isn't without "There were all these girls ... and they had for the Fitness consequences. all these boxes of Special K and all ice Center, said regular Ardeljan said that low-carb diets take a to11 cream and chips," she said. "People have exercise is an im on the body. Among other things, she said the such a warped idea of what diets are about." portant component of process they induce, called ketosis, puts stress Ardeljan and Martin agreed. Instead of healthy weight loss. on the kidneys and causes acidic breath, not quick-fix fads, they advised a long-term The other is eating to mention possible nausea, dehydration, lifestyle change- one including exercise and healthy foods in healthy irritability and headaches. healthy foods. portions. Mosier even found that it caused weight "[Diets] are not something conducive to life, Students are not only gain once he started exercising again. so I'm an advocate for finding ways to eat bet exercising at the gym, but "I was starting to gain a couple pounds a ter that you can do also turning to a number of week on the same diet - it just stopped for the rest of popular diets. working," he said. your life," Junior Logan Mosier Martin said that's because low-carb diet Martin said.
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I I I I Wintry ·roads requ_ire caution r Accent l 1 • On BY CHRISTINE SZUDZIK "Four-wheel drive is great for Staff Writer driving, but it doesn't help you stop," he said. "And that's where we · When Natasha Bhagat decided run into problems." to attend Ithaca College, her parents All drivers can improve their were nervous. They weren't con chances in the snow by reducing cerned that she'd party too much or their speed. slack off on her studies. They Earl Morrissette of Coach's were worried that the native of Tan Driving School reminds his students zania wouldn't survive Ithaca's of this winter virtue with some imfamously snowy winters. memorable advice. "I sort of played tough girl," "Snow rhymes with slow," he Bhagat said. "I thought I could said. "You go slower than the speed 2004 take it. Because I'd never seen limit Sometimes it means 5 miles per JOHN WHITE snow like this, and I'd never ex hour. It all depends on conditions." perienced it. I thought, you Morrissette ·said he takes his OCLDAND know, it can't be that bad. But students to Cass Park to practice MATH/ECONOMICS obviously it is." how to safely turn out of a skid. Bhagat is not alone. For students But Yaple said 'Students shouldn't Hometown: Doylestown, who come to Ithaca from locales use the college's parking lots to Penn. where winter means sweatshirts sharpen their skidding skills. and 50-degree temperatures, snow "Taking a winter driving course What was your favorite survival is a major concern. or taking lessons from a certified Super Bowl ad? The Chevy Winter weather can be treach driving instructor would probably be ad where the kids eat soap. erous. According to the Tompkins LARRY WESTLER/THE ITHACAN a better way of doing it," he said. "If County Sheriff's Department, BRAVING THE SNOW, sophomore Julia Finn leaves her parking space. we were to see somebody out doing What effect have down there have been four weather-related Office of Public Safety said students out of her parking spot. donuts and spinning and trying to loadlng arrests had on road deaths since Jan. 1, including who feel uncomfortable driving in Yaple also recommends keeping learn how to drive in the snow, we'd your music acquisition? Ithaca College's Erika Watson. winter should stay off the roads. blankets, gloves and candy in probably stop them." I've actually started buying warm New students from wann climates . "Avoid driving at all costs if the car in case of an emergency. Finn said that each time she some music. have even more worries than the av you're not comfortable with it," But there's more to snow sur drives in the snow, she feels erage first-year student: They must Yaple said. vival than picking up a few extra more confident. What's the most annoying adapt to driving in the snow. Finn had no choice but to con things at Wegmans. Vehicles with . "You think you're not going to thing about the snow? Texas native Juli~. Finn visited front the elements last semester snow tires, anti-lock brakes and get used to it, just like you think Suddenly there's half as the college in March 2002, and ex when she needed to develop film for four-wheel drive can help aid an you' re not going to get used to how many parking spots. perienced a· rude awakening to a class. After spending about 20 inexperienced snow driver. cold it is," she said. "With driving Ithaca's wintry weather. Finn and minutes cleaning off her car, she "If you're going to be driving you just drive a lot slower. You get What's the longest you've her .mother were afraid to navigate said she quickly realized brushing in Ithaca, N.Y., you need snow used to it. You really do." had to wait for a machine their rental car around the slippery off the snow is the easy part. tires," Yaple said. And while Bhagat felt comfort In the gym? I just move to streets, so they commissioned a "I was skidding around in be He suggested snow tires able enough to get her New York another machine. family friend who is a snow veter tween all. these cars, and I dido 't designed with an aggressive tread. State driver's license last Novem an to show them the sights. .want to hit anybody," she said. Yaple also said that cars with four ber, living in Ithaca has soured her What class do you wish "It was snowing in the middle of The first snowfall teaches the wheel drive help drivers feel more outlook on winter. you'd had time to drop? March, so I knew I was in for it," .said uninitiated many lessons. Finn comfortable navigating snowy "I'm never going to be in a place Theoretical Discrete Math. Finn, now a sophomore. discovered the necessity of a streets, but these drivers shouldn't with winter ever again in my life," Sergeant Steve Yaple of the small shovel when she dug her car go too fast for the conditions. she said.
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BY LISSA TWICHELL "I think a lot of times people who have Dorothy riding a snowmobile on campus. Staff Writer these particular jobs of documenting for "He said it exemplified the new Ithaca publicity purposes, tend to make these very College," Bower said. "The president just When C. Hadley Smith took a picture boring, uninteresting documents of getting things done and going out, going of his mother and father at age 5 in 1915, events," said Levy. "Hadley's pho forward.". his lifelong love of photography began. tographs went so far beyond that." The photographer's methods varied as By the 1940s his childhood interest had Levy met Smith in 1991 while working much as the composition of his pictures. become his profession, and "10 years lat on a centennial exhibition for the college Scqtt Smith remembers cl. story about er, Ithaca College had become his subject. and appreciated the photographer as one photo shoot his father went on in down Hadley Smith documented the col- much as his photographs. town Ithaca. His father had arranged to }~~-'$.h_i~tQQ:.~_Jll ~ '. 50s into the '80~ ~'Tl!e ~J part ofputting together all__ of meet the .~wi:ier of a, local ad agency in the ·_ a period of drastic change for the cbl- - these photographs was getting fo work with early morning to get a-shot of a particular lege. Not only did he photograph the move Hadley himself," Levy said. "Once you met building before the day's traffic arrived. from downtown Ithaca to South Hill, but Hadley you could understand where this "When Howie arrived my dad was in . he also photographed fraternity parties, incredible spirit came from." the middle of the road, flat on his back try athletic events, classro9ms and students. David Stewart '67 met Smith when he ing to get the right angle," Scott Smith said. When he died in January, he left his neg was a ·student at Ithaca College. He said His willingf!ess to experiment improved atives to the college. Smith always had a twinkle in his eye and his photographs. Smith's son Scott Smith, assistant a smile on his face. · "The ones that have a lot of humor in professor of writing at the college, said his "He had a great knack for capturing peo them are my favorites," she said. "When father learned the trade in the Navy during ple in both posed settings and in candid you look at Hadley's work you can really World War II . photographs," he said. "I do recall that many . see the sensitivity, his wit, his humor, his That -early training may be one of the people would say 'Ooooo. Here comes intelligence, just the sort of fun he derived ·reasons that Hadley Smith riever considered Hadley. I hope he takes a picture of me.'" from life and the connections he made." himself an artist. Though he always said Even Stewart hoped to be in a Smith Levy said working with Smith's "having an eye for a picture" was im photograph. Stewart said Smith was always photographs was like seeing the world IMAGES COURTESY OF C. HADLEY SMITH PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION, ITHACA COLLEGE ARCHIVES portant, his son said he firmly believed that able to adapt to changes at the college. through his eyes. CLOCKWISI; FROM TOP: Ithaca plays rival his work was a technical process. Smith started his own studio • for "It revealed a kind of genius that really Cortland in 1965 basketball game; Students· "There were photos he was definitely · commercial photography in Ithaca and had needed to be acknowledged," said Levy. crowd onto the college's bus in 1965 to make the proud of, but he never saw it as art," Scott many local clients. He also worked on Hadley Smith's spirit survives him in trip from the downtown campus to the Smith said. assignments for Time and Newsweek. his photographs, several of which are cur new campus on South Hill; Radio broadcasters Howev~r, Dr. Janice Levy, chair and as Bridget Bower, a professional librarian rently on display in Job Hall. More than prepare in the studio in 1958; Residence sociate professor of the department of cin and archivist for the college, is also famil 500 of his photographs are also available ·hall construction in 1962 adds more student ema and photography said that Hadley iar with Smith's work. Not only is she online from the library's archives. housing on South Hill. Smith's work is art. archiving his images for the lib~, but they "He was a people person," Scott also appear on her screensaver. Smith said. "I never met anyone who had · . "He experimented with light and with as much talent at finding common shapes and with actions," she said. "He did ground with whoever he ran into." good work and he knew it." · Bower said Smith's favorite photograph Accent editor Elizabeth Quill contributed was of President Dillingham and his wife to this story. I
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• IURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2004 ACCENT THE ITHACAN 21 3uper Bowl _ads -fail to score big f CHRISTA LOMBARDI back at some of the great ads five years from '7,ief Copy Editor now and remember too much from this year." Superbowl-ads.com and adbowl.com, It's Sunday night, a football game is on the two Web sites dedicated to -Super Bowl ad levision set, and 12 people crowd around vertisements, teamed up to compile a list of . ~ble, talking while filling their plates with the top 10 overall commercials. Viewers reg ings, pizza, chips·and dip. Suddenly some- istered and voted online, ranking Budweis 1e shouts, "Commercial!" er's "Donkey Dream," Budweiser's "Dog Everyone is silent. Fetcp," Bud Light's "Sleigh Ride," Frito In most cases this would seem odd, but Lay's "Dentures" and Chevrolet's "New hen a 30-second spot is worth $2.3 million, Chevy Pickup (Soap)" as the top five. is is far from a typical night in front of the Sophomore football fan Bryan Birbiglia levision. said he enjoyed the Frito-Lay and NFL "Everyone looks forward to the new ads commercials, but he thought the AOL spots at come out during the Super Bowl," said were boring. lichael Karam '03, assistant account exec "The NFL players singing was really fun ive at an ad agency in New York City. "One ny," he said. :the reasons is probably because how much Sophomore Talia Harari, an integrated oney [advertisers] spent for the spots that marketing communications major, said the · ·e sold." Budweiser ads are "always worth it,'' but this Karam said the pool of advertisers able year she was not impressed with the Pepsi afford Super Bowl spots is limited, so large commercials. · >mpanies like Anheuser-Busch and Pepsi "The funny ones were awesome," Harari ola usually seize a large portion of com said. "But there's always some disappoint tercial time. This year, Anheuser-Busch pur ment like, 'I can't believe you spent that much ased five minutes total and Pepsi-Cola money for that."' ught three. Stayman said some of the spots w~ren 't Douglas Stayman, associate professor of as entertaining to people because the suoject keting at Cornell µniversity 's Johnson matter wasn't interesting, while other ad CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Budweiser's "Clydesdale Donkey," NFL's "Player's aduate School of Management, said each vertisers' efforts just weren't up to par. Sing 'Tomorrow'," Frito Lay's "Fi~ht to the Death?" and GM's "Soap in Your Mouth" rporation is motivated by different mar "There were some that just didn't hit the wen~ some of the only advertisements to impress audiences. - ting goals. mark - [like] Federal Express with the aliens," per Bowl for CBS shows," he said. "Because He added despite the fact that there "Budweiser and Pepsi are mostly trying Stayman said. "These.are ~ot very strong ads when you have ~e Super Bowl, you've got weren't many notable ads, he thinks the reinforce their brands," he said. "Many from companies that traditionally have much ah audience of males, which are really hard advertising environment of the Super·Bowl mpanies, though, use the Super Bowl to stronger advertising." He added that while the to get with television." will co·ntinue to thrive because it has sition a brand or to launch a new brand." Pepsi commercials were good, they did not Since the Super Bowl Sunday audience become such a large part of American Stayman, who has studied Super Bowl stand out in comparison to other years. and advertising environment are unlike culture. ercials for nearly eight years, said this Scott Hamula, assistant professor of tele those on ordinary nights, viewers expect strik Hamula agreed. 's advertisements weren't exceptional. vision and radio, said the Super Bowl is a good ing commercials. "It's the uniqueness now of the Super "I don't think [this year] was a particular place to promote beverages, snack foods and "Super Bowl is a· different kind of an Bowl," he said. "It's really the last great mass ng Super Bowl for advertising," he said. new summer movies. He also said it's a prime event," Stayman said. "It's the biggest tele message that you can get out all at once on 1,1dweiser certainly did a very good job·, bqt ·opportunity to showcase television programs· vision advertising event. To stand out, the television. Television's been so fragmented rail there weren't a lot of memorable [com . to'people who wouldn't ordinarily watch them. commercials have to be unusually funny, un- • lately - there's nothing like the Super Bowl ials], and I don't think we're going to look "You'll see a lot of promos during the Su- usually entertaining.;' anymore." ,,··TAT UDENTS TODAY Cons~der~na a '\Jfv\NI TOMORROW Terrace Suite, tTHACA COLLEGE ~be HONE Proaram or·· Substance-Free Hous~na for Fall1 --
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BY CHRISTA LOMBARDI back at some of the great ads five years from Chief Copy Editor now and remember too much from thjs year." . Superbowl-ads.com and adbowl:com, It's. Sunday night, a football game is ~n the two Web sites dedicated to ·Super Bowl ad televisiC?n set, and 12 people crowd around vertisements, teamed up to compile a list of . a-table, talking while filling their plates with the top 10 overall commercials. Vi.ewers reg wings, pizza, chips·and dip. Suddenly some istered and voted online, ranking Budweis one shouts, "Commercial!" er's "Donkey Dream," Budweiser's "Dog Everyone is silent. Fetcp," Bud Light's "Sleigh Ride," Frito In most cases this would seem odd, but Lay's "Dentures" and Chevrolet's "New when a 30-second spot is worth $2.3 million, Chevy Pickup (Soap)" as the top five. this is far from a typical night in front of the Sophomore football fan Bryan Birbiglia television. said he enjoyed the Ftj.to-Lay and NFL "Everyone looks forward to the new ads commercials, but he thought the AOL spots that come out during the Super Bowl," said were boring. Michael Karam '03, assistant account exec "The NFL players singing was really fun utive at an ad agency in New York City. "One ny," he said. of the reasons is probably because how much Sophomore Talia Harari, an integrated money [advertisers] spent for the spots that marketing communications major, said the - are sold." Budweiser ads are "always worth it," but this Karam said the pool of advertisers able year she was not impressed with the Pepsi to afford Super Bowl spots is limited, so large commercials. · companies like Anheuser-Busch and Pepsi "The funny ones were awesome," Harari Cola usually seize a large portion of com said. "But there's always some disappoint mercial time. This year, Anheuser-Busch pur ment like, 'I can't believe you spent that.much chased five minutes total and Pepsi-Cola money for that."' bought three. Stayman said some of the spots 'Yeren 't Douglas Stayman, associate professor of as entertaining to people because the suoject marketing at Cornell µniversity's Johnson matter wasn't interesting, while other ad CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Budweiser's "Clydesdale Donkey," NFL's "Player's Graduate School of Management, said each vertisers' efforts just weren't up to par. Sing 'Tomorrow'," Frito Lay's "Fi~ht to the Death?" and GM's "Soap in Your Mouth" corporation is motivated by different mar 'There were some that just didn't hit the . were some of the only advertisements to impress audiences. • keting goals. mmk - [like] Federal Express with the aliens," per Bowl for CBS shows," he said. "Because He added despite the fact that there "Budweiser and Pepsi are mostly trying Stayman said. 'These.are ~ot very strong ads when you have ~e Super Bowl, you've got weren't many notable ads, he thinks the to reinforce their brands," he said. "Many from companies that traditionally have much ah audience of males, which are really hard advertising environment of the Super 'Bowl companies, though, use the Super Bowl to stronger advertising." He added that while the to get with television." will co·ntinue to thrive because it has reposition a brand or to launch a new brand." Pepsi commercials were gocxl, they did not Since the Super Bowl Sunday audience become such a large part of American Stayman, who has studied Super Bowl stand out in comparison to other years. and advertising environment are unlike culture. commercials for nearly eight years, said this Scott Hamula, assistant professor of tele those on ordinary nights, viewers expect strik- Hamula agreed. year's advertisements weren't exceptional. vision and radio, said the Super Bowl is a good ing commercials. "It's the uniqueness now of the Super "I don't think [this year] was a particular place to promote beverages, snack focxls and · "Super Bowl is a· different kind of an Bowl," he said. "It's really the last great mass ly strong Super Bowl for advertising," he said. new summer movies. He also said it's a prime event," Stayman said. "It's the biggest tele- message that you can get out all at once on "Budweiser certainly did a very gocxl job", bqt :opportunity to showcase television programs- vision advertising event. To stand out, the television. Television's been so fragmented overall there weren't a lot of memorable [com . to'people who wouldn't ordinarily watch tltem. commercials have to be unusually funny, un- . lately - there's nothing like the Super Bowl ~ercials], and I don't think we're going to look "You '11 see a lot of promos during the Su- usually entertaining." · anymore." AT ,UDENTS TODAY Cons~der~n■ a l\l[t\NI TOMORROW Terrace Su~1e, tTH~(A.COLLEGE 111eHOIIE Pro■ram or·· su·11s1ance-Free Hous~n■ for Fall'!
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To get more information, including the registration packet~ call us at 274-1698 or send an e-mail to [email protected] with your name and home address. An information packet, including the registration form will then be sent to your home address. Space is limited so Awards for Terrace Suites, Substance.free housing, and for hurry up and register today! the the HOME program cannot be guaranteed. Room awards will be posted at 5:00 p.m. on March 24th, 2004 in the Towers We hope to see you and your little sibling attend Little Sibs Weekend '04, which is sure to be an extremely fun filled weekend - concourse across from BJ's. for both you and your sibling!!! r £5: llf A'1AHTI 3HT T Vl~"),,t> ...... -· 22 THE ITHACAN ACCENT THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2004 round Band re-for1ns to -rock out- BY LEE SACKS powerful jam, giving each per theld Staff Writer former their time to solo. Soon the band regrouped and began to or Gov't Mule's powerful · jam together weaving in and out CHRISTIAN blues-based rock has attracted of a slow blues tempo. The band THORKILDSEN one of music's most devoted then ended its first set with the Shanghai, China followings song "Lay Your Burden -- through the Live Music Down." Members mixed riffs years. New remm1scent of metal and Gov·t Mule and old fans proved they are masters of all Foreigner seeks book: alike · piled genres. Chinese for Dummies into the State Theatre Monday to The second set opened much witness the celebrated band. like the first. Without a word I'm not sure h~w you would calculate Many of the members of Gov't from the band, the music did the the number of illiterate people in the Mule are legends themselves and talking. Haynes began with a world, but since I'm in a country where . it is cleai: to see why they have soulful rendition of the gospel I can:t read, write or speak the language, attracted such devoted fans. song "John the Revelator," I should probably be included. . Since the death of bass · mixing the sounds of his guitar Even a basic task, such as turning on an player and founding member of with the rasp of a coronet air conditioner and making it supply a steady Gov't Mule; Allen Woody, in played by Louis. breeze of air, is difficult. Sounds fairly sim August of 2000, the band has The band continued to jam ple. But with a remote control with seven toured and recorded with spe making good use of Louis's buttons, all in Chinese, it's not that easy. cial guest bassists. Such talents on organ until the song Frequently I find myself standing in a bassists, who hoped to pay "Effigy" gave drummer Abts a cold room with freezing fingers trying to tribute to · the late Woody, in chance to shine. As the song figure out if I need to press the symbol that clude Mike Gordon (Phish), continued, slowly each member • looks like a house with a missing wall, Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) of the band stepped off stage three times, or the one that looks like an and Victor Wooten (Bela leaving Abts to his drums. It felt alien walking a dog, two times. Luckily, Fleck and the Flecktones). like he could go forever, and the frustration normally keeps me warm. Now, original members nobody in the audience would I've even checked the Internet for help, Warren.Haynes - hailed as one hav.e minded if he did. but there's no Web sites called "deci of the greatest guitarists of all When the solo came to an end, pherin g-chinese-airconditioners.com," time - and equally talented each member of the band got back ''westerners-and-chinese-airconditioners drummer Matt · Abts have into position to end the song. hand-ih-hand.org" or "chinese-aircondi joined forces with keyboardist Haynes then slowed things tioners-for-dummies.com." Danny Louis and bassist Andy down and broke into the chorus Another challenge is staying with a host Hess to complete · the newly from "When Doves Cry." The family who speaks no English. Fortunate revamped Gov 't Mule. Prince song. served as an intro to ly, I have two sheets of paper with Chinese The evening began with "Beautifully Broken." letters to show them. One says "May I have soloist Martin Sexton as the As , an· .end , to "the set, dinner early today?" and the other says "I opening act. Displaying a Haynes called the crowd to the will not be home for dinner today." diversity of talents and a LAUREN SPITZ/THE ITHACAN front of the stage,, ,tp '' move I was considering a prank on the Eng mastery of different styles, LEGENDARY GOV'T MULE members master all genres at the along with 1the , .:'Thorazine
•I lish girls who live here. But having them • Sexton is a virtual one-man State Theatre on Monday night. · Shuffle." Louis broke outc;i nto give our host family a note saying "May I band. Armed with only his · • i an exciting, keyboard solo have the }?ig goldfish from the aquarium for guitar and versatile voice,. he thunderous roar. Colored solos and a powerful blues while Haynes chimed in on gui I dinner today - preferably fried well on was'able to fill the theater-with lights 1 beamed around the -voice~ it is clear why Haynes-is tar, egging him, on. Soon ·the I I both sides?" was simply too cruel. rhythmic strumming·-· -and · a darkened room.., and ,without ra ·• the re'vered ·· front man. The,. guitar took·control as-Haynes I So~:ffl.Yi ~~ts at communi range of vocal-reach. Sexton word;-tfte' 'bdnd!1be~an11or,1ay. /I ,fit,St:'"'. ; few.;,, )so~s-r '1 feattited ~11 ,and Abts !Signaled·mre 1mother cating fail just slightly. I was ordering·a roast was just what the audience They knew that no words were Haynes on-guitar while Louis to end the song in ·a powerful f duck and wanted to say "hot delicious roast needed to get in a musical mood necessary because the music keyed in with a few jazz driven one-two puf!ch. : ed duck ple~." But since a small mis and prepare for the intense 'spo1\e for itself. Each song solos. This week's performance pronunciation in tone often gives a com show ahead. · segued into the next ~~thout a Haynes
"BY DAVID MOORE Contributing Writer
Aileen Wuornos killed eight men between 1989 and 1990. The news media portrayed her as a mon ster, triumphantly declaring ,------
her the first female serial killer I Movie Review in American history. The story was sensationalized on televi I **** sion and in print, as was ! "Monster" Wuornos' execution in 2002. I~----- "Monster" is one of the most chilling films of the year in part because Charlize Theron makes the public's preconception ofWuornos as a heart less killer nearly tangible while at the same time completely shattering every popular notion of the inhuman serial killer. Theron has previously found a niche in glamorous supporting roles, appearing in relative ly forgettable films like "The Italian Job" and "Reindeer Games." In "Monster" she effectively destroys any hint of her former beauty beneath pounds of makeup. · Theron utilizes her newfound anonymity to the fullest, delivering a complex, subtly mannered and utterly convincing portrayal. As an abused prosti tute pushed to a murderous resolution because of her intense hatred of predatory males, Theron con COURTESY OF NEWMARKET FILM GROUP veys sadness, strength, ariger, vulnerability and un PROBLEMS ENSUE BETWEEN Selby (Christina Ricci) and Aileen Wamers (Charlize Theron). yielding intensity. Most of all, she projects an extroverted men- begins her first lesbian.relationship, while simul~ slowly from scenes of blossoming romance and ace every second she is on screen. there is an im- taneously committing her first murder after n~ discovery to moments of uncompromising terror nd*** 9:35 p.m . penetrable darkness in her eyes, a constant threat · ly being assaulted and raped. What ensues is a rapid and violence. Jenkins' script is acutely observant 2:15 p.m. and underlying her weighted posture, as if she might spiral into frenzied revenge inflicted upon several of the initial playfulness of Aileen and Selby's snap at any moment for any reason. Theron is a male clients who serve as symbols of all the men · early relationship. In one masterful sequence, the revelation in an imminently legendary perfQllIWlCe who have taken adv~tage of her, including Mr own couple shares their first kiss at a roller-skating rink, that ranks among the most effective and frighten- · abusive father. flagrantly displaying their affection in front of an ing feats of film acting of recent years. The grisly murders are in~rcut with the incriminating audience. Athough she is on screen in nearly every scene, blossoming and subsequent souring of her Conversely, scenes of graphic violence are filmed praise. does not belong to Theron alo~: Christina rel~Qnship with Selby, creating an absolutely with an unwavering gaze, forcing the audience to Ricci .alsoi delivers one of her ·best perfonnances wrenching tension in the film's. final ·scenes. coldly watch executions from an uncomfortable om as Selby, anai"ve, closeted lesbian desperately seek- This is the first full-length feature by writer/di niscient distance. Jenkins does not spare her audi ing.J:ioiilpanionship while trapped in the confines rector Patty Jenkins, who asserts a distinctly female ence any details of the grisly murders, and it is a ofa strictly Christian foster household In a superply voice in a traditionally male-4ominated mediut:n, · testament to Theron's performance that, even at her , nuanced performance, Ricci reveals the girl's grad- transcending "gender·· filrrunaking" to craft a most heartless, Wuomos remains sympathetic. ual.transformation, from infatuation with the only disturbingly affecting film. "Monster" is a corner "Monster'' is brutal, uncompromising and Woman she has ever loved, to hardened devotion stone in .a new . wave · of movies by female astonishing. It is one of the most provocative films to~a .aicsnap . . . fi ....abndltUeaaipg i~y ~ of die year. . _ . .
, ,i • The rfilm ·,offers, a -clbse examination· 0f nine. ·· addled theaters with 1111fqued nspiring ,wo1b that_· ' ;') ~ ".; •••••,½- ' f'"' \ ~ .• months in Wuomos's life, beginning when she first resonate deeply with large audiences. "Mon-ster" ~as written and directed by ·p~/'ty . . meets the ini~ally shy Selby at a gay bar .and Like "Boys Don't Cry," Jenkins' film develops Jenkins and produced by Andreas Grosch. Plays pOke fun at Ithaca politics
.. . ~!(, BY TARA HENRY huffed and ·puffed, cursing under Staff Writer their breaths as they laboriously at tempted to move the piano into an People sipping Snapple and Enlightenment pod home. munching on homemade muffins The writer and actors poked fun ·settled into worn out leather at what life might be like should a couches and .perched on rickety new-age cultist community like stools at the · the GHME ever really exist. This Live Theater Wownet Digital· play, much more politically Cafe last Friday. H,ppycrites charged than the first, was obviously A plain, crudely targeted not only towards liberal built, plywood set covered · by a ideals, but also at the Green Party. baby-blue backdrop left room for the An environmental extremist soci imagination to attend on Brobding ety was created in which nagian Players' physical comedy "Naderism," replaced religion. The "Hippycrites." . Characters ritualistically chanted The clever show was comprised COURTESY OF WOWNET CAFE "Nader" after reciting principal of two one-act plays that took a DONNA BRISTOW GRIMACES at George Sapio, as she waits rules of the commune as though it good-natured stab at various polit anxiously for meat from Betsy the cow. were meant to mean "Amen" instead. ical ideals associated with the Nader was meant to replace God and stereotypically nature-loving, of the set and minimal props. The pan lightenment (GHME), a faux com served as a comical view on new-aged slightly hippy town of Ithaca. icky facial expressions of the farmer mune of nature-loving-vegetarian-hip cultist religions that tend to pop up in The first of the politically when the man threatens him with two py-environmentalists. society every now and then. charged one-act plays, written by large cardboard machetes help bring In this no-holds-barred satire/in The royally personified govern Jonathan C. Dorf, was "Beef the scene to life. The farmer's eyes fomercial, the writers wore their ment officials (Kate Soriano and Tim Junkies," the story of what life dart back and forth anxiously, his feelings on their sleeves, taking Perry) with their crushed velvet might be like in a post-apocalyptic knees knocking. liberal ideals such as environmental capes and plastic bejeweled crowns world where livestock is nearly ex The beef syringes and pills the protection and human rights to a new and scepters were almost as enter tinct. In fact, only one cow remains woman is so desperate for are anal- . extreme. The exaggerated acting in taining as the movers - common vil in this world. An uncontrollably ogous to exclusive street drugs and the video paired with skewed clips of lage folk who bowed before them and shaking, spun-out woman (Donna humorous antics of a "drug ring" mellowed-out and oblivious "pod" recited laws as though they were Bristow) and her man (George Sapio), peddling lamb, beef and pork led by residents was a hilarious portrayal of scripture from ~e Bible. These fig both dressed western-style and a bloodthirsty cowboy and his leftist extremism that had the audience ureheads also served as religious lead speaking with Texas drawls, devise hyped-up, cheeseburger-hallucinating in stitches. ers (also Kate Soriano and Tim Per a sinister plot to kill this lone cow, girlfriend ensue. "Half-Ton Piano (or Why I ry), dressed in garb befitting the car Betty the Bovine, to satisfy their Though the plot is far-fetched, the Hate Liberals)," written by Kevyn dinal of the Catholic church. addiction to beef. intention of the play-to address the R. Harris brought the burlesque in If ever a play was meant to cause The pair unexpectedly runs into ills of drug culture. fomercial to life. Two jumpsuit-clad a political stir, this one was it. But Betty's owner, a skittish farmer At the intennission, the actors men (Mike Davie ~nd Kevyn R. whether viewed by a conservative (Tim Perry) personified by nervous performed an over-the-top infomer Harris) bearing the words "Brob's or liberal audience, "Hippycrites" is twitches. The actors' telling facial ex cial-like one that might be aired on Movers" on their backs entered the a play that still manages to tickle the pressions and broad physical move Saturday Night Live-advertising scene where a crudely-built plywood funny bone of people from all ments compensate for the simplicity the Greater Hive of Massive En- "half-ton piano" stood. They sides of the political spectrum. I
Event of the week THURSDAY SAB Winterfest is sponsoring FEBRUARY 5, 2004 tonight's speech by famous PAGE 24 filmmaker and actor Spike Lee at 8 p.m. in Emerson Suites. alendar Gibbons - 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Black Bcrx Theatre, Cornell Schwartz Today PURE POETRY C~nter for the Performing Arts.
Coffee Hour - 10 a.m. in McDonald Lounge, Campus Center. Monday Chaplain's Bible Study - Noon in Phillips Room, Muller Chapel. Premium Blend Concert - 7 p.m. in Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall. Faculty Colloquium - "Integrating Hands on Data Analysis into Classes," 12:1 O p.m. Graduate Lecture/Recital - Cayenna in Klingenstein Lounge, Campus Center. Ponchione, percussion, at 7 p.m. in Nabenhauer Recital Room, Whalen Black History Month- Screening of Center. "Eve's Bayou" at 7:00 in Park Hall Auditorium. Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen Film Series - "Brother Outsider: The SAB Speakers Presents - Spend an Life of Bayard Rustin" at 7 p.m. in Textor evening with acclaimed director Spike Lee 103. beginning at 8 p.m . in Emerson Suites, Campus Center. Electroacoustic Music Concert - 8: 15 p.m. in Hockett Family Recital Hall, Fireside Chat/Mass - 8 p.m. at the Whalen Center. Fireside Lounge, Muller Chapel. IC VoiceStream Concert - 8 p.m. in Tuesday Emerson Suites, Campus Center.
Ithaca College Wind Ensemble & Concert Bible Study - 7:30 p.m. in Muller Band - 8:15 p.m . in Ford Hall, Whalen Chapel. Center. Community Ithaca College Women's Chorale - "Bee-luther-hatchee" by Thomas 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall, Whalen Center. Gibbons - 8 p.m. at the Black Box Theatre, Cornell Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Wednesday Learn to Zydeco Dance....,. 7 p.m . at the Women's Community Building, 100 W. Eucharist for Peace and Healing-- Seneca Street. 12:10 p.m. in Muller Chapel. Sweetwater Flower Market Grand Opening - 4 p.m. at the Sweetwater Journey Towards Democracy ·- Flower Market, 420 Eddy Street, 4' Collegetown. p.m. in Klingenstein Lounge, Ca~us .. Center.
Junior Recital - Christina Stripling, Friday violoncello, at 8:15 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall; Whalen Center. Last Day to PASS/FAIL Semester LAUREN SPITZ/THE ITHACAN Courses SLAM POET TAYLOR MALI performs at the Pub Tuesday, Feb. 3, as part of Wi~terfest, a series of events sponsored by the Student Activities Board. Shabbat Services - 6 p.m. in Muller Chapel. Not all Ithaca College events are listed SAB Films Presents - "Ferris Bueller's in the calendar. SAB FIims Presents - Day Off' at 8 p.m. in Emerson Suites, "Ferris Bueller's IC Unbound Auditions -Noon in the Hill Campus Center. Day Off' at 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m. and midnight Center Dance Studio. Send information to The Ithacan, in Textor 102. 269 Roy H. Park Hall, Ithaca Sports Mass - 1 p.m. and 9 p.m_. in Muller Chapel. College, by Monday at 5 p.m. Sports Women's Basketball at R.I.T., 6 p.m. For more information, call Women's Basketball vs. Nazareth at 2 SAB Films Presents - "Ferris Bueller's Men's Basketball at R.I.T. , 8 p.m. Calendar Manager Ana Liss at p.m., Ben Light Gymnasium, Hill Center. Day Off" at 3 and 8 p.m. in Textor 102. 274-3208 or fax at 274-1565 . Community Men"s Basketball vs. Nazareth at 4 p.m., "Bee-luther-hatchee" by Thomas Ben Light Gymnasium, Hill Center. The Rachel S. Thaler Concert Pianist Gibbons - 8 p.m. at the Black Box Series - Stephen Hough, piano, at 3 p.m. Theatre, Cornell Schwartz Center for the Community in Ford Hall, Whalen Center. Performing Arts. "Bee-luther-hatchee" by Thomas Gibbons - 8 p.m. at the Black Box Alumni Recital - Kevin Bobo, percussion, Theatre, Cornell Schwartz Center for the at 7 p.m. in Hockett Family Recital Hall, fig Saturday Performing Arts. Whalen Center. Weekly Evening Schedule Master Class - Stephen Hough, piano, Elective Joint Recital - Rachele Armstrong at 7 p.m. in Hockett Family Recital Hall, and Steve Uliana, voice, at 9 p.m. in Sunday Nabenhauer Recital Room, Whalen Center. All Angles Newswatch 16 Whalen Center. Tuesdays at 8:30 Sundays, Wednesdays at Tuesdays and Melaveh Malkeh - 7:30 p.m. in Muller Ecumenical Worship Service - 11 a.m. in Community 6:30 Thursdays at 8 Chapel. Muller Chapel. "Bee-luther-hatchee" by Thomas Another Late and 10 Night Panorama Mondays at a Sundays at 6:30 Tuesdays at 9 Tuesdays at 7 Backstage Wednesdays at Wednesdays at 8:30 10 Quabble Thursdays at 6:30 Mondays at 8:30 Beyondthe Wednesdays at 7 Chords Thursdays at 9 Sundays at7 Screening Room ✓ Student Discounts Mondays at 7:30 Sundays at 8:30 ✓ ,...,esslonal ■artendlng. Training Frequency Wednesdays at 8 Sundays through Thursdays at ✓ raps on Finding a Top Paytng Job Thursdays at 9:30 8:30 ✓ Become a Talented. Sof.laDy Gridiron Report Thirty Minutes Conscious a.tender Sundaysat9 Sundays at 10:~0 ✓ N~llonal Restaurant Association Mondaysat7 Mondays at 1O Alcohol Awareness Program Hodgepodge Wednesdays at ✓ Great Pal'HIIN oi'Su1111ner .Job Sundays, 10:30 Ll!AIIN TO IIARTl!ND Tuesdays and Ultimate Utopia SPRING DATES!!! Mondays at 6:30 INAWDKDiDI February 27 - 29 Thursdays at 7:30 Terrace Lounge Live on Tape Wednesdays at 9 •e1e1E·ia The Statler Hotel Mondays, Ya Think You C.11 Nowl Cornell Uni versity Tuesdays and Know Sports Space Is U1111tedl Thursdays at Tuesdays at 6:30 10:30 Wednesdays at l•800•U•CAN~MIX 7:30 ( www.universitybartending.com]
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UP NS ASHE ADO IRIS · LEER SET LIFT PESO TNT SOY • "if.t:,:;.,:_/ Senior b_,altles bad back THURSDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2004 Forward Kelly Gawronski carries defense for women's basketball team:despite herniated di PAGE 27 TIANI VELTRI/THEITHACAN r--... Whether ';•s~~ .. •;.:.:fi tL.i)· pos Sports Editor Ifs ;~~Jffilt .J Y e a felony. ifiy¢iiwitt\~:~oto ~r!. .,}'ly or eve~j~ , ~~ ;, y. Depend- ... ve bets in It's the beginning of the fourth quarter of , .Wh(!ntiew~ 011 the sport, he has betanywhere from $25 . excess of$5; 'of the investi- the Super Bowl aqd, with the exception of a · betting on up to ~ },· ., .·.· ...... ,}~f . . . ot to $300 .on ~ sii:tgle game and has won $1,200 gation, 23 students were judicially referred, ac prudently placed sock, Bill is comp~ tiakat up to $40 a gaml!'!' Atter1ffimng 17, his habit . in a single weekend. He said he hasn't spent cording to articles published in The Ithacan. A friend had just offered him $20 if he would got an upgrade. He found a · bookie in much of it at all. None of the bettors interviewed for this sto strip and watch the rest of the game in the buff, Rochester who he still.uses today. Chad said "I try to think of it as monopoly money," Rich ry viewed their actions as a crime. plus the cotton fluff. - that he only knows the bookie by his first name, said. "I don't really think of it as real money." "If you look in the paper they got the spread Two thing~ .are obvious about Bill, a senior, John, and doesn't care to know his last. They · That's part of the problem with online gam- listed every day," Bill said. "Yeah, it's illegal in this scene: First, he is wasted. He's had at would meet in a'parking lot to exchange mon- bling, Maney said. When you pay with a cred but if the paper is posting it, it's not like you least a doz.en drinks since he started at 5:45 p.m. ey on Fridays. He said that his bookie has it card, the money isn't tangible and it's easy got to go searching for it. Second, he needs this money. He's picked the around 60 clients, including a 13-year-old'. for a bettor to delay his debts. Tim, who said he made $2,000 by betting Carolina Panthers straight up to beat the New · Sometime during. high school~ Chad · . "Say they lose $300," he said. "Did they on college football this season, found his England Patriots for~ 10 again&t two found himself addicted to gambling. He was really 1~ $300 or did they lose $10. or $15? sports _betting Web site through an adver different fri.eIJQra,.-14le ·8'so lias the Panthers plus- betting near $300 a game - and not just on So next game they can bei $300 again and tisement on espn.com. seve ~O against another buddy. At Qtis American football. . . ' - again. That's why online gambling is sb pop- "With the online stuff I can maybe kid my mt, New England is beating Carolina, 14- "There was a time when I was so into gam- ular, because you don't have to pay." self into believing that maybe it's not completely 10, and has the ball at the Carolina 2-yard line. bling that I'd bet on like, English soccer match- Rich uses online sites. instead of runniqg illegal," Tim said. "So many people do it." Bill has a sense of humor, so he's laughed es," Chad said. ''That's bad. Obviously I could- through bookies because he thinks they are Rich agreed: "It's a business that's here to, throughout mueh -ofJ the , ---...... ------n't ~atch_ tJiem, so _I'µ ..s ,afer tlian using bookies. stay, no one's going to stop it because it makes game. Others in his apart- ege is definitely have to check the Internet ' Maney~- Jbst like a gambler can't too much money and that's what makes the ment haven't The friend that the next day. I'd be like, go to the police and say that his bookie isn't world go 'round." Bill has the $50 bet with.has . eding ground 'oh, I like Manchester paying him, a gambler can't go to the Attor- Between the rise of gambling in the ·a · of $400 riding on the United. They 'II win by a . ney General and claim that an illegal business NCAA Division I men's basketball tourna Patriots er the spread. tor the problem goal and a half., owes him money, Maney said. What's more ment and the Super Bowl, the attitude toward For him, it's not y. . _Chad didn't have to is thatonline bettors are giving.their credit card the ethics of gambling has changed over the Bill and his friend are on gambler. look far to see the signs. information to people they don't know thou- years, Maney said. different ends of the same and hazards of addictive sands of miles away: 'There wasn't even a stinkin' Internet when plane of sports bettors that gambling. His uncle we went to school,'·' he said. · "It's changed exists at Ithaca College. Executive Director, New York Counc_il Bob, who got him started, Consequences tremendously and I don't think folks get .that." Countless students gamble for Problem Gambling almost lost his marriage It's easy foronline bettors tostay out of sight Because of this change in attitude, the 18- occasionally for a quick because of it. Chad said from local authorities. to-24-year-old age bracket is the time for the thrill. For others, compulsive gambling has Bob has been to Gamblers Anonymous four Bob Holt, director of Public Safety, said it's greatest development of gambling addictions, become a dangerous addiction, and bettors or five ·times. impossible for his officers to investigate ille Maney said. and counselors frequently compare it to After realizing that he was addicted to gal transactions they are unaware of, whether "College is definitely the breeding ground health-risk addictions like alcoholism. gambling, Chad spent 18 months away from online or through a bookie. for the problem gambler," Maney said. Jim Maney, executive director of the New his passion. He has since returned to gam "I don't doubt that gambling occurs. When "Those that are beginning to have difficulties York Council for Problem Gambling, said ad- bling, but to a different degree, he said. it gets to us, we're quite anxious to investigate on the college campus are the ones that are def dieted gamblers can suffer from anxit?ty, sleep "I was definitely addicted to it at one point," because it's illegal," Holt said. "As a result we initely going to have difficulties later in life." disorders, relationship problems and negative Chad said. "But I definitely think the addiction will investigate and we do.". effects toward their school work - not to men- phase is over, and it's just a recreational thing." The college investigated a gambling ring Assistant spons editor Chris Colleluori con tion the financial problems that can quickly arise. In a lineup of gamblers, Chad could spot the in April, 1997. Two Ithaca College students tributed to this story. There are few studies on the pervasiveness addict. First, he said, they pour over sports minu of college gambling. But a 1998 study of 1,770 tiae for hours before making their bets. Second, students from three Minnesota schools they're making·other bets to cover their loss showed nearly 7 .4 percent of the participants es. Finally: their mouths are like roller-coast were either "probable pathological gam- . ers: When they're winning, they can't stop talk blers," or "potential pathological gamblers," ing, when they're down, they don't say a word. including 12.3 percent of the male participants . . The four student bettors interviewed for this The addict story gave ranges of 5 to 30 percent when asked Rich is a talker. This past season, he made what population of the Ithaca College campus $6,000 on the NFL through online gambling, they think bets at least once per week. One even which is illegal in New York. He considers him said that he knows of a bookie on the Ithaca self an addict. College campus._ As an addict, he looks at every angle a game Alice Meilman a social worker for the has to offer. By the middle of a typical NFL Counseling Center said people have come to season, he said he'll be able to predict the the center with gambling concerns. She said spread of just about every one of a Sunday's there are no counselors specifically trained to slate of games within a point. deal with gambling addictions but would the After watching doz.ens of games during the. center accomodate anyone looking for help. season, Rich and his friends develop theories on how to bet. So what's the $6,000 theory? The former addict "If it's too good to be true, don't bet on it," If Chad's experience from gambling cquld Rich, a senior, said. "There's something that be measured in years, he would be an did man. they know. Oddsmakers are better than you." He started betting when he was 15 after his un But big wins can lead to big problems, cle hooked him up with a bookie. He began Maney said. gambling, unfortunately, he said, with a bang. "If he decided to stop today, with his $6,000 "The worst thing that ever happened is the there would be no problem, right?" Maney said. first time we ever bet, we won our first six "But he's not is he? 1bey're not gonna stop gam or seven bets," Chad, a senior, said. "That bling. And the problem is, ... just like drink gives you the taste of it. ing, if someone wants to get drunk and it used REBECCA GARDNER/fHE ITHACAN "It's almost like getting-drunk," he said. "It's to work:_at two beers, they gotta go up." STUDENTS WATCH THE Super Bowl Sunday, the most heavily bet upon game of the year. 28 TH_E ITt-tACAN .. THURSDAY JEQRU~RY.. 5, .2.0Q4 Press pain• • ·· Box CHARLIE Back injury cant stop senior forwardfrom dJJminating backboar~ ELLSWORTH BY JEN BEEKMAN Staff Writer Like any other forward, senior Kelly Friday's fun fouled Gawronski spends the better portion of a by absence of fans 40-minute game enduring physical strain - · boxing out and drawing the charge. You're in high school. It's a Friday Add to that about two hours of practice night in February. After exiting your a day. Seems normal for a college athlete. friend's 1991 Honda Accord, whjch Then factor in a herniated disk in her back. reeks of drive-thru fast food, your clique In the fall of 2002, after two successful rolls into the gym like you own the place. seasons in· which she was among the Your presence is received with high team's top re.bounders, then-junior fives and smiles from your friends. A Gawronski did not attend tryouts. · near-~apacity crowd is in attendance. · It's not that she burned out or .lost her Soon, yc;mr team takes the court. The love of the game. Rather, the 6-foot-tall crowd, which has risen from their seats West Seneca native had suffered a herni for the last time that night, reacts like it's ated disk in her back during her sophomore seeing the Beatles perform on the Ed Sul year. However, Gawronski 's passion for livan show and Neil Armstrong walk on basketball was too strong to tear her away the moon at the same time. . · · from the court. Remember that? Okay, now go to to "It's pretty annoying," Gawronski said. morrow night's game against RIT. Look. "This year is better. Last year it was worse. Listen. It's not your high school experience. At times I didn't think I'd be able to play in Why? Why can't Ithaca College bas games, but [in the back of my mind] I always ketball be the· thing to do on Friday knew I'd play. Even though it hurts I play nights? through it." · Ithaca has two teams battling for the Gawronski wears an ice wrap on her low Empire 8 title. They've both made_recent er back after games, but said the injury does trips to the NCAA playoffs. Senior not really affect her play. On the court, she Tyler Schulz and junior Stephanie said, adrenaline takes over and wipes out the Cleary both recently eclipsed the 1,000- remnants of pain. REBECCA GARDNER/THE ITHACAN point mark for their careers and are the The Bombers are {ortunate and grateful KELLY GAWRONSKI MAKES A PASS around freshman Melissa Przybysz in practice Monday. Despite a herniated disk; Gawronski leads the team in blocks and reb_ounds. respective front-runners for conference that Gawronski, who leads the team with 110 player of the year. rebounds and 36 blocks, is able to ignore the . Gawronski's attitude has proved an asset coach, adding that Gawronski; especialiy Why don't students want to see this? pain in her bac~. to the team. · · on defense, helps motivate the rest· of the The Ithaca College Sports Information Coach Dan Raymond, who joined the ''Off the court she's a lot offun and her team ved>all . Office doesn't keep statistics on basketball Bombers' squad in the same year as Gawron teammates like her as a person," senior Alex This ye · · · as tried Jo imple game attendance because no tickets are ski, said his• first impression· was, "Yes! I vansheck said. "Ori the court she's down to ment an offense that gets ·· ds more sold. But it's easy to see that on most nights We've got s9meone that's tall:" But it didn't business and people respect her for that. She's involved, which allows Gawrons · · · e at Ben Light Gymnasi1,1m, the fans don't take long for Raymond and team members to serious about winning - we all are - but come an even more important factor on t even fill ope-tenth of the capacity of 2,6CX>. see tpat Gawronski was unique in more ways being a senior and going where she's gone, court. Raymond said there have been Sure this is Division III basketball. But than just being tall. she knows how to win and wants to." games where Gawronski has been critical last weekend at St. John Fisher, the Car . "The really ,special thing Gawronski's effect on - to the offense! ~ •., _,. , .. L'..!•, • ...,_ • • ,. .. . ,; 1•1 1 dinals packecl the gym·-for. tneir game is her"' attitude,". :Raymond e.,re~i1y · 'sp. ec1_·a1 the team transc¢nds the~- "We try every game to 'make sure to get against Ithaca. The "Cardinal Crazies" said. "She'll ·do anything it titudinal aspect of the the ball 'inside the defense,"' Raymond chanted "Cir-cus! Mid-get!" to 5-foot-7- rakes for us to be successful." · her attitude. game and goes beyond said. "We play inside out. The ball goes i inch junior Nate Thomas. Even Ithaca That approach to the the fact that she towers side then back out for shots. Kelly · ear men's coach Jim Mullins called the crowd game is something that She:11 do anything it above many opponents. passer." · · · phenomenal. Friday night basketball comes naturally to Gawronski's basketball This provi~ seems like it's the thing to do at St. John Gawronski, who was . in- takes for us to be talent - both physical nior · Jennie SwatHng Fisher. Why not on the South Hill? · troduced to the sport in the and mental - is what gets open shots. "I've been told that this is the way it third grade by her father, successful. her so much playing time. Though Raymond has expressed desire to is at Ithaca," Director of Intercollegiate who also played basketball Raymond said that in . improve the team's rebounding·, he said that Athletics Ken Kutler said. "I don't in college. -D addition to having great Gawronski "takes pride in that and works re know that I want to necessarily settle for Even though the third ______c_o_a_c_h strength, Gawronski al- ally hard [to take steps forward]." that yet." grade has come and ways knows where .she Gawronski is keen on improvement. Ivan- And Kutler has been trying. His-efforts gone, Gawronski said her father still needs to be and what she should be doing to sheck said that Gawronski is "strong opinion to boost attendance this season included plays a major role in her basketball career. help her teammates get in the right place. Ray- wise ·and is not afraid to say what needs to be promoting a "Pack the Gym" night At nearly every game the elder Gawrons mond said Gawronski is a·"great quarterback · said in order for everyone to improve." against Cortland, he said. At the game, ki can be found standing toward the back of for the defense" because the position she plays Gawronski said basketball has been her hats and T-shirts were thrown to fans dur the bleachers, white Ithaca baseball cap set in has everyone in front of her. He said best experience here at Ithaca and that she's ing timeouts as a reward for their atten place, sending words of motivation and advice Gawronski does an impeccable job at direct- made so many great friends and it's really dance. But, he added, many of those peo down to his daughter and her teammates. ing her teammates from the back. the biggest part of her life. ple haven't decided to come back. "It helps when he yells [out to me dur "She's a vocal leader," Raymond said. "If I didn't have basketball, I don't know This· weekend the men's and ing games]," Gawronski said. "He:s the one "She's always encouraging and trying to what I'd do," Gawronski said. women's basketball teams could use person I go to. He's the one person I trust. bring out the best in ev~ryone else." Lucky for the Bombers, that isn't an op~ them. The men are fighting for -first place He's my role model for basketball." Junior Stephanie Cleary ~greed with her tion for their leading rebounder. in the Empire 8 against St. John Fisher and Friday's opponent, RIT. Should the Bombers beat RIT and St. John Fisher lose Freshman iS 'hero' h;i wrestling team's win to third-place Utica, the Blue and Gold would leap into a three-way tie for first. BY MICAH KARG Ithaca won the first five reac;hed out an arm, allowing again and got the pin. Meanwhile, the women's team is al Staff Writer matches, holding a 16-0 lead go Johnson to tum his opponent to his The crowd arid the team ready in first place and is looking to so ing into the heavyweigh_t match. To side, pressing his shoulder to the erupted. Junior tri-captain Bryan lidify its position with a win. After. junior K.C. Beach seal the team victory, the Blue and mat for three points to take a 4-2 Petti de~cribed how important That's where the fans come in. opened last night's dual meet Gold needed at least one more win. lead into the final period. Ambs ap the Johnson win was. "I've always believed that in an with a 4-3 win at 157, he rested Though the Bombers lost _ peared mentally broken, and "He stepped into big shoes evenly matched game you've got to be for a match and then jumped rope three straight matches, they still Johnson began on top with confi and filled them up," Petti said. 10 points better than the opponent on their non-stop for almost six matches. led 16-12 with two matches to go. dence. At 5:16, he worked-the .tilt "He's the hero tonight." home floor," Mullins said. Almost. Enter the inexperienced John Kutler knows all of this. For tomor As the referee's hand son. A loser in the only other dual row's RIT game, he's planned a co~test slammed jnto the ground to signify match of his career, neither he nor WRESTLING for two fans to watch the game from a freshman Adam Johnson's win by anyone else on the team knew what No. 11 Ithaca vs. No. 18 Lycoming ~ouch in the middle of the stands, pizza fall in the 141-pound bout, to expect in the match. Sophomore Wednesday included. Concessions and. halftime Beach dropped the ropes and Scott Aronowitz has been the· reg contests will also be there. leapt higher than he had all night. ular starter at 14 l pounds, but 125 Sean Cullen def. Kyle Kemmerer (1), Dec. 6-2 Mullins said the perks could continue. The tri-captain, along with the coach Marty Nichols wanted to see 133 Kyle Hopkins def.. Bryan Gammons (1), Dec. 6-0 "If we could get Ithaca crazies or rest of the Bombers, had reason to what Johnson could do. 141 Adam Johnson (I) John Ambs, WBF 5:16 something like that, I'd give them T-shirts celebrate. The pin gave 11th Johnson had been practicing a 149 Jeremy Adams def. Greg Skiff (I), Dec. 4-2 or something," he said. ranked Ithaca an insurmountable moved called "the tilt" in practice, 157 No. 5 K.C. Beach (I) def. Jason Smith, Dec. 4-3 We'll see Friday iflthaca can go insane 22-12lead,enroutetoa22-15vic- . hoping it would come through in 165 No. 6 Marc Israel (I) def. Clint Swartz, Maj. dee. 20-9 for basketball. tory over 18th-ranked Lycoming. a match. He was in control and on 174 Matthias Keib (I) def. Kevin Colton, Dec. 4-2 "K.C. 's always jumpiog top throughout the second period 184 Rob Stubbs (I) def. Lane Wilt; Dec. 3-0 Press Box appears in this space every . rope," Johnson said. "If he stops, against Lycoming's John Ambs, 197 Bryan Petti (I) def. John Battaglia, Dec. 7-3 week. E-mail Charlie Ellsworth at you know it's a big deal. I knew when Ambs made a mistake. · HWT Tommy Snyder def. Erik Wisecup (I), WBF1 :02 · cellswo [email protected]. we needed something big." With 10 seconds left, . Ambs THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2004 SPORTS THE ITHACAN 29 }Seniors -leave '. records.in ·:·wake•· BY ALEX DE LOS RIOS Championship meet records and , - Staff Writer eight school records. More than a personal achieve As senior Kristen Shorette ap ment, Shorette's record was ates """ proached the edge of the diving tament to her four years as Ithaca's platform for the last time at home, top diver. Furthermore, it exempli the crowd's cheering grew louder fied the role of liaison that with excitement. Shorette turned Shorette developed in her final year. around, back to the pool, and "Before, I really just relayed-in launched her long, graceful body formation," Shorette said. "This into a series of twists and summ year I became closer with coach ersaults, meeting the water with a [Paula] Miller and there was a di splash no bigger than one by a stone rect connectic;m between me and her in a small puddle. and the rest of the team." As. Shorette exited the pool, the Despite this, Shorette is actu roaring crowd, which had spent its ally far from vocal in practices. time tailgating before the meet, sus~ That role is filled by the boister pected what the judges confirmed. ous Hugh~s. Miller likes the Shorette broke her own school combination. record at home against rival Gene- "They're just ac omplete unit," . seo and gave the NCAA yet another Miller said. "They understand the reason to invite her to nationals for team philosophy that we enforce the third straight year with a "B" and they understand how - to qualifying score. achieve a balance when it comes to Even more amazing than fin academics." ishing her career at home with· a · Miller added that the example record-setting performance is the set by the seniors is beneficial to all fact that Shorette wasn't even sure the underclassmen who want to that she was going to dive. know the ropes of being a collegiate "I wouldn't have dove if the . athlete. MEGHAN MAZELLA/THE ITHACAN team didn't need the points," If any underclassmen _need advice SENIOR CAPTAINS (from left to right) Megan Hughes, Kristen Shorette an~ Emily Evans have helped lead Shorette said. "I was ih a lot of pain, on how to balance work and sports, the Bombers to a 9-1 start this season In dual meets. Senior captain Andrea Farwell is not pictured. but I made my way they need only to seek the through it." council of Evans or of the.senior class amassed 53 of 1,000 really gave us momentum," wind down, the defining moment The pain Shorette Hughes. Both are stu the Bombers' 136 points, assuring Farwell said. "When the meet start occurred before the final competi talks about stems from a dents in Ithaca's chal the win over Geneseo. ed no one was really sure who tion. As the senior team of Hugh I stress fracture in her lenging, five-year per More important than winning in- would win until then." es, Yellin, Farwell, and Sarah lower back that was sonal training program. dividual events and setting school Farwell has spent her last four Bond prepared for their_last 200- More than providing records is the impact the .seniors years in the shadow of her stellar yard fre~style relay at home, the l discovered after the ◄ team's training trip to the school advice to freshman, have had on the underclassmen. Re- teammates, but has contributed crowd began a rousing chant of l West Coast over winter Hughes is also.where the fleeting the attitude and intensity of more than her fair share to the Blue "Let's go seniors! Let's go seniors!" l break. The fracture team turns for motiva their team leaders, the freshmen and Gold. Riding the sound of the crowd caused the muscles sur tion. Farwell remembers have frequently stepped up and "My first three years were re~l and the emotion of the moment, the i rounding it to spasm, ag FARWELL the words of Hughes after shown talent beyond. their years. ly separated from the team, but this seniors almost effortlessly glided pvating her sciatic the loss at Bloomsburg Freshmen Jill Donaldson and Jen- year it's been different," said Far past their opponents and into first r- ~ nerve and causing leg pains. The in- Nov.· 15, 2003. n~ Rosenberg have ~ften repl~ced well. "Now I'm more of the emo place. ~,.,..,_...... ,..._.Jllllli!i llltatLlfflNJ~ and .in ~ teammates and come- · tional leader · of the team.. and The momentum doesn't seem to time and kept her out of three said, 'You know, nothing's really away with points. everyone knows they can come to be dying down. The Bombers were matches before Geneseo. changed,"' Farwell said. "We Throughout the year the upper- me for anything." able to squeak out a win against But Shoreue:s ability to tum in looked at each other and realized classmen have been teaching th~ Farwell attributes her attitude Rochester last week 134-109. a ~mning performance week in and: th• she was right." ~shmen that no matter where they to the time when, homesick her Tiie next big circle on the cal week out ~\'ifies her career and that The Bombers proved Hughes a are in a race, they should always be freshman year, she approached endar is the regional champi of her _senior teammates. prophet as they reeled off seven going their fastest, a philosophy that Miller with tears in her eyes. The onships which will s~ on Feb. 18. · She is one of the senior captains, straight wins, outscoring oppo has helped the seniors earn an as- coach· consoled the troubled Ithaca has finished first at region1.. along with Mocan Hughes,An~a nents 1042-657. tounding 10,407 points as of Feb. 3. player, who is from Dedham, als for six of the past seven seasons, Farwell, and Ern.ir,.Evans, who are Farwell, a jaurnalism major, Knowing that i't's best to teach by Mass., and they've had a close re including three straight. part of arguably the · t senior admitted that, while there were mo example, captain Emily Evans beat lationship ever since. The seniors are hopeful that their class in the 19-year Paula .1•.1.••- i\-~-.,..M5nts when not everyone put· in her best time in the 1,000-yard It is Miller's open-door policy last hurrah will be at nationals, era. This group has accounted for their · whole team freestyle by 10 seconds and. earned that keeps the team close and allows which will start March 11. Since an astonishing 34 straight wins in came together againstt 0 !11.,.~ ;'g third place by just .17 seconds over for more light-hearted practices. But joining the team, the seniors have three-plus years and a-40.-1 record no one's surprise, the seqiors led the l!lei!ft~b-,alace·.finisbec.-This extra even Farwell, described simply as helped the Bombers go from plac • in dual meets as of Feb. 3, with no . charge in their final home meet. effort earned lthaca;three points in-- ''fun times" by her teammates, can't ing 24th three years ago to 15th last losses at home. Th~n there are the Hughes and classmate Michelle stead of one at a crucial point in the escape the emotion that comes with year. A toir 10 finish this year is cer records: 50 of them total, including Yellin contributed to the· farewell match against Geneseo. her last season. tainly not out of the question. a mind-boggling 16 Empire 8 · tour"with two wins apiece. The rest "Emily getting that third in the As the Geneseo meet started to How's that for a big splash? MOVIE EXTRAS/ MODELS NEEDED elt .·. Local & Statewide productions. ...' -~«~~~%'- ' ""'""'''~"~'" .~ ...... No exp. req'd! ~~- All Looks & ages! Located on the lower level ef Hammond Health Center -- 274-3136 Minor & Major'Rolls Available! Hours: 8:30 - 5:00, Monday - Friday EARN UP TO $300 A DAY! 1-800-818-7520 Need to talk? Call or stop by to schedule an APP □ INTMENT Com.e in 3 - 4:30, Mon -- Fri, for URGENT MATTERS Sell Trips, Earn Cash, Go Free! 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He also swam ~ leg on the winning 400-yard medley relay guard led the (3:42.98). Bombers in scor Kavanaugh posted a win in the 200-yard ing in two confer butterfly as well (2:01.10) and Kuznezov took ence wins, on her way to being named conference first in the 200-yard freestyle (1 :45.~ 1). Junior Steve Barnes added two wins in the player of the week. 500- (4:49.02) and the 1000-yard freestyle Cleary posted 16 points in a win events (9:47.34). over Alfred Friday and netted 20 as Off the board, senior Mike Furstoss cap- the Blue and Gold upset No. 11 St. tured both diving events: Bis score of 248:90 John Fisher Saturday. off the I-meter board took first and.he also REBECCA GARDNERffHE ITHACAN The performance gives Cleary earned a score of 241.50 from 3 meters to win SOPHOMORE IAN HOUCK goes up for a layup against Oneonta Jan. 27 at h~me. 1,009 career points, making her just the eighth player in Ithaca's histo the event. The Blue and Gold take a break from com Rob Pickels and seniors Brandon Mallette and . ry to pass the 1 ,000-point mark. petition until the UNYSCSA Championships, Women's basketball Jim Ruger to finish 17th. An English education major which will be held Feb. 25-28 at Nottingham The selected Bombers met up with the rest from Tappan, N. Y., Cleary leads the Friday-Saturday team in scoring this season with High School in Syracuse. of the team Saturday at West Point. The Bombers took sole possession of first Chris Ryer finished ninth for the South Hill 297 points, averaging 17.5 points Women's aquatics place in the Empire 8 conference, extending squad in the 100-meter dash in 11.31 seconds . . per game. their winning streak in the league to 6-0 with Styczynski repeated his strong performance Saturday a pair of wins. Ithaca earned a 65-55 victory from the day-before.in the 5,000-meter run, this over Alfred Friday and a 56-55 upset over No. time taking second place (15:07) . . Schedule As Ithaca's trip to the University of 11 St. John Fisher Saturday. Men's basketball Rochester came to an end, it was a pair of divers Against Alfred, junior Stephanie Cleary led Women's track and field • Friday, Feb. 6 that guaranteed a Bomber victory. the Bombers in scoring with 16 points. Sopho vs. RIT, 8 p.m. Senior Kristen Shorette and junior Jane more Molly Brennan grabbed a career-high'eight Friday-Saturday • Saturday, Feb. 7 vs. Nazareth, 4 p.m. ':-...M~ne,r"fflffssneeil'first and second in the 1- and rebounds and scored eight points. Freshman Erin I · Sanvidge scored a career-best seven points. The Bombers .took part in a two-day meet Women's basketball 3-meter diving events, giving the Bombers 26 • Friday, Feb. 6 , points aoo-tJr,win.~=------·-· • f¥-.08wmnslci addecUl points and at the Penn State National Open. . vs. RIT, 6 p.m. 'the Bombers took first place in seven of 13 eight rebounds against the Saxons and senior The ·distance medley relay team of sopho • Saturday, Feb. 7 events and second in 10 events on their way to Jennie Swatling netted nine points. more Irena McQuarrie, junior Emily Maston vs. Nazareth, 4 p.m. a 134-109 victory. In Ithaca's win over St. John Fisher, a missed and seniors Kristen Cravotta and All-American . Gymnastics '&~~.ior captain Megan Hughes took first in foul shot and three mi~sed layups in the final Amanda Laytham provided the team with their • Sunday, Feb. 8 the 100- aM \,000-yard freestyle events as well · 13 seconds of play thwarted Fisher's attempt finest performance of the weekend, finishing at Springfield with Cortland, · 1 p.m. as the 400-yard freestyle relay with fellow se to come back after a 10-1 Ithaca run. 11th overall with a time of 12:21.32. Women's track and fleld niors Andrea Farwell, Michelle Ye\\in, and Sarah Cleary led Ithaca in scoring with 20 points, McQuarrie also won the 500-meter run, • Saturday, Feb.. 7 Bond. and became the program's eighth player to score clocking in at 1 :22.40, c\n ECAC and at Tufts Invitational, 1 o a.m A total of 15 clifrerent swimmers earned valu 1,000 points, ending the weekend with 1,009. NYSCTC qualifying time. Wrestling able points for the South.Jiill squad in a meet Gawronski tied a school record, tallying eight Sophomore Anastasia Kasianchuk took 24th • Saturday, Feb. 7 · that wasn't decided until the fmt.ev.ent was blocks and Swatting contributed 17 points and in the 5,000-meter run with an ECAC and NYC at Wilkes, 1 p.m completed. STC qualifying of 18:43.28, best • Tuesday, Feb. 10 four steals to the win. time a personal vs. Cortland, 7 p.m. The Born'-"'...... ,...,. on nine straight, and Junior Emily Maston placed 25th in the 800- Men's basketball have not lost since Dec. 29, 2003. meter run with a time of 2: 16.82. Her mark was good enough for an NCAA "B" qualifier. By the Numbers Friday-Saturday Gymnastics .In the I-mile run, Laytham earned ECAC and NYSCTC qualifiers with her. time of The Bombers suffered their most important ~unday 5:08.72. loss of the season Friday at St. John Fisher in The South Hill squad traveled to West Point overtime, 84-80, after Ithaca held a 35-28 lead The Bombers fell to 0-2 with a 184. 100- Saturday for the Howie Invitational. at halftime. 182.325 loss to Ursinus College. Junior Bridgette Pilling placed third in the Sophomore guard Jonathan Whetstone's two Senior Leslie Gelatt had an outstanding meet I-mile run with a time of 5:23.20. Freshman free thro~s with 32 seconds remaining in reg for the Blue and Gold as she won the floor ex Rachel Blasiak finished ninth in the same race. 34 ulation sent the game into an extra period. But ercise. Her score of 9.750 ranks third in school Junior Carrie Williams finished eighth overall the Cardinals outscored the Blue and Gold history. with a time of 10: 10.00 in the 6()-meter hurdles. The number of consectJtive wins 11-7 in those five minutes. Juni_or Nancy Patterson won the balance that the women's swimming team The.Bombers shot 53 percent from the field beam event with a score of9.35O. This was the Wrestling accumulated in a span of over three in the first half but dropped to just 40 percent first event-winning performance for Patterson. years. The senior class has in the second. The Cardinals also out-rebounded Right behind her was senior Rachel Edelson, Wednesday-Saturday amassed a record of 40-1 in dual Ithaca 40 to 25. whose score of 9 .300 took third place. meets, and did not lose a meet at Senior Tyler Schulz became the 14th play A solid showing for Ithaca came from fresh The 15th-ranked Bombers topped RIT 33- home in four years. The Blue and er in school history to score. more than 1,000 man Kelly Stevison, who placed third overall 3 Jan. 28. Sophomore 141-pounder Scott Gold went 9-1 during the 2003-04 points in a career with 22 against the Cardinals. in both the floor exercise and in the vault. Aronowitz notched his 30th career victory. regular season. Three other Bombers finished with double Other freshmen have also been making sig Junior tri-captain K.C. Beach won his 75th Page 28 digit point totals, including Whetstone with 15 nificant contributions for the Bombers. · career match at 157 pounds, defeating No. 8 and sophomores Jim Bellis and Brian Stephanie Gilson took fourth place in the vault · Chad Sutliff 9-6. The win atoned for an early Andruskiewicz with 14 points apiece. and Crescent Danzinger came in sixth in the season 8-2 loss to Sutliff at the RIT Invitational. They said it With the win, St John Fisher broke away from floor exercise. The Blue and Gold trounced Oneonta 32-3 a second-place tie in the Empire 8 with Ithaca. Friday, improving to 8-4 in dual meets. The "I wouldn't have dove if the team The Bombers bounced back the following Men's track and field Bombers won four matches 3-2, at 149, 157, didn't need the points. I was in a lot day with a 75-70 overtime victory at Alfred. 184 and 197. In the 157-pound weight class, of pain, but I made my way After being tied at halftime and the end of Friday-Saturday· Beach upset fifth-ranked Dustin Winn. through it." regulation, the Bombers outscored the Saxons Junior Marc Israel earned his 80th career vic -Senior Kristen Shorette 8-3 in the extra five minutes. A number of Bombers were selected to com tory, a 24-7 major decision. on her record-setting dive The Bombers' offense was led by Schulz, pete at the Penn State National Indoor-Track The B-squad had an impressive showing at Page29 who scored 23 points, junior guard Jesse Roth Meet against some of the best competition the Jamestown Community College Invite Sat- · who had 11 and sophomore Ian Houck who Di vision I has to offer. urday. Freshman Nick Calandrino won the 197- "When it gets to us, we're quite recorded a career-high 11. Among the competitors was senior Mike Sty pound weight class and sophomore Josh anxious to investigate because The Saxons out-rebounded the Bombers, 47 czynski, who finished 13th in the 5,000-meter Herzig came in second at 149. it's illegal. As a result we will to 42. run with a time of 14:49.34. At 165 pounds, sophomore Brian Lockard investigate and we do." The win gives the Bombers a 5-2 record in Senior Jim Ravener finished ·fifth in the placed third, as did freshman Anthony Rodriguez - Bob Hoh, director of Public the Empire 8 and keeps them tied with Utica 500-meter dash ( 1 :05.20) and later joined the in the heavyweight division. Sophomore Tyler Safety, on gambling for third place in the conference. rest of the 1,600-meter relay team of junior Daffi nee tOQk fourth in the 17 4-pound class. Page27 _32T_HE_ITHA_CA_N ------Sports THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2004 .,.... .__ RJm!tCOA N~ . ip))le'.S ye .. a nlbe a. e1ll -