THURSDAY ITHACA, N.Y. NOVEMBER 21, 2002 28 PAGES, FREE ,. VOLUME 70, NUMBER 12 The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community WWW .ITHACA.EDU/ITHACAN College to reinstate vehicle towing BY NICOLE GEARING your car out, it wouldn't take too Staff Writer many tickets after three," Holt said. "This will make most people Starting next semester, repeat wake up and take notice." offenders of college parking During the academic day, stu­ policies will find their illegally dent drivers fervently search for parked vehicles being towed convenient parking, sometimes away. leaving their vehicles in blue lots or The Office of Student Affairs and other restricted spaces. Some dri­ Campus Life has decided to punish vers continue to park in the wrong parking violators with a new poli­ lots, while others never even buy cy: The college will tow the drivers' parking permits, Holt said. vehicles upon Last fall, an the fourth viola­ '' After three tickets, average of 75 tion - and every tickets per day violation there­ every time you park were issued. This after - within fall, that number an academic illegally, it's about $90 increased to as year. many as 250 dai­ Brian McA­ to get your car out ... ly write-ups·. ree, vice presi­ Lillian Tavel­ dent of the of­ This will make people li, parking and fice, and Rory traffic services Rothman, asso­ wake up_and take manager, said the ciate vice presi­ office hired an­ dent, sent out a notice.'' other ticket campuswide e­ -ROBERT HOLT writer this year mail Tuesday Public Safety Director because the lone describing the employee could latest policy. not cover all areas of campus at once. Currently, parking monitors Tavelli said her office now handles may tow only unregistered vehi­ about 100 to 150 violations per day. cles with more than three tickets. Holt said the reason the numbers Public Safety Director Robert have increased is a direct result of -Holt said he thought the newest employing another ticket writer. measure, drafted by the Traffic "I think it's because we have Policy Committee, would dis­ more people out there monitoring courage repeat offenders. the lots," Holt said. "It's so that peo­ "If you know the rule is after ple who park legally can do so, and LAUREN ANN LIGHTBODY/THE ITHACAN three tickets, every time you those who are illegally parked will PARKING ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANT Elizabeth Service writes a ticket for a car illegally parked in a park illegally it's about $90 to get See PARKING, Page 4 handicapped space. Parking and Traffic Services handles about 150 tickets each day. Center gives thanks for $266,000 research grant BY KELLI B. GRANT Responses included everything from providing physical rehabilitation for area AND ANNE K. WALTERS friends and family to zebras and zoos. Some residents suffering from strokes or other News Editor and Staff Writer mentioned the center and its volunteers. neurological deficiencies. Graduate student Christine Clay said "We end up turning people away," said The scent of baked goods drifted watching the center's participants reflect on center staff member Melinda Cozzolino, through the room at Wednesday's Thanks­ their blessings was one of clinical assistant professor of occupation­ giving party in the Center for Life Skills at the most memorable al therapy. "The word is out. People want Longview senior community. One by one, moments of her time to be in the program." stroke patients, their family members and working at the center. Now, a $265,938 Allied Health Project Ithaca College staff and stu- For the past two grant from the national Health Resources and dents took turns going years, the Jthaca Services Administration will enable the through the alphabet, College Center for center staff to conduct research and more ef­ naming things for Life Skills has fectively run the center. which they're been Allied Health Project grants are thankful. awarded to interdisciplinary programs in allied health and gerontology. They are TIANI VELTRI/THE ITHACAN also frequently awarded to programs es­ MARGARET MURPHY, left, a resident of tablished in rural areas. Longview senior community, plays a Cozzolino, who has been working game with junior Eileen Gallen. with the center since it first opened two leisure and recreation. The clients they work years ago, applied for the grant last se­ with range in age from 28 to 79. mester, two weeks before its deadline. She The Center for Life Skills has had never applied for a grant before but promised to conduct at least four research managed to complete the 79-page, single­ projects related to student involvement in spaced application form in time. the center over the three-year period dur­ When Cozzolino found out that she had ing which the· grant money will be distrib­ won the grant in mid-September, she was uted, Cozzolino said. both scared and excited about the changes Next semester, the group will study the the grant would enable the center to make. ability of student volunteers in the center "I started to sweat, and I swore," Coz­ to learn about the roles and responsibili­ zolino said. "I never, ever anticipated I ties of practitioners outside their majors. would get the money." During the 2003-2004 academic year, the \. TIANI VELTRI/THE ITHACAN The 42 students participating in the pro­ center will study the attitudes of student vol­ FROM .LEFT TO RIGHT, Ardeth Cobb, senior Sarah Fisher, Charles Armstrong and gram this semester have majors in physi­ unteers toward other professions. In the third junior Beth Humphrey wait for Cobb's answer to a trivia question at a Thanksgiving cal therapy, occupational therapy, speech project, an outside consultant will analyze party in the Center for Life Skills at Longview senior community Wednesday. language pathology and therapeutic See PROGRAM, Page 4 INSIDE ACCENT ••• 16 CLASSIFIED ••• 21 OPINION ••• 12 SPORTS ••• 28 -------=- 2 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2002 National and I nternational News Colombian assassination spurs trouble The mayor has even managed to get back eight acres from a buffer zone around Los Pinos, the presidential In an act of collective rage following the assassination residence, which is in the park. When he recently sent of a beloved mayoral candidate, roughly 500 men and a.letter to President Vicente Fox describing how a for­ women ransacked government offices, the headquarters mer president illegally appropriated that land, Fox re­ of rival politicians and the state-run phone company. The turned the land. Now the mayor is building walkways mob used sledgehammers to weaken walls, gasoline to burn in that area and opening it to the public. filing cabinets and furniture inside and stones to batter away at the bricks. M:ucp of the work, carried out through the Potential small pox risks simulated night of Nov. 7, was done with bare hands. The spontaneous uprising marked a new turn in Colom­ A computer simulation indicates that it may not be bia's yearlong experiment with civil resistance as a way necessary to vaccinate the entire U.S. population to stem of opposing the various armed groups engaged in its long an outbreak of smallpox if terrorists attack with the virus. civil war. It came as the new U.S.-backed president, Al­ If people who come in close contact with those in­ varo Uribe, urged ,citizens to stand up to the two leftist fec_ted are vaccinated, that appears to be ~ufficient to keep guerrilla groups and a privately funded paramilitary force the disease in check, according to the new analysis, which that are dominant in much of rural Colombia. was based on a computer model simulating various sce­ Uribe's idea has been to seek ordinary people's help in narios for how a smallpox outbreak might spread through the effort to strengthen the state's security presence - the a community of 2,000 people. army and police instead of irregular combatants from the The Bush administration is debating how widely to left and, the right - in the loosely governed countryside. make the smallpox vaccine available: States have been The vacuum in government authority has been cited as instructed to begin making plans to vaccinate the entire one of the main reasons the war, in which the Bush ad­ population in the advent of an outbreak. ministration has made a growing commitment on the side But M. Elizabeth Halloran and her colleagues at Emory of the government, seems to continue year after year with University in Atlanta found that this might be unnecessary, no end in sight. 1 assuming that Americans still had half of the "herd immu­ nity" left over from before routine smallpox vaccination was _Mexico City mayor takes land from rich discontinued in 1972. That could be supplemented by vac­ cinating police and other "first responders" and offering the The bulldozers came at noon to the lovely chateau at vaccine on a voluntary basis, the researchers found. ·the edge of Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, smash­ ing hard into a wall built by one of Mexico's richest men. Foul smell could help hostile situations The pharmaceutical magnate had erected it to keep the STEVEN M. FALK/LOS ANGELES TIMES park's masses off his "Gone With the Wind"-style lawn The eyes get teary and the stomach weak. The gag re­ PAMELA DALTON, who creates foul odors, has - ~hich, it turns out, he didn't really own. flex chokes the throat. Is that raw sewage? A rotting squir­ worked for the Pentag·on. She .takes a whiff of Other millionaires have encroached on the park too, ac­ rel? The brain is too distracted to answer. Bathroom Malodor. cording to this city's crusading populist mayor, Andres Pamela Dalton has uncorked the foulest smell on earth.