Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2001-02 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 4-25-2002 The thI acan, 2002-04-25 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2002-04-25" (2002). The Ithacan, 2001-02. 28. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2001-02/28 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 2001-02 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. I I I' I 1., j I , 'I VOL. 69, No. 27 THURSDAY ITHACA, N.Y. APRIL 25, 2002 28 PAGES, FREE www.ithaca.edu/ithacan The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community Local rate Nader calls for action for phones BY ANNE K. WALTERS "Corporations should get out Staff Writer of politics," Nader said. 'They're not voters, they're not to increase Former Green Party presi­ real human beings, they're artifi­ dential candidate Ralph Nader is­ cial entities." BY EMILY PAULSEN sued a cry against corporate Nader also said the definition Staff Writer waste and called students to be­ of pollution needs to change to come civic activists during an a form of deadly violence. Most students living on campus will Earth Day speech at Ithaca Col­ Then people will begin to look pay more for local telephone service be­ lege Monday night. at what they can do to effect ginning in the fall 2002 semester. The event drew more than change, he said. The college has signed a five-year 2,000 students, faculty and com­ He said that change can begin contract with Verizon for local service, munity members to the Ben with efforts ranging from sup­ Technical Services Director Bernard Light Gymnasium. porting the organic food industry Rhoades announced at the Student Nader criticized the corporate to lobbying legislators for more Government Association meeting emphasis on technology above all regulation. Tuesday night. else, which he said is destroying the ~eople should not feel that· Each student who uses the col­ natural world. Corporate emphasis their contributions will not make. : lege's phone service next year will pay on technology and profit is hin­ a difference, Nader said. NICHOLAS CASCIANO/THE ITHACAN a $20 annual sign-up fee and $12 a dering long-sighted development, "The Mississippi starts with a RALPH NADER CRITICIZES corporate control during an Earth month for local phone service. This he added. drop of water," Nader said. "The Day address Monday night in Ben Light Gymnasium. year there was no sign-up fee and the A good example of this, he moment we start thinking we cost for local service was $16 a month said, 1s the current fuel efficien­ can't make a drop in the bucket, the event, said Nader did a good job and economically unsound," per extension. cy of cars. He said consumers bucket will never fill." of educating those with less freshman Michael Wier said. For example, students living a in should be getting 60, 70 or 80 The Ithaca College Environ­ knowledge of his policies. Others in the crowd were em­ standard double room pay a total of miles per gallon instead of 20. mental Society and Habitat for But after the speech, Nader had powered by the speech. $144, or $72 each for the academic He lambasted corporate in­ Humanity were the primary not converted everyone to his "Even though he was preach­ year. Under the new plan, they would volvement in the political sphere, sponsors of Nader's speech. point of view. ing to the choir, it makes the choir pay $128 each. which he said has discouraged gov­ Sophomore Eric Lieb, a "I thought Nader was compe­ sing a little louder," said sopho­ Rhoades said that by charging in­ ernment from regulating big busi­ member of both organizations tent and made good points, but his more Martin Smith, an ICES dividually rather than by extension ness more. who helped to organize the argument was overgeneralized member. See STUDENT, Page 4 Volunteers scour display of garbage BY VANESSA MOLINA total amount of garbage accumulated in the Staff Writer residence halls, he said 46.5 percent could have been recycled. A mound of pizza boxes, Styrofoam, Darling said volunteers found 25 pounds Gatorade bottles, old newspapers and other of reusable items, including shoes, cosmet­ garbage was dumped in the Campus Center ics, a notebook and an unopened DVD. Quad Tuesday afternoon. Freshman Jessica Murray volunteered to Volunteers with bright orange gloves sort through the garbage and said she was sorted through the plastic trash bags and surprised at the things people threw away. garbage bins that came from every resi- "It is so simple to put recyclable items dence hall on campus. into a container," Murray said. "I think peo- For Earth Day 2002, the Resource and En- pie are just lazy." vironQ1ental Management Program collected Many students were unaware of the event the trash accumulated Monday in the residence occurring in the quad and why volunteers with halls and dumped the __________ orange gloves sorted garbage into the quad to , , This should be a through the numerous show the campus how little garbage bags and trash of it is actually recycled. wake-up call. The bins in front of the Fitness The sorted trash was re- Center. moved in the afternoon. trash should ShOW Sophomore Angela Jan- 'This should be a netty, who observed the wake-up call," said sopho- students hOW much event from the Campus more Elizabeth Peterson, . , , Center, said she had not REMP student recycling waste they produce. known about the trash educator. "The trash dump until she saw it tak- should show students how -ELIZABETH PETERSON ing place. much waste they produce student recycling educator "If they want to get the and how much could have message across, publicity is been recycled." what they need," she said. REMP includes a coalition of students, Jannetty said she thought there should be faculty, administrators and staff with a goal more publicity about environmental cam­ of promoting campus awareness of envi- paigns planned for the remainder of the se­ ronmental concerns, resource management, mester and next year. recycling and conservation. Murray said she hoped that students On Earth Day last year, the college an- walking by would realize they can play a nounce.d its Comprehensive Environmental part. iirrecycling. - Plantoidentifywaystoplayasignificantrole · For·Jannetty, the heap of garbage had in environmental- responsibility. that effect. Mark Darling,, Recycling and Resource ''Th1s_trash ~ ~Campus Quad was a real Program coordinator and coordinator of the • eye-opener-for ~c ,: ... a reality check," she SARAH SCHULTE/Tl-IE ITHACAN even~ said volunteers sorted through ap- said. "Seeinz.,n _tli~t g~~ really makes SENIOR ANNA EHRLICH, an Ithaca- College Environmental Society member, sorts proximattly..1~662 pounds of material. Of the you think,~-recycling more.''.. · recyclable Items from the garbage c.ollected In the Campus Quad TUesday. : . Center ' " . - . 1 INSIDE I ~ACCENT, •• ~ 13 COMICS ••• 20 . OPINION ... 10 SPORTS ••• 28 2 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2002 National and International News The urgently assembled summit, called by the pope just COMMUTER DERAILMENT eight days ago, brought together the leaders of major U.S. dioceses with top Vatican officials to chart a course for deal­ ing with the exploding sex abuse scandal. Church officials said discussions touched on strength­ ening celibacy in the,priesthood, rather than allowing priests to marry. Concerns apparently were also raised about the number of homosexual priests. 'Dirty bomb' threat worries officials Despite deep skepticism about the credibility of cap­ tured Al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah, the U.S. intelligence community is taking seriously his claim that his organi­ zation has the capability of building a radioactive "dirty bomb," a U.S. official said Tuesday. American intelligence agents have undertaken a wide­ spread search for evidence to corroborate the statement made to U.S. interrogators m an undisclosed location where the Pakistani militant has been held since his arrest last month, the official said. Believed to have been Osama bm Laden's chief of op­ erations, Zubaydah claimed Al Qaeda had given high pn­ ority to making such a bomb and using it against impor­ tant targets in the United States. Though Zubaydah may be practicing psychological war­ YGNACIO AN ETTI/ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER fare, the threat has to be taken seriously because of the A COMMUTER TRAIN and a freight train collided Tuesday morning south of Los Angeles, killing three pas­ ease with which such a bomb can be constructed and det­ sengers and injuring more than 250 others. The commuter train, part of the Metrolink system, derailed. The onated, the U.S. government official said. derailment, officials said, is what caused the fatality and injuries. Sept. 11 plotter asks to represent self Bethlehem Church standoff continues bron. Israeli soldiers blew up grenades and rattled nerves The only defendant charged with plotting with O~ama in a building next to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's of­ bin Laden's Al Qaeda network m the Sept. 11 terrorist at­ Israelis and Palestmians finally began negotiating an end fice in Ramallah, and Sharon again defended Israel's in­ tacks told a federal judge Monday that he wants to repre­ to the 23-day standoff at Church of the Nativity in Beth­ vasion of the West Bank. sent himself at tnal. lehem, but two rounds of talks ended Tuesday night with The offensive began March 29 m response_ to a wave The unusual request by Zacarias Moussaou1, the alleged Palestinian gunmen and hundreds of others still surrounded of terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians.