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'.-~ .. -· ... .. 32 Pages, Free -~~!'rr· Thursday October 26, 2000 www.ithaca.edu/ithacan Named Best College Weekly ; .... : in the Nation for 1999 · The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community Advi~!9' policy causes confusion .. ' ,-~ ~~--- ~ New online rem strrilion chanaes process this month, Stanton s_ai? each of the five vent that stu~ent from re-registering until the b 11 \.~ . 'b' schools would be dec1dmg how to enforce add/drop penod ends on Feb. 2. - · · the advising policy. Malek said de-registration was a "crazy BY KELLI B. GRANT pectation is that everyone will still see an ad- "Each school is going to set the ground rumor." Staff Writer viser, if not for course planning, at least for rules for advising," Stanton said. "If the stu- "I believe [de-registration) probably did more general advising purposes, including ca- dent does not conform with that re- ~ come up for a discussion [in the Contrary to a campus-wide e-mail sent· · reer planning ... the hope is that everybody quirement, the schools will take School of Humanities and Sci- Tuesday by the Office of the Registrar that still takes advising as seriously as ever." whatever action they deem necessary." ences]," he said. "But there said advising-sessions would continue to l:!e Malek said.he had not been informed of Maleksaidthes::hoolsmayhavedif- certainly is no such policy." mandatory prior to registering with the new· the e-mail's content before it was sent. ferences in advising policy imple- Instead, Malek said the online system, students will not be required· Registrar John Stanton maintained that the mentation in future semesters, but no schools may keep a list of to meet with their academic adviser before online registration system will not eliminate official policy changes have been those who attended advising registration begins on Nov. 3. the advising step in the registration process. made in any school as of yet. {. sessions as a reference for · "There is a college-wide policy now in ef­ However, since the online system cannot Stanton said the most extreme pun- course selection problems that fect that ... means students go online and reg­ prevent students from registering without an ishment for not meeting with an ad- could arise in the future. ister and that's it, whether you've seen an ad­ adviser's approval, there was confusion viser could be to de-register that stu- ___,,.... Malek said he believes the viser or not," said Jim Malek, provost and over whether advising was still mandatory. dent from all of his or her chosen cours- vice president for academic affairs. "The ex- In an interview with The Ithacan earlier es. He said it would also be possible to pre- See DEANS, page 4 Kozun set to resign from SGA position BY BRYAN POOLE She said she plans to travel to Staff Writer New York City to work-with mem­ bers of other YDS organizations. Junior Kia Kozun announced "Kia will not be participating in her plans to resign from her posi­ the local chapter here at Ithaca. Her tion as vice president of academics involvement in YDS is going to be for the Student Government Asso­ on a national level," said current YDS ciation Oct. 17 at the SGA meet­ treasurer junior Mark Frank. ing in the North Meeting Room, Kozun said the earliest she Kozun, an organizational com­ would return to Ithaca would be munication, learning and design Fall 2001. major, said she also plans to take Kozun. who began her SGA a leave of absence from classes and term in May, has not yet submitted withdraw from the college so that her official letter of resignation. she can think carefully about her fu­ Student Body President Dan ture academic life, Tillapaugh said once he receives the "I want to figure out what I want resignation, he will advertise the in­ to do," said Kozun, who is also the terview process for her replacement co-chairwoman of the Young De­ in The Ithacan and on poster~ ALEX MORRISON/THE ITHACAN mocratic Socialists. She said one of around campus. He expects appli­ SOPHOMORE STEVE FERENCE studies at the Textor Ball Wednesday near the latest anti-Sodexho the reasons for her decision is to cations to be due before Thanb­ message written by The Nine, a new student organization formed to protest the food service provider. help YDS, a club she founded, gi ving break. grow. The SGA executive board then "When I came to Ithaca, I se­ plans to select three to five finalisb lected my major as a freshman," from the applicant pool and inter­ Students fight Sodexho she said. "After really thinking view them, Tillapaugh said. about it, I decided that I am not hap­ A permanent replacement for "We do not and cannot influ­ py with it. I want to do other things Kozun's position should be ap­ Activists promise further vandalism ence how Sodexho Alliance in­ like organizing YDS. I have not fin­ pointed before the end of the ~c­ vests," she said. ished my work yet." mester, he said. until company ter,ninates prison ties The Young Democratic So­ BY BRYAN POOLE the college's board of trustees Oct. cialists, who do not participate in Staff Writer 12 with anti-Sodexho protests. The Nine's actions of protest but "This is only the beginning," support the group's decision to The increasingly familiar slo­ McAsey promised. chalk the campus and interrupt gan "Dump Sodexho," written in He said the group disagrees tours, claim that Sodexho Al­ yellow and pink chalk, appeared with the practices of the Paris­ liance holds a 47 percent share of on the walls surrounding the Tex­ based Sodexho Alliance Sodexho Marriott, making it a tor Ball Wednesday. Sodexho Marriott's largest stock principal owner. The chalking was one in a series holder-which owns shares in the No student organization of incidents this month initiated by Corrections Corp. of America, a protested the college's decision to The Nine - a new student organi­ company that runs private prisons contract with Sodexho Marriott in zation that is protesting Sodexho across the United States. April. Marriott, the food service provider These prisons, which are not "Sodexho had just come on that signed a five-year contract with federally regulated like public campus and we were somewhat ig­ the college last April. prisons, engage in the inhumane norant at first, and we didn't The Nine. which was formed at treatment of prisoners by requir­ know about the relationship be­ the beginning of the semester by ing them to work long hours for tween the groups," McAsey said. sophomore James McAsey, has in low wages, McAsey claimed. The Itlzaca11 reported on that ' recent weeks, vandalized campus But Leslie Aun, vice president relationship in the April 13,' property with anti-Sodexho slo­ of public relations for Sodexho 2000 issue. gans, interrupted prospective stu­ Marriott, said the company feels YDS wants the college to ter­ . -· .. ,,-. • - . ·· ' . · A MORRISON/THE ITHACAN dents touring campus to distribute it is not responsible for controlling minate the contract with Sodexho jiJN.IOR KIA KOZUN, Student Government Association vice presi­ dent of academics, speaks at an S~A meeting last spring. Kozun pamphlets to them and disrupted how Sodexho Alliance invests its ... , See VANDALS, page 4 ~ announced her resignation from the position Oct. 17. a dedication-ceremony attended by money. 2 THE ITHACAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2000 Issues !n tne News Election 2000 Lazio and -Clinton face-off in race to become New York's junior senator BY ROBERT 8. BLUEY that moment, and later accusations from the first lady that ers with new taxes. Lazio's plan eliminates the $1,400 mar­ Senior Writer he broke the pledge they had agreed to, the strategy may riage penalty and repeals the death tax; allows families to not have helped him at all. deduct federal payroll taxes; repeals the tax on Social Se­ The biggest issue for New Yorkers in this year's Senate At issue was a ban on soft money,-which Lazio hoped curity benefits; reduces capital gains taxes and expands the race is not campaign finance refonn or policy toward the Mid­ would raise doubt about the president and first lady's sleep­ IRA contribution cap. dle East. Clearly, it is Hillary Rodham Clinton. overs in the Lincoln Bedroom in exchange for donations. Lazio sees these tax cuts as a sign of economic expan­ Since the first lady announced her bid to fill retiring New Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, a champion of re­ sion for New York's economy. The sluggish upstate econ­ York Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's seat, she form, has praised their ban. Just how it will impact other omy, in particular, has not had the same surge that the rest has fought the carpetbagger image and wrath from voters races remains to be seen, but reformers see it as a positive of the nation has experienced, forcing thousands of New -- - .