Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1997-98 The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 1-22-1998 The thI acan, 1998-01-22 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1997-98 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 1998-01-22" (1998). The Ithacan, 1997-98. 15. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1997-98/15 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in The thI acan, 1997-98 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. Opinion 13 No Parking Ithacan columnist Ryan Lillis explores thacan an ongoing problem. The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community VOLUME 65, NUMBER 16 THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1998 32 PAGES, FRI:!: Constructing complications Ford addition creates hassles lion, a parking lot was being huilt By Cote Louison behind the Towers. La!,! year. Ithacan Staff construction began on the new "It 1s like a hig: white noise. Health Science and Human You're aware of it. hut you Just Perfonnancc huilding. Tim pa~t keep going," said ---------- December. the renovation of 0 e h O r a h '' I think people Montgomery, a Ford Hall hcgan professor of voice have an understand- Student, ,aid in Ford Hall. the biggest prnh- Re nova t 10 n s ing that if the project 1cm ha!> hecn the on the back and chain-link fence side of Ford Hall is going to be COm- that run, along that began soon · 1 t d th , · and from the after students p e e , ere s going library parking went home for the to be some inconve- lot !O the mU~IC _ _ Devin Mack/The Ithacan holidays will con- school, blocking The construction at Ford Hall (~e) Is one of many projects currently underway at Hhaca tinue until nience.'' off main run- College. A new building adjacent to Smiddy Hall will eventually house the School of Health February 1999. Fred Vanderburgh way!,. Sciences and Human Performance,.Beglnnlng In •rly 1998, construction will begin on a new Less than a week -assistant director of Fr e !, h man fitness center, and recently the plan to build an observatory on campus was approved. into the spring construction and facility M I c h a e 1 semester, mem- . t Weintraub wm, a bers of the Ithaca _______m_a_m_e_n_a_n_c_e regular visitor to College community are dealing the gymnasium last semester. with the inconveniences the con- Weintraub, who lives in the struction has created. East Tower, said he now has to "I think people have an under- walk down to central campus, ·Burglars prey on Stiitlents standing that if the project is head left, then walk back up the going to be completed, there's hill to get to the gym. Or he can "[Intruders] know that they after they broke through a differ­ going to be some inconvenience. walk up to the Terraces and take By Stacey Walbourn can break into houses with ent room to get into the house ini­ We try to keep it to a minimum, the long stairways down to the Senior Writer impunity during periods like tially." but at times it's going to be back of the gym. When he returned during that. They know what are student He said a wide variety of annoying," said Fred "I went this evening, and it break on Dec. 28, sophomore houses, and they know what things were stolen from the Vanderburgh, assistant director of was a pain," said Weintraub. Dan Schoenfelder found the aren't. Maybe they even go to house. A stereo, more than 200 construction and facility mainte- "I can't believe the fences near biggest surprise of his holiday some of the parties in some of CDs, a VCR, a mountain bike, a nance. the Terraces," Yerdon said. "I had waiting at the house on those houses so they have time to few telephones and a computer Vanderburgh oversees the no idea." Pennsylvania Avenue he shares scope out the goods that are were some of the items they construction. He calls himself Yerdon has clas!, in Srmddy with five Ithaca College students. inside of them." found missing. "the man in the field." Hall and works in Alumni Hall. They had been burglarized. Senior Investigator at the Donlin said the main thing In addition to the prominent He said the fence blocks walk­ "It's kind of upsetting to think sheriff's office, Mark Dresser, now is to try to recover what was noise the construction brings, ways he often used last semester. that somebody was in your house agreed that break-ins are espe­ lost. there is the matter of inconve­ Those who will benefit mo!,t where you eat, live and where cially common in college areas. "Obviously, I'm insured. nience that the fences and big, from the $ I 0.5 million addition you stay," said junior Richard Dresser investigated the Everything [stolen] was material. red trucks have brought while arc more willing to cope with the . Dinkes, Schoenfelder's house­ Pennsylvania Avenue burglary. There wasn't anything personal, trekking from the dirt road that inconveniences. mate. "It's very odd to think "The students are targeted but I did lose a computer person­ leads behind the upper quads and "We're getting a new build­ someone else was walking because most have computers ally, and that's a lot of informa­ into the parking lot behind the ing," said Junior Eric Davidson. around, someone else has moved and electronic [equipment] tion that's gone," he said. library. "They have to build it. Stop my stuff, someone has been inside their apartments, and Continued on page 6 "That's nothing," sophomore whining." through my drawers. when they leave it's Edward Yerdon said of the trucks Though she cannot drop "It's kind of eerie to think that totally unprotect­ that cross the path that leads from things off at the parking circle somebody else I've never seen in ed," he said. towers down to the library. "You behind the music school or open my life and honestly will never, In the case with stop and wait a couple of sec­ the window m her office, ever see has been in my home. the students on onds." Montgomery said she tries not to That sort of hits home. It's like-a Pennsylvania Yerdon, who lives in the East focus on the inconveniences the reality check." Avenue, the bur­ Tower, said he is used to con­ construction has brought. However, this burglary on. glars broke through struction. When he first came to Jamal Rossi, assistant dean of Pennsylvania Avenue wasn't an one of the side the College for summer orienta- Continued on page 6 isolated incident. Randy Haus, doors with a screw­ administrative captain of the driver or a crowbar Ithaca Police Department, said that enabled them to there were approximately 15 bur­ chip away at the Sports glaries and/or criminally-related wood and unlatch incidents reported from Dec. 20 the lock. Creatine barred to Jan. 18, on the East and South "Where they Alden prohibits use Hills. The sheriff's office also broke in is kind of of supplement due responded to several other inci­ like a side room and to investigation. 25 dents over this time perjod. there is a door that Haus said that years ago these separates that from numbers would have been con­ the rest of the Index sidered low, but he wasn't sure house," said junior Accent . ....... ... 15 how they fit in with recent statis- Steve Donlin, a Classified ........ ...22 tics. ~ housemate of Comics...... ....... ... 23 Haus said college breaks arc a Schoenfelder's. Chuck Holliday/The 'Ithacan Opinion ................ ... 12 common time for break-ins to "And they broke Juniors Josh Amorosa (left) and Nathan Sports ................. .... 25 occur. through that door Petula stand In front of their broken door. 2 THE IIBACAN JANUARY 22, 1998 Briefl Work office for an application ·-·FYI. at 272-4098. An afternoon of poetry Dinner theater Poets are welcome to read The Mental Health By PbWp van Platen Veterans Club invites students, faculty and staff their work on Jan. 24, at 3 Association in Tompkins Ithacan Staff lo take part in a beer-guzzling contest. Sororities p.m., at the DeWitt Historical County will host a dinner the­ are allowed to enter a male team if they have Society of Tompkins County, ater production called "Voices This week, 26 years ago: "reservations about exhibiting their beer-con­ from the Asylum: A 401 E. State St. Paul Hamill of The war in Vietnam flares up again when an sumption ability." Students can buy $1 pitchers the Ithaca Community Poets Retrospective.· It will be held will read. at St. Paul's United Methodist American jct shoots down an enemy plane for the of beer at the Someplace Else Tavern on Aurora Church on Feb. 6, at 7 p.m. fir~t time since 1970. At llhaca College, Carol Street. Commons design review The production will feature fic­ Hudson writes a letter to The ltliaca11 denouncing The College has just received a $1,300 grant A committee reviewing the tional narrations from individu­ the students who barred Army recruiters from the from the Sears Roebuck Foundation-$300 will current design of the Ithaca als who experienced long­ campul, when the Anti-Fascist Resistance League go 10 lhe library! Commons will meet on term psychiatric institutions. had a table m the Student Union for two weeks.