Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 2007-08 The thI acan: 2000/01 to 2009/2010 4-10-2008 The thI acan, 2008-04-10 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2007-08 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2008-04-10" (2008). The Ithacan, 2007-08. 11. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_2007-08/11 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, 2007-08 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. ACCENT STUDENTS BRING SOUL TO CAMPUS, PAGE 15 AN APOLOGY TO DANI STOLLER SPORTS MAN LEADS CLUB FIELD HOCKEY TEAM, PAGE 25 Story portrayed its main source inaccurately, page 12 THIS I SEE ITHACA FARMERS MARKET REOPENS, PAGE 32 Thursday Ithaca, N.Y. April 10, 2008 The Ithacan Volume 75, Issue 25 Freshman Stephanie Torres leads a tour group of prospective students yesterday. EVAN FALK/THE ITHACAN Judge halts roadwork BY KATHY LALUK on each side of the road — a 2-foot NEWS EDITOR expansion in either direction. Th e A county judge ruled in favor road currently has 10-foot lanes of Coddington residents earlier and 3-foot gravel shoulders. this week in a case against the In order to get the construc- County Legislature’s plans to tion under way, the county com- expand the road. pleted a review of the ecological County Supreme Court Justice impact the construction would Robert C. Mulvey granted a pre- have on the area, as required by liminary injunction preventing the State Environmental Quality the county from entering the land Review Act. of the plaintiffs and annulled the According to the Decision county’s original environmental and Order papers, Mulvey ruled review of the area, according to that Coddington was a ‘highway- the Decision and Order docu- by-use’, which means the county ment for the case, obtained from only has the right-of-way to Mary Russell, one of the attor- property they can prove has been neys for the residents. used for highway purposes, such In the suit, the 14 plaintiffs as road repairs and significant argued that the county did not traffic patterns, during the past properly conduct its state-man- 10 years. dated environmental impact re- Jonathan Wood, who repre- view, nor did it prove a uniform sented the county in the case, said right-of-way for the road. The the expansion of the road was county claimed a uniform 50- slated to begin in Spring 2009, foot right-of-way throughout the and he is unsure if the injunction 3.1 mile project area and upheld will affect the construction’s pro- that their environmental review jected start date. Wood said the was thorough. county plans to file an appeal and Th e Legislature passed the that it is likely he will again rep- A new direction proposition to widen Coddington resent them in the case. Road last September. Th e proposal Study predicts drop in applicants, rise in diversity included a 5-foot paved shoulder See LAWSUIT, page 4 BY ELIZABETH SILE College derives most of its appli- ic, Ithaca College will be forced to After a judge sided with residents in the lawsuit, ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR cant pool, the class of 2015 will target other applicant pools and A NEW PLAN the county will have to rethink how to approach The academic quads, dining be more than 10 percent smaller regions of the country. the planned expansion of Coddington Road. halls and residence halls of the than that of 2009. “It’s essentially a four-year residen- ST nation’s colleges and universities “We’re entering a new period tial institution for, by and large, white CLINTON HUDSON ST are about to get a new look. of time after a decade and a half of students,” Prescott said. “Th e pipeline The composition of the steady and large increases in the for that group of students is drying Tops up, particularly in the Northeast.” nation’s applicant pool and insti- number of high school graduates ALBANY ST tutions of higher education are that were being produced all over As of Fall 2007, minority stu- on the brink of drastic change, the country, and in every state and dents made up nearly 11 percent Wal-Mart according to a recent study by the region,” said Brian Prescott, senior of the College’s undergraduate stu- Western Interstate Commission research analyst at WICHE. dents. In 2003, these students made CODDINGTON ROAD for Higher Education (WICHE), a Prescott said this decrease up only 8 percent of the college’s mart OLD ELMIRA RD 15-state research coalition which in the number of graduates was total enrollment. examined U.S. birthrates and the result of a decrease in births This four-year jump is largely educational enrollment. in the early 1990s and a result- the result of steady increases in The total number of high ing decline in educational enroll- the enrollment of Hispanic stu- 96B school graduates is expected to ment. The Northeast has steadily dents by roughly 10 percent be- peak this year at 3.34 million stu- been losing almost two percent cause of greater influxes in His- dents nationwide. After this year, of its total population each year panic immigrants. The study also numbers will steadily decline un- since 2000. stated that Asian enrollment will Ithaca til 2015. The study projected that With losses in its traditional BY ROAD College in the Northeast, where Ithaca Northeastern white demograph- See STUDENTS, page 4 DAN SGA prepares for 2008-09 BY REBECCA WEBSTER STAFF WRITER MEET THE CANDIDATES As elections for Senior Class Council View a breakdown of the running parties and the Student Government Association See page 9 Executive Board draw near, parties across campus are preparing their platforms and especially well-known within [the Center campaigning in hopes of pulling votes in for Student Leadership and Involvement] Monday’s elections. and that’s probably a good thing because Early this month, SGA extended the you get a more diverse array of ideas and deadline for entering the races because of experiences,” Bloom said. low participation. Both the Senior Class The IC Green Party will hold a debate Council race and the SGA Executive Board between the Executive Board candidates races were unopposed. Since the extension, from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in IC Square. the race for Senior Class Council remains Bloom said the debate will be an opportu- unopposed, and four parties are running for nity for students to familiarize themselves the SGA Executive Board. with the party platforms before they vote. SGA president and senior Aaron Bloom sits Tuesday in IC Square during the meet-and-greet SGA president and senior Aaron Bloom, Jeremy Tagliaferre, president of the IC session with the different parties. Elections will be held Monday through Friday. said the deadline extension was a wise Green Party, said he hopes students will SAMANTHA CONSTANT/THE ITHACAN move, and he is excited to see how the elec- take this opportunity to open a dialogue volved and ask questions that are important The elections will be held Monday tions will turn out. about their concerns. to them so that they can vote as a more in- through Friday. Students will receive an “We are going to see people who are not “I hope that the students will be in- formed person,” Tagliaferre said. e-mail with a link to an online ballot. find more. online. www.theithacan.org THURSDAY BRIEFING 2 The Ithacan Thursday, April 10, 2008 THIS Nation&World WEEK Election violence continues in Nepal 10 THURSDAY Violence on the eve of a landmark election meant to cement a peace deal with Nepal’s communist in- Mesa Española from 6 to 7 p.m. surgents left at least seven people dead, offi cials said in the Terrace Dining Hall yesterday. Police killed at least one protester and six former rebels in separate clashes. Mental Health Benefi t Concert Th e vote is intended to bring sweeping change sponsored by Active Minds from to this long-troubled Himalayan country and will 8 to 11 p.m. in Emerson Suites likely mean the end of a royal dynasty that has ruled for centuries. But the clashes made clear 11 FRIDAY that fashioning a lasting peace in this impover- ished, ill-governed and frequently violent coun- Harmonics for Health Workshop try won’t be easy. with Kathy Nagy ’75 at 4 p.m. in the Nabenhauer Recital Room of “For the peace process to be successful, the elec- the School of Music tion needs to be credible,” said Yubaraj Ghimire, editor of the newsweekly Samay. “It’s not clear that “Race in America: Then, Now, it will be.” and Tomorrow” presentation at Th e demonstrator was killed after police fi red 4:30 p.m. in Textor 103 on a mob of hundreds smashing shops and vandal- Sigma Iota Epsilon Induction izing buses to protest the slaying a day earlier of a and Reception at 4:30 p.m. candidate in the mountainous Surkhet district, said in the McHenry Lobby of the the area’s police chief, Ram Kumar Khanal. School of Music Authorities in the remote district had already Shabbat Services at 6 p.m. in imposed a curfew, which remained in place. Muller Chapel Th ey also said they would delay the election in Shabbat dinner at approximately the area by at least a week, though the vote would 7:15 p.m.