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A Weekly Newspaper, Published Independently by the Students of Ithaca College Vol 48/No. 22 It h,1< d NP\\ 'l ork April 19, 1979 Erbland Elected to Chair Congress by Andrea Herman the prospect of next year, and (Three members of the com­ Tom Erbland was elected as it is my solemn vow to try and mitee resigned for various next year's Student Congress make next year's Student reasons - see ITHACAN of chairperson by a IO - 8 vote Congress even more successful April 5.) The amendment over Josh Cantor. than it was this year," said stipulates that the "Election Only Student Congress Erbland. Committee be made up of representatives arc allowed to "I don't think that there's ~hree Congress members and vote in this election. Eligibility any number or group of three at-large students. In ad­ to vote was based on each people that are more qualified dition, this committee shall be representative's attendance than the members of U.P.S. chaired by Parliamentarian of record of the past four weeks. (the Student Government Student Congress and shall After the votes were coun­ Executive Board-elect) to in­ have two Executive Board ted, Tom Plastaras, chairper­ troduce progressive ideas that members approved by the son of the Election Commit­ will enhance the educational Executive Board acting in an tee, announced that there was experience of all of us. I think advisory capacity." The one too many votes cast for that I can work extremely well amendment~fonhcJ;... indicates the number of voting represen­ with them." gui!_l,filJ.Qf~J\.s :,tp ttie,: ~figibi{itY,\ tatives present. A revote was Also at Tuesday night's of individuals "wit~ .:tffiltaiiori' taken and the overall results Congress meeting, an amen­ to any of v~~ ca~di_dates . were the same. dment was passed to restruc­ ..:i,·r.: ::, (' . - -; . "I'm very excited about ture the Election Committee. No Policy Decision by Chuck Post into the problem said Meryle student needs, but we must . During their spring exam Gaston, Acting College also think of the cost, and period, Friends Hall will be Librarian, "but we don't want frankly, we're at ·the end of Tom Erb/and (left), Photo by Bruce Morosohk open 24 hours a day for to make any policy decisions our budget." Bud Yablonsky (right). studying, and the library will until we get our new director This summer the library is open at 8:30 on the Sunday in July, and until our surveys going to send out a random covers all aspects of the hope to get a strong return on before exams. are returned. We are not survey of 20 percent of the library, not only the question those surveys," explained The library staff has looked trying to be insensitive to student body. The survey of exam period hours. "We Gaston. Valentine Replaced By Hudson Heights Apartments by Andrea Herman Runyon,· director of- housing. son Heights management. area. Runyon added that the Ithaca College has leased all Also included in the plans, he The apartments will be con­ Last year, 45 percent of the location of Valentine is un­ 98 Hudson Heights Apart­ said, is the probable sidered on-campus housing freshperson class was in tem­ desirable "It costs SI 6,000 ments in hopes of alleviating elimination of Valentine as a said Runyon. Each apartment porary housing, said Runyon. to run the shuttle service bet­ the overcrowded conditions housing facility. will have double occupancy There were 198 triples and ween Valentine and campus,·· that existed in the residence Th~ college has signed a and members of the housing students living in dormitory he said. That figure does not halls this past year, said Don three year lease with the Hud- staff will be assigned to the lounges. "With the additional include the cost of the vehicle. spaces in Hudson Heights we Runyon also noted that Valen­ have enough spaces to ac­ tine's "heating ~ystem is very commodate," he continued. precarious," old, e\pensive "We do anticipate some and "wired together". triples, though less than last The cost of re~idency in year. About 120 to 150." Hud~on Heights will be $900 a According to Matthew year, said Runyon, in com­ Wall, director of Admissions, parison with $958 a year for a next year's fresh person class Garden Apartment and $850 a has been cut by 100 in order to year for residence hall oc­ ease the overcrowding. ;:upancy. '•'-. :' · .. Enrollment is estimated at The management and O\\ ner '. -~-~":.·: ... ~·:, _-: ... ,, ' ::. ..:....:•,..,._",'I•,--:--.:: ... ~- 1450. of Hudson Height~ will be Last year's situation was responsible for all maintenan­ unexpected, Wall said. There ce and repairs. No shuttle \Cr­ were three contributing fac­ vice will be provided. Since tors: an increase in the reten­ Hudson Heights is not college tion rate (the number of property, said Runyon, any -students returning to IC); an plans for ~ecurity patrols may increase in the yield rate (the necessitate an agreement bet­ number of incoming fresh­ ween IC and the Ithaca police people); a decrease in the at­ department. trition rate (the number of Assignment to Hudson .~ students leaving IC) . Heights will go according to t /1 "Hudson Heights has some lottery number and clas~ !.t-1, _-h,v~s real advantages over Valen­ statu~. Those presently tine," said Runyon, and it is residing in Hudson Heights i /1)0/ "unlikely" that Valentine will have first priority. So far, a 35 be operating next year. percent return ha,; been Runyon explained that Valen­ registered and an additional 13 tine is not as popular as it used apartments have been to be. This year, 15 out of a assigned. Hudson Heights (above), Valentine Dorm (below). Photos by Bruce Morosohk potential 70 spaces were requested for next year. Pai,:l' 2 THEITHACAN April 19, 1979 ITHACAN EDITORIAL We apologize to those readers who found a letter to the college community from the StudeT]J Organization for a Liberated Community in their copy of last week's Ithacan. We INQUIRER had no prior knowledge that this letter would be inserted into the paper and we do not ap­ prove of the SOLC having taken such action. Last Wednesday, an SOLC member turned in a Letter To The Editor, retracted it, and then at 10:30 on the night before we went to press, tried to resubmit the letter. At that time h) Joan Ford Photos h) Linda Melman of night, our pages were set and it was impossible to fit the letter into the paper. The staff of the Ithacan exolained the rPa,;ons fnr our deadline and exactlv whv it was impossible to fit Question: What would you like to see Student Government the feller into the paper. The representative of SOLC appeared to understand the lthacan's do next year? point, and agreed with it. Then without prior notification. last Thursday afternoon, the SOLC inserted copies of their letter into copies of the ITHACAN. In our eyes. this practice is completely uneth(cal. One would think that the SOLC would ask our permission or would at least inform us of their intentions. Because we are an incorporated company chartered by New York State, it is our right to insert supplements into the paper when we choose to do so. People who wish to have ar­ ticles, letters, cartoons, pictures or advertisements in the paper should contact the Ithacan, located in the basement of Landon Hall. Our article, cartoon, and picture deadline is Tuesday at 9pmfor Thursday's issue. Our Ad deadline is Monday at 6pm, and our deadline for letters and op eds is noon on Wednesday. We sincerely hope that the administration, faculty, and the students will be able to work together to make IC a more liberated community, however, in this process we hope that decisions will be made on a rational basis offact. The Ithacan Publishing Company would like to publicly apologize to any readers who were confused by this letter appearing as a supplement in some copies of the /tl,zacan. We Tom Wissenhach (Drama 79) were not responsible and we hope that in the future when people and groups wish to get I would like to see a more Judy Israel (Soc. 81) things printed in the paper, they will submit them to us, rather than unethically sneak them unified student body in terms I would like them to stick to into the paper behind our backs. • of rallies and drives for useful their campaign promises. causes. Library Ignores Student Needs We suggested, in the December·7, 1978 editorial. that the library hours be ch(lnf!,ed during exam week. In January, the library formed an internal ad-hoc committee to look into the matter. According to an article in the January 25 issue of the ITHACAN, the committee hoped "to draw a conclusion by spring break, and if necessary, institute temporary adjust­ ments whereever possible'' It would seem that the committee has not lived up (o its own expectations or fulfilled its obligations to the students whose interests they supposedly represent.