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NOVEMBER 1 5, 2001 . 28 PAGES, FREE www.ithaca.edu/ithacan The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community Students face On to the playoffs tough choice for housing BY JOE GERAGHTY Assistant News Editor It could be more difficult for students cur­ rently living on C?:Jllpus to get approval to move off campus if the college succeeds in adding 324 beds to its housing options by leasing the College Circle Apartments. Because of continued residential over­ crowding, a large number of students may still need to move off campus, said Brian McAree, vice president for student affairs and campus life. On the other hand, the college may need to house more students on cam­ pus next year to fill the additional beds. This uncertainty has left students who arc considering housing options for next year wondering what to do. Sophomore Michael Styczynski has already signed an off-campus lease for next year. 'Tm not too worried about not gettmg let off campus," he said. "They've been offering money to get people to move off campus." But the Office of Residential Life has sent out a letter reminding students that they should not sign leases before they are ap­ proved to live off campus. If a student signs a lease but does not receive approval, the stu­ dent is under financial obligation both to the college and the leasing landlord. "Just because we let a large number off in past years does not mean we will do the same in the next year," said Bonnie Solt Prunty, acting director of residential life and judicial affairs. "There are a number of things that determine how many we release." Sophomore Benjamin Vucic, who is planning to sign an off-campus lease with­ in the next week, said if he does not sign a lease now, there simply will not be off-cam­ "· pus housing available by the time he finds out from Residential Life whether he has been approved to move off campus in April. "You're really forced to choose," he said. •·If you don't sign a lease now, you end up get­ ting stuck on campus, but if you do ~1gn a lease, you could be forced to stay on campus .. , Prunty said if students simply refused to sign leases until they were guaranteed off­ campus approval, then landlords would be forced to wait as well. McAree said it is important for students to understand their options and the conse­ quences of signing leases now. "If people sign leases before approval. they are taking a risk," he said. "If we. as a GARRETT M. SMITH/THE ITHACAN SENIOR QUARTERBACK BRIAN YOUNG (No. 6) and senior tight end Con or Mulkeen embrace after Young took a knee on the last college, wind up leasing the Circles for next play for the Cortaca Jug victory Saturday. See pages 14-15 for a photo essay, and check pages 23-24 for coverage of Saturday's year and in the future for on-campus hous­ event and a preview of the Bombers' first NCAA playoff trip since 1994. They travel to Montclair State (N.J.) on Saturday. ing, those beds will have to be filled first, be­ fore we permit students to move off campus." Copyright law broken Investigators find offenses on freshmen PCs BY NICOLE GERRING several full-length movies, televi­ Policy by illegally hosting copy­ Staff Writer sion shows and pirated software. righted material on his computer. Now Academic Computing All students must sign the legl!,HY. .: : Freshman Michael Pakradooni and Client Services has suspended binding contract bef~re theY,: ~~Ili ~ · didn't see any problem with down­ his ResNet connection for a year, connect tO the system .. ,. ,. :: :_ f l loading·ni~ic and movies from the and the Office of Judicial Affairs has The contract sta~ that '.~~ ~ j · -Internet ~jrl&.computer this fall. ordered him to perfonn 20.hours of abide by ACCS and ottier Ithaca'Cdi-l! , Sinc.e".-:imiving at the college, community service. Iege policies may· resuJt in the Joss JOE PASTERIS/THE ITHACAN \ Pakradooiii had built up a collection Pakradooni violated the All­ of computer and/or network privi- FRESHMAN MICHAEL PA!(RADOONI uses his computer, which was ' of more than 7,000 MP3·music files, college Computer and Network Use See ACCS, Page 2 disconnected from ResNet following his violation of copyright law. INSIDE ACCENT ••• 13 CLASSIFIED ••• 21 COMICS ••• 20 . OPINION ••• 10 SPORTS ••• 23 , 1· I • • , l : ' , J ' ~ ' I t ' • f t ' J '· ~ ,' } 'j. .: ' } ' ! ~ '· J ' . ,• ! I c\ I A ! ; J ,I, !.. '. :. • • ! . t : ! ~ , • ~ . ,. , : ... , , . , , , ~,,I, f, 1,,.·__;_· _ ___;_ ______._ i THE ITHACAN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER i 5, 2001 National and international News Putin said he was willing to work with NATO, the U.S.­ Military forces take over Jalalabad LEADERS TALK NUCLEAR WEAPONS European military alliance that formed in 1949 to counter Soviet influence. The rout of Afghanistan's Taliban extended into its eth­ Bush, who directed the Pentagon to recommend cuts nic Pashtun homeland Tuesday with the capture of Jalal­ in nuclear weapons, said he may be willing to reduce the abad, even as the Taliban's supreme leader urged his re­ stockpile to as few as 1,700 warheads. treating troops to regroup and stop running around "like slaughtered chickens." Plane crashes in NYC neighborhood American warplanes struck fleeing Taliban forces out­ side Kabul, the capital, as United Front officials took con­ Just seconds before it corkscrewed into a Queens neigh­ trol of the city. The U.S.-led anti-terrorism coalition 1s hop­ borhood, American Airlines Flight 587 rattled loudly twice. ing that the United Front's victories in Kabul and the north Its pilot complained of turbulence from a plane in front will persuade Pashtuns in southern Afghanistan to rebel of it, according to the cockpit voice recorder. against the Taliban and help finish them off. Although National Transportation Safety Board chair­ The fall of Jalalabad, 146 miles southeast of Kabul, marked woman Marion Blakey said Tuesday that the agency's in­ the first Taliban loss of a city dominated by Pashtuns, who vestigation was moving very quickly, the cause of the crash make up 40 percent of Afghanistan's population of 25 mil­ remained unclear. lion people and the overwhelming majority of Taliban ranks. All signs point to an accident rather than an act ofter­ rorism, Blakey said, but "nothing has been ruled out." Search continues for anthrax letters The relatively intact engines puzzled experts who had expected engine problems to be key to explaining the The State Department started hunting for an anthrax­ plane's crash shortly after takeoff Monday. It claimed at . laden letter among it. impounded mail Tuesday, after new­ least 262 lives on a flight from John F. Kennedy Interna­ ly reported tests found evidence of the dangerous bacte­ tional Airport to Santo Domingo. Five more are missing ria at eight of 55 sites tested at the department's Sterling, from the seaside community of Rockaway Beach, N.Y. Va., mail-sorting facility. For some New Yorkers, the crash was tragic beyond fath­ The contamination, plus the fact that no State personnel oming. Two months ago, families in the same community have contracted anthrax since a worker at the Sterling facility had watched the World Trade Center towers burn and fall, was hospitalized with the disease Oct. 25, convinced au­ losing scores of their own, mainly firefighters and police. thorities that they may have an anthrax-ridden letter in the "We have to learn psychologically how to deal with some­ department's mail that has been impounded since Oct. 24. CHUCK KENNEDY/KNIGHT-RIDDER TRIBUNE thing like this," New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Tues­ If a letter containing anthmx is found at the State De­ RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN, left, and day. "New York will do fine. We'll get through it." partment or in impounded mail at an embassy overseas, it President George W. Bush walk to a news con­ would be the fourth in six weeks and could offer clues to ference in Washington, D.C., Tuesday. Price tag of attacks keeps increasing the sender's.identity. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks cost the country $100 bil­ Colleges fear drop in foreign students Presidents agree to weapons reduction lion, but the price tag is nearly $2 trillion if the immedi­ The evolving anti-terror measures could cut into what ate short-term loss in stock-market wealth is included, ac­ has become one of America's big industries: providing high- Heralding "a new day" in U.S.-Russian relations, Pres­ cording to a recent study. er education to the world. · ident Bush announced historic plans Tuesday to scrap more By 2011, if policy-makers and businesses overreact in re­ In a report set for release Tuesday, the Institute of In­ than two-thirds of America's long-range nuclear arsenal sponse to the attacks, it could have as much as a $2 trillion ternational Education said in the last academic year the num­ and got a pledge in kind from his Russian counterpart to annual impact on the economy, said economist Peter Navar­ ber of foreign students in the United States rose by 6.4 per­ do the same.