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Op1n1on Accenr SpoRTS Inoex Accent ....................... 13 Privacy Invasion Different Beat No"O" Classified ................... 2:3 Shower voyeurs Rave descends on Opening blues for Comics. .... ....... 24 should recognize 10 Ithaca Bomber football Opinion .................. 10 impacts of spying 13 27 Sports ....................... 25 The IT The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community VOLUME 65, NUMBER 4 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1997 32 PAGl:S, FRI:!: Student suspended on campu~ ground~ urllil 1he ~,1u­ Scott Ernst no longer at College; at1on wa~ re~olvcd. ··1 am not hil­ ler or re\cntl ul tov. artb ,111yom: 111 football player to return home the ,y,tem," K1111 ,a1tl. ""The) Court on Wedne~day night and coulJ ha\e handkJ 11 a better By Adam B. Ellick pleaded guilty to two v1olat1011~· way, a lairn way I never h,1d lhL· Ithacan Staff hara~~mcnt and di~ordcrly con­ chance lo confront our ,tccuwr, ·· Scott Ernst '98 is no longer a duct. He will ~crvc 200 hour~ of Grow, Allen and Smail did rH>l student at Ithaca College, accord­ commumty service. appear al the campu, 1uJ1ual ing to Dave Maley, director of "The charges I am convicted hearing or town court. puhlic information for the of arc part of a pica hargain," ~a,d Ermt plan, to return home to College. Ernst. "In no way doc~ n mean Cal1forn1a and u~c the year lo "I' vc hccn suspended from that I am guilty of these charge~ acquire worh. experience. He ,.11d school for one [academic] year," It was part of a 'deal."' he may return lo the (\,liege next said Ernst, who was a punter for David Kim '99, who allegedly fall l<l recc1 vc the nine crcd1h he the football team. accompanied Ernst to the need, lo graduate. On Sept. 7, Ernst was arrested women's door, pleaded guilty to He 1, abo con~1dcnng the po~­ for five misdemeanor~ and a vio­ one violation of disorderly con­ ,ibilily ot attending .i college 111 lation, after allegedly harassing duct on Wednesday night and wil I the San Franc,~C(l 13,t) ,trea to female students Emily Grow '00, ~crve 50 hours of community ~cr­ earn the credit,. Nicole Allen '00 and Annie Smail v1cc. Kim, an offensive lineman Ermt, who recc1\ed E.1,tern '00 with a baseball bat inside for the football team, is ~till a stu­ College Athlet1c Conlcrenc·e Terrace JO, according to campus dent at the College, Maley said. Up~late New Yorh. honor nil! m safety. Kim said he has returned to the 1996. 1, still undcrnkd on 111, He plea bargained at Town football team. He wasn't allowed future football plan, ithacanlChuck Holliday Faculty lacks gender balance Sergeant Ronald Hart searches for an air pistol In the S Lot next to the tennis courts last Thursday night. The effects of downsizing there arc proportionally more PART TWO IN As a result of factors such as women m temporary non-tenure A SERIES declining enrollment, rising col­ clig1hlc positiom like adjunct Man with weapon lege costs, increased demand for professor and instructor. they arc financial aid and less funds allo­ also often the first ones to be cut. cated toward salaries, the College sometimes leaving no women 111 By Lauren Bishop and and universities across the coun­ their departments. arrested, charged Christine Peterson try implemented downsizing This was the case with the eco­ Ithacan Staff plans to prevent deficits. The nomics department at the end of second-degree menacing. Lee By Chuck Holliday Although women are well-rep­ changing role of financial aid the Spnng 1997 semester. Sherry was released and assigned to resented in the Ithaca College forced the College to spend more Wctchler, assistant profcs~or of and Jay Miller appear in Town of Ithaca Court administration, many faculty money in that area. This allowed cconorrncs, was cnthus1a!>llcally Ithacan Staff where, he will be arraigned on less money to be spent on salaries recommended for tenure by her "What I remember is sitting the three charges. members feel this is not the case among the College faculty. There for faculty, staff and administra­ department and the dean, ,aid on my friends' couch drinking When Lee awoke Friday tion, according to a Nov. 7, 1996 Frank Musgrave, profc~sor and a rum and coke and then I morning, he tried to piece are now three departments at the Ithacan article. As a result, chair of the econorrncs depart­ remember being arrested," said together the events of the pre­ College that have no women fac­ ulty members. approximately 60 positions were ment. But she was denied tenure Erik C. Lee, 21, an Ithaca vious night. Faculty members sec this as a cut throughout the College from at the provost's level for reasons College student currently tak­ "I didn't want to leave my cause for concern, but many arc 1994 to 1996, according to the of inst1tullonal need, Mu~grave ing a year off from studies. room," Lee said. "I was hopeful that the College will College's staffing plan sum­ said. He added he appealed the Lee, wearing only his boxer scared. I was confused. I didn't achieve more balanced gender maries. decision to the provost and the shorts and flip flops, allegedly know what the hell I had done. representation under the leader­ Out of these 60 positions, president but they refu,ed to th,­ spent last Thursday night wan­ I had a couple flashbacks of ship of the College's first woman . about 38 were from the School of cuss the case. dering the streets of the South running through the woods. I president. Humanities and Sciences. Since Hill with an air pistol, coming remember falling down in the see WOMEN, page 6 into contact with several road once." Ithaca College students. While Lee remembers little, City and State Police and others, including his house­ Number of Full-Time Faculty • WOMEN • MEN Ithaca College Campus Safety mate Randi Lieberman '98, Officers apprehended Lee recall the night's events. Instructor between Garden Apartments Lieberman said she 27 and 28 at approximately returned to their Pennsylvania Assistant Professor I :30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 12. Avenue home at approximate­ State troopers handcuffed him ly 8:30 p.m. Thursday to find Associate Professor and questioned him about the Lee highly intoxicated. At the whereabouts of the pistol, request of Lieberman and Professor while campus safety and city another housemate, Lee went officers searched the Garden upstairs. Minutes later Apartments, tennis courts, C, Lieberman said she heard R and S parking lots and the unusual commotion coming Instructor wooded area between Garden from Lee's room. A houscmate 1 25 and Coddington Road. went to check on him, and Lee Assistant Professor 9 Lee was taken into custody ran out of the house with his 9 Associate Professor by New York State Troopers, air pistol, she said. Lieberman 7 arrested and charged with two then called Ithaca City police. Professor counts of fourth-degree crimi­ At 11 :45 p.m., Allyson nal mischief and one count of see LEE, page 4 0 10 20 30 40 so 60 70 80 90 100 2 THE ITHACAN SEPTEMBER 18, 1997 Speaker talks park conservation Relays to bring involved in By Matt Dickinson this cause. A Ithacan Staff public hearing Kara Hagedorn, a naturalist for on the issue is campus unity the New York State Parks, spoke tentatively to several Ithaca College students scheduled for By Conor Donnelly Wednesday about the importance Oct. 7. "The Ithacan Staff Take part. of changing certain areas from town board has residential to conservation zones. to listen to The Office of Minority The speaker was sponsored by anything you Ithaca College's First Affairs will sponsor Ithaca say at the hear­ Unity Relays llnd Ice the Ithaca College Environmental College's First Unity Relays Society (ICES). James Sharp '98, i n g Cream Social Saturday, "d ~ and Ice Cream Social Sept. ·20, 1997 president of ICES, said the group H age dorn sa1 . ,_R~.:---:-= ·"-~--.-·:-.-·..-. - Saturday, Sept. 20. Buttermilk Field plans to act on the information the "I just feel ,-.;_ Keeon Gregory, director of speaker provided. "A lot of stu­ that nature is a p..__ _,,.. -;:,;1,a;,- minority affairs, said he hopes 9 a.m. - Registration dents here really enjoy the parks, must," said L_/::::_......:=:::::~!I!~ the relays will help to promote for events but don't know all the politics Todd Pray '99, The Ithacan/ Angela Wilson and encourage solidarity on that go on," he said. who attended Kate Hagedorn, a New York state naturalist, raises campus. He said a relay seems 10 a.m. - Relays/Fun The town of Ithaca is currently the lecture. environmental concerns. like an appropriate way to Walk in the process of developing the gather together, considering Park, Recreation and Open Space 11 a.m. - Ice Cream the interest most students have Social and Public Plan, Hagedorn said.