Ithaca College Digital Commons @ IC The thI acan, 1999-2000 The thI acan: 1990/91 to 1999/2000 2-10-2000 The thI acan, 2000-02-10 Ithaca College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1999-2000 Recommended Citation Ithaca College, "The thI acan, 2000-02-10" (2000). The Ithacan, 1999-2000. 19. http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/ithacan_1999-2000/19 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, 1999-2000 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. Vol. 67, No. 19 Thursday Ithaca, N. Y. February 10, 2000 28 Pages, Free www.ithaca.edu/ithacan The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community ---- -- ---- ---- -- ---------------------- Accent Inside Sports Pool partners Accent 13 Classified 21 Superstitious players Students help disabled children Comics 20 Find out what quirky things Opinion 10 swim through class. Page 15 your favorite teams do. Page 23 Sports n Student hurt in Terrace fall Freshman listed in stable condition It has not been determined "She never screamed, 'Help!'" BY MEREDITH JORGENSEN whether the incident was acciden­ Sauers said. "I thought if I tried to AND CARLA KUCINSKI tal or intentional. catch her, I would break her Staff Writers Sources in Terrace 6 said they arms." .had heard banging and moaning At about that time, Campus A 19-year-old female resident of coming from the woman's single Safety responded to a call from an Terrace 6 fell or jumped an esti­ room all day. unidentified student reporting a fe­ mated 40 to 50 feet from her third­ Shortly before 6 p.m., freshman male hanging from a window on.the floor dormitory room window Jeff Sauers heard a student trying third floor of the building. Just as shortly after 6 p.m. last night. to break down the third-floor resi­ Campus Safety pulled up to the ter­ Public Information Director dent's door. race, the female fell face-down to Dave Maley declined to release the "I was in my room, and some the ground. name of the freshman student. He kid was banging on her door," he Maley said the slope of the said she is currently being treated said. ground aided in breaking her fall. at Robert Packer Hospital in Sauers went into the hall to see She was airlifted by Packer Sayre, Pa., for a broken collar bone. where the noise was coming from Hospital's Guthrie One rescue he­ A hospital employee said an and was told the resident of the licopter from the Terrace Fields. Ithaca College student had been ad­ room was hanging from her win­ Her parents, who reside in Glenhill, ALEX MORRISON/THE ITHACAN mitted and was in stable condition dow. He said he ran downstairs to A FRESHMAN of Terrace 6 fell from a third-story window Wednesday night. She was taken via helicopter to a hospital in at9 p.m. attempt to assist. See STUDENTS, page 4 Sayre, Pa. Trustees to review final goals BY ELLEN STAPLETON Staff Writer The All-College Planning and Priorities Committee will report on the college's strategic plan, the document that will set the course for the institution's future, when the board of trustees visits next week. President Peggy Williams, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Jim Malek and committee members, will pre­ sent the specific goals for each of the nine priorities in the plan. "I think we arc at a good point right now to do the presentations to the board," said Diane Noccrino, Student Government As­ sociation vice president of communications and committee member. "We have our pri­ orities down and our goals. I think it i~ a great way to get feedback from the board." ALEX MORRISON/THE ITHACAN The nine priorities - academic program AT THE SGA MEETING Tuesday, sophomore Michael McNamara (left) of the Ithaca College Environmental Society shows a development, diversity, enrollment, expe­ map of the proposed Southwest Park development. Sophomore Anna Ehrlich (right), vice president of ICES, views the plan. riential and pcrfonnance-based learning. fa­ cilities, quality of student life, quality of work life, resource development and tech­ nology - were set last spring, after a se­ SGA denounces development ries of roundtable discussions with the cam­ pus community and one discussion with the area. highway behind retailers such as Tops. hoard of trustees. The decision to denounce development Kmart and Wegmans. According to the Senior Student Trustee Kyle Johnson, a Students against came after a presentation by the environ­ Generic Environmental Impact State­ committee member, said he docs not mental group at Tuesday's SGA meeting. ment, a document commissioned by the know how the hoard will react to the pre­ retail park plan ICES's proposal was approved by SGA city to examine concerns within the area, sentation of the goals. with 23 votes in favor, five against and there is room for potential development of Nocerino said the board has alreadv ~ecn BY BENJAMIN B. MCMILLAN three abstentions. 800,000 square feet of retail space and the priority statements and understand~ the s·1a/f_Writer Junior Scan Vormwald, president of about 200,000 feet of office space in the plan's main objectives. ICES, addressed Student Congress, region. "I do not think we are looking for their The Student Government Association along with other ICES members, and Joe . Sophomore Anna Ehrlich, ,·ice presi­ approval at this point, I think we arc Just has joined with the Ithaca College Envi­ Wetmore, a resident of Ithaca and owner dent of ICES, cited the environmental im­ sharing our ideas and sharing the process ronmental Society to write a letter to Itha­ of the Autumn Leaves Bookstore. pact statement. and told about negative with them," she said. ca's Common Council, condemning de­ The area, about 381 acres or 7 percent The purpose of the plan 1s to guide all velopment in the city's Southwest Park of the city, is located off the Route 13 state See ICES, page 4 See FINAL, page 4 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2000 2 THE ITHACAN 1l~4'h1: News Federal judge opens New York primary to all GOP candidates BY MICHAEL W. BLOOMROSE in upcoming states. News Editor One Republican strategist told the Post that the real contest between McCain and A federal judge ordered an open com­ Bush lay ahead in the next Republican pri­ petition among the three GOP presidential mary in South Carolina. candidates in New York's March 7 prima­ 'The test for Bush in South Carolina 1s 'ry, according to Albany Times Union. he's got to come back and be a better can­ U.S. District Judge Edward R. Korman didate," said the strategist to the Post. 'This dubbed the state Republican election rules is not just going out and trashing McCain. a "ballot access scheme" in his Friday rul­ It's Bush coming back and using money and ing, which has opened up the competition organization and proving he's a better can­ in the stale primary to encompass Arizona didate." Sen. John McCain and former Ambassador According to the Times, there is still a Alan Keyes in what had been, up until this hard road ahead for McCain, and many po­ time, a two-man race between GOP front­ tential pitfalls. The senator's rising appeal runner Texas Gov. George W. Bush and pub­ is built on public infatuation with his per­ lisher Steve Forbes, who dropped out of the sonality and his gripping biography. Some race Wednesday. of the luster could fade as voters focus more According to The New York Times, the on his policy positions over.time. Bush is ruling comes two days after Bush and his already trying to tar him as a hypocrite on chief New York supporter, Gov. George E. campaign finance reform because he has ac­ Pataki, dropped their attempt to use the cepted donations from lobbyists. state's election rules to bar McCain from the Aides to Pataki also used the federal court March 7 primary. victory io poke at McCain's crusade McCain had attempted to qualify across against the election establishment. New York for ballot access, but petition chal­ "It gave the McCain campaign the abil­ lenges by the state GOP had left him on the HARRY HAMBURG/KNIGHT RIDDER ity to talk about something that is not of great ballot in only 19 of the state's 31 congres­ TEXAS GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH (left) and Arizona Sen. John McCain talk before a significance to the average voter," said 2.enia sional districts. He had sued in the Brook­ debate among the candidates seeking the Republican nomination for president. Mucha, a spokeswoman for Pataki to the lyn district court in order to overcome the and small base of support left him out of 12 The federal court's decision is the latest Times. rules imposed by New York's state govern­ districts. national victory for McCain, coming Much depends, however, on South Car­ ment Korman termed this rule bizarre and closely on the heels of his 49 percent to 30 olina. A victory for either Bush or McCain According to the Times, candidates in wrote in his decision that its only purpose percent victory last week over Bush in the there on Feb. 19 could irrevocably damage New York were prohibited from sending was "to disadvantage a candidate for pres- New Hampshire primary. the campaign of either candidate. groups of volunteers across the state to col­ ident who docs not enjoy the support of the According to The Washington Post, Most Republican strategists said the New lect signatures to get on to the ballot.