OPINION Study abroad student discusses terrorism in Spain Page 11 SPORTS Lunchbox basketball unites community members Page 26 Thursday, March 18, 2004 Dearth of activism Park -gives $7 million BY ANNE K. WALTERS in the college's master plan, created News Editor by Sasaki Associates Inc. in October 2001. It will be designed to exceed The college announced last the Leadership in Energy and Envi­ week that it received a $7 million ronmental Design standards of the gift to be used as part of the con­ U.S. Green Building Council. struction of a new business Peter Bardaglio, provost and school. vice president of academic affairs, Dorothy Park, president of the said solar energy and water con­ Park Foundation, made the person­ servation will be major elements of al gift toward the proposed $14 mil­ the building. lion new home for the School of Williams stressed that it is not Business. The college recently an­ the building itself that is important, nounced plans to construct a sus­ but establishing a learning envi­ tainable building for the school. ronment that is key. Dean Robert Ullrich said Freshman Josh Seidman-Zager Park's gift would provide the said he looks forward to seeing the school with a place to demonstrate new building on campus and is ideas about incorporating busi­ pleased that it will be environ­ ness and the environment. mentally friendly. He said this would be the first sus­ Senior Quinn Morris, a business tainable business school in the administration major, said a new country and would put the college on building is something the school the map. The design will desperately needs be­ be environmentally cause of Jack of space in friendly and lower oper­ its current facilities in ating and maintenance Smiddy Hall. gift," in Smiddy," she said. "You can't imagine Morris said she is Student groups become less involved this year how grateful we are to amazed that people like her." Pm are so willing to sup- BY JOE GERAGHTY activist movements. Leaders every week, and that isn't the case President Peggy R. port the school Editor in Chief graduated, priorities shifted, now," said Lucas Shapiro '03, a Williams said the college Park's gift is the first and momentum diminished. former student activist and now couldn't have been major gift toward the When the Young Democratic And YDS is not the only ac­ the national coordinator for more delighted with the business initiative and Socialists occupied the college's tivist organization that has faded YDS. "I'm really kind of sur­ gift. · the fifth-largest single gift in the col- Office of Admission for 34 hours in recent years. Students for a Just prised, and it's really unfortunate." "This is clearly a significant gift lege's history. in December 2000, they brought Peace, Ithaca College Democrats, Shapiro, who was involved in that will be a significant message Park's late husband, Roy H. the college to a standstill and ul­ Ithaca College Environmental activist campaigns against to others," she said. Park, served as chairman of the timately inspired a semester­ Society, BiGayLa and Created Sodexho Marriott and sweat­ Typically, the college an- board of trustees and the school of long discussion on the issue of Equal have all been relatively qui­ shop labor, said the reasons for the nounces that it is fund raising for communications was named in his private prisons. et this year. decline in student activism are var­ a particular project only after hav- honor in 1989. Now, just three years later, Members of all those groups ied, but the results are the same: ing already met half of its goal. Although this is a personal gift YDS is not even a presence on spoke to The Ithacan and ex­ The· campus is not as well in­ The college has been working from Park, her Park Foundation has campus. After a wildly suc­ pressed concern about the gener­ formed about important issues, silently for several years to raise sponsored numerous projects at the cessful campaign that rallied al lack of activism this year and and students do not get training money for the project, and Park's college. The primary recipient of hundreds of students around a said active membership has ·al­ and practice in organizing and gift gives the school and its fund- funding is the Park Scholars Pro­ single cause, the group fell vic­ most universally declined. working for change in the world. raising efforts a boost of confidence, gram, which provides full tuition, tim to the same pitfalls that ''There was a time when . Williams said. room and board for 60 students in have hurt a number of student groups like yPS were in the news See TURNOVER, Page 4 The building will be the first step the Park School. College to develop core experience BY CHRISTA LOMBARDI cussed common experience programs at com­ meeting Feb. 25. Reohr said the task force Chief Copy Editor parable colleges, the task force is still in the shared information it had collected, and par­ brainstorming process. ticipants discussed what the qualities of a For the past year, a task force has been ex­ "We want to convey to the Ithaca College common experience should be and how to amining ways for all Ithaca College students community that we're trying not to work in achieve them. to have a shared experience. Now members isolation," she said. "We want to share what Howard Erlich, dean of the School of of that group are seeking ideas from the wider we've been thinking about and encourage oth­ Humanities and Sciences and chairman of college community. ers to participate in the discussion." the task force, said constructing a common Janet Reohr, interim assistant dean at the Assembled by the provost in April 2003 experience would further the Institutional School of Humanities and Sciences and mem­ in an attempt to solicit recommendations for Plan by creating a more important identi­ ber of the task force, said possible ideas for shared experiences, the 16-member Core Ex­ ty for the college. a common experience include first-year res­ perience Task Force is composed of admin­ "The goal is to improve the students' ed­ idential life programs, interdisciplinary istrators, faculty from each of the five ucational experience here, and it is to make capstone experiences, topical discussions and schools and students. The group has met bi­ it more coherent and more identifiably Itha­ community service activities. weekly since Fall 2003. ca College," he said. She said a core experience would help The task force plans to release an inter­ Megan Sullivan, SGA vice president of strengthen the link between students and Itha­ im progress report online by the end of the academics, said it's important for the college CARLY CHAMBERLIN/THE ITHACAN ca College as a whole since many graduates month and a finalized report in May 2005. community to realize that the intention is not FRESHMAN CAROLYN PENDER reads have more of a sense of connect~on to their Representatives from Faculty Council, to require students to take certain courses. for the first-year reading program In individual schools. Staff Council, Student Affairs, Academic "We're looking to be able to provide more August. By developing a core experience, Reohr stressed, however, that while Achievement and Advising, and the Student the college hopes to create more shared members have already researched and dis- Government Association attended an open See GROUP, Page 4 experiences llke the reading program. 2 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2004 -Nati()ll & World Spain vows to remove troops RISING UP IN PROTEST Spain's new leader vowed Monday to with­ draw his nation's 1,300 troops from Iraq and called the war "an error" based on "lies~'-' But the Bush administration sought to contain the political damage from the weekend's upset vic­ tory by Spain's SocialistParty, stressing the two nations' shared goal of defeating terror. In a move that would fracture the coalition N·EWS HRIEFS AND LOCAL EVENTS of 35 nations with troops in Iraq, incoming Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said he The Vote 2004 would withdraw the Spanish troops in Iraq by John Kerry took his presidential June 30 unless they are serving under a new U.N. r . campaign to the small but poten­ mandate. tially pivotal state of West Virginia While U.S. officials downplayed the signif- · [ Tuesday - and the Republicans icance of Zapatero's threat, independent analysts I were waiting. called the ele'Ctoral defeat of Spanish Prime Min­ j ' Before Kerry even arrived in ister Jose Maria Aznar a disaster for the Bush ! Charleston, W.Va., for an event administration. Aznar was the most important' l showcasing his support for veter­ U.S. ally on Iraq after Britain's Tony Blair. 'I ans, President Bush had unveiled Aznar's surprise defeat followed bombings an ad on local TV accusing him of that killed at least 200 and injured 1,500 in ! undercutting U.S. troops inJraq by Madrid on Thursday. The government initially I I voting against war funding. blamed the attacks on Basque separatists, but "John Kerry: Wrong on defense," on the eve of the election, a previously unknown said the ad, which focused on the al-Qaida figure claimed responsibility for the presumptive Democratic nominee's bombings, saying they were intended to punish 2003 vote against an $87 billion Spain for its cooperation with the United appropriations bill to fund. military States on the war in Iraq, which up to 90 per­ operations in Iraq. cent of Spaniards have opposed.