THURSDAY ITHACA, N. y. NOVEMBER 7, 2002 28 PAGES, FREE VOLUME 70, NUMBER 10 The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community WWW .ITHACA.EDU/ITHACAN TRICK OR TREAT Students propose diversity initiative BY ANNE K. WALTERS such as race, class, sexual orientation and po­ Staff Writer litical views - no one class can adequately ad­ dress all issues related to diversity. She said that Every student at the college, from music ma­ ideally students would be able to choose from jors to physical therapy majors, may be required a wide variety of courses related to diversity to take classes on diversity issues in the future. in order to fulfi 11 the requirement. The Student Government Association is "Just one class misses the point. It turns into examining ways to ensure that all students a tolerance class or a sensitivity class. That is at the college, regardless of school or major, the opposite of what this is going to be," she are exposed to diversity within their acade­ said. "A political correctness class is ridiculous." mic programs. But the The idea was first se­ college still has a long riously discussed in the way to go before a di­ '' Just one class Bias-Related Incidents versity requirement be­ misses the point. It turns Task Force in Fall 2000, comes a reality. which was created to "It's to make sure into a tolerance class or a formulate responses to that every student who bias-related incidents, graduates from Ithaca sensitivity class ... a said junior Eric Lieb, a College has been in a member of the Diversity space where they can political correctness Awareness Committee. discuss certain issues," Last year, the cam­ said junior Danielle c,assI 1s• n'd' 1cu Ious. '' pus's focus changed D' Abate, Student Gov­ -DANIELLE D'ABATE following Sept. 11 and ernment Association Student Government Association so the idea was not dis­ vice president of acade­ Vice President of Academics cussed in depth, he mics. "So everybody is said. The new provost, prepared in their preprofessional world to be SGA's executive board platform and the Di­ able to work within a global community." versity Awareness Committee have now The provost is currently considering a pro­ made it easier for the diversity requirement posal to create a collegewide committee made to fall into place, Lieb said. up of students. faculty and staff to investigate The SGA Academic Committee is cur­ a diversity cour e requirement, said D'Abate, rently exploring the option of a diversity re-­ who ran as part of the Cynosure party in last quirement by examining what other institutions spring's SGA elections. The party advocated have done to implement similar requirements, a diversity requirement as part of its platform. D' Abate said. She attended an American As­ D 'Abate said that she would initially like sociation of Colleges and Universities con­ students to be required to take one course that ference about diversity last month with Larry would address some topic concerning di­ Shinagawa, director of the Center for the Study versity. Many of the courses currently offered of Culture, Race and Ethnicity. KRISTEN MAGEE/THE ITHACAN by departments such as politics and sociol­ According to conference information, 60 FRESHMEN LEAH KNIGHT, left, and Stacey Kilton take advantage of the free· ogy could fit this criteria, she said. percent of colleges are currently working to pumpkin carving at IC After Dark's Halloween events last Thursday. But D' Abate also said she believes that be- develop a diversity requirement, she said. cause diversity encompasses so many issues - See GROUP, Page 4 Whooping cough found on campus 'Broadcast storms' cloud college network BY KELLI B. GRANT BY KATIE MOORE derson has tried to help students main way is through peer-to-peer ly accessible and searchable to News Editor Staff Writer and faculty to find other alterna­ services, such as Blubster any person who wishes to add or tives to accessing the periodical and KazaA. Some of take files. In the midst of cold and flu sea­ Ithaca College has a new database for the library. the servers set "It's sort of like living in an son, a highly contagious and un­ form of inclement weather. In order to compensate for the up an apartment building and leaving common disease has taken hold ia "Broadcast storms" have been slow network, Henderson said he your door open all the time for Tompkins County. causing intermittent network has used other sources besides anybody to deposit whatever According to a campuswide e-mail performance problems all over those online to show students they want to in your apart­ sent out by Health Center Director campus. the books or information ment without your David Newman Friday, at least one case The "storms," as they were they seek but added that this knowledge, or of pertussis, better known as whooping called in an e-mail sent to all stu­ is frustrating for all parties take things from cough, has been identified on campus. dents from the Office of Infor­ involved. it," Taves said. "The Karen Bishop of the Tompkins Coun­ mation Technology, are "high Only a few computers most important thing ty Health Department confirmed that volumes of traffic originating carrying denial service students can do to pro­ there are two cases at the college, part from one or more devices con­ attack viruses are nec­ tect themselves, their of a countywide outbreak of more than nected to our network." essary to slow the computers, and the col­ 70 cases since July. Michael Taves, director of entire network, said lege network is to have "Each year we usually only see academic computing and client Taves. Students' virus protection." zero or one case," she said. "To have services, said denial service at­ computers can Three out of the four com­ an outbreak of this magnitude is un­ tacks are one cause of the download the puters found with denial ser­ usual for us." storms. These attacks are re­ attackers with- vice attacks last week had no Initial symptoms are similar to peated requests triggered by a out even See BANDWIDTH, Page 4 those of the common cold, but computer somewhere on the In­ knowing it. coughing fits last longer, causing the ternet to a server in order to cre­ "The most REBECCA GARDNERffHE ITHACAN "whoop" from which the disease ate so much traffic that the common way is FLIERS ENCOURAGING gets its name. It is not life-threaten­ server cannot operate. by people download- members of the Ithaca ing, Bishop said. Instructional Service Librarian ing things that look innocent College community to boy­ The names of the infected indi­ John Henderson said network to them and are presented to them cott the Office of Academic viduals have not been released, but ac­ trouble has been an issue for the in a way that looks innocent," Computing and Client cording to the e-mail, antibiotic past few years, but that this year Taves said. empty Services were put up last treatment is recommended for anyone "the interruption seems to be more Anonymous game servers are folder in the week by an unknown group who has had close contact with a per­ frequent." During periods when one way to download the denial student's computer in response to problems with son who may be infected. the network is slow or down, Hen- service attacks, but Taves said the by default, which is immediate- the college's network. INSIDE ACCENT ••• 15 CLASSIFIED ••• 21 COMICS ••• 22 OPINION ••• 12 SPORTS ••• 28 2 THE ITHACAN NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2 National and lnternation I s but Netanyahu bluntly advised Sharon against trying to pre­ side for that long over an unstable coalition that would be plagued by the competing demands of small factions. Bush looks to rebuild support for war The Bush administration, anticipating a successful U.N. Security Council vote on an Iraq resolution, plans to em­ bark soon on a campaign to build public support in the Unit­ ed States to challenge and most likely unseat Iraqi Presi­ dent Saddam Hussein, U.S. officials said. At a time when polls suggest declining enthusiasm for a U.S.-led military assault on Saddam, top officials will urge opinion makers to focus on Saddam's actions in re­ sponse to the U.N. resolution on weapons inspections. They aim to regain momentum and prepare the · political ground for his forcible ouster, if necessary. The public relations effort "has to focus on all the things that have gone on in Iraq, the threats it presents and the way people have had to live. And the fact that things could be a lot better if he wasn't around," a se­ nior Bush administration official said. With the administration's blessing, a new group is form­ ing to press the case in the United States and Europe for eject­ ing Saddam from power. Called the Committee for the Lib­ eration of Iraq, the organization is modeled on a successful lobbying campaign to expand the NATO alliance. MARK MAGNIER/LOS ANGELES TIMES Antitrust case·ruling favors Microsoft MOHAMMED MAQBOOL, 60, carves many tombstones for shaheed, or martyrs in the Kashmir region. Microsoft Corp. won a resounding victory in its antitrust Maqbool says he is used to hearing about peace, but doubts he'll live to see it. case Friday after a federal judge in Washington rejected from India, vowing to keep up a struggle that has cost and at times belittled efforts by state prosecutors to im­ Martyr deaths continue in Kashmir 60,000 lives since 1989. pose stiffer sanctions on the company than it agreed to in While pundits hope a recent election in the Indian-held a settlement with the Justice Department.