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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1998 32 PAGES, FREE Student government leaders confess Eight break alcohol policy during leadership conference members of the staff allegedly By Scott Hepburn consumed alcohol, a violation of Ithacan Staff [North East Affiliate of College· Four prominent members of and University Residence Halls] the Residence Hall Association code," said Tarant, a sophomore. (RHA) and Student Government As a condition of participation Association (SGA) admitted this in the NEACURH leadership week to violating the alcohol pol­ conference, all delegates were icy at a leadership conference required to sign a contract assen­ hosted by Ithaca College in ing their compliance with the pol­ November. icy. In an announcement Sixteen delegates Wednesday, Jan. 28 directed to represented Ithaca College at the the RHA general assembly, RHA conference that was held on the President Nick Tarant, Vice­ College campus and at the President Becky Gay and Holiday Inn in Ithaca. National Communications According to the policy, "all Coordinator Kim Niles participants will remain alcohol­ acknowledged their involvement and drug-free from arrival to in the violation. SGA Vice departure from the conference." President of Campus Affairs Sean While delegates ' of the Heffron also violated the policy. conference were required to sign ''Three delegates representing a contract, the 27-person Ithaca College, as well as five conference staff did not sign a similar contract. However, staff assemblqt and distributed the ,· ,~ _1*Nl for the . Emily DeWanlrhe Ithacan '· ; ~~ce, inside which the Junior SWI Hefflon, SGA vice pre9ldent of campue affalra (left), and aophom01'9 Mck Tarant, RHA •, :·NB.(etnu{: alcohol policy was · prwaldent, uld they broke a leader1hlp conference alcohol policy. Ithaca College hosted a North clearly stated. Eaat Afflllate of College and University Residence Halls convention In November, during which eight Conference co-chair Dominic College atuclents violated the subetance rule and are now banned from con~ces. Cottone, a junior, said the policy the truth. Part of leadership is talc- reached for comment. Niles resulted in the loss of award appl~ to both delegates and ing ownership of mistalces. This declined to comment. consideration and voting rights in staff. He added that veterans to has not halted us-this won't halt NEACURH's regional board the region. · the NEACURH conference us." of directors recommended to the "(The Regional Board of would be quite familiar with the Prior to serving as a member College last week that the Directors] did not place us on policy. of the NEACURH conference individuals who broke the policy probation because they wanted to "Everyone knew about the staff i_n November, Heffron, a should sit on a committee see Ithaca College remain a alcohol policy," Cottone said. "It junior, attended six conferences designed to revise NEACURH's leader in the region," said might have been overlooked in as a delegate and acknowledged alcohol policy and write letters of Chetnik, who is the co-adviser of the conference packet by an that he was familiar with confer- apology to all members of the RHA. individual who has never been to ence policy. conference staff. As national communications a conference before." "I had a beer with my dinner in The eight perpetrators · will coordinator, Niles, a junior, 1s The decision by the RHA my room," said Heffron, who also be banned from all flEAQ.RH required to represent Ithaca executive board to confess to the announced his involvement at the conferences for the next year, said College at all NEACURH student body represented its SGA meeting Tuesday night. "If I Tarant and Conference Adviser conferences. Due to the ban, she Robert 8. BIUey/11,e desire to be completely honest. had known that it was a violation Mathew Chetnik. can no longer fulfill this duty. The INderahlp conwnllon ... "I came forward because I of the policy, I would not have Chetnik said the College could Tarant said RHA has not held .. Ithaca College and the violated a policy," Tarant said. "It had a beer with dinner." have been placed on probation by detennined who will fill the pos1- Holiday Inn Executive Tower. was the right thing to do, to tel1 Gay, a junior, could not be NEACURH, which could have tion. Freshman gone for good ,,Accent 15 It was the first time Cohen saw By Cole Louison wild and irrational and staned Hunkovic that night. This is when kicking the door. They were Star Gazing Ithacan Staff Cohen noticed "a very strange yelling at him from the inside," L.A. interns The doorknob of Room 119, look on his face." Cohen said. encounter Eastman Hall, has been replaced, "He told me that he had con­ The yelling and kicking and after spending the night in sumed an entire bottle of vodka. ceased, started again, and then famous actors. Rowland Ha11 wfth an armed This was corroborated by several stopped. Cohen estimated that guard at the door, freshman Lee people in the room," he said. campus safety arrived within IO Hunkovic has left Ithaca College Approximately minutes. for good, the College reported. one hour later, Dave Maley, Opinion 13 Super Bowl Sunday, Jan. 25, Cohen heard voices director of public Columnist around 10 p.m., senior Ari Cohen and then the open­ information, read left his room, 111 Eastman Hall, ing and closing of parts of the campus· The Czar's reign to walk to Room I I 9 where doors. safety report. ends, and Ryan Lillis sophomores Bryan Dunlap and "I then peeked "Shortly after · wants to know why. Adam Woodworth were watching out [of my room] 11 p.m. Sunday, Jan. the game with a few other people. because he was 25, Campus Safety Cohen walked in and saw making a lot of received a complaint Hunkovic sitting on the floor by noise," he said. that an intoxicated Index himself. Hunkovic was person was trying to Accent ............................ 15 "(Dunlap and Woodworth] trying to get back enter a room. Classified .......... ·_- . .22 were sitting there on the bed. into Room 119, Officers found the Comics ............................23 They were ridiculing him mildly," which was locked. student in the Opinion ........................... 12 Cohen said. "He became continued on page 6 Sports .............................25 2 THE ITHACAN FEBRUARY 5. 1998 Briefl p.m. The fee is $20, and a CPR certificate is required. A community CPR course will be Dinner theater held on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 9 The Mental Health Association p.m. with a $35 fee. For more By Pldllp na Platea there should be "a contest for both sexes so in Tompkins County will host information, contact the Red Ithacan Staff everybody can look at the meat." "Voices from the Asylum: a Cross at 273-1900. The fear of AIDS won't descend on campuses 8etrospective." It will be held This week, 18 years ago: for several years, and students arc clearly doing at St. Paul's United Methodist RIT 4+ 1 program The decade is not off to a promising start. The more than looking;. A psychology-department Church on Friday, Feb. 6 at 7 A representative from the Cold War has heated up after the Soviet Union's study of pregnancies on campus estimates there p.m. The production will fea­ Graduate Studies Office at ture fictional narrations from Rochester Institute of . recent invasion of Afghanistan, and President are 30 of them every semester. Efforts are under­ individuals who experienced Technology will discuss the Carter admits the United States docs not have the way to get the bookstore to sell condoms. At this long-term psychiatric institu­ 4+ 1 MBA program on military power to protect the Persian Gulf region time, students cannot buy contraceptives any­ tionalization. Tickets for the Thursday, Feb. 12 at 12:05 from a Communist takeover. At home, inflation where on campus. Even lhe health center can presentation and dinner are p.m. on the fourth floor of runs rampant, and Carter starts every day with a only give out prescriptions. To provide an outlet $10. For further information Smiddy Hall. For further infor­ prayer for Ayatollah Khomeini and the 50 for students' thoughts and frustrations, student and tickets, call 273-9250. mation call the School of American hostages held in Tehran. government plans to sponsor a series of "-ism Business at 274-3940. At Ithaca College, dissent is boiling under the weeks." There will be workshops and speak-outs 11th annual Decadence surface. Many professors are unhappy with on sexism, racism, vandalism and alcoholism. The 11th annual Decadance Bloodmobile event, a program for singles, The American Red Cross President Whalen, who has recently refused to let Meanwhile, H&H Liquor and Wine hails itself as couples, friends and families bloodmobile will be at the the faculty unionize. The group, Faculty United, "The closest liquor store to IC" and offers after­ will be held at the Women's Terrace Dining Hall on not recognized by the Board of Trustees, conduct­ noon delivery.