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Page 23 Emerson Smtes Page 14 Opinmn 10 '), Sport~ -.l Vol. 68, No. 5 Ithaca, N.Y The 28 Pages, Free lfl11 lUJ rs di a y -g· September 28, 2000 •--"1 www.ithaca.edu/ithacan Named Best College Weekly in the Nation for 1999-2000 The Newspaper for the Ithaca College Community Fire empties dining hall Two terraces evacuated as smoke spreads BY BRYAN POOLE AND MICHAEL HENRY Staff Writers A fire broke out at 6:40 p.m. yesterday in the Terrace Dining Hall, forcing 700 din­ ers and an undetermined number of resi­ dents in the adjoining Terraces l and 2 to evacuate. The fire began at a grill operated by a chef manager. A Campus Safety officer who was eating dinner ran into the kitchen and activated the fire suppressant system, Public Information Director Dave Maley said. By that time, the fire had already spread into the ventilation ducts, he said. GARRETT SMITH/THE ITHACAN Another Campus Safety officer in­ ABOVE LEFT: SOPHOMORE Alison Cole waits to get back into structed a student to pull the fire alarm on her room through a stairwell connected to the Terrace Dining the dining hall's west side as smoke filled Hall while firemen work on the ventilation duct. the room, Maley said. ABOVE RIGHT: POLICE lines and fire trucks block students "They tried to put [the fire] out with from entering the Terrace Dining Hall after its evacuation. salt, b-aking soda, everything they could find," said Eric Savage, supervisor for Challenge Industries, the company that han­ dles dishwashing duties for the college. "It was just out of hand." Four city of Ithaca fire trucks and a lad­ der truck were dispatched to the scene. Fire­ fighters used water to confine the fire to a small area in the dining hall chimney. They used large fans to ventilate the smoke. The displaced residents of Terraces I and 2, where almost 100 students reside, were allowed to return to their rooms at 9:30 p.m: while firefighters continued to extinguish the remaining flames. GARRETT SMITH/THE ITHACAN Students with respiratory conditions or ABOVE: AN UNIDENTIFIEU Ithaca firefighter stands by the the who were sensitive to .the smoke were loading dock outside a Terrace Dining Hall entrance. RIGHT: FIREFIGHTERS WORK on putting out the fire that crept See INVESTIGATION, page 4 up the ventilation duct in the Terrace Dining Hall kitchen. Project brings educators Protests supported from abroad to campus YDS Co-chairman Lucas Shapiro ~aid YDS continues fight the teach-m is part of the group's contmu­ BY DANIEL PRINCE seminars at the college today. It is bemg mg efforts to part1c1pate in the new world­ AND JONI CARRASCO sponsored by the American Council for against globalization wide social movement that que~t1om, the Staff Writers International Education. effects of globalization. Wasyliw, who is also associate director BY KELLI B. GRANT Last Apnl, 19 members of YDS trav­ Visiting educators from across Russia Staff Writer eled to Washington, D.C., to protest the and Ukraine sang in Russian at Assistant See VISIT, page 4 sprmg meetings of the bank and the fund History Professor Zenon Wasyliw's house In recognition of the International Day Shapiro also said YDS was pleased that and played with his four-year-old daughter of Action against the World Bank and the the 45 people who attended the teach-m Saturday night. '' As [the educators] International Monetary Fund, the Ithaca Joined m the International Dav of Action, This evening of celebration capped a day rebuild their society in the College chapter of the Young Democratic which mcluded hundreds of· demonstra­ of seminars at Cornell University, part of the Socialists sponsored a teach-m Tuesday tions and rallies in the nation and abroad Russian-Ukrainian School Directors Project post-Cold War period, what afternoon in Textor 101 to help student~ The protesters are against the re~tm:t1ve that has brought 16 Russians and eight understand how globahzauon and current economic policies enforced m Third Ukrainians on a three-week whirlwind tour are ideas in American edu­ economic policies are shaping their world. World nations by these money-lcndmg of Central New York. Four of the college's professors gave organizations, activists in the Czech The program, designed to expose the cation ... that they can short lectures supporting the thousands of Republic said on their Web site m favor of high school superintendents and principals activists who are protesting the official 'global economic justice.' to different ideas and practices used in learn from us? '' opening of the IMF and World Bank annu­ American higher education, will include -HENRY STECK al meeting in Prague this week. See PROFESSORS, page 4 Professor at SUNY Cortland 2 THE ITHACAN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2000 Issues ~r1 tne News Election 2000 Candidates offer opposing plans for saving Social Security from doom BY ROBERT B. BLUEY or her paycheck could, over a career, end up with hundreds Senior Writer of thousands of dollars for retirement," Bush said. l · It's a risky scheme, Gore claims. Such a plan would Social Security has long been called the "third rail" of take the security out of Social Security. American politics. In other words, if you are wise, you will "People have the common sense to know that in the leave it alone. stock market there are good years and bad years, win­ With the current system headed toward bankruptcy and ! ners and losers," Gore said. "We won't, on my watch, little accomplished under the Clinton administration to fix become a nation that penalizes the elderly people who it, Texas Gov. George W. Bush happen to retire in a bad year; that penalizes the elder­ wants to do what no president has ly people who happen to be on the losing end of the roll done before. Bush's proposals in­ of the dice." clude major reforms that would Bush said all this talk is ludicrous since even the safest give citizens a choice of invest­ government bonds yield a 4 percent return. ing part of their payroll taxes into private accounts. "Personal accounts are not a substitute for Social Se­ The plan is a signature issue for Bush and one that has curity," Bush said. "They involve only a limited percent­ been generally well received by voters looking for a way age of the payroll tax so the safety net remains strong." to improve a system that is doomed. With fundamental differences over how to save Social Vice President Gore, on the other hand, strongly dis­ JOE BURBANK/KAT Security, Bush sa'id he puts his trust in the people, while approves of Bush's privatization efforts. Gore would cre­ CANCER PATIENT JACK TALTON of Deltona, Fla., Gore relies on the government. ate a new system called "Retirement Savings Plus," which meets Republican presidential candidate George W. In the third party ring, Green Party candidate Ralph Nad­ would give citizens tax credits to match their own savings. Bush during a Sept. 12 tour of Florida Hospital and the er uses his liberal ideology to frame the Social Security Such a plan would be available in addition to Social Walt Disney Memorial Cancer Institute In Orlando. debate. Nader, in a February l 999 newspaper column, wrote Security and would not alter the system set up by Franklin that allowing privatization would be a mistake. D. Roosevelt as a means of security triggered by the Great May 15 speech to the Rancho Cucamonga (Calif.) Senior "Privatization will destroy one of Social Security's great Depression. Center. ''The system will be insolvent, with deficits in the assets - systemic tranquillity," he said. "If the system is Gore said his plan would give the hardest-pressed work­ trillions of dollars, requiring either a massive cut in ben­ privatized this tranquillity will be replaced by anxiety, as ers the biggest tax credits. efits or a massive increase in taxes." we worry about whether we will be winners or losers in Take a married couple making $30,000 a year, for ex­ Bush's reform plan looks something like this: the system's roller-coaster ride on Wall Street." ample. Gore claims the plan would match each dollar the • He would make no changes for those currently receiv­ The Reform Party's Pat Buchanan, who is open to par­ couple saves with three dollars from the government. ing Social Security. tial privatization as long as people are willing to take the "If a young couple saves just $20 a week," he said in • He would set aside $2 trillion of the budget surplus. risk, said the first goal should be to save Social Security. a June 20 speech, "together with our tax credits and the • He would not raise the payroll tax.