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SGA presses Rochon about IC 20/20 plan By candace king staff writer
By eli sherman staff writer
Bars are closing. Students are going out later. A “night out on the town” doesn't mean what it used to. After more than 70 years of serving both students and local Ithacans, the long-standing Royal Palms Tavern in Collegetown will close at the end of the month after a steady decline in business over the last 10 years. The Palms’ long wooden bar, standing between a line of stools and countless bottles of booze, was once a place where students could be
found after classes, construction workers during their lunch hour and where, on any given night, anyone would come to have a drink. Joe Leonardo, who took over the bar from his father and uncle in the early 1980s, said he has seen a shift in the way people socialize at bars as students seem to be coming out later every year and spending less time at the bar, causing a steady drop in revenue. Leonardo said over the past year, he has made more than 90 percent of his business in less than three hours of the week. He said business at the bar thrives during the 45 minutes
before the last call. “People don’t come out until midnight and 10 minutes after midnight there’s a line down the street,” Leonardo said. Diana Drucker, a 1974 graduate of Cornell University and a realtor, has been a regular at the Palms since 1970 and said the style of latenight drinking has drifted from a more social atmosphere to a late-night stop. “It was appropriate to hang out at bars,” Drucker said. “Professors would sometimes hold
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New IC Democrats strategize to incite political activism by gillian nigro staff writer
As the 2012 presidential race heats up, a new campus organization, IC Democrats, is bringing awareness to the Democratic perspective and educating students on the importance of political activism. The Democratic interest group, still in its infancy, was formed by junior Rob Flaherty, who last year served as communications director for Mayor Svante Myrick’s campaign and is vice president for Student Government Association. Though it is currently in the planning stages on Facebook, Flaherty said he has high aspirations for the organization. “We’re hoping to do campaign training, canvassing and also provide a forum for people who want to talk about issues and politics in the 2012 election,” Flaherty said.
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From left, sophomore Jenny Barish, group adviser Govind Acharya and junior Rob Flaherty discuss plans for a new group, IC Democrats.
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The group plans to offer training to the campus community on how to run for office, campaign effectively and get involved in public service. Flaherty also said they
hope to engage in canvassing for President Barack Obama. “We’re pretty excited about the potential for the organization,” Flaherty said.
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The tentative adviser for the group is Govind Acharya, Institutional Research Analyst at the college and chair of the City of Ithaca’s Planning and Development Board. “Today’s college student is tomorrow’s leader in politics, business and society,” Acharya said. “Not getting involved now is the worst thing a student can do.” Once the group gets up and running, Flaherty expects a great turnout because of the college's Democratic sway. “We definitely acknowledge that the campus environment leans a little more in our direction,” Flaherty said. A study released in January from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA found that though college freshmen hold
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Dying bar culture spotlights a shift in college students' drinking habits
by rachel wool
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Is bar culture tapped out?
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What began as a discussion to help resolve lingering concerns about IC 20/20 during the Student Government Association meeting last week evolved into a tense discourse with President Tom Rochon about the perceived absence of student opinion in the creation process. SGA invited Rochon to its Feb. 8 meeting to address ROCHON said what some see as the IC 20/20 plan mostly won't affect a lack of student current students. input in the implementation of IC 20/20, especially in its Integrative Core Curriculum, but the meeting took a more combative tone. Junior Rob Flaherty, vice president of communications for SGA, said though he appreciated Rochon’s time and effort to entertain questions, most of the concerns ultimately remained unanswered. “We had concerns before this meeting that the students’ voices were not being heard in the implementation of IC 20/20, and it was pretty clear from the way he responded to our questions that those concerns are still valid,” Flaherty said. IC 20/20, the college’s strategic vision for the next decade that was approved by the board of trustees in May, centers on student, academic and co-curricular development to be implemented before 2020. There are 15 initiatives included in the final plan, which are geared toward fostering an integrative educational experience and increasing diversity. Rochon told SGA that most of the initiatives will not affect current students. “Some of you will be touched by some parts of IC 20/20, but for the most part, you won’t be,” Rochon said. A part of IC 20/20 affecting current students is the establishment of the New York City Center. In another two years, the college will launch a China Center. During the discourse, concerns mostly focused on the first initiative to be implemented next fall — the Integrative Core Curriculum requirement. According to the final IC 20/20 plan, the curriculum will provide “focused, question-based learning in the liberal arts and sciences through a themes and perspectives approach.” There will be about five themes to choose from that will drive their core requirements next fall. Flaherty said the curriculum is a concern because the themes were decided without student input. “There is still a concern about the college deciding to focus on a more centralized academic experience than on
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Iran advances nuclear production
Lucy Marder, chief of forensic medicine for the prosecutors’ office, said about 356 people on the prison roster are unaccounted for among 852 prisoners. The fire broke out Tuesday night at a prison in Comayagua, a town 90 miles north of the Central American country’s capital, Tegucigalpa. Comayagua fire department spokesman Josue Garcia said he saw “horrific” scenes while trying to put out the fire, saying inmates rioted in attempts to escape. He said “some 100 prisoners were burned to death or suffocated in their cells.” Officials are investigating whether the fire was triggered by rioting prisoners or by an electrical short-circuit, Danilo Orellana, head of the national prison system, said.
Iran claimed yesterday that it has taken two major steps toward mastering the production of nuclear fuel, a defiant move in response to increasingly tough Western sanctions over its controversial nuclear program. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad oversaw the insertion of the first Iranian domestically made fuel rod into a research reactor in northern Tehran, the country’s official IRNA news agency reported. The West suspects Iran’s nuclear program is aimed at producing atomic weapons, a charge Tehran denies, insisting it’s geared for peaceful purposes only, such as energy production. The crisis has already resulted in sanctions placed on Iran’s economy, and there are fears that it could escalate to military action. Iran’s nuclear announcements came as the country said yesterday that it halted oil exports to six European countries — the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France, Greece and Portugal — in response to recent new European Union sanctions.
Sri Lankan police fire on fishermen
Sri Lankan police fired on fishermen protesting a fuel price increase yesterday, killing one person and wounding three, a witness and a doctor said. Police spokesman Ajith Rohana said police used tear gas to disperse an “unlawful mob” but refused to comment on whether police fired guns at the protesters. Thousands of fishermen were walking in a protest march near the fishing town of Chilaw and clashed with police, who later opened fire at them, said local journalist Jude Samantha who was at the scene in the town 43 miles north of the capital, Colombo. Police tried to block the protesters from entering the Chilaw town and in turn protesters began hurling stones at the police, Samantha said. Police used tear gas and then opened fire.
Financiers tighten watch on Greece
European finance ministers insisted on much tighter oversight of Greece’s spending and austerity efforts yesterday, despite politicians’ assurances that Athens will go ahead with promised cuts and reforms to secure a $170 billion bailout. Following a 3 1/2 hour conference call between the finance chiefs of the 17 countries that use the euro, the ministers welcomed the debt-ridden country’s declaration that it had identified another $470 million in cuts on top of the layoffs of thousands of public workers and other wage and pension cuts. They also greeted written commitments from leaders of the two Greek parties that make up the coalition government to implement the promised cuts and reforms even if there is a change in power after elections expected in April.
Syrian president orders referendum
Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered a referendum for later this month on a new constitution that would allow political parties other than his ruling Baath Party. The referendum is part of reforms he has promised to ease the crisis, even as the Syrian military besieged rebellious areas yesterday. The opposition quickly rejected the move, saying the regime was stalling and Syrians in the uprising would accept nothing less than Assad’s ouster. The referendum
Fire kills 300 Honduran prisoners
Trapped inmates screamed from their cells as a fire swept through a Honduran prison, killing at least 300 inmates, authorities said yesterday.
Merging menace
A Somali government soldier provides security at a government-organized rally against militant group al-Shabab yesterday in Mogadishu, Somalia. Thousands of Somalis marched through the capital shouting and protesting the recent merger between al-Qaida and al-Shabab.
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call also raises the question of how a nationwide vote could be held at a time when many areas see daily battles between Syrian troops and rebel soldiers.
Hunger rate rises in some countries
Almost half a billion children are at risk of permanent damage over the next 15 years because of chronic malnutrition, a report released yesterday said, despite advances against hunger around the world. The Save the Children report said chronic malnutrition is a largely hidden crisis that affects one in four children globally. The report says 300 children die every hour because of chronic malnutrition. The 2011 Global Hunger Index found that six countries have higher rates of hunger today than two decades ago. Five of those countries are in Africa. The other is North Korea. The 2011 Global Hunger Index said that the Republic of Congo, Burundi, Comoros, Swaziland and Ivory Coast have higher degrees of
hunger today than in 1990. Mexico, Turkey, Kuwait and Malaysia have made the biggest gains against hunger. Karin Lapping, a senior director of nutrition for Save the Children, said many Asian countries have made strides against hunger because of a focus on reducing chronic malnutrition, but that many African countries have not made the same commitment.
Man aims to walk tightrope at falls
Daredevil Nik Wallenda is back in Niagara Falls, trying once again to convince Canadian parks officials to let him walk a tightrope across the Falls. Wallenda wants to install a rope between the American and Canadian parkland at the Falls and walk from one country to the other. He’s gotten approval from New York officials, but the Niagara Parks Commission has so far refused to allow it. SOURCE: Associated Press
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IC Mock Trial beats odds at regionals by ithacan staff
Over the weekend, Ithaca College’s Mock Trial team faced its first competition and took everyone — even themselves — by surprise when they qualified for nationals in Hamilton, Ohio, next month. Junior Helene Weiss, a cofounder of the team, said they went in thinking they weren’t going to place, and that they almost left before the awards ceremony. “We didn’t even imagine we had done so well and I was about to leave and Chris said, ‘What if we win something, let’s just stay,’” Weiss said. “Then, when they were calling down the names of schools, we were sixth out of eight teams that were advancing, and we beat Cornell by one ranking, so we were amazed.” The team, which formed this semester, will join about 200 schools in the national mock trial competition from March 20 to 22. They were the only new team to face off in Buffalo, N.Y., last weekend, and one of eight to move on to the next round in Ohio. About 680 teams around the country entered the regional competition at 25 locations. Michael Whelan, the group’s adviser and assistant professor of communication studies, said he was tremendously satisfied with the team’s results. “The students looked like [when] Roberto Benigni won the Oscar [in 1999] and he jumped over the people in front of him,” he said. “It was one of those moments where glee was evident.” The IC Mock Trial team had only three weeks to prepare its case, which is the same for every team in the region. The team competed with the fictitious case of State of Midlands v. Danny Dawson, according to the American Mock Trial Association. In the case, Dawson, the defendant, had operated a vehicle and was being charged with murder and driving under the influence. Weiss said the team members who do best are the ones who can act quickly. “The best team players are the ones that can think on their feet, think fast, get out of any situation, figure out the problem and figure out ‘How can we turn this around and make it work to our case,’” she said. Teams must come up with swift responses, know legal terms and be convincing performers as well. Junior Kyle Schiedo, president of the
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From left, juniors Helene Weiss, Kyle Schiedo and Chris Barnes celebrate the team’s win at the regional competition this past weekend in Buffalo, N.Y. They will compete at nationals in Ohio at the end of March.
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team, said mock trials are 50 percent performance-based and 50 percent trial-based. “All the characters are designed so that each side of the case has a way to attack them and then a way to help them so it’s a very turbulent kind of trial because there are so many things that go both ways for every character and on both sides of the case,” Schiedo said. Weiss said the team members need to step in and take the roles of different witnesses, which can be anyone from a doctor or subject expert to a sad friend. Junior Carly Halpin said she never realized how intense mock trial meets were. “I didn’t realize how much of a contact sport mock trial was,” she said. “It’s almost an adrenaline rush.” For the next round of competition at nationals, Weiss said the group will start holding meetings and memorizing all the rules of evidence to rework and perfect every part.
Junior Chris Barnes, treasurer of the team, said over the weekend he learned the team has what it takes to compete with more experienced schools. “It was really an overwhelming feeling of pride and success and just really a good feeling that our hard work the last month or so has paid off,” he said. “I am very excited about applying that hard work again to a whole new level of competition and seeing how far we can really go. I don’t think we’re done yet, I think we have it in us to keep going.” Right now, funding for the new team comes from the Ithaca College Forensics Program, and an anonymous alum gave the team $1,000, Whelan said. In the next round, Whelan said he wants the team to be even more competitive. “Last time I said it would be a tremendous victory to move on,” Whelan said. “It would be an astounding victory to move on in the finals in Minnesota in April.”
National group organizes to help hungry in Ithaca bY NOREYANA FERNANDo staff writer
A new student group has formed in Ithaca to tackle the issue of hunger in America and to provide an outlet for the city’s homeless population to receive assistance. The group, Food Not Bombs, is a global movement that originated in Massachusetts in 1980 to encourage society to focus more resources on solving world hunger rather than on war efforts. Today, more than 30 years later, six Ithaca College students have set out to make similar changes in Ithaca. Sophomores Grace Woodward, Alison McCabe, Andrew Morris and Krystal Cannon, freshman Sara Gaechter and junior Emily Wilson comprise the organization, which Woodward said has no leaders, but members of equal status. She acknowledged that supporting the military is important, but said the well-being of hungry Americans also needs to be taken into account. Woodward explained that the group saves food that would be thrown out otherwise, cooks it and serves it for free to the homeless and hungry population in Ithaca. It also counts on food and supply donations from the local community. “People who are food insecure or
National event encourages IC to recycle waste
homeless, or just want to come and have a free meal and be together with the community can do that,” she said. Food Not Bombs serves only vegetarian meals, an aspect Woodward said is important. “Meat goes bad easily, dairy goes bad easily, so we would have to worry about those things,” she said. “It’s also not good for the environment, and we don’t want to support it.” The group members cooked their first meal Sunday at the home of Ithaca resident Clare Grady, whom they met at Silent City Distro, an independent studio space on The Commons, while scoping out potential meeting places. Grady was previously a kitchen coordinator for Loaves and Fishes, another food distribution organization in Ithaca, and offered her home after hearing about the group’s mission. Together with Grady, the students cooked for more than 40 people Sunday night. McCabe said the sanitation of the food the group serves is its top priority since it uses food that is a little past its expiration date. “People understand that if you are going to cook for so many, you have to be very cautious of things like that,” she said. “We are public health students, so it’s a big concern that the
Sophomores Andrew Morris and Krystal Cannon discuss their current plans for Food Not Bombs on Saturday in Clark Lounge in Campus Center. rachel woolf/the ithacan
food we are giving people is healthy. We are not going to feed 50 people if we are not completely sure that it is not going to get them sick.” Woodward said the group, which does not have a set time to meet yet, decided to base itself off campus because it felt the need to make use of the resources available in the community. Woodward also said the group looked at ways of getting more college students involved with its initiative by actively promoting its mission — though she admitted it’s hard to convince students to travel off campus for weekly meetings. “It’s definitely a problem because
kids don’t always want to go off campus because it’s cold and it’s at night,” she said. “But honestly, it’s really not a huge time commitment.” Morris said the group also hopes to serve political rallies like Occupy Ithaca in the city in the future. Inspired by the existing spirit of generosity it found in the Ithaca community, McCabe said the group found that giving back to those in need helped it become a part of that atmosphere. “We wanted to start a chapter of FNB so that we could give back to the community we’ve been so graciously welcomed to since moving here for college,” she said.
Ithaca College will be curbing its consumption and watching its waste in the coming weeks as part of Recyclemania, a recycling competition, for the seventh year in a row. The DARLING said he hopes the event college hopes will encourage a to improve greener mindset. from previous years by working harder to raise awareness among the students. Mark Darling, sustainability programs coordinator for facilities services, has monitored the college’s waste and recycling practices since the early ’90s. He said the competition allows the college to compare its numbers with other campuses’ programs. “It’s a way to benchmark ourselves against other institutions so we can see how good we are,” he said. Recyclemania is an eight-week competition where colleges and universities across the country and in Canada report the amount of recycling and trash they collect each week. This year, 553 schools registered for the tournament, which began Feb. 5 and ends March 31. For the first week of the competition, the college had a 27 percent recycling rate. For the 2011 competition, the college’s recycling rate average was 32 percent. Junior Rachel Lowy, an eco-rep with the Resource and Environmental Management Program, a division of the Office of Facilities, is one of the organizers for Recyclemania. She said about 20 to 30 people, including faculty and staff, are working on the event. The event does award prizes, but Lowy said that’s not the college’s motivation for getting involved. “We really just want to recycle more,” she said. “It would be cool if we could actually get some prizes, but that’s not really our main goal.” In order to encourage student participation, the eco-reps will host events throughout the eightweek period. “We’re making announcements in our classrooms, and we’re going to host a trip to the recycling center downtown to show people how recycling actually works,” Lowy said. “We’re also hoping to plan an event that would be a recycled arts and crafts fair.” Stephanie Piech, sustainability coordinator for Dining Services, said Sodexo will also participate in the event. “We are partnering with REMP to hold some different kinds of educational events,” she said. One Sodexo campaign, Weigh the Weight, which will be held throughout the semester, will have students weigh the food remnants on their plates to show how much food is wasted. Lowy said they plan to use the numbers collected for the competition to show students how much waste is really produced. “We’re hoping to post the weights of everything in a centralized location so people can actually see what’s happening,” she said.
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Democrats to focus on fall election democrats from page 1
increasingly liberal views on many issues, the heightened interest in social issues doesn’t equate to more political activity or enthusiasm. Only 10 percent of students surveyed said they had worked on a local, statewide or national campaign during the past year. Sophomore Jenny Barish, cocreator of the group, said she wants to support the president’s FLAHERTY said he grassroots wants to get college movement students more and expand involved in politics. political dialogue beyond the classroom into “an informal setting among peers.” “There have been a lot of bumps in the road, but I think we need someone with his intelligence and rhetoric to continue making those changes,” Barish said. “Change takes a long time, and I think [Obama] needs another term to continue doing big things.” Flaherty said he hopes to join with the already-established group, IC Republicans, to politically educate the campus community through possible debates or joint forums. “At the end of the day, public service is an honorable thing whether you’re right or you’re left, Democrat or Republican,” Flaherty said. “There’s a lot of common ground that can be found in empowering college students to get involved in the process, regardless of their politics.”
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Local bars suffer from cultural changes drinking from page 1
seminars at the bars after class.” Drucker, who has become close with the Leonardo family over the years, said she was never a big drinker, but the Palms was always a place she could go, nurse one beer for a couple of hours and hang out with good company. When she got there in the early ’70s, there were old-timers there who had already been drinking at the Palms for decades. Drucker said she was less than pleased that the bar she had been going to for 40 years was closing its doors. “I’m heartbroken,” Drucker said. “It’s a dive, but it’s my dive bar.” The Palms will be the third bar in Collegetown to close down within the last year following Dino’s, an Ithaca College Wednesday-night favorite, and Johnny O’s. William Kerr, senior scientist at the Alcohol Research Group at the Public Health Institute, said drinking culture as a whole is increasing in the United States, but in the college-aged group, students don't drink as much as people did five to 10 years ago at the same age. Trying to pinpoint the beginning of the decline, Leonardo said he saw a significant drop in business after smoking was banned from all New York restaurants and bars in 2003. Raising the drinking age was also a factor in the decline. It was originally changed from 18 to 19 in 1983, but was then raised again to the current legal drinking age of 21 in 1985. “The smoking law hurt us a lot more than the drinking age,” Leonardo said. “We had a good townie crowd, and when the drinking age got raised we were very strict on IDs, and this place became an exclusive place for people of age to get in and couldn’t wait until they were 21 to get in here.” Senior Joey Maran has been going to bars for a year and a half and said he likes to go just before midnight so he can have some time to enjoy himself before the rush comes in. Maran is a bartender at The Nines in Collegetown, so he experiences the scene from both sides of the bar. “As far as the social aspect of going to a bar, it has become the norm for people to go out later,” he said. “Going to the bar has also become a way to end the night rather than a way to have your night. I think that people are drinking to excess. People are not going for one drink, they are going down for a bunch of drinks in a short period of time to try and get the best bang for your buck.”
A photo from the 1960s offers a glimpse into the older drinking culture of the Royal Palms Tavern, where people used to spend more time at the bar socializing and drinking with friends. courtesy of joe leonardo
Kerr said the pregame culture is something growing more popular in the current college generation, largely due to economic pressures that weren't present in the previous generation. “That's sort of the poor economic outlook of young people today,” he said. “It seems to be dampening their drinking or partying behavior.” Senior Nina Davidson said she likes to pregame before going to the bars so she can save money. “People have been drinking for a couple of hours [before going to the bars], and then they want to change up the night,” Davidson said. Leonardo said because students have been pregaming more before going out, he has had to kick out more people over the past three years for being more rowdy and out of control. “Kids have always got drunk and acted not on the best of behavior, which is understandable in the environment I grew up in, and I understand that, but it seems to be getting worse and worse,” Leonardo said. “I think it’s just because kids don’t know how to drink, they don’t know how to handle themselves when they’re drinking.” According to Kerr, the generational interest in drinking beer is decreasing and the interest in wine and spirits is increasing. The American Freshman Survey, a study conducted by the Higher Research
Institute at UCLA, reported that 35.4 percent of 2011 incoming freshmen were beer-drinkers. The 2010 freshman class, however, contained 8 percent more beer drinkers, and the 1982 class had 52 percent more than today's freshmen. This was just before the drinking age was raised from 18 to 19. Tommy Boles, owner of 2nd Floor Bar, which is located on The Commons, has been in business for six years, and though he took a small hit during the 2008 recession, business is beginning to pick up again. 2nd Floor Bar is a popular bar for students from the college and is packed with students after midnight every weekend. Boles, who worked in Micawbers Pub before it shut down a couple of years ago, said he sees students who have trouble handling themselves during a night of drinking. “Kids aren’t being introduced to drinking when they are younger, and no matter what, it is going to become available,” said Boles. “A lot of these kids are not prepared.” The Palms’ lease ends at the end of the month and the property has already been sold to a contractor. Leonardo said that alumni of old who have feelings of nostalgia for the Palms have been making pilgrimages back to the old watering hole to have one last drink in a place full of history.
Rochon says faculty should drive institutional curriculum changes ic 20/20 from page 1
professional programs, and whether or not I agree with it, the real issue is that this process has really been done without a lot of student voice put into it," Flaherty said. Rochon did not elaborate on all of the themes in the core curriculum and deferred the matter to Danette Johnson, professor of communication studies, who will be speaking to SGA more about the themes at a later date. Current students will not be affected by the core curriculum, but freshmen next fall will be. “Most of the students in the room have at least started their general education credits, and we're not going to change the requirements on students who are already here,” he said. Some senators disapproved of the establishment of the themes of the curriculum, which they said may hinder students who want to explore different options. Rochon said including a theme would elicit the opposite outcome. “The experience of picking a theme and seeing the range of courses that are attached to a theme can help
you better explore the wide range of knowledge and the wide range of topics,” he said. Another concern raised by senators in the meeting was the degree to which faculty opinion was considered over student opinion in the integrative core curriculum. In response, Rochon said the faculty are more experienced in creating a curriculum that is more useful to the students. “You don't actually go to a doctor and say, 'Here's what's wrong with me, and here's what I want you to do,'" he said. "The faculty are the equivalent of the doctor in this analogy. Faculty, collectively, are the only ones who can review, approve and create curriculum. That is by the governance rules of the college. The faculty are the curriculum and the teaching and the subject matter experts.” Flaherty said there are parts of the document that will benefit students, specifically in diversity, freshman programs and civic engagement. “Focusing on diversity is a really great thing, especially diversity education,” he said. “It's great that we're focusing on increased civic engagement off campus, but there
are a lot of things that students are suspicious about. There are areas of concern and areas that deserve a lot of praise.” A vision for IC 20/20 was drafted in September 2010 and initiatives were assigned to a task force or an existing standing committee or administrative office. There were eight task forces created, and the final reports were then given to the IC 20/20 Steering Committee, cochaired by the provost and a faculty member. On April 26, 2011, the final proposal was presented to the president. Senior SGA senator Elma Borcilo said this was not the first President Tom Rochon met with the Student Government Association on time she thought student input Feb. 8 to address concerns about a lack of student involvement in IC 20/20. was not considered. rachel woolf/the ithacan As a student member of the IC were a barrier in communicating the always put on the forefront.” 20/20 Steering Committee, Borcilo Rochon said the incorporation of faults in the initiative. said she felt her inclusion in the pro“I was frankly disappointed student input will come in a matter cess was not all she hoped it to be. with some of the assumptions “My intended role was to be a voice of time. “The student voice is going to truly that the president made about our for the students, but my actual role ended up being something different,” come into its own in the coming few engagement, our interests and our inshe said. “In the end, it was like I be- years when it is implemented,” Ro- volvement,” Flaherty said. “He made came a note taker and a scribe, more chon said. “Things will either work it pretty clear that he thought a lot of than another body member who was and make sense to students, and they student criticism on it was unfounded. There's not much [we can] do. As actually participating. This perspec- will subscribe to them, or they won't.” Flaherty said he felt Rochon’s President Rochon pointed out in the tive showed me a different side where maybe the needs of the students aren't presumptions about student opinion meeting, ‘What's done is done.’”
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A divine detour
Mexican priest establishes shelter to fight against immigrant abuse
Every morning, Father Alejandro powerful. The train had gone, and Solalinde folds the hammock hang- about 12 or 16 people were left being from the walls of his small room hind. There were some women, and and eats his breakfast with hundreds there was a young couple. The wife of other people. They are immigrants was pregnant, and there were more who find refuge in his shelter, Her- people and even some children. manos en el Camino in the city of When I saw the train leave, I knew I could do nothing because I didn’t Ixtepec, Oaxaca. The shelter, which is also his home, have money to take them to a hotel. was founded in 2007 and is located I could not take them home with me next to train tracks where immigrants because I was under surveillance by wait for the opportunity to hop on the police and immigration authorities. They were trying to surprise and passing trains undetected. Solalinde, a 66-year-old Mexican catch me “red-handed” as an immiCatholic priest, has spent seven years grant smuggler and put me in jail. defending the rights of Central I had 200 pesos in my pocket, American immigrants trying to make which is less than $20. Two brothers — who later on their way into the I found out were United States. kidnappers — apAssistant proached me and News Editor Elma offered to help me Gonzalez spoke find a place for the to Solalinde about [immigrants] to his activism and stay. They asked his visit to Ithaca me for money. The College on Mon— alejandro solalinde immigrants didn’t day, which was have any, and I sponsored by the told them I only Politics Department, Latin American Studies Minor, had 200 pesos. They agreed to help. Diversity Awareness Committee, Very early the next morning, I reCornell Latin American Studies De- turned. I lived two towns away, but I partment and Committee on U.S. wanted to know if [the immigrants] were alright. To my surprise, when Latin American Relations. I arrived, they were no longer there. Elma Gonzalez: Can you talk about When I asked about them, I was told the night before the shelter's opening? they had left. When I asked where, they said they didn’t know. I looked for Alejandro Solalinde: A few days them all through town, but was unbefore establishing the shelter, some- able to find them. About 20 days later, thing happened to me that was very I realized that where they had stayed
“The immigrants are seen with the peso sign, like a little mine that needs to be exploited.”
From left, Tim Schenk, coordinator of the Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations, and father Alejandro Solalinde speak Monday about Hermanos en el Camino, a shelter in Mexico that protects Central American immigrants.
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that night was a group of kidnappers’ house. But it was too late. I [knew I] had to open a shelter, and so I did. The day it opened, about 400 people came. What I opened though was basically just a plot of land because there was nothing. There was a light I took from a neighboring house with an extension, water I bought from a store and five hose extensions so there was water to drink and for washing. I also brought enough food for everyone, and the shelter was created. EG: Can you describe the experience of immigrants? AS: The immigrant, both men and women, have to face all the abuses you can imagine. They have to endure extortions, beatings, insults,
contempt and xenophobia. They face the abuse of the authorities that steal their money. They have to confront the indifference of institutions that have no compassion and no human sense. What’s more, after their money is taken, women are violated. Of every 10 immigrant women who travel through Mexico, six are raped. Basically, the immigrants are seen with the peso sign, like a little mine that needs to be exploited. People suffer all the way through, and a lot disappear. Thousands of Central Americans disappear in Mexico. Their families don’t look for them because they think that they are busy working. But the truth is, many of them are not alive anymore. They are dead, buried in some pit in Mexico, or lost somewhere else.
EG: What is the purpose of your visit to the U.S. and to Ithaca College? AS: I received several invitations to visit universities. The objective was to have a direct contact with students and professors and share a different perspective by presenting images that could speak to students about a very different experience. I came to invite the students to become acquainted with this environment. In fact, I spoke to them about the importance of going there and experiencing it themselves. That is going to change their lives, just like it changed mine. This interview was conducted in Spanish and translated into English by Elma Gonzalez.
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Program adjusts focus Photo department goes digital By Taylor Rao staff Writer
As digital processing takes the forefront in the field of photography, Ithaca College is adjusting its cinema and photography curriculum to mirror this shift. This semester, analog or film photography, which is any film processed in a darkroom, was removed from the program, and many chemicals will no longer be SKOPIK said the available in the photogracourse changes phy labs of the Roy H. Park reflect advances in School of Communications. digital technology. The transition from analog to digital camera technology has been taking place in the program for nearly 10 years according to Steven Skopik, professor of photography at the college. Professors have tried to include both mediums in their curriculum to match the growing role of digital processing. “The professors get together and reevaluate each semester to find out where and when students should be taking a look at analog and to what degree,” Skopik said. For the first time this spring, the introductory class will only be taught digital processing, though film will not disappear entirely from the program, Skopik said. “Analog photography is holding on a little bit in some applications, so we’ve made an element of that in some of the upper-level classes,” Skopik said. He said most cinema and photography students who are not concentrating in photography do not continue taking the remainder of photo courses in the curriculum. The majority of students take the class as an elective or to fulfill a requirement for the cinema program. Skopik said the intro photography course is
an expensive class because film is high-priced. The intro class now requires students to have their own digital camera as opposed to film, and though the expense is not a major consideration in the curriculum change, it does play a factor in how the professors plan to alter the class in the future. Many of the chemicals will no longer be available once major film companies begin to eliminate their products from the market due to lack of demand. Freshman Karalyn Mark, a cinema and photography major, said it’s unfortunate other students taking the class will miss out on the hands-on experience of developing prints in the darkroom, but she said digital also offers a lot of room for creativity. “I love experimenting with digital cameras because I’m able to see the results immediately,” she said. “With digital cameras and editing software, the possibilities of what someone can create are endless.” Senior Mitchell Murdock, a cinema and photography major, began a film project in 2008 taking a photograph of one different person per day. Murdock is still continuing the project and spends nearly all of his free time in the lab. “With digital photography, there’s something that is lost,” he said. “You only have so many shots you can take with film. With digital you can snap away and take one hundred shots and have few turn out perfect. With film, every mistake counts for something.” Murdock said he is satisfied with his film experiences at the college and encourages other students to not completely abandon film photography. “Take some shots and send them to a lab to be developed,” he said. “The most pleasing photos are ones that have been shot on film and look like they have heart.”
All you need is love
Senior Evelyn Quinn sets up a table with Valentine’s Day treats Saturday night at the Dating Game event. Ithaca College President Tom Rochon hosted the event, and 16 contestants participated to find a date for the day of love. The event was hosted by IC After Dark. Ritza Francois/The Ithacan
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College & City College and Cornell unite for new master’s program
Ithaca College and Cornell University have arranged a new articulation agreement, which offers Cornell education graduates the option to pursue a master’s degree at the college. Cornell students will be able to enroll in the Master of Arts in Teaching program at the college, where they can earn a certification in concentration areas not offered at the university like mathematics, history, English, French and Spanish. The agreement went into effect Jan. 1, and the first group of enrolled Cornell graduates will participate in a 33-credit, 13-month graduate program in adolescence education in May.
Ready campaign awarded top national recognition
Ithaca College’s Ready marketing campaign has been honored by the Association of Communicators in Education. The College and University Public Relations Association of Pennsylvania’s “Cuppy” award is the highest level of recognition for marketing programs in higher education institutions. CUPRAP receives more than 300 entries every year. The college launched the Ready campaign in August 2011.
Cornell holds celebration for Darwin’s 203rd birthday
The Cornell University-affiliated Paleontological Research Institution is celebrating Charles Darwin’s birthday for the sixth year in a row.
The institution is holding a series of public events and panel discussions that began Sunday and end Saturday to celebrate the scientist’s 203rd birthday. “Local Climate Change’s Effect on Hop Production,” a lecture with Steve Miller, New York state’s first hop specialist, will be held at 6 p.m. today in the Big Red Barn followed by a beer tasting. “Adapt Your Tail Off!,” a costume party, will begin at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Big Red Barn. There will be prizes for the best costumes. The institution will celebrate “Darwin Days’ Family Day” from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday in the Museum of the Earth.
Ithaca College LA director to serve on awards juries
Stephen Tropiano ’84, director of the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program, will sit on two juries for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He will be in the selection committee for the Fifth TROPIANO Television Academy Honors and will serve as a judge for the College Television Awards. Tropiano has been director of the Los Angeles program since its creation in 1994. He is the author of multiple books, including “Obscene, Indecent, Immoral and Offensive: 100+ Years of Censored, Banned, and Controversial Films.” The Television Academy Honors
recognize the most conscientious programming with the “Television with a Conscience” award. The winner is a show that informs and motivates the public. The awards ceremony will take place May 2 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
College to introduce panel on student career paths
The Department of Sociology and the IC Chapter of Students Consulting for Non-Profit Organizations will sponsor Making a Living While Making a Difference, a panel informing students about career paths in nonprofits and government agencies. Representatives from Americorps: Rural Health Services Corp., City Year, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Cancer Center, the Secret Service and The Advocacy Center will attend the panel. The panel’s purpose is to inform and advise students about the different opportunities available to work for organizations that “make a difference” while still having a salary. The event will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Klingenstein Lounge. Refreshments will be provided.
Softball team to raise funds with charity breakfast event
The Ithaca College softball team will raise funds with the Bomber Breakfast, in which a $100 certificate will be raffled. The breakfast is an opportunity for different college departments to donate funds by buying a table and participating in a raffle for $100 in Italian Carryout. Every table is $100, and single
Public Safety Incident Log February 2 UNLAWFUL POSS. OF MARIJUANA LOCATION: Clarke Hall SUMMARY: One person judicially referred for unlawful possession of marijuana. Patrol Officer Jeremiah McMurray. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF LOCATION: Emerson Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person damaged the control panel of an elevator. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Jeremiah McMurray. CASE STATUS CHANGE LOCATION: Office of Public Safety SUMMARY: Officer interviewed the person in the East Tower harassment report from Jan. 31. One person was referred judicially for harassment. Patrol Officer VanVolkinburg. LARCENY LOCATION: Peggy Ryan Williams Center SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person stole a laptop. Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury. UNLAWFUL POSS. OF MARIJUANA LOCATION: Hilliard Hall SUMMARY: One person referred judicially for unlawful possession of marijuana. Patrol Officer Brad Bates.
February 3 MEDICAL ASSIST/ILLNESS RELATED LOCATION: Rowland Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported a person having a panic attack and difficulty breathing. Person declined medical assistance with ambulance staff. Patrol Officer Brad Bates.
MEDICAL ASSIST/ILLNESS RELATED LOCATION: Garden Apartments SUMMARY: Caller reported a person with severe chest pains and a high fever. Person transported to CMC by ambulance. Patrol Officer Jay VanVolkinburg. MEDICAL ASSIST/INJURY RELATED LOCATION: All Other SUMMARY: Caller reported a pipe accidently struck a person in the nose. Person was transported to CMC. Sergeant Ron Hart. RECLASSIFICATION OF CRIME LOCATION: Office of Public Safety SUMMARY: Officer reported incident originally reported as “unlawful possession of marijuana” on Jan. 31 in Clarke Hall was reclassified as “criminal possession of marijuana in the fifth degree.” One person was arrested and issued an appearance ticket for the Ithaca Town Court. Master Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury. V&T VIOLATION LOCATION: A-Lot SUMMARY: Person reported an unknown vehicle damaged a parked vehicle and left the scene. Investigation pending. Sergeant Ron Hart. MEDICAL ASSIST/INJURY RELATED LOCATION: Fitness center SUMMARY: Caller reported a person sustained an ankle injury while playing basketball. Person declined medical assistance. Report taken. Master Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury. MEDICAL ASSIST/ILLNESS RELATED LOCATION: Whalen Center for Music SUMMARY: Caller reported a person having an allergic reaction. Person
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Student-to-Student Rush Night will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Taughannock Falls meeting room.
Music professor conducts Colorado women’s chorale
Ithaca College Music Professor Janet Galvan conducted Colorado Women’s All-State Chorus from Feb. 5-7 in Denver, Colo. The Colorado All-State Choir was founded more than 50 years ago. Galvan has conducted all-state and larger regional honor choral festivals throughout GALVAN the country. At the college she conducts the Women’s Chorale, the Ithaca College Chorus and is the artistic director for the Ithaca Children’s Choir. In 2010, Galvan created the chorus UNYC, which is pronounced “unique.” UNYC has performed with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra.
Artist Talk: Pamela Drix and Patricia Thomas-Hunsinger will begin at 12:15 p.m. in the Handwerker Gallery.
friday Cornell Cinema will screen “Like Crazy,” a film by Drake Doremus, as part of Valentine’s Day Week. The movie will begin at 9:45 p.m. in Uris Hall at Cornell University.
sunday Catholic Mass will begin at 1 and 9 p.m. in Muller Chapel. HiFashion Studio’s model auditions will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Wood Floor Gym.
Tuesday
Ithaca lawyer to seek seat for New York district 22
Black Masculinities will be held as part of the Black Men Discussion Series at 7 p.m. in Clark Lounge.
Ithaca lawyer Leslie Danks Burke announced Friday that she will seek the Democratic nomination to represent New York’s 22nd district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Burke is the latest contender out of four who have shown interest in Rep. Maurice Hinchey’s seat, which is soon to be vacated when he retires. Burke is chair of the Town of Ithaca Democratic Party and sits on a number of boards including the County Public Library Foundation.
Valentine’s Day with Asian American Alliance will begin at 7 p.m. in Williams 313.
Wednesday Vector Marketing, a career session, will begin at noon in Career Services.
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was transported to the health center for treatment and then had difficulty breathing. Person transported to CMC by ambulance. Sergeant Ron Hart. MAKING GRAFFITI LOCATION: Baker Bridge SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person wrote graffiti. Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury. UNLAWFUL POSS. OF MARIJUANA LOCATION: Emerson Hall SUMMARY: One person judicially referred for unlawful possession of marijuana. Master Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury.
February 4 CONDUCT CODE VIOLATION LOCATION: East Tower SUMMARY: Caller reported a highly intoxicated person vomiting. Person declined medical assistance with ambulance staff and was referred judicially for irresponsible use of alcohol. Fire and Building Safety Coordinator Enoch Perkins. V&T VIOLATION LOCATION: Flora Brown Drive SUMMARY: During a traffic stop, officer issued the operator a uniform traffic ticket for the Ithaca Town Court for an unregistered motor vehicle. Patrol Officer Brad Bates. V&T VIOLATION LOCATION: Flora Brown Drive SUMMARY: During a vehicle and traffic stop, a person was arrested for DWI. Officer issued the operator uniform traffic tickets for the Ithaca Town Court for DWI, B.A.C. of more than .08% and failure to keep right. This person was also referred judicially. Patrol Officer Brad Bates.
MEDICAL ASSIST/ILLNESS RELATED LOCATION: Campus Center SUMMARY: Caller reported a person passed out. Person declined ambulance staff medical assistance. Sergeant Ron Hart. LARCENY LOCATION: All Other SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person stole and damaged maple sap collection equipment. Investigation pending. Sergeant Ron Hart.
February 5 MAKING GRAFFITI LOCATION: Circle Apartments SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person wrote graffiti on a sidewalk, electrical box and entrance of a building. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Bruce Thomas. V&T VIOLATION LOCATION: Conservatory Drive SUMMARY: During a traffic stop, a person was operating a vehicle while suspended. Officer issued uniform traffic ticket to Ithaca Town Court for aggravated unlicensed operator. A valid licensed driver took over operation of the vehicle. Patrol Officer Bruce Thomas. MEDICAL ASSIST/ILLNESS RELATED LOCATION: Alumni Circle SUMMARY: Officer reported a person with uncontrolled bleeding. Person transported to CMC by ambulance. Patrol Officer Mark Denicola. CONDUCT CODE VIOLATION LOCATION: J-Lot SUMMARY: Officer reported an unauthorized vehicle was parked in a reserved
space and had a fraudulent permit. Officer issued campus summons for a parking lot violation and operator was judicially referred for possession of a fraudulent permit. Patrol Officer Jeremiah McMurray. MEDICAL ASSIST/ILLNESS RELATED LOCATION: Terraces SUMMARY: Caller reported a person having a possible allergic reaction to medication. One person transported to CMC by ambulance. Master Patrol Officer Robert Hightchew. MEDICAL ASSIST LOCATION: Holmes Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported person stated an intention to self-harm. Officers reported the individual was upset, but did not want to harm self. Residential Life assisted the person. Patrol Officer Jeremiah McMurray. MAKING GRAFFITI LOCATION: East Tower SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person made graffiti on the wall. Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Robert Hightchew. For the complete safety log, go to www.theithacan.org/news
Key cmc – Cayuga Medical Center DWI – Driving While Intoxicated IFD – Ithaca Fire Department IPD – Ithaca Police Department SASP – Student Auxiliary Safety Patrol V&T – Vehicle and Transportation MVA - Motor Vehicle Accident
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Students should take initiative and foster an environment to discuss issues they care about, even if their views are dissenting from majority student opinion.
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ypically, Ithaca College students lean toward liberal ideology. In addition, students might hear more pro-Israel voices regarding the Israel-Palestinian conflict. These views are the majority, but quantity doesn’t denote inevitable validity. Every voice deserves a platform, and members from the IC Republicans and soon-to-be college chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine are proclaiming theirs. Though they may be in the minority, these groups should be commended for questioning prevailing student views. More students should follow in their footsteps. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is surrounded by a tense debate in which dissenting views are often strongly connected with religious and political beliefs. Whether calls against human rights violations, pleas for peace negotiations or opinions on which country should claim Jerusalem, differing opinions make up the layered, delicate issue. The conflict has stirred student response in the past, including an Israel Independence Day celebration sponsored by the Student Alliance for Israel and Hillel Jewish Community. The event was controversial, prompting some to praise the group and others to criticize it. Members of the campus community have also debated how the college deals with the issue and whether the majority of classes, programs and lectures tend to be pro-Israel or pro-Palestine. Members of Students for Justice in Palestine may receive backlash from others who carry a deep emotional tie to Israel. But, if students find their views and lifestyle to be outnumbered by majority voices, they should create their own outlet to foster dialogue and cater to underrepresented groups. Though disagreement may follow, such actions will ultimately spur deeper understanding and conversation.
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Vandalism on campus is a problem that brings loss and disappointment, and the community should report such unlawful acts to higher authorities.
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ast week, students in the Natural Resources and Ecology: Farming the Forest class found their maple syrup production tools destroyed. The damage, which cost more than $300, resulted in loss of students’ time and called into question student morals. Vandalism isn’t new at Ithaca College. From destroyed pianos in the Whalen Center for Music and garbage can arson outside dorms to last semester’s ruined Textor portrait, the campus has seen its fair share of physical damage over the past few years. These acts show a disregard for respecting those who spend time and money to make equipment available for student learning. Vandals need to recognize that their actions have enormous financial consequences and are disappointing to tuition-paying students who rely on pianos or tree tap hooks, for example, as critical components of their individualized education. If the campus community witnesses an act of vandalism, they should report what they saw to Public Safety or online through EthicsPoint, the college’s anonymous hotline. Any tips that would assist campus police in identifying vandalism suspects would help to hold them accountable for their reckless behavior.
your letters Orientation, behavior and identity can intersect multi-dimensionally
Thank you to The Ithacan for your interest and coverage of important sexual health information and your inclusion of LGBT people in your article in the Feb. 9 issue. I am writing to offer a little clarification and a citation as one example about how some LGBT people’s lives may be impacted by alcohol and drug use, and ways this may impact sexuality. The 2001 Susan Blake study, “Preventing sexual risk behaviors among gay, lesbian, and bisexual adolescents: The benefits of gay-sensitive HIV instruction in schools,” found sexually active LGBT youth have more sexual partners than their heterosexual peers and found alcohol use before their last sexual encounter. Yet this same study found that youth in schools with LGBT-inclusive sexual health classroom curricula reported fewer sexual partners and less substance than did LGBT youths in other schools. This, and a variety of additional research, indicate that themes related to sexuality, drug and alcohol use are often rooted in social stigma and its effects, and in the lack of sexual health information and instruction that take into account the unique needs of LGBT people — not because of one’s LGBT status. Additionally, I’d like to offer a brief note on the important differences
Lis Maurer, Program Director of the Center for LGBT Education, Outreach and Services
Degrees will still remain flexible under proposed Core Curriculum
We wish to clarify some information in two recent Ithacan editorials regarding the Integrative Core Curriculum. Each article refers to 16 additional credits that students will complete. There are 16 credits in the Themes and Perspectives component of the program; however, they are not “additional.” All programs require coursework in the liberal arts, often framed as general education requirements or courses in
the Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences or Fine Arts. New York state requires a minimum of 30 hours of liberal arts coursework for B.M. and B.F.A. degrees, 60 hours for B.S. degrees, and 90 hours for B.A. degrees. Thus, required liberal arts coursework is already a part of every student’s degree program. The ICC provides a different structure for organizing this coursework to achieve greater coherence in the liberal arts components of an Ithaca College degree. In addition, the ICC seeks to engage students in a common set of intellectual experiences. The ICC specifically attempts to balance the needs for coherence, commonality and flexibility. It has also been suggested that students will be unable to complete double majors when the ICC is implemented. Again, because the ICC does not add substantially to existing requirements, programs that accommodate double majors now will likely continue to do so. We will be attending the Feb. 29 SGA session and encourage students to forward additional comments or questions to their SGA representative or to contact us directly.
Danette Johnson and Shaianne Osterreich, Director and Associate Director, respectively, of the Ic 20/20 Integrative Core Curriculum
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between orientation (to whom one is attracted), behavior (what one does), and identity (the names/labels one chooses to identify oneself ). Orientation, behavior and identity can intersect in complex and multidimensional ways for each individual. The Ithacan article did not seem to delve into these, and key ways they may serve to further inform The Ithacan’s survey questions, results and implications. On campus at the LGBT Center on the lower level of the Hammond Health Center, resources and referrals are available to any student seeking support or information. Thank you again for your important coverage.
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Students should bring critical eye to ‘diversity’ W
hen the audience walked into Emerson Suites for the “Engaging Communities” speaker on “Reel Diversity,” they smelled the aroma that only Southern fried chicken can produce, bit into vegetable egg rolls and ate off of Ithaca’s best plates. There seemed to be an undeniable impression left by the quality of the event — Ithaca College put on the glitz and glamour for this speech on critical thinking, media literacy and the importance of conversations on diversity among all people. Brian C. Johnson, an ordained minister, speaker and writer who is an advocate CedrickMichael for using film as a medium Simmons for framing conversations on diversity, pushed the audience members to be critical of the political and scripted messages set forth through mainstream media and Hollywood. He challenged us to look beyond the simple repetitive plots of mainstream movies in order to buy into his argument: Every script writer is trying to send a political message, and movies are produced in order to yield some type of profit. The most enlightening example was when he shed light on the implicit edits and angles in the film “Harold and Kumar Escape Guatanamo Bay.” He said the subtle, quick actions and dialogue revealed a critique of the Patriot Act spearheaded by George Bush. This challenged all of us in the audience to be aware of the implications of his argument; we should be critical of the ideas and messages we take in, including those that subtly tell us difference is a problem and prohibit discussions on diversity because we are told that this dialogue only benefits marginalized groups. Instead of placing a critical eye on Hollywood alone, we as a campus should take these tools and take a deeper look at the actions and marketing of Ithaca College, tools that are taught in classes with
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T President Tom Rochon and Marisa Kelly, provost and vice president of academic affairs, discuss IC 20/20 at a meeting last fall. The plan calls for further implementation of diversity initiatives. File Photo/The Ithacan
multiple professors already on this campus. Professors including Mo Baptiste, assistant professor of education, who challenges students to “follow the money trail” and be aware that “every writer is trying to sell you something.” At Ithaca College, it seems that discussions on diversity will always go hand in hand with a reference to our dialogue about IC 20/20. If the speaker and Dr. Baptiste are right that every writer is trying to sell us something, then what is the nonprofit institution of Ithaca College trying to sell to us students, who they want $48,000 every year from? Let’s not get seduced by the pictures of ALANA students on the website and in advertising campaigns, or awesome fried chicken dished out during Black History Month events. The reality is that true pushes for diversity and multicultural awareness will have to come from
the student body and our organizations. We need to push for awareness of diversity in solidarity with regards to race, class, gender, sexual orientation and the intersectional nature of all of our unique and complex identities. We also need to place a critical eye on the college. We need to ask if “Engaging Communities” and IC 20/20 are just efforts to obtain more money, why the language center and pushes for an Asian-American Studies program are struggling and why professors like Dr. Baptiste, who has told students the college is not renewing his contract, can no longer teach here despite the fact that they preach the messages celebrated last week through what I call “Diversity Entertainment.” Cedrick-Michael Simmons is a sophomore exploratory major. Email him at csimmon1@ithaca.edu.
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Young music teachers find struggle pays off in first year
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recently wrote a book based on the stories of several first-year teachers — many of whom are graduates of our Ithaca College Department of Music Education. The book is called “The Music Teacher’s First Year: Tales of Challenge, Joy Beth peterson and Triumph.” The idea behind the book came from my dissertation research, which was a case study of three first-year instrumental music teachers — all Ithaca College graduates. I spent the year interviewing them, reading their journal entries, recording their rehearsals. I had a pretty good picture of what their first year was like. Then, it occurred to me that every March or April, many recent IC grads or first-year teachers will come back to visit us during their spring break. These young teachers are eager to tell us about their experiences, and our undergraduates are eager to hear their stories. I thought this approach — interviews and stories from first-year teachers — would make a great book. I was able to receive a grant from the college so I could set up a “story booth” at both the New York State School Music Association convention and the Midwest Band and Orchestra
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Clinic. I interviewed about 40 young music teachers. This book is a collection of 32 of those interviews. From a first-year teacher whose instruments were stolen before entering his building to a teacher who received hate mail before her first day, to a teacher whose sensitivity, flexibility and insight gained her the respect of her ensemble in only weeks, this collection of stories from first-year teachers is a description of their real world. In addition, each chapter includes discussion questions for pre-service teachers as they prepare for their teaching future. My hope is that first-year or young music teachers will read the
book and know that others are right there with them experiencing the same thing. I also hope this book will be used in music education methods courses as the discussion questions at the end of each chapter help to focus the reader on issues and ways to solve problems. The biggest thing I learned while working on this project is that young music teachers tend to struggle most with the nonmusical aspects of the job, like getting along with others, organization and administration of a music program. It is difficult to teach someone to have interpersonal skills, but those are exactly the skills that young teachers
need most. Below is an excerpt from the book. John was asked if he could identify one aspect of his teaching style that has changed or evolved during his first few years of teaching in New York City. He said: “That’s hard to explain because it is sort of like watching a tree grow. You know it gets bigger, but it’s your tree, so it is hard to notice. I’ve made many little changes, but one thing: I find I raise my voice less. I’m able to instill discipline more constructively. I’m more in control of myself and my program, and I think that affects the ensembles. I realize that most ensembles are actually a mirror of the director — a direct reflection of someone’s personality and attitude. Your students will behave the way you behave. Your students will value what you value . . .” John got quiet for a moment. Then he said, as he was still considering the question about his own evolution as a teacher, “That’s a tough question. The greatest thing that I have done in the job is establish the culture of the program.” Another young teacher concluded in her story: “I love my job. It’s hard, it’s definitely hard, and I’m exhausted every day. But when the kids ‘get it’, it’s entirely worth it. I wouldn’t trade it for the world.” Beth Peterson is an associate professor of music education. Email her at epeterson@ithaca.edu.
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ech news consumers have been hearing about the post-PC era for a while now — a world where phones and tablets will handle the majority of our computing needs. For the first time ever, smart phone sales exceeded PCs this past holiday quarter, and tablets like the iPad and Kindle Fire have been growing in popularity. However, there is still one area that hasn’t been overly accepting of the trend: education. Together, Apple and Samsung sold more than 60 million smartphones in the past three months, a number heralding a world where PCs will be reserved for work and high-power applications like Photoshop and video games, where email, Internet browsing and computer use will be reserved for much smaller, multi-touch screens. Society hasn’t yet reached postPC though, and college campuses are a prime example of the reason why. Though many students carry smartphones with them every day, they’re not being used or even allowed in the classroom. There’s a growing disconnect between laptop and cellphone use in education. Where classrooms are often full of students sitting on their laptops, cellphones are typically banned from lectures. Laptops have assumed the role of “good” technology, whereas phones, which can handle similar work as PCs, have been relegated to the corner mostly because they were the first technology to be brought into a classroom. Students can text and screen calls using their phones, but with free wireless in every building, most would rather play games or use Facebook chat on their laptops. Phones are smaller, lighter and increasingly well suited for educational tasks. Apps like Evernote make it easy to type notes, record audio or snap pictures, then share them across virtually all platforms. Why hand write and draw diagrams when a simple picture of the information on the board does the same work and frees students to focus on analyzing the information instead of strictly copying it? There are a growing number of apps looking to simplify education, and the welcoming of smartphones into the classroom will only prompt more creativity in the field. Students need to be trusted to use their phones effectively in the classroom, just as they are trusted to use laptops. As the rest of the world moves toward a post-PC era of computing, education will need to catch up. Tablets and phones are smaller and lighter than laptops, making them ideal to transport between classes, dorm rooms and homes. Until teachers start accepting them as tools and not just toys, educational applications will have a hard time gaining traction among college students. TJ Gunther is a senior journalism major. Email him at tgunthe1@ithaca.edu.
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Misconception Student fakes pregnancy to understand social pressures on young moms Allie Healy
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Sophomore Cöelis Mendoza peered out from under her fuchsia bangs with wide eyes at a buzzing crowd of 30 friends and peers, her caramel skin illuminated by the computer screen in front of her. The 19-year-old waddled out from behind the podium, her large, round belly leading the way. “Look at her little belly button.” “When is she due again?” “She’s gotten so big!” The volume in the small room rose as Mendoza supported her back with one hand and stood next to the lectern, about to begin her presentation. She To watch a video took a deep breath of Mendoza’s to steady her pulse. journey, visit The audience theithacan.org. hushed. With a quick tug from under her dress, Mendoza unveiled a secret she had hidden under her clothing for the past six months. “I am, in fact, not pregnant.” This was Mendoza’s opening statement for her presentation “Conception: The Introspective Journey of a Teenage Mother” on Feb. 7. For the past six months, Mendoza wore a prosthetic pregnant belly as a sociological experiment to understand societal perceptions of teenage pregnancies on campus. “I wanted to figure out why there are so many stigmas attached to teen moms,” Mendoza said. “There is a life growing inside a woman’s stomach. Why is it so shunned?” As a Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar — a scholarship for academically talented students from underrepresented ethnic and racial backgrounds — she was required to
pick an area of social justice to study during her time at Ithaca College. Because her mother was pregnant as a teen, Mendoza chose to investigate the social implications of teen pregnancy in a college setting. When Mendoza first told her mother, Rose Avila, about the project she planned on pursuing, Avila burst into tears. The topic hit close to home. “I had three children by the time I was 21,” Avila said. “At first I thought the project was too close for comfort. But as time went on, I became much more comfortable with it.” A part of Mendoza’s goal in her research was to provide more context to the discussion of race surrounding teenage pregnancy. As a Latina, she was forced to confront racial stereotypes as well as typical misconceptions about being a pregnant teen. Nearly 750,000 American teenagers become pregnant every year, and a majority of these pregnancies are unintended, according to Planned Parenthood. Of these teen pregnancies, Latinas have the highest teen pregnancy rate among ethnic groups in the United States, and 52 percent of Latina teens become pregnant at least once before age 20. Mendoza consulted her mother, who had her first child at 15, throughout the experiment. Mendoza sought advice and strength, especially at times when she heard negative comments regarding her pretend pregnancy. “There was a comment made within my scholarship program that ‘It would be a Mexican,’” Mendoza said. “Because I got pregnant, the number of stigmas placed upon me served to certain people as justification for the stereotypes that they had to begin with.”
In preparation for the experiment, Mendoza had to figure out a way to create a convincing pregnant belly. To make the pregnancy more realistic, she decided to arrive back at college in August three months “pregnant.” Mendoza’s first two trimesters were then shaped with a body compression suit and some upholstery foam. Every couple of weeks, Mendoza would add more foam into her suit. “At first the reaction was like, ‘Are you fat?’ No. ‘Is she pregnant?’ Maybe,” Mendoza said. As she approached the third trimester, Mendoza did her research and ordered a custom-fitting prosthetic pregnant body suit, which cost her $500 out-of-pocket. “I figured if I was going to do this, I was going to go all they way,” Mendoza
said. “There was no half-assing it.” As Mendoza’s baby bump grew, she began to receive more attention. Because the college does not provide support to pregnant students other than medical services covered by student health care, some faculty members reached out to her. Mendoza was strongly advised to take a medical leave of absence. One faculty member even provided her with the contact information of local couples looking to adopt. While Mendoza was “pregnant,” she thought that her experience as a pregnant student in college was better than it would have been if she was in high
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Hot or Not This week’s hits and misses
Assistant Accent Editor Allie Healy breaks down the funniest and lamest features of the popular Ithaca Memes Facebook page.
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Meme-ing Struggles When it comes to making fun of their school, Ithaca College students are pros. Just add the “Y U No Man” into the equation and the result is one hilarious meme. Gracing the page with wit and just a hint of angst, the most successful memes feature topics of frustration such as the ever-troubling Homerconnect. Sure, we could all complain about never finding a table in the Campus Center dining hall during lunch hour. Rather than chewing off a friend’s ear, users have successfully channeled their irritations in meme form.
Lukewarm Homemade Memes While some students used Futurama Fry and Paranoid Parrot templates, others ignored the circulating memes and used a picture of their own choosing. For example, a picture of the campus map and several photo stills of President Tom Rochon were used. The self-made memes have poor photo quality and a less dramatic font. Props to these users for the creative approach — they get an A for effort. However, they just don’t fit in with the rest of the page. Scrolling through the entries, it doesn’t take an expert to spot which meme is not like the others.
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Troll Takeover On one of the first days the page was online, a bomb of Spiderman memes erupted onto the sacred meme-ified wall. Though senior Jesse Geffen, the page’s creator, blocked the source and deleted the cluster of memes, users were overwhelmed by the sudden surge of superheroes. Other “trolls” — people who post an abundance of memes in a short period of time — have been frequenting the page with their mock memes and constant banter. Nothing says “buzz kill” quite like a meme know-it-all. Disclaimer: Ithacan staff members have submitted memes on the page. This does not affect the column’s content. We are just as trendy as you are.
Obstacles of love
Students participate in an interactive game at “Love-is-an-Obstacle Course,” an Asian-American Alliance event held on Tuesday. Along with many other Valentine’s Day-themed activities, attendees learned about the holiday’s folklore from Chinese culture.
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quirky social media accessory fastens facebook on avid users
If you are social media-obsessed and have your Android phone glued to your hand, then you might want to consider investing in your own LikeBelt. The LikeBelt was designed by Deeplocal, a post-digital branding company, as a way to let users update their Facebook using pelvic thrusts. The belt’s faceplate recognizes markers when thrust at twice. It then connects to an Android phone and uses Near Field Communication to let users add friends, check into places and like things. This bizarre accessory will have users moving and shaking their way around the Web. — Allie Healy
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rockers’ inventive video rushes with creative music
In the new OK Go music video “Needing/Getting,” the band drives through a musical course lined with an array of instruments. Shot in a desert outside Los Angeles, the video includes 1,157 homemade instruments. This video took more than four months of preparation and four days to shoot. In their signature primary colors, the band speeds towards YouTube success. — Allie Healy
tweetuntweet I found my voice singing Whitney Houston’s music. Today I lost my idol. — Jessica Simpson, pop singer-songwriter, on the recent passing of R&B music legend Whitney Houston.
celebrity SCOOPS! Gaga plays love games Lady Gaga may have a new bad romance on her hands. After telling her new boyfriend, Taylor Kinney, 30, of “Vampire Diaries” fame, that she wanted to make their relationship open to having sex with other people, their new love may have been put in jeopardy. Star Magazine claims that sources close to the songstress state she made the suggestion in hopes that it would clear up any fear of Kinney cheating. Sources close to Kinney claim Gaga is paranoid and drawing at straws for Kinney’s attention, and the fact that she brings up her ex Luc Carl is not making the transition from lonely to enamored any easier for the couple. — Benjii Maust
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school or had dropped out. Despite the lack of institutional support, Mendoza said the outreach from the college’s faculty was mildly patronizing, but the support she got was appreciated nonetheless. “There were a significant number of resources at my disposal,” Mendoza said. “On the other hand, there was more disappointment in my pregnancy because I am in college, as if I should know better and my maturity should attribute to my responsibility and precautions.” She soon came to find that many of her peers frowned upon her condition. Her defined eyebrows furrowed at the memory of walking through the dining hall and catching disapproving looks from passersby. “It was as if people were looking at me like, ‘What did you do?’ ‘Why are you pregnant?’” she said. While wearing the false bump, Mendoza found herself growing accustomed to her new shape. Without thinking about it, she often caught herself acting as a real pregnant woman would act. “Sometimes I would find myself just resting my hand on my stomach,” she said. “I would hold my stomach [when walking] because the suit is snap-on and I wouldn’t want it to jiggle in a way that’s not natural, but also it was security.” Mendoza’s boyfriend, Yamir Hernandez, also began to notice that the suit progressively influenced her daily life and even brought upon pregnancy-like symptoms. “The suit isn’t just a suit, she actually experienced side effects,” he said. “Because the suit was positioned over her bladder she went to the bathroom more frequently.” Besides her mother, Mendoza sought plenty of preparation advice from her boyfriend, whose sister was a teen mother at the age of 17. Because he was around his sister throughout her pregnancy, Hernandez better
understood the movements and mannerisms of pregnant women. “I put heavy books into a backpack and had her put it on as a mock pregnant belly for Cöelis to practice standing up and sitting down,” Hernandez said. While out in public with his girlfriend, Hernandez said he received just as many glares. Though he anticipated those reactions, Hernandez could not help but feel wrongly judged. “People would see her belly and immediately look at me with assumptions,” he said. “But this was expected.” As Mendoza’s “due date” approached, the couple was bombarded with questions. They said the biggest concern among their friends and peers was their plans for after the child was born. Because the couple was forced to answer these questions for their friends and peers, it made them think about how they would handle the situation if it were a reality. — Yamir Hernandez “Our moral values do not support abortion,” Hernandez said. “If Cöelis were actually to become pregnant we would give [the child] up for adoption.” Before her big reveal at her presentation, Mendoza said she was concerned about what the reaction would be from her friends. While she was sitting in IC Square, Mendoza’s attention shifted mid-sentence to a friend passing by. With a smile, she waved down her close friend, sophomore Kathy Perez. “She cried when she first found out,” Mendoza said. Perez hurriedly approached Mendoza and sat down next to her. With a sigh, she told her story. “I walked into my friend’s kitchen one night and I saw the back of Cöelis’ head. Then I saw her holding a glass of wine. So I yelled her name and she turned around. The belly was gone. She was skinny again. I broke down crying and locked myself in a room for 30 minutes.” Beyond relieved to leave the body suit
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behind, Mendoza smiles at the mention of wearing her fitting clothes again. She avoided purchasing maternity clothing because it was too expensive. Her mother said she could not be any
happier with the experiment’s outcome. “She completely exceeded my expectations,” Avila said. “I am very proud to be a once-teen mom who raised a daughter that defied the statistics against us.”
Class credit for clarity Music students practice yoga to manage stress from courses Christy Agnese, assistant to the deans in the School of Music, said Despite a demanding curricu- the program was inspired by student lum that calls for students to learn suggestions from the dean’s advisory multiple instruments and prepare council, a group of students who for in-the-moment performances, represent their respective studios reIthaca College music students have garding their main instrument. Agnese said music students are found a new way to earn credit — often stretched in multiple direcstaying silent. Music students are now being of- tions with major requirements. “Allowing our students to take fered Healthy Living for Musicians, a program that brings meditation a step back, learn how to de-stress, instructors from the college’s Center and also develop time-management for Counseling and Psychological skills is really key to their success Services and Island Health and here at Ithaca College,” she said. Agnese said this program is Fitness to teach stress management and crisis-prevention techniques. especially important for relieving The sessions are sponsored by the the tension tied into the constant demand for perWhalen Center formance in front for Music and as of one’s peers. incentive, stu“Your classes dents can receive usually involve recital attendance lots of being for taking part in called on in class, the sessions. — Senior Tristan Rais-Sherman and asking to Nick Boyar, perform, like in yoga instructor at Island Health and Fitness, leads some sight-singing, where they might of the classes and introduced four say, ‘It’s time to sing this. You, let’s short stress-reduction practices go now,’” she said. Katarina Anderson, a junior music during his session Feb. 1. Boyar then taught the class education and voice major, said she body-scanning meditation, a yoga takes 18 credits and hardly has time technique where a person sits or lays for mental recuperation. “There’s so much that we have to down and moves his or her attention part by part through the body. do in our major, and there’s so little He also distributes audio recordings time we have to do healthy things, deof the techniques for students to use compressing things, like meditation, or just going out, running and getting outside of the meetings.
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“It’s essential to collecting yourself and playing at your best. ”
Nick Boyar, yoga instructor at Island Health and Fitness, leads a Healthy Living Session for music students at Ithaca College. The classes are intended to be a way for music students to deal with the stress of their studies.
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all the stress out,” she said. Tristan Rais-Sherman, a senior cello performance major, attended a Healthy Living session Feb. 1. He said meditation is beneficial for a musician’s ability to work through the added sensations. “You have to do so many things as a performer,” he said. “It’s so easy to get caught up in the adrenaline of the moment and the excitement and the fear of playing for people.” Though the program is centered on music students, Boyar said the techniques are helpful for anyone undergoing external or internal pressures in their lives. “Having the ability to relax oneself without relying on external
conditions or substances, but to actually work internally is very important for everyone,” he said. Paul Mikowski, a psychologist at CAPS, is one of the session conductors for the program. He said meditation is beneficial to all students, but it does have benefits that musicians can find fruitful. “It helps with clearing your mind of distractions, reducing muscle tension that might get in the way of a performance,” he said. To encourage a balanced mental state, Agnese said she hopes to expand the Healthy Living program in the future. The School of Music has already started to offer elective coursework in topics surrounding
becoming a healthy musician. She said she hopes to integrate the sessions into all students’ lives as a shared requirement and not just an elective experience. “When I was in college, the School of Music offered one session during your freshman year that had to do with kind of all these topics,” she said. “One 50-minute class to talk about all these topics — it’s just the very tip of the iceberg.” Rais-Sherman said meditation helped him in musical performance. “Being able to meditate and keeping yourself a little bit separated is really key,” he said. “It’s essential to collecting yourself and playing at your best.”
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Professor reveals roots of southern lynching he expected, he said. His research suggests African-Americans used public execution as Michael Trotti, associate professor of a platform to show the white community that history at Ithaca College, has spent the ma- there is a higher power — a God who has conjority of his professional career researching trol over their lives, more so than the white’s murder. Now, he is reconstructing the way dominion on earth. This religious connotation made the white community realize that public historians view lynchings in the South. Trotti recently published “The Scaffold’s execution was being used as a medium for proRevival: Race and Public Execution in the test and rebellion against their superiority and South,” an exploration of the relationship power, he said. “Public executions were events in which between public execution and lynching in the post-Civil War South, in the Journal of the crowd celebrate the confession, the pronouncement of the condemned criminal, Social History. Trotti studied 1,300 instances of pub- that he has seen his erroneous ways and lic executions in the South and focused on he’s going to go to heaven — that the lowest among us can still be how newspapers portrayed saved,” he said. them and how these events Peter Stearns, editor unfolded during that time of The Journal of Social period. In the half-century History, worked with Trotti after the Civil War, threeand reviewed his work. He quarters of those legally said historians study issues executed in the South were — Michael Trotti of race in American history, African-Americans, and but there is also literature more than 2,600 people were publicly executed in the South 50 years on changes in public punishments and what it reflects about wider cultural shifts. after the Civil War, he said. “This article contributed in both areas,” “The world that I inherited as a southerner myself growing up in the ’60s and ’70s he said. “It had an unusually rich analytical was built generations before,” Trotti said. payoff and very original assessments of key “[I am] looking at the origins of racism in issues in the recent American past,” he said. Michael Smith, associate professor of histhe south, at the southern way of life that tory at the college, was part of the peer review was really changing as I was growing up.” Before researching about public execu- group that gave Trotti feedback on his book tions in the South, Trotti, like many of his throughout his writing process. He said Trotti’s book is a path-breaking colleagues, said he assumed that lynching and public execution in this period of his- study in an area of history that has not been a popular topic for scholarly research. Trotti’s tory were very much alike. “[It’s] another nasty example of destroy- imaginative new way of thinking about these ing a black criminal’s body in public in front subjects will get him credit for opening the doors to more research on public execution, of a white crowd,” he said. But he found something different than what lynching and capital punishment, he said.
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“I’m looking at the origins of racism in the South, at the southern way of life.”
Michael Trotti, associate professor of history, reads through a book in his office Tuesday. Trotti recently published an analysis of execution and lynching in the post-Civil War South. patrick sullivan/The Ithacan
“I respect how he truly is a scholar teacher,” Smith said. “He has a very imaginative research agenda.” Trotti said he has taken a different route than traditional scholars have with this topic.
“We need to have a more sophisticated understanding of what is going on when the state legally executes someone,” he said. “This is more or less adding something new to our scholarship understanding of punishment.”
Global projections Young activists travel country to bring hope to people in need Next week, members of the Global Poverty Project will drive their decorated tour van to Ithaca to challenge students to live like 1.4 billion people around the world — with less than $1.25 per day. Danielle Goldschneider, a member of the Global Poverty Project, an organization that works to help eradicate extreme poverty, will present “1.4 Billion Reasons,” an interactive presentation meant to raise awareness about the estimated 1.4 billion people living without adequate resources to survive, Feb. 20 at Cornell University. Goldschneider and other members of the organization travel around the country raising money for people in need. Admission is free and open to the public. Accent Editor Shea O’Meara spoke with Goldschneider about her work with the Global Poverty Project, her inspiration for joining the organization and her upcoming presentation at Cornell. Shea O’Meara: What is the mission of the Global Poverty Project? Danielle Goldschneider: Our goal is to eliminate extreme poverty in a generation. Extreme poverty is defined as living with less than or at $1.25 a day, which is about enough to buy two bowls of rice. Our goal is to help the 1.4 billion
people who are living in this type of poverty achieve a stable way of life and give them the resources they need. SO: What can students expect from your trip to Ithaca? DG: We give a presentation called “1.4 Billion Reasons” that explains the economics behind extreme poverty and the different issues that happen in the developing world. It helps people become more aware of these issues, and it invites audiences to participate in our Live Below the Line campaign, which raises money for our partner charity. SO: How can students get involved with the project? DG: Live Below the Line is a fiveday challenge where participants agree to live on $1.50 a day for five days. Each day they are able to do that, they fundraise for our partner charities. We’re doing fundraising for children’s preventable deaths, so we’re fundraising for vaccines in developing worlds. Even if you’re only able to raise five dollars, that’s literally five vaccines that you’ve purchased and you’ve just saved the lives of five children who could have potentially died of horrible diseases like malaria or cholera or diseases that are entirely preventable.
Volunteers from the Global Poverty Project and ONE, a campaign that works to combat extreme poverty, teamed up for the Living Proof Tour, an initiative to help make vaccinations more accessible globally, last summer. Courtesy of the Global Poverty Project
SO: What is working and traveling with the other Global Poverty Project advocates like? DG: We try to keep it lighthearted. Meg, [one of the members] even though she lived in Malawi and she’s seen a lot of extreme poverty, she also has hilarious experiences with students asking her about Lady Gaga lyrics and what their translation was in English. As much as we talk about global poverty and issues that are important to each one of us, we also try to make it lighthearted and share experiences that make each
other laugh. That’s what we’re all about, common humanity. That’s what we’re trying to portray in our presentation. We’re all on one planet — common humanity. SO: How successful has the project been in achieving its goals? DG: We were able to raise $118 million for vaccinations for polio. India this past year has just announced that they’ve been free of polio for over a year. Polio is a completely preventable disease and it’s been wiped out for a large part of the world, but there are
still countries that are [endemic], like Afghanistan, where it’s not uncommon to get polio. That’s just absurd, and it’s a shame. SO: What can students expect from the presentation? DG: It’s a lot of fun. You’re not going to come to the presentation and be depressed — that’s not what the Global Poverty Project is about. This is a real problem that we can fix, and it’s upbeat, and it’s exciting. To learn more about the project, visit www.globalpovertyproject.com.
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Every once in a while a novel comes along that leaves readers gasping at the skill of an author’s use of language. Ben Marcus’ startling experimental fiction, “The Flame Alphabet,” fits this bill. In his world, the planet is tainted by words. Language has become a toxin, spewing forth first from the mouths of Jewish children. Only those who are fully matured are susceptible to the eroding effects of words, leaving parents pleading for their children’s Ben Marcus speech to cease killing them. “The Flame The toxic effect soon spreads Alphabet” from the mouths of Jewish Knopf Publishing children to the mouths of all children, then all adults, all written word and eventually, all symbols as well. Anything conveying meaning is corrosive on adults’ bodies. Marcus, a professor at Columbia University and an Ithaca College Distinguished Writer for the month of April, shows the reader this horrific world through the lens of a family unit. Marcus deviates from his jumping narrative style of other works such as “Notable American Women” by providing a single narrator in the father of this family, Sam. His narration is terrifying and empty as he relates the world around him, yet full of sensory descriptions that leave the reader understanding Sam down to his very being. Sam is crass, stubborn, and it seems as though every effort he undergoes to save his family is futile. It’s the ultimate catch-22: Sam wants himself and his wife Claire to provide their difficult 14-year-old daughter, Esther, with all the health and tenderness parents should be able to provide their child, even as she kills them with her very presence. The quandary Sam and Claire face is the same as all the other parents in the book: Do we send our children off in government-issued red buses to an unknown place for our own safety, do we run away from them under cover of darkness, or do we die because we can’t bear to be separated from them? Marcus introduces a fabricated religion to “The Flame Alphabet” that he refers to as “forest Judaism.” Those who practice forest Judaism have a secluded hut in the woods with a hole in the ground
Artist Talk with Patricia Thomas-Hunsinger and Pamela Drix, Ithaca College art lecturers, will be held at 12:15 p.m. in the Handwerker Gallery. Admission is free.
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Art Collecting 101, a free lecture on how to collect art, led by Ed Marion, will be held at 7 p.m. in the Ithaca Art Factory. Light in Winter, a festival of science and the arts featuring DJ Laika and magician Alex Stone, will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Lot 10 Kitchen and Lounge. Suggested donation is $5.
saturday Author Ben Marcus and the book cover of his third novel, “The Flame Alphabet.” The book was picked as Amazon’s best book of the month this January and was featured in Harper’s magazine. courtesy of Knopf publishing
that, if they tap into the right frequency with their mysterious equipment, will produce sermons from Rabbis about what they should do during the epidemic. Embedded in forest Judaism is the need for silence and secrecy concerning their religion, a quietude that a mysterious red-haired man named Murphy would like to break and exploit. This man is the ultimate manipulator in a world where nothing is sure. Marcus knows his characters so well that Murphy is perfectly able to exploit their flaws in pursuit of secrets he believes will gain him a foothold in an epidemical world. Marcus is preceded in his writing by single-narrative, apocalyptic pieces about family and survival such as Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road,” which undoubtedly influenced his writing style. Disregarding the quasi-unoriginality of the narrative, Marcus introduces a new stylistic element that is bound to strike readers
profoundly: historic fact. Marcus cites examples from Roman author Pliny, who denounced children’s speech as a source of pestilence and banned youth from his presence, Thoreau, who called an alphabet the saddest song, and the warnings of Plutarch, Cicero and Ovid not to read their works if one valued their life. These references paint a picture of a world that should have anticipated the lethal nature of language. The novel doesn’t provide a happy ending or much finality at all, and there’s no use looking for it. Marcus’ astute read offers something more than a story; it provides a gripping account of the power of language, the urge for solidarity and the relentlessness of the pursuit of family. Ben Marcus will be speaking as a part of the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at 7:30 p.m. April 8 in the Clark Lounge.
Emotionally charged album exposes band’s hidden scars by Daniel Bergner Contributing writer
For their third studio album, The Fray delivers 12 highly emotional and candid songs to their fans. The band exposes their emotions in a way they The Fray never have before. “Scars and In their sensiStories” bly titled release, Epic Records “Scars and Stories,” Our rating: HHH The Fray openly discuss accounts of their trips abroad — but with a twist. All the songs relate to their “scars” from being in love. This is a different approach for the band as compared to their first two albums. In songs like “Munich” and “Rainy Zurich,” it’s obvious to the listener
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that the band was inspired by the different places the band has traveled to while on tour. In the breathtaking single “Heartbeat,” Isaac Slade, the band’s lead vocalist, creates a fiery start to their album. With this track, Slade commands attention with his wide vocal range. In addition, the catchy melody and passion-driven lyrics are captivating. The band is able to show their “scars” from love through the use of their somber yet impactful melodies. The band’s strength is shown in their song “Run For Your Life” when Slade sings, “All that you are/ All that you want/ Run for your life.” In “1961” and “I Can Barely Say,” The Fray reveals the struggle of being apart from their loved ones while “The Fighter”
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Abrasive sound shocks senses by jared dionne staff writer
With the release of their new LP, Cloud Nothings have now put forth three albums in less than two years. “Attack On Memory,” their new effort, is a grunge-punk manifesto filled with feisty angst. Fr o n t m a n Cloud Dylan Baldi Nothings and company “Attack On employ clashMemory” ing guitars, Carpark rapid-fire snare Records drums and gutOur rating: tural screams HHHH to deliver an energizing blast to listeners’ auditory systems. Leading cut “No Future/No Past” starts off simple enough with a quiet piano line. As the song progresses, powerful guitars and drums enter. Baldi’s melancholy
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accurately depicts the emptiness one can feel without affection. The album ends on a high note with “Be Still.” In this ballad, Slade sings, “If no one is standing beside you/ Be still and you know I am,” showing that he will always be there for his loved ones. Overall, The Fray achieves easy success with “Scars and Stories” through their natural ability to relate and connect with their fans through the honesty of their lyrics.
moaning results in an explosion of sound amid his wailing. “Separation,” an instrumental track, is a mosh enthusiast’s dream come true. With a lack of vocals, the band is left to shred away on contrasting guitar chords and abuse the drumheads. In just eight tracks, Cloud Nothings have crafted an album that sets the bar incredibly high for the rest of 2012’s indie releases.
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The electro-hip-hop group hailing from Los Angeles have released an undoubtedly hyper and hard-hitting album worthy of blasting for a surge of pure energy.
This indie-rock singersongwriter breaks out onto the alternative scene with gritty guitar riffs, pumping power chords, and an attitude that contrasts his once-mellow vibe.
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Le Voyage Dans La Lune Third Man/Columbia Amidst the sporadic electronics, Air lays down some groovy bass lines with flute accents. Welcome to a party from the future.
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In his first major film role since “Harry Potter,” Daniel Radcliffe wipes all thoughts of the boy wizard from viewers’ minds in his new role as a somber, curious young lawyer chasing shadows in “The James Watkins’ “The Woman In Woman in Black”. Black” Set in the early CBS Films 1900s, the film folOur rating: HH 1/2 lows Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe), a young father whose wife died in childbirth, as he travels to a country village to handle the estate of the deceased Alice Drablow. The house is surrounded by a gloomy marsh, drowning it in fog and making it inaccessible to outsiders at high tide. Arthur catches glimpses of a woman dressed in black watching him, though the villagers insist the house is deserted. Sam (Ciaran Hinds), the one villager who befriends Arthur, insists Arthur’s mind is playing tricks on him and he is only seeing shadows. However, Arthur continues to visit the house to not only complete his assignment, but also to uncover the secrets of the mysterious woman. Radcliffe’s costume and pale makeup help him naturally blend into the setting. The unsaturated colors and the intricate set details allow for a convincing portrayal of the Edwardian time period. However, Radcliffe is the only person on screen throughout the majority of the film, and he has relatively few lines for so much screen time. The lack of real human interaction during portions of the film
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Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) is a young lawyer with a tragic past who travels to a remote English village for business. There he discovers the vindictive ghost of a scorned woman who is harassing the locals.
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contributes to the feeling of isolation while he is at the estate, but the silence doesn’t allow Radcliffe to show off his acting range beyond the realm of visual terror and depression. Typically, horror movies rely on nighttime scenes and darkness to create terror and suspense. “The Woman in Black” instead uses the setting’s fog and broad daylight to create suspenseful scenes. For example, the first time Arthur gets caught in the fog outside of the estate, he hears women and children screaming around him, but he cannot place the source of the sound in the disorienting mist. Inside the house, many of the most shocking moments occur with sun-
light streaming through the windows. Despite the refreshing concept of horror in daylight, the film depends mostly on stereotypical scare tactics. Arthur repeatedly sees the woman in black, subjecting the audience to suspenseful scenes involving total silence before a shocking reveal. Faces suddenly appear in windows, and creepy wind-up dolls come to life on their own. These repetitive instances of terror, though effective at first, drag the film along without plot significance until the last half hour, making the middle portion of the film dull. Suspense aside, the main source of fear in the film comes from
moments involving children. Early on in the film after Arthur first sees the woman in black, a little girl who poisons herself dies violently in his arms. The film’s tendency to feature dying, ghostly and possessed children will no doubt cause viewers to cringe in horror. Despite a lagging rising action, the movie succeeds in captivating the audience with the help of some shocking sequences and an innovative use of setting in this tale of betrayal, revenge and a refusal to forgive. “The Woman in Black” was directed by James Watkins and written by Jane Goldman.
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It’s no surprise Parisian writer and director Michael Hazanavicius captured the attention of critics with “The Artist,” a playful and modern rendition of silent film that is unspeakably charming. In crisp black-and-white with next to no dialogue, it’s easy to jump to the conclusion that the “The Artist” film is another inaccessible Golden The Weinstein Globe favorite. However, a capCompany Our rating: tivating storyline and cast make HHHH “The Artist” even better than its outspoken modern counterparts. Jean Dujardin plays heartthrob George Valentin, a silent film superstar with a wide grin who leaves hoards of screaming women beside themselves. By chance, aspiring dancer Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo) stumbles into Valentin. Surrounded by photographers, she gives him a peck on the cheek, and the pair make tabloid headlines. Valentin befriends Miller as she struggles to make it in Hollywood. He gives her the idea to draw on a beauty mark, which leads to her big break. With the birth of the “talkie,” Valentin, a heavily accented Frenchman, is out of work. Miller becomes an overnight sensation. When Valentin is at his lowest, Miller resolves to find a way to bolster his spirits. Both Dujardin and Bejo give brilliant performances. It’s impossible not to fall in love with Valentin’s charismatic eyebrows, not to chuckle at Peppy Miller’s initial awkwardness, or not to rejoice as she rises to fame. Hazanavicius punctuates the simple winning storyline by playing with the idea of sound. In one scene, he suddenly introduces the hum of a radiator and the noisy chattering of girls outside. The sounds haunt Valentin, who is seemingly confined to a
world of silence. It’s a creative addition that gives the classic feel of the film a modern twist. But while the lighthearted use of sound reminds the audience that they are still in the 21st century, a knockout soundtrack pays homage to the history of silent film. Up-tempo, jazzy tunes almost tempt the audience to get up and dance in the aisles. Sultry blues melodies act as a backdrop for a lonely Valentin, drinking scotch surrounded by relics of lost fame. The near absence of sound effects draws attention to the important, yet often overlooked role music plays in films. With meticulous attention to detail and stunning camera angles, “The Artist” is a nod to the past that is well worth enjoying in the present.
British director Steve McQueen’s second film, “Shame,” is a character study dealing with the cynical world of addiction, while also excusing clichés in its poetic execution. Michael Fassbender plays a young sex addict named Brandon. A frequent customer of call girls and a chronic masturbator, Brandon lives a life consumed by sex without passion or connection. The arrival of his dependent sister, Sissy (Carey Mulligan), inter“Shame” feres with Brandon’s lifestyle. Film4 Our rating: In “Shame,” the allure of HHH 1/2 addiction cannot be easily explained. It disrupts work, friendships, family, and ultimately results in negativity. However, addiction allows individuals to construct walls against human connection. This, according to McQueen, is the most relevant part of physical dependency. Addiction gives the psychologically broken a license to ignore their problems while also serving their own selfishness. Yet Brandon doesn’t explain why he abuses sex, rendering his character unrelatable. Both Fassbender and Mulligan play their broken protagonists with remarkable courage, seemingly prepared to make their roles as unrelatable as possible while still achieving empathy from the audience. “Shame” is a portrait of addiction that drops cinematic pomp and flair, stripping itself as the characters are stripped of their illusions.
“The Artist” was directed and written by Michael Hazanavicius.
“Shame” was directed by Steve McQueen and written by Steve McQueen and Abi Morgan.
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Aqua Zumba class creates a splash among students Participants in the Aqua Zumba fitness class follow sophomore instructor Andrew Walker on Sunday in the Athletics and Events Center Pool. The class is offered twice a week.
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Junior Aileen Razey greets each one of her students with a welcoming smile and a gracious pat on the back. When it’s time to begin class, she gathers everyone around the edge of the pool and states the four guidelines to her class. “First, drink water even though you’re surrounded by it,” she says. “Second, listen to your body. If you need to get out of the water and be done, that’s fine. Third, yell and scream in good ways. And fourth, if you’re not having fun, then something is wrong.” After Razey finishes her introductions, the students smile and head for the pool, which to some might seem like an unlikely place to dance. Not tonight. As the auto-tuned music blasts from Razey’s iPod through the speakers,
she leaps in the air and throws her arms to the side. Go time. Founded in 2001, Zumba is a Latin danceinspired cardiovascular exercise program that focuses on developing muscles in the arms, thighs and chest. Aqua Zumba, what this group is participating in, takes a spin on that program and applies it under water. Instructors on the deck lead their students in hip twists and leg shakes to build endurance and strength. Each class at Ithaca College consists of an average of 30 participants who get a full-body workout in 45 minutes. Razey holds classes from 8:30 to 9:15 p.m. Wednesdays and sophomore Andrew Walker leads workouts from 5 to 5:45 p.m. Sundays. Razey said many students have incorrect perceptions of Aqua Zumba. “A lot of people think, ‘It’s like aqua
WORK IT OUT How Aqua Zumba builds up the body arms Swings and curls fortify the bicep and tricep muscles.
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aerobics, my grandma does that,’ but it’s so awhile, but I think Aqua Zumba is better bemuch different,” she said. “Grandma doesn’t do cause it’s harder,” she said. As the class reaches its halfway point, the Aqua Zumba, and if she does, she is awesome.” With more than 100,000 classes signs of the workout begin to show. Particioffered across the nation, Aqua Zumba has pants’ motions are less exaggerated and less become a popular fitness routine. Walker precise. Nevertheless, they continue smiling said the craze surrounding the workout along with their instructor. Senior Michele Fortier, a reguhas caught on at the college because of the lar participant in the weekly Aqua cheery environment it creates. “It’s become so popular because there’s Zumba classes, said the instructors’ attitudes motivate nothing like it,” her to continue Walker said. throughout the en“What Zumba tire workout. did for the first “Aileen and Antime was take fitdrew are so enthusiness and make it astic, and it’s so much a party.” —Junior instructor aileen razey fun just being part Aqua Zumba of it,” Fortier said. provides an exer“They’re really highcise environment that firms and tones muscles through resis- energy and get us to cheer and sing along. It tance. Razey said Aqua Zumba participants just makes us want to be silly and get rid of our receive a rigorous exercise regimen from inhibitions.” Razey said she makes a conscious effort to the class because of the unique properties keep the students engaged and entertained of water. “It’s a great core workout because during the entire class. “When we try a different move, I you’re constantly having to fight the water,” she said. “And also because you don’t get their attention with a lot of hand have gravity in the water, your limbs are go- motions,” she said. “But also a lot of yelling, ing to automatically fly up, so you have to do laughing and playing around to make them smile and make them laugh.” a lot of pushing down.” Walker said his energy leads to less tense Walker said his reason for becoming an Aqua Zumba instructor was to make the ex- and more willing participants who forget ercise more fun and intense than traditional about the strenuous activity they’re putting their bodies through. aqua exercises. “It’s all about making them feel comfort“I was really interested in seeing what water-based fitness has to offer younger able,” he said. “And if they get a chance to audiences,” he said. “And I’m like, ‘How laugh about something, they’re going to forcan I take something that is for senior get what’s going on and forget that they’re citizens normally and make it fun and here to exercise.” Razey, who is also a resident assistant on exciting for kids my own age?’” Razey said the water also gives campus, said she has run Aqua Zumba classes for her residents to help them get to know students more confidence. “A lot of people are afraid to take land one another. Walker said the communal aspect of Aqua Zumba because it’s dancing,” she said. “But when they get in the water, it’s kind of a com- Zumba makes it more enjoyable than other fitness classes. fort blanket.” “The more friends you have, the more Freshman Emily McCall said Aqua Zumba is more difficult than Zumba classes in the fun it can be because you’re comfortable,” he Fitness Center exercise room because the said. “It makes a good event for people because it’s fun and you get to work out. So it’s dance moves are more exaggerated. “I haven’t done the regular Zumba in the best of both worlds.”
“Grandma doesn’t do Aqua Zumba, and if she does, she is awesome.”
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Clutch shooting at foul line fuels team By andrew kristy staff writer
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Fans dodge sports hiatus With the Super Bowl over, March Madness one month away and the NBA and NHL playoffs still two months away, we’ve hit the sports desert that accompanies the month of February. This is always a rough time for sports fans coming off the typical adrenaline rush of a thrilling NFL season. As a fan of New York sports teams such as the Rangers, Knicks and Orange, I’ve luckily been bailed out of the February funk. The New York Rangers, who have not contended for a championship since I was in preschool, have the best record in the Eastern Conference. Led by Henrik Lundqvist, a Swedish goaltender who moonlights as a male model; Ryan Callahan, an energetic captain who hails from Rochester and the focused Head Coach John Tortorella, the Rangers have a legitimate chance of hoisting Lord Stanley’s Cup for the first time since 1994. New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin, the first American-born NBA player of Taiwanese descent, has taken the league by storm. The Harvard University graduate who did not receive any athletic scholarship offers has brought the Knicks back into playoff contention. As of Monday, he carried the team to five straight victories without the help of Amare Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony. Lin dropped 38 points in a win against the Los Angeles Lakers. He has inspired the imaginations of many by sleeping on teammates’ couches before helping lead them to victory. He’s the first Harvard graduate to play in the NBA since 1954 and has scored more points in his first four starts combined than predecessors LeBron James, Michael Jordan and Larry Bird. Heading closer to home, the Syracuse Orange basketball team continues to impress as the second-ranked team in the nation. Head Coach Jim Boeheim surpassed the immortal former University of North Carolina Head Coach Dean Smith to move into third place on the all-time wins list last week. They are athletic and have depth on the roster that few teams in the country can match. After disappointing runs in the NCAA tournament the last few seasons, Orange fans can begin to think about cutting down the nets at the Final Four in April in New Orleans, La. If you’re still looking for something to break the sports lull that comes at this point every winter, pitchers and catchers began reporting to Spring Training this week in Florida and Arizona, meaning there’s just six weeks until opening day at ballparks across the country. That’s something all baseball fans have to look forward to, regardless of their favorite team. Harlan Green-taub is a senior television-radio major. Contact him at hgreent1@ithaca.edu.
The men’s basketball team has turned the taxing task of free throw shooting into an area of excellence this season. The Bombers are first in the Empire 8 Conference The Bombers through 22 games, makhave not shot ing 73 percent of their free less than 70 throws. Utica College, which percent from the free throw line sits in last place, is making in five seasons. less than 60 percent. Junior forward Andrei Oztemel ranks third in Division III in free throw percentage, hitting nearly 91 percent of his shots from behind the line. Oztemel said his innovative off-the-court practice inside his house in Westport, Conn., is what has helped him the most. His dad put up a 10-foot hoop in his den for Christmas one year, and he has practiced shooting on it for the past five years. Oztemel said the most important aspect of making a free throw is the psychological part. “I always look at it as though it’s just a mental thing,” Oztemel said. “If you just focus and stay confident and know that you’re going to put it in the hoop, usually muscle memory just takes over.” Lately the South Hill squad has been efficient from the foul line. The last time the Bombers shot under 70 percent from the charity stripe in a single season was during their 2005-06 campaign. Head Coach Jim Mullins said the team’s high free throw percentage is a result of getting the team’s best shooters, Oztemel and senior guard Jordan Marcus, to the foul line. Marcus is second on the team in free throw percentage, making 85 percent of his shots. Mullins said he tries to simulate the pressure of free throw shooting by employing the same drill used by former University of North Carolina Head Coach Dean Smith. “Before they can leave practice, every kid on the team has got to hit a free throw, but they have to do it all in a row,” Mullins said. “If you miss, you have to start over.” Though the Bombers are at the top of the conference when it comes to free throws, opposing coaches are not focusing on trying to limit the South Hill squad’s chances from the foul line.
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Junior center Sinjin Wightman shoots from behind the foul line during practice Feb. 7 in Ben Light Gymnasium. The Bombers have made more than 73 percent of their free throws this season.
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Elmira College Head Coach Randall Torgalski said he focused on keeping his players out of foul trouble in their 70-62 win against the Bombers on Friday, which was the Soaring Eagles’ first victory of the season. “Part of keeping them off the line is not fouling,” Torgalski said. “If we foul too much, that means some of our guys have got to sit
down. We want to keep our guys on the court rather than foul them.” Mullins said free throws would be essential to the squad’s success late in games as the regular season winds down. “You get to the line, and you’re shooting with no one guarding you, so it’s pretty important to make them,” he said.
Pair injects infectious chemistry into paint area By matt kelly
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When a guard for the women’s basketball team dribbles the ball up to the frontcourt, every opponent knows what’s coming next — but they still haven’t found a way to stop it. As junior forward Devin Shea gathers the entry pass in the paint, two defenders collapse on her quickly and rise to take away what seems to be an easy layup. But Shea gently drops the ball into the arms of wide-open sophomore forward Jennifer Escobido instead for an automatic two points. The precise timing of the play was almost poetic, but for Shea and Escobido it was simply business as usual, thanks to the court chemistry they have formed during the past two seasons. Shea and Escobido took the keys to the Blue and Gold’s paint area this season after last season’s leading scorer, Elissa Klie ’11, graduated in May. Shea said she was impressed by Escobido’s hustle and intensity when the two first began practicing together at the beginning of last season. “When Jenn first came in and I watched her as a player, she was just a workhorse,” Shea said. “It was awesome to see a freshman come in and put that much effort into it.”
Sophomore forward Jenn Escobido goes for a layup during practice Monday in Ben Light Gymnasium. The Bombers are 20—4 overall this season. joanna hernandez/the ithacan
The two forwards have led the Bombers to the top of the Empire 8 Conference in all rebounding categories as well as overall field goal percentage. Nazareth College Head Coach Devin Gotham said
the pair’s versatility is what makes them so hard to defend. “I know Escobido hasn’t shot a lot of three-pointers, but she has the ability to shoot from the mid-range game,” Gotham said. “And Shea is
so good at the high post — she’s so long and able to finish with both her right and her left hand.” The South Hill squad’s high shooting mark can largely be attributed to the easy baskets it’s receiving from its dominant forwards. Escobido said she is able to find a soft spot beneath the basket once she recognizes how the opponent is defending Shea. “When a team doubles down on her, I’ll flash to the high post and get out in space for an open jump shot,” Escobido said. “Or when she has the ball, she knows where I’m going to cut and she can get me the easy pass for the easy basket.” Shea, who ranks fourth in the Empire 8 in blocks, said each player’s ability to find the other for open looks is refined with hard work between games. Escobido, who leads the conference in shooting percentage, said the friendship she has with Shea off the court goes a long way toward developing their synergy during games. “I’m over at her house almost every single day and we’re always eating lunch together,” Escobido said. “Just from being with each other every single day, we just build a sense of where each other is going on the court and what move each of us wants to do.”
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Bombers go pink to spur awareness By Haley Costello Contributing Writer
The gymnastics team will be thinking about more than just balance beams and floor routines when it takes to the mat Saturday in Ben Light Gymnasium. They’ll be focusing on raising breast cancer awareness to commemorate the late Harriet Carnes Marranca, who began the Bombers’ varsity gymnastics program in 1968. The annual Harriet Marranca Memorial Invitational will be a tri-meet with SUNY-Cortland, Wilson College and Rhode Island College. To honor Marranca’s struggle with breast cancer, the team will continue a six-year tradition by collecting donations for the disease and wearing pink leotards and ribbons. Senior captain Kim Callahan said while the leotards will still represent the team’s Bomber pride, they truly want to express the importance of a cause they are proud to support. “These days it’s so relatable, so raising awareness is really important and special to us,” Callahan said. Marranca retired from teaching at Ithaca College a few years after the end of her coaching career, and she passed away in 1996 after a long battle with breast cancer. She coached the Bombers for 15 seasons, recording 68 wins and 47 losses in dual-meet competitions in addition to two state championships and two top-five finishes in the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Championships.
She became the first person ever to be inducted into the Ithaca College Athletic Hall of Fame for gymnastics, in 1999. In addition to their apparel, the senior class will also pin a breast cancer ribbon onto every underclassmen’s warm-up jacket. The team will also commemorate its late coach in an opening ceremony during which Head Coach Rick Suddaby will detail her contributions to the program. Suddaby said he hopes to help Marranca’s spirit live on in the program by using her charitable ways as a part of his coaching habits. “Even in her illness she thought about how to give back,” Suddaby said. “It really inspired me, and I believe she is watching over this program, so I want to keep her giving nature alive.” While the team plans to recognize Marranca for her success and contributions to Ithaca gymnastics, other members of the team have faced breast cancer within their own families, making this meet even more significant to them. Senior Kay Gordon had an aunt who died of breast cancer during her sophomore year. Gordon said her aunt pushed her to become the gymnast she is today. “All three years that I have been competing I have been thinking about her the whole time, and it brings more meaning to my gymnastics,” she said. “Watching my aunt go through the struggle put perspective on my gymnastics because it gives
Senior Christine Niles extends her arms for the highest uneven parallel bar during the Big Red Invitational on Saturday in Teagle Hall at Cornell University. The Bombers finished third of four teams with a score of 187.250. evan mullen/the ithacan
me more motivation to push through the difficulties I face.” Malory Cleary, the mother of former Bomber gymnast Caitlin Cleary ’11, will speak to the audience about her battle with breast cancer after Saturday’s meet. Malory is a breast cancer survivor and she will be at the meet for the fourth consecutive year
to share her story. Senior captain Tiffany Grube said Malory’s words move everyone in the room when she discusses her struggles with the disease. “Her speech every year brings everyone to tears,” Grube said. “It brings you back to the reality that there are people out there fighting so
hard in that battle.” Grube said the Bombers know Saturday’s invitational is about more than finishing with high scores. “Being in the pink leotards reminds us there is more to life than just gymnastics,” she said. “We want to support a great cause and honor a great coach that our school has had.”
Look online for game stories from these sports: SATURDAY • 11 a.m. Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track and Field at Denault Invitational at Cornell University • 1 p.m. Gymnastics at Harriet Marranca Invitational in Ben Light Gymnasium • 2 p.m. Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving at Ithaca Invitational in Athletics and Events Center Pool • 2 p.m. Women’s Basketball at Utica College in Utica, N.Y. • 4 p.m. Men’s Basketball at Utica College in Utica, N.Y.
WEDNESDAy • 10 a.m. Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving at Empire 8 Championships in Webster, N.Y.
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Junior linebacker to take charge on South Hill KM: Is there a past captain of the football team who has inspired you at a tough point during the time you’ve played on the team?
When the football team announced next season’s captains at its banquet Feb. 4, junior linebacker Will Carter was in shock. He had been chosen to lead the Blue and Gold despite missing four games during the season. Carter’s teammates had voted him to take charge of the defense, and junior offensive lineman Nathaniel Hemingway was chosen to command the offense next season. Hemingway has started every game at center for the Blue and Gold the past two seasons. Carter will look to bounce back from a torn hamstring he suffered last season. Carter was the South Hill squad’s only linebacker with more than one interception last year. He won the Marty Higgins Award after his freshman season, recognizing him as the best player on the junior varsity team. Sports Editor Kevin McCall caught up with Carter after the football team’s recruiting session Friday to talk about the responsibilities associated with the leadership position and how he plans to fulfill them.
WC: I’ve definitely learned a lot from Dan Ruffrage. He really knew how to motivate people on the offensive and defensive side of the ball. It’s tough because the captains only get a few minutes to talk to the team before the game, but he spoke so well that I felt like I was always able to get something out of his speeches. KM: What off-the-field obligations will you have to handle as one of the team’s captains during the 2012 regular season? WC: The team has a lot of fundraisers, so we’ll have to organize those and get our classmates and the other players involved in things like the bone marrow drive and the car wash. We also have to figure out what our spirit packs are going to be for Senior Day and meet with the people in charge of that. If a guy ever misses a workout, we need to be on top of it.
Kevin McCall: Were you surprised when your teammates voted you as one of the captains since you missed so much time last year after suffering from the hamstring injury?
KM: Can you talk about how you and Nate will split the captains’ obligations next season? WC: Nate is just a natural leader. I’ve known that since we were freshmen. He’ll lead the offense and I’ll take care of all the defensive players, but I’m hoping we can instill the combination of our skills and example to every member of the team.
Will Carter: I was ecstatic. It was such an honor that my teammates chose me. If I didn’t get it, I don’t think it would have been because of my injury, but getting hurt was a big part of me wanting to come back and play again. KM: Do you feel like any of the earlier honors you received, such as the Marty Higgins Award, will help you in the captain role? WC: Being a freshman, I was surprised when I won the Marty Higgins Award, but being the captain really reflects my progression in the sport and on the team. I worked hard then to get noticed, and I work hard now since my teammates look up to me as an upperclassmen.
From left, junior linebacker Will Carter tries to take down SUNY-Cortland graduate student quarterback Dan Pitcher during the Cortaca Jug game Nov. 12 at Butterfield Stadium. KM: With all the ups and downs throughout the year, how do you plan to motivate the team throughout all 10 games next season? WC: It’s still early to think about it, but we’re doing four lifts a week and two speed workouts early in the morning to help us stay
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KM: Are there any specific games that the team is especially looking forward to at this point?
focused. I’m still trying to come up with a team motto, but I want to let them know that a lot of it is going to take a lot of sacrifices. We had so many games last season that were so close and we lost by a field goal or in overtime, so these workouts will pay off in the end.
WC: No, we’re just looking forward to the start of the regular season and trying to improve on last year’s record. Right now, I have some people in my area that are interested in coming to play at Ithaca, who came up this past weekend. I’m really focused on getting them here at this point so we can break them into the program.
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bombers to watch Jessica Bolduc Senior Gymnastics Bolduc posted the highest floor exercise score in the program’s history with a 9.875 at the Big Red Invitational on Saturday at Cornell University. Bolduc was one of five Blue and Gold gymnasts to place among the top 10 in the floor exercise.
Connor Rogers Freshman Men’s Basketball Rogers tallied career-high totals of 15 points and three steals in the South Hill squad’s 77-63 victory against Alfred University on Saturday. Rogers shot six of eight from the floor and made three of four three-point shots in 24 minutes of play.
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From left, senior Ian Bamford makes a save on a shot by sophomore Griffin Osborne during a men’s club indoor soccer game Sunday in the Hill Center Gymnasium. Indoor soccer features five-on-five games with round-robin play.
Kate Middleton Senior Women’s Track Middleton placed fourth in the shot put at Cornell University’s Kane Invitational on Saturday and qualified for the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships with a distance of 11.99 meters.
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The number of seasons the late Harriet Marranca coached the gymnastics team from 1968-82. See story on page 25.
The overall free throw percentage for the men’s basketball team through 22 games this season. See story on page 24.
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Weird news from the wide world of sports
When you want to suggest to someone they should lose a few pounds, you can either drop them a subtle hint or you can choose to really get the point across. The Brazilian soccer club Corinthians took the more drastic approach when it locked its star player Adriano in the team’s hotel and ordered him to go on a strict diet. Adriano, who has not played competitively since the beginning of last year, was forced to stay inside for three straight days and could only eat what Corinthians’ doctors would allow. Even worse, he had to eat in a room separate from the rest of his teammates. So was this dietary “intervention” really necessary? Corinthians’ physical trainer Fabio Mahseredjian certainly thought so and simply explained, “You can only lose weight if you stop eating.” Well put, Mr. Mahseredjian. It’s fair to say there aren’t many people who identify solitary home confinement as the wonder diet they’ve been looking for all these years. —Matt Kelly
Play of the week Jeremy Stierly Senior Wrestling Stierly is ranked third nationally in the 149-pound weight class and has compiled a career record of 83—18.
With the Bombers trailing Wilkes University 13-0 on the road, Stierly ignited a rally for the Bombers by earning a 12-3 major decision against Wilkes freshman John Lynch. Stierly’s third major decision victory of the season put the South Hill squad on the scoreboard. His teammates responded by winning five of the next six bouts to complete the 20-16 comeback victory and snap Wilkes’ 11-match win streak. Stierly improved his record this season to 4—1.
they saidit I don’t even know what he’s done, like, I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant when asked how he would prepare for New York Knicks scoring sensation Jeremy Lin.
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The Yips consist of junior Michael “Izzy� Isabella, above on drums, and sophomores Will Gelder, Jack Simons, and Sam Bandes, on guitar, bass and lead vocals, respectively.
Play on The Yips, an alternative rock band made up of Ithaca College students, played Saturday at The Nines in Collegetown. Their next appearance will be at Castaways on Friday, March 2. Photos by Shawn Steiner Assistant Photo Editor