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locals fight gas storage facility Members of IC were among 12 arrested by kelsey o'connor editor in chief

A dozen people — including two from Ithaca College — were arrested Monday morning after blockading a natural gas storage and transportation facility on Seneca Lake.

The demonstration was in front of Inergy Midstream, LP’s location in Watkins Glen.

The company, which is based in Missouri, is an energy infrastructure and distribution company. Inergy purchased salt caverns from US Salt in 2008 and plans to develop liquefied petroleum gas storage. Protesters were opposing the company’s potential expansion.

Sandra Steingraber, distinguished scholar in residence at the college, and senior Katya Andersson were arrested along with 10 others who had linked arms and held a banner that read “Our Future is Unfractured, We Are Greater Than Dirty Inergy” in front of the Watkins Glen Inergy facility on Monday.

According to a press release from Our Future is Unfractured, a group dedicated to protesting Inergy, “the blockade joins a growing national movement to call attention to environmental injustices caused by unconventional and extreme fossil fuel extraction techniques, including Inergy’s hotly debated salt cavern gas storage facility proposed for Reading, N.Y.” Opponents of the facility have raised concerns about potential water pollution to Seneca Lake, which provides drinking water to more

Sandra Steingraber, distinguished scholar in residence at Ithaca College, is taken into custody in Reading, N.Y., after protesting with 11 others against Inergy, LP, a natural gas storage and transportation facility located near Seneca Lake. All arrested were released with court dates. courtesy of emily wilson

than 100,000 people.

Hydraulic fracturing, which is widely debated in upstate New York because of its location on the rich Marcellus Shale, is the process of natural gas extraction. The extraction process can use millions of gallons

of water, sand and chemicals to break apart or “fracture” rock to release gas.

According to a poll released Wednesday

by Quinnipiac University, among New York voters the scale has tipped toward opposition to fracking. Among all New York voters,

46 percent are opposed to fracking, while 39 percent are in favor. However, voters in upstate New York are still closely divided, with 44 percent in favor and 42 percent opposed.

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Part two: Chinese students adapt to life at Ithaca College by jeremy li and michael Tkaczevski staff writers

The transition from high school to college is already a daunting task for American students, but Chinese students face a greater challenge after moving away from family, Follow the series friends and and explore data their native at theithacan.org/ language to a the-china-series. new country.

As Ithaca College expands its recruitment efforts in China, there is a rising number of students from China here on campus. Like other international students, Chinese students experience a change in food, culture and language more drastic than American students face. However, the difficulty of the change does not deter Chinese students from coming to the college and the country.

According to Institutional

Research, there has been a steady increase in the number of the Chinese students enrolled at the college in the last five years. In Fall 2008, there were three Chinese students enrolled full time, and in Fall 2012, 10 Chinese students were enrolled full time. This follows a national trend of increase in the number of Chinese students in American colleges. At 194,029 students, the number of Chinese students has nearly tripled since five years ago, according to the Institute of International Education.

Junior Mei Shanshan said she always dreamed of coming to America to study. Mei said she applied to Ithaca College, despite never having heard of it before, because it offered the most financial aid compared to other prospective colleges.

“I went to Chinese college for a year, and I was majoring in English at the time, and then I quit the college because I just think that wasn’t interesting enough for me,” Mei said.

Junior Kelly Zhang, a student from China, stands in front of CNS. She is the president of the recently formed Chinese Students and Scholars Association. marianna dunbrook/the ithacan

Junior Kelly Zhang, president of the new Chinese Students and Scholars Association, said she is getting an education in America she wouldn’t be able to get in China.

“American students here are

really nice, and professors are extremely friendly and attentive to my needs,” Zhang said. “It is a small school and that’s really important to me. It means I have more opportunities to develop professionally

within my major.”

The college has been expanding its recruitment operations in China for the last three years. Thomas Kline, director of music admissions and preparatory programs, said he and other faculty held 420 auditions in Mainland China, 220 of which were in Beijing, over the course of four weeks last summer. Kline said the college is seeking out international students who are interested in American teaching methods.

“It’s a different educational process,” Kline said. “Personal expression and personal ideas are stressed more over here than in Asia, I’ve found.

Many times, students are looking for a different way of thinking about education. It broadens their horizons, just like study abroad broadens our students’ horizons.”

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Multigenerational group takes stand against Inergy

of Middle Island; all in New York.

Andersson grew up in Caroline, from page 1 N.Y., and has been opposed to frackSteingraber said it was her first ing for about four years. She said she experience with civil disobedience. had taken a hiatus on protesting the She said she went to the protest with issue since being in college but felt it only two things in her pocket: her li- was time to become involved again.

“I’m continually reminded of cense and a picture of herself nine months pregnant, standing in front why I was there and why I was doing what I did,” she said. “I don’t regret of Seneca Lake.

“The intent of this company it for a second, because I just keep called Inergy from Kansas City, coming back to why this issue was a Missouri, to come in and use our no brainer, because there’s nothing land — our land that grows food, hypothetical about it.”

Steingraber said it was important provides us water, is our home — for a storage depot for lethal gases to make a statement because the isthat are fracked out of the ground sue goes beyond just fracking to the somewhere else is part of a story infrastructure that makes it possible.

“If our system of democracy about extreme energy and the intent of the world’s largest industry worked, then I wouldn't have to — the oil and gas industry — now do this, but our regulatory systhat it’s run out of the easy-to-get tem around the infrastructure for fossil fuels, to do these surreal ex- fracking is really broken, unlike periments, using our land as its the decision for fracking itself, proving grounds,” Steingraber said. which has a public process in“This is just one small but impor- volved,” she said.

In a statement, Inergy respondtant battle, but it seemed like a ed that the safety of people and the good place to make a stand.”

By 11 a.m., 12 arrests were environment were top priorities.

"The safety of our employees, made on account of trespassing neighbors and violations. By the environ12:46 p.m., all ment is paraof the blockmount in all of aders that our projects. were arrested This project were released will store much with court needed prodates spread pane, create across March jobs and imand April. prove energy Those araffordability rested include and reliability Marjorie Rodfor hundreds gers, 58, of Elof thousands mira; Richard of New York Jones, 64, of — sandra steingraber residents and Belfast; Mibusinesses. chael Dineen, Propane has 64, of Ovid; Melissa Chipman, 55, of Hector; been stored and transported safely James Amato Borra, 64, of Hector; in this area for decades."

According to Inergy, the proKatarina Andersson, 23, of Ithaca; Kathleen Alvey, 22, of Ithaca; posed Liquefied Petroleum Gas Steingraber, 53, of Trumansburg; storage has received endorsements Jack Ossont, 69, of Himrod; Dar- from several constituencies in upmaye Marley, 53, Hector; Nathanael state New York, including Donald Miller, 26, of Ithaca; Dennis Fox, 20, Siegel, a hydrogeologist at Syracuse

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"If our system of democracy worked, then I wouldn't have to do this."

A local group, including two people from Ithaca College, traveled to Watkins Glen on Monday to blockade Inergy, LP's natural gas storage facility. Twelve people were arrested after two hours and charged with trespassing. courtesy of emily wilson

University. In a letter dated March 12, Siegel wrote to Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joseph Martens to endorse the safety of the project.

“I can think of no better geological environment in New York State to store liquid gas than salt caverns filled with brine,” Siegel wrote. Further in the letter, he said the caverns “do not leak — after decades of use. Leaks can’t be catastrophic as some are saying, and even if they were … Seneca Lake would not be affected, given its enormous volume, quick replenishment time and mixing characteristics.”

New Yorkers have had eyes on their governor, Andrew Cuomo, to see what decision he will come to about allowing fracking in the state.

To frack or not has been on the table for about five years in New York.

According the Associated Press, Cuomo was on the verge of approving gas drilling in February but held off after discussions with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmentalist and his former brother-in-law.

Later in the day Monday, a separate rally took place at the Watkins Glen Village Marina with about 150 people who were also protesting Inergy’s facility in Watkins Glen.

Ossont said he has protested environmental issues for many years but said he has never seen an issue of this magnitude. He also said he doesn’t want to see future generations having to deal with fracking’s impact on the land.

“The industry itself, as far as I’m concerned, in its exposure to me and my activism, has consistently lied and misled the public around the dangers,” Ossont said. “And the salt caverns in Watkins Glen are just a piece of the infrastructure that’s necessary for this industry to invade New York.”

During and preceding the rally, Andersson said a real sense of community emerged.

“This was people from all generations,” Andersson said. “People from all different walks of life and even political persuasions.”

Steingraber said a unifying theme of Monday was “If our own state government won’t defend us, we’ll have to defend ourselves.”

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sic program ahead of time. He auditioned at the college’s recruitment fair in Beijing in 2011 and was accepted later that year.

“It wasn’t that hard of a choice to make, as I got pretty good financial aid,” Liu said.

Mei said the reality of American college life was harsher than what she expected before she came to the college. Communication was her biggest obstacle at first, she said.

“When I first got here, my English was really not even close to the English I am talking right now,” Mei said. “I had a really heavy accent and almost zero knowledge of American culture. I didn’t have any relatives, and I didn’t know anybody in the United States. So coming here is a brand new world to me.”

Like other international students, Liu faced the challenge of the unfamiliar teaching style of American college academics after getting adjusted to his non-academic life, he said.

“Studying here in the U.S. requires a lot of self-discipline,” Liu said. “I was forced to use my time wisely and how to study more efficiently. It’s a different system.”

Liu came to the college to study music but decided he wanted to pursue a career in business instead. He said the switch between majors was much easier at Ithaca College than it would have been in China.

“I want to try more things, I want to explore,” Liu said.

Breaks are usually good news for American students who can visit friends and family. For many international students however, the trip back home can be too expensive, so breaks end up being lonely, Zhang said.

“I don’t like breaks,” said Zhang. “It’s very depressing, as everyone is gone, and nobody understands how you feel because of different culture backgrounds.”

This is the first year that Liu has been away from home for so long, he said.

“I am quite homesick, to be honest,” said Liu. “Life here is so different. I missed everything back home, the food, the people, the places. In fact, I am counting down how many days left before I can go home. But this homesickness in no way negatively impacts my study here, it’s a positive motivator.”

Friends are an important part of the college experience, but the cultural barrier between international and American students can make it difficult to make friends. Liu said he felt more comfortable with other international students than with American students.

“It’s easier to communicate with my fellow international students,” Liu said. “We share more commonalities. American students tend to retain their own culture, and therefore are less adaptive when making friends. It’s hard to learn their way of communicating with each other.”

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Mei said she wants to get a job in America as soon as possible. She said she has learned much since she first came to America and wants to share her experience with future incoming Chinese international freshmen, she said.

“You’re coming to the United States to learn about the American culture, to learn about a different system of learning and to learn as much as you can,” Mei said. “Talk to Americans, practice your English and try to

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reach out to American students. You’re scared of them, they’re scared of you too. If you don’t reach out to them, how can you even start bonding together? It’s going to be tough, but after the toughness, there comes understanding and agreement.”

Zhang’s and Liu’s interviews were originally conducted in Mandarin and were translated into English by Jeremy Li.

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Nation&World Obama pledges support to Israel

Renewing U.S. support for the difficult “work of generations,” President Barack Obama assured Israel on Wednesday that his administration would pursue an elusive Mideast peace that would allow residents of the Jewish state to live in peace and free from the threat of terror. Obama met with Israeli President Shimon Peres during his first visit to Israel as president.

Peres, in turn, said he welcomed Obama’s clear message that “no one should let skepticism win the day, a vision that says clearly that peace is not only a wish, but a possibility.”

Before leaving the airport for Jerusalem, Obama offered a vivid display of the U.S. commitment to Israeli security by visiting a missile battery that is part of Israel’s Iron Dome defense from militant rocket attacks.

The U.S has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in developing the system with Israel.

Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured the battery, brought to the airport for the occasion. They met and chatted with soldiers who operate the system that Israel credits with intercepting hundreds of rockets during a round of fighting against Gaza militants last November.

Netanyahu, who sparred frequently with Obama over the course of the U.S. president’s first term, was lavish in his praise. Although preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon is a top priority of both Israel and the U.S, Netanyahu and Obama have differed in the past on precisely how to achieve both ends.

Israel repeatedly has threatened to take military action should Iran appear to be on the verge of obtaining a bomb. The U.S. has pushed for more time to allow diplomacy and economic penalties to run their course, though Obama insists military action is an option.

Myanmar to review constitution

Myanmar’s parliament agreed Wednesday to set up a commission to review the pro-military 2008 constitution, a process that could eventually change the political landscape and allow opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to contest the presidency.

Suu Kyi’s opposition, the National League for Democracy Party, has said that the constitution

is undemocratic because of provisions that allow the military to control a substantial percentage of parliamentary seats and disqualify Suu Kyi from holding the presidency.

However, lawmakers from the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party, who proposed the commission, say they want to change provisions concerning state governments to allow ethnic minorities increased self-rule.

The constitution was essentially dictated by the former military government, in which current President Thein Sein served as prime minister, and the USDP was set up largely to serve the military’s interests.

US says Syrian claims are baseless

The U.S. ambassador to Syria said Wednesday that the Obama administration has no evidence to support President Bashar Assad’s claims that U.S.-backed rebels used chemical weapons in northern Syria, but is looking carefully at the conflicting reports.

The administration disputed Assad’s claim on Tuesday, and a U.S. official said there was no evidence that either Assad’s forces or the opposition had used chemical weapons in an attack.

President Barack Obama has declared the use, deployment or transfer of the weapons to be his “red line” for possible military intervention in the Arab country.

The U.N. has estimated 70,000 have been killed, more than 1 million refugees have fled to neighboring countries and 2.5 million have been displaced internally.

Officials search IMF leader’s house

A lawyer for Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, said French investigators have searched her home in Paris as part of an inquiry into her role in a $400 million arbitration deal in favor of a tycoon.

The lawyer said Lagarde has nothing to hide and welcomed Wednesday’s search as another step in proving her innocence.

Lagarde was France’s finance minister when magnate Bernard Tapie won a 2008 settlement with a state-owned bank over the mishandled sale of Adidas in the 1990s.

Questions about the settlement began

Reaching a milestone

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is shown around the carriage of a parked train at the Baker Street underground station in London during a visit that marked the 150th anniversary of the London Underground on Wednesday. The Queen made her first public engagement in more than a week.

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before Lagarde was appointed head of the Washington-based IMF after her predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, quit to face charges that he tried to rape a New York hotel maid. The charges against Strauss-Kahn were dropped.

Muslim Brotherhood faces scrutiny

A panel of judges has recommended the dissolution of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group from which President Mohammed Morsi hails.

The recommendation issued Wednesday is not binding but is significant given charges by the opposition that the Brotherhood’s leadership is the real power behind Morsi.

The president and the Brotherhood have denied the charge. The recommendation was made to a high administrative court, which is expected to rule this month in a case over the Brotherhood’s legitimacy.

The Brotherhood’s legal status has for years been caught up in multiple court cases. Formed

in 1928, it was dissolved in 1954 by military rulers. It was banned until the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, after which the ruling military lifted the ban.

Cyprus seeks new financial plan

Cypriot officials rushed Wednesday to find new ways to stave off financial ruin, including asking Russia for help, after the country’s Parliament rejected a plan to contribute to the nation’s bailout package by seizing people’s bank savings.

Tuesday’s rejection of the plan to take a slice of all deposits above $25,888 has left the country’s bailout in question. Without the bailout, the Cypriot banking sector would collapse, devastating the economy and potentially causing the country to leave the euro.

That could roil global financial markets as well as endanger deposits in the country even further.

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New lab equipment puts IC on the map By noreyana fernando assistant news editor

Ithaca College chemistry students now have a unique opportunity to gain experience identifying molecules and chemical compounds using X-ray diffraction — thanks to the department’s newly acquired single-crystal X-ray diffractometer.

The college’s chemistry department set up the new measuring instrument last semester, making the college one of the few chemistry programs in the country that uses the machine for undergraduate-level research.

Undergraduate research students produce compounds that have unconfirmed identities on a daily basis.

Single-crystal X-ray diffraction is a non-destructive analytical technique, which gives data about the spacing between atoms in crystalline substances, thereby helping researchers recognize these substances.

The machine is currently used by about 20 undergraduate students. The instrument will also be used in select chemistry courses, such as Experimental Chemistry IV. The diffractometer cost the college $220,000 and was covered by the college budget.

Vince DeTuri, chair of the chemistry department, said the new diffractometer provides students with valuable hands-on experience.

“You learn chemistry by doing chemistry,” DeTuri said. “We can talk about X-ray diffraction and crystal structure and do a great job of that, but there is something really special and really unique about learning it in the classroom and then going to a lab and then doing it yourself.”

DeTuri also said working on the machine gives students an edge when going in for graduate studies.

“It’s just going to be a phenomenal educational tool,” he said.

Before the college purchased the diffractometer, samples that needed to be identified using X-ray crystallography were sent to Cornell University.

Senior Shane Galley, a chemistry major who is also a part of the research program, said the new instrument means students will be required to spend less time waiting for results of identification tests.

“We’d have to wait two three weeks for them and that was no fun,” he said. “With this machine within our own building, we can do it overnight.”

PRW Center glass shatters by tinamarie craven staff writer

Senior Josh Page, a chemistry major who is a part of the college’s undergraduate research program, explains how the newly purchased single-crystal X-ray diffractometer works to identify substances. noreyana fernando/The Ithacan

Single-crystal X-ray diffraction has not been widely incorporated into undergraduate science curricula across the country, according to a 2005 article in the Journal of Chemical Education which is published by the American Chemical Society. The article said the budgets of primarily undergraduate institutions like the college tend to “struggle to fund instruments that are widely considered essential.”

Each year, departments in the college’s School of Humanities and Sciences submit a list of their needs. The school then prioritizes these needs before sending them to the provost for approval.

Leslie Lewis, dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, said the school typically gets hundreds of thousands of dollars in capital equipment.

She said the School of Humanities and Sciences prioritizes initiatives that benefit students.

She said research is an important part of the preparation for what comes after graduation.

“We are also setting the stage for students [to] understand what it means to produce new knowledge, and that’s what research is all about,” she said.

Senior Josh Page, a chemistry major, has been a part of the college’s undergraduate research

program since Fall 2011. He works with Janet Hunting, assistant professor of chemistry, to investigate metal oxides and the creation of new materials without going through a liquid phase.

After his graduation in May 2013, Page will attend Colorado State University for a Ph.D. in Inorganic Materials Chemistry. He said the experience of having used the diffractometer put him at an advantage.

“It’s a fairly complicated instrument,” Page said.

“Just knowing how to use it and having experience on that is good, because it means the professors trust you enough with an expensive machine.”

Galley is a part of the chemistry research program led by Anna Larsen, associate professor of chemistry.

Galley’s class schedule requires that he spend 12 to 15 hours a week doing lab work, but during a typical week, he chooses to spends 20 to 25 hours in the lab.

“I am all about the research,” he said. “I love being in the lab.”

Page’s favorite part of the research experience has been the connections he has made.

“You communicate well with your professors ... and it’s also a learning experience,” he said.

“It’s hands-on.”

A glass pane was replaced in the Peggy Ryan Williams Center after the glass of a window on the third floor broke and fell to the first floor March 1.

Thomas Dunn, investigator for the Office of Public Safety, said Public Safety arrived on the scene after an employee in PRW notified them about the broken glass.

Dunn said it was the inner pane of a double pane window on the third floor that was damaged.

“We portioned off some of the first floor so the broken glass wouldn’t hit someone [during the repair],” he said.

Richard Couture, associate vice president of the office of facilities, said the damaged glass panel had been repaired, and maintenance checked the surrounding panels for damage.

He said no one reported seeing how the glass broke, and he is unsure of how the pane was damaged.

“We don’t know if it was vandalism or if it was just a bad pane of glass,” Couture said.

Dunn said that there haven’t been any other incidents of glass damage in PRW. Quay Thompson, principal associate at Holt Architects, an architecture firm in Ithaca, was the team leader during the design of the PRW project. Thompson said he was surprised to learn about the damaged pane. He said it was unlikely that the glass broke on its own and suggested that someone might have bumped into the pane.

“We have to acknowledge as architects that these buildings we’re building are going to get a lot of use and sometimes abuse,” he said.

College sets aside DC program to prioritize other initiatives by sage daugherty staff writer

Once a featured destination for Ithaca College students, Washington, D.C., has gone almost completely off the radar while the college focuses on other destinations like New York City.

After suspending the program in 2011 because of dwindling interest, the college began an affiliation with Cornell University to keep the option available.

There are currently five spots reserved for Ithaca College students in the program each semester. No students are participating in the Cornell-affiliated program this semester. Five students have participated in the program since the affiliation began in 2011. Three students participated in Spring 2012 and two students in Fall 2012. When the program was run through the college, there used to be an average of 12 to 15 students each year.

Tanya Saunders, assistant provost for international studies and special projects, said the college is focusing on building the New York City program, and after that program is firmly established, the college will shift its focus toward re-establishing a college-run Washington D.C. program.

Saunders said she thinks the reason for low interest in the Washington D.C. program is because of the increased number of study abroad and study away opportunities.

When the previous director of the program resigned in 2011, the college still wanted to give students an opportunity to experience

Washington, D.C., Saunders said.

The college-run program used to offer two courses each semester and three one-credit seminars. In addition to classes, students took part in a six-credit internship. Students participating in the new, Cornell-affiliated program take an eight-credit graduate level research course, a four-credit elective with Cornell professors and take part in a threeday-a-week internship.

Senior Lethia McFarland interned at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in Washington, D.C., in Spring 2012 and said she benefited from the experience.

“It was a very supportive program,” she said. “I felt like I learned a lot. It was one of the most valuable experiences of my college career for sure, and I wish I could go back right now.”

McFarland said there was a wide area of study in the D.C. program and something for everybody.

“People have a misconception that D.C.’s a place for only politics, and that’s not true.

When I was there, there was people studying everything under the sun, and everyone found their niche and walked away with something valuable, so I would recommend it to anyone,” McFarland said.

Bryan Roberts, assistant dean for student services in the Roy H. Park School of Communications, said the D.C. program does not create competition for the New York City program, because each program offers different opportunities.

“Offering a multitude of these programs

From left, Dan Byrnes, head of the Sierra Club media team, senior Stephanie Lavallato who studied in D.C. and Margrete Strand, former senior director of the Labor and Trade Department, pose during a rally at the Sierra Club promoting transparency in free trade agreements. courtesy of stephanie lavallato

just benefits our students,” Roberts said. “It’s not that one program is competing with the other; they each offer very different things and more choices for our students and more opportunity to get experiential learning.”

Senior Stephanie Lavallato participated in the Cornell-affiliated D.C. program in Fall 2012.

Lavallato said she recommends the program to current students.

“It was an overall phenomenal experience and definitely helped drive my career path,” Lavallato said. “The way the program works is that you would take 12-16 credits with Cornell professors that they have down there as well as an internship, so kind of in

between a full-time student and a full-time employee. You’re getting a bit of both real world and student life.”

Saunders said for students who are daunted by the thought of navigating New York City, Washington, D.C., is a better fit because D.C. is more accessible and open when compared to New York City.

Like the New York City program, students in D.C. spend the semester in class and interning and meeting new friends, as well as potential contacts for the future.

“If the college decides that it wants to move forward with D.C., there will be a group of students for whom D.C. is the right choice,” Saunders said.

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Students tackle water issues throughout week

By Noreyana Fernando and Sabrina Knight Assistant News Editors

Ithaca College students dove into waterrelated issues for IC Water Week, focusing on topics like conservation, waste and clean water access.

IC Water Week, which took place Tuesday and Wednesday, was initiated by student group Take Back the Tap, which organized events and invited 10 campus organizations to help with spreading awareness among the campus community with art, brief animated discussions and a film screening.

The week also falls in line with World Water Day, which is set for Friday. In 1992, the U.N. General Assembly dubbed March 22, 1993, the first World Water Day, a day set aside to focus on the importance of fresh water and the management of freshwater resources.

Ithaca College is among colleges and universities across the country celebrating World Water Day. The first event, titled CampusWide IC Water Week Celebrations, brought together campus organizations Tuesday in IC Square to discuss water-related topics. The organizations present included Ithaca Dining Services, the Office of Civic Engagement, IC Environmental Society, Resource and Environmental Management Program, Frack Off, the Bomber Bike Initiative, Net Impact, IC Natural Lands and Primitive Pursuits.

As a part of the celebrations, Take Back the Tap organized a screening of the 2008 film “Blue Gold: World Water Wars.” The film looks at examples of people across the world fighting for their right to water through court cases, revolutions and U.N. conventions.

Sophomore Leonard Slutsky, vice president and co-founder of Take Back the Tap, said they wanted to unite different student organizations on campus that are related to sustainability and environmental efforts.

“People need to talk about access to clean and free drinking water,” Slutsky said. “At some

locations across the globe, drinking water is not accessible. You have to walk miles and miles to get your water.”

According to Water.org, in Western nations, such as the U.S. and parts of Europe, 10 million people lack access to safe drinking water, while 345 million people in Africa lack access to safe drinking water.

Rita Schmidt Sudman is executive director of the Water Education Foundation, which educates the public about water issues in the U.S. She said people on the West Coast are increasingly using groundwater, which is being depleted, while on the East Coast, water quality issues are more prevalent.

Sudman also said awareness of waterrelated issues is especially important among college-age students.

“As the world and the United States face this increased water issues and problems, I believe [the college-age] generation will really be forced to engage in it.”

Stephanie Piech, sustainability coordinator at Ithaca Dining Services, said water is often overlooked, because people generally focus on other sustainability topics like energy and local foods.

“In food service, we usually run across that,” Piech said. “We use water a lot to prep and clean and cook, and it’s definitely interesting and important from a sustainability perspective to bring that up and say: You know, it’s not just about saving paper, it’s also about water use.”

Alyce Daubenspeck, sustainability representative of REMP, also ran a table at the event Tuesday. She said she supports conversation on the issues of consumption and pollution of water.

“World Water Day is great, because it’s showing personal changes you can make,” Daubenspeck said. “It is providing what the issues at hand are, locally and globally. It’s a very fun and informative event.”

Marian Brown, special assistant of campus and community sustainability, was also present at the IC Water Week Celebration on Tuesday, when she represented the Office of

From left, senior Jess Wunsch and junior Moriah Petty paint with watercolors for the Bomber Bike Initiative, one of 10 groups that had a table at the IC Water Week event Tuesday in IC Square.

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“I want to bring a little bit of a different message to the table, and that is getting folks to think about how they are using water in general,” Brown said. “One is drinking water, but the other is wash water, shower water, in this case. [I] want to get people to think about energy and especially carbon emissions.”

Water use across the world has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Between Nov. 16, 2011, and Nov. 15, 2012, the college consumed more than 162 million gallons of water, according to data from the Office of Business and Finance.

The college has implemented several measures to reduce water consumption on

campus. The two LEED Platinum buildings, the Peggy R. Williams Center and Park Center for Business, currently practice rainwater harvesting, a system where rainwater collected in cisterns under the buildings is used for toilet flushing and outside irrigation.

Bathrooms in the two buildings, along with bathrooms in Dillingham Center, use a dual flush system, a toilet system that helps conserve water by using two separate flushes for solid and liquid waste.

Daubenspeck said it is important to get involved in awareness initiatives.

“We take for granted what we have here in terms of water resources, and the purpose of getting involved in this is to show that you need to be aware of your actions and your habits,” Daubenspeck said.

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Staff member leads service trip Don Austin, assistant director of community service and leadership development, led an alternative spring break trip last week, where participants focused on environmental issues such as hydraulic fracturing and mountaintop strip mining.

Austin and a group of five Ithaca College students left March 9 and returned March 16. They visited West Union, W. Va., and AUSTIN said made stops in southwesteducation is ern Pennsylvania, where important to raise they visited sites of active awareness. fracking operations, interviewed community members about their experiences with these industries and rallied with locals against mountaintop removal.

Assistant News Editor Sabrina Knight sat down with Austin to discuss his experience.

SK: Why was the rally important?

Sabrina Knight: What did you do on your trip?

SK: Why should students attend break trips?

Don Austin: We worked with an organization called Mountain Justice.

Mountain Justice is a collective of concerned folks not only in central Appalachia but across the United States in general who are very much worried about the process of mountaintop strip mining as well as other extractive industries like fracking, who want to bring a diverse group of people together over the course of eight or nine days during spring break to educate folks, raise awareness on these processes and how they affect communities as well as the environment, how they affect local economies and hopefully empower folks about what they can do and how they can further educate people back in their homes in order to do that … We were able to examine a lot of different ways that the extractive industries impact communities.

DA: Service immersion is something that gives us the time to really examine close enough to see the big picture. Whenever we do things that are under huge time constraints, only for about a few hours on a particular day, we get a minimized perspective on what is actually going on and why it’s important, but rather if you’re able to immerse yourself in a project and a place for a period of time, that allows you to stand back for a moment and open your eyes to the big picture of what's going on.

DA: Communities in West Virginia are trying to gain support from both political process as well as show their popular support, their popular desire to have their political representatives as well as people in their communities respond to the problem of coal being a dirty source of energy, coal being something that is becoming exhausted and not having enough diversification in the economy in West Virginia. So, as opposed to the conception that people were going to necessarily protest something in Charleston on Friday, people from Mountain Justice, people from the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, people from mountain watch, people from small communities in southern West Virginia … came together to say what they want is political representation to pay attention to their … health-related concerns from the effects of gas and mountaintop removal on water sources, their economic concerns with job diversification as well as environmental concerns.

SK: What did you learn from the trip?

DA: What came out of it for me personally is a profound respect and adoration for the people who are standing up to these huge industries and doing what they can to make a difference of the lives of other folks in the communities where they live.

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Mayor Svante Myrick reacts to a statistic read by Ramsey Brous, owner of Ithaca Bakery, about successful business at the bakery and projected increase after construction of the Marriot Hotel at the public meeting at the Tompkins County Courthouse on Wednesday.

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The Columbia Scholastic Press Association honored The Ithacan with two Gold Crown awards March 10 at the Spring National College Media Convention at the Sheraton Times Square Hotel in New York City.

The Ithacan received the Gold Crown awards in the hybrid category, which includes publications that combine digital and print publications.

The Gold Crowns, which are the CSPA’s highest honor, were awarded for Fall 2011 and Spring 2012, during which time Aaron Edwards ’12 was editor in chief.

The Ithacan also received a second place Apple Award for the Best Multimedia Package during the Best in Show awards at the March 12 closing session of the convention. The award honored “Ace in the Hold,” a profile of senior tennis player Allison Young.

The package featured a story by freshman staff writer Kristen Gowdy, an interactive analysis of Young’s serve by sophomore webmaster H. Charley Bodkin and photos and a video by senior staff photographer Shawn Steiner.

College to host reception for local LGBT community

Ithaca College will host the 11th annual Rainbow Reception at 7 p.m.

April 19 in the Clark, Klingenstein and McDonald lounges.

The Rainbow Reception celebrates the college’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and allied seniors and graduate students. The event is also

open to students who are not seniors.

It will feature presentations from college alumni and an awards ceremony.

Three awards, the Harvey Milk Award, the Sylvia Rivera Award and the LGBT Ally award, will be presented to students who have contributed to the LGBT community on campus.

The reception is sponsored by the Diversity Awareness Committee and the Center for LGBT Education, Outreach and Services.

Emerita music professor gives conference keynote

Mary Arlin, Ithaca College Emerita professor of theory, history and composition in the School of Music, was the keynote speaker for the 34th annual conference of the Southern Chapter of the College Music Society.

The College Music Society was established to promote music ARLIN teaching and musical creativity, research and dialogue among colleges, conservatories, universities, independent musicians and scholars in the country.

The society’s conference was held March 1 at Clayton State University in Morrow, Ga. Arlin’s keynote speech was titled “Tear Down the Walls” and was inspired by a publication discussed at the 2011 National College Music Society Meeting.

In her speech, Arlin called for interdepartmental conversation to

produce “musicians, regardless of their concentration, who can function as teachers in the classroom, concert hall and community.” In a luncheon address at the conference, Arlin also advocated the use of iPads for students in public school music.

CU president signs letter urging immigration reform

David Skorton, president of Cornell University, joined the presidents of Arizona State University and Miami Dade College in a letter to convince more than 1,200 university and college presidents in the country to join them in pushing for smart immigration policies that they say will SKORTON “attract and retain the world’s best and brightest.”

Skorton, Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University and Eduardo Padrón, president of Miami Dade College are collaborating with the Partnership for a New American Economy and the National Immigration Forum. The presidents said they will host several major events on their campuses to underline the role of immigration in innovation and job creation.

They hope other school presidents will join them to speak in one coordinated voice that will best bring their message to the public and leaders in Washington, D.C., the presidents said in the letter.

In the letter, the presidents

Public Safety Incident Log MARCH 4 Exposure of person LOCATION: West Tower SUMMARY: Caller reported a person had urinated in the hallway March 3 at about 3:35 a.m. One person was judicially referred. Patrol Officer Daniel Austic.

Making graffiti LOCATION: Job Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person had written graffiti.

Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury.

Off-campus incident LOCATION: All Other SUMMARY: TCSO reported a noise complaint on troy road. Residents were issued a warning for noise, and one person was arrested for obstruction and resisting arrest.

Sergeant Investigator Thomas Dunn.

Off campus incident LOCATION: All Other SUMMARY: TCSO reported noise complaint on Kendall Avenue. Two people were issued appearance tickets to Town of Ithaca Court for violating the noise ordinance. Master Security Officer Wendy Lewis.

Larceny LOCATION: Campus Center SUMMARY: Caller reported unknown person had stolen cash from a backpack.

Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

Case status change LOCATION: Circle Apartments SUMMARY: Officer reported people were interviewed about marijuana

paraphernalia that had been found March 3. Four people judicially referred for unlawful possession of marijuana. Patrol Officer Robert Jones.

Medical assist/ psychological LOCATION: Terrace 11 SUMMARY: Caller reported having thoughts of harming themselves. Person taken into custody under mental hygiene law and transported to CMC. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

MARCH 5 Criminal mischief LOCATION: West Tower SUMMARY: Caller reported unknown person had damaged a washing machine.

Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Daniel Austic.

Medical assist/injury related LOCATION: All Other SUMMARY: Caller reported person had sustained a knee injury while skiing. Medical assistance declined. Master Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury.

College Regulations LOCATION: Campus Center SUMMARY: Caller reported a person leaving a dining hall with food, violating policy. Officer issued person a warning. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

MARCH 6 Drug policy LOCATION: Eastman Hall SUMMARY: One person judicially referred for failure to comply and for drug policy violation. Patrol Officer Jay Vanvolkinburg.

Off-campus incident LOCATION: All Other SUMMARY: IPD reported intoxicated person taken into custody under mental hygiene law and transported to CMC. Master Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

V&T leaving scene LOCATION: Facilities Parking Lot SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown vehicle had caused damage to a cinder block wall. Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock.

Harassment LOCATION: Boothroyd Hall SUMMARY: Complainant reported a person had made verbal threats and hit another person in the back with a door. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Jeremiah McMurray.

Welfare check LOCATION: Circle Apartment SUMMARY: Caller reported a person had made a statement about wanting to taint another person’s food. Officer determined the person was not a threat to others.

Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

MARCH 7 Fire alarm accidental LOCATION: Circle Apartments SUMMARY: Fire alarm activation caused by cooking. System reset. Master Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

Medical assist/injury related LOCATION: Academic Quad SUMMARY: Caller reported a person operating a scooter had fallen and sustained a chin injury. Person transported to health center. Patrol Officer Bruce Thomas.

said the country often trains the most talented foreign-born students, only to send them overseas to compete against the U.S. in the global marketplace. Skorton, Crow and Padrón also highlighted the need for visa reform for students in science, technology, engineering and math.

Ithaca spring cleaning commences on South Hill

The City of Ithaca began its annual spring cleaning of all city streets Monday.

The cleaning schedule, which is implemented by the Department of Public Works, is expected to first affect streets on South Hill.

Areas that will be daily sites of work will be labeled ‘No Parking’ zones 24 hours before cleaning starts.

The city will ticket and tow vehicles that are not moved by 7 a.m. on the day of the scheduled cleaning.

Cleaning is expected to continue until April 19, and city officials have warned that schedules may change depending on weather conditions.

The cleaning schedule is available on the City of Ithaca’s website at www. ci.ithaca.ny.us.

IC seeks college juniors for class gift committee

Ithaca College is accepting nominations for the 2014 Senior Class Gift Committee. The 15 to 20 member committee is responsible for engaging members of the community to make a gift to the Ithaca College Annual Fund through their Senior Class Gift Campaign.

Nominations, including self

nominations, should be emailed to acooper@ithaca.edu by March 29.

The co-chairs of the 2013 Senior Class Gift Committee are seniors James Romanik and Perri Rumstein.

The Senior Class Gift campaign is a 30-year-old college tradition where members of the graduating class join together in honor of their graduation to contribute to the college.

Ithaca College director selected for IT seminar

David Weil, director of enterprise application services in Ithaca College’s Information Technology Services, has been accepted to EDUCAUSE Leading Change Institute’s Class of 2013.

Weil will take part in an intensive week-long residential seminar.

The seminar will cover topics WEIL including the challenges of higher education and the empowerment of information technologists to initiate conversations and take action on issues that are relevant to the college and to the national higher education community.

Weil was also awarded a scholarship called Leadership Through New Communities of Knowledge that will cover the costs of the program.

Weil joins 39 other officials from Harvard University, Northwestern University, Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, among others.

selected entries from March 4 to March 13 Drug violations LOCATION: Clarke Hall SUMMARY: Two people judicially referred for violation of drug policy. Patrol Officer Bruce Thomas.

College regulations LOCATION: Garden Apartments SUMMARY: Two people judicially referred for violation of drug policy and failure to comply. Patrol Officer Robert Jones.

MARCH 8 MVA/property damage LOCATION: Facilities Parking Lot SUMMARY: Caller reported one-car property damage MVA. Report taken. Patrol Officer Robert Jones.

MARCH 9 Harassment LOCATION: Lyon Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person had grabbed and punched another person in the face at around 1:35 a.m. Medical assistance was declined with ambulance staff.

Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Daniel Austic.

Fire alarm accidental LOCATION: Circle Apartments SUMMARY: Fire alarm activated by person cooking. System reset. Patrol Officer Jeremiah McMurray.

Found property LOCATION: Tower Concourse SUMMARY: Officer found a hat and gloves and turned them over to the Office of Public Safety. Unknown owner.

Suspicious circumstance LOCATION: Landon Hall SUMMARY: Officer reported an unknown person had tampered with a door to prevent it from securing. Investigation pending. Sergeant Terry O’Pray.

MARCH 11 Fire alarm accidental LOCATION: Ben Light Gymnasium SUMMARY: Simplex reported a fire alarm activated by construction dust. System reset. Master Patrol Officer Chris Teribury.

Fire alarm smoldering LOCATION: Terraces SUMMARY: Simplex reported a fire alarm was activated by a person having placed burned food into a garbage can. Officer extinguished smoldering content and reset the system. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

MARCH 13 Found property LOCATION: Terrace Quad SUMMARY: Set of keys found and turned over to Public Safety. Unknown owner.

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Ithaca College’s proposed learning center in China will help students get ahead and foster social and political relationships that will yield stronger foreign policy.

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s the IC 20/20 vision plan comes into focus, Ithaca College is setting its sights on the next frontier for American college students: China The college hopes to establish a learning center in China by 2014. Though the specifics of the center have yet to be decided, the college is already expanding Chinese language and history classes, recruiting students from China and organizing more study abroad trips to the region. The college’s outreach efforts come as the Obama administration launches the 100,000 Strong Initiative, which encourages college students to travel to China to build social, economic and diplomatic ties with the Chinese.

As the job field becomes increasingly globalized, American students should seize the opportunity to build social and economic relationships abroad. If we hope to stay competitive in global industry, we must strive to build a globally conscious curriculum. The China center is an important step in ensuring the quality of the college’s education in the future. The administration’s commitment to international education shows a focus on forward thinking and is a sign that the college is willing to adapt to the needs of future generations of students.

The federal push for American students to spend semesters in strategic locations like China is a common sense and people-driven approach to foreign policy. By encouraging young people to spend time in regions that are of specific economic and political interest to the U.S., the government is helping build basic relationships that can yield meaningful political alliances. The economies of the U.S. and China are intertwined, and it’s time we build the personal and intellectual ties that will allow the two countries to exist peacefully.

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Online classes will help students find ways to study away but cannot serve as a substitute for in-classroom learning.

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uring its last meeting, the Faculty Council discussed a plan to expand the number of classes Ithaca College offers online. While this will help make studying away a possibility for many students, online courses cannot substitute for an inclass experience, and students on the Ithaca campus should be encouraged to take traditional classes.

Currently, students who study off the Ithaca campus, either abroad or at satellite programs like New York City and Los Angeles, must deal with limited available classes or transferable credits. This lack of options forces some students to choose between graduating on time with their desired credits and studying away. More online courses would make it easier for current students to spend a semester off campus and take advantage of the travel or real-world experiences study-away programs offer.

The administration must be cautious when expanding the online program. Online alternatives should not serve as a substitute for traditional classes because courses are full or students have registration errors. Students looking to enroll in online courses could do so at larger state schools for a fraction of the cost. To stay competitive, Ithaca College must find ways to help students have study-away options while maintaining its small college values like individualized attention and an interactive learning environment.

your letters Student responds to college’s rejection of club sailing team

When I watch the Cornell sailing team practice, I find it hard to understand why Ithaca College does not have a sailing team. Not only are we minutes from a lake, but our location would allow us to be in the most competitive league in the country, the Mid-Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association. Last year a group of more than 30 students proposed the first Ithaca College club sailing team and

Why can’t Ithaca College help fund sailing as it supports other teams?

Sarah Parker, Junior Integrated Marketing communications major

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was denied by the Office of Club Sports primarily because sailing is a high-risk sport that requires costly insurance.

Though I understand the risks, I still believe the club sailing team proposal was too quickly denied. If Ithaca College cannot bear the costs of a sailing team, the athletics department could make a formal relationship with the Cornell sailing team.

I know at least 30 students who are interested in joining a sailing club, which is the average size for a varsity sailing team.

“I don’t think government aid should go to non-citizens of the U.S. who don’t follow proper documentation.”

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“If I was an undocumented citizen, I would work to become a citizen and work to get the money.”

Luke Kutler, sound recording technology ’15

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“The United States should welcome all people and all different cultures.”

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“The government should make it easier for those students to get documentation so they can get the aid that they deserve.”

Brandon Young, cinema and Photography ‘15

“There are legal citizens who are already here who deserve financial aid that aren’t getting it, so why would we let illegal immigrants get financial aid?”

Andrew Ronald, Film, photography and visual art ’15

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Conservationists must think beyond borders L

and conservation is booming, and the expansion of protected areas in border regions, often called transboundary protected areas, is particularly rapid. The creation of protected areas that cross human-defined boundaries reflects a new sort of outside the box thinking in land conservation and shows that we should start seeing land conservation and stewardship as a collaborative endeavor that involves all kinds of people.

In an era of globalization, we should expect things to cross boundaries, such as people, goods, capital, ideas and drugs to name a few.

Why not land conservation campaigns as well? In Jake Brenner this light, transboundary protected areas make a lot of geopolitical sense. They also make a lot of ecological sense. After all, birds, fish, bugs, mammals and even plants routinely disobey the boundaries we draw around them, making square parks like Yellowstone look silly, or at best arbitrary. Do the wolves stay within that square out there in the otherwise lumpy northern Rockies? Of course not.

We need to think outside these boxes and beyond National Parks to consider how ecosystems cross the boundaries we draw and get mixed up in our affairs. If National Park boxes are inadequate for free-roaming species, let’s connect those boxes to form a network. If the world is getting warmer and the animals have to pack up and leave, let’s think ahead and create habitats for them that don’t rely on steady temperatures. If the world is becoming urban, then let’s figure out how to preserve nature in our cities. This is thinking outside the box for land conservation in the 21st century.

This kind of thinking, in part, drives the recent boom in transboundary protected areas. Conservationists have their eyes on borderlands as opportunities for win-win outcomes: political peace along with ecological harmony. The U.S. boasts several prominent examples on its northern and southern boundaries, including Glacier National Park, which adjoins Waterton Lakes in Canada; Organ Pipe National Monument, which adjoins the Pinacate and Gran Desierto in Mexico; and Big Bend National Park, which adjoins a host of Mexican protected areas. According to the U.N.,

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On left, Jason Hamilton, associate professor and chair of environmental studies, leads students through Ithaca College Natural Lands. The lands include almost 600 acres of protected area.

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these and other transboundary protected areas make up 27 percent of the total global conservation estate. In other words, more than one-fourth of the world’s protected areas are in borderlands.

We need to think outside the box socially as well. Land conservation, after all, is a profoundly social project. Just as we need to consider the lands outside parks as conservation-worthy, we also have to consider the owners and users of those lands as potential stewards. We need to move beyond the myth that conservation has to be done by the government with teams of uniformed guards.

Fortunately, we have great examples for guidance. In the war-torn U.S.-Mexico borderland, an informal network of ranchers, activists, government officials, indigenous people and scientists has created a culture of peace and collaboration in conserving the biologically rich Sonoran Desert.

Closer to home, the Finger Lakes Land Trust works with private landowners and volunteer

stewards to protect land through voluntary conservation easements. Ithaca College Natural Lands showcases a reconciliation of economic development with research, education and recreation on almost 600 acres of protected natural areas. These and other examples illustrate how land conservation in this day and age hinges on collaboration and innovation.

Land conservation has come a long way since Yellowstone in the 1870s, when a box drawn on a map guarded by rangers was all we had to protect the nature we value most. Today, we envision a patchwork of lands under varied ownership and use, and a collaborative effort to support human and ecological communities.

Jake Brenner is the faculty manager of Ithaca College Natural Lands and an assistant professor of environmental studies and science. Email him at jbrenner@ithaca.edu.

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Keystone Pipeline will lead to unhealthy oil addiction

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hen the oil and gas industry and government attach claims of jobs, lower gas prices and energy independence to a seemingly simple pipeline project, it is embraced as the God-sent solution to the uncertain future of American energy.

However, the Keystone XL pipeline is not a commonsense energy solution. Tar sands oil, which would be transported by the pipeline, Richard is an unconGaunt ventional oil masquerading as cheap domestic oil.

Rather than being a conventional source, tar sands oil is bitumencoated sand, which must be refined to be brought to a usable substance. The mining destroys thousands of square miles of boreal forests, leaves lakes of toxic wastewater and devastates ecosystems and indigenous regions The State Department’s statement on the pipeline claims “the proposed project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate

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Activists gather in Washington, D.C., to protest the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that many believe would be detrimental to the environment.

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of development in the oil sands.”

Therefore they conclude it will have no contribution to climate change.

This assumption is unsubstantiated.

KXL’s beneficiaries have lobbied because they know the pipeline will vastly expand the tar sands industry to the global markets. It will greatly increase global usage of tar sands, prolong fossil-fuel addiction and, if

scientists are to be believed, devastate the global climate.

If TransCanada, the company that hopes to build the pipeline, is allowed to move forward, it will cut through the country’s heartland and rely on government and eminent domain abuse to build through land belonging to unwilling landowners.

As stated in studies by both the

Global Labor Institute at Cornell and by Oil Change International, the pipeline’s extension will mostly carry oil to be exported to global markets and will have little to no effect on U.S. gas prices. Real energy independence is clean, renewable, local sources.

The promises of economy-boosting jobs are unfounded. According to the Global Labor Institute, the pipeline would involve 2,500 to 4,650 temporary construction jobs, which is a far cry from the 15,000 upheld by TransCanada. About 90 percent of these would not be local or in state.

The same study also finds that the divergence of oil to Gulf Coast export refineries will actually cause job loss.

If KXL is built, it to have no effect on unemployment rates in the U.S. TransCanada can only give us a future of more oil addiction.

America’s energy future should not be found in tar sands oil. Renewable energy promises a future of local jobs, local energy and sustainability.

Through the efforts of communities, businesses and college divestment, this future can be made reality.

Richard Gaunt is a freshman environmental studies major. Email him at rgaunt1@ithaca.edu.

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ugo Chávez, Venezuela’s self-proclaimed “Bolivarian” leader, passed away March 5, leaving many around the world asking: What will Venezuela look like without Chávez?

Chávez, who led the country since taking power in 1998, seems to be just as divisive in death as he was when he was alive. Even his successor was contentious.

Chávez appointed his current vice president and minister of foreign affairs, Nicolás Maduro, to succeed him. The country’s constitution stipulates that if the president becomes incapacitated, the speaker of the National Assembly will assume power until an election is held 30 days later.

Maduro will be the majority party candidate and is expected to ride the wave of Chávez grief to office full-time. This has many U.S. analysts worried that a post-Chávez Venezuela will look strikingly similar to the current Venezuela.

On March 5, Maduro expelled two U.S. diplomats from Venezuela for trying to destabilize the country. The U.S. responded by doing the same to two Venezuelan diplomats just one week later. If the U.S. is to have less child-like “tit-for-tat” relations with Venezuela, it needs to be smarter about its foreign policy.

Despite the fact that the U.S. is one of Venezuela’s biggest consumers of crude oil, Chávez was well known for his hatred of the American “empire,” as he called it. These kinds of sentiments allowed Chávez to hold weight with countries that have fallen victim to U.S. democracy promotion in Latin America, like Colombia and Nicaragua, and generate anti-U.S. relationships with countries like Iran and Cuba. The U.S. government has a bleak history in Latin America that includes promoting puppet governments and helping install leaders through CIA-led coups that are more favorable to U.S. political and economic interests than to the ideals of democracy.

If the U.S., in earnest, wants to improve relations with the next government of Venezuela, the best thing it can do is take a seat. The U.S. can offer diplomatic support and encourage democratic processes, like the upholding of the constitution, but from the sidelines. It should only help — and in limited capacities — if Venezuela asks for it.

Meddling just before the election April 14 will only make the U.S. look more interventionist than ever and breed increased anti-American attitudes that will stifle potential diplomatic repair and progress before it even begins.

Rachael HartforD is a senior integrated marketing communications major with a minor in politics. Email her at rhartfo1@ithaca.edu.

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From left, juniors Brooke LeWinter and Charlie Diebolt sport this spring’s latest fashion trends Tuesday.

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Junior Charlie Di ebolt poses wear ing a striped sw corduroy pants as eater and part of this sprin g’s basic-themed trends.

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After a fall and winter season filled with opulent colors and over-the-top embellishment, spring fashion is about going back to the basics.

Runway shows for Spring and Summer 2013 featured bold, primary colors, strong silhouettes and architectural cuts and well-tailored pieces tempered by soft sheers and light shades. Call it a return to ’90s minimalism or homage to mod, but this season is about finding boldness in simplicity.

New York City-based bloggers and sisters Sutton and Astor Van Brigsby of the blog, Sobbing on Fifth, said the mod trend is one of the strongest and most easily achievable looks for spring.

“There is a really strong mod moment happening,” Astor said. “The razor-sharp yet flirty silhouettes, the stark contrast of black and white, the fun graphic prints — this was definitely spearheaded by Marc Jacobs and his optical illusion monochrome prints, but again, this trend is so easy to work on any budget.”

Black and white are definitely two colors that are emerging as a hot trend for spring and one that college students can pull out of their closets. White jeans are an excellent way to work the trend and will remain a flattering staple piece for spring and summer fashion in future years.

Other colors trending this spring are bold brights like kelly green, red and blue, conversely pale, subdued shades of white, gray and mint green.

San Francisco-based blogger Kailani Andrade of fashion blog Kailani’s Korner, said these light shades are different from the normal colors of spring.

“Pastels are always associated with spring, but this spring I find myself drawn to sea foam green and yellow,” Andrade said.

Both the bright tones and light shades are perfect for the structural cuts and architectural construction of many dresses, skirts and other clothing pieces this season. Structured ruffles, streamlined silhouettes, dramatic necklines and lots of cutouts are marks of this trend. Keep the colors bright or muted but always solid with these strong shapes and peek-a-boo cuts, because patterns may overwhelm with an intense cut.

Senior Jenni Zellner, who writes for the international fashion blog The Chronostylist, said the strong shapes are edgy and fresh.

“What I’ve noticed is a very strong push towards a futuristic theme. The way that they’re shaped is very stark, definitely dramatic lines,” she said. “Geometrical, architectural and geometric shapes and cuts are in this season.”

Stripes are also a strong trend this spring. On runways like Michael Kors, primary colors and wide horizontal stripes make for a colorful nautical theme for both men and

women, while Vivienne Westwood and Paul & Joe used vertical stripes in muted, preppy colors like chambray blue and rusty red for an unassumingly stylish look.

“Definitely invest in some stripes. It’s so easy but so on trend,” Sutton said. “Striped tees are the most effortless and classic way to go, striped dresses are definitely a good approach, or you can go even bolder with striped pants or jeans.”

Wide and horizontal stripes have long been a favorite of the fashion set. In the form of the boating top made famous by classic bombshells like Brigette Bardot or Jean Seberg, it’s effortless chic that’s now experiencing a modern heyday. Vertical stripes, however, are a fresh interpretation of stripes that can be flatteringly slimming if worn correctly. Look for a medium-size stripe and fun colors like red or yellow. Steer clear of black, however, unless you want to resemble Beetlejuice.

Other fabrics and textures to look for are leather and sheers. Leather, long seen as an outerwear fabric and a fall/ winter staple, is being reimagined for spring. Used as an accent in mixed media pieces or in fresh colors, leather is a modern and slightly edgy way to amp up an outfit. A leather peplum with a sheer maxi skirt is a wearable way to use leather, especially as the weather warms up.

On the other end of the texture spectrum are sheers.

Delicate and feminine, sheers are the perfect complement to the strong looks this season. For any of the bolder looks this season, sheers are a great way to soften the effect.

“There’s been a strong push to sheer blouses, which works well for spring and is a nice contrast between the sheer and the structure,” Zellner said.

Other easy ways to update wardrobes for spring are with statement pieces that have a decidedly ’90s flair: crop tops, sporty racerback styles a la Sporty Spice, harem pants and strappy ankle heels that pay homage to an early Carrie Bradshaw.

Menswear this season is also all about calculated minimalism. One bold statement piece, be it a striped sweater, a boldly colored shirt or an impeccably tailored suit keep a look clean but still commands attention.

Senior Tierranicole Taylor, catwalk coach for campus student group HiFashion Studios, said menswear this season is more subdued.

“I feel like there’s not as clear of a distinction between menswear and womenswear this season because of how clean and subtle the styles are,” Taylor said. “I’m seeing a lot of neutrals, whites and pops of colors. But for menswear, I think that it’s very clean, detailed and subtle.”

This spring, embrace simplicity with one or all of these trends. But keep in mind the minimalist attitude of the season when experimenting with these colors, stripes and other trends. The old adage is true: less really is more.

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Junior Kyle Delaney shares dropping and windspeed picking a rslist of his 10 up here favorite tracks to listen to.

“Zealots” – Fugees “Just Like a Woman” – Jeff Buckley “Me & Mr. Jones” – Amy Winehouse “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” – Tame Impala “Untitled” – Pelican “Leaving on a Jet Plane” – Peter, Paul & Mary “Atlantis to Interzone” – Klaxons “Lollipopsichord” – Black Moth Super Rainbow

Stringing together symphonies

From left, Mischa Vitenson, Marcia Littley, Jason Calloway and Michael Klotz perform Joseph Haydn’s Quartet in F Minor. The string quartet performed as a part of the Robert G. Boehmler Community Foundation series Tuesday at Hockett Family Recital Hall.

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Assistant Accent Editor Rose Vardell scours Pinterest and shares her favorite pins of the week.

Sprinkled throughout inventive do-ityourself craft projects and new fashion designs, the outlet for online interests has begun to feature health- and fitnessrelated advice. With spring approaching, Pinners have turned their attention to shedding more than just winter coats.

Weight loss tips are frequently pinned and garner attention as they climb their way up the popular page. One pin features free online streaming of Zumba exercises, while another recommends a healthy and tasty salad with spinach, avocado, lemon and tomato. For anyone seeking helpful advice for ways to stay in shape, it appears that going on the Internet, in this case, may actually be the answer.

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nature tour GUIDE DOCUMENTS quotes of urban children

One 28-year-old man named Mr. Cody certainly has his hands full with his fulltime job of leading urban children of all races on nature hikes. His experiences with the kids has led him to create the hilarious Twitter account, Ghetto Hikes, where the nature guide recounts commentary made by the young hikers. The account, which has more than 430,000 followers contains funny gems like “We thought Thurman ova there havin’ a seizure, turns out he just excited about nature” and “Mr. Cody, if you could be a forest animal, what’d you be? I be a snake, walkin’ around all like ssss ssss... scarin’ bitches.” Think of it as a modern adaptation of Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” with more pizzazz and less transcendentalism.

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smart phone cases feature old-school pop culture art

The online source for latest trends, Trend Hunter, has picked up on a new accessory that rings with ’90s nostalgia. Cell phone cases for smart phone devices have taken a retro spin. One phone backing resembles a tape deck, while another takes the same design as a Pokemon ball. Whatever happened to the simple, efficient phone case? Nowadays, with new designs and their growing popularity, technology accessories such as these have become a form of expression. If nothing else, these ’90s-inspired phone cases will revamp an ordinary iPhone and make it stand out in a crowd.

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quoteunquote “When I get spooned and groomed, dipped and whipped, suited and booted, gooted and looted, I like to have my nails done.” ­­—Rap and reggae star Snoop Lion, formerly known as Snoop Dogg, discusses receiving French manicures during an interview on “Conan” with talk show host Conan O’Brien.

celebrity SCOOPS! Lil Wayne bounces back Everything is okay. Lil Wayne is still alive, despite TMZ reports Saturday which declared famed rapper Lil Wayne was on his deathbed and being read his last rites.

As it turns out, the misreport was untrue and very untactful, leaving fans both agitated with the infamous gossip site and relieved that their star was still alive and kickin’. To confirm his status to fans, Lil Wayne tweeted: “I’m good everybody. Thx for the prayers and love.”

However, Lil Wayne was still in the hospital. According to sources, Wayne consumed sizzurp, a homemade recreational narcotic drug containing cough syrup, hard candies and soda. One of the sources said, “He needs rehab but he’s not close to death or anything. He’s fine and just coming down off the high.”

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Magic: The Gathering makes mark on campus

By Evin Billington Staff Writer

Two wizards, dubbed Planeswalkers, meet and battle to the death. Their weapons are spells they have picked up along their travels and magical creatures like dragons and angels. This is the story behind the trading card game Magic: The Gathering, in which two people use cards they have collected to reduce their opponent’s life points from 20 to zero.

The game, which was developed in 1993, is popular in the U.S. and has developed a following with some Ithaca College students, many of whom have been playing it since childhood.

Some student fans of the game congregate in the Magic: The Gathering Club, which president senior Matteo Mesiouris said has about 15 members. Mesiouris said the club is welcoming to players of all experience levels, and at meetings they usually play and talk about the game.

“We play various formats,” Mesiouris said. “It’s a trading card game. It’s not very complicated. People come in from various levels of the game, beginners or experts. There’s guys who come to the club who are not from the school but from town, actually.

We play, we teach people who don’t know how to play how to play if they’re interested.”

The game involves two players with a deck of about 60 cards.

These cards are different types: land, creatures, enchantments, planeswalkers, sorcery, instant and artifacts. The cards list which other cards they can have an effect on and what kind of damage they will do to the opponent. Some

cards, like enchantments, can help cards like creatures get more powerful and increase the damage that card will do to the opponent. Players take turns drawing cards and doing damage to each other until all life points run out.

Junior Isaac Ford said he does not get many chances to play now, but it was a popular activity with him and his friends in middle school and high school.

“Sometimes we’ll play it when I go back home, for instance, or on breaks and stuff,” Ford said. “It’s something that we can all get together and we all know how to do or like to do occasionally.”

Though Ford began at a young age, he said he picked up on the game easily with the help of his friends who were already players.

“I think it’s pretty easy,” Ford said. “You just have to learn the structure of the game. To learn the more intricate details, I think takes a lot more time. I think anyone could really start playing at any point, and it’s not too hard to pick it up.”

Like Ford, Mesiouris said he began playing the game with friends about when he was in elementary school. He said he was fascinated by the artwork and the method of gameplay.

“I’m a weird guy, and it’s a fantasy-based game,” Mesiouris said.

“The pictures were cool, the art was cool, the game itself was interesting. To a 10-year-old kid, it’s a lot of fun. You don’t really get into a game by yourself.”

Though the basics of the game, as Ford said, are relatively simple, junior James Earl, a member of the club, said as a player gets more invested in the strategy of the game,

Junior Isaac Ford plays Magic: The Gathering in his apartment Wednesday. Magic: The Gathering is a card game that requires players to reduce their opponents points from 20 to 0 to win. It has garnered a following on campus.

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the more complicated it becomes.

“It’s all about trying to find the best deck that works for you and fits your personality,” Earl said.

“It’s a great balance where you can be really amazing at it but you can still have fun and still have a circle instead of just beating everyone.”

There are different formats of gameplay that involve the different card decks that are released every

year. Each deck has a different story. Earl said there is an expanded universe aspect to the game that fans can experience through video games, comics and novels. Fans can follow different story lines involving different characters and get even more immersed in the Magic: The Gathering universe.

“What’s really cool about it is that each year, they come out with

two or three different blocks for the year,” Earl said. “Each block has a story with different worlds.

Learning how they all tie together and how they all work is just really, really cool, because it’s a story that can adapt to many different things. They’ve done a Chinese one; they’ve done a Gothic Horror one. So it’s very malleable and yet still connected. It’s just very cool.”

Moving into movies Alumnus makes new career choices after studying psychology at college An alumnus who once studied human interactions and abnormalities at Ithaca College has now switched his dream to acting. Daniel Dambroff ’09 will star in an indie film called “Brilliant Mistakes.” It is set for DVD release April 9 and will air on TV in the spring. The Rhode Island International Film Festival and Toronto Independent Film Festival have picked up the film.

Accent Editor Jackie Eisenberg talked with Dambroff about the film, his time at the college and his goals as an actor.

Jackie Eisenberg: What is this film about?

Daniel Dambroff: The name of the movie is “Brilliant Mistakes.” In a sense, it’s a love story between the character that I play, his name is Marcus Wright, and his girlfriend, Gabby, and he basically has plans to marry her one day and the whole big picture. Before he can do so, she is involved in a car accident that puts her into a physically debilitating state, and she is unable to speak or walk. My character’s core principle is loyalty and fulfilling your work, and so the movie is essentially the course of him trying to fulfill his promise to her of one day marrying her.

JE: How did you get involved with this film?

DD: I went to an open call that was being held in New Haven, Connecticut. I showed up at 11

o’clock or so, and I didn’t get seen until about six, so I waited about seven hours. So it was pretty brutal. I just attended the open call, and I auditioned, and the rest is history, as they say.

JE: You weren’t an acting major, right? You were a psychology major.

DD: Indeed I was. I did exploratory for my whole freshman year and then I think half my sophomore year, and then I majored in psychology. I took a couple theater classes. I took Acting 1 and Acting 2, and I did Intro to Theater.

JE: What made you want to make this your full-time career?

DD: Well, basically I’ve always enjoyed performing, and I was in the coed a cappella group, IC Voicestream, and that kind of provided a creative outlet for me, and I think when I was at college, I was just thinking very practical, and I was just under the impression that going to school, I would do something that I could get sort of a concrete degree in and then after graduating, I kind of just sat back and I thought about what I really wanted to try and do with my life and what I was enjoying most, and I knew that if I didn’t ever try to pursue this, I would always regret it.

Daniel Dambroff ’09 stars in the independent film “Brilliant Mistakes,” which comes to DVD April 9. The movie has been picked up by film festivals in Rhode Island and Toronto.

DD: We got into the Rhode Island International Film Festival, which was a lot of fun. It’s actually where we had our world premiere. We had about 400 people show up to that, which was really exciting to wear a suit and everything, so that was fun. We got into the Toronto Independent Film Festival, which is very different from the Toronto JE: Tell me about the Rhode Island and Toronto International Film Festival, which is the one that film festivals. is well known.

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JE: What are your plans for the future?

DD: Well, I’m constantly auditioning and I’m constantly networking, and basically the [hope] is that this film gets seen by the public, which it will with the distribution deal, but the [hope] is that it gets some decent exposure for me and it can open other doors.

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Music student expresses spirit Double bass performance major connects music with emotions

By Emma Rizzo Staff Writer

Junior John DiCarlo first plucked the heavy strings of the bass in middle school, immersing himself in the instrument that would turn into his career. A double bass performance major, DiCarlo became serious about the instrument during his junior year of high school and is now developing as a musician in the Ithaca College James J. Whalen School of Music. DiCarlo, described by his peers as a driven musician and natural leader, will be performing a solo recital on Saturday.

After deciding he wanted to pursue music, and primarily focusing on jazz during high school, his grandmother influenced him to choose classical.

“She made me realize that I really wanted to do the classical music thing,” DiCarlo said.

He currently plays in the college’s Symphony Orchestra, has played in the pit orchestra for the operas put on by the music and theater departments. Jeffery Meyer, the director of orchestras, said because DiCarlo holds such a high position in the orchestra, he is considered a

leader by his peers.

“John presently holds the principal bass seat of the Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, which requires not only masterful playing on an individual level but also inspiring and disciplined leadership among his peers,” Meyer said.

When performing, DiCarlo said he thinks analytically and takes the role of the bass seriously.

“It’s a lot of that technical way of using your ears to keep the ensemble together,” DiCarlo said.

DiCarlo also said he recognizes the emotional factor involved in playing an instrument.

“When you are physically playing an instrument that is not you, you have to connect the instrument to yourself,” DiCarlo said.

“It’s a really hard thing to connect.

That’s one of my weaknesses as a performer.”

DiCarlo aids this connection by tying the emotional connotation of the music to a real-life event. He said he has channeled the emotions from the death of his uncle to create genuine emotion in his performance.

“It’s hard for me to evoke real emotion without having something

Junior John DiCarlo practices March 19 in the James J. Whalen Center for Music. DiCarlo plays the double bass and has a recital Saturday.

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Sophomore Andrew Ryan, also a double bass performance major, plays in a studio with DiCarlo. Ryan

characterizes DiCarlo as having serious dedication and a strong work ethic, adding that DiCarlo is specific about the way he wants his pieces to sound.

“He is definitely very involved in everything he is playing,” Ryan said.

Ryan also said DiCarlo’s overall disposition makes him enjoyable to play with.

“He’s great to work with,” Ryan said. “He always has fun when he plays.”

After graduating from the college, DiCarlo plans to attend graduate school and eventually pursue double bass performance as a career and is also interested in teaching music. He is specifically interested in studying the Viennese bass, which was the bass used in the 1700s when Mozart was composing.

“I really like historical performance,” DiCarlo said. “It’s playing on instruments that would have been used in a certain time period.”

DiCarlo said he is motivated to reach his goals by listening to recordings of other musicians and is inspired by his father, a pipefitter, to push himself to his full potential.

He said he wants to have the same level of work ethic as his father, who built his family’s house.

“I aspire to be half the man he is,” DiCarlo said. “I think he’s amazing.”

DiCarlo works at this aspiration by fully committing to his music and creating an experience for his audiences.

“You should always let your guard down,” DiCarlo said. “It’s always about who you are playing for.”

For DiCarlo, music is a means of expression, and he wants to connect with people through his performances. He said the meaning of music comes from the people who are listening.

“When I am playing music, it is a way for me to express myself and show people what I really love and care about,” DiCarlo said. “I want them to feel what I feel.”

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For 17 years, the “Tomb Raider” franchise has been a staple in the action-adventure genre. The series features Lara Croft, perhaps the most prominent female protagonist in video game history, whose exploits have been chronicled in 10 games, which took her across every continent. “Tomb Raider,” released March 5, is the second reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise and takes the game in a darker direction with its themes and content. Despite the longevity of the series, the game stays fresh with its “Tomb Raider” cinematic presentation and Square Enix the memorable experiences HHH 1/2 it crafts.

“Tomb Raider” stars a young Lara who gets shipwrecked on an island while on an expedition to find a lost Japanese kingdom. Trapped and stranded, Lara must reunite with her crew and leave the island. The game serves as an origin story about Lara on her first adventure.

Like other modern action-adventure games, “Tomb Raider” follows a series of tropes, including platform puzzles, extravagant set pieces and a fair number of hidden collectibles. As Lara performs feats such as finding relics and, of course, raiding tombs, she is awarded experience for learning new abilities. Unlocked abilities are lackluster at first, but later desirable feats such as finishing attacks for each weapon are rewarded.

To complement the progression of Lara, new weapons are constantly introduced and are upgraded throughout the game to stop them from growing stale.

“Tomb Raider” really pushes the idea of evolving Lara from a helpless girl into a stalwart heroine. The first half of the game has Lara playing the role of survivor, her actions more often avoiding death and escaping from danger. Combat with enemy soldiers is generally avoided or done silently, and enemies, like wolves, inspire fear when the player walks through the jungle. The mood changes when Lara acquires more weapons, skills and confidence, and by the end, the game feels like a

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Vegas: All or Nothing, an IC After Dark event with blackjack, poker and other games, will begin at 8 p.m. in IC Square. The event is free.

Louis K. Thaler Concert Violinist Series, will feature violinist Charles Castleman, who will perform music by Ysaye, Dvorak and Franck. The event will begin at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall.

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While “Tomb Raider” tries to highlight the story of Lara, the set pieces of the game manage to steal the show. Awe-inspiring locations such as Japanese temples, lush jungles, shanty towns and abandoned boats and tombs each bring something to the table. Many of the locations fall apart, forcing Lara to escape an area as it crumbles around her through thrilling fast-paced platforming segments.

The game has an orchestrated soundtrack that often sets the mood for the game. Voice actors sound natural, and each voice fits its character nicely. Enemies have many contextual battle cries, and the player will often hear them scream orders at each other. Ambient sound effects, from the echoes from a cave’s dripping stalactites to the subtle creaking of wooden bridges Lara traverses, all sound realistic and

add to the feel of the game.

“Tomb Raider” is a well-made game. The mechanics are natural and streamlined, combat is enjoyable and exploring the island is generally rewarding. Perhaps the biggest flaw with “Tomb Raider” is the game’s difficulty or lack thereof. Combat is a breeze toward the end when the player has enough firepower to take down a small army. While the difficulty of combat can be increased, puzzles remain relatively simple, almost deceptively so for a “Tomb Raider” game. Despite some of its flaws, “Tomb Raider” remains a stunning example of its genre and does a wonderful job in rebooting the series into its third iteration.

“Tomb Raider” was developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 3 and XBox 360.

College student musician compiles electronica album

by Jared DIonne Senior Writer

Nick Zanca, a 19-year-old college student, is a testament to the power of the Internet as it relates to launching a music career.

After anonymously circulating his musical creations on Mister Lies blogs and YouTube, “Mowgli” he is beginning to Lefse Records develop a following Our rating: HHH 1/2 as Mister Lies, his stage name. His debut album, “Mowgli,” is a compilation filled with twists in each track.

Zanca makes no attempt to mask his musical influences, as he bares them front and center. “Mowgli’s” lead-off track, “Ashore,” hints at the percussionheavy production of SBTRKT and the

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ever-evolving electronic drones of postdubstep artist James Blake. The song unfurls with precision and intensity as Zanca crafts a soundscape consisting solely of two alternating synthesizer notes and liquid trickling.

The beauty of “Mowgli” lies in Zanca’s transitions between tracks.

Each song melds seamlessly into the next while differentiating between styles. With these transitions, each song is able to retain a distinctive sound but morph slightly to adapt to the next cut. As a result, “Mowgli” is less an album composed of individual songs and more of a unified work.

“Align” showcases Zanca’s ability to jump from the introspective beats and adopt a dance floor-oriented mentality.

The track opens with a formidable bass drum beat and a menacing, gnarled

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Winter Garden Tour, a guided walk through the Mullestein Family Winter Garden, will begin at 1 p.m. at the Nevin Welcome Center in the Botanical Gardens of Cornell Plantations.

Maple Fest, an annual festival of maple syrup, will take place at 10 a.m. at the Cayuga Nature Center. Tickets cost $12.

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Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8. The concert will begin at 3 p.m. in Ford Hall. Tickets cost between $10 and $25.

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synthesizer line. Zanca tinkers with the synthesizer effects throughout the song as it compounds and builds on itself.

The result is a demonic dance number fit for slightly more avant-garde clubs.

Zanca has made a favorable first impression with his debut album. If he continues on course, listeners should expect good things in the future.

Rather than falling flat with wasted ambition, he exhibits comfort and versatility with “Mowgli.”

On Jan. 8, the world received word that David Bowie had been busy recording a new album after a decade-long hiatus. His new album, “The Next Day,” promises to be the album of the year.

His advancing age is recognizable in the sometimes-brittle quality of his voice in songs such as “Where Are We Now” David Bowie and “Heat.” His “The Next Day” voice has beISO Records come staccato Our rating: where it used HHHH to be smooth, but the various vocal textures deliver an emotive component to the tracks.

Lyrically, the album balances depth and a more playful side. He has fun with frisky phrasing, such

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as “Smash some windows, make a noise / We will run with dirty boys,” in the song “Dirty Boys.”

Any rumors or fears of a disappointing album can be dispelled immediately. Though the album is unlikely to replace hit concept album “Ziggy Stardust” as the pinnacle of Bowie’s music career, the Thin White Duke has reemerged with a comeback album for nostalgic Bowie fans.

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The Minnesotan musicians have released their fourth album, “The Invisible Way.” The new tracks stand out among indie-rock records with a slow-burning sound and haunting melodies.

The Estonian artist’s first EP since her debut album drives her bright, electronicapop sound. With a wide range of instrumentation, breathy vocals and a catchy sound, the new album will appease pop-genre fans.

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Sappy script stifles magical comedy Comedic actors Carell, Buscemi and Carrey fail to drive movie

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Boasting a strong group of actors, “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” had all the potential to be one of this year’s first comedic hits. However, the only success the film had was in its cast, with the weak screenplay and directing hurting the overall quality.

“The The film begins Incredible in the childhood of Burt Wonderstone” Burt Wonderstone New Line (Steve Carell) and Cinema Anton Marvelton Our rating: (Steve Buscemi). As HH fellow victims of bullying, the pair forms what they call a “magical” friendship.

Through a shared love of magic, the duo develops an act that makes it all the way to the Vegas Strip. Years later however, a new performer, street maFrom left, Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) performs a magic stunt with Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) and gician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey) takes their assistant Jane (Olivia Wilde). The humorous movie explores the competitive world of street and stage magic. over the pair’s spot on top and they Courtesy oF new line cinema separate. Upon hitting rock bottom, amusing characters, which become Holloway. Arkin, despite having relaWonderstone must reunite with his infrequency makes them feel forced.

Adding to the film’s level of medi- the most engaging aspect of the film. tively little screen time, is memorable partner Anton as well as his former assistant Jane (Olivia Wilde) to make ocrity is Don Scardino’s oddly paced Carell’s character is a change from his through his quotable lines and nearly his triumphant comeback. Along the and unspecific directing. Through usual, more childish characters, such perfect comedic timing.

Overall, “The Incredible Burt way, the team encounters childhood most of the film, the pace is continu- as Michael Scott in “The Office,” and hero Rance Holloway (Alan Arkin), ally built up for a climactic ending, moves toward an overly sophisticated Wonderstone” levels out as a combiwho helps them accomplish their goal. but the conclusion’s predictability and — to the point of pompous — charac- nation of the comedic acting talents The first problem with this film is hasty wrap-up render it anticlimactic. ter. Carrey is wild and brilliantly adds of its brilliant ensemble as well as the its predictable and sappy script writ- As a result, many of the characters’ the crazy brand of humor he is known poorly implemented screenplay and ten by Jonathan Goldstein and John story arcs end abruptly which leaves for to his character. Buscemi plays a direction of its creative team. Though typical outspoken comedic character at times the film’s A-list stars are Francis Daley. With actors such as little time for the ending to resonate.

On the plus side, this film benefits and is highly convincing in his on- comically incredible, the movie, as a Carell and Carrey, it would be expected that the script have a slapstick from its all-star cast, specifically the screen partnership. He complements whole, is anything but. style of humor. In reality, the film has leading three actors: Carell, Carrey the arrogance of Carell by playing a “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” a feel-good children’s movie vibe with and Buscemi. Because of the leads’ more down-to-earth role.

Also of note from the cast is recent was directed by Don Scardino and the occasional dirty joke. The inter- reputations as established comedic mittent jokes that did land within the actors, it comes as no surprise that Academy Award nominee Arkin, for written by Jonathan Goldstein and script help entertain, but their general they all individually create highly his portrayal of aged magician Rance John Francis Daley.

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Thriller movie brings intensity

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Director Sam Raimi brings audiences back to the poppy fields, munchkins and the yellow brick road in the magical world of Oz. This time, instead of following the ruby red slippers of Dorothy from the 1939 classic, the film tracks the story of the not-so-wise wizard, Oscar or, more notably, Oz (James Franco) and serves as a prequel to “Oz the Great the classic story. and Powerful” Oz is not the Houdini he preWalt Disney Pictures tends to be. He is more of a con Our rating: artist magician who entertains HHH to collect money. After his circus show flops, karma hits him with a tornado and he is swept away to the land of Oz. When he lands, he meets residents who have been eagerly waiting for his arrival.

The film was aesthetically pleasing not only because of Mila Kunis, who played the witch Theodora, but the sudden switch from black and white to color brought the magic of the world of Oz to life. Whether it was Glinda’s magical fog filling the air or the witch Evanora’s (Rachel Weisz) green sparkles shooting out of her wand, the graphics kept up the entertainment.

The cast portrayed each of their characters well.

Oz’s relationship with his sidekick monkey was similar to Donkey and Shrek from “Shrek.” The monkey kept up the laughs as he poked fun at Oz. James Franco played the role of a mediocre magician well, and the script was built to enhance his absurdity. The three witches explored three different personalities and offered twists on the original movie’s characters. Evanora, Theodora and Glinda (Michelle Williams) all brought the magic to the movie. Williams perfectly portrays the beauty and

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“911, what’s your emergency?” The ringing phones and buzzing voices of 911 operators in Los Angeles set the scene for director Brad Anderson’s “The Call.”

The film surrounds 911 operator Jordan Turner (Halle Berry), who gets a call from Leah Templeton (Evie “The Call” Thompson), who claims a TriStar Pictures man is trying to break into her and Stage 6 Films house. When Jordan is unable Our rating: to save her, the guilt haunts HH 1/2 her until she receives a call from Casey Welson (Abigail Breslin) six months later saying she’s trapped in the trunk of a car. After Jordan realizes Casey’s kidnapper is Michael Foster (Michael Eklund), the same man who killed Leah, she uses her wits to help Casey escape.

While Berry’s performance stands on its own through her calm and collected attitude while advising Casey on how to escape the trunk, it’s Eklund whose performance shines the brightest. His creepy demeanor and zombie-like facial expressions easily illustrate Michael’s terrifying character, especially in a scene where he ties Casey to a chair, pulls out a pair of scissors and, with a menacing smile, begins to cut her hair.

With its edge-of-your-seat, adrenaline-boosting plotline and convincing cast, “The Call” is a movie worth seeing, even if it makes audience members want to hold onto their families as they leave the theater.

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innocence of Glinda, who Oz kept calling “Wanda” throughout the film.

The role of the Wicked Witch of the West, brilliantly captured by Margaret Hamilton in the classic film, was not as frightening in this movie.

In the classic film, the Wicked Witch’s voice was the most haunting part, but in this film the director did not change it.

The new director does pay homage to the original classic in clever ways. Whether Raimi used the witches’ tear drops to burn their skin, hinting at the famous “I’m melting” scene, or used scarecrows as part of an illusion to save the day, the new film offers a fresh look at the old film and brings the magic.

“Oz the Great and Powerful” was directed by Sam Raimi and written by Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire.

“The Call” was directed by Brad Anderson and written by Richard D’Ovidio.

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Sunk Junior Panthers guard Joey Kizel hits the free throw that gave Middlebury a 73–72 lead over the Bombers in their Sweet 16 matchup March 16.

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Bombers’ historic postseason run ends in the Sweet 16

By Christian Araos Staff Writer

Statistically, the final 10 seconds of the men’s basketball season could be described as a stretch involving a tie, two lead changes and an eventual 73-72 loss.

But stats alone cannot tell the story of one of the most dramatic and important games in Bomber history.

Last Saturday’s game pitted Middlebury College, the 7th-ranked team in the country and making their fourth consecutive appearance in the Sweet 16, against the South Hill Squad that entered the postseason unranked, relatively unknown and in unfamiliar territory, making the program’s first-ever Sweet 16 appearance.

The Bombers got there with strong defensive efforts, shutting down University

of Rochester guard and National Player of the Year contender John DiBartolomeo to win in the Round of 32 on a last-second tip-in by senior guard Eli Maravich.

Last season, the Middlebury Panthers entered the NCAA Tournament as the 4th-ranked team in the nation, only to be eliminated by the University of Scranton at home on a buzzer-beater in the Sweet 16. The thought of another heartbreaking home loss lingered in the back of Panthers junior guard Joey Kizel’s mind throughout this year’s tournament.

“I didn’t want to lose like that again,” Kizel said. “Last year was an absolutely devastating moment, and I don’t know how we would be able to handle two games like that.”

Fifty-three weeks later, the Middlebury’s Pepin Gym once again hosted a sectional

game, this time against the Bombers. Fans seated on both sides produced an atmosphere equally as raucous as Division-I courts that hold 10 times as many people as the 1,800 that began filling Pepin.

For most of the first half, the Blue and Gold traded buckets with the Panthers and went into halftime down 36-34. All in all, for a team whose head coach doubted they would make the tournament if they failed to win the Empire 8 tournament, keeping the game close was an accomplishment.

The Bombers came out of the second half gate firing, scoring the first five points of the period. Things looked bright for the team, but the Panthers responded with an incredible feat of outside accuracy, draining seven straight 3-pointers and taking a 10-point lead. A second chance bucket by

Junior forward Tom Sweeney and senior forward Travis Warech hug.

senior forward Andrei Oztemel cut the deficit to eight before the media timeout with 10:42 remaining.

The Blue and Gold could have been discouraged by the hot-shooting Panthers, but for the third straight week, the Bombers came out of the under-12 media timeout motivated. Senior guard Eli Maravich capitalized on kickout passes from junior forwards Frank Mitchell and Tom Sweeney to cut the Panther lead to two with 7:41 remaining and quieting a Middlebury crowd on the verge of erupting.

Afterward, Middlebury senior guard Jake Wolfin’s sixth 3-pointer revitalized the crowd on the Panther’s next possession, and the Bombers, for the first time in the postseason, lost their cool. Senior

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Junior forward Frank Mitchell puts up a layup over two Middlebury College defenders in the second half.

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forward Travis Warech, guarded by the defensively talented senior guard Nolan Thompson, took a heavily contested 3. On the next possession, Mitchell lost his handle on the low post and missed a wild layup. After the Panthers converted two free throws, they were up three possessions again.

Once again, the Bombers rallied by cutting the Panther lead to 62-61 in under two minutes with 4:43 to go.

The teams traded baskets for the next two minutes until Warech was able to swipe the ball away from Thompson and pass it to Rossi, who led the slow break down the left wing. With the Panther defense shading towards him, Rossi found Maravich with a skip pass to the right wing. The wide open shot was drained, and for the first time in almost 14 minutes, the Bombers had taken the lead. Ithaca was less than two minutes away from its firstever trip to the Elite 8.

On the next possession, senior forward Peter Lynch backed down Sweeney in the post and forced the center into fouling. Two successful free throws later, the Panthers recaptured the lead.

The Bombers were down one with 56 seconds remaining and had three fouls to give. With that leeway, they were able to press the Panthers inbound, foul and force another inbound.

A series of strategic fouls by the Bombers defense and free throw attempts put the Panthers

up by three with 27 seconds left.

The Bombers, out of timeouts, chose to go for the quick basket.

After receiving a pass from Rossi, Maravich drove to the basket and laid it in off the glass to regain the lead with 19 seconds left.

Healey grabbed Thompson for the team’s ninth foul. For the second straight time, Thompson missed his first free throw, and Maravich calmly grabbed the rebound. The Bombers would have 15 seconds to get a basket and advance to the national quarterfinals.

While the Bomber guards quickly ran up the court, Mitchell posted Lynch up on the right elbow. The pass quickly came in, and Mitchell used his feet and torso to roll the ball off him and dribble toward the basket unguarded. As Lynch tried to chase Mitchell from behind, Mitchell laid the ball in off the glass. The Bombers had retaken the 72-71 lead with nine seconds left on the clock.

The Panther crowd was stunned as the team inbounded to Kizel. Immediately pressed by the Bombers, he dribbled towards the top of the arc in a frenzied manner with his right hand toward Oztemel. The two collided with a thud. A whistle blew and the crowd went silent.

Oztemel was flagged for the team’s 10th foul, and with 1.9 seconds remaining, a questionable call put Kizel at the line for two and gave him a chance to take the lead.

The first free throw went up and in, and the crowd was delighted and relieved at Kizel, who all but guaranteed overtime at worst.

From left, senior forward Travis Warech looks on as Middlebury College junior guard Joey Kizel guards senior guard Eli Maravich in the Sweet 16.

With four Bombers standing guard, Kizel coolly converted the second free throw, and the collective heart of the Bomber Nation sunk. Middlebury had scored its last six points at the free throw line and taken the lead.

The ball was inbounded to Warech, who took a dribble as two Panthers converged on him. With no other options, he up heaved a last-second,

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three-quarter-court shot. The ball sailed through the air carrying the team’s last hope at extending its improbable run. The shot clanked off the front of the backboard and bounced away as the buzzer sounded.

Warech, who had been instrumental in the entire tournament run, averaging more than 20 points per game, stumbled toward the Bomber bench and lay face down

on the hardwood. His teammates stood from the bench in stunned silence as the Panther players celebrated at midcourt. The stewards worked to hold back the home fans, who were footsteps away from mobbing the court. After the postgame handshakes, the Bombers solemnly walked back into the locker room.

It was the end of the collegiate career for Warech, Maravich, Healey, Rossi and Oztemel. Head Coach Jim Mullins called them the greatest senior class in the program’s history.

Their improbable and historic run was ended by the winningest senior class in Middlebury history. After the game, Mullins asked his upset team if they were proud of their second-half effort, and the team lifted their heads high.

“They did [say they were proud], and so was I,” Mullins said.

After a team huddle, Maravich quickly walked away from the crowd and sat on the top row of the bleachers with his family. It would be the last college game of his life as well as his classmates’. He said the team’s focus and determination had put the program on the map.

“We never faltered,” Maravich said. “We were down 10 with 12 minutes to go in every game basically. We just kept playing, and at no point did it ever feel like we were going to lose.”

In the end, the Bombers season can be summed up statistically with a 21–8 record and a Sweet 16 appearance, but no amount of statistics could ever capture the emotion of the last game of the senior class’ career.

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victory Senior Ricardo Gomez wins national championship

Top, senior Ricardo Gomez wrestles during the Ithaca Invitational on Nov. 3 in the Athletics and Events Center. Gomez is the 11th national champion in program history. carmen ladipo/the ithacan

Right, Gomez celebrates his national championship title following the Division III matchup.

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By Steve Derderian Staff Writer

Senior Ricardo Gomez knew the final match of this season and his career, the Division III national championship March 16, would come down to one mistake.

It was his championship to lose. However, when he stepped onto the mats against freshman Jimmy Gotto of Coe College, he made no mistakes. Gomez rode a 4-2 decision to victory.

With the win, Gomez became the 11th wrestler in program history to win an individual national championship and became the first Bomber to win in the 125-pound weight class.

This meet was not the first time Gomez stood on the top of the podium after competition. However, it was the last time that he and his teammate senior Jules Doliscar would ever stand on the championship pedestals together.

On his path through the national championship tournament, Gomez squared off with Wartburg College senior Gilberto Camacho in a rematch from Jan. 12 at the D III National Duals. Once again, Gomez ended up getting the best of Camacho, earning a 3-2 decision. The rematch had a similar result with Gomez winning an overtime bout with a 2-1 decision.

In the championship match, Gomez was a heavy favorite facing unranked Gotto. The match came to a finish with a 4-2 decision in favor of Gomez, giving him the national championship and a final record of 29–2 on the year.

After besting his competition in the 125-pound weight class, Gomez said he was speechless and that it took him a while to finally realize that he was actually a national champion.

“There is no better way I could’ve asked to finish my career,” he said. “I knew that this season was my last chance to get to the top, and I never forgot that I just had to always make the most of every opportunity I had to compete.”

Gomez was quick to shift the credit of his successes to his coaches and supporters, who he said allowed

him to make the biggest transition from an unranked wrestler to the top of his weight class.

“When I transferred here, I was stubborn and didn’t listen to my coaches and thought that their moves weren’t going to work,” he said. “When I didn’t make it to the National Championships last year, I had only myself to blame, so this year I listened, and they made

ROAD TO THE TITLE Gomez’s matches in the National Championship meet March 16-18 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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3-1 decision over Augsburg College’s Mike Fuenfinger

ROUND 2:

Pin of SUNY-Brockport’s Matthias Ellis in 2:18

ROUND 3:

2-1 decision over Wartburg College’s Gilberto Camacho

CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND: 4-2 decision over Coe College’s Jimmy Gotto me a national champion.”

Before the championship match Gomez said he took a moment to send a text message to his family and friends thanking them for all the years of support. He even wore a green-beaded medallion with the letter ‘B’ in the center as a reminder of his hometown and other motivating factors.

“The ‘B’ stands for my hometown of Brentwood [,N.Y.,] and for belief, and before every match it would

remind me of my belief in what I have done and my goal, which was to be the National Champion,” he said.

Throughout the season, Gomez sipped from a water bottle with the words “National Champion” written on it and, before bed, the last thing he would see before he closed his eyes was the same words written on his ceiling. Both served as a motivation and a reminder of the goal he ultimately achieved.

As a team, the five Bombers competing combined for a total of 47 points, placing them 5th overall out of 88 teams in the NCAA Division III national championship standings. It is the third consecutive year the Bombers have placed in the top five at the national championship competition.

Led by All-American senior Jules Doliscar and sophomore Alex Gomez, who finished 2nd at 174 pounds and 6th at 133 pounds respectively, the squad placed the highest of every team in the three eastern and the western regionals.

Head Coach Marty Nichols said he was satisfied with the way the season finished because of the gradual improvement he saw from his team and athletes, especially in the postseason.

“You have to give the credit to those guys, because they were never satisfied in the middle of the season,” he said. “We had some tough matchups in the middle of the season where we didn’t come out on top, but in the end we were one of the best teams in the nation.”

As the Bombers prepared for competition at the National Championships during the week of spring break, many team members not competing stayed behind to train with those moving on. Freshman Jake Buczewski trained with Doliscar during that week to finish out his season. Doliscar said it was a great sign from a younger teammate, and his commitment is a way of leading by example.

“It’s a great sign for the program in the future,” Doliscar said. “When you see the younger guys working hard to get better, even if their season is done, it is a great sign for the team we’re leaving behind.”

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Track teams brace for outdoor competition

BY Matt Constas Staff Writer

As the indoor season comes to a close, the Bombers men’s and women’s track and field teams are getting ready to turn things inside out and begin their outdoor season. The next scheduled meet will be at Butterfield Stadium on March 30.

This transition is easier said than done.

There are many differences between competing indoor and outdoor. The biggest one the teams will be facing, according to women’s Head Coach Jennifer Potter, is weather conditions. If it doesn’t cooperate, then they will be running into some problems not only with where they will be racing but also qualifying for other meets.

“That is the hardest transition,” she said.

“You can only qualify for Nationals outdoors, and if the weather doesn’t cooperate we could lose meets or not have favorable conditions for things like sprints.”

The track is also a factor in the transition, because it is bigger outdoors than it is indoors, going from 200-meter laps to 400-meter laps.

This, freshman sprinter Alex Schneider said, will be something that the athletes will have to adjust to.

“It’s a different track, you have to stretch yourself out,” he said. “You have to adapt to running longer distances, and most of the events are longer.”

While those two changes may be the biggest challenges the team will face, another aspect that will be altered is the way they train during practice. Freshman Tina Gibble said because the team is beginning to peak strength-wise, now what they have to do is build on that and keep up what they are doing.

“The indoor season is more intense and strengthening, while outdoor always seems to be more maintenance of that strengthening,” she said. “Training is still hard, but it may not seem that way because we are becoming more tolerant to the workouts.”

Now that they have reached their peak physically, the work is still not done. One way to take strides and continue to get better is to work out the kinks and the little things that they haven’t

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Junior sprinter Jake Willis receives a hand-off from teammate sprinter Doug Koury ’11 during the 4x100-meter relay at the E8 Outdoor Championships on April 21, 2012. The team finished first.

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quite gotten down yet this year. Gibble said technical matters such as form, footwork, handoffs and other things will be focused on most during their upcoming practices.

“Training also seems to be more about technique than strengthening,” she said. “Since the track is longer, we tend to practice running longer distances. For example, the hurdlers have to adjust from running 60 meters indoors to either 110 or 400 meters outdoors.”

Both squads have done well this year. Both brought home conference and state titles as well as the women winning the ECAC Indoor Championship. They look to continue this trend outside. Historically the Bombers are better outdoors than indoors, and Potter said the teams’ success and the time off for spring break made them better.

“We always do better outdoors, because it is the continuation of our training,” she said.

“The momentum will continue, and they will get a much needed break, which will be a good

time to refresh and rejuvenate.”

The Bombers are entering a phase of the season that Gibble said is important in achieving postseason success.

“Coach describes us as a postseason team, so we are all about States, ECACs and Nationals,” she said. “Spring practices are more about making it to those meets and doing well.”

Now that they took States for the first time in 12 years, the men have more confidence to go outside and do it again. This success has helped them raise the bar, and Schneider said they will be determined to keep up their successes on the track and try to win an outdoor championship as well.

“We definitely think we can come out and win again outdoors, and we have high standards for ourselves now,” he said. “Coach Nichols always says that we are a better outdoor team than indoor team, so I wouldn’t say that it is an expectation that we win again, but we really want to win.”

One important meet remains for gymnastics squad

By Haley Costello staff writer

The mats have been broken down as the Hill Center and the gym have been emptied for the final time of the 2013 gymnastics season. The only thing that stands between the Bombers and the goodbyes to their teammates is one final meet March 22, the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association Championships.

The Bombers finished this past weekend 5th overall out of six teams in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships. The results do not qualify them as a team, but the IC squad will still send 10 individual athletes to represent them at nationals, more than any other team in the Eastern region.

Sophomore Valerie Cohen said though the team did not qualify, the Bomber pride will be well represented at the national meet.

“We are looking forward to making the best of it, because it wasn’t the ideal situation, but we are going to make it like we are a team,” she said.

When the 2012 season closed, the South Hill squad lost six graduating seniors, including Ithaca’s most decorated gymnast, Jessica Bolduc, ’11.

With the return of graduate students Christine Niles and Tiffany Grube, along with the addition of seven freshmen for the 2013 season, the team had a completely new dynamic.

As the season began, the team members saw this struggle affect

Between the lines

Senior gymnast Chelsea Robie practices on the balance beam during a practice Feb. 11 in the Hill Center. Robie averages 8.99 on the beam.

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their overall performance. Even with the new team, they knew they had the potential to pass 181.100 as an overall score, which they failed to do for the five weeks of competition.

Senior Chelsea Robie said with such a new team, they did struggle to create the team unity they had in the past, but once they began bonding, they got the push they needed.

“Our biggest obstacle was to become a team, because a lot of people didn’t know each other like last year,”

she said. “Once we got a couple meets under our belt, we definitely came together, and we did the best we could.

The following week of competition, the team competed in the Harriet Marranca Invitational, the seniors and graduate students final competition in the Hill Center.

Standing at 0–9 on the season, the squad came out excited and ready to compete, pushing them to a season high 186.025 points overall.

Niles said this meet was the

turning point of the season for the Bombers because they discovered their true potential for the remainder of the season.

“We [had] an absolute blast and took it in for all it was,” she said. “It paid off, because we ended up winning the team championship, and a lot of people won individual awards, and that propelled us into the mindset of ‘Oh, we can really do this.’”

Falling just short for the two remaining meets of the season, the Bombers still had their eyes on the prize heading into ECAC competition. With a fifth-place finish shutting them out of team competition, Cohen said the South Hill squad gave this meet their all as if it would be their last time competing.

“We just wanted to perform to the best of our ability, because in gymnastics you have no control over who wins or loses,” she said. “Even though the results weren’t exactly where we wanted to be, we fought until the very end, which was an accomplishment in and of itself.”

The Bombers will head to the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association Championships to compete both Friday and Saturday in Whitewater, Wis. With their goals set high, Niles said the team is eager as ever to represent the team on the biggest stage of the season.

“We’re all so ready, because all of our skills are at their peak,” she said. “We have been saying we wish nationals were now because we just want to compete.”

Last week, the U.S. bowed out of the World Baseball Classic meekly to the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, which combined have a population well under the state of New York. This was the U.S.’s third straight failure to reach the finals of the World Championships.

America’s pastime was met by a collective yawn by baseball fans across the country because of one simple question: Where were the stars?

As I lounged on the sand of South Beach over spring break, a plane flew by with an ad that shockingly wasn’t for one of the nightclubs. Instead it was for a baseball game, the World Baseball Classic, the U.S. versus the Dominican Republic. Try as I might, I couldn’t convince any of the six friends I had traveled with to express more than a passing interest, even though it was taking place less than 10 miles away.

However, when the possibility of attending a Miami Heat game was brought up, everyone was all for it, even the guys who were hardly more than casual sports fans. Everyone wanted to see LeBron James, while the World Baseball Classic had … uh well Joe Mauer, a star a couple of years ago, Jimmy Rollins and R.A. Dickey, the reigning Cy Young award winner who pitches once every few games and is on pitch count designated by the rules of the tournament.

The point is that the bright young American stars, Bryce Harper, Mike Trout, Stephen Strasburg and Justin Verlander, were all nowhere to be found.

The U.S. team had the feel of the Olympic Basketball team from 2004 that walked away with only the Bronze medal. If the World Baseball Classic is going to make a dent in the sports consciousness of America, Bud Selig is going to need to find a way for the U.S. team to field a dream team.

The reason many players pass on the WBC stems from its position on the calendar: right in the middle of spring training. Many players and their teams’ organizations are fearful of potential injuries caused from playing games with playoff-like intensity when players have been conditioned to glorified scrimmages at this time of the year. The problem is that there is no other good time of year for a three-week baseball tournament.

The best suggestion I’ve heard is to break the tournament up into two sections, playing the first round in March and the rest of the tournament during a lengthened all-star break. This way, players would be in mid-season form and hopefully a little more gung-ho about representing their country.

Regardless of the U.S.’s success or interest in the tournament, it is good for baseball. The tournament is helping the game internationally, but if it’s going to create some buzz here in the states, the Red, White and Blue is going to need to bring out its big guns and finally win the damn thing.

Nathan bickell is a senior documentary studies major. Contact him at nbickel1@ithaca.edu.

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From left, senior midfielder Michelle Avery runs with the ball as Buffalo State sophomore midfielder Kendra Thomas defends her. Avery had one goal in the Bombers 19-5 victory over the Bengals on Tuesday at Higgins Stadium.

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I can’t wait to be SO ANGRY about a mediocre basketball team getting left out of the NCAA Tournament. BLIND RAGE.

RefereeLogic @RefereeLogic Bills release Ryan Fitzpatrick, that’s sad. Those Harvard grads don’t have many options after football.

BOMBERS to watch While classes weren’t in session last week, the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams were still hard at work. Here’s who to look out for this season.

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theysaidit “You’ll have to excuse me, I keep burping.

I’ve had a glass of beer.” What Newcastle United Head Coach Alan Pardew said to a reporter after toasting his team’s win over Stoke City.

Long has already posted two hat tricks this season, once against Lycoming College on March 6 and the other versus Christopher Newport on March 14. He has picked up a total of five ground balls and has forced four turnMen’s Lacrosse overs in the Bombers opening junior midfielder four games of the season.

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Senior attack

Free agent wide receiver Donte Stallworth sustained severe burns following a hot air balloon accident in Miami, Fla., on Saturday morning. The Associated Press reported that Stallworth and two other passengers’ hot air balloon basket crashed into power lines while airborne. Two passengers, Stallworth and his girlfriend were transported to a trauma center at Kendall Regional Hospital in Miami-Dade County. His agent Drew Rosenhaus said, “He will be able to continue his NFL career.

The injuries are not to the extent that they will jeopardize his career.”

–Emily Hull

During the Bombers’ spring break trip to Clermont, Fla., Rivas scored four of the teams seven goals against Gettysburg College. The next day Rivas scored another and added two assists, three ground balls and forced four turnovers.

In the first four games of the season, the team is 2-2, thanks in part to Rivas work at the attack position.

MAX SCHERZER Detroit Tigers

He is a strikeout machine.

He recorded 231 last year alone, second only to his exceptional teammate Justin Verlander. The Tigers only signed him to a oneyear $6.725 million deal, so he will be motivated to have a big season this year in order to guarantee a bigger contract.

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San Francisco Giants He has an earned run average of 5.18 and has allowed 90 walks on the year. In addition, he has reduced velocity on his fastball. All of these factors have hurt the Giants overall pitching category and will surely hurt fantasy scores.

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Junior Allison Currier protests mountaintop coal removal and fracking and promotes diversifying the economy during a rally in West Virginia as part of an alternative spring break trip.

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Breaking

Away

Some Ithaca College students chose to spend their spring breaks in different parts of the U.S. to help nonprofit organizations, do community service work or protest. The students were part of the alternative spring break program aiming to encourage teamwork and activism.

Students transfer trash bags filled with debris from natural disasters off a boat in swamps in Biloxi, Miss. The students worked with Community Collaborations International, a nonprofit.

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Sophomore Morgan Allen levels dirt in a parking lot March 11 in Kipopeke State Park, W. Va. Allen and other students went to beautify and fix up areas of the park. courtesy of julian rivera

From left, freshmen Anne Bongermino, Kelsey Dunne, Nina Varilla and Sandra Rojas sort through piles of compost as part of the Neighborhood Farm Initiative on March 15 in Washington, D.C.

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