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Workers seek improvements from Sodexo by elizabeth sile editor in chief

Ithaca College dining services employees are joining others across the country to fight for improved working conditions, Keep the disbetter pay and cussion going. benefits and the Comment on right to union- this article at ize without in- theithacan.org. timidation from their employer Sodexo.

The Service Employees International Union started Clean Up Sodexo, a campaign to unite Sodexo workers, university students and communities across the country and expose them to the company’s labor practices. Local 200 of SEIU has begun working with Sodexo employees at the college to join this campaign.

The French international food service and facilities management company employs about 380,000 people in 80 countries around the world. The college contracts the company to handle all of its residential, retail and catering food services on campus.

President Tom Rochon said the company first signed with the college in September 2000, and in February 2007 an amended contract was signed for the next 10 years.

The contract costs the college about $9.6 million annually, Carl Sgrecci, vice president of finance and administration, said. More than $3.6 million of this contract is used for employee compensation.

Since the recent national campaign started, SEIU has recruited members across the country, started petitions and staged rallies and protests, including at the company’s headquarters in France. Among the campaign’s claims is that Sodexo creates a “cycle of poverty” through low wages, doesn’t give access to affordable health care and has a history of mistreatment of minority employees and sexual harassment.

Alfred King, director of public relations at Sodexo in Gaithersburg, Md., said Sodexo offers competitive wages and benefits, and Clean Up Sodexo’s allegations are false.

“If anyone looked at our wages in a location, they’d find that they were very competitive with jobs with similar responsibilities and skill levels,” he said.

King said no Sodexo employee salary starts at less than $8.19 an hour, and about two-thirds of Sodexo’s employees make or exceed $11.11 an hour, Tompkins County’s living wage with benefits.

Calvin Ott, an organizer at Local 200 of SEIU in Rochester,

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Students get sober and find ways to cope with college atmosphere, page 13

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Questionable practices

Genital surgeries come under national and local scrutiny Far right, Ralph Nachman, dean of clinical research at Weill Cornell Medical College, leads a discussion about clitoral reduction surgeries as panelists listen Oct. 4 in Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell University. claudia pietrzak/the ithacan

by taylor long

Assistant news editor

Janet Green ’79 grew up wondering if there was something wrong with her. As a child born with an enlarged clitoris, Green said jumbled memories of being exposed in hospitals and paraded in front of doctors characterized the early years of her life.

Before Green even left the hospital, she had already undergone her first operation to change the appearance of her genitals.

“What your parents say to you is ‘I love you just the way you are,’” she said. “When you are a child who finds out that your body has been changed in ways that are abnormal or not necessarily about your satisfaction, … you feel like this is just lip service.”

Green has congenital adrenal hyperplasia, a condition medically classified as a disorder of

sexual differentiation, or unusual genital anatomy.

Like most females with CAH, Green was born with an enlarged clitoris — larger than one centimeter — at birth. She received surgery to reduce its size 53 years ago. The procedure, which is still performed regularly by surgeons, is meant to make the child’s genitals appear more “normal.”

These operations are the specialty of Dr. Dix Poppas, a pediatric urologist and professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, whose controversial research measuring the sexual sensitivity of young girls has attracted national attention.

A 2007 research paper co-authored by Poppas and published in The Journal of Urology outlines the ways Poppas thinks the clitoris can be cut without compromising the patient’s ability to reach orgasm later in life. The paper also describes ways Poppas gauges the surgery’s success — by stimulating the

clitoris with a cotton applicator or vibratory device and asking girls to rate their level of sensation on a scale of one to five.

According to the study, Poppas administered tests to girls as young as 5 years old under the surveillance of their parents. Patient advocates and scholars question how these tests, which potentially subject young girls to serious psychological harm, are being regulated.

Ellen Feder, professor of philosophy at American University, co-authored a Bioethics Forum article published in June that attacked Poppas’ practices. Feder said none of the psychologists she spoke with thought administering these tests to young girls was developmentally appropriate.

“It strikes most people as an exploitative

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Abroad programs not disrupted by travel alerts By christina dey contributing writer

In the wake of travel alerts released by the U.S. State Department earlier this month, study abroad programs at Ithaca College are working to keep students informed of suspected al-Qaeda attacks, though no direct changes have been made to any programs.

“We are not advising Americans to avoid travel to Europe first and foremost,” Noel Clay, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, said.

The alert, released Oct. 3, has prompted response from study abroad programs connected to the college. Study abroad directors have been keeping students informed of the alerts. The decision not to mention any specific countries in the alert was based on conversations between the government and counterparts overseas, Clay said.

Unlike travel warnings, which recommend citizens defer or avoid travel in specified countries or regions, alerts urge the use of best practices while traveling and staying abroad, as described by the department.

“Travel alerts are more for short term situations, and a travel warning would be a more long term situation,”

A French soldier patrols Oct. 3 around the Louvre museum in Paris. The U.S. State Department has cautioned Americans traveling and staying in Europe.

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Clay said. “This alert was released to provide information about potential threats so citizens can be more aware while they travel abroad.”

Rachel Cullenen, director of study abroad at the college, said the alerts do not offer precise information.

“They’re very vague, very non-specific,” she said.

The threat level relating to the

possibility of international terrorist attacks within British borders is currently set at severe, which means “a terrorist attack is highly likely,” according to the British government.

The British government provides information similar to the U.S. government about the possibility of terrorism threats, but breaks it down by country. France, Germany

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and Spain are all listed as having a “high threat from terrorism” on the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office website.

The State Department’s decision to release a European-related travel alert because of terrorism concerns is not unprecedented. It released one in 2004 following a train bombing in Madrid. The 2005 London bombings prompted an update to a worldwide caution statement published by the department.

Since the bombings, high terrorism threat levels have become part of life, especially after 9/11, Bill Sheasgreen, program director at the Ithaca College London Center, said.

“It follows the pattern of what we have been living with for the past 10 years or so,” he said.

Sheasgreen, who also serves as a U.S. Embassy warden for the college in London, said whenever he receives new information from the State Department pertaining to travel alerts and travel warnings, it is always passed on to students.

The State Department has advised citizens to know how to contact the American embassy or consulate and how to use pay

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Nation&World

Pentagon to accept gay recruits

At least three service members discharged for being gay have begun the process to reenlist after the Pentagon directed the military to accept openly gay recruits for the first time in the nation’s history.

The top-level guidance issued to recruiting commands last week and announced this week marked a significant change in an institution long resistant and sometimes hostile to gays.

The movement to overturn the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy gained speed when President Barack Obama campaigned on its repeal. The effort stalled in Congress this fall and found new life last month when a federal judge in California declared it unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips rejected the government’s latest effort to halt her order Tuesday, telling the military to stop enforcing the law. Government lawyers have said they will appeal.

The Defense Department has said it would comply with Phillips’ order and had frozen any discharge cases. Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said Tuesday recruiters had been given top-level guidance to accept applicants who say they are gay.

Recruiters also have been told to inform potential recruits that the moratorium on enforcement of the policy could be reversed at any time, if the ruling is appealed or the court grants a stay, she said.

French pension reform sparks riots

French authorities forced strike-shuttered fuel depots to reopen to ensure gasoline supplies, and the interior minister threatened yesterday to send in paramilitary police to stop rioting on the fringes of protests against raising the retirement age to 62.

Youths wearing hoods and scarves on their faces rampaged through the Paris suburb of Nanterre, breaking shop windows and hurling stones at riot police. The town has seen clashes in recent days centered on a high school that joined the protests.

Months of largely peaceful demonstrations against the pension reform have taken a violent turn in recent days. The plan is slated for a vote in the Senate today, but labor unions want the government to renegotiate, saying

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Career and Life Panel for Professional Women, sponsored by the Women in Business Network, will be held from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. in Room 204 of the School of Business.

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Catholic Mass will be held at 1 and 9 p.m. in Muller Chapel.

“Salt” will be screened by the Student Activities Board at 7 p.m. in Textor 102.

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the bill threatens the country’s hard-earned social protections.

President Nicolas Sarkozy and his government have stayed firm, insisting it is essential to saving the money-losing pension system.

Countries around Europe are also facing public resistance as they try to tame government debts that have threatened the euro currency.

Ballots tossed in Afghan elections

Afghanistan has thrown out nearly a quarter of ballots cast in parliamentary elections because of fraud, according to full preliminary results released yesterday.

The findings, which confirmed earlier reports, indicated that cheating was pervasive in an election that many hoped would show the Afghan government’s commitment to reforming its corrupt bureaucracy.

But observers also praised the voided ballots as an achievement because it meant that the election officials had kept fraudulent ballots out of the totals.

That’s a major change from last year’s disastrous presidential election, when election commissioners dumped obviously fraudulent ballots into the tally to help President Hamid Karzai avoid a runoff with his top challenger.

It was only after drawn-out investigations that about a million ballots were thrown out — the majority of them for Karzai.

Election commission chairman Fazel Ahmad Manawi said about 1.3 million votes were disqualified out of 5.6 million, meaning about 23 percent of ballots were discarded because of ballot stuffing or manipulated totals.

Election officials called the vote a success because they were able to catch the fraud, but the large number of disqualified ballots may tarnish the outcome.

China prepares for massive census

Counting millions of migrant workers and citizens’ privacy concerns are among the biggest difficulties facing China as it prepares for the world’s largest census next month, an official said yesterday.

Six million census takers will be deployed across the country Nov. 1 to 10 to account for more than 1.3 billion people — the first such tally since 2000.

Signs of turbulence

Protesters march yesterday near Downing Street in London against the government’s proposed spending cuts. George Osborne, Britain’s finance chief, presented a Comprehensive Spending Review detailing how parliament could tackle the country’s continued financial deficit.

Lennart Preiss/associated press

It will be the sixth time China has conducted a national census but the first time it has counted people where they live, not where they are legally registered, said Feng Nailin, vice director of the group coordinating the 2010 census.

The change will allow China to formally track its rapid urbanization. But accounting for its highly mobile and growing migrant population, which has fueled the country’s astonishing economic rise, will be a “major difficulty,” Feng, who is with the National Bureau of Statistics, said.

Fort Hood court hearing resumes

Testimony has resumed at a court hearing for an Army psychiatrist accused in the deadly mass shootings last year at Fort Hood.

Maj. Nidal Hasan, a 40-year-old Muslim born in the U.S., was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted

premeditated murder after he attacked the Texas Army post last November.

The Article 32 hearing, which continued yesterday, will determine if Hasan should be tried on the charges. The hearing has entered its second week.

Police officers who fired on Hasan to end the onslaught were expected to testify yesterday.

Earlier in the week, nurses administering smallpox vaccines and doing medical tests for deploying soldiers described how they suddenly became medics when their building turned into a combat zone during the shooting rampage.

Col. James L. Pohl, the investigating officer in the case, will recommend whether Hasan should go to trial at some point after the hearing.

That decision — and whether the Army will seek the death penalty — ultimately will be made by Fort Hood’s commanding general.

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The Final Battle, a fan-made Harry Potter Musical, will be screened by the Harry Potter Alliance from 6 to 10 p.m. in Textor 101.

Shabbat Services will begin at 6 p.m. in Muller Chapel.

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Meditation Minyan will begin at 11 a.m. in Muller Chapel.

Family Day will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. at the History Center of Tompkins County.

Shabbat Dinner will begin at 7:15 p.m. in Terrace Dining Hall.

LGBTQA Halloween Event, sponsored by Spectrum, will be held from 5 to 10 p.m. in Clark Lounge.

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International Education Week Photo Exhibition, sponsored by IC International Club, will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the North Foyer of Campus Center.

Kabbalists & Consciousness will be held at 7 p.m. in Room 204 of the School of Business.

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Ithaca College Haitian Relief Effort will host a Halloween event from 7 to 9 p.m. in IC Square.

Libuse Binder will host a lecture sponsored by the Student Activities Board from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in Emerson Suites.

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Please contact Taylor Long at 274-3207.

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6 Word Memoir Project, sponsored by To Write Love On Her Arms, will start at 7 p.m. in IC Square.

Evensong, a Protestant Community worship service, will begin at 9:30 p.m. in Muller Chapel.

SPJ goes Google will be held at 7 p.m. in Park 220.

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Rochon discusses IC20/20 with students By kelsey fowler staff writer

President Tom Rochon and Interim Provost Greg Woodward spoke with students in a facilitated discussion about IC20/20, the college’s 10-year strategic plan, Oct. 7 in Emerson Suites.

In the meeting, designed to gather student input about the vision, Rochon and Woodward questioned the group of around 25 students about their thoughts on aspects of the plan, ranging from having a required minor or foreign language to more freshman housing and international outreach. Rochon said IC20/20 is a vision for the college designed to maximize student learning.

At the meeting, Rochon said the plan looks at the entire undergraduate experience in a fresh way. After opening with a joke about how he never thought the pun in the name of the plan would stick, Rochon went on to tell the students the goal is to make them life-long learners.

“You have a special role in this process,” he said.

“You, the students, know more than anyone else what it’s like to be on the receiving end of an Ithaca College learning experience.”

Rochon said though the plan will span the next 10 years and most ideas will be implemented after current students graduate, students still need to speak for both current and future students.

Interim Provost Greg Woodward then explained the seven broad initiatives that form the basis of the plan. He went over the vision highlights, which include development of the undergraduate curriculum to embrace more integrative and inquiry-based learning, more living communities to enhance civic engagement and the expansion of the college’s national and international reach.

“We need information and opinions from everybody,” he said. “It’s a huge plan. Now it’s time to choose which items we really believe in.”

The floor was then opened to students, who were told to ask questions about any of the seven initiatives and contribute ideas or concerns about any of the potential changes.

Several students expressed interest in the first initiative, which addresses curriculum changes.

The majority of students at the meeting supported a more integrated curriculum and tossed out ideas about required seminar classes and cross-school or cross-major classes.

A half-hour into the meeting, a small group of students voiced their concerns about the wages of

By kacey deamer contributing Writer

From left, Interim Provost Greg Woodward and President Tom Rochon go over details of the preliminary draft of IC20/20, a 10-year comprehensive plan for the college’s future, Oct. 7 in Emerson Suites.

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Sodexo employees and questioned if any changes were planned to stop using the contractor or pay the workers a living wage.

Rochon briefly addressed the group’s concerns, adding that he would speak with them at another time about the issue.

“We do not hold them to the living wage standards that we pay every single college employee,” he said. “Those are [Sodexo’s] employees — it’s not the same.”

The larger group then moved on to discuss housing and whether it would be beneficial to require all freshmen to live in all-freshmen housing. Students who supported the idea mentioned how beneficial the first-year learning experience was for them.

Students against mandatory freshmen housing argued students should still have the option to join other housing communities.

Senior Chelsea Crawford said the college’s choice to engage a group of students in discussion

about large-scale plans was beneficial.

“It’s nice to have a forum to be able to express those ideas in a meeting like this,” she said. “It’s thorough and a little overwhelming but heading in the right direction.”

Woodward said he hoped there would have been more students in attendance. He said the college is planning six to seven hours of student feedback time in the future.

“It’s still not representative of the general population, but you have probably captured the strongest opinion of the student body,” he said.

“However, it’s always certain kinds of students who come — the most engaged, vocal. Aren’t we trying to build a college that appeals to the best student anyhow?”

Rochon closed the meeting by telling students to be leaders in a changing world.

“You have a lot to be proud of,” he said. “The world is changing really fast, and your voices are really important.”

Community modules to be added to courses By gerald doherty staff Writer

Starting next semester, courses will be offered at Ithaca College that introduce basic community involvement as part of the curriculum in a broader experiment with community engagement modules.

The pilot modules, proposed as part of the college’s IC2 program, will consist of two 2- to 3-hour sessions or a single 6-hour session in courses that aim to build a partnership between the college and local community agencies.

The goal of the community engagement modules is to further long-term community objectives and provide in-depth student learning, Elan Shapiro, an environmental studies and sciences lecturer who helped organize the program, said.

“You have to get the students well oriented to the issues and the complexities of working in the community with people who have very different backgrounds from them,” he said.

Community agencies that will work with the college as part of the program include the Greater Ithaca Activities Center and the Southside Community Center.

The course modules are designed to address issues in the local

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community. Students will primarily be working with community organizations that serve low-income residents, Shapiro said.

Shapiro said he hopes the modules will set a precedent for other colleges to act as partners with community organizations. Success of the course modules will be measured through student-written journals, feedback from organizations, reflection discussions and paper surveys, he said.

Professors from different fields at the college have indicated an interest in the community modules because they believe it will provide real-world application for what their students learn in the classroom.

Julie Pena-Shaff, associate professor of psychology, said she will use the course module to offer community service as an alternative to a final research paper in her course, Lifespan Development Across Cultural Perspective.

“The students also learn about the community and change the mindset that they think they are doing the community a favor and rather that the relationship is reciprocal,” she said.

Judy Gonyea, associate professor of occupational therapy, has also incorporated community service in previous courses, working with

Judith Pena-Shaff, associate professor of psychology, works on papers Tuesday in Williams 119. Pena-Shaff’s courses integrate community service.

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groups like Parent to Parent. She said she looks forward to offering the course module as part of her Occupational Apartheid class.

“It will be important for the students in the class to see how, on a local level, you can look at a group that needs support or has issues that need to be addressed and relate them to something national or global.”

A graduate student in the occupational therapy program, Christine Slocombe, has taken courses with Gonyea, working at the Ithaca Free Clinic and the Friendship Center, an extension of the Red Cross.

“It’s kind of an interesting view into the grassroots aspect of it — getting an opportunity to see the needs of

the individuals in the community who utilize that service,” Slocombe said.

Amy Frith, assistant professor of health promotion and physical education, said she hopes using the course modules in her Community Nutrition class will allow her to teach students different theories of nutrition in the community.

“This is one way we are thinking would be a good way to train the students and how to collaborate with community members,” she said.

Shapiro said he is ready to get the course modules running.

“When it works, they’re learning a lot from the community, and the community is learning a lot from them,” he said.

The City of Ithaca is taking another step to be more sustainable. Beginning Nov. 1, yard waste collectors will only collect waste that has been placed in biodegradable paper bags, reusable containers or wrapped in thin, malleable twigs. These changes will affect any students who have their yard waste collected off campus.

According to a news release from the city, “Yard waste regulations have been adjusted to save staff time and money, reduce the health impacts on city workers and meet other city goals including reducing greenhouse gas emission 20 percent from 2001 levels by 2016.”

Dan Spencer, supervisor of the sanitation department of the city, said the new regulations are the city’s first significant change to the collection program.

“This is actually our first shot at trying to streamline this down a little,” he said.

Spencer said future changes to the collection program could include a fee for collection and reduction in the frequency of collections or how many bags are allowed at each property.

There is also the possibility that the collection program could be eliminated entirely.

City residents who do not comply with the new regulations could be subject to a special trash collection fee. Waste collections weighing more than 50 pounds or put in any kind of plastic bag will not be picked up.

Instead, collectors will tag the rejected material with a sticker requiring the waste be removed from the curb within 24 hours. If the waste is left, the resident will have to pay $20 plus the weight of the bags — $1 per pound — for the special collection.

While removal is free for residents, the city pays $37.50 per ton for disposal at Cayuga Compost.

Trucks are used to haul the waste 20 miles to the compost facility and get about 4 miles to the gallon, Spencer said.

“So it’s quite a cost to the city,” he said.

Some residents, such as students living off campus, choose to take care of their own yard waste through on-site composting.

Junior Alex Cunningham said after researching composting techniques he discovered traditional composting was too costly, but a workshop introduced a cheaper alternative.

“We heard about a composting workshop at the Farmers Market, ... and they explained really cheap, low maintenance ways to compost,” he said. “Right after that we went to the Agway and bought the two or three things we needed and set it up in our backyard and started composting.”

Adam Michaelides, project manager of compost education at Cornell Cooperative Extension, said on-site composting could help the city accomplish its goals for the new yard waste regulations.

“Composting is nature’s way of doing things,” he said. “It’s nature’s way of recycling.”

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Officials encourage safe travel alert from page 1

phones. It also advises travelers to avoid standing out, stay away from unattended packages, move away from loud noises and inform local law enforcement of suspicious activities.

The warnings also extend to other major metropolitan areas in Europe. Earlier this week Saudi intelligence informed French and other European officials that France was being targeted for attack by an SHEASGREEN Arabian Peninsaid students are sula branch of kept informed about any alerts. al-Qaeda. The branch, which formed in 2009, took the credit for the failed attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up a U.S.-bound plane Christmas Day last year.

The Office of International Programs has never had to pull students from a location or program based on political instability or terrorism. OIP has canceled plans for programs and turned down faculty program requests based on security concerns in the proposed locations, Cullenen said.

Cullenen said an example of this was a program in development for Mumbai, India. The program was canceled after attacks throughout the city in Nov. 2008.

“What we are doing is reminding our students in London of the importance of being alert, being aware of surroundings, maintaining a low profile and the importance of staying in contact with the London Center,” she said.

During the London bombings of July 2005, the London Center was not as directly affected as other programs that had students in the city at the time, Sheasgreen said. By July, most students at the London Center had already left the country for the semester.

“We adopted anything into our procedures that we thought would be useful in case that happened again,” he said.

Sheasgreen declined to detail specifics of what the plan includes but stressed the importance of London Center employees staying in contact with students.

Cullenen said each alert can be different and the London Center and other study abroad programs may need to handle them on a case-by-case basis.

“You can’t change a program based on an individual incident,” Cullenen said. “Generally speaking, everything needs to be evaluated within the context.”

Junior Chris Zivalich is studying in Germany with the Institute for the International Education of Students, one of the college’s affiliated study abroad programs.

He said he kept a level head when IES sent out an e-mail and a text message.

“I’m not too concerned, but you’re a little bit more alert to everything,” Zivalich said. “I can’t just hide in my room while I’m studying abroad.”

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situation — a situation in which a girl would feel vulnerable or powerless,” Feder said.

A Weill institutional review board conducted an investigation of Poppas this fall to address concerns with follow-up testing and respond to media criticisms of the surgery itself. Poppas declined to comment on the investigation or the controversy surrounding his research.

The investigative committee chaired by Ralph Nachman, dean of clinical research at Weill, released a statement outlining results of the investigation on Oct. 4. The institutional review board ultimately concluded that both the surgery and sensory tests were part of standard clinical treatment and were not subject to Weill’s prior approval.

“Currently there are no standards, but we felt that it was an appropriate clinical evaluation in a patient,” Nachman said.

Anne Bradley, spokeswoman for the Federal Office for Human Research Protections, said the office has since requested more information about Poppas’ research.

“We’re awaiting information before there’s any more to be said,” she said.

Anne Tamar-Matis, executive director of Advocates for Informed Choice, said if the OHRP decides it has jurisdiction of the case, it would be the final judge determining the legal and ethical implications of Poppas’ research.

“Cornell will decide what they want to do about this, but they will not be the last word on whether or not any action is taken,” Tamar-Matis said.

Junior Cornell student Ida Bernstein read about Poppas’ research this summer and was concerned about the ethical considerations it raised. She invited leading voices in the debate to participate in a panel discussion Oct. 4 at Cornell.

“Dr. Poppas is only one specific example of what doctors are doing all over the country — what we consider to be a national issue,” Bernstein said.

Feder, Green, Nachman and Tamar-Matis participated in the panel that was mediated by Carla Golden, professor of psychology at Ithaca College, and attended by a committee of students from IC

Janet Green ’79 discusses her experience living after female genital surgery at a discussion panel Oct. 4 in Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell University. Green helps other patients cope with life after the procedure.

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Human Rights alarmed by the potential of surgeries to violate human rights.

Poppas declined to participate in the panel.

Nachman said the university determined Poppas’ presence could detract from the debate’s integrity.

“We didn’t want to subject him or the audience to a shouting match,” Nachman said.

Nachman represented Weill on the panel, which was dominated by those critical of Poppas’ research.

Referring to the absence of a parental perspective, Nachman referenced a letter from the Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Research Education and Support Foundation objecting to the panel.

“There is a big lesion in this room today,” Nachman said. “The parents of the children involved with these procedures are not here.”

Dina Matos, executive director of the CARES Foundation, said the foundation was never asked to participate. In the letter, the foundation calls the panel a witch hunt and asks that Cornell postpone the panel until it included a variety of perspectives.

In response to criticisms about the surgery being purely cosmetic, a mother from the Pittsburgh area said she had a different reason for having the procedure done on her daughter.

“We didn’t do it so she’d look pretty. It was so she could lead a happy and healthy life.”

Anne Carlin, secretary of IC Human Rights who studied Poppas’ research and attended the panel, said she wonders if parents are levelheaded enough to judge what is best for their daughters.

“I question whether they are fully informed of the potential outcomes of these surgeries,” she said.

Green said she hopes parents take the time to protect girls born with disorders of sexual differentiation from feeling a sense of shame or isolation like she did.

“My parents did love me,” Green said. “But they didn’t think, and doctors told them that they may not be able to love me unless I really looked like the little girl that I was. Each of us deserves to feel loved and accepted for whatever we are.”

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N.Y., and former Sodexo employee, said Local 200 reached out to Sodexo employees at the college to join the campaign.

He said the main goals of the campaign, both at the college and nationwide, are to negotiate with Sodexo for a living wage, better working conditions and ultimately the ability of workers to unionize without coercion or intimidation.

“The only way for the workers to get the union that they deserve and the contract that they deserve is to work collectively on this campaign with other unions and other workers,” he said.

King said Sodexo does not interfere with its employees’ right to form a union through secret ballot elections supervised by the National Labor Relations Board. He said 15 percent of Sodexo’s workforce is unionized, compared to about 7 percent of private sector companies nationwide.

Though the company supports its employees’ right to form unions, the company has the right to present employees with alternatives to unionizing, King said.

Brian McAree, vice president of student affairs and campus life, said the college has contracted its dining services for more than 30 years.

He said the administration has

not found evidence of SEIU and Clean Up Sodexo’s allegations that Sodexo has violated Labor Relations Board rules or used intimidation when employees have tried to organize at the college.

Rochon said Sodexo employees are different from college employees.

“We don’t have a relationship with the Sodexo employees per say, other than they provide the services for Sodexo to us on the campus,” he said.

McAree said Sodexo has consistently received good marks from students, been responsive to student, faculty and staff needs and has brought new ideas to campus dining — making it a “fabulous food service provider” at the college.

Sodexo employees at the college agreed to talk to The Ithacan about their concerns on the condition that their names were withheld.

One Sodexo employee said employees’ main goal in participating in the campaign is to get a living wage for all employees and to unionize. She said having a union would help fix some of the problems she sees in the workplace — low wages, inconsistency and a lack of communication.

Another Sodexo employee said she has been victim of verbal abuse by a manager, but her supervisors did not address it.

She said though she makes more

Junior Kiera Lewis discusses how to spread knowledge of Sodexo’s practices at a Labor Initiative in Promoting Solidarity meeting Tuesday in Friends 301. steven episcopo/the ithacan

than a living wage, she has not felt like she has been compensated fairly for her extra work. She said she is often left alone to do the jobs of others.

“Everybody’s gone, and I’m still cleaning,” she said. “They say this is a team unit. There’s no team. It’s me, myself and I.” Students have also joined the Clean Up Sodexo campaign and are planning initiatives to show their support for Sodexo employees.

Junior Kiera Lewis, organizing coordinator of the Labor Initiative in Promoting Solidarity, a new campus organization that aims to initiate change on labor and social justice issues, said the group is working with Sodexo workers to spread awareness of worker treatment.

“What we’re doing in terms of supporting the workers is really just making this issue known to the Ithaca

College population and the community and trying to gather people in support,” she said.

Lewis said the group is planning to draft a code of conduct to present to the administration on behalf of Sodexo employees that would guarantee them a living wage and health benefits comparable to other college employees.

Rochon said he welcomes students’ concerns but said he could not negotiate with them about Sodexo employees’ working conditions.

“Neither Ithaca College nor they are empowered to set those conditions,” he said. “However, I would be happy to hear them out.”

Ott said it is important that students rally behind this issue.

“Injustices are happening right on campus,” he said. “What a great place to start.”

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ROTC enrollment swells as students try to cope with economic decline

Ithaca College sophomore Hunter Tom takes cover in the woods near Cornell University Sept. 21 as part of an Army ROTC combat simulation. Tom said he joined ROTC to help pay for college after his sister’s medical treatments diminished his college savings.

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than I had the year before. We’re full. We have more officers than we need right now.”

Joe O’Donnell, chief of the Scholarship An upsurge of students enrolled in the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps pro- Management Branch at the Cadet Command grams across the nation may be evidence the Headquarters in Fort Monroe, Va., said there economic downturn is taking a toll on stu- are 16,000 cadets enrolled in Army ROTC nationwide, making the number of cadets endents and families.

Capt. Lisa Dwyer, scholarship and en- rolled the highest in ten years. Army ROTC rollment officer at Cornell University’s saw a 15 percent national increase in the numArmy ROTC, said she’s noticed the increase ber of people who completed the application firsthand, receiving about 25 percent more and went to the scholarship board this year. applications each year. Cornell gave out 14 Ten years ago overall enrollment in ROTC full-tuition ROTC scholarships this year, was more than 28,000 compared to more than but next year they expect to cut five of these 35,000 now.

Cornell University’s Army ROTC is affilscholarships, Dwyer said.

“When the economy collapsed, a lot of iated with Ithaca College, SUNY-Cortland, people flooded into the military,” she said. “I Binghamton University and Elmira College. had significantly more applicants last year The Army ROTC is associated with 273 host programs like Cornell University and 1,100 affiliate schools like the college.

Like the other 14 of the 17 Ithaca College Army ROTC students with scholarships, sophomore Hunter Tom relies on Cornell's Army ROTC aid to help attend college.

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday Tom said he wakes up at 5 a.m. for training courses at Cornell. By the time he arrives at the college, he is hungry and sleep deprived, but must go to class, work on homework and do it all over again.

Despite these difficulties, Tom said he doesn't mind.

“I thought I would have to endure it solely for the fact of paying for school,” he said.

“But now I’ve actually come to enjoy it.”

The program is designed to allow students like Tom to train to be an officer in the U.S. Army, Navy or Air Force while also earning a bachelor’s degree.

Some students receive four, three or two-year merit-based full-tuition scholarships for joining, while others receive partial scholarships. CandiA group of cadets in Cornell's Army ROTC program plot dates for a scholarship must be U.S. citizens between the ages their next move Sept. 21 as part of a combat simulation.

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school diploma. They must have a 920 or higher on the SAT, have a cumulative 2.5 GPA and be able to pass the Army Physical Fitness Test.

Tom was awarded the four-year scholarship his freshman year. In addition to covering the full price of tuition, the scholarship provides $900 for books and a $300 monthly stipend that increases each academic year. When Tom graduates he will be required to serve eight years of active and inactive duty.

Tom said applying for the Army ROTC scholarship never crossed his mind until his father told him his junior year of high school that he needed to pay for college on his own.

When Tom was in the third grade, one of his younger sisters had renal kidney failure.

She received expensive medical treatment for months and a kidney transplant, forcing the family to cut back on money and deplete savings for their children’s college educations.

The Army ROTC scholarship was the only way he could think to cover the full cost of tuition to the college. Tom said when he was awarded the scholarship he didn't know what to expect.

“I had no idea what I was getting into,” Tom said. “I was literally just taking a step off the cliff and hoping I would hit the bottom feet first.”

The United States Cadet Command, which sponsors the scholarship, began to choose award winners at the national level in 2009, which affected Tom and other sophomores applying for the scholarship.

O'Donnell said the change made the scholarship more competitive and has increased the quality of cadets.

“They’re better multitaskers, they’re selfstarters [and] they’re used to seeking the high end of what they do,” O’Donnell said. “They’ll adapt easier to the army lifestyle where you have to do complex tasks simultaneously.”

Even with the increase in applicants, O’Donnell said it’s undetermined whether there will be a decrease in scholarships in the coming year.

“Theoretically there could be less scholarships,” O'Donnell said. “But we don’t know if that’s going to be true in the future because the budget for the upcoming fiscal year has not been approved yet.”

Freshman Lauren Crandall, who entered college as an ROTC student but did not receive a scholarship, recently made the decision to withdraw from the program for the rest of the semester. Since she has wanted to join the army for a while now, Crandall said she is pursuing

more cost-effective ways of joining.

“I can continue with the ROTC program and enlist in the National Guard, which would kind of be like [Cornell’s] program without getting the scholarship,” Crandall said. “I could just not do the ROTC program and enlist in the National Guard or the Reserves, or I could wait until after I graduate and then enlist, and I’ll be an officer because of my college credit.”

Crandall said she's tentatively planning to apply for another scholarship next year that will help her save money on tuition by participating in ROTC. Without the financial help, she said the amount of work it takes to go to school and training sessions at the same time is too strenuous.

“It takes up a lot of time and obviously a lot of energy to be a part of the program,” she said. “I can wait to do it next year and get the scholarship money for being a part of it.”

Capt. Richard Gomez, battalion recruiting and enrollment officer at Fordham University, said it's hard for students to be in the ROTC just for the money.

“Based my experience, anybody who is doing it just for the money will quit, period,” he said. “Last year, we had seven students give up their full four-year tuition scholarships.

Full rides to Columbia [University], Fordham and NYU. They just didn’t want to do it.”

Not everyone in the ROTC applies for the money. O’Donnell said he finds students come for a lot of different reasons.

“There’s a resurgence in the students themselves and their desire to serve,” he said. “Not just in the military, ... but ROTC is reaping the benefits of that.”

Senior Travis Cudlin said the decision to join Cornell’s Army ROTC program came first. The scholarship was an added benefit.

“I was in the last stages of joining the Army National Guard as a combat medic when my parents convinced me that it was more important to get my college degree first,” he said. “I met an ROTC recruiter at a college fair a few weeks after and realized that I could do both at the same time.”

Crandall said she understands the benefits of the ROTC program but wishes it had the funds to recognize the time and effort students set aside to get involved. She said she equates the program to a part-time job.

“If you're enlisting in the armed forces, the government should help to pay for your school,” she said. “In a sense it's just a paycheck for you working for the government.”

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Daniel Ellsberg gives advice to modern activists Daniel Ellsberg transformed American war politics in 1971 after releasing the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study prepared by the U.S. Department of Defense that shed light on the history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. Since then, Ellsberg has remained an advocate for independent media and government activism.

Ellsberg spoke to students, faculty, staff and the public last night in Ford Hall after a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Most Dangerous Man in America,” which chronicles the events leading up to the publication of the Pentagon Papers.

Before his speech, Ellsberg spoke with News Editor Aaron Edwards about the Obama administration, student activism and journalism in the 21st century.

Aaron Edwards: What do you think is the value of independent media today?

Daniel Ellsberg: You get a kind of comprehensiveness about certain subjects that you’d never have gotten from one newspaper or two newspapers. There’s no question that you get an awful lot more news and more angles of the news from being able to read accounts from many different papers. You see commentators like Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com — he’s almost my guru on matters of civil liberties, and he’s also a very good critic of the press.

I see more analysis of the defects and shortcomings of the mainstream media in particular than I ever have seen before since the days of George Seldes and his successor I.F. Stone. It’s a complement to the daily press.

AE: You recently spoke out in support of Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army soldier who allegedly leaked more than 90,000 pages of Afghanistan documents to WikiLeaks. How should an organization like WikiLeaks handle publishing materials that reveal government and corporate misconduct?

DE: WikiLeaks did well to bring in The New York Times, Der Spiegel and The Guardian to look over the material they had on these Afghan logs and coordinate with them instead of just putting it out. If they just put it out on the Internet, it was so much material that I don’t know who would have read it.

AE: What are your thoughts on the level of interest students have when it comes to issues in politics and journalism?

DE: Some students do tell me over the years that there’s been a great decline in concern about politics. There’s much less activism.

In fact, [activism] is often seen on the right, as we’re now seeing with the tea party off campus. But even on campuses it seems that right-wing groups are more active.

Why don’t we see as much activism on campuses now? I’ve never been entirely clear.

I’m told that students feel they have to concentrate more on their careers and keeping their academic credentials. Of course, the general mood of the country from President Ronald Reagan was more focused on making money and careers. Generally, I don’t know why there’s such a striking contrast between the youth of the ’60s, who really did want to change the world, and students of today.

AE: What about when President Barack Obama was elected? It seemed like students were highly invested in his campaign and showed strong political involvement.

DE: I can’t blame them for being disillusioned. I wasn’t as hopeful as a lot of people were for Obama. I campaigned for him and did some fundraising, and I, of course, voted for him, but I did not foresee the likelihood that he or any other major candidate would greatly roll back the civil liberties abuses that Bush had instituted.

I don’t think that any president willingly

From left, Jeff Cohen, associate professor and director of the Park Center for Independent Media, speaks with Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, yesterday in Ford Hall. andrew casper/The ithacan

forgoes powers that have been bequeathed to him by his predecessor. I did not foresee that he would get out of Iraq, even though he’s promising to do so. When Obama says we’re going to have all the troops out of Iraq by the end of 2011, I think he knows that isn’t true, and he’s consciously deceiving us on that.

He roped a lot of people in, especially young people, and they really did expect “change you can believe in.” He hasn’t delivered on that in the slightest respect. And the question is, did he ever really expect to? Or was it just a slogan?

AE: So with all this lack of public scrutiny on the mainstream media and government, is there really any hope for American politics in this generation?

DE: [Laughs]. As much as people despise the idea of a lesser evil, the truth is that some evils are worse. The worst is really a lot worse, and it does make a difference.

Dispiriting as that may look, it actually is humanly and socially important. There will be a lot of victims of all kinds. I risked a lifetime in prison 40 years ago, and certainly I would do that again today.

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College & City Acclaimed author to read from new poetry collection

Matthea Harvey, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, will read from her collections at 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 in Clark Lounge. Harvey’s visit is part of the Department of Writing’s Distinguished Visiting Writers Series and is free and open to HARVEY the public.

Harvey, who currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, has published a children’s book, “The Little General and the Giant Snowflake,” and served as the poetry editor for “American Letters and Commentary.”

Harvey is also the author of the poems, “Sad Little Breathing Machine,” “Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form” and “Modern Life.”

For more information contact Jack Wang, assistant professor of writing, at 274-3493.

Presentations scheduled for new director finalists

The finalists who are being considered to become the director of Student Financial Services will each host an open presentation at Ithaca College during the next week.

Each candidate will present on the changing landscape of financial aid, and why a private education is worth the investment. Audience members will be able to ask questions to the candidates at the end of their respective presentations.

Barbara Schmitt, the only director candidate who has already presented, spoke Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the Ithaca Falls Room.

Presentations will continue at 11 a.m. Monday in Taughannock Falls Room with Mary Ellen Duffy’s presentation. Susan Kadir will present at 12 p.m. Wednesday in the Taughannock Falls Room. The final presentation, by Lisa Hoskey, will be at 11 a.m. Oct. 29 in the Ithaca Falls Room.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact the Office of Enrollment and Communication at 274-1555.

Virtual symposium seeks campuswide participation

The Center for Educational Technology hosted the first two days of the New Media Consortium 2010 Virtual Symposium of the Future yesterday and Tuesday. The symposium will continue today.

The online symposium looks at what world technology might look like in five to 10 years. There is no charge to participate, and the event is open to faculty, staff and students.

The final day of the symposium will be held from 8:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. today. All sessions will take place in Room 102 of Job Hall. Sessions include “Stories from the Future,” “Geography, Technology, Careers and Passion: A Mission Possible,” “Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in Second Life,” “Ephemeral Spaces: Transitioning to the New Frontier” and “Of Maps, Systems and Stories: Visualization for Sustainability.”

Each session lasts 45 minutes.

Individuals requiring special accommodations should contact Marilyn Dispensa at 274-3647.

Awareness events planned for disability perceptions

The Diversity Awareness Committee is hosting events throughout the week in celebration of October’s Disability Awareness Month.

Residence Director Pat Walsh will host a lunchtime presentation titled “Universal Design,” from 12:10 to 1 p.m. today in Williams 221. Jim Ferris, chair of disability studies at the University of Toledo, will present “Scars: A Performance” from 8 to 10 p.m. today in Textor 103.

Noam Ostrander, assistant professor of social work at DePaul University, will present “Meditations on a Bullet” from 7 to 9 p.m.

Monday in Textor 102. Walsh will host “Understanding Disability and Being An Inclusive Leader” at 12:10 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Cayuga Lake Room.

All events are free and open to the campus community. For more information contact Bruce Henderson at henderso@ithaca.edu.

Recreation class to host Fallapalooza this weekend

The Recreation and Leisure Studies Department Program Planning Class will host Fallapalooza from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday on the Fitness Center Quad. The rain location for the event is the Mondo Floor Gym in the Fitness Center.

The event will feature 12 games for teams to compete in to win cash prizes. The top three teams

Public Safety Incident Log October 3 CCV/IRRESPONSIBLE USE OF ALCOHOL LOCATION: Upper Quad SUMMARY: One person transported to CMC by ambulance and judicially referred for irresponsible use of alcohol. Sergeant Ron Hart.

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE LOCATION: Rowland Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported a person sustained a head injury on a water fountain. Medical assistance declined.

Patrol Officer Andrew Schneider.

UNLAWFUL POSS. OF MARIJUANA LOCATION: Eastman Hall SUMMARY: Officer reported marijuana found. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Andrew Schneider.

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE LOCATION: Terrace Dining Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported person passed out. Person transported to CMC by ambulance. Sergeant James Landon.

FOUND PROPERTY LOCATION: Terraces SUMMARY: Pocket knife found and turned over. Unknown owner.

October 4 FIRE ALARM LOCATION: Terraces SUMMARY: Fire alarm activated by a fire on a stove top. Fire was extinguished prior to arrival. Ithaca Fire Department assisted with ventilation of smoke, and maintenance reported no damage.

Master Patrol Officer Don Lyke.

TRESPASS LOCATION: Terrace Dining Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported people jumped into the fountain. Five people were judicially referred for trespassing.

Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE LOCATION: Whalen Center for Music SUMMARY: Caller reported falling on stairs and injuring a foot. Person transported to Hammond Health Center.

Sergeant Terry O’Pray.

EXPOSURE OF PERSON LOCATION: Garden Apartments SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown male exposed himself to another person.

Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Don Lyke.

CHANGE IN CASE STATUS LOCATION: Officer reported stopping a person with an active arrest warrant for an aggravated unlicensed operation.

Person was arraigned in Town of Danby court and remanded to the Tompkins County Public Safety Building. Master Patrol Officer Erik Merlin.

October 5 MEDICAL ASSISTANCE LOCATION: Job Hall SUMMARY: Person who had originally been reported as unconscious declined medical assistance from ambulance staff. Sergeant Terry O’Pray.

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE LOCATION: Campus Center SUMMARY: Caller reported a person, who then left the area, feeling faint.

will win the cash prizes. Snacks will also be served. Pre-registration and a $10 fee is required.

For more information contact Lia Micheels at MicheelsL@gmail.com.

Finger Lakes group to host second annual conference

The Finger Lakes Bioneers will host the second annual Make Our Future conference tomorrow to Sunday.

The conference offers participants the opportunity to co-create new responses GOODALL to the challenges of climate change, job losses, energy and food security and unsustainable development patterns.

Tomorrow, Medard Gabel of Big Picture/Small World will host “The Climate Change Game.” The game allows players to act as leaders of governments and corporations as they make decisions that impact the global climate.

“Tompkins Transitions,” a customized version of The City Game sponsored by Big Picture/Small World and Sustainable Tompkins will be presented at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday. The “Awakening the Dreamer” symposium will be held from 1:30 to 6 p.m. Sunday in Emerson Suites.

Each day of the conference will also feature “Breakfast with the Bioneers.”

The breakfasts will feature broadcasts by Jane Goodall, Jim Hansen and Gary Hirshberg. Admission to the breakfast is part of the daily $15

conference fee. Tickets are also available for $5 at the door.

On Friday evening a multimedia musical exploration of water art and natural soundscapes from New York and distant places will be presented from 8 to 10 p.m. at WildFire Lounge.

The event is free to the public.

A complete schedule can be found at www.wemakeourfuture.org.

College doctors present at statewide conference

Three doctors are representing the Ithaca College Student Health Service at the New York State College Health Association Conference.

The meeting is being held at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel GETZIN and Conference Center.

David Newman, director of Health Services at the college, presented yesterday. Two fellow physicians will present at the conference today.

Newman’s presentation was titled “Psychiatric Prescribing in College Health: Anxiety and Major Depressive Disorder.”

Andrew Getzin, the college’s head team physician, will present “A 2010 Update on Stress Fractures and Common Hand and Wrist Injuries” today. Erin Hall-Rhoades, assistant director of Health Services at the college, will also present today. Hall-Rhoades’ presentation is titled “An EvidenceBased Review of Asthma Among College Students.”

selected entries from October 3 to October 6

Person was located at residence and declined medical assistance. Master Patrol Officer Don Lyke.

UNLAWFUL POSS. OF MARIJUANA LOCATION: Eastman Hall SUMMARY: One person was judicially referred for unlawful possession of marijuana and underage possession of alcohol. Master Patrol Officer Jeff Austin.

October 6 MEDICAL ASSISTANCE LOCATION: Emerson Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported a person with abdominal pains. Person was transported to CMC by ambulance.

Fire and Building Safety Coordinator Ron Clark.

FOUND PROPERTY LOCATION: Recreation Trails SUMMARY: Person found a set of keys and turned them over.

For the complete safety log, go to www.theithacan.org/news

Key cmc – Cayuga Medical Center CCV – College Code Violation DWI – Driving while intoxicated IFD – Ithaca Fire Department IPD – Ithaca Police Department MVA – Motor vehicle accident RA – Resident assistant SASP – Student Auxiliary Safety Patrol V&T – Vehicle and Transportation

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College administration needs to release requested information in the best interest of the campus community

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n our efforts to cover Ithaca College, the writers and editors of The Ithacan frequently request information from the administration — from simple statistics to specific survey results. We believe it is in the best interest of the campus community to have access to information, and we aim to report it as a way to facilitate discussion and allow individuals to make their own judgments on critical issues. While the administration may not always see eye-to-eye on this, it is our job as journalists to always ask.

As often as not, editors are denied access to certain information. Earlier this semester we requested the specific results of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Great Colleges to Work For” survey but were denied.

Rochon told our reporter in an e-mail: “We will not be releasing the ‘Great Colleges to Work For’ survey results at any time in the future. It was not envisioned that we would ever make public this information.”

In his Oct. 7 guest commentary, Rochon refers to his misreported quote, “the results will be kept from faculty and staff.” He went on to say that he did not say anything like it. But he did say something exactly like that — just not in the interview.

Rochon wrote that results, conclusions and actions of the survey will be “discussed.” By this he actually means faculty and staff will hear the results he wants to release. Discussing results is not the same thing as releasing them. Discussion gives people the authority to filter and choose what they want the audience to hear.

Once again, the college administration is urged to grant The Ithacan and greater college community access to the results of the “Great Colleges to Work For” survey, to allow all parties equal chance to make their own judgments. Faculty and staff are further urged to request this information on their own.

Faculty and staff are also encouraged to participate in The Ithacan’s survey of the workplace, which will be active at theithacan.org for one more week. Responses will remain anonymous, and the results will be released, in their entirety, to the college community.

Casting a Vote Students are urged to vote in the upcoming midterm elections

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wo years ago, college students across the nation stormed the polling booths — some casting their votes for the first time. Now, as the nation still battles unemployment, two wars and the aftermath of the worst oil spill in history, it is still significant for 18- to 24-year-olds to vote in midterm elections.

College students can make a serious impact by voting — whether they are voting in their home states through an absentee ballot or registered in New York state. In order to cast the vote that best suits them, students need to pay attention to the issues facing the nation. Ithaca College prides itself on being progressive and gay-friendly. Students should be concerned about the future of New York state as the conservative tea party gains momentum, and Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for governor, makes anti-gay remarks.

While the presidential election is important to vote in, students need to remember that voting doesn’t stop there. Between the student populations of Cornell University and the college, students in Ithaca have the ability to make an impact in the midterms.

As President Barack Obama’s approval ratings decline, students need to show where they stand. Two years ago, students showed they wanted change in the country. But unless students actually vote in the midterms, there may be another change in office.

your letters Alum proud to be a Bomber

No other time than today have I ever been more proud to be an Ithaca College alumnus. Someone sent me a copy of the “It Gets Better Video,” which was made by Ithaca College faculty, staff and students in the Park School of Communications and other areas of campus. I was so happy to see that my fellow Ithacans are willing to stand up for their peers and help create a society that is loving of all people.

I am so proud of those who were a part of this video, because it is actions like this that really make a difference. I think about my students who struggle with their sexuality and feel they will be ostracized by their family and friends. It saddens me to know that in 2010 things like this still happen, but it gives me hope that people like you are out there and speaking up. It gives me hope that you, future leaders, will be out in the world making a difference and building communities that everyone can live in without fear.

Lastly, I commend President Tom Rochon for being a part of this video. As the

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face of any organization, it is always bold to stand up and take a stand on an issue.

Deciding to be a part of that video confirms, for me, that Ithaca College is going places and will continue to educate minds and create the leaders of tomorrow.

As an African-American man, a gay man, a democrat, a teacher, a human being and all the other things I identify myself as, thank you.

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Program bridges the gap between cultures T

he first person I was paired with in the Ithaca College Intercambios was a quiet but determined single mother from Peru. We met for an hour and a half once a week at the Tompkins County Public Library on Green Street, talking about topics like educational differences between the U.S. and Peru and what our hometowns were like. My Spanish was improving, but the moment I realized Intercambios was much more than just Alejandro practicing Spanish was when Chavaria Nora casually called me her friend during a conversation.

Our organization, IC Intercambios, has two focuses: to help native English and Spanish speakers improve their foreign language speaking skills and to help interested Spanish-speaking migrant farm workers learn and practice English. The word “intercambio” in Spanish means “exchange,” and that is exactly what we try to foster — an exchange of languages, culture, ideas and friendship.

Students at a higher Spanish level travel to nearby farms and teach English to migrant farm workers from countries in Latin America. The farms are typically 30 to 40 minutes outside of Ithaca, and students are responsible for their own transportation.

The impact that IC Intercambios has on students, community members and farm workers is profound and is best related through personal experiences rather than statistics. Conversation partners usually become friends and may end up meeting each other outside of the regularly scheduled hour-and-a-half conversational exchange. They may do things such as cook together, where the spirit of the “intercambio” can expand to include culinary traditions. Oth-

Stars come together on stage

Where else are you going to see Patti LuPone, Sherie Rene Scott, Laura Benanti and “American Idol” first runner-up Justin Guarini on the same stage? Only in New York City, my friend. They all star in “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” a story of a woman whose friends, family and lovers intertwine in 1980s Madrid.

— Aaron Edwards

Members of IC Intercambios, a service-learning class at Ithaca College that pairs students with local Spanish-speaking migrant workers to teach them English, meet in April 2009 in Friends 202.

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ers have gone to see Spanish-language movies screened at Cornell University.

While farm workers learn English, students also learn from the farm workers. It may come as a surprise to hear farm worker after farm worker describe nearly the same morning routine: get up at 3 a.m., take a shower, milk the cows, have a light lunch or none at all, get off work at 4 or 5 p.m., watch television and go to bed. When discussing family vocabulary, many students learn that the workers have not seen their families in three or more years and may not for years to come. One student was surprised to learn the No. 1 phrase workers wanted to learn in English after “How do I

order a pizza” is “The cow kicked me.”

Students and farm workers also tend to become good friends, with lessons continuing from one semester to the next. Knowing the farm worker program also shares in the spirit of a true “intercambio” makes it all that much more rewarding.

Anyone interested in IC Intercambios can attend the meetings at 5:30 p.m. Thursdays in Friends 205. alejandro Chavarria is a senior Spanish major and president of IC Intercambios. E-mail him at achavar1@ithaca.edu

Guest commentary

Professor studies Benjamin Franklin’s marriage

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elow is an excerpt from an essay titled “‘There Is Graite Odds between A Mans being At Home And A Broad’: Deborah Read Franklin and the EighteenthCentury Home” written by Vivian Conger, associate professor and chair of history. The essay appeared in “Gender & History” Volume 21, Issue 3 (published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.) in November 2009.

During the 44-year marriage between Benjamin and Deborah Franklin, his work frequently took him away from home for long periods of time. On Nov. 8, 1764, Benjamin departed from Philadelphia for England, their longest and final separation (she died six months before he returned). It was a separation in which she increasingly assumed the male persona of the Franklin household. Luckily for historians, they carried on a steady correspondence. It is through these exchanges that we glimpse a normal give and take between husband and wife. But more importantly, this correspondence reveals several literal and figurative gendered reconstructions embodied in their home.

The Franklins began building their own house in the spring of 1763. By the time Benjamin left for England in late 1764, the framework had been erected. The house represented two spheres: exterior and interior, public and private, strength and weakness, masculine and feminine. Deborah turned that order upside down.

The most radical re-gendering

Vivian Conger, associate professor and chair of the history department, speaks in her class, Colonial America, Tuesday in Friends 304.

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of the house came on the night of Sept. 16, 1765, when the house took on an overtly political and military significance. Angry responses to the Stamp Act occurred throughout the colonies, but many in Philadelphia blamed Benjamin for supporting the act, and mobs threatened to retaliate.

From Deborah’s description of the situation, one can feel the tension and perhaps even fear she felt, but also more palpably the strength, control and bravery she exerted. For nine days people kept warning her of the danger she and her family faced. Tensions reached the boiling point when the mob threatened to pull down the newly built house. But she did not face them alone. “Cusin [Josiah] Davenporte Come and told me … it

was his Duty to be with me,” she said.

She seemed to have control of the situation, however, for she ordered Davenport to “fech a gun or two as we had none.” It is not clear which one of the elegantly furnished and decorated rooms became an armed fortress, but clearly all of the secondstory private bedrooms became more than feminine domestic spaces. Later that evening, more than 20 relatives and neighbors helped guard the house. Despite their offers to stay the night with her, she sent them away.

As her supporters left, they urged her to leave with them, but she refused, adamantly asserting, “I had not given aney ofense to aney person.” Refusing to be intimidated and putting on a brave face to the

outside world, she proved she could protect her household. When Benjamin’s reply came several months later, it was notably brief; he wrote simply, “I honour much the Spirit and Courage you show’d, and the prudent Preparations you made in that [Time] of Danger.” Then he added this intriguing comment: “The [Woman] deserves a good [House] that [is] determined to defend it.” In Benjamin’s mind, had Deborah finally demonstrated enough courage and enough masculine qualities to begin defining the house as hers?

The image of armed women protecting themselves was not new, but the “female soldier” lived at the margins; she was not a genteel lady living in the heart of a city in a newly constructed house designed to prove her family’s status to others. Historians have argued that because men’s houses symbolized their authority and their manhood, those structures “became target[s] of popular anger” when leaders attempted “to enforce what the people considered to be illegitimate laws.”

Defacing the most visible symbol of their political manhood, the mob demonstrated their disrespect for revolutionary leaders. When defending the house, Deborah was not just protecting her household — her feminine private domain — she also was defending her house — her masculine public domain.

Vivian Conger is an associate professor and chair of the history department.

E-mail her at vconger@ithaca.edu.

All opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of The Ithacan. To write a guest commentary, contact Opinion Editor Jacqueline Palochko at 274-3208.

FBI watches Greenpeace

A friend recently told me that Greenpeace was put on the FBI’s Domestic Terrorist List. From 2001-06, the FBI ran investigations on activists in the Greenpeace.

Perhaps someone missed that the group’s mission is to “use nonviolent confrontation to raise the level and quality of public debate.”

— Rebecca Webster

How about those Yankees?

It’s hard not to get excited about this year’s postseason.

Last Friday, the Rangers had a 5­–0 lead late in the game. But those darn Yankees found a way to continue their postseason mystique with five runs in the eighth inning.

Those Rangers just can’t win at home. Postseason baseball — nothing like it. — Dave Uram

The test for TB

I had to get a Tuberculosis test done for work, so I went to the Health Center. I was pricked with a needle and told to come back in a few days.

“You can just e-mail me the results,” I said to the nurse.

I don’t know what TB is exactly, but it can’t be so serious that an e-mail won’t suffice.

— Lilly Miller

Wanting more Green

She’s back. Did you know she left? Did you know she was alive?

This time, Jack White has found Wanda Jackson, a rockabilly singer who made her debut in the ’50s.

But now she’s 76. Is there a certain irony in this older woman singing about her sexual escapades? Man, I want to say yes. But Jackson pulls it off. — Matt Connolly

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Calling the shots Students take control and find sobriety Senior Kyle Mullen sits on his porch Tuesday with his dog, Omar. Mullen, who has been sober for seven months, said getting a dog is a mark of how much more responsible he is now that he is not drinking.

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By Whitney Faber Accent Editor

In March, senior Kyle Mullen had to leave Ithaca College. As other students were arriving back from spring break trips, he was packing up to go to New Horizons Chemical Dependency Treatment Program, an inpatient rehabilitation center in Binghamton.

“Walking in, it was really surreal,” Mullen said. “I was giving myself up to an institution. But once I got in there I really got into it. I really embraced everything they were trying to tell me.”

Mullen was ordered to go to rehab after failing a drug test while on probation for a DWI charge. He said by this time, he was looking for a change.

“No one can make you want to get sober,” he said. “You have to want to get sober.”

Since his two-week stay at New Horizons, Mullen has been clean and sober. There, he attended 12 hours of counseling a day, in which he said he talked about everything, from relationships to anxiety issues. He plans

to graduate at the end of the semester after five and a half years at the college.

Mullen, like many students, came to college and found alcohol and drugs accessible and prevalent. By his junior year, his partying was out of control.

“When I was drinking and I was using, I couldn’t get up to go to class,” he said. “I didn’t want to do anything. I just wanted to sit around. I just wanted to party. I was just a waste of life.”

When he came to college, Mullen said, he had already smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, but it was not yet a problem.

Nancy Reynolds, health promotion center program director at the Hammond Health Center, is the director of IC Basics, a program in which students meet with Reynolds for one-on-one educational sessions on addiction. She said she sees many students who find college’s free atmosphere difficult to cope with. “[It’s] the combination of young people getting into an environment where they’re on their own for the first

To get help Alcoholics Anonymous

The group meets at noon Thursdays in Muller Chapel.

Its emergency hotline is 607-273-1541.

IC Basics, Brief Alcohol Screening, Intervention for College Students

To refer someone to the program or set up a session, e-mail Nancy Reynolds at nreynolds@ithaca.edu.

Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS),

To set up an appointment with a counselor, call 274-3136.

Alcohol and Drug Council of Tompkins County

The organization offers group and individual counseling.

To lean more, go to www.alcoholdrugcouncil.org.

time and that alcohol and other drugs holics Anonymous and got a sponsor are pretty accessible in our society,” to help her through the program’s she said. “The freedom is challenging.” traditional 12 step program. She said According to a report published she found the support helpful.

“It’s hard at the beginning to get in 2007 by the National Center on sober, but it’s the Addiction and most amazing reSubstance Abuse ward of anything at Columbia I’ve done,” she said.

University, about “I don’t think about 1.8 million coldrinking every day lege students met now. ... It was the the criteria for entire process. Evsubstance abuse ery step of it was or dependence in just as important, 2005, nearly two was just as trying, and a half times just as rewarding.” the national level.

— Senior Kyle Mullen Sarah,* an IthaMullen said ca resident who his abuse was graduated from the University of something that worsened over time.

Margaret Carpenter, a graduate Connecticut in 2005, said she started student, has been his friend since their drinking in college and developed freshman year. She said she could start a problem that continued into early adulthood. Through AA and group to see what alcohol was doing to him.

“He was just not in a good place,” meetings at the Alcohol and Drug she said. “He would get really drunk at Council of Tompkins County, she got parties — we all would — but Kyle was sober in 2008 at 25 years old. She said always noticeably more drunk. He when she started drinking in college, used to be so much happier and he she liked the confidence she felt.

“I always felt like my skin didn’t fit, just wasn’t. He was so angry, and a that something about me was wrong, lot of it was the drinking.”

Jane,* a senior, had a similar and when I had that first drink, my problem with alcohol when she skin got a zipper on it, and I was able was 13 until she got sober at 14. to get out of myself,” she said. “It just She is now involved in Alcohol- really helped me feel like I was everyics Anonymous at the college. She thing I wanted to be.”

But the feeling quickly faded. said though her experiences with “I actually hated being drunk,” she alcohol were earlier in life, her struggles were the same as those said. “I wanted that warm, relaxed feeling I had that first night, but it just of college students.

“My life had become com- never came back.”

Mullen said he realized he needed pletely unmanageable and drinking wasn’t working for me to get help after he spent a full weekanymore,” she said. “It wasn’t end, from Friday night to Monday fun. I couldn’t do it, just social- morning, drinking and doing drugs, ize and hang out or just drink on including ecstasy and cocaine.

“I woke up that Monday afternoon, the weekends. Drinking just became my life, and it wasn’t even and I just felt awful,” he said. “I felt terrible about myself, about everything fun to drink anymore.”

Jane started attending Alco- that was going on. I slept through my

“When I was drinking and using, I couldn’t get up to go to class. ... I was just a waste of life.”

classes. I was just like, ‘What am I doing? Why am I still doing this? I am 23 years old. Why am I still here?’ I look back on it, and I am just thankful that I never did that again.”

Reynolds said incidents like these are good indicators of whether or not a person has a problem.

“Think about: ‘What happens when I drink? Looking back on the nights that I drink, what happens during the night and what happens the next day, physically and emotionally?

Do I feel good about my behavior the night before, or do I feel not so good about what I did or said?’” she said.

Though his drinking caused many problems, Mullen said he still sees positive aspects to drinking socially.

“I would like to sit here and say it was all bad times, but it wasn’t,” he said, “I had a lot of fun. I met a lot of cool people. I did a lot of cool stuff. But I really look back on a lot of the things that I did, like I embarrassed myself. I burned a lot of bridges. I cringe now at some of the stuff I used to do.”

Now that he is sober, Mullen said his weekends are much quieter. He said sometimes he misses his partying days, but the feeling is fleeting.

“I get this kind of half an hour lull where I am just like, ‘Oh man I wish I could go out and hang out with everybody and get in on the fun that’s happening downtown,’” he said. “I feel that, but it passes.”

Mullen said though his life is less exciting without going to bars or parties on the weekends, he doesn’t feel like he is missing much.

“I feel like I have lived three lives in one life,” he said. “At this point, I’m not missing out on anything. Anything I’ve ever wanted to do, I’ve done. At this point, it’s in the past for me. I’m getting past that stage in my life.” *Names have been changed to protect anonymity.

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This week’s hits and misses

Chief Proofreader Lara Bonner rates a few musicians who started off as regular people but rose to YouTube fame.

Hot

Julia Nunes With her goofy smile and never-ceasing energy, there’s a lot to love about Julia Nunes, who has received thousands of YouTube hits and is currently touring with Ben Kweller. She’s known not only for her well-written originals but also for taking songs like “Survivor” by Destiny’s Child and using both her ukulele and rich voice to turn them into rejuvenated musical performances. Her YouTube popularity has given her the opportunity to tour with Ben Folds and perform at YouTube Live in San Francisco in 2008, and she has released three full-length albums. There is no doubt that the world will be seeing much more from this charmingly atypical artist.

Lukewarm

Bo Burnham Comedian and musician Bo Burnham has been swept up from YouTube into Comedy Central because of his hilarious videos of raps and songs. He deserves props for his ability to come up with witty lyrics that spin out of his mouth so fast it takes a minute to realize robbing an Asian kitchen and strolling down the block are both ways to take a wok/walk. On first glance, listeners may also want to credit “Bo Fo Sho” for his willingness to confront taboo subjects such as sex and race. But on closer inspection, occasionally his main comedic appeal comes from being offensive, and that gets a little old after a while — fo sho.

Not

Justin Bieber When watching the first few videos on Justin Bieber’s original, pre-fame YouTube account, it’s undeniable that this kid has a powerhouse voice. Aside from the poor boy’s shaved head, which is even more atrocious then his now infamous “Bieber” haircut, there’s little to dislike about his early videos. But since he picked up a gigantic following and a record deal, he’s been putting out cutesy songs that overshadow vocal talent with simple lyrics aimed at the preteen crowd.

Let’s face it, folks — “Baby, baby, baby, oh” is not a chorus.

Laugh out loud

Sophomore Sarah Kasulke performs her comedy routine at IC Stand Up’s first show of the year Tuesday in IC Square. IC Stand Up is the college’s comedy troupe, whose mission is to both entertain the community and help its members grow as comedians.

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omg!

tyra banks requests help to keep stalker far away

Poor Tyra Banks. Not only has she grown out of her modeling career, but she’s also gained a stalker who believes they will get married — he even left a wedding invitation in her home that stated the big day was Jan. 8, 2011. Marten Williams Jr. was arrested earlier this month for trespassing on Tyra’s property, and according to the arresting officers, Williams said he was bringing the star “offerings.” He also believes he killed George W. Bush. — no wonder the guy was placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold after his arrest. Banks recently asked for a restraining order against the man, and hopefully the judge will give it to her. A stalker is bad enough, but one who believes Michael Jackson is alive and living in Long Beach, Calif. is ultra freaky.

— Alexandra Evans

video of

the

week

Celeb’s nine-year-old kid makes music video debut

It pays to be the child of a mega celebrity, but Will Smith’s daughter, Willow Smith, doesn’t need her daddy’s fame to make it in the music industry. Her debut music video for the song “Whip My Hair” came out Monday. First of all, Willow is only 9 years old. Second, her voice and dance moves don’t seem to belong to a little girl, yet she never appears skanky like other stars whose fans are young (cough, Miley Cyrus, cough cough). The video is entertaining, visually stunning and age-appropriate. Will Smith will likely receive tons of fan mail praising his daughter while Billy Ray Cyrus sulks behind Will’s shadow.

— Alexandra Evans

quoteunquote How would I really sound … walking around my house [saying] ‘Bitch, pick this up,’ you know?

— Eminem to 60 Minutes on watching his language at home.

celebrity

OOPS!

Rodeo turns herself in

Cindy “Rodeo” Steedle should dismount her celebrity saddle. The former “Rock of Love” contestant was arrested last Thursday at Tongue & Groove, an Atlanta nightclub — and she basically turned herself in. She had an outstanding warrant for her arrest after her ex-boyfriend filed a complaint claiming she jacked his car and gun safe. The star promoted her upcoming VH1 special at the club by posting a flyer on her MySpace page for her “special celebrity guest” appearance. Police picked her up that night at the club and booked her into Henry County Jail.

Though she was released right after posting bond, this cowgirl needs to learn that self-promotion plus an arrest warrant equals being lassoed into jail.

— Alexandra Evans

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Mainstage theater to perform Broadway smash “Chicago” Kelly) said her character knows how the ending will turn out, which adds an O.J. Simpson didn’t invent the concept amusing, heightened layer of spectacle of a celebrity criminal — he learned his to the production. tricks from the ’20s. A little murder, booze “It’s not going to be watching ‘Electra’ and scandal plus a whole lot of sweet-talk- and its not going to be watching ‘How I ing form “Chicago,” a 35-year-old show set Learned to Drive,’” she said. “There’s goin Prohibition-era ing to be that feeling of ‘we’re putting on Chicago. Though a show.’ There’ll be a lot of breaking the If you Go the same concept “Chicago” fourth wall and speaking directly to the seems to define When: 8 p.m. tomoraudience, which is really fun ultimately.” both the Broad- row, Wednesday, From the jazz-inspired choreography way and movie Friday and Saturday to the addition of a master of ceremoversions, Ithaca and 2 p.m. Friday nies who presents Velma and Roxie’s College is spin- Where: Hoerner pasts as a story of greed and corruption, ning some new Theater Bostwick said he wants to remind the How much: Sold out razzle dazzle into audience that they’re at a show. the classic script.

Though the purpose of “Chicago” is to The show is the second production in take the audience on an entertaining timethe college’s main stage 2010-11 theater warp through the Vaudevillian period, season. The plot surrounds Roxie Hart Bostwick said the message lies in what and Velma Kelly as they deal with the con- Billy Flynn, Roxie’s lawyer, tells Roxie besequences of their respective murders. fore her trial — “it’s all a three-ring circus.”

Director Greg Bostwick, professor The show portrays the heart of perforof theater arts, said his directional ap- mance as an aspect of everyday life. proach for the college’s version is unlike “You would think the justice system the typical “Chicago” production. is a protocol in which appearances are “It’s sort of an idealized biography,” he swept aside, and you’re trying to get at said. “My idea is that [Roxie and Velma] ac- the truth,” Bostwick said. “And that very tually wrote the show. They went through event, a trial, becomes the epitome of these things, and then out of all of that, image projection.” they write sort of the trials and tribulations Audience members can expect an of their lives and how they have ascended unprecedented ending to the college’s to stardom through notoriety.” production that makes it completely The Broadway show presents the ac- different from the movie or Broadway tion as it happens. Bostwick said he is version. Senior Megan Watt, who plays taking a “show within a show” approach Roxie Hart, said the surprise ending of with the idea that the characters are the show within a show set against the Vaudeville stars who have been hired extravagant backdrop of the roaring ’20s

by Roxie and Velma to perform a show doesn’t glorify the women’s schemes like about their pasts. the movie does.

“If you tell a well-worn tale, a story ev“The ’20s jazz and liquor and booze erybody’s familiar with, the idea is ‘well, and men — it’s an unsustainable life, and what aspect of that can we illuminate that that says a lot about today,” she said. “You hasn’t been illuminated before?’” Bostwick can’t live your life in one way and not think said. “So that’s what I’m trying to do. My about the consequences, because there are hope is [the audience] will go, ‘Wow, I always consequences. The depression aldidn’t expect that’ or ‘I never thought of ways comes; the recession always comes.”

“Chicago” in this way.’”

The production is part of the Ithaca Senior Rebecca Futterman (Velma College All-Theater Reunion, a weekend that will bring theater alumni back to Ithaca for the rededication of Dillingham after its two-year renovation.

Along with inviting alumni to see the show and building, the department invited four alumni who have worked on Broadway shows to design the set, lights, sound and costumes.

Junior Danny Lindgren (Billy Flynn) said he has complete faith that the technical elements will enhance the story because the designers bring a level of professionalism to rehearsals.

“I’m always confident in what this college can produce but having alumni that have already had this education and more education in the real world, I feel like it’s going to be that much more special that this production is happening,” he said.

Bostwick said the production process has allowed students to work with successful professionals and the alumni designers to give back to the department.

From left, senior Tim Quartier, as Amos, and junior “It brings Broadway to IthaDanny Lindgren, as Billy Flynn, discuss Hart’s case.

Michelle Boulé/the ithacan ca,” Bostwick said. “It’s like IC to

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Senior Megan Watt, who plays Roxie Hart, belts the song “Roxie” on Sunday. In the show, Hart aspires to be a jazz star but must take a detour when she is accused of murder.

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Broadway to IC. It’s a great privilege and an honor to work with people who are so successful.”

Sound designer Tony Meola ’76, who was presented with the 2010 Edgar “Dusty” Bredbenner Jr. ’50 Distinguished Alumni Award that recognizes service to the college since graduation, has more than 20 Broadway credits. He said he has enjoyed mentoring students at the college that gave him the education he needed to pursue his career.

“Whenever I drive into Ithaca, I’m faced with this huge time marker,” he said.

“I look at all those window cards in the lobby, and I see how many are mine. And

it’s the accomplishment that I sense but it’s also I think about what I thought about when I was here and how I never imagined that I’d get this far.”

Bostwick said walking across the stage and seeing the effort of students and alumni working to bring “Chicago” to life has been humbling.

“There are so many people working to create this story that is meant primarily to reach out to the alumni to say, ‘Hi. We welcome you back, we’re proud of what you have done and we hope you’re proud of what we’re doing right now, and we’re continuing a tradition of excellence that you guys were a part of,’” he said.

Watt rehearses the show in Hoerner Theatre on Sunday. She said the college’s version of “Chicago” will be different from the Broadway production because of its ending.

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Book launches Ivy style onto runway

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by Richard paek contributing writer

Nothing quite exudes 1960s collegiate American style like a navy blazer, oxford button-down shirt, chinos and a pair of penny loafers. The preppy style that was once the dress code of prestigious East Coast boarding schools and Ivy League institutions has become “Take Ivy” fashion’s newest trend. “Take powerHouse Ivy,” as photographed by TeruyBooks HHHH oshi Hayashida, is a quirky art book that typifies the daily life of Ivy League students through a colorful series of animated photos and witty commentaries.

“Take Ivy,” released in English on Aug. 31, explores why Ivy League students dress, behave and think the way they do. Each photo is accompanied by commentary that analyzes the connection between dress and behavior by one of three Japanese writers — Shosuke Ishizu, Toshiyuki Kurosu and Hajime Hasegawa. The team visited all the Ivy League universities, but most of the photos in the book were taken on the Princeton, Dartmouth, Harvard, Brown and Yale campuses.

Ever since “Take Ivy’s” original 1965 release in Japan, it has had a major impact in the fashion industry. American designers such as Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger used the book as a source of inspiration for their collections. Since few copies existed, the book became a rare artifact treasured by fashion moguls and sold for more than $1,000.

The influence and timelessness of the fashion shown in “Take Ivy” can be seen today. The emergence of labels such as Band of Outsiders, Michael Bastian and J. Crew proves that “Take Ivy” isn’t simply a collection of photos; it is an important contribution to American culture.

Teruyoshi Hayashida and his team of writers researched the Ivy Leagues in an unorthodox manner. The “Take Ivy” team did more than just wait for the perfect shot; they studied the campus just like how an Ivy League undergraduate may study for an exam. As a result, Hayashida’s photography achieves a distinct nostalgic quality that connects readers back to the 1960s as if they were there in person. This feature alone keeps “Take Ivy” from being simply another picture book. Instead, it brings

“Salt,” a film starring Angelina Jolie as a CIA officer who goes on the run after she is accused of being a Russian spy, will show at 7 p.m. in Textor 102.

Tickets are $2.

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The Oasis Dance Party, an event featuring club music hosted by DJ Joey R., will take place from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. at The Oasis. Admission is free.

The Final Battle, a fan-made musical based on the last 200 pages of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” will show from 6 to 10 p.m. in Textor 101.

Admission is free.

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The New York Times said Hayashida’s “Take Ivy” was “a treasure of fashion insiders.” The book, which was originally published in 1965 in Japanese, was reprinted in English for the first time Aug. 31. courtesy of powerhouse books

a sense of realism to create the feeling of reading an illustrated, intriguing documentary.

The “Take Ivy” writers provide an outsider’s perspective of what they believe is the average American life. In one instance, Ishizu, Kurosu and Hasegawa explain that an Ivy League student studies outside in the sun because “Ivy Leaguers frown upon students who earn good grades but have pale skin.” However, the writers’ peculiar descriptions do not detract from the allure of the photographs. Instead, it incites curiosity and a sense of wonder. Not only do their whimsical explanations make for an interesting and pleasant reading experience, but they also go into great detail into their rationale of the students’ attire.

“Take Ivy” is organized into four parts: College Life, College Fashion, Elements of Ivy and Take Ivy. After “College Fashion”, the book switches

emphasis from the students’ appearances to exploring their ideologies. The structure of the book transitions from the previously lighthearted commentary into a more somber intellectual tone.

Here the writers provide another insight into the students’ lives that cannot be shown through pictures and thus brings the book full-circle with the perfect balance of pictures and text. The gradual shift in tone gives the book more meaning as it offers a deeper analysis of the Ivy mentality while imparting a sense of reward and accomplishment.

“Take Ivy” is a well thought-out art book that provides not only picturesque snapshots of what many consider the most stylish universities but also a compelling view into the life of an Ivy Leaguer. Hailed by fashion designers as the “holy grail” of classic American preppy style, “Take Ivy” is a must-have for any fashionista or fashionisto.

Rapper’s use of sampling gives CD lyrical swagger

by Evan Johnson staff writer

El Da Sensei elected not to break from the styles of his earlier work with his bold new album, “GT2: Nu World.”

The notable New Jersey rapper’s talent El Da Sensei reminds listeners of “GT2: Nu the witty rap battle World” style of CunninLynCoalmine guists as well as the Records aggressive delivery of Our rating: HHH Jedi Mind Tricks. The gifted emcee delivers his lyrics at an almost unparalleled pace and uses literary devices that carry a commanding presence.

The CD, which is built heavily off of collaboration, includes guest performances from Treach Tiye Phoenix,

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Rakaa and Akrobatik. “Everyday in The Street,” features impressive guest appearances by underground hiphop veterans Sean Price and Bekay. It exemplifies a threatening and jeering edge as well as a new-found swagger possessed by dominant and independent hip-hop artists.

Sensei worked with Polih production team The Returners for the second time to create this album.

The repetitive samples from such artists as Mobb Deep throughout entire tracks. Fortunately, such a technique does not detract from the overall quality of the record — similar samplings only make the vocal performances more impressive.

One notable flaw is the heavy use of record scratching. While reminiscent of late ’90s hip-hop, it sometimes

Water Speaking Water, a film that provides an “in depth immersion in the richness and potency of our local and planetary liquid solvency,” will show from 8 to 10 p.m. at the Women’s Community Building on 100 W. Seneca St. Tickets are $10 at the door. ’80s Dance Party with DJ DarkFader, an event featuring

’80s dance music, will take place from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. at The Haunt. Admission is free.

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IC VoiceStream, the college’s co-ed a cappella group that performs contemporary music, will perform from 7:30 to 11 p.m. in Emerson Suites at Ithaca College. Admission is free.

Debut tributes bandmate by jared dionne staff writer

Charles Haddon, lead singer of Brit electro-poppers Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, committed suicide two months ago. Now the band seeks to honor Haddon’s legacy and promote the band’s Ou Est Le work before the Swimming Pool tragedy with the “The Golden release of its deYear” but album “The Fire & Golden Year.”

Manouvre The band Our rating: emulates bornHHH again Pet Shop Boys, the sultans of synth. The album’s tracks sport driving beats fortified with drum kits and drum machines that are glossed over with synthesizer sheen.

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threatens to overwhelm the record.

Because of the complex lyrical material and gritty, bare-bones production, fans of hard-core underground hiphop and rap are likely to appreciate the album, and it may not appeal to the wider hip-hop and rap community.

Like the first collaboration between El Da Sensei and The Returners, “GT2: Nu World” makes an impressive delivery. Clearly this is a result of similar tastes and aspirations united for the production of quality hip-hop.

dance floor as Haddon provides a dominating vocal performance.

His distinctive and powerful voice sets him apart from contemporaries when he wails over the microphone in the midst of surging instrumentals.

It is unsure what will become of the band without its lead singer, but its debut album will keep fans dancing while the group contemplates its future.

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This pop-rock band’s debut album has a fun, headbopping feel — but it’s nothing new. The sound is too familiar and too overdone to be anything more than just decent.

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Quirky characters create ‘funny story’ Cast redeems choppy editing and brings insane world to reality

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The mental patients at the center of “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” are treated with surprising humor and sanity in both the mundane routine of everyday “It’s Kind of a Funny life and the fantasy Story” sequences of its Focus protagonist.

The Features result is a film that Our rating: charms, in spite of HH inconsistent pacing, because of its relatable characters grounded in realistic situations.

Many teens today can connect with the film’s basic plot. Protagonist and narrator Craig (Keir Gilchrist) feels too pressured by family and friends to be the typical overachieving high schooler. To get relief from his stress he commits himself to a psych ward under the false assumption he’ll merely get put on meds — an appealing quick-fix. But when the reality of having to stay in the ward initially throws Craig for a loop, “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” hits some of its most awkwardly hilarious moments.

The everyday humor of life in the ward is offset by Craig’s fantasy sequences. While there are good moments in Craig’s dreams, the device has a divisive effect. Occasionally it works — like when he imagines what happens on the other end of phone calls. Occasionally it completely fails, such as during his overly-narrated plans for the future. Some of the unrealistic ones felt misplaced amid the drab reality, namely the well-staged but pointless “Under Pressure” dream performance. Such drastic changes in

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Craig (Keir Gilchrist) and impromptu adviser Bobby (Zach Galifianakis) sit in a group session at a psychiatric hospital.

Craig, a stressed high school student, commits himself to the hospital to escape life’s everyday pressures.

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tone couldn’t happen organically.

Anna Boden, who co-directed and co-wrote the film with Ryan Fleck, was also the editor and did not do the subtlest job. Craig has two flash-forward fantasies, and while one is done in video format, the other is comprised of stills, an inconsistency that results in a poorly flowing film. There are also moments within scenes where cuts between shots feel choppy, such as when Zach Galifianakis’ character, Bobby, has a breakdown in front of his new advisee, Craig. What did work for that scene was Galifianakis’ performance.

What “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” does get right is casting, overseen by Cindy Tolan. There are some great,

restrained performances, particularly that of Galifianakis. Normally known for over-the-top shenanigans, he is toned down in this role, making his emotional turmoil and outbursts all the more effective.

Gilchrist gives a convincing performance as Craig. The character always looks uneasy, as if he’s about to vomit, which he actually does on occasion. But that nervousness makes Craig’s situation more relatable.

Emma Roberts brings a believable darkness — becoming more convincing than her megastar aunt — as Noelle, a cutter and the other teen patient in the ward who connects with Craig.

The film’s world is fleshed out by

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“It’s Kind of a Funny Story” was co-written and co-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. It is based on the novel by Ned Vizzini.

‘Jackass’ returns with funny antics

By James hasson staff writer

By Alexandra Palombo Senior writer

Throughout the ’80s cop movie “Lethal Weapon,” Sgt. Roger Murtaugh keeps saying he’s getting too old for the action of a policeman’s life. But with their guns blazing and their age-defying stunts, the characters in “Red” seem to disagree.

“Red” is a no-holds barred action movie centering on retired CIA agent Frank Moses “Red” (Bruce Willis). Since retiring Summit from the agency, his life is pretty Entertainment Our rating: boring: eating cereal in his bare HHH kitchen, reluctantly putting up Christmas decorations and romancing telemarketer Sarah Ross (Mary-Louise Parker). That all ends when a CIA team comes to his house and tries to kill him and Ross. With nowhere else to turn, he goes to his other retired friends, Joe Matheson (Morgan Freeman), Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren), to take the team down.

The movie gets its humor and entertainment value from the fact that all the main CIA agents in the movie are over the age of 55. The title “Red” is an acronym for “Retired but Extremely Dangerous,” making an interesting concept for a comic book-based movie. The story picks up with Matheson in a nursing home, where he sits on the couch checking out his nurse. The movie later finds Marvin hiding in the woods and Victoria arranging flowers in her home.

The highlight of the film is perennial oddball Malkovich. His character is introduced as living underground in a secret bunker, paranoid from years of government experimentation with LSD. He wears plastic bags to protect himself from the elements and hides his grenade launchers in stuffed animals.

tiny but nuanced supporting roles.

Viola Davis as psychiatrist Dr. Eden Minerva exudes understanding authority, while Jeremy Davies as ward aide Smitty appears as crazy as the patients. Lauren Graham brings more heft to a furrowed brow than one would think possible as Craig’s straining-to-connect mother Lynn.

Despite some rough construction, “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” works.

Thanks to a sweet, relatable plot and a top-notch cast, being charmed by this film doesn’t seem so crazy.

America’s guilty pleasure has returned to the big screen in “Jackass 3-D.” Johnny Knoxville, Jason ‘Wee Man’ Acuña, Steve-O and the rest of the gang build up their nerves, discard their dignity and rack up the laughs in their collection of stunts and gags that, despite the “Jackass-3D” hardly necessary addition Dickhouse of 3-D, still is “Jackass” Productions Our rating: through and through.

HHH The group’s formulas for success remain unchanged — gags and elaborate stunts that include painful slapstick, grueling real-life potty humor and silly props. They still manage to shock and awe comically with slow motion sex toys flying across the screen and sweat cocktails.

The 3-D feature of this movie feels ancillary.

It only works when debris or a projectile is flying towards the screen and otherwise hardly adds much to the experience.

The once childishly young cast starts to show their age in this third installment of the series. Johnny Knoxville seems to sit out most of the stunts, and his reckless abandon in doing the more extreme and physically painful stunts is missed. Steve-O also shows much more apprehension when doing his stunts, but that makes the anticipation all the funnier.

Fads may come and go, but people never seem to be completely tired of seeing other people hurt each other like the pros do in “Jackass 3-D.”

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John Malkovich plays oddball Marvin Boggs, who lives in an underground bunker in “Red.” Courtesy of Summit Entertainment

To put it simply, he’s a kook — and a funny one.

The movie does falter a bit when the audience is asked to suspend disbelief, just like in other action movies. A CIA team shot up the entire front of Frank Moses’ house, but he emerged without a scratch.

Even more unbelievably, none of his neighbors wake up to hear the racket outside.

The film is 111 minutes of pure fun, intense fighting and explosions combined with genuine laughs.

The movie succeeds in the action genre, combining an interesting plot with a fantastic cast. Unlike Murtaugh in “Lethal Weapon,” none of the actors have gotten “too old” for action movies — and it shows.

“Red” was written by John and Erich Hoeber and directed by Robert Schwentke. The original graphic novel was written by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner.

“Jackass” was written by Preston Lacy and directed by Jeff Tremaine.

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In a league of their own

The men’s club golf team continues winning streak in second fall season From left, seniors Josh George and Jamey Campellone, the club’s president and vice president, have been members since 2009.

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by andrew weiser sports editor

While golfers try to select the best club before every shot, for male golfers at Ithaca College, it’s the club that’s not in their bag that gives them a competitive edge.

Founded in 2009 by Troy Kirchner ’10 and senior Josh George, the men’s club golf team has experienced notable success, dropping only one match since its inaugural season.

But in an additional effort to provide a competitive environment for members, Kirchner and George — currently the president of the club — took it one step further and founded the Central New York Collegiate Golf League.

Kirchner, who played varsity baseball his freshman year, decided to form the club after suffering a torn meniscus during summer league play in the offseason.

George, who played golf for Red Hook Senior High School in Red Hook, N.Y., contacted Kirchner after seeing a Facebook group Kirchner had created. Kirchner started the application process, while George focused on finding members and a home

course to compete on. In January 2009 they held their first organizational meeting.

“We started to reach out to people, telling everyone to call their friends,” Kirchner said.

“That’s when we started the Facebook group, we put up posters and things like that, and that’s pretty much how it started.

In addition to finding a course — the team currently plays at the Country Club of Ithaca — finding other schools was another hurdle in getting a competitive league under way, Kirchner said.

“We sent an e-mail out to at least 15 to 18 schools,” he said. “There were even some varsity programs, some junior colleges or community colleges that weren’t a part of any division or anything like that out there, and we even shot for them.”

After hearing back from Binghamton University, SUNY-Brockport, SUNY-Cortland and Syracuse University, Kirchner and George set up a schedule for the first season, which concluded with Ithaca winning the regional invitational.

The length of the team’s season hasn’t changed much in the league’s first two and is

Sophomore Archie Durfee hits a shot out of a bunker on the second hole during practice Monday at the Country Club of Ithaca. There are 12 members on the men’s club golf team this season. graham hebel/the ithacan

based on a fall portion that lasts roughly two months and a shorter spring portion. Matches are typically held on a weekly basis, with one bye week. Each of the five teams play all four other schools leading up to the regional invitational.

SUNY-Cortland senior Matt Taormino, president of the Cortland men’s club golf team, said the league provides more than just a competitive setting.

“Meeting a lot of the kids from the other teams, a lot of the kids are really cool,” Taormino said. “I like seeing the same faces and getting to experience different golf courses that we’ve never played. This gives us the opportunity to do so.”

While practice during the week is not mandatory, aside from group practices on Fridays, practice time logged on the course and each players’ commitment was evident from the team’s play in its inaugural spring season, as the team went 2–1 and won its regional invitational.

The team has maintained its streak of success, going 4–0 last fall season — with an average margin of victory of 42 strokes — and won back-to-back titles at the regional tournament. This season, the club is 1–0, having defeated Binghamton University by 45 strokes Oct. 2, and has gained attention from prospective students and golfers.

Sophomore Bobby Savino, who joined the team last spring, said he knew about the club before coming to the college and knew that it was something he wanted to get involved with.

“It gives you something to work for,” Savino said. “Once high school golf was over senior year, every time you went and played it was just, not meaningless, but there’s definitely a lot more to work for now that you have matches to work toward.”

With 16 players at tryouts this season and only 12 spots on the roster, it was the first year the team had to make cuts. Though the team only plays six players in any given match, the other members are often called on to step in if there are scheduling conflicts.

At Friday practices players pair off to play against each other, which helps keep all the members involved competitively and brings them together as a team, vice president and senior Jamey Campellone said.

“We go to the diner before [away] matches,” he said. “That tradition started when the team

started with Troy Kirchner. For home matches, everyone will just meet at the course, we hit balls together, we putt together and we know what we want to do. We’ve had so much success and want to continue it.”

Campellone said the club’s success comes from the players’ commitment and the extra work that they put in during their free time.

“When someone isn’t doing well or struggling, they’ll stay on the range and hit a bunch of balls and figure it out or go on the putting green and putt, because we’re all really serious about playing the sport,” Campellone said.

With the women’s golf team in its second season, George and Campellone said they hope there’s potential down the line for there to be a varsity program.

Mike Lindberg, associate director of intercollegiate athletics, said teams are considered for expansion based on several different elements including consistency of participation and budget cuts to existing programs.

“If the college would like to expand its program for men’s varsity sports, we would likely take a look at the existing sports clubs that we have sponsorships for — golf being one of those — and take a look at them using the criteria that we have in our manual,” he said.

But varsity athletics has requirements — one being Title IX compliance.

Traevena Byrd, associate counsel and director of equal opportunity compliance, said it’s a challenge to add men’s sports and remain in compliance with Title IX. “If there was the addition of a women’s team, or the expansion of women’s opportunities on a particular team — and that was happening at a frequency that was meeting or exceeding what the civil rights officer would expect in terms of expansion of programs and opportunities — then we would probably feel more comfortable with adding men’s golf,” Byrd said.

As the club continues to win, George said the younger players on the team have the right mentality to further the club’s development and success.

“They’re going to keep the league going and keep everything going,” George said. “Even if there is a varsity team, I’m sure there’ll be a club team. Just to keep what we started going for as long as they can would be pretty cool.”

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The Hot Corner Casey Musarra

Fightin’ chance of a rematch

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or sports fans, mid-October means one thing — postseason baseball. With the potential for a rematch between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series, Ithaca has turned into the new central Jersey.

For fans of teams other than the current American and National League champions, the thought of a rematch is monotonous, but it’s particularly painful for Mets and Red Sox fans.

“It’s tough watching both teams that I absolutely hate play each other for the World Series when the Mets don’t have a shot,” graduate student and New York Mets fan Collin Clifford said. “[Last year] I watched it, I didn’t get overly excited, I wouldn’t have been really depressed about it if the Yankees lost, but when the Yankees finally won, it was like, ‘Oh, thank God it’s over. Now I can go watch my Jets.’”

For Phillies fans, it would be tough to face either American League team in the Series, with Cliff Lee, a former Phillie, now pitching for the Texas Rangers.

“He was here for such a short amount of time, but made such a large impact,” senior and die-hard Phillies fan Alex Proujansky said.

“It would be nice to see him succeed, just not against us.”

After the deaths of George Steinbrenner, Bob Sheppard and just recently, Freddy “Sez” Schuman all in the same year, winning the Series would be as historic as ever for the 27-time champions.

“That’s one thing that the players hopefully realize is how much those three guys meant to the fans, how much they meant to the players in general,” senior Yankee fan Nick Karski said, donning his 2009 World Champion hat. “I feel like that should be some motivation to get them to win games.”

For Proujansky and his Philadelphia comrades, the worst possible outcome would be seeing the Yankees win it all again.

“The majority of people here are from New York, so even if you’re not a Yankee fan, you would be a bandwagon Yankee fan,” he said. “So people who know nothing about baseball are going to rub it in your face.”

When two of the most passionate fans face off, fights often ensue.

Even though it’s been almost a year since the Bronx Bombers and the Fightin’ Phils duked it out in the Series, Karski said there has been even more heated talk between fans throughout the season.

“The teams haven’t even played each other,” Karski said. “They haven’t even gone to the World Series. We don’t even know who’s won the LCS yet.”

With Game 5 of the NLCS set for today and Game 6 of the ALCS squared away for tomorrow, most fans have at least one thing in common — they’re on the edge of their seats. casey musarra is a senior televison-radio major. Contact her at cmusarr1@ithaca.edu.

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Bombers prepare for postseason push By harlan green-taub staff writer

After losing two of its last three games, the football team has hit a crucial point in its season.

The Bombers, coming off their bye-week, sit at 4–2 overall on the season and 1–1 in Empire 8 conference play heading into this week’s game against 5–1 Springfield College on Saturday. In order to achieve their goal of reaching the postseason, the Bombers must win eight games, which means the squad has to win the final four games of the season.

“There’s definitely a sense of urgency,” senior quarterback Rob Zappia said. “It was good to have The Bombers’ defense the bye-week to rest up, had two interceptions but at the same time you and two sacks against want to get back on the St. John Fisher College field coming off a loss.” on Oct. 9.

The team dropped its last game before the bye, falling to St. John Fisher 31–10 Oct. 9. Zappia said the players are aware of what is on the line moving forward.

“We know we’re probably going to have to go undefeated the rest of the season to reach our goal,” Zappia said. “You could really see in practice last week that guys know this is crunch time.”

Head Coach Mike Welch said it’s important to take the season one game at a time, but the next game carries a little more weight for the squad.

“We’d like to approach each week the same, but we know what’s in front of us,” Welch said. “If we want to win our league we’ve got to win this game.”

In the loss to Fisher, the Bombers gave up 473 yards of offense while having struggled all season to shut down rushing attacks, allowing 84.5 rushing yards per game.

Welch said the team will have to remain focused going into its game against Springfield, a team that is likely to run the football close to 60 times a game out of the triple option attack.

The triple option is an offensive approach that relies on three players that can potentially run the ball instead of the usual two.

“We have to change our mind-set,” Welch said. “When you face a team that is going to run as much as they do, we have to stay disciplined and stay on our assignments.”

Junior cornerback Mike Conti said the Bombers are familiar with the strategy and approach the game with the same mentality they’ve had all season.

“We know that we have to stop the run to beat

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From left, sophomore cornerback Myron Avant tries to break up a pass intended for freshman wide receiver Alex Parenta at practice yesterday at Allen Field. The Bombers are 3–0 at home this season.

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them,” Conti said. “Our plan going into every game is to make teams one-dimensional, either shutting down the pass and forcing them to run or vice versa.”

Welch said the defense must play better and not allow the big play like they have the past few games.

“The triple option is hard to defend because of the play-action pass,” Welch said. “Our secondary knows that they can’t be too aggressive in coming up to try and stop the run, but at the same time we don’t want our players to lose that edge.”

Knowing the defense must be aggressive while trying to limit mistakes has been vital in the Bombers’ approach all season, Welch said.

“The big play has been a killer for us this year,”

he said. “Our mind-set is to contain offenses and not let them stretch the field, and it’s been a bit of a struggle for us this year.”

Welch said though the triple option is a ground-based attack, it doesn’t mean the defense can completely commit to it.

“If we’re too aggressive they can beat us over the top, and we know we can’t allow that to happen,” Welch said.

Zappia said the Blue and Gold are prepared to defend their home turf, where they are 3–0 and have outscored opponents 90–40 this season.

“We’re definitely happy to be back at home,” Zappia said. “The rest of our games are must-win, and it’ll be nice to start this string of games at home.”

Squad’s defense leads way while battling injuries by jesse cases

assistant sports editor

Despite injuries to several starters this season, the women’s soccer team’s defense is leading a squad that has allowed the fewest number of goals in the league.

In the Blue and Gold’s 13 games this season, the squad’s defense has allowed only six goals while not giving up more than one in any game on the Bombers’ way to a 11–2 start.

Head Coach Mindy Quigg said the team’s success on defense doesn’t just come from having strong defenders in the back but from defending as a team all over the field.

“We spend a lot of time focusing on our team defense, and our defense starts with our strikers,” Quigg said.

“We don’t just depend on our backs and our goalkeeper to keep the ball out of the net.”

Though the Bombers’ team defense has been strong this season, the Blue and Gold have had to adjust to several injuries to defenders. Junior starting midfielder/defensive backs Marla Schilling and Andi Roach and substitute sophomore Kathleen Kamerzel have all had knee injuries this season.

Quigg said Schilling, Roach and Kamerzel will not be returning to the field this season.

The injuries forced the Bombers to make several changes to their start-

Senior defensive back Andrea Janda controls the ball in the South Hill squad’s 7–0 victory against Hartwick College yesterday at Carp Wood Field.

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ing lineup, including moving players such as sophomore midfielder/back Megan Palladino from the midfield back to defense.

Palladino said playing defense isn’t new to her because she played defense throughout high school.

She said players will need to work harder for the team to continue its prior success.

“People are going to have to step up,” Palladino said. “We have a big group of girls and everyone is talented so people just need to step up their

game and show us that they deserve to be out there.”

Though the team has been forced to make changes, senior defensive back Andrea Janda said it will be able to compensate for the injuries.

“We’ve practiced with the new players back there,” Janda said. “We know their style of play. We definitely miss having two starters, but we’ll still be just as solid with the people we have back there now.”

Since Schilling went out with the first of the three injuries in the team’s 1–0 loss to SUNY-Cortland on Sept.

25, the team has allowed just one goal, which came in a 2–1 road win over Misericordia University on Oct. 6.

Quigg said one thing that will make the transition to playing with different starters easier is keeping the strategy the same.

“We’ve been teaching the same concepts from day one,” Quigg said.

“It’ll just look a little different with different personalities and different strengths and weaknesses.”

Graduate student midfielder/back Liz Masucci said the work the team has put in focusing on team defense will help them make the transition to using new defensive players.

“We take a lot of pride in defense and working as a unit,” Masucci said.

“Just playing with each other and repetition makes it so we know what to do in most situations on the field.”

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Bombers’ communication strengthens offense The team also communicates by making funny or silly faces to lighten the mood on the court when there is a bad set. Thoene said they work best when they are laughing or having a good time in a game.

“The most important communication that we use is to pick each other up when we make a mistake,” she said. “By saying things like, ‘you’ve got the next one’ and making eye contact with each other, we have been able to connect more on the court and move on from our mistakes faster.”

The Bombers have had more discussions about how they are feeling this year and have a team chemistry that will contribute to winning more this season, Woodcome said.

“We really are trying to push the chemistry we have off the court onto the court,” she said.

“Communication is a huge part of that cohesive bond that we’re getting better at but still striving more for. We always want to play as a team and not just play to win.”

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From left, sophomore setter Marissa Woodcome watches freshman setter Sydney Folk set the ball to junior middle blocker Kate Thoene in the Bombers’ win over SUNY-Oneonta on Tuesday. casey musarra/the ithacan

“We go out together, do team bonding activities and eat lunch together during the day and then have team dinners,” Woodcome said. “We always make it a point to get to know each other so getting along on the court is easier.”

Freshman setter Sydney Folk said Brody and Corinna Doctor ’10, who was a member of the volleyball team for four years as an undergraduate and has assisted in practice this

season, have helped fix steps in the offense by working with the hitters and setters.

Folk said the team’s communication is vital in allowing Woodcome and her to set up other players for better hits.

“We’re both also getting more comfortable with the hitters,” Folk said. “We are working on getting them their favorite set — a ball they know they will be able to put away.”

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For the volleyball team, constant talking at practice and in competition is anything but a distraction.

Racking up 1,024 kills on offense so far this year and ranking sixth in the Empire 8 conference in total kills, the Blue and Gold have found their stride by focusing on communication and making smarter plays at the net, junior middle blocker Kate Thoene said.

“Our team has grown a lot this season in that department,” she said. “Our back row talks to us in the front row when we’re hitting, allowing us to use smart shots to place the ball where we’ll get the point.”

Sophomore setter Marissa Woodcome said communication is key after every point.

“The team also comes to the center of the court after each point and will quickly talk strategy and tell each other what they can do to fix the block or how to stop particular hitters tendencies on the other side,” Woodcome said.

Another key factor that has influenced the Bombers’ offensive approach this season is the team’s new assistant coach, Katie Brody. Brody is a 2006 alumna of Binghamton University where she led the Bearcats in total kills with 428 and kills per set at 3.63 her senior year.

Thoene said Brody’s experience as a college player is what helps her give the offense good coaching advice.

“Our new assistant coach Katie has been instrumental in helping us as offensive players,” Thoene said. “During practice she helps us with our technique and ball placement, and she understands that every player is different. She has a ton of experience as a college player, and the whole team highly respects her and listens to her advice.”

Woodcome said the team is always thinking and anticipating the next shot this season and athletes have their heads in the game together.

Woodcome said Head Coach Janet Donovan has been pushing communication off the court as well.

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Look online for game stories from these sports: TOMORROW

• 3 p.m. Volleyball vs. Hartwick College at Empire 8 Crossover in Ben Light Gymnasium • 4:30 p.m. Men’s and women’s cross country at Cornell University’s Reif Invitational in Ithaca, N.Y. • 5:30 p.m. Volleyball vs. St. John Fisher College at Empire 8 Crossover in Ben Light Gymnasium

SATURDAY

• Noon. Women’s soccer vs. Nazareth College at Carp Wood Field • Noon. Volleyball vs. Alfred University at Empire 8 Crossover in Ben Light Gymnasium • 1 p.m. Football vs. Springfield College at Butterfield Stadium • 1 p.m. Field hockey vs. Washington and Jefferson College at Yavits Field • 2:30 p.m. Women’s tennis at Empire 8 Semifinals at Reis Tennis Center at Cornell University • 2:30 p.m. Men’s soccer vs. Rochester Institute of Technology at Carp Wood Field • 4 p.m. Men’s and women’s cross country at New York State Collegiate Track Conference Championships in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. • 5 p.m. Volleyball vs. Stevens Institute of Technology at Empire 8 Crossover in Ben Light Gymnasium

SUNDAY

• 9 a.m. Women’s tennis at Empire 8 Finals at Reis Tennis Center at Cornell University. Matchups based on Saturday’s results.

wednesday

• 3:30 p.m. Women’s soccer vs. SUNY-Oneonta at Carp Wood Field • 4 p.m. Field hockey at SUNY-Geneseo Bold = Home game zac blitz/the ithacan

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bombers to watch Senior Justin Parlapiano men’s soccer

Parlapiano recorded six saves in a 1–0 loss against Utica College on Saturday then made a career-high 14 saves in the team’s 1–1 tie against St. Lawrence University on Sunday.

Parlapiano has now recorded 73 saves this season. The Bombers are 3–7–4 with three games left in the season.

freshman Amanda Failla golf

Failla led the golf team to a school record team single-round score of 350 in the first round of the Nazareth University Invitational on Sunday. Failla posted a score of 84 on the first day then shot an 88 on Monday as the Bombers finished second to Allegheny College.

Pedal to the metal

Participants in the Group Cycling class in the Fitness Center aerobics room ride along as instructor Masha Proshutina leads. The Fitness Center also offers Butt & Gut, Cardio Kickboxing, Indian Dance, Power Hour, TNT and Zumba classes.

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Nunez won the first singles title as the 16th seeded player at the 2010 New York State Division III Women’s Tennis Championships with a 6–3, 6–1 in over top-seeded Lia Weiner from the University of Rochester on Sunday. Nunez is now 15–1 in singles matches this season.

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The total number of goals the women’s soccer team has allowed in its first 12 games this season. See story on page 24.

The number of points the football team has outscored opponents by while not losing a game at home this season.

See story on page 24.

One thing about him — when you look into his eyes, you always know you have a chance to win ball games.

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Weird news from the wide world of sports

There are few moments in hockey as sweet to players as scoring great goals or laying out opponents with a devastating hit. Edmonton Oilers left winger Dustin Penner managed to do both Saturday in the team’s 5–3 loss against the Calgary Flames — on the same play. Just 22 seconds into the second period, Penner took a pass from center Sam Gagner and rifled it toward the goal. The shot went high and to the right, but with the help of a deflection off Flames defenseman Ian White’s face, the puck found itself trickling into the back of the net past goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff. The best part is White also took a puck to the face while playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs last season on almost a year to the day earlier. White might want to consider wearing a helmet that includes face protection.

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Going in for the kill

Junior middle blocker Kate Thoene makes a hit at the net in the Bombers’ 3–1 (25–23, 25–23, 21–25, 25–17) victory on senior night against SUNY-Oneonta on Tuesday in Ben Light Gymnasium. The South Hill squad is 15–11 this season and will open the Empire 8 Crossover, its final home invitational of the season, against Hartwick College at 3 p.m. Friday. casey musarra/the ithacan