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College remembers departed student with sci-fi challenge

City debates lease changes by sage daugherty staff writer

studied at the Ithaca College London Center.

She also worked for local favorite Purity Ice Cream and Ithaca College Dining Services, and she was a dedicated member of the college’s Harry Potter Alliance.

Katharine Kittredge, professor of English and one of the advisers of the Tori Cup, said

Like clockwork, the crazy rush to find housing and re-sign leases on South Hill and in Collegetown begins every August and September. However, an ordinance is on the table to potentially mitigate the process.

The Ithaca Common Council is considering an ordinance that would enact a 60-day waiting period before landlords could look for new tenants or renew leases with current tenants. The 60-day period can be waived if both the landlord and tenant agree in writing to bypass the waiting period.

Supporters of the ordinance said if passed, the proposal would give students and other renters time to settle into their apartments and see if they are satisfied with their current living situation before facing the decision to renew their lease for the upcoming school year.

Graham Kerslick, common council liaison to the Rental Housing Advisory Commission and representative of the Fourth Ward, drafted the proposal after consulting with officials in Ann Arbor, Mich., who enacted a similar ordinance in response to complaints by students at the University of Michigan.

The Ann Arbor legislation has a fixed waiting period of 70 days. Kerslick

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Senior Ashlyn Velte, coordinator of the Tori Cup, hosts a practice session of the sci-fi challenge last Thursday, as members of team Science Fiction Whiz Kids, seniors Kyle Riether, Sarah Perry and Rachel Rothenberg, and junior Calvin Chestnut, help test the buzzer system that will be used for the event. noreyana fernando/the ithacan

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Four months after Ithaca College junior Victoria “Tori” Howell died in a car accident, the college is revisiting and celebrating Howell’s life by celebrating her passion for all things fantasy and science fiction.

The college will host the inaugural Tori Cup: Fantasy and Science Fiction Challenge

on Friday, when teams of students from local middle schools, high schools and colleges will come together to test their knowledge of sci-fi and fantasy.

The Tori Cup is named in honor of Howell, 20, who died after being rushed to the hospital following the Dec. 30 car accident in Dryden.

Howell was an English major with a minor in psychology. During the fall of 2011, she

Public Safety hosts venue for discussion by kelsey o'connor editor in chief

Anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered in East Tower on April 21.

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Anti-Semitism hits East Tower by jacob greenberg contributing writer

Two members of Alpha Epsilon Pi, an international Jewish fraternity, woke on April 21 to find “666,” “Heil

Hitler” and a swastika in dripping red paint defacing their door.

Though the occupants

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Year in review The Ithacan's annual recap has officially hit stands across campus.

It’s no secret that half the reason people pick up The Ithacan is to read the Public Safety Log, either looking for names of friends or just to muse over the Explore logs strangest crimes from this past of the week. academic year Looking back at psl.theithaat the past aca- can.org demic year, some of the most common occurrences reported in the Public Safety Log were fire alarms, criminal mischief, larceny, medical assists and found property. To keep the community aware of trends in incidents on campus, this week The Ithacan launched a searchable Public Safety Log database, a new ongoing interactive that is more accessible than the weekly list of logs on page nine. It is sortable by crime, date and location and will be updated weekly.

Also this week, in what might be the first of many opportunities for dialogue, the Office of Public Safety held an open forum, titled Conversations With Public Safety, where students could ask anything

The Office of Public Safety along with other organizations held a forum Tuesday where students could ask questions and have a dialogue with safety officials. tucker mitchell/the ithacan

to college safety officials.

The event was a partnership among Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the Student Government Association and the Center for Health Promotion. Questions of how crimes are classified, student privacy, the Clery Act and why Public Safety discloses the amount of information it does were put on the table.

On Tuesday, about 25 people attended the informal forum to speak

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with officials in attendance, including Terri Stewart, director of public safety and emergency management; Investigator Tom Dunn; Mike Leary, assistant director of judicial affairs; two patrol officers: Bill Kerry and Brad Bates; Nancy Reynolds, Health Promotion Center director; and three members of Student Auxiliary

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Students question campus accessibility By kristen tomkowid staff writer

Traveling from the Center for Health Sciences to the TC Lounge takes about five to seven minutes on foot, but the same journey may take four times longer for a person in a wheelchair.

Students in the Applied Interventions in Occupational Therapy class in the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance are required to spend 48 hours in a manual wheelchair as a part of their semester-long course.

Michelle Bradshaw, assistant professor of occupational therapy who teaches the course, said the purpose of this assignment is to allow future occupational therapists to see what their clients in wheelchairs go through each day.

“Our OT students brought in their perspectives and understand that it’s a growth opportunity,” Bradshaw said. “A part of it was what muscles do you use to propel the chair, and another part was how did you feel differently, how did things change based on how much time it took to get to class and those sorts of things.”

There are more than 15 staircases on Ithaca College’s hilly campus and about five ramps close to the stairs to help people with physical disabilities get around easier.

However, Dan Williams, adaptive technology specialist at the college, who uses a power wheelchair, said the campus is accessible to those in wheelchairs.

“It is surprisingly more accessible than you would think,” he said. “There are definitely ways to get around campus that just take a few minutes more.”

He said some of the ramps might be harder to spot. He also said there are more signs and more accessible entrances on the campus today, compared to in the past.

Ramps and alternative pathways take longer time than the roads most students use, but some of them are also falling apart. Senior occupational therapy major Matthew Pappadia, who was a part of the OT class project, said this makes them harder to maneuver for those in wheelchairs.

“The majority of ramps were cracked and caused my wheelchair to get stuck,” Pappadia said.

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Senior Mika Millirien's wheelchair sits at the icy road that leads up to Terrace 3. Millirien was part of an Occupational Therapy class project that required her to spend 48 hours using a wheelchair. courtesy of mika millirien

While in the wheelchair, Millirien said, not many people stopped to help her when she was having trouble moving around.

“I had a lot of people looking at me like, ‘what is this girl doing in a wheelchair,’” she said. “Not a lot of people stopped and helped. They would see me struggling with a door, and they’d just wait. I hear it’s gotten a lot better.”

Pappadia said he remembers struggling to get uphill while he was using his wheelchair.

“Pushing myself uphill, downhill and in and out of buildings were the most demanding tasks I faced in the chair,” he said. “I remember trying to get to the Fitness Center, pushing uphill as a tour group walked past. They smiled at me, I smiled back, as inside my head I was cursing and trying not to cheat the project. I was so frustrated I didn’t have the endurance to push myself that I had forgotten the tour group was right beside me. They stared at me, in shock, as I threw a temper tantrum, jumped off of the chair and pushed it the rest of the way up the hill. I believe that had been

when the tour guide added that Ithaca College was completely wheelchair accessible.”

He said the 48-hour experience made him feel like a different person.

“The wheelchair experience took me from feeling like an individual among a population of colleagues to feeling like an individual in a completely different population itself,” he said.

Jean Celeste-Astorina, a student disability specialist at the college, said she, along with Student Disabilities Services and the Office of the Registrar, try to move classes closer together to reduce the time it takes it takes to travel between them for the people with disabilities on campus.

Milliren said she noticed that the Campus Center dining hall is the only handicap accessible dining area. The two others only have stairs into or out of the facility.

After her two-day experience, Millren said she believes campus is not wheelchair-friendly.

“Being on this campus in a wheelchair doesn’t work,” she said.

IC begins construction for summer projects by lisa famularo staff writer

As the academic year comes to a close, college officials are shifting their focus toward summer construction projects that will take place across campus.

The construction projects include the installation of a bike shelter, renovations to the Hill Center and building a new converged media space. Steve Dayton, director of facilities planning, said other projects planned for this summer include boiler replacements around campus, residence director apartment renovations and a sizeable project in the James J. Whalen Center for Music, involving a revamp of Ford Hall. All of these summer renovations are expected to amount to about $4 million.

Located outside of Williams Hall, the Bomber Bikes shelter, which will house up to 16 bikes, was recently completed. Lauren Goldberg, president of Bomber Bikes, said the idea for the project came from faculty who are bike enthusiasts and who ride their bikes to campus.

Bomber Bikes submitted a capital request proposal, which was approved by Carl Sgrecci, vice president of finance and administration, Goldberg said. The shelter itself is a commercial model from Velodome, a vendor of bicycle parking systems, shelters and racks. The shelter con-

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struction project cost $1,600. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at noon Tuesday. “[The purpose is] also just to convince people that bikes are really awesome,” Goldberg said. “It can be just as fun riding a bike when you’re 22 or 23 as it was when you were 7 or 8 years old. We’re really just hoping to promote bike culture on campus and support those cyclists who are already looking to ride their bike to campus.”

The bike shelter is meant for short-term storage for bike commuters in particular. Goldberg said Bomber Bikes also provides indoor long-term storage for students who want to keep their bikes out of the weather for a long period of time.

Storage costs $15 during winter break through the end of spring break or $10 for storage either just through winter break or from Jan. 20 through the end of spring break.

Richard Couture, associate vice president of facilities, said the Hill Center was at the top of the list of buildings that needed renovations.

This is what the college is focusing on now that the new construction of the School of Business building, the Peggy Ryan Williams Center and the Athletics and Events Center is complete.

Couture said the project is following the original planned budget of about $15.5 million and is still on schedule to be finished by the end of December.

From left, Smitty James and Mike Whane work on the Bomber Bikes shelter outside of Williams Hall. Now completed, it holds up to 16 bicycles.

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In response to the complaints about the noise and the dust, Couture said facilities is trying to take as many precautions as possible.

“We’re going to add classrooms, multipurpose rooms that don’t exist right now,” Couture said. “We’re going to be converting the old indoor pool area to a very large athletic training area that will be used both by the athletic department and the school of HSHP, so I think that will be a very nice facility.”

Couture also said the renovations to the electrical system, the plumbing system and the heating and air conditioning systems in addition to the new exterior on the building will improve the energy efficiency and reduce util-

ity costs of the building dramatically.

The Roy H. Park School of Communications will also undergo renovations this summer, Dayton said. The office for The Ithacan will be moved from its current location in Park 269 to the Northeast corner of the building, taking over rooms 219 and 220. It will also be a collaborative space with ICTV. The old office of The Ithacan will be converted into a classroom. The project is expected to begin in June and be completed by August.

Dayton said students and faculty that he has spoke with support the renovations.

“Everybody that we’ve talked to when we were setting this up was all for it,” Dayton said.

said the legislation in Ann Arbor didn’t achieve what it was put in place for, mostly because tenants didn’t know about the rule.

Kerslick said the proposal is essentially meant to give both tenants and landlords time to think about their living situation before both parties make additional commitments.

“That really gives the existing tenants and the landlords time to get to know each other a little bit, check out the living situation and then decide if they really want to renew,” he said. “It’s a little unfair for people to commit for the year before they really know what the living situation is like.”

Mitch Paine, a member of the Board of Public Works and the RHAC, said for a normal housing market in a college town like Ithaca, a healthy vacancy rate is 5 to 10 percent, and that vacancy rate gives flexibility to renters. Paine said there is a housing shortage for Ithaca community members.

“The vacancy rate in Collegetown is almost zero. It’s about 1 percent, and the vacancy rate for the whole city averaged out is probably about 2.5 percent,” Paine said. “It’s just very unhealthy and very low. It causes this problem, particularly in these high-demand places like South Hill for a lot of IC students and Collegetown for a lot of Cornell students.”

Rob Flaherty, president of the Student Government Association and co-chair of the RHAC, lives off campus. Flaherty said he had prospective tenants at his door last June trying to look at his house for the upcoming 2013-14 school year. Flaherty said he thinks the proposal is a step in the right direction.

“It’s 60 days, and students usually start their lease in August, [they] won’t live there the first month and then come [back to Ithaca] the last week in August, so really, it’s only 30 days. Thirty days is really still — it’s not perfect — but it still is a good amount of time, and it helps to stop from starting [leasing agreements] earlier and earlier,” Flaherty said.

The proposal was discussed first at the planning committee’s April 8 meeting. The proposal is now circulating for comment, public input and input from city staff at meetings or via email.

After that step, the proposal will go back to the planning committee at 6 p.m. May 8 for more discussion based on the input of the community, and they will vote on whether to send it to the Common Council. If the proposal goes to Council, Kerslick said it would most likely be on the agenda in June.

Paine said landlords who oppose the proposal suggested the 60-day waiting period is an intrusion into their business. He said it is an intrusion, but the ordinance is flexible enough so both parties can waive the waiting period if they agree to it.

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the event would benefit people like Howell. “[Tori is] somebody who grew up in the Ithaca area loving books, loving everything that was fantasy and science fiction,” she said. “What we wanted to do was to find a way to memorialize her that would support kids who are like her, who are growing up in Ithaca loving these things and wanting to find similar kids to share their passion with.”

The event is being coordinated by senior Ashlyn Velte, who was one of Howell’s friends, and senior Jocelyn Bress. It will take place in Textor and Friends Halls and is open to the public. Organizers said they hope to make this an annual event.

Elizabeth Bleicher, associate professor of English and one of the advisers of the event, said the Tori Cup will bring together people with similar interests. “[The Tori Cup] is an opportunity to really … celebrate everything that you know, and you get celebrate with people who enjoy having that kind of knowledge,” she said.

The challenge will be a Jeopardy-style game, where teams of four will answer questions on a range of science fiction- or fantasy-related topics, such as Harry Potter and Star Trek.

The Tori Cup challenge is divided into three Junior Grace Wivell hugs a sympathizer as senior Ashlyn Velte stands close during a memorial service in Dryden. divisions: the open division challenge, which be- Jan. 23 for Ithaca College sophomore Victoria Howell, who died in a car accident durst breneiser/the ithacan gins at 9 p.m, and the middle school division and “This is the sort of event that every time we high school division challenges, which will begin Partnership’s “Spring Writes Literary Festival." at 6 p.m. As of Wednesday, four teams of four The conference will welcome participants from are working to plan it, I can’t help but think that people each had registered for the open division across different states, including California, this is the kind of thing that Tori would make us do,” she said.

Michigan and Ohio. of the event.

Furthermore, the college’s English departThe winners of the Tori Registration costs $10 Cup challenge will receive ment is also planning to name an annual book per team of four, and walkcopies of a book signed by prize after Howell. The prize will be awarded to in registrations for all the Tamora Pierce, popular sci-fi outstanding English majors or minors whose acdivisions will be accepted. author and conference key- ademic or extracurricular work reflects Howell’s Proceeds of the benefit will note speaker. The event will intellectual interests and values. go to social justice causes, Kittredge, who had worked closely with also serve free ice cream prothe college’s Harry Potter Howell during her time at the college as an vided by Purity.

Alliance and This Star Won’t Howell’s mother, Ruth, English major, said planning the Tori Cup kept Go Out, a foundation which said the Tori Cup may take the memory of Howell alive. assists families with chil—grace wivell “While organizing the Tori Cup, we said Tori’s time to build a reputation. dren who have cancer.

“It’s a fabulous thing,” she name every day,” Kittredge said. “We say it in The Tori Cup challenge is said. “As an inaugural event, connection with a thing that she loves … I wasn’t a part of the college’s annual science fiction conference. This year’s conference it’s going to be a little hard to get off the ground, close to Tori as the students who are organizing title is “Pippi to Ripley: The Female Figure in Fan- but I think that with a bit more promotion, it will it — they were her best friends. I know there are still days when they miss her horribly. But I think tasy and Science Fiction” and will take place Fri- be a wonderful thing.”

Junior Grace Wivell, who is helping organize that being able to have a way to think about her day and Saturday.

The conference, which was first held in 2011, the Tori Cup, said planning the event brought that’s positive and active, instead of being sad, has been helpful.” is also sponsored by the Ithaca Community Arts back powerful memories of her friend Howell.

“This is the sort of event that every time we are working to plan it, I can’t help but think that this is the kind of thing that Tori would make us do.“

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Safety Patrol.

The evening kicked off with a game where everyone in the room answered questions on the back of recycled paper: “What is the general perception of Public Safety on campus?” and “Why are you here? What do you want to gain from coming here this evening?”

Most responses indicated that Public Safety is meant to keep the campus safe and that participants were at the forum to learn.

One of the first topics brought up was about chalking policies on campus, from which there was no real conclusion. After this discussion, the meeting grew more tense when freshman Jacob Greenberg, also an Ithacan reporter, brought up the recent “threatening graffiti” in Friends Hall, reported on April 20.

He asked why the contents of the threatening message could not be released to the community.

“When something is written that you guys feel is dangerous to us, so you alert us and let us know, I personally feel like if I don’t know what was actually said, I’m not actually alerted of anything,” Greenberg said.

Dunn replied that the reason some information is not released in the process of investigation is because it ensures that only involved people know the contents of the message.

Stewart also said if something was an imminent threat that required evacuation or taking shelter, and it was confirmed by Public Safety, that would no longer fall into Public Safety Alert territory but would be put out in an institution-wide emergency notification.

Another topic discussed was the privacy of belongings and of students when Public Safety or an official wants to enter a room. The overarching message was “constitutional rights don’t go away.” Under most circumstances, Public Safety cannot enter a room without permission.

Stewart said thefts, harassment and graffiti remain some of the most common crimes on campus.

“In my experience, those haven’t changed in the last 10 years,” Stewart said.

With evolving technology, she said, there are more venues for harassment. She said cyber theft is also becoming a hot topic of discussion.

Sophomore Adriel Miles, a co-president of SSDP along with junior Tori Gates, said the event

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“A big goal of this was to put a face to the name ‘Public Safety’ and see that these are actual people, and you can interact with them when you have concerns, and they care about you,” Miles said.

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of room 711 of East Tower — freshmen Ross Sugarman and Josh Bond — were enraged by the graffiti, they said they didn’t necessarily feel threatened.

“I do think it’s singling us out,” Sugarman said. “I don’t really feel threatened by it.”

Bond said the incident was alarming, but said he feels safe as long as the culprit leaves him, his roommate and the fraternity alone.

Most members of the Ithaca College community may not be aware of the infraction, because the college did not publicize it via a Public Safety Alert.

Public Safety Investigator Tom Dunn said the swastika graffiti incident is not considered a potentially dangerous or ongoing threat.

In a separate incident on April 20, one day before the swastika graffiti appeared, “threatening graffiti” was found in a classroom in Friends Hall.

In that instance, a Public Safety Alert was sent to the community, though Public Safety declined to release the contents of the graffiti.

As of 2006, the etching, painting, drawing or placing of a swastika on public or private property without the owner's permission is considered a felony in the state of New York and is punishable by up to four years in prison.

“Most of us would recognize a hate crime as a swastika,” Terri Stewart, director of the Office of Public Safety, said during the first open “Conversations With Public Safety” on Tuesday. However, she continued to say deciding whether to classify this incident as a hate crime is a complicated process.

In specific situations, such as hate crimes, Public Safety is required to disseminate certain information, according to the Clery Act, which is an act put in place by the Board of Education to ensure that Title IV institutions, such as Ithaca College, inform the community of select events in a timely manner.

“Whether [the swastika incident] rises to the level of a hate crime in New York state or whether that meets the threshold of a hate crime in the Clery Act are two different things,” Stewart said.

Freshman Daniel Bender, who attended the event, said he was troubled by Public Safety’s handling of the situation.

“It’s concerning to me that anti-Semitic acts occurred on campus, but the community hasn’t been alerted,” he said.

Freshman Peter Boyle, who lives next to Sugarman and Bond, said this occurrence is important for the community to know about.

“If they send out messages about broken elevators and ruined ground lounges, I think they should send a message about this,” Boyle said. “This is more important. This isn’t only an act of vandalism — it’s an act of hatred, and it’s threatening.

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“You’ve got to stay connected,” Stewart said. “People have to come and feel that they’re safe and get to say what they want to say, and we’re accountable. I think the dialogue needs to be a little difficult.”

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Nation&World Dozens injured in Syrian bombing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made a rare public appearance at a Damascus power station on Wednesday, while two bombs exploded near the city center, killing one and wounding more than two dozen people, the Syrian Arab news agency reported.

Syrian Arab News Agency said a 10-yearold boy was killed and 28 people were wounded, some seriously, in Wednesday’s attack, when improvised explosive devices went off in Khalid Bin Walid street and the nearby Bab Mesalla square. SANA said the bombs were planted by “terrorists,” a term the government uses to describe rebels fighting to topple the Syrian leader.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, however, said the Bab Mesalla explosion was near a police station and due to rocket fire. It said the blast left casualties, but it did not have figures on dead or wounded. It also said several people, including children, were wounded in the explosion on Khalid Bin Walid street.

Bolivia removes US aid agency

Bolivian President Evo Morales acted on a longtime threat Wednesday and expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development for allegedly seeking to undermine Bolivia’s leftist government. Morales scolded the top U.S. diplomat for calling Latin America the U.S.’s “backyard.”

In the past, Morales has accused the agency of funding groups that opposed his policies, including a lowlands indigenous federation that organized protests against a Morales-backed highway through the TIPNIS rainforest preserve.

While Morales did not provide evidence of USAID meddling, funds channeled through it have been used in Bolivia and its leftist ally Venezuela to support organizations deemed a threat by those governments.

Mass funeral held in Bangladesh

Dozens of Bangladeshi garment workers were buried in a mass funeral Wednesday, a week after the eight-story building they worked in collapsed, killing at least 410 people and injuring thousands.

Hundreds of mourners attended the traditional Muslim funeral, and many more looked on from the roofs of nearby buildings as the bodies were brought to the graveyard on the backs of flatbed trucks.

Workers at the cemetery have dug several long rows of graves, as authorities expect to bury more unidentified bodies in the coming days.

Five garment factories were housed in the illegally constructed Rana Plaza building that collapsed April 24, five months after a fire killed 112 people at another clothing factory.

The tragedies exposed the unsafe conditions plaguing Bangladesh’s $20 billion-a-year garment industry, which supplies many European and American retailers.

Religious tension hits Myanmar

One day after hundreds of Buddhists armed with bricks stormed a clutch of Muslim villages in the closest explosion of sectarian violence yet to Myanmar’s main city, Yangon, newly displaced Muslims combed through the wasteland of their wrecked lives, too fearful of more attacks even to leave.

The casualty toll from Tuesday’s assaults is one dead and nine injured. Police have detained 18 attackers who destroyed 157 homes and shops and at least two mosques in the town of Okkan, 50 miles north of Yangon, and three outlying villages.

Human rights groups have recently accused the president of Myanmar’s administration of failing to crack down on Buddhist extremists, as violence has spread closer to Yangon, at times overwhelming riot police who have stood by as machete-wielding crowds attacked Muslims and their homes.

More Boston suspects charged

Two men who attended college with the younger Boston Marathon suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been charged with conspiring to obstruct justice and have waived bail.

Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev appeared in court Wednesday and agreed to voluntary detention.

Their next hearing is scheduled for May 14.

A third man, Robel Phillipos, is charged with making false statements to federal investigators.

May Day for pay day

Students shout revolutionary slogans and wave Cuban flags during the May Day march in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba on Wednesday. May Day is an international day of protests, strikes and other demonstrations held in support of labor union movements since 1891.

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He awaits a court appearance.

An FBI affidavit says the three men removed a backpack belonging to Tsarnaev from his dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth three days after the bombing.

Iraq investigates violent protests

The Sunni head of a committee, which was established to investigate deadly clashes that erupted at a protest camp in Iraq last week, said Wednesday he believes excessive force was used by security that tried to make arrests among anti-government demonstrators.

The April 23 clashes sparked a wave of violence across Iraq that has killed more than 230 people, posing the most serious threat to Iraq’s stability since the last American troops left in December 2011.

Sectarian attacks and clashes have been on the upswing in Iraq, which could lead to a return to the bloody fighting in the last decade that approached a state of civil war.

Many from Iraq’s Sunni minority say they are marginalized and discriminated against by the Shiite-led government.

Scoring glitches postpone tests

School districts across several states are rescheduling high-stakes tests that judge student proficiency and determine teachers’ pay because of technical problems involving the test administrators’ computer systems.

Students in Indiana, Minnesota and Oklahoma have been kicked offline multiple times during testing in recent weeks, raising concerns about the impact on their scores.

School officials said there was no room for error on the tests that states are spending millions of dollars on and for which teachers and students are held accountable. Teachers in Indiana are especially concerned because their merit pay is based on their students’ test performance.

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Hillel director retires after 31 years at the college Michael Faber, Jewish chaplain and director of the Ithaca College chapter of the international Hillel Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, is retiring this summer after 31 years at the college. He has seen the college grow and change in size, technology and cost, and he said it’s time for new blood in Hillel.

Hillel is an international Jewish Life community that educates students on Judaism, contemporary Jewish society and modern and ancient Jewish history.

In addition to being the director of Hillel and teaching modern Hebrew, Faber has taught meditation for 13 years. Faber will continue to teach the meditation course in the School of Music as an instructor two days a week at the college in Fall 2013.

Staff Writer Michael Tkaczevski spoke with Faber about his time at the college and in Hillel.

Michael Tkaczevski: What was Ithaca College like 31 years ago?

Michael Faber: At the time, there weren’t any more than 4,500 students, and J.J. Whalen was the president of the college. I started on July 1, 1982.

The philosophy of education at the time was that the schools were separate from each other. It was difficult to do any kind of interdisciplinary study here at the time.

I had an IBM Selectric typewriter, if you know what a typewriter is. Making fliers or brochures [involved] literally cutting and pasting.

The technology has completely changed, but everything was done by hand in those days.

There was no chapel secretary

at the time. The college wasn’t sure what its relationship was with Muller Chapel and the chaplains.

MT: How and why did you come to Ithaca College?

MF: I moved to Ithaca in April 1979 with no intention of starting a career in Jewish Life. In the spring of 1982, I was hired to work part-time with the community and to lead services.

Within a year, I told [the college], “If you want this job done right, it’s not part-time. It really needs to be fulltime during the academic year.”

MT: Tell me more about Hillel.

MF: Unlike other religious communities housed here [in Muller Chapel], Hillel is also very much a cultural and social community.

Jewish is a not religion. Jewish is a people, Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. Jewish people see themselves not as a race but as an ethnicity. You can walk around this campus and you’ll meet some very proudly Jewish students who ... are not so interested in the religion of the Jewish people, but they are interested in each other and the social and cultural identity. Hillel works on that level as well as the religious level. There’s an effort to do a lot of social programming on this campus. For some people, Lag BaOmer is a religious holiday, but it’s mostly a secular holiday. Students are interested in each other socially and culturally. But almost everybody in the current generation of students has lost interest in the practice of Judaism.

From left, Michael Faber and junior Jason Kleban celebrate Faber's retirement at a social event outside Muller Chapel on Sunday. The event included food, a bonfire and a celebration of Faber's time at Ithaca College.

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MT: Why do you think, at least recently, that Jewish students have moved away from their religion?

MF: One big reason is that young people these days have multiple identities, and Jewish is just one of them. Hillel is trying to get students to exercise that [identity].

Second, I think Judaism needs, in every generation, to find a way to renew itself. We don’t have such great religious leaders or teachers these days. There needs to be new light in Judaism, and it needs to be introduced into the mainstream.

Outside of Israel, much of Jewish identity is built on your relationship to Israel and the Holocaust.

It’s a flimsy way to build an identity … There’s a negative aspect to the identity, and it isn’t a way to build a positive, life-affirming identity. It’s a way to build a paranoid identity.

MT: What academic courses have you taught?

MF: I teach meditation because of the chaotic nature of life these days: how noisy things are, how pulled everyone is in 17 directions

at once, how unfocused minds are and how the emphasis of education is on accomplishment.

MT: What are the best memories of your time at the college?

MF: Over the years, there have been students who are very active in Hillel and who have won Campus Life Awards. They brought some leadership skills to this community that they also applied to a lot of other things on campus ... I’ve stayed around for so long because the hospitality has been very open and generous and kind.

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Meet the SGA executive board

Name: Cedrick-Michael Simmons Year: Junior Major: Sociology Minor: African Diaspora Studies Position: President

Get to know next year's leaders of the student body

by Sabrina Knight Assistant News Editor

Ithaca College’s campaign group IC Students First, which was recently elected as the executive Watch the audio board of the Student slideshow at Government Associ- theithacan. ation for the 2013-14 org/32534. academic year, is seeking to connect more with students and

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spread awareness about how the student government can help the campus community. Group members said they wants to foster increased student participation in the SGA, especially for when it comes to talking about policies that affect students.

On April 18, the SGA hosted an election debate where candidates running for the SGA executive board, senior class executive board and school and class senators discussed issues concerning students and the campus.

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“As president of Student Government Association, we can do amazing things to help support [the initiatives of clubs and organizations] as much as we can. We can do a variety of things to not only support and work with student organizations, but also bring as much awareness and analysis about the policies that impact a lot of students on campus [and] bring those to the discussions as well.”

Name: Isuru Somasinghe Year: Sophomore Major: Politics MINOR: Legal Studies and German Position: Vice President of Academic Affairs

Name: Matt Orama Year: Sophomore Major: Sociology MINOR: African Diaspora Studies Position: Vice President of Business & Finance

“My role in this position is to voice concerns to the administrative staff, and with my ability to sit on committees like the Academic Policy Committee and to put students on such committees, I feel that we can push forward policies that are more favorable to the students.”

"Our vision was to just get the name of SGA out there, be visible, market our senate meetings and try to get students to come so they are actively involved, they're aware and just make sure that students are more involved with our government association.”

Name: Willa Erickson Year: Junior Major: Communication Management and Design Position: Vice President of Campus Affairs

Name: Dominick Recckio Year: Freshman Major: Communication Management and Design Position: Vice President of Communications

“I ran for my position because I have started to get a lot more experience working with the campus community. [I have] had more intimate relationships being formed with students and faculty on campus. I started to look for an opportunity to expand my involvement and actually start to give back in a bigger sense.”

“I think the whole e-board has the same vision of really getting out more on campus in terms of person-to-person outreach. Going to different club meetings and offering our services ... but also being out there and being a face that students can relate with and that they feel can be a part of the bigger campus community.”

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College & City College to commemorate work of Carl Sgrecci ’69

Ithaca College will celebrate the work of Carl Sgrecci ’69, vice president of finance and administration, who is retiring after 46 years at the college this August.

The celebration will take place at 4 p.m.

Thursday in Emerson Suites A and B. SGRECCI Students, staff and faculty are invited to join the celebration, which will also feature brief speeches from current and former leaders at the college.

He joined the college in 1967 as a transfer student. After meeting his wife, Marilyn, at the college, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting in 1969. He then went on to become a faculty member and later joined the staff in 1975.

Sgrecci has also served as the college’s vice president for student affairs and campus life in 1987.

Sgrecci said he plans to visit the college occasionally to swim in the Athletics and Events Center.

To read about Sgrecci’s time at the college, beginning from when he was a student to his work now, go to theithacan.org/31694.

Volunteers to clean area hit by Hurricane Sandy

A non-profit community service group based in Ithaca, Love Knows No Bounds, will take student volunteers to Far Rockaway, Queens, and

Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. They will help clean homes and clear debris left by Hurricane Sandy from May 17 to May 19.

Hurricane Sandy hit the Far Rockaway and Sheepshead Bay areas in late October.

Many homes and businesses are still closed because of damage and debris from the storm.

Volunteers of Love Knows No Bounds will work with members of Occupy Sandy, relief workers who were part of the Occupy Wall Street movement in Fall 2012.

The group will travel by van and live in rustic accommodations. Volunteers will need to bring their own food and money for fuel.

Media professor awarded national film fellowship

Cathy Lee Crane, associate professor in the department of media arts, sciences and studies at Ithaca College, has been named a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for her 19-year caCRANE reer in narrative documentary films.

Of the 3,000 applicants, Crane was among the 175 scholars, artists and scientists who received the Guggenheim Fellowship.

Throughout her career, Crane has used 16mm film to create many of her films, which combine narrative

and documentary styles.

The foundation praised Crane for her innovative style and biographical films that “reinvent[ed] the form.”

The foundation will support Crane’s upcoming project, which is a historical fiction film based on the U.S.’s involvement in World War I. Crane is planning to work with students in the Cinema Production Practicum course to produce scenes for the project in the college’s Roy H. Park School of Communications soundstage. This project will commence in the Spring 2014 semester.

Congress provides funds for local air traffic control

Republican Congressman Tom Reed announced Friday that the “Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013” had passed with a bipartisan total of 361-41.

The act is designed to restore funding to national air traffic control programs, including the Ithaca program, according to a press release.

The policy will allocate funds to the Department of Transportation as well as the Federal Aviation Administration for 149 air traffic control towers, including the control tower at the Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport.

The act was proposed in response to the FAA’s initial plan to close the 149 air traffic control towers and to furlough the air traffic controllers.

Congress said the act adds some relief to the sequester, a series of funding cuts to government programs, which included furloughing

Public Safety Incident Log APRIL 17 Criminal mischief LOCATION: Circle Lot 8 SUMMARY: Person reported unknown subject scratched vehicle. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Jeremiah McMurray.

Lost property LOCATION: Unknown SUMMARY: Caller reported keys lost.

Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock.

April 18 Theft of services LOCATION: Terraces SUMMARY: Caller reported people not paying taxi fare. Two people judicially referred for theft of services and irresponsible use of alcohol. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

Trespass LOCATION: Smiddy Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported unknown person left personal items in locked building. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Bruce Thomas.

Criminal tampering LOCATION: East Tower SUMMARY: Caller reported unknown person forced open locker and tampered with property. Investigation pending. Sergeant Ronald Hart.

Conduct code violation LOCATION: Substation Road SUMMARY: Officer reported wallet found with fictitious licenses. One person judicially referred for possession of fictitious licenses. Patrol Officer Jeremiah McMurray.

Larceny LOCATION: Fitness Center SUMMARY: A caller reported an unknown person stole a bag. Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

Medical assist LOCATION: Hammond Health Center SUMMARY: A caller reported that a person who was being treated for a mental health condition might become violent. The person was transported to CMC by ambulance. Master Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock.

April 19 Larceny LOCATION: Campus Center SUMMARY: A caller reported that an unknown subject stole several boxes of T-shirts. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Robert Jones.

Unlawful poss. of marijuana LOCATION: Circle Apartments SUMMARY: Simplex reported a fire alarm. Activation caused by three people smoking marijuana. They were judicially referred for unlawful possession of marijuana. Patrol Officer Jay VanVolkinburg.

Conduct code violation LOCATION: Circle Apartments SUMMARY: Officer reported fire alarm activation caused by people smoking marijuana. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Robert Jones.

V&T violation LOCATION: Textor Circle SUMMARY: An officer reported that a person was driving recklessly in parking

lot with a person clinging to the hood.

The officer issued a uniform traffic ticket for Town of Ithaca Court. These two people were also judicially referred for conduct code violation. Patrol Officer Jeremiah McMurray.

Fire alarm accidental LOCATION: Circle Apartments SUMMARY: Simplex reported fire alarm.

Activation caused by person smoking.

System reset. Patrol Officer Robert Jones.

Criminal mischief LOCATION: Circle Lot 8 SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person scratched a vehicle. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Jeremiah McMurray.

Fire alarm accidental LOCATION: Terraces SUMMARY: Simplex reported fire alarm.

Activation caused by burnt food. System reset. Sergeant Dirk Hightchew.

April 20 Conduct code violation LOCATION: East Tower SUMMARY: A caller reported that an intoxicated person passed out. The intoxicated person declined medical assistance and was judicially referred for irresponsible use of alcohol. Patrol Officer Daniel Austic.

Case status change LOCATION: Circle Apartments SUMMARY: Officer reported identifying people who had been smoking marijuana. The smoking caused fire alarm to go off in Circle Apartments on April 19.

Two people judicially referred for unlawful

air traffic controllers.

The furloughs caused thousands of delayed flights last week across the nation.

The FAA announced that increased funding allowed it to rescind the furlough and return its staff to their positions April 21.

US advertising federation welcomes IC professor

Scott Hamula, associate professor and chair of the department of strategic communication, has been invited onto the National Education Executive Committee of the American Advertising Federation.

During his three-year term, Hamula will represent pub- HAMULA lic schools in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Delaware.

NEEC, which comprises nationally recognized advertising professors and professionals, leads the AAF’s educational programs, including the National Student Advertising Campaign, Alpha Delta Sigma Honor Society and student advertising internship programs.

The AAF represents more than 40,000 professionals and provides college students with information on recruitment connections in the advertising industry.

The organization has chapters on more than 200 college campuses,

including the Ithaca College campus, and more than 6,500 student members across the nation.

Student group sells roses to benefit Relay For Life

IC Hope, the student team for the Tompkins County Relay For Life, is taking orders for its second annual rose bush sale to raise funds for Relay For Life, a benefit event of the American Cancer Society.

IC Hope will be selling 45 cherry red roses to customers for $20.

Roses will be ready for customers by Mother’s Day on May 12.

Last year, IC Hope sold roses to raise money for cancer research.

Anyone interested in ordering can contact Sue DuBrava at sdubrava@ithaca.edu or 274-3620, or contact Anne Woodard at awoodard@ithaca.edu or 274-3811.

Student named finalist in national photo contest

Sophomore Elizabeth Woollard has been named a finalist in Photographer’s Forum magazine’s 33rd Annual College and High School Photography Contest sponsored by Nikon, U.S. Woollard’s abstract photo will be in the Best of College & High School Photography 2013 compilation book.

There were 16,700 submissions from high school and college students worldwide, and Woollard was one of 1,112 contestants selected as a finalist.

Woollard’s photo, as well as the other photos that won or received an honorable mention, can be viewed in the Winners Gallery at www.pfmagazine.com.

selected entries from APRIL 17 to April 21 possession of marijuana and four people judicially referred for violation of drug policy. Patrol Officer Robert Jones.

Fire alarm LOCATION: Circle Apartments SUMMARY: Simplex reported fire alarm. Activation was caused by people smoking marijuana. System reset.

Patrol Officer Jay VanVolkinburg.

Making graffiti LOCATION: Friends Hall SUMMARY: A caller reported that an unknown person wrote some threatening messages on the white board and the chalkboard in classroom. Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury.

Medical assist LOCATION: Terraces SUMMARY: Caller reported person injured finger in door. Person transported to CMC by ambulance. Master Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury.

Criminal tampering LOCATION: Terraces SUMMARY: A caller reported unknown person entered room and urinated.

Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Bruce Thomas.

Conduct code violation LOCATION: East Tower SUMMARY: A caller reported a person was having an adverse reaction to marijuana. The person declined medical assistance from the ambulance staff and was judicially referred for violating the drug policy. Patrol Officer Jay VanVolkinburg.

April 21 MVA LOCATION: Tower Skyline Drive SUMMARY: A caller reported that one car sustained damage in an MVA. Officer issued campus summons for failure to maintain lane, and vehicle was towed.

Sergeant Dirk Hightchew.

Conduct code violation LOCATION: Bogart Hall SUMMARY: A caller reported that a person passed out. Person transported to CMC by ambulance and judicially referred for irresponsible use of alcohol.

Master Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

V&T violation LOCATION: Alumni Circle SUMMARY: A caller reported an unknown person drove a vehicle through flower beds causing damage. Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury.

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

Key CMC - Cayuga Medical Center MVA - Motor Vehicle Accident V&T - Vehicle and Transportation IPD - Ithaca Police Department TCSO - Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office IFD - Ithaca Fire Department SASP - Student Auxiliary Safety Patrol

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What’s next for higher ed?

Massive open online courses are setting the stage for a more student-driven and inclusive structure of higher education, and colleges must adapt to stay relevant.

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he landmarks of the past academic year have centered on Ithaca College’s search for a future. This future is expected to blend the depth and academic rigor of classic in-the-classroom learning with the real-world applications of a more modern education.

Internet-based academia is changing the structure of higher education. Massive open online courses give anyone with Internet access the opportunity to take classes taught by professors at top universities.

MOOCs include syllabus, materials and evaluation and The American Council on Education has already accepted five courses for academic credit.

MOOCs are a tremendous development for education equality. If MOOCs continue to grow and give online courses more credibility and lower costs, the biggest threshold to higher education will be Internet access — a major shift in the global education system. MOOCs have the potential to fully democratize education and make quality learning a norm.

Though many colleges are not yet accepting MOOCs for credit, the trend of online learning is bringing more options to students. It seems like only a matter of time before traditional institutions will be forced to come to terms with MOOCs in the same way they’ve come to accept cheap online courses offered by other universities and transfer credits from community colleges. For college administrators, this means finding new ways to make more traditional education worth the cost.

Ithaca College has already begun the conversation about staying competitive as new options for higher education arise, which include satellite campuses and an integrative core curriculum. These changes are a positive first step, but must also be met with general improvements to the quality of an Ithaca College education both in and away from the classroom.

Startup online education companies are creating a business model based on what students want, and traditional education institutions must keep up. A good classroom experience cannot be replicated online. The biggest asset to a small, private college is the potential for students to be a part of a tight-knit learning community where they can build relationships with fellow students and professors. Professors who work to create effective dialogue in their classrooms and inspire students to think beyond what can be typed in a chatroom will succeed. Now, more than ever, it’s critical that college administrators ensure professors who do not make par leave their institutions. Students can easily track professor reviews online and decide to take a course online rather than sit through a semesterlong course with a professor who continues to get poor reviews from the students. Online forums for learning give students a greater voice in their education and colleges must come to terms with the shift.

Further, colleges that serve as think tanks for social and political discussion and thought will thrive despite threats from online course alternatives. Attending a traditional college is about more than lectures and quizzes. The college years should be a time where individuals develop a personalized global vision that is impacted as much by their colleagues and professors as by their environments.

MOOCs are a great supplement to higher education and should be embraced as a way to spread information and knowledge, but should not been seen as a replacement for the college experience as a whole. It is the responsibility of traditional colleges and universities to change with the times and find ways to adapt campus learning to better benefit their students.

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SNAP JUDGMENT The right fight Would you be willing to go to jail for a cause you believed in?

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“If it was a short-term thing and it was truly something I believed in and I was fighting for it, I would think it was worth it, because you’re setting an example.”

“I would not go to jail for a good cause, because jail scares me, and I don’t think I would last more than a couple of hours.”

William Gurowski, communication management and design ’13

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“I’d like to think so, but it is a lot easier said than done.”

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“If I saw something that wasn’t right and tried to stop it and ended up in jail, I’d feel good about myself knowing I did what I could to try to stop it.”

“in today’s day and age, it wouldn’t be necessary. I would be willing to risk my reputation for that cause through any articles or writings or protests I hold.”

Theresa Ferrante, Clinical Health Studies ’15

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The student voice is stifled by administration T here’s a lot of talk these days about the “value” of an Ithaca College education.

After four years here, I can say that what makes an Ithaca College education valuable is not integrated core curricula or e-portfolios, fancy new (unusable) buildings or new logos. Perhaps our greatest asset, beyond educational resources, is our strong, passionate and unique community.

I’m proud to have been a part of it for the last four years and, of course, for many more to come.

But here’s the thing: For a college that claims to produce students that are “civically engaged,” it’s doing a pretty terrible job of letting us be engaged in campus civics. Perhaps the college would do well to have some faith in its product.

You all know the story. We’re being challenged by shifting markets, growing competition for students and the increasing price barrier higher education has built for the last 50 years. If we don’t do something to make Ithaca College more attractive in both experience and in cost, we’re in trouble. This year, the college’s administration took a number of steps to take this school in what it perceived to be the right direction. IC 20/20 was a play at bolstering quality, and the Huron proposals that are now moving to the president’s desk for approval aim to make Ithaca College more affordable.

No one is questioning the need for change, but what needs to be questioned is the way that the changes happen. We lack the campus leadership to bring the community together to come up with solutions that work for all of us. A quick read through The Ithacan this year would bring up quotes from the campus community decrying “top-down leadership,” “corporatism” and a shift toward “we know best” governance. Our culture is shifting — and a lot of us aren’t happy.

That culture shift starts at the top. Being a college president is more than putting on a twotone school-colored tie and speaking in platitudes about institutional vision. At times of turmoil, we need leadership that takes the needs of a community into account, and to this point, it seems to have been missing. In the process of implementing his vision, President Tom Rochon has made a lot of changes that have served, intentionally or not, to shut students out of the conversation.

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Senior Rob Flaherty is the outgoing president of the Student Government Association and argues the administration is shutting the student voice out of key decisions about the college’s future.

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advocating for the needs of students on campus at the highest level. We got a restrictive policy that put a wall between student media and the administration. Even the more open process of making the college more efficient, a possible step in the right direction, might just be for show.

Requests to have full-time students participate in the highest-level campus budget organ have been met with reassurances that “administration will figure that out.” The student representative on the board of trustees can no longer present their already comically short five-minute summation of all student life on campus.

This is our home, and we care deeply about it, but students are clearly not a valued part of the decision-making process. Students don’t seem to be alone in this. There are rumors of faculty strikes and votes of no-confidence, or staff concerns about commenting on Huron Consulting Group’s proposals for fear of retribution that all indicate an unhealthy campus climate.

Instead of making broad assumptions about what students want, perhaps it would do the administration well to actually ask for input from students. The core curriculum of a school isn’t going to sell anyone, but a culture of inclusiveness and opportunity will make us a stronger choice for future students and a stronger place for current students, faculty, staff and alumni.

Rochon has said that he can’t “pull a lever” and make changes. Perhaps that’s true. He can, however, set a tone of inclusiveness and genuine caring about the needs of the community that looks to him for leadership. In the meantime, students, faculty, and staff alike will be trying to make our campus a safe, inclusive place for conversation about out future. It’s just a shame that no one’s listening.

Rob Flaherty is a television-radio and politics major and the outgoing president of the Student Government Association. Email him at rflaher1@ithaca.edu.

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Editor reflects on importance of critical eye in media

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couple weeks ago, my notso-trusty Oldsmobile was towed. I really don’t want the thing back. My orchid is dying from neglect on my windowsill, and I’ve barely sent out any resumes. I’m not sure what I’m doing next week, and I’m certainly unsure what I’m doing with the rest of my life.

If you had asked me at the beginning of high school about my future, my answer might have varied but would have always fallen into a category of science: forensic pathology, public health or maybe marine biology.

But during my junior year of high school, my world shifted. I ventured to Amravati, India, as part of Rotary International’s exchange program. After three flights, some long layovers and a four-hour car journey, I was suddenly surrounded by a wonderful family that opened my eyes to a new world. They enrolled me in a science college, where I studied biology, chemistry, physics, math and Hindi.

I realized quickly that it wasn’t science I was interested in, but the people, the traditions, the culture and the stories outside the classroom. My year in India flooded my senses and emotions. Documenting my travels,

Checks & Balances

Senior Kelsey O’Connor, the outgoing editor in chief of The Ithacan,discusses the importance of active readership as well as thorough reporting.

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I realized much of my journalling turned into telling the stories of the people I met. I shared a train compartment with cricket players from Kashmir, practiced my Hindi with children who lived on trains and met too many French hippies in Goa. Alongside that, I saw disease, blood, riots and abuse. It was in India that I began to obsessively read the news,

something I’d barely done in the U.S. It was as if the world suddenly opened up, and I needed to know everything, everywhere. However, I realized what I was reading didn’t always match what I was seeing. This was the beginning of my critical career.

Being editor in chief of The Ithacan was never on my agenda,

but it has become the most defining and challenging experience I’ve had yet. Studying to be a journalist here has allowed me to better refine the worldview I gained in India.

What I’ve learned here and there is to notice the nuances, the slips and the hypocrisies. That is what I hope to make a career of. Don’t tell me print is dying, I don’t care. There will always be a need in every corner of the world for thorough reporting. But along with the need for diligent writers, there is a greater need for careful, intelligent readers because they are the ones who can turn information into action.

As an editor, I hope that some of my values and viewpoints carried through in keeping our audience informed amid rapid shifts at Ithaca College. This year, I worked with an incredibly talented and creative group at The Ithacan who I know will go on to do even better things next year. As I conclude my Ithaca College career, and get rid of my crappy car, I have no dream job or location in mind, but I do hope that I can find myself in another dedicated community.

Kelsey O’Connor is the outgoing editor in chief of The Ithacan. Email her at koconno3@ithaca.edu.

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

ince the tragic bombings at the Boston Marathon, there has been major commotion over immigration reform being halted in Washington. Several conservative policymakers are now working to stifle the provisions of the first comprehensive immigration bill in years, suggesting that future terrorist attacks could be prevented if the legislation is brought to a standstill.

There is no doubt that our immigration system is broken, but it cannot be blamed entirely as the sole cause for why the attacks happened. The attackers, the Tsarnaev brothers, were brought to the United States more than a decade ago by their father who was seeking asylum. They are of Chechen ethnicity.

The Tsarnaev brothers were political refugees from a young age. Dzhokhar, the younger brother captured by police, is a naturalized citizen. His older brother, who was killed during the 48-hour manhunt for the two boys, had a legal green card. These are not people our immigration system would have caught. Whatever “radicalization” these boys are speculated to have gone through would have happened long after they set foot on American soil.

What is most disheartening is that civilians and policymakers alike are failing to recognize that the Tsarnaev brothers are an entirely different scenario and do not represent the reason why comprehensive immigration should be scuttled. The immigration reform on the table would primarily deal with immigrants who have crossed the border illegally.

As you can see, the U.S. has bigger fish to fry. This effort to halve immigration reform is a misplaced knee-jerk reaction to the Boston tragedy that is not directly applicable. Unfortunately, blaming foreigners becomes the easy out in these post-trauma situations.

We should be looking at this from a counterterrorism perspective, not an anti-immigration perspective. For instance, people here legally on student visas should not have to worry about their schooling being suspended because our lawmakers are too careless to make the distinction and allocate time and money where it should be allocated.

We must remember that, in the midst of all of the commotion, there were American immigrants and foreigners at the Boston Marathon who were hurt, killed and even helped police in capturing Dzhokhar. Let’s not victimize people who aspire to live here legally and love this country just as much as we do simply because it is easy to point the finger at immigration policy.

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

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Leisure by the lakeside Skaneateles, N.Y., holds beauty and fun for tourists during summer months

Houses, businesses and apartments sit on Skaneateles Lake, a major attraction for tourists. Skaneateles has a population of 2,700 and is located about an hour away from Ithaca.

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Descending the hill on West Genesee Street into Skaneateles, N.Y., visitors pass by hotels, such as the Mirbeau Inn and Spa and the Sherwood Inn, before small-town shops and restaurants pop up on both sides of the street — reminiscent of an old-time movie set. The clear, blue Skaneateles Lake FAST FACTS lines the right side of Attractions: the road behind them, Water sports as well as lakeside on the lake churches and houses.

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Lunchtime rolls around. Bluewater Grill sits right by the long, wooden pier on West Genesee Street. The smell of seafood and burgers fills the air as restaurant patrons sit on the wooden patio, looking onto the calm lake while laughing and sipping wine.

Alissa Marks, a waitress from Auburn, N.Y., a town about 15 minutes away from Skaneateles, brings out a hot plate of Thai red curry shrimp.

While the main areas of East and West Genesee Street and Jordan Street are the most popular areas to shop, it’s the waterfront that attracts the most tourists, Marks said, because they can rent homes and experience the lake.

“A lot of people try renting boats and stuff to go out on the lake and walk around,”

Marks said. “Can’t beat the scenery. Can’t beat it.”

After a seafood lunch, the next stop for any Skaneateles visitor is Skaneateles Bakery on Jordan Street, where sweet treats sit behind a glass pane and lure customers in. Skaneateles tourists and residents alike sit in the bakery eating chocolate cupcakes, donuts and cookies. Two of these patrons are Phyllis Carlile and her 12-year-old son, Jack Carlile. While Jack said Skaneateles is “quaint,” Phyllis said Skaneateles is a family-oriented community. She said the good schools and friendly folks are some of the reasons she and her husband moved there 19 years ago.

“It’s the kind of place where you feel like everyone you bump into you know,” she said.

“It’s kind of a small town — I grew up in a small town in Western New York, and my husband and I had this mental list of what we wanted for our children, and this kind of fit the bill.”

One aspect of the town that gives off its community vibe is the Curbstone Festival, Phyllis said, which occurs in July. During the festival, store owners set up booths outside their buildings. In 2012, more than 30 merchants participated, according to a Skaneateles Area Chamber of Commerce newsletter. This summer, it will take place July 18–20.

While there are chain stores, like Talbots, within the town, many local restaurants, clothing stores, candy shops, antique shops and toy stores also make up Skaneateles commerce. Cornell University senior Ashley Maher said she has only checked out some of the shops so far, and they were different

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from other shops because of their products.

“They have a lot of cute knickknacks and creative things you wouldn’t see at other stores,” she said.

One store in particular, the Skaneateles Antique Center, is a staple location for zany novelties. Its wooden interior features fluorescently lit cases displaying old bowls, statues and picture frames. The squeaky, delicate floorboards make customers tentative to move forward, but the old mirrors and intricate, framed maps in plain sight ahead urge them to trudge on.

Maher said Skaneateles reminded her of Ithaca because of its size and the feeling she got from walking around.

“You kind of get that small-town feeling, really locally based, trying to promote local businesses, which is a great thing,” Maher said. “And they have a lake, so that’s the greatest part.”

Skaneateles Lake is the natural testament to the entire town and the home of water sports, including boating, fishing and swimming. The calm, clear water provides a perfect environment for boating, swimming and fishing with the family. Two jet-skiers come out from the distance in the middle of the lake, trailing each other and creating waves that brush up on the rocks, splashing two girls sitting by them.

Toward the back of the pier — the closest to the lake — Anne Taylor and Taih Taylor stand with a baby stroller, looking out into the water. Anne said she and Taih just bought a permanent home in Skaneateles on the lake, and they plan to take advantage of the nature around them. “[We] definitely plan on kayaking and

hiking the nature trails,” Anne said.

At the end of a long day in Skaneateles, visitors can wind down at popular Doug’s Fish Fry, or at Johnny Angel’s, a hopping burger joint with a younger vibe for the teenage crowd.

Shane Hollerin, a senior at Skaneateles High School and a patron at Johnny Angel’s, said most of the families in the areas have motorboats, so they spend much of their time on them during the summer.

“We all pretty much have our own boats,” Hollerin said. “In the summer, all the kids just hang out on the lake.”

Hollerin said he notices when tourists come through, because they crowd the dock he works at.

“You can always tell the tourists by the rental boats from the boarding dock … right before they smash into the dock,” he said with a laugh.

When it gets to be nighttime in Skaneateles, it can be tough for young people to find things to do because there aren’t many things for teenagers to do, Kyle McAuliffe, Hollerin’s friend from school, said. “[We] have parties on the lake,” McAuliffe said. “Like at the [family summer] camps sometimes, about 10 miles away.”

While a summer day in Skaneateles is filled with lake views, shopping and delicious cuisines, the day must come to an end. The lake glistens in the sun as cars drive by, and visitors can’t help but keep Phyllis’ notion in mind for a summer in the Finger Lakes.

“It’s a wonderful place to spend the day,” Phyllis said. “And a wonderful place to live too.”

From left, Riley Broyan, 11, and Grace Kush, 10, both of Skaneateles, sit on a rock on Skaneateles Lake.

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Freshman Anne Bongermino shares a list of her 10 favorite tracks to listen to.

“Beyond the Sun” – Shinedown “Some Nights” – Fun. “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked” – Cage the Elephant “Kiss With a Fist” – Florence and the Machine “Chelsea Dagger” – The Fratellis “Candyman” – Christina Aguilera “Beyond the Sea” – Bobby Darin “Dog Days are Over” – Florence and the Machine

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From left, seniors David Jaffe and Kelly McKee sit silently in a candlelight vigil that concluded the Take Back the Night rally Friday on The Commons. The annual event unites members of the Ithaca and college communities in the fight against sexual and domestic violence.

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Staff Writer Evin Billington scours Pinterest and shares her favorite pins of the week.

Pinterest is a haven for anyone looking for fashion tips, pictures of fluffy animals or even delectable recipes. The latest tasty treat idea popping up around food-centric boards are homemade versions of classic candy bars previously only available in stores. Instead of running to the store to purchase candy like Butterfingers and Reese’s peanut butter cups, typing “homemade candy” into the search bar will yield tutorials for creating those chocolate goodies. Most of the recipes are simple and include just a few ingredients, like the homemade Three Musketeers bar that takes just chocolate chips, whipped cream and vegetable oil to produce. Though creating candy bars from scratch probably does not make the snacks much healthier, it certainly is a cheaper and more entertaining alternative to just buying the junk food from a store.

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“Home” – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros “Seven Devils” – Florence and the Machine

spielberg’s parody video makes light of president

Director Steven Spielberg earned critical acclaim last year for his presidential biopic, “Lincoln.” At the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, April 27, Spielberg appeared in a fake promotional video, announcing that following the success of “Lincoln,” his next film would be “Obama,” starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Obama and Tracey Morgan as Joe Biden. “The guy’s already a lame-duck, so why wait?” Spielberg quipped in the video. The video goes on to show the real president playing Daniel Day-Lewis in Obama “makeup” as he pokes fun at himself, commenting on how difficult the accent was and “How long it takes to put these ears on in the morning.”

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researchers say Guinness may have health benefits

Studies show that Guinness, the popular Irish beer, may actually be “good for you” after all. It turns out a pint of the dark beverage may work as well as a low dose of aspirin in preventing clogged arteries that raise the risk of heart attacks. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin tested the health properties of the drink by feeding it to dogs with narrowed arteries. They compared the Guinness stout-drinking dogs to a group of dogs given lager and found that those who drank Guinness had reduced clotting in their blood. Scientists believe that the antioxidants found in Guinness are responsible for these benefits. Despite the reported health benefits, Guinness reminds consumers to always drink responsibly.

Though Guinness might have some health benefits, it’s probably healthier to just stick with water.

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If you guys ever decide you’re going to get a tattoo, then Mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place, and we’ll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo. ­­— President Barack Obama addresses his daughters in an interview on the “Today” show.

celebrity SCOOPS! Monteith reports to rehab After stepping off of the hit show “Glee” to take a month-long stint in rehab for substance abuse, Cory Monteith reunited with girlfriend and fellow “Glee” cast member Lea Michele at Los Angeles International Airport last Friday. The writers of “Glee” rewrote a few of the planned episodes and storylines to accommodate Monteith’s absence.

Meanwhile, Monteith has received an outpouring of support from fans and cast mates. A representative for Fox said, “Everyone at the show wishes him well and looks forward to his return.”

Mark Salling, Monteith’s costar, who plays Noah “Puck” Puckerman on the show, stated that “It takes balls … to go through that publicly ... It takes balls to go through that privately, but to go through it publicly like that — balls.”

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Alumnus to perform at Lot 10 with indie band Ambient-pop band Titanics is made up of longtime friends Mark Lombardo and Derek Rogers ’12.

Lombardo combines indie vocals with keyboard and synthesizer sounds, while Rogers wails on the guitar to create layered, chill wave music.

Staff Writer Karla Lopez spoke with Rogers about the band’s origin, its signature sound and what to expect at Titanics’ upcoming show May 11 at Lot 10.

Karla Lopez: How did Titanics get started?

Derek Rogers: Mark and I go way back. We were in bands growing up together, and then when we both went to different colleges he started his own solo project called Titanics. He’s my best friend and vice versa, you know.

But you know, when it came down to filling out the sound and playing live shows and kind of bringing the music to the next level, he’s like, “I need you to do some guitar, man.” So I started writing and recording with him, and the rest is history.

KL: Where did the name Titanics come from?

DR: Mark chose the name, and he chose it when he was just a solo project. He went through a period where he was really into reading about the Titanic [ship], and he’s obsessed with royalty and the ocean. Who knows why? The joke is our name is Titanics, but hopefully our fate isn’t the same.

KL: You have a show in Ithaca coming up, are you excited to be back?

DR: I went to school in Ithaca, so I’m familiar with the area, and I got a lot of friends out there. We’re doing kind of a small weekend tour; we’re playing Oneonta on [May] 10th and doing Ithaca on the 11th. My friends, The Sunday Slippers, are gonna be opening up the night. They’re kind of like a low-fi hip-hop group, so that’s going to be cool. You know, anything to get the people dancing.

KL: What are your live shows like?

DR: We don’t use any kind of backing tracks, we don’t use computers. We perform everything. We rock out. We play music people can dance to.

KL: How do you name your songs?

DR: We usually try to find a muse, whether it’s the entire album or whether it’s just for a song. We’ll start the song that way and end up either naming it from the lyrics that Mark writes or just from the actual source of inspiration. Like the song “Yootah,” it was just a picture of a landscape in Utah that this girl took. Usually it ends up being kind of like a working title; we just refer to it when we’re writing and recording it, and it ends up just sticking.

KL: Your Twitter description says, “indie pop, music for daydreaming.”

Can you further explain your sound?

ed to dress it up differently. We really like the ambient kind of daydream, kind of low-fi feel.

picture of something” and kind of just keep it really simple. But I wanted a cold kind of feel to it.

DR: Mark and I, from the start, wanted to have a pop-sensibility, you know what I mean? We wanted to have a verse and a chorus and a hook, but at the same time, we want-

KL: Did you design the cover art for your album, “Soft Treasure?”

KL: Will you be going on tour at any point?

DR: That’s actually Mark’s father. I told Mark, “I want the cover to be a

DR: We’re leaving in September, and we’re going to do kind of an East Coast

Derek Rogers ’12 plays with his band, Titanics. Rogers will return to Ithaca at 10 p.m. May 11 to perform at Lot 10 Lounge on North Cayuga Street. The band’s sound has an indie vibe, with synthesizers and guitars.

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tour this fall, going down to Florida and then coming back up. We haven’t been out there as a band, but Mark and I have traveled the country just on our own accord. He took a big road trip sophomore year with his buddy, and I was living in Los Angeles for a while and road tripped back. So we’re familiar with life on the road.

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Conducting retirement Music professor reflects on career after more than 30 years of teaching

By Sage Daugherty Staff Writer

When professor Lawrence Doebler was a music student in college, he witnessed the power of music firsthand. At a climatic moment in the music, a blind choir member momentarily regained her sight during the concert.

Now that he is retiring, Doebler said he thinks back to all of the career defining moments he’s had.

Doebler said he was profoundly affected by his mother’s passion for music growing up.

As a child, Doebler practiced music for nearly five hours a day and has learned to play many instruments, such as the violin, tuba and piano.

As a result of his passion for music, Doebler has become one of the leading collegiate choral conductors in the nation and has impacted the lives of many students at Ithaca College.

“Music in my family was important,” he said.

“I started piano when I was 2 and a half, and I started taking lessons from my piano teacher that I studied with through high school when I was 5. I went to Oberlin as a voice major first in music education and then got into conducting, where I found my niche.”

He began his teaching career in 1969 at Smith College, taught and conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1971 to 1978 and then came to the college, where he is currently a professor of performance studies in the School of Music and the director of choral activities.

Throughout his career, Doebler has witnessed the effect of music on performers and the audience. It was due to those experiences that, when Doebler came to the college, he created a family in the Ithaca College Choir.

The Ithaca College Choir connects with the audience on a more personal level and forges

a more personal and emotional connection, Doebler said.

“It becomes a very interesting dynamic then between the choir and the audience, as opposed to just between a choir and a conductor,” Doebler said. Graduate student Steven Humes ’12, a music performance education and voice major, has been taught by Doebler for the past five years.

Humes said he is going to graduate as a better musician and has become a better person because of Doebler.

“He cares so deeply about who you are and what makes you individual, and he embraces unique qualities, and he wants your voice to be heard as much as his own,” Humes said.

On April 19, Doebler conducted the Ithaca College Choir and Symphony Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall, performing Poulenc’s Gloria with Jessica Julin ’02, a soprano soloist.

Janet Galvan, professor of music education, said Doebler will leave a legacy at Ithaca College.

“Some of their strongest memories of Ithaca College were the years that they sang in choir and the bond that they formed with one another during those years, and I think for many students, that feels so good in a school, to form a group that has become so close and shared so much, and they’ve worked so hard together that they almost become like family,” Galvan said.

Doebler said his greatest achievement in his career is sharing what he knows about choral music and exciting students who are going to pass on his knowledge to the next generation of students.

Graduate student Erin Peters said Doebler has a unique way of impacting each student.

“Mr. Doebler treats every student with the utmost respect and dignity and strives to make sure all are heard and honored,” Peters said.

Lawrence Doebler poses for his retirement photo. After more than 30 years of teaching, he will retire at the end of the year. His future plans include moving to North Carolina with his wife.

Courtesy of Jenny Stockdale There is a retirement reception for Doebler that is to be held from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday in the TC Lounge, the 14th floor of East Tower.

In retirement, Doebler and his wife plan to move to North Carolina to be near their children. Doebler said he has loved his career, but he realizes that now is the right

time to make a change in his life.

“This is a profession that I could go on doing as long as I can live,” Doebler said. “I never tire of it, and it’s just the most satisfying career that I think one could have. I’m doing what I love to do, and that’s what I tell my students, to find what that is.”

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Writer Kelly Oxford is one of those girls that people hate themselves for loving. She portrays herself as someone who would be expected to turn out as a professional waitress and a complete burnout, but in actuality she’s a Twitter sensation alongside comedians such as Rob Delaney, Chelsea Handler and Rainn Wilson. She has written television shows for NBC and CBS, sold a screenplay to Warner Bros. and most recently released her autobiographical book, “Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar.”

“Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar” is a col“Everything is lection of self-deprecating Perfect When personal essays depicting You’re a Liar” Oxford’s childhood upbringKelly Oxford Our rating: ing in Edmonton, Canada, HHHH and her metamorphosis from the girl who tried to put on “Star Wars” as a school play at age 6 to a wife and stay-at-home mother of three children.

The reader looks through Oxford’s “childhood glasses,” which she so fondly dedicates her book to, and watches her evolve, becoming increasingly more self-aware and learning obscure life lessons through many misadventures.

Oxford did not attend university. Instead, she went to Los Angeles at the age of 17 in search of Leonardo DiCaprio — pre-“Titanic” — in hopes of making him her boyfriend before he got too famous.

At 19, she moved to an island in Canada where she had to use a public, coin-operated shower, spending two years of her life living in a white Dodge van with a large amount of marijuana. Eventually, she casually made her way to stardom by becoming friends with friends of famous people by accident. Through a friend of her husband, she became the assistant to the producer of a show that ranked second behind “The Sopranos.” Her good luck is almost unbelievable, and it seems a bit unfair. She’s everything a student hoping to work in the entertainment business should hate but aspires to be.

Oxford uses her traumatic tales to keep the reader engaged and laughing through the entire 317 pages. Each chapter illustrates another point in her life in which she does something stupid or embarrassing, but it always works

African Drumming and Dance Ensemble Performance, an event featuring the African Drum and Dance class at Ithaca College will begin at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall. The production will be directed by Baruch Whitehead.

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Wind Ensemble and Brass Choir Concert, will feature music by composer Gustav Mahler. The concert will be conducted by Stephen Peterson and Elizabeth Peterson. The performance will begin at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall.

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out in the end because she is a perfect liar.

Oxford writes in a conversational and sarcastic style. Her work reads like fiction because even the mundane moments seem outlandish. She has this astounding gift to make even the most routine situations absolutely hilarious with her off-color wit and lack of political correctness, such as tagging her 11-year-old daughter’s sentences with “Bitch, please” and accusing a man without a frontal lobe of faking blindness. She turns the most blatantly inappropriate scenarios into comic genius.

“I hate being an accidental a-hole. I don’t mind being an outright a-hole,” Oxford wrote in her chapter titled “The Terrible Horrible,” in which she talks about some heinous things that she did in her perma-high days. That audacious ideology carries throughout the book as a constant code of how she presents herself and her past. She has a way of being snarky and rude without being offensive, a talent

that only a handful of people have mastered, such as authors David Sedaris or Tucker Max. She uses her family for material, which is what most of her book boils down to. Her husband, James, and three children, Salinger, 11, Henry, 9, and Bea, 4, are each present in this book, and all blatantly express that they wish she had kept them out of it.

Nevertheless, Oxford portrays them as honestly as possible, capturing their sarcastic and witty personalities that reflect her own mannerisms.

Oxford is slowly emerging as Hollywood’s newest it-girl. “Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar” is only her breakthrough to mainstream popculture, and fans should look forward to seeing her further prove that she is one of the most hilarious writers working today.

Kelly Oxford’s “Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar” was published April 2.

New indie album expands band’s musical repertoire by jared dionne senior Writer

With a Grammy under its belt, 2009’s quintessential indie megaband is back in action. This past week, the effervescent French foursome of Phoenix released Phoenix its fifth album, “Bankrupt!”

“Bankrupt!,” as Glassnote it continues to Entertainment Group LLC ride the wave of Our rating: popularity genHHH erated by its last LP, “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.”

It would have been too easy for the band to recreate “Wolfgang” and keep the momentum going.

Thankfully, Phoenix realized this

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and still managed to switch up its style a bit without alienating those new fans.

Phoenix supplants the gargantuan hooks from “Wolfgang” with more toned-down melodies.

Tracks feature synthesizers that tend to sparkle rather than blaze, as was seen on its predecessor. Songs lose a bit of their inherent likability and may require listeners to spend more time analyzing the impressive orchestral layering.

The closest the band comes to another “1901” or “Lisztomania” is this album’s front-runner single, “Entertainment.” Singer Thomas Mars flaunts his standard boyish crooning over a smattering of synthesizer lines. Mars even throws in a short lyrical homage to 2009’s

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Birds and Blossoms, a guided bird walk hosted by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, will begin at 8 a.m. at the Cornell Plantations.

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Premium Blend’s Block 4 Concert, an a cappella concert, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Emerson Suites.

The Little Mermaid Ballet, will retell the classic fairy tale through ballet. Produced by the Ithaca Ballet, the performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. at State Theatre. Tickets cost $20.

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Sally Ramirez and Doug Robinson, Latin jazz and world music musicians, will perform at noon at AGAVA Restaurant.

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“Lasso” when he sings, “What you want and what you do to me.”

Phoenix does a fantastic job of resisting the urge to craft an identical sequel to”Wolfgang.” It continues to write catchy and fun electro-pop songs without confining itself to the mold of established success. The majority of “Bankrupt!” won’t lend itself to arenawide sing-a-longs, but the band already has enough in its repertoire to hold fans over tinkering still awaits.

After a five-year hiatus, Fall Out Boy is back with a vengeance.

The band’s new album “Save Rock and Roll” has claimed the iTunes No. 1 album spot for weeks, proving that it was well worth the wait.

The band’s sixth album has all of the elements fans have come to expect from it over the years, including its intense and Fall Out Boy meaningful lyr“Save Rock and Roll” ics. Track “Save Rubyred Rock and Roll” Recordings uses lamenting Our rating: lyrics, such as, HHHH “You are what you love / not who loves you.”

As usual, lead singer Patrick Stump’s defined voice is the feature of most of the songs, but the group has decided to change things up

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with collaborations with UK pop singer Foxes, rapper Big Sean, Courtney Love and Elton John.

A major critique of the album is its title. Though dubbed “Save Rock and Roll,” this might be the band’s least rock ’n’ roll album yet.

Nonetheless, Fall Out Boy’s songs and lyrics don’t disappoint. Dedicated fans, along with first-time listeners, can celebrate the band’s return to the music industry.

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The group’s sophomore album showcases singer Kimberly Perry’s sweet voice combined with soft background instruments. The mellow and soulful sound is perfect for country and folk music listeners.

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The Goth rocker is back with a new psychedelic metal album. Grunge vocals mixed with screeching guitars and gloomy lyrics will draw dark metal fans.

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Cast drives sincerity in eccentric film Remarkable picture convincingly portrays far-fetched storyline

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Film festival hit “Starbuck” is a prime example of how a movie can overcome a small budget and still produce big laughs by having an original script and cast. The French-Canadian foreign film avoids a screwball comedy style and adopts a truly heartfelt and affably “Starbuck” humorous tone.

Caramel Films The plot of the Our rating: HHH film follows David (Patrick Huard), who, between the years of 1988 and 1990, made hundreds of donations to a sperm bank while using the pseudonym of “Starbuck.” Later, while faced with financial trouble, David learns that his donations led to the birth of 533 children. Of those, 142 of them have come forward and banded together with a class action lawsuit to get the clinic to reveal the identity of “Starbuck” by arguing for their basic right to know their father. David, with the help of his lawyer friend Avocat (Antoine Bertrand), takes on the lawsuit to protect his name. At the same time, David must prove to his longterm girlfriend Valerie (Julie LeBreton) how serious he can be about their relationship or he will lose her forever.

Front man Huard gives an earnest and highly memorable performance and leads the film’s acting. Huard evokes sympathy and authenticity while playing a part in a story that, on the surface, feels nothing short of ridiculous. Huard’s seemingly natural reactions to his situation keep the story under control and never stray into

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overly zany territory.

The plot of the film may come off as unrealistic at first, but in the end, the story exudes sincerity. The film’s script, by Ken Scott and Martin Petit, provides the realism to help counter the quirky concept. Each time the premise of one man fathering 500 children is brought up, the film’s script includes dialogue that can influence audiences to buy into the story.

One such example is when the story of “Starbuck” and the 500 offspring reaches the tabloids. Just as one might expect, the media eats it up by using a campaign to attempt to reveal the identity of the mystery man. This sequence of events mimics what the

audience might suspect would be the real reaction of tabloid news sources to such a far-fetched story.

The emotional components in “Starbuck” also enhance the sincerity of the movie. Though some of the subject matter comes off as inappropriate at times, the prevailing focus on the importance of family and loved ones carries until the end.

The wealth of intriguing characters within the group of David’s children provides intriguing material in the film. Though each of the characters receives relatively little screen time, many still manage to stand out and make bold

character choices that entertain in one way or another. One example of this includes David’s Goth son, who dons eyeliner and long bangs.

Though certainly an improbable story, “Starbuck” manages to stay truthful and believable through a remarkable cast and script. These strong elements, as well as the movie’s touching message about family appreciation, drive the story and deliver an unexpectedly heartwarming and well-crafted bundle of joy.

“Starbuck” was directed by Ken Scott and written by Scott and Martin Petit.

Humor dwindles in chaotic and absurd flick bY brian porreca staff writer

Michael Bay’s newest comedic action flick may stray away from his “Transformers” franchise, but his attempt at comedic one-liners and hysterics come off as robotic. “Pain & Gain” pokes fun at the true story of a 1990s crime ring and retells the absurd kidnapping and extortion scheme made by a trio of bodybuilders pumped up on steroids.

Bay introduces audiences to the brain cell deficient Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg), who stirs up a plan to get rich quick. Lugo “Pain & Gain” drafts a plot to kidnap and Paramount torture rich gym-goer Victor Pictures Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub) to Our rating: sign over his finances. With HHH the help of his friends Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie) and ex-criminal Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson), Lugo bench presses Kershaw like he’s a heavyweight at the Sun Gym in Miami for his funds.

The casting for this film is spot-on, even if Wahlberg had to muscle up for the role of bodybuilder. Wahlberg is able to capture his brainless character and the ludicrous ideas he conjures. Shalhoub excels in the role of the scrawny, weasel-like businessman who is intimidated and strong-armed by heavyweights like The Rock.

The film opens with a police chase scene fueled with chaos and crazy camera angles.

As the three bodybuilders swerve around the streets of Miami, the camera cuts between the police determined to catch the criminals and the bodybuilders who scramble to get away.

In a quick jump, the movie backtracks to the beginning of the trio’s ridiculous events. The opening hectic scene sets the tone for the rest of the film and introduces the dimwitted antics of the characters.

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Mark Wahlberg stars as Daniel Lugo, a bodybuilder who teams up with friend Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie) and ex-criminal Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson) in an extortion scheme that goes terribly wrong.

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Bay’s films are normally aesthetically pleasing with clever shots to create any setting, and “Pain & Gain” does just that. With scenic shots of tanning salons, palm trees and the sun shining over the beach, the wealth of Miami is both glamorized and exaggerated. Though the main protagonists might not have that wealth, the picturesque beauty of Florida seems to encourage them to pursue it.

The acting was solid, however the comedy in the script lacked the laughs. The many jokes about steroid use and its effect on male organs were funny at the beginning, but the repetitious humor wore out.

The film attempts to mimic movies such as comedic hit “The Hangover” with scenes of characters who are thrown into insane scenarios. However, the “Pain & Gain” plot is not as successful as the popular “Hangover” franchise. Bay even steals the famous Mr. Chow

(Ken Jeong). Jeong plays Johnny Wu, who inspires Lugo’s scheme to get rich, to try and add some more comedy.

Another famous face who contributes to the humor is the funny Rebel Wilson. Her romantic chemistry with Mackie’s character is unexpected but works as another absurd scenario in the film.

Writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely might be the only two people who laugh at their own jokes while creating the screenplay. Though the characters were well cast and directed, the writing focused too much on the ill-humored jokes. Ultimately, the weak jokes made “Pain & Gain” just as painful as the trio’s torture.

“Pain & Gain” was directed by Michael Bay and written by Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely and Pete Collins.

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SPort Ing Culture Coach connects to his heritage through lacrosse

by Mark Warren Staff Writer

Ansley Jemison surveys the field from the sidelines of Higgins Stadium with his thick arms crossed and his brown eyes focused. Looking over the Bomber defense he notices a player out of position. He puffs on his whistle and the echo freezes all of the players in place. Jemison calmly walks over to the defender and instead of barking orders to him he simply asks what happened.

He listens, never interrupting the player, before pointing out where he made a mistake and explains how to correct the error.

Jemison, currently an assistant coach for the men’s lacrosse team, has always been very close to the game that was created by his ancestors.

“I’ve had a stick in my hand since I’ve been able to walk,” he said. “It’s been a huge part of my life, and it was something that was a part of my identity for a lot of years, and it still is I guess to this day.”

As a young boy in the Seneca Wolf Clan, Jemison stepped out onto the field for the first time with a stick in his hand and the smell of grass in his nose. He joined the older boys of the clan to participate in a game that has been part of their heritage for generations. His membership in this new brotherhood was quickly tested as the older boys dealt out a few initiation checks. While at the time he was scattered with black and blue bruises, he looks back on that day with happy memories.

Lacrosse has played a significant role in the community and religious life of Iroquois tribes for centuries. It’s seen not as a sport but as a game given to their people by a higher power known as the Creator. Native American legend has it that lacrosse fulfills several roles in their culture.

Jemison said he was taught that the game was used as entertainment for the Creator, as a healer for the body and spirit and a teaching tool.

“In our mind, it’s not really a sport, it’s actually a game that was given to us by the Creator,” he said. “It was something that was used as a medicine and as a healer, but it was also something for our young men to develop themselves as people. That’s really where a lot of the teachings come in.”

Jemison said games can be performed in honor of the sick. The harder the players play, the greater the healing effect. Native American

lore also depicts those who partake in lacrosse as warriors, with the goal of bringing glory and honor to themselves and their tribes.

Lacrosse has always been a central part of Jemison’s identity. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., Jemison lived with his aunt on the Allegany Reservation, located in Cattagaraus County, and spent time with his mother in Brooklyn.

During his high school years, he resided in Ganondagan, a National Historic Landmark, with his father Daniel.

He played attack for four years at Syracuse University, where his team was runner-up to the NCAA Division I National Championship in 1999. After he graduated that same year, he moved on to coaching. In the summer of 2012, he was a coach and assistant manager for the Under 19 Iroquois Nationals World Team, a team that competed internationally in the Under 19 National Tournament in Turku, Finland. He now works at Cornell University as part of their American Indian Program and also has his volunteer position with the Blue and Gold. Prior to that, he was the defensive coordinator for St. John Fisher College.

Jemison said his nearly lifelong involvement with lacrosse as a Native American has caused him to develop a respect for the game beyond the athletic competition.

“We are the originators of the game,” Jemison said. “It’s certainly a sense of pride that we take when we play, but it’s not about winning at all costs. There is a certain level of respect that needs to be paid to the game. It’s not so much just an NCAA sanctioned sport.

It’s got deeper roots and deeper meanings.”

After joining the staff of the U19 squad, Jemison helped them win a Bronze medal in the tournament. Jemison said the experience was a great way to prove that Native American culture is still going strong and that even a smaller team like theirs could compete with anyone.

“Representing a smaller population in the tournament, we were able to knock off team USA in the round-robin stage,” Jemison said.

“That was a monumental win for us.”

Even though they didn’t end up winning the gold, Jemison said the experience was a great lesson for the players.

“There are teachings and lessons that come from successes and failures,” Jemison said.

“That is a lot of how I try to translate my game

From left, Assistant Coach Ansley Jemison, national team attacker Frank Brown and midfielder Zachary Miller pose at the opening ceremony of the U-19 tournament in Turku, Finland. courtesy of Ansley jemison

Bombers Assistant Lacrosse Coach Ansley Jemison poses Monday afternoon outside of the Akwe:kon residence hall, a part of the American Indian Program at Cornell University.

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Jemison said he is glad he can express his heritage through coaching. He said lacrosse serves as an outlet in a society that often forgets about the relevance of Native American culture.

“The books say we’re a dominated people, we’ve been stuck on reservations, and you hear the story of the drunken Indian and things like that,” he said. “With the team, that’s a time where we can actually shine, and we can be at our best. We can settle our disputes on the playing field and show that we are a vital people.”

After returning from the championships in Finland in August of 2012, Jemison focused on his new position as an assistant coach for the Ithaca Men’s Lacrosse squad.

Head Coach Jeff Long said he was familiar with Jemison from their time facing each other on the field when he coached St. John Fisher. Long recognized Jemison’s respect for the game and how his background as a player and coach make him a great addition to the men’s squad.

“He comes from a great lacrosse background, and for him it’s not just a game, but a way of life,” Long said.

Senior defender Adam Wacenske said the mind-set coach Jemison brings is beneficial to

the South Hill squad on and off the field.

“Coach is really passionate and knowledgeable about lacrosse, and it shows every day,” Wacenske said. “You can tell he is having fun every single practice. He also respects our knowledge and listens to us, and we respect his knowledge and listen to him.”

While coaching is a part-time commitment and his full-time job is at Cornell University, Jemison said it is imperative for him to give back to other Native American students who are fortunate to get an education at Cornell. He said he is glad he can also work as a residence hall director for Akwe:kon, a part of their American Indian Program. The program was established in 1975 to provide educational, social and cultural opportunities to Native students.

Iroquois U19 midfielder and team captain Lyle Thompson said apart from just coaching, Jemison helps Natives with pursuing a higher education.

“Ansley has been playing a pretty big part on Native Americans going off to college and also influencing younger students to start considering college at a young age.

He is a good man, and I respect him a lot.”

Jemison said he has a son on the way and that he hopes to pass on the same traditions and values that he has learned from lacrosse.

“Hopefully he is a young healthy boy so I will be able to put a stick in his hand,” he said. “The cycle will continue.”

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Nathan Bickell

It’s been great to be a Bomber I went back and forth last spring deciding whether to apply for the position of sports columnist for the Ithacan.

Writing for each week’s issue was something I had not taken on before, and I decided to go for it. I could not be happier.

Looking back over the past four years, taking myself out of my comfort zone has led to some of my best memories.

I should first thank my editors, Matt Kelly and Taylor Palmer, for encouraging me to pursue any column idea that has popped into my head. That freedom to pursue any story that caught my attention has been the most enjoyable aspect of writing this column week in and week out. Some of my most far-out ideas, like organizing a half-court shootout or writing about the odd relationship of cross country runners and potheads, have become some of my favorite columns.

After my second column of the year, regarding the NFL preseason, Professor Mead Loop informed me, in front of my entire journalism ethics class, that what I had written was more of a “glorified blog post” than an actual column. A columnist, he told me, should bring something more to a column than just their opinion, be it personal experience or original reporting. I protested a little, but I knew deep down that with writing that column, I kept myself firmly planted in my comfort zone. Since then, I have done my best to heed Professor Loop’s advice — keep this column away from simply being a clone of the sports rants that can be found all over TV, the Internet and in print.

I have often written about my experience as a member of the Bombers cross country and track teams. As I reflected on what four years as an athlete have meant to me, one memory from this past fall stood out in particular.

With a mile to go in the New York State Cross Country Championships, the course entered a brutal section of hills until the finish, and I hate hills.

As my lungs burned, my legs shook as I swerved side-to-side, desperate to hold onto my position in third place. I heard the voice of my coach, Jim Nichols, yelling at me, “You love this!”

My first thought was: “Are you kidding me? I am completely miserable.” Then, after a moment, I realized he was right.

Despite the pain I was in, there was nowhere else in the world I would have rather been.

For the first time in my life, I cannot say what I will be doing in six months, but I cross my fingers that it includes running and writing about sports. No matter what the future holds, I can say without a doubt that it has been a great four years as a Bomber.

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

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Crew teams seek retribution in postseason

By Karly redpath Staff Writer

As the Bombers took the water on Lake Onota last weekend to race Williams College and Coast Guard Academy, one thing was on their mind: revenge.

For the past two weekends, the men’s and women’s crew teams have raced teams they will face in the coming weeks of postseason competition. Both teams managed to win their races against Coast Guard.

The women said their victory against Coast Guard was important for them, because the Bears snuck out a bid into the National Championships instead of the Blue and Gold.

“One of the best points of the race was when we took our move against Coast Guard in the third 500,” senior Rebecca Lee said.

“That surge of energy and speed is one of the best feelings.”

The women finished behind Holy Cross College and William Smith College last weekend in Worcester, Mass., with a time of 7:00.4.

Lee said her team plans to use their races from the past two weekends as motivation to push harder during practice.

“In practice, we really need to push in every piece,” Lee said, “We need to think about the [other teams] and what they’re doing and kind of motivate ourselves pretending they’re there next to us and mentally just use these races as motivation every time.”

While Lee refers to the team’s psychological state throughout the next week, women’s Head Coach Becky Robinson said she would also like to see her rowers improve on a more technique-based level leading up to state and regional competition as well.

“We need to get better rowing at higher stroke rates — being more comfortable on the recovery so the recovery is a recovery and not just rushing up to take the next stroke,” she said. “That just takes a certain amount of skill, which takes a certain amount of strokes, and that just takes time.”

The men have also set their sights on improvement and revenge against certain teams.

On April 20, the men’s first boat took second place after getting edged out by Trinity College by seven-tenths of a second. With a time of 5:58.73, it was one of their best this season. Last weekend, the men finished second

From left, sophomore Liam Kavin, sophomore Dylan Kershaw, junior Ben Donnelly and sophomore Tyler Lemmons row to a first-place finish during a team sweep April 13 on the Cayuga Inlet.

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behind Williams with a time of 6:10.9.

Men’s senior captain Mike Lamb said the whole team could use the experience they had against Trinity and Williams the past two weekends to constructively improve upon their mentality going into upcoming and crucial post-season races.

“We went into the race this week with high expectations, especially after how well we raced against Trinity,” Lamb said. “We fell short of our goal, which is pretty frustrating at this point in the season. The positive that we took away from this weekend was how we reacted. As soon as we were off the water, we were looking to next week and what we need to do to get better.”

Men’s Head Coach Dan Robinson said starts are the most important improvement

that his rowers can make leading up to State and ECAC championships.

“In the two races we’ve lost, we were clearly inferior at the start,” Dan said, “If we want to beat them, we have to stick with them on the start. In the middle of the race, I think we’re as physical and strong as anybody out there.”

With the postseason around the corner, both teams say there are improvements to be made, but none of them are major issues that will prevent them from being successful at states and ECACs. “Looking ahead at this point in the season, we just want to make every stroke count and capitalize on the training we have put in all year,” Lamb said. “Our goal has been to win these next two weekends. Our mentality is simple, pull hard and don’t stop.”

Softball out of tournament play for first time ever

By Steve Derderian Staff Writer

Early on this season, the softball team set a goal to defend its Empire 8 Championship title. Now, that goal has been snuffed before the conference tournament has even begun.

For the first time in conference history, the Bombers haven’t finished with the best record. This will be their first absence from the tournament entirely.

On April 21, the Bombers battled with Elmira College in a fight for spots in the Empire 8 tournament. The two teams battled for 12 innings before Elmira pulled out the 4-3 victory, officially bumping the Bombers into fifth place and unfamiliar territory.

“We’ve never been ‘counted out’ of a postseason,” senior infielder Molly O’Donnell said. “Not only that, we have games left to play, and we’re not really sure where we stand.”

The Empire 8 softball tournament only takes the four teams with the best conference records. After losing the tiebreaker to Alfred University, the Bombers no longer have the opportunity to defend their title.

Head Coach Deb Pallozzi said it’s a very difficult and unusual circumstance, but everybody has to look forward to the remaining games.

“Now that we won’t be in the tournament, our job now is just to play our best softball the entire season,” she said. “If one loss had gone the other

From left, freshmen Kelly Robichaud and Brooke Powers head for home plate in a 6-5 win against non-conference opponent Kings College.

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way, we’d be in the tournament.”

The biggest mistake the team made during regular season conference play, O’Donnell said, was getting behind early in games and having to play from behind frequently.

“When we give up a lot of runs early, it makes it hard on our offense

to have to scrap and rally, even though we have the talent and the players to do so,” O’Donnell said. “Every time we face conference opponents, they give us their best game, because we’ve been the top team for so many years. ” Since 2002, St. John Fisher and the Bombers have won every Empire 8

tournament championship. The only exception was the inaugural year in 2001, when the Rochester Institute of Technology was division champion.

The Cardinals have won three championships, while the Blue and Gold have won eight.

Fisher Head Coach Len Maiorani said a tournament without the South Hill squad is a bittersweet feeling, because both teams have been the only squads to make the tournament every season since 2001.

“It’s different for us, because every game with them is close, and they’re a great program to match up with every year,” he said. “On the other hand, it is a bit of relief for us, because it might mean the road to the championship is a little bit easier.”

The Bomber’s road through the regular season will end with a doubleheader with Keuka College and a makeup doubleheader at the University of Rochester. After that, O’Donnell said the control of postseason play is out of their hands.

“At this point, we have to play every game like it’s our last, because even if we win out, there’s no guarantee we will be selected to play in the NCAA tournament,” she said. “We still have an expectation and hope that we still can do this, and we keep saying to ourselves ‘when there’s hope, there’s Bombers.’”

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Lacrosse team braces for Empire 8 final redemption

BY Danielle D’Avanzo Senior Writer

For the past three seasons, the women’s lacrosse team has advanced to the Empire 8 Conference Tournament final. For three consecutive years, the Bombers have watched as another team has accepted the championship plaque at the conclusion of the game.

After earning the No. 1 seed for the Empire 8 tournament this season, the Blue and Gold are determined to turn their postseason luck around. Since the first interview conducted this season with a member of the South Hill squad, they have emphasized throughout the 2013 campaign that this will be the year the Blue and Gold win the E8 title, as well as earn the automatic bid into the NCAA tournament. The senior class especially made it clear early on that it did not want to repeat history during its final year.

“We want to go undefeated in Empire 8, we want to win the championship, and we don’t want just an at-large bid to NCAA’s,” senior goalkeeper Jess Worthman said back in March. “We want to earn our spot into that and see where we go from there. We want to go as far as possible, which we have the potential to do this year.”

Glancing back at the program over the last few years, in 2009 — before the Class of 2013 arrived on South Hill — the women’s lacrosse team didn’t qualify for the conference tournament and finished with a 7–9 overall record.

In 2010, the Bombers made it to the tournament final before losing 14-10 to the Stevens Institute of Technology.

The next two seasons, the Empire 8 finals would be decided by one goal, with both times going against the Blue and Gold.

“We proved ourselves over the course of last season,” Head Coach Shannon McHale said during a preseason interview. “We had a great year last year, but we just didn’t get it done in the championship for whatever reason. It was unfortunate.

It kept us out of the NCAA tournament, but

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they’re wide-awake this year. They’re ready to go.”

The 2012 season campaign included a school-record tying 10-game win streak and going undefeated in regular season conference play. This year, the Bombers, who are currently ranked 13th in the most recent Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association poll, are once again perfect in the E8 competition.

The Blue and Gold will host the tournament this weekend at Higgins Stadium.

It’s no surprise that the South Hill squad had high hopes at the start of this season, and its confidence has increased for good reason.

Ten of the starters returned to the lineup this year, eight of them being upperclassmen. Their experience has been evident throughout the season with only one of their five losses coming from an unranked team.

In their last five games, the Bombers outscored their opponents 87-29. In the Blue and Gold’s season finale, three seniors scored hat tricks, including senior attacker Tracy Rivas. She broke the career goals record on April 20 against Alfred University, and if the Bombers can make it into the postseason, Rivas could potentially break the points record as well.

The Bombers also have a new offensive weapon this year: freshman attacker Allison Runyon.

She’s currently 2nd on the team in goals with 29 and has 34 points. The rest of her classmates have seen more time on the field at the end of the season, giving them valuable college playing experience before heading into postseason.

The Bombers look promising going into the E8 tournament, but that doesn’t mean they can overlook their opponent.

The Blue and Gold will face off against Stevens at noon Saturday. During the regular season, the Bombers traveled to Hoboken, N.J., and won 8-6. The last time the Ducks claimed the conference crown was in 2011, while the South Hill squad hasn’t won since 2008.

Stevens features several scoring threats of

Senior midfielder Nikki Dahl catches a ball as two Hartwick College defenders run toward her.

The Bombers defeated the Hawks 22-4 in the Empire 8 contest April 27 at Higgins Stadium.

their own. Junior attacker Kara Rafferty leads the squad with 59 goals, while senior midfielder Spencer Waybright is their best all-around player with 49 goals, 30 assists and 79 points.

Both the Ducks and the Bombers have a tendency to score more goals in the first half, meaning the key to this matchup will be to get the on the board early and often. Stevens might have scored five more goals overall than Ithaca, but the South Hill squad has scored more in the E8 than the Ducks. Also, Worthman has allowed 120 goals this season compared to senior

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goalkeeper Meg Collins’ 138.

There’s no doubt that the contest will be intense, and it may even come down to the wire. However, after going 0–3 in the last three tournament finals, the team’s desire to win the E8 title gives it an added edge.

“We have lost in the championship the past three years, and we are so sick of doing that,” senior midfielder Kim Armbruster said recently.

“It’s not happening again, and that’s going to be our moment.”

Only time will tell.

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Top Tweets The funniest sports commentary via Twitter from this past week Faux John Madden @FauxJohnMadden Manti Te’o to the Chargers, where his ex-girlfriend is as realistic as their Super Bowl hopes.

Happy Gilmore @HappyGilmore Since Tony Romo is so familiar with picks, shouldn’t Goodell be letting him make the announcements?

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Sink or swim

From left, junior Matthew Kramer and seniors Matt Bonsant, Andrew Chaplain and David Holin attempt to sink another boat in the new intramural contest Battleship on Saturday afternoon in the Athletics and Events Center pool.

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moment of

the week A look back at one of the best sports stories in the past seven days.

On this 2 day in... 1939

Opening Day for Major League baseball was more than a month ago, but this opening day surpassed them all. Little League baseball returned to Newtown, Conn., on Saturday. ESPN released a photo displaying the community gathered together with all the teams on the same field. Every team uniform had “Newtown” displayed across the front. For the entire community, the beginning of baseball season is another step in recovery and gives children of this community another opportunity to return to regular out-of-school activities.

PRO SPORTS HISTORY

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Staff Writer Steve Derderian breaks down important moments in professional and Bombers sports history that occurred May 2.

Hall-of-famer Lou Gehrig ended his streak of consecutive baseball games played. The streak ended with a total of 2,130 games. This record stood for 56 years before Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles broke the record during a home game in September 1995. The record now stands at 2,632 consecutive games.

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The women’s track and field team won its first of four consecutive NYSCTC State Championships. This championship also marked the 17th state title in 24 seasons for the Bombers. Ironically, the Blue and Gold will attempt to defend their reign as state champions this season at St. Lawrence University, the same place where it began.

the foul line 2009 Weird news from the wide world of sports

There is a scene in the movie “The Sandlot” when “Ham” Porter passes out chewing tobacco to every kid on the Sandlot team before they go on the rides at the carnival.

The boys peer pressure the new kid, Smalls, to try it because “all the pros do it.” Even though the movie takes place during 1962, professional baseball players and even umpires still chew tobacco. On Friday night during a Mets vs. Phillies game, umpire Brian O’Nora became suddenly ill and rushed down the tunnel of the Mets’ dugout. Initially, it was reported that O’Nora was suffering from flu-like symptoms. However, Deadspin. com reports that O’Nora, just like the boys in “The Sandlot,” swallowed the chewing tobacco and as a result became ill. Fortunately for all the spectators and those watching on television, O’Nora left the field and was out of sight before he actually became sick.

—Steve Derderian

TED LILLY

Los Angeles Dodgers Sticking to the West Coast, Lilly has just returned from a nagging shoulder injury. Last season, he only pitched eight games, but the 14-year veteran is a solid fantasy starter. He has a low career WHIP of 1.25 to go along with five consecutive seasons, with an ERA less than 4.00. Lilly is available in more than 97 percent of ESPN.com leagues, and he is a must-add if owners can live with the lack of strikeouts.

---Steve Derderian

MILES SURREY’S

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Here are a couple of players from the same city who have flown under the radar this season but can help fill some roster spaces if your team needs an extra boost.

PETER BOURJOS Los Angeles Angels

Bourjos got lost in all the outfield options the Angels had last season, but now he’s back. He is hitting leadoff for a powerful lineup and already has a .317 average with two home runs and eight RBIs in 17 games.

He is owned in about 7 percent of ESPN.com fantasy leagues. Owners who are in need of a good average, steals and underrated power should pick him up while they still can.

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From left, sophomores Liz Hallwood and Ari Nafissi run through the first color station at the Color Splash Run. More than 500 people took part in the run Sunday in Stewart Park.

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Making a splash with

Color

Stewart Park was the site of the first 4-H Color Splash Run on Sunday. Hosted by the Cornell Cooperative Extension 4-H Development Program, the Duck Race and Color Splash Run raised more than $12,000 for local youth outreach 4-H programs.

From left, sophomores Jess Shikami and Hannah Steinfeld roll in colored corn starch while more is dropped on them at the last color station on the 5K course along the Waterfront Trail.

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From left, Alexander Simpson finishes first in the 10-15 age category with a time of 21:15, while junior Megan Devlin is the first woman to finish, with a time of 21:14.

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Participants line up behind the start/finish line before heat four of the Color Run. Hundreds of students and locals flocked to Stewart Park to participate and volunteer in the activities.

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