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MOOC MADNESS

Many are saying MOOCs are an undeniable part of the future, and residential colleges like Ithaca College are trying to see how they fit into the picture.

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by nicole ogrysko senior writer

As the price of four-year public and private universities increases nationwide, online education companies are offering up massive open online courses — otherwise known as MOOCs — as a way to bring higher education to students who cannot afford the traditional campus experience.

Now, private colleges like Ithaca College are

questioning their place in the rapidly changing arena of higher education.

In a letter from Ithaca College President Tom Rochon to college employees in February, he said, “We were particularly struck in the justconcluded Board meeting by the depth with which Trustees discussed the subject of online learning, including the rapid development of Massive Open Online Courses, as a threat to the

residential college model.”

This comes as colleges and universities grapple with how to best embrace or compete with online education companies like Coursera and Udacity, which offer a range of online courses for free or at a low cost. Simultaneously, a student could take The Future of Humankind from

See moocs, page 4

Sandra Steingraber released after serving eight days behind bars by noreyana fernando assistant news editor

Ithaca College distinguished scholar-in-residence Sandra Steingraber, whose environmental activism has often been the focus of national attention, was released from the Chemung County Jail at about 12:20 a.m. Thursday, according to her spokesperson.

She was arrested at a demonstration in Watkins Glen last month, where she and a group of 11 others protested a planned salt cavern gas storage facility at Seneca Lake.

Steingraber is a renowned ecologist and internationally recognized expert on environmental effects on human health. She was featured on Bill Moyers’ talk show, where she discussed her arrest. On April 17, the day after the conversation was taped, she went to jail.

Steingraber was charged with trespassing and was sentenced to a maximum of 15 days in jail after

Supporters greet Sandra Steingraber outside jail early Thursday. From left, Steingraber, husband Jeff deCastro, Jim Morra and wife Melissa Chipman. courtesy of Dan Rappaport

she refused to pay a fine imposed by the Reading Court. She was released after eight days in jail.

Local businesswoman Melissa Chipman and farm owner Michael Dineen were also released along

SEason's end Theater department performs final play of the year, page 13

with Steingraber, after being sentenced to jail for refusing to pay their fines of $375 each.

The group was greeted by a crowd of about 100 supporters outside the jail Thursday morning,

according the spokesperson.

On the day Steingraber was in court, more than 150 people gathered in Reading, N.Y., to support the three defendants who had previously pled guilty.

Steingraber was among 11 Finger Lakes residents arrested in a demonstration on March 18 against Missouri-based company Inergy Midstream. L.P., Inergy is an energy infrastructure and distribution company.

In 2008, Inergy purchased salt caverns from U.S. Salt and plans to develop liquefied petroleum gas storage. The protesters were opposing the company’s potential expansion. According to a press release from Steingraber’s spokesperson, Inergy’s gas storage and transportation project threatens the drinking water supply for 100,000 people.

Ithaca College senior Katarina

Andersson was also among those arrested. Andersson said the courtroom was packed with people from the community, who gathered in support during her April 3 hearing.

Andersson was also fined $375, which was paid by a community of supporters from all over the state, including Schuyler County, Tompkins County and Yates County.

“Most of them, I didn’t know,” she said. “They were just people from all over who were standing in opposition to fracking and in support of the Seneca Lake 12.”

Chris Tate is the co-founder and member of the board of directors of the Finger Lakes CleanWaters Initiative. Tate, who is a spokesperson for Steingraber, said Steingraber found out about her release through a newspaper.

“She had no prior knowledge

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Universities debate allowing credit for MOOCs

according to a Horizon 2013 Higher Education Report. from page 1 Jeff Selingo ’05, editor at large a Rutgers University professor at the Chronicle of Higher Educaand the Introduction to Guitar tion and author of an upcoming by a Berklee School of Music in- book, titled “College (Un)bound: structor with thousands of other The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students,” said he students across the globe.

Universities nationwide are now doesn’t see MOOCs taking the place debating whether they should ac- of traditional residential college. Incept a student’s low-cost MOOC stead, he said universities could use as an appropriate exchange for MOOCs as another reference point academic credit. In February, the during the college admissions proAmerican Council on Education cess or as an outlet for students to endorsed five MOOCs for academ- brush up on beginner knowledge in ic credit. Though the council has a particular subject.

“I don’t think they are a wholeaccepted five courses, colleges and universities ultimately have the fi- sale replacement for what a place nal decision to accept or reject that like Ithaca College is doing,” he said.

Kelly said the college is not concredit. Currently, Ithaca College does not accept MOOC courses in sidering incorporating MOOCs into the curriculum, but it is focusing on exchange for academic credit.

Marisa Kelly, provost and vice ways it can develop a strategic plan president for educational affairs, said for online learning for its own stushe does see MOOCs as a threat to dents. Kelly asked Rob Gearhart, some colleges and universities but a assistant provost for online learn“less direct threat” to private, resi- ing and extended studies at Ithaca College, to lead a committee to dedential campuses like the college.

“Do I think that the students velop a set of guidelines for online who are best suited for an experi- learning at the college.

She said the college will focus ence at Ithaca College do as well in a MOOC-like environment? No, on enhancing what’s best about I don’t think so,” Kelly said. “That its existing programs with online means that we ensure that we con- options while working to keep tinue to provide the kind of holistic costs down.

“The direclearning extion we move perience that with respect to students come “ online learnhere to engage ing will be in and that we absolutely do everything c o m p a t we can to reign ible with our in those costs.” mission as a Coursera residential hosts classes comprehenfrom 62 universive campus,” sities, like Harshe said. “We vard, Stanford are not inUniversity, Mas.” terested in sachusetts Insti—Richard Adelstein trying to tute of Technolchange who we ogy or Wesleyan are but rather University.

Students can choose to take a interested in seeing what is approcourse at their own pace or choose priate to adopt for Ithaca College.”

Richard Adelstein is one of six a class that follows a syllabus with specific deadlines. Registration just professors at Wesleyan University requires an email address and a pass- — a private liberal arts college with word. There are more than two million about 2,900 undergraduates — students enrolled in Coursera courses, who teaches a MOOC on Coursera.

MOOCs

In my entire life, I’ve taught 1,200 people this course material at Wesleyan, and in the last six weeks, 2,500 people have had the opportunity to watch a version of this same course

Seniors Rob Flaherty, student body president, and Justin Pyron, vice president of senate affairs, attend a Student Government Association meeting April 1, where President Tom Rochon discussed massive open online courses.

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To prepare for his course, Property and Liability: An Introduction to Law and Economics, Adelstein wrote powerpoints and scripts for 39 video lectures.

Though Adelstein said he spent between six and eight hours a week answering questions on the discussion boards and ensuring that quizzes worked properly, he said it was exciting that his course could reach more students than ever before — students who cannot afford classes at a traditional college or cannot travel to the campus to take them.

“In my entire life, I’ve taught 1,200 people this course material at Wesleyan, and in the last six weeks, 2,500 people have had the opportunity to watch a version of this same course,” he said. “That’s a very worthwhile thing, particularly since it’s free for them.”

Rob Flaherty, student body president, said students at the college’s online learning input meeting

this semester were both willing and hesitant to incorporate MOOCs into the college’s curriculum and experience. If the college offered MOOCs to other students outside of the college, the college could broaden its reach without disrupting the residential learning model, Flaherty said.

“We have some stellar faculty here who people would be willing to take courses from who don’t go to Ithaca College,” he said. “Why doesn’t the college offer MOOCs to people outside the institution?”

Selingo said the rising costs of tuition and rapid changes in technology are prompting a “breaking point” for some sort of change.

“We’re about to see it in the next couple of years for certain types of colleges, where students and parents are going to say enough is enough,” he said.

Selingo said colleges should evaluate what they can best offer

already, like strong faculty and student relationships, small class sizes or specialized residential learning opportunities, and enhance them.

“The college campus is not going away,” he said. “Institutions should look at all they’re doing on campus and double down on what is of high value and what is of high impact and then figure out how technology, whether it’s MOOCs or other types of technology, can help.”

Whatever the committee ultimately proposes, Gearhart said the plan must “embrace the culture and environment” of the college as a residential learning experience.

“We recognize and value that learning not only happens in the classroom, but it happens outside the classroom, and it’s all of those experiences together that stitch together your overall experience,” he said. “MOOCs are a great piece of the total learning experience, but they’re not the entire experience.”

Steingraber's letter from jail details reasons to continue fighting protest from page 1

[of her release date],” he said. “She saw an article in the newspaper [Wednesday], and that’s how she found out.”

In a letter from jail dated Friday and titled “Why I am in Jail on Earth Day,” Steingraber said she would be taken out of isolation and would join the rest of the inmates Monday.

Steingraber said she would be in isolation until the results of her test for tuberculosis are released.

“So, Monday, which is Earth Day, I will emerge from my cell and join the ecosystem of the Chemung County Jail, where the women’s voices are loud and defiant,” she said in her letter.

Steingraber also said the resilience of another female inmate inspired her to continue making her voice heard — even inside the walls of her cell.

“Stingray (not her actual nickname), broke a tooth yesterday,” Steingraber said in her letter. “When she showed it to officer Murphy’s Law (that’s his actual nickname) and said, ‘The other half is in my cell,’ Murphy’s Law replied, ‘So, you think the tooth fairy’s going to come?’ And then he left.

But she stood at the iron door and called

for pain meds, over and over in a voice that I use for rally speeches. Full oration. Projecting to the rafters. Stingray is six months pregnant. She got her pain meds. Stingray is my inspiration. How can I use my time here ... to speak loudly and defiantly about the business plans of a company called Inergy that seeks to turn my Finger Lakes home into a transportation and storage hub for fossil fuel gases?”

In a more recent letter dated Wednesday, Steingraber said she decided to take a stand because she was worried for her children.

“The west shore of Seneca Lake is [my son’s] birthplace, and the sound of green frogs twanging in the night was the theme song for my labor and delivery,” she said in the letter. “So, yes, my course of political action has taken me away from my own children in an attempt to redress this problem on their behalf, and during the first five days, when I was kept in 24-hour lock-up, I had no access to them. But I am convinced the tears of my children now will be less than their tears later — along with the tears of my grandchildren — if we mothers do nothing and allow the oil, coal and gas companies to hurdle us all off the climate cliff.”

Tate said Steingraber chose to go to jail to send a message to authorities.

Sandra Steingraber listens to her sentence April 17 at the Reading Town Court in Schuyler County. She served eight days in Chemung County Jail after refusing to pay a $375 fine. courtesy of Margie Rodgers

“I think she felt that she had pursued all reasonable means with respect to regulation and legal means to try and prevent this particular industrialization of the Finger Lakes from threatening Seneca Lake,” Tate said. “She believed a powerful gesture and

statement had to be made on behalf of the inhabitants of Seneca Lake.”

Following her release, Steingraber, along with Chipman and Dineen, will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Seneca Lake Harbor Front Park.

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Nation&World Bird flu strain spreads in China

A new strain of bird flu, H7N9, has emerged in China over the past month.

It is considered one of the “most lethal” flu viruses so far, worrying health officials because it can jump more easily from birds to humans than the one that started killing people a decade ago, World Health Organization officials said Wednesday.

Scientists are watching the virus closely to see if it could spark a global pandemic but say there is little evidence so far that it can spread easily from human to human.

Dr. Keiji Fukuda, WHO’s top influenza expert, told reporters at a briefing in Beijing that people seem to catch the H7N9 virus from birds more easily than the H5N1 strain that began ravaging poultry across Asia in 2003.

Health experts are concerned about H7N9’s ability to jump to humans and about the strain’s capacity to infect birds without causing noticeable symptoms, which makes it difficult to monitor its spread.

The H7N9 bird flu virus has infected more than 100 people in China, seriously sickening most of them and killing more than 20, mostly near the eastern coast around Shanghai.

Tsarnaev parents to arrive in US

U.S. investigators are in contact with the mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, and father, Anzor Tsarnaev, of the two Boston bombing suspects in southern Russia and working with Russian security officials to shed light on the deadly attack, a U.S. Embassy official said Wednesday.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, are accused of setting off the two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15. The elder brother was later killed in a police standoff.

The parents plan to fly to the U.S. on Thursday, the father was quoted telling the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.

The U.S. team traveled Tuesday from Moscow to the predominantly Muslim province of Dagestan, “because the investigation is ongoing, it’s not over,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.

He said the Americans were working with

the Russian security services, the FSB. He would not specify how long the Americans planned to stay in Dagestan.

Investigators are looking into whether Tamerlan, who spent six months in Russia’s Caucasus in 2012, was influenced by the religious extremists who have fought against the Russian security forces in the area for years.

The brothers have roots in Dagestan and neighboring Chechnya, but neither spent much time in either place before the family moved to the U.S. a decade ago.

Unknown group hacks AP Twitter

Hackers compromised Twitter accounts of The Associated Press on Tuesday, sending out a false tweet about an attack at the White House.

The false tweet said there had been two explosions at the White House and that President Barack Obama was injured. The attack on AP’s Twitter account and the AP Mobile Twitter account was preceded by phishing attempts on AP’s corporate network.

The AP confirmed that its Twitter account had been suspended following a hack and said it was working to correct the issue.

The false tweet went out shortly after 1 p.m. and briefly sent the Dow Jones industrial average sharply lower. The Dow fell 143 points, from 14,697 to 14,554, after the fake Twitter posting and then quickly recovered.

The Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for the hack. This claim couldn’t be corroborated.

The SEA has taken credit for a string of Web attacks on media targets it sees as sympathetic to Syria’s rebels. Among the targets the group claims to have hacked are Twitter feeds of Al-Jazeera English and the BBC. The FBI has opened an investigation into the incident, according to a spokeswoman.

Plot to derail Canadian train foiled

A man accused of plotting with al-Qaida members in Iran to derail a train in Canada gave a rambling statement in a Toronto court Wednesday and appeared to be saying he does not recognize its jurisdiction.

Law enforcement officials in the U.S. said the target was a train that runs between New

Rebuilding lives

A Bangladeshi woman, injured in a building that collapsed, receives treatment at a hospital in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh on Wednesday. An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh’s capital Wednesday, killing dozens and trapping many.

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York City and Canada. Canadian investigators say Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, received guidance from members of al-Qaida in Iran. Iranian government officials have said the government had nothing to do with the plot.

The judge told him to “save that for another court” and take the advice of his lawyers. He was given a May 23 court date.

Charges against the two men in Canada include conspiring to carry out an attack and murder people in association with a terrorist group. Police — tipped off by an imam worried by the behavior of one of the suspects — said it was the first known attack planned by al-Qaida in Canada. The two could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted.

Egypt’s courts fear Islamist clout Egypt’s Islamist-led parliament pushed ahead with a controversial judicial law Wednesday, despite a rising uproar among judges and the opposition, who fear Islamists’ control over courts.

The judiciary, which is made of mostly secular-minded professional judges, is seen by many Egyptians as the only remaining buffer against Islamists’ monopoly of power following the ouster of authoritarian ruler Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

Since then, Islamist parties have swept most polls and dominated legislative councils and the presidency, the country’s top executive post.

The opposition vowed to escalate a campaign against the bill and judges called for an emergency meeting later in the day.

Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi has been fighting with judiciary since he was elected last summer.

Last year, courts disbanded the parliament, which is dominated by Islamists, over unconstitutionality of the election law and last month challenged a parliamentary elections law.

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UNESCO chair for US envisions global ethics by jeremy li staff writer

Amii Omara-Otunnu, the UNESCO chair for the U.S., visited Ithaca College on Monday night, where he discussed contention between government and human rights in the 21st century.

Omara-Otunnu has worked in Israel, Western Europe, North America and other regions. He is the founder and executive director of the Institute of Comparative Human Rights at the University of Connecticut, where he is also a professor.

About 30 students gathered in the VIP room of the Athletics and Events Center to listen to Omara-Otunnu. Sonali Samarasinghe, scholar in residence at Ithaca College, organized the event as part of a lecture series connected to the course she teaches on Human Rights Litigation. The Honors Program and the departments of history and health promotion and physical education cosponsored Omara-Otunnu’s lecture.

Robert Sullivan, director of the college’s Honors Program, introduced Omara-Otunnu’s academic interests and work before inviting him to speak.

“Otunnu is more than a successful academic, he is also a practical visionary,” Sullivan said. “He has devoted his life to the cause of human rights, to promoting democratic pluralism, equitable development and social justice around the world.”

Omara-Otunnu walked up to the podium with no papers or notes. He said he did not prepare a speech out of respect for the audience.

“In the spirit of the conversation, [I want] to speak as the spirit moves me,” Omara-Otunnu said.

The interdependence of the global community, which he said is also the foundation of the globalized ethical value he envisioned, was the first thing Omara-Otunnu talked about.

“Today we live in a world that is increasingly interdependent, a world in which ‘global village’ is no longer a metaphoric expression, it’s a practical reality,” Otunnu said. “We are only one human race, not many races. The challenge of [the] 21st century is how do we conduct ourselves in a way which is commensurate to the reality of this world we live in.”

He said a poor understanding of the interdependence of the global community results in the lack of sympathy for the victims of human rights violations.

by sabrina knight assistant news editor

Ithaca College students stand with Amii Omara-Otunnu, third from left. During his visit, Omara-Otunnu discussed human rights and the increasing interdependence within the global community. courtesy of sonali Samarasinghe

Omara-Otunnu said the way people sometimes approach human rights issues is problematic, because they do it out of pity. He said “informed empathy” needed to be achieved first as a better approach to human rights issues.

Omara-Otunnu then made the connection between violence and power, saying the only way to domesticate power is to globalize ethical values. Toward the end of his speech, Omara-Otunnu brought up his expectations for the younger generation.

“To begin to live with empathy towards one another, to keep on dreaming,” Omara-Otunnu said.

“Dreams are the essences of human existence. Too often in history, people who were thought to be dreamers are the ones who change the world. The pragmatists are the ones who allow the status quo to continue.”

Following the speech, Omara-Otunnu answered some of the audience’s questions. Matt Mogekwu, associate professor of journalism,

expressed concern about the globalization of values, as he thinks such processes will take too long, and it’s hard for all people to reach a consensus on one globalized ethical value. “[The globalization of values] is going to take two, three, four, five, even six generations to bring about, not because it is impossible, but because those who have developed theories about ethics have given us theories to justify whatever they do,” Mogekwu said.

Omara-Otunnu said Mogekwu’s point was an important one. He also lingered after the lecture to speak with students and faculty members.

Sophomore Anna Gress said the lecture made her think about issues that are broader than her own self.

“It makes you think outside of your selfishness, that there is a bigger problem in the world that needs to be addressed, and it makes you want to go out there and do something,” Gress said. “It definitely gives you a lot to think about. ”

Students will set sail in biology class next fall

by Evin Billington staff writer

Next semester, students in the new class, Biology of Oceanic Islands, will spend 10 days in January sailing around the Caribbean Islands, collecting samples of the ocean water and ecosystem while working as a functioning boat crew.

Biology of Oceanic Islands is an elective open to biology majors and honors students at Ithaca College.

The class will be co-taught by Susan Swensen, professor of biology, and Peter Melcher, associate professor of biology.

Swensen said she became interested in creating the class after attending a Sea Education Association sailing trip for college professors.

“It occurred to me that that would be a really great marriage of two ideas, if you could teach a course about evolution on islands and actually take students on a vessel like that and see the islands, and stop off and actually experience and look at some of the things they were learning about in the classroom, that would be just a fantastic combination of things, so that’s what I’m trying to do,” Swensen said.

She said the study of evolution on islands is especially interesting, because evolution happens faster than in other areas.

“On islands, you have microcosms of evolution in fast motion,

Public Safety investigates dark graffiti

and it’s easier to see what’s going on on an island, because it happens faster, and there’s fewer species to look at,” Swensen said.

The class itself, which takes place in the fall, will teach students how to collect oceanic samples, and it will also go beyond strict biology. Swensen said it will also focus on the history of the Caribbean, the sociology behind what humans brought to the island and how sailors navigated the islands hundreds of years ago.

Students will be divided into watch groups that are given different responsibilities depending on the shift.

Some watch shift duties will include collecting samples and others will involve boat maintenance, like cleaning and cooking or navigating and steering. SEA members will assist them.

Freshman Emma Nelton said the many different topics covered in the class will allow her to take a step away from her many classes just focused on science.

“There’s a lot of focus on human impact on the Caribbean,” she said.

“That’ll be a fascinating part, because I do like taking classes that are in other areas, and I don’t actually have the space to do that in my schedule next semester, so it’ll be nice to have one class that’s not quite so narrowly focused.”

Junior Kassie Wahlstrom signed up for the class after hearing about the sailing trip. In addition to

The Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management is investigating a report of threatening graffiti written on a chalkboard and whiteboard in a classroom on the third floor of Friends Hall.

Public Safety sent out an alert Saturday evening with a warning about graffiti that indicated intent to cause harm to the Ithaca College community.

Laura Durling, assistant director for administrative services at Public Safety, said the graffiti occurred between 11 p.m. Friday and 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

“There is no direct threat regarding a specific person or building or property and that’s all the information that we have right now,” Durling said.

The Public Safety Alert has asked that the community report anything or anyone that seems suspicious.

“All threats to persons and property are taken seriously and in light of recent national events, we remain on heightened alert,” the alert stated. “As always we remind our campus community to immediately report all unusual or suspicious persons, vehicles and activity.”

Durling said she is unable to comment on the contents of the message because the investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information should contact Public Safety at 274-3333.

Assistant News Editor Noreyana Fernando contributed to this report.

Work on bridge to begin again by sabrina knight assistant news editor

Susan Swensen, biology professor, stands on a ship bound for the island of Raieta, located in Polynesia, as part of a Sea Education Association trip.

courtesy of susan swensen

biology, Wahlstrom majors in anthropology and has a minor in Spanish. She thought the different aspects of the class would be a perfect combination of her interests.

“We’ll be stopping in a small village in Puerto Rico, which will also be interesting, because I’m an anthropology major, and just to go to the village, speak Spanish with them and learn about their life there,” she said. “It’s the perfect mesh of biology, Spanish and anthropology.”

Students who take the class are not required to go on the 10-day trip, but those who intend to go on

the cruise must put down a $500 deposit in August, which is just one of the expenses Wahlstrom said she thinks is preventing more students from signing up. There are about 20 students signed up for the fall course.

There will be no cell phone or Internet service on the boat, and students will be living in close quarters, but Nelton said the conditions of the cruise do not perturb her, despite the fact she has never been on a sailboat like the one they will use.

“It’s 10 days,” she said. “I’m not overly concerned. I think it’ll be nice to step out of civilization for a while.”

The Ithaca community can expect a detour around the East Clinton Street Bridge beginning Monday as construction on it resumes, according to a press release from the City of Ithaca.

During the construction, one lane will remain open, Addisu Gebre, bridge systems engineer and project manager, said. Traffic traveling west will be detoured to follow North Aurora Street to West Seneca Street, and then to Albany Street for Route 96B. Eastbound traffic will use the bridge.

Gebre said the construction is a continuation of the construction that began last year.

“We will be working on the street and some of the retaining walls, sidewalks, pavement work,” Gebre said.

The press release said pedestrians will still have access to the project area during construction. Pedestrians will be able to use existing or newly constructed sidewalks in the area. The press release also said parking will not be allowed in the construction area.

Construction is expected to be completed by July 15.

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Professor challenges students to question society by emily miles senior writer

“The students here are awesome,” Adnan Selimovic, instructor in the politics department, said, leaning back in his desk chair. “They’re tough. They don’t open up lightly.”

He says he understands, though, because there is trust that must be earned as a new instructor.

Selimovic has a silver hoop in his right ear, and his brown hair is shaped in a ’50s crew cut. His blue denim button-up is covered by a plaid, wool blazer. He crosses his legs and bright, kelly green socks obviously rise out of his brown leather Mephisto shoes.

Last fall was his first semester teaching. Selimovic, a Ph.D. candidate in York University’s graduate program in Social and Political Thought in Toronto, Canada, is working to finish his dissertation on youth cultures and technology while teaching courses at Ithaca College. This semester, he is teaching Political Economy of the Illicit Drug Trade in the United States, Political Theory of Self Consciousness and U.S. Politics Through Scandals.

“Most of these intro classes are just about trying to put on the brakes and saying, you know, you don’t have to necessarily identify with the systems around you,” Selimovic said. “I always try to stay aware of the political economy of being a young person and involve that in every class.”

Aside from the shelves of neatly lined books that surround his desk, the walls of his small office on the third floor of the Muller Faculty Center are almost completely blank.

That is except for a chart of Foucault’s Panopticon and an ad ripped out of a

magazine given to him by his partner, Nadja Eisenberg-Guyat.

He said people notice that it’s still blank after a year, but he doesn’t think it’s that important.

“My parents always say don’t get invested in things that are material,” Selimovic said.

Selimovic was born in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, where he lived with his mother, father and younger sister until the country’s fall in the early ’90s. Selimovic said he watched his parents, who had “invested everything into a political system,” get ousted. The world he knew was shattered, and his family lost everything.

He spent his childhood living in refugee camps in Turkey and Bulgaria and moved to the U.S. in 1998. As a teenager living in St. Louis, Mo., he said, he explored the new environment to teach his younger sister about American society.

“All of the moving and translating ideas is when I became interested in socialization, psychosocial dynamics, manipulation, coercion and those sorts of things,” Selimovic said.

Selimovic finished his course work as a doctoral student at York University in Toronto, and with only a dissertation to complete before receiving his PhD, he decided to get off campus and give teaching a try.

“Universities are still places where we can have political pedagogy,” Selimovic said. “It can be about intergenerational communication that matters.”

Shaza Elsheshtawy is a senior politics major enrolled in Selimovic’s Political Economy of the Illicit Drug Trade in the United States. After four years of politics courses, she said she

Adnan Selimovic spent a year at Ithaca College teaching courses like U.S. Politics Through Scandals and Illicit Drug Trade in the United States. Selimovic encourages his students to question their place in the social structure.

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could tell Selimovic was different right away. She noticed Selimovic used feminine pronouns instead of the typical “his” and “he” and also included a list of conditions under which a student should reconsider enrolling, such as if they “cannot stomach the restlessness of not knowing the answer.”

“To me that is important,” Elsheshtawy said. “The world isn’t easy, isn’t clean. Explaining it shouldn’t be so either.”

Elsheshtawy said Selimovic helps to end students’ fear to question systems and society.

“I never have problems with students, because my solidarity is with them as learners, you know, as young people who are just trying to get some sort of bearing on reality,” Selimovic said.

Eisenberg-Guyat, an anthropology student who is currently doing ethnographic research about drug use in Philadelphia at CUNY-Hunter, said she enjoyed watching Selimovic build confidence in his ability to teach.

“As a young instructor, you don’t want to be authoritative or a disciplinarian,” she said. “But he still holds his students responsible for their serious

commitment to learning, and that is incredibly important.”

Selimovic said his time at Ithaca College has been “great,” though teaching four classes a semester can be “pretty intense.”

“When I talk to my colleagues and older colleagues in mentor positions … I think they think I am exaggerating, that I’m making it seem better than it is,” Selimovic said. “I’ve gotten all of the institutional support I need, plenty of space, all the resources I need to put something together, and the students are awesome.”

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More than Me founder speaks Katie Meyler, founder of the national More than Me organization, works to get girls in Liberia off the streets and into school. The foundation raises funds to pay for tuition, school supplies and lunch for Liberian girls aged between 5 and 15 — some of whom have worked as prostitutes to pay for school.

The foundation is building its own school, the More MEYLER said she is working to build Than Me Girls’ Academy, a school for girls which is expected to open in Liberia. in Liberia this September.

This year, More than Me also won $1 million at the annual American Giving Awards on NBC. Meyler visited Ithaca College on Monday and spoke to members of the college’s chapter of More than Me, which is also the first campus chapter of the foundation in the country.

Sophomore Grace Schroeder is the college outreach coordinator for the foundation.

Assistant News Editor Noreyana Fernando spoke to Meyler about her experiences growing up, the inspiration behind More than Me and her response to those who object to the foundation’s approach to Africa.

Noreyana Fernando: Tell me a bit about yourself and where you grew up.

Katie Meyler: I grew up in Bernardsville, New Jersey, which is 30 minutes outside of New York City. It’s a really wealthy community ...

There are like princes and princesses and these beautiful homes and helicopter landings on houses ... My parents got divorced when I was six, and my mom worked at a factory, so she worked the overnight shift at a factory making minimum wage. That’s how I grew up — poor.

NF: From where did you get your inspiration to want to work with underprivileged children?

KM: I did my internship for college in Bolivia working with street kids ... I met a little boy named Carlito, who slept under a car at night to keep warm, and so that was a marking period of my life where I feel like my heart was marked and I knew that I was going to work with street kids.

NF: What is the importance of having MTM at a college-level?

KM: College students have this idealism that hasn’t been tainted. I think about Grace [Schroeder] and this team, they really really believe they can change the world. I believe they can too ... They are still full of this energy to do something good. And it’s like fire. It’s inspiring and they inspire other young people.

NF: What is your message to people who have objected to More than Me’s portrayal of Africa?

KM: I am expecting to meet some of these students, which I am excited about. I have talked to some of them. I think it’s important for there to be communication. I think it’s good that there are young people that are expressing how they feel about how the Ithaca College team is portraying Africa or Liberia. You have a bunch of young people that are extremely idealistic ... [All of them] haven’t been to Africa. They haven’t been to Liberia. They are still learning. I think they are just saying their limited understanding of what the issues are. They are saying ‘I want to do something.’ That doesn’t mean that they figured out how ... I think they are going to make mistakes and I think they are definitely open to admitting that ... It’s not just them. I am there too. We are not perfect. The way that we communicate some things, sometimes it’s going to offend people. But if you are worrying all the time about not offending anybody, you are never going to do anything.

A world in song

Senior Shaylyn Gibson sings an Italian song at Multicultural Voices, hosted by the Modern Languages and Literatures department. About 40 people turned out Monday to see students perform songs and read poetry. IC Teatro also performed a scene from “Beautiful Senioritas.”

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College & City Community to celebrate work of retiring director

A celebration to honor Ken Kutler, director of intercollegiate athletics and recreational sports, will take place from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Friday in the VIP room of the Athletics and Events Center.

Kutler will retire at the end of June after 10 years of working at Ithaca College. KUTLER During his time, he has been a part of significant upgrades to athletic facilities at the college, has advanced the college’s Title IX compliance, has enhanced the recruitment of student athletes and has expanded the athletic program, according to an Intercom post released in October.

Since Kutler has been athletic director, the college has won the Empire 8 Commissioner’s Cup every year. The cup recognizes the conference’s most successful athletic department based on Empire 8 sports standings.

AES searches for tutors for last weeks of classes

Academic Enrichment Services is seeking immediate tutors that will work until the last day of classes. Tutors will make $10 per hour.

To qualify as a tutor, interested students must be in good academic standing with their respective schools and have earned at least an A- in the following courses: MATH 131, ANTH 101, MATH 145, MGMT 111,

SOC 213 and STCM 205.

Anyone interested should contact Yolanda Clarke, manager of academic enrichment, at yclarke@ithaca.edu.

Health and fracking take spotlight in three forums

Three forums, taking place Friday and Saturday in Bath, Spencer and Elmira, will offer a public space to learn about and discuss the connection between natural gas drilling and human health.

In an event titled “Fracking vs.

Health,” five people will talk about their experiences with the gas drilling industry.

They include Randy Moyer and Rick “Mac” Sawyer, who will talk about their time as gas field truck drivers in Pennsylvania and how the job impacted their health; Joe Giovannini, a stonemason from Pennsylvania who had to leave his home because of gas drilling activities; Larysa Dyrszka, an affiliate member of Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers for Healthy Energy; and Lauren Williams, a Pennsylvania attorney specializing in environmental and public sector law.

The first forum will take place from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday in the Bath Haverling High School auditorium.

The second forum, which is located in Spencer, N.Y., and is the closest to Ithaca College, will go from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Spencer Town Hall at 79 E. Tioga St. The last forum will go from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Elmira, N.Y. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentations.

Assistant to the provost position opens to faculty

Ithaca College is conducting an internal search for applicants for a new position of special assistant to the provost.

Position duties include interviewing all finalists for ongoing faculty positions and managing the graduate education activities that remain in the division of academic affairs.

The position, which is a three-year appointment, is open to tenured faculty members or senior NTEN faculty.

Those who are interested should send a letter of interest and an updated vita to employment@ithaca. edu by May 1.

College honors students and faculty for excellence

Ithaca College has recognized 10 students and five faculty for their contributions to the college and their academic accomplishments.

Seniors who receive the 2012-13 Campus Life Award have been actively involved in campus events and student organizations since their first year. The recipients for this year’s awards are seniors Ashley Braziel, Robert Flaherty, Rachel Heiss, Emily Holland, Jamie Hom, Julian Rivera, Elizabeth Stoltz, Colleen Wormsley, Kristy Zhen and Maeghan Willis.

Based on the Ithaca College Faculty Handbook, the faculty members who received the 20122013 Faculty Excellence Award have used innovative teaching methods, contribute to scholarship in their field and serve the campus community.

This year’s recipients are Mark

Public Safety Incident Log APRIL 11 Conduct code violation LOCATION: F-Lot SUMMARY: Officer reported a vehicle displayed altered parking permit. Officer issued campus summons. One person judicially referred. Master Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock.

Criminal mischief LOCATION: L-Lot SUMMARY: Caller reported unknown person scratched vehicle. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Robert Jones.

Criminal mischief LOCATION: Z-Lot SUMMARY: A caller reported unknown person damaged windshield wipers on a vehicle. Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

Criminal mischief LOCATION: Z-Lot SUMMARY: A caller reported unknown person damaged vehicle and stole windshield wipers off vehicle. Investigation pending.

Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

APRIL 12 Medical assist/illness related LOCATION: Smiddy Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported a person had passed out but regained consciousness. Person declined medical assistance from ambulance staff. Fire Protection Specialist Mark Swanhart.

Conduct code violation LOCATION: S-Lot SUMMARY: Caller reported vehicle with a fraudulent permit rolled out of parking space.

Officer reported vehicle had a fraudulent permit. Vehicle towed for causing safety hazard.

One person judicially referred for fraudulent permit. Patrol Officer Patrick Johnson. mva/property damage LOCATION: All Other SUMMARY: Caller reported a bus drove on grass causing damage. Report taken.

Patrol Officer Patrick Johnson.

Assist tcso LOCATION: All Other SUMMARY: Officer reported people filming near power station. Assisting TCSO in identifying people responsible. Investigation pending. Sergeant Ron Hart.

V&T unlicensed operation LOCATION: Danby Road SUMMARY: Officer determined operator’s license was suspended during a traffic stop. An officer issued a uniform traffic ticket for Town of Ithaca court for aggravated unlicensed operation and plate lamp being out. Patrol Officer Daniel Austic.

APRIL 13 Conduct code violation LOCATION: Boothroyd Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported intoxicated person passed out. Person transported to CMC by ambulance and judicially referred for irresponsible use of alcohol.

Patrol Officer Daniel Austic.

APRIL 14 Malicious false alarm LOCATION: Terraces SUMMARY: Simplex reported a fire alarm. Activation caused by unknown

person maliciously discharging a fire extinguisher. System reset. Patrol Officer Daniel Austic. mva/property damage LOCATION: Grant Egbert Blvd.

SUMMARY: Officer reported property damage in one-car MVA. Report taken.

Patrol Officer Jay Vanvolkinburg. malicious false alarm LOCATION: Terraces SUMMARY: Officer reported unknown person maliciously discharged fire extinguisher. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Bruce Thomas.

Medical assist/injury related LOCATION: Lyon Hall SUMMARY: A caller reported person accidentally sustained a neck injury.

Person transported to CMC by ambulance. Sergeant Terry O’Pray.

Larceny LOCATION: Gannett Center SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person stole a wallet. Caller reported wallet was found and not stolen. Larceny is unfounded. Patrol Officer Robert Jones.

APRIL 15 Suspicious circumstance LOCATION: Alumni Circle SUMMARY: A caller reported a bicycle was found on the roadside and was concerned that the person was possibly injured. An officer reported that the area was checked and no evidence was found of injury. Bicycle was turned over to the Office of Public Safety.

Master Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

Fonder, professor and chair of music education; Gary Sforzo, professor in the department of exercise and sport sciences; Hormoz Movassaghi, professor of finance and international business; Michael Trotti, associate professor in the department of history; and Gossa Tsegaye, assistant professor of television and radio.

Newly elected students prepare to enter office

The Senior Class elections committee and the Student Government Association and announced the winners of their elections Sunday.

Members of the 2013-14 SGA executive board will be junior Cedrick-Michael Simmons as president, sophomore Isuru Perera- SIMMONS Somasinghe as vice president of academic affairs, sophomore Matt Orama as vice president of business and finance, junior Willa Erickson as vice president of campus affairs and Freshman Dominick Recckio as vice president of communications. The five winners of the election ran on the “IC Students F.I.R.S.T.” ticket.

The junior election winners were Erin Smith as president, K.C. Weston as vice president, Jenny Barish as director of finance, Andrew Becker as director of communications and Juan Tamayo as director of marketing. The five winners ran on “The Bomber Bunch” ticket. The senators for the

Class of 2014 will be juniors Marissa Osowsky and Katelyn Madison.

The senators for the Class of 2015 will be sophomores Neal Anderson, Joshua Couce, Jonathon Cummings and Mia O’Brien.

The new senators for the Class of 2016 will be freshmen Elijah Breton, Attila Mendli, Victoria Hathaway and Sean Themea.

Senators for four of the schools were also announced Saturday.

Junior Rob Hohn will be senator of the School of Humanities and Sciences, sophomore Crystal Kayiza will be the senator of the Roy H. Park School of Communications, sophomore Esther Kim will be the senator of the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance and sophomore Brandon Xing will be senator of the School of Business.

Old Courthouse renamed after Governor Tompkins

The Old Courthouse will be renamed the Governor Daniel D. Tompkins Building, in honor of former New York State Governor Daniel Tompkins, who served from 1807 to 1817.

The state legislature formed the county in 1817 and named it after Tompkins, who left the governorship to take over as vice president of the U.S. The change was approved 13-1 by the county legislature this month.

The Tompkins Building was built in 1854 and is the oldest Gothic Revival courthouse in Tompkins County.

Later this year, it will become home to the county legislature.

selected entries from APRIL 11 to April 16 Fire alarm accidental LOCATION: Circle Apartments SUMMARY: Simplex reported a fire alarm.

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

Medical assisT/injury related LOCATION: S-Lot SUMMARY: Caller reported a person injured ankle while playing tennis. One person transported to the Health Center.

Master Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock.

Fire alarm accidental LOCATION: Ben Light Gymnasium.

SUMMARY: Simplex reported a fire alarm.

Activation caused by dust from construction. System reset. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

Larceny LOCATION: Unknown SUMMARY: Person reported unknown person stole money from a wallet. Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

APRIL 16 Harassment LOCATION: Campus Center Quad SUMMARY: A caller reported a person was attempting to speak with the caller and was blocking his path preventing him from leaving the area. Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock.

Criminal mischief LOCATION: Emerson Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person damaged window. Officer determined the damage was caused by a golf

ball hitting window from the outside. One person judicially referred for criminal mischief. Patrol Officer Jeremiah McMurray.

Harassment LOCATION: School of Communications SUMMARY: A caller reported a person making unwanted phone calls. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Daniel Austic.

V&T leaving scene of accident LOCATION: J-Lot SUMMARY: A caller reported an unknown vehicle caused damage to parked vehicle and then immediately left the scene. Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury.

Fire alarm LOCATION: G-Lot SUMMARY: Caller reported flames coming from construction equipment. The fire was out and appeared to be caused by electrical wires shorting out upon arrival. Master Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

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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The media should take more time to reflect on coverage of Boston bombings and ensure reporting in times of crisis meets journalistic standards.

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hen a tragedy on American soil sparks a widespread sense of nationalism, the mainstream media finds itself in a powder keg holding a match. This was the case for major news organizations during the Boston bombings and the subsequent manhunt. The reporting from Boston shed light on the many opportunities for failure in America’s current 24/7 news cycle and the nature of information dissemination in the 21st century.

After a national tragedy, the pressure to find those responsible forces law enforcement to act quickly and the media to report every step of their investigation as it happens. This used to mean having content ready for every morning edition and ensuring the headlines kept up with the competition. Now, it means sending out information as it is received. This eliminates two of the most critical tenets of responsible journalism: the ability to vet information and the time to critically analyze the impact news will have on the community.

In Boston, this meant releasing information about suspect leads that turned out to be false but still had the power to incite public revenge and put lives in danger. Further, media organizations bombarded people associated with the case without much regard for their personal privacy or the processes law enforcement must go through to ensure accuracy and public safety.

Individuals now have access to news at their fingertips. The Internet and social media have given the power to spread information to anyone with a Wi-Fi connection. Breaking news spread through social media in times of crisis is currently about as reliable as the Farmers’ Almanac, and it is the responsibility of both content creators and content consumers to police these posts. Traditional news organizations cannot easily retract information they provide online as their followers almost instantly spread that content to their own networks. As new methods of information dissemination grows, both media professionals and consumers must be more cautious of what is posted and ensure journalistic values stay intact, even if that means slowing down the news cycle.

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All schools at the college should join the Roy H. Park School of Communications in putting registration forms online.

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he Roy H. Park School of Communications is piloting a program that allows all student override requests for courses in the Park School to be completed online. The initiative is part of an effort from the Office of the Provost, Information Technology Services and the Park School to put the 40 most used college forms online.

This initiative is a positive step toward a more effective registration system. Online forms that are easily accessible at any time are a common sense solution that will reduce paper usage and help students register more easily. All schools within Ithaca College should be developing the technology to allow students to complete forms online.

A comprehensive system for submitting forms online would save both faculty and students time.

Students wouldn’t have to trek around campus completing forms, and faculty wouldn’t have to be present to accept said forms or answer questions that could easily be dealt with through an online forum.

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Letters must be 250 words or less, emailed or dropped off by 5 p.m. Monday in Park 269.

SNAP JUDGMENT Good work Is the ability to give back to the community a priority for you when choosing “If you’re not “Giving back is a career? certainly part of helping to

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the music education career that I’m going into.

We really rely on community support and involvement.”

change or elevate people’s social standings, you’re only helping further impose and marginalize them.”

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“Involving students in the community can actually enhance their experience. I’m an education major, and I think that’s important.”

Joshua Zimmer, Music Education ’13

“I’m hoping someday I can get into screenwriting and write a story that really means something to somebody and will make them happy.”

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Dove ‘Real Beauty’ video banks on insecurities W hen my Facebook tells me that 11 of my friends have reposted a link, I know it means something. Either KONY’s back at it, Ithaca College is finally divesting from fossil fuels or some abhorrent excuse for feminism is making my classmates, coworkers and friends’ moms tear up in unison. This time it was the latter. Many of you have probably seen Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” by now, but for those of you that haven’t, I’ll lay out the concept. A retired FBI sketch artist asks women to describe themselves and draws them without seeing Rebecca them. Then, other men Billings and women come in and describe the same subjects. This results in two sketches of the same woman, and this is where the waterworks come in: The self-described portraits are all, well, uglier.

When this video was first buzzing on social media, the comments were along the lines of “So beautiful,” “Dove did it again!” and “This video made me cry, every woman should see this.” This is the exact reaction that Dove was banking on.

“You are more beautiful than you think” fades onto the light gray screen as soft music twinkles in the background, right before the video comes to a close. We are supposed to see these women looking at the two perceptions of themselves — their own and that of a stranger — with pain in their eyes and put ourselves there. We are supposed to hear them articulate their lack of confidence and sob our insecurities at the screen. We are supposed to realize that our society cleverly and invisibly forces women to believe that they are uglier than they really are.

We are supposed to realize our own beauty, thanks to the newfound confidence of these relatable, regular women who just discovered theirs.

Then, we are supposed to buy Dove products.

Dove has been capitalizing on our insecurities for years now, with magazine ads of non-thin naked women smiling and loving themselves, and commercials revealing the unknown horrors that Photoshopped images have on little girls. Since 2006, their marketing team apparently realized

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The Dove “Real Beauty Sketches” video ad shows a former FBI sketch artist’s drawings of women as they described themselves and also as others described them. The two were then compared.

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that the beauty industry in our society is rooted in patriarchy, only successful because companies can consistently convince women and girls that they are not OK the way they are, and they very artistically and superficially began letting their consumer base in on it. But when a company who is a part of this industry starts to sell us products while speaking out against the entire basis of their economic success, it gets complicated.

When Dove courageously showed us their curvaceous, nude models, they all had luminous, moisturized skin. When Dove sold us deodorant that would make our armpits beautiful, they first had to convince us that our armpits were ugly. And when they let us know that “We are more beautiful than we think,” they were taking advantage of the fact that we all think we’re a little bit ugly, a fact that has been ingrained in our minds since birth by the beauty industry and by skin and hair care

companies that show us close-up images of our dry skin and split ends, then reassure us that their products provide hope to abolish such atrocities.

Next time we go to Wegman’s to pick out a body wash that will get rid of our B.O. and our other three million invented imperfections, we’re going to see the Dove logo and flash back to the video that made us realize, on the most insincere level, that we are pretty. We’ll be overwhelmed by that sense of self-love and gratitude for the company that wants our money, and we’ll give it to them.

So ladies, Dove wants you to realize your true beauty, but only long enough to tweet their new video. Then they want you to head back to that beauty aisle and buy their products. Maybe that will help our socially constructed lack of confidence?

Rebecca Billings is a junior politics major at Ithaca College. Email her at rbillin1@ithaca.edu

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Ithaca College fails to prepare students for real life

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t has been nearly a year since I graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in anthropology and a minor in environmental studies. I have an amazing job where I get paid to travel the world and work with high school students, teaching them about traveling and expanding their perspectives. That said, my life since graduation has been slightly rocky — as it has been with some of my fellow graduates. While it is not surprising that many college graduates all over the country continue to struggle with finding jobs, I have found that I and many of my friends are struggling to assimilate to the “adult” or the postgraduate lifestyle.

Many great things come after graduating, like not having to write papers and eat package upon package of Ramen noodles.

However, there are a lot of things that I have encountered in the past year that I was not prepared for. Things like how to do my taxes. How do I choose a bank that is right for me? How do I invest my money intelligently?

What is a mortgage, and how do I get one? How do I establish credit, and what can I do with it?

How do I negotiate a contract,

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Jordan Weltman ’12 works as a trip director for Travel for Teens, a student travel organization. He argues colleges should focus on real-life skills.

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and what should I ask for? And probably the biggest thing, how do I make friends? The list goes on, but these are just a few questions that I have asked myself, my peers and my parents. These are some things that are somewhat expected of an adult, and I do not feel prepared to tackle these issues. While most of our parents and our older peers have gone through this, it all seems to be knowledge

that is passed down from generation to generation. Who’s to say that they didn’t learn it wrong?

Over the last several years, many colleges and universities, including Ithaca College, have been investing resources into the first-year experience. These programs are in place to ease the transition from high school to college, so the students will be more successful and make the

most of their four years on campus. At the end of the best four years of our lives, we are wiser and know a heck of a lot in the area of our chosen studies. But what about the transition from college to adulthood? It’s equally as scary as going to college, and the opportunity to make mistakes is greater. You don’t get an adviser for the “real world.”

Ithaca College should consider putting together an exploratory committee that will discuss a “senior-year experience” that would teach students how to be successful after graduation when it comes to these basic tasks.

There are far too many unknowns to teach students everything they will need to know, but to hit a few major topics could make life beyond December or May a little less intimidating.

Many of my alumni friends have all experienced the aforementioned struggles in some way or another. Ithaca College has made me “ready” to be a part of my chosen field, but not to face the everyday challenges of being an adult.

Jordan Weltman ’12 is a trip director for Travel for Teens. Email him at jordan@travelforteens.com.

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.

rothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, two alleged domestic enemies of the United States, are being charged with bombing my hometown of Boston, Mass.

Tamerlan was killed after receiving multiple wounds in a firefight with law enforcement and then was ultimately run over by his own brother in an attempt to escape. Since the second suspect, Dzhokhar, was captured Friday night hiding in a boat in the suburb of Watertown, controversy has arisen among national politics on how we should treat Dzhokhar within the judicial system.

Dzhokhar, according to the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, has an unalienable right to a lawyer. If we were to declare Dzhokhar an enemy combatant, as Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) want, then we would take away his undeniable constitutional rights.

It is incomprehensible as to what part of the party these senators come from, where they pick and choose which parts of the constitution to uphold while blatantly ignoring others.

I understand the value of declaring Dzhokhar an enemy combatant, as the U.S. would be able to interrogate him indefinitely without a lawyer. We may be able to find out what this teenager knows, which could prevent a future attack or break up a terror network. However, all we know is that he became involved in radical Islam in recent years. Though radical Chechens have been linked to Al Qaeda, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan have no known ties to Al Qaeda, therefore, we cannot connect him to the conflict without sufficient evidence.

The “old stale and moss covered GOP,” namely senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, believe that we should treat this 19-year-old UMass Dartmouth student as an enemy combatant. After the damage he caused to my Commonwealth, my impulses agree.

However, rationally, we must treat this U.S. citizen in a court of law the same as any other, much like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh as well as the unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. We should be treating Dzhokhar the same way we treated fellow citizen Timothy McVeigh, who received the federal death penalty after being found guilty of killing 168 and injuring 800 in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings.

Before lawmakers take impulsive and irrational actions in this specific case, they must consider the toll it would take on personal freedoms of the generations to come.

Rob Oliver is the president of IC Republicans and a senior politics major and international relations minor.

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truth Mainstage season concludes with dramatic play

Senior Matt Prigge stars as Dr. Thomas Stockmann during a dress rehearsal for a production of “An Enemy of the People” in the Hoerner Theatre. “An Enemy of the People” will run until April 28.

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By Lucy Walker Staff Writer

In a time and place where speaking the truth is the wrong thing to do, one individual will become an enemy to everyone he knows in an effort to save them all.

The theater department’s production of “An Enemy of the People,” by Henrik Ibsen, adapted

by Arthur Miller, opens Thursday in the Hoerner Theatre in Dillingham Center.

“Enemy” is both a family drama and a political fable, following the two Stockmann brothers as they conflict about how to best protect their community. The story takes place in the 1880s in a small, unnamed town on the southern coast of Norway, where the only profitable industry supporting local life is new medicinal springs for tourists.

The town physician, Dr. Thomas Stockmann (senior Matt Prigge), has recently helped open a health resort around the mineral water in the town’s springs. He then discovers the water is poisoned and harming visitors. He begins to spread the news, but his older brother and the mayor of the town, Peter Stockmann (senior Dan Berlingeri), refuses to accept the facts, because the shutdown of the springs would be an economic death sentence for the town.

“Enemy” was Ibsen’s reaction to the premiere of his play “Ghosts” in 1882, a play about a scandal regarding the presence of venereal disease among upper class characters. Miller chose to adapt “Enemy” for American theater in the 1950s, just after the House Un-American Activities Committee, a committee of the House of Representatives investigating citizens and organizations that might have Communist ties,

began questioning and blacklisting Hollywood and performing artists.

Throughout the play, both brothers are torn between the value of absolute truth and the welfare of themselves and others, just as Ibsen and Miller were.

Prigge said the play emphasizes how much one individual will give up to defend something important. The doctor has a history of heated arguments and strongly worded editorials, but this episode has higher stakes and greater consequences.

“He’s never had a moment before where he had to speak quite this loudly,” Prigge said.

For Berlingeri, the division of protagonist versus antagonist is not clear-cut.

The mayor, technically the “villain,” acts out of his concern for his community, choosing to defend his town’s economy rather than defend the abstract idea of truth. While the play focuses on the doctor’s “struggle to advocate for the truth,” Berlingeri said that is the mayor’s journey as well.

“My character’s also struggling for the truth,” Berlingeri said. “We’re just on different sides of the same argument.”

Berlingeri said this production made him realize how difficult it can be for people to make huge, personal sacrifices for a cause.

“It really reflects a time very far removed from our own way of life that was once so much more about community and community activism,” Berlingeri said.

The cast explored these conflicts of humanity and community at the most basic

From left, seniors Grant Carey, Matt Prigge and Richard Lidenfelzer perform during a dress rehearsal Monday.

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level with the director, Bob Moss.

Prigge said they worked to learn how difficult it is for the brothers and townspeople to betray each other as fellow human beings rather than political figures.

“It’s very easy for the characters in this play to become talking heads, and we’re not interested in that happening,” Prigge said. “One of the first things Bob said to me was, ‘We’re going to try to delay you getting on that soapbox as long as we possibly can.’”

Moss, former artistic director of the Hangar Theatre and Syracuse Stage and now a freelance director, said he took this depth of examination beyond the primary characters, developing background stories, motivations and turning points for each of the ensemble members.

“I wanted everyone rooted in the scene,” Moss said. “So we spent a Saturday morning when everybody had made up a story that involved their character and two other characters in the town.

They each had five minutes, and they told wonderful, sad, funny, sexy stories. At the end of it, we all had a sense of — we knew each other and what the town was like. They each have their own reason for anger.”

Senior Emilio Martinez Zurita de la Garza said his set design strove to bring that small Norwegian town alive. It is not designed in the Victorian style — as Ibsen’s work often is — but like the historical look of Norway in the 1880s, filled with cabins made of logs and huge planks.

The main focus of his design is a hanging representation of the town, which he has referred

Alasken, played by senior Grant Carey, controls a crowd of angry townspeople during a dress rehearsal of “An Enemy of the People.”

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to as the “gesture.” This gesture, with houses, a church and a ship painted onto it, pushes the action downstage, closer to the audience.

“The town ‘gesture’ is the town in an abstracted, sculptural form upstage,” Zurita said. “It’s a hovering presence, built by [the technical director, senior] Maggie McCarthy.”

Zurita said while the play is set in Norway, that particular location is neither central to the plot nor exclusive for the experience of the characters.

“What you will see onstage is not exactly Norway,” Zurita said. “It’s a gesture of Norway, which is a parable for all the things that are happening to us right now.”

The cast and crew said they draw parallels between the setting of the play and the location of the performance, regarding both central New York’s struggle against fracking and a lack of political activism in modern times.

Moss said he found inspiration for the doctor in the struggle of student protesters in the 1970s against the conflict in Vietnam and the slow crawl of the 1980s to confront the spread of the HIV virus.

“One man decides to stand up against the whole world, because he knows he’s right, and the world doesn’t want to hear what he has to say,” Moss said. “We don’t have a lot of those people anymore, people who are willing to stand up against everyone.”

Prigge said the basic question of the play — the risks of speaking the truth — transcends 19th century Norway.

“We have a culture that dictates the way we behave,” Prigge said. “This play boldly asserts if you know something is wrong, say it. And if you know something needs to change, do it.”

From left, Serrana Gay, Matt Prigge, Riley Frankhouser, Donovan Lockett and Georgi McCauley perform Monday.

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do it yourself Assistant Accent Editor Rose Vardell digs up short projects for the everyday hobbyist Conventional sunglasses are a dime a dozen these days, but it’s easy to redesign the accessory as a do-it-yourself project. Embroidered sunglasses can turn any pair of basic shades into a couture-worthy fashion statement for the spring and summer seasons. For further instructions, check out the “DIY Embroidered Sunglasses” tutorial on honestlywtf.com.

Materials: A pair of sunglasses with plastic lenses Embroidery thread Hand-held drill 3/64-inch drill bit Thin needle Scissors Felt-tip marker Nail polish remover

A spellbinding performance

From left, freshmen Alex Cammy and Kevin Coldren perform in “Godspell,” Standing Room Only Performing Arts Company’s final musical.

The theater group performed the famous musical with a Vaudeville twist. The event took place Saturday and Sunday in Clark Lounge.

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With warm weather on the horizon, summer fashion is beginning to blossom. Many looking to spice up their summer style are turning their fingernails into accessories all on their own with bright colors and funky patterns.

Aspiring lacqueristas and seasoned manicurists can browse through websites like Pinterest, TrendHunter and Tumblr for the latest nail art tutorials. One tutorial shows how to create ombre nails by blending two different polishes together and then using a makeup sponge to apply the color to nails.

Another tutorial instructs readers how to make swirling rainbow nails by dropping a few different polishes into water, taking a toothpick and swirling the colors together and then dipping nails onto that creation. Other pictures simply model new summer color trends, like peachy pink tones and cool mint shades. These helpful tutorials have the ability to keep any polish lover, no matter how artistically challenged, up to date and perfectly accessorized with inventive nails.

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The sewing-savvy fashionistas can customize sunglasses to fit their individual look by embroidering their personal styles into sunglass lenses. Tired of boring shades?

Grab a pair of inexpensive sunglasses and get stitchin’!

organizational STRATEGIES remedy cluttered rooms

Tired of clothing getting wrinkled and forgotten in overstuffed cabinets?

Try stacking clothes in a dresser vertically instead of horizontally. This keeps those favorite shirts neatly folded and easily accessible, preventing them from getting buried in drawers. This technique can also be used to clear up desk space by stacking books and old folders upright. Websites such as Reddit include this tip among others in the /r/lifeprotips subreddit, also suggesting using soda can tabs to link a pair of clothes hangers to save closet space. Thread the tab through the neck of the hanger and hook the other hanger in the free opening. These spacesaving techniques can help with cluttered closets, desks and dressers. Vertical stacking and pop-tab hangers may look strange, but they are sure to improve organization and add more room to usually cluttered spaces.

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PANTYHOSE-CLAD canines pose online controversy

Man’s best friend is getting a makeover, and it’s leaving witnesses barking with laughter. A trend has started online in which dog owners dress up their dogs in pantyhose, and the bizarre practice is gaining momentum. Photos of nylon-clad dogs have been flooding Chinese social networking sites such as Weibo and are now trending worldwide under the cleverly named title, “Dogs Wearing Pantyhose.” Lately, dogs have been the subject of online humor with trends such as “Dog-Shaming” circulating the web, where dog owners snap pictures of their pups next to a sign describing their misdemeanor, such as devouring a stuffed animal. Around the world, the startling images have stirred controversy among animal rights activists, who argue the practice is cruel to the canine subjects. The bemused-looking hounds certainly don’t look too upset.

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Love my pals at Fox, but the fact that a Big Bang Theory RERUN just beat American Idol delights me. Yay scripted shows. Boo reality shows. ­­— Seth MacFarlane remarks on a sitcom beating “American Idol” in ratings last Thursday.

celebrity SCOOPS! Justin jots frank remark Justin Bieber’s recent controversial comment about Anne Frank has some fans concerned. Reportedly, Bieber left a note in the museum’s guest book, saying “Truly inspiring to be able to come here.

Anne was a great girl.

Hopefully she would have been a belieber.” While the comment was seen as offensive by many, a representative for the Anne Frank House noted that “…I think it’s quite innocent what he put down.”

He also added, “We think it is very positive that he took the time and effort to visit our museum. He was very interested in the story of Anne Frank and stayed for over an hour. We hope that his visit will inspire his fans to learn more about her life and hopefully read the diary.” Bieber hasn’t commented on the situation.

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Campus transforms into outdoor dance stage

By Emma Rizzo Staff Writer

Four students, who huddled together on the grass, suddenly split up and run toward a tree in front of Hill Center. They quickly climb the tree, each selecting a different branch to stand on. Grasping the branches, they bend backward, stretch their arms over their heads and extend their legs behind them. They use the tree as a prop for their dance.

This scene is part of the fifth annual “Wings of Spring” dance concert, put on by the Producing Theater, Modern Dance IV and Ballet III classes.

This year’s performance, called “Sounds of Spring,” will take place at 5:30 p.m. May 1. “Wings of Spring” will also be a collaboration with ICircus, to add another dimension to the production.

Angela Branneman, assistant professor of theater arts and one of the founders of the event in 2009, said the show allows for students of different majors to contribute to the creative process.

“The project is intended as an opportunity for students to express their passion for the arts, regardless of degree or major,” she said.

The performance will begin in front of Egbert Hall and will continue as the audience follows the 35 dancers to Dillingham Center. Site-specific dances will be performed in the area between these two locations. The spiral staircase next to Muller Center, the clocktower in the middle of campus and the picnic tables by Dillingham Center are just a few of the props they will be using in the dance.

Lindsay Gilmour, assistant professor of theater arts and the Modern IV instructor, said site-specific dance

is a genre that focuses on the use of architecture and nature. Spaces such as trees, benches and staircases will be used in the performance and will be paired with nature sounds created by the performers.

“How we begin creating a sitespecific dance is we find a space,” Gilmour said. “Then we’ll look at the space and start creating movement that can only be done in that space.”

Students in the Modern Dance IV and Ballet III classes are creating the dance pieces that will be performed.

Amy O’Brien, Ballet III instructor, said the campus environment has stimulated new ways for the students to create their dances.

“It’s wonderful, because every time you go outside there’s another idea,” she said. “There’s another creative avenue that the ‘Wings of Spring’ can take.”

Four students twirl to pre-recorded new age music while they sit on the picnic benches by Dillingham Center, a part of the site-specific dance form.

Gilmour said the goal of site-specific is to bring attention to common pieces of architecture and nature.

“A lot of site-specific is helping people notice the everyday,” she said. “You walk by the staircase every day, but you never think about it. We’re hoping to help people see that staircase in a way they’re never seen it before … opening people up to the everyday — to these tiny, extraordinary events.”

Senior Meghan Gallagher, a dancer in the performance and a student in the Modern IV class, said the process of creating site-specific dance is inspiring. She also said, however, that having to create a dance around the space if often challenging.

“There’s always challenges of

The Ballet III and Modern Dance IV classes dance together April 9 on the steps by Dillingham Center. This will be part of the “Wings of Spring” performance. The show Wednesday will mark the collaboration’s fifth year running.

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people having their own ideas,” she said. “But I think it’s always rewarding to when you can manage to meet halfway ... I think that’s what makes a really exciting dance piece.”

She also said audience members should keep an open mind and will leave the event with a new understanding of art.

“I think that with site-specific pieces like this, what [the audience] will take away is that art

can be in any environment at any time,” she said.

The performance will be followed by a reception in the lobby of Dillingham Center, featuring student art pieces centering on the theme of sound and movement.

O’Brien said she hopes the audience leaves with a positive image of this site-specific dance and sees potential for future performances.

“I’m just hoping that the audience

takes something beautiful away from it and looks forward to next year,” she said. “I can’t wait to see what they’re going to do and how they’re going to do something different.”

“Wings of Spring” will take place at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday outside Campus Center. Admission is free. A promotional video for “Wings of Spring” can be viewed at www.icwingsofspring.com.

Crying over spilled milk Alumnus features crying son on recognized Tumblr blog Earlier this April, Greg Pembroke ’02 featured his 22-month-old son, Charlie, on the Internet by creating the Tumblr page “Reasons My Son Is Crying,” a blog where he shared pictures of Charlie crying accompanied by deadpan explanations. The blog has exploded, and Pembroke has been handling his newfound success while still focusing on being a parent.

Staff Writer Josh Greenfield had a chance to speak with Pembroke about his success, his family and the future of the blog.

Josh Greenfield: What made you first decide to create this blog?

Greg Pembroke: Well, a few weeks ago, I started posting a couple pictures on Facebook. Actually, the first picture that I ever took with this intention was the one where there is broken cheese involved. We were at a museum — I suggested that he share his cheese with his brother, and he said it was fine. So when I broke the cheese in half, and he just lost his mind, and I thought it was so absurd and so funny that I had to take a picture, and I uploaded it to my friend and I called it “Reasons my son is crying.” And my friend just loved it, and I just kept doing it from there. At some point, someone suggested that I start a Tumblr page, so I did, and it completely exploded from there.

JG: How long did it take for the blog to explode?

GP: Well in less than a week I was on “Good Morning America.” I had the blog for a few days,

with maybe 15-20 pictures on it when somebody put it on Reddit. It got to be number one on Reddit on a Sunday night and on Monday it was picked up by … it seemed like almost every website: Gawker, Buzzfeed and so many others.

Then from there, the TV people started calling.

We had “Good Morning America” and “The Today Show” calling. I don’t know how they hunted us down, wanting us to come on the show the next day.

JG: What were people’s original responses to the blog?

GP: Well the three main responses that I have seen from people going to the blog are: parents sharing it with other parents and being like, “This looks pretty familiar;” people sharing it with expected parents saying, “I hope you’re ready for this;” and then people without kids sharing it with other people without kids saying, “Thank god I don’t have kids!”

Charlie Pembroke is featured as the subject of the Tumblr blog “Reasons Why My Son is Crying.”

Greg Pembroke ’02, the founder, creates captions such as, “I read him his favorite bed time story.”

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GP: I don’t know, the whole thing was totally by accident. I have gotten so many cool emails from around the world, parents saying, “I thought I was the only one.” Because GP: I think I’m gonna have to mention it to parents tend to share only the positive things him at some point saying, “Hey, by the way, about parenting, if you ask every parent on every time you Google your name there is the planet, their child is the smartest, happigonna be a picture of you crying when you est or most handsome. I think that the fact that I decided to share some of the other aswere three.” pects that are just as real, I think people are JG: Do you have any plans for the blog for really gravitating towards that. So as far as the future? plans for the future, I don’t really have any. I JG: Do you plan on telling your son about this when he gets older or just waiting for him to find it?

am thinking about opening it up for submissions from people around the world. People are already sending me hilarious pictures with amazing reasons for why their kids are crying, so I think that would really just be the natural progression, to make it less about my kids and more about kids in general. From the Netherlands to China, everything is the same with kids this age, and that’s what I think is an amazing message — everyone gets caught up with how different each culture is, but the culture of toddlers is absolutely universal.

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Sweetening up Ithaca Local patisserie to expand to new downtown space

By Taylor Rescignano Staff Writer

A couple of friends laugh over tea and chocolates, a mother and her children escape the rain and take a few treats to go and an older woman talks casually with the store owners, while occasionally looking at a case of tarts, cakes and chocolates. Everyone seems to be overwhelmed with joy as soon as they walk through the front door of Sarah’s Patisserie.

The shop’s signature Sixth Avenue cakes, which are a combination of chocolate cake, coffee buttercream, hazelnut meringue, chocolate mousse, creme brulee and chocolate ganache, line the register underneath clear glass, along with other cakes, tarts and chocolates.

Sarah’s Patisserie, a bakery at Community Corners on Pleasant Grove Road, will soon open a second location at Seneca Place, one block away from The Commons. It is scheduled to open by mid-May. Sarah Jefferis and Tammy Travis opened the patisserie in 2004 at their current location at Community Corners, but they said they wished to expand to keep up with the current Downtown Ithaca small-business boom.

“We love our current shop,” Jefferis said. “It is charming. It has a kid-friendly, bright feel.

But downtown will be more like a destination location for people to come and watch Tammy make chocolate.”

Each dessert is handmade by Travis. She is a classically trained French pastry chef who worked under Jacques Torres, known internationally as “Mr. Chocolate,” at the French Culinary Institute in New York City. She was employed as his pastry assistant at Le Cirque 2000 in Manhattan from 1999 to 2000 before moving back to the Ithaca area.

Gary Ferguson, the executive director of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, said the group has been adamant about helping Sarah’s Patisserie find a suitable space downtown.

“We became extremely interested in Sarah’s after learning about their business plan and not just their interest in downtown but their incredible aptitude at doing what they do,” Ferguson said.

Travis said expanding downtown will help them attract new customers.

“We can connect with the students, the afterdinner-theater crowd and locals who are looking for a place to bring the in-laws,” she said.

Jefferis said the new store is not going to be a replication of the old one but will be redesigned in a 1920s Art Deco style.

“It’ll be somewhere you go with someone you love, or like a lot, after a movie,” she said, “It’ll be a place where you can get ridiculously fine desserts in the evening after dinner.”

Jefferis said the new patisserie will be decorated in shades of blue, brown and silver with hand-painted murals on the walls, handcrafted tables and a giant window in front. Customers and pedestrians will be able to see Travis hand making the chocolate before their eyes.

Travis said she was inspired by the movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and set out to design a chocolate room of her own that would allow her to showcase her chocolatemaking skills as well as entertain and educate her customers about the art of chocolate making.

“Tammy puts a lot of love into her dessert — her art, because she is an artist,” Jefferis said.

The Seneca Place location will be used solely for chocolate making and retail. All of the ovens and baking equipment will remain at Community Corners, where all of the sweets

Treats line the glass shelves of Sarah’s Patisserie on April 12 at its location on Pleasant Grove Road. The patisserie is expanding to Seneca Place, one block off The Commons in mid-May. Tucker Mitchell/The Ithacan will still be available for sale. Early in the morning, fresh tarts, individually sized cakes, croissants, macaroons and eclairs will be delivered downtown from the original shop, but there will not be any large cakes, like the Sixth Avenue cake, sold there. The chocolate passion plaisir, which consists of layers of chocolate

cake, vanilla buttercream and milk chocolate passion fruit ganache, will be sold uptown but can be arranged for pickup at Seneca Place.

“I want to create a patisserie that is unlike any location that Ithaca has at the moment or has ever seen,” Travis said. “And I will do it by creating a high-quality product.”

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Video game revisits vintage graphics

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Many indie games hearken back to the good old days of gaming. Nostalgic graphics, melodies and gameplay are all part of the strategies used by indie groups to make their games stand out among the licensed crowd. “Minecraft” won the hearts of many with its simplistic graphics, while others games like “FTL: Faster than Light” use fairly basic beeps and boops to make a memorable soundtrack. “Evoland” takes the indie love of the old and turns it into a modernized product.

At first, the video game doesn’t appear to have a story.

In the first level, a chest re“Evoland” veals a small story blurb that is Shiro Games slowly developed throughout Our rating: “Evoland.” The noticeable leaps HH 1/2 forward in graphics and gameplay elements are joined along with the increasing diversity of story techniques. While it’s interesting, the game’s narrative moves far too quickly. The progression goes leaps and bounds forward and detracts from a game focusing so much on gameplay elements. By the time the full story has appeared, it’s far too late for it to have any impact.

The player takes the role of Clink, a thinly veiled reference to the “Legend of Zelda” series’ main character, Link. The first level of the game opens with a small strip of pixels, where Clink only move right.

After moving three squares, he touches a chest, allowing left-to-right movement. When the player hits a leftward chest, Clink is able to move up and down and gain access to the rest of the game world. The entire game follows this pattern, where the players unlock gameplay and movement options. Different chests provide graphical enhancements such as 16 colors, music, sound effects and eventually expand to add HD textures. Meanwhile, more gameplaybased changes such as the addition of bows, bombs, turn-based battles and combo moves develop repertoire and broaden the boundaries Clink can reach.

These details showcase how far video games have come along outside of graphics.

“Evoland” takes careful time to showcase different periods of gaming. Different styles of combat such as a top-down, a real-time system using only a sword and limited four-directional movement, are replaced with a turn-based system a la “Final

“The Motherf**ker with the Hat,” a play written by Stephen Adly Guirgis, will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Kitchen Theatre.

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Annual Family Carnival, an event featuring games, crafts, a bounce house, student performances and more, will begin at 5 p.m. in the Fitness Center. The event is hosted by Ithaca College Student United Way.

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String Quartet Concert, produced by the School of Music, will begin at 7 p.m. in Hockett Family Recital Hall.

saturday Video game “Evoland” features the character Clink on his journey through the evolution of video games.

During his travels, Clink encounters magical chests that give him special graphics and sound effects. courtesy of Shiro Games

Fantasy” along with a healer named Kaeris, a direct reference to the “Final Fantasy” franchise. From there, “Evoland” returns to the overhead view with the addition of bows and bombs and, at a far later point, strings of sword moves that turn into combo attacks. After that, the game returns to turn-based combat, with graphical changes and a difficulty spike. The rapid changes in combat style are even more apparent with the final boss, Zephyros, who has a fight in turn-based form and in real time.

Generally, the combat in “Evoland” is incredibly easy. Few enemies in top-down provide any challenge to Clink. Only in mass numbers are they any threat, but most foes go down in two hits, if that.

Turn-based is even easier. Kaeris, the healer, is able to out-race practically every source of damage with her healing spells. Without real difficulty in combat, “Evoland” begins to drag. The only foes that pose a challenge are the three bosses aside from Zephyros.

Even still, most of the bosses are easily dispatched.

Once the game’s story has finished, there is little left to do. Players can gain achievements by finding hidden areas and cards for a short minigame and by locating stars of Evoland for bragging rights. Locating these items, though, requires returning to the enemy-infested territories.

While entertaining for a first run, “Evoland” fails to have lasting replay ability, with lackluster combat and a questionable plot. Regardless, the evolution of game design is displayed successfully, but it poses a double-edged sword. While the game provides an interesting look at the history of action and adventure, its constant morphing leaves players with little challenge.

“Evoland” was developed by Shiro Games and published by Square Enix. It is available on PC.

Experimentation hinders quirky indie punk album

by Stephen Shuler CONTRIBUTING writer

punk genre while embracing the typical weirdness that has more or Seminal indie rock band Yeah less defined the collective throughYeah Yeahs have kept a low profile out their career. One needs to look since the 2009 release of their laud- no further than the album’s nightmarish artwork to deduce the latter. ed junior album, “Mosquito” kicks off promis“It’s Blitz!” But ingly enough with “Sacrilege,” a four years later, seething jam that climaxes with the the punk-tinted Yeah Yeah Yeahs addition of a wailing gospel choir. triad is back with “Mosquito” The subsequent cut, “Subway,” acts a new LP that Interscope as a recovery period from the inmakes an attempt Records Our rating: tensity that fuels its predecessor. at returning to the HH 1/2 Lead singer Karen O’s murmured band’s roots. lyrics levitate above the samYeah Yeah Yeahs’ new release, “Mosquito,” pling of a subway’s repetitive and takes a step back from the pop-cen- hypnotizing click-clack.

Unfortunately, the remainder tric path the group seemed to be heading down with monster singles of “Mosquito” tends to get bogged like “Heads Will Roll” and “Zero.” down in its own partiality toward Instead, they have come back to the anything weird. The track “These senior Writer

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ing relays, volleyball and other activities, will take place noon in Yavits Field.

IC Teatro presents “Beautiful Senioritas,” a theater performance featuring renowned Cuban writer Dolores Prida, will begin at 7 p.m. at Community School of Music and Arts.

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“Jen and John,” a musical written by Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald, will be presented by musical theater group, iSing. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in Textor 103.

Kid Cudi crafts carefree lyrics

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Paths” takes the form of an interlude gone astray. The five-minute cut sits idly as synthesizer oscillations loop in and out, but in the end, it doesn’t go anywhere, and there is no trace of Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ vibrant character.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs seem to have had a change of heart in terms of the pop proclivity they displayed as of late. All in all, “Mosquito” is a return to previous form, but some tinkering still awaits.

Cleveland’s psychedelic rapper is back with his new solo album “Indicud.” Kid Cudi hasn’t released an album since “Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager” in 2010, but he hasn’t lost his touch with this strong new album.

In previous albums, the lyrics and themes reflected his battle with depression and Kid Cudi addiction. But “Indicud” Universal in “Indicud,” he Republic seems to have Records emerged from Our rating: that. While the HHHH instrumentals tend to be dark and heavy, Cudi speaks directly to the listeners and provides words of support.

He experiments with different sounds in “Indicud,” using more

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synthesizers and heavier beats.

Standout track “Just What I Am” gives off a carefree vibe that fits well for the partying scene, with repetitive lyrics that tell a most optimistic message. Cudi experiments with the chaotic freestyle flow of “Solo Dolo, Part II.” “Indicud” is a bold album that is different from past projects, but it still feels like it is a true representation of Cudi.

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The singer has returned with a cover-driven album featuring classic love songs like “You Make Me Feel So Young.” Crooning vocals mixed with a jazzy sound create an album perfect for date nights.

The famous rap artist is back with his new album that spins a more reggae than hip-hop style. Slow vocals sing laid-back tracks primarily about peace, love and a strong appreciation of marijuana. Fans of reggae will enjoy this album.

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Music and graphics excel in ‘Oblivion’ [ Adventure movie hearkens back to 1970s science-fiction films

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Director Joseph Kosinski pays homage to 1970s science-fiction films with “Oblivion,” an epic, yet personal, science-fiction adventure that reconstructs the environmentalist message of saving the Earth.

Tom Cruise and Andrea Riseborough stars in the film as “Oblivion” Jack Harper and Universal Victoria Olsen, rePictures Our rating: spectively. They are HHH the “mop-up crew,” as Jack puts it, after a war between humans and alien invaders, known as Scavengers, or “Scavs.” The war forced humanity to drain Earth’s resources and flee to Titan, a moon of Saturn and potential new homeworld, aboard the Tets, massive tetrahedral space vessels.

Jack and Victoria spend their days patrolling the ruins of Manhattan and maintaining drones that mercilessly hunt the Scavs.

To avoid giving up information if interrogated by Scavs, Jack and Victoria routinely undergo memory wipes, but Jack is haunted by dreams and memories of a time before the war. These memories lead him to question his mission, the Tets and the true nature of the Scavs.

Cruise portrays Jack’s fascination with Earth well, but his acting in “Oblivion” relies more on telling than showing, especially when dealing with his memories. Riseborough, on the other hand, is able to believably embody both the professional efficiency and the demure passion of Victoria.

Though not exactly a detriment to the story, the characters in “Oblivion”

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Tom Cruise stars as Captain Jack Harper in the science-fiction movie “Oblivion.” The adventure film takes place on a post-apocalyptic Earth where Harper hunts for Scavs, the alien species who invaded Earth and destroyed the Moon.

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remain one-dimensional throughout the film. This characterization style was common among 1960s and 1970s science fiction but leaves the dialogue rather predictable.

The destruction of the moon by the Scavs damaged Earth, hindering its ability to sustain life. The change in gravity tore apart the tectonic plates and turned Earth into a wasteland.

The music and art direction are the film’s strongest points.

Though all-white color schemes and large, glass houses became science-fiction cliches decades ago, Kosinski focuses more on the disfigured beauty of a post-apocalyptic Earth than on technology.

The last green patches of nature blend seamlessly with Jack and Victoria’s mountaintop outpost.

Jack’s voice-over exposition at the beginning of the film brings the audience into the world of “Oblivion” but could have been cut, because Jack explains it again later on with dialogue. Delivering the exposition only through natural dialogue would have been closer to the 1970s style Kosinski wanted to evoke.

Unfortunately, the Tets are not thoroughly explained, despite being central to humanity’s planned exodus, and there could have been more meaningful interaction between Jack and the Scavs. The lack of context

and misplaced mystery makes the conclusion somewhat unsatisfying.

“Oblivion” offers a new take on the classic environmentalist themes of modern science fiction while hearkening back to the early days of science-fiction films.

“Oblivion” could have benefited from more dynamic characters and explanation of the Tets, but the art and musical style of the movie creates a memorable experience on an alien, yet familiar world.

“Oblivion” was written by Karl Gajdusek, Joseph Kosinski and Michael Arndt and directed by Joseph Kosinski.

Tasteless script flops in crass film

Director entrances with surreal picture

By josh greenfield

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When the first “Scary Movie” was released in 2000, the franchise was new, exciting and, best of all, highly entertaining. Now, 13 years and five movies later, “Scary MoVie” is a hollow shell of its humorous early predecessors.

The plot of the film primarily parodies the “Paranormal Activity” franchise by focusing on the lead“Scary MoVie” ing couple, Jody (Ashley Tisdale) Dimension and Dan (Simon Rex), who live in Films a haunted house. Elements of horOur rating: ror film “Mama” are introduced H when the couple is placed in charge Ashley Tisdale stars as Jody in “Scary MoVie,” the of Dan’s nieces after they were lost in the woods fifth installment of the horror movie spoof series. for three months. Dan, a researcher at a primateCourtesy oF dimension films testing lab a la “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” is clueless as strange events begin to occur in the fam- the multi-parody concept work. Specifically, each ily’s home, leaving Jody, who is caught up in a “Black film that was being parodied would be directed Swan-” inspired ballet subplot, to solve the mystery. in a style that would mimic the original movie. In The film’s main characters do little to enhance the first “Scary Movie,” the “Scream” parody was the humor at any point. Both Tisdale and Rex are handled with meticulous care, with certain scenes bland in their delivery and possess poor comedic nailing the original’s editing style and camera work. timing. However, there is little that they could have In the new film, all of the director Malcolm Lee’s done to save this film, because the base problem is choices consist of the same zany elements, such as constant phallic gags and physical humor. its entirely unfunny script.

The only break from the poor quality is the The script, written by David Zucker and Pat Proft, is nearly devoid of any jokes that actually have film’s quasi-successful celebrity cameos. The most a chance of landing with audiences. Too many of notable of these is the appearance of rapper Snoop the jokes rely on cheap, pop culture references that Dogg, whose jokes are worth at least a few chuckles.

By the end of “Scary MoVie,” it is possible that are, by this time, barely even relevant. One such example would be the plot references to “Black Swan,” the film will bring hope to those who view it — hope a 2010 movie so old that is out of place among the that the series will end here and spare the public from the horrifying prospect of “Scary Movie 6.” newer films.

None of the directorial success from the earlier “Scary MoVie” was directed by Malcolm Lee and installments carried over in this film. In previous films, the directing was a large part of what made written by David Zucker and Pat Proft.

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By QINA LIU “Trance” begins with Simon Newton (James McAvoy), an art auctioneer, speaking to the audience: “No piece of art is worth a human life.”

He repeats that phrase a couple times, making it seem like prophetic advice.

Simon is at Delancy, his London auction house, selling Francisco Goya’s “Trance” painting “Witches in the 20th Century Air.” That’s when the robFox bers strike. As smoke Our rating: HHHH floods Delancy’s auditorium, Simon grabs the painting from its easel and puts the canvas in a black bag, carrying it to a safety chute.

Crime boss, Franck (Vincent Cassel), hits Simon on the head and steals the bag, but the painting is not inside it.

After they are unable to find the painting, Franck and his goons ransack Simon’s apartment and confront him, but Simon says he can’t remember where it is. Franck orders him to go under hypnotherapy to remember, which is when Simon meets hypnotherapist Elizabeth Lamb (Rosario Dawson).

Director Danny Boyle, known for directing “Trainspotting” and “28 Days Later,” creates another psychological masterpiece. Boyle’s direction, along with Joe Ahearne and John Hodge’s script, leads audiences down mesmerizing twists and turns.

Boyle succeeds in crafting an engaging narrative, making “Trance” as hypnotic as its namesake.

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Eat, play, love Women’s lacrosse seniors share more than just a team

From left, seniors Kaitlyn Hoffay, Kim Armbruster, Tracy Rivas, Jess Worthman, Sam Whitney, Michelle Avery and Nikki Dahl pose after practice on Monday afternoon.

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each other, and we get how we are, and we know how to work around it. That’s one of the strongest aspects of our class.”

Echoes of laughter could be heard Their ability to adjust to one anoththroughout the front hallway of the Athletics er’s different personalities is reflected in and Events Center on Friday afternoon while how the senior class leads the South Hill the seven seniors of the women’s lacrosse squad. Dahl said her classmates each have team huddled around one of the small tables their own individual ways of helping out lining the windowed wall. the younger players.

Sam Whitney had just shared a story of “Some of us are more leaders by exhow two of her teammates — and house ample, some of us will lead by pulling a mates — pulled a prank on classmate Jess underclassman aside and working them Worthman. The culprits had bought a few through whatever they need help with bags of balloons, put various items that beand some of us will tell them right there longed to Worthman into the balloons, blew on the spot as we’re going through the them up and put them all over her room. drill,” Dahl said. “It’s a nice balance A scene similar to this occurs evthat we have so many different ery night at the dining room table in a types of leaders that if an underhouse on Pleasant Street, but instead of classman needs one specific type a glass window, photos of the seniors of leader they definitely have that.” both on and off the field cover the white For the last three seasons, the Blue paint of their apartment wall. and Gold have made it to the Empire The group of seven was brought 8 tournament final but were unable together through their mutual passion to win the championship. The seniors for lacrosse, but their interactions off all believe that this will be the year the field helped foster the love they the Bombers claim the tournament have for each other. crown and the automatic bid into the In August 2010, it was a coNCAA tournament. incidence that six members on As these players near the end the women’s lacrosse team found of their careers on South Hill, they themselves living on the third floor hope that they will be able to leave of Terrace 9. Sophomores at the a legacy that reflects not only their time, the Class of 2013 wasn’t very work ethic but also their strong relaclose with one another, but that tionship they have with one another. was about to change.

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By September, a bond had formed us respect everything that we put between them that would only grow The housemates enjoy a meal in their dining room on Pleasant Street following Tuesday’s game.

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The seventh senior, Kaitlyn Hoffay, didn’t said each house mate cooks dinner once most positive aspects of one another out,” together if it weren’t for athletics. However, play lacrosse as a freshman, but she was a a week, and on the seventh night, they’ll Whitney said. “We always have so much fun lacrosse has shown this class that what matmember of the women’s soccer team in- eat out. The seniors always make sure together on and off the field and just enjoy ters most are the moments they share with stead. She switched sports sophomore year, to have “family dinners” together, a tra- being with one another. That’s been a really one another.

“Lacrosse has really made us stronand her classmates welcomed her with open dition that Armbruster said has helped pivotal thing for us on the field.”

Despite their differences, Tracy Rivas ger, and it’s showed us that the care and arms. Though Hoffay doesn’t live in the same build their strong bonds.

“My family was big on having fam- said there are certain characteristics that the love we have for each other is unhouse as the other six seniors, she lives just conditional, because it brings us back to ily dinners together and said, ‘A family they all share. down the street.

“What makes us the same is how strong something that we all love and have such “The fact that we do live together really that eats together, stays together,’ and helps on the field as well as off the field, just I think that really runs true with us,” our personalities are,” Rivas said. “All of us a strong passion for,” Rivas said. “What getting to know each other and building a Armbruster said. “Those family dinners have our own strength, we’re all pretty as- our main goal is after every game and afstrong bond, which obviously translates onto where we can just have genuinely good sertive and what we have personality-wise ter every practice through every season is the field,” Michelle Avery said. “It wouldn’t conversations, all be together and spend is very prominent. What makes us so dif- sharing these experiences that’s making us have happened if we didn’t accidentally live that time together have been crucial to ferent is how we function. We understand a stronger class.”

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on the same floor our sophomore year. It ended up working out really well, and now the six of us live together, and Hoffay is always there.”

Their chemistry on the field has been a huge advantage this season, with the Blue and Gold currently undefeated in Empire 8 play.

The South Hill squad also clinched the top seed in the conference tournament this past weekend after beating Alfred University 22-3.

“It’s knowing that they have my back off the field that makes me more confident on the field, because I know they’re going to have my back there too,” Kim Armbruster said.

us understanding each other better.”

This rotation allows the house mates to change things up at mealtime – everything from fish tacos to pulled pork to homemade pizzas – as well as decreases stress, since each player only has to worry about cooking once a week. Worthman said Pinterest has been a valuable resource for recipes.

The players are willing to admit who the “top 3” and “bottom 3” chefs are and joke about each other’s cooking methods. Whitney said because they are so open with one another, they don’t have many conflicts.

“One thing that has been very unique about our group is that we’re all so different

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Nathan Bickell

NFL draft gets too much hype Thursday brings the beginning of the most over-hyped and delusional self-important sporting event of the year, the NFL draft.

Don’t get me wrong, I fully realize the importance of the draft to the long-term success of a franchise. This is true for every major sport. However, the problem is that when you sit down to watch any other sporting event, the game ends and you know who won and who lost. In the case of the draft the winners and losers will not be decided until years down the road. Yet we insist on getting instant analysis and assigning grades to how every team did long before any of these draft picks sign with their teams, much less ever suit up for a game.

Take the 2006 NFL draft for example. Reggie Bush was widely expected to be taken first overall.

The Houston Texans shocked everyone by drafting then little known Mario Williams and were widely pilloried for it, even drawing comparisons to the Portland Trail Blazers taking Sam Bowie (who is he?) over Michael Jordan (you may have heard of him).

After the players’ rookie season in 2007, it seemed like the correct pick was none of the above, as Vince Young won the offensive rookie of the year award. Now look at those three players: Bush is playing for his third team in four years, Young hasn’t taken a snap since 2011 and Williams signed the richest contract for a defensive player in NFL history. It looks like the Texans were right all along.

ESPN will air 15 hours of live breathless coverage of what is essentially Roger Goodell announcing a name from a podium, a newly minted millionaire smiling for a few pictures with the commissioner and then an extended period of 10 minutes to wait until the process is repeated.

The poster boy for the insta-analysis is Mel Kiper Jr., the leader of ESPN’s table of draft “experts.” He never played, coached or scouted football, even at the high school level. He is not considered an expert of college football or the pro game, and yet he is supposed to be the preeminent voice of how college players will perform in the pros.

The Harvard College Sports Analysis Collective did an analysis to compare how Kiper and his sidekick Todd McShay’s rankings of college players predicted their success in the NFL and concluded that the two were both distinctly mediocre at predicting future success.

So before you wildly cheer your team’s first round selection or lustily boo it like Philadelphia fans did when the Eagles drafted Donovan McNabb in 1999, just realize that in a few years, you are just as likely to feel like an idiot as you are to feel vindicated about that draft choice.

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

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Heated weekend games stoke rivalry flames

By Kristen Gowdy Staff Writer

The Bombers baseball squad has secured its second consecutive Empire 8 title — and that win was especially sweet because it came from one of their biggest rivals.

Last year, the St. John Fisher Cardinals accounted for three of the team’s four conference losses and finished 2nd in the conference behind the Bombers.

Ithaca Hitting Coach Frank Fazio said the longtime success of both programs has forged the rivalry.

“We’re almost always the two top seeds in the Empire 8, so we really don’t like losing to them, and they don’t like losing to us either,” Fazio said.

In their four-game series at Freeman Field last weekend, the Bombers defeated the Cardinals three times. Each contest was settled by a margin of less than two runs, and two of the Blue and Gold’s three wins came by way of a walk-off hit.

Senior Corey Caswell said beating St. John Fisher is crucial not only for the team’s pride but also for their regional record, which is important come playoff time.

“Basically this rivalry means everything to this team, because if we can beat these guys, it’s a huge victory for us,” Caswell said. “It’s also an ego boost for us throughout the Empire 8 and throughout the New York state region.”

The Empire 8 does not have an automatic qualifier bid into the NCAA tournament, therefore, the champion is not guaranteed a playoff spot. Because both teams are ranked in the top four teams in the New York region, beating each other becomes even more important.

Head Coach George Valesente said the competition for an NCAA playoff berth makes the rivalry between the two teams even more tenacious.

“It’s developed into a strong rivalry, because we are both independent teams, so when it comes time for the NCAA tournament bid, we are going to be going against each other for that, so beating them is important in that respect,” Valesente said. “We know a lot of their players, and they know a lot of our guys, and it’s very competitive, very hard-nosed baseball.”

Junior David Jasukonis, who pitched three and 2/3 innings of scoreless relief in the Bombers’ second win, said the intensity of the games was higher than in any other game.

“It’s always a battle when we come out against [St. John Fisher],” Jasukonis said. “They’re having a good year, and it’s always a grind.”

Jasukonis and junior Matt Colbert were the only

Junior shortstop Tim Locastro slides into home plate during a game against the Cardinals on Saturday.

The Bombers defeated St. John Fisher in three out of the four games played last weekend.

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two relief pitchers that the Bombers’ utilized all weekend. Senior Pat Lemmo and sophomore John Prendergast both threw complete games, and senior Jasper Adams put in seven innings of work before the game went into extra innings.

The Cardinals also had two pitchers throw complete games: juniors Justin D’Amato and Mike Rynerson. The amount of innings pitched by starters is a testament to the close scores of the games.

Adams also discussed the benefits of home field advantage. Last season, the Cardinals beat the Bombers all three times at Fisher’s Dugan Yard.

The four-game series last weekend was played out at Freeman Field, where the Blue and Gold were previously undefeated. Out of the Bombers’ 25 wins this season, 14 have come on their home field.

“Luckily, we were at home this year,” Adams said.

“It’s a big rivalry and a high-intensity matchup.”

Another key for the Bombers last weekend was the offensive efficiency. Though the Blue and Gold only had a total of 25 hits over the weekend, Fazio said the team got hits when they needed them and that their total amount of hits does not reflect the success of the weekend.

“If you only get one hit, make it count,” Fazio said. “If you go 3 for 4 and we win by a bunch of runs, that’s great, but when you can get those big hits, that’s what’s important.”

Caswell said the intensity of the weekend was a typical matchup between the two teams. He said during games against St. John Fisher, previous records don’t matter, and it’s anyone’s game.

“They bring their game and we bring ours, Caswell said. It really doesn’t matter who is on top [of the conference] at the time, it matters how they finish their game and we finish ours.”

Women’s track gears up for postseason competition

By Haley Costello Staff Writer

With the New York State Collegiate Track Conference Championship upcoming the Bombers begin their postseason physical and mental preparation to repeat their 2012-13 indoor season success.

This past weekend, the squad finished first out of seven teams for its sixth consecutive Empire 8 outdoor title. This gave the Blue and Gold seniors a perfect Empire 8 record throughout their four years in Ithaca.

Head Coach Jennifer Potter said even though it is exciting for the South Hill seniors to finish with a perfect Empire 8 record, the team is still training for the greater challenges ahead.

“To go 8–0 as a group has a great meaning in and of itself, but it is still a meet that we train through and helps us prepare for the future meets coming up,” she said.

Senior Amanda Rissmeyer said the squad acknowledges the importance of early meets, and they hope to use these as training to excel in the postseason.

“A lot of the time in these earlier meets, we are looking to hit marks that get us in the right heats in our individual events, so it’s about placement,” Rissmeyer said. “Once we get into the postseason, we are not competing for marks, but we’re competing to go further.”

Senior cocaptain Amanda Rissmeyer competes in the long-jump event during the Ithaca Invitational on March 30 at Butterfield Stadium.

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In a week, the team will move on to the NYSCTC meet, where it will look to defend its title. With another two-week block in between, the team could then advance to the Eastern College Athletic Conference Outdoor Championship and finally the NCAA Championship on May 25.

With so much left in the season, there is no time to waste. Sophomore Leigh Martino said the team will begin to lighten the training by decreasing distances and lowering weight lifting.

“We will start to taper off for the end of the season so that we can run

faster in meets,” she said. “We train through meets and still get timed, but we will soon start to taper off in order to get faster in meets.”

In addition to tapering off, the Bombers also practice their mental training each week before their meet.

The team will sit down with Assistant Coach Jacquelyn Mendes, a graduate student with a background in sports psychology. To help prepare, they will go over routines in their heads with Mendes so they can let their bodies take over in competition.

During this stretch, the coaches add to the mental training by incorporating times to focus on schoolwork and finals. Potter said though the squad has a difficult practice schedule their classwork does come first.

“When we go into the last week of classes and finals, it’s really challenging, because our athletes do very well in the classroom,” she said. “We work around their [academic] schedule and commitments to make them feel calm about their schoolwork so they are not stressed.”

The final portion of their preparation is a positive mindset. Rissmeyer said the key for the Bombers success is remembering why they are on the track in the first place.

“It’s important to remind ourselves that we need to be confident — we have to remember to have fun, and we are here because we love it,” she said.

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BY Matt Constas Staff Writer

The regular season is coming to a close, and the Ithaca College men’s tennis team is just beginning to get into the swing of things. After starting the season 1–10 in non-conference play, the Bombers have turned things around in conference with a 4–1 record. The Bombers have finished in either 1st or 2nd in the Empire 8 for the past seven years, and with a three-match winning streak, the Bombers are likely to keep that trend going.

After a tough loss to the Stevens Institute of Technology Ducks on April 14, the Bombers have won three straight matches in conference play, boosting them into 2nd place in the Empire 8. Their last win against Alfred University clinched them a berth in the Empire 8 playoffs.

On Saturday against Nazareth College, the Bombers came out hot. They swept doubles 3-0 to start the match and eventually won it 6-3. Freshman Chris Hayes said their success has come from increased intensity, and without that, they wouldn’t have been able to win. “[In the beginning], I did not have a lot of confidence and got crushed because of it,” Hayes said. “You can’t beat good players if you don’t have any confidence. Against Nazareth on Saturday, we brought more intensity, and the results showed that. If we continue to bring that intensity, I like our chances against anyone.”

The Bombers had a tough non-conference schedule in the beginning of the season, and the team got off to a rough start. Freshman Joey Hanf said that tough stretch is what is helping them out going into postseason play, and with a couple of key conference wins, the team is in a great position.

“Our non-conference schedule prepared us really well for our regular season in Empire 8 play,” he said. “Beating Naz was also a huge confidence boost for us.”

The Bombers have had a handful of injuries this season. Senior Kyle Riether played in his first match this weekend coming off of a torn

labrum, junior David Keltz has been hampered by a concussion and knee problems and freshman Zach Lipson is out for the year with a knee injury. Despite the injuries, Hayes said, he has noticed that his team has been able to step it up and fill in what they were missing.

“Everyone’s ability to step into the lineup and play has helped us out a lot,” he said. “Joey Hanf and Kyle VanDelden stepped into the lineup and have stepped up. Justin Levine and I have both played well at two and three singles with Lipson out of the lineup, so I think us dealing with adversity has been most impressive this year.”

The Bombers have become more aggressive since the loss of Lipson, following the Stevens game April 14. Lipson is one of their only players that plays with an aggressive style and a big serve. Hanf said he has done his best to play aggressively and said his teammates are doing the same thing.

“I’ve been trying to play more aggressive by putting more pressure on the opponent,” he said.

“I think this is a theme with everybody in our lineup. When we dictate the points, we usually have control over the match.”

Sophomore Justin Levine said he is trying to play bigger with a stronger serve after the loss of Lipson, who brings power to a rather defensive team. Levine said focusing on the task at hand will help make him successful.

“I have really focused on my singles game and hitting big consistently, especially with Zach out and moving up to second,” he said. “The one thing that has helped me out all year is just to refocus after every point and to make sure I do not let the prior point have an effect on the current point I am playing.”

The Bombers have been focusing more on practice sets with singles, but especially with doubles play. Doubles have been a struggle for the team, but they are beginning to win them, which helps set them up for a good match.

“The more match play and experience we have the better,” Hanf said. “We’ve started to get our doubles going. In our last three matches.

Freshman Chris Hayes hits the ball during a doubles match against Utica College on April 17 at the Wheeler Tennis Courts. The Bombers defeated the Pioneers 9-0 in the Empire 8 matchup.

We’ve swept doubles to go up 3-0, which gives a huge edge going into singles.”

The Bombers have two more matches left in the regular season: one at home Saturday against St. John Fisher College, and then they

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travel to one at Hartwick College to finish off their regular season play Tuesday.

These two conference matches will give them the opportunity to keep up their winning ways before the postseason begins.

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Longtime softball coach earns milestone victory The Bombers softball team rallied from behind with an early 5-0 deficit in game one of their two-game set with Kings College and won by a score of 6-5 on April 17 at Kostrinsky Field.

This comeback victory marked the 700th win for the varsity softball program, with Deb Pallozzi in season 25 as Head Coach.

Coach Pallozzi was inducted into the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame and therefore was also inducted into the Ithaca College Athletic Hall of Fame.

Staff Writer Steve Derderian spoke with Pallozzi following win 700.

been working real hard. They’ve put in the time and they’re learning how to pitch as they go.

SD: I realize that you’ve had a few players on this team who were around for the last milestone of win 600. What kind of development have you seen from those players and the program from then until now?

DP: They’ve developed a lot. I mean, you look at a player like [senior] Jen Biondi, who has really become a complete player. We’ve moved her around a lot from the infield and outfield, Steve Derderian: The first thing I have to and she’s always done a great job, even when ask off the bat is what does this milestone she was hurt during last season. The other seniors have been a huge part of mean for not just you but this program and been great for the players, the team and other coaches and assistants Deb’s Milestones leaders as well. Just winning 100 games together is a great helping you out alongside?

Coached the program accomplishment in itself. to its first national Deb Pallozzi: It says a lot championship in 2002.

SD: Was it special to see this about all of them. It says that Five-time Empire 8 milestone come in a game I have great help and continCoach of the Year. where the team came togethue to have great support with er and rallied for a victory in Hannah, Dan and Erinn this Since her first year in 1989, 22-straight extra innings? year. It just makes me think winning seasons. of all players who have been DP: It’s special any time you there the last 25 years. win an exciting game like SD: I know each year there is something this. It’s all about that timely hitting. Everythat is unique or different about every team body talks about it, the first two innings we you have coached. What do you think that had bases loaded and could not capitalize.

Julianne’s [Vincent] had that inside the park is this year? grand slam, and she ended up winning the DP: We have a lot of young pitching this game as well, so we got that timely hitting. year, and it’s been critical because without When we start bunting and running and them we’d be in a bit of a pickle. You need doing all those things, they wake us up a bit. three, but I like to have four. The kids have It was an exciting game, but I’m just happy

Softball Head Coach Deb Pallozzi talks to sophomore outfielder Nina Lindberg during practice Tuesday. Pallozzi earned her 700th win with the Bombers on April 17 at Kostrinsky Field.

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we could win that game and win the next one as well.

SD: Has this year been one of the most memorable years in your career?

DP: I have many great memories from being a coach, so it’s hard to say one year is more memorable than the next. I will say that accomplishments like these aren’t possible without all the great players and coaches.

I’ve had the opportunity to work with such great groups every year, and like I said, all this would be impossible without them.

SD: Now that you have reached this accomplishment, what do you hope to see during the remainder of this season and for the rest of your career here as the Ithaca College Bombers head coach with this program moving forward?

DP: Right now it is about consistency, having a sense of urgency and making sure we can get those timely hits and hit the ball hard and up the middle. In the long run, we want to see the program keep growing. We have had a lot of success in the past, and we want to keep it that way for as long as possible.

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Top Tweets The funniest sports commentary via Twitter from this past week Referee Logic @RefereeLogic Marlins are now 3-11. Or as the Dolphins call it, a pretty solid start.

Peyton’s Head @PeytonsHead Just challenged Wes Welker to a game of “Leap Frog.” Was willing to bet my Papa John’s franchises. He wouldn’t bite.

Faux John Madden @FauxJohnMadden Bengals and James Harrison agree to two-year deal worth several personal fouls and thousands of dollars in fines.

Play 60 Kid @NatePlay60 NFL schedule released. When Cam Newton finds out what team he gets to play week 17 while I rest for the playoffs.

Softball-room dancing

From left, sophomores Alex Tracy and Cris Maya compete to catch the ball during a pickup game Sunday afternoon on Yavits Field. The intramural softball tournament that was planned for Sunday was rescheduled for this weekend.

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six degrees of

Brendan Fraser

Senior Pat Lemmo, starting pitcher for Ithaca College’s baseball team, led the Bombers to an Empire 8 Championship last weekend. With the focus turning toward postseason play, there’s no better time to link Lemmo to the man who killed the mummy, Brendan Fraser.

—Emily Hull

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foul line Weird news from the wide world of sports

MILES SURREY’S

FANTASY

Famous sports telecaster Al Michaels told famous broadcaster Howard Cosell after a 1984 ALCS series game, “You’re drunk. You’re ruining the f---ing telecast.” Well, what goes around comes around.

On Friday night, Michaels was arrested by Southern California police after registering a BAC of .09. He was charged with a misdemeanor DUI and spent five hours in a Santa Monica jail before being released. According to CNN, he is due to appear in Los Angeles Municipal Court on June 26. Fortunately for Michaels, he won’t miss any work, as NBC Sports will be broadcasting the Tour de France during that time.

CORNER

Some players are making a comeback from the disabled list. Here are players who are on the mend and could boost fantasy categories.

MATT GARZA Chicago Cubs

Garza’s arm troubles led to him starting the season on the disabled list, but it looks like he’ll return to the Cubs’ rotation after a couple of rehab starts in the minor leagues. Garza might not be a great source of wins, but the pitcher has been consistently strong on the mound, having gone six straight seasons with an ERA under four.

—Steve Derderian

MARK TEIXEIRA New York Yankees

Teixeira’s wrist is still healing, but he has been taking dry swings and is close to taking softtoss and batting practice swings. He plans to be back in the Yankee lineup in early May. For fantasy owners who are lacking in the home run department, Teixeira would be a fantastic addition. Just don’t expect an amazing batting average.

Senior starting pitcher Pat Lemmo attended Westhill High School in Geddes, N.Y. ...

... multi-billionaire philanthropist Warren Buffett, who was the campaign financial adviser for ...

... So did MLB pitcher Pat McAnaney, who also played for the minor league baseball team Omaha Storm Chasers, which were once owned by...

... Arnold Schwarzenegger during his 2003 run for governor of California. Schwarzenegger starred in Batman and Robin, co-starring...

... Alicia Silverstone, who also co-starred in the 1999 movie Blast from the Past with...

...Brendan Fraser, everyone’s favorite clumsy cop, Dudley Do-Right.

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From left, freshman Erika Bucior spray paints a “frack-off” T-shirt with help from senior Jessica Santos. On Earth Day on Monday, many clubs set up tables in the Academic Quad.

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Its not easy bein’

GREEN

Ithaca College’s 12 Days of Earth Day promoted environmentally friendly habits by having different themes every day.

On-campus clubs hosted a power summit and activities to match the themes, such as outdoor camping and group bicycle rides.

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