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Moving forward ... fast Toyota accelerator pedal problem prompts massive recall, halts production on 11 models Toyota recalled vehicles for

By Aaron edwards assistant news editor

After a week of confusion, local Toyota dealerships are preparing for the onslaught of Toyota vehicles needing new accelerator pedals following last Thursday’s recall of about 2.3 million vehicles.

The cars and trucks were said to be at risk for accelerator pedals getting caught under floor mats and pedals getting stuck in a depressed position.

According to an article published in the New York Times, Toyota began recalling cars in October after a driver called 911 on Aug. 28 while his accelerator pedal was stuck in place, causing the vehicle to speed out of control. The Lexus ES350 Sedan careened of the road, killing four people inside. In all, 19 deaths have been reported since 2002 because of sticky accelerator pedals in Toyota vehicles.

Friction in the pedal mechanism could cause the accelerator to stick in a depressed position or return slowly. Toyota announced it will ship a small metal piece to be installed under the accelerator pedal to help prevent it from sticking. Customers are also advised to take out any removable floor pads for the time being.

Toyota also halted production of all affected vehicles in five major production facilities in North America. Newly designed accelerator pedals will be shipped to these factories to make sure new models of each car from this point on will be in proper shape.

Tim Maguire, owner of Maguire Toyota, the primary Toyota dealer in Ithaca, said he is doing all he can to accommodate the approximate 3,800 Toyotas in the area his

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LH: How do you expect faculty and staff to step up to this challenge?

Ithaca College will no longer participate in the Federal Stafford Loan Program because of pending legislation in Congress that could eliminate the program entirely.

Instead, the college will adopt the Direct Lending Program, a financial aid Chambers said the Stafford Loan program fund- Program will end ed directly by this year. the federal government as opposed to private lenders and banks.

“We will end our participation in the Federal Stafford Loan Program effective at the end of this academic year,” said Larry Chambers, director of student financial services.

The college did not want to convert to a new loan program within a very short amount of time before next year should the legislation pass this summer.

The Direct Lending Program offers subsidized and unsubsidized loans — the same as Stafford loans — as well as the direct loan version of PLUS and Graduate PLUS loans.

Eric Maguire, vice president of enrollment management, said the college wanted to be proactive instead of having to react to the possible changes in legislation over the summer.

“We’re addressing this because we don’t want to be caught in a situation with a small window of opportunity,” he said. “We’ll be able to make the transition and get people fully up to speed.”

Chambers said students will apply for a Direct Loan the same way they would for a Stafford loan.

“Step one is to fill out the FAFSA,” he said. “Step two is you’ll get a financial aid package from Ithaca College and when they review that, the student will go out to HomerConnect and accept the offer of a direct loan. Once they have done that, then we will generate the information that they will need to go out and sign electronically. From that point forward, everything is just how it’s always been.”

Freshman speech-language pathology major Alicia Dabek said she relies on a subsidized Stafford loan to be able to afford tuition at the college.

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“We have to get the parts for the recall first,” he said. “We expect by Monday to have … a smattering of them to get started.

We believe that we can probably do as many as 100 to 150 of these [repairs] a day.”

He said the initial local response to the recalls was mainly confusion.

“When the recall was first announced, there were more people concerned about it because they really didn’t know what it was,” he said. “It was like, ‘The sky is falling, and my car is probably one of them that’s going to fall apart.’ That isn’t the case.”

Students who need to get their cars checked for issues can call or go directly to Maguire, who said he welcomes any and all Toyota drivers who need assistance.

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Rochon talks about declining demographics LH: Are we as academically rigorous as we should be at Ithaca College?

Editor in Chief Lindsey Hollenbaugh spoke with President Tom Rochon after the all-college meeting held two weeks ago about whether the college is as academically rigorous as it should be and the administration’s plans to combat declining demographics.

(Part 2 of a two-part interview.)

Lindsey Hollenbaugh: You talk about change and welcoming it. Is there a kind of complacency going on with faculty and staff in helping students get the best educational experience possible at Ithaca College?

President Tom Rochon: I would not say complacency because I want to stress the other side of the coin as far as change and our reactions to change. It’s absolutely amazing the amount of times alumni and students tell me that someone stepped up to help them personally at an important moment. … I have not experienced anything this deep in any other

President Tom Rochon speaks with Editor in Chief Lindsey Hollenbaugh on Jan. 22 about his thoughts on ways to increase application numbers.

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college or university that I’ve worked in, which is amazing. That should always be front and center. These other questions, though, are not about the student as a person, but about the student as someone who has placed their trust in us for education. This tends not to get the same attention from us. So it’s not complacency; it’s not a lack of

commitment. I’m simply trying to take that same energy and commitment and take it and broaden the focus to include not only the student as a person, but the student as someone who trusts us to give them the education that they need and will carry them through as a lifelong learner.

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TR: It’s an important question. It’s very difficult for me to judge that because I’ve never been a student here.

I’ve never been a faculty member here. And sitting in my office, even talking with people, it’s hard to judge. I will say this: Many faculty feel that our environment could be and should be more academically rigorous. We try to combine on this campus challenge with support, to challenge students to push beyond the capacities they thought they had while supporting them so that they are able to succeed or give them the help that they need to be challenged. Many faculty feel that we could emphasize the challenge part or that equation more heavily. That’s how faculty feel, and I tend to trust their instincts.

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Ugandapella, a benefit concert to raise awareness and funds for the organization Invisible Children, will be held from 7 to 11 p.m. in IC Square.

Paradigm Shift, the first of several readings this year in the “Thursdays at the Handwerker” series, will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Handwerker Gallery.

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

Shabbat Dinner will begin at 7:15 p.m. in Muller Chapel.

6 saturday School of Music guest lecturer Frank Heneghan will speak about essential technical strategies for young teachers at 10 a.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall.

Winter Survival Workshop, an educational session on winter in the Finger Lakes region, will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Camp Earth Connections on Hammond Hill Road.

7 sunday Superbowl Event, sponsored by IC After Dark, will be held from 5 to 10 p.m. in Emerson Suites.

Catholic Mass will begin at 9 p.m. in Muller Chapel.

9 tuesday Leadership Opportunities Information Session, a discussion on opportunities available at the college, will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Taughannock Falls Meeting Room.

Student Conservation Association Internships Information Session, for students interested in working in historic and park settings, will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in the Ithaca Falls Room in Campus Center.

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

Add your event Drop events for “This Week” in the marked box in The Ithacan office, or email Assistant News Editor Aaron Edwards at aedward3@ ithaca.edu by 5 p.m. Monday.

Corrections It is The Ithacan’s policy to correct all errors of fact.

Please contact Leah Tedesco at 274-3207.

copy editors Lara Bonner, Diana Cirullo, Sara Friedman, Elizabeth Gardner, Heather Karschner, Margaret Moran, Lily Oberman, Brittany Rose, Carly Smith.

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Thursday, February 4, 2010

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Troops prepare largest Taliban strike

U.S. troops and their Afghan and NATO allies are planning their biggest joint offensive since the start of the Afghan war, targeting a town in the volatile south that is believed to be the biggest Taliban stronghold and a hub of the militants’ lucrative opium trade, officers said yesterday.

No date for the start of the offensive has been released due to security. But U.S. commanders have said they plan to capture the town of Marjah, 380 miles (610 kilometers) southwest of Kabul, this winter.

It will be the first major offensive since President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, and many of the Marines set to participate arrived as part of the surge.

In Kabul, NATO spokesman Brig. Gen. Eric Tremblay told reporters the operation will include at least 1,000 Afghan police and thousands of Afghan soldiers as well as thousands of NATO troops. U.S. officers say the offensive will involve the highest number of Afghan forces in any joint operation to date.

Iran launches new rocket into space

Iran announced yesterday it has successfully launched a 10-foot-long research rocket carrying a mouse, two turtles and worms into space — a feat President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said showed Iran could defeat the West in the battle of technology.

The launch of the Kavoshgar-3, which means Explorer-3 in Farsi, was announced by Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as part of Iran’s ambitious space program. It comes a year after Iran sent its first domestically made telecommunications satellite into orbit.

The program has worried Western powers who fear the same technology used to launch satellites and research capsules could also deliver warheads.

Iranian state television broadcast images yesterday of officials putting a mouse, two turtles and about a dozen creatures that looked like worms inside a capsule in the rocket before it blast off.

Vahidi gave no details on the research and the report did not disclose when or where the launch took place.

Ahmadinejad praised the latest launch and said greater events would come in the future.

China opposes Dalai Lama meeting

Yesterday, China again urged President Barack Obama not to hold a planned meeting with the Dalai Lama, saying it would further hurt already strained bilateral relations.

It was the second successive day that China has spoken out against the meeting and comes

Ringing in a new year

Lion dancers perform at the China Town in Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday. Ethnic Chinese communities in the world’s most populous Muslim country are preparing to celebrate the start of the Lunar Year of the Tiger. The tiger is the third sign in the Chinese Zodiac and recurs every 12th year.

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after Beijing said ties had been harmed by a U.S. announcement last week that it would sell arms to Taiwan.

The United States has already brushed aside previous warnings from China, and White House spokesman Bill Burton said Tuesday the meeting was still planned, although no date has been set.

China is sensitive to any meetings that the India-based Dalai Lama, the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has with government leaders, calling them interference in its internal affairs.

Plans for World Trade Center under way

Structural steel for the 1,776-foot tower that will be known as 1 World Trade Center has risen 200 feet above street level, a tangible sign of ground zero progress, redevelopment officials said yesterday.

Workers are now installing 16 steel nodes on the 20th-floor level, Ward said. They serve as joints between the steel framing for the building’s podium and the steel for the rest of the tower.

The 104-story skyscraper is scheduled to be

College&City College to host Haiti relief organizational meeting

Ithaca College will hold a meeting for students, faculty and staff at 12:15 p.m. today in Textor 103 to discuss the college’s efforts to respond to the recent earthquakes in Haiti.

Representatives from the Student Government Association and the Office of Student Engagement and Multicultural Affairs will help facilitate the meeting.

People are encouraged to bring their ideas to assist the college in developing the next plan of action.

For more information, e-mail volunteer@ithaca.edu.

Biology journalist to lecture about independent media

Sandra Steingraber, an author and biologist, will speak about “The Importance of Journalism and Independent Media in an Age of Ecological Crisis” on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Park Hall Auditorium.

Her talk, sponsored by the Park Center for Independent Media, will highlight the rise of new media sources in the face of crisis.

Steingraber is the author of “Living

Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment” and is a survivor of bladder cancer.

Ms. magazine named her a Woman of the Year in 1997 and since then, she has served as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence in the college’s Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies and has worked as a science reporter for a major Detroit newspaper.

She is now a columnist and contributing editor for the independent Orion magazine.

For more information, e-mail mgattine@ithaca.edu.

Organization to host MLK art and poetry competition

The Tompkins County Human Rights Commission will hold the 23rd annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Art and Poetry Competition from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday in the Cornell University Biotech Building.

Poetry winners will read their written work, and award-winning artists will have their pieces exhibited for viewing.

For more information, call 277-4080 or e-mail humanrights@ tompkins-co.org.

completed in 2013.

Work is also proceeding elsewhere at the trade center site, Ward said, as the Port Authority’s commissioners held their monthly meeting on World Trade Center rebuilding.

Worker discrimination case settled

A California company accused of refusing to hire banquet servers who are not Chinese has settled two lawsuits filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The EEOC said yesterday that Landwin Management Inc., which was hired to run the San Gabriel Hilton hotel, has agreed to pay $500,000. Landwin will also make significant policy changes and abide by a three-year consent decree.

The agreement will settle a discrimination lawsuit and sexual harassment lawsuit filed in 2007 in Los Angeles.

The sexual harassment lawsuit alleged female employees were forced to work in a hostile environment and were targets of verbal abuse.

SOURCE: Associated Press

Tompkins County library launches new Web site

The Tompkins County Public Library opened its new Web site for public viewing and use last Thursday after more than a year of ideas, proposals, plans and redesigns.

The new Web site features faster accessibility and searching capabilities and was made with the hopes of creating a more visually appealing tool for the library’s patrons.

The site offers access to the library’s archived material, catalogs, music and other forms of online media.

To view the new site, visit www.tcpl.org.

Cornell exhibit highlights French Renaissance era

The Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections will host an exhibition reflecting the culture of the French Renaissance on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Johnson Museum.

The exhibit, “An Earthly Paradise: The Art of Living at the French Renaissance Court,” will explore the French kings and other influential historic figures who advocated for the arts and creative expression. The event will

also explore Italian influence on French culture.

For more information, call 255-6464 or visit www.museum. cornell.edu. The exhibit will be open through Feb. 18.

Businesses to be honored for community involvement

The Tioga County Chamber of Commerce will recognize local businesses for contributions to community service at its Annual Community Awards at 5:30 p.m. tonight in the Treadway Inn and Conference Center in Owego.

W&W Nursery and Landscaping of Apalachin, Community Care Networks of Nichols, Upstate Shredding of Owego and Tioga State Bank are the businesses that will be honored.

For more information, visit www.tiogachamber.com.

Energy-saving workshop to be offered at Cornell

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County is offering a free program, “Save Energy, Save Dollars,” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight at Cornell Cooperative Extension on Willow Ave. For more information, e-mail crf11@cornell.edu.

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Fracking policy causes controversy

By Taylor Long Staff Writer

A New York state Department of Environmental Conservation statement that is currently pending approval could increase regulations for oil and gas companies planning to drill in the Finger Lakes region.

The statement, written in September of last year, was created to address growing public concerns about pollution and take steps to ensure drilling sites are well regulated.

The statement was made public and open for comment. Though it covers possible regulation options and assesses environmental threats like the contamination of drinking water, a host of resident complaints and expert testimony allege that the document glosses over several key concerns.

Hydraulic fracturing is a process used by drilling companies to help natural gas trapped underneath rock formations move to wells where it is collected after drilling. A fluid composed of sand, water and a series of chemicals is injected thousands of feet into the rock, boring small pathways through the shale and unleashing natural gas. The series of chemicals, which can contaminate groundwater, are designed to prevent cracks in the shale from closing.

The fluid that doesn’t remain in the ground is collected in pools of waste following the procedure.

In the next months, the extent of gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale, a layer of rock stretching from New York state to northern Tennessee packed with reserves of natural gas, will be revealed along with the fate of the Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement.

Dusty Horwitt, senior counsel of Environmental Working Group that is for regulation, said the statement is based on a compilation

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By Laura Brothers Staff Writer

About 50 members of the Shaleshock Citizens Action Alliance joined hundreds of other protesters for a state-wide rally Jan. 25 in Albany, N.Y., to voice concerns about hydrofracking and its effect on drinking water.

of literature rather than on-site testing. While the Environmental Protection Agency has deemed hydraulic fracturing safe in some rock formations, in cases where testing was conducted, many drill sites have shown signs of contamination.

“Just because gas drilling hasn’t been conclusively linked to groundwater pollution doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist,” Horwitt said. “These are precautionary measures, and there hasn’t been enough testing to make sure these procedures are safe.”

The carcinogens benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene and xylene are among the chemicals injected at fracking sites, Horwitt said. These chemicals can be found in diesel fuel and gasoline. While the DEC requires drilling companies to gain permission before injecting diesel fuel, the use of petroleum distillates wasn’t addressed in the draft statement even though they

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are equally toxic.

By taking control of local water resources, it is possible to regulate hydraulic fracturing to protect local communities said Susan Riha, director of the New York State Water Resources Institute. Anyone is free to extract water from Cayuga Lake, Riha said. But if the DEC had the authority to monitor the withdrawal of water from the Great Lakes basin, then they would be able issue permits and even charge fees for drilling rights.

Riha recommends that there be no drilling until the DEC has authority over New York water basins. Pending state legislation could give the state this authority.

Randall Hansen is the president of Elexco Land Services, a company that contacts private landowners about leasing their land to oil and gas companies. Hansen said he does not believe fracking contaminates drinking water.

“There has been a lot of political and emotional discourse over this topic, and I just wish it was possible to confine discussion to the fact instead of rumor, falsehoods and innuendo,” Hansen said.

Hansen said fracking has been used since 1946 and there have not been conclusive documented cases of contaminated drinking water.

The main concern of the Shaleshock Citizens Action Alliance, a network of local activists hoping to prevent hydraulic fracturing from harming communities in the Finger Lakes region, is long-term economic and environmental effects upon a community. Andrew Byers, operator of SCAA’s hot line, said people need to look at the issue as more than an environmental movement.

“This is about how our society relates to money and politics,” he said. “We are working for autonomous local control of our economy, natural resources and our health.”

GRE’s structure and content to be changed

By Gillian Smith Staff Writer

Students considering graduate school can expect changes to the current GRE exam by August 2011, Neill Seltzer, national director of GRE content, said.

The GRE revisions will include a different scoring scale and the option for students to skip questions. Analogies and antonyms will also be eliminated, and the exam will be more tailored to the test takers’ skills.

The current structure of the test is similar to the SATs of 20 years ago, Seltzer said. The SATs have since evolved, but the GRE has not. “[The Educational Testing Service] has been constantly fighting criticism from people who are looking at, say, a graduate program in literature who are wondering why they have to take a test on geometry and algebra,” Seltzer said. “[ETS] says they have made it more relevant, and that it tests skills that are applicable in graduate school.”

The GRE is a computer-administered test that is made of three sections: verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning and an analytical writing measure. Dawn Piacentino, director of GRE communications and services, said more than 650,000 students take the test every year.

The biggest change ETS will make to the test is the option for test takers to skip questions and go back to them later. This will allow students to go through the test and answer the questions they know how to do first and then go back to the ones they didn’t know right away, said Seltzer.

Senior Delia Beck, a psychology major, recently took the exam to apply for a graduate program in clinical psychology and said the inability for test takers to skip questions affects scores.

Senior accounting majors at Ithaca College are volunteering to help low-income taxpayers through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program.

The VITA program, which runs until March 31, assists low-income staff members and the international students on campus and senior citizens at Longview with their tax returns.

Alan Cohen, associate professor of accounting and director of VITA, said there are 11,000 VITA sites across the country. “[Last year] we assisted about 120 international students and about 100 lowincome staff members here,” Cohen said.

“At the [Alternatives Federal] Credit Union their numbers were about 800 when they started five years ago, and now they are at 1,500 [tax returns].”

Cohen started the VITA program 13 years ago. Currently there are 21 student volunteers in the VITA program.

Meredith Humphrey, who is earning a masters in business administration, worked in the program last spring.

“Typically the senior accounting majors have to take a class in the spring and as part of that they work at the VITA program on campus and at the credit union downtown,” Humphrey said.

In order to qualify, a single taxpayer must have an income limit of $30,000 and a limit of $49,000 for a taxpayer with a spouse or child, according to the AFCU Web site. For a college employee the income limitations are $35,000 for a single payer, $45,000 if a head of household and $70,000 if married.

As of Monday, 30 appointments have been made, Cohen said.

Tim Carey, another student in the MBA program, volunteered for the VITA program last spring and is volunteering again this year. “[The VITA program] helps you share your knowledge with the community and give back in a way and do a service for people and help them out to get them the full refund they deserve to get,” Carey said.

To make an appointment, contact VITA at 247-3661 or vita@ithaca.edu.

Plans continue for retail center

By Taylor Long Staff Writer

From left, junior Hillary Beson, senior Ludwing Matias and Jennifer Kellington, assistant director for career development, discuss plans for graduate school and the changes made to the GRE. Carly Boyle/The Ithacan

“My biggest concern is that it tested me on subjects I didn’t have to take, like math, and didn’t accuratly show my clinical psychology knowledge,” she said.

Other revisions include a longer composition section and a focus on real-world situations.

It is also changing multiple choice questions to numeric entry questions where students have to come up with their own answer.

Students applying to graduate school for fall 2010 or fall 2011 will take the current GRE test.

Those who apply for fall 2012 will have a choice between taking the old or new test, Seltzer said.

For that year, graduate schools will accept either

test score.

Another major revision is the current verbal reasoning and quantitative reasoning sections that are graded on a 200-800 point scale with 10-point increments. The new test will be scored on a 130-170 scale with one-point increments.

Through Academic Enrichment Services, Ithaca College offers GRE preparation courses from Kaplan, Inc. AES also offers practice tests in the spring and fall semesters.

Piacentino said public reaction to the announcement so far has been positive.

“These are changes I think the graduate community will see the value of,” she said.

Preparations for a shopping center catering to the Ithaca College community may resume after being put on hold for more than two years to deal with economic concerns, Carol Macali, office manager of Ithaca Estates Realty, said.

“Hopefully we have things figured out by this summer,” landowner Evan Monkemeyer of Ithaca Estates Reality said. “As of right now there are no specific deadlines.”

The residential-style center will be located at the intersection of Danby Road and East King Road and include several undisclosed businesses and a pathway.

Several businesses have expressed interest in the site, but Macali said no official contracts have been signed.

Monkemeyer secured preliminary approval from the Town of Ithaca Planning Board in April 2007. Fred T. Wilcox, chair of the Town of Ithaca Planning Board, said he hasn’t received any updates.

“The only indication that his plan still exists is the trees that were cut down to make way for construction,” Wilcox said.

Junior Dena Cohen said the success of the center rests on the types of stores included.

“Most students only leave campus to get groceries or go out to eat,” Cohen said.

“The creators should keep this in mind.”

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Toyota Corporation outlines recall solutions Toyota from page 1

a Toyota dealership in her town of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., while on breaks from college, said employees at her branch are hard-pressed because of the large influx of concerned callers. The dealership had to change the way they contact customers regarding the recalls.

“Normally we’ll call a person’s house three times in order to contact them,” she said. “But we have so many calls to make and not enough employees … so we only call once, just to get [the recall] out to everybody.”

The situation has evolved into a constant public relations effort for Toyota, a company that recently had its recalled models temporarily removed from Consumer Reports’ recommendation list.

Yesterday, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said drivers should stop driving their recalled Toyotas at a congressional hearing.

Later in the same day, he retracted his statement. Market Watch reported the statement almost immediately, causing Toyota’s shares to drop about 8 percent.

LaHood said his on-thespot announcement was an “obvious misstatement.”

Toyota released the following statement on its Web site yesterday after the statement was made. “We appreciate Secretary LaHood’s clarification of his remarks today. … If you experience any issues with your accelerator pedal, please contact your dealer without delay. If you are not experiencing any issues with your pedal, we are confident that your vehicle is safe to drive.”

The company reported Tuesday that its U.S. sales dropped by 16 percent in the last month — their worst decline in 12 years.

Meanwhile, Toyota’s competitors

Salesman Harold Vargason speaks with Tim Maguire yesterday at the Maguire Toyota dealership on Elmira Road. The dealership is advising customers to contact them if they have any questions or concerns regarding the recall.

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are seeing an increase in revenue.

Last month, Hyundai sales rose 24 percent, Nissan gained 16 percent, General Motors increased 14 percent and Ford by 25 percent.

Toyota spokesperson Brian Lyons said in addition to the information available on the company’s Web site, Toyota will also send letters to customers informing them

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In a public apology published on Toyota’s Web site, President of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. Jim Lentz said he “knows that Toyota

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has let [customers] down” and that the company will “work hard to fix vehicles properly and regain [customers’] trust.”

However, Arthur Wheaton, director of Western N.Y. Labor and Environmental Programs and industry education specialist at Cornell University, said he thinks these series of recalls will gravely affect Toyota’s global image.

“They’ve had their reputation built on quality and … on safety,” he said. “These recalls affect both of those. They’ve had 19 people killed because of this, so it takes some of the luster and shine off of their reputation of, ‘Oh, it’s perfect, it’s from Toyota.’”

Sophomore Darielle Grossman, whose family owns a 2008 Toyota Camry — one of the recalled vehicles — said she doesn’t think the situation will tarnish her family’s positive perception of the company.

“We love them,” she said.

“We’ve never had any problems with our cars, so I’ll probably still get a Toyota Camry in the future.”

Wheaton said Toyota has yet to quell the issue, though.

“Toyota has continued to underestimate the seriousness of the particular problem,” he said.

Recalls are also expanding into the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Toyota will recall about 180,000 vehicles imported from the U.S. and sold in those regions, according to Industry Week.

Wheaton said the confusion caused by the recalls will most likely be resolved soon and Toyota will eventually be able to move on.

“This year it will have an impact,” he said. “They’ve already lost a couple weeks worth of sales.

People will be concerned until they get their accelerator pedals fixed, but I think after about five years, no one will even really remember it or care.”

Rochon looks to motivate faculty, staff and students Rochon from page 1

TR: If I’m successful in describing the challenge well, the vast majority of faculty and staff will feel an enormous upwelling of energy and commitment around doing it. Again, this is a very committed faculty and staff; they are very committed to higher education and making Ithaca College excellent. ... I’m trying to put more of the focus on the integrative educational experience — that includes the cocurriculum, life on campus — to make this an incredible environment for students to be in.

LH: In your speech, you married mission and money, pointing out that the college is planning ahead for the future changes in enrollment demographics. Carl Sgrecci and Eric Maguire presented a type of 7 percent solution to our demographic problems. This model was presented as the most viable option, despite the proven drop in future demographics. Eric said regional recruiters would be added, but how else, specifically, will the model be achieved?

TR: The regional recruiters are indeed just one part of the overall picture, though they are an easy part to describe and grasp. We also need to be much more effective than we have been in describing what Ithaca College is and stands for — so a better marketing effort so that people know about us and why they should choose us.

If we are successful in our commitment to in-

novation and creativity, for example, that will be very attractive to new students. If we are successful in taking (IC)2 … [and] make that a part of the experience of a significant number of our students, that will be part of the solution. We’ve done other things that are some way mechanical and internal in enrollment management such as re-establishing early decision. We’ve done things on our campus tour to make it more attractive. The campus tour now starts from the Peggy Williams Center with this beautiful building with its amazing views, which makes us more attractive. If you emphasize any one of those things they sound wanting in terms of the overall goal. If you put them all together plus looks that we’re taking at our Web site at how we communicate with applicants, they all add up to a very substantial effort to make sure that people who should choose Ithaca College choose Ithaca College.

President Tom Rochon presents the college’s plan to combat declining demographic numbers by increasing applications 7 percent over the next five years at the all-college meeting.

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me because we would have been just throwing a dart and saying, “Hit that.” So, yes, I believe this number is achievable, but we need to be focused and purposeful in order to reach it.

LH: Is this just wishful thinking or can we really increase our applications by 7 percent over the next five to six years?

LH: Going forward from here, what do you hope the faculty and staff members took away from the meeting?

TR: I hired a vice president for enrollment management, Eric Maguire, for whom I have a great deal of confidence. ... What I asked him to do was to give me a number — I did not give it to him — that he felt was aggressive and would not cause him to lie awake at night. He came up with 7 percent five years out. The important thing to say is that number came from our enrollment expert, not a mandate from a financial officer or

TR: Certainly I wanted the concerns around near-term layoffs to be taken off the table and alleviated. ... However, if that’s all they took away, that meeting was a huge failure because there is a crisis in higher education. Ithaca College is part of it, and it’s a crisis that we will actually start to feel only after the economy has come back to normal. We have to finance ourselves in the future in a different way than the past.

It’s been on the backs of students and their families. It can’t be that in the future. I hope they also took away the great sense of energy around the feeling that if we can be studentcentered around the educational environment and pursuing excellence in the educational environment and innovative in the way we think about how we create educational opportunities for students. Then this college will become so well known as a bed of innovation and creativity and excellence that the financial crisis that is coming will not affect us at all because students will clamor to come here. I hope that people take away that combination of relief, exuberance and energy.

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Students may lose tuition assistance

By Lauren Barber Staff Writer

New York state college students who qualify for the Tuition Assistance Program may face a decrease in award money next semester.

Gov. David Paterson announced Jan. 19 that the state’s executive budget for next year will include a proposed $71 million cut to the Tuition Assistance Program, a financial aid program that helps eligible New York residents pay tuition at approved colleges in the state. The proposal would also eliminate TAP for graduate students.

In the plan, every current TAP recipient will receive a minimal $75 reduction in his or her TAP award per semester, which will save the state approximately $8.4 million. In addition, the maximum award for two-year degrees will decrease from $5,000 to $4,000, according to the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities.

The legislature has until April 1 to negotiate the final state budget, and if the proposed change is passed, it will go into effect next fall.

Dennis Kennedy, director of communications for the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities ­— an organization to inform college students about financial aid — said the commission has received more than 9,000 e-mails from concerned students since the proposal was made.

“Certainly, even the $75 cut or any chipping away of the state’s 35-year-old TAP program, which has 4 million students, is something that is concerning,” he said.

Kennedy said the cut is an attempt by the governor to decrease the budget deficit in New York. TAP brings aid to an average of 315,000 students each year.

In order to be eligible for TAP, students must be taking 12 or more credits per semester, be at an institution that charges at least $200 a year for tuition, declare a major 30 days from the designated add/drop period and maintain a 1.2 GPA after the second semester.

The award amount depends on the institution the student is attending, the student’s family income and the student’s financial status.

Kennedy said a $75 cut to each TAP award might affect students’ ability to go to college and pay for expenses.

“We’re working to mobilize students

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Sophomore Cassandra Douglas receives information about her bursar’s account Monday from Student Financial Services Collections Specialist Mary Lapp.

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and student aid supporters to contact their elected officials to tell them about the importance of student aid, all in the hope that elected officials will vote to restore those funds,” he said.

The new TAP will also change eligibility standards. Those considered remedial students will have the same academic standards as they do now. All other students will be required to meet a new standard with a minimum of 15 credits and at least a 1.8 GPA by the end of their second semester.

Sophomore business major Pat McNally receives TAP as part of his financial aid package and said he is disappointed that he is going to be losing the money he needs to help pay for his education.

“It’s obviously not favorable,” he said.

“Especially since my family is kind of stretched for cash in anything, that’s going to probably hurt us. My pocket money is whatever I have left over from textbooks so that will definitely hurt me a lot.”

The Executive Budget is a starting point for the official 2010-2011 budget. It is just a proposal as of now, Kennedy said, so those who oppose the change still have time to confront their state officials if they wish to do so.

First, the governor sends his budget to the state Senate and the Assembly. The state Sen-

ate and the Assembly have a period of time to hear from concerned citizens and constituents and then decide to either decline or accept the governor’s proposal.

“It’s very true that [the governor’s proposal] could hold true come April, and we’re hoping and working with our legislators to ask them to restore those funds to the budget so that students can get the full funding for TAP,” Kennedy said.

There are many ways college students can get involved in campaigning to prevent the TAP cut, Kennedy said. Students can email legislators directly from the commission’s Web site. On Feb. 9, 750 college students will meet with legislators in Albany to talk about the importance of student aid as part of Independent Sector and Student Lobby Day. Larry Chambers, director of student financial services, said since the official budget will not be decided until April, the future for TAP recipients at the college is still unknown.

He said he wants students to be aware of the change and be proactive about it.

“We encourage current TAP recipients to reach out to their state legislative representatives to express any concerns they might have over these TAP reductions,” he said.

Team competes in invitational debate

By Melanie Breault Staff Writer

The voices of five Ithaca College students resonated above more than 180 debaters last weekend at the Sydney Landon Invitational Debate Tournament.

Debates were held in up next for Campus Cendebate team ter, Friends, •Feb. 6 to 7 Williams and at Suffolk Textor halls.

University in More than 20 Boston schools across •Feb. 20 at Saint Anselm the county College in New participated Hampshire in the tournament to debate labor unions, human cloning and injustice in Sudan from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.

Scott Thomson, assistant professor of speech communication and adviser of Ithaca College’s debate team, said this is the first time the college has hosted a debate tournament in more than 20 years.

The tournament was divided into three categories: world style debate, public forum de-

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bate and cross examination debate association. Sophomore Brian Rank and freshman Jessica Mortellaro won first place in the sixth round of the world style debate, defeating students from Cornell University, King’s College and the University of Vermont. Mortellaro and Rank were quarterfinalists in the overall world style competition.

“We had debated the Vermont kids the night before and they seemed to have a wave of confidence about them, so it was very nice when we heard we got first place,” Mortellaro said.

Thomson said the team usually participates in LincolnDouglas style debating, which is a policy dialogue between two people based on evidence and logical reasoning.

For this tournament, Mortellaro and Rank were paired with two students from Cornell University to represent the government’s perspective on police entrapment in the world style debate. Mortellaro said the topic was given to them 15 minutes before the debate began. This was the first time she or Rank

had participated in a world style debate.

“It was nice to know that our [Lincoln-Douglas style skills] could transfer to a new style that we hadn’t prepared for and that we knew nothing about,” she said. “It was a big confidence booster.”

The debate, which is usually at Cornell was held at the college for the second time.

“The type of debating we do has a pretty set schedule, so there’s never been any need for us to hold a tournament,” he said. “I like debating no matter what form it’s in, and a part of our philosophy at Ithaca is we want students to see a variety of different types of debating.”

Freshman Caleb McWhorter said he joined the debate team after attending Thomson’s first year seminar in August. He said the team travels every other weekend to participate in national debating competitions. Last semester, the team attended competitions at Lafayette College, Suffolk University, Saint Anselm College and Ohio State University.

“What the team really teaches you is how to present ideas in

very logical ways,” he said. “You learn how to speak in a clear, coherent way, which can make for more eloquent résumé writing and essay writing.”

McWhorter, who was one of the judges for the world style debate, participated in the public forum competition last weekend.

The speech and debate teams meet several times per week.

Currently, there are about 12 members and new members are encouraged to join. Thomson said he suggests students keep up with current events and contribute information they’ve learned from classes to help with their debates.

Freshman Krystina Drasher also judged the world style debate and was one of 15 student volunteers at the tournament.

She said judging the competition was a valuable experience for her as a legal studies major.

“It’s very interesting to sit back and see how other people perceive the same situation,” she said. “I’ve learned to better articulate myself, speak more clearly and sound smarter than I think I am.”

“I couldn’t come up with that “I was just concerned if it was going to work the same way, if I was still going to be eligible,” said Dabek. “I was just confused.”

The Direct Loan Program also offers additional borrower benefits that lenders are no longer equipped to offer.

Students will pay the same amount to originate a loan through the Direct Lending Program. In addition, due to a 0.5 percent rebate to the college, more of the students’ money will go directly to their educational institutions.

Chambers also said that a benefit of the new program is the ease that will come with a single contact.

“All Ithaca College students will be working with the direct lending services,” Chambers said. “It’s easier for students, and it will be easier for Ithaca College. So, instead of us having to deal with 160 different lenders and what they need to do and their processes and such, we will have one point of contact.”

As for PLUS loans, the biggest change will be a lower interest rate – down to 7.9 percent from 8.5 percent — and the additional borrower benefit of a 1.5 percent rebate of the total amount borrowed, creating a similar situation to the 0.5 percent rebate on the regular direct loans.

Chambers also said the switch will be much more dependable for students.

“The feds will always have money. The lending industries, we’re not so sure,” he said. “The vast majority of schools in the nation have been participants in the Stafford loan program through banks, but with all this turmoil and economy, many schools are now converting to the Direct Lending Program.”

For more information on the Direct Loan Program, visit www.ithaca.edu/ finaid/faqs.

Public Safety reports 11 graffitied areas in Towers and Lyon

by Jessica Dillon Staff Writer

Ithaca College Public Safety found 11 cases of spray-painted graffiti at 3 a.m. Monday in the Towers Concourse and one case at 2:30 a.m. Saturday in Lyon Hall.

Investigator Tom Dunn said the 11 cases were found in West and East Towers, Baker Bridge, Flora Brown Drive, Parking Lot-J, Terrace Parking Lot-L and the trails near Wood Field.

He said he does not believe at this time that they are connected because the graffiti in Lyon Hall was a legible phrase found inside the building while the others were indecipherable letters.

Dunn said Public Safety is looking for assistance from the public to find the person or persons involved.

If the person is a non-community member, the person will be arrested and if it is a student the judicial system will be used.

Freshman Eva Ward, a resident of Lyon Hall, said the graffiti was found in one of the stairwells. She said it is unfair for maintenance workers to have to clean up the graffiti and to have to take the time to paint over it. She said though the graffiti is noticed by residents, they are not upset over it.

“It doesn’t affect how I feel about my building aside from the fact that it’s just rude,” Ward said.

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Store doors close under competition

Professor discusses research on Vietnam biological warfare

By Qina Liu

contributing Writer

Shoppers interested in buying items from the Some Girls boutique in Ithaca will now have to shop online or at their other two locations in Troy, N.Y., and Syracuse, N.Y. Ithaca’s Some Girls boutique in Collegetown officially closed last Saturday because it could not compete with other retail stores like the new Urban Outfitters, Margaret Partyka, current owner of the Some Girls chain, said.

For more than two years, the Some Girls boutique chain, started by Diva DeLoayza in Albany, N.Y., was sustained by student shoppers from Ithaca College and Cornell University. The store carried labels such as B.B. Dakota, Free People and American Apparel.

The store has been declining in sales for the past year. Sales dropped about 40 percent from their monthly average, Partyka said.

“To protect the stability of the business, we decided to go ahead and close that store and really put in the energy and our attention fully to our Troy and Syracuse store,” she said.

While there is a market in Ithaca for cocktail dresses, like those found in the Some Girls boutique, manager Mandy Bennison said new stores are difficult to compete with.

“A lot of the stores in The Commons have started selling the same merchandise we have,” Bennison said.

“It’s just been a struggle, so rather

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The Some Girls boutique in Ithaca closed last Saturday because of a decrease in monthly income. The shop has been declining in sales over the past year.

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than struggle and try to keep open, we’re just going to close down.”

Tatianna Sy ’09, an employee of Some Girls, said she has enjoyed working with shoppers as a personal stylist. She said Some Girls was known for its frequent sales and personable employees.

“Everybody who comes in here is a regular and knows that they can come and count on us to figure out an outfit for whatever they’re doing,” Sy said.

“There is a level of trust that we’ve built with our customers.”

Despite the store closing, freshman Laura Chrissley said she will remain a faithful customer.

“They have a lot of really unique things you can’t find in the malls or even in The Commons,” Chrissley said.

Chrissley, a Syracuse native, said the Ithaca store made her feel more at home when studying at a new school.

Bennison said that while many people have been upset about the store’s closing, business is business.

“A lot of people have been coming

in and saying that we’re their favorite place in Ithaca and that we’re their favorite place to shop,” Bennison said.

Partyka, DeLoayza’s original assistant, said she eventually wants to bring the popular boutique back to Tompkins County.

“I can’t say right now, but I do hope to return to Ithaca when the economy gets a little stronger and when we have a little more working capital under our belt,” Partyka said.

Partyka said having a business in today’s economy is the “survival of the fittest.”

For the time being, the Ithaca Renting Company has not disclosed information about what will happen to the store’s location in Collegetown, Partyka said.

However, Bennison said loyal customers can still visit Some Girls at the Troy or Syracuse locations or shop online.

“We had a lot of fun in Ithaca for the past couple of years, and unfortunately the store has to go,” Bennison said.

Fred Wilcox, associate professor of writing, has written several books addressing the Vietnam War and the effects of Agent Orange poisoning on Vietnamese civilians and veterans.

Wilcox enWILCOX said courages stu- veterans have dents to learn died because of more about the poison exposure. effects of toxic chemicals and help reduce hazardous pollutants in the environment.

Contributing Writer Laura Murray spoke to Wilcox about his research that exposed the truths about Agent Orange.

Laura Murray: What sparked your passion for this topic?

Fred Wilcox: My cousin served in the military for about 20 years.

Right before he died, he pulled me down and whispered in my ear, “Ya’ know Freddy, I don’t go for this Vietnam thing.” He said, “Promise me you won’t go.” That was another huge shock that my cousin, a loyal soldier, a loyal American, would say something like that. There he was on his ward, dying of neglect.

I began to try to find out what was going on over there.

LM: What is Agent Orange?

FW: Agent Orange was an herbicide. It could kill triple canopy jungles in Vietnam. The problem

was that Agent Orange contained something called dioxin, and it contained the most deadly form of dioxin; it’s called TCDD Dioxin.

LM: What were the consequences and how were soldiers affected?

FW: Many different kinds of cancers, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease and heart problems. The list has really grown over the last few years. A lot of veterans don’t make it beyond 50 or 60 years old.

So many of these men have died of various illnesses that are related to Agent Orange exposure.

LM: How do you help war veterans who have been exposed?

FW: Over the last 20-25 years, I and other people have lobbied to try to convince the U.S. government to stop stonewalling, to stop saying there’s no evidence when there was and there is, and to care for the people who they asked to go to a war zone and who did go.

LM: How have you been changed by your work?

FW: I hardly believe any politician.

Our government doesn’t care about people. If they don’t care about the people who went to Vietnam, then who do they care about? Well, I’ve concluded pretty much they care about the very rich, they care about big business, and they care about their own power. Everything that ever happens to benefit the people they have to be forced to do it.

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Public Safety Incident Log December 17 MEDICAL ASSIST/INJURY RELATED LOCATION: Office of Public Safety SUMMARY: Person requested medical assistance for a nose bleed. Medical assistance provided. Fire and Building Safety Coordinator Ron Clark.

FOUND PROPERTY LOCATION: Phillips Hall SUMMARY: Set of keys found and turned over to Public Safety. Unknown owner.

UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA LOCATION: Landon Hall SUMMARY: One person judicially referred for violation of drug policy. Patrol Officer Jeffrey Austin.

CCV/DRUG VIOLATIONS LOCATION: Eastman Hall SUMMARY: One person judicially referred for the use of marijuana. Patrol Officer David Amaro.

CRIMINAL TAMPERING LOCATION: West Tower SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person discharged a fire extinguisher in a stairwell. Officers were unable to locate the discharged extinguisher. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

December 18 CCV/IRRESPONSIBLE USE OF ALCOHOL LOCATION: Tallcott Hall SUMMARY: Person declined assistance from ambulance staff and was judicially referred for irresponsible use of alcohol.

Two people judicially referred for underage consumption of alcohol. Patrol Officer David Amaro.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE LOCATION: Circle Apartments SUMMARY: Caller reported a person refusing to leave a residence. Prior to officer’s arrival, person left the residence.

Complainant declined any further action.

Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

CCV/IRRESPONSIBLE USE OF ALCOHOL LOCATION: Tallcott Hall SUMMARY: Person declined assistance from ambulance staff and was judicially referred for irresponsible use of alcohol.

Patrol Officer David Amaro.

CCV/IRRESPONSIBLE USE OF ALCOHOL LOCATION: Tallcott Hall SUMMARY: Officer reported intoxicated person. Person transported to CMC by ambulance and judicially referred for irresponsible use of alcohol. Patrol Officer David Amaro.

January 13 MEDICAL ASSIST/PSYCHOLOGICAL LOCATION: Terrace Bridge SUMMARY: Caller reported a person causing a disturbance. Person was taken into custody for mental hygiene law and was transported to the CMC by ambulance. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

CCV/UNDERAGE POSS. OF ALCOHOL LOCATION: Garden Apartments SUMMARY: One person judicially referred for underage possession of alcohol. Patrol Officer Jeffrey Austin.

January 14 IDENTITY THEFT LOCATION: All Campus SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person had used their personal infor-

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mation to obtain access to an online account. Investigation pending. Assistant Director of Administrative Services Laura Durling.

V&T VIOLATION/LEAVING SCENE LOCATION: Facilities Parking Lot SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown vehicle damaged a parked vehicle and left the scene. Investigation pending.

Master Patrol Officer Erik Merlin.

AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT LOCATION: Whalen Center for Music SUMMARY: Caller reported receiving a threatening phone call. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer James Landon.

January 15 V&T VIOLATION LOCATION: State Route 96B/Danby Road SUMMARY: During a vehicle traffic stop, the operator was issued uniform traffic tickets for Town of Ithaca Court for aggravated unlicensed operation in the third degree, an unregistered motor vehicle and no headlamps. Sergeant Bill Kerry.

January 18 MEDICAL ASSIST/ ILLNESS RELATED LOCATION: Athletic and Events Center SUMMARY: Caller reported a person with chest pain. Person was transported to CMC by ambulance. Fire Protection Specialist Mark Swanhart.

January 19 CCV/COLLEGE REGULATIONS LOCATION: Whalen Center for Music SUMMARY: Caller reported seeing people

inside the building. Two people judicially referred for disobeying college regulations. Master Patrol Officer Erik Merlin.

January 21 FOUND PROPERTY LOCATION: Whalen Center for Music SUMMARY: A person reported finding a cell phone and clothing. Owner is unknown. Items turned over to Public Safety.

january 24 CCV/UNDERAGE POSS. OF ALCOHOL LOCATION: Upper Athletic Fields SUMMARY: An unknown person activated a blue light phone. One person was judicially referred for underage possession of alcohol. Patrol Officer Chris Teribury.

january 22

V&T VIOLATION/DWI LOCATION: J-Lot SUMMARY: During a vehicle stop, the operator was arrested for DWI and uniform traffic tickets were issued for the Town of Ithaca Court for DWI and BAC that was greater than 0.08 percent.

A campus summons was issued, and person was also judicially referred.

Patrol Officer Chris Teribury.

V&T VIOLATION/LEAVING SCENE LOCATION: D-Lot SUMMARY: A person called and reported an unknown vehicle damaged a parked vehicle and then left the scene.

Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

UNLAWFUL POSS. OF MARIJUANA LOCATION: West Tower SUMMARY: Two people were reported with unlawful possession of marijuana.

The people in question were judicially referred. Master Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock.

CRIMINAL MISCHIEF LOCATION: East Tower SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person damaged a door by kicking it. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

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

FOUND PROPERTY LOCATION: Whalen Center for Music SUMMARY: Person reported finding clothing items and case, unknown owner.

Items turned over to Public Safety.

january 23 SOLICITATION LOCATION: Emerson Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported a person soliciting on campus for a restaurant.

Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Adam Koehler.

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

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academically diverse

With a well-rounded background in multiple disciplines, the new dean of the business school is a smart choice

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ast week, Ithaca College announced Mary Ellen Zuckerman as the new dean of the college’s School of Business. With an impressive résumé that stretches beyond the business world, Zuckerman is an excellent example of the kind of cross-disciplinary dean the college should seek when looking to fill the currently vacant dean position in the communications school.

Zuckerman not only comes in with experience as dean of SUNY-Geneseo’s School of Business, but also has strong credentials in research focusing on the magazine industry and gender studies. Picking a dean who has multiple academic interests is in tandem with the administration’s vision of incorporating integrated learning at the college, as laid out by President Tom Rochon at the all-college meeting.

Choosing Zuckerman, and future deans with the same well-rounded background that crosses academic disciplines, illustrates how Rochon’s vision for the college can be executed in a concrete, specific way.

The Park School dean search committee is also urged to include more student voices in the decision-making process. Every dean has a primary responsibility to the student population, which in turn makes a sizable student representation a necessity.

Choosing a dean who emulates Rochon’s plan for the college is a well-calculated decision that will give the community direction. By crossing disciplines, new deans like Zuckerman can initiate the next step toward the college’s future.

tcat travels

Changes in bus system benefit campus, but more improvements are needed

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he TCAT introduced changes to the bus system that include more direct routes, cheaper bus fares and student-friendly timings — all a welcome nod to the needs of Ithaca College students.

For years, the TCAT has operated as a transportation service that seems to cater to Cornell University, while doing the minimum for South Hill students. The direct routes and increased hours will encourage more students of the college to ride the TCAT. The college worked with TCAT to reduce bus fares and subsidized 33 percent of the costs.

Relatively cheap bus passes and increased direct routes will provide students with an alternate and quick way to combat expensive parking permits and limited campus parking spots. These developments will reduce a student’s need for a personal vehicle, which in turn facilitates the college’s commitment to creating a more sustainable campus.

More can be done, though. At least one stop in the Circle Apartments should be added for the more than 600 students residing there. Traveling between the apartments and campus is inconvenient, especially during the winter. Stops in this area would not only aid residents, but would also offer a safe and responsible travel option for students who often attend parties in the Circles.

The TCAT’s schedule and route changes will greatly benefit the campus community, especially those looking for inexpensive, convenient and eco-friendly rides.

SNAP JUDGMENT Road Hazards What do you think about the lack of sidewalks on and around campus?

Watch more Snap Judgments at theithacan.org.

“I work in the public library downtown and I [would] like to walk over there.

I take the bus because I find no sidewalks for me to get there.” ana calcano ‘13 legal studies

“I Haven’t had any problems with sidewalks in the routes that I use.

The place where I do miss sidewalks is near the pond on campus. There are no sidewalks and people go there all the time.”

Juan Arroyo assistant Professor of politics

“On campus we have plenty of sidewalks. they should put in more off campus. but, I haven’t noticed it or heard people complaining about it, so it’s not an issue for me. ” Jessica Blahut ‘11 physical therapy

“when I drive down from the circles,there are people I feel like I’m close to, and I can’t do anything about it. I’m where I should be, it’s just that they’re right next to my car.” dave grossman ‘10 Music Education, vocal

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Alumna learns to adapt in South Korea U pon graduating I knew I wanted to live abroad. After considering a few options, I decided to get my Teaching English as a Foreign Language certification to teach English overseas. In the end, I chose a position in Busan, South Korea. After five months here, I still find myself needing to pause and digest: “I live in Korea.”

I remain thankful for those moments because they remind me of two important things: 1) I am incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to be here, and 2) I am an outsider.

The first is easy enough to understand. Anyone who has been abroad has probably felt the same.

I can’t think of anything more challenging and rewarding than opening oneself to a new culture, new ideas and new surroundings.

The second is more complicated. Since coming to Korea I have had moments of alienation, anxiety and frustration. I’m studying Korean, but it’s a slow process. People seem glad I’m trying, but trying doesn’t mean communicating. At first, I was relieved to be able to get by thanks to the many English signs here, but it didn’t take long for me to start feeling uncomfortable with how easy it is for expatriates to manage without learning Korean. I am an outsider, but I can be conscious of that and make an effort to adapt rather than waiting for Korea, or the world, to adapt to my language, my culture and my comfort zones.

Part of adapting to life here has been finding something that feels familiar — like the owner of the coffee shop around the corner who knows my order — but more important are the changes I’ve made. Before coming here, I’d never eaten meat because I was raised vegetarian. To demonstrate my commitment to life in another culture, I decided to push my boundaries and change my diet.

On Christmas, while wandering through the fish market, my friends and I were presented with the chance to try sannakji – a small octopus, either freshly cut or swallowed whole. Since I’d impulsively tried beondeggi (silk worm larvae) the night before, I figured it was a weekend for spontaneity. So, I grabbed chopsticks, picked up a freshly chopped, bite-sized tentacle, threw it in my mouth, chewed

Zach tomanelli

A year after “Yes We Can”

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Kendra Sundal (center) and her students demonstrate their kimbap-making skills at the Chungdahm Institute in Busan, South Korea. Kimbap is similar to sushi but does not use raw fish. courtesy of kendra sundal

and swallowed. Immediately I felt like a new person.

I never imagined I’d step so far outside my comfort zone, but on Christmas, more than 10,000 kilometers from my family and their Tofurkey dinner, I knew I had to live in the moment and do something I certainly wouldn’t be doing anywhere else.

In addition to trying new foods, I am learning to play the kayageum, a 12-stringed instrument.

One of my personal reasons for coming here was to study traditional Korean music. In the beginning, my teacher spoke very little English and I spoke no Korean. In four months, we have both improved our language skills. Still, music transcends the usual communicative boundaries, and it’s been great to have a place to form a connection that doesn’t require spoken language.

Beyond eating octopus, playing a new instrument and learning a new language, I’ve also had time to reflect on what I’m doing here as an English

teacher, to really appreciate how privileged I am to be living and working in a different country and to let myself feel comfortable with calling this home, even as I am aware that my presence is incongruous with many of my surroundings. I wish I spoke more Korean and could show that I’m not just here to make money and leave. However, I also wish I attracted fewer stares, I wish I could fit into Korean clothes, and I wish vegetarian food didn’t often come with ham. While those things remain obstacles to adapting smoothly at times, there are pros and cons to living anywhere. Korea has helped me to slow down and appreciate my daily life more and to pay more attention to living in the present, with all of the daily ups and downs. kendra sundal ’09 is teaching English at the Chungdahm Institute in Busan, South Korea. E-mail her at kmsundal@gmail.com.

Guest commentary

Resolutions not enough to retain fitness goals

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he mythical Roman King Janus is given credit for beginning the tradition of New Year’s resolutions around 153 B.C. It is said that Janus had two faces: one to look back at the past and one to look forward to the future.

In the case of planning fitness goals for 2010, being “two-faced” is a good thing.

Frank Micale Picking our fitness goals from the endless stacks of tabloid magazines that are in our faces as we wait in the checkout line at Wegmans may be a major reason why so many fail at this annual ritual. So before quickly deciding on a fitness goal that Angelina or Jen have chosen in their lifelong battle to impress Brad, it would be a good idea to take a page from King Janus’ book and learn from the past to help your success this year and in the future.

Begin this process of behavior change to exercising regularly and/ or eating nutritiously by first realizing that it is not an easy thing and that is why 50 percent of those who start a lifestyle change program quit in three to six months.

Grab a friend who is in need of change also and each write up a behavioral change contract. This con-

progress report

Freshman Hunter Dudzik works out in the Ithaca College Fitness Center.

Earlier this year, Dudzik undertook a 90-day program to get in shape.

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tract with yourself should include barriers that have derailed you in the past, strategies for overcoming these barriers, goals and a reward for reaching a goal. Do not forget to leave a spot for both to sign the contract. This detailed plan of the goal(s) and how one is going to accomplish the goal(s) will promote accountability not only to you but also to another.

Everyone has challenges to adherence, such as “no time because of work, school or kids,” “the weather is too bad,” “the gym is not convenient” or “I’m tired.” Thought must be put into solutions to such

roadblocks so that when they do come up (and they will) there is a strategy. Planning helps: First thing in the morning or before going to bed each night, plan your exercise and nutritious menu for the next day. Maybe tomorrow there is only 20 or 30 minutes in your day to workout and that is OK, but finding some time has to be a priority, just like finding time to brush your teeth every day. Making a big pot of oatmeal, boiling up a bunch of hardboiled eggs and stocking up on fruit over the weekend will help to overcome that no-time-for-breakfast barrier during the week. Dropping

off a workout bag with the house keys in it at the gym before going to work is a great trick to ensure you get to the gym when tired at the end of the day. There will always be roadblocks, but there are always solutions to make it happen.

Goals must be specific and realistic, but they also can be measured, and a time frame for completion can be put on them. Have at least one short-term (around three months) and one long-term (more than six months) goal established that include the process for success. For example, “By spring break I will lose 10 pounds of body fat by eliminating one soda per day and doing 30 minutes of cardio five days per week.” Keep a journal that documents what you have done and show it to your friend at the end of each week.

Put your behavioral contract somewhere you can easily see it every day to remind you of where you have been, where you are going and the eventual reward for all this hard work. Plan this year not for a fitness resolution, but for a personal fitness revelation.

For more information on how to develop a behavioral contract for 2010, e-mail the Wellness Clinic at wellness@ithaca.edu.

Frank micale is a clinical associate professor and director of the Robert R. Colbert Sr. Wellness Clinic.

E-mail him at fmicale@ithaca.edu.

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

ast year, President Barack Obama delivered his inaugural address outlining his vision for America. A year later, let’s check in on some of those promises he made.

The president had observed, “The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift.”

One out of two isn’t terrible.

The president and Congress moved swiftly by passing the $787 billion stimulus bill last February.

Most serious economists agree that the bill saved jobs and helped avert an economic disaster. But bold? Not so much. The stimulus fell $300 billion short of the $1 trillion-plus recommended by those same serious economists.

Since then, unemployment has surged past 10 percent, foreclosure numbers continue to break records, and there are whispers of a double-dip recession.

Last year, the president also promised to “raise health care’s quality and lower its cost.” This one is a work in progress but, like the stimulus bill, the legislative process has eroded any chance of meaningful reform. Obama once said a single-payer system would be his ideal choice. Despite this, it was never on the table. The so-called public option was billed as a single-payer compromise. It was objectionable to conservatives, and by the fall the White House couldn’t distance itself further from the plan. The result? A watered-down bill that earned zero Republican votes in the Senate and one in the House, and its passage is still in doubt.

That brings us to foreign policy.

The president had said, “We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals” and promised “to responsibly leave Iraq to its people and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan.”

Obama must be given credit for restoring America’s place in the international community after spending eight years in the diplomatic wilderness. His speeches in Cairo and Turkey invoked a sense of cooperation. Unfortunately, words mean little. Obama’s continuation of Bush-era tactics such as civilian-killing drone attacks and his decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan can only be described as disappointing.

The president came into office with at least some intention of reforming our government and righting the country, but round one of his presidency went to Washington, D.C. Beltway politics got the better of Mr. Hope in 2009.

He did manage to get a few good punches in along the way, and I believe that he can turn things around in the coming year. But if the next three years resemble 2009, perhaps he should consider changing his campaign slogan from “change we can believe in” to “it’s better than nothing.” zach tomanelli is a junior journalism major. E-mail him at ztomane1@ithaca.edu.

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In an era where mainstream Hollywood films often dominate the movie theaters, Cornell Cinema offers what other theaters don’t: history.

Since the ’70s, Cornell Cinema has been a staple in Ithaca’s film community. This year the cinema is celebrating 40 years as a venue devoted to showing independent, foreign and second-run Hollywood films.

Mary Fessenden, the cinema director, said Cornell University’s Willard Straight Hall, where most of the cinema’s events are held, gives the cinema an authentic feel. With murals on the wall, balcony seating and screen masking, Cornell Cinema gives viewers an experience unlike any mainstream theater.

“This aspect of the theater allows them to frame an image in black, which creates an illusion of the image floating in space,” she said. “This means viewers can really immerse themselves in the experience of watching a film, which makes it that much more enriching.

More than 30,000 people come to Cornell Cinema to get this ex-

perience. Chris Riley, the cinema manager, said offering a broad range of films as well as the quality of the projection is what makes the cinema unrivaled by other theaters.

“We’re showing everything from classic Hollywood to experimental to documentary over the course of a week,” he said. “We’re constantly changing. The care we put into the theater experience and the projection is unsurpassed.”

Fessenden said Cornell Cinema is the only theater in town with a reel-to-reel 35 mm projector. Most mainstream theaters use a platter projection system.

“We are allowed to show archival and other rare prints that require special handling,” she said. “Having dedicated projectionists working each screening also means that the quality of the projection at Cornell Cinema is the best in town.”

The cinema also gives members of the Ithaca community the ability to showcase their own films. Cathy Lee Crane, associate professor of cinema, photography and media arts at Ithaca College, showed two of her own films in the past five years at the cinema.

She said the cinema provides a supportive environment for the community to meet with local moviemakers.

“Cornell Cinema makes possible the direct encounter with contemporary practitioners,” she said. “[It’s an] innovative cinema. Its visiting filmmaker series alone is an extraordinary opportunity that is central to central New York. You would otherwise have to go to Manhattan, and even then you don’t necessarily have the same sort of concen-

Joseph Wojciechowski, a junior at Cornell University, works at the concession stand Friday at the cinema.

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Moviegoers watch previews before the movie “Bright Star” begins rollin g Friday at Cornell Cinema.

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trated and intimate opportunity to meet with people who have gone on to have prestigious careers as producers and editors in the industry.”

Fessenden said this year’s Elegant Winter Party, which will be held Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre, will emphasize the fundraising aspect of the party more so than in years past. For the first time in the 20 years that the Cornell Student Assembly has been funding the cinema, the SA will be cutting the cinema’s budget.

The SA is given $204 from every student to go toward clubs and organizations. Rammy Salem, president of the SA, said the group is cutting the original allocation of $11 per student to the cinema to $10 per student.

“Professors use [the cinema] in the classes to supplement students’ education,” he said. “Given that that’s the case, it should not be as reliant as it currently is on ... the students.”

Fessenden said the theater gives back to the community in many ways.

“It is a very popular program,” she said. “It didn’t make a lot of sense why they cut our funding. To see cutbacks or the elimination of any of [the programs] would be a loss and make Ithaca a less interesting place to live.”

With the cinema losing $13,000 out of its $500,000 budget while showing close to 300 films a year, the cinema might not be able to survive the

cuts without outside help. Fessenden said the first programs that might be cut are the events that bring filmmakers and speakers to Ithaca. This may become a problem when the budget cuts go into effect at the start of the next academic year.

“If we are unable to come up with replacement funding for the $13,000 loss, we will have to cut back on specialty programming like visiting filmmakers and live music events, in addition to screening fewer specialty films that tend to attract smaller audiences — things that make Cornell Cinema so special,” she said.

Erica Titkemeyer, a senior cinema and photography major at Ithaca College, serves as the college’s liaison to the cinema with the task of advertising to the college com-

munity about the cinema’s events.

She said Cornell Cinema is a good resource for students on campus and it shouldn’t suffer from budget cuts. “[The cinema] is important for anyone who’s an activist looking to watch a documentary. … You can find your little niche there,” she said.

“It’s definitely an under-recognized resource for the community.”

Crane said mingling between experimental filmmakers as well as graduates from Cornell adds to the independent and local feel of the cinema — something mainstream theaters lack.

“It’s a one-of-a-kind opportunity that brings the whole breadth of cinematic practice to our doorstep,” she said.

Melanie Yee, a sophomore at Cornell, sells tickets Friday for “Bright Star” at the cinema. Cornell Cinema is known for showing independent films.

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Staff Writer Conor Harrington reviews the big-name performances at Sunday’s jam-packed Grammy Awards Show.

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Lady Gaga and Elton John When the 2010 Grammy Awards opened to “The Fame Factory,” Gaga lovers knew extravagance was imminent. Appearing in a sea-foam leotard, Gaga commanded the stage as she sang her hit song “Poker Face.” After being thrown into a fiery pit, the monster herself re-emerged playing a frightening creature-inspired piano alongside the iconic Sir Elton John.

It’s no wonder why people are goo-goo for Gaga. Mid-performance, she exclaimed, “Take my picture, Hollywood; I want to be a star!” Honey, you don’t need to dream anymore — your performance proves you’re as sparkling as Polaris.

Lukewarm

Pink As she walked onto the stage, Pink looked more like a monk than a rock star. The outfit was strange, but that was nothing compared to her performance, which was full of even stranger moments — including stripping down to a nude leotard and hanging from the ceiling in a hammocklike contraption. Pink is an accomplished vocalist, but why did she have to sing the unknown song “Glitter in the Air” when she has such popular hits as “So What” and “Sober”? As daring and sexy as her wet acrobatics may have been, this routine was essentially a regurgitation of her high-flying VMA performance. Great job, Pink, but next time leave the stunts at the circus.

Hip-hoppin’ to the beat

Students jam to the beats DJ Emerson (Peter Bolanis) plays Saturday in Emerson Suites at the African-Latino Society’s dance “From Underground to Uptown: The Revival.” The event was a tribute to hip-hop featuring performances from rappers and break dancers.

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The number of views the video of Ithaca College alums’ pop-rock band Love and Blah blah the Content here.

Logicblah has blah had,blah sparking interests of MTVU. The group recorded a cover of — Jamie Saine American Idol champion Adam Lambert’s song “Whataya Want From Me.” The band took to the streets of New York City to recruit actors for the video, which features only one prop: a cardboard sign.

MTVU will now be featuring the video on the network because the YouTube video exceeded 100,000 hits.

— Jared Dionne

Grammys on the ground Taylor Swift is many things: beautiful, talented and ohso successful. But maybe a little too successful. At the 2010 Grammy Awards, Swift walked away with an incredible four awards. It was all coming together nicely: She looked fabulous in her gown, and she even got through the night without Kanye West jumping on the stage. It was, as she said, “a dream come true,” that is until she got to the press room.

Swift was posing with her awards, but they couldn’t all fit in her thin arms. One award fell to the ground and broke. It was replaced for Swift, but what’s done is done. Four is just too much for this golden gal, especially considering how stacked her awards’ shelf already is.

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Jamie Foxx and T-Pain This performance was doomed from the moment Foxx appeared singing opera in a red cape. Not only was his outfit a complete disaster, but his vocals weren’t any better. It’s not clear if he was lip-synching or if the microphones just weren’t working, but his auto-tune hit “Blame It” was far from Grammy material. Foxx may have won a golden statue, but this performance can only be “blamed” on lack of live talent. It looks like it’s time for Jamie to leave the world of live performance for the land of multiple takes on the silver screen.

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strange umbrella for two simplifies walkin’ in the rain

It’s been agreed that umbrellas are great for those cold, rainy days. They’re not so cool, though, when a person is trying to walk arm-in-arm with a significant other. It’s inevitable that someone gets the short end of the umbrella, literally. But that’s not a problem anymore with the two-person umbrella. This strange, yet ingenious, invention is large enough for a pair of lovebirds with two handles. The insane creation may forever change the way couples avoid the rain. Couples can now hold hands while staying dry and shielded from the elements. This deserves a collective “Aww.” — Whitney Faber

quoteunquote My body is slammin’. It’s frustration and starvation. I’m hungry, and I’m cranky.

Kathy Griffin to E! reporter Giuliana Rancic on Sunday at the Grammys.

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Contemporary portraits expose genuine emotions not necessarily glorified images of people,” she said. “They basically show people, warts t the side of a busy urban street, a and all. Every person in these photographs young, dark-skinned Asian-American definitely has some attitude, and that’s such woman stands in the middle of two a reverse of [traditional photography].”

The collection is being shown in tanblack men. They stand strong — their tough attitude shown in their intense gazes dem with two other exhibitions at the and threatening stares. The words are written museum that focus on photography. The in their hardened expressions: This photo- inspiration for this collection came from the exhibition by Sam Jury called “Forever graph is completely in your face.

“In Your Face: Contemporary Portrait is Never,” a six-minute video exploring Photography,” at Cornell University’s Her- the line between reality and imagination in photography. “Forever is Never” also bert F. Johnopened at the museum Jan. 16. The theme son Museum what of the collection, “The Image Wrought: of Art, reveals “In Your Face: Historical Photographic Approaches in the beauty and Contemporary Porthe Digital Age,” also influenced “In Your flaws of evtrait Photography” Face.” The compilation of photographs, eryday people when which re-examines historical photographthrough porShowing through ic processes and their use by contempotraits. The exMarch 21 rary artists, inspired the contemporary hibition, made where collection of portraits. up of pieces Johnson Museum Green said she wanted to display photofrom the muof Art, Cornell graphs in the exhibition that would highlight seum’s permaUniversity some of the differences between traditional nent collection, and contemporary portrait photography. explores some HOW MUCH Free admission “The earliest photographic processes of the techwere used to take portraits of people,” she niques of consaid. “We wanted to have that comparison temporary photography to depict the subject’s character in of what portrait photography was with the invention of photography and what it has a single shot.

Nancy Green — curator of prints, draw- become today.”

Ruth Rabinowitz, a professional phoings and photographs at the museum and curator for this collection — said for this exhi- tographer from Santa Cruz, Calif., who bition she wanted to show pictures of people was visiting family in Ithaca, decided in a realistic light, exposing impromptu emo- to come to the exhibition. She said what struck her most about the works was how tions of the subjects.

“We decided to go with images that are the artists captured and saved a moment in these people’s lives. Alina Achenbach-Schill looks at a larger-than-life portrait of a woman titled “Pia Fries” on Jan. “They’re historic 23 at the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. The portrait was taken in the ’80s.

Allison usavage/the ithacan pieces,” Rabinowitz said. “People’s faces change so much over intense focus in the shot and a natural air to kept looking at it to see if I knew them.”

Like the image of the two girls at prom, the years, so it’s good the image, she said.

“As someone who is not comfortable in many of the photographs in the exhibition to document how people look [now], front of the camera, I was struck by how direct- put different types of people together in and as time rolls ly [the subjects] faced the camera, which can be one shot. John R. Peters-Campbell, a Cornell alumnus, said the pairing of diverse on and experiences attributed to the photographer,” she said.

Looking at the other photographs, Dix- people was what most caught and kept his in their life change them. It’s like pre- on said she was interested in a black-and- attention throughout the collection.

“The group photographs put together white image of two girls in prom dresses. serving them.”

While comment- In the photograph, a tall and voluptuous people in a way that expressed personality as ing, Rabinowitz was black teenager flaunts her attitude as she relational,” he said. “That was the one thing looking at the largest stands with a hand on her popped hip. that held most of the photographs in the eximage in the exhibi- Next to her, a thin white girl with a lip hibition together — that it’s not just someone tion: a photograph of ring stands awkwardly upright, stunned on the other side of a window, but there are a bunch of people who are engaged by the phoa woman by Thom- and waiting.

Dixon said what was so interesting about tographer that you can relate to.” as Ruff called “Pia Fries” that covers this image was an entire wall of the that it brought the museum. The sub- medium of porject’s light green eyes trait photography gaze out, demand- to a local level by some ing an onlooker’s featuring attention. With the pieces that were piece’s grand size, taken in Tompevery string of the kins County.

“My first imwoman’s roughly textured black and white pression was that zebra-striped sweater it felt like they were on a muis visible.

This image also seum wall, and caught the eye of Su- then I saw that san Dixon, a Cornell they were from alumna. She said she Ithaca and that it was also intrigued by was just two years the large image of the ago,” she said. “As woman on the wall. an Ithaca resi- The famous Sally Mann photo “Holding the Weasel” is displayed at the Jude Thomas, an Ithaca resident, looks at an image of two adolescents Like the others in the dent, that really gallery. Featured is Mann’s daughter posing with a fake weasel. posing in their formal dresses before prom Jan. 23 at the museum. allison usavage/the ithacan exhibition, there is an astounded me. I allison usavage/the ithacan

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Restaurants offer dinner and a movie

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By Monica watson staff Writer

For students looking for a night out that won’t break the bank, Madeline’s and Blue Stone are offering a money-saving option.

Both restaurants are providing a dinner-and-movie special with Cinemapolis. The offer began last month, giving customers free tickets to Cinemapolis when they order certain menu items for dinner.

Doug Gruen, chef and owner of Blue Stone restaurant, thought the new deal would provide a service to the community.

“It’s not a big moneymaker for us,” Gruen said. “But we don’t necessarily lose any money either.

We just thought it was a nice contribution for the community.”

At Madeline’s, the total package costs $35 per person and can only be used between 5 and 6 p.m. every day. Both restaurants’ menus consist of three main courses. Though it might seem as if there is no real saving, eating dinner at Madeline’s and then seeing a movie can cost more than $70.

Blue Stone’s select menu does not have a fixed price and can range from $20 to about $30. Customers eating from the menu can find some of the restaurant’s signature salads and chicken dishes.

Sophomore Colleen Gburek said she thinks the offer is great

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From left, Eric Rosario, alderman I-2nd on the Common Council, and Neha Khanna buy tickets from Dave Huntington on Saturday afternoon at Cinemapolis.

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for college students on a budget.

“It’s a good idea,” Gburek said.

“Especially because as a college student I would not be able to afford going to Madeline’s and then going to the movies. It would be good for a date night or a night out with my friends.”

Shawn Erwin, manager of Madeline’s restaurant, said the deal will help support Cinemapolis at their new location and also increase traffic to both destinations.

Gruen said the restaurants will write a check to compensate the theater for the tickets sold. He said though it costs the restaurants money, the publicity makes up for the loss.

Lynne Cohen, executive director of Cinemapolis, said teaming up with other businesses helps boost the downtown economy and helps customers find costeffective options when they want to go out.

“It’s good for our customers and good for the general health of downtown,” Cohen said. “This is just a way for us to give [people] a little break.”

Gburek said she thinks businesses partnering up to offer deals to customers will stimulate the economy of Ithaca.

Cinemapolis originally offered the dinner-and-a-movie package through Willow restaurant near Fall Creek Pictures, but after the theater’s move, the business wanted to be able to offer the deal at nearby restaurants.

Erwin said he has already seen business improve. The special has mostly traveled by word of mouth.

Cohen said that customers enjoy the savings.

“They just like having it,” she said. “In both cases the restaurants are giving them quite a deal, and we’re giving them a deal as well.”

Richard Faria, associate professor of music performance, has earned a spot on www.Mercurynews.com’s list of the top classical CDs for 2009.

An esteemed clarinetist, Faria performed on Stephen Hartke’s “The Horse with the Lavender Eye,” which was ranked on the Silicon Val- FARIA said ley’s online news- he strives to lead by example for letter that covers his students. the latest in art and technology. At the college, Faria coaches chamber music groups in addition to teaching private clarinet lessons. Contributing Writer Rachael Hartford spoke with Faria about being featured on the CD. Rachael Hartford: How did it feel to be listed on Mercury.com’s top classical CDs for 2009?

Richard Faria: It’s very nice. Ultimately, reviews are meaningless because they’re subjective. For every good review, there’s a bad review. But it’s great to know the CD is getting out there, that people are listening to it and that people like it because it came out really well.

RH: How did you hear about Stephen Hartke and his album “The Horse with the Lavender Eye?” RF: Stephen Hartke had been a composer-in-residence at both IC and at Cornell in the past. He had received a commission to write a trio

for clarinet, violin and piano from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. It is an amazing piece of its time, and we started performing it as soon as we could.

RH: How long did it take you to put this together?

RF: We had worked on the piece and played it on and off over three years before we finally sat down to record it. The recording sessions for the trio were done over the course of a day.

RH: What was your inspiration for the chamber ensemble?

RF: Out in the world you’ll find professional music ensembles that are made up solely of professional musicians and then you’ll find student groups that are all students.

But I haven’t found many groups that are a mix of students and professionals. I thought it would be a really neat thing to do here at Ithaca College. It’s a group that is made up of students and faculty from the School of Music, and we play and rehearse side by side.

RH: How do you hope to inspire students at the college?

RF: We try and inspire students by leading by example. We strive to be actively performing and actively teaching, which is what we hope our students will be doing themselves someday.

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Artistic video blurs reality into fantasy

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Some people take portraits in the middle of a park. Others take portraits in a department store. Artist Sam Jury takes portraits in the middle of a dream — or at least that’s what she tries to make viewers think.

Jury’s mixed media piece “Forever is Never” is an enlightening video that allows the viewer to step into another world, as the artist muddles the line between real-world “Forever is portraiture and the fantasNever” tical world only possible Herbert F. through imagination.

Johnson Best described as a video Museum of Art collage, this single-piece exOur rating: hibition housed on the lowHHH est level of Cornell University’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is about six minutes long and runs on a continuous loop.

The mixed-media video combines hundreds of photographs of a blank sculptural head that has different portraits projected onto it. The human imagination is left to manipulate the images into a portrait. While viewing “Forever is Never,” observers get the feeling they are in another dimension between the tangible real world and the fantasy world Jury creates. What’s created amounts to a hallucinatory state.

Constantly transforming images make up for the silence of “Forever is Never,” since there is no sound track or dialogue of any kind. Instead the image speaks to its observers, asking them to discern it themselves. Aside from the portrait, the rest of the video is set against a dark green color, a smart choice because the skin tones of the portrait are fully discernible.

Though the video at times seems to jut off the screen like a 3-D movie, most of the time the work resembles a painting, albeit a moving one.

Jury’s arduous process of combining several hundred images of different types looks like soft brush strokes one would find on a painter’s canvas.

The portraits used in this presentation are from different places and time periods. Because of the wide variety of photographs used, the screen resembles a strobe light switching from overexposed, washed-out images to dark, somber ones. The re-

Ithaca Underground, a full night packed with rock bands — including Kiss Kiss, Venetia Fair, Beach Parade and the Motivators — will begin at 5 p.m. at The Haunt off Route 13. Tickets are $7.

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Sam Jury’s piece using contemporary artistic techniques to explore a new perspective on portraiture is showing in the exhibition “Forever is Never” at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art until March 28.

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sulting portrait is a constantly evolving person. The green background also changes in sync with the images, creating a full-on sensory experience. Some spectators may think the portrait looks like an angel, a smiling young woman or a creepy alien being.

There is no right answer, making the figure in “Forever is Never” open to interpretation.

Like the piece she creates, the artist is a mysterious figure in the art world. Jury isn’t a household name yet, but she does have immense talent, as is shown in this piece on display. Thus far in her career, she has had a limited number of exhibitions on display, but with the talent she showcases in this exhibition, it’s clear she could become an impressive figure in the future.

While the museum labels “Forever is Never” as an exhibition, there is only one item on display. It would have been nice to see more of Jury’s work. It is a tease to just see one video

because her work is uncommon.

Another slight negative is the projection system. The constant hum emitted from the device is distracting. Eventually, the exhibition’s audience will forget this and the installation will pull them in. Take a few minutes to get adjusted to the exhibit, and it’s easy to lose track of time watching this video.

The exhibition isn’t a still image, yet it shouldn’t be considered a film in its typical sense. The enigmatic piece is both captivating and grotesque, creating an awe-inspiring image.

The looping silent video won’t thrill everyone who sees it, but it will get everyone to think about what they are looking at.

“Forever is Never” is showing at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art until March 28. The exhibition was curated by Andrea Inselmann.

McPhee rebuilds career and hearts with album

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Soirée/Cabaret!, a theater performance celebrating great songs and featuring memorable comedy sketches, will show at 7:30 p.m. at the Cornell University’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.

Tickets are $8 for students.

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Wingnut, a funk jazz band that blends blues and rock into its sound with an electric bass, organ and drums, featuring Hank Roberts on cello, will play at 7 p.m. at Felicia’s Atomic Lounge. Admission is free.

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Right,” which is about McPhee’s fear staff writer of jumping into love and getting her Former American Idol finalist heart broken. The next song, “Had it Katharine McPhee sings her way All,” has a country feel to it. The lyrback into the spotlight with her sec- ics are about a girl getting everything ond album, “Unbroken.” McPhee cre- she wants only to realize she had it all in the first place. The title track, ates a more personal “Unbroken,” features just McPhee feel with her latest and a piano. It wraps up the narrawork, with lyrics that tive of the album with lyrics about tell the story of reKatharine regrowth and newfound strength. gret, love and growth.

McPhee “Unbroken” It is a more joyful song that rounds “Unbroken” folVerve Foreout the album’s narrative nicely with lows a narrative arc, cast Records a happy and carefree ending. starting with regret Our rating: The album focuses strongly on and then moving to HHH McPhee’s voice, keeping most of fear of love and opening up to another person. It then the instrumentals minimal and transitions to her tentatively trying to acoustic. “Unbroken” works to mix let love in, still scared. It’s definitely pop, country and jazz to appeal to a staple break-up album that anyone all ages’ musical preferences.

Not all the songs are standouts, with a broken heart can relate to.

“Unbroken” starts with “It’s Not and some, like “Keep Driving,” are

by Monica Watson

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combination Genesis and Peter Gabriel tribute band, will play at 10 p.m. at The Haunt off Route 13. Tickets are $7.

The CeCe’s, an acoustic duo featuring twins Lydia and Maddy Froncek, will play at 10 p.m. at the Nines in Collegetown.

Tickets are $5.

Evil City String Band, an oldtime country band complete with banjo and fiddle will play at 5:30 p.m. at Felicia’s Atomic Lounge. Admission is free.

In “Transference,” Spoon comes into its own and embraces its chemistry in its seventh album as a band.

The first song, “Before Destruction,” announces the album’s arSpoon rival, living up “Transference” to its title with Merge heavy drums and Our rating: hushed vocals.

HHH As always, lead singer Britt Daniels’ voice captivates. His repetitive, powerful lyrics harmonize perfectly with the repeating guitar riffs and drums on the next song, “Is Love Forever.”

“I Saw the Light” is a biting and intense song with chilling vocals that builds until the repetitive chorus pounds into

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just plain boring. Any song off the album seems like it could have been plucked out of a romantic comedy’s sound track.

However, the album is a definite step up from McPhee’s first, which lacked the depth that “Unbroken” has. McPhee may not have won Idol, but she is winning the attention of the music industry with an album that features great lyrics and powerful vocals.

listeners’ brains. With songs like these, Spoon never leaves expectations unfulfilled.

“Goodnight Laura” is a change of pace with a sweet, piano-backed lullaby — hearing Daniels will lull listeners to sleep, a Spoon-lover’s dream.

Long after the songs have ended, this album replays in listener’s heads, willing them to return to it for another listen.

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quickies “HEart of My own”

“Realism”

“The Sea”

Basia Bulat returns with her second album — a darker, less idealistic sound than her debut made by more complex lyrics and guitar riffs.

The album is classic Magnetic Fields, with the perfect blend of country, folk and rock influences showing the band is not dwelling in the past.

“The Sea” is a melancholy yet beautiful album that highlights Rae’s powerful vocals with simplicity, using only a piano to accompany her in most songs.

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The sky is blue, but the ground is barren and ashy. The wreckage of civilization — cars on deserted highways, houses crumbling in disrepair — stretches across the landscape.

In an abandoned shack, Eli (Denzel Washing“The Book of ton) rests on the Eli” dusty floor beAlcon fore leaving the Entertainment Our rating: house behind.

HHH He does not look back at the destruction and despair behind him, because devastation is nothing new in this futuristic world.

Set in post-apocalyptic America, “The Book of Eli” is a thrilling action film that brings a bleak image of the future to life through the actors’ superb performances and innovative visuals.

The film follows Eli — a mysterious figure, part missionary and part mercenary — who quotes scripture as he carries a King James Bible across the wasteland of America.

He travels west for some unknown purpose, only explaining that he feels it is his destiny to take the book where it will be safe.

Washington plays Eli as the everyman, listening to his MP3 player and quoting Johnny Cash. Though Eli never reveals his purposes, Washington manages to keep the character relatable, despite his intimidating skills to kill with knives, guns or even his bare hands.

That role of the villain falls firmly on the shoulders of Carnegie (Gary Oldman), the leader of

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a town ruled by fear and his unwavering desire to get his hands on the book Eli carries. Oldman is one of Hollywood’s go-to actors for iniquitous characters. Though he has drifted mostly toward the side of good characters in recent years, Oldman has not lost his ability to menace and intimidate — traits that make him one of the most outstanding elements in “The Book of Eli.” The cinematography further exploits the film’s somber mood created by the villain. The harsh lighting and high contrast make characters’ faces look tired and haggard and make the scenery look empty and dead. Bright areas are

pale and washed out while shadows are darkened and exaggerated.

Light and dark are also used in classic good-versus-evil symbolism.

Mila Kunis’ character Solara, the daughter of a blind woman who works for Carnegie, is a refreshing foil next to the bleak Eli. She joins forces with Eli, following him on his journey though he initially tells her he prefers to travel alone. She is innocent where he is jaded, doubting where he is faithful. Kunis holds her own in the role, even on screen with multiple-Oscar winner Washington.

“The Book of Eli” is sometimes criticized for its religious themes, but the film is far from Christian

Apocalypse film proves horrific

“The Book of Eli” was written by Gary Whitta and directed by Albert and Allen Hughes.

Technology fails sentimental story

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The first time God lost faith in humanity, he sent a flood. This time, he’s sending an army of angels to destroy the human race. But not even the wrath of God or the threat of the end of humanity could make “Legion” an interesting film.

“Legion” tells the story of the fight to save Charlie’s (Adrianne Palicki) unborn child, who is destined to save humanity. Charlie is found at the roadside desert diner Paradise Lost, owned by the father and son team “Legion” Bob and Jeep Hanson (DenBold Films nis Quaid and Lucas Black, Our rating: H respectively). The diner becomes the battleground for the war against God. Gun-wielding rogue Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany) arrives on Earth to lead the motley army of diner patrons and staff in the fight.

Michael firmly believes that humans are still good and commits to saving the world.

Written by Scott Stewart and Peter Schink, the movie is a strange combination of horror and religion. The script leaves many plot holes, making the viewer sort through the mess of facts to figure out what is going on. It is never clear why Michael clipped his wings or why Charlie’s child is going to save the human race. Most of the characters are halfway developed and then abandoned. The script takes on too many plot lines and leaves many of them open.

Palicki is great as a woman torn between the reluctance of being a new mother and her willingness to help humanity. She shows great potential, despite the lacking script.

Bettany’s performance also has high points. He is able to show a range of emotions from anger to

propaganda. It portrays the negatives of religion as frequently as the positives. At one point in the film Eli realizes that he has forgotten the tenets of kindness and charity that Christianity preaches in favor of holding on to its sacred text.

In the film, the Hughes brothers, who last directed 2001’s “From Hell,” have created a world as desolate as it is hopeful. The acting, coupled with the intense music and visuals, makes the film a grim, but realistic look at a foreboding future.

The story of a 14-year-old girl who is raped and murdered is a tough subject for a novel, yet adapting that novel for the screen is even harder. With a budget of $100 million, Peter Jackson has taken Alice Sebold’s beloved novel and turned it into “The Lovely an overdone computerBones” generated film.

WingNut Films The film at first sepaOur rating: rates itself from other HH1/2 mysteries as its main character Susie (Saoirse Ronan) narrates her own murder from the afterlife. The story begins with the ideal suburban family made up of Jack Salmon (Mark Whalberg), his wife Abigail (Rachel Weisz) and their three children. Suddenly, Susie’s unexplained death tears the Salmons apart.

The highlight of the film is Ronan’s heartfelt performance, as her stunning acting brings her scenes in heaven to life. She is something rare in a film that’s only able to capture believable drama sporadically.

To create Susie’s afterlife Jackson produces a special-effect overdose, full of candy colored, cheesy backdrops and unconstrained sentimentality. At first it’s gorgeous to look at, but midway through the film it becomes outlandish.

Somewhere in the director’s film is the tragic story about a young girl that longs to be told with unflinching honesty. Unfortunately, Jackson’s visuals take away most of the human feeling in the story.

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Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany) enters in a fiery blaze to save humans from God’s wrathful angels.

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his constant, unwavering love for the human race.

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Junior Kristen DeStefano reaches new heights as team’s leading vaulter

By Chris Lotsbom Staff Writer

Staring down the 45-meter runway, she picks up her 13-foot UCS Spirit fiberglass pole. She takes a deep breath. In her mind, she thinks about what she’s been working on all week: the swing.

In a split second, she’s in the air, extending her hips over the bar, as the rest of her body begins to free fall back toward the earth.

At the moment of impact, junior Kristen DeStefano’s focus shifts — time for hurdles.

“A lot of the time I will be Check out a one-onr u n n i n g one interview with back and the Bombers’ poleforth, vault- vaulter at theithacan. ing once, org/10vault. then running a flight of the hurdles, going back and forth between the two,” DeStefano said. “It can get hectic at times.”

The two-event star of the women’s indoor track team has done this hundreds of times.

Though she competes in both events well, she considers pole vaulting her specialty on the team, which is currently ranked No. 7 in the country.

“The best feeling is the excitement once you know you’ve cleared the bar, but haven’t hit the mat yet,” DeStefano said.

DeStefano, who began pole vaulting at Onteora High School in Boiceville, N.Y., knows a lot

about clearing the bar, but the opportunities to do so were slim in high school.

At Onteora, DeStefano practiced in hallways and gyms. There were no mats to jump on, no pit to practice with; they could only practice their approaches. The one chance to vault was during meets.

During her high school career, DeStefano’s coaches saw something in her they didn’t see in many other people — a great work ethic and desire to never give up.

But what really caught their attention was the daredevil in her.

“She had no fear,” said Patrick Burkhardt, Onteora High School track coach. “She attacked the vault box with a sort of reckless assault. Sometimes the result was scary, like when she did not follow through with a jump and had to bail when still 8 or 9 feet in the air. But she never backed down to a challenge and never stopped doing something because it may have been dangerous.”

Though a daredevil in the pole vault, DeStefano, a clinical science and physical therapy major, said away from the runway she doesn’t think she’s done much else that’s considered “crazy.” But the daredevil within her is what led DeStefano to become the South Hill squad’s record holder in the vault.

“Some people are afraid of heights or being inverted upside down in the air,” DeStefano said.

“That never fazed me. I thought it

Junior Kristen DeStefano practices her hurdle technique at the women’s indoor track team’s practice Tuesday in Barton Hall at Cornell University.

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Junior Kristen DeStefano makes it over the bar during the pole vault event Jan. 23 at the Cornell Upstate Challenge at Cornell University. DeStefano placed third and broke her own school record during the meet, clearing 3.45 meters.

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She wasn’t going to let up during would be fun.”

Upon graduating from Onteora, her sophomore campaign, though.

DeStefano said she came to Ithaca Working on her swing — the point College eager to improve her all- where she propels herself over the bar, shifting her hips and weight — she was around vault.

During her freshman year, able to capture the Empire 8 ChamDeStefano worked alongside As- pionship both indoors and outdoors and finish first sistant Coach at the state Matt Scheffler championship. to improve in “She had no fear. She “Pole vault all aspects. attacked the vault box with is funny, ” she With a worksaid. “There out regimen a sort of reckless assault. is always a including ... She never backed down better height, lifting and or always running, as to a challenge and never someone to well as form stopped doing something beat. There’s drills, DeStealways somefano began because it may have been thing to fix. to see steady dangerous.” improvePatrick burkhardt It’s something you ments within Onteora High School track coach where always need the first few to improve. weeks. By the time the Eastern College Athletic That’s what keeps me focusing on Conference Championships came vaulting higher.”

This year, DeStefano has conaround in February, she had improved so much she successfully tinued to improve, breaking her vaulted 3.37 meters to earn the school record twice in the past school’s record. Amassing acco- two weeks. At Rochester Instilades like all-ECAC and all-New tute of Technology on Jan. 16, she York State Collegiate Track Con- bested her previous mark by 0.01 ference, DeStefano had improved meters while winning the meet her vault by a foot and a half by by a whopping third of a meter. A week later, she vaulted 3.45 methe end of the season.

ters against a field of Division I athletes at Cornell University, finishing third overall. “[She’s] competitive,” Head Coach Jennifer Potter said. “She doesn’t like to lose at all. And in the pole vault, an extremely technical event where you can have a bad day at any point, that’s tough. But Kristen has done great; she is very talented and has been able to improve with time.”

Training can be tough at times, both mentally and physically, but DeStefano has found a way to keep improving. She said the hard work she puts in at practice is what helps her succeed.

By practicing the vault twice a week and hurdling twice a week, DeStefano has been able to improve on both her speed and vaulting abilities. DeStefano said her events complement each other because she needs to build up speed and have the ability to think fast, whether that means adjusting her hurdle rhythm or swinging her hips a little higher to make it over the bar.

“The goal from here on out is to just keep improving the little things, bit by bit, and hopefully, it will all come together at nationals,” she said.

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The inside Pitch Cory Francer

Bowling for New Orleans

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he story never gets old, and it has been recreated countless times over the years. It just always feels good to know that David can ride into town and, even against the most unspeakable odds, can wield his slingshot and nail Goliath right between the eyes.

It’s a testament that the underdog can rise above the more powerful opponent, no matter how unlikely it may seem.

It makes for fantastic drama and is something any sports fan, regardless of prior allegiances, can appreciate.

This year it’s Drew Brees and his New Orleans Saints — who have never even appeared in a Super Bowl and represent a city that has battled such unimaginable adversity — playing the part of David. Their quest is to defeat the Indianapolis Colts, who have been at the top of the NFL for much of the last decade and won a Super Bowl three years ago.

Clearly, the ancient myth is as alive as ever.

Even though such formidable beasts of the sports world have taken home championships in the past year, (see: Los Angeles Lakers, New York Yankees) there is still a reason why everyone outside of Indiana should be rooting for the boys from the Big Easy.

The most obvious reason is that the city of New Orleans needs this. Not that a Super Bowl victory would permanently solve the city’s problems, but when a city has been as devastated as New Orleans has been, something like the Saints’ success is a perfect way to bring people together. If you need further proof, I recommend checking out the video footage of the celebration on Bourbon Street after the Saints beat the Vikings in the NFC Championship game.

The Saints have risen from the absolute depths of the NFL’s basement to be where they are today. It wasn’t too long ago fans were showing up at the Super Dome with paper bags on their heads. It’s incredibly challenging to climb the ranks of professional football (see: Detroit Lions) the way the Saints have, and it’s because of the team’s determination to bring the people of New Orleans a championship.

Brees himself is the embodiment of beating the odds to get to the top as well. Initially deemed too small to succeed in the NFL, he was drafted by the San Diego Chargers and was constantly threatened to be replaced under center. After a shoulder injury that required surgery, he went to the then-hapless Saints to see what he could do to save a failing franchise.

The Saints’ success against such insurmountable odds has been nothing short of miraculous, and if the football gods are just, David will once again topple Goliath come Sunday.

Cory Francer is a senior sport studies major. Contact him at cfrance1@ithaca.edu.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Light atmosphere keeps team firing

By Thomas Eschen Staff Writer

Still without a loss in conference play, times are good for the women’s basketball team. Winning makes the game more fun, but for this team, the light atmosphere can be traced back to the beginning of the season, when the win-loss record was still 0–0.

By just watching a practice or a game, any bystander can tell these athletes are having a good time — The Blue and something usually missing on a Gold are 6–0 college basketball court. While in conference enjoying themselves, the team games played is keeping its integrity intact, at home this along with its sparkling record season. of 15–4.

“This team is definitely a unique one,” senior guard Katherine Bixby said. “It’s one of the first teams that I’ve ever been on that can goof around, but then get down to business in practice and in games.”

It is a skill that not many teams are successful at, as most have to choose between work and play.

“The balance between us doing stuff that is fun and that makes us work hard is what makes us successful on the court,” junior forward Jane DeBiasse said.

Sometimes it is a fast break drill. Other times it is a one-on-two rebounding drill. Head Coach Dan Raymond is keeping every practice interesting by mixing up drills, while keeping his sense of humor intact.

“We work with different people every day,” Bixby said. “So it’s not always the same five against the same five, or the same two against the same two.”

Raymond refuses to take all of the credit for his team’s ability to have fun, though.

“The one thing I have to attribute to all of this is all of the extra help that I’ve had this year, from [Assistant Coaches] Matt Dorn to Manny Delgado and Jessica Leonard,” Raymond said. “That makes a huge difference, because they are hearing more than one voice. It’s easier for [the players] to grasp what we are trying to accomplish.”

Since the start of the year, Dorn has worked with the athletes on their strength and conditioning, while Delgado and Leonard have aided in the mental aspect of the game. The

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From left, junior forward Jordan Confessore defends senior guard Katherine Bixby during the women’s basketball team’s practice Friday in Ben Light Gymnasium. The Bombers are 15–4 on the season.

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athletes recognize the benefit of hearing their new assistant coaches’ voices in both the physical and mental aspects of the game.

“It’s really nice to hear echoes of what coach has said coming from other people, which really reinforces what he says,” DeBiasse said. “When the message is coming from several different people with different perspectives, it really drives it home.”

Instead of tuning voices out after a few weeks, these athletes are treated to different names and faces, which DeBiasse said keeps every day fresh and even exciting.

The atmosphere is also helping the newcomers, who constitute more than half the team, avoid the

pressure and intimidation that come with college basketball. Raymond said it is making every individual more approachable, meaning rifts between seniors and freshmen do not exist.

The camaraderie allows those young players to feel less pressure, giving the team more depth and better competition in practice.

When the Blue and Gold feel that comfortable, the players enjoy the game a lot more.

“I give a lot of credit to the upperclassmen,” Raymond said. “As far as them becoming teachers, they had to teach all of these first-year kids what it is to be a college athlete. The leadership they’ve shown has resulted in the success we’ve had.”

Bombers look to turn it around down the stretch

by Casey Musarra Sports Editor

No team ever wants to lose two consecutive games. But based on the way the men’s basketball team has bounced back The South Hill this season, sesquad takes nior Will Gaskins on conference rival Alfred said the Bombers University at aren’t worried 8 p.m. Friday about their curin Alfred, N.Y. rent two-game losing streak.

“People around the area that are buying a lot into us losing two games in a row, they’re going to be eating their words in a couple of days when we come back out and go up against Alfred [University] and Nazareth [College],” Gaskins said.

“We lost two games, but it’s not the end of the world.”

The team’s current two-game losing streak is only the Blue and Gold’s third this season, and they have never lost more than two games in a row. Each time they’ve lost two consecutive games, they’ve come back with authority.

After the Bombers’ first twoloss stretch, they went on for a season high eight-game win streak. Following their threepoint loss to Utica College on Jan. 12, the Bombers went on a threegame tear.

“You can tell a lot from a team based on how they perform after a loss,” junior Chris Cruz-Rivas

Next up

Senior center Tom Brown takes a shot during the men’s basketball team’s practice Friday in Ben Light Gymnasium. The Bombers are 13–6 on the year.

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said. “Obviously we had two, and I think we’re going to come out and win the next two games just because we’re a team who doesn’t like to have our backs against the wall.”

The Bombers have fought from behind in both winning and losing efforts. In the Blue and Gold’s last game, they cut a 12-point lead

down to two in the last two minutes of the game, but eventually lost 77–73 to Rochester Institute of Technology.

“We’ve just been digging ourselves holes,” senior Tom Brown said. “We’ve let other teams get ahead of us because we think we can come back because we’ve done it so many times, but we can’t do

that. We have to play with more energy the entire game.”

At this point in the season, the Bombers will have only played three games in two weeks after they take on Alfred on Friday.

Cruz-Rivas said the team tries not to think about the time between games, though.

“Obviously it’s not as exciting as first semester when we had a bunch of games back-to-back,” he said. “Having a big spread between games, some people lose focus.

Not playing in game situations is tough on us, especially when we get back on the court — it feels a lot different.”

With playoffs looming and the Bombers currently holding a 6–4 record in conference, Brown said the Bombers have to start coming out with more energy to win down the stretch.

“We have to win our next few games because now we’re in fourth place in the conference,” he said.

“Every game from here on out is really big.”

Despite the past couple of losses, Cruz-Rivas said he is confident the team will pull it together.

“Coming off a loss, everyone’s obviously not too happy about it, but I always say I feel bad for the next team we play after we lose because with the fire power we have on our team, who knows what we’re going to do to the next team,” he said.

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Finding balance Coach uses new techniques to develop young throwers

By Andrew weiser Assistant Sports Editor

With his arm outstretched above his head, junior Paul Helm holds the 18-kilogram shot in the air before lowering it to his shoulder and sending it flying across the throwing pit toward freshman Kyle Stazi.

The shot hits the sand floor, shaking the ground momentarily.

Stazi bends down and picks it up and throws it back across the pit to Helm.

With only four athletes on the roster who compete solely in throwing events, this year’s throwing squad is limited by its number of throwers, but its members are eager to prove themselves and earn points for the team.

“The good thing about having a small amount of guys is that we can work and actually get more throws,” sophomore Spencer Barry said. “I guess the benefits are that we can get more reps and we’re a tighter group of guys, but it’d be a benefit if we had more guys.”

Returning two athletes from last year’s throws squad, the team welcomes the addition of former Division I thrower Jake Edelman, as co-throws coach with Jennifer McDonnell, bringing with him valuable knowledge of throwing at the collegiate level.

Understanding the capabilities of the athletes on the throws squad, Edelman is focused on each athlete’s proper preparation, acknowledging that success will follow.

“If they keep sticking with the technique and drills it’ll pay off in the long run,” Edelman said. “We can get strong anytime we want to get strong,

but we can start by working on technique right now.”

With the young group of throwers, Edelman’s coaching is geared toward the more technical aspects, focusing on balance as an area of concentration for the athletes that may already possess the strength.

“Jake is a lot more hands-on,” Barry said. “Where if we’re working on throwing, [Jake will say] ‘Let’s work on turns and actually doing a lot more of the basics.’ This year is kind of a rebuilding year, so that next year we can come out and do well.”

Much of each individual’s training revolves around the skilled combination of footwork and body control, both of which are key components in setting up a throw to following through on the release.

In practice, while each athlete’s regimen is made up of different drills and exercises to develop his balance and timing, it’s how each element complements the others that results in a successful throw.

“It’s a lot of stuff on our toes and explosive stuff,” junior multi-event athlete Ryan Taylor said. “You’ll crouch down and get on your toes and spin on your toes. It’s a lot of work on your quads and butt to get those muscles used to that.”

Edelman said implementing drills that cater toward a throwers’ balance and form is vital to an athlete’s development in an event where execution is equally as important as strength.

“I just want them to realize that throwing isn’t just a sport you just pick up immediately, and it’s something that takes a lot of training, drilling and technique work,” Edelman said. “You evolve over time, and there’s a lot of

Sophomore thrower Jusan Hamilton practices throwing the weight at the men’s track team’s practice Monday at Cornell University in Barton Hall. Hamilton is one of four athletes on the team who specializes in throwing events.

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patience, especially with the throwers who have never seen it before.”

Balancing their previous experience in competition with the training and preparation, the few upperclassmen that throw help put training in perspective for the younger athletes.

“I’ve become more of a role model in helping [underclassmen] instead of being helped,” Taylor said. “It’s me fitting in those shoes and being somewhat of a guide or mentor to the younger guys, when I

was being one of those guys getting mentored last season.”

With the young core of athletes to work with, Edelman said his immediate goal is to have each athlete continually improve while building toward future success.

“Right now the goals are to have the kids improve every week and get better,” Edelman said. “Honestly, this group of kids gets better from meet to meet and as the season progresses. I don’t think I can ask for more than that.”

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College total points

1 Ithaca 181 2 RIT 138 3 Alfred University 51 4 Stevens Institute 38 5 Utica College 32 6 Nazareth College 23 Source: Sports Information

Squad rides out winning streak

By Brennin Cummings Contributing Writer

A mix of hard work and a focused, confident attitude has set the women’s swimming and diving team on a seven dual meet winning streak.

“They’re confident in their abilities,” Head Coach Paula Miller said. “They think, ‘Let’s just focus on us and not worry about the other teams.’ If we just focus on us, hopefully we’re doing everything right.”

The team, still riding hot off of its 10day training trip in December to Puerto Rico, has been dominating against opponents, while breaking multiple pool records in the process.

At the meet against Alfred University on Saturday, junior Sheila Rhoades met the NCAA Qualifying Standard in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 52.5 seconds, setting a Hill Center Pool record. With Rhoades setting the tone, every swimmer on the team is prepared to do her part and step up the competition.

“Each time we had a race, every girl went in there and did their job,” junior Teresa Sierzega said. “It was a high-energy meet. We beat them by a lot, but they had a lot of good swimmers, so we didn’t walk in there thinking we were going to win. We walked in there ready to compete.”

At the Ithaca Diving Invitational on Sunday, freshman Heather Markus placed second in the one-meter and third in the three-meter.

Markus’ performance characterizes how everyone on the team — even the underclassmen — are already contributing toward the team’s success this season.

The success the South Hill squad has had

at the meets following the winter training trip has Miller excited for the team’s run at the postseason.

“They’ve been excellent at meets after winter training when they’re so tired,” she said. “I was very impressed with our win Saturday and the times that they achieved because they are tired. They’re beat up. I was very happy with that performance. It means a brighter future for our championships.”

After the winter training trip, the team was swimming a high intensity workload of practices twice a day, but now the team is back to one practice a day.

“After next week we are into tapering, which is a lot less,” Sierzega said. “Tapering will rest our muscles to get a peak performance at states.”

A contributing factor to the team’s winning streak is the leadership on the team.

“The captains, seniors Shannon Archer and Laura Kucsan, are doing a wonderful job leading the swimmers,” Miller said. “Shannon Archer took two years off, and she’s starting to hit her full stride. She knows what a team should be like, and she communicates that.”

On the diving side, Diving Coach Nate Brisley acknowledged senior Naomi Mark, sophomore Jodi Costello and Markus as big contributors to the team’s winning streak. He also praised junior Katie Kaiser for being an asset to the team this year.

“Katie, who is a first-year diver and a former gymnast, has really come into her own,” Brisley said. “To be able to do what she has done in the time frame that she has done it is amazing.”

Though the Bombers are having a suc-

From left, freshman Jenny Moore passes an Alfred University swimmer during a breaststroke event in the women’s swimming and diving team’s 179–56 win Saturday in the Hill Center Pool.

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cessful season, both the swimming and diving teams have had midseason struggles, mostly injury-related.

“Every diver should have a mid-season low,” Brisley said. “That’s why it’s mid-season. You don’t want them peaking too soon. You want to try and time a midseason low as best you can as a coach so everything can start building up from there.”

Looking forward, Miller said that the

Blue and Gold are well prepared for championship-level competition.

“We have to go in with the attitude,” Miller said. “We have to fight for it. It’s not going to be given to us on a plate. We have to go in and respect the other teams and do the best we can, like we’ve been doing every meet. They’ve stepped up to the challenges. They haven’t been threatened or backed down.”

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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Look online for game stories from these sports: TOMORROW

• 6 p.m. Women’s basketball at Alfred University • 7 p.m. Wrestling at Wilkes University • 8 p. m. Men’s basketball at Alfred University

SATURDAY

• 10 a.m. Women’s indoor track at Tufts Invitational • 10 a.m. Men’s indoor track at Tufts Invitational • 1 p.m. Gymnastics at Southern Connecticut State University • 2 p.m. Women’s basketball at Nazareth College • 2 p.m. Men’s swimming vs. Union College in the Hill Center Pool • 2 p.m. Women’s swimming vs. Union College in the Hill Center Pool • 4 p.m. Men’s basketball at Nazareth College

TUESDAY

• 6 p.m. Women’s basketball vs. Utica College in Ben Light Gymnasium • 8 p.m. Men’s basketball vs. Utica College in Ben Light Gymnasium

Wednesday

• 7 p.m. Wrestling vs. SUNY-Cortland in Ben Light Gymnasium Bold = Home game

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bombers to watch

Check out a video of the ultimate frisbee action at theithacan .org/10frisbee.

freshman sean rossi

men’s basketball

Last Sunday, Rossi dropped 13 points and dished out nine assists in the Bombers’ 77–73 loss to Rochester Institute of Technology. Rossi leads the nation in assists per game, averaging 8.0 through 19 games of his career. Rossi has 153 total assists this season.

junior sarah winder

women’s swimming and diving

Last weekend, Winder placed first in both the 200- and 500yard freestyle events finishing in 2:05.54 and 5:29.74, respectively. Winder has helped the women’s swimming and diving team remain undefeated (4–0) in the Hill Center Pool this season.

Flying to the finish

Senior Anne McNally (center) looks for an open teammate during the men’s and women’s “Indultimate” 2K10 ultimate frisbee competition Sunday in Ben Light Gymnasium. McNally competed as a member of the team Ultimas Prime. jake lifschultz/the Ithacan

by the

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freshman jeffrey willis

men’s track and field

Willis finished third in the pole vault, clearing 4.30 meters, Sunday at the Empire 8 Championships at Rochester Institute of Technology. On Jan. 23, Willis set the Ithaca record in the pole vault, clearing 4.65 meters and provisionally qualifying for the NCAA Championships.

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The number of days the women’s swimming and diving team spent in Puerto Rico training over winter break. See story on page 25.

The number of victories the women’s basketball team has posted this season.

See story on page 24.

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Weird news from the wide world of sports

While it appears the Harlem Globetrotters have done it all — showcasing their skills on an aircraft carrier, in a bullring and most recently on the roof of the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia — hitting the ice will be a first. The Globetrotters, wearing custom ice cleats to get traction, will soon add an ice-skating rink to their list of venues when they put on their signature entertaining spectacle for local youth organizations and schools Tuesday at Lasker Rink in Central Park in New York City. The Globetrotters, holding the highest winning percentage in the history of professional sports (.985), will match up against the familiar Washington Generals on the ice. Characterized by their high-flying dunks and humorous showmanship, the Globetrotters will have to stay on their feet, literally, if they don’t want the ice to keep them from lighting up the scoreboard.

– Andrew Weiser

where we stand

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W L Win% 1. St. John Fisher College 17 4 .810 2. Nazareth College 13 7 .650 3. Stevens Institute of Technology 15 4 .789 4. Ithaca 13 6 .684 5. Hartwick College 8 11 .421 Empire 8 Standings/Overall Records

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W L Win% 1. Ithaca 15 4 .789 2. Utica College 15 3 .833 3. Stevens Institute of Technology 11 8 .579 4. St. John Fisher College 11 9 .550 5. Hartwick College 6 13 .316 Empire 8 Standings/Overall Records

gymnastics

Team Average 1. SUNY - Brockport 183.349 2. University of Wisconsin - Whitewater 181.837 3. University of Wisconsin - La Crosse 181.744 4. Springfield College 181.531 5. Ithaca 180.350 NCAA Rankings for Division III Women’s Gymnastics

they saidit I’m ready for this game to be over with.

There’s so much leading up to it with tickets and hotels. I need a vacation.

New Orleans Saints’ running back Reggie Bush on his preparation leading up to Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla.

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In the swing of things

Senior Emily Graber performs her bar routine during the Bombers’ 182.225–181.100 win over No. 3 Springfield College on Saturday in Ben Light Gymnasium. Graber finished 11th in the uneven bars at the meet. The No. 5 Blue and Gold are 2–1. The Bombers’ next meet is at 1 p.m. Saturday as they take on Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Conn.

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