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Students show off minds and bodies at pageants to prepare for future, page 13

The Ithacan

D ance for peace

Ithaca residents gather to

pray,

sing and ... taylor long

assistant news editor

Joseph Drumn, with his wiry gray hair pulled back into a ponytail at the nape of his neck, beats on a large drum, bouncing to the beat with his mouth gaping open.

Drumn isn’t the only one lost in the rhythm. More than a dozen others are gathered around a pile of logs, not yet lit, preparing to celebrate Earthdance 2010.

They pound on drums varying in shape and size. Each has a different part to play, but all contribute to the vibrations that fill the air, get caught in the throat and reverberate off the rocks.

“You have to play with other people in order to get a beat,” Drumn said. “What you do for a living, what your

Ithaca residents join hands to form a prayer and dance circle Saturday in Danby.

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See prayer, page 4

Council deliberates expansion of smoking ban by ryan sharpstene staff writer

Less than two months after implementing a citywide smoking ban, the City of Ithaca Common Council is planning to expand the ban on The Commons to include the entire outdoor shopping mall.

Though authorities have only handed out a small number of citations in relationship to the ban, smokers have been congregating at the three entrances to The Commons where smoking is permitted, creating problems for businesses and vendors.

The current ban not only prohibits smoking on interior portions of The Commons, but also public lands including bus stops, city parks, playgrounds and school entrances.

Alderman Daniel Cogan said businesses near the western entrance of The Commons at the corner of State and Aurora streets have reported large clusters of smokers since the ban went into effect Aug. 1. “[Business owners] came to our September Common Council meeting … and told us how business had dropped precipitously, and they needed some kind of relief,” he said. “There was such a high density of smokers that it was negatively impacting busi-

Ithaca residents Vanessa Robinson and Shawn Pomeroy smoke together yesterday on The Commons. The area could become completely smoke-free. kevin campbell/THE ITHACAN

nesses where people would not want to come down to The Commons because they would have to walk through a big cloud of smoke.”

After going to the Planning and Economic Development Committee, the proposed extension will go before Common Council for a vote Oct. 6. Cogan said the Common Council would have to review the plan with the Department of Public Works before setting an exact

implementation date.

“Our intention all along was not to concentrate smokers in any one particular area,” Cogan said. “We didn’t know what would happen, and now that we know there is this congregation we have decided to address it.”

Thomas Harrington, general manager of Viva Cantina on the corner of State and Aurora streets, said he has noticed the clustering of smokers

and supports a Commons-wide ban.

Smoking is still allowed on Viva’s side of the road, and Harrington said he sees the effect of smokers in his area.

“The way it has worked out is unfair to merchants who are located where the smokers are clustering,” he said. “It seems the simple answer is to have a Commons-wide ban.”

Nico Steenhuis, a manager of Evolution 102, said she has noticed the clustering of smokers.

“Smell-wise it has been a problem, especially when we keep our doors open,” she said. “Luckily though, it has yet to be a problem affecting our business operations.”

Alderwoman Ellen McCollister, the sole vote of opposition to the original ban passed by the council, could not be reached for comment.

Cogan said the council’s intentions were not to intimidate people from coming to The Commons, but instead to make their outdoor shopping area a healthy environment for all visitors.

“If people want to hang out down there and smoke, they may have to find another place to go and do that,” he said. “We are not banning hanging out; we are just banning smoking while you do it.”

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IC20/20 draft outlines plan for the future by aaron edwards news editor

President Tom Rochon and Interim Provost Greg Woodward released a full draft of IC20/20, the comprehensive 10-year strategic plan for Ithaca College’s future, to the campus community Tuesday.

After revealing the introduction to the plan at the allcollege meet- Keep the dising Aug. 19, cussion going.

Rochon and Comment on this article at W o o d w a r d theithacan.org. continued to form the bulk of the document, which outlines objectives, initiatives and proposals the college may adopt in the coming decade.

The college’s board of trustees passed a resolution to support and endorse the main points of the document at a retreat Sept. 10-12. “[The board] was very enthusiastic about it but recognizes that the details all have to be worked out by the campus,” Rochon said.

Larry Alleva ’71, vice chairman of the board of trustees, saw the initial draft of the plan at the trustees’ retreat. Speaking on behalf of the board, he said he and other members are looking forward to seeing a more complete, fleshed-out plan once the campus creates it.

“The devil is in the detail,” he said. “It would be tough for me to gauge the degree of challenge until they bring [the finished plan] back to the board. It’s a bold plan that embraces our pursuit of excellence.”

Rochon said he will encourage the campus community to refine the plan during this academic year through task forces until there is an institutional consensus on its outlined proposals. From there, the board of trustees will review the plan a final time in May 2011. If approved, IC20/20 will be formally adopted as the college’s vision for the next 10 years.

“I’m excited by the whole, which is more than the sum of the parts,” Rochon said. “Some of the truly significant parts include having a much greater college-wide perspective on curriculum, as opposed to a school-centered perspective.”

The 20-page document elaborates on the introduction, calling for initiatives organized under seven broad objectives that Rochon and Woodward discussed with The Ithacan.

CURRICULUM Drawing on existing proposals and initiatives, IC20/20 calls for the consideration of an interdisciplinary education requirement for all students. This 24-credit minimum would be created to further

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Earthdance raises money for monastery prayer from page 1

politics are, what your opinions are — we generally don’t care. We’re here to drum and for that brief moment of time none of that matters.”

As part of a larger international festival sponsored by Earthdance International, a global non-profit organization that promotes peace, hundreds of local residents gathered at 5 p.m. Saturday at a garden owned by event co-coordinator Sheela Kingsbury. Attendees participated in an interfaith prayer and communal dance for peace. Drumn and the One Heart Community Drummers, a local drumming circle, were the pulse of the ongoing celebration.

Chris Deckker, a producer and musican, founded the international organization in 2002. He envisioned a celebration of peace where people from around the world could connect through music and dance. The organization licenses gatherings under the Earthdance brand name and provides a set of guidelines for local organizers to follow.

Earthdance International sets a date for the global community that falls between Sept. 11 and the United Nations’ International Day of Peace on Sept. 21 every year. The cornerstone of the celebration, an international prayer for peace, is synchronized to compensate for time differences. This year the organization sponsored more than 200 gatherings in communities across the globe that participated in the prayer at the same time.

Michael Gosney, director of the Earthdance network, said communal prayer is more meaningful

than prayer done alone.

“Prayer and synchronized meditation is a very powerful thing,” Gosney said. “I was drawn [to Earthdance] by the shared intention of the prayer for peace.”

Ithaca resident Patricia Haines, one of the coordinators of Ithaca’s Earthdance, said she wants to make the event an annual Ithaca tradition.

Earthdance has happened in Ithaca three times in the past four years.

She and other organizers suggested a $10 donation per person, which helped raise $657. Most of the money will benefit the Namgyal Monastery, which is having trouble financing construction of a new complex.

Ngawang Dhondup, the monastery’s administrator, said the complex is being built close to Ithaca College, about 3 miles south of the monastery’s location on North Aurora Street downtown. The new location spans 28 acres, offer ample space for spiritual retreats and will accomodate a growing student body. With the support of Tenzin Gyasto, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, and a sizeable donation from a private donor, the monastery began construction in 2007, but the project was slowed in November 2008 when they ran out of money.

Dhondup said it was kind of the community to rally in support of the monastery. With many of the goals of the organization lining up with traditional Buddhist principals, he said they were also happy to participate in the ceremony.

“The world is becoming smaller and more interdependent,” Dhondup said. “It’s important that Earthdance

Watch video coverage of Earthdance 2010 at theithacan.org.

From left, Tenzin Chosang and Tenzin Thutop chant an ancient Buddhist prayer Saturday at the Ithaca Earthdance celebration. The eight-hour event featured musical performances, communal prayer and dancing.

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delivers the message to people to work together and help one another.”

With the monastery in Ithaca serving as the Dalai Lama’s North American spiritual center, Haines said the Earthdance celebration exemplifies life in Central and Western New York and captures the aura of the area’s inhabitants.

“This is where spiritualism started in the 19th Century, where abolitionism started and, of course, the women’s rights movement,” Haines said. “We’re just carrying on that tradition.”

During the event, Tenzin Thutop, a monk at the monastery, delivered a statement from the Dalai Lama and

led a chant for spiritual unity.

“We all have a common goal and common responsibility to make a common effort to achieve peace,” the Dalai Lama’s statement read At exactly 7 p.m., following Thutop’s presentation, Diane Olden of the Foundation of Light spiritual center led the group in a nondenominational prayer. The crowd, sprawled out on blankets across the lawn, joined hands and echoed her words.

“As we join all dance floors across the world, let us connect heart to heart,” she said. “Through our diversity we recognize unity.”

Several Ithaca College students took part in Earthdance, including

sophomore Zack Turner, who said he heard about the event through the local fire spinning community. A fire spinner himself, Turner used his skills to entertain attendees. He said he enjoyed the laid-back atmosphere.

“I was really all about the prayer for peace,” Turner said. “It just seemed like a nice, small festival atmosphere.”

As far as Drumn is concerned, music is the only thing that has the power to unify a community, the nation or the world.

“It allows you to get through the layers of baggage and reach your heart and soul,” Drumn said. “We’re all atoms, the beautiful part is how we’re put together.”

Rochon discusses plan ic20/20 from page 1

define an Ithaca College-specific education, Rochon said.

One of the newest proposals in the plan is a Peer Learning Curriculum that would encourage students to stop their normal course of study for a few days each semester to take mini-courses in other schools.

“We thought [this would be] one of the ways to have students be able to explore more in their time here,” Woodward said. “In other words, to be able to go into schools they normally wouldn’t get into and to meet students and to learn a little bit about other fields they normally wouldn’t get to engage with.”

The curriculum objectives also expand on specialized living communities, including creating a required first-year residential community, an optional sophomore living community and housing for transfer students.

In an effort to bolster alumni-student relations and offer more opportunities for networking, Rochon said he also included a proposal that could create a networking program of alumni mentors for interested students.

“Many alumni have clamored for exactly this opportunity,” Rochon said. “We have not had a program to do that, and we haven’t had the technical ability to match up the interests of alumni with the interests of students. In the era of Facebook and IC Peers, finding those matches is far easier.”

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Over the next decade, Rochon said, the college’s commitment to faculty excellence will continue. The IC20/20 plan includes the formation of a Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, a department that would be staffed by professionals in faculty development, assessment, instructional design and technology and enrichment.

This isn’t the first time a department like this has been proposed. Last semester, Faculty Council debated whether hiring a new staff member to assess faculty would be effective.

“This is a much broader commitment to faculty development, especially focused on the demands for teaching excellence in a time where technology is changing fast,” Rochon said.

Rochon said funding for this project and all the projects of the vision would need to be drawn from new sources, including fundraising and a capital campaign.

DIVERSITY Coming off the heels of diversity initiatives like the “I Am Diverse” campaign, which focused on highlighting students’ racial, social and personal traits, and diversity listening sessions held last year on campus, the IC20/20 vision includes broad provisions and goals for fostering diversity at the college.

The plan includes an initiative that would “incorporate learning outcomes focused on diversity into every student’s program of study, through the major, minor, liberal education curriculum, graduation requirement or course electives, as well as through student life.”

The plan also states a goal to increase the number of international students and faculty and to encourage students to study abroad.

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT In the past, the college has hosted a number of conferences and workshops geared toward teaching faculty how to integrate service-oriented learning in their classes. With IC20/20 in place, the college would eventually create a Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement to direct community service initiatives in the classroom and in living communities on campus.

Citing the effectiveness of some existing learning communities, Rochon said having

From left, Interim Provost Greg Woodward and President Tom Rochon discuss the IC20/20 plan Monday in Rochon’s office. The draft was released to the campus community Tuesday.

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more specialized living communities on campus would benefit the student body. He said he visited the Spanish living community, Vecinos, and the Outdoor Adventure Living Community on Sunday. He said students gave positive feedback about their residence halls.

“The students in those living communities spoke eloquently about how being part of a themed residential experience added to their overall campus experience,” he said.

ASSESSMENT In the area of faculty assessment, the IC20/20 plan pulls from existing initiatives, stating the administration’s desire to continue in a similar vein with reviewing faculty performance through initiatives such as student evaluations at the end of every course.

GRADUATE LEARNING Continuing toward its goal for national recognition, the college will continue to expand its graduate studies programs.

In addition to considering more master’s programs with a fifth-year option for under-

graduate students, the plan would aim to strengthen online learning and professional development programs.

GLOBAL REACH The final section of the plan focuses on the national and international sphere of influence the college possesses. The college administration would consider the creation of an Ithaca College center in New York City while expanding existing centers in Rochester, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and London.

Woodward said the New York City center has been an ongoing topic of discussion.

“For years, there’s been conversations about the advantages of having our students … study in New York and take advantage of the resources there,” he said.

Rochon said the center would illustrate the broad goals of the entire plan.

“This is there not because it just sounds like a fun idea,” Rochon said. “It’s there because it connects to the biggest theme of this entire document — to focus student learning in ways that are integrative, applied and inquiry-based.”

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French face terrorist attack threat

The threat of a terrorist attack on French soil is at its highest as authorities suspect al-Qaida’s North African affiliate may be plotting a bomb attack on a crowded target, Frederic Pechenard, director of the country’s national police, said yesterday.

However, Pechenard told Europe-1 radio that reports of a female suicide bomber planning a Sept. 16 attack on the Paris Metro were “not so credible.”

The group, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb — which claimed responsibility for last week’s abduction of five French nationals and two Africans in northern Niger — is not thought to have the means to launch a nuclear or biological attack, but it is considered capable of targeted assassinations and attacks using conventional explosives, Pechenard said.

His comments came a day ahead of nationwide demonstrations against the government’s pension reform. A previous round of protests earlier this month brought more than 1 million people onto the streets of France, with hundreds of thousands taking part in demonstrations in Paris.

Pechenard said moderate Muslim figures could also be targets. The rector of the main Paris mosque, prominent moderate Dalil Boubakeur, was recently assigned armed guards. Pechenard did not name Boubakeur directly but indicated that several prominent personalities have been placed under increased security.

Last week, there was a false bomb alert at the Eiffel Tower, as well as a kidnapping of the five French workers and their two African colleagues in Niger.

Iran touts missile to warn Israel

Iran has displayed an advanced missile capable of reaching Israel at a military parade on the 30th anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war.

The solid-fuel Sajjil has the longest range of any missile in Iran’s arsenal, more than 1,250 miles.

Iran has dramatically accelerated its missile program in recent years, raising international concern that it could pose a threat to Israel and

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The first day of Sukkot, which began at sundown yesterday, will feature a Sukkah outside Muller Chapel, accessible to the campus community daily.

Sukkot is a Jewish fall harvest holiday that will last until Sept.

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

Welcome Back LGBTQA Community Potluck Dinner, sponsored by prism, Created Equal, the Association of Gay and Straight Student Athletes and Spectrum, will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. in Taughannock Falls Meeting Room.

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U.S.-allied Arab nations, including some that are home to American military bases.

Iran test fired an upgraded version of its Sajjil in December in part to demonstrate it could deter any military strike on its nuclear facilities.

US may offer Lebanon military aid

A senior Pentagon official said the Obama administration is “working closely” with members of the U.S. Congress to help restore military aid to Lebanon’s army.

U.S. Defense Undersecretary Michele Flournoy said yesterday during a trip to Lebanon that the United States is committed to supporting the country’s military.

In August, several U.S. lawmakers froze $100 million in military aid to Lebanon after expressing concerns the weapons could be turned on Israel and that Hezbollah may have influence over the Lebanese army.

But the Obama administration has made clear it wants the military aid to continue in the interest of America’s national security and Mideast stability.

Idol times

Indian Hindu devotees gather around a large statue of the Hindu God Ganesh on the way to immerse it in the Arabian Sea on the final day of the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi in Mumbai, India, yesterday. The festival is an annual 10-day celebration honoring the birth of Ganesh.

Afghan-NATO camp hit by attack

Insurgents attacked a NATO and Afghan army outpost in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, and at least 14 of the militants were killed in the resulting skirmish, officials said yesterday.

Troops at the combat outpost in the Spera district of Khost province returned fire with mortars late Tuesday, killing 14 insurgents, NATO said in a statement. Initial reports found there were no civilian casualties, the statement said.

Gen. Raz Mohmmad Horya Khil, a senior commander of the Afghan National Army in the province, said 29 insurgents were killed.

There were no casualties among NATO or Afghan troops, he said.

Horya Khil said the attack, coming from the Pakistan side of the border, was directed at the Mir Safar joint-NATO and Afghan army camp and lasted for more than two hours.

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any immediate steps to help the economy.

But the Fed also said Tuesday afternoon it was ready to jump in to support growth if it was needed. That is a likely indication the central bank will eventually restart a program to purchase Treasury bonds and mortgage bonds to drive interest rates lower and spark an increase in borrowing and spending.

The Fed bought bonds at the beginning of the year, which helped fuel growth as the economy came out of recession. But growth has stagnated as the Fed and other government programs aimed at lifting the economy ended.

Treasury prices climbed yesterday as investors grew more confident the Fed would become a bigger buyer in the bond market.

That drove interest rates lower.

Gold touched a new record as investors fled the dollar on the assumption the Fed’s eventual actions will lead to inflation, driving down the value of the currency.

Fed’s inaction slows stock sales

Stock futures edged lower yesterday as traders turned to buying Treasury bonds and gold after the Federal Reserve failed to take

A woman convicted of two hired killings is scheduled to die by injection today and become the first woman put to death in Virginia in nearly a century after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block her execution.

Teresa Lewis, 41, was sentenced to death for providing sex and money to two men to kill her husband and stepson in October 2002 so she could collect on a quarter-million dollar insurance pay out. The nation’s high court refused to intervene Tuesday.

Two of the three women on the court, justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, voted to stop the execution. The court did not otherwise comment on its order.

The court’s decision followed Gov. Bob McDonnell’s refusal to reconsider a clemency request, which he rejected Friday.

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

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

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A Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Ultimate Frisbee tournament for students and faculty will begin at 10:30 a.m. at Cass Park.

Meditation Minyan, a group meditation event sponsored by Hillel, will begin at 11 a.m. in Muller Chapel.

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monday

Applications to be Senior Week co-chairs for interested juniors are due by 5 p.m. to the Student Activities Center on the third floor of Egbert Hall.

The Society of Professional Journalists’ “How to become an entertainment reporter” session will be held at 7 p.m. in Park 220.

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The Office of Risk Management’s Driver Safety Class, required to drive college-owned or -leased vehicles, will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in Textor 103.

Register by calling 274-3285.

add your event Drop events for “This Week” in the marked box in The Ithacan office, or e-mail Assistant News Editor Taylor Long at tlong2@ithaca.edu by 5 p.m. Monday.

Last week it was reported that President Tom Rochon said, “These results will be kept from faculty and staff,” regarding the results of the Chronicle of High Education’s 2010 “Great Colleges to Work for Survey.”

Rochon did not say this.

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wednesday

“Laramie Inside Out,” about the 1988 murder of Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard, as part of the LGBT Center’s “Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen” series, will begin at 7 p.m. in Textor 103.

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

Amanda Brzezowski, Alexa d’Angelo, Shaza Elsheshtawy, Allie Fiete, Alyssa Frey, Dina Grimaldi, Rebecca Hellmich, Jillian Kaplan, Cady Lang, Kristin Leffler, Alexandra Leslie, Meagan McGinnes, Sandra Saldana, Carly Sitzer, Carly Smith, Marissa Smith, Maya Vulgaropulos, Vicky Wolak.

Designers Molly Apfelroth, Jen Segal, Flora Wang.

Multimedia Can’t get enough of our stories? There’s even more online.

Check out our multimedia at theithacan.org.

Video

Watch this week’s 1-on-1 with senior Rob Zappia, the starting quarterback for the football team.

Interactive Collage Take a look at an interactive collage of multimedia from Tom Tomorrow’s guest lecture last Thursday.

Video

See exclusive footage of performances from Saturday’s Earthdance 2010 in Danby.

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College hosts summit on energy future

By BECKY WEBSTER Senior Writer

Ithaca College served as the headquarters for a clean energy summit meant to discuss upstate New York’s energy policies Friday, drawing about 275 students, faculty, staff and businesspeople from the region.

The conference, called “Re-Imagining Upstate New York’s Energy Future,” offered attendees the chance to hear from panels, learn information about renewable energy companies and take tours of the college’s LEED-certified buildings.

A four-person panel discussion covered what a clean energy future could look like in New York state — tackling subjects such as clean energy technology, green jobs and successful green business development. The panel included Carol Murphy, executive director of the Alliance for Clean Energy; Patrice Courtney Strong, vice president of The Solar Energy Consortium; Paul Shatsoff, director of public policy and government relations for the Workforce Development Institute; and Patrick Doyle, director of business development for the Broome County Industrial Development Authority.

Shatsoff said New York state is in a new energy era in terms of its clean energy policies and the economic development opportunities in clean energy.

“We are in the middle of a tornado of change,” Shatsoff said. “We don’t know where things are going to settle.”

At the Workforce Development Institute, Shatsoff helps working families try to address issues like job training, creation of jobs and the effects of new technologies on the workforce. He said the new innovations and technologies created every day would continue to be developed in the power sector to help reduce the country’s dependence on fossil fuels.

“The same unexpected change will happen with energy,” he said. “Someone’s going to crack the problem.”

Doyle said while upstate New York is often given a negative “energy” image, there are plenty of companies working hard to make that positive change in the state’s energy dependence.

“We need to find innovative ways to re-brand upstate New York,” he said. “If you look around upstate, you can find all kinds of examples of various smart people in small companies doing interesting things, and we’ve got to find ways to tap into that.

We’ve got a good story to tell.”

A second panel discussion on the current developments in clean energy research featured

By elma gonzalez Contributing Writer

Patrick Doyle, director of business development for the Broome County Industrial Development Authority, spoke about New York state’s energy reputation at the summit Friday in Emerson Suites. james earl/the ithacan

Beth Ellen Clark Joseph, associate professor and chair of the college’s department of physics, as well as Alan Paau, executive director and vice provost for technology transfer and economic development at Cornell University’s Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization.

Attendees later listened to a keynote address by U.S. Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey, D-N.Y. Hinchey said New York state needed to continue to work to be a leader in renewable energy and green practices.

Marian Brown, special assistant to the provost and one of the event’s coordinators, said the summit was not only a way to foster discussion on how businesses can come together to create a better energy future for New York state, but also on how students can see what options they have to use their degrees after college.

“A bigger piece of it is being an educational host for the community,” Brown said. “It’s also to let our faculty and students know the possibilities. … [This summit] is for them to get a sense of what viable careers there are in this area.”

Junior Devan Johnson attended the conference with her Sustainability Principles and Practices class. She said it was important for students to attend because it offered insight into how people in

the area can be more efficient in their energy use.

“It’s important to learn about what kind of clean energy options there are out there and what people are doing to try and make things more sustainable,” she said.

Students also walked through the North Foyer outside Emerson Suites and spoke with company representatives from 16 local businesses and campus organizations on how they can use their degrees to rebuild the state’s energy future.

Senior Stephanie Piech, an environmental studies major at the college, helped host a table for the college’s Dining Services as part of her sustainability internship with the department.

Piech said the conference sessions, when paired with her experience working with a large corporation like Sodexo, has opened her eyes to new facets of sustainability, particularly at the corporate level.

“Its really interesting to see how sustainability is not just a grassroots movement,” she said.

Strong said it is important for people from all different backgrounds to feel they can join the energy sector.

“We are all at a loss unless we can speak each other’s languages,” she said. “Then we can all move forward together.”

Cultural programs kick off

By Thad Komorowski Staff Writer

Ithaca College’s Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity began celebrating its 10th anniversary with a performance by Latin percussionist Bobby Sanabria, titled “Cleave — The Key: A Rhythmic Journey from Africa to the New World,” on Monday, the first in a series of three events this semester.

The center was established in 1999 as an academic department featuring courses that teach how race and ethnicity help establish identity in an ever-changing multicultural world. It has worked ever since to bring speakers to campus to help fulfill that mission.

Monday’s performance wasn’t Sanabria’s first at the college. He came to the college in early 2000 as part of a CSCRE discussion series event titled “Reverberations: Music of the African Diaspora.”

Asma Barlas, director of the center, said CSCRE will feature old favorites of the discussion series in this semester’s lineup of events with a theme of “Centering the Margins.”

“To commemorate 10 years of the center’s existence, we wanted to do something as a retrospect, and we

Voter turnout peaks for SGA fall elections

wanted to bring some people who had come earlier,” Barlas said. “It’s a way of seeing where they are now and a way for them to see where our campus is now.”

Sanabria encouraged the audience to clap and sing along as he told the history of how his music came to America, saying that it unites everyone, no matter what race they are.

“Even people who don’t know much about music and aren’t particularly interested in the politics of the music are very taken by his performance,” Barlas said.

Senior Anna Button, who attended the event, said Sanabria surpassed her expectations.

“I’m not even a music student, but the rhythm really brought me into what he was saying,” Button said.

Cultural theorist Bell Hooks, who spoke at the college in 2001, will return as part of the discussion series Oct. 5. In her discussion “Talking Race: Ending Racism,” she will focus on heterosexism and race.

The Nov. 8 event, “Who We Are and Why We Do What We Do,” will feature presentations from the series planning committee, composed of faculty from the center.

Barlas will give a presentation about her recent research. Sean

Bobby Sanabria performs Monday in the Hockett Family Recital Hall to open the Center for Culture, Race and Ethnicity’s annual discussion series. parker chen/the ithacan

Eversley Bradwell, Paula Ioanide and Gustavo Licon, all assistant professors at the center, will also present.

Bradwell said he hopes the presentations will help solidify the center’s presence on campus.

“We thought it would be a good idea for the center faculty to discuss their work and how they see their role in Ithaca College’s curriculum,” Bradwell said.

Plans have not been finalized for next semester’s discussion series,

though Barlas said hip-hop musician DJ Spooky has been confirmed as one of the guests for the spring.

Ioanide said the series will offer those attending a chance to take part in discussions and discourse they might not otherwise get involved in.

“The benefit to the student population is, of course, not just critical thinking, but also challenging assumptions ... that may change the way we understand and perceive the world in which we live,” she said.

The Student Government Association has ended its fall semester senatorial elections with a voter turnout almost double what it experienced this past spring.

About 18 percent of eligible voters cast ballots for their chosen candidates last week, as compared with about 10 percent in the spring, senior Kevin Fish, SGA president, said.

Fish said this is the largest voter turnout FISH said SGA SGA has in its was pleased with the increase in records. voter turnout.

Eight of the 10 available senate positions were filled. Senate seats representing the School of Music and graduate studies are still open.

Colette Heefner secured the final senate seat for the class of 2011. Elma Borcilo won the remaining junior class senate seat.

Lindsey Smith, Robert Hohn, Justin Pyron and Courtney Brown will represent the freshman class. Sophomore Shelby Smith will be the senator for the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies, and junior Albert Roy will be the transfer student senator.

All sophomore senate seats were filled in the spring elections.

Hohn said he decided to run because he participated in student government at his high school in Long Island. One of his proposals for election was the “beautification” of Ithaca College.

“A lot of the Ithaca campus other than the northwest part near the Peggy Ryan Williams building is bland, and there are no flowers, no benches,” he said.

“So I want to see if we can get any sort of funding from the administration … or some kind of club or anything started.”

Polls showed about 28 percent of the freshman class voted online during elections, while 15 percent of seniors, 13 percent of juniors, 4 percent of transfer students and 16 percent of DIIS students voted, Fish said.

Senior Julia Dunn, SGA vice president of communications, said the choice to make SurveyMonkey the host website this year instead of Votenet — the website used last year — contributed to the increase in voters. SurveyMonkey’s ease of use made the election process smoother, Dunn said.

Fish said the board made the switch after discovering it was much more cost-efficient.

Previously, SGA elections cost $10,000 each year. With the new site, $200 will be spent per semester, he said.

Fish said the executive board will work to market elections even more in the future.

“I have now made it one of my priorities,” he said. “We are going to make elections a big thing. Look out for spring semester because the elections are going to be quite the spectacle.”

Students interested in the open senate seats should contact Julia Dunn at jdunn1@ithaca.edu.

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By Katherine Alexander Contributing Writer

The first time sociology lecturer John Muschko walked into a classroom at Ithaca College, he said he was surprised to be greeted by a room full of students who were eager and excited to learn.

Muschko, who used to teach at Good Hope Group Homes, Inc., a detention facility with locations in Mecklenburg and Cortland, N.Y., said he hasn’t always had such an attentive audience. In his old position, students’ behavioral issues often forced him to act as more of a counselor and psychologist than a teacher.

"Certainly it's noble work, but it was also exhausting," Muschko said. "Every day it's a struggle, but you struggle to find that one glimmer of hope."

Originally from Paterson, N.J., Muschko was hired at the college this fall. In addition to his position at the detention facility, Muschko said he has also taught at Tompkins-Cortland Community College where he currently teaches two sections of Introduction to Sociology.

This semester he is teaching two sections of Contemporary Social Issues at the college.

Muschko said he is drawn to the dynamics of the area and is enjoying being a part of the college’s faculty.

“The students want more,” Muschko said. “I have to bring my A-game every day. It’s a vibrant place. It leaves an indelible mark on anybody who spends time here.”

Muschko said Judith Barker, associate professor of sociology, heavily influenced his decision to begin teaching at the college.

“She inspired me not only as an educator but as a person," he said.

Barker met Muschko 18 years ago when a friend of hers brought him to Barker's house. The two immediately bonded when they discovered that they had a mutual love for science fiction and began discussing how creating a unique world from scratch was connected to sociological principles.

“Basically we both read what science fiction calls the world-building authors,” Barker said. “To me they're kind of like lay sociologists. That is how we sort of started talking, and that’s how it eventually got connected to sociology. The writers actually create another society. To me, that's sociologically fascinating.”

When a position as a lecturer opened at the college, Barker said she encouraged Muschko to apply. “[Muschko] enjoys what he teaches,” Barker said. “He is intellectually stimulated by what he does.”

Whenever the subject turns to sociology, particularly issues of social justice, Muschko becomes animated and his speech takes on an enthusiastic tone. Freshman Tommy Burchill, a student of Muschko’s, said Muschko’s actions in the classroom convey that he wants to pass his enthusiasm for sociology on to others.

“The class is definitely not boring,” Burchill said. “[Muschko] likes to get everyone involved and not just talk at us the entire time.”

Muschko said he tries to create an interactive learning environment.

Most of his classes aren't lectures, but open-ended class discussions that focus on the personal experiences of

Sociology lecturer John Muschko leads a class discussion in his Contemporary Social Issues class Sept. 13. Muschko, a new member of Ithaca College's Sociology Department, will teach two sections of a lecture class this semester.

students. Sometimes Muschko asks students to arrange desks into a circle or break out into small groups, but no matter what activity he plans for the day, Muschko rarely stands still.

Muschko is also taking advantage of technological options available at the college, like Blackboard, in an effort to facilitate class discussion. After each lecture he posts the PowerPoint slides and notes from discussion.

Burchill said this allows students to actively participate in class instead of

struggling to jot down notes.

When he’s outside of the classroom, Muschko works out regularly, joking that going to the gym is cheaper than paying for a psychiatrist.

After a long workweek, Muschko uses his time at the gym as a form of release. Muschko also said he tends to a garden regularly.

Muschko said he's uncertain of what the future holds, but he plans to take advantage of any opportunity to stay at the college. Calling

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himself a lifelong student, Muschko said he hopes to continue to take classes to satisfy his appetite for knowledge. In the meantime, he said he has high aspirations for this year and what it will bring.

“I hope to see the times that occur when you realize a student had a moment of realization, of understanding,” Muschko said.

“Creating moments — that’s what I feel sociology allows you to do with increased frequency.”

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Counseling Center runs program as training for crisis intervention

By Brian Rank Staff writer

LeBron Rankins, a psychologist at the Center for Counseling and Psychological Services, has spearheaded an initiative to educate the Ithaca College community about distress and suicide. Last year Rankins founded the Pathways program to foster mental health crisis prevention and intervention.

The training is a one-time session during which participants learn how to identify a person in distress and direct him or her to seek RANKINS said participants will be proper assistance.

Staff Writer Brian Rank taught to perceive spoke to Rankins about distress in others.

Pathways and its benefits for the campus.

Brian Rank: What does the Pathways program do for the community?

LeBron Rankins: Pathways is IC’s brand of what we call gatekeeper training. Those who interact with people who are most likely to know who is in distress are the ones who are the gatekeepers, and the gatekeepers help connect people to the folks who can help them. It’s our belief that if those who are most directly connected with others who might be in distress know what to do ... then we can eliminate the likelihood that a crisis is going to occur.

BR: What do participants learn in the training?

LR: One of the things we teach is helping participants in the training recognize ways in which their own fear might get in the way of reaching out to somebody. Nobody wants to mess up. Nobody wants to do it wrong.

No one wants to make the situation worse,

and those are some very real fears that people talk about. … We talk about signs and symptoms of someone who might be in distress; we talk about how to approach people in such a way that it builds one’s sense of confidence in doing so. Also, it results in the likelihood that the person in distress is more likely to get connected with the help and resources [they need].

BR: What resources for help are the participants expected to find?

LR: Obviously one of the most natural resources is the Counseling Center, but it may be an issue that might be better served in the Health Center, or it might be something that might be better served by a chaplain or Career Services. So just helping students become aware of the different resources available to them can minimize the stress individuals have [when] noticing someone who might be in distress but [who] might be kind of anxious about stepping forward.

BR: What are your expectations for Pathways?

LR: One of the challenges we’ve faced is making the training available for people thinking, “Oh, I’ll do that later” — until a crisis happens. Last year at Cornell, there were three suicides within a month’s period. When the training happened following that, people asked, “Is this a response to the suicides?” No, this training has been ongoing. It’s off people’s radar until a crisis happens. The goal of it is increasing much more awareness about that and the importance of being prepared to help someone before a crisis happens.

For more information about the program and to sign up for a session, visit the Pathways website at www.ithaca.edu/sacl/counseling/pathways.

Making their mark

Sophomore Reisy Veloz signs her name on a mural to honor Latino Heritage Month on Friday in Campus Center. The African-Latino Society asked students to decorate the mural and will hang it in the ALS room in the West Tower lobby to increase awareness of the monthlong celebration.

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College & City Fair to introduce students to post-graduate options The Office of Career Services

will hold its 12th annual Professional and Graduate School Fair from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the North Foyer of Campus Center and in Emerson Suites.

More than 130 graduate and professional schools will send representatives to the event to offer general information about their respective programming and the application process.

This year representatives from many different degree programs will be there, including business, law and communications schools. Ithaca College Graduate and Professional studies will also send representatives to the event.

A complete listing of those scheduled to attend the 2010 Graduate and Professional School Fair is listed at www.ithaca.edu/sacl.

Immediately following the fair from 7:30 to 9 p.m., panelists will be on hand to answer questions regarding the application process for law school in Clark Lounge, medical school in Klingenstein Lounge and all other graduate school programs in the Ithaca Falls Room.

Conference to highlight chronic disease treatment This year’s Gerentology Institute

Annual Conference will begin at 8 a.m. Thursday in Emerson Suites and focus on new management and treatment of chronic diseases.

Dr. Dennis McCullough, associate professor of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, will deliver the

keynote address. McCullough, a graduate of Harvard College, authored “My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing ‘Slow Medicine,’” a book about his aging mother.

To register, contact Marilyn Kinner at mkinner@ithaca.edu or visit www.ithaca.edu/gps.

ITS to stop e-mail services for critical maintenance E-mail services will be unavail-

able from 5 p.m. Friday to 7 a.m.

Saturday, according to an Intercom announcement from Information Technology Services.

During this time, ITS will perform critical maintenance on the e-mail system. E-mail accounts will be inaccessible for the duration of the maintenance.

Incoming e-mail messages will be queued and delivered when the e-mail servers are back online.

Contact ITS with questions or concerns at helpdesk@ithaca.edu or call 274-1000.

Professor delivers paper at seminar for composer Les Black, associate professor

of music history, theory and composition at Ithaca College’s School of Music, presented a paper at the Fifth International Jean Sibelius Conference, in celebration of the Finnish Composer, at Worchester HANGER College in Oxford, England.

The conference began Friday and ended Monday.

The paper, “Musical Narrative as a Tale of the Forest in Sibelius’s Opus 114,” was selected along with several others also presented at the conference to be part of a future conference report.

Another paper, “Symmetry as Modal Abstraction: The Evolving Language of Sibelius’ Violin Concerto,” which Black presented at the 2005 conference, will be included in the book, “Sibelius in the Old and New World” and is the third in the series of papers.

Professor to read essays from book at local store

Anthony DiRenzo, associate professor of writing at Ithaca College, will read from his latest book, “Bitter Greens: Essays on Food, Politics, and Ethnicity,” at 3 p.m.

Saturday in the Imperial Kitchen of Buffalo Street Books downtown.

“Bitter Greens” explores the re- DIRENZO lationship between Italian food and imperialism in America.

DiRenzo teaches professional writing and classical rhetoric at the college. His work has appeared in several publications including “Best American Essays” of 2000, Syracuse Scholar, Cottonwood Magazine, Voices in Italian Americana, and The Normal School.

This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing.

For directions and information on the reading, contact Buffalo

Public Safety Incident Log September 9 CRIMINAL TRESPASS LOCATION: Garden Apartments SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person entered apartment at 6:30 a.m.

Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury.

DAMAGED VEHICLE LOCATION: Circle Lot 9 SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown driver damaged a parked vehicle and left the scene. Incident occurred between 10 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Sept.

10. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury.

COLLEGE REGULATIONS LOCATION: Terraces SUMMARY: Three people judicially referred for violation of college regulations. Patrol Officer Jeffrey Austin.

MVA/PROPERTY DAMAGE LOCATION: State Route 96B SUMMARY: Caller reported car/deer MVA. Officer reported deer was deceased. Patrol Officer Jeffrey Austin.

UNLAWFUL POSS. OF MARIJUANA LOCATION: East Tower SUMMARY: Two people judicially referred for unlawful possession of marijuana.

Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

September 10 FIRE ALARM LOCATION: Center for Natural Sciences SUMMARY: Fire accidentally activated by a popped balloon. System reset. Fire Protection Specialist Mark Swanhart.

marijuana in the fourth degree from an incident Aug. 26 in the East Tower. Person judicially referred and issued a ticket of appearance for Town of Ithaca Court.

Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

TRESPASS LOCATION: Gannett Center SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person entered an office and used a computer. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Steven Yaple.

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UNLAWFUL POSS. OF MARIJUANA LOCATION: Circle Apartments SUMMARY: Person judicially referred for unlawful possession of marijuana, underage possession of alcohol with intent to consume and a noise violation.

Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

IRRESPONSIBLE USE OF ALCOHOL LOCATION: Dillingham Center SUMMARY: Person transported to CMC by ambulance and judicially referred for irresponsible use of alcohol. Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

EXPOSURE OF PERSON LOCATION: Terraces SUMMARY: One person judicially referred for indecent conduct. Security Officer Michael Corp.

UNDERAGE POSS. OF ALCOHOL LOCATION: Terraces SUMMARY: Person judicially referred for underage possession of alcohol. Security Officer Michael Corp.

UNLAWFUL POSS. OF MARIJUANA LOCATION: Holmes Hall SUMMARY: Four people judicially referred for unlawful possession of marijuana.

Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

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

UNDERAGE POSS. OF ALCOHOL LOCATION: Circle Lot 10 SUMMARY: Person judicially referred for underage possession of alcohol. Security Officer Michael Corp.

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

CASE STATUS CHANGE LOCATION: Office of Public Safety SUMMARY: Officer reported one person was arrested for criminal sale of

Donation to fund program to study canine genome Cornell University College of

Veterinary Medicine will create the world’s first canine genomics program with an anonymous $10 millon donation. The donation, the largest ever received by the university, was contributed by a University Trustee.

The program will be used to increase scientists’ understanding of cancer and other diseases that attack animals through DNA sequencing. The money will also fund the creation of a DNA bank and support endowed professorships and faculty scholarships.

The proposed DNA Bank, an archive of genetic and medical information defining inherited diseases, also has the potential to help doctors understand human illnesses.

Professors deliver lecture at psychology convention Professor Barney Beins and Associate Professor Jeff Holmes of Ithaca College’s psychology department participated in a symposium on psychology students’ scientific literacy at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in San Diego.

The symposium, “Psychology, psychology students and scientific literacy: Implications for teaching,” connected psychology curriculum, students’ interests and the creation of scientific literacy in students as they progress through the department of psychology’s curriculum.

Lecturer travels to Africa for immersion experience Michelle Berry, a lecturer in the

department of strategic communication, served as a researcher, presenter and marketing consultant for CouldYou?’s immersion experience in South Africa and Mozambique.

From Aug. 8 to 18, Berry met with village chiefs to analyze problems with inadequate water and food supplies and BERRY helped with a variety of projects in the area.

CouldYou? is an organization led by executive director Christine Garde and designed to help citizens, scholars, entrepreneurs and investors contribute to the fight against poverty from an Africanled perspective. Participants are encouraged to use their strengths to have a positive impact.

For more information, e-mail Berry at mberry@ithaca.edu.

Credit cards to be taken for some mail shipments The Phillips Hall Post Office and

the Mail Center announced Tuesday that they will begin accepting Visa, MasterCard and Discover credit cards for shipments sent by FedEx or UPS. The United States Postal Service contract station operated at Phillips Hall currently only accepts cash or checks for stamp sales, shipments and special services.

Contact Mail Services at 274-3371 with questions.

selected entries from September 9 to September 11

CRIMINAL MISCHIEF LOCATION: Unknown SUMMARY: Officer reported an unknown person damaged a vehicle. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Mark Denicola.

UNLAWFUL POSS. OF MARIJUANA LOCATION: Emerson Hall SUMMARY: Two people judicially referred for unlawful possession of marijuana.

Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury.

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Measuring satisfaction The college was not ranked in a survey of great workplaces.

Help The Ithacan find out why.

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his year, Ithaca College decided to participate in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Great Colleges to Work For” survey to better assess employee satisfaction. When the results were released, the college was not listed as a great college to work for.

While President Tom Rochon said the results from the survey will not be released to the public, a 2005 Quality of Work Life survey conducted by Suzanne Forsyth Associates noted that the college needed improvement in management, human resources orientation and supervisor conduct. In the past few years, employees have also voiced their discontent with not having a day care on campus for their children, like neighboring institutions do. Also, for decades, unions have continuously been shut out by the college.

The Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce recently recognized the college for its working facilities, commitment to sustainability and outreach to the community. Now the college needs to focus on fixing the problems in the work environment. Rochon and his administration are urged to release the results of the survey so employees know where the discontent lies. If the community is told how employees ranked the college in areas such as job satisfaction, tenure clarity and diversity, there could be an open space for discussion and improvement.

In the next week, The Ithacan will post a link to a survey on Intercom for administrators, faculty and staff to participate in. We will be asking how employees feel about benefits, college support, facilities, the tenure process and more. Responses will be anonymous, but college employees are urged not to be afraid to speak up about their dissatisfaction.

The Ithacan encourages all employees at the college to participate in the survey. The results will be released to the public. By participating in The Ithacan’s survey, the college community can discuss how to become a great college to work for.

Vacant no More College successfully turned empty space into a sophisticated student environment

The newest hot spot at Ithaca College was nothing but vacant space a couple of months ago. But the college has successfully turned the empty floor into a well-used student space now known as tc lounge.

In May 2009, the Tower Club restaurant closed because of financial difficulties and a drop in customers. Students, who would have had to pay or use their bonus bucks, rarely ventured up to the 14th floor of East Tower. Last year, the space was empty — used only for an occasional banquet when needed. But this year the space has been turned into a café and lounge where students can study, meet friends or enjoy a coffee and dessert. The lounge is open from 8 p.m. to midnight — an ideal time and alternative for when La Vincita closes and Late Night at the Towers Dining Hall is too crowded.

When the Tower Club closed, the college said it wanted to place the restaurant’s budget in student programs. The college successfully met that goal with tc lounge. Students at the college always need a space to study and meet up with friends. The tc lounge, with baristas and busboys, gives the students that, along with the sophisticated atmosphere of an off-campus coffee shop still on campus.

Workers in tc lounge have said they have seen a steady amount of students — a sign that this is what students wanted. The college is encouraged to continue looking into ways to better the student environment.

your letters

Leave technology out of classes

The world today moves so fast that at times it’s hard to keep up. We as a generation of college students are the masters of motion. The motto has become fast, fast, fast and it seems we can no longer get stimulated unless we’re facing multiple obstacles. This is how technology has shaped my generation.

But the classroom is a place where we can and should slow it down. The classroom is a setting for debate and a place to challenge new ideas. It is a place where an individual identity can be carved through the analysis of one’s beliefs. Too often, though, I see my fellow students slunk behind their computers in the middle of class. In turn, the discussion gets lost and a type of submissive learning takes its place. The teacher becomes the holder of all knowledge, and the student becomes the consumer of what the teacher feels they need to know.

We have transformed the college classroom from a learning center to a training center and have lost the very aspect of what college is. I say let’s leave the technology out and return to classroom 1.0, where the real learning takes place.

Matthew Carolan ’11

Glenn Beck speaks falsehoods

In a Sept. 16 guest commentary, Brandon Kurtz wrote, “While [Glenn] Beck’s style is unique and his passion can often be overwhelming, his facts are solid. Very rarely are they actually challenged by his critics. … See how many of his facts you can legitimately debunk.”

Beck’s falsehoods: “The government is trying to close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings.”

Less than 10 percent of Obama’s Cabinet appointees “have any experience in the private sector.”

“In the health care bill, we’re now offering insurance for dogs.”

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“Forty-five percent of doctors say they’ll quit if health care reform passes.”

John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, “has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population.”

“Why do we have automatic citizenship upon birth? We’re the only country in the world that has it.”

Beck compared White House adviser Van Jones to Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini.

He said White House communications director Anita Dunn is a Maoist. Beck compared a “Good Morning America” report on his Restoring Honor rally to Nazi propaganda: “That’s what Goebbels did.” Beck said President Barack Obama has a “deep-seated hatred for white people.”

Truthfulness? Or ridiculousness?

Robert Schroeder ’08

SGA to focus on communication

The Student Government Association Executive Board would like to respond to statements in the “Snap Judgment” section of the Sept. 9 issue. We also felt the SGA was detached from the student body in general, which is a major issue since we are a representative organization. This year we created a new Facebook page, Twitter page, MyHome group, updated IC Link group and website to better communicate. We are also holding several meetings in IC Square to encourage people to come and learn about what we’re doing.

Our website also features a new blog called “From the Community.” We accept students’ e-mails and reports of concerns they have about the community, post them to our blog and respond to them with as much information as possible. We are focusing on outreach and communication this year, and if you have suggestions for how we can improve, please contact us at sga@ithaca.edu.

Initiatives we plan to focus on include

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improving school spirit, promoting both athletics and the arts, improving campus accessibility, increasing healthy food options, increasing the amount of outlets in the pub, improving parking policy for students and making progress on our current shuttle proposal. We want to clear the air and make sure the student body knows we are actively listening and making our best effort to improve transparency and to communicate more effectively.

Julia Dunn ’11 Vice President of Communications

Students use vegetarian options

Thank you for showcasing the increasing ease and popularity of vegetarian and vegan eating (“Running on green,” Sept. 16). As a vegetarian and a recent college graduate, I can attest to how helpful it is to have tasty, nutritious vegetarian options available on and near campus. A recent survey conducted by ARAMARK found that 30 percent of college students seek out vegetarian options when dining on campus. When there are abundant plant-based options available, we can all make the choice to stand up for animals every time we sit down to eat. Learn more at TryVeg.com.

Max Fischlowitz-Roberts Communications Coordinator of Compassion Over Killing

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Guest commentary

Death penalty makes redemption impossible

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elow is an excerpt from a chapter of the memoir “Dead to Deliverance: A Death Row Memoir” written by Steven Champion, a former member of the Crips street gang who is on death row. Tom Kerr, associate professor of writing at Ithaca College, edited and published the book.

The public, with its hunger for revenge, does not want to hear about personal acts of atonement by people who have been sentenced for a crime. Acts of atonement by the condemned are usually viewed as a ploy to save his or her own life — not as a Steven genuine act of redemption.

Champion People on death row are deemed the lowest of the low. Many people believe death-row prisoners cannot be “reformed” because they are “unformed” as human beings. Executing the condemned is not viewed the same as killing a human — it is chalked up to society’s attempt to rid itself of its toxic waste.

Proponents of capital punishment freeze condemned-to-die criminals at the worst moments of their lives; to justify their execution, they must be barred from redemption. But history is full of individuals who have made major mistakes but manage to turn their lives around and make significant contributions to humanity.

Many religious people have mixed emotions about whether a murderer can be redeemed. But when it comes to biblical figures like Moses, King David and Saint Paul, they are quick to make exemptions. In fact, these figures are highly revered around the world precisely because society has determined that their contributions to humanity outweigh their crimes.

Why are some people worthy of redemption while others are denied it? Why are death-row prisoners damned as unrepentant criminals incapable of transforming their lives? Redemption is not reserved for some. Redemption is a road map for reconnecting to one’s humanity. If redemption

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is not meant for people who have lost their way and hit rock bottom, then the word ought to be stricken from every dictionary. Redemption means regaining something you have lost through improving your life. Many people, in and out of prison, never atone for anything; they go to their graves defiant and unrepentant. A person who has the courage to look within himself and decide to transform his life ought to be encouraged, if not applauded.

Some recent recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize were not always seen as champions of peace.

In 2001, both Nelson Mandela and Frederik de Klerk became Nobel Peace Prize laureates. De Klerk was the head of an apartheid government that openly oppressed, discriminated against and murdered blacks, and considered Mandela a terrorist. Mandela once headed the guerrilla wing of the African National Congress, which believed in armed violence. In 1994, both Yitzhak Rabin and

Yasser Arafat were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.

Prior to receiving the Nobel Prize, Arafat was labeled a terrorist. Yitzhak Rabin was prime minister of Israel and sanctioned violence against the Palestinians. All of these people were viewed unfavorably in their lifetimes, but were able to transcend their mistakes — because society accepted the fact that they were not the sum total of their mistakes.

No one is.

The transformative power of redemption can change anyone who is sincere about changing. It makes no difference if a person lives in a temple in Tibet, an ashram in India or a prison cell on death row. Your location should not diminish the value of your redemption.

Steven Champion has been on California’s death row for 28 years, since he was 18 years old.

Guest commentary

Dialogue on Middle East conflict needs to continue

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y interest in the Israel/Palestine conflict began in an International Relations class in which we briefly touched on the debacle that is the Middle East.

I was both fascinated and frustrated with the complexity of the issue.

The human rights violaKatie tions commitZimmerman ted by both parties were infuriating.

There have been six unsuccessful attempts at a peace agreement in my lifetime, and I was baffled by why so many quests for peace had failed on a political level.

The topic of Israel and Palestine provokes controversy and tension regardless of where it is discussed and who is discussing. Emotions surrounding the topic vary, including anger, aggression, frustration, indifference, interest, sadness, despair and humiliation. With the current Middle East peace talks going on, Israel/Palestine is once again a topic that no one can escape.

During my career at Ithaca College, I’ve noticed ebbs and flows in the discussion and action around Israel/Palestine. One semester, everyone is talking. The next semester, there is activism and retaliation.

The next semester, there is silence.

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Then-sophomore Chris Zivalich leads a group of students protesting the Israeli Independence Day celebration April 19 on the Fitness Center Quad.

There should never be silence — silence is just as dangerous as aggression. Silence means people are too scared, indifferent or angry to discuss the issue, and this reinforces the cycle of a seemingly unsolvable conflict. What the college lacks is a healthy, continuous dialogue about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

As students, we all need to have a healthy dialogue, even though it’s such a loaded subject. For starters, students shouldn’t talk about Israel and Palestine if they don’t know anything about it.

It’s OK not to know very much

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about the conflict or nothing at all. It takes self-restraint and confidence to admit that we don’t know everything about today’s hottest topic. In situations where students are asked an opinion, they shouldn’t make one up.

They shouldn’t be afraid to admit that they don’t know and that they want to learn more. The way to fix this is to do research. Watch the news and read newspapers and books about the issue. Using independent media and alternative news sources is ideal because we all know how American media is sometimes skewed.

A healthy dialogue continues

when we ask questions about the situation, instead of asserting our opinions. Everyone has their own opinion, and it can be interesting and beneficial to hear what other people have to say. But opinions are not fact. Knowing what people think can be important in expanding knowledge and personal opinion, but always take other views with a grain of salt.

There seems to be a lack of panels and speakers brought to the college.

And when there are lectures, only a handful of students show up to the events. For more dialogue, students need to attend these to be exposed to different viewpoints.

Students also need to not react so quickly or irrationally when discussing Israel and Palestine. It’s easy to get personally and emotionally invested in the issue but this detracts from having a healthy dialogue about the conflict and possible solutions. We need to be open-minded and excited to hear what others have to say. We need to do just as much listening as we do talking.

Talking and being active about this conflict is important, but it is necessary that these actions and dialogue are healthy. Educate yourself, stay open-minded and have a good debate.

Katie Zimmerman is a senior planned studies major. E-mail her at kzimmer1@ithaca.edu

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

used to be king of the playground in middle school. But now, thanks to the combination of technological advances, the development of mobile apps and I guess inevitable maturity, I’ve been knocked from my throne and reduced to a mere mayor, as far as Foursquare is concerned.

Arguably the fastest growing social presence on the Internet — sorry, Twitter — Foursquare is expanding more rapidly than my waistline at a Chinese food buffet. In its most recent launch, Foursquare is taking an aim at a specific demographic that has embraced this latest tech trend: college students.

In a recent effort to attract new users, the company rolled out its “Foursquare for Universities Program” to 20 schools across the country. This new program is geared toward encouraging students to use Foursquare as a way to develop better communication between alumni and staff, in addition to sharing information about campus news.

With several universities — like Harvard, Stanford and Syracuse — already adopting this check-in incentive, this could potentially serve as the long-lost motivating factor I need to get to the library and accomplish my work — not that several hundred pages of reading aren’t motivation enough.

I’ll admit it. “Hi, my name is Andrew, and I’m an avid user of Foursquare.” Yes, I’m the Mayor of Moonies and Ameritalia, and I’m not quite sure what that says about me. I’m still trying to figure out how the service is practical across a college campus.

I can rationalize how services like Twitter can benefit professors in a classroom setting, but as far as Foursquare is concerned, my teachers don’t need to know when I unlock the “School Night” badge for checking in at Wegmans after 3 a.m. on a weekday.

There are universities that are taking the necessary steps to incorporate check-ins into student life. Syracuse offers its students up to a 30 percent discount off of collegiate clothing in their bookstore Mondays after football games, simply for checking in there.

It’s these digital badges that are all the rage right now on the Internet. I’m the proud owner of 17 on Foursquare. But there’s something inherently cheap about giving me a digital image for my travels when I didn’t spend a minute of my time walking anywhere.

Foursquare is an addiction — considering I don’t remember how many trips I took to Rogan’s Corner in hopes of becoming the mayor. But in terms of Foursquare’s practical application, we need to check out the pros and cons and get back to square one — literally.

andrew weiser is a senior journalism major. E-mail him at aweiser1@ithaca.edu

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Ladies on campus earn cash and experience at pageants From left, freshmen Michela Moe and Lauren Crandall and junior Morgan O’Brien Bocciolatt pose in pageant “T-stance” in Textor Hall on Sunday.

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by Alexandra Palombo Senior Writer

For freshman Lauren Crandall, beauty pageants aren’t always glamorous. In fact, parts of them are downright painful.

“You have to glue [the bikini] on,” Crandall said. “I got home, and my underwear was stuck to my butt. My mother had to use Goo Gone and rip it off. I was bleeding.”

But she said the pain was worth it. As the winner of Miss Fonda Fair 2009 — a county fair pageant for women in Fulton and Montgomery counties in New York — Crandall butt-glued, sang and strutted her way to more than $1,000 in scholarship money in one pageant.

Crandall is one of a few women at Ithaca College who use pageants as a way to earn scholarship money. And the pageants are lucrative:

Freshman Michela Moe dances the hula at Miss Hawaii 2010.

according to Shelby Cohen, the director of Miss Thousand Islands, the Miss America Organization gives out more than $40 million in scholarships sent straight to colleges every year and provides young women confidence to succeed in the future.

“We really do encourage the educational endeavors of our contestants, and that really is the mission of the organization,” Cohen said. “Yes, absolutely, it is a beauty pageant.

They are judged on beauty … but all the rewards are given out in scholarship form, and a very high emphasis is placed on education.”

For Crandall and junior Morgan O’Brien Bocciolatt, who won Miss Thousand Islands 2011, a preliminary to Miss New York, their pageant stints began when their friends suggested they try them to network and make money for college.

Freshman Michela Moe won Miss Maui 2010, a preliminary contest to Miss Hawaii. She started competing — with her talent of hula dancing — in pageants after a

Senior Susannah Faulkner competes in Miss Pennsylvania USA.

courtesy of Michela moe

courtesy of Susannah Faulkner

“More so than preparing me teacher suggested it.

She said pageants have helped for college, it’s helped even more her make friends, not just in her in job searching and professionhometown. Moe met Crandall on IC alism as a whole,” Bocciolatt said.

Peers and bonded over their com- “You have amazing life experiences that you probably wouldn’t mon hobby. Now, they live together.

Bocciolatt, whose talent is have had before. I can’t even exsinging, said she continues to do press all of the benefits I’ve really pageants not only for the money had from pageantry.”

Bocciolatt will compete in the but also for the rush of winning.

“You really can’t believe it,” she Miss New York pageant this June, which is schedsaid. “It’s the uled so contesgreatest feeling.” tants don’t need But before to miss class.

Bocciolatt Bocciolatt said could win the the Miss Americrown, she had ca Organization to go through values educathe press contion and expects ference- style its contestants personal in— Freshman Lauren Crandall to do the same. terview.

For Crandall 10 minutes, several judges ask the contestants said education helps women to questions ranging from personal be confident in their own views — something that is crucial for a to trivial.

Moe, like Bocciolatt, said she pageant contestant.

“Being able to answer on your found this process stressful.

“One second the question was, feet with no time to prepare defi‘What is your take on the current nitely helps your confidence to issue of the oil spill?’” Moe said. grow,” Crandall said.

Senior Susannah Faulkner “And right after answering that, it was, ‘Are your eyes really blue?’ competed in and won Miss Erie You never know. And that’s the County 2008, a preliminary to Miss Pennsylvania USA. This nerve-wracking part.”

She said after the first inter- pageant is sponsored by the Miss view, though, she was more com- USA Organization. Though the fortable with the judges and the competition is a beauty pageant, contestants still participate in the process itself.

“Once you get in there, you interview process.

Faulkner said the experience know you can be yourself,” she said. “And as long as you’re con- helped her learn more about herself.

“Pageants helped me realize fident, then you’re OK. I felt so much more prepared for the Miss that I can truly do anything I set Hawaii interview. It’s just like my mind on,” Faulkner said.

After the interviews are done, you’re talking with friends.”

Bocciolatt, a communication the “beauty” segment begins. management and design major, Contrary to popular belief, not said the interviews have given all contestants spend thousands her the confidence to go into the of dollars on their gowns. Moe had her mother sew her talworking world.

“I mean, what other hobby do you walk around on stage in a swimsuit? ”

ent costume and evening gown.

Crandall found hers on eBay and said spending money for a small scholarship doesn’t make sense.

“I buy all my stuff secondhand,” Crandall said. “We do it for money options. You don’t want to put in more than you can get out.”

Contestants have a limited time to get ready for shows.

Bocciolatt said the majority of women in the Miss America pageants don’t have a “glam squad” to help them prepare. They usually have two hours to get themselves ready, sometimes less.

“I actually had a hostess zip me into a dress using her teeth this year because it’s so fast-paced and crazy in the dressing room,” Bocciolatt said.

On stage, the girls display their bodies in the swimsuit competition. Crandall said the bathing suit portion is actually empowering.

“I mean, what other hobby do you walk around on stage in a swimsuit?” Crandall said. “That changed me. You need that confidence in order to succeed.”

At the end, the judges name a winner – a moment Bocciolatt said is “surreal.” While she didn’t expect to react like the stereotypical pageant girl, she did get emotional when was crowned — she didn’t even know where to go when her name was called.

“I was laughing and crying,” she said. “Honestly, I didn’t know what to do when they told me to walk.”

The benefits of pageants last longer than the titles earned.

Crandall said because of pageants she knows more about how to prepare for her future career.

“I’m able to walk into a room and answer questions about really difficult subjects,” she said. “By overprepping in the pageant interview, job interviews are easier.”

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Hot or Not

Th ursday, September 23, 2010

This week’s hits and misses

Assistant Accent Editor Alexandra Evans discusses the newest legwear styles — from the subtly sexy to the obnoxious.

Hot

Biker-inspired leggings This fall’s designs are all about trading in plain spandex for something a bit edgier.

The designs commonly found on motorcycle clothing — zippers, patches and buttons — have met leggings. One popular style has netted patches on the knees like the ones found on real motorcycle pants and jackets. Some have zippers that extend from the bottom of the calf to the ankle, which instantly adds some sex appeal if worn with heels. Pair some of these leggings with a leather jacket and you’re ready to look legit jumping on the back of a hot guy’s motorcycle.

Lukewarm

Leggings with holes Holey clothes can transform the conservative, full-sleeve dress dad wants you to wear to the family reunion dinner into an edgy yin and yang outfit fit for bar-hopping. Clothing with holes adds a touch of personality to even the most mundane fabric. But rather than scattered holes of different sizes positioned to create a random “Oh I just fell into a rock pile and broke my bottle of whiskey” look, these leggings feature same-sized holes placed equidistant from each other to create a beehive effect — and they kind of make your legs look like they’ve got a tropical disease.

Spittin’ that rhyme

Sophomore Emily Shaw recites her comedic poem about Ralph Nader at the Back 2 School Open Mic on Friday in IC Square. The open mics, which are held throughout the year, are open to any performer and are hosted by Ithaca College’s spoken word group Spit That!

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Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay Bounty Killer can’t seem to stay out of trouble with the law. A woman covered in blood and bruises walked into a Jamaican police station Saturday and said the deejay had brutally beaten her with a hammer. When police arrested Bounty Killer, he allegedly called the woman and threatened her — even though police were standing right by him. He’s not only facing assault charges from the incident, but he also has previous charges for possession of a firearm and marijuana. This guy needs to calm down — getting caught with a little weed is one thing, but what was he thinking beating a woman with a hammer?

— Alexandra Evans

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Jeggings Whoever thought to combine denim and leggings was probably someone who likes to mock fat people. No one except the thin women of the world can pull off jeggings, and unfortunately it’s the non-thin people of the world who have been clearing them off the shelves. This is because jeggings are like the ultimate denim for people who can’t fit properly into skinny jeans because of the buttons and zippers and lack of stretch. But behold: jeggings have no buttons and no zippers, so they can be pulled over just as easily as spandex. But even thin people shouldn’t wear them, because at the end of the day, jeggings just look like a cheaply made alternative to jeans.

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Jamaican dancehall deejay goes overboard with hammer

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New, Fill-in-the-blank Blog joins ranks of fml/tfln sites

“Dear Noah, We could have sworn you said the ark wasn’t leaving till 5.

Sincerely, Unicorns.” This is just one submission to the blog “Dear Blank, Please Blank.” Similar to the style of “FML” and “Texts from Last Night,” this website allows users to submit funny, short letters that visitors to the site can rate as either “How dare they,” “You’re a douche,” “Hilarious,” “I like this” or “Umm, WTF?!” All of the content is user-submitted and user-moderated. With the opportunity to read through hundreds of hilarious letters, “Dear Blank, Please Blank” is likely to be the next big thing in procrastination.

— Lara Bonner

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No one knows how we really are. Like me, I’ll go to frickin’ Barnes & Nobles, get a coffee and just sit.

— Jersey Shore’s Snooki on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” about her other, off-camera side.

celebrity

OOPS!

Affleck pays for mistakes Casey Affleck recently revealed that Joaquin Phoenix’s disastrous descent as a Hollywood hottie was actually a carefully planned part of their collaborative “mockumentary,” “I’m Still Here.”

Phoenix swore off acting as part of this guise and also gained weight, didn’t shave and acted under the influence on “Late Show with David Letterman.” However, in Affleck’s fake documentary about the decline of Phoenix into bad-boy behavior, Affleck was under scrutiny for his own unsavory misdemeanors. He was accused of sexually harassing a producer and a camerawoman, but he has now settled the case with hefty fees to both parties. Let’s stick to keeping the bad behavior on screen and not off, Casey.

— Cady Lang

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Handwerker Gallery opens season with two exhibits in print medium

Senior Alex Cook looks at a piece by Susan Weisend, professor of art at Ithaca College, last Thursday at the Handwerker Gallery. Weisend’s print collection explores humanity’s relationship to nature.

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BY whitney faber Accent Editor

With one exhibit pairing a picture of a monkey with a wire cup and another exhibit merging Chinese culture with other cultures across the world, the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College is opening its season with many of the possibilities in printmaking.

The Handwerker Gallery opened this If you Go season with two print “Something is exhibitions — one by Amiss in Eden” and “The Zou Ba Susan Weisend, proPortfolio” fessor and chair of the When: 10 a.m. to art department, that 6 p.m., Monday, explores humanity’s Wednesday, Friday, removal from nature, 10 a.m. to 9 and the other a collecp.m., Thursday tion by 15 artists on and Noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and their reactions to a trip Sunday to China.

How much: Free Weisend’s collection, “Something is Amiss in Eden,” includes prints, drawings and artist books that are centered on endangered species of plants and animals.

The project began last fall during Weisend’s sabbatical. Though she has been expanding on nature as a theme in her art for the past 25 years, this specific idea was a new concept. She said her inspiration came as she was thinking about people’s current relation to their natural surroundings.

“I started just thinking about how we are more and more removed from nature,” Weisend said. “Nature in a box is kind of our relationship at this point — where we go to zoos and botanical gardens to observe nature — but it’s all self-contained and we’re very removed from our environment.”

In the collection, Weisend mixes different endangered species with symbols for humanity. In the piece “Paeonia Trumps Uccello,” a vibrant purple-pedaled flower overlaps a drawing of a tan outlined wire chalice. Weisend said the chalice, originally made by Paolo Uccello in 1450, became significant in the collection.

“It’s kind of the symbol for human beings, us as rational creatures, and then I juxtapose it with these other figures from nature,” she said.

The title of her exhibition comes from the recognition of the imbalance between man and nature. As for the species chosen for

each piece, she said some were for aesthetic reasons while others were chosen for their background stories.

As she worked with the elements, she said they became more than images on the canvas.

“I started thinking of them as characters in my artwork, almost as fictional characters that I was moving around and looking at it in sort of a nostalgic way,” she said.

The largest and most prominent work in the collection is called “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder,” which Weisend did in collaboration with her daughter, artist Anna Pickens.

Composed of 25 embossments, they are each framed separately but create one grid and one piece. Each image is stark white, with impressions of different flowers pressed into the paper.

Carla Stetson, assistant professor of art, said pieces like these are what make Weisend’s work so powerful.

“There is something really simple about [the piece], and you look at it closely and it’s really complex,” Stetson said. “There’s so much to see from close-up. You just get drawn into them.”

The second collection, “The Zou Ba Portfolio: Printmakers’ Journey in China,” was started in 2007 when curator Minna Resnick,

From left, seniors Rachel Bondra and Lucy Ravich discuss one of the pieces in “The Zou Ba Portfolio” last Thursday at the exhibition’s opening at the Handwerker Gallery.

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a lecturer of art at the college, planned a trip with former colleague Jiansheng “Jackson” Li, president of the Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute in China, for 15 print artists to travel to China for 28 days.

While on the trip, the group presented lectures at three art academies, participated in an exhibition of their work and conducted a day-long symposium at the institute. They also attended workshops for papermaking, ceramics and woodworking.

By the end, the group planned to use the trip as a theme for an exchange project, in which each artist created 15 prints to give to each person on the trip as well as extras to be shown at exhibitions or in museums.

Resnick titled the collection “Zou Ba,” meaning “Let’s Go,” the phrase the artists heard daily from Wenying “Wendy” Li, program director at the Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute.

“Every morning we would get up and she would go, ‘Zou ba’ — you know, ‘Let’s go’ — let’s discover and explore and work,” she said.

Each piece in the collection represents a combination of people’s cultures, influences and techniques mixed with the experiences

“The Zou Ba Portfolio: Printmakers’ Journey in China” shows 15 different artists’ perspectives on one trip to China. The group traveled there for a symposium, lectures and workshops.

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they had on the trip.

Resnick said her piece “Mixed Company” combines influences from the trip with her past works.

The print shows overlapping images of Chinese women dressed in classical garb.

Pasted over in a repeating pattern are entirely red images of an American pin-up woman alternating with a white silhouette of a baby sitting. Resnick said exchange projects like this one provide people with a chance to see different interpretations on a single theme.

“Anytime you have a group of people together, they might do similar things, but they process experiences much differently,” Resnick said. “It’s quite exciting to see such different impressions of similar experiences.”

Weisend, who also went on the trip, said having so many artists made the trip valuable.

“It was really enjoyable to be with other professionals, talk about our work, just share ideas,” she said. “Then the other part was being in this new place and taking in all this new information that was just a daily occurrence.

Junior Benji Sayed, who went to the exhibit’s opening last Thursday said he found the collection more interesting because so many artists’ works are represented.

“It comes down to what they took, in terms of Chinese lithography or printmaking, and how they used their own influences and their own techniques,” Sayed said. “It’s all various fusions of culture and Chinese culture.”

The print by Slovakian artist Lydia Jergusova-Vydarena called “My Trip” is one work that combines cultures. At the top of the piece, the words “I’m fine and you? How are you?” show across purple, yellow, red and orange overlapping images of men walking.

Below is an alleyway looking out onto a wall covered in Chinese symbols. Written over the image are the words, “To Be in Harmony with Environment.”

Senior Megan Crosen said she liked seeing so many perspectives on one theme. As an art major currently taking printmaking, she also said she liked seeing the pieces alongside Weisend’s work because the two show many techniques that can be used in printmaking.

“You kind of relate the two of them together,” Crosen said. “It’s really cool to see all the different things you can do with it.

It’s inspiring.”

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Store finds new use for old home goods by nicole ogrysko staff writer

When looking for a lamp for the dorm room or a table for the kitchen, most buyers tend to avoid old, cluttered antique shops and head straight for plastic, manufactured items from a large store.

But Dan Quest, a partner of Found, a new antique store on Cherry Street in Ithaca, said his new business is not a typical antique shop.

“When you think of an antique shop you think of carved, dusty pieces, but this is very much different,” Quest said. “It isn’t your average place.”

Found is the brainchild of Quest, Sandy Cozzarin, Bill Hastings ’92 and Ken McKinney, all of whom found a passion in collecting and met each other as dealers in the Ithaca area. After searching for a site for several months, the four settled on their Cherry Street location near Wegmans and began 30 days of renovations. The store officially opened Aug. 28 but will celebrate its grand opening with raffles and giveaways Oct. 3.

From retro fans to an old wooden tool storage unit, Found offers a broad range of furniture, jewelry, vintage clothing, farmhouse antiques, collectables and artwork.

Their prices range from $1 to $5 dollars at the cheapest, but some items can go up to more than $1,000.

Sandy Cozzarin, one of Found’s four partners, said buying antiques isn’t just for older people.

“It’s cool to go to a friend’s

apartment and see that they don’t have everything from a big-box store, that they have eclectic pieces and a cool pad,” Cozzarin said. “To individualize yourself, that’s really important these days.”

Bill Hastings, another founder, is currently a lecturer in Ithaca College’s Department of Art and plans to teach full time in the spring. As a student, Hastings took advertising and marketing classes and now uses these skills to handle the advertising aspects of the business.

“Having a love for art and art history draws me to the objects,” Hastings said. “I love history, love thinking about material culture, the detritus of the every day. Not the castaway, throwaway garbage of everyday, but everyday objects and where they are placed historically.”

Hastings said Found is the perfect spot for those looking for unusual and interesting gifts or college students searching for vintage clothing.

“For people that have the collecting bug … we have a tremendous amount of diversity,” Hastings said.

Hastings said the place appeals to a wide range of people.

“We want a place where all demographics can come and find interesting things,” Hastings said.

“Students come back to town … [and] they may not want the run-ofthe-mill that you can get at Target.”

Unlike many antique shops, Found has an open floor plan, with its objects displayed in clean glass cases for customers to easily browse.

From left, Sandy Cozzarin shows Ithaca resident Lillian Tuskey a porcelain cow in the new store Found on Cherry Street on Friday. Cozzarin is one of four partners of Found, meant to be an alternative antique store in Ithaca. rachel orlow/The ithacan

“It’s not chock full of things,” Quest said. “It’s set up with that gallery setting where you can actually see individual pieces, and you’re not overwhelmed visually by too much stuff. You can see how it would work into your home décor.”

The store currently has 28 dealers, and the partners hope to reach full capacity with about 35 dealers to occupy a variety of booths and showcases. The store will also exhibit monthly gallery artwork from locals and display a seasonally changing furniture setup.

“Our goal is ... a gallery aesthetic — airy, open, with enough room for people to meander and explore,”

Hastings said.

Besides its mission to sell an array of quality vintage items, the owners of Found said their business represents the classic mentality of “reuse-recycle.”

Because they deal with repurposed objects, Found reduces its carbon footprint by selling products that haven’t been factory manufactured.

Quest said buying refinished pieces not only helps keep items fresh but is also economical and environmentally friendly.

“It’s the original recycling,” Quest said. “It really is affordable.

There are fine antiques that you can spend thousands of dollars on, but

$40 goes a long way. That’s where it can appeal to all age groups.”

So far the partners have been surprised with their steady business.

They hope the future will bring curious customers who will explore and discover something interesting during each visit.

“I hope people will find that they won’t see the same old merchandise here every time,” Hastings said. “They say the best time to buy an antique is when you see it.”

Found is located on 227 Cherry St. They are open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Final video game defines ‘Halo’ series

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by R. Bryant Francis Contributing Writer

Thundering plasma bolts slam into the ground as you duck around for cover while frantically reloading. On the horizon, you see another drop ship inbound, ready to deposit another wave of Elites, Jackals and Grunts on your position. Your objective, like every other one before it, has been at best a stopgap against the oncoming storm, and at worst, a frantic retreat from the inevitable counterattack. This is “Halo Reach,” and this is how a world ends.

“Halo Reach” “Halo Reach,” the latest Microsoft and final first-person shooter Game Studios game in the “Halo” series, tells Our rating: HHHH the story of Noble Team in the events preceding the original “Halo: Combat Evolved.” The year is 2552, and a religious alien alliance known as “The Covenant” has brought its war against humanity to the planet Reach. Noble Team is a group of supersoldiers, known as Spartans, assigned to special missions that no ordinary human could perform and are the linchpin in humanity’s resistance against the alien alliance.

The campaign, which can be played single-player or cooperatively, puts players in the helmet of Noble 6, a new recruit to Noble Team, and follows the player’s part in thwarting the Covenant invasion.

While the Campaign’s ending is already known, the tension in the story lies in the interactions of Noble Team and their role in the invasion.

This tension tracks the team from the outset, when they’re trying to halt the Covenant Beachhead into the game’s second act, and when they’re just looking for anything they can call a victory.

Gamers will enjoy taking on the role of the characters who have a lot of great moments not just on the battlefield, but also when they interact with Noble 6 and the civilians they encounter.

The campaign’s strongest point is showing the true threat the Covenant represents. Previous games saw them descending into somewhat comedic roles. Now they can best be described as downright terrifying. The Covenant’s entire redesign keeps them visually reminiscent of their appearance in other games, but their new image and improved intelligence will make any

hot dates

“Dancing in the Kitchen with the CCO,” a production to showcase both dance and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Kitchen Theatre. Tickets range from $16 to $30.

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friday

Eilen Jewell, a roots singer raised in Boise, Idaho, will perform at 8 p.m. at Castaways.

Admission is $15.

Mutsu, a local folk-rock band, will perform from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Wildfire Lounge.

Admission is free.

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Noche Latina, a dance party

“Halo Reach,” the third and final installment in the “Halo” video game series, is a first-person shooter game. Players take on the role of Noble 6 to defeat an alien collective known as the Covenant.

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shoot-out a tense standoff instead of a massacre.

The game’s cinematics also deserve mention, as they’ve moved far beyond the generic cutscenes of years past. The use of a “documentary style” animation provides a much grittier, real look into the Halo world and has the feel of real cinematography, not just a camera dropped in the scene. The beautiful visuals of “Reach’s” natural landscape also contrast nicely with the apocalyptic imagery of burning cities and crashing spaceships.

Another strength that “Reach” has over its predecessors is the use of new, unusual ideas that haven’t been shown in a “Halo” game before in order to help set the tone, such as the manipulation of the sound environment or including set pieces that don’t translate to the multiplayer mode. Two instances include a battle with some of the rampaging wildlife in the third level, while a later space encounter features a nearly silent

space battle as the player attacks a Covenant ship in a vacuum. These little changes are guaranteed to jolt players out of their typical fighting style and shift the dynamic of the game dramatically.

Multiplayer mode has also seen some improvements and refining. Online matchmaking is much more varied and colorful with its game types, while the new ranking and credit system rewards any length of play time, not just intense gaming sessions. Even casual players will have access to fancy armor in no time. The only downside is that the new tone of the campaign doesn’t translate well into multiplayer, which, while fun, makes the shift a bit jarring.

In the end, “Halo Reach” is ultimately the best of the “Halo” series, with varying set pieces and fun and frantic combat. It’s all there, and it’s better than it’s ever been, with new additions and old staples alike.

Killers’ frontman’s solo LP displays individual flavor impact in the modern rock scene with his solo debut.

The first track, “Welcome to After The Killers opted for a hiatus, the group’s lead singer and notorious Fabulous Las Vegas,” creeps in with workaholic Brandon Flowers refused to hushed vocals and a pitch-bending lap steel guitar. The song expands sit idly by and instead saw into a grandiose, over-dramatic an opportunity to create anthem complete with thundering a debut solo album. On timpani. The essence of Las Vegas his new LP, “Flamingo,” Brandon is captured, but the overabundance Flowers pays homage to Flowers of gambling, neon lights and call girl his beloved hometown “Flamingo” clichés proves wearisome. of Las Vegas and seeks to Island “Playing with Fire” is one of the solidify himself as one of Our rating: most impressive songs on “Flamingo.”

Sin City’s golden boys.

HH1/2 During this cut, the singer wails over “Flamingo,” a who’sa trudging and tiresome beat that who of modern rock’s mega-producers, calls upon Stu- culminates into a spectacular dedicaart Price (Madonna), Daniel Lanois tion to faith, proving he can deliver a (U2) and Brendan O’Brien (Bruce heartfelt religious song on almost any Springsteen). It’s no surprise that he album he’s involved in. Flowers sucwould be trying to make a significant cessfully evokes a weary journey that

sunday

Camille Bloom CD Release Party, an event to celebrate the release of the acoustic rock singer’s third fulllength album that was recorded live in front of an audience at Columbia City Theater, will start at 7 p.m. at Felicia’s Atomic Lounge. Admission is free.

Weezer re-uses old sound

by Anne Gould Northgraves Staff Writer

by Jared dionne staff writer

Album Review

event featuring DJ Michael Luis of Palante, will go from 9:45 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. at The Oasis. Admission is free.

“At Home in Utopia,” a film that focuses on the 1920s United Workers Cooperative Colony built by Jewish immigrants in the Bronx, will be shown from 7 to 8 p.m. at Cornell Cinema. Tickets range from $4 to $7.

Weezer’s third album, “Hurley,” features the blissful face of “Lost” star Jorge Garcia on its cover.

However, listeners’ expressions will not be as happy, for the record is a solid yet Weezer “Hurley” recycled effort.

Epitaph The album is coOur rating: hesive — one song HH1/2 organically transitions into the next.

There is a symmetry of subject matter — the two standout tracks are “Unspoken,” a refreshingly subdued ode to bad relationships, and “Hang On,” a joyous promise of renewed love with a Celtic lilt.

Despite consistency of sound, most tracks on “Hurley” do not stand out. Rivers Cuomo’s vocals on “Memories” are reminiscent of

Album Review

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results in a religious epiphany.

Flowers definitely deserves credit for expanding his musical boundaries and sampling varying musical styles for his solo debut. “Flamingo” is full of songs with direct meanings and good, old-fashion Americana flavor.

However, Flowers should realize he’s a singer and not a tourism promoter.

The played-up Las Vegas references take some of the majesty out of an album that could have been something truly impressive.

the straining 2008 song, “Troublemaker.” However, the bonus track version includes a live recording of a quieter, almost sweeter version of Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida,” which nicely wraps up the album.

Overall, the songs on “Hurley” are good, but not remarkable. If Weezer was able to let more time lapse between CD releases, perhaps they could create a stronger, more memorable impression.

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Irish band The Script delivers a more positive album than their previous self-titled debut. The trio’s sophomore album is full of meaningful subjects and heartfelt lyrics.

This album is a chaotic jumble of beats that sound like something off of an 8-bit video game. The extraterrestrial sounds feel repetitive at times but still worth a listen. courtesy of Warp Records

“A Year without rain”

“Science & Faith”

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Newbie surges onto Hollywood scene [ Emma Stone brings fresh personality to classic novel’s remake

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It seems Hollywood has found another funny redheaded ingénue while Lindsay Lohan gets her life together. With the witty and entertaining “Easy A,” Emma Stone stakes her claim to ginger-haired supremacy and keeps the audience fully entertained from beginning to end.

The story “Easy A” of “Easy A” is Screen Gems Our rating: simple yet enterHHH taining. When lonely nerd Olive (Stone) lies to her friend about losing her virginity, the rumor spreads quickly, and within minutes Olive is branded the new school tramp.

When her gay friend Brandon (Dan Byrd) hears about her new reputation, he offers her $100 to fake a hookup with him to save him from some bullying. From there, the lie spirals out of control, and Olive must deal with her new reputation as best she can.

While the plot is nothing new, it’s still quirky and relevant. Since the beginning, “Easy A” has been advertised as a teenage-update of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter,” and the movie differs from the novel because of its modern twist. Rather than people talking on the street like in the book, rumors spread through text messages during homeroom.

While Hester Prynne is avoided by everyone in society, Olive is harassed by everyone in school. Olive explains the plot in her video blog, but after a while, the explanation gets too heavy-handed.

Animal kingdom 7:10 and 9:20 p.m.

Weekends 2:10 and 4:20 p.m.

Breathless 7:05 and 9:30 p.m. and Weekends 2:05 and 4:30 p.m.

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Cairo time HHH 7 p.m. and Weekends 2 p.m. get low 7:15 and 9:15 p.m. and Weekends 2:15 and 4:15 p.m. the kids are all right 7:20 and 9:25 p.m. and Weekends 2:20 and 4:25 p.m.

Marianna (Amanda Bynes) stares down Olive (Emma Stone) after the redhead allegedly loses her virginity and bares no shame for it. Olive embodies Hester Prynne of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.”

courtesy of Screen Gems

The movie has a solid teenage cast, but the real comedy comes from the adult actors. Olive’s parents, played by Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci, are kooky former hippies who pass no judgment on their daughter for her new notoriety. At a family dinner when Olive refuses to admit the word that sent her to the principal’s office, they hilariously ask her to spell it out with her peas, so her younger brother won’t hear.

Stone truly comes into her own in the movie, proving she’s perfectly poised to take over in the witty chick flick department.

Stone is droll and funny when she showcases her comedic timing in

her “hookup” scene with Byrd. She proves she can sing with an energetic rendition of “Pocketful of Sunshine” in her bedroom. With her raunchy sense of humor and her sassy personality, she brings the film together as more than just a teenage sex comedy.

While Olive’s video blog made for some good lines ­— she quips that Judy Blume should have prepared her for her fake first time — the format got annoying and repetitive, which dumbed down the story.

The plot is told through a flashback as she whines into a webcam that she’s misunderstood. The full-on summary of Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter” was unnecessary.

Film’s 3-D effects lack originality

“Easy A” was written by Bert V. Royal and directed by Will Gluck.

Intricate setting saves bland plot

By Clara Goldman Contributing writer

By Alix Belleville staff writer

Blending an enormous ax-wielding monster with elaborate action sequences and an army of flesh-hungry zombies was not enough to push Paul W.S. Anderson’s newest installment in the “Resident Evil” series past “Resident Evil: mediocre. The weak story line Afterlife” and lack of originality cause Constantin the film to fall short of a truly Film excellent action zombie film.

Our rating: “Afterlife” is the fourth sequel H1/2 to 2002’s “Resident Evil.” The story follows Alice (Milla Jovovich) and her army of clones as they try to take down an evil corporation’s Tokyo headquarters.

Jovovich dominates the screen with her kickbutt girl power as she kills several zombies at once while doing backflips off the wall with ease.

The supermodel-turned-actress is undeniably one of the reasons for the success of these films.

She brings the sexy, smart Alice to life again and again throughout the series. Though the film suffers from a weak plot, her performance always makes the viewing experience interesting.

The story line may disappoint some hardcore fans of the series. It incorporates cliché “escape said location during zombie outbreak” scenes through a cookie-cutter series of events. The film focuses on elaborate ways to kill zombies instead of presenting character development to allow the audience to feel for the characters on an emotional level.

The 3-D effects looked unrealistic compared to recent 3-D films such as Piranha 3D, which played the clichés of 3-D to its advantage in a humorous way. “Afterlife” used these same clichés in dead seriousness, ultimately making the 3-D

Downfalls aside, the film followed in the footsteps of “10 Things I Hate About You,” a 1999 movie adapted from Shakespeare’s comedy, “Taming of the Shrew,” by playfully adding a young, perky cast to an older story.

Throughout “Easy A,” there was this unconscious sense that a star was being born from her stilettos up. Whether she’s playing the bad girl or the innocent one, Stone has it covered. With an adept cast, sharp dialogue and twisted humor, “Easy A” is fully worth its scandalously good reputation.

effects take away from the movie. Zombie arms and bullets are flung at the audience in cheesy, distracting slow motion. In some scenes, a character will do something simply to use a 3-D effect, which looks cool but doesn’t make sense in the context of the plot.

Unfortunately, “Resident Evil: Afterlife” does not bring anything new to the series and is mostly a “made for the fans” movie with over the top zombie killings that fans have come to love. It doesn’t hold much to draw in new fans or entice even curious audiences into the theater, but fans of serious action and zombie movies that have little meaningful story attached and cheesy action sequences may want to check it out.

Director Ruba Nadda backed away from the Hollywood norm of France or Italy and instead chose Egypt’s capital, Cairo, as a breathtaking setting for the love affair in “Cairo Time.” The light “Cairo Time” manner of the film starts Foundry Films and Samson to tense with anticipation Films as a romance builds, and Our rating: the audience is left waiting HHH to see where it goes.

Fashion editor Juliette Grant’s (Patricia Clarkson) husband is always at work and cannot spare any more than a phone call to satisfy her. The plot thickens when her husband’s former security officer, Tareq (Alexander Siddig), gives her the attention she has been longing for from her invisible spouse.

The film focuses so heavily on the splendor of Egypt that the country itself could be a main character alongside Juliette, making the plot less intricate than the setting itself. With each frame, Juliette is used as a prop to show the audience how exquisite Egypt is.

While the plot stays constant, keeping Juliette and Tareq’s relationship at an arm’s length rather than very affectionate, it begins to feel drawn out and has the audience waiting for that climatic kiss.

Despite the few jitters that audience members may feel when viewing the pair’s relationship blossom into new territories, the film is not a core-shaker but a lovely, light version of a romance being played out.

“Resident Evil: Afterlife” was written and directed

by Paul W.S. Anderson.

“Cairo Time” was written and directed by Ruba Nadda.

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Alice (Milla Jovovich) works to relocate her group to Arcadia, a safe haven in “Resident Evil: Afterlife.” courtesy of Constantin Film

Winter’s Bone HHHH 9 p.m. and Weekends 4 p.m.

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Alpha and Omega 3D 1:40 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 6:45 p.m., 9:15 p.m.

The American HHH 1:15 p.m., 4 p.m., 6:40 p.m., 9:40 p.m.

Devil 2:20 p.m., 5:20 p.m., 8:10 p.m., 10:40 p.m.

Easy A HHH 5:10 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 10:10 p.m. inception HHH1/2 2:50 p.m., 6:10 p.m., 9:20 p.m.

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole 1:20 p.m., 3:40 p.m., 6:20 p.m., 9 p.m. resident evil: Afterlife 3D H1/2 2:40 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 10:35 p.m.

The Town 1:30 p.m., 1:50 p.m., 4:20 p.m., 4:50 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 7:40 p.m., 10 p.m., 10:30 p.m.

The Virginity HIt 2 p.m., 5 p.m., 8 p.m., 10:25 p.m.

Wall Street: Money never sleeps 12:50 p.m., 1:10 p.m., 3:50 p.m., 4:10 p.m., 6:50 p.m., 7:20 p.m., 9:50 p.m., 10:20 p.m.

You Again 1 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 9:10 p.m.

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game Graduate student Dave Ahonen balances graduate academics with playing two varsity sports Graduate student Dave Ahonen played two varsity sports as an undergraduate and earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting in just six semesters. Ahonen has played football and baseball since his freshman year. michelle boulÉ/THE ITHACAN

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With finance textbooks stacked in piles against the wall, a toy basketball hoop in the corner, notebooks open on the desk and a 4-foot-tall blue metal Bombers’ bomb — given to the football team’s defensive captain — standing at the foot of his bed, graduate student Dave Ahonen’s bedroom is the perfect microcosm of his life.

As the three-year starting strong safety for the football team, third baseman on the baseball team and student in Ithaca College’s Master of Business Administration program, Ahonen said he juggles the demanding routine of collegiate athletics with a rigorous academic schedule.

From wearing his football pants underneath sweats in class to arranging with professors to miss class time for football practice, Ahonen’s daily schedule illustrates his commitment.

“I expect a high level of performance [from] myself in school as well as on the field,” he said.

“So I’m going to do whatever I can to get the schoolwork done to the best of my ability and do what it takes to keep my performance up on the field. If that’s sacrificing here and there to get it done, then that’s what it takes.”

Ahonen’s dedication on and off the field was acknowledged last year when he received the James Harris award, which is given to the top multisport athlete of the college’s graduating

class. In addition to his athletic success, Ahonen structured his classes as a sophomore so that he was able to earn his bachelor’s degree in accounting in just six semesters. Ahonen was also inducted into several honors societies in the School of Business as an undergraduate, including Beta Gamma Sigma, which recognizes the top 10 percent of business students based on their grade point average.

Growing up in Farmington, N.Y., Ahonen attended Victor Senior High School, where his grandfather, Ed Ahonen, had at one point been the athletic director. Ahonen played football, basketball and baseball in high school, competing in Class A of Section V. Ahonen said he was initially motivated by the success his mother, father and their brothers and sisters had in the region in athletics, as well as the weight his family’s name carried in the area.

“The name was there, and from an early age I understood that,” Ahonen said. “I was like, ‘I have a great tradition to this name, and I’m going to continue this tradition.’”

Head Football Coach Mike Welch said it’s Ahonen’s commitment to success that allowed him to immediately impact the college’s football program as a freshman.

“He has a tremendous desire to excel, to pursue excellence in everything he does,” Welch said. “He played a lot as a freshman, a lot of special teams and in our defensive back-

From left, Dave Ahonen’s mother, Caralee, Ahonen and his father, David Ahonen Sr., pause for a picture at the Senior Athlete Awards Luncheon on May 17 in Emerson Suites. courtesy of dave ahonen

field, and now he’s going to be a three-year starter for us. He’s done that because of his drive. He’s got a real intrinsic drive to do well in everything he does.”

With a 6-foot-1, 205-pound frame as a freshman, Ahonen saw the opportunity to make contributions on defense with safeties Charlie Stephens ’08 and Ryan Terlecki ’08 on the verge of graduating. Terlecki, also an accounting major as an undergraduate, said Ahonen was a recognizable leader even as a freshman.

“In practice he was always looking to understand the defense better, it wasn’t only, ‘Where do I have to go?’ [it was], ‘Why do I have to go there?’’’ Terlecki said. “The type of person Dave is, the type of mentality he has, he’s just one of those guys who is a leader.”

Despite his busy schedule as a graduate student, another time constraint Ahonen said he has had to adjust to in the past three years is making the transition to baseball in the spring and doing what he can to compensate for missing fall baseball training.

During the winter, Ahonen takes advantage of his friend University of Rochester senior outfielder Dan Ludwig’s house, where there is a fully enclosed, lit and heated batting cage in the backyard.

“I actually go there and put in a lot of time because I feel guilty that playing another sport, I’m not on the field with those guys,” Ahonen said. “I kind of put in the overtime during winter break to get ready for the season, and it’s worked it out.”

A typical day for Ahonen involves five or six rounds of 10-15 swings in the batting cage to work on hitting. He has even traveled to Rochester to work on his fielding techniques with Ludwig at the university’s indoor turf facility. Ahonen has developed a practice routine that helps him ease the transition between sports and put in the hours to compensate for the time he missed, Head Baseball Coach George Valesente said.

“He works hard at taking ground balls, he works hard when we do defensive stuff and he works hard at his hitting, which shows because he’s been our leading hitter for the last three years,” Valesente said.

Off the field and out of the classroom, however, Ahonen appears to be your typical college student. Reclined on his couch, Ahonen talked the pros and cons of the Buffalo Bills’ offense, with a slight smile curled at the right side of his mouth and his feet propped up on the living room table Sunday afternoon.

With this being his final season in both sports, as well as his last two semesters on South Hill, Ahonen said he isn’t looking forward to having to take off his jerseys for the last time. With a master’s degree in professional accountancy, Ahonen wants to make a name for himself in the business world. Looking back, Ahonen said he wouldn’t change anything about his collegiate career.

“I’m going to try to enjoy this as long as I can,” he said. “I look back four years ago and the guys I played with, and it feels like forever ago. It’s going to be a sad day, but it has to come. I’ll embrace it and just know that I put everything into it. I have no regrets.”

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t every level of sports — whether it’s Little League Baseball or the NFL — it’s important for teams to give back in order to develop ties to the community.

From Derek Jeter’s Turn 2 Foundation to the Lance Armstrong Foundation, professional athletes’ philanthropy has greatly helped the world search for cures to diseases or help victims recover from natural disasters.

While our teams here at Ithaca College can’t quite give on that level, the athletic department has still done a great job of contributing to the community.

The football team, along with the rest of the college’s varsity sports, has made plenty of efforts to give back, particularly this season.

So far, the Bombers took part in “Give Back Day,” an event dedicated to giving lessons to youth football players in the Ithaca area, and in their game against Union College on Sept. 11, they hosted veterans from the Bath VA Medical Center.

Head Coach Mike Welch said the team spends a full day with the veterans in the spring playing pool, shuffle board and cards or just watching a ball game.

“It’s thanking our veterans for their service to our country, and it helps them,” he said. “It just helps them get through another day.”

Senior quarterback Rob Zappia said it’s important to build ties within the Ithaca area as a whole.

“Anytime you get an opportunity to give back to the community, especially a great place like Ithaca, it brings everyone together,” he said. “In the end we all know we’re doing something for a good cause and we’re having fun doing it.

We’re doing it as a team.”

As the Blue and Gold suit up for their game against Lycoming College on Saturday, they’ll add one more piece to their uniform. In honor of the “Coach to Cure MD” event, the Bombers’ coaches will wear patches to raise awareness for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

“Typically it’s a fatal disease, and most don’t live past their teens,” Welch said. “So it has its significance with football because young boys play football.”

While the team doesn’t have any personal connection to Duchenne, Sandy VanBenschoten, who is a member of the college’s Athletic Hall of Fame and served as secretary to six athletic directors before retiring in 2004, suffers from muscular dystrophy.

“That has a personal connection to it,” Welch said.

Though giving back is the emphasis in all of the charity work the team does, Welch said these events also help the Bombers develop a closer bond.

“It helps each individual become a better person,” he said.

“I’m a firm believer that the more you give, the more you receive.” casey musarra is a senior televison-radio major. Contact her at cmusarr1@ithaca.edu.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Defense plays faster in new formation By harlan green-taub staff writer

Despite the fact that autumn is just around the corner, the football team’s defense has a little more spring in its step this season. With a new 3-4 defensive scheme that brings more speed to the field, the Bombers’ defense has been key in helping the Blue and Gold achieve a record of 3–0 this season.

The South Hill squad has already forced eight turnovers this season, and Mark Ross, defensive coordinator and assistant coach, said controlling the tempo of the game is an area the defense will The Blue and Gold continue to focus on outscored Widener improving all season.

University 31–0 “The goal of our dethrough the first three fense is to force people quarters Saturday. into mistakes,” Ross said.

“We’ve done a pretty decent job of doing that so far.”

Head Coach Mike Welch said the decision to switch to a three down linemen and four linebacker formation allows the team to play to its particular strengths this season.

“We feel one of our deepest positions this season is linebacker, so we want to get as many of them on the field as possible,” Welch said.

This switch in defensive systems for the Blue and Gold comes at a time when the offensive approach in college football is changing. NCAA rules cater more toward wide receivers than cornerbacks — defenders can only contact a receiver within the first five yards. The sport, once dominated by the running game, now sees spread offenses throwing the football 50 to 60 times a game.

Junior cornerback Mike Conti said the defense recognized this trend, and the switch in defensive alignment produces a unit more geared toward defending against the pass.

“The change came at just the right time for us,” Conti said. “The 3-4 allows us to take advantage of the speed we have on defense and having that extra linebacker out there, instead of a defensive lineman, has helped us shut down the passing game.”

Ross said the players’ ability to adapt to a new defensive system has been key in the team’s continued success so far this season.

“Our personnel is more suited to the system, plain and simple,” Ross said. “We have a lot of good athletes on this team, and the system allows us to get more of them on the field.”

Game experience is something that cannot be

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From left, sophomore fullback Michael Moon tries to get past sophomore cornerback Myron Avant at practice Tuesday at Lower Allen Field. The defense has given up just 10 points per game this season.

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taught and the Bombers’ defense has been able to work as a cohesive unit. This is largely because of the fact that the team returned seven starters, and three of the new starters saw playing time in multiple games last season.

“Last year we had a lot of younger guys without a ton of game experience on the defense,” Conti said. “That experience from last season has given us a new level of confidence.”

On defense, the Blue and Gold start nine upperclassman. The only two underclassmen who start on the defensive side of the ball are sophomore linebackers Joe Gilfedder and Will Carter, who are both tied for second on the team with 17 tackles. Welch said the returners’ experience allows each player to rely on each other to step up when it counts.

“Most of these guys have played with each other for three even four years,” Welch said. “It was easier for us to adapt to the system because the players are comfortable with and trust one another.”

The Bombers have given up just 140 passing yards a game and have already picked off five passes this season. Ross said there’s still room for improvement though.

“We’re still a work in progress,” Ross said.

“We’ve done a pretty decent job executing the game plans so far, but there are still things we are looking to get better at.”

The Bombers’ defense will look to continue its consistent play at 1 p.m. Saturday as they hit the road to take on Lycoming College — a team that’s averaging 28.5 points per game.

Sophomore forward sets the tempo on offense RP: I haven’t really thought about it.

It’s an honor, but I kind of shy away from that stuff. I don’t like being the center of attention, but it’s a good feeling to be at that point so early.

by Jesse cases

assistant Sports EDitor

Sophomore forward Rachael Palladino has been a key player since her first game for the women’s soccer team as a freshman. Now in her second year, Palladino brings experience and composure to the field as the team’s top returning goal scorer.

In her first season with the Blue and Gold, Palladino finished second on the team in points with 31 after tallying 12 goals and seven assists in 23 games. Though just six games into the 2010 season, Palladino has scored nine goals, dished out four assists and moved up to 14th place on the women’s soccer team’s alltime scoring list.

Assistant Sports Editor Jesse Cases sat down with Palladino to talk about tying the single-game record for goals and her expectations for her second season.

Jesse Cases: Has your mentality changed on the field now that you’re a sophomore and returning as the team’s top scorer?

Rachael Palladino: I’m trying to be more of a leader and help all the incoming forwards, trying to help them out, telling them what to do and trying to just be more vocal on the field to help everyone out.

JC: How is it working with such a large team?

RP: I enjoy all the girls. It’s a lot of fun working with all of them.

There’s a lot more competitiveness during practice because everyone’s fighting to wear a jersey or to play during a game. I like how everyone comes in and works their hardest no matter if they’re a starter or not.

JC: What team goals do you have for the season?

From right, sophomore forward Rachael Palladino dribbles past Marywood University senior defensive back Shannon Hresko Sept. 8 at Carp Wood Field.

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JC: What’s it going to take as a team to accomplish the goals you’ve set for the season?

RP: We all have to be on each other about working hard and trying to improve the things that we need to improve on, even though sometimes that’s hard. We just have to be really

honest with each other about that and come to every practice with a hardworking attitude and getting better at whatever we’re focusing on during that practice.

JC: How do you feel being 14th alltime on the scoring list just six games into your second season?

RP: For the team, we want to make it farther than we did last year. We have very high hopes for this season; we’re working hard and trying to get to the Final Four.

JC: What is your role on the field?

RP: I’ve wanted to step up and be more of a leader, especially since we brought in so many forwards. Coach [Mindy Quigg] told me I had to talk more to help people out and tell them what they can do to make the team better and what I can do to make the team better.

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Mind over matter

Bombers overcome distractions by developing mental focus

by Thomas eschen senior writer

Muscles tighten, expand and contract. Legs flex and bend while tendons stretch, only relieved when the athlete takes his next step. The hammering put on the body during a cross-country run only rivals the pressure put on the brain.

As the men’s cross country team settles into its 2010 campaign, not only will the athletes’ bodies take a beating, but their minds will as well.

What is not always visible can often make or break an athlete’s performance in a race. As they take step after step, something has to cross these athletes’ minds. Senior Tyler Gustafson said more than one thing goes through his head.

“I think about a lot of stuff,” he said.

“The pace is the main aspect I think about. Then where my teammates are.

There’s a lot to think about between your pace and position in the race.”

Head Coach Jim Nichols touches on the metal aspects involved in preparing with the athletes, but it’s left up to each individual to make sure they are ready when it matters.

The runners like to pack up, as they find it beneficial not just for knowing where their fellow competitors are, but for moral support as well. This came in handy for graduate student Billy Way, who led the South Hill squad at the Penn State Spiked Shoe Invitational on Sept. 11.

“I ended up going out and running with [seniors] Dan Craighead and John Davis for about the first four

miles,” Way said. “Just being around them, it was nice to feel the support of running in a group with them.”

Coping with injuries for most of 2009, Way said he had several thoughts, and even worries, going into the race.

“The race at Penn State was my first 5.2-mile race in a long time,” he said. “I was actually kind of nervous if I was going to pace myself OK and if I was going to come out too hard, so that was kind of in the back of my mind.”

Junior Dan Craighead said he often cannot even remember what he thinks about during the race, but he does believe the buildup toward competition is key.

“I try to think about everything I’ve done before the race to get ready,” Craighead said. “That gives me a lot of confidence, remembering how much work I’ve done and that racing is the fun part.”

By getting a map of the course beforehand and even arriving at the location a day before to jog the course, the athletes are given all the tools needed to be mentally ready, but distractions can run rampant — especially in cross country.

Where the team is in its season also can affect a runner’s mentality Gustafson said.

“How important the meet is, the amount of people in the race and the intensity of the race are all distractions that can take away from the primary focus,” Gustafson said.

Way said distractions can also

From left, senior captain John Davis, graduate student Bill Way and senior Dan Craighead lead the team at practice Monday behind the Terrace residence halls. The Bombers are ranked ninth in the most recent Atlantic Region poll.

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come from pre-race activities. Runners have to get the right number to wear on the uniform, find their box and deal with the customary pre-race jitters.

Way said the biggest distraction can often come from a runner’s own body.

Way, who was a sport psychology major and ran track and field as an undergraduate, said he knows the

feeling well, as he missed track events throughout his collegiate career because of injuries. Way, in his first season running cross country, said he does some visualizing the night before a race and tries to keep up his positive self-reflection to focus on the mental and physical grind from the start to finish.

“Obviously it’s not a very pleasant experience to put your body through

a 5-mile sprint,” Way said.

As the Blue and Gold prepare for SUNY-Cortland’s Jack Daniels Invitational on Saturday, they will keep up with the fine tuning not only their bodies, but their minds as well.

“It’s not necessarily how hard a person can run,” Gustafson said.

“But how hard they can run when they’re tired.”

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Junior benefits from summer training routine starts catching up, and you need to just be mentally strong.”

When racing, Baumbach’s mental toughness and determination are visible in her eyes and the grin of pain is etched across her face.

Senior Liz Schloss said Baumbach is seen as one of the most consistent runners on the team.

“She’s always setting personal bests,” Schloss said. “Whether it’s at nationals or a little meet at the beginning of the season, or whenever, she is always improving.”

As Baumbach continues building on her success, moving into 10th place in the college’s record books with a time of 22:26 at the SUNY-Oneonta Airfield Invitational on the 6-kilometer course Friday, Ware said the rest of the team will look to follow her pace. “[Baumbach] is a great runner,” he said. “She leads by example. The kids look to her because she has run at nationals for two years. But you couldn’t ask for a better person or teammate.”

by chris lotsbom staff writer

Junior Heidi Baumbach was named the 2008 Empire 8 Rookie of the Year, honored with a spot on the all-state second team and was named to the all-conference team as a freshman. But entering her third season on the women’s cross country team, Baumbach had yet to win her first collegiate race.

But on Sept. 11, Baumbach finished first overall at SUNY-Oswego State Invitational. With her short, quick stride that gives her the appearance of gliding, Baumbach is calm as she runs, her bouncing blond hair tied back in a braid punctuating her every step. Baumbach won her first race by a margin of nearly 30 seconds, running a time of 20:14 on the 5-kilometer course.

Head Coach Bill Ware said Baumbach, a clinical exercise science major from Lake Placid, N.Y., is a runner who stands out in the team’s history of continued success.

“We have always had good runners and good kids, going back to 1982 when the team started,” Ware said. “And she just adds to that list.”

This summer, Baumbach’s workout routine consisted of waking up early every day, going for a 40- to 60-minute run and going to her job. If her schedule didn’t allow for her morning run, she’d go for a bike ride.

“My friends are really into biking, so we would go for long rides once or twice a week,” Baumbach said. “I swam a lot, but I was doing all my training runs at the same time.”

In between training sessions and downtime, Baumbach focused on two major races that she always wanted to compete in since she started running competitively. Along with two teammates — juniors Molly Brown and Kaitlyn Dunphy — Baumbach competed in the Lake Placid Half-Marathon.

“None of us had ever done a half before,” Brown said. “We were eager to push each other and see what we were capable of doing.”

Baumbach ran the 13.1-mile event in

SUNY–Oneonta Airfield Invitational at Fortin Park in Oneonta, N.Y. - Sept. 17

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From left, junior Heidi Baumbach, freshman Jodi Robinson and senior Alissa Kersey set the pace at practice Monday behind the Terrace residence halls. Baumbach won her first race Sept. 11.

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1:42.45 and finished 117th overall and fourth in her age group. She said the race was different than the typical cross-country 5-kilometer run.

“The race was much longer than our crosscountry races, so I learned more about pace,” she said. “You have to really pace yourself and make sure you have enough at the end.”

In another effort to prepare for her junior

campaign, Baumbach competed in the Tupper Lake Tinman Triathlon, a half-Ironman competition consisting of a 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike ride and 13.4-mile run. Baumbach said the half-marathon and triathlon were similar to the grind of running cross country.

“I had to dig deep, work through the pain,” she said. “At halfway in both, the fatigue

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St. Lawrence University Total Time: 111:25.20 SUNY–Geneseo Total Time: 113:18.60 Rowan University Total Time: 115:10.70 Vassar College Total Time: 115:45.70 Ithaca College Total Time: 116.27.90

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Vassar

155 6 14 28 40 67

Ithaca

164 15 26 31 44 48

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• 4 p.m. Women’s tennis at SUNY-Cortland

SATURDAY

• 10:30 a.m. Women’s cross country at SUNY-Cortland’s Jack Daniels Invitational in Cortland, N.Y. • 11 a.m. Golf at William Smith Invitational at Clifton Springs Country Club in Clifton Springs, N.Y. • 11:15 a.m. Men’s cross country at SUNY-Cortland’s Jack Daniels Invitational in Cortland, N.Y. • Noon Women’s soccer vs. SUNY-Cortland at Carp Wood Field • 1 p.m. Field hockey vs. Nazareth College at Yavits Field • 1:30 p.m. Football at Lycoming College • 2:30 p.m. Men’s soccer vs. Nazareth College at Carp Wood Field • 3:30 p.m. Volleyball at Rochester Institute of Technology at Empire 8 Crossover in Rochester, N.Y. • 6 p.m. Volleyball vs. Utica College at Empire 8 Crossover in Rochester, N.Y. • TBD Women’s tennis at Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Regional Championships in Geneva, N.Y.

SUNDAY

• 10 a.m. Volleyball vs. Elmira College at Empire 8 Crossover in Rochester, N.Y. • 10 a.m. Golf at William Smith Invitational at Clifton Springs Country Club in Clifton Springs, N.Y. • 3 p.m. Volleyball vs. Nazareth College at Empire 8 Crossover in Rochester, N.Y. • TBD Women’s tennis at Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Regional Championships in Geneva, N.Y.

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• TBD Women’s tennis at Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Regional Championships in Geneva, N.Y.

Wednesday

• 4 p.m. Women’s soccer vs. Elmira College at Carp Wood Field • 4 p.m. Field hockey at SUNY-Oneonta • 4 p.m. Women’s tennis at Utica College Bold = Home game danielle d’avanzo/the ithacan

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From left, senior center Eamon Coyne tries to control the puck as Cornell University senior defender Emilio Tangerini defends him during the men’s club ice hockey team’s season opening 5–2 loss Saturday at Cornell’s Lynah Rink.

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The number of points the football team beat Widener University by Saturday. See story on page 24.

1

The number of races junior Heidi Baumbach has won this season for the women’s cross country team. See story on page 26.

Empire 8 Standings/Overall Records

the foul line

Weird news from the wide world of sports

A lot of people prefer to have things in bulk, whether it’s when they’re buying something or growing it. Professional disc golf player Jeffrey Layland is no exception.

Layland was pulled over for speeding in South Dakota on his way home from a disc golf tournament. When the arresting officer did a perimeter search of Layland’s vehicle with a drug dog, the dog detected something irregular. Layland had stored 78.5 pounds of marijuana in the rear passenger door and in the luggage rack.

Layland faces a felony charge for possession with intent to distribute one pound or more of marijuana and two misdemeanor charges for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. A lesson to those looking to transport large amounts of illegal drugs — don’t speed.

– Jesse Cases

play of the week Caroline Jastremski Sophomore Women’s Soccer In the team’s 2–1 double-overtime win Saturday against previously undefeated Stevens Institute of Technology, Jastremski scored two goals, including the game winner, as the Blue and Gold handed Stevens its first loss of the season.

Prime-time performer Jastremski is third on the team in goals with three and tied for third on the team in assists with three. Jastremski is also third on the team in total points with nine, which matches her total from last season, despite being only six games into the season. Jastremski has started every game this season in the Bombers’ midfield and has had at least one point in four of the Bombers’ six games. Jastremski’s two goal performance against Stevens was the second multi-goal game of her career. She also scored two goals last season in a 10–2 win against Elmira College.

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Nobody can tell me what is wrong with that. I got money from agents when I was in college and I went in the ’80s.

Charles Barkley, former NBA player and current TNT analyst, said like former University of Southern California football player Reggie Bush, he also accepted money from agents while playing at Auburn University from 1981-84.

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Flight control

From left, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute freshman defensive back Ryan Gracy watches as sophomore defensive back Ryan Norland goes to head the ball in the Bombers’ 0–0 double-overtime draw Saturday at Carp Wood Field. The South Hill squad is 0–3–3 overall, 0–2–2 at home, but hasn’t allowed more than three goals in a game this season. kevin Campbell/the ithacan