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Exhibit uncovers local stories of 1918 flu

ALANA increase brings college closer to goal

by Gerald Doherty Senior Writer

the election is to help President Obama win a second term and encourage students to vote.

IC Democrats will sponsor a

Ithaca College is making progress toward achieving its diversity goals.

This year African American, Latino/a, Asian American or Native American students increased their representation at the college to 16.1 percent of the college’s student body, up from 14.9 percent last year. This brings the college closer to its IC 20/20 goal of 20 percent ALANA student enrollment by 2020.

The largest increases were among COLDREN said Hispanic/Latinos the college has plans to conduct a and Black/African- diversity survey.

Americans at 17 students and 42 students, respectively.

Along the lines of IC 20/20, the college is conducting a survey to gauge student, staff and faculty perceptions of diversity at the college. In late October to early November, the Office of Human Resources at the college will send out a survey to assess how the college and its policies are faring in its goal toward greater diversification.

According to the Office of Enrollment and Communication, 16.1 percent of this year’s student population has identified as ALANA: 1,091 students compared to 1,010 last year.

ALANA students make up 18.7 percent of freshmen this year. Last year, 17.9 percent of full-time freshmen were ALANA students. However, this represents a difference of only five students: 296 this year compared to 291 last year.

The college defines diversity as representing people of different backgrounds, including national, ethnic, economic and religious backgrounds.

Many of the recommendations in IC 20/20’s diversity strategic plan include addressing ALANA and international student enrollment and the quality of climate for ALANA, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.

Mark Coldren, associate vice president for human resources, said one goal of IC 20/20 is to have the college body take the survey with a focus on diversity and inclusion for faculty, staff and students to receive feedback on the social climate at the college. The survey has been tested, with the participation of the Office of Institutional Research, at focus groups consisting of students, faculty and staff over the past three weeks.

The college will use the information from the survey to change how it addresses its demographics and environment, Coldren said, and the results should be made available by early spring.

Questions on the survey included topics

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Clockwise from top left, Gail Koch and Aleks Nikolic, of Canandaigua, N.Y., explore the “Grippe: The Epidemic of 1918” exhibit at The History Center on Tuesday afternoon in Ithaca; headline from the Oct. 14, 1918, edition of the Ithaca Journal; medicines from the early 20th century.

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by Kelsey O'Connor editor in chief

The year was 1918. Like thousands of others at the time, Carol Kammen of Dryden, then 12, lay on a davenport sofa suffering from a fever and fierce headache. She remembers the “cursory glance” of the doctor. Downstairs, her father was dying of double pneumonia, the common deadly turn from grippe, or the Spanish influenza. Her two brothers and mother were also ill, along with their neighbor.

The Spanish flu epidemic lasted from 1918

to 1920 and killed more than 50 million people worldwide. In Tompkins County, which had a population of about 35,000, hundreds were affected. Kammen’s story is one of many being featured in “Grippe: The Epidemic of 1918” until December at The History Center in Ithaca.

Curator Catherine Duffy has been researching the Spanish flu for months, through Ithaca Journal articles and other materials from the time, and putting a face to one of history’s deadliest epidemics.

“Everyone was affected by the flu,” Duffy said.

“No one was safe from this at all.”

Typically, the seasonal flu is most likely to affect children and the elderly who have weaker immune systems. This was not the case for the more recent H1N1 flu, which affected people in the “healthy adult” age bracket, most between the ages of 18 and 64. The Spanish flu was a similar story.

Ben Dalziel, a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University, worked with Duffy to map out who

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Student organizations reach out to young voters

By Shea O'MEARA SENIOR WRITER

As Election Day approaches, student organizations like Ithaca College Democrats and Ithaca College Republicans are working to reach out to students to make sure they cast their ballots.

In less than a month, many college voters will be eligible to vote in a presidential election for the first time. Though partisan groups on campus are pushing students to vote through public debate parties during the scheduled political debates and awareness events, many students may fail to cast a ballot because of changing voter identification laws and a lack of information about how to vote.

Senior Robert Oliver, president of IC Republicans, said the group

is focused on informing students about the economy and healthcare.

He said it’s important for students to understand who they are voting for and how that candidate will help recent college graduates enter the workforce.

Analysis of the of U.S. Census Bureau’s 2011 Current Population Survey by researchers from Northeastern University, Drexel University and the Economic Policy Institute found that 53 percent of recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed. Oliver said the numbers should be a motivating factor for students to vote.

“Our future is at risk right now,” he said. “If we stay in the current situation, we’re in with about 50 percent of college

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Freshman David Lesnefsky, member of IC Democrats, makes a phone call to a potential voter during a meeting Tuesday in Friends Hall.

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kids unemployed coming out of college. We’re not going to have any jobs.”

Senior Rob Flaherty, president of IC Democrats, said the group’s primary objective before

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Nation&World Pakistanis rally after teen shooting

Schools shut their doors in protest, and Pakistanis across the country held vigils Wednesday to pray for a 14-year-old girl, Malala Yousufzai, who was shot by a Taliban gunman after daring to advocate education for girls and criticize the militant group.

Yousufzai was in the intensive care unit at a military hospital in Peshawar, recovering from an early morning surgery to remove a bullet from her neck a day after the attack.

A Pakistani official said doctors thought she was out of danger.

The shooting of Yousufzai on Tuesday in the town of Mingora in the volatile Swat Valley horrified Pakistanis across the religious, political and ethnic spectrum. A Taliban gunman walked up to a bus with schoolchildren and shot her in the head and neck. Another girl on the bus was also wounded.

The country’s top military officer, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, issued a statement condemning the attack.

Yousufzai is admired across Pakistan for exposing the Taliban’s atrocities and advocating for girls’ education in the face of religious extremism. Yousufzai began writing a blog when she was 11, under a pseudonym for the BBC, about life under the Taliban and began speaking out publicly in 2009 about the need for girls’ education. The Taliban strongly opposes education for women, and the group has claimed responsibility for the Tuesday attack.

American chemists win Nobel Prize

Two American researchers won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies of protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals like danger or the flavor of food.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka had made ground-breaking discoveries, mainly in the 1980s, on an important family of receptors, known as G-protein-coupled receptors.

About half of all medications act on these receptors, including beta blockers and antihistamines, so learning about them will help scientists to come up with better drugs.

The human body has about 1,000 kinds of such receptors, structures on the surface of cells,

which let the body respond to a wide variety of chemical signals, like adrenaline. Some receptors are in the nose, tongue and eyes and help sense smells, tastes and light.

Lefkowitz, 69, is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.

Kobilka, 57, worked for Lefkowitz at Duke before transferring to Stanford University School of Medicine in California, where he is now a professor.

Earthquake hits Costa Rica streets

Seismologists said a 5.3 magnitude earthquake shocked Costa Rica on Wednesday.

There are no immediate reports of damage.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake occurred at 6:19 a.m. Wednesday and was centered eight miles north-northeast of the town of Nicoya. The epicenter was about 22 miles below the surface.

The agency originally calculated the magnitude as 5.8 but later revised it downward.

French police find bomb materials

French police discovered bomb-making materials in an underground parking lot near Paris as part of a probe of an “extremely dangerous terrorist cell” linked to an attack on a kosher grocery, a state prosecutor said Wednesday.

Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said the discovery of the bomb-making materials late Tuesday in Torcy, east of the capital, led authorities to invoke a rarely used legal clause to allow them to extend questioning of the 12 suspects by a day — and possibly two.

Authorities have been on high alert for possible terror attacks by radical Islamists after a Frenchman, who claimed links to al-Qaida, shot and killed three Jewish children, a rabbi and three paratroopers in southern France in March.

Investigators were led to the parking lot through information collected during questioning of the suspects, who were arrested in weekend raids across France in a probe of a firebombing of the grocery north of Paris last month, Molins said.

Authorities believe the two organizers of the Sept. 19 grenade attack in Sarcelles are in

Pride and petals

Young dancers perform during National Day celebrations at the 101st anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China in front of the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday. During the celebrations, President Ma Ying-jeou pledged greater efforts to fix the island’s economy.

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custody, Molins said. However, he suggested that the two people who actually carried it out could still be at large.

Moscow court releases protester

A Moscow appeals court unexpectedly freed one jailed member of the punk band Pussy Riot on Wednesday but upheld the two-year prison sentences for the two other women jailed for an irreverent protest against President Vladimir Putin.

All three women were convicted in August of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.

They argued in court Wednesday that their impromptu performance inside Moscow’s main cathedral in February was political in nature and not an attack on religion.

The case has been condemned in the U.S. and Europe, where it has been seen as an illustration of Putin’s intensifying crackdown on dissent after his return to the presidency after four years as prime minister.

The Moscow City Court ruled that

Yekaterina Samutsevich’s sentence should be suspended, because she was thrown out of the cathedral by guards before she could remove her guitar from its case and take part in the performance.

Spanish Red Cross to fight poverty

The Spanish Red Cross has launched its first ever campaign for donations to help people in the country hit by the economic crisis.

The Red Cross and other aid groups say soaring unemployment and government austerity measures are leaving tens of thousands of people in need of food and financial help.

Wednesday’s campaign aims to collect $39 million over two years to help an extra 300,000 people. The agency helped some 2 million in Spain last year, most of who needed aid because of the crisis. The agency set up collection points in cities across Spain, and thousands of volunteers paced the streets seeking contributions.

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Speaker sheds light on sexual rights by sara webb Staff Writer

Sex education is about more than contraception and abortion. At the 14th World Congress of Sexology, participants created a Declaration of Sexual Rights that supports individual sexual freedom, extending as far as to a right to sexual pleasure.

After learning about the declaration, students were asked to discuss what human and sexual rights mean to them during the first discussion of the three-part series, “From Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice” hosted by the Women’s Studies program.

Maureen Kelly, vice president for education and training at Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes, kicked off the series by informing students which rights they are and aren’t guaranteed.

Kelly’s discussion centered on sex, sexuality and sexual rights and encouraged students to talk about their experiences in sex education.

Women’s reproductive health has been a prominent issue in the presidential election. Currently, bills are circulating in Congress regarding the personhood of an unborn child and women’s rights to abortion.

Kim Baker, assistant professor and women’s studies coordinator, said members of the Women’s Studies program decided to hold the series because of the debates surrounding birth control and abortion in the election.

“It’s the idea of talking about people’s experiences that are often left out of discussions about reproductive rights and specifically abortion and birth control, but also helping students think about ‘Why does this matter?’ and ‘What can I do about it?’” she said.

President Barack Obama supports abortion and access to affordable contraception, and Governor Mitt Romney supports the reversal of Roe v. Wade and ending government-supported birth control.

According to Planned Parenthood, under the Affordable Care Act, private insurers are now offering birth control and other preventative services without co-pays or deductibles.

“There is a whole lot going on in the media and in political commentary about reproductive rights and especially issues around birth control and abortion,” Baker said. “This stuff matters because we’re voting on it. Wherever you exist on the continuum of political ideology, know what you’re voting for and know the

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Maureen Kelly, vice president for education and training at Planned Parenthood, leads a discussion about education and feminism during an event hosted by the Women’s Studies program Oct. 8.

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impact on your rights.”

Senior Emmet Brault said it is important to have discussions like these with people you love and care about, because it’s important to be able to be sexually free. He believes legislators are trying to stop discussions on reproductive rights. In particular, he said, politicians who are arguing for the existence of legitimate rape.

“It’s important to be able to talk freely about this because it affects us in every sphere, not just personally but also politically,” Brault said.

Kelly also inspired group discussion with a booklet of prompts, “sexuality, human rights and sexual rights … a brief chat,” and encouraged students to talk to one another about what they thought were important sexual issues.

Kelly also covered the Declaration of Sexual Rights, a document approved by the General Assembly of the World Association for Sexology, which includes a list of 11 sexual rights that are guaranteed to each person, such as the right to sexual freedom and the right to sexual health care.

“It’s something most people don’t know about and it broadens the concept of what sexual rights should be for people. People should know this,” Kelly said.

Junior Grace Woodward attended the talk with IC Feminists. She has heard Kelly speak before but had forgotten about the list of sexual rights in the declaration.

Woodward said she believes the declaration is important, because it is something not often talked about, particularly in the government.

“It was cool to see that they were documented somewhere, and that globally we have the rights to these things,” Woodward said.

Two more talks will be offered this semester, “Women with Disabilities: Questioning Assumptions,” hosted by representatives from the Finger Lakes Independence Center, and “Families Torn Apart: Undocumented Immigrant Parents and their U.S. Born Children,” hosted by Mary Jo Dudley.

Kelly ended the workshop with a bingo game designed to facilitate discussion between students about the Declaration of Sexual Rights.

“I wanted to explore pieces of a larger concept that there’s this idea of sexual rights and sexual health and what these broader concepts look like, and to give people a chance to acknowledge that this can be complicated, and it’s bigger and messier and much broader than they’ve ever been taught,” Kelly said.

EcoVillage to build new Passive House community

by Jamie Nash and Kelly Millin

Staff Writer and contributing writer

EcoVillage, a sustainable living community located two miles outside of downtown Ithaca, has begun initial construction on its final neighborhood, using state-of-the-art airtight enclosure technology.

The existing communities, FRoG, First Residents Group, and SoNG, Second Neighborhood Group, run on energy obtained from solar panels and are all EnergyStar certified.

The new TREE community, or Third Residential EcoVillage Experience, will feature the same solar technology as well as a more cutting-edge design called Passive House.

This green-building technology, originally from Germany, uses passive solar and airtight enclosures that regulate the temperature inside the house without wasting energy. Passive Houses are common in Europe, but have not yet gained a prominent presence in the U.S. Passive House design saves about 90 percent of energy used on heating and cooling, Ken Levenson, president of New York Passive House, said.

While it costs more to build a Passive House, the energy savings alone make it more affordable in the long run.

“One can typically expect about

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an eight-year simple payback, but really it is paying for itself from day one,” Levenson said. “You get a more resilient, healthy, comfortable and sustainable building that is affordable.”

Workers installed sewer and water systems for TREE and began building in early October, Liz Walker, co-founder of EcoVillage, said.

“We are hoping to close in between six and 10 units and have them framed with roofs and windows by winter,” Walker said.

TREE is designed to encourage residents to socialize with neighbors and to foster a sustainable and rewarding living environment. It will have 40 stories.

The local demand for energy efficient housing appears to be growing, Craig Modisher of Ironwood Builders, said.

“There are a lot of people that are moving toward Passive Housetype techniques to build low-energy homes,” Modisher said. “And there will be more and more as energy costs go up.”

Though there are currently no certified Passive Houses in Ithaca, EcoVillage’s TREE neighborhood plans to change that, Walker said.

“We’re going to add to that substantially,” Walker said. “We’re

Resident Katie Creeder tends to the U-Pick garden. The garden, which is a part of the EcoVillage, allows the public to pick their own produce.

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expecting about 25 of our homes to be Passive House certified.”

Karryn Olson-Ramanujan, a lecturer of environmental studies and sciences at Ithaca College and a resident of EcoVillage’s first neighborhood, FRoG, said she looks forward to the new technology being implemented into TREE. She said it is important that each new community builds upon the successes of the older ones.

“Each time a new neighborhood is built, the residents and designers try to explore and utilize the best technology they can,” Olson-Ramanujan said.

EcoVillage resident Thaddeus Bates said he and the community members are excited for the addition

of TREE because it demonstrates that sustainable living is succeeding.

“It’s really just a sign that what’s going on here is working,” Bates said. “There’s enough interest, and people are willing to invest the time and energy to keep it going and make it happen.”

Walker is already planning the next venture for the EcoVillage.

Through her non-profit organization, EcoVillage at Ithaca – Center for Sustainability Education, she hopes to build a state-of-the-art education center that reflects the goals of the communities.

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Ithaca mayor Svante Myrick has released a 2013 city budget proposal that puts emphasizes cutting spending and increasing revenue to decrease the budget in the future.

My r i ck ’s proposal, which was released last MYRICK said he intends to cut Tu e s d a y, the city budget by intends to merging programs. address the $3 million deficit Ithaca will face next year. A combination of mergers, 25 unfilled positions across city government and tax increases were highlighted in a press release for Myrick’s 2013 “strategic budget.”

City Controller Steven Thayer said most of Myrick’s proposals were intended for the long term, not specifically next year.

Myrick’s plan states that this refinancing could save the city $700,000 over the next 10 years.

One of the major aspects of Myrick’s plan involves the possible merging of the chamberlain’s department with the controller’s department and the merging of the building department with the planning and development department.

City Chamberlain Debra Parsons said the issue is replacing the expertise of potential retirees.

“If we can do this in a logical and thoughtful way, then those positions will not need to be filled once those people retire.”

Parsons said.

Throughout the city government, 25 positions will be vacated, including nine positions within the Ithaca Police Department, Holcomb said. The proposal recommends that three positions — two firefighters and a building department administrator — be eliminated.

However, Myrick’s proposal also calls for a number of new positions, including a “chief of staff” that will help manage the city’s internal functions and a “director of parking” who will manage parking responsibilities and enforcement between the police and public works departments.

Holcomb said the proposed parking director position will almost pay for itself within two years.

Holcomb said the “chief of staff” position is necessary to help the mayor to manage the departments.

Thayer said the town will hopefully get more outside funding through this route.

“What Myrick is looking to do is go after those opportunities for outside grant funding sources that we’ve been limited in recently,” Thayer said.

Holcomb said the outside funds would go toward necessary city projects, such as Commons renewal, Cayuga inlet dredging and hydrilla removal, that city government currently does not have the money or manpower to fund by itself.

“We know we have a lot of things we have to do right now,” Holcomb said. “There’s an emphasis because Ithaca is starting to develop at a very nice pace. We need the revenue coming in, and sometimes you have to have money to make money.”

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Clubs stress student vote in election VOTE

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Voter ID Cupcake Give-Away on Thursday, and they will give out cupcakes in Campus Center to students who have a valid New York state drivers license or can produce a bill that proves their place of residency.

The event is meant to mirror strict voter reFLAHERTY said it quirements. is necessary for “It’s imstudents to know portant to their voting rights. really know the rules, because they’re sometimes made to be deliberately obtuse and complicated so students, minorities and seniors can’t vote," Flaherty said. “It’s important to know how to exercise your right to vote.”

Since the last national election in 2010, more than a dozen states have changed their laws governing voter registration deadlines and what students will need to vote.

Recently, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned legislation that would require voters to have specific photo identification to be allowed to cast a ballot, because voters would not have enough time to apply for the documents before they must register to vote for the upcoming election.

Sara Massey, media director for Project Vote, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works to educate and mobilize underrepresented voting populations, said the student community does not realize its full potential in political elections and is hindered by strict voter registration laws.

“Students move a lot and don’t have a permanent address,” she said. “When you move, do you go to the DMV every time to get a new ID? No, why would you? The real way to fight restrictive laws is to participate — by showing up.”

Currently, 33 states require voters to provide specific photo identification before they cast a ballot.

Students who will not be in their hometown on election day may apply to vote on an absentee ballot and will then be able to mail their ballots instead of voting in person. In New York state, voters must postmark their application for an absentee ballot by Oct. 30 or apply for an absentee ballot in person by Nov. 5.

Felicia Sullivan, a senior researcher for the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, said students are more likely to cast a ballot if fellow students or organizations encourage them to vote.

“The conventional wisdom will say that young people are politically apathetic, they don’t care and they’re not interested in issues,” Sullivan said. “But that’s really not true. It’s often they lack the fundamental information that helps them make decisions.”

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Past epidemic shapes Ithaca's history FLU

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was most affected by the epidemic at the time. Using mostly obituaries from The Ithaca Journal, he and Duffy found that males between the ages of 20 and 40 were hit hardest. They also found that many infected worked at Cornell.

“Catherine was able to totally reconstruct an epidemic just based on historical research,” Dalziel said. “It’s the most detailed data set for the spread of a disease in the city that I think I’ve ever seen, and it was just done by one person in a couple months.”

Cornell and Ithaca College, which was still a music conservatory at the time, were also heavily affected by the epidemic.

In 1917, the first president of the college, William Grant Egbert, along with his second wife, Mabel, opened their home to students suffering from the flu and turned it into a makeshift infirmary, according to John Harcourt’s 1983 history of the college, “The Ithaca College Story.” A year later, in 1918, Mabel was working “ceaselessly day and night” caring for victims of the flu, but eventually she also became stricken by the illness and died Nov. 2. Duffy said two women from the conservatory died while at the infirmary. It is not known if Egbert got the flu, but he was said to have suffered from “exhaustion and ill health” at the time of Mabel’s death.

“Grippe: The Epidemic of 1918” is designed to tell the story of the people who were affected, rather than just give the statistics, Duffy said.

“It seems like it was a very long time ago, and it’s hard to relate to someone that you don’t know who lived a long time ago,” Duffy said. “But, if you understand who they were and what they did, you see a picture of them, it’s a lot easier to realize they were a person, just like me, and got sick and died.”

The exhibit, which will be completed in about a week, is filled with stories and newspaper clippings of people who were affected. One case features pictures of Cornell students who died either from the flu or in World War I. Others are filled with medical supplies used at the time, such as a metal compress, homeopathic medicine bottles, elixirs and an old inhaler.

Kammen’s letter will also be there. Her family, including her father, eventually survived, but many did not. In some cases, entire families were wiped out. In Tompkins County, there were more than 100 deaths from the Spanish flu reported, Duffy said. The strain of the flu was so powerful that it generally turned into pneumonia.

“At a certain point in the time frame it became so powerful it was called the three-day fever,” Duffy said. “So you got sick on day one, and you were dead by day three.”

After graphing out the data, Duffy and Dalziel found that the largest number of cases were in October and November. According to an Ithaca

Senior Corinne Swanson, an intern at The History Center, worked on the exhibit “Grippe: The Epidemic of 1918" researching flu victims using early 20th century articles from the Ithaca Journal.

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Journal article, as of Oct. 18, 1918, there were about 600 cases of Spanish flu. The hospitals were full, as were Cornell’s infirmary, Sage Hall, Cascadilla Hall and the Masonic Hall. While the Red Cross put out an appeal for more nurses, the board of health kept schools open, saying, “Every teacher has been instructed to watch the pupils in her room closely and to send home any child that shows signs of illness.”

Duffy said the county, like the rest of the country, was unprepared to deal with the illness.

“There just wasn’t enough room for all these sick people, and then add to that the fact that it’s World War I, and a lot of medical professionals had enlisted overseas or serving a greater cause,” she said.

Even after the flu passed, it left lasting effects on the victims. Kammen suffered from ear infections and frequent sickness after. She also suffered long-term ear damage and was told “total deafness was inevitable.” She did recover, however, and never became deaf.

Senior Corinne Swanson, an intern at The History Center, has been researching victims of the flu using newspaper clippings and trying to piece together their lives before they were infected.

One story that jumps out from the time, Swanson said, is of a family with three children under the age of five who all died within a month except for the husband. It’s the human aspect that makes the exhibit interesting, she said.

“It’s going to be really interesting,” Swanson said. “We’re covering a lot of different aspects, so we have the human element where we go through the stories, but then we’re also going to talk about the war and SATC, which is kind of the equivalent of ROTC. We also have a huge medicine exhibit

talking about how epidemics work and how we deal with them today.”

Tompkins County had no plan in place to deal with an epidemic, but New York City did have a public health infrastructure. The state health commissioner at the time, Hermann Biggs, increased surveillance capacities, initiated large-scale health campaigns and regulated public spaces to help decrease the chance of infection and spreading illness.

These days, some institutions are better prepared to deal with sudden outbreaks. In 2009, the college’s Core Emergency Response Team developed a Pandemic Flu Plan after the scare of the bird flu, and broadened it to include pandemics after the H1N1 outbreak, Dave Maley, associate director of media relations, said. It includes steps the college will take in the event of another pandemic and also refers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s pandemic interval chart, which places flu types into five categories based on fatality ratio and projected deaths. The seasonal flu is in category one, while the Spanish flu is in category five.

With recent scares from H1N1 and the bird flu, Duffy said, visitors to the exhibit should think about what would happen in the event of another epidemic, and realize that people are more susceptible than they think.

“It’s important to tell the story, but it’s important for visitors to The History Center who come to see this to just sort of think about how this would affect their lives today,” Duffy said.

“Grippe: The Epidemic of 1918” will be on exhibit from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. until December at The History Center.

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of fairness, equity, personal experience and inclusiveness.

“Do we want to look differently as an organization for students, faculty and staff?” Coldren said. “The answer is, yeah. It is intentional to try to see what that path will be for us.”

The college conducted a similar survey in 2004, gauging student perceptions at the college and found that the climate for ALANA students, women and LGBT students, among others, needed to be improved.

Eric Maguire, vice president for enrollment and communication, said the President’s Advisory Council on Diversity, formed in 2005, sent its recommendations to the president at the same time the college’s strategic planning was beginning, leading those two aspects to merge and form IC 20/20’s diversity initiatives.

One of the main ways the college is attempting to draw a larger ALANA student body is through recruitment at more than 500 high schools across

the country, with a focus on major metropolitan areas and building relationships with organizations in those communities, he said.

“We’re recruiting from a more diverse student population, so that will naturally make for a more diverse incoming class,” Maguire said.

Despite the college’s efforts to attract ALANA students, students of color express concern over the retention rate after enrollment.

Though the college’s general retention rates are available, ALANA retention rates are not made public.

Senior Oluwayeni Ropo-Tusin, president of the African Students Association, said she attended the Summer Institute as part of her pre-freshman program with about 25 other students of color, 10 of whom did not return to the college.

While she said the college has done a good job of reaching out and supporting the various communities on campus, including the LGBT community, the effort falls short for some students.

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cluded on campus, some left because they had financial issues, some left because they could not compete academically,” Ropo-Tusin said.

Senior Kristy Zhen, president of the Asian American Alliance, said she hopes the college will focus more on fostering an inclusive atmosphere by supporting ALANA student organizations and their

events, hiring more staff and faculty of color and making sure academic enrichment services are meeting the needs of students.

The college will continue to work toward representing the many distinct people it employs and educates, Coldren said, as an extension of its mission and the opportunities for learning it seeks to create.

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Election central

WHERE THEY STAND

With a three-part series, The Ithacan will take a look at the most contested issues in the 2012 presidential election

by Jack Curran staff Writer

President Barack Obama supports increased investments in Federal Pell Grants, low interest rates on federal student loans and expanding education tax credits.

Gov. Mitt Romney supports increased private sector involvement in the loan market, a better financial aid system and decreased federal involvement in higher education.

He supports the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons and an immigration system that gives equal opportunity to all immigrants.

He wants to work with the Afghan government to decide on a good time to withdraw troops. He also supports tough sanctions on Iran and an immigration system that favors highly skilled immigrants.

Obama supports the continuation and growth of the Affordable Care Act, which increases spending on Medicaid, places regulations on private insurance companies and was spearheaded and passed by Obama in 2010.

Romney supports the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, the increased privatization of the health insurance market, through the reduction of regulations for the insurance companies and the decreased spending on Medicaid.

He supports the right to abortion and government protection of affordable contraception under the Affordable Care Act and continued subsidies for family planning organizations.

He supports the reversal of Roe v.

Wade, the elimination of government funding for family planning organizations like Planned Parenthood and ending government aid for the purchase of birth control.

With the cost of attending college increasing each year and the number of student loan defaults constantly rising, candidates President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are addressing the privatization of the financial aid system.

Eric Maguire, vice president of enrollment and communication at Ithaca College, said that last year 41 percent of graduating seniors at the college had federal loans and had an average debt of $21,739. Another 26 percent had private loans and an average debt of $38,592.

This election will focus on the role of private companies in the student loan market. Maguire said private and federal loans have different terms but have been able to compete recently.

“You’re seeing the private loans be a little bit more competitive now because interest rates of those loans have dropped,” Maguire said. “Relative to the federal loans, they’ve become a little more attractive in terms of interest rates.”

Foreign policy The recent violence in the Middle East, including Syria’s attack on Turkey on Oct. 3 and the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, has made foreign policy a more prevalent issue in the election.

Robert Nolan, producer and editor at the Foreign Policy Association, said the campaigns have recently begun to focus on foreign policy in the Middle East.

“We’re looking at hot spots like Egypt, Libya, Iran and Israel,” Nolan said. “Those are the areas where the foreign policy debate will focus on.”

Under the Obama administration all U.S. troops were withdrawn from Iraq. Obama plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. Romney is questioning whether leaving Iraq was the right decision and plans to work with the Afghan government before withdrawing troops.

China has also been getting attention in the race. Nolan said the candidates will need to focus on how to deal with China as a world power. This will include dealing with China’s economic and political influence.

The candidates also have varying opinions on how to deal with immigration. Both candidates agree the borders need to be secured, and the immigration system needs to be reformed, but their methods of doing so differ.

Health care The Affordable Care Act, passed in March 2010 and upheld by the Supreme Court in July 2012, is another contested issue. The health care bill is one of the main components of President Barack Obama's campaign, but Republican candidate Mitt Romney has promised to repeal the bill in his first act as president.

The act focuses on lowering the cost of insurance and providing more preventive care. It does this by issuing new rules for private insurance, providing tax credits to businesses to make employee health care more affordable and strengthening Medicare. If the act is repealed, private insurance companies will have more power in deciding how much coverage to provide and the price of their premiums.

While the bill has an effect on many areas of insurance, its provision concerning limited benefits has directly impacted students in college. The act has done away with limited benefit plans, but it is allowing student insurance plans to work their way up to unlimited benefit over the next three years. According to Laura Keefe, manager of health center operations, this year the college’s insurance plan increased its maximum benefit from $10,000 to $100,000. Next year the maximum benefit will be $500,000, and the following year it will be unlimited.

The college’s student insurance plan now includes coverage of preventive care including immunizations and yearly physicals.

It also means premiums for student insurance have increased and will continue to increase. As coverage increases, Keefe said, the cost of insurance must also increase.

“Our premium was $575 last year; this year it’s $1,110,” Keefe said. “Expand coverage, the premium goes up.”

Women's health rights Women’s reproductive health is also playing an important role in this election. Abortion rights and access to affordable contraception are both issues that are up for debate.

There are currently bills in Congress regarding the personhood of an unborn child that would affect a woman’s right to abortion. Many religious and anti-abortion groups support these bills because they consider abortion to be murder.

Women’s rights groups are against these bills. Sybil Shainwald, president of the national women’s health alliance, said the right to abortion and contraception are in danger in this election.

“There’s a clear and present danger to women in this election,” Shainwald said. “Rights that [women] have had for decades are being challenged now.”

Romney has said if elected he will eliminate Title X Family Planning Funding, which provides subsidies for groups like Planned Parenthood.

Maureen Kelly, vice president for programming and communications at Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes, said Planned Parenthood’s ability to provide for women is at risk in the election if Title X funding is taken.

“It’s going to be harder for us, potentially, to provide people with the information and resources they require,” Kelly said.

“That means that people may go without having access to preventive reproductive health care.”

Campaign update

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Higher education

Rachael Hartford, politics columnist for The Ithacan, gives her take on the latest developments of the presidential election.

Presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama hit the campaign trail immediately following last week’s historic debate. They both made stops in battleground states Ohio and Virginia, two of the nine or 10 that are still considered to be competitive. With less than four weeks left before the election, candidates are down to the wire and working to court the small population of undecided voters in those states that will ultimately determine who becomes president.

Obama will need to be particularly aggressive in battleground states after his lackluster debate performance last week. Many Americans, as well as the media, have declared Romney the winner of the debate. The widely received notion that he did better than Obama helped Romney turn things around in an unprecedented way. Romney is closing the gap that Obama created following his Democratic National Convention success and the series of Romney faux pas — like the 47 percent secret video leak in which he claimed 47 percent of Americans are dependent on the government because they “believe that they are victims” and “pay no income tax” — that hindered his campaign.

However, likely voters are another story. Among voters that are not just registered but likely to turn out to the polls and cast their vote, Romney has the edge over Obama, 49 percent to 47 percent.

To read the complete analysis, go to www.theithacan.org/26334.

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Professor keeps math musical Timothy Johnson, professor of music theory, history and composition at Ithaca College, was recently inducted into the Ithaca College chapter of the Pi Mu Epsilon Math Honors Society.

His works relating music theory to mathematics, including a book about diatonic theory, a musical technique that applies mathematics to a repeating musical scale and its relationship to music, and a chapter in “Music Theory and Mathematics: Chords, Collections, and Transfor- JOHNSON said mations,” has helped him he integrates his become a prominent fig- interests with ure in both the music and math theory. mathematics communities at the college.

Johnson said his book, “Foundations of Diatonic Theory: A Mathematically Based Approach to Music Fundamentals,” is a textbook that takes advanced ideas in mathematical music theory and presents them in a way that students, even in an introductory course, would appreciate.

Staff Writer Kristen Mansfield spoke with Johnson to discuss his wide range of interests and recent induction into the society.

Kristen Mansfield: Which of your works do you think got you recognized in the Math Honors Society?

Timothy Johnson: Probably my book on mathematics and music and my chapter in another book — I’ve been invited to speak at the Mathematics Association of America, and my math colleagues went to the talk, too.

We talked about different aspects of the relationship between music and mathematics.

Quite a few of my mathematics colleagues here are interested in that, so I think that caught their attention to my work. They also invited me to speak at the sophomore seminar for math majors, and I’ve given a talk at that event twice.

KM: You’ve written books in various fields, including baseball, music and math, how did you develop such a wide range of interests?

TJ: They’re all about music. But I like baseball — it’s one of my hobbies, so that’s an obvious fit for me. Also, one of my favorite composers [Charles Ives] had a piece about baseball, and that is sort of what sparked my interest in that project.

I always liked math but I didn’t pursue it past high school ... Then my other project was on John Adams, a composer I’ve been interested in for a long time. The opera continues to get performed, so it seemed like an interesting project to study that opera in detail and to do it from an interdisciplinary perspective.

KM: Is that something you try to teach your students?

TJ: I’m teaching an Ithaca seminar this semester on mathematics in music, and I’ve taught a freshman honors seminar a couple years ago for music majors on mathematics in music. When I teach inform and analysis classes, which I’m teaching now, the first project we did was on a scene in the movie “Philadelphia,” in which an aria gets played … and I set up a paper assignment for the students in which they have to talk about the opera, the music and the film and relate them all together. There are lots of little things like that where I like to bring in different areas outside of music.

KM: What does it mean to you to be in this society, along with the other music societies you’re in?

TJ: It’s a tremendous honor to be selected for any honors society, but outside of one’s field is pretty unusual … A little piece of me thinks it’s kind of ironic because I’m a music theorist, not a mathematician. It’s kind of cool.

Raise the roof

Hale Roofing construction worker Dan Decker of Elmira, bevels around a drain on the roof of the Center for Natural Sciences building. The roof is being converted to a taper drainage system that directs the rain water to the center of the roof and surrounding drains.

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College & City Choral director to retire after 35 years of service

Lawrence Doebler, director of choral activities, will be retiring at the end of the academic year after spending 35 years at Ithaca College.

Doebler was also the music director at the First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca for 26 years. To honor his retire- DOEBLER ment, the church named its music library after Doebler. The musical collection contains more than 900 choral and orchestral works, including the music for the children’s choirs that he enjoyed working with.

The School of Music will hold the “Choral Reunion” concert, featuring the Ithaca College Choir and School of Music alumni, to honor Doebler at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Ford Hall.

Doebler plans to relocate to North Carolina with his wife, Patty, after his retirement.

County to improve roads with Southern Tier grant

Tompkins County has been awarded a $512,000 grant from the Southern Tier Regional Economic Development Council Community Revitalization Program to help fund local infrastructure projects.

The grant will go toward repairing Pine Tree Road and repairing the bridge and roads between Route 366 and Maple Avenue. It will also fund the expansion of bicycle paths on the East Hill and Cornell University

areas as well as the proposed bikeway from Varna to Dryden.

The projects are advancing New York’s Smart Growth Public Infrastructure Policy and the county’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Policy, because the county is repairing existing infrastructure instead of creating new roads, and fuel emissions will decrease by repairing bike paths.

The repairs are scheduled to begin in 2013 and be completed within a year.

For more information about the economic plans, visit www.regionalcouncils.ny.gov.

College Broadcasters Inc. nominates ICTV programs

ICTV’s “Newswatch 16” and “Freshmen” are nominated as finalists for best shows in their categories by the National Student Production Awards, sponsored by College Broadcasters Inc. “Newswatch,” Tompkins County’s only local news program, is a finalist for “Best TV Newscast,” while “Freshmen” is a finalist for “Best TV Comedy.”

The award winners will be announced Oct. 25-27 during the CBI Atlanta convention.

Canadian festival screens Ithaca professor’s movie

Cathy Lee Crane, associate professor of media arts, sciences and studies, was selected to screen one of her films at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema. Crane’s film, “Pasolini’s Last Words,” is an experimental biography that follows Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1975 murder

and his final texts. Pasolini was an Italian film director, writer and political figure.

The festival is featuring screenings of Crane’s film twice throughout the duration of the festival until Oct. 21 in Montreal.

Group to honor Sgrecci with award for excellence

Carl Sgrecci, vice president for the division of finance and administration, will receive Ithaca College’s To a s t m a s t e r Club’s “Polished Apple” award at the club’s 10th anniversary event at 9 a.m. Nov. 7 in Emerson Suites.

To receive the award, Sgrecci SGRECCI had to adhere to the Toastmaster Club’s dedication to service and excellence while respecting individuals.

Sgrecci will be retiring Aug. 31, 2013, after serving the college for 45 years.

Cornell bird lab catalogs birds of paradise species

National Geographic and Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology collaborated to research New Guinea’s tropical birds, the birds of paradise.

Tim Laman, National Geographic photographer, and Edwin Scholes, Cornell ornithologist and biodiversity video curator for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, collaborated to author “Birds of Paradise: Revealing the World’s Most Extraordinary Birds,” which will be published Oct. 23.

Public Safety Incident Log SEPTEMBER 24 Medical Assist/ Injury Related Location: Dillingham Center Summary: Caller reported a person twisted their ankle while dancing. One person transported to the Health Center.

Master Patrol Bruce Holmstock.

Fire Alarm Accidental Location: College Circle Apartment Summary: Simplex reported a fire alarm. The activation was caused by burnt food. System reset. Master Patrol Officer Mark Denicola.

SEPTEMBER 25 Fire Alarm Accidental Location: College Circle Apartment Summary: Simplex reported a fire alarm. The activation was caused by burnt food. System reset. Master Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

Fire Alarm Accidental Location: College Circle Apartment Summary: Simplex reported a fire alarm. The activation was caused by burnt food. System reset. Master Patrol Officer James Landon.

Medical Assist/ Injury Related Location: Fitness Center Summary: Caller reported injuring a knee while playing basketball. The individual was transported to the health center.

Master Patrol Officer James Landon.

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Unlawful Poss. of Marijuana Location: College Circle Apartment Summary: One person was judicially referred for unlawful possession of

marijuana, underage possession of alcohol and tampering with physical evidence. One person was judicially referred for violation of college drug policy and underage possession of alcohol. One person judicially referred for underage possession of alcohol.

Master Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

Unlawful Poss. of Marijuana Location: College Circle Apartment Summary: During a safety inspection, a caller reported finding drug paraphernalia. One person was judicially referred for unlawful possession of marijuana and violation of the drug policy. Master Patrol Officer Chris Teribury.

Fire Alarm Accidental Location: College Circle Apartment Summary: Simplex reported a fire alarm. The activation caused by steam from a shower. System reset. Master Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

Fire Alarm Accidental Location: College Circle Apartment Summary: Simplex reported a fire alarm. The activation was caused by marijuana smoke. System was reset.

Master Patrol Officer Mark Denicola.

Off-Campus Incident Location: All Other Summary: The IPD reported eight people were arrested for various noise, alcohol and littering violations. Master Security Officer Wendy Lewis.

Case Status Change Location: College Circle Apartment Summary: Officer reported one person was issued an appearance ticket for the Town of Ithaca Court for unlawful

Laman and Scholes initially began to work together in 2003 to catalog all 39 species of the birds of paradise. The National Geographic Expeditions Council and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology funded the 18 expeditions Laman and Scholes conducted to gather all of their research.

Laman and Scholes will present their research on the birds of paradise at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Statler Hall Auditorium.

Alum to talk about LGBT identity and social issues

Zack Ford ’07, editor of ThinkProgress LGBT for the Center for American Progress, will be the featured speaker for National Coming Out Day. Ford will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday in Emerson Suites.

Ford’s presentation, titled “Can You Come Out Without Enlisting in the Culture War?” will explore the challenge of how to deal with the impact of how people engage in their identities and society.

During his time at the college, Ford served as the student body president and an orientation leader, and he was a Harvey Milk Award recipient for his work with LGBT outreach.

The Center for LGBT Education, Outreach and Services will host Ford’s presentation as one of the events for LGBT month.

In the past, speeches have been presented by speakers from various professional fields including research, media, writing, the arts, advocacy and activism, law and public policy.

Cornell to host series about Greek fiscal crisis

Cornell University will sponsor journalist John Psaropoulos, who will give a lecture on the financial crisis in Greece.

The presentation, titled “The Makings of the Greek Crisis” will focus on the origins of the financial crisis and discuss the impact on the Greek citizens after the new financial measures that the European Union established.

The talk is part of Cornell’s fall speaker series “Greece and the Euro,” which focuses on the Greek financial crisis in detail.

Psaropoulos’s speech is the first of a three-part series. The second two presentations will be presented by Giorgos Kaminis, mayor of Athens.

Psaropoulos is an independent journalist who has worked for NPR, PBS and Al Jazeera.

Psaropoulos’s lecture is open to the public and will begin at 4 p.m. Oct. 18 in room 401 of Cornell’s Physical Science Building.

County publicizes survey to gain community input

The Tompkins County Health Department is seeking input from the community for a new strategic planning process to set goals for the health department for the next five years.

The health department is asking that community members interested in participating in the planning process complete the survey by 5 p.m.

Oct. 17.

To take the survey, visit www. tompkins-co.org.health.

selected entries from september 24 to october 3

possession of marijuana for an incident that occurred Sept. 26 in the College Circle Apartment. Master Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

Larceny Location: Fitness Center Summary: Caller reported an unknown person stole a bag. Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

october 1 Fire Alarm Accidental

Location: College Circle Apartment Summary: Simplex reported a fire alarm.

The activation was caused by steam from a shower. System reset. Fire and Building Safety Coordinator Ron Clark.

october 2 Conduct code viol. Danger to self Location: Garden Apartments Summary: Caller reported a person had taken pills and alcohol around 5 p.m. Oct. 1 to harm themselves. Officer took person into custody under mental hygiene law 9.41.

Person was transported to CMC by ambulance and judicially referred for danger to self. Master Patrol Officer Mark Denicola.

Off-Campus Incident Location: All Other Summary: Caller left a voicemail with administrative services reporting a vehicle driving erratically at 4 p.m. Oct. 1. Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock.

Criminal Trespass Location: West Tower Summary: Caller reported a person swore, yelled and refused to leave the

caller’s room at about 10 p.m. Oct. 1.

Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Dan Austic.

Assist Ithaca Police Department Location: All Other Summary: Caller reported a person filed a physical and sexual assault complaint with the City of Ithaca Police Department. IPD investigation pending.

Sergeant Investigator Tom Dunn.

Change in the Case Status Location: Gannett Center Summary: Officer interviewed a person regarding the criminal trespass/ harassment incident reported Oct. 2 in West Tower. One person was judicially referred for conduct. Master Patrol Officer Don Lyke.

october 3 Assist Ithaca Police Department Location: All Other Summary: IPD reported nine people were arrested and issued appearance tickets for alcohol and other offenses.

Communications Specialist Brad Fisher.

Welfare Check Location: Terraces Summary: Caller reported a person has expressed suicidal thoughts for months.

Officer reported there was no imminent threat and the person is getting assistance.

Master Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury.

Fire Alarm Accidental Location: College Circle Apartment Summary: Simplex reported a fire alarm. The activation was caused by burnt food. System reset. Master Patrol Officer James Landon.

Medical assist/ Injury Related Location: Athletics and Events Center Summary: Caller reported a person dove into the pool and sustained back and head injuries. Person transported to Robert Packer Trauma Center by ambulance. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

Conduct Code Viol. Danger to Self Location: Terraces Summary: Caller reported a person took pills to harm themselves. Officer took person into custody under mental hygiene law 9.41. The person was transported to CMC by ambulance and was referred judicially for danger to self. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

Medical Assist/ Injury Related Location: Hill Center Summary: Caller reported a person injured an ankle during cheerleading practice.

Person declined medical assistance with ambulance. Patrol Officer Robert Jones.

Fire Alarm Accidental Location: College Circle Apartment Summary: Simplex reported a fire alarm.

The activation was caused by burnt food.

System reset. Patrol Officer Patrick Johnson.

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

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Vote of Confidence

With deadlines for voter registration looming, students must take the initiative to make sure their voices are heard in the upcoming presidential election.

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he presidential election may be a month away, but unregistered potential voters must act now if they want to make a difference.

In New York state, Friday, Oct. 12 is the last day to postmark a mailed-in registration application for the general election. In most places, Oct. 30 is the last day to postmark an application for an absentee ballot. Nov. 5 is the last day to postmark a mailed-in ballot. Students can check the government websites of their home states to see if registration is still open there. It’s your choice to register in the state where your campus is or where your home is located.

Registering to vote takes less time than brewing a cup of coffee in the morning. It takes less time than walking across the Ithaca College campus and certainly less time than watching an episode of whatever reality show is a must-see this week.

With uncertain job prospects and higher debt, it’s no wonder many students decide to simply tune out during election years, unsure about their power to make a noticeable difference when it come to politics.

So be selfish if you have to. If you don’t believe your vote matters in the election, then vote because you believe in basic freedoms. Vote because you want to prove to yourself that you have a strong voice with strong convictions. Vote because, whether your candidate wins or loses, you want to at least prove you are capable of making a choice.

Forty-six million people aged 18-29 are eligible to vote, but fewer than half are registered. It’s easy to feel indifferent, but it’s also easy to become a mail-in voter or file for an absentee ballot.

Whether it’s watching the upcoming debates, or at least clips of the debates from “The Daily Show,” educating yourself on the candidates and the issues, by whatever means, is a crucial step to ensure that your vote represents your voice.

Key decision

By moving the off-campus application process from the spring semester to the fall, Ithaca College effectively prioritizes students’ needs for housing decisions.

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he Ithaca College Office of Residential Life has opened the door to an improved off-campus housing application process.

By approving students for off-campus housing in the fall semester rather than the spring, the college will better serve students who typically must sign rental agreements in the fall.

Under this new system, students will be able to know earlier and can look for off-campus housing without worrying if or when they will be approved.

However, Residential Life will not know the number of incoming students for the following year by the fall. The college must estimate the dorm rooms it has to fill without knowing definite numbers for the next incoming class. Ideally, the college should avoid erring on the side caution, and not drastically reduce the number of students allowed off campus.

Under this policy, the college is putting students in a better position to make responsible decisions regarding housing.

your letters Former Buzzsaw Magazine editors call on Rochon to rescind policy We write to express concern about the new media policy recently instituted at Ithaca College. While President Rochon claims that this is merely a way to “facilitate” interviews, it should be recognized for what it really is — an unnecessary and bureaucratic attempt to control access to information and decision-makers at the college. This new policy creates a layer of PR so that the college can make sure every story is spun to its liking.

In practice, what this policy will mean is that student journalists working on tight deadlines will end up with more instances of “could not be reached for comment” in their stories. It will also mean that the administration, not the student reporters and editors, get to decide who is the most “appropriate” person to comment for a story.

That is a real blow to transparency and openness at a college that supposedly

Former Buzzsaw editors: Kate Sheppard ’06 Emily Gallagher ’06 Jeremy Levine ’06 Emily McNeill ’08 Kiley Edgley ’06 David Cooper Moore ’06 Jessica McCoy ’06

Free access to interview sources important for student journalists During my twenty years at Ithaca College, I have been approached by

numerous Ithacan staff for interviews and, never once, for the wrong reasons.

I haven’t always been happy with how someone has reported something I said, but I know that being able to identify the right people for an interview, track them down, and have free access to them are all essential to learning to be a journalist.

I should also say that my reactions to this policy are shaped by my own experiences working as a journalist during one of the harshest military dictatorships in Pakistan, that of General Zia ul Haq; in fact, I was given political asylum in the U.S. because of his persecution of journalists. I am, therefore, very conversant with the many faces of censorship and feel negatively towards all regimes of discipline and control, no matter how benignly they are presented.

Asma Barlas, Professor and Director, The Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity

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prides itself on a world-class communication program. We expect this kind of controlling policy from government and business entities, not from an institution that claims to cherish academic and press freedoms.

As graduates of Ithaca College and former editors of Buzzsaw, we ask that the school rescind this policy and restore open communication between student media and administrators.

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Policy not aimed to hinder student media I

’d like to take this opportunity to clear the misapprehension that surrounds the new policy for interactions between student media and representatives of the Ithaca College administration.

As I wrote to the student media in announcing the policy, it is strictly limited to situations in which they wish to interview a member of the Ithaca College leadership team, defined as members of the Administrative Assembly, about college policies or developments. The procedure for speaking with all faculty members, all students, all third parties and all staff who are not in Administrative Assembly remains unchanged — they can be contacted directly.

If the interview topic is not related to college policies or developments, administrators may also be contacted directly. Additionally, media may contact anyone directly on urgent or breaking news; I only ask that they acknowledge to their prospective interviewee that they have not gone through our media relations office.

Finally, the policy does not apply to students working on class projects, an exclusion intended to protect academic freedom. As always, we ask students to be judicious in making interview requests in these instances and to take into account the fact that administrators may not be immediately available to respond to inquiries.

Why did I deem this policy necessary in the first place? Media relations offices have been developed in organizations of all kinds to help journalists navigate to the source(s) best able to provide the specific information they are looking for. Our media relations office, headed by Dave Maley, has done this job effectively for external media outlets for years. For student reporters, just as for the professional journalists at the Ithaca Journal or The New York Times, a media relations contact facilitates getting the information and quotes one needs for a story.

The “system” this replaces is one in which student reporters tended to focus their interview requests on the president and vice presidents for many stories in which other individuals might be

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Ithaca College President Tom Rochon implemented a new policy requiring on-campus student media to first contact the office of media relations to interview members of the Administrative Assembly.

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better positioned to comment. The volume of requests flowing into a few offices at times detracted from our ability to focus on our actual jobs. By pointing student journalists in the right direction to begin with, the media relations office can help match up reporters and appropriate sources in a timely fashion.

I have let the media know that they should tell us if they find that the policy is preventing them from obtaining reasonable access to IC administrators. If that occurs, we will tweak the policy to fix any unanticipated problems.

Contrary to claims that some have made, neither in intent nor in application will this policy lead to censorship or a reduction in the number or

variety of Ithaca College “voices” in news stories.

I anticipate that there will be an increase in the range of IC voices in news stories, since the media relations office is more knowledgeable about IC’s organizational structure than reporters — student or independent — could possibly be.

Our student media will have the same access to administrators that non-affiliated outlets have always enjoyed. I am proud of the work that our student journalists do on a daily basis, and this policy should in no way hinder them in continuing to learn and practice their craft.

Tom ROchon is the president of Ithaca College.

Email him at president@ithaca.edu.

guest commentary

Breast cancer diagnosis fails to diminish strong spirit

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fter I heard the words, “I’m so sorry to tell you, but you have breast cancer,” I decided to accept the things that cannot be changed and to change the things I could. I took the bull by the horns and found all the good there is to find when faced with a cancer diagnosis.

Don’t get me wrong, a cancer diagnosis totally sucks, and it took me awhile to find my way and move into Karen a more positive Horn-Fries state of mind.

On this detour in my life, I decided to see the glass as half full, to surround myself with those who love me, to disengage myself from negative energy and to look for and find the best things life has to offer. What other choice is there than being positive and keeping an optimistic outlook when life throws curveballs at you? Being sad and curling up in a ball was not an option for me. Negative thoughts take more energy, and there is no productivity in them. Every situation has something good and positive.

You just need to open your eyes to that possibility and then find it, hiding there in the chaos.

The first thing I did to regain control of my life was to cut my hair and donate it. That way I was

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Participants walk in the 2012 Ithaca College Relay for Life, an all-night event held every March to raise funds for the American Cancer Society.

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helping someone else and preparing myself for the complete loss of my hair. Amazingly, that happened fairly quickly after starting chemotherapy. The day after I had my husband shave my head, I began my list of pros of cancer. Over the long months of treatment my list grew, and I was very surprised at all the pros. How could there be good in having cancer? The answer was right in front of me.

To start, I didn’t have to shave my legs for months. My girlfriends were actually jealous! I could get ready to go anywhere in 15 minutes or less.

No hair to shampoo, dry, style and fuss with, let alone the shampoos,

conditioners and styling products I didn’t need to buy. I could show my individuality with different hats, scarves and bandanas. There was always something to wear on my head that matched every outfit I wanted to wear. I could now wear many different styles of earrings, and they weren’t hidden by my long hair. I had the clearest skin I had ever had in my life. Who knew that could be a benefit to chemotherapy? I had a great excuse to take naps in the afternoon, and I received some wonderful gifts from friends and family.

Cancer has introduced me to a number of amazing nurses, doctors, survivors, fellow cancer patients,

caregivers and volunteers. I have seen the immense generosity of complete strangers and the power of a smile. I learned to say “I love you” a little more often and hug a little bit tighter. Cancer has taught me forgiveness, patience, kindness and acceptance. Cancer has renewed my faith in God and my fellow man.

Cancer has made me stronger, braver and more courageous. Cancer has made me cry with great emotion.

Cancer can do many things, but I didn’t allow it to crush my spirit or defeat me.

I have learned that there is always someone out there who is worse off than I am. I have learned that laughter really is the best medicine, and it is OK to laugh when I have cancer. Cancer does not have to control my life. I have learned that it is OK to talk about my cancer.

Cancer still sucks, and the fear of the unknown can grip and paralyze.

How I decide to overcome that fear is what is important. Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear.

Optimism is better than despair.

Cancer has changed my life forever.

But most of all, cancer has turned me into a survivor.

To learn more about National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, visit www.nbcam.org.

Karen M. Horn-Fries ’91 was diagnosed with cancer in January. Email her at karenmariefries@msn.com.

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

he flu can be one of the most dangerous health conditions on a college campus because of the close proximity of people, but only 10 percent of students received a flu vaccine in 2009, according to a University at Buffalo study.

The study said this is mostly a result of students’ lack of knowledge about the flu itself and what vaccines prevent it. Now that flu season is upon us, there are some important facts to know about this year’s vaccine.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, anyone over the age of 6 months should get a flu vaccine. The vaccine, however, does not protect against all strains of influenza.

Three strains are included in this year’s vaccine: the influenza A H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, the influenza A H3N2 virus and the influenza B virus. These strains were chosen based on what global surveillance determined to be most likely to circulate this season. The effectiveness of last year’s vaccine was about 60 percent.

There are three types of influenza: A, B and C. Type A is most common and usually found in humans and animals. Type B mutates at a rate twice as slow as type A. Types B and C are found in humans. Among type A there are eight influenza strains people are not protected against with this year’s vaccine, and it does not protect against the influenza C virus.

There are problems with the selected strains the vaccine targets.

Viruses can chemically change over time, and a person’s body may not produce a response fast enough. When someone receives a vaccine, it tells the body to build antibodies against certain virus strains — if people come in contact with that virus, their bodies are prepared to get rid of it.

However, it takes the vaccine up to two weeks to build antibodies against the virus, so if anyone is exposed to the flu less than two weeks after getting the vaccination, they can become infected.

Flu vaccines lose their effectiveness over time. People can be at risk of the flu if it’s been more than a year since their last vaccination.

In some cases, the body doesn’t build enough antibodies or is overwhelmed with high levels of exposure to the virus. This is most common in people with weakened immune systems.

The CDC says people with asthma, diabetes, chronic lung disease, who are pregnant or over the age of 65 are at highest risk for the flu.

Vaccines may have some downfalls, but experts still recommend the annual vaccine. A vaccine reduced the chances of getting the seasonal flu, but also reduces the chance it will spread to others.

Kari Beal is a senior journalism major with a minor in health. Email her at kbeal1@ithaca.edu.

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Home away from Home Campus Center employee comforts students with lunchtime greetings

Blondeva Brooks sit s at the entrance of Grab and Go at Ca is in charge of scan mpus Center dining ning students’ IDs

hall. Brooks at the popular lun chtime spot, amon g other tasks. rachel wo olf/the ithacan

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I spoil the [students].

But with this job I have learned that I love my students, and my students love me. I’ve never had so many hugs in my life ’til I got here.

Noon. Even during the peak lunch rush everyone is greeted, and everyone gets a goodbye. The hug tally is already up to four.

“Have a nice day,” she calls from the register.

“Thanks, you too Blondie.”

She straightens the napkin container on the table, aligning it with the bowl of mints. A pause, and then a glance of satisfaction when it is back in its proper place.

After work, Brooks enjoys spending time with her grandchildren, especially cooking with them. Her husband taught her how to cook Cuban food — black beans and rice, and pork. But she’s known for her sweet potato pie, a family recipe she swears no one will ever get ahold of.

“Excuse me!” she calls, spotting a student trying to take two juices from the cooler. “You get one drink, or two milks. That’s what the sign says.”

It doesn’t matter if the student is sneaking the extra drink in a pocket, in the white lunch bag or even grabbed from the cooler itself — Brooks knows it. Before 1 p.m., she’s seen 425 students pass by.

Sophomore Ryan Kennedy said it’s always nice to hear her voice because it helps improve his day.

“She always remembers that I want two swipes,” he said. “She knows my face, no matter what I wear.”

Brooks said she will probably stay at the college for another two years before retiring.

“When I decide to really, really retire, I want to go to Georgia,” she said. “I’m going to find me a little house on the hill with a white picket fence with my chickens and hogs and cows and a garden over there with vegetables.

That’s what my eye is shining on.”

After closing at 2 p.m., Brooks restocks her cooler of drinks. She has them sorted so every label is turned facing out. It’s perfectly aligned, with all of the containers facing the exact same way.

“My momma always said you eat with your eyes, not your stomach,” she said.

Brooks calls the students here her other family.

“I have conversations with some of the students who will say, ‘You know Mrs. Blondie, you always make me feel so good. I miss my mom, I’m sick today, but you always look out for us,’” she said.

The next morning, she begins again. She will pick out her fruit, arrange her table, swipe IDs, greet the students, restock her cooler and then go home to her grandkids.

She scans the room. Everything is in its proper place.

“Have a nice day.”

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opinion editor towel of its own to make it easier to read — and places a few yellow bananas into her drawer, saving them for the “Hi, how are you?”

It’s the mantra at the Campus Center Grab and Go, ID office employees.

“I spoil the [students],” she said. “But with this job I the phrase every diner hears, asked in a polite tone with have learned that I love my students, and my students genuine sincerity.

From 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Monday through love me. I’ve never had so many hugs in my life ’til I Friday, Blondeva Brooks scans the ID card of everyone got here.”

In Florida, Brooks was a certified respiratory therapist picking up a quick bagged lunch. And she greets them at Boca Raton Community Hospital. For 15 years she adall individually.

Brooks arrives at 8:30 a.m. to choose the fruit for the ministered stress tests and breathing treatments.

She moved to Ithaca in 1998, 10 years after her current day. One by one, she unwraps pears from their paper in a large cardboard box, looking for defects. The rejects are husband had accepted a job as a chef at Cornell Univerleft in Campus Center dining hall. After all, she points sity. For those 10 years she visited him only on holidays, out, the Grab and Go students only get one piece of fruit, about four times every year. Looking through the paper preparing for the move, she saw a job for a prep cook at so it has to be a good one.

“I like my students to have nice fruit, so I take my the college and applied.

“I said, ‘I really, really need a time picking it out,” she said. “That job,’” Brooks said. “I called every sign says ‘Grab and Go,’ not ‘Kneel day for a week, and I got a job in the Down and Look for Fruit.’”

Tower Club making sandwiches Brooks was born and raised in and washing dishes.”

Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where, with Brooks worked at the Tower her six sisters and three brothers, Club for two years before moving she helped her mother pick beans. to the Terrace Dining Hall, where Her father, part Cherokee, was a she worked for three years before welder for 45 years. She is, as she falling and injuring the rotator cuff delicately puts it, in her 60s. in her shoulder. That, paired with Brooks has four children from an ACL tear in her knee, led her to her previous marriage — two boys and two girls. She is a grandmoth–Blondeva brooks the job at the Grab and Go register.

At 10:30 a.m., she moves slowly er to 14 and a great-grandmother toward the door. Open for business. to six. Her own mother is still “Hi, how are you?” she kindly alive at age 90, meaning her famasks every student. ily stretches across five generations.

Most students respond with a simple “Fine” or Her youngest daughter, Kimberly Brooks, lives in Florida. Kimberly said her mom always tells her how “Good,” but some ask a question in return: “I’m good, how are you Blondie?” much she loves her job at Ithaca College.

“I’m fine, thank you.”

“She tells me, ‘I don’t know if I can do without the But life for Brooks hasn’t always been fine. When she job, or the job can do without me,’” she said. “She loves all the students at the college. You guys have my prized moved to Trumansburg, she said her children and grandchildren dealt with racism, with others telling them to “go treasure up there.”

By 9:20 a.m., Brooks has finished sorting her fruit back to Africa.” But Brooks made it a priority to face the for the day. She places a vase of flowers on her table out discrimination head on, protecting her family, and over front. She straightens the ID scanner — propped up on a time it faded little by little.

But in the summer of 2005 her house caught fire — an act Brooks is fairly certain was arson. She stayed there two or three more years before making the move to Ithaca. She stayed until she was ready to leave. No one was going to decide her place but her.

Ithaca, N.Y.

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. home in Florida.

A younger Brooks poses at her courtesy of blondeva brooks

From left, Venessa Brooks and Wen dy Knowles pose with their sister Blondeva. The three sisters grew up together in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

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Internet explorer Staff Writer Sarah Kasulke tackles the complex World Wide Web in search of some funky trends.

“Cosmo tip #441: for the entire month of October, add ‘spooky’ to the beginning of his name when addressing him.” No. No, do not do this. But if you want the best parody of the sex advice that’s made itself a parody, look to the Tumblr blog Exxxpert Cosmo Tips, the best worst sex advice from the Internet.

While I’d likely be banned from writing the English language ever again if I repeated some of the acts they suggest to “please your man,” allow me to cover some of the tamer ones.

“Read the lyrics of Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ in bed as erotic literature,” “Lovingly feed him your toenail clippings” and “If he falls in love with another girl, cut him in half and share him.” Which, honestly, is only slightly more outlandish a suggestion than some of the stuff in Cosmo they aim to mock.

The blog features more than a few bizarre pictures of things that could loosely be described as “sexual” but more accurately described as “the stuff of nightmares.” When asked what purpose the blog serves and what their mission statement is, one of the founders, Alex, said, “I see the blog mainly as a comedic outlet for me. I have always loved to make people laugh and I wish I could go into comedy as a profession. Sometimes I will write a tip or reblog an image or video onto Exxxpert Cosmo Tips that is both funny and thought provoking.

But honestly, for the most part it’s me making stupid sex jokes.”

Look out for their upcoming release this winter, “50 Dumb Sex Jokes to Please Your Man.” Just try and skip the tips about toenail clippings!

Follow Kasulke’s blog, “Internet Explorer” online at www.theithacan. org/blogs.

Give me some fin

Senior Alyssa Onofreo was carried out by sophomore Austin Scharfstein, junior Patrick Ring and senior Alex Llaurado while dressed as a bubble-blowing mermaid during the swimwear portion of the Mr. and Ms. Ithaca Pageant at 8 p.m. Monday in Emerson Suites.

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New Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream takes new spherical shape

Fab

One small step for man, one giant lick for mankind.

Renowned ice cream connoisseurs Haagen-Dazs released its new Ice Moon ice cream cake, which takes the spherical shape of the moon. The ice cream contains craters to make it look more authentic There are two flavors available: white moon, which is layered with macadamia nut, merengue and raspberry ice cream, and orange moon, which consists of nutty and caramel ice cream with vanilla. Designed by London-based Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien, the lunar treat is only available in Europe and Asia for now, but it’ll be here in time for the holidays when everyone will clearly be eating ice cream.

— Jackie Eisenberg

wtf!

Smile-Inducing appliance helps lift users’ moods

Having a bad day? The HappinessCounter helps users feel better by detecting a smile on their face. Created by Rekimoto Labs in Japan, the device is composed of a camera and facial recognition software. The device is meant to make people smile because Rekimoto Labs believes smiling even when you’re sad can lift your mood. The HappinessCounter has been implemented mainly on refrigerators. The facial recognition software will grant users access to the refrigerator only when he or she is smiling. The door remains locked if the software detects an absent smile.

Rekimoto Labs released a video to the public describing how the device works.

It’s bound to put a smile on your face!

— Jackie Eisenberg

tweetuntweet Obama is waiting for the right moment to pull out bin Laden’s skull from behind the podium. Wait for it.

Wait for it... #debate #PresDebate.

— Comedian Chris Rock weighs in on the first presidential debate Oct. 3.

celebrity SCOOPS! Swift contest gets rigged Students and faculty at Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston received quite a surprise this week when their school was disqualified from participating in a contest promising a private Taylor Swift concert as the prize. Swift’s representatives said the school was disqualified after the discovery that many of the online votes in favor of the school were actually the result of online pranks collaborating on the bulletin-posting website 4chan. The pranksters thought the idea of a concert taking place at a school for the deaf would be funny. Though the school was disqualified because of this technicality, Swift and her sponsors donated $50,000 to the school and offered every student a ticket to Swift’s next local visit on her next tour.

The official winner of the contest is Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif.

— Benjii Maust

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Recycled resources Visual Resource Center asks students to submit art made of retired slides By nathan rafalowski contributing writer

Before video projectors and Google image search, the only practical way to show art to students was through slide projections. Now that the technology is rarely used at Ithaca College, the Visual Resources Collection has been undertaking a six year clean-out of all their slides.

Out of the original collection of 160,000, only 60,000 will be kept for research purposes.

Instead of disposing of the rest, the VRC and the Handwerker Gallery are organizing a show titled “Turn up the Transparency.” The show, which is currently accepting submissions from the college community, will be featuring artwork utilizing the deaccessioned slides.

Visual resources curator Randi Millman-Brown said the idea was taken from a similar event at Eastern Michigan University.

“I just thought, what a great idea to do something clever, talking about getting rid of slides but not throwing them away, so reusing them and being a green project and doing something creative with this medium that is no longer being used’,” Millman-Brown said.

The content of the slides features work from varying artists and covers media like architecture, paintings, sculptures and decorative arts. The wide-ranging subject matter will certainly challenge many of the artists participating in the show, Millman-Brown said.

This is something Thomas Burch, assistant professor of theater arts, is hoping for. After seeing the announcement for “Turn up the Transparency” through Intercom and speaking to Millman-Brown, he brought up the exhibition to his Introduction to Theatrical Design and Theatrical Design I: Scenic courses, because the work they are doing in class coincides with what the exhibit embodies.

“We are dealing with all sorts of those basic concepts of art, color, texture, line, mass, form, composition, harmony, balance and those kinds of things,” Burch said. “I realized in creating a piece of art out of these slides, it is very much the same set of concepts we are dealing with in both classes.”

He said he hopes they will put their best effort forward to put the concepts they are learning in class to the test. Doing so, he said, will help them understand the course material much more fully.

“I figure that if students take the time to see these slides to look at them, to actually embody something about them on an emotional or theoretical plane and create something out of them, they are automatically reusing the same concepts but in a different format for the project,” Burch said.

Freshman Jeanine Varilla was one of the first to sign up and take a bag of slides home. After getting an email about “Turn up the Transparency,” she went to the VRC room to learn about the exhibit.

Randi Millman-Brown, visual resources curator in the department of art history, sorts through projection slides in the Visual Resource Center. The VRC will be having a show in the Handwerker Gallery of art made from projection slides.

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Varilla said the most intriguing part about the event is the concept of bringing together art from across almost every kind of discipline.

“All the slides that they threw out were artwork that in a different context has different meaning,” Varilla said. “But if you combine those artworks to make another artwork, the meaning completely changes.”

Millman-Brown has not seen any

works in progress or completed submissions yet. She said the multitude of directions the new artwork can take excites her.

“I’m just looking for people to be creative,” Millman-Brown said. “It would be nice if people addressed the idea that this is a kind of older technology of image use and how people learned art history when everybody had to use slides. There

were no other means of projecting images other than slides. It could be a piece that is reflective of this older format. Until I see what people submit, I have no idea what we are going to get.”

The deadline for submissions for “Turn up The Transparency” is Nov. 1. Anyone interested can obtain a bag of slides in Gannett 122.

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New circus in town Local street food vendor showcases dual talents while running business By jillian kaplan staff writer

Circus Truck is one of the few places in Ithaca where breakfast burritos are available at 2:30 p.m. on a Thursday. It’s also one of the few places where, upon request, you can see a chef drive a nail through his face.

On the corner of West Seneca Street sits a big white truck with a colorful yellow skull painted on the side. Inside the truck, sauces are simmering. Shiny kitchen appliances heat up Muenster cheese, bacon, fresh spinach and onion. Circus Truck is a street food vendor where hungry Ithacans can get both food and circus entertainment. The ringmaster is a confident, self-made chef and sideshow artist named J.P. Vico.

Vico’s Circus Truck is a one-man operation built by Vico himself over the course of three years. The truck has been serving food in the West Seneca Street parking lot since May 26, inhabiting a bare space with an Italian-inspired mobile restaurant.

As an independent food-seller, Vico does everything he can to make his dishes accessible. He tries to completely separate the street vendor experience from the restaurant experience, he said. “[Commerce] started with people selling stuff in the streets,” Vico said.

“The whole concept of it goes back forever. There’s no middle person.

When I make food here, I can make what I want to make, and I can get it right to you, hot and fresh, and you’re outside, and there’s cool air, and you’re enjoying this hot tasty thing.”

Circus Truck’s menu features dishes like spaghetti alla carbonara

and Vico’s homemade noodles. Lunch specials are posted daily on Facebook, allowing him to take orders online.

Vico’s love of food came from a number of jobs in the industry.

Though he has held positions in construction and office work, nothing satisfied him the way a kitchen does, he said.

“I had an office job for six months where all I could think about was how I wanted to quit,” Vico said. “I talked to my boss one day, and told him I just couldn’t do it anymore. I got a cook job on my way home.”

Vico said he got the idea for Circus Truck 10 years ago when he was living in Arizona. He saw a woman selling ice cream in a truck, but on the side of the truck she also sold burritos. The truck inspired Vico to start his own.

Vico said he has always been interested in the culture of carnivals and street-fairs, and he decided to receive training from professionals at a sideshow school on Coney Island. He puts his skills to use as a guest performer with the stage name Johnny Lowlife for The Whiskey Tango Sideshow, an Ithaca-based performance group that’s mainly a burlesque dance troupe but also does sideshow acts.

Ithaca College junior Brendyn Weiss frequents Circus Truck thanks to his friend Kyle Ulvert, an Ithaca resident, who works with Weiss at Just A Taste on The Commons. After meeting Vico, they all connected over a shared love of music.

“One day Kyle told me, ‘Go to the Circus Truck, you’ll get awesome food,’” Weiss said. “So I came here, and I met J.P., and we rocked out one day.”

After that, Weiss said he now

J.P. Vico, owner of Circus Truck, a local food truck, fires up a pan of pasta with red wine chicken, portabello mushrooms, ham in cream sauce and fresh basil. Vico is also a guest performer for The Whiskey Tango Sideshow in Ithaca. rachel woolf/the ithacan

sometimes drives down in between classes to grab a bite. He’s an enthusiast of Vico’s street vendor style.

“This truck is awesome,” Weiss said. “I like the atmosphere — it’s a cool experience.”

The breakfast menu is fair game for ordering any time of day. Ulvert loves the breakfast menu at Circus Truck, especially one particular, Mexican-inspired dish.

“The breakfast burrito is the most satisfying thing I’ve ever had,” Ulvert said. “It filled a void in my life that I had for a long time.”

Vico puts in 70 hours a week into his truck. Acquiring all the materials

and permits for the truck was a lengthy process, which he juggled with raising two boys and emotionally supporting his wife through nursing school. Vico also has little direct competition from other food trucks, because it’s very difficult to acquire the proper permits in Ithaca, he said.

“There’s a lot of healthy, positive things that people want to do, and not only is [the city of Ithaca] denying healthy positive things for the community, but they’re keeping people from making a living,” Vico said.

He’ll also give food to the homeless who come by the truck and see his sign. Independent food-selling has

been a completely liberating experience for him, he said. “[Independent ownership] allows me to do the creative things that I want,” Vico said. “I make about the same amount of money I’d make working for someone else but without the disadvantages of working for someone else. I’m doing what I’ve dreamed about doing, and I love doing it.”

Circus Truck can be found at 607 West Seneca Street and is open Monday to Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m.

Local artists spread creativity through public art initiative

By Evin billington staff writer

A police car slows to a stop in front of an electrical box on the corner of Buffalo and Aurora Street. The officer inside observes the image of a mighty, dark red and yellow Tyrannosaurus Rex surrounded by UFOs, astronauts and swamp monsters.

The officer calls to Kurt Piller, a local artist, who is in the middle of painting the once drab and ordinary gray box.

“Excuse me,” the officer said. “Best one in town.”

The recent “21 Boxes” installment, a public art project organized by Ithaca’s Public Art Commission, involved 21 different artists who painted their images onto 21 of the city’s electrical boxes.

The city of Ithaca is no stranger to public art, with many of the town’s walls bedecked with colorful murals and the streets surrounding The Commons lined with sculptures.

Recently, PAC has sponsored three new public art efforts — “21 Boxes,” a mosaic mural on the Seneca Garage by local artist Annemarie Zwack and an upcoming mural in the Cinemapolis parking garage by Sean Chilson.

On Oct. 4, Jason Otero and Caleb Thomas, commissioners of the PAC, came to Ithaca College’s Handwerker Gallery to present and discuss the recent changes to Ithaca’s public landscape. Otero said he wanted “21 Boxes” to bring more art to the streets of Ithaca.

“The idea is to have art be as ubiquitous as possible, and so the ability to take these very utilitarian gray boxes that are seemingly everywhere and turn them into canvases just seemed

like a natural expansion of the idea,” Otero said.

Otero said he believes public art is a relatively cheap way to spread art throughout cities and increase tourism, and it can also increase the quality of life in a city.

“The fact that you could walk down your block and see a beautiful canvas sitting right on the edge of your street is really compelling,” Otero said.

Sean Chilson, an artist who participated in “21 Boxes,” and who has done murals in the past, is optimistic about the future of public art. He said it opens up the forum for all artists, especially graffiti artists, to share their art with the community in a more mainstream way.

“When I was a kid growing up, there was no project like this,” Chilson said. “All there was was getting arrested or not getting arrested. It lets [graffiti artists] know that there is a small group of people who are trying to make a change and who are trying to make this cool for everybody.”

For a project like “21 Boxes,” the artists are given a small stipend that mostly pays for the materials they use. PAC received this money from a grant from Tompkins Charitable Fund.

Piller said he did not mind the low pay for his work in the project.

“At some point, I just realized that this is a labor of love, and I’m doing it because I enjoy doing it,” Piller said.

Often stopping passersby while he was working, Piller said he thrived off of the public aspect of this project and asked many people for their input or suggestions.

“A lot of the elements on the box are actually suggestions from people walking by,” Piller

From left, local artist Kurt Piller paints an electrical box on the corner of Aurora and Buffalo Streets while Janaki Parthasarathy, of Ithaca, looks on. Piller’s box was a part of the “21 Boxes” project.

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said. “It was like, ‘Oh of course, how could I have forgotten — there’s no Cylon warriors or an Easter Island head,’ I actually really enjoyed engaging with people.”

Artist Ryan McGuire’s box, which Otero called irreverent and hilarious, was painted to look like a block of cheese with silhouettes of action-hero style mice repelling down it.

The bright yellow box was located on the site of the farmer’s market, occasionally halting McGuire’s progress on the box.

“Interruptions is a positive and a negative, I guess you could say, because people want to know what’s happening — but of course it’s taking into the time,” McGuire said. “It

probably took about — when it was all said and done — about a week and a half to two weeks to finish because I was kind of restricted.”

Though the budget is small, the city has grown more supportive of public art, despite some initial uneasiness. Now Otero looks at PAC and the city’s relationship as collaborative, he said.

“I like outdoor art because it gives you, as an artist, the most exposure possible and in a positive way,” McGuire said. “If you’re only hanging in galleries, you’re basically only hitting art critics and art enthusiasts, which are great, but they’re less likely to get excited about your art.”

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With showstoppers such as “Legally Blonde,” “Spring Awakening” and “Enemy of the People,” the 2012-13 main stage series at Ithaca College certainly possesses a great amount of potential for brilliance. The opening of “Man From Nebraska” proves that this season is definitely on track to be one to remember, as it delivers powerhouse performances and mag“Man From nificent production values Nebraska” that combine to create true Clark Theatre theatrical excellence.

“Man From Nebraska” is a Pulitzer Prize nominee written by Tracy Letts, who garnered much acclaim from his recent Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “August: Osage County.”

The story surrounds Ken Carpenter (sophomore Coleman Hemsath), a middle-aged man who journeys to England in an effort to answer the harrowing questions of faith and belief that have recently caused him to question his religion. As Ken continues his journey, his neglected family begins to suffer and question whether he will ever return.

The cast is magnificent in their portrayals of these deeply emotional characters, despite the fact that most of the characters are generations older than the actors playing them.

Hemsath stands out by displaying heartwrenching emotion in his character as he struggles through a difficult time in his life.

Alongside Hemsath is senior Emily Austin as Ken’s wife, Nancy, whose performance evokes the audience’s sympathy with her portrayal of her character’s loneliness as her husband leaves on his journey.

Additionally, senior Patrick Mazzella and junior Nicholas Carroll stand out as Harry Brown and Rev. Todd respectively, by providing the play with witty comic relief to help to break up the otherwise serious story.

Aside from the performances, the technical and creative elements of the show also help the production achieve its high quality. The scenic design, by senior Renny Cullen, consists of simple gray blocks, yet they still manage to

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an event within the Heart of Devotion In-City Retreat that will lead call-and-response chanting and singing at 7:30 p.m. at the Hangar Theatre. The event will run for two nights.

“It’s Such a Beautiful Day,” a film directed by Don Hertzfeldt, will be screened at 9:30 p.m. at Willard Straight Theatre. The film features his “Bill” trilogies in one feature-length film.

Senior Emily Austin and sophomore Coleman Hemsath star in Ithaca College Theatre’s production of “Man From Nebraska.” The show follows Ken (Hemsath) and his journey to regain his religious beliefs. courtesy of Sheryl Sinkow

convey each location without confusion. The set pieces could easily be mistaken for modern art and are placed all along the inside perimeter of the theater. Through Cullen’s brilliant design, audiences can get a sense of the mundane American setting.

The lighting, designed by senior Emilio Martínez Zurita de la Garza, combines with the simplistic set to help further understanding of where each scene takes place while at the same time conveying the somber, dark mood of the story.

Associate professor of theatre arts Don Tindall, provides the play’s sound design. His work proves to be is passionate and, through a musical interlude played during most of the production, moves the pace and intensity of the play, leaving the audience on the edge of their seats.

Director Wendy Dann, assistant professor of theater arts, provides superb casting and beautiful staging that is simple and yet still manages to perfectly and believably convey the plot to the audience.

Overall, this play stands as a testament to the high-quality productions that the college’s theater program is known to produce.

A perfect way to begin this year’s theater season, “Man From Nebraska” exudes so much heart, power and general excellence that it will push many in the audience to move straight to the box office at its conclusion in order to purchase tickets for the remainder of the season.

“Man From Nebraska” will run through Oct. 13 at the Clark Theatre. Admission is $4.50 for students Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday and $5 Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

British sophomore album rocks with youthful angst

by Jared Dionne Senior writer

The loss of youth isn’t exactly the most alluring aspect of life.

The Vaccines, Britain’s hailed next great guitar band, has created an album dedicated to youth. Their The Vaccines sophomore LP, “Art History” Columbia “Come of Age,” Records revolves around Our rating: the hardships of HHHH growing up.

The leading track, “No Hope,” is drenched in youthful melodrama. Singer Justin Young makes known his inability to care for others when he sings, “I could make an observation if you want the voice of a generation,

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“Teenage Icon” is an anthem for the anti-stud. The track gives birth to one of the LP’s most meaningful lines when Young sings, “I’m not magnetic or mythical. I’m suburban and typical.”

With “Come of Age,” The Vaccines have matured from a throwback rock ‘n’ roll band into a major force in the alternative rock scene. Britain’s next great guitar band seems to be on the right track.

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Tom Bronzetti, a Syracuse jazz guitarist, will perform with organist Andrew Carroll and drummer Jimmy Johns at 7 p.m. at Carriage House Cafe.

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“Celine and Julie Go Boating — New Print,” an adventure film directed by Jacques Rivette, will be screened at 7 p.m. at Willard Straight Theatre.

Not-so-new kids on the block Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino come crashing back into the indie scene with their fourth studio album, “Lightning.”

The Brooklyn duo’s newest release is full of strong beats and simple lyrics. The album’s lead-off single, “Let’s Go,” is a nice break from the rhythmic noise.

Matt & Kim The slower “Lightning” tempo is just Fader Label Our rating: right and not HHH hard to keep up with, but other tracks may be seizure-inducing from the searing electronics.

Johnson’s repetitive lyrics prove to be full of meaning — a nice balance to their sometimes overwhelming sound.

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Schifino’s vocals are added to a melancholy mixture of slow chords in “Ten Dollars I Found.” The song closes the album on a hushed note, seemingly taking the listener down from a music-induced high.

Though the percussion may leave listeners yearning for the less in-your-face style of the previous albums, this indie group proves that big sounds can come in small packages.

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The track “Grow Up” features a collaboration with rapper Busta Rhymes and features Lloyd’s solid rapping abilities as well.

The ’90s band returns with its fourth studio album. It reflects their pounding rock sound perfectly with tracks like “Chalk Outline.” The song showcases lead singer Adam Gontier’s gritty voice and contains hard guitars and bashing drums.

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On the group’s debut album, “What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?,” the band relied heavily on Arni Hjörvar’s propulsive bass lines. Songs from “What Did You Expect” were reminiscent of early rock and The Ramones. With this new album, the guitar steals the spotlight with distorted and rollicking hooks, giving the songs a modern edge that recalls early Strokes material.

The LP’s most ferocious guitar lines pop up in glorious fashion on “Bad Mood.” There’s really no better way to communicate angstridden youth than setting aside an entire song based solely on anger.

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Liam Neeson returns as ruthless spy and man-hunter Bryan Mills in “Taken 2.” Though Neeson takes the story in promising directions, the film’s execution falters and the film has too short a running time.

“Taken 2” be“Taken 2” gins not long after 20th Mills (Neeson) venCentury Fox Our rating: tured through Paris H 1/2 to rescue his kidnapped daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), in the original film.

Seven of the villains slain in the previous movie belong to an Algerian crime family led by Murad Krasniqi (Rade Serbedzija). At their funeral, Krasniqi vows revenge against Mills for their deaths. He organizes a posse to kidnap and kill Mills, his close friend and ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) and Kim as they enjoy a working vacation in Istanbul.

The film sticks to the about 90-minute running time of its predecessor, which proves to be a hindrance in the end. The movie attempts to expand its story and generate some character development, especially in regard to Kim and her relationship with her father. It has potential for an interesting turn in the story, but the film tries to fit this attempt within an action film that already shows a long and peaceful exposition covering the family dynamics. The movie rushes impatiently through its story arcs to meet the hour and a half mark and leaves more action to be desired.

Neeson’s performance feels toned down when compared to the furious energy he exhibits in the original film.

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Liam Neeson stars as Bryan Mills in “Taken 2.” Mills must protect his ex-wife and close friend, Lenore (Famke Janssen), and daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), from being kidnapped by an Algerian crime family seeking revenge.

He is still an intelligent and determined spy, but he does not perform with nearly the intensity he exhibits in his iconic telephone speech from “Taken.” Unfortunately, Kim does not make an appearance in the film’s climax. Her storyline, like the film in general, feels rushed to a sudden conclusion. Serbedzija is frequently typecast as the grumpy and dangerous Eastern European character, but in “Taken 2” he receives hardly enough screen time to make an impression except in a final showdown with Mills.

The fight scenes in “Taken 2” prove to be some of the most difficult to track. Director Olivier Megaton hacks and slashes his way through the

fights with frequent and jumpy cuts.

An initial fight sequence with multiple opponents jumps haphazardly to numerous camera angles within seconds. The camera tracks from one angle to another, close up and farther away, and even at times flashes to bird’s-eye views with machine-gun rapidity. This creates a rushed sense of turmoil as fists fly and the characters beat each other with weapons.

In addition to the incomprehensible fight scenes, the rest of the action plays out in a predictable and simple manner; there is nothing too elaborate or clever to watch. Some of the most exciting moments in “Taken 2” prove to be the nonviolent ones.

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Nothing was as tense as when Mills desperately reaches for a survival tool while tied up. Mills and Kim also generate excitement when he attempts to coach her through an elaborate tracking system or when she has to drive a getaway car.

While the original film was a simpler and arguably more enjoyable animal, “Taken 2” tries to expand itself within the first film’s limitations of time. The action and story blaze by so rapidly that it hardly registers or impresses the viewer.

“Taken 2” was directed by Olivier Megaton and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen.

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Dramatic acting evokes message

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By Tucker Kolanko

A dyslexic second-grade girl is staring at the words on the chalkboard, struggling to sound out the syllables. Her teacher and classmates are distracted, and at the end of the school day the girl is sent home, still unable to read.

This scene from director Daniel Barnz’s film, “Won’t Back Down,” “Won’t Back illustrates the problem with the Down” Pittsburgh public school systems.

20th Century “Won’t Back Down” channels Fox this message by following Jamie Our rating: Fitzpatrick (Maggie Gyllenhaal), HH 1/2 a single mother working two jobs to support her daughter, Malia (Emily Alyn Lind). As Malia struggles to read without the support of the teachers or school, Jamie recruits fellow parents and teachers, such as Nona Alberts (Viola Davis), to start a new school without teacher unions.

The two-hour movie ties the complicated issue up too tidily with a happy, Hollywood ending.

Meanwhile, the movie seems to polarize the issue of education, showing how unions and public schools are failing while charter schools and privatization further their educational standards.

Despite the movie’s agenda, one of the strengths of the movie is its acting. Viola Davis, known for her performance in the Oscar Award-winning film, “The Help,” presents another emotionally charged performance. In one scene, Davis reveals a mistake she made as a mother to her son, Cody (Dante Brown).

Cody forgives her by responding, “If you want to lie down next to me, that would be OK.” Not only does this moving scene between mother and son evoke an emotional response from the viewer, the scene also proves Davis’ prowess as an

“House at the End of the Street” was filmed in 2010, before Jennifer Lawrence rose to fame as the star of “The Hunger Games” franchise.

That’s the only explanation for why she would participate in this dull teen horror flick.

The story begins with the perfect setup for a horror movie or a teen melodrama. Elissa (Lawrence) and her single mother, Sarah (Elisabeth Shue), move into a new house “House at in a small town. However, the End of the parents of the family who the Street” used to live next door were Relativity brutally murdered by their Media daughter, Carrie Ann (Eva Our rating: Link), who is rumored to be H running around the woods.

The victims’ son, Ryan (Max Thieriot), still lives alone in the house. When he and Elissa meet, they begin sneaking around together.

However, the film climaxes when Elissa finds an empty box of tampons in Ryan’s trash bin, which she ultimately learns is because Ryan has been keeping Carrie-Ann in his basement.

More like an episode of a teen soap opera than a horror movie, the film is devoid of tension; there’s not a single scary moment or even a cheap scare. Even Lawrence seems bored, like she’s waiting for this debacle to end.

With little originality, “House at the End of the Street” wastes its talented lead actress and the audience’s time.

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actress as well as young Brown’s potential.

Gyllenhaal also gives a decent performance as a concerned mother starting a petition because she is invested in her daughter’s education. In one of the more powerful scenes of the movie, Malia tells Jamie that she doesn’t want to grow up “poor and stupid” like her mother.

While “Won’t Back Down” does have its moments, which showcase Davis’ and Gyllenhaal’s acting abilities, the resolved ending makes the movie forgettable, even when there may still be problems within the public school’s system.

It is clear that “Won’t Back Down” is a movie with a message, and at the end of the day many viewers will still be reading between the lines.

“Won’t Back Down” was directed by Daniel Barnz and written by Barnz and Brin Hill.

“House at the End of the Street” was directed

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ACE in the HOLD Senior Allison Young controls matches with dominant serve

Young’s serve speaks volumes, but to her low and flat, which in turn causes her serve team the loudest impact she makes on the to skid off the ground and make it harder for Staring down her competitor, senior Allison court comes from her leadership. Sophomore opponents to return.

Young’s opponents know this all too well.

Young paces the baseline of the tennis court. Alyssa Steinweis said Young is always there to Junior Lisa Tessitore of the Stevens Institute of Slowly coming to a halt, Young focuses her eyes help her on the court when she needs it.

“If I’m having a tough day with serving, Technology faced off against Young last week on the small yellow sphere gripped tightly in her left hand. Never taking her eyes off the ball, she’ll come over and give me advice. She does in an Empire 8 matchup. After the match was she methodically bounces it five times off of the it in a way that the whole team reacts well to over, Tessitore described the difficult process of returning Young’s serve. it,” Steinweis said. concrete-surfaced court.

“She gets really good angles on her serve, and When she’s not helping her teammates, She calmly raises both Young is racking up the victories. The senior it’s tough to return because it comes in pretty ball and racquet to eye Check out an has compiled a 9–3 overall record this fall, flat, so you have to react quickly,” Tessitore said. level and gently shifts her interactive and many of Young’s wins can be attributed “It definitely takes a lot of time to get used to.” weight to her back foot. feature and Tessitore learned that returning a wellto how much pressure she puts on opponents Leaning back, she fixes an video on placed serve from Young is not an easy task. with her serve. intense, blue-eyed gaze Young’s serve Power may be important for Young’s first In fact, Young wins many of her points in two on her opponent before serve, but you wouldn’t know it from the way strokes because of weak returns from her opreturning her attention to at theithacan. ponents. These short rallies Head Coach Bill Austin dethe ball. As if in slow mo- org/26168. allow Young to maintain her tion, she tosses the tennis ball into the air as she scribes it. Austin said Young’s endurance and stay fresh serve, which he characterizes has done a thousand times before. throughout the match.

Suddenly, the energy accumulated through as “very smooth and pretty flat,” “When you have as good Young’s stance is released as she leans for- succeeds with its placement of a serve as she does, you ward and coils her elbow in, waiting for the more than it’s power. come in being able to con“When she’s hitting her ball to complete its parabolic arc. Just as the trol every game that you’re ball begins to fall, she extends her arm, and in spots, her serve is a gameserving, so the ability to one fluid motion kicks out her back leg and changer,” Austin said. “If she hold is huge,” Tessitore said. brings her racquet arm up for a tremendous hits it short in the box, then — Head Coach Bill Austin But along with the physthe serve has time to come up, collision between racquet and ball. ical aspects of her serve, The latter hurtles over the net, hitting deep which makes it easier to return in the far corner of the service box, skidding … but when she’s hitting in the deep corner there is also the mental game, which Young past the outstretched arms of Young’s oppo- of the box, her serve is tough because it stays claims is the most important aspect. She has written small reminders on the handle of her nent for an ace. After landing in a bouncing, down low.”

When asked about the lack of spin on her racket like “patience,” “head up,” “relax” and knees-bent ready position, she relaxes and retreats from the baseline, preparing to do it serve, the Newport, R.I., native credits a coach “A-game” since she played high school tennis she had at home who helped her change the in Newport, R.I., to keep her focused during all again. matches. She said staying positive helps her Young has been told her whole career that way she holds the tennis racquet.

Young’s high school coach had her switch stay consistent. her serve is what will give her complete control “The most important thing for me is letof any tennis match. She said her serving style to what is formally called the Continental is not about maximizing power or placement grip — also commonly referred to as the ting myself know that the ball is going to go in but rather combining them to suit the situation. “Chopper grip.” Young obtains this full-hand right before I serve,” Young said. “I’ve worked “When I go to hit a first serve, it all starts grip by holding the racquet like she would an so hard on it, and if I think about anything negative then it will mess up the serve.” with my toss, and for a first serve I’ll try to axe, hence the nickname.

Young stays true to this philosophy even “Switching grips was the most frustrating place it, but I’ll also try to put a lot more power into it,” Young said. “But my second serve thing,” Young said. “But my coach promised when she nets a serve or misses the service box.

Her extensive tennis experience has taught her for me is more about placement, and it’s usu- me that it would pay off and it definitely did.”

This grip allows Young to keep her serve there is always a second opportunity. ally not nearly as fast paced.”

“During a second serve, I think not [about] what I did wrong on the first serve, but what I can do to improve the second one,” she said.

Like most other athletes, Young’s stellar career has not come without setbacks. Young has struggled with a back injury, which caused her to miss her entire freshman season. The injury has affected her as recently as last Sunday, when she had to withdraw from a singles match that she was playing against Stevens.

“That was a first,” Austin said. “She’s a gamer, so when she looked at me and shook her head, I knew she was hurting.”

Young’s injury Sunday did not stop her from winning the No. 1 doubles match alongside her partner, senior Cristina Nunez. The senior’s serving prowess helped the pair beat Stevens’ pairing of Tessitore and sophomore Jessica Bourque.

As for Young, she is determined not to let her injury hold her back from continued domination on the court. In fact, the injury could be looked upon as a blessing in disguise, as Young is now eligible to apply for a fifth year of NCAA eligibility, since she missed her freshman season.

Senior Allison Young poses with her racquet Monday on Wheeler Tennis Courts. The combination “Tennis is something I really love doing, and I hope of power and placement on Young’s serve allows her to win points with just two strokes.

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Best birthday present ever “Why did you think this was a good idea?” I thought to myself when I awoke to my alarm at the ungodly hour of 5:36 a.m. Sunday.

I sat on the side of my bed and thought about how nice it would be to go back to sleep. After a minute I came to my senses, I stood up, put on my Matt Wieters jersey and headed to my car.

In 1997, when I was in first grade, my birthday present was Baltimore Orioles playoff tickets.

Since then, the franchise has suffered through the second-longest streak of losing seasons in North American professional sports.

So in early September, when the playoffs were a distinct possibility for the O’s, I called my mom and told her there was only one present I wanted for my birthday: playoff tickets.

Through a series of fortunate events, the Orioles would be hosting Game 1 on a Sunday, the only day I could travel to the game without missing a single school commitment. I stood at my upper deck seat with three friends, each of whom I have known virtually my entire life, at 5:30 p.m., ready for the game to begin. And then it started to rain, and it rained and it rained. One of my friends, who was dumb enough to wear shorts to the game, wondered aloud how long we were planning on waiting for the game to start.

“I heard it’s supposed to clear up by 10,” I said. End of discussion.

The grounds crew received a standing ovation when they finally ran on the field to remove the tarp.

After years of watching packed stadiums with delirious fans waving those giveaway towels on TV, we were finally here waving bright orange towels of our own and screaming at the top of our lungs.

The crowd had an edge to it as if 15 years of frustration were let out at once. We were playing the Yankees, after all — the team that dominated the Orioles for the past decade, their fans pouring into our stadium always acting as arrogant as possible. Finally the crowd was indisputably orange, and “Yankees Suck!” chants were second only to “Let’s! Go! O’s!”

Finally, in the top of the ninth, our good luck ran out. The Orioles All-Star closer Jim Johnson entered the game and proceeded to give up a leadoff home run. Then the wheels came off, and the Yankees put four more runs on the board, effectively ending the game. Two of my friends had seen enough and went out onto the concourse for the bottom of the ninth. As I glumly sat in my seat watching the final three outs, next to the kid I grew up two doors down from and whom I played baseball and home-run derby with, I came to a realization: Despite the 12 hours of driving in two days and the loss, this was the best birthday present I’ve ever had. nathan bickell is a senior documentary studies major. Contact him at nbickel1@ithaca.edu.

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Bombers push through goal shortage

By Danielle D’avanzo senior writer

The men’s soccer team has won more than four games in a single season for the first time since 2009. However, the team can point mostly to its strong defense for its improved winning percentage, because the offense is averaging only one goal per game, a rate that ranks second to last overall in the Empire 8 Conference.

Sophomore midfielder Tim Goldman said one of the reasons the team has not been able to convert a lot of goals this season is because of lack of crosses in the offensive third.

“We do too much dribbling on the field, and then we lose The men’s soccer the ball and don’t get dangerteam has played ous enough,” Goldman said. in two games “What we’ve been working on decided by more is a lot of crosses in practice than one goal and getting more dangerous.” this season.

The Bombers’ lack of firepower was most evident in the team’s 0-0 draw against Scranton University on Sept. 25. In that game, the South Hill squad was unable to create many scoring threats until the last few minutes of overtime.

The Bombers are currently ranked second to last in the Empire 8 for overall goals this season with 13 total. Goldman said another factor contributing to the lack of scoring is the team’s inability to get players within 18 feet of the goal.

“We get crosses in, but maybe I’m the only person in the box, but we’ve been working on getting four or five people in the box, and that puts pressure on the defense, and that’s going to allow us to score,” Goldman said.

Head Coach Andy Byrne said his focus at the beginning of the season was developing possession and play buildup to create scoring opportunities.

The Bombers have improved on this by increasing the number of shots they take per game.

In the South Hill squad’s opening weekend, the team took a total of 19 shots in two games with nine on target. In their last two games — against Elmira College and Hamilton College — the Bombers had 25 shots total and 13 shots on goal. Byrne said the next step is converting those chances.

“We’ve been getting better at creating chances,” Byrne said. “We just haven’t been able to find the consistency in terms of finishing them off. From my standpoint, the biggest concern is creating chances, and then it’s the

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From left, senior back Jack Shirley clears the ball from the defensive zone during the Bombers’ 2-1 victory Sept. 29. The team ranks second to last in the Empire 8 in overall goals with 13.

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players’ responsibility to finish.”

The Blue and Gold have already seen starters like freshman left back Joey Dobbins and sophomore midfielder A.J. Wolfanger miss games because of injuries. Byrne said losing players that have contributed offensively may have caused a setback, but the team has to make adjustments accordingly.

“We have a few injuries right now that’s impacting us, but that’s the way it is,” Byrne said.

Sophomore midfielder Casey Williamson, who has recently been playing left back to replace Dobbins, said Byrne has implemented different types of finishing drills into practice.

“We’ve been working on where to run, kind of filling those spaces to finish the ball,” Williamson said. “We’ve been doing a bunch of finishing, which is also helping the goalies.”

As the Bombers strive to remain in position to qualify for the Empire 8 tournament, senior captain Dan Shirley said converting more often on goal-scoring opportunities will be key during the stretch run.

“Our number one thing we’ve got to address is finishing, because going forward those chances aren’t going to come as often as they have these past games,” Shirley said.

New coach whips club volleyball team into shape

By EMily Hull staff writer

After years of being led solely by its captains, the men’s club volleyball finally has its first coach, graduate student Christopher Harris. Many of the players expect Harris to set a more serious tone this season and guide them into a more competitive mindset.

Harris played on the national adult club volleyball circuit throughout his undergraduate study at Texas Southern University. His team, the Atlanta X-Men, placed first in the Las Vegas National Championships last year.

When Harris arrived at the college, he was offered a position as an assistant coach for the women’s varsity volleyball team. Harris met some of the club team members earlier this fall by chance, and they told him about the men’s club team and encouraged him to play. After Harris joined the players in some of their open gyms, the team approached him and asked if he would be their coach.

Senior and club team captain Dave Gofman said the club’s lack of a coach put a lot of pressure on the players and created some tension last year.

“We all basically tried to help each other, and the players who had more experience or who had coached previously at any capacity with volleyball tried to help others,” Gofman said. “It was definitely tense at times, because

Graduate student Christopher Harris speaks with members of the men’s club volleyball team Oct. 1. Harris is the first coach in the club’s history. emily fedor/the ithacan

it’s a difficult dynamic to play and coach the same team. It definitely was not the easiest thing in the world.”

Sophomore Joshua Edrich began competing last fall as one of the only freshmen on the team. Edrich said

he remembers practices being very simple. Practices became increasingly more lackadaisical as the year went on, and with no coach they relied on the experience of other veterans.

The team travels to tournaments

that sometime require them to leave at 5 a.m., arrive at 9 a.m. and play until 4 p.m. Gofman said this can be exhausting physically and emotionally, but he believes Harris will alleviate the stress in this aspect.

“Now with Chris coaching us, he does a much better job of motivating and working with us and making sure that people are working on those things they need to work on to get better,” Gofman said. “It’s putting us in a much better position to reap the benefits of the hard work we are putting in.”

Edrich said cardio, repetition of skills and physical workouts are all a focus in practice now. He hopes to bring the intensity many of the team members experienced on his high school varsity team to the club this year.

“Even though the team has only had four practices thus far, they are already much more intense than last year,” Edrich said. “Chris is a great athlete. He’s pushing us more than we’ve been pushed in a long time.”

Harris said capitalizing on the team’s potential will be the biggest challenge for this year. He also said he hopes to bring two things to the team this season that it has lacked in the past: discipline and consistency.

“If we can focus on working hard and training on a high quality skill level and being excellent at what each one of us does, I don’t see anyone being able to stop us,” Harris said.

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Squad hits weights to fight winter rust By alex holt Senior writer

After the women’s golf team wraps up its fall schedule with Wittenberg University’s Pat Clouse Invitational this weekend in Springfield, Ohio, the Bombers will head into the offseason for more than four months before returning to action in April. But with the South Hill squad closer than it has ever been to its first NCAA Division III Championship berth, the Bombers are doing everything they can to make sure they stay sharp during the long winter break.

In previous seasons, the Blue and Gold’s offseason routine was structured by members of the team.

Sophomore Paige Fontana said the idea was to work out together twice a week — once on Tuesday and once on Thursday — using regimens devised by sophomore Kelsey Baker last year.

The routine mostly worked, but as the offseason progressed the Bombers became somewhat lax about working out consistently, Fontana said.

“We kind of started out strong, and then we kind of stopped going, and we’d be like, ‘Oh, we have to go again,’” Fontana said. “It was sort of an up-and-down, up-and-down kind of thing.”

This year, however, when the Bombers look to close the gap in a crowded NCAA Eastern region, the team’s workouts will become much more regimented. A new arrangement provides for the golf team and several of the other women’s sports teams at the college to work with Beth

Greene, the women’s crew strength and conditioning coach.

Head Coach Dan Wood said the team will sit down with Greene on Oct. 23 and come up with a workout schedule to make sure the Bombers can successfully fight off any rust that might build up over the long winter.

“Beth will be in charge of giving them some guidelines for their physical workouts over the wintertime,” Wood said. “Our plan is to introduce the team to what she would like them to do to help their golf-specific muscles.”

The Blue and Gold will also take a trip down to Wood’s home in Port St. Lucie, Fla., during spring break to hit the links, but they’ll likely have to do so without three of their members, including junior Elma Gonzalez, sophomore Taylor MacDonald and sophomore Eileen Oaks, who are all slated to study abroad.

Another relatively recent addition to the Bombers’ offseason training is the presence of the Athletics and Events Center. Baker said the new facility has proved invaluable for getting more practice in.

“Thanks to the new A&E Center, we’re really grateful for having a spot where we can head indoors at night,” Baker said.

However, Baker added that being indoors does have its disadvantages.

“Hitting indoors is challenging sometimes because you’re hitting into a net that’s right in front of you, so you can’t see whether you faded or sliced or drew the ball,” Baker said. “So you have to be able to determine those

Junior Amanda Failla follows through on a shot from the bunker during practice Tuesday at the Country Club of Ithaca. The Bombers will have a four-month layoff after this weekend’s Pat Clouse Invitational at Wittenberg.

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things based off of your contact with the ball.”

While the Bombers have gone undefeated against New York teams and have not lost against an Empire 8 Conference opponent, Wood said he still has some doubts about the Bombers’ NCAA chances. Wood’s main concerns are that the Empire 8 Conference does not hold an automatic bid for the tournament, and

that the Northeast region is one of the deepest regions of the country in Division III in terms of talent.

“We’re getting closer but when the NCAA starts looking at the Northeast, right now we’re short of the fourth-best team,” Wood said.

Wood added that sophomore Sharon Li has an excellent chance of being selected to the tournament as an individual player.

Though the Bombers will be fighting a crowded field for one of the six or seven NCAA at-large bids, Fontana said the chance to get there will be a major motivator this offseason.

“Everyone is trying to work really hard in order to get there,” she said.

“We’ve all improved a lot, and I think that we’re trying to keep improving so that we can make it there, and I think that we have a pretty good chance.”

Look online and on our Twitter for game stories from these sports: FRIDAY • 9 a.m. New York State Women’s Tennis Championships on Wheeler Tennis Courts • 3 p.m. Women’s Volleyball vs. Sage College in Ben Light Gymnasium • 5 p.m. Women’s Volleyball vs. St. Lawrence University in Ben Light Gymnasium

SATURDAY • 9 a.m. New York State Women’s Tennis Championships on Wheeler Tennis Courts • 10 a.m. Women’s Volleyball vs. SUNY-Potsdam in Ben Light Gymnasium • 11:45 a.m. Women’s Cross Country at Oberlin Inter-Regional Rumble in Oberlin, Ohio • 12:15 p.m. Women’s Volleyball vs. SUNY-Fredonia in Ben Light Gymnasium • 1 p.m. Football vs. Buffalo State University at Butterfield Stadium • 1 p.m. Women’s Soccer vs. Farmingdale State College on Carp Wood Field • 1 p.m. Field Hockey vs. SUNY-Oneonta at Higgins Stadium • 1 p.m. Men’s and Women’s Swimming vs. SUNY-Brockport in the Athletics and Events Center Pool • 1 p.m. Women’s Golf at Wittenberg’s Pat Clouse Invitational in Springfield, Ohio • 7 p.m. Men’s Soccer at Utica College in Utica, N.Y.

SUNDAY • 9 a.m. New York State Women’s Tennis Championships on Wheeler Tennis Courts • 11 a.m. Women’s Golf at Wittenberg’s Pat Clouse Invitational in Springfield, Ohio

tuESDAY • 6 p.m. Women’s Volleyball vs. SUNY-Oneonta in Ben Light Gymnasium

WEDNESDAY • 4 p.m. Field Hockey vs. Utica College at Higgins Stadium • 7 p.m. Women’s Soccer at Utica College in Utica, N.Y.

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Versatile playmaker shakes up Bombers’ offense

by Christian Araos staff writer

At 5 feet 6 inches, freshman wide receiver Josh Oliver is the smallest player on the football team. However, his role in the Bomber offense is growing.

Oliver received the keys to the Bombers’ “Wildcat” offense, an unorthodox formation that hadn’t been seen before on South Hill. The new formation, which employs a direct snap to a skilled runner and uses pre-snap motions and misdirections to confuse the defensive front, yielded success as Oliver rushed for two touchdowns in the Blue and Gold’s 40-22 win against Utica College on Sept. 29.

Last year, as a quarterback in his senior year of high school, Oliver was a first-team member of the New York high school all-state team and was also named Offensive Player of the Year by the Poughkeepsie Journal for leading the Poughkeepsie Pioneers to their first Section I football championship in school history. Despite being a quarterback in high school, Oliver said he knew he could not be one in college.

“They told me they wanted me more as a receiver or a returner,” Oliver said. “I feel that I’m not really capable of playing quarterback just because of my height alone. As a receiver, when I get out in the open, I’m more versatile.”

Lining up as a quarterback is not the only way Oliver is utilized by the Bomber coaching staff. He has been used as a running back in motion, been targeted as a wide receiver and currently leads the team with 153 kick return yards. Oliver said his lack of size makes him a threat in the open spaces that kick returns create.

While Oliver is already regarded as an athlete and as a returner, he has his sights set on becoming a prominent wide receiver. However, Head Coach Mike Welch said Oliver still needs to fully comprehend the regular offense.

“He’s a very good athlete,” Welch said. “But

Freshman wide receiver and kick returner Josh Oliver looks back before scoring one of his two touchdowns during the football team’s 40-22 win against Utica College on Sept. 29.

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he’s learning the system and learning the plays and learning where he should be.”

Oliver acknowledges that he still has much to learn as a receiver. However, he is confident in his ability to learn the fundamentals of being a receiver and combining his natural speed

and agility. This combination of fundamentals and ability to generate yards resembles Oliver’s predecessor at wide receiver, Dan Ruffrage ’12. Oliver said he met Ruffrage after the Utica game and gave him a confident promise.

“I met Dan Ruffrage for the first time, and

after a nice little greeting I told him straight to his face that, ‘In my four years here, I’m going to try to break your record,’” Oliver said. “And he told me word for word, ‘Records are made to be broken.’”

While this may come across to some people as a freshman who’s overly ambitious, senior captain Nate Hemingway said Oliver has the determination and the talent to back up his talk.

“He’s one of the quickest freshmen that we have and one of the quickest players on the team, and that’s why he has the role that he has,” Hemingway said. “He works hard at it.”

Oliver was a prize recruit for Welch and his coaching staff, who had to pry him away from Empire 8 Conference rivals Alfred University and Utica College.

Defensive coordinator Mark McDonough, who is responsible for recruiting players in Oliver’s section, had an interest in Oliver since his junior year of high school. McDonough said he met Oliver’s high school coach and was sold right away.

“As soon as I saw the film, I instantaneously wanted to get Josh here,” McDonough said.

“He’s a very dynamic football player, and on top of that, coach had nothing but great things to say about Josh as a person.”

McDonough said he was only concerned with bringing Oliver to South Hill, rather than trying to get into a battle with other schools over his signature.

Both McDonough and offensive coordinator Ryan Heasley said they noticed that Oliver has a great deal of moxie. While many freshmen come to Ithaca confident in their abilities, Heasley said, Oliver’s actions speak louder than his words.

“He has something about him,” Heasley said. “He has it. The composure to come into the huddle as a freshman and look the other 10 players in the eyes and be able to call a play.

He’s got it, and that’s why he continues to get more reps.”

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start ‘ e m sit ‘em / Top Tweets Start: Ben Roethlisberger

The funniest sports commentary via Twitter from this past week.

Roethlisberger is coming off a disappointing game against the Eagles, but don’t sit him this week. The Steelers are playing a Titans team that is dead last in points allowed, giving up an average of 36.2 points per game and touting a 25th-ranked pass defense that has only registered seven sacks this entire season.

Roethlisberger is a must start.

The Bill Walton Trip @NotBillWalton Even Chris Webber despises Andy Reid’s frivolous use of time outs.

Brian Phillips @runofplay Why -- why, God -- has it only just occurred to me to write a soccer book called “A Farewell to Arms”?

FauxJohnMadden @FauxJohnMadden After their second straight blowout loss, the Bills new goal is to get an invite to the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.

Trey Wingo @wingoz The Rams will sleep tonight knowing they have a winning record for the first time since November of 2006.

Fantasy football is all about matchups. Even fantasy superstars can lose you points during a bad matchup. Contributing Writer Cole Tessler gives the scoop on who has a good matchup and who to bench this week.

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Malcolm Floyd

Malcom Floyd has been inconsistent this year. But last week he racked up 108 yards against the Chargers. Expect his inconsistency to kick back in and his points to come back down this week.

The Chargers will be playing against the Broncos’ 11th-ranked pass defense this week. The Broncos will also match Floyd up with shutdown corner Champ Bailey.

The fall sport season is nearing its midpoint, and the Bombers are digging into Empire 8 Conference matchups. Take a quick look at how some of the South Hill squads are faring this season.

CONFERENCE RANKING SEASON RECORD

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Football

3rd in the Empire 8 with a conference record of 2–1

4–1

The Bombers lead the E8 with fewest penalty yards.

Women’s Soccer

1st in the Empire 8 with a conference record of 5–0–1

12–0–1

10 of 13 games have been shutouts.

Men’s Soccer

Ties for 2nd in the Empire 8 with a conference record of 3–0–1

Women’s Cross Country

Ranked 10th in the region according to the USTFCCCA

6–2–4

The team went a full month without a loss.

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The team has finished top 10 in all races but one.

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The Bombers have three top-three finishes this year.

Women’s Volleyball

5th in the Empire 8 with a conference record of 2–3

8–8

Marissa Weil is second in the E8 in kills per set.

Field Hockey

Tied for 6th in the Empire 8 with a conference record of 2–3

6–6

Julia Conroy is third in the E8 in goals with 11.

Women’s Tennis

1st in the Empire 8 with a conference record of 7–0

9–0

The Bombers have lost just seven matches this fall.

Men’s Cross Country Ranked 8th in the region ac-

Sports tidbits for the less-than-casual sports fan

• Last week during a Yankee vs. Orioles playoff game, Maryland State Troopers put on a display worthy of a true fanboy hall of fame. During the seventh inning of the game, the Troopers asked Nick Swisher and Derek Jeter for autographs. Shouldn’t they have been doing their jobs? Sure, but the real question is: Why would you want Nick Swisher’s autograph?

Assistant Sports Editor Taylor Palmer offers a few sports topics to use at the bar, a party or an awkward lull in conversation.

• Alex Rodriguez made a few mistakes last Sunday, tallying three strikeouts, but ESPN made an even bigger error in covering his performance. The original headline for the story on his game was “KKK-Rod.” Common sense soon kicked in and two K’s were dropped.

• An anti-Mitt Romney advertisement was featured in The Lantern, the Ohio State University student newspaper, saying that he is a lifelong Michigan Wolverines fan. The ad will really be the ultimate test of how dumb sports fans are. Are Ohio State fans willing to let their vote be swayed by sports allegiance? Let’s hope not.

chasing history Senior forward Rachael Palladino is closing in on the all-time goals record at the college, with five goals to go in just five games.

Here’s what the rest of the Bombers women’s soccer schedule looks like and how Palladino has fared against each opponent in the past.

Oct. 13 vs. Farmingdale College: Palladino has never scored a goal against the Rams.

Oct. 17 vs. Utica College: The senior has torn up Utica in the past, netting eight goals in three games.

Oct. 20 vs. Alfred University: The Saxons have put up little fight against Palladino, who has scored five goals in her career against Alfred.

Oct. 23 vs. SUNY-Oneonta: Palladino remains scoreless against the Dragons.

Oct. 27 vs. Rochester Institute of Technology: The Tigers have played the prolific forward tightly, but Palladino has managed to register a goal against them.

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When push comes to shove

From left, senior forward Rachael Palladino and Nazareth College senior back Amanda Sudore battle for the ball during a game Saturday afternoon on Carp Wood Field. The Bombers won the game 3-1. Palladino was named Empire 8 Soccer Player of the Week after scoring five points last week, including a game winner Oct. 2 at Misericordia University.

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