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Ithacans voice concerns with NY fracking

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Campus mourns loss of music student

by kacey deamer staff writer

As the Department of Environmental Conservation begins to conclude its review on the impacts of horizontal hydraulic fracturing, community members came together to voice their concerns about the controversial process.

Emily DeSantis, assistant director of public information and spokesperson for the DEC, said horizontal fracking permits will not be issued until the FRONGILLO said DEC has completed the event gave locals a chance to its investigation of voice opinions. fracking safety.

The Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement is a continuation of the original report released in 2009. A significant change in this new draft, released in September, is a fracking ban within the watersheds of New York City and Syracuse. The report includes research pertaining to environmental, health, economic and other factors impacted by the potential introduction of natural gas drilling in New York state.

DeSantis said public comments will be reviewed and integrated into the report, a final draft is expected in 2012.

“We carefully review all of the comments that we receive, and actually the comments we got from 2009 helped inform our revised draft,” DeSantis said.

“We made significant improvements to the proposal.”

The comment period was extended to January in response to requests for more time to review the document.

Members of the Ithaca and Greater Finger Lakes communities expressed their criticism of the report at a public hearing downtown held Dec. 1 at the State Theatre, sponsored by the Tompkins County Council of Governments.

Dominic Frongillo, a member of the Town Council of Caroline and TCCOG, was the moderator for the event. Frongillo said the hearing was organized to provide a forum for local citizens not offered by the DEC. The nearest department-sponsored hearings were held in Binghamton and Dansville.

The line to speak stretched for close to half a mile. TCCOG allotted enough time for at least 70 speakers.

Most of the community harshly criticized the DEC’s 1,537-page review, with some speakers asking for a complete and permanent fracking moratorium by the DEC. Others requested significantly more research and time to be spent before a decision on fracking is made.

Vertical fracking already occurs in

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The Symphonic Band left Gregory Mantone's seat open during a practice Wednesday for a concert to be held at 8:15 p.m. today in Ford Hall. Mantone died Saturday in a car accident while returning from New York City. michelle boulé/the ithacan

by brian rank staff writer

To his peers and professors, junior Gregory Mantone was a quiet student with a smile on in the hallways, talent in the classroom and a helping hand when needed.

But Mantone's sudden death in a car accident early Saturday morning has left the School of Music and Ithaca College mourning and reflecting on his life.

He was traveling north along highway I-81 through Susquehanna County, Pa., from New

York City, when his vehicle went off the right side of the highway and struck a rock embankment around 2 a.m. Saturday, according to a Pennsylvania State Police report. The vehicle came to rest on the driver’s side and became engulfed in flames, the report said. Mantone was pronounced dead at the scene. He was 20 years old.

Anthony Conarton, the Susquehanna County coroner, said an autopsy performed Sunday determined the cause of death to be smoke inhalation.

Students, faculty and staff assembled Sunday night in Muller Chapel to share their thoughts and memories of Mantone, recalling a passionate musician and caring friend.

Attendees told stories about his kindness and reserved sense of humor.

“He’s just the most genuinely, purely nice guy I’ve ever met,” sophomore Katherine Pfeiffer said.

Junior Riley Goodemote said Mantone had a sunny disposition and was always upbeat

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Interest in double majors increases despite workload by gerald doherty staff writer

A strong interest in multiple degrees has more students at Ithaca College declaring double majors despite time constraints and increased workload.

Only 3.6 percent of students at the college are enrolled in multiple majors. However, there has been a 23 percent increase in students deciding to double major in the last four years, from 174 students in the fall of 2007 to 225 students this semester.

These numbers still place the college behind the national average. A study by the Department of Education showed 12 percent of college students enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program in 2003 graduated with a double major by 2009. In the case of four-year nonprofit colleges and universities, the average is 16 percent.

For junior Ben Shipley, the decision to enroll as a drama and writing

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Junior Chanel Cohen, a double major in physical therapy and athletic training, treats freshman Alex Gomez for pain after a wrestling practice.

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double major came from a passion for theater and a talent for writing.

“I just really love to do them all," he said. "I always knew I was going to be a theater major in college,

that was never a question, but I got all these scholarships for writing and thought ‘Great! I’ll do that!’"

A typical day for Shipley involves an 8 a.m. alarm call and

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after a three-and-a-half hour block of classes, Shipley works for three hours in the library or IC Square to keep up with his coursework.

From there, he walks to Dillingham Center to work as a dramaturg or stage manager for a production, which can take up to five hours.

Shipley said he only takes on this much work because he couldn’t imagine not double majoring.

“If I wasn’t so passionate, I wouldn’t be able to do this,” Shipley said. “No one in their right mind would put this much on themselves if they didn’t love it.”

But for many students, the challenges of being a double major and the demands of co-curricular activities become hard to manage.

Chanel Cohen, an athletic training and physical therapy double major, does not run varsity track anymore, and instead plays

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Sandusky arrested on new charges

more than $1 million a year and on joint filers making more than $2 million will also fund jobs programs, cuts in the New York City transit tax on small businesses, a break for manufacturers and $50 million in added aid for flood-ravaged communities upstate.

The Legislature was scheduled to enter a special session yesterday on the package crafted by Cuomo after previously opposing tax increases since his campaign.

Ex-Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested yesterday on new sex abuse charges brought by two new accusers.

NCAA President Mark Emmert says the organization could look into changing its bylaws to better establish its authority to address situations like the child sex abuse scandals at Penn State and Syracuse.

The governing body already has a working group considering different rules to prevent violations in what have traditionally been college sports’ problem areas, such as recruiting and amateurism.

The NCAA is examining whether Penn State violated bylaws covering institutional control and ethical conduct in its handling of accusations of child sex abuse against Sandusky. It is monitoring the Syracuse situation — in which three men have accused former men’s basketball assistant coach Bernie Fine of molesting them — but has not initiated an inquiry.

Syrian president denies crackdown

Syria’s president denied he ordered the deadly crackdown on a nearly 9-month-old uprising in his country, claiming he is not in charge of the troops behind the assault.

Speaking to ABC’s Barbara Walters in a rare interview that aired yesterday, President Bashar al-Assad maintained he did not give any commands “to kill or be brutal.”

In his role as president, Assad is the commander of Syria’s armed forces.

The U.N. estimates more than 4,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising began in March, many of them civilians and unarmed protesters demanding Assad’s ouster.

Syria has banned most foreign journalists and prevents the work of independent media, making witness reports and accounts from activist groups a key channel of information. Amateur videos posted online have shown police and pro-regime militias opening fire on protesters.

Blagojevich sentenced to 14 years

Disgraced former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison yesterday, one of the stiffest penalties imposed for corruption in a state with a history of crooked politics.

After three years of denials he finally admitted making “terrible mistakes,” including trying to sell a U.S. Senate appointment, but the judge says it wasn’t enough because Blagojevich’s crimes left the state “torn and disfigured.”

Nearly three years since Blagojevich’s arrest while still in office, the sentencing hearing Tuesday featured an admission by Blagojevich’s attorneys that he was, in fact, guilty of public corruption. For years, the former governor and his team had strenuously avoided acknowledging that.

Gorbachev calls for new election

Russian authorities should annul the parliamentary vote results and hold a new election, ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev urged yesterday as popular indignation grew over widespread reports of alleged election fraud.

Thousands of Russians have rallied in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the last two days, facing off against tens of thousands of police and Interior Ministry troops. Hundreds of protesters have been detained in both cities.

Gorbachev told the Interfax news agency that authorities must hold a fresh election or deal with a rising tide of discontent.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won less than 50 percent of Sunday’s

NY legislature to vote on taxation

New York’s Legislature is scheduled to vote on a major agreement between Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders that will increase the income tax on the wealthiest residents while providing a tax break for the middle class.

The tax increase on single filers making

Runaway recovered

Italian policemen escort fugitive mobster Michele Zagaria, center, at the police headquarters in Naples, Southern Italy. Zagaria, on the run since 1995, was arrested yesterday when he was found in an underground bunker in Casapesenna, the headquarters of the Casalesi clan.

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vote, a steep fall from its earlier two-thirds majority, according to preliminary results.

But opposition parties and international observers said the vote was marred by voterigging, including alleged ballot-box stuffing and false voter rolls.

New Belgian prime minister elected Socialist Elio Di Rupo took the oath as Belgium’s first Francophone prime minister in nearly 40 years on Tuesday, formally ending a record 541-day government impasse.

In a ceremony at the ornate royal palace, the son of Italian immigrants completed a remarkable personal journey that took him from an impoverished childhood in Belgium’s rustbelt south to become the leader of Belgium.

Amid small talk and jokes with King Albert II, the 13 ministers and six state secretaries took the oath, much to the relief of the nation of 6.5 million Dutch speakers and 4.5 million French speakers frustrated with lawmakers’ inability to form a government over linguistic differences.

Obama to alter credit card system

The Obama administration is launching a new project aimed at simplifying credit card agreements to make them easier to understand.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is testing a prototype agreement that the White House says is shorter and written in plain language. The bureau plans to test the new agreement with the Pentagon Federal Credit Union, one of the nation’s largest credit unions.

The White House says a recent study shows that about two-thirds of credit card users say they don’t completely understand how their cards work.

The announcement comes as the White House urges the Senate to confirm Richard Cordray to head the consumer bureau.

Republicans said they will block confirmation of anyone to head the agency until other regulators and Congress have more control over the bureau.

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Exam schedule disrupts student travel by noreyana fernando staff writer

With the end of the semester approaching, students will have to conclude finals week well into the winter holiday season — creating an inconvenience for students and professors.

Last fall, the academic calendar ended Dec.17.

The former calendar committee set 10 p.m. Dec. 23 as the official closing time for this semester. The time conflicts with international holidays, which adds time pressure to students trying to get home for celebrations and financial strain as holidaytime flight tickets soar.

Brian Scholten, Ithaca College registrar and the chair of the current academic calendar committee, said this semester’s calendar was drafted before his arrival in 2009.

“It was a different academic calendar committee that did the work, it was a different provost, it was a different president at that time that reviewed the information and even a different board of trustees,” he said. “So it is hard to know what the thinking was.”

Scholten, who said he can only guess the reason behind this move, said this was probably done to avoid any conflict with Cornell University’s calendar.

Cornell students began arriving Aug. 8 and have their last final exam scheduled for Dec. 16.

Freshman Emily Draper, who is from Alaska, said the college needs to be more sensitive to the needs of students from all around the country.

“I would say that they need to be more aware that not everyone is from the Tri-state area,” said Draper. “If they are proud of the fact that they represent 48 states, then they should accommodate the people from those other states.”

Scholten said one of the committees’ concerns was that Ithaca does not have sufficient airline flights and hotels to accommodate parents and students from both institutions arriving at the same time.

“We’ve been working with Cornell University on calendar committee recommendations and proposals for three more years until the 2016-17 calendar to make sure we avoid conflicts,” he said.

Scholten said the proposals for academic calendars that were sent to the provost for the years 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 take exams and travel into heavier consideration.

“There are a lot of considerations this time around, mainly because of the IC 20/20 strategic vision, that the committee had to consider,” he said. “But one of the other things we tried to keep

by jack curran staff writer

From left, Ithaca resident John Humphries sees off his son Sky Humphries on Wednesday at the Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport. Late exams could cause students to travel close to the holidays. shawn steiner/the ithacan

in mind as we discuss the calendars for those years was to try to be mindful of when exams ended in the fall, so there wouldn’t be as much difficulty for folks trying to finish their exams and travel for the holidays.”

The original calendar was revised in October to give students an extra day, moving the closing day from Dec. 23 to Dec. 22. He said the administration realizes this calendar poses difficulties for all students, especially international students, who have to fly out of the country.

“It’s a difficult situation for everybody, and certainly the administration understands and recognizes that traveling at this time of the year, regardless of where you are going, is difficult for everyone and probably more so, for some reasons, for international students trying to get home to another country.”

Diana Dimitrova, director of international student services at the college, said this semester she has only seen two requests for travel signatures, which give validity to international student visas and allow them to stay during the break.

“The difference has been that since this semester

is essentially a week longer, everything is happening a week longer,” Dimitrova said. “Normally in the first week of December, we start to receive a lot of requests for travel signatures, and we encourage that.

Which is probably going to start next week because we’re staggered by a week.”

Freshman Tung Tran, who will be traveling to Vietnam on Dec. 24, will miss Christmas with his family this year and will have to spend a night in New York City because that was the best flight he said he could find.

“In my case, I have to pay $149 for just one night for a hotel in New York City,” Tran said. “So it’s not only inconvenient, it’s also very expensive.”

Meanwhile, with final semester grades due Dec. 28, professors will be hard at work through the holidays.

Darius Conger, assistant professor of economics, said the calendar was not planned well.

“I am not quite sure why nobody was more sensitive to this holiday issue and the travel requirements that accompany it — not everybody lives in Rochester,” he said. “It’s just inconvenient and a bit annoying to have to be grading over the holidays.”

Journalist urges students to reflect on immigration

by ELMA GONZALEZ ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, brought the national immigration debate to the forefront of the Ithaca College community this week by outlining his own journey of “coming out” as an undocumented immigrant living in the United States.

More than 250 students and community members gathered Monday in Emerson Suites to listen to a discussion led by Vargas, a guest speaker brought by the Park Center for Independent Media.

Vargas spoke about “coming out” in an essay he wrote for the The New York Times Magazine titled “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant.” Vargas described how he was sent to the United States from the Philippines at 12 years old did not discover his undocumented status until he was 16. His essay spurred national debate about immigration issues and spearheaded his own activism through the website DefineAmerican.com.

He is known for his coverage of the HIV epidemic in the U.S., which was adapted into a documentary.

He also received a Pulitzer Prize as part of the Washington Post team that covered the Virginia Tech

TCAT workers reject contract proposal terms

shootings in 2007.

Vargas said he revealed his undocumented status against the advice of 30 lawyers because he felt it was his obligation as a journalist to share his story and keep others from believing they do not belong in the country.

“In some ways, we take risks in order to liberate ourselves,” he said.

“Writers will tell you that the best stories are the stories that are specific enough that it becomes universal.”

Though more than 1 million undocumented immigrants have been deported from the U.S. under the Obama administration, Vargas said, he remains untouched because he is “privileged.” The government, he said, ignores his status to avoid controversy.

“People aren’t touching me,” he said. “That speaks to the fact that at the end of the day, they don’t really want to deal with it, or me.”

Maura Stephens, associate director for the Park Center for Independent Media, said this was one of the few events where students seemed “ready to go out and start a movement.”

Stephens said she knows people who are undocumented herself, and said Vargas’ speech is relevant to many students at the college.

“You would never even know they weren’t born in this country,” she said.

Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant, spoke about immigration stigmas Monday in Emerson Suites. emily park/the ithacan

“They’ve been here so long it’s not even an issue anymore.”

One in 10 children are growing up in a mixed family, in which at least one member is undocumented, Vargas said. Most of these families are active members in the community and economy.

“Now none of this matters,” he said. “I just got back from Alabama, which just passed the hardest and strictest immigration law in this country, which actually [Martin Luther King Jr.]’s son has said, ‘reeks of Jim Crow segregation.’”

Sophomore Kathy Perez said she

admires Vargas’ courage to “come out” to the world despite the likelihood of deportation.

“I do know some illegal immigrants who are in hiding every day and he’s brave enough to be out about it — not only to the Ithaca community but to The New York Times too,” she said.

Vargas said everyone should be involved in immigration conversations.

“You have a responsibility to connect the dots for someone who can’t,” he said. “You, as a conscious person, have a responsibility to be completely awake because there are too many who are sleeping.”

Tensions rose between the Tompkins County Area Transit Board of Directors and the United Auto Workers local 2300 union last Thursday after the union rejected terms in the board’s latest work contract.

The TCAT TURCOTTE said both parties will board met continue to discuss with UAW a new contract. representatives last week to negotiate the terms of its three-year contract.

The two key issues were a “me too” clause, which would give workers a pay increase equivalent to the managers’, and the health insurance plan, which was changed due to budget cuts. The UAW presented the proposal to its members, but it was voted down 76-9 after three months of negotiations.

A federal mediator is attempting to reach an agreement between the parties, who are expected to meet again within the next few weeks. At this time, the union has had no discussion of a strike.

The UAW has said the agreement was voted down because TCAT rejected the union’s proposed “me too” clause.

UAW President Jack Kaminsky said it is unclear to union members why TCAT rejected the clause.

“They’re already on the record saying that there’s a wage freeze for the management team,” he said. “If that’s a fact, then the ‘me too’ clause would become a non-issue.”

TCAT General Manager Joe Turcotte said the clause is too difficult to comply with.

“You have two separate sets of employees under different work parameters,” he said. “It was a very odd request, and we just simply couldn’t be constrained by that.”

Meanwhile, the debate over health insurance was settled. Due to budget cuts, TCAT was unable to offer the same insurance plan as in previous years. The new plan, which is $1.42 million as opposed to last year’s $1.39 million, offers dual options for insurance.

If employees choose the cheaper plan, which gives less coverage, remaining funds will be made available for wage increases.

Kaminsky said union members have accepted this change.

Though TCAT’s budget for 2012 includes a $530,000 deficit, TCAT planned to increase wages for union represented workers by $225,000. The agreement, however, was rejected.

TCAT made its decision on health insurance before an agreement was reached with the union, due to a deadline. Turcotte said the plans that were offered were based on proposals previously made by the UAW. While most members of the UAW support the union’s efforts, some members aren’t concerned with them. TCAT driver Dwayne Lovelace said he is indifferent about the contract negotiations.

“I just come in, they give me a bus, and everything’s good,” he said. “As long as I get a paycheck, they can do what they want.”

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club volleyball because of the demands of her two programs.

Sophomore Emma McFarland, a drama and English double major, said because she is working as a dramaturg for “The Magic Flute” next semester, she had to drop her co-curricular activities to accommodate a busier schedule.

“Last year I did IC Players, but this year I’m taking 18 credits, so I didn’t really have a lot of free time,” she said.

H o w ever, dropSTREUFERT said ping these double majoring co - c u r r i ccan affect hands-on ular acexperience. tivities and focusing exclusively on class work can have a detrimental effect on a student’s employment prospects when they push aside internship experience some employers look for.

Billie Streufert, director of academic success at the University of Sioux Falls, wrote an article for USA Today in July about the impact a double major can have on one’s career and said students need to take employment opportunities and time constraints into account before declaring a second major.

“I would say to any student that you are going to leave any institution with two things: a degree and a resume,” Streufert said.

“You want to make sure you have a foot in both worlds. Couple your strong academic background with hands-on practical experience.”

Streufert cited a 2010 survey of employers by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which found that 72.4 percent of employers preferred candidates with experience, and employers viewed internships and leadership positions on campus as being as important as a student’s major.

Students that can balance two majors as well as internships and co-curricular involvement can make a student a much more standout job applicant.

Lauren DeCicca ’11, said she came to the college because of the opportunity to enroll as a photography and art double major. Before she got her latest internship at Life Magazine, DeCicca worked as a photographer for Fuse magazine, a Leadership Scholar, a disc jockey for WICB, and as a photo editor and cartoonist for The Ithacan.

“I took a double major because I couldn’t imagine not being both a photo major and an art major,” she said. “People interviewing me seemed impressed when they heard that I could handle all of that on top of my extracurricular activities.

For others, having a double major is less about increasing employment prospects and more about the natural curiosity in multiple subjects.

“This is college, and while it is time to find a path in life, it is also a time to explore oneself and follow the passions you won’t necessarily get to later,” Shipley said.

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despite the stress of schoolwork.

“I never saw him with a cold look on his face, not once,” he said.

The gathering was organized by administrators in the School of Music and was led by Father Carsten Martensen, the college’s Catholic chaplain. More than 100 members of the campus community filled the chapel and stretched into the outside atrium.

Mantone, a music education major, played the euphonium in the Symphonic Band, for which he was a section leader, and sang in the college chorus.

Mantone was raised in Mount Sinai, N.Y., a hamlet on Long Island, where he graduated from Mount Sinai High School.

Gregory Woodward, dean of the School of Music, said Mantone also had a love of musical theater and was returning from seeing “Follies,” one of his favorite Broadway musicals, Saturday morning. Woodward said the music school community came together in support of each other.

"The kids seemed affected, somber, reflective, but also concerned by each others' health," he said.

Aaron Tindall, assistant professor of tuba and euphonium and Mantone’s teacher this semester, said Mantone’s already great technique had improved in the past few months, putting him on track to achieving his goals. Tindall said when he first arrived at the college two years ago he asked students what they wanted to do with their lives.

“I remember specifically, I got to Greg and Greg said ‘I want to be the best music educator that I can be and the best euphonium player that I can be,’” he said.

Tindall said losing a student is particularly difficult for music students because of the tightknit community in the school.

Junior Nicole Kukieza, a music performance and education major and another student of Tindall’s, said she knew Mantone since her freshman year.

“It didn’t really hit a lot of people until band and chorus on Monday when Greg didn’t go,” she said. “It was kind of real then.”

Beth Peterson, conductor of the Symphonic Band, said the first rehearsal without Mantone turned difficult when playing the “Hymn of Brotherhood,” a slow ballad, which a guest conductor will lead in a performance today.

“I started to conduct it first just to warm everyone up, and I just started crying and then everybody was crying. It was pretty emotional

Gregory Mantone, center, plays the euphonium during junior Nicole Kukieza's elective junior recital Oct. 7. Mantone was a music education major and a member of the Symphonic Band and chorus. courtesy of nicole kukieza

on Monday,” she said.

Since Monday, many performances within the music school have been dedicated to Mantone.

Bill Tiberio, director of the Jazz Lab ensemble concert, dedicated the Monday performance to him.

The Student Government Association held a jazz night in Mantone's memory Tuesday at tc Lounge.

Junior Edward Odio, SGA senator for the School of Music who organized the event, had a class with Mantone the day before he died, he said, and —nicole kukieza he felt strongly that Mantone should be honored.

“It’s still hard for me to think about it because it could have been anyone," he said. "I could have been in that situation, so I wanted to dedicate this night for him.”

Junior Scott Card, a jazz studies major, said though he hadn’t known Mantone by name, he remembered him after finding his photo online.

“Like everyone who heard, I looked him up on Facebook,” he said. “I recognized his face, and I just knew him as the guy I always walked by in the hallway who was always smiling and laughing at people. He was always in a good mood every

“It didn’t really hit a lot of people until band and chorus on Monday when Greg didn’t go.”

time I saw him.”

The symphonic band will play an arrangement of “Amazing Grace” with one verse played only by the euphonium section during its performance today. The college chorus also plans to incorporate “O Magnum Mysterium”, one of Mantone’s favorite pieces, into its performance Sunday. The School of Music will host a concert in Mantone’s honor planned tentatively for Jan. 31.

Linda Mantone, Gregory’s mother, said she and her husband, Stephen, have found some consolation in the support from the college community.

“It does comfort us to know how many other people also love him,” she said. “We’ve had such wonderful comments from people at Ithaca. Students and faculty and administration have been really wonderful.”

Woodward said the tragic event has helped students demonstrate support for one another usually not offered in normal, everyday life.

“It’s always with these cases, sort of a mixture of good and bad which ends up being a kind of bittersweet kind of feeling,” he said.

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the state and is not restricted by the moratorium. Horizontal drilling can use 100 times as much water as vertical fracking and can stretch into the shale as deep as two miles.

Speaking on behalf of Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., Dan Lamb, a district representative, said the congressman supports a statewide ban or home rule in which local governments choose whether to allow fracking. He said there have been incidents of pollution and contamination that have gone unreported since the DEC’s previous study that are not yet reflected in the revision.

“We have learned much more about hydraulic fracturing since 2009,” Lamb said. “More incidents of broken industry promises, harm to local communities, air pollution and water contamination have been reported.”

About 40 people from Ithaca College joined the local community at the rally, as nearly a dozen students supported a rally on the Commons before the hearing.

Junior Ren Ostry, a member of Occupy IC and Occupy Ithaca, helped lead the rally. She said the Occupy Ithaca movement held the rally to stand in solidarity with those protesters opposed to fracking.

Ostry said the City of Ithaca has become her home, and she wanted to show her support and listen to what local residents are thinking and feeling about fracking.

“These are my community members,” Ostry said. “Tonight, they’re all anti-fracking, but whether they agree or disagree with me, this is my community. The whole purpose of this is to value people over profits, and I want to hear what they have to say.”

Sandra Steingraber, distinguished scholar-in-residence in the college's Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences, said the environmental health problems associated with fracking were largely absent in the DEC report.

“Rather than assess the health impacts of fracking using the protocols of public health science, the SGEIS simply denies that these impacts exist,” Steingraber said.

Concerns ranged from health and environment to the economy,

Sandra Steingraber, a distinguished scholar-in-residence at Ithaca College, voices her opinion at a fracking rally on Dec. 1 on the Commons. kevin campbell/the ithacan

but one consistent theme remained — the people of Ithaca and the Finger Lakes region who attended the event did not find the DEC report to be acceptable, and they will continue to fight fracking in the area.

DeSantis said the final draft will be

the regulation natural gas companies must abide by if they are to pursue horizontal fracking in New York state.

“The driller would have to comply with the requirements of the SGEIS as well as the regulations that go along with it,” DeSantis said.

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Professor fuses culture and photography abroad When Janice Levy, professor of cinema, photography, and media arts, went to Saudi Arabia last year for a 10-day workshop, she had no idea that the experience would later lead to a 10-month sabbatical.

After being inspired by the short visit, Levy To see an audio went back to slideshow from teach students Levy's trip, visit photography theithacan.org. at Princess Noura University in Riyadh.

Levy said photography can be a tool for social change and preserving culture while seeing the world in a different way. Staff Writer Candace King spoke with Levy about her experience and the role of photography in bridging the two cultures.

Candace King: Did you run into any cultural barriers in Saudi Arabia?

Janice Levy: The students themselves have grown up in a system where they have had limited access to information. There were things they didn't know about. Things that we would know from history and factual events, they had not been taught. I was bringing to them information that was brand new to them.

There were big gaps in their education, and I had to be very careful how I talked about things because you never want to insult the prophet — you never want to say anything that would offend anybody.

CK: In what way did photography play a role in bridging the two cultures together?

JL: The students really took to photography. They loved it. The students loved taking pictures because there's this natural inclination that people have to document their lives. However, the idea of taking pictures with your cell phone was very different from the idea of taking pictures with a real camera. There was something about a big camera that felt so much more intrusive and real, if you will, than taking pictures with a cell phone which felt like almost a “throw away” picture. The girls were very secretive about taking pictures. Most of them did not want their faces photographed, but they loved to take pictures.

CK: In an interview, you said that the students "knew very little of their own city and the outside world." What do you mean by that?

JL: This has a lot to do with the fact that many of them are told that "Riyadh is a dangerous place" and that "men are bad." The majority of people who do the real labor in Saudi Arabia are immigrant workers from places like India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines — very impoverished countries. This is the work that the Saudis don't want to do, and so the girls grow up hearing from their parents that these people are dangerous — they're not nice.

CK: How was this experience different from the others you've had?

JL: I've taught abroad in a lot of different countries, but Saudi Arabia was very different in a lot of ways.

For one, I was working in a situation

Janice Levy poses in a self portrait in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Levy spent 10 months last year on sabbatical teaching women how photography can spur social change and capture culture at Princess Noura University.

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where women's freedom was very limited. For instance, Saudi Arabia is a country that practices Sharia law, and the women, when they go out, have to be completely covered, and they are not allowed to go out without being accompanied by a male who is their guardian. I had expectations initially that my students would be able to just walk around the streets and take photographs as you would — like my students here — and they couldn't. That wasn’t something that was normal for them.

I also didn't realize that the university had restrictions on the time that I could spend with my students outside the classroom. Whereas we can

go on field trips here very easily, that was impossible there. You didn't have the freedom to interact in the way we do with our students here.

CK: Aside from teaching at the university, did you pursue additional work in Saudi Arabia?

JL: Whenever I could, I was out taking pictures. But there was a big program that I started there that I was very proud of, and it was a collaboration between the Princess Noura University students, my class and the Disabled Children's Association. My Princess Noura University students taught disabled

children how to take photographs.

I wanted the photography students at Princess Noura to learn about community service and to learn about disability, which is huge in Saudi Arabia, but people sort of just sweep under the rug because they don't want to confront the problem. I wanted them to learn about humanity and the kids at the Disabled Children's Association were so great. We would go there every once in a couple of weeks and teach these kids how to use cameras. The pictures the disabled children took were amazing. We got to see what their lives were like through their eyes.

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Study links patient attitude to diabetes management by gillian nigro staff writer

Ithaca College psychology professor Mary Turner DePalma and her colleagues Matthew Camporese ’05 and Julia Rollison ’05 have shed new light on diabetes and patients’ mentalities.

The extensive research found that information about people’s perceptions on how they got diabetes influences how well they later manage the disease.

DePalma distributed an DEPALMA said online survey to male and perception plays a female Caucasians who had large role in diabetes in the community. treating diabetes.

No other racial groups were surveyed in order to isolate ethnic disparities with the disease. However, DePalma is now conducting research on other ethnicities.

She said she was intrigued by how cultural understandings of disease information and causality are used differently by people. The survey included questions about disease diagnosis, mood levels, lifestyle choices, social support and the ways in which the individuals managed their diabetes.

She found people with diabetes who see themselves as responsible for their disease blame themselves for making poor lifestyle choices and are far less likely to try to improve their condition.

Nearly 26 million children and adults in the United States have diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association. Another 79 million Americans have pre-diabetes and are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes.

DePalma has published articles in the past regarding the importance of disease causality to people, and how they used that information to make judgments about others.

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“We wanted to get out of the lab and get out and try to think about ways in which we might help people,” she said.

The research team took two years to collect all the information and write the report.

Camporese said he was drawn to the study because of his interest in health sciences and partly by its political implications.

“Our health care system was sort of propelling itself in that direction of trying to determine whether or not each patient is responsible for the onset of his or her disease,” he said.

Camporese also said it is necessary to be aware of the potential for “discrimination and prejudice” from health care systems, which could negatively affect a person’s disease management by altering their ability to take care of their illness by feeling personally responsible.

Rollison said she has always been interested in health and motivational research, and her work with DePalma on the study has translated into her post-graduate career.

She is also thinking of doing her dissertation in a similar area of study, with motivational and health-related attitudes.

“It’s actually kind of stuck with me the whole way through,” Rollison said.

DePalma is in the process of writing a paper for a similar study, which expands on her previous one. This study is focused on Native Americans in particular, an ethnic group which is disproportionately affected by diabetes. The study found an entirely different pattern of results. This basis, DePalma said, is the stepping stone for future research.

“Now we’re semi-obligated to look at other groups like Latinos, Asian Americans and Latin Americans who are also disproportionately affected by diabetes to see how these groups use information about disease causality,” she said.

Food fight!

From left, juniors Danielle Prizzi and Emily Shaw, members of Slowfood Ithaca College, call for more locally grown food Friday in Towers Dining Hall. Ten members from the group “mobbed” the dining hall dressed in green and passed around a petition for students to sign.

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College & City IC dance instructor passes and leaves lasting legacy

Vergiu Cornea, former Ithaca College theater department faculty member, passed away Friday. He was 96.

Cornea taught at the college from 1957 to 1979. He was its first dance instructor.

In 2008, Cornea CORNEA was nominated to be given the James J. Whalen Meritorious Service Award from the college’s Alumni Association.

He was born in Romania in 1914, and began his professional career as the first dancer in the Berlin Comic Opera and ballet master of the Hamburg State Opera. He also participated in the film “The Red Shoes.”

He came to the college in 1956 and choreographed “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and “The King and I.”

Diversity Fellow to speak on old racist memorabilia

Christopher House, Predoctoral Diversity Fellow in the Department of Communication Studies, will give his presentation, “Mammy’s Cookie Jar: The Commodification of Black Pain,” at 12:10 p.m. today in Clark Lounge.

HOUSE The lecture examines the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University to test the ethicality of

the commodification of racial pain.

House said he aims to use “items of intolerance to teach tolerance.”

The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session.

Ithaca College counselor named Adviser of the Year

LeBron Rankins, psychologist at the Ithaca College Office of Counseling and Wellness, was honored with the Adviser of the Year award

by Active Minds Inc., during the Active Minds’ 8th National Mental Health on Campus Conference.

The conference was held from Nov. 18 to 20 at University of Maryland, College Park and had more than 500 attendees.

The organization fights to remove mental health disorder stigmas.

Seniors perform to raise money for Indian women

Senior actors in the theater department will present “Wheels for Women,” a cabaret to raise funds to provide transportation for women in India, at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Clark Theatre at Dillingham Center.

“Wheels for Women” will also have a silent auction of local wines.

Proceeds will benefit the Sakhi Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence in Kerala, India.

The cabaret was produced by Kathleen Mulligan, professor in the theater department, and her husband, David.

Mulligan developed the idea after working in India on her Fulbright project, “Finding Women’s Voices,” which focused on female empowerment through voice.

The two found during their stay that what the women in the shelter needed most was transportation.

The couple produced a benefit cabaret that raised the funds to purchase a new auto-rickshaw for the shelter with the help of fellow actors at the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre in Holland, Mich.

College professor receives communications honors

The National Communication Association has honored Bruce Henderson, professor of communication studies at Ithaca College, with its Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies, the highest recognition in the field.

He received the award in the annual NCA meeting in New Orleans.

The Scholarly Journal in Disability Studies also recently named Henderson co-editor of the Disability Studies Quarterly, a magazine for the Society for Disability Studies.

Henderson will co-edit with Noam Ostrander, master of social work at DePaul University. They will take their positions in July.

Senior gets national award for paper in anthropology

The American Anthropological Association honored an Ithaca College student with a national student paper award at its annual conference Nov. 12 in Montreal.

Senior Daniel Weller, an anthropology major, received the Christine Wilson Student Paper Award from the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition.

Public Safety Incident Log November 10

vehicle and then left the scene. Investigation pending. Master Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock.

Conduct Code Violation LOCATION: Circle Lot 6 SUMMARY: Caller reported an intoxicated person ran into the woods, possibly with a knife. Person transported to CMC for a mental health evaluation and judicially referred for danger to self and irresponsible use of alcohol. Patrol Officer Bruce Thomas.

Medical Assist LOCATION: Peggy Ryan Williams Center SUMMARY: Caller reported a finger caught on a door, causing a laceration to the finger. Report taken. Master Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock.

Case Status Change LOCATION: East Tower SUMMARY: Officer reported criminal mischief was reported in East Tower on Oct. 14. Was not done intentionally.

Criminal mischief unfounded. Patrol Officer Jeremiah McMurray.

Off-Campus Incident LOCATION: Cornell University SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person stole a bassoon. Investigation pending. Sergeant Tom Dunn.

Unlawful Poss. of Marijuana LOCATION: Emerson Hall SUMMARY: Three people were judicially referred for unlawful possession of marijuana.

Master Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury.

November 11 Fire Alarm Accidental LOCATION: Terraces SUMMARY: Fire alarm activation caused by burnt food. System reset. Patrol Officer Mark Denicola.

V&T Violation LOCATION: L-Lot SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown vehicle damaged a parked

November 12 Conduct Code Violation LOCATION: West Tower SUMMARY: Caller reported an intoxicated person passed out. Person was transported to CMC by ambulance, and one person was judicially referred for responsibility of guest. Master Security Officer Wendy Lewis.

Medical Assist LOCATION: Boothroyd Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported a person having a panic attack. Person was taken to CMC by ambulance. Patrol Officer Mark Denicola.

Conduct Code Violation LOCATION: Terraces SUMMARY: Caller reported people fighting. One person judicially referred for responsibility of guest and failure to comply. Sergeant Ron Hart.

Conduct Code Violation LOCATION: West Tower SUMMARY: Caller reported an intoxicated person passed out. Person was transported to CMC by ambulance, and one person was judicially referred for responsibility of guest. Master Security Officer Wendy Lewis.

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His paper is titled “Contextualizing the Immigrant Experience: The Role of Food and Foodways in Identity Maintenance and Formation For First and Second Generation Latino Individuals in Ithaca, N.Y.” He traveled to the conference to receive his award.

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Evergreen Wreath-Making, sponsored by the Cornell Cooperative Extension, will be held at 6:30 p.m. at 615 Willow Avenue.

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University receives grant to save Ugandan bananas

Eric Griffith: “Beta Test” reading will be held at 6 p.m. in Buffalo Street Books.

A $7.07 million grant was awarded to Cornell University by the U.S. Agency for International Development to boost Ugandan banana production.

The grant is meant to fund the fight against pests and diseases that attack the Matoke banana, one of Uganda’s primary food staples.

It is managed by the Agricultural Biotechnology Research Project in Cornell’s Office of International Programs, and it is set to run through October 2016.

The research team has worked with Uganda’s National Agricultural Research Organization since 2005 to improve the country’s ability to conduct agricultural biotechnology research and develop disease-resistant varieties of Matoke.

The fruit is a big part of the country’s economy and feeds about 65 percent of the country’s population.

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

Shabbat Dinner will be held at 7 p.m. in Terrace Dining Hall.

sunday Catholic Mass will begin at 1 and 9 p.m. in Muller Chapel.

Tuesday IC CAPS will host a Mindfulness Meditation group from 5 to 5:50 p.m. at Counseling and Psychological Services.

“Replenishing the Earth,” a discussion group, will be held at 6 p.m. in Buffalo Street Books.

Wednesday

College defeats Cortland in blood drive challenge

Mighty Yoga will hold a “Pay what you can Wednesday” at 7:30 p.m. on the second floor of 106 West State Street.

Exploring Credit and Debit Management Issues will be held at 6 p.m. at 615 Willow Avenue.

Ithaca College won the Cortaca Blood Drive Challenge conducted in October, according to contest results.

The total units collected were 357,275 between Oct. 4 and 5, and 1,071 lives were helped by the blood drive, according to a press release.

selected entries from Nov. 10 to Nov. 16

Criminal Tampering LOCATION: Emerson Hall SUMMARY: Officer reported an unknown person maliciously discharged a fire extinguisher. Investigation pending. Sergeant Ron Hart.

Medical Assist LOCATION: Bogart Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported a person having difficulty breathing due to a medical issue. One person transported to CMC by ambulance. Patrol Officer Mark Denicola.

Fire Alarm LOCATION: Emerson Hall SUMMARY: Fire alarm activation caused by an unknown person maliciously discharging a fire extinguisher.

System reset. Master Security Officer Wendy Lewis.

November 13 Criminal Trespass LOCATION: Circle Apartments SUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person attempting to climb onto the balcony. Person was attempting to gain access into a friend’s apartment. One person judicially referred for responsibility of guest. Patrol Officer Jeremiah McMurray.

Criminal Tampering LOCATION: Upper Quad SUMMARY: Caller reported unknown persons pulled a stop sign out of the ground. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Mark Denicola.

Trespass LOCATION: Ben Light Gymnasium SUMMARY: Caller reported two persons in a closed building. One person

judicially referred for trespass and responsibility of guest Master Security Officer Wendy Lewis.

November 14 Harassment LOCATION: All Other SUMMARY: Caller reported getting harassing phone calls about a verbal argument, which occurred Nov. 12 at Butterfield Stadium. Multiple agency investigations pending. Sergeant Investigator Tom Dunn.

Harassment LOCATION: Alumni Hall SUMMARY: Caller reported receiving harassing phone calls in reference to a verbal argument which occurred Nov. 12 at Butterfield Stadium. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Jay VanVolkinburg.

Motor Vehicle Accident LOCATION: O-Lot SUMMARY: Caller reported a two-car motor vehicle accident. Report taken. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

Conduct Code Violation LOCATION: Emerson Hall SUMMARY: Two people judicially referred for violation of college drug policy and for failure to comply. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

November 15 Harassment LOCATION: Hammond Health Center SUMMARY: Caller reported receiving a harassing phone call and email from a person. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Jay VanVolkinburg.

Found Property LOCATION: G-Lot SUMMARY: Bracelet was found and turned over to public safety.

Found Property LOCATION: Lower Quad SUMMARY: Electronic game console found and turned over to public safety.

November 16 Criminal Trespass LOCATION: Garden Apartments SUMMARY: Caller reported that a person keeping people out of the laundry room was threatening others and acting strangely. Subject was taken into custody under Mental Hygiene Law and had lacerations to the head. Subject transported to CMC by ambulance and was restricted from the campus. Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

Safety Hazard LOCATION: Center for Natural Sciences SUMMARY: Officer reported a bicycle causing a safety hazard. Officer issued a warning notice for removal. Fire and Building Safety Coordinator Ron Clark.

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

Key cmc – Cayuga Medical Center DWI – Driving While Intoxicated IFD – Ithaca Fire Department IPD – Ithaca Police Department SASP – Student Auxiliary Safety Patrol V&T – Vehicle and Transportation MVA - Motor Vehicle Accident

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Peeling off the stamp of shame The college should help students who qualify for food stamps apply for the program in order to eliminate stigmas associated with using them.

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ome students struggle to pay utility bills, while others can’t even put food on their plates.

These individuals are most qualified to receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but many fear the social stigmas that come with using them. This shouldn’t be the case.

Food is a basic human need. And government programs like SNAP were created to help people with financial hardships feed themselves. With individuals between the ages 18 and 20 comprising half of the county’s population below the poverty line, college students should take advantage of food stamps to resolve their issues with food security.

The problem is many students who demonstrate need are unaware of how to apply for food stamps or if they even qualify. As a result, many skip out on meals or buy cheap groceries to get by.

The college has an obligation to make sure its students aren’t starving or malnourished. Thus, it should make food stamps more visible to those who demonstrate need. When students first submit their financial aid packages, the college could identify those who qualify for food stamps and give them the necessary resources to apply for the program.

An institutional effort to further support lowincome students by giving them the tools to apply for food stamps would be similar to any other grant program created to give them more opportunities.

This stance may help eliminate the shame in using food stamps.

By taking the initiative to help low-income students apply for food assistance, the college may help de-stigmatize the program as something that separates low-income students at Ithaca from their peers, the majority of whom are middle class.

PRO-CHOICE

Despite social prejudices associated with stripping, society must recognize that people have the right to present their bodies however they want.

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hile some people like stripping for the tease, others consider it a job choice.

After struggling to pay school, apartment and health bills, a few Ithaca College students are stripping to supplement their incomes. Despite other part-time jobs in food service, academic tutoring or administrative work, these students choose to strip because they believe it is the most lucrative option.

While many believe stripping perpetuates the objectification of women, it’s important to recognize that this choice is still a valid one. Rather than using intellectual skills as a means of collecting income, they consciously choose to use their bodies for capital gain. And these choices should not be regarded as less worthy than others.

Earlier this fall, students in Ithaca participated in a “Slut Walk” to show their support for women’s right to demand respect for their bodies, regardless of how they dress or carry themselves. While the march was against rape and victim blaming, its feminist approach addresses socially constructed ideas about objectifying female bodies.

In a progressive society that values individual choice, we must uphold the right for both men and women who strip to choose how they present their bodies, without fear of social condemnation.

your letters Sexual scandals of sports teams do not compare to college faculty

The idea that football is, or can be, a metaphor for life, which was presented in the commentary “Recent sports scandals should be a campus wake up call,” bespeaks a rather trivial and shallow view of life.

Still, I agree that lessons need to be learned from the ugly events at Penn State, though I can’t see how these lessons have anything to do with Ithaca College faculty’s performance. Indeed, to go from the sexual abuse of children to condemning the college’s faculty at large shows terribly muddled thinking.

I’m not sure what sorts of people

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

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Ms. Keller has worked with in her 20 years at the college, but, in my two decades here, I haven’t found the rampant abuses of faculty privilege she claims exist. Moreover, while she condemns a faculty member for having gone to “the court of public opinion,” she has done just that herself — and in a manner that shows a striking lack of accountability on her own part to faculty on this campus.

“I’m a big advocate of ‘you gotta do what you gotta do’ to get the money to go to school.”

William LaPerch ’12 Business Administration

“it just shows that maybe college is way too expensive if people have to take desperate measures like that.”

Alexis Lanza ’15 Film, Photography and Visual Arts

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“I don’t judge them for doing it, but at the same time it is wrong.”

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“I would feel ashamed as a parent knowing that my daughter was doing that.”

Damien Scalise ’13 Jazz Studies

“You could probably get more money being an attractive waitress, and getting tips, rather then being an attractive stripper and getting harassed.”

Benjamin Bartell ’15 Performance Voice

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Exposure to all cultures fosters true diversity W

hen the Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity was established, Ithaca College promised to offer minor programs in Latino/a Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Native-American Studies, and AsianAmerican Studies. Unfortunately, more than 10 years later, the college still has not allowed the “Center” — as it has been dubbed — to offer courses that use a critical lens to study Asian Americans.

This is an issue that has been pushed aside for too long.

We are the Committee for Inclusive Education, a group of students dedicated to raising awareness among our peers and faculty on the importance of, and need for, an Asian-American Studies program on campus.

Laura Mendoza There have been previous efforts to create an Asian-American Studies minor, which began when senior Kaitlin Hibbs and juniors Kristiana Reyes and Kristy Zhen created a 10-minute documentary, “MIH: Missing in History,” last spring. The documentary, which focuses on the exclusion of Asian Americans from the curriculum offered at the college, has been instrumental in the identity formation of other marginalized groups on campus.

But the true goal of this committee is to emphasize intersectionality: the idea that while an Asian-American identity is not one most people on campus necessarily identify with, it is important because of our social and political interactions. Social stereotypes perpetuate the myth of the “model minority,” a concept that attributes success to cultural factors “inherent” to a certain race. Without political awareness of issues surrounding racial identity formation, policies to remove centers for cultural studies from academic institutions of all levels will go undisputed.

We want to emphasize that classes focused on marginalized people are not just for those who

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Race governs immigration

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Ithaca College students from the Committee for Inclusive Education gather after a panel discussion about identities last Thursday in Emerson Suites. The group wants an Asian-American studies minor.

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identify with those groups, but also for those who are unwittingly impacted by these groups’ marginalization. Without history that tells the story from the other side, we cannot acknowledge both sides and progress as a truly tolerant society.

Our intersectionality panel last Thursday addressed the issue of recognizing some identities, but excluding others. Members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer, Latino/a, African-American, Asian-American, White and Learning Disability communities were all present.

Together, we discussed the necessity of education that teaches people about their individual identities and the struggles of each group. The purpose of this discussion was to show that no matter how individuals cultivate an identity consciousness, we are all part of the same movement for inclusion.

Helen Zia, a journalist and activist for the

Asian-American and LGBTQ communities, once said diverse communities “cannot stay on the edge of obscurity, frustrated by images that have rendered [them] invisible and voiceless.” As we continue to advocate for the implementation of an inclusive education, we hope more students and faculty will support our cause by taking a class in the center and liking the Facebook page “AASP ASAP Asian American Studies program As Soon As Possible.” If the college fails to demonstrate its support for an Asian-American Studies program, then the IC 20/20 vision to increase diversity will ring hollow, and it will deny students the opportunity for an education inclusive of all peoples.

Laura Mendoza is a sophomore culture and communication major. Email her at lmendoz1@ithaca.edu

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Nonprofits are not accountable to the public they serve

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he Occupy Wall Street protests have led many students to develop a more critical view of potential corporate employers and to look to the nonprofit sector for more ethical career options.

Yet graduates may be wise to scratch beneath Alicia Swords the surface of seemingly social justice-oriented organizations.

“The Revolution will not be Funded,” a book by the INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence collective, examines what it calls the “non-profit industrial complex,” a concept that implies non-profits and charitable foundations are an important part of social control, not social change.

According to this research, non-profits and foundations that are intended to correct the ills of capitalism do not benefit the poor, disenfranchised and dispossessed. In fact, these groups often manage and control dissent and demobilize political movements by slowing down more radical, structural change.

When charitable giving began during the era of robber barons, industrialists like John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and Russell Sage created foundations to shelter their profits from taxation. They put money they should have paid to the public treasury into their own

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Katie Zimmerman ’10 works for Central Arizonians for a Sustainable Economy, a group that works to address the root causes of social issues.

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foundations where they could control it. Author and scholar Andrea Smith, who studies the history of non-profits and their impact on social justice, points out that foundations have focused on activities to “ameliorate social issues — in a manner that [does] not challenge capitalism.” As a result, organizations like the Ford Foundation have helped shape the course of social justice movements in more conservative directions.

An Ithaca College graduate recently expressed her frustration to me when she learned the organization where she works receives funding to end homelessness for children. Her boss, however, considered any work

to raise awareness about the root causes of homelessness as “too radical” and outside her job description.

Other graduates find the job that pays their rent may not match their values as much as they would like, so they get involved in social movement work “after their nine-to-five.”

Does this mean college graduates should give up the hope of finding work in which they can express their values? No. But I would recommend investigating carefully before taking a non-profit job. The following are questions to consider: Who funds the organization? How do the priorities of the funder differ from the priorities of the organization? Does the work

of the organization get at the root causes of social injustices? To whom is the organization accountable?

Non-profits that were created to divert funds from public coffers to protect profits from taxation endure today. We must recognize that radical talk, critical perspectives and glossy brochures cannot transform our society. Most non-profits do not organize people or build cores of leaders. They are often more accountable to their funders than their members.

But this is not a call for political correctness. Let’s ask questions about possible non-profit jobs as we seek work that is deeply respectful of those our society has dispossessed.

A global wave of protests is bringing the underlying inequality in our society to light. Let’s join with and listen carefully to those who are downsized or foreclosed upon, who are bankrupt from a health care crisis or from student loans, whose hometowns have been destroyed by this economic crisis. There is still a great deal of dignified work to do that is accountable to the public.

I wish December graduates and all those searching for jobs in the New Year good luck and clear thinking.

Today, students are entering into an economic crisis, but that doesn’t mean they have to give up their values and their big dreams.

Alicia Swords is an assistant professor of sociology. Email her at aswords@ithaca.edu

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

rom the Statue of Liberty to its “melting pot” metaphor, the United States continues to project itself as a beacon of hope for immigrants. But the heavily armed U.S.-Mexico border is anything but hopeful for Hispanics.

The U.S. has witnessed an exceptional number of harsh anti-immigration laws in the past two years, most of which has been directly tied to the Hispanic community. In 2010, Arizona passed SB 1070, a law requiring police officers to verify the immigration status of anyone they suspected to be in the country illegally. Critics of the bill dubbed it an act of racial profiling, which has kept it tied up in the 9th U.S. District Court as it determines the bill’s constitutionality.

Subsequently, four states enacted similar legislation, including Alabama, whose infamous HB 56 was the first law to enforce its anti-immigration provisions. Like its Arizonian counterpart, the law has been intensely debated and subjected to multiple judicial reviews.

Many have reported that Alabama is on the brink of an exodus, as Hispanic citizens flee the state to escape its crackdown on anyone who “looks” undocumented.

What matters in this entire debacle is not the legal justification behind each bill, it’s the complex racist structures that underscore such broad-sweeping laws. Governors, lawyers and police officers tend to reference “national security” as the reason behind their forceful measures. President Obama even emphasized his focus on “criminal” activity in reference to immigration after deporting just under 400,000 people last year.

But how exactly massive deportation and racial profiling protects us from confronting our racism is still unclear. As the targets of visual judgment, anyone who “looks” undocumented faces a moment of widely accepted stereotyping.

People of all racial backgrounds flock to the U.S. for different reasons, many of which stem from globalized poverty and warfare.

Our illusion of the “dangerous” Mexican immigrant is not only inherently racist, but also narrowminded, as it groups all races faced with immigration problems — from Pakistanis to Somalis — together under the scope of specific U.S.-Mexico relations.

To bundle these circumstances together as “national security” reproduces a framework that renders undocumented workers the evildoers in an economy where most of the devastation stems from concentrated power and wealth. And if we only focus on legal technicalities, the situation may be exacerbated.

To curb unjust immigration laws from materializing in the future, we need to admit that race plays the biggest role in creating such problems — not the specific law.

Chris Zivalich is a senior journalism major. Email him at czivali1@ithaca.edu

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Dancing on pointe Record number of non-performance majors take the stage in Ithaca College’s “Illuminated Bodies” dance show From left, senior musical theater major Denzel Edmondson and junior clinical health studies major Lindsay Schmitz dance in the full-pointe ballet “Momentum.”

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Every day for the past seven weeks, senior journalism major Isabel Braverman has arrived at Dillingham Center a half an hour before her three-hour rehearsal to wrap her toes, pull on her pointe shoes, stretch and warm up. But after To see more she finally retires her photos of the leotard for the night, show, visit Braverman still theithacan.org. dreams of working for Vanity Fair, rather than becoming a prima ballerina.

Braverman is performing with an unprecedented amount of non-performance majors in Ithaca College Theater’s original dance show “Illuminated Bodies.”

Dancers in the show include nine nonperformance majors, 13 performance majors and one drama and cinema production double major.

The theater department puts on a dance performance once every four years, and this year’s show consists of four original pieces including “Momentum,” a

full-pointe ballet. “Illuminated Bodies” also includes “Ahhhhhh,” an exploration of voice and body, “Arriving,” a duet inspired by the migration of birds, and “Once Upon a Time,” a piece about a circus after the audience has left. The pieces were choreographed by Lindsay Gilmour, assistant professor of theater arts, and Amy O’Brien, a dance instructor at the college.

Taking the place of a musical theater piece, “Illuminated Bodies” held auditions for all interested students at the college, regardless of their major. New to the campus stage, Braverman tried her luck with the production and landed a role in “Momentum.”

“Typically, if you are a non-theater major you are most likely not going to get in a show,” Braverman said. “But this show actually gives people a chance.”

Junior health science major Jennifer Rakoff said auditioning for the show was a no-brainer. Despite her studies in nutrition, she said, she looks for any opportunity to pursue her passion for dance. She spends hours every week to be a part of “Momentum,” and said she

Dancers from Ithaca College perform in the modern dance piece “Ahhhhhh,” one of four numbers in the theater department’s upcoming show “Illuminated Bodies.”

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could not miss the chance to work with imagery,” O’Brien said. “The dancers are the choreographers. moving through imagery of illuminating “An opportunity that is as great as and creating lightness in the atmosphere.” being able to work with Amy O’Brien and “Momentum” opens with a black Lindsay Gilmour cannot be passed up,” stage, giving a few seconds of spotlight Rakoff said. “I have been able to learn and to clusters of sculpture-esque dancers grow as a dancer these past few weeks who stand motionless. A collaboration of and am thrilled to be a part of the show.” delicacy and power, Braverman said, the Though she is not pursuing a career piece combines skin and light to create a in the arts, Shaina Ung, a physical ther- glowing spectacle. apy graduate student, said people should “[‘Momentum’] really adheres to the do what they love, instead of just what ‘Illuminated Bodies’ theme because of they’re expected to do. the focus on the body and its muscles,” “You don’t have to be a theater major Braverman said. to have the passion to perform and share Before the pointe dancers graceyour art,” she said. “I plan to continue liv- fully tiptoe and glide across the stage, ing in the world a bright ringing of dance and breaks the silent p er for mance theater as warm, until I am at golden lights shine least 85 years on either side of the old. Hopefully entrances.

DancToday at 8 p.m. my body can ers from “Ahhhhhh” Friday at 8 p.m. handle that.” appear, dressed in Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Junior draunderwear, and apSunday at 2 p.m . ma and writing proach the stage double major slowly. Once they Tickets are $5.50 to $11 and can be purchased online at ithacaevents.com.

Ben Shipley, a reach their own piles dramaturg for of clothes and dress “Ahhhhhh” and themselves, they “Arriving,” said the show features a pointe break into a synchronized step while harpiece this year because it is only choreo- monizing sporadic “ahhhhhhs.” graphed by two people, so Gilmour and Ung said watching “Ahhhhhh” is inO’Brien were able to focus on the dance tended to be a personal experience that styles they personally prefer. breaks down the barrier between the “The show is comprised solely of bal- audience and the dancers. let and modern without any jazz or tap, “It’s nothing like ‘So You Think You as has previously been the case,” he said. Can Dance,’ it’s nothing like ‘Dancing “There was the freedom to explore more with the Stars,’” Ung said. “Nothing facets of ballet.” really commercial.”

O’Brien has experience with pointe Junior Kristen Joyce, also a dramaand said she could choreograph in that turg for “Illuminated Bodies,” said there style because she had faith the perform- has been a thorough creative process ers would be successful. for these pieces to come alive on stage.

“Doing pointe depends on the caliber “Prior to the rehearsals, we helped the of the dancer and the piece — this hap- choreographers come up with ideas,” she pened to be the right time,” she said. said. “I started talking to the directors “Illuminated Bodies” focuses on the about what story they wanted to tell.” natural human figure, and dancers wear Denzel Edmonson, a senior musical form-fitting costumes in most numbers. theater major and “Momentum” dancO’Brien collaborated with Gilmour to er, said because of all of this dedication, name the show while they were in the the show will be a visual extravaganza. pre-production phase last year.

“When I watched the pieces, by the “It doesn’t solely reflect on the fact end of them I was so enthralled,” he said. that there is a lot of skin and lighting, but “It is bliss seeing bodies move and be free. also about the moving of the body and It’s a night of freedom.”

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The Runway Fashion blogger Cady Lang gives her tips of the trade on the color-blocking trend.

Color blocking combines bright, punchy colors together and is a playful way to pay homage to ’60s and ’70s retro style. While it may seem daunting to pair bright tones, by following a few simple rules, color blocking can be a chic way to dress up for holiday festivities.

1. Keep the outfit simple and structured.

Since color blocking involves bright colors, it’s important to keep the rest of the outfit classic. Clean lines and streamlined shapes can prevent the outfit from overwhelming the wearer.

2. Wear colors that belong to the same color family.

When wearing brights, go even further and keep them in the same color group. For example, pairing bright pink and Kelly green together can produce a garish, watermelon effect. However, pairing the bright pink with another warm color — like an orange coral — neutralizes the colors and prevents clashing. mbattista

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3. Keep some elements neutral.

A neon yellow skirt goes well with a navy blue top, but adding too many bright colors or noisy accessories can Courtesy of be distracting Jil Sander for an already bold outfit. Limit the bright colors to a maximum of two or three complementary brights, and keep the rest of the outfit neutral. For example, when wearing a bright top and pants, try a pair of nude pumps.

Keep makeup simple and fresh, hair sleek, and jewelry minimal.

To read more from Lang’s full blog, visit www.theithacan.org/blogs/fashion.

Run, Gingerbread man

From left, junior Silvia Magana, senior Kayla Inanc, sophomore Meredeth Sager and senior Vicki Centurelli race for supplies to build and decorate gingerbread houses in the annual Xtreme Gingerbread Competition sponsored by the Student Activities Board.

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Typewriter prints in paint with colorful Altered design

Artist Tyree Callahan has created a typewriter of a different color — ­ instead of ink, this well-oiled machine uses paint to print. Callahan modified a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter and fitted it with color pads and hued labels to produce paintings. He’s currently entered in the West Collection artist competition for his design. Each key is assigned to a certain hue. Users can type a “P” and get a rich purple, a “D” for a reddishorange and “B” for a pale yellow. While it beats washing out dirty paintbrushes, creating a masterpiece point-by-point might be best left for Georges Seurat.

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Handmade moustache rings show off adorable smiles

With the end of No Shave November, many upper lips might be missing their hairy companions, but Smiling Silver Smith — an art student in California — has a solution. These moustache rings are all handcrafted. For guys or gals set on showing off a ’stache, this chic ring offers up the perfect jewelry piece that’s sure to get mouths talking. The semicircle rings fit on one finger, with a gap between the eyes and mouth of the face. Coffee lovers can also brew a baby cup of steaming caffeine in ring form. There’s no need to tie a string when these smiling faces are sure to remind the wearer to cheer up.

— Kelsey Fowler

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Best friends forever? Not for “Twilight” co-stars Kristen Stewart and Nikki Reed.

According to Star Magazine, Stewart and Reed started fighting after Reed allegedly had a fling with Stewart’s longtime boyfriend and costar, Robert Pattinson. Pair the affair with Reed’s recent outspoken accusations that Stewart wallows in her fame and has become bigheaded with the success of the “Twilight” series, and it’s clear their friendship is losing ground. Even though Pattinson has been trying to keep peace between the two, it seems futile with Reed and Stewart both caught up in bad blood — ironic for women from the most “iconic” vampire movies of the past few years.

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Dream performance Ithaca College student prepares to compete in reality show for opportunity to audition in front of top stage producers into the competition and has enjoyed watching him improve with each round.

“I couldn’t be prouder of him,” she said.

Senior musical theater major Ned Donovan Carlson said she expects Donovan will still remembers the magic of seeing “Lion King” on Broadway when he was 6 years old. Now, have a successful career because he is so dedhe is only a few votes away from becoming the icated to his work.

“He’s got lots of heart, lots of charisma and “Next Broadway Star.”

Donovan, one of the seven semifinalists really a lot of energy,” she said. “When you’re in Broadway.tv’s Next Broadway Star compe- in a performance world, where so many tition, auditioned for the contest in August students are majoring in theater and musical with “Goodbye” from the musical “I Love theater, you have to have be that special.”

Donovan’s passion for theater runs in the You Because.” Seven hours after his performance, he was selected to be one of the 16 family. His mother, Debra Curtis, majored contestants that continued on to the show. in theater at Williams College before she He then traveled to and from Ithaca and pursued a law degree at Cornell University.

New York City four times to perform “Lost Donovan said she supports his decision.

“She secretly can’t wait in the Wilderness” from for my big Broadway break the musical “Children of — so here’s to hoping it ever Eden” and “Walking in happens — so that she could Memphis” by Marc Cohn. move in with me in New He will return to York and live in my spare Times Square on Monday — Senior Ned Donovan bedroom,” he said. “She’s just to compete for a spot as a counting down the days until finalist, a chance to win $5,000 and a possible audition with presti- that happens.”

Though performing in New York is his gious casting directors and producers.

“Broadway is like the dreamer’s dream of ultimate dream, Donovan said reading comtheater,” Donovan said. “A lead on Broadway poser Andrew Gerle’s book “The Enraged is the equivalent of being Brad Pitt, and those Accompanist’s Guide to a Perfect Audition” taught him to be realistic during auditions. people live a life that is higher than us.”

“Some people audition for 15 years and Donovan said he is grateful for the opportunity to perform for judges such as Duncan never get that big break, and I am performing Stewart, a Broadway casting director who because I love to perform,” he said.

Donovan appeared on “America’s Got has worked for shows including “Chicago,” “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” and Talent” last spring when he performed a “La Cage Aux Folles;” Arne Gundersen, stage combat routine for judges Sharon president of the Actor’s Equity Foundation; Osbourne, Piers Morgan and Howie Mandel, and Gunnar Larson, president and CEO of but didn’t make it to the next round. Curtis said being criticized on national television Network Global Companies.

Rhonda Carlson, one of Donovan’s vocal was devastating for Donovan, but he has and acting coaches, has known him since he skills that make him different from his peers.

“One of the huge advantages he has over was a child living in Portland, Maine. She said she wasn’t surprised he made it this far other musical theater types is that he can also

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“I’m going to be big, I’m going to be bold, I’m going to be brassy.”

Senior musical theater major Ned Donovan sings Monday in a practice room in Dillingham Center. Donovan is competing to win Broadway.tv’s Next Broadway Star competition.

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swing a sword and pretend to throw someone over his shoulder, but he can break into song while he’s doing it,” she said.

Donovan said his acting differentiates him from the other Next Broadway Star contestants who put singing first when performing.

“I sound good, but I don’t have that kind of Broadway beltfest scream-the-lights-out pop side,” Donovan said. “My kind of saving grace in the competition is that I’m an actor first, so I approach the song like what would I do if it was just me walking through a street doing it, not like I was singing a

song on a Broadway stage.”

For his next performance, Donovan will sing “Moving Too Fast” from the musical “The Last Five Years” by Jason Robert Brown.

“I’m going to be big, I’m going to be bold, I’m going to be brassy, and I will be as Broadway as I can be while being completely true to me,” he said. “Because if I’m not true to me, then who cares?”

To track Donovan’s progress, visit www. broadway.tv/blog/broadway-blog/ne xtbroadway-star-semifinalist-ned-donovan.

Professor tunes into musical design Doug Turnbull, assistant professor of computer science, combined his love of technology with his passion for music to prove that, with the right tools, an album can indeed be judged by its cover.

Turnbull recently published “You Can Judge an Artist by an Album Cover: Using Images for Music Annotation,” a research paper about how album cover art and promotional photographs can help categorize an artist into a specific musical genre.

Staff Writer Chloe Wilson spoke with Turnbull about his work with music and technology, the benefits of undergraduate research and the evolution of the media industry.

Chloe Wilson: How did you conduct your research?

Doug Turnbull: What we do is we look at images, both promotional photos and album cover artwork, and we analyze both the color content and the textures. There’s some information there that we’ve used to say something about the artists, and it works for some genres better than others. It’s not as good at analyzing the actual audio and humans, but there’s information in album covers and promotional photos, and we’re using a computer to prove that.

CW: Do different musical genres have specific image traits that help identify them from other types of songs?

DT: For pop music, you can imagine, they’re airbrushed — so very soft edges. But for techno music, maybe some covers would have lots of complex computer generated graphics, which have sharp edges. So we look at texture and we learn from them. We look at a couple hundred images associated with rock or hip-hop or blues, and we see if there are common colors and textures in those patterns.

Then we take an image we’ve never seen before and see which one it is closest to in order to classify the image by the music genre by comparing the colors and textures of this new image to the ones we studied.

CW: Do you think the importance of imagery has been influenced by the evolution of the media industry during the past decade?

DT: Yes, definitely. Album cover artwork has always been important because you have these big, beautiful album covers. And then we went to cassettes and CDs, which are smaller. Now we watch things like Pandora, or Last.fm, and they are full of images. So the album cover, being the iconic symbol of a particular song or set of songs, has lost that a little bit. We have so much imaging — you can go to any website and see thumbnail pictures of all these artists. We live in a multimedia world, and sounds and images and videos are a major

part of that experience. Media, image and music all are related.

CW: Did you create the computer system used to analyze the images from music yourself?

DT: It was actually an undergraduate student project. I was a visiting professor at Swarthmore, and it was a student project. I teach a class on computer perception, which is analyzing images and sounds using computers. This was his project and then it turned into independent work and then he got good results — better than we expected — so we wrote up the paper.

CW: Do you encourage your students to complete undergraduate research projects?

DT: Students do these great projects, and sometimes they find interesting results. [This project] is a good application of computer vision, which is a hot research topic, and people go to grad school for it.

My student is now doing a Ph.D. in grad school on computer vision, and I study everything music, so this is sort of a merger of those two ideas.

CW: Are you continuing this type of work?

DT: I’m working on a personalized Internet radio system, which is like Pandora, and the interesting and new component of this is that it focuses on local music

Doug Turnbull, assistant professor of computer science, works in his office Friday. Turnbull researches art in music using sound technology.

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recommendation in particular, recommending music in the local Ithaca community. It’s like Pandora meets Craigslist. It’s a little more complex than your typical Pandora system, but we’re hoping that people who are really interested in learning about music, and

if they’re new to a community like a new college student, they might find the system helpful.

To read “You Can Judge an Artist by an Album Cover: Using Images for Music Annotation,” visit www.jimi. ithaca.edu/~dturnbull.

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Web publication calls for creative collaboration jillian kaplan staff writer

From writing a story about fishing to photographing an imaginary conversation between a Bible and a Torah, Ithaca College alumni and students are coming together to share writing and photography that not only proves a picture is worth 1,000 words, but also that 1,000 words is worth a picture.

The Ten Three Project, a website that features the collaborative work of alumni and student writers and photographers, was created by Rob Engelsman ’11, current multimedia content coordinator for the college, and Amy Ginsberg ’11, earlier this year. The site was launched Nov. 7, and currently about 20 alumni, with some current students, contribute to the project.

Content on The Ten Three is broken into three categories: the “Open,” the “Turn” and the “Flip.” In an Open, writers take a photo and write exactly 1,000 words about it. In a Turn, a photographer provides a writer with a photo, which the writer has never seen and has no context for. The writer must use the photo as inspiration to create a 1,000-word story or essay. In a Flip, a writer initially writes a 1,000-word piece, which is passed off to a photographer who tries to match it with a photo.

Engelsman said he wants the project not only to explore how photos and words reflect each other, but also to tighten the community of recent college alumni. He said he hopes the website will act as a forum for the college’s creativity to become more visible.

“A collaboration is what I wanted to create so that [the college’s graduates] could work together and try new things,” he said. “One of the

struggles for some of the young writers and photographers is getting clips and getting notices and getting posts places where you can get noticed.”

Colleen Cunha, a junior cinema and photography major, originally met Engelsman through a friend and was asked to contribute to the site. To date, she has participated in both a Turn and a Flip. For the Turn, she sent in a picture from an abandoned army base, and Seth Palmer ’10 wrote a story about returning to his childhood home.

Cunha said she sees the project as a play on perspective and, for her, the exciting part is interpreting someone else’s frame of view or seeing what other people get out of her work.

“It’s interesting to find what other people see in my photos,” Cunha said. “I do a lot of vague photography, like the picture I sent in last time — it was literally just a door, so [the writer] couldn’t have known it was from an abandoned barrack at an Air Force base that hasn’t been used for 50 years.”

Cunha said the posts that come from the collaborations relate in ways she would not have initially imagined. She said the project has completely changed the way she thinks about photography and has caused her to question what her audience sees in her work, as opposed to what she initially imagines when she takes the photo.

“I know that when I read the essay about my photo, it wasn’t what I was thinking, because I know what it really is,” Cunha said. “But it’s interesting to see what people get out of my work. I’m definitely more aware of myself artistically and what I’m actually doing since we talked about the project. It’s so intense.”

Palmer, who met Engelsman

Rob Engelsman ’11, multimedia content coordinator for Ithaca College, works in his office last week. Engelsman created The Ten Three Project, a website that features writing and photography produced by students and alumni.

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during their time at the college, has participated in both a Turn and an Open. In the Open, he wrote about a photo he had taken of a bridge. He said this process was more familiar to him than the Flip he wrote about Cunha’s photo.

“It’s kind of like going into your memory and taking everything that you associate with one particular instance, and you sort of drag out all of the thoughts and emotions and experiences that you associate with that,” he said. “Then you put it in writing, which is kind of strange

because you normally don’t verbalize things like that.”

Michelle Bizon ’11, participated in a Flip and wrote a story that will soon be given to a photographer. She said she doesn’t have specific expectations as to how the picture will turn out.

“I’m looking forward to seeing what they come up with, because at least the photographers that I know of are great photographers and really creative people,” Bizon said. “So they could totally just do anything with it.”

Engelsman said right now all participants working with The Ten

Three are people he’s brought into the fold from his own experiences at the college. He said his hope is for the project to gain more contributors and develop a base readership.

Cunha said she thinks the project succeeds in capturing the relationship between image and text.

“A picture’s worth a thousand words,” she said. “But those thousand words are never going to be the same to anyone.”

To learn more about the project, visit thetenthree.com.

Student booking company searches for punk culture Gaechter, to partner with him.

“I always thought that I’d like to become After moving to Ithaca from their home- a part of the scene and start booking shows,” town in Connecticut, sophomore Greg Tilden said. “I couldn’t really do it myself, Tilden and freshman Sara Gaechter were dis- however, so when I found out that Sara was appointed with the local music culture and are coming to Ithaca College, I was like, ‘All right, now working to bring a new indie sound to the let’s do this.’”

Gaechter and Tilden first met in their city — one punk rock band at a time.

Nostalgic for their high school music scene, home state through the local punk music punk rock fans Gaechter and Tilden founded scene. Gaechter said the punk rockers in the Odyssey Booking, a company focused on area are a tight-knit group, which helped spark her and Tilden’s interbringing punk music and est in punk music. She said culture to Ithaca. it was frustrating to come to While the booking Ithaca and see fewer outlets company’s main goal is for punk rock fans. to bring bands to Ithaca “We were a part of this exthat normally wouldn’t clusive music scene at home,” get a chance to play in —Sophomore greg tilden Gaechter said. “We are trying the town, Gaechter and Tilden said they also aim to replicate their to work together to figure out a way that we former music scene as whole. The pair plans can incorporate a little bit of the scene back to create a vibe similar to the punk com- home here.”

To help create that atmosphere, the duo munity in Connecticut by giving all of their intends to bring a vegan potluck, a tradition concerts a comfortable, homey atmosphere.

“I guess we want a do-it-yourself vibe, just from their hometown music scene, to Ithaca. very laid back, a concert where you walk in Before each show, fans and the band bring a and you don’t get a stamp on your hand or vegan dish to share and eat together. Gaechter have to wear a wristband,” Tilden said. “We said the tradition has helped bond the audijust want a vibe where anyone can come and ence with the band or artists, something she said is important in punk culture. feel welcome.”

“For our concerts, we don’t want it to just Tilden said the idea for the agency came after he attended concerts last year. He said be a band and the fans,” Tilden said. “We want the music acts invited to Ithaca didn’t meet to integrate them together, to make them a his hopes, so he wanted to book new bands part of each other. We want a community.”

Odyssey Booking sponsored its first conthat played music more tailored to his interests. To help him get the company together, cert Nov. 10 at the GreenStar Warehouse Tilden decided to enlist his longtime friend, on Buffalo Street. Caravels, a post-hardcore

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“We don’t want it to be just a band and the fans.

We want a community.”

From left, sophomore Greg Tilden and freshman Sara Gaechter look at some of their favorite records Monday. Tilden and Gaechter are working to bring more punk artists to Ithaca. juan tAmayo/The Ithacan

band straight out off a tour in Las Vegas, was featured in the show. Freshman Nathan Krauss attended the show and said he would like to see more acts like Caravels in Ithaca.

“I thought the concert was a lot of fun; everyone had a good time,” Krauss said. “Hopefully they’ll book more great bands to come up and play in Ithaca in the future.”

Gaechter and Tilden are working to bring New Jersey-based indie punk band Brick

Mower to Ithaca in late January. Gaechter said the true success of the company won’t lie in how many shows it books or how much money it makes. The telltale sign, she said, is whether people are enjoying themselves at the shows they put on.

“A kid came up to me the other day and gave me a high-five and said he had the best time at our Caravels show,” Gaechter said.

“And for me, that’s being successful.”

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Audiences step into the Victorian home of Lord Edgar Hillcrest and Lady Enid Hillcrest to solve “The Mystery of Irma Vep” in the Kitchen Theatre’s latest production.

The play features a number of outrageous genres of theater in combination with “The Mystery of multi-talented actors.

Irma Vep” The show begins on a The Kitchen Theatre “dark and stormy night,” which reflects the rocky nature of the relationship between Lord Edgar (Jesse Bush) and his new, young bride, Lady Enid (Tony Roach). The story follows their quest to find the answers surrounding the death of Lord Edgar’s late wife, Irma Vep. While the story features many characters, all of the roles are played by Bush and Roach. These two men play everyone from a wooden-legged servant to a re-awakened Egyptian princess.

Both Bush and Roach showcase their talent through the manipulation of their bodies and voices to portray each character to match outrageous costumes by Lisa Boquist. Bush’s transformation from Jane Twisden to Lord Edgar is complete with a change in posture, sticking his chest up and out, and the octave his voice rises to sound like a woman. One of Roach’s characters, Nicodemus Underwood, has a limp due to his wooden leg in addition to an exaggerated English accent.

These gifted actors have help from the sound, lighting and set design as well. The sound effects are used sparingly and comically, such as the sound of thunder used after the repetition of a specific word, which plays an important role in the comedic relief of the story. This is similar to the use of light in the production — blackouts and extreme lighting are only employed when necessary.

The set allows for two entrances and exits, which permits the quick costume changes that take place to propel the characters’ stories forward.

Each costume is specific to each character. The character Nicodemus Underwood is equipped with items such as cargo pants, boots — for his wooden leg — and a cape that clearly shows his posh social status, whereas Lady Enid’s dresses

Gift Swap is a Take It or Leave It event sponsored by the IC Environmental Society. Visitors can bring gently used clothes, odds and ends, books, movies and more. People can browse each others’ contributions from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Emerson Suites B.

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Ithacappella, the college’s only all-male a cappella group, will perform its Block 2 concert at 7 p.m. in Emerson Suites.

The group is releasing its brand-new CD, “Off The Hook,” for $15. Admission to the event is free, and no tickets are required.

saturday From left, Jesse Bush and Tony Roach star as every character in “The Mystery of Irma Vep,” now playing at the Kitchen Theatre. The show follows a lord and lady as they solve a mysterious death.

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and robes are more extravagant and rich in color.

The Victorian style of the dresses is telling of the time period, and even the male characters’ costumes — hidden underneath dresses for quick changes — are fitting to the period.

Bush and Roach help create the farcical world of the play by taking the words of Charles Ludlam and direction of Rachel Lampert and incorporating the audience and contemporary jokes into their performance. By walking through and touching some audience members, the performance is more engaging, relevant, and a stark contrast to the time period of the play. These moments and others that may seem like mistakes turn into even more comedic moments with Bush and Roach’s creative ad-libbing and improvisation.

Lampert’s timely direction covers many of the points during which the actors need time to change their costume and character. At times,

some lines are even spoken behind the main stage. These instances occur mostly when the characters speaking to each other were played by the same actor.

While the play is entertaining and comical, there are moments of disorder. At times, the nonsensical nature of the characters distracts from the dialogue, which results in some confusion in the plot. Audiences may have questions as to what is happening in certain moments.

But these moments are overshadowed by the absurd and hilarious nature of this production.

Bush and Roach’s off-the-cusp nature, in combination with Lampert’s clever direction, will give audiences the clues to solve this side-splitting, pun-filled mystery.

“The Mystery of Irma Vep” plays through Dec. 18 at the Kitchen Theatre.

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In life, Amy Winehouse was an icon — from her beehive tresses to her struggle with alcohol abuse. In death, she lives on, embodying the quinte ss enti ally modern jazz voice.

Amy Her last album, Winehouse “Lioness: Hidden “Lioness: Hidden Treasures,” was just Treasures” released Tuesday.

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of Winehouse’s jazziest and most soulful tunes that display her strong vocal versatility.

The album features a number of songs, including one of her biggest hits, “Valerie.” Many of Winehouse’s tracks are fueled with passion and sensuality. This is exemplified as Winehouse sings her heart out in songs like “Tears Dry on Their Own.” She also experiments with new vocal styles in “Our Day Will Come,” where she plays with a reggae vibe, and “Like Smoke,” in which she collaborates with the rapper Nas. The album ends with two incredible songs, one a duet with Tony Bennett, and the last titled “A Song For You,” a simple heartfelt tune that fades out to the soft crooning of Winehouse’s honey voice and soft

Song of the Week “Immigrant Song”

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Releasing six albums over a span of seven years, Rihanna is sitting pretty on a hit factory.

“Talk That Rihanna Talk” reiterates “Talk That what has beTalk” come Rihanna’s Def Jam bread and butter, Our rating: a formula that HH includes songs about particularly raunchy sex, at least one soft rock ballad and a reggae-tinged club banger.

Some of the punch in the equation is lost in the repetitiveness of having three songs about sex without much variation. If “Talk That Talk” does not present sex as palpably as its predecessors, it does open a discussion of something that Rihanna hasn’t mentioned in a while — true love. In “We All Want

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guitar strumming.

“Lioness: Hidden Treasures” showcases Winehouse’s smoothbutter croons and the warmth of her rich, jazz vocals, but it is easy to see — judging from the depressing subject matter of her songs — how her life spiraled out of control in the years close to her death.

This latest album serves as a moving tribute to the power of jazz music and celebrates the life of an incredible musician.

Candy Craze, an IC After Dark event, will begin at 8 p.m. in IC Square. The night will feature contests, games, raffles and free candy.

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“Rumors,” a quirky off-the-wall comedy by Neil Simon, will be performed by the Standing Room Only Performing Arts Company at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. in Clark Lounge. Admission is $3.

Love,” Rihanna describes love as a human right as she sings, “I feel so entitled/ Love owes me/ I want what’s mine” over a steady alt-rock guitar and dissonant synth chords.

By the end of the album, it becomes clear that the album tracks that work are ones that are new to the formula. Though the equation still produced a likeable album, perhaps Rihanna would fare better if there were no equation at all.

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This five-track EP from the R&B singer-songwriter showcases his smooth voice and great range, giving energy to all of his songs. His streak of charttopping singles is sure to continue with this release.

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“Bang Bang, You’re Dead,” a play sponsored by IC Players addressing issues of school violence and its causes, will be performed at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. in Presser Hall. Tickets are $5.

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Director Martin Scorsese’s latest film, “Hugo,” is like something from a dream. The film provides new insight into the magic of the motion picture.

Following the “Hugo” story of Hugo Cabret Paramount (Asa Butterfield), a Pictures 12-year-old orphan Our rating: living in the walls HHHH of a clock tower in a train station in post-World War I Paris, Scorsese weaves a magical tale about finding purpose in the world.

After the death of Hugo’s father (Jude Law) in a fire, Hugo adopts his father’s pet project, repairing a broken robot that could handle paper and pen.

The robot becomes a way for Hugo to connect with his father — naively believing if he can fix the machine, perhaps he can find what he lost.

The scenes are shot in small vignettes, and from the first scene, “Hugo” captivates viewers with the sound of ticking clocks over a beautiful aerial view of snowy Paris. Robert Richardson’s cinematography is stunning as the camera zeroes in on the minor cadences of the train station.

The vignettes include the romance and courtship of Madame Emilie (Frances de la Tour) and Monsieur Frick (Richard Griffiths), the bumbling awkwardness and patrols of the station inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen), who harbors a crush on a florist (Emily Mortimer).

There’s also the friendly camaraderie between Hugo and Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz), the goddaughter of a toy repair shop owner who craves adventure. Though each cut

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Hugo (Asa Butterfield) and Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz) become friends in “Hugo,” directed by Martin Scorsese, the story of an orphan in Paris living in a clock tower while he attempts to solve the mystery of his father’s death.

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may seem insignificant by itself, the layers seem to comment on the nature of human connection. It’s beautiful and shows that the characters, like parts in a machine, are all linked.

The backbone of the movie’s breathtaking images and metaphors is the original score by composer Howard Shore. Shore is known for orchestrating the music in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and “Silence of the Lambs” as well as working with Scorsese on previous projects such as “The Departed” and “The Aviator.” In “Hugo,” Shore’s music effectively transports the viewer into the world of 1930s Paris. At times, the orchestra is whimsical, while

at others it’s dramatic, but Shore’s composition creates the mood for romance and adventure. The music becomes the driving pulse of the movie — narrating the joys and tragedies — so that when the soundtrack stops for short scenes of dialogue, the absence is noticeable and compelling.

Of course, the movie wouldn’t have been such a success if not for the superb acting of the cast. Fourteenyear-old actor Asa Butterfield, known for his breakout role as Mordred in the BBC’s television show “Merlin,” is able to express emotions and evoke compassion from the viewer when tears well up in his eyes after remembering his father’s death, or when he’s

shivering in shorts while marching in the snow after George Melies (Ben Kingsley), a world-weary toy repairman and one of the founding fathers of the motion picture.

The magic of “Hugo” lies in the blending of cinematic picture and sound with life lessons and worldly insights. The message, “Time is everything,” is echoed throughout the film, along with the overall theme of believing in dreams, magic and imagination — which is what seeing movies is all about.

“Hugo” was directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan. It is based off the book by Brian Selznick.

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By Lara Bonner staff writer

It’s rare to encounter an on-screen couple that exudes the same vibrant passion audiences may expect from a real couple in love, yet the actors in Drake Doremus’ “Like Crazy” depict a modern story that “Like Crazy” feels as real as a documentary.

Paramount Expert acting and intuitive cinVantage ematography create a moving story Our rating: focused on the constant strain in HHHH long-distance relationships.

Anna (Felicity Jones), a British student in Los Angeles, falls in love with Jacob (Anton Yelchin), an American, after taking a class with him. Their romance is beautiful and delicate until she foolishly decides to overstay her visa after they graduate, thus plummeting the couple into a long-distance, on-and-off relationship that spans several years.

Charming and attractive, Jones and Yelchin are impressively natural in roles unlike any they have played before. The two radiate youthful innocence and certainty throughout the film. There is nothing extraordinary about the way they fall in love — the film’s focus is instead on the beauty in the quiet moments they share. Many of the scenes have no dialogue. In one, the two stare at each other in amazement and write notes back and forth in a notebook rather than speaking. Their movements seem instinctive, adeptly revealing their addiction to each other and the constant ache and anxiety they feel when they are thrust apart.

The handheld camera style contributes to the natural feel of the movie, helping the film feel wellpaced despite its compression of several years.

Shortly after they meet, Doremus offers a breezy montage where the lovers wander Los Angeles, clinging to each other and laughing in the most

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“The Skin I Live In,” a new film from critically acclaimed director Pedro Almodovar, combines melodrama and horror into a colorful and skin-crawling experience.

The film follows the complicated and sexually tense relationship between “The Skin I slightly mad surgeon Robert Live In” Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) Sony Pictures and his patient/prisoner Classics Vera (Elena Ayana) as he exOur rating: periments with creating skin HHH that withstands any damage.

Antxon Gomez’s production design is phenomenal, combining bold swatches that create disquieting feelings of excitement and passion. The inside of Ledgard’s chateau, where he keeps Vera, is adorned with paintings from all periods and has a modern interior design that suggests the emotional bankruptcy of its inhabitants.

The handsome and confident Banderas effectively draws out Ledgard’s more troubling nuances. The revelations of the extent of his own monstrosity are shocking without losing the audience’s empathy for a man desperate to control his life and those around him. With Almodovar’s direction, these character relationships become a labyrinth of tension.

Combining exciting design and an adept cast, “The Skin I Live In” is a discomforting and emotional tug-of-war in which passion and darkness become two parts of the same face.

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Anna (Felicity Jones) and Jacob (Anton Yelchin) deal with long-distance love in “Like Crazy.”

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convincing, heartbreaking way. The camera mimics their swaying movements, and the occasional jump cut allows the audience to focus on key moments and facial expressions. When they are in different countries, the scenes are set in more contrasting open, public spaces where Anna and Jacob often appear uncomfortable — their deflated voices in their phone tag voicemails serving cleverly as audio.

Though viewers aren’t provided with a great deal of backstory for either character, the intense “here and now” of Anna and Jacob’s lives during the course of their relationship is enough to make audiences ache for them. “Like Crazy” beautifully captures the tension in wanting deeply, yet not knowing how to fully attain that love.

“Like Crazy” was directed by Drake Doremus, and written by Doremus and Ben York Jones.

“The Skin I Live In” was directed and written

by Pedro Almodovar. It is based on the book by Thierry Jonquet.

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Sets of brothers on wrestling team support each other at meets From left, freshman Grant Dickey, junior Keith Dickey, junior Rick Gomez, freshman Alex Gomez, graduate student Nick Sanko and sophomore Brett Sanko stand together in the Wrestling Room on Sunday in Ben Light Gymnasium. The six wrestlers have combined for 36 wins this season and compete in four different weight classes. rachel orlow/the ithacan

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Though most college fraternities and teams aim to create familial bonds between members, this year’s wrestling team already has three sets of brothers to help build unity.

The six wrestlers — junior Keith Dickey and freshman Grant Dickey, junior Rick Gomez and freshman Alex Gomez, and graduate student Nick Sanko and sophomore Brett Sanko — are part of a 29-man roster that features the most blood-related teammates in the program’s 70-year history, said Head Coach Marty Nichols. They compete in weight classes that range from 133 to 184 pounds.

Nichols said he has made incorporating the younger brothers into the team culture a priority this season because the past success of the elder brothers could build on the squad’s already strong foundation.

“When we know the older brother and we like him, we tend to go after the younger brother as well,” Nichols said.

All the brothers strive to add depth and versatility to this season’s experienced group of Bombers.

Keith, who transferred to South Hill from the University of Pittsburgh midway through the 2009-10 regular season, wrestles in the 184-pound weight class. He recorded 15 wins with the Blue and Gold last season and finished third in his weight class at the Empire Collegiate Wrestling Conference Championships. Grant came into yesterday’s meet against Rochester Institute of Technology with a record of 6–9 as a Bomber.

Brothers Rob and Thad Raspey coached both Keith and Grant when they competed for Cedar Cliff High School.

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Keith said having brothers as high school coaches made him and Grant closer, since Grant is more introverted.

“Our coaches knew we had a similar bond as they had on the mat, so they would really emphasize capitalizing on that,” Keith said. “They knew a little encouragement could go a long way.”

Grant, who lettered four times in high school, said he and Keith would wrestle against each other in practice to get familiar with each other’s style. Grant said Keith motivated him to work out and practice on days when he didn’t want to.

“He taught me the importance of consistency — just going out there and training yourself every day so you can make weight and make progress between meets,” Grant said.

Grant and Keith attend the School of Business and also have a younger sister, Vera, who is a freshman studying sociology at the college’s School of Health Sciences and Human Performance.

Rick and Alex Gomez have competed both with and against each other in their wrestling careers. They faced off against each other in the 133-pound weight class in Saturday’s New Standard Corporation Invitational in York, Pa. Alex came out on top, taking third place by medical forfeit, but it wasn’t the first time he had surpassed Rick.

In 2009, Rick set the all-time record for wins at Brentwood High School on Long Island, only to be surpassed by Alex, who ended up with more than 200 wins at the end of his high school career.

Alex said he was reluctant to take advice from his brother when he began wrestling on his high school’s varsity squad when he was in seventh grade.

“In high school I was ignorant,” Alex said. “Rick would teach me a move and I would be so tired after practice that I

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wouldn’t listen to him.”

Rick said he felt proud of his brother for surpassing his record for victories at Brentwood.

“All the coaches were joking that my little brother was going to break the record,” Rick said. “But if someone was going to break the record, then I wanted it to be him.”

Nick is the most decorated wrestler out of the elder brothers on the team, as he has compiled a career record of From left, Alex and Rick Gomez hold trophies they won on 40–20. the Brentwood High School wrestling team in 2009.

Brett said Nick helped courtesy of steven streicher him acclimate to Ithaca College after he transferred from Ursinius practice, calling them by their last names to College and missed all of last season with a see which one of them responds.

“I get to yell out ‘Sanko that’s not good dislocated shoulder.

“Ithaca didn’t feel like the right fit at enough,’ and neither of them will know the right time, but now it seems like it’s which one I’m talking to,” Nichols said.

Though there’s always a bit of sibling worked out for the best.” Brett said. “I like how we can eat and study together when rivalry in practice when the brothers partner we’re not wrestling. It makes it easier to up with each other to work on technique, support each other and know what we’re Nichols said the three sets of brothers are generally supportive of each other. both going through.”

Rick said the sets of brothers on the Nick said having his brother around allows him to serve as a mentor for his team leads to an increase in diligence, younger sibling and the rest of the team. which stems from being afraid to fail or He said watching Brett helps him develop being embarrassed.

“It’s a different work ethic since I don’t an ability to inspire the other wrestlers and want my little brother to beat me, so I work give them advice.

“I enjoy coaching him in matches or harder,” Rick said. “I’ll hear coach yell out in practice,” Nick said. “We’ve worked ‘Gomez,’ and I won’t know which one he’s together for so many years, so it’s nice to talking to, so I just work harder.” continue wrestling together in college and see him grow day by day.”

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harlan green-taub

Routs destroy youth sport When the Pikesville Middle School boy’s basketball team defeated Kimper Middle School’s boy’s basketball team 100-2 a couple weeks ago in Pike County, Ky., my initial thought was that the score must have been a misprint.

There is no way any coach in youth sports would let this happen.

But after watching highlights of the game on YouTube, it was easy to see why the game got so out of hand. The Pikesville team, last year’s state champion, is made up of some of the best seventh and eighth graders in Kentucky and might be one of the best middle school teams in the country. Kimper, on the other hand, is a small school that features players as young as 11 years old.

There has been outrage from both sides, and some are calling for Pikesville to cancel the rest of its season after the unsportsmanlike conduct.

Many think this would be a knee-jerk response since the two teams shouldn’t have been playing each other in the first place. The two teams play in the same division and are scheduled to play each other in the regular season. Pikesville Head Coach Bryan Johnson said his team was trying to let Kimper score, but failed to do so until Pikesville allowed a last-second layup.

But its much harder to defend Pikesville, who led 25-0 fewer than two minutes into the game and raced out to a 70-0 lead by halftime. While taking out the starters and putting in the reserves at this point may have been enough for some coaches, Pikesville still outscored Kimper 30-2 in the second half.

Blowouts are routinely seen in all levels of sports, but this situation goes way beyond that.

To allow middle school children to participate in a game like this makes a mockery of sportsmanship and the value that sport can have for them. Youth sports is supposed to be about learning to work together as a team toward a common goal and, most importantly, having fun.

When a team from a middle school of 180 students goes up against a team featuring some of the best players in the country in their age group, none of those goals are met on either side.

Kimper’s players came out of the game dejected and embarrassed, while Pikesville’s players gained no value from playing a clearly inferior opponent.

Canceling the season would certainly send a strong message to the Pikesville players, but I don’t think it would be right to punish them for simply being on a higher level than their competition.

Though the fact that it is even a suggestion shows youth sports are moving in the right direction.

Harlan Green-taub is a senior televison-radio major. Contact him at hgreent1@ithaca.edu.

Streaky shooting plagued the men’s basketball team through the first two weeks of the season, but the familiar sounds of swishing nets returned to Ben Light Gymnasium when veteran shooters began to hit three-point shots.

Last season, the Blue and Gold won 14 of their 19 games. In these games, either one of the team’s leadThe Bombers ing shooters — senior guard have made more Jordan Marcus or junior than 45 percent forward Andrei Oztemel — of their threeshot more than 40 percent point shots in two from the behind the threewins this year. point line. Marcus shot 44 percent on three-pointers last season, but has started this season shooting just 35 percent from behind the arc.

The Blue and Gold have shot more than 32 percent from the three-point range in five losses this season. In its two wins, including an 89-80 victory against St. Lawrence University on Friday in Ben Light Gymnasium, the team has shot 45 percent from long range.

The Bombers converted on 15 of 28 three point attempts in their most recent win, with Oztemel making eight of 11 three-point shots.

Oztemel said if the Bombers do not have an easy shot in the paint, shooting a three is the go-to play.

“We’re not really a mid-range team,” he said.

“It’s either a three ball or we’re going in for a layup, taking it into the basket.”

Oztemel set the program record for shooting percentage in a single game Friday night, making 73 percent of his baskets from the three-point range.

Wightman said the team struggled early in the season with getting open three-pointers on offensive possessions because it had moved away from its bread and butter — the fast break.

“We weren’t pushing the ball hard enough, we weren’t running fast enough and moving enough on offense to get them open looks,” he said.

Junior point guard Sean Rossi said getting back into running the fast break offense helps the team shoot more accurately from downtown because the defense is more concerned about stopping the easy bucket in transition. He said the Bombers have attempted to run a balanced and deliberate offense.

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From left, senior guard Jordan Marcus passes the ball as St. Lawrence University sophomore guard Brady O’Neil defends him during the Bombers’ 89-80 win Friday in Ben Light Gymnasium. kristina stockburger/The ithacaN

“We went back to the fast break of last year, and it really opened up Andrei and Jordan on the wings,” he said.

The Bombers send one man down the court as another player on the opposite end brings up the ball to center court to get an over-the-top look against the defense, Rossi said.

Rossi, who is first on the team in assists with 40, is currently shooting 25 percent from

the three-point range. He said he is going to start getting into the team’s three-point shooting frenzy to draw attention away from Marcus and Oztemel.

“Coaches have been telling me — and it’s true — I have to score or put up some shots just to keep the defense honest,” Rossi said. “If I knock down a couple threes in a game, teams are going to have to come out to guard me.”

Selfless sportsmanship ignites Bombers offense By matt kelly staff writer

The women’s basketball team is keeping its opponents off-balance this season using a deceptive offense that minimizes contested shots.

After several turns around the perimeter, senior guard Jessica Farley drives hard to the foul line, bringing two defenders with her, and delivers a bounce pass to sophomore forward Jennifer Escobido in the post.

When it looks as if Escobido is taking the shot, she delivers one more pass to wide open junior forward Devin Shea for the easy layup.

A possession like this has been fairly standard for the Bombers this season. The team’s pass-first attitude has been one of the biggest contributors to its 6–1 start.

Senior guard Jacqueline Shinall, who is averaging three assists per game, said the balanced scoring is a product of the team’s personnel.

“It’s not something that we necessarily emphasize in our offense,” she said. “It’s just that we have a lot of unselfish players on our team.

Nobody cares who gets the credit.

It’s more that somebody puts the ball in the basket.”

The team has four players who are averaging double-digit point totals per game, but still averages nearly 20 assists per game.

Head Coach Dan Raymond said

From left, senior guard Jessica Farley drives past University of Rochester junior forward Amy Wood and senior guard Michelle Ketcham. michelle montgomery/the ithacan

the team’s high assists total results from a drive-and-kick style that creates holes in opposing defenses.

“We really emphasize trying to be aggressive to the basket first and foremost,” he said. “That

forces the defense to collapse and worry about protecting the basket, and that, in turn, opens up our perimeter shooting.”

Raymond said his squad has been successful protecting the

ball, which was a point of emphasis at the start of the season. The Blue and Gold have maintained an assist-turnover ratio of close to 2:1 for much of the season.

Many players on the team attribute the team’s offensive success so far to the inherent chemistry.

That familiarity between teammates is reflected in the dynamic between Shea and Escobido, each of whom look to create a much easier shot for the other forward on the court.

Shea said Escobido surprised her with perfectly timed passes in the team’s 67-49 victory against St. Lawrence University on Friday.

“I think you saw that a couple of times tonight where Jen sent a couple of passes, and I just happened to be there,” Shea said after Friday’s game.

“But a lot of it is just being familiar with how each of us plays.”

More games and playing time should only make these bonds stronger for the South Hill squad once its Empire 8 schedule begins.

Freshman guard Ally Mnich said though the team has the highest scoring offense in the Empire 8 Conference, its best play has not been unleashed yet.

“I’d say we’re just starting, we’re not even near our peak yet,” Mnich said. “Just wait until the end of the season.”

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Winter break training beefs up Blue and Gold by alex holt staff writer

While most people view the holidays as a time to relax at the end of a long semester, the athletes on the men’s indoor track team stick to rigorous exercise programs during the winter break.

The Bombers begin each winter with somewhat of a false start, as they have more than a month between their two separate meets against a combination of Division I and Division III competition at Cornell University.

Instead of viewing the first two of five meets at Cornell as fullfledged competition, senior long and triple jumper Travis Johnson said the Bombers use the two meets to see how the skills they have developed in practice can be applied to their events.

“The first meet we have of the year, Coach Nichols tells us it’s just supposed to be a marking point,” he said. “We go out and really do our best to qualify for stuff, but we basically see what we’re doing right and what we need to be working on.”

Sophomore sprinter and jumper Brennan Edmonds, who finished 17th in the long jump at the first meet of the season last Saturday, said the first two meets will be more indicative of the team’s progress than any other competition during the season.

“It’s a good benchmark to go out and have a good performance in those two meets, but they’re not critical to the whole season as a

standpoint,” he said.

The team will return to campus approximately two weeks before classes begin, but the athletes will train on their own at home during the winter holiday to prepare for the Cornell Upstate Challenge on Jan. 21.

The athletes work on building strength in isolated areas of their bodies in addition to building endurance in their legs.

Junior Matt Confer, who finished 11th in the 60-meter hurdles at the season-opening meet with a time of 8.97 seconds, said Head Coach Jim Nichols gives each member of the team a specific workout plan when they are not practicing together on campus, but since he doesn’t own a set of hurdles, his exercise routine is similar to the ones given to the sprinters.

“A lot of what I do over break is a lot of running, cardio and strength training in order to keep up with the rest of the team when I get back,” he said.

Confer said his routine emphasizes 200-meter tempo runs, where he jogs at a steady pace and uses between 70 and 80 percent of his maximum aerobic capacity.

Johnson said he works on maintaining his lower-body strength.

“In terms of the jumpers, we do a lot more leg strength workouts,” Johnson said. “And that’s what Coach Nichols wants us to maintain because it’s so important for jumps.”

Johnson said one way he and the other athletes practice for the long, triple and high jump is through stair workouts, which involve sprinting

Junior Alec Svoboda lands in the sand pit while competing in the long jump during a meet Saturday in Barton Hall at Cornell University. The Bombers had five top-10 finishes at the meet, three of which came in field events.

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up and down the stairs and doing one or two-legged hops up them.

Johnson said training on staircases is also useful for the athletes because they have easy access to them when they practice in venues other than Glazer Arena in the Athletics and Events Center.

When preparing for his sprints, running on the stairs simulates a realistic running environment,

Edmonds said.

“It’s hard to find a 400-meter location to run at,” Edmonds said.

“So it’ll be a lot of short-distance sprints or 100-meter workouts, or short stuff, and then lifting. You really have to make use of the facilities you have.”

Johnson said not having other teammates to practice with is the most difficult aspect of the period

between the seasons’ first two meets.

“When we are in a team setting, we all watch each other as we do our workouts and give each other critiques, and this helps motivate myself and my teammates to do their best,” he said. “At home it’s difficult because you don’t have that team atmosphere, but you’ve still got to go out there because it’s going to make you better in the season.”

Look online for game stories from these sports: TOMORROW • 5:30 p.m. Men’s Basketball vs. New Jersey City in Huntingdon, Pa.

SATURDAY • 1 p.m. Women’s Basketball vs.

Baruch College in Ben Light Gymnasium • 4:30 p.m. Wrestling vs. SUNYOswego in Ben Light Gymnasium

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Sophomore forward pushes squad in playoffs KM: Were there moments when you realized what you had achieved by getting into the Final Four?

When the women’s soccer team played in the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in more than a decade Friday, sophomore forward Ellyn Grant-Keane said she felt more pressure on her than she had the entire season.

Grant-Keane has been a consistent leader on the team and had an assist on the only goals in the 1-0 playoff wins GRANT-KEANE said the team’s against Ohio Northern Uni- NCAA playoff run versity and Trinity University. was memorable.

Sports Editor Kevin McCall spoke with her about the team’s playoff run and her experience playing in the Alamo City, which ended with Friday’s 2-0 loss to Wheaton College.

EGK: Definitely landing in San Antonio and seeing the NCAA Championship banners were signs we had made it deep into the playoffs.

When we finally woke up on the day of the game, I realized we would have to play with a lot of heart if we wanted to win.

KM: How would you describe the atmosphere before the Final Four game against Wheaton?

EGK: It was great to be in Texas because we had never played in such a warm climate before. A lot of our family and fans were there, so having them come support us in an environment where we felt a lot of pressure meant a lot. Being in the Final Four was something we had only dreamed of at that point, so it still felt a bit surreal to be there, especially since we weren’t expected to get there to begin with.

Kevin McCall: How did you feel when you were not only defeating your opponents in the playoffs, but also shutting them out?

KM: What did you feel like your role was during the semifinal game? Did it change at all from previous playoff games?

Ellyn Grant-Keane: All the shutouts were team efforts, but from my standpoint, getting those wins was more about wanting to win more than the opponent. Playing harder on defense and attacking the net on offense all together were really what those games came down to.

KM: Can you talk about the chemistry you had with junior forward Rachael Palladino during the NCAA playoff run?

EGK: It’s just something that we had developed from playing such a long time. We’ve been playing together since we were 10 years old, and I know she’ll be able to find me when I get open.

We’re always in constant communication with each other on the field, which helps us succeed.

KM: What were some of the things you did with the team in the time between arriving in San Antonio and playing the game?

The women’s soccer team stands in front of the NCAA Championship banners last Thursday at Blossom Stadium in San Antonio, Texas. The Bombers’ season ended with a 2-0 loss. courtesy of sports information

EGK: We had a walk-through practice Thursday, and then we had a team-building activity with Special Olympics children where each team hung out with a few of them for about an hour. We were able to teach them some stretches and some ball

skills on the field. The experience showed us that being there wasn’t just about the soccer game, but how much we affected the community around us. We also had a banquet at the Alamo that night with the other teams that were playing in the tournament.

EGK: I knew I just had to create scoring chances and be able to execute on them in front of the net. I had to worry about what I was doing on the field rather than focusing on the game going on before we played, because I knew if we lost, our season would be over. I had to stay composed under all the pressure we had been playing under as a team the past few weeks.

KM: What impact do you think the Final Four experience will have on the team next season?

EGK: Playing in the Final Four is definitely a goal that we see as more within our reach.

Now that we’ve set the bar so high, we’ll have to work harder next year to get further. This year was something I’ll never forget.

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where we stand

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Women’s soccer*

1. Messiah College 2. Wheaton College (Illinois) 3. William Smith College 4. Ithaca College

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women’s Swimming**

1. Emory University 2. Denison University 3. Kenyon College 4. Johns Hopkins University 13. Ithaca College

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Squashing their opponent

From left, Bombers freshman Ethan Feller returns a shot by Bryant University senior Cole Rochon on Sunday in the Reis Tennis Center at Cornell University. This year marked the first Ithaca College Squash Club Invitational.

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Wrestling***

Wartburg College (Iowa) University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Coe College (Iowa) Ithaca College Cornell College (Iowa)

* Final National Women’s Division III soccer rankings **College Swimming Coaches Association of America Division ***National Wrestling Coaches Association Division Rankings

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The number of assists the women’s basketball team has averaged per game. See story on page 24.

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the foul line

Weird news from the wide world of sports

The rivalry between the LSU Tigers and Alabama Crimson Tide football teams has been intense on the field this season. The top two squads from the Southeastern Conference met once already this season, a 9–6 overtime win by LSU on Nov. 5. Now, with the teams finishing first and second in the final regular season polls, the two teams will meet again in New Orleans for the National Championship on Jan. 9. With the two teams getting ready to meet again in the biggest game of the season, the rivalry has extended to the fans as well. After it was announced Sunday that the two teams would be playing for the National Championship, one Alabama fan thought it would be a good idea to hack LSU’s online store and display Alabama gear instead. The hack was discovered late Sunday night and was removed by early Monday morning. With more than a month to go until the big game, though, expect these intense fans to pull out all the stops in the lead-up to the biggest game in each university’s history.

—Harlan Green-Taub

The percentage the men’s basketball team has shot from three-point range in its two wins this season.

See story on page 24.

Bombers to watch Andrei Oztemel Junior Basketball

Jessica Hoeffner Senior Track and Field

The 6-foot-4 sharpshooter connected on a career high of eight three pointers and scored 36 points in the Bombers’ 89-80 win over St. Lawrence University on Friday. Oztemel shot 72.7 percent from behind the arc, setting a single-game college record.

Hoeffner broke an 11-year-old school record in the shot put in the Cornell relays this weekend at Barton Hall. Her throw of 15.33 meters broke the record set by Erin Stevens ’00 by nearly two feet.

they saidit

I don’t make a lot of these decisions.

I’m kind of just along for the ride.

Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler when asked about his second engagement to reality television star Kristin Cavallari. Cutler is currently out for the season with an injured thumb.

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Fight to the finish

Junior multi-event competitor Amanda Rissmeyer jumps over a hurdle during the women’s indoor track team’s season-opening meet, the Cornell Relays, on Saturday in Cornell University’s Barton Hall. Rissmeyer placed fourth in the shot put with a mark of 10.94 meters, eighth in the high jump, clearing 1.60 meters, and 10th in the long jump with a distance of 5.15 meters. kevin campbell/the ithacan