find more. online. www.theithacan.org The Ithacan Thursday February 24, 2011 Ithaca, N.Y. Volume 78, Issue 19 ABOVE THE RIM Senior contributes elevated play and athleticism to the men’s basketball team, page 23 NEW REQUEST Facebook friendships bring professors closer to students outside the classroom, page 13 FACING DEBT Students require options that will help them to deal with debt, page 10 BY ERICA PALUMBO CONTRIBUTING WRITER e Ithaca College Board of Trustees has finalized the budget for the 2011-12 academ- ic year. Tuition will increase by $1,648, from $33,630 to $35,278. e 4.9 percent increase in tuition is the same percentage of increase as last year and more than the 4.8 percent increase the previous year. Next year’s total cost of attendance will be $48,132, an increase of 4.76 percent. is is slightly lower than last year’s 4.8 percent increase in total attendance cost and is the lowest percentage of in- crease in the past nine years. President Tom Rochon sent out a letter to fami- lies following the decision. He promised that the college is doing everything it can to ensure students are getting their money’s worth. “I believe the budget we have developed reflects our ongoing efforts to control expenses and to im- plement the lowest possible cost adjustment while continuing to improve the already high quality of an Ithaca College education,” he said in the letter. e college compared its 2011-12 tuition with the 2010-11 tuition of 20 other private colleges and universities to which it is usually compared. Six colleges listed their tuition — including room and board — for the 2011-12 academic year. e college had the second highest tuition out of the six listed. Carl Sgrecci, vice president of finance and ad- ministration, said the college’s standing among these 20 colleges is not an accurate indication of placement. Instead, he said the college’s cost of attendance should be compared to colleges with high application overlaps. “ose schools include places like Northeast- ern, American and Syracuse, and our tuition is $2,000 to $3,000 lower than all of those for the current year, and we expect that differential will continue for next year as well,” he said. Sgrecci said financial aid is at the center of the college’s 2011-12 budget outline. About $84 million of the total $250 million is being budgeted for finan- cial aid, which can be compared to the $79.7 million that was budgeted for financial aid for the 2010-11 academic year. Sgrecci said $1.7 million will be used to main- tain the new Athletics and Events center, a $3 million provision will go toward the salary and benefit pool for faculty and staff and $800,000 will be used to kick off the college’s new marketing ini- tiative. As always, a 2 percent projected provision will be added to the budget for contingency. Sgrecci said about 95 percent of the college’s budget comes from tuition. Programs were not cut by the budget in order to minimize the tuition increase, but some divi- ABC reporter to address 2011 grads BY KELSEY O’CONNOR ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Fresh from covering revolts in Cairo, award-winning ABC News anchor and correspondent David Muir ’95 will deliver this year’s com- mencement ad- dress May 22. Muir joined ABC News in August 2003 as an overnight news anchor and moved on to become one of the network’s lead correspondents on several major domestic and internation- al stories. He has won multiple Emmy awards and has also re- ported from across the globe — including China, the Middle East, South America, Eastern Europe and South Africa. Muir was named sole anchor of the weekend editions of ABC’s evening newscast, which was re- named “World News with David Muir” on Feb. 14. He had been anchoring the Saturday broadcast since 2007. Senior class president Danielle Giserman, who is on the commencement committee, said the executive board wanted to host someone who can relate to students and be a positive reinforcement. “I don’t know who would be better to come speak to us as graduates than someone who is an alum and someone who reports in the real world when we’re about to go into it,” she said. Brian McAree, vice president for student affairs and campus life and chair of the commence- ment committee, said finding a commencement speaker is not an overnight process. Choosing a speaker begins in the fall and is a yearlong decision. It also involves getting input from the Division of Institutional Advancement and the Office of Alumni Relations. “[We look for] not only some- one who was a wonderful stu- dent leader here at Ithaca College and had a quality experience but someone who has gone on since graduation to really make a name for themselves and really contrib- ute to society and also the world,” he said. McAree said because Muir is a young, accomplished journalist, he will have a lot of advice to offer the graduating class. “He has sat in those same seats in 1995 that our students are sit- ting in today as graduates,” he said. “He’s going to really create a sense See SPEAKER, page 4 2011-12 tuition raised 4.9 percent to $35,278 See TUITION, page 4 MUIR is an Ithaca College alumnus and ABC News correspondent. HOW WE STACK UP Ithaca College’s tuition is the second highest among these five New American Colleges and Universities that recently announced their 2011-12 tuition. Ithaca College Quinnipiac University Butler University Hamline University Elon University $36,971 $38,412 $39,870 $48,132 $49,560 SOURCE: INSTITUTION WEBSITES DESIGNED BY YU-CHEN (JANE) CHEN BY GERALD DOHERTY STAFF WRITER When she was considering applying to Ithaca College and Cornell University, senior Madison Ryckman received a blunt warning regarding weather from her high school guidance counselor. “She said, ‘People from Colorado do not do well in upstate New York,’” Ryckman said. “I thought, ‘at’s ridiculous.’” Hailing from Denver, Colo., Ryckman said she was not prepared for the seemingly eternal gray winters of Ithaca. “Pretty much every person I’ve met from Colorado or any kind of sunny place — almost all of them feel the difference and suffer from the lack of sunlight,” Ryckman said. “It’s a really cloudy place with re- ally bad weather. It’s just gray every single day.” According to the Mayo Clinic, seasonal affective disorder is trig- gered when a person is exposed to less sunlight than usual. When the brain receives less light, it produces melatonin, which helps regulate sleep. However, too much melatonin can lead to drowsiness and fatigue. According to Mental Health America, a nonprofit organiza- tion, the main age of onset is between 18 and 30, making students at blues Winter Students struggle to get motivated during Ithaca’s unrelenting winter See DEPRESSION, page 4 PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MICHELLE BOULé
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The IthacanThursdayFebruary 24, 2011
Ithaca, N.Y.Volume 78, Issue 19
Above the rimSenior contributes elevated play and athleticism to the men’s basketball team, page 23
New requestFacebook friendships bring professors closer to students outside the classroom, page 13
fAciNg debtStudents require options that will help them to deal with debt, page 10
By Erica PalumBo contributing writer
The Ithaca College Board of Trustees has finalized the budget for the 2011-12 academ-ic year. Tuition will increase by $1,648, from $33,630 to $35,278.
The 4.9 percent increase in tuition is the same percentage of increase as last year and more than the 4.8 percent increase the previous year.
Next year’s total cost of attendance will be $48,132, an increase of 4.76 percent. This is slightly lower than last year’s 4.8 percent increase in total attendance cost and is the lowest percentage of in-crease in the past nine years.
President Tom Rochon sent out a letter to fami-lies following the decision. He promised that the college is doing everything it can to ensure students are getting their money’s worth.
“I believe the budget we have developed reflects our ongoing efforts to control expenses and to im-plement the lowest possible cost adjustment while continuing to improve the already high quality of an Ithaca College education,” he said in the letter.
The college compared its 2011-12 tuition with the 2010-11 tuition of 20 other private colleges and universities to which it is usually compared. Six colleges listed their tuition — including room and board — for the 2011-12 academic year. The college had the second highest tuition out of the six listed.
Carl Sgrecci, vice president of finance and ad-ministration, said the college’s standing among these 20 colleges is not an accurate indication of placement. Instead, he said the college’s cost of attendance should be compared to colleges with high application overlaps.
“Those schools include places like Northeast-ern, American and Syracuse, and our tuition is
$2,000 to $3,000 lower than all of those for the current year, and we expect that differential will continue for next year as well,” he said.
Sgrecci said financial aid is at the center of the college’s 2011-12 budget outline. About $84 million of the total $250 million is being budgeted for finan-cial aid, which can be compared to the $79.7 million that was budgeted for financial aid for the 2010-11 academic year.
Sgrecci said $1.7 million will be used to main-tain the new Athletics and Events center, a $3
million provision will go toward the salary and benefit pool for faculty and staff and $800,000 will be used to kick off the college’s new marketing ini-tiative. As always, a 2 percent projected provision will be added to the budget for contingency.
Sgrecci said about 95 percent of the college’s budget comes from tuition.
Programs were not cut by the budget in order to minimize the tuition increase, but some divi-
ABC reporter to address 2011 grads
By KElsEy o’connor AssistAnt news editor
Fresh from covering revolts in Cairo, award-winning ABC News anchor and correspondent David Muir ’95 will deliver this year’s com-mencement ad-dress May 22.
Muir joined ABC News in August 2003 as an overnight news anchor and moved on to become one of the network’s lead correspondents on several major domestic and internation-al stories. He has won multiple Emmy awards and has also re-ported from across the globe — including China, the Middle East, South America, Eastern Europe and South Africa.
Muir was named sole anchor of the weekend editions of ABC’s evening newscast, which was re-named “World News with David Muir” on Feb. 14. He had been anchoring the Saturday broadcast since 2007.
Senior class president Danielle Giserman, who is on the commencement committee, said the executive board wanted to host someone who can relate to students and be a positive reinforcement.
“I don’t know who would be better to come speak to us as graduates than someone who is an alum and someone who reports in the real world when we’re about to go into it,” she said.
Brian McAree, vice president for student affairs and campus life and chair of the commence-ment committee, said finding a commencement speaker is not an overnight process. Choosing a speaker begins in the fall and is a yearlong decision. It also involves getting input from the Division of Institutional Advancement and the Office of Alumni Relations.
“[We look for] not only some-one who was a wonderful stu-dent leader here at Ithaca College and had a quality experience but someone who has gone on since graduation to really make a name for themselves and really contrib-ute to society and also the world,” he said.
McAree said because Muir is a young, accomplished journalist, he will have a lot of advice to offer the graduating class.
“He has sat in those same seats in 1995 that our students are sit-ting in today as graduates,” he said. “He’s going to really create a sense
See speaker, page 4
2011-12 tuition raised 4.9 percent to $35,278
See tuition, page 4
muir is an ithaca college alumnus and Abc news correspondent.
how we stAck up ithaca college’s tuition is the second highest among these five new American colleges and universities that recently announced their 2011-12 tuition.
ithaca college
Quinnipiac university
butler university
Hamline university
elon university
$36,971$38,412
$39,870$48,132 $49,560
Source: InStItutIon WebSIteS DeSIgneD by yu-chen (JAne) chen
By GErald dohErty stAff writer
When she was considering applying to Ithaca College and Cornell University, senior Madison Ryckman received a blunt warning regarding weather from her high school guidance counselor.
“She said, ‘People from Colorado do not do well in upstate New York,’” Ryckman said. “I thought, ‘That’s ridiculous.’”
Hailing from Denver, Colo., Ryckman said she was not prepared for the seemingly eternal gray winters of Ithaca.
“Pretty much every person I’ve met from Colorado or any kind of sunny place — almost all of them feel the difference and suffer from the lack of sunlight,” Ryckman said. “It’s a really cloudy place with re-ally bad weather. It’s just gray every single day.”
According to the Mayo Clinic, seasonal affective disorder is trig-gered when a person is exposed to less sunlight than usual. When the brain receives less light, it produces melatonin, which helps regulate sleep. However, too much melatonin can lead to drowsiness and fatigue.
According to Mental Health America, a nonprofit organiza-tion, the main age of onset is between 18 and 30, making students at
bluesWinterStudents struggle to get motivated during Ithaca’s unrelenting winter
See depression, page 4
Photo IlluStrAtIon by MIchelle boulé
[Thursday Briefing]2 The ithacan Thursday, february 24, 2011
VideoGo behind the scenes for a sneak peak at the Ithaca College Theatre production of “L’Orfeo.”
Video Check out this week’s 1-on-1 with junior Jessica Bolduc of the gymnastics team.
Audio SlideshowHead downtown to catch all the action on The Commons during the 13th annual Ithaca Chili Cook-off and WinterFest.
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US citizens try to evacuate Libya The U.S. renewed efforts yesterday to get American citizens out of Libya, this time by ferry, as concerns rise about longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi’s unpredictable behavior. As security forces cracked down on protest-ers demanding Gadhafi’s ousting, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the vio-lence “completely unacceptable.” Even as it sought to safely extricate U.S. diplomats and other Americans from the spreading chaos, the Obama administration stopped short of criticizing Gadhafi person-ally or demanding that he step down. U.S. officials who spoke of the matter publicly Tuesday, including Clinton, would not men-tion Gadhafi by name. Unease over the safety of U.S. citizens in-tensified after attempts to get some citizens out of the country on Monday and Tuesday were not successful. Tuesday, the State Department announced American citizens would be evacu-ated from Libya by ferry to the Mediterranean island of Malta.
Uranium in North Korea spurs talk The foreign ministers of South Korea and China expressed worries yesterday about North Korea’s recently disclosed uranium enrichment program which could give it a second way to make atomic bombs, a South Korean official said. The foreign ministers agreed to consult closely on how to deal with North Korea’s urani-um program, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official said on condition of anonymity because of department policy. Efforts to deal with North Korea’s nuclear ca-pability took on renewed urgency in November when a visiting American scientist was shown a uranium enrichment facility. South Korea says that visit violated a past international disarma-ment-for-aid deal and U.N. resolutions. North Korea is already believed to have enough weaponized plutonium for at least half a dozen atomic bombs.
Wisconsin protestors hold ground Democrats kept the Wisconsin Assembly up overnight with a long filibuster in another attempt to block the Republican governor’s
bold plan to strip public sector workers of nearly all of their bargaining rights. The debate marked the first movement in days in what has become a high-stakes game of political chicken between Democratic law-makers and Gov. Scott Walker. The governor says the bill is needed to help solve the state’s looming budget deficit, but Democrats see it as an all-out assault on unions, their staunchest campaign ally. Republicans control both the Assembly and Senate, but Democratic senators have blocked a vote in their chamber by fleeing to Illinois. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of demonstra-tors have descended on the state Capitol in monumental protests that entered into the ninth day yesterday.
Ford to recall faulty truck airbags Ford Motor Co. says it will recall nearly 150,000 F-150 pickup trucks to fix air bags that could deploy without warning. The govern-ment had raised concerns about the problem. Ford said yesterday the recall covers trucks from the 2005-2006 model years in the United States and Canada for what the company calls a “relatively low risk” of air bags deploying inadvertently. The recall is much smaller than what the government had requested. Last month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told the company that the recall should cover 1.3 million vehicles from the 2004-2006 model year, citing dozens of injuries.
South Africa to offer aid to poor South Africa will spend more to help the poor while offering tax relief and other pro-business steps in a country where nearly a quarter of the population is unemployed, the finance minister said yesterday. In presenting the budget of Africa’s most important economy to parliament in Cape Town, Pravin Gordhan said he was fol-lowing up on pledges that President Jacob Zuma made in his state of the nation speech two weeks ago to focus on fighting poverty and creating jobs. The pledges to increase assistance come amid criticism that Zuma’s government has not done enough to overturn the deep economic
injustices created by apartheid, a system of seg-regation on the grounds of race. Gordhan outlined plans to spend more on housing, schools, health, developing rural areas, student aid and welfare for the elderly, disabled and for children.
New site to show time line of 9/11 A new online time line was launched yester-day that attempts to give a sense of order to the chaotic day of 9/11. The time line, put together by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, incorpo-rates audio recordings from phone calls on that day, oral histories from survivors and eyewit-nesses and graphic photographs and video snip-pets arranged in chronological order. Viewers can use social media including Facebook and Twitter as well as e-mail to share links to the site and to particular photos and videos. The time line begins at 5:45 a.m., with
photographs of hijackers Mohammed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari passing through air-port security in Maine for a flight to Boston, where they would board Flight 11. It ends at 8:30 p.m., with President George W. Bush ad-dressing the nation.
Greeks riot against budget cuts A strike halted public transportation across Greece yesterday and led to the cancellation of more than 100 flights at Athens International Airport as unions stepped up opposition to the country’s austerity measures. Prime Minister George Papandreou’s Socialist government faces international pressure to make more lasting cuts after the nation’s debt-crippled economy was rescued from bankruptcy by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
SOURCE: Associated Press
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Combating corruptionProtesters yell anti-Iraqi government slogans during a violent protest at Tahrir Square in Baghdad yesterday. Protesters gathered in central Baghdad to demonstrate against corruption and the lack of government services. The banner in Arabic reads, “Islam is a religion of freedoms.”
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Shabbat Services will begin at 6 p.m. in Muller Chapel.
Shabbat Dinner will begin at 7:15 p.m. in Terrace Dining Hall.
Celebrating Our Own Way, sponsored by the African-Latino Society will feature Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panthers, and go from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in Emerson Suites.
Meditation Minyan will begin at 11 a.m. in Muller Chapel.
IC Justice, sponsored by Free the Slaves, is a gathering of human rights groups across campus and will go from 7 to 10 p.m. in IC Square.
Biology Seminar, featuring Mandy Esch from Cornell University, will include a discus-sion about nanoparticles from 4 to 5 p.m. in CNS 112.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Recruiters will be visiting cam-pus to conduct interviews for the 2011 Leadership Adventure Program all day in Career Services.
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Faculty Council Meeting, will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. in Clark Lounge.
tuesday1Evensong, a Protestant Community worship service, will begin at 9:30 p.m. in Muller Chapel.
Visiting Entrepreneurs Series, featuring Peter Krebs, co-found-er and chief technology officer at Sefaira, will go from 11 to 11:50 a.m. in Textor 103.
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Galeet Dardashti’s “The Naming,” a music and storytell-ing combination sponsored by Jewish Studies, begins at 7 p.m. in Emerson Suites.
Last weekend, seven vehicle entries and four larcenies were reported to Public Safety. I n v e s t i g a t o r Tom Dunn said all of the crimes took place in and around the Circle Apart-ments. Items stolen included GPS devices, tools and iPods. In addition, a 2006 blue-green Chrysler PT Cruiser with New York license plate number EKG2293 was also stolen between Feb. 18 and 20. “There were no signs of forced entry in the vehicles,” Dunn said. “So we want to encourage people to be cautious and lock your vehicles.” Senior Erik Lyons, a resident of the Circle Apartments, said he went outside Saturday night to find that his Honda Civic had been broken into and two items were stolen. “As soon as I opened my car, my glove compartment was open, the center console was open, my man-ual was thrown around and all my documentation was spread around the seat,” he said. “It was obvious someone went through there.” Lyons said he never leaves his car unlocked and even if he does, the car will lock automatically af-ter five minutes. Lyons said he was fortunate nothing irreplaceable was stolen — only a Swiss Army knife and an old jacket. Though he said it was obvious the car was broken into, there was no sign of forced entry. “There were no marks, no scratches, nothing,” Lyons said. “Whoever did it knew what they were doing.” Dunn said it is unclear whether any of the incidents are related, but investigations are underway.
Group to rallyagainst cuts
by danIel dawSon staff writer
Tompkins County residents will rally on The Commons today at 12 p.m. in front of Center Ithaca to voice their opposition to federal budget cuts in hopes of gaining the support of Maurice Hinchey and Richard Hanna, local congressmen. Nick Sledziona, a local activ-ist and member of MoveOn.org, the organization hosting the rally, said the group wants to address the $60 billion Congressional budget cuts to military projects, foreign aid and domestic health-care, education and science programs, which passed in the House of Representatives Friday. “We need to let our representa-tives know we don’t want any cuts to education or social services.” Freshman Mimi Niggel, who is going to the rally, said she is looking forward to participating. “If these protests don’t reach his ears, then he will not know about his constituent’s opposition to the cuts and cannot act on their behalf,” Niggel said.
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by nIcole ogrySko staff writer
As the national and local econo-mies make a slow recovery from the 2008 economic recession, business and tourism in Ithaca is beginning to look up. Bruce Stoff, marketing and com-munications manager of Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the rate of hotel occupancy rose by 6.8 percent from 2009 to 2010. According to data from Smith Travel Research and New York State Hospitality and Tourism Asso-ciation, hotel occupancy increased by 5.7 percent nationwide and 5.4 percent in New York state from 2009 to 2010. Stoff said the bureau sees rising hotel occupancy rates and greater in-terest in the Ithaca area as a sign that tourism is beginning to recover from the 2008-09 economic slump. When the recession began in 2008, Stoff said, Tompkins County saw a 10 percent drop in its rate of tourism within three months. “The economy tanked, and tour-ism, being discretionary spending, just disappeared,” he said. “So our business just kind of fell off a cliff.” In an effort to increase tourism during the recession, Stoff said, the bureau encouraged families in New York to take “stay-cations,” or short day trips, to local tourism spots. Cathy Nillspaugh, executive direc-tor of the Cayuga Wine Trail, which
services 16 wineries along Cayuga Lake, said she notices a variety of people come to the trail from other areas of New York and Pennsylvania — from visitors looking for a quick trip to wine drinkers interested in comparing Cayuga’s selection to other wines in New York. “Our marketing is geared toward a one-hour, two-hour, or four- to five- hour stay,” she said. Along with the launch of its new website and increased advertising ef-forts on Twitter and Facebook, she said she expects a rise in visitation and wine sales this year, since last sum-mer’s dry growing season was more successful than usual. David Hirsch, co-owner of Moosewood Restaurant, said he was pleasantly surprised when business didn’t drop dramatically in 2009 and noticed a generous increase in 2010. “We had a really great spring, summer and fall,” he said. “After Christmas, because the town gets so quiet, [business] always drops a little, but that was really just the tail end of 2010.” In addition to an increase in visi-tors staying in Tompkins County, more people are traveling to other destinations as well. Tony Rudy, assistant manager for Ithaca Tompkins Regional Air-port, said the airport saw 121,334 boarding passengers leaving Ithaca for 2010, an 11 percent increase from 2009 and a record high for the
airport. He said the airport sees a similar number of passengers flying into Tompkins County. With the ad-dition of Continental Airlines, Rudy said, the airport hasn’t seen a drop in passengers in four years. “We’ve kind of been going against the trend,” he said. “Typically, larger airports in the U.S. had decreasing passenger numbers in the past couple of years. We haven’t had a decrease since 2006.” Stoff said Ithaca has been seeing a higher demand for tourism than many other areas upstate because visitors to Ithaca’s colleges and universities for campus tours, events and other con-ferences will in turn make trips to the area’s other top tourism spots — the gorges and downtown area.
“Families will come here on a col-lege visit, and they’ll see the area, like the area, and then they’ll decide to spend an extra half day and look at a waterfall, spend an extra half day and go downtown and try some restau-rants,” he said. In addition to the business pro-spective students and their families bring to Tompkins County, Stoff said the National Conference on Under-graduate Research at Ithaca College will bring thousands of visitors to town this spring. As tourism rates continue to climb, Stoff said he hasn’t heard many complaints from area restaurants and hotels about declining business. “It’s almost back to business as usual — a nice good, steady growth."
Businesses see increasein local tourist traffic
From left, Jacky Knoll-Carr from Oxford, N.Y., and Christine Gregoire from Whitney Point, N.Y., enjoy a wine tasting at Six Mile Creek Vineyard in Ithaca.
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by kyle robertSon staff writer
The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles issued new restrictions Feb. 16 to discour-age distracted driving by adding license points in addition to current monetary cell phone penalties. Under the updated regulations, people caught operating a vehicle while talking or texting on a cell phone without a headset will receive two points on their driver’s license in addition to the current fine of up to $150. According to New York state law, talking on a hand-held cell phone while driving has been illegal since 2001. Accumulation of license points can lead to higher costs for auto insurance and will result in suspension of a license if the owner gets 11 or more points in an 18 month period. Aurora Valenti, director of the Tompkins County Department of Motor Vehicles, said the new driving regulations are a long overdue step to-ward promoting responsible driving and have been in the works for several years. “I am always in favor of anything that will decrease automobile accidents and injury to life and limb,” she said. “It’s really very dangerous to have your mind on something other than your driving. I would hope that these rules encourage people to pay attention and keep both hands on the steering wheel.” A study titled, “National Highway Traffic Safety Survey,” conducted in 2009 by the Federal Highway Administration, reported that drivers talking on a hand-held cell phone were four times more likely to crash than drivers without a cell phone. People texting while driving were shown to be 23 times more likely to crash. Valenti said the regulations were developed by the DMV in conjunction with the New York State Police and local sheriffs’ offices. They were also opened to public referendum, and no public com-ments were submitted for review. Investigator Tom Dunn said the new restric-tions may provide more restitution for offenders than a fine. “With a monetary fine, a person could simply pay it and be on their way,” he said. “With points added to a license, people will be put on notice, and
it might alleviate the problem of a repeat offender.” Valenti said she was unsure if the state plans to institute more road patrols or take any additional measures to enforce the cell phone policy, espe-cially given the impact of the current recession. “With the economy being what it is, most de-partments are not adding staff,” Valenti said. “If anything, they are de-staffing. What it’s going to cost us, I don’t know.” Senior Chris Giblin said the decision to not use a cell phone while driving should be a matter of common sense and was annoyed by the idea that a state mandate should be needed to make students drive safely. “I keep off the phone while driving, and I never text,” Giblin said. “I’ve realized it’s just not a good idea. Why put yourself in danger over
something you can do much quicker elsewhere?” Sophomore Valerie Falconieri said she wishes the new regulations weren't necessary. “Maybe people will finally realize that you're not supposed to be using your phone while you're driving,” Falconieri said. “If you're worried about emergencies, get a hands-free phone or some-thing. It's ridiculous to me that it even has to be this way." Giblin was hopeful the new regulations would prompt more people to adopt his viewpoint on cell phones. “It just provides more incentive for people to stop doing it,” he said. “People already know that it’s illegal, and once they realize they’ll have to spend money and get points in addition, they’ll figure out how bad of an idea it is to use the phone.”
State ups penalty for phone use in car
Ken Pierce and beth French-Neff visit the tompkins County Department of Motor Vehicles on tuesday. the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles has new penalties for driving and using a cell phone.
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dUnn said there was no sign of forced entry in any of the vehicles.
4 The Ithacan news Thursday, February 24, 2011
sions have chosen to reallocate their funds for next year, Sgrecci said. In fact, he said these divisions will have more money available next year than this year.
F r e s h m a n G e n e v i e v e Cohn said even though this year makes the low-est recorded increase in nine years, she was upset that the school is continuing to raise the tuition at all.
“I guess I should be thank-ful that the college is making strides to keep the tuition down as best as it can, but I’m still go-ing to end up paying even more money to an already expensive institution,” Cohn said.
Cohn said the college is al-ready hard for many students to afford, and continuing to raise the cost of an education makes it even more difficult.
“I don’t want to keep paying for more and more money every year, and I know my parents won’t want to either,” she said.
Junior Adam Girgenti said he was skeptical of the college’s ef-fort to minimize tuition costs and worries it might result in the col-lege scrimping on funding made available to some programs.
“Although I think it’s a good idea, I’m more interested to see how the college is doing it,” he said. “It seems like a lot of students want to know what they’re not doing in order to make up for the budget.”
Junior Dave Mizzle said he has found it hard to pay for the tuition increases over the years.
“It’s great that this is happening, but I wish it would have happened sooner,” he said. “It’s hard because when you first come to college you expect it to be one price.”
Rochon said the minimized in-crease in tuition for 2011-12 is not an indication this pattern will con-tinue in future years.
“Although we have developed a multi-year budget projection that foresees continued moderation in the rate of tuition increase, the Board of Trustees adopts a budget each year in response to condi-tions at that time,” he said.
Rochon said the college must be realistic about its financial situa-tion and acknowledge the fact that it is mainly sustained by tuition.
“As our primary source of revenue, tuition must be in-creased in order to meet other important budget goals connect-ed with sustaining the spending necessary to offer a high quality education,” he said.
Dave Maley, associate director of media relations, said the college is working diligently to prepare a budget that recognizes and caters to different financial situations.
“The financial aid status of ev-ery student is different,” he said. “The college works very hard to target students with the great-est need and is working on new financial aid programs with the as-sistance of representatives at state and federal levels.”
Lightboxes quell cyclic fatiguedepression
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Nancy Reynolds, health promotion center program director, demonstrates how to use a lightbox Tuesday. Reynolds said the lightbox is there for student use and is located down the hall from the Center for Counseling and Wellness.
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SGRECCi said divisions will have more money to spend this year.
of excitement for them, a sense of hope and an-ticipation of getting out there and trying to make their mark on the world.”
Julie Levitt, director of com-munications for the senior executive board, said it will be nice to hear from a recent graduate of the college who has been successful.
“When you just read what he has done and where’s he’s been and the things he’s gotten to see at such a young age, he’s motivational,” she said.
Last year, actress and activist CCH Pounder ’75 spoke to seniors. It was the first year the college instituted a policy of finding a no-table alumnus or faculty member to speak.
President Tom Rochon said not only are Pounder and Muir alumni, but they are also celeb-rities in their respective fields.
“The senior class has been very clear that they think it’s far more meaningful to hear from some-one who has been a student at Ithaca College than to hear from someone who is simply parachuted into Ithaca for 24 hours,” he said.
Before last year, McAree said, the college mostly chose celebrity speakers to speak at com-mencement, but having a celebrity speak is not as inspirational.
“We felt going with a notable alumni, some-one who knows the Ithaca College campus, knows the student experience here, has achieved so much in their young and more seasoned lives could really send a wonderful message to our students,” McAree said.
McAree said the college’s budget doesn’t fac-tor into choosing a speaker but was taken into consideration in past years when the college still
featured celebrity speakers for commencement. “One of the things we had to consider a
couple years ago was the increased prices that celebrity speakers were asking for these kind of engagements,” he said. “It was just one of the considerations, but philosophically we thought going to an alumni speaker who had experienced Ithaca College and was knowledgeable about us and had a connection would be more attractive.”
Levitt said having an alumnus speak provides a more personal experience.
“It’s nice before you graduate to speak to somebody who has been in your shoes as a stu-dent and see where they are today,” she said.
Rochon said the experience is important for both students and returning alumni.
“This is a very meaningful return to their alma mater, so they put a great deal of effort into a speech for this occasion and for this audi-ence,” he said. “Our seniors are very well served by this.”
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the college who are used to long periods of sunlight especially sus-ceptible to SAD. The American Academy of Family Physicians clas-sifies SAD as a type of depression.
Dr. Norman Rosenthal, medical director and CEO of Capital Clinical Research, said he was the first to describe seasonal affective disorder. Rosenthal advocates the use of light therapy to treat symptoms of SAD and said the Cochrane Collabora-tion, a network of healthcare pro-viders, patients and advocates, also confirms its success.
“I would say the majority of cli-nicians would say that it’s effective,” Rosenthal said.
LeBron Rankins, staff psycholo-gist in counseling and psychologi-cal services, said it is often difficult to diagnose SAD because patients must display depressive symptoms for at least two years consistently during the same season.
Rankins said those who have seasonal depression often suffer not from lack of willpower but from lack of energy.
“The will and desire is often there, but people can’t seem to get themselves going,” Rankins said. “I think of seasonal affective disor-der as what a bear would have if it wasn’t allowed to hibernate.”
To treat SAD, the Hammond Health Center provides a lightbox, a lamp that emits UV rays and can reverse the production of melatonin in the brain.
Ryckman, though not clinically diagnosed with SAD, said she start-ed using her own artificial sunlight lamp in Fall 2009 to help treat the fatigue she felt in the winter. She said she uses it in the morning while reading the news or eating breakfast.
“I really love my lamp,” Ryckman said. “It’s very retro, like a 1950s salon, and it really does positively impact my day. It’s not like I don’t have bad days when I use the lamp or that I have
good days necessarily when I do, I just generally feel sunnier.”
Sophomore Sarah Matte said she also has her own artificial light, which she uses for 15 minutes in the morning to recreate feelings of being in the sun.
“You can feel that lifting feeling around your collarbone,” Matte said. “That helps you throughout the day. I’m much less tired when I use it.”
Sophomore Lyndsey Lyman said she began experiencing symptoms of SAD in middle school and began to see a therapist who suggested she might have SAD.
Lyman said she takes St. John’s wort, a plant used to treat depression, and sometimes vitamin D supple-ments to treat depressive symptoms she experiences each winter.
“Usually I’m a more easy-going
person, but then sometimes dur-ing these months, if someone says something, it can be particularly of-fensive or upsetting personally. It’s not a matter of ‘That was rude’ or ‘That was mean of you to say,’ it’s a matter of ‘That’s going to affect me for a day or two now,” she said.
Rosenthal said students should expose themselves to as much light as possible, both natural and artifi-cial, to relieve symptoms.
“[Students should] consider bring-ing more light into [the] dorm room, either in the form of a light fixture or in the form of a dawn simulator that turns the light on gradually in the morning,” Rosenthal said.
Sophomore Erin Irby, co-president of Active Minds, said SAD can come on suddenly and alarm students. Irby said events such as the De-Stress Fest,
sponsored by the organization last December, encourage students to be aware of their mental health.
“We work with the counseling center to make sure people know that it is a resource that is on campus. We also have a series of events throughout the semester to remind people that mental health is a priority,” Irby said.
Lyman said it’s common for those suffering from symptoms of depres-sion in the winter to not realize they are showing symptoms of SAD.
“I don’t think people really get di-agnosed clinically,” Lyman said. “One of the issues is that people don’t nec-essarily know what they’re experienc-ing and that it has a name. Some of my friends do have it, and we talk about how we want spring to come, but I don’t really think people know the specifics of it.”
ain’t no sunshine The average sunshine in February correlates to the percentage of cloud cover in each city.
ROCHON said last year’s speaker was well received by graduates.
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WhenTommyDunnevisitedLakePlacid in1997 toworkonanarticlefor Details magazine, he ended upzoomingdownanicyOlympictrackat87mph. Dunnesaidmeeting theOlympiclugeteamthatsummerwasresearchforoneofhisfavoritewritinggigs. “They let me take a run downthelastfourtofiveturnsofthetrackwhichwasablast,”hesaid.“IwishedIcould’vestartedfromhigher,buttheydidn’twanttoinjureareporter.” DunneworkedatDetailsMaga-zine for nine years. Since his timeatDetails,hehasworked for inter-nationallyrenownedmagazineslikeCosmoGirl,SeventeenandPeople. Now,Dunne isbringinghis re-al-worldexpertisetotheclassroombyteachingthecourse,“SocialEn-trepreneurship in Action: Creat-ing a Green Living Magazine forTompkinsCounty.” DunnejoinedtheIthacaCollegestaffin2009asadmissionwriterintheDepartmentofMarketingCom-munications, where he writes andedits brochures, letters and othermaterials for recruitment market-ing.Partofhisjobdescriptionistoeditforthecollege'sFusemagazine. DunneleftDetailsin1999topur-suefreelancewritingandapart-timecopyeditorpositionforPeoplemaga-zine.Laterthatyear,hegotajobof-fer from CosmoGirl and became itsmanagingeditor. Though Details was more di-
rected toward an audience like him-self, Dunne said working for AtoosaRubenstein, then-editor in chief atCosmoGirl,madehimrealizetheim-portance of connecting a magazine'scontentwithitstypeofaudience. “It would drive the editors crazywhentheirmanuscriptswouldcomeback from Atoosa with ‘Too duh!’writteninhotpinkSharpie,”hesaid.“ButAtoosawasabletosummontheteenagegirlinsideherandmakesureeverypageofthemagazinespoketothatgirl.” While working at CosmoGirl,he met his wife, Rebecca Barry. Shesaidshewasattractedtotheaurahebroughttotheoffice. “It was pretty instant,” she said.“I joke and say, ‘He was the onlystraight man in the office,’ but thatactuallywasn’ttrue;hereallyhadacalmingeffectoneverybodythere.” Senior Meghan Swope, whoworks closely with Dunne as thewebeditorofFuse,saidhehasbeenincredibly helpful in improving hereditingandwritingskillstobetterfitmagazinestyle. “Ihavetobemeticulousandpayattentiontodetailwhenitcomestoediting, and he has helped me be-comemoreefficientatthatforsure,”she said. “It is great that we havesomeone with that level of abilityhereatIC.” Dunne's class, in which studentscreate and publish their own maga-zine, is part of the (IC)² initiative toprovide integrated learning. Dunnetakes on the role of publisher and
editorinchiefofthemagazine,whileNick Kowalczyk, assistant professorofwritingwhoalsoteachestheclass,servesastheexecutiveeditor. Theclassisateam-orientedme-diaprojectthatwillgivestudentsreallife experience working on a maga-zine,Kowalczyksaid. “The number of different du-tiesthatthestudentsaredoingandthe number of different hats theyarebeingasked toputon isgoingto make them really, really com-petitivejobinternshipcandidates,"Kowalczyksaid. Beforeproposing thecourse lastyear,Dunnehadalreadyworkedon
abusinessplan foranationalgreenlivingmagazine.However,hesaidhehad no financial backing to imple-ment his idea. When the collegeannounced it would fund a secondround of projects for (IC)² classesthisacademicyear,Dunneseizedtheopportunityforhisidea. “Ithoughtthismightbeawaytoget a local version of my magazineproduced,”Dunnesaid. Dunne said he hopes the class'smagazine, which he has tentativelytitled"FreshDirtIthaca,"willeven-tuallyexpandbeyondIthaca. "My dream is to have it createa national monthly magazine and
partner with journalism schools toproduce quarterly regional publica-tions,"Dunnesaid. DunnesaidheandKowalczykarecurrently working on a proposal toseeiftheycangetmore(IC)²fundingtocontinuetheclassnextsemester. Senior writing major LukaStarmer said he is taking the classfor the publishing opportunity andthe inside scoop it offers about themagazinebusiness. “Theclassisn’trunlikeaclass,itismorelikeabusinessmeetingandallalongthewaywearelearningaswego,”Starmersaid.“[Dunne]feelsmorelikeyoureditorandyourboss.”
New York City editorlaunches IC project
Tommy Dunne, admission writer for the Office of Marketing Communications, speaks to his students Feb. 15 during his class in the Roy H. Park School of Communications. Dunne hopes to expand the magazine on a national level. gRaHaM Hebel/THe iTHaCan
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Professor hypnotizes campus Richard Schissel, associate professor andchairofthespeech-language,pathologyandau-diologydepartment,willspeakMarch2abouta seldom-discussed therapyalternative—hypnosis. Schissel, owner of theprivate practice EmpowerHypnosis,planstolectureonthepotentialofhypnosisasaremedyforstudentssufferingfromstress-relatedproblems. StaffWriterKyleRobert-sonspokewithSchisselaboutthelimitationsofhypnosis,aswellasitsusesincollege.
Kyle Robertson:Whatishypnosis?
Richard Schissel: Hypnosis is a state of to-talfocus.Yourconsciousmindisfocusedonsomethingtotheextentthatyou’renotawareofanythingelsearoundyou.It’slikewhenyoubecomeenrapturedbyabookoratelevisionprogram,orlisteningtosomepieceofmusic,andyou’reawareofrealityaroundyou,butit’snotimportanttoyou.Yourconsciousmindisoff somewhere else, and I’m making sugges-tions to your subconscious; your consciousmindistotallyunawarethatIdidthis.
KR:Howdidyougetinterestedinhypnosis?
RS:Iwaswonderingwhyittookpeoplesolong when they went to counseling to getover the issue theywere trying to resolve,andalsofrommyworkinspeech-languagepathology. Talk therapy just takes an in-credibly long time to be effective becausethe issues are really in the subconscious,whichwecan’t easilyaccess.Withhypno-sis, you can find the root of the problemwithouttheinterferenceofyourconsciousmind.Wecallthisthe“criticalfactor.”
RS:Inmypractice,it’smostlypainrelief,weightloss,stressreductionandperformanceanxietyissues in music and sports. There are peoplewhoareusingitinsurgeryinplaceofanestheticbecause many people react very negatively toanesthesia.It’salsogreatforchildbirthtocalmandfocusmotherswhoareinpain.
KR: Howdoyouusehypnosistohelpstudents?
RS: Idon’twantpeopletothinkI’mtakingad-vantage of a population that’s right here, butstudentsdocometome.Theyconstituteabout10percentofmyclients.Theycomeforalotofthesamekindsofissues:weightloss,smoking,butalso for testanxietyandstress issues. I’mnotacertifiedcounselor, though, so ifwegetintoanareathatrequiresactualtherapyIhavetoreferthemtoapsychologist.
KR:Arethereanyrisksinvolved?
RS:Somepeopleworryaboutwhatwillhap-pen to them if something happens to yourhypnotist while you’re still in the trance,but if thathappened,you’dprobably just fallasleepandwakeup,oryoursubconsciouswillrecognize that you’re no longer hearing myvoiceandwillbringyououtof thetrancetoseewhat’sgoingon.Ialsocan’tmakeyoudoanything you wouldn’t do normally. If I saidsomething that bothered you or felt wrongyou’dpoprightbackout.Noneofmyclientshave ever complained about nightmares oranykindofproblems.There’sreallynodown-sidetothisformoftreatment.
KR: Howwouldyouadvertisehypnosis?
RS: I would advertise it as twofold: stress-managementandmotivational.Icanhelpwithanxiety,organization,creativity,career issuesanddeterminingwhatkindofpersonyouare.A lot of people don’t know themselves verywell,andIcanhelpthembelieveinthemselvesenoughtosolvetheirproblemsontheirown.
SCHISSEL saidhypnosis can be an alternative to talk therapy.
Going once, going twiceJohn Rawlins III, assistant director of multicultural affairs for the Office of Student Engagement and Multicultural Affairs, acts as auctioneer last Thursday at African-Latino Society’s “Taking Back the Block” fundraiser for its upcoming speaker. ALS auctioned off students’ talents.
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College & CityMedia experts to speak on military propaganda
Two observers of the spin indus-try, John Stauber and Lisa Graves, will speak at the college at 7 p.m. March 8 in Emerson Suites. The event is host-ed by the Park Center for Indepen-dent Media and Buzzsaw Magazine. Stauber, who founded the Center for Media and Democracy and Lisa Graves, his successor and the center’s current executive director, will lead a discussion called “Military Propagan-da and Other PR Ploys.”
Stauber is an investigative writ-er who founded CMD 17 years ago. CMD investigates corporate and government propaganda and spin campaigns in its books, newsmag-azine, PR Watch and online.
Graves is a lawyer and civil liberties advocate. She worked on privacy issues at the Center for National Security Studies and the American Civil Liberties Union.
The event is part of Buzzsaw Mag-azine’s “Militarization Week” and is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Brandy Hawley at 274-3590.
Library opens first phase of new digital media lab
The new digital media lab is de-signed as a space where students can create and edit multimedia projects that include graphic design, audio tracks and video elements.
Located on the third floor of the college’s library, Phase I of the Digital Media Lab is equipped with iMac computers and flatbed scanners. Students can use Final Cut Express and Adobe Premiere Elements software to edit video
files. Sound files can be cleaned and edited using Audacity. The Adobe Creative Suite 5 supports the creation of print and web-based media.
Phase II of the DML has been se-lected as the 2011 Class Gift. Funds raised will help renovate the entire lab and create additional collaborative spaces. Phase II will open in Fall 2011.
It will include a practice pre-sentation space with a whiteboard and a 60-inch plasma screen for students to create and refine class projects and presentations.
Woodcut artist to speak about contemporary art
Contemporary woodcut art-ist Karen Kunc will discuss her work from 1:10 to 2:25 p.m. today in Williams Hall Room 225.
Kunc’s recent prints were created by living in and conceptualizing natural and human processes that af-fect the environment, contrast ways and means and outcomes for life.
In recent years, Kunc has pro-voked her senses by living and working in New York, Vancouver, Italy, Egypt and Nebraska, her home. She has been working on the “Urban/Rural Divide” series.
Students’ films to screenfrom experience in Korea
Four student documentaries will screen at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Park Auditorium.
The films were produced
through a cross-cultural docu-mentary research and production class taught at Hanyang Univer-sity International Summer School in 2010.
A question and answer session will follow the films, as well as an information session about the summer program.
Key economist to present about immigration impact
Economist David Card will dis-cuss immigration and economics from 4:30 to 6 p.m. March 15 at 305 Ives Hall at Cornell University. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Cornell Uni-versity is hosting Card for a special presentation titled, “Immigration: Economics, Attitudes and Policies.”
Card is a professor of econom-ics at the University of California, Berkeley and an expert on the impact of immigration on labor market wages.
Spots open at conference about clean energy future
Power Shift 2011, a conference which takes place from April 15 to 18 in Washington, D.C., is a mission to recruit 10,000 youth leaders from ev-ery walk of life to be on the front lines in the fight for a clean energy future.
At Power Shift 2011, young peo-ple who are ready to work for change will spend the weekend training on effective strategies to engage their generation, sharing solutions for
the country and taking action to de-mand voices be heard.
Ithaca College Environmental Society will discuss the conference at 7 p.m. today in Friends 209.
For more information about the conference, visit powershift2011.org.
Civil War letters on show at local history center
The History Center in Tompkins County is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War through an exhibition, “Dear Friend Amelia — Lives & Letters in the Civil War,” which includes letters, local newspa-per reports and photography.
The History Center will high-light soldiers’ letters sent home through the collections of Private John Tidd of Speedsville, N.Y. and Major Doctor Tarbell of Ithaca, which provide firsthand accounts of the Civil War.
“Dear Friend Amelia — The Civil War Letters of Private John Tidd,” by Mary Jordan and Joyce Hatch, published in 2011 by Six Mile Creek Press, is available for purchase at the History Center.
The exhibition will be ongoing un-til July. For more information, contact the History Center at 273-8284.
Winter supplies available for outdoor recreation use
Snowshoes and cross-country skis are now available for use on the recreation trails off of Hudson Street from the Outdoor Recre-ation Equipment Center, which has camping and sporting equipment available for rent by members of the campus community.
The OREC office is located on
the lower level of the Fitness Center. The office is now open seven days a week until spring break.
Equipment prices can be found at www.ithaca.edu/sacl/recsports/outdoor_rec/orec_rentals.php.
For questions, contact OREC at 274-1917, or e-mail [email protected].
Research finds workers are paid above average
A report by Cornell research-ers found that farmworkers in New York state are paid, on average, some-what more than minimum wage.
The report also found more experienced fruit pickers were paid an average of $10.65 per hour, and inexperienced dairy hands made $8.39 per hour. All of the 933 farms that responded to a 2009 survey paid more than the New York state minimum wage, which is $7.25 per hour.
The results of the survey were presented Jan. 25 at the annual Becker Forum in Syracuse by Thomas Maloney, senior extension associate of applied economics and management, who conducted the farm labor study with Professor Emeritus Nelson Bills of Cornell University’s Dyson School of Ap-plied Economics and Management.
The study also found that immi-gration policy was a major concern for many farmers. The Becker Fo-rum focused on how farmers can have an impact on federal immi-gration reform.
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Public Safety Incident Log SELECTED ENTRIES FROM JANUARY 31 TO FEBRUARY 4
Key
cmc – cayuga medical centerccV – college code ViolationDWI – Driving while intoxicatedIFD – Ithaca Fire DepartmentIPD – Ithaca Police DepartmentmVA – motor vehicle accidentRA – Resident assistantSASP – Student Auxiliary Safety PatrolV&T – Vehicle and Transportation
january 31
FOUND PROPERTYLOcATION: J-LotSUmmARY: cell phone found and turned over to Public Safety. Unknown owner.
MAKING GRAFFITILOcATION: Whalen center for musicSUmmARY: A caller reported an unknown person drew an image on a piano. Investigation pending. Sergeant Thomas Dunn.
IDENTITY THEFTLOcATION: All otherSUmmARY: complainant reported an unknown person made unauthorized purchases with a debit card. Investigation pending. Sergeant Ronald Hart.
february 1
MEDICAL ASSISTLOcATION: Phillips HallSUmmARY: A caller reported a person having a seizure. The person was transported to cmc. Fire Protection Specialist mark Swanhart.
MEDICAL ASSISTLOcATION: circle ApartmentsSUmmARY: caller reported a person having a seizure. Person transported by ambulance to cmc. Patrol Officer mark Denicola.
UNLAWFUL POSS. OF MARIJUANALOcATION: Hilliard HallSUmmARY: caller reported odor of marijuana, and a pipe was found in a bathroom. Pipe contained residue and was turned over to officer. Investigation pending. master Patrol Officer Dirk Hightchew.
UNLAWFUL POSS. OF MARIJUANALOcATION: East TowerSUmmARY: Two persons judicially referred for unlawful possession of marijuana. master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.
FOUND PROPERTYLOcATION: TerracesSUmmARY: A caller reported finding a phone. The item was turned over to Public Safety.
february 2
TRESPASSLOcATION: Recreation TrailsSUmmARY: caller reported a vehicle got stuck after sliding off a restricted use roadway. One person was judicially referred for violation of college regulations. master Patrol Officer Dirk Hightchew.
CONDUCT CODE VIOLATIONLOcATION: East TowerSUmmARY: A caller reported an unknown person attempted unwanted physical contact. Investigation pending. Sergeant James Landon.
CASE STATUS CHANGELOcATION: Office of Public SafetySUmmARY: An officer determined that an item was mistakenly added to a package at a USPS mail processing facility. The suspicious package sent from Ithaca college and reported on Jan. 23 was unfounded. Sergeant Ronald Hart.
LARCENYLOcATION: Towers Dining HallSUmmARY: caller reported a disorderly person refusing to leave the dining hall. Prior to the officer’s arrival, person fled.
One person judicially referred for larceny and disorderly conduct. Patrol Officer Brad Bates.
february 3
MEDICAL ASSISTLOcATION: Upper QuadsSUmmARY: caller reported a person sustained a cut to head when he bumped into another person’s head and was unable to control bleeding. The bleeding was eventually controlled, and person declined medical assistance from ambulance staff. master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.
MEDICAL ASSISTLOcATION: S-LotSUmmARY: caller reported person fell and sustained an ankle injury. Person transported to cmc by ambulance. Patrol Officer mark Denicola.
RECLASSIFICATION OF CRIMELOcATION: TerracesSUmmARY: Officer reported a paintball gun was recovered during a marijuana investigation. Person was judicially referred for unlawful possession of a weapon on school grounds, in reference to an incident reported on Jan. 27. Patrol Officer Brad Bates.
UNLAWFUL POSTING/ADVERTISINGLOcATION: Lyon HallSUmmARY: caller reported a person put a menu under a door. Investigation pending. master Patrol Officer Erik merlin.
V&T VIOLATIONLOcATION: F-LotSUmmARY: caller reported a two-car mVA. Officer issued one of the drivers a
uniform traffic ticket for the Ithaca Town court for failure to yield the right of way. master Patrol Officer Erik merlin.
RECLASSIFICATION OF CRIMELOcATION: East TowerSUmmARY: Officer reported the case originally reported Jan. 30 as ‘unlawful possession of marijuana’ was reclassified as ‘criminal possession of a controlled substance seventh.’ One person was judicially referred. Patrol Officer mark Denicola.
V&T VIOLATIONLOcATION: S-LotSUmmARY: A caller reported a two-car mVA. The officer issued one of the drivers a uniform traffic ticket for the Ithaca Town court for failure to yield the right of way. Patrol Officer Jeffrey Austin.
CONDUCT CODE VIOLATIONLOcATION: TerracesSUmmARY: Two people were judicially referred for drug violations and violation of college regulations. Patrol Officer Andrew Schneider.
february 4
CRIMINAL MISCHIEFLOcATION: West TowerSUmmARY: caller reported an unknown person damaged an emergency phone. Investigation pending. master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.
OPEN CONTAINER OF ALCOHOLLOcATION: circle Lot 8SUmmARY: One person was judicially referred for having an open container of alcohol. Patrol Officer Brad Bates.
FOUND PROPERTYLOcATION: Whalen center for musicSUmmARY: iPod found and turned over to Public Safety.
FIRE ALARMLOcATION: Academic QuadSUmmARY: caller reported the contents of cigarette container smoldering. Upon arrival, a little smoke was showing, and water was put on the container.
MEDICAL ASSISTLOcATION: circle ApartmentsSUmmARY: caller reported a person was experiencing stroke-like symptoms. Person was transported by ambulance to cmc. Fire Protection Specialist Enoch Perkins.
CONDUCT CODE VIOLATIONLOcATION: circle ApartmentsSUmmARY: caller reported a person sent an instant message threatening to take too much medication. One person judicially referred. master Patrol Officer Bruce Holmstock.
FoR the CoMpLete SaFety Log, go to www.theithacan.org/news.
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As more graduates continue to face debt, students are encouraged to take
initiatives to prepare themselves
For the average 2010 Ithaca College graduate, a degree came with some hefty baggage — more than $20,000 in federal student loan
debt, to be exact. Last week, The Ithacan’s front page story,
“Payback time,” reported on alumni in debt after graduation. As the job market and economy continue to lag, current seniors feel even more apprehensive about graduating with student loans and debt. Hearing about alumni still in debt is not reassuring. Paying off loans is a gi-ant step into adulthood — one we may not feel prepared to face. Students need to be prepared so they can handle debt after college.
The finance department in the Dorothy D. and Roy H. Park Center for Business and Sustainable Enterprise offers a course called Personal Financial Planning and Wealth Management. There are two sections — one for business students and one for outside majors. The class gives students the foundation neces-sary to make decisions that will affect short- and long-term financial being. Representatives in career services are also willing to meet with students who are seeking financial advice.
Students are strongly encouraged to register for the personal finance class. The course will give advice about how to deal with debt in your 20s. The School of Business and career services should also promote these services more as a way to teach students what to do with student loans. If more students knew about these options, it could save them a lot of anxiety after graduation. The college should also consider hosting informal workshops once a semester on dealing with finances.
A college education is not cheap. But while here, students can learn how to cope with its financial burdens.
Creating unity Giving the division of graduate studies an online presence will unite students
Ithaca College’s Division of Graduate and Professional Studies has expanded its social networking and increased events — initiatives
that will help create a sense of community. The 447 full-time and 60 part-time graduate
students at the college may feel isolated at times, especially those who did not complete their undergraduate degrees here. Graduate students may also feel cut off from the rest of the campus community and not make connections with each other.
But by increasing awareness on Facebook and myHome, the program will receive more of an identity. College-sponsored events also give them a chance to interact with each other and meet new people.
Despite the efforts, however, interaction within the graduate program is low. Graduate students are encouraged to use these network-ing initiatives. They should also attend the social events, especially with Cornell University, as a way to make connections that will help with future employment.
Being a graduate student here may not seem like anything more than studying and attending classes. But in order to make sure they receive the full experience of an Ithaca College educa-tion, graduate students should make an effort to become a part of the community.
comment online.Now you can be heard in print or on the Web.
write a letter to the editor at [email protected] or leave a comment on commentaries and editorials at theithacan.org.
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Us needs to defend human rightsWith the increasing number of grass-
roots revolutions in the Middle East today, the media and the American public have continually focused on several main issues. How does this af-fect the U.S.? Will it create an oil crisis? How does it impact Israel? Will it lead to increased religious extremism? This discourse that has permeated the discus-sions of these events is troubling. Not only does it distract from what is actually occurring in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Libya, but it does not represent what we as a society should value. Basic human rights should be a goal in and of itself.
The U.S. has been halfheartedly pro-moting democracy in the Middle East for more than half a century. Finally when it seems possible that democracy and greater freedom is at the finger-
tips of millions of Arabs, the U.S. is faltering. It is naive not to worry about the long-term consequences, but it is equally misguided to cling to the “old guard” of Middle Eastern leaders.
We must ask why is/has the U.S. supported these leaders over the years. The media conveniently point out that Mubarak made peace with Israel, al-Khalifa of Bahrain has hosted the U.S. Fifth Fleet and Saleh of Yemen allows the U.S. to assassinate militants. The U.S. must move on from its short-sighted interests and understand that its true interests lie with a partnership with Middle Eastern democracies.
The best response the U.S. can make is to acknowledge the aspirations of the protestors and support their human rights. Today, as the Middle East is expe-riencing its Jasmine Revolution, the U.S.
should seize the opportunity to stand for human rights and freedom and restore faith in the heart and minds of Arabs that the U.S. can stand for good.
Jesse atkins, ’09
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Two weeks ago, a local institution — Buffalo Street Books — announced that it was closing. One week ago, a phoenix
started to stir from these ashes. Next week? Who knows — that will be up to us in the community.
Before the Internet and big-box stores (like Borders, which is also closing this spring), Ithaca had a num-ber of independent, local bookstores. It was a part of what defined college towns like ours: local community-building businesses cen-tered on the printed word.
My first draft of this com-mentary — before the phoenix started stirring — was a story of loss, remembering the ways that Buf-falo Street Books added to our lives. I gave a book reading there when I was, at long last, published, and I heard nationally syndicated columnist Amy Dickinson reading from her best seller there. When the last Harry Potter book came out, my children dressed as Hermione and Harry and stayed up past midnight, enjoying a crowded bookstore party until (finally!) the boxes could be opened and we could find out how Rowling would end the tale. Over the years, Buffalo Street Books has served as a place for conversations, book browsing and recommenda-tions from its owner, Gary Weissbrot. A local busi-ness is one you get to know, one where you become a regular.
In the first draft, I also pointed out the stark re-alities facing booksellers in small markets like ours today, making a closing like this a familiar story: re-cession, competition, new electronic platforms for reading and the big one — the growth of Internet purchasing as a new American way of life.
When we buy, we tend to go for the lowest prices, but we rarely count social costs: how inter-acting with a screen is atomizing while walking into
a local shop starts the conversations and makes the connections that help us to become more a part of the community, how keeping our purchasing dollars in town adds to our local economy, while sending them to huge Internet companies enriches the few and far away.
But hold on. Since I wrote that first draft of this commentary, a new and hopeful story about Ithaca and Buffalo Street Books has emerged.
Last week, a local Ithacan put out a call for pledges to buy out the bookshop and turn it into a cooperative. This call hasn’t just received support; it has been met with a stampede. Setting a goal of $200,000, the community pledged more than $110,000 in the first two days. It seems that Ithaca isn’t ready to give up on its independent bookshop.
Ithaca College should buy shares to help
support this local institution that enriches the community and makes Ithaca more attractive to prospective faculty. Here is a moment when the college can matter to the local community. Fac-ulty and staff might want to consider investing as well. If this effort succeeds, students might become volunteer-workers, discovering how a cooperative works here in our own community.
In the coming weeks, I recommend stopping by Buffalo Street Books, to thank Gary for fighting the good fight all these years. While you’re there, you might want to look into the plan to create an innovative, community-owned bookshop. That’s real value.
miChael trotti is an associate professor of history. e-mail him at [email protected].
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Freshman Helene Strange browses through a book Feb. 14 at Buffalo Street Books. After being open for more than 35 years, the independently owned bookstore is preparing to close in March.
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Below is an excerpt from the introduction of the recently published book titled “Kansas’s
War: The Civil War in Documents” written and edited by Pearl Ponce, assistant professor of history. The book is part of Ohio University Press’s “Civil War in the Great Interior” series.
In January 1861, Kansans were less concerned with the secession crisis than with finally having at-tained statehood. While Republican Abraham Lincoln’s election to the presidency was “glorious,” it was not, the Leavenworth Conservative asserted, as “important and deci-sive” as Kansas’ admission; indeed, while many states had departed from the Union, the 34th state went far to “fill the gap.” These sentiments derived from Kansas’ singular ex-perience before the American Civil War, for while many Americans were shocked by the aggressive-ness of the “Slaveocracy,” Kansans were not as they were intimately acquainted with civil strife.
Kansas had distinguished itself as a violent, ideologically divided, drought-stricken, under-populated, indebted territory in the 1850s. Statehood had promised stability, but secession was a new threat, and, far into the interior, Kansas was none-theless vulnerable. To its south was Indian Territory and the threat of an Indian-Confederate invasion. To the east was an uncertain, wavering Mis-souri whose secession would isolate Kansas from the rest of the Union. Yet with few men, fewer resources
and mere weeks into statehood, Kansas responded ably to the crisis of the Union. After the attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861, Lincoln issued a call for militia to suppress the rebellion, and 650 Kansans responded. By the end of the conflict, Kansas had supplied the Union with 20,097 soldiers even though the 1860 census had found only 32,921 men of military age lived within its borders. Moreover, the state provided a diversity of troops, organizing three regiments of American Indians and leading the nation in enlisting African Americans. Ultimately, 8,498 of these men died in service to their
country, a higher mortality rate than any other state in the Union.
Even for those fascinated by the American Civil War, interest in Kan-sas’ war experience often ends with how the territory inculcated John Brown, its most infamous export, but Kansas’ wartime history transcends the story of one abolitionist. “Kansas’ War: The Civil War in Documents” focuses on the state’s struggle to meet internal needs at a time when the federal government required an extraordinary commitment of men and resources to preserve the Union. These documents address the new state’s main preoccupations:
the internal struggle for control of policy and patronage; border security worsened by skirmishes fought along the Kansas-Missouri border and by serious depredations committed by residents of both states; and issues of race, especially Kansas’ efforts to come to terms with its burgeoning African American population and American Indians’ claims to nearly one-fifth of the state’s land. They highlight Kansans’ understanding of the issues at stake in the American Civil War — issues that residents understood through the prism of their territorial struggles — while acknowledging that their state’s tran-sition from peace to war was not as abrupt as that of their countrymen.
“Bleeding Kansas” had contrib-uted directly to the pre-war political realignment and the rise of the Republican party as the territory wrestled with issues of slavery and liberty, the place of African Ameri-cans within civil life and the respon-sibilities of federal government. Since 1854, Kansans had directly struggled with questions that the entire nation would be forced to confront once the Confederate States of America was formed and war commenced. Yet despite having engaged such issues beforehand, the American Civil War deeply affected the state and this collection of primary source docu-ments illuminates how contempo-rary Kansans understood their state’s transformation in the fires of war.
Pearl PonCe is an assistant professor of history. e-mail her at [email protected].
Kansas responded ably to Union during Civil War
Soldiers sit on rocks in Kansas after the 1863 lawrence Massacre, a rebel guerrilla attack during the Civil War on the pro-union town of lawrence.
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social media buying power
I’ve always been fairly confi-dent in my ability to convince people to agree with my ideas.
In middle school, I could always sway people to play kickball rather than foursquare. And now, I can convince my roommates what the best gun to play with in Call of Duty 4: Black Ops is.
Several social media companies have “become a little bit Weiser” in their stance on how to harness the power of social networks. Getting a person to commit to something and to rely on them to bring in others through the use of social media is the core principle used by Groupon and LivingSocial.
Groupon’s business plan is built around negotiating discounts with local businesses — usually between 50 and 90 percent off, proposing those deals online to people in the area, and then, once a certain number of people have signed up, each individual gets a voucher for the deal. It’s almost genius. By ensuring that local businesses have a set number of customers before the deal activates, there is a lower risk for businesses, which is an idea Groupon is relying on social networking to further.
Twitter, Facebook and e-mail are integrated into Groupon’s web-site to help spread the word about the latest deal. Groupon is like a pickup game of basketball. There’s obvious interest, but no one gets to play until there are enough players to make balanced teams.
LivingSocial brings another player to the group social market-ing discount table. Three weeks ago, LivingSocial showed it can go toe-to-toe with Groupon — partly because of a previous invest-ment by Amazon — by offering gift cards to Amazon.com for 50 percent off.
That is basically the equivalent of up-and-comer Skylar Grey — known for Fort Minor’s “Where’d You Go” and Dr. Dre’s “I Need a Doctor” — gaining name value by collaborating with an established industry titan like Lil’ Wayne.
But there is another company in the mix of this recipe for suc-cess — Google. A few weeks ago, Google apparently made Groupon a $6 billion offer, which was turned down. Google, sticking to their ‘If you can’t buy them, join them’ blueprint for profit, launched their own uniquely engineered service: Google Offers.
Since Google’s name value alone makes this service an instant competitor on the scene, it’s doubtful if Groupon — with its homegrown name credentials — didn’t anticipate Google’s move.
Considering these companies’ approach to social marketing on a local platform, it’s apparent they have outpaced my persuasive nature. But, if any company is looking for someone to coordinate a company kickball game, I should still be top consideration.
andrew weiser is a senior journalism major. e-mail him at [email protected].
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By Shea O’Meara Staff Writer
As sophomore Ayla Ferrone scrolled through her Facebook News Feed on Monday, she noticed her professor’s son had posted a birthday YouTube video to his father’s wall. She resisted the urge to comment on the vid-eo, unsure if it was crossing the line. She did, however, say she would wish her professor a happy birthday.
As social networks continue to en-croach on day-to-day life, students and professors are working to clarify the line between Facebook-friending and class-room professionalism. These new online friendships are causing some students and professors to monitor what they post online and are changing Facebook from a strictly social site to a greater networking tool.
Since there is no current policy at the college restricting infor-mation shared on Facebook, students and professors must use individual judgment to decide if Facebook friendship is appropriate.
Investigator Tom Dunn said Public Safety only investi-gates Facebook relationships if someone contacts them with an issue regarding threatening posts.
“We have taken complaints if you were being harassed by someone on Facebook and you reported it to us, but we don’t monitor,” he said.
Ferrone said she hides some profile infor-mation from her family but finds no reason to hide it from her professors. Instead, she said she friends professors she thinks will avoid us-ing her Facebook profile against her.
“I really don’t think they care that much, to be honest,” she said. “If they did see it, what are they going to do about it? They may call me out on it, but I wouldn’t become friends with them on Facebook if I thought they were going to get me in trouble.”
Junior Benjamin Jeffirs said it is accept-able to be Facebook friends with professors, but students should be careful to restrict what they post online in general.
“It’s the same guidelines that pertain to any relationship you have online,” he said. “You keep it to things you wouldn’t mind being published.”
Adam Peruta, assistant professor of stra-tegic communication, said he does not accept friend requests from current students. He said he generally does not request former stu-dents, even if he knew them well. Peruta said Facebook friendships might mislead students and damage the class environment.
“If a student is friends with a professor and currently in their class, it might give them the wrong idea and think the professor might be a little bit more lenient or there might be an extra connection there that doesn’t exist in the classroom, which most of the time is not true,” he said.
Michael Sturgeon, the faculty coordinator of instructional technology at Lee University in Cleveland researched how Facebook affects college education. His study, “Faculty on Face-book: Confirm or deny?” from March 2009,
found faculty were divided over whether or not to view student’s pro-files. He said close to 50 percent of fac-ulty surveyed would accept student re-quests, but not look for
personal information about their students.“We have faculty saying, ‘I can see into my
students’ lives and I feel like I can lecture di-rectly to what’s happening in their lives, so it makes my lectures more relevant,’” he said.
Diane Gayeski, dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications, accepts all cur-rent and former student friend requests and said she does not post personal information. Instead, she uses Facebook as an efficient way to get news to students.
She said she does not think online posts af-fect the way she views students professionally.
“I imagine that they don’t care, and in most cases I’m not in any sort of position to treat anyone different or make any decisions differ-ently based on what I see on their Facebook profile,” she said.
Bob Niedt, journalism lecturer and a re-porter for “The Post-Standard” in Syracuse, said he accepts friend requests from stu-dents and readers but has a personal policy against viewing their profiles. He said he maintains his profile like a professional,
not personal, site and responds to student questions rather than initiating Facebook friendships or conversations.
“I have to act professionally as an educa-tor and as a journalist,” he said. “That limits me from having a little fun and interacting with my friends and family as well. ... I want to be an example as a professional journal-ist to my journalism students showing them professional standards.”
Jeffirs said while he doesn’t typically use Facebook to communicate with his profes-sors, he wouldn’t ignore information on their profiles entirely.
“If a teacher I was close with went some-where really neat I would look at their pic-tures and maybe comment on them,” he said. “I don’t think I’ve done that but if I wanted to, I would; I wouldn’t feel weird about it.”
However, sophomore Collin Schuck said students should monitor their posts and use Facebook as a professional tool.
“In college, you’re at a point in your life where you’re old enough to make your deci-sions,” he said. “You’re making connections with people in your field so I don’t think it’s inappropriate. I draw the line when you’re there to discuss personal life.”
Instead of using Facebook to commu-nicate with professors or stay up-to-date about their personal lives, some students and professors are seeing a growing op-portunity to keep in touch with each other throughout their careers.
Jeffirs, who is Facebook friends with his theater arts professor Jack Hrkach, said he noticed Hrkach’s former students rely on wall postings to keep Hrkach informed about their work.
“It helps to stay in contact after the class ends,” he said. “A lot of alumni still write on his wall about what they’ve been doing and stay in close contact with him. That’s prob-ably one of the main benefits.”
Nicholas Walker, assistant professor of music performance, accepts current stu-dents as friends on Facebook. He said he works with students closely in class or in lessons and does not think social media crosses a professional boundary because it is already so open.
“I conceive of Facebook being a very public forum,” he said. “I would never post anything on Facebook that I wouldn’t say publicly at school, and I don’t think students would, or should, either.”
More than 80 percent of the 900 higher education faculty surveyed had one or more social media account.
More than 30 percent of those faculty members used their social network sites to communicate with students.
Source: “Social Media in HigHer education”PearSon learning SolutionS 2010
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More than 60 percent of higher education faculty surveyed had a facebook account.
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When asked if social networks are valuable tools for communicating with students, 30 percent of respondents disagreed, 40 per-cent were neutral and 30 percent agreed.
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This week’s hits and missesHot or Not
HotThe food
For an event called Chili Fest, it seems imperative the chili would be spectacular. This year’s offerings didn’t fail to deliver. With more than 30 restaurants and organi-zations offering their interpretations of the classic stew — ranging from Viva’s succu-lent pork stew to Maté Factor’s vegetarian tofu chili — there were tasty and piping hot options galore. The local corn bread, apple crisp and hot beverages perfectly comple-mented the chili samples. Another plus was the incredibly reasonable price for the chili samples at $1 per serving, or less, depending on which set of tickets par-ticipants bought. The chili was a bargain, allowing tasters to sample as much of the delectable stews as they wished.
LukewarmThe entertainment
The spectacle at Chili Fest ranged from mechanical bull riding to Ithaca College’s own WICB DJs. One of its highlights was the pepper-eating contest, where bystand-ers watched as brave souls ate jalapeños and other peppers. At the mechanical bull-riding station, participants and spectators alike could laugh and cheer each other on, adding to the camaraderie the festival brought. The karaoke station set up in the center of The Commons, where attendees could sing their hearts out, definitely drew large crowds but wasn’t always the most melodious. WICB’s tent gave the commu-nity the best of pop, playing songs like Beyoncé’s “Diva,” but they had trouble find-ing participants for their dance contest.
NotThe weather
While the chili was hot, the weather was definitely not. The fact that Chili Fest had to be rescheduled from Saturday to Sunday put a cinch in many people’s plans. The 50 to 60 mph winds, which caused the cancel-lation, were a downer, while the slushy roads and dreary skies during the festival presented a predicament for attendees. Additionally, the chilly temperatures on Sunday led to crowding inside of Center Ithaca, while the people waiting in the long lines outside shivered in the cold.
Staff Writer Cady Lang rates the features of this year’s Downtown Ithaca Chili Cook-off from most to least entertaining.
“Paris’s driveway looks like Skittles.”— Wendy Williams on her talk show while displaying pictures of Hilton’s driveway sprinkled with pastel-colored automobiles, including a new yellow Lexus parked next to a pink Bentley.
Singing for children’s sakeFreshman Krystel Weston of IC Voicestream sings at the first Rock for Kids’ Sake Concert sponsored by IC Bigs on Sunday. The benefit concert for the Ithaca Youth Bureau also featured a cappella performances by Ithacappella and Premium Blend.
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Following the Grammy Awards, many people took to whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com, a website devoted to satiating rage-filled demands to find out who Album of the Year winner Arcade Fire is and why Eminem didn’t win the Grammy instead. Within the hate-filled posts, Jonathan Mann — famed for having written one song a day since 2009 — sings about the angry tweets and Facebook wall rants. In the video, Mann takes a brave stand against the haters and seeks to help them understand who the band truly is and what makes them award-worthy — without taking the ingratiating approach of the other posters on the Web.
— Jared Dionne
Still looking for that extra oomph to personalize your Mac products? Customiz-able features — inside and out — not meeting your aesthetic standards? Well, iSocket promises to protect from scuffs and scratches, preventing any damage to your precious Apple gadgets — and more. Whether it’s your sleek tablet or new-to-Verizon iPhone, style up your gear with iSocket cases. Designed from recycled and repurposed vintage cloth, these Apple sleeves draw inspi-ration from military uniforms and lumberjack coats. While everyone is catching on to Mac’s technology craze, stand out from the crowd and make a personal statement with your one-of-a-kind iSocket case. — Megan Devlin
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Grammy winner Lady Gagarevealed to the world more than just the mean-ing behind her smashing new single. In an inter-view with “60 Minutes’” Anderson Cooper on last Sunday’s episode, Lady Gaga confessed smoking pot — and a lot of it — is part of Mama Monster’s “creative process.” If Gaga’s new single, “Born This Way,” is any guide, it came as no shock when she admitted to her use of drugs, especially when writing her music. Though previously condemned for admitting to “occa-sional” cocaine use, Gaga said she wasn’t going to sugarcoat anything for the press this time. Expecting her “true” fans to under-stand, this over-the-top diva isn’t holding back. Does all this explain crawl-ing out from the egg at the Grammys, Gaga?— Megan Devlin
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By Matthew R. Reis Staff Writer
All of the drama, love and despair of the Orpheus myth return to Ithaca College for a third time. After staging “Euridice” in 2009 and “Metamorpho-ses” in 2008, the theater department takes on the Italian opera “L’Orfeo” by Claudius Monteverdi, another retell-ing of the tale.
At three hours in length, this ren-dition combines gaudy aspects of post-Renaissance culture with mod-ern pizzazz with a large cast of 48.
Written in 1607, “L’Orfeo” is one of the earliest operas still performed. Sung entirely in Italian with English supertitles, the college’s theater and music students combine their talents to bring Monteverdi’s opus to life. Set in an ethereal world of pleasure, Orpheus — also known as Orfeo — has his life torn apart when his bride Euridice dies. The opera focuses on his dangerous journey through the Underworld to try to rescue her while grappling with his own inner demons.
Director David Lefkowich, a music performance lecturer in the school of music, said his vision livens up this baroque opera. It calls for an emphasis on movement, intimacy and flexibility.
“Usually with opera there is quite often an expectation that it will be grand and stuffy and pomp-ous,” he said.
Brian DeMaris, assistant profes-sor of music performance and music director, said he worked to create a world that doesn’t feel old-fashioned.
“I want the audience, even if they don’t know a word of Italian, to be effected by the delivery of the text,” DeMaris said. “The opera is essen-tially about the power of music.”
Junior Nathan Murphy, who plays the ferryman Caronte, said the cast has come to learn the Italian text well throughout the rehearsal process. He said DeMaris’ knowledge of the score stresses also helped them learn.
“It’s an Italian text so we all have to know our text very well — what each word means — to really get the essence of the acting,” he said. “Ev-erybody is familiar with Italian at this point.”
Period instruments such as harp-sichords help to communicate the characters’ emotional highs and lows. The emotionality of the music meshes well with the intimate 220-seat Clarke Theatre. The design team adjusted to the tight space by using a fleet of multi-use props, creative ways to posi-tion actors and a layered lighting style.
Junior Aaron Porter, lighting de-signer, uses shadow, hue and texture to help illustrate how events unfold.
“I’m also listening to what the mu-sic’s doing,” he said. “When it grows I’m trying to respond to that with light and really create a fuller, more in-depth look at what’s going on.”
Senior Daniel Bates and junior Alex Canovas, vocal performance majors, alternate playing the role of Orfeo. Senior Katie Henly and junior Ana Strachan, also vocal performance majors, share the role of La Musica, the spirit of music. The two roles are shared in order to preserve the actors’ voices because their vocal chords take a lot of abuse.
Canovas said he grew as an actor while splitting the role with Bates and was able to improve his own interpre-tation of the role.
“We learn from each other,” Canovas said. “[Bates] and I have strengths in such different areas, but that has made us the best Orfeo that we can be.”
On his nights off, Bates watches his counterpart intently in order to see little things that could help better his own performance.
“It’s mainly for us to see the visual
aspect of what we can’t see when we are on stage,” he said.
Senior Nik Taylor, the scenic de-signer, said he created sets for the opera that contrasted well with each other. Taylor’s apt sense of style cre-ates conflicting environments like the broken, ghastly yet impenetrable hell and the gloriously giddy earth.
“[Earth] is happy, white, luscious and colorful; but in hell it’s the com-plete opposite — it’s burned, it’s destructed,” he said. “That’s really what we need the audience to have
director, said Lefkowich added mod-ern action and fight sequences to help college students better relate to the story.
“A lot of people here haven’t seen operas or haven’t been exposed to op-eras, so we want to show them how awesome opera can be,” she said.
“L’Orfeo” opens at 8 p.m. today in the Clarke Theatre. The opera runs through March 4.
Italian opera to shed new light on Orpheus tale
Junior Alex Canovas, as Orfeo, sings about his upcoming journey to rescue his bride Euridice during an open dress rehearsal of the Italian opera “L’Orfeo” on Monday in Clarke Theatre. He alternates with senior Daniel Bates.
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By Cady Lang Staff Writer
Ithaca College students will soon trade in their street clothes for spectacularly tailored at-tire to assume the roles of runway models, wearing outfits that run the gamut from prêt-a-porter labels like Guess, Calvin Klein and Brooks Brothers on loan from local vendors to student-designed couture clothes collections.
More than 30 mod-els will strut their stuff on the runway Monday night for HiFashion Studios’ first ever fashion show, “Strangers Into the Night.” This show is the first show hosted by HiFashion Studios since it became a student organization in Fall 2010.
In addition to the fashion show, members have worked on promoting their online maga-zine, fashion editorials and website. However, the bulk of the group’s work this semester has been focused on producing and executing the fashion show.
Sophomore Pedro Maldonado, creative di-rector of the fashion show and interim presi-dent, said he is confident this fashion show will set the bar for all shows to follow, hopefully making it an annual event. While Maldonado was also involved with last year’s fashion show by Maestro Productions — another fashion club which disbanded last year — this is his first year planning a fashion show as a member of the executive board.
The theme for the show, “Strangers Into the Night,” was conceived by Maldonado from Frank Sinatra’s song “Strangers in the Night”, which is about a chance romantic encounter.
“We wanted to do something romantic and cool — relaxed,” he said. “[It’s] the age of Sinatra in a suit and a fedora, where the girl was always really well-dressed and everybody looked really fabulous.”
The theme of the show focuses mainly on the juxtaposition of male and female roles in society, through contrasts and comparisons as explored by the different collections. From a ’50s style collection to a set celebrating androgyny, the clothing and models will be exploring the effect of gender constructs and how society views and interprets them.
The show will also feature a tribal, East-meets-West collection and a haute couture collection, along with three student-designed collections reflecting the individual tastes of each designer.
Junior Bianca Lupi is one of the student de-signers featured this year. She designs as a hobby. It is her third year involved with a fashion show for the college and her second year as a designer. Her collection consists of three complete outfits she has sewn and fitted to each of her models that reference classic Hollywood with an all-American style.
Lupi is also the fashion design executive at HiFashion Studios and is strong proponent of extending the creative process to anyone at the college. She said even though this is her second year designing, she wants students to know the group is open to everyone.
“We’re open to people who may not know how to sew yet or how to design yet,” she said. “Our group is expanding its design element, and we’re definitely open to teaching anyone who wants to join.”
The runway itself will also be intricate, featur-ing a winding path that will span all of Emerson Suites. Instead of walking the traditional straight runway, the models will cross paths. Maldonado said the design was influenced by the Metro-in-spired style of the Prada Fall 2010 show for New York Fashion Week.
The fashion show will mark the culmination of the hard work of the entire crew, from the technical crew to the models who will be sashay-ing down the runway during the show.
Freshman Mimi Niggel said she auditioned for the show on a whim. She will be featured
prominently as one of the runway models in the theatrical opening scene to the show, as well as walking in the androgynous collection and open-ing for the haute couture collection.
“We practiced every Sunday, and we’ve put a lot of work into the show — it’s going to be awesome when it all comes together that night,” she said.
Senior Bernard Koranteng, the group’s head of finance, said the fashion show provides a venue which combines art, business and com-munications skills.
“All majors on campus can come together through a common interest,” he said.
Attendees will be able to purchase front-row “VIP” seating along the runway for $5, while reg-ular seating is available for $2 pre-sale and $3 at
the door. There will be 117 VIP seats available for purchase at the event.
A portion of the money raised will be do-nated to the Garden of Dreams Foundation, a non-profit organization that works with Madison Square Garden to donate tickets to children will illnesses or poverty.
Sophomore Bernadette Carter, who was involved with Maestro Productions’ fashion show last year as a runway model and who is returning to walk in two of the collections this semester, said fashion is a daily self-expression.
“To embrace every level, every quality of beauty — that’s what fashion is all about,” she said. “Going out there and being bold and tak-ing chances, being comfortable with who you are in your skin — that’s what we’re doing.”
Club fashions designer show
Freshman Mimi niggel rehearses her runway walk in her street clothes Sunday in Dillingham Center for the HiFashion Studios fashion show. The show features student fashions.
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In a remote corner of the Cor-nell Engineering Quad, the Cornell Computational Synthetics Lab blips and bleeps with activity. An Xbox 360 with Rock Band drums sits gath-ering dust off to the side as students mill around with machine parts, and Lego-sized plastic pieces sit in a tub on a shelf alongside failed cookie experiments. In the middle of it all, first-year graduate student Jeffrey Lipton is giving a whole new mean-ing to “printer jam.”
“We’ve printed peanut butter, jam — hummus was really good,” Lipton said. “Cookies are my favorite.”
Lipton is part of a team of grad-uate and undergraduate students working on the FAB@Home Proj-ect, an open-source collaboration research project using a 3-D print-er to print everything from edible hors d’oeuvre to synthetic human organs like lungs and ears, which only recently printed.
As Lipton flips on the machine, the printer whirs to life. The ma-chine looks a little different than a desktop ink-jet but works similarly. The machine works with synthetics, or recipe ingredients, rather than ink, which fill the inkjets.
To make a cookie, users take the ingredients and load them into the printer, inserting the chemi-cals which make up the “batter” into the ink jets. A plastic sheet is placed at the bottom so it has something on which to “print.” The printer layers that material on top
of itself, as if icing a cake. After a few layers of cookie material, users then load icing material into the ink jets to layer on top of the cook-ie. The whole process takes about 20 to 30 minutes and results in a product similar in size and shape to a normal cookie.
The same process is used with dif-ferent “ink” materials to layer choco-late into candy or synthetic materials into molds and machine parts.
“This is actually old technology,” Lipton said. “3-D printing in general has been around since the 1980s, so there’s nothing really novel in the technology except for its price point and accessibility.”
Hod Lipson, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engi-neering at Cornell, has been work-ing on the project since 2005. He said in the past, the technology has been used to primarily print ma-chine parts, but the multi-ingredi-ent nature of food recently created an interesting and more challeng-ing use for the printer.
“Food is a really exciting area where you want to work with mul-tiple materials,” Lipson said. “The ability to fabricate complicated foods by printing is exciting to many people. It’s also disarming. It’s peo-ple taking these machines that make robots and making something you have in your kitchen.”
Lipton said while working to make food on the printer has always been exciting, sometimes getting certain foods to feel and taste like they should has been difficult.
“When we did the hydrogels, that did go horribly wrong at some points,” he said. “We were trying to get texture right, so we kind of ig-nored flavor. So as a result, things that were supposed to feel like ba-nana did, but they tasted like snot.”
Maor Schaal, an engineer, start-ed working on the project with his daughter for her science fair proj-ect in 2007 at DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, Ky. He heard Cornell was working on the project and joined them in their research. He said he started with chocolate, which is one of the more difficult materials to work with.
“Chocolate is a very tricky mate-rial, because from one side you want the material to be liquid when you print it, but you want it to be solid when it’s done and coming out of the printer,” Schaal said. “So you have to combine a heating source on one side and deal with it. And of course people love chocolate, so it’s difficult and romantic for people.”
Lipton said the printer is also being used for medical purposes in animals and humans. The machine recently printed out an outer shell of a human ear and an eye lens, and the Cornell Veterinary Hospital is testing synthetic bones for dogs needing replacements.
“They’re doing one surgery now where we printed out a bone, and they’re trying to figure out if it’s strong enough to do a surgery,” Lipton said.
The team is also launching the FAB@School program, which aims
to put models of these printers into classrooms around the country to let students use them firsthand. While they have not distributed the printers to schools yet, the idea is that students can access the print-ers as early as second grade and continue to use the software and machinery through high school to
build better houses and machines for tomorrow.
Lipton said the 3-D printer is a perfect example of the power cur-rent technology has.
“I mean, we talk about how awe-some science will be in the future,” Lipton said. “But look what you can do right now.”
Printer inks up 3-D sweets
First-year Cornell graduate student Jeffrey Lipton inspects an edible frosted cookie created by the 3-D printer at Cornell Computational Synthetics Lab.
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by Megan devlin assistant accent editor
Pulsing up and down on the cold tile, a pair of gray Nike sneakers gently thump to an internalized beat. Watching show goers trickle in the doorway, the underground rapper hangs by the stage wings and prepares for his premiere. Small clusters of young people shuffle across the empty dance floor while an older crowd lingers by the bar, sipping on drinks before the show begins.
Despite the one-hour delay to his opening performance, fresh-man Brendan “Slim” Wilkins brought his A-game to The Haunt on Sunday, delivering a great performance to fans. Just after 9 p.m., the awaited backbeats finally ripped, and Slim laid down his rhymes on top of the hip-hop tracks, pleasing the antsy cluster of supporters.
Slim’s baritone voice carried well over the mi-crophone, blending with the pounding synthesizers and steady bass of his backbeats. While most of the vocals are muffled on his recordings, Slim’s witty pronunciations and intonations amplified the room, enchanting even the bar crowd, who came onto the dance floor to enjoy the feel-good entertainment.
Sporting a purple Phoenix Sun snapback cap with a bright orange lid, Slim warmed up the crowd by whipping out his Chris Brown hat trick — though hardly needing this scheme to engage listeners since he had already won them over with his confident yet modest display.
Starting out strong, Slim opened with “I Will,” a hip-hop track with enough mainstream appeal to make it worthy to be in the Top 40. His showcase anthem gelled with listeners, especially college stu-dents, who could identify with his lyrics about both the fast-life party scenes and other real world prepa-rations. Moreover, the song’s catchy chorus coupled with Slim’s personable lyrics that carried over the loudspeaker with utter clarity gave the crowd a great picture of what the rapper had in store for them.
Holding nothing back in songs like “Cookies and Apple Juice,” Slim’s provocative lyrics and occasional profanity melded with the playful feel of his music and loosened up the atmosphere. His clown-like hand gestures and facial expressions satirizing the thematic tenor of his songs exuded Slim’s humorous personality and goofy appeal. The rosy blush on his
cheeks and the dilated veins on his neck were mere-ly subtleties conveying Slim’s raw passion for his rhymes. His proud confidence shone through with each lyric rolling smoothly off the tip of his tongue flawlessly into the next.
Catchy self-made phrases and inside jokes about “this skinny dude” and shout-outs to his hometown roots and track team echoed through-out many of his works, hitting soft spots in devot-ed listeners and livening those new in the crowd. Pop-culture references in “Popular” — which uses the chorus from the same-named song of Broadway’s “Wicked” as its background — re-ceived encouraging chuckles and hollers from males and females alike.
Bobbing up and down to the pulsating beat of his new song, “Pushaman,” Slim amped up his per-formance with some slick moves, throwing down hand slaps to the huddle of teammates leaning over
the front edge of the stage. Supporting their friend, the hyped-up cluster of athletes translated their camaraderie from the track to the stage. Joining in with a choral sing-along and synchronized dance moves, the crowd mimicked Slim’s onstage energy.
With the final notes of Slim’s vocal performance carrying smoothly from the microphone over to the amplifier, a faint echo came through and faded out the heavy bass. The transition fit perfectly with the artist’s closing rhymes and beats — strong yet not overpowering, much like his onstage personality.
Once the music stopped, a thundering applause from the half-filled dance floor subdued the jazzy filler music emerging from the speakers. As fans waited to congratulate the newly famed rapper, they resumed their pre-show small talk, only this time praising Slim for surpassing their moderate expectations after giving a live performance that was, unbelievably, only his first.
Freshman gives all in first live show
Freshman Brendan “Slim” Wilkins spits his hip-hop rhymes at The Haunt on Sunday night. In his first live performance, Slim drew out a crowd of nearly 30 Ithaca College students to listen to his fresh beats.
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by jared dionne staff Writer
Young Galaxy is a promis-ing band on the forefront of a burgeoning Canadian indie rock movement. The trio’s transcen-dental brand of dream pop and rock brings a fresh perspective on musical styl-ing to the indus-try. In its third album, “Shape-shifting,” the band swaps out the prominent guitars in its first two albums for drum machines and synthesizers.
In this album, the band chang-es the creative direction of its instrumentals and the rhythmic structure of its songs. Taking a minimalist approach by separating
and deconstructing its sound, the band’s composition is held togeth-er by drumbeats but highlights other instruments so listeners can easily identify and isolate the musi-cal ingredients that make up such a dynamic and passionate record.
With the release of its new al-bum, “Shapeshifting,” the band has successfully reworked its sound without losing the originality that established it in the first place.
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“The MagIc Place”julianna barwick vinylWith sparkling instrumen-tals and looped, glowing vocals, “the Magic Place” lives up to its fantastical name. However, the album lacks a strong core and leaves listeners longing for more meaning.
“KIllIng TIMe” baysideWind-up recordsQueens-based band Bayside’s first record with a new label keeps things exciting with a good crescendo throughout the album. though melodies could be stronger in some songs, overall the album is a good punk-rock listen.
“Rough & TuMble” john Waite Frontiers recordsWith a good mix of ballads and harder rock songs, John Waite’s 10th studio album is a great addition to his discography. His bluesy vocals complement the guitar riffs and saxo-phone work in each track.
thursdayred ribbon ball, a semi-formal dance sponsored by cac and Up ’til dawn, will be held from 8 to 11 p.m. in emerson suites. admission is $5. adam ezra group, an acous-tic roots-rock band, will play at 9 p.m. at castaways. tickets are available for purchase at the door.
fridayThe djangoners, a gypsy jazz band, will play from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at felicia’s atomic Lounge. admission is free. “Swing Fling,” a performance by cornell Jazz band, will be held from 8:30 to 10 p.m. at Lincoln Hall B20. admission is $8.
saturdayThe Skatalites and The itals, a reggae rasta band, will play at 9 p.m. at castaways. tickets are $18 in advance at www.dansmall-spresents.com/2011/01/skatalites-and-itals. “College Mardi gras Party,” a dance party for college stu-dents featuring dJ Hydro, will be held from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Haunt. admission is $8.
sundayFinger lakes Chamber en-semble, a benefit piano recital for amnesty international, will begin at 4 p.m. at the Unitarian church of ithaca. admission is $5.
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by alex aSh contriBUting Writer
Last year, Bright Eyes’ lead singer Conor Oberst was touring the West Coast and record-ing music as Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band. But now he returns one last time under his original moniker, Bright Eyes, to pro-duce the final album with the band before launching his solo project. Oberst wanted his last record to be memo-rable and different, and with “The People’s Key,” he mostly succeeds.
After the success of his 2002 album “Lifted,” Oberst became an influen-tial part of the emo-folk movement.
While he has recently experimented with more country-folk-inspired al-bums, like Bright Eyes’ last release, “Cassadaga,” “The People’s Key” re-turns to the band’s original rock base. Pop-rock tendencies in a few songs like “Jejune Stars” give the album an upbeat, heavily synthesized feel with Oberst singing as enthusiastically as he can on every track.
Another standout track is “Shell Games,” which starts with simple yet dynamic piano chords then gradually brings in synthesizers and drums to match Oberst’s classic lyrics about feeling overwhelmed and helpless. The track is reminiscent of those on “Lifted,” but Oberst’s mature and pol-ished sound comes through.
The album’s constant use of recorded ramblings about other
earthly dimensions and life forms by Danny Brewer of Refried Ice Cream doesn’t add anything interesting to the album and eventually wears on listeners. These distracting sound bites are most notable on the first track, which begins with Brewer talking for more than two minutes, and, in the end, adds nothing to the song. Despite the flaws, Oberst has produced a mature final album, one that will leave Bright Eyes ending on a high note.
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Today, most animated movies are fast-paced thrill rides that bust box office records. They’re the grand-children of “Toy Story” and “Shrek,” combining the voices of big name stars with equally big laughs and profits. However, “The Illusionist,” a charming hand-drawn film, is a bit-tersweet throwback to the golden age of animation.
The movie centers on a charac-ter known only as The Illusionist, an aging magician who is gradually re-placed by more entertaining onstage acts, like 1950’s can-can girls and British boy bands. Discouraged by his lack of success in Paris and London, he heads to a small Scottish town to perform in local pubs. There he meets and befriends Alice, a young woman who wants to get out of her dull hometown. Together, The Illusionist and Alice leave for Edinburgh to pur-sue their dreams: The Illusionist longs to become a famous magician again, and Alice wants to see the world.
The movie has an old world style and appeal, especially with its hand-painted and hand-drawn look. It’s completely 2-D and only uses computer assistance in its sweep-ing shots of Edinburgh. Drawn by French animator Sylvain Chomet, the characters in the movie resemble caricatures with huge noses and no-table flaws. This makes them more relatable and human-like than their computer-generated counterparts from Pixar and Dreamworks. From
its rain-soaked and dreamy paintings of Parliament in London to its sunny, cheery recreations of Edinburgh and Paris, the film is visually stunning.
The film gets its sensibility from the semi-autobiographical script written by French director Jacques Tati in 1956. Since Tati passed away before making the movie, his daugh-ter Sophie gave the script to Chomet to animate her father’s story. While the film strays somewhat from the original plot — like changing The Illusionist’s destination from Prague to Edinburgh and making his animal companion a rabbit rather than a chicken — it turns an old story into an entertaining 80-minute car-toon for a modern-day audience.
The movie sets itself apart from the competition by using almost no dialogue. Other than a few minor grunts and giggles, the characters do not speak. It’s a gutsy move by the writers, but this technique helps “The Illusionist” gain wider appeal. The film was created in France, but by leaving out its native dialogue it removes the language barrier and makes the film more accessible to viewers. The silence also allows the characters to convey their emotions through facial expressions and body language, similar to the recent mo-tion picture “WALL-E.”
One of three motion picture films nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars this year — the other two
being “How to Train Your Dragon” and “Toy Story 3” — “The Illusionist” proves that a film with a 60-year-old script, no dialogue and a “no com-puters, no problem” attitude is still entertaining. Perhaps the film’s biggest advantage is its nostalgic yearning for a time when magicians were still the most popular stage performers.
While the computer-animation of Pixar and Dreamworks have their own sense of whimsicality and im-portance, the homespun animation of “The Illusionist” is a gorgeous re-minder of a bygone magic in cinema.
“The Illusionist” was written by Jacques Tati and drawn and directed by Sylvain Chomet.
From left, The Illusionist takes the young Alice for a city stroll upon arriving in the lively city center of Edinburgh. The two left the a remote island of Scotland to embark on a journey to fulfill their golden dreams.
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Overdone plot hard to ‘go with’
by brAin PorrecA ConTribuTinG wriTEr
Bringing in more than $30 million at the box office after one week, “Just Go With It” attracted many viewers, but that doesn’t mean the film deserved the No. 1 spot. The only reason it filled theaters was for fans of both Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler to see how well this un-likely duo would perform.
Danny (Sandler), a famous plastic surgeon, dupes women into sleeping with him by pretending he’s married. Danny’s schemes seem like his only game plan to score with women until he meets hot schoolteacher Palmer (Brooklyn Decker). She is initially charmed by Danny’s wit but is shocked when she finds a wedding ring hidden in his pocket — his usual pickup ploy. He enlists the help of his loyal secretary, Katherine (Aniston), who steps in and pretends to be his wife and claims they are amid a divorce — dragging along her two chil-dren every step of the way.
Sandler’s character lacks development and so does his acting. Compared to his all-around funny performances in “Big Daddy” and “Happy Gilmore,” his role as Danny does not do his famed career jus-tice. The one romantic comedy he succeeded in was “50 First Dates,” but that was an exception consider-ing his big personality does not fare well sharing the screen with a love interest. Sandler thrives in films where his quirky, comedic character drives the plot.
Alan Loeb’s script creates some pot holes in the film’s plot, which limits the potential of two typically strong leads. It contains underdeveloped plot points like the progression of Danny and Palmer’s relationship, such as when the film rush-es to scenes of the fake family’s tropical getaway
in Hawaii where Danny plans to win her heart.Aniston’s raw and genuine comedy is reminis-
cent of her days on “Friends.” While both she and Sandler are comically compatible, they completely fail at building a believable romance. Rich addi-tions to the film were cameos by Nicole Kidman, Dave Matthews and Heidi Montag as minor char-acters. Director Dennis Dugan’s choice of making Sandler a plastic surgeon may have only been used to bring the infamous and physically reformed Heidi Montag to the big screen.
With a script that delivers nothing quotable or particularly memorable, “Just Go With It” leaves au-diences with nothing more than a few laughs along the way.
“Just Go With It” was written by Alan Loeb and Timothy Dowling and directed by Dennis Dugan.
From left, Brooklyn Decker and Adam Sandler play Palmer and Danny in a messy, casual affair.
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The journey down this “Rabbit Hole” is a difficult one, but the skill of the players makes it worthwhile.
The film about the daily struggles of two parents grappling with the acciden-tal death of their infant son is limited by the very story it tells. Though the awful obstacles the characters must face take place before the film starts, its minimalist direction lets the strong yet subdued acting shine through, sav-ing the movie from falling flat like its plot.
Director John Cameron Mitchell estab-lishes a reflective tone using muted colors throughout the film. Also, cinematographer Frank G. DeMarco’s use of stationary camera shots that centrally frame the actors is re-strained, allowing the focus to remain on them instead of the sparse story.
Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart) give two powerful performances as grieving parents. Becca’s attempts to push her feelings aside manifest themselves in her tightly wound, precise movements. Eckhart shows Howie’s grief in his unchanging morose expression, even when he tries group therapy.
While “Rabbit Hole” hangs on the edge of boredom — simplifying the pair’s struggle with a plot that lacks any real substance de-spite having such heavy subject matter —Kidman and Eckhart’s on-screen interaction brings the characters and the film back to life.
“Rabbit Hole” was written by David Lindsay-Abaire and directed by John Cameron Mitchell.
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by Casey Musarra Managing editor
Whether he’s in the game or on the bench, he doesn’t stop moving. While he hangs on the wing, he’s constantly bouncing on the balls of his feet, awaiting his point guard’s next move. Then with the blink of an eye, he cuts toward the basket and effortlessly sinks a layup. With another blink, he’s back on defense.
He makes it look easy, but senior Chris Cruz-Rivas wasn’t always so well-versed in basketball. As one of five children, he grew up playing pickup games with his siblings, but wrestling was his main sport. Cruz-Rivas didn’t start playing competitive basketball until high school.
“I didn’t even know what AAU was until junior year of high school going into my senior year,” he said. “I wrestled all year long, every op-portunity I got, but once I got to
high school I had to choose.”After talking to his high school
basketball and wrestling coaches, he was eventually swayed to play bas-ketball because it was something he could practice on his own, whereas wrestling requires an opponent.
His one-on-one wrestling men-tality lends itself well to basketball, though. On defense, Cruz-Rivas’ head is on a swivel. While guarding off the ball he’s in his typical bounc-ing step, always keeping his man between himself and the basket. If his man gets the ball, Cruz-Rivas pounces like a lion after its prey.
Cruz-Rivas said a couple of sum-mers ago, Bombers’ Assistant Coach Nevada Smith put him to the test by telling him he wasn’t a good defend-er. Since then, he’s guarded the best player on the opposing team.
“That adds a lot of pressure be-cause it’s either, ‘You stop him and
we win, or let him score 30 and we lose,’” Cruz-Rivas said.
Though Cruz-Rivas has become a defensive powerhouse, senior cen-ter Phil Barera, Cruz-Rivas’ room-mate, said the diversity he brings to the court helps the team most.
“He’s our best defender, he can rebound, he can score, he can shoot the three, he can get to the basket, he can post up — he does a little bit of everything,” Barera said.
The 6-foot-3-inch guard sits behind the 3-point line and hits swish after swish. At the tail end of his smooth jump shot, he leaves his right arm up long past the point of the follow through. Wrist bent, body leaning, it’s as if he’s guiding the ball through the hoop.
When he’s in the game, Cruz-Rivas carries a stern focus. But off the court, he’s all smiles. Cruz-Rivas said he’s really into comedy and watches “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” every day.
“I wish I was this age in that era — late ’90s,” he said.
Cruz-Rivas spent his first two years of high school at Fowler High School in Syracuse, N.Y., and trans-ferred to West Genessee High School in Syracuse as a junior, where he met Steve Dunham ’94, the West Genessee boys’ basketball coach.
Dunham said Cruz-Rivas came in with a ton of athletic ability, but he needed to master subtle nuanc-es of the game — such as moving without the ball, knowing how to use screens and talking on defense.
“His learning curve, from his junior year to senior year, he just went from a kid that was just learning how to play to someone that knew the game well enough now so that things started to slow down for him,” Dunham said.
Early on, Dunham said he knew Cruz-Rivas had the talent to play at the collegiate level, but playing in college was second to getting an edu-
cation. When he enrolled at Ithaca College, Cruz-Rivas became the first member of his family to go to college.
“I didn’t know what to expect,” Cruz-Rivas said. “I didn’t have an older sibling or parent to tell me. It was exciting because I knew it would eventually persuade others in my family to attend as well.”
While Cruz-Rivas said Dunham, a two-time All-American for the South Hill squad, played a part in helping him make his college deci-sion, he said stay-ing close to home and being able to play with his college teammates, many of whom are from the S y r a c u s e area, during the summer also appealed to him.
Head Coach Jim Mullins said he still remembers the first time he saw Cruz-Rivas play.
“The thing that was pretty hard to miss in the gym was his unbelievable athletic ability,” he said. “He was play-ing above the rim, and everybody’s going, ‘Who is this kid?’”
Cruz-Rivas is the first person at practice and the last one to leave. He constantly looks to his coaches to feed him more drills.
Former Bomber guard Bren-dan Rogers ’09, who played with Cruz-Rivas during the summer, said he was able to gain leader-ship experience from playing with upperclassmen.
“He’s worked hard ever since he’s been there,” Rogers said. “He’s a good role model for some of the younger players, and he leads people in the right direction.”
After noticing a drop in the
Bombers’ rebounding numbers coming into the year, Cruz-Rivas said he made it a goal to beat out Barera, who has at least three inches on him, in rebounding.
In the Blue and Gold’s 91–69 win Friday over Hartwick College, Cruz-Rivas showcased his tenacity on the glass, snagging a career-high 18 boards.
Cruz-Rivas knows just how cru-cial those numbers are. Coming into college as a mathematics ma-
jor, Cruz-Rivas said he spent most of his time cramped up in his room doing math problems before chang-ing his major to something that came more nat-urally to him as an athlete.
“My ultimate goal hopefully is
to teach and coach,” Cruz-Rivas said. “That’s really what I want to do.”
With another semester left at the college for student teaching and another potential year for graduate school, Cruz-Rivas, a health promo-tion and physical education major, said he misses wrestling and is con-sidering making a return to the sport but understands it would be difficult.
“I have respect for all those other guys,” he said. “It would be kind of disrespectful for me to say that I can just jump back into that sport like that because it’s not an easy sport. You have to be in incredible shape.”
Dunham said whether it’s ath-letics or academics, Cruz-Rivas is modest about his success.
“He just goes out and does the things that he needs to do to put himself in a position to be success-ful,” Dunham said. “That’s the thing that separates him from a lot of other people.
Senior guard Chris Cruz-Rivasbrings wrestling mentality to the court
as well-rounded leader for the Bombers
Senior Chris Cruz-Rivas pushes the ball forward as Utica College senior Will Abrams defends him in the Bombers’ 94–89 loss Feb. 5 at home.
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Senior Chris Cruz-Rivas has scored 1,127 points through 92 games in his collegiate career.
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Casey Musarra is a senior televison-radio major. Contact her at [email protected].
Before coming to Ithaca College, I hardly knew anything about the school
and its surrounding area. I knew Cornell University was on the other hill, and I knew they had an amazing hockey team.
In the past few months my closest friends and I have as-sembled bucket lists of all the things we want to accomplish in what’s left of our time in college. The first thing I added to my list: attend a Cornell hockey game.
During winter break I scrounged for tickets on StubHub. There were only two home games left on the regular season schedule that I was going to be in town for. I desperately wanted to witness the famed Cornell-Harvard University rivalry, but $150-$300 a pop was out of my price range, so I settled on Cornell vs. Dartmouth College. And boy am I glad I did.
Before even setting foot in Lynah Rink on Saturday I got chills up and down my spine as I saw a sea of red wandering the halls. I was immediately struck by the smell of fresh popcorn sold at legitimate concession stands as opposed to the few card tables you typically see at a Division III game.
Going to Lynah Rink isn’t just about hockey, though. Sure there’s the game out on the ice, but the fans are what really make the experience a production. As the pregame clock ran down, the crowd grew more and more rowdy as the pep band rallied the troops, until finally both squads pounced onto the ice from their respective benches and the crowd erupted like Mount St. Helens.
As the Big Green’s lineup was announced, the Lynah Faithful held up newspapers and shook them as if to say, “Boring,” and upon completion, the fans chucked the papers onto the ice in unison.
The fans continued such antics throughout the course of the game. Dartmouth got on the board first early in the second period. I would’ve thought the Ivy Leaguers would have come up with more clever chants, but crowd favorites include “Bend over” and yelling the word “sucks” after the announcer recounts the members of the op-posing team that scored or assisted on a goal. Then there’s my personal favorite, the chant for the opposing goalie, “You’re not a vacuum, you just suck.”
In a high-tension, back-and-forth game, the Big Red ended up coming through as senior Tyler Roeszler scored the game-winning goal 1:21 into overtime to win 3–2. In Mighty Ducks fashion, the Big Red skated to center ice to celebrate as the crowd went wild.
For the Big Red’s six seniors, the night couldn’t have been more magical. Each of them got to ride off into the sunset on senior night as they each skated around the rink one last time and walked out to center ice with their families.
Big Red hockeypumps up fans
By jesse Cases staff writer
Having fallen short in last year’s Empire 8 Conference tournament championship game, the women’s basketball team will embark on a journey to win its first conference tournament since 2007.
The Bombers will host the Empire 8 tourna-ment and kickoff competition at 6 p.m. Friday in their semifinal matchup against Utica College.
The game will be a rematch of last year’s final, where the Pioneers up-set the Bombers 38–37 to claim the title. In that game, the Blue and Gold, after trailing late in the second half, took a 37–36 lead with just seconds remaining before Utica forward Jessica Berry hit the game’s winning shot as time expired.
Junior guard Jessica Farley said the Bombers’ game plan hasn’t changed in preparation for the tournament, and the main thing the Blue and Gold need to do this week is stay focused.
“It’s going to come down to who wants it more and who can handle the pressure,” Farley said. “We can’t get down on ourselves — it’s not going to be another team beating us. If we lose it’s going to be us beating us ourselves.”
In their two previous games this season against Utica, the Bombers have an average win margin of 17.5 point per game. In a 74–53 win at Utica on Jan. 11, the Blue and Gold held the Pioneers’ two leading scorers, senior Jessica Berry and sophomore Meghan Fiore, to just 24 points combined.
Head Coach Dan Raymond said the coach-ing staff has been breaking down game tape from the Blue and Gold’s last game against Utica in preparation for the first round of the Empire 8 tournament.
“We have to figure out if we need to make any changes against Utica with Berry and Fiore, specif-ically,” Raymond said. “Those two are their primary scorers; it’s not hard to figure that one out.”
The Bombers put up just 46 points Saturday in a loss at Stevens Institute of Technology. It was the lowest scoring output for the squad this season and resulted in the Blue and Gold’s first regular season conference loss in more than two years.
Despite the loss, the Bombers will stick to their style of play to be successful, senior forward Jordan Confessore said.
“We’re really confident as a whole,” Confessore said. “We are coming off of a loss the other day, but that’s just going to drive us to do better. We defi-nitely don’t want to lose again, and when we play our best, we have what it takes to play with anyone.”
Raymond said in order for the Blue and Gold to win the Empire 8 tournament this season,
the team just has to put in a solid effort on both ends of the floor like they’ve been working on all season.
“It doesn’t matter who we play, it doesn’t mat-ter where we play, it just matters how we play,” Raymond said. “There’s no secret weapon or any-thing like that, it’s just executing, and we would really like to finish the season where we put our sights at the beginning of the season, and that’s with the Empire 8 championship.”
From left, sophomore Elizabeth Conti protects the ball from senior Elissa Klie during practice Tuesday in Ben Light Gymnasium. The squad has hosted the conference tournament the past three seasons.
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Squad to host Empire 8 tournament
By harlan green-tauB staff writer
When the men’s basketball team fell 94–89 to Utica College on Feb. 5 in Ben Light Gymnasium, the players knew they would have to win their next five games to capture the Empire 8 regular season championship.
The Blue and Gold, 20–5 over-all this season, did just that, playing stifling defense and winning four of those games on the road, including a 96–74 romp over second-place Stevens Institute of Technology on Saturday that helped clinch the championship.
Head Coach Jim Mullins said the Bombers are playing some of their best basketball of the year at the season’s most crucial point.
“We’ve had this stretch the last couple of weeks when everything has been in sync offensively and defen-sively,” Mullins said. “We’re playing for everything that we have worked for this season these next few games.”
In the past five games, the Bomb-ers have given up just 71.2 points per contest — about 10 points less than their season average. They’ve also been averaging 90 points per game during that same stretch, one point higher than their season average.
Sophomore point guard Sean Rossi said the Bombers know they
can put points on the board, and stopping opponents is now their main focus.
“We have one of the best offenses in the country and the ability to put up points against any team,” Rossi said. “If we play well on defense and limit our
mistakes on offense, we know there is a good chance we’ll win.”
Senior center Phil Barera said the team understood the magnitude of the game.
“All the guys knew what was at stake — getting our 20th win and
hosting the conference tournament,” he said. “Everyone used that as moti-vation and rose to the occasion.”
The Blue and Gold will face rival St. John Fisher on Friday in Ben Light Gymnasium in one of two conference semifinals. The Bombers went 2–0 against their main rival this season, and Rossi said there is plenty of moti-vation to beat them a third time.
“It’s obviously a huge game for us being the conference tournament, and playing Fisher only adds incen-tive,” Rossi said.
The South Hill squad and Fisher have combined to win the past eight regular season conference cham-pionships, and Barera said it’s only furthered their rivalry.
If the Bombers defeat Fisher on Friday, they will play the winner of the Stevens and Hartwick College game. The championship game will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday at the home of the highest remaining seed.
Mullins said the South Hill squad obviously wants to win the conference, but he feels the Blue and Gold have already done enough this season to secure a spot in the national tournament.
“We’re in pretty good shape overall based on getting to 20 wins and winning the regular season championship,” he said. “But clearly we’d like to win the conference tour-nament and go into the national tournament playing our best basket-ball of the season.”
Blue and Gold peaking at pivotal point in season
From left, freshman Christian Jordan attempts to cut off sophomore Jordan healey from getting to the hoop in practice Tuesday in Ben Light Gymnasium.
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stat checkthe Bombers have dished out 417 assists and scored 2,226 points this year.
stat checkthe Blue and gold lead the empire 8 conference in steals with 221 this season.
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by nathan bickell staff writer
The gymnastics team’s success this season literally has gymnasts jumping and dancing.
But these gymnasts aren’t leaping around for nothing; they’re compet-ing in the Blue and Gold’s strongest event — the floor exercise.
The Bombers, ranked fourth in Division III in team scoring aver-age, are first in the nation with an average score of 46.485 on the floor exercise — the team’s highest score in any event. Scores are calculated by totaling the top five individual performers on each event.
Sophomore Katie Sampson said during every teammate’s floor exer-cise, the team mirrors dance moves on the sidelines in unison with the gymnast performing.
“We are so supportive on floor,” she said. “There are certain parts of everyone’s routine that we always mimic; it just gets the person on the floor so motivated and pumped up.”
Some gymnasts choreograph their own routines, and some have others do it for them. The first step to choreographing a routine is pick-ing the accompanying music. Any music without lyrics will work, but gymnasts tend to use more classical pieces — not modern hip-hop music that other teams use.
Gymnasts who choreograph their own routines often start by simply listening to the music and finding inspiration for movements that fit.
Senior Justine Picciano said it often helps to come up with a starting pose and an ending pose first and fill in the rest from there.
Senior Caitlin Cleary said if all the events in gymnastics had personali-ties, floor exercise would be the most in-your-face member of the group.
“Floor would be the loud and out-going person,” she said.
Freshman Jenna Van Dusen said she has a different mentality while performing on floor than in other events.
“Gymnastics is very nerve-rack-ing for me,” Van Dusen said. “But on floor all my nerves are gone, and I forget about everything else when I’m doing my routine.”
During past years, the team has traditionally excelled on the floor ex-ercise, and Head Coach Rick Suddaby said gymnasts tend to arrive on South Hill with solid dance backgrounds.
“As a coach it’s tough for me to teach that,” he said. “But if they come in with it, we can capitalize on it.”
However, Suddaby said he doesn’t focus on recruiting gymnasts with backgrounds in dance.
In addition to the choreography of floor exercise, another key portion of the event are tumbling passes. A tumbling pass is a series of acrobatic maneuvers performed in succession across the mat.
Senior Kailee Spusta, a two-time All-American on the floor exercise whose routine is characterized by upbeat, quick arms movements,
said the event requires a combina-tion of talents.
“You have to be powerful and ex-plosive for tumbling, and then you have to be able to be graceful and put on a great performance,” Spusta said.
Sampson said her favorite portion of her routine is her first tumbling pass, where she starts from the back right corner, sprints to the middle of the mat, does a roundhouse into a back handspring and finishes with a double back flip.
Sampson, who slaps the floor twice during her routine while lying on the mat to add emphasis to dra-matic points in the music, said when she hits her first tumbling pass, it motivates her to step it up.
“It’s a big skill, and its fun to flip in the air,” she said.
By combining skills or completing particularly difficult ones on tumbling passes, a gymnast can rack up bonus points for her score. Suddaby said the team has focused on getting bonus
points on every tumbling pass.“As a team, we’ve upped the ante,”
he said. “It’s one of those things we try to get a little more than everyone else.”
Spusta said a strong perfor-mance on floor can set the tone for the entire meet.
“Because it’s such an exciting event it really builds a lot of momen-tum and a lot of energy,” she said. “So when the team goes and hits on floor it really carries through to other events.”
Flooring opponents
Senior Kailee Spusta keeps her balance in a floor routine Saturday at the Harriet Marranca Memorial Invitational in Ben Light Gymnasium. SUNY-Brockport, SUNY-Cortland and Wilson College also competed in the meet.
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South Hill squad earns top marksby blending music and dance
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michelle boulÉ/the ithacan The Ithacan online | theithacan.org/sports
Look online for game stories from these sports: TODAY• 10:30 a.m./6:30 p.m. Men’s and women’s swimming and
diving at Upper New York State Collegiate Swimming Association Championships in Webster, N.Y.
FRIDAY• 10 a.m./2 p.m. Women’s indoor track at New York State
Collegiate Track Conference Championships at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.
• 10 a.m./4 p.m. Men’s indoor track at New York State Collegiate Track Conference Championships at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.
• 10:30 a.m./6:30 p.m. Men’s and women’s swimming and diving at Upper New York State Collegiate Swimming Association Championships in Webster, N.Y.
• 6 p.m. Women’s basketball vs. Utica College in Empire 8 Conference Championship semifinal in Ben Light Gymnasium
• 8 p.m. Men’s basketball vs. St. John Fisher College in Empire 8 Conference Championship semifinal in Ben Light Gymnasium
SATURDAY• 10 a.m./2 p.m. Women’s indoor track at New York State
Collegiate Track Conference Championships at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.
• 10 a.m./4 p.m. Men’s indoor track at New York State Collegiate Track Conference Championships at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.
• 10:30 a.m./6:30 p.m. Men’s and women’s swimming and diving at Upper New York State Collegiate Swimming Association Championships in Webster, N.Y.
• 7 p.m. Wrestling at Empire Collegiate Wrestling Conference Championships in Ben Light Gymnasium
Bold = Home game
by danielle d’avanzo staff writer
Opponents usually have their hands full try-ing to overtake sophomore Carly Jones when she is ahead, but for her teammates, following her lead is precisely where they want to be.
Jones, the only underclassman on the women’s swimming and diving team’s cap-tains’ council this season, has shown she can be a leader and lets her accomplishments speak for themselves.
Last season, Jones earned two All-American awards as a member of the Bombers’ 400- and 200-yard medley relay teams at the NCAA Championship meet. Jones was also a part of the South Hill squad’s 400-yard medley relay team that won the Empire 8 Conference and Upper New York State Collegiate Swimming Associa-tion championship titles.
Jones holds the Hill Center record for the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:33.33. Jones, an exploratory major, said one key advantage she has while swimming this event is her mind-set.
“You have to have a good mental capacity for that race because it’s so long,” Jones said. “Since I’ve swam it so many times now, I know what to expect, so it’s not as daunting. Usually the less I think, the better.”
Head Coach Paula Miller said there are few things that rattle Jones during a race from what she’s seen.
“When we’re in tight spots and in very competitive situations, she’s experienced that from her past history, so she’s able to handle the pressure, which says a lot,” Miller said. “It teaches the younger swimmers because they see that and say, ‘OK, I can do this too.’”
Freshman backstroke and individual medley swimmer Carlene Ostromecki said Jones is motivating to work with in practice.
“It’s fun trying to practice next to her be-cause I know she’s a great IMer, so someday I’d like to be there with her,” Ostromecki said.
Since Jones competes in the individual med-
ley event, she swims the freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly. Her diverse talent coupled with her happy-go-lucky personality benefits everyone on the team — especially the newcomers, Ostromecki said.
“She made the freshmen feel welcomed,” Ostromecki said. “She definitely made an
effort to reach out to the freshmen, talk to them and get to know them.”
Jones’ movements in the pool appear smooth and effortless as she strokes from one end to the other, which is a testament to the time and work she has put into the sport. Jones said she has been swimming competitively
since the third or fourth grade. She said being a member of a club swim team in high school has eased her transition to college.
“I was used to the tough regimen of school, practice, homework and sleep,” Jones said. “I was in that routine already so the transition hasn’t been too bad.”
Jones is the only sophomore on the cap-tains’ council this year. Her experience in the postseason is something Miller said helps Jones understand the direction and core values of the team because she’s seen the whole spectrum.
Senior freestyle swimmer Sheila Rhoades said having Jones on the captains’ council adds a different dynamic to the Blue and Gold’s leadership.
“She is a younger leader on the team, and she’s someone for the underclassmen to go to if they’re too intimidated to come to us,” Rhoades said. “She’s another outlet.”
Miller said one of the biggest assets Jones contributes to the team is her ability to swim in multiple events.
“She’s very flexible,” Miller said. “She can do freestyle, she can do IM, she can do fly, she can do breast — so that’s the type of person who’s great because she can fit in holes.”
Jones also brings her sense of humor and spontaneous behavior to the team. Jones roams the deck with a smile on her face, trying to make her teammates laugh with backhanded comments whenever she’s not racing through the water.
“I love to laugh, so I always like to at least make somebody laugh during practice and lighten the mood somewhat,” Jones said. “I definitely like to make light of situations and not always be so dark and damper.”
Miller said she is looking forward to coach-ing Jones for the next two seasons.
“It’s always fun to coach, No. 1 a talented athlete, but No. 2 someone who actually loves the sport,” Miller said. “She works hard, and it’s fun to coach someone of that caliber.”
Sophomore surfaces as new leader for squad
Sophomore carly Jones swims freestyle at practice Friday in the hill center Pool. Jones set the team record in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:33.33 as a freshman.
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I felt like I was in the worst place I could possibly be leading in the last lap.
Trevor Bayne on his thoughts during the final lap of the Daytona 500. With his victory Sunday, the 20-year-old became the youngest driver to win the race.
theysaidit
NBA All-Star Weekend is always filled with flashy passes, sharp shooters, and of
course, high flying dunks. The Slam Dunk Contest has become more of a spectacle than ever, with Gerald Green blowing out a candle in a dunk he called the Birthday Cake back in 2008 and Dwight Howard donning a Superman cape in his winning dunk the following year. But Los Angeles Clippers’ big man Blake Griffin took the com-petition to new heights Sunday night at the Staples Center. Griffin brought out a choir to introduce him in his third and final dunk before leaping over a car on his way to the rim. Teammate Baron Davis threw him the ball through the sunroof while he was still airborne. Griffin’s performance topped Washington Wizards’ big man JaVale McGee, who took off from the foul line after a running start for his dunk.
— Kevin McCall
Weird news from the wide world of sportsthe foul line
A gentleman’s gameFrom left, senior Charlie Calovich tries to bring down freshman Joe Wade as he runs past sophomore Corey Kelly at men’s club rugby practice Sunday in the Mondo Floor Gym. They will have their first game March 19 at SUNY-Stony Brook.
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play of the weekWilliam Way Graduate Student Men’s indoor track
Way set an Ithaca record in the 3,000-meter run at the Marc Deneault Memorial Invitational on Saturday at Cornell University. He broke the record, previously held by Pat O’Connor ‘83, by five seconds with a time of 8:28.01.
Way, who specializes in distance runs for the Blue and Gold, did not compete in his junior year because of a stress fracture in his leg. He ran a season-best 4:22.32 in the mile run at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational Feb. 12 at the Armory in New York City less than two weeks after breaking his own personal mark of 4:25.46 at the Empire 8 Conference Indoor Championships Jan. 30. He was also a member of the Bombers’ distance medley relay that qualified for the Indoor Eastern Collegiate Atheltic Conference Championships, which will take place March 4 and 5 at the Armory.
In It for the lonG haul
by the numbers
19The number of regular season wins the women’s basketball team recorded this season. See story on page 24.
3The number of women on the gymnastics team who finished in the top 10 in the uneven bars at the Harriett Marranca Memorial Invitational on Saturday. See story on page 25.
where we stand
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WoMen’s indoor track*
1. University of Wisconsin Oshkosh 187.252. Wartburg College 182.72 3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 104.67 4. Williams College 100.63 6. Ithaca College 67.38
poiNTS
GyMnastics**
1. University of Wisconsin–Whitewater 184.752. SUNY-Brockport 184.69 3. SUNY-Cortland 183.393. Ithaca College 183.395. University of Wisconsin–La Crosse 182.66
avEraGE SCorE
WrestlinG ***41. Wartburg College (Iowa) 19–1 2. University of Wisconsin–La Crosse 10–3–1 3. Augsburg College (Minn.) 7–5–14. Ithaca College 12–25. Coe College (Iowa) 15–5
rECord
**National Collegiate Gymnastics Association Rankings
***National Wrestling Coaches Association Team Rankings
*U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Poll
28 The Ithacan ThIs I see Thursday, February 24, 2011
Despite being postponed a day because of severe weather, the 13th annual Chili Cook-off
and WinterFest still drew a large crowd.
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Jerrod Isamam of Olean, N.Y., plays accordion on The Commons on Sunday at Chili Fest. Isamam stayed an extra day in Ithaca to attend the postponed event.
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Cinda bey paints Kohana Stanford’s face at a facepainting booth inside Center Ithaca. Graham hebel/The IThaCaN
Ithaca College freshmen becky Kabel, alex Wolf and lauren lombardo enjoy chili and corn bread. razorback bbQ won the people’s Choice award, blue Stone bar & Grill won best meat Chili, Simeon’s on The Commons won best vegetarian Chili and Chili’n by the lake won best presentation.
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Will Goodreau, 3, and Josephine Goodreau, 6, defeat the cold weather by eating a cup of chili. each chili vendor had to make a minimum of 30 gallons of chili to distribute to the crowd.
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chill
To see an audio slideshow of Chili Fest, visit theithacan.org.
