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Dean named new president of Carthage

Freshman housing to take over West and East Towers

See housing, page 4

by kelsey o'connor news editor

Greg Woodward, dean of the Ithaca College School of Music and longtime fac-ulty member of the college, will become Carthage College’s new president this summer, the college announced Tuesday.

Carthage College is a private lib-eral arts college located in Wisconsin with a total student enrollment of about 3,400.

Woodward has assumed multiple leadership roles at the college. He has served as dean of gradu-ate and profes-sional studies and in 2010-11 as in-terim provost and vice president for academic affairs. Woodward joined the Department of Music Theory, History and Composition as a com-poser in 1984 and has been a professor since 2000.

President Tom Rochon said the col-lege is not only losing a great leader in the School of Music, but also a col-league in the planning of IC 20/20, the college’s strategic vision for the school.

“It’s always bittersweet when a talented leader leaves the college for another opportunity,” Rochon said. “It’s especially bittersweet here be-cause we worked so closely together last year when he was interim pro-vost, but this is an opportunity he deserves, and I don’t know if I have ever met anyone as ready to be a suc-cessful president as he is.”

Woodward said he was not actively looking for a new job, but applied when an opportunity arose, just like many positions he has served in his 34 years at the college.

“It’s a bittersweet kind of feeling, but I’m so looking forward to working at this school,” he said. “It’s a great school, and the opportunity to be the president is something really special, and when that came along, there was really no way to not do it.”

Brad Andrews, senior vice president for academic resources at Carthage College, said a search for a new presi-dent has been under way since early autumn and more than 60 candidates applied for the position. Andrews said Woodward’s background and experi-ence at Ithaca College made him stand out in the application process.

“Greg has tireless energy,” Andrews said. “He’s full of great ideas, and he has a personality and a style of engagement that really is a great fit for this college.

by lucy walker staff writer

The West Tower will join East Tower next fall as part of the First-Year Residential Experience, a shift that marks a step toward more unified freshman housing on campus.

The expansion comes partially as a result of IC 20/20’s Initiative 4: First Year Housing and Learn-ing Communities to Increase Integrative Learning. Following East Tower's first-year designation last semester, West Tower will be the fifth building in the First-Year Residential Experience, along with Boothroyd, Tallcott and Rowland Halls in the Upper Quads.

Bonnie Solt-Prunty, director of Residential Life and assistant dean for First-Year Experiences, said the idea of unified housing for all fresh-men preceded IC 20/20. However, its inclusion in the plan has helped foster progress. First-year housing

is optional for now, but will become mandatory in the future, once Resi-dential Life converts enough build-ings on campus to hold an entire class. This scenario, which would

incorporate more of the quad buildings, is still a few years away, Solt-Prunty said.

“There will be a progression for students through housing. ‘I'll come

in as a first-year student. I’ll live in a first-year residence hall building. As a sophomore student, I’ll have a choice to either live in a learning community or a sophomore experi-ence building. And then as a junior and a senior, I'll have the opportu-nity to live in apartments primarily, or other areas which may be of in-terest,’” she said.

Solt-Prunty said she doesn't think the shift to all-freshmen Tow-ers will upset many upperclassmen.

“That is not the most popular place for our returning students to sign up in,” Solt-Prunty said. “Typ-ically, our returning students are looking to live in the Terraces or in Emerson or in the apartments, for the most part.”

Sophomore Michael McBride lived in first-year housing last year and currently works as a resident assistant in East Tower.

Freshman Joe Ricotta walks Tuesday through the West Tower lobby. Next semester, both West and East Tower will be exclusively freshman housing.

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wooDwarD said he couldn't pass up the opportunity for presidency.

See woodward, page 4

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by erica palumbo anD elma gonzalez

assistant news editors

For sophomore Yiwei Zhu, spending spring break in Florida last year meant a lot more than basking in the southern sun.

In the Spring 2011 semester, Zhu traveled to Pensacola, Fla., on one of Ithaca College’s Alternative Spring Break trips, which are service learning trips offered to students to help commu-nities in need. During the seven-day experience, Zhu and 12 other students from the college spent time helping with the restoration of the Gulf Coast’s ecosystem. Zhu said she chose Pensacola because of its environmental focus, an area she is interested in learning more about.

“I’d never done any kind of service that was environmentally centered, so I thought, ‘Oh, I want to do that,’” she said. “It was interesting to learn about the ecosystem down there, especial-ly since Ithaca itself is such an environmentally friendly community.”

The college has offered the Alternative Spring Break program for several years. This year, 42 students will be traveling to Pensacola, Fla., Washington D.C., Salamanca, N.Y., and Beckley, W.Va. In 2011 there were 24 partici-pants and in 2010 there were 33.

Freshman Olivia Norris, who will be going on the Salamanca trip next week, said she chose the southwestern New York location because of the opportunity to develop her passion for

working with children. Salamanca is located on the Allegany Indian Reservation, where students will be working with Native American youths.

“I like working with children, and I know the trip will involve working with children and help-ing them get more involved with their schoolwork through tutoring,” she said. “I’m also an occupa-tional therapy major, so it really applies to my field.”

Norris said her roommate’s passion for Native American culture piqued her inter-est in the Salamanca trip, where she hopes to learn more about the local land.

“I’m looking forward to going somewhere else and experiencing a new culture,” she said.

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Romney feels confident about race Mitt Romney says he’s got the time, the

resources and the plan to take him all the way to a Republican presidential nomination.

The front-runner in the Republican presi-dential race didn’t score a knockout punch on Super Tuesday. But he says he has strong enough support to propel him all the way to the presidential ballot against President Barack Obama come November.

In an appearance yesterday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Romney said he’s feeling “pret-ty darn good” about his showing on Super Tuesday, when he won a narrow victory in crucial Ohio and picked up five other states as well. Rick Santorum won three states, and Newt Gingrich picked up one.

Romney predicts that once the Republi-cans settle on a nominee, a united party will defeat Obama.

Breivik faces charges for massacreAnders Behring Breivik was indicted

yesterday on terror and murder charges for slaying 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage, but prosecutors said the confessed killer won’t likely go to prison for Norway’s worst peacetime massacre.

Prosecutors said they consider the 33-year-old right-wing extremist psychotic and will seek a sentence of involuntary commitment to psychiatric care instead of imprisonment, un-less new information about his mental health emerges during the trial set to begin in April.

They charged him under a paragraph in Norway’s anti-terror law that refers to vio-lent acts intended to disrupt key government functions or spread fears in the population.

Breivik has confessed to the July 22 attacks but denies criminal guilt, portraying the vic-tims as “traitors” for embracing immigration policies he claims will result in an Islamic colonization of Norway.

Six UK soldiers struck by explosion Six British soldiers are believed to be killed

after an explosion hit their armored vehicle in southwestern Afghanistan, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said yesterday. If confirmed, it would be the biggest loss of life for British forces in the country since a plane crash in 2006.

The soldiers were on patrol in Helmand province at the time of the blast Tuesday eve-ning. Britain’s defense secretary said efforts were under way to recover the vehicle and identify the soldiers.

The deaths are certain to fuel calls for the acceleration of a planned withdrawal of all U.S.-led coalition troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. The war has become increas-ingly unpopular in the U.S. and among its NATO partners in Europe.

Helmand has been the deadliest province by far for coalition troops since the Afghan war started over a decade ago. Most of Britain’s 9,500 soldiers are based there, and the province also has thousands of U.S. troops.

So far this year, 54 NATO troops have been killed in Afghanistan, including 38 from the U.S. and four from Britain.

Hackers launch revenge attacksHackers claiming allegiance to the amor-

phous Anonymous movement say they’ve defaced several sites belonging to online de-fense firm Panda Security.

Anonymous supporters have been rat-tled by a trans-Atlantic investigation that has exposed one of the group’s best-known hackers, Sabu, as an alleged FBI informant.

U.S. and British officials charged six men and one adolescent with a host of computer crimes linked to Sabu’s activities Tuesday, sowing anger and confusion among sup-porters of the loose-knit network.

But the group fired back with an attack against dozens of Panda Security subsites, accusing the company of working with law enforcement. Panda Security, based in Bilbao, Spain, said yesterday its main site wasn’t compromised.

Defense secretary calls for airstrikes Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pushed

back yesterday against fresh demands for U.S. military involvement in Syria to end President Bashar Assad’s deadly crackdown on his people.

The panel’s top Republican, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, said the estimated 7,500 dead and the bloodshed calls for U.S. leader-ship that a Democratic president, Bill Clinton,

displayed during the Bosnian war in the 1990s and that Obama eventually showed in Libya last year.

The Pentagon chief later added that the United States is not holding back and is leading in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria in the war on terrorism.

Testifying before the committee, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey and Panetta offered a cautionary note to the call by McCain to launch U.S. airstrikes against Assad’s regime.

Private investors aid in Greek crisisGreece saw participation by private inves-

tors in its massive debt relief deal rise yesterday, bringing the country closer to avoiding a default that would plunge it into financial chaos and re-ignite the European debt crisis.

With a little over 24 hours left before the deadline for acceptances, private investors owning about 46 percent of Greece’s privately held debt have so far committed publicly to the bond swap.

For the deal to work — and for Greece to secure a related 130 billion euros international bailout — Athens needs 90 percent of investors to sign up. However, a voluntary participation rate of around 70 percent could be enough to force most holdouts to go along.

The Institute of International Finance, which has been leading the debt talks for large private creditors, said firms holding 81 billion euros of Greek bonds have agreed to the deal. The 30 firms include 12 banks and investment funds that already declared their participation Monday as well as all major Greek banks.

On top of that, Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said some 14 billion eu-ros in bonds owned by Greek investment funds but managed by the central bank would also be added to the debt relief. Greek officials said they are hopeful that funds that direct-ly manage another 3 billion euros in bonds would also sign up.

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by Jack curran staff writer

As part of the British government’s widespread attempt to crack down on illegal immigration, Britain has made changes to its visa regulations including an increase in the fee on student visas.

Ithaca College’s popular London Center was recently awarded a Highly Trusted Sponsor status by the British government, which means few stu-dents will be affected by the new policies, Rachel Cullenen, director of study abroad in the Office of International Programs, said.

The only change that will affect students at the college is the price increase, which will bring up the fee from $400 to nearly $500.

The new policies are meant to prevent foreign students from completely immigrating to the coun-try instead of coming just to study.

The visa fee will vary depending on the program the student is enrolled in and their estimated living expenses. Britain also continues to require students to prove they had the financial support to pay for their program, accommodations and living expens-es without working.

The British government will also eliminate the existing post-study work program next month, which allows foreign students to spend an addi-tional two years in Britain after they have received their degrees.

So far, the college’s London Center has received 67 applications for the fall semester.

Bill Sheasgreen, director of the London Center, said these regulations will not significantly affect the undergraduates at the center, but they may af-fect students from other institutions.

“The visa costs are going up,” he said. “They’re not going up spectacularly, they’re just keeping pace with inflation.”

Under the new regulations, foreign students will be able to remain in the country if they have graduated from a college or university and have a job offer that will pay a minimum of $31,500 a year. Students will also have the option of remaining in the country if they have at least $80,000 to invest in a business.

According to the Home Office, the British government’s department for passports and im-migration, these restrictions will help boost the British economy and ensure that foreign students can support themselves after graduating.

Sheasgreen said these major changes will only

affect a small number of students from the college because most of them do not get full-time degrees in London. Few students return to London to get a master’s degree.

Cullenen said the regulations are generally not aimed at American students.

“The reason the British government is putting all of these requirements in place is to make sure students who are coming to the country are coming as students and are not coming with the intentions to immigrate,” Cullenen said. “Clearly for the U.S. market, that’s really not a risk.”

The United Kingdom has consistently been the most popular country for study abroad at the college, and it is the most popular study abroad destination nationwide, followed by Spain, Italy, Australia, Ireland and Argentina, according to the Institute of International Education.

Study abroad is a key aspect in the college’s goal of educating the global citizen, and it is a major point in IC 20/20, the college’s core curriculum plan. The college plans to change the current trend of students studying mainly in Europe and begin sending more students to Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Cullenen also said the United Kingdom is one of the stricter countries when it comes to student visas. Students must go through visa fees and un-dergo a biometrics appointment.

Cullenen said the London Center’s new trusted sponsor status allows for a less strict process for acquiring student visas. This semester, the British government has become more lenient with the timeline for this process at the college.

“That changed, a little bit, the severity and the close attention to the timeline that students had to follow,” Cullenen said. “We have seen that they have started being a little bit more flexible with certain requirements.”

Though the process is long, students who want internships while at the London Center are willing to do it. Sophomore Dylan Lyons said he wants to take advantage of the opportunities for internships in London during the spring semester of next year.

“We’ll have certain connections for internships that you might not get if you went to another coun-try,” Lyons said. “[The visa process] is a little compli-cated, and it costs a decent amount of money, but I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.”

by ithacan staff

Ithaca College has received a record number of undergraduate applications for the fall of 2012.

Eric Ma-guire, vice president of enrol lment and commu-nication, said the college has received 13,786 ap-p l i c a t i o n s for the up-coming fall s e m e s t e r , exceeding the previous record of 13,546 applications from fall 2008 by a margin of 240 students.

The number is expected to grow to about 13,820 once some incom-plete applications are finalized.

He said research to find the cause for the increase in appli-cants will be conducted after all applications are reviewed.

“We’ll still do some analysis afterward through our review process,” he said. “We haven’t had the time to go back and re-flect as to why our applications are increasing.”

Maguire said the high number of applications does not guarantee that a similarly large number of students will enroll in the fall.

“Applicant totals do not always translate into enrolled students,” he said.

The college hopes for about 1,600 to 1,650 freshmen to enroll for the 2012-13 academic year.

The college will distribute ac-ceptance letters and financial aid packages by April.

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UK intensifies student visa regulations IC sets record for undergrad applications

by kacey Deamer staff writer

Ithaca College’s compost ini-tiative has continued to expand, matching the college’s commitment to be environmentally conscious.

This semester, Ithaca Dining Services is using Recyclemania, a recycling competition, to increase student consciousness and under-standing of compost and food waste.

Stephanie Piech, sustainabil-ity coordinator for Sodexo, said Dining Services is committed to a reduction of food waste and din-ing byproducts such as containers and utensils.

The Weigh the Waste campaign is one aspect of Sodexo’s commit-ment to sustainability. The event is designed to track the amount of waste students produce during a lunch or dinner period by asking students to dump whatever is left on their plates onto a scale.

Kat Lawton, a sustainability in-tern with Dining Services, stood in front of the dish return in Campus Center on Thursday, asking stu-dents to clear their plates onto the scale. She said student reaction was mixed. Some asked questions and thanked her for “being environmen-tal” while others were reluctant.

“They have to scrape it into the

bucket, and all of a sudden they be-come so weirded out by it,” she said. “If you’re comfortable putting that food in your body, then you should have no discomfort taking the food off the plate.”

The college’s composting pro-gram has grown since the March 2007 switch from an on-site op-eration to outsourcing to Cayuga Compost, a composting busi-ness in Trumansburg, N.Y. Mark Darling, sustainability programs coordinator for the college, said the switch is more sustainable be-cause nutrients left in food scrap compost are getting back into food production rather than or-namental planting.

Before the change, compost was done on-campus using large machinery in a building near the Office of Public Safety on a smaller scale. Now, compost is collected every day and put in a specially outfitted truck, which then trans-ports the organic waste three times a week to Cayuga Compost.

Darling said some compost bins are put in place by staff or faculty in buildings such as the Administration Annex and the Center for Natural Sciences, while others come with building upgrades.

“For all the renovation that

we’ve done, compost has been in-cluded in your choice of materials management,” he said.

Darling also said he hopes to implement composting at the two apartment complexes on campus. However, the sites would have to be outdoors and unmonitored, so resi-dents would need to be educated on composting and make a legitimate effort to follow through.

Piech said every year there is a new group of students to educate. She said some changes are being made to composting signs around campus, like in IC Square, so there is

a more consistent message. This will help students understand

why they should compost and where their compost goes, Piech said. The goal is to make students aware of their food waste, educate them on how to manage their waste and encourage them to actually follow the different waste options.

“We’re going to do what we call a ‘can dump’ in retail to boost some of the education there,” she said. “We’re going to bust into the food court and take a trash bin, dump it on a tarp, and then sort things that should have been sorted.”

Organic waste program gains momentum at IC

Bill Sheasgreen, director of the London Center for Ithaca College, breaks down information about the center in Textor 102 to students who plan to study abroad in London the following semester.

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Sophomore emily Flemming throws waste into the compost bin at noon yesterday in IC Square. The college encourages students to compost.

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maGuire said the cause for the ap-plicant increase will be researched.

Another town defeats firm

by tinamarie craven staff writer

A New York state court ruling gave the Town of Middlefield in Otsego County the right to prohibit natural gas drilling within its limits.

Donald F. Cerio Jr., Otsego County acting supreme court judge, ruled the Town of Mid-dlefield, located about 115 miles northeast of Ithaca, can amend zoning laws to ban hydraulic frac-turing within its jurisdiction. The Feb. 24 ruling came after Cerio de-cided local officials have the right to regulate drilling methods and manners within the town.

The Middlefield ruling followed a similar court decision in the Town of Dryden on Feb. 21., where the judge determined that New York state law should not impede a town from amending its zoning laws.

Deborah Goldberg, an attorney for Middlefield, said the cases will set a precedent to empower town law, but not to prevent fracking throughout the state of New York.

“What it very well may do is give communities who were on the fence the courage to go ahead and do what they need to do to help protect themselves,” Goldberg said.

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New merge adds sense of cohesion

Service trips shed light on social issues

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solT-prunTy said freshman housing offers cohesive student learning.

Greg Woodward, dean of the music school, gives a presentation about ic 20/20 last fall. he will leave the college to be president of carthage college.

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a group of ithaca college students and chaperone lynne Pierce, associate director of alumni relations, stand in front of the u.s. capitol building in Washington, D.c., last spring. The program focused on nonprofit work.

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“I’m excited to learn about this whole aspect of Native American life, about the territories and the history of the land.”

Nationally, there are several organizations offering alternative spring break opportunities and resources.

Break Away, a leading national alternative spring break resource organization, was founded in 1991 by two students at Vanderbilt University.

Samantha Giacobozzi, program director for Break Away, said the organization saw a spike in student volunteers after Hurricane Katrina.

“There were a lot of schools and school adminis-trations ... that were interested in having an impact or being able to do a program,” she said. “Out of that, a lot of spring break programs were formed.”

According to a 2011 study by the U.S. Depart-ment of Labor, college student volunteer numbers decreased between September 2007 and 2010. How-ever, the numbers increased from 29.2 percent in 2010 to 29.5 percent in 2011. Giacobozzi said Break Away expects numbers to continue rising.

Boston University's alternative spring break website actually crashed in January from the amount of students logging on to register for its Alternative Spring Break program. The site of the university's Community Service Center had to offer a wait list for students who missed the registration cut off.

Giacobozzi said this year around 72,000 people are going on trips through institutions registered with Break Away. Ithaca College is one of these institutions.

Giacobozzi said service trips, like the Alterna-tive Spring Break program, help students see the world differently.

“I know the power of spending a lot of time learning about a social issue and immersing your-self in a different community, working on that issue, seeing firsthand the impact of these social issues

and ... seeing the world in a different light,” she said.Don Austin, the director of Alternative Spring

Break for the Office of Student Engagement and Multicultural Affairs, said the program is not af-filiated with any national organization.

Students only have to pay a small percentage of the total cost — which ranges from $275 to $475 depending on the destination — because the pro-gram is funded by OSEMA.

“I prioritize part of that money to assist with the Alternative Spring Break program because spring break-style service emergent trips are a pri-ority set by the college and are going to continue to be a priority as marked out in the IC 20/20 plan,” he said.

Austin said the college prioritizes these ser-vice trips because they reflect the direct link of college education and application on the field.

“Let’s look at the ‘Ready’ campaign,” he said.

“If we really want our students to genuinely be ‘Ready,’ they have to go beyond the classroom, and they have to be directly involved in the things that they are trying to discipline themselves in, the skills that they are trying to acquire [and] the areas that they want to be competent in.”

Austin said there is still one more spot available for any student interested in going to Beckley, W. Va., and he will accept anyone up to Friday.

Zhu, who plans on doing another break trip her senior year, said though she signed up for the trip to help others, she ended up also reap-ing personal benefits through her interactions with other students.

“You understand yourself better by learning how you work with others and how you adapt to a new place,” she said. “It’s definitely one of the best experi-ences you can have.”

Carthage has been growing in qual-ity and reputation for a number of years, and as a college, we’re poised to really take off and somebody with the energy and enthusiasm and vision that Greg Woodward has is absolutely a perfect fit for this college.”

Wo o d w a r d said his multifac-eted experience at the college has prepared him for the presidency at Carthage.

“I think I’ve served on pretty much every committee that the college had at one point or another and worked closely with students, staff, faculty and administration,” Woodward said. “I’m going to call it a blessing — not in the spiritual way, but sort of a blessing of my time at Ithaca — has been that I have been able to learn so much about the organization and try so many things that, without having really planned on this, it turned out

to be really a great preparation for the presidency.”

Woodward marks the third dean from the college who has gone on to a college presidency since 2009. Dianne Lynch, dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications, left to become president of Stephens College, and Susan West Engelkemeyer, dean

of the School of Business, was named p r e s i d e n t of Nichols College.

R o c h o n said he will miss Wood-ward person-

ally, but is happy he has the chance to advance in his career.

“He’s been a wonderful friend and colleague, but again that’s tempered with an absolute joy that he’s being given an opportunity to use his talent at Carthage College,” Rochon said.

Marisa Kelly, provost and vice president for academic affairs, will identify an interim dean to lead the School of Music next

year while a search for a new dean takes place.

Woodward said he will always remain attached to the college, es-pecially to the School of Music.

“I am going to miss all my friends, and I just feel so, so lucky to have spent so much of my pro-fessional and personal life with

these people and in this place,” Woodward said. “I really couldn’t have asked for a better situation. I’m thankful and yet, like I say, looking forward and eager for the new challenge,” he said.

Assistant News Editor Erica Palumbo contributed to this report.

He said he understands the ad-vantages of freshman housing, but said he hopes it remains op-tional in the future.

“I lived in Tallcott. It didn't help me, didn't hurt me,” McBride said. “I felt like I would have had a much better time if I lived with upperclassmen or a variety of ages because you’re able to meet more

people and s o c i a l i z e , and you're able to learn from other levels.”

S o p h o -more Isaac Ford par-t i c i p a t e d in Expe-r i e n c i n g C o n n e c -

tions by Heading Outdoors, the Jumpstart program that focuses on outdoor learning. He said he enjoyed the opportunity to meet other freshmen but was glad to live in a multilevel dorm for the rest of the year. He said many of his friends loved living in Rowland Hall and flourished in that environment, but first-year housing was just not what he wanted.

“I feel like freshman hous-ing provided too exclusive a group for people,” Ford said. “There was not enough room to branch out and meet people besides freshmen.”

The development of this plan will also impact the resi-dential learning communities in the long term.

Nancy Menning, facul-ty fellow for the Sustainably Conscious Residential Learn-ing Community, said specialized communities are an opportunity to grow and meet people with similar interests.

“All the dorm communi-ties have that kind of feeling to them,” Menning said. “There is something about the college experience for an undergradu-ate that is part of funding these kinds of living communities as ways to understand the trans-formations that are going on for people's identity and commu-nity and family and those kinds of things.”

The expansion to the Circle Apartments, which includes an addition of 168 beds, will also affect student housing next year, Solt-Prunty said. All the new apartments will be four-person residencies, which will allow more upperclassmen to remain on campus.

Solt-Prunty said the chang-ing plan will enhance the student experience on campus and offer a sense of progression throughout students' four years at the college.

“It makes a lot of sense to create this more developmental progression where as an under-classmen, you're living in more traditional housing, and, as an upperclassmen, you're living in more independent, apartment-style housing. That's what our students want to do naturally anyway,” she said.

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Crafting a passion

by kristen mansfield staff writer

Sometimes you get out of life what you put into it.

In freshman Makenzie Holms-borg’s case, it came in the form of strong connections, recognition for her leadership — and a $5,000 check.

In February, Holmsborg was awarded a grant for her community service efforts through the TruFit Good Citizen Scholarship, an award from Citizens Bank that recognizes students making a difference in their community. Holmsborg said she plans to put the money toward her passion for traveling and hopes to study abroad in Florence, Italy, in the spring of her sophomore year.

From serving meals at home-less shelters to creating dog collars for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Holmsborg has consistently been involved in her community.

The service skills that made Hol-msborg stand out to the scholarship committee developed long before college. She spent her childhood get-ting involved with Girl Scouts and her church’s youth group, which sparked her passion for volunteering.

“I’ve worked with a lot of people who are homeless and hungry, and they’re just so thankful for the small-est things,” she said. “For getting a meal, a bag of groceries, a shirt. They’re not caring that they might be hungry tomorrow. They’re living in the present.”

In seventh grade, Holmsborg used what she learned from her in-volvement with youth group and Girl Scouts and opened her own business, Krafty Kidz, an arts camp designed for girls with disabilities.

Her love for making messes and building something out of nothing has made crafting a constant passion through her life. In her spare time, she said, she loves to create paper cranes for herself and her friends.

“I love origami,” she said. “If [my friends] have a test or something, I give them a crane. They know if they get a crane, it’s from me.”

What started as a one-day pro-gram turned into an annual, week-long summer camp. Hiring employees and keeping track of inventory can be tiresome, she said, but the week of the camp is always a great time.

“These girls are elementary and middle school age, so it really opens their minds up to a lot of philanthropy and volunteerism — just giving back to their community,” Holmsborg said.

In addition to helping kids with disabilities, Holmsborg is also involved in the Ithaca community. She balances her involvement with IC for Invisible Children, multiple Special Olympics groups and her responsibilities as a student volunteer at Longview, a resi-dential community for older adults.

Bree Nash, volunteer coordinator at Longview, said she is always im-pressed with Holmsborg’s willingness to assist residents with everyday tasks that help foster their independence.

“She’s very enthusiastic working with older adults,” Nash said. “Car-ing, respectful and curious, too, about learning where they come from.”

Holmsborg is an occupational science/therapy major and deaf stud-ies minor. While her zeal for helping others played into the selection of her major, she said her biggest influence came from her babysitting job.

Back home, Holmsborg works with an autistic boy named Trevor. She has been his babysitter for the past four years and helped him train for the Special Olympics.

“I love being with him,” she said. “Babysitting Trevor opened my eyes to kids with special needs, and I got

to see what his occupational therapist did with him.”

Freshman Allison Hausmann, her close friend and fellow occupational science/therapy major, said Holms-borg is constantly thinking about oth-ers, even outside of her babysitting job and community service projects.

“She’s really sweet — really a sweetheart,” Hausmann said. “We’ll be in the dining hall and see people sitting by themselves, and she goes, ‘We should go eat with them!’”

Hausmann said when Holms-borg is not volunteering, she brings her caring personality to the field and the court, participating in club sports like softball and volleyball

with their friends.Holmsborg admits that she’d rath-

er encourage her teammates than be a competitive player.

“I’m like a big cheerleader, which is kind of embarrassing because I’m a player,” she said. “They laugh because I’m always like, ‘Great job!’”

Though her life may seem hectic, she tries not to get too stressed by finding relaxation through crafting and remembering lessons she learns from her campers.

“If you spend time worrying about every little thing, you’re just going to drive yourself crazy,” she said. “The kids appreciate the small things in life, and that’s what I try to live by.”

Freshman awarded scholarshipfor community involvement

Freshman Makenzie Holmsborg was one of four second-prize winners of a TruFit Good Citizen Scholarship valued at $5,000. The program was created by Citizens Bank to reward students for their volunteer efforts and leadership.

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Researchers target painKatherine Beissner, a physical therapy

professor at Ithaca College, and her research group were recently granted $1.5 million to research pain treatment in older patients.

The grant, given by the Agency for Healthcare Qual-ity and Research, will help Beissner’s project team test the effectiveness of pain-centered physical therapy that she developed with Cornell University doctor Manny C. Reid. The proj-ect, titled “Treating Pain to Reduce Disability Among Older Home Health Patients,” will be spread among more patients in New York City. It aims to treat pain in older adults through physical and mental rehabilitation.

Staff Writer Patrick Feeney spoke to Beissner about her work and how the grant will further her team’s research in the fields of physical therapy and pain management.

Patrick Feeney: How did the project begin?

Katherine Beissner: Pain is a problem Reid sees as a physician and I see as a physical therapist that’s not easily resolved, no mat-ter how many drugs you give a person. Even if they get some results with those drugs, there’s still disability associated with it, and sometimes physical therapy alone is not enough. However, psychotherapists and mental health professionals are not readily available to older adults. There’s also a stig-ma sometimes that they don’t want to access that kind of treatment. What we wanted to do was develop something that would inte-grate the psychological and social aspects of pain treatment into something that is acces-sible to older adults.

We’re having physical therapists incor-porate some teaching of coping strategies

and self-management strategies to adults in the home setting, in addition to doing their physical therapy treatments.

PF: How will the $1.5 million aid in research?

KB: What we did before was small. We trained three groups of physical therapists in treatment techniques. They implemented it with fewer than 30 patients. We’re going to be reaching 500 patients, but we’ll actually be looking at a total of 1,000 patients in the five boroughs.

PF: What goals are you trying to achieve with the research?

KB: The prior research really looked at whether or not physical therapists could de-liver the program accurately and efficiently in the home care setting and whether patients found the program acceptable to them. What we need to do next is see whether or not it ac-tually does decrease their pain and increase their functional abilities afterwards.

PF: Before physical therapy was applied to home care, what would patients do?

KB: They would do just normal physical therapy. Usual physical therapy treatment for a patient who, say, has a total knee replace-ment, would not focus on the pain. The focus would be on the function, doing exercises, and we would address the pain only if it was really limiting. Now what we’re going to do is directly address the pain, just really drawing attention to it, having patients focus on it and thinking about the pain in the ways they’re going to be responsible for dealing with it.

PF: Are there plans for expansion?

KB: Home care is a natural first setting for us, but we’re also looking into physical therapy in outpatient settings.

BEISSNER said the grant will fund further research into pain therapy.

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College & CityLiterary journalist to launch Kesh Center with lecture Roberto Herrscher, an innovative Latin American literary journalist, will serve as the first visiting scholar-in-residence for the launch of the Kesh Center for Global Communications Innovation.

Herrscher will give a free, pub-lic lecture titled “History and Personal Experience as Sources of Narrative Journalism: Why and How I Returned to the Falkland/Malvinas Battlefields 25 Years Later” at 7 p.m. tonight in the Park Auditorium.

Herrscher is the director of the master’s program in journalism at the University of Barcelona.

ITS announces email change from Webmail to Microsoft Ithaca College Information Technology Services recently an-nounced it will replace Webmail, the faculty, staff and student email, with Microsoft Live@edu. According to a press release from the college, the college’s current email system is four years old and has ca-pacity and performance issues. In addition, Miraport, Webmail’s vendor, plans to significantly in-crease its costs in the next fiscal year. The press release also stated that research has shown that more than half of four-year colleges in the country have outsourced their email services. Live@edu is an Internet-hosted

version of Microsoft Exchange, plus added applications, and is free for educational institutions. The new email will include 10 GB of email and calendar data storage, another 25 GB of online file storage, group calendaring and shared online documents us-ing Office Web Apps.

Student trustee positionapplication now available

The application is now avail-able online for students wishing to apply for the college’s student trustee position.

The college will hold an informa-tional session about the position at 7 p.m. tonight in Taughannock Falls Room in Campus Center.

The position is a two-year term, so only students who can commit to staying in Ithaca for two academic years are eligible. Student trustees are full-voting members of the Board of Trustees and are expected to sit on two Board committees.

Retired professor awarded for gerontology education

John Krout, professor emeritus and retired founding director of the Ithaca College Gerontology Insti-tute, was recently recognized for his contributions to the growth of ge-riatrics education by the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.

The AGHE presented Krout with the 2012 Clark Tibbits Award at its

38th meeting in Arlington, Va. Krout spearheaded the college’s

partnership with Longview, a nearby retirement community, which cre-ated learning opportunities for both Longview residents and IC students.

Cornell study on cancer cellsreveals how cells migrate Researchers at Cornell Univer-sity have identified two key proteins, transglutaminase and heat-shock-protein-70, that are needed for cancer cells to move. They have uncovered a new pathway that treatments could block to immobilize mutant cells and keep cancer from spreading. The study was co-authored by Cornell graduate student Lindsey Boroughs, Jared L. Johnson ’11 and Marc Antonyak, senior research as-sociate. The study was published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, which publishes research papers on biological processes.

Music professor featuredat monthly faculty forum Deborah Rifkin, newly tenured assistant professor in the School of Music, will be the featured presenter at the IC Faculty Colloquium. Rifkin will present her lec-ture, “Meaning in Contemporary Music: Jennifer Higdon’s Tex-tured Tales,” from 5 to 6:30 p.m. today in the Clark Lounge. The IC Faculty Colloquium was launched during the fall semester.

It is a monthly event for faculty to share their scholarly and creative work with one another.

Cornell president awardedfor governmental advocacy

Cornell University President David Skorton was recently hon-ored with a national award for his advocacy work with government officials on behalf of state and land-grant universities.

Skorton won the Exemplary President in G o v e r n m e nt a l Relations Award on March 1 from the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities’ Council on Governmental Affairs.

Skorton has testified before Congress on different issues relat-ed to academic freedom, including the importance of a safe working and living environment, the place of civil disobedience on campus and the future environment and accessibility of publicly supported institutions of higher education.

Museum to hold fossil day to identify residents’ finds

The Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institu-tion will hold its Fossil ID Day for local families to bring in their puz-zling paleontological finds.

The event, which will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the mu-seum, is open to the public.

The event is cosponsored by Discovery Trail.

Public Safety Incident Log SELECTED ENTRIES FROM FEB. 16 TO FEB. 21

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“Miss Representation,” a film sponsored by Sister 2 Sister, will be screened from 7 to 10 p.m. in Textor 101.

“Turn Those Tears into Laughter (And then Back to Tears),” an IC Comedy Club performance, will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in IC Square.

“SAB Films Presents: The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom,” sponsored by Student Activities Board, will be held from 7:30 to 11 p.m. in Textor 101.

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“Oka!,” a film about the Afri-can molimo instrument, will play at 7:15 and 9:30 p.m. in Uris Hall at Cornell University.

Spa Night, an evening of relaxation, will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. in Risley Hall at Cornell University.

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“Curiosity Corner,” a children’s program, will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the Sciencenter.

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“Cleaning Nabokov’s House” Leslie Daniels will read from her novel about a woman rediscovering herself after divorce beginning at 6 p.m. at Buffalo Street Books.

fEbruary 16

Medical assistLOCATION: TerracesSUMMARY: Caller reported a general illness. Person was transported to CMC by ambulance. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

Found ProPerty LOCATION: Center for Natural SciencesSUMMARY: Person found a backpack and turned it over to the Office of Public Safety.

fEbruary 17

Making graFFiti LOCATION: Baker BridgeSUMMARY: Officer reported an unknown person wrote graffiti. Investigation pend-ing. Sergeant James Landon.

HarassMent LOCATION: Emerson HallSUMMARY: Caller reported a person sent them unwanted emails and text messages. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Bruce Thomas.

conduct code Violation LOCATION: TerracesSUMMARY: Officer reported alcohol in a room. Two people judicially referred for underage possession of alcohol. Security Officer Trent Lucas.

case status cHange LOCATION: Public SafetySUMMARY: Officer identified the per-son responsible for the graffiti reported Jan. 30 in Emerson Hall. One person was judicially referred. Patrol Officer Robert Jones.

criMinal MiscHieF LOCATION: TerracesSUMMARY: Caller reported an unknown person damaged a light fixture. Investiga-tion pending. Patrol Officer Bruce Thomas.

tresPass LOCATION: Ben Light GymnasiumSUMMARY: Caller reported people in a locked area after hours. Ten people ju-dicially referred for trespassing and two people for underage possession of alco-hol. Security Officer Lucas Thomas.

fEbruary 18

conduct code ViolationLOCATION: Landon HallSUMMARY: Person declined medical assistance from ambulance and was judicially referred for irresponsible use of alcohol and responsibility of guest. Patrol Officer Bruce Thomas.

criMinal MiscHieF LOCATION: TerracesSUMMARY: Officer reported an unknown person damaged the glass in a door in one of the Terraces. Investigation pend-ing. Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

conduct code ViolationLOCATION: TerracesSUMMARY: Caller reported a fight in progress. Upon officers arrival, persons were having an argument. Five persons judicially referred for underage posses-sion of alcohol and excessive noise. Patrol Officer Brad Bates.

unlawFul Poss. Marijuana LOCATION: Recreation trailsSUMMARY: During a traffic stop, officer issued a campus summons for speed in

zone and for unauthorized access to a restricted area. The driver was judicially referred for unlawful possession of mari-juana. Patrol Officer Matthew O’Loughlin.

fEbruary 19

conduct code Violation LOCATION: Garden ApartmentsSUMMARY: Caller reported a highly intoxicated person. Person shortly be-came combative, was placed in custody under the Mental Hygiene Law and was transported to CMC by ambulance. One person was judicially referred for irre-sponsible use of alcohol. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

V&t Violation LOCATION: Grant Egbert Blvd. EastSUMMARY: Caller reported a one-car MVA. One person was arrested for driv-ing while intoxicated. Officer issued the person uniform traffic tickets for Ithaca Town Court for failure to maintain the proper lane, failure to keep right and aggravated DWI. Person was also judi-cially referred. Two people involved in accident declined medical assistance from ambulance staff. Patrol Officer Matthew O’Loughlin.

conduct code Violation LOCATION: Circle Community BuildingSUMMARY: Officer reported a person provided false information. Person was judicially referred for failure to comply. Master Patrol Officer Donald Lyke.

larceny LOCATION: Grant Egbert Blvd. EastSUMMARY: Officer reported an unknown person stole a road sign from the side of the road that had been damaged by

an unknown person during an earlier re-ported incident. Investigation pending. Sergeant James Landon.

criMinal MiscHieF LOCATION: Gannett CenterSUMMARY: Officer reported an unknown person damaged a window. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Robert Jones.

criMinal MiscHieF LOCATION: Whalen CenterSUMMARY: Officer reported an unknown person damaged a sign in the build-ing. Investigation pending. Patrol Officer Robert Jones.

fEbruary 20

HarassMent LOCATION: Campus CenterSUMMARY: Caller reported being ha-rassed. A warning was issued. Master Patrol Officer Robert Hightchew.

Medical assistLOCATION: Tower ConcourseSUMMARY: Caller reported falling down stairs and sustaining a knee injury. Patrol Officer Jeremiah McMurray.

unlawFul Poss. oF MarijuanaLOCATION: East TowerSUMMARY: One person was judicially referred for unlawful possession of mari-juana. Patrol Officer Matthew O’Loughlin.

Fire alarM LOCATION: Park School of CommunicationsSUMMARY: Caller reported a small fire had been caused by a camera light dif-fuser being discarded in a trash can. Fire extinguished. Master Patrol Officer Robert Hightchew.

fEbruary 21

conduct code Violation LOCATION: L-LotSUMMARY: Caller reported a vehicle that had excessive parking tickets and a fraudulent permit. Vehicle was towed and one person was judicially referred for having a fraudulent permit. Patrol Officer Bruce Thomas.

V&t ViolationLOCATION: Visitor LotSUMMARY: Person reported a two-car motor vehicle accident. Officer issued the driver a uniform traffic ticket for Ithaca Town Court for unsafe backing. Patrol Officer Bruce Thomas.

unlawFul Poss. oF MarijuanaLOCATION: Bogart HallSUMMARY: Three people were judicially referred for unlawful possession of mar-ijuana. Patrol Officer Bruce Thomas.

Found ProPerty LOCATION: Tower ConcourseSUMMARY: Caller reported a person found a set of unknown keys.

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Building on solid ground

The college should establish the New York City Center on a foundation that models the idea of the Los Angeles program by

creating ties to specific schools and majors.

Students are immersing themselves in the vast culture of the Big Apple through Ithaca College’s New York City pilot program. Though still in its

infancy, the college’s NYC Center presents the institu-tion with an opportunity to strengthen its presence in a burgeoning academic and professional hub. The college is seeking to expand the NYC program to students from all five professional schools. Such a goal is in line with the college’s emphasis on integration per the IC 20/20 vision. However, before expanding to such a large degree, the college should continue to focus on nailing down foundation logistics of what the NYC Center could offer. The college should identify programs and majors like film, journalism and art that would most benefit from a semester in NYC. Before applying for the pro-gram, students should be able to rely on the likelihood that classes they need will be offered. One strength of the L.A. program is that the same classes are typically offered each semester, allowing students to plan their degree program and L.A. semester far in advance. Though each study-away center cannot be com-pared element by element, the L.A. internship-focused program has what the D.C. program lacked — a defined link to specific majors. The ICLA program has a strong tie to the entertainment industry for majors in the Roy H. Park School of Communications. Because of the large number of alumni working in industry-related fields in the L.A. area, students apply for the program assured that they can find internships and connections that will benefit their educational career. The NYC program, which is currently for business and communications students, can be strengthened to achieve the same prestige of the ICLA program. New York City has a large network of alumni working in media, for example, so journalism students would particularly benefit from the city experience. By first focusing on catering to specific majors, the NYC Cen-ter will have the potential to establish a reputation with students like the L.A. program has done. With careful planning, the center would prove to be a more attractive offer than the D.C. program was for students contemplating their study-away options.

The righT voice The new Voice Modification Program for

People in the Transgender Community is a progressive step toward finding identity.

Ithaca College has been praised for fostering an LGBT-friendly environment on campus and is giving new meaning to the phrase “find your

voice” for transgendered people. The new Voice Communication Modification Program for People in the Transgender Community at the college is a collaborative project of the Sir Alexander Ewing Speech and Hearing Clinic at the college, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Outreach and Services on campus, and Planned Parenthood. The program is a step in the right di-rection to helping participants feel their voice best reflects their identity. Given the college’s commitment to diversity, the new voice modification program — one of few of its kind — speaks to action that does more than simply say Ithaca is a place where all types of people can feel comfortable in the college educational system.

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your leTTersisrael independence day event poses much historical controversy

Having grown up in Israel, I remember celebrating the Israeli Independence Day. There were musical performances, dancing, games and fireworks. There was, however, no mention of the history behind the day.

I believe the same is true of the celebra-tion on campus. Most people who attend the event probably do not know of the atrocities surrounding Israeli independence. Yet this day, which Jewish chaplain Michael Faber presented as uncontroversial in his letter to the editor, is also called al-Nakba, Arabic for catastrophe, by the Palestinians who lived there. When the state of Israel was created, 700,000 Palestinians were

expelled from their homes and forced to flee to make room for the incoming Jewish population. Palestinians’ homes and villages were destroyed while Palestinian families lost their land and entire way of life, not to mention family members who were either killed or fled to other areas.

The day is nothing but controversial, and having our campus celebrate this day by Hillel and SAFI throwing a “damn good party!” on a day that is mourned by many is simply inappropriate. I am glad to hear that the groups are beginning to recognize the inherent political connotations of the event and are making room for dialogue in their “Sulha” (Arabic for reconciliation) tent. Perhaps the more appropriate term would

be Lishkoah (the Hebrew word to forget), which is the theme of the Israeli Indepen-dence Day, as it encourages Israelis and U.S. citizens — and in this specific event, Ithaca College students — to forget the violence embedded in the day’s commemoration. Students for Justice in Palestine will be pres-ent at this event in protest to remind those in attendance of the controversy behind it and the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. We encourage the Ithaca community to recognize the political nature of this celebration and the disrespect and complacency that attendance implies.

junior ava Carmeli, President of students for justiCe in Palestine

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While I was working with elephants in Thailand, I met Khun Chai, a baby elephant who had been abducted from

his mother in the jungle. The bond between the two of us was something that the Thai people and veterinarians had never seen before, and with it I nursed him back to health. But after I returned to Cornell University, Khun Chai refused to eat, caus-ing his health to decline until he passed away. Other than the fact that Khun Chai was “my baby,” he was particularly special because he was born in the wild. Due to deforestation and a variety of other human-induced causes, Thai elephants are predicted to be extinct in the wild within the next 35 years. Thus, Khun Chai was extremely rare. Had I never met him and had he never passed, I perhaps would not have realized my call to action — to save all animals and save all species from extinction. A dramatic decline in biodiversity throughout the world has led scientists to predict a sixth mass extinction, which occurs when three-quarters of all animal species become extinct. In the past 540 million years, the earth has only seen five mass extinctions. A mass extinction would result in a se-ries of huge problems for humans, as we rely upon biodiversity to maintain balance in our ecosys-tems and ensure successful agriculture, medicinal production and natural resource usage. We, the public, must take it into our own hands if we want to assure ourselves and our ancestors the benefits of a biologically diverse planet. To help solve the problem for the sake of our animals, who are helpless against our blunders, I founded The Gabby Wild Foundation 501(c)(3). My charity raises funds through donations, purchases of eco-friendly “trashy” tees and totes made of 50 percent recycled plastic water bottles and 50 percent organic cotton, and sponsorships. I use my brand to spread awareness for the cause and boost attentiveness for the plight of specific animals and ecosystems through various campaigns. Presently, I’m focusing on our “12 in 12 for 12” campaign. I’m wearing 12 outfits — one each

month — that represent 12 animals most in need of our attention. Each custom-made outfit is inspired by a threatened animal species. This month, I am sporting an outfit designed by EARTHTEC and inspired by the purple frog, which has been evolv-ing for 120 million years yet exists in less than five locations. Only 135 frogs have been found to date, and of those 135, only three are female. The outfits are made by acclaimed designers like Seth Aaron Henderson, who won season seven of “Project Runway.” One way women often feel em-powered and “in their medium” is through fashion. Thus, I am promoting environmentalism through fashion to propel saving animals through awareness that the eco-fashion buzz brings. The campaign thus far has had great initial success, garnering attention from notable media

outlets like The New York Times and a guest invita-tion to model at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City. The campaign has not been easy, especially while being a Cornell veterinary student. Sporting clothing for a month has been nothing compared to the stress of ensuring that we raise funds for these animals. The effects of their loss right now do not seem profound, but right when life seems cozy, the effects will start shining through, perhaps even re-versing the way of life as we humans see it. I cannot let an animal die needlessly. Every life is important, and as Mufasa says in “The Lion King,” “and so we are all connected in the great circle of life.”

Gabby Wild is a graduate veterinary student at Cornell University. Email her at wild@gabbywild.com.

Fashion buzz propels activism for the wild

Amid the transition in news publishing from print to the Web, or what some industry

pundits more broadly refer to as the “death of newspapers,” publishers are searching for means of online rev-enue to supplement diminishing print advertising and subscription sales. Last month, executives at the Gannett Company, publisher of the Ithaca Journal and more than 80 other daily newspapers, unveiled plans to launch a subscription model this year that includes “metered” charges for online access. Gannett says the plan will bolster local news and deliver $100 million more in profits. With newsrooms 30 percent smaller today than in 2000, according to the Pew Research Center, the idea is ambitious yet necessary, consider-ing the $25 billion decline of print advertising since 2005. Gannett is not alone in attempt-ing to monetize the digital space. Instead, the largest newspaper publisher in the country is merely hopping on board the “metered revolution” spurred by The New York Times’ plan that launched almost one year ago, nearly 20 years after news first appeared on the Web in 1993. A metered plan grants consumers the right to view an allotted number of articles for free before being asked for payment to continue reading. Re-uters financial blogger Felix Salmon has less formally referred to such an arrangement as the “crack dealer’s paywall” — give consumers access to

some content for free, and they will beg for more. The early returns on the meter are in, and it’s working. In its first four months, the Times attracted about 224,000 digital subscribers, close to its original goal of 300,000 in the first year. Despite all the fears that the Times’ website would lose page views, the tally of unique visitors actually increased 2.3 percent from September 2010 to September 2011, six months after the subscription model’s implementation. Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism lab projects the Times’ model to attract an additional $25 million in annual online subscription revenue.

The benefits are not limited to the digital space. A metered paywall can also protect the print edition, which, despite declining numbers, still ac-counts for 85 percent of the industry’s revenue through advertising. At the Times, Sunday print circulation grew between March and September 2011, according to data released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Metered paywalls offer casual consumers the opportunity to browse headlines and read a limited number of articles, contributing impressions and bolstering a publication’s digital ad revenue without requiring pay-ment. The paywalls target a distinctly loyal audience — in the Times’ case,

those who read 20 or more articles a month. Luckily for the Times, their typical readership age demographic is in the low 40s, situating the publica-tion much better moving forward than broadcast news, with its less strategic mid-60s demographic — not nearly as attractive to advertisers. But can such a model work at newspapers across the country without the journalistic quality or resources the Times has? Data from smaller community newspapers across the country suggest so. The Concord Monitor, which covers New Hampshire’s capital city with daily print circulation around 17,000 copies, has seen a small drop-off in page views since its meter took effect in May, but also a new source of revenue and relative increases in print sales and online advertising, with a more devoted consumer base to pitch to advertisers. Newspapers remain America’s most trusted news source, and as long as they continue to offer daily news not available elsewhere, they will survive. Whether Gannett newspapers like the Ithaca Journal, which is printed about 50 miles away in Johnson City, can provide the high-quality, quasi-daily local news that the company is striving for is another story.

Metered paywall will diffuse the ‘death of newspapers’

Before the calm comes a storm

Last week, the unprecedented happened. North Korea announced the suspension

of their uranium enrichment and nuclear missile testing programs. This indicates a huge stride not only in engaging one of the world’s noto-riously least negotiable nations, but also in regarding the United States’ nuclear containment agenda. That being said, these huge strides come with equally huge re-percussions that we must be aware of if we are to fully understand the magnitude of North Korea’s an-nouncement and the ripple effects multilateral agreements can have. One of the ripple effects falls on Iran. In light of North Korean compliance, Iran will bear the brunt of the United States and United Nations’ pursuit of nuclear containment policies — more so than before. Whether the U.S. containment agenda is flawless or not, this agreement with North Korea is still a huge success diplomatically. Thinking in terms of international engagement, the idea is that nations that are diplomatically engaged with one another are less likely to go to war. Dialogue is a forum to diffuse tensions. With North Korea back in the inter-national diplomatic arena — at the cost of compliance with the U.S. and U.N. — then, at least theoretically, the likelihood that conflict will erupt between North Korea and the U.S. and U.N. has decreased drastically. But this same logic can be applied to explain why tensions with Iran may escalate. The U.S., though engaging diplomatically with Iran, is pushing the nation into isolation. Iran has been less than compliant with U.S. and U.N. nuclear containment initia-tives. When compared to North Korea now, Iran’s resistance will look irrational, extreme and suspicious, ostracizing Iran further from unbiased, recipro-cal international dialogue and engagement — and even from favorable international opinion. This is a huge step in the right direction for U.S.-N.K. relations, even hinting at a rare success for multilateral action. We’re seeing dialogue and diplomacy work. But we need to be cognizant of the after-effects of these agreements. The after-effect that concerns Iran must not be taken lightly, especial-ly at a time when the threat of war is no hollow one. Yes, one nuclear threat is almost down, but the other is still up in the air — and could very well be exacerbated. We’ve already seen one unprecedented event unfold. Hopefully, we’re able to predict the ripple effects of it accurately and understand that a good stride in diplomacy is not always synonymous with a good, global stride overall.

Gabby Wild models her February outfit made with organic cotton. Inspired by the Bactrian camel, the look was codesigned by Cornell fashion design students Laura Zwanziger and Max Gengos.

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From left, Mead Loop, associate professor of journalism and independent study adviser, discusses media paywall news with senior Patrick duprey.

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shaza elsheshtaWy is a junior journalism and politics major. Email her at selshes1@ithaca.edu.

PatriCk duPrey is a senior journal-ism major pursuing an independent study project on media paywalls. Email him at pduprey1@ithaca.edu.

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Whitney Faber senior writer

It can’t be seen in the carved, wooden mask depicting a squashed human face. It isn’t evident in the contemporary painting that presents a woman in a brightly colored robe with wild criss-cross brushstrokes.

A true image of African art can only be seen by looking at the two works side by side.

At least, this is the idea presented in the latest exhibit at the Handwerker Gallery, “Voices: Truth, Identity and Art from Africa,” which opened March 1.

The collection includes traditional and contemporary pieces made by artists from Africa and other people of African heritage to show the variety of work that has been both created and preserved.

Though the art does not represent all African countries or people, it is meant to be a truthful look at African culture and the evolution of the culture’s work. The exhibit high-lights themes including history; myth, religion and ritual; tradition and inno-vation; national identity, ethnicity and nature; and misconceptions.

The exhibit was curated by students in the class “Exhibition Seminar,” which Cheryl Kramer, associate professor of art history and director of the Handwerker Gallery, taught last semester. Students chose the show’s theme and objects and wrote the catalogue for the show.

The actualization of the exhibit, though, was done in the newly created class “Exhibition, Education and Out-reach,” also taught by Kramer. These students transported the pieces, hung them and organized three lectures to be presented at the gallery. Members of the class will also present the exhibit at the college’s James J. Whalen Academic Symposium on April 11 and the Muse-ums in Conversation Conference from April 22 to 24 in Albany, N.Y.

Kramer said she added the second class because the exhibit couldn’t be put together well by only one course. “Exhibition, Education and Outreach” also gave more students the opportu-nity for experiential learning.

“It’s not something to be done in one semester,” she said. “You cannot curate, write a catalogue and mount it in the same semester, so this gave us a different perspective on the exhibition.”

The 58 objects in the exhibit are selections from local residents Aimee and Johannes Lehmann’s collection. Johannes Lehmann, an associate profes-sor of crop and soil sciences at Cornell University, has been collecting the work in the show during the past 20 years. He said most of the pieces he discovered through happenstance.

“Sometimes it’s just by chance,” he

said. “You’ll walk along somewhere, and you see an announcement, like this show, and say this artist is really good and look for more art from that artist.”

Lehmann’s interests in African art first grew after he lived in Togo for six months and then in Kenya for three years while doing research. Since then, he has been keeping an eye out for contempo-rary art and traditional artifacts from African countries in galleries and differ-ent exhibits all over Europe and the U.S.

Lehmann said what intrigues him about African art is not only the sto-ries it tells, but also the changes in art

these artists have made since he has been collecting.

“Art from artists that come from Africa have, over the past two, three decades, fully absorbed international formalism and have something to say,” he said. “They have a lot to say. And they’re extremely successful in telling their story and producing engaged and exciting contemporary art.”

Lehmann said changes in con-temporary African art make it almost indistinguishable from work created in India and Europe. He specifically noted a piece by Nigerian artist Marcia Kure titled “011 from Vogue series.”

The piece is a mix of tans and earthy browns making up the profile of a per-son’s body. Around the straight-standing figure is a lima bean shape resembling the opening of a voluminous dress. Where the head of the human should be, however, is a black hood sharply arching

down, like the beak of a bird.Junior Victoria Rice said she was

pleased with the topic of the exhibit when she entered the class because it brings a new perspective to the area.

“African art is something that we don’t really see, just because we’re in cen-tral New York, so bringing that culture onto our campus is a really nice thing.” she said. “And since it’s ancient and con-temporary African art, there is a lot of range, but then there is a lot of unity be-tween the modern and the ancient.”

Senior Kelly McKenna, also a mem-ber of the class, noted the same modern

styles with traditional influences in the ex-hibit, citing Kure’s “Woman Giving Birth.”

The center of the painting holds the bleach-white shape of a woman, her body shape geometric and abstract. Nothing is distinguishable on her body, except her face, with her mouth

wide open and eyes closed, framed with a heart, a similar look to the traditional masks and sculptures that surround the painting. From between the straight-line “legs” is a little gray semicircle. The rest of the painting is a mix of dark brown shapes with a few graphite lines.

“It’s using a modern style of geo-metric shapes with flat spaces, but you can see the best image that’s taken from tradition. ‘Woman Giving Birth’ is a symbol that is never-end-ing,” McKenna said. “It ties in to the humanity of how people have always been the same.”

Kramer said the students’ energy is what made this show so strong.

“Students in the second class are really able to, with great enthusiasm, take those ideas and realize them over the course of the semester,” she said. “So I think it gives it a nice influx of energy and enthusiasm.”

Top: A wood, metal and cloth statue made by the Songye People in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Center: A funerary post made of wood that was sculpted in Giriama, Kenya. The date of creation is unknown.

Bottom: “Twins Seven Seven,” a piece of art created with ink and canvas. The work was originally made in Nigeria.

ShAwN STeiNeR/The iThACANSophomore Faith Lambert looks at “Orphan,” a painting by Nigerian artist Rufus Ogundele, at the opening of the handwerker Gallery’s exhibition on March 1.

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Students come together to compile art from African Diaspora on campus

6:00 p.m., Today Handwerker Gallery

Scattered Village: Traces of the Ancestor in African American Literature and FilmShauna Morgan Kirlew

No Museum Piece: The Paradox of South Africa LiteratureChris HolmesSo FarMarcia Kure

6:00 p.m., March 22 Handwerker Gallery

6:00 p.m., March 28 Handwerker Gallery

More to see: Lectures on African Diaspora art

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Some Dude Asked Me If The Star On My Elbow Was A Gang .... Yes The GG #GuidoGang— Pauly D, reality TV star of the MTV series “Jersey Shore,” tweets about a passerby commenting on his signature star tattoo.

Unfortunately for those of us with a ravenous sweet tooth, not all treats are made for eating. Exemplifying this predicament, the Cupcake Sidewalk Chalk from Etsy.com is meant to add some sugar to the pavement, not your stom-ach. These colorful creations are detailed with intricate embellishments such as cherries, frosting and even paper liners, and are available in pink, purple, orange, green and blue. Now that the cupcake craze has reached a freakish

fever pitch, it’s safe to say that cupcake-shaped accoutre-ments are officially hot property.

— Benjii Maust

Frozen in time, The Final Image Tumblr addresses the importance of the final scene in a collection of stills. The blog offers the final images of countless movies throughout the years, including award-winning movies like “The Artist,” as well as pop culture hits like the Austin Powers series. Film buffs and movie lovers alike will find them-selves going through The Final Image blog for hours as they try to deter-mine which of the endings was their favorite.

— Allie Healy

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The RunwayWhile in Milan, fashion blogger

Cady Lang gives quick tips to men for a stylish spring wardrobe.

It may be March, but Ithaca temperatures still require lots of layers to keep warm. For most guys, this means piling on sweatshirts and flannels un-derneath a North Face fleece and strapping on their

Timberlands before heading out to class in a pair of sweatpants. Layering is practi-cal for chilly early spring weather, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be boring. Substitut-ing sweats with some pieces that you already own can make you the best-dressed guy on campus. Instead of reaching for sweatpants and a T-shirt, pull

on a pair of dark jeans or cords. Good, basic pieces like these are the foundation for your day’s outfit and are probably already a part of your wardrobe. Next, a simple, solid colored T-shirt or V-neck goes from basic to stylish when paired with a button-down or cardigan. If a cardigan is too adventurous for your tastes, you can keep your flannel — but try pairing it with a blazer in a coordinating neutral. For example, a blue, yellow and green flannel would pop with a navy blazer. No blazer? Salvation Army or Trader K’s always has an abundance in differ-ent styles and sizes. Try ditching the fleece for a classic peacoat or mil-itary-style jacket. Finish off the look with a pair of suede desert walkers — they’re just as waterproof as Tims, but much more stylish. Finally, have fun — dressing up for class doesn’t have to be a chore. Be creative, take chances and try to use the things that have been hiding in the back of your closet all year. With these suggestions, you’ll be styl-ishly layering new outfits for spring in no time.

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

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Heaton’s tweets catch fire

Patricia Heaton, star of the sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,” launched a Twitter campaign against a Georgetown University student this week that had many Tweeters calling foul play. The student in question, Sandra Fluke, a third-year law student at Georgetown, has been promoting better access to contraception and birth control via television and news circuits. After hearing Fluke’s opinion, Heaton took to Twitter, posting com-ments like, “Hey G-town: stop buying toothpaste, soap, and shampoo! You’ll save money and no one will want to sleep with you!” After receiving backlash, Heaton responded by tweet-ing “ … Mea Culpa! We have diff opinions but I was too flippant in my at-tempt at humor.”

— Benjii Maust

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A capella activism from left, seniors Willie sleight, of Voicestream, and Jimmy Knowles, of Ithacapella, sing “Born this Way” by Lady Gaga. the two groups will record the song with Premium Blend and proceeds from the single will go to the Born this Way foundation and the trevor Project.

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BY chloe wilson staff writer

Junior Christopher Accardo, pres-ident of the IC Buddhist Community, leans back in his chair in the admin-istrative office of Muller Chapel. He pushes a calendar toward the end of the desk.

“This used to have two, maybe three things on it per week,” he said. “Now the chapel is always being used by different organizations.”

The packed schedule for the Muller Chapel reflects an increase in student affiliations with on-campus religious organizations. Membership with these groups has increased at Ithaca College and has included a rise in popularity of the IC Buddhist Community.

While the chapel does not keep membership records, Father Carsten Martensen, a pastor at the college, said he has witnessed this rise in religious activity firsthand.

“With the Catholic Community, we have an increase in students that are participating in Sunday worship,” he said. “We’re close to 100 or more students at the 9 p.m. mass, which is up from last year.”

This rise is in accordance with a seven-year national study con-ducted by UCLA that shows young adults become more spiritual in college. The study observed the role that college plays in increasing one’s spirituality and how students’ beliefs change.

Martensen said the increase in religious affiliations among stu-dents has led to the creation of the Interfaith Council, an on-campus group made up of students from several different religions, even those that are not official Ithaca College organizations. The mis-sion of the Interfaith Council is to promote harmony and tolerance

for all religious groups. “It’s always very respectful,”

Martensen said. “And an interfaith presence on campus is one of the bigger things that makes the reli-gious communities on campus an attractive thing.”

Junior Hunter Tom, co-chair of the Protestant Community Council, said the recent rise in interest in the Interfaith Council is the result of the desire for a welcoming and engaging on-campus community.

“I’ve seen an increase in learn-ing about, sharing and celebrating their culture and religious beliefs,” he said. “There’s definitely been an increase in the Protestant commu-nity and in the other communities as well.”

Tom said part of council’s ap-peal for students stems from recent initiatives by on-campus re-ligious communities to advertise. Hillel, the Protestant Community and other groups have created a presence at OSEMA-sponsored organization fairs, but the most ef-fective advertising comes from the students themselves, Tom said.

Sophomore Jason Kleban, president of Hillel at the college, said talking to people in person can be the most effective form of advertising for the group.

“[Hillel] has started doing more Facebook advertising for our events, but word of mouth is also one of the better ways,” he said. “Every time I see someone who I know is Jewish or is a member of Hillel or just might be interested in a program, I go up to them and say, ‘Hey, this is coming up, and you might be interested.’”

Becca Neidle, a peer minister in the Ithaca College Catholic Community, has utilized social media to promote events but said

advertising for new members is not the group’s main focus.

“We’re always trying to get more people involved,” Neidle said. “We’re always trying to put on events that would engage people in a way they wouldn’t necessarily be.”

Martensen said he hopes every student is able to find a spir-itual community where they are

welcome and is happy this trend does not apply to a specific type of student.

“It’s just across the board,” Martensen said. “We don’t ask for membership cards or anything. Everyone is welcome.”

Despite advertising and active recruitment, the main appeal for students is a physical community

close by, as well as the opportuni-ty to meet like-minded students, Tom said.

“Religious communities pro-vide an outlet for people to meet and to gather, and that’s huge,” Tom said. “So even if you’re on Facebook or you’re texting, having this physical community is some-thing we need.”

Spiritual communities gain strength on campus

From left, Reverend Rich Rose from the First Baptist Church by Dewitt Park accepts a donation from freshman Eric Pick during SonRise Service, a blended worship service, held at the Muller Chapel earlier this month.

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BY Patrick FeeneY staff writer

Ithaca College students will compete in a Battle of the Bands April 4 to determine the student band that will open for the Wailers, a popular reggae group, at IC Kicks Back, the college’s end-of-the-year celebration for students, to be held May 4 in the Fitness Center Quad.

The Wailers, who will be brought to campus by the Ithaca College Bureau of Concerts, are internationally known for their work with Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and other reggae musicians.

The concert at IC Kicks Back on May 4 will be the first profes-sional band brought to campus by the Bureau of Concerts this year.

Claudia Pietrzak, co-director of the Bureau of Concerts, said the group wanted to give students the opportunity to open for a nation-ally renowned act.

“We understand that there are a lot of really talented student musi-cians here at IC,” she said. “We have this event as a good way for the bands to get more exposure.”

The Wailers concert is the sec-ond that the group has arranged this semester. The first was can-celed after indie band Phantogram backed out of their scheduled show.

Luke Matheson, co-director of the bureau, said the group of 11 students meets every Thursday to discuss possible acts. These

weekly negotiations are normally made with Dan Smalls, a local concert promoter who works with IC, Cornell University, The State Theatre and other venues.

“We discuss possibilities as a group,” Matheson said. “The choice really comes down to what money we have available and based on who’s available at the time. We cross-reference that and pick hopefully the person who will bring the most attention.”

The Wailers have performed in Ithaca previously, most recent-ly at the State Theatre in 2005.

Smalls said Ithaca “has always been a very big reggae town.”

Smalls said IC Kicks Back tends to center more on the party itself than who ends up playing at the event, which helped lead to choosing the Wailers.

“They’re a perfect, really fun band that has that ‘we’re play-ing outside on a nice spring day’ vibe,” Smalls said. “Getting to know what the event is like over these past few years, it’s not so much about the rock concert. It’s about just a good day to hang out-side with your friends.”

For Ron Jude, associate professor of cinema, photography and media arts at the college, the hometown he left behind years ago is still fresh in his memory — and his photographs.

Jude has been working on projects relating to his small home-town in Idaho since 2006 and has published three books of photographs: “Alpine Star” in 2006, “em-mett” in 2010 and the upcoming “Lick Creek Line.”

His artwork from “Alpine Star,” a book of photographs that were fea-tured in a weekly newspaper from his hometown, is currently on dis-play at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center’s show “Of the Ordinary” at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center until April 15th.

Staff Writer Alyssa Frey spoke with Jude about his work, his past ambitions and his future goals.

Alyssa Frey: How would you de-scribe “Alpine Star?” Ron Jude: “Alpine Star” really simply consists of appropriated photographs from my hometown newspaper. This

little town in Idaho that I grew up in has a weekly newspaper that has been the same since I was a kid — it hasn’t changed at all.

AF: What is “Of the Ordinary?” RJ: It’s actually an exhibition that consists of seven different artists with six different bodies of work, all of which address the idea of creating new meaning through preexisting photographs. All of the work in the show is appropriated. None of us ac-tually made our own pictures.

AF: Does this exhibit connect with your other work?

RJ: Even though I’ve got pictures that range from a fur trapper in Idaho to businessmen in Chicago to appropriated pictures out of a news-paper, I think they’re all starting to gel and make sense together.

AF: What sparked your interest in appropriated photography? RJ: The photography always fascinat-ed me because it was so purposeless, in a way. There was very little going on in the town that was worthwhile to report on, so a lot of the photographs are of nothing. I kept looking at these pictures thinking what a weird hybrid of imagery these pictures were.

Wailers to perform at IC Kicks Back Snapshots of small town get second look in exhibit

the wailers, a reggae group known for their performances with Bob Marley, will perform at iC kicks Back, a celebration for ithaca College students.

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JUDe published old photographs from Central idaho in a new art exhibit.

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By Beverley reynolds Contributing Writer

As more movies are being released in 3-D format, Jason Harrington, assistant professor of cinema, photography and media arts, is bring-ing film back to the basics with a hand-drawn animation that took more than three years and 12 crew members to create.

Harrington recently began screening his newest short animation, “My Mind,” a film about the adventures of a small butterfly girl. During production, Harrington used bitmap software like TVPaint for animation and Photoshop to create digital brushes that mimicked pencil strokes in order to duplicate the realistic sketched look of the images. The images are meticulously hand-drawn pictures with specific and deliberate pencil strokes and crosshatching.

“My Mind” is based on a poem Harrington wrote when he was living in Astoria, N.Y., about his desire to escape the small apartment and the discovery that, with some imagination, he could.

“It was the juxtaposition of my tiny apart-ment within the massive city of New York that inspired many of the size illusions and tricks within the film,” he said.

Teresa Scott, programming coordinator of the Anchorage International Film Festival, one of the festivals “My Mind” was entered in, said there has been a decline in the amount of 2-D animation films submitted to the festival, and usually 2-D films are created by individual

artists who are not affiliated with a studio. This year there was a significant drop in the usual amount of 2-D animation submissions, but the quality of the films has gone up, she said.

“I appreciate films that an artist worked on for a long time and put a lot of effort into more than someone who just moves a mouse and makes a digital film,” she said. “Especially when the quality of the art and the story are high. I watched a lot of films during the submission period, but ‘My

Mind’ was one of the ones I remember well.”

Harrington said he was excited to see there were other 2-D films entered in major competition.

“A lot of the realism and traditional artistry in animation is sacrificed for a cartoony look in order to save time, energy and money,” he said. “It was te-

dious work, and there were days I felt like I was going crazy, but I remained dedicated in order to stay true to the traditional style.”

Harrington said he wanted students and alumni from the schools he had taught at to be a part of the production and creative process, and many former and current students helped with the “tweening” of the film, the in-between movement between key poses in animation.

Rory Magnus, who was one of Harrington’s students at Framingham State College, said this project is rare because the animation was created digitally and he enjoyed the experi-ence he gained from the project.

“It meant a lot to me that my film teach-er had such confidence in me and respected my opinions and feedback,” Magnus said. “I truly felt like a collaborator.”

Harrington said he decided to do this

project to revisit artistic aspects that at-tracted him to animation in the first place.

“The arts are more varied and integrat-ed,” he said. “It was that curiosity that led me into animation.”

The right dimensions

Jason Harrington, assistant professor of cinema, photography and media arts, draws in the Animation Studio on Tuesday. Harrington recently released a hand-drawn animated film.

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“A lot of the realism and traditional artistry in animation is sacrificed for a cartoony look. ” — JASon HARRIngTon

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by marissa smith chief proofreader

“Vitruvian Man” is hardly larger than a standard sheet of printing paper, but it is one of the most rec-ognizable artifacts of culture in the western world. Toby Lester, author of “The Fourth Part of the World,” embarks on a mission to find out the truth about where this drawing came from in his new nonfiction novel, “Da Vinci’s Ghost,” which is the first book to ever explore the story behind the drawing.

In the book, Lester sheds a new light on Da Vinci’s life and work — a compelling feat considering the amount of scholarly material already available about Da Vinci. One of the downsides to this new perspective is the amount of guesswork Lester has to do in connecting Da Vinci to certain places and certain works in the influence of his ideas. While it’s educated guesswork, it’s guesswork nonetheless and can’t be confirmed now, 500 years after the fact.

The main argument that Lester makes concern-ing Vitruvian Man is that he’s a representation of the 2,000-year-old Plutonian idea that man is a micro-cosm of the entire universe — a perfect miniature model of all that is mortal and divine. The figure is set within a square and circle and measured to perfect human proportions to represent the unity between man and the universe according to the prescriptions of Roman architect Vitruvius, from whom the name “Vitruvian Man” is derived.

Lester traces his discussion of man as a smaller world within the universe through the reign of Augustus Caesar, the Dark Ages and even to playing a part in influencing Christopher Columbus to dis-cover the new world, giving the feel that this school of idea has lent itself to so many parts of history that it can’t possibly be separated from our daily lives at this point. Lester adeptly peels away historical layers to allow the reader to peer at the microcosm theory winding its way throughout history to ultimately impact Da Vinci by using many primary sources and exploring the ways in which ideas migrated across the ancient and medieval worlds. It’s a narrative style that dominates the work and keeps readers engaged as well as being effective in informing them about the subject matter.

At the same time, these sidetracked moments are necessary for the reader, who may grow weary of only hearing about Lester’s theories. Tidbits like Da Vinci’s vegetarianism and his habit of buying birds for the pleasure of freeing them make him a more endearing historical figure to a modern reader and leave that reader wanting to know more about the man behind the art.

Lester traces the ideas behind Vitruvian Man’s creation more prominently than the artistic vision, giving a fresh spin on not only what Da Vinci was like as an artist, but as an intellect as well. While it is a book about Da Vinci, the true story is embed-ded in the events leading up to Da Vinci’s work on Vitruvian Man and his self-discovery that Lester argues came as a result of Vitruvian Man’s finish, which may cause readers to reflect on their place in the universe, ultimately making for a more thought-provoking read.

Within the book there are copies of sketches, pages from medieval books and a section of full- color diagrams and pieces of art that aid understand-ing. In including so many visuals, Lester stimulates the readers’ senses more than a work of nonfiction generally would and makes a noticeable and appre-ciative nod to Da Vinci himself, who believed and commonly espoused that the best way to explain things was through illustrations.

Lester’s work is lauded as one of the best nonfic-tion historical books of 2012, and for good reason. “Da Vinci’s Ghost” is a comprehensive piece that is a testament to the idea that there are always more secrets to uncover from the past. It is well worth the read for anyone looking to learn more about the brain of Da Vinci than his brushstrokes.

To read a Q&A with Toby Lester, visit http://theithacan.org/22004.

Author deciphers truth behind sketch

Author Toby Lester and the book cover of his second novel, “Da Vinci’s Ghost.” Lester is a contributing editor for The Atlantic where he has been a writer, staff editor and deputy managing editor.

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by beverley reynolds staff writer

The New York City-based band Fun. plunges into the main-stream with their album “Some Nights.” The release features a drastic change from the band’s acoustic sound in “Aim and Ignite,” its first album.

Filled with heavy electric sounds, “Some Nights” show-cases electronic beats and au-totuned vocals exemplified in “Why Am I the One” and “Stars.” Songs like “Some Nights” and “One Foot” feature a tribal sound with powerful trumpet accom-paniment, repetitive lyrics and military mark time drum beats.

The single “We Are Young” is reminiscent of the band’s cheery,

debut style with a reliance on a piano bass line and strong drum presence. The song “Carry On” presents a homage to the band’s roots of dreamy acoustics, with the added twist of a synthesizer.

“Some Nights” showcases the versatility of Fun.’s sound and its ability to retain elements of its own style while still growing as artists and catering to the changing tastes of the music world.

Indie band stays true to roots

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“ALIVE” biGbanG yG entertainment a delightful mix of tracks that genre-hop from r&B to rock to synthpop to house, this album is packed with musical swagger. these playful tracks are filled with a fresh new sound that makes the pop group stand out from the rest.

“monA” mona Zion noiz this highly anticipated debut album finds the rock band channeling Bon Jovi and U2 with powerful anthems bound to fill stadiums with their powerful drum beats and melodic guitar riffs.

thursday local live music, featuring a variety of musical styles from jazz to Latin, will begin at 6:30 p.m. at stella’s restaurant in collegetown. admission is free.

friday “hugo,” a film starring asa Butterfield as a young boy who secretly lives in a railway station, will show at 7 p.m. at the cornell cinema’s willard straight theatre. tickets cost from $3 to $7. “the adventures of tintin,” a film starring Jamie Bell as a boy who adventures for treasure, will show at 9:30 p.m. at Uris hall at the cornell cinema. tickets cost from $2 to $7.

saturday Cornell symphony orchestra, conducted by chris Younghoon, will begin at 8 p.m. at Bailey hall at cornell University. admission is free. “the mark inside,” a reading held by author amy reading, will begin at 6 p.m. at Buffalo street Books. the event is free.

sunday “les voyages de l’amour: operatic Flights from 18th-Century France,” a production put on by the cornell University department of Music, will begin at 3 p.m. at Bailey hall at cornell University. tickets cost from $8 to $15.

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Electric spectacle charged with bone-chilling synths

by Jared dionne staff writer

American shoegaze duo School of Seven Bells are back on the scene with their spooky new album, “Ghostory.” As the title sug-gests, the LP draws inspiration from everything creepy and mysterious.

School of Seven Bells sticks with the gothic elec-tronica that made their last album, “Disconnect From Desire,” a beauti-ful and ethereal listening experience. Lead singer Alejandra Deheza’s an-gelic vocals float over the ominous synthetic elements. She sets herself apart as the lone human element in a

world of sound crafted almost exclu-sively from majestic computerized effects and tones.

“Lafaye,” the album’s frontrunner single, is one of “Ghostory’s” heavier tunes. The track eases into the ear with twinkling synthesizer tones and pitch-bending guitars. Rapid-fire cymbals launch the song into the top gear as even more synthesizers clash together to transform the track into an electric spectacle.

One of the album’s eeriest tracks is “Reappear.” Strong synthesizer chords set the tone as the band manipulates waves of other effects. Deheza’s vo-cals dance in and out of the sonic ether, adding to the chill factor.

“Ghostory” reflects School of Seven Bells’ appreciation for preci-sion. Each layer of sound is deliberate

and completely necessary. While there may seem to be a plethora of textures and rhythms, remove one and the entire track could easily crumble and lose its luster. Each background guitar line and additional drum riff adds to the overall complexity.

All in all, “Ghostory” is another victory for School of Seven Bells. Af-ter hearing the album, listeners may find themselves wondering if those chills are from the music or some leering specter in the shadows.

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Raunchy comedy commits party foulbY Lara bonner

Managing ediTor

The scenario: Unsupervised teen-agers decide to have a party. Logical conclusion: Things spiral out of con-trol. Director Nima Nourizadeh’s film “Project X” is all about predictability, going for the obvious again and again — and the film doesn’t seem to be ashamed of itself.

Thomas (Thomas Mann) is the ste-reotypical unpopular high school kid, and it’s his birthday. Luckily for him, he has his horrifyingly misogynistic, obnoxious best friend, Costa (Oliver Cooper), by his side to help him throw an epic birthday rager to increase his BFF’s popularity, with their even more stereotypical overweight friend J.B. (Jonathan Daniel Brown) in tow. The whole film is shot from the perspec-tive of another high school kid, Dax (Dax Flame of YouTube), who docu-ments the party from its planning stages to its destructive finish in a poor attempt at a documentary style.

A hyped-up endeavor for pro-ducer Todd Phillips, director of “The Hangover,” the film blatantly targets a young male audience. Anything one might expect a typical, one-dimen-sional teenage boy to be attracted to shows up tenfold in this film — naked girls who are falling over them-selves to have sex with high school boys, a seemingly endless supply of alcohol and drugs, flamethrowers, ex-plosions and law enforcement that for some reason is incapable of shutting down a high school party.

The most disturbing aspect of

the film comes in its sexism and its underestimation of the audience’s in-telligence. Or perhaps not — Costa’s line repeated throughout the movie that the girls coming to the party bet-ter “wear something tight” gets an appalling number of laughs from the audience. The friends place a sign by the swimming pool that reads “naked girls only,” and the young ladies are evidently more than happy to oblige. Frequent, lengthy close-up shots of girls’ bodies resulted in much glee from the mostly male audience. In-stead of portraying teen partying realistically, the filmmakers went for shock value, a cheap shot requiring no depth from anyone involved.

Perhaps equally distressing was the underlying action posing poorly as a storyline in which Thomas falls for his best girl friend, Kirby (Kirby Bliss Blanton), the only character who ap-pears to have any sense throughout the entire film. When Kirby walks in on Thomas and the token hot girl, Alexis (Alexis Knapp), she angrily flees the party. Yet any merit Kirby would have earned as a character is totally lost at the end of the film. Kirby sends the message that sure, she’ll forgive the kid who burned down his entire neighborhood, as long as he tells her that she is all he cares about before the credits roll.

In fact, none of the actors seem

to exert themselves whatsoever, and the writing is at times disgusting, and Costa’s immature jokes are just one in-stance of this. In the opening scenes, it was almost unclear whether the film was actually taking itself seriously. Unfortunately, it became clear that the film was not making fun of itself at all.

“Project X” was a missed oppor-tunity to more creatively parody the usual high school party. Instead, it was a misguided and disconcerting movie that throws all other factors of a good film out the window.

“Project X” was directed by Nima Nourizadeh and written by Matt Drake and Michael Bacall.

Three high school seniors throw a mega birthday party for their close friend to gain popularity among their peers in “Project X.” As the night goes on, things quickly get out of control as word of the party spreads around town.

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Magical visuals enchant in film

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The Technicolor magic of Dr. Seuss comes alive on the silver screen once more with the lighthearted movie “The Lorax.”

The film made its debut on what would have been Dr. Seuss’ 108th birthday and is based on his popular children’s book “The Lorax.” The movie, directed by Chris Renaud, tells the tale of the city of Thneed-Ville, which was once full of Truffula trees and adorable creatures, but is now a walled-in fixture made out of plastic and bearing no connection to nature. The city, run by an evil entrepreneur, Mr. O’Hare (Rob Riggle), produces its main commodity of “bottled air,” as it has no trees to provide this vital resource.

Ted (Zac Efron) is a 12-year-old boy and the protagonist of the film. His character portrays the typical pre-teen boy — he has a crush on a girl who he would do anything for. The girl, Audrey (Taylor Swift), has a birthday rapidly approaching. Her one wish for the special day is to see her first real tree. Ted makes it his mission to find her one.

He goes through an eye-opening adventure to find a Truffula tree for Audrey. He meets the Once-ler (Ed Helms) who lives outside the walls of Thneed-Ville. The Once-ler helps the audience un-derstand what happened to the Truffula Forest when he explains to Ted what happened to the trees.

The Lorax (Danny DeVito) is the comical protec-tor of the trees and serves as a leader for the animals in this small community. The Once-ler, taken over by greed, starts to use the trees in the forest to make a new, popular product.

Efron was a great choice for this leading role, as

his voice perfectly fits with the determination and bravery of his character. Swift, likewise, did a fantas-tic job turning her character into a soft-spoken yet strong-willed teenager.

Betty White, who provides the voice for Ted’s grandma, Grammy Norma, steals the spotlight, as her witty dialogue and humorous moments shine in the movie. DeVito has an outstanding ability to make his character’s sarcasm stand out in a children’s film.

Overall, “The Lorax” provides great enter-tainment for its audience through its charming storyline, catchy musical numbers and creative vi-suals. This animated movie is able to connect with the audience on a personal level through Dr. Seuss’ timeless story.

“The Lorax” was directed by Chris Renaud and written by Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul.

The Lorax (Danny DeVito) is the protector of the Truffula trees and small animals in “The Lorax.”

CourTesy of uniVersAL PiCTures

FilmReview“The Lorax” universal Picturesour rating:HHH

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The fast-paced thriller “Gone” hits a victim in a quest for vengeance against the only people who can help her — the police.

Jill (Amanda Seyfried) escapes death af-ter being held captive in a ditch by a man who only she can identify. No evidence is found in Jill’s case, and the police conclude she conjured up the crime in her head. The distraught damsel is in-stitutionalized, and after her release, her sister Molly goes missing, leaving one conclu-sion for Jill’s brain to master.

Jill’s quest to find out who has her sister is so perfect it’s unbelievable. Yet, it is hard to foresee that a per-son of an unbalanced mental state would devise a flawless plan to seek revenge on her enemy.

With the generic plot comes the generic soundtrack. The tracks are seemingly meant to complement and magnify the thrill of the movie, but they will likely be stuck in the film and rarely listened to again. If subtle music was chosen for the film, it would have been much more enjoyable and less distracting.

Seyfried was a completely miscasted, which could have contributed to the film’s lacklus-ter tone. Watching Seyfried get chased by the police around Portland, Ore., came off as comi-cal. She performs better in romantic comedies, not in a film with such action and intensity.

Though it put up a good fight, “Gone” proved to be a puzzle with too many missing pieces.

“Gone” was directed by Heitor Dhalia and written by Allison Burnett.

Talented actress lost in dark plot

FilmReview“gone” Film4 our rating:H 1/2

Disastrous teen party flick exaggerates stereotypes on screen

FilmReview“project X” Warner bros. our rating:H

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College & City

Home care research aims

to reduce pain in patients

The Agency for Healthcare

Research and Quality has awarded

a three-year grant

for $1.5 million to

Katherine Beiss-

ner, professor of

physical therapy

at Ithaca College,

and her research

team for their

project “Treat-

ing Pain to Re-

duce Disability Among Older Home

Health Patients.”

The goal of the study is to reduce

disability among older home health

patients by treating their pain more

effectively. The study will compare

treatment given to home care patients

and usual home care plus instruction

by physical therapists in a nondrug

pain treatment program.

The project is based on a study

Beissner conducted and developed

with a Cornell University colleague.

College senior wins grant

to travel to conference

Senior Dan Weller has received

a travel grant from Sigma Xi, The

Scientific Research Society, to pres-

ent research at the Mid-Atlantic

Ecological Society Meeting in April

in Blacksburg, Va.

Weller will present his paper

“Plant communities along shore-

lines in the Chesapeake Bay are

altered by both Native American and

modern land use history,” which he

co-authored with John Parker from

the Terrestrial Ecology Lab at the

Smithsonian Environmental Research

Center and Torben Rick from the

Department of Anthropology at the

National Museum of Natural History.

Ithaca College professor

publishes chapter in book

Amy Gerney, professor of occu-

pational therapy at Ithaca College,

has published a chapter in the book

“Designing Problem-Driven Instruc-

tion with Online Social Media.”

The chapter, titled “Using Online

Social Media to Facilitate Clinical

Reasoning in Entry Level Occupa-

tional Therapy Students,” explores

the use of social media to facilitate

the development of an occupational

therapy assessment, interpretation of

the results and the formulation of an

intervention plan as an example of a

formative assignment for students.

The book is co-authored by Dr.

Marlene Morgan, professor of oc-

cupational therapy at the University

of Scranton.

Journalism professor’s film

recognized in film festival

James Rada, professor of journal-

ism at Ithaca College, has received a

Director’s Choice

Selection for the

31st annual Black

Maria Film Festival

for his documen-

tary “Deeds Not

Words: The Buffalo

Soldiers in World

War II.”The film nar-

rates the true story of the last seg-

regated army units as told by the

men themselves.

Of 500 entries, fewer than 70

were chosen for the festival this

year. The Black Maria Film Festi-

val has been ranked in the 25 Film

Festivals Worth the Entry Fee by

Moviemaker Magazine.

Music professor publishes

book on Patrick Conway

Mark Fonder, professor of mu-

sic at Ithaca College, has published

the book “Patrick Conway and His

Famous Band.”

The book was

published with

Meredith Music

Publications. It

tells how Con-

way became one

of the leaders of

the professional

band era.

Fonder has been a professor at

the college since 1989, and he was

the chairman of the music education

department from 1994 to 2003. He is

the conductor of the Ithaca College

Concert Band.

Cornell University launches

rocket to aurora borealis

A NASA-funded collaborative

research team at Cornell University

launched a sounding rocket Feb. 18

from Alaska’s Poker Flat Research

Range in order to collect data from

the aurora borealis.

The research team is led by

Steven Powell, Cornell senior en-

gineer in electrical and computer

engineering. The project, which is

called the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere

Coupling in the Alfven resonator mis-

sion, includes a research team of 60

scientists, engineers, technicians and

graduate students from several insti-

tutions and NASA.

The rocket, a 46-foot Terrier-

Black Brant model, sent a stream of

real-time data back before landing

200 miles downrange.

The project is in its third and

final year.

Photo professor joins forces

with sculptor for publication

Janice Levy, professor of

cinema, photography and media

arts at Ithaca College, has col-

laborated with sculptor Genevieve

Prillaman to publish photographs

in the 30-page book “Monument

pour la Paix, Peace Monument.”

Levy met Prillaman after spend-

ing time in Saudi Arabia during her

sabbatical year from the college.

Levy photographed Prillaman’s

sculpture because it “captured both

the futility and hope of those engaged

in the march for universal peace.”

Educational tech center

offers software workshops

Information Technology Ser-

vices is sponsoring a series of

workshops about Zotero, Turnitin

and Rubrics through the Center for

Educational Technology.

The next workshop is titled

“Using Zotero to Help Students

Organize Their Research,” and

will be presented by Jake Brenner,

professor of environmental sci-

ences. The session will be held

from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. tomorrow

in Job 102.

The center also offers drop-in

hours for help with Sakai or any other

course technology.

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thursday

“The Politics of Crime in

‘Oliver Twist’ and ‘The

Wire,’” a talk with Tom

Shevory, professor of politics

at Ithaca College, will begin

at 4:30 p.m. in Ithaca Falls

Room, Egbert Hall.

friday

Shabbat Services will begin

at 6 p.m. in Muller Chapel.

Shabbat Dinner will be held at

7 p.m. in Terrace Dining Hall.

Night Hike, a walk through

the Cayuga Nature Center

trail, will begin at 7 p.m. in

the Cayuga Nature Center at

1420 Taughannock Blvd.

sunday

Catholic Mass will begin at

1 and 9 p.m. in Muller Chapel.

tuEsday

The Other Side of What?

Adventures in Fungal

Wonderland, a photo exhibit,

will be held from 8 a.m. to

5 p.m. in the Top Shelf

Gallery of the Mann Library

in Cornell University.

WEdnEsday

Distinguished Visiting

Writers Series reading by

Andy Fitch, author of “Sixty

Morning Walks” begins at

7:30 p.m. in Clark Lounge.

BEISSNER

fEbruary 9

MEDICAL ASSIST/ILLNESS RELATED

LOCATION: Circle Apartments

SUMMARY: Caller reported feeling ill. One

person transported to CMC by ambulance.

Patrol Officer Matt O’Loughlin.

MEDICAL ASSIST/INJURY RELATED

LOCATION: All Other

SUMMARY: Caller reported a person fell

while skiing and received a concussion

and arm injuries Jan. 25. Victim was

treated at the hospital in Syracuse. Report

taken. Sergeant investigator Tom Dunn.

fEbruary 10

HARASSMENT

LOCATION: Tallcott Hall

SUMMARY: Caller reported a person sent

harassing text messages. Investigation

pending. Patrol Officer Bruce Thomas.

CRIMINAL MISCHIEF

LOCATION: West Tower

SUMMARY: Person reported an un-

known subject damaged an exit sign.

Investigation pending. Patrol Officer

Jeremiah McMurray.

fEbruary 11

UNLAWFUL POSS. MARIJUANA

LOCATION: East Tower

SUMMARY: Two people judicially referred

for unlawful possession of marijuana.

Patrol Officer Mark Denicola.

FIRE ALARM ACCIDENTAL

LOCATION: Cerrache Athletic Center

SUMMARY: Fire alarm activation

caused by a detector possibly being

too close to heat source. System reset.

Fire and Building Safety Coordinator

Ron Clark.

CONDUCT CODE VIOLATION

LOCATION: Circle Apartments entire area.

SUMMARY: One person transported to

CMC by ambulance and judicially referred

for irresponsible use of alcohol. Master

Patrol Officer Christopher Teribury.

MEDICAL ASSIST/ILLNESS RELATED

LOCATION: Hilliard Hall

SUMMARY: Caller reported a person

feeling ill. Person transported to CMC

by ambulance. Fire and Building Safety

Coordinator Ron Clark.

fEbruary 12

MEDICAL ASSIST/ILLNESS RELATED

LOCATION: Terraces

SUMMARY: Caller reported a person feeling

ill. One person transported to CMC by am-

bulance. Patrol Officer Jay VanVolkinburg.

MEDICAL ASSIST/ILLNESS RELATED

LOCATION: Hilliard Hall

SUMMARY: Caller reported a subject not

feeling well. Person transported to CMC by

ambulance. Patrol Officer Mark Denicola.

FOR THE COMPlETE SAFETy lOg,

go to www.theithacan.org/news.

Public Safety Incident Log

SELECTED ENTRIES FROM FEB. 9 TO FEB. 12

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CMC – Cayuga Medical Center

DWI – Driving While Intoxicated

IFD – Ithaca Fire Department

IPD – Ithaca Police Department

V&T – Vehicle and Transportation

MVA - Motor Vehicle Accident

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ACROSS1 Soap pad brand4 “Lettuce pray,” e.g.7 Hangs back11 White-water transport12 She loved Lennon13 -- fixe14 Uncertainty16 Soften17 Name in tractors18 Early moralist20 Make a mistake21 Cancels23 Barge pusher26 X-rated27 Leap in a tutu28 Gambles31 Poor, as soil33 Cousteau’s middle name

34 Weeps35 Above, to a bard36 Sticky38 Jungfrau41 Stephen King’s state43 Malt-shop orders45 Horse color47 “Address Unknown” sing-

ers (2 wds.)49 Moo companion50 Vet office sound51 Be a party to52 Lohengrin’s bride53 Pale gray54 Caesar’s law

DOWN1 Less risky2 Volunteer3 Cook in a wok4 “The Gold-Bug” author5 Not mentioned6 Sniffed at7 VIP transport8 More skilled9 Congeal10 Adjust a clock11 Carnival attraction15 Not even once19 Retiree’s income (abbr.)22 Cries of pain24 Salt Lake City player25 Pentagon VIP26 Brown the bandleader27 PSAT takers

28 Colo. neighbor29 Forum hello30 Dresden residents31 -- choy32 Deep fissure34 Vistas36 Scale note37 Jungian term38 Hacienda material39 Rubber-tree sap40 Furtive sound42 “She’s a Lady” compos-

er44 Iridescent stone45 Beluga product46 Mideast export48 Elec. measure

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From left, senior midfielders Billy LaPerch and Brian DiBetta work on their passing Sunday at Higgins Stadium. The two friends have been playing lacrosse together since the third grade. RacHeL wooLF/THe iTHacan

By Matt Kelly AssistAnt sports Editor

Every so often, a pair of star players on the boys’ lacrosse team at John Jay High School in Cross River, N.Y., dusted off an old play that could only be formed from a backyard bond.

Billy LaPerch, a junior midfielder for the Indians, brought the ball up at a blistering pace on the fast break. The opponents were expecting a simple pass to the left, but LaPerch had some-thing else in mind.

While LaPerch made his move, junior attack Brian DiBetta quietly darted toward the right side of the goal and set up to re-ceive a pass. Just when it looked as if LaPerch was about to drop the ball off on the perimeter, he found DiBetta wide open and sitting by the net for an easy score.

Their teammates could only shake their heads and laugh — they knew this surprise play had been drawn up during countless neighborhood pickup games when the two boys were younger. Five years later, DiBetta and LaPerch are taking over as senior lead-ers of the men’s lacrosse team. DiBetta, now a midfielder, won a team-high 130 face-offs last season and LaPerch had a four-game scoring streak in 2011.

Residents of their hometown, Katonah, N.Y., will say the close bond between DiBetta and LaPerch goes further back than their four years together at the college. Their friendship dates back to when they were four years old and their families moved into new adjacent development houses. The pair spent nearly every day of their formative years playing football, hockey, basketball and lacrosse in each other’s driveways and backyards.

DiBetta’s older brother, Matt, said having the two friends live just 20 feet away helped to combine each of the households into one extended family.

“We would be sitting there at dinner, and Bill would just walk in all the time,” Matt said. “He’s

legitimately our fourth brother, and he is proba-bly closest to Brian other than his real brothers.”

When the two friends weren’t playing sports together, they were usually up to some sort of mischief. The boys’ childhood friend, Chris Bocklet, remembered LaPerch’s family being in on one of their most memorable adventures.

“I remember one time the older guys lit a tiny fire in the road, and the neighbors called the police,” Bocklet said with a chuckle. “The fire department came, and we were all so scared, but Billy’s mom brought us all into her house and hid us in her attic so we wouldn’t get in trouble.”

For all the foolish things they did together,

DiBetta and LaPerch were also quick to sup-port each other when life turned more somber. DiBetta reflected on how LaPerch spent time playing video games and watching movies with him after DiBetta tore his ACL before their se-nior season of high school lacrosse.

“There was a lot of downtime for me, and while everyone else was going out and hav-ing fun, Billy was always kicking it with me,” DiBetta said.

Similarly, LaPerch said he was glad DiBetta was there to help him cope with the death of his grandmother.

“I was in and out of school going to the wakes and the funeral, and I really wasn’t ex-pecting Brian to come to either of them,” he said. “Having to greet people I didn’t even know who knew my grandmother got old pret-ty quick, and he came by and sat down with me and helped take my mind off the situation.”

Matt said the amount of time DiBetta and LaPerch have spent together over the years has caused them to inherit several of each other’s personality traits.

LaPerch said DiBetta was a shy kid in elementary school but that he has really come out of his shell since then.

Matt said LaPerch has mellowed out from the reckless days of his youth. DiBetta

maintains that LaPerch is still very much a free-spirited person.

“You’ll see it out on the lacrosse field when he’s wearing pink socks, or he’ll grow his beard out and it looks ridiculous, and you’ll see him out on the weekends wearing what-ever,” DiBetta said.

Many of the pair’s friends assumed that the two would attend the same college. But that conclusion was not as inevitable as it seemed.

DiBetta was hungry to get back on the la-crosse field after missing his entire senior high school season with his torn ACL, so he chose to play lacrosse for the Bombers relatively ear-ly. LaPerch wasn’t sure he wanted to continue playing the sport in college and waited until the first deposit deadline of April 1 to commit to the college.

When asked if DiBetta’s early commit-ment factored into his decision, LaPerch said there was peace of mind knowing his longtime friend would be there.

“I’ll say ‘No’ when I’m talking to him so that he doesn’t get all cocky about it,” LaPerch said. “But he’s usually making the right decisions, so I thought if he was making a decision like that, then I might as well give it a try.”

Four years later, DiBetta and LaPerch are glad they chose to attend college together. The two childhood friends will now lead a team that is determined to claim its first Empire 8 Conference title since 2008. Senior defenseman Will Kraus said both play-ers provide stability as the only seniors in

the center of the Bombers’ lineup.“They have the most leadership at the mid-

field position,” Kraus said. “Billy is one of the best all-around players on the team on both offense and defense. Brian leads the team with our face-offs, and he basically runs the games by how he’s playing.”

The two childhood friends are assured of at least one more summer together, as they will be working at an internship at Budweiser in Montauk, N.Y., that DiBetta’s father set up. Once fall comes, the friends’ career paths will likely split, but DiBetta doesn’t see any physi-cal distances affecting the bond the two have established since they were little kids.

“We’ll see what happens down the road, but it doesn’t really matter,” DiBetta said. “We’ll always be tight because we’ve been such good friends, and that’s the way it’s al-ways going to be.”

BackyardconnectionLongtime neighbors and best friends

bring lasting bond to lacrosse field

From left, four-year-olds Brian DiBetta and Billy LaPerch stand outside for a photograph at north Salem nursery School in north Salem, n.Y.

couRTeSY oF BiLLY LaPeRcH

“We’ll always be tight because we’ve been such good friends, and that’s the way it’s always going to be.”

— BRian DiBeTTa

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

When news broke last week that St. Louis Rams defensive coordinator Gregg Williams had paid players to injure specific opposing players during his years with the New Orleans Saints and Washington Redskins, I can’t say I was surprised.

According to an investiga-tion by the NFL, the bounty pool reached its max of $50,000 during the Saints’ Super Bowl run in 2009, with $1,500 for knocking an opposing player out and $1,000 if a player was carted off the field. One of the more extreme scenarios reported was linebacker Jonathan Vilma offering $10,000 to any player who knocked former Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre out of the 2009 NFC Championship game. Saints defenders constantly went for low tackles and late hits on Favre throughout the game and knocked him out temporarily with an ankle injury that would later require offseason surgery.

Despite warnings from team owner Tom Benson, General Manager Mickey Loomis and Head Coach Sean Payton did nothing to stop the program, and it is not known how severe the punishment will be for one of the league’s marquee franchises.

With many former NFL players tweeting that the practice of plac-ing bounties on opposing players is commonplace in professional football locker rooms, it should be more apparent than ever that we have reached a fever pitch when it comes to the size of the personalities and egos of men in professional sports.

This is a huge and seemingly emerging problem at not only the professional level — where athletes are willing to push the boundaries on what is considered acceptable behavior with their livelihoods on the line — but also at the high school, collegiate and amateur levels.

I remember more than one instance playing travel and high school baseball when coaches told me to slide hard into a certain player, or when I was pitching, to throw at particular batters to send an intimidating message to the opponent. Another player on my basketball team told stories of fouling opposing players hard because the coach wanted them out of the game.

What does it say about our desire to win in athletics that we are willing to go beyond the rules and potentially seriously injure our opponents? Professional sports leagues and youth athletic associations need to take a serious look at what kind of messages they are sending to participants when the emphasis on winning is paramount. The idea that in order to be a successful athlete you need to be the best at all costs has led us to where we are today.

Cruel hitting scars league

Blue and Gold search for perfect pitchBy nate king

staff writer

When the baseball team takes the field for games this spring, there will be many unfamiliar arms out on the mound and in the bullpen.

The team will count on pitching from soph-omores David Jasukonis and Luke Stark, who were both on the junior varsity team last season. Jimmy Wagner, John Prendergast, Quinn Irwin and Andrew Sanders constitute the South Hill squad’s freshmen pitchers.

Last year’s starters, Dan Lynch ’11, Aaron Sapp ’11 and Andrew Wall ’11, who combined for 84 strikeouts, graduated. Junior Jasper Adams will miss all of the 2012 season following Tommy John surgery, senior Brian Eggleston will miss the season because of a torn rota-tor cuff, and junior Ian Gaule has been unable to practice because of medical issues.

Head Coach George Valesente said replacing all those players on the mound will be difficult for the team, but it’s manageable.

“We’ve lost six pitchers in one year,” he said. “I don’t even think the Yankees could handle that, but we’ll figure it out.”

Adams had a team-low 1.59 ERA last season, while Eggleston fanned 19 batters in 16 innings.

Valesente said he is not certain how he will use the young arms at this point in the sea-son, but, regardless of their roles, composure is vital.

“The hitters are going to be more challeng-ing, and there are going to be times when they’re going to get hit hard,” he said. “We need to see how they handle that and how they’re able to keep the rallies from extending too long.”

Senior pitcher Tucker Healy, who struck out six batters in the season-opener Friday against SUNY-Old Westbury, said the young pitchers need to develop their control rather than look to overpower hitters.

“They’re just going to have to throw strikes, not give up many walks and keep the hitters off balance,” he said. “We’ve got eight guys behind them, so if they can just throw strikes and get ground balls and fly balls, we’ll be fine.”

Wagner, who pitched 1 2/3 innings of shutout relief in the season-opener, said he can already tell Division III baseball is more physically and

mentally challenging than at the high school level.“You have to be smart — you can’t just go out

there and throw,” he said. “You have to really use your mind and your arm when you’re out there.”

Valesente said he is putting the young pitchers through strenuous conditioning and arm strength-ening drills as well as going over game situations in practice.

“The things we’re having them do are pitching live batting practice,” he said. “They’re called upon to try to hit locations, change speeds and get their breaking ball over the plate.”

Valesente said he also tries to simulate game situations, such as the hitter’s count and the position of base runners, in order to construct the young pitchers’ instincts on the mound.

As the season gets under way, Valesente said he is certain the young pitchers will perform well despite their inexperience.

“From a coaching standpoint, it’s always more of a comfortable feeling to have experienced play-ers who know how to handle the battle,” he said. “But I’m confident. From what I’ve seen, they’ve all been impressive.”

Sophomore pitcher Luke Stark throws off an artificial mound during practice Monday in Glazer Arena. Stark pitched for the Blue and Gold’s junior varsity baseball team during its 2011 season.

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Bombers triumph despite late-season strugglesBy joe gentile contributing writer

The men’s indoor track team learned not to dwell on past mistakes as it darted its way through the higher levels of postseason competition dur-ing the indoor season.

The team committed penalties during the final two weeks of the indoor season at the New York State Collegiate Track Conference and Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships. Sophomore Jake Willis cost the team points at the state title meet Feb. 24 and 25, when he was charged with a lane violation in the 200-meter dash. The loss in points ended up being costly for the squad as the Bombers ended up finishing in second place by 5.5 points.

Senior Doug Koury said it was important for Willis to get past his mistake in the 200-meter dash when Willis competed on the 4x400-meter relay team.

“We told him to run and show why he should have qualified in the 200-meter,” Koury said.

Willis and the rest of the relay team — Koury, sophomore Brennan Edmonds and freshman Matt Killian — earned first place with a time of 3:26.61.

Koury said he saw encouraging signs from the competitors at the indoor season’s regional meet Friday and Saturday.

“Everyone performed better than they were supposed to on paper,” he said. “Guys who qualified for ECACs earlier in the season and may not have competed at that same level for the remainder of the indoor season were

able to regain some confidence.”Though Koury said the runners

experienced fatigue during the two-day meet, the support of teammates who attended the meet but did not compete helped the runners move

ahead of 50 schools to finish in 13th place.

“The competition provided a great morale boost and some great team unity,” he said. “Even the guys who were not competing were involved, and that brought everybody together.”

The team displayed its confidence with a nearly record-breaking finish in the 4x800-meter relay. The group of junior Matthew Kastler, freshman Mason Mann, junior Billy Savage and freshman Dennis Ryan finished third in the event with a time of 7:52.30, which was just .65 seconds slower than the program record.

Edmonds said the South Hill squad will work off the athletes’ high finishes at last weekend’s meet to improve on their times and distances in the future.

“Coming off of some great perfor-mances from the guys who competed, everyone will be motivated to better their marks and raise their standards for the outdoor season,” he said.

Despite their impressive perfor-mance at the regional meet, none of the Bombers qualified to run at the NCAA Championships this weekend.

Mann said though the Bombers are better than their regional finish, they are looking forward to beginning the outdoor season.

“Coach Nichols keeps saying not to try too hard,” Mann said. “You need to enjoy it, and you’ll perform at your best if you’re relaxed.”

From left, freshman david Searles, freshman kevin davis and sophomore Zack Mitchell sprint on the track during practice Monday in Glazer Arena.

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stat CheCkthe south Hill squad began this season with four freshmen pitch-ers on its roster.

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Look online for game stories from these sports:TOMORROW • 1 p.m. Women’s Indoor Track at NCAA Indoor Championships in

Grinnell, Iowa • TBD Wrestling at NCAA Championships in La Crosse, Wis.

SATuRDAY• 1 p.m. Women’s Indoor Track at NCAA Indoor Championships in

Grinnell, Iowa • 1 p.m. Gymnastics vs. Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference

Championships in Ben Light Gymnasium • TBD Wrestling at NCAA Championships in La Crosse, Wis.

SuNDAY• 9 a.m./11 a.m. Softball at Emory University/Washington University

in Clermont, Fla.• 7 p.m. Baseball at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.

MONDAY• 1 p.m./5 p.m. Softball vs. Lycoming College at Higgins Stadium• 1 p.m. Women’s Lacrosse at Springfield College in Clermont, Fla.• 7 p.m. Baseball at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.

TuEsDAY• Noon/12:30 p.m. Men’s and Women’s Tennis at Connecticut

College in Hilton Head, S.C.• 3 p.m. Baseball at Whittier College in Whittier, Calif.• 6 p.m. Men’s Lacrosse at New England College in Newport

News, Va.

wEDnEsDAY• 9 a.m./11 a.m. Softball at SUNY-Plattsburgh/Manhattanville

College in Clermont, Fla.• 11:30 a.m. Men’s and Women’s Tennis at Bloomsburg University

in Hilton Head, S.C.• Noon Baseball at Hampden-Sydney College in Claremont, Calif.• Noon Women’s Lacrosse at Franklin and Marshall College in

Clermont, Fla.

Bold = Home game TBD = To be determined

Freshman infielder Francesca Busa throws the ball to first base during practice yesterday on Kostrinsky Field. Busa will play shortstop for the team this season while senior shortstop Annmarie Forenza recovers from a concussion.

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Leader of the pack

By steve derderian Staff Writer

In addition to the six members of its coaching staff, the softball team will have an extra pair of eyes in the dugout this season in senior shortstop Annmarie Forenza.

Forenza has decided to take on the role of a student coach this year after suffering two concussions in less than one year. Her first con-cussion came after she dove for the ball during a game last season against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on April 20 in Troy, N.Y. She was still able to start in 33 of the Bombers’ 44 games. After last season, Forenza was getting into a car when she hit her head on the side of the vehicle on the same area as her previous concussion.

Forenza said she decided to sit out her senior season after consulting with her doctor and her family, who told her she should try to preserve her mental and physical health for the future.

“What really hit home was when [the doctor] said, ‘If you were my daughter, I wouldn’t let you play,’” Forenza said. “My family really had a big part in telling me, ‘You have the rest of your life to take care of.’”

Forenza had two other concussions while playing sports at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, N.J. She suf-fered the effects of second-impact syndrome after her first head injury, experiencing loss of consciousness when she dove for the ball during a

volleyball game for Hunterdon. Contemplating the risks of suf-

fering a third head injury in two years, Forenza decided to inform her teammates of her choice not to compete this season via email because she could not attend pre-season practices. She said she was not feeling any physical effects from her latest head injury, so it was a tough decision to make.

“I was devastated,” Forenza said. “There were a lot of tears because I wanted to play, and there was a lot of going back and forth with myself.”

The Bombers are expecting freshman Francesca Busa to step in and play shortstop in the start-ing lineup. Forenza said she has become a mentor for Busa because Forenza was in the same role her first season on the team, stepping into the starting role at shortstop after Erica Cutspec ’08 graduated.

“Part of what made me more at ease with the decision is that I have a lot to offer, especially with such a young team,” Forenza said. “I feel good when I can tell them some-thing, and they make the switch right away.”

Busa said she was looking for-ward to playing with Forenza, given that Forenza was thrust into a simi-lar situation her freshman year. Now that she has Forenza as a mentor, Busa said she has taken full advan-tage of her opportunity to start.

“She knows more about the game than some of the coaches that I’ve

had,” Busa said. “Not only has she been there recently, she’s smart, and she knows how to play the game.”

Junior second baseman Jenn Biondi said Forenza’s absence will be difficult for the team, but the cur-rent infield has found a new way to track progress for the team through a “punchboard board.” The team will write down a list of objectives, such

as scoring the game’s first run, and make a hole next to each one as it’s met throughout the game.

“With our personalities, we just like to make plays, and it should help us achieve our goals,” Biondi said.

Forenza said she plans to stay in Ithaca for the next few years, as she is enrolled in the six-year clinical health studies doctorate program

at the college. Though she will not be playing softball this season, she said she will use her experience to motivate the rest of her teammates to appreciate every aspect of playing for the Blue and Gold.

“I told them just to love it like I did, to fall in love with the game every time you play it because you don’t know when it will all end,” she said.

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Gymnast’s comeback inspires South Hill squadby haley costello

staff writer

When senior Christine Niles was walking around on crutches with a broken ankle during her freshman year on the gymnastics team, she thought her career in the sport was over. But three years later, she has qualified for the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships, which will be held in the same gym she first injured herself in.

Niles said she came to the college’s gymnas-tics team from North Carroll High School in Hampstead, Md., excited to redefine herself as a bolder competitor.

“In my club years I had a lot of fears and mental blocks, and here I didn’t want to be that person,” she said.

Niles earned a spot among the Bombers as a competitor in the vault and uneven bars prior to the 2009 season. Head Coach Rick Suddaby said while she was not as advanced as some of the other girls on the team, her dedi-cation quickly propelled her forward.

“She came in without a lot of difficulty,” Suddaby said. “But she could learn so many new things, and her excitement and motiva-tion helped make it a very successful start to her college career.”

As the beginning of her first regular season on the team drew closer, the stress of competi-tion became too much for Niles to handle. After breaking her ankle during a meet early in the year, Niles needed surgery and was limited to swinging from the uneven bars in practice. But one afternoon following the surgery, Niles took one swing from the low bar and missed the high bar, falling to the floor and dislocating her elbow.

Following her recovery from the ankle injury, Niles decided she would not compete on the team the next season because the thought of performing the new skills she had acquired her freshman season made her nervous.

“You could definitely call it fear,” Niles said. “I had been injured so many times, especially in club gymnastics, that I was just afraid I was

going to get hurt again and again. So it became hard to get going and more stressful than fun.”

Niles joined the women’s track team dur-ing the indoor and outdoor seasons because she missed being part of a team and took up pole vaulting.

Though she had no experience in the event, Niles said pole vaulting mimicked some of her gymnastics vault skills. Using the pole to propel herself into the air rather than her own strength made her feel more in con-trol, she said.

“Competition-wise it was similar to the vault, so it was familiar to me,” she said. “But it was enough of a change from doing back handsprings that I wasn’t afraid, and so I was able to do it.”

It wasn’t until Niles spoke with junior all-around competitor Chelsea Robie last summer that rejoining the gymnastics team crossed her mind. Robie told Niles there was only one freshman recruit joining the Blue and Gold, so Niles was determined to apply her skills from pole vaulting and overcome her initial apprehension.

“I finally built up the courage to email Rick, and after a half hour or so I said, ‘Well, I wanted to know how you feel about me trying out for the team,’” Niles said. “The first words out of his mouth were ‘Let’s do it,’ and I was in disbelief.”

Suddaby helped Niles uncover her skills, regain her strength and perfect her funda-mentals in about two months. Suddaby said he was surprised at how quickly Niles was able to reach her potential.

“Physically, she trained smart and got things done, but she had some trouble with fear,” he said. “Once we stopped letting her practice her balks, it stopped reinforcing the fear, and it put her a year ahead of schedule.”

Niles’ dedication helped her place seventh in the vault with a score of 9.25 points during the Bombers’ meet against Ursinus College on Jan. 22. She will compete in the uneven bars at the ECAC Championships on Saturday in Ben Light Gymnasium.

Senior Kim Callahan said the team looks up to Niles for overcoming her obstacles and is proof that anyone can conquer the psychological strain that comes with com-peting as a gymnast.

“She inspires me when I have a mental block, and I know she represents that for a lot of the people on the team,” she said. “She is a testament of overcoming the fear that so many of us deal with.”

Senior Christine Niles competes in the uneven bars during the Blue and Gold’s dual-meet against Springfield College and Rhode Island College on Jan. 28 in Ben Light Gymnasium.

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Climb every mountainSophomore Jarrod Monacelli looks for the next rock on the climbing wall Monday in the Fitness Center Gymnasium. The wall is open to all students for a two-hour window six days a week. A one-day climbing pass costs five dollars.

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by the numbers 6The number of games se-nior shortstop Annmarie Forenza started for the softball team last season. See story on page 25.

The number of strikeouts senior pitcher Tucker Healy recorded in the Blue and Gold’s first loss against SUNY-Old Westbury on Friday in Yaphank, N.Y. See story on page 24.

33“I don’t know if that’s execution. That’s having a horseshoe up your rear.”

New York Knicks Head Coach Mike D’Antoni describing a three-point shot by Celtics forward Paul Pierce that sent Sunday’s matchup between the two teams into overtime.

Track Stars

the foul lineOverbearing sports parents have officially moved into the 21st century. The girl’s hockey team from Medway-Ashland High School in Ashland, Mass., lost its appeal Friday to replay the third period of a state playoff game against Winthrop High School. The team filed an appeal after a father of one of the Winthrop players was ejected from the game played on Feb. 29 for shining a laser pointer into the eyes of Medway-Ashland goalie Kathryn Hamer. The state tournament game had been tied at one goal apiece when Hamer said she started to lose her vision on the ice. “It’s kind of like when you look at the sun, and then you can’t see for a couple of seconds,” Hamer told a local news reporter. With a blinded goalie in net, Winthrop was able to score two goals to win by a score of 3-1 and move on in the state tournament. Despite losing the appeal, Medway-Ashland parents continue to push for a rematch. In an effort to mend fences, Winthrop superintendent John Macero has hinted he may press criminal charges against the over-competitive father.

—Matt Kelly

Weird news from the wide world of sports

Play of the week

The Ithacan highlights a pair of standout performances from last weekend’s Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships.

Emma DewartSeniorWomen’s Track

Jusan HamiltonJuniorMen’s Track

Hamilton placed sixth in the weight throw and broke a nine-year-old school record in the event with a distance of 17.70 meters. Hamilton’s throw broke the previ-ous weight throw mark of 16.84 meters set by Drew Davidson ’03 in 2003. The senior’s record-setting day earned him Empire 8 Athlete of the Week and New York State Collegiate Track Conference Field Athlete of the Week honors.

Dewart captured the high jump title with a winning clear of 1.68 meters — the seventh-highest jump in the nation this season. She was also a member of the Bombers’ first-place 800-meter relay squad that set a new school record with a winning time of 1:45.49. Dewart was honored for her big weekend with Empire 8 Athlete of the Week and New York State Collegiate Track Conference Field Athlete of the Week honors.

David AndersenSophomoreMen’s Tennis

The Bombers trailed host St. Lawrence University 4-3 and were on the brink of defeat when Andersen stepped onto the court for his fourth singles match against St. Lawrence junior Thomas Timpone. After splitting the first two sets, Andersen fell behind Timpone 0-3 and then 3-5 in the decisive third set. In dramatic fashion, Andersen saved three match points to send the match to a winner-take-all tiebreaker, which he went on to win by a score of 7-3. Andersen’s victory tied the overall match at four points apiece before sixth singles player Justin Levine went on to clinch the match for the Blue and Gold.

Sophomore’s gut-wrenching rally helps South Hill squad pull off comeback victory against St. Lawrence University.

photo finish28 the ithacan Capturing the BomBers at their Best thursday, march 8, 2012

AerodynamicFrom left, Elms College senior forward Erika Murphy goes up for a rebound against Bombers junior forward Devin Shea during the NCAA Regional semifinal game Friday in Ben Light Gymnasium. The Blue and Gold’s 84-37 win was the program’s largest margin of victory in an NCAA Tournament playoff game. Shea finished the contest with a total of eight rebounds.

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