Selected designs from The Ithacan newspaper, back page infographics and promotional posters

1. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2016
SPORTS 23
PHOTOS BY CAITIE IHRIG/THE ITHACAN
111 For sophomore Allison Spaschak, the
number 11 runs in her family. Her aunt
Jill picked the number randomly when
she began playing for Southern Regional
High School in Manahawkin, New Jersey,
in 1984. Jill then went on to play for New
Mexico State University, where she wore
number 11 on her jersey for the duration
of her Division I basketball career.
Spaschak’s uncles Jon and Tommy
also attended Southern Regional High
School and wore the same number before
heading off to Nyack College. Her aunt
Debby also wore the number 11 during
her basketball career, both at South-
ern Regional High School and at a local
community college.
When Spaschak began playing bas-
ketball in the first grade, she said there
was no question which number she
would choose.
“My aunt [Jill] is so proud that she
started this legacy with my family,” Spas-
chak said. “It’s a cool thing that has been
passed down and something that every-
one bonds over.”
Spaschak’s younger sister Anna is cur-
rently a junior at Southern Regional High
School and a member of their varsity bas-
ketball team. She proudly wears number
11 just like the rest of the family and, most
importantly, like her big sister, whom she
said she idolizes.
“My sister is my biggest fan. She watch-
es all of my games and loves watching my
team play,” Spaschak said. “She loves the
fact that we wear the same number.”
BY DANIELLE ALLENTUCK
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Allison
SpaschakGUARD
20Erin WoopGUARD
Jersey numbers are used to distinguish
different players, and for some, they are
just a number on their chests.
However, for others they offer a much
deeper meaning. Numbers can be super-
stitions, just like a lucky pair of socks or
a special hair band. Some numbers are
passed down through generations, so the
number represents a family legacy. For
others, jersey numbers represent a part of
their identity, and they can’t imagine play-
ing without it.
At the beginning of each season, the
freshmen have the option to pick their
number from the available jerseys.
Assistant Sports Editor Danielle Al-
lentuck and Staff Writer Lauren Murray
interviewed members of the women’s bas-
ketball team to find out why they picked
their jersey numbers.Players explain their jersey numbers
BY DANIELLE ALLENTUCK
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
For sophomore Erin Woop, the number 20 is more than
just a number. Twenty was worn by her grandfather, who
played Division I basketball at Iona College and died when she
was 2 years old.
“He never got the chance to see me play,” Woop said. “I
don’t have as much information or memories as I would like
because he passed away when I was so young. So I wear the
number for him and think of him watching over me before
every game.”
Before coming to college, she wore number 32 during her
high school basketball career at High Point High School in
Sussex, New Jersey, because her father wore that number when
he played varsity football in high school. Her sister also wore
this number in high school during her stints on the basketball
and soccer teams.
When Woop got to college, number 32 was taken, so
she switched to number 20, something Woop said was a
no-brainer. Now, she said not only does she get the chance to
represent her grandfather everytime she takes the court, but
she gets to continue the family legacy.
“I wanted to keep something going with my family,” Woop
said. “My dad and grandpa were both good athletes, so I
thought by wearing their numbers, I’ll be a good athlete, too.”
BY DANIELLE ALLENTUCK
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
When freshman Meghan Mazzella arrived on campus, she
intended to continue wearing number 4, which she had worn
since her freshman year of high school. However, when she
arrived at Ithaca College, the number was already taken by
an upperclassman.
Mazzella was not hesitant when she knew she could not
grab 4 because 21 was available. Her older sister Mary, who
is a junior at SUNY Oswego and a member of its basketball
team, wears 21, so Mazzella decided to share this number with
her sister.
“I obviously thought it through and wasn’t just going to
take a random number,” Mazzella said. “There had to be some
reasoning behind it.”
Her sister was also not originally number 21, as she wore
number 3 in high school. Mazzella said she looks up to her
sister and has always admired her both on and off the court.
“She’s just a really dedicated player,” Mazzella said. “She’s
got a great attitude, and she’s a great leader, so I want to
incorporate all of those things in myself when I wear it.”
Basketball has also been a huge part of her family’s life.
Her father has helped train and coach the sisters since they
were very young. He is also their high school’s boys varsity
basketball coach.
BY LAUREN MURRAY
STAFF WRITER
Freshman Sara Jackson has worn number 33 since the sixth
grade, but coming into college, she said she wanted to switch
to number 3 in order to honor her father, who wore that num-
ber when he was an athlete.
That number was unavailable because it was already taken
by an upperclassman, so she decided to stick with number 33.
Jackson said the decision to stick with number 33 was an easy
one because it was partially her father’s number and she has a
history with it.
“I grew up with it, and for me, it’s also like a superstition
thing. I have to wear number 33,” Jackson said. “When I wear
33, I feel more comfort, and again, it is who I am.”
Recently, her mother told her her grandparents were
huge fans of Larry Bird, a former National Basketball
Association player for the Boston Celtics, who also wore
number 33.
When she heard this, she said she knew it was the right
choice to continue wearing that number as a Bomber because
not only could she have a little piece of her grandparents on
the court with her at all times, but she got to continue wearing
the number she grew up with.
“It’s been a part of me and who I am,” Jackson said. “It’s
nice to know it has a family connection, too.”
BY LAUREN MURRAY
STAFF WRITER
NUMBERS
Behind the
1
33Sara JacksonGUARD/FORWARD
21GUARD
Meghan Mazzella
COURTESY ALLISON SPASCHAK

2. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
SPORTS 23
CHALLENGE
Accepted.Junior Rob Lister endured the mental and physical embrace of a Spartan Race
TOMMY BATTISTELLI/THE ITHACAN
Rob Lister utilizes much of his free time as
an opportunity to learn more about competing
in a Spartan Race. Anything that resembles a
ditch or a hill excites him. His upbeat demean-
or has helped him transition from an ordinary
athlete to an expert in the art of running an
obstacle course.
Lister, a junior at Ithaca College, knows all
about what it takes to complete a commercial
race today that derived from the ancient Greek
city of Sparta.
“I love the idea of Spartans, going back to
their times,” Lister said. “Feeling like a warrior,
a sense of battle. The people around you are
your competition, but they’re also your broth-
ers. It’s all about the brotherhood. It’s about
you against the course.”
The Spartan Race is a timed race riddled
with mud, spears, walls, barbed wire and fire.
Lister and other members of the Ithaca com-
munity competed in such a race Sept. 5 at
Cornell University, which served as a fund-
raiser for United Way of Tompkins County.
However, this was not Lister’s first time around
the block — it was his 12th time.
It was the summer of 2012 when a high
school friend introduced Lister to the uncon-
ventional sport. Lister said he was intrigued by
how different the race was from anything else
he had done athletically.
“I had just gotten into running over the
summer,” Lister said. “He sent me the URL, and
I thought it was cool. [I] signed up a month
and [a] half in advance.”
He said preparation for his first Spartan
Race was something that took some get-
ting used to, as the races take a significant
amount of self-determination and mental and
physical strength.
Lister said the race helped him learn how
to master the iconic drill, a burpee, which is an
exercise resembling a pushup up to a standing
position and back down again.
“It absolutely killed me,” Lister said. “I was
nowhere near prepared for all of it. I failed a
lot of obstacles, did a lot of burpees, just every
step hurt. All I could think about was burgers
and fries and nothing else.”
Before coming to college, Lister was pri-
marily a distance runner and lifted at the gym
once a week. When he came to college, Lister
said, his passion for Spartan Races grew rad-
ically. He points to the hiking trails around
campus and the facilities of the college as
resources that helped to fuel his passion for
the races.
“I really got into working out,” Lister said.
“It was four or five days a week. I was rock
climbing five or six days a week. I’ve gotten
to the point where I can bench press my own
weight and squat my own weight and a half.”
BY JONATHAN BECK
SPORTS EDITOR
SeeSPARTANRACE, page 25

3. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
THE BIG PICTURE28
Dormyourself
it
Use these cool tips and tricks
to deck out your dorm
DORM ROOM DO’s
AND DON’Ts
Do Don’t
1
Hang up posters
from your
favoriteTV
shows, movies
and fandoms.
2
Use washi tape
to create fun
patterns and to
frame photos.
Adding bright
colors to a room
helps to get
through Ithaca’s
long winters.
1
2
Hang up
tapestry.
Even though
they look
cool, they’re
a major fire
hazard.
Hang up too
many
Christmas
lights.They
are also a fire
hazard.
PAINT
Steps to PaintYour
Dorm Room
1Email reshallops@ithaca.edu.
2Fill out the agreement form.
Get your color approved by Res Life.
Buy your paint and paint supplies.
Start decorating!
Rope Vases
1.Wrap rope or string
around a recycled
bottle or jar.
2. Adorn with ribbon,
glitter or other
decorations.
Take four canvases, paint them a solid base color and
cut your designs out of vinyl with the silhouette.The
best part is that if you get bored with this design,
peel it off and replace it with something else.
SOURCE: MEGANELIZABETH22 ON FLICKR
Take your graphic paper and lay it on top of a plain
sheet of paper and foam. Next, with a puncturing
tool, punch holes around each graphic to get your
design.Then mark out on your paper where the
seam will be and where the ribbon will be on the
lampshade. Next, put glue on the seam and fold
the lamp into a circle. Let the glue dry.Then
put glue onto the inside edge of the tube
and slide a wire ring in. Use bull nose clips
and attach them at 45-degree angles to
attach the wire. Repeat this on
the bottom.
SOURCE: WONDER HOW TO
3.Oncethepicturesarecutandfitted,
takethemodglueandgluethe
picturestotheletter.Aftertheglue
hasdried,covertheletterwithmod
glueuntilyoureachtheglossiness
youdesire.
2.Printoutpicturesinblackandwhite
andcutthemtofitthesizeof
theletter.
1.Findletter(s)ofyourchoice.
Letter Picture Collage
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MANNERS
PERMANENT
MUG DESIGN
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sharpieandbake
for30minutes
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SOURCE: HEXJAM
String Art
Pick a stencil
and place pins
around the
outside of the
design. Remove
the stencil and
wrap colorful
string around
the pins.
Repurposing
1.UsecupcakelinerstomakeChristmas
lightsintoflowerlights.
2.Paintanoldcheesegraterandusethe
holestohangupyourjewelry.
3.UseoldT-shirtstomakeabraidedrug.
4.Decorateabricktouseasabookend.
5.Usepaintchipsandaframetomakea
colorfuldry-erasecalendar.
DESIGN: ALISON TEADORE
3
4
5
For more on
interior design,
go to page 17.
L&C
Punctured Lampshade
3. Fill with flowers.

5. Feb.18
1969
April22
1969
April28
1969
Nov.9
1969
April13
1970
Oct.31
1979
Students dressed in “easily identi-
fiable” Ku Klux Klan garb paraded from
the Garden Apartments toward the Cam-
pus Center. On the way there, another
student dressed in shabby clothing and
a rubber mask joined them. He appar-
ently willingly looped a rope around his
neck and was led to the Campus Center
by a student dressed as a KKK member.
Later, a student involved would tell The
Ithacan “it wasn’t meant to symbolize
anyone. The decision to dress up was
a spur of the moment type thing.”
The students were apprehended by
Student Auxiliary Security Patrol and
eventually expelled.April
1980
SEPT.28
1993
JAN.
2001
DEC.4
2014
Students held a die-in demonstration in response to the grand jury decision not to indict the New
York police officer who was involved in the chokehold-related death of Eric Garner. The students
marched to the Peggy Ryan Williams Center and called for President Tom Rochon to address the crowd.
Rochon came out to speak with the students but was interrupted multiple times with their demands for
him to address police brutality and support in establishing a Native American studies minor program.
Racial HISTORY
The African-Latino
Society staged a walkout
on Martin Luther King
Jr. Day, calling for the
college to acknowledge
other equality and diver-
sity issues in addition to
observing the holiday.
During the walkout, ALS
also screened films and
initiated workshops to
educate the student body
about civil rights.
Fifty Ithaca College students, largely from the
Students for a Democratic Society and Afro-American
Society clubs, demonstrated peacefully in front of
the administration building in support of a proposal
that would add a black studies program and increase
financial aid for black and minority students in the
Educational Opportunity Program. Demands from
the groups included increasing the black population
from 25 to 80 by the Fall 1969 semester and up to
10 percent of the student body by September 1975
and adding two black professors, an office of black
affairs with a black assistant dean, a minimum of sev-
en additional courses about “blackness” by the Fall
1969 semester and an entire Afro-American Studies
program by 1972.
Campus Safety officers discov-
ered nine nooses, each covered in
either tar, cement or plaster, hang-
ing from trees around campus,
with two placed underneath trees.
Below each noose was a wood-
en block with different names:
Michael Jordan, Emmett Till,
Malcolm X, Malice Green, Uncle
Ben, King 2, Jesus, Lani Guinier
and one block with Tyson written
on one side and A. Wiggins — a
black student at the college who
was expelled in 1991 after he was
acquitted of rape charges in Tomp-
kins County — on the other. The
nooses were hung by a black art
student looking to provoke a di-
alogue about race on campus.
general student body.
“Two incidents of the past weekend
have raised the issue of racism on this
campus,” Dillingham said. “Racism is an
ugly word and an ugly practice. It can-
not and will not be tolerated anywhere
within the college community.”
The Board on Racism was estab-
lished with two primary functions: “to
adjudicate all cases involving racism”
and “to recommend various campus
organizations constructive action to
alleviate racial tensions and to further
racial understanding.”
The administration also hired
an arbitrator from the National
Center for Dispute Settlement to
mediate between the college and the
Afro-Latin Society.
The result was the establishment of
a new dorm for “upper class black and
Latin students to live together in a single
dormitory next fall if they so desire.”
Later, Dillingham and his assistant,
Charles Broadhead, said the student was
never exposed to other races before col-
lege and was ignorant of the struggles
black students faced.
It is unclear whether the student
was ever expelled.
The Campus Life Committee announced plans for a multicultural dorm
focused on raising cultural awareness and exchange among students. This
idea came out of a demand by the Afro-Latin Society and the Coalition for
Non-Oppressive Education following the KKK Halloween controversy.
April14
2005
An “Erase the Hate” rally was held April 14 after the N-word was written
in at least five different locations across campus. Bob Holt, the director of
Public Safety, said an analysis of the photos led to the conclusion it was all
the same individual. Then-president Peggy Ryan Williams said at the time
she was “ready to throw whoever these people are off of the highest roof I
can find on the Ithaca College campus.”
The rally also recognized the theft of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender pride flag, which an article in The Ithacan noted had been
stolen four out of the last five years. The group of students who organized
the rally also demanded diversity awareness workshops for freshmen and a
reconstructing of the list of diversity courses.
A group of approximately 40 black students ransacked
the campus store, breaking glass displays and destroying
merchandise. This was apparently done by members of
the Afro-Latin Society after a meeting with Dillingham in
which he did not adequately respond to their demands
for increased funding for the EOP. They also stormed the
president’s office and overturned chairs, filing cabinets and
bookcases. After that meeting, the group of 100 students
did $4,000 worth of damage to the campus store.
In response, nearly 400 students gathered outside of
the Campus Center to discuss the Afro-Latin Society’s de-
mands and the events that had transpired.
Eventually, the college gave, in writing, a commitment
to budget $341,000 for the EOP.
JENNIFER WILLIAMS/THE ITHACAN
Tired of the adminis-
tration’s dragging its feet
to meet their demands,
30 students from the Af-
ro-American Society and
Students for a Democratic
Society held a 15-minute
demonstration where
the “Administration,” a
straw man, was burned
in effigy. Then-president
Howard Dillingham is-
sued a statement defend-
ing the rights of the pro-
testers but warning that
should they do any harm
to campus property or
other students or facul-
ty, the police would get
involved.
The college moved to
meet the demands a few
days later. The admin-
istration offered Benne
Hebert, a senior and head
of the Afro-American Soci-
ety, the job of coordinat-
ing the black studies pro-
gram. He accepted.
Pursuant of the de-
mand that two full-time
black professors be
hired, the college offered
Corinne Galvin, previous-
ly a part-time professor, a
full-time position. At the
time, administrators were
not sure if they could
meet the 80 black stu-
dents figure, but reported
that they could get the
number up to 40.
Eventually, a full
80 black students en-
rolled in the college
in Fall 1969.
Teach-ins, reportedly attended by 900 people, were held in support of
the protesters.
Greg Easter, a black fresh-
man, was beaten up by a white
freshman during a Saturday
night football party. The next
day, a group of black students
reportedly threatened the white
student with razor blades in
retaliation. In response, 400
students and faculty gathered
outside of the Campus Center
to discuss the incident, and the
Afro-Latin Society eventually is-
sued a call for the expulsion of
the white student.
Dillingham, following the
racial issues from the semes-
ter before, called for a campus
board on racism, composed
of three black and hispanic
students and three from the