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On Feb. 7, nearly 40 students attended “Conception: The Introspective Journey of a Teenage Mother,” a presentation

by sophomore Cöelis Mendoza, 19, about her unexpected pregnancy during college. Students watched as Mendoza, with her round, pregnant belly, turned on the projector and nervously began talking about her experiences. Then, after about 15 minutes, she stopped talking and let out a big sigh. Mendoza then began to remove the straps underneath her dress and pulled out a fake pregnancy belly, revealing the secret s h e had been hiding since August.

As a child of a teenage mother and someone who watched her cousins go through teenage pregnancies, Mendoza was interested in the ways pregnant teenagers were treated and perceived. She decided to do research on the topic of teenage pregnancy and determined that the best way to learn was by becoming a pregnant teenager herself.

“There’s a difference in actually being perceived as a teenage mother

— [in saying,] ‘This is what happened to me,’ rather than ‘This is what happened to other people,’” Mendoza said.

Every day, starting in August, Mendoza put on her body shaper and stuffed it with foam, taking it off only at her Ithaca apartment and during winter break at home. Near the end of her “pregnancy,” she bought a $500 pregnancy suit from an online website that sold them for theatre productions. She said it made her “pregnancy” look more authentic, especially with its realistic belly-like feel that friends could touch.

Only five close friends knew about the experiment originally, but about a dozen people, including two professors, ended up knowing about Mendoza’s project before the end of her research. Mendoza performed a whole new role

as a pregnant teenager. She did not go out with her friends often or consume alcohol. She had to be cautious getting in and out of desks. She even carefully walked a few feet behind people so no one would accidentally hit her belly. When asked about the baby’s sex or baby names, she said that she was giving the baby up for adoption — which many people responded with a “that’s good.”

Both professors and her friends encouraged her to take the Spring semester off as a medical leave of a b s e n c e . Mendoza said that t h e r e

were not many resources

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does not p r o v i d e i n s t i t u t i o n a l support for p r e g n a n t students,” she said.

M e n d o z a said she began to get extremely frustrated with her experiment

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By Kaley Belval

February 14, 2012

The Environmental Leadership and Actionsc-Network (ELAN) is an off-campus studentc-organization in Ithaca dedicated to environ-

mentalcand social justice through direct action.cELAN integrates National Greenpeace Student Network campaigns with the needs of our local community.

Last semester, we launched Operation Tiger, a national campaign working to save the rainforest of Indonesia from illegal deforestation. We’re aim-ing to make changes to Ithaca College’s paper poli-cies as part of a global effort to fight this deforesta-tion. Our campaign puts the plight of the

Sumatran Tiger front and center. Since the use of paper at colleges like ours encourages massive paper plantations in places like Sumatra, an island in Indonesia, our tiger friends there are nearing ex-

tinction — there are less

than 400 tigers left. We ended last semester with a bang: a flashmob in the library thanking them for upholding

IC’s paper policy by using 30 percent post-consumer recycled paper. But 30 percent just isn’t enough.

This semester we are planning on meeting with faculty members and the administration to ca paign for IC to use 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. Without this policy, 70 percent or more of the paper content we use comes straight from plantation forests, and we want IC to b come a leader in stopping global climate change and defor-estation. Keep your eyes open for more flash-mobs, theatrics and tons of ways to plug in!

Also on our agenda this semester is recruit-ment. We’re looking for more students at IC to get

involved in this national campaign. Operation Tiger affects all IC stu-dents — we all use paper and we’re all responsible for our college’s consump-

tion. Our meetings are held on Tuesdays at 7 P.M. on 505

S. Cayuga St. A group of us usually takes the bus down from Park at 6:45 P.M._____________________________

Abby Togliatti is a sophomore clinical health studies major who is a member of ELAN. Email her at atoglia1@ithaca.edu.

Eyes for the Tiger: Student organization campaigns for sustainable paper

Ithaca College students will more than likely receive a tuition increase for 2012-2013.

The Board of Trustees will meet Feb. 15 through Feb. 16 in New York City to vote on the budget. Carl Sgrecci, vice president for finance and administration at IC, noted that the budget is almost always approved.

While it’s hard to gather specific details of the college’s budget plan until it’s approved, a letter dated Oct. 2011 provides some insight. Sgrecci

wrote a letter to various vice presidents, deans, directors and department chairs of the college, detailing goals for the 2012-2013 fiscal budget.

According to the letter, the college is targeting the increase in price for tuition, room and board at less than 5 percent. Another objective is to “target steady growth in net tuition per student.”

Sgrecci’s objectives outlined in the letter are consistent with increases over the years. In 2010- 2011, cost of tuition ran $33,630. In 2011-2012, students saw the price tag go up to $35,278, a 4.9 percent increase. Since the 2007-2008 academic year, tuition prices have increased by an average of 5.3 percent.

Sgrecci said all departments on campus are

looking in a variety of places to cut costs.“We’re seeing across the institution that

people are being more conservative and much more prudent purchasers of items, particularly since we went through the economic crisis in

2008-2009,” Sgrecci said.Sgrecci also said the Office of the Budget is

taking internal measures to cut costs.“We’re making some significant investments in

energy conservation measures,” Sgrecci said.“We’ve replaced a

lot of light fixtures and we’re insulating areas of the campus as funds are available to cut down on

our energy consumption.”Sally Dietz, Director for the office of the

budget, declined to comment before the Board of Trustees approved the budget.

If students are wondering why enrollment has gone up in the past several years, they need only look at the numbers. According to Sgrecci’s letter, student enrollment accounts for 90 percent of Ithaca College’s operating revenue.

Read full article at buzzsawmag.org___________________________________Pete Blanchard is a senior journalism major who is “Ready” to pay off his debt. Email him at pblanch1@ithaca.edu

"The college is targeting the increase...at less than 5 percent."

IC Students: Expect a tuition rise in 2012-2013

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near the end, but her boyfriend, who was very supportive of the project, pushed her to follow through. Though Mendoza said she is relieved the project is now over, she is glad she remained “pregnant” the entire “term.”

“Pregnancy was perceived as a disappointment,” she said. “Generally, there was a feeling of pity.”

Throughout the experiment, Mendoza noticed that her peers looked at her oddly, but no one would address her directly. They would instead address her close friends, who then relayed to Mendoza the general sense of people’s responses.

Mendoza hopes people think twice before they place judgment on young mothers.

“If one does become pregnant at a young age, the hardships already involved in motherhood do not have to be exacerbated by social stigmas,” she said. “I want people to understand that the way they look down upon teenage mothers is just as responsible for the teenage mother’s plight.”

Mendoza hopes to use her personal experience, along with an online survey she conducted, to create a social justice research project for her MLK Scholar program as well as a project for next year’s National Conference on Undergraduate Research. She ultimately hopes people learn and begin to understand how stereotyping has a harmful effect on expectant mothers.

“I learned that, regardless the age of a mother, a mother is a mother and should be treated with due respect,” she said. “Regardless of the decisions that she has or hasn’t thought of, there are so many things that are going on that it’s hurtful to place her in a very small category simply because of her age.”____________________________________Kaley Belval is a freshman documentary studies major who wrote a very different article than she was expecting. Email her at kbelval1@ithaca.edu.

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A closer look at IC Women in Communications and the Park Association for Journalists of Color

As white men continue to dominate the communications field, two Ithaca College student organizations popped up this year

to challenge the status quo. The Ithaca College Women in Communications and the Par k School Association for Journalists of Color strive to en-courage diversity in the industry.

ICWIC started this semester after the orga-nization’s president and founder, sophomore Alyssa Frey, went to a student career confer-ence during the fall. Frey saw a great way for fe-male students to make connections with other females working in the media industry.

“All people will reach some parts of their po-tential individually, but

it is only through interaction with others that people can really shine,” Frey said.

Similarly, PAJC began this fall after senior Aaron Edwards met other journalists at his internship who had racial minority groups on their cam-puses. PAJC also hopes to help minority students make connections in the field, and on Feb. 3, they skyped with LaSharah Bunting, the national news editor at The New York Times.

PAJC aims to discuss racism and inequalities in the workforce. Edwards explained that even though the climate toward different ethnicities in the workplace has been better than before, peo-ple need to be prepared for situations in which they face racism. At a press conference last year,

a man came up to Edwards and asked him to

leave after stating, “A few years ago, people like you wouldn’t even be allowed to do your job.”

“To be honest, that experience at the press conference infuriated me, but in a good way. It made me fired up to do even better at my job and show men like him that I am more than my skin color,” Edwards said. “There are still leaps and bounds to be made [in the journalism indus-try], but the changes we’ve seen in just the past few years — the first female executive editor at The New York Times, for instance — are indications that we’re moving in the right direction.”

Edwards also explained the importance of creating a group for students of a similar demo-graphic.

He said that when a child doesn’t see some-one of the same ethnicity in a high position, like a news anchor, they might think that they cannot aspire for a career in that field.

Freshman Jordana Jarrett, a member of PAJC, said, “It’s important to show the young journal-ists of color that there are successful people who look like you in the world.”

Connecting people not only fosters a support system where students can talk about their fu-tures, but it also cultivates a community. Edwards plans to have gatherings in the Commons so members can bond. Similarly, Frey described her vision for ICWIC as a meshing of scholarship and friendship.

Frey said, “I think this is another one of those organizations, where you can not only get great contacts outside of Ithaca College, but you can make great friends.”____________________________________Sara Lynn McCloskey is a freshman journalism major. Email her at smcclos1@ithaca.edu.

Creating Communications Communities:By Sara Lynn McCloskey

SUMMARY: Caller reported witnessing a person take the last slice of pizza and not even signing up for the pro-life rally. Student forced to pay for dessert.

FRESHMAN TRIES ACIDLOCATION: IC SquareSUMMARY: Caller reported feeling as though their clothes were strangling them. Student was later found streaking up and down campus center, clothes abandoned. Strong evidence points to a bad trip. Student was forced to watch Requiem for a Dream on repeat until he swore never to do drugs again.

TRESPASSINGLOCATION: IC Republicans Pizza Party

SUMMARY: Officer reported incident was reclassified from “Homeless Townie Squat-ting in Lower Quads” to “Environmental Studies Major Sighting”.

HARBORING COMPANIONSLOCATION: TerracesSUMMARY: Caller reported hearing loud, indistinguishable sex noises coming from the room next door after quiet hours. Upon further investigation, the noises did not come from a horny couple, but rather an illegally purchased monkey.

RECLASSIFICATION OF CRIMELOCATION: Quads

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SUSPECTED LARCENYLOCATION: Campus CenterSUMMARY: Student suspected of taking two sodas at Grab and Go. Nothing has been confirmed but campus center employees made sure not to tell that student to have a nice day.

DRUNKEN DETOURLOCATION: WilliamsSUMMARY: During weekend rounds, student was arrested for DWI in Williams. Officers reported the student was biking in a circle on the first floor...lost. When inter-rogated, student asked officers where the closest Circle party was.

Some students have been wondering why the first speakers for ICWIC, a group meant to empower female media stu-dents, are Rachel Bowie, an associate editor for GoodHousekeeping (Feb. 22), and Julie Hoch-heiser Ilkovich, a digital editorial director of Alloy Media, distributor of “chick-lit,” entertainment like Seventeen magazine, Gossip Girl, and Pretty Lit-tle Liars (Mar. 7). Frey said that these women have much experience working in various communi-cations fields, and thus sharing their experiences would be beneficial to all ICWIC members.

“What you have to understand about Bowie is that she is an editor for Good Housekeeping, but she has also been an editor for about three other magazines in New York, and she does re-views for a bunch of alternative magazines,” Frey said. “[Good Housekeeping] is one of the more wellknown things, because if we were to adver-tise, ‘Oh we’re bringing this speaker from this place that you’ve never heard of,’ I’m not sure if we’d get the type of response that we were looking for.”

Aaron Edwards, President of PAJC

By Alyssa Figueroa

ICWIC Plans to Skype with

Good Housekeeping and Alloy

Alyssa Frey, President of ICWIC

Occupy Ithaca College Update

?Buzzsaw Asks Why...Ithaca College Doesn’t Prioritize an Adequate Learning Environment?

This semester, my discussion-based Park class of 26 students takes place in Williams 225, the large lecture hall in the center of the build-ing because it was the only room available. In order to foster a conversation, my professor sits in the middle of a row with us scattered all around, all twisting our bodies to see one an-other. The classroom makes no sense for the course. The lack of adequate classroom spaces, as well as the increasing number of crowded classrooms, is particularly irritating because IC advertises itself as an institution “committed to small classes” and “class discussion.”

In 2009, when IC overadmitted students, employees at the Office of the Registrar had to walk around the school searching for pos-sible classroom spaces. They converted spaces in the library and conference rooms into class-rooms, which have remained classrooms ever since.

Yet, as student enrollment continues it up-ward trend (thus allowing IC to continue to rack up those big bucks), it would be nice to see the college use their money more wisely. Instead, IC recently spent $65 million on the A&E Center and $25 million on the Peggy R. Williams Building so administrators could sit in fancy offices — it’s nice that they have ad-equate spaces to work. I think it’s time for IC to rethink its priorities and construct a new classroom building to help foster a satisfacto-ry learning environment — after all, shouldn’t this be their main priority?

-Alyssa Figueroa

There was no doubt that Occupy Ithaca, the local movement in solidarity with Oc-cupy Wall Street, is still going strong when

a crowd of supporters marched through down-town Ithaca on Feb. 10 to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the end of Mubarak’s rule in Egypt.

Joined by members of the Occupy Wall Street movement from New York City, who are cur-

rently on a bus tour throughout the Northeast, marchers carried a banner that read, “Celebrate People Power” and shouted chants such as, “Hell no, we won’t go / Ithaca to Cairo.”

The march eventually spilled onto the streets, while marchers danced and shouted, “Hands up / hands down / there’s a revolution in this town!” The marchers blocked traffic for a brief moment at the intersection near Colle etown Bagels. Fol-lowing the march, participants reconvened at the Bernie Milton Pavilion in the center of the Commons. A police officer soon addressed them, declaring that while the protest was allowed, the marchers were not allowed to block roads for safety reasons. Police continued to be present but kept a respectful distance, at least 50 feet from the gathering.

The large turnout at the rally was reminiscent of the early general assemblies that took place in Dewitt Park in the fall. Since that time, the num-ber has decreased to about ten or 11 people, but it appears the support for the movement has not entirely subsided.

Along with the various working group meet-ings, which also have regular sets of attendees, the general assembly meetings continue to be held regularly every Sunday at 2 p.m. and Thursday at 6:30 p.m.

The meetings have taken on a more efficient structure, often with specified lengths of time al-lotted to each portion of the meeting, and the conversations have shifted from expressions of frustration with corporate greed on the national level to locally focused goals and outreach strat gies.

Rich Hilliard, Ithaca resident and participant in Occupy Ithaca, has found that many of the group’s actions are toward building the local movement. “I think you need to build solidarity before you want to challenge such wide-spread institutions,” Hilliard said. “I also think Ithaca is a strong com-munity, and people are concerned about what happens here to their neighbors.”

At one general assembly, Occupy Ithaca participant and Ithaca Col-lege graduate Mike Amadeo said that he would like to see the group’s focus to be on problems based in Ithaca. He suggested the possibility of creating

a working group specifically devoted to holding Cornell University accountable as a large institu-tion, whose research and actions have drawn con-cern from members of the movement.

On Nov. 21, 2011, some members of Occupy Ithaca began an encampment in Dewitt Park, simi-lar to the occupation that had been in Zuccotti Park. The occupants were forced to end their encampment in late December when the city de-nied participants permission to occupy the park. Remaining is one tent on a patch of lawn belong-ing to First Baptist Church. The tent is periodically occupied during hours of the day and night.

Reverend Rich Rose of First Baptist Church said that he offered the space to the occupiers in order to help make a statement of their shared frustration with the current economic system and disparity between the rich and the poor.

“It’s a conversation starter, it’s provocative. It provides a location, a physical location for con-versations to take place,” Rose said. “I think just the visible symbol of the tents, whether they’re literally being slept in, or [are] just symbolic, is very important.”____________________________________Gena Mangiaratti is a junior journalism major who is preoccupied with Occupy. Email her at gmangia1@ithaca.edu.

There's a Revolution in This Town:An update on the Occupy Ithaca movement

By Gena Mangiaratti

Occupy Ithaca and Occupy Wall Street protesters celebrate the one-year anniversary of the end of Mubarak’s rule in Egypt. Photo by Alyssa Figueroa

Since the Occupy movement reached the Ithaca College campus in October 2011, support for the movement has remained on the campus, but it has moved away from the structure of consistent GA meetings and working groups that is customary for most Occupy movements. While the GA meetings still take place every Tuesday during the lunch hour, attendance is relatively inconsistent. The gatherings now function more as a way for participants to stay informed on the national movement, said organizer Lee Ann Hill ’13. The main goal of Occupy IC is now to encourage student involved in the local solidarity movement in town, said organizer Gabe Alvarez-Millard ’12.

Image by Zachary Anderson