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October 2, 2000

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Sprint Offense Finally Strikes

By ryan | October 2, 2000

The Cornell sprint football team finally got on the board.

In a big way.

The Red scored its first points of the season en route to its first win of the season, 16-13 over Princeton in overtime.

The Tigers had the advantage early in the game, as it scored all of its points by the half, and shut down the Cornell (1-1, 0-0 CSFL) offense.

Princeton got on the scoreboard first when quarterback Geoff Gasperini found Ki Moon in the endzone from eight yards out with 8:09 to play in the opening quarter. Moon, who doubles as the team’s kicker, booted in the extra point.

Matt Hall of the Tigers put his team up 13, when he got outside on the right end and beat the Red down the sideline for a 27-yard score in the second quarter. However, Moon missed the kick to keep Cornell down only 13.

The opening of the second half was a battle of field position, with Cornell coming out on top thanks to freshman punter Henry Kim. He trapped the Tigers inside their own 10 yard-line. Just two plays later, Gasperini fumbled on the option pitch, and senior defensive back Bo Sangosanya recovered the ball in the endzone, putting the home team on the board. Freshman kicker Evan Andrews was unable to convert the point-after.

In the fourh quarter, the Red offense was finally able to punch through the Princeton defense, scoring a touchdown with 8:35 to play in regulation. Sophomore running back Charlie Tam crossed the goal-line on a four-yard jaunt, and this time, Andrews was good.

The second half was dominated by the Red’s defense, as the Tigers managed only one first down after intermission. Senior tri-captain Imad Baggar led the way with an interception, 15 tackles and a blocked punt. Sophomore defensive back Adam Romeiser was also key, as he made two picks.

Princeton was unable to convert in the extra session, as Cornell’s defense forced the Tigers to attempt a 35-yard field goal.

Cornell didn’t waste its chance, as Andrews nailed the 26-yard field goal, giving the Red the victory.

Cornell will next play in two weeks when it hosts Navy on Schoellkopf Field on Friday, Oct. 13.

Archived article by J.V. Anderton

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Target Planned in Southwest Area

By ryan October 3, 2000

Plans are underway for a Target and a new and improved Tops along Elmira Rd. in the City of Ithaca. Whereas the Tops would be a restructuring of buildings on a developed site, the Target is slated for undeveloped land that is a part of the Southwest Area Land Use Plan. The Target store would be part of a shopping center across from Buttermilk Falls State Park, a site which has generated protests about safeguarding the natural resources and local economy. Both projects are currently in the sketch plan review process before the Planning and Development Board. Last Tuesday, Widewaters Group and Benderson Development Company described their development to the Board. The committee began the months of review to create an acceptable site plan or to deny approval. “These two proposals represent the two ends of the southwest area,” said Scott Whitham ’90, chair of the city’s Planning and Development Board. Widewaters has revealed that one of the clients for its proposed 200,000 square foot shopping complex is Target. Target has submitted its plans to the Building Department, according to JoAnn Cornish, senior environmental and landscape planner. While no decisions will be made by the Planning and Development Board until an environmental analysis review is completed, some Ithacans are protesting the Widewaters plan before the public hearings. The Citizens’ Planning Alliance (CPA) condemned the Widewaters’ site plan as “totally unsuitable” for the location which is within the viewshed of Buttermilk Falls State Park, according to its press release. “Our group’s opposition is based on the fact that the site plan now proposed does not have important features that we asked for in 1995, when Wal-Mart wanted to build in the same place,” CPA member Dan Hoffman said. Following the environmental impact statement for a proposed Wal-Mart development in 1995, the Planning Board found that the 125,000 square foot scale of the site was too large and required that the building be reduced in size and located outside of the Buttermilk Falls viewshed, according to the CPA. In addition to concern over environmental impacts on the park, the CPA has criticized the entire development process. “It has been a very sorry process, insofar as information withheld from the public,” Hoffman said. According to Hoffman, Widewaters sent plans for the Target store to the Building Department in October 1999, but they were sent back to the developers without being put into city records. “We hope that the Planning Board will scrutinize the plans very carefully and will stand by its decision in 1995 to protect the view from Buttermilk Falls,” Hoffman said. The Benderson Development Co. is proposing a plan for the Tops Plaza. They would like to construct a new Tops building, where the Ithaca Building Center used to be, and would also like to subdivide the current building into two new stores, according to Cornish. Benderson development also proposed adding another 5,000 square feet for a Tops-brand fueling facility, according to Cornish. It was also proposed that the current Eckerd should be a stand alone building, instead of being connected to the current Tops store. “[The Benderson group’s plans] are very similar to the outcome of Wegman’s [final site plans], but we will hold it to a different esthetic standard,” Whitham said. Benderson’s development and renovation in the existing Meadows Street plaza will also include parking and landscaping changes. Last Tuesday, the Planning Board asked the developers for more information, better drawings, more site options and information on parking drainage, according to Whitham. “In the next month, we will be talking with the developers and getting more public opinion before we make any decisions [about the site plans],” he said. Though no meetings have been scheduled so far, some will be planned for the next few months and will include public hearings, where the community may voice their concerns and opinions about the site plans. “The Common Council is clearly moving in [the development] direction and with the design guidelines, there really is no reason why [the proposals] shouldn’t go though,” Cornish said.Archived article by Eve Steele
Western N.Y. Study Credits Unions

By ryan October 3, 2000

Unions may not be bad for business in New York after all. A study titled “Champions at Work: Employment, Workplace Practices, and Labor-Management Relations in Western New York,” released by the Western Region of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations on Sept. 20, revealed that unions in that region provide a competitive advantage in industry. Western New York has one of the world’s highest concentrations of unions, and that has been seen as a detriment, said Lou Jean Fleron, director of the Western Region and member of the ILR extension faculty. However, the results say unions in the region are “far from being a disadvantage,” he said. “This report clearly indicates that in workplace practices, labor relations and workforce quality, western New York is a world-class region,” Fleron said in a press release. The groups performing the study hoped the results would confirm their belief that the “workforce is of exceptionally high quality here,” as compared with locations around the country, he explained. But they had to remain objective while conducting the study. The first part, a survey, was conducted by the Computer-Assisted Survey Team, a survey research facility housed in the University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The telephone survey questioned several hundred employers and union leaders about the workforce and the state of labor relations. The survey discovered that in western New York, there are higher incidences of productivity and working in teams, as compared with workers in other areas of the country. Unions may benefit labor relations as well. The survey results showed that 56 percent of unionized employers and unions report their relationship as harmonious, and only 22 percent describe it as adversarial. “Our findings even surprised us — the extent of the positive response we got,” Fleron said. Widespread joint labor management programs in unionized workplaces and more communications practices by unionized employers than by nonunionized employers, were other local trends indicated in the survey results. A collection of 15 case studies of local “enterprises” comprised the second part of the study, providing “a close-up examination of strategic organizational change, employer-union relationships and workforce development,” according to the report. The studies examine such corporations as General Motors, SYSCO Food Services and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. These businesses and organizations have had competitive success and drew in big investment by the company, according to Fleron. The GM plant is “the most productive engine plant in the world,” she said. “We were proud … of the fact that it confirms what we thought about the region,” she added. “[It is a] good place to invest in.” The results are the yield of an eight-month study, funded by a $70,000 grant from the New York State Department of Education. “We needed to know more about labor relations in the region,” Fleron said. The Western Region of ILR collaborated with the Western New York AFL-CIO Economic Development Group and the Buffalo Niagara Enterprise to examine the private-sector economy. The groups are working to “promote regional success and to encourage new investment and job creation effort here in the region.” According to state assembly member Sam Hoyt (D-144), their approximate goal is to attract 50,000 new jobs over a period of about five years. With help from the Western New York State Legislative Delegation, the AFL-CIO EDG approached State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-62) to ask for a grant, which they received. “No one can dispute that Buffalo is a big labor town,” Hoyt said, explaining that the high instance of unionization gives some the perception that the region is anti-business. “We knew differently — we wanted to put together a body of evidence that independently proved otherwise,” Hoyt said. “It strengthened what most of us already knew: this is a strong labor community, but the record and result of the study show that that’s not a negative.” However, this is only the first phase — the descriptive phase of the study. During the second phase, the Western Region of ILR’s extension program will analyze the survey results. “This first report is just the beginning of the analysis of it,” Fleron said. In the meantime, he noted, the response to the study from the state has been positive. “We have so many requests for reports that we have trouble filling them,” Fleron said.Archived article by Heather Schroeder