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Tuesday, Feb. 1, 1977 ITHACA JOURNAL 3 Wh IIS Stop start aien: talking, oing' By ALAN GOODMAN It is time to stop talking about the problems and issues that face Ithaca College, and time to start doing something about them. This was IC President James Whalen's message to more than 125 faculty members at a meeting Monday night. Reading from a natural gas shortage, Mrs. Carol Lewis gives a baritone-saxophone lesson in a book storage area to Brian Schutt.

Displaced from the Dryden Elementary School band room where two Freeville Elementary School classes are meeting during the have trouble getting oil Whalen. This is an obligation the school has not only to future students but to its present enrollment, who are paying more every year to attend IC. This is all going to require some serious self-evaluation, but it should not be viewed as a grim time, said the president. It is neither the best nor the worst of times, Whalen said. "We have some problems like everyone else, but I think we tend to underrate ourselves," he said.

Whalen said the college should concentrate on the it is doing, and continue to do the best job possible. And there are some very positive things going on at IC, he said. Among those he listed are the return next fall to the old grading system, which includes the grades and a revision in the academic honors system so honors will be more of an an increasingly positive and serious student mood on campus; the addition this year of an endowed faculty chair; a more active, aggressive admissions recruiting program, and continued renovations of dormitories on campus. Ten people will serve on the task force, which will include members of the'admin-istration, faculty and students. The president said he wants recommendations for the body by Feb.

10, and plans to announce appointments to it on Feb. 15. The trustees are expected to receive the governance report at their winter meeting on Feb. 28. The report is expected to go back to the IC campus for comment after that, and Whalen said he expects final trustee action at the October 1977 meeting.

The president said he will offer recommendations on tenure policy. This comes after the trustees found three faculty reports on the issue unacceptable. This issue also elicited the most concern at Monday's meeting. Faculty members were concerned about possible changes in the current policy, which would affect all faculty members. Whalen said there have been no general changes in policy to date.

He said that an unlimited tenured faculty would not be good academically or legally: Academically, because it may limit hirings of new faculty, and legally, because the college could leave itself open to court battles if it was forced to eliminate tenured faculty during repairs, and to accomodate a high rate of absences due to illnesses, he said. The Journal mistakenly reported Monday that the Odessa-Montour district would be open this week. high buildings operate on fuel oil. The district had its own fuel crisis last week, said Sensel when officials found the buildings at 40 degrees. It was decided to shut down this week to make boiler carefully worded, prepared text, Whalen told the faculty that he had spent the first 19 months of his presidency studying and analyzing the college.

During that period, he said, he had not called for any "major" changes in the structure or 1 Whale offerings of the college. But the time has come to "move in some areas," he said, and that could mean some significant changes at IC. Among the things that demand attention are the academic structure of the college, the governance system, and making sure that money is spent wisely at the college, said the president. Whalen's message did not offer any surprises or revelations about the college or its future. The president has repeatedly expressed concern about these and other issues at IC.

But Whalen did present to the faculty an agenda to start to deal with these matters. He announced that he would soon appoint a task force to study the academic structure of the college; that he would soon offer recommendations on the tenure policy at IC; that a subcommittee of the Board of Trustees would offer to the entire board next month recommended revisions in the IC governance system, subject to comment by people on campus; and that some faculty members will work on developing a program to assist students with academic deficiencies. These are all part of an effort to do some real planning for the realities of the future, he said. One of those realities is that the college-age population in the state is expected to drop in a few years, and IC will be competing with other schools for fewer students. To attract students.

IC must offer the best programs it can for the money, said Health Alliance seeks compromise Schools By SUE BERNSTEIN Having converted to heating oil in order to save natural gas, the Dryden school system is trying to stay open this week despite its second-class status as an oil customer. The district expected an oil delivery Monday from Agway, but it didn't come. A 10-day supply of 7,000 gallons has been promised for Wednesday, says district business manager, Pat Hamill. Since the district usually uses natural gas, it is a standby customer for oil, he said. Trumansburg officials made a special request through the state's emergency fuel office late Monday to secure the promise of a delivery Wednesday.

Trumansburg has not yet curtailed sports programs or night activities, said Hamill. Room temperatures are kept at 68 degrees and shades are pulled down, he said. The Trumansburg district requires some 800 gallons of oil per day for the junior-senior high and 500 gallons per day for the elementary buildings. The transfer of Freeville pupils (from the exclusively gas-burning building) to Dryden and McLean went smoothly, said Hamill. Meanwhile, the Groton School District still plans to open Wednesday when both the elementary and secondary schools By DORIS WALSH The chairman of the Tompkins County Health Alliance said today that no report of its work will be released until it has reached a compromise that the Alliance feels will serve the best interests of providers, consumers and those who will provide funding for the project.

The president of the Tompkins County Medical Society charged Friday that the Alliance is trying to force a merger between the Family Medicine Program and Cornell University Health Services. T. Merrell Shipherd, chairman of the Alliance, said the organization has been aware of the concerns of the doctors for some time. He said it is important for the community to be aware of the doctors' position as well. The Alliance is at a point where doctors postponed labor relations cases are "becoming a year 'round process." In other business, the board announced that it is searching for candidates for the remaining four years of a five-year term of service as Ithaca School District liaison to the Board of Cooperative Educational Services board.

Teachers want to talk Task force meeting New Elmira Road plans endorsed can be involved either formally or informally with determining some of the ways in which community-based health care can be accomplished, Shipherd said. Shipherd said the alternatives being discussed include such things as a netowrk of rural satellite services. In a recent conversation with Dr. Louis Munchmeyer, president of the medical society, Shipherd said he suggested members of the society and Alliance members have informal conversations about alternative approaches. Dr.

Munchmeyer indicated it was a good idea, Shipherd said. Shipherd said he hopes the Alliance can present a report this month on its progress to date that will include alternative plans for a non-profit health organization. Those plans, he said, will seek to serve the practical interests of the hospital, Cornell University, the Family Medicine Program, the medical community and the consumer. In response to Dr. Munchmeyer' comments that Cornell has been "inflexible," William Gurowitz, vice president for campus affairs, said: "If by 'inflexible' Dr.

Munchmeyer means Cornell has kept as its prime goal getting the best quality health care for its students, then we stand guilty of being inflexible. If he means anything more than that, then 1 wish he would be more specific." suit to reverse the trustees' decision. The store, a foot addition to the mall, had been set for a mid-March opening. "In my opinion they are breaking the law," Smidt said. Pyramid officials could not be reached for comment.

Trustees discovered the construction about a week ago, he said, but were not surprised. Smidt said Pyramid attorneys had informed village officials that they advised the mall owners to proceed with construction without a permit. He said he did not know when the construction had started. Q. Will sealing off rooms help? A.

Yes, if you can shut the heat off in the rooms, and if there are no pipes in them to be frozen. The best rooms to shut off are the ones on the side of your home where the wind prevails. Then you create a buffer zone between you and the wind. If you do shut off rooms, use towels, rags, newspapers, or blankets to seal the cracks under and around the doors be- Continued on Page 7. Pyramid lacks OK, but addition started Ithaca's school task force meeting has been postponed a week, because of the cold weather.

Due to make a final recommendation on which, if any, school buildings to close, the group will hold its final session of deliberations on Saturday, Feb. 12. The Ithaca school board made that change at a voting meeting Monday night. Information being prepared for the task force, such as answers to questions raised at recent public hearings, has been delayed by the district shutdown. The board said it wants the task force to recommend three optional plans for reorganizing district schools.

So far, the task force has made only one firm recommendation. "We want to have the thinking of the community with regard to three contingencies," said Board President Howard Andrus today. If the task force does not "fulfill its charge," the board "may decide whether or not to accept the recommendation that is made," said Andrus. If just one plan is recommended, the board may consider it with Jess weight, he said. The school board rejected by a vote of 4-3 (with one abstention) a request from the Ithaca Teachers Association for an audience with the board to discuss re will have been readied for oil use.

Newfield elementary pupils will remain at home this week. District principal, Donald Hickman said today he will consider moving the pupils into the new junior-senior high if the shutdown of gas-burning buildings continues for a second week. Trumansburg District Principal Lowell Foland said today that closing was the only alternative for his schools after several factors were considered. The elementary school, which houses administrative offices, runs exclusively on natural gas. One boiler at the high school has been converted to handle oil but the other awaits parts before a conversion can be made.

There are none available "this side of Buffalo," he said, referring to the storm that has stopped traffic west of Buffalo. The high school could operate on one boiler, he said, "if it weren't so cold." Further, Trumansburg sends "a sizeable number" of its students to the Board of Cooperative Educational Services and the Ithaca District for occupational classes and classes for the handicapped. Both those districts have shut down. Odessa-Montour schools are closed this week, according to secondary school principal, Gene Sensel, even though that district's elementary and junior-senior organization. The teachers recently released a critique of the project, saying they could no longer participate.

ITA President John Caren had said the teachers' next step would be to prepare for negotiations, inferring that teachers would look to contract talks to hold the line on unwanted changes. In a January letter to the board requesting the meeting, Caren said, "We will not use our negotiating process nor our contract to interfere with the reorganization process. In fact we would welcome an opportunity to meet with you to clarify our view on this issue, discuss our responsibilities with you and swim through the web of comments that may be interfering with our relationship." School reorganization consultant, Katherine Eisenberger, recently accused the teachers of "picking up their marbles and going home," but she also predicted that the association would be back with new proposals soon. The request grew out of a Jan. 31 executive board meeting of the ITA.

The school board approved a new contract with the district negotiator, William Stratton, hiring him for 12 months at $14,500 including expenses, instead of for eight months at $8,500 plus expenses. Andrus said today the district faced at least 25 union grievances last year and may seem silly, if you are cold inside, pull on a hat. People lose much of their body heat through their heads. Wear two pairs of light socks, and a light sweater with another sweater over it. Wear socks to bed, put flannel sheets on your beds, sleep in flannel nightgowns and pajamas.

Fuzzy fabrics are warmer than smooth ones because they trap air. Blakey is By WILLIAM RINGLE Gannett News Service WASHINGTON An architect of some of the nation's major anti-crime legislation is being considered to head the Justice Department's Criminal Division. But Prof. G. Robert Blakey of Cornell Law School discounts "as newspaper talk" reports that he is "believed to be the leading candidate" for the job.

He is director of Cornell's Institute on Organized Crime which, with financing from the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, does research into better ways to control organized crime. Blakey said today, "Sources indicate that the job may go to a protege of one of (Atty. Gen. Griffin) Bell's former law partners." He said that two or three individuals, including himself, are under consideration for the position. He said he expects to hear either way by the end of the week.

Blakey said he may have some opposition from various legislators, since his work in the past involved him in litigation cases. "In every litigation someone wins and someone loses," he said. "Some of these losers may be opposed to seeing me in that position." LANSING Construction of a third anchor store at Pyramid mall is proceeding, despite the Village of Lansing's rejection of a building permit request, village Mayor Seymour Smidt said today. Smidt said the village will seek a temporary injunction Thursday at a previously-scheduled hearing in Supreme Court to halt construction. Lansing trustees unanimously turned down the request from Pyramid to build a Hill's Department Store in December, citing an extraordinarily high traffic accident rate on N.

Triphammer Road. Pyramid attorneys later filed a law By JANE MARCHAM Plans for improving the Elmira Road at a city cost of more than $1.3 million, instead of the $1 million once forecast, were endorsed Monday by city aldermen and planning and public works officials. The expanded project would include city installation of its own light poles, poles and signs of a new design suggested by city planners, and plantings along the roadway. Not included is some $200,000 for relocating utility lines to the rear of properties along the road, which would make ultimate costs to the city total $1.5 million. Common Council will be asked to authorize preparation for selling bonds to pay for the project at its session at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday in Central Fire Station. The Elmira Road decision is one of several facing council on Wednesday. The February session will open with a public hearing on the revised franchise with Ceracche Television Corp. expected to win council approval. Aldermen also will be asked to decide whether to advance $100,000 for construction of the family medical clinic proposed on West State Street.

The hope is that the funds will be reimbursed through a federal Appalachia grant, once assured but now in doubt. The Appalachia decision is not expected for eight months, Richard McDougall, city planning consultant, said today. And unless the clinic opens this year it may not open at all, he said, since the new facility is considered key to the over-all success and funding for the Family Medicine Program sponsored by Tompkins County Hospital. Another major item on council's long agenda will be initial introduction of assessments to pay for the downtown Commons, aired and amended in a series of discussions with property owners this winter. The joint review of the Elmira Road plans drew nearly all members of council, the City Planning Board and Board of Public Works to Central Fire Station on Monday night.

Many roadside merchants and property owners were also present. Robert O. Dingman, city superintendent of public works, said the project's basic costs were estimated at $1.1 million. But those attending the session reached general agreement on these additions: for city installation of the light poles. According to Dingman's figures, long-range costs to the city were lower than they would be if the poles were installed and owned by New York State Electric Gas which was once a standard procedure.

in added costs for poles of the new design, which incorporate traffic signs. Old-style poles with arms extending over the road and separate signage were considered less attractive. $87,000 for design and installation of trees and shrubs along the road, not included in the basic project. The figures are estimates, and actual costs will depend upon bids to be opened on March 7. Meanwhile, city officials are seeking rear-yard easements for relocation of the utility lines.

According to present plan, if the owners grant easements without cost to the city, the city would agree to assume the estimated $194,000 cost of relocating the lines. Required would be a 20-foot-wide strip of land, which owners could use for parking but not for permanent construction. HZA cli iff named TRUMANSBURG The Village Board appointed Earl Richar of Cemetery Road chairman of the zoning board of appeals at a special board meeting Monday night. Richar replaces William Savey who resigned recently. So how do I stay warm at 60 Q.

What else can I do inside to keep warm? A. Move about. You'd be surprised how warm you will be if you are waxing a floor or baking cookies. It is not a good idea to use your oven as a heating device, but cooking food in it will give you the additional advantage of helping to heat your kitchen. considered Blakey, a nationally recognized expert on criminal law, is credited with drafting most of the 1968 federal law which forbids wiretapping except on the application of a prosecutor, with the permission of a judge and for limited periods.

He also was the chief author in 1973 of a monumental overhaul and consolidation of federal criminal laws. A version of this became a major source of controversy, known as "S-l" (that was its number on the Senate docket, which it no longer possesses) and branded the biggest piece of legislation (750 pages, more in some versions) ever introduced in the Senate. Blakey drafted both pieces of legislation when he was chief counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on criminal laws and procedures, headed by Sen. John McClellan, D-Ark. He joined the Cornell Law faculty in 1973.

Reports at that time said he was disapppointed that the Senate was not taking action on the mammoth measure. During 1975 and part of last year he was a member of the National Commission for the review of Federal and State Laws Relating to Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance, which had been called for in the 1968 law. By DORIS L. WALSH Following are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about coping with the cold and saving energy. New York State Electric Gas Cooperative Extension, and Dr.

Kathleen Gaffney, county health commissioner, provided the answers. Q. How low can I set my thermostat and still keep my family healthy? A. Human beings can survive quite nicely in 60-degree temperatures, if they are adequately dressed. Q.

But won't 60 degrees make my family more susceptible to colds? A. No. Houses are dry in the winter, anyway. Warm air dries nasal passages and makes you more susceptible to colds. Older persons with arthritis may find it more comfortable to move around in their homes if the temperature is slightly warmer than is necessary for younger people.

Q. What about children? A. Just like for the rest of us, cooler temperatures are healthier for children. There will be no ill effects on them if they are adequately dressed. Q.

Are there any health dangers in being too cold? A. The main danger is from being outside too long when the wind chill factor is very low. Children should be clothed in snowpants, heavy jackets and sweaters, hats and mittens. Parents should be very careful to make sure children playing outside do not get frostbite, especially when it is windy. Q.

What is the best way to dress Inside if the house temperature is 65 degrees or less? A. Wear several light layers of clothing instead of one heavy layer. Many people are wearing a layer of thermal underwear under their clothing. Although it fr TjXMSu Jf1 I i Buir mm 3l Streamlined light poles and plantings would replace present clutter along the Elmira Road under design endorsed Monday. Sketch is by John Short, a landscape consultant to the city planning department..