14850 Online

July/August 1995

Volume 4, Number 7

This issue, 14850 Magazine welcomes its new editor, Eric Machan Howd. We begin with a Letter from Eric introducing himself to our readers.
Opinion: The Hamster Wheel and the $33 Cheeseburger
Beastie Boys Get Better With Age
Fiction by W.T. Ranney: Back to School
Cover Story: In Praise of Recess
Art: Up Close & Personal
Exhausted from the Arms Race
Grassroots Festival Schedule
Click the small cover image for a full-size (124K) cover picture. Our cover photo, courtesy of the Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention & Visitors Bureau, captures the flavor of Ithaca in the summer.

Ithaca's Index

Number of pounds of dog food used by the Tompkins County SPCA in one year: 5200
Pounds of cat food: 3000
Pounds of kitty litter: 4000
Number of skin cancer cases expected to result from ozone loss: 1,000,000,000
Expected deaths: 17,000,000
Number of deer the Kaibab Plateau (north of the Grand Canyon) was originally capable of supporting: 40,000
Current carrying capacity of the Kaibab Plateau: 10,000
Amount of money The National Library of Poetry is expected to give out in prizes for its North American Open Poetry Competition: $24,000
Number of poets expected to receive prizes in this competition: 250
Number of positions expected to be eliminated at Ithaca College as a result of the steady decline in enrollement since 1991: 237
Amount of money expected to be saved as a result of these eliminations: $8,000,000
Approximate yearly salary of Ithaca College President James Whalen: $384,000.00
Approximate weight of the new air conditioner at Public PC, in pounds: 84
Average household income of those who browse the Internet's World Wide Web: $69,000
Original number of Burns Sisters: 5
Average daily bytes of info retrieved from the IthacaNet in June '95: 7,270,756
Countries from which someone accessed the IthacaNet in June '95: 46
Number of Performance Spaces at the '95 GrassRoots Festival: 4
Concerts in the CSMA's Hot Nights, Cool Jazz series: 6
Members of CSMA Faculty: 70
Ithaca-area Internet Providers in June '95: 0
Ithaca-area Internet Providers in July '95: 3
Dollars needed for Hangar Theatre "Sponsor" membership: $400
New Hangar "Sponsor" personal members from October thru 19 June '95: 36
Amount of money in Signor Pirelli's pouch in Sweeney Todd: £3
Young people (estimated) involved in Hangar '95 educational programs: 20,000
Players in Cayuga Jazz Ensemble: 5
Days of CSMA Summer Jazz Institute: 5
Athletes (estimated) involved in '95 Empire State Games: 7,000
Bonnie Blair's Olympic speed-skating championships: 5
Price of an adult Master Pass to see the Games: $13
Price of a child (age 7-12) Master Pass: $6

Index Sources

1-3: Tompkins County SPCA Brochure
4-7: Capitalism Against Democracy Newsletter, April 1995
8-9: National Library of Poetry Press Release
10-11: Ithaca College Press release
12: The Ithacan
13: Kenmore Air Conditioner Spec. Sheet
14: New York Times, June 27, 1995
15: The Burns Sisters Band
16-17: IthacaNet
18: GrassRoots Festival Schedule
19-20: CSMA
21-22: IthacaNet
23-26: Hangar Theatre 1995 Program
27-28: CSMA
29-32: Empire State Games Web Site