NEWS | May 1, 2008

College to host year-end picnic

| Staff Writer

Ithaca College will host its fourth annual IC Kicks Back, a picnic celebrating the last day of classes, from 2 to 6 p.m. tomorrow on the Campus Center Quad.

Russell Martin, assistant director of the Center for Student Leadership and Involvement, helped organize the event, and said it will feature a karaoke DJ, inflatable games, free food and activity tables.

“It’s an opportunity for us to have a few different options of things for people to do that day,” he said.

Student Government Association President and senior Aaron Bloom said he hopes IC Kicks Back will displace the college’s other unofficial tradition — Prospect Day. In previous years, students have gathered on Prospect Street on the last day of classes for celebrations that tend to get rowdy.

Bloom said city police will crack down on partygoers and are already taking measures to prevent wild, drunken celebrations.

Brian McAree, vice president of Student Affairs and Campus Life, said Prospect Day is not an old tradition and has only become a problem within the last eight years.

“When things go more than two or three years, everybody calls it a tradition and thinks it’s been going on forever,” McAree said.

Sophomore Lindsey Humphreys said Prospect Day will be a hard tradition to stop because it is not sanctioned by the college and has no real organization.

“It’s individuals who decide unilaterally that they’re going to do it,” she said. “It’s kind of how it’s easier to stop an army than it is to stop guerillas.”


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