News from May 6, 2010

From left, junior Samantha Wolfe, Pete Meyers and Jessica Yoon hold a meeting at the Tompkins County Workers’ Center on Tuesday. Wolfe and Yoon work as interns for the center, advocating for workers’ rights.

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Empowering the People

No one knows what Neil does here every day.

Every day the man, who looks kind of like Benjamin Franklin, ambles into the Tompkins County Workers’ Center. He’s always wearing big glasses tied to his face with a piece of twine and a faded green padded vest covering a gray T-shirt, but on St. Patrick’s Day he wears a violently green shirt with a tuxedo pattern printed on it.

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Southside center seeks neighborhood revival

In those days
Leslie “Floyd” Carrington first stepped into the Southside Community Center in 1958. He was 8 years old, and the candy store in the secretary’s office was his favorite place to be. He would be there when it opened and when it closed. Read »

Top officials' pay released

Ithaca College has released its Internal Revenue Service 990 form listing the compensation of its top officers for 2008.

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Barlas appointed director of ethnicity studies center

Asma Barlas was reappointed program director for the Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity last week and has begun planning the department’s future. Barlas, who is also a professor of politics, served as the center’s first director when it was founded in 1999.

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College deems green survey unobjective

Ithaca College has decided to opt out of this year’s ranking of “eco-enlightened schools,” by Sierra Magazine. Read »

Senior's musical talent stands out at college

In one of the best music schools in the nation, it is not easy to stand out among hundreds of talented musicians. But with her expertise in both education and performing, senior soprano vocalist Elena Galvan has done just that.

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