Mar 11, 2010 | Last December, the Women’s Sports Foundation released a study, “Her Life Depends on It II: Sport, Physical Activity and the Health and Well-Being of American Girls and Women.” The project was an update on the major research on the health benefits of physical activity and sports for girls and women of all ages and on potential barriers to participation.


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Mar 11, 2010 | In fall 2009, I approached anthropolgy assistant professor Denise Nuttall with the intention of making flamenco music and culture the focus of my independent study course. The story of flamenco starts with the Roma people (commonly known as “gypsies”) fleeing persecution in their homeland of northern India and migrating west through the Middle East into Europe. The exact nature of their arrival in Spain is unknown, but by the 15th century, a sizeable population of Roma existed in Andalucía, the southern region of Spain.
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Mar 4, 2010 | Higher education should be a means of elevating community while developing individual potential — to making a difference for others even as you make a difference for yourself. 

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Mar 4, 2010 | Islam is a touchy subject. When I told my grandmother that my senior project in anthropology would be talking to Muslim students on campus about issues of identity and religion, she immediately told me, “I don’t know how you trust those Muslims or why you’re interested in them. Are you thinking of converting to Islam?”
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Feb 25, 2010 | After the introduction of a nationwide tobacco policy and its enforcement in most places, the general perception about tobacco use is that we are finally winning the battle against it. However, it seems there is always another loophole that sneaks up on us and the use of tobacco could be on its way to the mainstream again with a very different identity and form. 


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Feb 25, 2010 | While I was in the West Bank visiting friends this past January, I had the     opportunity to spend time with a Palestinian farmer named Abed. He welcomed us onto his land, located in a valley just outside Bethlehem, to tell us about his life. This is his story.
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Feb 18, 2010 | We live in a world of ever-growing convenience. There are so many options as to where we can get our news, especially online. With the simple click of a mouse, we can read newspapers and blogs about current events and issues in almost every part of the world. But the sad truth is that we don’t.
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Feb 11, 2010 | On Jan. 12 of this year, the ground beneath the feet of millions of Haitians violently shook and disrupted their lives forever. Overnight, from our home communities to provinces we’d never heard of prior, we, as a world, lent our hands full of care and favor to the people of Haiti. This wasn’t an exclusive reaction. We took the same charge in response to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and to the hurricanes of New Orleans in 2005. It is in these spotlights of awareness that we seem to rise and conquer. When it is up to our awareness to persist, however, we unfortunately seem to grow ever dimmer.
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Feb 11, 2010 | “It’s time to talk about it.” That’s the theme for this year’s National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, which takes place Feb. 21-27. Ithaca College will present a panel discussion on eating disorders and recovery and a Wellness Wednesday lecture during   that week.
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