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From left, Grace Ann Mattair and Sam Zaslow-Braverman are the first and second place winners, respectively, of the David R. Ames Film Award. Their films use kaleidoscopes as the central theme.

David Ames films: from inspiration to the big screen

By Matthew Telyczka, Contributing Writer March 27, 2025

Each year since 2007, Ithaca College’s Roy H. Park School of Communications holds the David R. Ames Film Award to recognize student scriptwriters and filmmakers across a range of disciplines. With the...

From left, Meaghan Burke and Riley Rhoder, student leaders of GNAB community efforts, stand in front of one of the many bookshelves in GNAB's personal closet.

The Graphic Novel Advisory Board returns to ITHACON with rich history

By Gianna Izzo, Staff Writer March 27, 2025

Graphic novels are more than just entertainment — they are a gateway to literacy, creativity and diverse storytelling. At this year’s ITHACON on April 5 and 6, students from Ithaca College’s Graphic...

Amanda Rodewald, senior director of Cornell University Lab of Ornithology and professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell, talks at Cinemapolis about the role of birds in conservation efforts.

Pro-Wildlife efforts are taking flight across Ithaca

By Sadie Evans, Contributing Writer March 27, 2025

Technological innovations like eBird, as well as work done at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology are working to tackle climate change through bird conservation in Ithaca. Jake Brenner, Ithaca College Natural...

February Shneck, student employee at the Center for LGBT Education, magnifies trans student's voices with their idea for the annual Trans Visibility Exhibition.

Trans Visibility Exhibition promotes joy and resistance in annual display

By Mariana Contreras, Newsletter Editor March 22, 2025

Joy is resistance. That’s the theme of the 2025 annual Trans Visibility Exhibition at Ithaca College, an exhibit that will take place from 5-7 p.m. March 28 in the Campus Center lobby. The exhibit provides...

Linda Muir shares time for a Q&A with the New York Film and Television Student Alliance (NYFTSA). The questions were directed by NYFTSA's social media director, Zoe Ennis.

Linda Muir shares her industry experience at NYFTSA Q&A

By Brendan Tomaszewski, Contributing Writer March 20, 2025

The New York Film and Television Student Alliance held a Q&A via Zoom on March 17 with Oscar-nominated costume designer Linda Muir, most known for her work with film director Robert Eggers. Muir described...

Emerging magazine's new ink promotes marginalized voices

Emerging magazine’s new ink promotes marginalized voices

By Eva Leon, Staff Writer March 6, 2025

Three new student-led magazines are emerging at Ithaca College this semester to highlight underrepresented voices, issues and subjects: Tinta Libre, ETRNL Magazine, and Her Campus.  Junior April Cascante...

Director-writer Sean Baker (front) gives his acceptance speech with the rest of the "Anora" cast for the award for Best Picture. The film swept nearly every major academy category this year.

The 2025 Oscars: Heroines, heartbreak and helpings of humor

By Allison Dolan, Contributing Writer March 5, 2025

On March 2, the 97th annual Academy Awards ceremony took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The casts of some of last year’s highest-grossing movies were in attendance to celebrate all things...

Tynan DeLong (left) and Corey Hughes (middle) talk about their respective short films with Andrew Vielkind (right). Their work explored themes of escapism.

The return of the Ithaca Experimental Film Festival

By Brendan Tomaszewski, Contributing Writer March 5, 2025

Across the theatrical screens of Ithaca College’s Park Auditorium, Cornell Cinema and Cinemapolis, audiences were exposed to filmmaking visionaries from across the world. The Ithaca Experimental Film...

West Moore, lead vocalist and guitarist of anydayinjune, is deep in the music of the band's "Juniversary" show at The Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar.

IC band anydayinjune celebrates their one year ‘Juniversary’

By Parker Anne Devine, Contributing Writer February 26, 2025

The Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar was decorated with birthday banners and balloons Feb. 21 for anydayinjune’s anniversary show, titled “Juniversary.” The show was presented by IC Unknown...

ICJVE stand behind their director, John White, as the performance begins. This marks the second year Cayuga Chamber Orchestra has organized the "Songs of Love" concert.

ICJVE performs Valentines Day celebration at Museum of the Earth

By Brendan Tomaszewski, Contributing Writer February 22, 2025

Under a massive skeleton of a whale, there was love in the air as performers like the Ithaca College Jazz Vocal Ensemble sang to a crowd of nearly 100 supporters of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, an orchestra...

Sam Schulz, Rust Cup 2025 competitor, flies over the bowl while hitting a trick.

Rust Cup encourages queer skaters to lace up for competition

By Sheelagh Doe and Haley Meberg February 19, 2025

Sheltered from street view, a skate shop on the side of an otherwise quiet hill in Jamestown, New York, holds a hidden world of exuberantly rowdy skaters, there to compete in Rust Cup 2025. Among the contestants...

Mat Fournier's new book, “Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature," uses his French education and personal experience as a transgender man to unravel the concept of gender binary.

Q&A: Mat Fournier dives deep into gender constructs with new book

By Sadie Evans, Staff Writer February 15, 2025
Mat Fournier, associate professor in the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures and an affiliate member of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Ithaca College, published a book in November 2024 titled “Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature.”
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