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Junior Thomas Minett hangs fliers for an environmental workshop he hosted in connection to the #PutAPriceOnIt campaign. Minett introduced the national campaign to the college’s campus Spring 2019.

Student brings national environmental campaign to campus

By Maia Noah, Staff Writer • March 27, 2019
This spring, Ithaca College junior Thomas Minett introduced the national campaign #PutAPriceOnIt to the college’s campus.
Maya van Rossum, Delaware Riverkeeper and leader of the Green Amendment movement, presents on environmental degradation, the current state of environmental protection in the U.S. and the Green Amendment movement on March 25.

Leader of Green Amendment movement presents on environmentalism

By Olivia King, Staff Writer • March 27, 2019
Ithaca College hosted environmentalist and lawyer Maya van Rossum for a presentation on environmental degradation, protections and protections.
After Life deals with the struggles of mental illness head-on and approaches the topic with a refreshing combination of respect and honesty. The humor, storytelling and characters move After Life to be one of Netflixs most successful pieces of mental health media.

Review: Show breathes life into mental illness awareness

By Avery Alexander • March 18, 2019

Media covering mental illness is often touchy. Even with recent movements to normalize mental health struggles, mainstream culture still ignores and ostracizes topics like suicide and depression. It is...

Review team critical of Ithaca College health services

Review team critical of Ithaca College health services

By Maia Noah, Contributing Writer • December 12, 2018
Keeling and Associates found that health services on the college’s campus are not organized effectively and do not have up-to-par operational effectiveness.
Students who would like to donate reusable water bottles can leave them in buckets located in the upper level of the Campus Center and outside the library. The bottles can be new or used and will be collected at least until the end of the semester.

Public health club launches water bottle drive for Ecuador program

By Elizabeth Henning, staff Writer • November 25, 2018
A group of students at Ithaca College is looking to make a global difference through local efforts.
Queen Strength, led by junior Au’Vonnie Dorsett, works to empower women through health and fitness. They meet every Friday at 3:15 p.m. in the Mondo Floor Gym in the Fitness Center.

Club focuses on women empowerment through health and fitness

By Emily Lussier, Contributing Writer • March 31, 2018
Junior Au’Vonnie Dorsett said she missed having an outlet to exercise through and the sisterhood she experienced while being a part of a team.
The Administration of Therapeutic Recreation class at Ithaca College set up a pop-up bake sale April 23 at the Cornell Cooperative 4-H Duck Race. The group, which aims to bring light to mental illness, raised $310 for the Tompkins County Suicide Prevention and Crisis Center.

Depressed Cake Shop makes Ithaca debut to fight mental illness

By Silas White, Staff Writer • April 26, 2017
One organization, new to Ithaca, aims to encourage discussion in a different way — through sweet treats.
National Recap: Republican health care bill falls flat

National Recap: Republican health care bill falls flat

By Celisa Calacal, Opinion Editor • March 29, 2017
Despite promises to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the GOP's attempt to pass a health care overhaul bill has failed.
Jake Brenner, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Science at Ithaca College, studied the potentially detrimental effects of Marijuanna farming in California, the state with the largest, and now legal, production of the plant.

IC professor examines detrimental effects of pot farming

By Sophia Adamucci, Staff Writer • November 9, 2016
“I honestly don’t care if marijuana gets legalized, but I’m very concerned about when it gets legalized, that we’re ready to measure the impacts of it,” Brenner said.
Hank (Ed O’Neill) gives suggestions to Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) on how the duo can escape from the Australian aquarium where they were spontaneously placed.

Review: “Finding Dory” eagerly addresses mental disabilities

By Jacqueline Borwick, Staff Writer • August 4, 2016
As audience members follow Dory on her journey to reunite with her family in the wide expanse of the ocean, they are overcome with emotions of sadness, hopefulness, and contentment as Dory is aided by other sea creatures along with Marlin and Nemo.

Letter to the Editor: Mental illness should not be sensationalized

By Gabriella Jorio • May 13, 2016
It is problematic that a mental illness is being sensationalized in such a way and I am disappointed that my own struggles have been exploited to attract more readers.
FLEFF is a local annual film festival and has been sponsored by Ithaca College since 2004. The theme of this year’s festival, which runs from March 28 to April 3, will be landscapes, which the FLEFF website describes as potentially being “material and immaterial, built and imagined.”

Annual environmental film festival returns to Ithaca College

By Faith Meckley, News Editor • March 27, 2016
The 19th annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival will feature films produced from around the world on topics like women’s health clinics, hydraulic fracturing, climbing Mount Everest and the Indian-Pakistani partition.
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