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National Recap: Missiles escalate Syrian conflict

National Recap: Missiles escalate Syrian conflict

By Mary Ford, Managing Editor
April 12, 2017
Black History Month concert engages Ithaca College community

Black History Month concert engages Ithaca College community

By Mary Ford, Managing Editor
March 1, 2017
Kelly Fairbrother '15 performs at the Wheels 4 Women charity event in 2015. This year will carry the tradition to raise funds and raise awareness for domestic violence in India.

Q&A: Cabaret group combats domestic violence in India

By Mary Ford, Managing Editor
January 25, 2017
Review: Chazelle's 'La La Land' sings the same old tune

Review: Chazelle’s ‘La La Land’ sings the same old tune

By Mary Ford, Managing Editor
January 20, 2017
Women of color on campus address oppression in upcoming show

Women of color on campus address oppression in upcoming show

By Mary Ford, Managing Editor
November 9, 2016
The film festival, Cine Con Cultura, features films produced in Latin American cultures. All 11 films are in Spanish or Portuguese. Tickets are $7.50 per film or $6 for seniors and students. Festival passes are $50 for all films and $40 for seniors and students. Select screenings will be shown for free.

Cine Con Cultura: Hispanic film festival shines on IC campus

By Mary Ford, Life and Culture Editor
September 28, 2016
Ithaca College students practice outside of the audition room in the James J. Whalen Center for Music while they wait for their numbers to be called.

Setting the Stage: Ithaca students prepare for auditions

By Mary Ford, Life & Culture Editor
August 24, 2016
Review: AJJ's altered sound disappoints listeners

Review: AJJ’s altered sound disappoints listeners

By Mary Ford, Life and Culture Editor
August 21, 2016
Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig), Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones), Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon) and Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) unite, complete with uniforms, to fight off Manhattan's ghosts in this satirical remake of the 1986 original Ghostbusters.

Review: Satirical remake of ‘Ghostbusters’ fails to please

By Mary Ford, Staff Writer
August 7, 2016
Review: "Genius" film lacks intelligence and purpose

Review: “Genius” film lacks intelligence and purpose

By Mary Ford, Staff Writer
July 8, 2016
Keith McIntosh came to Ithaca College in August 2014 to become associate vice president of DIIS and chief information officer. He will leave his position July 22 to become vice president and chief information officer at the University of Richmond.

Ithaca College chief information officer to leave in July

By Mary Ford, Senior Writer
June 23, 2016

Dorothy Park, Park Foundation president, passes away at 103

By Mary Ford, Senior Writer
June 23, 2016
A group of Ithaca College students and alumni are covering themselves in fake blood for a photo campaign called "My Blood is Good," protesting what they say are discriminatory blood donation guidelines by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Ithaca College students protest FDA in bloody photo campaign

By Mary Ford, Senior Writer
June 16, 2016
The Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra is made up of 35 students, and will be joined by renowned pianists Gilbert Kalish and Miri Yampolsky for a performance Dec. 5.

Orchestra to perform with famous pianists

By Mary Ford, Life & Culture Editor
December 1, 2015
Win or lose we booze: How Ithaca does Cortaca

Win or lose we booze: How Ithaca does Cortaca

By Mary Ford, Life & Culture Editor
November 19, 2015
Review: Angsty lyrics 'wipe out' band's mellow sounds

Review: Angsty lyrics ‘wipe out’ band’s mellow sounds

By Mary Ford, Life & Culture Editor
November 4, 2015
Students have begun the annual search for off-campus housing for next year.

Moving Out: Ithaca College students look to move off campus

By Mary Ford, Life & Culture Editor
October 21, 2015
Ithaca College welcomes celebrity alumnus Aaron Tveit ’05 to campus for several events Sept. 17–18.

Celebrity alumnus Aaron Tveit visits Ithaca College

By Casey Murphy and Mary Ford
September 17, 2015
Senior Stephen Gomez will feature his work at the Karel Husa Gallery, opening Sept. 2.

New exhibit delves into music history

By Mary Ford, Life & Culture Editor
September 1, 2015
Members of IC Stand Up, who are also members of IC Comedy Club, the Acahti Players and IC Sketch Club, performed July 24 at the Gotham Comedy Club in NYC.

Ithaca College’s comedy clubs unite for professional success

By Mary Ford, Life & Culture Editor
August 26, 2015
7 places to visit in Ithaca this weekend

7 places to visit in Ithaca this weekend

By Mary Ford, Life & Culture Editor
August 26, 2015
Members of IC Stand Up, who are also members of IC Comedy Club, the Acahti Players and IC Sketch Club, performed July 24 at the Gotham Comedy Club in NYC.

Ithaca’s comedy community comes to NYC

By Mary Ford, Life & Culture Editor
July 6, 2015
Ithaca College students and alumni pose with College Emmys for their documentaries.

Ithaca students and alumni awarded with College Emmys

By Mary Ford, Assistant Life & Culture Editor
April 29, 2015
Professor Phiroze Mehta works with freshman Madeleine Parkes during a private lesson in his office in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.

Retiring music professors bid farewell to college

By Mary Ford, Assistant Life & Culture Editor
April 15, 2015
On left, Stage Director David Lefkowich works with students from the college's opera workshop class to bring professor of music Dana Wilson's opera to life.

Systemic racism takes center stage in new opera

By Mary Ford, Assistant Life & Culture Editor
April 1, 2015
Piotr Pillary studies a triptych from Barbara Prosts’ “Exposures” as part of the “Staged, Performed, Manipulated” exhibit at the Johnson Museum.

Photography exhibits make authenticity their focus

By Mary Ford, Assistant Life & Culture Editor
January 29, 2015
Sagan utilizes essential oils to imbue her products with flavor and fragrance. This rosemary mint lip balm is just one of many combinations she crafts.

Computer guru finds passion in bee-driven business

By Mary Ford, Assistant Life & Culture Editor
January 21, 2015

Review: Cumberbatch’s performance drives Turing biopic

By Mary Ford, Assistant Life & Culture Editor
January 15, 2015
A present is hidden in a display case in Multifaceted Minerals, one of many stores participating in Presents on the Commons, a small-business scavenger hunt. Stores reward those who find the gifts in Ithacash, a new local currency.

Ithaca community scavenger hunt launches new local currency

By Mary Ford, Staff Writer
December 10, 2014
From left, freshmen Charles Mauser, Gabriel Bosco and Jimmy Tang and junior Sean Themea sit down for a round of poker Dec. 4 in the Boothroyd Hall lounge. Tang said he has been a fan of poker since his upbringing in China.

Ithaca student’s love for cards aims to revitalize poker club on campus

By Mary Ford, Staff Writer
December 10, 2014
Participants of PostSecretU submit their secrets on post cards provided by the program. These submissions, among others, will be displayed as part of an art exhibit Dec. 8 in Emerson Suites.

IC Active Minds exhibits campus secrets in new mental health initiative

By Mary Ford, Staff Writer
November 19, 2014
Review: Murky direction mars Stewart's film debut

Review: Murky direction mars Stewart’s film debut

By Mary Ford, Staff Writer
November 19, 2014
Tea culture of Europe and Asia permeates United States

Tea culture of Europe and Asia permeates United States

By Mary Ford, Staff Writer
October 29, 2014
Cider Week aims to raise cider appreciation in Ithaca

Cider Week aims to raise cider appreciation in Ithaca

By Mary Ford, Staff Writer
October 8, 2014
Karina McMahon, a fifth-year occupational therapy student, smiles with a child at the Prosthetics for Life Foundation, a clinic developed by former professor Kit Frank and her husband Robert Frank '73 in Ibarra, Ecuador.

Former professor starts Prosthetics for Life Foundation in Ecuador

By Mary Ford, Staff Writer
October 1, 2014
The Good Truck sells tacos during Porchfest on Sept. 14. The Good Truck and trucks like it have faced new zoning laws limiting where they can sell food.

Ithaca legislation limits food truck parking

By Mary Ford, Contributing Writer
September 17, 2014
Junior Ben Tolles inspects a beehive. Over the summer, Tolles worked as a beekeeper for South Hill Forest Products, a project where students farm honey, syrup and mushrooms at the ICNL.

South Hill Forest Products spur student learning

By Mary Ford, Contributing Writer
September 3, 2014

Multicultural film festival to explore Israeli customs

By Mary Ford, Contributing Writer
February 26, 2014
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