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From left, Mayor Svante Myrick and Dennis Nayor, acting chief of police of the Ithaca Police Department, brief the media Sept. 4.

One man arrested, one at large after downtown Ithaca shooting

By Sierra Guardiola, Senior Writer
September 4, 2019
Alisar Awwad, right, talks with junior Mirza Abdul Ahad Rauf, left, before taking his photograph. On Facebook and Instagram, Awwad documents subjects’ images and experiences of beauty as people of color.

Photo campaign redefines Eurocentric beauty standards

By Sierra Guardiola, Life and Culture Editor
May 1, 2018
Senior Dominic Tibbetts won $10,000 on "The Price is Right," which aired March 23.

Q&A: IC student discusses winning on ‘The Price is Right’

By Sierra Guardiola, Life and Culture Editor
March 28, 2018
The Intermediate and Advanced Drawing classes collaborated with a biology research lab to study oral microbiomes and how they tie into into a person's understanding of their identity.

Art and biology students participate in creative collaboration

By Sierra Guardiola, Life and Culture Editor
March 21, 2018
From left, actor Eric Hambury, juniors Emma Beedenbender, Casey Schoch and sophomore Charlie Simmons worked together to produce a short film titled "Dead Weight," which landed a contract with Amazon Prime.

Student-made film receives prime deal from Amazon

By Sierra Guardiola, Life and Culture Editor
March 7, 2018
Sophomore Alison Walker interviews Jonathon Schindler with the help of sophomore Kelly Baffoni for her documentary film "Facebeater." Her film won Best Documentary Film at the second annual Student Film Festival.

Student Film Festival provides real world exposure

By Sierra Guardiola, Life and Culture Editor
February 7, 2018
Sophomores Unagh Frank, Mia Reingold and Brianna Ruback hold up the Spoon University sign. They are all members of the college's chapter, which gives college students the tools to write, photograph, create videos and host events focused on food.

Club focuses on food to bring community together

By Sierra Guardiola, Life and Culture Editor
February 6, 2018
Mike Zilvetti, a sophomore integrated marketing communications major, has curated his own clothing brand. Barbed NYC is a lifestyle brand influenced by skateboard culture, hip-hop culture and New York City.

WATCH: Students use creativity to cultivate clothing brands

By Cameron Coughlin and Sierra Guardiola
January 31, 2018
The Ithaca College Habitat for Humanity club traveled to South Carolina Jan. 15-19 to partner with the East Cooper affiliates for Habitat to finish building a house for a single mother and her daughter.

College chapter of Habitat for Humanity turns house into home

By Sierra Guardiola, Life and Culture Editor
January 30, 2018
Saviana Stanescu Condeescu, assistant professor in the Department of Theatre Arts, was a panelist at the Theater and Resistance Symposium in New York City Jan. 12. Her play "Waxing West" is also featured in the Women's Voices Theater Festival in Washington D.C. Jan. 19 to Feb. 10.

Q&A: Assistant professor seeks activism through art

By Sierra Guardiola, Life and Culture Editor
January 28, 2018
WATCH: Student band to take the stage at global music convention

WATCH: Student band to take the stage at global music convention

By Sierra Guardiola, Life and Culture Editor
January 24, 2018
Then-freshman Margaret Mowrer participated in the 2017 MLK Day of Service offered through the Office of Student Engagement and Multicultural Affairs. The Day of Service concludes the MLK Week Celebration each year.

Day of Service to conclude MLK Week Celebration

By Sierra Guardiola, Life and Culture Editor
January 24, 2018
Nagee Green was found guilty of the murder of former Ithaca College student Anthony Nazaire.

Update: Nagee Green found guilty for murder of Anthony Nazaire

By Sierra Guardiola, Assistant News Editor
September 28, 2017
Nagee Green was found guilty of the murder of former Ithaca College student Anthony Nazaire.

Suspect in IC student’s murder awaits verdict in retrial

By Grace Elletson and Sierra Guardiola
September 28, 2017
Cornell student arrested for assault in the third degree

Cornell student arrested for assault in the third degree

By Sierra Guardiola, Assistant News Editor
September 17, 2017
Department of Education changes may affect Ithaca College

Department of Education changes may affect Ithaca College

By Sierra Guardiola, Assistant News Editor
September 13, 2017
The Trump administration announced the end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program Sept. 5, which will go into effect March 2018.

Trump administration announces plan to end DACA program

By Sierra Guardiola, Assistant News Editor
September 6, 2017
Anthony Nazaire was a sophomore at Ithaca College when he was fatally stabbed at a Cornell University frat party in 2016.

Remembrance gathering for Anthony Nazaire to be held Sept. 8

By Sierra Guardiola, Assistant News Editor
September 6, 2017
President Shirley M. Collado spoke to Tom Swensen, chair of Faculty Council and professor and chair in the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, and the rest of Faculty Council at the first meeting of the academic year. She asked for input on how to innovate the current role of the provost.

Collado seeks advice from Faculty Council on provost portfolio

By Sierra Guardiola, Assistant News Editor
September 6, 2017
Lake Cayuga was one of Ithaca's ecosystems affected by the heavier than normal rainfall this summer. Harmful algae has taken root in the lake due to the overabundance of rain.

Heavy summer rain negatively affects Ithaca’s ecosystems

By Sierra Guardiola, Assistant News Editor
September 4, 2017
Floors eight through 13 of East Tower and all of West Tower are now co ed by door, with individual, gender-neutral bathrooms.

Renovations to Towers residence halls completed over the summer

By Bianca Mestiza and Sierra Guardiola
August 30, 2017
In the Spring 2017 semester, the Ithaca College Theatre Department's Instagram was hacked to portray a confederate flag. Over the summer, a former student was charged for the crime.

Update: Former IC student charged in theater department hack

By Sierra Guardiola, Assistant News Editor
August 23, 2017
Nagee Green was found guilty of the murder of former Ithaca College student Anthony Nazaire.

Jury to decide fate of IC student’s accused killer

By Grace Elletson and Sierra Guardiola
June 14, 2017
Jason Freitag, associate professor in the Department of History, discussed council elections at the Faculty Council meeting on May 2.

Faculty Council elects leadership for upcoming year

By Sierra Guardiola, Staff Writer
May 3, 2017
IC sees decrease in donations during fiscal year 2015-16

IC sees decrease in donations during fiscal year 2015-16

By Sierra Guardiola, Staff Writer
May 2, 2017
In an Intercom post, the college announced that Curry’s hiring concluded a nationwide search that began in June 2021. Curry will assume the role Oct. 19.

Q&A: Incoming Career Services director discusses new role

By Sierra Guardiola, Staff Writer
April 24, 2017
Ithaca College students witness shooting on The Commons

Ithaca College students witness shooting on The Commons

By Sierra Guardiola, Staff Writer
April 12, 2017
Elizabeth Bleicher, Enlgish Professor and member of the Student Success Committee, addressed Faculty Council about making Commencement and Convocation more interesting for students.

Faculty Council postpones approval of shared governance draft

By Sierra Guardiola, Staff Writer
April 5, 2017
For about a half hour on March 26, the Ithaca College Department of Theatre Arts’ Instagram account was hacked to display the confederate flag as its icon. The image has since been taken down.

IC theater Instagram hacked to display Confederate flag icon

By Sierra Guardiola, Staff Writer
March 29, 2017
Senior Peter Zibinski addresses reporters at an event held to support the contingent faculty union outside of an event celebrating the IC 20/20 on March 2.

Students react to contingent faculty strike

By Sierra Guardiola, Staff Writer
March 22, 2017
Bryan Roberts, associate dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications, addresses Faculty Council about the Student Success Committee's plan to improve student retention by hiring more case workers, CAPS counselors and SAS specialists.

Faculty Council presents plan to improve student retention

By Sierra Guardiola, Staff Writer
March 8, 2017
On Feb. 14, the part-time and full-time contingent faculty unions voted in favor of authorizing a strike.

Colleges vary in decisions to release strike vote numbers

By Sierra Guardiola, Staff Writer
March 8, 2017
Jeane Copenhaver-Johnson, associate professor of education, Vince DeTuri, director of the ICC, and Matthew Sullivan, professor of physics, discussed graduation issues due to the ICC at the Faculty Council's Feb. 8 meeting.

ICC director addresses Faculty Council about graduation issues

By Sierra Guardiola, Staff Writer
February 8, 2017
Edward Schneider, assistant professor in the Department of Strategic Communication, uses the HTC Vive, a headset that allows users to immerse themselves in virtual environments and interact freely within them.

IC students use virtual reality for independent studies

By Sierra Guardiola, Staff Writer
February 2, 2017
A collection of the art done by participants of the art therapy group called Young Adult Injection Drug Users Initiative.

IC student plans art drive to fight drug addiction

By Sierra Guardiola, Staff Writer
December 7, 2016
Ithaca College is conducting an open presidential search to replace President Tom Rochon.

IC conducts open presidential search against national trend

By Sierra Guardiola and Sophia Tulp
November 30, 2016
Maki Inada, associate professor in the Department of Biology, led her team of three, at the time, undergraduate students to examine gene expression through experimenting with yeast. Inada said the data collected shows a new and unusual mechanism for gene regulation, and though they don’t know directly what it means, it opens up avenues for other researchers to explore.

IC professor’s research opens up questions on gene expression

By Sierra Guardiola, Staff Writer
November 17, 2016
The ACT released a report stating that test-optional policies are not beneficial for the colleges that use them but Ithaca College disagrees.

ACT report bashes test-optional policy, which IC supports

By Sierra Guardiola, Staff Writer
October 30, 2016
SUNY schools have decided to remove the question from their applications asking if students have committed a felony after finding that it deterred some students from applying.

SUNYs ban felony application question but IC will not follow

By Sierra Guardiola, Contributing writer
October 26, 2016
The latest exhibition at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, “Signal to Code,” experiments with color and form to discuss race and sexuality.

Herbert F. Johnson Museum exhibits Signal to Code

By Sierra Guardiola, Contributing Writer
September 28, 2016
Linda Petrosino ’77, M.S. ’78, retiring dean of the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance, has been the dean of the School of HSHP since 2012 and has facilitated the development of programs, partnerships and strategic goals.

Ithaca College follows timeline for reaccreditation process

By Sierra Guardiola, Contributing Writer
September 27, 2016
At the start of the semester, Terrace Dining Hall was having issues —long lines, food shortages and a lack of student employees made it a rough start to the year. Since then, some of these problems have been resolved but students are still noticing issues.

Terrace Dining Hall faces backup from lack of student staff

By Sierra Guardiola, Contributing writer
September 19, 2016
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