The Ithacan

It is our duty to constructively hold these centers of power to account as they entrench themselves in abhorrent practices across the Central New York region.

Cantor Abbe Lyons, Jewish chaplain at Muller Chapel, recently wrote a commentary debunking several myths about homelessness and called for people to think compassionately about it.

We as students must recognize that the lives of 3.4 million citizens of the U.S. have been changed forever by Maria, and that we, as individuals and as Americans, must continue to support Puerto Rico.

In her last podcast hosting “Past Deadline,” Grace Elletson interviews Ithacan columnist Mahad Olad about what he calls “dumb activism.” The column critiques students at Reed College, a small liberal arts college in Oregon, for protesting their Humanities 101 course curriculum for only including white theorists in the coursework.

This is the kind of allyship that I think we all should try to emulate. When white allyship is discussed, the problem of “white saviors” also tends to surface.

“This is about environmental cinema, or this concept of bioregional cinema. It is a concept that comes out of environmental activism,” Matt Holtmeier said.

This week on “In My Own Words,” Glenn Epps talks with Joe Anthony Cruz, an Ithaca College junior who has recently made a splash as a vocal activist on the campus from topics of gun control to call-to-action representation.

A new community-based activism club at Ithaca College called Drop Knowledge has been created to shed light on issues on campus and in the community.

Seniors in the Martin Luther King Scholar Program presented on their examination of the role of social media in millennial activism.

Ithaca College’s Women and Gender Studies Program will host Gloria Joseph, professor emerita of Africana Studies at Hampshire College and partner of the late Audre Lorde, to discuss the poet’s life.

Happy International Women’s Day!
Let’s talk about the importance of this day.

A few days ago, I walked for hours around a part of London I’d never explored before with my Women in Britain class to learn about influential women and their contributions to modern day society—all of women I’d never even heard of before.