The Ithacan

Accuracy • Independence • Integrity

Around this time a year ago I received some pretty distressing news.

New semester, new blog posts! Let’s do this!

Hi there, blog. Do you remember me?

On April 20th, Heather Doyle plead guilty to her actions at Dominion’s Cove Point LNG export terminal in Lusby, Maryland on Feb.

One of the best things Ithaca College can do to fulfill its goal of benefiting others, in specific regards to communities and individuals affected by industry and climate change, is to remove all ties to fossil fuels. That includes divesting our endowment.

Trigger Warning: Discussion of Campus Sexual Assault
When I was at NYFLC, I attended a panel on campus sexual assault, Title IX, and activism around the issue.

I’m going to preface this post by saying that I am completely exhausted and a little bit delirious so I’ll make this quick update.

*Trigger Warning-This post discusses Eating Disorders and mental health.

While the powers of Reading and Schuyler County have realized that sending the We Are Seneca Lake protesters to jail is costly and only fuels our movement, many in my activist cohort believe that Judge Berry’s hesitance to sentence me runs deeper than that. They joke that he sees me as an incarnation of his own young granddaughter, who, according to Berry, refuses to speak to him when he sends people to jail.

College is extremely stressful. It leads us to binge eat junk food, drink spastic amounts of coffee, pull all-nighters and spend countless hours in front of computer screens without exercise. And many of us, myself included, feel our future careers hinge on the quality of our performance in these four years. Talk about pressure.

This past Thursday I started facilitating a program called SPEAK, a prevention program for adults with developmental disabilities that focuses on education around consent and healthy relationships.

Last night, I was sitting in my bed struggling to get off Facebook and actually finish my paper that was due the next day.