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After seven close losses in 2024, the Ithaca College gymnastics team is determined to rebound. With added depth and veteran leadership, the Bombers aim to strengthen their standings in upcoming competitions.

Gymnastics balances depth and tough competition

By Johnny Lisi, Contributing Writer • November 7, 2024
Almost — that was the theme of the 2024 season for the Ithaca College gymnastics team. Razor-sharp margins at each meet, but it wasn’t enough. 
The Ithaca College Contingent Faculty Union, which represents faculty in part-time positions and full-time contingent, ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with the college in July. 

Contingent faculty at IC find solidarity in union as higher ed unionization increases

By Kai Lincke, Community Outreach Manager • September 11, 2024
As Cornell University students traveled to Collegetown for the start of Fall 2024, many Cornell staff members headed to the picket lines. The UAW Local 2300 strike and Cornell graduate students’ unionization in Fall 2023 are recent instances of union negotiations or unionization in higher education that have captured national attention.
The invisible work of educational maintenance

The invisible work of educational maintenance

By Gabe Hendershot, Columnist • September 11, 2024
Over the last couple of weeks, Cornell University experienced the longest employee strike in the institution’s history. The strike lasted 15 days, with Cornell workers picketing around Ithaca. Workers were striking because the school, despite its steady financial growth, has been paying its workers low wages with incredibly small raises each year. The cost of living has been on a relentless climb in the past few years and many Cornell employees, some of whom have worked at the institution for two or three decades, were struggling to survive.
The Ithaca College volleyball team is looking to win a third straight Liberty League title. Pictured above, senior defensive specialist Julia Costa led the team with 424 digs last season.

Volleyball sets up for third Championship win

By David Schurter, Sports Editor • September 4, 2024
The Ithaca College volleyball team is back and is ready to defend its title following back-to-back Liberty League Championships in 2022 and 2023 and advancing to the regional semifinal round in the NCAA tournament in 2023. With a new head coach and a new class coming in, expectations are high for the season.
In recent years, the track and field and softball programs at Ithaca College have developed partnerships with Cornell University athletics. During the 2023–2024 academic year, both the track and field team and the softball team competed against Cornell.

Athletic programs forge relationships across the hill with Cornell University

By Augustine Daudu, Staff Writer • April 24, 2024
Ithaca College and Cornell University are not only united by location but also through sports. Over the decades, the track and field and softball programs of both Ithaca and Cornell have formed interdependent relationships that benefit both schools through facility usage and inter-division competition. 
During the 2024 season, the Ithaca College baseball team has dealt with persistent weather delays. The South Hill Squad has played only three games on Freeman Field thus far, compared to the 10 originally scheduled.

Fielding the unpredictable: Ithaca College baseball’s continuous weather struggle

By Noa Ran-Ressler, Investigative Editor • April 17, 2024
With upstate New York weather being as unpredictable as it is, the Ithaca College baseball team has had to make numerous adjustments this season to accommodate a weather-intolerant field. Freeman Field is a natural dirt and grass field, not a synthetic surface, which means it cannot be plowed or played on while wet.
Junior first baseman Cynthia Ehrenfeld gets ready for a ball, while the Big Red's baserunner decides whether or not to run to second base. The Bombers would lose 9–3 against Division I Cornell University on April 16.

Bombers face tough 9–3 loss against Big Red

By Flynn Hynes, Assistant Sports Editor • April 16, 2024
The Ithaca College softball team fought, but came up short 9–3 against the Division I Cornell University Big Red April 16 at Niemand-Robison Softball Field.
The three permanent collections are located in the first, second and fifth floors of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, displaying works of different periods from all over the world.

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum: A taste of the cultures

By Sammie Macaranas, Staff Writer • April 3, 2024
Located in the art quad of Cornell University, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is a free art museum that features art from a multitude of artists. The museum opened in 1973 as a free of charge museum where students and residents alike could experience art pieces from across the globe. It is a place that serves its community by exposing them to different cultures through the art that they exhibit.
From left, junior Taylor Crain and first-year student Alys Pop have been dominating in doubles this season. So far in the season, the two hold a 6–3 doubles record for the Bombers.

Serving up success: Pop and Crain dominate doubles with the Bombers

By Augustine Daudu, Staff Writer • March 28, 2024
The Ithaca College women’s tennis team has been benefitting from the addition of five new first-year students for the 2023–24 season. One member in particular, first-year student Alys Pop, has made a big splash alongside a former first-year sensation, junior Taylor Crain. 
From left, junior captain Eliana Chelnick, senior captain Isabelle Bennett and new head coach Tom Rishcoff will look to lead the Bombers back to prominence after a 2023 season that saw the team finish with an 8–10 record.

Women’s tennis returns to the court with young squad

By Flynn Hynes, Assistant Sports Editor • February 29, 2024
As the new season approaches, the Ithaca College women's tennis team prepares to embark on another year of competition with a revamped squad. 
Ithaca College athletics announced on Feb. 8 that head strength and conditioning coach Vic Brown had resigned. Brown started in 2014 and spent 10 years with the school's athletic department.

Head strength and conditioning coach resigns

By Billy Wood, Sports Editor • February 8, 2024
Ithaca College athletics announced on Feb. 6 that long-time strength and conditioning coach Vic Brown has resigned. 
From left, former Harvard offensive lineman Alec Bank stands in the tunnel with his Ivy League teammates prior to the Dream Japan Bowl on Jan. 21. The Ivy League All-Stars rostered four former Cornell University players in the 52 man roster.

Ivy League football players culminate conference careers in Dream Japan Bowl

By Billy Wood, Sports Editor • February 7, 2024
A cultural experience and a culmination of collegiate football careers occurred in Tokyo, Japan, on Jan. 21, 6,752 miles away from Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca. This was not an average Ivy League football game — this was the Dream Japan Bowl.
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