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Senior Mary Turner urges the college to reconsider allowing the esports club to participate in first-person shooter games because they allow for a safer and more diverse environment for female or female-identifying players.

Commentary: First-person shooter games are vital for diversity

By Mary Turner • September 29, 2021
I will be harassed for being a woman playing video games. If I have a more “feminine” username I receive threatening messages from both enemies and allies.
The scholarship was established for incoming journalism, sports media or documentary studies students in the Roy H. Park School of Communications who demonstrate financial need and represent historically underrepresented communities.

Sophomore receives inaugural Iger-Bay Endowed Scholarship

By Elizabeth Kharabadze, Former Newsletter Editor • September 2, 2021
Ithaca College sophomore Damani Madir is the inaugural recipient of the Iger-Bay Endowed Scholarship.
Editorial: Data transparency needed to protect faculty diversity

Editorial: Data transparency needed to protect faculty diversity

By The Ithacan • March 11, 2021
Only 12.2% of faculty members identify as people of color. However, the college does not publicly share this information broken down by faculty rank.
Co-founders senior Eva Kirie and junior Jay Healy said they started Human By Design out of a collective love for fashion and because they wanted to be leaders on campus.

Group aims to diversify representation in fashion industries

By Makayla Carozzolo, Staff Writer • March 11, 2021
The new Ithaca College fashion organization, Human By Design (HBD), was created by students with a mission to put humanity into the fashion industry.
At the All Student and Family Gathering on March 25, La Jerne Cornish, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, announced that the college is planning to be fully open for Fall 2021.

Impact of APP on faculty of color unclear

By Ashley Stalnecker, Senior Writer • March 11, 2021
Ithaca College will be terminating faculty members — including faculty of color — as a part of the APP process, but it is unclear how many faculty of color will be affected.
The Ithaca College SGC discussed anti-racist curriculum initiatives with RahK Lash, director of the Martin Luther King Scholar Program and the Center for IDEAS.

SGC discusses anti-racist curriculum initiatives

By Syd Pierre, Editor In Chief • December 10, 2020
The Ithaca College SGC discussed anti-racist curriculum initiatives with RahK Lash, director of the Martin Luther King Scholar Program and the Center for IDEAS.
Chris McNamara, clinical associate professor and clinical director in the Department of Physical Therapy and chair of the Faculty Council, speaks at a Faculty Council meeting Sept. 3, 2019.

Faculty Council discusses protections for faculty of color

By Alyshia Korba, Assistant News Editor • December 3, 2020
The Faculty Council discussed amending the Faculty Handbook to prevent faculty of color from being disproportionately affected by faculty cuts.
The Identities Series is a series of commentaries discussing a diversity of people’s identities and how their identities are shaped by the world around them.

Identities Series: Finding and Opening Spaces for Multiracial Students

By Julia Batista • November 10, 2020
Despite struggling to figure out what spaces I belong in, it’s imperative that I understand the privilege I have because of the lightness of my skin.
Student demands need to be implemented

Student demands need to be implemented

By The Ithacan • October 9, 2020
However, these events are not beneficial if they exist in a vacuum. Students of color should not be the only ones attending these meetings.
Chrissy Guest, associate professor in the Department of Media Arts, Sciences and Studies, was elected to serve on the board of the University Film and Video Association (UFVA). 

Q&A: Professor recognized by international organization

By John Turner, Opinion Editor • September 17, 2020
It's very funny looking back. I never anticipated becoming a faculty member. I never anticipated becoming a teacher.
Cynthia Henderson, professor in the Department of Theatre Arts, began working at Ithaca College in 2000, and she became the first African-American woman to earn tenure at the college in 2007.

Ithaca College promotes first African American full professor

By Chris Tolve, Contributing Writer • September 9, 2020
For the first time in its 128-year history, Ithaca College has promoted an African American to the rank of full professor.
“Cook Like an Ithacan” was a YouTube series created to connect the Ithaca College community to campus while away for the semester. The first episode of the series features Omega Hollies, assistant director of the Center for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Social Change (IDEAS), making kimbap, a rice and seaweed Korean dish.

Cooking series dishes out summer recipes and fond memories

By Arleigh Rodgers, Life & Culture Editor • September 8, 2020
“Cook Like an Ithacan” was a YouTube series created to connect the Ithaca College community to campus while away for the semester.
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