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Vedat Demir studied at Ithaca College as a visiting scholar-in-residence between 2012–14. Now, hes been arrested and placed in Turkish prison after he was thought to have been an accomplice in the failed military coup which took place in Turkey on July 15.

Former IC visiting scholar imprisoned by Turkish government

By Grace Elletson, Assistant News Editor September 21, 2016

Vedat Demir, who was a visiting scholar-in-residence at Ithaca College from 2012–14 and researched political communication in federal election campaigns, has been imprisoned in Turkey without a set end-date. Demir...

From left, Senator-at-Large Cat Proulx, Business School Senator Taulant Gashi, Ithaca College President Tom Rochon and Senator-at-Large Seondre Carolina discuss debates within higher education regarding academic freedom and free speech.

Ithaca College President Tom Rochon addresses the SGA

By Kyle Arnold, Assistant News Editor September 20, 2016
Ithaca College President Tom Rochon joined the Student Government Association’s Sept. 19 meeting.

Free speech and football

By Kyle Stewart September 7, 2016
A free exchange and competition of ideas is what leads to progress in our country, not the suppression of ideas that some people deem offensive.
Students write messages in Sharpie across a giant beach ball inside the Campus Center on April 11. The beach ball was a part of Freedom Week, an event put on by IC Young Americans for Liberty to advocate for free speech.

Ithaca College students seek to preserve free speech

By Jonah Swiatek, Staff Writer April 19, 2016
“Make tuition free.” “Bernie 2k16.” “I’m late for class to write on a ball.” These are a few of the many messages scrawled in Sharpie across a giant beach ball inside the Campus Center on April 11.

Interactive: Professors share narratives of lifelong activism

By Kelsey O'ConnorShawn Steiner, Editor-in-Chief and Photo Editor December 13, 2012
For some Ithaca College professors, protesting is how they do their part to enact change in the local community and in the classroom.
Ithaca College professors apply lifelong activism to classroom

Ithaca College professors apply lifelong activism to classroom

By Kristen Mansfield, Staff Writer December 6, 2012
Ithaca College professors share their past and present activism experience and how they apply it in the classroom environment.
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