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Senior Caroline Peyron, president of ICYAL, said the activity was meant to remind students about their right to free speech and assembly and allowed students to write on a giant beach ball over five feet in height. Later in the day, the situation escalated when some students slashed the ball and argued with the organizers.

Free speech activity causes mixed reactions from campus

By Prakriti Panwar, Contributing Writer • October 10, 2022
Ithaca College students engaged in heated discussions Oct. 5 on the academic quad outside of Campus Center around a free speech ball set up by the college’s Young Americans for Liberty chapter
Senior Caleb Slater, President of the Ithaca College Republicans, walks through the crowd before a previous speaker event. Slater was one of the main organizers of the Milo Yiannopoulos event.

College prevents Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking on campus

By Grace Elletson, Staff Writer • April 25, 2018
The administration prevented the IC Republicans and IC Young Americans for Liberty from bringing right-wing speaker Milo Yiannopoulos to campus.
Jesse Watters, Fox News political commentator, spoke at Ithaca College about the current American political landscape on April 12.

Fox News commentator speaks about American politics

By Sam Haut, Staff Writer • April 16, 2018
Watters said the reason both Trump and Fox News excel is because of the opportunities afforded to them by being in America.
Dave Rubin, political commentator and host of “The Rubin Report” talk show; Cabot Phillips, conservative political activist; and Angela Rulffes, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies, led a panel on free speech Feb. 8.

Panel discusses free speech on college campuses

By Sam Haut, Staff Writer • February 12, 2018
IC Republicans and IC Young Americans for Liberty hosted a panel on free speech Feb. 8 with Dave Rubin, Cabot Phillips and Angela Rulffes.
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.
From left, Sean Themea, president of IC Young Americans for Liberty; James Dellasala, co-president of Ithaca College Democrats; and Kyle Stewart, president of IC Republicans, hosted a forum with IC Progressives in an attempt to bolster membership in their clubs.

Ithaca College political clubs host forum to bolster membership

By Jonah Swiatek, Staff Writer • November 10, 2015
Ithaca College’s four political organizations hosted a forum aimed at bolstering club membership and helping interested students better understand which clubs’ ideology best aligns with their personal political stance.
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