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From left, sophomore Sydney Brenner, vice president of Hillel, leads a discussion during a J Street U meeting on Feb. 20 in the Six Mile Creek room in the Campus Center. Junior Liz Alexander, co-president of Students for Justice in Palestine, voices her concerns over the lack of collaboration between SJP and on-campus pro-Israel groups at a different meeting April 11.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict reflected in campus community

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor • April 19, 2017
Haueter said that while the Hillel sector of the college campus cannot meet with certain organizations, Hillel encourages productive, open dialogue.
Father John Misty is an alternative folk musician known for his work on his album's "Fear Fun" and "I Love You, Honeybear." His latest album, "Pure Comedy," released April 7 through Sub Pop Records

Review: ‘Pure Comedy’ from pompous folk-rocker is a joke

By Kate Nalepinski, Life and Culture Editor • April 19, 2017
Tillman desperately wants it to work but when his pompous attitude shines too bright in his tracks, the glare burns listeners' eyes.
Novelist Yewande Omotoso reads an excerpt of her second novel “The Woman Next Door,” at the kickoff event of the New Voices Festival April 5 at Buffalo Street Books.

New Voices Literary Festival spotlights rising writers

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor • April 5, 2017
Henderson described “The Short Short” as a marathon: The two-hour event kept flowing until all the readers finished sharing their stories.
Ithaca-based Cayuga Sound Festival announced for Fall 2017

Ithaca-based Cayuga Sound Festival announced for Fall 2017

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor • March 28, 2017
The festival, curated by X Ambassadors, will feature world renowned bands, like The Roots, Jukebox the Ghost, Tei Shi, and The Knocks.
From left, junior Ilana Diamant, senior Tal Eyal, lecturer Mirit Hadar and Joshua Edrich ’15 smile at the 2015 Israel Film Festival. Hadar co-created the festival 4 years ago with help from Igor Khokhlov, the previous director of the college’s sector of Hillel.

Film festival spotlights Israeli culture to student audience

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor • March 22, 2017
The theme of this year’s festival is “Israel is Real” to combat assumptions that are made about Israel as a result of the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
Senior Byron Bixler, president and editor in chief of Filmic Magazine, worked to bring four film screenings to campus with help from other editors and the Ithaca College chapter of the Delta Kappa Alpha National Professional Cinema Fraternity.

Q&A: Filmic Magazine screens collection of alternative films

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor • March 20, 2017
The editors of Filmic Magazine have planned four film screenings for the remainder of the semester. They will be screened during the spring semester.
Sophomore Jacob Kerzner and senior Nick Kelliher pose as Sesto and Emperor Tito, respectfully. The duo will perform in “La Clemenza di Tito” on Feb. 24 and 28, and March 2 and 4.

‘La Clemenza di Tito’ restaged with a modern political twist

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor • February 22, 2017
To change up the opera classic, stage director Jennifer Williams, said she decided to restage the opera in what she calls an alternative present.
Professor Timothy Johnson's course on "Hamilton: An American Musical" integrates history, politics and math into a discussion about the musical sensation.

Q&A: IC professor starts a revolution with ‘Hamilton’ course

By Kate Nalepinski, Assistant Life & Culture Editor • February 21, 2017
"'Hamilton' is this huge phenomenon that extends beyond the average consumer of theater in New York, and it’s reaching kids.
Sophomore Griffin Charyn, clarinetist, plays along to “Cara Mia Addio” from “Portal 2,” conducted by Bryce Tempest at the Feb. 12 rehearsal. Through music, the group aims to be empowered by the nerd stereotype that’s often associated with video gamers.

Orchestra aims to eradicate gender bias and video gamer stigma

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor • February 15, 2017
"[The Orchestra] brings these two seemingly different worlds together and helps us realize there’s actually a lot of similarities between the two.”
Politics professor Naeem Inayatullah recently co-wrote a scholarly article that applies an intersectional critique to capitalist theories outlined in the book “How the West Came to Rule.”

Q&A: Politics professor critiques capitalist theory

By Kate Nalepinski • February 8, 2017
Naeem Inayatullah published a scholarly article with co-writer David Blaney about how most working-class people are exploited through unpaid labor.
The performers sing “Go Down Moses,” a well-known Negro spiritual, during their rehearsal on Jan. 23. Performers sport Kente cloths from Ghana, purchased by conductor Baruch Whitehead.

Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers honor African-American culture

By Jake Leary and Kate Nalepinski • February 8, 2017
The name of the group honors longtime Ithaca resident Dorothy Cotton, an outspoken civil rights figure who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr.
Ithaca College students stand in different locations around the campus for the #takeitback campaign. Attached to each photo on Facebook is a written post in which the subject explains their struggles with labels. Awwad has compiled over 35 images of students and the collection is still growing.

#takeitback: Student combats labels with social media campaign

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor • February 1, 2017
Alisar Awwad created the #takeitback Project in an effort to “take back” her own identity and empathize with others.
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