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Senior sprinter Katelyn Hutchison is one of the top returning upperclassmen for the women's indoor track and field team, and is looking to build off of a strong spring 2021 season.

Commentary: POC spaces are crucial for athletes of color

By Katelyn Hutchison • September 25, 2019
It’s hard to feel comfortable when there aren’t many people who look like you. 
Commentary: The lifelong effects suicide has on loved ones

Commentary: The lifelong effects suicide has on loved ones

By Arhlene Flowers • September 12, 2019

September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and the same month as the birthday of my father who took his own life. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevetion, suicide rates...

Editorial: CAPS after-hours service vital for students' health

Editorial: CAPS after-hours service vital for students’ health

September 5, 2019
The introduction of around-the-clock mental health and crisis support on campus is a necessary measure to support struggling students.
Over the past two years, President Shirley M. Collado’s administration has added administrators and expanded student services on campus in an attempt to respond to student concerns. However, with rising costs in higher education, the administration is also tasked with balancing the need to provide adequate services for students with the high costs that come with them.

Administration expands during Collado’s tenure

By Ryan King, Assistant News Editor • May 1, 2019
Ithaca College is tasked with balancing the support structures it has created with the high costs that come along with them.
Erin Forquer, psychologist at Cornell Health, pictured in an Athletic Training Office, one of the rooms on Cornell’s campus aside for Let’s Talk. She said they have it in that room to attract more student athletes.

CAPS develops new counseling program to better serve students

By Alexis Manore, Staff Writer • March 19, 2019
The Center for Counseling and Psychological Services is developing a new service to increase the accessibility of mental health services.
"After Life" deals with the struggles of mental illness head-on and approaches the topic with a refreshing combination of respect and honesty. The humor, storytelling and characters move "After Life" to be one of Netflix's most successful pieces of mental health media.

Review: Show breathes life into mental illness awareness

By Avery Alexander • March 18, 2019

Media covering mental illness is often touchy. Even with recent movements to normalize mental health struggles, mainstream culture still ignores and ostracizes topics like suicide and depression. It is...

Mental health needs to be addressed in POC communities

Mental health needs to be addressed in POC communities

By Mahad Olad, Staff Writer • March 5, 2019
I think it would be beneficial if Ithaca College put wellness into the curriculum.
Senior Mike Hanlon calculates the amount of alcohol and water to mix with damiana leaf, a plant that can be used as an aphrodisiac, to help stomach issues and to help diminish symptoms of premenstrual syndrome. Hanlon has taken classes at Ithaca College and apprenticed with a local herbalist to learn the craft.

Senior helps students reap benefits of herbal medicine

By Hannah Fitzpatrick • January 23, 2019

Bright red berries, small purple flowers and long brown roots — they may sound like typical plant parts, but when they are made into extracts, tinctures or teas, they can possess a variety of healing...

Review team critical of Ithaca College health services

Review team critical of Ithaca College health services

By Maia Noah, Contributing Writer • December 12, 2018
Keeling and Associates found that health services on the college’s campus are not organized effectively and do not have up-to-par operational effectiveness.
Senior Mikaela Vojnik, a co-president of Active Minds at Ithaca College, writes that students need to be conscious of and care for their mental health even during busy times in the semester.

Commentary: Mental health is crucial even during finals week

By Mikaela Vojnik • December 2, 2018
I think, as a community, we really need to encourage one another to take care of ourselves and ask for help when we need it.
‘Deja View’: ‘A Star is Born’

‘Deja View’: ‘A Star is Born’

October 16, 2018

https://youtu.be/H3j_wXPpaCo Audio: On this episode of Deja View, host Jake Leary is joined by Staff Writers Natalie Newman and Liza Gillespie to talk about the fourth version of “A Star is...

Christopher Biehn, previously a senior journalism major, writes that the college's faculty is incredibly supportive of students' mental health and always willing to help students at the college in need.

Commentary: This institution is for you and your mental health

By Christopher Biehn • October 9, 2018
Put yourself first. Be your own advocate and be thankful you chose a school that will advocate for you like Ithaca College has done for me.
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