Nickelodeon has strong presence throughout world

By Kati Lustyik • March 23, 2011

Children’s television has become one of the most crowded and competitive markets in the entertainment industry. Unfortunately, with a few notable exceptions, communication scholars have paid relatively little attention to either the growth or the international scope of children’s television.

Helen Thomas makes anti-Israeli remarks again

By Megan Devlin • March 23, 2011

During spring break, former White House correspondent Helen Thomas was honored as a keynote speaker at the College Media Adviser’s annual Media Convention in New York City. While she began discussing her defining role as the first female federal reporter and reveling in her glory days with former presidents, the discussion made a sharp turn…

Helping Japan

By The Ithacan • March 23, 2011

On March 11, an 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northern Japan, creating a devastating tsunami that destroyed homes, cities and farms, and wreaked havoc across the country.

‘Ready’ for an identity?

By The Ithacan • March 23, 2011

After negative Facebook statuses and tweets about Ithaca College’s branding survey, it may be time for the Office of Marketing Communications to go back to the drawing board.

Cutting teachers would hurt Americans’ education

By Courtney Miller • March 9, 2011

In the midst of budget seasons everywhere, education protests are flying high as many states propose slashing teachers from their school systems. Let’s first acknowledge that these outrages are nothing new — every year teachers’ unions dust off their posters and argumentative speeches. But in pointing that out, let’s realize that this happens every year.…

Bucking trend

By The Ithacan • March 9, 2011

As more and more foreign language departments disappear from institutions nationwide, Ithaca College is expanding its language departments.

Listening to students

By The Ithacan • March 9, 2011

Voicing discontent can lead to results for students. For years, students have been dissatisfied with the slow Internet connection and inability to access classes on HomerConnect while registering. Now, they may see progress.

College should look into changes students want

By Marc Phillips • March 2, 2011

We all made the conscious decision to attend this expensive private school. Some students are going into tens of thousands of dollars worth of debt and will pay off loans until they are middle-aged. On the opposite end of the spectrum, other students are forced to search for merit-based scholarships to alleviate their parents’ burden.

Wisconsin’s budget would ignore working class

By Aaron King • March 2, 2011

Newly-elected politicians are often the maestros of political opportunism, cloaking their schemes with the language of the electoral mandate. So, we should not be surprised that Scott Walker — the Republican governor-elect of Wisconsin — is attempting to take advantage of the financial crisis in order to cripple the unions, which are entrenched in the…

Friend request

By The Ithacan • March 2, 2011

These days, everyone and their mom is on Facebook. The social network website that was initially designed solely for college students allows us to keep in touch with friends, families and now professors and future employers.

Remembering lives lost

By The Ithacan • March 2, 2011

With youth comes invincibility. We think nothing bad can come to us. We’ll live forever. And so when death grabs one of us, it knocks the rest of us over and reminds us how short and beautiful life is.

Kansas responded ably to Union during Civil War

By Pearl Ponce • February 23, 2011

In January 1861, Kansans were less concerned with the secession crisis than with finally having attained statehood. While Republican Abraham Lincoln’s election to the presidency was “glorious,” it was not, the Leavenworth Conservative asserted, as “important and decisive” as Kansas’ admission; indeed, while many states had departed from the Union, the 34th state went far…