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Editorial: The college must follow student advocacy with action

Editorial: The college must follow student advocacy with action

By The Ithacan • March 28, 2024
In an ideal world, a college campus is an environment that signifies progress and change. It is a space where like-minded young people are able to learn, grow and express what they believe. At Ithaca College, advocacy has always been a vital part of the campus community. However, it is not solely up to students to push for change. It is also the administration's responsibility to hear students' demands and respond with effective action.
Carlos Figueroa, associate professor and legal studies coordinator in the Department of Politics, Raza Rumi, director for the Park Center for Independent Media and Patricia Rodriguez, associate professor and chair of the Department of Politics, discuss the film.

Documentary screening shows issues seen within higher education

By Olivia Stanzl, Assistant News Editor • March 30, 2022
An in-person screening of the documentary “The Unmaking of a College” was held March 27 at Cinemapolis. The documentary explores the 2019 crisis at Hampshire College.
The contingent faculty union and student supporters of the Students for Labor Action club have begun occupying the Peggy Ryan Williams Center.

UPDATE: Occupation of PRW by Students for Labor Action called off

By Grace Elletson, News Editor • May 2, 2017
The contingent faculty union and student supporters of the Students for Labor Action club have begun occupying the Peggy Ryan Williams Center.
IC Students for Labor Action and the Ithaca College Contingent Faculty Union will be occupying the Peggy Ryan Williams Center to protest what it claims to be unfair labor practice against three contingent faculty members.

Students to occupy PRW to protest alleged unfair labor practices

By Grace Elletson, News Editor • May 1, 2017
IC Students for Labor Action and the Contingent Faculty Union will be holding a sit-in in the Peggy Ryan Williams Center starting May 2 at noon.
Part-time, full-time contingent faculty and supporters hold protest outside of the main campus entrance on Feb. 20, 2017.

Faculty unions rally to send a message to prospective students

By Grace Elletson, News Editor • February 20, 2017
Students held a sit-in to support contingent faculty at Ithaca College, while the Tompkins County Workers' Center held a rally outside on Feb. 20.
Editorial: Students must continue to address problems

Editorial: Students must continue to address problems

December 3, 2014

Student protesters — known as THE General Body — at Syracuse University ended their 18-day-long sit-in in an administration building Nov. 20. Although the results are not immediate, the University...

Left: Danielle Reed, a junior at Syracuse University, speaks at a press conference held Nov. 13 outside the Hall of Languages during the 10th day of THE General Body's protest. Right: Students protest the Student Media Policy on Oct. 12, 2012 in the lobby of the Peggy Ryan Williams building. President Tom Rochon rescinded the media policy a month later.

Syracuse protests: the implications for Ithaca College

By Aidan Quigley and Kayla Dwyer • November 19, 2014
The atmosphere between the protestors and Syracuse University’s administration has taken a turn in the third week of protests amidst negotiations.
Editorial: Syracuse University students should keep protesting

Editorial: Syracuse University students should keep protesting

November 19, 2014

More than 300 students at Syracuse University have been valiantly protesting decisions the administration made that have denied students access to an array of campus services. Unfortunately, students are...

The sit-in on Broadway around the Bull

First Amendment Rights Don’t Come First

By Faith Meckley, Staff Writer • October 3, 2014
...as the excitement from Flood Wall Street died down, I saw that day much differently. I now see how tightly the police controlled us, and, subsequently, how watered-down our first amendment right to peaceably assemble was.
From left, seniors Mariana Garces and Ava Carneli sit in the hallway on the third floor of Phillips Hall waiting for a meeting of the board of trustees to be let out.

Media policy protesters disperse

By Ithacan Staff • October 11, 2012
After two hours of peaceful protest against the new media policy at Ithaca College, students and faculty have dispersed.
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