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Chris McNamara, Clinical Assistant Professor and Clinic Director in the physical therapy department, updated Faculty Council on the progress of the Shared Governance Task Force at the March 1 meeting. The part-time faculty union contract and the proposed changes to the Meal and Entertainment Policy were also discussed.

Faculty Council to create committee to address union concerns

By Grace Elletson, Staff Writer • March 9, 2016
Faculty Council has decided to create a task force to gather more information after a group of part-time faculty spoke to the council about issues with negotiating their union contract with the Ithaca College administration.
Larry Workman, general manager of contract staffing for Challenge Workforce Solutions, said the program allows workers from a variety of circumstances with physical or intellectual disabilities and language or work-experience barriers to have “meaningful employment.”

Ithaca College partnership helps defeat employment barriers

By Sophia Tulp, Assistant News Editor • February 24, 2016
On the other side of the dish room, a ceramic plate fell through an employee's hand as he stacked them coming off the machine, shattering on the ground. It was his first week on the job. Nobody yelled or scolded him — instead, a fellow employee grabbed a broom and helped him sweep up the shards.
The Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management responds to a broke water pipe at Ithaca Colleges Campus Center building at around 11 a.m. Feb. 15.

Water pipe breaks at Ithaca College’s Campus Center building

By Faith Meckley, News Editor • February 15, 2016
The Ithaca College Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management confirmed a water pipe broke at the Campus Center building Feb. 15.
The app, called GET Mobile, will be made available for students at the college on mobile devices and through an online portal. It is slated to be released January 2016 in time for the spring semester.

Ithaca College Dining plans to release food ordering app

By Jonah Swiatek, Staff Writer • October 20, 2015
Ithaca College Dining Services is working to release a mobile app that will enable students and faculty to preorder and prepay for their food from Sodexo-run facilities on campus.
Christopher Hanna, a senior developmental sociology major at Cornell University, argues that people across the world waste 1.3 billion tons of food per year, and that we need to focus more on this issue in society.

Sodexo to raise money to combat local childhood hunger

By Ryan Price, Contributing Writer • September 29, 2015
Food Frenzy, which has existed for roughly 10 years, is a charity event that incorporates foods from Sodexo and outside vendors to create an all-you-can-eat food buffet that costs a donation of $3. All donations from the event benefit the BackPack Program for The Food Bank of the Southern Tier.
From left, Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick and Pete Meyers, coordinator and co-founder of the Tompkins County Workers’ Center, call for more living wage employers at the TCWC’s living wage celebration in January 2014.

Commentary: Minimum wage should be a living wage

By Carl Feuer and Pete Meyers • September 9, 2015
There is a sustainable and sure solution, and that is raising the minimum wage to a living wage.
Junior Kayla VandeSande took this picture of a caterpillar in her salad from Terrace Dining Hall. Courtesy of Kayla VandeSande

Caterpillars found in food at Ithaca College’s Terrace Dining Hall

By Aidan Quigley and Sophia Tulp • September 2, 2015
Two caterpillars have been found in food from Terrace Dining Hall during the last week.
Meal benefits for students managers will come to an end in Fall 2015, after Sodexo said the practice violates student-employment policy.

Sodexo meal benefits will end at Ithaca College

By Evan Popp, Staff Writer • January 28, 2015
Sodexo will end meal benefits that allowed student managers in each of the college’s dining halls to get lunch and dinner without using a meal plan.
Protest organizers issue list of demands for Ithaca College

Protest organizers issue list of demands for Ithaca College

By Student Organizers • December 9, 2014
Those of us who have been organizing against structural inequality at Ithaca College believe that the status quo is not only untenable but unjust.

College Briefing: Oct. 30

November 5, 2014

Event to raise money for hunger awareness The annual Food Frenzy will be held Oct. 30 in Emerson Suites where vendors will present a variety of foods for a $3 donation. All proceeds will go to the BackPack...

Mackenzie Gannon 17 shares information about her new club for food allergy awareness with Rachel Huley 17 and Bob Haskell 15 at the student organization fair Sept. 3.

Student forms club to support those with food allergies

By Michael Tkaczevski, Staff Writer • September 3, 2014
Sophomore Mackenzie Gannon has lived her whole life with a life-threatening allergy to dairy and eggs.

Letter to the editor: Student demand dictates variety of campus food offerings

By Curt McConnell • April 9, 2014
I am writing this in response to the April 3 article in The Ithacan, titled “Dining Services attempts to meet special dietary restrictions.”
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