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From left: Senior Shayna Fishkin asks students — like junior Connor Duffy — to donate their meal swipes to give to students at Ithaca College who identify as food insecure through the program Swipe Out Hunger. According to data from the most recent Campus Climate Survey, conducted in Fall 2016, out of nearly 3,000 students who responded, 47 percent reported experiencing financial hardship while attending the college, and 36 percent of those — almost 500 students — reported difficulty affording food.

Students struggle with food insecurity at Ithaca College

By Sophia Tulp, Senior Writer October 4, 2018
Data from the most recent Campus Climate Survey, conducted in Fall 2016, shows that, out of nearly 3,000 students who responded, 47 percent reported experiencing financial hardship while attending the

Tulp’s Travels: Discovering censored history abroad

By Sophia Tulp, Staff Writer April 11, 2018
I fell in love with the Yugoslav author Ivo Andrić and his tale of “The Bridge on the Drina” during my Global Political Thought class sophomore year.

Tulp’s Travels: International Women’s Day in Kosovo

By Sophia Tulp, Staff Writer March 21, 2018
On International Women’s Day on March 8, just over a year later, I found myself in Pristina, Kosovo, the second-newest country in the world after South Sudan.

Tulp’s Travels: Being American in postconflict societies

By Sophia Tulp, Staff Writer February 21, 2018
When I chose to study abroad in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo, I knew that I was stepping into postconflict societies, with wounds still open.
Students lined the hallway in Textor, protesting Larry Pratt, a conservative gun advocate who spoke at the college Nov. 9.

WATCH: Gun advocate speaker Larry Pratt incites protests at IC

By Ben Kaplan and Sophia Tulp November 13, 2017
Students lined the hallway in Textor, protesting Larry Pratt, a conservative gun advocate who spoke at the college Nov. 9.
Past Deadline

Past Deadline: A conversation with Cornell University’s Muslim Chaplain

By Sophia Tulp, Managing Editor November 6, 2017
Yasin Ahmed, Cornell University's Muslim Chaplain, reflects on what it means to be a practicing Muslim amid heightened social and political tensions.

Commentary: Students must be active bystanders

By Sophia Tulp, Print managing editor October 9, 2017
Don’t forfeit doing what is right in order to prevent making a fool out of yourself or the fear of inserting yourself into things that aren’t any of your business.
In a May 3 email to the college community, President La Jerne Cornish announced that Ferro, who has worked at the college since 2017, will become the Chief of Education at College Track, an organization that works to aid students in confronting systemic barriers as they work to complete bachelors degrees. College Track is currently led by former President Shirley M. Collado, who recently left the college Jan. 10, 2022. 

Q&A: Meet IC’s new vice president of student affairs and campus life

By Sophia Tulp September 23, 2017
Rosanna Ferro discussed her new position as vice president of Student Affairs and Campus Life.
Rosanna Ferro, the current associate dean at Williams College, was directly appointed to the position of vice president of student affairs by President Shirley M. Collado without a formal search.

UPDATE: Collado brings new leadership and direction to student affairs

By Grace Elletson and Sophia Tulp September 21, 2017
Ithaca College President Shirley M. Collado announced Sept. 21 the creation of the Division of Student Affairs and Campus Life.
From left, Casey Harris, Sam Harris and Adam Levin. X Ambassadors organized Cayuga Sound with the help of Dan Smalls Presents.

X Ambassadors curates music and arts festival in Ithaca

By Sophia Tulp, Managing Editor September 21, 2017
“There is more of a market for music and the arts in Ithaca than most people know.”
 Harker began his career in civic engagement at Colorado College, where he was the director of the Collaborative Community Engagement.

Civic engagement director lays out plans for campus community

By Sophia Tulp, Print Layout Editor March 29, 2017
David Harker, director of the Center for Civic Engagement, assumed the position at the end of the Fall 2016 semester.
Pictured above is a building apart of Collegetown Terrace, student rental housing near Cornell University.

Colleges strain Ithaca community resources

By Sophia Tulp, News Layout Editor February 8, 2017
And while Ithaca College and Cornell University pose many benefits for the city, these can be accompanied by complicated problems for the community.
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