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Editorial: More should be done to combat racial bias

September 16, 2015
Administrators cannot fully understand the issues and how to make progress without getting to know the students behind the movement.
Sophomore Kyle Stewart, vice president of communications for the Student Government Association, said the SGA encourages students to attend events, run for senate positions and provide input on important campus issues.

Commentary: SGA needs student input and involvement

By Kyle Stewart September 16, 2015
But no matter how many hours we devote, how many meetings we hold, how many resolutions we pass, we cannot do it without the student body.
Michael Smith, associate professor in the history department, wrote a profile on Rev. Mel West, who helped develop and distribute wheelchairs to developing countries, in the Christian Science Monitor.

Commentary: Minister distributes wheelchairs internationally

By Michael Smith September 16, 2015
“Many have been literally crawling in the dirt as beggars, and then they get a PET and are truly mobile for the first time."
Norman Solomon is an author, journalist and activist and an associate of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a media watch group. He presented and engaged in a Q&A at Ithaca College on Sept. 10.

Q&A: Journalist and activist discusses whistleblowers

By Daniel Hart, Contributing Writer September 16, 2015
In general, media with a progressive perspective is higher quality now, with less rhetoric and more clarity.
Editorial: Public Safety officers need to be transparent

Editorial: Public Safety officers need to be transparent

September 9, 2015
To address the root of the racial profiling issue, Public Safety should improve communication with students.

Editorial: Stories about racial bias should be documented

September 9, 2015
The Ithacan encourages students to come forward and share experiences at a public forum Sept. 15.
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 Joshua Enderle (pictured on the right in the red shirt) participated in a blockade in the middle of Washington, D.C., traffic May 26 to protest the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the projects it funds.

Q&A: Student participates in environmental activism

By Natalie Shanklin, Opinion Editor September 9, 2015
I think we just need to make it a priority again, and I think now is the time to do it. Now is always the time to do stuff.

New York State Fair lacks ethnic diversity in cuisine

By Amelia Erikson September 9, 2015
This was a fair that was supposed to celebrate the whole of New York state, which includes more than just the cultures and interests of the majority.
Ithaca College President Tom Rochon addressed the campus community in a Sept. 6 Intercom post responding to recent conversations about police brutality and racial bias within the Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management.

Message from the president to the campus community

By Tom Rochon September 8, 2015
Incidents of bias and racism, while unacceptable in any setting, are especially intolerable on our college campus.
Editorial: People should not risk their lives in the gorges

Editorial: People should not risk their lives in the gorges

September 2, 2015
Ithaca’s gorges may be beautiful, but their looks are deceiving.

Editorial: Ithaca Commons reconstruction took too long

September 2, 2015
While The Commons does look wonderful, its completion took far too long and hurt too many businesses in the process.
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