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“You see a student like Rugie [Baldeh], bright, engaged, raising provocative issues, always in the conversation and then one day you come to class, and she's staring out of the window,” Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, professor in the Department of Politics, said. “You can't even continue teaching. It's impossible. … Just watching my students in class when they go through a situation like that is literally heartbreaking.”

Student racially profiled and wrongfully fired from Walmart

By Lorien Tyne, News Editor May 8, 2023
Senior Rugie Baldeh, former Walmart employee, was racially profiled, accused of aiding scammers that stole from the store, then fired and banned from Walmart.
Editorial: Profiling workers of color leads to damaged society

Editorial: Profiling workers of color leads to damaged society

By The Ithacan May 3, 2023
What happened to Baldeh is part of a larger issue that has occurred throughout the history of corporate U.S. — assuming that Black workers are up to no good
A group of Ithaca College students won first and second place at the first Pennsylvania State University Health Care Management Case Study Competition. The teams created ways encourage people to use to the Geisinger health care system, a regional health care provider in Pennsylvania.

Students win at health care management competition

By Diana DeLuca, Contributing Writer November 13, 2019
Ithaca College students won first and second place at the first Pennsylvania State University Health Care Management Case Study Competition.
UPDATE: Suspect identified in Wal-Mart homicide

UPDATE: Suspect identified in Wal-Mart homicide

By Kayla Dwyer, Editor in Chief December 8, 2016
Ithaca police are surrounding the home of a suspect in a shooting that left one male victim dead in the Walmart parking lot.

Wenonah Hauter discusses the politics of food

By Kelly Cucolo, Staff Writer September 25, 2013
Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food and Water Watch, visited Ithaca on Tuesday to discuss her new book, “Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America.”
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