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As the Dean, I’m acutely aware of the challenges we have had in recruiting and retaining professors who are both experienced practitioners and accomplished academics.

Guess whether the selected incident is real or fabricated.

The popular Ithaca music venue and bar will close after this month. During its 30 year run, Castaways has been an integral part of the Ithaca community.

New group Food Not Bombs seeks to redistribute healthy food in the Ithaca community

Four years later I am still at the very beginning of a journey, but I have replaced my shame, fear and ignorance with empowerment, resolve and some semblance of awareness. So much of this thanks to my professors and the students in my African Diaspora courses.

Although students will soon be paying more than $50,000 for attendance, several of their professors will continue to struggle financially to get by. In fact, an average class of students pays nearly $60,000 for a semester-long course, while their part-time professor gets paid only $3,900 to teach it — $1,300 per credit hour.

“What if we wrote a lesbian fairytale musical? Why are there no musicals about lesbians?!”

884 million people lack access to clean water; that is almost three times the United States population, according to Water.org. Ithaca College student groups like Take Back the Tap and Food for Thought brought water issues to the forefront during what they dubbed “Water Week.”

Residents supporting the Occupy Ithaca movement held a general assembly today in DeWitt Park. Topics discussed at the meeting ranged from announcing upcoming community events the Occupy group plans to support, such as the May Day celebration, to discussing current events and bringing new motions to the floor.

The new blockbuster adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games captures the essence of the text and succeeds as a blockbuster film.