This election season, I became very involved in following the campaign of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. Haven’t heard of her? That’s not surprising. The mainstream media in the U.S. provides American citizens with little to no coverage of third-party happenings. During the election cycle, third party candidates were barely mentioned by any major news outlets. When you pair a lack of media coverage with exclusive presidential debates organized solely for the two major candidates, third-party candidates are rendered virtually invisible. Because the American people are not exposed to a wide variety of voices, we think there are only two choices.
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Have you ever been cheered up by a certain piece of music? Has a song ever made you cry? Music can inspire exaltation and despair. It can bring back long-buried memories, and can even help with the management of brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and autism. It is remarkable that the human brain is so deeply affected by a mere collection of organized sound.
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Ready to enter a small, unstable job market? Ready to be out of school? Not quite. When I entered into my fall semester of my senior year, I was expecting it to be my last semester. I had planned on making this my last semester, finishing all my classes and starting an internship in the spring. Dec. 1 was the internship paperwork deadline; the date to have everything set and to have a plan.
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A generous atmosphere of enthusiasm hummed through Ford Hall on the night of Nov. 1st, 2012, as Ithaca College administrators, faculty, students and community members greeted each other with excitement. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Peggy R. Williams Difficult Dialogues Symposium promised another engaging discourse about a complex and dynamic subject. On the heels of Hurricane Sandy, Sheryl WuDunn arrived with energetic reception from an audience eager to learn about her book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, co-authored by her husband, Nicholas Kristof.
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It was a Friday afternoon in late May, just a few weeks before the school year would end and students would be huddled on curbsides waiting for ice cream trucks to make their hourly rounds.
But for one teacher, six weeks was too long. That afternoon, she turned in her keys and her grade book. “I won’t be in on Monday and I’m quitting teaching — and that’s that.” -
…of Ithaca’s food trucks
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The Divest For Our Future Campaign is a partnership between Better Future Project, Students for a Just and Stable Future and 350.org. According to Divest For Our Future, their main goal is to “have all college and university presidents and boards immediately freeze any new investment in fossil fuel companies and divest from direct or indirect ownership of fossil fuel stocks and bonds within 5 years.”
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Spreading Mr. Park’s philanthropic message in a different way.
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Socialist Party candidate Lindsay takes the ballot.
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Local Ithaca youth groups fight hunger with healthy food programs