Archive for the ‘Buzz Blog’ Category

A determined group of students gathered at Free Speech Rock on May 1st, and prepared to start discussion of recent changes at Ithaca College. The Labor Initiative in Promoting Solidarity (LIPS) organized to protest and gather signatures for a petition to deliver to President Rochon.

The Ithaca College Theatre’s 2011 to 2012 main-stage season ended brilliantly with an erotic dark comedy about hegemony, and the balance between virtue and justice. With some quality acting, eye-catching costumes and a whimsical genre combining both horror and comedy, Measure for Measure proves to be the best show of the spring series.

In a way, Odd Future is like a unicorn. They don’t expect or care if people understand them or can relate to them, but they are in fact, real — and they are also magical.

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?!”