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The next No Pressure Blood Pressure will be held on Wednesday, February 25nd.

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 Don't wast your time watching Netflix in bed all break do something that matters!

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Join the International Club of Ithaca College for InterFashional Night, an annual fashion show showcasing clothing from all around the world.

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Please join IC Books Thru Bars this Saturday February 21 in Cayuga Lake Room (1st floor of campus center) from 11am - 1pm for our first book mailing this semester. We will read through many letters, prepare, and package the books. These books will be send to prisoners throughout New York State. It will be a great event and you will have an awesome experience. Please invite your friends as well. Thank you. 

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Teacher Recruitment Days (TRD) is an interviewing event held annually at SUNY Cortland during the spring semester. TRD 2015 will take place on Thursday, April 16 and Friday, April 17. Pre-registration is required. Districts from across the country send recruiters to conduct interviews for known and anticipated vacancies. Candidates from 12 Central New York colleges and universities are invited to attend this employment event. In addition, several graduate education programs from the 12 member CNYTRD colleges and universities will be in attendance on April 16 for undergraduate students interested in obtaining information about their programs.

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SGA has open positions in its Senate! The current positions open are:

- Class of 2015 Senator (open to all students in the class of 2015)

- Business School Senator (open to all business majors)

- Graduate Student Liaison (open to all graduate students)

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What goes better with a Saturday night than heart stopping bass, a driving beat, live vocal sampling, and standing room only? You guessed it...Ithacappella... with a twist.

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 IC Challah for Hunger is inviting faculty and staff to braid challah bread with them next Thursday, February 26! Come have a great time as you make the challah in the Terrace Bakery at 6:00 PM. They will then be sold the next day in Campus Center, donating the proceeds to the Food Bank of the Southern Tier and Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger. Don’t wait until it is too late to sign up and sign up now by clicking this link: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pQLodEtFY0wu-5x8lK_SHmlqIkC-TdMYHJFYOPi84tY/viewform

IC Challah for Hunger is a club on campus that makes challah on a weekly basis and donates the proceeds to hunger related causes, as well as raises awareness of social justice issues. You can stop by our table every week to pick up a delicious challah!

If you have any questions, please email icchallahforhunger@gmail.com

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"Ecological and Evolutionary Insights
from (sometimes) Common Backyard Birds"

February 26     
4:00 p.m.
CNS 112

All are cordially invited to attend.

View other IC Events here.

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Information Technology Services will be hiring for the Fall 2015 semester this March. You must attend an information session to apply, so save the dates!

Information Sessions

• Monday, March 2nd from 6:00 - 7:00 pm in Friends 304
• Tuesday, March 3rd from 12:10 - 1:00 pm in Friends 304
• Tuesday, March 17th from 12:10 - 1:00 pm in Friends 304
• Wednesday, March 18th from 7:00 - 8:00 pm in Friends 304

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Please join us for the Spring 2015 Jewish Studies Faculty Showcase featuring our interdisciplinary teachers and scholars during a series of lunch hour presentations. 

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Immediately following the February 22nd, 2pm matinee performance of "Little Women", Conductor Brian DeMaris will lead a talk-back discussion. The talkback will allow patrons to ask questions about the production and interact with director Patrick Hansen, conductor Brian DeMaris, members of the design team and singers from the show. The event will be held in Dillingham Center and is free and open to the public.

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Marie Sanford, Clinical Associate professor in the Dept. of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and Class of 2015 graduate students Alexandra Fish, Erin Gatti, Maria Sanchez-Freeman, and Dana Sharabi presented their work at the 18th Annual Conference of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

Their paper, entitled “Comparing Instructional Approaches for Attaining Oral Proficiency in Adult English Language Learners,” examined articulation, rate of speech, and intonation features of instructional materials that incorporated functional and work-related vocabulary compared to academic and curriculum-based vocabulary.

Sanford also presented a poster session co-authored with Ithaca College's Jana Waller and

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Individual development planning identifies the employee’s development goals and the strategies for achieving them by linking them to the organization’s mission and goals. Taking responsibility for your professional development can be challenging. Let us help you get started! The Office of Human Resources would like to invite you to attend a workshop devoted to creating an Individual Development Plan. We will meet on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. in room # 52 on the Garden Level of the Peggy Ryan Williams Center. 

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Join our newest IC A Healthy Me Challenge - The Stop Light Challenge developed by Joseph D'Alessandro (Health Sciences Major, with a Nutrition Emphasis).  

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Be counted in the first 75 filmgoers and vampire fans  and score a FREE TICKET to our special FLEFF Preview event screening of A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night on Sunday March 1 at Cinemapolis.

Tickets open at 6 p.m. on Sunday March 1. 

Screening at 7

Post screening discussion moderated by Timothy Murray, Director, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, with Matthew Holtmeier, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Screen Studies, Ithaca College, and Chelsea Wessels, Film, Cornell University.

The first Iranian Vampire Western ever made, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A joyful mash-up of genre, archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave.

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Dr. Ed Baptist, Associate Professor of History at Cornell University, will be on campus   Tuesday, February 24, to share insights from his new book The Other Half Hasn’t Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic Books) and from his crowdsourcing project, Freedom on the Move. In a review of Dr. Baptist’s new book, the Daily Beast notes that  “Baptist turns the long-accepted argument that slavery was economically inefficient on its head, and argues that it was an integral part of America's economic rise."

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The Center for Faculty Excellence and the Faculty Development Committee seek nominations for Ithaca College’s annual Faculty Excellence Awards. We will offer five $1,500 awards.

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On Sunday, February 7th, Ithaca College Hillel hosted an a'capella concert in IC Square to bring people together on the cold day. This all a'capella show featured New York City's Maccabeats, an all male Jewish group, as well as Ithaca College's Premium Blend and VoiceStream groups. Over 100 people including students and community members came out to enjoy the show. Kayla from Ithaca College Hillel says, "With crowd favorites, like "Keep Your Head Up," "Candlelight," and "All About That Neis," students were out of their seats and dancing to the catchy tunes." IC Premium Blend and Voice Stream also brought great performances; be sure to check these groups out on campus later in the semester! Kudos for a fun show with a great turn out!

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During the week of February 2nd, mental health awareness group, Active Minds, held daily events encouraging students to focus on their well-being. The events included “Real Facetime”, “Bracelet Making”, “Planting Seeds of Positivity”, and a screening of the Australian television show “Please Like Me”. The first event, “Real Facetime”, consisted of students unplugging from their electronic devices and enjoying time spent with loved ones in a face-to-face setting. “Planting Seeds of Positivity”, as pictured, was an event designed to spend time planting greenery to spend time in a relaxing manner. The successful week of events brought people together to relax and converse about mental health.

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