Ithaca College

Come to Food Lab at Terrace Dining Hall on April 22nd at 2:30PM!

Space is limited, so please REGISTER HERE!

Students will learn about the "farm to fork" local food process and why is it a more sustainable alternative to traditional, mass-produced and "factory farmed" meat. Guest speaker, Dan Purdy, from local vendor, Purdy and Sons, will present about how produce the sustainable, ethical and high quality products they offer Ithaca College Dining Services. Dining Services’ Executive Chef, JJ Molina, will demonstrate how porchetta is made and those in attendance will enjoy a delicious snack!

Can't make it to the event? No problem! Dan Purdy will be at Food Lab during lunch to answer any questions that you have!

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IC More Love Letters is leading a campaign called IC Love at First Sight — in Fall 2014, each new student will walk into their room for the first time and find a hand-written love letter waiting on their desk, welcoming them to their new home.

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Since not all student organizations are able to have personal representation at orientation, advertising opportunities will be focused on passive education programs in which all organizations may participate.  

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Bike ride to the lake this Saturday!

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LGBTQA Pride Prom, Clark Lounge, Campus Center, 7-9 pm on Saturday April 26. Music, food, fun, and a photographer to record your Prom memories! 
DJ'd by DJ Fuzzy Bear
Sponsored by Prism and the LGBT Center
Open to all IC students.
 

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  The biggest night of Focus Asia Month is coming this weekend, Asia Night is finally here!!! This Saturday, April 19th, from 7-10pm in Emerson Suites IC Asian American Alliance is celebrating FAM with marvelous performers, free food, awesome raffle prizes, cool t-shirts for sale and activities (candy sushi and Henna anyone?) It'll be an fun, unforgettable night!!  

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Jerry Mirskin's collection, Crepuscular Non Driveway, has been released by Mammoth Books. 

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Submitted on behalf of Julia Herman '14, CHP Intern.

In this month's IC Student Health 101...

Turn Conversations Into Connections

• Tips on meeting people and building friendships

Google, Facebook or Apple?

• Which would you rather work for? Please share in this week's poll!

App of the Month

• Check out why we love April's app of the month

Find out more - and enter the April drawing for $2,500 - in IC Student Health 101

Have a healthy weekend!!

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Submitted on behalf of Terri Stewart, Director for Public Safety and Emergency Management

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The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will be hosting its annual celebration and awards ceremony on Tuesday, April 22nd from 4:30-6:30 pm in the Handwerker Gallery. This celebratory event honors our outstanding seniors--both majors and minors--and gives students an opportunity to showcase their passion for languages and cultures through various performances: songs, poetry readings, one-act plays, and/or other creative activities.

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served!

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Tina Bennett (tbennett@ithaca.edu). Please make requests for accommodations as soon as possible.

On Tuesday, April 22, at 5:30 pm in Emerson Suites, entrepreneurs will make their pitch for a chance to walk away with $20,000.

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The Discussion Series sponsored by the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (CSCRE) will present a talk by geographer and prison abolition activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Thursday, April 24. She will discuss “Organized Abandonment and the Infrastructure of Feeling” at 7 p.m. in Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall. Her talk is free and open to the public.

Gilmore is a professor of geography and director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is known as an activist, whose wide-ranging research interests include race and gender, labor and social movements, economic geography, and the African diaspora.

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The Graduation Fair Planning Committee would like to express our gratitude to all of the college departments and local vendors that participated in the year's Graduation Fair.  A special thanks to Liberty Mutual who served as the lead sponsor for the event.

We greatly appreciate all of those involved in making this event such a success for the 400 members of the Senior Class who attended.

Mind, Body, Me would like to invite all members of Flights 5 & 6 to our Flight Festival on May 14, 2014. The Flight Festival is a celebration of you and your success throughout your first year of Mind, Body, Me! This is also a great chance for you to start planning your second year and learn about new tools and resources that have been added to the wellness program! 

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Choosing when to retire is one of the most important decisions you will make in your lifetime. There are many considerations you need to take into account when choosing a retirement timeframe. One question you may be asking yourself is…

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In mid-April, Strike  (the piano and percussion duo comprised of Jeffery Meyer and Paul Vaillancourt) will be in residence at the University of Missouri-Kansas Conservatory of Music and Dance performing two concerts including the world premiere of two new works that were winners of the 2014 composition contest.  Meyer and Vaillancourt were guest judges for the UMCK 2014 Composition Contest, choosing two works to be premiered by the duo.  During their residency they will work with emerging student composers, give masterclasses on their respective instruments, and participate in various ensemble coachings, private lessons and classes.

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Two Ithaca College trumpet players have recently won scholarships to attend the 2014 International Trumpet Guild Conference this May.  The students are Thomas Pang, senior, Music Performance and Music Education major, and Danny Venora, who graduated this past December with degrees in Music Performance and Music Education.

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Handwerker Gallery’s final exhibition of the semester—Letters To Our Future Selves: 2014 Senior Student Show—will be on view during gallery hours (below) until Sunday, May 18, and will feature the work of 31 graduating student artists.

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 Join the Catholic Community at Emerson Suites at noon for Easter Sunday Mass

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Are you interested in learning what it's like at an advertising agency with a global presence?  If so, you're invited to a career information session with FCB, an agency with 150 offices in 90 countries!

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