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Jack Rossen, Anthropology, gave the keynote address at the archaeology conference, "Los complejos alucinógenos y fumatorios en el cono sur de América" (Hallucinogen and Smoking Complexes in the Southern Cone of America) in Santiago, Chile on November 28.

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This January, Ithaca College alumni and students will gather at the 28th annual Network Nights in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia and Syracuse (NY). Join us for an evening of conversations, food and fun!

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 Saturday from 8-11pm in IC Square, join IC After Dark and get snowed in!

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Mark your calendars for Monday and Tuesday, December 9th and 10th during regular business hours.

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Join us at Campus Center Dining Hall to end the semester with a splash before finals stampede onto campus! For Swipe + $10, you'll receive a Sizzling NY Strip Steak and a Luscious Lobster Tail, complete with scrumptious sides. Simply swipe your ID card and pay $10 at the register. No meal plan? no problem! Just add $10 to the cost of your dinner. 

Payment types accepted are: Cash, Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Bonus Bucks, and ID Express.

Questions? Reply to this post or contact the number below.

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ITS offers computing workshops every week on a variety of topics in the Technology Learning Center (101 Friends Hall) at no charge to all faculty, staff, and students. The TLC will be offering training on Taskstream, Sakai, Access, Excel, Outlook, Windows Best Practices, Macintosh Best Practices, InDesign, and Photoshop from Monday, December 9 through Friday, December 13.

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The Mirror, a mental health-themed literary arts magazine edited and published by Ithaca College students, will be bringing members of the Greater Tompkins County community together for its first public reading of student work, to be accompanied by a silent auction of pieces by renowned area artists.

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The Ithacan is looking for creative individuals interested in designing and developing interactive content for stories or standalone presentations on the paper’s website. Applicants should have skills in (or a willingness to learn) web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, Javascript/jQuery and PHP. This is paid position. Applicants should contact the Ithacan webmaster, Evan Sobkowicz, at esobkow1@ithaca.edu

If you are teaching next semester and are considering a new technology for your courses, ITS is offering two information sessions which will be held in the Technology Learning Center in Friends 101.

Monday, December 9th, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm.

• Turnitin: Turnitin is more than just originality checking software.  It is integrated with Sakai and allows you to do paperless grading on your computer or an iPad. There is also a peer-review feature. <Register>

Thursday, December 12th, 9:30 am - 10:30 am

• Turning Technologies: ITS supports this student response system. Come get an overview on how it works and how you can use it to engage or assess your students. <Register>

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STOP! Have packages sent to your home address when ordering for the holidays to avoid them arriving after you have left.

During exam week, mail will be delivered to all resident hall mail boxes.

Packages that arrive during winter break with tracking numbers (UPS, DHL, FedEx and USPS) will be processed and held at the Phillips Hall Post Office. E-mail notifications will be sent notifying you of any packages that have been delivered to the College during the winter break. You may e-mail icmailservice@ithaca.edu or call 607-274-3371 and provide Mail Services with forwarding instructions. Only USPS packages can be forwarded without payment. All other couriers require pre-payment to forward packages.

College Circle Residents will receive mail during winter break except when the campus is closed 12/24/13 – 01/01/14.

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A Sápara nation representative will share stories of how his people, their numbers dwindling, are scrambling to document their history, their oral language, their culture, their very existence.

Ithaca College will have a historic and unprecedented opportunity on Friday, December 6, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in Park Hall Auditorium to hear from a representative of a people whose oral language is fast dying out and who themselves are on the brink of extinction.

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Patricia R. Zimmermann, professor of screen studies and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, has recently published a chapter, “Documentary as Open Space” in The Documentary Film Book, a major volume edited by Brian Winston for the British Film Institute.

The chapter is co-written with Helen DeMichiel, a transmedia designer, documentary filmmaker, and media arts advocate. It postulates a theory of open space documentary practice in new media, where collaboration, convening, dialogue, continual iterations, and migration across platforms displace analog documentary ideas about fixed structures and deductive arguments.
 

Employee Parking Permits for 2014 will be available to order online beginning Monday, December 9th, 2013.

Current Employee Parking Permits will expire on January 15th, 2014. You may order your new parking permit online by going to https://www.ithaca.edu/sacl/parking_registration.php . If you have any questions please contact Parking Services at (607) 274-3756 or via email parking@ithaca.edu.

Stephen Tropiano, associate professor of Television-Radio and Los Angeles Program director, has published Saturday Night Live FAQ: Everything Left to Know About Television Longest Running Comedy (Applause Books). The book takes an in-depth look at all thirty-eight seasons of the popular late night comedy series and its influence on American culture.

 We are a group of four graduate occupational therapy students at Ithaca College.  We are recruiting people to participate in a research study on the methods used to prevent falls in one’s home.  We are looking for people above the age of 65 who live in a residential home in Tompkins County.  

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Looking for new members? Interested in advertising an upcoming event to a large group of people? Do not miss this amazing opportunity to have a table at the Spring Student Organization Fair on January 29, 2014 in Emerson Suites from 10am-3pm.

To request space at the fair please complete the 2014 Spring Student Organization Fair sign up form by January 23.

Space is first come, first serve. All registered or new student organizations are able to sign up.

If you have any questions please email osema@ithaca.edu.

Welcome to the thunder dome of Park School broadcast media! Anyone and everyone involved with WICB, VIC Radio, and ICTV is invited to join the annual dodgeball game.

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Submitted on behalf of Michael D. Richardson, Associate Dean for Faculty and New Initiatives

The Office of the Dean in the School of Humanities and Sciences is pleased to welcome Dylan Schoch to the staff of the dean’s office, as Coordinator for Outreach and Special Projects. Dylan will be taking over for Kelly Stern, who is now Recruitment Marketing Coordinator in the Office of Marketing Communications.

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Eric Rosario, senior director of leadership gifts in the Division of Institutional Advancement, and his wife, Neha Khanna, were recognized last night by the Ithaca Common Council for their work preserving their neighborhood.

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The Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences is suspending admission to the Environmental Studies minor as of December 20, 2013. Students who are currently registered in the Environmental Studies minor will be able to complete the minor as planned. Students who submit a Registration for a Minor form to the department by December 20 will be considered for admission; after that date, the minor will no longer be available.

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