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Interested in event management, marketing, or operations? Apply for a position on the IC After Dark executive board!

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 In celebration of Earth Day, Service Saturdays will be doing a host of environmentally conscious service projects! 

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A tertulia is a social gathering with literary or artistic overtones, especially in Spain or Latin America. If you are a student of Spanish, speak Spanish at home and miss speaking it on campus, or you are looking to meet others who are passionate about the Spanish-speaking world and its cultures, then this is your chance! Tertulias are forming, and you should come join the fun!

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In case you haven't heard, employers ARE researching candidates online before hiring them. Make sure you're not putting your candidacy in jeopardy because of your tweets, pictures, comments, blogs, etc. Come to this workshop to learn what employers are saying and what you should be doing to protect your professional image.

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Raise your hand if you love writing cover letters... didn't think so. But you need a job, so you have to have an AMAZING, ATTENTION-GETTING, SUPERBLY WRITTEN cover letter!

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"According to the U.S. Census Bureau, women, on average, earned 23 percent less than men did in 2011. The American Association of University Women's (AAUW) recent research report, Graduating to a Pay Gap, found that even one year out of college, after controlling for factors known to affect earnings such as college major and hours worked, there is a 7 percent unexplained gender pay gap." -AAUW

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The Center for Health Promotion will be sponsoring FREE Anonymous HIV testing for students on Friday, April 12th. You will get your results in the same appointment, within 20 minutes.

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 On Tuesday, April 2, 7pm, in Park Auditorium, FLEFF and the Palestinian Environmental Film Festival (PEFF) are screening a powerful documentary, THE WAR AROUND US, centered on the only two English-language journalists who were able to report from inside Gaza during Israel’s 2008/9 invasion, which caused about 1400 Palestinian and 13 Israeli deaths.  Jeff Cohen, the director of the Park Center for Independent media, will lead a Q&A discussion after this harrowing film.

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On April 7, Sunday Baroque—a weekly public radio program with more than 250,000 listeners—will broadcast selections from a recording by the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, led by School of Music’s Jeffery Meyer, Director of Orchestras and Artistic Director of the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic. 

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School of Music Professor Kim Dunnick presented a trumpet masterclass at the South Carolina Trumpet Guild (SCTG) Festival in Columbia, SC on March 23.

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Patrick Valentino, second year masters student in orchestral conducting, has been invited to study and conduct at the 2013 Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene, OR this summer. 

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Take advantage of the more than 350 concerts offered each year by the School of Music. A full listing of all concerts and events is available at www.ithaca.edu/music/events/ and this week's are listed below.

Can't make it? Web-streamed performances are available live and on demand at www.ithaca.edu/music/live.

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Sign up for a tutor at www.ithaca.edu/aes. 

See list of our core offerings. We will try to get tutors for you in other courses by advertising, contacting departmental faculty and teaching assistants but there are no guarantees. Please continue to work with your professors and TAs, and consider pulling together study sessions with your peers up to and through finals week.

Stay tuned for announcements for group review sessions towards the end of the semester and during finals week. 

If you have questions, please contact us at tutoring@ithaca.edu.

The next Faculty Council sponsored Town Hall meeting will be on Tuesday, April 2 at 12:05 in Textor 102.  This meeting is intended to be an open forum for faculty from all of the schools to share thoughts and ideas of mutual concern and interest. No minutes will be taken, no reporters will be present. Staff members, and administrators holding faculty appointments are requested to refrain from attending.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Peter Rothbart at rothbart@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-1497. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

Ithaca College trumpet professor Frank Gabriel Campos traveled to Alfred University in Alfred, NY and Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, TX in March to play his "Art of the Single Line" concert program. 

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What comes with the phases of the moon?

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 April is here which means Focus Asia Month has finally started with this year's theme, Coming Into Focus! Join IC Asian American Alliance at our exciting first event of the month, Who is Asian?, in Klingenstein Lounge in Campus Center this Wednesday, April 3rd, from 7-9pm!

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Are you looking for a way to make your last year at IC an amazing experience? Run for the Senior Class Executive Board! 

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Click the link below to read what our bloggers are looking forward to most during the week ahead. Entries from interns--

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DOMINICA DIPIO is an associate professor of literature and film from Makerere University and the coordinator of the Folklore Project from the South. She is currently based at Kennesaw State University in Georgia where she is a Fulbright fellow writing on theoretical issues on African folktales. Her research areas include the African novel and film, folktale, gender and the media. She has published widely in these fields and has an upcoming book to be published by Unisa Press titled, Gender Terrains in African Cinema. Dipio is also a filmmaker. The titles of some of the films she has directed are: Abused Innocence: The Plight of the African Child,  Crafting the Bamasaba, A Meal to Forget, and The Green Dream.

For further information, contact Stewart Auyash at auyash@ithaca.edu.