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Mr. Ryan Cruz, Department of Sport Management and Media, and Darius J. Conger, Department of Economics, presented a paper entitled “ Balancing a Better Bracket in Professional Tennis Ladders: The Optimization of Paired-Comparison Matches in Elimination Events“ at the annual meetings of the North American Society for Sport Management, on May 24th in Seattle, WA. 

In the paper, pre-refereed for inclusion in the program, Cruz and Conger examined the impact of competitors’ efforts during the tournament over the five years from 2007 to 2011 to determine whether the substantial increase in tournament purse during the middle of that period had an impact on the effort expended by tournament participants, by gender. Members of the WTP (women) exhibited less effort response to increased prizes than their ATP (men) counterparts. The paper also examined the effect of higher prizes on competitive balance within the tournament brackets. ATP brackets exhibited considerably less competitive balance than those of the WTA. 

Alicia Brady, Ithaca College's TIAA-CREF Individual Client Services Consultant, comes to campus twice or three times a month to provide personalized advice and planning services to help you in pursuing your retirement goals. The dates she will be on campus in August, September, and October have been determined.

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The Division of Enrollment and Communication will be closing at noon this Friday, July 27 for a division outing. Departments in the division include:

• Office of Admission
• Office of Enrollment Planning
• Office of Marketing Communications
• Office of the Vice President
• Student Financial Services

The following is submitted on behalf of Dr. Margaret Arnold, Special Assistant to the Provost:

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Quoted in the media: Faculty members Diane Gayeski and Terry Garahan; and students Bob Koch and Nicole Murray. For more information on the following articles, please visit the IC in the Media page at the Office of Media Relations:

IC in the Media

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Michael Twomey, English Department, Dana Professor of Humanities and Arts, was quoted in an article published in the Summer 2012 issue of Colonial Williamsburg magazine. 

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Starting July 30th, 2012, these three countries will become the newest postal aware countries for shipments.

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Submitted by Margaret L. Arnold, Special Assistant to the Provost

Faculty are encouraged to review new guidelines and restrictions pertaining to requesting travel funding, academic project grants, and faculty/student academic challenge funding.  Significant changes that faculty need to be made aware of include new application deadlines and the heightened priority of requests that align with IC 20/20 initiatives as they relate to the three funding sources (Faculty Travel, Academic Project Grants, and Academic Challenge).

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I want to share with the rest of campus that, starting with this new fiscal year, the Ithaca Fund will be renamed the Ithaca College Annual Fund or, as you will often see it, the IC Annual Fund.

Our goal is to build the broadest possible base of regular, consistent supporters that give to the greatest needs at Ithaca College. The IC Annual Fund is the vehicle through which the majority of our donors support the College -- so the case for annual support needs to be strong, consistent, and clear. Moving forward, we want to firmly establish the IC Annual Fund as the brand for unrestricted annual gifts to the college and use this term in place of the word "unrestricted."

These donors form the foundation of any fund-raising program and are essential to developing our overall donor participation rates. These gifts should also provide the discretionary dollars that will be essential for implementing core aspects of the IC 20/20 strategic plan in the years ahead.

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Vivian Bruce Conger presented "Not the End of an Era but a New Beginning: Deborah Franklin in the World of Commerce and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia" at the Ninth Annual Conference of the Southern Association for Women Historians, June 9, 2012, held at Texas Christian University.

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The IC Organic Garden (not the one by Williams, although that looks lovely too!) is looking beautiful! We're bursting with veggies, and we have so many that we'd like to share with the campus community! 

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Ithaca College named its baseball facility Freeman Field in 1965 in honor of James A. “Bucky” Freeman, who coached the Bombers from 1932 to 1965. On Friday, Ithaca College celebrated the completion of a successful fund-raising campaign for the baseball program by naming two portions for current coaches who both played for Freeman, George Valesente and Frank Fazio. The playing surface has been named Valesente Diamond in honor of the head coach who competed his 34th year this spring. The newly renovated batting tunnel has been named Fazio Batting Tunnel, honoring the veteran assistant coach who has spent 28 years with the program.

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Director of Ithaca College Orchestras, Jeffery Meyer, conducted the Thailand International Composition Festival closing concert on July 14, 2012 in Thailand.  This is his third international performance this summer, previously conducting in Russia and China. 

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When the new branding standards for Ithaca College went into effect recently, the First-Year Experience (FYE) found themselves with thousands of t-shirts and other items that they could no longer use.  FYE contacted Mark Darling, Sustainability Programs Coordinator, to find out what options were available to us and Mark sent us Kendall McBean, an IC employee, and a beautiful friendship was born!

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Mike Titlebaum and Catherine Gale, both faculty members in the School of Music, recently traveled to Syracuse to perform a Candle Light Concert in Armory Square.  Their performance was featured on the "Syracuse in Focus" blog on July 15, 2012. 

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This summer's Ithaca Shakespeare Company productions, Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew, feature numerous members of the Ithaca College community in the cast, staff, and crew.

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Please join us for our annual Fall bus trip to New York City on Sat. Sept. 22, 2012.

~We will begin taking payments for this bus trip on Mon. Aug. 20, 2012~

This trip is open to the entire IC community and their family.

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Arno Selco's article, Singing in Character, will be published in the summer 2012 issue of Teaching Theatre. In the article, Selco describes his approach for helping musical theatre performers create believable, compelling characters when they sing songs. Selco taught the approach to Ithaca College BFA musical theatre juniors and seniors for twenty-five years before he retired in May 2008. He continues to teach the approach in the Introduction to Musical Theatre Performance course he teaches in the IC Summer College for High School Students.

The July Staff Council Meeting is on Thursday, the 19th, in the Taughannock Falls room from 2-3:30pm.

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Join us on Thursday, July 26th for the last in a series of web demonstrations by prospective vendors for a campuswide electronic portfolio and assessment management system. This demonstration will take place at 3:00pm in the Taughannock Falls Room and will feature a demonstration of the Chalk and Wire system.

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