Ithaca College

Calling all musicians! Have you been wanting to play in orchestra since coming to college, but haven't had the time or the opportunity?

The Ithaca College Sinfonietta is a newly formed orchestral ensemble open to all Ithaca College and Cornell students. All string, wind, brass, and percussion players -- music majors and non-music majors alike -- are encouraged to join. No audition is required.

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This week is the time to sell your used books back to the IC Bookstore and receive cash!

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The Ithaca College Bookstore textbook online ordering system for spring 2009 semester textbooks is now active.

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Summer Grants for Faculty Research are intended to support post-terminal degree scholarly endeavors for full-time continuing Ithaca College faculty and faculty who are regularly employed on at least a half-time basis.

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The Counseling Center is open for scheduled appointments and urgent needs during finals week.

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The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) received a competitive grant from the Experimental Television Center (ETC) for capacity building.

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Come relieve the stress of finals with this week's events!

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Why waste your winter break sitting around playing board games when you could use the time to catch up, make up, or get ahead?

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Blackboard is here and WebCT is almost gone. WebCT will no longer be available after January 11, 2009.

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Please remember, special optical scanning procedures and schedules are in place for the processing of final exams.

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Calling hours are being held this weekend for Ithaca College sophomore Saverio Montanino, who passed away unexpectedly on campus on Thursday, December 11. Friends may call on Saturday, December 13, 5:00-9:00 p.m.; and Sunday, December 14, 2:00-4:00 p.m. and 7:00-9:00 p.m., at Freeman Funeral Home, 344 Route 9 North, Manalapan, New Jersey 07726.

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As of Monday, December 15, everyone using Intercom to submit a story will see a more user-friendly interface!

A new WYSIWYG editorial tool -- WYSIWYG is short for "what you see is what you get" -- will be added to Intercom. This means that anyone submitting a story (via the "Contribute and Manage Stories" page) will see a graphics-based WYSIWYG that they can use to format the text of the story, encode hyperlinks, and so forth. It is the same tool used by the Web Profile Manager (WPM); but even if you're not a WPM user, it should not prove difficult for anyone familiar with modern word-processing software.

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We are excited to share that we are moving even closer to our overall goal for the United Way campaign here at Ithaca College. We are over 87 percent and moving ever closer to our institutional goal of $70,000.

In these challenging economic times, it is wonderful to see our community dig down deep and try to help others through the great work of the United Way -- but we are not done yet!

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Our December Wellness Clinic newsletter is now up on our website (www.ithaca.edu/wellness). There are great articles including information on flexibility, drinking water, keeping off winter blues with exercise, and a great Christmas cookie recipe.

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Come by the Outdoor Recreation Equipment Center (OREC), located in the lower level of the Fitness Center.

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Hugh Stephenson presented at the National Association for Dual Diagnosis annual meeting in Niagara, Canada, in mid-November.

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The Caregivers Support Group meeting will be held next Friday, December 19.

The meeting will take place from noon until 1:00 p.m. in the Gerontology Institute's conference room, 413 Center for Health Sciences.

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Associate professor Jack Rossen, chair of the Department of Anthropology, has recently published two book chapters:

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[Editor's note: The class scheduled for March 22 was moved to March 29 after this Intercom story was published. Read the Intercom update here.]

Student supervisors: do you have students who need to drive College-owned or leased vehicles for your department? Pass along the following information to your student drivers.

Please be sure that you review the student driver handbook yourself so you are aware of what rules the students need to follow. Any procedure not followed could mean suspension of driving privileges for your student drivers.

These are the ONLY classes available for students driving in the summer 2009 months.

You should also encourage students who will be driving at the start of school in the fall to take one of these classes.

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The Office of Human Resources and the Hammond Health Center would like to announce that there are still doses of flu vaccine available for all benefits-eligible employees at no cost!

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