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Is potato salad one of your favorite summer dishes, but you are laden with guilt if you eat it? Don't despair! Weight Watchers can show you how you can enjoy your favorite summer dishes and still lose weight!

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Congratulations to Chris Sperry, director of curriculum and staff development at Ithaca College’s media literacy outreach program Project Look Sharp. On Tuesday night at a gala awards ceremony in Washington, DC, FCC commissioner Michael Copps and national PTA president-elect Anna Weselak presented Chris with Cable's Leaders in Learning Award in the category of media literacy.

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The benefits department of the Office of Human Resources is working to promote and expand wellness opportunities in keeping with IC’s Quality of Work Life priority in the institutional plan. To get your feedback on these efforts, we invite you to participate in one of the following one-hour focus group sessions:

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Join the IC rowing staff on Saturday, June 11, from 9:00 AM to noon and learn to row.

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Mr. David Potter, the father of Morgan Potter, our student who died tragically on Tuesday, April 26, 2005, requests that the following statement be sent to the Ithaca College community. Please keep Morgan's family in your thoughts and prayers.
-- Brian McAree

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The Visual Resources Collection is in the process of compiling statistics for the 2004-5 academic year. There are some 35mm slides that are now overdue and need to be returned as soon as possible.

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The bookstore and Mac's will close at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, May 27, for our year-end inventory. We will resume on Tuesday, May 31, with regular summer hours -- 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

An exciting opportunity has just arisen that has made one slot in the Tompkins Community Action Early Childhood sponsored Head Start Program at Longview available to an Ithaca College employee for the 2005-06 school year.

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Grand Central Cafe is located across from the information desk in the Campus Center. It serves Green Mountain coffee, Freshens Smoothies, frozen yogurt cones and sundaes, and a variety of healthy snack options. Summertime is the right time to treat yourself.

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Nicole Muehlhausen '07, a communications major from Stillwater, MN, will be a contestant on the syndicated version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? on May 23 and 24. The shows will air on WIXT (ABC) at 7:00 p.m.

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The warehouse will be closed Wednesday, May 25, through Tuesday, May 31, for the annual inventory and audit of supplies.

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The search for the director of first year academic programs and advising has been closed and will be re-opened in the fall.

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I am pleased to announce the appointment of Tom Bohn, currently special assistant to the provost, as interim director of the Washington Semester Program beginning June 1.

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Bruce Smith and two of his research students presented at the Ontario Ecology and Ethology Colloquium at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. May 2005.

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The Ithaca College family picnic is scheduled for Saturday June 11, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., rain or shine. Order tickets now.

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Patricia R. Zimmermann has been selected as one of three nationally recognized speakers at a kickoff event for a recently released new research report on the state of independent media, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC). The event will be held at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York City on June 2.

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Starting this week, e-mail roundups of new Intercom stories will be sent only once a week (Monday), as has become customary during the summer months.

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For more photos of this year's Commencement, see Gallery.

In his address at Ithaca College's 110th commencement on May 15, Ben Stein shared a few lines from his resume. In addition to hosting an Emmy Award-winning game show, Stein achieved cult status from his movie role as a droning economics teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. A speechwriter for Presidents Nixon and Ford, Stein is an economist, a lawyer, and the author of more than 20 books. In Stein's estimation, however, his greatest accomplishment is his sense of gratitude.

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Summer is quickly approaching, and with it potato salads, fancy desserts, and barbecues. Don't end up in despair at the end of the summer -- do something good for yourself NOW! Weight Watchers can help you get through the summer in good shape.

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