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Please join us for the final Provost’s Colloquium of the Fall Semester.   It is a fine opportunity to hear great ideas from engaged and engaging scholars and to participate in an evening of our community’s shared intellectual life.

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Student Affairs and Campus Life would like to invite the campus community to join us on December 12 from 2-3:30 in Clark Lounge for this important webinar.

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We are fortunate to live in an area that embodies an inviting sense of community. It is with this sense of community that Ithaca College kicks off our annual United Way Campaign. In keeping with the United Way mission of “improving lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities,” our goal this year is $32,000! These contributions will help improve the quality of life for individuals and families by providing our community with a wide breadth of support opportunities. As community members, we all see the impact when we pull together to support the needs of our local community whether it be in the City of Ithaca, Tompkins County or in other surrounding counties where we reside. Here is our chance to help.

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Jake Brenner (ENVS) co-authored a paper in Environmental Research Letters (open access) that documents the emergence of agricultural frontiers based on cannabis production. This is the most recent in a series of publications on the environmental impacts of the recent cannabis boom in northern California.   

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Items left over from the mobile food pantry:

• Canned chicken, instant mashed potatoes, tomato sauce, fruit cocktail, canned vegetables, pasta, bread, rolls, ketchup, plain greek yogurt, orange juice, sour cream 

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Celebrate the accomplishments of our December 2018 graduates at a dessert reception on Saturday, December 15, 2018, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Emerson Suites of Phillips Hall.

Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our graduates along with their families and friends.  As part of the reception, a short program will begin at 2:30 p.m. which will include a welcome by President Shirley M. Collado; remarks by Vice President of the Senior Class, Olivia Corlett; an address by Dr. Steven Novakovic, Instructor of Finance and International Business, who was selected by our graduating students to speak; and concluding remarks by Erin M. DeMarco '01, a member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors.  We hope you can join us for this celebration.

Dorreen Hettich-Atkins, Co-chair, Commencement Committee

David Prunty, Co-chair, Commencement Committee

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Are you a student or an organization that is interested to present an SLI session? Here is your chance to submit an SLI proposal for block 3 sign-ups. 

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If you have missed the opportunity to submit an SLI proposal, here is your chance to try again during block 3 sign-ups!

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NexGen EAP is your confidential EAP and Work/Life benefit provided by your employer at no cost to you. You and your eligible family members can trust the NexGen EAP services to address your total wellbeing, from assistance with everyday work and family issues to more challenging personal concerns.

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Each fall semester, the New York State Office of Fire Prevention and Control (OFPC) routinely inspects all Ithaca College facilities' common areas as well as some randomly selected rooms and apartments for fire code violations. This happened in October 2018. The State Inspector has now scheduled re-inspections of all spaces with a documented violation for the week of December 17th - 21st.

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Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Screen Studies, Sueyoung Park-Primiano, presented her paper, "Diasporic and Dialogic Articulations in Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night," at the Literature/Film Association Conference in New Orleans on November 30, 2018. In this paper, A Girl is examined through the lens of Foucault's heterotopia and Bakhtin's chronotope to map out Amirpour's diasporic configurations of space (hybrid, transnational, urban), genre (horror, western, musical), and identity (sexual, ethnic, class). 

The Spring semester will be here before we know it! To plan ahead, below is information for students, staff, and faculty who may be considering break housing and early arrival options for the Spring 2019 semester.

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 On December 11 and 13 from 12:05-1:00pm, in Friends 208, H&S is hosting two information sessions about the Summer Scholars Program. Former scholars and faculty mentors will be there to answer your questions and talk to you about what the program has to offer.  

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This is a friendly reminder to students living on campus that all Residence Halls, except for the Circle Apartments and the Garden Apartments, will close for Winter Break at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, December 21, 2018.

All Residence Halls begin offering a break housing option to residents who lived on campus Fall 2018 in their fall assignment, beginning January 2, 2019. All Residence Halls will officially re-open at 9:00 a.m., Saturday, January 19, 2019.

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The Los Angeles Animation Festival invited by special invitation Assistant Professor, Chrissy Guest, to screen her new film. The Women of Titmouse Animation is a short documentary film that explores the employment and educational challenges women confront in their pursuit of animation careers. The film was screened on November 30th during the festival’s kickoff party with funds from the evening benefitting Women in Animation. Guest’s film was the only live action film of its kind at the festival. This marks the 11th year for the Los Angeles Animation Festival.

From shamans to sweat lodges to yoga, Americans have long been fascinated by the indigenous religious traditions of North America, Africa, and Asia.  But few Americans have more than superficial knowledge of these traditions.  The Philosophy & Religion Department is here to help you deepen your knowledge! Toward that end, we have created a new section of RLST 10500, Introduction to World Religions: Eastern and Indigenous in the MWF 1:00-1:50 time slot.  There are no prerequisites.

The course carries ICC Humanities Perspective credit in the Mind, Body, Spirit theme.

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Come to our Open House with President Collado and other exciting events featuring: therapy dogs (and a Llama!), a craft table, and a Virtual Reality experience 

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 Come join Habitat on a free volunteer opportunity to Athens, Ohio from January 13th - January 20th! 

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Kathleen Mulligan (Theatre Arts) and husband David Studwell were selected to present one of six plenary talks at the Annual Fulbright Association Conference in Puebla Mexico November 1-4.

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 A new section of Introduction to Philosophy has been opened up to accommodate student demand for the course. 

The course will survey fundamental questions of philosophy such as the existence of God, the relation of mind and body, and the nature of right and wrong. 

There are no prerequisites. 

The course carries ICC Humanites Perspective credit in the following themes:

• Identities
• Mind, Body, Spirit

PHIL 101000 Introduction to Philosophy

• Instructor: Prof. Yuna Won
• Time:  TR 4:00-5:15
• CRN:  43162

 If you have questions, please contact the instructor at ywon@ithaca.edu.