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Felix Teitelbaum of Off the Couch on WRFI interviews acclaimed cinematographer and Ithaca College Park School of Communications graduate Ashley Connor. Connor’s credits include numerous films (The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Person to Person), television programs (Broad City season 5, Ramy) as well as music videos for the likes of Jenny Lewis, Angel Olsen and…
Every year, a group of MLK scholars is selected at Ithaca College to pursue social change and educate their peers on injustices. The freshmen travel south, steeping themselves in history of American racial injustice and the events of the Civil Rights era and speaking with people who worked alongside Martin Luther King jr. They walk…
The Ithaca Voice did a lovely job collating all the material we have published with them, The Ithaca College Park Scholars, and The Cornell Daily Sun as part of our loneliness project collaboration. Check it out!
The Tompkins County Workers’ Center, in partnership with the Worker Institute of Cornell University’s ILR School, will be holding a panel discussion on wage theft on February 5 at 5:30 pm at the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is proposing changes to rules about how Title IX is dealt with at federally-funded schools. Days ahead of the end of the public comment period, there have been more than 96,000 comments — including a number from Cornell. WRFI’s John Yoon brings us this report. Students at Cornell in their own…
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