Greg Allocco
Greg Allocco is a senior English major with dual minors in sport studies and Putting Off the Real World. His main interest is creative writing, but he’s done them all in his four years. He’s an Upstater and proud of it, but after graduating he’d love to get out of the northeast and spend a little time away from subzero temperatures. He’s a sports guy, so no appointments or interruptions during college football season or March Madness, please (unless you’d like your bracket edited). He also enjoys reading, writing, and music, and if you’re a fan of Dave Matthews Band you’ve made a new friend. This is his first year working in the Writing Center, and he looks forward to all comers.
Aaron Arm
Aaron Arm is a graduate student in Adolescent Education, holding a B.A. in English with a minor in journalism. He has been a contributing writer and photographer for The Ithacan, an editor for Imprint Magazine, and is currently the president of IC Stand Up. He enjoys list items, list items, and redundancies. When he is not tied down to academic texts, Aaron enjoys reading books and watching movies on social revolutions. He also plays the drums. Aaron would be especially happy to work with you on journalistic or creative writing, but he supposes he can help you with that six-page paper on the social "weather" of contemporary advertising methodology. Rock on.
Sara Bempkins
Sara Bempkins is a senior writing major with a minor in English. She loves creative writing, specifically poetry. She spent last semester studying in London and seeing Europe and hopes to someday go back. After graduating, she wants to attend graduate school to study writing and teaching so she can teach high school English, but would also love to go into publishing. She is a coffee fanatic, likes hiking and being outdoors, and is an early riser. She loves Indian food, Cape Cod, art, and running in her free time, and she hates watching TV. She values teaching others and would love to help you improve any part of your paper!
Lawrence Collerd
Lawrence Collerd is a junior writing major with minors in English and politics. He is also the president of the acahti players, an improve comedy troupe on campus. When he’s not doing homework or trying to be funny, he enjoys writing short fiction, especially about Chicago, his hometown. At the end of the summer, he had a blast camping in northern Michigan with his friends and reading Updike on the beach all day. Though this is his first year working in the Writing Center, he has already helped some pretty important people with their work.
Without Lawrence’s help, I probably never would have finished the Emancipation Proclamation. In fact, the title was his idea. I wanted to call it “Abe’s Extra-Awesome Emancipation Essay.”
-Abraham Lincoln
I came to the Writing Center with a poem about butterflies and rainbows. Lawrence suggested something a little darker, so I wrote “The Wasteland.”
-T.S. Eliot
I just can’t wait to see him again.
-Miley Cyrus
Shanan Glandz
I’m Shanan. I’m an IC senior, a writing major, and an English minor. But stay tuned —that might not be all!
I came to IC as a Viola Performance major. I’ve been an English major, a Bio major, a Writing major, and a music major, and as I come down to the wire of graduation, I’m sure the list isn’t going to end there.
If you see me on campus I am perpetually wearing one of three Ithaca College sweatshirts I own. I never walk anywhere — I’m lazy and I take my car everywhere I go. I’m certifiably Internet-addicted. I check my email way more than is healthy. Although I’m experienced in all subjects related to tutoring, I particularly relish science topics and anything and everything related to politics. I’ve strewn blogs about cyberspace like so many forgotten love letters, and when I leave IC I hope to go to graduate school to get my MFA or my doctorate in Creative Writing, nonfiction.
Ah, the randomness. Well, back to work.
Simi Landau
Simi Landau is a sophomore English major with minors in general loafing about and whimsy. She has a love for turtles and will one day name a turtle Cholmondeley (which is of course pronounced Chomley).
Blair Lord
Blair Lord is a sophomore writing major with a minor in music. She loves musicals, seafood, summer, and long walks on the beach. Okay, maybe not the last part. She loves creative writing, especially creative fiction (short stories, novellas, novels, etc.). She is enamored with theater as well, both watching and sometimes performing in it. She is a sucker for 19th century, romantic, and gothic/horror literature (and most combinations of the three). She has never been out of the country except in Canada, and really wants to study abroad at the Ithaca London Center her junior year. She hopes to visit France, too, especially Paris, after her semester in England. She is eager to write and publish fictional prose for her career as well as join an operatic or musical theater company after graduate school, which means she will probably be poor for a long time. Blair looks forward to her first year as a tutor and is determined to do her best for all seeking compositional aid. Oh, and she ís currently addicted to Minesweeper.
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas is a junior philosophy and religion major. As the resident philosopher of the Writing Center, he is the one to go to when you’re struggling to comprehend the finer points of anti-Cartesianism or pronounce “Nicomachean.” When he is not busy philosophizing he spends his spare time endlessly validating his own opinions and reading the marvelous works of Ann Coulter, the smartest person alive.
Hilary Westgate
Hi! I'm Hilary, a senior English major with a minor in writing. I love to read and write (of course), spend time with friends, Irish step dance, take photos, practice yoga, listen to music (especially live), and much more. I am nerdily (not a real word) in love with my classes this fall semester: Writing as a Naturalist, Women's Autobiography, 20th Century British Novel, a seminar on Ulysses by James Joyce, and Native Americans and the Environment. They comprise most of all my academic interests (I also love studying foreign languages, especially French and Italian). I adore living in Ithaca, especially after spending the summer here. I hope to go to law school for environmental law, but I'm looking forward to traveling for a while after graduation. Becoming a tutor is one of the most rewarding things I've done here, and I'm excited for the year ahead!
Rose Zonetti
Rose Zonetti is a junior writing major with planned minors in philosophy and environmental studies. Slightly masochistic and weirdly satisfied by an overloaded schedule, she busies herself with oodles of writing classes, volunteering at Southside Community Center and Loaves and Fishes, giving campus tours, playing rugby for the Ithaca College Renegades, and occasionally writing for various campus publications, and (of course) working in the Writing Center. When her hair isn’t falling out from stress, she enjoys conducting her own sessions of laughter yoga with her closest friends, cooking/mooching/eating food, procrastinating in the library (who doesn’t?), strolling through Ithaca, arguing for the sake of arguing, and talking about her dog Chubbs the Pug.
