Newsreel

A periodic compilation of references to Ithaca College in the nation’s media.

Several hundred thousand retirees each year still use weather as the major factor in deciding where to spend the rest of their lives. But an increasing number of retirees are finding that university towns offer the continuing personal growth and stimulation they seek. "It surprises even us that people would come, because this is a pretty snowy place," said Marilyn Strassberg of Longview, a nonprofit retirement community and nursing home built on land donated by Ithaca College in upstate New York. The complex, set to open in a few weeks, includes within its walls the college’s Gerontology Institute.

—Washington Post, Nov. 9, 1998

Navigating the Web is confusing. [Tara] Calishain, author of the Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research, does a good job of keeping up. Among the tips listed on Calishain’s Web page is a lead to a searching tutorial for newbies put up by John Henderson of the Ithaca College library reference department. The ICYouSee Guide to the World Wide Web is designed for self-guided Web training. It offers a helpful glossary and is arranged around seven often-asked questions about the Web, such as "What can you do on the Web that is actually useful?"

—Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 12, 1998

With the Latino population mushrooming, international business expanding, and ethnic pride on the rise, a growing number of Latinos are reaching back to a culture many of their ancestors left behind. Hector Velez, who heads the sociology department at Ithaca College and is co-founder of the Latino Studies Program at Cornell University . . . teaches a course called "Latinos in the United States," and he said enrollment has exploded. He had nine students when he first taught the class 23 years ago. This semester there are 70, and he has had as many as 90. "Their Latino-ness has become a badge of pride which may not have been there for their parents or their grandparents," Velez said.

—Syracuse Herald-Journal, Dec. 11, 1998

The next time you are presented with your restaurant bill on a tip tray boasting a credit card insignia, resist the urge to let it get to your wallet. According to a study by psychologist Michael McCall, Ph.D., of Ithaca College, people tip more after seeing the credit card cue. He tested 77 customers at a family restaurant near a New York ski resort and 27 customers at a cafe near a university. Half received the blank tip tray, the other got to stare at the credit card logo. In both situations, the ones who saw the logo left higher tips, whether they paid by credit cards or cash.

—Today’s Black Woman, November–December 1998