Editor: Keith Davis Writers: Alex Dippold, Jennifer Bates Lockley, Dave Maley Publisher: Office of Public Information Volume 22, No. 4  October 4, 1999

Newsreel A periodic compilation of references to Ithaca College in the nation’s media. The more things change for women in the film biz, the more they stay the same. While the general perception is that women have made dramatic strides in climbing the studio ranks, at least in the executive suites, the numbers don’t seem to bear out at the creative level. "At most film schools a four-year undergraduate degree requires about $100,000," says Patricia Zimmermann, a film professor at Ithaca College, one of the East’s bigger film schools. "Parents are reluctant to pay that kind of money for a degree that oftentimes doesn’t lead to a job. What happened is that a lot of film schools have morphed to offer much less academic value and more high-tech stuff, which means you’re going to lose a lot of women and minority students who want content and have something to say. Women say, ‘I don’t want a below-the-line job. I’m not a drone. I’m not paying $100,000 to plug something in the wall.’ They know Michael Eisner never worked production." — Daily Variety, June 11, 1999 Good leads on fair stories will serve on-line journalists well for some time to come, but the way in which they tell those stories will not, several prominent journalism educators and practitioners say. Storytelling in on-line journalism should evolve into something different, "but we really haven’t figured out what form it should take," says Christopher Harper, professor and Roy H. Park Distinguished Chair in Journalism at Ithaca College, formerly with Newsweek and ABC’s 20/20. "Take the five steps of how you do journalism. First you need to find the story, and the Web allows you to find stories in a whole lot of places, like chat rooms. Then, researching the story becomes far easier. I have far more access to information on the Web than I ever did at 20/20. Then you have to report the story and do interviews. The Web allows you to formulate questions, find e-mail addresses. Then there’s the writing and presentation. That’s where different media go in different directions." — free! The Freedom Forum Online, August 24, 1999 It’s been over seven decades since Lester R. Brown (class of 1929) graduated from Ithaca College’s old Conservatory of Music program, once located below the hills of the modern institution. But every time the Band of Renown’s bandleader is confronted with his musical roots, he fondly recalls the beginnings of his career in Ithaca, N.Y. "It was a great place to study and still is. I was 14 years old and hadn’t yet finished high school," recalled the Grammy-nominated musician. "I was the youngest man there for three years. It was a good experience." — Good Old Days, October 1999 Prevention’s Fat to Firm at 40+ Plan is based on a new way to work out, called cardio-resistance training. It combines the calorie-burning power of aerobic exercise with the muscle-building effects of strength training. "Exercising this way keeps your heart rate up to an aerobic workout level throughout your strength training," explains Gary A. Sforzo, Ph.D., chairperson of the graduate program in exercise and sport sciences at Ithaca College in New York, who’s studied cardio-resistance training. "That means you achieve the cardiovascular benefit of an endurance, or aerobic, program, and gain lean muscle as with traditional weight training. It’s also easier to stick with, because you’re done with both in half the time." — Prevention, October 1999

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