Tagged as “Campus Visitors”

Rory Kennedy shares insights on filmmaking for positive social change.   
by Karin Fleming ’09

Standing in her living room, Samantha tries not to cry, but a single tear falls down her cheek. Her couch cushions are ripped apart, the stuffing thrown around the room. A knife is jammed into the TV set; her...

Filmmaker Byron Hurt brings a critical eye to the music form.
by Chelsea Theis '08

At 30 years old, after spending 15 years as a violence prevention educator, Byron Hurt moved back home. He wanted to become a filmmaker, and without an income he needed to depend on his parents’ largesse. Six years later the fruits of...

Tibet’s head of state and spiritual leader offers campus a lesson on “training the mind.”
by Liz Getman ’09

A group of meditating Tibetan monks knelt on stage, framed by a throne-like platform covered in dark red pillows and gold silk blankets. Their voices rose in a deep and sonorous chant that...

Few English-language journalists are as intimate with contemporary Middle Eastern issues as Robert Fisk. Ithaca College was fortunate to have the widely respected author as its Park Distinguished Visitor Series guest this spring.

Few English-language journalists are as intimate with contemporary Middle Eastern issues as Robert ...

Leigh Hurst '92 raises awareness with her "Feel Your Boobies" campaign.

Pink: the color of a juicy grapefruit, a famed panther, and, sometimes, awareness. It’s also the color one’s cheeks might turn when she hears the name of an innovative campaign devoted to raising awareness about women’s health. 

Changing the World

Ingrid Frank has faced adversity all her life. A Jew, Frank fled to the United States at age 12 to escape Nazi Germany. By her early teens she was a human rights activist. In the 1960s Frank worked in the civil rights movement; she was arrested and served 10 days in a Washington, D.C., jail for participating in the “Poor...

Danny Green ’85 remembers one of his reporters literally running down Third Avenue with a hot document so that his website, Smoking Gun, would be first to publish it. For Green, cofounder and director of development of the respected website, daily life is just as fast.

Green visited the College in November to give a talk, “Google Isn’t...