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...

The Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, conducted by music performance professor Stephen Peterson, performed John Corigliano’s “Circus Maximus” at Cornell University’s Bailey Hall in February. The piece — which employs a marching band, two sirens, and a shotgun, among more traditional instruments — is designed to create an...

by Sarah Brylinsky ’09

It was difficult for me to breathe by the time I’d reached my room in Quito. Ten thousand feet above sea level, the fourth floor seemed more like the forty-fourth floor, and the backpack which had weighed under 30 pounds in Pennsylvania now weighed at least 655. In the next ten days I would hike higher...

“Ithaca? But it’s so cold!”

I’ve heard that countless times since I chose to attend Ithaca College. Even earlier, in fact: A classmate  in my high school senior year journalism class asked me if I knew Ithaca’s four seasons. When I didn’t get the joke, he laughed and told me: rain, sleet, hail, and snow....

Judy Mauk '69 and her son Ryan Mauk '06 take a dream-come-true trek to Everest.

In spring 2005 my son Ryan, then a junior television-radio major at IC, spent his semester abroad in Nepal attending an SIT (Student International Training) program. After completing the semester he spent a month trekking around the region. He visited...

A Park School student spends a challenging semester building leadership skills in the wilds of New Zealand.  by Katherine Staley ’08

It was the hardest day of my life.

After more than seven hours of hiking up New Zealand’s Rainbow Pass without stopping for food or water, we had finally...

Fiction writer Lev Raphael speaks on campus about his work bridging sexual orientation and Judaic culture.

Considered one of America’s earliest “second generation” writers, Lev Raphael specializes in fiction that explores the impact of the Holocaust on the children of survivors from the late 1970s onward.

ICView intern Zeke Wright ’07 shares musings upon graduation from Ithaca College. 

College has been weird. I was supposed to know where I was going by now — or at least have some inkling. Instead, I leave feeling slightly older, slightly more well-read, and just as hopelessly lost. I came into this period of my life expecting to be...

ICView intern and Park Scholar Erika Spaet '09 sat down for a no-holds-barred interview with Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, media critic, and syndicated columnist, when he visited campus in February as a guest in the Park Scholar Tenth Anniversary Speaker Series. They spoke about journalistic integrity and the role...