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(Submitted on behalf of Samarra Mbenga, leader of the Weight Watchers At Work program at Ithaca College)

Did you know that the Ithaca College Weight Watchers members lost 1500 Pounds in 2012? 

How would YOU like to bring in the New Year? Something NEW is on the way.

PointsPlus taught us how to EAT healthy. Weight Watchers 360 will teach you how to LIVE healthy! Imagine going to your New Year's Eve party with more energy and confidence.

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Michael Twomey, Professor of English and Dana Professor of the Humanities at Ithaca College, will be describing his recent research on the great medieval English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight this Wednesday, Nov 28 at 5pm in Business 104.

"How Green Was The Green Knight?  An Introduction to Ecocriticism" is sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honors Society, and is free and open to the public.

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Patricia Zimmermann, professor of Screen Studies and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), presented a special seminar entitled "Open Space Documentary" for Dartmouth College's journalism program on November 8, 2012.

The seminar explored how new media platforms and transmedia practices featured in the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival have shifted documentary into more collaborative, placed-based, and fluid forms of engagement.

The two-hour interactive seminar was presented via Skype. Seminar participants reviewed the FLEFF new media exhibitions featured online, project websites, and Zimmermann's writing on open space documentary in published essays and on her blog to prepare for the seminar.

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Reminder that the Share the Warmth Clothing Drive is taking place.  The Ithaca College Rotoract club, in collaboration with Ithaca Rotary, invites you to fill the BIG RED BOX located in the Campus Center across from the information desk. The Share the Warmth program is an annual community tradition of collecting gently used blankets, coats, sweaters, snow pants and other warm winter clothing.

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Please join us as Biophysicist Rebecca Metzler, Colgate University, gives a talk.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

12:10 CNS 204

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A Documentary Screening and Information Session about Summer Study Abroad Program in South Korea will be held on Thursday, November 29 at 7 p.m. in the Park Auditorium.

Documentaries produced through a Cross-Cultural Documentary Research & Production class in summer 2012 will be screened. Cross-Cultural Documentary Research & Production class was taught at Hanyang University International Summer School in 2012 with other Media related courses. Five different short documentaries by Park students will be screened and the screening will follow a Q&A session with filmmakers. Also, there will be a presentation about this summer study abroad program. For more information, contact Professor Changhee Chun.

The following documentaries will be screened:

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 The Ithaca College School of Music proudly presents Opera Workshop:  “Great American Poets of the 20th Century.”   This admission-free scenes program will take place on Wednesday, November 28th at 8:15 in Hockett Family Recital Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.  

The program will feature select scenes from Virgil Thompson’s The Mother of Us All, Igor Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Kurt Weill’s Street Scene, John Adam’s The Death of Klinghoffer, and Conrad Susa’s Transfomations with librettos by Gertrude Stein, W. H. Auden, Langston Hughes, Alice Goodman, and Anne Sexton.  The entire program is sung in English.

The Hon. Peter S. Mayer '70 will host a presentation and discussion for students interested in the law and legal issues from noon-1pm on Friday, November 30 in the Cayuga Lake Room in Campus Center.  Lunch will be provided!

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Are you interested in getting your work published and receiving a great prize?  Submit your piece to ZoetIC, the newest magazine on campus, sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society!  We are accepting original entries in prose, poetry, and essay (personal and literature-based critical essays).  Prizes will be awarded to the best entry in each category.

For more information, please email ZoetICMagazine@gmail.com.
 

ITS is pleased to announce that the TLC (Technology Learning Center) will be offering training on a variety of computing topics this week, Monday November 26th through Friday, November 30th. Click any link below to register online instantly for topics of your choice. Training is open to all faculty members, staff members, and students. We'll see you in class!

Basic Operating System Series:
Macintosh: Best Practices for Using the Macintosh
Windows: Best Practices for Using Windows 7

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On Thursday, November 29th, at 6:00 p.m., the On the Verge play-reading series will present a staged reading of Curse of the Starving Class, directed by English professor Claire Gleitman. The cast will include IC faculty members Kathleen Mulligan and Chris Holmes, students from the IC theater department, and visiting artist Frank Wood.

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There will be a showing of the film, "We Still Live Here" on Wednesday, Nov 28 at 7 pm in Textor 102.

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Renowned Mohawk storyteller Barbara Bethmann Mahooty will spin traditional tales in a rare apeparance in our area, on Thursday, Nov 29 in Klingenstein Lounge, Campus Center, from 4:00-5:00 pm.

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The talk, titled "Onkwawenna'on:we: The Weight of Words in a Decolonizing Methodology" will be in Clark Lounge, Campus Center on Tuesday, Nov 27, 12:10-1:00 pm.

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New York State teacher and media literacy director at Project Look Sharp, Chris Sperry, presented at the National Council for the Social Studies annual conference in Seattle, WA on November 16, 2012 at the Washington State Convention Center. The mission of National Council for the Social Studies is to provide leadership, service, and support for all social studies educators. 

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The Fitness Center will be closing at 2:00pm on Friday 11/16, and will remain closed on 11/17-11/18.  We will have limited hours on Monday 11/19 and Tuesday 11/20. We will close again from Wednesday 11/21 - Sunday 11/25, and will resume our regular semester hours on Monday 11/26.

Friday 11/6: 11:00am - 2:00pm

Saturday 11/17: CLOSED

Sunday 11/18: CLOSED

Monday 11/19: 11:00am - 2:00pm

Tuesday 11/20: 11:00am - 2:00pm

Wednesday 11/21 - Sunday 11/25: CLOSED

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Jean C. Hardwick, E. Marie Southerland, Allison E. Girasole ('10), Shannon E. Ryan ('12), Sara Negrotto, and Jeffrey L. Ardell. Remodeling of intrinsic cardiac neurons: effects of β-adrenergic receptor blockade in guinea pig models of chronic heart disease. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2012 Nov;303(9):R950-8. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00223.2012. Epub 2012 Aug 29.  View the abstract here.

Twelve teams made their final pitch for a chance to win $5,000 during the Second Annual Business Idea Competition. And for four of them, that became a reality.

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RESIDENTIAL LIFE edged out Facilities by an itsy bitsy amount to win Best of Show  in the pumpkin competition. An award ceremony is being planned to present the winner’s trophy. The event was sponsored by Staff Council to raise money for the Ithaca College Caring and Sharing Fund.

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Hello Students!

The student organization IC Fit has partnered with the Office of Recreational Sports, the Office of Counseling and Wellness, and Dining Services to bring you the Student Wellness Challenge. 

When:  Monday 10/22/12 - Friday 12/7/12

Who:  All Ithaca College students are welcome to participate in the program

What:  Each week there will be four challenges in the categories of: Nutrition, Fitness, Mental Health/Stress Management, and one Wellness Wild Card.  Participants can submit online which challenges they complete throughout the program.

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