Here's a roundup of the latest Ithaca sports news.

Sport and Sexuality Converge at Conference

This week, the College hosts the Sport, Sexuality, and Culture Conference. Eric Anderson, an internationally known expert in the area of masculinity, sport, and sexuality and a lecturer at the University of Bath, opens the conference with a keynote address. Former NBA player, author,...

“I feel like I just took a shower in truth,” said one IC student after watching spoken-word artist Saul Williams perform to a packed house at Ithaca.

Williams took the mike at Ithaca College’s Park Auditorium recently to deliver poetry, song, artistry, and insight to the enthusiastic crowd.

Saul Williams performing in Park...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, an award-winning author and poet, spoke at Ithaca recently.

Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and she is the recipient of several prestigious literary awards, including the Pushcart Prize in 2003 and the American Book Award in 1996.

Divakaruni came to the United States from India when she was 19, and...

Singer, poet, emcee, and artist Sunni Patterson will perform in the Clark Lounge this Monday, February 23, at 7:00 p.m. Her performance will kick off the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity's spring lecture series, "Chaos or Community? MLK and the Politics of Resistance."

"Last year was the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination...

Writers rejoice! New York Times film critic A.O. Scott and Rolling Stone's politics reporter Matt Taibbi both stopped by IC earlier this month to dispense words of wisdom to IC students.

Taibbi was was hosted by the Park Center for Independent Media, and his lecture was aptly titled “Independent Media Amidst Conformist Media.”

Taibbi first...