Ithaca College students got to watch a live presidential debate last week in IC Square. And although Barack Obama, John McCain, and Cynthia McKinney weren’t present, students learned all about their views on the issues.

Three on-campus political groups sent representatives to the mock debate: the IC Democrats, IC...

Go behind the scenes with an ICTV producer

When I first visited Ithaca’s Park School of Communications, I was told that hands-on experience was a big part of the television radio major. But I didn’t know how true that was until I went to my first class, Introduction to Media Production, which was held in one of the school’s two television studios....

Ithaca College recently hosted its first ever ballroom dance competition, the Cayuga DanceSport Challenge. More than 180 competitors from 20 different schools danced in the collegiate competition. The Ben Light Gymnasium was filled with the music of cha-cha, bolero, mambo, rumba, and swing. Ithaca College students placed in many events, winning more than 40 ribbons in all.

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On a Tuesday morning, I stood in the Whalen School of Music trying to figure out how laughter and yoga could possibly combine. I had heard the Laughter Yoga club doing their thing around campus, but I was never quite sure what was going on. I really couldn’t figure out how or why doing yoga could make someone laugh. I mean, isn’t the whole point of yoga to be serious and still?...

It’s the end of my first week of classes at Ithaca College, and I’m sitting in the Park Hall Auditorium as an unsure but hopeful freshman intrigued by the romance of newspaper journalism. And to be honest, I didn’t have an answer as to why. Like so many first-year journalism majors, in high school I had been told my writing was “wonderful.” I had...