Fuse Fall 2011 | vol. 5 no. 2

Unearthing the PastStudents and faculty explore the hidden history of Cyprus

Beyond the Byline

Conducting Young Musicians

Interning at the Associated Press

We asked our current and recently graduated staffers to name a superlative Ithaca College experience.

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Writer/Editors Lauren Barber ’12 Haley Davis ’12 Alexandra Evans ’13 Alyssa Figueroa ’12 Brittany Gilpin ’13 Conor Harrington ’13 Evan Johnson ’13 Kristin Leffler ’14 Nicole Ogrysko ’13 Gillian Smith ’12

Photo Editor Michelle Montgomery ’12

Photographers Zachary Blitz ’14 Angelina Castillo ’12 Colleen Cunha ’13 Deanna Dearo ’13 Devan Johnson ’12 Jacob Lifschultz ’13 Matthew Prokosch ’13 Daniel Sitts ’12 Anika Steppe ’13

Contributors to this issue: Aaron Edwards ’12 Alyssa Letsch ’10 Christianne Enos ’11 Kevin Hurley ’11 Jaylene Clark ’10

Director of Admission Gerard Turbide

Executive Editor Bonny Georgia Griffith ’92

Managing Editor Lisa N. Maresca

Web Editor David Cameron ’96

Copy Editor Tommy Dunne

Print Manager Peter M. Kilcoyne ’05

“The most independent thing I’ve done at IC has been taking advantage of the opportunities to study and travel abroad—I learned so much about myself and became a much more self-sufficient person.”

—Meghan Swope ’11

“The most valuable thing I’ve done at IC has been heading a large student organization and seeing firsthand the impact I’ve had on the campus community.” —Brian Keefe ’11

“The most career-advancing thing I’ve done at IC has been working for our student newspaper, the Ithacan.”

—Alexandra Evans ’13

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“The most community-oriented thing I’ve done in Ithaca is go to the farmer’s market. It has the most diverse types of food and is a relaxing, cultural landmark in Ithaca.”

—Conor Harrington ’13

Having done our own college searches, we know how hard it is to make the right choice, especially when all the information you get sounds so similar. That’s why we’ve created Fuse magazine, a publication that gives you a firsthand glimpse of the Ithaca College experience through stories and photography by current IC students. Is Ithaca right for you? It’s your choice—and we hope this makes it easier.

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“The most interesting thing I’ve done at IC is take advantage of every-thing the College offers: unique courses, career-focused opportunities, and the natural beauty that surrounds campus.”—Michelle Montgomery ’13

“The most intense course I’ve taken at IC has been Intro to Phi-losophy—the heated debate regarding huge issues like God and fate were some-thing I looked forward to every day.”

—Colleen Cunha ’13

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A physicist’s journey to uncovering an ancient civilization.By Kevin Hurley ’11

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16 Really Lending a Helping HandHealth sciences students put their classroom skills to the test.By Conor Harrington ’13

20 A Hunger to Create My OwnHow Ithaca College got me ready to write, produce, direct, and perform in my first off-Broadway play.By Jaylene Clark ’10

Sophia Miller ’06 conducts the next generation.By Haley Davis ’12

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14Inspiring Young Voices

What lies Beneath

10 Lessons Learned LocallyA local entrepreneur and IC M.B.A. inspires

students through business class.

By Alyssa Letsch ’10

12 Building a Smarter Planet—and Smarter Interns—at IBMBy Christianne Enos ’11

Down to the Wire My internship at the Associated Press.By Aaron Edwards ’12

22 Carrying On the LegacyAlumni from IC’s Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar Program reflect on their experiences and look to the future.By Mia Jackson ’11 and Haley Davis ’12

23Carl Daikeler’s Secrets to SuccessThe CEO of Beachbody talks obesity,

social media, and his alma mater,

Ithaca College.

By Haley Davis ’12

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SPARK! IGNITING YOUR FUTURE IN MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS

NEW MEDIA MAJOR What do you get when you cross a top-notch computer science program with the resources of a world-renowned communications program? A new interdisciplinary degree

from IC’s School of Humanities and Sciences and the Roy H. Park School of Communications: a B.S. in emerging media. “The emerging media degree prepares students not only for hands-on production of new media, but more im-portantly for the challenges in identifying promising tech-

nologies and creating the infrastructures for them to be economically viable,” says Diane Gayeski, dean of

the Park School. With three concentrations— media computation (in Humanities & Sciences),

media design and production, and media entrepre-neurship (both in the School of Communications)—

you can learn to design or create new media and technology or find out what it takes to start a new media business.

STUDYING . . . SLUGS? Did you know Ithaca has over 100 academic programs? See

the complete list at www.ithaca.edu/academics/

programs.

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You know the instructions for glue: Apply to a clean, dry surface. So how do

snails, slugs, and oysters stick to wet, slimy surfaces so fero-ciously you’d need a chisel to get them off? That’s what IC biology professor Andy Smith studies—he believes the adhesive secre-tions of mollusks have potentially valuable medical applications. And students collaborate with him on this research.

“We start easy,” Smith says, “teaching techniques. Then gradually students get more independence. If they stay with it, they’ll be running their own projects. By the time they’re seniors, we’re interpreting data, figuring out what we need to do before we can publish.” So far, 17 Ithaca undergrads have coauthored papers with Professor Smith and three were lead authors. “What they’re able to do here is really remarkable,” Smith says.

An exciting new minicourse in the Roy H. Park School of Communications had ABC News anchors Diane Sawyer and David Muir ’95 interacting with stu-

dents via Skype. Spark: Igniting Your Future in Media & Communications is designed to get students to think about the ever-shifting media landscape and how they see them-selves fitting into it. Prerequisites for the course: energy, enthusiasm, willingness to think outside the box and think about the future!

Though just one section was offered last semester, the one-credit course may eventually become a requirement for all Park students. “It was great to get firsthand advice on the commu-nications world,” says Emily Sprague ’14. “It’s one thing to hear it from pro-fessors and fellow students, but to have Diane Sawyer herself talk to you was awesome!”


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ROMAN HOLIDAY? NOT QUITE… …But what better place to study photography than a city that re-volves around art? In the summer course Photographic Projects in Rome, students take advantage of the beautiful and histori-cally rich city as their backdrop. A whole semester’s worth of work is accomplished during just one month, so it’s no vacation, but the immersion is part of the appeal. Students study and apply image-making practices in exploring what it means to experi-ence, comment on, and photographically interpret place. They also take a three-day trip to Venice for the Biennale, the largest and most important international contemporary art exposition in the world. “I realized that our world is a kind of system, with actions and reactions across continents,” says Tom Smith ’13 of what he learned on the trip, “and I sought to understand the role photography played in this.”

FROM NEW YORK STATE TO THE ALOHA STATE

Some people read guidebooks before going on a trip. Others just get on a plane and go. But IC students who head to the middle of the Pacific for the winter-session course Anthropological Experience in Hawaii

have already studied the islands for an entire semester. In Hawaii, the students kept a daily journal, wrote essays, studied tourism, toured ancient temples and coffee plantations, and visited Volcano National Park, where they came meters away from a lava flow. “That’s when the wonderment of Pele, the goddess of volcanoes, really hit home,” says Luka Starmer ’11. “All of us were stretched in so many ways—physically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively.”

How to Design a Web Game in 48 Hours Here’s how IC computer science majors Ashley Alicea ’12, Marc Howard ’11, Corey Jeffers ’11, and Evan Marinaro ’13 did it.Step 1: Join more than 88,000 teams to compete for the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup. (This year’s challenge: “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems.”)Step 2: Choose a technology category and an area of interest. “We decided to make a web game on maternal healthcare using HTML5,” says Jeffers.Step 3: Learn HTML5. Microsoft representative Andrew Parsons was impressed by their performance in the regionals at RIT, since most other teams already knew the program. “The fact that they eventually won the competition showed how good they were at embracing new technology,” he says.Step 4: Spend two days creating an Asteroids-like video game called Embryonic to win the regionals and get the chance to participate in the finals in New York City.

Though the team didn’t take home the Imagine Cup, they were one of just 124 teams to present their projects at the worldwide finals, and the only U.S. team in the game design (web) category.

Nestled into the overgrowth, a Roman altar stands below Piazzale Garibaldi on the eastern side of the city. Photo by Tom Smith ’13

INSIDE ITHACA

Though the grand opening celebration of the $65.5 million A&E Center isn’t until later this month, students and coaches have been

enjoying the new facility since heading to campus this fall. Track and field will compete in the 130,000-square-foot field house this winter, but lacrosse, field hockey, soccer, baseball, tennis, softball, and football will use the space for practice. Field hockey is playing its matches in the outdoor stadium with lighted turf field, with seating for 1,000. The women’s tennis team gets to compete on the six new outdoor lighted courts that are part of the complex. And swimmers and divers have gotten a feel for the aquatics pavilion with an eight-lane Olympic-size pool and seating for nearly 1,000 spectators.

With the field house able to accommodate 6,700 people, it will also be the future home of major events such as commencement, concerts, conferences, and speakers.

• David Muir ’95, ABC News anchor Muir delivered this year’s commencement speech, telling grads, “You don’t need a camera or a microphone to have a voice. I know you already have one. I’m simply here to urge you to use it.” • Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and author of Angels in America Kushner discussed his work in a public forum and met with honors students who had studied his play.• Branford Marsalis, Grammy Award–winning saxophonist Marsalis gave an exclusive performance to a filled Ford Hall in the Whalen Center for Music, followed by a master class with a group of enthusiastic music students.• Karl Ravech ’87, host of Baseball Tonight Ravech was one of 13 IC alumni and current employees of ESPN who returned to campus for a panel discussion about their experiences with the network. Ravech also took time to meet with aspiring sports journalists and critique their clip reels.

Eleanor Henderson has lived up to the saying “practice what you teach” with a whirlwind summer after her debut novel Ten Thousand Saints was published by Ecco. The novel has received rave reviews from the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post. A professor of fiction and the new course Writing Historical Fiction, Henderson embarked on a national book tour to promote her novel, set in part in the late-’80s hardcore punk scene of New York’s East Village. “The high point was definitely visiting the New York Times office, where I learned that my book was going to be on the cover of the book review,” Henderson says. “But what was really special was seeing current and former students

at nearly all of my readings. Reconnecting with them across the country was

immensely rewarding.”

IC WELCOMES VISITORS TO CAMPUSMost big-name professionals give a public

speech or performance when they visit campus, but often they’ll meet with students one-on-one or in small groups or classes. Here are a few who came to IC last semester.

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Top right: Tony Kushner gets interviewed during his visit to IC. Above: Bran-ford Marsalis performs with the Ithaca College Faculty Jazz Quintet. Bot-tom right: Karl Ravech ’87 reviews a highlight reel.

Writing Professor Scores Big with Debut Novel

Photo courtesy of Nina Subin


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SPORTS REPORT

Men’s Rugby: Back into the ScrumLast season marked the first time an IC men’s team played in the New York State Rugby

Union in over a decade. And they returned in style. Undefeated in the regular season, they made it to the Division III National Small College Rugby Organization’s Final Four. “Looking back, I think we proved that we belong in the top four in the nation,” says player Jon Mullen ’13.

Squash Team Gains MomentumBrad Kolodner ’12 played squash in high school,

but since IC didn’t have a team, he helped start one. After just two seasons, the team placed

fourth of eight teams in their division at the College Squash Association

championships hosted by Harvard. “I measure our success by our

growth, not by our wins and losses,” says Kolodner.

Bombers 2010-2011 HighlightsWant to know what it feels like to win? Join one of Ithaca’s 26 Division III teams. Of the 22 IC teams that belong to the Empire 8 conference, 15 won regular- season or tournament titles (or both!). Here are some highlights from last year.• Football The Bombers posted a record of 6-4, extending their streak of winning

seasons to 40. But they did lose to SUNY Cortland, ending a three-year streak of taking home the Cortaca Jug.

• Women’s Crew A fourth-place finish at the NCAA championships marked the program’s ninth top-four finish. Ithaca is the only school to qualify for all 10

NCAA Division III championships.• Wrestling With eight qualifiers in the NCAA champion-

ships, their biggest contingent in 19 years, the Ithaca College wrestling team placed fourth in the nation and

earned an invitation to the 2012 National Duals in Chicago. Marty Nichols was named national Coach of the Year.

Sport Clubs at ICFrom dance and martial arts clubs to Ultimate Frisbee, roller hockey, and ski teams, IC’s sport club offerings now number close to 40. Here’s a look at two of the newest.

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Ithaca’s won its share of national championships (15 team and 25 individual titles), but never before have three different athletes won individual honors in the same year, let alone the same season. Here are IC’s national champions from 2011.

National Collegiate Gymnastic Championships: Jessica Bolduc ’12 won the floor exercise. NCAA Women’s Indoor Track & Field Championships: Emma Dewart ’12 finished first in the pentathlon.NCAA Wrestling Championships: Seth Ecker ’12 took the national title at 133 pounds.

A First: Three Bombers Win Individual National Titles in the Same Season

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By Kevin Hurley ’11Photos courtesy of Kevin Hurley ’11 and Michael “Bodhi” Rogers

My friends also ask, “Aren’t you a physics major? What does archaeology have to do with physics?” In the most basic sense, the field of archaeogeophysics attempts to image and recover the history lost when centuries or even millennia—and many, many layers of sediment—have passed over a culture, all without the need for digging. The physics part comes into play with all the state-of-the-art instruments we use to see what’s going on underground: conductivity meters, ground-penetrating radar, magnetometers, and resistivity meters. Ithaca College happens to have one of the best-equipped archaeogeophysics laboratories in the country.

When I tell friends about my archaeologi-cal expeditions to Cyprus, they picture

the adventures of Indiana Jones. But mostly what Indy and I have in common are that we get to travel to exotic locales and wear wide-brimmed hats—it’s hot working out in that sun!

I had just finished my freshman year at IC when I went on my first research trip with physics professor Michael “Bodhi” Rogers to the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. That 2008 trip was brutal. Cyprus was in the midst of a severe drought that limited our water supply, allowing us to shower only every other day. Not fun, considering the average temperature exceeded 100˚F and we were in the field for seven hours without much shade. But once we analyzed the data, we discovered the sweat was worth it—our instruments had detected evidence of a 3,500-year-old road and building!

WHAT LIES BENEATHA physicist’s journey to uncovering an ancient civilization

Professor Rogers (far left) stands with the author (far right) and fellow researchers from IC, Cornell, and Brown.


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Our primary objective for that first 10-day trip was to test if our equipment would be able to record the presence of subsurface objects in this remarkably different environment. After that successful mission, the team returned for a second 10-day field season in spring 2010. We worked in the same areas as before to see how changes in water content in the soil would affect the data.

You might not know much about Cy-prus—it’s not like it shows up regularly in the news. But there’s evidence that in the Late Bronze Age, the tiny island of Cyprus shifted from an insular, village-based soci-ety to an urbanized, cosmopolitan civiliza-tion with a growing importance in the trade and economic network of the region. Chemi-cal testing of the Armana letters, a group of ancient tablets showing correspondence between the Egyptian pharaoh and the “King of Alashiya,” show that they originated from the present- day southern Cyprus cities of Kalavasos and Maroni. These tablets indicate that Egypt and Cyprus had a “brother” relationship, meaning they were of the same social or political status.

How do I know all this? Because another cool aspect of this re-search (which is partially funded by the National Science Foundation) is that it’s a multidisciplinary collaboration. The Kalavasos and Maroni Built-Environments project (KAMBE for short) combines the expertise in Cypriot archaeology and architectural analysis from professors, grad students, and post-docs from Cornell and Brown Universities with the expertise in archaeogeophysics from IC.

This summer the KAMBE team went back for a five-week trip. We covered about 10 times more area, hoping to gather information on

what a Late Bronze Age city might look like. We found many build-ings between a large administrative building and the port village near Maroni, suggesting that these two previously excavated areas could be connected and are actually parts of a bigger settlement.

A field season scheduled for next summer may include excavating targeted areas to learn more about how elites expressed their power through architecture and control of space.

Most days after working in the hot sun, we’d head to a nearby beach to go swimming in the deep blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea. We’d also take a day off each week to explore the island. We drove westward to see the castle of King Richard III from when he conquered Cy-

prus during the Crusades. And we traveled to Petra tou Romiou, also known as Aphrodite’s Rock, the place where Aphrodite alleg-edly rose out of the waters when she was born. Many couples and tourists come to swim here because it is believed that if you swim around the rocks, you will be blessed with fertility.

The extensive research opportunities I had as an undergrad-uate at Ithaca—in Cyprus as well as sites in Las Vegas and mul-tiple locations in the Northeast—have prepared me to become a successful researcher in my field, a chance I may not have had at a large university. And I’m sure they enhanced my application to the University of Bradford in England, the premier school in the world for archaeogeophysics, where I’m headed this fall to start graduate work.

The research opportunities I had as an undergraduate at Ithaca have prepared me to become a

successful researcher in my field, a chance I may not have had at a

large university.

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Learn more about research opportunities in the physics

department at www.ithaca.edu/hs/depts/physics.

STUDENT-FACULTY COLLABORATIONS AT ICBy physics professor Michael “Bodhi” Rogers

Involving students in hands-on learning oppor-tunities such as research is one area that sets Ithaca College apart from other institutions. I have several students in 10-week-long paid research positions each summer. Seven Ithaca College physics students have traveled to Cy-prus to conduct research over the course of our three visits. Students are involved in all aspects of the project, with most of their effort involved in running instruments. More experienced students also help do a preliminary processing of the data. My research is made possible by having enough instrument operators to survey our target areas.

Students benefit in many ways from being involved in this type of research. They learn how projects are planned, how to work in a close team environment, and how data are gathered, processed, and interpreted. For many students, it is their first time traveling abroad, and the trip is a rich opportunity to experience new foods, new cultures, new sites, and how to trav-el internationally. And our collaboration with anthropology, archaeology, and classics faculty and grad students from Cornell and Brown Universities gives my students experience in a multidisciplinary, international environment that will better prepare them to enter the 21st-century workforce.


This data from the ground-penetrating radar shows a modern field boundary be-tween two fields and reflections from the remains of a building.

The location of one of our study areas.

Danny Bradac ’13 uses a Mala ground-penetrating radar system with a 500 MHz antenna at the Late Bronze Age site of Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios.

Anyone who’s spent some time in Ithaca knows about the scene at Purity Ice Cream on a typical Friday night—outdoor and indoor seating areas overflowing with friends, teammates,

families, and couples; lines stretching out the door of people eager for a taste of Icy Buns, Sleep-ers Awake, Finger Lakes Tourist, or Bulldog Crunch. But it takes more than a quality product to run a suc-cessful business, and Fuse got the inside scoop from Purity co-owner Heather Lane M.B.A. ’10, who now shares her expertise with students in the School of Business in her one-credit course Entrepreneurial Spirit.

Purity Ice Cream is an Ithaca institution, providing specialty ice cream and baked goods since 1936. Lane, who bought the business with her husband, Bruce, in 1998, has helped turn the business into a thriving staple of local flavor and culture.

Over the course of seven weeks (half a semester), the course provides an introduction to business planning, which consists of four

parts: industry analysis, marketing, operations, and finances. But students don’t just learn about business plans, they actually

create one. The course is taught every block, and stu-dents typically work in teams of two. They can focus on an industry that interests them or one they feel that Ithaca is currently lack-ing. Section by section, students research, number-crunch,

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and brainstorm, figuring out how to create de-mand, value, a unique selling point, and an innovative twist for their product or service. Ultimately, for their final presentation, they create a full business plan for their hypotheti-cal company.

Katie Tascione ’13 and her teammate chose to develop a concept for a green cleaning and re-

cycling service, which they called RecyCLEAN. “We both worked really hard on researching what other

green cleaning services were like, such as how much they charged per clean, what types of rooms they would provide

cleaning for, and what the average salary was, so that we could make our business plan as realistic as possible,” says Tascione.

Business administration major Samantha Kaufman ’11 wants to go to culinary school when she graduates, so she wrote a business plan for a full-service catering company and restaurant that would provide the community with an upscale yet afford-able café, as well as event planning and catering services. Her company also emphasized buying locally and imple-menting a composting waste manage-ment system. “I was finally given the

opportunity to apply the lessons I was taught in my busi-

ness courses and redi-rect them with a culinary twist!” says Kaufman.

“It’s a different type of work,” says Lane of the

class. “It’s hands-on and it’s transferable.” Moreover, it’s

practical. Lane encourages stu-dents to think about what’s realistic

and to consider even the worst-case scenarios. “Who will give them money?

What if you can’t get a bank loan? You have to be creative.”

Though the business plans focus on a hypothetical business, the process for developing a real business is very much the same,

and the learning experience is invaluable. Ithaca has seen many alumni open up new businesses, including Emmy’s Organics and

UpYourCard. Who knows? Entrepreneurial Spirit could very well be planting the seeds for another successful new venture.

AN ITHACA ENTREPRENEUR AND IC M.B.A. INSPIRES STUDENTS THROUGH BUSINESS CLASS

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P urity Ice Cream has been a hometown favorite since its founding in 1936. When Bruce and Heather Lane took over in 1998, however, it took a major overhaul to turn it into the success it is today. The Lanes bought Purity

from the granddaughter of the founder, who had been operating the business from Oregon.

The Lanes increased the seating (which is filled up every night during the summer), expanded the kitchen, started selling branded merchandise, and introduced their famous muffins. It took five years just to break even. The ice cream, made from scratch from local ingredients, was homemade on-site until 2006, when production moved to Byrne Dairy in Syracuse. “I was worried this change would be the end of Purity because Ithaca is so pro-local. Farmers pick up their milk and still have this image of ‘oh it has to be made here,’ but our milk is produced at Byrne Dairy’s plant.” Baked goods are still made on the premises, and the selection of pies, ice cream cakes, and candies has grown.

Learn more about majors in the School of Business at

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Internships

W hen I got the e-mail from my

professor—“Well, you got one. A good one. Congratulations,” an internship at IBM was the last thing I ex-pected to receive. All sorts of things were go-ing through my head: Is IBM even around any-more? Do they still make computers? Where is Armonk, New York? And, most importantly, what am I going to learn about advertising from a com-pany that I haven’t seen an ad for in, well, ever?Building

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But I’m getting ahead of myself. Most of the shock surrounding my placement revolved around the Vance L. Stickell Me-morial Student Internship Program and how internships are awarded. Students apply, but have no idea where their internship may be. Administered through the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the program assigns students to three-month summer placements at top agencies or companies—which is why I was expecting an assignment at someplace like Leo Burnett in Chicago, or Saatchi & Saatchi in New York City, where two of my 14 fellow interns ended up. But the mystery is well worth it: Winners get paid a $4,000 stipend, plus a $1,000 scholarship for travel costs associated with moving and living expenses. Plus, there’s the prestige factor. AAF allows the adviser of each college chapter to nominate just one student for the program, so Stickell interns are considered some of the top advertising prospects in the country—not a bad thing to have on the résumé. Mostly, though, it’s the experience itself.

Walking into the headquarters in Ar-monk (which, by the way, is a small town about 50 minutes outside New York City), I found out very quickly what IBM’s global advertising and brand expression depart-ment had to offer. Between working with the globally based advertising team, learn-ing the function of a business-to-business brand, going to radio recordings and photo shoots, watching focus groups, and meet-ing the account team at Ogilvy & Mather, an international advertising agency, there was never a boring day on the job.

On a day-to-day basis, I participated in meetings with the IBM advertising team, the Ogilvy account team, IBMers outside the advertising team, and IBM customers

who were being used in ads. Once a week, I accompanied my team to Ogilvy’s offices in the city to participate in creative reviews by critiquing the work Ogilvy’s creative team presented (mostly for hardware and software prod-ucts and services that aid businesses in the storage and processing of data), meetings for IBM’s 2011 centennial cel-ebration, and media and search planning meetings. I also had a number of projects I was responsible for, and even presented one—a new method of nominating custom-ers for use in new ads—on a worldwide up-date call with the entire IBM ad team.

My bosses and team members at IBM and at Ogilvy really pushed me to challenge myself. I learned so much about business-to-business marketing, the difference between client- and account-side ad teams and the way they work, how to keep a unified brand im-age across multiple media and audiences, and simple things like maintaining a client-agency relationship and communication skills. Not only did I get to explore an amazing global company, but I got to see the ad agency that helps keep them in front of the people and businesses that matter. This opportu-nity really opened my eyes to advertising outside of the consumer goods I’m ex-posed to every day, and to potential career paths on both the agency and client sides.

The connections I made at IBM and the relationships I fostered after I left definitely came in handy when start-ing my job search. In fact, I am now an assistant account executive at Ogilvy, working on the IBM account. There’s no way I could have accomplished any of this without the support and guidance of my professors at IC and everything they taught me.

Stickell Winners from IC Ithaca claims more Stickell interns than any school but two—the University of South Carolina and the University of Texas at Austin. And how’s this for a record: Every student recommended by Professor Scott Hamula, chair of the strategic communication department and adviser to the IC chapter of the AAF, has been awarded a Stickell internship. Take a look at where IC students have landed since the program’s inception in 1989.

2011 Dylan Hulser MediaVest2010 Christianne Enos IBM2008 Ashley Patane Walmart2007 Jordan Trigilio The Richards Group2005 Holly Brzozowski The Wall Street Journal2004 Mariya Kutmanova DDB2003 Molly McElroy The New York Times1994 Julie Godon CBS1993 Jennifer Rivera CBS

To see if a job in advertising, public relations, or marketing

may be in your future, visit www.ithaca.edu/rhp/depts/stratcomm/programs/imc.


By Haley Davis ’12 Photos by Anika Steppe ’13 and Adam Baker

F ew musicians get the chance to conduct at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, the 92nd Street Y, Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, and Symphony

Space. Fewer still get the chance to conduct at these top venues within five years of graduating from college. But as assistant conductor of the Young People’s Chorus (YPC) of New York City, Sophia Miller ’06 is one of those few.

SOPHIA MILLER ’06 CONDUCTS THE NEXT GENERATION

Inspiring Young Voices Music


Miller conducts the prelude division, the youngest YPC ensemble, giving boys and girls ages 7 through 10 a solid musical foundation as well as a chance to per-form. But she wears many other hats at YPC, serving as vocal coach for children in all divisions, prepping YPC groups for concerts and television and radio perfor-mances, and teaching in YPC’s Satellite Schools pro-gram. “There’s never a dull moment,” says Miller. “I conduct, travel to schools, produce CDs, create courses, work with dance companies.

“We’re a children’s chorus,” Miller says, “but we’re a professional-level ensemble. It’s opened my eyes to what children can do. We strive for the high-est level artistically, but it’s just as important to us that the children find them-selves and find friendships.” Over the course of their time with the group—typically eight or nine years—most perform worldwide, from around New York City to South America and Asia—and Ithaca, as part of the College’s Choral Music Experience (CME).

Each summer, Miller brings about 40 YPC members to join the Ithaca Children’s Choir to create a resident chorus for CME, a weeklong graduate-level workshop for conductors. It’s a chance for her to show off her alma mater, but also to work with her former professor and mentor—and now colleague—Janet Galván.

From the time Miller joined the women’s chorale as a freshman, she says, Professor Galván had a huge impact on her experience at Ithaca. “She gave such specific attention to everybody, includ-ing me, and I wasn’t even a music major yet. She was tough, but that’s the only way that you came out feeling like you had made a lot of progress. I can’t think of any better combination than having

that support and knowing that she had such high standards.”

Professor Galván heads up the Choral

Music Experience and is the conduc-tor of the Ithaca Children’s Choir. A year after Miller graduated from

IC, she landed her current job when

she came back to hone her conducting skills at

Choral Music Experience. “That’s when I first met Francisco

Nunez, who’s the artistic director,” says Miller. “I learned that YPC was looking for conductors, and I walked up to him during one of those workshop weeks and said, ‘Hey, I’m interested in conduct-ing for you.’ I say all the time that I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for Ithaca.”

Because her IC experience at Ithaca was so transformational, Miller loves yet another role she plays at the Young People’s Chorus. “We have a program called College Bound, and 100 percent of our graduates go on to higher education,” she says. “Some of these kids go to school where they don’t have someone guiding them. My first few years, I actually drove some of the students to Ithaca College, helped them warm up, and saw them through the audition.”

This is the ripple effect of Ithaca College. Sophia Miller’s professors at Ithaca College influ-enced her in a positive way, so she in turn reaches out and inspires the next generation. “That ripple effect might be more important than being some sort of incredibly enormous figure,” she says. “I think it’s those little steps people need to focus on taking—they find they’ll reach back out to some-body and be inspired to do more.”

The professors at Ithaca College influenced

Miller in a positive way, so she in turn reaches out and inspires

the next generation.

To learn more about Ithaca’s music education

program, visit www.ithaca.edu/music/education/

programs/mused.

WHY ITHACA’S MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAM ROCKS

Sophia Miller ’06

remembers the student

teaching she did at IC

as being particularly

valuable. At IC, students

observe other students

teaching as early as

freshman year; during

junior year, they provide

music instruction at

various elementary

schools in the area.

“You teach weekly for

the whole year, and you

always have supervision

from the master teacher

at your school, so

you’re getting constant

feedback,” she says. “The

way these programs are

designed really sets you

up for success.”

SOPHIA MILLER ’06 CONDUCTS THE NEXT GENERATION

Inspiring Young Voices

Professor of music Janet Galván conducts at the Choral Music Experience.


HEALTH SCIENCES STUDENTS PUT THEIR CLASSROOM SKILLS TO THE TEST

For some stroke survivors, getting themselves out

of bed, making breakfast, and getting dressed for the day is a seem-ingly impossible task. Ithaca College health sciences students are help-ing to make these things possible for many of these people.

Jessica Hulse ’12 works with a client at Longview.

HSHP

By Conor Harrington ’13Photos by Matt Prokosch ’13 and Adam Baker

REALLY LENDING A HELPING HAND


If you’re interested in a career in the health

sciences, visit www.ithaca.edu/hshp/programs.

In exchange for one to three credits and valuable experience, aspiring health professionals go to Longview, a residential senior retirement community up the street from the College, to work at IC’s Center for Life Skills, which operates on an outpatient basis with people, both Longview residents and not, who have suffered from strokes, aneurysms, or other brain injuries.

The students’ routines with the participants range from simple seated exercises to more advanced mobility training. Students majoring in physical therapy, occupational therapy, therapeutic recreation, and speech therapy programs all join in a team-based fashion on treatment plans for each par-ticipant. The interdisciplinary nature means that all majors work together to foster global goals for the client. For example, with a cli-ent for whom speech was the greatest concern, the physical therapist worked on a physical therapy goal while also working on speech-related goals such as word finding.

Katie Lichtenberger ’11 spent every Friday at Longview during the fall of her senior year. “It’s a great experience to work with your own patient and make a plan and see what we’ll be doing for the rest of our lives,” she says. Each participant has different needs, so part of the process is for the student to determine the best course of action. With Lichtenberger’s client, she says, “one thing we worked on was getting her down to the floor and back up into her wheelchair, which is something she can use when she’s in her apartment alone.”

Last summer, Lichtenberger worked at Long Island Sports and Rehab Center for her first clinical affiliation as a D.P.T. student. (When you ap-ply to IC’s physical therapy program, you’re signing up for a six-year program—after four years, you get your B.S. in clinical health studies, then there are two more years of both coursework and four required clinical affiliations to get your doctorate in physical therapy.) She was grateful for the training she got at Longview. “It’s a good experi-ence that I was happy to get before my first clinical affiliation,” she says.

The Ithaca College and Longview partnership has been in place for 10 years. Kathy Beissner, professor of physical therapy, is currently supervising students in the pro-gram. “The students realize the

real takeaway is that they can make a huge difference in these people’s lives,” Beissner says.

Of the many things the pro-gram at Longview teaches students, Lichtenberger and Beissner agree that communication is key to deliv-ering quality treatment.

“Learning how to communicate with people of an older generation, especially those that are hard of hearing, is a big thing,” Lichten-berger says.

“Communication skills are number one, as some of the pa-tients have severe language prob-lems such that they cannot speak or process language very well,” says Beissner. “Just getting them to do things they may not want to do is a huge skill.”

And the clients at the Center for Life Skills are eager to work with college students.

“They need to be excited to be there and they love interacting with young people,” Beissner says.

Jessica Hulse ’12 was one of the first juniors to participate in the program since the center began accepting younger students this year, and she was impressed by how her client improved. “It’s reward-ing at the end of the semester to see how they have progressed,” Hulse says. Even the small things offer a big reward for budding physical therapists: “We had a patient stand for 30 seconds today, which was a huge feat for her.”

OFFICE OF EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

For students in Ithaca College’s School of Health Sciences and Human Performance, real-world experience is vital to their success. In 2003, the school developed the Office of Experiential Learning to facilitate these hands-on opportunities. The goal is for students to transfer their knowledge and experiences from the classroom to situations off campus. For more information on what opportunities are available in your dream major, check out www.ithaca.edu/hshp/ explearning.

Katie Lichtenberger ’11 helps stretch a student in the Occupational and Physical Therapy Clinic on campus.

REALLY LENDING A HELPING HAND

By Aaron Edwards ’12

Relieved to escape the London chill, I scanned my ID card, swung open the door, and entered a bustling newsroom with new faces. I reached back to pull off my jacket.

“Don’t take your coat off just yet, Mr. Edwards. Do you know much about this phone-hacking situa-tion happening in London?”

Before I could answer, I was being handed a copy of an Associated Press article on the Brit-ish police’s investigation into several claims made of journalists hacking into public figures’ cell phones. I heard the piercing wind howling outside and I had a feeling I was about to head right back into it. My editor shuffled through a few more papers and looked up at me from her set of five computer screens.

“We need you to go down to city hall. There’s a panel discussion going on there…well, right now. So you should hurry. Take notes, bring your recorder, and call me when you’re there. When you get back, I’ll want you to sit at your desk and type up a little story for us.”

And there it was: I was off on my first assignment as an intern at the Associated Press London Bureau. A few questions I didn’t get to ask: 1. Where is city hall? 2. What’s the number here? 3. Where is my desk?

Preparation for this moment—and the four months to follow—came from working at several news outlets across the country, including CBS News in New York, the New York Times Student Journalism Institute in New Orleans, and the Sunday Paper in Atlanta. But the place I learned the most and got my footing in journalism is right here on South Hill at Ithaca College’s student newspaper, the Ithacan.

I have worked as news editor, assistant news edi-tor, assistant arts and entertainment editor, and gen-eral reporter for the newspaper. This year, I’m serving as editor-in-chief. At the Ithacan, I learned how to craft a story and fully understand what it is you’re putting out

to the public. But at the Associated Press (AP)—where my stories hit the international wires and got published in Time, USA Today, the Washington Post, and other na-tional publications—I learned that lesson on a much larger scale.

While interning at the AP, I wrote stories on Lon-don Fashion Week, interviewed actor Jesse Eisenberg and other stars at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, covered the largest protest gathering in London since the start of the Iraq war, kept track of rebel uprisings in the Middle East, and worked on the AP field team for the royal wedding of Prince William and his university sweetheart Kate Middleton.

Working at the AP is very much a team effort. Since the company is a wire service that provides content to thousands of news outlets around the world, deadlines happen by the second. Any story I worked on required me to get it first, get it right, and, on top of all that, write it well.

The global scale of the stories I worked on was reminiscent of my time at CBS News, where I worked on the national news desk gathering news bits and con-ducting preliminary interviews for pieces included in the Evening News broadcast with Katie Couric.

Covering life at Ithaca College for the Ithacan gave me an amazing advantage as a student journalist. Be-cause IC is a smaller college than most, the attention and focus given to stories I wrote for the paper made me a much better writer. When I filed my first story during freshman year, my editor sat me down, politely told me that it was a hot mess, and worked with me for hours to fine-tune it.

I’ve developed a strong set of contacts and mentors over just three years as a journalist, and I owe it all to the newsroom in Ithaca that I still call home. But one thing is always consistent no matter where I’ve interned or worked: Through all the hard work, making a dead-line and crashing at 3 a.m. still feels so victorious.

DOWN TO THE WIRE MY INTERNSHIP AT THE

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JOURNALISM INTERNSHIPSAaron had a great experience at the Associated Press London Bureau, but he’s not the only one who had a great internship. Here’s a short list of where IC journalism students have interned lately.• ABC News• CBS News• National Geographic• Spin• Cosmopolitan• The Chronicle of Higher

Education• The Ithaca Journal • The Huffington Post• The Nation

Learn more about IC’s journalism major at

www.ithaca.edu/rhp/depts/journalism/programs/journalism.

I’ve worked at several news outlets, including CBS News in New York and the Sunday

Paper in Atlanta, but the place I learned the most is right here on South Hill at Ithaca College’s student newspaper, the Ithacan.


It has been a little over a year since I graduated from IC with a B.F.A. in acting and a minor in writing. Since then I have been blessed with the opportunity to professionally combine the two things I spent the most time doing while at school: acting and poetry. It was my time there that prepared me for the opportunity to produce my own off-Broadway play, Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale.

It started with a random Facebook post: “It’s time to stop dipping a toe in here/ Wading in a little bit there/ I need to jump back into this SeaWorld of poetry like I’m Shamu/ Heavy/ Too much gentrification going on in Harlem to get light/ Time to spit killer lines, with killer rhymes, of killer tales, ’cause Harlem is looking more and more like the belly of a killer whale.” A few days later, Alfred Preisser, my former teacher at Harlem School of the Arts, asked me to create a poetry-infused play about Harlem gentrification based on my killer whale post for his play-reading series. I assembled my team of three close friends, and the rest is history.

Renaissance is a play written and produced by Hol-lis Heath, Janelle Heatley, Chyann Sapp, and myself. Also producing are Alfred Preisser and Roy Arias Stu-dios. I am the director, and I also act in the play, as do Hollis and Janelle.

While in IC’s acting program, I gained valuable skills and techniques, experienced the thrill of perform-ing in professional productions, and expanded my the-ater network. But academics don’t tell the whole story. Ithaca College provides its students with the amazing opportunity to create their own campus organizations,

A Hunger to Create My Own

and when I arrived there in 2006, eager to dive into the college poetry world, I discovered that IC did not have a poetry organization. Similar to my Renaissance experi-ence, I assembled my team and created something I could call my own, and thus Spit That! was born.

Spit That! taught me what it means to organize and lead weekly meetings, which is a skill I use every day with my team. When organizing our annual poetry showcases, I coordinated rehearsals, gave directorial notes, and did various other tasks that I find myself do-ing with Renaissance.

Thanks to this great preparation and the fabulous cast and team, Renaissance has really had a chance to shine. Our show premiered as a play reading at Har-lem’s historic Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research unit of the New York Public Library, and went on to sell out four performances at the Times Square Arts Center. The play then had a limited run through August for a total of 15 shows. Being onstage in Times Square and performing in a play about my beloved Harlem that I wrote, produced, and directed was the definition of God painting his love on my life. Every night, the audience was bubbling with praise for this piece, which was such an honor for me personally. We have a college tour for the 2011–12 school year set. It is only fitting that IC was the first stop! It was there that I got my first taste of creating and organizing something I can call my own, and this taste has now become a hunger that I will continually strive to satisfy.

As I feverishly scribble performance notes while watching my best friend

Hollis perform a poem from our play Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer

Whale, I cannot help but feel like I am back in the African-Latino Society room

at Ithaca College. The only difference is that I am no longer directing the annual

Spit That! showcase, but rather a professional play that I helped create.

HOW ITHACA COLLEGE GOT ME READY TO WRITE, PRODUCE, DIRECT, AND PERFORM IN MY FIRST OFF-BROADWAY PLAY

By Jaylene Clark ’10

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A Hunger to Create My OwnLearn more about IC’s acting

program at www.ithaca.edu/hs/depts/theatre/programs/acting.

IC GRADS ON BROADWAYJaylene is just one in a long line of IC grads who have gone on to work on and off Broadway. Kerry Butler ’92, Actor, featured on Broadway as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Xanadu (Tony nomination), Hairspray, Blood Brothers, Les Miserables, and as Belle in Beauty and the Beast; appeared off-Broadway in Bat Boy Joe Calarco ’92, Playwright and director, Shakespeare’s R&J off-Broadway; director of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Shakespeare Theatre and In the Absence of Spring at Second Stage; two-time winner of the Helen Hayes Award for best directorMatthew Fox ’96, Theater manager, Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre Eric Sutta ’99, Technical director, national tours of Seussical and RentMatt Cavenaugh ’01, Actor, leading roles in A Catered Affair, Grey Gardens, and Urban CowboyJoe Reid ’05, Actor, Curtains


Alumni from the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar Program reflect on their experiences and look to the future

By Mia Jackson ’11 and Haley Davis ’12

The students selected for the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar Program have big shoes to fill. They combine their undergraduate careers at Ithaca

College with community service, a civil rights trip, and international excursions to expand their own worldviews. They also need to excel in their academics to maintain their scholar-ship, which ranges from $25,000 per year up to full tuition.

“As MLK scholars, we are seen as leaders on campus, es-pecially when it comes to diversity or civil rights issues,” says Brian Saa ’08. “Living up to that standard made me a better person and leader.”

That standard continues after the flip of the tassel, too. These recent alumni have used their time as MLK scholars to guide them in developing meaningful careers after graduation. Jaylene Clark found her success off Broadway (see previous page); here’s what other MLK alums are up to.

Elizabeth Espada ’09“Being an MLK scholar didn’t end when I graduated,” says Espada, who’s pursuing a master’s degree in speech-language pathology at Teachers College at Columbia University. Elizabeth often sees issues of diversity surface during her internship working with students with disabilities in a District 75 school in the Bronx. These range from students being placed in bilingual programs because they have a Latino last name to learning that a school wants to close a bilingual classroom and force students to receive English-only instruction.

Maria Gonzalez ’08 As an MLK scholar, Gonzalez says, “I learned to become an activist for things I believe in. This became my motivating force in every-thing I’ve done after Ithaca”—like spending two years with Teach for America, then working as an adult literacy teacher and an ESL science tutor while finishing up a master’s degree in teaching Eng-lish as a second language at Boston University.

Brian Saa ’08Now pursuing a career in screenwriting in Los Angeles, Saa was selected last year as one of 10 writers in the National Hispanic Media Coalition Writers Program, sponsored by ABC and NBC. The passions awakened in him through the MLK Scholar Program

continue to show up in his work. “Through the scripts I write,” Saa says, “I address issues of

diversity to this day.”

CARRYING ON THE LEGACY

Learn more about the MLK Scholar Program at

www.ithaca.edu/mlk.

“As MLK scholars, we are seen as leaders on

campus, especially when it comes to diversity or

civil rights issues.”

Alumni Profile

Maria Gonzalez ’08

Elizabeth Espada ’09

Brian Saa ’08


By Haley Davis ’12Photo courtesy of Beachbody

The CEO of Beachbody talks obesity, social media, and his alma mater, Ithaca College

SECRETS TO SUCCESSA CAREER IN FITNESS Did you know you could make a career out of fit-ness? IC’s exercise sci-ence degree emphasizes preparation for further specialized graduate study or direct entrance into a related career field, such as fitness management, fit-ness journalism, ergonom-ics, prosthetics, nutrition, pharmaceutical or medical equipment sales, coach-ing, or mind-body studies. Students can get hands-on experience interning in the College’s Wellness Clinic, as well as in corporate or

clinical exercise set-tings, amateur

and professional sport agencies,

and com-munity sport

organizations.

anism of the information required to get healthy and fit, and we do it in a fun way,” Daikeler says. “I think Ithaca has contributed to that because I learned how to use media to effect change and to motivate people,” a trait, he says, that’s common with Ithaca students.

Beachbody, which has generated over $2 bil-lion in sales since it started in 1999, is now set on fighting obesity. “The campaign End the Trend is not just trying to sell a product but really trying to gen-erate results that last for people,” says Daikeler.

The company has enlisted the help of over 60,000 Beachbody “coaches”—ordinary people with an interest in health and fitness who believe in Beachbody’s products and its mission—to spread the word about routines like TurboFire, Insanity, Hip Hop Abs, P90X; the health shake Shakeology; and workout gear. Coaches earn a commission on sales. Still, Daikeler insists that they’re “just get-ting started” on revolutionizing at-home fitness and ending obesity.

Alumni Profile


To learn more about a career in exercise science, visit

www.ithaca.edu/hshp/depts/ess.

W hen Carl Daikeler ’86 entered Ithaca Col-lege as a corporate

organizational media major (similar to IC’s current B.S. in communication manage-ment and design), he had no idea that he would eventu-ally be rallying to end the trend of obesity in the United

States. For one thing, he hates exercising. “I’m always trying to come up with new ways to motivate myself to work out because I can’t stand it,” Daikeler admits, “or motivate myself to eat better because I eat like a sec-ond grader.”

That’s where Beachbody’s signature home- fitness programs like the P90X come in. “We’ve always focused on real people and real results instead of celebrities and their results,” he says, explaining the company’s main recipe for success.

Beachbody uses media as their medium—their sales are 100 percent direct-to-consumer, via their website and television infomercials and net-work of customer/distributors. Daikeler also sends inspirational messages to his 11,000-plus followers on Twitter. “We just try to use media to be a more effective delivery mech-

IC KICKS BACKRockin’ out at the free concert during the annual end-of-year celebration.

Photo by Mike Grippi ’10

Flowers bloom along the stream between

Peggy Ryan Williams Center and Dillingham.

The new Athletics and Events Center adds a different dimension to the campus landscape.

The Dillingham fountains overlook Cayuga Lake

on a clear day.

featured photo

Photos by Anika Steppe ’13 and Adam Baker


Ithaca at a GlanceIthaca offers a first-rate education on a first-name basis. Learn what you love from stellar faculty; start a club, intern at your dream job, or spend a semester halfway around the world—whatever course you set, you’ll love what you do. At Ithaca you’ll have lots of choices and plenty of opportunities to find your passion in life.

LOCATIONIn the center of the Finger Lakes region of New York State, our modern campus is 60 miles north of Binghamton and 60 miles south of Syracuse. The city of Ithaca is home to about 47,000 residents and neighboring Cornell University.

STUDENT BODY6,400 undergraduates and 500 graduate students from 49 states, 4 U.S. territories, and 77 countries. Over 70 percent of students live on Ithaca’s hilltop campus, which overlooks Cayuga Lake.

FACULTY473 full-time faculty and 251 part-time faculty

STUDENT-FACULTY RATIO 12 to 1

ACADEMIC PROFILEThe high school average of most admitted students ranges from B+ to A.

APPLICATION DEADLINEFreshman applications for fall admission are due February 1.

PROGRAMS OF STUDYWith more than 100 degree programs to choose from, Ithaca has something for everyone. To learn more about the different schools and the majors they offer, visit the websites below. A complete list of majors can be found on the admission website at www.ithaca.edu/admission/programs.

SCHOOL STUDENT ENROLLMENT SCHOOL HOMEPAGE

School of Business 700 www.ithaca.edu/businessRoy H. Park School of Communications 1,450 www.ithaca.edu/rhpSchool of Health Sciences and Human Performance 1,350 www.ithaca.edu/hshp School of Humanities and Sciences 2,350 www.ithaca.edu/hs School of Music 550 www.ithaca.edu/music

For details about Ithaca’s application process, financial aid, tuition, and more, please visit www.ithaca.edu/admission.

DID YOU KNOW? MORE THAN 70 PERCENT OF STUDENTS LIVE ON CAMPUS, IN 27 RESIDENCE HALLS AND TWO APARTMENT COMPLEXES.

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Discovering the IMC major at Ithaca College was life changing for me. I’ve performed at Lincoln Center, interned with Broadway’s top ad agency, and now I’m senior class president. Whether performing in or promoting the shows I love, I’m finding my own voice.

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