Fuse spring 2010 vol. 4 no. 1

The Ithaca College Experience | spring 2010

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: to give 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.

—Fuse staff

We asked our staffers:

What’s your favorite on-campus dining experience?

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Writer/EditorsLauren Barber ’12Amelia Blevins ’12Alexandra Evans ’13Alyssa Figueroa ’12Conor Harrington ’13Lauren Hesse ’11Mia Jackson ’11Alyssa Letsch ’10Chris Lisee ’10Nicole Ogrysko ’13Danielle Paccione ’10Jackie Palochko ’11Gillian Smith ’12Meghan Swope ’11

Photo EditorJeff Goodwin ’10

PhotographersMike Grippi ’10Jacob Lifschultz ’13Michelle Montgomery ’12Martha Pace ’12Daniel Sitts ’12Allison Usavage ’12Matt Watkajtys ’11

VideographerKyle Kelley ’10

ContributorsMatt Connolly ’11Julia Gadomski ’10Meghan Rindfleisch ’12

Director of AdmissionGerard Turbide

Executive EditorBonny Georgia Griffith ’92

Managing EditorLisa N. Maresca

Copy EditorTommy Dunne

Print ManagerPeter M. Kilcoyne ’05

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“I’d have to say GreenMountain Coffee in myreusable mug at GrandCentral Café in CampusCenter, where I used to work.”

›Chris Lisee ’10

“I love all the late- night dining options at Towers, especiallybreakfast night.”

›Conor Harrington ’13

“The hummus from theTerraces salad bar.”

›Martha Pace ’12

“The chicken delicatopanini at La Vincita in IC Square is my go-to when I have toeat on campus.”

›Mike Grippi ’10

“Meatloaf or pasta or whatever else my roommate Brian cooks in my Circleapartment kitchen.”

›Allison Usavage ’12

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16 Get Your Foot in the DoorJump-start your future with Career Services.By Alyssa Letsch ’10

2 AFTER ITHACA

3 LOCAL SCENE

4 OUTSIDE ITHACA

5 SPORTS REPORT• • • • • • • • • • • • •

7Devastation Beforethe Haiti EarthquakeVolunteering in a Haitianrefugee village in theDominican Republic.

By Danielle Paccione ’10

8 Get Your Geek OnIC gives students plenty ofopportunities to embrace their inner nerd.

By Danielle Paccione ’10

10 Marley & MeAn internship mixing music for a Bob Marley biopic.

By Alyssa Letsch ’10

11 Creating GlobalFutures with IC’sCertificate inInternational BusinessBy Matt Connolly ’11

15 Figure ThatProfessor Deborah King analyzes the biomechanics of figure skating.

By Gillian Smith ’12

18 Learning with LegosBuilding robots—and problem-solving skills—with blocks.

By Alyssa Figueroa ’12

22 Animal AttractionThe Tompkins County SPCA appreciates pet-lovingvolunteers from IC.

By Julia Gadomski ’10

20Behind the CurtainShining the spotlight ontheater arts management.By Lauren Hesse ’11

12Gold MedalExperienceInterning at the 2010 Winter Olympics.By Meghan Rindfleisch ’12

Is that Borders gift card your mom gave youburied in a drawer? With UpYourCard.com,you can trade it online for one that youreally want.

Rob Schroeder ’08 and a friend createdUpYourCard.com last year as a way for people to get full value for their unwantedgift cards. (Most online competitors buyunwanted gift cards, but only at a steepdiscount.) “When you’re trading, you’renot really losing any money,” Schroederexplains. “You can now trade the gift cardfor something you will use.”

When it came time to get the site upand running, the IC alum was happy toturn to his alma mater to find qualityinterns to help him out. Cinema and pho-tography major Greg Dunbar ’10, one ofthree IC interns Schroeder hired, didpublic relations for UpYourCard.com,contacting radio, television, and newspa-per outlets throughout the country tospread the word about the site.

Dunbar welcomed the opportunity towork with a Park School alum on a projecthe believed in: “I saw the site as possess-ing a unique concept that has incrediblepotential in today’s viral world,” he says.

Schroeder certainly believes in it, espe-cially with the $9 billion in unused giftcards projected for 2010. “Our goal,” hesays, “is to become the leading onlinesource for trading gift cards.”

Help him get there by exchanging yourgift cards at www.upyourcard.com.

GIVE UPTHATGIFTCARD

AFTERITHACAFUSE

When former Ithaca students Joe Zohar ’06, ChrisDavidson ’07, and Chris Kusznir combine their creativetalents, anything can happen. In one of their first collab-orations, the animated pilot Olympus Burger, Zeus andPoseidon wreak havoc on the fast-food joint they work in, smiting too many customers and leaving Hades (thejanitor) to clean up the mess. (You can still watch it on YouTube.)

Moving Box Studios, the production company the trio created in downtown Ithaca,now provides video, animation, sound recording, website and graphic design, and tutoring services to a wide variety of clients, from the Corning Museum of Glass to theIthaca Police Department to local bands to the guy off the street who wants to transferhis old Super-8 film to DVD.

What’s it like to go from IC peers to business partners? “It's been interesting to see everyone grow from excited kids to professional adults,” says Davidson. “It’s nice seeing this transition and watching people do what they love.” Check out theirwork at www.movingboxstudios.com.

Transitioning from

EXCITED KIDStoProfessionalAdults

ince graduating fromIC in 1999, Jennifer Caprio has designed

shows for Ithaca’s HangarTheatre, the MinnesotaOpera (Romeo and Juliet),the Utah ShakespeareanFestival, the ClevelandPlayhouse, and Broadwayand off-Broadway theaters. She returned to Ithaca as the costume designer for the operaThe Little Prince, IC’s first production of 2010.

Caprio says her greatest success was design-ing costumes for Broadway’s 25th AnnualPutnam County Spelling Bee (pictured). “Itwas my dream come true at a very early age,”she says. “On opening night, I was sittingacross the theater from Bernadette Peters,

and it suddenly dawned on methat this is now my life. I can’teven describe how excited I was. It was the best thing thathad ever happened to me.”

Watch a musical collabora-tion between IC and local kids at fuse.ithaca.edu.

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My main stop whenever I’m downtown on the Commons is Petrune, which carriesclothes and accessories with a creative,retro flair, whether they’re vintage or new.

I love the designs by IC alumna NatashaKeller ’04, a.k.a. One Swell Gal, especiallyher bright patterned change purses. She’salso working on a Petrune line of handmadeparty dresses. She adds vintage touches tothese new pieces in what she calls “up-cycling,”like adding a ’70s beaded belt or a decorativerose salvaged from a ’20s gown.

“Our goal is to sell classics from every dec-ade back to the turn of the century,” Petruneowner Domenica Brockman tells me, “andnew retro-inspired pieces from independ-ent labels like Tulle and BB Dakota.”

Whether we buy anything or not, Petrunegives my friends and me an excuse for a fundressing-room fashion show, where we canbe ’20s flappers or ’60s mods or ’80s preppiesor present-day fashion plates.

And I’m not the store’s only IC fan. GossipGirl Amanda Setton ’07 was back in town thisMarch and stopped in for her Petrune fix!

—Amelia Blevins

My Favorite Shop in Ithaca:

THE SHOP (312 E. Seneca St.) Catering to a younger crowd that needs a place to hang out where alcohol isn’t served, the Shopserves up coffee, tea, art, and live music in—you guessed it—a coffeehouse atmosphere.

WILDFIRE LOUNGE (106 S. Cayuga St.)Downstairs it’s a restaurant; upstairs you’ll findlive acts most nights of the week.

CASTAWAYS (413 Taughannock Blvd.) The quintessential rock ’n’ roll bar boasts anoutdoor deck overlooking the inlet and a good-sized dance floor inside. Recent headliners:Henry Rollins and John Brown’s Body.

THE NINES (311 College Ave.) Located in Collegetown, it’s famous for its rowdyshows and its phenomenal pizza.

THE STATE THEATRE (107 W. State St.) With 1,600 seats, this restored vaudeville-eravenue attracts the nationally known performerswho play Ithaca, like Ani DiFranco, Shawn Colvin,They Might Be Giants, and John Prine.

EMERSON SUITES (Ithaca College) You can get your rock on right here on campus.The Student Activities Board books everythingfrom punk rock to electronica to Ithacappella.

Keep an eye on Fuse’s own music blog, 11, for concert locations, photos, and reviews atfuse.ithaca.edu/blogs/eleven.

Everyone knows Ithaca’s got apretty extensive music scene.Here’s where to find it.

hat could entice more than a thousand people to stand for hours outside in the cold of an IthacaFebruary? Chilifest. At the 12th annual Great

Downtown Ithaca Chili Cook-Off, 40 vendors, from College-town Bagels (their “Dragon Breath” chili won hottest)and Viva Tacqueria to Food for the Planet and RazorbackBBQ, dished out hundreds of gallons of chili.

Lines were long but spirits high as festivalgoers sampledrecipes featuring tofu, peanut butter, pumpkin, and cauli-flower. Between tastes, people got to ride a mechanical bull,sing karaoke, or compete in a Guitar Hero competition. Oneevent drew tears to most people’s eyes: a hot pepper-eat-ing contest. But not the winner, a Cornell student whoswallowed a jalapeno, a habanero, a Thai Chili, and aRed Fresno pepper in less than a minute without a hintof discomfort. Talk about dragon breath.

Fuse’s roving reporter was on hand to document theevent. Check out the video and find out the other bigwinners at fuse.ithaca.edu.

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LOCAL SCENEFUSE

OUTSIDEITHACAFUSE

Go on Spring Break,

ICStyle

hile some students headed to the beachor the slopes for a week in March, others

went to Kentucky or North Carolina or D.C. forIthaca College’s Alternative Spring Break, a chal-lenging and fun opportunity to lead and learnthrough service experiences.

“It’s about taking college kids out of their loftycomfort zones and giving them the gift of socialconsciousness,” says Norah Sweeney ’12, whovolunteered in Kansas City, Missouri, last year atOperation Breakthrough, a daycare and after-school program that helps families below the

federal poverty line. “It’s easy to forget there’s areal world that needs our help.”

Connie Honeycutt ’12 went to West Virginiathis year to volunteer at a children’s camp. “Irealized there was something better I could bedoing with my break time,” she explains. “I knewit would be a great experience to go somewherenew and do something amazingly rewarding foreveryone involved.”

Read about more service opportunities atwww.ithaca.edu/sacl/osema/service.

The theme for this year’s Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival is“open spaces.” Ithaca politics professor Thomas Shevory knows a thingor two about that. As a Fulbright scholar, he has spent the past aca-demic year in the world’s most sparsely populated country, teachingAmerican studies, American politics, and international environmentalfilm at the National University of Mongolia.

His blog, “Mongolian Spaces,” chronicles his life in the capital(Ulaanbaatar) and beyond. There is much to learn about thisremote nation, writes Shevory: “Mongolian spaces intersect skyand steppe, Russia and China, Muslim, Buddhist, and Shamanistbeliefs and practices, deserts in the south (the Gobi) and arborealforests in the north (Siberia).” Though on leave from IC for theyear, Shevory continues to teach Ithaca students through his blog,by exploring customs, social issues, politics, history, and the envi-ronment of a place so remote to Americans.

M NGOLIA

SAGE, MoonRise, and OSIRIS-REx.These three finalists each have a year and about $3 million to convinceNASA that their mission should be the one to join its current NewFrontiers programs.

Beth Ellen Clark Joseph, associateprofessor and chair of physics at Ithaca College, is a member of the team working on OSIRIS-REx (OriginsSpectral Interpretation ResourceIdentification Security-RegolithExplorer), which would study the geology of a primitive asteroid.

“Our plan is to navigate a space-craft to the surface of the asteroid,acquire samples, and return them to earth for analysis,” Clark Josephexplains. “Our target asteroid con-tains records of geologic conditionsthat were in place before the solarsystem was formed. Studying thesamples will increase our under-standing of how the planets wereformed as well as give us insightsinto the sources of prebiotic organiccompounds necessary for the origin of life.”

If OSIRIS-REx gets the go-ahead(and up to $650 million for develop-ment), IC students will be able tocollaborate with Clark Joseph on the project. “It will be a wonderfulopportunity to give Ithaca College students the chance to conduct cut-ting-edge research in planetaryastronomy and astrophysics,” saysClark Joseph.

Learn more at www.ithaca.edu/hs/depts/physics.

IC PhysicsProfessor IsWorking onaMission to

OUTERSPACE

CLICK THISCheck out

“Mongolian Spaces” atwww.ithaca.edu/fleff/

blogs/mongolian_spaces.

Dispatches from

WEvery year since Hurricane Katrina, Ithaca students have donerebuilding projects in New Orleans for Alternative Spring Break.

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Leading the way for the Bombers in women’s gymnastics was JessicaBolduc ’12, who ranked in the top10 nationally in Division III in fourindividual categories: fourth in all-around, sixth on uneven bars, seventhin vault, and eighth on floor exercise.In the ECAC championships, Bolducwon all-ECAC honors for floor exer-cise, vault, and all-around. She scored9.725 on floor, tied for second place;9.6 on vault, tied for third; and 36.850in all-around, tied for third. ChelseaRobie ’13 won all-ECAC honors foruneven bars, scoring 9.175 for a fifth-place finish.

Ranked fifth nationally for muchof the season, the team failed to qual-ify for the NCGA championship meet,though at press time Bolduc and otherBombers were expected to win invi-tations to compete individually.

SPORTS REPORTFUSE


Women’s Basketball

Sets Records

CLICK THISGet the latest scores athttp://bombers.ithaca.edu.

The Ithaca College women’s basketball team set aschool record with their 15th straight win, a 74-38victory over Elmira College, then broke that recordtwice more, extending the winning streak to 17 beforefinally losing 38-37 to Utica in the Empire 8 Champi-onship finals.

But the team broke another record this season.Winners of the Empire 8 regular-season title, theyended up 16-0 in league play, a first in conference

history not only for women’s basketball but for any sport.

Without seniors and leading scorers Katherine Bixby and Lindsay Brown on thecourt next year, it’s going to be tough for women’sbasketball to break more records, but the teamdoes hope to improve in tournament play, after the last-second heartbreaker to Utica and a loss toDeSales in the first round of the NCAA playoffs.

Track and FieldTeams Win ECACand Empire 8Titles

he men’s and women’sindoor track and fieldteams were a force at

the Empire 8 Championships inJanuary, with both winning theirthird straight conference titles.

The women Bombers scored239 points—more than the fiveother teams combined. The men’ssquad won six of the 15 events.Kyle Devins ’11, who placed firstin both the long jump (tying the

Ithaca record of 7.20 meters)and triple jump, was namedField Athlete of the Meet. JeffWetmore ’11 set a new Ithacarecord of 22.63 seconds in the200 meter and was awardedTrack Athlete of the Meet. “Beingpart of a team like this is whatevery athlete hopes for,” saysDevins. “We have so many greatathletes that we push each otherat practice and keep improving.”

Both teamsthen went on to

win the ECAC title,a first ever for the men, who

bested a field of 49 teams. Thewomen were first of 43 teams, andfinished 16th of 61 at nationals.

TBombersGymnasts Win All-ECACHonors

WHAT’S ONLINEDid you know that fuse.ithaca.edu is updated with fresh web exclusives every week? Don’t miss these hot new features!

Visit fuse.ithaca.edu/tags/web_exclusive for all this and more!

Dispatches from Hollywood Fuse assistant photo editor Matt Watkajtys ’11 becomes a paparazzo (read about how he soldphotos of Conan O’Brien to TMZ) while studying at Ithaca’s satellite campus in L.A.

Love Pizza? Ithaca Delivers. Join Fuse’s roving reporter Mike Grippi ’10 in his search for the best slice in the city.

The Sights and Sounds of SingaporeFollow staff writer Alyssa Letsch as she studies abroad in Singapore, seeing the sights, learningthe language, and eating all sorts of new food.

Droppin’ Beats in Emerson SuitesTrip digital through the scene of a packed house when IC electronic groups Deiselectro andGlittermonks open for Tobacco in the Campus Center.

Ask the Expert Meet the IC faculty the New York Times, NPR, BusinessWeek, USA Today, Science, CNN, andCosmopolitan seek out for their expertise.ARTICLES

PHOTOGALLERY

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How IC Is Helping HaitiBenefit Concert for HaitiWith 17 performances by more than 90 faculty, students, and alumni, thebenefit raised over $1,000 for DoctorsWithout Borders.

Give One, Reach OneResident assistants of the Terraces or-ganized a giving campaign that raisedmore than $650 for Haitian earthquakerelief efforts.The donations were dividedbetween Catholic Relief Services andMovin’ with the Spirit Mission Haiti.

Haiti Teach-InThe Caribbean Students Association in-vited the IC community to learn aboutthe history, myths, and media represen-tations of Haiti and how to help.

How About I Take InitiativeThe newly formed student group is sell-ing Rebuild Haiti T-shirts and wristbandsand encouraging students to sign awaya meal to go toward relief efforts.

DEVASTATION

by DANIELLE PACCIONE ’10

VOLUNTEERING IN A HAITIANREFUGEE VILLAGE IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.

s I shuffled through a Haitian refugeevillage in the Dominican Republic, I was thinking about the black mud adhered

to my formerly white sneakers and whether or not I could receive cell phone service in a Caribbeanjungle. Then I heard the words that would changemy perspective forever.

“They’re born in the mud, and they die in the mud,”our leader said. Her voice echoed as she jabbed herwalking stick into a puddle of rainwater.

I looked up and saw extreme poverty for the firsttime. Disease, malnourishment, and pregnant teen-agers were no longer statistics but a harsh reality.My heart began to pound as children climbed upmy legs to be held, fighting to win over my one freehand. My heart was broken. And this was beforethe earthquake.

The summer before the devastating earthquakein Haiti last January, I volunteered for two weeksat Crossroads, a Dominican ministry. By 9:00 a.m.,we were building cinder-block homes under thebeating sun. We painted windows and doors, craftedframework with metal bars and wire, and shoveleddirt to be pounded into a level floor. Although it

was hard work, every swing of a pickaxe was worth the excitement on the faces of the onlook-ing villagers. Barefoot, half-dressed children would drag cinder blocks twice their size just to help us along.

Each day we broke for lunch of traditionalDominican fare, but it was difficult to eat while starving, parasite-ridden children peered through the cracks of the windowpanes, an image that still revisits me every time I pick up a fork.

Afternoons were dedicated to teaching math and English to children as young as two. Whenwe went back to Crossroads at the end of the day, the children went back to the reality of their impoverished community.

I now appreciate the importance of my educa-tion more than ever and hope to continue to helppeople—around the world and in my neighbor-hood—to reach their academic potential.

See the full version of thisarticle at fuse.ithaca.edu.

THE HAITIEARTHQUAKEBEFORE


Community Service

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The nice thing about IthacaCollege is that geek can be chic.Whether you enjoy playing boardgames or video games,browsingbookshelves or cyberspace, youcan find other students here at IC who do too. Go ahead—embrace your inner nerd.

Student Organizations

COMPUTER JOCKSComputer nerds are a thing of the past. Information TechnologyServices employs more than 100students part-time in 15 differentareas. You can gain professionalwork experience while coming tothe rescue of your peers and im-pressing them with your computersavvy. Whether your interests arein web development, technical support, video and photography,troubleshooting, or digital media, or if you’d just like to teach—studentsrun workshops—there are plenty ofoptions for you to become involvedand make extra money.

ITS employee Aaron Edwards ’12says the best part about working there is the freedom. “You can pick a specialty topic catered to your interests, like making posters or websites,” Edwards explains. “It’sself-driven and task-oriented.”

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SCI-FI FANSAlthough English professor KatharineKittredge is the instructor of Futur-istic Fictions: DIY SciFi, she’s not the only one doing the teaching.The semester is divided into miniclasses, with small groups of stu-dents immersing themselves in ascience fiction topic of their choiceand then presenting the strong-est elements of their research tothe class.

Because students have such animpact on the syllabus—they’vechosen such subjects as time travel,alternative history, images of divinebeings, and space colonization—“they are active participants in theirown education,” says Kittredge. Andbecause the class is so hands-on,it’s an entirely different experienceeach semester, with student pre-senters sometimes even dressingup like monsters!

FUN AND GAMESThe Sword Team of Ithaca College (STOIC)Do you envy the Knights of the RoundTable, worship Captain Jack Sparrow,or idolize legendary characters likeZorro? Then check out STOIC, whichteaches different styles of swordplayin choreographed dances and free-form sparring sessions. AlthoughSTOIC’s main goal is to research and

learn about theart of swordplay,it’s a great placefor a unique formof exercise.

The team practices kenjutsu (the art of the Samurai sword) andstage combat, using wooden repli-ca swords for form practice and softfoam swords for sparring practice.Interested, but worried that fencing’snot on your résumé? No worries. If you’ve watched Pirates of theCaribbean (or even Peter Pan), that’sexperience enough!

Other RealmsLooking forsomethingthat exercisesthe mind more than thebody? Dedicated to provid-ing an intellectual forum for science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts, Other Realms meetsfor game nights (from the new-school Settlers of Catan or Blokus to the old-school Monopoly orCandyland), movie outings, andbook readings and discussions.Television-radio major Alex Colby ’10 says, “It’s a lot of fun just tohang out with nerds, dorks, geeks,and the like for a five-hour-plusgaming session.”

The Anime Society of Ithaca College (ASIC)Cartoons aren’t just for kids. TheAnime Society of Ithaca College isdevoted to the celebration of Japan-ese culture through animation. InJapan, animation covers genres fromscience fiction to horror, westerns to sports, and everything in between.With ASIC, you can study the alle-gories, symbolism, and metaphorsfound throughout these imaginativefilms. You can also enjoy Japaneseanime in other mediums such asmanga (Japanese comics), televisionseries, video games, and Internet-based releases. “Anime is not a genre,it’s a medium with mature titles,” saysASIC secretary Joshua Schultz ’11.

ICircus You don’t have to run away to jointhe circus—there’s one right hereon campus. And you might even getto play with fire. Performing any-thing from fire to spinning acts forthe IC community and occasionallyin New York City, the circus club of Ithaca College is dedicated toteaching, performing, and training in circus arts. Says MackenzieCameron ’11: “Whether it’s acro-batics, juggling, balancing, joketelling, dancing, or any other form of physical expression, we can use it to create beauty and wonder on a circus stage.”

More Cool(and Quirky)ClubsCan any of these ICclubs pry you away fromMario Kart—again?

BackgammonIC Bell PeopleComputer Science ClubGame Developers ClubIC GamersFife and Drums of IthacaIC Ping PongMagic ClubDo Anything NiceHumans vs. ZombiesSocial Club

Are you aTwilight Zone fan? Its creator, Rod Serling, taught at Ithaca College, and the Roy H. ParkSchool of Communications now houses the Rod Serling archives andhosts a conference dedicated to his work every other year.

Learn more at www.ithaca.edu/rhp/serling.

In Class:

With Clubs:

ver imagine getting to work with an A-list Hollywood director whilestill in college? With the help of IC

music professor Alex Perialas, Dan Timmons’10 landed an internship at Sound Lounge inNew York City and spent much of his timeworking on a film about reggae legend BobMarley being directed by Jonathan Demme.

Exploring possibilities for his for-credit-only internship, a requirement for the soundrecording technology major in the School ofMusic, Timmons wanted to stick to the musicindustry. So when Professor Perialas told himabout Tony Volante, a friend who’s the headpost-production mixer in the entertainmentdivision of Sound Lounge, Timmons balked.“I was skeptical at first,” he says, thinking astudio that mixes music for film wouldn’t bea good fit,“but Professor Perialas sat me downand recommended the film industry.”

Timmons landed the gig and began sevenweeks of mixing, editing, and compiling audioelements, getting the computers ready, and assist-ing Volante with several sound-editing projects.

For four weeks, Timmons worked with Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme on Marley.Best known for Silence of the Lambs (1991),Demme also directed the Talking Heads’ StopMaking Sense and other music documentaries.“It was amazing to work with Demme,” saysTimmons. “I really learned so much from it all.Classes laid the foundation, but here I actuallylearned how to do it and think on my feet.”

Timmons also worked on the HBO docu-mentary Schmatta, a trailer for the Tim Burtonmovie 9, and commercials for Microsoft andEA Sports. Timmons even did a voice-over forthe game Fight Night 4. “If you listen to the

commercial,” he says, “you can hear my voicein the background screaming for Ali.”

His advice to future students seeking intern-ships: “Don’t get it set in your mind to do onething. Be flexible. The result might be an awe-some opportunity.”

He should know: After graduation, Timmonswill go back to work at Sound Lounge, thistime as a paid employee. Talk about workingyour Ithaca connections.

Learn how you can make beautifulmusic at IC’s School of Music atwww.ithaca.edu/music.

MeAn internshipmixing music for aBob Marley biopic.

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How to Get By with an Unpaid InternshipTargeted toward rising seniors, the Emerson Summer InternshipAward provides $3,000. Each year, the dean of each school cannominate one student for the award. Timmons’s award coveredhis credits and a portion of his housing costs. The Friends of Ithaca College Scholarship for Unpaid Internshipsmakes grants to up to five students annually.

by MATT CONNOLLY ’11

ith “interdisciplinary” the new buzzwordin the halls of academia, Ithaca College’s

certificate program in international business, launchedby School of Business professor and associate deanHormoz Movassaghi in 2000, now seems prescient.

Although it’s open to students in the School ofBusiness (except those whose concentration is inter-national business), the program mostly attractsmajors from politics, history, sociology, and modernlanguages who, Movassaghi says, see the value ofstudying business as a way to complement andenrich the training in their chosen field.

Students take 15 credits each in internationalbusiness, foreign languages, and area studies/international relations. With more than 150 approvedcourses in everything from theater arts, literature,and religion to anthropology, ethnic studies, andcommunications, the program offers a great dealof flexibility.

“The program gives students a different path totake on graduation,” says Gladys Varona-Lacey, aprofessor in the modern languages departmentwho with Movassaghi advises and directs studentsin the certificate program. For foreign languagemajors, it opens up career paths outside the tradi-tional ones of translation and teaching.

Michelle Myer ’10, a Spanish major in the pro-gram, was amazed by the possibilities it revealed.“The program opened my eyes to the endless num-ber of occupational fields that require people withbilingual skills,” she says. With the certificate ininternational business, students might considerjobs with government agencies (research assis-tants or trade specialists with the Departments ofCommerce, Treasury, or State), with private sectorfirms (in marketing, sales, advertising, accounting,

law, finance, travel and tourism, or trade), or withinternational institutions (the World Bank, theUnited Nations, or the International Monetary Fund).

International companies and organizations,Movassaghi points out, need employees trained insociology and psychology who are sensitive to thelocal culture and political climate. This is one rea-son he hopes to expand culture and area studiesfrom the classroom to experiential learning withthe help of the Office of International Programs.One short-term study-abroad program he has hiseye on: a three-week excursion to Heidelberg,Germany, where a number of global operations arecentered, including Heidelberger DruckmaschinenAG, Capri Sun, and Lamy.

Ultimately, Movassaghi sees the certificate ininternational business as fulfilling a critical role: “It encourages a more aware, more sensitive student,” he says, something you don’t alwayssee in business.

To learn more, visit www.ithaca.edu/business/cpib.


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“THE PROGRAMOPENED MY EYES TO THE ENDLESSNUMBER OF OCCUPATIONAL FIELDS THATREQUIRE PEOPLEWITH BILINGUALSKILLS.”

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GOLD MEDALEXPERIENCE

INTERNING AT THE 2010WINTER OLYMPICSby MEGHAN RINDFLEISCH ’12

nly five minutes into my first day inVancouver, and I was already regretting my shoes. I wobbled in my stilettos, try-

ing to catch my balance on the Sky Train as Iheaded north from my hotel. Nervously clutch-ing my bag, I looked around to see if any idlehands were sneaking into people’s pockets. Iam not a big-city kind of person, and I was anx-ious about this big-city internship.

I had been awaiting it for months:a chance tointern with NBC Universal at the 2010 WinterOlympics in Vancouver. I was one of 31 studentsto be selected from Ithaca College to work at the

Olympics, one of almost 80 interns total. I hadnever had an internship before, and my lack of experience was unnerving to me. Would I beable to do the job? Could I handle the pressure?

Vancouver was astounding—turn your headsouth and you see skyscrapers; but turn yourhead north and there’s mountains and a bay. I certainly made the most of my little free timein the city: going to restaurants in Yaletown withother interns, shopping on Robson Street, takinga bike tour of Stanley Park, and enjoying thewide-open spaces. But I spent most of my timein Vancouver inside, working.

Making the great descent into the NBC head-quarters, or “the basement,” as the interns calledit, there was no light. No windows, no pictur-esque view. Instead, picture a giant makeshift

mouse maze beneath the Vancouver ConventionCentre. Wires of all colors and sizes dangledoverhead and editors scribbled notes on theunpainted walls. But an underground studioheld one of the largest televisions in the world.Gotta love NBC’s style.

I worked with a department called DailyStories, which was responsible for producingathlete and area profiles. Two tiny offices ateach end of the last hallway, stuffed with tapedecks and computer monitors, made up theoffices I worked for, Edit 10 and Edit 7. I spent


Ally Oleynik ’12 in front of Ilanaaq (theInuits’ word for friend), the inukshuk on

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Left: Ally Oleynik ’12 and Hayley Henderson’10 at the Vancouver waterfront.

Above: Meghan Rindfleisch ’12 working atDaily Stories.

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Above left: Eric Olen ’10 at the opening ceremony.

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most of my days transcribing interviews, creat-ing research packets for reporters and selectingshots and music to use in features.

One of the research packets I created for TomBrokaw included an extensive family tree of theLamoureux family, America’s “hockey family.”Twins Monique and Jocelyne were among theyoungest players on Team USA, and research-ing their family was interesting to say the least.As it turns out, Monique’s got a bit of a temperon the rink (she and other Team USA membersgot into quite the scrape with Canada’s teamduring a pre-Olympic game) and the girls werebody-checking in the Pee Wee leagues.

Our work contributed to the polished broad-casts that Americans tuned into every night for17 days, but behind the scenes it wasn’t alwaysso pretty. The glamorous world of televisionwas turned inside out for me. I had not imag-ined the work-filled late nights, the occasionalfights, and the scrambling to pull together last-minute projects.

With the announcement of Georgian lugerNodar Kumaritashvili’s death on the first day of the Olympics came chaos. People ran downhallways, talking anxiously on cell phones, whileexecutives were locked in a meeting room forhours. The Edit 7 Daily Stories office was in apanic. I didn’t dare enter the office for fear ofbeing trampled or hit with a videotape.

While it was a tragic way to start off theOlympics, the spirit of the Games did prevail.With brave performances from athletes likeCanadian figure skater Joannie Rochette, whocourageously competed just two days after her mother’s unexpected death, Lindsey Vonn’spainful ride to gold, the record-setting perform-ances by Apolo Anton Ohno, and the redemptionof alpine skier Bode Miller, athletes and spec-tators alike joined together to create a sense of hopefulness.

I have never seen anything have as great animpact on the entire world as the Olympic Games.Everything seems to stop for the Games, andbeing able to say that I was a part of it is trulyan honor.

Meet the Olympic interns atwww.ithaca.edu/olympics2010.

INTERN HIGHLIGHTSLauren Brousell ’10“I could not have imagined a better experi-ence for anyone interested in sports andbroadcasting. Getting to be in Vancouverwas a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Work-ing there, you feel like a valuable part of a team that produces media that will beseen all over the world.”

Maura Gladys ’11“Working with NBC at the Winter Olympicswas an amazing experience. The hours werelong, but I loved my work and I couldn’t haveasked for a better work placement. Being inthe research room allowed me to watch andlearn about every event and virtually everyathlete, and my Olympic knowledge hasgrown exponentially because of it.”

Nick Karski ’11“This was quite possibly one of the bestthree weeks of my entire life. Working withthe best in the business each day offered asmall-town kid like me the chance to reallysee just how incredible this industry truly is.”

Julie Levitt ’11“One of the coolest parts is looking back andknowing that I had a hand in the Games. In some small way, I helped make theOlympics look seamless for viewers all over the world.”

Keenan Slusher ’10“We had a direct influence on keepingthings together, making sure everythingwas running smoothly, and making an overall contribution to the entire NBC media production. It was great to meetsome NBC personnel during the intern dinner, such as Mary Carillo and LesterHolt, and NBC did an unbelievable job of making us feel right at home and part of the broadcast family.”

“The glamorous world of television was turnedinside out for me.”

Ally Oleynik ’12 with Mary Carillo at the NBCVancouver studio; Matt Barrett ’10 at the Olympiccauldron; speed skating at the Olympic Oval.‹

COMMUNICATIONS: In the Field

From left: Ithaca interns Jeff Goodwin ’10, Mary-MargaretCimino ’11, Andrew Champagne ’10, and Matt Barrett ’10met Tim Canary ’87 (second from right), who is the directorof systems engineering & integration at NBC Universal.

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THE JUMPS OF FIGURE SKATINGIn figure skating, there are two basic kinds of jumps: toe jumps and edge jumps.

In toe jumps, the skater uses the toe pick of one skate to vault up in the air. In edgejumps, the skater takes off from a specificedge of a skate.

TOE LOOP: takes off and lands on the same back outside edge of the ice skate.The skater uses the toe pick to vault in the air.

LOOP: takes off from a back outside edgeand lands on the same back outside edge.

SALCHOW: takes off from a back insideedge and lands on the back outside edge of the opposite foot.

FLIP: uses a toe pick launch off a backinside edge and lands on the back outside edge.

LUTZ: similar to the flip jump, but it takes off from a back outside edge instead of a back inside edge.

AXEL: entered from a forward outsideedge. The skater rotates one and a halftimes in the air for a single axel, and then lands on a back outside edge of the other foot.

QUAD: a four-revolution jump, most often a toe loop, now considered the mostdifficult of all the jumps in figure skating.

or some, figure skating is an art form. For Deborah King, associate professor of exercise

and sport sciences, it is one of the most challengingbiomechanical problems she has ever tried to solve.

King first started studying figure skating in themid-’90s, during a stint as a research assistant forthe United States Olympic Committee. While work-ing at a sport sciences camp for U.S. Figure Skating,she and other scientists tested national-caliber juniorskaters on conditioning, flexibility, and technique.She is currently the vice chair of the U.S. FigureSkating Sport Science and Medicine Committee,working in their high performance subcommittee.

King’s main involvement with figure skating hasbeen the biomechanics of skills—jumps, spins, andfootwork—and how the skaters transition from thelower-level skills to the higher ones, such as goingfrom a single rotation to a triple.

“[The coaches] have endless questions,” Kingsays. “Often what seems like a fairly simple ques-tion is really quite complex, and trying to figureout the answer is a challenging problem.”

NBC Learn recently featured King in “FiguringOut Figuring Skating,” one of a series of 16 videosthat explore the science behind some of the WinterOlympic sports. In the video, King explained thelaw of conservation of angular momentum.

“It was pretty fun,” King says. “I had to spin on a chair to demonstrate the science behind a spin”—how a skater spins more slowly when the armsare outspread and more quickly when the arms are tucked into the body—“and I was very dizzy at the end.”

King also discussed how skaters achieve angu-lar momentum and vertical velocity in a jump by analyzing footage of Rachael Flatt, the 2010 U.S. champion and Olympian, taken with a Phan-tom Cam, which can shoot up to 1,500 framesper second.

King has to take into consideration if the measuring tools—motion capture video system—will work with water and cold temperaturesduring competition.

“The logistical challenge of collecting the data on an athlete during the competition makes thewhole experience,” King says.

The best part of doing biomechanical researchon the skaters, says King, is that the results fromher studies can be applied to other skaters and may help them reach Olympic status.

For a link to“Figuring Out FigureSkating,” go to fuse.ithaca.edu.


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“The logistical challengeof collecting the data onan athlete during thecompetition makes thewhole experience.”

Professor Deborah King Analyzes the Biomechanics of Figure Skatingby GILLIAN SMITH ’12

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Campus Life

by ALYSSA LETSCH ’10

From résumé and cover letter critiques to career

aptitude tests and internship databases, you’ll

find opportunities galore at the Office of Career

Services. Interactive offerings include etiquette

workshops, mock interview days, “Dress for

Success” consultations, and speed-networking

sessions. Plus, career counselors and peer

advisers can help you network with alumni,

discuss your career goals, or give advice

about courses, relevant clubs, or evenchoosing a major. Best of all, theservices are free! Here’s a roundup ofjust some of the programs offered.

Susan Greener, business develop-ment and training specialist atTC3.biz, the continuous learningorganization of Tompkins CortlandCommunity College, offers her tipsfor dressing right for an interview.Hiring managers have little torely on in terms of understandingwhether a candidate is an excellentfit for a team and a job. Neither arésumé nor references are veryreliable, so a lot rides on the inter-view. Regardless of the job you areinterviewing for, there are somemessages you always want to sendin your interview: reliability, trustwor-thiness, and competence, to name afew. Here are some suggestions:

• Wear clothes that fit you perfectlyand complement your body. Spendthe extra money to have hems andcuffs tailored to fit.• Wear clothes that are comfortable.If clothes are complicated or notcompletely comfortable, you will

be fidgeting and fussing, which dis-tracts you and the interviewer fromyour presentation.• Wear clothes you feel great in, includ-ing color! If you feel good walkinginto the room, your confidence willradiate and give others a positivefeeling about you.• Make sure all pieces are in greatcondition. You should clean, repair,stitch, polish, brush, and iron. You’dbe surprised how important it is tohiring managers.• Black always works.

DRESS FORSUCCESS TIPS


JOB AND INTERNSHIP FAIRSBecause a résumé can only go so far, careerservices organizes a major fair on campus eachsemester so students can get some face timewith potential employers. And for studentsinterested in pursuing an advanced degree,they put on a graduate and professionalschool fair each fall.

CAREER AND INTERNSHIPCONNECTIONS (CIC)

If you live in the Boston, New York, D.C.,Chicago, or L.A. area, you’re in luck. If not,you may want to head to one of those cities in January of your junior or senior year (oreven after graduating) to take part in a CICfair. Sponsored by IC and more than a dozenother colleges, including Boston College and the University of Notre Dame, these eventsattract more than 200 governmental, non-profit, and for-profit employers in media/communications, consulting, education, healthcare, finance, retail, and science/engineering.

NETWORK NIGHTS The Office of Career Services teams up with the Office of Alumni Relations to put on aseries of alumni-student gatherings eachJanuary. “Network Nights are a great opportu-nity for students to practice meeting people for the first time, feel comfortable movingthrough a room, make an introduction, talkabout career interests or paths, get advice on how to pursue a certain field or job, andmore,”says Gretchen VanValen, director of alumnirelations. This past win-ter break, more than 500Ithaca alumni, students,professors, and deansmet up in New York City,Boston, Philadelphia,D.C., and Syracuse.

CAREER CITY COFFEE CAFÉNot sure where to start? If you’re not quiteready to walk into the Office of Career Services,try this event, featuring free cookies, coffee, and entertainment by various IC singing, danc-ing, and performance groups. Also on the menuare internship help, networking opportunities,résumé- and cover letter-writing tips, andinformation about applying to graduate school.

ROAD TRIPS TO THE REAL WORLD

What better way to learn about an employerthan to spend time in their offices? Ithaca’smembership in the Eastern Association ofColleges and Employers allows students tosign up for on-site visits to various East Coastcorporations, organizations, and governmentagencies over winter break. Past participantshave included Target, Meditech, Amica Insur-ance, City Year, New England Aquarium, theFBI and CIA, State Street Bank, Teach forAmerica, Penguin Putnam, Liberty Mutual,McCann Erickson, and the Philadelphia Zoo.

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO GO TO THESECAREER SERVICES EVENTS?Here’s what integrated marketing communica-tions major Kiersten Timpe ’10 experienced:

“In one week during winter break, I went to two CIC fairs, the New York City NetworkNight, and a Networking Days minicoursewith the Roy H. Park School of Communica-tions. I was able to make some amazingconnections, get advice on my creative port-folio, tour offices, and meet recruiters. Eachevent taught me something new and gave me good insights.

“While I was in New York, I met an alum,Michael Kaplan ’85, who works at a top inter-active advertising agency, G2 Direct & Digital,and asked if he’d be willing to critique myrésumé and portfolio. I would have beenthrilled if he just e-mailed me a few sentencesabout it, but he agreed to let me come backto the office the next day, and he met with me for an hour! It was invaluable to sit downwith him and get real advice from someonehigh up in the industry I want to go into.”

Get a leg up on your career atwww.ithaca.edu/sacl/careersand read about more programsfrom the Office of Career Servicesat fuse.ithaca.edu.

“Network Nights are agreat opportunity to practice meeting peoplefor the first time, talkabout career interests orpaths, get advice on howto pursue a certain field or job, and more.”

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“It’s problem solving very rigorously,” says computer science professor Patricia Woodworth, whocreated Introduction to Robotics Using Legos and has been teaching it for over three years.

Students work in groups using Lego Mindstorms NXT programmable robotics kits. After getting instructions on how to both build and program various objects, students try to make

dogs that can walk, machines with arms that sort different kinds of bottles, or robots that cantravel down a hall and enter every third room.

Being methodical and using logic are encouraged. “You have to be right to get what you builtto work,” says Professor Woodworth, “which leads to more careful and structured thinking.” Onewrong move in the assembly process and the team might have to go back to block one.

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Art major Josh Turk ’12 knows this all too well.“At first you program what you build, and itdoesn’t work,” he says. “So you have this reallycool structure”—in this case a dog he and histeam built—“and you want to get it to work.”But Turk enjoys this trial-and-error process tosolving problems. And when his team finallyfigures out how to make the dog walk, “it’sreally cool,” he says.

Once they’ve mastered the basics, studentsuse their imaginations to come up with newrobots to build. “It’s a nice mix of creativity and logic,” says writing major Ben Swiatek ’10.“There is a lot more freedom with buildingobjects than I expected.”

Natasha Wu ’13, a biochemistry major, couldn’tstop thinking about her project. “I thought aboutwhat to build and how I wanted to program mycreation outside of class,” she says.

Over the years, students have made a slotmachine, weapons that fire Lego pieces, and arobotic arm with sensors that can sort out dif-ferent-colored Legos.

The coolest object Woodworth has seen builtby one of her students was a cuckoo clock. Thecentral brick, which all Lego pieces are con-nected to and which stores the programming,was used to power the analog motor that madethe hands of the clock move. The brick was alsoprogrammed to digitally display the time on itsscreen in unison with the analog clock.

Because Intro to Robotics fulfills the math andformal reasoning general education requirementmany students are required to take, the courseattracts both humanities and science majors.Woodworth embraces this. “It’s really useful foranybody to have experience programming com-puters,” she says. “There are so many objectswith embedded computers”—online games, web-sites, vending machines, cars—and they all needto be programmed.

Woodworth thinks the course is valuable evenif students don’t ultimately become programmers.“It teaches the care you have to take with solvingthe problem instead of hacking your way throughsomething,” she says.

Toward the end of each semester, studentsshowcase their creations during Math Fun Day,a Saturday program open to children from localelementary schools. Five-year-old Liam Dunne’sfavorite activity there: “Robots.” Along with theremote-control Lego-mobiles, he was especiallyimpressed by a robotic scorpion whose tail snapsup over its head and strikes an object it sensesin front of it. “He would poke me in the shoe,”says Liam. “I could have whacked that scorpionwhen it was attacking me.”

So it turns out the course does involve somechild’s play.

Check out more computer science courses atwww.ithaca.edu/hs/depts/cs.


Math Fun DayEach semester, Ithaca College teams upwith local organization Family Math tointroduce area youngsters to fun withmath. Students and professors from themath and computer science departmentsvolunteer to host activities such as com-puter art, musical math, origami, andmore. The Lego room is always a big hit.“The objects are just really cool to playwith,” says Professor Woodworth. Sothere’s a constant stream of childrencoming in to have a turn with the robots. “I am tired after three hours!”she says.

“There are so many objectswith embedded computers thatall need to be programmed.”

hristine Olivier ’10 danced and per-formed her whole life, but when it came to picking a college, she decidednot to stay center stage. “I didn’t wantto make a career out of performance,

but I didn’t want to give up the arts,” says Olivier.“So I researched some of the best performingarts schools in the country and checked to see if they had matching business programs.” Butfew did. “Then,” she says, “I stumbled upon Ithacaand found the concentrated program”—a degreein theater arts management that offers an in-depth, hands-on approach.

That decision is likely to pay off. As under-graduates, many theater arts managementstudents (or TAMs, as they are called) intern ontour shows such as Grease and Spring Awakening.Graduates of the program land behind-the-scenes jobs on Broadway (Jersey Boys, Wicked),in Vegas (Cirque du Soleil, Rent), and every-where in between.

To prepare students for such big-name pro-ductions, classes integrate the organizationalskills and financial know-how of a businessmajor with the passion of a performance man-ager. “Our curriculum is set up in a really greatway, because you take crucial business classeslike law and accounting that regular business

majors take,” explains Olivier, “but then it getsmore focused and specific to what we would be doing in the real world,” with courses likeTheater Practice, Script Analysis, Stagecraft,Theater Organization and Management, Promo-tion and Publicity for the Performing Arts, andDramatic Literature.

Being a TAM means more than getting a back-ground in business, marketing, and the performingarts, says Olivier. It also means getting “throwninto the lion’s den,” also known as TAM Practicum,a class in which students run the shows that theirpeers are performing in. Though pressure-filled,Practicum is viewed by most TAMs as the best

experience in the curriculum. Explains AlanParamore ’11, group sales manager: “We getthe opportunity to really run the theater.Students are the ones managing the house,ushering, selling concessions, doing publicity,and working in the ticket office. But it goes way past that. When the doors are closed, we are also the ones counting the money andwriting reports at the end of the night, makingsure everything adds up.” It may be the stu-dents onstage who put on a great show, but it’sthe TAMs who make sure the six productionsper year go off without a hitch.

That isn’t always so easy. Olivier recalls oneparticular weekend when Practicum studentshad to guard doors to keep a group of (non-theater) student pranksters from trying torelease a live chicken onstage during a per-formance of The Full Monty.

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It’s this ready-for-anything mind-set, strongbusiness sense, and passion for theater that helpTAMs land plum positions right out of schooland build solid careers. Take Carly DiFulvio’07, for example. As company manager atBroadway’s American Airlines Theatre, one of the homes of the Roundabout Theatre Company,her job is “to keep celebs happy—most of the time.” Those celebs include Sienna Miller (After Miss Julie), Frank Langella (A Man for AllSeasons), Mary-Louise Parker (Hedda Gabler),

and Matthew Broderick (The Philanthropist). Ortake Matthew Fox ’96. He’s the theater managerat Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre, home ofthe long-running hit show Jersey Boys.

One thing is for sure: A TAM has to be readyto face it all. All, that is, except being onstage.

If you’ve dreamed about working in the bright lights of Broadway,check out www.ithaca.edu/hs/depts/theatre.


YOUR TICKET TO A GREAT JOB

Mark Redanty ’78 is a principal of

Bauman, Redanty & Shaul. Redanty

heads up the New York City office of

this bicoastal talent agency, whose

clients have included James Earl

Jones, Kristin Chenoweth, Jean

Stapleton, and Michael Nouri.

Steve Michelman ’91 has worked

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Laura Hill ’07 has been a devel-

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Canadian tour coordinator for Inter-

national Music Network.

Zach Laks ’07 worked in the planned

giving office at the Metropolitan

Opera and is now assistant to the

executive producer at 59E59 Theaters

in New York City.

Amy Cohen ’08, codirector of the

2009 American Youth Circus Festival,

is in the U.K. on a Fulbright schol-

arship studying circuses.

It may be the students onstage who put on a great show, but it’s the TAMs who make sure theproductions go off without a hitch.

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The Tompkins County SPCA Appreciates Pet-Loving Volunteers from ICby JULIA GADOMSKI ’10

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he move to a college atmosphere can be incredibly exciting, and while your classes and club activities may stave off homesickness, you might not realize how much you’ll miss the partof your family that makes home feel so cozy—your pets. The rules of residence hall living

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The SPCA (Society for the Pre-vention of Cruelty to Animals) ofTompkins County is just 20 minutesfrom Ithaca College, and it’s unlikeany other shelter in the country.Students in Ithaca have the hugeadvantage of living near the onlyshelter in the nation that has botha no-kill and an open-admissionpolicy, meaning they will nevereuthanize a healthy, treatable animalor turn away strays or surrenderedanimals from their doors. Often-times the only family these animalsknow are the volunteers at the SPCA.And that’s where IC students come in.

Samantha Corrado ’11 is a biol-ogy major from Hawthorne, NewYork, who has been volunteeringwith the SPCA for two years as adog walker—or runner, in her case,as she likes to come to the SPCA in sweats to take the dogs for arun around the 10-acre property.Corrado wanted to offer her timeto the animals because she missedher pets from home so much, aGerman shepherd named Jessie and a gray tabby cat named Zoey.

“I just love animals,” says Corrado.“You don’t realize how much youmiss them until they’re gone.”

Corrado’s tasks while volunteeringrange from her runs to socializingthe dogs, which includes playingwith them, petting them, and help-ing them learn basic commands, allin the hopes of making them moreadoptable so they can find homesof their own. “It’s so rewarding,”she says. “You come here and theanimals are in kennels. They don’thave the family your pets have. Andno matter what, they love you.”

“They look at you with their sadeyes and they’re so happy afteryou’ve spent time with them,” addsKit Meyers ’10, an integrated mar-keting communications major fromRochester, New York. Also a dogwalker at the SPCA, Meyers gotinvolved when she read an articlein the Ithacan about how the organi-zation needed volunteers, and shewas eager to help out. “I’m a hugedog person,” she explains. Whenshe came to college, Meyers leftbehind her cockapoo Mosley, or“Mo,” who unfortunately passedaway over a year ago. “This is whatmakes volunteering at the SPCA so special and important to me,”Meyers says. “Being surrounded

by dogs in Ithaca helped fill thevoid when Mo was two hours awayand it helps fill the void now thathe is gone.”

To become a volunteer, studentsmust commit for one school yearwith a shift of two and a half hoursper week. “It goes by so fast,” Meyerssays. “It sounds like a big chunk oftime, but it’s really not.” And there’snothing to fear about working withabandoned animals since the onesyou’ll be working with are all healthyand tame enough for interaction.

“It’s so easy to volunteer becausewe’re very flexible,” says LeahBrookner, former volunteer pro-gram manager at the SPCA. “Wemake the volunteer shifts work foreach person.”And no experience isnecessary either. “We provide bothorientation and training,” she says.“We’ll make you comfortable andyou’ll get to meet other peoplethrough your experiences. It’sreally fun. You play with animalsfor two and a half hours. Peoplereally enjoy their time here.”

Corrado says the number one reason she volunteers is that itleaves her feeling better, not onlyabout herself but about makingthe day brighter for the friendly SPCA residents.

So what are you waiting for?Make a difference in the commu-nity and in a homeless animal’slife. You may just make a new best friend.

Other Ways to HelpAllergic to cats? No problem. IC can hook you up with a ton of other greatcommunity service opportunities:

• Alternative Spring Break

• Habitat for Humanity

• S.W.I.F.T. (Stop Wasting Ithaca’s Food Today)

• Big Brothers Big Sisters

• Do Anything Nice

• American Red Cross

• Relay for Life

Learn more about IC’s community serviceoptions at fuse.ithaca.edu.

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Ithaca men’s lacrosse cocaptainand four-year letter winner NickNeuman ’10 takes some extraface-off draws after practice.

Photo by Mike Grippi ’10

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Ithaca offers a first-rate education on a first-name basis. Learn what you love fromstellar faculty. Start a club, intern at your dream job, or spend a semester halfwayaround the world. Whatever course you set, you’ll love what you do. At Ithaca, you’llhave lots of choices and plenty of opportunities to find your passion in life.

LOCATIONIn the center of the Finger Lakesregion of New York State, ourmodern 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 500graduate students from 47 states, 4 U.S. territories, and 80 countries.Over 70 percent of students liveon Ithaca’s hilltop campus, whichoverlooks Cayuga Lake.

FACULTY461 full-time faculty and 241 part-time faculty

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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.

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