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PT students rally for Rochester Center
Students debate Huron topics at SGA meeting by henry apostoleris staff writer
(the cadaver dissection lab).” The consolidation, according to Huron, could save the college about $600,000. About 25 sixth-year physical therapy students carpooled from Rochester after their classes Wednesday to attend the open house about Huron’s Effectiveness and Affordability
Huron Consulting’s recommendations for Ithaca College were major topics on the agenda at a Student Government Association meeting Monday. SGA discussed recommendations on billing students for Health Center services, introducing differential parking fees for students and the consolidation of the Rochester FLAHERTY said he Center for physical wants to ensure therapy students. student opinions The meeting are heard. began with discussions about the Rochester Center, a main component of the college’s physical therapy program. Huron recommended consolidating operations, which would save the college an estimated $600,000. A majority of SGA board members agreed that Huron’s recommendation to consolidate the center was not a good choice for the program. Attendees also reacted to Huron’s recommendations about billing opportunities for Health Center services.
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President Tom Rochon sits down with sixth-year physical therapy students Aaron Atwater and Marissa Speno on Wednesday to discuss the Huron recommendation to consolidate Rochester Center operations. Many physical therapy students are opposed to the recommendation. rachel woolf/the ithacan
by kelsey O'Connor editor in chief
Physical therapy students drove from Rochester, N.Y., to Ithaca on Wednesday to voice their opposition to a recommendation by Huron Consulting Group to eliminate the Rochester Center, which many say is an integral part of the program. One recommendation of Ithaca College’s
Effectiveness and Affordability Review, under the theme of cost consciousness, is “consolidate Rochester Center operations.” Huron recommends that the college “evaluate the opportunity to consolidate current Rochester Center operations to the main campus in Ithaca,” and “the evaluation would need to consider space requirements in Ithaca and programmatic facility needs
Actor David Boreanaz ’91 to speak at 2013 commencement by kacey deamer online editor
It took only 15 minutes for him to confirm, and in another 15 minutes Twitter was ablaze with reactions to the news that David Boreanaz ’91 would be the Class of 2013’s commencement speaker. Returning to campus for the first time since his graduation, Boreanaz tweeted: “Honored to be giving the commencement speech to the class of 2013 @ithacacollege” and later, “Looking forward to celebrating with the class of 2013 @ ithacacollege this year! It's gonna be a blast! Drinks on the house!” The actor known for “Bones” and his role as Angel in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” was not on the list of possible speakers provided by the college's Division of Institutional Advancement for the senior cabinet to choose from. However, Rachel Heiss, senior class president, said she asked anyway. “I’m not a huge fan of the process of us getting a list from Institutional Advancement, I think
David Boreanaz ’91 is pictured in a promotional photo from "Bones." Boreanaz accepted an invitation to speak at commencement.
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that’s more to guide the conversation,” Heiss said. “So I had asked if it was possible to also seek alumni who weren’t on the list.” When Heiss suggested adding his name to the list of potentials,
Funny Females Ithaca College's goofy gals take the stage of Ithaca's comedy scene, page 13
she said the rest of the cabinet was also excited by the idea. “Being that he’s also a fairly notable alum and his contributions not only to the Park School of Communications but to the
college in general, I felt like he would be a good representation of an alum who’s really made strides after college,” Heiss said. Diane Gayeski, dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications, said because she had been in contact with Boreanaz before, when the senior class cabinet made their choice she reached out to see if he would be available. “It all happened very quickly. I called him [Thursday] in the morning and told him that he was selected, and he said he just needed a little while to check on his schedule,” Gayeski said. “I expected that it would be a week or two until he could confirm, and within 15 minutes he called back and said that it was confirmed.” Boreanaz said when Gayeski contacted him, he didn’t actually understand the magnitude of the commitment because they had been trying to schedule a visit, during which he would lecture and offer workshops. “Well she texted me to call her
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because she had a big invitation, and I didn’t quite put two and two together because I thought it was just an invitation to come talk to students, which we had been trying to plan for about a year,” Boreanaz said. “So when she asked me to partake in it, I was a bit like ‘Wow, that’s huge.’ Then I don’t really remember much about it, I just hung up and remember running to my wife to tell her that [the students] want me to be the commencement speaker for the Class of 2013.” Even after he called back to confirm, Boreanaz said it took a minute to realize that he would be speaking to all of the Class of 2013 rather than just communications students. “I didn’t quite get the whole gist of it, I thought I was just speaking to the students from the Park School,” Boreanaz said. “But it’s all of you. So I took a couple of deep breaths in and hunkered down for the numerous amounts of nights that I will have driving
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