Two Interesting Sounding, Upcoming Talks

Via Intercom:

Professor Craig Duncan of the Ithaca College Department of Philosophy and Religion will give a talk entitled "The Question of Torture" on Wednesday, February 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Friends 306.

The talk, which will be a mixture of lecture and discussion, will explore the question of torture from the perspectives of moral and legal philosophy, with an eye to illuminating recent controversies over torture. The talk is free and open to the public. It is being sponsored by the Ithaca College Philosophy club.

And again via Intercom:

Simon Deng, a former Sudanese child slave, will be speaking at Ithaca College on February 7 at 7:00 p.m. in Emerson Suite C. He will offer a first-hand narrative of slavery in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Abducted into slavery at age 9, Simon endured a brutal life as a slave before finally escaping at age 11 and going on to become an important voice in the abolitionist movement.

Sponsored by DIIS; the Departments of English, Politics, Philosophy and Religion; the Anthropology club; MAUYA; SGA; IC Journal; Honors Program; the Diversity Awareness Committee; and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

Both definitely sound interesting, I'm marking my calender.

- Glitter

Radio

Flipper Kidz Fun Show at midnight.

This is the official time for the rest of the semester, Sunday night to Monday morning, Midnight to 2 am.

Tune in!

- Glitter

Your Source for Contacting Local Media

I plan to post more later, specifically about what marching orders we might expect the Republican party's campus foot soldiers to be following in the month of February, at least according to one of their own field guides.

As for now, I just wanted to link to a very useful website with contact info for local media all over the country. Though it is by no means complete, considering it only has the Ithaca Journal for print media in Ithaca, even though this community is also served by the Ithaca Times, the Cornell Daily Sun, and the Ithacan. Not to mention more left of center magazines like Buzzsaw Haircut and Turn Left, as well as the heir's of Ann Coulter's Cornell legacy, the Cornell American. (It's only in the name of fairness and balance that I link to the Cornell American, it is in no way an endorsement.)

(Hat tip Jane@FDL, which she in turn got from an unamed diarist at Daily Kos.)

- Glitter

Designing Park 3rd Post

Dean Lynch has made her third post to her Other blog, Designing Park.

This one is about how she wants the Park school to follow the Music school's model for governance. She links to a bunch of documents describing the structure, but also warns that they are stiff and stuffy, and she will have someone offer a more understandable explanation soon.

I think she may have also given a clue as to who her target audience is for the blog in this graf:

While I would be happy to summarize the processes and bodies for you, I think it would make more sense for one of the faculty to take on that task; it's really important that there is no concern about bias or filtering here. Please let me or Gordon know if you're willing to provide that service.

Seems to be an expectation that the faculty is reading the blog. I wonder if she expects students to be reading it as well.

- Glitter

Friendly Ithaca Blogs

Josh Elmer, an up and coming Buzzsaw writer, has a really good post over at his Live Journal about "The State of Indian Nations" and how it relates to his own personal history.

For some reason there doesn't seem to be permalinks on his site, so just scroll to the post titled "2:43pm: State of the American Indian" on February 3rd.

Also, got a link to another Ithaca College student's blog, Insert Wit Here, it's by Jon Callan and it seems to be focused on comics.

- Glitter