Great place
Posted on 10/23/2007 8:10:31 PM PDT by neverdem
ITHACA, N.Y., Oct. 18 — Nestled in the hills near Cayuga Lake’s southern tip, surrounded by creeks, waterfalls and two of the Northeast’s more prestigious colleges, this city of about 30,000 has long prided itself on its cultural diversity.
In 1997, the Utne Reader put Ithaca — where students from Cornell University and Ithaca College boost the population to about 50,000 — atop its list of “America’s Most Enlightened Towns,” trumpeting an environment-friendly business community and a local currency system intended to support city merchants.
A popular bumper sticker here reads, “Ithaca: 10 square miles surrounded by reality.”
But as reality encroaches, residents and community leaders now concede that racial tensions have long simmered at Ithaca High School, a volatile mix of blue-collar youths from the city, children of the farms in the surrounding countryside and the sons and daughters of professors.
“This community is at the boiling point, because not only students are frustrated, so are parents,” said James Turner, founder of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell. “There’s a broad-based lack of confidence in the leadership of the district. I’m watching this go from bad to worse.”
Tempers flared last week over the district’s handling of a two-year-old racial-harassment complaint. Almost half of the 1,600 students at Ithaca High School stayed home two days amid fears of possible violence and a rumored “hit list” that singled out minority students who have been seeking a forum to bring their grievances into the open.
For one thing, some students contend that administrators routinely dole out harsher punishments to minority students, a charge that school officials deny.
The latest furor arose when one mother claimed that district officials failed to act quickly enough when her daughter — a 12-year-old middle school student at the time — was subjected to...
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Ithaca city of evil bump.
heads up
They have reaped what that have sown.
Tension percolates?
Block that metaphor!
Great place
there was an incident a few years ago where a white female was beaten up by a group of black females....but I am sure it was not “racial”..
.too bad that the Marxist ruin everything...
Just one more example,along with recent events in Ithica,of what phony hypocrites American leftists are.
Ithaca is a liberal Mecca - of course it’s a bastion of corruption, racism, sexism, homophobia and other things we’re told only exist in in middle America and the south...
That's right. They're only surrounded by reality. Too bad none of it has slapped them upside the head lately.
I’m sure Sharpton & Jackson will be stirring the pot.
I thought Ithaca was was a paradise on Earth. According to a Readers Digest article some months ago, the city was a multi-culteral miracle, enriched by the thousands of Bosnian “refugees” that have relocated there.
ugh! Maybe college kids ought to go back to smoking grass.
Ping!
Ithaca IS a paradise on earth. The only problem with Ithaca is the people who live there (says someone who went to school up there).
That’s not Ithaca.
That picture is sooooooo gross. Is the person on the left a guy or girl? He/She has hair below her belly button and under his/her arms. Yuck, yuck, yuck.
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