Cover photograph by Peter Matthews --- Black Star Editor Maura Stephens Design Director Robert J. George, R&R Creative Contributors Bonnie Auslander Dawn Boyer Ellen Potter Amy Robin Rose Debbie Urbanski Mike Warwick Jay Wrolstad Production Supervisor Peter M. Kilcoyne Class Notes Writer Robin Fostel Publications Assistants Jill Ahart Tina Thurston StudentIntern Jillian Bendig ’03 Student Assistants Leslie Fazio ’04 Lindsay McClintock ’04 Director of College Relations Marina Bandidos Todd

FEATURES Race on Campus What the College is doing to increase its racial diversity. True Companion Raising a guide dog on campus. COVER STORY Serenading the Emerald Isle Choir members get a chance of a lifetime as musical ambassadors to Ireland. Lord of the Ring Kevin Venardos ‘98 is ringmaster for the Greatest Show on Earth.  DEPARTMENTS President's Corner --    Holistic partnership in Harlem   Letters   Chronicle   Alumni & Faculty Publications & Recordings   Report from the Schools     Business — Communications — HS&HP —     H&S — Music   Sports Scene     Softball national champs     Great year for IC teams   Class Notes Highlights: Why the Children? --- Jamila Paksima ’86 Around the World in IC Ways --- Amilia Elliott ’98, M.S. ’99, Jacob Savishinsky ’98, and Aisha Lope de Haro-Salleh ’99

Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2002 Copyright 2002 Ithaca College Quarterly. All rights reserved. The Ithaca College Quarterly (USPS 695-880) is published four times a year, in winter, spring, summer, and fall, by the Ithaca College Office of College Relations for alumni, parents of currently enrolled students, and friends of the College. It is the policy of Ithaca College that discrimination on the grounds of age, color, disability or handicap, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or Vietnam veteran status will not exist in any activity, area, or operation of the College.

A. Ozolins, Ithaca College Office of Publications, 27. Nov. 2001