Free computer lab at Ithaca's Southside Community Center is open to the public, Monday to Friday
By Susan S. Lang
The Southside Community Center Computer Lab at 305 S. Plain St. is open, thanks to grants from Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency. The center provides free public use of computers.
Available are 10 PCs and two Macintoshes with high-speed Internet access and installed with programs such as Excel, Word and Photoshop. Also available are scanners, printers, educational games and a TV/VCR instructional station. A lab technician is available for help and computer support.
Phil Rigueur, Cornell '03, a master's candidate in the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, helps Sean Butler, 14, from New York City, who was in Ithaca visiting family, work on the computer at the Southside Community Center's computer lab. Rigueur is the lab coordinator.
The lab is open Monday through Friday, 2:30 to 6 p.m., and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
"It is free and open to the public to use," says lab coordinator Phil Rigueur, Cornell '03. "We have brand-new computers available for public use, comfortable seating and a large table available for group work. The room is also equipped with a projector for teaching purposes and is available to groups, by appointment."
The lab is supported by the Cornell-Ithaca Partnership (C-IP), a HUD- and Cornell-funded program that uses university resources to aid downtown Ithaca neighborhoods. C-IP is directed by Patricia Baron Pollak, associate professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management in Cornell's College of Human Ecology.
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