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Checkmate: Advice With Chess

An informative advice column in the Opinion Section of the most notable student-run college newspapers, The Ithacan, at Ithaca College. Founded and written by then-sophomore Chess Cabrera, Cabrera used their privy and knowledge as an active community member - both a (Lower Terraces) Residential Assistant with Ithaca College's Residential Life and Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar (18th Cohort) - to build the "Checkmate" advice column which aimed to give relevant advice on prevalent issues in the Ithaca College community to serve underrepresented and underinformed communities during the Fall 2021 semester.

Archived Work: The Ithacan - Volume 89, Issue 7, October 7th, 2021, Pg. 9 Checkmate: Advice With Chess "Nobody Stole Your Microwave"

An informational advice article describing the rules and regulations of Residential Life's policies, more information about room checks, frequency of aforementioned room checks (e.g. holiday breaks), as well as protocol for how to get confiscated "illegal" items back in students' possession