Ithaca College sophomore Kit Kelly died by suicide Oct. 15. Kelly was a television and digital media production major in the Roy H. Park School of Communications.
About 20 students gathered outside of the Campus Center Dining Hall on Oct. 12 to attend a candlelight vigil to collectively grieve the death of Palestinians in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The vigil was organized by Ithaca College Students for a Free Palestine and students sat in a circle playing music, reading poetry and sharing their feelings.
The Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library hosted their annual fall book sale this month in Ithaca. You can visit the book sale from Oct. 19–21,...
The Ithaca College Student Governance Council met Oct. 14 to hear from members of the Academic Calendar Committee about adding two days of classes to the 2026–27 academic year calendar. The council also heard from senior Noah Richardson, student liaison to the Alumni Association Board of Directors, about ways to connect students with alumni, and from junior student trustee Mureen Doherty about her role on the college’s Board of Trustees.
The Ithaca College Board of Trustees held an open meeting Oct. 11 to give an overview of its fall meetings and answer questions from the 18 attendees that gathered in the Clark Lounge. The trustees spoke about generative AI and the college’s decreasing enrollment.
Public Safety Logs 10/15/24
The Ithaca College football team shook off a string of offensive woes from the first few games to overwhelm the undefeated University of Rochester in a 24-0 victory on Oct.12 for their first home victory.
It was 10 p.m. Oct. 11, 1975.. 90 minutes left until the pilot episode of “Saturday Night Live” airs. Director Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” released in theaters Oct. 11, 2024, dives into the never-before-told origin story of a show built to fail, yet destined to succeed. The film follows an ensemble of over 30 characters, which is an extensive range of people to cover in 109 minutes considering there are 10 minutes of credits and a bit of the live show. Yet it’s hard to imagine a movie about Saturday Night Live being made differently.
While as of Fall 2024 the college employs more women than men, there are still gains to be made in representation and support of Black, Latino, Asian and Indigenous faculty members.
