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Ithaca locals comment on issues stemming from infrastructure and housing costs, to learning more about the election.

Ithaca locals comment on issues they are hoping to be addressed in the upcoming election

October 22, 2025
Ithaca locals comment on issues stemming from infrastructure and housing costs, to learning more about the election.
Ithaca locals must cast informed votes in the upcoming election to ensure the future of the city. It is important for voters to know multiple candidates' platforms to protect everyday interests and democratic representation.

Informed local voting ensures a quality future

By The Ithacan October 22, 2025
Ithaca locals must cast informed votes in the upcoming election to ensure the future of the city. It is important for voters to know multiple candidates' platforms to protect everyday interests and democratic representation.
Young voters need to be actively engaging with local politics in meaningful ways, rather than merely filling in a ballot. In doing so, these voters help Ithaca's policies reflect their own voices.

Youth Engagement in local politics is crucial

By The Ithacan October 22, 2025
Young voters need to be actively engaging with local politics in meaningful ways, rather than merely filling in a ballot. In doing so, these voters help Ithaca's policies reflect their own voices.
newspaper style clippings of the moonies logo and a picture of students partying layered on top, all on a dark blueish purple background

Safe night life is crucial to IC’s student culture

By The Ithacan October 15, 2025

Student bars make up nightlife culture in almost every college town. Friday and Saturday nights are spent listening to music and dancing, with friends and strangers alike.  Moonies Bar and Nightclub,...

First-year Samuel Radcliffe outlines how, despite privacy policies and agreements, big technology companies continue to use, sell and buy user data created from everyday internet use.

Big tech companies need to be honest about user data

By Samuel Radcliffe October 15, 2025

Privacy is an intrinsic part of human life. It gives us security, allows us to build trust and manage our relationships. The United Nations even formally recognized privacy as a fundamental human right...

Local business owner Olivia Ashline comments on the parking prices at Ithaca's Apple Harvest Festival, arguing that festival parking money should be reallocated for the community.

Ithaca needs to be transparent about extra parking costs

By Olivia Ashline October 15, 2025

“Dear Ithaca, why are you charging for parking on the weekends?”  This year, I vowed to take some space from the progressive, college-town culture I live in. My livelihood depends on locals buying...

a pink piggy bank walks out the front door of a brown and green house

Affordable housing in Ithaca ensures adequate lifestyles

By The Ithacan October 15, 2025

Ithaca’s high cost of living is driven by an expensive housing market and unusually high local tax burdens that have disproportionally fallen on homeowners and renters. Major landowners like Cornell...

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IC’s bands revitalize Ithaca’s local music scene

October 9, 2025
Ithaca College hosts numerous bands across campus, from formal ensembles like Concert Band and Wind Ensemble, to dozens of student bands. This student band culture is vital not only to IC’s students, but the larger Ithaca community as a whole. 
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A safe future for Cayuga Lake demands environmental reviews for new projects

By The Ithacan October 8, 2025

A new artificial intelligence data center run by the tech company TeraWulf might be taking over a decommissioned power plant on Cayuga Lake within the next few years. The company has signed an 80-year...

There is no ethical or responsible way to use artificial intelligence

There is no ethical or responsible way to use artificial intelligence

By Michael Smith October 8, 2025
Michael Smith discusses the environmental impacts of AI use and how society needs to rethink its use of this technology.
First-year Samuel Radcliffe discusses the consequences of continual overuse of Artificial Intelligence use on the human brain.

Artificial Intelligence is eroding critical thinking skills

By Samuel Radcliffe September 25, 2025

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence has fundamentally transformed the way we work. Despite the potential benefits and increased productivity it offers, there is still public wariness towards...

Narges Kasiri, professor in the Department of Management, explains how the School of Business built its online and social media presence, with students at the forefront.

Real-world experiences facilitate effective learning

By Narges Kasiri September 25, 2025

School of Business’s Social Media Success Story At the Ithaca College School of Business, we often talk with our students about the power of data-driven decision-making. Over the past year, we turned...

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