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Opinion

Community members lighting candles in Everett Joseph Moore's honor.

Commentary: Grief in a life well lived

By Michael Trotti • April 30, 2026
Tragedy can strike like a lightning bolt smashing around you out of a seemingly cloudless sky. You go about your day, sitting, say, with a cup of tea on a sunny Thursday morning in your favorite coffee shop when the dean calls with news of your student’s death, and you spend the next 20 minutes pacing outside, crying, calling your wife, your sister and wanting to call every loved one you have to make sure they are OK. Grief can simply overload your circuits.
As citizens, it is our responsibility to consume media in a critical way to counteract the capitalist and corporate landscape.

Editorial: Independent media is crucial amidst capitalist media consolidation

By The Ithacan • April 22, 2026
Independent media is crucial amid an increasingly polarizing society and expansive corporate, capitalist media consolidation. In many respects, news is now functioning as spectacle for profit, rather than relaying important information or creating impactful community-driven stories. A way that we combat this is through the support of independent media. A free press is not only important for a functioning democracy, but also for a thriving society. 
Administration, faculty, staff and students should work in conjunction to find solutions together. We all want what is best for the college. And if students disagree with the goings on at this institution, they should take action and work to change it for the better.

Editorial: Change is led by student action at Ithaca College

By The Ithacan • April 16, 2026
We enrolled at IC under certain pretenses and a belief in the commitments that the college made to us. If we want to change the institution for the better, we should take advantage of whatever leverage and power we have as students. Find like minded people, create coalitions and work to improve the college together.
Sophomore Dean Cane discusses the role of cosplay in creating spaces for community. As president of ICosplay, Cane hopes to enlarge that space at Ithaca College.

Commentary: Why Cosplay is crucial to the community

By Dean Cane • April 16, 2026
As ICosplay’s' president, my goal is and has always been to give a home to others who either call themselves cosplayers or simply enjoy making fandom-related art in general to have a place to come together, talk about their work, and share their craft.
End User: Big Tech has a responsibility to users

End User: Big Tech has a responsibility to users

By Samuel Radcliffe, Columnist • April 16, 2026
This will be my final column, but the challenges users face are continual and will only become more complex as these technologies evolve. The purpose of End User has ultimately been to better inform users to navigate these challenges. The first step to solving the issue is to acknowledge its existence.
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