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Steven J. Healy, CEO of Margolis Healy, presented the report at an information session Feb. 22.

Report shows Public Safety has “deeply tarnished” reputation on campus

By Max Denning, Senior Writer
February 28, 2018
IC endowment exceeds $300 million for the first time

IC endowment exceeds $300 million for the first time

By Max Denning, Senior Writer
February 14, 2018
From left, Marc Brainard, sophomore wide receiver Will Gladney, Jennifer Gates and her son, Kingston Brainard at Gladney's game against Hobart College on Sept. 30. Brainard and Gates adopted Gladney his sophomore year of high school.

Wide receiver stands out during his sophomore campaign

By Max Denning, Senior Writer
October 11, 2017
Bob Iger ’73, CEO of The Walt Disney Co., will take over the role of executive chairman to ease the transition until the end of his contract on Dec. 31, 2021. Iger has previously said he would be stepping down in 2021.

IC alumnus Bob Iger joins Trump committee

By Max Denning, Staff Writer
February 1, 2017

Review: Netflix’s ‘Gilmore Girls’ revival disappoints fans

By Max Denning, Staff Writer
December 6, 2016
Among the seven schools in the college’s peer group that release data on faculty diversity, the Ithaca College ranks last.

Faculty diversity at IC increases but falls behind peer group

By Max Denning, Staff Writer
November 16, 2016
From left: Acting District Attorney Andrew Bonavia; John Barber, chief of police for the Ithaca Police Department; City of Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick and Vincent Monticello, deputy chief of police for the IPD address media at a news conference Nov. 7.

Nagee Green pleads not guilty in stabbing death of Anthony Nazaire

By Max Denning, Staff Writer
November 7, 2016
Ithaca College has steadily increased its number of minority students at a rate comparable to the national average. However, among its peer group of institutions, the college still lags behind.

National demographic shift yields IC student diversity increase

By Max Denning, Staff Writer
November 2, 2016
At 21 years old, Ithaca College senior Joel Almand signed an exclusive singles deal Oct. 14 with PRMD Records.

IC student Joel Almand lands record single with PRMD Records

By Max Denning, Staff Writer
November 2, 2016
Ithaca College released its official body camera policy for Public Safety officers, despite missing their initial deadline for the policy.

Ambiguity surrounds IC body camera policy as deadline nears

By Max Denning, Staff Writer
October 5, 2016
IC sees slight decrease in enrollment and applications

IC sees slight decrease in enrollment and applications

By Max Denning, Staff Writer
October 5, 2016
“Snowden,” directed by Oliver Stone, stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The film jumps between Snowden’s experiences in the CIA and the path he took to expose the largest leak of government information in history.

Review: Edward Snowden’s leak produces succinct film plot

By Max Denning, Staff Writer
September 21, 2016
SGA President Marieme Foote brings a passion for social justice to the role of SGA president and said she hopes to continue the critique of the college that POC at IC began last fall, but in the context of the college’s governance structure.

IC SGA president brings passion for social justice to office

By Max Denning, Staff Writer
September 12, 2016
The Ithaca College Student Government Association reveals the results of the student no confidence vote in Emerson Suites on Nov. 30. The SGA has opened an application for students interested in joining the search committee for the next president.

UPDATE: Ithaca College students vote no confidence in Rochon

By Kyle Arnold and Max Denning
November 30, 2015

College announces no public risk of communicable disease

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
November 12, 2015
Students participated in a die-in on campus sidewalks at the "Solidarity Walkout" Nov. 11. The die-in stretched from the Campus Center to the Peggy Ryan Williams Center.

Over 1,000 Ithaca College students walk out to protest racism

By Aidan Quigley and Max Denning
November 11, 2015
Ithaca College President Tom Rochon and Tom Grape, chair of the Board of Trustees, look at a document circulated by students at the Oct. 21 protest.

Board of Trustees makes statement about Rochon and campus climate

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
November 11, 2015
Peter Rothbart, chair of Faculty Council, speaks at the Nov. 10 Faculty Council meeting. Rothbart has received criticism for Faculty Council's decision to release the results of the faculty vote of "no confidence" to President Tom Rochon and the Board of Trustees before the rest of the campus community.

Faculty Council votes to hold no confidence vote

By Grace Elletson and Max Denning
November 10, 2015

Communications school faculty to discuss no confidence vote

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
November 3, 2015
Students led by POC at IC took over the stage during the college’s event “Addressing Racism and Cultural Bias” on Oct. 27.

POC at IC group to host “demand sessions”

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
November 2, 2015
Ithaca College students seize the stage

Ithaca College students seize the stage

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
October 28, 2015
Freshman Marissa Booker speaks at the rally during the Fall Open House Oct. 24.

POC at IC holds rally at Ithaca College admissions event

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
October 24, 2015
Senior Elijah Breton leads chants at a protest Oct. 21 as freshman Marissa Booker and senior Eddy Tapia stand nearby. The two primary chants at the demonstration were “Tom Rochon, no confidence” and “No more dialogue, we want action.”

Students protest racism, express no confidence in Rochon

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
October 21, 2015
A screenshot of the event description is above. The name of the person inviting students to the event and the address of the party have been removed.

Update: IC students upset about racially charged party theme

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
October 21, 2015
Ithaca College's enrollment bounces back

Ithaca College’s enrollment bounces back

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
October 7, 2015

Ithaca College Business School renames student investment fund

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
September 30, 2015
Virginia Mansfield-Richardson has been an associate dean in the Roy H. Park School of Communications since 1999.

Park School associate dean leaving Ithaca College

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
September 24, 2015
Provost Ben Rifkin addresses student during his visit to campus as a finalist for the position in Dec. 2014. During this visit, he said diversity and inclusion were important topics to him.

Rifkin announces specific Public Safety changes

By Aidan Quigley and Max Denning
September 15, 2015
Ithaca College President Tom Rochon addresses the campus community at a March 2015 town hall meeting about announced staff cuts. Following the All-College Meeting Aug. 19, Rochon said there will be no additional cuts this year.

Update: Rochon proposes Public Safety changes after protests

By Aidan Quigley and Max Denning
September 6, 2015
Patrol Officer Lance Clark walks past RAs protesting Sept. 2 outside of Emerson Suites before a meeting between Public Safety and RAs.

Ithaca College RAs protest alleged racial aggression by public safety

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
September 3, 2015
Ithaca College students tell their stories: Lawrence

Ithaca College students tell their stories: Lawrence

By Max Denning
September 3, 2015
Nancy Pringle, senior vice president and general counsel for the Division of Human and Legal Resources, announced at the all-college meeting that 47 position lines were cut from the college’s budget in the 2014–15 fiscal year.

Ithaca College to cut staff positions for second year in a row

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
August 26, 2015
Three people were injured when a TCAT bus crashed on campus Aug. 24.

UPDATED: Three injured in TCAT bus crash on Ithaca College campus

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
August 24, 2015
Ithaca College part-time faculty and students from Students for Labor Action pose for a photo outside the Peggy Ryan Williams Center, after the part-time faculty met with Ithaca College administrators April 15. Tommy Battistelli/The Ithacan

Ithaca College part-time faculty prepare for union contract negotiations

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
August 24, 2015
Ithaca College part-time faculty and student supporters pose for a photo outside of the Peggy Ryan Williams Center April 15, following a meeting with Ithaca College administration.

Update: Ithaca College part-time faculty elect to unionize

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
May 28, 2015
Ithaca College President Tom Rochon addresses members of the class of 2015 at Commencement on May 17.

Commencement celebrates class of 2015

By Max Denning, Assistant News Editor
May 17, 2015
Ithaca College Student Government Association president-elect Dominick Recckio said implementing a student bill of rights is his first priority.

Q&A: SGA President-elect talks about plans for next year

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
April 28, 2015
UPDATE: Election breakdown reveals narrow margin of victory for IC*NSYNC

UPDATE: Election breakdown reveals narrow margin of victory for IC*NSYNC

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
April 24, 2015

Lawmaker sends letter in support of unionization to Ithaca College

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
April 23, 2015
Ithaca College part-time faculty and student supporters pose for a photo outside of the Peggy Ryan Williams Center April 15, following a meeting with Ithaca College administration.

NLRB sets date for Ithaca College part-time faculty union election

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
April 22, 2015

Arson reported in Rowland Hall at Ithaca College

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
April 19, 2015
The statement, released on Intercom on behalf of President Tom Rochon and Linda Petrosino, interim provost and vice president for educational affairs says the college is neither pro-union or anti-union

Ithaca College releases statement regarding potential unionization

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
April 17, 2015
A screenshot of the email Linda Petrosino, interim provost and vice president for educational affairs, sent to Jared Wolf on April 17, regarding administration particaption in an open-forum discussion.

Ithaca College administration denies request for public discussion about CAPS

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
April 17, 2015
From left, lecturers Robert Ziomkowski, Tom Schneller and Rachel Kaufman exit their meeting with President Tom Rochon.

Ithaca College part-time faculty to vote whether to unionize

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
April 15, 2015
Chapter House fire under control, according to the Ithaca Fire Department.

UPDATE: 35 Cornell students displaced by fire in Collegetown

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
April 14, 2015

BREAKING: SGA Executive Board candidates for 2015-16

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
April 12, 2015
From left: Senior Jonathon Cummings and freshman Wilson Vivas convince Plain Street resident Eric Lovett to sign the petition to change the name of Plain Street to honor Nelson Mandela on April 11.

Effort begins to change street name to honor Mandela

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
April 12, 2015

Chemistry professor to be new director of the ICC

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
April 7, 2015
A preview of the HomerConnect update, which Steve Desmond, an enterprise applications developer at the college, said still might change before it is released on April 10.

Ithaca College to release HomerConnect 2.0

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
April 6, 2015

Kira Maddox to be The Ithacan’s next editor-in-chief

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
March 30, 2015
Leslie Lewis, dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College, adresses the community as a provost finalist on Dec. 9 in Emerson Suites.

UPDATE: Dean moves on to provost position at Goucher College

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
March 23, 2015
Ithaca College President Tom Rochon addresses the campus at an all-college meeting March 5 in Textor Hall Room 102.

Ithaca College president announces plans for college’s future

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
March 6, 2015
The cost of Ithaca College attendance over a four-year period.

UPDATE: Tuition and financial aid rise, salary pool falls

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
March 4, 2015
The breakdown of who donated to the college on IC Giving Day.

IC Giving Day sees record for most donations in a single day

By Max Denning, Max Denning
March 4, 2015
Five protesters were arrested for attempting to block the entrance to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference, including former Ithaca College professor Beth Harris, far left , and Ithaca resident Ariel Gold, far right.

Former Ithaca College professor arrested protesting in DC

By Kayla Dwyer and Max Denning
March 4, 2015
A worker outside Phillips Hall labors in a man-hole. There is no power in multiple buildings across the Ithaca College campus.

UPDATE: Buildings reopen after power outage

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
March 4, 2015
Geena Davis has acted in a number of films and televisions shows. She also founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.

Award winning actress to visit Ithaca College

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
March 3, 2015
After a water main break early this morning, the corner of South Aurora and Pleasant Streets is still blocked off from traffic.

UPDATE: Streets reopen after water main break

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
February 15, 2015
Review: 'Full Speed' can't keep pace with hip-hop greats

Review: ‘Full Speed’ can’t keep pace with hip-hop greats

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
February 11, 2015

Free community college threatens private college enrollment

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
January 28, 2015

Ithaca reacts to pedestrians killed in vehicle accidents

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
January 28, 2015
Faculty Council Chair Peter Rothbart speaks at the latest meeting on Jan. 20.

Faculty council adresses budget deficit, student protests

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
January 21, 2015

Grade deadlines for faculty pushed back to the end of December

By Max Denning, Staff Writer
December 10, 2014
Ithaca College community joins national protests (links)

Ithaca College community joins national protests (links)

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
December 6, 2014
Ithaca College President Tom Rochon addresses a crowd of students during a demonstration against racial injustice on Dec. 4 in the Peggy Ryan Williams Center.

VIDEO: Protesters confront Ithaca College President Tom Rochon

By Max Denning, Online News Editor
December 5, 2014
Virginia Mansfield-Richardson, associate dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications, is in charge of the working group that drafted a policy regarding the use of drones on Ithaca College’s campus at its first meeting on Nov. 14.

IC prepares to create drone policy for on-campus use

By Max Denning, Staff Writer
November 19, 2014
James McBride, author of Ithaca College’s First-Year Reading Initiative novel this year, “The Good Lord Bird,” spoke at the college Nov. 3.

James McBride speaks to Ithaca College students

By Max Denning, Staff Writer
November 4, 2014
Students resort to illegal means for acquiring expensive textbooks

Students resort to illegal means for acquiring expensive textbooks

By Max Denning, Contributing Writer
October 1, 2014
The Ithacan's newly purchased drone flies above the Carp Wood field to capture an aerial view.

Ithaca College considers drone use in academic setting

By Max Denning, Contributing Writer
September 10, 2014
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