The Ithacan

Accuracy • Independence • Integrity

Ithaca College has released new summer COVID-19 guidelines, like loosened travel and visitor restrictions, changes to mask requirements for vaccinated students and new disinfecting policies.

During the first in-person semester since the COVID-19 pandemic, some Resident Assistants have said they have felt increased anxiety and stress in their roles as both authority figures and students.

As Ithaca College students, faculty and staff continue to get vaccinated, the college is planning to return to a pre-pandemic fall semester.

The Ithaca College Faculty Council discussed the second phase of the APP process and COVID-19 guidelines for Fall 2021 during the May 4 Faculty Council meeting.

Ithaca College will not be making any changes to its mask guidelines for the remainder of the spring semester.

Staff and students at Ithaca College are working together to create an archive documenting community members’ COVID-19 experiences.

Large groups of unmasked students are part of a list of community violations that pose a danger to the community because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Tompkins County Health Department and the Cayuga Health System are holding a COVID-19 vaccination clinic with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine April 29.

That’s not to say I wasn’t myself at home — I was — but college has offered me new opportunities and experiences that did not exist two hours away.

My experience being homeless is one that I hope few other students share. I have seen the world from a unique point of view in these past months.

Stopping surveillance testing requirements presents a threat to campus safety, especially as it comes weeks before Kendall Day and before graduation.

I am lucky that who I love, and my gender, has not ended my life, nor worsened my mental health during a time in which everything is unraveling.