The Ithacan

FAQ: Common Core breakdown

By Stephen Adams, Assistant Multimedia Editor • March 5, 2014

The Common Core Learning Standards, adopted by the New York State Board of Regents in January 2011 and implemented at the beginning of the 2012–13 academic year, make curricular expectations uniform...

Students impacted by minimum wage increase

By Sage Daugherty, Staff Writer • January 22, 2014

Last month, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the State Department of Labor announced that New York state’s minimum wage would increase from $7.25 to $8 an hour.

$Kat Stevens, a member of Shaleshock and the Finger Lakes Action Network, speaks into a megaphone Wednesday during a protest to encourage Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban fracking in New York while he was attending a meeting in Schoellkopf Hall at Cornell University.$

Anti-frackers protest Cuomo’s visit to Ithaca

By Sabrina Knight, News Editor • July 12, 2013

About 100 members of the Finger Lakes Action Network and the Ithaca community protested against fracking while Governor Andrew Cuomo attended a meeting Wednesday, July 10 in Schoellkopf Hall at Cornell University.

Video: Anti-frackers protest Cuomo’s visit to Ithaca

By Sabrina Knight, News Editor • July 11, 2013

About 100 members of the Finger Lakes Action Network and the Ithaca community protested against fracking while Governor Andrew Cuomo attended a meeting Wednesday, July 10 in Schoellkopf Hall at Cornell University.

$Kat Stevens, a member of Shaleshock and the Finger Lakes Action Network, speaks into a megaphone Wednesday during a protest to encourage Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban fracking in New York while he was attending a meeting in Schoellkopf Hall at Cornell University.$

Anti-frackers protest Cuomo’s visit to Ithaca

By Sabrina Knight, News Editor • July 11, 2013

About 100 members of the Finger Lakes Action Network and the Ithaca community protested against fracking while Governor Andrew Cuomo attended a meeting Wednesday, July 10 in Schoellkopf Hall at Cornell University.

Video: Anti-frackers protest Cuomo’s visit to Ithaca

By Sabrina Knight • June 12, 2013

Craft beer gains popularity among students

By Taylor Palmer, Sports Editor • April 3, 2013

While artisanal beer is on the rise nationally, local microbrew fans find themselves in the midst of a craft beer renaissance.

Deadline approaches for New York fracking

By Mary Slack, Staff Writer • February 21, 2013

The decision on whether fracking will be allowed in New York has state residents divided, putting Governor Andrew Cuomo between a rock and a hard place while deciding whether to approve regulations and allow fracking as the state approaches its Feb. 27 deadline.