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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,...

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. 
A person in a suit plucks a dollar off of a tree. The trees leaves are hundreds of dollars, and underground, the roots are music notes.

IC returns to its roots with revived master’s program

By The Ithacan September 25, 2025

In September 1892, the Ithaca Conservatory of Music opened its doors to students in a tiny four-room house on East Seneca Street. In the 133 years since its opening, it has transformed into Ithaca College...

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Independent third places are crucial to communities

By The Ithacan September 25, 2025

On any given week in Ithaca, you can wander into a poetry reading at Buffalo Street Books, browse titles at Autumn Leaves Books, meet a local author at Odyssey Bookstore or walk through the aisles of the...

Increasing parking permit prices can burden students more than just financially

Increasing parking permit prices can burden students more than just financially

By The Ithacan September 20, 2025

Ithaca College has raised the cost of upper-class student parking permit prices from $152 to $225 for the 2025-2026 school year. The costs of both first-year and graduate students’ permits have not...

IC needs to better communicate with students

IC needs to better communicate with students

By The Ithacan September 11, 2025

In the wake of Ithaca College’s new dining implementations, many students have been left wondering where they can get their next meal on campus. Though none of the cafes on campus have moved locations...

Verifying news from social media is critical to stop the spread of misinformation

Verifying news from social media is critical to stop the spread of misinformation

By The Ithacan September 10, 2025

The way we experience the world has greatly changed with the emergence of social media. Even how we learn about the world, i.e., the news has evolved throughout time. Newspapers first emerged in the early...

Children's media aids in addressing difficult topics

Children’s media aids in addressing difficult topics

By The Ithacan August 28, 2025

Adults still remember the shows they grew up with: the bright colors, the catchy songs and their favorite childhood characters. What they do not always realize is how those characters follow them and continue...

Effective activism needs to go beyond social media

Effective activism needs to go beyond social media

By The Ithacan May 1, 2025

Generation Z is often hailed as “the activist generation,” but social media has complicated what activism looks like. In recent years, major humanitarian crises have gone viral, only to be forgotten...

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