The Ithacan

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Ithaca College students are concerned about health and safety following the college’s plan to begin the 2020–21 academic year on campus in October.

To make winter jackets accessible during the colder seasons, staff from the Ithaca College Center for Counseling and Psychological Services created a coat drive on campus in October 2019.

This year’s flu season has been relatively moderate compared to previous years, but health officials say students should still take precautions.

Over the past four years at Ithaca College, the number of students who have gone to the Hammond Health Center to test for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has doubled.

William Guerrero spoke to Student Governance Council about upcoming reforms to student meal plans, housing and affordability at its Dec. 10 meeting.

Ithaca College publicly announced that the college will continue to support students’ access to contraceptives after lobbying from the Ithaca College chapter of Planned Parenthood Generation Action, a

Two new offices were added in the Hammond Health Center to create space for new CAPS counselors. The search for these counselors is still underway.

The college runs three deer exclosure projects in the Natural Lands that help staff see how overeaten vegetation will exist without the presence of deer.

So far, 148 students have been diagnosed with influenza or an influenza-like illness since the beginning of the fall semester, as of Feb. 27.

The Hammond Health Center has seen 21 laboratory-c0nfirmed cases of influenza since Feb. 11, with additional clinically diagnosed cases.

The CDC reports that American youths between the ages of 15 and 24 make up half of the 20 million new STD cases in the United States each year.

In addition to being a tranquil resource room, the Center for Health Promotion transforms once a month into the home of Massage Days.