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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,...

First-year Samuel Radcliffe outlines how, despite privacy policies and agreements, big technology companies continue to use, sell and buy user data created from everyday internet use.

Big tech companies need to be honest about user data

By Samuel Radcliffe October 15, 2025

Privacy is an intrinsic part of human life. It gives us security, allows us to build trust and manage our relationships. The United Nations even formally recognized privacy as a fundamental human right...

Local business owner Olivia Ashline comments on the parking prices at Ithaca's Apple Harvest Festival, arguing that festival parking money should be reallocated for the community.

Ithaca needs to be transparent about extra parking costs

By Olivia Ashline October 15, 2025

“Dear Ithaca, why are you charging for parking on the weekends?”  This year, I vowed to take some space from the progressive, college-town culture I live in. My livelihood depends on locals buying...

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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. 
There is no ethical or responsible way to use artificial intelligence

There is no ethical or responsible way to use artificial intelligence

By Michael Smith October 8, 2025
Michael Smith discusses the environmental impacts of AI use and how society needs to rethink its use of this technology.
First-year Samuel Radcliffe discusses the consequences of continual overuse of Artificial Intelligence use on the human brain.

Artificial Intelligence is eroding critical thinking skills

By Samuel Radcliffe September 25, 2025

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence has fundamentally transformed the way we work. Despite the potential benefits and increased productivity it offers, there is still public wariness towards...

Narges Kasiri, professor in the Department of Management, explains how the School of Business built its online and social media presence, with students at the forefront.

Real-world experiences facilitate effective learning

By Narges Kasiri September 25, 2025

School of Business’s Social Media Success Story At the Ithaca College School of Business, we often talk with our students about the power of data-driven decision-making. Over the past year, we turned...

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...

Haley Miller discusses right-wing youth activist Charlie Kirk's death and the long overdue conversation on gun violence.

Public responses to varying attacks show why gun violence must be addressed

By Haley Miller September 20, 2025

Once again, another act of gun violence. Charlie Kirk, a right-wing youth activist, was shot and killed at Utah Valley University Sept. 10. This act of violence occurred during a rally while Kirk was speaking...

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