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The Ithaca College Center for LGBT Education, Outreach and Services partnered with the Office of Residential Life to build 12 new all-gender restrooms in West Tower. Construction was completed Aug. 11.

Ithaca College adds 12 all-gender restrooms to West Tower

By Sophia Tulp, News Editor • August 22, 2016
Amidst ongoing demands for more privacy and inclusivity in residence halls and on-campus restrooms, the Ithaca College Center for LGBT Education, Outreach and Services partnered with the Office of Residential Life to build 12 new all-gender restrooms.
Editorial: Ithaca College is behind on gender neutral access

Editorial: Ithaca College is behind on gender neutral access

February 24, 2016
Ithaca College should be doing more to provide adequate restroom access for gender nonconforming students.
Ronald Trunzo, associate director of the Office of Residential Life and associate director of the Office of Judicial Affairs, said roommate conflicts are a common occurrence.

Ithaca College students change roommates to avoid conflict

By Natasha Curran, Contributing Writer • February 24, 2016
Standing in the cold for four hours was not how now-senior Nolan Elias planned his night to end one day in late October 2013. After being asked to leave his dorm, he spent his night wandering campus trying to find a place to sleep.
Ithaca College has announced its new open-housing policy — a housing option that enables students to select roommates regardless of their sex or gender. Freshmen Anna Gardner and Joe Simpson plan on utilizing the open-housing policy in the fall.

Ithaca College allows students of different sex to be roommates

By Elena Piech, Staff Writer • February 23, 2016
Ithaca College recently announced its new open-housing policy, allowing students to select roommates regardless of sex or gender.
Since the string of incidents over winter break, students have been offered the option to pick up wooden blocks to be inserted inside the track of their sliding doors. The wooden block forces the door into the closed position without requiring expensive modifications.

Preventative measures recommended to students after break-ins

By Jessica Ferreira, Staff Writer • February 20, 2016
Another Circles resident, who asked to remain anonymous, was in her apartment when a man trespassed into her residence through the second-floor balcony over winter break.
Students have begun the annual search for off-campus housing for next year.

Moving Out: Ithaca College students look to move off campus

By Mary Ford, Life & Culture Editor • October 21, 2015
For those interested in off-campus housing for the 2016–17 school year, now is the time to start making decisions.
Ithaca College has strict rules against having pets in on-campus residence halls, as do many off-campus landlords.

Students keep unauthorized pets on and off campus

By Grace Elletson, Contributing Writer • September 23, 2015
Ithaca College has strict rules against having pets on campus, as do some off-campus landlords, but students are finding their way around the rules rather than leaving their pets at home.
Ben Tolles, sustainability project assistant for the Eco-Reps, sorts through the trash and recycling in IC Square. The Resource and Environmental Management Program is planning to have one Eco-Rep in each residence hall.

IC Eco-Reps to incorporate Res Life into program

By Kyle Arnold, Contributing Writer • September 23, 2015
The Resource and Environmental Management Program is looking to have a student representative available in each residence hall to offer sustainable-living education.
Provost Ben Rifkin addresses student during his visit to campus as a finalist for the position in Dec. 2014. During this visit, he said diversity and inclusion were important topics to him.

Rifkin announces specific Public Safety changes

By Aidan Quigley and Max Denning • September 15, 2015
The Ithaca College provost has made an announcement addressing a number of Public Safety–related proposals recently put forward by President Tom Rochon.
Ithaca College President Tom Rochon addressed the campus community in a Sept. 6 Intercom post responding to recent conversations about police brutality and racial bias within the Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management.

Message from the president to the campus community

By Tom Rochon • September 8, 2015
Incidents of bias and racism, while unacceptable in any setting, are especially intolerable on our college campus.
Benjamin Rifkin, provost and vice president for educational affairs at Ithaca College, will resign July 31 and return to teaching. He joined the college in June 2015.

Q&A: New provost Ben Rifkin discusses goals for the year

By Kira Maddox, Editor-in-Chief • September 1, 2015
If there’s a change we can address that’s going to have a large impact on students and make this place better, then that’s a change I need to pursue.
Junior Matthew Sidilau stands in front of his room. Sidilau, a music education and trombone major, is a resident assistant at Ithaca College. Sidilau said he is friends with many of his residents.

Commentary: Res Life must improve relations with residents

By Matthew Sidilau • April 15, 2015
I felt the need to write this article to serve as a voice for those who have opposing opinions of what the Office of Residential Life is and does.
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