The Ithacan

Students marched as part of Take Back the Night, a worldwide movement dedicated to protesting acts of sexual, domestic and relationship violence April 27.

With the flick of a wand, thousands of people RSVP’d for the event, bringing in over 8,000 attendees from across the country.

As Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick watched white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, he was struck by the similarities the town shared with Ithaca.

Svante Myrick, mayor of the City of Ithaca, stopped by the VIC studio for an on-air interview at noon the following day.

In the fall, the U.S. Department of State gave Catholic Charities of Tompkins and Tioga County permission to bring 50 refugees to Ithaca.

And while Ithaca College and Cornell University pose many benefits for the city, these can be accompanied by complicated problems for the community.

Protesters carried signs with phrases ranging from “Respect Existence or Expect Resistance” to “My Ovaries Are Over It” to “Build Bridges, Not Walls.”

In its profile of him, Forbes touted some of Myrick’s accomplishments as mayor, including his closing the $3 million deficit he inherited and his 2016 re-election victory with 89 percent of the vote.

Mayor Svante Myrick has asked the Ithaca Police Department to patrol polling places in Ithaca on Election Day for the first time to prevent voter intimidation and voter fraud.

The Ithaca Police Department has announced that a press conference will be held at 8 p.m. Nov. 7 to announce an arrest in the homicide of Ithaca College sophomore Anthony Nazaire.

Elijah Breton, senior sports studies and communications studies double major, recently announced he will be running for District 65 of the Maine House of Representatives in the November 2016 election season.

I am writing in response to Mayor Myrick’s recent endorsement of Senator Hillary Clinton over Senator Bernie Sanders.