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Binghamton-based businessman William Durham opened William Jane Dispensary, the first legal dispensary for people over 21 in Ithaca on March 16. While marijuana is decriminalized in New York, the college is still a federally funded campus, so students are not permitted to carry or use marijuana on campus. 

New dispensary brings cannabis to The Commons

By Ryan Johnson, Staff Writer • April 19, 2023
Binghamton-based businessman William Durham opened William Jane Dispensary, the first legal dispensary for people over 21 in Ithaca on March 16.
Cornell University Police received a call of bombs being placed in Law School, Goldwin Smith, Upson Hall and Kennedy Hall at 2:12 p.m.

BREAKING: Bullet found on fifth floor of East Tower

By Madison Fernandez, News Editor • March 8, 2019
The Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management is investigating a report of a bullet found the morning of March 8 in East Tower.
Junior Talia Jean Weindling found the words “F--- Black people” in the gender-neutral bathroom on the third floor of Williams Hall on April 19.

UPDATE: Racist message found in Williams Hall bathroom

By Ashley Stalnecker, Staff Writer • April 19, 2018
Junior Talia Jean Weindling reported seeing the words “F--- Black people” to the Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management.
A student has been judicially referred for drawing a swastika on the dorm door of another student in East Tower on Nov. 17.

IC student judicially referred for Swastika drawing

By Ashley Stalnecker, Staff Writer • December 9, 2017
A student has been judicially referred for drawing a swastika on the dorm door of another student in East Tower on Nov. 17.
Ithaca College students living off-campus on Coddington Road near the back entrance of the college were awakened in the middle of the night and forced into their bathroom at gunpoint by three men.

IC students recount being robbed at gunpoint

By Ryan King, Staff Writer • September 20, 2017
The robbery is being investigated by the Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office.

Editorial: Increase of reported rapes should be taken seriously

By The Ithacan • September 28, 2016
This increase in rapes also brings into question how these rapes are being handled by the campus judicial process and Public Safety.
Two Ithaca College Circle Apartments were broken into Aug. 16, the most recent contributions to a year with more crime in the Circles apartments than the previous year. Both of the apartments that were broken into Aug. 16 were accessed through unlocked sliding back doors such as the one pictured above.

Crime increases at the Ithaca College Circle Apartments

By Grace Elletson, Assistant News Editor • August 31, 2016
Junior Sean Gillen repeatedly woke up with an uneasy feeling in his Ithaca College Circle Apartment the night that a stranger was outside his bedroom, stealing his television and speaker.
Public Safety investigates two break-ins at Circle Apartments

Public Safety investigates two break-ins at Circle Apartments

By Grace Elletson, Assistant News Editor • August 18, 2016
The Ithaca College Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management is investigating a burglary and a criminal trespass in two separate Circle Apartments, which occurred after midnight on the same night.
Tiffani Ziemann, Title IX Coordinator, receives complaints of sexual harassment, sexual assault and discrimination at Ithaca College. The office of Title IX will receive an increase in funding for the 2016–17 academic year, the first time it will have a dedicated budget.

Options for reporting sexual assault at Ithaca College vary

By Jessica Ferreira, Staff Writer • March 2, 2016
The report of two rapes, which took place between August and October 2015 and appeared in the Feb. 4 Public Safety Log, has brought increased attention to Ithaca College’s policies for victims of sexual assault and harassment.
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.
Unknown perpetrators stole letters off the welcome monument at the college’s back entrance in incidents reported Sept. 13 and April 3.

Entrance sign falls victim to vandalism amid student visits

By Ramya Vijayagopal, Contributing Writer • April 9, 2014
Recent acts of vandalism have affected welcome signs that will be visible as prospective students and other guests come to campus for events like Ithaca Today and An Inside Look on April 12–13.

Public Safety Log: March 3 – March 7

March 26, 2014
Selected Public Safety Log entries from March 3 through March 7.
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