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On the Quad: What’s with the weather?

By Ray Milburn, Christian Gratto, Andrew Marcus, Mei Dennison, Sammie Macaranas, Abigail Singer, and Uri Ponte • March 1, 2024

Last week, The Ithacan asked students if they had any tips for surviving Ithaca’s snowy winters. Then the temperature rose to the mid-60s. In an On the Quad double-header, Andrew Marcus joins Christian...

Lucy Garrison-Clauson, co-owner of Stick and Stone Farm, assists a customer at the winter farmers market’s new location in Triphammer Marketplace Jan. 18.

Ithaca Farmers Market moves to Triphammer Marketplace

By Maddy Martin • January 22, 2020

Last summer at the Ithaca Farmers Market, a crowd poured out from a wooden pavilion beside Cayuga Inlet. The smell of fresh crepes, fried eggs, donuts, coffee and much more wafted through the air as shoppers...

The Office of International Programs and Extended Studies has announced that summer and winter undergraduate tuition rates will be discounted by 30 percent.

Ithaca College lowers summer and winter tuition rates

By Madison Fernandez, News Editor • January 28, 2019
The Office of International Programs and Extended Studies has announced that summer and winter undergraduate tuition rates will be discounted by 30 percent.
On March 2, the college closed after news of a winter storm warning. Cornell University, SUNY Cortland and Binghamton University also closed because of anticipated harsh nor’easter conditions.

WATCH: Winter weather impacts Ithaca College

By Ana Borruto, Senior Writer • March 7, 2018
Facilities, grounds and maintenance staff plow and salt paths and roads for the Ithaca College campus, starting as early as 3 a.m.
The hill by Boothroyd Hall was used as a ski slope for students on campus. A tow rope at the bottom of the hill for skiers to hold onto took them up past what is now J-Lot behind the Towers residence halls. Courtesy of C. Hadley Smith

Winter Wonderland Slideshow

January 24, 2018

    Ithaca College community members have enjoyed the snowy campus since its founding.

Author teaches Ithaca College students winter survival skills

By Annika Kushner, Contributing Writer • November 9, 2015
Ithaca College students learned how to survive outside during a New York winter in a talk by the founder of Primitive Pursuits, a local nature education program.
Linda Schwab of Glebe Farm makes wool figurine birds, sheep and rams.

4th Annual Winter Recess Fiber Arts Festival

By Amanda den Hartog, Photography Editor • February 18, 2015
Photos from the Fiber Arts Showcase Feb. 16.
A shot of me walking on my first day on the March

53 miles to Ithaca

By Faith Meckley, Staff Writer • January 13, 2015
Tonight I have filled the hiking backpack I got for Christmas to the brim with all the supplies and equipment I will need for a five day, 53 mile journey from my home in Geneva to my second home in Ithaca. After I finish this blog post I will go to bed and try to get a full night's rest, because tomorrow, for the first time in a while, I will be rising with the sun to walk.

Commentary: Activists and allies needed from here to Russia

By Natalya Cowilich • October 31, 2013

As LGBT History Month draws to a close, it is important to recognize how this month is imperative to the growth and strength of queer people finding their voices in the choir of multiculturalism and diversity. Here...

Video: Extreme gingerbread competition at Ithaca College

By Michelle Boulé • December 5, 2012
Extreme gingerbread competition at Ithaca College

Chili festival keeps it local

By Shawn Steiner, Assistant Photo Editor • February 21, 2012
Amid a mild winter, thousands of locals and tourists flocked to The Commons yesterday for the Great Chili Cook-off of 2012 to eat a seasonal favorite and support local businesses.

Action sports imperil lives

By Harlan Green-Taub, Staff Writer • January 26, 2012
She is launched into the thin mountain air, her trajectory angled to fly. At heights of more than 10 feet above the lip of the 25-foot half-pipe, freestyle skier Sarah Burke completed two-and-a-half full rotations before coming back to earth ready to soar again.
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