Lorien Tyne

After months of negotiations and public protests calling for Cornell University to contribute more money to the City of Ithaca, the Common Council will take the Memorandum of Understanding to a vote Oct. 11 — once made, the deal will not expire until 2044. 

Ithaca College released its 2023 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report on Sept. 26, which includes safety procedures, prevention programming, policies and statistics of crime and misconduct.

Information and updates about Tompkins County’s November 2023 General Elections.

A swastika was found drawn into the snow outside of Terrace Dining Hall — the location of the Kosher Kitchen at Ithaca College — on Dec. 7, which was the first night of Hanukkah. 

In a brand-new Ithacan Video series, former News Editor Lorien Tyne explores tattoo shops in Ithaca. In the first episode, Lorien visits Miss Kitty’s Tattoo Parlor.

In this episode of Ink Around Ithaca, Lorien Tyne visits Scott Carlton at Ithaca Piercing & Tattoo. Tyne learns about Scott’s history as a tattoo artist and gets a stippling style eye tattoo.

On Nov. 10, Cornell University sophomore Winter Knutson was found dead in Fall Creek Gorge. Earlier that morning a woman — only identified as a Cornell student as of this time — was found unresponsive after falling into another section of the Fall Creek Gorge. The unidentified student was airlifted from a field on Cornell’s campus to Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pennsylvania.

Editor’s note: All international student sources are referred to using their initials to preserve their safety and wellbeing. JP, an international student at Ithaca College, was planning to begin work in the U.S. after graduation in May and make steps toward a green card. But JP’s post-grad plans are not turning out how she thought...

Editor-in-Chief Lorien Tyne and News Editor Kaeleigh Banda spoke with Ithaca College President La Jerne Cornish about how IC is responding to institutional financial challenges and political pressures from the federal government.

I came to Ithaca College for The Ithacan because decades of passionate students built a legacy worth committing four years contributing to. It is this newsroom and the people that give it life that have kept me here. But even in the past few years, I have noticed participation in student-media dwindling as well as...