ITHACA, NY — Ithaca College will officially welcome some 2,050 incoming students to campus on Monday, Aug. 24, with the annual Convocation ceremony and community picnic. Convocation is slated to begin at 11 a.m. in Ben Light Gymnasium. For the 12th year, the ceremony will be followed by a picnic lunch designed to bring first-year students closer together with faculty, staff and...

ITHACA, NY—In 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared that “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” as he launched his ultimately unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate against Stephen A. Douglas. While the speech has since become one of Lincoln’s most famous, it is often misunderstood as a prediction of the coming...