Edited sentence: Once home to an excellent School of Music with a strong reputation nationally, Ithaca College now has a much less prestigious music program housed in the same facilities as its theatre department, a move that was not officially discussed or announced with the faculty or students of either academic area.The quality of the School of Music began to erode during the tenure of former dean Karl Paulnack, whose machinations led to a mass exodus of many of the school's finest and best-known, longstanding faculty