When asked where you were when the first African-American president was inaugurated, you will be able to say: "I was at Ithaca College in the Emerson Suites, watching with a few hundred of my closest friends!"
Emerson Suites will be your place for television coverage of the inauguration between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 20.
The swearing-in ceremony takes place on the west front of the U.S. Capitol with the president-elect being sworn in by noon on January 20. Amendment XX to the U.S. Constitution states that the term of the current president expires at noon on January 20.
More Inauguration Info from Senate.gov
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20090115152740597