As the school year winds down, it seems that teachers and students alike have adapted quite well to Chromebooks. Despite initial skepticism, as well as…
Posts published in June 2016
On May 12, the IHS CubeSat Club was announced as one of the winners of the CubeSat Design Competition, which was held in The Museum…
During this academic school year, IHS freshmen were given the opportunity to take AP World History, one of the most challenging of all social-studies AP…
People are most likely accustomed to the drone of cicadas during sweltering summer nights. These are annual cicadas, as opposed to periodical cicadas, which only…
To men like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Edward Everett, being overcome with the visceral beauty of nature was as good as popping a Quaalude and…
Heroes: Environmental activist Berta Caceres, who worked tirelessly to defend the lands of indigenous peoples in her country and who was shot and killed on…
Richard Anderson, a long-standing English teacher at IHS, will be retiring after this year. He has a new novel coming out within the next year…
When I first heard about a student named Joshua Ryan, who apparently hunted for his own food and used very little technology, I knew that…
What is your favorite place to go/thing to do around Ithaca in the summer? (Pictured above) “During the summer I’ll make occasional trips to Purity.” —…
The presidential election of 2016 has been provoking some of the most interesting discussions, news articles, and controversies over the past few months as the…
If this field were a person it would be a woman named Sigtuna with a spitting problem. If this field were an accident it would…
In the early 20th century, Ithaca was the center of the silent film industry: a Hollywood of its time. Glamorous actresses, producers, and directors roamed…
To release an album on Friday the 13th, one would have to be pretty darn confident. Chancelor Bennett, better known as Chance the Rapper, released…
Let’s throw it back to 1967: the year of my mother’s birth, the year that the first African- American Chief Justice, Thurgood Marshall, was sworn…
People (including myself) like to go on about how Prince was this and Prince was that: “He was Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, and Michael Jackson…