Nestled away at the very back of E-wing rests a dozen old, rusted filing cabinets. Within these cabinets are bundles upon bundles of bygone editions of The Tattler, which allow us to peer into the lives and minds of past IHS students. As the Tattler’s archivist, it is my pleasure to give these articles a second life in this section! I hope you enjoy.
October 1961
Competition Creates Cacaphony
Competition is a good thing as long as it is carried on in a healthy atmosphere. It hurts everyone when it ceases to be friendly in spirit and becomes a tense, hard race for recognition. Unfortunately, now and then this latter sort of competition rears its ugly head in IHS.
Music plays a big part in the lives of many IHS students. Ithaca High’s musical organizations have been recognized widely for their achievements. This is something which the whole school, and especially those who are a part of music at IHS should be proud of.
The great majority of student musicians at IHS are sincerely interested in music and are glad to see musical success to any individual or any group. Every year, however, there are those few who would seek to stir up hostilities among the various musical organizations by championing the cause of one at the expense of another. Whispered, and sometimes even blatant accusations that one group is better than another, that the members of one group are snobbish, that one group lacks spirit, or that one group hasn’t the basic talent of another are exchanged in practice rooms and corridors. This cheap gossip seems to be just exciting enough to some few people to keep itself alive through the years. Sadly enough, this feeble trickle is sufficient to cause some bad effect on our musical organizations and student musicians. If we could stamp it out completely, down to the last senseless little rumor, we could make music in a much happier, cleaner atmosphere.
We have three fine and unusually talented and enthusiastic directors. We have an extraordinary group of musicians in our student body. All we have to do now is to develop our sportsmanship to the level of our high musical standards.
January 2019
Expiration Dates
By VALERIE CHEN
Almost all foods have an expiration date,
A time when they go rotten,
When they start turning a fuzzy
White or black and begin smelling like
Dead things. That’s just how
It is sometimes; you can’t enjoy those
Open cans and containers forever.
Now, do you ever wonder if
Other things have expiration dates?
If the memories we make and the
Experiences we encounter will end, too?
Will they become ugly images in our minds,
Decaying just like the expired food
Sitting at the bottom of our refrigerators?
Will we forget about them until, sooner or later,
We open that fridge door in our memories
And see all the disgusting, rotting, perishable things
That remain in the back of minds?
January 2002
By J. Morales
“What are your goals for the future?”
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