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The Selection Process Has Gone Off Course
By THE TATTLER EDITORIAL BOARD on September 2026 |
Editorials
With the diversity of classes offered at IHS, high school should be a time of experimentation: a chance for students to explore distinctive academic interests...
On Wednesdays We Wear… Oh Wait, No Color Wars
By THE TATTLER EDITORIAL BOARD on September 2026 |
Editorials
A myriad of musicals and early 2000s movies promised a high school experience full of spirited events: proms, homecomings, over-the-top pep rallies, and enough school...
Ithaca’s Afterschool System is Failing Elementary School Families
By THE TATTLER EDITORIAL BOARD on June 2026 |
Editorials
The ICSD elementary school day ends at 2:00 PM, nearly an hour earlier than surrounding districts’ dismissal times. For many ICSD families, this extremely early...
Strengthening Suicide Prevention Resources in ICSD Middle Schools
By THE TATTLER EDITORIAL BOARD on May 2025 |
Opinion
Trigger Warning: The following content discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, please call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline...
How ICSD Can Better Attract, Retain, and Support Teachers of Color
By THE TATTLER EDITORIAL BOARD on April 2025 |
Features
In the United States, people of color are significantly underrepresented in teaching. With the federal government’s recent threats to public school funding and diversity, equity,...

Posts published in “Byline: JULIA LUNA”

Let Them Down Easy: A Playlist

By JULIA LUNA on May 2017

Of all the methods of breaking up with someone, texting is cowardly, talking is hard, and emailing is unheard of. How about sending a song?…

Movies vs. Series: Which Reigns Supreme?

By JULIA LUNA on March 2017

In recent times TV series have been all the rage. People talk about TV series all the time: “Oh I just started a new series!”…

Etchings and Engravings at the Johnson

By JULIA LUNA on March 2017

It is often forgotten that even before the surrealists, artists had surrealist tendencies. One of the current exhibits at the Johnson Museum of Art, Escaping…

Breeze

By JULIA LUNA on February 2017

Millions of little children With ten million, soft-spoken, greedy Fingers Reaching out to me Little vibrating fingers sliding past my face Rubbing across my cheek…

School Lunch Review

School Lunch Review

By JULIA LUNA on November 2016

As someone who had never before bought school lunch, I decided that it would be embarrassing to graduate high school without having a little taste…

Mauro Marinelli: Under Old Stars

Mauro Marinelli: Under Old Stars

By JULIA LUNA on November 2016

Under Old Stars: Wanderings in Italian Hill Towns was the photo exhibit that ran from October 7–31 in the Eye Gallery, located above Petrune on…

JapanAmerica at the Johnson

JapanAmerica at the Johnson

By JULIA LUNA on October 2016

Have you ever stared at something and noticed that it is not quite right? Like you weren’t sure if the frame was crooked or if…

Soap

By JULIA LUNA on October 2016

She sat staring at herself in the mirror. Existential crisis? “Am I allowed to self diagnose?” Yes, existential crisis. Acute. SOS. “You will not sit…

Preaching Grub

By JULIA LUNA on June 2016

There we were, two teenage girls pouring out our teenage woes. Interspersing gossip with deep shit and not feeling embarrassed about afflictions of the heart.…

The Venus of Urbino: A Domestic Deity

By JULIA LUNA on May 2016

“There are pictures of nude women that suggest no impure thoughts—I am well aware of that. … What I am trying to emphasize is the…

Breaking Bread

By JULIA LUNA on December 2015

Lenin promised “peace, land and bread.” Marie Antoinette’s legendary “Let them eat cake” was actually “Let them eat brioche,” which is really just a fancy type of bread. Let’s also not forget that bagels have pretty much created a cult.