About two students per high school apply to the Ivy League every year. This doesn’t account for the fact that some schools foster many more…
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2025 Fall Sports Captions
By KATE THOMAS on November 2025
Girls Soccer: After their impressively prompt Senior Night, the Girls Varsity team went on to have a similarly impressive game performance. They fought hard against…
James Franklin’s Fallout with Penn State
By KATE THOMAS on November 2025
After twelve seasons with Penn State, consistently in the upper ranks but never winning a national championship, James Franklin was fired last month. The Lions…
Mattel Introduces a Team of Barbie Rugby Players
By LEA TESCHL on November 2025
In honor of International Day of the Girl, Mattel has announced that they will be releasing four new Barbies modeled after professional rugby players from…
Wings Over Ithaca: A Guide to Some of the Most Unique Birds Found in Ithaca
By ZACHARY LINDENBERG on October 2025
The Scarlet Tanager:Although they might look small,these fiery red birds migrate allthe way to the Gulf of Mexico,without stopping, every winter.WHERE TO FIND: SapsuckerWoods, Six…
Evaluating the Future of ICSD’s Phone Policy
By THE TATTLER EDITORIAL BOARD on October 2025
Starting this school year, public schools across New York State implemented bell-to-bell phone bans in accordance with the provisions of the 2026 Fiscal Year Budget.…
Marc-André Fleury Retires a Penguin
By KATE THOMAS on October 2025
After twenty-one years of being a professional hockey player, Marc-André Fleury signed a one-day contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins, finally returning to the team that…
Early Season Professional Football Predictions
By LEE CHO on October 2025
Fall is approaching. What does that mean? For everyone else, it means that summer has come to an end and the colder days have come.…
Should Foldable Smartphones Become The New Normal?
By MATHILDE VAN OSSELAER on October 2025
In 2013, the first prototypes of the foldable smartphone were introduced to the public, and in 2019, they started to become available in stores. This…
What Are the Best and Worst Ways To Learn a Language?
By LEE CHO on October 2025
If you’re reading this article, you probably want to learn a language. Maybe it’s because you are going on a trip, or you are planning…
Controversial Takes: Should You Be an Early Bird or Night Owl?
By CONNIE ZHENG, MIA CHO on October 2025
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Although the lark (early riser) vs. owl (late risers) debate isn’t the…
California Cannot Kill Leno’s Law
By JACK PIERETTI on October 2025
Leno’s Law, formally known as Senate Bill 712, was recently struck down by the California Assembly Appropriations Committee on August 29 after a year of…
Tompkins County History Center Hosts Scavenger Hunt Fundraiser
By LIVIA AVGAR on October 2025
This year, for the first time, the Tompkins County History Center put on a scavenger hunt as a fundraiser. It consisted of puzzles hidden throughout…
The Ithaca Teachers Association’s September 18 Rally
By CORNELIA YE on October 2025
After school on Thursday, September 18, teachers from across ICSD gathered with community members at the IHS bus loop for an Ithaca Teachers Association (ITA)…
Revised Ithaca Climate Plan Emphasizes Resilience, Achievable Goals
By ELI WARSHOF on October 2025
Ithaca’s Climate Action Plan (CAP), at the heart of the City’s Green New Deal, is getting a makeover. Whereas previous iterations focused almost exclusively on…
Protagonist Books and Coffee Opens in Dryden
By ZADIE WANG on October 2025
On September 3, 2025, Protagonist Books and Coffee opened its doors to the downtown Dryden community. Owned and operated by married couple Amber and Sam…
Mysteries of E-Wing, Uncovered
By CHARLOTTE POLLAK on October 2025
Have you ever heard construction noises in the school during class and wondered what’s happening? The school is developing a new technology wing in E-Wing,…
bowline
By ZADIE WANG on October 2025
it was easy to lie for a whileto let wind tangle truth back into my throatlike fishing line and yetwhen my name was said as…
Your Thought and Prayers
By SUSANNE GUIMBRETIERE on October 2025
Content warning: blood, death, guns, school shooting Thank you for your thoughts and prayersI’ll take them to my grave But thoughts can’t stop your bulletsAnd…
Soot
By SOL JORDAN on October 2025
It’s a cool night in early August. Just soon enough in the season to shake off what we call reality and not late enough to…
Phobos/Deimos
By JULIA KLEINBERG on October 2025
i cannot will not put into words the words which pound through my own veins corrupting lungs intoxicating my very muscle fibers while my limbs…
Blank
By NAIMA DEGE on October 2025
Distilled in silenceThe eerie soundof empty spaceencompasses every aspect of life Total sense of reality is robbed when you pass soundlessly through the world Is…
A Light Leans In
By EDIX MARTAK on October 2025
Content warning: suicidal ideation There’s a silence that sings in the marrow of bones, A cold that clings where the warm wind once roamed. The mirror won’t…
The Eye of the Tempest
By DHILAN SETHUPATHY on October 2025
Poets of old have told of such tempests;Where lightning stabs at the earth and sea.Where there is no end, no pause and no respite — Where…
May your dreams fly
By CORALLUS MEEKS on October 2025
gold and amaranth clouds frame cornflower blue skiesin twilight but the sunset glows from between her ribsto illuminate the rarest soul wisdom without weightnever louder than the…
Tantrum
By ACE DUFRESNE on October 2025
His scream ripped the airHis lungs hollow and rawShards skidded on pavementThen came to a stop. The silence laughedAs he stomped his feet.He broke, thenPerhaps…
The Tattler Class of 2025: What Our Recent Grads Are Up To
By ZADIE WANG on October 2025
As I settle into this school year with the Tattler Editorial Board, I can’t help but miss the cheerful faces that graced room A106 not…