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Iceberg Haiku
By SAM SACHS on November 2020
Tip of the iceberg: Sets you down a path, or just Makes your ship go sink
Falling Haiku
By SAM SACHS on November 2020
If you’re high enough It doesn’t hurt when you fall You just keep falling
November Surrealio
By ETHAN CARLSON on November 2020
November Sudoku
By ETHAN CARLSON on November 2020
November Sudoku: October Solution:
What’s Your Favorite Drink? Perhaps This Horoscope Knows!
By ETHAN CARLSON on November 2020
Scorpio (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Tea: You are diligent and reserved; you drink it because it’s cool, not because you need it. Sagittarius…
Coolness Spectrum
By THE TATTLER EDITORIAL BOARD on November 2020
Cool Fall Back Daylight’s Savings Clearance halloween candy Uncool Turkey Shortages Virtual Thanksgiving Eyes on fire just like California The Election Seasonal Depression (on top…
Recapping the 9/29 Presidential Debate
By FRANCES KLEMM on October 2020
On September 29, Former Vice President Joe Biden and President Trump faced off in a ninety-minute debate which gave viewers dark flashbacks to 2016. The…
Editorial: Pass/Fail Grading Gets an A
By THE TATTLER EDITORIAL BOARD on October 2020
In the days leading up to June 5, 2020, hundreds of IHS students flooded SchoolTool to make an important choice that would reflect their academic…
Editorial: Teaching Black History at IHS Still Needs Work
By THE TATTLER EDITORIAL BOARD on October 2020
This year our nation has faced a grand reckoning on the issue of racial inequality, and as a result, students from Ithaca City School District…
Ithaca Community Confronts Police Violence
By RAIA GUTMAN on October 2020
Backlash against police has a historical precedent, most notably in the cases of young Black men who were unarmed at the times of their deaths.…
COVID in Cornell: Troubleshooting the Reopening
By SIRAN “JAY” JIA on October 2020
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc across the United States, forcing closures everywhere it touches, from supermarkets to college campuses. However, unlike many other universities, Cornell is…
A Short Tribute: Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By KATIE LIN on October 2020
When asked if she had any advice for young women in 2015, Ruth Bader Ginsburg responded, “Fight for the things that you care about, but…
Islamophobia inside Chinese Concentration Camps
By DAVID BARRY, MONTADHAR ABED on October 2020
An estimated one to two million Uighurs, a Chinese minority located in Northwest China, are in incarceration in secretive internment camps along with Kazakh and…
ICE Reportedly Sterilizing Detainees Without Their Consent
By LOUISA MILLER-OUT on October 2020
On Monday, September 14, a disturbing report was filed to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector by Dawn Wooten, a licensed nurse who was…
Teaching Sex Ed in the Age of Virtual Learning
By NOMI FALK on October 2020
Sex education in the public school system has long been a topic of much controversy. Some feel that it is not comprehensive enough, while others…
TikTok: A Unique Medium for Political Discourse
By MOUNIR MORA-KPAI on October 2020
Due to the upcoming presidential election, the ever-so-tense political climate, and the housebound nature of life in the pandemic, social media has become a principal…
ICSD’s Tactless Reopening
By CARLA MARTINEZ on October 2020
Nobody could have predicted what was going to happen, and nobody was prepared to deal with it. But, hypothetically, imagine the following. Imagine being confined…
Defund the Police
By WILL THOMAS on October 2020
Defunding the police is a reform that has gained traction in the wake of the massive Black Lives Matter protests after the death of George…
The Global South’s Stories Must Be Told
By QUINN CHANG-MARTIN on October 2020
In March, the United States of America cut funding to the United Nations appeal for Yemen, greatly limiting access to health care services and exacerbating…
Letter to the Editor: The Israel-Palestine Conflict Is Not One-Dimensional
By ADAM SAAR on October 2020
In the September issue of The Tattler, the article “Israel, Palestine, and the Controversies” analyzed the arguments made by those debating the Israel-Palestine conflict. While…
America’s Election Tampering Problem
By MUKUND GAUR on October 2020
On August 18, 2020, a bipartisan Senate committee released a report detailing Russian interference in the 2016 election. This came as a shock to Americans…
Cornell’s Reopening Warrants Praise, Not Criticism
By ALICE BURKE on October 2020
In the past month, there has been a loud chorus of criticism and skepticism over Cornell’s reopening. Although the university has put in place a…
Social Media Activism Is Not Enough
By LOUISA MILLER-OUT, RAIA GUTMAN on October 2020
With abundant free time due to the pandemic, many of America’s teenagers and young adults have turned to social media to while away the hours.…
Students Get Politically Involved
By ANNA WESTWIG on October 2020
While Cornell students bustle across a collegetown street under a high, equinoctial sun, three IHS students manage a table stocked with flyers, stickers, and pens,…
The Spookiest Guide to an Ithacan October
By DOROTHY HAMILTON on October 2020
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Teachers Attempt to Diversify Book Curriculum
By FRANCES KLEMM on October 2020
In 2017, the students of Ms. Campbell’s eleventh-grade English class went through the IHS bookroom to find every book that was being used in the…