Journaling can be a burden. There is a constant obligation to write in-depth about every single thing that happened, and to fill up pages and…
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An Interview With Darlingside
On April 12, Darlingside, the four-man indie folk band from Boston, MA, returned to Ithaca’s Hangar Theater, having played The Haunt last February. The most…
2019 NBA Finals Prediction
GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS 4, MILWAUKEE BUCKS 2 With Lebron James finally out of the East and missing the playoffs for the first time in 13…
What Happened to Real Madrid?
Real Madrid have been hands down the most successful team in Europe over the past five seasons, winning the Champions League four out of the…
Big Red
The red that isn’t hell On the hill I see Cornell The sewing needle of the sky At the heart does the clocktower lie A…
Untitled
Spring has swept in, silver and wanting, and the swinging of the axis is giving me nausea as the seas slosh back and forth like…
Bananas Askew
I enter the room Bananas are all around That stinkin’ monkey
The Coolness Spectrum
COOL The new Tattler board!!! Mental health awareness month (active minds) End of April showers, beginning of May flowers Justin Heitzman ’20 Vaynu Kadiyali ’19…
Horoscopes: The Signs as Songs by Some Local Singers that Sound like the Start of Spring
Taurus (Apr 20 – May 20): “Blues in a Bottle” This Ithaca Bottom Boys tune is impossible not to smile and dance to, and I…
Editorial: Including World Literature in English Classes
When you walk into an English class, you expect to learn about literature. You may even read some! When we think about “literature,” we have…
LACS Presents to Board
On Tuesday, March 12, the monthly Board of Education (BoE) voting meeting was especially exciting due to a half-hour long presentation by the new principal…
Experiences with Marie Kondo
By now, just about everyone has heard the words “spark joy.” Whether you’ve heard it from her Netflix show or read it from her book,…
Why Andrew Yang Deserves Attention
It’s early in the 2020 Democratic Primary season, but many of the prominent candidates have already been grouped and sorted to create a convenient, simple…
There are a small handful of people at IHS who know about a very small, very pink room at the very end of the E-wing.…
A History of April Fools’
April 1—a date notorious for tricks and jokes, as well as eerily-believable pranks by large companies such as Google and Apple. On this day, newspapers,…
Club Feature: The Tattler
The Tattler is IHS’s student newspaper. You, reading these words in a copy you probably picked up on the floor of some hallway around…
Restaurant Review: Pasta Vitto
If you’ve driven on Aurora Street past the Marriott hotel in recent weeks, chances are that you noticed an oversized, colorful chalk sign on…
IHS Students Create Anti-Gun Violence Organization
Since the Parkland, Florida school shooting of 2018, high schoolers around the country have advocated for gun control legislation through their participation in March…
“The shelter-in-place has now been lifted. Thank you for your cooperation; classes can now resume as normal.” IHS students have heard this announcement over the…
Conversation with 2019 Cornell University Concerto Competition Winner Aditya Deshpande
After one of our chamber music rehearsals, I had a chance to sit down and chat with two Cornell Freshmen: Aditya Deshpande and IHS alumnus…
Schmoop’s Scoop
Center Spread: If The Students of IHS Were Mice
Seniors Get Creative With WISE Projects
The WISE program is an elective English course open to all IHS seniors. Half of the year is structured like a normal English class, but…
After many seasons filled with success, the IHS Outdoor Track and Field team hopes to build on its past victories and continue to break records.…
The Champions League so Far, and What is to Come
Every year, the Champions League is the most exciting soccer tournament in Europe. The biggest and most successful clubs of Europe compete to lift the…
All the Madness in March
In the aftermath of Selection Sunday, the day when the NCAA Selection Committee revealed the bracket of the 68 teams that will compete in March…




