Adam Saar ‘22: “Gorgeous” by Kanye West Raquel Martorell ‘21 and Ulyssa Presley 22’: “Next Song” by DaBaby Elias Stroock ‘21: “Vivaldi Recorder…
The Tattler
AP students at IHS are all too familiar with a routine that takes place in AP classes on the first day of school—many teachers begin…
The Board of Education (BoE) meeting on April 23 was the most packed in the last year, with parents and educators from around the district…
May Elections: What’s on the Ballot?
On Tuesday, May 21, voters in ICSD will have the opportunity to vote on the 2019-2020 Budget, the 2019 Capital Project, and the candidates running…
How Do Mental Health Support Systems at IHS Compare to the Surrounding Districts?
Every other Wednesday, a group of teens from IHS, LACS, Dryden, and New Roots meet at the Ithaca Youth Bureau (IYB) to tackle issues affecting…
IHS Bathrooms Review: The Complete Analysis
The bathrooms at IHS have long been a subject of discussion. However, the fact remains that no matter how tirelessly the dedicated custodial staff work…
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.…
Introduction by JACOB YOON The New York City trip is an annual excursion where students and teachers in the band, orchestra, and chorus classes…
IHS Students Create Civic Debate Forum
This year, Fun Fact of the Day founders JT Stone ‘20 and Dyshawn Lawton ‘20 founded a radio show, “Youth Voices,” as a segment on…
Center Spread: Study Techniques
Why You Should Try Bullet Journaling
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…
Shmoop’s Scoop
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…

