The Tattler
The Art of Cybersleuthing
Cybersleuthing—stalking people online—is a true art. It takes a lot of different skills to do: one must have persistence, a knack for making inferences, and…
On What I Learned from Applying to College
I thought I had months or years until I really needed to buckle down. It wasn’t until the summer after my junior year that the…
Recipe: Angel Food Puffs
Angel Food Puffs: they have the light, sweet, and fluffy taste of angel food cake with the shape of a cookie and an awesome fruity…
Hall Monitor
Where’s your favorite place to eat in Ithaca? Bri Muscente ’17 and Anna Wallace ’17 “CTB and Viva.” Maddie Block ’16 “Viva.” …
Music Production Club
We listen to a lot of music. Track by track, album by album, we listen and just cannot stop. And we often catch ourselves wondering:…
Hamilton: A Musical for a New America
What is there to say about Hamilton that hasn’t already been said? The hip-hop musical (although it might more accurately be deemed an opera) is…
Lyric Visions: When Artists Piggyback
On Valentine’s Day, the national day of love, I attended a joint poetry reading/art show at the State of the Art Gallery in downtown Ithaca.…
Dadaism: Celebrating the Centennial
A hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for someone to conceive of going to a museum or an art gallery and seeing…
Czech This Playlist Out
Despite the modern-day stigma directed toward younger fans of classical music by their peers—let’s face it, you’re going to be called a nerd—it is our…
British Tunes for American Goons
Are Queen Latifah, the Lovin’ Spoonful, and Guns ‘n’ Roses sounding like a broken record? Are the Eagles, Drake, and Smokey Robinson just too familiar?…
Are Pro Athletes Overpaid?
With top athletes easily making over tens of millions of dollars a year, a debate on whether athletes are overcompensated has been heating up. Arguing…
Matthew Dellavedova: The Thunder From Down Under
When you think of basketball in Cleveland, what is the first thing that you think of? I’m betting it’s Lebron James. And I understand why,…
Winter Formal
Over 250 IHS students gathered on February 27 in the Statler Hotel ballroom at Winter Formal, organized by the Class of 2016 officers.
IPEI Spelling Bee
Ms. Karen Seifert, Mr. Karl Mellander and Mr. Benjamin Kirk pose at the Ithaca Public Education Innitiative’s 18th annual IPEI Spelling Bee, held on March 5. The event was…
Taken by Student iPhones
The Coolness Spectrum
COOL ≤ 15 days of winter Tuori’s chicks Buying Tuori’s chicks for $5 Coming home to chicken wings You middling kids Your English teacher, when shaven…
Editorial: Nuisances Aplenty
Course scheduling errors, broken classroom clocks, bathroom hygiene, blocked educational websites, the palpable frustration over low teachers’ salaries—these are some oh so familiar aspects of…
Fighting Fatigue: ICSD Teachers Protest
Shortly after the final bell of the school week dings at 3:32, take a look outside. Chances are you might see a revolution in progress.…
IHS Gets New Graduation Coach
In his 31 years at IHS, Mr. Jim Scarpulla has held a variety of positions devoted to aiding students in achieving successful transitions from high…
Interview with Katina Scavuzzo, IHS’s New Social Worker
Q: Honestly, I did not even know we had school social workers always in the building. What are your responsibilities and why did the school…
The Migration Crisis from a Swede’s Perspective
Since the war in Iraq began in 2003, people from the Middle East have had many reasons to flee their homeland. War came to Iraq,…
Challenging the Stigmatization of Female Promiscuity: An Assertion of Bodily Sovereignty
Let’s face it: the Madonna-whore dichotomy is anachronistic. However, it remains overwhelmingly prevalent in contemporary society; the idealization of chaste women and the consequential demonization…
Presidential Candidates: Martin O’Malley—Who?
If you’ve watched past Democratic debates, you may recall a tan, lanky man standing beside Bernie and Hillary, both of whom are household names. Yet…
Debutante or Porcelain Doll?
When most people hear the word “Cotillion” or the phrase “Debutante Charity Ball,” they think of Gossip Girl or Gilmore Girls, which are TV shows…
Talent or Hard Work: Which is Better?
Studying for a test for hours the night before only to get a B or worse the next day—we’ve all been there. We’ve all felt…
2015’s Most Important Event: The Iran Nuclear Deal
2015 was a year thoroughly dominated by negativity. It was a year of constant warring and aggression in the international community, of shockingly gruesome acts…