Chinese stock markets took a plunge early this year, falling by 11.6 percent in one week alone. The market has since stabilized, but the event…
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Apple vs. the FBI
Technology law shouldn’t be decided by ignorant, old men who need their grandchildren to help them set up their iPhones. Following the San Bernardino shootings…
Anxiety among Adolescents
It’s time to state the obvious: students are under pressure. The American Psychological Association’s studies have shown that the anxiety levels of students in the…
Floating in Stars
Rape Culture in Fraternities: a Particularly Nasty Outbreak of a Much Larger Societal Epidemic
Ever heard a news reporter or causal commenter ask what a victim was wearing or drinking while discussing an allegation of sexual assault? Ever heard…
Colleges (Not) Standing out in a Crowd
Dear institutes of higher learning, I have officially stopped reading your mail in full, unless you make it better. No longer will your glossy brochures…
Bilingualism Must Be a Requirement for American Education
America is diverse; one in five of U.S. residents do not speak English at home. The U.S. has no national official language, either. But why…
Do College Rankings Matter?
Anyone who’s gone through the process of applying to college has inevitably spent some time looking through lists of “best” colleges. We’re aware that these…
The Many Faces of Weiqing “Skippy” Zhang
The district and those who pull the strings behind our bumbling puppet do much to “educate,” “engage,” and “empower.” However, there is little going on…
7 Reasons College Mail Isn’t Worth Your Time
The college mail starts streaming in soon after taking the PSAT. Simply by filling in a few bubbles and signing your name, you’ve gotten yourself…
Considering the sheer number of politically active and impassioned students that filter through the halls of IHS every day, the lack of political organizations at…
Food Review: A Dissertation on Noodles
It’s a fact of life that different people have different tastes, and that fact makes itself clear in the literal sense when it comes to…
Throwback Hits
When they hear a song from sometime around 2006, people usually say something along the lines of “OMG such a throwback, I haven’t heard this…
On My First Ithaca Underground Show
I followed the lonely sound of a glockenspiel coming from the main showroom of the Sacred Root Kava Bar to find a standing crowd of…
Hall Monitor
How do you de-stress during AP season? Jonathan Hawthorne ’16 “Sleep a lot, don’t study for my AP tests, and hope for the best!” …
Movie Review: Where to Invade Next
When I took a seat at Cinemapolis’ cozy movie theater, I was unsure what to expect from the new Michael Moore movie Where to Invade…
What Happened at the Oscars?
Racism: discrimination based on racial or ethnic origins. While no one doubts that racism’s presence in the society of America’s past, people today have their…
The Forbidden Room: the Viewing Experience
Here’s something I’ve recently come to accept as true: it’s beautiful, euphoric even, to have a film morph and shift in and out of shape…
Wind-Up: Part 5
The room fell silent, all eyes on Winder. His face pale and shaken, he stared back at his rival detective with unbridled venom. “Krig,” he…
Athlete Feature: Alex Glickman
Being a second-semester senior can be tough, especially if you’ve already gotten into college. It’s easy to stop caring as much as you once did…
How to Beat the Warriors
1. Let Steph score. If you can limit Thompson and Curry to under 60 points combined, you’ll win the game more likely than not.…
A group of IHS Choir Students shows off their British Flag Color Spirit in preparation for their British Invasion Concert on March 15, 2016. …
The Coolness Spectrum
COOL Applying to become a Tattler editor Steve! Ice fishing for neutrinos People like Mr. Heiland Return of the Leopard Frogs School is still trying…
Horoscopes
Social Justice Week at IHS
Social Justice Week will take place March 21–25, with presentations Tuesday through Friday during all periods of the day.
More Gear for the School Year
Employed throughout hallways, 20 new cameras watch students enter and leave bathrooms, walk through nearly every hallway at IHS, and relax in H-Courtyard.
Why did we have so many breaks in the second quarter, while there are nearly none in the third? Whose system do we follow that requires this format?