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By Colleen Cunha Here at Ithaca—or really at almost any college—people are constantly thinking about relationships. One subgroup of people in these giant congregations of hormonal “young adults” are those who call themselves “friends with benefits.” These are an interesting bunch. People in this category essentially believe that they are not in  “relationships” with their [...]

Changing the lyrics doesn’t mean changing the meaning By Colleen Cunha Today’s pop culture-soaked world, Sean Kingston sings about the slums, children with guns and police in the West Indies. But for ages 9 to 13, Sean Kingston is going to sing about the tropics and chillin’ in the sun! In the original version of [...]

By Colleen Cunha For a $10 cover charge, a dozen lucky night-crawlers witnessed a marvelous spectacle on April 27. My Dear Disco, a “dance-think” group out of Ann Arbor, Mich., took the stage. They drew the crowd in quickly and had most of the patrons moving for a sold 90-minute set. The set was extremely [...]

By Colleen Cunha Two thirds of the time, meaningful events in your life won’t happen on a single digit date. The next time it’s the first, or second, or third of a month, remember that chances are, nothing exciting is going to happen to you. It will eventually become the tenth, then the eleventh, then the [...]

The behavior young kids keep hidden from certain friends By Colleen Cunha Of all the people you’re friends with in college, do you know everything they do, or might they have secret night lives? Some college students are trying to keep their “school lives” and their “party lives” separate by having no common ground between [...]

Tell it to the volcano By Colleen Cunha You aren’t going to hear Miniature Tigers on the radio or see them on a new release rack,  and you probably  missed the tiny blurbs about them in Rolling Stone, AP magazine, and Spin. But once you discover Miniature Tigers you’ll never stop listening to them. Their [...]

By Colleen Cunha Tonight, when you lie in bed and reflect on your day, try and figure out how many times you lied. You told your friend you ate dinner already, told your professor that you did the reading assignment, and you told your mother that you stayed in on Friday night. Now imagine a [...]

New Website Translates Students’ Emails to Parents By Colleen Cunha This past Tuesday, a freshman here at Ithaca College, who prefers to remain anonymous, uncovered an alarming website while browsing the Internet. The student was searching for instructions on how to send a letter in the mail, but came upon a page that seemed to [...]