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By Josh Elmer I live by the laws of recycling: reuse, reduce, and recycle. Some people may call me a pack rat but I see my collection of clutter as sustainable. I make sure that when I have to get rid of something I can’t find a use for it or someone with a use [...]

Using Twitter to find some eats By Josh Elmer I’ve got three hours to get to the Kogi taco stand before it moves from its location in Burbank. Two things you might be asking yourself: What taco stand has Kogi for a name? And why is it moving? The answer is it’s a Korean/Mexican fusion [...]

The real issue behind the IC View controversy hasn’t been addressed? By Josh Elmer Just to recap, the last issue of IC View contained an article by recent alumna and former Buzzsaw editor Emily McNeill. Her article was a personal account of settler violence in the West Bank, and appeared in the “Final Word” section [...]

24 Hours, S-Curve Records, 2008 By Josh Elmer During Thanksgiving Break I ventured downstairs and watched some television with my Nan. We were in for a treat–Tom Jones was one of the guests. My Nan (who has been Jonesin’ for nearly 40 years) and I witnessed Jones’ debut single from 24 Hours, his first album [...]

  CHS Food Cart uses Styrofoam cups By Josh Elmer Oh mixed signals. Center for Health Sciences snack bar, did you not get the memo? The Ithaca College campus is trying to go green. We know what you’re doing—the plastic foam cups for coffee. Did you really think you were going to get away with [...]

By Josh Elmer In Ithaca, New York Robert Meissner has finally found the academic success he has been striving for, receiving his first “A” in a “long time” says friend Larry Stephens. Both Meissner and Stephens are in Mrs. Englebert’s English class, focusing on American Literature. It was an essay on J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter [...]

By Josh Elmer At first it may seem like a trivial endeavor to make our professors put their credentials on their Web sites. I was a bit skeptical about devoting this section of the magazine to it but I continued to think about it and it is a question we must ask ourselves for one [...]

LBJ addresses the country about Vietnam victory By Josh Elmer In the greatest act of patriotism and showmanship since the raising of the flags at Iwo Jima, President Johnson has just declared boldly victory in the Vietnam conflict. Johnson uttered the great words parachuting out of a Huey Helicopter, and gracefully landing two feet from [...]

Filmax, 2007 By Josh Elmer “Shit,” was the first thing I said after an inexorable 80 minutes of handheld horror. I have to admit sitting alone in the dark at 3 a.m. on a Saturday may have skewed my opinion of the film. However, the Spanish horror film [rec], which is the latest film to [...]