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Union organizers and students fight for better work treatment By Lyndsey Lyman The national movement to put Sodexo’s bad habits to rest has only been gaining momentum in recent months, and at Ithaca College, it is no different. Students, faculty, workers and union organizers continue to work together to spread community awareness and change the [...]

The modern paradox of life without a living wage By Lyndsey Lyman The federal government said that a single person living alone is in poverty with an income of $10,830 a year or lower. That’s about $30 per day. The line for a family of three is $18, 310 a year—about  $50 a day for [...]

The secret ingredients of your favorite foamy facewash By Lyndsay Lyman Remember high school chemistry class when you couldn’t pronounce anything in the curriculum? Ethyl-what? Most people get a flash from the past when they try to say the ingredients of many personal products like shampoo, conditioner and body wash out loud. As part of [...]

How Ithaca’s cloudy weather can increase the amount of SADness By Lyndsey Lyman Ithaca is famous for its position as a liberal, relaxed college town. Sadly, it’s also relatively well known for its horrific winter weather: cold, dark and dreary. For many students, this means a little bit of a dip in productivity and energy [...]

      Paying the bills in post-Katrina New Orleans By Lyndsey Lyman Sixty-seven-year-old Audrey Armour of the Uptown area of New Orleans knows from experience how helpful income-based housing can be. Earlier in life, she lived in the St. Bernard projects in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans for 23 years while raising her [...]