Wednesday, September 1st at 8:00 p.m. in Williams 323

Buzzsaw Magazine is ready to start the new year! Requesting all writers, photographers, illustrators, comic artists, marketing experts and other assorted cool people for RUSH NIGHT on September 1st!

*Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact the editorial staff at buzzsawmag@gmail.com. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

How students illegally buy prescriptions to finish their work and have a good time

By Marc Phillips
When teenage smoking peaked in the 1970s, parents were urged to check their children for cigarettes. When underage drinking became prevalent in society, parents were commanded to put a lock on the family liquor cabinet. When prescription drug abuse soared among adolescents, watchdog organizations stressed the importance of flushing excess pills. But when parents send their children off to an independent college setting, without constant adult supervision, they wonder if any of the previous lessons stick.

The history of a struggle for national identity

By Gena Mangiaratti
Kurdistan is a country. Kurdistan is a virtual state. Kurdistan is a bad country. Kurdistan is an illegal country.

“I usually say I’m from southern Kurdistan, which of course, politically correct, would be northern Iraq,” Dabagh said. “However, if the person asking doesn’t seem open-minded and generally educated, I prefer not to get in a conflict and, therefore, tell them that I’m a Kurd from Iraq.”

Shock Doctrine author Naomi Klein coming to Ithaca

By Qina Liu
While the chaos theory says “something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world,” award-winning Canadian journalist Naomi Klein subscribes to a different ideology, one where “only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real changes.”

Why the illusion of safety may be more important

By Sam McCann
The Department of Homeland Security’s latest creation sounds like it was ripped straight from an Orwellian novel: After a failed plane bombing Christmas Day, the government debuted a device that virtually strip-searches citizens when they arrive at the airport. Civil liberty advocates are up in arms about the invasion of privacy. Critics claim the scanners don’t even do their job properly. But here’s the secret no one’s talking about: None of it matters. In the world of aviation security, perception trumps all. As long as we feel safer, it doesn’t matter if the scanners actually slow down terrorists at all.

(And other questions for Furries)
By Keith Hadad

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