Archive for the ‘Anniversary’ Category

Bryan Chambala There are no real halcyon days of college to look back on for me. I was mostly pickled in beer and liquor. I wrote drunk, which is idiotic, and I went through four-day weekends drunk and skipped so many classes I didn’t graduate. There was plenty of fun, but I look back with [...]

Buzzsaw has been around for 10 years; questioning authority, mocking culture, reviewing bands you’ve never heard of and pointing out hypocrisy at Ithaca College. You could call it an institution.

Searching for a progressive soul in Upstate New York by Meagan Murray Oh, Upstate New York. The image of dim-witted, Carhartt-sporting dairy farmers, too stupefied by their own reflections in the frozen tundra of the land laid out before them to know which way is up comes to mind. At least, this is the projected [...]

These are the first Comments (or letters from the editors), printed in the first two issues. From Volume 1, Issue 1: “If you don’t treat your baby right, she’ll come see me some lonely night.” -Steve Earle, “Graveyard Shift” For those of you who have tired of what the Ithaca area has to offer in [...]

The Mate Factor proprietors and their unique lifestyle By Erika Spaet Suzanne Watin was a Jewish dental hygienist from Union, N.J. She and her now ex-husband had their daughter late in life, moved around a lot and always had enough money; they lived what could be seen as an ordinary, upper-middle class life together. But [...]

Does the War on Terrorism have an achievable objective, or is it an abstract conflict with a perpetual, faceless enemy? News+Views Editor Matthew Farrell looks for a definition of “terrorism” and a clearer picture of what, exactly, we’re looking to defeat. By Matthew Farrell Terrorism – The calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) [...]

The miniskirt’s move from empowerment to objectification By Briana Kerensky In 2008, the mini-skirt is an article of fashion that seems to be reserved for a few different types of people. These include but are not limited to: women just “trying to put themselves through college,” women working too hard for attention, models, drag queens, [...]

The pain, hardship and horror of the worst card game ever By Marc Calderaro War is stupid. I like to think I understand games well enough to be objective, but the fun aspects of this card game elude me. I used to think that it simply rewarded good shuffling skills; then I learned that shuffling [...]

The paradox of restricting free speech at political conventions By: Jenna Scatena Tension had been building throughout the country for months. Tumultuous events—vast protests, cultural upheaval, assassinations—during the first eight months of 1968 turned the entire nation into a spectacle of turmoil of historic proportions. Watching to see what would happen next, America turned to [...]

It’s wrong, no matter how you argue it. By Craig Duncan To people who oppose torture, the response is always the same. “Ah, so you’re against torture? Well, what would you do if you had in your custody a terrorist who has planted a ticking nuclear bomb somewhere in Manhattan, and he refuses to tell [...]