How TV brings families together
By Erin Irby
The Simpsons weekday syndication was a nightly habit more engrained in my day-to-day life than brushing my teeth. Plopping myself on our large, dark-red leather couch contained a tremendous amount of importance not only to me, but to the sanctity of my familial well-being.
As a child, I would come [...]

The Family Issue
Family is a word that is often said but not often considered. With seemingly half of America freaking out about the “destruction” of the nuclear family, with more families eating dinner separately or from the microwave, with our parents calling us at least five days a week, and with our aunts and uncles friending us on Facebook, family is a constant presence in all our lives. We can’t get away from it. But what does it mean, exactly—family? Read More

Pregnant teens remind us of the American dream
By Cody Norton
MTV’s 16 and Pregnant, a reality program which premiered in June 2009, is only one of many cultural mindfucks that has fueled a societal obsession with adolescent motherhood. Featuring high school age girls during the terms of their pregnancies, the television show documents the trials and [...]

Ithaca College did not properly prepare for a large incoming class
By Bryant Francis
As the fall 2009 semester began, Ithaca College found itself host to the largest incoming class of freshmen in the history of the school. All well and good, since last year’s class fell a bit short of the expected goals, but this year’s [...]

By Amy Obarski
Independent  documentary filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal visited Ithaca College to screen their film, Trouble the Water, on Sept. 15, 2009. The documentary was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, and won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at Sundance in 2008. The film addresses the racial and economic [...]

By Amelia Blevins
“No, you lift from the bottom and I’ll pull it up.”
“Wait, what if we lay it down on its side and then I push it up?”
“Make sure nothing falls out. I want these books the same way dad had them.”
The whirr of a vacuum punctuates the conversation as the brother and sister assess [...]

By Sarah Kasulke
Cortland resident Edward Wormsly woke up Wednesday morning to find his childhood dreams on his front porch, dead, next to a copy of his daily newspaper. Wormsly’s dreams were forty-eight years old when they passed on after a brave battle with doubt and familial obligations.
“It was really unfortunate the children had to see [...]

How Local Buddhist Monks Form Familial Bonds through Communal Living
By Kacey Deamer
Four men dressed in orange robes, a handful of students and 12 Tibetan families. This is not a description of the “average American family.”
 
Society’s perception of family is ever broadening. With divorce, single parents, same-sex couples and interracial couples, the possibilities of family structure [...]

Does the new location retain all the feel of the old?
By Anne Gould Northgraves
After two years of feeling at home in the tiny previous Cinemapolis locales at the Commons alley and Fall Creek, when Cinemapolis moved into its new home on East Green Street, it naturally made me nostalgic. Will the new building compare to [...]

The pros and cons of adopted kids searching for biological parents
By McKenzie Wall
Imagine that you are three years old playing in the living room. Your mother is standing in the next room, chatting casually with the man tuning the piano, and you hear something you don’t understand. She says something about her newly “adopted” second [...]